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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
SCOPES LOSES IN
FEDERAL COURT
Judge Gore Refuses Injunc-
ton to Halt Evolu-
ton Trial.

Cookeville, Tenn. - The American
public is not to be denied its great
summer spectacle. the Scopes evolution
trial at Dayton.
Judge John j. Gore of the United
States District court refused to grant
an injunction to halt the trial. Prof
John r. Neal, chief counsel for Scopes,
who filed the petition in the name of
his client, with signatures of Clarence
barrow and cambridge Colby attached,
had two anxious hours fearing that the
petition might be granted and the big
case blow up.
Merits of Case Not Passed Upon.
Judge Gore, who was called from
his vacation in the hills, did not pass
upon the merits of the case, or upon
any of the big points which are relied
upon to carry it to the United States
Supreme court.
he contented himself with denying
the petition on the ground that he had
no power to interfere with state courts
except in bankruptcy proceedings. that
the allegations were not sufficient and
that he was not In the district where
the alleged offense was committed.
The defense attorneys will go on
with this method of getting this case
into the federal courts, but all chance
OF interfering with the Dayton trial
has now passed except the action Of
the Dayton judge in motions filed to
quash the indictment against Scopes
1t is possible that, fearing Judge John
RaulstOn might grant this, the motion
will not be argued until the evidence
is in.
Will Petition Again.
The evolutionists are determined TO
get their case before the country
through the Dayton forum as an edu--
cational opportunity that may not
come again in so years The petition
for a permanent injunction will be
taken before Judge Kenophen Hicks at
Nashville and will be argued by Balm
bridge Colby. former secretary of state.
Judge Gore was in his office sur
rounded with law books, waiting.
After conference Nea! and Scopes
reached the judicial chamber and
Judge Gore went at once to his court
room.
Professor Neal merely read his petit
ton. 1t recited the history of this pros
ecution, took the stand that Scopes
could not do his duty as science teach
er and ye teach evolution as theory
of science" and asked that the gov
ernor and the prosecuting officers be
restrained from prosecuting Scopes
The relief was asked under the pro-
lection Of the fourteenth amendment
to the federal Constitution.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Two Men Chained to Tree
by Hooded Band Ten Dovs

Chattanooga, Tenn.-Dr. w. D. Ma
son, veterinary surgeon, and Lawrence
Bowman, who have been searched for
by posse of $50 men since their dis
appearance on Signal mountain .June
%, were found on Sunday. They were
handcuffed and chained to a tree, in
lonely hollow on the mountain.
Both were in serious condition
from exposure and lack of nourish-
ment. Mason was unconscious. They
were brought to Chattanooga in am
balances summoned by Jim Thomas
n mOuntaineer, who found them While
hunting strayed hogs.
According TO the pairs story after
receiving treatment in a hospital thew
were set upon the night of their dis
appearance by five hooded men.
dragged out to Doctor Masons car, and
chained to tree. Each night they
were blindfolded and removed to a
new place.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
ACTOR shot AFTER
ROW WITH WIFE
Allen Davis, Movie Star,
Wounded Twice by
Dancer.

New York.-Acting on motives which
she refused to discuss, Mrs Edith
Davis, known as Edith Parker in the
Vanities of 1924, entered an apartment
at 63 West Forty-ninth street where
her husband, Allen Davis, an under
study in white Cargo" was dining
with two men friends and after a
short argument shot him three times.
Mrs. Davis is twenty-tw0 years old.
Mrs. Davis arrived at the fiat soon
after her husband had sat down to
dine with Melville Anderson and Har-
ry Grivvtel. She asked Davis TO walk
into a rear room with her. Loud words
were heard and a minute later three
shots. Anderson and Grivvtel started
toward the room and were brushed
aside at the door as Mrs. Davis rushed
out.
Dancer Planned Suicide.
She sprang into a taxicab, but De-
tectives Owens and Leech, passing by,
saw her and followed. She was arrest
ed and taken to the West Forty-seventh
street station. Davis was taken to
Polytechnic hospital and was operated
on for the removal of a bullet in his
jaw and another in his left shoulder.
He is expected to live.
Later at the police station Mrs. Da-
Wis, through her lawyer, Mark Wolf,
said she had intended to kill herself
Police said that an unfired cartridge,
which had been slightly denied by the
firing pin of her pistol, bore out her
statement that efter firing three shots
at her husband she Had tried to shoot
herself but misired.
Mrs. Davis refused throughout her
examination to discuss her motives.
Davis was lying on the bed when
the detectives brought the woman back
to the apartment. That's my wife
She shot me-" he said. IF | am In
the hospital a long time, keep her
away"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
$4,000 Witness Bouts
for Charity in Gotham,

