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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
MAY MASSACRE CHRISTIANS.
Beirut People Enraged at Smelling by
Italians.

Beirut, SYRIA strong anti
christian feeling is prevalent here
as an aftermath of the Italian BON
oardment, which wrecked the city and
Killed 90 innocent inhabitants and il is
feared On every side that a massacre
or Christians may result. The native
resentment against the followers of
CHRIST has been famed to fever heat
by the declaration of the Turks that
the town was shelled with view to
promoting this action to the end that
International Intervention might bring
speedy termination to the Tripoli
tan struggle that is costing Italy mil
lions of dollars.
Rome.-The chamber of Deputies
passed the bill for the annexation
or Tripoli by Italy by vote of
43l to SO amid cheering. Afterward
the members who voted against an
nexation, including the Socialists,
few Republicans and one Radical,
Prince Gaetani, were roundly Kissed
Only one member abstained from vot-
ing.
When the result became known en-.
thus1asm prevailed everywhere.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
80 CASH REGISTER
MEN ARE INDICTED
Indictment Charges Violation Of Anti
Trust Law-Bribe and Threat
Alleged.

Cincinnati. II special federal
grand jury here returned indic.-
ments charging thirty officials and
employees Of the National Cash Regis
ter company of Dayton, o., with Grim
inal violation Of the Sherman anti
trust law.
The following officers of the Nation
al Cash Register company are named
in the indictments:
John Il. Patterson. PRECEDENT
e. A Deeds, vice-president
u {. Edgeter. secretary.
w. +. Bippus. treasurer.
There are three counts in the indict-
ments against the officials and employ
es OF the company. The first count
charges that nearly all competitors
concerned have been brought out or
driven out of business 1t is charged
that restraint has been in operation
Tor the last twenty years, although the
specific charge is confined to the last
three years. 1t is said to have been
affected by bribing employees of COM
retitors and transportation, telegraph
and telephone companies, and injuring
the credit of competitors in libeling
their machines. The second and third
counts charge the defendants with
monopolizing the cash register bust
ness by the same means.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
LUMPc:R CONCERNS
DESf0IL INDIANS
Disclosures of SWindIinq to Be Laid
Before Congress-Biame on
Federal Law.

Washing ton.-As the result of an
investigation which was conduct
ed by Representative Graham
of Illinois. chairman of the COM
mittee on expenditures IN the in
terror department, disclosures of the
neglect and despoliation of the Chippe-
wa Indians in Minnesota are to be laid
before the house OF representatives.
Under the provisions of various acts
passed by congress in the last ten
years thousands of. the Indians on this
reservation were given timber lands
of extraordinary value and then in
duced to sell the timber to powerful
lumber companies operating in Mime
sofa.
The lumber concerns were even
enabled to carry out their gigantic
acquisition of timber by federal
law multiplying Minnesota statute.
Chairman Graham and Congress
man Henry George of New York re-
turned here from the reservation.
where they have been taking evidence
in the inquiry for nearly month.
They reported the Indians to be in a
deplorable condition. The committee
will hear additional witnesses in
Washington and then make report
to the house.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
GOVERNORS RALLY
TO SUPPORT TAFT
Twelve State Executives De-
clare for President.
ANSWER ROOSEVELT BOOM
All Republican Governors But Two
Rave Expressed Preference for
Presidential Candidate MEG vern
Stands b la Toilette.

