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The Holly chieftain., 1911-11-24

lnhsmmatory Substances.
"Brssch Of promise SUITS" said Un.
cls Ebsn. rs dc result Of q man
dat wsars his heart on his sleeve
nestin' . gal dat carries hers In her
pocketbook."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
REFUSE STEPHENS0N's AID
Money Should be Returned, Senate,
Thinks, if Senator's Name
Is Not Used.

Madison.-The senate adopted a
substitute for the Johnson bill nam
ing the new state park in Door coun-
ty Peninsula park, instead of Step
henson park, which was presented
by Senator BOsshard, and provides
that the $4,000 donated by Senator
Stephenson for the purchase of the
land be returned to him.
Senator Sanborn opposed the adop-
ton of the substitute, but was I'M
successful. Senator Bodenstab, in
explaining the purpose of the sub
stitute, said that if the state were
not going to name the park for Sen
ator Stephenson it should return to
him the money he contributed The
substitute after adoption was re
ferred to the finance committee.
BY a rising vote the senate con-
CURED in the Roycraft resolution on
the death of Judge ]. ]. Jenkins of
Chippewa Falls.
Senator Shower moved to recon
slider the killing of the Kleczka bill,
providing more land for the state
fair park.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
WRECK OF MAINE
AN AMAZING ONE
Explosion Is Far Greater Than Was
Supposed-Future Plans Are
Changed.

HAVANA terrible explosion. more
violent than has been supposed, sent
the batleship Maine to the bottom OF
Havana harbor.
That the shattering of the hull, ex-
pressed by the mute testimony of
steel ribs bent apart, decks upheaved
and hurled far from their original posi-
ton, bulkheads crumpled like sheets
Of paper and apparently inextricable.
was far greater than supposed was re-
vealed as a result Of a superficial OBJ
servation made possible by the lower
ing Of the water level in the coferdam
a total depth Of seven feen.
On account of this Unforeseen reve-
lation all plans heretofore proposed
for dealing with the ultimate removal
Of the hulk have become merely con
jectural until a considerably greater
amount of water has been pumped out.
Colonel Black of the engineer corps
said that he had reasonable expecta-
ton Of lowering the water a total
depth Of is or 20 feet within three or
four days, which would make possible
fairly complete exploration of all
portions Of the ship. except the bow,
where men were likely to have been
on the night Of the disaster.
It is probable the searchers may
be able to enter the officers quarters
in the after structure in a day or
two, where they may find the body of
Ensign Merritt, the only officer miss
Ing, the body Of Lieutenant Jenkins,
the only other officer killed. having
been recovered from the torpedo
chamber shortly after the explosion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
MUCH LIKE THE LAST STRAW
Poker Player Convinced the Limit
Had Been Reached in Desire
to See His Hand

Mark Smith, former delegate in con-
gress from Arizona, was talking about
the old days in the territory. Some
one suggested that there were bad
men out there when poker was the
big game
Yes said Mr.. Smith, there have
been some stirring games, and I have
heard many good poker story. I
remember one time in Tombstone
when big crowd Of sports engaged in
game Of poker in one of the large
clubs. 1t was an open game in
public place and there was no at
tempt to prevent the hangers-on from
watching the game Now, you prob
ably know how exasperating it is for
persons back Of you to peer into your
hand when you are playing poker. No
gentleman likes it much. Dan Nc
Cam, one Of the characters Of Tomb
stone, was deeply engrossed in the
game. He didn't like the curious
glances that were Ieveled at his hand,
and he didn't hesitate to make known
his Impotence.
00I DaCh5 you IClIOWS, ne Kept on
saying. Give a man a chance to
breathe and play his hand
This. of course, didn't have any
effect and Mccain kept on moving
about uneasily in his chair. Present
ly there stalked into the room a form.
mer territorial treasurer, the taIlest
man IN that country; in fact, the tall
est man l ever knew. He must have
been seven feet tall. He slipped in
and took a position behind Mccain
and leveled his eye upon Dams hand.
Mccain, with that subconsciousness
that comes to every. one occasionally,
felt the presence of some new. person
looking at him. He hardly moved, but
his keen eye detected the tall form
Of the treasurer.
Well, I'm damned he said. Some
son of a gun had to ride in on horse
back Just to look at my hand -
Washington Post
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
JUDGE, JURY AND
ATTORNEYS WEEP
Mrs. Ford's Testimony Moves
Entire Courtroom.
ASKED CONCERNING A SPREE
EmhezzIement Trial Of EDGAR s.
Cooke at Cincinnati Develops Ora
matte ncidents-ChiId Brought
Forward.

