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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
BAGLEY.

Special Correspondence to ths Herald.
We visited our school last Friday
and were pleased to note the excel
lent order and the deep interest TAX
en- in the various branches of study.
A regular old fashioned thunder
storm hit this town last Friday eve
Mrs. Jud WILDER Is enjoying a
visit from her niece Miss Wade, of
northern Wisconsin.
Alice and Geo. Hodge took ad-
vantage of the belated train and
called on friends in Wyalusing.
Ted Bedford and Paul Wiseman
were Bagley callers last Saturday.
Mrs. AL Snider returned to her
home at Mt. Hope Tuesday after a
pleasant visit at the Calkins home.
Rev. Hooking preached to full
church here last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Julius Plondke had
their photo taken at the Prairie
Monday. Getting ready for that
golden wedding you see.
Jackley's sale Feb 2-easy to re
member as it is ground hog day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Nate Brown were
in town one day last week on bust
ness Mrs Brown spent month
in Alden, Ia, with her daughter
Mrs. Alderman.
Alvin Cook and wife and Lester
and wife spent the day calling on
friends at Prairie du Chen.
Robt. Glenn accompanied by John
Fillback, of Sitter, were in town
last week. John was buying stock
for his farm at Sitter. He thought
Bagley was a nice little town. Mr..
Glenn said the prospects seemed
bright for us to get the state park,
any way the commissioner were
unanimous in recommending the
Glenn property to the legisl allure.
Mrs. M. L, Graham, of Dubuque,
is visiting her mother in Bagley.
Dawson is using his gasoline saw
in town to good advantage.
The Nate Millin rag bee and dance
was very we'll attended.
Il. Newman Will De at WyaluS1ng
and a point near Bridgeport to &C.
comodate the tax payers.
Beatrice Hill had an attack of
pleurisy and consequently lost a
few days of school.
Hogs and sheep were shipped
from here last week.
All our princical firms have pack
ed large supply of ice. Many
farmers are securing a supply OF
the crystal blocks.
Our merchants are preparing for
heavier run of trade this year
than ever before.
Hurry Urine, of LaFarge, Wis.,, is
he1e on a visit.
Mrs. Elva Calkins attended the
Morkin funeral at Bloomington last
Thursday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

that Acknowledgement Gilbert has rec
commended a legislative. investigation
of the state insurance department, fol-
lowing charges filed by M. w. Waite,
formerly deputy insurance commission
er, who was deposed by the selection
Of former Speaker H. L. Ekern on
January /. Governor Davidson will
transmit the documents to the 1egis-
lature later in the week in the form
of a special message.
Early this week Assemblyman Frank
Hammill of Superior will introduce a
resolution for constitutional amend
ment to limit the length of the ses-
sions to one hundred days.
As a result of an investigation he
has discovered that the members of
the legislature do not begin active
work until spring makes its appear
ance. He abhors loafng legislators,
and as an indication of the amount Of
work that can be done in a short time,
cites the fact that 125 bills were passed
in two days at the session Of two years
ago. Senator Sanborn would limit ses-
tive enactment. AS a result of reso-
luton presented by him last week
Joint committee has been appointed to
devise means to expedite business.
The preliminaries of this committee
program provides that individual MEM
bers cannot introduce bills after Feb
ruary 6. Committee bills under the
plan will be received two weeks later
if germane to the subject for which
the committee was created. His plan
would close legislative business April
8. A special session of the legislature
is being already advocated. The sub
jects of industrial insurance, state aid
for highways and the income tax may
be investigated by committees and con-
sidered at a short session called by the
governor in about year.
Commission Form of Government.
Among the 1T bills already drafted
by the legislative reference library at
the request of the legislators is bill
to give Wisconsin cities the option of
adopting the commission form of gov
eminent now in operation in nine diff
ferent states. So favorably has the
plan been received in Madison that a
meeting of citizens has been called for
this evening to banquet and discuss
the ACCESSIBILITY of asking the legisla-
ture to pass such law. The plan was
defeated two years ago when presented
by Senator Noble, but further expert
ence with the system in the country,
and particularly at Des Moines, has
created more sentiment for it.
The bill will provide for the aboli-
ton of the present common councils
and the election at large of five COM
missioners who act in both legislative
and executive capacities. 1t also pro-
vides for recall if any member is un-
satisfactory.
Senator Stout Was hungry.
Occasionally even a millionaire feels
the pangs of hunger. This was the
case with Senator Stout last week. On
the day that the senate ordered a call
of the house. he came to the chamber
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
STATE EYES
AAOIOEHA Viii
One Effect Of Resolution by
Senator Husting.
UNITED STATES SENATOR

