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Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
HOOKS 81 POUND FISH.
Judge Bailey of Eau Claire Lands Big
Muskellunge After Water King
Had Upset His Boat.

HAYWOOD, Wis, July 26.-Pitting
his swimming powers against those of
the monster fish in an hours battle,
Judge w. f. Bailey of Eau Claire land
ed the monarch muskellunge of Sand
lake, a sixty-seven and one-half FOUNDER,
and won the championship of the region
for his club, the kingfishers.
The judge was trolling when the huge
muskie struck and the fight was on.
The line caught the bow of the boat and
it was overturned but the judge, in spite
of his 90 years, tied the line around him
and started for a companions boat.
A life line was thrown to him. the
judge pulled into safety, and the fight
renewed. c. W. Wilson of Tuscola. H.,
the rescuer, lending his aid. For half
an hour, however, the water king kept
up his fight before he could be drawn
near the side of the boat and shot.
In its mammoth jaws were found i'm
bedded two skinner spoon hooks, evil
dence of struggles in which the muskel-
lunge had escaped its human foes after
being fairly hooked
The last duty of the former ruler of
Sand lake was to furnish dinner to
seventy-hve guests in the hotel in Hay
wood, after he had been placed in a
place of honor where all the townpeople
could gaze upon him.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
AUTOS KILL 4 FARMER
ONE WAS TRYING TO PASS ANOTH-
Err ON NARROW ROAD.
Nicholas Maurer, an Auctioneer, Stood
Waiting for Them to Go
Rrr

MILWAUKEE, Wis. July 29.-Nich-
olas Maurer, aged 80, retired
farmer living near Brooktield, Wis, was
struck and instantly killed by an auto
mobile owned and driven by August GEES
ser, 2S01 Chestnut street, Sunday after
noon shortly before O'Clock
The body of the aged man was badly
bruised and torn by the impact with the
heavy touring car, which was running
1t IS said, at high speed.
GeSSer's machine was Just leaving
Blodgett, Naukesha county, when he
caught up with the machine of Henry
taEer, also of Milwaukee and attempted
TO pass him. Gesser'S machine Swerved
sharply to one side of the road where
Maurer stood waiting for the automobiles
to pass, and struck him. throwing his
body i'll front OF the other machine.
The body was taken ON one of the
automobiles to BroOkhed and Coroner
Charles Hill Of Waukesha county was
notified. Maurer was we'll known in
W aukeSha county as an auctiOneer.
Maurer had been working Sunday at
the home of William Winzenried in
Brookheld and was on his way home
when the accident occurred. Gesser and
his 1atler We're enroute to Milwaukee in
their big touring car.
GesSer, who is relative of Maurer
by marriage. was heartbroken over the
fatal occurrence. He took Maurer's body
to the latter's home and remained there
most of the night
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
FAIR SHAKE FOR NEGRO,
Colored Orator Declares that Civil
Rights, Not Social Equality, Is
What Black Wants.

MADISON, Wis, July 2G.-Some new
suggestions for the settlement of the race
question were given by Eugene Marshall,
the cOlOred orator of the university wheE
he declared in speech at the Lakeside
Chautauqua this morning that the social
question and society requirements do not
enter into the problem at all. Neither
race demands it, he declared. 1T is civil
rights that the negro demands The in
dependent negro should be reckoned with
according to his character and ability
There is no doubt that the race problem
is one of the greatest questions before
the American people for solution. but as
far as the two races working together,
making a living, exercising the voting
rights of the American citizen, the negro
should be reck0ned with, | believe, ac-
cording to his ability. Employ the in
dustrOus negro: punish the lazy; educate
the ignorant, respect the intelligent. pro-
tect the yirtuous, and punish the vicious;
in this way it will be possible for the two
races to live together peacefully
This was the opening day of the Chau
tauqua and the attendance is small, there
being about 400 people on the grounds.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
REGENTS HOLD SESSION,
Normal School Board Decides that La
Crosse Building Shall Face State
Street, $50 Feet from Walk.

