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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
SEVEN DROWNED IN STORM.
Party of Merrymakers Lose Lives in
Fox Lake. Ill.

Party of Merrymakers Lose Lives in
Fox Lake, Ill.
Fox Lake, H., May 1.-THE body of
Mrs Mabel Hansen, twenty-five years
old, of Chicago, who, with party OF
six persons, were drowned in storm
which swept Fox Lake, was recovered
and searching parties Friday were
dragging the lake for the bodies of the
other victims.
The other persons believed to have
been drowned are: Herman Kuhn.
nineteen years old, restaurant keeper,
Ingleside, H.; George Russell, thirty
five years old, liveryman, Ingleside.
H.; Jacob Hoefer, twenty-five years
old, Desplaines, ILL.,; Michael Klunder,
twenty-four years old, Chicago; Louis
Truschke, tWenty-siX years old, saloon
keeper, Chicago; unidentified man.
twenty years old. F-.
The party left the Lippincott hotel
on Fox lake to go to another hotel in
a sixteen-foot steel gasoline launch
owned by Kuhn. Five minutes after
leaving the hotel wharf persons on
the shore heard cries for help and a
boat was sent to the rescue. No trace
of the boat or the victims was found
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
HOUSE PASSES DIRECT
ELECTION OF SENATORS
for Federal Control Is Carried by
Vote of 237 to 80.

Washington, May 15.-The house
Monday broke a deadlock which has
existed nearly year by passing the
resolution declaring for an amend
ment to the Constitution providing
for the direct election Of United
States senators. The resolution has
already passed the senate. The
amendment, thus initiated by con-
gress, mast be ratified by three
fourths Of the state legislatures be-
fore it will become law.
number of states have by resolu-
ton declared for direct election of
senators. This action has no force,
however, as has the action of the
legislatures that have ratified the in
come tax amendment.
The Bristow amendment, which was
the cause of the deadlock, reserves to
the federal government supervision of
the time, manner and place Of holding
senatorial elections. The final vote
on the amendment was 237 to 80.
Previous to this vote the house de-
feated the Bartlett amendment which
proposed that the house should con-
cur in the senate amendment with
the proviso that the federal govern
ment should not undertake to assert
the qualifications of electors for sena-
tors in the states, and that the gen.
eral government, by force of arms, or
otherwise, must not interfere with
elections in the several states. The
Bartlett amendment was defeated by.
a vote of 1S9 to 80.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
ANXIOUS TO PLEASE ARCHIBALD.
Erie Road Offered to Sell Culm Bank
at Profit of $4,000.

Washington, May 15.-James H.
Kittenhouse, civil engineer Of
Scranton, Pa, testifying before the
house committee Monday on judiciary,
declared that the Erie Railroad COM
pany was SO anxious to please Rob-
ert W. Archibald, Judge of the United
States commerce court, that it agreed
to dispose of the Katydid culm bank,
appraised at $4,000, to him and S. J..
Williams, his alleged partner, for
$4,000, they in turn were to sell it for
$4,000, thus reaping profit of $12,-
600 without investing any of their
own funds.
Rittenhouse was employed by Wris-
ley Brown, special assistant to Attor-
ney General Wickersham, to ascertain
the exact value of the culm pile. At
the time he made the appointment
R1ttenhouse did not know he was
working for the government
The deal fell through because of a
defect in the title to the property. Ac-
cording to the estimate submitted by
Rtttenhouse the culm bank contained
10000 tons of coal
The negotiations between the Erie
railroad and Judge Archibald were
made upon the basis Of 10000 tons.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
RE|D'S MEMORY
IS TREACHEROUS
Steel Trust Magnate Proves an
Unwilling Witness.
SAYS "MIND Is TOTAL BLANK
Tells Development and Growth of Tin
Plate Industry-Combine Was Not
Formed for Mo-
nopoIy.

