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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
BEST TO Be
HOOKED UP

John, John, the piper's son, stole
pig and away he run" The writer
vas reminded Of the above lines
ynen an incident which happened in
.ur city during Monday night was re-
led to him. During the midn7 ght
our our water and light superintend-
its good wife was awakened by a
disturbance near their home, and, as
natural in such a case, awoke her
husband. However, Mr.. Johnson was
ute excited upon being so suddenly
allied from his peaceful slumbers,
nd connections between the legs OF
lis trousers and his lower limbs were
ut of the question for the time beng
.Oout this time a Ford car started
rom in front of the Johnson residence
nd a black object was seen lying in
e street. Billy, who had now re-
lined his composure and was
hooked up for business, came just
4 time to see a second Ford car
one along, stop and pick up the
Jack object and run up the street.
IN Tuesday morning it was found
hat pig was missing at the stock
ards-hence all the commOtFOn the
.ght before And as in time of old
kingdom was lost for want Of a
orseshoe nail, thus here a pig was
0st for want of getting a pair Of
ousers on. Prairie du Sac News.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
YOUNG MAN
Injured NEAR
REEDSBURG

Albert Klipp was seriously injured
Wednesday night by being run over
y fast passenger train going north
bout 2 o'clock. He had spent the
evening in Reedsburg and was on his
-ay home when the accident hap
yened. The horse was so badly hurt
rat it was killed, and the buggy was
broken into kindling wood. The un-
ortunate young man was taken to
The Reedsburg hospital in an uncon-
sci0us condition and his wound were
,ressed. His face and neck were
Jadly cut and required several
Stitches. He was also otherwise
bruised and injured. He returned to
)nsciousness Wednesday and was
tbIe to say a few words, complaining
pains in the stomach. 1t is feared
is hurt internally.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
RED CROSS GETS
CHECK OF S700

Mayor G. T. Thuerer for the Red
Cross has received a check of 500
from r. w. Prothero and w. e. Bar
niger, members of the committee who
had in charge the program given at
the fair grounds on the Fourth. The
amount received at the gates that day
was over $1,000, and some of this
money will be used to pay the hospit-
al expenses of Edward Gray, who
was injured, and other claims. The
check was most acceptable to the Red
Cross, and goes into the Baraboo
fund.
At a meeting of the Red Cross ON
Friday evening the regular routine
business was transacted. A finance
committee consisting of L. S. Van Or
den, N. H. Gerber and Will OFT was
named.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
Uric Acid Poisoning!

The most eminent physicians reccg-
ize that uric acid stored up in t.le
stem is the cause of rheumatism,
lat this uric acid poison is present in
ae joints, muscles, or nerves. By ex-
-imenting and analysis at the Invalids'
fotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo.
/. Y, DR.. Pierce discovered combina-
IN of native remedies that he called
nuric = which drives out the uric
cid from the system, and in this way
re pain. swelling and inflammation sub
ide. If you are sufferer from rheu-
,atism, backache, pains here or there
on can obtain Anuric at any drug
ore and get relief from the pains and
Is brought about by uric acid: or send
r. Pierce 1Oc. for trial package An
ric-nany times more potent than
thia, eliminates uric acid as hot water
lelts sugar. A short trial will con-
ince y0n.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
PATHETIC INCIDENT
IN DROWNING AFFAIR

Concerning the drowning at Kill
bourn the Portage Register says:
Coroner C. w. Baker went to Kill
bourn and made inquiry into the
death of Seymore Litz. The young
man was drowned in the Wisconsin
river at the Dells on June 25, and his
body was found by a member OF COM
pany F as it foated on the surface
above the steamboat landing. The
unfortunate man was employed as
shipping clerk for the Spitz Bros.
company in Chicago, and his home
was at 2319 Iowa street in that city.
He had gone to Gilbourn for two
weeks vacation.
Coroner Baker after a careful in
vestigation, found that there was no
question as to accidental death. He
was taking pictures of several Of his
/ comrades in his bathing suit, when
he accidentally slipped from one OF
the rocks into. sixty feet of water. His
tgaric death was witnessed by sew
eral of-his comrades, who threw him
an oar, which he grasped, but sank
out of sight, never to appear again.
!, A pathetic incident of the affair is
the fact that the young man was to
have been married this month to a
| Chicago young lady, who came to Kill
| boun and was almost frantic over the
} sad accident. The young lady came
| to Kilbourn with the expectation OF
| taking the body back to Chicago, but
/: Coroner Baker suggested that under
the prevailing conditions the burial
should take place at Kilbourn, and
| thus the body was laid at rest in
| Spring Hill cemetery there.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
WRITES OF WAR
At THE FRONT

