Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1925-12-09

G. W. Thomas of Washburn holds
the record as Wisconsin's champion
wolf hunter so far this year. Besides
other animals that he has bagged this
fall he has shot 10 full-grown wolves
on which he has collected bounties of
$500. Eric Freiborg, Commonwealth,
Florence county, has the second high
est record with a bag of eight wolves
for which he has collected $50 each.
A cut of $1,000 was ordered in the
salary of the sheriff of Kenosha coun-
ty by the county board Monday when
it voted to- reduce the salary from
$1,000 year and fees to $500 year
and fees. The change is effective Jan.
l, 1927, and doe not affect the present
sheriff. The county clerk, county
treasurer and register of deeds were
each granted increases of 500 a year,
bringing their salaries up to $4,000
year each.
Hazel Teska, 20, sophomore at Rip
on college, waived preliminary exam
nation Monday and was bound over
to the circuit court for trial on the
charge of attempted blackmail. She
wrote two threatening letters, de-
handing a total of $500, the state
charges. The girl says she wanted
money to repay her father for the
money he had spent so far in educa-
ting her. Her father recently lost his
position as a shipping clerk Bail
was reduced from $1,000 to $500 and
the father raised the money.
Only the thickness of her hat is be-
lieved to have saved Miss Isabel Ball,
Is, of Beloit, from a fractured skull
when a slugger crept up behind her
as she was walking home from work
and felled her with blows from an
iron bar. Miss Ball describes her as
sa1lant as a young man wearing a
mackinaw coat and tan shoes that had
a pronounced squeak. When she ut
tered screams, he fed An amateur
play in which she was to have had an
important role has been postponed on
account of her injuries.
Two sisters were granted divorces
from two brothers by Judge Robt. S.
Cowie in circuit court at La Crosse
after a sensational trial lasting two
days. In May 1921, Anna Jarvis and
Albert Sannes were married at Vino
ma. Two months later Agnes Jarvis
the same city. According to testimony
OF the wives the husbands began
course of cruel treatment a few weeks
after the weddings and continued it
until both couples separated a few
months ago. Other women were i'm
plicated during the trial and the two
wives claimed they were beaten by
their husbands.
Balf1eld county authorities have be-
gun a search for a youth wanted in
connection with the mysterious death
of Ellick Erickson, 65, in his shack
near Washburn. Erickson's body was
found by John Larsen, a neighbor.
Larsen investigated when she saw no
smoke coming from Erickson's tar
paper shack. The aged mans skull
had been crushed. A hardwood club
was found lying in corner Sheriff
Andrew Murray started search for a
youth of the neighborhood who is said
to have disappeared after leaving a
pistol, believed to have belonged to
Erickson, with his father. Erickson's
purse containing about $3.50 was no
where to be found.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Spring Green
architect, has given notice that he will
oppose the suit for divorce brought
against him by his third wife, Miriam
Noel Wright Mrs. Wright in charges
made in a public way, accuses Wright
too much interest in Russian girl,
his housekeeper. Wright's friends in
dignantly deny the charges of loose
character made against the noted ar
chitect, saying he is man of honor
and greatly misunderstood through
malicious and sensational stories pub
lished about him by newspapers. Mr..
Wright is native of Spring Green
and roamed the hills where he now
has a beautiful estate, as boy.