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Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

MADISON, Wis. Jan. 26.-[ Special
The letter of State Treasurer Dahl
yesterday demanding that the insurance
investigation if ordered by the Legisla-
ture, should extend back to former adj
ministrations, has created such a stir
that the instigator of the probe, Mark
w. Waite of Milwaukee, is almost lost
sight Of Mr.. Waite for a number of
years was connected with Milwaukee
newspapers. Prior to this he lived at
Amigo, Wis, where he conducted an i'll
surance agency. Upon the election of
Mr. Beedle, Mr.. Waite was chosen dep
uty commissioner. During the last six
months that Waite was in Office he
gathered information of the conduct of
affairs in the office, sent letter to the
chief executive, which has resulted in
the insurance tangle today. Mr.. Waite
now lives in Madison.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
MILWAUKEE, HAY MARKET.

Choice timothy hay, 11.OO01I5O; No. /
timothy hay, 1O.J0410.75: No. , timothy
hay. 9.006y.50; clover and mixed. S.5UG0
$50: choice Kansas and Nebraska prairie.
1O.50G11: 90; No. / prairie, 1000GL1035: No.
7eed F 5oo35 $50 !0 packing 'T ha{ 45o m5fs
rye, straw, 6.5OM6,75; oats straw, G.OOlgG.25.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
DIVIDE STEEL PROFITS.
United States Corporation Declares Quar-
terly Dividends on Common and
Preferred Stock.

NEW YORK. Jan. 26.-Directors of
the United States Steel corporation to-
day declared quarterly dividends of 14
per cent. on the preferred stock and
half Of l per cent. on the common stock.
These are unchanged from the last
previous quarter.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
RUDOWITZ IS RELEASED

CHICAGO, H., Jan. 2S.-Cllristian
Rudowitz, who was saved from exTadi-
ton to Russia when Secretary Of State
Root on Monday ruled that the crime
with which the Russian government &C
cused the prisoner was political III char
acter, was released from jail here to-
day.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

steers. good to choice 55OGD6 ~:
medium to good, 4.25@5.00; heifers. medium
TO good, 42505.25: common to fair $3.50
to good. 3O0M350; Gamers, 1.S502. 40; cut
tiers. 2.50@30O; bulls, good to choice, 1850
40; bologna bulls, common to fair, 3.o00
Choice heavy cows, 35.00045OO; common to
fair, 2D0O03OOO
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
MILWAUKEE, sTOCKYARDs REPORT

HOGS-5c lower; prime heavy. 6,40@6.45;
prime butchers, 6.25@6.35; packers, select
mixed, good medium, 2100250 lbs. 6O50
go; common to fair, 5.7oQ6.00; light, 100
20 1870 lbs, 5.S5Q600; weight, 135 to 100 lbs,
5.40d5.T5; weight, 100 to 125 lbs. 490d5.25;
government and throMouts. 2NOM5.NN
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Real Water

Visitor-Is this lake in your garden ar.
tiicial?
Child of the House-No, stree. It's
real. l fell in and got as wet as auy-
thing-New York Herald.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

CAUSED Il W6aKlleSS
and broken down
condition of the
system. [ read so
much of whatLydia
%. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound
had done for other
suffering women /
felt sure it would
help me, andI must
say it did help me
wonderfully. My
pains all left me. T
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
Names Committee of Fifty.

Before the close of the meeting, which
ended with stereopticon views and talk
by Charles n. Brown of Madison, John
A. Awkward presented resolutions for the
appointment of a committee of fifty to
begin work toward carrying out Mr..
Nolan's plans to beautify Madison, the
plans also being adopted by vote. The
committee will be named soon by Judge
r. Ray Stevens, who presided at the
dinner.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

Only One ''BRoMo GUININE"
That is LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE. Ie,a
for the signature of E. w. GROVE. Used the
World over TO Cure q Cold In One Day. 2Sc
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

-Four women are members of the
new committee on the charter of Palo
Alto. Cal.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
WANTS HER
LETTER
PUBLISHED
For Benefit of Women who
Suffer from Female Ills

Minneapolis, Mimi was great
sufferer from female troubles which
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29
UNIONS LOSE IN
SUPREME COURT
TRADES DISPUTE INJUNCTION
CASE DECIDED AGAINST LABOR
INTERESTS.
LOWER DECISION Is UPHELD.
Defendants in Badger Brass Company's
Suit Limited n Examination of
Plaintiff Officers.
LOWER DECISION Is UPHELD.
IS INVOLVED IN ACTION.

