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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26
APPENDICITIS

How to avoid it. Listen to your
pains. Try our way, Read the
booklet, General Health Discovers
Himself" furnis led free by Tubs
Medicine Co., River Falls, Wis.
Worth money to the man who has
time to sit up and take notice.
Have you?
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
DIAMOND BLUFF
Ada Larson is much better.

Ada Larson is much better.
a. II. Wethern and wife are here
from Clam Falls.
Geo. Brown transacted business
in St Paul last Tuesday.
Horace Wiley and family of Pres
colt visited relatives here last week.
Moving picture show and dance
last Wednesday night at Woodman
Hall.
E. A. Collamore of Ellsworth
visited old-time friends here last
week.
Mrs. w. CARRIER and Mrs. Ellen
Scullen returned from New Rich
mond last Friday.
The w. M. S. was entertained al
the home of Marion Kish last
Thursday, and supper was served tc
nearly 40 people.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26
mother and brother, who have both
been sick.

Come to the dance at Opera Hall,
RIVER Falls, tomorrow, Friday,
evening, Jan. II.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26
FOx'S CORNERS
The weather is fine now.


George Fox made a business trip
to Prescott Monday.
Quite few young folks took in
the dance at Beldenville Friday.
Mrs. Otto Wettwer of Rice Lake
is visiting her sister, Mrs. G. Fox.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Matzek visited
at Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Fox's one even
ing last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Doorack and
boys, Mrs. Adam Globes and fam
lily, Mrs. Otto Wettwer and Mr.,
and Mrs. John Fox and daughter
spent Sunday at the Geo. Fox
home.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26

Come to the dance at Opera Hall,
River Falls, tomorrow, Friday,
evening, an. Fl.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26

Don't forget the dance at Opera
Hall, River Falls, Friday, ian. II.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26
DONEGAL

7. H. Moynihan made business
trip to Hudson Saturday.
b. J. Carolan and j. H. Clifford
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26

Come to the dance at Opera Hall,
River Falls, tomorrow, Friday,
evening, an. II.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1911-01-26

Dance at River Falls tomorrow
Friday evening, Jan. Fl.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
SPOKANE BEGINS FIGHT
Rate Contentious VIII Be Carried
Into Enemy's Territory.

6pokane.-To demand 100000 ex-
cess freight paid by Spokane and In
land Empire shippers in the past two
years from the transcontinental rail-
roads.
To carry the claims to the Inter
state Commerce Commission and
through the federal courts until final
favorable decision is received.
Invite all intermountain cities and
communities in the United States
which, like Spokane, are paying I'M
reasonable and discriminatory rates,
to join in the movement.
This Ia the ambitious and aggres-
sive program planned by Attorney H.
M. Stephens and approved by the
Spokane Merchants Association
which will be offered to all shippers
of Spokane and the Inland Empire.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Fan PUT ON FREE LIQUOR
Intoxicants Can't Be Given Away in
"Dry" Towns.

"Dry" Towns.
Olympia-In a ruling on the Wash
ington local option law the supreme
court holds that it is unlawful to give
away intoxicating liquor in dry terri
tory, except in private dwellings or
apartments
The case came before the supreme
court on an appeal by the state from
the Whatcom county court, which sus-
tanned a demurrer to the complaint
charging w. G. Jones, of Ferndale,
which is in dry territory, with violat-
ing the law in giving away liquor on
the street.
The chief ground for the demurrer
was that the Legislature did not in
tend to prohibit any gifts in dry
unit, except where such gifts were
palpably for the purpose of evading
the law. The supreme court holds
that if this contention were given eff
feet "any person within a dry terri
tory could load dray with liquor and
stand on the street corner and give to
all who would receive"
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
flrecracRers at Cbrlstmas
BY ROBERTUS LOVE

