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Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23
MYR0N 7. HERR|CK DISCUSSES
THE RURAL CREDITS MOVEMENT

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.-This
was Rural Credits day at the exposi.
ton with one of its features an adj
dress by Myron T. Herrick of Cleve.
land, formerly ambassador to France,
in which he discussed in detail many
phases of the rural credits movement.
The grand purpose OF the rural cred
it's movement, said Mr.. Herrick, had
been overlooked by those who expect
ed of it only lower interest rates.
Cheaper money, he declared, is not
it's only aim; it rises higher than that
and proposes to enable home seekers
to accomplish their wish, land owners
to procure adequate funds to develop
their holdings, and farmers to mobilize
their resources. so that American agrl-
culture may become modernized and
properly financed and keep pace with
progress in every other industry.
Reviewing the five years that the
movement has been in course, Mr.. Her
rick declared that legislation in vari-
Gus states looking to the formation
Of credit unions and land credit in
stitutions had little merit. State aid,
he believed, to be undesirable in the
United States if private enterprise
could be efficiently regulated and ru-
raj cooperation intelligently prac-
ticed. Among other things he said:
"The cause of much OF the misunder-
standing about cooperative banking
and credit is the mistaken notion that
cooperation is all altruistic or benevo
lent means OF helping the down-and
out class of persons who are individu
ally weak and incompetent. This half
truth is alive with dangers. Cooper
alton can never help anybody except
him who is able and willing to help
himself-and his neighbor also. True
cooperation is the quickest way tC
success for the humble as we'll as fol
the high, but its literal Interpretation
is organized mutual self-help. 1t pre-
sumes that men will work harder
longer and better together than When
standing alone; it requires spirit anG
an ability to both give and receive;
and it can reach its fullest develop
ment only among persons who are ca
pable and honest, and known to be Sc
among persons who ask no favors
who spurn charity and state aid, ant
rely solely upon their own talents, toi
and resources.
There is more cooperation in til,
United States than in any other coun
try, and it is used here even for thu
largest undertakings. The gathern!
and distribution of news by the Asso
ciated Press is the most striking eX
ample in the world of cooperation con
Quoted Oh grand scale without lucra
tive object. The life insurance con
panies, with their millions of polio
holders and billions of dollars OF al
sets, and the mutual saving bank
and building and loan associations
with their stupendous totals Of dt
posits, savings and reserves, put mos
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23
ARRIVES WITH DISPATCHES.


NOME, Alaska, Sept. 1.-THE pow
er schooner Ruby, which arrived here
yesterday from Hirschel Island with
dispatches from Vilharjmur Stefans-
son, the explorer, left Teller. Alaska,
July "a, with supplies for the Cana
dian government stations and the
Hudson Bay company. After a good
voyage the Ruby arrived at Herschel
Island August IA and unloaded part
of her stores She continued to
Bailey Island, arriving August 23, and
discharged the remainder of her
cargo The return voyage was be-
gun September / Little ice was seen
on the outward trip until Point Bar
row was passed On the return voy-
age, however. the ice was steadily
pressing down from the north and
east and there was much ice Off Cape
Belcher
The Ruby brought news that Cap.
tain Louis Lane has purchased the
small power boat North Star from
Villa jlmur StefanssOn, to whom Lane
had previously sold his larger power
boat Polar Bear Lane is en- route
to Nome with 900 fox skins pur
chased from the Eskimoes. The
| North Star was still at Herschel Is
land when the Ruby departed, bur
was nearly ready to sail and probably
will arrive here in a few days.
The small power boat Challenge
j Captain Matson, bound from Nome tt
Point arrow, had not reached her des
tination on September 10 and probab
/ ly will be obliged to winter in thu
Arctic.
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23

