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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
When Your Play Goes to Rehearsal

When your play goes into rehearsal
1t is the child Of your fancy adventur-
Ing obviously among ruffians. The
actors, | dare say, feel like doctors
trying to save a ricketty child. The
artist must be an egoist, and the ac-
tors violate the egoism. In playwrit-
ing it is impossible to maintain the
austerity of your vision, impossible
even to persuade yourself that it may
be maintained. The theater is fas-
cinating. but I can imagine that
writer of plays might conceive a dis
taste for it. He might write his plays
for the stage and then jealousy guard
them from performance There would
be more Of this, perhaps, if it were
not rather difficult to get plays pro-
duced; those who would remain aloof
are very readily taken at their word
A. n Monkhouse.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
To Better Prison Conditions.

Madison.-A plan of large scope
for the betterment of the Industrial
side of the prisons of Wisconsin,
will be worked out by the state board
Of public affairs. E. Stage Within
of New York, secretary of the ma
tional prison labor committee, is here
to make a systematic study of prison
labor conditions at the state prisons
and penal institutions and will re-
port to the board. The recommended
lions will be along constructive lines,
aimed to make the prisons more like
industrial trade schools.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
PROMISE BROKEN BY MANCHUS
Situation in China Grows Serious-Ad-
vice OF Reactionaries Is Accented

Situation in China Grows Serious-Ad-
vice OF Reactionaries Is Accepted.
Peking.-Premier Yuan Shi Kai's
efforts to bring about the abdi-
cation of the throne have failed, and
the situation in China has entered a
new and perplexing phase.
The empress dowager, being reluct'
ant to abdicate, has accepted the ad-
vice of the reactionary princes.
Yuan Shi Kafs bluffing is becoming
obvious. He has held special trains
ready for several days for his depar-
ture, but now that the Manchus have
accepted his challenge he remains at
Peking. He has asked for further So
called sick leave, indicating that he
has no intention of relinquishing the
premiership.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Attack Northwestern Mail Trains

shkosh.-Because mail trains on
tinuously late this winter, Postmas-
ter Crane has warned Vice-President
Ashton that unless the service is i'm
proved he will recommend to the fed
eral postal department that the mail
be transferred from the Northwestern
road, which has carried it for forty
years, to the 500 line, whose trains
have been fairly on time despite the
severe winter.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
SEES BENEFIT TO PUBLIC
Wickersham Says Tobacco Competi
ton Will Follow Dissolution.

Washington. : Attorney General
Wickersham declares that public
interests have been subserved and
competition will be restored I'M
der the reorganization of the tobacco
trust" adopted as the result OF the
decision of the United States Supreme
court dissolving the corporation.
Mr.. Wickersham was a witness be-
fore the senate committee on judi
ciary in executive session. He ex-
pressed the foregoing opinion when
urged to give reasons why the govern
ment had not appealed from the re-
organization plans approved by the
circuit court for the southern district
of New York.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
kELLoeG's BRIDE SUICIDES.

Poisons Herself Because Husbands
Father Opposed Marriage to Son.
Battle Creek, Mich. - Because
her father-in-law, DR.. j. H. Kel-
logg, the sanitarium founder, opposed
her wedding, Mrs. Paul Kellogg,
twenty-six years old. swallowed poi
son and died within few minutes.
Her husband, Paul Kellogg. was
adopted by DR.. Kellogg, as baby.
and had been sent to Tennessee
school to study, being only nineteen
years old. Three months ago DR.. kel-
logg sailed for Europe to spend the
winter, and Paul Immediately left
school, married Miss Bertha Gardner.
seven years his senior. and came
here.
The young couple were denied a
place in the Kellogg residence
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
DUST BLAST CAUSE UNKNOWN
Men Killed in Wyoming Mine Are All
Americans.

