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Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
WOMAN in WARRINER
CASE TALKS AT LAST,
Mrs. Jeanette Stewart Declares She
Never Got a Dollar from Rail-
road Man.

CINCINNATI, o., Nov. 10--FoIlow-
ing q sensational raid by constables to-
day on the fashionable apartments oc-
cupied by Mrs. Jeanette Stewart here,
Mrs. Stewart, who has been mentioned
in connection with the Warriner defalca-
ton and alleged blackmail, broke Il long
silence and gave out an authorized state
ment The constables who made the raid
were armed with attachment papers
taken out by a department store.
II never blackmalled Charley Warri-
ner out of a dollar" were the first words
of Mrs. Stewart as she sObbingly de-
clared she would never again contde
in Il woman friend" whom she alleges is
responsible for much of the notoriety she
has attained in connection with the case.
This woman" said Mrs. Stewart II
took into my fiat, and she occupied it
while | was out of town. | thought she
was my friend. She went to depart-
ment store and guaranteed my account
there. Now we have quarreled, and she
has gone UP there and withdrawn her
guarantee, resulting in this suit against
me-"
Mrs. Stewart explained her lavish ex-
penditure of money in the past by say
ing that as the daughter of Martini
Timmons of Portsmouth, O.. she had in1
herited a large fortune and had not BEEN
dependent on any one.
Mrs Stewart denied also that She
revealed the local shortage in the Big
-Four department to the New York of
ficials and laid the blame for that at
the door of the Cincinnati woman who
she charges with involving her in the
attachment suit.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
Get Out and Dig.

An English specialist in nerve dis
eases has been recommending all who
suffer from any kind of mind disturb
ance to take to digging, for he says
there is something about mother earth
that gives steadiness and balance. If
every woman who is a victim of neu-
ralgia, nervous headache or irritability
would take a spade and dig a little
patch in her garden every morning
before breakfast and then interest her
self in this little patch so far as to see
what can be grown in it he is of the
opinion that she would soon forget her
troubles. The remedy is a simple one
and worthy of a trial by those who
find 1t within their reach. 1t is cheap
er and more agreeable than travelling
TO a distance for baths and other cures
and If used with discretion can do the
patient no harm
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
BIG CUT IS HALF DONE.
pleted in Four Years Is Report
from Panama

WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. 1O-The
cut at Culebra, the backbone of the
isthmus of Panama, was half completed
Oh October %, according 70 reports from
the canal zone just forwarded to the of
fcials of the isthmian commission in this
city. At that time $4,000, 299 cubic yards
had been excavated, and like amount
of digging remained to be done.
This gigantic cut will be miles long
and will have width of 300 feet at the
bottom. which will be 40 feet above sea
level, the normal level of the water be-
ing fixed at 50 feet above the sea- Its
completion is said to be assured within
four years.
At the same time report was made
of the first steam shovel working" in dry
excavation on the bottom of the canal.
Previously some dredging had been done
on the bottom at other points. The eX-
cavation is in the Mindi hills near the
Atlantic entrance, where a steam shovel
eXcavated at forty-one feet below the
sea level
Much difficulty was experienced in car
rying on this work. At one time the
shovel was caught by a quantity of mud
sliding on the rock and together with
the tracks was pushed twenty feet out
Of its original position. At another lime
the shovel settled gently into the mud
and overturned.
Every night the shovel is withdrawn
from the excavation to a point behind
the ledge of rock where it is safe from
the sliding mud and is ''cut in again
each morning
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
WERPLANT PLANNED
Corporation VIII Dam Menominee River
Senator Stephenson Believed
to Be Interested.

