Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1923-10-18
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS

Henry Kolkman, 65, of Bangor,
Wis, committed suicide by hanging
in the woods near his home. He had
brooded over i'll health and financial
troubles.
Anse1 Anderson, IA, Ashland, picked
up a dynamite cap in the road and
attempted to strike a match on it.
His left thumb and two fingers were
blown off.
For carrying concealed weapons,
Ralph Barnes, who claims Middle
town; Pa, as his home, was sentenced
at Laona to thirty days in the Forest
county Jail.
Beaten to Inconsistencies while on
his way to his home, Jefferson Powlas,
an Indian, was found on the road near
his residence at Oneida with $100
missing from his pockets.
Miss .Gwendo51 Quay was injured
in Green Bay while attending foot
ball game She was standing on the
running board Of an auto, and in the
excitement fell off. spraining both
ankles
An unidentified man, one foot bare
and the other poorly shod, was picked
up near GAINESVILLE He could not give
his name, nor from whence he came,
and was committed to Mendoza for
treatment.
Stanley, Makowski, son of Mr.. and
Mrs J. M. Makowski, of Sobieski,
died of injuries received when he
struck his head on an obstruction
while swimming near his home sew
eral weeks ago.
Jacob Smith, "a, said to be a resi-
dent of indianapolis, met death in the
woods near Monica when struck by a
falling tree. Smith was alone at the
time of the accident. His body was
found by hunters. His skull was frac-
tured and one shoulder broken.
Blinded by smoke from forest fires,
William S. Mann, 20, was instantly
killed when his motorcycle collided
with an automobile, driven by Andrew
Jarney, at Oconto. Mann, who runs
milk route, using side car, failed
to see the automobile approaching
from a side street.
The Hatton Lumber Co. Of New
London has opened its camps for
winter work. They will employ about
four hundred men in the various
camps. They have opened up a new
tract of timber in Iron county. The
saw mill here is now at work on 200,-
900 feet of hard wood logs.
The 500 ore dock at Ashland, a
steel and cement structure which waS
built during the early part of the war
at a cost of more than $1,000000, will
be doubled in length, possibly during
1924. 1t will be extended clear to the
government channel 1t is one of the
finest ore docks on the lakes.
Miss Jessie Sprague, Brodhead, was
elected president of the Wisconsin
Library association at the annual
meeting at Fond du Lac. Miss Jessie
Bingham, Rhinelander, was elected
president; Miss Jessie Weston,
Milwaukee, secretary, and Miss Wini-
fred Bailey, West Allis, treasurer.
Farmers of Stephensville and vi
cinity, who set out to beat the high
cost of suger by raising sugar cane
for sorghum have failed partially in
their purpose, due to the early frosts
which have ruined great shares of
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sorghum is, nevertheless, being
cooked. One mill in this section has
produced more than six hundred gal
Ions of the product for local cane
growers.
Carl J. Ats registered Jersey cow
Gray Girl, has one more month to go
to complete her years work in the
Mount Hope-Lancaster Cow Testing
association. Her record to date is 758
pounds of butterfat. Her production
for September, according to Tester
Blaine G.. Paulson, was 75.7 pounds
fat. If she does as well in October
she will make for the year 1874 pounds
of butterfat, making her the second
highest cow in the state.
A statement issued by Solomon
Levitan, state treasurer, said that the
treasury was in good condition on
Oct 1. His statement set out that at
that time there was a balance in all
funds of the state of 81, 749, 271.01.
The general fund, he said. had bal
ance of $8,733,496. The remission of
taxes authorized by the emergency
board "can be made with entire
safety, and will result in reducing
taxes" Mr.. Levitan declared.
Wisconsin's corn crop will be 3d.
$4,000 bushels, according to esti-
mates made by the department of
agriculture. This is a decrease of
practically 100000 bushels from the
Sept. / estimate. Damage by frost to
the crop in the southern part of Wis
consin accounts for the decrease. The
Wisconsin yield last year was up
wards of $4,000, 90 bushels of corn.
The average price of corn in Wiscon-
sin this year is 81 cents bushel,
compared with So cents last year.
D. ]. Dagnon, Seneca, Wis, has
been named cashier by the directors
of the Bloomington State bank, in
place of A. E. Budalm, retired. Dag
aon has been cashier at Gays Mills
and Viroqua.
While driving home from the bed
side of lanes Wolfe. aged Roscoe