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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24
McGoorty Has a Good Chance.


Eddy McC;oorty, the Wisconsin middle
weight is coming Into his own. For
long time McGoorty was passed up by
some of the promoters the claim being
that ne was not OF championship class,
but his showing I'm tho east the past TWO
critics alike that there is no middle
weight In the country today who has any
more night 10 n Try for the utIe thsn
the same McGoorty. His manager. Patsy
Callahan has been laid up for time In
a sanltaruni al Grand Rapids lMich),
nouuccs that I've viii be ont before Christ
mas, and will thea arrange Tor EDDY 10
make another European trip unless soile-
Thing good should turn up in the states
In the meantime, He is particularly
anxious 10 match up With Marcel Noresu,
the French champion niddlewe'sht, and
also Gurges Carpenter the latest French
champion In the woltcrweieht ranks out
who has moi ioincd the nlddleveShis
McGoorty il anxious 10 nrst meet Frank
American middlcweghts. and then go
after tho foreigners.
The indications ar. that johnny Cou-
| Ion. the bantanweisht champion OF the
world. will have n real titie mutcl atter
| the first OF the year. sid Smith. fhe Eng
llsh flywelght champion. who won The
| l.onsdalc belt ~ tho National sporting
| CLUB I'm London last week, EXPECTS 10
come 20 this country after the hoDohys
and challenge Conlon for the world tile
Smith defeated Joe Wilson for the Brit
| ish title and now has clear CLAIM 10 H.
| He will be accompanied ny BUY MAJ,
chant. the British tcatherwsighL sno
| his manager w. y Amos Marcheni IL
after a match with Abe Attcll or Johuny
| kilhaue. and from sll accounts he WI
! give. either one the hardest kind OF
battle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
MEXICO MUST PAY
100000 TO CHINA
Indemnity for Loss OF Lives and Prep
erty manded-Warship Is
on the Way.

Mexico City-An indemnity Of So
100000 will be demanded of Mexico by
the Chinese government for the sIaugh-
ter Of Chinese subjects in Torreon.
The demand will be backed up by a
cruiser already on the way to Mexican
west coast ports.
Three investigators have returned
from Torreon and placed in the hands
OF Shung Hal Sun, charge d'affaires
OF the Chinese legation, a detailed re-
port Of the carnage. This report shows
303 Chinese were killed and that, be-
sides a bank and clubhouse, SO places
Of business were sacked.
In addition to the indemnity an
apology for insult to the Chinese flag
will be demanded; also that aid be
extended to destitute families Of the
victims, that the guilty be punished,
md that the constitutional guarantees
of protection to Chinese lives and
property be made effective
If the 100000 indemnity to be
asked 100000 is for property dam
age and the remainder for the loss of
lives.
Commenting upon the matter, NJ.
Shung declared that, owing to the saw
age manner in which the Chinese were
killed, there has been no attempt by
his nation to fix the amount Of the in.
demnity by prescribed methods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
R. D. WHITEHEAD
PASSES AWAY
HEAD OF BADGER STATE SOCI-
ETY. DIES AT HIS HOME
IN MILWAUKEE.
FIRST MET WITH REBUFFS
Organized Wisconsin SOCIETY," From
Which He Separated Five Years
Ago Did a Great Work in Pre-.
venting Cruelty.

Milwaukee.-After a lingering i'll
ness which had its inception with the
death Of his wife, Richard D. White
head, well known in humane society
work in Wisconsin for thirty-two
years, died at his home in this city.
Mr.. Whitehead, for the last five
years superintendent of the Badger
State Humane society, of which he
was one of the founders, was born
IN Newark, o., in 1882. During his
early manhood ne went to Chicago.
where for several years he held va
rlous commercial positions. In 1879
be became deeply interested in the
humane work of that city and was
prevailed upon to come to MiIwau-
kee. and assume charge of the work
Of the Wisconsin Humane society.
While ne met no open opposition,
the support given him was not sufi-
clent to carry out the work as he
wished, and during the first years he
was obliged to work almost entire
ly alone, organizing and systematic
ing matters not only in the city but
throughout the state.
AS the years passed his earnest
ness and aggressiveness, together
with the many good results shown
for his efforts, interested many of the
philanthrOpic people of the city and
the society became more stable and
better able to carry out its plans. He
severed his connection with the Wis
consin society about five years ago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
They Must Wear Boards.

