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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-03

toes, grain and garden vegeta-
bles. The school is a co-operator
in the Department of Agronomy
of the Ashland experiment sta
ton. There was raised success
fully on this farm a crop of silver
grey buckwheat anu there is also
a crop of winter wheat growing
This wheat is reported to have
produced 33 bushels per acre on
the Ashland station farm last
summer.
AS the work grows the plant
will be enlarged to meet the de-
mands. Other lines Of industries
will be taken up as time and
needs demand. To live honestly
and peaceablv with all men is
our constant aim. We are here
to stay, to improve the county,
to educate our children, to bene-
fit all.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-03
Clearwater Lake Industrial School


About half dozen years ago influx of settlers begun in
Eagle River under the guidance of Mr. Sucool place
of worship ard school secured in the building
owned and occupied by the Earnest Workers Society
of the Congregational church. After years soourn in
this place the colony known Day Adventss
located in body Clearwater lake, five miles south OF
Eagle River Let the visitor go there this date and
remarkable change has been made Wherea few years
stumps brush and marshes greeted the one be
holds large tract of fertile land dotted here and there with
farm buildings of architecture. showing that hustle
and stcktuitveness will bring manifold returns The fol-
lowing article from S. c. Harmon, principal of the schools
we'll worth the reading mpartng in detail what the Ad
ventiss have done and doing in that we'll regulated
community.
(By S. G. Harmony
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-03
(By S. G. Hannon.)

the past season several thousand
cans of string beans, corn and
pumpkins were canned. These
are being shipped to nearby
towns solving the question Of
a readily reached market which is
pertinent in this locality. This is
also very profitable business.
From less than half an acre we
canned over 1900 cans of string
beans, besides leaving enough to
ripen for next years seed. We
also harvested d crop Of pota-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-01-03

The Clearwater Lake school
has just closed for a two weeks
vacation and some ofthe students
have gone home for a rest.
The attendance this year is
about double what it was two
years ago. The school is on a
sure foundation financially, and
there is every prospect of pros
perity in the future.
Our work, in the school, is
divided into two departments.
the primary department and the
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
ALIENS OFFER TO SURRENDER
Outlaws Last Hope Is to Avoid Death
Chair for Crime-Sidna Edwards
Is Captured.

Hillsville, Va.-The hunt for the AL
lens is drawing to a close. With Sidna
Edwards, one of the five original fugi-
tives captured and behind the bars of
the little Jail here, the Aliens are
weakening. They are going back upon
their lifelong boast that while they
might be arrested they would never
stand for conviction. They have sent
an emissary to the officials at Roanoke
and have offered to surrender.
This was the message which came,
through secret channels, from the
clansmen who nine days ago shot the
Judge, sheriff, prosecutor, juror and
woman witness in the courthouse
here:
I'VE will give up and lay down our
arms on these conditions:
First, we must be guaranteed abso-
lutte protection from the vengeance of
relatives of the persons we shot, or
from other people of Carroll county.
Second, we must have fair and i'm
partial trial in some other county.
Third, we must be allowed to plead
guilty to second degree murder. 9th
erwise we fight to finish"
The offer of the Aliens was refused
by the officials at Roanoke, who have
decided that they must be tried for
first degree murder if captured alive.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
HEAR MINERS CRY
rs BURIED VICTIMS APPEAL
THROUGH AIR PIPE
FOR HELP.
TRY TO TELL LOCATION
Fifty-Five Bodies Have Been RecoV-
ered-TWenty-Five Men Brought
Out Alive-VoIunteers Aid
in Rescue Work.

