Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-11-04
By the Way

Professor Gordon H. True, for many
years connected with universities in
the west and now a resident of Madi-
json, has gone to the Sandwich islands
to judge at fair for about two days.
Arrangements were made when he
was on the Pacific coast but his NOV
ing to Wisconsin did not change the
plans. His services are considered
SO valuable the extra expense was
readily met.
Harry Houdini the we'll known hand
cuff king, is to publish book called
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
which presents 'a complete expose
Of the modus operandi of fire eaters,
heat resisters, poison eaters sword
swallowers, human ostriches and 9TH
ers who by tricky jugglery have be-
wildered the public" Houdini has
been seen in the movies at the AL.
Ringing theatre.
Robert Welles Ritchie, author of
Trails to Two Moons" a western
story is a former New York newspa-
perman now living in California. The
pursuit Of cattle thieves described in
his book is taken from an actual in
cident which he witnessed in Wyom-
ing. Mr.. Ritchie was born in Bara-
boo and his mother now resides at
Oakland. Mrs. Terrell Thomas, also
"a former resident Of this city, resides
with her daughter Mrs Ritchie. The
author devotes all of his time to writ
ing.
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Miss Nettie Mackenzie, Ansonia
apartment hotel, Los Angeles, has sent
this office a copy Of the Los Angeles
Times which states that 1000 people
a day are arriving in that city by
train, boat and automobile. Last year
the number arriving was about 1000
a day, the influx this year being about
double. During August one year ago
$1,000 came and during August this
year $4,000 arrived. The housing prob
lem is acute. The freight warehouses
are congested with furniture, many
freight cars being held on account of
not being able to handle the business.
Many people are forced to place their
household effects in storage for the
present Those who are willing to pay
from $50 to $500 month for quarters
are more easily supplied than those
who can pay $40 a month. Rates
have jumped and in some cases people
have sought home in a fanal bunga-
were once able to fully enjoy. Their
income not being adequate they have
been forced to seek much more
humble quarters
John Burroughs, dean OF nature
writer's, whose new book, Accepting
the Universe" has been published
spends his summer at Wood-Chuck
Lodge in the CatskiIIs. This season he
has displayed with pride handsome
coat made of the woOd-chucks which
he shot or trapped the year before.
The farmers in that vicinity have
been pestered with these rodents and
Mr.. Burroughs is giving them an OBJ
iect lesson in how 10 turn their him
ORANGES into help, for he has a rug
of wood-chuck skins before his cot on
the veranda and the coat for comfort
in the cold evenings while young
"chuck" occasionally forms a sav0ry
item of the midday meal.
Besides trapping wood-chucks and
writing, Mr. Burroughs tends his gar
den, takes a hand at road mending,
designs a rustic garage for his Ford
car, going to the woods with the men
and selecting the locust posts and ash
saplings of which it is fashioned and
Hospitality receives the stream of auto
mobile visitors who, in touring the
Catskills, find their way up to Wood
Chuck Lodge November will prob
ably find Mr.. Burroughs in his home
by the river, at West Park, N. Y. and
in December he hopes to be in South
ern California.