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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
Mission We4dinus.

Within two minutes after the cab
stopped at the missior door the report
spread up and down the street that q
wedding was taking place inside.
Within another two minutes the room
was packed to the very doors. That
sudden rush of the crowd to the sane
tuary pleased the mission superin-
tendent
eff l had money to spare" he said,
'T would pay bonus 20 young couples
for getting married tn mission. The
moral effect of one wedding is worth
a dozen sermons. To get the best ef-
feet the ceremony onght to be per
formed in the middle Of the service.
No innovation that I have ever intro
duced has had such n SOLDERING effect
on the congregation. The example oS
man once as far down maybe in the
social scale as themselves having b@
come sufficiently regenerated to a1
sumo the responsibilities Of life stirs
every bit of manhood there is in them.
1.-THE trouble is, l can persuade very
few couples to be married in a mis-
sion. The br1degroons do not mind,
but the brides want something more
exclusive"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
Scientists Seeking Relics in Nevada
Also Uncover Remains of Prehis-
torlc Came! and Dog.

Reno, Nev.-Marvelous discoveries
Of prehistoric mammals in the shale
fields on the desert % miles east of
Nina, New, are announced as the re-
suit Of the explorations of Prof. Law
renee Baker of the department of geo
logical research of the University of
California. Professor Baker is assist
ed in his researches by Prof. Buwaldo,
also of the university faculty.
The Investigations disclose the fact
that the region about Nina was once
an immense body Of tropical water.
The bones of three-toed horse, about
the size of a lamb, have been unearth-
ed. The teeth, well preserved, and the
entire remains of prehistoric dog
have been brought to light. 1t is be-
lieved that this animal lived at least
five million or six million years ago.
The scientists say that the fields about
Nina are the most marvellous in the
world
Fossils eighteen feet high are to be
seen cropping out In the heart of the
desert miles away from any human
life. In the vicinity Is bed of pure
carbonate of magnesia, which assays
show runs 81 per cent
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24

white hour as a bee gsthers p@llen
from the flowers into which it dips.
one would not imagine he had been
nghting man. but. as he says:
The gurgle of the water through so
many years sort of lulls you to sleep"
There is no modern machinery in
this mill except the turbine wheel
Years ago the old wooden wheel was
taken out and the turbine put in. All
else is as it was eighty-two years ago,
even to the wooden pegs in the floor
ing, the wooden hinges on the doors
and the wooden cogs in the wheels.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
RreeautIon led to Disaster.

A marine disaster Of curious origin
is recorded by recent British Board
of Trade report Some months ago
the steamship Hardy had in its cargo
a large quantity Of metallic sodium
and chlorate of potash-the former, as
is we'll known, taking fire and burning
in water, while the latter is so ener-
getic an oxidizer that it is liable to
explode violently when heated in the
presence of combustible matter. AS
an extra precaution against trouble
these dangerous substances were car
ried on deck. This proved an unfor-
tunate mistake, however, for heavy
sea burst open the chests containing
two tons of sodium, which IN a few
minutes set fire to the vessel in many
places. AS the flames reached the
chlorate of potash. violent explosion
broke the ship in two, finishing the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
DRUG HABIT GAINS IN PARIS
Wholesale Degeneracy Threatens City,
a Prominent Physician
Asserts.

Investigations following a recent
succession of fatalities In the Quarter
Latin have revealed that the drug
habit has gained on Parisians. In
one store alone dope fiends buy no
less than one hundred pints of cocaine
and morphine every week.
So prevalent is the dope habit that
a prominent physician declares he de-
tects it's victims by the score every
time he takes a round of the cafes
Ether is no longer fashionable, but
especially in the artist quarters NOR
phine is used recklessly. Even the
uninitiated can detect those addicted
to it in an evenings stroll.
Paris, in the opinion of this physi-
clan, is the most drug city in
the world, for while rich women Of
other capitals secretly indulge in va
rious dangerous ways Of stimulating
their jaded forces, the dope habit in
Paris has spread through every class
until wholesale degeneracy is threat
ened.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
y Find Three-Toed Horse

