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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17
ROUND AND ABOUT US

After a fortnight spent in Pierce
county in pursuit of wolves, Grant Will
liams returned to his Red Mound home
the richer by many dollars because Of
capture and receipt Of bounty on four
teen wolves. Mr.. Williams has made a
good financial success in animal bounties.
He was a former resident Of Reads
town.
The De Soto Argus reports that Pre-
siding Elder Vance held his final meet
ing in that village, intending to retire
from his present post in Methodism
because Of continued illness of Mrs
Vance.
A Maiden Rock man has located at
De Srto, having purchased the prop
ertv, equipment and business of the
McAuley meat market.
Ray Ames of Liberty town, who 10
soon to graduate from the Whitewater
normal school, has been engaged to
take charge of the Ontario high school
as principal during the ensuing year.
At the late session of Royal Neigh
| bors of America, supreme body of the
/ United States, Mrs. Gertrude Frazier
( VI NtOadg was EtCLhG1 a thEifiUCT VI lIt
state central committee.
Mr.. Carl Theige, of the town of JEFF
| ferson, who has been a student at the
state university for three or four years
past, has been rendered and accepted
teaching position in the state univer-
sity of Idaho, for which place he de-
parted after brief visit with parents.
| The Readstown Tribune remarks that
| fifteen wolves in one week is a record
Of which any hunter might well be
proud, and is held by E. L. Mcdowell
of McGregor, Iowa, a former towns
man and butcher. He had one old one
and fourteen cubs, nine of which he is
keeping alive. The old wolf measured
six feet and four incues from tip to tip.
| Two more families recently left Coon
| Valley for the west to make now homes
Joe Burke and Otto Gilbertson. misB
Clara Burke went also for the purpose
Of taking homestead.
State Treasurer and Mrs. Dahl re-
Gently made an over Sunday visit at
Westby, driving through in one day
with their automobile. They were ac-
componied by their sons Aad and Ches-
/ ter. The latter has been in the Panama
zone for year past with a party Of
1 civil enpinppra
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17
Prepare TO fight the Pssts

The CENSOR has for sale noxious
weed blanks of the latest form, con-
tanning notification, duplicate, receip:
and synopsis Of the law, all combine ].
We can furnish these 10 towns and vii
lagos on short notice Mail orders
promptly attended 20.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17
Auction Sale

Four miles northwest of Springville,
Wednesday, May 81, ]. c. Jacobson
will sell large amount of live stock,
machinery and personal effects. A big
sole
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17
Sc Me md SaYs -Moner

At my blacksmith shop. just south Of
Tibbits-Cameron lumber yard, | do re-
setting Of shoes at 15e, new shoes 35c,
plow sharpening 30c; other work in
proportion. Work guaranteed.
FRANK NICRs.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17
Sir W..k,. Summer school

The summer session of the training
school will be held in the high school
building commencing June 26, continuing
six weeks.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17

Ray Ames of Liberty town. who 10
soon to graduate from the Whitewater
normal school, has been engaged to
take charge of the Ontario high school
as principal during the ensuing year.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17

A Maiden Rock man has located at
De Srto, having purchased the prop
ertv, equipment and business OF the
McAuley meat market.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17

The De Soto Argus reports that Pre-
siding Elder Vance held his final meet
ing in that village. intending to retire
from his present post in Methodism
because of continued illness of Mrs
Napaa
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17

At the late session of Royal Neigh
bors of America, supreme body of the
United States, Mrs. Gertrude Frazier
of Viola, was elected a member of the
state central committee
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17
THE SENTENCE.

ut is the judgment of the court and
your sentence is that you, John Dietz,
be punished by imprisonment for life at
the state penitentiary at Waupun and
that one day each year, namely, Octo-
fer 8, you shall be kept in solitary con-
tinement -
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17

MRS. 2. Z. SYBILkUD.
Westby, Wisconsin.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1911-05-17

Two more families recently left Coon
Valley for the west to make now homes
Joe Burke and Otto Gilbertson. aIisb
Clara Burke went also for the purpose
Of taking homestead.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-18
FEAT OF A CARRIER PIGEON
Carries on Ono Trip Forty THOUSAND
Messages Averaging Twenty
Words Each.

