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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
TWO THOUSAND MILE RIDE.
Soldier Reaches West Point Thirty
nine Days After Leaving Okla oma.

Soldier Reaches West Point Thirty
nine Days After Leaving Oklahoma.
A young man who mad come 2,00G
miles ON horseback arrived in Newburgh,
Y. Y, the other night. He is William
Davis, member of the Eighth United
States cavalry, and has been travelling
across the country on a test ride. Tho
government is making a number of test
rides. Davis aud eleven other members
of the Eighth cavalry left Oklahoma
thirty-nine days before, bound for West
Point. They had relays of horses every
thirty miles They were allowed to eat
and sleep when they liked, the object
being only to see how quickly they could
reach West Point. OF the twelve Davis
was the first to reach his destination. Da-
Wis is lighter than the others who are
making the trip, and when he started out
he went with a rush. The result was
that he led all the way, and at each
place he had his pick of the horses, so
this helped him. When he started Da-
Wis weighed 1877 pounds, and the other
night his weight was 10S pounds. He is
tired, but happy, and thinks he has brok-
en- the record. The government aims to
test the stamina of man and horse in the
long ride, which is said to be sIgges-
ton of the new chief of staff.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
VII. MAKE THOUSANDS IDLE.
Big Industries of Consolidated Lake
Superior Company Shut Down.


Superior Company Shut Down.
Pending the outcome of the financial
difficulties in which the Consolidated
Lake Superior Company at Sault Ste.
Marie, Mich, is now involved President
Shields has issued orders temporarily
to close down all of the operations of
the company, except the street railway
system on both sides Of the river, the
ferry system and the Tagona Lignt and
Power Company of the Canadian 500.
This step is taken, it is announced, be-
cause the funds of the company are ex-
hausted and Mr. Shields does not want
to incur further liabilities until it IS
known where the money with which to
meet them is coming FROM lnasmuch as
the company's operations on the Ameri-
can side are confined to the street rail-
way and the power house force, the order
will not materially affect the American
500. In the Canadian 500, however, the
effect on business will be very extensive.
The total number of men thrown out of
employment is $500 Train service over
the Algoma Central Railroad, owing to
the cessation of work in the woods, will
be reduced to one train per week. The
Helen and Grace mines at Michipicoten
will be shut down, as will the Gertrude
nickel mine at Sudbury. The general
staff of the company will be reduced
from ninety to fifteen men.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
PLAN NEW ROUTE TO GULF.
Surveyors Work to Establish Canal
from Lake Michigan to Wabash.

Surveyors Work to Establish Canal
from Lake Michigan to Wabash.
Surveys are now being made for the
ship canal from the south shore of Lake
Michigan to the Wabash river, the plan
being to shorten the waterway from
Lake Michigan to the Gulf Of Mexico, as
it would be $50 miles shorter than the
Chicago canal. Five routes are being
considered, one following the st. Joseph
valley to Tippecanoe valley, then to the
junction of the Wabash river. The sec
Ond route is from Michigan City by way
of Trail creek and Laporte to the Tippe-
canoe valley, and the third is from Mich
igan City by way of the Little Calumet,
thence down Crooked creek to the Kan
kakee river. The fourth route is to Wolf
lake from the Grand Calumet, thence to
the Kankakee river, and the fifth is
from the St. Joseph river into the Kan
kakee valley by way of the big Monon
creek. The routes airy from III to 157
miles and the estimated cost is between
$3,000,000 and S4,000,000 The plan is
to induce Congress to undertake the
project.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
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Chicago-Cattle. common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, shipping grades,
$3.50 to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1885,; wheat, No red, nc to 7Sc:
corn, No. 2, 45c to 46c; oats, No 2, 34c
to sec; rye, No. 2, 53c to 54c; hay. tim
othy, $3.50 to $1,000; prairie, 5000 TO
$1,000; butter, choice creamery, 1Sc to
21e; egg., fresh, 16c to 19c; potatoes,
Coo to 65c.
Indianapolis shipping, $3.50 to
$40; hogs, choice light, $500 to $3.50;
sheep, common TO prime, $3.50 to S3.25;
wheat, No. 2, SIC to SIC; corn, No. 2
white, Acc to soc; oats, No. 2 white, 3Sc
TO 4Oc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 70 $685.; hogs,
$3.50 to $6.15; sheep, $500 to $500;
wheat, No. ., SIC to SIC; corn. No. 2,
Acc TO 47c; oats, No, ., 36c TO 3Sc; rye,
No. 2, 56c to 57c.
incinnati-Cattle, SIPS to $500;
hogs. $500 to $500; sheep, $500 10
So. 10; wheat, No. .. SEC to SIC: corn,
No. 2 mixed, SIC to 5Gc; oats, No. 2
mixed, &c to 3Sc, rye, No. 2, &c to 63c.
Detroit-Cattle, $3.50 TO $500; hogs,
$500 to 5000; sheep, $3.50 to 1875;
wheat No. Q, Sic to SIC; corn, No. 3
yellow, SIC to 53c: oats. No. 3 white,
SIC to 39c; rye, No. ., SIC to 5Sc.
Milwaukee-W Wheat, No. 2 northern,
g4c TO S5c; corn, No. 3, SOC to sic; oats.
No. 2 white, 3Sc to 39c; rye. No. 1, 55c
to 5Sc; barley, No. .. 64c to Csc; pork,
mess, 1920.
Buffalo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$3.50 to $5.55; hogs. fair TO prime. $500
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.25 to
S4O0; lambs, common to choice, $500 TO
$685..
Toledo-Wheat. No. = mixed. Sic to
SIC; corn, No. mixed, sic 10 SIC; oats,
No. 2 mixed, &c 10 38c; rye. No. z, DC
to SEC; clover seed, prime, $G.CO.
New York--Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 TO 1910; sheep, $500 to
81. So; wheat No red, Sic to SIC; corn,
No. 2. SOC 70 56c oats, No. 2 white,
41c 70 43c: butter, creamery, 1Sc to dc;
.e,o,s vvas+ern f9c to DE.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
EX-SENATOR Is DEAD.
CHARLES 3. FARWELL OF I'LL.
NOIS PASSES AWAY.
Had Been Prominent in Chicago Polit-
cal and Business Affairs for Half a
Century-Shaw Issues Orders to Re-
sume Refunding of Bonds.

