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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
WESTERN TOWNS
SWEPT BY STORM
Thirteen Known to Be kiIjed-Many
Are njured-Teiegraph Wires
Are Down.

Kansas City, Mo.-Thirteen persons
are known to be dead, two towns prac-
tically wiped out, almost a hundred
persons injured, scores of buildings
wrecked, and almost every telegraph
and telephone put out of commission
by heavy windstorm, which in some
places attained the velocity of a tor
nado and which was accom- panied by
rain, hail and lightning, that swept
over western Missouri, Kansas and
Oklahoma.
Leavenworth, Kan. is reported de-
vastated. Many government buildings
are said to have been destroyed and
business houses in the city wrecked.
The damage to farming property in
the surrounding country is great All
wire communication with Leaven-
worth is cut off It is known the
storm swept a wide area, and immense
destruction of property undoubtedly
has occurred.
The tornado levied its greatest toll
of dead at Big Heart, Okla, where
eight persons were killed, ten injured,
and almost every building in the town
wrecked. Whiting, Kan, was practi-
cally wiped off the map, 60 buildings
being blown down, 80 people hurt and
Mrs. David Stone killed.
The Kansas end of the tornado
started near Whiting and swept in a
southeasterly direction for a distance
of more than fifty miles.
1t is thought that many more people
were killed and injured than have
been reported at this time. Telephone
and telegraph crews are working to
get the wires in shape. 1t is big
task, as only one wire was left intact
between Kansas City and Topeka,
and telegraph communication between
Kansas City and Oklahoma points
was cut off.
The tornado at Big Heart, Okla,
was accompanied by a driving rain
and swept everything from it's path.
Houses were blown from their foun-
dations and the occupants were
Whirled through the air
This town was demoralized and tel
egraph communication cut off. AS
soon as communication could be es-
tablished with nearby towns relief
trains were started from Ayant and
Pawhuska.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
Roof GARDENING.

Atop the Metropolitan tower one
may note the flash of the sun on 100
hotbeds, where fruits and vegetables
are ripening for the tables Of New
Workers. With a field glass the hui
man ants are seen busting around
their treasure houses, lifting off the
sashes and giving the tenderest care
to the green things within Several
OF these little farms are in Harlem,
along the river valley. One is only a
stones throw from the subway kiosks
at One Hundred and Thirty-ffth street
and LenoX avenue. 1t occupies a field
Of the old Watt estate, with overshad-
owing tenements on three sides. For
SO years, without a break, this garden
spot has existed. Until five years
ago there were truck gardens Just
north Of Central park Those on the
far East side, by Jones wood, were IN
disturbed until the building of the
Rockefeller Institute for Medical Re
search.-New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20

The following is a criticism of Ham
let" by a genius in New South Wales:
There Is too much Ginning in the
piece. The author is behind the times,
and appears to forget that what we
want nowadays is hair-raising situa-
lions and detectives. In the hands of
a skillful playwright a detective would
have been put upon the track of Ham
let's uncle, and the old man would
have been hunted down in a manner
that would have excited the audience
out of their number elevens. The
moral of the piece is not good The
scene where Hamlet cheeks his moth
er is a very bad example to the rising
generation. Our advice to the author
IS a little more action, a little more
fine sentiment. and a fair share of va
riety business in his next piece. In
the speciality arts of the play scene
he has entirely missed his opportuni-
ties"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
BUILDING AND LOANS GAIN
Report Shows Ct Wisconsin Asso-
Citations Increased Assets $9II,-
753,I 10 During the Past Year.

Madison.-State Bank Commits
sioner A. E. Kuolt has filed with
the governor the fourteenth annual
report on the conduct and condition
of the sixty local building and loan
associations operating in the state
No foreign corporations of this kind
do business in Wisconsin.
During the last year seven new
associations were organized, three
in Milwaukee, and one each in Madi-
son, Racine, Fond du Lac and Ke-
Waunee.
The total assets and liabilities of
the associations at the close of the
year covered by the report were So
$50, 606.59, an increase of $911,753.-
Is for the year The total number
of shares of installment stock in
force was 167,107, an increase of
1888 u for the year.
The gain in paid up stock was
els. 5 shares. The real estate hold
ings were increased from $69,429.29
to $74,G14.75, and the contingent
fund from $89,699.49 to $99,157.94.
The total operating expenses for
the year were $55,O88.15, which is
about one-tenth of l per cent of the
total assets
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
TEXT BOOK PRICES TOO HIGH
Wisconsin Pays More Than Other
States for Identical Volumes, Is
Charge at Assembly Hearing.

