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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
LIE on Panama Canal

has had one frightful drawback malarii
trouble that has brought suffering and
death TO thousands. The germs cause
chills, fever and ague, bliousness,
jaundice, lassitude, weakness and gen
eral debility. But Electric Bitters never
fail to destroy them and cure malaria
troubles Three bottles completely
cured me of very severe attack of
malaria, writes VIM. A. Fretwell, of
Lucama, N. C.. land I've had good
health ever since. Cure Stomach
Liver and Kidney Troubles, and pre-
vent Typhoid. SOC. Guaranteed by
A. ]. Johnson.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
pr.fIted BY rhelc Dreams.

Mrs. Radcliffe confessed that some
of the most thriuing incidents in the
Mysteries of Udolphu" were inspired
by nightmares produced by supplng
on pork chops. Tartini. the great VIC
linlst, after dining indiscreetly.
dreamed that he had made a bargain
with the devil for his soul To prove
his powers the evil one seized VIC
lin and played a sonata of exquisite
beauty. Tartini awoke with the mu-
sic ringing in his ears. committed the
music to paper and published 1t as
"The DEVILS Sonata"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
The Bel Hnnr nfLife

is when you do some great deed or dis
cover some wonderful fact. This hour
came to j. r. Pitt, of Rocky Mt, N. G.
when he was suffering intensely, as he
says" from the worst cold | ever had,
then proved to my great satisfaction,
what wonderful Cold and Cough cure
DIR. Kings New Discovery is. For
after taking one bottle, | was entirely
cured. You can't say anything too
good of medicine like that" It's the
surest and best remedy for diseased
lungs, Hemorahages, La Grippe, Asth-
ma, Hay Feyer-any Throat or Lung
Trouble. SOC. Sl00. Trial bottle free.
Guaranteed by A. ]. Johnson.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
StagseS Skeptics

That clean, nice, fragrant COM
pound like Bucklen's Arnica Salve will
instantly relieve bad burn, cut, scald
wound or piles, staggers skeptics. But
great cures prove its wonderful healer
of the worst sores, ulcers, boils, felons,
eczema, skin eruptiOns. as also chapped
hands, sprains and corns. Try it 25c
at A. J. Johnson's.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
OBITUARY.

Fred Earl. son Of Samuel and Alice Strait. born
in the town of Webster. October H. 1892. died
August "A. He leaves father and mother. six
sisters. two brothers and many other relatives and
his home otter Greek. Rev, W. NJ Smith oiIi-
ciating
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
strange Phenomenon.

II Is no isolated phenomenon to fad
together lae highest ideals and the
most cont amutih)e meanuess
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
MARRIED

AZ the residence Of Mrs, s. A. Morrow in Mound
Park William Morrow Of Viola and Miss Marie
Skrede Of Virooua. August IT, by Rev. f. +.
Shultz.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24

The man who jumps at conclusions is
likely to land in some very queer places.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24

WANTED Information as to address
of Emery l.. Clark or widow or heirs
if he is dead. He served in CO. /. 18th
Wisconsin Infantry in Civil war and
address was Vernon county. Small
recovery can probably be made. Ad
dress +. w. Spalding, Pacific Bldg,
Washington, d. Z. d.
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Insertions Under tssis Head 5 Cts
per Line. No AID. Taken for Loss
Than IS Cents.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24

The Kuebler. Fawcett. Franklin
and Stoll families are camping out at
Buttternut grove east of town.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
For Rent

For RENT A 240-acre farm. Fer
particulars call on j, H. MeLees. vi
roqua, Route 9. t'SStf
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24

For SALE OR ExCHANCE-A store
building 22x24 with some fixtures, in
Readstown. Wis. VIII sell cheap if
taken at once F.. c. KIncann0n, Platt-
vile, Wis, Route No. 3.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
Wanted

WANTED To buy an atlas of Vernon
county. Inquire at law office of Smith
x Moen.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24

The county teachers training school
opens on August Goth. Fifty four APP
plications have been accepted out of a
receipt of over eighty The school has
not sufficient capacity to accommodate
all the would. be students.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1910-08-24
FOTEYSKIDNEYCURE
Makes Kidneys and Bladder Right

z esfzH1 Free
Have your eyes tested by J. W. Lucas,
optician, at Lucas Jewelry Store. Eye
glasses and spectacles at lowest prices
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WANT AID. COLUMN

