Marshfield News-Herald from Marshfield, Wisconsin • 1

Weather Showers tonight and Tuesday; cooler in north and west. THE OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER OF THE CITY i VOLUME NO. MARSHFIELD, WISCONSIN, MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1923 NUMBER 164 1 JJiiVV RIVER IMPROVEMENTS WOULDBE ROBBERS FRIGHTENED BEFORE NEW CONTROL OF BOARD BRINGING BODY FOUND IN CELLAR POINTS TOWARD MURDER fl Tiie Annual Fall Nightmare Tva il: iin.n.l' I SmWWJOHN! UTVL Si im NNferair mi MINERS MEET TO SANCTION PEACE OFFER MANY CHANGES Resignation, Reported Asked, of Warden Coles at Waupun, Another Chapter to Story of Blaine Control (By Associated Press) Madison, Sept. 17.

Further indication of a general shakeup Txrr i iscunsm cnamaDie ana, penal in stitutions by the state board of con- trol came to light late Saturday when Warden R. M. Coles of the state prison at Waupun presented his resig- -nation to the board, effective today. Reasons for his resignation, reported to have been requested, were with held temporarily. This is another of a series of dis missals and resignations following control of the state board by appoin tees of Governor Blaine.

First indica tion of an impending shakeup cam early in the spring when Henry Town member of the board and for 27 years warden at Waupun, resigned. He i3 reported to have said he "could no longer sit in the Then came a change in the secretary position when Matt Tappin, for nearly 20 years sec retary, was placed in the field as in structor. Later the board determined that all appointments to state institutions should be for definite periods, subject to removal with one month's notice. a. rrince, head of the state school at Sparta, was not reappointed Later came the resignation of Dr.

Maybelle Park, head of the juveni's department of the board. Now. comes the resignation of Warden Coles. Board's Rigid Program The state board of control issued a -statement today explaining the policy of the board in operating the state's penal and charitable institutions. "The board's policy yi connection with institutional management demands broad humanitarian interest and cooperation with constructive aims, as well as efficiency, and close supervision is being maintained and will be continued for that the statement said.

The statement announced Warden Coles' resignation and said it unexpected. "In selecting a successor the purpose of the board is to choose the best qualified person available" it added. TEACHERST0 ASSEMBLE AT WAUSAU OCT. 12 The annual convention of tue Cent ral Wisconsin Teachers' Association ON MISSISSIPPI ARE ANNOUNCED 1 (By Associated Press) vv asmngton, bept. -17.

The war department today announced several allotments by. the engineer corps for river and harbor improvement work, including $350,000 for the Mississippi river between the mouth of the Mis souri to the north of the Wisconsin rivers. MRS. ML BOLTE FORMER LOCAL RESIDENT DIES Remains to- Arrive From Old Ham, South Dakota. Tuesday; Burial Wednesday from Sister's Home Mesdames William Thuss and John Widman, West A street received word yesterday announcing the death of their sister, Mrs.

Minnie Bolte, a for mer resident of this city, who died Saturday afternoon from an extended illness at the home cf her daughter, Mrs. Arthur Smith, Old Ham, South Dakota. The message also stated the remains would arrive in this city Tuesday. Burial will be made Wednes day afternoon from the Widman home, 313 West A srteet. Mrs.

Bolte who underwent an oper ation ct the Mayo Brothers hospital at Rochester, previous to her death, was 64 years of age. She was bom on" January 4, 1859 and resided here about fifteen years. She moved to Wi nona about eight years ago and during the past few years made her home with her daughter, who former ly Miss Laura Bolte, an employee of the First National bank. Besides her daughter she is sur vived only by her two sisters residing here. GAS PRICES LOWERED IN EASTERN STATES fRv Associated Press New York, Sept.

17. Tank wagon prices for gasoline today were reduc ed one cent in New England and eight of the Atlantic seaboard states by the Standard Oil company of New Jersey and the Gulf Refining company. The prices range from 18 cents per gallon in Washington, D. to 21 cents in Virginia, where is a state tax of 3 cents per gallon. I NEWS SHOWING TITLE BOUT VIEWS TODAY Views of the Dempsey-Firpo fight, which thrilled approximately 90,000 fans at the New York Polo Grounds last Friday evening are shown today in the sporting section of The Daily This rapid, service is being brought to our readers through the recent of this paper with the popular N.

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A. The pictures taken Friday were sent from the east by a telegraph method and were 'available for publication Sunday. This service reaches our office daily, and in addition to furnishing pictures of all the latest events it enables us to present to our readers a complete and popular cartoon ser- vice. It was with a view of pleasing our many readers and. building a more interesting paper, that we have secured this service.

ly jail day had mg ed way this GETTING INTO VAULT (By Associated Press) Madison, Sept. 17. The Plain state bank at Plain was entered by robbers last night, but nothing was taken, according to word received here today. The burglars were frightened away before they succeeded in open ing the batik's vault. MARTIAL LAW IN KLAN EMBROGLIO Three Cities In Oklahoma Sub jected to Presence of.

