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The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
Making The Dirt FLY.

Thomas Burton has begun the eXca-
vatiDg for the big sewer to be built
from First avenue to Fourth avenue on
Birch street. In front of the residence
of G. G.. Gollmar the dept h will be 15
feet. Horses will do most of the work.
Mr.. Burton says that be has a lot OF
dirt which will go for almost nothing.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
Rates Reduced.

A reduced rate of three cents mile
for the round trip has been secured to
those attending the State Fair in Mil
waukee, Sept. 12-16th. Tickets are
good from Monday, Sept. 18th, to the
following Monday.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
II Blew Some,

During the storm of last week Jerry
4 adden's big barn in the town OF Del
Iona was moved foot from its founda'
ton. AS the building is one hundred
twenty feet long there must have been
some ewind.-Reedsburg Free Press.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
BIC INDIANS
HOLD BIG DANCE
Unusual Incident at New
port Resort Near :.
DeltOn.
GFrOm Thursdays DaIy.l
u gh! Big Indlan!.

Ugh! Big IndIan!'
With all his fuss and feathers he
was at Newport on the Wisconsin river
banks last night. For many moons a
band of Winnebagoes have been camp
ing on the old town site and last night
they gave a dance for those who cared
to see the unusual event. Campers
say that they had been practicing
the corn dances and other. numbers
for the occasion. 1t was quite a show.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
Death at Reedshurg,

George Kelley died Thursday morn
ing at Reedsburg of paralysis, aged 81
wears. He leaves a wife and two
daughters: Mrs. Thomas of Chicago
and Mrs. J. l. Snyder of Reedsburg.
He was veteran.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
Licensed to Marry.

Villa II E. Bassett of Baraboo town
and Miss Katherine SchelIenberger Of
Sumpter.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
BIRTHC

Word has been received here OF
the birth of ten pound
daughter to Prof. and Mrs.
e. w. Gehrand of Marquette, Mich.
Mr.. Gehrand was formerly principal
of the Baraboo schools.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
Frank I. Tucker,

Frank T. Tucker, candidate for
nomination for attorney general on the
Republican ticket, committed suicide
this morning at Oshkosh at 400
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08
KNIGHTS OF PYTH|AS
TAKE SECOND GAME
Busy Men Lose Second of
Series to Local Lodge
Team.
(F'rOm Fridays Daily

The Busy Men lost the second Of the
series with the Knights of Pythias at
the fair grounds yesterday. In the third
inning the Busy Men made seven runs
and considered the game an easy VIC
tory but the Knights rallied in the
eighth and retaliated with eight runs.
There were but few men famed by
either side, most of the outs being from
infield hits. Only few of the original
Busy Men team were able to De present
at the contest yesterday.
The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1910-09-08

Postmaster Fl. E. Paddock and sons
of La Vale came to see the show.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1910-02-10
Want Industrial Training For All

The social and Industrial conditions
i'm the United States demand that in
dustrial education for rich and poor
alike should be democratic. This con-
ciusion was reached by many prom
lnent leaders OF working men and in
dustrial educators. addressing the
American Federation OF Labor's COM
mittee on Industrial education.
Suggesting that European countries
were far ahead OF the United states
in the matter OF fitting young girls
and boys for n trade, Charles B', Rich
ards of New York City. originator of
the National Society for the promo
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1910-02-10

ton of Industrial education, argued
that the committee should fight for a
plan that would relieve the American
school boy OF the confusing plight OF
not knowing what to do when turned
away from school He declared more
than onc-fourth OF the boys left the
public schools In New York before
graduating because they ''wcrc sick
of IT,. This. he regarded as due TO
the lack Of industrial training.
President James Duncan OF the
Federation. strongly endorses the pro-
position of introducing training into
the last grades of the grammar
schools.
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1910-02-10
FEUDAL BARONS OF
DEER LODGE VALLEY
Wax Rich and Powerful while Convicts
do the Work and State Pays the
Bills. No Bids Called for to
Supply Prison Contracts