Former United States Senator Charles
Is. Earwell died at his home in Lake
Forest, Ill. Death was due to congestion
of the lungs aud heart failure. He was
conscious almost until the end. Mr. Far
well had been ill for months with rheu-
Inatism, but his recovery was expected
until recently. Mr.. Farwell was born
near Painted Post, Steuben County, n.
Y, on July !, 1923. his father being a
farmer in moderate circumstances. BY
the time he was 10 years of age young
Farwell could do any mans work in the
fields. In 1898 the family moved to Ogle
County, ILL.,, the son receiving the Ordi-
nary country schooling and short course
at the Elmira Academy, where he Sc
cured a knowledge of surveying. In 1874
young Farwell went TO Chicago with 4
$40 bill representing his sole capital. 1t
was not until three months later, after Il
weary search, that he found work. He
was then taken into the Office of County
Clerk George Davis at a salary of IS 4
month and board. Two years later he
graduated to a real estate Office at $500
a year, and then later secured the post of
paying teller in the banking house of
George Smith & Co. He tried for the
County Clerkship, having mixed in poll
tics, suffered one defeat, and then was
elected in 1858 and held the post for
eight years. During the war he devoted
himself to business, purchasing in 1864
an interest in the present firm of ]. V.
Farwell q Co. In 1866 Gov. Oglesby
made him member of the State Board
Vt Equalization. He was elected to the
craftsmanship of the County Board in
1867. In 1870 he was elected to Con-
gress over Long John Wentworth by
majority of 5000. being reelected in
1872 and again in 1874 Again he was
sent to the House in 1880. Seven years
later, in 1887, he was elected to the Unit
ed States Senate, retiring in 1891. A
widow, three daughters and one son sur
v-ir,a din,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29