Madison Startling revelations re-
garding the differences in prices of
identical school books bought in
Wisconsin and in states where a
uniform adoption" law is in effect
were given at the hearing in the as
sembly on the Mahon bill creating a
state text book commission.
Under the terms of the bill the
members of the commission receive
no pay, but they are given authority
to decide what books shall be used
and to make contracts with publish
ers under which the latter may not
allow the books to be sold for more
than stipulated price at all points
in the state.
The statement is made by Assem-
blyman Mahon that the passage of
his bill would save the people of the
state at least 100000 a year for
each adoption period of five years.
and he declared that investigation
shows that Wisconsin pays from 20
to 80 per cent more for the same
school books as are used in Iowa,
Alabama, Indiana and other states
having uniformity law.
Astonishing figures were given at
the hearing by j. T. Guffin, repre-
senting the Allied Printing Trades
council of Chicago, which as a purely
educational matter is backing the
bill. Mr.. Guffin told how he had been
making trips to all parts of the state,
buying school books which are the
same as those used in uniform adop-
ton" states. Some of his compare
tive prices were as follows:
Frye's Higher Cor GRAMMAR Ge-
ography-S8 cents in Iowa; $1.25 in
Wisconsin.
Mines Standard Arithmetic-54
cents in Iowa. ST in Wisconsin.
Tarbell's Complete Geography-S
cents in Iowa; $110 in Wisconsin.
Mr., Guf1n produced the actual
books which he had purchased, and
has gone even so far as to paste in
the covers receipted bills for the
volumes, together with an affidavit
OF Identification by an unbiased wit
ness to the transaction, to show that
The books were identical. He de-
clarcd that the book trust" has Wis
c0nsin still in it's clutches, and that
the combines power is so strong that
this state is far behind in the quality
of the text books, because the pub
fishers are able, by hook or crook,
to keep obsolete books in use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20

Crew of Schooner Perishes in At
tempt to Escape When Vessel
Hits Reef Near Agoma.

Algoma. - Panic stricken when
! their schooner, the Ottawa, struck
Stony Greek reef during a heavy fog,
Capt. Claus Weberg of Marinette,
owner of the ship, and five members
of his crew took to their gasoline
launch and were drowned when the
boat was capsized by the heavy sea.
The dead are:
Capt Claus Weberg, Marinette.
Carl Myquist, Marinette
Frank Vamderfn, Marinette..
Two unknown sailors.
The point where the ship struck
is about six miles north of this place
and the catastrophe was witnessed
by two small boys only. The Otta-
wa, a tWo-masted schooner of about
200 tons burden, was bound from
Manistique, Mich, to Kenosha.
Just before the fog lifted the ship
struck the reef and the crew evident
ly without stopping to see what dam
age had been inflicted, took to the
boats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
DR.. pEARsoNs is NINETY-oNE.
PhiIanthropist Celebrates Birthday by
Distributing 100000 to Colleges.

PhiIanthropist Celebrates Birthday by
Distributing 100000 to Colleges.
Chicago.-Dr. D. K. Pearsons, the
aged philanthropist of Hinsdale,
celebrated his ninety-frst birthday
Friday by distributing 100000
among various religious anG educa-
tional institutions. Among those
which benefit by the distribution of
this sum are the American Board Of
Foreign Missions, 100000; Berea col
Iege, Kentucky, 100000; Doane col
Iege, Nebraska, $4,000; Northland
college, Wisconsin, $4,000; Highland
college, Kansas, $4,000, and McKen-
dree college, Lebanon, H., $4,000.
Other smaller gifts total $4,000
DR.. Pearsons' fortune was made
largely in Chicago real estate, in
which he invested practically all he
had shortly after the fire of 1871. To
the money made in these and later
real estate operations were added
heavy profits from timber land pur,
chases.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
BILLS ARE
PASSED BY SOLONS
PRESENT LEGISLATURE is FAR
BEHIND PREDECESSORS
IN THIS RESPECT.
ONLY 10 GIVEN TO GOVERNOR
Senate Concurs w tn Assembly in
Censuring Stephenson for Lorimer
Vote-Assembly Kills earn, shment
and Spring Shooting Measures.

