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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-28

"A fresh and choice line of meats
will be kept constantly on hand at
my market, Cpl Main street. Prompt
attention to orders and satisfaction
guaranteed. The public's patronageis
solicited. WILLIAM WIEsEMANN,
621 Main street
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-28

We do money loaning, insur,
ance and real estate business.
Prompt attention given to probating
estates, correcting titles, and collect
ing accounts.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-28
SKINNER q THATrER

SKINNER ~ IHAUER,
Lawyers and Notaries Public.
Office in Wisconsin National Bank
huildine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-28
DIssoLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.

The co partnership heretofore exist
ing between William Weber and D. II
Beurhaus, under the firm name OF
William Weber & Co.. has been this
day dissolved by mutual consent, Mr..
Beurhaus retiring and Mr.. Weber con.
tinuing in the business. All accounts
due said firm are payable 10 William
Weber, who will also settle all bills
against the firm.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-28
Death grin1y

DCdlh SlllhIy
bars the passage
way through the
door of happiness
for thousands up
on thousands of
Wistful ON e n.
The woman whose
nerves are racked
by p ain, a n d
whose strength is
sapped by debili-
tating drains, due
to weakness and
disease of the or
gans peculiar to
women, cannot be
happy. She is not
only shut out from
happiness, b u t
death daily con-
fronts her. Ma.
'ternity, to a wo-
n1nn fh11c n@in&
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1897-04-28
THE WATERFOWL REPUBLICAN

.Bg G. W NORRIS.
Published every Wednesday at Watertown,
wisconsin, and entered in the postoffice as
sSeond-class matter, postage prepaid.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
1sHe year. -...... $50 Four month. 8 80
xix months rs One month TX
Sample copy free.
Advertising rates quoted on application.
Address TIE WATERFOWL REPUBLICAN,
ssatertOwn, Wisconsin.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
SUCCESSOR 70 THRASHER
THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER WILL.
CONSIDER THE MATTER
TODAY.
ONLY THREE PROBABLE CANDIDATES
At Least That Was the Number
Enumerated Yesterday The
Heavy Bond Required of the
Collector.

The county commissioners court will
meet today for the purpose of consid
ering the matter of electing success,
sor to the late county tax collector. W.
B. Thrasher. They will not act at all
hastily in the matter. prefrrig to make
their selection only after mature de-
liberation and careful review of all can
didates, so that when they have made
known their selection every one will
realize that it has been made for the
best interests of the county. One mat.
ter in connection with the selection OF
collector not generally known is that
he has to give such a heavy bond that
only the very best of men can afford
to apply for the position. The bond
required of them is $135,0OO, and not
every man in the county can walk
around the corner and make this bond
Therefore, in selecting county tax col.
lector, the commissioners always have
to bear in mind the fact of this bond
and govern themselves accordingly. 1t
is big bond to be required of a county
'ihN'i' buN IL 10 lllc law, anu UuSt Dc
complied with.
Yesterday there was some specula
ton as to who would be possible candi-
dates before the commissioners today
and strange to say. there were not very
many candidates mentioned for the po
sition. The most prominently men
toned. however, was Capt. Jack Kirk
who is an out-and-out applicant for the
position. Again. Mr.. Tom Thrasher
brother of the deceased tax collector
was prominently mentioned in connec.
ton with the position. though such
mention came entirely without his au'
thority or approval. The third per.
sonage that was mentioned Yesterday rs
probable material was Mr.. s. b. Lane
whom some of his friends were trying
to groom for the position.
As stated above, the commissioners
VIII take the matter up for considera.
ton today and will act as they deem
best for the interests of the county in
making their selection.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
FEDERATION OF LABOR.
President GOmpers Calls the Next
Annunl Convention.