The remains of fish are to be seen
sticking out of the banks. The pro-
fessors are bending their efforts to
obtain specimens Of mammals. The
remains of an extinct camel, dating
from the miocene period, have been
obtained.
Effort is being made to obtain speci-
mems Of the water lizard. believed to
be tbs oldest known form Of animal
life. Fish many feet In length are
to be seen and every indication points
to the fact that the remains, so per
fectly preserved, belong to a period at
least five million years ago. Along
the southern edge of the desert, which
is believed to have been a lake at one
time, there has been discovered coal
of high quality.
An eastern syndicate owns the prop
erty upon which the discoveries have
been made. They acquired the land
to work the magnesia deposits and
also to prospect for gold, which Is
found in nearby sections. Permission
was granted the scientists by the To-
cal manager to study and take spect
mems of the relics.
An effort Will be made to have the
Smithsonian Institution send an ex.
petition to maize thorough study, as
It did Of the mammoth tracks discov.
cred IN the yard of the state peniten.
tiary
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
Snake Bites Man and She Sucks
Out Deadly Venom.
Joseph Eberhardt of San Francisco
Attacked by Reptile While on
Fishing Trip-Heroic Treat
rnent Prevents Death.

Mayfeld, Cal.-Cutting deep into
the flesh of the leg of her father, after
he had been bitten by a rattIesnake,
getting down upon her hands and
knees, putting her lips to the wounds
made by her knife and the fangs of
the poisonous reptile, Anita Eberhardt,
twelve years old, sucked the venom
from the wound Of Joseph Eberhardt
and saved his life. Then, half carry
ing and half dragging him, she got
him to camp a quarter of mile away,
where, with difficulty, she placed him
on the back of saddle horse and
started him to the nearest farmhouse,
eight miles away.
Arriving at the farmhouse, Eber-
hardt fell In dead faint and was
hurried to a hospital in Palo Alto.
Eberhardt is harness maker of
San Francisco, and with his daughter
has been camping at the old Hub
bard & Carmichael mill in a remote
section of the San Mateo mountains.
They arrived in this city and rented
a horse that the girl might ride and
SAot LACJ hight pawn INCL Cc1Anp Oul-
fit to the old mill.
They started on fishing trip to
Rock creek, three-quarters of a mile
from their tent. Hardly had they
gone a quarter Of mile when Eber-
hardt was bitten in the calf Of the
leg by a big RATHER He killed the
reptile, but soon began to weaken as
the poison took effect The girl made
him lie down, and, after bandaging
the leg above the fang marks, took
a large knife and made deep incisions
into the flesh.
After her father was on his way to
the ranch house the girl set out on
foot to follow and reached the ranch
in the afternoon.
Eberhardt is recovering, but physi-
clans say that had it not been for the
presence of mind of his daughter and
her prompt actions he would have
died in the mountain wilderness. They
said all the poison had been taken
from the mans body by the heroic
treatment of the girl.
This is the second rattlesnake ex-
perience In the family. In 1902, when
they lived in Bisbee, Ariz., Mrs. EbeT-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
Shooting for a Wife,

Lubinka Vutchitch, the youngest
granddaughter of an octogenarian
peasant Of Tchatchnk, Servia, was
given in marriage a week or two ago
to the best sharpsho0ter in the town.
In accordance with family tradi-
tion, old Vutchitch's granddaughters,
famous for their beauty, were each
welded to the first sutton who could
shoot an apple fixed on pole over
the gate.
VeIko Simitch won the prize in a
keen contest with a rival. The young
men, determined to risk their fate in
the same hour, started their horses
together at the appointed distance
from the gates, and fired at the apple
in passing through them at breakneck
speed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24

