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Arizona republican., 1913-04-16

way. This bill was number 1S7 in the last session. Passed by a vote of 15 to Harrison. Hechtman and Vessel.
 Committee of the Whole
 Senator w. N. Pace of Graham presided over the committee of the whole yesterday and eighteen bills were read in committee, and approved for final passage. These bills includ- ed all that were introduced on Mon day except the three noted above as finally passed The session was with out friction. The only matter of note was the action of the body in cut ting down the legal rate of printing in s. B. If from 75c to 40 cents $. B 29. the school district indebted ness bill was approved in addition to those above.
 Four firemen were injured, two fat ally, in a blaze which destroyed house No. of Armour & Co. in the Union Stock Yards, Chicago. The loss is s500,000.
Arizona republican., 1913-04-16
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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
TAFT SINGS SWAN
SONG At BANQUET
Says His Farewell to Members oil
Clover Club.
PRESENT AT THREE DINNERS
President Warmly Compliments Dem
ocratic Party on Its Victory and
Giories Over Defeat of
Proeressives. g.

Philadelphia. Jan. 20.-President
William Howard Taft, who, with six
teen "standpat'' United States sena-
tors, was the guest of i-Jnor at the
thirty-frst annual Glover club ban
quiet hero on Friday evening sang a
good-hIncred "swan-song" and asked
for cooperation with Presidept-elect
Wilson from every American.
In saying farewell TO his former
greatness, the president said: Il am
now thoroughly resigned from the
presidency, not so much from my own
choice, but from the choice and vote
of the people"
But | want to remind you that If
the Republican party did go down to
defeat they did so preventing a
greater calamity-the victory of the
so-called Progressive party"
President Taft and his party, which
included Postmaster General Hitch
cock and Uncle Joe Cannon, arrived
in Philadelphia at six o'clock and
went directly to the Bellevue STRAIT
ford hotel, where he attended the
Glover club banquet and also dropped
in on the dinner of the Poor Richard
and City Medical clubs held in the
same building
After his speech at the Glover club
the president addressed the Medical
club and later the Poor Richard club.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
FRESH-AlR HOUSES FOR EGGS
Excellent Results Secured by Leaving
Screen Door Open-Wheat
Straw Used for Litter.

Some years ago, while trying to
make poultry pay on small scale, |
tried the open-air house. By making
q screen door at one end and leaving
this open day and night | secured
twice as many eggs as in my other
houses not SO provided, says writer
III an exchange. Now that am keep
ing fowls on a lower scale / always
use some kind of fresh air house with
good results. Wheat straw is spread
in the chicken house to the depth Of
Six inches In this the feed is scat.
tered, oats, wheat, barley sorghum
seed, etc, for morning and noon feeds.
The evening meal consists of mash
of boiled potatoes thickened with
bran, beef meal, little ground oats
and cornmeal slightly sailed. After
the fowls have eaten all they want /
feed ear corn for a finish. Beef scrap,
charcoal, grit and oyster shell are con-
stantly before them. The straw is
cleaned out every day and replaced
with fresh the next morning. If the
weather is bad and the fowls have to
stay in doors, | replace twice a day.
l have no trouble in getting eggs in
winter from bred-to-lay white leghorn
and white Wyandotte fowls Both va
rieties are good.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
EkERN'S ELECTION
HALTED By COURT
ATTEMPT TO REMOVE DEPOSED
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
BY FORCE FAILS.
DOORS ARE BATTERED DOWN
William Essmnn, Superintendent of
Public Property, Leads Force of
Capitol Police in Effort to Route
Ekern from Barricaded Office

Madison.-An attempt to forcibly
eject II. l.. Ekern from the insurance
commissioners office was stopped by
a temporary injunction issued by
Judge e. Ray Stevens of the Circuit
court after door had been broken
in by Supt. of Public Property II. l..
Essman and a force of capitol po-
lice.
Ever since the removal of Mr.
Ekern as insurance commissioner and
the appointment Of L. A. Anderson
in his place by Gov. McGovern, the
former has remained cooped in his
private office with one door barri-
caded and the other fast locked.
Mr.. Anderson having filed his bond
and complied with all the require
ments, Gov McGovern ordered Supt.
Essman to induct Mr. Anderson into
his office and remove Mr.. Ekern, for
cibjy il necessary, but to eject him.
The latter refusing to vacate the of
fee, Supt. Essman called in five CAPT
toll police and led an attack on the in
ner Office, where Ekern had sought
refuge and barricaded the door with
desks and chairs. The glass panels
in the door were smashed and Supt.
Essman's hand was cut in the fracas
was about to seize Mr.. Ekern when
an undersheriff arrived on the scene
with an injunction.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
COMMERCE BOARD WILL
REGULATE PHONE TRUST
Action by Commission Is Substituted
For Suit Against Great American
or Bell System.

