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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
HOUSE SENDS BILL
TO CONFERENCE
AFTER BRIEF DEBATE, VOTES TO
DISAGREE TO ALL SENATE
AMENDMENTS.
PAYNE HEADS coNFEREEs FOR
REPUBLICANS, CHAMP CLARK
FOR DEMOCRATS.

Washington, July 10.-The tariff
houses of congress to the conference
committee.
After one hour and a half of debate
the house yesterday, 17S to ISL, made
rule whereby all the 847 amend
ments of the senate were diagreed to,
and the conference requested by the
senate granted. Eighteen republicans
voted against the rule and one demo-
crat for it.
The following republicans voted
against the rule:
Davis, of Minnesota; Good, of Iowa;
Gronna, of North Dakota; Haugen, of
Iowa; Hinshaw, OF Nebraska; Hub
bard, of Iowa; Kendall, of Iowa; Kin
kaid, of Nebraska; Lidbergh, of Mime
sofa; Madison, of Kansas; Miller, of
Minnesota; Morse, of wisconsin; Muir
dock, of Kansas; Nelson, of Wiscon-
sin; Norris, of Nebraska; Pickett, of
Iowa; Poindexter, of Washington;
Woods, of Iowa. Broussard, of Louis
lana, was the only democrat voting
with the republicans for the confer
ence.
When the house met at noon, the
interest was at fever heat. The lead
ers on both sides had notified their
respective forces to be on hand, in
anticipation that the tariff bill would
come over from the senate. The sum-
mons were responded to almost with
out exception.
The debate at times waxed warm,
and disclosed the fact that there were
some republicans, in addition to the
so-called insurgents who were yet
to be pacified before they would give
their votes for the final passage of the
bill. The democrats held up the ma
jority party to scorn for hiving, as
they charged, violated it's ante-election
pledges. The feature of the discus
sion was the appeal by Chairman
Payne to his colleagues to send the
conferees to the senate unhampered
by instructions. He promised to rigid
ly exact an explanation of every
amendment made by the senate, in
order that the house conferees might
report back a bill which would meet
the approval of the majority and of
the country at large. His appeal was
granted.
The speaker announced the follow
ing as conferees: Payne, of New
York; Dalzell, of Pennsylvania; Nc
Call of Massachusetts; Boutell, of
Illinois: Calderhead, of Kansas; Ford
ney, of Michigan, republicans; and
Clark, of Missouri; Underwood of
Alabama, and Griggs, of Georgia,
democrats.
At 1926 adjournment was taken I'M
til Monday, when a joint resolution,
providing for the submission to the
states of an income tax amendment to
the constitution, will be considered.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
TORTURE WOMAN,
TAKE HER SAVINGS
MRS. LACkOWSkI OF MILWAUKEE
VICTIM OF BRUTAL ASSAULT
BY ROBBERS.
TWO MEN SECURE $24o-BoLD
THEFT COMMITTED AT
NOONTIME.

Milwaukee, July 10.-Torturing a
woman with the point of knife until
she revealed the hiding place of the
family savings, two men now sought
by the police, secured $240 and made
their escape.
The victim of the brutal assault is
Mrs. Victoria Lackowski, wife of Law
renee Lackowski The assault and
theft was committed at the family
home, 1921 Fourteenth avenue, short
ly after the noon hour Yesterday.
The woman is not seriously injured,
although the shock may keep her in
bed some time.
While the woman was engaged in
tered and warned her not to make an
cutlery They informed her that they
knew the family had money hidden in
the house and insisted that the hiding
place be revealed.
The woman refused and finally the
men, after a brief struggle, bound and
gagged the woman and threw her upon
the floor. They threatened to beat her
but even then she refused to give
them any information, declaring that
there was no money in the house eX-
cept a few pennies in her pocketbook.
The men evidently knew that money
was hidden on the premises and were
determined 10 secure it. While she
was struggling on the floor one of
them pulled out long knife ard
threatened her bodily harm. Even then
the demand was refused. Finally one
of the men stabbed her slightly in the
chest and then repeated the brutal
efforts to force her to tell where she
KEEP her money.
Not until she lay bleeding and al
most unconscious did she give up
Suffering intense pain and fearing
death she told the men that the saw
ings of lifetime We're sewed in
mattress in a bed. The men left the
woman lying on the floor and sought
the hiding place With knives they
ripped open the mattress and located
the sum of S240.
Upon securing possession OF the
money one of the men stood in the
doorway while the other united sec
ton of the rope by which the woman
was bound. When she had one arm
free. the men cautioned her to remain
quiet, and ran away.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
ONLY WANTED TO
MAKE GETAWAY"
MAN WHO KILLED MRS. STABER
EXPLAINS ETHICS OF
CASE.

