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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17

bers of the legislature, feels that the
necessities of the case demand sucf
action.
Until the committees have conclud
ed their work, made their reports ano
prepared bills embodying their rec
concentrations, talk or what Governor
Davidson will or will not do is by the
way.
There are six of these special com
mittees charged with investigation OF
industrial insurance, income tax, good
roads. waterpower and dams, schools
and banks, made up as follows:
Industrial Senators w.
A. Sanborn, E. F. Fairchild, J. J.
Blaine, and Assemblymen NJ. j. Geary.
Wallace ingalls,, c.. B. Culbertson and
Walter Egan.
Income illustrators S. M. Marsh,
j. c. Kleczka, J. A. Hardwood, and
Assemblymen H. E. Georgi, ]. E Nc
Cornell, c. A. Ingram and ]. S. Tow
erS.
Coed roads-Senators E. E. Browne.
Timothy Burke, John S. Donald, and
Assemblymen John R. Jones, c. C.
Wellensgard, J. A. Chinook and Ole
A. Buslett.
Waterpower and dams Senators r.
P Bird, Paul o. Husting, Henry
Krumrey, and Assemblymen W. M.
Bray, George p Hambrecht, F. W.
Kubasta and j. E. Thomas.
Schools-Senators j. H. Stout, c.
L. Pearson, w. R. Gaylord, and AS
semblymen e. w. Leroy, ]. C. Chap,
pie, S. F. Wehrwein and E. E. Haight.
Senators w G. Owen, ]. A.
Write H. c. Martin, and Assembly
men L. c. Whittet, Plat Whitman, ..
A. Crowell and William Reader.
Then there is the special committee
of the assembly appointed to investi-
gate the departments of state gov
which consist of L. w. Led
yina, A. T. Twesme, Grant u. Fish
er, John F. Hughes and Frank W.
All these committee, except the last
have held numerous. meetings and
hearings and have made material
progress but none has concluded it's
work sufficiently to feel that the work
Of investigation is done. The com
mittee on waterpowers and dams ex-
PEGS to meet soon for final delibera-
ton but whether it will be able to
report its conclusions in the form OF
4 drafted bill is not certain.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
HOTEL THIEF LEAVES
GUESTS PENNILESS

Toledo, O.. Nov 3.-Thirty-one
guests of the Widell hotel and Turkish
bathhouse are alleged to have been
stripped of their money, jewelry and
valuables by the looting of the hotel
safe. Some of the guests were left
without the price of breakfast.
Warrants were issued yesterday for
the arrest of Conrad Ranaud. dav
clerk, and Jesse Singer, porter. Ran
aud was relieved at midnight, anil he
and the porter have not been seen
since.
The deposit boxes were found yes
terday morning forced open and the
contents gone. The hoted lost $40
IN money. The aggregate loss of the
guests IS not yet known. Ranaud
came here from Detroit four months
ago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
BIC SUGAR men
WANT TO PAY Up
ARBUcKLE BROTHERS WOULD
SETTLE FOR ALL SUGAR
DUTIES.
HOPE TO AVOID PROSECUTIONS
mo DEFINITE AMOUNT
DETERMINED.

New York, Nov. 13.-FollGwing fast
upon the announcement of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company that a
reorganization of the entire working
force of the Williamsburg refinery
would be affected as result of the
weighing frauds discovered under the
regime of Henry L. Stimson as Unit
ed States district attorney, came the
development yesterday that another
large sugar importing concern, the
Arbuckle Brothers company, had be-
gun negotiations with Mr.. Stimson
for the purpose of paying into the
United States treasury duties on
sugar imports which the government
authorities claim should have been
paid on past weighments.
Are Nearing Conclusion.
Mr.. Stimson declined to discuss the
new developments in the sugar i'm
port fraud cases and w. H. Dikman,
counsel for the firm of Arbuckle
Brothers, maintained similar retl.
cence, but from one of Mr. Stimson's
associates it was learned that these
negotiations had not only begun, but
were we'll on their way to conclus
ion.
The greatest secrecy is being main
tanned by both the government prose
cutors and the representatives of the
companies, but there is a persistent
report to the effect that indictments
have already been found.
Indictments Are Sealed.
The belief among those familiar
with the case is that these indict-
ments have been sealed and that the
negotiations now pending are for the
purpose of effecting compromise
whereby on payment of full refund
of all the duties these indictments
would be dismissed.
No. definite estimate of the amount
involved could be gained, but it is
generally believed that the refund
contemplated aggregates several hum
dred thousand dollars.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
WILL KEEP FAITH
WITH LEGISLATORS
GOVERNOR DAVIDSON WAITING
FOR SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE
COMMITTEES REPORTS.
UNTIL INVESTIGATION is ENDED
AND BILLS PREPARED NO
USE OF MEETING.
Madison, Nov. 10.

