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Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
DEFENSE BODY
COST VASSMALL.
Expenditures Lower Than for Any
Other State Save Missouri
Total Is $73,9S4.25

Although Wisconsin was the first
state in the union to create a state
council of defense, the Badger council
cost the state less than did the councils
of any other state with the exception
of Missouri.
This fact was brought out in the de-
tailed statement of expenses of the
council of defense, which was filed
with the legislature on Thursday by
Gov. E. L. Philip. Up to date, the
Wisconsin council has cost the state
$73.9S4.25, according to the governors
message, and although there still re-
mains some work for the council to
do, the cost of the organization has
now been reduced to the salary of d
secretary and marketing agent.
"The council has been in existence
twenty-five months and during the
service to our state and country"
says Gov Philip in his communica-
ton. There has been some discus
sion in the press of the cost CT carry
ing on this organization and it has
been suggested that the legislature
should be advised regarding the ex-
penditures.
II would not wish to dismiss this
subject without calling your attention
to the fact that there has been a we'll
organized council of defense i'll every
county of this state and that by far
the largest per cent of the service was
rendered by the people without cost"
To the governors message is at
tached an itemized list of expenditures
of the council, with all payments to
persons who received over 500 and a
comparison of the cost of the Wiscon-
sin council with those of other states.
Andrew III. Melville, at one time sec
rotary Of the organization, Received
the largest salary, $4,166.66.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
FORCED IN CAGE
WOMAN ASSERTS

How she was forced into lion 5
cage and drawn through the streets OF
Evansville because she had talled 10
make a full contribution assessed 10
her for a war chest drive was told TO
the assembly state affairs committee
by Mrs. George Shaw, II, OF Evansville
Thursday afternoon. -
Mrs. Shaw, her husband and son
appeared before the committee IN sup
port of a resolution, introduced by
Assemblyman C. B. Ballard OF Apple
ton. which calls for an Investigation by
the attorney general of the Evansville
case.
81 am IA years of age" said Mrs.
Shaw. Il have bought Liberty bonds
in every drive,-all that L have been
asked to buy. But they made an as
sessment against me,-$45 think
for the Your Share is Fair drive,
which l refused to pay, although
offered to give SO to the local Red
Cross.
First, my house was painted yel-
low. and when | went to the sherlft OF
Rock county, he laughed about it, and
said. DO your share but he did NOUN
ing. Then on peace day, | had invited
company to our house. A crowd OF
men came to the house and began to
haul away buildings to make bon
fire down town. My husband told
them not to destroy property. and
suggested that they take some OF the
wood in the yard, if they wanted To
build a. fire. They told him to get IN
to the house or they would hang him.
Later | heard something bang
against the door step. In came tWo
men and they forced me into lion
cage. They put in chair, but
would not sit in it. A neighbor Wom'
an threw me a coat. They took me
down town and wanted me, to march
with a flag around the burning build
ings.
would not stir and finally the
police came and took me home.
Later + went to see lawyer, but
he said I could do nothing.
Assemblyman Weeman acting chair
man of the committee, asked Mrs
Shaw if she had made any effort t.
have the men arrested who had com
mitted the outrage. She replied tina
most of the witnesses were day labor
ers and that they had been threatene'
with losing their jobs if they testifie'
in the case Mr. Weeman then sai'
he believed she should have takel
&1,r r,ooffoY nm with tho district attOr
ney before coming to the legislature.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
OLD time RED MAN
CLAIMS SKELETON
0E INDIAN MAIDEN