Kemmerer, Wyo.-The cause of the
Ndust explosion in mine No. of the
Kemmerer Coal company, which
caused the death of five men
and the injury of Is others, has not
been determined.
The dead were all Americans Nine
of the more seriously injured were
removed to a hospital at Rock
Springs, Wyo.
The explosion occurred in what is
known as the second north" entry.
100 feet from the main slope and
1000 feet from the surface
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Committee Cites Knox.

Washington.-Sec Knox was
served with a subpoena at the capitol
to appear before the house committee
on state department expenditures to
| explain the secret fund" expendi-
lures for the Lake Champlain cele-
bration in 1909
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Aviator Pace Is Killed.

Dominguez Aviation Field, CAL
Aviator Rutherford Page, flying
Curtiss aeroplane, fell 100 feet here
and received injuries from which he
died in few minutes. Page is said
to be a wealthy New Yorker and
graduate from Yale
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Onalaska Water Tower Falls.

Onalaska.-The falling of the
standpipe at the Onalaska water
plant leaves the city practically
stripped of fire protection as we'll as
facing coal famine The standpipe
broke about thirty feet from the
ground, but in order to repair it all
the water had to be removed.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Declares for Government Ownership

Declares for Government Ownership.
Albany, N. "a concurrent resolu-
ton declaring for government owner
ship of the telegraph system rs rec
commended by Postmaster General
Hitchcock was introduced in the as
sembly by Assemblyman Cuvillier of
New York
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Church Is Sixty Years Old

La Crosse.---Sixty years old and
the biggest English Protestant con-
gregation in LIE Crosse, the First
congregational church celebrated it's
anniversary, with appropriate exer-
cises.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
IOWA HEROINE is DEAD
Woman Who Saved Train Succumbs
onc IIInecc

After Long Illness.
Boone, la.-Miss Kate Shelly,
Iowa's heroine, who in 1881, at
great personal risk, saved a passenger
train from being wrecked, is dead at
the age of forty-tive years at her home
near the scene of her heroic deed.
Miss Shelly had suffered greatly
since last summer, when an operation
for appendicitis was followed by an
attack of Bright's disease, but she
was as brave in the face of death as
when she won renown.
The deed which placed Kate Shell
ly's name in the list of heroines was
a bright example of the courage of
fifteen-year-old girl who saved lives of
passengers on a limited train on the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Inauourate Hjbben in Nav

Princeton, N. 1.-THE inauguration
of President John Grier Hibben Of
Princeton university will take place
early In Mav Representative of all
the important universities and learned
societies will attend.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
italy Asks Hague RuIinu.

Paris.-The Italian government has
proposed to the French government
the submission to The Hague tribunal
of all the questions relative to the
recent seizure of the French steamers
Carthage and Manouba.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Women to Have Paper.

New York.-Believing that women
should have a fairer representation in
the news of the day. Mrs. Oliver H.
P. Belmont is planning to start daily
newspaper, which will be devoted
entirely to their interests and man
aged by women.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Is Talk Really Cheapo

Talk is cheap" commented the
;eady-made philosopher.
That remark" replied Senator Sor-
gum, proves that you have never up.
dertaken to pay the travelling ex
penses and hotel bills Of a party OF
campaign orators"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Edward r. Perkins Is Dead

East Orange, N. Edward r. Per
kins, vice. president of the New York
Life Insurance company, and brother
OF George w. Perkins, is dead at his
home here, following an operation for
appendicitis He was born in Chicago
forty-four years ago.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Complains of Meals: Dismissed.

Syracuse, n. Y.-Miss Elizabeth
Ewarts of California, junior, was
dismissed from Syracuse university
here by Chancellor Day. Her name
headed a petition complaining of the
meals served in Haven hall.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Slight Modific alton.

Competition is the life of trade"
said the business man.
sOf course it is" replied Mr.. Dustin
Stax. "Only we want to get trade so
regulated that folks will be compel
ing for a chance to buy instead of a
chance to SELL
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26

Superior.-The commission form
of government was adopted in SUI
perior by a vote of 1,606 to 1,412.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Goes Broke TO Save Doc.