McCurtain, Okla-Pitiful cries for
help, conveyed to the surface through
a small air pipe, were distinctly heard
from the seventy-five miners still i'm
prisoned in the shaft of the San Bots
mine
For several hours the imprisoned
men, 200 feet below the shaft open
ing, could be heard as they attempted
to tell their exact plight and location
to the rescuers on the ground above.
Every means was taken to understand
the words, but nothing more than the
cries and a murmured tumble of con-
versation was audible.
Tappings, the sound of which was
conveyed along another air pipe, re-
suited in the rescue of fourteen more
survivors of the terrible explosion.
This makes just twenty-five miners
brought to the surface since the
rescuers started to work, and still
leaves in the vicinity of seventy-fve
men battling for their lives against
the poisonous gases and black damp
in the crowded shafts. No way is
known to tell the number who have
already succumbed to the lack Of oxy-
gen.
Volunteers came from nearby mines
and the rescue parties were more sys-
tematically organized under the di-
rection of mining experts from the
government station at McAlester.
The cause Of the explosion has not
been definitely determined. State
Mine Inspector Boyle is of the opin-
ion that gas was responsible. There
was but little dust in the mine, he
declares. An inspection of the prop
erty was planned for last Saturday,
but was deferred because the mine
was not being worked last week.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
S. r. MORSE, Editor.
DOCTORS IN UNITED STATES.

To one who observes the consider
able number OF physicians signs IN
the average city or large town the
report of the last census that there
are in the United states only 13O,OOO
physicians, including osteopaths, psy-
chopaths, hydropaths and doctors OF
every description, may come as rev.
citation and a surprise. The addition
al information, afforded by the cen
sus. that this country has only one
doctor to every $50 Of its population
is not likely to relieve the observers
wonderment until he reflects that
physician to every $50 people Is, aIter
all, a fairly liberal safeguard to the
public health, says the Manchester
Union. The figures, of course, repre-
sent the average the country over
some sections Of communities having
fewer doctors in proportion to their
population and some having more.
Manchester, for instance, on the OASIS
of the census figures, would have lUf
or 1O8 physicians. The city directory
gives SO. The census report on the
matter is not incredible, yet a person
travelling along the streets OF almost
any New England city and remarking
the numerous doctors shingles
would have been almost certain to
estimate the percentage of doctors
higher than that given by the census.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
HOUSE PASSES BILL
DEMOCRATS PUT INCOME TAX
THROUGH.
Measure Extends Tax Law to Include
One Per Cent. on Yearly Net In
comes in Excess of $1,000.

Washington.-The Democratic in
come tax bill passed the house I'M
amended by vote of 249 to Al. The
bill was supported by ITO Democrats
and 70 Republicans, while the oppo-
nents of the measure were all Repub-
licans.
The excise bill has been under dis
cussion by the house for the last two
days, the debate being marked by
many speeches sharply criticizing the
decision of the Supreme Court of the
United States by which previous in
come tax measure was declared uncon-
stitutional.
The present bill was prepared with
a view to meeting objections raised by
the higher court against it in the liti-
cation of a few years ago. 1t exempts
incomes of less than $4,000 year.
The bill would extend the existing
corporation tax law to include a tax
of 1 per cent. on the yearly net in.
come of all firms or individuals in
excess of $4,000.
The Democrats declare the tax is
one on doing business" despite the
fact that it would include salaried peo-
pie, and claim it would bring in suf-
ficient revenue to offset the estimated
loss of $60,000,00O resulting from put
ting sugar on the free list.
The free sugar bill already has
gone to the senate. The excise tax
bill was sent to that body which may
defeat it.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
SAYS HE SENT BOMB TO JUDGE
Man Arrested as Vagrant In Florida
Admits Mailing Internal Machine
to Rosalski.

Jacksonville, Fla.-Fred Price, alias
Fred Newsom, arrested as vagrant,
confessed to having sent the Internal
machine to Judge Rosalski OF New
York recently.
Newsom says he mailed the bomb to
New York from one of the small towns
near Jacksonville and says that II the
detectives make an investigation they
will find the records show the package
containing the internal machine was
sent to Judge Rosalski as be says
The man claims to have been an old
friend of Folke E. Brandt.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
BRIBE HEARING BEGUN
POLICEMAN TEsTlFlEs AGAINST
NEW MEXICO LEGISLATORS.
Tells About Bathroom Incident-Ac-
cused Men Declare They Are
Conspiracy Victims.

