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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
j. S. SENDS 5000
GUNS TO CUbANS
Gomez Makes Appeal for Arms
to Taft.
NEXT STEP Is INTERVENTION
War, State and Navy Departments
Are Hastily Preparing for Emer-
gency-Hospitai Ship Sails for
Guantanamo.

Washington, June 5.-Advices to the
States minister at Havana on Mon
day, declares that the insurrection of
negroes in Cuba is getting beyond
control of the Cuban government
The situation is SO bad that Secre-
tary of War Stimson, by direction OF
the president, has shipped to Presi-
dent Gomez, at his request, 5000 high
powered Krag-Jorgenson rifles and
100000 rounds of ammunition for the
guns. The guns will be distributed by
the Cuban government among recent
ly organized rurales and volunteers
These guns are the same as were useo
by the United States in Cuba IN 1893
in the war with Spain.
This shipment of rifles and ammunl-
ton will be all this government VIII
send. The next step taken by tie
United States will be Intervention.
This is looked for any day by officials
of both state, war and navy depart
ments Preparation for such an emer-
gency are being rushed with all pos
sibIe haste by both branches of the
military arms of the government One
step looking to actual service by the
United States hospital ship Solace was
ordered from Key West to Guantana-
mo. Her commander, Medical In
spector Manley F. Gates, has been in
structed to hold his ship in readiness
for duty with landing parties.
The war departments activities con-
sists of issuing fresh ammunition to
the troops of the emergency force"
consisting of approximately 1000 men.
Most of these troops are stationed at
posts on the Atlantic seaboard.
1t consists of cavalry, infantry and
field artillery. In the latter there are
light field pieces and mounted bat
teries.
Havana, June 4.-President Gomez
has officially admitted the existence of
a general revolt against his admins
tration in a message to the senate re-
questing authority to suspend all con-
stitutional guarantees. This means
the entire island will be under martial
law within a few days.
President Gomez message to the
senate, in substance, follows:
THE grave situation which threat
ems the peace of the nation obliges me
to appeal to you, as | hereby do, under
article 6S of the constitution, SO that
your legislative body, with its usual
acumen, shall authorize me to suspend
the constitutional guarantees through
out the entire territory of the repub-
lie, or partially, as | may see fit. 1t
has been my policy to avoid extreme
measures, and | have made every ef-
! fort to suppress the seditious uprising
without appealing to congress, but the
necessity for such action as will bring
about a rapid termination of the
armed instruction, avoiding foreign
complications, makes it imperative
that l be given the power requested.
which will be used with the modera-
ton that has characterized ali my
acts"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
BURNHAM'S REMAINS IN ASHES.
Body of Famous Architect, Who Died
in Held elberq. Is Cremated

in Held elberg, Is Cremated.
Berlin, June Americans in Hell
delberg were sadly surprised on Sun
day at the sudden death Of Daniel
Hudson Burnham, the famous archi-
tect. Mr.. Burnham arrived in Heidel-
berg a few days ago with his wife and
Bon-in-law to take the cure, but he was
exhausted by the trip and was unable
to rally. He was taken to the Aka
demisches hospital on Friday and he
died there. His ailment was Brights
disease and arterial scierosis.
The body was cremated and the
ashes will be taken to America this
week by Mrs. Burnham, her son and
y her son-in-law.
Mr.. Burnham, who was sixty-si
years old, had been seriously i'll only
a few hours when he died from a dis
ease which had troubled him for some
time.
There is scarcely an American archi-
tect who has completed the amount OF
work which Mr.. Burnham has and
who has received the honors, both in
America and abroad, which have been
accorded him.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
REBEL LEADER is WARNED.
Taft Tells Orozco He Must Not Modest
Americans.

Washington, June General Oroz-
co received warning from Pres
ident Taft on Friday that he
must not in any way interfere with
United States citizens who desire
to leave Mexico Following this
note to the rebel leader Charles
M. Freeman, United States consul, no
titled all Americans at Villardena,
Mexico, to go into Durango for safety.
The note from the president to
Orozco followed a meeting of the
cabinet at which Secretary Knox fully
explained the sinister manifesto is
sued by Orozco. In it the insurrecto
leader threatened to unleash his en-
tire undisciplined force for the de-
struction of American property.
In his warning President Taft makes
no mention of the danger to Ameri-
can property or lives. He simply says
citizens of the country must be al
lowed to leave if they want to do so.
He makes no threats of reprisals If
Orozco fails to obey.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
NOTED AVIATOR is KILLED.
Parmalee, Holder of Records, Meets
Fate in Making Exhibition Flight.


