Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-12-02

shoveling snow in front of the resi-
dence of his daughter, Mrs. Alex Eng
strom, Merrill The body was sent
to Gillette, where Mr.. Wood lived 81
years.
The Rev. Alexander ]. McGavick,
/ auxiliary bishop of the Chicago Cath
Ollie diocese since 1899Aand pastor of
the Holy Family church at Chicago,
was promoted to be bishop of the do
cese of La Crosse. Bishop McGavick
succeeds the late Bishop Schebach.
He was born at Fox Lake, I'll, in 1868
and was ordained a priest in 1887,
after having graduated from st. Via
tors college.
George Webster, 25, Oneida Indian.
living on the outskirts of the reser
walton, was arrested on a warrant
sworn out in Wisconsin Rapids on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses. 1t is alleged that
Webster issued number of small
checks without sufficient funds in the
bank. An epidemic of bad check pass
ing is prevalent among the redskins
at the reservation.
The Sheboygan county board of SUI
pervisors voted to appropriate $66,833,
assessed by the state for common
schools in the county. The village of
Random Lake asked an appropriation
of $1,000 for road work in that village
on 10Th nv
city Nand county school physician, re
ported 81 cases of sickness in the
county last year requiring county aid.
Only one pauper was reported for the
county.
The dead bodies of Carl Foreman,
SO years old, and his brother James,
20, were found by their mother in the
barn at their home near Kempster,
Langlade county. James had been
shot in the back of the head, and
Carl, who lay near by, shot through
the temple, clutched a revolver in his
hand. The mother told officials that
Carl had acted queerly of late but
that there had been no trouble be
tween the brothers.
A bulletin was recently posted at
the plant of the NJ. & M Paper Mill
Co., Marinette, reading as follows:
"This mill has now operated 100 days
without a lost time accident, a rec
ord which has probably not been
equalled by any paper mill in the en-
tire state. The woodward has oper-
ated 293 days without an accident;
the woodroom. 233 days; pulp mills,
800 days; millwrights and car enters,
272 days; steam and electric, 357 days
without an accident.
During the last three years the state
tax commission through field and Of
fee audits have uncovered over $14,-
100000 Of unreported income, which
has netted the state an additional ST.
500, 900 in tax, the commission re-
ports. This years audits, which have
not yet been completed, show re-
turn of $4,949,434 of unreported in
come, which will bring a return of
$442,439.45 in taxes. Gov. Blaine in
asking for a transfer Of $4,000 from
the educational bonus fund to the tax
commission to pay for additional in
vestigators believes that many mil
lions of dollars further in taxes will
be collected on back incomes.
Because the average total cost a
mile of concrete highway in Green
county is $4,000, including cost OF
relocation. bridges and sur.
facing, the Green county board voted
to change to other than cement con
struction. Applause greeted the dec.
by Supervisor John r. Molly,
Spring Grove. that there's too much
Madison in this road business, and we
have to pay the bills" Green county
voted $3,000,0OO worth of bonds fol
concrete highways The legislature
passed law empowering boards OF
in such cases to change
to cheaper kind of construction
The board made the change
A justice Of peace in any Wiscon
sin county may also serve as assessor
of incomes without violating any state
law, E. E. Brossard, assistant attor
ney general, advised A. F. Murphy
district attorney of Marinette county,
in an opinion County boards cannot
fix the salary of the sheriff at slip
ulated sum and then allow him addi
tional funds for expenses, Mr.. Bros
sard held in a second opinion given
Mr.. Murphy. "sThe salary when fixed
by the county board necessarily in
cludes the expenses for performance
Of the sheriff's duties, and they must
be borne by him, and are, in contem.
plation of the law, compensated for
by the salary" he said.
Too many blackbirds, always nui-
sance and loss to Winnebago county
farmers, caused some of them to de-
eide on action to rid the region of the
pest. A petition was signed by 58
and presented to the county board, in
session at Oshkosh, asking that it
provide bounty of cents for each
The petition declared the
action necessary because blackbirds
are increasing so fast and are so de-
structive that they are practically
wiping out the crops along lakes and
rivers. Chairman Mcdonald, Of the
county board, was at loss as to the
o,.c,,d,,ro o1, tho nptiti0u h11t finally