important Matter Now Before the Leg
isIature for SettIement-Attorney
General Gilbert Recommends Leg
IsIatiVe investigation of the State In
surance Observation-Disclosures James
Relates Some Thrilling Experiences
New Form of Government.
Madison, Wis, Jan. 26.-This is the
day when, under the constitution, the
two houses of the legislature must
begin balioting for United States SEN
ator. Under the practice each house
votes separately at noon the first day
and jointly at noon each day there
after until there is an election. In
Difference to the Democrats, both
houses met at o'clock this morning
that there might be some blowing off
of steam on the resolution for an in
vestigation of the amount of money
expended by the candidates in the sem
atorial primary election, which was de-
manded by the Democrats in joint res
olution presented last week in both
houses.
This resolution was the cause of a
call of the house in the senate, brought
about by Senator Husting, and which
was in force for over twenty-four
hours, but failed to produce the result
desired, that of putting each member
OF the senate on record on the investi-
CATION proposition.
While Senator Husting did not sue
coed in doing this, he perhaps accom-
plished the end desired in creating a
dramatic situation and focusing the in
terest Of the state upon the legislature
and the enormous amount of money
expended in primary campaigns OF the
state at the present time. 1t is doubt
full if he hoped to get the senate to
vote for an investigation, but wanted
to have an opportunity to embarrass
the party in power and finding that
an opportunity for speaking would pre-
sent itself today thought the occasion
then as good as any, since there
seemed no apparent likelihood of there
ever being any serious danger to the
reelection of Senator Stephenson.
Insurance Investigation.
In connection with this subject of in
Yestigations 1t is interesting to note
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
For Sale

Improved farms and partly i'm
proved farms with or without per-
sonal property. also unimproved
first class farming lands, all of which
are located in Wood county, this
state. Wood county is forging to
the front with great rapidity, and
soon will be counted among the
richest counties in the state. Agents
wanted, allowing highest commits
sion. Write us for full particulars.
Owen Oliver 81 Co.,
100 NIP. Waukesha, Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27
Cattle Auction.

Seventy-fve head Of 1-year old
steers: % head of 2-yr. old steers COM
ing three-mostly Durhams, good
ones; 10 COWS, part fresh, balance to
freshen soon; half are Holsteins,
balance Durhams.
To be sold at auction at the stock
yards in Lancaster, on SATURDAY,
JAN, 80, 1909, at p. m. AS we are
out of feed, these cattle will be sold
without reserve to the highest bidder.
Paul Humphrey.
Fred Ct. Wetmore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

One DeLaval cream separator,
600 lbs. capacity, 80 gallon barrel
churn, 2 gallon milk cans, 240 egg
Racine incubator and 200 chick
brOOder.
One nearly new heating stove.
One shepherd dog.
Free lunch at noon.
Terms of sale.-All sums of SO
and under, cash; over that amount
one years time will be given on ap-
proved bankable notes bearing
per cent. interest.
VIM. MCCORMICK.
Geo. A. Finnegan, auct.
Geo. A. Moore, clerk.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

If you will take Foley's Orino
Laxative until the bowels become
regular you will not have to take
purgatives constantly, as Foley's
Orino Laxative positively cures
chronic constipation and sluggish
liver. Pleasant to take.
]. T. Bennett.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

Tt fills the arteries with rich. red
blood, makes new flesh, and healthy
men, women and children. Nothing
can take its place; no remedy mas
done so much good as Hollister 8
Rocky Mountain Tea. 35c, Tea or
Tablets. j. L. BenneGU'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

ANY one wishing rooms and board {,
at reasonable prices, can secure the
same, by calling : on Mrs. Thos.
Wright. 100tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

WOOD WING Il do all kinds
of Woo. Saving, city or country, on
short notice. Henry Fisher,
100tfc. Route 5, Lancaster
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-01-27

FOR SALE.-A few S. G.. Buff
Orpington cockerels. Price $1.50 to
50 each. John w. Bracket, Bell
phone 1924, Lancaster, Wis. 100tfc
The oasis., 1909-06-26
BEYOND MAZATLAN.
The Southern Pacific of Mexico Now Into the Territory of Topic, Nearly One Thousand Miles From NogaIes.