LA CROSSE, Wis, July 26.-[Spe-
cial. THE state board of normal school
regents is in session in La Crosse to-
day for the purpose of locating the new
normal school authorized by the last Leg
islature, TO be built at La Crosse. at a
cost of $4,000. The board passed a
resolution deciding that the school be
built $50 feet from the south line of
the property and facing State street on
the south. The site contains two full
blocks and room will be left on the north
for the largest campus of any state
normal.
Another resolution was adopted re-
guessing the city of La Crosse to vacate
the streets and alleys intercepting the
property. 1t was decided that a specifi-
cation be prepared without delay that
at least the foundation might be put in
this year.
In view of the fact that no appropria-
ton was asked Of the last Legislature
for salaries and running expenses it is
not expected that the school will be
completed and opened for students be-
fore September 1909
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
AUTO SMASHES BUGGY
Mrs. Luebke and Children Narrowly Es-
cape-Speed Violators Run
Away.

MILWAUKEE Wis, July ga
buggy containing Mrs. William H.
Luebke and several children was struck
on the Blue Mound road, near the fair
grounds by an automobile running at high
speed at ! o'clock Sunday evening. The
buggy was demolished but the occupants
were not injured.
The automobile did not stop nor did
its occupants inquire as to the serious
ness of the mishap and Mrs. Luebke
and the children We're brought into Mil
waukee by another AUTOMOBILES.
Witnesses to the accident say that the
number of the machine was either
49,311L, or 493 H.; if the latter it was
probably an Illinois machine \ tele-
phone message was sent to the sheriff 5
office and deputies We're sent to watch
the roads leading into the city, but with
out result.
Miss Bessie Miller, aged 10, was run
down by a motorcycle at Fourth street
and Grand avenue, Saturday afternoon.
The rider of the wheel was thrown to the
ground by the shock and Miss Miller
was rendered unconscious. She was tax
en- to the Emergency hospital, being re
leased after treatment
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
BADGER COPS GET @. K.
Ashland and Manitowoc Inquiries Fail
to Produce Convincing Results-Must
Shine Up Buttons Now.

ASHLAND, Wis. July 26--[Spe-
cial l-Charges of drunkenness and in
competency filed against Chief of Police
Moslowski have been dismissed on
technicality. Charges of cowardice
against three other policemen We're also
dismissed but will be renewed.
MANlTOWOC, Wis, July 90 Spe-
ciaI. l-Ottcers Dueno and August Egg
CERT have been exhonorated from charges
of neglect, preferred by former Mayor
William Rahr. Proof is held insufficient.
Following the investigation, on the sug-
gestion of Mayor Groffman, the fire and
police commission ordered that all police
officers, including the chief, must remain
out of saloons while in uniform and on
duty, on penalty of instant dismissal.
Another order demands that the men pay
more heed to their personal appearance.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
TRAIN HELD UP
NEAR KENOSHA,
Five Men Go Through Coaches, Securing
More Than $500 in Cash-De-
tectiveS Take Up Trail.

KENOSHA, Wis, July 29.-[ Special
The police here were notified this
morning that train on the western di-
vision of the Northwestern road. which
left Kenosha at o'clock Saturday
afternoon was held up by five men.
The men made the trip through the
car and are known to have got away
with more than 5000 in cash. Hans
Harbert member of the Kenosha
county board, was the only local victim,
but five robberies were reported among
Chicago people on the train.
The train was crowded with passon-
gers and many of them were wealthy
Chicagoans on their way to the lakes
for Sunday.
Railway detectives came to Kenosha
this morning to make an effort to get
cline
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
GET HIGH SCHOOL POSITIONS.
Many Lawrence University Graduates
Appointed in Wisconsin Cities

APPLETON, Wis, July 29.-Wiscon-
sin high schools have chosen as teach
ers, Lawrence university graduates Of
the classes of 1907 as follows: Viroqua
High school, Miss Ethel Nuzmun, his
tory and English; Dodgeville High
school, Miss Hattie Arthur, Latin an
German; lola High school, Miss Bella
Hatch, history and English; Mer rilI
High school, John Ballantyne, science
and athletics; Fennimore High sci DOL,
Miss Sarah Hartman. mathematics: Ell
roy High school, Miss Leila job lson,
history and English; Elmwood High
school, William Fadner, history, English
and expression; Lexicon Mo. High
school, Capt. G. Aller, science nd ath-
letics. Ernest Hooten of WaupIIn, class
1907, will go to the University Of Wis
arshiD
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
ON FORK
BOY LOSES LIFE.
Shocking Accident to Roy O'Rourke of
Milwaukee While Visiting Near
RiChheld.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 90
Through injuries received by being i'm
paled upon a pitchfork, which penetrated
his leg and abdomen while sliding down
a haystack on farm near Rchfield,
where he was visiting, Roy O'Rourke,
aged IL, died at st. Joseph's hospital
early this morning
The boy lived with his parents at 642
Twenty-sixth street, and the accident oc-
CURED on Tuesday while the boy. with
number of playmates, was playing on
haystack on the farm. They were en-
gagged in sliding down the haystack from
all sides
The boy took a slide over a side of
the stack where pitchfork had been
left standing with its handle Oh the
ground, the pr0ngS pointing upward The
fork was hidden in the hay and he did
not see it when he started down. One
If the pr0ngs entered his leg while two
others entered his abdomen, penetrating
the vital organs. He was Immediately
taken by train to Milwaukee and to St
Joseph's hospital, but in spite of all eff
forts to save his life, he died there this
morning. The coroner was notified and
IS investigating the case.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
VIOLA is SUBMERGED.
Kickapoo River Overfows It's Banks
and mandates the Valley.

