Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-03-17
COOK TURNS
NEWSPAPERMAN
WORK OF LEGISLATURE is
PROGRESSING SLOWLY
THE WEEKS PROGRAM

Few bills of particular importance
to citizens of Wausau and Marathon
county have as yet come before the
Wisconsin legislature" Assemblyman
l.. III. Cook, of this city, told Pilot
reporter just before his return to Mad
ison Tuesday. Later on, we expect
quite number of bills covering water
power, taxes on dams and other mat
ters of similar nature to be taken
up which will interest people here"
Not Sleeping, However
This doesn't mean, however, that the
assembly is sleeping ON the job. Hear
ings there are in plenty, Mr.. Cook
says. Last Wednesday," the assem-
blyman says, "the bill providing for
the formation of another town in Mar
athon county, the town of Guenther,
was discussed before a committee.
There was no opposition to the meas
ure expressed but several were hearth
ly in favor of it. Mr.. Norton of the
National Colonization company, was
one of the most ardent supporters of
the new town, the territory of which
will be taken from the town of Knowl-
ton. After passing the assembly the
latter part of the week, the act was
forwarded TO the senate, the action of
which is now awaited"
On Wednesday or Thursday of this
week, Mr.. Cook looks for the two edu-
cational bills, one of which provides
for increased power for school boards
and the other for the pensioning of
teachers, to be disposed of
Mr., Cook stands opposed to both
measures. The former has the objec-
tionable features which we're pointed
out by City Attorney Patrick T. Stone,
and the pension measure providing for
the payment of $500 To the fund each
year by the state for each teacher and
the payment of five percent of their
salaries by the teachers, is opposed
by many teachers. The latter meas
ure has practically no support. Anoth-
er bill of some Importance is the one
making the employment of a county
nurse optional with county boards.
| However, the bill will not effect Mar
athon county. which not only COM
| piled with state requirements by hir-
ing county nurse, but-added a second
as we'll
Turned Newspaperman
Mr.. Cook turned newspaperman re-
| Itutly dl hduISull Wu6n -tu6
of the negro revivalist was reported.
1--WE were sitting In our corner of the
assembly chamber, two reporters and
myself. when the news came. The
boys said Come on, Cook, you're a
newspaperman, and SO | hoped off
with them. BY the time we had
reached the scene of the murder where
policemen were holding off a crowd
of 200 persons, had pencil and pad
of paper in my hand, and the three of
us managed to enter the house. Jose's
brother-in-law and a friend, both of
them black, had just entered. They
were almost scared white and when
we ed 10 question them, to find out
Jose's age, all they could say was 'Ah
don know nothin' sir-not a thing
They wouldn't commit themselves. Af-
ter being shot through the head the
revivalist ran all around the house
and we could see the trail Of blood.
Finally just as he was leaving the
house, he fell onto the walk, dead
as could be-"
Mr.. Cook hasn't any idea how long
the legislative session will lastAthis
year, only he is sure it will take a long
time to clean up what is on the cal
endar. Only twenty bills to date are
through.