Cincinnad.-During the trial of
Edgar S. Cooke, charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 from the Big -Four
railroad, two dramatic incidents oc-
Cured, one of which brought tears to
the eyes Of judge, jury, attorneys and
spectators, the other arousing their
curiosity to a marked degree.
The first aroused the curiosity of
all who saw.
Mrs. Jeanette Stewart-Ford, on the
stand for DISCRIMINATION, and Mrs.
Edgar S. Cooke, wife of the defend
ant, figured in the first incident. When
the matronly looking woman who has
stood by Cooke through all his trou-
bles took a seat at his side there was
a murmur of expectancy, intensified
when Mrs. Ford's invalid chair was
wheeled in front of the jury.
1t was the first time in years that
the eternal triangle" had been COM
cerned kept their impulses under con-
troll and there was no indication on
the wife's Countenance that she felt
anything but pity for the other
woman.
The second stirring scene was pre-
coded by the entrance OF Mrs. Ford's
daughter, aged six. The child ran to
her mother just as the latter said:
There is my daughter Jeanette,
and she is Cookies child"
The witness burst into sobs as she
made this confession and tears
streamed down the faces of jurymen
and spectators. Even the attorneys for
the prosecution and the Judge on the
bench, Injured to scenes of suffering,
showed their feelings.
The child's entrance was preceded
by the introduction of letter from
Mrs. Ford to Cooke in which she
asked him to visit her at the hospital
or at least to send her some money,
and to provide for their daughter. So
shaken was Mrs. Ford by the incident
that she was removed from the room
and after an interval her physician
told the court that she could not stand
the ordeal of further examination.
Characterization of the woman
was merciless throughout. Under the
fire of questions she admitted having
shot and wounded Cooke and of hav-
ing had him arrested in Chicago
Attorney Charles w. Baker, for the
defense, led Mrs. Ford back to her
earlier career and the name of Frank
Comstock, pro preceded Warrtner as
local treasurer Of the Big Four, again
was brought into the trial.
Who told you Comstock was short?''
asked Baker.
Cooke told me-"
How we'll did you know Comstock?"
We'll, bit more than friendly"
isn't it true that you and Com
stock went on a two weeks spree and
that while on it he told you of his
shortage?"
Maybe he did"
The attorney tried to gain an adj
mission that the safety deposit boxes
which Mrs. Ford said she had rented
here and in New York for the safe
keeping Of packages of money given
her by Cooke had been used for the
storing of her own securities and Jew
elry. Mrs. Ford denied this, how
ever.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
The Seismograph.

The seismograph IS a most inter
testing instrument.
! 1t is kept in a sub basement room.
far from disturbing influences. There
1T records upon a strip of paper such
earthquakes as may happen anywhere.
The scientists then study the strip
of paper and herald to the world the
news that the tremor which shook
down several cities was duly regis
tered.
! The seismograph is a remarkable
contrivance-though in just what way
is not yet determined. However. in
the interests of science, it is as vaIu-
able as would be the imprint of the
hoof upon the seat of the trousers
of a man who had been kicked by
mule
After the event he could study the
imprint and assure himself that he
had been kicked
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
L0CKNEY QUITS UNDER FIRE
When Charges Are
Preferred.

aukesha.-Henry Lockney, dis
trict attorney of Waukesha county,
resigned his Office following the filing
of an affidavit by former District At
torney Milo MuckIestone, charging
that Lockney had forfeited his Office
by accepting a retainer from certain
common carriers and public utility
corporations to act as a lobbyist for
them during the session of the pres
ent legislature.
District Attorney Lockney, when
informed Of the charges, at once
presented his resignation, declaring
in explanation that he had forgotten
that the statutes forbade his accept
ance of any such employment He
admitted that he had accepted the
retainers as charged by MuckIestone,
and carried out the terms of his en-
ployment by the carriers and utility
corporations retaining him
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
RECIPROCITY WINS
PENROSE PREDICTS
Tells Taft Measure Is Sure to
Pass.
SAYS WILL HAVE so VOTES
Senate Finance Committee Chairman
Looks for Rapid Progress on Cana
dian Agreement and Defeat of
Root Amendment.