washington, D. photographic
pledges of support from nine repub-
Hcan governors were given out here
from the campaign headquarters of
President Taft.
The executives going on record in
favor of the presidents denomination
were Eberhart, Minnesota; Carroll
Iowa; Hay, Washington; Goldsbor-
ough, Maryland; Tener, Pennsyl-
vania; Hooper, Tennessee; Sprv.
Utah; Penewell, Delaware. and Po-
thier, Rhode Islanu.
In addition to the signed state
ments made public, the Taft mana
gers claimed the support of Cows.
Deneen, Illinois; Oddie, Nevada, and
Mead, Vermont.
The announcement from the Taft
bureau is taken as an answer to the
Chicago conference of seven COVER
nors upon whose solicitation Col.
Roosevelt based his formal entry to
the presidential contest.
twenty-five states now have re-
publican governors, and all except
TWO are now accounted for in the
various statements of presidential
preferences. They are listed as fol-
lows: Declared for Taft, 8; claim
ed by Taft managers, 3; declared for
Roosevelt, Z; declared for La Fol-
lette, L; preference not announced, 2.
The governors who have declared
for Roosevelt are Glasscock, West
Virginia.; Aldrich, Nebraska; Bass,
New Hampshire; Osborn, Michigan;
Stubs, Kansas; Hadley, Missouri,
and Johnson, California.
Gov. Carey of Wyoming also sign
ed the governors letter" urging
Col. Roosevelt to become a candi-
date, but it is now declared that he
has reserved judgment. Neither has
GOV. Vesey of South Dakota an
nounced his choice The California
executive did not sign the letter, but
has since declared for the former
president
Gov. McGovern of Wisconsin is
committed to the candidacy of Sem
ator La Toilette
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
| MANY ACTS ARE
RENDERED VOID
Decision of Illinois Supreme Court
Kills Measures.
EXTRA SESSION NEXT WEEK
Appropriation of 500, 900 for State Uni
sersity Knocked Out Because Bill
Was Not Printed Before Adop-
tion-Many Rushed Through.

Springfield. Ill-Governor Deneen
will call the Illinois legislature in
special session some time next week,
If present plans are not changed.
The calling OF a special session of
the legislature is made necessary be-
cause the legality of many of the acts
passed during the last forty years is
In question as a result of the opinion
handed down by the supreme court
knocking out the appropriation of $780,
600 for the Illinois university medical
school.
The high court held the appropria-
ton void because in the passage of
the omnibus bill in the last general
assembly it was submitted to both
houses as conference report, which
conference report was not printed be-
fore being placed on it's passage.
Virtually all of the important laws
enacted since the new constitution
was adopted may be successfully as
sailed if the litigation is instituted and
If proof can be sustained that the con-
ference reports, by which route these
laws reached the final stage IN the
legislative hopper, were not printed
before being placed on their passage.
At cursory survey of the statutes
the following laws of more recent en-
actment may be considered as coming
within the inhibition Of the constitu-
ton as interpreted by the high court:
The municipal court act abolishing
the justice shops; the omnibus appro-
priation bill, carrying all Of the ap-
preparations for the conduct of state
institutions; statewide civil service
bill; county civil service measure put
ting all county employees under merit
rule; park civil service measure; com
mission form of government act, which
has been adopted at Springfield, H.,
and is in operation: senatorial appor-
tionment bill, under which the pres
ent members of the legislature are
divided into 81 districts in the state:
law providing for the payment into
the state treasury of all fees collected
by state officers; appropriation for
new building at the state fair grounds;
the Australian ballot act under which
present elections are held; the extor
ton and unjust discrimination act;
part of the garnishment act; the po-
lice pension fund law; the act regulat-
ing corporations in the state; the act
regulating the juror system in Illinois.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
When Bodysnatchers Thrived.

A link with the days of the body
snatchers was severed. recently, by
the death, at the age of 80, Of George
Florence of Culsalmond, Aberdeen.
Scotland, who at once time acted as
grave digger. He had many recollec-
lions of incidents associated with sup
preston of the ghoulish practice of
procuring bodies for dissection pur-
poses. In many churchyards a place
was set apart for the Watchers
friends and relatives of the deceased
who kept guard over the place of
burial for several nights after the
funeral. He used to say with pride
that Culsalmond churchyard was a
terror to bodysnatchers. In one cor
ner was watchhouse where the
bodies were kept for weeks after
death, until they were useless from
the anatomists' point OF view. The
walls We're of extraordinary thickness.
and the doors were of iron, doubly
locked. The keys were placed in the
custody of four keykeepers. elected
periodically, without whose personal
attendance no one could enter
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
MEX|CANS ATTACK
j. s. RANCHMEN
Battle Rages for Hours at Mel
son Morris Farm.
ADOBE USED AS A FORTRESS
Company of Texans Start Southwark
to the Relief of Men-Texas
Militiamen Fire on Reb-
els at FL Paso

