The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1914-10-16
WISCONSIN
STATE NEWS
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immaculate changes In the Ieuoral laws
to relieve conditions on Indian reserva-
tons were adopted at the fourth an
nual conference Of the Society Of
American Indians here.
Ashland-Game Wardens Arthur
Childs, John Long and Louis Tay-
lor made a raid on cordwood
camp ten miles east of Glidden, ar
resting five men for violating the
game laws. The hunters fined are
John Isaacson, Eric Conquest, Julius
Laffy, John Make and Ed Ranta.
Madison. = Leonard Miller and
Richard Boyle were arrested for
attempting to slug student in front
OF the Fuller opera house. They were
arraigned before Judge Casson and
each fined $40 and costs. They went
to Jail for Is days
Sheboygan.-The local life-saving
crew made run to Seven-Mile
creek, north of here, and rescued a
gasoline cruiser owned by Theodore
McCauley of New York, which was
headed for Chicago. The crankshaft
OF the engine was brokens and the
cruiser had been drifting all day.
Beloit-Had not the engineer seen
him in time to stop the train,
little Johnny Tobias would have been
ground to death under passenger
train on the Chicago & Northwestern
road. The little fellow was playing OF
the tracks. s
Kewaunee.-The annual convention
of the Seventeenth district, l. 0.
70. F., convened here. The officers
Of the association are: Joseph Rothe,
Green Bay, president; Harvey Wash
burn, Marinette, secretary. Tuesdays
sessions were given to degree work
and general business.
Beloit.-Old Elkins tavern, a land
mark four miles north of this city,
was burned. The hotel was popular in
days of stage coach and famous before
and during the Civil war because of
social functions given in the building.
1t was farmers home for many
years.
Sheboygan-The new school build
ing at Koehler, the model village
half way between this city and She
boygan Falls, has been formally
opened and is said to be the finest and
most complete school building in any
village in Wisconsin. 1t is constructed
of vitrified brick, REINFORCED with
steel and concrete. Special attention
was paid to heating and ventilation.
Monroe.-Miles Smith of Cadiz
township visited his nephew, Charles
French, of this city, When the
two gentlemen clasped hands there
was a renewing of friendship between
two old-timers. Mr.. Smith is ninety
two years of age and Mr.. French is
eighty-two years of age, and both are
we'll, hearty and enjoying life. The
former has lived upon section SO of
the township of Cadiz since 184S.
Dodgeville.-Death solved the prob
lem of the trial of Julian Garlic
ton, the Chicago negro who killed
Mamah Borthwick and five other per.
sons at Frank Lloyd Wright's bunga-
low at Spring Green August 16. The
negro died in the county jail here from
the effects of poison which he took on
the scene of his crime. Carleton, ap
parently the victim of seizure of in
sanity, served luncheon to the mem
bers of the Wright establishment,
then swooped down upon the mat Ia
BILE with a bucket of blazing gasoline.
Madison. - Five hundred green
capped freshmen, attired only in
underwear, frothed and fumed in the
fields miles from the city of Madison,
victims of the cleverest ruse on rec
ord, while their fellows battled in vain
ignores. The sophomores, by their
kidnapping of the hundreds of fresh
men, depleted the numbers of the first
year men to such an extent as to pre-
vent their winning the rush late in the
day. The freshies were captured one
at time, thrown into automobiles and
dumped in the fields and woods, five to
ten miles from town, where they were
stripped of their clothing, given gym,
nasium wardrobe checks to enable
them to recover their clothes later,
and then the youngsters were aban.
doned to the elements.
Madison.-For the first time in
three years the freshman class of
the university won over the Sec
ond-year men in the annual class
rush and bag scrap on the muddy,
slippery lower campus. Ten of the fiji.
teen monster canvas bags were cap
tured by the overwhelming army of
black-faced enthusiastic freshmen
After the fight the victorious wearers
of the green cap, singing and cheering,
paraded up State street and around
the capitol square with the vanquished
sophomores in the rear. At the foot
of State street Chief of Police Shaugh-
messy had stationed at least a dozen
policemen, who picked off the half
naked students from the ranks of the
parade, forbidding them going up
town. There was no trouble between
police and students and no accidents
during the fight.