schooner George f. Edmunds, command
ed by Captain Willard G.. Poole, the
owner, struck on the eastern side of
Pemaquid Point and was smashed to
pieces. Fourteen of the crew of sixteen
men persisted in the breakers. The
schooner Sadie and Lillian, Captain Har-
dy, of Prospect, bound from Prospect
Bay to Boston, struck ON the western
side of Pemaquid Point and her bottom
was knocked out on the rocks. Captain
Hardy was drowned, but his crew of two
men were rescued.
One of the most thrilling experiences
was that of the excursion and freight
steamer s. f. Spring, which was driven
ashore near the country mansion of e. G.
Benedict at Greenwich, Conn. Captain
Mcdonald, his crew Of seven men and
eleven passengers were rescued, largely
through the aid of the Benedict servants.
While a freight train on the Long ISL
and Railroad was passing between Min
cola and Hyde Park the roof of a box
car was carried away by the gale, with
Walter Lewis and George b. Snyder,
brakemen, clinging to it. The roof was
carried almost a hundred feet from the
MuSIC II COlAdpStO ny Il
tree. Both men were fatally injured.
At Jamaica Bay. Long Island, scores
of yachts were wrecked. Most of them
were torn from their anchorage and
pounded to pieces on shore, but many
were caught while sailing in the bay.
The entire fee of the Jamaica Bay
Yacht Club, consisting Of more than thir-
ty boats, was destroyed.
The beaches at New Rochelle, on Long
Island, and City Island are strewn with
wreckage from yachts, and it Is estimat-
ed that not less than 100000 damage
was done to these vessels alone.
The cup defender Reliance is reported
to have been damaged through being
rammed by a piledriver which broke
from its moorings and drifted on the Re
liance's stern.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
WILL CARRY 1T INTO COURT.
Troubles Between Chicago Packers
and Unions Reach a Climax.

The United States courts may be
asked to take hand in the trouble ex-
isting between the big Chicago packing
companies and the union of their en-
pboyes, owing to alleged discrimination
against independent retail butchers in
different sections of the country, accord
ing to a recent statement made by Mi
chael Donnelly, general organizer for the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher
worklnen of America.
The promised legal contest will center
III Chicago, which is the headquarters of
the packers as well as the unions in
Yolved.
Developments impending are the out
growth of strikes Of retail market butch
ers called last spring in Rochester, n.
Y, and San Francisco, to enforce de-
mands for increased wages and an adj
justment of working conditions. The
strikes were followed by lockouts declar-
60 by the Retail Butchers Protective
Association, and it is alleged that con-
spiracy was entered into between the big
packing companies and the Retail Butch
ers' Association to prevent the sale Of
meats and provisions to non members Of
the association.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
Brief News Items.

A report that the members Of the crew
of the battleship Kearsarge are on the
verge Of mutiny is officially denied
Mrs. Permelia Curtis. grandmother of
Congressman Charles Curtis, died at her
home in Topeka. Kan. She was 96 years
old
f. NJ. Drummond. wealthy and e.
spected fame of Daviess County, Mo.
was killed by young horse that be was
breaking.
As the result of a quarrel, Horace
Plaisted. a married man, Of Enterprise
Kan, hit Clark Sickles with an iron bar
death resulting. Plsisted is in the eoun-
ty jail.
GOV. Bailey Of Kansas has offered a
reward Of 500 each for the arrest and
conviction of the parties who tried to
wreck a Missouri Pacific train at Near
man Aug. %.
Special Master Brock, in the suit Of
the Topeka Gas Company to restrain the
city from enforcing its dollar gas Ordi-
nance, has decided on all essential points
in favor OF the company.
A telegram from Tours, France. says
Richard NicOlini. the stepson Of Madame
Patti. while shooting in company with
his younge5s son, accidentally shot the
latter, lad Of "A years.
4 good fow of gas was found AZ
Hume, No. mt depth of 1000 feet II
is estimated that there il sufficient gas
70 light the city.
Charles Strobe has busted Jacob Sipp
as chief Of police at Hamilton, Ohio, al
ter a month of litigation, and has taken
charge of the Office.
The Southern Pacific Railway has
compromised the damage suit brought By
prominent Mexicans injured in a wreck
BIZ the payment Of $4,000.
In dificulty near Burneyyilie, /. T.,
Patrick Coocly, an inter-married cita-
zen. was shot and killed By Oliver
Haines. VINO surrendered. Self-desenss
b alleged.
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1t is a fact, however, that the secret
service officers feared that Benque's dis
ordered mind might seek his revenge at
Oyster Bay rather than at Washington,
as experience has taught that the cranks
with grievances like that of Benque al
most invariably get after the President
before the matter is settled by commit
ment to q madhouse.
A more recent incident was the arrest
of the man John Miller at Syracuse. who,
it was alleged, had made threats that he
would kill the President on the occasion
of Mr.. Roosevelt's visit to that city on
Labor Day, when the President reviewed
the parade of the Letter Carriers Also
citation and formally opened the New
York State fair. Miller denied that he
had ever used threatening language to
wards the President, and said that the
woman who had given the information to
the police had manufactured lie out of
the whole cloth. This case was entirely
In the hands of the local police. and the
federal secret service had nothing to dc
with 1t. 1t was, however, but an in
stance of the many such cases which fol
low the President wherever he goes. On
his trip to Syracuse he was guarded with
scrupulous care. Probably no President
in time of peace was ever hedged about
as Mr.. Roosevelt was on that trip. The
recent incidents had caused redoubling
of precautions, for it is well known that
an unsuccessful attempt of the We'll
brenner kind is calculated TO inhame 9th
er unbalanced minds TO jump into no
toriety by making a real or pretended at.
tack on the President.
1t is generally conceded by those who
have studied the question that there is
only one effective way of dealing with
these cranks. While they are undoubt
edly unbalanced. they are as a rule roi
so much so as to be irresponsible
Czolgosz of unblessed memory was good
tvpe. There was no doubt that he was
not altogether sane. But he was compe
tent to know tie difference between right
and wrong. Weilbrenner may have beea
A little more unbalanced. but had be sue
ceeded in inflicting bodily injury on the
President. or even in making an uRsuc
cessful assault. the Law would have re
garied him as responsible. As 1t is, be
has been sent to an asylum for violen'
lunatics.
II Is generally believed that stringent
federal laws are needed TO insure tbs
Increased safety of the President At ths
.ast session the Senate passed such {
measure, but It was permitted TO die Il
the House. This may be revived and
amended or an entirely new bin may b
introduced. The radical departure which
this viii mark from the early simplicity
OF the republic Is made necessary by the
changed conditions, the vastness of ths
poDuiation. the new and widely iiffer
ent elements Of our people and the sad
lessons Of experience.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
TRUST SHIPS TIED UP.
Mates Go Out and the United States
Steel Company Decides to Fight.

