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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-24

Naturalization has 81 landing
fields FOR airplanes. according TO army
administration officers of the sixth
corps area. The district embracing
the states Of Illinois. Michigan and
Wisconsin stands fourth among the
nine corps areas in number Of land
ing fields.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-24

Madison-"Sunfowers won't do for
silage as long as corn is available"
In cold districts of the United States,
such as Minnesota and northern Wis
cousin. where corn cannot be raised
successfully, sunflowers furnish a
more or less satisfactory substitute"
These are the conclusions drawn by
the University of Wisconsin agricul-
tural experiment station after three
year period of testing in various parts
OF Wisconsin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-24

Sheboygan-Deposits in the four
Sheboygan banks have increased. &C
cording 10 a consolidated statement
made as OF May 5. At that time de
posits totaled S12.26S, 1896. against
sl2.03e. 56065 on March 10.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-24

Janesville-willetta Higgins. II. of
the state school for the blind, James
Vile. was filmed by representatives of
Ave motion picture concerns that deal
I'm news pictures. This is the first
time she has been in movies since
her remarkable powers of hearing with
her fingers and seeing through her
sense Of smell has been discovered.
II is estimated that 100000 people
will see the GAINESVILLE girl in the mo-
ton pictures within the next few
weeks.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-24

waukesha Mrs. Frieda thinner
man. charged with the murder Of her
two stepchildren. who were drowned
in a cistern on the Zimmerman farm
near Oconomowoc. was acquitted by
jury In Circuit court at Waukesha
after deliberation of seven hours. Mrs.
Zimmerman had been on trial on a
first degree murder charge growing
out Of the deaths of her stepchildren.
Ruth, years old. and Elmer, 8 years
old. who were drowned on Dec. 10.
1921. Despite her protestations OF in
nocence and her reiteration of the
story that the children had fallen into
the cistern in attempting 10 release a
duck. officials held Mrs. Zimmerman
for murder. basing their charge upon
alleged discrepancies in her story OF
the events connected with the tragedy
and upon the fact that quarrel with
her husband. growing out OF charges
that the children were not being prop
erly cared for. had preceded their
deaths by only four days.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-24

Madison-Ten automobiles ranging
from a $22,5O0 special model to the
most inexpensive of cars, all the prop
erty OF Victor II. Arnold. president OF
the Madison Bond Co, are being
scrubbed up preparatory for selling
to increase the assets of the bond COM
pany. adjudged bankrupt by the Unit
ed States district court. Deeds to the
Arnold home at Madison have been
turned over TO John S. Allen, receiver
for the company and all property be-
ing prepared for sale. Arnold gained
name as "Madison's Santa Claus
last December when he save S25'OOO
Christmas party for the city's poor.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1922-05-24

Madison-The states concrete road
construction this year If stretched
across the state diagonally, would
reach from Beloit TO within a few
miles OF Superior. The 1922 building
program totals 425 miles. so miles
more than the record mark Of 345
miles set last year.
The Washington times., 1922-05-14

for there was room for both OF them. Lot
went to Sodom. When that city, by Its
wckedness was under the condemnation
of Jehovah and about to be destroyed
Abraham tried in vain to save it by the
merit of at least ten righteous men. He
could not find even that many there and
Lot was warned to flee, after which Sodom
and its sister city were destroyed.
Salt water and brine are always found
in oil fields. Almost invariably when a
well begins to be exhausted warning is
given by the pumps throwing up salt
water. After all the oil is gone there is
often a strong flow of brine. There was
good reason for the mention Of salt in the
Biblical narrative. 1t NAV be that Lots
wife, lingering behind. was overtaken by
wave or covered by a geyser OF strongly
concentrated brine and, smothered by It
was found later so encrusted with the
crystals as to resemble "a pillar OF salt"
or the cities of the plain" there re-
mains, of course, no trace. Legend places
them somewhere along what is now the
northern part of the Dead Sea. The re-
gion here shows evidence OF exactly such
commissions Gs the two scientists quoted
describe.
The scientists believe, also, that the fall
Of the walls of ancient Jericho was due to
one of the earthquakes to be expected in
such locality. Jericho is only five miles
from the Dead Sea and well within the oil
regicn. The escape Of a large pocket of
natural gas and the collapse of the
pockets walls might easily have produced
a shifting Of the earth under the city suffi-
cient to topple over its high and heavy
battlements
And such an occurrence might well have
The Washington times., 1922-05-14