New York, May 15.-When the law
yers for the United States Steel cor
poration objected to his questions put
to Daniel @. Reid, one OF the most in
fiuential directors of the steel trust
and organizer of the American Tin
Plate company, which he was instru-
mental in consolidating with the big
combine, while Mr.. Reid was testify
ing before Special Examiner Brown III
the governments dissolution suit,
Judge J. NJ Dickinson, counsel for the
government, heatedly exclaimed: i
can lead a horse to water, but | can't
make him drink. ! can compel the at
tendance Of witnesses at this hearing,
but / can't make them remember"
The government chief prober had
striyen vainly to refresh Mr.. Reds
memory by reading from the record or
his testimony regarding the tin plate
industry in the investigation made IA
years ago by the industrial commits
sion appointed by President Mckinley
to make thorough investigation OF
every big industrial combination in
yer even asked the witness how much
stock he held in the trust, but under
advice of the trusts lawyers he flat
ly refused to answer.
Mr.. Reid told an interesting story of
the rapid growth of the tin plate in
dustry in the United States from
small beginning which he and w. B.
7 dc icta of Ca
w. H. Moore had made in Indiana.
This was in 1891, ten years before the
Steel corporation was formed. They
had bought up about geo mills, he said,
before the merger with the steel trust
was effected. This had been done
mainly by an underwriting syndicate,
of which he was a member.
In the formation of the big tin plate
company, which the government is
now attacking as one of the several
trusts within the steel trust, only two
concerns of any considerable conse-
quence had been left out, he stated,
but these had been taken in later.
Stock in the new concern was given
to the owners of the purchased prop
SIIISS III LlOSI CASES.
WAC were your associates in the
underwriting syndicate or agree
ment?" he was asked.
Il don't know" the witness an
swered. 81 only heard gossip about
other men in the agreement"
Did not the American Tin Plate
company enter into an agreement with
manufacturers of tin plate machinery
your competitors could not buy the
necessary machinery"
81 don't remember. My mind is a
total blank Oh that subject"
Under pressure from the govern
ment's counsel Mr.. Reid said that
about the only living person who
might know about this matter is w. T.
Graham, now head of the American
Can company.
Did you and your associates go into
the American Tin Plate company to
monopolize the business?" asked Mr.
Severance on cross-examination.
I'VE did not" replied Mr.. Reid. eve
went into it to reduce overhead
charges, lessen the cost OF production
and so forth"
He added that there had always
been strong competition since the or
ganization of the American Tin Plate
company and that this was stronger
now than ever.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
ESCAPE Is NOT VERY EASY
Fleeing DefauIter In These Days la
Likely to Be Nabbeo in
Foreign Port

How many men holding positions Of
financial responsibility are there, 1
wonder, who, reading in the evening
paper OF the capture of a criminal in
some far land, have not thought, "Ah!
but | am cleverer than that. How easy
it would be for me to fill valise with
these banknotes and slip away from
cares and worries to the shelter Of
some easier-foing land"
But 1t Is not worth while, my
friends. Men as brainy and as bril-
liant as you have tried it, and a neg
1ected grave sout' of the line or a
conyict's number in a northern prison
marks their ends
Given the opportunity, a man Of
GOODNESS and resource and daring may
succeed in getting out of the country
with almost any sum. But it is only
then that the real pursuit begins.
From that day until he is in a casket
or cell the hunt never halts nor
flags. The submarine cables and the
wireless dash-dot his crime and his
description to the uttermost ends Of
the earth; the Mauritania may not
dock at Liverpool or an ocean tramp
may not unload cargo at Port Limon
that some quiet, keen-eyed man is not
beside the gangplank as the passen-
gers come ashore, scrutinizing each
in turn; his picture and his descrip-
ton hang on the walls of every con-
suIate and shipping office from Per
nambuco around to Shanghai.
Let us suppose that he succeeds in
making his way to some one of those
few semi-civilized countries with
which we have no definite arrange
ments for the surrender Of fugitiVes-
Morocco, perhaps, or Abyssinia, At
ghanistan or Persia, one of the Cen
trail Asian khanates or the Central
American republics. 1t will be only
a matter Of weeks at most before his
presence becomes known and news Of
it flashed to the detective bureaus OF
the world. The United States may
have no treaty with the ruler in whose
dominions he has taken refuge, but
the department Of state makes a po-
lite request through it's minister resi-
dent or consul general for the fugi-
tives surrender, promising, perhaps,
to reciprocate should opportunity Of
fer, and the shah or sultan, or presi-
dent, as the case may be, preferring
the good will of the great republic to
the gratitude of an escaped criminal,
promptly lays rude hands upon him
and sends him in, under escort, to the
consul at the nearest port.-Adven-
ture.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
REBEL CHIEF OF MEXICO
IN FLIGHT FROM JUAREZ
the Nights Repudiated by
Orozco.