New York.-Harry Greb, middle
weight champion, retained his crown
after Is rounds of vicious fighting
against Mickey Walker, welterweight
king.
Harry Wills, colored heavyweight.
knocked out Charley Weinert In the
second of their scheduled 15-round
bout.
David Shade of California, shadow
of the boy Greb trimmed, knocked out
Jimmy Slattery, pride of Buffalo, in
the third of their scheduled six-round
encounter.
These three paragraphs tell in a
nutshell just what happened at the
Italian hospital fund show at the Polo
grounds which was witnessed by a
crowd estimated at $4,000
The victories of Greb and Wills
were forecast, but the defeat of Slat-
terry was perhaps the Biggest upset in
modern pugilistic annals.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
JARDINE ASSAILS
BOARD OF TRADE

st. Paul, Minn.-If the Chicago
Board of Trade does not GUST the clique
OF gamblers and scalpers now In
control" it will have to go out of
business, Secretary of Agriculture
Jardine declared at a cooperative
conference here in which he reiterated
his determination to end grain market
manipulation. 'The right thinking
members of the Chicago board are In
favor Of such cleanup, but they
are not now in CONTROL" Mr.. Jardine
added.
The secretary declared that steps al
ready are being taken to remedy the
situation by the formation of clear
ing house association and giving votes
to 600 outside members of the board
Il am a firm believer in letting
everyone clean his own house, but
they are going to clean that house
or We'll put them out of business. +"
he declared.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Hawkins Sent to Prison
for IS Years for Fraud

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. years in the
Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth
and fine of $4,000 was meted out
to Morton s. Hawkins, former presi-
dent of the defunct Hawkins Mortgage
company on charges of using the mails
to defraud in connection with oper-
atoms of the concern in Federal court
here. Counsel for Hawkins Immedi-
ately filed notice of an appeal, and
Judge Baltzell granted the defendant
20 days to raise bond of $4,000. and
perfect his appeal Hawkins, the gov
eminent says, mulcted investors out
of between $4,000,OO0 and $6,000,00O by
the operations of his company and 1O4
subsidiary loan societies.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Butler to GiUe Up Fight
TO Clean Up PHILADELPHIA

elphia.-Charging that he had
been double-crossed and kicked around
by politicians, Gen. Smedley Butler
of the marines, now director of safety,
in a speech at an old-home week cele-
bration, admitted he had lost in the
war to "clean up" Philadelphia, and
announced he will quit at the end of
the year.
81 have not been fighting crime so
much as have been fighting political
influence" declared General Butler,
81 do not want any more political
jobs; 1 have had enough of serving
the people.
"But while l continue on the lob 1
am going to fight back against these
influences. Occasionally Philadelphia
has said prayer for me, but its CO.
operation about ended there"
General Butler has been CARRYING on
his cleanup" campaign in Philadel-
phia for nearly year and half.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
WIRELESS PHONE
IS USED AT SEA

