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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
ONE DEAD, TWO HURT,
BY DYNAMITE BLAST
Charge ExpIOdGs PrematuroIy
in Quarry al ROCktieId, Wis.

One workman was instantly killed
and two others were injured probably
fatally by a premature explosion OF
dynamite in the quarry operated by
the Mace Lime company at Rock
field. The dead man was Michae
Janich. twenty-three years old, Of
Rockfeld
The injured are Robert Kraemer
twenty-eight years old, president Of
the company, right arm fractured, in
ternal injuries and face cut, may die;
Nick Dodroga, twenty-three years old
probable internal injuries and face
cut, condition serious.
Janich and the two men were set
ting a charge of dynamite, prepare
tory to blasting rock for one Of the
kilns when he received the full force
or the explosion.
The other two men were standing
nearby preparing to set the fuse and
cover the charge with heavy mats.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
JUDGE SEAMAN Is DEAD
Had Been on Federal Bench for Over
Twenty Years.

Judge w. H. Seaman of the United
States circuit court of appeals is
dead in Coronado Beach, Cal, accord
ing to a message received from his
daughter, who accompanied him West
some time ago.
Judge Seaman had been a federal
Judge since 1893. His home was in
Sheboygan, Wis.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
TO PATROL BOSTON HARBOR
Armored Cruiser Brooklyn Will Watch
Outgoing Vessels.

Washington, March lathe armor-
ed cruiser Brooklyn, receiving ship
at the Boston yard, has been ordered
to patrol the harbor to guard against
violations of neutrality.
Though authorities deny any evil
dence of a rumored plot to turn all
German steamers laid up in American
ports into warships and rush them to
sea four warships and a coast guard
cutter have been detailed to patrol
duty in Boston and New York har-
bors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
EST SURVEY FINISHED
State Will Have 81, 40 Acres Of Land
to Put on Market.

The state soil survey, headed by
Professor A. r. Whitson, University OF
Wisconsin, has completed the survey
Of the proposed forest reserve, under
a resolution adopted by the legislature
Of 1913. The resolution directed
survey Of the lands included within
the proposed reserve in Forest, Iron,
Oneida, Price and Villas counties.
The summary shows that while the
state owns some land which is rated
as fair or good agricultural land which
would be sold under the policy recon-
mended for the forestry department
by the special legislative committee,
there is in the vicinity Of the forest
reserve large area belonging to private
persons, graded as Of low value agri-
culturally, or as marsh land, which the
state might acquire.
The soil survey divides the land
within the 100000 acre forestry area
as follows:
Good agricultural land: Owned by
the state 1850 acres; by private per
sons, 225, 0S0 acres.
Fair agricultural lands: owned Dy
state. 65,28O acres; by private persons
$50, 48O
Low grade agricultural lands: Owned
by the state, $1,000 acres; by private
persons, 237,S40 acres.
Marsh lands: Owned by the state,
$4,000 acres; by private persons, 172,
$50 acres.
Should it be decided to dispose OF
all good and fair agricultural lands the
state would have 81, 440 acres to place
upon the market. If the policy Of pur-
chasing land rated as poor agricultural
land or as marsh land, were followed
the state would have total of 410,32O
acres to choose from within the same
confines.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
STATE NORMAL SCHOOL
RIVER FALLS, WIS.

Special courses of study are pro-
vided for High School graduates
as we'll as for those who have
completed the common schools and
grades in city schools.
The Diploma Of the school be-
comes a Life State Certificate af-
ter the holder has taught success
fully for one year and received
approval of the State Superintend-
ent Of Public Instruction.
An Elementary course of two
and one-half years is offered which
leads to the Certificate which is
valid for five years, after the
holder has taught successfully for
one year.
The school has large reference
and textbook libraries and we'll
equipped physical and biological
laboratories. Excellep1 facilities
are provided for special work in
Manual Training. Domestic Science,
Music Drowning and Physical Train
ing.
Tuition is free in the Model
Grades. The pupils in these grades
have the advantages of the cours-
es in Music, Drawing, Domestic
Science. Manual Training and Phys
zeal Training.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
Abatement Law Upheld.