New York, July 10.-Frank
Schmidt, alias John Smith, the
wounded burglar, who admits he
killed Mrs. Sophia Staber in her bed
room yesterday morning when he was
caught robbing the Staber house at
Flatbush, gave the district attorney
yesterday his version of the moral to
be drawn from the murder.
"Staber and his son are the ones
to be blamed for this killing he said.
They were fools to try to stop such
men as us when all we wanted was to
make a getaway. If we had been
left alone, there would have been no
shooting.
eff Staber will take gun | will
gladly stand up in front of him and
let him shoot till l drop dead. That
is how much / regret this affair."
Schmidt's pal, Carlo Giro, alias
Metzler, who was silent at first, made
a full confession in which he tried to
lay the blame on his mate.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
GOMEZ
ANNULS CONTRACT

Havana, July 10.-President Gomez
last evening signed a decree annulling
the contract for the purchase of artil
lery and rifles for use in the Cuban
army, made with France and Germany
by Lopez Rodriguez, agent OF the Gu
ban government, accredited for that
purpose, and appointing a commission
to visit the factories in the United
States and Europe TO decide upon the
best types OF arms and to make new
contracts.
1t is believed Gomez was influenced
by protests of American arms manu-
facturers, who claimed they had not
been afforded opportunity to bid on
the contracts.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
NUMBER 8

ison Bray, pioneer lumberman and
old resident of Oshkosh, is dead. In
his earlier years, Mr.. Bray was one
of the active lumbermen of the north
west. A member of the Bray q
Choate company, he went into the
north woods in the winter, taking
charge of the crews that cut the TIM
Der. In the springtime, he went out
on the river drives, and superintended
the difficult task of guiding the logs
from the forests to the settlements.
Twenty-Five years ago he became az
fected with locomotor ataxia. 1t had
been twenty years since he could
walk, and during that period he had
been in the constant care of an at
tendant.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
FLOODS IN MISSOURI.
Residents Flee to Refuge. and Train
Service Is Demoralized.

st. Joseph, Mo-, July 10.-The flood
in the Platte river reached Agency, 70
miles southeast Of ST Joseph, about
noon yesterday, and by night parts of
the town were under IL feet of water.
Nearly a third of the 700 inhabitants
were compelled to flee and are being
cared for in school houses and in
homes on the hillsides. A half mile
of the Santa Fe track is reported to be
washed out North of Agency, 1900
of the Rock Island track is out, and
the Burlington has Jared as badly.
There is no train service east from
st. Joseph tonight. There are no
Great Western trains running.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
RUSS REPORTED TO DIE.

is Sentenced to Death by Military
Court on Charge of Robbing Store.
st. Petersburg, July ION. Szistu-
noff, reporter of the Bourse Gazette
and other st. Petersburg papers, was
yesterday sentenced to death by a
military court on the charge of rob-
bling a tea store two years ago. Prior
to this robbery, M. Szistunoff was SEN
fenced to eight years penal servitude
for attempting to rob the cashiers
office of the Imperial theater, but he
continued his newspaper work in St.
Petersburg under an assumed name.
The authorities say that the robberies
were committed to provide revolution
airy funds.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
Young Grant Honored.

Washington, July 1O.-First Lieu
tenant Ulysses Grant, third corps OF
engineers of the United States army.
grandson of President Grant, was
yesterday appointed superintendent OF
state, war and navy buildings in this
city.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
Sees Fauiu in cigarss Law.

