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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22
Lafayette County Farms

Ai-l6O-29O acre farms, improved.
Also northern Wisconsin farms in Clark,
jackson and EauClaire counties.
100 acres. mile east from Humbird. 12O a
under cultivation; house isx26, wing 12xi4:
barb 36X66 with basement; silo l6x30, One mi
from railroad station, creamery cheese factory
and high school, Price $50 per acre, A great
many Swiss people are located in this com.
munitv and are making 10 one of the great
dairy ceuters of Wisconsin. $1,000 or more
cash, balance per cent
POS acre farm located 3 miles from Fairchild
and miles from Augusta, Eau Claire county.
Within reach of 3 creRmeries. no acres under
cultivation, balance heavy oak timber and
pasture. One set Of fine buildings also set
of old buildings. Two orchards. Clay loan
soil, clay subsoil. Nearly all level except pas
ture which has a spring brook running thru
It, Owner has for years made business of
raising clover seed and farm is in high state
Of cultivation. II YOU do not find that crops on
this farm lcorn, clover. alfalfa. potatoes aud
small gralnsl compare favorably with crops
on southern Wisconsin and Northern illinois
land valued az $3.50 70 500 per acre we viii pay
yOar car fare and all expenses in connection
With the trip. The price of the farm is only
SIS per acre.
$40 acres Of wild land near town, good soil,
Price SIS per acre. About mi from FHirchild,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

THE average wealth Of the citizens
of Wisconsin based upon the latest
available federal figures was S7l2 Is,
and it is believed the figures of this
year would show the amount to be
over thousand.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22
Legal Notices.
Notice to Hear Proof of WIN.

SyTATE OF WISCONSIN-IOWA COUNTY
y COURT-IN COUNTY COURT
Notice rs hereby given that az a special term
of the Iowa County Court TO be held in and
for said county at the Court House in the city
Of Dodgcyille, I'm said county, on the 3rd day
81 August, A, d., 1915 being the first
Tuesday of said month al ten o'clock Ia the
forenoon OF said day. the following matter
will be heard and considered.
The application Of Rose ktaGer and y. j.
kieiier TO admit 60 probate the last Will and
testament OF John =. kiefer Jr late OF the
city OF Mineral Point. iu said county. deceased.
And is further ordered, that public notice
thereof be given 10 all persons interested by
publishing copy OF this order for three weeks
succeSsively, prior 20 said day Of hearing, in
the Mineral Point Tribune, a weekly news.
paper published i'm said county.
BY order OF the Court
ALDRO jerks, County Judge,
Dated Dodgeville Wis, July g. 1915.
Fielder 6 Fielder. ATTORNEYS. 2SwS
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

SPECIAL BARGAIN. 154 acres between
Cobb and Edmund, Running water, good
soil, fair buildings; no timber; Sl25 per acre
In the heart of $3.50 per acre land,
81 acres one.hslf mile to town, improved.
100 acres, one mile to town improved.
l2O acres, 3. miles to town, improved,
100 acres. ga miles to town, improved.
200 acres. five miles to town, improved
22O acres, one-half mile 10 station. improved
40 acres, one mile to town. unimproved.
50 acres two miles to town, unimproved
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

GOOD old Wisconsin must be pretty
good picking for the postoflice depart
ment, more than one hundred Of the
salaries having been advanced the
past month.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

HARRY THAw is free. Now it is
the general hope of the reading public
that he will bask in security for the
next hundred years at least.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22
Repairing and Bench Work.

am prepared to do all kinds Of
wagon, buggy, and sleigh repairing,
also bench carpenter work. Shop on
North street. WIN. TREGILGUS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

Write to Fitzgibbons Bros, Mon
roe, Wis, for catalog of frst-class
carriages, buggies and harnesses.
Their prices are right. No agents. 1Om4
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22
DAILY STAGE
BETWEEN
MINERAL POINT q D0DGEvILLE
Morris Proctor, Proprietor

Stage runs daily. except sunday. lesviDI
Mineral Point nc T.t5 $, m, snd Dodgevtlle %
tween aud 2 y. IN,
Connects at Dodgeville with train on c. 4
W Ry for Madison. Milwaukee. etc, and al
Mineral Point with { 80 p. m. trsin on {. NJ. g
st. Z. R'y for Platteville. Darlington. Shullt
burg, Monroe and Evansville.
Csils left st the hotels. Mineral Point
will receive prompt attention. Ss-FARR 7Se
Phone 1876
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

THE United States has made loans
and bought securities in London to a
total of $500, 900, 00O according to re-
cent dispatch from London. In other
words, we have wiped out half billion
of our foreign debt at one fell swoop,
by the sale of supplies or the loan Of
cash. The least thing that we have to
worry about now in this country is our
debt to the rest Of the world. We are
paying it off at a pretty rapid clip.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22
Notice OF Hearing Petition Tor Guardian
GTATE OF WISCONSIN.
= IOWA COUNTY.

