Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1920-05-06
Profiteers In Rooms Fleece the
Unwary Strangers Who Visit
Coast City
ORDINARY DOG GIVEN
UNIQUE AND COSTLY FUNERAL
New Potatoes Sell at Is Cents a
Pound But Market Soon
Says

There were forty acres Of Iowans
at Lincoln park, their annual picnic,
between 10000 and $4,000 Hawkeyes
whose loyalty to their beloved state
is threatened by nothing but the eli
mate Of California, were on the ground
1t was some picinc. We have home
here that is the best guarded in the
United States. A millionaire by the
name of Senor LaZarO De La CARO-,
the rich owner lives in fear Of Villa.
To guard against unwelcome visitors
he has an iron fence which is attach
ed to a high voltage electric circuit,
and huge gates which never open ex-
cept on command of the owner. A
number of watchmen are on the
ground
Profiteering In Rooms
Some of the rooming houses have
prOfiteering down to scientific point
that is hard to beat. They have run
ners at the depots, lying in wait to
lure incoming strangers uptown. Last
night an old couple arrived late and
met a man who said all the rooms in
the city were taken but he had a
friend that might Oblige them. He
took them to two places and both
places demanded $500 for one night
They said they could not afford that
much In despair they appealed to
Policeman Charles Norris and he
found them a place for $50. A
few nights ago a family from the east
walked the streets for three hours be
fore they found any kind Of a room
for less than $500 | know Of land
lord who raised the rent 100Po in
three months; the people would not
stand the last raise and went back
to Ohio.
l see our friends who live here Oc-
casionally. l met S. Thos. Williams q
couple of weeks after he arrived an
[ asked him how he liked the city
and climate He said | don't see how
any one could find any fault with
either one. He bought a mOGerE six
room bungalow. Then Tommy Jones
from Baraboo showed up cOuple ct
weeks ago, NY friend, Charles Wright
took him to West Lake Park and
Charley a3xa,l him how he liked it.
He said, II cften heard Of the garden
of Eden blt t!.. is the gar1e2 cf
Paradise"
Wins Race
Little Jimmy Murphy won the $50
mile auto race at Beverly Hills Speed
way. The new demon driver went
the $50 miles without stop, some
thing unusual as they generally have
tire or engine trouble. He made a
little better than 103 miles an hour
Jimmy Murphy, almost unknown,
Irish by birth, loved by the gods, an
given a moster hand by nature, be-
came the first champion of the new
course, king of the Los Angeles speed
way.
Leopold Godowsky, the famous plan
list has his hands insured for $250.000.
If one finger is injured the musician
will get $4,000; in case any injury
to the hands should prevent him from
playing he would get the full $250,0O0.
No other hands are insured for that
amount
Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford the film star got d
divorce from Owen Moore and this
is the biggest piece OF news from film
dom this year. She came to her home
at Los Angeles quite different fror
the demure Miss of the screen. Mary
lost her temper and the sunshine of
her smile when newspaper report
er met her at the Southern Pacific
station When Mrs. Smith, as Mary's
mother is known in private life, es-
pied the reporter she asked him if
he was waiting for some one. He
said he was waiting for her daughter
Well she has nothing to say. Every
one knows she got divorce. This is
a personal matter and the public is-
not interested in her private affairs
g A girl flyer, 5000 feet in the air,
defied death. Men have done it and
why not women. Miss Chas. Steckel
played monkey in the trees on an air
plane going 70 miles an hour. She
nimbly clambered out of the cockpit
and walked around on the tips of the
wings with an ease of what appeared