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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26
CHAPTER XIII.

Ii In the mountains there was one
person of whom the Blue Grass knew
with favor, it was Juanita Holland
She had worked quietly and without
any blare of trumpets. Her efforts had
never been advertised, but the thing
she was trying to do was too unusual
thing to have escaped public no.
tice and public laudation. That she
was spending her life and her own
large fortune in manner of self-sacri-
fee and hardship was thing of which
the state had been duly appraised
She, at least, would stand acquitted
of feudal passion. She stood as lone
fighter for the spirit of all that was
best and most unselfish in Kentucky
ideals and the ideals of civilization.
If she chose to come now as wit
ness for Anse Havey, she should
have a respectful hearing. The pris-
oner bent forward and fixed eyes blaz-
ing with excitement on the door Of
the witness room. He saw it open and
saw her pause there, pale and rather
the witness stand and asked: do
sit here?"
The man had known her always in
the calico and Bingham of the noun
tains. This seemed different wom-
an who took her seat and raised her
hand to be sworn. She was infinitely
more beautiful he thought, in the ha-
biliments of her own world. She
seemed queen who had waived her
regal prerogatives and come into this
mean courtroom in his behalf.
His heart leaped into tumult. He
would not have asked her to come;
would not have permitted her to sub
NIT to the heckling of the prosecutor.
whose face was already drawing into
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26
Hats Off to Villas.

mountains. He has nelpIu ,Me III ny
work and has been an advocate OF
peace wherever peace could be had
with honor"
At the end Of each answer the COM
monwealth's attorney was on his feet
with quickly snapped objections. Anse
Havey's heart sank. He knew this
mans reputation for bullying wit
nesses, and he had never seen WON
an who had come through the ordeal
mistaken. Yet slowly the anxiety on
his face gave way to a smile of ia
finite admiration. Juanita Hollands
quiet dignity made the testy wrath OF
the states lawyer seem futile and
peevish.
The defendant saw the subtle
change of expression on the faces OF
the Jury. He saw them shifting their
sympathy from the lawyer to the WON
an. and the lawyer saw it, too. They
kent her there, grilling her with all
the tactics known to artful barristers
for an unconscionable length Of time,
bnt she was still serene and uncon-
fused.
"By heayen!> exclaimed Anse Havey
IN himself, as he leaned forward,
"she's maxim fools of 'em alan
she's dom it for mel"
Even the Judge, whose face had
been sternly set against the defense,
shifted in his chair and his expression
softened. The commonwealth attor-
new rose and walked forward. and
Anse Havey clenched his hands under
the table, while his fingers itched to
seize the tormentor's throat.
"You don't know that Anse Havey
didn't incite this murder. You only
choose to think so. Isn't that a fact?''
stormed the prosecutor.
81 know that Anse Havey is In.
canable of It." was the tranquil retort
aHow do you know that?"
81 know him.
..Who procured your presence In
th,s courtroom as defense witness?'
Each interrogation came with rising
snleen and accusation OF tone.
81 asked to ba allowed to come"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26

Then Anse Havey saw his chief
counsel set his jaw, as he had trick
Oh setting it when he faced a forlorn
nope, and throw the list of names
ASIDE as something worthless. AS the
lawyer spoke Anse Havey's face for
the nrst time lost its immobility and
showed amazement. He bent forward
wondering if his ears had not tricked
MIN. His attorneys had not consult
ed him as to this step.
Mr.. Sheriff." commanded the law
yer for the defense, call Miss Juanita
Holland to the stand"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26
Fifth Annual Road School.

The fifth annual school OF the
Wisconsin Highway Commission
will be held in Madison January
31st to February 5th. Owing to
the creation OF the new county
road and bridge committees, and
to the increased state wide in
terest in the subject of road con,
struction and maintenance, it is
expected that the attendance
will surpass any of previous
years.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26
CHAPTER XIV.

