The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-15
SAUK WILL OPEN
BIG ENGAGEMENT
FIGHT THERE is BETWEEN l.!
TOILETTE AND BAENSCH.
Regarded of First Importance Be-
cause of Its influence Upon eau
cuses to Be Held on NIonday-Con
test in the Governors Home County
the Fiercest Ever Known There.

Special to The Journal.
Madison, Wis, April 15.-The first eau
cuses to elect delegates to assembly dis
trict conventions, which will name dele
gates to the republican state convention,
will be held in Sank county tomorrow
and the result will in measure indicate
whether Governor La Toilette will be
nominated for a third term or not.
Governor La Toilette is the anti-cor-
poration candidate and Messrs. Ba ensch
and Cook are the harmony or non fac
tional candidates. The Manitowoc and
Neenah men say they are for all of the re-
forms advocated by the governor. but they
are also for a reunited republican party
in the state. The opponents of the gov
ernor declare that he is factionalist and
that his longer continuance in office is a
menace to the best interests of the party
and the state. ..s- '' 10 ..-
"..- Sank and Dane. ----
The fight in Sank county is between the
Baensch and the La Toilette followers.
Both sides have been working for weeks
In the county, and the result will be
close. While Sank county has only Is Of
the 1,065 delegates in the state convention,
both the Baensch and the La Toilette
followers are DESTROYS Of carrying it for
the prestige it will give their side in the
caucuses to be held in a dozen large and
important counties next Monday. ~
The fight in this, the home county Of
| the governor, is the fiercest ever seen. The
governor is making a special effort to pre-
vent the denomination of State Senator
John NJ. Whitehead of Rock county. his
opponent for the gubernatorial nomina-
ton two years ago. The caucuses IN
both this and Rock counties will be held
next Monday.
Arrested After Long Chase.
on the charge Of embezzling $500 from the
government while, acting as postmas ter
at Trempealeau and who disappeared be-
fore the officers could arrest him, was
! located at Fallan, Nevada, and brought
back to Wisconsin. Officers arrived with
him last night, and placed him in the
| Dane county Jail to await trial. He says
| that since his disappearance he has been
in most Of the western states, working at
whatever he could get to do. He seems
| to be relieved that the long hunt Is over.
| He will be tried at the next term Of the
| federal court.
! The Northwestern National Life Insur-
ance company of Minneapolis has Won the
suit brought against it by Marcia S. Mer-
rick of Meadow Valley, Juneau county, to
recover $1,000 on a policy held by her hus-
| band. The company commended that one
| assessment made against the policy was
not paid, thus multiplying it and demurred
| 10 the suit lne court sustained the de-
murrer. The company several years age
absorbed the Northwestern Life Of Madi-
son, and has many policy holders in thi.
| vicinity. o.. = .. ...,r 81
Blaine In Minnesota.
| William Baine, the Indian football
! player, has left the Wisconsin, university
and gone to his farm Of 800 acres ii
| Minnesota He may enter Minnesota uni
versity next fall. w. H. Helm, formerl!
Of Ripon and a prominent athlete during
his university course here, is giving in
struction in physical culture at the uni
versity Of Porto Rico at San Juan. Tn
Wisconsin crews which will row the Du
luth crews here in June and which will
take part In the intercollegiate regatta a
: Poughkeepsie, N. Y, later. have jus
taken their first spin on Lake Mendoza.
STEVENS POINT, wIs.-Judge Webb decide
for the defendant In the of the cit
Of Stevens Point the Wisconsin Centrf
$ railroad in a contest fcc title to the Wisconsi
Central shop property. partially abandoned her
In 1901. The shops were en- ground decided col
ditlonally by the city to the company in 1871