Soldiers; Capital Sees Guns In Streets (By Associated Press) Oklahoma City, Sept. 17. The spotlight played on Oklahoma City today in the 'second act of Okla homa's martial law drama. Since mar tial law became effective throughout the state Saturday at midnight, the military forces have superceded Okla homa City's police. Machine guns are leveled at the city hall, police station and county court house; a grand jury has been canceled and a military court of investigation substituted.

and sate capital ciaizens told "when to go to bed and when to get up." Oklahoma City, Tulsa and Sapulpa and their counties of Oklahoma, Tula and Creek are under "absolute mar tial law. Troops are on duty in the two larger cities and Adjutant Gen eral B. H. Markham, in command at Tuisa, is expected to arrive here by way of airplane today. His hurried flight has been unexplained.

Troops have been placed at Sapulpa accord ing to latest information, from that Apparently-xhi -'rest? of the state is no to feel military law, although neither Governor J. J. Walton, nor the adjutant general have made state ments in this case. Governor Set on Suppression Henrietta, Sept. 17.

The Ku Klux Klan constitutes an "anarchis tic force" in Oklahoma and must be driven, from the state, Governor J. C. Walton told an audience of perhaps 1,000 people, many of the delegates to the state labor convention, here to day. "The fight on the Klan is no longer a religious said the governor. "Tihe organization is attempting to control the government of the entire state." The Tulsa World is backing the governor in his fight against the "invisible although nearly all the other papers, with their editors and reporters in Oklahoma are members of the Klan, the governor as serted.

Police Restored to Powr Oklahoma City, Sept 17. The Oklahoma City police depart ment, taken over by the military last yesterday, was returned to civil au thonty today, when Mayor O. A. Car- gill1 served notice on Col. W.

F. Mey, military commander in charge of the city, that unless Ray Frazier, chief of police, was reinstated at once, the entire force would be retired by the city and the task of policing the city would be left in the hands of the military. EX. U. S.

SENATOR CELEBRATES 101 BIRTHDAY (By Associated Press) Los Angeles, Sept. 17 Cornelius Cole, former United States senator and one of the few living men who heard Abraham Lincoln deliver his Gettysburg address, was 101 years old today and his descendants planned a quiet reception in his honor with only immediate relatives and intimate friends attending. The aged man said he felt better than when he was "only 100 years old." "I felt rather old one year ago," he said. because of the phrase '100 years old' has such a venerable sound. But now that I am 101 years old it is different and I feel Time has placed no extreme burden upon me." be Finding of Mutilated Remains Near Stevens Point Gives Portage County Mys- tery Case Stevens Point, Sept.

17. Ap parently slain for his money, the body of a man believed to be Edwin S. Armstrong of St. Cloud, was found today in the outside cellar way of, a deserted farmhouse on a lonelv road in the town of Plover, 3 miles from here. The fact that a $9,000 automobile belonging to Armstrong which wa3 found wrecked at a culvert half a mile from the farm house two weeks ago, still lies unclaimed in a garage at Mc- Dill; a report that two men had been seen elaving the wrecked car and the fact established today that Arm strong usually carried large sums of money wih him on his trips as, a manufacturer's representative, have led Portage county officials to proceed on a story that robbery propted the in their efforts to solve the mys tery.

The body wa discovered by John Sniadajewski, who lives on the farm adjoining, when he came near the abandoned farm house in pursuit of seme work. The corpse had evidently been pitched headlong down the out side cellar way. LUTHERANS HOLD CONFERENCE HERE SUNDAY Delegates numbering approximate ly 200, from Neillsville, Wisconsin Rapids, Medford, McMillan Klondike and Rozellville, assembled in Marsh- field yesterday afternoon to partici pate in the Marshfield-Neillsville Del egate conference at Immanuel's Lutheran church. An interesting conference was held at which reports were given by G. A.

Krasin and John Wittrock, the latter of Wisconsin Rapids who were delegates to the annual convention of the Wisconsin Lutheran Synod held at Milwaukee. Following these report3 those in attendance discussed th matter of the erection of a new pro vincial Lutheran Seminary to be built in several years at Milwaukee in the vicinity of the present seminary 1 at Wauwautosa. Approximately $400,000 has been raised for this purpose and delegates before leaving were urged to promote interest in the movement among members of their respective congregations. The next meeting will be held at Wisconsin Rapids some time next June. TOMAHAWK MAN KILLED WHILE DUCK HUNTING (By Associated Press) Tomahawk, Sept.

17. Louis Schroeder was instantly killed yester. day while hunting ducks, when a shotgun, in the hands of his companion was accidentally discharged. He leaves a widow and two children. IMMANUEL'S CHURCH ORGANIZING TWO, CONFffiMATION CLASSES With, an enrollment already num bering forty, the German confirma tion class of Immanuel's Lutheran church has been formed and is prepared to receive several instructions weekly in preparation for confirma tion services which will most likely held on Pentecost Sunday in June.

