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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
As NationaIities Go.

The Industrious publicity officer of
a German health resort has sent out a
circular letter announcing that for the
benefit of Americans generally be it
known that in future instead of climb
ing the steep hill, they can now ride
comfortably in a new lift" proclaims
the New York Tribune. The lift is
electric and holds II people. Need
less to say, when speaking Of this
place Though one must not believe all
one hears), a small charge of ten he'll
lers is made for the ride. The circu-
lar also says that British consulate
has been established at the spa. This
was found necessary because ait is
seldom that an EngHshman can re-
main away from home whole month
without requiring to transact legal or
official business of some sort"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
BEATTIE TO STAND TRIAL
FOR HIS LIFE NEXT WEEK
Young virginian, Accused of Staying
Wife, indicted on Charge of
Murder in First Degree.

Chesterfield, Va.-Henry Clay Beat
tie, Jr, a young Virginian of good
birth, will be placed on trial for his
life here.
A grand jury returned against him
true bill charging wife murder, and
If convicted in the first degree he may
be sent to the electric chair.
The commonwealth decided that
only four witnesses would be heard
by the grand jury. They were Thorn
as E. Owen, uncle of Mrs. Beattie: T.
P. Pettigrew, called to testify as to
the finding of the single-barreled shot
gun; DR.. Wilbur Mercer, who was on
the Owen lawn when Beattie drove
up with the body, and Paul Beattie. a
cousin of the defendant
The courtroom was packed when
Circuit Judge Watson took his seat on
the bench and the aisles were or
dered cleared before the roll of the
grand jury was called.
Beulah Binford, the woman in the
case" sat smiling in an ante-room
waiting to be called as a witness.
After the jurors had been instruct
ed and the oath had been admins
tered the court said: TT is painful
for your court to announce that since
the court last sat a domestic tragedy
OF unusual cruelty has stirred not
only this community but the country
at large" He deplored tn notoriety
to Richmond and vicinity, and after
TnVinWinc hn h,soa tod
the jurors to consider the evidence to
be placed before them with charity
for all and malice toward none"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
NEW WOOL BILL Is
NOW UP TO PRESIDENT
Senate Passes Measure by Vote OF
So to 26-Taft Expected to
Veto 1t.

Washington.-By vote of 3S to
rs, the senate adopted the conference
report on the wool tariff revision bill
The measure will now go to Presi-
dent Taft, who is expected to veto it.
The vote came after vigorous five
hours debate on the merits of the
bill. 1t was a victory for the com
bined Democratic and Insurgent Re-
publican forces as against the regular
Republicans. Only two progressive
Republicans, Senators Borah of Idaho
and Bourne of Oregon, united with
the regulars in the vote against the
bill.
The bill as passed by the two
houses places fiat ad valorem duty
of 20 per cent on all raw wool, and
proportionate rates on wooden manu-
features.
Senator Penrose's resolution, intro
duced for adjournment August %, and
the belief expressed by Democratic
Leader Underwood Of the house Of
representatives that all work can be
concluded by Tuesday or Wednesday
of next week are taken to indicate
that it will be difficult to hold the
special session together longer than
that.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
Use of English.

The report that individuals have
been punished in two towns in the
south for using profane language is of
the utmost Importance to that small
minority of persons who hold that a
proper familiarity with the English
language is worth while. There is,
it must be conceded, a shocking de
gree of ignorance of the English Ian
guage by the people who should speak
it more or less correctly. The aver
age high school graduate has only the
haziest knowledge of it; a great many
college graduates founder in its sim
pIest whirlpools with pathetic help
lessness. The double negative is in
dulged in by perhaps so per cent. of
our entire population. Our most
charming young women usually ex-
hibit d knowledge of only half dozen
adjectives, while the average man
about town has to rely upon a prac-
ticed urbanity when he converses
with any one who knows the English
language. One is constantly remind
ed Of DR.. Johnson's f1sn-woman, who
believed herself to be MORALLY in.
jured when he referred to her as q
polyhedron.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
STANDARD MUST FACE TRIAL.
indictments for Rebates Held Good by
United States Court.