MERRILL, Wis, Nov. 10-[Spe-
cial. If present plans mature, the Me-
nominee river will in another year have
another great electric water power de-
veloped, million dollar corporation
planning to build dam three miles above
the paper mills of the NJ. s. NJ. company
at Marinette, and secure 6000-horse-
power.
A fiber mill is also to be erected which
will be operated by a portion of the cleo
trio energy, the balance to be sold to
the various manufacturing industries of
Marinette and Menominee.
The project is backed by Harry J.
Brown of Aarinette, presumably acting
for Senator Isaac Stephenson, E. A.
Edmonds of Appleton, Elmer Grimmer
and half a dozen equally well known
men. Land needed for the overflow has
been secured.
This project may prevent the i'm
mediate development of the water power
at Grand Rapids, twenty-five miles up
the river, although later this will also
be needed.
The Peshtigo water power is said here
to be costing a lot of money and bids
fair to be a failure owing to the low
water in the Peshtigo river. Instead of
5000 to SO00-horsepower expected, en-
gineers state that they will do well to
get horsepower.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
URGES TRADE SCHOOLS
cational System at Normal School
Dedication

La CROSSE, Wis, Nov. 1O.-[Spe-
cial. 1.-The need of trade schools in ev
cry city, the necessity for many addi-
tional county agricultural schools, and
the Importance of consolidating rural
schools to improve their condition, was
urged by President Charles r. Van Hise
of the University of Wisconsin at the
dedication of the new normal school here
this afternoon.
1T is generally admitted that the most
defective part of our educational system
at present is the rural school," said
President Van Hise. This | believe is
unavoidable as long as the district sys-
TEN is maintained. Rural schools can
only be put on a satisfactory basis by
consolidation of the districts into large
units. The children of the country dis
tricts must be brought together i'll large
graded schools if they are to be given
effective instruction.
THE other important development of
our public school system that must be
provided for is the trade school AS yet
we have only begun to realize the i'm
.portance of such schools in Wisconsin.
A municipal trade school has recently
been established in Milwaukee. Trade
schools of agriculture have been estab-
lished in a number of counties. But
when the real need of training a large
number of boys and girls for useful occu-
pations is considered, the present provi-
sions are wholly inadequate. Every mu-
nicipality should have trade school, and
most of the counties of the state need
agricultural training schools"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
PLEASING PUBLIC
UP TO RAIL WAYS
BUSINESS ASSOCIATION DECLARES
REASONABLE DESIRES MUST
BE GRANTED.
REGULATION COME TO STAY.
There Will Always Be Commissions
Whether Traffic Lines Like
Them or Not.
CAPABLE EMPLOYEES ARE NEEDED.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10.-There will be
no recurrence of public agitation against
railways, if the reasonable desires of
their patrons are not diSregarded py the
arrangements of railways, is the theme
of the annual report of the executive
committee of the railway business assoc
citation which met here today. The re-
port says:
THE Railway Business association
was organized one year ago with the
view of ascertaining what the railway
supply industries can do TO create pub
lie opinion more friendly to the railways.
I'VE have taken no part in the affairs
of any party or faction, or in the dis
cussion of any question except railroad
regulation, and have maintained COM
plete independence of the railway Off
Gals.
The public, speaking through boards
of trade, through the press and through
political representatives, has shown that
employers asking only fair and moderate
consideration of measures affecting them,
are welcome and has cordially acknowl-
edged the worthiness of our motive, our
right to be heard, and our frankness in
conceding the need of regulation as well
as of some voluntary changes in railroad
practice.
Regulation Come to Stay.
at is our settled conviction that no
real benefit can come from Il general pro-
gramme of obstruction to regulation.
Regulation has come to stay. There will
be commissions whether railways like
it or not. The railroads through special
magazines bulletins and otherwise, are
urging their men to meet the public
desires.
Portions OF the public often ask what
they ought not to have and what it is
not in the public interest for them to
have. An appalling mass of bills con-
fronts Congress and every state Legis-
lature at every session. 1t is physically
impossible for legislators to spread their
attention over SO many suggestions and
still give adequate heed to the prevention
of mistakes in the bills which become
laws.
I'VE find it nevertheless to be the
conviction of many business men and
others that q large part of the antago-
nism to railroads has its origin i'll dis
pleasure over what seems to them III
considerate treatment given by the rail
roads.
Engage Capable Employees.
Our representations might go far TO
solve the whole question if we could in
duce the railways to redouble their eff
forts in the direction of strengthening
the personnel of those grades of their
employees who come most in contact with
the public and have most to do with
forming public opinion"
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
A Fearless Woman.