MADISON, Wis, Jan. 26.-[Special.l
Labor interests lost out in their appeal
to the supreme court of Wisconsin in the
case of the Badger Brass Manufacturing
company against John DAILY, defendant
and appellant, which was decided adj
versely to DAILY today.
This case is Familiarity known as the
trades dispute injunction case" The
manufacturing company, in its COM
plant, declared that the strike and meth
DDS OF picketing crippled its business.
The court granted a temporary lnJunc-
ton against number of local unions eX
parte.
Before the unions filed their answer,
on application of John DAILY, they asked
ieaYe to examine the officers of the com
pany under the discovery statute in order
to formulate a reply. The court limited
the scope of the discovery proceedings,
and DAILY appealed.
Dillon Loses Appeal
William Dillon, convicted in the cir
cut court of Racine county Of the muir
der of Jacob Best of Milwaukee on
March y, 1907, must serve his term of
seventeen years in states prison, the
supreme court affirming the sentence of
the circuit judge. Dillon in his appeal
made several technical assignments of al
legged error on the part of the trial court,
intending the refusal of the court TO COM
pei the state TO call an eye witness TO the
tragedy in Dillon's saloon and various
alleged errors in the courts charge to
the jury. The proceedings in circuit
court were affirmed today.
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

SIEEP-StrOng; lambs, common to choice
63O41;2o lambs, common tG fair, 5000
6.Oo sheep. good to choice. 4.2JGt5.O0; sheep.
common to fair, 2.75@3.75; bucks, 2.500
Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-29

CALN ES-Steady; choice to prime, 6.UOu
80; good to croice, 5.O006.U0; common to
fair, 4.00II5.00
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
Court Says Old Blue Laws Must Rule

to close every show at Coney island
or down town, to stop every Sunday
ball game and even prohibit a couple
OF boys from playing "catch" in the
alley, even to arrest little children for
playing the most innocent of games in
the recreation parks.
Justice Greenbaum's decision de-
feats ali the ordinances which gave
the courts and city authorities an op
portunity to regard as educational" 8
large class of Sunday entertainments
Under the old penal laws a man may
not fish on Sunday, swear even at the
blue laws nor play" at anything what
soever. Concerts and lectures are
under the same ban.
Under the supreme court decision
the power to enforce the blue laws is
even taken absolutely from the hands
of the mayor and city authorities
Sunday violations hereafter will be
against state, not city, laws The at.
torney general is specially named as
one of the prosecuting officers, and
is given power to intervene to collect
an additional penalty of $500 for vio-
lation of the statutes.
One feature of the ruling is that
even should the mayor wish to en-
force a closed Sunday on a Coney
island resort, they will enjoin him
under the plea that as the whole mat
ter of prosecution is a state affair the
city executive has no authority to in
terfere. Then the matter will be
threshed out in a state court, which
must be governed by the old statutes.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
Distant Kin Plan to Get Hetty's Money

Rowland Robinson Green only as a
life estate, to revert to the Howlands
upon her death.
Williamson Finnell, one Of tho
wealthiest land owners of northern
California, will finance the fight on
behalf of his wife, social leader of
Napa, CAL, and a descendant of the
Howlands, and her sister, Mrs. Will
liam Leacock of Napa. Others of the
family planning the contest live in
Oakland.
When Sylvia Anne Rowland died in
1865 two wills were produced. One
of these, now in possession OF Finnell,
bequeathed half of the estate to chari-
ties and a multitude Of benefciarfes.
The income from the remaining half
was devised to Mrs. Hetty Green, with
the proviso that the property go to the
heirs Of Mrs. Howland's grandfather,
Gideon, Rowland, at Mrs. Green's
death. The other will, presented by
Mrs. Green, gave her the whole estate
outright.
After causing much New England
gossip, the trust. will was rejected and
the other was admitted to probate.
This is the will that the Napa heirs
are now planning to contest
The prospective contestants assert
that the $2,5O0,000 involved in the old
Rowland estate has multiplied WOE
derfully, and they will demand an &C.
counting when the contest is fairly
under way to ascertain just what pro-
portion Of Mrs. Green's 100000, 900
grew out of the bequest by the aged
New England woman.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

