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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
BIG swINDLE REVEALED.
Makes Receipts on Gold Brick Game
Look Like Counterfcif.

Brooklyn N. Y, has again evolved
something new in the swindiing line,
which yields such a profit that the re-
ceipts OF the gold brick game look like
counterfeit money. The promoters have
Melted about $4,000 in short time
In cities of the East. The scheme was
laid bare through the arrest of four men
on charges of grand larceny The plan
of the scheme was to advertise for a man
who had $4,000 The victim was in
troduced to broker" who showed him
a letter from a brother in the West. stat
ing that new lode had been discovered
which would send the stock up sixty
points. The letter continued: Il know
that there are no shares in the market.
but think there are some shares in the
hands of man somewhere in the East
The victim was then told that the stock
was that OF certain mining company
and he should look the company NJ. He
found that the stock was worth $50
share, but there was none in the market
The president of the company told the
victim that he was anxious TO pay the
quoted price for all he could get Now
entered the broker" who had just dis
covered" the man with the shares in a
poor lodging house. bolstered up in bed
swathed in red bandages and soaked with
turpentine II have $4,000 worth Of
this stock" moaned the sufferer. and
know its value. but | am dying with
rheumatism and need the money to 90
South" The victim bit and bought the
stock, which he carried away 70 the
offices of the mining company only to find
that he had bought shares in worthless
cOInpany
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
STORM SWEEPS NORTHWEST.
Railroad Traffic Paraiyzed by Worst
Blizzard in Years.

Minnesota and Dakota. Wisconsin and
the Canadian Northwest have experience
ed the worst snowstorm in many years
and railroad traffic has been paralyzed.
The Northern Pacific and Great North
ern did not move a wheel for thirty-s six
hours in the blizzard stricken district and
abandoned all efforts to do so until the
fury of the storm should abate. The loss
to range cattle and sheep on the ranges
will be heavy. as many of the ranchers
were caught unprepared after the mild
weather. The high winds piled the snow
in mountainous drifts and packed it in
solid masses, many deep cuts being filed
The temperature in the vicinity of Fargo,
\. D.. dropped to 10 below. All the cour-
try in that section has been held firmly
in the grip of one of the worst storms
Of the winter.
The loss to stockmen is expected to be
great Many of the ranchmen were
caught unprepared for severe weather.
Old settlers near Fargo, y. D.. went to
the relief of a party OF emigrants that
arrived in the vicinity some time ago.
They did not have time to prepare for
the blizzard, their shelters were not ade-
quate and their food supply was short.
Winnipeg was cut off from conlmunica-
ton with the outside world and other
towns on the border were storm-bound.
The temperature was sixteen below in
the Dakotas and Minnesota and at Al
berta. Canada, it was twenty-six below.
The zero Temperature extended through
the central portion of Iowa and Nebras-
ka. The Southern States felt the effect
of the weather disturbances and cold
rains fell in that section.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
{:AI5S';.,;f g}s
Ths News ~

Mrs. Roosevelt probably hereafter viii
tie young Teddy's hat on securely.
Even the fishing is not good in those
Eastern States where everything is under
water.
An emergency appropriation to supply
our statesmen with sparring lessons IS
earnestly suggested.
Canada is receiving modern artillery
from England and is anxiously waiting
TO hear us trembie.
Paterson. \. j.. can make up its mind
at its leisure whether il prefers ire,
floods or anarchists.
Spain does not want Don Carlos TO
come TO its relief; it has troubles enough
without taking on new ones.
Lord Kitchener viii yet be obliged 10
put up a bunch OF Keep OF the Grass
signs in South Africa to restrain Dewet.
Mr.. Hogg Of Texas is right. Knee
breeches are not calculated to beautify
400-pound patriot Of tie star-spangied
variety.
1t is doubtful. however, If Congre--
men viii die fast enough TO keep the Sem
ate provided with convenient excuses for
strategic adjournment.
Paris had a labor riot the other day.
Since they ceased having cabinet crises
in that country the people have 10 furnish
their own excitement
We trust that the New York inspectors
ransacked Mrs Huntington's baggage to
see il she didn't owe $4,000 IN duties.
instead OF the So, 600 she declared.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
ARIZONA is AMBITIOUS.
Her People Are Now Pleading 70
Admission TO the Union.