The employees of the Shechita
board, the organization responsible for
the supply of kosher meat, have been
informed that the wearing of beard
is now an essential. The edict is to
apply to young and old alike, and is
thought to be an outcome of the reso-
luton passed at the recent rabbinicaI
conference at Leeds.
The new rules writes a Jewish cor
respondent has created a certain
amount of Indignation among the
younger employees inasmuch as moth
ing may be done that will retard the
natural growth of the beard. Hitherto
the authorities have countenanced the
periodical clipping of the beard, but it
has now been decided that this prac'
tice is to cease.-London Mail.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
HEADS WISCONSIN G. A. R.
Hiram j. Smith is Elected Depart
ment Commander at Its
Encampment.

Green Bay.-Hiram J. Smith of
Racine was elected commander of
The Wisconsin department, G. A. R.,
at it's annual election.
Other officers elected were: J. w.
Hinkley, senior vice commander; E.
D. Kimberly of GAINESVILLE, junior
vice commander; DR.. H. T. Bird, sur
geon; R. M. Dryden, chaplain; Phil
Up Cheek and John w. Graves, trus-
tees of the Wisconsin Veterans home
The next encampment will be held
at Amigo.
Upon their retirement from office
Department Commander Walsh, Chief
Of Staff George L. Harreds, Adjt. Gen.
J. A WatrOus and Master of Trans
portation John w. Graves were pre-
sented with beautiful diamond stud
ded badges of recognition of their
work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
Cnncerninc Man-Eaters

1t seems strange that bears, SO fond
of all sorts CT flesh, running the risks
Of guns and fires and poison, should
never attack man except in defence OF
their young. Only wolves and tigers
seem to have learned to hunt man for
food and perhaps sharks and croco-
dies. Mosquitoes and other insects
would. suppose. devour helpless
man in some parts of the world. and
so might lions leopards, wolves, by
enas. and panthers at times if pressed
by hunger-but under ordinary cir
cumstances perhaps only the tiger
among land animals may be said to
be a man-eater, unless we add man
himself John Muir in the Atlantic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
PAPKE is BOSS MlDDLEwEIeHT
Knocks Out English Champion, Jim
Sullivan, in Ninth Round.

London, Eng.-Billy Papke, the
American fighter, who claims the mid
dleweight title in this country,
knocked out Jim Sullivan, the Eng
lish champion, in the ninth round of
their 20-round battle at the Palladium.
This victory crowns Papke as the
middleWeight champion of the world.
The men fought under the English
weight limit. They weighed in at $50
pounds. Papke was two ounces under
the limit, while Sullivan was we'll
within the weight
The battle was a furious one while
it lasted, Both men struggled hard
to land the blow that meant wealth
and honor, and in their wild endexv-
ors used all sorts Of tactics Several
times the referee was compelled to
jump into the ring and separate the
fighters. On other occasions he
warned Papke against using rough
tactics, such as humping with his head
in the clinches. While Sullivan was
carried out Of the ring we'll battered
up, Papke bore the marks of several
singing wallops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
CARRIE NATION IS
CALLED BY DEATH
Noted Temperance Advocate
Dies of ParesiS.
HkTCHET BROUGHT HER FAME
Became Known to Public Through
Smashing of Saloons in Her
Fight Against the Traffic
in Liquor.