slant marching by so great an army might
have brought about shiftings of gas and oil
in caverns beneath the walls and the col
lapse of the walls of such caverns. Such
collapse would be felt at the surface as an
earthquake.
Nor is it at all irreverent 10 suggest
that Jehovah used for His purposes nat
ural forces such as these and the flaming
columns Of gas and exploding oil that
rained down fire upon doomed sodom and
Gomorrah.
The people Of Palestine have long asso-
ciated in their minds the existence Of
malevolent forces in this part of the
country. II was not far from Jericho that
they located the Mount of Temptation"
to which Satan took Jesus, IAN exceeding
high mountain, and showed him all The
kingdoms Of the world, and the glory Of
them; and saith unto him, all these things
will give thee If thou wilt fall down and
worship me-" Matt. w. S-9)
II was also near Jericho that Zacchaeus
was called and the blind were healed
where the parable Of the king and his
The Washington times., 1922-05-14

from heaven, and the picture Of the
smoke coming up from the depression
of the Dead Sea as the smoke of
a furnace is something unique in litera-
ture. 1t is not that of an ordinary volcano
or earthquake, but most forcibly suggests
the accompanying phenomena Of the burst
ing and burning of such pentup reservoirs
Of gas and petroleum as we have abundant
scientific reason for believing existed in
the rock cavities of the region. The
'slime-pts' mentioned as characterizing
the valley and the recently discovered evI
dence of the use of bitumen in the con
structon OF ancient Jericho give fresh
sacred writer"
Oil fields such as those of the Holy
Land were formed by the slow decomposi-
tion of certain marine animals and plants.
These remains accumulated in almost un-
thinkably vast quantities upon the floors
of ancient seas. As the centuries went by.
movements Of the earth's crust gradually
displaced these seas, burying their deposits
at varying depths and at last leaving the
old bottoms as dry land Under the heat
and pressure Of such shiftings the organic
remains were distilled into the oils which
are so necessary to us to-day.
The mention OF Lots wife being turned
to a pillar OF salt is regarded as being
peculiarly significant as to the causes of
the catastrophe that overthrow Sodom and
Gomorrah. 1t will be remembered by
Bible students that when Abraham first
came to Palestine he was accompanied by
his nephew, Lot, and that when their
herdsmen began quarrelling among them
selves Abraham told Lot hat he might
choose any part OF the land and go thither,
and that he would 60 10 some other spot,
The Washington times., 1922-05-14

great outbreaks of natural and destructive
forces took place in this district.
The Spring Of Elisha" is pointed out
near Jericho. Here the successor of
Elijah performed the miracle of casting
salt into the water that thenceforth the
land about there should be fruitful, as is
stated in II. Kings, 1921: And he went
forth unto the spring Of the waters and
cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith
the Lord, have healed these waters;
there shall not be from thence any more
death or barren land"
With the coming of the American en-.
gineers to this part of the country new
era will dawn for the scattered Arabs who
have been living In the neighborhood.
When American derricks are erected and
the work OF boring for oil begins it is easy
to imagine the sensation that will be
created. The pounding of the drills, the
tearing into the earth, will be only the
first faint foreshadowing of what will come
when they strike OIL; for, according to
all the information in the hands of their
experts, they will not have to go very deep
before the oil will gush forth, and once
more, as described in the destruction OF
Sodom and Gomorrah, "the smoke of the
land will go up like a furnace"
But It will not be a destructive fire, for
the wells will be soon controlled and a
new age of prosperity must dawn for this
abandoned part Of the Holy Land Thou.
sands OF workmen will he needed. and a
new Jericho will spring into being, one
not founded upon the human sacrifice of
the olden day, but built up by the energy
and enterprise of one of the most efficient
organizations known to the industrial world.
It is a new miracle, a miracle of modern
science, which will be worked In this
scene of many miracles, and the old
prophecy will be fulfilled in a new sense,
when prosperity and even wealth will flow
from the depths of the earth at the touch
OF American enterprise.
The Washington times., 1922-05-14

