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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21

BRINGS Out UnfavorabIe Points as
to His Sanity.
EXPERT ALlENISTS ON STAND
Number of Witnesses Testify That
They Believe Slayer of Stanford
White Is Sane and
Rational

New York, June 19.-In the first
session of his third fight to secure his
release from the Matteawan asylum
for the insane, Harry K. Thaw on Mon
day met with reverses that do not au-
CUR well for the securing Of his free
DOM
William Travers Jerome, who twice
prosecuted Stanford Whites slayer for
the crime itself and twice later pre-
vented his being set at liberty, was
again the master Of the situation.
The former district attorney got one
Of the expert alienists, DR.. William A.
White, head Of the government asylum
for the insane at Washington, to swear
that in his belief that ThaW not only
Is sane now, but never was insane,
Then Jerome confronted Doctor White
with a sworn statement he made at
the first trial to the effect that Thaw
was absolutely insane when he shot
White.
Another alienist, DR.. Royal A. Leak
of the MatteaWan asylum, was obliged
to admit that Thaw has constitutions
al inferiority'' from which there is no
recovery, and that constitutional in
ferios" are one in ten paranoiacs and
that they are apt to commit homicide
while Influenced by alcoholic or other
excitement. These admissions seemed
to more than counterbalance Doctor
Leaks assertion that Thaw is, despite
his weakness, sane.
There were other unfavorable points
brought out by Jerome. There was a
charge by him that the Thaw inter
ests are hiding Susan Merrill, an i'm
portant state witness. But in spite Of
the turn of things Thaw remained as
cheerful and hopeful as ever. He is
relying on winning his own battle
when he takes the stand, although
twice previously Jerome has been the
victor in their duels. He is going to
let his attorney, Clarence ]. Shearn,
conduct his case and will not inter
fere as he has always done before.
Former Gov. w. A. Stone of Penn
sylvania, who represents the Thaw
family In civil affairs, testified that he
had interviews with Harry on bust
ness matters and found him perfectly
rational and competent.
President L. E. Holder of Wooster
university in Ohio, said he was an old
friend of the Thaw family; that Harry
had given him 1000 when his college
building was burned and that recently
he had visited the young man six
times and thought him perfectly ra-
tional.
DR.. H. Ernest Schmidt, a practicing
physician in White Plains for SO years
and recognized as an expert for
Bloomingdale, also considered Thaw
perfectly sane.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
WANTS LIMIT FOR
NEW STATE BANKS
State Commissioners Points Out
Defect of Present Laws.
CANNOT REFUSE APPROVAL
Thinks Many New Institutions Create
Needless and Unpr oftabIe Com
petition, Thus Menacing the Sta
blity of Financial Conditions.

Madison.-That there is a serious
defect in the banking law of Wis
sonsin, in that there is no adequate
provision whereby permission to or
ganize a new bank may be refused
by the department, is pointed out in
a recent report by Commissioner of
Banking A. E. Kuolt. The commits
sioner declares that the number of
banks, flfty-six, organized during
the year 1911, is out of proportion
to the resent needs of the state.
while some of these new banks
were needed in new communities"
says Commissioner Kuolt, cor in
places which have outgrown their
banking facilities, others, located
where such facilities are adequate to
existing business, create needless and
Improbable competition. Untram-
meled competition is a menace to the
stability of the affected banks. Since
it is the intention of bank regulation
to strengthen, and unnecessary COM
petition weakens, the need arises of
some rule to restrict competition"
huOlL pOiAlo OuI
that under the provisions of the ma
tional bank act the comptroller of
the currency is clothed with power
to refuse charters to new banks for
cause. He says that the only statu-
tory provision in Wisconsin for the
refusal of the prescribed certificate
of authority to commence business is
contained in section 2024-12 of the
code and is inadequate both as to
cause and time of refusal. The cause
spefiiced must be that the bank has
been formed for other than legiti-
mate banking business" Other valid
causes are not recognized by this
statute. The time falls upon the
date when the bank is ready to open
for business To refuse charter at
this eleventh hour would cause hard
ship and financial loss to stockhold-
ers, many of whom might be inno-
cent of any design to violate or to
circumvent the law.
"The power of refusal should De
coincident with the first overtures to
organize a new bank says the COM
missioner.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
DARROW TRIAL Is IN
DANGER OF COLLAPSE
Prosecutor Fredericks May Drop Case
Because of Ruling Made by
Judge Hutton.

