River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-05-18
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.!
NEWS OF THE !
: BADGER STATE !


in constructing the 400 miles of con
crete highway planned in the state
during the present year will cost $780,.
600 less than the 1921 cost for an
equal amount, the highway commits.
sion points out in its quarterly report.
The report says that estimated con
servatively the saving which resulted
from the buyers strike against ce-
ment companies to bring a reduction
in prices, amounted to 100000. APP
proximately 100000 barrels of ce-
ment were contracted for at Sl.40 a
barrel. The 1,S0C patrolmen who
maintain Wisconsin's trunk highway
system are practically all hired for
the season at wage about 20 per
cent under 1921, or about $40 a
month, the commission announces.
Madison--The number of inmates
of state and county charitable and
penal institutions has risen to 1874,
an increase Of 63S during the last
year, the state board of control re-
ported. Those on parole number g.
1876, reduction of AL from the num-
Der at this time last year. A total
of 5,310 are in state charitable and
penal institutions, with Fiji on pa
role, where there are 1874 inmates of
county institutions, with LOLA on pa
role. The number of insane has in
creased 149 during the last year, to
S,476, while feeble minded number l.
1879. There are now 1,247 in the penal
institutions, an increase from 1.020 a
year ago.
Madison-The gross income of Wis
consin farms fell to $259, 100000 this
last year, from the peak of $415,00O,-
600 in 1919, the crop service reports.
This represents a decrease of $780,
900, 900 in value in 1920, and is said
to be lower than the pre-war value
of 1914, although official figures are
not available for that time. The por-
ton of the farm income attributable
to livestock has increased constantly
since 1917, and in 1921 was the high.
est ever, or ST. per cent OF the total.
Livestock values are reported to have
held up much better than crop values.
Madison - Prohibition enforcement
ordinances are being enacted by a
number of cities of the state as the
result of an opinion of Atty. Gen.
Morgan, given some months ago, that
might lawfully enact
penal dry laws enforced by local Of
ficers, w. Stanley Smith, prohibition
commissioner, reports. BY passing
local enforcement laws, cities are able
to receive the fines imposed for their
own use, while all collections made
under the state law go to the state
school fund.
Madison-In the IL counties in
which the open season for beaver and
otter prevailed this year, 5,629 beaver
and SO otter were trapped, according
to reports received by the conserva-
ton commission. The average value
of beaver skins was S18.49 and of
otter $24.13, SO that beaver trappers
are believed to have made $94,978.15
and otter trappers $2,065 during the
season.
Madison-Twenty-o accidents at
public railroad crossings during the
last three months were reported by
the railroad commission. Six deaths
and IA injuries resulted from the ac-
cidents. In 20 of the cases, automo-
biles were involved, with four persons
killed and 13 injured. Steam railroads
reported a total of 81 accidents other
than at crossings, which resulted in
Is deaths and SO injuries. Seven
killed were trespassers.
Madison-Public employment Of
fees are having difficulty in filling the
demand for skilled workers in a num-
Der OF trades and for common labor
in some sections of the state, the in
dustrial commission. reports. Molders,
machinists and Quarrymen are said to
be generally in demand. Unemployed
workmen are urged by the commits
sion to renew their applications at the
public employment offices.
Madison-The organization of Wis
consin automobile dealers into asso-
Citations for the purpose of fixing
prices paid for used cars through dis
semination of trade information was
held to be in restraint of trade and
illegal under the state antitrust law
by Atty. Gen. Morgan in an opinion
to G.. F. Clifford, special investigator
of his department.
Madison-E. E. Brossard, for five
years assistant attorney general of
Wisconsin, was elected by the Su-
preme court as revisor of the statutes.
The salary is $4,000 year. He sue