~ AOh y NtA \ 4 L
Notice Is hereby given that AZ the special
term of the County Court 70 be held in and
for said county, 40 the Court House In the
City of DOdEeville IN said county on the first
Tuesday ,beinE the Srd day Of August, A.
d. 1915. az 2 o'clock T. m., the following mat
ter will be heard ANA considered.
The verified petition Of Elizabeth A. Hewitt
for the appointment Of 3 guardian for Eliza
beth Fowler Of Mineral Point, Wisconsin. al
legged 20 De mentally incompetent 20 have the
charge and management Of her property.
Dated this 22nd day 81 june. 1915.
BY order Of the court.
ALDRO 1ENkS, County Judge.
Calvert Speusley, Attorney 26w3
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22
a Specially
Farm and city property handled.
Your sales solicited.
FOR SALE
Iowa County Farms

Several houses in all parts of the city of
Mineral Point.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

SUCH publications as The Father
land and The Milwaukee Free Press
excite much resentment in this country
toward Germany. The proper field for
such publications is in Berlin, not in
the United States. Every country has
the right to expect the support of its
own newspapers, but no country has
the right to control the press Of coG2-
tries with which il is in dispute. At
tempts of that sort create bitter re-
sentiment; and increase the danger Of
armed conflict "A condition none of us
wish for. What is needed now is alb
sence of dispute among ourselves, and
loyalty to our country, Superior Tele-
gram.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1915-07-22

The fact that the American dollar is
waxing greater and greater in value
while the money Of Europe is declining
rapidly, is largely due to the common
sense and proved responsibility that
are back Of the American dollar And
while revelng in spirit of pride over
this fact, don't forget that the wise
financial policy OF the Republican party
is what made such condition possible.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
ITALY MAKES WAR ON TURKS
King Victor Emmanuel Concentrates
Large Army to Aid Allies in
the DardaneIIes.

Rome, via London, Aug. 24.-Italy
has formally declared war on Turkey.
The Turkish ambassador called at the
foreign office and received his pass
ports. He has left Rome.
The government issued brief cir
cular, addressed to Italian representa-
tives in foreign countries and explain
ing Italy's reasons for declaring war
on the porte. The statement recited
Turkish acts of hostilities against the
Italian government, the holding up of
Italian reservists and concluded:
Italy Gives Reasons.
I'm view Of these obvious infra ctions
Of the categorical promises made by
the Ottoman government, and follow
ing our ultimatum of Aug. 3, provoked
by the evasions of the Ottoman gov
ernment, particularly with regard to
free departure of Italian subjects from
Asia Minor, the Italian government
has sent instructions to the Italian am
bassador to Constantinople to commu-
nicate to the Turkish government a
declaration of war by Italy"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
WHOLE TOWN WITHOUT FOOD
MORE THAN 1000 PEOPAE ARE
IN PERIL.
Newport, Ark, Marooned by FiooGt
Still ls in Critical Condition
Relief Train Sent.

Little Rock, Ark, Aug. 26.-Mors'
than 1000 persons were without food
for whole day at Newport. Ark, all!
of the food not ruined by the overflow
of the waters of White river having
been consumed.
In response to an urgent appeal.
from the mayor of Little Rock, the
chamber Of commerce dispatched
enough canned goods to furnish the
entire town with two meals each ana
a special train will carry large con-
signment of food to the stricken dis
trict at once.
The supplies will be ferried into the
city by motorboats from the point
where train service is suspended.
While the White river began to fali
at Newport, the situation remained
critical and alarm was intensified by
warning from the government
weather bureau here that another rise
might be expected as a result of rain.
The bureau urged all farmers to leave
the lowlands.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
WARsH|Ps
SHELL zEEbRUGGE
FORTY VESSELS ENGAGED IN AT.
TACK ON GERMAN SUB
MARINE BASE.
rEUTONS CAPTURE OSSOWETz
Austro-German Center Presses For
ward and Is Near Russian New
Line of Defense-von linden
burg's Rear Threatened.
rEUTONS CAPTURE OSSOWETZ

