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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
EXTRA SESSION Of
LEGISLATURE ENDS
Wisconsin SoIons Finish Work
ON Emergency Measures.
WATERP0WER BILL KILLED
Twenty Two Laws Enacted in Seven
DAYS Session-OnIy Three Meas
ures Proposed in Gail Met Defeat
Public Lands Bill Loses.

MadisOn.-The special session of
the Wisconsin legislature for 1912
came to az end after a session of
Just sever legislative days, soon fol-
lowing the signing by the governor
of the measures passed Twenty-Five
laws were enacted seventeen as
sembly bills and five senate meas
rres.
Thirteena bills were introduced in
the senate, five were passed and
eight were killed. Three Joint reso-
lutions and three senate resolutions
were introduced in the upper house
The most important bills passed
during the session were:
Appropriating 100000 to Black
River Falls to relieve the destitu-
ton caused by flood, improve. sani-
tary conditions and construct dams
and retaining walls to safeguard city
in future.
Appropriating $4,000 to strength
en- the levee system in and near the
city Of Portage,
Appropriating $4,000 for a COM
mittee appointed. to investigate the
general levee system in and near
Portage and report to the governor.
Providing fC~ nOn-partisan NUM-
cipal elections in the city of Milwau-
kee and all of the cities of the state.
Providing that presidential cleo
tors shall be elected at the platform
convention instead of by presidential
delegates.
Validating election of delegates to
national convention.
Clearing up points in election laws
and the fish and game laws.
Authorizing the use. of short berry
boxes, properly marked, until March
l, 1918.
Legislation on three subjects in
the call of Gov. McGovern for the
special session failed of recognition.
They were measures for waterpower
control, the legislation asked to
limit the sale. of state lands to set
tiers and providing no more than
100 acres should be sold to any per-
son, and the measures to place the
rough fishing industry in the hands
of the state. State Treasurer Dahl
believes great mistake was made
in the defeat of the land bill, which
he says would have proved of great
advantage in preventing state lands
falling into the hands of specula-
tors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
MRS. JOHN KERWlN is DEAD
First Woman County Superintendent
in Wisconsin Expires at Racine
Was a Prominent Educator.

Racine-Mrs. John Kerwin, the
first woman in Wisconsin to be elect
ed county superintendent of schools,
died at her home in Silver Lake,
Kenossha county. Mrs. Kerwin,
who before her marriage was Miss
Maria Agnes Worsley, was born at
Yorkville, Racine county, on June
16, 1864. She was elected county
superintendent of schools in 1890 on
the democratic ticket. She was treas
urer of the southeastern division of
the Wisconsin State Teachers asso-
citation, was a member of the Nation
al Educational association, and pres
ident of the Racine County Teachers
association.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
TO PROVIDE TENTS
FOR FAIR VISITORS
8oard of Agriculture Expects
to Adopt Housing Plan.
HOTEL MEN ARE INDIGNANT
Declare Fair May Lose Their Finan-
cial Support If the Plan of Erect
ing Sleeping Quarters in Corner of
Park Is Carried Out.

MIlwaukee.-If plans of Secretary
J. c. Mackenzie of the state board
OF agriculture are adopted. out-of-
town visitors at the 1912 state fair
may make their home during the
week on the fair grounds. Arrange
ments have been made to supply
tents cots, etc, to all applicants at
a nominal cost. The camp will be
in the grove back of the administra-
ton building.
Milwaukee hotel proprietors are
indignant over the plan of the state
fair board to provide tents for the
accommodation of visitors. The no
tel men say that the plan would not
work, and would have a bad effect
upon their business.
A member of the fair board says
that although the plan had not been
formally put before the board, it had
been the intention of several of the
members for several years to inau-
gurate such a system for the con-
yenience of the farmers who come to
the fair with several children and
find it difficult to secure accommo-
dations in the city hotels. He said
that he had little doubt but what
the plan would be adopted by the
board at its next meeting.
Under the plan, each family will
be able to secure a single or a dou-
bic tent at a reasonable cost.
The hotel proprietors have con-
tributed large stakes for the races
each year, and it is said by several
that this support might be withdrawn
if the plan was adopted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
ESCAPE IS NOT VERY EASY
Fleeing Defaulter in These Days Is
Likely to Be Nahbsd in
Foreign Port

