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The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1915-02-13
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07

that is known of; how many were
shot after they started to swim the
stream will never be known. There
is a written story, az old as is the
story of this "war, to the effect
that a band of Sioux Indians came
up soon after this awful encounter
and asked permission to attack the
remnant of the Sacs. One story has
it that permission was given; another
story has it that permission was re-
fused.
Then the history goes on to relate
that a band of whites. from Cassville,
under Major Price, made a reconnoi ire
on August 4, two days after the final
slaughter, and rounded up a dozen
survivors of the Sacs, evidently some
who had not been in the "battle, -
and these they killed or took pri-
soners. And the only crime these
poor people had been guilty of was
that of trying to reclaim and once
more plant corn, on the land that was
theirs. They were not looking for
war. They did not even seek to drive
the whites out. They wanted their
own.
But the white man wanted the
land, and excuses had to be made for
the possession of it.
Thus ended the great Black Hawk
war. None of the battles were
fought in Grant county, but the
trouble began south of our county,
worked to the north and finally around
the north. Grant county was en-
circled on three sides, and Major
Rountree and Major Price were two
of the commanders in the ruction,
both we'll known pioneers of the
county. 1t never was a war, unless
it was war to chase a few hundred
lf-starved Indians around the coun-
try to get shot at them. r---
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07
GRANT COUNTY HISTORY
Fragmentary Tales of Early Doings in This Good
Bailiwck, Gathered from the Most Authentic Sources

In our last installment we left the
whites with replenished food supply
IN full cry and pursuit of the retreat
ing Sacs. From their first appear
ance on the east side of the Mis-
sissippi. whittier they came early in
May, the poor Indians bad sought
nothing but to get away from their
pnrsuers. They had been forced to
fight" twice, but in both cases
these "battles" were nothing but
rear guard skirmishes, so far as the
followers of Black Hawk were con-
cerned.
After they got across the Wiscon-
sin river at Prairie du Sac, the
Indians had made the best haste they
might for the Mississippi, their
starving condition considered. They
died by scores on the march, and the
putrid bodies were not buried. This
but excited the whites to more en-
deavor, and they overlook the I'M
happy remnant of the Sacs near the
Mississippi river, in Vernon county,
at the crossing of a stream that was
even then known as Bad Axe.
Almost no resistance was made by
the starved Indians; all they wanted
was to get across the river to the
country the government had given
them when they were torn from their
homes in northwestern Illinois. But
the whites were thirsty for blood
and land, and they poured volley
after volley into the crowd. This
engagement has gone into history as
a battle, but the Sacs were in no
shape to fight. They had almost no
ammunition; they were starving.
The Whites came upon their foes
at a point a mile from the Mississippi
river and drove them into the water
AS many as $50 of them were killed
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07
snappy Retort

The occupant of a seat on the train
was disturbed by the struggles OF an
elderly man who tried to place large
bundle on the rack overhead.
THAT rack is only for light articles"
protested the annoyed one.
'Then why don't you put your head
on it?" was the snappy retort.- Boston
Transcript.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07
Placing Him.

so 70 am goin to be NAH son-in-
law. am yo'?' inquired old Brother
BuckalOo.
.sYassah, OATS what It mounts to-"
said the colOred swain. But dat aim
What Ah'm a-marryin' Louella Maud
foh. Yo' am purely incidental to de
emergency, sab, purely incidentaL"-
Ladies' Home Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07
$1,635,OOO Hidden
In This Years Goodyear Tires
Here areamazingfa facts:

Goodyear Fortified Tires
contain FIVE costly features
found in no other tire. They
have other features not COM
mon.
five omitted those features,
this years probable output
would cost us $1,635,000
less. We could add that
much to our profits. And
you would never know it until
troubles came.
This years improvements
alone will cost US S500,000
yearly. Most Of this goes
into extra rubber-all into ex-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07
Users Save
$5,OOO,OOO

Yet our 1915 price reduc-
ton made February LIST
will save Goodyear users
about $5,000,00O this year.
And that was our third re-
duction in two years, totaling
As per cent.
These extra features
used by us alone-wiIl save
users millions more.
That's why Goodyears
dominate. They have long
outsold any other. They are
gaining new users faster than
we can supply them. We
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07

traWear. And
weshallspend
on research
S100,0O0this
year to find
other better
ments still.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07

hope, tor your
ow S a ke,
that they'll
soon win you.
Any dealer
will supply
you. GAS,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1915-07-07
CENTRAL BOARD
STILL BIG ISSUE
Administration Bill and Stduden-
mayer Substitute Pending.
ORIGINAL PLAN DEAD, BELIEF

