Racine Journal (Newspaper) - October 11, 1910, Racine, Wisconsin OCTOBER 11 3910 THE JOURNAL FOR 1310 I 1 The Weekly Journal is an column paper containing correspondence from country towns i the news of the adjacent county county scat up to the morning 01 The markets are revised up dote of each issue and the columns are filled with the latest telegraphic selected miscellany matter editorial page h a feature and tie well sustained The Weekly Journal endeavors to I give the news of the day unbiased Its news matter is compiled by competent writers and the from time to time are always of interest and are Irom the best thors Its correspondents are to give news of interest from their towns and avoid all local rip with offensive personal allusions The Weekly Journal is a general throughout the in which It circulates It aims to give the news of the day foreign and domestic m ad- dition to the local news in a readable and will continue m its efforts to its readers every satisfaction The subscription price of the Weekly Journal is one dollar a yew m advance and the several premiums lered are valuable These premium of- trough system considered Tar better a sanitary point and more Chris Jensen a farmer residing south of the city was driving down Main street this morning when his horse be- came frightened the wagon into a street car The rear wheel was off while other damage was done The load of vegetables in the wagon was transferred to another and con- his journey The Blues and Golds of the United Commercial Travelers are working hard securing new members and are meeting with At present the Blues seem to in the lead A class of twenty-five is expected will be initiated October 28 The local Travelers will of 100 participate in a big initiation members in Milwaukee next month The meeting o Racine county board of supervisors will convene on November 15 A large amount of iness is expected to come up for Whether the proposed new court house will be revived the city mem bers are not prepared to say At pres cut a new tin roof is being placed on the building or rather the old one re- paired at a cost of close to Lust evening Mr Hitter of Grand enue having a little boy in his charge took a ride on the merry-go-round on Monument square in connection with the street carnival The gentleman became mav dizzy and fell off carrying the child subscribers who for may in ar and it was feared the man and child were badly hurt Investigation revealed thai the child was bruised and Mr Ritter slightly injured A force of men are busy tearing and remodeling the interior of the Chi eago Milwaukee St Paul railway de pot and when the improvement is com the structure will be modern in every way only be one win dow in the ticket office and that to th south and the ladies and waiting rooms will be practically one Steam heat fuid new closets are also be- ing put in urea uru few are intended for all subscribers alike reason obtain desired by paying up all ar- and one year in Ah 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Paper It -is understood that no premium will be sent or given unless it is ordered or requested at the time of nient for the paper These premiums are sent or given as per announcement frith the provisions that they shall be especially asked for at the time of paying for the paper FIRE ON DIETZ FAMILY Leslie Dietz Shot in the Groin by a Rifle Ball and Is Dying From Injury John Dietz the Hero of Cameron Dam Shot in the from Rifles in Hands of an Army of Deputies Whistle About Mrs Dietz But She Escapes Latest from Winter A patent just been awarded to Frank A of this city on a device for removing phonograph disk records W H Drew supervisor of assessors o Racine county of the danger illness of his wife bus removed hi office from the court to his home W Brewer who fell on and dislocated his hip getting us well ftM could lie Mr Brew or is 88 years of ago nnd one tot our old est residents On account of ruiK th switch engine of the C M St Pan railway left the trucks west of Mai street yesterday afternoon block travel for a short time The Wisconsin Telephone o has large force of linemen busy Washington avenue Durin the last heavy storm ninny telephone in- this put out of com mission Lena Jensen suit i the Municipal court for from bo husband Anton M of desertion The married j in 1897 and she alleges he deserted her Complaints are heard j ers of automobiles arc chines on the leading city than the law allows A of persons have narrowly run down and killed Judge E 0 Hand and the Rev Barton B Bigler of the First church have been appointed delegates to the annual session of the Wisconsin nod of the church to be held in CWre Wis beginning next Tuesday Judgment was docketed i the court yesterday for in favor Wallace Ingalls and against Felix Poplowski Kold ski A The action on a note to have been given by defendants to plaintiff The November term of the municipal John Choves of the town of Norway in the city Born to Mr and Mrs Andrew Dietrich esterday a daughter Nicholas of Center street left for 11 trip to Memphis Term Colonel Seaman of Milwaukee spent in the city on legal business Miss Barbara Mainland of Fourteenth treet is visiting her parents in Corliss William Meischke of Milwaukee is his parents on Packard avenue Millstead of Chicago is ng his on North St Clair street L B Hanson of Dawson Minn is ting his sister Mrs Carlson of this j F assistant state game is home from Madison to spend few da vs Dr L N Schnitz has returned from a of one month in the northern part the state W E of is