Buffalo, N. Y. - Judge John R.
Hazel in United States district
court held that the Standard Oil
company must stand trial at the next
regular term on an Indictment of 143
counts, charging acceptance of re-
bates from the Pennsylvania Railroad
company and the New York Central
Railroad company on shipments of
petroleum from Olean, N. Y, to Bur-
lington, VT, in violation of the Elkins
law.
One of the company's chief points
of defense urged in it's motion to dis
miss was that the alleged offenses
had all been disposed of in previous
trials and that the company could
not twice be placed in jeopardy for
the same alleged offense.
The government, through John
Lord O'Brien, United States attorney,
contended tnat each offense alleged
in the indictment was a separate one.
Judge Hazel sustained the govern.
ments contention.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
PROTEST ON PUBLIC AUTOPSY
Charged That Head Was Broken
from Corpse in View of 800
Women and Children.

Pound.-Breaking che head off an
exhumed corpse and removing certain
internal organs in full view of 300
women and children, the county
authorities who conducted the autop-
sy over the remains of John B. Werte-
leWskl are being roundly censured liz
this town, and leading citizens are
greatly wrought up over what they
term unnecessary barbarism Public
protests reciting the alleged facts have
been signed and sent to newspapers.
Wertelewskis body was exhumed
after the suspicion became noised about
that murder had been done. District
Attorney J. G. Morgan and Sheriff
Schwittay found that the skull had
been fractured and that there were
evidences of violent death. Mrs. Wer-
telewski has been charged with the
murder and is held in Jail at Mari
nette.
The authorities insist that the au-
topsy was regular, and, the case being
an emergency, it was necessary to act
quickly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
ROW CLOSES SOCIALIST MEET
Last Session of Conference Marked by
Disorder. M. Barnes Resigns.

Last Session of Conference Marked by
Disorder-J. M. Barnes Resigns.
Milwaukee, Wis.-Disorder marked
the closing session of the Socialist
national conference here
A physical encounter between State
Senator w. R. Gaylord and G. w. Bos-
well, delegate from Missouri, was
narrowly averted, when the Missourian
accused Gaylord and Congressman
Victor L. Berger of disrupting the
party in Missouri. Boswell told Gay
lord, who had recently been lecturing
in Missouri, that he was not wanted,
and said that the Milwaukee Socialists
were a lot of dummies" Gaylord re-
torted with, II have your record"
J. Mahlon Barnes, secretary of the
Socialist national committee, resigned.
A resolution was passed, asking that
the national executive committee be
instructed to call the next conference
just before the national convention
next summer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
ONE AND ONE-HALF
FARE TO STATE FAIR
NORTHWESTERN AND MILWAu~
kEE ROADS MAKE A RATE
CONCESSION TO BOARD.
SPECIAL TRAINS ARRANGED
Minimum Fare of ST. Fixed by Com
panies Similar Reduction by 500
Line Expected Soon-Rate Equals
Lowest Ever Granted.

NIilwaukee.-The Northwestern and
the Milwaukee roads have granted the
request of the state board of agricul-
ture for a reduced rate from all.
points in Wisconsin during state fair
week. 1t is expected that the 500 line
will do likewise.
Notice has been received from the
Northwestern and Milwaukee lines
announcing the concession and stating.
that the fare for the round trip from
al points in Wisconsin will be one
and one-half the regular rate, or 3
cents a round trip mile. This is equal
to the lowest rate ever granted by the.
railroads to the state fam board.
The minimum rate on excursion tick
cts, however, will be limited to 81 i'll
other words, the rate only applies to
points beyond the zone where ST will
buy one way ticket The sale of ex-
cursion tickets will start Tuesday
Sept. u, and continue until Saturday,
Sept. 16. with the time limit for re-
turning Monday, Sept. is.
Arrangements already have been
made for special trains from Marsh
field, GAINESVILLE, Eau Claire, and Wau-
Sau.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
TO SAVE U. S. MILLIONS.
Hitchcock Has New Method of Pay
ina Railways.

Washington readjustment
Of the methods of computing the
pay of railways for transporting
the malls, which will effect an
annual saving of approximately So
600 600, was recommended to congress
by Postmaster General Hitchcock.
Mr.. Hitchcock proposes to effect the
saving by paying the railroads on the
basis of cost with six per cent. profit.
The plan provides that all railways
shall report annually the expenses in
Cured in carrying the mails, in order
that the department may determine
the cost to the railways and a fair
rate of profit The method of fixing
railway mail pay in accordance with
weight has proved expensive and I'M
satisfactory, and It is proposed to
abandon it entirely, says Mr. Hitch
cock
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
HAS BILL FOR NEW ROADS.
Senator CuIIom Introduces Measure
for National Highways.