How many men holding positions Of
financial responsibility are there, I
wonder, who, reading in the evening
paper Of the capture Of a criminal in
some far land, have not thought, "Ah!
but I am cIeverer than that. How easy
it would be for me to fill a valise with
these banknotes and slip away from
cares and worries to the shelter Of
some easier-gOing land"
But it is not worth while, my
friends. Men as brainy and as bril-
liant as you have tried it, and a neg
Jected grave south Of the line or
cOnyict's number II a northern prison
marks their ends.
Given the opportunity, rlan 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 casket
or a cell the hunt never haIts nor
flags. The submarine cables and the
wireless dash-d0t 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 gangplaDk as the passen-
gers come ashore, scrutinizng each
ia turn; his picture and his descrip-
tiOn 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-civiGzed countries with
which we have no definite arrange
meHts for the surrender of fugitives-
Morocco, perhaps, or Abyssinia, At
ghanistan or Persia, one Of the Cen
frai Asian Ehanates or the Central
American republics 1t will be only
matter of weeks at most before his
presence becomes known and news of
At 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-
tiFe's surrender, promising, perhaps,
to recipTocate should opportunity Of
fer. and the shah or sultan, or presi-
dent, as the case may be, preferring
the good viii 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
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
DYING JUDGE NAMED SLAYER.
Massie Told Witness That sidna Allen
"KiIIed Him"

Wytheville, Va, May "Sidna AL
len killed met" These were the dying
words of Judge Massie as he lay
mortally wounded beside the bench in
the Carroll county courthouse at Hills
vile after the court had been shot
up by the Allen gang, according to
Daniel Thomas, a lumberman, who
was a witness Thursday at the trial
Of Floyd Allen.
Thomas was one of the two or three
men who did not fee from the court
room when the firing began, but re
manned to care for the injured.
Many character witnesses testified
that they had found Floyd Allen re.
spectacle and honest in business deal
ings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
SEVEN DROWNED IN STORM.
Party of Merrymakers Lose Lives in
Fox Lake, Ill,

Fox Lake, ILL.,, May 1.-THE body of
Mrs. Mabel Hansen, twenty-five years
old, of Chicago, who, with a party OF
six persons, were drowned in a 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, IngIeside,
Ill; Jacob Hoefer, twenty-five years
old, Desplaines, ILL.,; Michael KIunder,
twenty-four years old, Chicago; Louis
Truschke, twenty-stx years old, saloon
keeper, Chicago; unidentified man,
twenty years old.
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.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
CONCENTRATE TROOPS ON
BANKS OF RIO GRlNDE
Troop Of Cavalry and Regiment of In
fantry Ordered Hurried to United
States From Philippines.

Washington, May 9.-Orders have
been issued at the war department for
the immediate return to the United
States OF the Second cavalry and Fifth
regiment OF infantry, now in the Phil
ippines.
After arriving in San Francisco the
cavalry viii proceed without delay to
Fort Huachicha, on the border of Mex
leo, in Arizona. The infantry will go
to San Antonio for distribution along
the Rio Grande.
1t is most significant that all of the
United States troops acclimated to
the tropics through service in the
Philippines, are now being quietly
withdrawn from the islands and quiet
" assigned TO positions on the border.
1t was stated at the war department
that before June Is every cavalry regi-
ment in the United States will be on
duty on the Rio Grande.
It is confidently anticipated that
within the next few days the Eleventh
Infantry, now stationed at Fort Rus
sell, Wyo., will be on its way to San
Antonio. Cars for the transportation
OF these troops have, already arrived
at the fort.
In explaining the preparations at
Fort Russell, the war department an
nounced that it proposed to be ready
for any emergency.
Escalon, Mex. May General
Orozco, in command of the rebels
here, has refused to recognize the
provisional government established
last week at Juarez.
He has sent Gomez telegram
threatening him with arrest unless he
leaves Mexico. Gomez, it is under
stood here, is virtually a prisoner in
Juarez. Orozco says he only invited
Gomez to come and consult him and
not to set up a government
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
S ate Death Total Decreases.

Madison.-A marked decline in
the number of deaths reported from
nearly all of the dangerous commun-
fcable diseases is noted in the quar-
terly report of the state bureau Of
vital statistics on the monthly NOR
tally. The total number of deaths
reported to the bureau during Jan
uary, February and March, 1912,
was 1868. 1t corresponds to ar
annual death rate for the state Of
1877 per 1000 estimated popula-
ton, as compared with the rate of
1877 for the same period of 1911, in
dicating that the rate for the first
quarter of 1912 is one per 1000 less
than for last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23

Three Carloads of Shrubs and Trees
Are Being Used to Beautify
State House Grounds.

Madison.-Three carloads of trees,
shrubs and plants have arrived from
an eastern nursery, consigned to the
capitol commission for planting in
the capitol park, and workmen are
placing them in accordance with the
design adopted by the commission.
There are some forty-five varieties
in all, approximately 3,242 plants
and, should they all grow, in a few
years are expected to transform the
park into a place of rare beauty.
The larger number of trees to be
planted are red oaks and these are
distributed around the park on either
side of the walk, 216 of them in all,
good sized, young trees, we'll formed
and seem in perfect condition
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Caught After Long Chase.