Los Angeles, Cal. June 1.-THE
barrow bribery trial is in danger of a
collapse. District Attorney Freder-
icks, in a statement to the court on
Friday, intimates that If Judge Hutton
adheres to a ruling that he made per-
hitting the defense to interrupt the
states program by placing o. A.
TVeitmoe and Antoine Johannsen, the
labor leaders, on the witness stand to
testify that Clarence S. Darrow was in
no way connected with the spiriting
a~ay of Mrs. Flora Caplan. he may re-
fuse to proceed further In the case.
This peculiar tangle in, the trial
grows out of the earlier employment
Of Earl Rogers, Darrow's chief coun-
turers association to investigate the
destruction of the Los Angeles Times
building, and to attempt to capture
the dynamiters.
Rogers, in a statement Immediately
declared his position in this case had
become intolerable as the result Of
the courts recent ruling, which de-
Sioi GU ludC 6VIuSuCo OIL COlldl6T d.
crimes in the Mcnamara defense were
admissible. He stated he had not ex-
pected such evidence to be admitted
when he undertook the barrow de-
Tense.
Now, particularly in the Mrs Cap
Ian matter. he found himself in pos
session Of information which his client
ought to know, but which he would
not disclose to him. 1t was too late
for him to withdraw and let another
attorney be substituted He asked that
the court take some stand in the mat
ter which would relieve him Of this
lntolerable position. The specific
thing that he asked was that, In or
der that his client might come in pos
session Of these facts, the defense
should be permitted at this time to
put Johannsen and Tveitmoe, the la
Dor leaders, on the stand to testify
as to whether barrow had any con-
nection with the abduction from the
state Of Mrs Captain.
District Attorney Fredericks and AS
s1stant District Attorney Ford argued
vehemently against this proposal
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Fifteen DEAD IN
MISSOURI CYCLONE
Many Homes Are Destroyed in
Northern Part OF State.
WHOLE FAMILIES WIPED OUT
Usage Indian Reservation In OkIaho-
ma Also Visited by TWister and
Town of NeIagony Is
Destroyed

Kansas City, Mo-, June 1S.-Twenty
are known to be dead in Bates and
johnson counties, southeastern Mis-
souri,, where a tornado Saturday eve
ming moved down giant trees and de-
stroyed all homes in it's path oil
death, sixty miles long
The twister dipped to earth near
Lacygne, Kan. It's fury Increased as
1t sped northeast into Missouri, Dlot-
ting out whole families. venting It's
rage mostly on women and BABIES,
ending five miles northeast OF Drexel,
Mo.
AS IL to laugh at the diabolic havoc
wrought, the storm picked up the Gal
1oWay home tore its walls asunder,
scattered the timbers to the four
winds, stripped the mother, father and
child Of their clothing and left them
standing In the road, a hundred yards
from where their residence had stood
d minute before. The storms path
was fifty miles.
The storm had death wings. Few
were left uninjured. In the Cory
neighborhood were found many fea-
lures. The handle Of pitchfork was
found sticking in the top Of an oak
tree. Near here were found scores of
dead chickens, some of them without
feather left to their bodies The end
gate Of a wagon was found in the
Cory barnyard sticking In the hard
ground
A Kansas City Southern train of
nine cars was blown off the track
near Drexel and the train turned In
the opposite direction. Some OF the
cars standing, some on their sides and
backs, all off the track, including the
engine. 1t was a work train filled with
Greeks. One was killed and II hurt
Warrensburg, Mo, June ia tor
nado one-half mile wide swept north
eastward eight miles through south
ern johnson county and northern
Henry county. For five miles, from a
mile northeast Of Shawnee Mound,
Henry county, to mile south of Lee
ton, Johnson county, almost every
dwelling house was blown away.
The home of Don Carlos, one and a
half miles southeast Of Lection, was
killed in their beds. The home Of
the Misses Milmer was destroyed and
the two women were carried into a
plowed field, but were not hurt. Near
Sutherland. the home Of Guy Booth
was destroyed. Booth was killed and
his wife and two daughters, Blanche
and Ethel. were fatally injured.
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, June 18.-Three
were killed, one Of them being a priest,
who met his death while administer
Eng the last sacramento to one OF the
other victims. In a cyclone which
struck this city.
More than five hundred houses were
damaged and fifty families were rem
dered homeless by the storm. Scores
of narrow escapes were reported.
1t is estimated that the storm caused
monetary damage of more than $1,000
900.
Plain City. II miles west of Column
bus, was almost demolished and sew
eral persons are reported TO have been
injured
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
BIRD WOMAN FALLS TO DEATH
Miss Julia Clarke Is Killed at Spring
field ILL in Practice Eliuht