The bleached bones, supposed to be
the shelton of Winnetonkee, Winnie
bago Indian girl, who figured in a
PRIMAL romance, which were found
north of Neillsville in an old cave by
a trapper, have been claimed by OkeJa
Idka Sun, an aged Indian living with
small band of red men on the banks
OF Black river. Winnetonkee, ac-
cording to the trapper's story, was to
be welded upon her fathers demand
TO an Indian whom she cared little for,
while in her own hart she desired the
hand of Black Eagle, supple warrior
of many battles. AS the ceremony
proceeded on the evening of the we'd
ding the girl was suddenly mi 5sed ana
ali searches failed to determine her
whereabouts. The skeleton, with sew
eral strings of wampum and ring,
was unearthed recently and identified
by the trapper as that of Winnetonkee.
Okeja Sun travelled on foot many
miles through the woods to claim the
bones and sought out James Dowell,
curator, who obtained the skeiton, and
plans to have it wired by anatomists.
The old Indian is hard to understand,
but it was gathered from his converse
ton that he is an uncle of the girl.
He told how Winnetonkee was not
the daughter of the chief who claimed
Ter, but the daughter of Flying Star,
once great warrior of the middle
west. During an encounter between
tribes, he was killed and Chief Big Talk
captured her and reared her under his
own tent.
She was brought from northern Hi
nois to central Wisconsin, and soon
grew into the ways of Winnebago In
dams. He declares the diamond rings
found on the bones of the left-hand are
those taken from family of emil
grants who were massacred near
Black River Falls while on thee way to
Utah in a prairie schooner in the early
'4Os. Okeja Sun says he must have
the SHELTON or his family will be
stricken by an evil spirit. He states
the medicine man has been beating a
kettle drum ever since the bones were
discovered to keep away evil. Okeja
seid:
'Um, me wantum bones. Girls father
come back and make um family eatum
toads and bugs, lightin' strike tepee;
al family be dead with heads Off
Must have girl and hide him in tree
SO spirit debit can't find him. Squaw
she cry night and day all i;'le. Must
have UNI bones"
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
BOTH WANDERI
ASTRAY;;CAk'T
Get DIVORCE
Wben Husband and Wife Are Each
Culpable, No Decree Can Be
Given Either

When husband and wife both go
astray, it seems to be hard indeed to
get separated!
At Madison Fred M. Bird and Edith
w. Bird, suing each other for divorce
on the grounds of cruel and inhuman
treatment, were both refused their
claims.
Mrs. Bird had started the first suit
declaring, among other things that
she was constantly finding about the
house notes and letters to women
other than herself that her husband
told her frequently of being familiar
with women of doubtful character
and often boasted of his escapades.
Mr.. Bird Immediately brought
counter suit, charging that his wife
had kept a man roomer at the house
in spite of his frequent protests that
she often played cards in the mans
room, that she went automobile rid
ing with him, and that she constantly
nagged her husband and refused to
eat with him or accompany him pub
1icly He explained that the letters
and notes found by his wife were
put there to torment her for her own
misconduct
Most Cruel of Treatments
Without comment on Mr.. Birds
explanation of his own conduct, Judge
Stevens in his decision declared that
the facts as set forth were sustained
by the evidence. He also declared that
|'the court cannot conceive course of
conduct that would more nearly meet
the calls of the definition of cruel and
inhuman treatment than for husband
to repeatedly tell his wife of illicit
relations with other women"
His decision however points out
that when both the husband and wife
have been guilty Of breaches which
would justify a decree for the other,
no decree can be given.
Another Divorce Asked
Charging her husband with habitual
drunkenness since last August, excess
i've use of liquor often during their
married life use of vile and obscene
names, and cruel and inhuman treat
ment, Mrs Amanda NJ Kramer, aged
A now living with her daughter here,
has filed suit in superior court against
William Kramer, aged 81, Richland
Center. The couple married in 1889,
lived on an S0-acre farm in the town
of Dayton. They have two married
children, d son and daughter.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
KIDDER LOCKED
IN BANK VAULT
Minnesota Paper Tells of Unusual
Experience of an Assistant
Cashier

How stranger succeeded IN lock-
ing w. j. Kidder, an assistant bank
cashier at White Bear, Mimi, IN a
vault and escaping with the money is
told in the White Bear Press, copy
of which has been received by Charles
Ayers and sister, Miss Ella Ayers,
1926 Eighth street, Baraboo. Mr. Kidder
is their nephew, being son OF their
sister. Mrs. E. D. Kider, a former resi-
dent of the town of Fairfield. After
the robber left the bank with the
money, he spilled it in the street and
was soon captured. Later he was
bound over to circuit court.
The following is taken from the
White Bear Press and gives the glst
of what happened when the bank was
robbed. The paper in part says:
Cashier F. J. Ref had gone to an
early lunch and Asst. Cashier W. j.
Kidder had the cash ready to put IN
the safe, when the young man, giving
the name of White, came in. He put
up a hard time story of losing his dis
charge papers and check, and asked
if anyone had been in to cash the
check. A young man in Uncle sam
uniform in distress naturally appealed
to Mr. Kidder's sympathies. AS there
were numerous customers in at the
time the man went out and returned
after the others had retired. Mr..
Kidder, thinking he wished to discuss
the lost paper further, stepped out 10
the front desk and Immediately found
himself covered with two revolvers.
He was forced into the vault after
being compelled to surrender the
money. AS soon as the door OF the
vault was locked Mr.. Kidder proceeded
to get the burglar alarm into action
which called J. M. King who gave the
alarm. AS soon as he had given the
alarm Mr.. King rushed into the bank
and made an attempt to release Mr.,
Kidder and while thus engaged ii. A.
Warner. of the First State Bank, ar
rived on the scene, and being more
accustomed to bank combinations than
Mr.. King, by following Mr.. Kidder's
instructions he had the vault open IN
about five minutes from the time it
was locked. P e. Greengard immed1-
ately phoned Mr. Ref who went to the
jail, and finding everything satistac-
tory there, FASTENED to the bank to
release Mr. Kidder whom he found
had been liberated
After the capture George Farnen
and a Mr.. Martin, a travelling sales
man, gathered up the money, some OF
which had been scattered along Bur-
son avenue, and returned it to the
bank, and the most remarkable thing
was that they succeeded in finding the
whole amount in spite of it being
scattered. They Immediately returned
it to the bank
F. J. Ref and the banks president
J. C. Fulton, went Immediately to st.
Paul and laid the matter before the
district attorney An investigation
shows that White, who also gives the
name of Norman and German, rented
a room about April IA and his clothing
and a Martin rifle were found there.
1t was also ascertained that he had
been employed in a garage couple OF
weeks and it is supposed portion of
that time was put in a White Bear
garage, as an employee of one of the
garages suddenly disappeared shortly
before the robbery
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
MANY FOX coBs ARE
KILLED FOR BOUNTY