From letter to Miss Gertrude Ra-
gatz Of Prairie du Sac from a friend,
Albert Gilmore, who is now in active
ambulance service in France, we take
the following extracts, says the Prai-
RE du Sac News: ''This country is
exactly like Wisconsin, all except the
houses and the people, THE French
soldiers are a most happy and con-
genial lot, and now that the United
States is an ally, they cannot do
enough for us fellows. I spent two
hours inside solid stone hill watch
ing a bombardment of the two first
line trenches through a powerful tele-
scope. 1t is impossible to describe
the sensations one has as the colonel
in the observation room points to a
spot in the German front line and
over the telephone directs $50 from
the batteries many miles back in the
woods, right to that spot. Then with
a roar the high explosive shell rips a
canyon in the earth just within the
woods. My work takes me through
woods which have been absolutely
Ieveled by shell fire and over roads
that are as smooth as nutmeg crater.
One little town through which the
French line runs is nothing but
bricks, holes, dead things, etc. Can
you imagine two brown lines of earth
without a living thing in sight. The
lines run parallel from the North Sea
to the Mesopotamian valley. At this
place the trenches are in many places
but so feet apart. The first time
drove through these thick forests was
in the rain, pitch dark, with absolute
ly no lights, shells trying to get into
a company which marched up to re-
lieve troops in the trenches, and can
non drawn by crazed horses crashing
somewhere ahead of me. I've been in
to everything I could get into SO far.
Our first line post is in deep dug
out. These dugouts line the entire
woods and hills, like the interior of
an ant hill. | see plenty of sensation
al aeroplane fights and bombardments.
81 cannot hate the German people
that is those poor fellows who hold
the trenches and never had a word to
say about war and hate it. It's the
aristocracy, the officers who keep their
helpless people in that living death.
l read letter a German prisoner
wrote and did not mail, and he told
his wife that the men were disheart-
ened to desperation because the Unit
ed States had joined the allies. hope
it is so. If the war is not over by
November it means another year or
two of war, war in which our Ameri-
can lads are going to fight. Don't you
people realize what Wilson has done
by holding off? We might have saved
thousand of homes in France and
England and Germany by coming in
sooner. When people send their sons
across to France let them know you
are glad to see they are going to
fight for a cause which the world
recognizes as a first duty of a nation
and that they have the unparalleled
honor of fighting for the good old u.
S. A."
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
CLEVER SCHEME
NETS THOUSANDS

In Farm and Fireside is an account
of clever swindling scheme that has
been worked many times. 1t gives
the sad experience of a prominent
jeweler in Cleveland, Ohio.
ga man came in to buy watch.
After making his selection he. pro-
duced check for $500. It was after
banking hours, and as the jeweler
had made his daily deposit he did
not have enough money to give the
man the difference. So the man re-
marked:
"'Never mind, want this watch
regulated, and I'll be in in day or
two and you can give me my change
In a few days he came after his
watch. The jeweler came to him say
ing, Your check is no good
"'Oh. pshaw!' the man exclaimed
4 told those fellows what to do, and
they said it was all right
Taking back his check, he proceed
ed to count the amount of cash for
the watch, which was $50. Taking
his watch and check, he quietly left
the store.
Going to the bank on which the
check was drawn he presented the
check. The banker, seeing the en-
-dorsement of the prominent jeweler
as you know, all these business men
endorse their checks and then send
them to the bank-never questioned
i QH00 0Iy
haven't seen the man since"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
MEMS CLOTHING COST
TO INCREASE IN 1918

Mems wearing apparel will cost
more in 1918, in the op MON of mem
bers of the National Association of
Clothing Designers, who are meeting
in Chicago. The advance in prices
was said on Friday to be inevitable
because of conditions due to the war.
Materials are scarcer and higher, &C
cording to the members, and labor
troubles have increased expenses.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
new COAL PRICES
|. TWICE CONTRACT?
Iowan Tells Senators Rate Would
Cost Consumer $7OO,OOO,OO0;
Wants Government to Fix Prices

