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The Washington herald., 1915-05-02

Meanwhile Detective Conser had
reached Washington with the great news
that Booth had been taken. Gen. La
favete {. Baker. chief detective of the
War Department secret service, who had
sent out the party which trapped Booth
one of many that We're searching for
him-at once embarked on a tug to meet
the steamer. which arrived at Alexandria
with the body late that evening.
The orders of Secretary stanton. the
steamer proceed at once to the Washing
ton Navy Yard and the body was trans
ferred to the deck of the monitor Mon
tauk where 1t lay for the remainder of
the night under marine guard. Her
old in heavy irons, was placed in the
ships chain locker.
The next morning an autopsy on
Booths body was held by Surg. Gen.
Joseph X Barnes. of the United States
army, and the body was officially iden
tilted. DR.. ]. F.. May, prominent WASH
iuston physician who had treated Booth
for a carbuncle on the neck. found the
scar resulting from its removal. 1t was
also Identified by other persons who had
known Booth.
The section of the spine at the neck
through which the bullet had passed
was removed and the body was pro.
nounced ready for burial. The body was
then placed in two blankets. the edges OF
which were sewn together forming q
bag A young woman who had known
Booth. whom some enc of the persons
present at the autopsy had rsmuggled
aboard the ship when not observed cut
the sewing near the head and cut off
lock Of the assassin's hair. She was OBJ
The Washington herald., 1915-05-02

"TOmorrow: The Myth of Tho
Great Conspiracy"
The Washington herald., 1915-05-02

Col. Roosevelt told the story OF
Vice Presidential nomination forced
upon him. although Mr.. WINS said that.
while it was of great interest to the dis
tincuished witness. no one else cared
Roosevelt and Platt had talked of his
availability for the 1900 Republican Vice
Presidential nomination from April to
the hour of the Philadelphia convention.
Platt became more urgent that he should
take the nomination. Finally in Platts
room in Philadelphia there was a show
down.
Senator PIatt told me that the New
York delegation would put me in nomi-
nation" said the witness. II told him
that I would not accept. that I wanted
To be nominated for governor. that
would 60 downstairs. and tell the dele
gates that il / was nominated I would
take it as a personal assault on me to
get me out of the way and prevent my
denomination for governor.
"'All right. Then it's a fight. is it,
Senator Plat said to me.
ITS a fight I replied. and I went
downstairs and talked to the delegates.
as said l would. In a little while Frank
Plat told me that I had misunderstood
his father who wanted to see me.
went to him and he said that he was in
great pain at the reports OF my con-
versations with delegates that had been
brought to him. that he would withdraw
his statement about the Vice Presidential
nomination. and that | would be re-
nominated for governor. He said Tim
othy L. Woodruff would do for Vice
President.
The New York delegation never noml-
mated or seconded me for the Vice Presi-
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03

PASTEURIzED MILK IN FAVOR
Great Advantage in Process Is to In
sure Freedom From Disease
Producing Organisms.

The great advantage in pasteurizing
from disease-producing organisms.
This is a point which is. constantly
brought forward in favor of pasteuriza-
ton of milk. OF course the pasteurized
milk will have better keeping quail
ties than the same milk that has not
is an advantage from the standpoint
of the milk dealer, and is also an adj
vantage to the milk consumer.
Outside the cost of the process.
there are practically no disadvantages
connected with the pasteurization OF
milk. This is especially true with the
way pasteurization is conducted today.
There is absolutely no doubt but that
milk properly pasteurized and prop
erly handled subsequent thereto is
just as healthful a food for children
as we'll as for adults as is raw milk.
Most of the commercial pasteuriza-
ton of market milk at the present
time is done by heating the milk to
145 degrees for approximately thirty
minutes. This temperature and time
Of exposure does not change the milk
physically or chemically to any appre-
cable extent. If milk is heated to
higher temperatures or for longer Pc
RODS of time, the dreaming powers
of the milk will be nf1uenced-that is,
the heated milk will cream less rapid
ly and somewhat less completely than
the raw milk The milk will also aco
quire, which is Objectionable to many
people, what is known as the cooked
taste. 1t is not probable that the nJ<
tritive value of the milk is injured.
in fact, at the present time ma~. ply
sicians advocate the heating OF chill
dren's milk to the boiling point.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
IMPORTANCE OF DAIRY cow
Most Economical Producer of Human
Food of All Domestic Animals
She is Here to Stay.
CBy N. J. FRAsER. Illlnols.l

