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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Items of Interest Concerning
gosr. Neighbours

from William V"'u"Pf az As 80.
the proper t, next 10 the Establ'" +
aud olson t'uru fture store, ku"v,
as the Swanson prop rty. lts Mr.,
Estabrook 5 intention To thoroughly
remodel the building AID raise il Il
:, the street level. The place will be
used in connection with the furn.-
turc store, the two buildings being
connected by an archway. This
will give Mr.. Estabrook plenty of
room for his large stock of goods.
The potato crop in this section
turned out lot better than most
people expected and the crop will
be almost up to the average. The
quality of the pststoes are consider
ed excellant.
George Francis is having his
potatoes dug with E. G. Steven s
potato digger. Tony Major is
doing the job
Rev. and Mrs. O. L. Robinson
of Madison were in the city Sat.
Z urday. Rev. Robinson preached
in the Congregational church
Sunday morning and Mrs. Rob-
inson sang.
Helen Preston who has been
visiting in the city for some
time time left Tuesday for her
home in Minneapolis.
The Wednesday evening club
took up their winters work
Wednesday evening when they
Gmet, with Mrs. Walsh. They
will take up the Bayview course
this year studying England, Ire
land, Scotland and Wales.
!. :, George Francis brought in q
bald headed Eagle Tuesday
which measured six feet from
Tip toatip.,.- s<sa
Henrietta Walker left Thurs
day for Iowa where she will
stay with her cousin.
Mrs. Hoffman visited with her
daughter Mrs. Andrews at Ma.
!, son Sunday.
Monroe Sprague, O. A. Lam
! Oreaux of this city and M. S.
Lamoreaux of Chicago, are hunt
ong ducks in the vicinity Of Cass
Lake, Mimi,
+ Miss. Vaughn, who plays the
+ piano at the Orpheum went
home for the day Wednesday.
Mrs. E. E. Kenfield, who has
been visiting at Cass Lake MINI.
!. for the past threeweeks, return
, edhome Tuesday.
& Miss. Alice Sprague was at
the Sunday school convention
at Bayfield, Friday of last week.
r.. Miss. Susie Lincoln was visit
ing friends at Bayfield, and also
TOXIN Sunday school convention
:. last Friday and Saturday.
Pete Peterson, the clothing
II man of Bayfield, was in the city
Tuesday on business,
- = Gus Westerlund lead burner
at the Plant will move into the
Mitchell fat on West Bayfield,
street.
III. Peavey is in Duluth on bust
ness.
Oscar Johnson of Glendale N.
D.. was in the city this week to
look over land.
Pat O'Hare returned the first
Of the week from Houghton,
Mich. where he has been for the
past few months. He is again
working at the dynamite plant
Harry Kopplin of Iron River
has been in the city tins week
attending circuit court as a
juror.
Good results always follow the use
of Foley Kidney Pills. They con-
tain just ingredients necessary to
! tone. strengthen and regulate the
kidneys and bladder, and to cure
backache. Sold by all druggists
Some of the finest fruit land
in Bayfield, County in lots OF
five acres and up. Call on or
address the Times.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
For More Than Three Decades

Foley's Honey and Tar has been a
household favorite for coughs, colds,
and ailments of the throat, chest
and lungs. Contains no OPT
ates. Sold by all druggists.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

We want good man to work our
farm adjoining the city, and will fur
is stock on shares. Write, Love
land & Co., Minneapolis, MINI.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13

the Boston Cooking School Magazine
There is just one way to make
your cakes rise high and keep an
even surface. Have your oven
moderate at first, until the cake is
fully rizen; then increase the heat,
so as to brown it over quickly.
Extreme heat stiffens the dough.
If you stiffen the outside of the
cake before the rising is complete,
you stop the rising process. Then
the leavening gas, forming inside,
will bulge up the center, where
the dough is still soft, and spoil
the shape of the cake. m
NoTE-Biscuits or other pastries
made from stiff dough, that are cut into
shapes for the oven, bake in a hot oven.
This is because the cut surfaces of the
dough do not scar over. but rather
leave the pores open, allowing the
1eavening gas to escape and the heat to
penetrate readily. Small ovens cool
quickly; therefore they should be made
several degrees hotter than a larger
oven, and the less the door is opened
the better. Do not attempt to bake
bread and pastry together. Bread re-
quires prolonged, moderate baking
pastry the reverse.
Have strong underheat for baking
powder preparations, especially pastry.
These are only a few of the many.
baking helps found in the X c Cooks
Book-a copy of which may be secured
by sending the colored certifca re taken
from 25-cent can OF K c Baking Pow
der to the JAQUEs MFG. Co.. Chicago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-10-13
cit Beats All"