Dissension Against Philips Educa-
tionaI Proposition Will Go Down in
History of Present Legislature as
Very Important Chapter-Opposition
Is Made Up of Men in Many Walks
Of Life.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23

sentenced to serve one day in jail for
his crime.
These cases represent the extremes
In our treatment OF murderers. And
absurd as it appears 10 punish man
with only one days imprisonment for
killing a human being. the Baltimore
penalty more nearly represents Amer
lean sentiment than does the Utah
penalty.
There were great differences. of
course. Joseph Hillstrom was found
guilty Of deliberate murder. His record
was considered bad, and his prom
inence in l. W. w. activity. from
which Utah has suffered much. was
looked upon as aggravating his Of
Tense The evidence against him was
circumstantiaI. but apparently con-
elusive. There was nothing particu-
/ larly horrifying in his being shot
/ rather than hanged. The Utah law
allows a choice. Shooting is probably
the more merciful of the two methods.
William thinner, the Baltimore
murderer, is a paralytic, 81 years old.
The man he killed was proprietor of
cheap lodging house thinner. while
drunk, had an alteration with him.
and struck one blow with his fist.
which resulted in the victims death.
The killing was, in a sense, accidental,
and the prisoners physical condition
helped to win him leniency.
But there was one common element
in these cases. The ridiculously trivial
penalty imposed on thinner was the
extreme manifestation Of the Ameri-
can prejudice against capital punish
ment The same prejudice appeared
in the wave Of protest which rolled in
upon the Utah authorities from all
the rest Of the country and included
an appeal for feniency from the pres
ident of the United States.
Utah rejected these protests, as she
had perfect right to do. but there
is no mistakins the powerful opinion
that exists against such legal taking
Of human life. Every conspicuous
murder case reveals 1t. In response
to this opinion, state after state is
abolishing the death penalty. Event
ually Utah will do likewise. and the
I Hillstrom case will have helped to
/ hasten the decision.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
CLEAN 1T UP.

The Goodier court martial at San
Francisco discloses a series of petty
quarreis among the army aviators at
the San Diego station, beginning with
the appointment of Capt. Cowan as
[, mmandant and continuing until the
present time. Very possibly the loss
Of the lives Of several officer aviators
was largely due to the chaotic con-
dition of the morale at the station.
For the good of this most import
ant branch Of the military service
that sort of thing should be prompt
ly stopped.
If the court martial fixes, as it ap-
pears now it will do, the blame upon
both faction in the quarrel alike,
every man in authority should be re-
lie.ed of his command and sent back
to the lire.
Uncle Sans army aviators are as
skilled as any in the world. given an
even break That they should have.
Let's have a clean sweep and fresh
start. if essential TO complete har-
-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
GIVE THEM PUBLICITY.

The income tax being pronounced a
failure. because so many of the big
fish slip through its meshes, 1t is now
proposed to tax the profits made in
manufacture of war materials, in or
der 70 fight off a government deficit
In other words, because scoundrel-
ism has been rather successful, 1t is
proposed to create more cause and
opportunity for scoundrelism. We
don't know how they're going to get
around the constitution and put a
special tax on special profits. but
there's no doubt but the income TAX
failure is largely due to its secrecy
provisions and inefticiency on the
part Of collectors. Perjury and con-
cealment. with politicians in office
trying to make collections without
hurting anybody's feelings! 1t is an
old story. And the cure, as usual
seems to be to make up the deficiency
out OF somebody who is prospecting
for some reason or other.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
THE MELTING POT
COMET TAKE POTLUCK WITH us.

mistakes. 1 said too bad. bat that he
had better stumble over his own
faults
MANY examples of overworked
imaginations are offered by the well
known press. For instance, quota
ton. only the fact that Mr.. Archibald
came-to New York in his yacht on
Saturday saved his life. Had he been
driven TO the railway station at larry
town his automobile would have
plunged into the trap set, quotation.
A LIGHTED cigar caused the eX-
plosion Of a zeppelin at Copenhagen.
Why not equip the aerial fleets with
lighted cigars? Preferably the cam
paign brand
give to Four"
CThe Commoner.)
THE shades of night were falling free
When UP from Washington. D. c,
There came DEGREES, all handed down
By judges wrapped in black silk
gown
Five to four"
The income tax? They pondered
And argUfied with learning great;
They seized their pens and gravely
wrote
Opinions they took the vote
Five to four"
The merger? Twas a famous case,
Each judge sat there with solemn
face,
And heard the argument so keen,
When the decision came twas seen
Five to four"
Our wards beyond the deep blue sea?
Al. surely here they will agree!
But after rods Of legal lore,
Behold the spectacle once more
Five TO four
law to safeguard human life.
To care for orphans and for wife;
All. judges on that will agreel
But there's the record-loOk and
see
Five to four"
NOW that Porter Charlton has re-
gained his liberty, what is he gonna
do with it?
TURKEY is not essential to a
proper Thanksgiving spirit, but is a
long step toward it.
A DUCK cannot step half as far.
c. n. f.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23