The class is under the direction of Rev. O. Hensel. Pastor. An J-Inglisa fclas3 will be formed this evening at the school hall be- FIGHT OVER ROAD LEADS TO SHOOTING Autoist Killed By Shot From Driver of Motorcycle Who Charges He Was Crowded Off Road (By Associated Press) Rhinelander, Sept.

17. Patterson Morrison, 20 years old, was shot and killed Sunday night while motoring near Eagle River, and George Marlowe, 30, Rhinelander, is lodged in the county jail here charged with the shooting. Marlowe was riding in the sidecar of. a motorcycle and is alleged to have fired atrMorrison's car when the lat- ter started to crowd the motorcycle off the road. The full charge of the shotgun struck Morrison in the head.

TWO HURT IN DERAILMENT AT EDGERTON (By Associated Press) Janesville, Sept. 17. Charles Turner, Chicago, baggageman, and L. Bova, Chicago mail clerk, were slight injured when passenger train No. 142 carrying 150 passengers from Madison to Chicago left the rails near the depot at Edgerton this morning.

Five coaches, locomotive and tender left the track, but were saved from falling over by crashing up against a freight train standing on a siding. Traffic was blocked awaiting arrival of- a wrecker. ALIENS AWAITING DEPORTATION MAKE ESCAPE FROM JAIL (By Associated Press) Crookston, Sept. 17. Nine aliens being held in the Polk county for deportation escaped early to by unlocking the door of the cage from the inside and leaving the jail through a window, the bars of which been sawed.

A general alarm was sent out. The men are believed to have left Crookston on an early morn train. CIRCUIT COURT CONVENES AT RAPIDS TODAY District Attorney S. R. Williams spent the day at Wisconsin Rapids where circuit court was reopened this morning by Judge Park who conduct sessions this morning' while on his to Toman to preside at the regular fallsession of court.

Exparte matters of a brief nature were taken up at court at Wisconsin Rapids during the short stay there morning. The real trouble with all narrow- minded people is they are too narrow- minded to admit it, Resumption of Anthracite Operations Certain If Miners Agree to Accept New Proposal (By Associated Press) Scranton, Sept. 17. Anthracite miners representing 155,000 workers of the Pennsylvania hard coal fields met in convention here to day to pass on the proposed agreement drafted by union officials and operators, representatives in Harris-burg nine days ago. Ratification of terms of settlement is the final step" necessary to "biinp; about resumption of mining opera jtions, suspended August 31, when the immediate contracts expired and en were ordered to quit work.

th LOCAL STUDENT OF STATE UNIVERSITY FORMS FRATERNITY Cyril Ballam, son of Mr, and Mrs John Ballam, a law student at the University of Wisconsin, bears tha distinction of having organized the new Legal Eastern Fraternity at that institution, the Sigma Nu Phi with a list of twelve charter members among whom is listed Judge Backus of Milwaukee. Mr. Ballam has the ti tle of Chancellor. The installation banquet of the newly formed organi zation will be held on Oct. 30.

JAPS DECLINE AID OF SOVIET Washington, Sept. 17. The Japan ese- government has refused the aid of the Soviet government of Russia sent through the steamer Lenin, the embassy announced today because the assistance brought was intended for laborers only and "the relief mis sion looKect upon tne disaster as a providential opportunity for furthering the revolutionary movement. PHILADELPHIA ROWER WINS SCULLING TITLE (By Associated Press) Duluth, Sept. 17.

W. E. Garrett, Philadelphia, today won the world's championship sculling championship title by defeating Walter Hover of Duluth. KILLED WHEN AUTO DROPPED OFF BRIDGE (By Associated Press) PerronvUle, Sept. 17.

Driv ing through the rail of a bridge with his small touring car, John Remizlas-ki, 26, was drowned Saturday night when his car turned turtle and pinned him to the bottom of Ford river here. will be held in the Wausau high school on Friday and Saturday, October 12 and 13, and it is expected that 800 ot more teachers' will be in attend ance from all schools in the central section of the state. The program is now being arrang ed for the event, and will be announc- ed soon. All teachers who wish to at tend this meeting are granted that privilege and while there are no es timates at present as to the number of local teachers who will be Supt. Chester Newlun declares that jr this city will be represented by some raemoers oi tne lacuity.

WILCOX TOO BUSY FOR POLITICS, SAYS Eau Claire, Wis, Sept 17. An Eau Claire, paper credits the Superior Telegram with the announcement that Roy Wilcox of Eau Claire who was a candidate for governor on the Re-bublican ticket in 1920 will not be a candidate in 1924. The paper contin- ues: "Mr. Wilcox, who has been active in politics in the state for several years, and who was at one time state senator stated that he had no inten- a uon or running zor governor again next falL He said that he. was busy with his work as a in Eau Claire and had no time to take part in I ginning at 7 o'clock..