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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05

derwrittea for 10000, and in addi-
ton he takes out a temporary policy
for CISCO. Josef Hofmann is more
explicit. Each finger on both his
hands is insured for 800. Kubelik
takes elaborate precautions against
anything that might prevent his per-
formances. His left hand is Insured
for $4,000 for each separate concert
and fer e10,000 against total disable
ment.
When shall we nave insurance
against badness and the hurdy -gurdy?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05
Insurina Finaers-Hsir Next.

Not long age a paper mOpolitan was
pleased 10 observe the value OF brains
as that value was exemplifed in the
celebrated case Of Consul Consul
was a performing simian, whose abli
ties were such that his owners had
him insured TO the extent of e250 900
The originator Of the idea was Nine
Patti who pays e25 at every per
Torrance for $4,000 worth Of insur
ance on her voice. This idea has
spread. Paderwski's hands are IN
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05
Disapproves Pensions ior Parents.

A protest against Raymond Rob
bins proposal to pension aged pa.
rents who have impoverished them
selves by educating their children is
made by Emily Freiberger, former
teacher in the Chicago public schools
IF the young people who were IN
der my care would allow the state TO
pension their parents because the
children's education was a drain upon
the family purse" she says in an open
letter 10 The Tribune, well then
feel that it Is tine either that the
state furnishes the books or makes
and enforces a law compelling these
educated (?D useful % members OF
society to contribute. financially al
least. to the welfare and happiness Of
their parents He is a poor teacher
whose pupils later in life do not un
derstand these equations:
Learning plus flial duties equals
useful members of society.
Learning minus flial duties
equals useless members of society
q" File upon such talk, The state mas
. right to expect that after giving g
free education the useful. Intelligent
members Of society viii paw and b.
the parents pension FOR life. "-Cnlca
go Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05
A Final Slap.

You know you promised TO release
me- said her quondam lover; Il come
to you now for the fulfilment Of that
promise. ! wish to marry Miss
Wrywell"
Il will release .cu If you will prom.
Use me something" she said
Name it,"
Il have always heard her teeth were
false. When you find out, let me
know If it's true"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05
He Wished He Could Do II.

merchant who had a store in
small country town fell in with
comic actor on a train, and said to
him: Il do not see how it is that you
are able to think of such funny things
to say on the stage and all of a sud
den, too. / just wish I could do it.
It would be invaluable to me in my
business. Success.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05

for a curling iron, or a chatting dish
let alone for lighting. To put It brief
ly, the use of electricity for lighting
in New York state alone has increased
over 1900 per cent. in ten years, ana
the use Of electricity for power, also
from central stations, has increased in
the decade nearly 1900 per cent. And
yet electricians are inclined to think
they have only just started in
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05

Miss Daisy Letter and Mrs. L. q.
Letter, who have been abroad for
several months, have arrived at New
several days, when they will proceed
to Washington. During Miss Letters
absence she has been reported en-
gagged to various princes, counts and
lords. but each report. in turn. has
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05

Sole Survivor of Mine Disaster.
Additional evidence showing laxity
in enforcing the mining laws in the
Inflated Harwick shaft was given &c
the coroner's jury by Adolph Gunia
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-05

been denied. While the guest of her
sister, Lady CurZon, she received
many social attentions, and her early
marriage into some family of English
nobility would cause no surprise,
MIS-. Letter and her daughter expect
to remain in this country for several
months, but may cross the water late
in the summer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07

realized that their efforts were useless
and that their distinguished patient could
never rally. The Senator lay as if sleep
ing peacefully, with no sign of suffer
ing. The breathing became fainter and
fainter and at 2:4S DIR. Litchtield an
nounced to those about the bedside that
all was over.
The immediate cause of his death was
exhaustion due to inability to assimilate
nourisbment. IN chronic gastritis and in
flammation of the stomach lie the foun-
dations of the trouble. Senator Quay's
illness began about a year ago. 1t was
a recurrence of the trouble tlrat beset
him during the latter part of 1900 and
the early days of January. 1901, when
he was undergoing the strain of q des-
perate fight for reelection TO the Senate.
The death of Senator Quay deprives
the Republican party of one of its most
skillful political managers. AS chair
man of the national committee in 1888
he directed the campaign that put Gen.
Harrison in the White House. Senator
Quay's greatest triumph was his re cleo
ton to the Senate in 1901 after the pre-
ceding session of the PENNSYLVANIA Leg
islature, because of the long deadlock
had adjourned without electing a Sena-
tor. Charges of conspiracy to defraud the
State were pending against Quay, but he
was finally acquitted and sent back to
the United States Senate.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
THE POOR MANS CHANCE.
Uncle Sam to Give Away 100000
Acres of Land in Nebraska.

