Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-04-29
WISCONSIN NEWS
| Important Events of the Week
Around the Badger State.

ing to chase out pig which had run
into the stall under the horse. He
leaves wife and six children.
Figures given out by the census bu-
reau show that of the total 1851, 1899
population in Wisconsin there are 1885,
904 foreign born whites, of whom near
1y a third, or 150,680, were born in
Germany. Poland takes second place
in this respect with 50,548.
The city council of Baraboo has re-
duced the salaries of all city officials,
including the police department, from
Is to 20 per cent. The aldermen evi-
IDENTIFY thought it timely to take this
action since shippers are paying but
"a cents bushel for potatoes.
Charles Comiskey, owner of the
Chicago White Sox, will make several
extensive Improvements at his farm
and summer home on Dam lake,
Oneida county, this season. He will
erect an enormous barn and make
additions to other buildings.
Ralph Heating, Moreford Becker,
Norman Sergeant and William Jesse
pleaded guilty at Rhine1ander to dyna-
hitting fish and were fined $3.50 and
costs or nine months in jail. Heating
and Becker took jail sentences. The
sentence is the heaviest ever given in
the Rhinelander court for violation of
fish laws.
Articles of organization for the
Langlade County Historical society
have been filed with the Secretary Of
State, Elmer S. Hall. A meeting will
be held May II at Amigo to elect Off
GERS. The society will affiliate with
the State Historical society at MaGi-
son. Robert M. Dessureau of Amigo
is conducting the organization.
1t became known in Kenosha that
members of the gambling syndicate in
that city had been "nicked' for $4,000
by the old wire tapping game. Men
purporting to come from Waukegan
got a bet on race. 1t was claimed
that the daylight saving aided the men
to carry out their plan. The men got
away with the cash.
August Lutte, Sheboygan, sealer Of
weights and measures, is conducting
an energetic campaign against baker
les which ship bread into Sheboygan
on account of complaints reaching him
that loaves are under weight. Sheboy-
gan has an ordinance covering the
weight of bread. local dealers have
been warned of prosecution for selling
underweight bread.
Existing marriage laws have relegat-
ed the small town magistrate to the
scrap heap so far as matrimonial knots
are concerned, in the opinion of JUS
tice of the Peace Vim. McCallum of
Neenah. Couples who now have to-
wait five days after applying for mar
riage licenses invariably seek the serv-
ices of parson, he says, and. cites
as proof that during his two years as
justice he has presided at but five
court weddings.
Dennison Wheelock, an Oneida IN
dian attorney, and one of the best
known Indians in the United States,
was elected city attorney of De Pere
at meeting of the city council, re-
placing Herbert j. Smith, who has
been city attorney fifteen years. Mr..
Wheelock was the organizer of the IA
nous Carlisle Indian band which
played at the Chicago worlds fair and
which made trip to Great Britain.
To stimulate a keener interest in.
land clearing as advocated by officials
<f +I,<, VIC 81, h,,,,o County Land r1nar
ing Association, the State Land Clear
ing department, Madison, has an
nounced that series of Land Clear
ing schools will be held in Washburn
county some time during the month
of May, All equipment necessary for
the adoption of the schools in the
county will be furnished free by the
wisconsin Land Clearing department.
Sheriff James of Racine county is
trying to figure out how he can obey
a court order to return six barrels Of
beer seized in a raid, when the beyer-
age was poured into Lake Michigan
two months ago. Judge e. B. Belden,
who heard an appeal, dismissed the
case on the ground that the search
warrant used had been unconstitutiOn-
al, and issued an order directing the
sheriff to return the six barrels of
beer.
The state department. of agriculture
reports that during the month of
March, 1921, there were tested under
the state-federated accredited herd
plan 354 herds containing 8,377 cattle.
This indicates the steadily increasing
growth as it is a marked increase over
our largest volume for any month. On
April there were 663 fully accredited
herds containing 1854 cattle; 800
herds containing 24,043 cattle having
passed one negative test toward &C
crsditation. During March 207 addi-
tional herds were taken under super
vision making total Of 2,042 herds
under supervision containing 52,890I
cattle.
Joe Dardin, who was arrested sew
eral days ago on a charge of making
moonshine whisky, was fined $3.50 and
given six months in the Barron county
Jail. In February Dardin was arrested
on similar charge and was given
twenty day sentence in the county jail
and was fined 5000. Dardin resides on
a farm not far from Barron.
Otto Korvela, pleaded guilty to a
charge of breaking into Sawyer coun-
ty bank. when arraigned in circuit
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