North Yakima, Wash, June A.
With smile and a wave of his hand
to the thousands who watched him in
his aeroplane, Philip O. Parmalee took
the air in the teeth of a gusty west
wind here on Saturday. Three min
utes later his broken and lifeless body
was dragged from beneath the wreck
age of his biplane in an apple orchard
two miles from his starting point.
Parmalee had been up about three
minutes on his first flight of the day
and had travelled almost two miles
from the fair grounds at a height of
400 feet when the gust of wind struck
the machine. The biplane crashed to
the ground, crushing the aviator be-
meath it.
Parmalee was regarded by experts
as the Safest of American aviators,
as well as the most successful finan-
cially of those employed by the
Wrights. He was said to have earned
$4,000 for the Wright brothers dur
ing 1911, and he quit their employ
only few weeks ago.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
DEPUTY SHERIFF is JAILED
Fond Du Lac Officer, a Paroled Pris-
oner, Alleged to Have Shot at
People While Intoxicated.

Fond du Lac.-Whatever the mer-
it's of the ancient adage that cit
takes a thief to catch a thief" Shell
don H. Barrett, on parole, following
his arrangement for alleged forgery
and subsequent conviction to four
years in state prison, was appointed
deputy sheriff.
Barrett was sent to Green Bay to
bring back James O'Hare On the
trip down the deputy securely hand
cuffed his prisoners hands and went
to sleep on the soft cushions of d
chair car. When they came to the
first station the prisoner got off.
When the sheriff awoke at Neenah
he also got off, but it was off the
water wagon. He fired a revolver
on the streets of that city and was
arrested on various charges associ-
ated with excessive drinking AS
the case will be reported to the state
parole board, it is thought Barrett
will be forced to serve his four year
prison term.
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Platinum

Platinum, one of the most useful Of
the metals in many ways, was named
by the Spaniards on account of its
silvery color, plata signifying silver. 1t
was found in the auriferous sands of
the river Pinto, in South America, and
was unknown in Europe prior to 174l.
when Don Antonio Ulloa announced
its existence in his narrative of voy-
age to Peru. 1t was not until 1880
that platinum was rendered malleable
and ductile by a Dr. William Hyde of
Wallaston. Platinum is largely en-
ployed in the manufa cture Of chemi-
cal utensils, owing to its immunity to
the effects of heat acid, etc.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
LUMBER GREATEST PRODUCT
Census Bulletin Shows Industry in Wis
Consin in 1909 Yielded $780,
OOO-Foundry and Dairy Next.

Washington, d. C.-The progress
of the state of Wisconsin is reflected,
in one important phase, in the bull
letin issued by the census bureau.
The Importance of Wisconsin's in
dustries is reflected in the totals for
the year 1909, when the census was
taken. At that time the state had
9,271 manufacturing establishments,
which gave employment to an aver
age of 213,42 persons during the
year and paid out $119, 642,0O0 in
wages. These establishments, &C
cording to the bulletin, turned out
products valued at $590,306, 5000, to
produce which materials to the value
of $346,357, 1000 were used
In the value of products the lead
ing industries take the following or
der: Lumber and timber products,
$57, 1863, 900; foundry and machine
shop products, $54,124, 900; butter,
cheese and condensed milk, $53,-
S43,000; leather, $44,66S, 700; malt
liquors, $32, 10000; -four mill and
grist mill products, $31, 667, 000h
slaughtering and meat packing,
$27, PIT, 900; paper and wood pulp,
$25, 1862, 900; furniture, $1S,656, 900;
cars and general shop construction,
$14,332,000.
"Of the total value of products re-
ported for the state in 1909" says
the bulletin, "12.4 per cent was re-
ported from the ten cities having be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 inhabi-
tants, 14.1 per cent from the seven
cities having between $4,000 and
100000, and 35.3 per cent from Mil
waukee
Milwaukee, the largest city in the
state, shows an increase of 81 per
cent in the value of manufactured
products and of 372 per cent in the
average number of wage earners en-
ployed in manufacturing industries,
from 1904 to 1909 The city ranked
eleventh among the cities of the I'm
tied States in value of manufac-
tured products in 1899, twelfth in
1904 and tenth in 1909"
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Astonished the Teacher.

