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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25
TIER THAN MERRILL
LAND Snake Story Goes
I.,riIl One Better With a
dangerous Variety.

week we published a story
monster snake which is scar
uno bIazes out Of residents of
snake so big that several
and horses have disappeared
tho "craw" of the varmint.
III Daily Herald has vouched
the story.
NV comes the following clip
with a letter from Mrs.
ache Blackeley, formerly of
.o River but now of Ashland,
writes as follows and sends
chipping to verify what this
Of the glorious state of Wis
.,io can do when called by
ne section down state:
tor News:
g,ying read your snake story"
bst weeks issue of the News,
an forced to send you a clipping
r5e Ashland Daily Press tell
Eef a true snake story. | ann in
mation to verify the statement
Z, his snaAa was killed a block
From our home.
i Whether it is a native or escap-
from a Carnival troupe that
A.al through town a week ago,
rans a question. However,
Fare is a vast lot Of speculation
-ng the youngsters as to it's
terefore.'
SEEMS Eagle River is a safe and
ne place to live after all these
Ines happening. Here is the.
|aE
How would you enjoy seeing a
.ter moccasin snake 5 feet 6
l5es in length coiled on the side
|lA in front of you? Enough to
a the steadiest nerved person
heeby geebies.
.WaIfOrd Hagstrom was walking
Nth Avenue West yesterday
III a companion when he saw a
ge water moccasin on the side
.k He picked up a large stone
bounced it off Mr.. Snakes
id, winning on a knockout. The
Ike is exhibited at Mockler's
rage.
tits a mystery where the water
ccasin came from, as it is very
IOm that any snakes of any des-
ltion are seen around Ashland;
ecialy snakes Of the poisonous
iety."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25

muskellunge, pike, bass or brook
trout. Brook trout taken from
the river below the dam have
weighed better than five pounds.
Bob Dyer is the fellow who has
taken the record trout, and like
wise Prosper Stein, who hit a lit
tie stream near the power house
and catch the large ones. This
stream is good along in August
when the trout leave the river for
q cooler place.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25

Talking about muskies and mus
ky lakes, and there are so darn
many that it is impossible to
enumerate them all, little old
kathan comes along every season
with her quota of muskies. Just
the past few days John and Bill
Love have landed three from
Kathan after a few hours casting
of the bars and weed beds. While
most of the fish will average be-
tween dozen and twenty pounds,
they are so numerous and are of
the scrappy kind, you get thrill
every minute of the play and re-
member the catch long after it
has been cooked and eaten.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25

ford Druschel of Napierville, H.,
takes the edge on size with a 30
FOUNDER. Then comes JOS. Falken-
stein of the same Illinois city with
a 20 pound big boy. Some year
for muskies, fellows. William S.
Hart, not the guy who catches the
sporting eye of the movie fan in
the wild western drammer, but a
really fine guy from Chicago, who
also is stopping on Pickerel lake,
shoots up musky from Pickerel
that comes in weight around the
twenty pound mark.
Even over at Minocqua the fish
are fairly jumping at the lure.
The following statement by the
Minocqua Times of fish shipped
from the St. Paul road starting in
with Boulder Junction and Sayner,
shows the following:
Fish are biting according to Elk
pressman Geo. H. Jenkinson. On
one day this week So boxes of fish
were shipped from the Minocqua
office, Is from Boulder Junction
and IA from Sayner."
And now comes the thriller of
all musky tales almost beats the
snake stories from Merrill and
Ashland, but not so serious. Seems
as though Norman Valley of Nor
mandy Court has always been lead
away from the big fins and lost
every chance during the five or
seven years he has helped operate
the Valley resort on Big St. Ger
main lake, and his one desire has
been the landing of a prize musky.
An old-time friend Of the Valleys
from Chicago ambled into boat
with Norman at the oars last Sun
day and begun trying out a fam
Gus weedbed in the big lake. Nor
man had a strike from a musky;
changed places with his friend
who took the oars. No gaff hook
or gun or club to beat up the big
fin when it was played out so they
used the tenderfoot method of
"railroading" it over the side of
the boat. A 3-gang wooden plug
had firmly caught the fish and in
it's Topping around it encased one
gag firmly in the east end of the
old-timer's trousers when he fac
ed west. Didn't embed itself into
the flesh but made it rather I'M
comfortable for the wearer espec-
tally while the musky was thresh-
ing all over the bottom of the
boat The peculiar fact is that
neither men had a knife to cut
loose from the fish, and call
was sent across to DIR. Henry
Lewis, in another boat, who per-
formed til e delicate operation
without drawing blood. Norman
got his first musky, anyhow, and
it weighed in at fifteen pounds,
minus the seat of the pants of the
old-timer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25