ng today and Sunday with friends on tacino street Mrs C I- Shoop who has been in New Mexico since last July will return ionic next week Mrs L M Truesdell of Twelfth street friends at luncheon lav st her home Roy Linden has returned to his home on Owen avenue a week's visit with friends in Milwaukee History of the Dietz Case Dietz purchased land upon which is situated Thornapple dam Feb 10 posted trespass notice Feb is company secured injunction re- straining Dietz from interfering with their use of the dam April 27 Peterson appeared at Dietz's home with copy Dietz claimed no service May 3 Sheriff Clark arrived to induce Dietz to return with him Did not succeed May 10 Sheriff Giblin with ty started to capture Dietz Deitz met party several shots ex- changed and posse retired Sheriff Peterson resigns Thomas Grist appointed to succeed Sheriff Peterson failed to serve warrant on Dietz Gylland with six Milwaukee men fought baUle with Dietz family John Rogich member of posse and Clarence Dietz injured Sept 7 visited Winter Wis and shot Bert Horrel in an altercation over election s t Madden arrived at Cameron dam with warrant to take Dietz dead or alive Deitz warned den to return and was obeyed Oct i Madden waits for Deitz Leslie and Myra Dietz attacked on road to Winter i J T A news WIPE OUT side The Mrs W G Eisner of Winslow street two weeks visit lias returned from a with her parents in Allegan Mich Judge E B Belden will hold for the next two weeks but will be in his office here Saturday Mr and Mrs Arthur Moore and ily of Hock Island have arrived in this city and will make their future home Ada of North Michi ence ence and Myra Dietz wounded and captured escaped Oct rejects terms of surrender Gov Davidson Do your duty Oct 8 fires on Dietzs Leslie mortally ed John Dietz Shot in the neck Leslie Dietz offered by is sheriff's order to his men Lorn from Milwaukee ga street there attending school to n few with her mother Mrs Elm departed afternoon Howe street for Los Angeles Olga to visit her daughter Mrs who resides in that city Prof lilt music it 11 J O'Hanlon of Milwaukee re- superintendent of schools in the will deliver an lecture on The Philippine Islands church tomorrow prof O'Hanlon will use 100 slides in his lecture Prof Th known as the I director for many years a lt Racine and editor of the and director of large singing societies is today celebrating his 70th at his home at Norwood Park 111 letters and telegrams from Ka- dne people were sent to the grand old man wishing him many more Miss Sadie Dament was pleasantly hist evening at her home on North Main street when about twenty of her irl friends gave her n linen er Dament is expected to be ried in the near future to a Racine The evening was pleasantly spent in music and games of various At a late hour supper was Oct Journal special from Winter Dietz is dying from a rifle ball wound in the groin aad John Dietz Was Shot in the neck but not seriously wounded Dietz is reported to have said that before he is taken dead or alive he will kill all the members of his family One thousand shots were fired between is and i o'clock this afternoon ST PAUL Minn Oct special to aa afternoon paper At it is Believed that all of the family in the cabin are dead except Leslie who just staggered across the clearing to the barn evidently seriously hurt For nearly an hour the only shots re- turned to the fire of the posse came from one place and the deputies nearest the cabin insist that this was Leslie's work Since he left the staggering all has been silent in the house WINTER Wis Oct courier from Cameron Dam reports that firing on the Dietz home by the deputies continue finitely established that John Dietz was Mrs Dietz was in the midst of the hail of bullets was not hurt One scream was heard from within the cabin where Helen aged 14 and Johnnie aged 7 years were sheltered One of the watch dogs was killed In all about 100 shots were fired and five shots were fired from the cabin Walked Into a Trap It appears that John and Leslie Dietz into the trap set by the deputy sheriffs Leslie left the cabin to go to the far aide of the clearing for a cow He had proceeded about 250 yards when a single shot was fired at him This was indows That was all the reply In- the guns of the besiegers to crack but finally they A scream was heard the cabin during the shooting hether one of the bullets found a mark the body of one of the little children whether the children screamed from right is not known Before the shooting began John Dietz ir two hours walked about in the early fog in the edge af the trap laid y the officers Over night the Dietz farm yard hud een taken possession of by the Await Dietz's Coming Jack Britton and Con Holland had aken their on a rock conning ower built by Dietz on the hill Fred Thorbahn the chief deputy and Roy Van had crawled out on an and in the Thornapple river near which Dietz usually went to bring the cows Nels Paulson and another deputy were n a wooded peninsula close to the four at a point frequented by Dietz Everything was ready and yet Dietz walked around unseen and unharmed Newspaper correspondents of whom there are a score and townspeople who had arrived just before daybreak were huddled about in the misty dawn with teeth chattering from the chill of the expecting to witness an Slowly the curtain of fog lifted ing the dim outlines of the log cabin The dogs came out and lazily stretched themselves The family which had evidently kept a late vigil last night was not astir at the accustomed early hour