Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-10-21
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arrantled In Condensed Form

Madison - Wisconsin's bootlegging
Industry Is making a material contri-
button to the support Of the common
schools Of the state, with revenue from
court fines In penal cases nearly four
times as much as the schools received
from this source before prohibition be-
came effective. Under the state law
all penal fines go into the common
school fund. The first liquor law pros
ecutiOns came in Wisconsin in 1920
and the results were first noticeable
In 1921. The four years prior to 1922
showed total revenue from all fines
Of $510,911.71. The four years since
1921 show total revenue from fines
OF 81, 127 ,S66.87. Allowing for more
than the average Increase in crime Of
other nature, bootleggers have con-
tributed considerably more than ST.
100000 to WiscOnsin's common schools
in the four years including the last
fiscal year which closed July l.
MadiS0n-With the controversy rag
Ing over the action Of the regents In
going on record against the accept
ance of gifts for the University of
Wisconsin from endowment funds, M.
Il. Mccartney, secretary of the board
of regents, has compiled a list showing
that the university has received gifts
amounting to $2,170153.49 since 1908.
The gifts include amounts from funds
given to the university in trust, money
given to the university for immediate
use, and gifts of estates still in the
hands Of administrators which will
eventually become the property of the
university.
Sturgeon Bay-Nine carloads of
purebred Holstens, reputed to be one
of the best herds In the nation, total
Ing 90 head, were shipped from Stur-
geon Bay to Fond du Lac, where they
will be sold at auction Oct 20 and 81,
The herd, which numbered several
state and national champion prOduc-
ton record holders, is from the large
Murphy farms at Horseshoe Bay, the
holdings Of which total nearly 1000
acres
Madison-Figures made public by
the state tax commission reveal that
the assessed valuation of all property
in the state for 1925 is about $780,
100000 greater than in 1924. The val
uation in 1925 is $5,353, 040,612, COM
pared to 1924 figures of $4,950, 463,117.
The gain came from the increased val
uatiOn of real estate, which jumped
from S4,077, 203, 167 in 1924 to $4,4S1,-
055,S65 in 1926 The valuation of per-
sonal property took a drop.
Mayville-William Roggenbauer. 6S,
IS dead; his wife is seriously i'll, and
two sons, William, 27, and Mathies, 20,
are recovering from ptomaine poison
ing caused by eating contaminated pre-
served fruit. Mr.. Roggenbauer was
born I'm the homestead in which he
died, in Addison township, Washington
county, in 1857, and was widely known
also in Dodge county. Seven sons, all
farmers Of this vicinity, and a daugh-
ter survive, as does his wife.
Madson-Two heavy fines and SEN
fences were meted out in Madison
by Judge A. c. Hoppmann in circuit
court to liquor law vioators Pas
quale Provence a second offender, was
sent lnced to five months in the Mil
waukee house of correction and fined
$1,000 on five counts Last August
Provence wa: fined 5000 for selling
liquor. Anton Mostisi, another resi-
dent of the Sicilian colony, was SEN
fenced to two months in the house of
correction and fined 5000.
Manitowoc-Symon Sladkey, head Of
a burglar gang which operated In
Manitowoc and Two Rivers for several
weeks, was sentenced in Municipal
court at ManitOwOc to one to ten years
on each of two counts, and as the SEN
fences do not run concurrently, the
young man may have to serve twenty
years.
Fond du Lac-Final plans for the
state convention of the Wisconsin AS
ISOLATION of Chiropractors, to be held
at Milwaukee. No. 1S and 10. will be
made at a meeting Of the Chroprac-
tors Unity Club of Wisconsin in Fond
du Lac, Nov. /.
Observation-Disclosures received in a
fall last January caused the death at
Rhinelander of Mrs. Mehitable ].
Hamilton, 50, one of Rhinelander's
pioneers. During the civil war Mrs.
Hamilton was a nurse in a Washington
hospital.
Sturgeon Bay-In order to get larger
yields of alfalfa, hundreds of farmers
In Door county are now having their
soil tested by F. g. Bailey county
agent. Many tons of limestone, which
Is plentiful I'm some Oarts Of thp conn