Amsterdam, via London, Aug. 90
Russian claims of great German losses
in the naval battle in the Gulf of Riga,
are repudiated in a semi-officiaI tele-
gram received from Berlin, which says
that no dreadnought or cruisers were
sunk or damaged.
London, Aug. 25.-The German nav
al reverses in the Gulf of Riga and
the Baltic sea, the German success in
occupying the fortress of Ossowetz and
O British naval bombardment of the
German naval base at Zeebrugge, have
furnished a series of news features
which temporarily divert the atten-
tion from the gravity of the issues
growing out of the sinking of the
White Star line steamship Arabic by a
German submarine.
Menace to Hindenburg's Rear.
The German center has pressed for
ward steadily until Prince Leopold Of
Bavaria is near the Russian new line
of defense, but the military observers
say that the entire campaign hinged
on the vast enveloping movement of
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg's forces
in the north. They had succeeded in
pushing far beyond Riga, to Jacobstadt
on the Dvina, but the Russians hold
on the Gulf of Riga and on the great
naval base of Riga was a continual
menace in Won Hindenburg's rear.
The capture by the Germans of the
fortress of Ossowetz gives them an
other stronghold, only Grodno and
Brest-Litovsk remaining in the central
section. 1t also gives them the main
point on the railway to Bielsk and
Brest-Litovsk.
British Fleet Attacks Zeebrugge.
Only meagre details have been re-
ceived concerning the British bonn
bardment of the German submarine
base at Zeebrugge and neighboring
points on the Belgian coast. Berlin
reports that 40 British ships were en-
gagged in it, but the British admiralty
as yet has made no statement.
The firing lasted several hours, the
German heavy artillery answering the
British fire. That there has been
French naval activity in the same 10
cality is shown in the Paris official
communication which announces the
sinking of a German torpedo boat de-
stroyer off Ostend by two French tor.
pedo boats. In the west there have
been no notable changes in the battle
line.
London, Aug. 25.-Optimistic reports
concerning operations on the CALI
poll peninsula have been in circulation
for the past few days and prophecies
are freely made that few weeks will
see the close of the Allies most diff
ficult task in the near east. The
Turks, too, expect the Anglo-Frenct
| forces to be successful, If news reach
ing Sofia from Constantinople is relia
BILE.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
HANGED BY PERSONS UNKNOWN
CORONER'S JURY RETURNS YER.
DICT IN FRANK CASE.
Alleged Some Members Expressed
Doubt That They Could Reach
Any Other Verdict.

Marietta, Ca, Aug. 25.-Judge r. L.
Patterson of the Blue Ridge circuit
court, acting it is thought upon ad-
vice from Governor Harris, whose in
vestigations are said to have definite
private information which was not
brought before the coroner's jury, has
called a special session Of the Cobb
county grand jury. The jury will
meet on Sept. II, for the special pur-
pose of investigating the lynching of
Leo Frank. 80
Jury Out Three Minutes.
Marietta, Ga, Aug. 25.-The cor
oner's jury inquiring into the lynch
ing of Leo M. Frank. without having
heard any testimony concerning the
identity of any person connected with
the affair, returned verdict that
Frank came to his death by hanging
at the hands of parties unknown" The
jury was cut three minutes.
Some members of the coroner's jury,
it was said, had expressed doubt
that they could reach at this time any
other conclusion than that Frank came
to his death at the hands of parties
unknown"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
GOVERNORS AT CONFERENCE
Representatives of More Than Thirty
States Attend Convention in Bos-
ton-Garrison to Speak.

Boston, Aug. 26. = Resolutions Of
confidence and support we're sent to
President Wilson by governors of
nearly score of states attending the
annual conference of governors in
this city. The Resolutions follow:
"The governors of the several COM
monwealths of the nation, in confer
ence assembled, desire to tender to
you an expression of their confidence
and support in this hour of deep in
ternational concern and to assure you
of their readiness to follow your lead
ership in all matters which you may
deem best to promote the honor and
maintain the peace of the nation and
the whole people"
Boston, Aug. 25.-Governors and for
mer governors representing more than
30 states were here to attend the
opening of the governors conference.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
NEW HAVEN ROAD GAINS POINT
Furnish Particulars to Defen-
dants Under Indictment.