Leavenworth, Kan. = Mrs. Carrie
E. Nation of Ratchet fame. who
devoted her life to a fight on the sale
Of liquor and cigarettes, died in the
Evergreen sanitarium here of paresis,
aged sixty-six years. She had been
suffering from a nervous breakdown
since January last.
Although it has been reported sew
eral times since she came here that
she was dead, her death was not ex-
petced until several days ago.
Mrs. Nation in the sanitarium was
Incapable Of even managing her own
business affairs, all trace Of the bold
prohibition worker had disappeared
when her iron constitution began to
fail, and she spent the last five months
of her life in seclusion, no one but
relatives and hospital attendants be-
ing allowed to see her.
When told several days ago that
she would die, Mrs. Nation made no
comment. Only Dr. A. L. Suwalksy
and a nurse were with her when death
came
Mrs. Nations first saloon smashing
was done in the barroom Of the Carey
hotel at Wichita December 27, 1900.
She was arrested and remained in Jail
several days before she was released
on bond.
On January q, 1901, armed with her
favorite weapon, Ratchet, Mrs. Ma
ton made another raid in Wichita.
This time she smashed two saloons.
During the next two months Mrs.
Nation surprised the liquor traffckers
in various Kansas towns, appearing
unheralded and leaving a trail of
ruined barroom fixtures wherever she
went. Many saloonists became ter
Tor-stricken when the militant tenn
perance advocate appeared in their
neighborhood and locked their places
and fed before the faithful Ratchet
could get into action.
Remarkably few Of the saloon men
used violence in resisting Mrs. Ma
ton, although she was assaulted and
badly hurt while wrecking a saloon at
Enterprise, Kan.
Aroused by the spirit Of the daunt-
less woman from Kentucky, the peo-
pie began to demand that all the sa-
looms and joints be closed at once.
Smashing parties were organized all
over the state. The saloon power was
being wrecked. AS a result of the
agitation bills were passed by the
legislature which strengthened the
state prohibitory law
Thus, erratic as her life has been,
Mrs. Nation was responsible for the
greatest temperance awakening in
Kansas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
"IOkER" MAY COST
u. S. s5O0,Oo0,OOo
Act Found CIinches Roads RfQht to
Oil Lands-Big Interests
Involved

Washington. = Just as the gov
eminent is sitting in for the big
gest legal game it ever played the
discovery is made that it is bound
to lose and the Southern Pacific rail
road TO win s500,00O,00 unless the
laws of 1891 and 1896 governing the
patenting Of oil and mineral lands are
repealed by congress.
The stakes are a great area of
CALIFORNIA; richest oil lands. They
were granted to the railroad with a
clause in the grant expressly except
ing all mineral lands save those con-
tanning coal and iron.
Suits contemplated by the United
States government to recover more
than $500,000,00O worth of oil and min
eral lands from the Southern Pacific
railroad in California may be aban-
doned until congress repeats the laws
Of 1891 and 1895 governing the patent
ing of these lands.
According to an official of the de-
partment Of justice, defeat would be
the result of any effort to recover the
lands by process under the existing
law.
This startling turn in the govern
ments contemplated action is the re-
suit Of the unearthing of a joker in
the laws Of 1891 and 1896. The Joker
limits the time in which suit can be
brought.
The lands in question were granted
to the railroad, with a clause in the
grant expressly excepting all mineral
lands save those containing coal and
iron. Most of these lands were pat
ented to the grantee more than six
years ago. The joker in the situation
was slipped into the act of 1891 in the
very last hours of the session of con-
gress.
The department views this joker as
a bar to any proceeding on the part of
the government. According to a de-
cision of the United States Supreme
court unearthed within the last few
days the government cannot annuI by
legal proceedings a patent of land to
a Immigrant railroad after six years
from the issuance Of the patent Until
the laws are repealed the government
has not a chance to get back its lands.
The Southern Pacific's landed en-
pire on the Pacific slope ranges from
Portland, Ore, southwark to Yuma,
Ariz., and from Sacramento, Cal, east
ward to Salt Lake City. 1t was COM
posed of land grants made by con-
gress to numerous railroad companies,
which have since become merged in
the Southern Pacific system, making
the Southern Pacific the wealthiest
land holding corporation in the world
The area of land bestowed upon
these railroads and now claimed by
the Southern Pacific reaches 26,177, SIT
acres.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
COUNTY JAILs GIVEN SCORING.
DR.. Wines Tells Charities Conference
They Are Schools for Crime.

