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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
AFTER THE RAILROADS.

The department of Agriculture
is waking up to some Of the enor-
mites of the cattle shipping business
and is going heavy handed after some
of the railroads and other corpora
tons that persistently violate the
''28 hour law" in shipping live stock.
This is still called the "28 hour law"
by courtesy, but in reality it is
the SO hour law, for the railroads
and cattle shippers managed last
summer to get the time extended to
SO hours during which they could ship
cattle without food, rest or drink.
One might think that this would be
the limit that any shipper would want
in which to torture cattle, but 1t
appears that the fight for the 80 hour
law only wetUed the appetites of the
railroads. The Department has been
investigating and finds that there are
over 500 cases since the passage of
the law in which cattle have been
held on the cars all the way from 80
hours to 90 hours. Sixty of these
cases have already been certified to
the Department Of Justice for action,
and the maximum fine of $500 asked IN
each case. This week there was a
single batch of 10 cases against the
Rock Island road sent to The Attorney
General, the time in transmit average
ing d. hours and in some cases going
as high as SO.
All of these cases have been simply
on the time in transmit. The law
provides that wien cattle are de-
trained, they shall be provided with
"proper pens and access to proper
food and drink The investigation
of the Department has shown gross
violation of this provision also cir
cular letter was sent out to all the
cattle shipping roads this week warn
ing them that the cases in hand would
all be pushed and that the next prose-
cutIon would be for not providing
proper accommodations at the resting
points.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
UNCLE SANS COMMERCE RooMs
His Trade Growth in Two Years Is
More Than $31 100000.

Washington.-The enormous growth
in American trade with its noncontigu-
Gus territories in the last calendar
year as cOntrasted with the preceding
one is shown in figures compiled by
the bureau of statistics of the depart
ment of commerce and labor In value
this commerce aggregates $131, 000,-
100000 in 1904.
OF this trade $59,OO0,OOO, in round
numbers, consisted of merchandise
shipped to those territories and $72,-
600, 900 worth of merchandise receiv-
ed from them. In addition to this
there was received from Alaska over
$1S,500,0O0 worth of gold, being its
own production, and $6,500,000 Of for
eign gold, principally from the British
territory adjacent.
OF the $59,OOO,000 worth of mer-
chandise sent to the non-Contigu0us
territories about $22,000,000 worth
went to Porto Rico, $17,5O0,00 to
Alaska, $12, 500, 900 to Hawaii and ST.
100000 to the Philippines.
The following figures show how
American shipments of merchandise
have increased in 1906 as compared
with 1904 Porto Rico from $12 ,000,-
900 to $22,O00,0O0, Alaska from SILL
100000 to $17,5OO,OOO, Hawaii from
$1bOOO,O0O to $12,5OO,000 and to the
Philippines from $5OOO,OO0 to little
over 100000.
Shipments of merchandise from
noncontiguous territories to the Unit
ed States during the same period have
increased as follows: Hawaii from
$25,OO0,0OO to nearly s30,O00,O0O, Porto
Rico from $14,OOO,OOO to $40, 75O,00O,
Alaska from $1O,5OO,OOO to $12,000,-
600, while in the case of the Philip
pines there is shown a slight reduc-
ton.
The gold received from Alaska, the
total of domestic production, was in
1904 a little over 100000 and in
1906 $1S,5OO,OOO.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
SHORT SPECIALS.

Having undergone a serious opera
ago, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, the poet,
is in a serious condition.
The large wages paid diamond cut
tiers in the factories of New York and
Massachusetts is causing such an
exodus of workmen from Antwerp as
to cause alarm there.
After amending the two-cent a mile
passenger railroad rate bill fixing the
penalty for violation, the house of
the Missouri legislature passed the
bill. The senate concurred.
Thomas Noonan, a New York fac
tory Waterman, was arrested, charged
with killing Philip McNally, night en-
gineer at the building, where both
were employed. A quarrel led to the
shooting.
An agreement to build passenger
and freight terminals at Kansas City
at an estimated cost to the railways
of S50,000,000 has been reached. The
passenger station is to cost 2,000, 900.
Out of 215 American candidates for
the Rhodes scholarships at the Uni
versity of Oxford 1873 passed. This,
according to DR.. G. R. Parker, the
western administrator, is larger pro
portion than ever before.
]. Henry Smith, veteran newspa-
per man, died at his home in Atlanta,
Ga, aged IS. In 1859, with Alexander
H. Stephens, he established the At
lanta Sun, which was afterward
merged with the Constitution.
According to the Petit Parisien of
Paris a committee will be chosen at
The Hague conference to consider
limitation of ornaments and the CON
illusions will be submitted direct to
the chancelleries of the various ma
lions.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
SANTO DOMINGO TREATY.