Kansas City, Mo.-Rather than
sacrifice his dog, E. c. Buskirk. a car
penter, paid his last $50 for license
for the animal which once saved his
child's life. Mr.. Buskirk has been
sick and unable to work.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
VETERAN STATESMAN is ILL
representative L. p. LIVINGSTON of
Georgia Believed to Be DYING.

Georgia Believed to Be Dying.
Washington, D. C.--Leonidas P.
Livingston, the veteran Georgia legis-
lator and picturesque member of the
house of representatives for a quar-.
ter of a century, is critically ill and is
believed to be dying. For twenty
years Uncle Lon" was J member of
the house from Georgia He was eigh-
ty years old when defeat came at the
hands of a younger man-just at the
time when the Democrats came into
power. His Georgia relatives have
been telegraphed for/end his former
political associates have been notified
of his probable passing
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
YALE'S HOME WANTS FIGHT
New Haven Offers $4,000 for John
son-FIynn or PaIzer Battle.

SOn-FIyhn OF PdIZer BATHS,
New Haven, Conn.-Jack johnson
has been offered $4,000 to fight
either Jim Flynn or AL Palzer in
this city July 4. The proposition has
been made to the heavyweight cham
pion by Harmar Bronson, a local mil
lionaire, and he has asked Police Chief
Cowles for permission to stage the
bout in the arena at Lighthouse Point,
where the Connecticut league mines
play Sunday baseball The chief has
given several permits for fights during
the winter, out none for the out of
door season. He has promised to con-
slider the Offer. Meanwhile Bronson
is waiting to hear from Johnson.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Two Rivers Loses Landmark.

Manitowoc.-The oldest landmark
of Two Rivers was effaced by fire
when the LIE Mere property, erected
sixty odd years ago and the first
frame building in the city, was
burned.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Deny Princess Is to Be Wed.

Berlin.-Betrothal of Princess Vic
toria Luise, only daughter of En-
peror William, to the Grand Duke
Adolph Frederick of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz, is semi-officially denied.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Cleveland Has s15o,ooc fire.

Cleveland, O.-The Route e Jen-
nings buildings at the northwest cor
ner of Superior avenue and the public
square were destroyed By fire here.
The loss is S150,00O.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Superseded.

do you think eloquence is as much
in request as 1t used to be-"
NO" replied Senator Sorghum
Nowadays prizes are given for avia-
ton and not for flights of oratory"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Declare Porter Charlton Sane

New York.-Porter Charlton who
murdered his wife, is perfectly sane,
according to the district attorney Of
Hudson county. New Jersey, and the
Jail officers. He is enjoying zp,encid
health
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Shuster Reaches Paris

Paris.-W. Morgan Shuster, former
treasurer general Of Persia. who was
expelled at the behest of Russia, has
arrived here on his way home to the
United States.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Asks 100000 for Airsnips.

Paris.-'The French government has
decided to ask the chamber of dep
uties for an appropriation OF $4,000
00C for tbs construction Of aeroplanes
for mit .zsy purposes.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Former Legislator Dead.

Watertown.-For Mayor Ed
win Rack, aged "a, a prominent
business man for forty years and at
one time a member of the assembly,
is dead of apopleXy.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
De+ectiv. Guilty of Murder.

Evansville, Ind.-William Wilson,
stxty-seyen. detective, was found
euilty of the murder of William j.
Walters of Paducah. KY, in this city
last November.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
"Motor Ice Boat" Goes Fast.

Rochester, N. "a motor ice boat,
built along the general lines of an ice
boat, but fitted with an aeroplane en-
CINE and propeller, has attained a
speed of nearly 140 miles an hour in
tests on Irondequoit bay.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Woman Undertaken Dead.

