The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-03-16
BADGER STATE
HAPPENINGS

feet by the railroad commission. The
order cut the charges from $l.S5 fol
the top step to $1.75 and other steps
by the same amount.
over $50 skilled mechanics, black
smiths and tin workers returned tC
work in the Great Northern shops al
Superior after being idle since Jan. 81
The shops will be kept at the present
workmanship strength throughout
the summer months.
wild rabbits have invaded smaller
places in northern Wisconsin because
of deep snow which prevents them
from getting food. They have attack
ed fruit trees and fruit-bearing bushes
and have stripped the bark from the
trunks. Many trees will be killed be.
cause of the rabbits work.
Demands for the same wage scale,
70 cents an hour, for 1922 that was
in force in 1921 has been made by the
carpenters union of Eau Claire on
contractors and builders. At Chip
pewa Falls the carpenters have an
nounced voluntary cut in wages of
10 cents an hour from rs cents to 65
cents.
Sheboygan county in 1922 will con-
struct more cubic yards Of concrete
bridges, and will excavate II per cent
more cubic yards on the highways, at
a IS per cent less cost than in 1921,
according to County Highway Engi-
neer Langley speaking before the
County road school in session at She
boygan. In 1921 the county had $780,
600 available as against 100000 this
year
DR.. Gerhard A. BadinE, former may
or and former health commissioner
of Milwaukee, who was named as
minister to Ecuador by President Har-
ding was confirmed by the senate
Dr. Bading is the first Wisconsin man
to be awarded a diplomatic position
under the Harding administration.
He expects to leave within a short
time to take up his duties at the CAPT
tai of the South American country.
The board Of directors of the Amer
lean Forestry association has announC-
ed the appointment of Ovid NJ. Butler,
assistant director of the forest pro
ducts laboratory Madison, as techni-
cal forester Mr. Butler was grad
uated from Butler college, Indian
apols, in 1902. In 1905 he entered the
Yale Forest school and was graduated
in 1907 with the degree OF master OF
forestry.
The state conservation commission
is preparing to make its greatest catch
of fish eggs for Matching this spring,
Braylon O. Webster, commissioner in
charge Of fisheries said. He expects
that between 2OO,O0O00O and 100000
coo pike eggs will be gathered before
the season is completed. Out of this
number, millions Of pike will be grown
and distributed in the streams OF the
state. Effort is also to be made to
obtain as large a quantity Of muskel-
mnge eggs as possible.
The biggest batch of mail ever re
ceived at the Washburn post office at
one time arrived there a week after
the recent big storm when the rail
roads were opened up to Washburn.
There were M sacks weighing in all
about 10,7OO pounds, and it was three
days before Postmaster John O'Sulli-
van and crew got out from under the
load. In the lot there were so sacks
of first class mail weighing about 1000
pounds, los sacks of second, third
and fourth class mail, weighing about
$500 pounds, and 10 sacks Of cata-
loRues weighing about 1140 pounds.
If anyone in Wisconsin would like
an island for a summer home the
state conservation commission an
nomccd il has 500 Of them to let in
the northern lakes of the state. Al
ready 100 o. the 500 wooded islands
granted to the state in 1912 have been
leased by me commission to individ-
uals for five year periods. The cost
TO the lessee is nominal and conditions
of the lease merely prohibits the cut
ting of green timber, sale Of intoX,
icaung liquor and agreement that
every prccaution will be taken to
avoid fire.
Chronic insane cost the state and
counties $1,OOG.OOi TO maintain during
the last year the state board of con
troll reported This is the first time
in the history of the institution that
expenditures have gone over the ST..
100000 mark The large increase in
population Is given as the cause for
the rise in cost from $9955i4 eXpend.
ed in 1920 While the expenditure for
individual inmates has been kept at a
low figure, the number has risen until
at the present time 1898 insane are
in state and county institutions OF
this number l,42i are in state con
Quoted asylums $50 in the Milwaukee
Hospital for the Insane and 6,3S5 in
county asylums.
Telephone and electric companies
which suffered severe losses as a re-
suit OF The slcct ana snow-storm OF
Feb. % to "a are to apply to the rail
road commission for authority to issue
bonds and raise rates TO meet tho
expense Of repairing their property
Henry Trumbower commissioner. has
announced Damage to these utilities
is estimated at 100000