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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
HUGH KELLEY
MAKES REPLY
Answers Those Who Have
Criticised His Bear
Story.
Johnny ON THE SPOT
Writer Says He Does Not
Weave Fiction Into His
Articles.

In the hurry of "spring work." Mr.
editor, it will be impossible for me to
cal with all your correspondents who
ave seen fit to criticise my "beaI
JOry." However, want to thank
Ir. Jones of Chicago for his data. He
ays he saw me in MATHS ferry on my
1ay to Baraboo in '57. Previous to
is information the nearest | could
It to it was from the teacher in physi-
II geography telling her pupils that
reviOus to the glacial period the Wis
onsin river ran through the gap
here Devils lake now lies and knew
lie people at Merrimack could not
len have been running ferry"
Mrs. GoodelI of Lime Ridge seems to
ave gotten much exercised because [
d not swallow all the bear stories
lat were furnished. She says, "It
GEMS Mr.. K. does not like bear
ories." Now, this is mistake No. l.
have a deep and abiding love for
ear stories, for when my schoolmates
sed to plague me because hair did
OF vegetate on my block as it might,
lY good mother used to tell me the
lble story about the naughty chill
rem that said TO the poor old man,
Go up, baldhead." And how God
as displeased and sent two big bears
ON the wood to devour them. Mrs.
'oodell wonders where | was or what
was doing when Baraboo was in its
fancy if L never saw bear. Well,
" dear Mrs. Goodell, ] was right
ire, Johnny on the spot, doing ev-
,ything that an innocent boy could
but never saw q bear. She guards
I'll her remarks, never saying that
le, herself, saw bear, but always re-
eating what someone told her. She
iys, ave have often seen people COM
10 out of the woods with scarcely any
othing left on them after an encount-
with a bear" Now, such state
ents bring to me no convictions
Iany, many times during my sojourn
Devils Lake L have seen punches Of
Hung ladies coming out of the water
ith scarcely clothing enough on them
wad shot gun, but did not jump
, the conclusion that they had been
ttacked by shark while in the lake.
~ critic says: "We, too, have seen
lie big hop yards and picked hops in
)me of them but never saw the won
srful hop picking machine Mr.. x.
entions In his story" Very we'll,
" lady, with the EDITORS kind con-
mt, I Will next week in this paper
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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
In the Land of Arbutus.

The keystone has not seen much of
the fragrant arbutus in Kendall, but
there is plenty of it in the county. AT
Warrens the boys and girls find good
money in the crop. It is free to them
in the woods, where they go and fill
their baskets and sell the bouquets on
the trains. Others ship It to st. Paul
and Minneapolis, where it is readily
sold at good prices. 1t is the first
wild, indigenous crop and more
beauteous than any flower that ever
bloomed in the vale of Sharon.-Ken.
dali Keystone.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
Baraboo Hunter Tells OF
Killing Bruin Near
Lodi.
THE EIGHTEENTH STORY.

Although the bear alluded to in the
following story was not killed in Sauk
county, the incident is related by a
Baraboo resident and the hunt was
not far over the border. For these
reasons it finds place in this series of
articles on the days which have passed
never to return. G.. A. Dearborn tells
the incident as follows:
A large bear was seen to enter the
patch of brush of about forty acres in
extent, on the Dorth Of the Dan Pratt
farm and adjoining the Dwinnell farm
on the west near Lodi, and it was
not long before there was something
doing. The news spread quickly
all over the neighborhood and l
guess all were there that could
handle fork or gun. They sur
rounded the brush and the fun began.
With a few dogs to help they began to
close IN and it was not long before
bruin made up his mind it was getting
very warm. When he came out of the
brush on top of the hill to the north
west, the writer was the first to see
him as he came out about ten rods away.
[ WAS standing in the open with my
uncle at the time. Bruin did not
hesitate very long but started in a
northwesterly course toward Glib
raltar bluff with our two dogs to
help him along. The alarm was
given and before the hunters got
out of the brush bruin had about
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
Little Letters
From NeevS
Readers

Mrs. John Lawsing writes from
Erskine, Minnesota, that farmers are
busy seeding and that rain is needed
very much.
DR.. Oscar VanValkenburgh writes
that he has sold his optical business at
Chippewa Falls and moved to Osh-
kosh. The family formerly resided in
Baraboo.
Mrs. w. A. Lawson writes that she
has returned to 201 Twenty-second
street, Milwaukee, after visit with
her daughter at Marquette.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
'D|SSECT|NG AN
AS|AT|C ELEPHANT
Final Disposition of Alice,
a Ringing Pachy-
derm.
To MILWAUKEE MUSEUM
Found That She Died as
the Result of Liver
Trouble.
TO MILWAUKEE, MUSEUM

