Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-08-02


and military secretary of Governor
Davidson, said:
NO order concerning Dietz has been
issued by the governor. l have Just
talked with Governor Davidson by
telephone and he told me that any
report that he was disposed to order
out militia to take Dietz is untrue.
he said he had received no report
from the sheriff of any kind. None
OF the men in the sheriffs posse were
national guardsmen. Perhaps the
deputies wore some old Spanish.
American war uniforms to make Dietz
believe that they were soldiers sent
by the governor.
telegram has just been delivered
TO me from Sheriff Gylland of Sawyer
county as follows:
'Dietz still at large: two men
wounded; one of mine and one of
Dietz'.'
This telegram does not report that
the sheriff has exhausted his means
toward taking Dietz, and this situa-
ton would not warrant the governor
IN ordering out troops even were he
DESTROYS to do So"
Dead or Alive" Story.
Chippewa Falls, Wis, July 2s.-It
was learned from friends of Governor
Davidson who visited Chippewa Falls
yesterday, that two companies of militia
will be ordered to Cameron dam. The
sheriff of Sawyer county has reported
to the governor that he has again ex.
hausted his efforts to take Dietz, and
the last order will be take him dead
or alive. No time will be lost in
Nlaking the attempt.
3 Thomas Rice, cook for the officers
who went to arrest Dietz, returned to
this city yesterday, the party having
given up the idea of taking Dietz.
Rice says the story of the battle was
not exaggerated. There was Is min.
ute fight and six members of the Dietz
family with rifles waged against the
seven officers an incessant fusilade of
bullets.
Dietz informed the men that he had
enough ammunition to last three
months and intended to use it. He
has strong fort and will resist.
Fees Lost or Captured.
Ladysmith, Wis, July 2S.-The mill
tiamen who with Sheriff Gylland of
Sawyer county went out to capture
John Dietz are believed to have been
captured by Dietz and his family or
are lost in the woods. The members
of the company who are from Milwau-
kee are: William Vackavita, Frank
Napoala, George La Rose, Jack Ragicn,
Robert Seymour and John Hoeft.
Vackavita is the man who was shot
in the battle and who was reported to
be in serious condition. He received
several wounds in the hip, neck and
leg.
Sheriff Gylland, with DIR. Ross and
the rescue party which started out
Thursday morning to meet the militia
men who attempted the capture OF
John Dietz Wednesday afternoon, re
turned.
They did not find the wounded man
or any of the party. They found
where the party had made a stop and
a pail that the sheriff recognized as
one in which they carried water for
the wounded man.
Lost in Woods.
Sheriff Gylland believes the party is
either lost in the woods or that Dietz
circled around and waylaid them. CYL
land left them above the Hoyt dam
and came down to meet the rescuing
party from this city. He said that
one of Dietz' little girls who was out
with the cattle gave the first alarm
that the officers were coming. She
ran to the house at top speed and
Immediately the entire family was
seen to issue forth and take up posi-
ton near the garden fence, except the
father, who went in a different direc'
ton from the others.
Girl Gave Alarm.
The sheriff says that the Dietz
party opened fire before they had any
chance to serve papers. BY advice
of Deputy Hoeft who was there on
!. his third trip on this mission it was
the intention of the party to get be-
tween the Dietz family and the house
and effect capture while the mem
bers were unarmed, but the little SEN
tinel was too alert for them
NJ Many Shots Fired.
q The officers say that dozen or
more shots were fired by the family
before the militia got In a shot; one
bullet struck in tree ten inches
above sheriff's head. The last he saw
of Dietz he was running to the river.