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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
Cou,,,erciaI Notea.

Cables from Argentina reiterate the
statement that the weather there con
tinues unfavOrable for the growing crops.
Chicago. Kansas City, Omaha and st.
Louis received 425, 200 hogs for the week,
the largest in over ten years, as compar-
ed with the corresponding week in other
years.
Since Jan. ] Chicago has received 49,
G62, 900 bushels Of corn and shipped So
S33 900 bushels Last year for the ~ me
period she received 11S,GGS,000 bushels
and shipped 101 100000.
Kansas Citr parties bought in the Chi
cago market the other day 10000 bush
els OF corn TO be shipped there, which
certainly shows especial scarcity in that
section. The freight is about &c per
busheL
The removal OF the Mexican import
duty on wheat, which became effective ON
Nov II. is causing large shipments to
lie made into that country. and II IA esti-
mated that about 100000 bushels win
be takta by Mexico before Jan. tn,
date on which the duty is to be restored.
Total arrivals at the Chicago horse
market for the week stand about $50
more than the week previous and about
$50 more than one year ago.
Country shippers of grain and seeds
the farmers-are losing a lot OF money
each year through their own carelessness
IN not properly cleaning their produce.
The same grades are selling in the Chi
cago market at 5c'tO Zoe per bushel diff
ferencea solely because some is cleaned.
the bulk not. This big difference I'm
prices between clean and unclean grain
amounts to a very large sum Of money
each year, the bulk of which might be
saved with the exercise of little more
business judgment.
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A number of fine new dining cars have
been put in service ON the Louisville and
Nashville road.
Notwithstanding the Kansas corn crop
failure, Santa Fe officers expect heavier
business than last year.
The new limited passenger train ser
vice between Chicago and San Francisco
via the Northwestern is now in effect.
Nearly all of the roads west of Chicago
are short of cars to care for traffic. The
big business is general and only a small
percentage of it is grain.
A new station on the Alton has been
named Kruger in honor of the Transvaal
leader. Recently KIondike. the name of
another station on this road, was chang
ed.
p. f. Thomas, formerly soliciting
freight agent for the Norfolk and West
ern road, has been appointed commercial
agent of the Seaboard Air Line, with
headquarters in Chicago
The fact that Stephen Little. the ex-
pert New York accountant, was with the
Vanderbilt party that recently inspected
the Great Western road lends color TO
the report that that system would soon
change ownership.
The Santa Fe company has placed a
contract for the equipment of TO refrig-
orator cars with a new system of refrig-
GRAFTON. The cars will be used in the
fruit service between California and Chi
cago and New York
The new fast mail train on the North
western between Omaha and Chicago is
proving Of assistance to the mail service,
making possible a reduction in the time
of transmission Of mail between the West
and points in Indiana, Ohio and Ken
lucky.
A decision Of the Iowa Supreme Court
is to the effect that where one railroad is
built across another the company build
ing the last road must defray all the ex-
penses Of the crossing and if the older
company insists must erect an interlock-
ing plant. In the case decided the COM
pany that desired TO cross attempted to
force the older line to share in the cross
ing expenses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

According TO reports current the best
men in the United States secret service
and the cleverest inspectors in the Post
office Department are trying to ascertain
The details of new green goods scheme,
worked until very recently from Manhat-
tan, and at present operated from Jersey
City and Chicago. The victims are sec
Dnd, third and fourth-class pOstmasters.
who do not dare complain to the author
tiles. 1t is said that since July ! more
than thousand pOstmasters have been
swindled out of sums ranging from $3.50
10 $1,000. The principle of the swindle
is the same as that OF the oldfashioned
green goods game, but only pOstmasters
are invited, and they are urged to pur-
chase instead of money postage stamps
from the pndestroyed plates of the gov
eminent pilates and stamps which, of
course, are not in existence. The post
masters are Iured TO New York City by
samples sent by mail. These samples are
genuine stamps and not cOunterfeits
When the victim reaches the city all the
old-fashioned tricks of substitution are
practiced
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
JAMES ]. HILL.