If you owned an elephant standing
eight feet high and the animal died
suddenly what would you do with the
remains? That is easy. When Alice,
the big Asiatic elephant owned by
Ringing Brothers, lay down for the
last time few days ago, a message
was sent to Edward Ochsner at Prairie
du Sac that the beast was his. He
hurried across the bluffs, supposing it
was one of the smaller specimens but
when he took look he decided the
specimen ought TO go to the Milwau-
kee museum and wired that institu-
ton. The museum has no specimen
as large as Alice and was delighted to
accept the offer of the dead pachy-
derm. To dispose of a big specimen
was easy for the owners, after all.
What did the museum do? In few
hours George Shrosbree and Ell. l..
Stoddard, both taXadermists of that
institution, were on the ground and
the task was soon begun. All that
the museum desired was the skin and
skeleton, both to be mounted and
placed on exhibition in the great mu-
scum.
Alice Died in a Convenient Place.
Alice took her last breath in a most
convenient spot. There were heavy
beams above to which ropes and blocks
could be attached for moving her
about. A cement floor with a large
hole for the escape of the refuse water,
good light and plenty of fresh air
brought happiness to the workers.
The skin was first removed and laid
out on the floor in three sections, the
two sides and the head. A lot of salt
began the process. Next the meat
was removed and hauled away by L.
Cohn to his rendering works. There
were several loads, so that the disposi-
tion of the flesh was no difficult task.
Of course, not all of the meat could be
taken from the bones and they will
be plunged in a vat of water to remain
year and then brush will remove
the remainder. Gasoline will be put
on to take away the grease and the
specimens will then be bleached in
chloride of lime and soda. Afterwards
they will rattle around on tin roof
until the sun has pulled out all of the
dampneSs when they will be wired to-
gether and placed in a glass case for
the eIification of the wondering pub
lie. All the bones will be preserved,
even to the little bones in the ears.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
asst OF FORT
W|NNEBAGO GONE
Did Commissary Building
Torn Away--Last
of Structures.
Continued on Last Page.)

The dilapitated commissary build
ng on the banks of the Fox river
ear Portage has been torn away by
le owner, E. w. Port. The building
vas constructed away back in the 3O's
7hen Fort Winnebago was one of the
nportant outposts of civilization and
the last to be torn away. Around the
lace are clustered the names of Major
wigs, Jefferson Davis, General
Iarney, General Sumner, General
6. Kirby Smith, General Worth and
thers. The fort was the scene OF
1any stirring event. 1t was aban-
oned when the troops were moved to
t. Louis at the time of the Mexican
Sar.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
Lands
Editor i'm
Court

Editor-eiect Arthur w. HaIlam of
the Badger at Madison was hailed to
the students court for alleged viola.
tion of the conference election rules
He pleaded not guilty to the charge
which is the first of the kind to be
brought before the student tribunal.
The case was adjourned until next
Monday because of lack of Witnesses.
The charge is made that HalIam
prior to his election distributed boxes
of bitter sweets to the women voters
and thus influenced them unduly in
the casting of their ballots.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
BARABOO COUPLE WEDOED
Miss Ethel Jones Becomes
Bride of August II.
Schroeder.
(From Thursdays Daily.)

At l o'clock this afternoon Miss
Ethel Jones and August Schroeder
were quietly united in marriage at the
Presbyterian manse by Rev. E. q.
Henke. The couple was unattended.
The bride is a daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William Jones and the groom is
a son of Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Schroe.
der of Fairchild. MIR. Schroeder has
been employed as fireman on the
Northwestern road. They will make
their home in Fairchild.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
SEED CORN IS
DECIDEDLY SCARCE
High Prices Being Paid and
Almost Impossible to Get
Commodity.

Seed corn is scarce. William Toole
& Sons have sold all their stock of the
North Star and could have sold several
car loads more. One firm in Chicago
desired two cars of the famous maize
Last fall was not favorable for good
seed hence the demand.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
VIM. CARLE1ON'S
ONE WAY OUT
Paper Presented to the
Fortnightly Literary Club
Friday Evening.

