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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
DEEP WATERWAY PLAN
RECEIVES A SETBACK
Board of Engineers Reports That ST.
Louis to Gulf Improvement Is
Not Desirable.

WASHINGTON, D. c., June TO-
The proposed I4-foot deep waterway
project from st. Louis to the gulf re-
ceived blow today when the board of
engineers reported to Congress that such
q waterway is not desirable. The wa
terway would cost $12S,0OO,000 for con-
struction and $6,O0OOOO annually for
maintenance, the engineers say.
The report is based on a survey of
the Mississippi river by a special board
of engineers, created by act of Congress.
The conclusions reached by both the
special board and the regular board of
engineers are practically the same.
The report of the regular board that
it is not desirable to construct 4 navi-
gable channel fourteen feet deep from
st. Louis or from Chicago to the mouth
of the Mississippi is based on the conclu-
sion of the special board that only COM
merce originating from sources that do
not at present ship by river would JUS
tify the great cost of q fourteen foot
waterway. 1t is claimed that the pres
ent demands of commerce between St
Louis and the gulf will be adequately
met by an eight-foOt channel from st.
Louis to the mouth of the Ohio and a
channel of not less than nine feet in
depth below the mouth of the Ohio.
The boards belief is that an eight-foot
channel from Chicago to st. Louis CORE
spending with the present eight-foot
project from st. Louis to Cairo is the
least that would adequately meet the
demands of commerce. 1t adds that such
a waterway would be desirable provided
its cost is reasonable. Present and
prospective demands of commerce be-
tween Chicago and the gulf would be
adequately served, the board reports, by
a through nine-foot channel to the gulf.
Estimates for these channels have not
been completed, but are promised to
Congress by next December.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
FIGHT HOPELESS CAUSE
SENATE INSURGENTS VOTED DOWN
ON ALL SCHEDULES.
Finance Committee Upheld on All Points
in Fixing Duties on Wooden
Goods

WASHINGTON. d. c.. June 10
The progressiveS" came into the Senate
today determined to continue their fight
against the wool schedule, although all
the votes taken yesterday demonstrated
the ability of the committee on finance
to maintain 4 ma jOrity of 10 or II on all
OF the provisions the committee had rec
commended.
Shortly after the Senate met. a vote
of 81 to 43 was cast against the conten-
tlon OF Mr. DOlliver that only the wool
IN yarns should be taxed. thus unfolding
the committee on finance.
Nine Observation-Disclosures Bristow
Browne, Burkett, Clapp, Cummins Dol
liver. La Toilette and NelsOn-voted
against.
Senator Dolliyer then offered a substi-
tut amendment proposing to tax only
the wool in fabrics made partly of cot
ton, and III commenting on the amend
ment convulsed the Senate with his
witty remarks upon the Dingley sched-
ules. The amendment was voted down
by a vote of 80 to A. Offering another
amendment to reduce the duties on wool
en- or wOrsted cloths, wool or wOrsted
shawls, etc, Mr.. Dolliver showed that
1t was exactly the same paragraph that
had been recommended by the finance
committee in 1888, but Notwithstanding
the lOWanS sarcastic references to Sena-
tor Aldrich the amendment was defeated
by a vote of 30 to 43. Still another
amendment applying to blankets and
hannels was voted down. 81 to As
Senator Owen insisted that the differ
ence of labor cost of domestic and for
eign blankets was but Is or 20 per cent,
yet he said a duty equal to $50 per cent.
ad YalOrem was proposed on them.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
CLIMATE MADE IN FRANCE.
Means OF Providing Paris Vegetables
Weeks Ahead of Season.

Means of Providing Paris Vegetables
Weeks Ahead of Season.
The gardeners of Paris get their
products on the market weeks before
the regular season for them. This
forcing of nature is described by Ern-
est Poole in Success Magazine.
The secret is simply this: The
French maraichers have manufactured
a climate to suit them. AS one OBJ
serves has said, They have moved
the climate of Monte Carlo up to the
suburbs Of Paris"
Some new prodigy of modern sci
ence, this? Not at all. Only enor-
nous expense in money and in time
The gardens, whenever possible, are
placed on land with a slope to the
south, and are well protected by the
walls on the north and east-walls
built to reflect light as we'll as to give
protection from the northeast winds
The ground is practically covered
with glass, not as in a greenhouse. but
by glass frames In the open, three
light" frames of uniform size. IL by
Az feet; and also by glass bells
These, too, are of a uniform size
about the shape of chapel bell, a lit
tie less than II inches In diameter and
from II to 10 inches high. The French
call them cloches. You may often see
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
MEAT TEST A FRAUD q?
INSPECTOR HARMS QUITS AND
ASKS PROBE.
Says He Cannot Tolerate Conditions at
East ST. Louis Stock
Yards

