River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1922-01-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
! NEWS OF THE !
| BADGER STATE |
Observation-Disclosures

MadiSOn-TwO disastrous GreS at
Madison caused property damage es
timated at $4,000. While flames
that broke out in the Candy Shop and
Studio, dance hall for university stu
dents, were menacing a business
block on State street, a fire was rag
ing at the Mendoza state hospital for
the insane, across Lake Mendoza, in
the occupational therapy building.
Firemen battled the Candy shop blaze
five hours before it was brought IN
der control. The fire was believed to
have been caused by an overheated
furnace. Fire of unknown origin de-
stroyed the occupational therapy
building at the Mendoza hospital. with
loss estimated at more than $4,000.
The building was being used to train
shell-shocked soldiers receiving in
struction Under direction of DR.. w.
+. Lorenz
Fort Atl1inson-Large shipments of
purebred dairy cattle to Mexico from
kinson have put that city on the map
with Mexican cattlemen as a leading
dairy center. Thousands of cattle
have been shipped to Mexico during
the last three years. At first the cat
tie were loaded in freight cars and
it took fifteen days to make the trip
to Laredo Tex, where they were un.
loaded, but now they go by express
in specially constructed cars leased
by the Edgewater company. These
cars are hauled by fast passenger
trains and the trip to Mexico City
| takes only week. The cattle travel
as luxuriously as do Pullman passen-
| gers. They have excellent ventilation
in the cars and are fed and watered
in the cars with no stops.
Eau Claire-Judge James Wickham
of Eau Claire has granted the petition
of Pehrnot Dahley and other stock
holders of the Chippewa Falls Hotel
Co. that they and other stockholders
wishing to participate be made CO.
! defendants with the directors, Elks'
lodge and Peter Layman, Junction
City, in the suit brought by the state
to confiscate the Hotel Northern, Eau
Claire, owned by the hotel company
on the grounds that it has been made
the prize at a lottery. This suit will
come up for trial in April. Peter
Layman held the lucky number in the
drawing for the 100000 hotel sold al
the conclusion of the big mardi gras
celebration last summer.
Madison-The states pay roll fol
employees in Madison amounted Il
$225,000 for December. This amour
does not include salaries for univer
sity employees, normal school EN-
ployes, or employees in the state char
liable and penal institutions, Henry
Johnson, state treasurer, said. He ex
planned that the pay roll includes
slightly more than 1000 employes
working for the various boards ant
commissions. There were few marked
increases in salaries of state EN-
ployes during the period when wages
were being raised, and as a conse
Quence Mr.. Johnson says there viii
probably be no reductions.
Madison-The state and county
penal and charitable institutions
house 1898 persons, 653 more thar
last year, report of the state board
of control shows. OF the number 5,
III are in state institutions and 7,78t
in county. County hospitals for tn,
insane have 6,973 inmates, and stat,
hospitals 1,407, or 1872 more than las
year, while the number of feeble
minded being cared for is 1882, al
increase of SO. There are 1,217 pris
oners in the penal institutions, 1,1S:
in the industrial schools, and 1,0O1 il
the institutions for tuberculosis.
notwithstanding to census fol
1920, Rusk county has a foreign-borr
population of 171s per cent, more thar
a score of nationalities being repre-
sented OF the foreign-born, native.
of Poland lead; Germany is second
and Norway third. Forty-one indians
| live in the county, decrease of i
since 1910.
Portage-Miss Jennie Bowman, Xii
bourn, becomes sole heir to an estat,
valued at $145.61576, which was set
tied in county court at Portage. TIL,
inheritance tax amounts to s7,732.3O
Miss Bowman's father was one of thu
pioneers of Wisconsin and the famil!
figured in the early settlement of thi.
vicinity.
Fort Atkinsor-An eagle, believed
to be the largest ever, brought dow1
in the southern part of the state, wa,
shot by VIII Cannon and Floyd Dom
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