There, is q possibility that the
Santo Dimingo treaty may go through.
Whatever may be thought and said OF
this measure from a legislative point
ofyyicw, there is no denying that the
intervention of this country in the
affairs of the black republic was most
opportune, and that if prevented I'M
pleasant foreign complications that
were not dreamed of by the outside
world till the possibility of them was
past. Now the treaty is very harm.
less and amiable document, and there
would be little reason for the Senate
offering any objection to 1t except for
the habit that august body has gotten
into of shying at treaties. However
there has been a favorable report made
on it by the Foreign Relations Com
mittee, and there is a chance for it
to come out of the darkness of the
committee into the twilight of execu-
tive sessions and get a fair hearing.
The chief change made in it by the
committee was to make the collectors
of customs in the island subject to
the confirmation of the Senate. In this
was involved some points of constitu-
Iional law, but it was too abstruse to
be of general public interest.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
BRIEF AND BREEZY.

1t is strange how an zone has the
hardIhood to refer to the "unwr1tter
law" in the Thaw case, with those
228 amateur lawyers wri ing column
after column of it every day of the
trial
February is long eno III, - say.
the Baltimore Sun. E o cially fo
9ose who will not see an her pay da,
~ntil the first of March.
The Thaw trial is lik Iy to la t
long enough for the wspapers tc
work off all their Evely Thaw pict-
ures once more, and the some.
Pennsylvania Repu leans have
chairman of their cent al cap?paigl
committee. Seeds ough to hold the
farmer vote in line all ght.
''It's cold enough in Chicago to
freeze the day of judgm mt, -" remarks
an exchange. ImpossIb e. Chicago's
day of judgment is bound to be a
warm affair.
Lawyer Delmas is reported to
have leased an office in New Yorf
for term of years. l is to be hep
ed that he does not ex ect the ThaW
case to drag along indie initely.
An Ohio bank has nted notice
of It's failure in nine languages. 1t
must have failed for all kinds of
money.
1t was probably nothing but hasty
glance at the calenda that saved the
Kaiser from mistaki Harry Lehs
for comic valentine.
According TO an A abama contem-
porary, "Senator Hamburger made a
gallant fight to save the newspapers
from the provisions of the anti-pass
bill but was finally compelled to yield
his ground Perhaps he didn't nave
it staked out right.
"What is the moral OF the Thaw
case?'' asks a contemporary. 1t
seems to be all immo AL
AS the new dourna is said to be hos
tile TO the car, it j. difficult to see
the use of paying the railroad fare to
st. Petersburg.
After all this Hobsonesque talk,
the only thing in 81 ght seems to be
a measley little old South American
eyolutionet.
Count Bonn de Castellane has re-
considered the matter, and will not
commit suicide yet but SOON. The
count threat didn't seem to arouse
the widespread apprehension and
dismay he probably anticipated.
Chancellor Day says "the poor are
law and drink too much He seems
to consider everything on side the
millionaire set as ''poor white trash"
anyhow.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
SUBMARINE BOATS.

The fight over submarine boats has
bobbed up at the end of the session,
as it Is very prone to do. Ever since
the submarine boat has been a modern
possibility, there has been a fight
bewteen the two prominent submarine
boat companies for the government
contract. Both of the companies
have great deal of money behind
them, and they are willing to spent it
eely. But 1t seemed that one COM
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
HUMANITARIAN STAMP PLAN.
French Deputies Urged to Adopt a
PhiIanthropic Scheme.

