The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1909-07-01

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WASHBURN, WIS.
WASHBURN PRINTING CO., Publishers
If the beef trust enters the shoe in
dustry it will run the risk of putting
its foot in it's mouth.
The records of the aerOnauts who par
ticipated in the indianapolis balloon race
constitute evidence that Americans are
not slow when they determine to acquire
an art. Europeans seemed to be 1.-The
whole thing in bailooning, until about
two years ago.
The spread of typhoid fever in the
New Jersey state prison and other insti-
buttons at Trenton is attributed to flies
ordinary, everyday house-fies. The
house-fy is now very generally recog-
nized as a dangerous pest, whose extinc-
ton would constitute triumph of SAM
tation.
Ex-Judge Henry S. Dewey of Boston
has brought suit against officials OF the
Good Government Association of that
city to recover $76,000OO0 damages for
libel alleged 10 have been committed IN
the mayoralty campaign. An ex-Judge
possessing a character susceptible OF
damage to that amount would have been
a good man to elect.
An airship of the Zeppelin type which
is in course of construction at Rheinau,
Germany, is to have four motors with an
aggregate of five hundred horsepower.
This is a big power plant to take into
the air. and if the rigid type of airship
is ever tie go against the wind, this 500
horsepower dirigible out to be able to
make some Roadway.
r. G. DUN & Co. report every line
of business better-and they ought to
know. But for solid improvement and
obvious increase of activity the thing
that is required is the enactment of the
new tariff law That will put an end to
a condition of unsettlement which, while
it obtains, never fails to halt the bust
ness enterprise of the United States.
In the last fiscal year Canadian i'm
ports from the United States formed
6O.4 per cent. of all the foreign products
consumed in Canada. This is the show
ing made in Canadian official reports
just issued. 1t demonstrates that IL
spite of the snarling occasionally in
dulged in by some portions of the Cana
dian press, the Dominion is good Gus
toner of the United States.
There is nothing menacing in Canada's
disposition to establish a navy. The fear
which engendered the desire is due tC
no friction along the lakes, and if naVa
vessels are constructed for the Do
minion they will probably be for service
on the Gulf of st. Lawrence or at Els
quimault, near Victoria, on the island Of
Vancouver. There is a beautiful naVa
basin at the latter place, and conn
modious stone drydock.
ST. Petersburg's chief sanitary official
reports general infection with cholera
and the likelihood that the Russian cap
ital will be swept by the disease during
the summer. This frank admission
should be sufficient to put all the SAM
tary officials of northern Europe on then
guard, and also awaken the United
States Marine Hospital Service to the
necessity of watching at coast ports fol
possible importations of the disease
There was only two minutes between
the yachts Amorita and Margaret at thu
finish of the 675-mile race from New
z York to Bermuda, which was probably
the closest work ever done after so long
run. Of course the yachts were al
times much farther apart-prObably
hours-but the hazards of .slantS anC
accurately by racers, and the best sailors
are therefore not always first at thu
winning line.
The fact that a building is III cours,
of construction in New York city havin:
a width of six feet and eleven inches ant
a depth of one hundred feet, is evidenc,
of the value of superficial area in tn.
business section of the city which will
explain the skyward tendency. Thi
silver of a building will be only tw,
stories high, but if any owner is JUST
fed in g. farther reach upward this pos
SCISSOR of real estate remnant has frs
claim upon absolute pardon.
Zeppelin has raised the enthusiasm
of Germany to a high pitch by his spec
facular demonstrations with his inven
ton for navigating the air. The Wrigh
Brothers, working along altogether diff
ferent lines have attained results which
command respectful attention from stu
dents of the art of fight in all part
of the world. The presentation to then
of gold medals awarded by the Aer
Club of America eyinoes the interes
which their countrymen take in thei
work, and WILL no doubt tend to encour
age them to further efforts
The May fire loss was moderate, keep
ing up the repnts tion which 1909 ha
so far established for itself as a year o
diminished destruction by flames. Yet
by a mere coincidence, it happens tina
the May fire loss was very small yea
and two years ago. The figures TO
May for three years last past compar
as follows: 1909, ST., $3.50, 400; 1908, SIS,
1Q1 15O. 1on7 e1R 32e 200 Tho fir