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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
OHIO OFFICIAL To
EXPOSE GRAFT
Former Senate Officer to Tell
of Bribery.
CoNFEssEs TO SAVE HIMSELF
Expected That Several Lobbyists Will
Be Drawn Into court as Result
of Diegle's Agreement to
Confess.

Columbus, Ohio.-After a confer
ence participated in by Attorney
General Hogan, County Prosecutor
Turner and Rodney j. Diegel, for
mer sergeant-at-arms of the state SEN
ate, who was convicted of aiding and
abbetting bribery in the Ohio legisla-
ture, it was announced that Diegle
would make full confession as to
corruption in the last assembly.
For his part in aiding the alleged
graft hunt, Diegle will receive mercy
at the hands of the common pleas
court when the time comes for SEN
tence to be passed. Probably he will
escape a penitentiary sentence. He
was given two weeks to prepare his
confession.
1t is expected several lobbyists will
be drawn into court as result of
Diegle's agreement to confess. The
prosecutor and attorney general ex-
pect to have evidence to place before
the grand jury when 1t convenes next
month.
Diegle was indicted with Senators
l. E. Huffman Of Butler county and
George X. Cetone of Dayton. The
two senators have not been tried.
Each is charged with soliciting brides
from detectives in the employ of the
William j. Burnes agency, who were
employed to uncover graft in the
statehouse.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
WILEY OvERSENSlTlvE
SAYS SECRETARY WILSON
Declares Doctor Is Without Question
Head of the Food and Drug
Bureau.

Washington. congressional IN
vestigation of the attempt to Dust
DR.. H. w. Wiley from his posi-
ton as head of the bureau of chemls-
try in the department of agriculture
was closed with the testimony of Sec
rotary Wilson. The committee Will
hold an executive meeting to consider
its report Many times in his testf
mony Secretary Wilson condemned
Doctor Wiley's demeanor, charging
that he was oversensitive because MS
findings on pure food and drugs were
not accepted as final, but were some
times referred to the referee board OF
which Doctor Ira Remsen is chairman.
In appointing the pure food and
drug inspection board and In the nam
ing of the referee board Secretary
Wilson said he considered DR.. Wiley
had been done a kindness rather than
insulted as chemist.
The secretary shifted all response
bility for the employment of DR.. II. II.
Rusby to DR.. Wiley. He said that
Wiley was, without question. head OF
the bureau Asked about his object IN
forming pure food and drug inspec-
ton board, the secretary said he felt
that greater power attached to
board decision than to one man de-
cision.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Substitute for Platinum.

1t has been suggested that, in the
prevailing scarcity of platinum, the
metal palladium might be practicable
substitute. 1t belongs to the platinum
group, and has many of the qualities
of platinum, although in some respects
it resembles silver. Among it's valu-
able characteristics are hardness, due
iility and malleability. 1t is also de-
cidedly non-corrodible. 1t occurs,
along with nickel, copper, silver, gold,
platinum, iridium and rhodium, in the
ores of the nickel miles in Ontario.
Out of 100000 tons of these ores about
1900 ounces of palladium are annual.
ly produced.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
MAC uEAGH TELLS
OF CUSTOM FRAUDS
Reveals How Chicago Firm Gave Him
Clue-Big "Cleaning Up"
Effected

Washington Remarkable reve-
lations of the work of Secretary
of the Treasury MacVeagh in eradi-
eating gigantic frauds from the United
tates customs service and of the as
sistance given him by Chicago firms
and citizens are contained in docu-
ment made public.
The document is stenographic
record of a hearing in which Mr.
MacVeagh testified before the house
committee on expenditures in the
treasury department.
The tremendous cleaning up OF
frauds In the customs service which
the secretary has accomplished was
briefly sketched for the benefit OF the
committee. Most of these instances
never became public. More than
100000 in fines and penalties was
collected from English wooden manu-
facturers and American importers
The Panama hat frauds were dis
covered through information given
Mr.. MacVeagh by Marshall Field
Co. This firm imported its first lot
vi Iduduld uolS q yCol oAAG ANN--
ago They were passed through the
Chicago customs house on the con-
sular invoice.
Shortly afterward the firm received
a second invoice showing so per
cent higher valuation. A cabled in
quiry to Peru brought the information
that the firm was to pay for the hats
on the second invoice, the first being
for customs duty purposes solely, and
the message added: What every
body does"
The Chicago firm then presented
the second invoice at the custom
house and paid the full duty.
The secretary said that hitherto
not only sugar but every other kind
of merchandise had been underweight-
ed at New York and the government
heavily defrauded right and left"
There was tremendous amount
of corruption there" he said, land on
the passenger docks.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
TAFT SENDS VETO
AS CONGRESS ENDS
Cotton Bill Is Disapproved in
Final Message.
DECLARES ACTION is HAsTY
Tariff Measure Passed Without Prop
err Investigation-Sho Wait for
Report of Tariff Board Before
TackIing Schedules.