Recommendations and the fixing OF
the blame in the Baby Boninger case
Chicago. as registered by the physl-
clans OF the Windy city are queerer
stiu than the case itself. The prin-
ciple involved, according 10 these
nedics. is right. but DR.. Haisetden
should have insisted upon a eonsuita-
ton of physicians TO ascertain
whether or not the diagnosis OF the
babv's case was correct, and then
after all. II is the parents and not the
doctor who was at fault. They should
have insisted upon an operation, ana
that they did not, relieves the pnysi-
clan this>regardless, we presume, OF
the fact that they failed to insist
upon his advice.
Which is only another case Of the
medical trust--adherents OF the
American Medical society,-insisting
upon unqualified public confidence IN
the medical fraternity, and then shift
ing the blame back onto that public
when the confidence proves misplaced
The medics must be protected-no dill
ference what their plumbers. Physi-
clans stand by each other, both IN
their insistence that they must nave
the business. and, in blaming the pub
lie for following advice that physl-
clans furnish. once the business IS
cinched In some states there are
laws condemning parents to prison Tor
not calling a physician, as In the case
OF Christian Scientists, but in Illinois
they seem prepared TO carry the ap-
plication a little farther and make the
parents suffer, if having called a ply
stefan. they are -rongly advised, and
accede to it. The plumbers Of the
medics must be 'infallible."
You see, it works out this way: An
operation Of the simplest kind would
have saved Baby BOllinger's life, but
the doctor declared; he in whom, in
their helplessness, the parents had
confded the child; that TO save the
child's life would merely result in
FAMILY hardships and serve to foist
upon society a hopeless mental de-
fective and in all probability a phy-
steal invalid. other physicians now
say this was too pessimistic, and that
some Of them should have been in
vited to join in the cOnfab, but 1t
seems that the consent of the parents
had been obtained. and that put the
practicing physician within the law.
It is the parents, not the doct9r, that
the profession would have bear the
stigma Of the omissive murder. And
had those parents failed to consent,
they might have spent a few more
hundred dollars for consultation, and
then maybe have been sent to Jail.
for expressions of a lack of conf
dence in the "infaIlibleized" medical
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
HONORING THE BELL.

Forty thousand people waited at
the railroad station at Houston,
Texas, until two o'clock in the morn
ing, on a chilly night, to see the Lib
erty Bell en- route from san Francisco
back to Philadelphia. The train was
late. and most of them went home
then. But 1000 school children re-
NAMED. shivering in the cold, until
the train pulled in at $3.50 a. m, and
climbed aboard the car to touch and
kiss the sacred emblem of American
freedom.
A Liberty Bell like a prophet, has
to leave home to gain honor. Most
of the citizens of Philadelphia have
never seen the bell, but most Of the
citizens of Houston are glad of a
chance to stand in the cold nearly all
night TO see it. The bell has had
much the same experience everywhere
through the west. At nearly every
city and town. going and coming.
crowds have assembled to pay it
honor
1t was the first time the bell was
ever taken west of the Mississippi
river. After such an enthusiastic and
continuous welcome, it should not be
the last. 1t is much for the great,
new, pioneer sections of the country to
see a relic that reminds them not only
of the east from which they all came,
more or less remotely, but of their
country's early history, of which the
west has so few visible evidences.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
THE COST OLE PREPAREDNESS.

The surest thing about prepared
ness is that it is going 10 cost the
American people a heap of money.
Our army ard navy have always cost
rs more per soldier and sailor and
gun and ship than those Of any other
nation. Now the expense Of any par
ticular defensive unit is going to be
higher than ever
The government has met with an
unpleasant surprise in letting con-
tracts for two new battleships. 1t
finds that the ships can't be built for
anywhere near the usual price. The
private shipyards can get all the work
they want from the belligerents, at
prices insuring them huge profits, and
they're not interested in strengthen
ing American defenses unless Uncle
Sam will pay them war prices.
The same situation is likely TO be
found in every branch of expenditure
for armament. Guns will cost more,
ammunition will cost more. automo-
biies and fuel and uniforms and all
sorts Of supplies viii cost more. Even
in the government shipyards and mu-
milton shops, labor and materials Will
cost more.
The extreme militarists and naval
lists are blithely given TO ignoring
such matters. They talk freely Of a
standing army of 100000 men, re-
serve Of a million or two. a navy as
biz as Englands and enough muni-
lions stored up TO fight a great war,
without either counting the cost or
suggesting how il is 10 be met
IL is unQuestionably necessary TO
strengthen our defenses. The senti-
ment OF the nation is in favor of
greater precautions. But We are
spending S25O,OOO. 900 a year on our
army and navy. and the comparatively
moderate plans submitted by the
president seem 10 involve at least the
doubling Of that expenditure for sew
eral years. Whatever congress does
in the matter needs 20 be done in
sober judgment, with exact reckoning
OF the cost and the most economical
expenditure OF every dollar. our
money viii buy all TOO little defense,
al best II our past military and naval
history AFFORDS any criterion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
\ REASON WHY.


