Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-22
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form

Fairchild, widow of Gen. Lucius Fair
child, three times governor of Wis
consin, filed in the Dane county pro-
bate court, disclosed an estate esti-
mated at $25O,000. With the excep-
ton of few small requests the entire
estate is bequeathed to Mrs. Charles
M. Morris, Milwaukee; Mrs Frank w.
Jacobs, Madison, daughters, and to
Mrs. George e. Gary, Bronxville, n.
Y, and Miss Lee Fairchild Bacon,
Madison, grand-daughters The fam
Gus portrait of Gen. Fairchild, painted
by John S. Sargent, is beQueathed to
the Wisconsin Historical society.
Madison-Litigation involving taxa
tfOn of 1900 banks in Wisconsin will
be passed on by the United States
Supreme court, the decision of the SUI
preme court of Wisconsin sustaining
validity of the bank tax law having
been appealed. The statute now pro-
vides that banks shall be taxed on an
ad valorem basis, the same as general
property. Many of the banks in the
state have refused to pay under the
general property law, and in some of
the cities compromises were made by
which a reduction of the levy was al
lowed.
MadisOn-Work of rescuing fish
from sloughs and bottom lands along
the Mississippi river will be begun by
the wisconsin conservation commits
sion about Aug. !, according to Elmer
5. Hall, commissioner of conservation
law enacted by the 1925 legislature
which provides that half of the pro-
ceeds from the sale of carp may be
used In rescue work along the Missis-
sippi makes it possible for the state
to carry on the work more extensively
than for several years.
Tomah-Two Neillsville men, Ed
ward Kurtzweg and Wayne Short,
charged with peddling moOnshine
liquor to national guardsmen at Camp
Douglas, were arrested by military
and state prohibition authorities. 1t
is charged that the men had 10 gallons
hidden in the woods a few miles from
camp and were taking soldiers out
there to sell the booze. An effort is
being made to trace the source of the
liquor
Madison-Delinquen taxes have for
several years been growing problem
In every part of the state, affecting
both the real estate and personal prop
erty lists. According to figures re-
ported for the period, delinquent tax
returns to county treasurers in 1920
amounted to $1,527,336 on real estate
and $110,753 on personal property In
1925 the delinquencies had mounted to
$4,479,693 on real estate and 1888, 1914
on personal property.
Madison-A four year medical
course, leading to the degree NJ D.,
has been established by the Univer-
Sity of Wisconsin. Final arrangements |
to complete the course for the third |
and fourth years were authorized by
Third year work will start next fall
and the fourth gear will begin in the
fall of 1926. The third year classes
include medical study and training in
surgery.
SuperiOr-Levels of a number of
lakes in northern Wisconsin have drop
ped in an alarming fashion, some IS
much as five and six feet, during the
last few weeks, fishermen and pioneer
are appearing Experts are at loss
to account for the dropping of the lake
levels
MadiSOn-Suit filed in Dane county
circuit court Tuesday by the North
western Mutual Life Insurance Co, |
Milwaukee, asks that the state of Wis |
cOnsin return to it $4S, $3.50 paid I'M
der protest on Feb. %, 1926, as 8 per |
cent interest on which the company
terms tax exempt" United States
bonds.
Sheboygan-Louis Crittenden, a She |
boygan sewer digger, was rescued from |
death by fellow workmen after ten |
feet of earth caved upon him while
he was tunneling in ditch. He was
only slightly injured, although it re-
CURED twenty minutes to release him.
Stoughton-L. c. Kravick, member
of the Dane county board of super