Washington. = The determination
Of the senate finance committee
to push through the Canadian
reciprocity bill with all possible speed
and the confidence Of the senate lead
ers that there is a ear majority in
favor Of the bill without amendment
was made plain when Chairman Per
rose Of the committee forced the bill
into its second reading before the
senate and announced its probable
early passage.
Before the senate assembled Sena-
tor Penrose had given out a formal
statement in which he said:
In speaking Of prospective progress
he said:
We will make rapid progress on
the reciprocity bill within the next
two weeks, and at the end of that time
we ought to see ahead a date for
vote on agreement. Many senators
are now prepared to speak on the
measure and others are getting in
readiness, so there is promise of reach
ing vote with more speed than is
yet been shown"
The following poll shows the Root
amendment to be certain Of defeat:
For the Root Amendment:
Bailey, Clarke of Wyoming, Crane,
Dillingham;, Dixon, DUPONT. Frye, Gal
inger, Gronna, Hepburn, Johnson,
Jones, La Toilette. Lodge, Lorimer.
McCumber, Martin, Nelson. Oliver,
Root, Simmons, Smith of Michigan,
Smoot, Sutherland, Warren. Total, Is.
Against the Root amendment:
Bacon, Borah, Bradley, Brandege,
Briggs, Brown, Bryan, Burnham, Bur
ton, Chamberlain, Chiffon, Crawford,
Culberson, CuIlom, Cummins, Davis,
Fletcher, Gamble, Gore, Guggenheim,
Hitchcock. Johnston, Kenyon, Kern,
Lea, Mclean, MARITIME, Myers, Nixon,
O'Gorman, Overland, Owen, Penrose,
Percy, Perkins, Poindexter, Pomerene,
Rayner. Reed, Richardson, Shively.
Smith of South Carolina, Stephenson,
Stone, Swanson, Taylor, Terrell,
Townsend, Watson, Williams, Works.
Total, 81.
NOncommittal:
Bankhead, Bourne, Bristow, Clapp,
Clark of Arkansas, Curtis, Foster, Lip
pitt, Newlands, Page, Paynter, Thorn
ton, Wetmore. Total, IS.
Necessary to defeat Root amend
ment. 46.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
seotsmen Leave Native Land.

Ten years ago Scotland had a popu-
1ation in round numbers of 4,5OO 600.
Now it has 100000, so that the in
crease in ten years has been less
than seven per cent as compared
with more than eleven per cent for
the previous decade. Various causes
have been assigned for the check to
the growth Of the community. but the
greatest cause is undoubtedly the ex.
traordinary emigration from all parts
of Scotland to Canada and the Unit
ed States during the last five or six
years. About 10000 persons have
gone to Canada alone in this period
Both the country and the cities are
affected. Thousands Of old home
steads have been abandoned by those
who have yielded to the attractions
of the new world. Agriculturists and
many of the best artisans have gone
with their families
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22

TENTATIVE MEASURE MAKES A
CHANGE IN REAPPORTION-
MENT IN UPPER HOUSE.
0ZAUKEE WITH MILWAUKEE,
Another Measure Introduced in the
House viii Give Milwaukee Eigh-
teen emblYmen- Dividing Lines
Different.

