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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
OIL TRUST IS ADMITTED
WATERS-PIERCE MANAGER CON-
FESSES AT ST. LOUIS.
Attorney General Moody Agrees on Quick
Plan of Prosecution in Suits Soon
to Be Started.

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Nov. 1O.-Direct
evidence of Standard Oil control of the
Waters-P Pierce Oil company to fix
prices and crush competition in Missouri
was given by Charles T. Ackert, gener-
al manager of the Waters-Pierce COM
pany.
Ackert admitted that the Waters
Pierce prices were fixed by the Standard
Oil company Of New Jersey, but said
the wholesalers did not always make
the profit that small dealers in oil did.
For instance" said Ackert, we
would sell the retailer oil at IA or 10
cents q gallon and retailers would peddle
it at 20 to %. If our prices went down
to them. their prices to customers never
varied. Their profits always ran from )
to 10 cents a gallon
He admitted the Standard Oil COM
pany controls the Waters-P Pierce, Re
public, and International Oil companies.
WASHINGTON. d. c., Nov. 10.-At-
torney General Moody and Attorneys
Kellogg and Morrison have planned in
the Standard Oil suits to invoke the ex-
peditionary procedure of filing the suit
before the circuit court of appeals
Thence an appeal may lie direct to the
supreme court OF the United States. Sim
ultaneously with the filing of this suit
application for permanent writ of in
junction will be filed.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
MAY Have Killed Father.
LYNCHING WAS AVERTEO.
Officers Succeed in Getting Thomas Wolf
Out of Spring Green-Prisoner
Taken to BarabOO.

MADISON, Wis, Nov. 9.-After pass
ing through several perilous hours in
which threats were made to lynch
Thomas Wolf, accused of assaulting
Mrs Edward Frank, Constable Andrew
BeinkOfner of Spring Green arrived here
last night with his prisoner. Wolf was
arrested at Madison and taken to Spring
Green for n hearing.
Beinkofner said that when he stepped
from the train with his prisoner at
Spring Green he heard threats of lynch
ing. After the officers succeeded i'll get
ting Wolf into the village lookup many,
Beinlofner said, gathered around the
building, and it was only through the
efforts of the officers and Il small army
of conservative citizens that prevented
the mob from capturing Wolf.
Wolf was arraigned before Justice
Hathaway and pleaded not guilty. The
preliminary hearing will be held next
week. Bail was fixed at $4,000. Con-
stables Beinkofner and Dresser took the
prisoner to the Baraboo Jail last night.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
NEW1I01::KE :sLAT1EsT )
SKSzYz,pIERcIrG@V
E5SEFEORIr - ~

Bourne office building adjoining it on
Liberty street.
Only the Eiffel Tower, of all struc-
lures reared by ingenious men, rises
- a greater height than will this forty
one-story building. But the openwork
Eiffel Tower is an engineering freak,
while the New York sky-scraper will
De the business home Of u multitude Of
people.
In the very block on Broadway
where the workmen are beginning to
rear this colossus, another equally won
derful office building is to rise, more
roomy even than its companion. In the
Singer building alone, an army of 10O,
900 men could find easy standing room
Oh its nine and one-half acres of floor
space.
The drawing reproduced herewith
from the architects working plans and
designs does not convey, at first glance,
an idea Of the ambitious scale on which
New York's sky-scraper limit" is
being erected. But everybody familiar
with the downtown district of New
York will recognize in the foreground,
on the corner Of Broadway and Liberty
street, the old Benedict building. This
is six stories high. Fifty years ago it
was one of the tallest and finest build
ings in New York.
1t is only by comparing the Benedict
building with the forty story Sing
er and Bourne structures now rising
skyward behind it that the immense
height and capacity Of the latter can
be even family realized. Trinity
church Is completely dwarfed, and SO,
indeed, are most Of the famous office
buildings along Broadway, which were
once referred to as sky-scraperS, but
which are now beginning to present a
very shrunken appearance when com
pared with their lofty neighbors.
Within less than a year the aspect
Of Broadway, from Cortlandt street
down to Trinity church. will be totally
changed, and the finest street vista in
the world will be seen. The greatest
buildings in the world will by that time
be grouped on these four blocks, tower
ing far above everything else in the
city.
The necessity for such buildings in
New York, or the desirability, is indi-
Gated by the fact that the Bourne
Singer building, if one-story, would COW
er twenty nine of the city blocks sur
rounding it. These blocks, or most of
them, are not large, however. Still, if
one of the modern buildings requires
such enormous space if built low, the
excuse for extreme height in a city
where the slly-scraper district is limit
ed, as in New YORK. becomes apparent
The sky-scraper is unknown in Eu-
rope, and, Furthermore, Is undesired
In Berlin no building may be more
than One-half again as high as the
street on which it is located is wide
About the same standard, subject to
various minor notifications, prevails
in the other large European cities. Few
buildings in London or Paris are more
than six or seven stories high. Farther
east in Europe the standard is even
lower.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
RAILWAY WINS LANDS.
Big Suit in Kansas Decided Against Peo-
pie Who Settled on Old Right
of-Way.

