Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-06-26
Thursday

ImouS vote passed the Merlin ack |
bridge bill and the measure now goes
to the governor for his signature.
The bill relating to the sale of fire
arms was indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wesley Johnson, who
have been visiting at the Franklin |
Johnson home for the last two weeks, |
left today for Edgerton to visit short |
time before returning to their home in |
Michigan. They will go to Milwaukee
and then cross the lake to Michigan. |
They came here from Minneapolis
after having visited points through the
west.
How would you enjoy collision in
a dark tunnel? The Norwalk Star
tells of one which happened at dark
hole number three when section fore
man Rudolph Yahnkey was taking
some Of the NOrwalk ball players TO
Sparta on his gasoline car. He col
lided with Harry Raeder, track walk
er, who was coming south through
thrown under the large car suffering
a fracture of the right arm at the ell
bow. Yahnkey's car was derailed aud
the half dozen occupants were thrown
headlong into the pitchy darkness of
) the tunnel-those Of them VINO didn't
see the coming disaster in time to
} Jump. All ESCAPED with few minor
bruises and badly besmeared clothing,
which seemed little short of a miracle.
The last regular meeting of the
Arachne club was in the nature of a
farewell to MISS Olive Teele at her
home. There was large attendance
and before departing the club pre-
sented Miss TeeIe with a souvenir
spoon. The nextmeeting will be with
Miss Stella Ryan Friday, June 20.
A note from w. w. Warner of
Madison, who formerly resided in
f. Baraboo, says that he is some better.
Mr.. Warner has not been IN the best
of health all winter. He expects TO
go to Colorado Springs in about a
month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Curt Hildebrandt and
son, Harold, arrived last night for a
visit at the home of MIR. and Mrs Il.
K. Page before going to Devils Lake
for the summer. Mrs. Hildebrandt is
Mr.. Pages sister and resides in Belize,
British Honduras.
The Wisconsin State Horticultural
4 society has leased five acres of land on
!, the Skill Fruit farm for trial or
chard. The purpose of this orchard is
to test winter varieties of apples. The
land is leased for q term of fifteen
: years and the care of the orchard is
under the instruction of the Horti-
cultural society but the products go TO
Mr.. Bassett except q limited portion
for show purposes. Two hundred and
fifty trees were planted this spring Is
each of the following varie ties
Windsor, Seek No-Farther, Can ada
Red, Stark, King David, Delicious
Senator, Jonathan, Gem City and
Tuttle's Winter. The remainder of
the trees will be planted next spring
making "a total of 375. The public is
invited to inspect the orchard and see
the method of care and cultivation.
: O'Clock man by the name of Smith
was killed in the Chicago & North
western yards by three cars passing
r over bin he died about thirty
minutes after the acct tent. He wes
known among his companions as
: "Dutch smith," his real name not be-
ing familiar to them.
The unfortunate man had been en-
, ployed by the Chicago & Northwestern
and on Saturday became intoxicated.
Il He wandered into the railroad yards
and either fell over or lay down on the
tracks. He was run over by three cars,
severing one leg near the hip and al
! most cutting off the other one. He
was taken to the Johnston uudertak-
ing parlors where the body was pre-
pared for burial. He was aged about
So years.
This makes the third victim from
drinking lntoxicants in the county
within few months. The saloon
4 fight at Merrimack resulted in a
murder with a penitentiary sentence
for the assailant, the death of a |
/ drunken man on the railroad tracks |
near LaVaIle last week and the loss of |
the life of Smith in the Baraboo |
yards.
Mrs. Christina Spiehr, wife of Ithe
late Christopher Spiehr of Sank City,
| tLo 1000 oF M Ero6