Tuesday evening of last week THE OASIS man and the older of the two boys started from Mazatlan on a construction train of the Southern Pacific railway in Mexico for the scene of operations at the front, about 40 kilometers distant, near the border line of the territory of Topic. Attached to the train was the pay car of the Grant Brothers Construction Company, going out to the front to pay em- ployes and laborers in the grading camps beyond the end of the track, of which there are nineteen located at regular intervals along the line through distance of about thirty kilometers. The paymaster, Mir. NJ. H. McCalla, extended cordial invitation to the editor and the boy to join him in the car and make themselves comfortable, which invitation was accepted gratefully. In the car were a num- Der of cots one of which was as- signed to the scribe, another to the boy; and sleeping on them through the long night was a far more com iortable proposition than sitting up in the caboose, which was crowded with passengers going to the front, although the slumbers of all the occupants of the car were disturbed and broken a great deal by the en- gineer, who seemed disposed to rely upon "the Johnson bar" more than the air brake in making stops, and invariably started the hind end of the train first" As he stopped very frequently to water bridge construction camps-none of them seemingly more than two or three miles apart-the night was filled With bumps and jars; but all the same the cot was far more comfor. table than sitting bolt upright in the caboose, as was found when re- turning to Mazatlan in the night following. With MT. McCalla were Messrs. E. F. Hamer and Platter. son, two very companionable young gentlemen who assisted him in do. ing the honors.
 About dark the train reached tht Presldlo river-put down on tht maps as the Rio de Mazatlan- where there is in course of con struction great steel bridge abou IoOO feet in length. Like at SC many of the other rivers in Sina loa, mentioned in former descrip uonS in TIE OASIS, the railway GrCSSes upon temporary tracks anC Vrldges and the track stretches ia
 beyond long before the bridge con 1Huctlon IS completed. At tn, Ifesldlo river the sixteen pier , were nearly completed, and som
 n the workmen said they expected " nave everything ready for tn 'uPerStructure by the first of July when daylight came we foun, tna' I the train had accomplished
 ouI about half the distance to th
 Vnu p or the track, and thenceforwar,
 oo we obtained good view of tn
 ro"n'fy traversed. The track hug
 ple'ly ply closely along the mountain
 wat waton approach closely to the sal
 "tbe r%'sr In many places, and il NaoiS NnolS recede several kilometers
 is i'arly all the way the water iron '"goon or estuary separate
The oasis., 1909-06-26
Whole No. SAT
Mazatlan.

by MT. Angus Cashion, the Grant Brothers Construction Company will establish material yard and depot to which will be rushed right away great quantities of steel, ties, timbers and supplies of all kinds so that should the anticipated floods in the rainy season sever communication with Mazatlan for while there will be no detention in the work beyond. Every effort will be made to keep going the work to the Santiago river and on up that stream toward Topic. Grant Brothers have out there a force of 2500 men and 4OOO or 5000 mules and horses, and there is no intention on the part of Gen. eral Manager J. A. Cashion to per- init any days of idleness on account of lack of supplies through stress of weather.
 We had an order from Mr. Cashion that we would be supplied with a team and blackboard to go out through the camps-if we wanted to go. It was trip that would take couple of days, and we anticipated a pleasant one. Toward evening there came into the camp a young engineer named Neal from the survey beyond the work, who was going to the United States to enjoy vacation of a couple of months. He had driven forty-eight kilometers that day in a blackboard. When we saw how thickly he was covered with dust and he described the inconvenience and annoyance of travelling in the heat and dust-we didn't want to go. In fact 1 discovered suddenly that l had an engagement to meet the following week on the Yaqui that would not permit our going beyond the point where we were then.
 At the camp where we stopped we were entertained handsomely by MT. Gerheart, the representative of the Grant Brothers Construction Company, who laid us under many obligations by his courtesy and attention. While we were there
 Messrs. James A. and Angus Cashion arrived from Mazatlan by
 their own special motor cars; and
 there they took conveyances and
 went beyond, en route to the San
 tiago river.
 Returning our train started
 about 8 o'clock in the evening. At
 daylight we had reached the Batu-
 arte river-called also the Rosario.
 Back in the mountains, about three
 kilometers away, is Rosario min
 ing camp, that has wide fame as
 having been rich producer of sil-
 yer A four mule rig from Rosario
 brought in half dozen travellers
 who took passage by the train for Mazatlan. Some of those who had come from the front by the train : took the same conveyance back to ! Rosario.
 ) The work of the train kept it at that point an hour or more, and | looking around we found and had } quite a visit with Mir. Robert Saxon from Nogales, who is time- /, keeper for large gang engaged in 3 ballasting the track on both sides r of the river. When the writer was 5 down three months earlier Rob bic" was at Oso, on the San Loren l 20 river, holding down a similar 3 position.
The oasis., 1909-06-26