Washington. Oct 19-President Sam
uel GOmpers has issued Il call to all af-
fiiated unions for the seventeenth an
nual convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor, to be held at Nash
vile, Tenn, in the hall of the house of
representatives at 10 a. M, December IL
next. The session is to continue till all
the business of the convention shall have
been completed. Resolutions of any
character or propositions for changes in
the constitution intended for cOnsdera-
ton must be submitted to Secretary
Frank Morrison at least two weeks prior
to the meeting. The committee on ere
dentials will meet at Nashville three.
days previous to the opening of the con-
vention.
The call makes a strong plea for a full
ATTENDANCE of workingmen at this con-
vention and states that no convention in
recent years has been called to deal with
more mOmentOus questions than con-
front the workers of today. Owing to-
distances the expense of attendance may
be somewhat greater than usual and
owing to the severe drains that affiliated
organizations have sustained in recent
years there may he desire to husband
resources and refrain from being present,
but this is said to he mistaken economy
and organizations are earnestly warned
against it.
The objects of the convention are III
part thus set out in the call:
The seventies of the industrial sta
nation of the past four years have non
been ahatcd: the wrongs from which thcN
workers suffer have not been righted;
the injustice imposed upon our people
remains unrcmedicd. the overworked
masses and the unemployed many are
Still testimony to the folly of our age;
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
WASHINGTON NEWS.
Tbe Presidents Next Trip,

Washington, Oct. 19.-Details for the
~, esidrnt's western trip at election time
bnya bren completed The president, ac-
90" by Mrs. Mckinley and Secre-
toiy Porter, will leave Washington Fri
Jay afternoon. the 2nd. over the Penn
s" road. At Cincinnati he will be
tia ruest of Mr.. l.. G. Schidapp, a long
time I'm intimate personal friend. On the
afternoon of Saturday there will be an,
informal reception at the chamber of
commerce. The president will not speak
then but will deliver short address
~ tbe banquet given him by the Cincin-
No.; Commercial club Saturday evening.
Early Monday morning the. president VIII
lenyc for Canton, remaining there III
~ Flor tbr election and will receive the
,Iection returns in Canton Tuesday even
inc The party will take the train We'd
mrs,lay for Pittsburg. arrived there be-
fore noon. While in Pittsburg, the presl-
don't viii I've entertained by Mr.. w. N.
Few. president of Carnegie Library as
sociation. and Mr.. Robert Pitcairne who
;s also connected with the library: In
the afternoon there will be the formal
eyerciscs at the library and the president
win make short address. In the even
Ing he will attend a symphony concert At
the library and at it's conclusion VIII
start for Washington, arriving thursday
| morning.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21

gen occupied, even If he did not agree
with DR.. Guiteras. We knew that if
he differed with this expert and 1t
turned out TO be yellow fever and the
state health officer had refused to quar-
| antine the two cities and death-deal-
| ing epidemic should follow that storm
| of Indignation would follow DR.. Swear
| ngen to his grave, and as no deaths
| were the consequence of the cases dag
nosed as yellow fever we concluded that
| DR.. Swearingen had been controlled by
professional courtesy in agreeing TO Dr.
Guiteras' diagnosis.
But DR.. Swearingen assures us that
he believed then. and still believes, that
it was yellow fever, and we are now
satisfied, upon reflection, that codes
of ethics do not require the members
of an honorable profession to make
false diagnoses when such vast inter-
ests are imperied and sacrificed by the
embargo to commerce" that might fol-
low. Dr. Swearingen acknowledges i'll
his note that our intentions at least
were good ''amid the showers of mis-
representation that have fallen about
DR.. Swcaringen agreed with the United
States expert through courtesy, we
meant no reflection upon his personal
or professional honor, which he seems
to appreciate from the kind expressions
which he uses towards us personally
in his note.
But. as we have intimated, it was a
hastily written article, without consid-
erng that we might tread on the toes
of friend of whose professional ex-
cellence we have had occasion so often
to speak. We are satisfied that we en-
roneously attributed to courtesy dag
nosis which was the result of the most
careful and intelligent consideration of
the two very learned and conscientious
professional gentlemen, who decided
that they had found several cases of
yellow fever in Galveston and Houston.
The readers of The Statesman are well
aware that its editors entertain the
highest appreciation of DR.. Swearngen,
professionally as well as personally, and
if any one construed our surmise to re-
fleet upon his professional honor they
were very wide of the mark. The well
known personal relations existing be-
tween DR.. Swearingen and the writer
of the editorial referred to would most
positively negative any construction
that reflected Oh DR.. Swearingen. We
appreciate his responsible and delicate
duties in the present crisis and regret
that we have said anything that
touched his high-strung sense of honor.
If we had only reflected for moment
We would have seen the error and it
would not have appeared.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
SENATOR MORGAN PROMISES TO
MAKE THE ASIATIC POPULATION
OF HAWAII AMERICAN
CITIZENS

