Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-10-21
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Fish rescue work on the upper
Mississippi river came to close will
a record of more than 160,000,00(
fish saved from suffocation during the
winter months in landlocked sloughs
according to the estimate of Supt. G
+. Cutler, in charge of the rescue
crews.
Lewis E. Killian, Milwaukee, con
victed in 1919 Of embezzling Sal, 024
and sentenced to ten years at Wau
pun, was denied pardon by Gov. Johr
=. Blaine Killian was serving in The
savings department of the Nationa
avenue branch of the American Elk
change bank, Milwaukee, when he
gradually embezzled the money.
Convinced that the fires which de
stroyed the buildings on the Wilson
Lane farm near GAINESVILLE, causing 9
loss of $4,000, was of incendiary orr
gin, an investigation was ordered By
the state fire marshal in Madison
Insurance adjusters making an investi
cation expressed the belief that the
buildings were fired, with revenge as
the probable motive. When dis
covered by passersby, three buildings
were burning at the same time.
Door and Kewaunee counties may
be asked to unite with Brown te
finance the movement for an enlarged
sanatorium at Hickory Grove, which is
now. exclusively under the auspices OF
Brown county. Physicians have in
dorsed the plan in their fight against
tuberculosis. 1t is deemed best to
have victims of the disease at one
sanatorium. Hickory Grove is favored
by the health leaders of the three
counties.
Total of 4,063,0OO cases of peas
approximately half of the entire pea
pack of the nation-was put up by Bad,
ger Gamers this year 'sWhile this
pack is nearly 100000 cases ahead
of the nearest competitor state, it falls
short of the 5,8O4,00 case pack of last
year" says R. E. Vaughan of the Wis.
consin college Of agriculture. "The
total pack of the nation this year is
100000 cases as compared to H.
$4,000 cases a year ago, according to
figures supplied by the Gamers"
With $4,000 more automobiles regis
tered this year in the office of the
secretary of state, the total number
has now increased to set the new
record of 100000. The number of
machines registered has been increas-
ing at rate of close to $4,000 a year
so that the state will contain upwards
of $4,000 machines by the end of
another year Mail orders for the new
plates for 1921 will be open on the
first of December, according to Secre-
tary of State Elmer S. Hail. The new
plates, white figures on dark green,
are being made at the state prison
at Waupun and close to 100000 will
be ready before the first of the year.
Four sisters, two brothers, and their
mother held family reunion in Fond
du Lac on the occasion of the arrival
of one of the sisters, Mrs. Oscar John
son, from Bodo, Norway. She had
seen none of the other members of
her family for eighteen years. Mrs.
Johnson married Bodo merchant and
moved to the far north, and though
it was not until fourteen years ago
that the last member of the family,
including the mother and father, came
to America and to Fond du Lac, it was
more than four years before that time
that Mrs. johnson had visited at her
home. She will visit in Fond du Lac
three or four months.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany paid the entire amount of its
state tax for 1921 totalling $4,000 to
Henry Johnson, state treasurer. This
includes payment for both biennial
periods. due to the fact that the tax
commission is reported to have failed
to make an assessment for the first
half. Treasurer Johnson has asked
Attorney General Morgan for an opin-
ion concerning the liability of the
company for failure to pay the first
nall Oh Lie dSSOS01ACA1I WAOA ~ "e.o
due. He wishes to know if it will be
required to pay interest for the six
months when the money was kept by
the company when it should have
been in the state treasury.
The recent rumor that a branch of
the Kuklux Khan had been organized
in Racine county was given color and
the Inhabitants of the town of Gale
donia. ten miles northwest of Racine,
were aroused when John II. Miller, a
young farmer living near Caledonia,
was served with an ultimatum to
leave his farm or suffer injury, by the
leader of five capped and gowned
men who drove up to his barn in a
large touring car and after delivering
their threat sped away. Some are in
clined to believe that the affair is a
practical Joke, while others have
adopted the theory that plot may
be involved and that the eviction OF
Miller is only preliminary step to
more serious doings.
Because he was operating a tenn
perance saloon and selling moonshine
in the kitchen, Charles Zatuski, North
Fond du Lac, was arraigned in court.
One witness testified that he had pur.
chased about ten drinks in Zatuski's
x.7Ii1o fhorp he had seen