Since the COW is the most econom-
Ical producer of human food of all our
domestic animals, and as she can live
and produce milk on a ration COM
posed entirely of roughage, she will
be the animal that will be resorted to
in order to convert half Of the energy
of our common crops. which is other
wise unavailable, into human food.
Another reason why the COW is here
to stay, and will always be of vital
Importance in sustaining human life.
is that babies and invalids cannot be
nourished on cornmeal mush alone
For these reasons, even after the
time comes that there is an actual
struggle for human food. the dairy
COW will still be a vital and abiding
factor in a system of permanent agri-
culture. II we are to retain hiEn
degree of civilization.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03

ancient sea, long since turned to
stone, became a lofty plateau. Then
the rivers began their slow work of
cutting, carving and dissecting this
tableland. The result today is that
wonderful region of several hundred
square miles east of the Black Hills,
known as THE Big Bad Lands" where
nature has chiseled the soft rocks
into thousands of strange of curious
shapes. The cloudbursts of spring and
summer which visit the Bad Lands cre-
ate innumerable rivers, from small
rills to raging torrents, whose rushing
waters cut deep into the old ocean
bed-layers of hardened sand and clay
carrying it into most startling shapes
and forms. There is bewildering
variety, Kaleidoscope change from
every different viewpoint. The Bad
Lands are not, as might be supposed
from the name, somber and desolate
in appearance. Bad they are for the
unwary travellers comfort, even in
deed his safety, since the watering
places are few and far between,
Chaos OF Rugged Shapes.
Different from the titanic carvings
of nature, such as the great canyon of
the Colorado, which has been cut
largely by single river running cease
lessly through the endless centuries,
the Bad Lands present fine network
of comparatively minute sculpturing,
in hundreds rather than thousands of
feet, the result of intermittent erosion.
Neither does the wanderers eye rest
on any forests, glittering lakes, or
green meadows. Instead, there is a
veritable chaos of rugged and gro
tesque shapes fashioned by the rains
and the winds out of the crumbly
rocks, softly tinted with many hues.
The bright western sun reflects the
light from thousands of glittering
pyramids, towers, galleries, and ca
thedral spires. all bare of vegetation,
but casting back in subdued shades
every color of the rainbow.
M land of fable could picture a
greater variety of fairy castles, with
watch towers, battlements and tur-
rets, impregnable strongholds built on
lofty cliffs, commanding the country
around, until the domain of the next
lofty castle cy Nesting chateau Is
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
TURRETED

T@ HE Black Hills of South Da-
kota and Wyoming, which are
in fact mountains rising from
the great plains to an eleva-
tion Of 1000 or more feet above sea
level, were millions of years ago, a
small, low island, surrounded by a
vast shallow sea. This sea extended
as far west as the Rocky mountains,
which were mere highlands rising
above it, writes Guy E. Mitchell in the
Utica Saturday Globe.
The average traveller today, much
less the bandits and Indians who have
in recent years infested this elevated
region, would probably. according to
their various nationalities, smile
grimly or laugh to scorn the statement
that this portion of the country, now
so arid and barren, was once the
ocean, and later vast tropical
swamp, among whose rank and luxu-
RANT vegetation lurked strange and
huge reptiles, and on the shores of
which roamed giant herbivorous ami
mails, which were in turn preyed upon
by the terrible flesh-eating monsters of
the early world. Such, however, is the
fact as attested by the vast quantities
of fossilized bones which have been
found imbedded in the rocks and many
of which are now mounted in lifelike
attitudes in various museums of the
country.
Following this age of sea and swamp
the whole region was uplifted thou
sands of feet by the dynamic forces
from within the earth; the hills be-
came mountains and the bed of the
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03

having large and profitable produc-
ton of butterfat
8. Raise well the heifer calves from
cows. which for one or more genera
tions have made large and profitable
productions of milk and butterfat.
9. Breed heifers to drop their first
calves at "a to 80 months of age. Give
COW six to eight weeks rest between
lactation periods.
10. Join dairy cattle breeders as
ISOLATION. 1t will help you to keep
posted and in touch with the best and
most modern ways of managing your
dairy herd.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
CASTLES