| Madison.-The senate committee
on apportionment has drafted a ten
tative bill for the apportionment of
the state into thirty-three senatorial
districts. One of the most important
changes proposed is to include OZau-
kee county with Milwaukee county,
and give it six senatorial districts.
At present Milwaukee county has five
districts and Ozaukee county is at
tached to Sheboygan county as one
district.
Another important change is
throwing Oconto over into the Mar
inette district and Door over to the
Brown district Manitowoc and Ke-
waunee are to make a district, She
boygan and Calumet another; Rock
and Walworth another as at present;
Kenosha and Racine are to constitute
one district and Green, Lafayette
and Iowa another; Pepin and Buffalo
are to be added to St. Croix and
Pierce; Rusk will be dropped from
the Chippewa Eau Claire district,
and added to the Dunn Barron dis
trict. The Ashland district is to in
clude Ashland, Bayfield,, Sawyer,
Price and Iron; Waukesha to be
thrown in with Jefferson and Wash
ington, with Dodge; Columbia and
Sank are to remain one district as
at present; Winnebago and Wau-
shara will be combined and Dane
will probably be the only county
aside from Milwaukee which will it
self constitute a single district The
senate appOrtionment will not be
definitely decided on until the assem-
bly, apportionment bill has passed
the house.
The first of the apportionment
bills, affecting assembly districts,
came into the assembly from the ap-
pOrtionment committee. 1t was in
sisted that this was not meant as a
real apportionment but simply as a
tentative plan. In this bill Milwau-
kee is given eighteen assembly dis
tricts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
TRYING TO HUSH
VOUCHER SCANDAL
Clerk Says He Was Ordered TO Keep
silent-Lid Is CIamped by
DENLY.

shington.-Thomas Morrison. dis
bursting clerk Of the state department
told house committee that he had
been instructed when the missing
voucher in the Day portrait case was
found on the floor of his Office to keep
still about it.
This disclosure, he said, was given
him by Wilbur J. Carr, chief of the
consular bureau.
The disclosure was made when
Chairman Hamhn asked him if he had
made any further attempt since his
examination few days ago to dis
cover how the long missing voucher
came to be on the floor of his Office.
I was instructed not to say much
about it, Mr.. Morrison testified.
Who instructed you not to say
much about?"
I think it was Mr.. Carr"
We'll, you must know whom you
talked to about it"
Yes, Mr.. Carr told me not to dis
cuss the matter He said it was not
advisable to say much about it, as it
would be investigated"
The serious view taken of the mat
ter by state department officials was
reflected in copy of a letter and ca
blegram from Charles DENLY, consul
general at Vienna, Austria, former
chief clerk of the state department
under Secretary Root when the first
investigation into the mystery of the
$2,45O voucher for an $3.50 portrait
was made.
Answering Mr.. Knox's first cable
gram for an explanation of the por-
trait payment, Mr.. DENLY said: mo
written report was made Careful
preliminary investigation failed to con-
vince the department that criminal
charges could be sustained" Report
ing by mail Mr.. DENLY explained that
the voucher discrepancy was discov-'
cred in 1906, when the department ne
getiated for a portrait of Secretary
Hay, and that prior to the Root regime
1t was customary to include in one
voucher smaller sums paid for a num-
Der of expenses out of the appropria-
ton allotted to the department to be
expended at the secretary's discretion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
MONEY FOR WIS.,
CONSIN UNIVERSITY
TWO SEVENTH ANNUAL MILL
TAX INCREASED TO
THREE-EIGHTHS,
LARGE SUM FOR BUILDINGS
The Normal School Regents Given
What They Asked, $4,000
Year for New Buildings, for
Three Years,