Town of Stark. MAY %.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
BOISE WESTERN RAILROAD
PART OF HILL SYSTEM
LINE ACROSS SOUTHERN IDAHO TO COOS
BAY HAS BACKING OF The WIZARD OF
THE GREAT NORTHERN--WILL GET into
PORTLAND VIA. SALEM AND The ORE
CON ELECTRIC;

force attention to the undeoped condition of Central Oregon
and Southern Idaho is beginning to bear fruit
Two lines of railroad are being built up the DeSChuteS
through one hundred miles of rocky canyon and wilderness to
reach the Snake river valley one way and Klamath Falls the
other
The Naon and Klamath cutoff is being rushed with all the
speed tat men and money force into the situation and
over one hundred miles is through virgin Wilderness
Two new lines being rushed into the Coos Bay Country
and the Hartman line from Drain to Coos Bay will be taken up
and completed at an early day.
On top of al this comes the news of the Boise and Western
line being Hill project and completes the vision Of develop
men that entertained for year by the 0regondahO De-
VeIopment Congress.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

an effort to head off the Elba move
ment have tried to make il appear
that Roosevelt has already endorsed
Taft.
Since the Ballinger-Pinchot con
troversy and the ousting of Pin
chot. Roosevelt's close personal
friend and adviser, the one question
in the minds of the politicians has
been, What will Roosevelt say
when he gets homer"
Now that Roosevelt has sent for
Oscar Straus. his former cabinet
member. and had conferences with
him in Egypt while Pinchot is now
on the way to Europe to greet the
eX-president. the question is becom-
ing still greater factor.
y Roosevelt has shown in his con-
versation with correspondents who
went from America to meet him,
that he is much better informed or
political questions than it was at
first believed possible. Now the ru~
NOR. which is given considerable
credence in political circles, that
Longworth has been quietly re-
auested not to serve on the congress
sional committee is believed here to
answer will be,
The congressional committee will
be the head and shoulders of the
coming elections The fight will
be primarily for the endorsement OF
the legislation enacted since Taft
assumed the presidency.
The congressional committee of the
| Republican party will be called or
to explain and endorse the tariff
measure and the other bills which
| Taft has endorsed in public
speeches recently.
To serve on this committee, it Il
tacitly understood, is to endorse the
! Taft administration. If the forme
president has askel Longworth no
to serve on this committee he hat
therefore, it is believed here, in real
ity asked him not to endorse public
ly the Taft administration
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

New York. March 2S.-Albert VOL
ter. white-faced anaemic youth, ac-
cused of attacking, strangling to
death and burning Ruth Wheeler, 19,
a stenographer, today denied all
knowledge of the crime.
The police, however, are endeavor-
ing to weave net of circumstantiali-
ty about him, which will send him to
the electric chair, if substantiated.
The murder of Miss Wheeler was
one of the most revolving in New
York's criminal annals.
The girl had been lured by her
murderer to the room occupied by
Wolter under the preteXt of employ
ment She was attacked and strangled
to death The murderer then sought
to remove all trace of the crime by
burning the body.
Finding that the corpse would not
fit in his fireplace, he broke the bones
of the arms and legs. The body was
then thrust upright in the fiue, sat
urated with kerosene and a match
applied. :.
The attempted incineration failed
The murderer then dismembered the
charred corpse. He sewed the trunk
and head in a sack, and placed it out
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