On Friday evening the Fortnightly
Literary club met at the home of Mr..
and Mrs E. Pfannstiehl and Mrs. e.
Aug Runge presented William Carl
toms 'sOne way out" The author tells
of promotion after promotion in a
large office until he was
near the top. He was a
member of clubs and with every raise
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
Should Start a Musk Factory.

Something like $500 muskrat skins
were sold at Horizon by Sec. Yofgey
of the Diana Shooting club of that
city, having all been caught in about
ten days by members of the club.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
Peas Three Inches High

J. o. Lucht of Glenville reports.that
be has peas three inches high. He
was the first to plant for the canning
company.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02
Licensed 10 Marry.

Miss Eva Jones of Baraboo to Robert
Sall of Madison.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-05-02

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The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
GIRL RESISTS HEAVY BOLT
Young Woman Unconscious Several
Days, but Lives After Shock
That Melted Steel.

Baltimore, Md.-Medical scientists
are interested in the peculiar case of
Josephing Jones, sixteen years old,
who is slowly recovering at st.
Agnes hospital from a lightning
stroke. DR.. Pierce Wilson says that
one of the most interesting features
Of the case is the fact that for several
days following the accident the girl
was in a state of anesthesia caused
by the terrific shock on the nervous
system.
For some days she was insensible
to pain. There was no muscular
paralysis, but the nervous system was
numbed On making an investigation
l found that the depression made in
the sidewalk where she was struck
measured two feet in diameter and
fifteen inches in depth A tremendous
impact caused the sinking of the
earth While in Europe, several years
ago, l searched for unusual electrical
cases, but this one is The most marvel
Gus have ever known. The body
resistance of the young woman is
what saved her life.
The bolt melted her necklace and
the steel rod of the umbrella she was
carrying. The girl was burned the
entire length OF her left side, the
wounds have not healed and may re-
quire a skin grating operation"
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
D0GS OF OLD ARE PRESERVED
Contains Many Specimens Of
Canine.

London.-The rush to Europe season
Is at hand, and visiting Americans and
others fond of all the animals an0
birds on earth are advised to visit the
South Kensington museum, which is
the natural history branch of the Brit
ish museum, London. The Kensington
building is an enormous place and only
two penny fare from Charing Cross
virtually the center of the metropo.
lis. The collection OF everything with
legs and wings is nothing short Of Won
derful. In an ordinary geological col
lection many Of the most interesting
creatures are asleep or otherwise be-
hind the scenes. At South Kensing-
ton, however, every dead beast and
bird Is very much "alive" and one can
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
RHONE VALLEY
TOURISTS IDEAL
Beautiful Scenes That Greet
Tourist in Switzerland

Zermatt. Swit2erland-The regions
between Chamonix and Zermatt are
largely of slate and very mountainous,
with snow-capped distant heights and
fearful gorges, through which turbu-
lent mountain torrents roared. The
train runs deep beside steepslopes COW
cred with a wilderness Of pines and
hazel bushes. and the elder with its
gorgeous masses Of blood-red berries
flaming out from the green depths OF
the uncleared, ancient forests which
shelter IT, Gigantic mossy boulders re-
posed under the generous out
stretched boughs of the evergreens,
and it required no effort of the eager
fancy TO imagine small gray men, clad
in the brown garb of their race seat
ed, musing on those rocks. in the
heart of the mountain solitude.
Frem such scenery We made a steep
and slow descent, into the wide, green
valley of the Rhone. It lay far be-
meath us, completely visible during
our winding progress downward; fair
and broad, with rows of stately Lom-
hardy poplars, fields of waving green
asparagus and the soft, bending will
lows, nesting each to each. along the
banks Of the sauntering river From
Viege, otherwise known as Visp, TO
Zermatt, the scenery changed once
more, growing wilder and far more
grandly beautiful, II seemed to me
than any landscape we had seen, even
I'm Switzerland The mountains be-
came walls that shut us away from
the rest of the worN, until we could
feel the very presence Of the Soul Of
Loneliness brooding there. We passed
through gorges similar to those
among the Rocky mountains and
strangely dissimilar to the smoother
slopes and green valleys to whom we
had grown accustomed in this land
Among some exceedingly wild poF-
tions OF the region we were penetrat-
ing there were lonesome-looking, apral-
lingly primitive chalets, or rather
wretched novels, bleckened Ivy the
weather, and frequently built against
some mighty rock. which had rolled
down the mountainside and which,
seen across the gorge, among numer-
Gus other rocks OF varying bulk,
looked like a pebble with a curious
barnacle attached to it. The dwellers
in these huts appeared as rugged and
wild as their environments, with
which they must wage fearful wars,
struggling to wrest a livelihood from
such barren cruel nature. | cannot
help wondering, as l recollect their
dreary habitations and isolated state
what can be their view of life-contend-
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
SHOES DEFY TIME AND WEAR
Mount Joy (Pa) Man Thirty Years
Trying TO Discard Them, Without
a Peg Yielding.