Clifford Thorne, representing the
Iowa League of Municipalities, told
the senate interstate commerce COM
mittee at Washington this week that
if tentative coal prices arranged last
week between the operators and the
council of national defense became
permanent, they would cost consum-
ers $70O,0O0,O00 over last years soft
coal bill.
Should the tentative prices be made
permanent, he said, prices which op-
orators in the Indiana fields have been
receiving in the last six months
would be increased over so per cent.
Mr.. Thorne declared the tentative
coal prices are from so Ito 100 per
cent greater than voluntary contracts
entered into within the last three
months between operators and rail-
roads for the ensuing year.
Wants U. S. to Fix Prices
eve are protesting against even a
tentative price fixing agreement"
said Mr.. Thorne
He wanted prices fixed by gov
eminent agency.
Mr. Thorne proposed giving the fed
eral trade commission power to fix
permanent coal prices by ascertain
ing the cost of production and allow
ing a fair and reasonable profit.
Under questioning from Senator
Cummins. Mr.. Thorne suggested that
congress or some designated tribunal
Immediately fix maximum prices for
coal during the war based on prices
prevailing in the various districts one
year ago, plus a certain addition to
care for increased cost Of labor and
production, and limit profits of all
those who handle coal between the
mines and the consumers.
Deny Trade Restraint
At New York the character of the
defense of the Virginia and West Vir-
ginia semi-bituminous coal operators
and corporations on trial for alleged
violation of the Sherman antitrust
law was outlined by their attorneys
to the jury The government closed
it's case early in the week and United
States Judge Grub held in allegiance
his decision on mot ons to dismiss
the indictment.
"These men did meet" said John
B. Stanchfield, attorney for the de-
tense, abiding to evidence adduced
by the government that members of
the Smokeless Coal Operators Asso-
citation assembled to discuss prices.
when they gathered they had a
chairman and secretary. They ex-
changed views and expressed opinions
on what they could get for their coal.
But that expression, open and free,
should not put their liberty in
jeopardy"
Mr.. Stanchfield said there had been
no restraint of trade and that the de-
PENDANTS sold 80 per cent Of their
coal at So when they could have
sold every ton at more"
Advance in Anthracite
Consumers of coal at the head of
the lakes and at all the leading CEN
ters of the northwest have not as yet
seen any evidence Of reduction in
fuel prices promised by mine owners.
A general advance of 10 cents
ton in quotations of anthracite coal
went into effect here today.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
TO RAISE $1,000,O 900

The supreme board of directors of
the knights of Columbus has made
appropriation of $1,00O,000 by the or
der for the establishment and main
tenance of recreation centers at all
the principal army concentration
camps. This action, it is stated, is
the result of a general appeal from
members throughout the country
urging that the work inaugurated
along the Mexican border last year
be continued and enlarged to meet
present conditions.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
MADISON GIRL
PLAGUE VICTIM
Daughter of Mrs. MiIla Olson Dies
of Infantile Paralysis at Cottage
Grove, in Dane County

The first death of infant lie paraly-
sis in Dane county occurred Thurs
day night when the fve-year-old
daughter of Mrs. Milla Olson of Rose
bud, S. D., died at the home of Mrs.
Olson's father, Jens Buskager, four
miles east of Cottage Grove.
The child came to Madison with
her mother to visit her grandpar-
ents. She became ill Monday and a
doctor was. summoned.
There are at present no other
cases of infantile paralysis in Madi-
son and vicinity.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
AUTO FURNISHES
SOME EXCITEMENT

Federman Bros of Black Hawk
had some excitement Sunday when
their Overland car got the best of
them and turned over, sending two
of the boys over the fence, while the
driver landed in the back seat in
stead of staying at the steering
wheel. The car is in a bad looking
shape, but that can be repaired. $50
gent es.'-Prairie du Sac News.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
VOTE TO DROP GERMAN
IN POYNETTE SCHOOLS