Tacoma, Wash, July 10.-Judge
Clifford of the superior court, yester-
day declared the new state anti-cigar-
ct law to be unconstitutional on the
ground that it is in conflict with the
interstate commerce law.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14

yesterday charged with kidnapping
Edwin Davie, Is years old, from
Louisville. The Davis boy was
picked up on the street by a probation
officer and Crawford was arrested an
hour later.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
En-. ezzler Arrested.

Chicago, July 10.-John A. Black,
charged IN fugitive warrant with the
embezzlement of $10,S40 from the
Tucson Building and Loan association
Tucson, Arizona, wass arrested here
yes erGay.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
DOESN'T WANT sLooDsHED.
General ORTIZ Seeks Settlement o
Colombian Difficulties.

Bogcta, Colombia, July 10.-Gener.
al Ortiz, commanding the steamers in
the hands of the revolutionists, has
telegTaphed the governor of Carriage
that he wishes to avoid bloodshed
Peace commissioners are now on the
way to Barranquilla, which is in the
hands cf the revolutionists, and they
will endeavor TO bring about settle
ment of the movement against the
cover nment
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
TO WE'D NEW YORK GIRL.
Prince Miguel, Son of Portuguese Pre-
tender Engaged to Miss Stewart.

tender Engaged to Miss Stewart.
LONDON, July 10.-The Austrian en-
bassy yesterday announced that Prince
Miguel o. Braganza, eldest son of the
pretender 10 the Portuguese throne,
is engaged TO Miss Anita Stewart,
daughter of Mrs. James Henry Smi. b
CT New York. Prince Miguel was born
September %, 1878. He is the son CT
Duke Michael by the dukes first wife,
Princess Elizabeth of Thurn-U IND
Iaxis. Miss Stewards mother, Mrs,
James Henry Smith, was formerly the
wife Of William Rhinelander Stewart
Mr.. Smith died while the family were
travelling in Japan two years ago, leav-
ing az estate es mated at about $50,
G00,CJ0
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
Bottle Blowers Not TeetotaIers.

Milwaukee, Wis, July 10.-The
glass bottle blowers of the United
States and Canada in resolutions
adopted yesterday, declared against
prohibition.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
FOREIGN Arsenal Burns.

Cherbourg, July 10.-A disastrous
fire occurred yesterday in the torpedo
stores at the arsenal. The damage
amounted to several million francs.
All the garrisons turned out to fight
the flames
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
"BLAck Handler IN TOLLS.
Minor Admits Sending Threatenin!
Demands for Money.

Chicago. July 10.-Frank label, 16
years old, was arrested here last night,
charged with writing "blackhad let
ters" label, it is alleged, wrote sew
eral threatening letters to William
Graessle in which $1,000 was demand
ed The police traced the letters to
label and after his arrest, it is said,
he admitted writing them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
Arrested for kidnapping.

Chicago, July 10.-Charles Craw-
ford alias Charles Sylvesterm of
Louisville, KY. was arrested here
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
STRONGLY FAVORED HIS WIFE.
Bank Teller Embezzles $4,000
Maintain Spouse Properly.

Maintain Spouse Properly.
Fort Wayne, Ind, July 1O.-Edward
N. Deter, paying teller of the First
National bank was arrested by feder-
al authorities yesterday afternoon on
the charge of embezzling $4,000. bet
ger confessed and says he took the
money to maintain his wife in so
cial station which his legitimate
means would not justify.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
Count cas;mir aadeni Dead.

Vienna, July 10-Count Casimir
Badeni, aged 63. former Austrian pre-
mier died here yesterday.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-07-14
Pionee- Lumberman Dead.

PIoneeT Lumbermdn Oeau.
Oshkosh, Wis, July 10-At the age
of II years, during twenty-five OF
which he was an invalid, James Mad
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09
Leaves for the Coast.

