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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
ROOSEVELT LANDS
SAFELY At HOME
Big Crowd Greets Colonel at
Oyster Bay.
STANDS TRIP IN GOOD SHAPE
Throngs at Stations Along Route Re.
frain From Making Demonstra-
tons, Fearing to Disturb
Wounded Ex-president.

New York. Oct 23.-When Theodore
Roosevelt reached Oyster Bay on Tues
day OIL his way to Sycamore Hill,
nearly everybody in town was out TO
receive him, but it was not the noisy
celebration his neighbors had planned.
The village was decorated with flags
and bunting, the big Roosevelt and
Johnson banner across the street be-
ing the only touch Of color aside from
flags citizens few from their resi-
dences. The people who gathered at
the station and on the streets stood
respectfully while Colonel Roosevelt
was placed in one of the Sycamore
Hill automobiles and hurried to his
home.
This was because members of the
coloneTs family had requested that the
proposed celebration be called off lest
it unduly excite him at the end Of his
long journey from Chicago.
The village had planned a celebra-
ton that would have warmed the can
didate's heart, were he we'll enough
TO stand it. There were to be flags,
a band and all the demonstration that
goes with the return to his home Of a
popular champion.
The colonel's trip from Chicago was
one of the most extraordinary ever
undertaken by a candidate for the
presidency.
Unable, because of sheer weakness,
to show himself on the platform Of
r,Tiryo 70 H.
er with blinds drawn in his state
room listened with throbbing heart to
the soft murmuring of eager throngs
as they clustered at stations along the
way. AS the train rolled into Pitts
burg last night the colonel, shaken up
by the jostling of the train, meekly
confessed to Dr. Alexander Lambert.
Scurry Terrell, is making the trip with
hin, that he was tired out"
I'm going to put in sound night
of Sleep" he sighed "Pll be all right
again in the morning"
The bullet nesting in the colonels
chest and the splintered rib gave him
more discomfort than the wounded
jolted at times the ex-president expert
enced piercing pain. But he bore it
without a whimper.
He asked for quiet, feeling himself
that he needed to conserve all the
strength at his command for the long
run to Oyster Bay. He seemed to
realize for the first time that carrying
a bullet on railroad Journey is moth
ing to be regarded lightly. Even a
Bull Moose when wounded has to look
out.
AS the train proceeded on it's way
through the various states 1t became
evident that the crowds were out, not
to merely cheer the colonel, but to
show their sincere sympathy for him
in silent attitude. They would gaze
upon the car, walk around it and talk
in muf1ed tones OF the leader being
borne to his home to recover from the
assassin's bullet.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
TAFT OPENS DAIRY SHOW
Touching Electric Button in Wash
ington, He Formally inaugurates
Milwaukee's Exhibition.

automatically the pressing of
an electric button at the White house
in Washington, which connected with
a gong in the Auditorium, President
Taft formally opened Milwaukee's
dairy show. kilograms of congratu
lation were received from Theodore
Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Senator
La Toilette, John c. Karel and Gov.
McGoyern.
More than 1000 persons crowded
the Auditorium and listened to an
address of welcome by Mayor Bad
ing, who congratulated the associa-
ton upon the magnitude and excel
lency Of the exhibits and called upon
the citizens of Milwaukee to CO.
operate in spreading Wisconsin's
dairying reputation.
There are displays in every de-
partment of dairying from all parts
of the country. The milk exhibit is
the largest ever assembled, and the
butter and cheese exhibits also have
never been equaled at any other
show The cattle herds of the show
will total a value of over $500, 900.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
BIG CALL FOR STATE AID
1912 Requests for Highway Work
Cash Nearly Double Total
Last Year.

Madison.-That the government in
Wisconsin for better roads has re-
ceived a great impetus through the
influence of the state highway COM
mission appears now fully in the
compilation just made by CHIEF En-
gineer A. R. Hirst of that body which
shows that towns and counties of
the state ask for state aid for high
way construction in 1913 in the sum
of $811,150 as compared with $453,-
All asked for in 1912. Only three
counties have failed to file petitions
for aid-Ozaukee, Sawyer and Wash
burn.
Under the law, however, it will be
impossible for the commission to
grant all the petitions in full for the
reason that the amount available for
state aid is only S378,00O.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
ALL ARE EAGER FOR CHANGE
Overwhelming Desire That Pursues
Mankind From the Cradle to
the Grave.