Dell McGregor of Phelps, be-
sides being ball player and a
mixer of ice cream cones and ev-
erything, has broken into the an
Cling game. He landed an eight
pound walleye from Twin lakes
Monday, and the big bird was on
display yesterday in Knox's win
dow.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25
JUST FISH STORIES

John Lobischer, who was down
yesterday gives the report of
eleven muskies taken from Lac
Vieux Desert by guests of his
within five days last week. The
fish ranged from 10 pounds to 3512
pounds, and grade as follows: One
3512; one %; two Is; three Is;
one IA; two II; one 1917. Since
last weeks contest ended several
more have been taken of which
the weight has not been stated
to the dope artist, but they were
sportsman size at that.
Catching a brook trout out of
the Deerskin river gives that
stream added honors. It is known
far and wide as the one bully good
fly waters for taking rainbow
trout-none better in the States,
and they are sure some old big
fins rambling around in deep pools
IN the flowage. Ernest Edenton,
a premier fly artist from Jackson,
Tenn, who spends most of his
time on the Buckskin waters, land
ed pound brook trout one day
last week while after rainbow. 1t
IS being proven that while the
Wlsconse river contains many
brook trout, very few anglers af-
ter that variety of fish have the
time or inclination to- fly it. These
fish naturally work up the river
and lakes and in time will enter
the Deerskin and give a variety
to the trout artist.
Guests at Tobin's resort on The
Narrows of Little st. German lake
are after man-sized muskies. Mr..
and Mrs Edward Erhorn of Chi
cago, old-time summer visitors in
this section last week landed two
big fins, weighing in at 10 and 1871
pounds. H. d. Cook Of the same
city, brought to gaff his first
musky which weighed % pounds.
w. F. Yeslin of Toledo also 16-
pound musky to his credit.
Pickerel lake over west from
the village about a dozen miles is
coming along with several muskies
of real man-size The following
fish have been taken by guests of
Pickerel Lake Lodge within the
past week: F. VanBrocklen of Mil
waukee is credited with one weigh
ing 10 and another II pounds; Cliff
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25

The banner fish caught the past
week or for that matter since the
season opened down around the
power dam on the Wisconse, was
that taken by John R. Taylor and
T. ]. Caniven, who with c. B.
Clark of Chicago are guests of
Charley Ellis. The fish was land
ed from the river and weighed In
at an even 40 pounds. 1t takes a
mighty big fish to weigh that, and
two fellows who are responsible
for its capture are to be congrat-
ulated. 1t is a known fact that
the Old Wisconse river has the
bulge on the other streams for
mighty big fish, whether it be
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25

After celebrating about Kathan
lake as a mighty fine place to flip
the lure and nail big one, | find
that In order to back up what |
stated, Mrs. I. L. Turner, a guest
OF Kathan Inn on that lake goes
out and lands a613 pound walleye.
Now you don't hook onto a wall
eye of that size every day, but
Kathan has them. That puts me
IN mind of the story the late Al
Bradford told of Kathan's big fish.
He took me there one day and
showed me a birch tree six inches
through that grew out ON a point
near Schermer's cabin near the
outlet. It had what | took to be
a saw mark around half the tree
which had been cut in a couple
inches. Al said he had rowed over
the bar, and when his hook, trail
ing behind the boat some fifty
feet, had reached the end of the
bar, it dopped off into deep water
and a big pike nailed it. He
found he couldn't manage the
brute, SO he jumped ashore, took
a half hitch around the tree and
the see-sawing commenced. Fish
would pull him UP to the tree, he
would brace his feet and start
back. After see-sawing for half
an hour the cut got so deep in the
tree that it finally wedged the
line and escaped. Don't know
whether Henry Kuhnert can find
that tree or not, but it was there
for years to prove Bradford's
story. | thank you.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1924-06-25

Butternut lake is sure a famed
bass body and another splendid
bass was landed last week by John
Shaffer of Chicago, guest at Girls
wold's. This time it was a four
pound large mouth and was land
ed on the same string with several
that went near the four pound
mark.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
FIRE Captain
DEATH LAID
To GRIEF
James Robert Steele Dies
Following Arrest Of
His Son

