Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1920-03-13

| municipal court here when August
Blank. third of the trio of bandits to
| be sent over the road" pleaded
guilty to dynamiting the safe and was
sentenced by Judge Tully to serve
thirty years at Waupun. Blank had
no attorney and asked for none. Earl
Loveday and Carl o. Carlson, his pals,
are both serving life sentences at the
state penitentiary. All three were
| Chicago gunner.
Madison -- More than 900 beaver
| tags have been issued by the state
| conservation commission so far this
| year 10 trappers in northern counties
that have open season on beavers dur
| ing February and March. Petitions
| are now being received by the com
| mission urging closed season for
| year or so on the little fur bearing
animals whose skins now bring from
| $50 to $40 each. Trapping on the
scale of this year and last will wipe
| out the beavers, the petitioners say.
Madison Bonus checks to Wiscon-
sin soldier boys are signed at the rate
of 1900 an hour by a new process
| which has been installed at the office
| of the state treasurer The new ma
| chine is called the signograph and
| signs five checks at a time The per-
| son signing the check writes his own
name, and by the same movement OPP
crates piece of apparatus which
makes five identical signatures.
Amigo - The popular impression
| that Havana is flooded with Ameri,
cans in quest of thirst quenchers is
| very misleading, says DR.. F. V. Wat
| son, who, with his family, just returned
| from sojourn in the south. which in
| cluded a trip TO Cuba. Aside from the
| opening of a couple new American
| bars there during the last few months
| the amount of drinking done there is
| not abnormal.
Madison-The official history of the
| 'Chirty-second division was sent to the
| state printer by the state history com
| mission. The official history of the
| Thirty-second division was written by
Gen. Hahn. It has, however, been
| edited by staff of the Wisconsin His
tory commission so as TO make it more
| readable The books viii be illus
trated by number of pictures.
Madison-Out near Mineral Point
folks VIII have to pay just twice as
much as they formerly did for tele-
| phone service, but no particular com
plant has been heard, for the rate as
| advanced will be only 81 a month. The
| railroad commission issued the author
| ization for increased revenue to the
Western Crawford County Farmers
Mutual Telephone Co
Darlington p. Olson. Fayette, is
/ a collector of Indian relies He pre-
| scented the Lafayette County Historical
! society with q splendid collect on Of
copper spears. stone pipes. arrow
/ heads and other things peculiar to In
dian folks. Now he makes another
/ present of the same kind. adding to
the already well-flled library
La Crosse - Another excursion
/ steamer Will lie added to the fleet
operated on the upper Mississippi this
year by the Streckfus Steamboat line
/ The new steamer will be named the
Capitol, and 1t viii be the longest
/ widest and swiftest stern wheel boat
ON the river. with five decks and a
/ capacity OF $500 passengers.
| Marinette is to have a
| fully equipped shipyard for the con-
! struction of tugs and fishing craft l.
| X. Larson, shipbulder, who has built
a number Of vessels at his small yard
| In the First ward. has been given the
| use of a site of several acres with con
| siderable dock front by the city and
| WIN enlarge his business.
| Rhinelander-James Babie. who was
| refused citizenship papers here in Cir
/ cuit court, was found in a room OF a
/ local hotel with his throat cut He
/ was respondent because not given
| Citizenship. which was temporarily re
/ fused because he was not sufficiently
! familiar with the United States gov
/ eminent.
R8cine-John Harry and Mrs. Anna
Markoff. who, the police claim. admits
thar she has a husband living in Mil
! vaukee, We're arrested here Ga a
statutory charge. The couple came TO
Racine f-1n Hancock Mich. on Jan.
6, where they had lived for four
/ months
Wausau-IOhn ". Foster. deputy
conservation warden. is dead Of abs.
/ cess Of the brain following influenza.
M Foster held the office Of deputy
/ conservation warden for sixteen years
/ snd was recognized as one Of The most