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Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
STATE CAMPAIGN BOOK OUT
First Issue of Primary Pamphlet Is
Ready for Distribution Among
Wisconsin Voters.

Madison. The first issue of the
primary pamphlet which Secretary of
State Frear is getting out under the
corrupt practices law is ready for
submission to the voters of the First,
Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth, Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fiji
teenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth,
Eighteenth, Nineteenth, Twentieth,
Twenty-third, Twenty-ffth and Thir-
tieth senatorial districts. In these
districts none but state officers have
aVailed themselves of the privileges
offered by the pamphlet and as no
changes are required for them in the
text they were all run in one edition.
Other editions will follow at once
Tor those senatorial districts wherein
there are primary contests in con-
gressional or senatorial districts. No
edition will be of more than twenty
pages.
More than 100000 of the pamph-
lets will be printed altogether and a
copy will be sent to each elector in
the state.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
FIGHT iNFANTILE BLINDNESS
State Board of Health Seeks Legis-
iature's Aid to Combat the
Spread of Affection.

Madison.-The state board of
health will ask the legislature at its
next meeting to provide $4,000 to
combat infantile blindness, which is
gaining foothold in the state, ac-
cording to the health authorities.
The board makes the statement
that there are 1000 babies in Wis
consin at present who are blind and
mat the affliction is spreading rap
hly 1t is proposed to start an ac-
i've campaign against the disease.
bulletins will be issued in an effort
70 educate the people how to prevent
the ailment and to check it's spread
According to the board the infant
mortality rate is increasing in the
state and during the last year los
opt of 1000 babies died before they
were year old. The average death
rate is IL out of 1000 persons, ac-
eording to the records for the year.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
CAR STOPS AT MANY TOWNS
Livestock Special viii Leave Madi-
son on August Ie for Next
Tour of the State.

Madison.-The itinerary for the
livestock special car of the Wiscon-
sin Livestock Breeders association
on its forthcoming trip over the
Omaha road is announced. Twenty
two towns and villages in fourteen
counties will be visited The SEIZED
ule is as follows: August 10, Hustler
and Black River Falls; 90, Neills-
vile and Osseo; 81, Mondovi; %,
Augusta and Eau Claire; 20, Rice
Lake and Bloomer; "a, Spooner and
Hayward; &c. Cumberland and Tur-
tie Lake; 81, Clear Lake and New
Richmond; %, River Falls and Ellis
worth; 20, Spring Valley; 80, Rob
erts and Baldwin; 81, Elk Mound
and Menomonie
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
HALF BREEDS PUSH
CLAIMS FOR LANDS
Make Contention That Holders
Are Not Legal Owners.
GOVERNMENT is INVOLVED
Property in Dispute Situated In White
Earth Reservation and Is Worth
Several Million Dollars : lumber
Companies May Be Defendants.

Ashland Many times investiga-
tons have been started to trace the
ancestry of Americans in order to
determine their atht to property or
money, but an unusual investigation
came up in AshlaLd on Wednesday
in the effort to trace the ancestry of
several hundred Indians from north
ern Minnesota in order to determine
their right to millions of dollars
worth of timbered lands on the White
Earth reservation.
The members of the White Earth
tribe have secured their tracts of
timber, which most of them sold to
lumber companies and much of the
timber has been cut Many of these
individual tracts are worth from
$4,000 to $4,000 and many of the
families on the reservation are worth
from $4,000 to $4,000.
The investigation taken up here
was on the contention advanced that
Gus Beauleau and Ben Fairbanks,
two mixed breeds, had no right to be
classed as breed Indians from White
Earth, and about 1900 of their as
sociate mixed breeds, had not right
to be classed as White Earth Indians
on the grounds that their parents did
not go to northern Minnesota until
after the treaty of 1854 setting aside
the Indians in Minnesota into a tribe
separate from the Chippewas of Wis
consin.
Many of the parents of the present
mixed breeds on the White Earth res
ervation left this vicinity and went to
Minnesota. The contention is that
most of these Indians left here after
1854 and that where this can be
proven every descendant now holding
allotments on the White Earth res
ervation must be stricken from the
roll and their allotments given back
to the tribe. With the timber being
cut in many instances the lumber
companies having contracts on the
reservation are the real defendants,
and several million dollars is in
volved in the matter.
Thomas G.. Sherman, representing
the Indian department, is here CON
Quoting the investigation.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
NAME ROOSEVELT AND JOHNSON
Progressive Party Makes Nominations for Presi-
dent and Vice President by AccIamation.