SfNSSstsl~9
reached. The fact that many Of tbasa
fantastic structures appear to he fan
ing into ruin in no way detracts from
the romantic charm of the scene: sucb
indeed seems in harmony with the al.
lent, deserted aspect of the region
Fortress after fortress and en-.
battlement after embattlement meet
the eye from different positions
as the traveller wanders here and
there through the Bad Lands. some
sadly in need of repair-long aban.
doned in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
standing out bold and sharp against
the clear blue Dakota sky. Hardly can
there be anything more impressive
than the vast silence and great desc.
lation of the Bad Lands.
Over most of the region few living
things can be seen. Here and there
in some favored hollow, stunted tree
clings desperately to existence, and
animal life is equally scarce. A few
springs support little vegetation, viz.
idly green in contrast with the sur.
rounding grays, blues, pinks and olive
shades of the rocks, while in two or
three places animals are found. A
high ridge of some extent located
near the center Of the region, and
representing probably the original
level of the old plateau, has sufficient
soil and fertility to support scanty
growth Of grass and on this live con-
siderable numbers of the great Rocky
Mountain Bighorn, the noblest of
American wild sheep. This ridge is
some 500 feet above the rest of the
Bad Lands, and is known as Sheep
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03

mountain. What a vast amount OF
washing and erosion of the rock and
what endless centuries of time must
thousands OF square miles which now
spread below this elevated remnant OF
the sea bed! From Sheep mountain
the views in all directions comprise the
most notable Bad Lands scenery in the
world. Below lies the shattered and
fantastic fragment of the once great
plateau, curved and cut and twisted
into thousands of queer and eerie
shapes. There are groups OF great
gray birdlike forms; there are things
with long necks and heads that resem-
BILE ostriches; there are shapes that
might be taken for herds of some mon
strous, unknown animals, and gardens
of giant mushrooms; even profiles and
full views of the human face that
might surely, from their appearance
have been sculptured by clever work.
men of some forgotten race, so perfecI
are the expressions of these heroic
statues-all carved, however, by the
RAIN anu the W1Hu DlOWluB LhO Ss"AAN
particles against the soft rock.
Once Termed With Life.
Absolutely deserted as are the BAD
Lands today, except for the occasional
traveller, this great plateau, in the very
long ago, when the world was very
young, was teeming with animal HE
No such animals are alive today; only
their smaller descendants. The huge
Titanotherium, which fed upon the
luxuriant growth of almost tropical
vegetation with which the Bad LANDS
were at one time clothed, would nave
made the largest rhinoceros or the
present age look like sucking pl&.
This antediluvian monster was IA feet
lcug and stood nine feet high. Other
monsters were the Oredon and inc
Elatherium, while great cat or pan
ther-tiger preyed upon the herb eaters
of the time. The bones of hundreds
of these animals have been found EN-
bedded in the rock strata of the Baa
Lands. The region has ever been re-
nowned as a veritable storehouse Oh
the fossil skeletons of these pre-
historic animals which lived HUNDREDS
of centuries before the epoch OF inc
first man.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
IMPROVING THE DAIRY HERD
to Pay for Their keep-Breed
Cows to Purebred Bull.

(By GEORGE HUMPHREY. University
of wisconsin,
l. Treat cows gently and avoid ex-
element.
2. Be regular in time of milking.
8. Keep stables clean. well-lighted
and ventilated
4. Weigh the milk of each cow at
milking time.
5. Get your neighbor to share with
you in owning Babcock milk tester,
and test the product of each COW.
6. Discard the animals which have
failed at the end of the year to pay
for their keep.
2. Breed your cows to purebred
registered dairy bull from a family
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03

