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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02

A local baseball enthusiast
whose wife is away from home
on a visit, went into Hirzel's
cafe the other day, and being alb
sent minded, when ordering his
meal, suggested to the waiter
that he bring him "a boiled home
run smothered in singles. +" The
cook being somewhat slow was
awakened by the absent-ninded
man to come to bat with the
eats"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02
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JUST FISH STORIES

1t is to be remembered that
some of the following dope is
true-and some is not.-ED.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02
FETT THE ICE MAN

Delivers ice promptly. Leave
Your order with him.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02

Occupy House Boat
Mr.. and Mrs. Edw. Suchow
arrived yesterday from Milwau-
kee and are now domiciled for
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02

Benny Mcconnell SAYS he so
far has the honor of catching the
largest pike this season, it being
a 912-pounder. It's up to Benny
to protect his reputation as a
true disciple of Isaac Walton up
to date, for there has been dire
mutterings against the large
ness of Mr.. McConnell's catch.
Bob Thurston sent in word
Monday to the News to start
their lust Fish Stories column,
as he was now propagating a
new kind of fish in Buckatoban
lake which, when grown to the
required size and moulded into
the shape desired, will put in
the shade Gene Shephard's far
famed "Hodag."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02

Andrew Mambaek is now i'll the
lime-light as a mighty hunter
and trapper, and the ire OF
Mickv HAYDEN is better than
the boiling poiut. Mambeck
has caught by divers means
three wolves within the past
month or six weeks while Micky
HAYDEN has had hard pickin.
getting only occasionally a wild
cat.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-06-02

the SUM Ase boat
located of the
Eagle opp 4.,e electric light
plant. ~
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
Girl Within an
Inch of Her Life
Young Woman Comes Near Being
Struck by Police Auto at Six
teenth and Howard.

The new auto police patrol came within
a narrow margin of striking q girl at Six
teenth and Howard streets Wednesday az
ternoon. And II it had struck her she
would never have known the difference.
The big automobile was going north on
Sixteenth at a rapid clip. A crowd of
people were standing on the southwest
corner waiting for the South Omaha car
to round the corner when the auto whisked
in and around the car just as the latter
turned in on Sixteenth from Howard
street. 1t was going at a rapid rate. The
girl with others was crossing the street
from east to west and the auto came close
enough to the girl to brush her skirts. She
was terribly frightened, but not worse
than the spectators, many OF whom cried
out in wrath at the fleeing autoist.
THAT young woman nay tell her friends
that she has been within an inch of her
life" remarked a priest who boarded the
street car with many others for the base
ball park.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
y. G. Patterson
Shows Bank How
to Be Flnancier
Borrows Money from First National
to Buy Its Property on Tax
it Knew Not Of.

This is a story OF some financing dis
closed by the sale OF Ralph Place at Forty
second street and Dewey avenue to the
state of Nebraska for the site of the
orthoped'c hospital.
II involves the sale OF a tax title under
the scavenger law and a sting of in
gratitude which is the subject of much
comment among rear estate dealers.
Ralph Place, consisting Of thirty-two lots
bounded by Dewey avenue, Emile street,
Forty-second street and Forty-second
avenue was formerly the property OF
Lyman Richardson. II passed to the
National Land company, the holding COM
pany of the Kountze heirs and the First
National bank.
When the scavenger law was PASSED ID. c.
Patterson, a lawyer and real estate dealer,
bought the scavenger tax title TO the prop
erty for 5000.
To produce this $500 MI. Patterson went
to the First National bank and borrowed
the amount. As soon as he could get TO
the county tressurer's office he bought the
tax deed on the First National banks
property.
But Judge Redick has set aside the Pat
terson deed because Patterson did not give
proper notice and his deed was faulty.
When the state wanted to buy Ralph
Place for the orthopedic hospital the agents
had to settle with Patterson and he il
said to have been paid 5000 rather han
have him carry the case to the supreme
court, all because he could borrow money
from a bank with which TO buy the banks
| property on a tax which the bank did MOI
know existed when Patterson got on.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
JUDGE HOPES FOR REUNION.
HESlTATES TO PUT UP BAR
Court IL slow TO Act on Mrs. Good
sons Plea for Separate
Maintenance.