F. L, Shepherd of Rockford, accom-
panied by bis wife and daughter, depart
ed on the Burlington for Caloosa, Calf,
where he will locate with his family on
ranch which he recently purchased
Mr. Shepherd has stood the hardships
of the early day life in the Black Hills
and believes he is entitled to some of
the good things for the remainder of his
days.
He came to the Black Hills in the early
sos and has put in most of his time since
in the running of boarding houses and
hotels. When the Eta tin niue neaI
Hill City was being developed, he con
Quoted boarding house at that place
and later came to Rockford, where hi
ran the only hotel at that place for 1
number of years. He has managed t.
put away modest competence which
will serve him we'll in his new home.-
Pioneer-Times.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09
DR.. Chas. W. EIlot's 5-Foot Library.

DR.. Chas. W. Ehot's 5-Foot Library.
A complete Library for the travelling
people-something distinctly new in
Railroad service, has just been adopted
by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad for its fast trains between Chic
ago and Denver.
Four new cars were on exhibition yes
terday at the passenger yards of the Bur-
lington Railroad System at Fourteenth
fStreet and attracted wide attention
among railway experts. 49,.
The Burlington will equip each of the
cars with "Five Foot Library, selected
by DR.. Charles w. Eliot, President,
Emeritus of Harvard University" and in
addition will supply other works intend
ed to give selection of the broadest pos
sible scope to the amount of space avail
able.
The new cars are unique in many
ways, embodying the idea of lounging
club on wheels. The cars are for the
general use of its passengers and in all
likelihood will be as we'll patronized by
the women as the men.
One end of the car is devoted to q sort
of sun parlor arrangement which is re-
garded as big improvement on the old
style observation attachment. This Sec
ton is entirely enclosed in glass fitted in
bronze window sashes and bronze doors.
The windows are SO adjusted to the sash
which is parted in the middle that they
can be lowered and raised to suit the at
mospherc conditions.
When the weather permits, this part
of the coach may be used in much the
same way as the observation platform.
In weather that is less favorable, the
windows may be adjusted so as to en-
tirely eliminate the dust feature.
The cars are seventy eight feet in
length. They are split up into buffet
smoking room, seating nineteen pas
sengers, writing room with two desks
and ladies' parlor fitted with twenty
two chairs and couch accommodating
three.
No expense has been spared in the
manufacture of the car or its interior
adornments The writing room and la.
dies parlor are finished in Santiago ma
hogany.
The sun parlor feature of the car on
bright days, promises to be the most
attractive innovation. Here the passen-
gers may bask in the sunshine to their
hearts delight or, shaded read any OF
the books supplied by the Burlington
Library.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09

squeezed into lenticular masses like tn,
pegmatite in the Gertie mine. Thi
squeezing suggests that the origin of thu
vein was similar to that of the pegma
tite, and that it was not formed through
the rocks in pasty mass. Relationship
to the pegmatite is further suggested by
the occurrence of black tourmaline in
the vein. The tourmaline is in needles
up to 2 inches long by one-sixteenth inch
thick, confined to the outer 2 or 3 inches
of the vein. Some muscovite occurs
but apparently only along the cracks in
the quartz. Two granite dikes from tc
inches thick lie beneath and more OF
less parallel TO the vein, but follow d
zigzag course from nearly a contact to
several feet away.
Tin Queen Claim.
On the Tin Queen claim, owned by
Frank Hebert and lying east of the
Forest City claim, are two large outcrops
of pegmatite of rather coarse structure.
The dikes appear to be lenses and to
reach 50 feet in width. In the western
dixie is shoot about feet in diameter
carrying a considerable sprinkling Of
cassiterite, ore which in quantity would
undoubtedly be worth mining. The
shoot contains large amount of musco-
vite mica with quartz and very little or
no feldspar; the parts of the dixie carry
ing feldspar and less mica contain less
tin. The cassiterite when crushed gives
purplish powder like some of the Car
olina cassiterite and the mineral OBJ
tained at linton. Light-red garnets
reach over an inch in diameter in the
dixie, but are crushed SO that they can
be extracted only in small fragments.
The other dixie contains little visible
Cassiterite, but carries ambygonite in
masses reaching several feet in dame
ter. Two carloads Of amblygonite are
said to have been shipped several years
ago. The dixie also carries lithiophilite,
a blue-green apatite, vivianite, possibly
another iron phosphate, dufrenite, and
ilmenite.
First Find Claim.
About miles east of Oreville is the
First Find claim, on which a pegmatite
dixie carrying cassiterite and coiumbite
crops out boldly along the road, where
it forms the southwest side of small
hill and is exposed TOR width Of 100
feet, though this is probably much more
than the width Of the dixie, owing to
the low dip. 1t is said that the dixie can
be followed for three-quarters of mile
to the northwest.
A small open cut has been made in
the dixie aud some ore taken out. The
cassiterite, so far as could be seen, is
confined to shoot few feet wide and
of uncertain extent and direction. =.
To be Coutinued.l
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09