Acres Oh LGuu All ANCDIdSAds
Any head of a family in the United
States may have cattle ranch in Ne
braska one mile square by simply ask
ing for it. The offer is made by the
government and there are no conditions
imposed that the poorest cannot comply
with. AS there are nearly 100000 OF
acres from which selections may be made
anyone desiring to become possessor of
$40 acres of fine grazing lands will have
no trouble finding a tract suitable to his
taste.
The lands in question have just been
opened by the Kinkaid bill, which passed
Congress and was signed on the last day
of the session. The law becomes opera
tive June e. 1904. On and after that
date these 9,0000 00-to be exact, SSH
757-acres, many millions of which COM
prise the finest grazing lands in the
world, will be open to the public for
entry IS homesteads. AS an example
or the quality of some of this land, there
are in Rock County 220,302 acres of
public lands, and yet one railroad sta
ton in that county ships more hay to
market now than any other railroad
point N the whole world.
he ltuuS dHeCleu NY the AAihhdlu
bill have been open for homestead entry
i'll lots of 100 acres each for many
years, but not being suitable for agri-
cultural purposes and $50 acres not be-
ing large enough on which to raise cat
tie, the lands have never been taken up
A square mile of this land, however, will
furnish pasturage and feed for 100 head
of cattle throughout the entire year.
Immense tracts of this land have been
fenced in by the cattle barons of Ne
braska and it was to have these Illegal
~ constructed fences removed that the
government last year sent Col. Mosby.
the eX-Confederate cavalry leader and
raider, into the State to enforce the law
regarding these fences. 1t is said that
the Richards ranch with headquarters
at Ellsworth, Neb.. had under such fenc-
ing nearly 100000 acres of government
land. There were dozens of other great
ranches which also included hundreds
of thousands of government land within
their fances.
But the Kinkaid bill sounds the death
kneIl of the cattle kings, whose herds
of thousands roamed the open range,
more effectually than any fence removal
notice which the President might pro-
mulgste. With settlers from all parts
of the United States focking in and
taking up homesteads of $40 acres each,
the public domain in this State is a
thing of only a few months more. Then.
without necessary lands upon which to
Craze their herds, the cattle barons must
go out of business.
This is the last large distribution of
good land which the government will
ever make And it is only the really
poor man who can homestead this land.
ANY man owning more than 160 acres of
any kind of land anywhere is barred
from participating in the Nebraska land
distribution.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
FLOODS IN WYOMING.
RANGE RIDERS DROWN IN GREEN
RIVER.

Valley of Horse Creek Also Devastated
and Damage to Ranch Property Is
Great-Jury Must Decit.e on Risk of
Lighting Fire with Kerosene.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07

Word has reached Cheyenne, Wyo.,
of terrific food which swept down the
valley of Horse creek, thirty miles north
of Cheyenne. The flood followed a ire
nlendous fall of rain about the headwat-
ers of the creek and within short time
the creek was transformed into a tor
rent from 200 yards to half a mile wide.
1t is said that the damage to ranch
property will be immense. Floods in
the Green river and tributaries have
cost at least two lives and great DAM
age to property. A messenger has ar
rived at Green River, WyO.. with news
from the inundated district. 1t is his
opinion that the death list may be in
creased greatly when complete reports
come in. The known dead are Frank
Woodruff and William Eubanks, range
riders. Woodruff was foreman of the
Circle cattle outfit. He was drowned
while fording Silver creek, a tributary
of Green river. His horse was swept
from it's feet and rolled over on him,
fracturing his skull. Eubanks was
drowned in Green river while running a
bunch Of horses through the stream near
Burns pOstOffice. All streams ar: out of
their banks and the lowlands are food
ed. The Green river, Big Piney, East
Fork, New Fork, Hams Fork, Silver
creek and South Fork are exceptionally
high
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Brief News Items.