Ell Paso, Tex, May 14.-MeXico's
new provisional government is with
out an official head, as Emilio Vasquez
Gomez, provisional president, and his
entire cabinet have hurriedly left
Juarez between two days. 1t is said
in some quarters that they are on
their way to the United States.
Jose Cordova, secretary to General
Orozco, caused the flight Cordova
said: Il came to cause Vasquez to
retract his declaration as president.
| would have placed Pradillo, who in
vited Gomez here, under arrest Col.
Pascual Orozco, father of our chief,
has been summoned to Chihuahua. l
do not know if he will be punished"
Enrile, who is commonly reported to
handle the cash of the men financing
the Orozco revolution, reported to be
headed by Jose Yves Limantour, is
said to be determined to punish all
cerned in the Gomez farce.
The Mexican rebel army was COM
pletely repulsed at Conejos by the fed
erals and is now in full retreat to Rel
lano, 81 miles north The rebels
burned the bridges of the railroad as
they retreated to prevent the federals
following them too fast
Washington, May 1.-two hundred
Americans have already fed to the
transport Buford for safety under the
American flag on the Mexican west
coast, was the news given out at the
state department. 1t is a complete re-
versal Of the official statements dur
ing the past week that the stories of
refugees from Mexico were gross eXag,
geratiOnS
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Wisconsin News Briefs.

Madison.-With two more banks
reporting than under the call of Feb.
20, the abstract of the condition of
584 state banks as shown in their
statements at the close of business
April IL discloses gratifying condi-
tions, resources having increased
more than 100000 in the two
months. Loans and discounts have
grown to the extent of nearly $3,-
100000, while deposits, except on
demand certificate, show a whole
some increase In fact not an I'M
favorable feature appears in the
showing, and with total resources of
nearly 5000, 100000 the financial in
stitutions of the s ate make a re-
Tnarkable showing of Wisconsin sta
bility in it's financial affairs.
Neenah.-Two runaway horses,
which entered the wide open door
of the Methodist church in the viii
lage of Waukau, caused a stampede
among people attending a prayer
meeting The animals dashed part
way up the aisle before stopping.
ests paid B. r. Goggins of Gran0
Rapids $268.50 and T. w. Brazeau
of Grand Rapids $12214, for ex-
penses as legislative counsel during
the special session of the legisla-
ture.
La Crosse.-The marriage of the
Rt. Rev. P. A. Hendrickson of Val
ley City, N. D., bishop of the North
western district of the Norwegian
Lutheran synod, and Miss Clark
Christianson of Ettrick, Wis, which
occurred at Ettrick, has been an
nounced.
Kenosha.-Articles of incorpora-
ton have been issued for the Com
mercial Club of Kenosha," organized
by the business men as a local ad-
vancement association.
Washington, D. C.-The senate
has confirmed the following nomin2-
lions of Wisconsin postmasters: j.
III. Gilmore, Green Bay, in place OF
A. G. Kurtz; Benjamin T. Prideau,
Mineral Point, reappointment; Chas-
Mariner, Cadott, in place Of l.. A.
Wilcox; George Watson, Fond Gu
Lac, who has held the office under
a recess appointment, succeeding F.
M. Owens.
Two Rivers.-George Bonk, an
employe of the Standard Aluminium
company lost both hands when
caught in a drawing press. Bonk
10 q musician
Madison-Senator J. ]. Blaine Of
| Boscobel and Dwight Parker of Fen
nimore headed a party of Grant
county officers who called at the cap
itol and, arranged a state loan of
$4,000 for the county to assist it
in building new S125,000 insane
asylum to take the place of the old
asylum which burned recently
La Crosse.-A meeting of the Wis
consin delegation to the Republican
national convention is being arrang-
ed to be held at Milwaukee or Chi
cago, June 3, to bind the delegates
from this state to La Toilette abb
solutely on every ballot.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
NO PARADE FOR SOCIALISTS.
Police Chiefs Order Arouses Indigna-
ton hmonu Convention DeIeuates

Police Chiefs Order Arouses Indigna-
ton Among Convention Delegates.
Indianapolis, Ind, May 1.-THE ma
tional Socialist convention was called
to order and Morris Hillquit of New
York was made temporary, chairman
There was no parade Sunday night as
had been planned, because the neces-
sary arrangements could not be made
Chief of Police Hyland had previously
forbidden red flags to be carried in the
parade This order aroused great in
dignation and was later rescinded, but
the parade was not held. Congressman
Berger of Milwaukee denounced the
action of United States Judge Hanford
at Seattle, who Cancelled the citizen
ship of Leonard Oleson because he be-
longed to the Socialist party. The con-
gresham declared that he would carry
the battle before the department of
justice at Washington.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
MARKET REPORT.