La Crosse.-Mrs. Theodore Man
stedt, La Crosses only woman I'M
dertaker, who had officiated at hun
dreds of funerals, is dead, aged As,
from blood poisoning.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
No DANGER.

Peevish Person Tin crowded carr
Madam, you have pficked my cheek
with that barbarous hatpin!
Stylish Woman-Don't be alarmed
sir. / sterilize it every day.-Judge
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
Chicago, Jan. "a, 1912.

Cattle-Beeves, 4.S00S.4O; stock
ers and feeders, 1915 "a 500; COWS,
and heifers, 2.25 q $50; calves,
6.00@9.OO.
Hogs-Light, 5.55 6.1O; heavy,
5.S5 $3.50; rough, 5.S5 a COS; pigs,
4.25Q5.5O.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26

Minneapolis, Jan. "a, 1912.
Wheat-No. l, hard, 1853; No.
l, northern, LOS y; No. 2, northern,
1.O3 IL. Corn-No. 8, yellow, csc
Oats1ANo 3, white, AZ z Rye-No.
2, soc.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
TWO CITIES FOR BOARD RULE
Commission Form of Government
Wins by Narrow Margins at SUI
perior and GAINESVILLE Polls.

anesville.-Janesville adopted the
commission form of government by
a majority of 204. The result fol-
lowed warm contest at the polls.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-01-26
INDIANS GET CARNEGIE AID
Ironmaster Offers $85o,0oO to Build
Home at Washington.

Washington, D. C.-Andrew Car
negie has found a new outlet for his
generosity. He has offered to contrib
ute $S50,000 for the erection here of
magnificent home to be used as the
headquarters of the Federation Of
North American Indians, recently or
gained
Arizona republican., 1912-03-12

in the city when the bank was started. except l.. II. Chalmers. q director. It is a good illustration of the con- stant change that is going on in q new country.
 In order tO meet the needs of the valley and numerous of it's patrons the management of the bank little over a year ago organized the PhOe- nix Savings Bank and Trust Co. to give the people an exclusive savings bank and for the purpose of negO- tiating loans on real estate which a national bank cannot do. That in stitutiOn has q capital and surplus of S150.000 and it's officers and board are identical with those of the Phoe- nix National except that w C. Eos ter has charge in managerial capa- city. This bank held directors meeting yesterday also. electing w. $. Humbert to succeed w. F. Staunton, as was done by the National bank, that the uniformity of management might be preserved
Arizona republican., 1912-03-12
MEN
 JET TOGETHER
Alumni Association Formed Yesterday at a Luncheon - Movement to Help Young Men Desiring to Enter University.

The Princeton Alumni Association Of Arizona was organized yesterday at luncheon held in the Hotel Ad- ans at which there were present: $. F. Hazelhurst. class Of '73; F.. T. Richardson. class of 'SS: Nelson Brad ley. class of '91. w. Ii. McCOrd, class Of O2; W. F. Sellers. class of '03; H D. Marshall Jr.. class of '05.
 Mr. Richardson was elected pres ident and Mir Sellers secretary of the association. Though the membership is not large it is known that there are numerous Princeton men in this section and they are urged to reveal themselves and join the association.
 The purpose of the new orgamiza . tiCn is to promote fellowship and ac- Guaintance among Princeton graduates and to do all possible in helping yOung men who are dcsirous of en- tering q university. in every way the graduates Of the school can. It is even planned to go so far as to as sist young men of good standing who are not financially able to enter d university. in financing themselves for such an undertaking.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-12
JAPANESE STUDY "vAIOR OF
 IGNORANCE"