miles away from the penitentiary. ow-
ing to convicts roaming at large rob-
bing the camps. The farms owned by
Conley & McTague are all farmed by
the convicts and have been for the
past eighteen years or more. The
convicts take care of all the live stock,
pillow the fields, cow the seed, harrow
and in the summer great crews of
convicts are taken every morning
from the penitentiary to the farms
where they irrigate the fields the
whole day long. Some of the crews
have had as many as thirty-eight men.
A convict cook accompanies each ir-
rigating or harvesting crew to the
farm and prepares the meals for the
convicts. The guards who are en-
ployees OF the state, superintend the
job of the conyicts and Conley & Nc
Tague get the profits OF the harvest.
When the caring of the convicts
was let by contract. Conley & Nc
Tague worked the convicts, made
them raise the vegetables consumed
by the convicts and all the time the
firm of Conley & McTague were re-
ceiving top notch preces from the
state for caring for and feeding the
prisonres
At present the state feeds the pris-
oners and convicts raise all the vege-
tables consumed In the penitentiary.
The state pays Conley & McTague for
this stuff. yet the prisoners raise the
garden truck and Conley gets $4,000
year from the state for acting the
part of warden OF the penitentiary.
No bids are called for to supply the
state prison with food, no contracts
ar let, the farmers in the surround
ing neighborhood don't get a chance
to sell their product to the state to
be consumed by the convicts. Conley
a. McTague sell the farm produce to
the state that is used in the prison;
they have no competitors; they have
as complete a monopoly as the STAN
dard oil ever had. And the greatest
graft of all is that Conley q McTaguc
do no farming. but the conyicts, the
state prisoners. do all the work. raise
their own grub and the great state OF
Montana foots the bill and the people
OF Montana are thus grated upon.
Not only farming is carried on by
the convlcts. but stock raising as we'll
The finest stock farm in western Mon
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1910-02-10

Tho records OF Powell County show
that the firm OF Coniey q McTague
are assessed for thirteen thousand
four hundred acres of farm land in
the vicinity Of Deer Lodge. This does
not include all the land farmed by
the above firm. A representative of
the News in maing the investigation
was informed from reliable sources
that the firm of Conley q McTague
owns and controls through lease forty
thousand acres in Powell County.
Some sources of information give a
still greater acreage. but the most re-
liable data we could get was the form
er figure. Most Of this land is in the
rich Deer Lodge valley within forty
miles of Butte and twenty miles from
Anaconda. therefore being very close
to a market for farm produce which
makes the rich agricultural land very
valuable. The farm of Conley & Nc
Tague joins the boundary lines of the
city OF Deer Lodge and is within a
stones throw of the prison walls. The
hrm OF Conley & McTague, We were
informed, bought out sixteen farmers
who were to all appearances, compar-
atively well to do. until their farms
were surrounded by convicts working
for Conley a. McTague. In fact, ii is
generally stated In Deer Lodge today
that when Conley & McTague wanted
to buy a farm they put convicts to
work all around the neighborhood Of
this farm they desired to purchase.
The convicts roamed the hills day and
night, farmers had articles stolen and
they lived I'm constant dread of de-
precautions DelnB CoHliiltleu ny thS
convicts, or injury and insults being
committed on their wives and daugh-
ters. After living such a life for a
few months with convicts everywhere
surrounding them, the farmers would
sell out at any figure offered them. In
fact the farmers were forced to sell
their land, they were practically
evicted by the Feudal Lords of Pow
ell County. the Barons of Deer Lodge
Valley. In order that farming by con-
victs might be extended and money
made for the barons. The extent OF
the territory farmed or covered by
convlcts working for Conley 4 Nc
Tague can best be understood when
we state that families were not safe
to camp at Rock Creek Lake, sixteen
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1910-02-10