Soliman, the dreaded Turkish sui
tan. in 1871 was going to besiege Bel
grade, the capital of Servia, his most
hostile neighbor. While slowly pro-
ceeding with his military train on the
dusty highroad woman stopped his
unapproachable majesty. Bitterly she
complained about the soldiers, who,
during her sleep, had carried of her
cattle, the sole fortune she had you
must have fallen into most profound
sleep not to have heard the thieves
at their work." said the sultan laugh.
ingly. yes, slept we'll. I slept in
confidence that your majesty is watch
ing over the safety of your people"
replied the woman
This answer, which might have cost
the woman's head, pleased the sultan
because of the fearless way it was
said. He restored all the cattle stolen
by the soldiers.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
FLAMES THREATEN
MINSTREL MAIDS
FIRE WHICH DESTROYS FURNITURE
STORE SCORCHES HOTEL AID
JOINING.
FAIR GOODS IN ROBES De MUTT.
University Women Students Flee from
Beds in Night Garments During
Early Morning Blaze.
LODGEMEN LOSE THEIR RECORDS.

MANITOWOC. Wis, Nov. lO.-[Spe-
cial. l-Spontaneous combustion caused
fire loss of $4,000 to the c. & w. Fra
zier Furniture company early today
scorching the Toledo hotel and driving
twenty-five guests into the streets in
their night clothing.
The furniture company had no insur-
ance on the stock and carried but $1,000
on the building.
The local lodge Of Odd Fellows and
Woodmen. with rooms in the second
story, lost their records and furnishings.
Eight members of the Lew Wheeler
Minstrel company, an organization of
girls appearing at theater here, were
driven from their hotel rooms and We're
cared for by neighbors.
MADISON, Wis, Nov. 10-LSpe-
cial. l-Twenty-fo co-eds were fright
ened from their beds and fed to the
streets clad in their nightclothes early
today by fire in a Latin quarter room
ing house. Most of the girls suffered
considerable loss in clothing ruined by
smoke and water. but no one was hurt.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12

newspaper office, working first as a
compositor, later occupying an edi-
torial position. He was appointed news
editor of the local paper in his twen-
ty-second year. His appointment as
consul to Venice followed two years
later
After graduating from the English
high school of Boston J. P Morgan
went abroad to study higher mathe-
mates at the University of Gottingen.
He returned to New York and began
his business career just before reach
ing his twenty-frst year.
In his twenty-first year August Bel
mont was graduated from Harvard.
He spent several months thereafter in
trip abroad, when he returned to
New York and entered his fathers
banking house
Following an academic education
Nelson W. Aldrich plunged into mer-
camille pursuits. He was an ardent
Republican from his first vote, and
early took an active part in local poll
tics. He became president of the COM
mon council of Providence shortly af-
ter reaching his majority.
Joseph G. Cannon was busily en-
gagged in studying law in his twenty
first year, and for several years there
after Following an education in the
common schools and in law, he was
admitted to the Illinois bar.
Long before his twenty-frst year,
John D. Rockefeller was well estab-
ushed in business, and had given evil
dence Of his genius for organization.
He went to Cleveland when Is years
old and obtained his first position
Two years later he was engaged in an
oil commission house. At q he was
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
ODD COLLECTING FADs.
People Who Delight in Gathering
Slippers, Ink Wells and Clocks.

PEOPLE VINO Del1Sut UathcEAuS
slippers, Ink Wells and Clocks.
The solon who coined the trite but
expressive phrase, There is no &C
counting for tastes" might have ap-
piled his statement to fads with equal
appropriateness. New fads are COM
ing to light all the time. the Philadel-
phia Record says. There is young
woman in Tioga who makes a spe-
cialty Of saving slippers. She has a
collection that certainly cannot be
equaled in Philadelphia, and probably
not anywhere. She has two trunks
and three bureau drawers full of slip
pers-silk, leather, suede, black, tan,
red, blue, gold, pumps, Oxford ties,
sandals; in short, every conceivable
kind. A Germantown man has a col
lection Of plain and fancy inkwell
covers that he says he would not take
$4,000 for. He has been collecting for
fifteen years A doctor on Cedar ave-
nue., West Philadelphia, has a collec-
ton of clocks, foreign and domestic,
numbering over 800, including four
teen different kinds of Tyrolese An
other West Philadelphia man, who is
a student at the University of Penn
sylvania, has a collection of campaign
buttons. He has two very rare ones,
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
AIDS WAR ON PHTHISIS
PREVENTORIUM FOR CHILDREN
SAVES NINETY-TWO LIVES.
Radical Step in Battle Against White
Plague Is Taken in Organization
by New Workers.

