Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-01-20
WISCONS SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Ihe Green Bay ana western ran
road has purchased the Waupaca
Green Bay branch line for $4,000
The purchase involves nine miles o
track with siding, a station at Wau
paca and rolling stock. The line j
between Waupaca and Scandinavia.
An increase in the number of EN-
ployers' calls for men was noticed
last week when a total of Al call!
were made at the Green Bay free EN-
ployment bureau. The woman's div
sion also noted an increase in TIL
number of calls, when 81 were re
ceived, 33 over the preceding week.
Within few miles of the home
he had planned for himself and th'
16-year-old bride he had found il
Lithuania, John SadoWski. 81, who
left Racine for Russia six months ago
fell under the wheels of a train IL
Chicago on the return journey ane
died after his legs were severed.
Winnebago county will do no more
work this winter to keep the mair
county highways open to traffic o.
automobiles, the road and bridge
committee of the county board Of
supervisors decided at a special meet
ing. TIE cost of clearing away tbs
snowdrifts was unreasonable in pro
portion to the general benefit, it was
decided
Because she did not have the sun
of SIS, Mrs. Stella Samborski of Su
perior, was compelled to stay in the
city Jail for three hours when she
was arrested by a Great Northern
railroad detective for alleged trespass
she testified in court at a trial in
which she asks $4,000 from the rail
road for false Imprisonment. The ar
rest was made Aug 26, 1921.
That the rush to get out of the
jitney business is almost as great as
was the desire to get in is evidenced
by the number of carriers who with
drew from the motor bus transpor-
tation field during 1921, as shown by
the records of the railroad commits
sion. Approximately one-third of the
carriers who started in the business
during 1921 withdrew before the year
was over The majority of them say
that the high cost of operating
motor busses make the jitney business
improbable.
How Appleton has changed from a
solid closed shop city to an open shop
city was explained to the Master
Builders of Wisconsin in session at
La Crosse, by Henry Lauer, secretary
of the Appleton Builders association.
Mr.. Lauer advocated paying, common
laborers good wages. He said build
ing tradesmen are plentiful at the
wages paid in Appleton. The open
shop policy in Beloit has been put
through so successfully, H. Morrill,
said. that the plumbers union has
only two members left.
Investigators of the state tax com
mission the last year uncovered $410,-
900 in unreported tax returns, includ-
ing about $180,000 of soldier bonus
money, obtained through application
of surtax on incomes. Gov. Blaine
has made $4,000 available to the
commission for prosecution of its in
vestigation Hundreds of thousands
of dollars will be brought into the
state treasury and local treasures
that otherwise would have remained
it is expected. The books
of large concerns in wisconsin will
be gone over again by investigators
to check up reports to the commits.
sion.
Mrs. Leona Sailstad Richardson,
a bride of two weeks now, widow of
J. Sailstad, former president
of the defunct Multitone Manufacture
ing Co., who is said to have been
burned to death in summer cottage
fire in 1920, will attempt to force pay
ment of the SIT 900 she believes due
her from four insurance companies
by filing suit in Eau Claire or in
Douglas county The companies re-
fuse payment upon the theory that
is still alive and the charred
bones, declared to have been his, were
planted" there by him. He eloped
with his secretary, Dorothy Anderson,
a pretty Chicago stenographer, the
companies say.
The Milwaukee Federal prohibition
agents charged with manslaughter in
connection with the death of Julius
Wurzer in a moonshine raid near
Elton voluntarily submitted to arrest.
They are represented by United
States Dist. Atty William Meilhan.
hearing was set for Feb.
"a. Warrants were issued following
decision by Dist Atty. T. ]. Reinert,
county, to press the charge
to a finish. Precedence has been
given the case on the court calendar
to decide Immediately the question
a federal prohibition officer
has the right to shoot to kill when
resistance is offered to a search war
rant.
The second biennial convention of
the Wisconsin Normal School
association will be held in
Eau Claire at the State Normal