This is quoted from letter from
M. Stockwell, Hannible, Mo. Il re
Gently used FoIey's Honey and Tar
for the first time. To say | am
pleased does not half express my
feelings. 1t beats all the remedies |
ever used. [ con tracted bad cold
and was threatened with pneumonia.
The Fl, st dose gave great relief and
one bottle completely cured me. :
Contains no opiates. Sod by all
druggists.
The new era., 1910-01-27

mercies of Tammany hail. or. rather, hinas
Richard Croker and his friends.
Never there astonishing illustration of
the demorazing effect of prospective oicehoing
the forces of political reform.
When Republican Legislature passed the charter
creating the city by uniting Brooklyn Richmond
county and Queens county with the old city of New
York, the political reformers felt keeping Tam
many out of power that the term of the mayor
increased from four years.
Mr.. Croker. the Tammany boss, who had living
abroad while regent directed the organization,
back to New York and nominated Robert A. Van Wyck
for mayor.
The antiTammany divided The Re-
pubcans nominated Gen. Tracy; the Citizens
nominated Seth Low the Jefferson Democrats nomi-
Henry George there three minor candi-
dates.
Mr.. Van wyck was elected mayor and Mr. Croker
became the absolute master of the city.
Through oyerconfdence and feather-headed Jealousy
the reformers had surrendered New York
Then followed the appalling orgy of municipal
debauchery since the Tweed boldly $40
from the taxpayers Mr.. Croker ruled the community
like king from his club in Fifth avenue. The mayor
was mere creature in his powerful grasp. Even the
most distinguished judges of the sought
the presence of the boss and humbly sued his
ship.
In the midst of this condition of things the
historic Mazet legislative investigation
the witness stand Croker the Tammany boss admit
ted that W is the theory of city right
through that the organization in control should all
the offices in department-judical executive
ministrative and everything"
With Mr. Croker in opulent exile Charles F. Murphy
in time became the boss of Tammany. AS the political
creator of Mr. Mcclellan the ninety mayor of New
York and the sponsor of his Judge Gaynor,
this bury obtuse silent product of machine
politics is picturesque and pathetic figure.
Mr.. Murphy originally ship-calker in Roach's
shipyard, where he gained notoriety "sugger
Then he became street driver That before the
day of the bell punch Mr. Murphy money rapidly.
He started saloon 1t well patonized by the street
drivers and conductors shpyard workers. gashouse
men, dock laborers and petty politicians of the gashouse
district"
Mr.. Murphy opened another saloon in the neighbor-
Then another,
still another. So that presently the who
be the master of the great city OF New York found him
self managing four disrict-a noble prepa-
ration for great civic destiny. Here he gathered
The new era., 1910-01-27

and strength that enabled him hurl a
university president out of the City hall
Little old New York; 1t is hardly city. but fedora
ton of neighborng communities. From the very begin
ming it has been polyglot. great immigra
ton sweeping it, the wonder is that it is
place; for its problems complicated beyond the powe
of words to express.
Yet it contains the richest world and 1t Il
estimated that 5000 of its residents possess wealth
amounting to $50 100000. Its taxable property Il
assessed than 1920, 100000 street dis
putes the financial hegemony of London 1t is the
hemisphere. u.
The city is divided into five boroughs The pren dent
of these boroughs. who elected in their M.isdic
tons, constitute. with the mayor. comptroller presi
dent of the board aldermen. the apowerful board
estimate and apportionment.
This board of estimate and apportionment which q
presided by the controls the appropriation
of the entire city. also possesses power publ
franchises which stripped from unworthy board 9
aldermen.
So astoundingy loose is New Yorks methods of put
chase and accountancy that distinguished experts. VIII
have examined the situation within few months. decar
that private business conducted in a way woul'
bankrupt itself within month The truth is ha
different departments have paid widely different price
for articles bought from the same persons the
day.
Mghtiest among that paralyze the civic III
of New York is the traction trust with its
tracks and its aggregate stock and bond capitalization
$7Ol, ,135 Oil
Ever since the Tammany-hatched Ramapo compa1
conspiracy sell S2000OO.000 worth water to Ne
York the agitation for additional water supply ha
been steadily carried in systematic way
Out of this continued agitation came the great Cal
kill water supply enterprise.
1t was useless to point out that billions of gallons
the citys water supply were wastfully flowing G
Croton dams. that perhaps third of all the wat
brought to the city either stolen allowed to ri
to waste through prevenable leaks.
The legislature passed law authorizing the may.
to appoint board of water supply organize and
the enterprise. This board worked out plan for
water supply In the heart of the Catskill
with gigantic reservoir and aqueduct bring q
water 80 miles to New York the whole to cost SIG
S57 600.
And now, before the Catskill project S much mo
than well begun, the mayor his associates ha.
ndorsed demand for SAT 100000 more for ,Epw res
voir in Suffolk county to supply the imperiDl peoI
of Brooklyn!
The new era., 1910-01-27