NOME, Alaska, Sept 11.-Vilhal-
jmur Stefansson, chief of the Cana
dian government Arctic exploring and
surveying expedition that left Vic
toria, British Columbia in June. 1913,
and who set out afoot over the ice
with two companions from the shore
of northeastern Alaska in March,
1914, to seek new land in nncharted
seas, did not go to his death, as the
vol Id had begun to fear, but found
the new land and the only hardshirs
lie says. Stefansson is wintering at
Banksland, where he has large
power schooner and small one. He
plans to explore his new territory
during the winter and next summer
penetrate further into the region of
mystery between Alaska and the
north pole, where no ship has ever
gene. The power schooner Ruby
arrived from Herschel Island yester
day with dispatches from Stefans
son to his government in which he
Omits reference to the perils of the
Journeys on the ice and gives space
to the scientific results achieved. He
seems to have been quite unaware
of the anxiety his long silence
aroused,
The southern or Anderson wing OF
the expedition is pursuing its Worl
in the Mackenzie Delta and report:
no mishap except the death of En-
gineer Daniel Blue of the power boat
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23

varied and innumerable
The protection OF the
levees from breaks is in some OF the
states bordering the Mississippi river
d cooperative work. Farmers Or
ganizations for safeguarding mutual
interests are numerous, Wlllie fural
cooperation for business has already
made substantial progress, but chiefly
for marketing fruits and the manufac-
ture and disposal of milk products.
.If American farmers should awake
to the full realization of it's possiblll-
tes, they would soon be using cooper
alton in all their industrial, CONNER
cial and financial affairs relating to
agriculture. With the splendid exam
pies in the city before them, 1t Is
strange that they have lain dormant
so long. Cooperation may, OF course
be practced through corporation OF
in partnership, but the association
is its best breeding ground and nur
sery. In the United States, however
the purposes and ordinary banking
have been content with the corpora
tion and partnership. The propaganda
lists should broaden their views and
strive to make lawful for associations
whatever may now be done through
these other two forms of organization
Furthermore, if they wish to see rura
cooperation reach it's highest develop
ment, they should advocate such {
modification of the antitrust laws az
would permit cooperative associations
to combine"
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT.

PORTLAND, Maine, Sept. II. =
Rear Admiral Robert e. Peary said
tonight that the news of the safety
of Vilhiarmur Stefansson confirmed
what he and others familiar with Arc
tic conditions had believed when the
explorer was reported between
Banksland and the mouth of the
Mackenzie. that if he and his assist
ants reached land they would be able
to subsist indefinitely and would re-
turn.
.'If it is true. as reported, that
Stefansson has discovered new land
in the vicinity of Banksland and
Patricksland." said Admiral Peary
lit is a great achievement
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23
DENY RELATIONSHIP.

LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 22.-Mayor
Charles w. Bryan of Lincoln, a
brother of Former Secretary of State
Bryan, today denied knowledge of
Sheriff Bruce M. Bryan of Deer Lodge
county, drowned near Monida, Mont.
yesterday. who was reported to be a
cousin. MIR. Bryan stated that until
shown the press dispatches he had
never heard of the man. He denied
any relationship
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23
STEFANSS0N HEARD FROM

Alaska. This is the thirteenth death
among the members Of the eXpedl-
tion Eight men perished on the
Ice while trying to reach Wrangeii
Island after the karluk was crnslea'
Two died Of scurvy on Wrangell n
land and another accidentally siiol
and killed himself there. Another u
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23

of their funds of organized thrift un
der cooperative management, Willie
trade unionism (the oldest kind Of co
operation) permeates the aborine
classes. These are city-centered, but
do not constitute all the cooperative
activities. Cooperation appears in i'll
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23
Daring Explorer Will
Penetrate Further Into
the New Region.
NOW AT BANKSLAND

Stefansson Plans to Explore His New
Territory During the Winter and
Next Summer Penetrate Further
Into the Region Of Mystery Between
Alaska and the North Pole, Where
No Ship Has Ever Gone-He Seems
to Be Quite Unaware Of the Anxiety
His Long Silence Aroused Through.
out the Civilized World.
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23

the Mackenzie country, went insane
while lost and committed suicide by
shooting.
Fergus County Democrat., 1915-09-23
DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT

carefully includes all the latest styles and coors
Segesthese make the popular materials Our
choice have winter
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
FEWER FOREIGN STUDENTS
Report Shows That Only Six Foreign
Countries Represented at Summer
Session of u. of w.