Walks Close to Deputies It was when Dietz appeared con- and walked directly to the barn between it and the lumber piles behind which the deputies were concealed and reappeared on the other side He made a perfect target and the watchers at the edge of the woods held their breaths expecting to hear the crack of doom for him from one of the guns and see him crumple in a heap in his tracks thing evidently went wrong every member of the family strayed some distance from Little Johnnie galloped about with tne docs at his heels He let the cows out of the pasture and Mrs Dietz went out on the porch clearing away the remains of the fast The scene was completely tranquil until Leslie started on the ill fated trip to round up a straying cow Suddenly the crack of a rifle sounded from the woods behind the house One of the three dogs gave a whine of pain jumped up in the air and fell dead in its tracks Then the fusillade broke loose in a roar of explosions and bullets pinged through the air and the war was on Further developments momentarily Drove Citizens of Winter did not go to bed MANY LIVES REPORTED LOST AMD MILLIONS IN PROPERTY DESTROYED Corpses of Victims Are Said to Be Strewn Along Railroad Track Dear Canadian ed for in Northern Woods WINNIPEG town of Beudette and Spooner Minn have been wiped out by lives been reported lost and millions of dollars of property destroyed by forest fires which bore the towns from the and Refugees coming into Rainy River On- tario state that corpses are lying along the railway track and between rails The big lumber yards of- She Mathieu company of Minneapolis great quantities of lumber have been burned Many Beudette residents caped across the river to the Canadian forest fires have crossed Rainy River Ontario is burning in three JURY'S VERDICT IS THAT ACCIDENT COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED i Declare That Headlight on the Defective and the Telephone System Was Out of tf Victim Held A jury at Kenosha last night brought in n verdict censuring the Milwaukee Electric Railway light Co if or the death of John Goergen the fanner run down killed by an interurban car south of Central park on the night of October 5 Evidence of the crew of the car sengers farmers was and it was shown that the headlight 01 the car was out of order and also tie The mill of the Rat Portage company of Winnipeg was destroyed with a loss of A dispatch from Rainy River The most disastrous fire in the history of northern Minnesota and Ontario in several laves were lost and millions of dollars worth of property was ed is raging Fire broke out to the of Beudette and Spooner and in half hour the were in fire The Canadian Northern railway sent fifty box the relief of the in- habitants and in fifteen minutes the crowded train with its human freight had reached the Canadian side In the meantime the town of Rainey River to which the refugees had flod started to burn Fifteen million feet of lumber burned at the Rat Portage mill Incoming trains report the right ot way strewn with corpse Five have been found between Rainey River and a point five miles west of These persons had evidently attempted to cape from the flames by working back into its path Many had narrow capes and are homeless with only the clothes they wear It feared that hundreds of settlers in the have perished WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT NEW YORK Oct statement of clearinghouse banks for the week shows that the banks hold more than the requirements of the 25 telephone of the company following is the We the jury find that the said Goergen to his death at p October 5 1010 in Somers county as a result of injuries by car No 1003 of the Milwaukee tric Railway Light Co We the jury farther find that the headlight of car Xo 1003 defective and out Of order that the telephone dispatch system of said railway company was also out of order for two days prior to and at the time of said and that we the jury believe that the above accident resulting in the death of said John Goergen would have been avoided vided that the equipment of said railway system had been in perfect Thia means that in all heirs of the dead man will bring suit against the railway company for heavy provided that a settlement not reached The funeral of Mr Goergen held from his lite home today and tended by a large number of friends of Kenosha and Racine counties OBITUARY Caroline Scutt Scutt widow of last night Before ten o'clock last night the ties drove all correspondents and there are about twenty of them and the residents of the village away from the camp at the firing line They re- turned with the statement that Dietz would be shot by nine o'clock today and to an end yesterday toon The last case called was that of against dismissed on motion of the Judge Smieding then ed the jurors In the near future the of the county insane asylum will visit She Mendota state asylum and others to Aspect the water closet system It is ed and the guests departed wishing Dament many happy to LA FOLLETTE IMPROVING Senator Continues to Only One With Patient ROCHESTER Minn Oct con- dition of Senator La Follette to give entire satisfaction to his Mrs La Follette is the only one re- maining with tt Only one rifle is answering from the Diet home About nooo shots have teen fired at the cabin Another report has reached here that cabin has been blown up by It is impossible to confirm the dynamite this now WINTER Wis first the attempt to capture John before when John and his themselves outside shooting in Dietr o'clock today