Madison.-Comparative data re-
garding the state of business, Sc
cured from the governors Office,
shows that this legislature is far be-
hind that of 1909 IN the number of
bills passed and sent to the eXecu-
tive for approval. Two years ago
the first bill was received January
20, and by April II, forty-four had
gone to the governor. The first bill
this session was sent to the governor
February 3 and to date only eigh-
teen have been received.
The resolution which came over
from the assembly, censuring Sena-
tor Stephenson and landing Senator
La Toilette for their votes on the
Lorimer case, was passed by the SEN
ate, with Lyons and Perry voting
against it,
The Clark bill, opening the door
for five days spring shooting, has
been killed in the assembly After
a flood of oratory, Assemblyman
Spoons motion that the bill be in
definitely postponed was carried, SO
to 33.
After celebrating three weeks the
assembly committee on public health
and sanitation has voted to recon-
mend the bill for county sanitation
for those affected with advanced
cases of tuberculosis. The bill pro-
vides for state contribution of a
per capita sum per patient and there
fore requires the approval of the
joint committee of finance.
Debtors employed by the state, cit
les, villages and school districts were
saved from the garnishment law by
the assembly The Mortenson bill,
extending the garnishment law to
these employees, was killed by vote
of g to 43 upon reconsideration.
The G. J Johnson bill to estab-
lish a new judicial circuit to be COM
posed of Marinette, Oconto, Florence
and Forest counties has been ordered
engrossed by the assembly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
WILL BUILD A MODEL ROAD
Senator@Stephenson to Spend $780,
600 on Object Lesson" High
way in kenosha Count.

enosha.-United States Senator
Isaac Stephenson is to give the
farmers of Kenosha county a les
son in road building of a practical
nature, and he has instructed the
foreman in charge of his big farm
in this county to build a mile and a
quarter of sample road along the
Stephenson farm
Experts in road building have been
employed to take charge of the work
and the senator has ordered that it
be built of either macadam or as
phalt.
The work will be started at once
and it is expected that the tobject
lesson road will be completed before
the close of the present summer at a
cost of approximately $4,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
HOUSE ADOPTS DIRECT VOTE.
Popular Election of Senators Passes
House.

Washington.-The house of repre-
sentatiTes, by vote of 296 to 16,
passed the Rucker resolution propos-
ing constitutional amendment for
the direct election of United States
senators.
The constitutional amendment now
goes to the senate. Senator Borah,
who championed it in the last con-
gress when the resolution failed of the
necessary two-thirds majority by a
margin of four votes, expressed the
belief that this time the senate will
give the measure half a dozen more
than the necessary two-thirds and
speed it on its way to adoption by the
requisite number of states.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
HOLD NINE AS BANK ROBBERS
Gang of Alleged Yeggmen Are Cap.
tured at Toledo, o.

Toledo, O.-After trailing their men
for seven weeks through Ohio, Indi-
ana and Michigan, United States Off
GERS and private detectives rounded
up nine men in Toledo suspected Of
being implicated in bank and post
office robberies in this vicinity.
They are st Louis Slim Earl
Redman, Felix Brock Ham" Demp-
sey, alias Hamilton; slim" Carruth-
ers, man named Haggerty and three
others who are unknown here.
The prisoners are suspected of be-
ing implicated in the robbery of the
Farmers and Merchants bank at Riga,
Mich, last fall, and later of the rob-
berry of the post Offices at Chelsea,
Mich; Winfall, Ind, and Gahenna,
Franklin county, o.
The prisoners were arraigned before
a United States commissioner and
were bound over, to be taken to Colum-
bus, O., for trial on the Gahenna post
office case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
soLONs PASS LIE AND FIGHT.
Senator Hearn Hits Representative
Wilson With Cane.