Washington. If bill intro
duced in the senate by Senator Cul-
lom Of Illinois is enacted into law, the
national capital will become the cen
ter OF a wheel of seven great national
highways passing through every state
in the Union.
The seven great highways contem-
plated in the bill will have one term
mus in Washington. The other ex-
tremities proposed are Portland, Me-;
Buffalo, N Y; Seattle, WASH; San
Francisco. Cal; San Diego. CAL; Aus
tin. Tex, and Miami. Fla. 1t is pro-
posed that they be called respective
Iy: The Washington National high
way, The Roosevelt National highway,
the Lincoln National highway, the JEFF
ferson National highway, the Grant
National highway, the Monroe National
highway and the Lee National high
way
1t is estimated that the cost Of the
proposed highways would not exceed
$148. 600
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
STATEHOOD BILL
VETOED BY TAFT
Judiciary Recall Rock on Which
Measure Stranded.
is DENOUNCED BY EXECUTIVE
SO Pernicious In Effect as to Destroy
independence of Judiciary-Would
Render Decision Under Le-
gaIized Terrorism.

Washington. President Taft, in a
special message to the house of rep
resentatives, vetoed the joint resolu-
ton providing for the admission of
New Mexico and Arizona to state
hood His reason for exercising the
executive power of veto was based on
his thorough disapproval of the recall
of judges clause in the Arizona con-
stitution.
The fact that New Mexico's state
hood was bound up with that of Ar1-
IONA melted out to 1t the same fate,
and neither territory can come into
the Union at this time unless friends
of the joint resolution in congress
can muster the two-thirds vote neces-
sary to adopt the resolution over the
presidents veto. This may be at
tempted.
The president did not spare words
in condemning the recall feature OF
the Arizona constitution, which, he
said, would compel judges to make
their decisions under legalized ter
rorism." The recall provision would
operate against all elective officers
of Arizona, including both county and
state judges. When 25 per cent. of
the voters of the previous election
petitioned for a special election to re-
move an official such an election
would be compulsory
This provision of the Arizona con-
stitution," the president says, lin it's
application to county and state judges
seems to me so pernicious in its eff
feet, so destructive Of independence
in the judiciary, SO likely to subject
the rights of the individual to the pos
sible tyranny of popular majority,
and, therefore, to be so injurious to
the cause of free government that /
must disapprove a constitution con-
tanning it."
Much of the message was devoted
to a discussion of the functions of
courts. The president dwelt at length
on the necessity for freeing the judi
ciary as much as possible from poll
tics or popular influence. Referring
to the recall provision, he asked:
Gould there be a system more in
geniously devised to subject judges to
momentary gusts of popular passion
than this? ?"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
ASK TAFT TO VISIT OSHKOSH
PRESIDENT Requested to Change Wis
corsin itinerary to Include Saw
dust City in October Trip.

MISUNDERSTANDING David.
son during a talk with the president.
renewed the invitation to visit Osh.
kosh. Mr.. Davidson said that mas
much as he will visit Milwaukee to.
open the International Dairymen's as
soclatlon, he could readily, coming
from the west, be routed through the
northern part of the state, instead OF
VIA Madison, as has heretofore been
che route laid down for presidential
trains. Mr.. Davidson said the north
ern route would enable him to see.
the cities of Eau Claire, Chippewa
Fails, Stevens Point, Oshkosh. Fond
du Lac and other places.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
USE DOGS TO FIGHT PLAGUE
Madras Officials Have Recourse to
Novel Methods in Combating
Dread Disease.