TOPEKA, Kan, Nov. 10.-Thousands
of acres of the most valuable farm land
in Kansas, together with a large amount
of land located in towns and cities of
the state is given to the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway by a decision to-
day in the Kansas supreme court in the
case of that railway against one Wat
son.
In July, 1866, Congress granted to the
Union Pacific railway, southern branch,
now the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, a
right-ofway 200 feet wide to the south
line of the state, a distance of about $50
miles. Afterward patents We're issued to
private parties for land through which
the railway runs without excepting the
risht-of-way. In some cases valua BILE
improvements have been made by them
on the outer fifty feet on each side
The railway brought suit to GUST these
occupants and the court now decided in
its favor. Among the larger places
touched by the railway are White City,
Council Grove, Emporia, Burlington,
Chanute, Parsons, Oswego and Chetopa.
The opinion was written by Justice
Burch, who said the case must finally be
decided in the United States supreme
court, as an act of Congress is involved
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
Beers ARE ON WARPATH
NORTHWESTERN CAPE COLONY IS
STIRRED BY ONE FERREIRA.
Captures Police and Compels Farmers to
Join, Asserting Another Uprising
IN Transvaal Is Coming.

CAPE TOWN, Cape Colony, Nov. 10.
A disturbance has occurred in the
northwestern part Of Cape Colony The
official report of the affair says that
several Beers, led by man named Fer
reira, recently employed in German
Southwest Africa. entered the north
western part of the colony a few days
ago and surprised a police camp in the
vicinity of Witkop.
They wounded two troopers seized
their arms and ammunition and subse-
Quently. captured corporal of police.
At AbiQuasaar, Ferrieira, who is a
Iransvaal colony Roer, gained some re-
crultS and marched to Zwart Modder,
about % miles from the frontier where
he is reported to be compelling the farm
ers to join his forces.
lie asserted that an uprising in the
IransVaal is imminent. The colonial
government has adopted measures to
suppress the disorder
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
SAYS "NOTHING DOING. "
Roosevelt's Boat Taken to Indi-
cate That ALPS Well.

NORFOLK, Va, Nov. 1O-The wire
less telegraph station at Cape Henry
at 8 o'clock this morning was in touch
with the battleship Louisiana bearing
President Roosevelt and party to the
isthmus of Panama. The operator on
the Louisiana reported nothing doing"
meaning that all was we'll on the ship
and that President Roosevelt had no
message to send at that time. The oper-
ator did not give the exact location of
the Louisiana.
In reference to the grand jury indict-
ments of battleship boiler tube makers.
Admiral Ray said today none of the bad
tube got into the battleships 1t had been
intimated that the Louisiana's boilers
might contain some of the defective
tubes
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
GEN. SKATER HAS
PASSED AWAY.
Relatives of Noted Warrior Gather at His
Bedside for the Final Fare
we'll