Her People Are Now Pleading for
Admission TO the Union.
Arizona has come to the front with an
appeal for statehood. Gov. Murphy was
in Washington few days ago and made
a vigorous plea for admission into the
Union. He made it Enthusiastically clear
to Congress that Arizona was by no
means ian humble mendicant begging
timorously at the congressional doors, but
that she felt herself entitled to admis-
sion, and that this honor was a matter
of due justice. OF the AriZonians Gov.
Murphy said that they emb0dy the
strongest types Of American citizenship
and strenuous manhood" and that her
civilization is as advanced as that of any
State in the Union
"The public school system of Arizona
he continued. her university and normal
schools equal any in efficiency, and the
percentage of illiteracy is not lower in
any State Of the Union Her population
has increased 104 per cent in a decade.
Her wealth increased $6,000,000 last
year, and if it were all assessed would
exceed $100,000,000 in assessable yalua-
TONS Every industry is prosperous and
the territory has greater variety OF
wealth-producing resources than any 9th
err State or territory in the Union.
1--WE have 10000 people made Up Of
superior citizenship. We are capable,
financially, of maintaining government.
We desire to govern ourselves us SOW
ereign State, and no good reason can be
advanced why our rights in this respect,
under the constitution of our fathers,
should be denied. Very soon it will be
impossible for Congress to refuse state
hood for the three territories, because
public sentiment will become so aroused
that it cannot be prevented"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
RECALLS BIG CONFIDENCE GAME.
Decision Involving Estate of Guy c.
RnrnutrI. an AdNenturer

Decision Involving Estate of Guy {.
Barnum, an Adventurer.
A decision rendered at Columbus, Neb.,
by Judge Griminson awarding the 500
900 estate to Guy C. Barnum to his Wild
ow, formerly Maria c. Delomel of Gal
weston, Texas, recalls one of the boideSt
confidence games ever carried out in the
West. Barnum was once associated with
Charles i. Thompson in the Jehovah
Presbytery of Zion. a community found
ed by the two men at Preparation, Iowa,
which once numbered over 200 mem
bers, possessed over 100000 worth of
property, and paid TO the two leaders,
who posed as overseers' or stewards
of God an income of $4,000 a year.
The community hourished from 1865 to
1860, when it was broken up by the ex-
posture of the leaders. who fed. Since
then Preparation has disappeared and
the property of the colonists has been APP
portioned among its members. Barnum a
few years ago was worth 100000. He
had been a Senator in the Nebraska Leg
islature, and otherwise prominent in the
State. But his reason left him, and he
spent several years in the Nebraska asy-
lum. When allowed his liberty he roam
ed over the country, spending his money
rigkt and left, and finally ending with
his marriage in Los Angeles in 1899 TO
Marie Delomel. Barnum met the woman
In the morning and married her in the af-
ternoon. The other heirs fought the will
giving her his property, but it has been.
sustained by the court.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
72'EEllAE(g76HS

Cbicsgo-Cattle, common 10 prime,
$3.50 30 1896; hogs, shipping grades,
$4.25 10 $685.; sheep. fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. red. &c to S3c;
corn. No. 2, zoe TO 60c: oats. No z, &c
10 44c. rye, No. 2. Sc to SIC: hay. tim
othy. 5000 to S14.50. prairie, $3.50 TO
$3.50, butter, choice creamery. 24c 10
&c: eggs, fresh. ne 20 he; potatoes.
TIC TO f3c per bushcI.
Indiaaapolis-Cattl shipping. $500 TO
s6 20: hogs. choice light, $500 to $500;
sheep common 70 prime $3.50 10 S4.25.
wheat. No. 2. SOC TO Sic; eorn. No, 2
white, 84c 10 65c; oats, No. white
45c to 4gc
st. Lo1lis-Cattle, $50 to 1865. hogs.
$500 to $500. sheep. $3.50 TO $3.50:
whea1, No. 2, Bic TO SIC: corn. No. 2,
SOC TO 60c; oats, No. 2. 44e 70 45c; rye.
No. 2, Gle TO sc.
Cincinnati Cattle. $500 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 TO $500: sheep S2.25 to $5.25;
wheat. No. 2 SAC to Soc; corn. No.
MIXED. 82e to 63c: oats. No. 2 mixed,
45c to Acc; re. No. 2. 63c TO 64e.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50: hogs.
$500 10 1925; sheep. $3.50 TO $500;
wheat. No. 2 SIC to SIC: corn, No. 3
yellow. Gle 20 &c: oats, No. . white,
47c TO 4tic; rye. Gle TO &c.
Toledo Wheat, No. mixed. Soc TO
sic: corr, No. mixed. J0c to COO: oats,
No. 2 mixed, 43c TO 44c: rye. No. 2. Gle
10 &c: dover seed, prime, S545.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern.
74c 10 75c: corn. No. 3. 5Sc to zoe: oats.
No. 2 white, 45c 20 acc; RE. No. I. SOC
to soc: barley, No. .. 64c to G5c: pork,
mess, Sl5.S0.
BuGale--Cattie, choice shipping steers.
$500 10 $3.50; hogs. fair 70 prime. $500
TO S6.G5; sheep fair to choice. $3.50 to
$3.50: lambs. common TO choice. S3.T5 to
$500.
New York-Cattis, 1915 70 $3.50; hogs
1900 10 S6.25; sheep. $3.50 20 S5-5Os
wheat. Mo. 2 red. &c to see; corn. 80. 2.
67c TO csc; oats, No. 2 white. 03e to 54cs
butter. creamery, 22c 70 24e: eggs. vest
ern, l5e 20 16c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
Onieial Indications OF
farm reserves on March |
xrora mot S,r..iuiu, a.. "a
Chicago.