VIOLA, Wis, July Special IA
terrible cyclone struck this section Sun
day afternoon, accompanied by the
heaviest rainfall ever known in these
parts. Barns were blown down, stock
killed and growing crops laid waste in
the path Of the storm. About all of the
business portion of the city is inundated
and many residences are flooded 5 and g
feet deep. The rise in the river is be-
tween 10 and 20 feet, and is at least 3
feet higher than has ever been known.
Among those known to have lost barns,
granaries, etc, are: E. e. Van Fleet,
Eph. Gochenaur, Irwin Gribble, Myra
Ambrose and T. G. Dobson. The amount
of stock killed cannot be learned, but
it will be considerable.
The c. VI. & St. P. railroad bridge
here. which is 100 feet long and built of
steel. was carried away, and it is re-
ported that several of the company's
bridges below here are out. Water is
running ) feet deep in the main street
and carcasses Of dead animals are float
ing down through the village.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
LOBBYISTS FILE EXPENSES.
More Accounts Come Into the Secretary
of States Office.

Madison, Wis, July 29.-[SpeciaI.l-
The following expense accounts Of legis-
lature representatives were filed today
in the secretary of states office:
John SchiIlgen, Madison, nothing
R. E. York, for the Portage Electric
f. c. Lorenz, Milwaukee, appearing for
legislation to amend the Charter Of the Mil
waukee Gas Light company, $40.
Nathan Haellsly, Dodge county, president
of the City and Village Mutual Underwrit-
ers' association, $3.50
J. w Wicks, for Emerson Lumber COM
pany, Price county, $313.25.
The Travellers Insurance company OF
Hartford, Conn, S415.54
q. d. Bartz, Of Marathon county, for e.
G. Zimmerman and others, $27O3l.
A Fl. Reid of Lincoln county, for the
Wisconsin Valley Improvement company,
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
NO MAIL FOR INDIANS.
Impossible to Find a Carrier Who Will
Make Delivery at Oneida Reser-
walton for SIS a Year.

APPLETON, Wis, July 29.-[Spe-
cial mo person can be found to carry
the mail TO the Indians on Oneida reser-
walton. This condition has existed since
the first of the month, and from present
indications it will continue. The govern
ment offers $40 Il year for carrying the
mail from West Depere to Oneida post
office three times a week The distance
IS seven miles and the salary" for that
is forty-eight cents Il trip. No one can
be found to take the job. The only time
the Indians get their mail now is when
someone happens to go to West Depere
from the reservation and has an order
from the postmaster.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
TWO YEARSFOR BIGAMY
Madison Man Who Lived with Two
Wives at the Same Time, Goes
to Prison.

MADISON, Wis. July 26.-[Special.l
Charles r. Sager, self-confessed biga
mist. who, when arrested last fall, was
living quietly with TWO wives in Madi-
son. came into the circuit court this
morning and pleaded guilty to a charge
of bigamy and was sentenced to two
years in the state reformatory at Green
Bay at hard labor by Judge Stevens.
Sager was married first in about 1900.
About one year ago, he fell in love with
another woman and married her also.
After Il time, the first woman, who had
left him, became so impoverished that
she again returned to him and when
Sager was arrested, the three were liy-
ing quietly together.
One of Sager's wives, Bessie knudsen,
is now living at Black River Falls, with
her two children.
Margaret Mulhollan of Wonewoc,
Sank county. who is the second wife,
and it is her parents that have brought
the proceedings against him.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
BIG FIRE AT MELLEN.
Blaze in Business Section Destroys $780,
900 Worth Of Property-insur-
ance Is $4,000.