They Are Schools for Crime.
Boston.-A complete revolution in
the treatment of misdemeanants
and petty offenders throughout the
United States was proposed by
DR.. Frederick Howard Wines, sta
tistician Of the board of administra-
ton of state institutions of Illinois, at
the opening session of the National
Conference of Charities and Correc-
ton here.
DR.. Wines characterized the average
county or municipal jail in this coun-
try as a school for crime, a cesspool
of moral contagiOn, a propagating
house of criminality, a feeder for the
penitentiary, public nuisance and a
disgrace of modern civilization. The
public Indifference to the situation he
attributed partly to ignorance. The
county officials" he said, do not
know what Jail should be and the
people do not know what their jails
really are. In plain Anglo-Saxon, the
truth is that wherever there exists
local graft and political dishonesty,
the county prison is its center and its
stronghold. The sheriff or the jailer
makes a personal profit from crime
by charging a per diem for board for
prisoners and by the receipt of fees
for locking and unlocking the jail
doors. That profit is live wire No
local politician, possibly no member OF
the legislature or even of the state
administration dares fool with it."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
WAR VETERANS
At GREEN BAY
REUNION OF 6. A, e. AND AL
LIED SOCIETIES FOR
ANNUAL SESSION.
ORDERS HAVE BIG GROWTH
While Ranks of Old Soldiers Show
That They are Growing Thinne
Related Organizations increase in
Numbers.

Green Bay-The annual convoca-
ton of the state G. A. R. met in. this
city.
Up to within FIVE years ago the
department encampment, the legis-
latlVe body of the Grand Army, was
regarded as the important annual
business event, but now. and prob
ably during the balance of the or
der's existence, it will be more of a
state reunion of the veterans than
otherwise.
The business sessions are noted
for their harmony and oneness of
purpose. The ties of comradasbin
have become so strong and the de-
sire to make it pleasant one for the
other, and to possess the good will
OF the public, renders it next to i'm
possible to introduce and carry on
heated discussions, no matter what
comes up.
The public should not be surprised
that these modern encampments are
more largely attended than encamp-
ments were a quarter of century
ago. Not as many of the soldiers
attend as in the long past, but the
kindred societies, the Woman's Re
lief corps, the Grand Army's auxiI-
larry, the Sons of Veterans, Daugh-
ters OF Veterans, Ladies of the Grand
Army and Daughters of the Grand
Army, the latter a recently per
Iected organization. are more and
more in evidence as the years come
and go.
The Woman's Relief corps has a
larger membership in Wisconsin
than the Grand Army, and is stead
lily and rapidly growing. For more
than a quarter of a century it has
been the strong right arm of tie
soldier organizations.
The other womans society. known
as the Ladies of the G. A. R., com
posed only of the relatives of sol
diers, hold their convention at the
same time
The coming of all of these So
cletles 70 city the size OF Green
Bay--25 ,000-means more or less
crowding, but this old city. noted
200 years for it's hospitality, was
prepared to make the STAY of two
days memorable in soldier annals
and to send the thousands back to
their homes singing the praises of
the city and our people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
As a Last Resort.

The customer had spent two hours
in pricing and inspecting the various
types Of furnace kept for sale at th$
big establishment
Well, she said, turning away at
last. I've got to find some cheaper
heating plant than any you have in
stock"
In that case, ma'am," the salesman
said, bowling her out, permit me to
suggest that you try red pepper"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
Cuts Corn. Death Results.