A Mysore correspondent, writing to
the London Daily Graphic, states that
in that part of Madras plague has
been rife. There were in one district
$40 deaths in three months.
Innoculation will not stamp out
plague; it merely affords temporary
protection to man, he says. ITO get
rid of plague we must get rid of
plague-infected feas. The government
measures are, when dead rats are
found in house, to cause it to be
evacuated and take off the roof. The
plague-infected rats, finding no food
or shelter in the house, make for the
next houses, and carry infection with
them. The infected f1eas that have
escaped from the bodies of the dead
rats are still let in the house, and it
4akes months to destroy them, as all
disinfectives have so far proved Of
little use.
I'VE have had dead rats in my
bungalow, and in the different houses
on the mine, on six different occa-
sions. When a dead rat is found in
any house 1 have the body taken up
with pair Of tongs, saturated with
kerosene oil, and burnt. l turn in
three or four dogs, and keep them in
the house till evening. The infected
fieas get into the hair of the dogs.
The dogs are taken out in the evening,
rubbed over with common castor oil
(Which instantly kills the fieas, as it
clogs their breathing apparatus), and
washed with carbolic coap. This I
repeat for three or four days. At
nights I place plenty of rat food in
the room, to attract the rats, and set
wire traps.
Il have thus destroyed hundreds Of
rats which have been plague-infected,
and also got rid of the fleas, which
are the chief source Of danger. Dogs
are immune from plague. l consider
the dog the most valuable preventive
Of plague, for not only does he kill
more rats than a cat, but he also
traps the plague-infected feas. l think
my experiment is worth repeating"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
TWO AVIATORS ARE
KILLED AT CHICAGO
Badger Falls to Earth-Iohn-
stone Is Drowned.
THOUSANDS SEE TRAGEDIES
Chicago Youth Dashed $500 Feet Into
Lake When Engine Explodes-
Pittsburgh Aviator Was dip
ping" When Killed.

Grant Park Aviation Field, Chicago.
Before the eyes of 10000 Mortified
spectators, two intrepid pilots Of the
air fell from their perches in the sky,
and like birds with broken wings, were
dashed to their death.
One of the fatalities occurred on
the field, a few yards from the gates
of the enclosure, when a biplane with
huge spread of red wing folded up
like jack knife and struck the earth
with terrific force.
The fall was PISS than fifty feet,
but the engine crushed into the avi-
ator and broke his neck.
The second accident occurred at
sunset when a graceful monoplane
suddenly shot toward the lake from
a height of $500 feet. AS it neared
the water its pilot tried to steer it
upward, but the forces of gravitation
were too potent The wings collapsed,
the engine exploded and the driver
was either killed before he struck the
water or drowned.
The dead are:
a
ator whose Moissant monoplane dived
into the lake after glide Of $500
feet. 1t collapsed when its pilot tried
to turn it's course upward and it's en-.
CINE exploded.
w. R. Badger, Pittsburgh pilot
and reputed millionaire, who sought
to emulate the hair-raising exploits of
Lincoln Beachey. His Baldwin red
devil collapsed as Badger was max
ing a spectacular dip not far above
ground The engine struck the pilot,
breaking his neck and crushing his
skull Badger died in st. Luke's hos
pital within half an hour.
The death of tombstone was an I'M
usual tragedy. The young aviator
plunged to his fate before the eyes
of his mother and wife, who were
standing near the hangers, proudly
watching his performances.
Grant Park Aviation Field, Chicago.
Harry N Atwood, the Boston avia'
tor, flew into Chicago from st. Louis
in his biplane Having arrived, he
circled aviation field on the lake front
before alighting, to the cheers Of
thousands.
He completed the aeroplane dash
across the prairies of Illinois in five
hours and thirty-four minutes of fly
ing time, the distance travelled be-
tween dawn and nightfall being about
300 miles. The average speed of the
journey was fifty-six miles an hour
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
Labrador to Florida in an Hour.

Looking up the canyon from the
warm sunny edge of the Mono plain
my morning ramble seems a dream. SO
great Is the change in the vegeta-
ton and climate The lilies on the
bank of Moraine lake are higher than
my head, and the sunshine is hot
enough for palms. Yet the snow
around the arctic garden at the sum-
NIT of the pass is plainly visible only
about four miles away, and between
lie specimen zones of all the principal
climates of the globe. In little more
than an hour one may swoop down
from winter to summer, from an arc
tic to torrid region, through as
great changes of climate as one would
encounter in travelling from Labrador
to FTOrida.-John Muir: MY First
Summer in the Sierras."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
THIRTEEN SENT TO PRISON.
Judge Sentences Members of Poultry
Trust to Jail.