the rooms are thronged with club
members, and no one is more faithful
in his attendance than the secretary
of the interior. The organization has
the regulation committees and on four
or five nights each week entertain
ments are provided for the members.
There are picture shows, card par
ties, lectures, dances and concerts,
and other forms of amusement. 1t is
likely that the swift success of this
plan to form a home circle of the in
terror department employees will lead
to the forming of other clubs of like
kind in all great departments Of gov
eminent. Secretary Lane is presi-
dent of the organization, but he makes
no attempt to dictate its management,
being content simply to take his place
among the other members and to help
make the organization a success.
He's Really Progressive.
Washington recognizes in Franklin
K Lane a progressive member of the
presidents cabinet. His progressive
ism is not confined to the field of poll
tics. Now after having started the
Home club on a successful career he
is lending his aid to the development
of a wider public recreation field In
the city of Washington. To this end
he has submitted a list of questions
to the 1000 clerks in the department
of the interior requesting that each
question be answered.
Mr.. Lane wants to know, for in
stance, the distance of each clerks
residence from the scene of his work,
how long it takes him to reach the Of
flee, and whether he walks or rides.
He is interested to know, also, how
long each clerk has lived in this city,
and in a general way gets information
concerning the ages of his employees
without compelling the women to an
swer directly, by asking if they are
between such and such ages. making
the margin wide enough to enable q
woman clerk of forty to "nswer the
question without putting If in the
old-maid class.
Guarding the Resources.
Inc cnleI purpose o. the queStlOnSs
for there are many of them, is to find
out how much exercise the clerks take.
and what their favorite form of amuse-
ment is. The secretary apparently
wants to provide system of recrea-
! ton broad enough to meet the predi-
| lections of all the men and women in
his department
| Franklin K Lane is busy trying to
put into law the views which he has
concerning the general question Of
conservation. There are differences
of opinion on conservation, on meth
DDS of securing it and on just what
| it is necessary to secure. The records
in the case of the present administers
ton are available to everybody. Mr..
Lane is known as progressive con-
servationist and yet in way as q
conservative one. The two things are
not antagonistic. He is the secretary
of the interior. Uncle Sam has big
interior Guarding his holdings and
yet allowing them to be put to legiti-
mate use is no sinecure. The man
who accepts the post of secretary of
the interior knows that from the hour
of his induction into office he must
become a workingman.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
drobwllllandyssilio the name
of Welsh village in Angelsea.
means the church of st. Mary in a
hollow of q white hazel. near to the
rapid whirlpool. and to St. Tisilio
church, neat to a red cave"
In the OzarK mountains of Missouri
there is a subterranean farm on which
mushrooms. celery and rhubarb are
raised with great success. The en-
trance to the cavern is by boat.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03

German inventors potato plant
er is featured by hollow wheels
through which the cut tubers are fed
into excavations made by spades at
tached to the sides of the wheels.
One of the new forms of concrete
piles is made by driving a REINFORCED
metal casing into the ground, with.
drawing the reinforcement and
filling the casing with concrete.
A combination intrenching tool pat
ented by a Cincinnati inventor serves
as spade. AK. adz, pick, saw and bull
let shield for a soldiers head or body.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
Sweet Revenge.

Why. / didn't think Mrs. Dodds
could afford to have her little girls
take piano lessons" she can't, out
she wants to get even with the family
in the tlat next to hers"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
No Room for Them.

