Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-08-28
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,aorcanization of national guard
company are planning campaign
rbjch will insure an armory building
Tor that city
rTwentyfour boys of Camp Winnepe,
consisting Of young boys from st.
louis. Mo, who spend every summer
here. are making a 20O-lnile canoe trip
rom Eagle River to Park Falls on the
Flambeau River
Word was received at Racine from
Los Angeles announcing the death of
lieut.. N. T. Simpkin, former resident
sf Racine. Death was due to wounds
received in battle. He was brother
.nlaw of E. b. Hand, an attorney OF
Racine.
Mrs. Kate Deyine, Eagle River, a
chippewa Indian is the mother of
sons, every one of whom served in the
army of the United States during the
War. Six of the sons served with the
American Expeditionary Forces in
France.
Horses which he was leading to pas
ure with a strap tied around his arm
ran away and dragged Clinton Wag-
ner. son of Matthew Wagner, a farm
er living near Kiel, to his death. The
BOYS head struck a stone and his skull
was fractured.
The Brinkman speed boat, the fast
est on The lakes near Minocqua, ran
into a small row boat and smashed
the latter badly The speeder was be-
ing tested out after being repaired and
The steering apparatus was RESPONSE
bic for the accident.
The Rev. Father ]. J. Crawford,
vicar Of st. Ambrose Episcopal Church
of Amigo, has accepted an invitation
TO become personal assistant TO Bishop
George Allen Beecher at Hastings,
Neb He expects to assume his new
position within thirty days.
Quarrels Of Greeks and Turks, EN-
ployed in a Racine automobile tire
manufacturing company has resulted
in serious fights in which men were in
iured and the sending in of riot calls.
Warrants were issued for arrests Of
three Turks on the charge of rioting.
Jake Hermann, "a, farm hand and
self-confessed slayer of Ben Zuelke, 10
year old Oakfield youth whose lifeless
farm OF Albert COLLEEN, near Oaktield,
was arraigned before Justice r. c.
Fairbank in Fond du Lac for prelim-
mary hearing. Jealousy because Zuel
Ike was keeping company with Myrtle
Wiegert, aged 10, was given by Her
mann as the sole motive for his crime
Theodore Steinmetz, director of the
newly organized Liberty Band at Eau
Claire, intends to organize a boys
band of sixty players as soon as school
opens Besides providing an attrac.
ton in school athletic tours the boys
band will be source of recruits for
the Liberty Band. Mr. Steinmetz was
director of the 127th infantry overseas
band, as well as a composer and in
strument maker.
John r. Commons, professor of eco
Monies at the University of Wiscon-
son, accompanied by party of gradu-
ate students and assistants in econom-
les at the university, has left for a
seven weeks tour to investigate labor
problems in factories of the east.
Among the cities in which the party
Will work are Freeport, H.; Ft.
Wayne, Ind; Cleveland, Philadelphia,
New York and Boston The material
gathered will be used in the graduate
seminary which Prof. Commons will
conduct at the university next fall.
The Wisconsin conservation com
mission met at La Crosse and officially
accepted a gift Of Trempealeau county
land, twenty miles north of La Crosse
in the Mississippi river as a state
park. It was presented to the state of
Wisconsin by John A. Latsch of Wi
mona, MINI. The land consists of 600
acres on sharp mountain peak, which
rises directly out of the Mississippi
river at the junction OF the Trempea-
ieau river in Trempealeau bay. The
place has historic significance as j,
was near there that the famous
French explorer, Nicholas Perrot. had
cabin in 1885, first to be erected by
white man in this vicinity. The
tract is to be called Perrot park
With 80 counties fully organized
the pure-bred bull campaign, after only
seven months OF the drive, a clean
sweep of the state is to be hoped for
al The end of 1919 Several counties
not already organized are making
plans for definite organization early
ln the fail The census indicates the
percentage of purebred bulls in the
state is about 30 per cent. Waukesha
sun shows the best condition OF any
county in the state, with SIS per cent
purebred bulls. Other counties vary
from II to SO per cent. In addition to
counties organized, at least four 9th
ers nave made cattle census 70 deter
mine the number OF their scrubs, even
though they have not yet laid plans to