At the annual school meeting at
Poynette it was voted to drop Ger
man from the course so far as posi-
BILE without doing an injustice to pu-
pills who had started the course or
who are looking forward to special
work in college.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
U.S., TROOPS BATTLE
GROUND IS PICKED

The military staff, in agreement
with Major-General Pershing, has Sc
lected the section of the fighting line
in France, which will be ultimately
occupied by the American expedition
ary force. The location will be kept
strictly secret for mi tary reasons.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
CHEAP AUTO RIDES
AT REEDSBURG

The council at Reedsburg has
passed an ordinance limiting the
charge for carrying passengers to and
from the fair at ten cents. This will
give everybody cheap ride. The
fair will be held from August to 10.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
SUSPECT |. v. v.
PLOT TO BURN
CROPS IN S. D.

Regular army officers in South Da-
kota claim to have reliable informa-
ton that l. w. w. leaders in the state
are in possession of maps of the prin-
cipal agricultural districts of the state
and have men stationed throughout
the state who will make simultaneous
attempts to burn this seasons crops,
it was made known yesterday.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
NEW BLUE BOOK LATE

The Wisconsin blue book will not
,e ready for distribution for month
,r six weeks. Heretofore the volume
las been ready for distribution by
he end of the session.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
TWO BICYCLES
ARE STOLEN

E. E. Smith, proprietor of Smiths
e cream parlor and restaurant, re-
0rts the loss of a bicycle-a Red
'ookie wheel.
A few nights ago a wheel was TAX
from the rear of Capener Bros.
porting Goods store. The wheel be-
ngs to John Donahoe, who resides
few miles from BarabOo.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12

l got 10 1SSllllS
quite poorly. | was
weal- seemed that
/. had no energy or
strength, in fact, /
was ali run down.
My mother w a s
taking DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescrip-
ton at the tirc
so [ began taking
it, and | was a.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
FIND PEARLS IN CLAM
SHELLS F20-I RIVER

A party of clam diggers have been
working in the Wisconsin river be-
low Dancy since early spring catch
ing fresh water clans, and have been
successful. The shells are shipped
to a pearl button manufacturer. The
fishermen have also found several
splendid pearls and some slugs.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
BARABOO COW
TESTING ASS n

The following table gives the names
and records of cows in the association
which have produced more than 40
pounds of butterfat during the period
of 80 days ending July /, 1917:
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12

;oht in about FIVE weeks tirle,wa'
cling fine. My strength came bacl
I'd / have been in the best of healtf
n aer since. 'Favorite Prescription i
Great medicine and I do heartily r.
or11mend it."-MRs. VELToN Tex. 80.
pleasant St. w.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12

Elihu Root, head of the American
mission to Russia, has donated ST.
500 to the soldiers of Moscow. He
was formally thanked for the gift by
the mayor of the city.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12

The supposed periscope which Gre
ated a lot of excitement at Hampton
Roads, proved to be an oyster stake
floating end up toward the shore.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1917-07-12
PROMINENT
PORTAGE WOMAN

Portage, Wis.-"About six years ago
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-31
POLICE FORCED TO PAY FOR
PROMOTION, NEW CHARGE

PROMO ION, NEW CFARGE'
A sweeping investigation of the
methods of promotion in the police
department by means of graft is I'M
der way by States Atty Hoyne. Evil
dence presented to the prosecutor
has convinced him that only through
the payment of money were ser
geants promoted to Geutenant's
rank.
HOyne intimated yesterday that
he has "the goods" on certain mem
5ers of the police dept and politi-
eians who were close to ex-Poice
Chief Healey and that indictments in
this connection might be expected.
Hoyne said he had been told that
Lieut.. Geo. Wedding and Michael w.
Delaney visited sergeants on the last
eligible list and induced them to
waive their rights in favor of men
below them on the list. Wedding was
50th on this list, but was promoted
over the heads of all the rest. Hoyne
admitted he had heard a story to the
effect that Wedding had sold his auto
in order to get $500 to pay for his
appointment.
Hoyne also announced that he was
going after a ring of lawyers who
have been going "5O-5O' with certain
policemen. According to Hoyne, the
police tip of men they arrest to law
yers who have fixed them and the
LAWYER splits his fee with the police,
New evidence of graft in connec-
ton with the operation of vice md
gambling on the West Side is said to
be contained in a trunk seized by
Hoyne's detectives in a raid Monday
night. The location of the trunk is
believed to have been tipped off to
Hoyne by Eph Woodson, negro pol
itician, whose place at Racine and
Lake was raided last week.
Other developments in Hoyne's
war on vice, graft and crime:
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-31

