The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-09-15
D|ETz REFUSES
SAWYER SHERIFF
THE CAMERON DAM DEFENDER
DRIVES BACK OFFICER
WHO SEEKS HIM.
SEEKS OUTLAW AT HIS HOME
Son Gives Warning Of Officers APP
proach and Sheriff Is Given Com
mand "Hands Up" Before
Coming Closer.

Winter.-John F. Dietz the hero
of Cameron dam" shot and seriously
injured Bert Horrel in a wrangle
over the village election here.
DietZ first quarreled with c. G..
O'Hare, president of the Winter
O'Hare's side of the controversy and,
it is claimed, struck Dietz. who pulled
a gun and fired point blank at Horrel.
Horrel staggered and fell and was
removed to his home. Doctors say
that the wound is not fatal, unless
blood poison sets in. Dietz is now in
custody.
Dietz gained considerable motor
iety a number of years ago when he
defended Cameron dam on Thorn
apple river against one of the largest
lumber companies in the state He
claimed the dam was on his property
and tied up several winters cuts of
logs by refusing to let them pass the
dam without toll. He was fought in
the courts by the lumber company,
but defied the orders of judges and
held off at the point of a gun all
officers who attempted to serve papers
upon him.
Chippewa Falls.-Sheriff Mike
Madden of Sawyer county, armed with
a warrant to take John +. DietZ,
dead or alive, arrived at Winter, Wis,
and went south ten miles through the
forests to Cameron Dam, where he
met Dietz and had a friendly chat
with the outlaw.
The sheriff told Dietz he had a
warrant for him. but Dietz, armed
with two 3S-caliber automatic revolv-
ers and a rifle, told Sheriff Madden to
keep the paper in his pocket and If
he took it out he was a dead man.
"You have no business here" said
Dietz. Turn about" he commanded,
pointing north. Take that road to
Winter, Don't you look around or
you are a dead man"
Sheriff Madden family smiled and
at once obeyed orders. and did not
stop until he got back to Winter.
The sheriff was unaccompanied.
AS he neared the Dietz home on his
way out one of Dietz's sons gave the
alarm and the sheriff reached the
house by holding up his hands as he
came across the clearing.
District Attorney J. c. Davis at
Hayward says he will appeal to Gov.
Davidson for troops to take DietZ. A
posse of Bert Horel's friends at Win
ter have expressed strong desire
to be allowed to go and get Dietz
in revenge for his shooting Of Horel,
who is now suffering severely at an
Eau Claire hospital. Sheriff Madden
would not risk taking an armed posse
for Dietz, but preferred to quietly
inform him of the warrant.
Dietz found a landlooker on his
place. and with the words, You spy,
he attacked the man and beat him up
terribly. The landlooker went to the
Kaiser Lumber company's camp near
Cameron Dam and washed, but left
refusing to give his name or who he
was working for.
Sawyer county authorities are puz-
lied as to how to capture DietZ. Feel
ing runs high against Dietz and this
latest shooting affair has turned the
whole northern country against him.
All land hunters and woodsmen are
leaving the Dietz localNy for miles
around. as DietZ is in a terrible rage
over the issuing of this new warrant.
He is provided with fifteen rifles OF
the latest pattern and has ten auto
matte revolvers and hundreds OF cart
ridges.
With his dogs to watch at night
and his house on a small hill with
land cleared all around he can hold
a large posse at bay easily. The sher-
take next.