chicago, Aug. s. ~ Theodore
Roosevelt was nominated for pfesi-
dent and Gov. Hiram w. Johnson of
California for vice president by the
convention of the national progress
sive party Wednesday Afternoon.
Both nominations were made by ac-
clamation amid scenes of great en-
thusiasm and few moments later
both candidates were escorted to the
platform, officially notified of the ac-
tion of the convention and each de-
livered brief speech of acceptance.
The platform was then submitted
to the convention and adopted. 1t
comprises about 5000 words and
follows closely along the lines laid
down by Cob. Roosevelt in his speech
delivered to the convention on Tues
day,
Roosevelt was placed in nomine-
tion by William A. Prendergast of
New York and the nomination. was
seconded by Judge Ben b. Lindsay
of Colorado. Henry j. Allen of Kan
sas, Jane Adams, Gov. Hiram w.
Johnson of California, Gen. Horatio
G. King of New York, p. v. Collins
of Minnesota, j. M Parker of Louis
lana, Lucius f, c. Garvin, Gen. John
II. Mcdowell, commander OF the Con-
federate, Veterans of Tennessee; AL
exander I. Hamilton of Georgia, G.
D. Collins and John ]. Sullivan of
Ohio.
Gov. Johnson was placed in nom
Ination by John M. Parker of Louis
lana. This first secondlng speech
was made by Judge Lindsay, who had
been prominently mentioned for the
nomination. Other seconding
speeches We're made by c. s. Wheeler
Of California, James r. Garfield, Gift
ford Pinchot, Fred Lands of Indiana
and Raymond Robbins OF Illinois.
The convention. adjourned sine die
after the 'Doxology" had been sung
by the delegates =
The party formally christened tt
self the progressive party" leaving
out the prefix national" by which It
has heretofore been known, but pro-
vision was made for the cognition of
rear progresstVes in any OF the
states by whatever name they should
be locally designated because of
state laws.
During the three days the eonven-
ton was In session there was not a
single roll call, nor a ballot taken.
The delegates asked no such formal
tiles either in placing their candi-
dates In nomination or in voting for
them. There was not voice of OPP
position either to Col. Roosevelt or
Gov. Johnson.
There was sharp discussion. how
ever, in several of the committee
meetings, and no little difficulty in
agreeing upon the platform as finally
adopted. Col. Roosevelt worked
with the subcommittee in charge of
the platform until late Wednesday
afternoon, going over their work of
the two previous days and nights,
and vigorously helping to mold the
draft which at last proved acceptable
to him. The platform did not take
up the negro question.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
SEEKING LOCATION
/ Of ILLICIT STILLS
Moonshiners Said to Operate
in Northern Wisconsin.
GOVERNMENT ON The TRAIL
Search for Sidna Alien in This State
Uncovered Suspicious Circumstan-
ces Among Colony of Southerners
Indians Get Corn Whiskey.

Milwaukee.-Th the wilds of
northern Wisconsin have suggested
themselves as idea! spots for moon
shining and that Illicit distilling of
liquor is believed to be going on
there is the admission of Capt. j. B..
Mccoy, special revenue agent here.
The theory that moonshining is
practiced in Wisconsin was evolved
recently when it became known that
colonies of southerners had settled
in some of the northern counties,
most notably in Langlade and Forest
The settlements, it is pointed out,
consist chiefly of people from the
mountain regions of Virginia and
other southern states and, as it will
be remembered, the government re-
Gently sent its search for the famous
Virginia outlaw, Sidna Allen, into
this state
1t was during the expeditions of
government sleuths into the tangle
of the northern forests, it is claimed.
that the first tips were gotten on
moonshining in Wisconsin.
1t is also known that Indians on
the northern reservations, for months
past, have been experiencing little
difficulty in procuring whisky. This
it is said, is corn product.
The similarity of the whisky
found in the possession of Indians to
that distilled by the southern reve-
nue. dodgers, planted suspicion in the
minds of many. 1t is intimated that
arrests may be made soon.
About four years ago several
moonshiners were arrested in the vi
entity of CrandoH by local federal
authorities and brought to Milwau-
kee for trial.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
INSECTS LMJURE POTATO CROP