0F THE 25,361 employees of the gov.
~ eminent residing in Washington,
one-half are married. The approx
mate average compensation is $948 a
year. Of those earning less than $40
a year, 6.501 in all. 2,O2S are married.
The bureau of the census recently
compiled statistics dealing with 1885,
S74 government employees, including
workers in all parts of the country.
The largest class, 1890 persons, 1876
per cent of the total, receive from
5000 to $1,000 each year. Nineteen
per cent, or 1881 persons, earn less
than $40 year. Those making ST.
900 but less than $4,000 form 1874 per
cent.
The government service"-a term
which stirs the ambition of many a
plodder in other work-does not fig
ure out attractively on paper. In
Uncle Sans employ you may be get
ting a salary in stead of earning
wages" but the distinction is one
without much difference in dollars
and cents. Moreover, the federal
salary has not increased with the up
trend in the cost of food and raiment,
nor kept pace with the Improvement
of wages" which the aggressiveness
of the laboring classes, especially
skilled and specialized labor, have
brought about in the Industries.
The entire range q the federal
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

Whatever sympathy may have been
felt with the revolutionists at Tabriz,
there was no denying that the move
ment was against the established gov
eminent of Persia, and the grave i'm
propriety Of an outsider taking an &C.
tive part must be apparent. Homer G.
Baskerville, young American who
was killed while leading a sortie of the
revolutionists, evidently was gallant
and impulsive youth, but he was an
American citizen and missionary in
the service of his church. Leading
revolutions was quite apart from his
political and religious duties. The dis
avowal of his acts by the government
of the United States and by the church
board he served prevented the matter
from becoming an International ques-
ton; but it is pitiful that a young man
with SO many commendable qualities
should fall victim to grave error of
judgment and that thus there should
be brought to an untimely end a life
full Of promise of high usefulness.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
President Taft Is Caught 'Stealing"

dow of a tree. What are you doing
there?" said the Waterman to Capt.
Butt, who was caught red-handed
with big bunch of flowers in his
hand. Don't you know you have no
business doing that? Don't you know
you are breaking the law stealing
government property that way?"
Just then the president came from
the shadow of the tree and joined the
Waterman in TRADE against the as
tonished Butt. AS though he had had
no part in the affair, the president,
carefully concealing a large bouquet
behind his back, assumed an air of
virtuous severity.
Il told you not to do that" he thun-
dered at Capt. Butt. II told you
Uncle Jimmy Wilson would have
somebody watching those flower BEDS
You know you are breaking the law
and now you are going to be arrest
ed"
While Capt. Butt was gasping for
breath and trying to understand the
desertion of his chief in the hour of
trial the Waterman got a look at
President Taft. Recognizing him he
stopped talking and began wondering
what to do next. Then the president
told him they would quit their tres
passing right away If he would not
arrest them.
you've done your duty and I shall
tell Secretary Wilson so the first time
see him." said the president. And
he did tell the whole story to Wilson
in great glee.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
Collection of White House Tableware

lection at the White House. They
were induced to send some pieces to
Mrs. Taft for exhibition in the cab
inets, where they will undoubtedly
prove one of the most interesting
features of the collection.
The contribution includes an ex-
quisite cut-glass decanter with stopple,
champagne glass, two small wine
glasses and dainty cordial glass-all
cut in the grapevine, leaf and fruit
design-and green-edged opaque fin
ger bowl.
There are also two most interesting
plates-a service and a soup plate
of the Polk administration. They
are of French pottery.
The soup plate has medallioned
border and also bears the seal of the
United States. This seal not only
adds to the beauty and interest of the
plates, but adds infinitely to their
value historically, as the upper part
of the escutcheon bears % stars, and
| therefore must have been made in
1845, the first year of President Polk 8
administration.
That year Texas and Florida were
admitted to the union, and was the
only year that the flag, or the seal,
could have borne the 28 stars, as Wis
consin was admitted in 1886.
| The contribution also includes a
tea plate of the well-known red-band.
ed Pierce set, as we'll as quaint COT
fee cup and saucer and a breakfast
plate decorated in blue and gold.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