resents an investment of $50 600 900 and contains
than 5000 inhabitants Its cost exceeds the assessed
value taxable property in the thriving city OF
Rock and its dwelers equal the whole popu
laton Emporia. Kan.
And beyond is seen the snowy taness of the Plaza
hotel investment of s12000o00.
Here there. everywhere massive structures in
each OF which are populations large enough to make
whole towns So tremendous is the citys growth that
years building plans represent cost of s1S00o00OO
There nearly 10000 policemen in the 1900 miles
of streets Their pay alone yearly S12 $685.
They made 244S22 arrests last year. To clean
streets they guard S299 a single year
The parks of the amazing city IA square miles,
Including some it's choicest ground. is said that
they contain than 2,500000 trees and
s15oOOOOOOO In other words the parks owned by New
York contain land than the big city of Rochester
N. Y. and could be sold for enough to pay entire
national of Holland. Switzerland Sweden
Turkey.
Think of city that has built 514 schoolhouses
S10OOOO0OO and that has 10000
teachers superntendents educating 651O0o children
the salaries alone being sl5sOoo year The depart
of education spent s27.47O.736 this year.
And if the giant skyline of New York saggers the
imagination, what the marvellous network of pipes
and tunnels under the streets? separate
wires buried under the pavements of the metropolis
would reach 20 times around the world!
Down beside the myriad electric channels hidden un-
der the city rushes daily supply of about 4soooooOo
gallons sparkling water of which 900 gallons
come from clear mountain lake through two aqueducts
of them tunneled through rock and earth for %
miles New Workers their city s11 100000 for
drinking water.
One would think that the government of a city that
spends $20O00O,000 and employs 10000 persons
would be in of its ables most trustwor
thy business
would be natural to expect its four half mil
lion inhabitants to be excited the fact that the
maintaining the municipality has years
grown s935200S2 to S156,545,14S-an of
s43.025, year. speak of something like $780,.
100000 added to the cy's debt in those 10 years.
Yet the the taxpayers pundered the prouder
they and the mere dimensions of government meas
ured in of millions of dollars. New
Yorker lift his head haughtiy when he should hang it
in shame.
A citizens bureau of municipal research has. for
three years been digging into the citys accounts and
publishing thrilers for the who smile
ready for government to be proposed by the
old of saloon keepers grafters professional
oiceseekers the omnipotent fnanciers direct
them through stained but high-prced lawyers
Who do you think the three principal hackers of
this of municipal research to which people
be looking for light public affairs
Just now?
John d. Rockefeller. of the oil trust.
Andrew Carnegie of the steel trust.
Robert Fulton Gushing. of the sugar trust, whose
fly recently managed sell proftless ferry city
at enormous price,
When the greater New York" was organized ~
years ago the delivered the city again the
The new era., 1910-01-27