isn't there a notion that spirits
walk the earth on Halloween" YES"
replied Mr.. Growcher. But they don't.
None OF them would dare take q
chance on meeting the small boys who
have taken charge of that particular
date"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
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on the interstate commerce commits
sion. Another Californian of great
prominence spoke to Mr.. Roosevelt
about giving California the place
which was suggested, and had some
thing to say about Mr.. Lane. He
found that Mr.. Roosevelt already knew
good deal about Mr.. Lane.
After the presidential election of
1904 Theodore Roosevelt remembered
about Mr.. Lane, and he gave him the
next vacancy on the commission.
He's jolly and 5eaming.
Franklin knight Lane is jolly man
with beaming face. He can keep his
own counsel if 1t is necessary, and he
is likely to turn away inquiries con-
corning certain matters connected
with the interior department with a
story or two which have points so
sharp as to compensate the inquirer
for the disappointment of not getting
answers to his questions. Mr. Lane,
however, tells newspaper correspond
ents everything that 1t is proper for
him to tell them concerning matters
with which his department has to
deal.
Some time ago a newspaper editor
wrote to large number of bankers
in the United States and asked each
one TO tell who his choice would be
for the Democratic nomination for the
presidency in case Mr.. Wilson should
decline to run for a second term. -
great majority of the bankers, in writ
ing back named Franklin X. Lane. The
bankers, apparently, had not read the
newspapers. nor had they studied the
biographies of our prominent men as
they should have done to keep in
formed.
Couldn't Be President.
Perhaps the financial pages of the
press and the big treatises on money
matters formed the bulk of their read
ing. Apparently not more than half
dozen of the bankers who answered
the editors question knew that Frank
! lin knight Lane was ineligible to the
presidency of the United Slater Mr..
1 1dI6 WAS uOTH III IIlACc EuWdIu 5
ISLAND, a British possession, fact
which, of course. under the Constitu-
tion of the United States forbids his
election to the presidency.
Secretary of the Interior Franklin X.
Lane and Mrs. Lane go good deal
into society, but in considerable
part it is the society of the interior de.
partment employees, their wives and
their children. The secretary has or
ganized a social club and 1900 clerks
of the great department have enrolled
| themselves as members.
Helps His Employees.
The interior departments social or
ganization is called the Home club
1t has leased the big house in Lafay
cite square which cnce was occupied
by Gen. Daniel E. Sickles in years
long gone by, and later by Secretary
Schuyler Colfax. who was vice-presi
dent of the United States during Gen
eral Grants first term in the White
House.
In this old-time Washington mansion
a housekeeping plant has been in
stalled. and a business manager Their,
has his office. Every night in the weel
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1915-12-03
BY EDWARD 8. CLARK.

N tropical Panama one rain
dropping evening two years
ago l sat on the porch of
J. the house of a resident
7Sz4I American listening to the
q dolorous cry of the Bohia
SS bird, which is the whip
poorwill of the far south
land. 1t was time and place for
dreaming, and my host, like myself,
was silent. Suddenly he brought me
to an awakening with the quick words:
Come, stop listening to the bird. and
tell me about Frank Lane"
Frank Lane" / queried, who's
he?"
You Washington man." half ex.
claimed my host. "and you ask me
who Frank Lane is?"
Then | came to with a realizing
sense that the Frank Lane of famil-
lar converse was Franklin Knight
Lane, the secretary of the interior in
the cabinet of Woodrow Wilson.
Former Newspaper Reporter.
My host, on that tropic night in
wet and blessed Panama, was a judge
of one of the courts established un-
der the American administration.
told him all that / could of the re-
cent doings Of Mr.. Lane, of his serv-
ice as interstate commerce commits
sioner, and how certain known views
OF his on conservation doubtless had
made him the presidents choice for
the interior portfolio.
Then / was told in turn how it was
that the judge had called the cabinet
officer so quickly and so naturally by
his shortened Christian name. The
judge and the secretary once upon a
time had been fellow reporters on a
newspaper in the far Northwest of the
United States
How was it that Franklin K. Lane
became secretary of the interior? He
became conservationist, that is, a
saver of things by destroying things.
In other words, when there was a big
fire in San Francisco quite a number
of years ago IL was Mr.. Lane who
made the electric connection which
sent the spark to a quantity of dyna-
mite which blew up building and
checked the course of the conflagra-
ton, thereby saving an immense
amount of property.
Speeches Say Something.
Once on a time Franklin K. Lane
made speech. 1t was a short one,
but it was full of meat. 1t dealt with
conservation. 1t combined in thought
a scheme for using the natural re.
sources to their full limit and yet OF
saving them to posterity have al
ways liked to believe that it was this
speech which in considerable part
made Mr.. Wilson choose Mr. Lane as
his secretary of the interior.
Politics never had cut much of Q
figure in securing appointment pre-
ferment for Franklin K. Lane. In
the year 1902 Mr.. Lane was q can
didate for governor of California. He
was defeated, but the campaign which
he made and the causes which ht
cspoused attracted wide attention
Roosevelt Knew Him.
w. R. Wheeler of San Francisco
suggested to Theodore Roosevelt, thei
president of the United States, tina