Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1915-03-18
Saturday

An unofficial estimate places the fire
losses in Madison for the month of Feb
ruary at $2O5, 900, the largest in the
recent history of the city.
The two largest contributors to the
heavy loss were the Seaman Morris
and Gould, Wells & Blackburn plants.
The former sustained loss of $7O,O 900
and the latter about $125, 900.
Mrs. Luther Terry has written to a
Reedsburg paper from Cherokee, Okla
homa, and says that not much fruit ig
grown where she resides. It is too
windy for tbs bees and there are no
flowers enough for them. She also says:
"There are a great many mulee,
horses and cattle also hogs and poultry.
We know something about the poultry
as we have helped ship three cars to
California. l believe that is where
they went but know some of them
did. We would buy over thousand
dozen eggs a day from the stores. Not
many sheep in this country. Jack rab-
bits are plenty and are easy to shoot.
We have not seen any coyote around
Cherokee but we saw one at King
fisher. There are plenty of squirrels,
skunks and civit cats. A civit cat is a
small skunk and we know something
about them for they took some of our
chickens. The bite of the civit cat is
very dangerous. There is also horned
toad which is harmless, then comes the
centipede tarantula. We have seen
thenn all. but have not been bitten by
any of the tarantulas, Although they
are poisonous no one here has ever
heard of their killing anyone. There
are plenty of gophevsy rattle snakes
and snake spreading viperD. never
heard of the spreading vipers until I
came to- this country. The owls and
meadow larks are as plentiful as the
sparrows are in Wisconsin.
ALI records in the Wisconsin sale of
Red Cross Christmas seals were beaten
this season according to statement
made by Otto F. Bradley,of Milwaukee
Campaign Manager of the Wisconsin
Anti Tuberculosis Association Though
there are number of communities that
have not reported, it is safe to say that
the sale will total at least $31, 900, ex-
ceeding last year sale by at least
3,OO0- West Allis, Burlington and Ellis
worth have VEGA the services Of a visit
ing nurse for three, two md one week,
respectively, for making the highest
sales in their respective divisions. First
place pennants were won by Green Bay,
BeA0it, West Allis, Burlington and
Ellsworth; second donors were taken
by Oshkosh, Wausau, Wankesha, Mon
roe and lola in the same classes. The
highest per capita sale in the state re-
ported was, 3hat Of Ellsworth, Is. cents.
Probably most citizens Ct Wisconsin
are unaware of tbs fact that the first
capitol building erected in Wisconsin is
still in existence, and that it is being put
0 the humble uses of a stable. 1t was
erected soon after Wisconsin was set
off as a separate territory, story-and
a-half frame building, whose timbers &C.
cording to local tradition were dressed
n Pittsburg, carried by steamboat down
the Ohio and up the Mississippi,
and thence brought by the way of Gale
ma overland for thirty miles to Belmont.
The village of Belmont lay in the
heart of the lead mining region of Wis
consin, and when the first territorial
legislature convened there on October
Is, 1886, the primitive minors shafts
and prospective holes were still every
where to be seen. During the legisla-
tive session of 1886 it was a busy little
community, and it had ambitions to be-
come the permanent seat of the terrific
rial government, but when the legisla-
tire finally determined upon Madison,
it quickly sank from public sight. The
capitol building was disposed of to
farmer, and by him converted into a
stable. A description of early Belmont
may be found in the Proceedings of the
Wisconsin Historical society,