The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-11-10

piled with. All this regardless OF the
fact that the Thornapple river is a
highway for the passage OF logs, the
progress of which cannot be legally in
tertered with except for the purpose OF
asserting and taking from the common
mass of logs of an individual owner.
Dietz threatened the employees with
his rifle, and the company applied to
the circuit court of Sawyer county for
an injunction restraining Dietz from
interfering with the property. The
injunction was issued by the court, but
it was ignorned by Dietz, and the com
pany was unable to move the logs.
The subsequent clashes between John
F. Dietz and the authorities of Sawyer
county are well known facts. Any one
interested will find history of some
of the troubles connected with the
Cameron dam in the case of Weisen-
bach VS.. State of Wisconsin, l3S Wis.
l52-ll9, N. w. Reporter, S43, where a
penitentiary Judgment against Weisen-
bach was affirmed.
ga representative of the company
then visited Dietz and offered to sub
nit the whole matter to arbitration,
each side to appoint a representative
and the two to select a third, whose de-
cision should be final, but the PROPOSE
ton was rejected 10y him.
Mr.. Dietz is a Mason, and he finally
accepted proposition to leave the
whole matter to the grandmasters of
MaSons of Wisconsin. Accordingly, on
June 22, 1904, the matter was present
ee to David H. Wright, grand master
of Masons of Wisconsin, who agreed
that he would endeavor to call togeth-
er five disinterested past grand masters
of the state to sit as board of arbitra-
ton, and the company agreed in writ
ing to pay all expenses of the hearing
including those of Mr.. Detz, and to ac-
cept the decision of the board of arbi-
tration as final. Mr.. Dietz, however,
declined to submit to the arbitration,
stating that his original agreement had
been to submit the matter to the grand
lodge and to the grand master.
LAS it became evident that the au-
thorities of Sawyer county were unable
to prevent Dietz from holding the logs
the Mississippi River Logging COM
pany, the owner of the logs, applied to
for an injunction, which was issued
Feb. 2S, 1905, against Dietz and his
sons, restraining them from interfering
with the log drive. On April 3, 1905
two United States deputy marshals at
TEMPTED to serve the injunction of the
federal court, but their authority was
not recognized, and the service of the
injunction was resisted.
"a warrant was then issued for con-
tempt OF court, and a posse Of about
twenty-five United States marshals
went to the Cameron dam for the pur-
pose of arresting Dietz. After a con-
siderable parley the marshal in charge
informed his men that Dietz could not
be taken without risk of doing bodily
injury to the women and children of
his family, and the federal officers
thereupon withdrew.
Several years before Mr.. Dttz
moved to the Cameron dam he had
moved into an unoccupied camp owned
by the company at the Price dam on
the Brunei river without authority,
but was permitted to remain there in
line with the company's usual custom.
In the spring of 1902 Mr. Dietz was
employed by John Ryan, foreman Of
the company's Chippewa drive, to
watch the Price dam for short time,
during which it was shut down to hold
water in aid of the Chippewa drive,
and the same messenger who took to
Mr., Dietz Foreman Ryan's order to OPP
en- the gates also took Ryans order on
the company for Dietz's time, thirty
six days at S272, which voucher is on
file in the company's Office.
"In the spring of 1904 Dietz made
claim that he had been employed to
watch the Price dam for several years,
for which he had never been paid.
The company's foreman reported that
there was no foundation for this claim,
and that Dietz had been paid in the
company's office.
SIN the autumn of 1907, finding it
impossible to drive its logs down the
Thornapple river, the Mississippi Rv-
er Logging company arranged with w.
f. Moses to haul. its logs over to the
Flambeau river, and this was done at
large expense in the winter of l9O7-S.
The only logs left on the Thornapple
were the comparatively small number
lying on the Dietz land, the movement
of which Dietz would not permit.
"While negotiations were pending
with Mr.. Moses for hauling the logs
as above the claim of Dietz for watch
ing the Price dam and other alleged
services were again urgently presented
by Mr.. Moses, and in the hope of a
peaceful and final solution of the
Thornapple controversy the claim was
paid in full, amounting to Sl,7l7, as
per receipt on file in the companys
office, signed by John f. Dietz and Hat
tie +. Dietz.
FINALLY, neither the Chippewa
Lumber q Boom company nor the Mis-
q. lir-nr. L ol