Show THIS OUTLAW DEFIES THE ENTIRE STATE OF WISCONSIN CHIPPEWA A FALLS PALLS Wis June 7 John Deitz of Cameron Dam and his hisson hisson hisson son Clarence went to Winter yesterday unarmed and announced that they wanted want want- wanted ed to purchase supplies lies and see se the world from which they they had been separated seParated separated sep sep- for two years They remained in Winter for two hours and said they would make fre he- frequent frequent quent visits hereafter They talked freely with citizens and members of a Sheriffs Sheriff's posse organized to capture Deitz who maintained that he was sane and bad had plenty of rifles and ammunition ammunition ammunition tion at home for the protection the of himself himself him him- self and family Deitz indicted in Sawyer county is isa isa is a man about whom there are varied opinions Some people think that he isn is isa isa a n martyr and others oters that he is an out out- law There can be no doubt that Deitz considers himself as fi fighting for his home and property and and this is is in in a measure an an excuse excuse for his apparent disregard of the laws of his State State For some years ears there has been a dam darn damon darnon on the Thornapple le river that runs through Deltas Delta's farm larm farm One of the ends of this this structure is on his farm and theother theother the theother other on a lumber company's land The company is in the habit habit of raising a ahead ahead ahead head of or water each spring and at the right moment drawing the te dam and sluicing the logs togs For this his use of his land and for the injury done by the flood Hood water Deitz claimed pay pay so so much per thousand feet of logs logs for for all lumber passing I through the dam but was refused an any settlement b by the company At len length th he took the the law into his own hands hands and opened his side of the dam preventing preventing preventing pre pre- venting a driving stage of water being being be be- ing collected in the te river and getting his his gun defied the company or or any anyone one else to drive logs togs close the he dam dam or serve papers upon aim him bim or his family And no one has done any of these these things thins to date The The company refused to give in and sent men to try to dislodge him He beat bear off the company's men men then the courts were appealed to A party sent to attack him was fired upon and and one man slightly wounded This This stopped trouble for fr a time ime until untila a year ago when a new Sheriff the the first having resigned ed rather than make another another another an an- other raid took a party of six Milwaukee Milwaukee Mil Mil- waukee men mn into the wilderness fifty miles from the county seat Clarence Deitz son of the homesteader was wounded wounded and one of the railing party was seriously wounded The others oters es es- Gaped Since then however Deitz has I been unable to get into a civilized community community com com- without the danger of arrest During the winter a load of about 2000 pounds of provisions collected by admirers admirers ad ad- of his contest against a corporation corpo- corpo cor corpo corporation oration o- o ration was smuggled past the deputies to his home in the woods But while a prisoner in the wilderness wilderness wilder wilder- ness Deitz can still claim the right from the State to educate his children so Wisconsin claims to be conducting the smallest public school on the American American Amer Amer- ican scan continent Deitz's Deitz s family provides I the pupils six in numbers number number and to give these children an education the State pays a teacher 40 a month G. G F. F Graham is the tle teacher of this strange school which is conducted in the Deitz home the only house fo for miles around i Cameron Dam the spot in in the woods of northern Wisconsin for whose possession possession pos pos- session the battle began which h has made Deitz an outlaw |