Madison.-A three year search for
Thomas Lee, indicted in Madison,
with his two partners, in February,
1909, for fraudulent use of the mails,
eliminated in the arrest of the fugi-
tive in Philadelphia. His TWO part
ners had pleaded guilty and have al
ready served their terms. Lee and
his two partners had been operating
swindles on produce merchants
throughout the west for many years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Limestone Dam Caused Swami.

Appleton.-That a ridge of lime
stone a fourth of mile in width and
two miles long in section 27, town
of Center, formed hidden dam
which held the water back and
caused the Center swamp in the very
heart of Outagamie county, is the
discovery made by County Surveyor
Charles H. GilIet, who has just fin
ished a survey upon order of the
court in a petition for the drainage
of the big swamp.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Former State Senator Suicides.

MISUNDERSTANDING scandal,
that threatened to break in court,
Christian A. Koenitzer, former state
senator from the Seventh district,
real estate dealer and saloon keeper,
who was arrested a few days ago on
statutory charges, shot himself
through the right temple with a re-
volver in the rear room of his sa-
loon. Death was instantaneous.
Koenitzer was in charge of a deputy
sheriff at the time, having been re-
leased from jail to look after bust
ness affairs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Habits That Become Fixed.

Every established mental condition
IS am acquired habit. and it has be-
come such by continuous repetition Of
thought. Dependency and cheerful
ness. .coyetousness and generosity-fn-
deed. all states of mind-are habits
built up by choice, until they have be
come automatic A thought constant
1y repeated at last becomes a fixed
habit of the mind. and from such hab-
its proceeds the Iife.-James Allen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
QUAKE STARTS UP VOLCANO.
Earth Shocks Kill 81 in Mexico
Many Buildings Destroyed.

Earth Shocks Kill 81 in Mexico
Many Buildings Destroyed.
Mexico City, May 11-Thirty-four
persons were killed and many build
ings in the. city of Zapatalan Thurs
day were destroyed by an earthquake.
Thirteen persons were killed in the
city Of Ciudad Guzman, and ten others
were seriously injured.
In the city Of Guadalajara 70 dis
tinct shocks were felt and consider
able damage, including the total de-
struction of Catholic church, is re-
ported from the town of Quartet. Fol-
lowing the quakes the volcano became
active.
The observatory here predicts that
Mexico City will be visited by disas,
trous earthquake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
ARAB PATROLS IN PARADE.
Mystic shriners Show Gain For Year
of 1924 Members

Mystic shriners Show Gain For Year
of 1924 Members.
Los Angeles, Cal, May 9.-In a riot
of oriental splendor, fifty Arab patrols
numbering 1000 men of the Ancient
Arabic Order of Mystic Shrine passed
through the business district of the city
Tuesday escorting Imperial Potentate
Treat and the representatives of the
imperial council of the Mystic Shrine
to Scottish Rite temple cathedral
where the first business session of the
thirty-eighth annual council was held
Charters were granted to Muskogee
Okla, and Jackson, Miss. The prop
osition to form a permanent Mecca
on the shores of Lake Michigan was
debated but definite action postponed
The report of the imperial record
shows that 1924 candidates were adj
mitted during the year, making the
present membership of the Shriners
172,661.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Miners Shot TROOPERS.

Wilkesbarre, Pa, May 10.-One man
was killed and three others seriously
wounded Wednesday when state troop
ers fired into riotous mob composed
of about 500 coal miners and women
at Minersville, following a fusillade of
bullets, stones and missiles from the
hands of the rioters.
Mrs. Mary Well who was standing
on the porch of her home, was shot in
the knee by a stray bullet.
The dead man is David Davies. The
injured are foreigners, whose names
are not known
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Three More Titanic Victims.

Racine.-Mrs. Eric West and two
sons. residents of Racine, were
among the passengers aboard the
steamship Titanic and lost their lives.
Eric West, former baker of Ra-
cine, husband and father. is on the
Pacific slope, and does not know of
the death of his wife and sons. Mrs.
West and children left Racine for
Denmark two years ago, and West
went to Tacoma, Wash. It has just
become known that Mrs. West and
her sons had sailed on the Titanic
as steerage passengers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
U. S. DENIED STEEL WRIT.
Court Refuses to Enjoin Enire Cor
poration From DESTROYING Paners.

poration From Destroying Papers.
New York, May 1.-THE applica-
ton IN the United States district
court at Trenton, n. J., for an injunc-
ton to restrain the United States
Steel corporation and several of it's
subsidiary concerns from destroying
books and papers which might be
used in evidence in the suit of the
government for the dissolution of the
steel corporation was dismissed Thurs
day in a per curiam opinion filed by
Judges Gray, Burlington and McPher-
son, except as to the American Steel
& Wire company, one of the steel cor
poratiOn's subsidiary concerns.
The opinion states that no evidence
is offered that such destruction is
threatened. The wire company was
restrained because papers in a previ-
GUS case had been destroyed, although
the court declares it believes it was
done with no evil intent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
CHOOSE GEN. YOUNG AS HEAD.