Surfing. - Many potato growers
have reported the appearance OF a
black or slate gray insect about
half inch long and an eighth of an
inch wide. This insect attacks the
potato vines and numbers of them
have done great deal of damage in
this county. The beetles are the So
called blister beetles, being closely
related to the variety which is dried
and used in making blister plaste-s.
Their life history is very similar to
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Veterans Meet at Palmyra.

Palmyra.-The meeting of the sol
diers and sailors of southern Wis
consin held here was the largest in
the history of the association. The
next meeting viii be held at White
water. officers were elected as fol-
lows: President, E. B. Heimstreet,
Palmyra; vice president, Capt. J. w.
Weld, Whitewater; secretary, C. N.
Griffith; treasurer, Capt. f. C. Kizer.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
cIIntonxIIIe Youth sulcldss

Clintonyille.-Lesser Dawson. 21
years old, son of r. T. DAWSON, COM
mitted suicide at the home of his
parents in this city. The young man
loaded a gun, fastened a string with
a loop to the trigger, put his foot
into the loop, leaning over on the
muzzle of the gun and pushed the
trigger. The load went through the
heart. Two years ago he suffered a
stroke of paralysis from the waist
down and was just getting so that
he could walk with the aid of a cane
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Finds Inquest unneoessaru.

Madison.-Coroner Lynch decided
not to hold an inquest on the deaths
OF Miss Alice Mullen and Edmund
Afford, who We're killed when an au-
tomobile in which they were riding
hit telephone pole in this city. The
coroner concluded after an investiga-
ton that Frederick Waltzinger, who
was driving the car, lost control of
it and was not to blame for the acct
dent
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

ing easier the amendment OF the ma
tlonal and state constitution.
Recognition of the right of the
people of a state to secure to them
selves the initiative, the referendum
and the recall.
development of methods for MAX
ing 1t easier to get rid of an incom-
petent Judge.
Publicity of campaign contribu-
tions during the campaign.
Employers to file wage scales and
other data as the public element in
industry demands.
A living wage and tho establish
ment OF minimum wage commissions
by the nation and states.
Immediate establishment of mini
mum wage standards for women.
Establishment of standards of
compensation for Industrial accidents
and deaths and for occupational dis
eases
Prohibition of nigh tabor for
women and children.
Prohibition of the employment OF
women for more than forty-eight
hours per week.
Three shifts of eight hours in con-
tinuous industries.
Prohibition Of the premature en-
ploymeht OF children.
Provision for insurance against
hazards Of sickness, accident, invalid
ism and old age. ~
Strengthening and efficient en-
forcemaut of pure food laws.
establishment of a federal depart
ment In which shall be combined all
agencies relating to public health.
establishment of a department of
labor with seat in the cabinet.
Revival of the country life cons
mission and cooperation by the gov
eminent with the farmer to make the
farm more productive.
Provision for rural banking and
rural credits.
Strengthening OF the antitrust
law.
Creating a national Industrial com
mission, with full power to regulate
and control all features of the great
INDUSTRIAL corporations.
Remodeling of patent laws and
prevention of use of patents as tools
of monopoly.
Establishment of a parcels post on
the zone principle.
STRENGTHENING of the interstate
commerce law. especially as regards
railroads.
Sound and elastic currency form
guarded against use for any specuia-
tive purposes.
Extension of rural free delivery
and fayoring good roads.
Opening of coal and other re-
sources of Alaska to development at
once under homestead plan.
Natural resources of country
should be conserved for benefit of all
the people.
Providing for two battleshfps a
year.
Improvement OF waterways.
Panama canal, built and paid for
by American people, must be used
primarily for their benefit.
Protective tariff which shall eoual-
ize conditions of competition between
United States and friendly countries,
both for the farmer and the manu-
facturer and which shall maintain
for labor an adequate standard of
living.
Graduated Inheritance tax and
favoring ratification of the pending
amendment to constitution giving
the government power to levy income
tax.
Enforcement OF civil service act In
letter and spirit and legislation
bringing unGor competitive system
postmasters, collectors, marshals
and all other non-political officers.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
State erocers to Picnic.