Trust to Jail.
New York-After a trial lasting
practically three months. thirteen
commission merchants of New York,
composing what was known as the
poultry trust" were, convicted of con-
spiracy in restraint Of trade by a
jury in the court of general sessions.
All the men convicted were sent to the
Tombs without bail and will be SEN
fenced to Jail by Judge Rosalsky.
This is the first conviction in New
York under the statute providing pun
ishment for conspiracy in restraint of
trade, and the first time in the history
of the country that member of
trust has been sent to jail.
The men are all members of the
New York Live Poultry Commission
Merchants Protective association,
which, by the verdict OF the jury, was
declared to be an unlawful corpora
ton, the purpose of which was to
crush competition in the New York
poultry market.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
STORM DESTROYS 3 TOWNS.
Tornado Wipes Out Section of Divide
County, NJ o.

Grand Forks, N. D.-Three towns
have been destroyed and the entire
northwestern section of this state laid
to waste by a tornado which swept
over Divide county and adjoining
country.
Although communication has been
cut off from the devastated section, it
Is known that the towns of Noonan,
Ambrose and Crosby have been COM
pletely wiped out. Four farmers are
reported dead and half score fatal
ly injured, and the list IF dead and
injured may reach several hundred.
The four men whose deaths nave
been reported are Paul Thuin and
John Orezeick, John Caquin and H.
Claveck, farmers, living near Noonan,
N D.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
NEGRO is BURNED AT STAKE.
Mob Drags Slayer From Hospital
Near CoatesViIle, Pa.

Coatesville, Pa.-Zacharia Walker.
the negro who shot and killed Ed
gar Rice, a special officer, when
caught robbing foreigner, was
dragged from the Coatesville hos
pital, where he had been lodged I'M
der police guard, and burned by a
frenzied mob of citizens a half mile
from town.
The affair, which is the first of the
kind to happen in this state, has
aroused the town and at midnight
thousands of excited men and women
thronged the streets, while requests
for police assistance were sent to sur
rounding towns in Chester and Ian
caster counties in the belief that
more serious trouble may break out
between the negroes and whites.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
Issue Many Auto licenses

Madlson.-Since the new motor H.
cense law went into effect Aug
approximately $1,5O0 has been received
Oy the state in fees, at the rate of S.
per automobile. The new law. which
increased the fee from So to 81 an
parently has had no effect upon the
demand for cars, and applications for
licenses are coming in at the rate of
ABOUT twenty-five a day. About ten
motorcycles are being licensed daily
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
wIn Probe aNlqht Ridlna.y

Chattanooga, Tenn.-The Van
Buren, county grand jury at its next
meeting will take up reports Of might
riding" in the mountains of east
Tennessee. One farmer, who gave
lodging to revenue officers on a recent
raid, was whipped until unconscious.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
CHICAGO FLYER is WRECKED.
Pennsylvania 1e-Hour Train to New
York Derailed at Fort Wayne.


Fort Wayne.-Four persons are
known to have been killed and
thirty injured when the Pennsylya-
MIA eighteen hour train, en- route
from Chicago to New York, jumped
the track on the western outskirts of
Fort Wayne while going fifty miles
an hour.
In leaving the rails the two engines
pulling the passenger train side
swiped a freight engine and the three
piled up in a mass of bent and twist
ed iron.
The baggage car, smoker, buffet car
and two sleepers turned over in the
ditch. Most of the injured were seat
ed In the diner and smoker when the
accident occurred.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
On Trail of stenhenson.

Washington.-A resolution provid-
ing for an investigation Of the cleo
ton of Senator Stephenson of Wis
@onsin was adopted by the senate
The action was a formality necessi
tated by technical error some days
ago in passing a similar resolution
without reference to the contingent
expenses committee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
ESTATE OF GILBERT s55s,s55.

Entire Amount Bequeathed to Garrick
Theater and Actors Fund.
London. The late Sir w. 8.
Gilbert, who collaborated in the Sui
livan-Gilbert operas, left an estate
valued at $559,355, which is be-
queathed to the Garrick theater, sub
ject to two life interests given to the
Actors Benevolent fund
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-23
Taft vetoes Statehood.

Washington.-President Taft vetoed
the joint resolution providing for the
admission of New Mexico and Arizona
to statehood. His reason for exer-
cising the executive power of veto was
based on his thorough disapproval of
the recall of judges clause in the
Arizona constitution.