Man is a curious animal He is
never satisfied When we say man"
we mean men and women-the same
that God created in his own image.
Restlessness is common attribute
of humanity. 1t begins with the era
die. 1t never ceases until we reach
the grave. The only quiet man is the
dead man.
The school becomes irksome to the
boy and it requires all the pressure
of the parent to keep him at his
studies. He thinks he knows better
than father Or mother. They point
out the need Of an education if he
would succeed. He replies that he
has two hands and a brain and that
he can make his own living in his
own way Sometimes he tries it.
When he falls in the bitterness Of his
soul he recalls with repentance his
refusal to listen to his parents.
The girl, willful and headstrong, ac-
cepts questionable company. She neg
Iects the church for the Sunday pic
mic and gives up the Bible for the
sensational, silly and romantic novel
What was good enough for her moth
er IS not good enough for her She
wants a change She must have 1t.
She will have it. Finally she has it
and perhaps repents in tears and I'M
speakable anguish.
The patient who does not inme-
diately recover wants to try another
physician, other remedies or a change
OF climate The doctor may warn
against the danger they invite, but
the restless soul cries out for
change. 1t takes the chances of life
and death, and with the latter comes
the greatest Of all changes in the still
ness Of the grave.
Workingmen whose recompense of
toll has given them comfortable
homes, educated children, good books,
carpets on the floors and curtains on
the windows are told by self-seeking
demagogues that they ought to vote
for a change
The warning of the Master against
the pharisees, the hypocrites and
blind guides, John A Sleicher writes
IN Leslie's, might well be read by
those who are now inclined to lend a
listening ear to the outcry from dema.
gogues, great and small, for a change,
and particularly one that will put
them in easy. comfortable and profit.
able public places.
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News Notes of Wisconsin.

Oshkosh. having drawn "a
widows pension since 1884, on the
belief that her husband was dead,
Mrs. Minnie Mentzel learned that he
is alive in Cincinnati, o. Mentzel
disappeared in 1877 and after seven
years he was declared legally dead"
and the pension awarded. He was a
veteran of the Civil war. He former
ly lived in Fond du Lac.
Milwaukee. - Thomas McGraw,
aged 81, Richland farmer, was run
Down and fatally injured by a Mil
Waukee road train at Horizon. His
left leg was several below the knee
and his chest crushed. After the &C
.,ident, McGraw was placed on board
che train and brought to local hos
pital, where he died
Sparta. Timothy Folts, the 10
year-old son of Fred Folts, Big
Creek, met an accidental death here.
He was on his way to the school
house, cutting across lots, and in
climbing over a high wire fence I'M
doubtedly lost his balance. In fall
ing a strap which encircled his neck
caught on a post and strangled him
Waukesha.-Mrs. J. w. Grant re-
turned to her home in Mukwonago
and discovered that her husband had
covered himself in bed with quilts,
then shot himself, probably fatally.
The bullet entered the right temple
and came out on the left. Grant fire.
nuently became discouraged because
of attacks of heart trouble.
Appleton-The 500 railway has
started proceedings against the city
to set aside the assessment on the
railways ore dock. The action is
asked under the terminal taxation
law of 1911, on the ground that the
law is unconstitutional.
arinette-Former State Senator
Fl. P. Bird was badly burned when q
lighted match was thrown on his
robe, firing it.
Fond du Lac.-Otto lander, Bril-
lion, candidate for elector on the re-
publican ticket from the sixth dis
trict, rendered his resignation. On
July 16, Zander issued a statement to
The effect that if elected he would
be unable to cast his electoral vote
Cor the republican nominee. 1t is ex-
nected that his successor will be a
La Toilette republican, who will vote
for Taft in the event of his election.
Two Pivers.-Dealers who have
been supplying this city with milk
threaten to stop deliveries if a pro-
posed ordinance requiring tests of
cattle is passed by the city council.
Madison.-The income tax as
sessed in Outagamie county, accord
ing to a statement given out on Fri
day by the Wisconsin tax commits
sion, is S67,476.04, of which $50
1855 is on corporations and ST.
1859 on firms and individuals. Aft
er deducting the offset for personal
property taxes, the total yield will be
approximately s39,758. The tax as
sessed in Shawano county is $5,-
986.23, of which S4,917.13 is on cor
porations and s1,06915 on individu-
ais and firms. After deducting the
offHet the total yield will be about
s2.78O.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
COULCN STRIKES A TARTAR
Bantam Champion Is Second Best In
Go With Kid Williams.