spend more than 5000 100000 year nearly onehird as
much the United States government OF this amaz-
ing $15654514S is raised by direct taxation The
rest piles up in bonded debt
The municipal officials employees alone number
more than 10000 persons, drawing something like S7O
100000 a year in salaries.
How the American heart beats high at the sight
the greater city which only years ago divided
into hundred cities towns and villages!
It's buildings rise like cliffs. steep towering
steep; mmenstes of brick steel-red yellow.
brown with the sunlight reflected in hundreds of
thousands of windows, and steam and drifting
the dizzy tumult of roofs AS the evening
on and the lights are lit New York s2arkles and flashes
her lofty masses. all the brutalities OF modern
sonry fade and shining fairy city great
tain to itself between the rivers.
With what wonder. hope and fear looks upon
such city, Yet who understands it?
possible to 40 miles straight line
leaving the city. The streets of New York placed end
to end Francisco and several hun
miles out into the Pacific
More than 10000 persons born in New York in
year as many as the inhabitants of Columbus, the
capital city of Ohio More than $1,000 New Workers die
in year, enough to make three cities large Ma
Georgia.
Not even Babylon perished ere Christ was born.
wonderfu-Babyon, with its hanging gardens
resting on arches rs high and with its 56 miles of
city walls reaching $40 feet into the air with
fair towers and pierced through hundred gates of
brass,
In those precipices brick stone supported by
miles of steel New York has built many cities
of other the hill of the
a small affair compared to the majestic bulk of the bus
palaces that rear themselves against the sky with
populations living high above the that
sound OF the roaring city reaches them
Two hundred and eghty-three years the whole
of Manhattan island bought by Peter Minuet the
New York governor of the West India Company. for
few trnkets valued at S24
Several years ground at the of Broadway
and sold s24 for six square inches. when
measuring 80 by 80 feet brought s700000
a the tall sides that lift themselves of
busiest part Of New York without loveliness
when the changing light turns them into
cooTed cliffs. II is the of immense life
veyed by multitude of windows that invests the
piles with thrilling interest," the density of
humanity the costliness of its and the mghtiness
of the surrounding community.
There rises reddish of the Singer building
642 high The tower alone $2,000000 to build
Below 1t spreads the white mass of the City Invest
ment building which cost s10o00000 and whose 23 ee
vators carry 10000 hour. That sruc
ture the population of a small city
Close by the twin Trinity buildings, valued at
100000 and opposite to them stands the Equitable
building. property representing $4,000,
900
the ground of the small Trinity graveyard. set
at the head Wall street, is worth s25000000
Away in the distance the white marble tower of the
Metropolitan Life Insurance building lifts its noble
above Madison That vast edfce
The new era., 1910-01-27


Dutch sailors; and to-day the great
city of New York presents the most
staggering problem of government in
the world.
London is English. Paris is French.
Berlin is German. st. Petersburg is
Russian. Naples is Italian and Can
ton is Chinese.
But New York. the second city of
the world. is not American. 1t is
the only cosmopolis in existence.
With a population of 45OO,OOO inhabi.
tants. it has nearly 10000 900 who
were born in foreign countries. There
are vast districts in the city, some
of them miles in extent. where the
English tongue is used by few and
even the street signs and newspapers
are in strange languages.
The officers of the mighty city
The new era., 1910-01-27

T is 300 years since rest
less Europe first saw
Manhattan island and its
painted Indians through
the eyes of bold Henry
Hudson and his tired
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-02-17
CALLS 1T A FRAME UP
CLAWS Denies Taking Letters
From Land Office Files.

Washington, Feb. 15.-The Balm
ger-Pinchot congressional inquiry be-
gan to bristle with interest when John
j. Vertrees, counsel for Secretary Bal
linger, undertook the cross-examina-
ton of Louis R. CLAWS, principal wit
ness for the "prosecution."
The climax vas reached when Mr..
Vertrees announced that a box be-
longing to Mr.. CLAWS and left in the
grand jury room at Seattle had been
broken open a few days ago and that
a number of letters missing from the
files of the land Office in Seattle, cop
les of which have recently been pub
lished in a weekly paper, were found
therein.
CLAWS angrily declared that if any
letters had been found in his belong
ings "a frame up" had been prepared
against him. His denunciation of fed
eral officials who would stoop to such
a trick to win the favor of their SUI
periors called out a demonstration of
applause from the spectators, which
caused Chairman Nelson to
that a repetition of the outburst
would result in the room being
cleared,
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-02-17
OPPOSED TO CENTRAL BANK
Former Secretary Shaw Says Standard
Oil Would Control 1t.