Santa Fe. N. M.-Mounted Po-
liceman A. A. Sena, who testified
before the house committee of fif-
teen at the investigation of bribery
charges against Representatives Luz
cero, Montoya and Cordova, under
went a severe cross-examination, but
his story was not shaken.
Sena told of having heard con-
versation between Elfego Baca. the
prosecuting witness, and the four de-
PENDANTS in a room at the Palace
hotel, In which the defendants prom
ised, he said, to vote for any candi-
date for the senate that Baca might
designate.
He declared when the money was
passed that Baca clapped his hands
as signal, and the witnesses. Ven
ceslao. Jaramillo and Jose d. Sena.
VINO had bee nwaiting in an adjoining
bath room, stepped in. The wianess
said he took the money, relating how
part of 1t had been thrust under .
bed quilt.
he told of recovering a $40 gold
piece half an hour after the arrests.
from the defendant Lucero, who had
1t in his vest pocket.
Questions asked by the defense In
dicated that counsel for the accused
will seek to show a conspiracy ex.
listed to get the four legislators out of
the way because they would not vote
in a certain way in the senatorial con.
test.
The men were arrigned before
District Judge David ]. Leahy They
waived preliminary examination and
bail was fixed at $4,000 each.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28

George Wehler, director of physical
education at the University of Wiscon-
sin, has instituted rest classes for
fidgety girls whose nervous systems
"go to pieces" under the fatigue fol
lowing undue exertion. In a report
to the United States Bureau of Educa-
ton he says: We do not go on the
theory that the gymnasium is good for
every one, and, therefore, every one
must take gymnastics. The purpose
of these classes in rest is. to teach
girls who are restless from the per-
Torrance of tasks that ought not to
produce fatigue how to acquire con-
troll over their own nervous systems.
Putting every one-girls as well as
boys-through a stiff regimen of gym
nasium work has had bad results in
many instances, and is thing to be
avoided. If the director of physical
culture in the University of Wiscon-
sin makes allowance for constitutional
differences students not built to en-
dure overstrain will have reason to
thank the good fortune which made
him arbiter of their physical destinies.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28

Surprise is frequently expressed be-
cause there are so many school chill
dren who are bad spoilers, but there
is a substantial reason for it. In
Kansas very few of short list OF
words were spelled correctly by liz
school and college students. Now
these pupils are not taught the way
their fathers and mothers we're. says
the Boston Globe. Under the old pub
lie school system there were spelling
bees in the schools and the pupils
took pride in excelling. Under the
spelling bee system children between
the ages of eight and twelve can ac-
quire quite large Vocabulary by the
practice of spelling words of several
sylables. The rising generation is full
of poor spoilers, but it is not their
fault, for little attention is paid to
that accomplishment. It would be well
for all teachers to put their pupils
through a course of spelling every few
days, and also to teach them to read
aloud. Reading, writing and spelling
should go hand in hand. Those lack
ing these accomplishments are not far
removed from the illiterate class.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
MAJORITY is GUT TO 10000
MARSHALL is ELECTED C. O. p.
COMMITTEEMAN.
eruegger Leading in Race for Cor.
responding Democratic
Position.

Grand Forks, N D., March a.
Additional returns on the Republican
political contest indicate that the TO-
500 mark will be the limit of La
Follette's plurality over Roosevelt and
Taft. Twelve hundred and eighty
precincts out of LAB in forty-seyen
counties give La Toilette 26,917 and
Roosevelt 1922, while Taft has re-
ceived 1,275.
Two missing counties have given
La Toilette about 500 majority, being
Ward and Burke, and the returns of
the latter county will not be available
till after the county canvassing board
meets, this situation being the result
of complication in the county two
years ago when an election contest
was based upon the fact that election
return envelopes had been opened by
the county auditor.
The counties actually heard from
give La Toilette a lead of 8,705 and
with the 800 additional in Burke and
Ward his lead is 9,505.
Barnes county's complete figures
and that of Williams gave La Toilette
a decided boost Barnes gave him a
majority over Roosevelt of S24, while
Williams county gave him majority
of 637. Williams, by the way, was
one of the counties which the Roose-
welt managers had expected to carry
Thomas Marshall's victory over E.
C. Cooper for Republican committee
man has been tremendous: His ma
jority will be greater than La Fol
lettes lead, as he carried many coun-
ties which went for Roosevelt. His
majority will be between $4,000 and
$4,000.
John Brueggers lead for the posi-
ton of national committeeman for the
Democratic party in North Dakota has
been very materially reduced by
George Duis of Grand Forks and the
Grand Forks man may get the place
on the committee as result of the
unexpected change in the situation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
81 HEROES HONORED
FINAL TRIBUTE PAID TO UN-
IDENTIFIED BODIES OF MAINE
MARTYRS.
THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL
Services Begin in White House
Grounds and End at Arlington
Cemetery-President Taft and Cab
met Present at Ceremonies.