Judge Williams in circuit court at
Milwaukee, upheld the constitutional
ity Of the Linley law, which provides
that a place occupied for immoral
purposes shall be closed for one year
and the furniture sold. The com
plant was brought by T. L. Harring-
ton for the state against May Schae-
fer About $1,O0O,OOO worth of prop
erty in the city is affected by the ruI-
ing.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
GETS BIG FRENCH ORDER
kenosha's Unemployed Go TO Work
Making Autos.

Many Kenosha unemployed went to
work for an automobile concern which
received a $1,000,000 order from the
French government for the immediate
delivery of $50 automobile trucks for
use in the war.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
U EXTENSION MEN ELECT
Dean Reber of Wisconsin Made Presi
dent Of Conference.

DEdH NEDST OF w TSCUTTsTT NTaUS TTCSi'
dent Of Conference.
With the election Of Dean L. p
Reber of the University of Wisconsin
as president, the National University
Extension Conference was given per.
manent standing. Other officers elect
ed are: Prof. ]. C. Egbert, Columbia
University, vice president; Prof. j. j
Pettijohn, Indiana University, secre-
tary and treasurer, and Prof L. r.
Wilson, University of North Caro-
lima, and Prof Ira w. Howereth, Uni
versity of California, members of the
executive committee. 1t was decided
to hold another meeting of the confer
ence next year.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
MANIAC WARDS OFF POLICE
Cuts Throat After Firemen Threaten
to Turn Hose on Room.

to Turn Hose on Room.
Becoming suddenly insane in his
room at a boarding house at La
Crosse, Albert Valeski, twenty-eight
years of age, cut his throat with a
pocket knife after members of the
police and fire departments had made
preparations to turn a stream of wa
ter into the room to drown him out. y
For more than an hour he held at
bay the police and fire departments
of La Crosse, while several hundred
persons had collected in the street to
watch the siege of the rooming house.
Brandishing his knife Valeski
threatened to kill those who tried to
get him to come into the hallway.
He will live.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
SUPERIOR CLUB IS SOLD
A. L. Steece of Minneapolis to Take
Over Northern Franchise.

A. L. Steece of Minneapolis reached
terms with w. J. Sommer for the SUI
perior franchise in the Northern league
at a price said to be we'll above So
000
Mr.. Steece will spend $4,000 in i'm
proving the Superior park. Lefty
Davis is his choice for manager, al
though not vet signed.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1915-03-18
POISON KILLS TWO CHILDREN

Boy Eats Heart Tablets and Girl SWal-
lows Matches.
The two-year-old son Of Mr.. ana
Mrs. Ionic Bliven Of Reedsburg found
and ate some heart tablets contain
ing strychnine that an older brother
had thrown from a shelf and death
resulted.
Lucille, three-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. c. B. Hackett, died after
a few hours illness as the result of
eating the PHOSPHORUS tips of parlor
matches.
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16
BLAMING EVERYTHING ON NOAH

NOah's reputation has always been
somewhat dubious, on account of his
being credited in the Bible with hav-
ing introduced alcoholic liquor into
the world The latest historic reve-
lations, however. are Knockout
blow for him. According TO an old
brick tablet now in the museum of the
University of Pennsylvania, it was
Noah, and not Adam. that committed
PEELED from Paradise.
The record is written in the Sumer-
ian language, which preceded the
Babylonian. The brick is considered
the oldest book in the world, at least
1000 years older than the most an
cient Hebrew scriptures. Anyhow. it
antedates the book of Genesis, and by
profane historians is considered as
trustworthy as the Mosaic account Of
the creation and fall of man. How
ever that may be. here is the story
told by the old Babylonian brick:
After the creation, the race lived
happily for nearly half a million years.
There were ten kings in that time,
most of whom reigned about 40, 900
years apiece. Finally the gods for
some reason or other decided TO wipe
out the race and start over again. So
they sent the great flood (Which is a
tradition among all the Semitic peo-
ples) and drowned everybody except
Noah and his immediate relatives and
friends In BabylOnian his name is
Nuuh. and in Sumerian, Tatug. He
was saved in big boat that the g0G~
dess Nintu built for him.
After the flood the god Enki made
a new Paradise for Noah, giving him
permission to eat anything in it ex-
cept the barry of the cassia. He yield
ed to temptation and ate the cassia.
whereupon he and all his posterity
were doomed to sickness and early
death.
MIR. Noah doesn't seem to have had
anything TO do with it. So the mem
DRY of Eve is indicated. and we can
no longer blame all our misfortunes
on woman. No wonder the suffragists
are gleeful over the revelation.
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16
CANADA,s SACRIFICE.