Neenah.-Neenah, Appleton, Kau-
kauna, Green Bay, Oshkosh and Me-
nasha grocers and merchants, to-
gether with their clerks, will go to
Fond du Lac on Aug. Is to attend
the State Grocers and General Retail
Merchants association picnic and
meeting.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
state Death Rate Increases.

Madison.-During April, May and
June. 1912 1907 deaths were re-
ported to the state bureau of vital
statistics by the various villages and
cities of Wisconsin. This is exclu-
sive of still births and corresponds
to an annual death rate for the state
of lis per thousand estimated popu.
lation. The rate in 1911 was III
and in 1910 was 11.6.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Principal Planks in
New Party Platform
Woman's suffrage.

Woman's suffrage.
National presidential primaries.
Election Of United States senators
by popular vote.
Provision for a short ballot.
A stringent corrupt practices act,
which shall apply to primaries as
well as elections.
Recall of judicial decisions and
the creation of machinery for MAX
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Hotel Man Indicted.

Marinette. William F., kid"
hasson, hotel proprietor at .Neenah,
was indicted by the grand jury which
IS investigating alleged official cor
ruption here. Kasson is suspected of
oelng the agent who placed a bride
70 secure the escape from the county
jail of Edward Jamison, pickpocket.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Succession for pementad sharia

William J. Mccormick,
deputy sheriff, has been appointed
sheriff of Winnebago county by Gov
McGovern to succeed John F. VIII
wock, who resigned after he had
gone insane from worry over official
duties. Mccormick has agreed to
give the sheriff's salary to villwock's
wife and children until the end Of
his term.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Fair at Marshfeld.

Grand Rapids.-The Central Wiz
consin fair win be held at Marsh
field, Aug. 1923. Two features will
be an aeroplane meet and final &C.
ries baseball game between Grand
Rapids and steyans Point.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
calk Plant IN onera.inn

Green Bay.-The Key Calk Manu-
featuring company has begun opera
tons at its new plant and viii manu-
facture horscshoes and caIks under
the Bondilly petent. The output viii
be 10000 calks and two tons OF
shoes every ten hours.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

Manitowoc.-R K. Burke,
former city attorney of Manitowoc
and head of the Tubbs Type company
at Ludington until its dissolution,
was killed recently in an auto acct
dent near Tampa, Fla.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Fight 10 Hold Rsrrer,s Seat.

Milwaukee. - The socialists are
planning to bring several outside
speakers to Wisconsin for the cam
paign. A very warm battle is to
be wage6 in this county and great
efforts made to re-elect Congressman
Berger.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Railroads Paw Biz raxes.

Madison. Over three-quarters oil
million dollars in taxes received by
me state treasurer on August 9 in.
GUIDED the following large checks:
northwestern railroad company
S626, 1861; Omaha road, 1857
esS 46; Milwaukee road, sS4,940.O6
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Gets ST. 400 for Enx

Iron Riyer.--Henry L. Morelano,
living in tie town Of Hughes, has
received me record price for fox.
He sold female black fox to a Ca
madam breeder for $1,000
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

that OF the potato bug. The eggs are
attached to the under side of the
leaf and The newly Matched larvae
descend to the ground where they
mature. The vines are attacked by
the adult beetle.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Leaves Pulpit to Teach.

Winneconne.-The Rev. Gevaroff,
pastor of the Methodist church, has
resigned to go to Bellingham, Wash,
10 become director of manual train
ing in the state normal school.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
TrempeIeau EaIr Aug. 2o-a2.

La Crosse. The fifty-fourth fair
of the Trempealeau County Agricul-
tural society will be held at Gales
Vile on August 90, 81 and %.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Denmark Box Factory Burns.