bet. Serg't Sheehan left for Evans
vile, Ind.,, to bring Gus Zeidler to
Chicago. Zeidler was indicted with
Adam Prochowsh, confessed burg
lar.
prince Artie" Quinn gave bonds
of $4,000, signed by Aid. Johnny
Powers and David Prevus, 1249 N, La
Sale.
Detectives questioned Floyd ALI
bertus, prisoner in Milwaukee house
of correction, and Harry Dunn, serv-5
ing time in Waupun, Wis, state
prison. Both men named in Lem
Nutter's confessions.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-31
JURY FREES SIX MEN CHARGED
WITH MURDER

Six men accused of the murder Of
Michael GuzkowsH during the LAST
garment workers strike were &c
quilted by a jury in Judge Barrett's
court this morning. The men freed
were John Mawrow, Nick Lotochow-
zinski, Peter Korach, Charles Bigana
Andrew Chilla and Alex Sok0wski,
all members of the Amalgamated
Garment Workers union.
The murder occurred about a year
ago. Guzkowski, a union man, was
playing pool in a saloon at Wood and
Division streets with a relative,
strikebreaker. The state contended
the six men, seeking the strikebFeak-
er, beat Guzkowsh to death. Att
torney Clarence DarTow defended the.
men.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-01-31
MoToR Clue TROUBLES

VIZ Oh SIOP NCOPE60
Pres. Chas. M. Hayes of the Chic
cago Motor club today threatens to-
invoke the. law against those who
spread the report that he had misap@
propriated $4,000 of the inter-insur-
ance exchange of the club, if he can
find who they are.
An audit by Nelson Morris and a
certified public accountant proves
the clubs books o. K, says Hayes
Trouble is said to be result of. faca
tional fight in club.
Washington. = Senate passed the
Alaska bone dry prohibition bill +
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-08-24
CHRISTIANS CD
By Bert Goddard

Ministers of the gospel of Christ,
who are paid so much per annum for
preaching brotherly love, are strange
as it may seem to some, the greatest
advocates and boosters Of war. They
preach enthusiastic sermons in favor
Of. war, give their benedictions to
departing troops, bless cannon, pray
for victory and once in awhile put
on the martial uniform of a chaplain
of a regiment and actually appear on
the scene Of action-or speaking move
correctly, ten or twenty miles be-
hind the scene of action. When asked
to enlist as fighting unit in the
army, they roll up their eyes sky
ward and Immediately inform their
inquisitOrs, they are Christians and
as such have a conscientious objec-
ton to shedding the blood of their
fellow men. Now, | would like to
ask in all seriousness, could incon-
sistency go any farther than this
Regardless of any fake pretentions,
give us the man, who whether right
or wrong has the red-blooded cour-
age Of his convictions and if these
preachers advocate war, believe in
it a Divine principle of duty for
other men, they should in ali con-
sistency put on the uniform Of a
fighting soldier, shoulder their guns
and march away with JOY and glad
ness in their hearts to do battle
against the enemies of their coun-
try, They are asking unsaved sin
ners to do this-men who are alb
solutely unprepared to face the judg-
ment Of the next world. They (the
preachers), are prepared. | know
they are, because they say so them
selves an dtell us about it in every
sermon they preach and according
10 their own belief CD and the
ethics of their own religion, if any
of these preachers are killed in ac-
ton or die from any other cause,
there would still be left for them a
joyous welcome in eternity. Evident
ly if they had half the faith of the
followers and believers of the pa
gan religions, they would have the
courage to go out and practice them
selves the thing they claim is the
patriotic duty of other men. Compel
the preachers to practice what they
preach and the martial spirit of these
Warlike pulpitiers will cease and in
! the church will be heard sermons
more consistent with the doctrine
of the greatest advocate of peace
and good will the world has ever
known, Jesus Christ, the Prince of
Peace, why do ministers as a class
advocate line of action for other
men they will not take themselves?
Ask any Socialist-he can tell you.