Washington.-Th special session OF
congress adjourned with the echo OF
another presidential veto ringing in
its ears.
In vetoing the cotton bill, as in the
case of the wool and free list bills,
the president based his objections
largely upon the fact that the tariff
board had not as yet had time to
submit a report on the schedule. He
also declared that the cotton bill was
adopted without any investigation or
information of a satisfactory charac-
ter as to the effect upon the cotton
industry.
The president objected especially to
the attempt by congress to add re-
vision of the iron and steel and chem
ical schedules to the cotton bill as
amendments.
81 find" he said, that there was
practically no consideration of either
schedule by any committee of either
house There were no facts present
ed to either house in which | can
find material upon which to form any
judgment as to the effect of the
amendments either upon American
Industries or upon the revenues of
the government"
Briefly reviewing the manner in
which the iron and steel and chem
ical amendments were added to the
bill the president said:
The industries covered by metals
and the manufacture of metals are
the largest in the country, and it
would seem not only wise but abso-
lutely essential to acquire accurate
information as to the effect of chang
es which may vitality affect these in
dustries before enacting them into
law"
Speaking of the cotton industry,
the president said the capital invest
ed in 1909 amounted to 1921, 100000,
the value of the product to $620.000,-
900, the number of ge-earners to
$4,000, making, with dependents, a
total of at least 100000 persons af-
fected, with annual wages of $146,-
100000 The bill would not have
gone into effect until January 1 next,
and Mr. Taft said the tariff board
would be ready with report before
that time. Investigation by the house
ways and means committee, Mr. Taft
said, was purely for the purpose of
preparing a bill ON a tariff for rev
enue basis.
Pledged to support a policy of mod
crate protection" he added, 81 cannot
approve a measure which violates it's
principles
The president denounced the bill
as empirical and haphazard." This,
he declared, was especially true of
the chemical schedule, which had
been revised in such a way as to in
crease the tax on certain chemicals
instead of reducing them.
This bill illustrates and enforces
the views which 1 have already ex-
pressed in vetoing the wool bill and
the so-called free-list bill as to the
paramount Importance of securing,
through the investigation and reports
of the tariff hoard, definite and GER
tain basis of ascertained fact for the
consideration of tariff laws"
No attempt was made to pass the
bill over the presidents veto.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
FAULT OF AMERICANS ABROAD
Native Mannerisms Exaggerated and
Seemingly Held in Derision of
Foreign Opinion.

It is a curious but inevitable Irony
that the American temperament, so
notorious for its oVerweening conf
dence and self-esteem, should be of all
temperaments least reflective, and for
all its self-consciousness, should
know itself so i'll. When criticised,
1t is either perplexed or amused;
when challenged, alphabetically boast
full, and seemingly delights in miscon-
ception and Misrepresentation. A
striking instance of this singular
trait is the way Americans abroad ex-
aggerate their native mannerisms and
become veritable caricatures of them
selves in good-natured mimiery of the
national type. In it's extreme form
the tendency might be characterized
as living up to a libel to save the
trouble and expense of legal proceed
ings. Whether this be due to sort
of mistaken chivalry or to mere child
fish responsibility is as hard to de-
termine as it is unnecessary-eit
is reprehensible. There is in this
something of a native shrewdness for
IudSlnS ObuSES ny lnSA OplAlOA VI
ones self, but much more is to be at
tributed to an instructive aversion
from the pangs of introspection and
childish capacity for using other peo'
pie as mirrors. No other nation, per
haps, has played so sensational a role
but no other nation has stood so in
need of its audience. The histrionic
demeanor of Americans abroad, at
times so very like the behavior OF
actors off the stage, exacting calcium
light duty of the sun, is real clue
to the national temperament. If only
by the reactions of others do we
achieve any definite notion of what
we ourselves are, it is small wonder
that we have cultivated the actors
manner and practice his arts, only it
is a strange art for an otherwise in
artistic nation, curious dependence
for a free people.-Alain Locke, in
the North American Review.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
DAVIES CHOSEN AS
RYAN'S SUCCESSOR
DEMOCRATIC STATE CHAIRMAN
MADE MEMBER OF NATION
Al COMMITTEE.
Schultz is STATE CHAIRMAN
Milwaukee Man Unanimously Elected
to Place Made Vacant by Davies
Resignation-Oppone of Latter
Withdrew Candidates.