horns, marched before the Ark Of the
Covenant, which had all the armed
men of Israel marching before and after
1t. and each day, for six days, they
marched around Jericho, blowing the
trumpets.
And on the seventh day, they rose
early about the dawning of the day,
and compassed the city after the same
manner, seven times; only on that day
they compassed the city seven times.
And II came to pass at the seventh
time, when the priests blew with the
trumpets Joshua said unto the people,
shout, for the Lord hath given you the
city. SO the people shouted when the
priests blew with the trumpets: and
ii came to pass, when the people
heard the sound of the trumpet, and
the people shouted with great shout,
that the wall fell down fat, so that
the people went up into the city, every
man straight before him, and they
took the city"
II is not unreasonable to suppose that
the hammering and vibration of the con.
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One of the Numerous Cav
erns on the Shores of the
Dead Sea Torn Out by Ex-
plosions of Natural Gas
and Oil.

physical characteris-
tics OF the Holy
Land. He writes, in
one OF his books:
The facts con-
corning the phenom-
ena which follow in
significant artificial
openings OF natural
reservoirs of gas and
oil dimly illustrate
what might happen
in such a region as
the Dead Sea, where
earthquake m ove-
ments were liable to
open and at the same
time ignite them up
on a larger scale.
The description given
in Genesis is so sim
pie. straightforward,
lifelike and accurate
that 1t can be re.
garded as scarcely
anything else than
the report of an eye
witness who beheld
the scene from the
heights of Hebron,
ffteen or twenty
miles distant.
THE raining of
birthstone or pitch
upon the plain
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been brought about by the
sustained marching OF the
hosts OF Joshua around the
city. The number Of his men
has been estimated at 600, 900,
and the tread of 200, 900 feet
were like the blows of so
many hammers upon the
ground.
The Bibles account of the
fall Of the walls of Jericho is
very specific. In the Book Of
Joshua, chapter vi, it is re.
cited that the priests, bear
ing seven trumpets of rams
The Washington times., 1922-05-14

trumpets of the Israelites rang out will
tremble to the grinding Of the power drills
boring down into the vast reservoir Of oil
now known to underlie the whole region.
Derricks will arise like gaunt forests.
and the land which has remained un-
changed for more than forty centuries will
be transformed now beyond recognition by
the shacks and shops and machinery Of the
modern oil towns. What will be the effect
upon the habits and customs Of the inhabi
taRs which have remained practically as
unchanged for just as long, is, OF course,
beyond conjecture.
But what is. perhaps, Of the greatest
interest of all in the undertaking is that
the tremendous treasury Of oil to be tapped
is what science believes to have been the
cause Of the destruction of Sodom and
GOmorrah, the wicked "cities OF the plain"
and to have had also much to do with the
collapse of the walls OF ancient Jericho
when Joshua and the armies of Israel be-
sieged 1t.
In Genesis xix, 24-2S, 1t is written:
And Jehovah rained upon Sodom
and Gomorrah birthstone and FIRE
from the Lord out Of heaven.
And he overthrow those cities, and
all the plain, and all the inhabitants
of the cities. and that which grew upon
the grounds.
And his wife looked back from be-
hind him, and she became a pillar Of
salt.
And Abraham looked
toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and
toward all the land Of the plain, and
beheld, and, 10, the smoke of the coun-
try went up as the smoke OF a furnace"
Dr.. George Adam Smith, the distin.
guished geologist of Aberdeen University,
Scotland, was the first to link the destruc-
tion of the wicked cities" directly with
the oil deposits in the region.
In his Historical Geography Of the Holy
Land after stating unreservedly that the
soil around the Dead Sea is "oil land" he
quotes the foregoing verses from Genesis
and sets down the following expert com
ment:
Some have identified these words as
the description Of such an eruption as that
of Vesuvius upon Pompeii. But there is
no need to invoke the volcano, and those
are more In harmony with the narrative
who Judge that in this heavily bituminous
soil there took place one OF those terrible
explosions and confagrations which have
sometimes broken out in the similar
geology of the oil districts of North
America
"In such soil great reservoirs Of oil and
gas are formed and suddenly discharged
by their own pressure or by earthquake
The gas explodes, carrying high up into
the air masses OF the oil which fall back
in fiery rain, and are so inextinguishable
that they will float aire on water. Some
times brine and saline mud are elected
and over the site of the reservoirs there
are tremors and subsidences. Such phe
nomenon accounts for all the statements
of the narrative"
The Biblical narrative is dealt with from
the same viewpoint, but in greater detail
by DR.. G. Frederick Wright of Oberlin
College, Ohio, who is acknowledged to be
one of the leading authorities upon the
The Washington times., 1922-05-14
.HE British Government,
which after the World War