~ THEN I was a boy-and that
NM was some time ago, kind and
w considerate reader-I never
popped firecrackers on the
Eourth of July. l popped them on
Christmas day. That was because
was boy in a southern state only
few years after the close of the civil
war. Still you don't understand?
Well, let me do a little explaining
l shall not venture to speak for
other communities in the south, but in
my neighborhOod most of the people
still were somewhat bitter against
Uncle Sam for having come down
there with armies for a four ytlrs'
fight. The folks in and AROUND my
serene and sequestered little village,
lying on the cedar clad hillsideS of
southeast Missouri, had known much
OF the war from actual observation
and experience. Armies, Federal and
Confederate, had marched and counter
marched through the village. A re-
markable battle, that of Pilot Knob,
was fought less than twenty miles
away. Missouri let it be remembered.
was loyal to the Union, but in the
southern part particularly the senti-
ment was mostly in favor of the "lost
cause"
We small boys did not know that the
reason for the frecrackerless Fourth
and the firecrackery Christmas lay in
the prejudices engendered by the war.
All we knew or cared to know was
that when Christmas came around it
meant few punches of firecrackers
and lot Of fun popping them out in
the snow, for in those days we ALWAYS
had a white Christmas.
After the lapse of thirty years | can
recall with vivid distinctness a GER
tain Christmas in my town which be
gan with high anticipation of fun and
came very near ending in a tragedy.
Our family doctor had three boys who
were favOrite chums of my brother
and myself. Somehow we always
managed to get together on Christmas
day and pop the firecrackers which
Santa Claus brought or which we
bought with the paper quarter of
dollar allowed each of us out of the
FAMILY exchequer for that purpose. A
quarter bought three punches of the
little red firecrackers. There were
hVe boys, and you can compute the
number Of punches we had.
We all got up early ON this Christmas
morning, took the candies and oranges
and other things from our stockings.
inspected the ''U. S. Mail" wagon left
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
lmpo tant Happenings of the
Week From Towns in Our
State.
West Is Well Advertised.

Olympia-Governor Hay has re-
eeived a letter from James B. Brady,
president of the Northwest Develop
ment Association, congratulating him
on the excellent publicity work that
is being done by his special represen-
tative with the Western Governors
special, J. E. Barnes, secretary of the
Southwest Washington Development
League. The letter states that Wash
ington Is being widely advertised in
the East by reason of Mr.. Barnes &C
tivities and that this state will derive
great benefit from the advertising it
Is receiving.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21

at the Preside, pulled the trigger Of
the new toy pistol-and then went
down to old man Beams store and
spent our quarters to best advantage.
Brother and l went over to the
doctors house and joined his boys in
the front yard. The snow was about
ankle deep, crinkly under the foot, and
the air was crisp and clear The eldest
of the doctors boys had been presented
with new derby hat for Christmas
the first derby that ever came to Iron
dale. THERE just had to let the name
Of the town slip out
Cla1nie-that was what we called the
biggest boy-was intensely proud of
That new hat He wore it at breakfast
that morning, his brothers said. When
we all gathered in the yard to pop the
crackers his derby was on the back
Of his head. We pooled our property
by putting the fifteen punches of fire.
crackers in heap on the snow. Near
at hand lay piece of punk, burning
slowly
Just to see if we had a hatful of fire.
crackers Clainie put his priced derby
over the heap. Some of the crackers
stuck out at one side. The littlest boy
dead many years now-picked off one
OF the crackers, touched it to the punk.
and when it Spluttered fire he dronned
IL. The cracker went under one side Of
the hat That was the point where the
1rol1c became a tragedy.
All or US were discussing the prob-
lem OF firing whole bunch of crack
ers at once when suddenly there was
a ripping explosion which drew our at
tention to Clainie's derby. The hat was
+ considerably divided against itself.
one powdery piece of it struck me on
the nose. The rim, ragged ruin. flew
over the fence into the street. The rest
OF 1t disappeared at various places in
the snow.
To paraphrase the line from the
poem OF the boy who stood on tha
burning deck. ''The hat-oh. where was
| it? =" as
Cla1n1e's grief was twofold. He had
lost his new hat, and all the firecra oh
ers had gone up in one big explosion.
All OF us We're disconsolate. But tho
dear Old doctor-I think he is living vet
ana very old now-took pity on us and
gave each of US dime wherewith 70
purchase bunch apiece.
Down there nowadays thew non fro.
crackers on the Fourth. hut doro 80
tnat some of the boys of this genera.
ton still find bunch of the little rcd
peppers In their stockings on Christ
mas morning
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Five Millions Voted for ir

Five Millions Voted for Irrigation.
Ellensburg.-The high-line canal
worked for in the Kittitas Valley for
20 years became assured here when
the people of Kittitas reclamation dis
trict voted s5,0O0,OOO in bonds to pay
jor the construction of the big ditch
The vote stood 355 for the bonds and
"a against the proposed issue.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Moore Jury Disagrees.