And now Senator Morgan informs lis
that we are not only to annex Hawaii,
hut make all the residents on that island
American citizens. Senator Morgan has
recently visited Hawaii and it is reason
able to suppose that he made that ar
rangement with its mongrel popuat ton.
hat will be doing more for the Japs and
other similar residents of Hawaii than
President Dole was willing to do for
them as an independent nationality. 1t
was but recently that the so-caled gov
eminent of Hawaii was about to have a
difficulty with Japan, disputing the right
to land Japanese laborers on the island,
but we suppose Senator Morgan settled
that international difficulty by assuring
President Dole as we'll as all the foreign
population of Hawaii, that the United
States would make them all citizens of
this government by the express terms of
annexation without the fOrmality of
naturalization.
This is liberal at least, but it may bring
about the complications that Sacramento
City encountered in its first election in
1910. In our treaty with Mexico we
recognized all the residents of the terri
tory we acquired az citizens. The clec
ton, to which we refer, was for "a
charter or no charter" Gamblers in the
city opposed any charter for the good
reason to them. that their gambling
houses would have to pay license. The
leading gambler out there ut that time
was Star Davis" He brought Il dozen
Indians up to the polls to vote. When the
vote was challenged Star swore that
american citizens could not be gagged"
but fortunately the Indians forgot his
Instructions, or some one slipped between
him and the Indians, and gave them the
last drink, and they voted for the char
ter. much to the disgust of the gamblers
We suppose that Senator Morgan, gov
crning himself by precedents and taking
upon himself the whole treaty-making
authority of the United States, has
promised this hybrid population of Asia
tics citizenship of the United States. pro
yidcd they will vote for annexation. if
President Dole puts the question to that
| referendum
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
PROFESSIONAL COURTESY.

We have received note marked ''pri
Il. NJ. Swearingen, which we are very
much inclined to make public by pub
fishing it in The Statesman, simply tc
make other editors more careful when
they talk about things that they know
very little about. DIR. Swearingen pro.
tests against Il surmise made in an edi
torial in The Statesman several days
since to the effect that he had agreed to
the diagnosis of DR.. Guiteras as to the
existence of yellow fever in Galveston
and Houston. influenced by profession
al courtesy" We appreciated the EN-.
barrassing position that DR.. Swearin
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
CREEKS KILL THE TREATY.
The Creek Council Rejected 'he
Dawes Commission Treaty.

AIuscopee |. IT,. Oct 19.-The treaty
between the Dawes and Creek commls-
sions. which was concluded ut this place
last month, has been rejected by the
Greek council in session at OKmuiGee'
The vote in the house of warriors, whlch
is the lower house of the Creek council;
was unanimously against the treaty, ana
only eight members of the house OF kings
voted in favor of it. =.
Chief Isparhecher is elated over ms
victory over the half-breed and noll-clti,,
zen element. He has asked the, council
to make an appropriation to employ aple
attorneys to take advantage. OF every
legal remedy to prevent the United
States from violating its treaties with
the Greek nation. The principal objection
to the treaty is that it does not give the
Creeks the pro rata share of all the lands
of the Creek nation and leaves too much
room for money sharks and spectators.
A bitter legal war is expected to be
waged between the United States and
the Creek nation. as the act of congress
which takes effect January |. 1913, abol-
ishes the Creek court and places them
under the jurisdiction of the United
States and makes their acts of council
ineffective unless approved by the prcsi-
dent of the United States.
The treaty which has just been rejected
was one of five which it was the duty
of the Dawes commission to negotiate.
Treaties were arranged with the Greeks,
the Chickasaws and the ChOctaws.
None but the Creek treaty had come up
for ratification, and its rejection will no
doubt have a powerful influence against
the ratification of the others. 1t is not
improbable that it means the failure Of
the present scheme for the adjustment
of tribal government and the allotment of
lands in Severalty.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21