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, June 1O.-After
eighteen months service as a United
States meat inspector in East ST. Louis
packing houses, J. F. Harms has re-
signed and has written letter to Secre-
tary of Agriculture James Wilson de-
manding an investigation of the meat in
spection system at the national stock
yards.
Tarms, who has gone to his home in
Fremont, o., asserted that he resigned
because he could not tolerate the condi-
tons he saw and that inspectors in
charge of the bureau of animal industry
are too lenient with the packers. He
says no animus prompted his letter.
The inspection at the national stock
yards is costing the people approximate
y S1OO,OO0 year, and it is not actually
worth 81 to them. For when the word
is passed from, the inspector in charge
on to the inspectors actually doing the
work on the floors, that they are get
ting too many condemned animals and
to change the grading, what does that
men? 1t means that the whole thing is
rotten and a farce. Mr.. Secretary, the
packers are getting today from 20 to so
per cent. of what ought to be CON
demned and destroyed"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
HOME RULE BILL KILLED.

MADISON, Wis, June 10 Special
Home rule was killed last night in the
Assembly by the decisive vote of 30 to
%. There was one brief speech
against the bill by Assemblyman Georgi
and a brief speech i'll its favor by Mr..
Leuch. The speech-making did not con-
sumo more than ten minutes.
The non-partisan election measure and
the corrupt practices measure were also
killed These two bills, with the
home rule bill, were the work of tile
charter convention in Milwaukee.
The roll call on the home rule bill
last night in the Assembly was as fol-
lows:
For the bill-BaIard, Bcruer, Brockhaus.
en-. Bradford, Busett, Curtiss, Daub. Dor.
ner, Estabrook, Haight, Harrass, Hull
Jones, Hamper. Kempf, Leroy, LeUch, Nc.
ConneH MOrtenson, Onstad, Rollmann,
Schwalbach, Stevens, Thomas, Weber,
Wells-26.
Against the bill-Atwood, Bichler, Bray.
Clear, COmstock, Disch. Domochowski,
Farrell. Fisher, Georgi, Hambrecht, Ham.
mill, Hoyt. Hughes, Ingalls, Kull. LaycOck,
Ledvina, Lentz, Marquardt Nelson, Phil.
lips. Ramsey, Reynolds, Schmidt, Frank
Smith. Stock, Stewart, Twesme, Viebahn,
Wellensgard, Whitman, Whittet, Bancroft
80.
Paired for the bill-Kneen. Virgil II. Cady.
Zimmerman, Wehrwein. Kimball, Roethe.
Hoyt Scott, Shaw. NeitZel Against the
bill-Towne, Kubasta, Chapple, Simon
Smith, Reader Egan, Peterson, Towers,
Culbertson. Busacker,
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11

time, and the soldiers of Uncle Sam
had to hold in check the madness of
the men that swarmed into the new
Ell Dorado. Few of those who started
across the mountains and the deserts
that fenced off California knew of the
hardships they must face. Each new
arrival brought tales of horror from
the trail Lost and starving, the i'm
migrants struggled off their paths, I'M
til sacrifice of life made terrible the
days.
Finally Rucker was ordered east
He left San Francisco In a steamer
for Panama, with Lieutenant Sherman
-afterward General Sherman-as one
of his companions. They made the
trip across the isthmus of Panama
by ponies and small boats and then
sailed for Jamaica, where Sherman
and Rucker paid a friendly call on
General Santa Ana, whom they had
worsted at Buena Vista. Major Rucker
saw several years of comparatively
peaceful service in the East and then
he was again sent out to the frontier
This time his battlefields covered New
Mexico, in constant warfare with the
Apaches. While he was in this work
the civil war broke out and he was
ordered back to Washington.
In September, 1861, he was pro-
NOTED to Colonel of volunteers and in
May, 1863, President Lincoln made
Drio of
In 1866 he was made Brevet Major
General of volunteers and in 1866 he
was mustered out of the volunteer
ranks.
But he was made Colonel and as
sistant quartermaster general of the
regular service and served as such I'M
til February IS, 1882, when he was
made Brigadier General and quarter
master general. At that time he had
seen forty-ive years of service and
severty-one years of life. He was
then placed on the retired list as a
Major General.
He is still hale and hearty and de-
lights in walks in the beautiful por-
ton of residential Washington, near
his home; but he is leading a quiet
life, and even the excitement of recall
ing the hard days of fighting is too
much for his strength. With him lives
his daughter, Miss Sarah Rucker.
Another daughter, Mrs. Philip H.
Sheridan, widow of the hero of Win
chester, lives but few blocks away,
where she can see the statue of her
husband that grateful nation erected.
In all his years of service General
Rucker was never wounded. What is
more remarkable. In all the years of
service and hardship he was never
Ill for single day.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
SOUTHRONS IN PARADE.
Confederate Veterans, Clad in Gray Serv-
ice Uniforms, March at Mem
phis, Tenn

MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 1O.-Clad in
the rough gray homespun which they
wore-some times to victory, but finally
to defeat-in the COS; carrying the an
cient rifles with which they defended
what they believed 10 be right; 10000
United Confederate Veterans marched
today in what is probably the last big
parade i'll which they will participate
The heat was intense
In the reviewing stand in the place of
honor, surrounded by the gov ernors Of
three states, stood a heavy athletic look
ing man in civilian garb His closely
trimmed black beard is now sprinlled
with gray. There was nothing about
him to indicate military command. save
Il certain crispness of speech and rapidi-
~ of movement. The was was Gen.
Frederick ID. Grant, L. s. A, son of the
federal commander who received the sur
render of the southern army ut Appomat-
toX. Gen. Grant, bearing a strong re-
semblance to his famous father, attract
ed a great deal of attention and more
than one aged hand was brought sharp
ly to visor in salute as the parade
passed.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11

graph, much less of their revolution
airy use in actual warfare.
When General Rucker was born Alb
raham Lincoln was q 3-year-old babe
IN the backwoods of Kentucky. Gen
eral Rucker was 10 years DID, minus
just one day, When General Grant
saw the light of day, April 27, 1922
Only one President Of the United
States died before General Rucker was
born-George Washington. He was Ia
years old when John Adams and
Thomas Jefferson died on that same
Fourth of July in 1926. When James
Monroe, the fourth ex-President to die,
succumbed, on July 4, 1881, General
Rucker was 10 years old. And out of
the nations twenty-siX ex-Presidents
General Rucker has survived all save
one, Theodore Roosevelt.
General Rucker was but a boy when
his parents moved from New Jersey
to Michigan. 1t was there he got his
first taste of army life, at & frontier
Michigan army post. His father was
averse to his joining the army, and
his mother even more so; but the flu
ture general won out, and he applied
for commission as second lieutenant.
There was plenty of work for Uncle
Sans soldiers in those days, with the
boundless West just opening it's
wealth to the onward march Of civil
ization. He was assigned to the First
dragons, then on duty at Fort Leav-
enwOrth. Lieutenant Rucker made his
way overland by stage coach until he
got to the nearest point which the
stage coach service of those days could
bring him to the Kansas outpost. He
was then still 200 miles from his desti-
nation
He had hardly settled down to the
comparative ease of his frontier post
before he was ordered into the heart
OF the Cherokee country, and for half
dozen years he was kept busy with
his soldiers driving off marauding In
dians, protecting settlers and emf
grants caravans and holding the hos
tile reds in check. He was still busy
In this hazardous campaigning when
the First dragons were ordered off
to Mexico as part of General Zachary
Taylor's expedition. He took part In
the battle of Buena Vista, and dis
tinguished himself by an act of per
sonal gallantry in the field. 1t was
an act of bravery under the eye of
commanding officer, who recommended
him for a breyet commission &c p,oior
When peace was declared Major Ruck-
er's command was sent across the
continent to Los Angeles.
The discovery of gold brought the
rush OF 40. and then there was more
than plenty to do. 1t was a feverish
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
LATEST MARKET REPORTS
MILWAUKEE,, June 10.
EGG AND DAIRY MARKETS

