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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
PLAN WATER POWER FIGHT
Wisconsin Manufa cturers to Formu-
late Plans for War on Law Civ
ing Control to State.

Neenah.-At the meeting of man
ufacturers here it is expected that
plans for fighting the law giving the
state control of water powers will be
formulated
1t was announced after the mea-
sure became law that it's constitu-
uonallty would be determined in the
courts. The test will be made at once
and former State Senator Theodore
Brazeau of Grand Rapids. attorney
Tor the manufacturers, has been MAX
ing preparations for the suit.
1t may be a suit restraining the
payments of any money under the
law on the ground that the law is
unconstitutional And it may be that
the payment of any license fee will
be resisted.
In this case three actions will prob
ably be brought, one testing the law
as regards sO-called navigable
streams, on which boats may be run.
second as regards streams which are
called navigable because logs can be
on them, and the third af
fecting the rights now admitted as
non-naVigable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
y 7
in Fight for 100000.

Concord, N. H. - 'Pernicious,"
hostile to organized society" and
forbidden and made void by
public policy and the laws of the
land" are some terms applied to the
practices of the leaders of the Chris
tan Science church in amendments
filed by counsel for George w. Glover
of Lead, s. D., to Gloyer's bill seeking
to cave the residuary clause of the will
of his mother, Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy,
declared void. This residuary clause
bequeaths the residue of the estate,
estimated at 100000, to the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, of Bos-
ter: and Glover seeks to obtain the
residue for himself snd Dr. Z. ].
Foster Eddy of Waterbury, VT, Mrs.
E6Gy's adopted son.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
POSSE In PURSUIT OF NEGRO
Farmland Near Lacrosse Shoots
White Girl Who Spurned His At
tentions Threaten Lynching.

La Crosse.-A thousand farmers,
headed by the sheriff and officers
from La Crosse, are securing Camp
bell, eight miles north of this city,
searching for Edward Robinette, a
negro, who shot and seriously wound
ed Miss Sylvia Price, a white girl,
daughter Of the manager of the Car
gill Macmillan farm, in that town.
If caught the negro may be
Iynched.
Robinette, who had been employed
for three years on the farm, was in
fatuated with the girl and had been
brooding because she had rejected
his advances.
Upon the girls refusal to talk
with him, the negro began firing.
The first shot struck the young woz1-
an in the right arm. Tbe second
went through her left arm and en-
tered her back
Robinette then dashed into his
room and three more shots were
heard. A moment later he left
through the window of his room and
disappeared in the woods. 1t is be-
lieved he is wounded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
PASS PUBLICITY BILL IN SENATE
Expenditures Of Candidates Severely
Limited

Washington. - With a practically
unanimous vote the senate passed the
most drastic campaign publicity meas
ure that was ever adopted by either
branch Of the United States congress.
Using the prediction publicity bill
passed by the house of representatives
as a basis, the senate constructed a
proposed law with the following impor-
tant features:
mo candidate for the senate or
house shall spend in the election more
than sum equal to ten cents for each
voter in his district or state
mo senatorial candidate shall spend
a total of more than $4,000 ia the
primary and general election; and no
candidate for the house shall spend
more than $4,000.
Publicity must be given to all pri-
mary campaign contributions and ex-
penditures.
All general election expenses must
be made public before the election, be-
ginning fifteen days before election,
and making publication each six days
until election
'All promises of political jobs must
be made public"
The bill further makes it Illegal to
promise political places in order to Sc
cure election support, or to aid in in
tiuencing the election of any member
Of a state legislature
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
STRANG KILLED On
STATE AUTO TOUR
MEETS INSTANT DEATH WHEN
HIS CAR GOES OVER NEAR
HIGHLAND CENTER.
NOTED AS A DARING DRIVER
Machine Was Moving Slowly, the
Cars Weight Causing n ghwaY to
Collapse-Three Other Occupants
Escape by Jumping.