For more than two thousand years
carrier pigeons have been used to car
ry messages when no other means sui
hced, and during the siege of Paris
when 1863 birds were sent out from the
doomed city, one of the birds perform
ed the almost incredible feat of carry
ing to n outside world, on one trip,
No less than forty thousand messages
averaging twenty words each. This
was eight hundred thousand words, or
the equivalent of five or six average
novels.
This marvel was accomplished by
means of microscopic photography, the
messages being first printed with ordi
nary type and then photographed and
Photographed, until they had been
reduced several hundred diameters
The final photographs were taken on
films or pellicles Of collodion, each oi
which. about two inches square, con
tanned fifty thousand words. A dozen
OF these films. rolled up IN quill
weighed one-twenty-eighth Of an ounce
The messages could, of course, be read
with a microscope. without the reces
sity of rephotographing apd enlarging
Under favorable conditions, and fos
comparatively short distances, pigeons
have carried ~ much al three-quar
ters OF an ounce. Using the photo-re
duction method, II would therefore be
possible for a single bird to carry mes
sages equal I'm words to no fewer than
n hundred and twenty ordinary vol
umes.-Harper's Weekly.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-18
sYNoPsie.

R Lack Keith, q typical bor-
man. is riding along the Santa
the lookout for roaming war
savages. Keith had won his
captain In a Virginia regiment
civil war. He had left the
find his old southern home in
friends scattered, and the fas-
~ wild western life had ailured
notices a camp fire at a dis
then sees a team attached to
and al full gallop pursued by
Dniea-
EER H-When Keith reaches
~ the raiders have m~assaared
~ shot the horses and departed.
qhes the victims finding papers
lei with a woman's portrait. He
u hunt down the murderers.
eER III-Keith reaches Carson
lis arrested there charged with
and robbing the two travellers.
FL is given IS Black Bart, q
ruffian.
3 IV.-They can readily swear
on Keith. The latter goes to
reaiizing the peril of swift bor-
he. A companion in his cell is a
40 tells him he Is Neb and that
the Keith family back in Vir-
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-18
TEACH THE SICK TO JUGGLE
Manual Dexterity 10 Also Beneficial
= the Brain Worker of
oedentary Habits.

Speaking OF c~onjuring, the allied art
of juggling IL one of the most anus
ing and valuable of diversions. es-
uocially to the sedentary. Many
physicians become expert in juggling,
but It is to their patients that 1t Is
most useful.
The bedridden. n they retain the
use q their hands. may beguile mani
a weary hour In learning to keep
three Or four tennis balls In the air
at once and In balancing sticks and
other simple objects On the forefinger
a. n the chin.
For the brainworker who does not
care for walking there Is NO better
recreation II has often occurred to
10 that In cases where there Ia any
reason T. fear some form of paraly-
Sin tie educating Of disused cerebral,
c~erebellar and spinal centers by the
RAPID Juggling might serve to act as
- s6icient preventive.
We % not wish to claim too much
- manual education Of this kind. but
- may point out that It tends to
perfect nervous poise and that no Jug
sflng trick a be properly lone IL the
Sesfsrmsr INDUCES In dissipation even
= 0ild a. beer and cigarettes.-Amer-
- Medicine.
To the ranging eye the rrur,.
,rought forth BY the religions of China
,ppear to be nnmberless temples.
iingy and neglected: countless dusty
dolls ~portraying hideous deities In vio-
ent attitudes expressive Of the worst
PASSIONS; an army Of ignorant priests,
10 sceptical % Roman augurs. en-
.aged In divining. exercising and fur!
fishing funeral ceremonies for gain.
ind : laity. supsrstiti0us and irrey
.rent, given to. perfunctory kotowirg
and prayer prompted BY tbs most
practical mst1yoL-Csntury.
The New era-leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1911-1912, 1911-08-18

