Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-28

ing school in WauSau for the past year,
returned to his home in Arbor Vitae a
4 w days after the close of school.
S lortly after reaching home he went
IIshing in the lake at that place and was
r,warded by 2S pound muskallOnge.
Hugh had a picture taken, full size, with
the muskallonge hanging by the side of
him, the head of the fish reached above
his shoulders and the tail touching the
ground. The PILOT office received one
of the pictures, and it has been viewed
bv great many who have dropped in.
This is a proof that there are still few
large fish in the lakes of Northern Wis
consin.
A man and woman, styling themselves
Prof. Kirby May and wife, ''the worlds
most renowned scientific palmists and
clairvoyants, y occult wonders of the
twentieth century, whose phenomenal
psychic powers stamp them the greatest
of their kind on earth, blew into town
early last week, remained a few days
and blew out again. Their stay here
was not a pleasant one. They rented
rooms on Fourth street of widow
woman, but after they had occupied
the rooms for a short time the widow
politely invited them to move ont
Then Chief Malone got on their trail
and informed them that Wausau has an
abundance of deciples of Mahatma, and
that they had better look for greener
fields. They took the hint and packed
up and went to Merrill.
JAS Clark and Edward Graves, the
two men arrested charged with robbing
the store of Fred Prehn and saloon of
Otto kutZ at Marathon City on the
Hnifrhf of Qth 10
game Prior to the day set for their
examination Clark is said to have
declared that it was his desire to waive
examination and plead guilty, which
was practically an admission that he is
guilty. Later he expressed himself as
desirous of standing trial in circuit
court Graves, when being escorted
from the Jail to Justice Jones Office
said he wanted an immediate examina-
ton, but when he got inside the Office
and sized up the crowd of witnesses,
nearly all recognizing him as one of the
men seen in the village prior to the
robbery, he waived examination.
The annual summer encampment of
the Wisconsin National gu ard will be
held during the month Of July, the
Second regiment goiag first, July 8 to
10; he First regiment and Troop A. of
the First battery, july Is to %, and the
Third regiment and Tenth Separate
battalion, July % to 30. Co G. will
leave this city in "a special car Saturday
morning, July 23d. The rules for tar
get practice have this year been
changed. A certain number of shots are
allowed each man at fixed distance fir
ing, starting from 300 yards up. If he
fails to qualify on one target his work
ends there, and he stands no show of
getting on the rifle team unless he
makes a required score on each target
The boys expect number of Wausau
visitors in camp this year. A cook will
be selected later and Ed. Freeman, the
cripple, will be the official bootblack.
If you are going to build or make any
change in your residence, have your
heating plant put in right and your gas
work and plumbing done MP in mod
ern way. We do all Kinds of repairing
in these lines. A b. Wheeler IL Son.
GIG Third Street. If.
The authorities have decided not to
allow the throwing of confetti at any
time during the stay of the Mundy
Carnival CO. 1t has been customary
~ towns where this class of organiZa-
JiOuS SilOW W ubNC OuO III vi OOlStCA
Ous merriment, when everyone in
dulges in the silly amusement of throw
ing confetti. The amusement, when
confined strictly to the hurting of the
powder-like colored paper, is harmless,
but there is always an element, which,.
if given permission to cut off finger,
will take the hand This element
always oversteps the bounds of de-
cency and often resorts to the throwing
of flour, lamp black and like substances
that ruin clothes. At Stevens Point
last year, women, who happened to be
on the streets without escorts on the
evening when these Hallowe'en-lik
acts were permitted were accidentally"
hugged by strangers.
A farmer who drove to town one day
last week told of a frightful accident at
a barn raising the day before near
Stratford in which four men lost their
lives. Fortunately it proved to Se a
false report in spite of the minor details
that went with it. The man who told of
it here, was informed by another, who
in turn got if from somebody else, and
so on. Briefly stated the alleged occur
renee was about as follows The farm
er's wife killed several chickens the day
before for the men expected to assist IN
raising the barn The young children
started to initiate their mother by lay
ing the baby's head on block and
chopping its head off. The men saw
what the youngsters were about at a
critical moment when the strength of
the crew was needed to keep the struc-
ture from falling. Horror stricken, sew
eral ran to save the child and in the
crash that followed the four men were
killed. What the story lacked in truth
itmore than made up in sensationalism.
l-Marshfield News.