In small room over the post office
in Peril an attorney, whose profess
sional success had always been pre-
earious, received those few clients
who came to him for consultation. The
lawyers name was Walter Hackley,
but he was better known as Clayheel
Hackley. because he never wore socks
and his bare ankles were tanned to
the hue Of rivar-baEk mud
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26

edge OF the instrumentalities being
employed on the real battlefield. Law.
yers tried condemnation suits with in
dlHerent success, and then reached
out their hands for a new weapon.
Back in the old days, when Ken
lucky was not state but a county,
land patents had been granted by
virginia to men who had never
claimed their property. For two hun
dred years other men who settled as
pioneers had held undisturbed posses
son, they and their children's chill
dren. Now into the courts piled multi
tudinous suits Of eviction in the names
of plaintiffs whose eyes had never
seen the broken skyline of the Cum
berlands. Their purpose was deceit,
since it sought to drag through long
and costly litigation pauper landhold-
ers and to impose such CALLING bur-
den upon their property as should
drive them to terms of surrender
Men and women who owned, or
thought they owned, log shack and a
fitting cornfield found themselves fac
ing a new and bewildering crisis.
Their untaught minds brooded and
they talked violently of holding by
title of rifle what their fathers had
wrested from nature, what they had
tended with sweat and endless toll.
But Anse Havey and Milt McBriar
knew that the day was at hand when
the rifle would no longer serve. They
employed lawyers fitted to meet those
| other lawyers and give them battle in
the courts, and these lawyers were
paid by Anse Havey and Milt Nc
Briar.
The two stood stanchly together as
a buffer between their almost help
less people and the encroaching ten
tacles of the new octopus, while Juan
| ita, looking on at the forming of the
battlelines, was torn with anxiety.
| In Bad Anse Havey the combination
Of interests recognized its really most
| formidable foe. In the mountain
/ phrase, he must be "man-powered out
en- Their way" And there were still
men in the hills who, if other means
failed, would sell the service of their
"rife-guns'' for money.
With such as these it became the
care of certain supernumeraries to es
tablish an understanding. In the last
election a thing had happened which
had not for many years before hap
pened in Kentucky-a change of par
ties had swept from power in Frank
fort tha administration which owed
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1916-01-26

When the trial of Anse Hav
gan there was one spirit in the
Here was an exponent of the unjusti-
fable system of murder from ambush.
In the cemetery at Lexington, where
sleep the founders of the western en-
pire, Jay a boy whose life had just be-
eun in all the blossom and sunshine
of uromise-and who had done no
wrong.
The special term Of the court had
brought to Winchester throng of
farmer folk and onlookers. Their
horses stood hitched at the racks
about the square when the sheriff led
Anse Havey from the Jail to the old
building where he was to face his ac-
cusers and the judges who sat on the
bench and in the jury box.
He took his seat with his counsel at
his elbow and listened to the pre-
Iiminary formalities of impaneling a
iurv. His face told nothing, but as
man after man was excused because
he had formed an opinion he read lit
file that was hopeful in the outlook
He calmly heard perjured witnesses
from his own country testify that he
had approached them, offering brides
for the killing of young Calvin which
thew had righteously refused. He knew
that these men had been bought by
linn Fletcher and that they swore ror
tbe hire of syndicate money, but ne
only waited patiently for the defense
70 omen. He saw the scowl on the
faces in the jury box deepen into con-
v;ction as witness after witness TOOK
the stand against him. and ne sa" tne
faces in the body of the room mirror
that scOwl. &C
Then the prosecution rested ana Us
few of it's perjuries were punctureo'
tba faces in the box lightened their
scowl a little-but very little. The tiae
had set against him, and ne knew ~
Unless one of those strangely psycno,
logical things should occur wni1n l
sweep juries suddenly from tne ~
mornings of fixed opinion. he must De
Tho sacrifice to Blue Grass wrath anu
An the list of witnesses under the
hand of his attorney there were onis :
few names left-pitifully few.
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from Butler, Pa, where he has
been at the head of a large dairy
farm.
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loyalty to Havey influences.
Bad Anse Havey was indicted ~
accessory to the murder of yourer
vim and he would be tried, not in1e
but in the Blue Grass. The pre-
ton would be able to show tt,
had warned the surveyors off hi
place and had picketed his fence
with rifiemen. They would be ad
show that he was the forefront
fight against innovation and
lesser mountain men followef
counsel blindly and regarded hi
as law. But, more than that, theOI
who passed on his question lis
and death would be drawn from he
munity which knew him only 10
newspaper-made reputation.
So it was not long before
Havey lay in a cell in the Winfer
iail. He had been denied bo4
fronted dreary prospect.
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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-08
0XING- SPORTS OF ALL SORTS BASEBALL