ut appears that Mrs. Goodson tried to
do her whole duty to the children, but the
plaintiff nevertheless has not established
girl" declared Judge Redick in district
court Thursday, speaking with regard to
the suit for separate maintenance brought
by Mrs. Helen Goodson against her hus-
band, Abraham e. GoodsQn, a masseur.
The judge did not finally rule on the
case. but declared that he would not grant
the decree of Mrs. Goodson. there being a
possibility of ultimate reconciliation.
These parties can't live together" sug-
gested Mrs. Goodson's attorney.
THAT is true at present" replied the
court, but they may ultimately be recon-
ciled. 1t would not be wise for this court
to put a bar in the way of such reconcilia-
ton as a decree Of separate maintenance
would be-"
Whereupon the attorneys fell to sparring.
Mrs. Goodson's counsel suggested that the
marriage state vas the most sacred OF re-
be voluntary; that to drive Mrs. Goodson
back to her husband through the pinch OF
poverty would not make for such a real
reconciliation.
I The other side thought that TO grant
Mrs. Goodson a money allowance nov
would be just what she wanted and utterly
spoil any making up in time to come.
Judge Redick said he would hear the
attorneys at more length Monday.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
"Lock Me Up,
I've EmbezZled
Company Money"
This is Confession of Steve Schmidt,
Salesman for Voegele &
Dining.

Lock me up. I've been embezzling
company money and I'm tired of It," said
Steve Schmidt, a salesman FOO the Vosgele
& Dining Confectionery company. Thurs
day morning to Chief Of Detectives Saw
age at the police station.
He would not give further particulars,
but insisted that whct he said was right,
80 the police plac d him in u eel in the
police station oil the charIC VI cmbezzle-
ment. when seen later he said he had
been appropristing his firms money for
some time and had taken a considerable
sum. just how much, he said, he did not
know.
1t is thought Schmidt's confessed pecula-
tons have preyed on his mind. for he
seemed broken in spirit and sat in a cor
ner OF his cell eagerly p~erusing the morn
ing papers in a dim light. When asked
about his family he broke down and wept.
The man lives with his wife and three
sons at 2T21 South Twelfth street. He is
middle-aged and Of Austrian descent.
r. J. Dining, Of the firm employing
Schmidt, said that he could not state what
amount was involved, although he thought
IL might be rather large for such a man as
Schmidt to take, as he confessed to have
been embezzling funds for several years.
Schmidt had worked for the candy manu-
facturers for about four years.
Until the matter is looked up on the
company books and accounts, no action
toward prosecution or a settlement will be
taken. In the meantime. Schmidt sits in
his cell, industriously reading everything
in all the papers in a vain effort to forogct
his trouble. He occasionally remarks about
his family.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
SURVEYS WILL BE MADE FOR
DRAINAGE DITCH ON TUESDAY
First Real step TO Re Taken TOward
Building his Canal In
Sarpy County.

Commissioners OF sarpy count with their
surveyor, Roy n. Towle, civil engineer, of
Omaha, and a number of Omaha owners OF
land above the proposed Papillion river
ditch, will leave Omaha Tuesday in auto
mobiles to go over the line of the proposed
improvement which will drain 30, 100 acres
of Douglas and Sarpy county lands.
This is the first step necessary in the
plan to dig the ditch and have the state
"underwrite'' the bonds necessary under
the new Nebraska law, which is said to be
one Of the best drainage district laws in
existence.
Following the trip of the commissioners, a
meeting will be held in Papillion Tuesday,
June 6, when the boundaries Of the drain
age district will be fixed and apportion-
ments made from this. =.
Few ditch enterprises have promised to
be as popular as the Papillion ditch.
Though many Of the owners are %nonresi-
dents and represented only by real estate
agents of Omaha, these owners are willing
to pay the extra tax hat their lands might
be well drained. and. though they are
VALUABLE now. Il Is estimated that the ditch
will increase them from 81 10 $50 per acre
The trip Tuesday will be made over both
branches, beginning at Ralston, and also
at Lane. following the line to where it /.
proposed to have the ditch meet the Mis-.
souri, river a few miles above the mouth OF
the Platte.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
MAINE CROWS SHOW CORN
Yankees Shovel Away Snow and
Plant King of CereaB.
GRAIN INSTEAD OF PINE TREES
Tennessee Man VIII Prepare Ezhibi-
tiOn for Omaha show Displaying
what Dixie IL Doing with
King Corn.