Stricken with apoplexy following
shock from grief, Captain James
Robert Steele, of Number IL fire
company, died at his desk at the
engine house last night, less than
ten minutes after reporting for
duty.
Just three hours earlier his
son, James Robert Steele. had been
arrested and charged with grand
larceny in connection with the rob.
bing OF the gasoline station at
Pennsylvania and Potomac avenues
southeast, November IS.
Twenty minutes after Captain
Steele's collapse, his grief stricken
company responded to call with
out the leadership of the man
under whom they have fought
fires during the past five years.
Joined DEPARTMENT In 1900.
When they returned, after extin-
gushing small blaze. they found
their commander dead. He was
pronounced dead by Doctor Robert
R. Hottie. 1886 Monroe street north
east.
Captain Steele Joined the fire
department in 1900. and worked
his way to captaincy five years
ago.
The fire fighters son was charged
with grand larceny yesterday with
two other youths, Fred Oliver
Rinker, SIT d street southwest,
and Bernard Jones, 90s Third street
northwest.
Young Steele is said to have just
been released from Jail on another
charge. He was out on bond on
a liquor charge. and his bondsman
bad called him in. when he was
charged with larceny.
Sad Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving at the home of the
Steeles, rs Kennedy street northeast,
is being spent by a widow and
two other surviving sons. in an
effort to get James out OF jail to
go to his fathers funeral, Saturday
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
MAY BAR PUBLIC
At TRIAL Of
SEXTON
Courtroom Is Crowded With
Persons Hoping to Hear
'Spicy" Testimony

Exclusion from the courtroom of
persons not directly interested In
the trial of William M. Collins, aged
church sexton, whose trial will be
continued Monday in the District
Supreme Court on charges of at
tempted assaults on three little
girls, will be recommended to Chief
Justice Mccoy. presiding, by the
jury, It was learned today,
The jury In this case Is fellow.
ing the precedent established earlier
this month by a petit body, which
recommended that the grand jury
investigate alleged third degree
methods Of the police in obtaining
confessions from suspected crimi-
mails.
Court Crowded.
The reason for the contemplated
action by. the jury in the Collins
case is that the court room was
crowded yesterday, when the trial
opened by men, women, and chill
6ren. white and colored, who AZ
tended merely to hear the stories
~ shame and terror told by little
girls.
The children wept with humilia-
IiDH WHGu tue SOEulQ STORY was UNI
folded at the preliminary hearing
in Police Court The court was
then informed that Collins, sixty.
nine years old, for years employed
by Georgetown church as sexton,
approached the girls, whose ages
range from seven to nine years. in
the Sunday school room, and later
gave them 80 cents. The old man
was arrested In Franklin Park, Va,
where he was building a home.
Attack Confession.
An alleged confession by Collins
may be a bone OF contention In the
case. The sections attorneys are
prepared to pounce upon Il as a
statement made under police coer-
cion as soon as Assistant District
Attorney Raymond Neudecker at
tempts TO introduce 1t az evidence.
The attorneys on both sides are
willing that the courtroom should
be cleared on Monday. They also
want Chief Justice Mccoy to make
clear that the Jury Is not presuming
to usurp a privilege Of the court,
but feels that Il is the interests of
lecercv .hl' he recommendation
be carried out.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
POLICE ON TOES
AS TONG WAR
LOOMS
New York Hears That Fifty
Ratchet Men Have Been
Imported
By International News sernien.

NEW YORK, Nov. 27.--Heavy
details of police were ordered into
New York's Chinatown this morn.
ing in anticipation OF renewed fight
ing between the On Leong and Hip
Sing tongs, whose truce expires to-
day.
simultaneously with receipt Of re-
ports that fighting had been re.
sumed in Hartford, Conn, with the
shooting to death Of two Chinese
laundrymen, and in Chicago where
two others were attacked, reports
were received by the police here
that fifty gun and Ratchet men had
come to New York within the last
few days.
Police reserves in all lower East
and West Side stations We're ordered
to be in readiness for sudden de-
scent upon Chinatown. Suppressed
excitement existed there. It was
believed unlikely that peace nego-
tiations would be resumed.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
FIFTH RACE.
Ar.s

Miss Whisk-G. Hudgins. az
Senator Norris-Fields ,... 1Cl7
Maclean-No boy. az
Ballot Brush--S. O'Donnell. .1ls
JOY Smoke-Maiben. .I16
Abu Ben Ahdem--E. Barnes. .I07
Prince Hanlet--No boy. .1o4
Pathan-H. Howard. fOl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
RAILROAD GIVEN
RIGHT To USE
TRACKS
Injunction to Prevent Rich
mond-Potomac Road En-
forcing Custer Upheld

