Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-04-01

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La Crosse The state tax commits
| sion will decide the La Crosse county
tax controversy, in which country dis
tricts charge 100000 taxable prop
erty in La Crosse escapes taxation,
April 16.
Barron.-Caspar Bottorff and six 9TH
ers of Athena were arrested by Game
Warden Hubert for fishing trout out
of season. All pleaded guilty, and
five were fined $40 each and costs and
one $25 and costs.
La Crosse, March 2S.-Congressman
John J. Esch has announced his can
didacy for denomination at the Repub-
lican primaries next September No
other Republican candidates in this
district have as yet been announced.
La Crosse.-Whether a wealthy son
can be forced to care for his aged
mother will be settled here March so,
when the county board will hear pet
ition to compel one of its members to
provide for his mother. who has been
assisted in the past by the county.
Superior.-For the first time since
the legislature provided a law for
county road commissioner one was
elected for Douglas county at a spe-
cial board meeting. The new road
commissioner is Alderman Morriss-
cite of this city, and will receive
animal co1orv IF 0On
Hudson.-Dr. j. S. Tyler of Eagle
Bend, Mimi, who confessed to being
60 years old and Miss Clara May
Monroe, aged 20, were married here
by Judge Arnquist. The aged bride
groom bestowed upon his youthful
bride handsome ruby which was
brought to him from Australia by a
friend.
Kenosha.-The big twenty-eight-
room ice house owned by the Jeffer-
son Ice company of Chicago at Twin
Lakes, Wis, the largest ice house in
Wisconsin, together with the power
plant connected with it, was destroyed
by fire, entailing a loss of 100000.
plant is not known, but it is said to
be small.
La Crosse.-Manager Of the La
Crosse high school basketball team,
which won second honors in the state
meet at Madison, losing to Appleton,
announce the team will not partici-
pate in the Appleton meet this month
for the reason no teams holding rec
ords will participate and no honors
to recompense for the expense would
Eau Claire. - With ten candidates
for nomination for mayor in the first
primary election under the commits
sion law Leonard Seyberth and John
B. Fleming, cashier Union Savings
Bank, were nominated for mayor by
vote of: Seyberth, Gel; Fleming, 504.
The nominees for councilmen are:
John Huebsch, 791 John c. Fennes-
sey, 76S; John Fl. Fleming TAI; R. K.
Boyd, TAT.
Milwaukee. - The Canadian Pacific
hdIlEOdu
block of property on the east side of
Milwaukee near Lake Michigan, said
to be for a terminal. Options on the
property have been quietly obtained.
The story cannot be confirmed here.
With the Milwaukee acquisition the
Canadian Pacific would have from the
Head of the Lakes Chicago line with
which Milwaukee would be directly
connected. Surveys have already been
made for a new route which was fig.
ured on as the outlet.
La Crosse.-After a series of expert
ments with a fluid discovered by
chance, ]. E. Egan, an inventor OF this
city, announces he has found COM
pound which will kill "quack grass"
He claims throughout Southern Min
nesota and Wisconsin there are thou
sands of acres which would be worth
$100 per acre if free from this pest,
which are now worth $40 or less. The
fluid was intended as potato bug ex-
Termination, and a quantity spilled ac-
cidently on patch Of the grass, killed
it over night. Further experiments,
he claims, showed the fluid will Kill
the grass without injury to other vege'
tation.
La Crosse. - A party of thirty-five
capitalists seeking investments in
the Northwest arrived in La Crosse
and were escorted over the city in
automobiles by a committee Of bust
ness men. This party was conveyed
here from Hatfield, where they IN
spected the water power, by speclaI
cars. Winona was also inspected.
The party is composed of capitalists
from Milwaukee, Chicago, Middle
Western and Eastern points, who are
seeking opportunities for individual
investments and visited La Crosse ana
Winona because these cities are sup
piled with cheap electric power from
the big Hatfield water power. Inc
party returned to Chicago, having
about completed tour of the Middle
Western and Southern states.
La Crosse.-W. J. Ferris, president
of the La Crosse Water Power com
pany, announces plans have been com