field, Ill.,, in Practice Flight
Springfield, H., June 19-In the first
aviation accident in which a woman
has figured Miss Julia Clarke OF Den
yer, Colo, was killed on Monday
in her initial fight at the state
fair grounds here A mishap 500
feet In the air caused her Cur
tiss biplane to shoot to earth
like bullet. The machine struck
and lodged in tree, but the
young woman was hurled from her
seat and her body horribly mangied by
the impact. The crowd who witnessed
the accident were horror stricken.
Grimly suspicious of the machine
which was alleged to have had an un-
lucky record, Miss Clarke left a note
requesting that if she were killed that
her body be taken to Denver for Gre
nation at the Riverside crematory and
that she be buried in Denver in
black dress
The flight was in practice prelimin-
airy to an exhibition to be given here
on Friday and Saturday.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
MACCABEES NAME OFFICERS
j. w. Brown, Stevens Point, Chosen
Great Commander at Madi-
son Encampment.

Madison.-At a meeting of dele
gates of the Knights of the Macca-
bees in great camp here, officers were
elected as follows:
Great commander, j. w. Brown,
Stevens Point; executive committee,
P. N. Schuengel, Milwaukee; Bert
Horton, Oshkosh; j. G.. Mackenzie,
Madison; auditors, A. d. Crandall,
Milwaukee; S. w. Swanson, Marin
cite; August Flug, Chippewa Falls.
The board of auditors passed upon
the accounts of the great camp and
reported that the order is in a -four
isfling condition, the Increase in
membership in the past three months
was more than double that of the
preceding quarter year. The mem
bership is now more than 1000 in
the state.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
SCRUB STOCK PR0FITLESS
Dairy Cow Competition at State Uni
varsity Shows Average Animal
PAYS for Feed Only.

Madison.-That the average cow
in Wisconsin just pays for her feed
is shown by the results OF the Wis
consin dairy COW competition, which
have been published in bull
letin of the college of agriculture of
the university.
BY proper feeding and manage
ment big profits can be secured from
good COWS, the bulletin states, but
nothing can be expected from
scrub" stock.
The COWS in the first prize herd en-
tered in the competition produced
1904 pounds of milk and their
average yield of butter fat was near
ly 600 pounds. Two-thirds Of all the
COWS entered produced over 400
pounds of butter fat in one year.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
ILLINOIS CONTEST is FILED.
Rainey Makes Objection to Seating
Delegates From goth District.

Oeie9ateS from EUth District.
Baltimore, Md, June 18.-Although
the Democratic national convention
will not assemble until June %, some
OF the delegates and committeeman
who are here are OF the opinion that
the convention may be extended be-
yond the time set for its adjournment,
owing to the prospect Of long-drawn-
out fight in the Republican convention
at Chicago.
Representative H. T. Rainey of Illi-
nois filed notice on Saturday with
Secretary Urey Woodson that the seat
Ing Of the two delegates and alter
mates from the Twentieth district of
Illinois will be contested, but makes
no mention On what grounds the con-
test will be founded.
Several national committeeman
have reached Baltimore. The first to
arrive was former Judge Martin J..
Wade Of Iowa City, Ia, who is mem
Der of the subcommittee on arrange
ments. He said the Iowa delegation
Is instructed for Clark.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
TAFT yETOES ARMY BILL
WITH GEN. WOOD CUSTER
President Sends Entire Measure Back
to Congress With Message OF
Disapproval.