BAKERSFIELD, Cal. Nov. IL
Gen. Shafter died this afternoon.
At this morning Il bulletin was
issued from the Mcl<ittrick ranch stat
ing that Maj.-Gen. Shaftcr was near to
death and all hope of his recovery had
been abandoned.
DR. Mitchell was i'll constant attend
ance all night, and DIR. \. Schafer hur-
ued to the ranch. Capt. and Mrs. w.
ii. Mckittrick and Il cousin and niece
are ut his bedside.
Gen. Shafter was stricken with pncu-
monia few days ago.
William Rufus Shaftcr was born Mt
Galesburg, Mich, October 1T. 1880. His
early youth was spent ON n farm and his
only education was such as WAS afforded
by the district schools. He was Il dill
gent student, however, and improved his
spare time by reading all books that
came his way. He was teaching school
when the war broke out i'll 1861 and
gave up his position to become first lieu
tenant i'll the Seventh Michigan iufan-
try.
lie served through the entire war and
at its close was brcvettcd brigadicr gen
crai for gallant and meritorious services.
TWO years after he was mustered out
of the volunteer service he entered the
regular army as lieutenant colonel
On March >, 1867, he was brevcttcd
and given the Congressional medal of
honor for gallant service ut the battle of
Fair Oaks. Va. The years after the
war were spent in service, mostly ut the
army posts on the frontier.
At the outbreak of the war with Spain
Gen. Shafter was in charge of the de-
partment of California. In May, 1898,
he was made major genera! of volunteers
and was sent to Cuba, where he com
mandeG the military operations that end
ed in the capitulation Of Gen. Linares'
army and the surrender of Santiago de
Cuba.
Upon returning to the United States
Gen. Shafter commanded the depart
ments of California and Columbia until
his retirement from active service June
80, 1901. Since that date he made his
home at Bakersfield. Cnl.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
The Innocent Immigrant Girl.

Robert Watchorn, the commissioner
Of immigration, has made a sympathet-
ic and thorough study Of the immigrant
types that reach New York.
Discussing these types the other day,
he said:
The most naive are the Germans
from the smaller and remoter states.
They have the charmingly simple and
quaint minds Of children.
"A beautiful German girl disembark-
ed here the other day She was tall
and strong, blue-eyed and yellow-hair-
ed. She wanted to know at once if
there were any letter for her.
The postmaster at the pier, after
getting her name, said, by way Of a
joke:
lis it a business or a love letter
that you expect"
THE girl faltered.
"A business letter.
"'Well, there's nothing here said
the man, after looking over the assort-
ment.
The girl hesitated. Then, blushing
as red as a rose, she said:
"'Would you mind just looking
among the love letters, sir""
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
FAVORS STANDARD POLICY
Insurance Committee Meeting at Chicago
Also for New Restrictions of Life
Insurance Investments

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 1.-THE com
mittee of fifteen appointed mt the meet
ing of insurance commissioners, govern
ors of states, attorneys general and in
surance attorneys here last February met
here today. With them were officers of
the American Life convention. A formal
report was to be submitted late in the
day.
Unof1icially it was stated that the COM
mittee in relation to standard forms of
policies and standard provision for poll
cies favors the standardization, although
the American Life convention adopted Il
resolution opposing it.
It was expected that the report would
favor limiting investments of insurance,
companies to bonds of the United States
or of any county, city, town or school
district; to loans upon improved, unin-
numbered real estate to an extent not ex-
ceeding 80 per cent. of the value of the
property. The report was also expected
to favor investments i'll buildings for
home office purposes and in well secured
promiSSOry notes.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16

Fifteen years ago, when the Mason
&c Temple, In Chicago, was built, it
was the tallest building In the world.
1t still holds its place as the highest
business structure in Chicago, though
the limit has been outdone many times
In New York. Today such has been
the advance in sky scraper engineer
ing that New York has now in course
IF construction building that will be
nearly twice as high as the Masonic
Temple. The foundations for this new
est sky -piercer, which is TO be 625 feet
high above the sidewalk, and has forty
one stories. are already in, and the
work of piling the structure sEyward
has begun.
To conceive a fOrty-one story build
ing, with It's roof three times as high
in air as the steeple of Trinity church,
from which visitors formerly viewed
New York, challenges the Imagination.
This Sky-Scraper limit" is being part
~ remodeled from the fourteen-story
Singer Building, and the eleven-story
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
POPE Plus IS DEFENDED.
STIRRING ADDRESS IN CHAMBER
OF DEPUTIES IN FRANCE.
Declared That Pontiff Faces Moral and
Material Ruin or Strife in Combat
With New Church Law.

