Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1912-06-20
THE LOGANv|LLE FIGHT
A. Leicher Makes a Reply
to Mrs. Goodell of
Lime Ridge.
LOganville, Wis.


To the Editor: / noticed piece in
your paper by Mrs. O. Goodell OF
Lime Ridge. Now we happen to be
acquainted with Mrs. Goodell and
have always had very good opinion
of her. She has always had many
friends here and we feel confident that
she would not tell that which she
didn't think was the truth; Therefore
we think that she has been sadly mis-
informed as to the nature of the dis
turbance at this place.
She starts out by saying that not all
of the young men were from Hill
Point. don't see what difference it
makes where they belong. Her next
statement is that two of those boys
were minors, that they were peace
ably driving through Loganville,
found the saloons wide open, crowd
gathered there and they stopped along
with the rest. The fact of the matter
is that if there was a saloon open they
had to hunt around to find it and
there was scarcely person to be seen
on the street; neither at saloon or
elsewhere. These fellows, when they
left the ball ground at Hill Point,
were heard to say that they were going
down and clean out Loganville and
were advised to keep away as they
would be likely to get into trouble.
But they wouldn't take this advice
and came on to Loganville, and their
conduct along the route was Of such
character that everyone who saw
them took notice of their drunken
condition. After reaching Loganville
they went to saloon and were re-
fused admittance whereupon Ahey
used such foul language toward the
saloon keeper and his wife that it is
not fit to print, so will leave it out.
They next went to DIR. Sporlieder's
office and tried to stir up disturbance
there. The doctor having lady pa
tent in the office promptly ordered
them out. From there they came to
Kruse's saloon. When they found that
they could not get in there they began
throwing beer kegs and whatever else
they could lay their hands on about
the street and the sidewalk. By their
yelling and swearing they attracted
the attention of the officers who came
to find the cause of the uproar and in
a quiet way told the boys to stop be-
ing so noisy or they might find them
selves in the lookup, and their first
words to the officer were. "Who in
hell are your" The officer informed
them that he was an officer and COM
manded them to keep the peace.
They told the officer that they didn't
believe it and that they could lick
him in just one minute. The officer
didn't dispute this but sent for one of
the corstables. On his arrival he could
do nothing with them so the officers
had to back up out of their way and
sent word to Mr.. Fisher, the other con-
stable. About the time MI. Fisher ar
rived some of the Loganville boys
armed themselves with willow sticks
of fire wood and the battle began and
in very few minutes the battle was
over as these very peaceable boys had
been dubbed into submission and
were then taken 10 the lookup. Three
of the boys are over thirty years of
age and are noted as being hard men
to handle in fight. The boys were
not handled any rougher by the off
GERS than was necessary to arrest them.
Mrs. G. seems to wonder if there is
any law against such outrages. We
think that before these boys get
though with this mess both she and
the boys will decide that there is lots
of law and that it is a very bad article
to fool with.
A. LEIGH Err.