Maria, Textile headquarters of
the Nelson Marris ranch, oppo-
site Sierra Blanca, was surrounded
by insurgents, and a battle between
American ranchmen and Mexicans
ragged for more than IL hours. A band
OF American cowsboys, well armed.
nave started southwark for the Rio
Grande, with the determination to re-
lease the besieged
Mexican cowboy brought news OF
the fight here. He brought an ap-
peal to the Texas cowboys for
assistance. Brown Pascal manager of
the ranch, four Americans and five
friendly Mexicans are said to be bar
rlcaded in large adobe ranch house
at Cuervo, headquarters of the ranch.
The insurgent band that is attempt
ing to capture the ranch is said to
number fifty. The ranch is one of the
largest in northern Mexico
According to the story of the cour-
Ter, the insurgents approached the
ranch and demanded stores, sad
dies, horses and guns. Pascal re-
fused and with the bookkeper,
Smoky" Miller, the foreman and
two other Americans took refug !.
in the house. 4 EEexican black
smith at the ranch is said to have
been killed
When the courier arrived at Polaris,
a small settlement on the Rio Grande,
he found several Americans They
1mediately scattered to the neighbor-
ing ranches and call for assistance
was sent to Sierra Blanca tele-
phone message from Polaris an
nounces that twelve Americans are
gathered there and another company
of fifteen is within a few miles of the
river. When the two camps are united
they declare that they will make a
dash for the besieged ranch, twenty
two miles inland
Three special trains loaded with
American soldiers passed through
Sierra Blanca, bound for Ell
Paso. An effort was made to have a
company Of the soldiers cross the riv-
er to save the ranchmen, but this was
refused.
An attack on Ojinaga, the Mexican
garrison town Opposite Preside, Tex,
is expected today. A large command
of insurgents is camped on the Con-
cho river and has demanded the sur
render of the city.
Eel Paso, Tex - small de-
tachment of company K, Texas state
militia, engaged in guarding the Ell
Paso electric light plant, was fired up
on by parties concealed behind
box cars and said to be Mexicans.
Maxim s1lencers were used on the
guns and more than twenty shots were
fired one bullet passing through the
hat Of one of the guardsmen.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
ANSWER is FILED BY STATE
viii Consider Rehearing on Validity
of the income Tax Law on
March IL.

Madison-Answer to the petition
of Harry w. Bolens, plaintiff in the
suit brought against the income tax
law, the constitutionality of which
was recently sustained by the SUI
preme court, has been filed by coun-
sci for the state. 1t is expected that
the court will consider the motion for
a rehearing of the action at the next
session on March r.
Bolen's petition is based on three
principal allegations, as follows:
That the taxation of income from
municipal bonds will incur the OBJ
legation of contract; that the taxa
ton of income of business in and
out of the state taxes interstate COM
merce, and that the act discrimin-
ates against residents of the state.
1t is contended that these points
were not fully argued at the first
hearing.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
Pipe Motorist Nav Smoke

The automobile has been respon-
sible for the invention and introduce
ton of many novel appliances which
were unheard of and which never
would have been considered necessary
In the old days. Here is one of the
latest. 1t is called the automobile
pipe, and every automobiles who has
tried to smoke cigar or pipe while
travelling at high speed will be inter
ested in studying its curious shape.
This. 1t is said by the inventor of the
pipe, will appeal to Automobiles who
are anxious to reduce wind resistance
by presenting a small cutting surface
to the wind.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
Buying a Habit,

A countryman passing through town
was attracted by notice in shop
window which read: Good Habits for
Sale, After studying it for some time
he went inside.
We'll, sir" said the assistant, what
can | do for your"
I want to get good habit, please"
said the countrymah.
What kind would you like, sir?"
said the assistant.
THE one of getting up early in the
morning" replied the countryman.
The assistant looked astonished;
then. seing joke wrote on a slip of
paper: please give bearer some self
raising flour" and then he directed
him to the grocery shop next door.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
Goes 5000 Miles to Marry

Charles Kayser, a miner, travelled by
horseback 400 miles from Candelaria
New, to Denver, Colo, to attend the
wedding of his youngest daughter.
Louise. Adolph Kurtz travelled 5000
miles from Rio Janerio, Brazil. to meet
Miss Kayser, his bride-to-be, and
Miss Kayser travelled from Nevada to
Denver, over 1000 miles by rail. The
Wedding marked the end of a college
rpmance that began several years ago
at Hopkins Institute. Baltimore. when
Miss Kayser was freshman and Mr..
Eurtz was senior.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
STILL WELD THEIR POWER
Mummies of Ancient Kings, 1t lis Do
ciared, Have Ability to Resent
lese Majesty.