gle window Wa TO the west, the last
rays Of the struck the opposite
vail, leaving the space behind the
bench IN deep shadow. Whatever
might be the plans of BLACK Bart
and his cronies. Keith was soon con-
vinced they were unknown to Hicks.
who had evidently been deceived into
thinking that this last arrest had
created no excitement
That's why we picked yer up 50
early" he explained. geniaily. Bart
said IL we got to yer afore the boys
woke up they'd never hear nuthin'
bout 1T, an GO thar wouldn't be no
row. He didn't even think thar'd be
emmy need o. keepin' a special guard
ter-night, but I reckon I won't take
no such chance as that, an ri have
couple o. deputies prowlin' round fer
luck When Carson does wake up,
she's hell"
He left them tobacco and pipes, and
went away evidently convinced that
he had performed his full duty. The
two prisoners, puflng smoke-rings into
the air. heard the heavy ciang of the
iron bar falling into place ACROSS the
door. and sat looking into one anoth.
er's faces through the deepening twf.
light In the mind of both black and
white reposed the same thought The
negro was first to break the silence.
Pears ter me, Massa Jack, hka
dis we're Bart pusson am mighty anx.
ious ter hab no suspicious raised"
Anybody but Hicks would sea
that" acknowledged the other, the
rings Of smoke oircling his head, but
he hasn't any brains. It was pure
nerve that got him the Job. Well, this
is one time that Bart pusson' Ia going
to ffnd an empty coop. Wen get out,
Neb, just 40 o o as II gets dark
enough. Hicks isn't likely to put on
his extra guard for an hour yet. and
the Red Light bunch won't be At for
business much before midnight. BY
that time wen be In the sand Fills.
heading south, able to give them q
run for their money-wen have
horses. too. IL We can nnd them"
The negro's eyes shone white.
"Fo' de Lawd's sake, Massa," he
protested, "dat'd sho' be q hangin' job
IL ebber dey cotched US"
Keith laughed, knocking out the
ashes from his pipe.
with an hours start that will be
the least e my troubles" he said.
quietly.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-08
GOVERNMENT SALE OF INDIAN LANDS
ABSOLUTE TITLE GIVEN

The unaoted lands the Seminole Cherokee
Civilized Tribes will
highest bidder following
equal to the valuation fixed for allotment
Wewoka 16 @ May 15 Nowata
tracts May 15 okfusk Okemah SS
May 49, Adr County stwe 2S5 tracts 620 May IL omugee
County Tulsa May
Muskogee 234
42 10530 Craig
May 20; County Pryor 161 61t
Ottawa County Miami II tracts lao acres May 22 Mcintosh County
Euu 2l7 tracts 94sO May 49, Hughes County Greek Naon
Hodenve 107 tracts 1880 May "a Wagner
go sapulpa
May 25.
Not than 100 agricultural
will
minimum valuation of $400
months with
draft certified check payable Wright
being made time viii
but not be
permitted until full
o all bids
apply Civilized Tribes
Muskogee Oklahoma the district
districts
showing
of will be impaccabe of
specify the locality in which they interested
land
sold viii be furnished applicants
Civilized Tribes the payment of so for each
j. G. WRIGHT
Commissioner to the Five Civilized Tribes.
musAoeee oAiano"a' Naa'0h ~ sAA -t zAI
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-08
"A Great Newspaper And Pedigreed
Seed Corn Proposition.

The Kansas City Weekly Journal is
making great offer to farmers in the
way Of two splendid publications and
a pound of pedigreed white seed corn.
ANY farmer sending fifty cents will re-
ceive The Kansas City Weekly Jour
nal one full year and will also receive
The Missouri and Kansas Farmer a
ull year. The Kansas City Weekly
Journal is splendid newspaper that
furnishes full and complete tele-
graphic report In condensed form, a.
large volumne OF miscellaneous news
and splendid market report. 1t keeps
the farmers thoroughly posted on all
he worlds doings. The Missouri and
Kansas Farmer Is an old established
semi-monthly farm paper that runs
about 20 to 80 pages each issue. It is
filled with first-class matter of inter-
est to the farm. In addition to these
SIP endid papers for one year, the sub
scriber will receive one pound OF pure
pedigreed white seed corn. This corn
was raised in Clay county, Mo, and
Is known as the Clay County White;
| 1t is 95-day corn and is wonderful
producer, last year having produced
30 bushels per acre. 1t has taken sew
eral years to bring it to its present
| high standard. 1t now stands at the
head of the list for quality and pro-
Effectiveness. Pure white ears, large
weighing over one pound each, cob
small and grain very deep and COM
pact, filling cob completely over tip;
many ears contain over 1,400 grains
each. Farmers will find it to their in
terest to secure this seed corn, as 1t is
furnished to them absolutely free with
these two complete papers one year at
so cents.
All that is necessary is to send so
cents and you will receive The Kansas
City Weekly Journal one full year and
also The Missouri and Kansas Farm
er one full year and pound of this
splendid pedigreed white seed corn
free, postage prepaid. Address
THE KANSAS CITY WEEKLY JOUR
NAL, KANSAS CITY, MO.
Seed Corn Dept.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-08
AL[EGER-OI''LEAR|Y
BOUT WAS DRAW
CONTINUED From Page u
Round Three.

