Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1917-04-11

Mike Masiki, a Madison roundhouse
employee, met an awful death when All
engine backed upon him while he was
cleaning hot cinders from a pit, and
dragged the unfortunate man for %
feet The coroner's jury recommend
ed that the Northwestern road install
signal bell at each pit to prevent
future casualties.
The breaking up of the ice on Green
usual spectacle. It seems that the
fish factories dump wagon load Of
| fish waste on the ice each day. The
gulls found this out and at the ap-
pointed time they were on the job.
When the load was dumped the gulls
settled down in swarm and in three
minutes the offal was cleared away.
5000 gulls spend the winter at Green
Bay. The health authorities approve
of the gUlls' methods.
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Four years ago last May, VIM. Keen
eman disappeared from Kenosha leav-
ing behind him a wife and two sons
He was known to suffer from the call
to nature with the coming of spring
weather and his wife and sons
thought that in a short time he would
return to them, but years passed and
although a search was made all over
the country, nothing was ever heard
of him until on Friday week ago
when he sent letters to Kenosha ad-
vertising for his wife and sons. He
=! is now wealthy man in jamestown,
Texas, and he declares that there is
heritage of $4,000 for the wife and
! the two boys. Mrs. Koeneman now
lives in Chicago.
Rifle shots and volleys of stones
greeted drivers of the Wisconsin,
Dairy Products Co., at Stoughton,
who attempted to drive through
crowd of striking farmers on Sunday
week ago. The disagreement arose
/ over the cOmpany's posting the price
I of 81 the hundred pounds during APP
ril. The farmers demanded $40 and
an average of $2.12 during the sum
! that they cannot pay this as they
have market for manufactured milk
only and that the farmers could run
the plant themselves prior to the in
stallatiOn Of new machinery if they
wanted to. The receipts were cut
down from 100000 to 500 pounds of
milk The sheriff was called from
Madison but no arrests were made
for violence.
Sidney Rood Hartwell, a Milwau-
keean, is the owner of a life-size
painting Of Chief Oshkosh, after
whom the city of Oshkosh was named
and which municipality, it is under
stood, desires to acquire the portrait.
The painting according to Mr.. Hart
we'll, has been in his family since 1916
in which year, S. M. Brooks, an ar
fist, painted it. Although he cherish
es the painting as an heirloom, Mr..
Hartwell says that he may be induced
to dispose of it to Oshkosh for a reas-
enable consideration. Mr.. Hartwell's
Grandfather, Sidney R. Rood, sent
Artist Brooks to Lake Poygan, Win
nebago county, and the chief of the
Menominees, born in Old Kings vii
lage, near Green Bay, in 1895, posed
for the work. Chief Oshkosh died in
1858 at Kenosha.
In the portrait, the chief wears
a sort Of turban, beaded and topped
with eagle feathers. He has a blan-
ket over the left shoulder and across
the breast, extending over the right
shoulder, is wide band Of colored
bead work, in fancy designs. His
black hair hangs over his shoulders
Edward NJ. Crane of Oshkosh, has 4
reproduction Of the Hartwell painting
but it is his wish that Oshkosh Sc
cure the real portrait. Mr.. Hartwell
is government inspector in the en-
gineering department.