Washington, Jan. 22.-Regulation
by the interstate commerce commits
sion and not suits under the Sherman
antitrust law will be the means used
by the federal government to curb the
telephone and telegraph trust. This
course was announced by Attorney
General Wickersham when he turned
over to the commerce commission all
of the facts gathered in preparation
for proceedings against the American
Telephone and Telegraph company.
commonly known as the Bell system.
This move terminates the investiga-
ton by the department Of justice OF
the alleged $600,000,000 telephone
trust against which Independent tele-
phone companies have made charges
Of unfair treatment end Of the en-
ployment of methods destructive of
competition.
The commissions Investigation will
be far-rea ching in effect and out Of it
is expected to grow the outline Of
governmental policy with respect TO
the telephone and telegraph.
1t must be determined, according to
officials, whether, in the interest and
convenience of the public, a tele-
phone or telegraph monopoly under
rigi" regulation should be tolerated
by the federal government; or Wheth-
er the government should take over
utilities; or finally whether competl-
ton should be enforced under the
Sherman antitrust law and the mon
opoly prohibited
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
FOREST RETENTION Is
RECOMMENDED BY CONAN
Commissioner of Corporations Makes
Report on Lumber Industry to
President Taft

Washington, Jan. 21.-The concen
tration into the hands Of few power
full interests of an enormous percent
age Of the timber lands of the United
States has created a problem SC
grave for the nation, in the judgment
OF Luther Conant, Jr., commissioners
of corporations, that he recommended
to President Taft that the existing
national forests not only be retained
by the federal government, but in
creased as far as practicable. This
note of warning was sounded by the
commissioner in forwarding to the
president the full text of Part |. of the
bureau of corporations investigation
of the lumber industry, made by direc-
ton of congress.
ut seems clear" says the commits
sioner. that the fundamental princi-
pie to be followed in the sale of the
timber itself should be to insure to
the public treasury the full stumpage
value of the land at the time the tim
Der shall be cut" The land thus de-
nuded of timber, it is suggested, could
cording to the judgment of the gov
eminent.
Mr.. Conant states that the investi-
cation of the bureau had covered
about so per cent. Of the privately
owned timber Of the country and that
in this area it was found that three
holders owned IA per cent. Of the tim
Der land; 80 two-fifths and 1875 nearly
half This concentration of timber
ownership, it is stated, was palpably
due to the land policy of the federal
government. especially the great fed
eral land grants to railroads and the
faulty operation of some Of the gen.
eral land laws. Under these condi-
tons. says the letter concentration OF
timber ownership constantly tended to
increase.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
SAY TURKEY MUST ACT.
Allies Give MosIems IA Days to Ac-
cept Peace Terms or Fight.

Allies Give Mosems IA Days to Ac-
cept Peace. Terms or Fight.
London, Jan. 22-The Balkan plen-
ipotentiaries, who are awaiting the
Turkish reply, do not attempt to con-
ceal their Impotence and firm deter
mination to prevent Turkey from post
poning settlement Of the war longer
than two weeks
Full power to declare the resump-
ton of hostilities against Turkey was
telegraphed on Monday to DR.. S. Ba'
neff, leader of the Bulgarian delega-
ton, and his colleagues by the Bulga-
rian premier, J. S. Guecheff, who told
them to exercise it whenever in their
opinion further peace negotiations be-
came useless.
The Representatives Of the Balkan
allies, therefore, will directly notify
General Savoff, the Bulgarian COM
mander in chief, that the armistice
has come to an end as soon at it be-
comes apparent that there is no hope
Of the peace plenipotentiaries reach
ing a mutually satisfactory arrange
ment. Hostilities will then commence
four days afterward.
The allies presented an ultimatum
to Turkey giving the Ottoman govern
ment IA days in which to make ia
vorable reply to their demand, accord
ing to dispatches from Constantinople
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
News Notes of Wisconsin