Confederate Veterans Elect Louisville
Man Commander-in-Chief
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.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Throw, From Horse: Killed.

Joliet. Ill, May 11.-Frank Viora,
well-known horse and livery stable
owner, Of this city was instantly killed
Thursday when thrown in front Of an
electric car by a horse which he was
riding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Bars Council Candidate.

Eau CIaire.-Cfty Clerk Fennessey
has omitted from the ballot for the
special election of councilman the
name of Robert K. Boyd on the
ground that he did not file his ex-
pense account at the time required
by law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Eau Claire Lunberman Dead

Eau Claire.-Eugen Shaw, aged
81 years, president and treasurer of
the Daniel Shaw Lumber company,
is dead of pneumonia. He was a
brother of the late Congressman G.
B. Shaw
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
c.nnot Remember tiavino WEI

Poughkeepsie, n. Y, May Sci
eanor K Frazier Of MiddIetown, N.
Y. applied Monday to Justice Nor.
schauer for annulment of her mar.
rage to Marriet f Rasher four years
ago. Says she cannot remember event.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
PISS COMPENSATION BILL.
ser2te Adopts Measure After Bitter
Fight, Ga to IS.

Ser2te Adopts Measure After Bitter
Fight, Ga to is.
Washington, May 8.-Althougb bit
terly opposed by nearly all the Demo
cratic senators as being in violent op-
position to the interest Of railroad en-
ployes, the workmen's compensation
bill was passed by the senate Monday
by a vote of ga to 10.
When the hour came for a vote the
opposition endeavored to defeat the
purpose of the bill by loading it with
amendments. In this they did not
succeed, although with each amend
ment they demanded a roll cali
Democratic members believe that
they will be able to defeat the bill in
the house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Bio Shipment Of Strawberries

Cairo. IL, May movement OF
strawberries from Villa Ridge will be-
sin by carload next week. It is ex-
pected tie first car will be shipped
next week Thursday. The crop is very
fine this year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23

Uses Waste Paper Basket for Bank.
Joliet, Ill, May 10.--A sum Of $3.50
hidden in waste paper basket and
considered better protected than il
bank, was burned Wednesday when a
clerk IL the employ Of J. P. Gallagher.
a merchant, set fire to the paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Milwaukee Greatest Bye Market.

Milwaukee.-Mi Milwaukee is now
the leading primary rye market of
the country, according to the annual
report of the Chamber Of Commerce.
The receipts during 1911 amounted
to 2,072,640 bushels. The receipts
during 1910 amounted to 926, 730
bushels.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Road Materials to Get lest.

Madison.-The state highway com
mission has employed Prof Steid-
mann Of the geology department of
the university to test road building
materials used throughout the state
The work will continue six months
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
Boys Arrested on Theft charoe.

Sterling, IL. May eleven boys.
aged twelve to sixteen, We're arrested
here Tuesday for a series of burglar
les during the past two months. All
are sons of prominent citizens. They
all confessed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
TOBACCO CAUSES HOT TALK.
Methodists Aim to Prevent Users Hold
ing Office in Church Affairs.

WethouIsts NIF7l 70 PFeVeht UseTS HOId-
ing Office in Church Affairs.
Minneapolis, MINI, May 10.-Tbe
use of tobacco by officials high in Of
fee created a stormy debate Wednes-
day in the Methodist general confer
ence. A resolution was presented by
DR.. Robert Stephens, Danyille, H., to
the effect that it is the sense of this
general conference that no person
should be elected to any Office within
the gift OF the conference who uses
tobacco in any of it's forms"
After a vigorous debate the matter
was referred to the committee on edu-
cation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
No n { \LesseI in 7

No. U. S. Vessel in Thames in a Year.
New York, May IA report by
the medical officer Of the port of Lon
don, England. discloses the fact that
no vessel flying the stars and stripes
arrived in the Thames in the whole of
last wear
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23
corbett VIII MANAGE wauoh

Fort Worth, Tex, May 1O.-Jim Cor
bett has signed a contract to manage
Rabby Waugh Of this city for one
year Corbett has challenged knock
out Brown and several other good
men &or his protege.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1912-05-23

Wellesley Girls Must Not Use slano.
Wellesley, Mass, May 8-WeIlesley
girls who use slang will be fined for
each offense and the fund obtained will
so to student government The young
ladies do not take kindly to the OBJ
iectiODal edict-