Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-02-09
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

LABOR AND INDUSTR
State Bank Examiner Oliver Knud-
son closed the doors of the Peoples
State Bank in Lakota, N. D., but
would give no reason for his action.
Contract for $4,000 sandsucker
has been awarded by the Great Lakes
Land company of Chicago to the
Manitowoc Dry Docks company.
Work will be started at once.
The Wausau Central Labor union
men and laboring men have joined
hands to refrain from buying meat
for thirty or sixty days until it Is
sold at reasonable price.
Railroad surveyors have been
working south of Osceola, Wis. 1t is
reported that they are in the employ
of the 500 line and are looking for a
feasible route along the st. Crolx
river.
T. Rudd & Sons bank at Bronson,
Mich, has closed. A notice posted on
the doors said that owing to slow cob
lections the bank was temporarily I'M
able to meet obligations. Deposits are
about $4,000.
Citizens National bank OF Evans
! vile, Ind, has been restored to SOL
vency, according to an announcement
made by the controller of the cur
| rency. The directors have paid in
100000 in cash and the doors of the
bank, which were closed on Jan. II,
will be reopened on Jan. 81.
A summons has been served on
! Mayor stone and City Clerk Heating
of Neenah, in a suit instituted by
Warwick, Mitchell & Co., Chicago
| auditing concern for payment of a
! S2,700 bill for an audit of the city
/ books, which the city refuses to pay,
! alleging the audit was not correct.
| General Manager A. T. Dice of the
/ Philadelphia & Reading R. R., an
nounced that beginning Feb. 1, there
will average about Is per cent more
bringing the scale of wages up to
par with the wages paid on all sys-
TENS in the country. The increase
viii leverage about 10 per cent more
than the present scale of wages.
The county board auditing commit
tee of Douglas county has just gone
over the report of the outgoing poor
commissioner, j. o. Ely, who has held
office for FIVE years and the result is a
! scathing arraignment of the methods
I for handling the relief work of the
county. In the five years it has cost
narly $4,000, and there are still bills
/ for last year coming in.
Appleton business men are consider
| ing proposition for the erection of
| typewriter factory in that city. The
| typewriter which it is proposed to
/ manufacture is a new machine in
vented by J. E. Molle of Amigo and
; claimed to have several advantages
over machines now on the market,
| besides being lower priced.
/ United States District Judge G. H.
Hanford has decided that title to
1924 acres of valuable coal lands in
Lewis county, Wash, claimed by P. c.
Richardson and several members OF
| II.
should revert to the government.
This is the land referred to by L. r.
CLAWS in his testimony before the
Ballinger-Pinchot committee. Litiga-
ton and negotiations over these
lands have been in progress for eleven
years.
At the northern Illinois poultry
show held at Belvidere, ILL.,, the FAM
Gus Porter turkey was sold by Mrs.
| Walter Porter of that city to E. HI.
Burns of Orient, S. D., for $500. This
gobbler has taken first prize and
sweepstakes at Madison Square, New
York, Baltimore and Hagerstown, Md,
and other cities wi ore national pour
| try shows have been held. His
weight is iifty-two pounds, and he is
said to be the largest turkey in the
United States. Mr.. Burns has been
| trying for three years to buy this tur-
| key. but up to the present has been
unsuccessful.