Madison. Fire Marshal T.
M Purtell's report of fire losses for
the six months of the fiscal year end
ing December 81, 1912, shows total
damage of 81, 1874, 085, from the l,l52
fires in that period. Insurance car
ried on the buildings and stocks
burned aggregated SO, 1880. The
greatest single cause was lightning
on unrodded buildings. There were
223 such cases, with loss Of $329,-
975. Damage of $292,470 was
caused TO the 1873 fires of unknown
origin. Eighty-one adjoining build
ings afire suffered damage amount
ing to s121,775. The department
reports twenty-nine fires which en-
tailed losses of more than $4,000
each. the total damage thus suffered
being $680,33O and insurance carried
s673.855. The greatest damage by
single fire was $181, 065, caused by
an overheated journal.
Nadison.-The Wisconsin univer-
sitv regents, at their January meet
mo located new athletic fields for
the department of physical education.
The field will occupy the land lying
west of the dairy building, between
linden drive and the proposed dor
mitory buildings along the lake
shore. and extending west to Uniyer-
s;tv creek. The permanent plant Of
the department of physical education
will be located on this land, which is
now occupied by the college of agri-
culture.
Green Bay.-Physical connection
of the Wisconsin and Fox River tele-
phone lines~at Depere will be made
about Feb. Is The new switchboard
is now being installed.
Washington.-The president has
sent to the senate the following nom
nations of Wisconsin postmasters:
Jessie P. Koran, Friendship; Joseph
Rrehm. Rib Lake; Charles r. Hem
rizi, Menomonee Falls; Elizabeth r.
Nivins. Bloomington; George M. Car
pachan. Bruce; Daniel 2. Butts,
Frederic; Charles F. Fine, Hillsboro;
Alfred S. Otis, Maiden Rock; Ray
Haegard, Park Falls.
ReIoit.-Beloit has won capital
nrize in the state contest for the sale
of anti-tuberculosis Christmas stamps
in cities OF more than 10000 popu-
lation.
Coon Valley.-Thomas Thompson.
n miller. was seriously injured by be-
ing caught in the machinery at his
nlant. Both legs and both arms
we're broken and several of his ribs
crushed.
nesvilIe.-Accordin to figures
nv the county superintendent the
eixty-six teachers in the Rock coun-
~ rural schools receive on an aver
age of s334.57 per year, or $40 per
month.
Eau Claire.-Lettie A. Wilson has
been appointed postmistress at Al
toona. this county, succeeding Jessie
C.. Deilv-
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
WYOMING SOLONS
INDULGE IN RIOT
Speaker and Speaker Pro Tenn,
Pummel Each Other.
BOTH CLAIMED THE CHAIR
One Man Thrown Violently Of Plat
form and Another Kicked in Stom-
ach as House Tries to
Organize.

Cheyenne, Wyo., Jan. 22.-Scenes of
violence which lasted fully three-quar-
tiers of an hour and which included
two separate encounters between
Speaker Martin L. Pratt and Speaker
Pro TEN. W. j. Wood threw the lower
house of the Wyoming legislature in
TO hopeless confusion on Monday.
When adjournment was taken the
situation still remained unsettled
Both Pratt and Wood claimed au-
thority over the house and with Wood
sitting in the speakers chair and Pratt
welding the gavel the show of au-
thority seemed about equal either way.
The immediate occasion of the trouble
was the attempt Of Speaker Pratt to
call to the chair F. G. Hunter, Repub-
ican of Carbon county. An appeal had
been taken from the speakers ruling
upon the offer of substitute commit
tees by the Democrats for those he
had submitted and in which he him
self held the balance of power upon
the two important committees, rules
and elections
Mr. Hunter took the chair and Pratt
went to Hunters seat on the floor.
Thereupon Pratt started to resume
the chair himself. Wood sat stanchly
in his place until Pratt, grasping him
by the shoulders with both hands,
threw him violently off the platform.
Wood struck on both hands and his
face, but promptly arose and rushed
back to the chair again. The men
grasped each other until Chaplain Da-
wilson and others on the platform held
them momentarily.
Another climax followed in ten min
utes after the first violence between
the speaker and speaker pro tenn.
when, with several hackers on each
side, they clashed and Pratt attempted
to get his own chair in place Of the
clerks chair he had appropriated for
the time being. Attempting to inter
fere, Representative Sproul. who has
been closer to Pratt in counsel than
any other Democrat, was soundly
kicked in the stomach by the speak
er. Further violence was then averted.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
INCOME TAX BLANKS MAILED
Instructions Grant Corporations Right
to Deduct State and Federal In
come Tax Paid in 1912.