MlLW EE-BUTTER-Extras firm:
hlglp price OF extra creamery Is 261Rc; local
price, extra creamery, is 2613c; prints. 271ac
lrsts, 21G22c; seconds, 1SG19c; process, 1Sc:
aalry, fancy, 2oQ21c; lines, 16Q1Sc; pack
ing stock, 15@16c
CHEESE-Easy; American full cream.
new make, twins, 121s91Sc; Young Amerl-
cas- ISgl3i2c; daisies, 13914c; longhorns
!Ste4l4c; Imburger, new make, 9GDlUc: DID,
dd5ad9c; fancy brick. 1219Q13c; new grades,
s9lo3ac; imported Swiss, &c; block, Ice;
round Swiss. lie
EGGS-Firm: the produce boards of
hcial market for strictly fresh laid as re-
celved, cases returned. 1S1hc; recandled
,eXtras), 21@2l12c; fresh seconds and dirties,
NEW YORK, June 10.-Butter - Strong:
receipts, 1904; creamery extras, Official
2612c; process, common to special 16024c:
western factory, 2O92o1ac Cheese-Steady'
unchanged; receipts 4Soo. Eggs-Steady:
receipts, 1881.
CUBA, \; Y, June 9-sales 1000 white
APPLETON, Wis, June 7.-sales. 20
wins, 1850; III do, 1890; 73S do, 1850.
HIGHLAND, Wis, June 9.-Sales, go
boxes twins. 131sc.
BRILLION, Wis, June 9.-Sales. $50
boxes daisies, 1880; go boxes twins. l3s,c.
20 boxes Americas, 14c; 81 boxes horns,
lac.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
COMPANY STRIKES BACK
Special Rates Following In
junction.

MANITOWOC, Wis, June 10 Spe-
cial. l-Enjoined by the city from increas-
ing its fare on the interurban line to 10
cents, the Manitowoc q Northern Trac
ton company has hit back by withdraw
ing the special rates granted to working
men between this city and Two Rivers.
Hereafter the company will collect the
uniform rate of 10 cents pending result
of the litigation. The withdrawal af-
fects about 100 factory employees, teach
ers and students of the two cities
The company has also, since the start
ing of the suit, refused to accept freight
for shipment at any point except its pow
er house at the north city limits, and as
a result shippers are forced to haul their
goods more than mile for shipment.
The case in which the city and the
company are fighting will come up in
circuit court next week, but will probably
be appealed to the supreme court which
ever wins.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

Flour quotations in CARROTS are: Hard
spring wheat patents, IN wood, 6.75Q6. 50,
ents in sacks, 5.40QJ.6O; first clear, in
sacks 5.O0051J; rye, in wood, 4.JUU4. 60;
country, 4.1O@425; sacks, Kansas. i'll wood.
6.25.
MILWAUKEE, June 1O.-CIose-Wheat-
Firmer; No. / northern, on track, 1.3S; No.
2 northern, on track. 1.35. COrn-72c high
ier: standard. 5S1ad 59c; No. 3 white, Oh
track 57%4 d5S1ac. Barley-1ac up; stand
ard, Sic. Rye-Dul; No. l on track, S91ac
CHICAGO, Ill, June 10.-The wheat mar
ket was steady during early trading today
at slight advance compared with final quo
tations of the previous session. The July
delivery was subjected to considerable sell
ing pressure by public traders, and was
relatively weaker than the more deferred
futures. News of the day was mixed. The
Liverpool market was strong owing to I'M
favorable crop conditions in Hungary and
Germany, but the estimate on Argentine
shipments for the week indicated larger
movement than generally expected. Prices
at the opening We're unchanged to HU@sc
higher, July being at 1.191sQ1.19as. Early
IN the day July sold at liz.
Car lot receipts-Wheat, / car with none
Of contract grade; corn, 2J7 cars with 15S
of contract grade; oats, 1O4 cars. Total re
ceipts of wheat at Chicago. Minneapolis and
Duluth today were 126 cars, compared with
100 cars last week and 207 cars the CORE
spending day year ago.
CHICAGO, Ill, June 1O.-Receipts-Flour
1875 bbs: wheat, 1890 bus; corn, 2SS, 100
rye 1000 bus; timothy seed, 154,1Go lbs
Shipments-Flour. q, 547 bbls; wheat, 90, 7O5
bus: corn, 179,28S bus; oats, go, 701 bus;
barley. 14.713 bus; rye. 2211 bus.
CHICAGO. ILL.,, June 1O.-CIose-Wheat-
July. 1.167sG117; September, 1.095SqIo9A;
December, LOSS; August, Ill; August.
III; May, Liz. Corn-July, 73c; Septem-
Der, 7OAc; December 59G5918c. Oats-July,
531aG535sc; September, 449g@441ac; Deem
Der, 45c; May, 471ac P0rk-July, 1895;
September. 20.075z Lard-July, 11.50; Sep
TENDER, 11.5775; October, 1155; November,
1140. Ribs-July, 1915; September, 1915.
Rye-Cash, 8S09Ocs September, sec Bar
ley-Cash, S0G9Sc. Timothy = September,
$50. Cloyer-Nothing doing.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
ATLANTIC GARDEN IN DANGER
Old Relic of New York's Bowery Is
Marked for Destruction.