At Nashua, y. H., where a strike IS
in progress. women strikers, Win
babies in their arms, seated them
selves on the railroad tracks leadlng
to the plant OF a manufacturing con-
Germ to prevent cars from passing.
Members of a company OF the Nation
al Guard on duty at the plant at
tempted 10 drive the women away, ana
when they refused TO go a charge was
made on a crowd that collected, ana
in il one woman was fatally WOUNDED
by a bayOnet thrust and man Was
shot.
ANY one who does not understand
the aversion of many men TO enlist IN
the National Guard. or why IL is that
most OF our plans for national de-
Tense have broken down for lack OF
men. should consider this Nashua
tragedy. GuardSmen supposed theih-
selves 10 be members OF an army AOI
national defense They find tnem-
selves mem bers of a police Iofce'
practically never called 10 actlVe auty
evcept TO shoot or to threaten 10
shoot strikers when there IS a LABOR
dispute
Rightly or wrongly the average
workingman thinks Of the state NIL
litia. not as an instrument for ma
tional defense, but as a sort OF private
guard organized in the interests OF
employers. There is nothing inspiring
in the uniform Of the National Guar
charging women and children. Got
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23

charges. He accuses the German and
Austrian governments of inspiring
and financing a great conspiracy TO
destroy American war industries. He
accuses their consular and diplomatic
representatives in this country Of di-
recting the conspiracy He declares
that there are as many as 5000 aliens
and citizens Of alien sympathy inter-
ested in plots to inspire strikes, burn
ships, blow up factories and destroy
in every way possible. war supplies
destined for the allied governments.
His narrative has been detailed and
consistent with itself. at least II has
seemed sufficiently worthy OF notice
to cause our federal authorities to
listen 70 what Or. Goricar has 10 say,
and to proceed with broad investi-
cation TO determine the truth or
falsity of his charges.
But the public. while recognizing
that there is some such evil force at
work, has suspended judgment, and
waits calmly for cOrrobOratiOn., Dr..
Goricar's critics charge him with be-
ing renegade, a spy in the pay Of
Russia or England rather than a
conscientious man seeking 10 undo a
wrong committed by his own govern
ment The, truth will come out If
Dr. Goricar lied, our federal officials
will expose him. If he has told the
truth, he will have rendered the ma
ton inestimable service by helping
the government TO crush the most Of
fensive foreign conspiracy ever found
in America
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-23
TALKING IN BILLIONS.
Nevada State Journal. }

The republican party first inaugu-
rated billion dollar congresses. The
party in opposition, at that time,
strongly urged retrenchment and be-
walled the extravaganza of the party
in power.
The party in opposition. prior to
1912, now is the party in power and
the nation has congresses that appro-
pirate considerably over a billion dol
lars. The pork barrel, it appears,
must be filled by both parties and ex-
penditures grown upon those already
made.
There is a growing belief that a
system Of trading" is fastening the
pork barrel burden upon the people
for years to come.
Arrangements are made for certain
towns to get postoffices this year,
other towns TO get theirs next year,
and others to be remembered three,
four and five years hence.
Congressman Of both parties trade
their support in order that, when they
need appropriations, they will have a
support Of a majority.
This is a beautiful system, from the
congressional point of view. 1t is a
great aid to the congressman who is
up for reelection. He may have Sc
cured an appropriation, or a promise
of an appropriation 10 be made some
time after his term expires. He can
go before his constituents and tell
them that if he is not reelected, his
successor will not be able TO get the
appropriation, because the premise
was made to him and not to a sue
cessor
So long as our people place a local
postofice building above. the larger
question of national benefit, so long
will these billion dollar congresses
continue.
The remedy for congressional ex-
travagance lies with the electors.
But this is such a rich nation the
average man and woman is inclined
to talk in billions The nation is not
stirred as il should be by talk OF a
$3.50, 100000 congress this fall
The nation, as a whole, is too prone
10 take billion and a quarter congress
es as a mater of course.
There are signs of a change or at
titude. A stronge movement is devel-
oping in favor Of retrenchment OF
pork barrel expenditures that the
country have more money available
for the really great questions, such as
national preparedness against war
Whether this movement Will make
much Roadway before the 1916 cleo
ton remains to be seen.