which after the World War
was made the guardian of
Palestine, has granted the Stand
ard Oil Company of the United
States the privilege Of sinking
oil wells in the Holy Land.
The first wells will be sunk
around Jericho and on the plain
between the ruins Of that ancient
city and the Dead Sea. In a
short time the ground that shook
beneath the tread OF Joshua's
hosts as they marched around
Jericho. and the very stones of
the walls that fell when the
The Washington times., 1922-05-14

rebellious servants was spoken.
(Luke xix, 12:27.)
The idea so general for many
ages In the Holy Land that this
region around the Dead Sea and
Jericho was, so to say, the abode
Of evil spirits, is merely the
primitive way of saving that
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
BIRTHS

Dewey and Cecilia Riley v19 u shsss
Clarence and Reurietta snydzs 71 w
Thirty Second. boy. j
Hugo and Anastada HOhmauns 1923 Aps
Jerry and Della Costello, 1907 s. Ala
Louis and Eta nckhon. 5u PrOgpec4s
Raymond and Mary Lmchinsz. 1o25 X
New Jersey, girl.
william and Elva AAhlsy, 1880 z Mar
ket, boy.
William and Margaret Campbell o07,
Herman and Hazel Moore, 41s Abbott
THOMAS and Viola BerlIng. COLA Houston,
boy.
william and Lena steeb 500 Sanders, boys
Albert and Florence Was. 15 E. Frank.
Charles and Claudens DusenbGs. Warrs
Sanitariun, girl.
Benjamin and Flosde Brumley, $50 Il.
Addison. boy.
John and Minnie Hopping, 1924 Fremont
Ira and Stella Rudder. 1885 spann. girl.
Louis and Mary Mill, 1742 s. Delaware,
William and Alfredo AuSugtin. 11sl
walter and Gertrude wachstette-. 1871 n
Denny, boy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
OTHER LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO. July 7-HOgs--R eccipts co.
600; market . a Toe higher than yesterday
average on better grades; others slow and
about steady; bulk, S0.20Q10.96: top Sill:
heavyweight, S1O504 1870; medium weight
Sl0604 1925: light weight, 5000 a II;
light lights S1OQ1OS5: heavy packing
COWS smooth, SS.75G94O: packing sows
rough, $50 q 500: pigs. S9.26M1010
Cattle-Receipts. 1000: market active and
firm; top, $1,000; beef steers. choice and
primo $3.50 1870. medium and good
$3.50 a 9.s5, good and choice So1OQ1O,
common and medium S7.2o u 9.10; butcher
cattle, heifers 5000 q $40. COVE 81 a 7.75
bulls $500 q 600, Gamers and cutters,
cows and heifers S2.75M4. Gamer steers
S35Od 5.25 veal calves( light and handy
weight. SS.25 0975; feeder steers, S5.65