Since this mill was built the COM
merce of the Santa Fe Trail came,
aourished for time and died; and
then the rush of forty-niners to Cali
fornia flowed past it, and after them
the railroads came and passed on to
the Pacific, and with them the legions
of pioneers like the clouds of locusts
overspreading all the land beyond to
the westward. The Mormons of indie
pendence, who brought their grfst to
this mill, departed to found a new en-
pire beside the dead sea in the I'M
known desert. Past this old mill, Just
two hundred yards to the east, where
the big elm leans out over the creek,
armies Of the Civil War hurried.
splashing wildly through the ford, the
Southern amy in fight from the defeat
at Westport, the Northern forces hot
in pursuit.
indian Greek Has Never Hurried.
A great city OF tall buildings and
all things modern has made the coun-
try to the north like a teeming ant
hill, where all is hurry, hurry, hurry,
but Indian Creek has never hurried:
It's stream has flowed placidly, basking
ing the sun, pausing in the shadows of
it's trees; and just as placidly the old
mill wheels have turned, their slow
creakings attuned to the liquid muir
murings of the waterfall.
Placidly has Stubbins Watts gone in
and out among the turning shafts for
sixty-two years, barring those four
years of strife when he fought in the
Southern army. In those years he was
aroused and filed with fervor that
got him honorable mention more than
once for deeds on the battle front. But
when it was over he returned to In
dian Creek and the old mill and the
gurgling of the water as it ran under
the floor soothed him into a calm
philosophy and he talks but little.
"Yes," be says, SITS pretty here;
they say there's no prettier bit Of
scenery in Missouri. / like to hang
out the window here and watch the
bubbles and the shadows, and listen
to the water and the wheels, well
just couldn't live without them"
The old man with the -four busted
clothing and beard has distinguished
ancestry, and in the family Bible are
the documents to prove it.
His grandfather, Samuel Watts, was
volunteer soldier in the army Of Gen
eraI Lafayette which came from
France and fought with Washington
in the Revolutionary War. The rec
ords show that he was wounded seven
times, that he was captured by the
British in Charleston and that after
the war he settled in Shelby County,
Kentucky, and that he was member
Of the Lewis and Clark expedition that
went up the Missouri River to the
mouth Of the Yellowston. He married
Sallie Dudson, a great-granddaughter
of Daniel Boone, and settled in st.
Charles County, Missouri.
In 1850 Anthony B. Watts, - son,
came to Indian Creek and bought the
water mill. He brought his family
with him. Stubbins was one of the
children.
To look at the old man, STOPPING at
his bins and gathering a deposit of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
Surgery by WireIess.

Surgery by wireless is the latest
A lahorer on Swan island, whose only
connection with the outside world is
by means OF wireless telegraphy, had
a foot crushed in an accident There
were no medical books ut hand, and
there was no one near VINO had any
surgical experience. Thereupon the
wireless operator called up the sur
geon of the nearest ship, and got him
to explain in detail ho@ an amputa
ton shoulS be carried out.-Londor
Mail
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24

z Liz lOcO UPS uOWu a steep ul1l
just before you reach Indian
Creek and shuts from sight the
"a big stone house that cost $4,-
600, the last southern outpost
Of Kansas City that is sprawling out
ano engulfiag all this rolling prairie.
You look for the old bee tree and
there is catch in your throat when
you miss It-but nO-that clump of
walnut trees hit it for moment. The
ak of the real estate Spectator has
not come quite that far yet.
Those bees fitting far up among the
dead branGes against a background of
gray sky are the oldest settlers of this
county. The colony was there in that
same tree long years before a white
man set foot in Missouri. There are
men living who knew that tree and
its wild bees sixty years ago.
Turn to the right after you cross In
dian Greek and go about two hundred
yards to where the stream pours in a
broad white waterfall over low ledge
OF rock and drifts lazily in a wide pool
with streak of silver bubbles down its
center. The banks here are rock, with
hollows gouged in them and overhang-
ing shelves that cast black shadows
upon the stream.
Watts's mill squats low upon the OPP
posite bank The weathered gray Of its
sides and roof IS the exact shade of
the limestone beneath and all around
It and the old mill seems to merge
with it and is part of it. You look
In vain for any line of cleavage be-
tween mill and rock. The years have
blended them into one somber gray.
An Atmosphere of Gray.
The naturalisEs tell of birds and
lesser creatures of the wood who take
on the color OF the bark or the grasses
upon which they live. You think OF
this as you see the miller in the door
way. His clothing, even to his cloth
slippers, his long beard, his soft felt
hat, sDrinkled with flour, are a uni
form gray, the gray of rocks and mill.
Stubbins Watts, great-great-grand-
son Of Daniel Boone, is Is years old.
But the old water mill is older than
he, It was built in 1880 and for eighty
two years has been grinding corn and
wheat within ten miles of Kansas City.
The hands that hewed it's walnut
beams and fashioned the hickory pins
that keep its weathered boarding in
place moldered into dust half CEN
fury ago, but the old mill grinds on
just as patiently, as faithfully, as un-
mindful of passing time and genera
tons as it did long years before this
city was dreamed of.
You pass your hand over the sur
face Of a walnut beam, hewed out by
the ak Of John Fitzhugh, eighty-two
years ago, and lay your fingers in
gaping notch just as his ak blade left
It, and think of the changes that have
come to Western Missouri since then.
Weatport Landing grew out along the
old wood road until 1t bridged with
paved streets the miles between 1t
and Westport and overlooked south
ward and yet the old mill wheel turn
ed and the corn was ground to meal
between the homemade stones of rock
ouarried on the bank of Indian Creek.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24

