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The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-08
SATURDAY, MARCH 2. 1912

The southwest quarter of section
ten $50 acres), southwest quarter
OF section sixteen less sixteen acres
off of the south end (t4t.2 acres).
northwest quarter and southwest
quarter and t12 acres off OF the
south end of southeast quarter of
section twenty-One (433 aeres)
north half of northwest quarter and
northwest quarter of northeast
quarter section twenty-eight 1850
81 acres), northwest quarter section
twenty and northeast quarter See
ton thrifty (3it.36 aeresl, all in
township i6, range i6, Caddo Parish,
Louisiana, together with the build.
ings and improvements thereon,
said property to be sold as belonging
to the above succession for cash. ae-
cordins to law to pay debts.
J. P. FLOURNOY,
Sheriff, ex-Officio Auetioneer.
Caucasian, Jan. %, 1919.
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-08
Judicial Sale
Jan. 49,.

No. 5,l95-In the First Judicial Dis
trict Court of Caddo Parish, Lou
islana. Succession of Gilbert and
Ann Meyer.
By virtue of a commission to sell
the First Judicial District Court OF
Caddo Parish, Louisiana, in the
to me directed from the Honorable
above numbered and entitled cause
| will offer for sale at public auc-
ton at the principal front door of
the court house of Caddo parish,
Louisiana, for cash and according to
law, during the legal hours of sales,
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-08
Constable Sale

No. 59i-Hicks Company Ltd. vs.. v.
Cardino
The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-02-08

Office Board of Commissioners of
Caddo Levee District, Shreveport,
La, Jan. 26, 1912.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
GOOD ROADS SCHOOL OPENS
First Annual Highway Exposition at
Madison Is Attended by Many
County Commissioners.

Madison-Good roads advocates
are in session at Madison for five
days From all over the state have
come representatives of the people to
study the problem of better roads as
proposed in the law Of the legislature
of 1911.
The meeting is held under the aus
pices of the Wisconsin highway COM
mission, and is attended largely by
highway commissioners and county
officials.
Chairman J. A. Hazelwood of the
state highway commission presided.
Col. Duncan McGregor, private secre-
tary to Gov. McGovern, welcomed the
representatives Senator John S.
Donald, who fathered the bill that is
now the Wisconsin good roads law,
spoke of the merits of the measure
and the necessity of it's enforcement
in good faith. The idea of state aid
is not new in Wisconsin, he said,
although the present is the first ap-
plication of it to the building of high
ways. It's application to the schools
of the state, to the care of depend
ents, to the support of county fairs
and to various other ends, he said,
long had been recognized.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
I DIE IN ORIENTAL
EXPRESS WRECK
Fast Train Is Piled Up Near
DEVILS Lake, N. D.
TAKES A 3O-FOOT PLUNGE
Ten Coaches Go Over Embankment
and Are Destroyed Scores Of
Passengers Injured-Catastrophe
Blamed to Defective Track.

Devils Lake, N. D.--Seven were
killed and scores MANNED when the
Oriental express, east bound, plunged
over an embankment three miles east
of Devils Lake. Ten coaches left the
track. At least fifty passengers were
imprisoned in the telescoped mass.
The precipice over which the train
dashed was thirty feet high, and all
the Pullmans We're plunged into the
ditch. The cries of the dying and i'm
prisoned added agony to the delayed
rescue work. In the darkness it was
almost impossible to ascertain the
number killed.
According to the report of the first
crew that brought the dead to this
city,. the scene was horrible.
The escaping steam that scalded
the unconscious bodies held fast in
the wreckage, and the fire that
threatened the supposedly fireproof
coaches defied the rescuers.
A defective track is believed to be
responsible for the wreck.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
BUTTERFAT LAW is SCORED
Creamery Men Say Enforcement of
Wisconsin Statute Will Force
Plants to Close.