Madison. Appropriations for the
University Of Wisconsin and the state
normal schools were tentatively de-
cided upon by the joint finance COM
mlttee last night, as follows, all these
appropriations being listed in a sep
arate bill that will be taken up later:
State tax of IS Of a mill, amount
ing approximately to $1,O68,685; for
new buildings and improvements,
$4,000 each year for the fiscal years
1913 and 1914, 100000; for uni
yersity extension in fiscal year 1912
the university is given SS7,5OO and
for the year 1913 it is given 500,
600, totaling $1S7,500; for extension
work of agricultural college for each
of the years 1912 and 1918, $4,000.
$50, for new women's dormitory.
$3.50, 900; for purchase of additional
lands to the northwest, $4,000. To-
tai, $2,133,1S5.
The state normal schools are grant
ed one-sixth mill tax, the same as
for the past two years, and $780,
600 year for three years for new
buildings and Improvements The
normal school regents were granted
all they asked The one-siXth mill
tax will yield about $675, 900.
In the original university appro-
priation bill introduced by Senator
Scott, the university asked 100000
a year for seven years for new build
ingS, S250,000 a wear for four wears
for men and womens dormitories,
S225, 200 to cover extension work for
the years 1912 ard 1913 and $40
600 for agricultural extension work
in the same period These appropria-
lions were asked In addition to the
three-eighths mill tax.
Of the 100000 a year for new
buildings in 1913 and 1914, the uni
versity must use $4,000 for books,
apparatus and furniture each year.
There is no appropriation for 1912
for the reason that there still re-
mains 100000 in the building fund
for that year.
The finance committees vote on
the bill was as follows:
For-Chairman Sanborn, Senator
Browne, Assemblymen Nye, Harper,
c. J. Johnson and Draper-6.
Against-S n a tors True and
Whitehead and Assemblyman Bich-
Ter and Klenzendorff-4
Absent Senator Randolph and AS
semblymen knight and Pickard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
TAFT HoNORS NAVAL HEROES.
President Presents Medals to Six of
the North Dakota's Crew.

the North Dakota's Crew.
Washington.-Pres Taft pre-
scented medals of honor to six mem
bers Of the crew Of the warship North
Dakota and spoke in praise of their
heroic deeds when on September 2,
1910, an oil fuel explosion on the
North Dakota killed thre men, put in
jeopardy the lives of scores of others,
and placed the battleship itself in
danger.
Thomas Stanton and Karl Westa,
chief machinist's mates; Patrick Reid
and August Holtz, chief water tend
ers; Charles c. Roberts, machinists
mate, first class, and Harry Lips
combe, water tender, were the hon
ored half dozen.
In addition to the medals of honor,
a gratuity Of $1OO was given to each
man.
What you did was bravery equal
to anything in battle, under circum-
stances in which you were facing
death close at hand" the president
said to them, land it sends a thrill
down my back to feel that you are
Americans and that you acted with
the spirit of the American sailor, as
we like to think of him"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
Aged Pioneer is Dead.

Waukesha.-Henry Bidwen, aged
70, who has been a resident of Wau-
kesha county for seventy-fve years,
longer than any other white man,
dead or alive, died at his home here
after a siX-weeks' illness. He was
born in New York state Mr.. Bidwell
was probably the best known resident
in this county. He is survived by
three daughters and one son, all of
this city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
MARK FIRST SCHOOL SITE
Tablet Placed at Kenosha Bears
Names of Free School
hackers.

Kenosha.-Bearing the name Of
Michael Frank, known as the Father
of Wisconsin Schools" and sixteen
others, leaders in the fight for free
schools, a bronze tablet has been
placed on a great Wisconsin boulder
on the grounds of the Central school
to mark the site of the first free high
school in the United States outside
Of New England, opened on June IS,
1916. The tablet was designed by
Charles A. Stuart of Kenosha and
wrought in local factory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
$4,000 FIRE AT HARTFORD
Brick Business Block Owned by l.
ksselI and Son Burns
Down.

Hartford.-Fire destroyed the two
story business block OH Main street
owned by L. Kissel & Son and occu-
pied by the Wisconsin Telephone
company's office, the Masonic lodge
rooms, the Schauer hardware store
and the office of the Hartford Press,
entailing loss of $25, 900. Members
of the Press force were forced to
flee from the building because of
poisonous fumes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-22
STRIKE ENDED ON FOUR LINES.
Speedy Settlement of Ocean seamen's
Trouble Is Seen.

London.-The important develop
mcnt in the general shipping strike
was the concession Of an adj
vance Of $3.50 month in wages,
which was accepted by all employees
involved, by the White Star company,
the Canadian Pacific railway, the Holt
and another line at Liverpool
The present outlook is that the
strike will come to speedy end ow-
ing to the mems lack of organization
or their Indifference, in addition to the
plentiful supply of foreigners who are
ready to take their places.
At several of the large ports no in
convenience because of the strike has
yet been caused, and nowhere has
there been any real accession to the
strike movement. On the contrary,
there were several instances where
the crews signed without protest.