/
were not surprising as to
the corn, dealers anticipating that sup
plies would be only about One-half last
years hut the statement that ~ per
cent of the enormous wheat WELD remain
ed in farmers hands was not calculated
10 sustain values. Needed rains in the
Southwest made the market look more
favorable for the next crop. A ssstan-
ing feature was the interior movement
OF only 2,61S,Sl9 bushels, against 1907
tt0 last year. while on the other hand
tptal exports from the United States
were but 2,59S,4T2 bushels, compared
with 4N62,674 a year ago. As 10 corn
bnth comparisons were striking, receipts
aagregating only 1,S93,950 bushels.
against ABB ,S37 year ago, while At
lSntic exports cell TO the lowest record
for many years, 96,109 bushels. against
$3.50 902 in 1901.
There seems a stronger cash situation.
In Minneapolis No. ! Northern, which
was lie under May, has advanced 10 tc
premium. In Duluth cash has advanced
from 11ac TO lie under May. Manitoba
wheat is bringing a smaller discount un-
der the May, and hard winter is active
weak feature is the Manitoba wheat for
which there is but a limited market It
is used as club by the bears both here
md in England. ms English markets are
the only ones available for il. Germany
is taking the hard winter more readily.
and export business of late has been com
posed largely Of Manitoba spring and
American hard winter. The spring wheat
can be bought cheapiy and is undcrscll-
ing the American in the English markets
TO such an extent that buyers there say
il is useless TO offer No Northern
The corn traders had the government
report on farm reserves last week show
ing 20 per cent, or 3S4 100000 bushels,
held March l. This is the smallest on
record 1t was expected to stimulate new
buying by outsiders, but the close Sat
urday found prices only Ne higher han
the previous week No surplus producing
STATE has over 30 per cent, and Kansas
only IA per cent Of its crop left. With
an ordinary consumption there is not
surplus bushel, and the high prices will
necessitate continued outstanding OF sup
plies TO get through to the next crop. Tho
small farm stocks mean the same thing
as last year we viii go into the new crop
In the fall with no stock II Is also
taken as indicating good prices for sew
eral years 10 come The country move
ment Is light. receipts last week being
only $4,000 bushels. and shipments Sl4,-
900 bushels The movement both ways
is about 80 per cent OF last years. Fam
reserves are as estimated week ago, 10
per cent, or 19S000,000 bushels, the
smallest ever reported. Prices for May
are within 15sc Of the TOP price. which
makes shorts uneasy
From a speculative point the provision
situation presents nothing attractive.
Hog supplies are liberal. Western points
received 1914 900 for the week. or 10000
more rhan the previous week compared
with $4,000 last year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
Washington Notes.

New national bank notes Of the loQ2
series are a radical departure in design
from former issues.
Rare skin Of a whale-shark. "rhino-
dom caught in the Atlantic, has been
sent TO the National Museum.
Pure food fight IN Congress prorAisss
to be long e.Ie. 6raeme Stewart ard
the other delegates from Illinois declared
their ipsention Of remaining in Washing
ton dntil a bill is passed.
Miss Alice Roosevelt win rot attend
King Edwards corGnation her father
concluding that the visit would cause
complications with Germany and too
much notori,ty for hfs daughter.
William. ] Bryan recently visited
Washington and held All informal reccg
ton in the House Rumors are ,ireitlaf'
ed that he is willing 70 make another
attempt to be elected President
Gen. Samuel b. NJ Young has been res
lieved from command OF department %
California and ordered To Washington II
assume presidency ~ ariny war college.
The House committee On territories has
decided upon an "omH;busT territorial Die
which win provide for statehood FOR Arie
iona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. int
stead Of separate statehood bills for 'aei'
territory.
Representative Giilett Of Massathn.
sets introduced bili TO protect Seats
anfi-gambIing laws from nuilHicaiieh
through interstate gambling by tele7
graph. The bili prohibits the sending a
dispafehes designed tG promote pool sell-
ing boOknaking, etc.
Resolutions have bner introduced IN
Congress authorizing tile President ri
invite France 10 takei part ~ uuve3li ns
OF Rochambeau MONUMENT.
Gen. Bates has beeH assigned y tom
rorarv command Of the department ~
the lakes after Otis rfFires. Funston -
70 get the department II Dakota
The Chinese governaaent has aecideu
10 have q permanent 1ofae Tor ~ lesa-
ton. and Minister wa Ting Fang iAas
recorded q deed hy WHICH there is trans
ferred 10 the Chinese imperial govern
ment q building site al Nineteeaih and
yeruca streets in the northwestern see
ton Of the city, the consideration named
being $15,S70.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25