New York.-Two sisters, Mrs. Nor
ris Sempler of this city, returning from
Europe on the liner Columbus, and
Mrs. Emil Berolzheimer on the
Deutschland, talked to each other by
wireless telephone across $50 miles Of
the Atlantic.
This was reported when the Column
bus locked here, bringing a recently
invented wireless telephone device. A
conversation at sea, words going each
way, is new in the science of sound
transmission.
Several passengers on the Columbus
talked with persons on land and on
other Ships.
Chief wireless operator for the Co.
lumbus, Carl Gerstung, said in his use
of the new invention to talk to other
ships the results in most cases were
very satisfactory. The new system Is
controlled by the Telefunken company
of Germany.
The apparatus is duplex receiving
and sending set, according to Mr. Ger
stung. II operates on wave length
of 1880 or 1,400 meters. Experiments
with the device have been under way
for more than two years.
The new system makes wireless tele-
phone conversation possible by over
coming the interference between the
receiving and sending antennae, which
heretofore has prevented the simulta-
neous operation of the receiving and
sending apparatus.
Toll rates of $3.50 for eight minutes
conversation are charged.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Pol0 Negri Fined $50, 900;
Failed to Declare JeueIs

New York.-Pola Negri, Polish film
actress, will have to pay Uncle Sam
S57, 600
She neglected to notify the customs
authorities on her recent return from
abroad that she was bringing int
this country two diamond and emerald
bracelets valued at $4,000 and one
30-carat diamond ring worth $4,000.
Gen. Lincoln c. Andrews, assistant
secretary of the treasury, admins
tered the financial spanking.
Pola had to pay full domestic
value of the jewelry, 1900, plus a
fne of $4,000 for evading regulation.
Unless Pola pays. the jewelry will
be sold at auction.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Offer $500 RetUard for
Every Bank Bandit SLoin

= Chicago.-Two thousand five hun
dred dollars for every bank bandit
killed while plying his trade
That statement tells of the most
drastic action against bank robberies
ever taken by the Chicago and Cook
County Bankers association.
More than 100 Chicago banks placed
on display placards announcing Ibis
offer.
1t is the largest award ever offered
by any bankers association, Its officials
declare. 1t applies 10 bandits killed
only-not to robbers captured-and is
a result of the present crime situa-
ton In the city.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Mellon Predicts NerU and
EfectiUe Basis of Dry Ban

Washington.-Proh enforce
ment soon will be definitely on an en-
,irely new and effective basis. Sec
rotary of the Treasury Mellon pre-
dicted in a statement. The delivery of
the last three dry navy destroyers. tbe
effective operation of the anti-smue-
Cling treaties, and the early execution
of the Andrews reorganization pro-
gram are given by the secretary as the
principal factors for his optimism. Tn
a formal statement, he said: "Tha
plans of the Treasury TO make prohibit
ton enforcement effective are ranidlv
approaching consummation."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Ibanez, Spanish Author,
Weds Widow of Diplomat

Nice, France. Vicente Blascoe
Ibanez, the Spanish novelist, and bona
Elena Ortuzar Bulnes, widow of
Chilean diplomat, were married at
Mentone The first wife of Vicente
Blasco Ibanez died in Valencia, Spain,
in January. She had been ill for many
years, but the novelist declared her
death was due directly to the seizure
of his property in Spain because of
his writings against the spanish mon
arch and the military directorate.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
John D. Rockefeller Plays
Golf on 86th Birthday

Tarrytown, n. Y.-JoEn D. Rookie
Teller was eighty-six on Wednesday,
but the day was just like any other
day 10 the oil king of Pocantico Hills.
At his home the following message
was given out: Mr.. Rockefeller is
well and of good cheer and is full of
gratitude for all the blessings that
the coming year holds out for him.
He spent the day quietly with members
of his family about him"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Troops Hunt HijacEers
Who Fired on Officers

Salinas, Cal.--Troops from the
state National Guard encampment at
Del Monte and armed citizens posses
were beating through the hay fields
and marshes at Moss Landing. nine
miles from here. in search for a>party
of suspected rum smugglers who shot
and killed n. II. RAIDER, posse men,
Der, and shot Sheriff V. w. Oyer and
Harry Livingston. state traffic officer.
when trapped while at work.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Dry Sleuth Is Wounded
tn War on Rum Ring

