Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-09-27
STATE NEWS

Galesyille.-A hearing on the re-
port of the commissioners in
charge of the work of draining 1000
acres Of lands in the bottoms OF
Trempealeau will be held at White
hall October u. This report includes
a description of the property, award
of damages and assessments for the
work.
1t is estimated that the proposed
work will cost approximately $4,000.
The district comprises more than T.
900 acres of lands in Trempealeau bot
more than 5000 acres of now useless
lands would be reclaimed and con-
verted into fertile fields.
The law is such that the property
itself is assessed for its own reclama-
ton, and the assessments for the con-
struction of the work may be paid in
annual installments extending over
period of fifteen years, thus giving the
owner of the property opportunity to
cultivate the land after its improve
ment and pay his assessments from
the net profits.
The law also makes it optional with
the property owner whether he will
pay his assessment in advance or take
the instalIment plan.
Appleton-Forty-n nine years ago,
old settlers in Appleton and other
points in eastern Wisconsin will
remember, occurred one of the most
remarkable events in the Badger
states history-the Indian scare. On
a day in which the sun had been hid
den by dark, threatening clouds, news
came into the cities, or rather towns
at this time, that the Indians were
coming-marching on them with faces
painted in the gaudiest of war colors,
and with arrows whose points were
fairly hot with the sharpening Of sew
eral months. And the quaking settlers
heard and believed. Teams were
hitched to the crude wagons, the fam
lilies hurriedtly piled in and started
for the nearest centers of population.
But there were brave hearts among
the number, who ridiculed the idea
and who, in consequence, started out
in search of the supposed revenge
seeking redmen. And, of course, their
quest was happily vain
Kenosha.-Kenosha Catholics laid
the cornerstone of the first strict
ly English church of the demon
nation in the city. Three thousand
people, many Of them from different
sections of southern Wisconsin, at
tended the ceremonies. The church is
to be known as the st. Thomas church
The cornerstone was laid by Rev b.
Traudt, secretary to the archbishop,
the ceremony being performed by
Rev j. Simons of Chicago The new
church will cost $4,000.
Kenosha. - Hugo Anderson of
Waukegan and r. Buist of Racine
are both in the Kenosha hospital as
a result of injuries received in the
motorcycle meet here BUST and An
derson both left the track while
racing. Buist escaped with bad
bruises, but it is feared that Ander-
son is internally injured He was I'M
conscious for several hours after the
accident.
Ashland-H. ]. O'Sullivan, op-
orator at the Northern Pacific depot,
was accidentally shot by D. S. McKie,
a member of the Ashland school board,
while the two were hunting together.
O'Sullivan was shot in the thigh and
abdomen, but will recover.
Sparta, Sept. Poorest, the four
teen-year-old son of Ellis MattesCn,
Leon, was probably fatally wounded
by being shot through the bowels by
a 22-caliber bullet. He was loading a
repeating rife when the gun was acct
dentally discharged
OShkosh.-When President Taft
arrives in Oshkosh on October 26
he will be met at the station by 19
automobiles, given trip about the
city and will then make speech at
the opera house at 1890. At 1
o'clock he will speak from a stand in
the center of the town and will be a
guest at luncheon at ITO.
Marquette Fire at Chatham,
east of here, destroyed the gen
eral store Of G. c. Brown, in which
the postoffice was located, the feed
warehouse of j. H. Gatiss, groceryman,
and the saloon of Edward Levy. The
loss is $4,000, partially covered by
insurance
Madison-The Dane county fair
opened here upon what is ex
pected to be its most successful year.
There will be unusual horse races and
automobile races on Friday. Last year
$4,000 people attended and this rec
ord, it is thought, will be broken.
Stoughton.-The funeral of George
Heinrich, aged seventeen, who was
killed while hunting, was held in
the First lutheran church More