side the room. He endeavored to
cremate the limbs.
The police have established the faCt
that the suspected man has occupied
the room in which the murder occur
red, and that he advertised for a
stenographer.
The police are endeavoring to prove
that Wolter is guilty of number o.
revolving crimes; that he headed
white slave" gang, and that he Kept
a record of young girls.
Katchen Mueller, who posed as
VOTERS wife, is being held by the
police as a witness. They declare
that she has already told many dam
aging things c. corning the accused
man.
She gave tn lice a list of names
of girls, and Il . 1lice are endeavor-
ing to find the r. They are also en-
deavoring to as q ain the addresses
of the girls of W o. Wolter is alleged
to have Kept re a
Coroner Hauh ser today held
Wolter without b. a charge of
murder, to answer he grand jury
The most impor, witness found
by the police was -atchen Mueller,
who posed as VOTERS wife. She told
the police of strange noises in VOL
ter's room Thursday night. She de-
clared she called to him once, and he
said he was fixing the CRATE, and he
told her to go to sleep.
Later, she said she was awakened
again, went into his room and saw
him stufilng something into the
crate. She offered to help him, she
said, and Wolter ordered her to go
| back to bed saying he would choke
her to death if she did not.
The police believe they have dis
covered clues which will enable them
in .unearthing white slave" traffic,
, and will question Katchen regarding
other women said to have visited
VOTERS room, and then disappeared
Katchen Mueller made state
ment to the police today.
About midnight Thursday she
said, Il was awakened by a crash in
the front room. l called out asking
| Who is there?
ALBERT answered. telling me that
part of the fireplace had fallen and
he was fixing it. He told me to &C
to sleep.
About 2 o'clock in the morning
another noise wakened me.
Il went into the front room and
! found Albert showing something in
to the CRATE.
Il offered to help him, and he or
dered me to go to bed.
He said he would choke me tC
| death if | didn't go.
Il went back to my own room.
The police gave Wolter no rest
during the day. TIL ethird degree
examination, which started early il
Continued on page 5.)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
Cut OFF His Wife's Ears.

Chicago, March 2S.-Because he
slashed his wife's right ear from her
head with a razor and almost as
badly mutilated the other, Frank
Pelinski is in Jail at Evanston today
awaiting the filing of charges
against him.
Mrs Pelinski is being treated at
an Evanston hospital. Pelinski's
deed followed his release from jail,
to secure which his wife had lab
ored over a washtub until she saved
$50, the amount of the fine in de-
fault of which he had been incar.
cerated.
Several occupants of the house
where the family lived witnessed tht
attack which occurred less than al
hour after the husband was liberia
ted Pelinski's fine had been I'M
posed for cruelty to his wife.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. ]

Mateseka, AUSTRALIA, MarCh 70
Two hundred and fifty persons were
killed in fire which destroyed the
village inn at Oakoerite, while a
dance was in progress there, accord
ing to advices received here today.
The building was built of wood, and
the fire spread with great rapidity
A panic occurred and the dancers
iammed the doOrways, cutting off
escape.
The roof of the building fell while
the dancers were trying to make
their escape, and many were caught
under the timbers and held while the
fire bla2ed around them.
Scores were hurt in the first mad
rush for the door, and only a few OF
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
A THOUSAND
ASK HER TO
MARRY THEM
UNITED PRESS LEASED WIRE. ]

Spokane, Wash, March 2S,--Nlss
Mabel McNickle, of Chicago, formerly
n stenographer, who holds ticket NJ
! in the opening of the Spokane IT.
dian reservation, April /, is busy
turning down offers of mdrfage. The
number of proposals has passed the
1000 mark today, all 4 them "nL,rg
in the waste basket.
Miss McNickle, who has her CHOICE
of 64 homesteads, ranh.ng from forr
of Ga homesteads, ranging from 40
tour of the resCits aud has picked
out a claim aail to be wcIth .1(,.
900.
Her name a2pslfsd s2e,nl on lie
list, but Allen NaN;Jn. Of llc.cua.
No. ], has ammo lIced his inte Itlt n
not to file on a homes, III, THIS riac-
ing her first.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

announced that the proposed Boise
Western will become n part of the
Hill system to Coos Bay, and then,
with the Oregon Electric railway.
will continue to Portland.
This admission on so high an an
thority Is of the utmost importance,
as It dissipates all speculation and
places the facts OF the proposed new
trunk line to the coast beyond perad
venture. How important this admis-
sion is will be made manifest in the
revival of real estate and CONNER
clal activity along the proposed
route and the renewal of operations
looking 10 the development of the
rich and varied resources Of eastern
Oregon, and particularly the terri
tory to be trayersed by this portion
OF the great Hill system.
File Indemnity Suits.
Colonel Wood states that the ae
tual work Of construction will be
commenced as soon as some neces
cary rights OF way can be secured.
Some delay Is being occasiOned In
this preliminary by the refusal OF
some OF the older settlers along the
route refusing TO concede the re-
quired 200 feet right OF way through
Their lands This will necessltate
The institution OF cOndemnation pro-
ceedings and will for time impede
the progress OF the work OF actual
construction Condemnation pro-
ceedfngs will be instituted lmmedi-
ately In some Of these cases, and
among the suits already hled may be
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