The teacher in charge of one Of the
grades in grammar school wrote on
the board a number of words ending
in the syllable "tion" After explain
ing the meaning of each TO the class.
she told them to use the words in SEN
fences. Her pupils wrote busily for
few moments, and then one of them
astonished her with the following:
Fathers hair is recollection,
mothers is an acquisition, auntie's is
a compilation. sisters is an aggrega-
ton, brothers is a confiagration. while
baby's is mere premonition. Judge.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
WILL PROBE HIGH
PRICES OF MEAT
Department of Justice Plans
Supplementary Inquiry.
MAY SEEK A DISSOLUTION
Intimateo, However, Packers Will Vol
UNFAIRLY End National Packing
Company or Bring 1t Into
Harmony With Law.

Washington, June 4-Congress and
the department of justice are about
ready to investigate another trust
and in consequence some of the big
men in the packing industry, who
were recently acquitted in criminal
proceedings in Chicago, probably will
be summoned to Washington to tell
why the price of beef and other
meats has gone up.
The question of whether the coun-
try's meat supply may be controlled
in violation of the Sherman law has
been called to the attention of the de-
partment by individuals, and also by
Representative Edwards bill directing
the attorney general to make an in
yestigation
Since the packers were acquitted at
Chicago some time ago of crimins( vio-
lation of the Sherman law, the depart
ment of justice has been keeping IN
close touch with the meat situation
and Attorney General Wickersham has
mad under consideration a civil suit
for dissolution of the National Pack
ing company.
United States Attorney Wilkerson at
Chicago has been reviewing the evil
dence at the criminal trial, and Oliver
+. Pagan, one of the governments spe-
c1al attorneys, has been studying the
situation. 1t is estimated that fed
eral grand jury recently impaneled IN
Chicago might investigate some
charges regarding the testimony of
certain witnesses in the criminal suit.
Indirect intimations have reached
the government that the packers
might take some voluntary action to
dissolve the National Packing COM
pany or bring it into harmony with the
law.
Whatever may be done in this re-
gard, it is thought certain that Attor-
ney General Wickersham will direct
a comprehensive investigation to find
if the soaring prices of meat are due
to any violations of The antitrust law
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
SMALL COLLEGES
WILL Be AFFECTED
Decision by Supreme Court on
Uniformity of Taxation.
LOWER COURT is AFFIRMED
Case Is That of Lawrence College
Against Outagame County Col
Iege Property Not Used tor Educa-
tional Purpose Must be Assessed.

Madison.-The supreme court of
Wisconsin has held that the part of
chapter 116 of the laws of 1901 ex-
emptlng from taxation certain classes
OF property of educational institu-
tons is unconstitutional because it
violates the rule of uniformity in
taxation.
The case was that of Lawrence
college against Outagamie county.
The. judgment of the lower court.
which held that the taxes of the col
lege We're payable to the city of APP
pleton, is affirmed by the court.
The decision is an important one
for the small colleges of the state
and means that property owned by
them and not used expressly for
educational purposes, must be as
sessed for taxation.
The court, having finished all the
cases on the calendar, adjourned IN
til June 10, to receive the 1912 law
class of the University of Wisconsin
Then adjournment will be taken I'M
til August
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Wisconsin News Briefs.

