Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-13
BY CHESTER M. WRIGHT.

Bang!
 A comedy young girl lurched over in the farm wagon, shot in the abdo- men. O. the two brothers in the wagon one leaped to the ground and ran. with bullets singing after him The other held up his hands. It was on a lonely northern Wis I consin semiroad, semi-ti;al. on a Saturday afternoon last October. Tho three in the wagon were Myra Deitz. aged IS years, and her two brothers. Lesne and Clarence. Leslie was the one who escaped. Clarence was talk en prisoner. The men who cried Hands up," from their ambush be- hind the trees and logs beside the road were Sheriff Mike Madden Fred TEhoroahn and Roy Van Alystyne, lum Der scalers formerly, at this time merely working for a reward that had been placed on the heads of their intended victims.
 Is Giant of Man. In that fashion the closing chap ter of the dramatic story of John Deitz and his fight against the Chiupewa Lumber & Boom company opened. A week later it ended in | the same way, to the tune of barking Leugers and thirty-thirties. All that remains now in the court trial. That is already under way.
 Jokn Deitz is a giant of Q man, well read, uncompromisinZ as steel, a woodsman. He believed he owned [ the dam known as Cameron dam on tl4e sluggish Thornapple 9ver an8 | ho believed that he had a right to | maintain his position in the face of 1 the demands Of the big lumber com nany. owned by the Weyerhausel ! interests. In the fight that ne made | he was net by all the treacherv. all | the chicanery. all the 'su1'erfuees | that man is capable of devising. His story became known across a con | tinent
 The first time an injunction WI -erved on hin he swept the parc out of the room. Again it was trie man appeared outside his hor- snd gave the Masonic sign of q
 'ress. The man was fed and war; ] cd. He came back newt 1av with
 friend. Both were United States de' rty marsAals. One attempted to rec 1 q legal summons. Enraged at t' 1 rick resulting from his gsnerosit 1 John Deitz applied his foot 10 tt
 marshal and heaved him off th ! place. Never did he draw a gun c
 an unarmef man or or any man IT.
 less in self denfense. That is admit | ted
 And so the struggle went on largely a battle Of wits, the giant cor
 poration against the giant individ ual.
 Met With Bullets.
 One summer day as Deitz and his family were hauling in hay a bano ef plain thugs clad in second ham militia uniforms 10 which they had TO right, appeared behind a fence Their presence was betrayed by the peculiar actions of a COW. Deitz and his son Leslie went to see what was wrong. They were met by bullets One struck Leslie and destroyed the sight on olis eye. It is said to have been fired by John Rogich. Rogich was concealed behind a log. Deit7 1 swept the log with his automatic
 pictol and Kogich carried away 9
 cago of lead He did not die, but t.Eas found by his deserting compan. { ions after Ee had wandered two
 days half insane in the woods.
 Deitz mad the sympathy of the 1 public and the fear of the officials
 After that he came and went to and
 from the litrle town Of Winter
 twelve miles from his clearing, as
 he pleased. No one molested him
 Then came the primary election last fall. Deitz became involved in a viis pute with the president of the schoo'
 board. It vas not serious argu
 ment, but Bert Horel, noted as (
 rough character, inteTfered. He has
 been pictured as a peace maker by
 some who have written of the af
 fair. Those who know him do no
 call him peace maker. He flooref
 John Deitz and would have crounf his face to a pulp with his hobnailed
 boots had not a bullet through ons
 arm dissuaded him.
 Didn't Want to Kill. i T could have killed him if I had
 wanted to-" said Deitz afterward. q . am good enough shot for that l did
 not want to. I only wanted to save
 myself" FoIks in Winter know that John Deitz is not and never was .
 bad shot Deitz went home after
 that. He vas not arrested. But Bert
 Horel. peace maker, had another
 fight with one arm in sling short ly after that. and woefully beat ur , his man.
 Not long after that a Minneapolis newspaper nan went 10 Hayward the county seat Of Sawyer countv ! in which the Deitz farm and the
 town of Winter are located, and de
 liberateIy taunted the distBct at ' torney and the big buriy sheriff into making a final desperate effort 10 capture the family of John Deitz, alive or dead. That same newspaper
 man. with another, was enjoying the hos-ftality Of the old woodsman when his daughter was shot from ambush on her way to town for food.
 And that is how the last battle came to be fought out in the rugged hills and woods Of northern Wiscon- sin last fall-a rattle that the whole state is ashamed Of now.
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