Rlchland Center.-LewiS Strang.
well known automobile racing driv-
er, was instantly killed at Blue
River, about twenty miles from here.
while plotting the machine of the
technical committee on the second.
annual reliability run of the Wiscon-
sin State Automobile association.
His car, which was going at a
snails pace, was wrecked by being
thrown over an embankment when
the road gave way, the highway be-
ing unable to bear the weight of the
machine, caving in for almost a foot
under the car. The machine turned
turtle, crushing the life out of the
unfortunate driver when it fell upon
him.
]. W. Tufts of Milwaukee, Lester
A. Clark of Lancaster, and Joe Jag
gersberger, Strang's mechanician, es-
capped injury by jumping from the
car, but the young racer was crushed
under the footboard.
Strang broke an arm about the
middle of June during a race on a
Sunday in Kenosha, and is said not
to have been strong enough to have
attempted the wearisome grind Of
the state tour.
Strang was &c years old, and was
known as one of the most daring
drivers. He has been connected with
the Case company of Racine for a
number of years, being the manager
of the Case team. He first drove at
Elkwood Park track in 1905 and had
driven in practically every race of
Importance since 1907
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
lie Gtaked His Herd.

Many stories Of big poker games
among the western cattlemen in the
early days have been told, but the
story of the game with probably the
greatest stakes is here printed for the
first time. Two well-knoWn cattle
men OF southwestern Kansas, one of
whom is now a prominent business
man in Kansas City, started to move
their herds to the pastures of Wyo-
ming. Each herd contained more
than a thousand head of cattle. When
they came to the crossing of the
Arkansas river near Coolidge they
found flood on. They were unable
to cross for two or three days. To
while away the time the two men en-
gagged in a poker game. When the
flood finally subsidized so that the cat
tie could proceed one of the cattle
men said to his son, who was helping
him to drive: Just turn my herd
over to our neighbor and we will go
back home" He had bet and lost
not only all the money he had but all
of the herd of cattle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
BLUE AND THE GRAY CELEBRATE
Survivors of Battle of Bull Run Have
a Reunion.

Manassas, Va.-The bloodstained
sward of Bull Run was again
peopled with those who with bit
ter hatred and feverish anxiety
awaited the break of dawn so years
ago to commence the first battle of
the Civil war. But insteGd of mingled
curses and prayers; instead of the
nervous tread of sentries, the fevered
restlessness of foreboding, the rival
camps of the blue and gray housed
men bowed with years, whose only
thought was that of peace and broth
eThood.
Elaborate preparations had been
made for this unique gathering. The
president of the United States and
the governor of Virginia were present
to deliver addresses, with command
ers-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic and the United Confederate
Veterans, and distinguished soldiers
and statesmen from every part of the
United States. The town was decked
with Confederate and Federal flags,
and the streets swarmed with visitors.
The old Henry farm house with its
shot-riddled walls was gay with bunt-
ing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
NEW POSTAGE STAMPS SOON.
Issue to Be Authorized viii Combine
Utility, Art and HARMONY

Washington. - utility, art and
harmony" according to Third AS
sistant Postmaster General Britt, will
be combined in a new issue of postage
stamps about to be authDrized.
The head of President Washington
will appear on the first six of the
series, while the last five will bear the
likeness Of Benjamin Franklin.
All of the new stamps denomina-
ton will be in Arabic and this, as well
as the use of a separate color or shade
for each denomination, is expected to
prevent the confusion of which two
conventions of postal clerks have com,
planned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
President Simon.

sick man, and is now confined to his
bed. 1t is expected that there will be
desperate fighting and Captain Dis
mukes reported that the revolution
airy troops are now marching toward
the capital from st. Mare, which they
captured without much resistance.
The state department will stand be-
hind the action of American Minister
Furniss in joining the other foreign
representatives in a protest against
any attempt to lombard the unforti-
fed towns of the coast.
With one warship in Haitien waters
and three others racing toward the
war-torn republic, the navy depart
ment is preparing to throw a Gordon
of armed vessels about the island.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
FLEETS IN FIGHT
OFF LONG ISLAND
Goth enemy" and Defense Claim Vic.
tory-New York Is the
Prize