MELLEN, Wis, July 2S.-I Spcciai.I
Fire destroyed a whole business block
here Sunday night. and the loss Is about
$4,000. The insurance is $4,000. The
ire broke out at midnight in the back
part of {. Carlstrom' grocery store. dnd
spread to the adjoining buildings. The
buildings burned were: NJ. ]. Collins,
saloon; Phil. Norbert, saloon; g. Carl
strom. grocery store; G. y. Poundston"
general store; Frank Cleveland. grocery
store; Hugh Weir, saloon; Prank Shep-
hard. saloon Gibbs Cash Store; and the
Ladies and Gents furnishing store. Not
d building in the block was saved.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
STATE NEWS NOTES.

JANESVILLE-On Thursday next the
Elks expect to move into their new $1,000
clubrooms in the Myers theater block.
MENOMINEE = The Chippewa Valley
Electric Light and Power company is the
only bidder for lighting the city of Me
nomonie for q term of seven years begin
ming next January.
MENOMONIE-A contract was closed
here Friday between the government and
the Omaha Railway company for carrying
the mail between MenomOnie Junction and
Menomonie for q term of four years
MENOMONIE-Loui Anderson, aged 16
was badly injured while swimming in the
Red Cedar river. He failed to rise after
diving and upon investigation his compan-
ions found him at the bottom Of the river
insenSihle.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
MARSH DRAINING
HAS COMMENCED.
DIGGING OF THE AVON CANAL IN
SOUTHWESTERN WISCONSIN
MARKS AN EPOCH.
1T WILL COST. $4,000.
Ditch Will Touch Only twenty-five
Farms, But if Successful, Its In
huence Will Be Great.

EVANSVILLE, Wis. July 81 Spe-
cial. What is the most important step
towards the reclamation of thousands of
acres in Rock county has been actually
begun in the township of Avon, the ex-
IRENE southwestern town lying on the
1llinois-Wisconsin state line. After two
years spent in litigation in the courts as
to the methods of procedure and tax
alton of costs the work of digging the
big ditch has been commenced and by fall
it is expected it will be ready for actual
use.
While it directly affects but twenty
FIVE farms its influence will be wide
spread and il successful another year will
see more bitches of similar construction
dug which will eventually drain thou
sands of acres of now useless land In
an early day the western portion of Rock
county was the course of some mighty
stream whose course was followed out
by huge glaciers in the ice age. Grad
ually the mighty river has dwindled down
to the placid Rock, the Sugar and other
smaller tributaries.
Will Cost $4,000.
1t is the great valley left by the prog
ress OF the glaciers, now low and marshy
in wet weather, that is to be ultimately
drained. The Avon ditch is the first.
1t will reclaim some five thousand acres
of land, will cost $4,000 to dig and 500
a year to keep in good condition after
@Fs L spESE p SfS e tb as R RosGr JUST Fy
this side, Of the Illinois state line and
leage a fertile valley fit for the growth
Of the richest of crops.
The assessed cost of the ditch lays
with the twenty-five farms to be bene-
flied. They range from $1O63 to $425.70
and are to be paid in installments of five
years. The commission is bonded for
$4,000 and has borrowed the money to
construct the works.
The canal itself will be six miles long
when completed. It's average depth will
be 512 feet with a 20-foot opening at
the top and a 6-foot one at the bottom.
Starting near the Green county line it
runs through the township of Avon in
snakey route following the contours of
the higher lands. In some places it al
most parallels the Sugar river a few
rods distant and again is several rods
further south. 1t empties into the Sugar
river just before it crosses the state line
where it unites with the Rock little
further on.
Drain Marshy Lands.
The work is being done under contract
by Chicago engineering firm and is
being closely watched by farmers from
all parts of the county who seek similar
methods to relieve them of their low
lands flooded at every high water and
useless except for hay. This is true of
vast territory in the towns of Center
Union, Porter and Magnolia where the
glacial drift which followed out and wild
ened the Rock river into Lake Kosh-
konong in Jefferson county is continued
The projected marsh to redeem this vast
territory is estimated will cost twenty
five thousand dollars and would empty
into the Rock river
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
Great Damage to Crops.
CITY GIVES UP SEARCH.
No More Attempts to Discover Where
abouts of Kenosha Lawyer Who
DISAPPEARED Last January.

