Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-02

| William Kruse's farm house, near Sun
Prairie, was damaged $4,000 by fire.
| The Wisconsin Central has purchased
| a site in Fond du Lac for new station.
| DR.. f. ]. Finney, one of the invent
ors of the trolley system, is dead at Fox
/ Lake.
Richard d. Evans, a well-known Bar
aboo lawyer and prominent in Masonry,
died. aged 40 years.
/ Edward Wilson, a cedar man in Bird
& Wells Lumber Company's camp, west
| of Wausaukee, was struck by tree and
killed.
William Charles Reay, bootblack of
! Amigo is one of the six heirs to for
tune of S150,O0O, by the death of an I'M
Gle at Vancouver, B. G.
1. P. Gardner of Omaha and w. L.
/ Gardner of Ashland will engage in sheep
raising at Siskiurt bay, on the south
shore of Lake Superior, about forty
miles from Ashland. They will establish
a regular ranch
| An Oshkosh man has been interesting
| the Fox river paper makers in a plan to
make paper fiber from wild rice. 1t
promises to be q good substitute for
wood, which is beginning to give out in
| this State.
Henry Whitaker, an old and we'll
| known resident of the town Of Fulton.
was struck by a Chicago and Northwest
ern train while crossing the tracks. His
head was badly cut in several places and
| his scalp loosened from his skull.
After being lost for nearly eight years,
| records have been discovered at Ashland,
| which will involve a suit against the
county for $4,000 In 1892, Rice &
Palmer of St. Paul put in bill to the
| County Board for ST. GOO. for tax-deed
fees paid to the county. In return they
! offered quit claim deeds. The board re-
/ iected the bill Rice q Palmer appealed,
| but the county clerk, Edward Fenneliy,
| failed to make his return to the clerk of
the Circuit Court. The papers in this
| case were mislaid and all efforts to per-
feet an appeal failed because the papers
| could not be found. Some weeks ago
| W. H. Mcdonald, attorney for Rice q
| Palmer made final effort to find the
papers, and they were discovered in an
| cid box in the clerks office.
The Wisconsin Telephone Company will
| put several crews of men at work in
| Fond du Lac. a large cut in prices for
| service viii be made to meet the rates
of the Little Wolf River Company.
Assignee William Plankinton has turn
| ed over to the creditors of the Planlin-
| ton Bank of Milwaukee the $4,000
which he retained as salary He kept the
money without authority of the court.
John Kubitz, a farmer from Freedom,
was killed by Northwestern train at
Appleton His wagon was struck on
the crossing Mr.. Kubitz was 40 years
old and leaves wife and FIVE daughters.
The Palmyra Vigilance Society elected
the following officers: President, H. G..
| Stacey; yice-president, A. Rood; treas
/ nrer. r. j. Washburn; secretary, Chris
| tie Carlin.
| United States Allotting Agent George
| A. Keepers, WHO has been at work for
/ two weeks on Complaints OF Oneida In
dams at the reservation, finished his
| work and left for Duluth.
The Rand & Lafflin powder mills at
/ Pleasant Prairie have started up. For
more than year the mills have been
| under construction. The plant is one
/ Of the largest in the United States. 1t
/ consists Of sixty-five buildings, covering
| several hundred acres Of land.
| The La Crosse County poor authorities
| have asked Chippews County to pay for
the keeping Of a family named Wandrel.
/ which has been a public charge at Ia
/ Crosse for some months. The latter has
refused 10 even bear a share of the ex-
/ pense and the matter win be taken into
| the courts.
The city Of Oshkosh has brought suit
| against the Commercial Bank OF that
| CITY for S1O.21S and interest amounting
r. about $500 on certificates OF deposit
/ held by the city as = part Of the Harris
| estate. The bank wants an indemnify
| Inc bond on account OF the litigation now
pendisg between she city AID the Harris
heirs.