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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16
A WAY TO GET RID OF coPHERs

A farmer tells US that he has practi-
cally rid his farm of gophers by the
use of gasoline. He carries a bottle and
a bunch of cot on batting with him
while working in the field, and when
he sees a gopher run into his hole he
pours some gasoline upon wad OF
cotton and places it at the mouth OF
the hole and covers the opening with
dirt. The gas fumes are heavier than
the air and 60 to the bottom of the
hole. In an attempt to get air the
gopher comes to the opening and the
gas does the rest. Remove the cotton
in half an hour and the gopher will be
dead. This plan will apply to many
other burrowing animals.-Ex.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16
ANNOUNCEMENT

To THE VOTERS OF FOREST COUNTY:
l wish to announce myself as an In
dependent Candidate for the election
of Register of Deeds of Forest County,
at the General Election to be held
November 3, 1914, and respectfully So
licit your support. Look for my name
on the Independent column.
Yours very truly,
ANDREW OETTINGER.
Dated at Crandon, Wis, Oct. 8, 1914
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16
NO VIOLATION OF GAME LAWS

Judge Quinlan sustained the demur-
rer in the o. l. Buck of Chicago. case
of restraining fish by screens at the
outlet of Mountain lake and said there
was no violation Of the game laws.
The game warden department, which
was inteDsively interested and active
in the prosecution of the cases before
the jury in justice court-whcre pre-
JUDGE and sentiment, rather than the
law, are apt to have influences seemed
to have lost all interest in the cases
when they appealed to the higher court.
Waupaca county farmers receive soc
bushel for potatoes which retail for
81 in the cities.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16
Farming VS.. Agriculture.

Father" said Johnny, what is the
difference between farming and agri-
culture?"
Well, my son: for farming you
need a pillow and harrow and other
indictments, and for agriculture all
YOU need L. q peRcil ard piece Of
paper"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16

August g, 1914, was the
fftieth anniversary of the
date upon which the first
Railway Post Office was
established in the United
States.
It ran between Chicago
and Clinton, Iowa, in a
crudely equipped compart-
ment car on the Chicago
and North Western Ry.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16

If you are going to buy good stock
this fall or winter it will pay you to
call on the Agricultural Representa-
tive who has list of stock wanted.
We can then get our stock in carloads
at less expense to each. We can also
get better stock.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16

Mr. Geo. Armstrong the founder of the railway mail service
in the United States Of distributing the mail while in transit
to expedite delivery, practically aboshng what was then known as
distributing post offices his conception. = !.
Chicago and North Western Railway belongs the credit OF
supplying FIST opportunity for the practical explicaon OF
Mr. Aongs idea Of establishing the railway mail service, the h6
complete railway post Office car being built by that company
furnished by Mr. Armstrong; then Assistant Postmaster Chicago IN
Nav 1867 placed service the Chicago and North western
Railway between Boone, Iowa, and Council Bluffs Iowa
The advantages of this system Immediately apparent
and It was quickly installed Of other large railway systems
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16

The female whose family consists of
a poodle and fern never forgets the
date of mothers day. BIT about the
only date mother Of six children re-
memb is wash day.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16

ST. Pam Issues Improvement Report.
A report that contains an interest
ing discussion of various phases Of
city building and general municipal de-
velopment has been issued by the
commissioner of public works of St.
Paul A comprehensive study for the
Improvement Of the city is included.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16

Lots of married couples imagine they
are living together when they are
merely putting up with each other.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16

Many a speaker makes dents in the
table who can't even make an I'M
preston on his audience.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1914-10-16
IN prstse OF Cancor.

