Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-08-03
SEND TROOPS FOR D|ETz.
A DISPATCH SAYS TWO COMPANIES
WILL BE DETAILED TO TAKE
HIM DEAD OR ALIVE"
POSSE LOST OR CAPTURED.
Sheriff Gyland Cannot Find His Men,
One of Whom Is Badly
Wounded

CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, July 81.
Especial. lit was learned from
friends of Gov. Davidson, who visited
Chippewa Falls today that Go. G of
this city and another company to be
chosen, will be ordered to Cameron
Dam. The sheriff of Sawyer county
has reported to the governor that he
has exhausted his efforts to take Dietz
and the last order will be to take him
dead or alive
No time will be lost in making the
attempt. Thomas Rice, a cook for the
party Of officers that went to arrest
Dietz, returned to this city today, the
party having given up the idea Of tax
ing Dietz. Rice says the story Of the
brittle was not exaggerated. For htteen
minutes q terrible battle ragged and an
iucessant fusilladc of bullets tore through
size trees on the Dietz farm.
Dietz informed the men that he had
ammunition to last three months ana III
knded to use it. He has strong fort
and will resist a strong attack. W llIam
Dictz has gone to Cameron today 10
zee his brother and until his return the
condition of Clarence Dietz, who was
shot, will not be known.
Posse Lost or Captured.
LA IL IL, w 49, July lCpN-
cial. THE militiamen who with Sheriff
Gyland 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 Milwaukee
are: William Vackayita, Frank Napoa-
la, George La Rose, Jack Ragich, hop-
ert Seymour and John Hoeft.
Vackavita is the man who was shot IN
the battle and who was reported to be
In a serious condition. He received sew
eral wounds in the hip, neck and leg.
Sheriff Gyland, with DR.. Ross and
the rescue party which started out yes
terday morning to meet the mllItiamen
who attempted the capture of John
Dietz Wednesday afternoon, arrived
here at II o'clock last night.
The did not find the wounded man or
any of the party. They found where
the party had made a stop and pail
that the sheriff recognized as one in
which they had carried water for the
wounded man.
Lost in Woods.
Sheriff Gyland believes the party is
either lost in the woods or that Dietz
circled around and waylaid them. Gy-
land left them above the Hoyt dam and
came down to meet the rescuing party
from this city. He said that one of
bletZ Hltle girls WHO WAS out Will the
cattle gave the first alarm that the Of
fcers were coming. She ran to the
house at top speed and Immediately the
entire family was seen to issue forth
and take up a position near the garden
fence, except the father, who went in a
different direction 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 Militia
man Hoeft who was there on his third
trip on this mission it was the intention
of the party to get between the Dietz
family and the house and effect a cap
ture while the members were unarmed
but the little sentinel was too alert for
them.
Many Shots Fired.
The officers say that dozen or more
shots were fired by the family before
the militia gotin a shot; one bullet struck
III a tree tie ninches above the sher-
ifs head The last he saw of Dietz he
was running to the river. The militia
men kept hidden in the brushes.
Fear for Wounded Man.
Young Dietz was seen to fall and
clasp his head. but soon arose and ran
to the house without his gun. After the
attacking party recovered and Sheriff
Gyland had reached the Hoyt dam he
sent a man back with food for the par
ty, telling him where to find them and
that if he found the injured man had
died to reurn at once and a team would
be sent in for the body. 1t is a myS-
terry, he said, that any of the party got
out alive.