Madison.-A marked decrease in the
number of foreign students attending
the 1915 summer session of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin is shown by the
final report made by Prof S. H. Good
night, director of the session. Only
twenty-seven foreign students at
tended the last session, a decrease of
twenty from the summer of 1914 and
of thirty-three from the summer of
1912.
Germany, France, Austria and Tur-
key which had formerly sent students
were not represented. Two students
came from England, one from Canada,
and one from India. Brazil, China and
the Philippines were the other foreign
countries represented.
An increase of 173 students is
shown by the total enrolment of
2,780 of the summer session.
Of the forty-five states represented,
Wisconsin led with an enrolment of
1,417, of whom SOC were teachers.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
AFTER FAKE TREE DOCTORS
State Entomologist Warns Property
Owners Against Vendors of San
Jose Scale Remedy.

Madison.-While State EntOmologist
Sanders is after little insect Letting
trees and shrubbery, he also is after
human insects who prey upon owners
of trees by palming off alleged rem
edies for San Jose scale and other
tree diseases.
The state entomologist, whenever
possible, is warning owners of trees
to guard against fake tree doctors.
He will appear in district court at
Milwaukee as witness against two
men charged with defrauding owners
of trees. 1t is alleged these men in
duced property owners to believe that
clean trees were infected and were
paid by the misled owners for use of
spray.
Property owners in many Wiscon-
sin cities have been defrauded out of
substantial sums by takers of this
sort. If any owner with infected trees
or shrubbery will get in touch with
Mr.. Sanders and send samples of in
fected twigs, he will give them advice
needed.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
INCREASE In RECEIPTS
Insurance Companies Paid the State
$7,7o9,92o During the Years
From 1905 to 1915.

Madison-Total receipts Of the
state department of insurance from
taxes, fees and other sources during
the ten years from 1905 to 1915
were, according to compilations made
by State Insurance Commissioer NJ.
J. Cleary, s7,7O9,92O.41 During the
same period the total expenses of the
insurance department, including sal
aries of $205,681.14 paid to en-
ployes, were $315, 452.40.
The receipts show a gradual an
nual increase from $572,778.95 in
1905 to $1,057, 26035 in 1914. In
1905 the expenses of the department
were $19,717.96; in 1914, $52,-
1000. The increase in the number
of companies licensed to do business
was sixty-four In 1914 the figures
were: Fire companies, (not including
domestic mutuals) 218; life, acct
dent, casualty, and fraternal, 173;
domestic mutuals, 266; total, 657.
The value of insurance supervised
by the department has doubled dur
ing the last ten years, as has the rev.
enue collected This is due in part
to the natural increase in business
and also to changes in the law which
has brought over forty unauthorized
companies under supervision.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02

He was asking the old man for his
daughter in marriage. He was talk
ing tremblingly, hesitatingly, as the
heroes do in story books. Now came
the old mans turn to speak, and as
he began his face was white with pas
sion and his voice shook with excite
ment.
You want to marry my daughter!
said the father. "Ah! Twenty years
ago your father crippled me in stock
deal, and | swore to be revenged.
And now my time has come"
He paused for breath, and the as
pirant for the maiden's hand was
about to beat a hasty retreat in the
face of supposed defeat when the IA
Their broke forth again:
Eyes, sir, | swore to be revenged,
and I'll strike the father through the
son. Want my daughter-eh? Well,
take her, and may she prove as ex-
pensive to you as she has to mel!
The old man dropped into his chair,
worn out with the excitement OF his
plot. and the young man tainted.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
FACES MANN ACT VIOLATION
BeIot Man Accused of Transporting
Girl From Belvidere, ILL.,, to
This State.

Beloit-Deputy United States Mar
shall William Appleby arrived here
from GAINESVILLE with George Forbes,
a factory employee, who is charged
with violating provisions of the Mann
act Forbes is accused of transport
ing a girl from Belvidere, H., to
Beloit, Wis, on an interurban line
Forbes was arrested by state authori-
ties and was sentenced to six months
in jail on a statutory charge and then
paroled under the Huber law The
federal department of justice did not
think the alleged crime had been
atoned for and Forbes was rearrested
and indicted by the federal grand
jury
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
CATTLE BRING HIGH PRICES
Average Price Brought by Animals at
Annual Sale Is $2OO.3o, High
est Being $40.