Creditors of f. J. Arnold & Co.. the
failed st. Louis turf investment coin
pany, were notified that dividend Of =
per cent would be paid on all approved
claims.
Fishermen found a bottle in the Pa
tapsco river at Ferry Bar, on the out
skirts of Baltimore, which contained q
note reading: Inform my wife have
committed suicide. 5. s. Gloyd, Gath
ersburg. Md"
Libels have been filed in the admiral
" division of the United States District
Court at Philadelphia against the Brit
ish steamship Craigneuk by American
salvage companies for saving $165.OOO
worth of cargo.
William Browne, better known az
Doe swallowed a large quantity OF
carbolic acid in Galena, Kan He step
ped into friends home and seeing the
battle. which was labeled whisky, took
a large swallow Of its contents
The national convention of the Alpha
xi Delta Sorority at Alliance, Ohio,
elected Mrs. Ella b. Leib IF Lombard
College as grand president
Frederick w Mckee. one Of the lead
ers Of the Pittsburg bar. has brought
suit against the board of trustees Of the
New York Chautauqua, alleging iasol-
vency. Encouragement and the mainte-
nance of despotism.
A six-hour fight during snowstcrm
two miles below Karo Pass. Tibet. cost
the British forces Captain Bethune and
three men killed and twenty-one wound
ed, but gained the position, which had
been defended by 100 Tibetans. who
lost go men,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
5000, 600 FIRE.
Recurrence of the Terrible Hoboken
Holocaust Narrowly Averted.

Recurrence of the Terrible Hoboken
Holocaust Narrowly Averted,
A duplicate of the famous Hoboken
pier fire, in which scores of lives were
lost and many valuable vessels We're de-
stroyed. struck terror to the water front
residents of New York Sunday, when
seven freight and coal piers of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road in Jersey City were destroyed, en-
failing a loss of $5.000,000 1t seemed
for a time as if the flames would get
beyond control and sweep from dock to
deck. 1t was only by the most superhu-
man work of the hremen and the fire
boats that a terrible holocaust was avert
ed
Many thought that the valuable ship
ping section Of Jersey City was doomed,
and the harbor presented an animated
scene as tugs hurried to draw the big
vessels into midstream. The screech of
myriads of whistles made the air reso-
nant with calliopean discord.
The fire started about ) o'clock in
the afternoon in pier u, on which a lot
of barrels of oil was stored. The flames
spread rapidly. Pier II was 800 feet
long and was soon ablaze its entire
length, and the iremen who were trying
to fight the fire from the shore, were
able to accomplish but little. The flames
swept across to pier II and beyond,
being finally checked at pier >, which is
a new coal trestle, steel framed and
ironclad. Here the fremen and firebodts
made a desperate stand and stayed the
advance of the fire until the burning
piers crumbled and fell into the water,
Although there was but little wind,
sparks fell all along the water front for
the better part of mile, endangeling
the Lackawanna depot and even tue
Hamburg-American and Bremen line
piers, where the iremen were kept busy
playing streams of water upon the build
ings and over the ships at their docks.
The building of the Hoboken Coke
Company, FIVE blocks from the main
fire, was set ablaze by burning brands,
but the fremen responded quickly and
the building was only slightly damaged.
A number Of canalboats and several
tugs were burned. the loss of small boats
being yariously estimated at from thirty
to 200.
The number of freight cars burned is
not known. but on this class of rolling
stock and on coal cars the loss will be
heavy.
During the fire the Lackawanna moved
its passenger coaches from its yards out
to the Meadows, and one train OF a
dozen box cars were hauled out of
burning pier and saved.
Piers II and u were full Of general
merchandise, piers Z, s, 0 and 10 we're
used for coal, and pier was a grain
loading pier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
A CRUSADE AGAINST DIRT.
Chicago Women Teaching the City an
Important Duty.

The street cleaning campaign now be-
ing fought by the citizens of Chicago
is without parallel in the history of cru
sades by jewellers in American cities.
Plain. commercial principles have been
applied. Chicago has declared she will
be clean and that declaration is being
fulfilled. Self-impFovement societies are
doing the work the municipality neglect
ed.
1t may astound the country TO learn
that it has been the rpie in Chicago TO
clean the streets onlv cnce in twelve
mouths. The city aporoTriates annu-
ally S1,1OOO00 for the care of streets
and that includes garbage removal. snow
removal and maintenance of dumps. The
Chicago Woman's Club determined that
the filth must go.
They began the crusade and others
Joined it, so that to-day a joint commit
fee cares for a district nine and half
niles long and one mile wide More
than 100 miles of streets are being
cleaned. Uniformed employees patrol
the pavements and even vacant lots are
beiDr cared for. These are graded and
seeded. Trees receive attention, weeds
are attacked wherever they show thcm-
selves. and unsightly bill boards are torn
down. 1t is expected that the outgrowah
of this movement will be the establish
ment Of an adequate street cleaning de
partment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
TRAGEDY IN OHIO PRISON.
| Convict Shoots Two Guards, Then Dies
by His Own Hand.