MILWAUKEE,, May 10, l912-
Butter-Creamery, extras, gle:
prints, 32c; firsts, 2S@3Oc; seconds,
% q zee; renovated, rs q 26c; dairy,
fancy, &c.
Cheese - American full cream,
new made, twins, 15@151ac; Young
Americas, 151a 016c; daisies, 16
@16 re; longhorns, 16@16Rc; linn
burger, 161A @17c; brick, $50
151ac.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh, as
to quality, 16@16 1ac; recandled, ex-
tras, 1914 @19c; seconds, 14@15c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 15c; roos-
ters, 12c; broilers, doz., 100000.
Potatoes sacked on
track, 1.1O@1.15.
Hay-No. 1, timothy, $500; clio
yer, 21.00; No. l prairie, 1850.
Wheat-No. l, northern, 1920
1872 II; No. 2, northern, 1.1S@1.2O;
No. 3, northern, III.
Corn7-No. 3, yellow, zoe.
OatszNo. 3, white, 5Sc; stand
ard, 5S1ac
Barley-Wisconsin 1875; No. 3,
1.26; No. 4, 1.22.
Rye-No. 2, 92hc.
Cattle-Butchers steers, $500
100; heifers, Los q $50; COWS, 4.S5
@6.10; feeders, AIS @6.65; calves,
6OO0725.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 1865
ID so. fair TO hest light 90 6
$50; pigs, 6OO@655.
Sheep-Lambs, $1,000; ewes,
6.0007.O0.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
VOTE ON LORIMEE IN JUNE.
Reports viii Be Filed With Senate on
May 20.

Reports viii Be Filed With Senate on
May 20.
Washington, May 1.-THE majority
and minority reports il the Lorimer
case will be filed with the senate May
20. Senator Lea of Tennessee, mem
Der of the Investigating committee,
made the statement that, after confer
ence with his colleagues on the COM
mittee, he was authorized to promise
the majority report Monday week.
The minority report, which he has
signed, is now ready, but it cannot be
presented until the majority has been
heard from.
Seantor Lea is hopeful that when
the reports are presented motion
will be made and adopted fixing day
for a vote. He says that he thinks 1t
will be possible to reach an agreement
for a vote between June 10 and Is.
There is, however, some opposition
to a vote before the Chicago conven-
ton, and it may develop sufficient
strength to force later date.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
i3 BURIED IN MINE CAVElM
Small Hope of Rescuing Men lm'
prisoned by Avalanche at IRON
wood, M chgan.

Ironwood, Mich.-All hope of res
cuing any of the thirteen miners
buried when large section of the
timbering in the Norrie mine gave
way has been abandoned.
The drift in which the men lost
their lives has just been retimbered.
One of the racks worked loose and
the timbers released an avalanche of
earth and ore.
The cavein occurred 1000 feet I'M
derground. Forty men were work
ing in that section. of the mine on
the twentieth level. They heard the
timbers breaking in the drift above
them and tried to reach places of
safety. Thirteen failed and were
buried in the fall.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Habits That Become Fixed.

Every established mental condition
is an acquired habit, and it has be-
come such by continuous repetition OF
thought Dependency and cheerful
ness. covetousness and generosity-in-
deed, all states of mind-are habits
built up by choice, until they have be-
come automatic. A thought constant
~ repeated at last becomes a fixed
habit OF the mind, and from such hab-
its proceeds the hfe.-James Allen.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
DR.. HlBBEN IS INSTALLED

Formally Indicted Friday as PresI-
dent of Princeton University.
Princeton, n. j., May 12.-ln the
presence of thousands OF visitors,
alumni. college professors, students
and their friends and relatives, DR..
John Grier Hibben was formally in
augurated Friday as president Of
Princeton university Among the dis
tinguished guests were scores of rep
resentatives of universities, colleges
and learned societies.
The Inauguration exercises began at
II o'clock and consisted of the sing
ing of a chorale, the reading OF Scrip
ture and the offering of prayer. the ad
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
TAFT FAVORED BY WYOMING,
Republicans Instruct for President ane
Democrats for Speaker Clark.