Philadelphia, Feb. 13.-"I do not
think there can be any doubt in the
mind of any one who studies the ques-
ton in the light of admitted condi-
lions that if a central bank is estab-
lished in this country it will be owned,
or at least controlled, by the Standard
Oil company" said former Secretary
of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw at a
meeting of the Pennsylvania Bankers
association in this city. His topic
was 'The Central Bank"
There are two diseases prevalent
in this country, either of which is liza
Bile to prove fatal" he continued. One
is Wall street mania and the other
Wall street fobia. | do not think that
l have been badly inoculated with
either, but l am frank to say that it
seems to me quite un-American to
place with any group of men the
power to contract or expand our cur
rency at will and to grant or withhold
credit to any bank, : any merchant
and to any corporation at pleasure"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-02-17
ELECTED SHERIFF A. WINNER
County Commissioners Appointee Is
Ousted From Office.

In a decision handed down by the
state supreme court the district court
is reversed and the action brought by
Gilbert Holtan against John A. Beck
for the possession of the office of
sheriff of Mclean county is dismissed,
the effect of the decision being to con-
firm Beck in his Office of sheriff and to
knock out Holtan, who was appointed
by the county commissioners on the
ground that a vacancy existed.
Beck was elected sheriff of Mclean
county at the last election, and at the
same time Sheridan county was segre-
gated from Mclean. Beck was a resi-.
dent of McClusky, so it was alleged in
the case, at the time he ran for office
and was elected, and the county COM
missioners at a meeting in January de-
clared the office vacant on the ground
that Beck was not a resident of Nc
Lean county at the time he was elect
ed. Holtan was appointed sheriff and
brought action against Beck to deter
mie his right to the Office. The dis
trict court rendered a decision confirm.
ing Holtan's appointment.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-02-17
News Of the Week From Vari-
Gus Parts Of the State.
DECIDES AGAINST STOCKWELL
Court Holds He Was Not En-.
titled to Fees.

Judge c. F. Templeton handed down
a decision at Grand Forks for the
plaintiff in the case of the State VS.. w.
L. Stockwell, state superintendent of
public instruction, in which the state
brought suit to recover about $4,000.
which covered the amount of fees the
defendant had appropriated as part OF
his salary. Through Attorney General
Miller the state brought suit against
Stockwell, claiming that a state officer
had no right to use the fees that came
into his office as a part of his salary.
Judge Templeton held that Section
"a of the North Dakota state constitu.
ton was s~elf-executing. After fixing
the salaries of the various state Off.
Gals, the section says:
But the salary of any of the said
officers shall not be increased or di.
minished during the period for which
they shall have been elected, and all
fees and profits arising from any of
the said offices shall be covered into
the state treasury"
The case attracted great attention
throughout the state.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-02-17
CANNON ADDRESSES HOUSE
Briefly Refers to Magazine and News.
paper Criticism.

6rIerly Refers to Magazine and News
paper Criticism.
Washington, Feb. 15.-"If we lose
sight of our w Importance and of
our W position for the time being,
there will come in our places better
and wiser men who will not lose sight
of the necessity to provide for an or
derby procedure under which a major.
ity can work it's will; where RESPONSE
bility rests there must be power with
the majority to move on, being respon-
sible."
Uncle Joe" Cannon, laying aside his
gavel and speaking from the floor of
the house, merely as "the gentleman
from Illinois," sounded this warning
to his colleagues.
Representative Cannon arose for
the purpose of lending his approval to
the pending rivers and harbors appro-
priation bill, but during his speech,
which was of about twenty minutes
duration, he took occasion to refer
lightly to magazine and newspaper
criticism and to remind the minority
members that the power of the major
ity vas futile unless enforced by a
well oiled machine.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1910-02-17
Open TO SETTLEMENT
-Four Million Acres Of Land to
Be Taken From Reserves.

Washington, Feb. 10.-More than
four million acres of land will be
stripped from the forest reserves of
the United States in the neal future
and restored to the public domain for
homestead settlement through the gov.
ernment's policy in carrying out Gif.
ford Pinchot's idea as to the classified.
ton of forest lands.
This is the initial result of Presi.
dent Taft's approval of a plan jointly
submitted to him a few days ago by
Secretaries Wilson and Ballinger for
the Redistribution of these lands.
The lands involved are those not
suitable for forest purposes and rep
resent more than 2 per cent of the to
tai forest area. AS three-fourths of
the forest domain still is unclassified
it is difficult to estimate what will be
the total elimination when the whole
area has been mapped out.
It cannot be stated at this time what
Withdrawals will be made, as the sub.
ject is under consideration.