Milwaukee,. E. Davies, Madl-
son. was elected member of the dem
ocratic national committee from
Wisconsin at the meeting OF the
democratic state central committee
held in this city.
Mr.. Davies Immediately rendered
his resignation as chairman OF the
state central committee and Frank B.
Schultz, Milwaukee county chairman,
was elected state chairman.
Mr.. Davies, who was the only can
didate for national committeeman,
other aspirants having previously
withdrawn, was elected by vote
of 30 to on the first formal ballot.
Mr.. Schultz was elected by unanimous
vote.
All the members of the state CEN
trail committee were present in per-
son or by proxy Prior to the meet
ing of the committee Chairman Da-
vies announced the appointment OF
Paul Hemmy of Juneau to fill the
vacancy in the old Sixth district,
caused by the death of George w.
Thiesen.
John A. Hazelwood was elected
secretary of the committee before the
election of Mr.. Schultz. A. G. Schme-
deman of Madison was elected treas
urer of the committee.
A gold headed cane was presented
to Mr. Davies by the members of the
state central committee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
U. p. TO REDUCE PAY ROLL.
Order for Retrenchment Has Gone Out
$500 to Be Laid Off.

Omaha, Neb.-Because the Har-
riman railroads have made no
money for the last ten months, gen
eral order for retrenchment has gone
out. The Union Pacific railroad will
lay off $500 employees, reaching from
one end of the system to the other
and affecting every department of the
road, with the exception of the operat-
ing force No trains have been or
dered discontinued, and probably will
not be, according to officials OF the
road.
Clerks from all the offices of the road
from Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City,
Denver and other points are scheduled
to go, as are workmen from every shop
owned by the railroad. High officials,
as we'll as clerks, will feel the reduc-
ton.
The action is said to be due to the
fact that since last October business
has been steadily declining, and that
each succeeding month has seen drop
in earnings.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
BYRON PARK HAS JUDGESHlP
Stevens Point Man Named by eiov.
ernor to Succeed the Late Juoge
Webb of Grand Rapids.

Madison.-Byron B. Park of Stew
ems Point has been appointed Judge
of the Seventh Judicial circuit by
Gov. McGovern to succeed the late
Charles M. Webb The appointment
is for the unexpired term ending Jan
uary, 1915.
Mr.. Park is a democrat of the So
called 'fafrminded'' type and had the
support of practically the entire bar
of several counties outside of his
own, Wood His principal opponent
was George L. Williams of Grand
Rapids
Gov. McGovern also announced the
appointment of M. T. Parker of AL
gonna to be county Judge of Kewau-
nee county to succeed Judge William
Rogers, deceased
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
WILL HOLD LARGE ASSEMBLY
Over 10000 Members of I69 M. E.
Churches to Be Represented at
September Amigo Meet.

Antigo.-Churches to the number
of 169 will be represented at the
sixty-fifth assembly of the Wisconsin
conference of the Methodist Episco-
pal church, which will open here
Sept. 10 and close Sept. %. Over
$4,000 members of Methodism and
p active ministers are members of
this conference which comprises
that portion of Wisconsin east of a
line running north and south through
the center of the state. The four
conference districts which will pre-
sent reports are Milwaukee, James
vile, Oshkosh and Appleton Bishop
Hamilton of Boston will preside. A
laymen's conference will be held at
the same time.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
DENEEN SAVES BOYS LIFE.
Illinois Governor Jumps From Auto
ard Rescues Youth.