!
Governor Davidson has not said
that he would call special session OF
the legislature, nor that he would not
In fact he has said nothing upon the
subject nor will he until such time
as he may feel called upon to express
himself upon the question. For the
present the governor feels there is
no reason for any statement upon the
subject.
The resolution Of the legislature
which provided for the appointment OF
the several special committees to
have under consideration various sub
jects assigned them. provided also for
the calling of a special session of the
legislature to consider those subjects
when the committees have agreed up
on reports and prepared bills cover
ing the matter under consideration.
There was tacit understanding when
the legislature adjourned, between
the members and Governor Davidson
that when these committees had pre-
pared their reports and drawn the
bills covering the subjects under con-
sideration, special session of the
legislature would be called for the
purpose Of enacting the required leg
islation.
But the resolution also provided
that the committees shall report,
with the necessary bills drawn, at
least so days before the special ses-
sion shall be called. And herein is
the answer to the question as to
whether the legislature may be con-
vened. When these committees shall
have fled their reports and complied
with the other terms of the resolution
there is no doubt that Governor Dav-
idson will keep perfect faith.
But none of the committees has
yet made a report nor signified when
it would do so. All the committees
have been at work and no doubt ex,
pect to arrive at conclusions and file
their findings in accordance with the
terms of their appointment That
they will be ready in time to allow
the sixty days to intervene before the
calling of the special session in Jan
uary is, however, scarcely possible.
1t is now November IL and 60 days
from now reaches to January TO-
There are but 20 days left, therefore,
in which the committees may report
and allow the required time, undel
tho resolution for tho oaJ1ino of q enc
cial session in January But this is
not fatal to the cause of those who
are anxious for special session 1t
may be called in February or in
March, or at any later time, if the
governor, in cooperation with mem
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
WHOLESALE ARRESTS
OF BLACK HANDLERS

IIdzVIIon, Pa, Nov. 13-Stato ,oI.ao
II 4 -, YESTERDAY arrested 10 foreigners
laoe .l,is CITY and nearby towns as al
+ tts5 members of blackhand gang
ania o nas sent out hundreds of threat
ho,.l s ie'Lers and dynamited two
muses.. In the homes of several ~
the accused men explosives and ~ - -
the blaclzhand ooAS On
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
JUDGE LEWIS PAYSON
LEAVES RICH REQUESTS

Washington, Nov. 13.-Judge Lewis
Payson, former congressman from
Illinois, left an estate valued at nearly
100000. according to the widows Pc
tition for probate of his will.
The widow receives the Washington
home, household effects and $125,000
in cash, besides her share in the re-
siduary estate, which is devised ac-
cording to law.
Payson left $4,000 each to his
nephews. Sydney Kent and Lewis
Kent. and $4,000 to his niece, Mabel
Kent The remainder he left to his
lister, Mrs. Alan M. Simmons OF
Askum, H.. and his nephew, Victor
Fayson of Watseka, ILL.,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
Three Eiurned to Death

= ontonagon, Nov. 1s.-Mrs. James
gorge der daughter and Paul Kaiser
,ir ee burned to death yesterday in a
are which destroyed the George bona
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17

Nov
rain entrance gloomy lowered dream
ofsumed his merciess
roe Senhei
murder viii night
moth i1oualu Iiodi, VINO his
summing
walked Thursday cold a
Whenscenes homo IN
docknlgh OF he tragedy the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
THREE OPERATIONS.
For Same Cause on Same Day in One
Family.