Block Island. R. IA fleet of nine
battleships, representing half the
strength Of the Blue" bore down on
this little island in an effort to can
ture Long Island sound and the back
door" TO New York.
For three hours the attacking feet
engaged in battle with the defenders.
composed of submarines and torpedo
destroyers.
Whether the invaders were van
pushed or conquered the defense will
not be known for some months. or I'M
til the national board OF strategy re-
ports. Both sides are claiming the
victory.
The Blue fleet, commanded by Rear
Admiral Osterhaus, is alleged by it's
supporters to have penetrated the de-
tense line with several minutes to
spare. theoretically, the battleships
have sunk all Of the defending vessels,
its officers claim. On the other hand,
the defense says that, theoretically,
there is none of the attacking vessels
aftoat. The officers under Commander
Edward W. Eberle say the submarines
and destroyers annihilated the foe.
The attacking force suffered one
zeal loss. The flagship Connecticut
cracked its crankshaft during the fight
and went out of action. 1t will sail
for New York and Rear Admiral o.
terhdus will transfer his flag to an
other vessel.
The defending fleet was composed
Of a cruiser near Brentoa's Reef light
ship, off Newport, southwesterly, near
to Pos--11 Judith, apparently defending
the entrance to Narragansett bay, and
several other cruisers in the vicinity
Of Point Judith.
Rear Admiral Osterhaus, command
er of the attacking feet, massed the
greater portion of his battleships to
the eastward of Block Island Nine OF
these battleships were lying Off there,
cleared for action, as another division
of the attacking fleet came in from sea
and, rounding Northeast light, at the
end of Sandy Point, headed over to-
wards Gardeners bay. Fifteen or
twenty miles to the eastward of Block
island and in the direction of No Mans
Land another feet of battleships was
apparently ready to cooperate with
the main squadron in simultaneous
attacks upon both Newport and the
eastern entrance of Long Island sound.
Admiral Osterhaus' fighting squad
ron is backed up, theoretically, by
large fleet of imaginary transports
laden with invisible troops
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
FARMERS CREED HOLDS GOOD
Formulated so Years Ago by Henry
Ward Beecher, and Still Effec-
tiVe-Distributed in Schools.

In these days of intensive farming,
agricultural colleges, chemical ferti-
lizers, E. M. Rapp of Reading, Pa,
county school superintendent, has
found that THE Farmers Creed"
written nearly half a century ago, is
so adaptable to present conditions that
he has had it printed on cards and
distributed among the advanced pu-
pills of the public schools. Here it is:
We believe in small farms and thor
ough cultivation.
We believe that soil loves to eat, as
well as its owner, and ought therefore
to be literally fed.
We believe in large crops which
leave the land better than they found
it-making the farmer and the farm
both glad at once.
We believe in going to the bottom
Of things, and, therefore, in deep plow-
ing and enough Of it-all the better
with a subsOil plow.
We believe that every farm should
own a good farmer
We believe that the best fertilizer
for any soil is a spirit of industry, en-
terprise and intelligence. Without
this lime and gypsum, bones and
green manure, mari and guano will be
of little use.
We believe in good fences, good
barns, good farm houses, good stock,
good orchards and children enough to
gather the fruit
We believe in clean kitchen,
neat wife in it and clear conscience.
We firmly disbelieve in farmers who
will not improve; in farms which grow
poorer every year; in starving cattle;
in farmers boys turning into clerks
and merchants; in farmers ashamed
of their vocation, or who drink whis-
ky until honest people are ashamed of
them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
Nodded BY Circumstances.

Yoshio MARKING in McClure's tells
the following anecdote of his literal
mindedness:
At the grammar school used to be
lieve all that l was taught. But very
often | made an awful misunderstood
ing. For instance, our reader said:
The human nature is just like the
water If you put the water into
square vessel the water will become
square, and if you put it into round
vessel it will have a round shape.
Boys and girls, therefore, you must
choose your friends"
No sooner than the school hour
was over, I ran to my neighbor who
had a newly born baby. ] told the
mother: Don't put your baby in a
hard, fiat bed; her figure will become
fat"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
Prevent a Lvnchjng.

