The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1922-04-20


of sentence were granted by Gov. j. j.
Blaine, while IS applications for ex-
ecutive clemency were denied or de-
cision withheld as a result Of pardon
hearings in March and April.
Sumner Welch, IS, widely known as
music master for 80 years in south
eTn Wisconsin, prominent Mason, Civil
war veteran and a resident of Wal
worth county 80 years, died at his
home at Delaven. He served in the
Second Wisconsin cavalry during the
Civil war.
Wisconsin cheese containing more
than 80 per cent of moisture cannot
be officially graded and cannot be
marketed, the state department of
markets has ruled, All liability for
the marketing of cheese is on the in.
spector and not on the retailer, the
department said.
A fire which caused damage esti-
mated at between 100000 and $4,000
destroyed the car shops of the Eastern
Wisconsin Electric Co., Oshkosh. The
loss is covered by insurance. Starting
with an explosion of undetermined
origin, the flames destroyed the car
shops proper, paint shop, blacksmith
shop, repair bay and an oil and paint
stoCkhouse.
Wholesale destruction of fish life
in the Wisconsin river was discover
ed at Stevens Point when ice began
moving down the stream, following
the annual spring break up Tons OF
dead fish We're found floating down
stream and sportsmen are practically
unanimous in placing the blame upon
pollution of the stream by waste mill
deposits at Mosinee.
The case Of Mrs. Leona Sailstad
Richardson against several insurance
companies, to recover S63,400 insur-
ance carried on the life of her hus
band, Edward J. Sailstad, Eau Claire
manufacturer, who mysteriously dis
appeared following a fire which de-
stroyed his summer cottage at Lake
Nebagamon on Aug q, 1920, will be
heard in the United States District
court at Superior on the July calendar.
With the market for old potatoes
about to give way to the demand for
the new crop, Wisconsin farmers find
themselves with approximately 5000
cars of their 1921 crop still unmarked.
ed, the state department of markets
reports. Poor roads and low prices
have tended to retard farmers in dis
posing Of their supplies, with the re-
suit that during the past month only
1900 cars Of the $500 on hand March
l, have been marketed.
The making of home brew in Wis
consin for home use was held to be
in violation of the Severson prohibi-
ton enforcement act by the state
supreme court in an opinion deciding
the issue involved in the case of the
state against Curtis Nelson, Iowa
county, convicted in the lower court
of unlawfully manufacturing intoXicat-
ing liquor Justice Doerfer wrote the
opinion which gives a strict construc-
ton to the state liquor law.
The department of markets has
ordered thai all dried peas which are
canned, must be labeled as such, in
order that the public may be advised
of the product it is buying and to pro
tect the Gamer of green peas against
what the department describes "the
competition of such an undergrade
article" All of the dried varieties Of
canned peas must be labeled in type
at least one-half inch high dried
peas soaked before canning" The
order becomes effective June l.
Cessation in rains and a lowering
in temperature that checked the melt
ing Of snow in northern woods brought
~eIief from flood conditions to cities
along the Wisconsin, Flambeau, Chip
pewa, Fox, and Wolf rivers. Belief
was generally expressed that flood
waters in the state had reached their
crest. Heavy rains, electrical dis
urbances and high winds caused much
damage to the telephone system near
Wausau and Merrill. Eau Claire, La
Crosse, Portage, and other Wiscon-
sin cities reported the food waters
rapidly receding with danger of in
undating passed. Considerable dam
age has been reported from the terri
tory near Oshkosh and Appleton.
The Wisconsin supreme court va
Gated the order of Gov. Blaine remov-
ing Sheriff Hans Rodd, of Oneida
county, from office for refusing to
obey an executive pardon order issued
Oct. 26, 1921, freeing Peter Christ,
Rhinelander strike leader, who was
serving a four-months' sentence for
contempt of court. Decision Of the
supreme tribunal, written by Justice
Walter c. owen, was without dissent.
The court upheld Sheriff Rodd in his
refusal to obey the governor, stating
that "as the governor did not have
the power to pardon Christ, it re-
NAMED the duty Of the sheriff to re-
tain him in custody under the com.
mitment of the court. In refusing to
discharge him he was but performing
his duty" Rodd will hold his office
as sheriff until the end of his term.
A resolution introduced by Aid
Joseph Weisman for the appointment
of a community welfare worker or
police matron, was adopted by the