Corn as well as pine trees grow in Maine.
William d. Hurd Of the University Of
Maine has notified the National Corn ex-
position that the snow has been shoveled
off some ground where pine trees we're
wont to grow and eo farmers are growing
corn to send to Omaha and compete with
the corn from Mexico, where the banana
trees had to be grubbed before the corn
could be planted.
This is the latest variety added to the
big corn show which is in the making.
c. A. Mooers of the Tennessee Agricul-
tural college will prepare an exhibit show
ing some of the corn which is now being
produced in thai state, where for years II
has been said the Mountain Whites made
moonshine out of their corn because they
could not grow enough on one farm to feed
a good pen of hogs
Prof. Mooers has demonstrated that Ten
nessee will produce corn in sufficient guam
titles TO make a good living for a family
without making the grain into whisky.
Some of the corn will be sent to Omaha.
From Massachusetts comes word from
Kenyon L.. Butterfield, president of the
agricultural college, that his state will
make an exhibit at Omaha. AS a member
of the presidents Country Life commits
sion Mr.. Butterfield visited the 1905 expo
sition and has been boosting 1t consis-
tently since.
In Montana Alfred Atkinson, agronomist
at the Montana School of Agriculture, is
having so many inquiries and receiving SC
much encouragement that some 5000 will
likely be invested by the great state fol
an extensive exhibit, besides the individual
entries.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
CALHOUN PIONEER is DEAD
job Ketchmark, Father of the Late
Mrs. LorensO Crounse, Dies
of Old Age.

John Ketchmark, a pioneer OF Fort CAL
houn, father Of the late Mrs. Lorenzo
Crounse, died Of old age and paralysis Of
the heart shortly after midnight Wednes-
day night at his home at Calhoun, He was
SO years old. He was a retired farmer and
owned much land in the vicinity of his
home town. Calhoun was his home for
forty years.
He had two daughters and six sons, of
whom Mrs. Mary Crounse. a daughter and
Joe Ketchmark, a son.. died before him.
The surviving members of the family are
his wife, Mrs. Mary Ketchmark, rs years
old, the daughter, Mrs. Emma Benenick Of
Seattle, Wash, and the sons. Henry, Fred
Edward, Emil and William Ketchmark.
The body is at the Gentleman undertake
ing rooms on North Sixteenth street. II
will be taken to Calhoun and buried there
in the old cemetery Saturday afternoon
after services at the Ketchmsrk home at
$50 o'clock.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
BURT HILL WILL Be CUT DOWN
Twenty. Fourth Street Will Be Opened
This Summer.
LONGEST STREET m THE CITY
Cut of Twelve Hundred Feet VIII
BE Made Through the Hill at n
Cost of About six Thou
sand Dollars.

The Burt street hill at Twenty-fourth will
be cut down this summer and Twenty
fourth street will be opened to I affic be-
fore fall, making this tho longest street in
the city. Twenty-fourth runs from Flor
ence to South Omaha with only one turn,
at st. Mary's avenue.
A cut 100 feet long will be made through
the hill. the cut to be thirty-five feet deep
at its deepest point. The street will be
fifty feet wide and 5000 cubic yards of
earth must be moved. The council expects
TO secure bids at a figure considerable lesE
than % cents per cubic yard. but TO be on
the safe side $500 has been set aside for
the work,
Another piece Of grading of a still greater
magnitude is now being done. This is on
the Southeast boulevard from Bancroft
street to and along a portion Of the eastern
boundary of Riverview park. The Park
board IL doing this work and 6o.700 cubic
yards Of earth will be moved. that much
being taken out of a cut and used in a fiji,
the work extending over 1900 feet Of the
boulevard. The deepest fill will be forty
feet.
The contract for the work was let 10
DuEsn & Eaylon at II cents per cubic
yard and work was begun the first OF last
week.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
Mother May Lose
Reason Over Boy
Mrs. John McKenna of South Omaha
in Serious State Because Of
Lost Son.

Nothing has as yet been learned Of James
Mckenna. the young son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John McKenns. Thirtieth and q streets.
South Omaha. who left home Monday after
noon, and officer Morrison, cousin Of Mrs,
McKehna, says the boys mother is in
danger of losing her mind unless the boy is
found soon.
James McKenna, Is years Of age, left
home Monday afternoon to 60 fishing In
Seymour park. and he has not been seen
since. The police departments Of Omaha
and South Omaha have been notified and a
diligent search has failed to find any trace
Of the lad. Every part of the park anG
the lake have been searched, and the
parents of the missing boy fear he. has
either been kidnapped or that he fell in the
lake and was drowned.
Mr.. McKenna, the boys father. IL a
grocer. at Thirtieth and . streets.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
CLERICAL ERROR is COSTLY
displacement of Two Letters May
" the City from Open
ing an Alley.

