The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1911-03-10
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

tee of the Wisconsin Advancement as
sociation held conference here with
the state board of immigration and the
dean of the college of agriculture of
the state university for the purpose
or arranging a plan of cooperation of
the three institutions for the exploita-
ton of the industrial and agricultural
advantages of the central and north
ern parts of the state The associa-
ton decided to establish bureau Of
publicity, which probably will be To-
Gated at Madison, for the purpose of
carrying on the work of advertising
the opportunities offered to settlers
in the northern part of the state. H.
c. Baker, a newspaper man of Marin
cite, will have charge of this bureau.
The advertising campaign is to con-
tinue for period of three years.
misunderstanding more than a
thousand miles, footsore, weary and so
haggard that the neighbors hardly rec
ognized him, part shepherd dog that
had become separated from his mas
ter, George Raethke. near Fowler.
Mont, by jumping from the train, has
just arrived at the old farm home,
three miles west of Dnrand, after
journey that began last November. AS
an evidence of canine instinct it
seems almost incredible, yet rigid
investigation seems to bear out the
facts as stated. The dog is now being
cared for by a next door neighbor to
the former Raethke home, Judy Coaty.
GRAND RAPlDS--The hunters of
Grand Rapids and vicinity met at the
City club rooms to discuss bills now
pending on fish and game. Those
present were opposed to the law pro-
viding for forbidding deer hunting for
five years and to the present law pro-
ihibiting the use of automatic rifles.
They favored an open season for quail
and favored the proposed law extend
ing the open season for prairie chick
ems, so that it will end at the same
time as the partridge season.
MADISON - Governor McGovern
gave a state dinner at the executive
residence. Those present included,
besides the governor, Secretary of
State and Mrs. J. A. Frear, State
Treasurer and Mrs. A. H. Dahl, Insur-
ance Commissioner and Mrs. H. L. Elk
ern, Colonel Duncan McGregor, Presi-
dent and Mrs. c. r. Van Hise, Lieuten-
-ent Governor and Mrs. Thomas Nor
ris, Speaker and Mrs. G. A. Ingram,
Sir Horace Plunkett, Miss Gregory and
Mrs Pierce.
MADiSON-Irwin Billman, the Wis
consin university instructor who was
arrested Nov last for sending OBJ
scene letters to young woman stu
dent of the university, and who was
later indicted for the offense by fed
eral grand jury, was arraigned before
Judge A. L. Sanborn here and on his
plea of guilty was sentenced to the
federal prison at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan, for a term of five years. The
sentence is to run from the date of
his arrest.
APPLETON-The state record was
broken here recently when four ma
chimes turned out 174,OO0 pounds of
print paper at one of the mills in
twenty-four hours. To make this
amount of paper it took 12O,991 pounds
of ground wood pulp, 46,816 pounds of
sulphite pulp, and $1,000 pounds of
clay. This necessitated the use of
sixty cords of spruce and forty-eight
cords of hemlock, and made 389 miles
of paper at an average width of SO
inches.
MADISON-Assembly Hintz has
introduced in the assembly bill to
appropriate $4,6S0 from the general
fund to reimburse certain persons as
repayment for license fees for pound
net licenses under a law which was
declared unconstitutional by the SUI
preme court. A similar bill was be-
fore the legislature two years ago but
it got lost in the shuttle and nothing
was done to reimburse persons who
had paid money out for licenses.
RACINE-Between forty and fifty
merchants and saloon keepers of Ra-
cine have been swindled out of
amounts varying from SAC to $56 each
by means of forged checks. The dis
covery was made when checks SINH
ldT LO IuOS6 lS0ucu DIS pay CuSChS ny
the J. l. Case Threshing Machine COM
pany began coming to the banks.
MADlSON-State Bank Commits
sioner A. E. Kuolt issued charters to
the bank of Shell Lake and the state
bank of Vesper, the former having a
capital of $4,000 and the latter $1O,-
900. H. NJ. Laursen is president of
the bank of Shell Lake and G. e. Mar
tin is president and Herbert Jones
cashier of the bank of Vesper.
KENoSHA-Alexande Opateski, a
South Milwaukee man, was held UP
and robbed in a saloon here by three
men. A minute after the South Mil
waukee man had lost his money John
Abramites, the proprietor of the sa-
loon, awed the three men with re-
volver, got the money back and turned
the men over to the police.