The large number of scalps OF fox
cubs being presented at Darlington
for payment of bounty denotes that
one of the worst enemies known to
poultry yards is becoming greatly les
sened. During the fall and winter
the fox is killed for his fur, as the
pelt brings three times as much as the
bounty would amount to. Now that
the season for young foxes has arrived,
many dens are being robbed OF the.
cubs. A bounty of 81 is paid on each
scalp. Foxes have been unusually
numerous in Lafayette county tor the
past three years. consequently many
a turkey, chicken, duck or goose has
mysteriouslTr disappeared.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
Obituary
Mrs. w. n. Schultz Dead

Mrs. James McCready of Spring
Green has received telegram an
nouncing the death of her sister, Mrs.
w. H. Schultz, from heart failure, at
the family home in Aubendale, Fla.
She was a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
VIM. Mold of Black Hawk. The tele-
gram also announced that the funeral
would be held at Winterhayen, Flor
ida, May Ia.
Mr.. Schultz, who is former county
SUPERINTENDENT Of Sank county, a sen
and daughter survive.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
SunderIafe=Wittqraefe

Henry Sunderlage, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. J. Sunderlage of Madison, was
married to Miss Hulda Wittgraefe,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Witt
graefe of Beloit a few days ago, the
ceremony taking place at the English
Lutheran church in Beloit, Rev. P. Ar
thur Schulz officiating. Both are known
at Reedsburg.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
More Heroes
Return
A SUFFICIENT REASON

Mr.. and Mrs. George Isenberg have
has arrived in New York. He is cap
tain of 10th machine gun battalion.
Mr.. Isenburg left Baraboo with the
Comany l boys as lieutenant and has
since been promoted to the rank of
captain.
Mr.. and Mrs j. M Hillebrandt have
received word that their son Simon
has landed in America. He was a
member of Comany / when the boys
left for Texas and was transferred to
the 10th supply train, 32d division in
France.
Harry Feinberg has arrived in New
Port News, Va Mr.. Feinburg lost part
of one leg while in the service. He
left Baraboo as a member of Company
A.
Tom ONeal has received message
from his son James that he arrived
in Philadelphia from overseas Sunday.
He is with the 10th engineers, 32d
division. He left Baraboo with the
Company | boys.
y s. 81
Mr. and Mrs. d. F. Bray have re-*
ceived word that their son James has
landed in this country. He left Bara-
boo with Co. ! boys and went across
from Texas. He was one of the boys
on board the Tuscania when it went
down. Mr.. Bray has been overseas
for more than year in the 10th sup-
ply train, 32d division to which he was
transferred, with many of the other
Baraboo boys, upon their arrival in
France.
Il y *
Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Straus have
received word that John O'Brien has
landed in Philadelphia and will be
home soon. He left Baraboo with the
Company l boys and has been in
France for over year. He was one
of the local boys on the Tuscania
when it went down.
y. T. <.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G.. Schuster have
received word that their son Dewey
has arrived in Camp Merritt, N. j.,
and expects to be home soon. He was
in France and Germany with the army
for more than year.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
Married
Brei--Lehner