Great Northern railroads. The Northern
Pacific shares will be turned over TO the
proprietary corporation at us, which, for
the S155, 100000 of Northern Pacific
common stock that will be extant under
the settlement plan, will be equivalent to
SITS, 100000. The Great Northern stock
will be turned in at $50, which, for the
S125, 100000 of stock, is equivalent to
S225, 100000. The aggregate Of these
two sums is S4O3, 100000.
Should all the shares Of both roads be
transferred under this plan the capitalize
ton of the proprietary company will be
increased. There is good authority for
the statement that a large majority of
the Great Northern shares have been
pledged.
The new Burlington Proprietary Com
pany, chartered in Iowa, to lease and op-
crate the Burlington Railway system. is
entirely distinct from the New Jersey
corporation, although it will be controlled
by the same interests.
The Securities Company is purely q
financial organization to handle the Sc
curities of the Great Northern, Northern
Pacific and Burlington companies.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

stantial gains, however. The acres de-
voted to the cultivation of barley this
year yielded 5S,925,S3 bushels, an in
crease of 11,716,167 over 1900; buck
wheat also is better, 12,570,000 bushels
being grown this year and but 9,O56,96G
in 1900; wheat growers find great salts
faction in the fact that GA, 1885, bush
els were harvested in the season just clos
ed, while in 1900 522, 229, 500 was the best
that could be done.
While all the principal crops do not
compare favorably with yields of the past
few years, the western farmer has no
great cause to complain, as his barns are
well stocked and good prices for his mar
ketable product viii obtain. The pros
pect of famine in some of the countries
of Europe finds no counterpart here, the
supply on hand, to the contrary, being
sufficient to fill large foreign demand.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
Notes of Current Events.

Britain win ask for more money to be
used in fighting Beers.
Duke Abruzzi, Rome, will make anoth-
er attempt to find the north pole.
d. f. Reed, 80, son of a prominent
Cleveland, Ohio, man, killed himself, Los
Angeles, Cal.
Thieves planned to blow a safe. Bas
com, Ohio, bat We're frightened away be-
fore touching off the charge.
James T. Kennedy, one Of the organ
izers and a director in the American
Bridge Co., is dead, aged 80 years.
Thirty-Gy prisoners in the Xenia, Ohio.
Jail struck because the jailer wouldn't
give them pie for dinner and supper.
Gen. Fred Funston will be given a
leave Of absence from the Philippines
and return on visit 10 the United
States.
The United States Philippine Commits
sion has passed the treason laws, with
slight alterations. Several Filipinos spoke
against them
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snarks f.om the Wires.

Waverly, y. T., girls have formed an
anti-matrmonial club.
hansen wants to do some more expIor-
ing in northern waters.
Hawick. Scotland. gets $4,000 Of Car
negies cash for library.
Jacksonville, Fla, negroes are indig-
nant over the law separating races on
street cars.
John Childress, miner, Providence. Ky,
was shot in the hip by strikers while re-
turning from work.
Consul General Patterson, Calcutta. re-
ports that the American locomotives used
in India are superior to those made in
England.
Fred Stanley, Washington, " j.. acct
dentally shot and killed his sister, Fran
ces. She was to have been married
Christmas.
1t is now said that the salary of Presi-
dent Schwab Of the steel trust is $780,
600 a year. but that his extras run it
up to 100000.
The battleship Hines viii a5c assigned
as the flagship Of Rear Admiral CrUwnin-
shield. chief of the bureau Of navigation,
when that officer takes command of the
European station.
Edgar Steinkamp, aged % years,
highly respected citizen Of Davis, I. T.,
was shot and instantly killed while out
hunting near that place. He was a ma
tive Of Indiana.
The latest result achieved in the cleo
trio high-speed experiments between
Zossen and Marienfeld. in Germany. is
about 103 English miles an hour. The
air pressure at this speed was FOUND To
be equal to a wial force Of twelve feet
a second.
H. g.. Cox city marshal Of Prescott,
Ark, was shot and Killed by Charles
Levy, colored. Cox had attempted 70 ar
rest Levy on trivial charge. Levy es-
capped.
A passenger train on the Central
Branch Of the Union Pacific was ditched
neag Dry's station, in Washington
County. Kan. but no one was hurt. The
accident was due to the breaking Of a
pair Of trucks.
Probate Judge Pagan Of Shawnee
County, Kan, announced that if drug
gists are convicted in the police court OF
selling liquor he will revoke their Ii
CENTS without waiting to see what the
termination Of the cases may be.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
RAILWAY WAR ENDED
NORTHERN PACIFIC DEAL NOW
FINALLY SETTLED.
New Corporation, with Capital Stock
of 100000, 900, to Control Systems
Beyond the Mississippi-Wi Will Work
in Harmony-Ends Battle of Millions.