New York, Oct. 21-Kid Williams
of Baltimore proved a tartar to John
ny Coulon, champion bantamweight
Of the world, in a furious and fast
ten-round bout, which went the limit
at the Garden Athletic club last night
Williams gained the honors in six of
the ten rounds. Coulon haN the better
Of two rounds and two were even.
But while Williams defeated the
champion he did not win the coveted
title as a championship cannot be de-
cided except by referees decision or
knockout AS Williams failed to &C
complish this, Coulon holds the title.
although 1t is an empty one
Coulin entered the ring weighing
1111a pounds; Williams weighed
1151h.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
COLLEGE MOB ATTACKS THEATER
Hundreds of Students of Illinois Uni
versity in Riot.

Hundreds of Students of Illinois Uni
versity in Riot.
Champaign, H., Oct 22.-Many per
sons were injured here on Saturday
in battle between 1000 students
from the University of Illinois, who
were celebrating the football victory
over Indiana, and the local police and
stage hands, when the college men at
tackled the Walker opera house.
Those more severely injured were:
Grace Medley. chorus girl; Grace
Fletcher. chorus girl: Pete Andrews,
stage hand; Pearl Harper, chorus girl;
Elmer Dillavou, Champaign High
school student
Charles Adkins. speaker of the ILL
nois house of representatives. was the
first victim OF the students. who in
terrupted his open-air speech for Taft
and Mckinley by crowding around
his automobile and yelling and shoot
ing revolvers.
Following the breaking up of the
political meeting, the students cried:
ITO the Walker and quickly besieged
the playhouse where I'm Frisky
France" was being presented to a
crowded house.
The mob massed at the stage en-
trance and began to batter down the
door, at the same time hurting mis-
siles at the windows, which were
smashed. The door gave way and the
crowd started to surge in, but was
repulsed by stage hands with clubs
and revolvers.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
GARY NEWSBOY is DEAD.
Willie Rush. Who Gave His Leg 70
Skin Graftino SuccumbS.

Willie Rush. Who Gave His Leg for
Skin Grating, Succumbs.
Gary, Ind, Oct 21-Smiling cheer
fully and fearlessly into the very face
of DEATH William Rugh, the Gary
newsboy who sacrificed his left leg to
furnish sufficient live skin to heal the
burns Of Ethel Smith, paid the pen
atty of his sacrifice with his life on
Friday.
A few weeks ago Miss Smith was
burned In motorcycle accident. DR..
j: A. Craig, her physician, realized
that a large area of skin must be
grated on her if her life was to be
saved. So great was the amount need
ed that the surgeon despaired of fill
ing the need. Then Willie Rugh of
fered to give his withered leg for the
grating
1T never done me much good, any
way" he explained.
The grating was successfully per
formed and the lads leg was taken
off Just below the hip. Several days
ago Miss Smith was discharged from
the ospital-cured. But the anes-
thetic given Rugh before the opera
ton had been too much for his weak
lungs, Pneumonia developed and
caused his death
memorial tablet is to be erected
In Gary in honor of Willie Rugh and
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee, Oct. 30, 1912.

Butter 49, Creamery, extras, 29c;
prints, SOC; firsts, 2702Sc; seconds.
24@25c; renovated, 4O25c; dairy,
fancy, 26c.
Cheese - American, full cream,
new made, twins, 17017Ac; Young
Americas, 17A @1715; daisies, II
0174ac; longhorns, 1907 &c; lin
burger, lie; brick, 16%c.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as
to quality, 23025c; recandled, ex-
tras, 2S@30c; seconds, 1S@19c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, II l2c; roos-
ters, 9@97ac; springers, 13c
Potatoes-Early Ohio, Minnesota,
Wisconsin or Michigan, 3S@42c.
Wheat-No. I, northern, SO 094c:
No. 2, northern, 92c; No. 3, northern.
8Sc; No. l, velvet, soc.
Corn-No. 3, yellow, 66Ac.
Oats-No. 3, white, 33c; standard.
33%c.
Barley-No. 8, 64@72c.
Rye-No. 2, sc 071c.
Cattle-Butchers' steers, 6.15@
S.35; heifers, SIS @7.35; COWS, $40
@6.S5; feeders, 5.4O05.S5; calves,
8.25@9.50.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, SIS
@9.15; fair to best light, $3.50
$50; pigs, 6.0O@7.OO.
Sheep-Lambs, 5.65@765; ewes,
3.65 @4.10.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
What He Needed,