a catalogue house, taking the chance of
getting what you ordered and paying ex-
press or freight charges on goods the sale
of which rightfully belongs to the local
merchant, the man who helps to build
up your town.
Ifyou want your town to grow; ifyou
do not want increased taxation; if you
would edo unto others as you would
have them do unto you," then let your
motto be, "Patronize Home Industry. p
Dakota Jobber and Retailer.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09

Formers hereabout should plan their
work SO they can attend the Farmers
Institute to be held at Pringle next
Wednesday. Prominent speakers will
address the meetings and suggestions
made that may benefit you. Hours of
meeting 1880 o'clock a. m., and l:30 and
7:30 o'clock p. m.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09

On Tuesday the Deadwood train was
a double-header on account of the big
travel, and also to take mp a car of meat
which had to reach its destination on
time.-Edgemont Express.
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09
An Important DECISION.

COL James A. George of Deadwood
has secured from the secretary Of the in
terror decision in the z. n. Hanson
case, which will permit of the return of
many thousands of dollars, which the
federal department has illegally collect
ed in connection with the granting of
patents to individuals IN this and other
sections of the west, for mineral lands.
1t is estimated that approximately 5000
900 has been paid into the national
treasury in this manner of this sum
about 100000 belongs to the owners of
patented land in the Black Hills.
For long time past it has been the
practice on the part of the government
officials to charge for making four maps
and copies of field notes, $50 for one
claim, $50 for two claims and $40 for
all over that number. These sums were
deposited with the surveyor general be-
fore the work was performed and
whether the actual cost amounted to
this or not, the entire sum was retained
on the ground that no accurate account
of the items was kept and therefore it
was to be presumed that sufficient work
was done to cover the entire deposit.
In ruling that the excess over the ac-
tual amount earned by the surveyor gen.
erals Office in performing the work re.
ferred to in connection with the patent.
ing of mineral lands should be returned
to the individual making the original de-
posit, the secretary of the interior, in
concluding his decision, says:
"rhe cost of the plating of said sur
vey aud the copies of said plat and field
notes required to be made of mineral
surveys should be ascertained by the
value and usual charge for such work at
the time it was rendered. The other
expenses incident thereto should be as
certained from such data and informa-
ton as you may acquire from the rec
ords or the custom of your Office show
ing what proportion of the estimated
cost such expenses bear to the whole
! amount.
"You will instruct the surveyor-gen-
eral to state this account in accordance
with the instructions herein.
''The papers are returned herewith.
every respectfully,
(Signed) FRANK PIERCE,
First Assistant Secretary"
Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1909-10-09

G. T. C. Lollich has sold his ranch to
Mr.. c. F. Pengra, of Monroe, Wis who
will take possession this fall. Mr.. Pen
gra and his wife have been here several
days looking around, and in the ranch
of Mr.. Lollich found what they wanted.
This is one of the best ranches on the
creek and Mr.. Pengra is to be congratu-
lated on coming into possession of such
fine farm. He is thorough Wiscon-
sin farmer and dairymsn and with his
family will become valuable citizens in
this community. Mr.. Pengra and wife
left for their home In Wisconsin Wed.
nesday evening to make disposition o.
some property there, before moving here
Buffalo Gap Gazette,