OTIS; stocker steers. S4.75 a 7.65, stock
err cows and heifres S325 q 5.75. Sheep
Receipts, 10000; market firm; lambs tS4
lbs DOWN. S1275 a IA; lambs, culis and
common. S75OM12.5O; yearlng wethers.
$500 II; ewes. $3.50 a 80; ewes, culls
aud common. So q 4.25; breeding ewes. S6.25
Q11.25; feeder lambs S11.50 012.6o.
CINCINNATI July 7.-Hogs-Receipts,
all grades good swine. Sill 25; pigs. S11
roughs. $500; stays. $500. Cattle-Re-
ceipts. 800 market. strong to shade higher
lambs-Receipts 1000; market. steady to
strong; ewes. $3.50 down; lambs. 50 q H.
culls. S4a6.
CLEVELAND. July 7.-Hogs-Receipts,
mixed. Sill 40; mediums, S11 40; piSs
S1l 80; rOughs, $S.75; stays, $3.50. Cattle
Receipts, 300: market, sctive; good to
choice steers $500 $50; good TO choice
heifers, sea 9.5O; good to choice cows,
$3.50 a 30, fair to good cows. S475 6.25;
common cows, $500 40; good to choice
sheep and lambs-Reoeipts. 400; market,
higher: top. S14. Caives-Receipts. 200;
market, higher; top. Sill
EAST ST, LOUIS. July 7.-Cattle--Re-
steers, $8G1026; yearling steers and
stoekers and feeders, $50 7.25; calves,
1850 ' market steady d &c &c
up; mixed and butchers 5000 Hos:
good to heavy S10.50@1O.70; rough
ai IL g.? ba fRt 10 sheep @oSo
ceipts. $500 market, steady, 25c up; ewes.
So &c; Gamers and choppers, 50cQ $2.2o;
wool lambs. Sl2.75 a 1865
KANSAS CITY. July -Hogs-Receipts.
1000 market, strong, &c up; bulk, $40 40 q
1870; heavies. Sl0.20@ 1860; butchers,
S10.60Q 1875; lights, $l0.55 q 1880; PIGS,
market, strong; prime fed steers. $500
s25S q 5.5 5 %esteTq % stssFs $z:5oSS7S
725; heifers So 40 a 9.35 stockers and
feeders, 81 % as; bulls. So ;25; calves.
S4.50@ 9.25. Sheep-Receipts, 1000; mar
ket, steady; lambs, &1350; yearlings,
rs q 1850: wethers. $6.257.25 ewes,
$4.75 a 6.25; stockers and feeders, 1915
oil.
EAST BUFFALO. July 7.-Cattle-Re-
ceipts 200: market. active; feeders, So a
$50: shipping steers, SIS 70 q 1 so; butcher
grades. SSU9; heifers, S5.50@S.25; cows.
So .5O0625: bulls, SO Ia $50: milk cows
and springers, $50 @115- Calves-Re-
S3.50@ 11.50. Sheep and lamb--Receipts,
500: markets, active; choice lambs, S13.25
a 1925; Gull to fair. So q IS; yearlings, Sc
@10: sheep. SIS as. Hogs--Receipts. 900;
market active: workers, SLIGO @1lS5;
pigs. Sill 40 a ii So; mixed. 81 So a II so;
heavy. S11 80 @11.50; roughs. SIS 19; stays.
sac.
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Building Permits