Candor is the brightest geta :. crit
.cism -DisraelL.
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
TOWARDS WATERLOO

The preliminary skirmish has bee n fought. The legal Napoleon of the N. c. was driven back upon Paris, 50 to speak and forced into silence amounting to a temporary Elba.
 Whether lie will escape and retake an empire by the force of his genius 1" remains to be seen. At present, his for ces are nursing their wounds and their wrath, appealing to public opinion, which seems to have fled them, a they crate before bar where any one Ill a y practice for two bits.
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
TIE S5OO,0OO PIE

Barnett is said to be worth S1, 400, 00O Abont $500, GOO is said to be due the de- posltors of the defunct Washington Alas ka Bank The present receiver, MT. Moves who was appointed by Judge Overfe1d, has begun suit against the directors, for mer receivers and their sureties for this amount. Next November, it is said, Bar nett will be made a defendant i'll a ciivl action, and apparently nothing can de- feat judgment.
 During the argument n the K1opsch trial for contempt, assistant U. $. attor- ney Dodge stated, in substance, that the purpose of the Klopsch publication was to precipitate situation that would res ut in the removal of Judge Fuller be- cause he could not be handled by the lawyers for the bank looters
 This w. A. Bank business is, evidently, then the tap root from which has sprung the poisonous vine of inteFlocking faces. Well and shrewd1y plan seems to have been laid to make clean sweep of Crossley, Judge Fuller and other obnox- ious persons, not because Crossley wa $ ex55ravagant with government money and Judge Fuller protecting shady do1ngs of the receiver, MT. Moves, but because they stood in the way of that $500, 900 pie. These men could not be handled so they must be got out of the way, Being Republicans, the Democrat adnlinistrat- ion could be employed as lever when a sufficient sentiment had been aroused a.
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
TIE TRIAL

The trial of Louis Klopsch, editor O f Fairbanks Facts, for contempt of court was scene well calculated to arouse a question i'll the minds of spectators Seven attorneys appeared i'll the case, ap incident without a parallel in Fair banks. Net, if it were the intention the defense to overawe the court with an array of lawyers the attempt was a complete failure The court did not over awe worth darn On the contrary, the sight of foHr attorneys seemed to have all antagonistic effect. The scene was not altogether unlike Bobby Burns off hand description of trial:
 They clenched their pamphlets i Il their
 fists,
 They quoted and they hinted Till, in Reclamation mist,
 Their argument they tint it; They gaped fort, they graped fort,
 They found it wasawa man, So when their common sense came short They then put in the law, man. Collected, then, they tried again, And opened wide the1r arms then, His Honor sat with rueful e'e And eyed the gathering storm then: Like wind-driven hail it did assail, Or torrents OCT linn, man, The bench, 50 wise, cast up his eyes Half. .wakened with the din, man.
 Afarquans, the Parnell of the Fairbanks bar with his convincing voice, his re- ti1arkable personality, his classic features and kindly half-sad eyes which somehow seem to nave been meant to grace nob- Ter cause, availed nothing. Neither the suavity of McGowan, the analytical mind of Stevens or the contemptuous count enance of Pratt won for :lle defense.
 Bion Dodge, for the government, leap ed upon their arguments like a. fury. His yoIce carried tue pent up mitigation of years. Blow followed blow, unmerci- ful, unrenlitting. And the spots he fail ed to bruise were plentifuliy lashed by Crossley who closed the case which seems to be the beginning of the end for somebody.
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
HYDRA-HEADED MONSTER
 SHOWS ITS CLAWS
~NIGGER IN WOODPILE" BEGINN-
 ING TO SHOW HIMSELF

workingman without money be found in court with enough lawyers to smother him.
 One of the lawyers stated to the court. sort of by way of excuse, that Klopsch had no money. That all of the attorneys were busy, and no one caring to devote hls whole time tosthe case, they had all concluded to come This excuse would be laughed out of court if it were not made by one7of the logicians.
 Who or what was on trial then ill dis trict court on Feb. 9th? What influence was back of Ilopsch which called forth a quartet of the best legal talent ill Fair banks? Did they merely leap forth like so many minute men to defend the rights of free press IS against a tyranhical judge who sought to throttle the truth ?
 Hardly. Lawyers are good enough fellows, but they have way of lettin.E the truth look out for itself unless there be something material ill sight
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
FACTS