Washington.-The nation has paid
final tribute to its martyred dead. The
chief officials of the United States hon.
ored the memory of the men who per
ished in Havana harbor fourteen years
ago when an explosion destroyed the
battleship Maine. Thirty-four unidenti-
fed bodies recovered from the wreck
age were inferred in Arlington GENE
terry with ceremonies that were most
impressive. President Taft was pres
ent, as were also members of the cabi-
net, other high government officials,
many officers and men of the navy
and army and thousands of private
citizens.
The funeral began with services in
the park behind the White House and
a procession thence, the escort be-
ing second in size only to that at
the funeral of President Mckinley.
At the cemetery the services We're
conducted by Rev. G. Livingston
Bayard, chaplain of the Washington
Chadwick, who was chaplain of the
Maine at the time of it's destruction.
The thirty-four buried were the last
of the martyrs recovered from the
Maine wreck, the other 227 having
been taken out shortly after the ex-
plosion, when they were identified,
shipped to their several former homes
in different parts of the country and
buried in separate private funerals by
their families. The last thirty-four
bodies, however, which had lain under
Havana harbor for fourteen years,
could not be identified, so the one
great funeral was arranged as a trib-
ute of the nation to her heroes.
Before noon the cruiser Birming-
ham arrived at the Washington navy
yard with the remains of the men re-
Gently taken from their watery tomb.
At three o'clock they were taken, on
"a caissons, to the White Lot, where
a distinguished gathering, headed by
President Taft, awaited, in stands
draped in the national mourning.
Among those in the stands were
Rear Admirals Charles ID. Sigsbee
and Richard Wainwright, who were
captain and executive officer, respect
lively, of the battleship Maine, when
the explosion sent the vessel to the
bottom of the harbor and carried with
her the gallant officers and men.
There were also men and women
from all over the country, relatives
and friends of the Maine martyrs,
as well as ranking army and navy Of
ficers, congressman, representatives
of foreign countries and many other
prominent persons.
Each casket was carried to the
scene of the services on separate
caisson. These were sent here from
army posts all over the country. Dur
ing the procession, field gun sta
toned at the Washington monument
fired twenty-one minute guns.
The pallbearers were enlisted men
of the navy, and the honorary pail
bearers members of the United States
Spanish War Veterans.
At the conclusion of the services at
the White Lot, the funeral procession
formed and marched to Arlington Gem
etery, across the Potomac.
All business was suspended in Wash
ington and thousands of the people at
tended the ceremonials.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
MAN is HELD AS GEM R0BBER
Suspect Is Charged With Having
Stolen Diamonds and JeweIry Az
gregating $4,000 in Value.

ST. Louisa missing index finger
on the hand of Daniel Callahan caused
his arrest here on the charge of be-
ing the leader of band of robbers
who had stolen diamonds, aggregating
in value $4,000, and who have also
been implicated in the robbery of a
post office substation in this city.
Among those who are said to have
fallen victims to Callahan and his
band are Mrs. Maldwin-Drummond OF
England, formerly Mrs. Marshall
Field, Jr, Edward Alberti and
Spaulding & Co., all of Chicago. In
the Alberti and Spaulding robberies
two New York firms, Strauss &c
Strauss, and Sloan &c Co., were also
robbed of jewels valued at many thou.
sands of dollars.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
MEN REFUSED WAGE INCREASE
Coal Operators Will Not Grant De-
mands of Miners-2oo 600 in Four
States Ready to Strike.