UT O0IiIC Day IN One
Family.
Rockford, Nov. 13.-Harold and
l1ooert Schlick, twins, and their sis.
ter Marion schlick, children of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred A. Schlick, were the
principals in triple operation at fne
rockford hospital. The operation
was unusual in that three OF the
same family were under the knife on
Tue same day at the same nosptIaI nv
.ne same surgeons and for the same
purpose. The operations were for
Tue removal OF adenoids and tonsils
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17

| ing following, when the crime was
discovered.
He marshalled the testimony OF the
witnesses to establish his contention
that the burglar story was fabrica-
ton. the pretended binding OF Nine.
Steinheil farce; that the money
claimed to have been stolen never
existed. and that the jewels which
the widow asserted had been taken
from the house were afterwards found
in her possession.
TeiI-Tale Ink Stains.
NJ Riolle dwelt particularly upon
the tell-tale ink stains which the two
physicians who examined the injuries
of Nine Steinheil asserted having
found on her knee The prosecutor
declared that during the binding Of
Nine. Japy an ink stand in her room
had been overturned, the fluid being
spattered on the bedding and upon
the accused. He insisted that the
evidence proved that the apparent ill.,
ness of the accused after the commits
sion of the crime had been simulated,
and that subsequent developments
had confirmed the suspicion that she
had acted with hypocrisy throughout
1t was when the police had definitely
rejected her story of the Gaberdine-
clad burglars and she saw her lover
Borderel slipping from her net be-
cause the mystery was unsolved, the
prosecutor said, that Nine. SteinheiI
in desperation began to accuse limo.
cent persons. He added:
She wished to avoid the probable
ity of a non-suit in her favor because
such an outcome of the case would
not satisfy Borderel, and so unhesitat-
ingly she placed the accusing pearl in
the pocket of her servant, Remy
Couillard
Woman Shakes Her Fists.
AS the advocate general proceeded,
he became increasingly severe in his
denunciation of the white faced pris-
onerebefore him, and frequently MUIR
murs of dissent came from those i'll
the rear of the courtroom. AS she
heard herself described as a cola,
fiend with a soft exterior,
Nine. Steinheif bit her lips, and
raised her clenched hands in mute
protest. At the conclusion OF his de-
scriptiOn of the night scene when
the widow made her false statements
to the Journalists. the prosecutor
shouted:
She can't tell the truth because
she is guilty" Immediately the de
fendant half arose from her seat, and
then sank back, burying her face in
her hands.
dramatic incident occurred as
The prosecutor concluded his resume
IF the evidence against the defendant
VI. Aubin, jumping to his feet, ex-
claimed Dare you upon your con-
science name the accomplices at
whom you have been limiting through
)ut your arguments? Were they
Marietta and Alexandra Wolf?''
Spectators in Applause
The spectators, who had watched
eagerly for just such bits of by-play.
BURST forth in applause. Judge De
Wales threatened to clear the court
'oom, and this warning was effective.
When quiet was restored M. Riolle
said: Il decline to answer
Neither Marietta Wolf, the cook,
Tor her son, Alexandra, was in the
courtroom yesterday, and there was a
umor afioat that they might have
'een arrested last night.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
DAUGHTER ACCUSES
Mother AS SLAYER
Continued from page 1.
Continued from page 1.

can De naQ unClI OF unless SHE feCOF-
ers, and in all probability she will
not recover for a long time. Mr.. Ma
son said that she may possibly be
permanently and hopelessly insane.
At the time of the murder Miss
Bardenheier was only Is years old.
She did not dare to tell the story of
the murder before this as she was IN
mortal fear of her life on account OF
threats made by her mother.
A Revolving Story.
The names of the following wit
.nesses appear on the sworn state
ment of Miss Bardenheier. Edward
II. Cornelius, William Wels, j. B.
Wellman Charles oDonnell and Ser
geant Ernst Mueller. the latter belng
Madison boy
Miss Bardenheier told a revolving
story Of her father whom she charged
with having made criminal assaults
upon her She said that her mother
reprimandet her father for his ac-
tons and that they quarreled as a
result thereof At the time of the
di appearance of Bardenheier, the
woman gave out that her husband
left for the country on Monday, July
q. in response TO an invitation FROM
a farmer who wanted a clock re
paired. This same farmers, shs
claimed. had sold her potatoes the
70, hn
framed up this story so as to throw
the officers off the track and make
them believe that Bardenheier was
lured into the country by man who
represented himself to be farmer
According TO the story of the cir
the murder was committed on Sun
day. July %. She said regarding the
matter:
Sunday morning she (meaning hel
mother) got up and got her dinner
We had chicken for dinner and she
put something in papa's bowl of souI
which made him sick Her intention
in doing this was to make him weak
This stuff was something that we ha6
to clean silveware with and it made
him sick. After dinner she asked
him to go out with her and finally he
did consent to go out.
Trip to Slaughter House.
About o'clock in the afternoon
Sunday. July sd. 1906. we went on
and took the car at the depot, and WI
rode to the end of the line. We
walked around saloon and ATOMS
the road TO the entrane of the slaugn
ter house. She said she had hears
there were number OF slaughtel
houses around there which they haC
never seen and he asked her if tina
was one there. She said yes and h,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-11-17
The Clock Story.