Springfield, IIl.-The senate license
committee meeting was enlivened by
a personal encounter between Senator
Campbell S. Hearn, the aged and pic
turesque former Confederate soldier
from Quincy, and Representative
George H. Wilson, champion of the
"drys." Hearn struck Wilson over the
head with his cane after the lie had
been passed, but spectators and mem
bers prevented further hostiIities. Will
son is a much younger man The bill
prohibiting the sale of liquor within
three-quaTters of a mile of the Sol
diers' Home at Quincy, whence both
combatants hail, caused the battle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
POWDER LOSS OVER $500, 600
Final Estimates Made on Explosion
at Pleasant Prairie, Wis.

Kenosha, Wis.-Ffnal estimates
on the damage done by the re-
cent explosion at the plant of the E. l.
Du Pont Powder company at Pleasant
Prairie show that the total loss from
the explosion will be considerably over
half a million dollars. The agents of
the company have completed the work
of estimating the damage and 155
claims have been paid to people liy-
ing in and about Pleasant Prairie
These claims, it is said, are close to
$4,000. In the city of Kenosha 5000
claims will be paid as soon as the
clerical work can be done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
Sheriff Removed by Governor.

Madison-Gov. McGovern has re-
moved from office Sheriff w. B. st.
John of Forest county on a charge
of maIfeasance in office, and ap-
pointed George w. Monty to succeed
him. st. John, upon the evidence
of number of witnesses, was found
guilty by the governor of embezzling
$4,871.63 while county treasurer
last year, and of embezzling $242.49
while sheriff this year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
HnnefuI Scribe.

Winks-I hear that some of the
prominent actresses, singers. generals
and society ladies get $500 for merely
signing their names to articles writ
ten for them and printed in the Up
percrust Magazine.
.inks-It's true, too.
Winks-Weul Wen wonder
what they'd get If they wrote the
whole article themselves?
Jinks-Get laughed at.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
Medieval and Modern Saints

For a medieval saint to wash the
feet Of L. poor old men was sancti-
fed act because it cleansed, not the
feet Of the old men, but the soul of the
saint. If Saint-of-Today were to be
assigned that task, his entire thought
would be the better preparation OF
those IL old men for their next neces-
sary walk, with a mental reservation
In favor of so constituting society
that it would never be necessary for
some one else to do it for them
Anne Hard. in the Atlantic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
A. ]. VINE SPENT BUT $32
paign Expenses Light-JUdge
Fowler Spent Sl7.4I.

Madison.-Associat Justice A. J.
Vinje of Superior, who was elected
a member of the Supreme court with
out opposition, in his statement of
campaign expenses, filed with the
secretary Of state, declares that he
spent but 1872
The term of Office is ten years
and the salary $4,000.
Chester A. Fowler of Fond du Lac,
in a similar statement, stated that
he had spent $1741 to be elected
judge in the eighteenth circuit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
Supreme Court Takes Recess.

Madison.-The supreme court has
finished hearing the cases on the
present assignment and adjourned
until April 81. On that date it will
hear arguments on the action
brought by the state civil service
commission to determine the consti-
tutionality of the law creating the
commission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
NOT TO AFFECT WISCONSIN
Experts Believe UnCon stitutionaIity of
Minnesota Rate Reductions Has
No Bearing in Tn State.