New York, Aug. 25.-Federal judge
Hunt has decided that the government
must furnish additional particulars to
William Rockefeller and some of the
other defendants under indictment on
a charge of criminal conspiracy to
violate the provisions of the Sherman
law in connection with their admins
tration of affairs of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad
company.
"The charge that there was a con-
spiracy formed about 1890, which ex-
listed thereafter, should be particular
ized," the court held, "by statement
of the basic facts showing the creative
features" Delay of six months to q
year, it is estimated, will result from
the ruling of the court.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
None Perish in Meramec.

st. Louis, Aug. 25.-The receding Of
the food of the Meramec river failed
of ST. Louis county that II persons
were drowned when the river rose to
the highest mark ever recorded, and
it is now thought that none perished
in the overflow. 1t is impossible to
estimate accurately the property dam
age from the floods of the Meramec
and other Ozark mountain streams,
but a large area of bottom farm land
in eastern and southeastern Missouri
fs under water.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
ELEVEN GERMAN
WARSH|PS SUNK,
IS SLAvS' CLAIM
DREADNouGHT, THREE CRUISERS
AND SEVEN TORPEDO BOATS
LOST IN NAVAL BATTLE IN
GULF OF RIGA.
RESULTS IN KAISER'S
FLEET WITHDRAWING
?etrograd ReIoices AS Teuton Ships
Are Repuised-Reports Losses to
Baltic Fleet Exceedingly Small,
in No Way lmpairing Efficiency.

London, Aug. 24.-The naval battle
ships have been engaged for several
days in the Gulf of Riga has resulted
in the German fleet Withdrawing, aft
er having lost the battle cruiser Molt-
ke, a warship of the dreadnought
type, three other cruisers and seven
torpedo boats, according to a state
ment credited to the president Of the
Russian duma.
Slavs Loss Not Mentioned.
This is the latest information con-
cerning the German naval attack,
which was undertaken as a measure
of cooperation with the Teutonic land
operations in Courland and especially
against the important port of Riga.
The significance oe the German with
drawal is not brought out in the Petro-
grad dispatch and no mention is made
in it of any Russian losses. A Ger
man report announced that the
Russians had lost three small war
ships-two gunboats and a torpedo
boat.
The announcement of the president
of the duma as sent by the correspon-
dent follows:
I'm the Riga battle the Germans
lost one superdreadnought the Molt-
Ike, three cruisers and seven torpedo
boats.
"The German fleet has withdrawn
from Riga bay.
German Sarges Taken.
"The Germans tried to make a de-
scent near Pernpvin (PernigeD, on the
east shore of the Gulf of Riga, some
| 35 miles north of Riga, four barges
| crammed with soldiers took part in the
descent. They were repulsed by the
Russian troops without the co-opera
ton of artillery, the Germans being ex
terminated and the barges captured
"Petrograd indulged in pardonable
rejoicings today. The desperate eff
forts of the Germans to upset our mill
tary plans by creating diversion on
the Esthonian coast has signally failed
aided by British submarines we
were able from the shelter of the
great and little towns to harass and
cripple and finally to drive the enemy
out of the gulf -
The losses of the gallant Baltic
feet were extremely small, in no way
impairing it's efficiency, and so long as
this is preserved no serious damage
can Immediately threaten Petrograd.'
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
Strikers Burn Trolley Cars.

Pittsburgh, Aug. 24.-The telephone
system used in dispatching cars on the
Natrona-Aspinwall division Of the
West Penn railways was put out of
commission when a booth at Brecken-
ridge was burned out, but striking troll
ley men and their sympathizers made
no effort to interfere with five cars
sent over the line soon afterward. Re-
ports that the state constabulary
would be called to p rotect the section
where car was burned and number
derailed was denied by police in towns
through which the line passes.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
Wires to Mexico City Open.

Laredo, Tex, Aug. 24.-Telegraph
and railway communication by an in
direct route has been oTened from the
border here to Mexico City, according
to statements of Carranza officials in
Nuevo Laredo. The route is via Tam
pico and San Luis Potosi, the direct
lines to Mexico City being under con-
troll of Villa authorities at Saltillo.
The fall of that city, however, is ex-
pected hourly. Should Saltillo fall in
to the hands of Carranza forces, it
is said, direct communication will be
re-established promptly.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
Galveston Repairs Mains.

Galveston, Tex, Aug. 25.-An ade-
quate water supply, the city's most
pressing need since the tropical storm
and trains will he running again into
the city within two weeks, it was an
nounced by those directing the work
of restoring order.
Repairs in two water mains, the
submerged main across the bay and
the pipe line across the damaged
causeway to the mainland are being
rushed with the possibility that con-
nections will be made In a few hours.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
Galveston Gets Fresh Water

Galveston, Texas, Aug. 25.-Water
from the municipal plant at Alta Iona
was turned into the eight-inch main
which has been laid along the cause
way since the storm of last week, at
$40 p. M, and was expected to be In
general distribution throughout the
city by midnight. The supply of fresh
water had been cut off since last
weeks hurricane
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
Bio Harvest In Germany.