Green Bay.-The law requiring
butter to contain 80 u per cent but
terfat was declared unjust and a.
great disadvantage to Wisconsin's
creamery owners by buttermakers at
the convention here, and action will
be taken to have the state law done
away with and national law passed
providing for butter to contain but
80 per cent butterfat 1t was said if
the Wisconsin law is enforced it will
be the means of closing all Wisconsin
creameries, as buttermakers in near
by states are paying less for cream
and making butter containing but 80
per cent butter fat. The following
were prize winners in the state con-
test: /. w. Stryker, Nashota, first;
H. H. Whiting, Cedarburg, second;
Harry D. Nichols, Elkhorn, third; G.
P. Sauer, Cedarburg, fourth; John
Schiller. New Holstein, fifth; H. e.
Griffith, Mount Horeb, sixth; f. c.
Thompson. East Troy, seventh; f. V.
Merrytield, Troy Center, eighth; w.
R. Nichols, Amery, ninth; r. o. Brye,
Readstown, tenth.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
MAY OPEN UP RESERVATION
Governments Decision to Give Oneida
Indians Patents in Fee Viii Pos
sibIy Bring White Settlers.

Green Bay.-The Indian Office has
announced it's purpose to issue pat
ents in fee to all Oneida Indians who
may be recommended as competent
to care for their own affairs and
Supt. Hart has been directed to pre-
pare list of such persons.
Of the $1,000 acres of the original
reservation, about 10000 acres are
still held under trust patents About
one-third of this land belongs to
estates and the remaining two-thirds
to the original allottees. This prob
ably will result in opening to white
settlers, big portion of the lands
now held by the Oneidas. The effect
of this order is to shorten by about
five years the trust period of twenty
five years which would otherwise ex-
pire in 1917.
The government school will be
closed in 1913.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
MANY DEATHS PREVENTABLE
State Board of Health, in Vital Sta
tistcs Report, Declares Lives
Needlessly Sacrificed.

Madison.-Valuing each life, &C
cOrding to the American table, at
$1,70O, the annual economic loss to
Wisconsin from easily preventable
infectious and contagious diseases
and violence, which are classified as
preventable causes, amounts to $751;
059,9OO. This conclusion is reached
in the mortality report for 1911 is
sued by the state bureau of vital sta
tistics. Deaths from the above named
preventable causes, according to the
report numbered 9447 in 1911, or
34.3 per cent of the total.
The report shows that the annual
death rate is Ill per 1000. During
the calendar year, 1926 deaths, ex-
elusive of stillbirths, were recorded
with the bureau. The death rate
noted is based on an estimated popu-
lation for 1911 of 2,358,293.
Pneumonia again leads in the list
of causes of death, there being ZIG
more deaths from pneumonia than
from all other forms of tuberculosis.
The death rate for tuberculosis per
100000 population for 1908 was
1O3.1O; for 1909, 1929; for 1910,
1925, and for 1911, 1922. This
does not show any material decrease
in the number of deaths from tuber-
culosis, but it is proof that the dis
ease is not increasing in prevalence.
Important causes of death with the
number of deaths from each disease
during 1911 were as follows: Pull
monary tuberculosis, zoos; other tu-
berculosis, 4O7; typhoid fever, 299;
diphtheria, 1872; scarlet fever, 1877;
measles, 1854: whooping cough, 1866;
pneumonia, 1928; diarrhoea, $50;
meningitis, 400; influenza, 159; pu-
erperal septicemia, 800; cancer,
1914; violence, 1862; still births,
1892.
Among the deaths from violence,
the following causes with the num-
Der from each cause are shown: Sui
eide, 289; railroad accidents, $50:
accidental drowning, 240; gunshot
wounds, 95; accidental burns and
scalds, go; homicides, 35; street car
accidents, 81; automobile accidents,
%; lightning, IT; sunstrokes, rs;
cyclones and tornadoes, 6.
Twenty-eight deaths were record
ed from infantile paralysis, two from
smallpox, one from hydrophobia, one
from trichinosis, four from pellagra,
and two from lead poisoning.
Five thousand two hundred and
sixty, or 1913 per cent of the total
deaths reported were among persons
under 1 year of age.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
OFFICIALS AND FORMER OFF,
GALS OF IRON WORKERS
UNION ARE DETAINED ALL
OVER COUNTRY.
RESULTS OF DYNAMITE
INVESTIGATION
Prisoners Accused of Conspiring
Against "Open Shop Contractors"
Frank M. Ryan and Herbert
Hockin, Chief Officers,
Held i'm Case.

