Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1914-10-22
Tuesday

a W ound from a gun.
w. B. Pearl, for twenty-seven years
manager of the old Cliff house, now
gone, at Devils lake. is dead at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Agatha
Oswald, at Waseca, MINI. He was
past seventy years of age. Mrs. Laura
Martin of Baraboo is another daughter.
The funeral occurred at Baraboo yes
terday morning. Thirty of forty years
ago Mr.. Pearl was widely known to the
travelling public as he operated the
resort at Devils lake and the leading
hotel at Baraboc simultaneously. Soon
after he gave up the Cliff house, which
was owned by Colonel William F.
Villas, that famous old hostelry was
RACED. The property now is part of
the state park. He was most Court
eous character-a natural boniface. -
i Madison Democrat
There is stairway at the Urban
house and beneath this stairway con-
siderable booze had been disappearing.
At last discovery was made and this
! led to the arrest of Wallace Spring by
Chief of Police Peton. There were
witnesses to the fact that booze was
sold, carried there and drank so Spring
was held to the circuit court, his bail
being fixed 500. He was taken to Jail
awaiting bail. The booze went to post
ed people and there is where the trouble
lay. Among the witnesses were Ed.
Baumgarth, Duncan Jones, the police
and others.
DR.. Samuel D. Huntington, IS years
old, son of the late Judge H.J. Hunt
ington of Green Bay, Wis, who on the
morning of Oct. l, attempted to COM
nit suicide, by plunging scalpel into
| his breast died at the Good Samaritan
hospital Monday night in Milwaukee.
DR.. Huntington was found in crit
ical condition in his Office by DR.. Her
! bert J. Steenberg, a brother-in-law. He
already had lost so much blood that
his life was in danger. On the floor be-
side the couch on which he was lying
was found scalpel covered with blood.
| atAfter his removal to the hospital, DIR.
Huntington, when asked why he had
attempted his own life, told attending
physicians that he had grown despond-
ent because of a chronic illness from
which he had been suffering for years.
DR.. Huntington was born in BaraboO,
and at one time was member of the
faculty of Leland Stanford university.
He was also practicing physician and
surgeon, and when the United States
sent troops to Manila he was commission
ed captain of volunteers in the med
ical corps and served as such during the
war. He remained in Manila for seven
years after the war. When he return
ed to this country again his health was
shattered.
August Farber, son of Mr. and Mrs.
julius Farber, experienced serious
accident while hunting near Lime Ridge
on Sunday. He was with his other
three brothers and Peter Riphon in
their search for game. August was
standing with his gun pointing toward
the ground when it accidentally dis
charged, the load passing through the
big toe of his right foot, virtually car
rying away the member. He was
taken to his home, physician summon
ed and the toe amputated. The youth
is happy that the load did not go into
his foot and says that of hunting he has
enough.
A farm of 120 acres, 80 acres in a.
high state of cultivation, 40 acres tim
Der and pasture. The very best Of
land. No stone or sand. Lays fine. 3
miles from town, basement, barn 40x80.
concrete floor, litter carrier, kings
system of ventilation; silo, good farm
house ands all other necessary out
buildings. A very desirable farm.
Price $1O5 per acre if taken soon. j. T.
Bates & Son, Baraboo, Wis.
Mrs. Casper Ebert of Baraboo died
at a Madison Hospital on Sunday aged
about As years. Fer some time she
has not been in good health and before
being taken to the hospital was in bed
for a week or ten days. When an oper-
alton was performed for appendicitis,
complications were found and death
came soon after The body was brought
to her home in Baraboo and the funer-
al will be held toward the end of the
week. She was devoted member of
the st. Joseph's Catholic church. She
leaves husband and son, Raymond,
who are in the employ of the Chicago &
Northwestern, another son, Roy, makes
his home in the state of Washington