Miss Bardenheier swore that on the
following morning her mother in
structed her to say that number OF
farmers asked her father to come and
fix their clocks and that is the rea-
son he took the tools. She said her
mother further stated that she would
give a reward of $50 to the person
who finds the body and that she
dragged the remains to place where
they could be easily found. Accord
ing to the girls story, her mother
again threatened her with death If
she would reveal the crime.
Miss Bardenheier said her mother
buried her fathers diamond ring I'M
der mound at Forest Hill and later
under the tombstone. When she re-
turned from her European trip she
came to Madison and took the ring
back to Chicago with her.
The Body Found.
A week after the murder the body
was found by Clarence Ward. The
next day he received the reward Of
Tered by Mrs Bardenheier. The body
was badly decomposed.
AS Told in Chicago.
Chicago, ILL.,, Nov. 13.-Telling a re
voting story to the police of Chicago
yesterday. in which she laid the muir
der of her father at the door of hel
own mother, who is now insane and il
Dunning hospital, Miss Clara Barden
heier is believed to have cleared tht
mystery of the tragic death of Henry
Bardenheier, jeweler, near Madi
son, Wisconsin. in July. three year.
ago. Mr.. Bardenheiers body wa.
found in a clump of hazel bushes nea.
a slaughter house. He had two bulle
wounds in his head. Mrs. Barden
heier told the Madison authorities thu
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
Vow Can't Lose 'Em

Even at the extra session the hierarchy
Papa's, l mean-did not fail to ask for more
public money.
Senator Dupont, Catholic, introduced a
bill to pay for church property in the Phil
lpplnes. Apparently, we shall never finish
paying for that property.
to Central and South America to drive out
Roman Catholicism, when North America is
being won to the pope!
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
The Socialist Way

"Tom Watson is of the most self-destructive
catching him at it, For instance: am not the least
bit ashamed of the fact that the South owned slaves
Then: Virginia voted to put end to the infamy in
1900. Proud of the mf0ny, your"
The above is clipped from one of the pa
pers that are deceiving our country people as
to the true meaning of Socialism.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21