Chicago.-Berwyn, Cicero, Stickney,
and other suburbs of Chicago were
thrown into excitement when Cicero
gangsters ambushed and shot David
Morgan, chief investigator for the
West Suburban Ministers and Citizens
association. Morgan was not danger
ously wounded. Three of the gang
sters escaped. A fourth was captured
and booked as Nick Carbone of Chi
cago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
Baroness Falls to Death
From NeuO York Hotel

New York.-Helen Baroness Yer
nuehlen of Java Dutch Indies was
killed by fall from the window of
her apartment on the seventh floor
CT the Hotel Ritz-Carlton.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15
WISCON SIN
HAPPENINGS
Important News of the Badger State
Arranged in Condensed Form


Madison-Indian medicine women
who dispense herbs were outlawed I'M
der an opinion made public by Atty
Gen. Herman L. Ekern. The opinion,
written by G. A. Erikson, deputy at
torney general, held that a woman who
represents herself as able to tell peo-
pie afflicted with rheumatism and
other ailments the herbs that would
assist them, and sells such herbs, yio-
lates the state medical law. The rul-
ing was sent to James Murray, district
attorney at Fond du Lac, in connec-
ton with the case of a woman of
Indian descent who claimed to have
had considerable experience with herbs
and to know their value for medicinal
purposes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Madison-How Good Is Your Town
is the title of booklet just issued by
the Wisconsin Conference on Social
Work with headquarters at the extern
sion division of the University of Wis
consin. Education, public administra-
ton, recreation, library, health, social
welfare, industry, religion, town and
county relations and city planning, are
the 10 divisions around which the CITY
reYolyes, according to the 10 chapters
on these subjects in the booklet. Many
civic classes In high schools and col.
leges are using the booklet as a text
for civic courses.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Oshkosh-The Ku Klux Khan. some
$1,000 strong, according to officials and
about $4,000 strong according to other
estimates, staged at Oshkosh what was
declared to be the largest Khan demon
stration ever held in this state on In
dependence day. Thousands of men,
women and even children in white
robes and hoods with capes of varied
hue, denoting the rank of the wearer.
spent the day In celebration at the
Winnebago county fair grounds. Many
attended from Illinois, Michigan, Min
nesota, Iowa, Indiana and South Da-
kota
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Elkhorn-Premature explosion of
5000 stock of Fourth of July fireworks
in the Elkhorn Variety store resulted
in a fire which destroyed the E. H.
Sprague business block, housing the
opera house, post office and public IL
brary, with loss estimated at more
than 100000. No lives were endan-
gered.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Observation-Disclosures of the es-
tate of ex-Gov. William Upham paid
a state inheritance tax of 81, 1882. ID to
Herbert G. Kinder, Dane county treas
urer Mr.. Upham was a resident of
Palm Beach, Fla, when he died at
Oconto last year. The tax was paid
on holdings in Wisconsin valued at
$247, 1896.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Antigo-The woodworking plant of
the Mattefs Bros, just outside the
city limits of Amigo, together with the
lumber yard, was destroyed by fire
which caused an estimated loss of
$125,O00.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Madison-B III l ding operations in
during the last month, figures complied
by City Building Commissioner G. II.
Mason show. A decrease of $118,099
was noted in the amount of building
begun in June of this year as COM
pared with June, 1924. The total for
the last month was $407, 1903. In June
of last year it was $525,904.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Janesville-Judge E. Ray Stevens.
Dane county circuit court, overruled
the demurrer filed by the attorney
general for County Treasurer Arthur
M Church and granted an injunction
to Milton Junction residents prevent
ing Rock county from spending county
road bond money for concreting a re-
located highway. The decision makes
an important issue in Wisconsin's
highway program for 1t questions the
right of the highway commission to
use tax money to build roads where
the routes have been changed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Madison-GOv. John J. Blaine has
announced that he had ordered the
freeing from Imprisonment of a hus-
band convicted of shooting his wife
and of wife convicted of shooting
her husband. Mrs. Elsie Trepte, Mil
waukee, who shot and killed her hus-
band and was sentenced to states
prison for fourteen years, was given
a communication of sentence. The
governor also granted conditional
pardon to Walter Konopotski, MiIwau-
kee, who shot his wife with intent to
kill, He was sentenced for fourteen
years.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Madison-Appointm of Theodore
Waller, Ellsworth, to the district at
torneyship of Pierce county was an
nounced by Gov. Blaine Mr.. Waller,
a graduate of the University of Wis
consin law school, succeeds Kenneth
S. White, resigned.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Appleton-Henry Merritt Wriston,
head of the department of history Of
Wesleyan university, Middleton, Conn,
has been elected president of Law
renee college to succeed the late DIR.
Samuel Plantz, who died In November,
1924. Dr. Wriston will come to Apple
ton in September. The new president
is 36 years old and probably is the
youngest college president in the Unit
ed States. Glen Frank, recently elect
ed president Of the University Of Wis.
consin is. SO years old
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Merrill-C. B. Wurster was elected
Merrill city attorney tc succeed Ralph
e. Smith, who left for Washingtrn,
d. G., to accept an attorneyship in the
federal income tax department.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Oshkosh-Bail in the case Of the
state vs.. Victor Baker, former Berlin
chiropractor, who is charged with
numbering his wife, Gertrude, in n
pine grove three miles southeast Of
Fremont, has been set by Circuit Judge
Fred Beglinger Oshkosh, at $4,000
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Kenosha-Police have decided that
Mrs. Paulina Ripinski, Kenosba. found
dead at the door of her home with a
bullet in her right shoulder, died the
victim of stray independence day
bullet. For time it was believed the
woman had been murdered.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Madison-Owners of automobiles
and motor trucks paid $780, 37 "a
into the Wisconsin state treasury dur
ing the fiscal year just closed. Fred
X. Zimmerman, secretary of state is
sued the following figures on motor
vehicle registration during the fiscal
year ending June 80 They show that
476,1S8 automobiles, 5S,474 trucks and
1854 motorcycles were registered
The license fees increased approx
mately $1,000,0OO and the number of
automobiles and trucks increased more
than $4,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Menasha-A nugget of pure copper
weighing about seven pounds was
found by crew of workmen who are
installing a water main at Menasha.
The nugget was found at depth of
about seven feet. 1t is believed that
the nugget was thrown off by meteor
and buried in the ground.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Neenah-A male chorus of 100 voices
will be organized at Neenah by e. T.
Mumm, director of the city's Munich
pal Concert band, to sing this winter
with the band at It's indoor concerts.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