in Harmony-Euds Battle OF MIll1Onss
With the incorporation in Trenton, n.
j.. of a S4O0. 100000 security holding
company, the famous Northern Pacific
fight has at last come to an end The
effect of this arrangement will be felt
in London, Paris and Berlin scarcely less
than in this country. The interests IN
volved are of most unparalleled magni-
tude. The settlement means that here
after one harmonious power will admin
lister the wealth of three formerly indie
pendent companies, whose combined cap
ital stock is over $500,000O0O, whose
bonded debt exceeds $325, 100000, and
whose trains run over 10000 miles of
track.
At present the combination of railroads
which are 10 be acquired by the new com
pany is confined to the Northern Pacific,
the Great Northern, and the Burlington
systems. But if further plans mature,
according to New York dispatch, other
railroad systems may be taken over by
the same company.
In the meantime, however. there is an
other large railroad system which is
closely interested in the arrangements
concluded. That is the Union Pacific
Company, now dominated by i. II. Har-
riman. 1t was the effort on the part of
this man and his associates to protect the
interests Of this road that resulted in
the disaster of last spring, and which in
turn led to the present combination.
The corporation just organized, and
which is given practically supreme power
over the various systems involved. IS call
ed the Northern Securities Company. The
deal is the most important in the history
of the railway world, for never have in
terests so enormous been brought under
one management. The formation of the
new company is the formal ending of the
rivalry which developed into the most pit
ter railroad war in the history of the
country. Interests representing hundreds
of millions of dollars clashed in a finan-
cial duel which for a time threatened
grave disaster not only in this country
but to the entire world.
The struggle was for the control of the
Burlington system, the Hill-Morgan or
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
SEVEN KILLED IN WRECK.
Seventeen Injured III Collision oi
Limited Train on the Santa re.

Seventeen Injured i'll Collision of
Limited Train on the Santa Re.
Two Santa Fe flyers, one the limited
from Chicago for the Pacific coast,
crowded with Eastern tourists, came into
collision with fatal results near Franco
MIA, Ariz. Seven trainmen were ediei;
three passengers and fourteen trainmen,
ten of them from Chicago, Were injur-
ed.
That there was not great loss of life
among the passengers is due to the fact
that the three engines, two dining cars
and two composite cars in the forward
part of the trains acted as a buffer and
saved the sleepers and their occupants
from destruction. The travellers, how
ever, We're all severely shaken up, for the
trains We're running at high rate of
speed when the accident occurred.
The collision is said to have been due
to disregard of orders on the part of
the crew of the west-bound limited.
though full particulars on this point are
lacking. The east-bound train had orders
to take the siding at Franconia and await
the passing of the west-bound flyer,
which was running two hours late and
trying to make up time. The east-bound
train failed TO reach the siding, and as
the west-bound train did not wait for it
the two came together without warning.
The boiler of the west-bound train ex
ploded Immediately scalding to death
those of the engine crews who had not
been killed outright The bodies of Fire
men Case and Armitage and Waiter Sam
Brown are missing, and it is believed
they We're crenated.
A scene of awful confusion followed
the collision. The massive engines piled
up in a mass of broken and twisted steel,
while the scalding steam hung in dense,
suffocating cloud over the debris, from
which the cries of the injured and dying
cnginemen could be heard. The heavy
Pullman and composite cars jammed the
dining and baggage cars upon the heasad
pile of debris, carrying death to the dim
ing car crews and set ing thp cars afirp
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
SAFE BLOWERS DRIVEN OFF.
Robbers at Milan, Kan, Flee with
Trifiing Booty,