A clerical error In recording a deed in
1856 is preventing the city authorities from
opening an alley between Leavenworth and
Mason streets, from Thirty-ninth street to
Fortieth street and unless the record can
be changed the city will be unable to hold
title to the alley and to enforce
an order 10 tear down a fence which en-
closes II.
The alley was decided to the city in 1885
by J. W. Eller. A short time ago 1t was
fenced In. Wednesday City Abstracter
Hartley, who has charge of the city's
realty, ordered the fence removed and the
alley reopened to traffic. The city's au-
thority wes questioned and when the city
abstracter looked up the records he found
that the deed vas recorded between the
city and u. Weller" instead off ~. w.
Eller." Unless Mr.. Eller can be found and
the record changed title to the alley will
be a matter OF question.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
LOWE BOUGHT SOME LOTS
Hyannis Man IL In the
MuskOsee Land Trials as "a
witness.

z. z. Lowe Of Hyannis has been sum
monsd to appear as a defendant in the
Muskogee Cokl) land and lot trials. Mr.,
Lowe was formerly United States
commissioner at Hyannis. His part
In the h Ian deals is merely
as an innocent purchaser OF some Of the
lots and the subsequent transfer OF them
to other parties who are the principal de-
PENDANTS. The transactions in which he Is
summoned are the same in which Governor
Haskell 50 prominently figures
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
BREEN INADVERTENTLY RAISES
SUM OF SUIT OVER DOUBLE
Writes ~ 900 Where He should
Have written $4,000 and Court
Permits Amendment.

The suit Of Michael Mitchell against the
Omaha Packing company took a sudden
jump from district to federal court Thurs
day, a mistake on the part Of Attorney j.
p. Breen resulting in the transfer.
Breen, who appears for plaintiff, asked
leave Wednesday to file a new petition in
the suit and was granted it. The original
petition had been lost. Mr.. Breen received
a carbon copy from r. w. Breckenridge,
attorney for the packing company. and
filed this in the office of the district clerk.
The case went on and a jury was secured
by the time the Wednesday afternoon ses-
sion ended.
Thursday morning Breckenridge rose
when court convened and entered a mo-
ticn that the case be removed TO the
United states circuit court. saying tina
the suit had been for 5000 on the original
petition, but that oil the copy which
Breen had filed 1t had been raised to 5000.
Breen admitted that the change was
made in his handwriting, but stated that
II was due to an inadvertence or mistake
on his part and that he had confused the
case with another.
Judge Day declared that he would take
the statement as made, give plaintiff leave
to amend to 2,OoO and overrule the motion
for a transfer.
Breckenridge then asserted that his mo-
ton was simply one of courtesy, that the
suit having been entered FOR 5000, and he
himself having rendered a bond, the case
ispe facto removed as a matter OF pro-
cedure on account of the amount asked.
The court decided to dismiss the jury and
the question Of jurisdiction is up to the
federal court. with the weight Of opinion
inelining to the belief that the cause has
been removed,
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
New Brick Block
on Leavenworth
Building to Be Erected at Corner Of
Nineteenth by Mrs. G. H.
Andrews.

A brick business block three OF four
stories high and covering a tract ia by
100 feet at the corner OF Nineteenth and
L~eavenworth streets will be erected in the
near future by Mrs. C. II. Andrews. who
has Just secured the property. The lots
were purchased by job simons OF Cedar
Rapids, Neb., and decided them to his
daughter, Mrs. Andrews, who has lived
on them for a number OF years. but has
recently moved to the Dunsany apart
ments.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
Stoecker Loses
Store Sale Suit
Legislator is Required to Return $500
to Man Who Was to Buy
Him Out.

Charles Mueller WINS $500 from William
F. stoeeker by verdict of a jury in Judge
Kennedy's court. the case turning on the
question OF whether the plaintiff was
bound to buy a number OF slot machines.
Stoecker sold a cigar store to Mueller who
paid 800 down. Then Mueller discovered,
he says, that the slot machines were part
Of the inventory and he decided to with
draw,
Stoecker. who is a member of the legis-
lature, declined to pay back the money
and the suit followed, with a victory for
the plaintiff.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
CITY SAVINGS ASKS CHARTER
Carries Out Plans as Announced to
Become National Bank.
HALF MILLION OF CAPITAL STOCK
Large Subscription to Additional
Stock Already Made and Change
ia Expected to BE Made
by July L.