Manitowoc-A new steel freighter,
40 feet long, 60foot beam and 31-foot
depth, for the Rockport Steamship
Co, was launched at the yards of the
Manitowoc Shipbuilding corporation,
Manitowoc. The new boat has most
of its machinery in place and is ex-
pected to be ready for service in an
other 90 days. 1t is the largest steel
freighter to be constructed at the local
yards. The keel for the new boat was
laid this spring.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1925-07-15

refused to eat or be consoled. and all
of no avail.
Madison-Although the tourist sea-
son has only just begun, more than
1000 people from all over the United
States and some foreign countries
have visited the Wisconsin state capi-
tol at Madison, signed the official reg
lister and made the tour through the
building, since June l. Probably five
times that many made the trip but did
not sign the register
Washburn-Chris Deerkop. Cudahy
labOrer, was ordered to trial for the
murder of Guy p. Hurley, Centuria
roamer, at Williams lake on June %
motion by defense attorneys, who
sought dismissal Of the case on grounds
of insufficient evidence, was dismissed
and Judge George A. Calder, Wash
burn, of the Municipal court ordered
Deerkop held for the October session
of the circuit court.
Neenah-For the second time in
three weeks q fire of unknown origin
broke out at the DR.. George N. Pratt
home in Neenah and this time COM
pletely destroyed the interior Of the
structure, causing damage estimated
at $4,000. The home, which was one
OF the finest in the city, was badly
damaged in fire which caused $1O,-
600 loss three weeks ago.
Monroe-Miss Mabel Klaas, Monroe
has been named supervising teacher
for Green county by Supt c. E. Lamb
Albany, who has iusttaken office. For
one year she was supervising teacher
I'm of ooYrn&v
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