Today when the Cubs reach Mem
phis there will be two or three blue
tickets issued on which unfortunate
athletes will take a trip back to the
minors. Pete Allison, of course, will
go. Pete regularly takes his spring
training with the Cubs, is found
wanting and goes back to the South
ern league for another year. This is
his third. trial. A couple of pitchers
may also feel the weight of the de-
CAPTIVATING ak.
Louisville is the next port of call
for the Cubs, then the team streaks
on to Cincinnati for the opening
game. If cold weather is encounter
ed for the remaining games Tinker
may switch and use his secOnd-string
men, as he now has the first squad in
good condition and will take no
chances tanning the athletes.
Stockholders of the Cubs met yes
terday and raised the capitalization
to a million dollars. The board of di-
rectors was reoTganized. Charley
Weeghman is chairman of the board
and remains president, and his as
sistants are Bill Walker, Al Plamon-
don, AdoIph Schuettler, AdOlph Spiel
man, William Wrigley, Jr., A. D. Las
ker, R. A. Cavanaugh, c. A. McCul-
loch
Weeghman gave out a statement
that Joe Tinker would have sole
charge of the playing end of the team
and would not have to stand interior
ence from amateur managers" If
this policy is carried out it will work
to the benefit of the team, as no
club can be a winner when a lot of
people are butting in on it.
Two hundred Dubuque fans will be
in Chicago next Wednesday to watch
the Sox wrecking crew tangle with
Detroit and cheer Manager Rowland
and his cohorts. Pants is big dog
in Dubuque and the sports there are
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1916-04-08

the opening game. It may result in
his elimination from future practice
contests, but even that isn't certain.
Jack is in Minneapolis with the
team and. wants to get into the game
against the Millers. Trainer Buck
ner is giving the Frenchman treat
ment. If this does not help the an
kle Jack will be sent on home to rest
up for Wednesdays dOings, making
company for Jim Scott.
One bright feature of the Sox play
is the way Joe Jackson is slamming
the ball against minor league pitch
ing. He is putting the wood to the
pill solidly and his hits would be
sound ones in any park in the coun-
try. Joe isn't batting for short
fences.
Until last season Joe has always
been Ty CObb's leading rival but a
combination of circumstances oper-
ated against him. In Cleveland he
was not satisfied. Then an auto ac-
cident put him on the bum, and when
he came here his legs were not in
good condition. His batting fell off
badly, even though he still stuck
well above the 300 mark.
This season there is nothing to
bother the sOUtherner, and he has set.
a place side by side with Cobb as his
goal for the season If he keeps the
eye he is using at present the Georg-
ian will have a race clear to the end
of the season.
Homers by jackson and Tex Rus
sell enabled the Sox to down Des
Moines, 5 to 4, yesterday. EIler and
Danforth pitched. The weather was
too cold for good baseball.
New Workers who declared Fred
die Welsh was done as a fighter were
evidently over-estimating. The
champion probably would not be able
to defend his title over the 2O-round
route against Charlie White or Ben
Evening journal., 1916-09-28
Says War Hailed DeIuge of Cheap
European Shoes
From the New York Herald.