Springfield, Ill-Gov Charles s..
Deneen saved the life of Rufus
Nelson when he jumped from
his touring car and rescued the lad,
who had been struck by the machine
The accident occurred on Fourth and
Adams streets, while the governor was
en- route to Camp Lincoln to see the
Fifth Illinois infantry on parade.
Young Nelson, who is employed In
the Office of the state board of admin
istration, was riding his bicycle in
Fourth street when he was struck by
the car. The lad was rolled in front of
the machine and the executive, seeing
his peril, jumped from the car from
the rear seat and hustled the boy to
the road side.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
VETERAN BROKER is oUsTED.

Board of Trade Finds T. w. Miller
Guilty of "skinning Trades"
Chicago-Thomas H. Miller, Jr., for
twenty years member of the board
of trade, was expelled for ''skinning
trades"
The directors voted to declare Mil
ler's membership forfeit after a
hearing of five hours. The charge
against him was uncommercial con-
duct. The hearing was held when a
committee, appointed to investigate
another matter, reported his misdeal
ings.
SHINING trades" is making false
returns to customers on purchases
and sales. 1t is considered one of
the worst offenses trader can COM
nit and the rules against it are
stringent.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
GIRL MAKES RECORD SWIM.
First of Her Sex to Cross the Golden
Gate.

San Francisco-Miss Hazel B.
Laugenour, nineteen years old, a
college student, swan across the Gold
en- Gate in one hour and twenty-eight
minutes. She was the first woman to
accomplish the feat. Miss Laugenour
clipped two minutes off the record set
by Edward Caville, an Australian pro-
fessional, in 1891, which stood until
July % last, when Walter Pomeroy
crossed the harbor entrance in1:24:36.
The Golden Gate is 1890 feet wide at
its narrowest point
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
PEARsoNs is NOW HAPPY.
More Jurors Needed to Complete Panel
to Try Alleged Slayer.

Chicago the home of
Dr. D. K. Pearsons, hitherto never
mentioned in the noted philan-
thopist's bestowal of his many munifi-
cences. has been made the beneficiary
of his final act of philanthropy.
Divested through beneficences of a
fortune estimated at 100000, Doc
tor Pearsons has manifested his at
tachment to his home town by be-
slowing upon it practically his last
earthly possession-th homestead he
so long has occupied.
With the bestowal of the residence
and grounds, to be maintained as a
public library, art gallery and park,
he has accomplished what he long had
planned, the distribution of all his
wealth for the benefit of humanity.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
CALLS HOME BAKER SLAYER.
Paul SchuIze Urges Fellow Bread
makers to Reform Housewives.

makers 10 REFORM HOUSEWIVES
Kansas City, Mo.-That the mod
ern housewife who attempts to
bake her own bread produces a
soggy article and is committing MUIR
der in allowing 1t to be eaten was
the statement made by Paul Schulze
of Chicago, president of the National
Association of Master Bakers, at the
second days session of the annual
convention of that body here.
This country is full Of housewives
who are proud of their cooking and
who think they are doing their duty
by baking at home" Mr.. Schulze said.
1.-THE long suffering stomachs of their
families continue to pay the penalty
of this mistaken sense of duty.
Let us make these women realize
the overwhelming benefits of buying
bread baked in modern sanitary
bakeries"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Two Fall from High Stack.

Park Falls Arthur Shaw and
John Flynn, employed on the con
struction of a reinforced concrete
smokestack for the Flambeau paper
mill, fell when the top of the stack
fell off, Ito feet from the ground.
Shaw went through the roof of the
poWerhouse and died shortly after.
Flynn's fall was broken by the pow
erhouse roof and he slid to the
ground. His back was broken.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
WRIGHT MEN WILL NOT FLY.
Boston Aviation Meet Officials Hear
inventors VIII Be Absent.

Boston.-The Wright brothers have
refused to enter their aviators
and machines in the Boston meet
which opens Saturday. Their attitude
is unexplained, and it is possible they
contemplate legal proceedings in line
with the action against the Chicago
meet promoters.
Last week Manager Claf1in of the
Boston meet spent day with one OF
the Wright brothers in New York
city. They talked over the coming
contests here. This year the Boston
management is allowing $500 each as
a guarantee to all American flyers.
Last year the Wrights got a guaran-
tee Of $4,000 and won about $1,000
in prize money.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Woman Has UNIQUE distinction.