an endeavor 10 legalize convict labor,
and 1t was also rumored that IL was
desired to secure convict labor in the
beet fields for the benefit of the branch
of the sugar trust that is located ut
Billings.
1t would appear that the monied
interests of Billings envy the graft
that Conley & McTague have got and
want the graft divided up.
OF course the monied interests are
in favor of exhibiting the convicts to
the general gaze of the public by
working them on the roads of the
state and exposing tht unfoTtunates
to the ridicule of the rabble. just the
same as convicts were treated a few
generations ago, when the punishment
for crime was TO chain a criminal in
some public square and let the chill
dren of the community pelt him with
rotten eggs and decaying vegetable
matter about the same as they do in
China at the present day.
1t is only poor men that get into
the state prison. men who steal a
bronco, or few dollars. or have not
money enough to appeal the case to
higher court on legal technicality.
The rich thief that steals the land in
the vicinity of Billings and in eastern
Montana has his case tried before an
aristocratic, labor union hating Judge.
who usually fines the rich man for
stealing forty thousand acres OF land,
$4,000 and sentences him to spend
twenty-four hours in the parlor of the
sheriff of Lewis * Clark County
where the prisoner can pass the sem
tence in chatting with his friends,
smoking some fine cigars and drink
ing fine wines. The rich criminal
runs no chance of going to the peni-
tentiary, II is only the poor that 1t is
desired to work on the state high
ways.
This proposed plan Of working the
eonylcts has nice graft attached To
IL as one can see. The convlcts Will
have to be moved all over the state
and this will give the railroads a good
rake off to the tune OF $500 for every
hundred miles that one hundred con-
victs are moved, and rake or to
some one in boarding the convicts in
the different parts OF the state.
The principal objection 10 working
the convicts on the public road is that
Continued on Page 80
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1910-02-10
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
PASS RESOLUTIONS
Moss and George of Billings Said to
be Active to Legalize Convict
Labor and to Secure it
for Beet Fields

At a state meeting OF the County
Commissioners of Montana recently
held in Billings, a resolution was pre-
sented in favor of having convicts
work on the roads of the state. This
resolution was adopted by the County
Commissioners in convention assembl-
ed and the commissioners recommend
ed the same to the Good Roads Con-
gress" which meets in Billings next
July that they take action towards
getting a law passed that will legalize
the convicts working on the roads OF
the state.
1t seems that the efforts to legalize
convict labor in Montana are all orig
mating in the vicinity of Billings.
When the convention of the Mon
tana Federation OF Labor was held i'm
Billings, August 1905. the same rcso-
lutions that were adopted by the coun-
ty commissioners. were presented to
the Federation convention soliciting
labor's endorsement OF working the
convicts on state highways.
The delegates to the Montana Fed
Grafton of Labor convention refused
to endorse the proposition, and the
judgment of the convention was, that
1t would be bad precedent to estab-
lish.
At the last session of the Montana
Legislature bill was introduced dur
ing the last part of the session, pro-
vlding for the employment of convicts
upon state highways. and to allow the
state to contract the convlcts out to
the several counties through which
the road would pass. This bill passed
the senate without a dissenting vote
but the house by an almost unanimous
vote rejected the bill when it was
placed 10y them on its final passage.
The bill was championed by Billings
people and it was introduced toward
the end Of the session with the hopes
! that II would become law before or
gunizcd labor could protest. The bill
WAS defeated only through the active
work Of the labor lobbyists at the state
capital and the opposition that the
labor unions made against the pro-
posed law.
During the sessions OF the last leg
i tslaturc II was pcrsistcntly reported
at tnr state capital that Moss and
u Grura, Two OF the leading Citizens
i Alnncn men. when that organization
was strong in Billings, were active in
Montana news. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1904-191?, 1910-02-10
Farmers Feared Rowing Convicts- -Stockraising,
Farming, State Prison Supplies In
dustrially Handled by Convicts-Whyis
Billings Anxious to have Convict
Work on Public Road?


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Continued on Page 80
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-29
Applicants Licensed to Teach.

Russellville, January 2S.-QSpeciaL)-
The following applicants from Frank
lin county were granted licenses to
teach in the public schools of Alabama
by the state board Of education: First
grade: Willie Biddle; second grade,
Henry H. Gaisser, Jurel Lauderdale, G.
L. Richeson, Edgar Bowling, George w.
Graves, Gordon A. Goodwin, Isaiah
Jackson, Enlow Shipman, John Taylor.
Mary Hyde, Florence Ezzell, Mary
Glare Key, Earle Howell. Ella Kathleen
Halbert; third grade, Arthur lauder
dale, Ida Nash, Walter Bell, Mrs. Flor
ence Petree Smith, Walker w. Haley,
Jr., Thomas Lee jackson, Charley
Franklin billiard, Hettie Leona Porter,
Claude Karrh, Claude Lee Alsbrooks.
Four other first grade papers were held
for further examination.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-29
Pain in
Heart