were supposed to be made in this coun-
try. That was made possible only by
the taking of shoes off the dutiable list.
A concern could have shoes made by
cheap English labor, which is about one
third of that in America, and get the
shoes back and charge the original
American price-exactly as was being
done. ] wrote to the store about it
and received the following letter;
1--WE thank you for your letter calling
our attention TO the English made
shoes which you purchased from us
some time ago We have investigated
the matter" and wish to report to you
as follows:
But With English Labor.
The English shoes we're received
in stock some time previous to June,
1914. No English shoes or any other
foreign makes have been purchased by
us since that date. We bought these
English shoes because of the quality
Of the leather alone, the styles being
the same as we carried in made
shoes, we having sent over American
lasts and patterns copied from them.
" AS far as shoemaking and styles
are concerned. we do not believe that
shoes made in England or any other
foreign country compare favorably
with American made shoes. II Is our
opinion that there Is not the slightest
chance of any great amount of shoes
being brought into this country unless
their styles and shoemaking are inn
proved upon. II the shoes which
you purchased are not what you or
dered or are not satisfactory, we will
be very glad indeed TO make any ad-
justment which you may consider fair
"This is as clear as crystal" con-
tinued Mr.. Peters, that with the I'm
derwood tariff opening lines for cheap
labor, at least one big department
store in this city at once sought to
take advantage of the opportunity to
produce an American shoe with
American lasts. but by cheap English
labor-and then sell the same cheaply
made article at the original Ameri-
can price.
"The company says it has not inn
ported any shoes since June. 1914. or
course, not because the European war
stopped all manufacture of such shoes.
The company says there is no danger
of any considerable number of shoes
coming to this country unless the
styles were improved upon. That was
exactly what the company here was
seeking to do-have American styles
copied by cheap foreign labor, and
then sell the product under the sub
terfuge of being an American made
Shoe"
Evening journal., 1916-09-28
ROLL CALL SUNDAY
FOR BETHANY BAPTISTS

The annual roll call and Bible
school rally of Bethany Baptist
Church will be observed next Sun
day. Tie exercises will commence
at 2 o'clock and will consist OF Sc
lections by the orchestra and a mixed
quartette, singing by the school,
prayer by the pastor. responsive read
ing, presentation of diplomas from
the primary to the junior depart
ment, and from the junior 10 the in
termediate department; presentation
OF prizes, singing by primary and
junior departments, address by the
Rev. J. L. Johnson of Scott NJ. f..
Church, solo. benediction.
A special program will also be
presented at the evening service
which begins at 7.45 o'clock This
will be as follows:
Spring Song" Hollins; anthem
by choir. Great and Marvellous. 9"
Hall; hymn No. 20. by congrega-
ton; Scripture; selection by p. B.
& w. Shop Chorus; prayer by the
Rev. John e. Hunsberger; selection.
by p. B. & W. Shop Chorus; an
nouncements and offering; anthem,
by choir, praise the Lord" Maher;
sermon, by the Rev e. e. Ayers. OF
Chester, Pa; selection, by P. b. &
w. Shop Chorus; hymn No. SO. by
congregation; benediction organ
postlude. Fanfare" Ashford.
Evening journal., 1916-09-28
LIVING AND IT'S COST.

II OUR years ago President Wilson came to Delaware
II and informed the voters that. if elected he would
through tariff and other legislation reduce the cost Of
living. In making that promise he echoed pledge
contained in the Baltimore PLATFORM in the framing OF
which he played a dominant part
Well Mr. Wilson elected The people also gave
to him Democratic Senate and Democratic House
The tariff and other legislation was passed and put
into effect We ask Delaware voters and house
holders this question:
Have you realized the reduced cost OF living that
promised to you by President Wilson and the
Democratic party?'
We think the will be that under the Wilson
administration the cost OF living has been increased
and not reduced
Here is interesting news item that appeared yes
terday:
CHICAGO. Sept 26-The price OF -four was advanced
twenty cents barrel today the highest level since
the Civil War Standard Minnesota patents sold for
$40 barrel an increase of SO over a year ago
The cheaper grades of -four sold to the bakers trade
also was advanced ten and fifteen cents a barrel
That doesn't look much like reduced cost OF living
under Democratic auspices does it?
And remember, -four is only one OF many neces-
sares in the home that have increased largely in price
since the Democrats took the administration of
national affairs.
Delaware consumers have been made the victims OF
political confidence game
Evening journal., 1916-09-28
Editorial Opinion
THE SHIPPING BILL.