Round Three.
oIeary hit Al on the jaw with open
glove and slapped him on the short
ribs; Jack slapped Al on the cheek
and they clinch: an exchange Of body
punches follow. They broke clean.
and Al puts right TO kidney and
oLeary sent right 10 Jaw, and right
to body; al dueked right swing for
head Jack sent uppercut to face, and
left to jaw; oLeary put left to wind
and missed left and right for jaw; Al
blocked right for face and sent in
light left as the round ended
Round -Four.
OLeary put right and left to jaw;
Al sent left to wind. and they clineh,
an exchange Of body punches follow;
In the break OLeary sent Alleger TO
the floor with right to jaw; Al got up
at the count Of six and put two rights
and left 10 Jacks jaw; Al jabbed
OLeary twice with left to mouth;
they cIinch and exchange slaps; at
the break Al sent right to face. and
Jack put left and right to body.
Round Five.
OLeary put left to face and AL jabs
twice to mouth; AL put two slaps on
Jacks back; they exchange right and
left to face, and Al got away from a
right uppercut; they clinch and ex-
change slaps to face; at the break
AL sent right to jaw and o'Leary coun-
tered; AL sent left to jaw and Jack
sent left and right to face; AL put
one over Jacks bum lamp and OIeary
staggered al with left TO jaw, and
second later sent light left to jaw.
Round Six.
OLeary led with left but fell short;
AL put left and right TO face; o'Leary
sent right to face and they clinch; at
the break Jack put right to ribs and
left to jaw; AL stabbed o'Leary in
face with left; Al put right to chin and
two lefts to face and left to ribs;
0'Leary put left to body and right to
face; al put right to jaw and they
cllnch; they exchange punches for
body and head
Round Seven.
AL puts right to jaw and Jack coun-
tered O'Leary planted left to ribs
and they exchange right and left
swings for head and neck; AL put left
to ribs and right to jaw AL put left to
head and right TO face; OLeary sent
right and left to face and AL put right
to stomach and left to face; AL blocked
right for face and left to jaw; Jack
stung Al with right to face; AL ducked
right swing and put two lefts on
o'Leary's jaw as the round ended
Round Eight.
AL dueked right swing and swung
on 0Leary's neck with open glove;
both missed right swings; OLeary put
right to jaw and AL countered; they
clinch and exchange slaps; ALeary
put left to head and AL sent right to
face; In hot rally AL put right to jaw
and hoored O'Leary; he got up in Jig
time; Al sent left to jaw; Jack put
right to wind and missed a swinging
uppercut as the round ended.
Round Nine.
AL put left and right to jaw; they
cllneh; o'Leary put right to face and
left to neck All missed right for head,
but sent left to face and al conntered;
oLeary put left and right TO face and
they clineh at the break O'Leary put
left to side and right to jaw; AL sent
two to jaw and Jack put right to face;
AL put three lefts to face and O'Leary
put right to wind and right to jaw; AL
sent right to Jaw and oLeary coun.
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The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-08