Waukesha.-Si xcy-six head of cattle
sold under the hammer at the old fair
grounds by the Waukesha County
Guernsey Breeders association
brought $13,375, an average of $2230
an animal. Young animals and calves
were in the majority George Brown,
Milwaukee, was the heaviest pur-
chaser, he having bought eleven head
for $685., all of which he placed on
his farm. Glencoes Nancy, owned by
Fruit Brothers, brought the highest
price, r. P. Guptill of Echo, Wis, pay
ing $410 for her. The average price
paid at this sale is almost the same
as that paid at the associations sale
last spring. There were about three
hundred livestock breeders present
from every section of the country.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
SEES BENEFIT IN
TYPHOID DECISION
J. .. BECK, INDUSTRIAL BOARD,
SAYS 1T WILL RESULT
BETTER SANITATION.
COMMANDS COURT ACTION
Declares No Additional Burden Is
Placed Upon EmpIoyers-WilI
Assist Commission in
Their Work.

Madison. d. Beck, member of
the industrial commission, issued a
statement commencing the decision OF
the supreme court which held that
typhoid fever contracted through
drinking water furnished by an en-
ployer, was an accident within the
meaning of the workmen's compensa-
ton act. He said:
Insofar as the decision itself is
concerned, it is in exact line, as l see
it, with those already made by the
industrial commission.
II do not believe it will add / cents
additional expense to the employer of
the state. / do think, however, that
one benefit is to be derived from the
decision. The supreme court has
passed upon the question in a way
that will be of great assistance to the
commission in working out with en-
ployers better sanitary conditions in
factories.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
TO SPEND $125,000
LUMBERMEN RAISE BIG FUND
FOR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN.
To Spend $4,000 Year to Boost Wis
consin and Michigan Hemlock
and Hardwood.

Milwaukee-A fund sufficient to in
sure a five-year campaign of advertis-
ing at approximately $4,000 year to
boost the use of Wisconsin and north
ern Michigan hemlock and hardwood
was raised at a meeting of the North
ern Hemlock and Hardwood Manufac-
turers' association held here.
Resolutions against the proposed
new freight classification on lumber
by which shipments are rated accord
ing to grade, were passed. The lum-
bermen pointed out that the change
would practically wipe out some
towns, and that in the shipments of
for the highest grade of lumber in the
car.
Another resolution favored the grad
ing of hemlock, and the use of a Wis
consin trade mark to identify Wiscon-
sin produced lumber, establishing a
quality standard.
Practices of many Wisconsin archi-
tects in recommending outside lumber
for buildings where Wisconsin pro-
duced lumber would be just as good,
and sometimes better, were con-
demned and one of the objects of the
proposed publicity campaign will be
to establish a Wisconsin First" prin-
ciple with the architects
Edward Hines, nationally known
lumberman, said the condition of the
market is improving, but warned
against over-enthusiasm of business
affected by European war orders.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
CHILDREN PERISH
IN FIRE AT SCHOOL
Thirty Boys and Girls Die at Pea
body, Mass.
PANIC FOLLOWS THE ALARM
Twenty Bodies Recovered From Ruins
Hundreds of Mothers Rush to
Parochial institution When
Flames Are Seen.