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Nov. 2T--
The Southern Railroad will have
the privilege of using tracks in the
Potomac yards for the time being,
Judge Samuel G. Brent, sitting in
the Circuit Court in Fairfax Court
house has decided.
The injunction and the restrain
ing order obtained by the South
ern Railroad, returnable Tuesday to
keep the Richmond, Fredaricksburg
and Potomac Railroad from enfofc.
ing its order denying the Southern
the use OF the tracks, was upheld
by the court and will be in effect
until thes case can be heard on Its
merits.
Argument on the injunction and
restraining order was heard py the
court Tuesday and Wednesday and
late yesterday afternoon the yer.
dict was returned.
The controversy arises out CT the
erection by the Southern of their
own yards near Cameron Run, three
miles south Of this dty. A large
portion of the Southern's passenger
and freight business was taken to
the new yards. The, r. F.. and p.
denies that the Southern has the
right to withdraw their service he.
cause OF existing contracts for the
use of a number Of tracks in Pc.
tomac yards. However, since the
service was withdrawn they desire
that the Southern take all of lis
business to its own Yards.
One of the largest audiences which
ever attended Thanksgiving serv.
Ice in the city turned out today to
hear the Reverend J. A. Dudley,
pastor of the Methodist Protestant
Church, preach the Thanksgiving
service at the Trinity Methodist
Church.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
BOMB WRECKS HOME OF
BOoTLECGERS' ENEMY

CANTON, Ohio, Nov. PA
bomb placed under the foundation
OF the home of Lawrence Hines.
deputy marshal Of Waynesburg,
twelve miles east of this city, lei
&c early today, wrecking the front
Of the house and hurting members
of the family from their beds.
No one Of the Hines family We're
seriously injured.
The attack is believed to have
been the work of bootleggers
against whom he had been active.
Waynesburg IL a coal mining town
and the foreign population is large.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
100000 DC. Is
AUTO TAGS
READY
Distribution to Begin Monday
at o-'Gas' Tax Reduces
Price to a Dollar

One hundred thousand 1925 D. c.
automobile tags are ready for distri-
button in the District building at 8
o'clock Monday morning.
Wade H. Coombs, superintendent
of licenses, announces his force is
ready to hand out tags in record
time.
THE system of distribution is new
and twice as fast as last year." Mr..
Coornbs said. 1--WE are trying, and
believe we will be successful, to
prevent delays. 1t is our aim to
cause motorists as little inconveni-
ence as possible"
Mr.. Coombs also corrected reports
that automobilists would get the
same tag numbers as last year.
This is mistaken impression"
he explained. while we are asking
motorists to bring with them the
number of their 1924 tags, it does
not mean they will get the same
numbers.
Application Duplicates.
my Office has prepared dupli.
Gates of every application for tag
duplicates are classified under 1924
tag numbers. Motorists will give
us their 1924 number and our
clerks will hand. them duplicate
of the information they filed in
1924.
Heretofore, motorists applying
for tags were required to fill out
an application giving their name,
address mako IF thaiV nav on1
other necessary information. With
our new system. this will be un.
necessary. The application will al.
ready be filled out.
"All it will be necessary for mo-
florists to do is tell us their tag
number. One of our clerks will
hand out a duplicate application
which the motorst will take to an
other clerk who will hand out a
1926 tag"
The District traffic board will In
few days announce details of ar.
rangements for tag distribution.
Tags To Cost 81.
Tags this year win cost but 81.
except for trucks, electric and steam
automobiles. Last year tags were
sold for So. IS. and $40. With the
passage of the gasoline tax law
the price of tags was reduced.
District 1925 tags may be placed
on machines on and after DE.
cember 1. They will also be rec.
ognized after December / in Mary
land through an arrangement be.
tween the District Commissioners
and the Commissioner Of Motor We.
hicies in Maryland.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
CURTIS CHOSEN
G.0.P,FL00R
LEADER
Caucus in Doubt on Choice of
Whip-WiII Not Punish
Insurgents

The selection Of Senator Charles
Curtis of Kansas as the new Re-
publican floor leader in the SEN
ate was assured today following
final conference Of Administra-
ton leaders.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
WEATHER BUREAU WARNS
or SOUTHWEST STORMS

Southwest storm warnings were
displayed at 10 o'clock today from
Delaware Breakwater TO Nantucket
by the Weather Bureau.
The disturbance Is over eastern
Ontario. moving eastward and will
cause strong southwest winds this
afternoon and tonight.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-11-27
six and one,half FuriOnr,
FOURTH RACE
Weather, clear: track, fast.
FIRST RACE.