those in the building escaped with
out injury.
The building was consumed so rap
idly that efforts to check the blaze
were futile.
A great crowd gathered around,
but could render no aid to the i'm
prisoned merry makers.
After the fire had burned Itself
out great piles of dead bodies,
stacked one on the other, were found,
many of them so horribly burned
that efforts to identify them were
useless.
IL is believed that some ot the
bodies were entirely consumed.
Oakoerite is in mourning today
over the tragedy. There is hardly a
family in the town that has lJt lost
some member. Business houses have
been closed. and general mourning
has been proclaimed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
UNITED PRESS LEASED w1RR.l

Washington, March 2S. - The
story that Theodore Roosevelt is
putting his house in order" so that
he will not be hampered if he should
decide not to endorse the Taft al.
ministration created commotion here
today
The story is hung on the state
ment that Representative Nicholas
LongwoFth, the ex-president's SON
in-law, has refused to serve again on
the congressional committee in re-
sponse to a letter from Roosevelt,
stating that he hoped the family
need not be placed in a position
which might make it embarrassing
for him later.
Longworth declined to affirm OF
deny the rumor.
The story which is the sole topiC
of conversation in political circles
here has brought to the front again
the "back from Elba" whispers.
The administration, it is said, in
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
VeI0pment Congress.

A dispatch from Vale, Ore, Satur-
day, says:
All doubt and speculation regard
ing the Boise & Western railway has
been dispelled by the admission of
Col. c. e. S. Wood that this road
is part of the Hill system to Coos
Bay.
Colonel Wood has been very reti-
cent concerning his plans and opera
tions, and has courteously refused
on several occasions to give out any
definite information concerning the
new road or his purposes in making
these extensive trips. He was final
~ prevailed upon by your cores
pondent to state authOritatively that
the Boise-Western is a part of the
great Hill system and has the sup
port and backing of that powerful
railroad organization. Colonel Wood
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
jAPS SEND
PEANUTS
TO MISSOURI
A HUNDRED TONS OF THE
TOOTHSOME GOOBERS UN-
LOADED IN SEATTLE WILL
SHOW MISSOURIANS WHAT
JAPS CAN DO.
TuNIrrp PRESS LEASED wins. ]

Seattle, Wash, March 2S.-The
japanese steamer Chicago Maru is
unloading one hundred tons of pea
nuts here today, and dealers in home
grown COOLERS are having visions of
a yellow peril" in the peanut trade.
The big consignment of peanuts,
all japanese grown, is on its way to
Missouri valley points. 1t made a
large part of the steamers cargo.
The importation of Japanese pea
nuts is largely on the increase. Deal
ers figure it is cheaper to pay the
half cent duty on the unshelled nuts,
than pay freight rates from the
South. This heretofore had applied
to the Pacific coast only, but the
Japanese invasion is now working
eastward.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
CAT FOUND GNAWING
AT SEVERED HUMAN FOOT
Mrs. Frank Durbn in Sweeping Basement Makes Grewsome
Discovery Everything Indicates Murder Golden Hairs
Found Sticking to the Object May Give Clue.

Sheriff Mimic has In his possession
today a human foot. said TO be that
of a child, which was found last
Saturday evening by Mrs. Frank
DuTbin under a basin In the Durbln
home while the lady OF the honse
wRs sweeping, and II Is believed by
the authorities after investigating
the grewsome find that a terrible
crime has been committed not long
er than a week ago.
Saturday evening Mrs. Durbin
completed her household duties by
sweeping out the basement and
while performing this work, noticed
the house eat gnawing on something
aal paid no attention % I. at hrst
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
Another Woman Murdered.