1t is said that the Russian Gar viii
visit Vienna.
Countess Of Warwick fell from her
horse at Essex. England. and was badly
bruised.
Ralph ingalls,, son OF the late Senator
John j. ingalls,, is after the position Of
assistant attorney general in the Philirr
piiies.
GOtfried Miller. a young farmer. while
riding a young horse near WOodbine,
Kan. was thrown into barbed wire
fence and killed.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has ask
ed the premier. Or. Kuyper, to announce
publicly that the rumors regarding the
alleged unsatisfactory state Of her health
are absolutely unfGunded.
Frank F. Jacobs, aged %. shot and kill
ed his wife, aged IS, and then cut his
own throat with a razor at Lynchburs,
Texas. The bodies we're found lying side
By side. The couple had been married a
year.
Many old soldiers want the date for
the Kansas reunion changed because as
now fixed II viii come just one week be-
fore pensions are paid end many vet
Grams viii be unable 10 attend on account
OF lack Of money.
The painters Of Pittshurg and Ale
gheny struck Tor an eiga r day and
forty-fve cents per hour. tn cents more
than the old scale.
Ira j. Lundy fred three shots into his
wife's BODY and then turned the revolver
on himself with fatal effect at Taylor,
81
aged and leave .hree gross.. children.
Benjamin F. Butler, union moIder,
has been arrested az York, Pa, charged
with placing a number Of cartridges in a
mold az the To- Try 81 the Pennsylvania
agricultural wosk4 last week There has
been q strike on al the works. and It Is
believed the cartridges were placed in the
mold to injure non-union men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25

Safe blowers are responsible for a fire
which destroyed S1J0000 worth OF prog
erty al Marissa. H., Tuesday night.
They entered the Commercial Hotel,
where fifty persons were asleep, shortly
before midnight, and blew the safe. OBJ
timing $500. the robbers escaped. leay-
ing the building ia flames The fire
spread rapidly and was not checked be-
fore a dozen business buildings and sew
eraI residences, with their contents. had
been destroyed. The Commercial Hotel
vas burned to the ground. The flames
then spread to the following buildings:
Lyon * Whites drug store. Furne's bar
Der shop. iassong's barber shop. VIII
sons millinery store. Brown q Co.'S
grain elevator. 4. -. Matthews grocery
store, Hamilton u Co.'S bank, S. Rejan's
dwelling and icehouse. Lyon q Whites
lumber yard and q. H. Kenna's resi-
deBee Several persons narrowly escaped
death III the flames
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
REVEALS DEN OF MURDERERs.
Negro Woman Confesses Men We're
Lured to Her House and Slain

Negro Woman Confesses Men We're
Lurcd to Her House and Slain
Matte Bennett has confessed to Sheriff
LindIey at Beaumont, Texas. that she
was at the head of gang of negro wom-
en- and white men who had for months
been Turing men into her house. drugglns
them. beating them and robblng them. IL
they died the victims were dragged 10 the
river and thrown in. Ii they were only
stunned they were taken out of the house
to remote part of some street and left
for pedestrians or policemen to find. A
fear is felt that more than twelve men,
among these who have come 20 Beaumont
and were afterward reported as miss
ing. have been murdered. and that their
bodies are now at the bottom of the river.
In the last three months at least fifty in
qairies for missing men have been receiv-
ed. and. while no one supposes that the
gang has murdered as many as nifty,
there IS fear that some of the disap-
pearances are due TO their work Give
bodies have been found in the river since
the first of the year. The Bennett wom-
an was arrested on suspicion of being
connected with the murder OF Benjamin
Pearson. one of the five known victims.
She denies being guilty OF this crime. but
admits that one of the gang of which she
IS a member discussed the commission Of
the deed. On the strength Of her confess
sion white man. Punch" Prim. and a
negro woman. Mary Jane" have been
arrested
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
iRRlGATING ARID LANDS.
What an Artesinn Well Can Accom-
pIish in Central Dakota.