Madison.-Alonzo Burt of Chica
go, vice president of the Wisconsin
Telephone company, was the princi-
pal witness at the hearing of tho
state railroad commission on the pc
tition of the La Crosse Telephone
company, in which connection with
the lines of the larger corporation is
sought. According to Mr. Burt's tes-
timony, an order requiring the de-
rired connection would mean practi-
cal confiscation of the property OF
the Wisconsin Telephone company
Baraboo.-John Fellows, 81, or
Baraboo, known among his fellow
trainmen of the Northwestern roaS
as 1.-The engineer who never had an
accident" was instantly killed at
Chicago when his locomotive, pull
ing a through train of ten coaches,
ran into an open switch and was
overturned.
Wausau.-The Wausau Street rail-
way has filed a petition asking for
a franchise to lay tracks in the north
end of the city. This is believed to
be the last link in the completion.
of right of way for an interurban
line from Wausau to Merrill
Madison.-Country pastors of Wis
consin and surrounding states will
hold their third annual summer
school of religion at the University
of Wisconsin, July Is to 26.
Medford.-A colony of Bobemians
is being established in Taylor county.
Twenty-eight families, the first in
stallment of several hundred, has
just arrived and are now located on
undeveloped Wisconsin lands.
Madison.-It may be years before
the dome which adorned the old state
capitol will surmount main hall of
the University of Wisconsin. Archi-
tect Peabody states that the legis-
lature made an appropriation only
for taking the dome down and for
removing it to the grounds adjacent
to the main building No appropria-
ton was made for placing it in DO
sition.
Manitowoc.-Henry Mendlix.
merchant, died while sitting in
chair talking to his family. He was
GO years old and resident of Man
itowoc for sixty-two years.
Wausau.-Dr. Arthur j. Patek of
Milwaukee was elected president of
the wisconsin State Medical society
at the annual election DR.. d
Armstrong Of Boscobel was electad
vice president. The next amman
meeting of the association will be
held in Milwaukee on Sept. 10.
a.-Indistriminate drinkino
among women in Kenosha saloons is
to be stopped in the future and or
ders have been issued that women
may not drink in Kenosha saloons,
unless accompanied by their hus-
bands. Somebody else's husband wiz
not go
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
FULLER'S EARTH I'M AMERICA
Industry Has Reached Greatest Pro
duction and Consumption in
Its History.

Fuller's earth, the claylike material
that is used principally as a filtering
medium for oils, fats, and grease. is
found IN Is states, as shown by re-
port of the United States geological
survey. In 1911 fuller's earth was pro-
duced In but seven states, Arkansas,
California, Florida, Georgia, Massa-
chusetts, South Carolina, and Texas,
and there were no unusual develop
ments in the industry. New deposits
are reported from time to time, but
IN many the high standard of eff
cheney required is not found and only
a few of the deposits are worked. OF
the large number Of known deposits
but 13 were worked in 1911. Some of
the causes for the small number Of
workings, In addition to the high stan
dard of quality required, are inaccessi-
bility Of the deposits and lack of CAPT
tai
Notwithstanding the comparatively
small number of producers, the output
has almost steadily increased from
the small beginning in 1895, when but
$500 short tons were reported, valued
at Sal 400, or IS ton, to 1911, when
40,697 tons were reported, valued at
S383,124, or $9.41 a ton.
Florida continues to be the leading
state. In 1911 1t reported 1858 tons,
valued at 1865, 81, or $3.50 a ton. This
was 60 per cent. Of the quantity and
So per cent of the value of the entire
output and value. The other states in
the order of their rank in output and
value in 1911 were Georgia, Arkansas,
Texas, Massachusetts, California and
South Carolina.
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1T Puzzled Him.

Robert is very young nephew OF
an attache at the state house, and
when he goes to visit his uncle, he
makes the rounds Of his offices where
he has numerous friends. He was sit
ting in the Office of the secretary to
the governor a few days ago, when
the governor and II. l.. Confer, deputy
secretary of state, came from the gov
ernor's private office.
Robert come over and shake hands
with the governor" said Mark Thistle
thwaite, the governors secretary.
Without leaving his chair Robert
looked the governor and Mr.. Confer
over critically.
II will If you tell me which one it
is" he replied-Indianapo News.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
Turk Makes Good Soldier.

Stupid, honest, kind to children, al
belt somewhat callous to the suffer
ings of animals: brave, and, above all,
silently enduring, the Turkish peasant
soldier is man for whom one cannot
help feeling a strong sympathy in all
his miseries. And see him in such
campaign as this, see how he responds
to the smallest kindness provided you
can get him to accept it at AID, see
how cheerfully and with what simple
humor he makes light of his hard
ships, and then your pity will become
a stronger feeling still.-Alan Ostler
in The London Daily Express.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
UntWiSt Ii.

Fred and Jack, little brothers, hitch
ed their goats to new wagon, their
father bought them. Fred, the young
er, got in to drive off, but Billie
stubbornly refused to bulge; whereup-
on Jack stepped up and gave the
goats tail a vicious twist or two, at
which billie" made off at a lively
gait, to the great pleasure of Fred, the
driver. When the goat got started, he
did not slow down, but went faster
and faster to the great dismay of Fred,
who. much frightened, cried to his
brother: Jack, Jack, untwist it, I'M
twist it."-Norman E. Mack's National
Monthly.
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MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee. June 4. 1912.