PARIS, Nov. 1.-THE debate on the
application of the church and state sep
aration law was resumed in the chamhr"
of deputies today. NJ. Piou, amid APP
plauSe from the Right, insisted that the
state should negotiate i settlement ut
Rome.
AS matters stood, he said, the Pope
was forced to choose between moral ami
material ruin :" continue to prefer
poverty and Schism
y refusal TO modify the law. NJ. piou
declared, would be equivalent To the
declaration OF religious war by the
state.
ROME. NOV. t3.-Thc Vatican au-
thorltleS have officially NcQuicsccd to the
kIng of Greece visiting King Victor
Emmanuel. November -, and remaining
here four days If King George desires
to see the Pope the latter will willingly
acCcdc
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
CULLOM TARIFF REFORMER.
Senator Learns Lesson from Elections
us. Past.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. r.
Senator Cullom of Illinois has come here
as the advance agent for tariff revision
The senator reads from the elections
that the people want the tariff revised
although l don't know anything
about it, he said, Il believe it extremely
likely that President Roosevelt will call
an extra session Of Congress after the.
close of the regular session III March to
consider tariff revision.
should the tariff he revised next
spring, the law will operate for more
than a year before the presidential cleo
ton. Personally / favor tariff revision
and not tariff removal"
The administration unquestionabIy en-
tertains the same view as Senator Gull
ION, but there has been no suggestion on
the part of the President indicating his
intention to call IN extra session. In
fact, the message the President cOmplet-
ed before he left for Panama contains
no reference to the tariff.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16

q make abhorrent such a left hand
marriage.
Countess Cassini is the niece OF
Count Cassini, for years ambassador IL
he United States and now ambassado
o Spain. She was reared in the Ortha-
iox Greek Church and her conversion
% Roman Catholicism is enough in t
self to make something of a sensation
Her reign in Washington as mistress Of
he Russian legation and leader of the
lltra-fashionable younger set will not
soon be forgotten, Her beauty. her VI
-acity. her vigorous health. her wealth
ler self-confidence. her daring made he
notable figure in the society of tha
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
Dedicated to Labor.

do you, of your own free will and
with a full knowledge of the solemnity
of the act. dedicate the life of this, your
child to the cause of labor:'
I'VE do
Rev. Duncan c. Miner. in the ST.
James Methodist Episcopal church. Chi
cago, asked the question. Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry q. Creel, parents of the baby, an
Swered ii.
The ceremony. which gave the life of
the child. Herr Lee GleSsner Creel. -
months old. TO the cause Of unioniSm.
was one of the most unusual ever seen
in Chicago church In oder to carry
it cut President Edwin Il. Wright called
a special meeting of the Allied Printing
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
MANY HUNTERS COMING.
State Game Warden Has Issued 200 Ii
censes to Outsiders-Deer Sea-
son Opens Sunday.

MADISON. Wis, Nov. 81 Special. !
Tho deer hunting season opens next
Sunday to continue for twenty days. so
far 100 nonresident licenses at $50 each
have been issued by State Game Warden
SwenhOlt. OF these about 80 per cent.
are from Chicago and the majority of
the others from Indiana and Ohio.
No women have as yet taken out such
licenses. Three women have taken out
iirl licenses for scientific purposes.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
RESERVES SHORT;
SHAW OBDURATE.
Wall Street Thinks He Ought to Help
but Secretary Declines
Firmly.

NEW YORK. Nov. 10.-[Special. j
The bank statement today was disap-
pointing, as expected. The reserves
showed deficit of $1,514, 125. The
one favorable feature was the decrease
in loans.
''The condition is one that cannot but
appeal to the wisdom of the secretary
of the treasury, as the legitimate de-
mands are imperative and speculation
has had nothing whatever to do with
present status of money situation" said
prominent banker at noon today.
Shaw Thinks Otherwise
Secretary Shaw who has returned to
Washington, from his campaign tour,
said a few moments later, according to
special kilograms received here:
"Unles sconditions materially change
L will not refund, buy bonds, increase de-
posts, nor do anything else"
The treasury, he added, holds $780,
100000 that can be used as a last resort,
but it will not be used until absolutely
necessary. What has been done has
been in response to business conditions.
Unless business conditions generally are
again disturbed nothing further need be
expected.
Markets Are Disappointed.
London, Wall street and other markets
firmly expected early today that the sec
rotary would come to their assistance.
On this belief they bought and sold. Aft
er Mr.. Shaw's announcement they insist
ed that relief will surely come by Mon
day. A sharp upturn might follow such
an event.
Brokers generally advised purchases
today for proft-taking next week.
Effect on the Market.
After the appearance of the bank
statement prices recovered from some
early depression and rose to the top
level of the day. In final dealings, how
ever, they ran off quite sharply to a
weak closing. Union Pacific, Great
Northern pfd, Reading and Pennsyl
vania were most affected by the selling.
The market was not active at any
time and the movement was sluggish
throughout until the final drop.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
TO MOVE FULTONS BODY.
Descendants of Steamboat Inventor Give
Permission to the Memorial
Association.