So Facts has proven to be more or less fiction. But it's editor deserves some mention. He played the game we'll from the bank looter standpoint If not brave he was at least bold, He succeeded for for tlnle in arousing popular opinion against theforces that are trying to make Barnett come through with he deposit or's money. If he chooses to be the tool of some one else, it is his own funeral and nobody has better right to go to it. A tool is valuable so long a he can be effectively used.
 Here we might pause to state the ob- ject of a Socialist publication lending it's columns to at expose of capitalistic tricksters
 If we were merely addressing socia-- list audience, it would be unnecessary to relate the putrid nlanipulations of the "better classes" Socialists already know that system of robbery must pro- duce robbers. We know that diseased tree can not bring forth good fruit. No thing but graft can logically emanate from a system founded Il the exploita- ton of the producing class.
 Knowing this, we, unlike tn e district attorneys office, would attack the cause and not the fleet. By abolishing tine profit system or the cause, bank looters the effect, would disappear naturally as malaria from drained swamp.
 We would not punish, We would cure For the man who votes to uphold the present order of society is,an accessory to every crime growing out of it. Society is sick It will not be cured by attacking individuals. And only individuals serve as object lessons, is there any val ue or any good taste in holding them up to scorn.
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
gainst them .

gainst them.
 However. it apparently did not work out just right. The bank footing faction have been put on the run. They are now look ing for place to hide, and, it is said, the grand jury is to be investigated.
 Cross1ey is said to be somewhat of an investigator himself.
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
Communication. THAT GRAND JURY REPORT

Editor Alaska Socialist:
 have read the articles n your last issue on politicians and was especially interested Il what you said about our local so-called Democrats. But I think you were too hard on the Democrats s a body. I admit there are rotten, graft ing Democrats, but there are honest ones too.
 Now, take the article in a recent issue of the Alaska Citizen headed Grand Ju- " Report not political trick, a paper owned by the great a md reliable Demo crat MT. Caskey, where he tries to show that the grand jury was immaculate and representative a that efforts were not being made to oust Judge Fuller and district attorney Crossley from their pos itions If Caskey can reconcile his attit- ude in that article with what appeared in his paper criticizing the makeup of the grand jury i'll previous issues I will eat my at-band, rim and all. Not alone did he show p the characters of some of the grand jury ii, his paper but i n priv ate conversations with his friends he actually had nicknames for them. and all this time he " praising Fuller and Crossley as being straight md fearless.
 In that article he tells us that E out of the IS grand jurors who signed the report were married men ,---inst if that had anything to do with tn play. Better leave out the marriage question. Wonder to me he didn't use the phrase ''ho1y bonds of n1atrimony''. There are all kinds of marriages married for con- yenience, marriages for love, marriages r-fear-of-the- grand jury, marriages by absent treatment &c.
 | keep on backing up the judge and the district attorney at this critical stage and make further exposures about the makeup of the notorious grand jury but was compelled to reverse his engines by visit from Martin Harris, Rothand the innocent and smooth going Griffin, and then he danced to the tune of turn a. bout, jump about, jump Jim Crow'' inst as he did when he had prepared charges against marshall "Sthbbs'' Erwin for having prisoner working on the trail coming in. Caskey didn't fire that shot because, to use Caskey's own words II will let "Stubbs" do anything he likes so long as he gives me what I want'', which meant, of course, the printing, &c
 This rotten branch of the local Demo- cratic party thought they saw chance to make room for Roth as district attor- ney aud for Tom N1acgowanas judge-pur innocent-minded Tom: Wouldn't we be nicely fixed then?
 The whole business was bad enough but Caskey and his paper has made he affair smell more stinking and ''tozier- ized"
 DEMOCRAT
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
Ik REAL DEPENDANT