younger brother, employed by him as
driver, in arriving home. Nathan
son saw an opportunity of perpetrating
a Joke" upon his mother, and pro
ceeded to tell her that the young man
ed, but was interrupted in his blood
curdling tale by choking sound, fol-
lowed by the crash of his mothers
body as she fell unconscious.
The fall was also heard by inmates
of Mrs. Nathanson's home and they
rushed to her aid.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
"JOKE" WAS ALMOST FATAL
Man TeIephoned to Mother of Broth
er's Arrest for Murder and
She Swooned.

Atlantic City, N. Jas the result
of a practical joke played over the
telephone by her son, Mrs. Yetta Ma
thanson, 228 North Connecticut ave-
nue., fell unconscious. Medical atten-
ton was hurriedly procured, as she
was at first thought to be dying from
heart failure, but she was revived.
Mrs. Williamson called up her son,
John ]. Nathanson, merchant, to
ask the cause Of the delay of his
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
Loses Cuff Links SIT Years Old.

Chicago.-A pair of link cuff but
tons, Sill years old, were lost by
Charles r. Hill at moving picture
show. They were made in Scotland,
and brought to America before the
Revolution. For II generations they
were handed down from father to SON
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24

lifts in menthol, short and long buchu
leaves, Cartagena ipecac, celery seed,
cloves, cascara sagrada, gum candrac,
matico, kava kava, decorticated carda-
mons, baIsam tolu and Para balsam
copaiba.-Oil, Paint and Drug Re
porter.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
GIRL SAVES FATHER

hardt was bitten by a rattlesnake.
She received immediate treatment
and all the poison was drawn from
her system The fright she expert
enced from her encounter with the
snake, however, affected her so that
she died in a few weeks.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
Hoof on End off Lambs Tail.

Mesa, Colo.-H. B. Woods, promi-
nent sheepman, is exhibiting a lamb
with a perfectly shaped hoof on the
end of its tail. It's mother gave birth
to twins, both perfect with the excep-
ton of the extra hOof
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
AS to McStab.

Some fellows make great fools of
themselves. There's a young McStab
working his way through college rath,
er than ask his rich old aunt to help
him
yes, it's astonishing to see what
ridiculous things some men will dc
merely to retain their own self-re
spect."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24

destruction. The misdirected efforts
to ensure safety were blamed for the
loss, and it was concluded that the
cargo would have been quite safe ii
the sodium had been properly packed
and slowed below deck.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
A Foxy Scheme.

''My wife is trying TO get all the
other suffragettes to come cut in 81
cent hats"
whats her idea?'
Then she'll appear in q fifty dole
CONNECTION"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-07-24
NLATZ2S EZIZZ

, NV HE road dips down a steep hill :
just before you reach Indian
Creek and shuts from sight the
"a big stone house that cost $4,-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-02

er found guilty of numbering
Charles T. Reuter-, attorney. Sen
fenced to life. Mrs. Reuter- will
be tried as conspirator next week.
Maysville, Ky.-Mabel Dunn,
Noblesville, Ind, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded by farmer
who mistook her and party of
friends on coon hunt for Hallow-
cen masqueraders.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Gov. Mar
shall says that unless woman vot-
ers swing state for Roosevelt,
Colonel will be defeated in Cali
fornia.
Ozark, Ark. Claublitz, just
hanged here, took defense from
lawyers hands, pleaded guilty to
murder and asked that he be
hanged because he believed in
"eye for eye and tooth for tooth. F"
Gonzales, Tex.-Frank Schot,
Jr., 4, choked to death when little
sister threw grain of corn in
mouth.
Atlantic City, N. J.-Because
State Commissioner of Educa-
ton Kendall told meeting of
teachers that they should have
"clean faces and nicely combed
hair" the ladies threaten to strike.
Philadelphia. = Oliver Smith,
50, Winfield, has built coffin for
himself because he believes he
die election day. Evidently Taft
man.
Philadelphia. = -Four hunters
killed and several injured in OPEN
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-11-02