Indianapolis, Ind. The United
Indianapolis, Feb. 15.-The United
States government caused the arrest
of almost all of the "a men indicted
in the alleged dynamite conspiracy
cases.
1t took into custody within a few
hours practically the entire staff of
the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Workers, in
Guiding the chief officers, members of
the executive board and about 20 bust
ness agents and former business
agents.
These included Frank M. Ryan, the
president; John T. Butler of Buffalo,
N. Y, the first vice president, and
Herbert S. Hockin, the second vice
president and successor of J. ]. Nc
Namara as secretary-treasurer, and
each of these men was required to
give $4,000 bond for his appearance
for arraignment here with all the
other defendants on March IL.
By its action the government re-
vealed the Identities of the men whom
ii rrhn~"ne with hnin@ tho nooorn Mi cnc
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
HOGE IS FREED OF
MURDER CHARGE
Aged OC0n0m0Woc Man F0nnd
Not Guilty Of Staying Wife.
JURY OUT FUR MINUTES
Quick Return of Verdict at Waukesha
Meets the Approval of Courtroom
Spectators - Trial One of Most
Dramatic in Wisconsin History.

Waukesha.-Oneo of the most dra-
matte trials ever held in Wisconsin
came to close here when the jury,
after four minutes elaboration, ac-
quilted August Hoge, aged SO, of the
charge of numbering his wife. The
trial lasted five days.
When the foreman announced the
Jurys verdict, the aged defendant
was the first to break the silence
Murmuring "Danka schoen, danka
schoen," over and over, the broken
and feeble figure clasped the arm of
the judge. The courtroom buzzed
it's approval.
On November IA last Mrs. Hoge
was found dead in bed in the cottage
at Oconomowoc, where the couple
lived alone. Her head had been
crushed by a blow from a hammer
Suspicion rested on the husband and
he was arrested after telling con-
f1icting stories.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
OSHKOSH TEACHERS MEET
Northeastern State Association Gives
Approval of Retirement Fund Law
-Mclver Elected President.

Oshkosh.-TheN Northeastern Wis
consin Teachers association closed
it's annual convention here with the
election of the following officers:
President, Supt. M. N. McIver, Osh-
kosh; vice president, M. r. Stanley,
Oconto; secretary, Lydia HOLMAN,
Green Bay; treasurer, H. B. Patch,
Oshkosh, county superintendent.
The resolutions, among other
things, extends to the legislature of
the state, vote of appreciation for
it's passage of the teachers retire
ment fund. Another resolution de-
clares in favor of woman's suffrage.
Wisconsin gives a complete ele-
mentary education to greater pro-
portion of her children than does any
of the neighboring states, according
to figures presented before the con-
vention by DR.. Leonard p. Ayres, di-
rector of the divisions of education
and statistics of the Russell Sage
Foundation, New York.
He said that among six states stud
led, Wisconsin ranks first in the pro-
portion of pupils who are carried
through to the eighth grade. In Wis
consin the proportion completing the
grades is 81; in Massachusetts, 60;
Iowa and Illinois come next with So
each; in Michigan the percentage is
Sc and in New York state Sc
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
MARINETTE FIREMEN HURT
Two Injured by Falling Roof While
Fighting Flames That Wrecked
Helm Wagon Works.

Marinette.-Thep plant OF the Helm
Carriage works was destroyed by fire
which also damaged the residence Of
Mrs. James Moore and other build
ings in the vicinity. The loss is about
$4,000 with insurance of less than
half.
Seven automobiles in the carriage
works were destroyed together with
$4,000 worth of vehicles, including
Senator Stephenson's family car
riage.
Part of the roof of the burning
building fell on two of the firemen
and they were rescued with difficulty.
Herman Johnson, one of the firemen,
had four ribs broken and sustained
other injuries. He was taken to a
hospital. 1t is believed that he in
hailed flames and that his condition
is serious.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
$l25,0OO BLAZE IN
GAINESVILLE PLANT
Large Harness Factory Com
pletely Destroyed.
THREATEN RETAIL DISTRICT
Merchants Move Stocks of Goods to
Street-Frozen Hydrants Hamper
Fire Department in Starting Fight
Against the Flames.

Janesville.-The harness factory
of the Bassett Echlin Harness COM
pany was destroyed by fire which
for an hour threatened the entire re-
tail district of the city
The loss will be between $125, 900
and $4,000, the harness concern
being the heaviest loser
Two buildings owned by Bostwick
& Tate were burned.
The blaze was discovered in the
cellar room of the factory, which
was over a boiler and filled with in
f1ammable material
A frozen hydrant hampered the
work of firemen and the department
lost all control of the flames for a
time. AS result the Bostwick &
Tate buildings caught fire and the
flames began spreading in several di-
rections.
A panic ensued among merchants
near the factory and the stocks OF
several stores We're taken into the
street. When the walls of the burn
ing factory fell, fire was scattered
throughout the district.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
.LAFOLE7TE IS NOT A GUTTER
BADGER SENATOR DENIES RE-
PORTS THAT HE HAS QUIT.
North Dakota Newspaper Prints De-
NAL From the Wisconsin
Senator.