Canada is feeling the effects of the
war She has already raised as many
soldiers for it as we raised for the
revolution, and has lost Il. 900 men in
killed, wounded and missing. That-a
mere beginnings a large number
for population no larger than that of
Belgium, and is especially impressive
because it represents blood drawn
from a new country where every man
counts more than he would in an old
er community.
The enlistment goes on steadily.
The growing seriousness of Canada s
sacrifice is indicated in a recent order
depriving women of the right to veto
the enlistment of their husbands or
sons when they are of military age.
This means that the supply of COM
paratively unattached men is being
exhausted, and from now on the re-
cruiting will draw those who are the
dependence of families
Can it be that our neighbor Canada,
drawn into the war solely by senti-
ment, is TO be "bled white like the
European belligerents?
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16
A VOLUNTEER Army RESERVE.

This is a conspicuous sign OF the
times at Plattsburg. y. Y. Many hun
dreds business and professional
men from various parts of the country
have gone into military training. They
include Mayor Mitchell OF New York,
Collector Malone OF the Port Of New
York. sons Of Theodore Roosevelt and
EHhu Root and J. p. Morgan and sci
ons Of many other famous families.
They are paying most Of their own ex-
penses.
For a month these men will live in
tents. eat army grub, march IN The
hot sun, dig trenches as if they were
on the firing line in Europe, and obey
all the burdensome rules OF the army.
They are under the instruction of
regular army officers They will have
TO work harder than ordinary recruits
for the officers are going to lry 20
crowd into four weeks enough instTuc-
ton and exercise 20 make them lit
for military duty in an emergency.
This need not be mistaken for a
proof OF aggressive militarism. There
is no such thing in the country. il is,
however. a striking proof of the new
spirit that has swept through the ma
ton within "A few months. 1t is evi-
denee OF the determination of al in
telligent Americans that there must be
larger and better preparation for our
national defense. and a willingness on
the part OF men who might live soft
iy.' to do the hard work and fighting
themselves.
This voluntary service is more inn
pressiee and more admirable than
lingo demands for a huge army. II is
in line with American tradition and
principles. II shows the ine"itable
trend OF development We do not want
a big standing army, or compulsory
military service. and do not need eth
err What we do need is large body
OF "citizenry trained to arms, and
trained i'm the shortest possible term
of service. so that there will be title
time lost from their regular employ
ment.
And for the drilling of such citizen
volunteers in time OF peace, aud Of
the far larger volume of recruits there
would be in time of war there should
be a far more rapid production of Of
ficers in the regular army.
The Plattsburg training school is the
beginning. 1t would be well 10 open
several more schools in various parts
Of the country. They alone would not
supply us with an adequate army re
serve. but they would serve as ex-
cellent models. and point the way TO
a proper development OF Orr militia
system
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16

According TO the United States
Chamber OF Commerce, the American
public is at last genuinely optimistic.
The feeling that something is going
u happen 10 the United States" has
disappeared. The war has proved not
To be a calamity we expected t.
though few are disposed to call it
positive blessing The great and con-
stantly increasing foreign orders for
our food raw materials and manu-
features have started American pros
perity rolling Up like a SNOWFALL
The war orders provided the initial
impulse needed for an industrial re-
vival. bot they are not really the most
important factor They are not like
cent of the output Of our great manu-
featuring industries The really big
factor is agricultural.
The government crop report based
on the outlook Of August 1 supple
ments the industrial report of the ma
tional chamber of commerce. The
early optimistic estimates still hold
The country is TO have the greatest
agricultural output the world has ever
sen
Wheat will come near the bullion
bushel mark surprising last years
record crop. There may be 5000. .0OO.-
900 bushels II corn and about 25O.- e.
100000 more than last year, and l.
100000. 600 bushels OF oats. which
represents a gain of % per cent.
There are biggains in tobacco, bar
ley rye. rice. potatoes sweet pota-
toes buckwheat. flax. hay and
peaches The cotton production is
less-chiefly because il has been pur-
posely restricted. The only import
ant loss seems TO be in the apple
crop.
our corn viii DE three-fourth's of
the worlds total. our oats one-third
and our wheat one-fourth. our grain
and forage would feed an the armies
OF Europe for ten years Their value
would build dozen Panama canals.
Our farmers have, in their food crops,
marketable wealth enough TO pay our
national debt five times over
With such conditions. neither war
nor peace can interfere with our pros
perity
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16