Milwaukee, June 4, 1912.
Butter.-Creamery, extras, 25c;
prints, 26c; firsts, % q 24c; seconds,
2O@21c; renovated, 22@23c; dairy,
fancy, 25c.
Cheese - American full cream,
new made, twins, IA Il @15c; Young
Americas. 15b151a re; daisies. 15p
Is &c; longhorns, 15@151ac; lin
burger, 1612 @17c; brick, lao
Ii &c
Eggs-Current receipts fresh, as
to quality, Is q Ice; recandled, ex-
tras, Is u 019c; seconds, 100 12c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 10 &c; roos-
tiers, lie; broilers, doz., 6.00@S.00.
Potatoes-Wiscons sacked on
track, 1.20@1.25.
Wheat-No. l, northern, LEO
No. 3, northern, 1.12.
Corn-No. 3, yellow, 75c.
Oats-No. 8, white, 81 &c; stand
ard. 52Ac.
Barley-W Wisconsin, 1.20; No. ?,
1.24; No. 4, 1.20.
Rye-No. 2, SIC.
Cattle-Butchers steers, $50 "a
SIS; heifers, 49O@7.15; COWS, 500
@6.25; feeders, 4.00@475; calves,
S.00@S.75.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 7.45
OTTO; fair to best light, 1900
100; pigs, 5.S0@62O.
Sheep-Lambs, 6.00@9.00; ewes
45005.75.
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TAFT WINS FIRST FIGHT.
Secures Majority in All Committees of
Ohio State Meet

Columbus, O., June 5.-President
Taft won the first skirmishes on Mon
day between his supporters and those
favoring Theodore Roosevelt of the
Republican state convention, assem-
bled here to select six delegates-at-
large to the national convention at
Chicago.
This may indicate the result of the
balloting on the selection of the
states delegation. In the district
caucuses President Taft won eleven
of the twenty credentials committee
while the president controls the reso-
lutions committee IL to 8.
1t was practically decided to ad-
journ after the selection of the six
delegates-at-large until probably some
time next month. when the state ticket
will be nominated.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
SMoKELEss POWDER ScANT.

Cuban and Mexican Scares Delay New
Argentina and China Warships.
Washington, June $50 great is
the pressure on smokeless powder
mills and ammunition factories in the
United States, due to possible inter-
vention in Mexico and Cuba, that they
are unable to supply powder and shells
struction in this country for Argen-
tina and the cruiser for China. 1t was
found necessary to import smokeless
powder and other ammunition from
Belgium. The government smokeless
powder mills at Indian Head and Plea
tiny, the latter near Dover, Del. are
working three eight-hour shifts a day
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WILBUR WRIGHT is BURIED.
Funeral of Famous Inventor Attended
by Vast AssembIase.

Funeral of Famous Inventor Attended
by Vast Assemblase.
Dayton, O., June 3.-Wilbur Wright's
funeral was held here ON Saturday
and vast concourse of Dayton's citi-
zens turned out to pay a last tribute
to the famous inventor and aviator.
The public services took place at the
First Presbyterian church, Rev. DIR.
Maurice Wilson, the pastor, officiating.
and the edifice was crowded to it's full
est capacity.
The services, which were public and
were largely attended, consisted of the
singing of two hymns, a brief prayer
and a short address by Rev. Wilson.
Popular subscriptions are being
started by the Wright Memorial com
mission to erect a monument to Will
bur and Orville Wright on Huffman
Prairie, the scene of their first expert
ments with the glider and motor
driven flying machines.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-06-07
PLANE KILLS SPECTATOR.
Novice Aviator Hurties into Grand
Stand at Seattle.

Seattle, Wash, June While max
ing his first effort at flight in an aero
plane at an aviation meet at The
Meadows here, ]. Clifford Turpin
on THURSDAY hurtled into the grand
stand with his machine, fatally injur-
ing one man and child, and serious
ly injurlng fifteen others, six of whom
were women. The man and child
were taken to the county hospital
where the man died without being
identified, and the child is still hover
ing between life and death. Turpin
himself was badly cut about the face
and was rendered unconscious for sew.
eral minutes.