Jackson, Miss. Oct. 10.-Ihe =, s' fnl.
hoord Of health tonight issued the loi-
DR.. Dabney sends the following i''A'
Clinton: ,raor treatment
Mrs Miller, formerly reported ana the
son of DR.. Miller, taken y VEL hnt
Mrs. Pettigrew is reported sicN' O"'
have not seen her. v,,,, &c that
The report from Nitta una d 10 and
there is no new cases there too"s ""'
" The following is DR.. Purnelrs report
from Edwards: ,o .odov and
II visited the Hume place TO-DAY fo" nnc'
found two new cases of yellow fever
Dr. McCallum reports two new cases Is;
both white. All the patients ~ reP aatb.
as getting along very well. No deaths
and no one seriously i'll.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
CATHOLIC DIGNITABIEs
heet at the Catholic Uniyersity-Dr
COnaty Made n Nonsiy,

Washington, Oct. 19.-The moeting Of
1alhollc archbiShopS to consider nne ~.
,ions OF pOlicy and administration If Tho
cnoIch III America and of the diroctors
OF the Catholic university 70 mass u,'i''
t tne aLalrS OF that institution has brourbt
,,oSe.her notable aSsemblage of Cntha
,ic uislsitnrles' All of the prominent G"-
Init "huS VI sne church are represented. in
M "HS m"' th Gibbons and Archbishop,
Inc meeting of the directors of a.,
morning. 'oihorroW
me initial feature of the gatberin, IF
me cnrrchmcn was at the IInivars;t,.
chapel this afternoon when DR., Conat,S
rector OF the university. was inynStoi
with the title and dignity of a monsi,ynor
ice hector Garrigan read the papaI Lot,
.er Ill which the pope takes occasion tn
KY high tribute to DR.. Conaty, giving
nm absolution, making him n Romnn
prelate of the pontifcai household w;ti,
the title of monsgnor. WIN
Cardinal Gibbons performed the cere-
Inlohy OF lnyesttuIe and Archbishop
heane made the address The arcb,
bishop spoke of his long service with the
university. of its Americanism and Of tho
support which Pope Leo had given 70 II
ht all times. In this connection Arch
Dpishop heane said that when he went TO
l holhe year ago the pope said to hin,
mat the whisDerings then current against
the university were lies, that thew We're
inspired by men who were enemies nor
only of the archbishop but of the uni
oeers Sly refractaire who oppose the policy
b nv t the pope pop ne would show the people
DIV the manner he treated the archbishon
nav. he honored and trusted the mi.
versity. '"e uiii-
Manager Conaty delivered an address
acknowledging the honor conferred mon
him. and outlining the aspirations of tbe
university. Later Archbishop Keane adj
dressed the students, placing before them
high ideal of citizenship and manhood
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
AT MOBILE.
Five New Cases RepOrted-Much
Cooler Weather.

Mobile. Oct. 19.-The sixth week of
the fever begins with five cases, no
deaths and eleven recoveries.
New Cases-Raymond Nillaneva,
Jackson. corner of Poe, removed to city
hospital: j. +. Holberg. II North Jack
son: Norman Forest, 154 Theater Mel
lie Sullie. Lawrence. corner Palmetto;
j. ]. Bromley, POS South Jefferson.
Total cases to date. 115; deaths, %;
recoveries. 119: under treatment, 81.
The development of fever in Mont
gomery was reported to the Mobile
board today and motion to declare
quarantine against the place was voted
down.
An S-year-old child named Rice was
reported to the board with yellow fever
at Toulminville, Il suburb of Mobile.
The manner of the infection not yet
traced.
The temperature has steadily fallen
all day and tonight the weather is
chilly and fires are comfort. The
wind has died down and the danger of
storm that was threatened on this
coast is over.
The report from FlomatOn is of a town
deserted. There were about 200 inhabi-
tants, thirty of whom have taken some
form of the fever. There were two new
cases today. Very few except the sick
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
Cabinet Meeting.

Washington, Oct. 19.-The cabinet tor
dav devoted considerable time to a dis
cussion of the civil service and how to
obtain the best results from the recent
order promulgated by the president. A
decision was reached that each depart
ment should prepare and adopt regula-
tons to meet the recent order. While
each department will formulate its own
regulations there was a general senti-
ment that it would be well to have them
along the general lines of the regulations
issued by the treasury department to
carry out the presidents order Secretary
Gage, it will he remembered, permitted
persons against whom charges We're
made to have a hearing and opportunity
to answer them. Routine matters of the,
departments occupied all the time remainl
ing of the cabinet meeting which lastS
about two hours
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
THE LATE MIR. DANA AND MODERN
JOURNALISM.