Peabody, Mass, Oct. 29.-Fire swept
through the three story brick building
occupied by the st. Johns parochial
school, burning or driving to death in
the panic that followed the alarm
probably thirty of the 600 boys and
girls who in a few minutes before had
assembled for their daily lessons
Twenty bodies have been recovered
from the ruins
Twelve of these bodies have been
removed from the vestibule, where the
jam of terrified little ones had result
ed in the greatest loss of life. The
police had estimated the dead as high
as fifty. Many others were injured in
their flight down the stairways and
few jumped from the windows of the
third floor.
Mothers Crowd Yard.
The first alarm brought a hundred
distracted mothers to the schoolyard,
where soon they were joined by other
relatives of the pupils. until the build
ing was surrounded by a great crowd
Of hysterical men and women, who
rushed the police lines in a wild effort
to reach their children. The police
were powerless to stop the rush. but
what they failed to do was accom-
plished presently by the flames, which,
shooting from the windows Of the
building, held back the throng.
The students, who ranged in years
from seven to thirteen, were in
charge of Is sisters. When the fire
started the sisters marshaled their
charges as for a fire drill and started
them from the building. The process
sions were orderly until those from
the third floor joined others pouring
from the classrooms OF the second
floor.
Suddenly there was cry of fear
from one of the throng. 1t was taken
up by a hundred others, and panic
ensued The sisters made frantic eff
forts to stop the pushing, struggling
mass, but to no purpose. The smaller
children fell under the feet of those
behind them, and soon the vestibule
was so damned with living and dead
that the firemen could not force an
entrance. The sixteen sisters escaped.
Fire Starts In Basement
The origin of the fire remained in
doubt. Michael Dunn, who lives near
the school, said he heard a muff1ed
explosion in the school building just
before it was enveloped in flames.
When the ruins had cooled suffi-
GENTLY to permit it, Building Inspec-
tor A. H. Mcdonald and w. s. Murrel
of the state police made their way for
few feet into the basement, and later
reported that the steam boiler, which
was reported to have exploded, was
| intact.
Joseph Donahue, the engineer of the
| building also declared that the bIaze
could not have originated from the
boiler. He said that he had banked
his fire before he left it at eight o'clock
in the morning.
A large percentage of the pupils
were children of foreign parentage. In
the number were many of Irish and
italian descent. The firemen fought
the fire from ladders raised 20 the
windows. while the police cleared the
vestibule.
Bodies generally were burned be-
yond recognition.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
State to Pay Debt.

Madison.-The liquidation of the
state debt of s2,5O0,00O, which has
been on the books of the state treas
ury since the Civil war, will be start
ed this year by the payment of
100000. This money was repaid
to the state by the federal govern
ment, but always has been carried on
the books as a loan, from which the
school funds drew interest At the
rate of repayment designated by the
last legislature it will take twenty
five years to liquidate the claim.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
NEW CONFESSION BY FAY
Rinqleader of Bomb Conspiracy Said
to Have Involved German Secret
Service Department.

New York. Oct "a new confess
sion by Robert Fay, ringleader in the
German plot to blow up ammunition
ships at sea, involves the secret serv.
ice department of the imperial Ger
man government SO seriously that it
may lead to a diplomatic controversy
similar to that resulting from the Ger
man submarine warfare.
According to Fay the conspiracy to
cripple American pla IS which have
been making war supplies for the al
lies and to blow up ships was Matched
by the heads of the German secret
SCI vice
information contained in Fay's
latest confession has been turned over
to the United States attorney general
by the department of justice.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
strins Man. Saves His Life.

Whirled on the f1ywheel of gaso-
line engine which was operating
cider press, Jacob Rohrbaugh of Cone
WACO township was saved from death
by William Altland. Rohrbaugh
clothing caught in the cogs as be was
adjusting a belt, which had slipped.
Realizing that there was no time TO
stop the engine, Altland grasped the
whirling man, and by main strength
tore the garments which held him
fast. Rohrbaugh was only sllgntly
hurt.-York (Pa.) Dispatch Philadel-
phia Record.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02

Der OF the congregation opposes it. is
made certain in the deed to the lot
on which the new church is to be
built.
The deed provides that in case of
any attempt to use the church for any
of the purposes named the church
property shall revert to the members
or member of the church who opposes
it--Louisville (Ky) Dispatch, New
York Sun.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1915-11-02
Fire Loss Shows Decrease.

Madison.-A marked decrease is
shown in the number of fires and fire
losses in Wisconsin for the quarter
ending September 80, 1915, over the
corresponding quarter in 1914, accord
ing to figures compiled in the fire
marshal department of the office of
commissioner of insurance The de-
crease in fires in this years quarter
is 232 and the decrease in losses $437,-
825 for the same period.