The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1910-10-06
D|ETz CABIN
SURROUNDED
GORDON OF DEPUTIES PREPARES
TO CLOSE IN ON CAM
ERoN DAM.
LEADER BRAGS WHAT HE WILL Do
Machine Guns May Be Used on House
At Last Resort.-Wlnter still
Armed and Inhabitants
Quake In Terror.

Quake In Terror.
Winter, Wis, Oct. 4.-John Dietz
the defender Of Cameron Dam, will
be the object Of a grim siege from
now on until his capture, or escape,
The tide of battle changed with thu
establishment Of a Gordon Of sharp
shooters and woodsmen at vantage
points on the approaches to the loa
cabin on Thornapple river.
Regardless Of the fact that from
now on the fight will be pushed into
Dietz's territory, the guard on Winter
has not been relaxed, the city officials
at any time fearing an attack by Dietz
On the Thornapple turnpike the cor
don extends to the bridge that crossel
the Brunnis river. Here, just above tho
ford, the men have ambushed them,
selves in the bluff behind a blind Of
fallen trees, and underbrush. They
command a two-mile view of the long
undulating swamp that comprises tho
meandering valley of the Brunnis rivel
and also a view for a mile to the tor
Of a hill. on the Thornapple turnpike in
the direction Of the Dietz farm.
Along the Price Dam road. the out
posts are stationed five miles from
Winter at a sharp turn in the road,
where from an eminence on a wooded
hillside a view Of the highway can
be had for two miles. Three men have
been assigned to guard the Kaiser log,
g1ng road which plunges from tho
country road in the densest of the
forest and is almost impossible excepi
to pedestrians.
Fight to be to Finish.
Fred Thorbin, who is at the head Of
the armed deputies and is the recog,
n1zed head of the martial law" which
still prevails in this section of tho
country, says: "This will end forever
the controversy over Dietz. There
Will be no abatement to this endeavoi
TO wrest him from the fastness of hi,
fortified cabin. No doubt some Of u,
Will be killed in doing it and Diet,
himself will surely be killed if he re
sists. The thing has gone far enough
and this will simply be the finish Of
1t. If he holds out too long, the chain
pan OF the county board has advised
the use of a field gun and has given
his official permission for it's use."
BY special order of Sheriff Mike
Madden at Hayward, no newspaper
correspondents were allowed within
the lines drawn around. the Diet,
place. A party of newspaper men wa,
held up at the pointrof guns at Brunnia
Ford and turned about. Sheriff Mad.
len IS authority for the statement thai
there had been too much publicity. and
mat D1etz was receiving much of his
moral support from this source. A
correspondent who rode along tho
guarded road while armed men in the
brush on either side let him 20 un,
molested, was expected to return with
news OF great worry and despair in
the Dietz household. but disappoint.
ment was evident when, upon his re-
turn to Winter, such information wal
not forthcoming.
When Under-Sheriff George Arnson
left Winter with Myra Dietz, SUFFERING
excruclating pain, in the baggage cal
ne had been instructed by DR.. S. J.
Burns to take the wounded girl imme
diately to the hospital at Chippewa
Fails, as it was a case of life and
death. At Tuscobia, Arnson received
q telegram from District Attorney
Davis also, it is said, ordering the
girls removal to Chippewa Falls
William Dietz, brother Of the defend.
er of Cameron Dam, met the train
and tried to console the wounded girl
who showed plainly on her face, tho
suffering which the enforced trip on
the floor of the baggage car meant.
William Dietz demonstrated with tho
under-sheriff and demanded his niece's
removal to st. Joseph's hospital al
Chippewa Falls as originally intended,
but Arnson was obdurate and insisted
In changing the litter from the bag
gage car of one train to another and
the girl was taken to Ashland. Wis,
instead.
According to a confidential state
ment made by Myra to Mrs. Phelan
when she was confined in the Hotel
Winter the first words spoken during
the ambuescade were vile and insult
Ing. That this statement by the
wounded girl is true, is verified by
the fact that Clarence from his cell
tells the same story and Leslie after
his fight through the woods, placed
the same words in the mouths Of the
attacking party. Since the ambuscade
there has been absolutely no chance
Tor the three children to get together
and make up the story.
JOSEPH ABNER HARPER DEAD.
Son Of Founder Of Harper & Brothers
Stricken in %Inq;eside, N. Y.