Mount Joy, Pa.--Isaiah Zug of MIL
ton Grove is the owner OF a pair of
shoes and of a pair of boots that, in
a way, are as out of the ordinary as
the famous slippers of Cinderella.
They promise TO be everlasting, for
the shoes have resisted for thirty
years the efforts of Zug to wear them
out while the boots would fire the
enthusiasm OF former Governor Pen
nypacker, with their record OF TWEEN.
ty-ive years wear.
The shoes are of the variety known
in the rural regions as SUNDAY
shoes" While the boots are his "wad.
days" or workday footweat
Both pairs were the production of
Abraham Ebersole, now dead, who
had cobber and shoe shop at Mas.
tersonville. Zug and the shoes have
never missed a Sunday at church In
the thirty years since Ebersole made
them to order for him.
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
WANTED "BRoWN-EYED WIFE"
And Secret Service Man Arrested Ap-
plicant as smuesler When She
Answered "Ad."

Philadelphia. Pa.-The quest OF
"Acil Alexander" who is in reality Go
mez Wilson, one of the governments
shrewdest secret service agents, for a
"brown-eyed wife" has ended
Wilson, who posed as seedy indi-
vidual, sought a woman suspected OF
counterfeiting and smuggling. Her
eyes were known 10 be brown. The
woman. whose name is Christin
Chandler, was found in Shamokin and
has been taken to Duluth, Mimi,
where she is wanted.
Some time ago the government re-
ceived reports of smuggling being car
ried on between Canada and the Unit
ed States. and a description of the
woman was placed in the hands OF
Wilson, who devised the scheme OF ad-
vertising for a wife whose eyes were
brown. The suspect answered and
v0s arrested.
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
FINDS HER RUNAWAY SPOUSE
Then Mrs. Harmes Baba Has Him Ar
rested on Charge OF Wife and
Child Abandonment.

Chicago-A seven-year countrywide
search, financed by an inheritance.
ended successfully when Mrs Harmes
Baba caused the arrest of her husband
on charge Of wife and child aban.
donment. He was taken into custody
in his restaurant at 631 Wells street
by detectives of the Chicago avenue
station.
Mrs. Baba told the police that her
husband deserted her seven years ago
\ month later she inherited a legacy
from an aunt ard used the money to
search for Baba She traced him 10
various towns throughout the country
and a month ago learned that he was
in Chicago. She found him recent
ly and caused his arrest. The Babas
are Persians.
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12

nese, is national monument in itself.
The Austrian ambassador lives in the
Palazzo Venezia, a stronghold, so
called, because it belonged to the Re
public of Doges.
The ambassador of Spain has the
PalazZo di Spagna, which for cen
turtles housed the grandees, of that
country. The German ambassador is
housed in the Palazzo Chaffarelli,
which from the heights OF the capitol
frowns over the Eternal City below
The Japanese ambassador lives in the
historic Palazzo Altiere, erected in
1910.
Ambassador O'Brien understood
this situation and set 20 work to find
a proper residence, which for time
seemed impossible. He signed a con-
tract TO occupy q gorgeous apartment
In the Palazzo Barcs-.9' a most i'm
posing structure of the Renaissance.
begun in 1924, and finished by the
ubiquitous Bernini, whose works con
front one at every turn IN Rome.
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12

rnese rock folds are the record of the
great Notwithstanding forces which
crushed and folded the rocks as they
We're raised out of tie sea.
Many Of ,hc rocks are full Of we'll
preserved fossil shells. some that have
long. banded huted wings are calle 4
butterflies hy the natives. How did
they get into the rocks and. what DO
they mean?
Shells From an Ancient Sea.
These fossils were shells of living
creatures that inhabited the sands and
muds of a sea that covered this region
long ages ago. All the rocks now at
the surface of this area are hardened
sediments that were deposited on the
shore ana on the bottom Of the sea,
and the shells of The animals that
lived i'm these waters were buried in
these sediments and were hardened
with them. Now we fud them beau
tifuily preserved in stone.
The beauties and wonders of nature
are abundanrly displayed iu this region
and no one should 60 on a camping,
fishing. on touring trip 10 it Without a
copy of this folio IN his possession, thc
better to unlersta what he sees :
copy of the Pawpaw-Ilancock folio
may be obtained from the Director Of
the United states Geological Survey 2t
WASHINGTON for % cents. or in more
compact form, called the field editiop,
with folded topographic and geologic
maps i'm a pocket. for 80 cents.
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
rwENrY.oNe BROTHERS MEET