Leslie exposed followed by ten of 12 more in vapid per cent reserve rule This is a decrease of in tiie proportionate cash reserve as compared with last week The following is the New York summary of the ment of banks for the week ending Oct 8 Gearing house banks daily Loans decrease 000 deposits decrease circulation in- crease specie de- crease legal tenders 000 reserve decrease reserve re- quired decrease surplus decrease S deposits decrease Clearinghouse banks actual condition this Loans decrease before of the cabin Every rifle in the posse of nearly ty men surrounding the Dictz home flashed fire Tohn Dietz suddenly dropped to his knees He remained there moment and then jumped to his in- to the cabin I eslie had a longer distance to and showed some fear Whether he hit could not be learned It is aot de- succession Leslie jumped back and ran along the crest of the hill on- which the cabin stands to get behind a lumber pile For a distance of about 200 feet he as n fair target for the guns of the officers He perceptibly as he ran but whether il was from fear or because he was wounded cannot be stated John Dietz when the shooting started was between the barn and the lumber piles Behind one of the piles of lumber were some deputy sheriffs and he re- the full fire from these men He suddenly pitched forward nnd down on his knees and then lay prostrate for a moment to his feet he ran for the house and darted inside the door Mrs Dietz was about 100 feet the door when the bullets began to fly She ran inside the house and ly was not injured Fired From All Sides While these movements were taking place the fusillade WBS kept xip from All sides of the clearing The boom of the high power rifles was accentuated by the crack of the automatic pistols and considering the number of shots fired which have been estimated at over 100 it is a wonder three bers of the were not riddled They were told by the deputies that the attack on the Dietz cabin would be- gin at daybreak ajia that if Dietz at- tempted to escape he would be shot at once At two o'clock this morning Father Pilon the lone priest the village led ft straggling line of buggies one automobile a couple of bicycles and a number on foot enroute to Cameron Dam Father Pilon intended to wait until later but changed his mind fearing that he might be needed Sent to Deputies It was definitely learned that fifty pounds of dynamite had been sent to the deputies at the firing line and this greatly alarmed the priest He was assured however that it would be used only to destroy the Dietz barn the lookout and the outbuildings iff Madden Chief Deputy and Roy VanAlstyn spent the night in a swamp less than 200 feet from the barn Thorbahn and VanAlstyn it ia believed have been selected to kill Dietz Their orders are to call Hands up will you refuses is to start DENIED A DIVORCE Judge E B Belden in the circuit court today signed an order refusing Christine Soienson a divorce from her husband Sorenson At the conclusion of his order Judge Belden says that plaintiff is not entitled to a judgment for divorce but that the defendant I entitled to a judgment dismissing the The couple were married March 7 deposits decrease circulation in- crease specie de- c'ease legal tenders 000 increase reserve OOO decrease reserve required increase Surplus increase S- increase State banks and trust companies of Greater New York not reporting to the j a Loans increase 000 specie increase legal tenders crease total decrease A SHAMEFUL STORY LA It is a story of brutality stupidity died last night at her home in the town of Caledonia -79 years 7 months and 1 day Deceased was born in Kew York state and had been a resident of this county for many years one of the pioneers She was widely for her many good qualities and highly Two survive The funeral Tyt Monday afternoon at from Immanuel church on North Wisconsin street Robach Mrs Catherine Robach died last ing at her home 1520 Center street after a brief illness Deceased was born in this city March 1st 1857 end has resided here ever since She leaves to mourn her loss a son daughter two brothers a sister Mm Robach had many friends in all parts of the city will be sorry to hear of her The funeral will be held morning at from the house and at 8 o'clock from the Holy Name Interment will be in the Catholic Weekly Magazine lie with bullets Neither John nor Leslie carried a rifle If they had revolvers on their persons they were not in evidence When they were all within the shack five shots wure fired back through the and that of the Dietz affair A citizen runs counter to the ud presents armed defiance to the He gets away t for number of Finally new infraction and further the heriff shot the outlaw's daughter and son wr it Why has not this brave sheriff shot He is at large has terrorized this valiant sheriff and his courageous posse The shooting of DieU's children is as much an evidence of cowardice as la the to capture Dietz The thing is revolting Society is out- ged Wisconsin is laughed to scorn This publication is to e interests upon broad and lines Itwill Men and Measures fearlessly and publish the records of public and tical parties impartially Senator R M Editor PriceS 1 00 a Year You can get the Magazine WEEKLY Both One Year For in Advance worthy BTJ OF TO First Sept Bend In order to Journal Printing Go 328 Main Wit WANTED At once Men to represent either for la County Judge Apply at and secur ALLEN CO ROCHESTER N Y right men territory DEVELOPED CRUDE IDEAS OLIPHANT YOONG PATENTS to H 8 Underwood Wl 107 WIS ST