"For two years I had pain in
my heart, back and left side.
Could not draw deep breath
or lie on left side, and any little
exertion would cause palpita-
ton. Under advice I took
DR.. Miles Heart Remedy and
Nervine. I took about thirteen
bottles, am in better health than
ever was, and have gained IA
pounds" u
MRS. LILLE THOMAS,
Upper Sandusky, Ohio.
For many years DIR. Miles
Heart Remedy has been very
successful in the treatment of
heart troubles, because of its
tonic effect upon the heart
nerves and muscles. Even in
severe cases of long standing it
has frequently prolonged life for
many years after doctors had
given up all hope, as proven by
thousands of letters we have re-
ceived from grateful people.
Or. Miles Heart Remedy IL sold by all
druggists. n the first bottle falls to
benefit, your druoost will return your
money.
MILEs MEDICAL co, Elkhart, Ind.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-29
MERITS OF COTTON
AS GREAT AS EVER

New York, January est has been
narrow market, and at the same time
an irregular market The liquidation
of straddle contracts here and at the
same time covering of shorts has caused
some firmness here, especially in the near
deliveries like March and May. They
have also been sustained more or less by
covering of shorts and some buying for
at least temporary rally by various
commission houses. Besides there has
been some purchasing of spot cotton here
for shipment to the south. Futures had
fallen to point far below spots
Also the receipts at the ports and in
terror towns have been light
In some of the Atlantic states a bet
ter demand for the actual cotton is re-
ported and there would have been bet
ter business except for the firmness of
holders Lverpool's daily spot sales
have been as high as 1900. Manchester's
trade is said to be better Spinners
have again been buying futures here to
some liquidation.
Bulls contend that after the recent
drastic liquidation the market is in much
better shape from a technical view
point and with the YIELD as they think,
not over 1O,250000 bales and prospec-
tive consumption of 100000 bales, the
intrinsic merits of cotton are as great
as ever and must in the end assert
themselves.
Everybody believes that an enormous
acreage will be planted for the next crop
and unless the plant gets a serious set
back that the next yield will exceed any
thing in the history of cotton culture
The spot markets at the south have as
a rule, been reported quiet
Spinners may buy futures but they
appear to stick to the policy of buying
the actual cotton very sparingly. If large
spot interests have bought the near
months they have sold the distant ones.
Liquidation by Wall street and the south
has still been noticeable. The recent
decline in stocks. grain and cotton has
greatly lessened the prestige of bull spec
Elation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-29
MR.. AND MRS. BLlNN
ENTERTAIN AT DANCE,

In compliment to their daughter, Miss
Annie Blinn. and their niece, Miss An
ME Dennelly, Mr.. and Mrs. George Blinn
were the host and hostess last even
Ing at one OF the happiest affairs en-
was dance and their hospitality was
extended at the Margaret Allen school
where almost 100 of the young people
gathered. Southern smilax and crimson
carnations were prettily employed In q
decorative motive. and a wealth Of the
bright blossoms used In the dining room,
where a luncheon was served during in
termissions, making this room especial
1y attractive. The shaded candles and
overhead lights showed the same colors.
The two young honorees were most
attractive, Miss Donnelly appearing In
a chiffon costume made over pink silk
and Miss Blinn in dancing frock Of
blue embelIished with sprays of forget
me-nots.
Among the guests were Miss Annie
BIinn, Miss Annie Donnelly, Miss vir-
ginia Underwood. Miss Serena Kirkpat-
rick, Miss Kathleen Moore, Miss Marie
Lorton, Miss Fannie Evans, Miss Ellie
Gordon Robinson. Miss Lucy Pinckard,
Miss Helen Thompson, Miss Elise Far
rior, Miss Leila Smith, Miss Dorothy
Lynch, Miss Edna Miles, Miss Sidney
Hit, Miss Margaret Latady. Miss Louise
Lang. Miss Pearl Guscott. Miss Cary
johnson. Miss Dorothy Johnson, Miss
Margaret Ewing, Miss Mary Tardy. Miss
sallie Evans, Miss Lucy Lyman Powell,
Miss Elizabeth Bowie, Miss Bessie Bigs-
by, Miss Bessie Perry. Miss Emee Nc
Crossin, Miss Marjorie Fletcher, Miss
Elizabeth Going, Miss May Fox, Miss
Mary Bradshaw, Miss Annie Walker,
Miss Virginia Abbott, Miss Jessie May
Perkins, Miss Gamaliel Dixon, Miss Bes-
sic Bethea, Miss Haywood Motion, Miss
Mabel Moore, Miss Lucille Moore, MISS
Susie White, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hi
den, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Estes,
Messrs. Bestor Brown, Maurice Hender-
sn, John Prowell, Glen Harris, Roscoe
Harris. Claud Estes, Clarence Barker,
Hollis Bush, Nelson Snow. John Cald-
well, Francis Weiss, Kennon Bowling
Melville Davis. Frank Davis, Harry Will
son, Lee Allen Brooks, Herbert Cobbs,
William Cobbs, Hanson Ford, Ward
Fitzpatrick, Matt Otey. William Ewing,
Frank Horton, Matthews Tardy, Thomas
Estes Hudson Barker, Thomas Jones,
Ed Norment, Winston Thompson, Ash
by Long, Junius Walthall, Hugh Wall
thall. Peyton Norvell, Vernon Badham,
Edgar Bowron, Charles Heidi, Kenneth
IL.
Charlton, John McLin, Abbott Wane'
Charley Woodruff, Al Lewis. Knox F1tz-
patrick, Bradley STREET., Neill Neville
Walton Ford, Walter Allen. Edgar STAN
ford, Evans Johnston, Hubert Kinney
and Harry Mccormack.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-29