wealthy ice merchant, shot and
killed himself.
Utica, N. Who're than u.s.
900 people viewed body of Vice
President Sherman as it lay in
state in Oneida County court
house.
Rawlings, Wyo. = Richardson
and Backstrum, 2 of convicts who
escaped from Wyoming prison
Oct. Is; killed by posse near
Powder Springs.
Trenton, N. willis D.
Clark, Va, gave Gov. Wilson pair
of brass candlesticks which held
the candle by the light of which
Thos. Jefferson read election re-
turns in 1901.
Fort Smith, Ark. = Eugene
Rose, 65, arrested near Spring
dale as he was hauling body of
wife in wheeIbarrow. Bullet in
her back. He claims she COM
mitted suicide.
Archangel, Russia.-Reported
that steamer Phoka, with Capt.
.Sjedof's polar expedition, has
been wrecked.
New York;. Howard Ford,
well-known society leader, has
begun suit for absolute divorce.
Pasadena, Cal. = Pasadena
High School has added course in
aviation.
Bemidji, Minn.-Edward Re-
voir, duck hunter, had his left
hand blown off while trying to
catch falling gun.
Madison.-Gov. McGovern has
baar ocl1ad RI cfOr, circ,,1o f;O,, Of
The Springfield herald., 1912-11-01

right kind of men in these Off
ces depends upon the people
themselves. Do you see the sig
nificance of all this for you Mr.
Voter?
We close these articles we
have been writing in defense of
prohibition with just one chal-
lenge which we hurl into the
very face of the whole liquor
kingdom. The United States
spent in one year 81 800, 900, 900.
for liquor. We defy the liquor
traffic to name one thing of value
or benefit received, one human
need supplied, one pain or sor-
SOW alleviated, by all this enor-
nous expenditure of money.
May God smite such an accur-
sed traffic to the bottomless pits
of eternal destruction.
The Springfield herald., 1912-11-01
KNIGHTS FIRST LEGAL.

Reference was made in last
weeks Democrat (?) to the publ
cation by that paper of the Finan-
cial Statement of school district
No. 4, and the Board of Directors
appear to have signed Il state
ment in effect that the Democrat
(?) did not over charge the dis
Jrict. The original bill as pre-
senteG called for over Sl1.OO.
We were asked by Il member of
the board as to our charge for
publication of the statements of
other districts and it appeared
that the Democrat C:) bill was
excessive. The Democrat (O cut
their bill to S4.3 36, and the signed
statement of the Board must re-
fer to the compromise bill, al
though as will be seen from what
follows, this came pretty
high. The original bill was an
attempt at rank extortion or
"botanically" speaking, highway
robbery.
~ y 1
The Springfield herald., 1912-11-01
Facts.

Since the burning of the Court
House, in March 1910, the County
records have been kept in two
vaults, one of which is in the
new court house, the other being
the vault on the site of the old
court house. This arrangement
made it very inconvenient for the
county officials, but as a matter
of economy no additional vault
room was built. When the eX-
amining committee appointed by
Judge Hunter, to examine the
county records, made it's report,
it mentioned the lack of suit
able and safe place to keep the
county records, whereupon
Judge Hunter recommended that
the County Commissioners pro-
coed to build additional vault and
office room. AS soon as practi-
cable notice, was published ask
ing for bids on an addition to the
court house including a vault.
Gray Bros. were the successful
bidders and material for the adj
dition is now on the ground and
work on same is progressing
nicely, the vault being almost
completed.
Following the examination of
the records by the above named
committee, another committee,
appointed by the DEMOCRATIC
STATE AUDITOR made an eXami-
nation of the county records and
also recommended that more
room be provided. The report of
the last named committee has
just been received by the County
ommissioners. 1t was very
apparent at the time this com
mittee was appointed, what the
object was, ard now that the re-
port, which was withheld for
several months, and UNTIL THE
PRESENT TINE, has been received
just upon the EVE OF ELECTION,
it is proof enough for the average
voter that the whole scheme was