Cleveland, O.-All the demands of
the 100000 miners in the bituminous
coal fields of western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois for a ten
per cent. increase in pay and shorter
working hours were voted down by
the operators here
AS final effort to prevent a pro-
longed shutdown of the mines after
April 1, and possibly a strike, the
subcommittee. The subcommittee,
composed of eight miners delegates
and eight operators, will convene to
consider the possibility of a compro-
mise to be recommended to the gen
eral conference.
Both operators and miners declared,
after the union demands had been re-
fused, that the coal situation through
out the country was grave. Intima-
lions were made by John p. White,
president of the United Mine Workers
Of America, that the negotiations here
might continue a few days longer. I'M
til the unions policy committee will
convene.
Besides the 100000 miners in the
four states directly concerned, $50. 900
bituminous coal miners in other states
are dependent upon the present DELHI
erations for a basis of making their
wage scale, and in addition THE policy
committee will consider the wage de-
mands of about 10000 anthracite
miners. 1t was pointed out by Presi-
dent White that the wages of more
than 100000 union miners after April
1 were in dispute, and that the coal
output of the country, other than that
mined by nonunion men, was involved.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
TO SAVE RICHESONS LIFE
Counsel for Confessed Boston Murder
err consuIts With Governor Foss--
Hopes for Prison Sentence.

Boston, Efforts to save Clar.
ence v. r. Richeson, the confessed
murderer Of Avis Linnell, from death
in the electric chair began when his
counsel, William A. Morse, conferred
with Governor Foss. The date set
for the execution is May 10. Mr.
Morse said no petition for commute
ton would be sent to the governor
for two weeks at least. Richesons
friends hope to obtain life sentence
for him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
NEGRO CONVICT is LYNCHEG
Black Kills Guard, Fires on Others
Mob Takes Slayer From Sheriff
and Hang Him.

Cochran, Ca A negro convict,
Homer Howell, was lynched after he
had killed Guard Joseph Coody, aged
forty, and attempted to shoot down
two other guards in the convict camp
a mile from here.
Howell and sixty other men in the
camp, it is said, had plotted to escape
News of the killing spread quickly
Howell, guarded by deputy sheriifs,
was being taken to Hawkinsville, ten
miles from this place, when mob
of fifty armed men took the prisoner
and quickly strung him up to tele-
phone pole.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
POTASH DEPOSIT FOUND.
Valuable Discovery, Indicating Mil.
lions of Tons In California.

Washington, March ga valuable
discovery of soluble potash salts has
been made in the Mohave desert,
southern California, by field represent
atives of the bureau of soils and geo.
logical survey. The potash was found
in partially dried up lake. The gov
eminent experts who found it declare
there are indications of millions of
tons of potash.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
American Jailed in Error.

Winnipeg, March 22.-Through Uni
ted States Vice Consul Jones here an
citizen, John Edwards, a land seeker
from Denver, Colo, who, it is said, was
arrested at Saskatoon, on November
%, 1911, on the charge of receiving
stolen goods, by order of Attorney
General Turgeon of Saskatchewan. A
speedy trial was ordered, but he re-
manned four months in Jail before be-
ing brought to trial when he promptly
was acquitted A demand for com
pensation is made.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
Convict to Relate Trauedy,

Lincoln Neb., March 22.-Charles
Morley, the one convict who lived
through the desperate battle near
Omaha will soon be called upon to
answer for the part he took in the
penitentiary tragedy. County Attor-
ney Strobe has sworn an information
of justice court, charging Morley with
murder. Governor Aldrich said he
would recommend to the next legis-
Tor the family of Roy Blunt, killed
during the chase of the convicts Mon
day.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
Twenty-six Rescued from Mine.

McCurtain, Okla, March 22.-One
hundred and seven of the 116 men at
work in the Sans Bois mine No. 2
explosion, have been accounted for.
Twenty-six of the number were res
cued alive, one has since died, so
bodies have been recovered and 29
bodies have been located.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-03-28
BARS PUBLIC DRINKING CUP
Kansas Board of Health Orders Them
Removed From All Cities in
the State.

Topeka, Kan-To prevent the
spread of epidemic diseases, the state
board of health issued an order that
public drinking cups must be removed
from all the cities of Kansas. City
officials were notified the order must
be enforced rigidly and business men
were requested to remove common
drinking cups from their places of
business