Paris.-"It will be a practical and
easy way of almsgiving, and the gov
eminent will not lose anything by it, ,
is the argument an important body
of philanthropists is using to convince
the French deputies of the wisdom OF
their latest charitable project-that
a new postage stamp be issued and
sold for twice the price marked on it
half going to the state and the other
half to support INDECENT consumptives
A person wishing to send a letter to
{ foreign country would buy 'hu-
manitarian stamp" as it is called for
ten cents instead of the usual five
cents. This scheme originated with
DR.. Wayenburg and has already been
adopted in Holland, where it has met
with considerable success.
The Dutch stamps, twice the size of
the ordinary ones. were specially de-
signed by Derkinderen, an artist, of
the Holland Fine Arts academy. The
symbols on them represent various
means of vanquishing tuberculosis,
such as a head of wheat and the stalk,
which stands for wholesome food, and
a dove, which calls to mind fresh air
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
WRIGHT HELD FOR MURDER.
Former Chicagoan Confesses to Exor
icide Before Witnesses.

Denver, Col, Feb. 27-Benjamin c.
Wright, solicitor for the International
Correspondence school of Scranton,
Pa, is held q prisoner in the city Jail
on charge of murder, having con-
fessed to Chief of Police Michael De
laney in the presence of witnesses
that he poisoned his wife Cora, and
his daughter Genevieve, who were
found dead Monday in their home in
this city. Infatuation for Stella Good,
for whom the police claim to have
learned Wright had neglected his fam
lily, is supposed to have been the mo-
tive for the crime.
According to the statements of
hospital physicians, Wright himself
had taken no poison and was sham
ming when he seemed to be uncon-
sciOus. The contents of his stomach
we're examined and no poison was
found.
Wright did not disclose the nature
of the poison given his wife and
child, but it is known they died in ag-
ony.
Stella Good, wanted by the Denver
authorities in connection with the
Wright murder, was arrested at Colo
RADIO Springs Tuesday at a boarding
house where she was stopping with
her mother. She denied tnat she had
any knowledge of Wright's intention
to murder his family. Both Stella
Good and her mother were taken to
Denver in the custody of a deputy
sheriff. The mother will be held as a
witness.
Wright is a son of Hiram Wright,
cigarmaker of Chicago.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
First Publication Feb. %, 'OO

NOTICE OF SALE OF REAL ESTATE
Jefferson County, County Court-In
Probate.
In the matter of the estate Of S 4rah
Labaree, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that by virtue
and in pursuance of the power of sale
given me in and by the last will and
testament of said Sarah Labaree,
deceased, which has been DULY admit
ted to probate, the undersigned will on
Thursday the 21st day Of March A. D.
1907, at 10 o'clock a. m. at the front
door of the house on the north half of
the herein described premises, in the
first ward, city Of Watertown, Jeffer-
son county, Wisconsin, offer for sale at
public auction, the following described
land situated in the first ward, city
of Watertown. Jefferson county Wis
consin, to-wit: lot two ~ in block
forty five (45) original plat of Water
town on the east side Of Rock river,
as recorded in the office of the Register
of Deeds of said Jefferson county.
The south half will be offered first,
then the north half and then as
whole. The property will be, sold
whichever way will bring the highest
price.
Terms of sale cash.
Dated this Goth day of February,
A. d. 1907.
ChaS. A, Skinner.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01

Some of "the interests which were
recently applaudlng the reserved
rights of state are insisting that
they shall remain reserved and not he
exercised in the reduction of corporate
tolls and rates.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
"BilI" Club Gets Its Charter.

Jefferson City, Mo.-The Bill Club
No. l, Of the World" filed articles of
association with the secretary of state,
and upon a pro forma decree of the
circuit court Of Clay county has been
granted a charter as a social organiza-
ton. The headquarters OF this club
is at Excelsior Springs and its mem
bership is restricted to men and wo-
men who answer to the name of
Bill" William ]. Bryan, United
States Senator Stone and ex-Congress-
man Cowherd of Kansas City are on
the membership roll.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
Five Hurt in Gotham Crash.

New York, Feb. 27.-The rear car of
a Third avenue elevated train jumped
the track in Chatham square Tuesday
and crashed into an island platform
for passengers between the tracks,
causins a section Of the elevated struc-
ture, inclIuing the platform, to fall
into the street below. Five passen-
gers in the rear car were slightly
bruised and cut by broken glass.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
Live Stock.