Seattle.-The jury disagreed and
was discharged in the case of Arthur
H. and Clarence A. Moore, officers of
the Alaska Investment & Develop
ment Company, charged with using
the mails to defraud. The final vote
was 8 to 4 for conviction. The case
was set for retrial in March.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21

Tlderlngton Falls in Aiding Brother.
Walla Walla-Charged with receiv-
ing property from bankrupt,
George Tiderington brother of A.
Tiderington, who disappeared from
Walla Walla, several weeks ago, leav-
ing his debts unpaid, was arrested by
United States authorities, and is in
Jail in default of $4,000 bonds.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Census Fines Small.

Tacoma.-Seventeen indicted Taco
ma census enumerators entered pleas
of guilty before Judge Rudkin in the
federal court here and each was SEN
fenced to pay a. fine Of $50 and costs.
The fines were the smallest given in
any census fraud cases prosecuted by
the government.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Big Acreage Being Cleared.

Chehalis.-More land clearing Is
now under way in Lewis county than
ever before. This is largely due to
the exploitation of the CHAR pit meth
Cd by the Citizens Club of Chehalis.
The Newport miner. [volume] (Newport, Wash.) 1899-current, 1911-12-21
Tenino Plans cross-country Run.

TenIno Plans Cross-Country Run.
Tenino.-A cross country run has
Tnnino public school fer New Years
Day.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
STEEL TRUST BORN
TO CURB CARNEGIE
John w. Gates Gives Some Inside His
tory-Bares Forming Of
Trust.

Washington. John w. Gates,
thu industrial millionaire, who not
so long ago was a farmer boy at
ST. Charles, ILL.,, told the Stanley COM
mittee of the house of representatives
what he knows about high finance and
In the steel business.
Present at the birth of the greatest
steel manufacturing concern in the
world, he described how it was the
natural outcome of what he described
as the refusal of Andrew Carnegie to
be bound by the "gentlemen's agree
ments" that marked the early days OF
open competition in the steel business.
He told also of millions lost and
created almost in a breath; how the
Carnegie mills, appraised at $160,OOO,-
900, were recognized as worth $780,
100000 almost within the time re-
CURED to make the transfer to the cor.
poration; the grim clash in the forma-'
tive days when John D. Rockefeller
was dissuaded from joining in the
formation of the corporation and the
manner in which others were pre-
vented from engaging in the steel
trade.
Relating how Carnegie had been
forced to abandon plans for extending
his steel business, Mr.. Gates frankly
admitted that the gigantic Industrial
combination was formed to throttle
competition, and he surprised the COM
mittee with the further information
that when John D. Rockefeller had
sought to enter the steel business
deal had been put through by which
the Standard Oil magnate was forced
to sell out for 40 cents on the dollar
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
PORTAGE GETS R. F. D. MEET
State Rural Carriers Elect Plymouth
Man President-Hear Praise
of Postal Banks.

Fond du Lac.-Portage won out
over GAINESVILLE in the contest for the
next state convention of the Rural
Letter Carriers association of Wis
consin. The following officers were
elected:
President, H. l.. Gilman, Ply
mouth; vice president, w. G. Arle,
Sturgeon Bay; secretary, E. l..
Demarest, Waupaca; treasurer, G. c..
Granger, Sheboygan Falls; sergeant
at arms, Mark Tomlinson, Poynette;
organizer, w. w. Morse, Baraboo; ex-
ecutive board, H. L. Gilman, Ply
mouth; w. G. Arle, Sturgeon Bay;
E. L. Demarest, Waupaca; A. T.
Tucker, Whitehall; George Hitler,
GAINESVILLE; delegates to national con-
vention at Milwaukee on Sept. 1922,
T. l. Ottum, Mcfarland; A. D. Lar
son, Sheridan; A. J. Wilson, Am
herst; E. L. Demarest, Waupaca; F.
Y. Hart, Beloit; Mark Tomlinson,
Poynette.
The feature of the meeting was an
address by G. G. Tompson, superin-
tendent of the division of rural mail.
with headquarters at Washington.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
POST OFFICE is PUT
ON A PAYING BASIS
Department Meets All Expenses-Has
Surplus of 81 ,ooo, oo-First Time
In Thirty Years.