Kenosha.-FOllOwing an assault on
Doris, the 5-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Harry Dixon of the town Of
Somers, Frank Mean, aged % years,
Russian farm laborer, was rounded
up by a posse of farmers Thursday
night, charged with the crime, and
the arrival of Sheriff Andrew H.
Stahl of this county was all that pre-
vented a lynching. The child is in a
serious condition and was not able
to appear in court. Mean has made
a partial confession and is held here
without bonds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
ASKS FOR POWER
TO FIX PRICES
Wickersham Declares That New Sys-
TEN Is Needed-NaturaI law
Is NuIIified.

Duluth, Minn.-After a day crowd
ed with enjoyment for himself
and for the delegates to the Minnesota
State Bar association, of which body
he was chief guest, Attorney General
George w. Wickersham attended a
Josh banquet" given by the same as
ISOLATION. There were no speeches
at the banquet.
That & government commission to
regulate great industrial organiza-
tons was most desirable and might
be absolutely necessary was the key
note of the speech which Mr.. Wick
ersham delivered before the Bar as
ISOLATION. He took an advanced stand
on the further federal regulation of
corporations, and declared that a
government commission to regulate
great industrial organizations, in the
same way that the interstate COM
merce commission regulates railways.
is certainly most desirable, and may
be absolutely necessary.
The cabinet member declared also
that the duty of fixing prices of COM
modities might devolve upon this com
mission, though he expressed some
doubt of the practicability of this
phase Of the plan
The law Of supply and demand, Mr..
Wickersham said, no longer controls
prices in the United States. For
years, he said, the prices in all the
great staple industries have been
fixed by agreement between the prin-
cipal producers and not by a normal
play Of free competition.
An interstate commission, the attor-
ney general added, would prevent vio-
lations Of the antitrust laws and aid
business men to maintain continued
status of harmony with the require
ments of the statutes.
But there are other reasons for
such regulation. The federal depart
ment Of justice is not organized or
equipped to maintain constant super.
vision and control of business organ.
izations. 1t deals only with cases of
violation of the law. The activities Of
an administrative board or commits
sion would be directed to preventing
such violations and in aiding business
men to maintain a continued status
of harmony with the requirements of
law.
Whether such a federal industrial
commission should have power to reg
ulate prices is, of course, matter for
serious consideration. The interstate
commerce law prescribed as legis-
IatiVe rule that prices for tAnsporta-
ton by rail, or wire, or pipe line, shall
be reasonable, and that no unjust dis
elimination shall be made between in
dividuals or localities similarly stu
ated. A similar rule might be made
by congress with respect to the prices
of commodities the subject of inter
state commerce"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
HA|TIEN RULER To
MEET D|Az FATE
Rebels Hold Nearly Every Impor-
tant Town on Island.
HARD FIGHT Is EXPECTED
Followers Of Present Government
Gather at Capital to Make Last
Stand Against Their Revo-
iutionary Foes.

hington.-According to advices
received in Washington from
Haiti President Simon's government
will be superseded by revolutionary
body polite and the president himself
may follow in the footsteps of Presi-
dent Diaz and be forced to leave the
country.
In the opinion of Captain Dismukes
of the gunboat Petrol, which is at
Port-au-Prince watching the opera
tons of the revoIutionists at GonAVes.
the revolutionists already practically
are victorious and all of the towns of
Importance except the capital are in
their possession.
President Simon has been obliged
to abandon his campaign in the north
and to withdraw his army hastily to
the capital, where he arrived a very
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
INSURANCE LAW IN FORCE
New Method of Paying and Collect
ing for Examination of Com
panies Operative.

Madison.-The new law reforming
the method of collecting and paving
for expenses of examinations of in
surance companies has gone into eff
feet. 1t provides that all moneys
collected from companies for ex-
aminations must be paid into the
state treasury and all expenses be
audited by the state treasurer and
paid out of the state treasury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
Takes Brother for Wolf.