Madison.-The state tax commits
sion has begun the mailing of blanks
to all corporations in the state for
the collection of the 1912 income
tax. These reports require a de-
tailed statement of financial earnings
during the past year. In the letter
OF instructions to corporations, the
commission points out that state and
federal income taxes paid during
1912 may be deducted as miscel-
laneous expense. In the instructions
to farmers and dairymen, the blanks
specify that money spent for new
fences, buildings and other perma-
nent improvements, which increase
the value of the farm, cannot be sub
tracted as Deductions
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
DOUILM N()IE(|
Gather eggs daily.
Gull out small eggs.

Gull out small eggs.
The goose averages about thirty
eggs
Geese do not thrive when yarded;
ducks do.
The goose like the duck, has prac-
tically no crop.
The average weight of the goose is
twice that Of the duck.
Geese pair, but brakes will take
care of four OF more mates.
A hen left to shift for herself may
lay in summer but seldom will in win
tev
Are you figuring on entering one
or two pens in poultry show, if not,
begin now.
Before packing and shipping poul~
try should be thoroughly dry and cold,
but not frozen.
The income from poultry is, or can
be made, an all-theyearround income,
whereas the income from hogs and
sheep and cattle usually comes IN
large amounts and not SO often.
Limberneck is caused by the fowls
has bred maggots.
The goose is grazing bird, while
the duck thrives with limited
amount of green food.
Don't forget to sprinkle lime on
drop boards, not too much, for it is
hard on the chickens feet.
Meat in some form must be fed
poultry at least twice week-also
green food if you want results.
A good dry mash for layers: Two
parts bran, 1 part cornmeal, part
alfalfa meal and l part beef scrap.
Ducks can be proftably bred for
four years, geese can be bred for
many years-for a period that seems
incredible.
Fifty hens with abundant room,
care and proper feed will return more
I cash than one hundred carelessly fed
and crowded
Dust the men with insect powder
before setting, and twice more while
Matching, then chicks will not be full
of lice to begin with.
To keep poultry in the best OF
health they must have good, clean
water to drink; and remember that a
drinking vessel that tapers somewhat
will not break by freezing
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
MARKET REPORT.
Milwaukee. Jan. %. 1919.

milwaukee,, Jan. -, ILL.,
Butter-Creamery, extras, SIC;
prints, $50: firsts, 2S a soc; seconds,
26@27c; renovated, 26@27c; dairy,
fancy, zee.
Cheese - American, full cream,
new made, twins, 1601612c; Young
Americas, lie; daisies, $50 17c;
longhorns, lie; limburger, II nc;
brick, 16 re.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as TO
quality, 20@22c; recandled, extras,
30032c; seconds, 16 a lie.
Live Poultry-Fowls, IL 13c; roos-
ters, s " c; springers, - a lac.
Wheat-No l northern, Gle; No.
2 northern, SIC; No. northern, S5c;
No. 1 velvet, S9c.
Corn-No. 8 yellow, 4Sc.
Oats-No. white, 33c; No.
white, 80 &c.
Barley-No. 3, 6O@62c; Wiscon-
sin. SIS 062c.
Rye-No. 2, 64c.
Cattle-Butchers steers, 500 q
500; COWS and heifers, 4.25 @ $50;
feeders, 5.25@6.OO; calves, 9.5OQ
1850.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers $50
07.6O; fair to best light, 7.25 a
7.45; pigs, 6.5007.15.
Sheep-Lambs, 7.000S.5O; ewes,
3.00@5.00.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
Single-Con1b Brown Leghorn.

