Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1921-11-25
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


juries received in a runaway. He was
returning from stock sale when his
team broke away. He suffered inter.
nal injuries.
Intimating that women might soon
be serving on juries in La Crosse,
Judge e. c. Higbee, circuit judge, ap-
peared before the county board of SUI
perxisors and requested that action
be taken to provide suitable jury
TUS,1eE for mixed juries and also COM
forts for women who might be de-
t4ined over night on juries.
John Quagon. an Indian youth 16
years old, was sentenced to two years
in the industrial school for boys at
Waukesha for burglarizing the 500
depot in Brentwood six weeks ago.
William Quagon, another Indian, was
paroled in circuit court at Shell Lake,
having been implicated in the same
offense. Both Indians were from the
Chippewa reservation, twenty miles
from Brentwood.
doctor" was granted an absolute par
don by Gov. Blaine. He was serving
one-year Jail sentence for praetic-
ing as physician without a state
license. Gov Blaine said that q re-
port by three doctors testifies that had
the prisoner been held to the end Of
his term, which would have ended
Dec. Is, his health would have been
completely broken. Pardon Is given,
he said, on recommendation of these
doctors.
Fifteen tons of live carp were ship
ped from De Pere to Philadelphia.
They were taken from the Fox river
by fishermen under supervision of a
game warden. The carp were dumped
into nine large steel tanks in a steel
express car. They are kept alive by
aeration, the interior of the car con-
tanning small gasoline engine which
pumps air into the tanks The fish
can be kept alive in this manner in
definitely. They are sold to customers
alive, right from the tanks.
With 221 students taking five hours
or more of law this semester, the Uni
versity of Wisconsin Law school is
much larger than usual, according to
Dean H. S. Richards The enrolment
at the close of last year was 176,
including students in the College Of
Letters and Science who were study
ing law. There have been 245 regis.
trations in the Law school course but,
of these, "a are registered in the Col
lege of Letters and Science and are
carrying less than five hours of law
work. First year courses have en-
rolled liz; second year, 81; and the
third year, IS.
The courts of Wisconsin have near
Iy 1000 cases involving violations Of
the state prohibition law to try dur
ing the terms just opening, an esti-
mate made from reports received at
Madison from number of counties,
shows Offenders against the liquor
laws are being arrested in ever in
creasing numbers, according to w.
Stanley Smith, who says that prohibit
ton is just getting well under way in
Wisconsin. He is of the opinion that
an additional 100000 in fines will be
collected during the present court
term.
Judge E. c.. Smith of Seymour re-
mains judge without court as a
result of a decision by the supreme
court that the county board of Outa-
gamie county was acting within its
powers when it abolished the Munic-
ipal court at Seymour of which Smith
was presiding magistrate. The Munic-
ipal court was established by the
county board in 1917 under special
powers granted by the legislature and
Smith was elected judge. A few
months later the board decided that
the court was unnecessary and abol-
ished it, instructing the clerk not to
pay the judges salary. Smith started
action in circuit court to compel the
county to pay his salary, but lost his
case. He appealed to the supreme
court and was defeated again.
wisconsin will be able to meet its
share of the federal aid appropria-
ton, which amounts to $1,894,815 next
year, under the bill just signed by
President Harding, the highway com,
mission announced. This means an
increased federal aid building pro-
gram, and will call for equal expendi-
lures on the part of the state and
counties. 1t is estimated by the state
treasurer that $3,0OOOOO of highway
money will remain in the treasury at
the end of the construction year. This
will be supplemented by automobile
license fees amounting to approx
mately $4,0OO,OOO. Counties are ex-
pected to provide for bond issues
amounting to approximately $5,000,-
600, and will be required to meet the
federal aid of $1,894,8185, making a
construction program of about $15,.
900 for the year.
The Taycheedah reformatory for
women has again had to postpone the
opening of it's DOORS Delay in the
delivery Of equipment will prevent the
institution from accepting inmates be
fore Jan. /, according to M. ]. Tap
pins, secretary of the state board of
control
The northern Wisconsin grain show
to be held in Spooner, Washburn