NEW YORK. Nov. 10. - Special i
With gifts aggregating 100000, tu-
berculosis preventorium for children was
formally organized at the residence of
Henry Phipps. Its purpose is to take from
the tenementS children who have been
infected with tuberculosis and restore
them to normal health before it is too
late.
This radical step in the fight against
tuberculosis had its inception last May,
and the preventorium actually began its
work on July ,. The preventorium had
been founded to cope with the alarming
condition revealed by the reporting of
$3.50 new cases of tuberculosis in New
York city in 1908 and by DR.. Herman
NJ. Blggs' estimate that there were 40
OOO children i'll the tenements who had
been infected with the disease, most Of
whom could be saved by open-air life,
pure food and wise supervision.
An arrangement was made with the
New York Association of Tuberculosis
Clinics for the selection of children, and
the hrSt patient was received on July >.
Since then ninety-five children, ranging
from to II years, have been received
from thirteen clinics or other institu-
tons, and all have shown steady inn
provement, all gaining in weight, some
eight or nine pounds, and the capacity
1t is hoped to make room for 400 children
by next summer
1t is planned to maintain the proven
forum without charge to parents for
board or railroad fare. To care for 400
children will cost about 100000 a year.
The trustees, therefore. seek an endow-
ment of $1,OOO,OOO, which would cover
40 per cent. of the running expenses and
assure the permanence of the work
A gift of $4,000 will permanently en-
dow bed; $4,000 will endow an open
air camp of twenty-four beds, with
nurses room, shower and bath.
For the 100000 additional needed
after the endowment of a million is Sc
cured, the preventorium will depend
upon membership fees, in sums ranging
from 81 to $1,000, checks for which may
be sent to Alexander S. Webb, Jr., treas
urer, care the Lincoln Trust company
Madison square, or to the president
Marcus M. Marks, 6S7 Broadway.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
ATTEMPT TO WRECK FLYER.
North ern Suburban Train Saves
:. Milwaukee, Passenger

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Nov. 1O.-What is
believed to have been an attempt to
wreck and hold up the fast North West
ern train that leaves Chicago for Mil
waukee at s o'clock was baked Tuesday
night by the fact that a slow suburban
train carrying hundreds of passengers
bumped safely over a 5-foot steel weight
beam laid across the track near Wauke-
gan, and the suburban crew tagged the
other train in time. There is no doubt
that had the faster train hit the obstruc-
ton it would have been ditched, and
many passengers killed or injured.
SO severe was the jolting of The. subur-
ban train that the crew thought it had
been derailed. The train was STOPPED
and the beam was found tightly wedged
in the Y formed by the main track and
the siding on the wire mill curve OPP
posite the plant of the American Steel
and Wire company, one mile south of
Waukegan.
Flagmen sent north and south held
up three other trains and stopped the
fast Milwaukee train, at which the sup
posed wreckers probably directed their
attempt.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12

partner in the commission house Of
been established for more than two
years.
James ]. Hill was educated with the
idea Of becoming a physician. His faith
er's death compelled him to enter bust
ness, when he obtained a position In
a country store at the age of IS. Later
he moved to st. Paul, and in his TWEEN
ty-frst year was engaged as shipping
clerk in that city, with the Mississippi
Packet Company.
First as a school teacher, then a
printer, Hudson Maxim fought his way
against unusual odds. By the time
he had reached his twenty-frst year
he had become a printer and publisher
of subscription books, and in selling
these he travelled about the country.
His spare moments at this period were
spent in experimenting with high ex-
plosives.
From his first job, at 81 a day,
William E. Corey advanced rapidly In
the great Carnegie steel works at
Pittsburg. His twenty-frst year was
spent in perfecting the famous Car
negie REINFORCED armor-plate. Shortly
afterward he was appointed superin-
tendent of the plate mills.
Charles NJ. Schwab started to earn
his living as a farm hand. Next he
became the driver Of coach, and
later a clerk in a grocery store. At
10 he became a civil engineers assist
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
JAIL BREAKING FOILEDs
Five Alleged Train Robbers Saw Bars
and Plates of Cage, but Fail
to Get Away.

OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 1O.-The first
sensation of the trial of the five men
charged with the robbery of the Union
Pacific's Overland Limited train at
Mud Cut, May p last, came in the an
nouncement that daring and almost
successful attempt to liberate the pris-
oners was discovered Tuesday night at
the county Jail.
The bars and plates of the cage where
the men are kept had been sawed until
very little more work would have
opened the way to freedom. On the top
of the cage were found two long heavy
iron bars, evidently intended for use in
prying loose the bars in the outer win
dows of the Jail, and a long rope by
which the men could have reached the
ground.
Two saws with which the cutting Of
the cage was done were found hidden in
a broom.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12

ant at 81 day. At 81 young Schwab
was working hard in the field with
an engineer corps. Five years later
he was appointed chief assistant of the
division engineer, and under his direc-
ton the famous plant at Homestead
was built.
An orphan at the oge of 5, Thomas
F Ryan was cared for by his grand
mother, and at an early age sought
employment. His first position was
with a dry goods commission house
in Baltimore. He had saved enough
money by his nineteenth year to come
to New York. He entered business
actively and became member of the
stock exchange in his tventy-fourth
year.
The study of law was engaging the
time of Joseph H. Choate in his TWEEN
ty-first year and for several years
thereafter Re was graduated at q
from Harvard, with Phi Beta Kappa
honors, and entered the law school at
Harvard. He was graduated with the
degree of LII. B. at %.
4 variety of occupations had been
followed by Samuel L. Clemens before
he had reached his twenty-frst year.
The greater part of his time had been
spent in printing Office, where he
became an expert compositor At the
age of q he was threading the diff
cult channels of the Mississippi river
as regularly licensed pilot His
newsp oer career followed
At 81 the future Senator Tillman
was living on farm with no ambi-
ticns for political career. He had
entered the Confederate army when
but II years old and had been retired
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
RETURNS FROM LEPER COLONY.
California Woman, Discharged, Reaches
Home 10 Find Husband Welded

SAN JOSE, Cal, Nov. 1O.-The home
coming of Mrs. Manuel Freitas, who had
been cured of leprosy, proved a sad ex-
perience, according to a story that devel.
oped in the police court here.
Mrs. Freitas appeared at her hus-
bands ranch n Santa Clara county as
Unexpectedly as if she had been raised
from the dead. She was one of those
relies sed from the Moloiki island colony
in the Pacific recently after a govern
ment examination.
When she arrived home she found an
other woman had taken her place and
had borne her husband three children.
Freitas refused at first to give up the
other woman. Tears availed not. Then
came q justice court warrant and prom
Use of court trouble. The matter was
settled out of court and Mrs. Freitas
was taken back.
When Mrs. Freitas first discovered
she was suffering from the disease her
husband accompanied her to the leper
colony. He regretted this soon, and
when he found that he was not allowed
to leave he escaped by swimming, SHOW
ing his little child before him on a raft.
Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1909-11-12
WHEN THEY WERE q.
Occupations of Well-knowp Men
of To-Day at Time of Their
Majority.
TAFT WAS A YALE GRADUATE
Beginning of Careers of Belmont,
Maxim, Corey, Ryan, Choate,
Schwab and others.

At the age of 81 William Howard
Taft was graduated from Yale, and
second in large class, says the New
York Times. He was salutatorian, re-
ceived Phi Beta Kappa honors and d.
vided the first prize on his graduation
In law. His plans for the future study
OF law were undertaken the same year
In his twenty-frst year the future
Rear Admiral Evans was serving as
lieutenant In the United States navy.
He became lieutenant commander In
his twenty-second year.
At 81 William Dean Howells was an
active newspaper man in small Ohio
community. He entered his fathers