ID RESIDENT TAFT dearly loves
l flowers and his passion for posies,
1t has leaked out, came near caus-
ing his arrest the other night by a
vigilant Washington Waterman.
The president, accompanied by
Capt. Archibald Butt, his chief mill
tary aid, and friend, whose identity
remains mystery, was taking ride
In the presidents big touring car.
Their route took them through the
Mall and when they arrived in the
grounds of the department of agri-
culture the president ordered the
chauffeur to stop.
Those are beautiful flowers. Butt
he said to his chief of staff, pointing
to one of the beds in front of the
secretary's Office; lets get out and
pick few"
In the fraction of a second the
three had deserted the automobile
and, like three small boys, were hav-
ing the time of their lives robbing the
flower bed. Each gathered big bou-
quet, when all of sudden the watch.
man appeared. The president had
just finished his bouquet and was
standing a few feet away in the sha-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

WASHINGTON.- White House
w collection of presidential table,
ware, which has become one of the
great show features of the historic
home of presidents, has taken an i'm
petus under the new administration.
Some time ago the collection re-
ceived an important addition in some
Fillmore ceramic relics, sent from
Buffalo. There has now been con.
tributed one of the largest and most
Interesting additions yet made.
Many years ago it was a custom of
incoming presidents to have the old
furnishings sold at public and private
sales. Such sale took place when
President Buchanan came into office.
A Washington family bought many
pieces of plate, chinaware and glass
ware belonging to the Madison, Jack
son, Polk and Pierce administrations
This family has been the proud pos
SCISSOR of large quantity of White
House china for more than so years.
Through the efforts of Mrs. Abby
G. Baker, the granddaughters of the
family to whom it had descended be.
came interested in the patriotic col.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
Rats Cost Americans Big Sum YEARLY

corn and grain. One rat will eat go
cents worth of grain in a year, while
of oatmeal it will consume $3.50
worth.
Through pollution of food products
it does as much damage as by eating
them. 1t also does great damage by
digging under buildings and embank-
ments, by gnawing wood, cutting
holes in sacks, and by cutting up
goods and papers to make nests. Kill
ing young poultry and stealing eggs
are among It's destructive habits.
The rapidity with which rats null
tiply is the main reason why man ap-
pears to make so little Roadway in
their destruction. 1t is calculated that
a single pair of rats and their progeny
breeding without interruption and SUI
fering no losses would in three years
increase to more than 100000. Rat
proof construction of buildings, espe-
cially the use of concrete in founda-
tons is urged. The rats food supply
could be reduced and their numbers
thereby decreased by the disposal of
garbage and the protection of food
fho or
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

NEW YORK.-Mrs. Hetty Green is
~ not disturbed in the least by the
report from San FRANCISCO that distant
relatives who once vainly tried to
wrest the greater portion of her vast
wealth from her will begin a new
legal contest for the same purpose as
soon as she dies.
In the first place, Mrs. Green, who
Is In vigorous health, says her distant
kin will have to wait long time for
her death.
Secondly, she is confident that her
heirs will have as little difficulty in
ue1eatlng the contestants as she did.
1t Is asserted by the California rela-
tives, who are descendants of Sylvia
Anne Rowland, that the 500, 100000
fortune of Mrs. Green is founded upon
forged document purporting to be
the will of Mrs. Rowland, who was the
aunt of Mrs. Green.
In the Howlands' possession is an.
other will, differing wholly from the
probated document under which Hettv
Green in 1866 obtaiped the $4,000, 900
estate of her aunt, one of the How.
lands of New Bedford, Mass. The con-
testants assert that one-half of the
Rowland property was left to Hetty
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