NEW YORK. Nov. 1O.-Four de-
scendants of Robert Fulton, inventor of
the steamboat, today gave their consent
to Cornelius Vanderbilt, president of the
Robert Fulton Memorial association, to
remove the body of Fulton from vault
in the Trinity church yard in this city
to tomb in a 100000 monument
which the memorial association intends
to erect in this city. The funds for the
monument have not been collected, but
it is hoped to lay the cornerstone of 1t
next year, the one hundredtE anniver-
sary of the sailing of the Claremont on
the Hudson.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
PRESIDENT Is ALL RIGHT
Wireless kilograms from the Louisiana
Say Vessel Is Nearing Crooked
Island Passage.
CHARLESTON. S. c., Nov.

CHARLESTON. S. c., Nov. 12. -
Wireless kilograms received here from
the battleship Louisiana, with the Presi-
dent and party aboard, en- route to Colon,
show that at O'Clock this morning the
ship and her conveys, the Washington
and Tennessee, was about 300 miles
south Of Jupiter Inlet, Fla.
The squadron was heading for Crook
ed Island passage, between Crooked isl
and and Waiting or San Salvador isl
and, where Columbus first landed in this
hemisphere, and was making about fif-
teen knots an hour.
Capt. Couden expected to reach Cape
Maysi at the eastern extremity of the
island of Cuba by nightfaI today if the
pleasant weather conditions continue
The President and party were all well
and much interested in the regular Sun
day inspection Of tie warship ycster-
day.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
EXPLOSION NARROWLY AvERTED.
PIatteville Man Lowered in Shaft Above
Burning Fuse.

FAYETTEVILLE. Wis. Nov. O.
After drilling two holes i'll the shaft now
being sunk at the L. ID. Meloy mine on
the Gillian range. south Of Shu.lsburg,
John Hodgson charged them with dyna-
mite and lighted the fuse. lie signaIed
to the engineer to hoist. and When he
got about midway i'll the shaft. which is
eighty feet deep, the gasoline engine
suddenly came to halt and the engineer
was compelled to lower Mr. Hodgson to
the bottom # the shaft. He was just
in time to q g the fuse before the ex-
plosion could take place.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
BECOMES SISTER OF MERCY.
Countess Cassinf, Chum OF Alice
Roosevelt, to Retire from World.

Countess Cassfnf, Chum OF Alice
Roosevelt, to Retire from World.
Not in long time has Washington
society been more surprised than by
he report which comes from Paris that
Marguerite Countess Cassinf is about
20 retire from the world and assume
The black garb Of the Sisters of Mercy.
The reason assigned for this remark
lble act on the part of the charming and
givacious countess, aside from newly
awakened religious promptings, is that
she loves and is loved by a prince of
royal blood who can never marry her
except morganatically. Such a union
could not be brooked by the proud beau
y whose years of training in the Uni
ed States. if nothing more, would serve
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
ROB ONE MAN IN TRAIN.
Wabash Immigrant Coach Entered by
Pair of Crooks, Who Are Salts
fed with Little.

PERU, Ind, Nov. 10.-While Wa
bash railroad express train No. 3 was
standing at the station at midnight, a
day coach on the rear of the train in
which were thirty Italian immigrants,
was entered by two men who held a
loaded revolver at the head OF one of
the foreigners standing at the door and
relieved him of his watch and $50 in
money. The robbers escaped.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-11-16
SWEENEY IN Ri NANCE.
Fond du Lac Telephone Operator to Be
Bride of Assistant Manager
of Blatz Hotel.

FOND DU LAC, Wis. Nov. 9.-[Spe-
cial. Miss Jennie Hardenburg of this
city will be united in marriage to John
Sweeney, assistant manager of the Blatz
hotel, Milwaukee. next Thursday. The
ceremony will be performed by Rev. J..
j. keenan, at st. patrick's church par
sonage, after which Il reception will be
held at the home of Mrs. ELTON McCul-
Tough, West Second street. After Il
short wedding trip the couple will live
III Milwaukee. Miss Hardenburg has
been the long distance operator at the
local telephone exchange for some time.