Safe blowers raided Milan, Kan, and
afer entering every store of Importance,
among them the one in which the post
office is located, wrecked the safe and
fixtures of the Milan State Bank with
dynamite. Two doors were blown off
the safe, but the third, on which was
the time lock, resisted the force of the
explosives and score of men, who had
been aroused by the noise, rushed into
the streets with shotguns and drove the
robbers away before they had secured
any plumber. Believing the robbers were
concealed in the bank. posse kept watch
until daylight, when it was discovered
they had escaped. Secreted in a vault in
the bank was $4,000, for which no search
was made. The robbers secured but
few dollars. BIoodhounds from Wichita
were taken to Milan, bnt they refused
to take the scent and he pursuit was
abandoned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

Northern Pacific interests seeking to keep
the important line out of the hands of the
Hartman or Union Pacific party. The
Hill men quietly bought up great por-
tion of the Burlington stock, and the
Hartman crowd struck back by making
q raid on Northern Pacific securities. The
raid was panic ON Wall street, in which
Northern Pacific in one day jumped from
par to $1,000, while all other securities
declined at an alarming rate.
Prompt work by financial houses avert
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
KILL BIG RAILWAY COMBINE.
Holders of Preferred Northern Pacific
Stock Defeat Consolidation.

The plan Of the Northern Securities
Company to combine the Northern Pa
cifc, Great Northern, Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy, Union Pacific and the
Southern Pacific under one management
has been defeated by holders of preferred
stock of the Northern Pacific.
The plan proposes to retire 10000
shares Of preferred stock of the North
ern Pacific at par, and the stockholders
announce that they win bring action to
prevent it.
They say it is not within the province
of the directorate to take such step,
that the company alone can retire the
preferred stock and that in this instance
the directors neither ask for nor receive
such authority from the company.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

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arrested at Louisville on charge of attempting defaa insurance
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

ed the threatened disaster by safeguard
ing the houses in peril, and this country
escaped a serious panic. When the next
settlement day came in London many
spectators there were found short ON
Northern Pacific, but an agreement to
grant more time saved the situation
there, too.
The specific object of this $40O,O00,OOO
company is to acquire all of the capital
stock of the Northern Pacific and the
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dends on its common and preferred
stocks.
The earnings for the steel corporation, s
first fiscal year have been estimated as at
least 100000, so that Mr.. Schwab's
one-foufth of l per cent on the $50,000,-
600 earned above the fixed charges and
dividends will give him $125, 900 as con-
tingent fee, or $225,000 for the corpora
tons first year. Mr.. Schwab, when he
was president of the Carnegie Steel Com
pany, in which he was stakeholder, re-
ceived a yearly income of about $780,.
600.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

One hundred miners are believed TO
have lost their lives as the result of q
fire in the Bullion tunnel, at the works
Of the SmuggIer- Union Mining Company,
just outside Telluride, Colo. Many bodies
have been taken from the tunnel. and
scores of the 200 miners who we've under
ground at the time of The disaster are
unaccounted for.
The fire, which is believed to have been
accidental started about o'clock from
a defective fiue in the buildings at the
mouth of the tunnel. At this point is the
upper terminal of the tramway to che
company's new mill at Pandora, and 1t
was in the bunk house attached that the
fire started. From this it spread to the
terminal station, which, with its ore bins,
machinery and supplies, is a mass Of
ruins.
The flames quickly communicated with
the other buildings The dense smoke
from the burning converter house which
was saturated with oil began pouring
into the tunnel, which with the shafts
of the mine acted as q chimney.
The day shift had just gone on duty
before they could be warned of their dan
ger in the levels, and the slopes were
filed with gas. As soon as the men be-
came aware of their danger efforts were
made to reach the surface through vari-
Gus exits, and about half of those in the
mine escaped.
The Smuggler- Union is one of the old
est mines in the district, and has several
abandoned openings. some of which were
available. Most of those who escaped
did so through the old Union workings
and the old Sheridan tunnel. \ rescu-
ing party cut a connection through from
the Commission workings adjoining and
took out part of the men.
After the fire in the buildings was I'M
der control the dense smoke continued TO
pour into the tunnel, and it was not until
) o'clock in the afternoon that it occur
red to the management TO shut off the
draft by blasting rock into the tunnel.
1t is believed by mining men that had
this been done as soon as the fire started
all loss Of life might have been avoided.
The property loss is about $4,000, fully
covered hy Insurance..
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
KING EDWARD TO DIE SOON
Physicians Announce Monarch CannG
Live Over TMn Years.