Republicans instruct for President ane
Democrats for Speaker Clark.
Cheyenne, Wyo., May 15.-With
only thin wall separating them the
Democrats and Republican state con,
ventions convened in separate halls
here Monday.
The following delegation instruct.
ed for Taft was named by the Repub.
leans:
Senators Francis E. Warren, c. D.
Clark and Congressman Frank w
Mondell, Patrick Sullivan, w. H.
Huntley and w. L. Wells.
The Democrats elected the follow.
ing delegation instructed for Champ
CLARK:
John D. Clark, Cheyenne; P. ].
Qualey, Kemmerer; r Montgomery
Gillette; James c.. Mayes, Lusk; A
N. Hazencamp, Laramie; B. F. Per
kins, Sheridan.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
MANY HURT I'm MINE RIOT.
Police Charge Mob of Men and Wom-
en- at Scranton. Pa

en- at Scranton, Pa.
Scranton, Pa, May IL. = Two
strikers were shot last Friday in
charge of state police which
came as a climax to an at
tack on mob on the Cayuga breaker
of the Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern company at North Scranton.
Foreign workmen were leaders,
among the crowd of two thousand men
and boys that assembled near the
breaker to keep away men who we're
going to the necessary work. More
than thirty women who joined in mob.
violence we're arrested. A number of,
foreigners and policemen were in
iured.
Springfield, H., May PA disa-
greement between foreign and Amer14
can miners at Bend, Macoupin coun4
ty, as to whether they Should go to
work without awaiting the result Of
the referendum vote now being taken
in the state, resulted in one man be-
ing fatally injured and four others
wounded last Friday.
About 500 American miners from
Gillespie, who were going to work in
mine No. 3, were attacked by a SINH
lar number Of foreign miners from
Bend, who work in mine No. 2. Shots
were exchanged between the two
bodies, with the above result.
The American miners retreate0
after the conflict and did not attempt
to go to work
About forty women were among the
mob of foreigners, but none was in
jured.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
MAJ Bar Barnes from Face.

Madison-Justice John Barnes of
the state supreme court may be pre-
vented from becoming the demo-
cratic candidate for governor by
constitutional provision. Discovery
of clause in the basic law Of the
state applicable only to judges may
preclude his proposed candidacy for
eight years more, when the term for
which he was elected will expire.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
CHOOSE GEN. YOUNG AS HEAD.

Confederate Veterans Elect Louisville
Man Commander-in-Chie
Macon, Ga. May 11.-Gen. Bennett
H. Young of Louisville, KY, command
er of the Army Of Tennessee, was
elected commander-in-chief of the
United Confederate Veterans here
Thursday.
After the Withdrawals of Gems
Walker and Van SAINT from the race
General Young's election was made
unanimous General Walker was
elected honorary commander-in-chief.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Society Drama,

Your play contains too much con-
versation You need a hairbreadth es-
cape of some kind.
What's the matter with the third
act?" demanded the dramatist, where
the heroine narrowly escapes being
talked to death"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Plan Boycott Against Tips.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 14.-Califor-
mia travelling men affiliated with the
United Commercial Travellers will not
patronize hereafter any hotel, barber
shop or cafe where tipping is not pro
hibited
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Pay LEGISLATORS for Sunday Work,

Madison, Wis, May 14.-Attorney
General Bancroft ruled that certain
employees of the legislature may re
ceiye pay for work done on Sundays
during the special session Of the ,egis
lature
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Prizes to Swatters of Flies.

Sedalia, Mo-, May 15.-The United
Daughters of the Confederacy are ar
ranging to offer at least fifty prizes in
their fly swatting campaign to be in
augurated within a fortnight. Special
prizes are to be awarded boys.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Steel Orders Increase.

New York, May 13.-The United
States Steel corporation announced
Friday that on April 80 1t had on hand
untitled orders for 1864 ,S85 tons, an in
crease of 360,044 over the preceding
month.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
anoford Defeats Barry.

Melbourne, Australia, May 15.-Sam
Langford. the negro heavyweight of
Boston, defeated Jimmy Barry of Chi
cago last Monday. Barry was COM
pletely outclassed and the referee
stopped the fight in eleventh round
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-05-17
Forest Fires Kill Twenty.

San Juan, Costa Rica, May 10
Twenty persons have been burned to
death and over fifteen villages were
destroyed by forest fires on the Pa
cific coast of Costa RIGA during Sun
day and Monday.