Green Bay.-Dufeck Brothers box
factory at Denmark was destroyed by
fire with a loss of $4,000. There is
little insurance.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16

sheboygan.-Carl Fredericks. flag
man at the Northwestern railway
crossing in sheboygan Falls, vas
struck and killed by freight train
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Town Treasurer Shoots Self

Wausau.-John Connor, treasurer
OF the town of Mosinee for several
Years, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
Named on important Committee.

Washington. D. C.-Senator La
Toilette Of Wisconsin has been elect
ed member of the senate interstate
commerce committee to succeed the
late Senator Nixon of Nevada
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1912-08-16
kewaunee store Rurns

Kewaunee.-Fire destroyed the
building occupied by w Seyk, who
conducted a hardware and clothing
store
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-01
MERCURY MAKES
HIGH JUMP RECORD.
y
Went to SO Degrees in Chicago
Saturday for Hottest Day
Of Summer.

United Press Leased Wire Service
CHICAGO, Aug. 31.-The hottest
day in Chicago this summer brought
death to four victims, Anton Zolenech-
Elk. workman; Kathrine Coldl an
aged spinster; Eugene Howard, a
clerk, and an unidentified man OF
about 70 years, who fell unconscious
on a street car and expired before q
doctor could be summoned.
The day started with an autumnal
chill at s a. m, when the thermometer
registered "a degrees. BY noon it had
scared skyward twenty degrees ard al
four p. M, the maximum temperature
of So degrees was reached. Summer
theatres were deserted and all who
could, fed the city for the lake resorts
and boats. Unsettled weather, will
slight showers and lower Temperatures
are promised by daylight Sunday. The
next hottest record of the summer was
|92 degrees on July 5. What added tt
the suffering was an abnormal max
imum of 81 degrees humidity, wher.
rs is normal.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-01
TOO MUCH POLITICS
I'm CIVIL SERVICE
Inquiry to Be Made to See If the
Charges Made Have Any
Foundation.

Al Emitted Press Eseaf s.i Wire dee ]
f7sf WASTdINsTo ON Aug 3 The Uni,
ted States civil service commission
tonight issued an order to its twelve
district secretaries to begin on Sep
ember II investigation of charges OF
undue political activity against forty
or more employees in the civil ser
vice. Funds for this investigation
were provided in the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill.
1t has been intended to begin the
inquiry earlier but the probe was
held over until the district secretar
les begin the rounds of their respec
tive districts, while holding examina
tions for vacant position in the clas
sified service.
Most of the charges came out Of
the alleged activities of the fedora
office holders who took part in the
primary campaign waged in the
south for the election of delegates te
the republican national convention al
Chicago.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-01
PRESIDENT WORE
HIS OVERCOAT
Weather at Beverly Yesterday Had an
Edge OF October Cling
ing to 1t.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Servfce.l
BEVERLY, Mass, Aug. 31.-Stimu-
lating air with an October edge was
experienced by President Taft today
in an automobile trip he took along
the north shore this afternoon. 1t
cold enough to make an overcoae
comfortable.
The president will go to Washing
ton Wednesday night to open the In
ternational Congress of Applied
Chemistry on Thursday. He will re-
turn here Friday or Saturday.
A telegram was received today from
the Los Angeles chamber of com
MERGE, thanking the president for his
approval of the Panama canal BILL
and saying that the enactment of this
legislation will result most BENEFICIAL
ly for the American merchant marine
and the country.
Gratifying endorsement of the pres
ident's action was contained in let
ter from Edward j. Canwell secre
tary of the National Letter Carriers
Association, which read in part:
The postoffice appropriation bill
just passed contains a section which
regulates and limits the hours o.
labor of letter carriers in the city
delivery service, and clerks in secone
class to eight hours day. l believe
that congress was influenced largel,
in passing this measure by the recon
mendations contained in your annua
| message, for an eight hour work da,
! for government employed On aehal
of the letter carriers employed in cit,
delivery service, l extend thanks TO
your interest. as shown by your sug
gestion of an Improvement of thu
working conditions of our men,