Mates Go Out and the United States
Steel Company Decides to Fight.
Many Of the lake vessels belonging to
the United States Steel Corporation are
tied up as the result of a strike of union
seamen. The trouble arises over the en-
ployment of Captain Frank Rae, who is
not member of the Masters Associa-
ton. AS fast as the trust boats reached
their docks on Lake Erie, the mates quit
work. Seven of the vessels, the Male
toa, Rensselaer,, S. F. d. Morse, Clar-
ence A. Black, John Fritz, Douglas
Houghton, and barge III, went into the
South Chicago harbor and are now with
out second officers. In the hope of de-
feating the strike, the company has dis
charged the crews of many of the steam
ers and ordered the boats to be tied up.
The trust" fleet consists of III vessels
engaged in carrying iron ore from Lake
Superior and Lake Michigan shipping
points to smelters on Lake Erie and in
Chicago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
Dun's Review Of Chi
cago Trade, issued by r.
c.. Dun & Co. the mercan-
CHICAGO.

tile agency, says;
Aside from the temporary disQuiet
engendered by pessimistic views of the
dangerous position of the corn crop from
frost, trade activity maintains a favora-
BILE aspect. The industrial situation is
less affected by labor troubles and man
ufacturers are enabled 20 overtake de-
layed work, though many yet require
more time to reduce the number Of old
contracts on hand. Necessary fuel and
raw materials are more readily obtained
than at this time last year, and the ca
pacity of plants is fully tested in various
important lines of production. Deliveries
are more reasonably prompt, but the rail
roads are not yet clear of the probability
of congestion The traffic in merclran-
disc and heavy materials maintains enOr-
nous pro portions, rail earnings show
mere gain, and there is unusual passen-
ger carrying to the Pacific and new set
Elements throughout the West,
"The current demand for food stuffs
shows more volume. Bread stuffs have
not advanced permanently, as might have
| been expected in view of widespread
alarm as to safety of crops Values
were forced up, but failed to hold at
the top, owing to enormous sales of lead
ing operators, except oats, which appear
10 be under manipulation. Prices closed
lower than a week ago, in corn ~ cent
and wheat y cent. Oats were advanced
! 3 cents. Flour met with better demand
and shipments on foreign account were
increased.
Live stock receipts, 343,057 head. are
/ SO per cent over a year ago. One days
receipts of cattle reached Al ,903 head, the
| largest number recorded in this market.
Buying was spirited and prices advanc-
ed 10 cents per hundred weight for
/ choice beeves. Hogs were in good de-
mand at the highest quotation in four
weeks The sheep pens were we'll equip
| ped at slightly advanced values. Sales
of provisions exhibit increase. demand
being we'll distributed in domestic and
foreign needs Prices of all hog pro
ducts are fairly steady, with ribs 30 cents
dearer for the week Receipts increase
in dressed beef slightly, seeds per cent,
wheat 8, butter and hogs 10, lard 10,
-four 81, cattle 50, hides A. barley 40.
sheep 50, wool 20 and corn 295 De-
| creases are cheese g per cent, oats 81,
! broom corn 60 and rye 76.
Bank exchanges. $l71,365,758, repre-
sent the heaviest business in over two
months, and are per cent more than for
corresponding week a year ago. New
buildings, $1S0,409, decreased 30 per
cent, and real estate sales, 81, 15S,545, de-
clined 6 per cent"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
COAL CONSUMERS TO SUFFER.
Missouri Miners Get Big Wage In
creaae and EueI Prices IumD