Baltimore, Md, March 2S.-The
body of a handsome young woman,
believed to have been Mrs Al Mec-
rick, was found today with the
throat cut, on the suburban estate
of Alexander Brown, a millionaire
banker.
Later the body was positively
identified as that of Mrs. Merrick.
The police are seeking her husband.
The circumstances under which the
body was found, point to murder.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

but later. upon obtaining a closer
view, found that the cats ind was
something unusual. Mrs. Durbin
swept the object out, and the shock
ing sight OF a mangled human foot.
was exposed The frightened lady
notified her husband. Frank Durbin.
who carried the member TO the doe
tors ONCE and after ascertaining
that IL was really a foot, turned ~
over 10 sheriff Minto who has been
making a thorough investigation OF
the case
The sheriff has called at an the
hospitals and inquired whether or
CONTINUED on Page 50
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

"A New York physician argues
that the brain Is not the seat of rea-
SON." Then will he kindly tell us
where the brain storm originate?
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
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After "a Hours Rest Broke Out
Again Today With a Terrific
Explosion and Great Shower
of Ashes and Stones.
vESUvIUS ALSO LIGHTS UP
Opens Up Five Great Fissures With
a Roar Like Thunder, but Elected
No Lava--Great Rumblings Are
Heard Continuously, and mbabi-
tants Near the Mountain Are Pre-
pairing to Abandon Their Homes.

Catania, March 2S.-Ruln and
havoc is being wrought today by
great outpouring of volcanic rocks,
ashes and lava in the central crater
of Mount Aetna.
The village of San Leo is in the
path of q moving mass of molten
lava, the inhabitants for the most
part have deserted the village and
those who remain will be driven out
by soldiers.
Army engineers are endeavoring
to change the direction of the flow
but the violence of the eruption
makes their work perilous.
Showers of ashes and red hot
stones are falling on San Leo and
upon the mountain sides.
The eruption was accompanied by
an explosion that. made the ground
tremble for miles and caused people
to rush into the streets, believing an
earthquake had occurred.
Vesuvius Also i'm Eruption.
Naples. March 2S.-Five assures
near the central crater Of Mt. Vesu-
vius opened today with a terrific
roar. A great volume of smoke
poured from the rents in the noun
/ tain but the first eruption was not
accompanied by lava flow.
Scientists here believe that the ac-
tivity of Vesuvlus is caused by the
subsidence of Mount Aetna, in Sici-
ly They are uncertain. however,
whether Aetna is permanently at
rest. Many believe that ashes and
rock have clogged the craters and
that possibly a great eruption will
occur when the volcano throws or
/ the obstacle.
Rumbling accompanied the out
break of Vesuvius and inhabitants
of towns near the mountain. are pre-
pairing to fee. L.
Damage to Date $5, ,OOO, 600
Catania, March 2S.--The estimat~
ed damage from the latest eruption.
of Mount Aetna is $4,000 The
volcano is still in a disturbed con-
dition although the craters have
ceased to eXpel lava and rock,
1t is believed that the fissures are
choked with ashes and that another
eruption will follow as soon as gases
become strong enough to eject the
mass! Earth rumblings and deton-
/ ations continue at intervals and the
volcano is far from quiescent
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
ACCUSED
OF BRUTAL
BUTCHERY.
Albert WoIter Is Charged With
the Most Brutal and Cold
BIOoded Murder in the An
nails of Crime.
VICTIM A STENOGRAPHER

Attempted to Burn Body, But Fail
ing in This, Dismembered 1t, and
Left Torso i'm a Sack in the Hall
Police Say They Are Certain He
Was Engaged in White Slave Trnf-
Rc.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
POLITICAL.
CIRCLES
DISTURBED
Story Gains CredenCe in Wash
ington That Roosevelt May
Refuse to Endorse the Taft
Administration.
"NICK" REFUSES TO SERVE

This Action Said to BE Taken Be
cause Roosevelt Wrote Him Stat
ing He Hoped the Family Need
Not BE Placed in a Position
Which Might Make 1t Embarras-
sing for Him Later-LOngworth
Serving Would Indorse Taft.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28
CAUGHT IN
BURNING
BUILDING
Two Hundred and Fifty People
Attending a Dance Jam Exits
When Building Caught Fire,
and Perish.
PILES OF BURNED BODIES

Were Found at Each Exit When the
Fire Finally Burned Itself Out,
Many SO Horribly Burned That
Identification Was Impossible
Hardly a Family in the Town But
Lost at Least One of It's Mem
Bers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1910-03-28

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