Ca, Miss Maybelle Roden, Miss Laura
Mel Towers, Miss Helen Coulbourne, Miss
Mary George Cruikshank. Miss Sarah
Ellen Greene, Miss Myrtle Miles, Miss
Lucille Moore, Miss Margaret Terrell,
Miss Agnes Terrell, Miss Mary Tardy,
Miss Mary Long, Mrs. ]. C. Long, DR.,
Miss Margaret Ewing, Miss Cary Jehn-
ston, Miss Ruth Haynes, Miss Susie
White, Miss Meta Ware, Mrs. Kenneth
Harwood, Miss Pearl Guseott. Miss Sas
die Allison, Miss May Ward. Miss Annie
Ward, Miss Lee Ward. Miss Sadie Gil
lespy Miss Rosa Davis, Miss Elizabeth
Dearborn, Miss Mary Miles. Miss Rose
Gilespy and the honorees. Miss Hover
and Miss Lamb.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-01-29

"And now Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest
woman In the world has Joined the boy
colt against the meat trust said the
economical housewife yesterday, as she
chatted about the high cost of living
and the particularly high prices put upon
meat. "She has none the advantage of
me, however, for I have Joined the
boycott, too. Why there hasn't been a
scrap of meat on my table for weeks =
= What do you live on, pray?" asked
Mrs. Anti-Boycott
Vegetables and nuts" replied the for
mer.
''But I loathe nuts and there are the
fewest vegetables imaginable that I eat"
said the latter.
well, you will have to learn said
Mrs. Boycott, who is nothing If not prac-
teal. st shall eschew from my house,
hold everything in the meat line, and
then when have educated my family
up to a vegetable diet I propose to join
forces with all overburdened housewives
and boycott the egg and butter trust.
When I have conquered these enemies
shall feel that / am modern Joan of
Arc, in saving my country from ruin
and destruction
"Of course, your figure would be as
lovely as Mary Gardens and your skin
as beautiful as Lillian Russells, If you
stop eating all those nice. greasy things"
said Mrs. Anti, but your family will
hate you for starving them to DEATH"
"Neverl' said Mrs. Boycott, as she
reached over to her writing dehk and
picked up pencil and pad and began
to lot off some menus for the week.
How on, earth can you have break
fast without bacon and eggs?'' said the
other
would you call bacon real meat?"
said Mrs. Boycott.
'It has usually been relegated to that
class" said the economical housewife
1.-The superstition doubtless arising from
the fact that the aforesaid bacon grows
on the pig, and the pig belongs to the
animal kingdom
"Then shall cut bacon out and leave
the eggs" said Mrs. Boycott.
But eggs look so lonesome without
bacon" said the other. who had sem
sitive eye to effects.
but you have toast and coffee and
baked apples and cream and all sorts
of other goodies" said Mrs. Boycott,
writing them down as she spoke.
That's all very we'll for breakfast, but