At Keysville few days ago occurred
the marriage of Walter L. Bret and
Miss Elizabeth C. Lehner, Rev. Father
Trompeter offic ;ating. The bridesmaid
was Miss Clara M. Bret, sister of the
groom, and Dewey w. Michels OF
Pleasant Ridge was groomsman. The
bride is the daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Barth Lehner Of Plain and the groom
is the son. of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bret,
formerly of Bear Creek, who now re-
side on Pleasant Ridge. They are re-
siding at Pleasant Ridge.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
sARsAPARiLLA i

made from remedies that physi-
clans prescribe. 1t keeps on selling De-
cause it keeps on giving satisfaction
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
Sfarbeass1s

SATAN'S ENDORSEMENT
Last night as was sleeping upon my
humble bed
Old Satan stood beside me, and this
is what he said:
I've been perusing ,Starbeams, al
though you didn't know it;
You surely are some kin of mine
you're a devil of a poet!'
- 81 y !.
A SUFFICIENT REASON
"Looky here, consarn you!" sternly
said Constable Sam T. Slackputter,
the lynx eyed slueth. hog reeve, dog
pelter and traffic cop of Petunia,
what do you mean by raging up and
down these three blocks here on that
dod-molested motor cycle, ripping and
popping like runaway shooting gal
lery? If you don't go some place else
to make your racket I'll pull you."
saw, where can l go?" returned the
youthful culprit. "This is borrowed
motor cycle, and the durn towns so
small that if | get away from here /
can't disturb anybody in particular by
showing off,
81 50 =
Politicians are sent to rule us as
punishment for our foolishness.
A HELPFUL SUGGESTION
81 do not mind rhapsodies in gen.
eral," said the bore, but these slushy
hypocrisies on May weary me. What
lies the poets tell of May! 1t is the
most unreliable month of the year."
"If you do not like it why don't you
omit it?" snarled old Festus Poster.
y * *
1t appears that the United States
may be asked to accept mandate for
Armenit. If mandate gives us free
privileges of manhandling the Turks
to our jolly Western satisfaction, the
is worth considering.
y y *
It's a sad Homecoming for the sol
der boy who doesn't like ice cream,
spring onions and strawberry short
cake. Well, we don't know of any OF
that kind, either.
4 4 X
IL Is poSSlOlS that d resume OH Ifk6
peace treaty has fallen under the eye
of the eX-kaiser by this time. Does he
discern anything therein that might
fall under the head of nonsense from
America after the WARP"
81 81 s.
We are now warranted in accusing
the purchaser of corkscrew of being
an optimist
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
TRANSVERSE
REALESSTATE

Jennie Rowland TO AlDn diil6
brandt, land in Baraboo; $2700.
Mrs. w. A. Hall to Mrs. John Carroll
land in Baraboo; 81.
David J. Sparks to Ida Strampe, land
in Reedsburg; $500.
Mathilda Huebing to Walter 5.
Cracker, land in Reedsburg; $325O.
William II. Gall, Jr., to William Gall,
land in Excelsior; 81.
Otto Schenkat to Albert Bender,
land in Freedom; 81.
Otto Schenkat to Victor Sells, land
in Freedom; So.
Albert Bender to Adolph Scffenkat,
land in Freedom; So.
James "A Stone to David Johnson,
land in Reedsburg; $500.
Robert C. Fogle to Albert R. Mahler,
land in Baraboo; 81.
w. J. Miller to H. P. Apker, land in
La Vale; $4,000.
F. J. Powell to R. E. Powell, land in
La Vale; $4,000.
H. P. Apker to Arthur Davis, land
in La Vale; 81.
Patrick McQuade to Anna Bray, land
in La Vale; $1,000.
Gottlieb Rohde to Will Rohde, land
in Dellona; $4,000.
James A. Stone to Clara A. Cary,
land imReedsburg; $4,000.
David Johnson to James A. Stone,
land in Reedsburg, $500.
Thomas E. Canon to William Hol-
derman, land in Woodland; $4,000
Louis P. Helm to Louis Helm, land
in Baraboo; 81.
Charles E. Hamburg to Edward
James Nagle, land in Excelsior; 81.
E. L. Schulze to Ethelda Oliver, land
in Reedsburg; $4,000.
Fred Kollmeyer to Fred w. Kohl
meyer, land in Washington; $1,000.
William Erdman to Michael Rice,
land in Washington; $4,000.
William Erdman to Mary ]. Joyce,
land in Washington; $500.
Christine Schoenmann to John H.
Carpenter, land in Spring Green; $500.
Michael Ringelstetter to Herman j.
Ringelstetter, land in Franklin; $780,
900.
Henrietta Watson to E. B. Davisson,
land in Spring Green; $4,000.
Michael Schultz to Emile Schultz,
land in Merrimack; 81.
Frank Parrish to Chester A. Serv-
ice, land in Baraboo; 81.
William Gall to Gustav H. Volz, land
nAbleman; 81.
Lloyd Halbman to Mrs. Mary Ken
nedy, land in Merrimack; $3.50.
E. D. King to Charles o. Watkins,
land in Baraboo; 81.
Mrs. Emma Snyder to James G.
Young, land in Reedsburg; 81.
Ernst J. Eschenbach to Henry e.
Eschenbach, land in Excelsior; ST.
Charles Stadler to Frank w. Terbil-
cox, land in Baraboo; 81.
William Brandt, Sr., to William L.
Brandt, Jr., land in Merrimack; 81.
Alois Br ckl to 8. H. Kanouse, land
in Spring Green; $4,000.
Edward A Thompson to Edward
Lindlaff, land in Reedsburg; $3.50.
Wilbert Boyd to John G. Astle, land
in Excelsior, $4,000.
George A. Karstetter to Leon W.
Webster, land in La Vale; ST..
West Sprin Green Dairy association
to Harry H. Mitchell, land in Bear
Greek; 5000.
John Schultz, Sr., to John R. Schultz,
land in Washington; 81.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
STEAMERS BLAMED FOR
HALIFAX DISASTER

Responsibility for the Halifax explo-
sion, which devasted the greater part
of the city and caused 1900 deaths in
December, 1917, rests on the steamers
Mont Blanc and limo, according to a
decision handed down by the supreme
court of Ottawa, it was announced
Thursday. The explosion occurred
when the steamers collided.
Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1919-05-29
Won by Ear

Theh's a man UP the street
Ah'm JUS itchin' tub meet
He's the man with the slidin' from
bone
All don't understan'
How he does it so gran
But he sho' gifts uh wonderful tone.
That Mendels' n Song
He JUS rags it uhlong
An ICONS it right intuh NAH soul.
When he plays "Ovuh Theah'
Ev'ry kink in nah hath
JUS natchully stahts tub unroll.
Mistah Man, Mistah Honey. \
Take me an NAH money,
Whenevuh yo' wants nue. Aim yo'n,
Ah1l cook while yo' eat !.
Shine the shoes on yo' feet.
If you'll play on that slidin' from
bone.
Daniel W. Troy in Contemporary
Verse
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-09-21

They should be thoroughly equipped
for cooperative marketing and buying.
Not only should organization be APP
piled to new communities, but the
government should extend assistance
toward organizing already existing
communities.
2. Economic waste can be mini
mized by a proper organization of for
ests and mines. The lumber industry
is not yet one of forestry or timber
culture" as it is in Europe; it is still
one OF timber mining" 1t is tramp
industry and therefore breeder Of
tramps. The migratory lumberjack.
or timber wolf" must remain hobo
until the logging camp is supplanted
by the forest community. Forest and
agricultural communities can often be
organized together; and the report
goes into some detail in showing the
possibilities of developing such COM
bination in government national for
ests both in the east and in the west.
3. Power resources must be organ
lied under public control. Water
power must be coordinated with coal
power. Wherever possible the white
coal" of falling water should be sub
stituted for the black coal of the
underground. In this way a vast en-
ergy requiring insignificant labor eff
fort can be placed at the service of the
people.
4. TRANSPORTATION and marketing
systems must be organized under pub
lie control The farm community
should be linked with the city market
Railway, waterway. and motor truck
services should be effectively coordi-
mated Staples such as milk, eggs.
poultry, fruit, and vegetables can. on
rs per cent of the farms. be carried
in small containers and sent directly
into the cities by motor truck, thus
relieving the railways in the work OF
supplying the urban population. Such
shipments when retailed to the city
consumer through the parcels post,
could go almost directly from farm
to table.
5. The construction of public works
must be more effectively organized.
The plans worked out in the report
call for a large program of road build
ing to be followed by farm building"
outside the cities. To carry out such
VI llllS Nolh hS oOiiS tIS
federal government. a public construc-
ton service is suggested. to be run
under proper standards of labor
Temporary employment in such a con-
struction service would lead to perma-
nent employment on the land being
opened.
In prefacing the report Secretary of
Labor Wilson says that the primary
requisite of any scheme OF public land
development is the elimination of