The first woman in the world to
take a stitch on a sewing machine,
Miss Elizabeth NJ. Killbourne, has just
passed her eighty-first birthday at
her home at Winsted In the early fif-
ties Miss Kilbourne was school teach
er in New Hartford when Elias Howe,
inventor of the sewing machine, had
shop there. One day, while calling on
Howe, the inventor invited her to
use the machine he was working, and
she did So
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
DECLARES HARRY THAw SANE.
Attorney Files Answer Opposing Eve
Iyn's Petition for Receiver.

Pittsburg, Pa.-Harry K. Thaw.
through former Gov. William A.
Stone. his Pittsburg counsel, will
file an answer opposing the petition
of his wife, Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, for
the appointment of an ancillary COM
mittee to take charge of his personal
estate. The answer wifi set forth that
he is not insane, but is capable of
managing his own affairs. Mr.. Stone
has just returned from Matteawan
hospital, where Thaw is confined. He
said he found Thaw perfectly sane.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
COLD KILLS ON PIXIES PEAK.
Texan and Wife Frozen to Death in
Attempting Night Ascent.

Colorado Springs, Colo.-W. A.
Skinner and wife of Dallas, Tex,
were frozen to death near the
summit of Pixies Peak. Their bodies,
almost covered with snow, were found
by boy walking down the peak. 1t
is understood both victims were print
ers employed on a Dallas paper.
A pathetic feature of the deaths is
the finding of letter in SINNERS
pocket, dated Dallas, August IL, from
J. H. Choice, in which are these
words: 81 hope you are having the
time of your life in Colorado. 1 am
sending you an overcoat as per your
request. 1 hope you don't freeze to
death on Pixies Peak"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Horse Thief Won't Reform.

Eau Claire.-F. F. Wilder, who
stole team of horses in Chippewa
county, pleaded guilty and was sen
fenced by Judge Wickham to eight
years Imprisonment. Wilder told
the court his business was stealing
horses; that he had been in it TWEEN
ty-s1x years; that he had been sent
up for the offense before, and that
when he should have served his pres
ent sentence he would probably steal
horses again.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
orIain Of RedIam.

Bedlam is a name derived from
iBethlehem hospital in London, which
was used as early as the first years
OF the sixteenth century for the recep-
ltlon OF distracted persons, had very
limited resources, and freouentlv dis
charged patients who were not VET
cured.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Railroad Deal Rumorad.

Appleton.--It is rumored that the
500 will take possession of the Wis
consin and Northern railroad, which
has just been granted a certificate of
convenience and necessity to con-
struct the line from Shawano to ADJ
pleton and Neenah.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
COLONEL NOT A CANDIDATE.
Roosevelt Asks Pittsburgh Newspa-
pers to Forego Publicity.

Pittsburgh.-Former President The
odore Roosevelt, in a letter to Alex
ander P. Moore, editor of the Pitts
burg Leader, made public, says:
Il must ask not only you, but every
friend have, to see to it that no
movement whatever is made to bring
me forward for the nomination in
1912. / should esteem it a genuine
calamity if such movement were
undertaken"
The Leader has been advocating the
nomination of Mr.. Roosevelt for pres.
ident in 1912
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
law Hits communlon cun

Kansas City, Mo.-Persons who at
tend communion services in Kansas
City's churches in the future may be
required to have an individual cup.
An ordinance abolishing all public
drinking receptacles is before the
city council.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Ministers Face Fines.

Cincinnati.-Figures show that in
the past twenty-five years there have
been 1850 weddings in this city which
have not been reported Under the
laws of Ohio, if minister doesn't re
port marriage performed, he can be
fined $50.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Decrease of Crop Values.

Washington.-The average farm
value of all field crops grown in 1910
in the United States was approx.
mately s15.47 an acre, as just estimat-
ed by the department of agriculture.
This is decrease of SO cents from
the previous year.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-30
Gives $50. 600 to Hosnital.

San Francisco.-A gift of $4,000,
sent by Mrs. E. H. Hartman to the
Southern Pacific hospital in this city,
will be the means of establishing a
laboratory for the purpose of bac-
THEOLOGICAL and pathological research