the foreign missionaries, are sitting up and
taking notice of the fact that W0tsOm's Jefer-
s0naam Magazine is exposing their confidence
game.
When did I ever say that was proud of
the Infamous slave trade? Did I not prove,
in the Magazine, that the sea -faring people of
New England monopolized this vile, inhu-
man traffic? Did [ not state that Southern
lawyer (the late General Henry r. Jaclxson)
libeled and condemned the last of the North
ern vessels (the Wamderer) engaged in the
Infamous business? This incident took
place during the administration of Buch-
anan.)
What [ did say was that the South prac-
ticed patriarchal form of slaveholding,
and that [ was not the least bit ashamed of
it. The system was worldwide at that time,
and it was seen in it's mildest form in the
Southern States
We treated our negroes much better than
Northern employers treated their age-slaves.
We do it yet. The negroes in Dixie get better
pay for what they do than any laborers on
earth.
Why should any Socialist imagine that he
can make us ashamed of our fathers and
mothers, our grandfathers and grandmoth-
ers, our Washingtons, Randolphs Masons,
Jeffersons, Rutledges, Jacksons and Yanceys?
They can never do it-any more than they
can make us ashamed of the Confederate sol
der.
The men we are ashamed of are such spine
less creatures as Woodrow Wilson and Secre-
tary Dickinson, who trucxle to the North and
throw off on their own section
I'm not ashamed of my saveholding an
cestry, nor will anybody ever hear me tickle
a Northern audience by saying as Dickinson
virtually did: "Tm glad you whipped us, and
11I1tn hooIc o1I1 n I'D
in your alleged histories, and slandered us
about the mistreatment of prisoners"
No, Stree! The man who does a thing like
that IS q cu1-no matter how high the office
he holds.
The article referred to by the Socialist did
not say that | was proud of slavery: it sim
ply said that | was not ashamed of our peo-
pie for having done that which all other peo-
pies had done and were doing-what Abra-
ham, Isaac and Jacob had done; what Peri
Giles and Scion had done; what the noblest of
the Romans had done; what the Bible had
sanctioned and what Christ failed to con-
denim.
But the slave system had served it's pur-
pose, had outlived its day, and was vanish
ing throughout the Occidental world Pub
lie opinion was dead-set against it. Had the
abolitionists let us alone, we of our own &C
cord would assuredly have soon adopted some
plan of gradual, compensated emancipation
But the fanatics would not have it So
They waged such fierce, insulting war upon
the South that passionate resentment swept
the whole question away from the arbitra
ment of reason.
In my "Life and Times of Andrew Jack
SOM Gin the Magazine) [ have now reached
the headwaters of the Civil War; and I
mean to prove that personal malice, disap-
fOI Nd Il
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-21
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE NINE)

Christ worked miracles to fulfill prophecy
and to prove His divinity For the same pur-
poses He impaired that miraculous power to
certain of His disciples. But nobody pre-
tends that ministers of the Gospel can now
work miracles. TO compare this zancet-qoo1H
and p5W-gi0ing to Christ is BLASPHE-
NOUS.
Then President Mclean enters upon a de-
Tense of the feeding of the hungry the free
education, the free medical and surgical treat
ment-the Uery things that q0ege so Uehemaent-
ly denied achen / first opened up on Foreign
MissionS
And he actually bases his defense of the
kindergarten, boarding school, free books and
free secular education on ChriSts command
to His disciples!
President Mclean has the astounding bold
ness to contend that when Christ in effect,
said to the disciples, go and teach others
what [ have taught you," He meant Latin,
Greek, higher mathematics, general Htera-
ture and all that
Bless my life! To think that Christ had
been gone from earth more than eighteen
hundred years before anybody found out
what He meant when He gave that simple
command
Poor old Paul He worked in the dark all
his life. So did Peter So did all the Others
So did Patrick, COLUMBIA and Augustin
Lunkheads that they were, the very disciple
who received their orders from the Great
Commanders own lips made an utter mistake
in constituting them.
Not until a few years ago, when missionary
labor meant snug berths for lots of people,
and salaries whose purchasing power is dOu-
BILE the amount that the recipients could earn
in this country, was Christ's plain meaning,
"Preach NY Word !" distorted into the mon
strous system of today
They have doubled the foreign mission
funds within the last few years, and they are
at work like beavers to double them again.
And when they do that they will strain every
nerve to double them again-and 50 Oh, in
definitely.
Meanwhile these people will not listen to
you at all when you speak of the ignorance,
the irreligion the appalling conditions among
the poor of our own country. They brush the
subject aside as though it were of no conse-
quence Whatever
Two-thrds of the people of this republic
do not even make the pretense of being Christ
ans; and all the world knows that lots and
cords of those who do, have just about as
much Christian spirit in them as J. P. Nor
gan, the eminent panic-maker, pauper-breed-
err, brotherhood specialist, potters-feld ex-
pert.
President Mclean says that the number of
Chinese "converts" was one hundred and
eighty thousand at the time of the Morrison
Centennial A few weeks ago another mis-
sionary fanatic put the number of converts
now on the rolls at less than one hundred and
thirteen thousand. The brethren should get
together and agree on figures DR.. Corey said
at Dublin, Georgia, that the Chinese converts
now number two hundred thousand.
Why not let these converts proselyte their
own countrymen? Why do anythi1ag more
HAM nnnonnh 1o HnonnI III