pIish in Central Dakota.
The question of the irrigation of the
arid lands Of the West is now the most
important domestic concern before the
American people There are between
75000,000 and 100,0000O0 acres of such
lands which without irrigation are virtu-
ally valueless. but which if watered are
capable of raising an abundance Of crops
of all kinds.
In some sections of the West, notably
in central Dakota, water for irrigating
purposes is procured from artesian wells.
The flow from some of these wells is very
great. At Chamberlain a 600-fOot well
yields 5,760,000 gallons of water daily;
at the Yankton Indian agency there is
IA flow of 1900 gallons minute.
The result of the ceaseless flow from
such wells in a country like Dakota,
where the rainfall seldom exceeds fifteen.
inches yearly. can hardly De appreciated
by one who has never witnessed it, says
a writer in the National Magazine. Dry
hllsides become covered with flags and
water grasses; arid nelds are heavy with
yerdure; trees, shrubbery. rose bushes,
vegetables, grain and flowers grow lux
anu are. OAtCu u4AlVuShSu W AAOnl
weeks after everything around them is
sere and withered.
The cost of such wells is high, ranging
from 1900 to $4,000, and is beyond the
reach Of most farmers. The cost of one
hrst-class battleship, $3500,000, would
sink and equip in the Dakota artesian
belt 600 first-class wells, capable of irri-
eating 100000 acres of arabic land; Civ
ing an increase yield of 100000 Of
bushels of wheat, valued at $3,000OO0
yearly; besides keeping every dried-up
watercourse in perennial flow, increasing
the local precipitation, giving thousands
of farms constant supply of water for
stock and home use, increasing the bird
life and vegetable development and large
ly modifying the rigOrs of the climate at
all seasons. From many of these wells
without in the least diminishing their
fiow-power, light and heat could be sup
piled for great variety Of uses, and in
q single decade after the establishment
of such a system, men would wonder
that it had ever been thought possible
TO exist without such potent agencies OF
good
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
ROBBERS CAUSE FIRE
MANY BUILDINGS BURN AT MA
RlSSA, ILLINOIS.

Safe Blowers Gain $4,000 and Start
Cenflagration that Destroys $780,
600 Worth of Property-Insu
Leader to Surrender 400 Rifles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
RULES BOYCOTT Is LEGAL.
Missouri Supreme Court Decides in
Favor of Labor Unions.

Missouri Supreme Court Decides in
Favor of Labor Unions.
In the Supg,m Court sitting en- banc
Mt jefferson City, Mo-. an opinion was
handed down declaring that courts Of
equity have no power to enjoin labor or
CARNATIONS from enforcing boyeOtts on
corporations. The opinion, rendered by
Judge Sherwood. affirmed the judgment
of DOVER court which had refused the
application Of the Marx x Haas Jeans
Clothing Company Of st. Louis for an in
junction to restrain Anthony Watson and
other officers OF local knights Of Labor
organization and a branch OF the United
Garment Workers of America in that
city from pushing a boycott. The SUI
preme Court holds that if the labor
unions OF the State. are not permitted to
tell the story Of their wrongs or their
supposed wrongs by word of mouth or
with soen and print and TO endeavor 10
get other persons to aid them by all
peaceable means in securing redress of
sHch wrongs, free speech is affected.
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says she is its mother, and wants her
baby back. But the railway officials hold
on to their founding and say they viii
rear it even better than any mother
could.
One of the finest wards in the Wichita
Children's Home is set apart for Miss
Okla ChoctawGulf, as the 6-months-old
founding has been named. She has
special nurse, fine lace dresses, hoods aud
shoes, and. in fact, everything that money
can buy. The Children's Home officers
have been instructed to send the bill to
the general office of the Choctaw route.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
ANpREw D. wHIrE.

at st. Petersburg over forty Yeas ago.
He was president of Cornell University
from 1867 to 1885. and while still the
head of that institution was for two
years minister TO Germany. From 1892
to 1894 he was minister TO Russia. and
in 1897 was appointed ambassador to
Germany He was chairman of the Unit
ed States delegation to The Hague peace
conference.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-03-25
BABY THAT HAS
RAILROAD FOR A PARENT,

The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf
Railway Company has adopted g.
months-old baby girl left on one of is
passenger trains and refuses TO give it up
TO any one laying claim to it, and the
child now has the distinction of being
the only baby that ever had railroad
for parent. A man in Paris. H., claims
that the child was given 10 him by its
mother. A woman has appeared az the
Children's Home in Wichita. Kan. and