Now who was on trial? If it were Klopsch, edItor of Facts, what need of four lawyers. A AOrkiugman would b e in Iuck to have one. And only when the .Tanana River Roxs upstream will q
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
BARNETTE'S GHOSTI

We want the gullible readers ofthe subsidized press to understand that the bank 1ooters are still on the job. Barnette and others are basking in the sunny val
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15

(Continued on page 4)
The Alaska socialist., 1914-02-15
Communication ANCIENT OLD PARTY BANK FOR ALASKA

Editor Alaska Socialist l;
The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1914-10-08
Mems Clothing

Such we'll known brands as
Schloss Bros. and Friend and
Marks progressive clothes, in all
the best styles and colors. Clothes
that will suit you at real bargain
prices.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
Snake Creates Panic.

A six-foot snake. full Of fight, defied
a squad OF reserves for more than an
hour recently. The policemen were
armed with revolvers, ropes and
sticks. Persons scattered in every d.
rection when the snake wriggled down
the sidewalk A man who was hurry
ing to catch a car near stepped on the
reptile. He gave a cry Of fright
when he saw the snake almost under
his feet. He darted in another direc-
tion and lost his car. A rapid transit
company employee called up Sergeant
Morrison Of the reserves and in
formed him In excited accents that
snake had taken possession Of Sec
tiOn of Market street A squad Of re-
serves were dispatched to the scene,
but the snake moved about in such a
vicious manner that none of the po-
Hcemen risked going very near the
reptile. Then a young man came
along and captured the snake. 1t had
just escaped from an animal store
Philadelphia North American.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
A Future Rockefeller.

"Trsasts, monopolies, have had their
day They did more harm than good.
Hence they must go But, all the
same, ne must admire the longheaded.
ness Of the men who created these
vast enterprises"
The speaker was Senator La Fol-
lette He .WeEt on:
"The trust creator reminds me of
the little boy who entered the farmers
truck patch and said, touching q hand
some cucumber on a vine:
How much dOr this?'
Ten cents The farmer answered.
- don't want 70 pay more than
about 2 cents aaid the boy.
well, here's one for that price
said the farmer. and he lifted mp a
very small cucumber that grew beside
the big one.
IAN right. III take her said the
boy. But don't cut her on now. I'll
enll for her again in two weeks time"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
HONESTY HAD ITS LIMITS
Woman Desisted Temptation for q
Time, But Finally Proved Her
self Human.

Somebody on the back platform
dropped a bundle. A woman saw 1t
and picked It up. She was an honest
woman; nevertheless she opened the
package. It contained waist pattern
of very pretty silk. When she saw
that she thanked her guardian angel
she had been created honest.
IF had been an ordinary dishon-
est thing" she told her husband, u
should keep this silk as sure as any
thing and make 1t up for myself"
But since you aren't" sale the
man, what are you going to do with
IT,"
"Oh, take It back to the lost and
found department OF the store where
1t was bought. The purchaser will
probably inquire for It there"
One evening about two weeks later
the woman appeared at dinner in a
new waist.
Hello" said the man admiringly,
seems to me have seen that before
Isn't 1t something like the piece Of silk
you found?"
1T is just like IT," sighed the WON
an. 1T is the same piece. took II
to the lost and found department, but
IL couldn't stand II. ! went around
the next day and asked for it my
SELF"
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
To GET Rid Of PimpIes.