pine. These windows have been
opened wide daily regardless of zero
weather. Single Comb Brown Leg
horns stand cold weather, provided
they are free from drafts and damp
ness, says a writer in an exchange.
Our buildings have dirt floors COW
cred with one foot of wheat straw.
The dropping boards and roosts are
cleaned and disinfected with a hot
spray from force pump every two
weeks. The broken straw from the
floor is placed upon the dropping
boards and the floor covered anew
with wheat straw. The cost of the
building, exclusive of land, was $3.SS
per lineal foot, 20 plus 1913 feet, thus
housing 1880 layers at 62 cents per
hen. The usual estimate is 81 per
hen
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
WILL PROBE PHONE RATES
Interstate Commerce Commission to
Begin Investigation of Rates and
Practice in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee, Investigation of the
Wisconsin Telephone company's rates
and practices will be commenced at
once by the interstate commerce COM
mission, in accord with the recon-
mendations made by Attorney Gen
eral Wickersham. The attorney gen
eral says that while the refusal of
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph company, Of which the Wiscon-
sin company is subsidiary, to give
ong distance connections to indie
pendent companies furnishes no basis
for prosecution under the antitrust
law, still the commission should in
vestigate and adopt regulations ne
cessary TO control the telephone bust
ness of the country.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
FISHER CITED TO COURT.
Uncle Sam Oil Fight Thrust on Con-
gress to Solve.

EESSS TO SOtycs
Washington, Jan. 21.-Ehe attention
of congress and the courts has been
called to the fight between the interior
department and the Uncle Sam Oil
company and members of the Usage
Indian council who were deposed re-
Gently by Secretary Fisher and whose
action has been referred to the depart
ment of justice for investigation.
Representatives of the oil com
pany, whose leases upon Usage oil
lands in Oklahoma were not approved
by Secretary Fisher, and representa-,
tives of the deposed tribesmen pre-
sented before the Indian affairs com
mittee of the house charges against
Secretary Fisher and other govern
ment officials
Some of the deposed members Of
the Usage council also obtained from
the district court a mandamus against
Secretary Fisher, to compel him to
show cause why they should not be
reinstated
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
HOME RULE BILL PASSES.

Measure Is Adopted by House of Com
mons by Vote of 36S to 25s.
London, Jan. 1S-After a long, stern
battle the home rule bill passed the
house of commons by majority OF
ITO on Thursday. Later it was read
for the first time In the house of
lords
There were two divisions in the
lower house. Mr.. Balfour's motion for
its rejection was defeated. 25S to S6S.
while the third reading was carried
By a vote of 367 to 257, one member
from each side having left the house
In the interval
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
WILSON TO CHECK TRUSTS.
Wilson Suggests Sweeping Changes IN

Wilson Suggests Sweeping Changes IN
Corporation Laws of New Jersey.
Trenton, n. j., Jan. 22.-What is
generally considered to be a harbinger
of what President-elect Wilson has in
mind i'll the way of national legisla-
ton to control trusts is contained in
his program for a sweeping change in
the corporation laws of this state,
which involves prison terms for mem
bers of unlawful combines.
Not only would it be a misdemeanor,
under the proposed laws, to acquire
a monopoly or Interfere with freedom
of competition, but Jail sentences are
contemplated for those who promote
or organize trusts. To effect these
changes, seven voluminous bills were
drafted by Governor Wilson, Chan
cellor Walker and Judge Van Syckel
and introduced in the legislature.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
BROTHER JOSEPH A MARTYR
Priest in Charge of Leper Colony in
Hawaii Succumbs to Dread Disease
Formerly Lived in GAINESVILLE.

nesville.-Brother Joseph, 60
years old, for the past twenty-four
years in charge of the leper colony on
the island OF Molokai, Hawaii, is
dead, victim of leprosy.
Brother Joseph was the name By
which Ira Barnes Dutton was known
in clerical life and among the lepers.
He spent his early life in this city,
where he was a member of the Meth
odist church. In 1857 he was a stu
dent at Milton academy, and at the
outbreak of the civil war enlisted in
Company b, Thirteenth Wisconsin
infantry.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
PERIL IN BIG MONEY POWER.
Chicago Banker Asserts Centralizs'
ton Is Public Menace.

Washington, Jan. 1S.-George NJ
Reynolds, president of the Continen-
tai and Commercial National bank OF
Chicago, told the Pujo committee that
there existed a money concentration
which was menace to the nation,
and voiced his disapproval Of the vot-
ing trust method of bank control OBJ
served In the cases Of the Bankers
Trust company and the Guarantee
Trust company of New York.
Mr.. Reynolds said that he knew OF
the trend toward concentration of
money and Credits and that he
thought 1t a dangerous thing.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1913-01-24
Senator Smiths Father Dead.

Los Angeles, Jan. 21.-After a brief
illness, George R. Smith, father of
United States Senator William Alden
Smith of Michigan. and for twenty
years a resident Of Santa Ana, died
of grip at his home there Sunday.