Gen. Homer Lea's book "The Valor of Ignorance" il will be remembered. was translated a short time ago into Japanese. Word has just come from friends in the east that the Japanese translation has gone through twenty editions within thirty days and that the publisher there expects it to go to one hundred editions in six months an absolutely unprecedented sale in that country. It happens that this week a lecturer Tt the Royal Colonial Institute in London. who talked Of the Pacific ocean as the strategic center of mankind, endorsed Gen. Lea's opinion of the possibility of a Japanese invasion of America But Gen. Lea has remarked in The Valor of Ignorance" that the interests of European nations in the Pacific are only tentative. The standardization of power in the Pacific is impossible to any nation other than China. Japan or the United States. since such power would be without and far removed from the geographical, poli- ticaL and military interests of any nation other than these" Gen Lea is Tt present in China. in close connec- ton with President Sun Yat-Sen of the provisional republic.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-12
TENS OF THOUSANDS
 GET WAGE ADVANCE
Proposal by Textile Companies to ln- crease Pay Will Affect Vast
 Numbers of Hands.

1 .4SSocidtcd Press Disbatchl
 BOSTON. March ll.-It is estimated tonight that a hundred and fifty thousand cotton and wooden mill oper- atives in northern New England will share in the advance in wages at least five per cent before April l. Advices received here indicate the manufac- turers of Fall River and elsewhere in southern New England are consider ing the advisability of meeting the in- crease decided upon by the mills hay ing their head offices in Boston. should the thirty thousand operatives of Fall River and a like number in New Bedford be given higher wager, manufacturers at other points south feel it would be policy to take similar action. An advance in all the New England textile districts would affect directly more than q quarter of a mill lion people. Considerable unrest eX- ists. Mill foremen Of Fall River met tonight tO discuss demand for high CT wages. Many unions will take up the discussion during the week There has been no change in wages there since 1908, and some manufacturers say privately they expect to grant a five per cent increase April l. Notice of the five per cent raise was posted today in Maine and New Hampshire in cotton mills employing forty five thousand hands. the increase dating from today. Mills in various Massa- chusetts towns advanced the pay of about eleven thousand hands.
Arizona republican., 1912-03-12
J|LTfD GIRL SHOOTS
 REAL ESTATE DEALER
Then Tries to Kill Herself But is Re. strained by Partner of
 He- Victim.

| ASSOciated Press DisbQtchl
 LOS ANGELES, March 11.-J. Ed ward Edge, young musician and real estate dealer. was shot anu instantly killed by Viola Carver. 23, clerk in a music sore, and a recent arrival from Tacoma. Miss Carver waited this ev- ening until Edge left his office in the Consolidated Realty building. and shot him in the corridor She then attempted to kill herself but was frustrated by Edges partner Edge was the same age as his slayer Their acquaintance is said to have begun through purchases of music at a store where the young woman was en- ployed. A few days ago Edge is said to have told her her attentions were unwelcome. Tn her cell tonight she de clared she could not live without him and begged tO he allowed 70 kill her self
Arizona republican., 1912-03-12
TWO FELloWSHiPS OPEN.

The Presbyterian Board of Home Missions announces two felIowshipS of s1,OO each and expenses. the holders tO go tO Europe to study immigration at it's cradle. and then to return tO the United States tO work at least three years for immigrants and their well fare at this end. under the direction of the board. one Of the men select ed will be sent to Poland alli Russia for two years and the other to Italy and the Balkans for d year and q half. There will not be competitive examin- atiOns. but consideration Of the gen eral fitness of all candidates. Such candidates need not be Presbyterian ministers. but must be men acceptable to Presbyterians, and to have had adc- quite training.
 The plan is part of q thorough policy adopted by this and other home mission boards, concerning immigra- ton. country church. and similar lines of Christian effort. Two years ago three volunteers went to south eastern Europe at their own cost, studied rac- es and languages ana have since as sisted in the conduct Of Christian work for immigrants in America. Their ex- perience leads tO the placing of the training Of immigrant workers upon this thorough policy. There are in Presbyterian Seminaries about one hundred and fifty men of Europeon percentage. some of them of immigrant arrival. and it is assumed that the fellowship will be secured from their number Selection is not. however. re- Strictcd tO them.