Fargo. Feb. 14.-In answer to a
message from the Courier-News, q
North Dakota progressive newspaper,
Robert NJ La Toilette, in a statement
from Washington, states his position
with regard to his reported withdraw
al from the presidential race, and re-
garding his alleged breakdown in
health The statement says:
I'm response to your kilograms |
will say to the Progressive Republi-
cans of North Dakota that the re-
ports that | have withdrawn as can
didate are false and the statements
regarding my health as gross misrep-
reservations. They are part of the
pressure brought to bear to force me
from the contest which | willingly I'M
dertook at time when no one else
could be induced to make the fight.
Il have overtaxed my strength and
require a few weeks rest, which l
shall take, and return with renewed
vigor to the struggle for thorough go
ing progressive principles. l want the
support of delegates who are ready to
win or lose, if need be, in the interests
of a great cause, without compromise
and without entering into any deals
or combinations.
Let me, through you, assure the
voters of North Dakota that | shall,
as always, keep faith with them and
with supporters in other states, and
shall remain a candidate, steadfast to
the end.
"ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE"
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
STATE MAY GET ISLANDS
Government Proposes to Turn Over
Hundreds of Smaii Tracts to
State of Wisconsin.

Washington, d. C.-Several hun
dred small islands in the numerous
lakes at the headwaters of the Wis
consin and Chippewa rivers will be
turned over to the state of Wisconsin
by the federal government within
short time to be included in the state
forest reserve if the plan now on foot
is carried out.
The committee on public lands of
the house has recommended that the
grant be made and the secretary of
the interior has recommended the
transfer, so there is no apparent OBJ
stacle in the way of the passage of
the measure to carry out the project
of Representative Morse.
In it's report recommending the
passage of the bill the committee on
public lands has been even more gen.
erous than it was expected to be and
has amended the bill to give the state
of Wisconsin the right to permit the
erection of cottages on the little ISL
ands and has stricken out the res
ervation to the effect that they shall
be used only for forest purposes.
The state now has ATE, 900 acres
of land set aside for forestry pur-
poses, nearly all of which was Sc
cured by purchase, and in appropriate
ing $4,000 year, to increase the
size of the state forests.
This state forest reserve is on the
headwaters of the Wisconsin and
Chippewa rivers. Within the bound
aries of this reserve are several hun
dred beautiful little inland lakes.
Within those little lakes are between
500 and 400 islands now owned by
the federal government, which are
sought to be acquired by this BILL
These islands vary in size from few
square rods each to about ten acres
and average about two acres each.
The total area is little less than 500
acres. These islands are not suitable
for agricultural uses, as nearly all of
them are rough and rocky and too
small for homesteads. The cost of
surveying them would be much
greater than the amount that could
be secured by the government if they
were disposed of under any existing
law.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
FOUND DYING IN POTATO CAR
Fond du Lac Police Investigate Fatal
injuries to Emil kronitz, Post
master at Embarrass.

Fond du Lac-Emil Kronitz, aged
As, postmaster of the village of En-
barass, Waupaca county, was found
unconscious with his skull crushed in
a potato car in the Northwestern
yards here and died a few hours
later. The authorities are making an
investigation to ascertain if he was
murdered or was killed by being
in charge of two cars of potatoes,
consigned to Albert G. Miller of Chi
cago. When he left Embarrass he
had $40, which was found in his
clothes when the body was discov-
cred.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Fur Merchant Held for Forgery.

Appleton. A. Abrahams of Sey-
mour, president of the Abrahams Fur
company, now in bankruptcy court at
Green Bay, was arrested here on a
charge of forging bill of lading. He
pleaded not guilty, and was immedi-
ately released on $4,000 bond. The
complaint was filed by Charles r.
Prosser, cashier of the Seymour
State bank, the bill of lading, accord
ing to the complaint, having been
passed on that institution on Nov. 6,
1911
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Plan Live Stock Train.