men in methods of avoiding danger
would have saved most OF these lives
And such preventive measures would
have forstalled many hundred thou
sands Of cases of injuries and Of sick
ness due TO bad health conditions.
with all the disablement, suffering and
poverty that they have entailed.
Seven years ago the bureau Of mines
started a systematic campaign TO i'm
prove this record of neglect. In 1911
there were mine safety demOnstra-
tions in Pittsburgh in the presence Of
10000 miners. Since then there has
been steady development. especially
along the lines of rescue and first
aid work. In the various big mining
fields mine-rescue cars are main
tanned, equipped with life-saving ap-
paratus and manned by trained crews.
In four years more than 20, 900 min
ers have been trained in such work
Courses OF instruct are given 70
the miners in their ,wn languages, il
lustrated with charts. The mine own
ers themselves have been interested.
Legal regulations providing for health
and safety have, of course, been great
ly strengthened, but there is a grow
ing tendency on the part of employers
to go farther than the law requires in
establishing rescue stations. oxygen
machines. and instructing ignorant
mineds how TO take care of them
selves.
Still. in 1913, the latest year for
which figures are available. there were
3,762 men killed and $4,000 injured
out of a total of about 1000, 900 men.
Mining in the United States is still
nearly as dangerous as warfare. We
have no right to condemn Europe for
its wars while we have such a shame
ful record of industrial slaughter.
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16

Already the handwriting on the wall
gives warning that the parole and pro-
baton plan. being given wide spread
trial throughout many states. is DOOM
ed to failure unless the pardoning au-
thorities use more caution in the exer-
else Of their prerogative.
The system is. in itself. undoubtedly
a good one. based on the firm founda-
ton Of humanity. There are many
erring men. not criminals at heart,
who are susceptible to kindness and
can be saved from themselves by
mercy
But there is another class Of con-
frmed, law-breakers, to whom the
system is but a joke Hardly a day
now but We read Of some dastardly
crime committed by a paroled convict.
The people everywhere are asking
What is the matter with the proba-
ton system, that it is loosing on So
ciety these beasts"
There is nothing wrong with the
system. The wrong is with the judges
who pass upon the applications for
parole, who through carelessness, or
mistaken clarity. or worse still
because of the baneful influence
of an INSCRIPTIONS attorney, ex-
tend probation TO hopeless criminals.
The probation system is young and
we are just beginning to feel the ef-
fects of such reprehensible methods.
The public is murmuring; the muir
mur will swell into a roar if it is not
stopped
The probation system is too meri-
tOrious TO be killed by the acts of un
worthy servants Of the people. These
should be turned out instead, and
men selected who will pass on each
application for parole carefully; Civ
ing ample consideration TO the man..
his record, and his personality.
No second term convict should be
paroled under any circumstances or
for any reason.
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16
DECAY OF BRITISH PATRIOTISM.

N+NtHIIFI IIIt ItHltSstdU
However much the English may
protest against the charges that the
people Of Great Britain have shown
little interest In the present war and
little concern as 10 the probable re-
suit. nevertheless il is true the gen
eral run Of men in that country have
demonstrated that they do not care
what becomes OF their government.
Right az a time when Great Britain
Is engaged in a life and death struggle
with powerful enemy. in which its
institutions, its wealth and its very ex-
lstence are threatened, its people
seem 10 be unconcerned. They refuse
TO become aroused to the great tn
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY

portance of meeting the pressing re-
spOnsibilities t the front.
The world has looked on in aston
ishment when the call for enlistment
has been responded TO by such small
numbers. Not only have the men fall
ed to respond to their cOuntrys call
in time of great distress and need for
soldiers, but early in the war the dock
workers struck They took advantage
of the distress of their country to
make more money for themselves.
They not only refused to enlist, but
they struck for higher pay.
Manufacturers of war munitions
have had hard time in their efforts
to meet the needs of the government,
as the workers in the factories have
failed TO do their part.
Only a few days since the coal
miners went out on a strike. They
did this when they knew it was vital
to the interest of the government for
the supply Of coal to be kept on hand.
They wanted TO force the payment Of
higher wages at a time of great dis
tress with their government.
There is less manifestation Of pa
triotism in Great Britain than in any
other country that is engaged in the
great war. This fact has been made
plain to all who have observed how
Ait ptOpiG VI IallS l1ilu nave UOl Only
refused 10 enlist, but have done many
things to embarrass their govern
ment.
Because of this lack Of patriotism
on the part of the people of Great
Britain, that country is rapidly losing
it's prestige. The people Of other coun-
tries are looking on in astonishment.
They are wondering why something is
not done to cause a larger enlistm ent
that the ranks may be increased to
meet the needs of the government
England should have a great army,
but she has not. She should have a
million men in the service, but she
has less than half that number. and il
now appears that if that great coun-
try would do its part in the titanic
struggle, il will have TO adopt drastic
methods to compel enlistment Eng
lish patriotism is obviously on the de-
cline, and to prevent its serious decay
something will have to be done to
arouse the people to the importance
of national defense and national
honor.
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16
EXPLODING \ GERMAN FAKE.
(NeW York WORLDLY


Exports of explosives of all kinds
from this country in the month of May
amounted to only $5,500,000 more than
in the same month last year, when
Europe was at peace. For the IL
months ending with May these exports
were S24,00O,000 large than a year
ago.
These figures become important
when weighed against the German
charge that American ammunition 10
the allies is prolonging the war by
preventing a quick German victory.
They will interest those who remem
ber the statement of an officer of the
German general staff to the Worlds
correspondent that 100000 German
soldiers had already been killed by
American ammunition and 10000
wounded or the statement of an
other German officer that so per cent
of the German losses are so caused; (;
or the later inspired outgiving of an
American now in Germany that Sc
per cent of the German losses have
been inflicted by American bullets and
shells
1t is of American shells that the
chief complaint is made, and these
exports of explosives include bullets
as well as shells. We will be liberal
and assume that IS. 500. 600 worth of
France and England.
The German general Herman
Rohne has had published in Berlin
some figures on the allied expenditure
of shells along the western front. He
says that nearly 900 shells were
fired north of Arras on June H." and
that this was almost as much as the
whole fire Of the German artillery in
1870" He also says "the very small
pSr a ar
least Sc.
At SO per shell for an average. the
allies shot off $4,000. 600 in shells in
one day at one spot along a 450-mile
front. This is a the rate OF $50, 0,00O,-
600 a month for a small part of the
line. and Americas exports of all
kinds of ammunition per month at
the time must have been less than
$6.0O0.0 .000 for the whole line
These are American facts and Ger
man calculations, not German guess
es. In this light. what becomes of
the German invention of so per cent
of losses and sc per cent of losses
caused by American bullets and
shells? whatever else these Amer
lean explosives have done. they are
shown in fact 10 have exploded with
deadly effect under the SO and Sc per
cent liars
American ammunition undoubtedly
has not figured at more than five per
cent of the allied expenditure. and as
the allied production is enormously
increasing, il will probably never ex-
ceed that small fraction 1t is not
and has not been prolonging the war
or preventing Germany victory. It's
effects in the casualty results are and
must continue TO be com mparatively
negligible. The whole story TO the
contrary has been made in Germany
for a purpose that reflects no credit
on the government that has been its
inspiration.
South Bend news-times., 1915-08-16
HIRING THEM TO MAKE PROFITS

Seven different transcOntinental
railroads serve Seattle and her cham
Der of commerce sends us a fierce
roar for ships. The best plan that
chamber offer is ship-subsidy and the
placing of American ships on the same
competitive plans as foreign ships.
This with grain rates TO England 100
shillings per ton and still rising
Government subsidy for private con-
Germs and cheap Chinese crews! 1t
is a daisy plan. Let US pluck the peo-
pie in this style and well run a news
the country.