From American Industries.
President Wilson's Shipping Bill
has been passed by both houses Of
Congress, Despite the fact that il
has been much modified and may be
considered generally innocuous in
the form as adopted the measure is
regarded in the business world as
another sample of the destructive
legislation which has been enacted
during the present administration.
Just how the Shipping Bill can help
improve the position of the American
Merchant Marine is hard to under
stand. Every practical steamship
man knows that the only thing that
will help is to produce more ton
mage. Fifty million dollars will make
very little impression on the worlds
supply of ships. particularly at the
current record high prices; but this
form OF Government investment is
likely to do considerable harm to the
very forces in our business life which,
Mr.. Wilson says: he has sought to
encourage to enter the shipping in
dustry.
If the government obtains thirty
ships with its fifty million dollars
within the next eighteen months. II is
safe 10 say that no more foolish nor
use of government funds
could possibly be conceived of. Even
if the government succeeds in placing
contracts for these ships. the effect
will be to prevent private capital,
which has been entering the shipping
field as rapidly as is consistent with
caution born of abnormal conditions,
will be prevented from obtaining ex-
actly the number OF ships that the
government may succeed in having
built; therefore the government has
entered the shipping field not TO the
encouragement. but rather to the dis
couragement and further inconven-
fence of private capital.
There is a feeling that the shipping
bill was passed in it's present innocu-
Gus form merely to please President
Wilson and to afford campaign mater
ial for partisan debaters in their fall
speeches to mislead the voters by de-
claring that they had passed a bill
which would revive the American
merchant marine. We shall await
with interest the voicing Of these
claims.
Evening journal., 1916-09-28
WOMEN wORKERs FOR HUGHES.

{, EaNATOR THEODORE BURTON Of Ohio has tele-
~ graphed his congratulations TO the women's Com
mittee OF the National Hughes Alliance the work it
is doing in the campaign
Women" said Senator Burton. ARE longer re.
naming in the background of practical thought and
action but asserting vigorously
especially in regard OF the election OF Mr.. Hughes.
The most striking feature of their work is the
nouncement that a Women's Special Train will tour
the country during the month of October from coast
to coast paying visits hundred cities and
carrying the message OF the necessity for Republi
victory this Fall This transcontinenta train with
the leading representative OF the country must
surely all factions in the electorate TO the
ing position OF in shaping the countrys future
political history"
coast to at all places at which the train
is to stop. rousng demonstrations being arranged
by local leaders. In Ohio, prominent persons among
them Miss Emily H. Koch Mrs. S. o. Richardson, Jr.
and U. G. Denman all OF Toledo. working for the
success Of the trip. In Montana State committee.
consisting OF Miss jeanette Rankin OF Missoula Mrs.
Louise f. Lusk Dr. Marie Dean Of Helena, Mrs. Chas.
Hare. Mrs George Farr Of Miles City. and Mrs. Rosza
and Miss May Trumper Of Butte has been formed TO
receive the train and look after the speakers during
their stay the State. In Phoenix, Arizona, Mrs c.
F. Ainsworth chairman OF the Local Train Committee
and Mrs Dwight B. Heard. member Of the National
Train Committee have prepared for an automobile
parade with decorated luncheon and an after
noon meeting at which the Republican State and
county charmen and the officers OF the State Hughes
Alliance will be present
Announcement has been made that the Speakers
Bureau Of the Republican National Committee would
cooperate with the Train Committee by including the
itinerary of train stops in announcements to State
committeeman
That train is to TO Wilmington. Friends and
supporters OF Hughes and Fairbanks in this State
should plan now to give the visitors a royal well
come.