EVEN the wealthiest Of American
II millionaires soon would be bank
rupt if he had to pay out the rats
annual board bill. 1t costs the Amer
lean people $1o0,oo0,000 yearly to
feed on grain alone that worst man.
malian pest, according to a statement
from the experts of the agricultural
department, entitled THE Rat Prob.
lem" An active campaign to rid the
country Of the pest is strongly urged.
Untold millions of dollars in prop
erty are being destroyed every year
by the rat; also the principal agent in
the dissemination of bubonic plague.
The rats bill of fare includes every
thing eaten by man, and carrion, mice,
kid gloves, ivory and living horses
hOOfs. It's most common foods are
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
New Yorker WEEDS a Dutch Countess

She was born in Java, where her ia
Their had large estates She was mar
ried to the late George Mueller of The
Hague, who took his wife's name. He
died three years ago. While she is a
baroness in her own right, she
dropped her title on her marriage to
Mr. Hatch, which was quietly cele-
brated in the chantry of Grace
church.
Mr.. Hatch is a son of the late Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Hatch of PHILADELPHIA.
His parents died when he was quite
young and he, with his brother. was
brought up and educated by Mr.. John
Austin Stevens of Newport R. l, Mr..
Hatch went to Harvard and served
during the Spanish-American war
Baroness van Haeften's brother.
Baron Franz van Haeften. married
Miss Violet Brockelhurst of London.
where they reside. They also have a
country place. Mr.. Hatch and hfs
bride, after brief honeymoon at
Newport, sailed for Europe to visit
relatives in Holland.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18
The Cat Came Back.

'This kitten" said a young woman
as she pointed to lively little black
feline, has already used up more than
half of it's alleged nine lives, and it
isn't yet months old" How did
that occur in one so young?" inquired
her companion, whereupon the follow
ing story was recited: "A week ago
the kitten disappeared, and, though
sorry to lose it, was rather glad, for
just at that time was packing to go
on a weeks visit to the country. My
trunk went astray, and for three days
after my arrival I made out with the
articles had in grip. The night the
trunk arrived it: was so late l did not
unpack it, but in the middle OF the
night I was awakened by very queer
sounds issuing from the trunk. I got
up and unpacked it and there, In the
very last tray, was the weakest, meek
est little cat YOU ever saw: With two
days of careful treatment, however,
he was as lively as ever. Now what
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

M RS. TOM PIERCE of Boston, New
lv4 port and Long Island, who d.
vorced her husband, Boston million
aire, two years ago, is preparing to
go on the stage.
She has been aided in her ambi-
lions by her friends, Mrs. Leslie Car
ter and Adele Richie. the former
comic opera star, and will make her
bow in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Pierce was Alice Crowinshield
Rogers of Salem, Mass. Her ex-hus-
band is highly popular in Boston, and
is a member Of the Puritan, Exchange
and Eastern Yacht clubs and an ar
dent sportsman.
In the last few years Mrs. Pierce
has made society wrinkle it's brows
more than once by her innocent but
unconventional escapades. She is a
famous horsewoman and daring hun
ter. She has won many prizes.
A few years ago she created SEN
sation by appearing in riding coat and
breeches at Meadow Brook meet.
She finished 20 lengths ahead of her
closest rival.
In December of 1907 Mrs. Pierce
was found in a sanitarium, and there
was legal fight over her release. She
alleged Her brother had her placed
there. s
At the time Of her divorce she 70.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-06-18

1t seems that as long as the English
suffragettes conduct their meetings in
quiet. peaceful, dignified and lady,
like manner the papers refuse to no.
tice them. So to have themselves re-
ported by the public press it is neces-
sary for them to raid ministers
houses, attack parliament, chain them
selves to posts of advantage, fight po-
hcemen and in other ways lead the
strenuous life. This is quite a severe
indictment by implication of the chiv-
airy of the British press, and gives
the women justification in saying: 1T
is all the mems fault"