Physicians Announce Monarch CanHoN
Live Gver Two Years.
King Edwards life is not worth more
than two years at the very most. That IS
the opinion of the best physicians in the
United Kingdom. and it may be set down
as truth on authority which cannot be
doubted. despite optimistic and inspired
official bulletins to the contrary. At the
same time it can be affirmed on equally
unimpeachable grounds that his majesty's
malady is not cancer Of the throat. as has
been so frequently insisted. 1t is in the
under part of the tongue. which is even
more dangerous. and which, according to
the unanimous belief of the doctors, must
reach a fatal termination within the spe-
Gifted nerind
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
Dynamite Fast Train.

Dynamiters, evidently bent upon rob
berry, wrecked the southwestern express
train on the Northern Central branch of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, a few miles
north of York, Pa. Passengers on the
train were severely shaken up, but mirac
ulously all escaped injury.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
CHINESE EXCLUSION Law.
Western Congressman Will Work Hare
for Its Re- Enactment.

western congressman VIII W 0rk Hard
for Its Re- Enactment.
Western members Of Congress are pre-
pairing to make hard fight for the re-en-
actment of the Chinese exclusion law.
The law expires by limitation in March
and those in favor of its re-enactment
expect to encounter a great deal of Oppo-
sition. The head and front of those in
opposition comes from Minister WI, the
Chinese representative in Washington.
He has urged that Congress give the Chi
nese chance by allowing the law to die
and remain dead for time, then if the
immigration from China proved to be a
menace, to re-enact it. The labor forces
Of the country demand the continuance
of the exclusion law.
Many large employers of labor in the
far West are said to be in favor of letting
the Chinese in unrestrictedly and behind
them is the influence of the great Pacific
Mail Steamship Co., that would like TO
see the bars down on account of the ire
mendous increase in its business that
would result.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

Andrew Burkhauser, non-union ma
rhinist in the employ of the AlliS-Chal-
mers Company in Chicago, shot and kill
ed George Trapp, supposed TO be a men,
Der of the union which has been ON a
strike for months. The shot was fired
by Burkhauser, according to the evidence
gathered by the police, in order 10 protect
himself from an assault at the hands of
Trapp and a companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26

Besides seeking recovery or health she
has come to the States TO consult WITH
the federal authorities relative to the
crown lands in Hawaii. These We're Sc
questereG by the revolutionary govern
ment at the time the monarchy was over
thrown and no attempt has since been
made to reimburse the former queen
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
TORTURE AND ROB A FARMER.
Aged Man Cruelty Treated by Thieves
DISGUISED as Indians.

Disguised as Indians.
Angry farmers are securing the country
for trace Of the thieves who beat tor
tured and robbed Michael johnson, one
of the wealthiest men in Lake County,
Indiana. Johnsons home is in an lso-
lated place about mile and half from
the village of Highlands. On a recent
night two masked men disguised as In
dams. entered his home, bound his aged
wife, locked the servant girl in room
and pointing two revolvers Ut his head
demanded his money and secured s1Io. In
their attempt to force johnson to tell
where $4,000 was kept the robbers burn
ed his face and lips with a lighted can
die. The cries of the agonized farmer
were heard by the servant girl. She es-
capped from the room in which she had
been imprisoned and ran TO the nearest
farm house and gave the alarm. Mean
while the robbers became frightened and
made good their escape.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1901-11-26
Big Bridge Injured Again.

Braces supporting the heavy iron grid
ers of the Brooklyn bridge have buckled
near the center of the river span so that
they now extend outward and upward 10
a height of several inches. There are
four other instances of buckled trans
verse braces on the river span of the big
structure. The bucliiing of these braces
is said to have occurred when che usual
tide of travel on the bridge roads was at
its height