a meeting of twonty-one sons some
of whom had never seen each other
took place in London recently on the
birthday of their mother. Mrs Cor.
field. a gray haired Lincolnshire wo-
man.
The sons. who are all grown up,
came from al parts. Two had jour
neyed from fruit farms in Canada, ,
others who are soldiers had obtained
special furlough. Rlu the srangest
feature of the meeting was that the
mother had to Introduce some of the
sons To- each other, They met as sireng-
ers. For the first time, for instance.
the eldest son saw his two youngest
brothers lie had left his mothers
home for distant lands before the 9th
,rs were born. only the happy, smil
mo mother with the silver gray hair
was able to recognize each member If
this vast family.
In the evening the whole party wit
messed the pantomime of cinderella
at the Remington theater. where they
ttSupltu lh' SiVd'Ni pa VI ~"
i'm the dress circle. Not To attract at
tention, they arrived in twos and
threes. but the audience became ac-
uuainted with the nature of the party
and when I'm Twenty -one To-day
one of the pantomime songs, was rem
dered with special significance the
whole house, including the twenty
sons Joined laughingly in the chorus.
The Calumet news., 1912-09-12
HISTORY OF POTOMAC RIVER.
Once Great Sea, and Tops of Moun-
tains Oceans Bottom.

tains Oceans Bottom.
The great Potomac gorge was not
always. as it is today, one OF the most
beautiful and picturesque of river wall
leys The United States Geological
Survey has recently published geo
logic folio describing about $50 square
miles. including a portion of the Po-
tomac Valley-the areas known as the
Paw paw and Hancock quadrangle. i'm
Pennsylyonia, Maryland, and West
Virginia. This folio (No. 179), which
was written by George w. Stose, con-
tains q most interesting account If the
sraduai' euttins down by the river OF
this deep gorge during thousands OF
years.
The area is located in part of the
Potomac Valley where the river winds
in great curves through a deep gorge
with denseN wo1ied slopes. As the
railroad traveller swings around these
sharp bends which almost meet before
they reverse and realizes that II takes
three times as long To ride between
two points as il would to go in a
bifalSlll INV ne llbN NpiftNi llUN lhN
river acquired such a course
In a vieW from the tops Of the ridges,
il can besseen that many If the hill
tops are fat and on about the same
filed up they would form nearly level
plain This feature is also eNcellently
shown by the topographic map which
forms a part of the folio. Mr.. Stosc
SAYS that many thousand years ago
the Potomac flowed toward the sea
was much lower in altitude-in fact, so
near the level OF the sea chat the
stream was very sluggish and wan
dered about ia It's valley. as is the
custom of streams with low Grade,
such as the Mississippi. Later when
what elevated, the streams became
'reiuvenated' aud cut down their
channels first into the soft detritus
which mad accumulated IN the nat VAL
ley and eventually into the hard rocks
beneath. As the continent rose still
IlEiti, liitN AAiA ~ iiiN' ~ 49,
and. as a result, the Potomac is now
deeply intrencned in these winding
gorges. one stream i'm the area, how
ever is making a change by cutting
off a meander ana taking a short cut
through aihill producing beautiful
cataract. This stream is shown in the
phGtosraphic Illustrations of the folio
as are also the remnants of the elc-
waited plain on the hilltops, once the
valley of the Potomac
Rocks Folded and Crushed
Other marvellous features which the
traveller may obserye from the car
window in passing through this area
are the great rocl; folds one arch cf
rock that has been truncatcd 10y ihe
river and is visible from the train and
canal is of such interest 20 biologists
that II has attracted Visitors from ell
parts cf the world and is illustrated In
most text books on geology. Other
folds. not visible from the train but
readily accessible To those Interested.
have the form of great saw teeth ris-
ING above the crest Of hill. All these
folds are wen illustrated IN the folio.