Chicago, Feb. &c.
CATTLE-Good to prime steers, $1,000
200; common to good steers, 81. 1905 90; in
feriOr to common steers, So. S514 rs: good
to fancy cows and heifers, So 25GO5. 90
yearlings, good to choice, $5.1506.OO; good
cutting to fair beef cows, 81. 10000; fair
to choice feeders, $3.5O64SO; fair to choice
stockers, $2.75@40O; bulls, common to
good, $2.250400; bulls, fair to choice, So IS
@4.5O; calves, fair to good, $3OO07s5;
calves good to choice, $675@7.50
HOGS-Heavy packing sows, Sc 95d7 O5:
choice to prime heavy shipping barrows
S.05@O7.121a; mixed packers, $7O007 05;
rough throw-outs, $4.75@5.5O
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01

We are nearing that stage of legis-
lative proceedings where popular meas
ures are sometimes lost too late to be
found again before the beginning of
the dollar days, the saddest of the
year.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
THE MARKETS.
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

Chicago, Feb 26.
FLOUR-Easy. Spring wheat, special
brands, $40; Minneapolis, hard patent.
jute, 4.OO04.20; straight, export bags, So. 20
QS.3O; clear, export bags, $3.OO@33O
WHEAT-Rallies. May, 777sQ7S3sc; July,
7S1a07S7sc.
CORN-Moderate. May, 473s@475sc.
OATS-Heavy. May, 4A@425sc.
BUTTER-Steady. Creameries, per h..
320321ac; dairy, 2S@3Oc.
EGGS-Steady. Fresh eggs at mark,
new cases included 221a0241ac per dozen;
prime firsts, 251ac; extras, 2715c
LIVE POULTRY - Steady. Turkeys.
per h., lie; chickens, fowls, 1115c: ducks,
lie.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01

At tribal council on the Oneida
reservation a decision was reached
to press the claims for moneys aggre-
eating more than $1,000,000 which the
Indians say is due them for land
sales.
Frank MacVicars, who had been
playing in the Man of the Hour" at
the Savoy theater in New York, was
found dead at the foot of a flight of
stairs leading to the areaway of the
hotel where he lived. 1t is believed
his death was accidental.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
Local Retail Markets.
BUTTER AND EGGS.

- - L LIN AM LIIS.
Eggs-StrIctly fresh, pc.
Butter-Dairy, 27c; creamery Sec
The following quotations on butter,
eggs, vegetables and fr,it are up-to-
date and furnished the Leader by the
best local authorities:
VEGETABLES.
Potatoes Bushel, soc.
Cabbage-2 cents Id.
Onions -Bushel, 100
Celery dz.-50c
FRUITS.
Lemons-Dozen, soc to soc.
Oranges-Dozen, zoe to 40c.
Apples-30 to 45c Peck
BUTCHERS PRICES.
Hogs, live per cwt... $50
Dressed hogs. .... 1925 to 7, so
Calves per cWt. 500 to 5. so
Old chickens per ID. live 7 to 8
Cattle live Nor cuy+ . M 70 40
Sbaen nor c,v+ 60 10 ~ 90
Snrino l.,mbs no, hood 90 oo ~ ~
. ~
GRAINS AND FLOUR
Pod ,r+or ,hoo+ 70
White winter wheat-72.
Spring No. 1-72
cnr;no Nj > 70
Snr;no NJ > 20
Corno11
Nye-oA,
Patent FIo,r-s125 sack G. oo hb,
Straight Flour 80 NO, hbl. q *
Bran Ito
Rye Feed-95.
FARM PRODUCE
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
New York. Feb. 2f

New York, Feb. &C.
FLOUR-Steady but dull.
WHEAT-Light. May, S53s@S54c; July,
S56S5Ac
RYE-Nominal
CORN-Lower. May, 54as@541ac
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01

The Leader publishes news daily
that is of interest to you.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01

Any good doctor will tell you that medi-
cine like Ayers Cherry Pectoral cannot
do its best work if the bowels are con-
stipated. Ask your doctor if he knows
anything better than Ayers Pills for cor
recting this sluggishness of the liver.
~~-1Gade By the j. c. Aver Co., Lowell, Mass
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
BARLEY

The following quotations for borley
is reported by H. Werthelner, Barley
Headquarters, Main Street Balley-5O
ito SEC
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-03-01
OFFICIAL BUTTER MARKEr

e g'n, II Feb. 25-On the board
of trade today butter was firm at 33c.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-23
,contentment in kansaA