OF late years it is not usual Tor the
editor of a city daily paper to be known
TO the public and one that has Kept MS
individuality known through such an eyo-
luton in journalism must have been OF Il
very positive character and commanding
intellect. Charles A. Dana, the editor OF
the New York Sun, who has recently
died. was the kind of man whose indi-
yiduality was too marked to be hidden
under the modern custom of impersonal
journalism. The New York Sun, OF all
the great daily papers in New York Citv'
was alone distinguished by the indivldu-
atty of its editor, Charles A. DANA
which position he has maintained Tor
nearly n half century of the most eXclt-
ing period in the history of this country
Mr.. Dana was n man who had lhe
warmest personal friends and the bitter
est personal enemies, and his character
istics met both conditions. He would 40
ANYTHING for friend, and there was
hardly anything that he would not DO
against an enemy of whom he had many
comparable, perhaps, in numbers only 10
the army of Nerxes or the locusts Oh
Egypt.
Charles A. Dana was the last of his
class. He was rather young man when
the elder Bennett of the Herald, Greehv
of the Tribune, Buymond and other not
able New York editors of the old style
were about passing away, but he was
moulded upon the style of these men, anu
in all the evolution that occurred so soon
after the war of impersonal Journalism
he was the only New York editor whose
paper reflected his individuality. HIS
life has been an exciting one, and con-
stantly under fire he has borne himseil
at all times like trained veteran, ready
mt all times to pick up the glove Oh
challenge and enter the journalistic arena
armed for uncompromisng fight TO the
finish.
Such old time fellows are fast passing
away. 1t used to be the case that the
style of an editor was known far and
wide, but that is becoming very rare, ana
with it all literary newspaper style is
passing away. The newspaper readers OF
the present day want facts in condensed
dorm, and the younger men of the press
have the mack of giving plain and I'M
vanished facts, even if they have to
manufacture them. Dana is about the
last of his kind, race of men gallant
and brilliant that played their part hero
ically, but the curtain has fallen upon
Individual worth, and that class of men
do not fit into modern Journalism.
Whether it is best or not, we are unable
to say. OF course the old men will Ia
ment the absence from journalism of
the strong individuality which character
lied journalism for the past half of the
century, but the younger generation VIII
naturally fall into the modern ideas,
caring more for facts than opinions Here
and there outside of the metropolitan
press may be found one of these old
fellows, who has outlasted his kind,
who will assert his individuality and be
read as a kind of curious antiquity, but
ms we have said they are fast passing
away Peace to their ashes!
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
"PEACE TO HIS ASHES"
So Says Debs. Referring to Pullman,
i'm :. New York speech.

New York. Oct. 19.-Eugene V. Debs
addressed a mass meeting Of cloak
makers tonight. During the course of
n long speech he said:
II agree with the proposition of abol-
ishing the wage system. but we can
not do it today or tomorrow or the next
day. While it remains we must do all
we can until it is finally abolished and
gives way to the cooperative PLAN
Every strike reduces the condition of
the workers and hastens the overthrow
of the wage system"
While Mr.. Debs was telling of the of
fer he had made to j. G. Rockefeller to
line up 10000 starving and ragged men
along the lake front in Chicago to show
the triumph of capital over labor some
one in the audience shouted:
.'One of those angels is dead now"
Peace to his ashes" said Mr.. Debs.
"Mr. Pullman would not arbitrate when
he had nothing to arbitrate. He is oil
an equality with the toilers now
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-10-21
The Philadelphia Record says: 'In

The Philadelphia Record says: I'm a
communication to Attorney General Nc
Kenna, the civil service commission has
expressed the opinion that deputy col
lectors of internal revenue are officers
of the United States and are as much
entitled to protection under the civil
service rules and regulations as other Of
ticals of the government The commits
sion in formulating this opinion makes
no claim to originality. On the contrary.
it cites a decision by Attorney General
Speed of Lincoln's cabinet. and another
by the United States court ut Louisville,
which latter was affirmed by n higher
court. These precedents settle the legal
status of the deputy collectors in the
civil service and it may he assumed that
there will be no attempt to unsettle it
by an administration which has given
its pledge that there shall! be no step
backward in the matter of civil service
reform" ....