&c 9o6 \. Boswell. dwelling. 1910 Kstcham,
9; j. y aan0 o TOssel' double. eOa Y. Forty
W. g; Cochrane. repairs. 24o2 N. New
Sarah ,. Holcomb. dwelling. 1O4 s. Haw-
W. W. Middaugh. addition. e12 Arbor.
K. NJ. Sharp. addition. 1898 Kenwood.
Harry French. dwelling. 2O7 N. Oxford,
Rt. Rev. Joseph Chartrand. addition. 37e
n. Warman, So 900.
Goodman Hosiery Mills. remodel. $50 N.
Noble, $500.
Olive A. Day. dwelling. 114s W. Thirty
James Campbell. double, 2714 Highland,
olive A. Day. dwelling. 71e E. Forty
:. Olive A, Day. dwelling. SIC E. Forty
G. D. Finkbiner. double, 3a0s E. Twenty
Mick Hemenway, remodel. 3o12 N. nh-
Sarah Honerbert. garage. 1888 n. State.
5000
Macy W. Malott, factory. 319 n. Capitol.
Southern Lumber Company dwelling. 500
E. Forty-Ninth. S3,250.
E; E: TemperIy, dwelling, 5114 Washing
william Erwin. dwelling. 724 E. Forty
Eighth. $500.
Charles E. Psuley, building. $3.50 N
New Jersey, S21 DOC.
Frank J. Lair. double. 144-4e z. Forty
William Murrin. garage. 1923 E. Eleventh,
$500.
American Estate Company dwelling. 1866
n. Delaware. So, 900.
leila Schmidt. garage. 4171 Broadway,
$3.50.
William Binkley garage 1898 ". Thirty
Second, S125.
John Wolslffer. dwelling. s46 n. Lasa1e
], W. Dobson. addition. 1909 Albany.
$500.
Frank B. Castle. garage. 113 8. TrAuh.
s$4OO.
j L. Smith. garage, 3o1o y. Capitol. $500.
Fred GLADDEN.. garage, 231 8. Emerson
B. J. F westbrook. addition. $40 W.
Harvey W Hunter. dwelling. 1890 N.
Capitol. $4,000.
A R. Kimmich, double. 422 N Oakland.
$500.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
wheat LEADS
DECLINE WHEN
CABLES WEAKEN
Favorable Weather Leads in
Influences Bearing Grain
Prices.
By United Financial

CHICAGO, July 7.-Grain prices
were lower at the close of the Chi
cago Board of Trade today.
Wheat continued to lead the de-
cline. Lack of export demand and a
heavy drop in the Liverpool market
were important bearing factors. but
favorable weather reports remained
the chief influence.
Corn and oats declined fractionally
in sympathy with wheat, but showed
some independent strength on fairly
good export demand.
Rain throughout Iowa and central
Illinois has relieved the severe
drought in those sections. Spread of
black rust in the Red River valley
has been checked by cooler weather.
Provisions We're lower.
July wheat opened off &c at $1.14.
and closed off &c. September wheat
opened off &c at $1.141s, and closed
off 1c. December wheat opened off asc
at $1.16&, and closed off 1sc.
July corn opened off sc at 63Hc,
and closed unchanged. September
corn opened up &c at $3.50. and
closed off nc. December corn opened
off sc at 662sc, and closed off 5sc.
July oats opened unchanged at
362sc, and closed off rs. September
oats opened off &c at 381zc, and closed
off sc. December oats opened off rs
at Al nc, and closed up 1sc.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
HOG PRICES GO HIGHER
Cattle and Sheep Market Firm-Re-
ceipts Fairly Good.
By United FtnGnotG,

CHICAGO, July Hog prices
were higher at the Chicago stockyards
today. Fairly active to heavy de.
mand for choice grades used up the
comparatively large run. Receipts
were 10000 and the stale supply was
12,209. A large number of light hogs
went at $11. The supply at the local
market was 5000 under last Fridays
figure, and the run at the ten big
markets was 10000 lighter than a
week ago.
The cattle market was active and
firm. Receipts were 1000 and kill.
ers received 1913 of the arrivals from
outside trading points. Activity in
the market was considered potential
because Of the light run throughout
the week. Few choice grades were on
hand and there was little demand
for the common stock.
Sheep prices were firm. OF the
$4,000 fresh receipts, big killers re-
ceived more than 5000 from other
markets and the remaining stock was
in good demand.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1922-07-07
CORN AND WHEAT BULLETIN

For the twenty.four hours ending a. M.
Friday. July 1. 1922: