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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
MERCHANT MARINE BILL
URGED UPON CONGRESS
President Harding Presents Plea to
Both Houses in Person--Says
Fleet Necessary.

Washington, Nov. 22.-Enactment of
the administration merchant marine
bill was urged upon congress by Presi-
dent Harding as necessary to relieve
the government Of present staggering
losses" In operation Of the war-built
merchant fleet, and to establish pro-
gram Of assured shipping to serve the
nation In war and give guaranty of
commercial independence in time Of
peace.
Personally addressing q joint ses-
sion of the house and senate, the ex.
ecutive declared an actual monetary
saving to the government would re.
suit from the proposed law. He chal-
lenged every insinuation of favored
interests and the enrichment Of the
special few at the expense Of the pub
lie treasury. The legislation, he as
serted automatically guarded against
enrichment or perpetual bestowal.
The President declared that three
courses of action are possible. and the
choice among them is no longer to be
avoided.
'The first is constructive. Enact
the pending bill under which l firmly
believe an American merchant marine.
privately operated, but serving all the
people and always available to the
government in any emergency, may
he established and maintained.
"The second Is obstructive. Con-
tinue government operations and at
tending government losses and dis.
courage private enterprise by govern.
ment competition under which losses
are met by the public treasury. and
witness the continued losses and de-
terioration until the colossal failure
ends In sheer exhaustion.
"The third is destruction. 1t involves
the sacrifice of our ships abroad or the
scrapping of them at home, the sur
render of our aspirations"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
AUTO WRECKS TRAIN; 3 DIE
Locomotive of Fast Mail Train Upsets
After II Hits Stalled Car
at Elmhurst, III.

Elmhurst. ILL.,. Nov. 24.-Two young
men and a girl were killed here In an
automobile-tra collision. The auto
mobile in which they were riding got
beyond contral and. crashing through
the gates at the York street crossing of
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad.
came to stop on the track In the path
of an approaching fast mall train. The
train itself was upset. the engine turn
ing over and the engineer and fireman
having narrow escapes
The dead. all of Elmhurst, are /:
George Check, twenty-three years old,
the driver; William Ehlers. twenty-five
years old; Miss Ella Heinemann. TWEEN
ty-two years old, Ehler's fiancee.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
RUM ORGY AT PHILADELPHIA
Great Quantities of Booze Consumed
at tho Army-Navy Football
Game, Report.

Washington, Nov. DEMONSTRATION
of the complete breakdown in the en-
forcement Of prohibition in Philadel-
phia on last Saturday, where $4,000
people assembled at the annual Army
and Navy game, may be ordered by
President Harding.
The violation of the law was so fla
grant as to be apparent to the most
game itself. Mer and women drank
underneath the stadium between the
halves and at night some of the
larger hotels were filed with DRINKS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
BIG DROP IN TAX RECEIPTS
Returns Fall $14oo, o0o, 900, Nearly 80
Per Cent--collection Cost
Increases.

Washington, Nov. PA drop of Ill
most 30 per cent In federal tax collec-
lions is shown in the annual report of
the internal revenue bureau issued by
the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922,
were S3,197, 451,0 S3. compared with
S4,595, 357 ,061. reduction of almost
81 400, 100000.
The report indicated total income
and profits taxes of S2.0S6,31S. AGA
compared with $3,22S, 1868, de
crease of approximately 1.141 000,0 900
or 30 per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
CLEMENCEAU Is CRITICIZED
"Tigers" Speech New York Raises
Storm in Paris-Lambasted by
Newspapers.

Paris, Nov. 23.-The newspapers
severely criticize the speech of NJ.
Clemenceau in New York.
"Clemenceau is explaining to Amer
lea what he could not explain TO
France" La Liberte asserts.
Journal des Debats says: "Clemen-
ceau is only saying what everyone has
known, but 1t is unfortunate he has
had TO go to America to defend his
actions I'm France"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
TURKS AND RUSS
BACK OPEN DOOR
To Support American Aims in
Near East Controversy.
ANGoRA ASKS FOR STRAITS
U. S. Policy May Be Extended to
rdaneIles-Relieved Allies Will
Refuse Demand Unless America
Supplies Troops.

Lausanne, Nov. 27.--Both the Rus.
SLAMS and the Turks seem about to
espouse openly the American open
door policy enunciated by the Amer
lean observers here and to stand for
it against the Allies.
Russ and Turks Confer.
Russia is negotiating with the Turks
on this basis. Delegates comment that
the American statement seems to mark
an attempt by the United States to
give the open door policy worldwide
application, as shown particularly In
the last paragraph of Ambassador
Child's statement, whereas, until now
the original John Hay doctrine was
only applied to China.
The Allies will answer that while
the principle seems sound, 1t will be
hard to grant unless America will ac-
cept the responsibilities such as the
British insist they accept by the pres
ence of their troops In areas like
Turkey.
Brltish-Turk Affair.
The Lausanne conference is fast be-
coming a British-Turkish affair, with
the French a diminishing factor since
their agreement to support the Curzon
memorandum. Therefore 1t is for the
British to decide whether the confer
ence is to accept the American PROPOSE
tion. Every specific question like
Thrace and the Martha forts is being
lied up by British for the purpose
of bargaining on economic privileges,
like the Mosul oil right.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
JAPANESE YIELD TO CHINA
Troops to Leave Shantung Dec. Mil
itary Operations Begun Against
the Chinese Bandits.

Picking, Nov. 25.-Japan will vacate
Shantung on Dec. l. making heavy
concessions to China.
Military operations have been be-
gun against the band of bandits ter
rorizing Honan province, and the
hrigands have threatened to kill the
missionaries they have in captivity.
The bandits have retreated from the
railway zone on the approach of
troops. An early release of the for
eigners therefore is unlikely.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
HERMAN JlLTS NO. 2 FOR |
indiana Professor Deserts Bride and
Returns Home to Start
Life Anew.

South Bend, Ind. Nov. 27.-Prof.
John 7. Tiernan and his wife, Augusta
II. Tieman, are reconcileJ. legally.
Mr. Tiernan, whose marriage Satur-
day In Crown Point TO Mrs. Blsnche
Brimmer of Areaale, Ia, was declared
Illegal nine hours later. returned home
to his legal wife early Sunday morn
Ing. Judge Chester Montgomery, who
late Saturday night vacated the di-
vorce decree granted Thursday to Tier.
nan, will be asked TO set aside the re.
hearing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
HERMAN is GIVEN DIVORCE
Gets His Two Daughters but "6any
Billy" Regulated Child,
Goes to Wife.

South Bend. Ind, Nov. 24.--John Il.
Tiernan. former Notre Dame university
professor, was granted n divorce from
his wife, Augusta, together with the
custody Of their daughters, Irene and
Mary, five and four years old, respec-
lively while his wife was given the
custody Of BABY Billy" the repudl.
ated child. by Judge Chester Montgom.
cry In Superior Court No. /.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
FIVE AK VICTIMS IN ASHES
Husband Of Woman Slain Is Arrested
fer the Crime at Bristol,
Tenn.

Bristol, Tenn, Nov. Thames w.
Smith, fifty, grocer, his wife, their
two-year-old daughter Ruby. and their
niece. Mrs. Define Burchheld and her
son, Charles, thirteen. were murdered
here earl yin the morning and the house
In which they lived burned. Ben
Rurchneld. forty-oue, husband Of the
murdered woman. was arrested.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
TURK AND RUSS JOIN HANDS
Regime for Straits Giving Otto
man Control.

Lausanne, Nov. 24.-Turkey aud
Russia are here to make common
cause against the other nations of
Europe. There is no longer any doubt
about that. Behind them also. 1t APP
pears from what is happening in Laus-
anne, they have gathered as auxilaries
all the discontinued elements In the
countries now under European control
in Asia and Africa.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
PERSONALS

%. G. Fehlhaber was in Edgar on
business Tuesday.
Mrs S. Knox Kreutzer has been
visiting her sister in Milwaukee.
Charles Turner has gone to Chi
cago where he has accepted a posi-
ton.
j. A. Smithies of New York City,
visited Mrs. ]. A. Rowley the past
week.
Henry McCrossen of Milwaukee,
spent the week end in the city re-
turning home on Monday.
Mrs. E. H. Single and son, James,
are in Milwaukee, where they will
spend the coming winter.
Howard Hooper is at home from
the University of Wisconsin to spend
Thanksgiving with his parents.
&C. E. Gill of Chicago, was in
Wausau ON Monday on business and
shaking hands with old friends.
Sol Heinemann spent last week
end in Chicago where he saw the
Chicago Wisconsin football game.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. G. Moyle of APP
pleton are spending Thanksgiving
with Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Patter-
son.
Charles Edmonds has returned
from Chicago where he attended the
Chicag Wisconsin football game last
Saturday.
Miss Mildred Wright departed for
her home in Menomonie Wednesday
evening to spend Thanksgiving with
her parents.
Roman C. Deutsch and Sam Win
kelman attended the conference of
advertising men held at Oshkosh on
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Miss Laura Smith, who is attend
ing Kemper hall at Kenosha, is spend
ing Thanksgiving with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smith.
James Rowley who is attending the
University of Wisconsin spent last
Saturday and Sunday in the city with
his mother, Mrs. j. A. Rowley.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Edmonds, Miss
Genevieve Edmonds, Charles and Ho-
bart Edmonds are at Appleton today
where a family reunion is being held
Walter B. Heinemann accompa-
MED by his daughter, Joan, departed
| for Washington, ID. c. They will
spend Thanksgiving in New York
City.
Frank Rowley, of Washington, ID
| c., spent several days in Wausau the
middle of the week with his mother
Mrs. ]. A. Rowley. He returns east
Saturday.
| III. l.. Mumm returned from Mil
waukee Monday morning. He was in
4 that city the past week with an eX'
| hibition of Indian work, displayed al
the Grand Avenue Wesley Nj. Il
church.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. A. l.. Kreutzer Were
| in Ripon on Sunday. They We're &C
companied home by the latter's sis
ter, Mrs. w. C. Winton, of Duluth
who will visit them in this city fol
a short time.
Last Thursday evening Messrs c
G.. Torkenson. L. r.. Dodge, Burns
Lambert, Heb and Smith, all of Mer'
Trim, were in Wausau attending a con
| clave of st. Omer Commandery. No
10. X. T.
Mrs. Janet Reid Thompson, daugh
ter of Judge and Mrs. A. II. Reid. who
has been in Europe this summer
sailed from Marseilles, France, las
4 Saturday She is expected TO arrive
4 in Wausau before Christmas.
Prof. e. E. Emme of Appleton
who is in charge of the religious ecu
cation department of Lawrence col
lege, was in the city Friday to tall
with the pastors of different churches
| in this city who are cooperating II
this great movement.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
BATTLE RACES IN DUBLIN
Center of Irish Capital In Fierce Up
roar as Free Skaters and
lrreaulars Clash.

Dublin. Nov. 24.-The whole center
Of Dublin was In fierce uproar at
midnight as fighting broke out between
Free State forces and irregulars. Three
Free State soldiers were killed In the
first hour of the shooting. The streets
have been cleared of all civilians and
Free State troops have been called out
in large numbers to take possession of
the situation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
SKATING RINK WILL
BE ARRANGED BY CITY

The city has acquired ground at
the corner of Fleming street and Wes-
ton avenue, in the southern part Of
the city, for the purpose of arranging
public skating rink. The ground
will be flooded as soon as the weather
is cold enough to freeze the water.
There is a garage on the property
which will be converted into a rest
room for the skaters.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
QUAKE SHAKES THREE STATES
Southern Illinois, Western Indiana
and Western Kentucky Experience
Severe Earth Tremors.

ST, Louis, Mo. Nov. 2T.--Earth
tremors strong enough to break win
dows, shake buildings and homes, and
rattle dishes were felt In st. Louis.
southern Illinois, western indiana. and
western Kentucky about D 80 Sunday
night.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
SENATOR FELTON, NOW AN Ex
First Woman TO Sit in Upper House
Closes Senatorial Career OF
% Hours Service.

washington, Nov. IS. - The first
American woman senator. Mrs. w. IA.
FELTON, OF Georgia, closed her senate
rial career after answering once 10
her name and making brief address
Her successor, Walter +. George. was
sworr in. and Mrs. FELTON, became a
former senator after an actual service
OF 80 hours and - minutes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
BoRAH ASSAlLS CLEMENcEAu
Distinguished French Visitors Speech
at New York Stirs Seine
U. S. Senators.

Washington, Nov. 23.--The speech
cf NJ. Clcmenceau in New York Tues.
day night was received with indirna.
ton by several senators. Senator
Borah udahol. leader of the "irrecon.
cilable" opposition to the Versailles
treaty. issued statement hluntly as
sailing the distinguished French Wis
ltor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
Food Slot. In Germany.

Berlin. Nov. 23.-Food riotlng broke
out in Brunswick. Police fired ON the
rioters, wounding several. Troops Ia
Hanover were called on TO suppress
riots against the high cost OF living.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-11-30
LIVE STOCK MARKET
WISCONSIN PACKING COMPANY

dated NOV. 30, 1921
Choice corn fed steers, 1000
lbs. or over {l(l-f 90
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WagonBox Fight In Which ThTTwo White Men Killed and Wounded
Warriors Victory

oval, making a corral for defensive
purposes at the highest point near
by. The spaces between the wagon
boxes were filled with logs, sacks
of grain and other materials. All
supplies were placed in this corral
as Powell expected an attack very
soon. His men were equipped with
new Springfield breech-loading
rifles, which were unknown to the
Sioux and furnished them with a
surprise later.
While Powell was completing his
preparations cody and without
confusion, the hills round about his
little fort were filling with hosts of
painted and mounted warriors,
numbering, it was later admitted by
Red Cloud, between 5000 and
1900. Besides Red Cloud there
were present all the great war
chiefs of the Sioux and Cheyennes.
They were SO sure of sudden and
crushing victory over the whites
that, contrary to their custom, they
allowed their women and children
to follow the fighting men to the
battlefield to help in the work of
mutilation and torture that always
came after an Indian success in
battle, and to carry away the plum
der. The squaws, with their chill
dren, we're massed on the farthest
hills surrounding the little fort to
watch the drama that was to take
place in the lower ground beneath
them.
1t was early on the morning of
End that the fight began
AS the first streaks of dawn tinted
the sky some two hundred Indians,
in the face of obstinate defense byl
the herders, stampeded and ran off
the mule herd, while five hundred |
braves fell upon the camp in the
woods. This was at once abandon
ID by the soldiers and civilians
here, who retreated toward the
tort, keeping the Indians at bay
With hot fire. The mule herders,
rying to join the wood camp party,
we're attacked, but bold sortie by
Powell and part Of his men from
he wagon-box corral drew the at
ention of the Sioux and allowed |
he junction of the herders with the
wood party, which eventually
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in their ranks. Powell's own wea-
pom brought down the dauntless
young chief at their head. Broken,
but unchecked, they pressed the at
tack to the very sides of the wagon
boxes before they wilted under the
shattering fire that no human being
could face.
The Indians could only account
for the sustained fire from the cor
raj by the supposition that more
white men were in the enclosure
than its size appeared to make pos
sib1e, but those who had forced
their way nearest to the wagons be-
lieved that it was some extraordin-
airy medicine of the whites. New
ertheless, in the hope that the ter
rifle fire would diminish, they
pressed forward in the face of the
storm of bullets that laid them low
by hundreds. Red Cloud, back on
the hills with the women and some
of his sub-chiefs, saw the attacks
and the slaughter of his braves
with sinking heart Eagerly he
watched the wave of riders for the
second time press forward, for he
knew that failure to overcome the
whites in this attempt spelled ruin.
Then he saw his warriors waver
under the blasting fire.
They retreated in confusion, only
to reform, and such was their des-
perate courage that, despite their
terrible losses, they made six
charges before Red Cloud, heart
sick with the slaughter and the
frustrated hopes of overwhelming
Fort Phil Kearney, recalled his
horsemen and threw forward most
of the remaining warriors in skirm-
ish line to engage Powell's men
while he recovered his dead and
wounded. The Indians considered
nothing more disgraceful than to
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reached the fort after hard fight
ing and some losses.
With Odds of a Hundred to One
Not a Soldier Expected to Survive

Powell's force at the corral now
numbered thirty-two, four civilians
having joined them. Among the
latter was an old frontiersman of
renown as an Indian fighter, who
later was credited with killing more
than hundred Sioux. AS a great
mass of reds began forming east of
the corral, Powell and his men
made ready to sell their lives dear
~. With odds of one hundred to
one against them, not a man ex-
pected to survive but all were cool
and determined. Some of the less
expert marksmen were detailed to
load rifles, there being two or three
of these for each man. AS the bat
tie grew imminent, the defenders
settled themselves before the loop
holes in the wagon-boxes. Powell
ordered that not shot be fired UNI
til he gave the word.
Suddenly five hundred Sioux
warriors, mounted on their best
war ponies, detached themselves
from the main body and charged
toward the corral. Behind them a
thousand more formed to follow as
soon as an opening was made in
the defenses. AS the whooping,
painted Indians Numbered on, the
little fort maintained an ominous
silence. They were hundred yards
away and not a shot was fired. |
Fifty yards, and Powell spoke. |
The sides of the wagon-boxes were
sheeted with flame as whitening
storm of lead whistled and Shrek
ed among the astonished braves.
They had expected one volley, and
then another-then silence. The
rapid fire from the white men that
moved them down by scores threw
hem into confusion. The wave
broke against the corral and swept
around it, as the Sioux circled the
enclosure at top speed, looking in
vain for a weak place to attack.
The blasting fire hurled them back
Until, in panic, they broke and gal
oped out of range Around the
.orral dead and dying warriors lay
hickly piled among the killed and
wounded horses. Within the cor
al Lieutenant Jenness and a pri-
rate soldier had been killed and
wo enlisted men MORALLY wound
d. The thirty-two were now
wenty-eight in fighting strength.
Black with powder and sweating in
he August sun, they broke open
ammunition cases to be ready for
he next onslaught.
In front of the corral, where the
lrst force of the charge had been
pent, horses and men were stretch
1 out in masses as though some gil
antic moving machine had cut
lem down. Some Of the red war
ors who were wounded tried to
rawl away, but as soon as one
1owed a sign of life a bullet from
lie vigilant soldiers killed him. The
1ccessful repulse of that first ter
fic onslaught of the reds served
, nerve the defenders of the cor
Il, but the great masses of war
ors visible at a distance in all
rections seemed to them to spell
5entual humiliation, as they could
1t believe that it would be possible
defend themselves against a
ountless horde of Indians in sus-
lined, concentrated attack.
Red Cloud, puzzled and worried
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allow the enemy to capture bodies
of those killed in battle.
Men at Breaking Point; Powell
Reserves Fire for Last Effort
The ground about the corral was
mass of Indian dead that formed
broad mounds on three sides. But
the slaughter would have been even
greater had not the men in the lit
| tie fort been in a critical condition
after the frightful strain of steady
| fighting for hours. With ammuni-
ton running low, Powell knew that
one more charge would overwhelm
his weakened garrison, for the men
had reached the breaking point. He
reserved his fire and allowed the
Sioux to drag away their dead al
most unmolested. Before they had
finished this work shell burst
among them and cheer went up
from the soldiers, for relief from
the fort had come. Soon hundred
men and a howitzer reached them
and escorted them back to the post.
Red Cloud could easily have re-
trieved in part the lost fortunes
of the day by an attack on the re-
lief party in the open. He was too
much disheartened and dismayed
to attempt it. His power was
broken and he never took part in
another important fight. He after
ward admitted that his losses in
the Wagon-box fight in killed and
wounded numbered one thousand,
one hundred and thirty-seven. Each
defender, on an average, had ac-
counted for thirty-six of the reds.
Further testimony as to the num-
Der of Indians killed and wounded
IS contained in a conversation be-
tween one of the civilian scouts and
the department commander, some
weeks after the fight, as reported
BY Colonel r. I. Dodge in "Our
Wild Indians" as follows:
How many Indians were in the
attack? ?" asked the general.
Wall, Ginr'll, | can't say fer sar-
in, but think thar were nigh onto
hree thousand of them"
How many were killed and
wall, Gin'r'll, I can't say fer
artin, but | think nigh onto thou
and of 'em."
How many did you kill?"
Il can't say fer sartin, Gin'r'll,
nut give me a dead rest an I kin
lit dollar at fifty yards every
ime, an I fired with a dead rest
t more'n fifty of them varn1ints
inside of fifty yards
For Heavens sake, how many
ines did you fire." exclaimed the
eneral.
wall, l can't say fer sartin, but
kept eight guns pretty well het up
or more'n three hours"
On this occasion Powell received
is third brevet for heroism and
istinguished conduct on the field.
The next fall new treaty was
lade with the Sioux, and Fort Phil
was abandoned and burn
d. In memory there is associated
18th it one of the two most notable
efeats of white soldiers by Indians
nd the most overwhelming victory
{ whites over reds. "a
by Chiefly -Raban syndicatc.)