Washington, June 19.-President
Taft on Monday vetoed the army
appropriation BILL carrying a pro-
Wood out of his office as chief
of staff The president returned
the bill to the house with a
sharp message on the propriety of at
taching special legislation to an ap-
preparation bill.
In his message the president said:
THE army of the United States is
far too vital an institution to the peo-
pie Of this country to be made the
victim Of hasty or imperfect theories
Of legislation. AS was pointed out by
the chairman Of the senate military
committee, it is we'll known that the
war college and the general staff
have been for many months engaged
upon g. comprehensive plan of army
reorganization
AT the present time, therefore, it
is especially inappropriate in my
opinion, to force upon the statute
books legislation enacted without the
usual deliberation and care | cannot
consciously surrender the responsible
1ty In shaping such laws with which
L am vested under the Constitution.
|, therefore, return to your honorable
body, without my approval, the said
bill"
The presidents fat declaration that
he was opposed to the enactment OF
legislation as a rider on an appropria-
| ton bill was taken as an indication
that he would also veto the legisla-
tive, judicial and executive bill, which
carries an amendment that would
abolish the commerce court
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
MEAT BOYCOTT ON INCREASE.
Fifty Thousand New York Families
Stop Use of Beef.

New York, June 1.-THE leaders Of
the movement to boycott meat among
the Jews Of the East side said that at
the noon hour on Friday there were
$4,000 families in the district who had
pledged themselves not to eat flesh
until prices are cut and that the num-
Der is swelling every hour.
OF the $500 butcher shops on the
East side only $50 are selling meat,
about 900 are combining their sales to
poultry and the remainder are closed
entirely, according to Mrs. Sadie Erd-
man, the leader in the movement.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
DEALS BLOW TO SHERMAN ACT
Attorney General Says Sundry Civil
Bill ReneaIS Antitrust [ AM


Washington, June 19.-The house
has SO amended the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill as virtually to repeal
the Sherman antitrust law, in the
opinion of Attorney General Wicker
sham, if the provision is finally enact
ed into law.
The amendment, 1t is said, would
legislate Jacob M. Dickinson, former
secretary Of war, out of the employ Of
the government, as its chief counsel
IN the steel trust suit and others.
The provision would forbid the at
torney general from using the sundry
civil appropriations for the payment Of
salary or allowance to any person
holding another position under the
government or who had been in the
federal employ during the preceding
two years.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
GIRL FREES MAN AS SLAYER.
Cannot Connect Suspect With Killing
of Eight in Iowa.

Monmouth, H., June 17.-DistrIct
Attorney Batcliff Of Villisca, Ia, &C
companied by Mrs Emma Van Glider
and her daughter Fay, arrived here on
Friday to see Joe Kicks, who is being
held for a possible connection with
the murder Of the Moore family at Viii
lisca, Sunday night. AS soon as the girl
saw Kicks she declared he was not the
man she had seen in Villisca 1t Is be-
lieved here Kicks had no connection
with the crime
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Give Standard Measure.

Wisconsin berry grow
ers and dealers are honestly comply
ing with the berry box law and the
regulations under that law as adj
weights and measures. Dairy and
Food Commissioner Emery says that
his agents report but little complaint
of failure.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
BAKER TO GET GATES GIFT.

Relatives Waive the Conditions At
taching to the $25o,ooo Request.
Aurora, H., June 15.-On the eve of
departing with Henry Baker, nephew
and heir of the late John W. Gates,
for California in the hope of his recov-
cry from tuberculosis, Mr.. and Mrs
Charles Gates, other heirs. have agreed
to give him the S250,000 left him by
his uncle without any Of the condi-
tons fixed Ill the Gates will One was
that the young man must complete his
college course still unmarried.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
BACK FROM VOLCANO AREA
Cutter McCuIIoch Reports Finding But
Two Dead in katmai

Seward, Alaska, June 19.-The rev.
enue cutter McCulloch arrived
here on Monday from Kodiak,
with the cheering news that con-
ditions in the district covered by
ashes from Katmai volcano are
much improved and that there is no
confirmation of reports of the heavy
loss of life on the mainland
All inhabitants at katmai, a main
land village near the volcano, are safe,
having been taken to Afognak
The only fatalities known to have
resulted from the eruption were a
woman and a baby who were danger
ously Ill.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Gale Wipes Oat VILLAGE

Guthrie, Okla, June 19.-Sixty or
more houses in the village of Kaylor,
Okla, were smashed by a terrific gale,
but every person in the towns popula-
ton Of 500 escaped and only two were
hurt, according to news of Monday.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
SHELTER STRIKE Is SETTLED.