The wilderness through which | the road passes is said to be riout- ous with brilliance of color when the summer rains bring out the verdure and variegated blossoms with which all these forms of veg citation abound. Every rod of the way through many miles is a start ling mass of brilliant beauty, the leaves and grasses presenting vari- ous shades of grateful green. and the flowers blazing forth a thousand varieties of Dame Natures most lovely hues and most artistic shapes and forms. At present all seems dull and listless tangle of lifeless and unattractive greys; but few days of the tropic rains that come in July will change all that, and the wonderful alchemy of Nature will work in the dull and uninteresting thicket a transform ation that will be brilliant and startling.
 And upon all sides there were abundant evidences of feathered life in great profusion. Whenever and wherever the train stopped few moments the air was filled with the shrieks and shoutings of various varieties of parrots and paroquits, chattering of magpies and the rolling cadences of mock ing birds mingled with the softer and more tender notes of hosts of feathered songsters unknown to more northern climes. From the earliest dawn to dark out, in that thicket there is something doing every second in the way of noise or music; and there are some of them that seem to take no note of the night but keep up their concert without rest or stopping for breath
 Along the right of way, that had been cleared a couple of hundred feet on each side of the track, the greyish soil, that seemed nearly everywhere, save in the riverbeds, which are of sand and gravel, an impalpable powder like ashes in general appearance. must be very fertile, as evidenced by the rank profusion of vegetable growth in the thicket; and occasional clear ings under cultivation bear out the assumption. At the present time all appearances are highly unfav- orable as there has been no rain since last September; yet every in- dication is that with but little rain. fall and slight irrigation that won- derfully fertile soil will pro- duce many valuable fruits and vegetables in great profusion
 Even now after nine months oi drouth young palms are sending up their fresh green shoots along the right of way cleared so recently for railway construction.
 It was noon when the train reached the last camp, 40 kilo
 meters from Mazatlan, 911 iron Guaymas and 1887 from Nogales- 935 miles from the line city. Jus
 a little distance beyond the camI
 is the Rio de los Cahos, the boun
 dary between the state of Sinalot
 and the territory of Topic. Tn,
 tracklaying machine was abou
 twelve kilometers beyond the river
 and had been laying steel at tn,
 rate of three kilometers daily fo
 some time. Thursday night it wa
 due to reach Acaponeta, the frs
 town in the territory of Topic, ant
 the first station of any importanc,
The oasis., 1909-06-26