A correspondent of the Egyptian
Gazette relates a strange adventure
that happened to him. He visited the
caro- Museum, accompanied by a
friend. and In the course of his in
spect1on came across the mummy OF
Ahmose l. in The wall case not far
from the jewel room.
lie turned to his companion and
maze some remark about the extreme
ugilness OF the mummy's face. No
sooner mad he made that remark than
ne WAS overcome with feeling OF
suHocatlon as If a cord was being
ugntened around his neck. The feel
Ing lasted for about minute and
1hen gradually began to pass away.
ne correspondent adds that be and
MS fellow traveller were considerably
shaken by the incident, which was all
the more extraordinary in that he
mad never had days Illness in his
life
doubtless scientists and medical
men will have their theory for this
incident, but all the same Il has an
uEcanny flavor. There is indeed
popular superstition, whether fathered
Dy the dragomans in order to mystify
ana oVeraWe tourists one cannot say,
that the mummies still retain the
powers OF wizardry which in the full
ness OF their life they were credited
with possessing. AS a result many
FOLK absolutely decline to look at the
mummified remains of Egypt's ancient
hihgs, as they aver the spirits OF those
personages will wreak their vengeance
on them for their profane gaze
! personally know level headed, ra-
tional residents who, fascinated by
The Sphinx, can stand and look at it
Tor an hour On end, but who would
go In mortal terror OF their lives IL
they were in it's presence to let fall
any personal remark about its ugli-
ness or dilapidated condition-Cairo
Letter to the London Standard.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
NURSE ADMITS KILLING BABES
Put Poison In Children's Food Be-
cause She Was Anqered.

Put Poison In Chldren's Food Be-
cause She Was Angered
New York.-After boldly defying
the detectives who questioned her
for two hours regarding the death
by oxalic acid of eight infants in the
Brooklyn nursery and infants hos
pital, Winifred Ankers, maid of all
work in the institution, said:
Il did It," she began. 81 did
not mean to kill the children
wanted to get even with the nurses
who had pestered me- About mid
night, when all was quiet, | went
into the kitchen, where the bottles of
milk and lime water were. They'd
been prepared for the children. /
poured two or three drops of oxalic
acid in each bottle. All / wanted to
do was to make the children sick, and
that would make trouble for the
nurses. That is all / didn't want
20 have the babies die. Good God, |
have got one of my own, haven't II"
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01

and will adhere to this decision until
the convention has expressed its pref
erence. One of the chief principles for
which l have stood and for which |
now stand and which | have always
endeavored and always shall endeav-
or to reduce to action is the genuine
rule of the people; and therefore |
hope that as far as possible the peo-
pie may be given the chance, through
direct primaries, TO express their
preference as to who shall be the
nominee of the Republican presiden-
tial convention.
Very truly yours,
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
The letter is addressed to Gov. Will
liam F. Glasscock of West Virginia.;
Gov. Chester Fl. Aldrich of Nebraska;
Gov. Robert P. Bass of New Hamp-
shire; Gov. Joseph M Carey, Wyom-
f ing; Gov Chase S. Osborn of Mich
igan: Gov w. r. Stubs of Kansas
and Gov. Herbert S. Hadley of Mis-
souri,
Governors Letter to the Colonel.
The letter from the governors to
the colonel was as follows:
Chicago, Feb. 10, 1912.
1--WE, the undersigned Republican
governors, assembled for the purpose
of considering what will best insure
the continuation Of the Republican
party as a useful agency Of good gov
eminent, declare 1t our belief, after
careful investigation of the facts, that
a large majority of the Republican
voters of the country favor your
nomination and large majority or
the people favor your election, as the
next president Of the United States.
1--WE believe that your candidacy
will insure success in the next cam
paign. We believe that you represent,
as no other man represents, those
principles and policies upon which we
must appeal for majority of the
votes of the American people, and
which In our opinion are necessary
for the happiness and prosperity of
the country.
owe believe that in view of this
public demand you should soon de-
clare whether, If the nomination for
the presidency come to you unso-
licfted and unsought, you will accept
Il.
4 "In submitting this request we are
not considering your personal inter
ests. We do nc1 regard 1t as proper
to consider either the interests or the
preference Of any man as regards the
nomination for the presidency. We
are expressing our sincere belief and
best judgment as to what Is demanded
of you in the interests Of the people
as a whole. And we feel that you
would be unresponsive to plain pub
lie duty If you should decline to &C
cept the nomination, coming as the
voluntary expression Of the wishes OIL
majority of the Republican voters OF
the United States, through the actlon
of their delegates in the next national
convention.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
40 PERISH IN COAL MINE.
Fire Starts In Shaft. Cutting Off Es-
cape of Many of the Miners.