Men at Perth Amboy, N. j., Gain Com
pIete Victory.
Perth Amboy, June 18-The strike
of LOO employees Of the American
Smelling and Refining company, which
has cost three lives and property loss
OF hundreds of thousands of dollars,
was practically settled on basis that
gives the workmen complete VIC
tory.
The men are given an average in
crease in pay of Is per cent, all they
demanded and the odious bonus sys-
tenn Is abolished.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
AMERICUS LOSES TO GoTcH.
Champion Wins In Straight Falls BY
USING Toe Hold.

Champion Wins In Straight Falls BY
Using Toe Hold.
Baltimore, Md, June 16.-Frank
Gotch defeated Gus Schoerlein Gamer
icus) here in straight falls, taking the
first In 81 minutes and 10 seconds and
the second in "a seconds, both with
the toe hold.
The match took place In the open at
Oriole park, cold drizzle setting
In before it was over From the be-
ginning 1t was plain that Gotch was
the superior OF Americas, but the Bal
timorean put up a game fight, refusing
to give up until Gotch clamped a toe
hold on Americas right foot The
member was so swollen that Americas
was obliged to begin the second round
without shoes. The injury incapacita-
ted him, and Gotch gained the second
fall easily, again using the toe hold.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
TABLETS MARK MARCH ROUTE.
Advance of General Herkimer In 1777
Is COMMUNICATED at Utica.

Utica, N. Y, June 15.-General Mich
olas Herkimer's 40 mile advance
through the Mohawk Valley to re-
lieve Col Peter Gansevoort at Fort
Stanwix from the onslaught of large
force of British and Indians in August.
1777, was commemorated Thursday by
the unwilling Of fourteen bronze tab
lets strung along his line of march
1t Is probable that never before in
history of the United States has as
striking a memorial service been
staged.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Old Soldier Breaks Neck.

Reedsburg- the breaking of
scaffolding on the Johnson Lumber
company building, Harrison Weld
man, an old settler and civil war
veteran, fell and broke his neck.
Four other workmen also precipi-
tated to the ground, were uninjured.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21

Five Drowned In Destructive Flood.
Winnipeg, Man, June 19.-President
John Corcoran of the Camp Corcoran
Construction company and four labor
ers were drowned in food which
swept over the camp west of High
River, Alberta, Monday night
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21

Orvile Wright Will Continue Flying.
New York. June 19-In spite of the
wishes of his multi-millionaire friends
on the directorate of the Wright COM
pany, Orville Wright will continue to
fly whenever his own sweet will die
tateS
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Ball PLAYER Seriously Hurt.

Marinette-Burke, catcher for the
Gladstone baseball team of the u. P.
Wisconsin league, is at st. Joseph's
hospital suffering with serious in
juries from being struck on the head
by a pitched ball.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
BAL-KS AT SENATOR'S TOGA,

George WlngfieId of Nevada Would
Rather Attend to Mines.
Reno, New. June 17.-George Wing
field, millionaire mine operator, who
was appointed by Governor Oddie to
represent Nevada In the senate In
place of the late Senator Nixon, may
not accept the distinguished position
offered him. Wingfeld has written a
remarkable letter to Governor Oddie,
saying he must not sacrifice his bust
ness for the sake of going to Wash
ington Governor Oddie has not re-
piled to the letter
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Expect 800 Delegates.

Oshkosh.-Between 200 and 800
delegates and members are expected
to attend the state convention of the
Christian Endeavor Union in this city
July 27-3O. The total membership
in Wisconsin is 10000.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Ia Toilette Reaches Fifty-seven.

Washington, June 17.-Senator La
Toilette of Wisconsin, the Progressive
presidential candidate, was f1fty-seven
years old Friday. Mr. La Toilette.
who Is in this city at present, is en-
joying the best Of health.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-21
Vetoes Arizona Fiuht Bill.

Phoenix, Ariz.. June 17.-Governor
Eunt on Friday vetoed the bill permit
ting twenty-round prize fights in Arr
IONA. In message to the legislature
Governor Hunt declared the bill was
a step backward.