Washington. Postmaster Cen
eral Hitchcock has realized his
ambition of seeing the post Office de-
partment on a self-sustaining basis.
In a statement issued it is announced
that the departmer- a. last is able to
meet it's entire expenses without aid
from the federal treasury, and &C
cordingly the sum of 100000 set
aside to defray the expenses of the
postal service for the current year
has been returned 10 Secretary OF the
Treasury MacVeagh.
The official statement given out says
in part:
"At the present time there is
a postal surplus of more than $1,000
900 and unless the expenses during
the next month should prove extraor-
binary, the surplu. will be still greater
for the year.
This condition is little .ess than
remarkable when it is considered that
the present administration inherited
a deficit of more than seventeen and
one-half millions, the largest in the
history of the postal service.
Except for the reforms in the fin.
ancial system of the postoffice depart
ment recently instituted, it would not
be possible to make this refund OF
100000 to the secretary of the treas
ury, even though the revenues for the
current year have exceeded the expen'
ditures. An accounting plan which
was adopted about a year ago insures
the prompt deposit in the treasury OF
postal funds not Immediately required
for disbursement at postoffices, thus
making available for use by the de-
partment several millions of dollars
that, under the old practice, would be
tied up in postoff1ces. Under the old
system it required surplus of nearly
$10,000,000 to finance the postal ser
vice. The $3,O00,000 Mr.. Hitchcock
returns with the feeling that the post
Office revenues will be more than sufti-
cient to defray the expenses o, the
postal service during the present
year"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
PROBE HITS
LUMBERMEN
OFFICERS OF NORTHERN ASSO'
CATION FROM CITY
OF WAUSAU.
CALLED PART OF TRUST
The Wisconsin Northern Hentock
and Hardwood Lumbermen are
in Line for Investiga tion-Said to
be in Combine,

Wausau.-The Northern Hemlock
and Hardwood Manufacturers as
ISOLATION, accused by Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham of being in lum-
Der trust on account of its member
ship in the National Lumber Manu-
facturers' association, is officered
mainly by Wisconsin lumbermen.
The president is W. G. Langdon,
Wausau; M. P. Mccullough, Wau-
sau, is vice president; r. S. kellogg,
Wausau, secretary, and George E.
Foster, Mellen, treasurer. The di-
rectors are: Charles A. Goodman,
Marinette; j. j. Lingle, Westboro;
Henry Johannes, Wausau; George H.
Atwood, Park Falls; C. A. Green, On
tonagon, Mich, and R. E. Mclean,
Wells, Mich.
The Wisconsin Hardwood Manu-
facturers' association has lately been
merged with the hemlock and hard
wood organization. Wisconsin men
are also connected with the North
ern Pine Manufacturers association,
which is also a member of the ma
tional concern, against which the at
torney general is said to be aiming
a trust busting. campaign. L. K
Baker, Odeina, is president, and W.
H. Bissell, Wausau, is a director.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
NEW STEEL TRAIN WRECKED.
Several Passengers injured When
"Coumbia" Is Derailed.


columbia" Is Deralled.
Spokane, Wash.-The Columbia, the
new steel passenger train on the
Chicago, Milwaukee and Puget Sound
railroad, was derailed at a sharp
curve near Marengo. The engineer
was killed and the fireman and sew
eral passengers were injured when
the engine and six of the eight heavy
cars left the rails. None of the pas
sengers was seriously hurt. The in
jured were taken to Lind, 26 miles
west of the point where the accident
occurred.
The Columbian is the second
through passenger train to leave Seat
lie over the Milwaukee line since the
completion of the road.
Lincoln, Neb.-Eightee persons are
dead and two others will die as a re-
suit of the Burlington wreck near
Indianola, according to a dispatch re-
ceived here.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
FRATERNITIEs MUST QUIT
Trustees Decide That Secret Socie-
ties for Men and Women
Must Disband.