Smear the affected surface with
Cuticura Ointment. Let 1t remain
five minutes, then wash OF with Cuti'
cura Soap and hot water and continue
bathing q few minutes. These fra
grant, super.creamy emollients quickly
clear the skin of pimples, blackheads.
redness and roughness, the scalp of
dandruff and itching and the hands
OF chaps and irrirarions. For free
sample each with 32-p. Skin Book ad-
dress post card: Cuticura, Dept. x,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17

grudges and let bygones be bygones,
shake hands with their enemies and
wish one another good luck.
How many reunions and reconci!ia'
tions take place then is known only 10
these good women. The hearts Of
many men who have been separated
from their wives and families be-
come softened as the holidays draw
near, and it isn't uncommon for the
settlement worker to find them to-
gether when she comes with the
Christmas basket.
Many prodigal sons return on
Christmas eve. A striking case OF
this kind that occurred two years ago
was run across by a settlement work.
er in Philadelphia. She said that
she had never witnessed scene on
any stage that could equal It. 1t
was q real case of where the Christ
mas prayer of broken-hearted moth
or was answered by the return OF her
boy.
The son ran away from home seven
years earlier. when youth Of sixteen
years. He had a good home and the
family consisted Of his parents. an
older brother and a sister. His father
was n hard-working man and used all
his earnings for his home. The young
er boy. being the baby Of the family,
was the pet Of all; but he had wild
disposition, and he wanted to sec
something of life. He decided to run
away from home and so West
When he reached the ranches Of
Arizona he found that the cowboy life
wasn't as bright as It was painted.
He longed for home many a time, but
vowed that he would not return a
failure. He persevered until he had
made good, though 1t took seven years
for him to do 1t. His fearlessness and
daring attracted the attention of the
owner of the ranch, and he placed
him in charge Of another place. When
the young man had a goodly wad OF
bills accumulated he decided to re.
turn in time for Christmas.
He reached the old house to find
that another family was living there,
and he learned from neighbors that
his father was dead; that his sister
had grieved so over his disappearance
that she died shortly after he had left,
and that his brother had been killed
in an accident. The mother, doubly
aged with grief, had been left alone
and was subsisting as best she could
in q third.story room. The son lost
no time and arrived in the room just
after the settlement worker had
reached there with her basket OF pro-
visions. The mother had just finished
telling her story TO the sympathetic
listener when this latest prodigal re.
turned.
mo one can really appreciate" said
a settlement worker In another city.
how happy one feels ..fter visiting
the homes of the poor on Christmas
eve. The gratitude Of one woman
alone last year was enough to recon.
pense me for the work ] did. This
woman's husband was in the peniten-
tiary serving an lS-year term for muir
der 1t appears that he and a COM
panion were working in the cranberry
boys. They quarreled. and in n scuf-
fie this man stabbed his opponent He
made his wife promise she would
never allow the family OF six to be
separated. She not only kept them
together by taking in washing and
working until all hours Of the night.
but she refused to accept outside aid
in any shape or form. There would
have been no Christmas celebration
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17

Wealthy women,
who have never
done settlement
work, enter into the
Santa Claus spirit
and visit the alley
and tenement dis.
tricts OF the large
cities on the night
b e fore Christmas,
I heir automobiles
heavily laden with
toys, turkeys and
good things to cat.
They employ 'inves.
tigators to canvass
the section In which
they are interested
n week before the
holidays, and the
distribution is made
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17
Playing Chickens.

The egg setting process greatly in
terested Jack Hastings, three years
old. Recently Jack and his sister,
Margaretta, just about one now, were
playing like the Hastings back porch
was a chicken yard. Jack conceived
the idea that II was about time for
Margaretta to set" so he went to the
refrigerator, brought out three dozen
nice new eggs, quoted at 80 cents q
dozen.
sit on 'em, Gretta," he said.
And Margaretta sat.
Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-12-17

the compound as separate words But
in international teIegraphing there is
a word length limit Tor. as the Ger
mans would print a wordleRgthllmitD.
Ten letters Is the maximum allowed
for a single word. Any word longer
than that counts a. two: or as three
III It gets beyond the second ten. as
some German words do.
When ID comes to counting letters
or making up ineligible telegraphese.
English. q seems. is the tersest Ian
guage IN Europe An Italian news
paper correspondent has lately diScov.