track passes through dense thlcKets of the peculiar tropic growth so prevalent, interspersed with trees of various kinds, sycamores and banian trees predominating, al- though there are observable some ebony trees and several varieties
 with native names that are unlike anything familiar to residents of climes farther north.
 The banian is the most remark able of any of the trees in this wilderness. In it's sprouting and early growth it is parasitic in nature,-like the miseltoe-and the plant is propagated in the same way-by birds dropping the seeds in the tops of other trees-palms
 usually. Shortly the seed sprouts and in a little while the young plant sends out several long, slen-
 der tentacles that grow downward
 until they reach the ground, thirty
 or forty feet below, and there take
 root. Once rooted the tentacles
 wax and grow until each becomes
 a young tree of itself, as large in
 diameter as telegraph pole and
 even larger, when they close to-
 gether around the parent palm
 and choke out its life. Eventually
 the dead palm rots away and the
 various sections of the banian
 grow together and become solidifed
 into a single trunk that when cut
 down and sawed across show little
 if any line of demarcation between
 the several parts which grew down
 ward from the lofty branches of
 the palm and took root to expand
 and grow until they replaced the
 palm. The process described is one
 of years and the palm continues to
 bear aloft its cluster of fronds, rais-
 ing it little higher each year un-
 til the top stands a dozen feet or
 more above the encroaching sec-
 tions of the banian approaching
 more closely each year in its dead
 ly embrace. Finally the banian
 closes around the palm and it
 seems as though the latter had
 grown right out of the top of the
 banian. We saw several such that
 presented that appearance, "a ban ian thirty feet or more in height
 with the slender trunk of a palm
 shooting out from the center and , supporting it's cluster of fanlike , leaves some twelve or fifteen feet , above. When the dual growth reaches that stage the end of the palm is approaching rapidly , Within a few years afterward its life is choked out and the tree dis appears leaving alone in it's place , the parasite which becomes a strong and vigorous tree. And in it's en- r tire growth the banian follows the . same practice of sending dowr 3 from above long and slender tent 5 acles that take root and grow unti 3 they are joined to the bole tha' l choked out the palm in which the 3 banian took its start. Naturalist ]. say that an East Indian variety o l this tree attains @ marvellout l growth and such proportions tha 3 an old tree with it's numerous rooted tentacles resemble a grov, g of young saplings surrounding { s venerable monarch of the forest s mingling their boughs with hi t umbrageous top; while travellers l tell of whole regiments of soldier l. resting themselves beneath tn, t grateful shade of such a tree whil,
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07
Grief and Greed

The following communication was
recently addressed by grief stricken
German husband to the secretary Of a
life insurance company in Germany:
"Sir-Deeply afflicted, I take up my
pen to inform you that my dear wife,
Anne Maria, nee L, insured in
your company for the sum OF $3.50, has
suddenly died, leaving me victim to
the deepest despair. This grievous
blow fell on me this morning at z.
Kindly endeavor to let me have my in
surance money as promptly as possible.
The policy bears the number -, as
you will find by reference to your
books.
i may say very seriously and in all
sincerity that she was a faithful wife
and an admirable mother. In order
that all formalities may be settled with
promptitude I inclose herewith GER
tifcate officially recording her death.
''Her illness was but a short one.
Nevertheless she suffered intensely,
which naturally renders my grief all the
more poignant. l have no doubt that
you will afford me partial consolation
by sending on the insurance money as
promptly as possible.
In return I hereby formally promise
to have my second wife insured in
your company for $500, double the
sum for which my defunct darling was
insured.
My grief is immense, yet the con-
viction that you will afford me consola.
ton sustains me during this terrible
ordeal. In the hope that we shall soor
draw our insurance money, my children
join me in wishing you an increased
and prosperous business.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-05-07
Lumber Nils May CurtaiI Output

Lumber manufacturers Of three
states OF the Pacific Northwest-Wash'
ington, Oregon and Idaho-who con-
troll to large extent the rail shipment:
of the product from this section to the
East, in a secret conference Wed
nesday tacitly determined to reduce
the production of lumber 40 per cent.
The order to the mills will go out in q
short time, probably within two days il
the lumbermen who are involved in
the conference today do not change
their minds.
The men who are in the movement
are the leaders in the lumber industry
on the Pacific Coast. The reason for
the drastsic curtailment, which will
of course be followed by wholesale re-
auctions in working crews and in dis
bursements of the mills, is found in
the fact that there is practically no de-
mand for Northwestern lumber from
the yards in the East and Middle
West.
By the lumber leaders themselves
the statement is made that never be-
fore in the history of the industry have
there been conditions such as exist
today. The stoppapge of orders from
the eastern yards is blamed to the
tariff Legislation, it being alleged that
pending a determination of the lumber
duty, the yards in the east and central
west will not buy. Ballard Record.