Milwaukee. - Railroad attorneys
in Wisconsin are of the belief that
the Minnesota decision declaring the
act of the railroad commission re-
ducing freight and passenger rates
unconstitutional will not in any way
affect Wisconsin. Attorney Wheeler
for the Northwestern company says
the Minnesota decision will have no
effect here, inasmuch as the Wiscon-
sin legislature reduced passenger
rates only
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
w. S. KENYON ELECTED SENATOR
Deadlock Lasting Since January II
Is Broken

Des Moines, Iowa.-William S. Ken
yOn was elected United States sena-
tor to succeed the late Senator JON
athan P. Dolliver on the sixty-seventh
ballot in the Iowa legislature, fol-
lowing perhaps the hardest senatorial
contest ever fought in this state.
This action of the legislature ends a
deadlock which has existed since the
beginning of the session and is a vic
tory for the progressives.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
Three Men smothered in Mud

Chicago.-Three men were pinned in
a pool of mud and drowned when the
automobile in which they were racing
through Melrose Park skidded and
pitched into ditch. The bodies were
discovered by a passing motorist The
dead are:
H. ]. Blackburn, forty-fve years
old, grocer and fire chief, Glen Ellyn.
Cloid Roush, timer, Glen EIIyn.
Fred Kimholz, section foreman at
Glen Ellyn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
DIsMIssEs VOTE BUYING CASE
Indictment of DanviIe, ILL.,, City At
torney Is Quashed.

Danville, HIN the first of the al
legged election fraud cases resulting
from the recent grand jury probe in
dictments for perjury against City At
torney Frank w. Jones and Peter San
ichas, Greek merchant and politi-
clan, were quashed by Circuit Judge
Scholfeld. The court held the in
dictments insufficient in several par
ticulars
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
coIIeqians Become Socialists,

New York-Reports received by
the Intercollegiate Socialist society
here Thursday show that the member
ship of the chapters established in
twenty American colleges has dou-
bled since January 1.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20

Appoints Shawano County Coroner.
ShawanO county, after
considerable trouble, finally succeed
ed in securing a coroner, when Gov.
McGovern appointed Walter H. Gar
field to that position. The candidate
elected last fall refused to qualify
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
Chase After ESCAPED Convicts

Des Moines, Ia.-Deputy United
States Marshal Bidwen Tuesday took
up the chase for Tom Hatch and Peter
Juhl. escaped convicts from SILVIA
ter. Mimi, who are believed to have
engineered the plan to dynamite and
rob the Polk county treasury of $780,.
600 ten days ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
Second Valuation Test Asked.

Manitowoc-B Because the water
company has fixed a purchase price
Of from s350,000 to 100000 on its
plant, which the city is seeking to
secure through condemnation by the
state rate commission, the city at
torney has made a second demand for
a test of the plant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
FREED OF ATTACK ON WOMAN.
Jury at Anderson, Ind, Acquits Ben
jamin C. Barnes of Charqe.

Anderson, Ind.-"Not guilty was
the verdict returned by a circuit
court jury in the case of Ben
jamin c. Barnes, travelling salesman
of Dubuque, Ia, who was accused of
having criminally attacked Miss Cecil
Hill, aged nineteen, daughter of Prof.
William Hill of the University of Chi
cago, while Miss Hill, in berth of a
Pullman car, was returning from Rich
mond, Ind, to Chicago on the night of
January q.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
TAFT JUST MISSES A TRAGEDY.
Nearly Sees Negress Jump Into River
With Son and Drown.

Washington.-Whte gaIIoping along
the bride path in Potomac park
with Major Butt, his military aid,
President Taft narrowly missed
witnessing double drowning. They
were near the river, and, seeing
several boys running in that direction,
the president sent Major Butt to in
vestigate A negro woman had thrown
her son into the river, and then jumped
in herself Both drowned. The presi-
dent instructed Major Butt to notify
the police and harbor masters office,
and remained on the scene until the
police arrived
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-04-20
FACING DEATH, RILEY WORKS ON
Hoosier Poet Determined to Complete
Last Edition of His Works.

Hoosier Poet Determined to Complete
Last Edition of His Works.
apolis.-James Whitcomb Ri
ley, the Hoosier poet, has lost com
plete control of his hands and is but
a shadow of his former self. Close
friends fear that the lingering illness
which has kept Mr.. Riley confined to
his bed for the greater part of the
last few months will claim him by
death before the close of many weeks.
In spite of the paralysis and by an
almost superhuman effort Mr. Riley
is determined to complete his last
edition of works in order that they
may be published this spring. The
edition will include a number of new
poems and will be his final work