Application was made Thursday by
the directors of the City Savings bank
for a charter to become a national bank
with an authorized capital of 800, 900.
The new institution will be known as
the City National bank, IL the charter is
granted by the comptroller. which there is
no doubt will be issued, as 'hs new or
ganization has unusual strength.
President John F. Fiack of the savings
bank said:
"a large subscription to the additional
stock has already been obtained and 1t is
expected the change will be made July l.
Applications have also been made for
nearly half Of the mortgages which the
savings bank now holds. All the mort
cages will have to be disposed of by
July l."
Considerable strength will be added to
the bank by additional directors and
officers. As the profits Of the bank in
the past have been entirely satisfactory
to the stockholders. 1t is under favorable
circumstances that the new stockholders
become associated with the Institution.
Since the announcement was made in
The Bee a week ago that the City Savings
bank would become a national bank, a
large dulOuHl VI 1OAlllNlNlal bhoAhtSS has
been voluntarily offered to the institution
In the event It carried out the plans an
nounced. So many business men have
called at the bank and written to officers
and directors expressing their gratifica-
ton at the expansion of the institution
and officers of national banks in the city
have encouraged the move to such an ex-
tent, that the outlook for a prosperous
1900 --Ha - ~ L..-
President Flack stated that the bank
would maintain a savings department as
over 1000 depositors nov ave 81, 10000
on deposit in the institution, almost all OF
which is savings on which the bank il
..vE,z interest
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21

II you desire a clear complexion take
Foley's orino Laxative for constipation and
liver trouble, as II will stimulate these
organs and thoroughly cleanse your sys-
tenn. which Is what every one needs in
the spring in order TO feel well. For al
by all druggists.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
METzS SWELL THE FUND
Give Five Hundred Dollars Toward
the Child SaVinE Institute
RuildInR.

Subscriptions to the building fund Of the
Child Saving institute have passed the
$4,000 mark and sa.s42.7s is left TO raise
before June /. The fund was given a
boost Of $500 in subscriptions from Charles
and Fred Metz, and of N65 from the
Thurdssy Bridge club. The condition of
the fund to date is as follows:
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21

TULSA. Okl.. May 9.-"There is nothing
in the report that Crazy Snake has Offered
TO surrender to me" said Colonel Roy
Hoffman of the Oklahoma state militia,
who Is heIe today.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
Building

J. Gluck, Fortisth and DodGs streets.
brick store building. 5000; Mart Thomp-
son. TSirtgIthird and MSrtha stres!s
North Fortieth street, frame dwelling.
g, 30; @. W. Jones, Twenty-eighth avenue
and Fort street, frame dwelling, 1850.
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
A Total EcIipse

Of the functions of stomach. liver, kidneys
and bowels IL quickly disposed OF with
Electric Bittsrs. SOC. For sale by Beaten
Drug Ca
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21

the opening date and the next four days
will be given over to broneho busting"
Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-21
Crnnr Snnke stIl nnt.

Read Nebraska Clothing company's an
nouncement on page I.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-06-27
La educacion de Ia InujeE.

La mujer esta destinada a los efec
tos dulces y tiernos. Sus palabras de-
ben ser una gotta de rniel en- las amar-
guras de lavida ;su sonrisa, ,un rosado
crepdsculo brillando sobre las sinuo-
sidades obscuras de Ia inteligencla;;
su mirar, un caste rayo de la luna
sin mancha; penetrando hasta los
abismos de nuestro corazon y clnen-
do con SUI aureola melancolica y san
ia todas nuestras mas febrlles y exal
tadas paslones.
Moderar los impetus demaslado
fuertes del hombre; HERR con afec-
tos tiernos su coraz6n despedazado
Dor exaltadas pasiones; at raer la am
bici6n sin lfmites a estrecho pero
venturoso nido del hogar, tai debe
ser su ANGELICA ministerio en- Ia So
ciedad. Estas alas tan bellas Sc
tronchan al aire que vibra por las al
| turas inaccesibles de la amblcl6n Q
del poder.
Lo dulce, 10 tierno, 10 gracioso,
forman otros tantos cfrculos donde
su natural hermosura Sc lama como
a un centro de .gravedad. Mas por
10 mismo que la mujer es asi tan
dulce, tan pura, tan delicada., cuar
do la ambicion Sc arraiga en- su ami
mo t6rnase esta passion en- sentlmlen-
to mas ciego, mas impetuoso mas
vehemente que la ambici6n de los
| hombres.
! Las mujeres husmean muy de le-
jos el peligro y tienen presentlmlen-
tos reveladores, eapaces de adlvlnal
Ell secreto mas oculto y descomponel
el plan mas arreglado.
Una mujer manchada por la culps
6 ell crimen, es capaz de todo y a todo
Sc arriesga. Al bajar una grada sc
rueda facilmente al abismo; ,por csc
convene educar su coraz6n en- la
familia en- la escuela desde los prime
ros amos de SUI vida.
Emilio CASTELAR,.