One and Three-Sixteenths Miles
Plough Boy-McTague ag
Wilkesbarre-H. Howard 800. 81
Prince Hamlet--Fields . a.
NspdEAtion--No boy ............110
Oppc. Hiah-A'' Lang ........... 80
Bonnie Omar-No boy. ..IO5
Spot Cash-AF. Coltiletti. .1I6
Fraternity II-No boy. o.
Senator Norris-No boy. .10S
Donagnee--F. Sharpe .........Il7
- '-NA&aApen' ...'. lilo
setting sumo boy. ......... 81
Joy Smoke-Ilerce ............ .106
Initiates. Hudgins ........... 90
Evening star., 1924-04-06
CLARK HOWELL WEDS.
Atlanta Editor Takes Mrs. J. S.
Carr. Sr.. as Bride.

CONCORD, N. c., April 5.-Clark
Howell, jr,, editor and publisher of
The Atlanta Constitution, was mar
ried to Mrs. Julian S. Carr, sr., of
Durham, n. c., at the home of the
brides mother, Mrs. j. w. Cannon, in
Concord, n. c., this evening at S
O'Clock in the presence of the fam
lilies of both parties. The ceremony
was performed by Rev. j. w. Rowan.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

was held bv the southern counties "a
Los Angeles whrr, uniform set 81
quarantine rules was adopted
Three new outbreaks Of the dis
county and four were discovered
within or adjoining a prviously in.
tected area in Mcrced county. The
number of cattle killed in combat
ting the disease in Merced county
has reached tho 5000 mark
Evening star., 1924-04-06

vana that they will strike within the
next twenty-four hours, several
causes for dissatisfaction being given
as the reason.
The prospect of avoiding a strike
on the united railways. however, are
said to be good. although final de-
cision probably will not be made by
the workers on these lines before
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

To the report. honorary membership
in the organization was offered to
King IluSscin OF the HedjaZ, the
nowly proclaimed caliph and his
three sons, Feisel, king of Mesopn-
tamia l:mir Abdullah. ruler of Trans
jorda n'a. and Emir All, the COM
mandcr of the Hedjaz forces.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

pastor of the Presbyterian Church
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howell left shortly
after the ceremony for New Orleans,
going from there by steamer to Ha-
vana for a brief visit, and from
thence to New York. where they ex-
pect to arrive on April Is, returning
to Atlanta from there.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
George M. Clark. 80, Dead.

CHICAGO, April s. George NJ.
Clark, eighty-twO years old. chair
man of the board Of directors of the
american Stove Company. died at
the Evanston Hospital today. Mr..
Clark was a native of Vermont. He
came to Chicago in 1864.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
Dies at Wheel of Auto.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, April 5.-Harry
c. Pierce, prominent in the business
and social life of Syracuse, was
crashed into a curb Mrs. Pierce was
in the car at the time.
Evening star., 1924-04-06

Mrs. w. ]. Baird, who has passed
away in England, had composed more
than 1000 chess problems. No woman
in the world was better known among
chess players than she. for her prob
lens had been appearing regularly
for some thirty years.
Evening star., 1924-04-06
ARABS PLAN WORLD
ANTI-ZI0NlST FIGHT
VIII Form Organization for DE
Tense Of Palestine" Lead
crs Announce.
n, no A..n..Lntnh rrc..

JERUSALEM. April JcwiSh
.ltrrapni~ Agency The executive
rI the Palestine Arabs has decided to
take steps toward the formation of
su anti-ZioniSt world organization to
Ir known as the defense of Pales-
tluc," il is reported here. According
Evening star., 1924-04-06
CALIFORNlANS FIGHTING
TO STOP CATTLE DISEASE
Representatives of 27 Counties
Meet to Lay Plans to End
Foot-and-Mouth Plague.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SACRAMENTO, Calf. April s.
Representatives. OF twenty-seven
counties in the northern part of Cell
fornia discussed here today measures
to prevent the spread OF the foot and
mouth disease and a similar meeting
Evening star., 1924-04-06
RAIL AND DOCK STRIKE
THREATENED IN CUBA
Electrical Workers in Havana Quit
and Others Announce In
tent to Follow.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, Cuba, April 5.-Union
employees of the Cienfuegus Electric
Company went on strike today, and
was made by the
union street car and railroad men in
Santiago and dock workers in Ha-
Evening star., 1924-04-06

Capital punishment has been
abolished in Austria, Holland, Nor
way, Sweden, Portugal, Italy and
Rumania.