KENOSHA, Wis, July 27-[Spe-
cial. 1.-The mystery surrounding the dis
appearance of John Gillett, Kenosha
lawyer, who has been missing since the
latter part of January, probably never
will be solved, as this morning Mayor
for the remains of Gillett. Yesterday
afternoon a diver was sent into pit
under a gas tank to seek the body of
the man, but he found nothing. AS this
was the last resort of the officials they
gave up the search this morning. The
disappearance of Gillett has caused more
excitement than anything that has oc-
CURED in kenosha in years. In boy
hood he had been the companion of
Judge ]. Y. QuarIes and Charles Quarles
of Milwaukee. Charles Quarles offered
a reward for the recovery of the body.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
MIDSUMMER FAIR AT GENEVA.
Society Event Started at 10 o'clock This
Morning

LAKE GENEVA, Wis, July 90
Special promptly at 10 o'clock this
morning buglar sounded the reveille on
the shore of Lake Geneva. Huge stream
ers of ribbon then We're let down on the
farm of James Hobart Moore and the
third Lake Geneva midsummer fair
opened its tented doors, displaying real
county fair sights.
To the south of the Moore home numer-
Gus attractions have been housed in
tents. in ieaf-covered arbors and open
lawns. On the ground occupied by the
Moore training track is the space re-
served for the horse show, which prom
Uses to be the most successful ever held
by the fashionable cottagers summering
at Lake Geneva.
Besides the horse show. the fair in
cludes vaudeville show, vegetable ex-
hibit, athletic field, japanese teahouse,
torture tellerS. home industry depart
ment and all of the side shows. real and
make believe, of the genuine circus.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
INSANITY SHOWS
SLIGHT INCREASE,
Number of Inmates in Wisconsin Asy-
lums Rises from 5sS6 to 5s6s-
Forty Per Cent. Women.

MADISON, Wis, July 29.-[Spccial.l
Whether insanity is increasing in pro
portion to population is question, hut
the numbers III the state and county in
situations have increased from lS36 TO
596S within the past year, according
to the statistics just filed with the state
board of control. OF these figures about
go per cent. of the inmates are men and
40 per cent. women. The average ratio
of insanity is to about every 3S2 pc0-
pie.
Number of Insane.
Thirty-two counties of the state have
hospitals for the care of these uufnr-
Inmates. On June 80, there were 4I92
i'll county aSylumS, 545 in the milwaukee,,
hospital for the insane: 500 in the state
hospital for the insane ut Mendoza and
632 in the Northern insane hospital mt
Oshkosh.
Secretary Tappins of the state board
of central says the number of insane
who are being cared for in county and
state hospitals, is rapidly increasing,
but he says this is not to be taken rs an
indication that insanity is increasing in
proportion TO population. In recent years
the methods Of care for the insane have
become 50 humane that people, who
were formerly cared for in homes. are
being sent to Institutions
Chippewa Home Crowded
At the present time al people are be-
ing cared for in the home for the feeble
minded at Chippewa Falls This insti-
tuition is overcrowded. There are over
1000 applicants pending admission at the
present time, declares Secretary Tappins.
The following statistics show the in
crease i'll the different state institutions
on June 80, 1904. and the same date in
1906 and this ypnr.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
ST. PATRICK HAS A RIVAL.
Mountain (Wis.) Man Kills Fifty-fve
Snakes in One Week

APPLETON, Wis. July 29.-LSpe-
ciaL l-According to James Maeder, who
has just returned from his farm in Ocon-
to county, Hugh Herald Of Mountain
has established a record for killing
snakes that is without equal in the state.
During the past week the Mountain man
dispatched ffty-fvc snakes in three
days. The previous week ne slaughtered
forty-fve. This. according 20 Maeder
is simply the beginning Of 4 systematic
snake hunt which IS 10 be carried OUT
to rid Ocoato county Of the reptiles.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1907-08-02
COMING TO MILWAUKEE.
Edwards Ihrig Company to Move Its Cas-
ket Works from Oshkosh to
Cream City.

OSH KOSH, Wis, July 90 Special
The Edwards-Ihrig company, manu-
facturers of casket furnishings, mattress
es and bedsprings has decided to remove
it's plant to Milwaukee and the work of
loading has begun. The corcern has Sc
cured o six-story building at 22J-233
Oregon street, near the Broadway bridge.
The company will maintain a branch in
Oshkosh