Public servants in Boston are mark
eddy more courteous than those OF
New York. A Bostonian of our &C.
Quaintance was in the habit, on Morn
ings After, of going to drug store,
confiding his symptoms to the soda
clerk and having the clerk give him
what he needed-Sp. ANN. Aromat
or something of that sort. One Morn
ing After our hero was in New York.
He entered a drug store and said to
the man at the fountain: I'm afraid
l drank and smoked altogether too
much last night and I'm feeling kind
of seedy this morning. What do l
need?" "A ten-cent check" replied
the clerk.-Metropol Magazine.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
IDAHO SENATOR PASSES AWAY
Weldon 3. Hepburn Dies at His Home
in Washnqton.

Washington, Oct. Ex-senator Wei.
don B. Hepburn of Idaho died in his
apartments here on Thursday night.
Senator Hepburn had been Ill for sew
eral weeks.
Weldon Brinton Hepburn Of Wal
lace, Idaho, was born in Delaware
county, Pa, May %. 1852.
In 1876 he was admitted to the bar
and practiced law until he became a
member Of the senate. He moved to
Idaho in 1888.
Senator Hepburn was a member of
the convention which framed the con-
stitution of Idaho. He served as dele
gate to four Republican national con-
ventions. and was a candidate for con-
gress in 1898. In 1903 he was elect
ed to the senate and in 1910 he was
reelected. His term would have ex-
pired March s. 1915.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
.LAFOLLETTE TELLS
WHERE HE STANDS
Will Not Vote for Taft, RO0se-
welt or Wilson.
IN INDEPENDENT POSITION
Wisconsin Senator, in la Crosse
Speech. Declares He Desires to be
IN Place Where He Can Aid wilson,
IT Latter Is Elected.

La Crosse. Declaring that he
proposed to pursue an absolutely i'm
dependent position in respect to the
national political situation and that
he did not intend to vote for either
Taft, Roosevelt or Wilson for presi-
dent, Senator r. Nj. La Toilette made
known his attitude on this question
for the first time in the present cam
paign. in a speech in the La Crosse
theater.
Senator La Toilette compared the
administrations of Roosevelt and
Taft and said that neither had prose
cuted trusts to an extent that Kept
pace with the growth of the monopo-
lies. He further said:
THE operation of separating the
illegal trusts. from legitimate bust
ness requires the highest degree of
skill and a trained eye and master
mind. 1t is no job for bull moose.
Judging by what has happened in the
last four years it doesn't seem to be
a job for an amiable, easy going fat
man.
Il propose to pursue an absolutely
independent position. | do pot in
tend to vote for any Of these three
men. | am to remain in the United
States senate four years. | want to
be in a position, if Wilson is elected
and shows the proper mettle, to join
with the other progressive republi-
can members to advance the interests
of the people in this country in sup
port OF his policies.
Il also want to be in position
where | can assist Mr.. Wilson if he
should be elected president and not
be taxed with any responsibility for
his stand. Now you know where
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
DAM BREAKS; LAKE RUNS OUT

Summer Resort Property Made Al
most VaIueIess by Accident.
Ludington, Mich, Oct. 2t.-The wa
ter of Hamlin lake, a popular summer
resort nine miles north of this city,
is rapidly running into Lake Mich
igan. A concrete dam which held the
water back gave way from some unex-
planned cause, and the lake, II miles
long and mile wide, soon will be a
mere stream. Many cottages and ho-
tells will be practically valueless until
the dam is rebuilt. The damage is es-
timated at $4,000.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
Fruit Jar Cuts a Throat.