Ripon.-By a resolution of the
board of trustees, published in the
monthly bulletin, all fraternities and
sororities in Ripon college will be
abolished with the close of the pres
ent college year.
There are two fraternities and
three sororities in Ripon college, but
none of them have national charters.
The action was entirely unexpected
at this time, though it was rumored
last fall that the board was adverse
to the organizations. The resolution
is as follows:
"Ripon is a nonfraternity college.
1t was so at it's foundation and was
maintained as such for many years.
Recently there has been tendency
to establish local organizations look
ing toward the foundation of frater-
nifty chapters
''By an act of the board of trustees
in the present year the policy of the
college is to remain a nonfraternity
college. The present organizations
under the names of fraternities and
sororities will go out of existence at
the close of the present school year"
No reason is given except gen
eral statement that the dormitory
and commons system at Ripon is such
that there is no need of internal
cliques. However, there has been
much trouble during the last two or
three years. The battle between the
"barbs" and the ''frats" found it's
way into every department of stu
dent activities and in athletics, es-
pecially, caused considerable dissen-
sion. An open clash was feared a
year ago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
OF COURSE 1T WAS ACCURATE
After Such an Explanation How Could
Correctness of Half-BusheI Meas
ure Be Doubted?

Farmer Giles had heard rumors OF
ihe short-weight scandal, but as for
himself he was honest in thought,
word and deed. He was naturally in
censed when an apple-buyer from the
city objected to his half-bushel meas
ure.
I've used that red bucket five
years." he said, "and l know it's cor
rect"
"A dozen years use wouldn't affect
It's correctness, was the reply. Have
you any other reason for thinking it
is correct?"
The farmer controlled his anger,
and after a moments thought led his
critic to the corn crib and showed
him a basket woven from hickory
splits. That measure twice full fills
this" he said. And this holds exact
ly a bushel."
How do you know it does?"
Because Bill Sullivan made it, as
he makes baskets for everybody, and
he said it was bushel."
Still the man was not satisfied.
They went to interview BILL
why, of course" said the basket
maker, 81 weave every one of them of
an exact size. make only one pat
tern basket to hold bushel."
But how do you know the pattern
holds a bushel?"
How do | know? I'm sure of it. |
made it, originally, to hold two of this
half-bushel basket"
And this half-bushel basket?'
Bill frowned and pulled his hair in
an effort to remember. Then his face
frightened.
why, yes" he said, I'm sure of it.
I tried it one time, Giles, by that old
red busket measure of yours! -
Youths Companion.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-06-07
D|Az AND FAMILY
START FOR SPAIN
Ex-President Bids Country Fare
well in Pathetic Speech.
GIVES PRAISE TO ARMY
Promises to Return Whenever His
People Feel the Need of His Serv-
ices-Crowds Cheer It.
self Hoarse.

Vera Cruz, Mexico.-General Por-
firio Diaz has said his farewell to
Mexico With his wife and other
members of the family he boarded the
steamer Ypiranga bound for Spain.
Speaking to !he little group OF sol
diers who had served as a guard on
his trip from the capital, the old man
who governed Mexico for more than
thirty years by military strength de-
clared the present government must
yet resort to his methods If peace is
to be re-established.
When General Diax stepped forward
on the veranda there was buzz or
interest, but no applause. The mo-
ment was too solemn for such an ex-
preston, and even the little group of
poems behind the soldiers repressed
their feelings until the speechmaking
and embracing were concluded. Their
applause then was brief.
In the name of the army General
Huerta addressed him, telling his OLD
chief that he could always count on
these men, Notwithstanding what ev-
cry one said" General Huerta's voice
broke as he added, with perhaps
more frankness than tact:
ct is the only portion of the coun-
try that did not go against you"
General Diaz began his reply brave
ly, but before many minutes he was
having great difficulty in mastering
his emotion.
'T am grateful to the army said
the ex-president, that l could count
on it to the last moment of leaving
Mexican territory. 1t is the only real
defense the country has, and to re-
establish peace in this republic its
services will have to be called upon
in this crisis"
He assured his hearers that should
his country at any time become in
volved in trouble he would be willing
to return, and, pointing to the colors
of Mexico, he added
81 would then place myself at the
head of the country's loyal forces
and, under the shadow of that flag,
I would know how to conquer, as
in times past"
AS General Diaz, with the other
members of the party and their es-
corts, walked to the ship dozen
pretty young women threw before the
aged warrior great punches of flow
ers, reserving some to present to him
personally.
With his arms filled with blossoms,
and bOWing right and left, the former
president started up the companion
way. On board the ships band be-
gan the Mexican national hymn. Ev-
cry hat was off and Diaz halted at the
head of the companionway. The guns
of Fort Santiago began for the last
time to fire a presidential salute in
honor of Diaz. The crowd was cheer
ing itself hoarse. but never cry
for Madero.