Portland Oregon Kansas Is moth
ing II not remarkable In its develop
ment. IT'S prosperity or it, depression,
The state Is now In the enjoyment of
the greatest prosperity in its history.
IL is its boast that there is not vii
lage of 500 population In the state
without bank. and all OF these insti-
tut,ons are full OF money belonging
10 farmers. Irrigation and. the cuifi-
walton OF the sugar beet are strong elc-
ments In Che prosperity OF Kansas
On lands that two decades ago We're
given up Ia drouth heets worth mil
lions OF dollars annually are grown
and this through irrigation and with
ont trenching upon tha wide areas
that are gwen to the production OF
corn and wheat Applied energy. In
teligence and water form a combina.
ton that laughs at adversely. This Is
why Kansas laughs, forgets the past.
enjoys the present and looks hope
fully 10 the future.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-23
LONG MOURNING OBSOLETE.
Grape is Worn. but Only for shor,
Time.

Time.
OF all the changes in dress that
have taken place during the last few
years there is none perhaps so mark
ed as the new idea of what's fashion
able and correct for mourning. No
longer must one be heavily draped in
Grape for any length of time, even
for the nearest of kin, but the period
OF first mourning, while much short
ened, is nevertheless very marked.
Grape is worn, it might be said, on
the least excuse, but must be worn
for only short wn.le, the period, OF
course. being regulated by the close
ness of the demised relative. Black
and white is now so smart for general
wear that it is rather out of favor
save fore the lign1est possible mourn
ing, and gray, mauve and lilac also
are considered strictly mourning-or
half mourning -colors. Satins, how
ever, bright spangled robes and all
materials with considerable sheen are
now considered quite correct for all
save the deepest mourning, and
bright and duh jet trim the majority
OF all black dresses, while black lace
and embroidery are also deemed per
missible for AL mourning that does
not call for Grape.
The correct attire for hav ng ones
photograph taken this season in an
evening gown cut decollete. Clad in
fight-coored frock of the newest
filmy material, with. trimming of
sheer lace or hand embroidery. any
woman may leel that so far as dress
goes her picture will be correct The
wearing of Big picture hats with
plumes, ribbons and velvets becom-
ingly arranged, which was such a fad
year or so ago, is still in vogue. 1t
depends entirely upon the person:
posing, and though the majority OF
photographs will be taken without
these hats the latter are an adjunct
of picture taking that will probably
always be considered good form.
The use of furs provided they are
handsome ones, viii again be fashion
able. for a boa or even collarette
placed carelessly around the neck
lends touch OF elegance that IS
greatly favored by the average wo-
man. A fur cape or even long
coat thrown open in front to show the
evening costume viii be permissible
though doubtless little worn for photo
graphs.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-23
Soldiers Salute the Cat.

At the government house in Poona-
India, every cat which may happen
out of the front door after dark Is sa-
luted by the sentry, who presents
arms to pussy. Tradition relates that
in 1888 Sir Robert Grant, governor
of Bombay. died In the government
house. On the evening OF the day Of
his death a cat was seen to leave
the house by the front door and TO
walk up and down particular path
where the lat governor had been m
the habit OF strolling after sunset. A
Hindoo sentry observed this and told
priest, who declared that in the car
was Governor Grant soul and Il
should be saluted, As the particular
cat could not be identified by the
sentry II was decided TO present arms
to all the cats. New York Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-05-23
BETTER THAN WEATHER MAN.
Natural Barometer That Is Merely ,
Piece Of Stone.

Natural Barometer That Is Merely .
Piece of Stone.
st. Louis be-Democrat.--A store
keeper on South Broadway has q
piece of stone about large as .
mans fist in which he places more
confidence as weather indicator
than he does in all the weather bu-
reau's of the country. He brought it
with him from Germany when he
came to St Louis many years ago.
and although his German neighbors
told him that the stone would not
work in America he finds that It
operates about as well IN Missouri
as it did in the old country.
He says there is mine of it IN
Saxony anu another somewhere in
Russia, and that in parts of both
countries, near the mines, many
country people provide themselves
with humps of the stone for use az
as soft as chalk. with inter, clay and
it is composed of lines one, almost
rock salt When the air is filed with
moisture AMI storm is coming on the
salt and inter turn black.
The principle is recognized in the
manufacture of one or two patent
fancy barometers, but whether the
inventor took the hint from the stone
can not be ascertained.