Madison.-A committee of the
Wisconsin Live Stock Breeders as
ISOLATION met at the capital to formu-
late plan for running a special train
on the Northwestern road for edu-
cational purposes, especially in the
newer sections Of the state. 1t is
proposed to demonstrate the wisdom
of developing only the best type Of
live stock of all kinds.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16

does not specify the part taken by
the other defendants
All of the defendants are named in
each of the 80 indictments and accord
ing to District Attorney Miller, SEN
fences may be imposed for each of the
offenses. 1t is the contention of the
government that each of the defen-
dants was guilty in each of the con-
spiracy charges, although his active
participation may have been in one
transportation only.
There are IA indictments charging
overt acts and Ia charging unconsum-
mated acts of conspiracy. Another in
dictment of "a counts charges all the
defendants as being principals in the
transportation of nitro lycerin.
A further indictment of "a counts
charges McManigal and J. B. McNa-
mara with physical transportation of
nitro-glycerin and all the other code
PENDANTS with abetting.
Two other remaining indictments,
with 16 counts each, charge all the de-
PENDANTS with being principals in the
transportation of dynamite and with
having aided McManigal and j. B. Nc
Namara
Altogether, the indictments contain
1913 counts against each of the defend
ants and the penalty for any one of
the offenses varies from Is months to
two years in prison.
Sixty-five of the explosions consid-
cred in the indictments were on work
of members of the National Erectors'
association, an organization of open
shop employers, and 81 explosions or
attempts were on work of contractors
who were not members of the erectors'
association.
More than 800 witnesses from Bos-
ton to Los Angeles and from Duluth to
points in Tennessee were examined.
The investigation was directed to the
matter of conspiracies to commit of
lenses against the laws of the United
States and the transportation of dyna-
mite and nitro-glycerin as defined
and made punishable by the various
acts of congress of 1886. 1908 and 1909.
UNION MEN ARRESTED.
Indianapolis.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Sunnort for Bows Schools.

Racine.-The Manufacturers asso-
citation of Racine has agreed to sup
port industrial schools recently in
stalled here. 1t is the intention to
secure employment for boys between
the ages of IA and 16 years, but later
to have them attend the Industrial
school five hours each week.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Ice Is Three Feet Thick.

Fond du Lac.-While cutting ice
in Lake Winnebago off the shore of
Winnebago park, preparatory to
dropping the framework of the big
breakwater, it was discovered that
the ice had attained a thickness OF
three feet. This is declared to be a
record thickness by the farmers along
the lake shore who yearly harvest
ice
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
GEORGIA Neuroes Are For Taft.

Atlanta, Feb. 15.-President Taft
was given unanimous Endorsement by
the Republican state convention which
met here and seected delegates at
large to the national convention. Ne
groes composed more than half of the
membership of the convention.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
viii Spend $4,000 on Roads.

Ashland.-By action of the county
board in authorizing the issuance of
$4,000 for ten year bonds Ashland
county will do the most extensive ma
cadam road building during the COM
ing summer ever attempted in north
ern Wisconsin. In addition to the
proceeds of these bonds the county
board also appropriated $4,000 in
cash
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
THE MARKETS
Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis. Feb. 15.-Wheat, May
s1.05ss; july, $1.05 Is No. l northern
$1.o64; No. 2 northern. s1.04A; No.
durum, 1902; No. corn, 66c; No !
white oats, 4sc; barley, mailing, s1.27;
No rye. SSc; No 1 flax. $2.07A
Duluth. Feb. 15.-Wheat, May
s1.o4M; July, $1.05b; No; | northern
$1051s; No. l durum, $1.02A.
South st. Paul, Feb. 15.-Cattle
steers, s5.00@6.S5; cows. $3.25@5.50;
calves $300@4.00; hogs, s5.90@605
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
CHINESE TO CELEBRATE
Election of New President Suggested.
Yuan Favored.

Nankin, China. = A message will
be sent to the assembly from the
president and cabinet of China. re-
questing that they be relieved from
their duties, that the assembly elect a
new president for the whole republic
and that Feb. Is be proclaimed a holi-
day for the celebration of the estab-
lishment of the republic. President
Sun and his ministers recommend the
election of Yuan Shi Kai
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-02-16
Thomson Appointed Regent.

Madison.-Gov. McGovern has ap-
pointed George Thompson, Ellsworth,
to be normal school regent in place
of Freeman H. Lord, resigned. The
term expires the first Monday in Feb
ruary, 1914.