Lehigh, Okla.-Fire started in
mine No. of the Wichita Coal
& Mining company, one mile east of
here, entombing many men in the pit.
1t is believed that between twenty and
forty miners lost their lives.
The filling up of the shafts with
smoke and the failure of the machin-
cry to work prevented their rescue.
Six dead bodies have been recovered
from the mine and the work is still be-
ing pushed
When the fire started warning of
the disaster was spread through the
mine. and more than 100 miners
either walked out or were carried out
by rescuers. overcome by smoke. A
large number, unconscious from suf-
location, We're revived after reaching
the fresh air.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
STRIKE IN BRITAIN is SURE.
Attempts to Prevent Waikout 81
Far Fail

London. = With the government
cropping desperately for a means
to avert an overwhelming national
catastrophe; with the coal owners of
Great Britain obdurate in their stand
for a minimum wage scale and the mil
lion or more men involved encouraged
by the news of trouble among the
anthracite miners of Pennsylvania,
there is practically no hope that the
walkout set for next Thursday can
be forestalled.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
STATE SWEPT BY CYCLONE.
Loss of Life and Destruction of Proy

Loss OF Life and Destruction of Prop
erty in Southern Arkansas.
st. Louis. =. Eight persons were
Killed by cyclone that swept
over a section of southern Arkansas.
Many more were injured Following
so quickly upon the storm of last
Thursday great suffering is being
caused among the people of that Sec
ton.
binding snowstorm swept over
portions of Kansas, Missouri and
southern Illinois.
The storm devastated a section of
Arkansas forty miles south of Little
Rock.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
WILL NOT DEFEND SLAYER.
Lawyers Unwilling to Take Case of
Monk Murderer.

ST. Petersburg dispatch from
Warsaw says the Polish and Rus
sian lawyers have declined to under
take the defense of Damazy Macoch,
the monk from the Pauline convent at
Czenstochowa, who killed his cousin,
Waclaw Macoch, in cell, and sewed
the body in a sofa He confessed to
the murder. The motive given by the
lawyers is that they do not desire to
mix in the internal affairs of the
church.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
Modern ADVERTISING

Today, advertising is upon fair
square and firm basis. recognized as
commodity, as part of the bush
ness structure. and accepted by tie
public as necessity. 1t is framed as
one would plan house, built upon the
lines of sense and permaneDcy, ane
has become a permanent and aceepta-
BILE feature in the life of business and
In the life of all of the people.-Na.
thaniel c. Fowler, Jr.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-03-01
MORE RIOTING AMONG WORKERS.
Mill Strikers Clash With Police After
Arrests Are Made,

Will strikers CIdSn with FCllCe A1Ier
Arrests Are Made.
Lawrence, Mass.-A recurrence of
riotous scenes marked the beginning
of the seventh week of the mill work
ers' strike. The disturbances, how
ever, were not connected with the eX-
portation of children
Police officers were forced to use
their clubs on a crowd of strike SYM
pathizers, who haC thrown stones at
them, following some arrests. A small
number of infantrymen and a troop of
cavalry were sent to the scene and
we're kept busy for some time dispers-
ing the crowd, which offered no active
resistance to the soldiers.
The city officials gave back to the
parents most of the children who were
taken in charge as they were about to
be placed in train en- route for Phila-
delphia. The children had passed the
night at the city poor farm.