Old Hello of New York's Bowery Is
Marked for Destruction.
The Atlantic garden, one of the few
remaining buildings binding the Bow
cry of to-day to the old Bowery-the
BoweTy which saw the wealth and
fashion of the town go nightly to the
Thalia theater and slip into the gar
den next door for bite and sip be-
tween the acts-celebrated its fifty
first birthday Friday evening under
shadow. The shadow was cast by the
Manhattan bridge, already looming
large to the east and projecting itself
nearer and nearer to the spot that
still has the SAVIOR of the old days.
A rumor to the effect that the city.
DESTROYS of making fitting approach
to the great bridge, had already mark
ed the garden for destruction, brought
the oldtimers there in droves Friday
night, the New York Sun says. They
told stories of the old days, the days
when If you wanted to hear German
opera you had to journey to the Tha-
liza, where Conried worked as a supe
and where Nine. Geistinger drew her
crowds The old passageway between
the theater and the garden Is still
there
The garden was opened on May s,
1858, by the father of the present Kra-
mers, and part of it is the original
Bulls Head tavern of the Revolution,
one of Washington's many headquar-
tiers. 1t was the center of the German
life of the town, and there Kramer first
showed the great orchestra, the Won
der of its time, which he bought from
the grand duke of Baden. There, too,
the German regiments of the Civil
War made their headquarters and re-
crultfng station, and there played all
the famous bands of half a century
ago. All this those at the long table
recalled Friday night as they drained
their schooners of Rhine wine and lit
the candles one by one.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11

over thousand frames and over ten
thousand glass bells in one two-acre
plot in the suburbs of Paris.
A more recent innovation is the en-
ployment of hot-water pipes run un-
der the soil, making of the earth a
veritable steam-heated hotel, with this
essential difference, that the hotel
keeper here is desperately eager, not
to keep his guests, but to persuade
them to leave on the earliest possible
day
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
Mr.. 1oxaH and His HeckIers.

Hecklers do not stand much chance
Of scoring off ]. H. Yoxall, NJ. P. Now
then, sir, how many quarts of milk
ought you to get out of a good COW ?''
was one of the questions put to him
when he first sought to enter Parlia-
ment. The candidate had not the
fa1ntest idea of the quantity, and
sought refuge in wit. ct depends on
the distance from the nearest pump"
he answered, and the audience laugh.
ed and applauded. Another night.
when the question was, What's the
difference between a mangel-wurzel
and turnip?' Mr.. Yoxan made reply,
Il always know turnip by its resem-
blance to the shape Of the questioner's
head."-Tit-Bits.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
BIG NAVY
WILL KEEP PEACE
HIGH BRITISH OFFICIALS DECLARE
NATION MUST RETAIN
SUPREMACY.
POLITICAL WEATHER SULTRY.
Lord of Admiralty Sees Possibility of
Calling Upon Whole Empire to
Defend Home Country.
INCREASE COMMONS SHIPS.

LONDON. June S.-The second meet
ing of the Imperial Press conference
was held here today under the presidency
Of Reginald McKenna, first lord of the
admiralty. Foreign Secretary Grey also
was present, and both ministers spoke
on the navy.
IF the navy fails declared the for
eign secretary, 1T will be useless to
discuss any other subject
Must Develop the Navy.
Continuing, Sir Edward summed up
the policy of the foreign office as follows
ITO keep what we have got; to CONSOLE
date and develop; to quarrel as little as
possible, with peoples, and to uphold in
the councils of the world the ideals of
the maintenance of the navy must be the
first consideration, not only for the home
government, but for all the self-govern-
ing dominions of the empire
In conclusion, the foreign secretary
said that the present excessive eXpendi-
lures for ornaments made the political
weather ''sultry."
Protection on All Seas
Mr. McKenna also spoke in a serious
strain. He said he fOresaw possibility
Of the empire being called upon to unite
its whole strength in the common de-
tense of the home country. He declared
he would assist the development of the
local navies of the dominions III every
way in his power, as the maintenance Of
supremacy on any sea meant the mainte-
nance of supremacy on all seas.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-11
SCHWITTAY IS BACK.
Marinette County District Attorney
Reinstated in Office by Gov
ernor.

MADISON, Wis, June 10.-[ Special
"A. e. Schwittay, the Marinette county
district attorney who was removed by
Gov. Davidson several months ago, upon
charges preferred by several Marinette
lawyers, was reinstated in office this
morning by the governor. The reinstate-
ment is made upon the report Of the
Marinette grand jury, which did not
sustain the charges filed with it against
the Marinette official. As these latter
charges were the same as those filed
here, the governor restored Schwittay to
his office.