Mrs. George Gibbony of Honesdale
was the victim of peculiar accident.
which may cost her life She had been
canning fruit, and started down cellar
with an armful of jars, when she
tripped and fell headlong. The jars
were broken in her fall and a piece
of jagged glass cut her throat so Sc
riously that physicians fear she will
not recover
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
MISSILE HURLED AT JOHNSON
Negro Puoiilst Has Narrow Escape
When Man HurIs Inl<WeII

When Man HurIs lnkWel.
Chicago, Oct 21.-While a crowd of
500 persons at Monroe and Dearborn
streets was kissing Jack Johnson and
jeering at a bodyguard Of six strong
arm men who cleared way for the
negro pugilist to reach his automo-
bile, man leaned from an upper win
dow of the First National Bank build
ing and threw a heavy glass inkwell
at Johnson's head. The inkwell miss
ed it's mark.
Johnson drove up to the First Ma
tional bank a few minutes after he
left the court room of Judge Hopkins
in the Criminal Court building, where
the hearing of the charge against him
of abducting Lucille Cameron, nine
teen years old, had been continued to
October 20, in order that the federal
government might investigate charges
that the Mann white slave act had
been violated.
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Dynamite Ire shing Machine.

Marinette.-A big crew of thrsh-
ers narrowly escaped death five miles
from Pound, this county, when the
big threshing engine owned by Matt
Stankiewitz of Pound was blown up
by dynamite early in the night. The
dynamite was first planted" in the
boiler fues of the engine and was
then exploded by means of a fuse. No
cause for the deed is known.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
FARM WOMEN ATTEND MEET.
Gecond international Congress Opened
Today at Lethbridge, Alberta.

Lethbridge, Alberta, Oct. 23.-Knox
church was filled to capacity on
Tuesday when President Byrtha l..
Stavert Of Winnipeg called to order
the second International Congress Of
Farm Women. Only one year old, the
organization has had a remarkably
rapid growth in the western part Of
the United States and Canada, and it
has affiliated organizations in South
Africa, Belgium, Hungary, Australia
and other lands. The object of the
congress is TO improve the conditions,
financial, physical, social and spiritual,
of the homes in agricultural communi-
ties and its scope is wide.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
FAIR ELECTIONS THEIR AIM.
Society Is Formed With View to End
ing Vote Buying.

Bristol, Va, Oct 23.--in order to
put an end to the practice Of vote
buying in the Ninth congressional dis
trict, where it is admitted that there
are 10000 fioaters, and where over
100000 was spent in the last con
gressional election, Fair Election
society was formed here at mass
meeting of prominent politicians OF
both parties from all over the dis.
trict. The purpose Of the society Is tc
eliminate the use of money and II
quor
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
Consis tency,

Il see you have changed your mind
on that question OF publi~ policy
Not at ALL replied the man who
keeps his ear to the ground Il am
simply expressing the views l always
held, but which it has only recently
seemed expeoient to publicly indorse."
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Lang Read stevenson's Manuscript.

IdHg Hcdu StcVcnSonS Manuscript.
Between Andrew Lang and Steven
son there was a great depth of affec-
ton, which had come into being when
Lang read Ordered South" and was
instantly sealed of the tribe of Louis.
an admirer, devotee, a fanatic"
When Lang first heard from Robert
Louis Stevenson of the germ of DR..
Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde he said. In the
words of another, This will never
do" but it was to him that Long
mans sent the manuscript of the IA
nous story. In very commonplace
drawing room, as he said, he began to
read it at 1890 one night. Arriving
at the place where Utterson, the law
yer, and the doctor wait outside the
doctors room he threw down the
manuscript and fled Il had no taste
for solitude any more.'-Pall Mall Ga
Zette.
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Sleeps Between Dead Men.

Awakening after night spent IN an
old barn on the Taber farm. near Lit
tie Silver, n. J.. into which he had
crawled for shelter, a hobo discovered
he had been sleeping between two
dead men, who, the police say. have
been tramping through this section as
umbrella members. The tramps died
from alcoholic poisoning. Beside
them were partly filled bottles con
tanning water and wood alcohol
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-10-25
KNOX STILL ON THE JOB.


From Public Life.
Washington, Oct. 23.-"I neither
authorized nor knew OF any such
statement being contemplated by any.
one, and am not at present addressing
my mind on that subject" said Sec,
rotary Knox, referring to published
statement that he had declared his in
tention Of declining to remain in pub
lie life after March next, regardless
Of political changes
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In Memory of Dead i'm China

Canton. China, Oct. 21--At the re-
quest of Dr. Sun Vat Sen a memorial
service was held Friday for the per-
sons who died here in 1894 in the first
attempt 1t a revolution. 1t was di
rected by Doctor Sun.
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600 StarVe to Death.

New York, Oct. 23.-Conditions Of
extreme privation in Venezuela are
described in a letter received from
Caracas. in the state of Truji11o, Mon
day. Six hundred persons have starved
to death during the past season.