Missouri Miners Get Big Wage In
crease and Fuel Prices Jump.
The conference between coal miners
and operators in that district, which has
been in session in Kansas City eleven
weeks, has ended. The great result of
the conference has been the raising of
the wages and a consequent rise in the
cost of mining coal, which will result in
yet greater rise of the price of coal to
consumers. All the operators at the con-
ference agree that the price of coal
must go up. The miners have forced the
operators to pay not only an increase in
wages per ton for actual mining, but
have been granted pay for many things
which heretofore they did without extra
pay. The miners are jubilant over the
victory
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
Following is the standing of the clubs
Denxer Chnrter Defeated.

The new charter for the city and coun-
~ of Denver, Colo, authorized by the
recent constitutional amendment was de-
feated at the polls by majority of more
than 5000. The charter contained the
widest home rule provisions and was
framed recently by charter convention
dominated by the reform element. 1t is
charged that there was a great deal of
fraudulent registration.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
REFUND1NG is RESUMED.
Secretary Shaw Issues Order to Begin
Operatious Again.


The refunding of government bonds
will be resumed at once, according to an
official statement made by Secretary
Shaw. This step is taken because Of
the scarcity of per cent bonds, both
for circulation and as security for gov
eminent deposits. The Secretary fixes
$20,000000 as the limit of the proposed
refunding at this time. Otherwise the
conditions are the same as those during
the recent refunding operations. Of the
totaI issue of $517,000,000 of . per cent
bonds the Treasurer already holds for
circulation and for deposit $3.50, 100000.
Secretary Shaw also authorizes the state
ment that he will redeem the 5 per cent
bonds maturing Feb. 1. 1904, paying in
terest to maturity. There are $4,000
900 of these bonds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1903-09-29
BASE BALL SCORES.

Standing Of the Clubs in Big Leagus
Games
The clubs in the National League are
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near the President as if he were q Euro
pean sovereign. Indeed. there are some
of the Kings of the effete monarchies of
the Old World who are not hedged about
by anything like the divinity and six
shooters that keep ill-wiiled and unbal-
anced persons away from the head SER
want of the people of this democratic re-
public. Had it not been for the vigilance
of the secret service officers who are on
constant guard at the Presidents home
the intention of Weilbrenner, the muir
derous lunatic who was arrested at Oy-
ster Bay not long ago, might have been
put into serious execution. This Incl
dent startled the officers who have the
duty of guarding the President into a
realization of the danger in which every
man who reaches the exalted office
stands. Whatever his personal or polit-
zeal popularity, the very fact that he is
President attracts the attention of the
diseased intellects which seek to redress
fancied wrongs CT gain notoriety by the
killing of persons in high places. The
public has not the least idea of the great
number of dangerous cranks who are
turned aside by the Presidents body
guard of secret service men. AS far as
possible these incidents are withheld
from the newspapers. The cranks are
not arrested unless they have committed
some overt act which shows them to be
dangerous persons. Many are handed
over to the police merely as disorderIy
persons, and they find their way into the
insane wards of the warehouses.
But recent events have convinced the
federal officers whose duty it is to guard
the President that more stringent meas
ures are needed. What is required is a
general law which will follow the Presi-
dent wherever he goes. The Weilbrenner
incident was really more serious than it
was made to appear in the reports given
out. The officials realize that the Presi-
dent had narrow escape from q dan
gerouS lunatic. Weilbrenner had repeat
edly tried to pass the guard about the
Presidents home, and when in the scuffi e
his revolver was disclosed and he was
placed under arrest he had penetrated
to 100 feet of where the President was
standing on his porch with the light from
the open door streaming upon the Chief
Executive and making him good tar
get. Following closely upon this incl
dent came the arrest in New York of
Francis Nj. Benque for sending threaten
ing letters to Secretary Hay. Benque
was a photographer, who was expelled
from Germany He claims $4,000 dam
ages from the German government. and
because of the failure of the State De
partment at Washington to collect the
amount, he made threats of bodily vio-
lence in 4 letter to the Secretary of State.