tered: they clinch and exchange right
and lefts 70 face with open gloves. +.
Rounds 10, II. Y. and Is were about
the same as round 3.
Round Fourteen.
Al sent right 70 Jaw and two 10 ribs;
oLeary put left to Jaw and right up
percut to wind: OLeary missed right
to jzw and Al put left to wind; OLeary
sent right to head and Al countered;
Al hoored OLeary with right TO jaw;
as he arose Al sent right to jaw. and
they cIinch; they exchange rights and
lefts to face: the break oIeary put
three lefts 70 AIS face; Al stabbed
oLeary on the nose. Al put right and
left TO jaw. and they clineh; oLeary
missed left swing for head; oLeary
put left to Jaw and missed a right
swing for head as round ended
Round Fifteen.
The men came to center Of ring and
shook hands. Alleger put left and two
rights to jaw and oLeary sent right
and left TO ribs; O'Leary staggered AL
with left to jaw they exchange lefts
to face; Al sent left TO jaw ana right
to ribs; Al hoored sack with right on
point Of jaw, as he arose Al sent right
TO neck and they exchange wallops to
face and body; in the mix-up Alleger
slipped to the floor, but was up in an
instant; They exchange lefts to face;
0'Leary missed right for head; they
swap right and left to face; AL stabbed
Jack as the gong sounded.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-08

All complaints or delivery should
be reported to the Circulation Depart.
ment. Phone a.
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1911-04-08

THEo. D. B. FREAR
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Rooms / and 2, Cherokee Building
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-12-08
Anew Appointment

O. H. Culver. deputy collector Of
customs at this port. has been an
pointed Immigration and Chinese
Inspector here. the secretary of the
treasury having consented to his ac-
ceptance Of tn appointment. The bu-
reau Of immigration offered the ap-
pointment to Mr.. Culver two years
ago md shortly aftsrward stationed
q regular Inspector here tor = short
time. but the duties Of the place did
not Justify the employment Of a
inspector here to give al: Of Biz
time q TIE work. The position car
|ries with it the compensation allow-
lea in excepteGl class Of aps
PUN not under civil seEvics;.
The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-12-08
New History by Prof. Meany

Professor Edmond S. Meany, OF
the University of Washington, has
completed his history Of the United
States, and in short time it will be
off the press Of the Macmillan Com
pany. Inasmuch as the work is
designed as a text book for public
school pupils of the seventh and
eighth, grades it will have a wide
circulation,- and Professor Neany's
reputation will soon be spread
throughout the entire United States
among the rising generation.
The Inland Navigation Company
is reported to be working for q ru-
raj route between Friday Harbor
and Roche Harb0r, and when that is
established they are willing to
double ack'' on .thsir old route,
instead Of the present return trip to
Seattle direct BY way Of Anacortes.
In the meatime, Richardson is be
ing served By r. Fl D. from Port
Stanley. Lopez. Richardson. Argyle
and Friday Harbor shippers are
complaining bittarly Of the round
about freeht seryice. which neces
dtotee the ahipmealt of periehable
goods 81 Wy of Bellina ham. md
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The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1911-12-08
PaxsOn-Jensen We'd
ding Wednesday

Miss Nella A. Jensen, youngest
daughter of Mr.. Benjamin Jensen
one Of the pioneer residents Of the
island, and Mr.Alviu j, Paxson were
married at the home Of The BRIDES
sister, Mrs. C. M. Tucker,
early Wednesday morning b.. Rev
j. E. Nelson. They left on the 7::3(
boat On III rt wedding trip. to the
up-Sound cites.
The bride is one of the best
known and most highly esteemed
young women of the town and coun.
ty, having by her quiet ways and
sunny disposition endeared herself
to a large circle Of f lends during
her many year residenc here.
She is western girl by birth, hav-
ing been born at The Da'les, Oregon.
For the past six years she has been
stenog rapher and private secretary
to the president Of the San Juan
County bank.
Mr.. Paxson is also well and favor
bly, kno7 n in he county, which he
calls his home, although he has
spent most Of his time. for the past
fourteen years in Alaska. For
some time IN the early ninetes he
was employed in the Islander Office
and subsequently became the owner
of the paper, which he sold to Gull
yer Bros. in 1895. He owns large
roadhouse or s'wayside inn" and
trading post at a point called Gull
kana, midway on the mail and stage
route between Cordova and Fair
banks. The property has been
leased for some months past but the
lease expires on the 18th of April,
when Mr.. Pax on expects to again
take charge of it.
The many fri ,nds of the happy
couple will. be glad to know that
they expect to spend most Of the
winter here. The islander extends
to them its most cordial congratu-
lationz and best wishes.