Berlin, Aug. 23.-(By wireless to
Sayville )-The Overseas News Agen-
cy gave out for publication the fol-
lowing items:
Discussing the control and distri-
button of food supplies and other mea-
sures taken to feed the German peo-
pie during the coming year, govern
ment official stated that the new har-
vest year began with surplus of 700,-
900 tons of wheat and corn. The yield
of rye this year is a little below the
average. The wheat crop is above
the average"
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
RIDICULES GERMANS CLAIMS,
Arabic Captain Declares intimation,
That Vessel Might Have Struck
British Mine Is Absurd.

Liverpool Aug. 25.-Capt. William
Finch of the sunken White Star line
steamer Arabic has given out state
ment bearing on the cabled reports
that some German newspapers denied
that the Arabic had been sunk by a
German submarine and that she might
have met disaster by running into
British mine.
There is not the slightest doubt
that the Arabic was sunk by a tor
pedo," said Captain Finch.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
Carranza Takes MagdaIena.

Douglas, Ariz., Aug. 23.-The Off
cial report of General P. Ilias Gales
to General Carranza on the capture of
Magdalena, Sonita, by Colonel Carlos
in command of Carranza's forces, says
the garrison of 500 Villa troops re-
sisted five hours, 40 men, including IL
officers, making their last stand in a
flour mill until the building was burn
ed. The Villa forces lost more than
100 dead. A quantity of arms and
horses were taken, together with 30
prisoners.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
Villa Forces Reach Torreon.

FL Paso, Tex, Aug. 23.-Bringing
with it the entire northern delegation
to the national convention, the van
guard of the Villa expeditionary forces
which had been operating in central
Mexico, was authoritatively reported
to have arrived at Torreon.
The members of the national con-
vention were driven out of Mexico
City several months ago and recon
vened at Toluca, under the protection
OF a military force composed of Villa
and Zapata soldiers.
The Ely miner., 1915-08-27
INSIDE Story OF
HANGING Of FRANK
FIRST ACTUAL DESCRIPTION OF
DEATH RIDE HAS JUST BE-
COME AVAILABLE.
PRISONER DID NOT CONFESS
Declared Just Prior to Death That He
Loved Wife and Mother Better
Than Life-Lynching Termed
Legal Hanging"
PRISONER DID NOT CONFESS

Atlanta, Ca, Aug. 24.-The first &C.
tual story of all that transpired on
the death ride of Leo NJ Frank from
Milledgeville to Marietta between mid
night and dawn has just become avail
able. Tie recital came in a manner
which seemingly placed it's authentici-
ty beyond all question The narrator,
however, will not be witness before
the Cobb county grand jury which on
Sept. l will be asked to undertake a
thorough investigation of the lynching.
1t also became known that Cover
nor Nat E. Harris, during the past
few days has received several anony-
nous threatening letters purporting
to warn him not to go "tOo far in
his investigation of the IyEching. The
governor is not inclined tc take the
letters at all seriously but looks upon
them as the outgrowth of the disturb
ed sentiment of the moment.
Frank Did Not Confess.
Inside story" of the events which
preceded the finding of Franks body
cleared up many phases OF the incident
which heretofore have been yelled in
mystery. Points asserted by the mar
rator were:
First-Frank did not confess. He
twice was asked if he had anything
to say, but on each occasion replied,
NO" Asked pointedly if he killed
the Phagan girl he is said to have
made no reply whatever.
Second-No attempt was made to
force a confession. Franks statement
just prior to his death that he loved
his wife and mother better than he did
his life came Unexpectedly and with
out questioning.
Third-Frank was not maltreated in
any way prior to the actual lynching.
Stories that he may have met violent
death before he was hanged are with
out foun dation.
Fourth-Frank walked distance of
200 yards from the automobile TO the
death tree without faltering step,
without a sigh or semblance of a pro-
test.
Dying Wish Carried Out.
Fearing perhaps that his body might
| never reach his relatives, he asked
that the wedding ring he wore be de-
livered to a newspaperman with the
solemn promise that it woald be turn
ed over to his wife. This wish was
| carried out.
Fffth-Frank was told from the start
| that he was to be executed as the
courts had directed that he be, and
every effort was made by the so-called
vigilance committee" to see that the
legal hanging" as they termed the
| lynching, was carried out in an or
| derly manner.
Members of ,he vigilance commit
| tee" are saii to resent any intimation
| that Frank was "maltreated' while in
| their custody.