Superior.-Joseph Derosia shot
and killed his brother Frank near
Burberry, installing the boy for a
wolf. Joseph was walking home
from Burberry, carrying a rife for
protection against wolves. Frank,
who was walking in the opposite di-
rection, had evidently stopped to tie
his shoe when his brother spied him
in the road. Thinking the dark OBJ
ject a wolf, he fired.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
kenosha Man Hangs Self.

Kenosha.-Robert Yule, aged Ga,
committed suicide by hanging at the
home of his nephew, 3. F. Yule, in
the town of Somers. He was a son
of the late Alexandria Yule,
wealthy pioneer, ano a brother of
George Yule, president of the Balm
wagon works here. Domestic trou-
bles, which eliminated in a divorce
from his wife years ago, are given
as the cause
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
The Last Passenger Pigeon.

Measures were taken to ascertain
whether the passenger pigeon had
been completely exterminated. Under
the stimulus of rewards offered aggre-
eating altogether several thousand
dollars many reports were received of
nesting passenger pigeons. The in
formation. however, proved incorrect
on investigation, and it is practically
established that of the vast hordes
of wild pigeons that formerly inhabit-
ed the eastern United States there is
now but one survivor, a female bird
Is years old in captivity in the zoo
logical garden of Cincinnati.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
Baker Again Heads Chiefs-

Madison.-Chief of Police Henry
c. Baker of Racine was reelected
president of the Wisconsin Chiefs of
Police association at the closing ses-
sion here Other officers elected
were August Scheck of Sheboygan.
vice-president; J. W. Weber of La
Crosse, secretary-treasurer. Milwau-
kee was selected for the 1912 con-
vapfiop
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
CORPORATIONS FACE PENALTY.
10000 Delinquents viii Be Fined for
Failure to Pay Taxes.

Washington. Some of the odi-
um attached to the corporation tax
is revealed by the fact that a check
ing up for the fiscal year recently
ended is likely to show about 10000
deItnQuents. Each of these delin-
quents Is subject to the penalty pre-
scribed for failure to pay the tax with
in the time limit, which is a fine of
from $1,000 to $4,000. Most of the
delinquencies, however, are attribut-
able to failure to file the reports re.
CURED of all corporations. This laxity
viii cost several thousand small cor
porations about SIS each.
Already some 1000 or 5000 delin-
Quents have made application to COM
premise their penalties. Many corpo-
ration heads have protested against
the penalties, voicipg the opinion that
the compromise scheme is graft"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
BANK OFFICERS NOT GUILTY
Federal Jury Delberates But Twenty
Minutes in the Case of Defunct
LadYsmith institution.

Eau Claire. - After celebrating
twenty minutes the jury in the case
of the United States versus J. A.
Corbett, J. E. Newman and l.. E.
McGilI, officers of the defunct First
National bank of Ladysmith, who
have been on trial in federal court
on the charge of classifying the con-
dition of the bank in report TO the
controller of the currency, returned
a verdict of not guilty. The defend
ants pleaded the statute of imita-
tions and lack of intent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
PROBING DEATH OF INDIAN
Joe Gordon Found Dead in Road
Near Teal Lake-Compan. on
Asleep by Corpse.

Hayward.-Joe Gordon, an Indian.
was found dead with a rife wound
in his breast on the road four miles
from Teal Lake and twenty miles
from Hayward. Gordon left town
with Christ Olson on a wagon loaded
with provisions. Olson was found
in drunken stupor near Gordon's
body. Sheriff Clark and the coroner
are investigating the case.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-07-27
FOUR BANDITS HOLD UP TRAIN.
Masked Men Rob Northern Pacific's
Limited.

Grand Forks, n. D-Four masked
bandits held up the North Coast
Limited, east-bound, on the North
ern Pacific railroad near Buffalo,
n. D. After robbing the passengers of
about $500 and shooting Engineer S.
p. Olson they escaped in an automo-
bile which they had in waiting.
From st. Cloud, Mimi, comes word
that Detective J. J. Davis has cap
tured three of the men at MeIrose.
The men are said to have had part
of the booty in their possession. A
fourth man escaped.