Waukesha.-Aft a three months
illness of blood poisoning, Maurice
Brosnihan, aged 60 years, died at his
home in Chicago. Mr.. Brosninan cut
a corn which caused the poisoning.
He refused to allow amputation. He
was born in New York state in 1849,
and came to this city nine years later.
While here he held different i'm
portant positions with the Milwaukee
road until 1889, when he went into
the employ of the Illinois Central
railroad as soliciting freight agent.
He held that position up until his
death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
FEATHERS IN GREAT DEMAND
Ostrich Raisers Assured of a Market
While Present Styles fer Millinery
Are in Favor.

A government ostrich doctor is in
South Africa. His duty is to study
the diseases peculiar to such birds
There is also an ostrich breeding as
sociation where are recorded pedi-
grees of the finer birds. Some of the
farmers have so improved their stock
that their ostrich chicks bring from
$500 to $1,000 each, and many of the
most noted cock birds are priced at
$1,000.
Port Elizabeth, in South Africa, is
The chief ostrich feather port in the
world. In that neighborhood there
are nearly half a million birds now in
captivity. The feathers from these
birds sell at from SO to $3.50 a pound
and the industry Of this one port alone
amounts to some SIS, 100000 a year.
Some districts produce better feath-
.ers than others. The Outdtshoorn
feather reaches 291a inches in length,
the Graft Reinet measures about "a
inches and the Middleburg runs %
inches long. The willow plume, the
most expensive of the ostrich family,
is made plume. The length of the
f1ue is acquired by tying extra flues to
those already on the stem. This oper-
alton is done by French girls and
with marvellous skill. To each fue
on long plume IS tied another in
such a way that the joint is invisible.
Some plumes treated in this manner
have been priced at $1,000.
The first experiment in ostrich
farming in this country was made by
an EngIishman who imported his birds
from Africa and paid as much as ST.
200 pair for them. For this pioneer
there was no fortune. But those who
have followed in his footsteps are
Teaping colossal haryests. 1t is al
most impossible for milliners to meet
the demand for high grade feathers.
And it would be quite out of the ques-
ton were they dependent upon the
stock imported from Africa. But the
fourishing American industry makes
4 large part Of the supply a home
product The United States ostrich
feathers are quite as fine and in some
instances far superior to the African
grown feather.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
Farmer Killed in Oh cago.

Chicago-Jacob Hansen, 55 years
old, a wealthy farmer of Random
Lake, Wis, was killed while riding
on scenic railway at an amusement
park in this city. AS the car sped
around a curve Hansen Ieaped out
and his head crashed against a post
With his skull fractured, he was hur-
ried to hospital, but died in the
ambulance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
MAY RENEW CHAMPAGNE RIOTS.
Department in France Dissatisfied
With Settlement Proposed.

Paris.-The champagne question,
which led to serious rioting in
the departments of Marne and
Aube last April, is likely to be re-
vived as the result of a decree signed
by President Fallieres. The decree
ratified the plan promulgated by the
council Of state fo- the solution of
the much debated problem of which
wines shall be designated champagne.
According to the plans the whole
champagne region is divided into two
zones, the first comprising Marine. to
designate its wines champagne" the
second, the department of Aube, styI-
ing its wines champagne from the
second zone" This scheme, while
only partly satisfying the people of
Marine, has provoked violent opposi-
ton in Aube.
The whole Aube district is seething
with discomfort and red flags are re-
appearing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1911-06-15
CIVIL SERVICE CHIEFS MEET.
Fourth Annual Conference Assemblies
at Madison, Wis.

Madison, Wis.-The fourth confer,
ence of the National Assembly of Civil
Service Commissions opened here and
is attended by delegates representing
the United States civil service com.
mission and the commissions of the
six states and more than 200 cities
which have civil service laws. These
meetings are a clearing house to
which the civil service commissions
bring the results of their work and
help to guide the practical conduct
of the examinations.
Joseph G. Mason of the Illinois com.
mission presided and after the visitors
had been welcomed by Governor Nc.
Govern, Gen. John c. Black, president
of the federal commission, spoke on
The Growth of the Merit System"