Convict Shoots Two Guards, Then Dies
by His Own Hand.
Frank Greene, a bank roboer in the
penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, shot two
guards and then put bullet into his
own brain, dying instantly. Guard Hen
ry Gearhart of lronton was wounded
twice in the breast. Prison physicians
say he cannot live. Guard Albert Hub
Ter of Trumbull County was shot through
the arm. Greene was working in the
shoe shop. Without warning he started
to fire at Guard Gearhart. The two
men were three feet apart. He fired
twice at Gearhart and both bullets took
effect. Guard Huber rushed to the aid
or Gearhart and was wounded. Greene
used the last shot in the weapon upon
himself. Warden Hershey says he does
rot know what caused Greene to run
amuck. The prisoner was i'll with typhoid
fever several weeks ago, and it Is sur
missed that he may have suffered tempo
rary mental alteration. Greene was re-
ceived June IL, 1901, to serve ten years
for burglary. He was sent up with a
gang of six men convicted of blowing
the Somerset bank. The gang was a
desperate one. Greene had not given
the prison officials much trouble, al
though he had been reported twice by
Guard Gearhart for trivial offenses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
Al Aroand the Glol,e.

An unknown woman jumped into the
river at Niagara Falls and was swept
over the cataract She left a note say
ing: THE wages Of sin is DEATH"
The American schooner Irene has been
captured by the Cuban revenue cutter
Arana while illegally fishing for sponges
close to the north coast Of Pinar del Rio.
In a wreck on the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburg Railroad. between Ernest
and Creekside, Pa, Engineer James s.
Ssyres was killed and his fireman badly
scalded.
Mrs. r. l.. Taylor was granted di-
vorce from former Gov. Robert L. Tax
Tor of Tennessee in chancery court in
Knoxville, after the dispositions Of few
witnesses had been read.
The possibility of Chinese laborers be
ing used in the work of completing the
Panama canal is unfavorably commented
upon In the newspapers in Panama. A
l1w prohibiting Chinese immigration is
in effect.
S. Mahuela. clerk Of the Hawaiian
House Of Representatives, has been
found guilty by jury Of the federal
court Of destroying certain vouchers ior
expenses of the House incurred during
the last regular session.
Brig. Gen. Peter T. Swaine, Z. ;. A,
retired. aged "A. is dead at his home at
Los Nietos, near Los Angeles. Cal. lie
was a graduate Of West Point and serv-
Cd through the Civil War.
Allen Mooney, abe condemned muir
derer who shot and killed two women
at Saranac Lake, n. Y, on Nov. 4, 1902,
was put to death in the electric chair at
Clifton prison. DaDnemora.
His money dissipated in speculation,
Samuel SiIverblatt. a member Of a
wealthy family in Warsaw, Russia. who.
with his brother. Jacob. came TO this
country three months ago. ended his life
By jumping from a fourth-story window
Of New York City lodging house.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
{sAl$S:.>f } g
the News ~
~~~~~~~~~

Adjt Gen. Bell of Colorado rang off
The noise of hammers mailing cam
paign lies is simply deafening.
The churches are right. The country
has been considerably overdivorced.
Russia would crush out Japan by its
superior numbers if it could only send
re-enforcements by wireless.
If Col. Younghusband can be delayed
until Tibet can send for a japanese
general things may take change.
Now you know that you have been
saving up money for several years for
the berefit OF the st. Louis landlord
Chicago says she hopes st. Louis viii
not be disappointed, but Chicago lets it
be known that she fears the worst.
One trouble with the great fast bat
tleships is THAI they make too good time
when travelling in a vertical direction.
An occasional shower to punctuate the
good old summer time is what we need
if we would have cops to show for our
efforts
The war experts are fulfilling an i'm
portant mission. bat the public blindly
insists on haging more news and fewer
essays.
The man who has an idea that any
BODY can manage a sailboat is getting
into the accident column rather early
this year.
Japan is about to cut off Port Arthur's
light supply, but that will hardly pre-
vent the inhabitants from seeing things
at night
What are you going to do about ii?
The head of the coal trust boldly ayows
that he will continue TO charge all the
traffic will Baer.
Although all the branches of the Pres
bvterian Church may unite no religious
trust is to be formed. Salvation viii
be free as of yore.
There must be fine and picturesque
mixture of sounds when japanese sol
diers try TO carry on a conversation with
Russian prisoners.
Gen. Kuropatkin might be able to
show that it takes courage Of an excep-
tional kind TO retreat in the face of a
FIRE of criticism at home.
II is a sad blow 10 the reputation OF
]. p. Morgan that the government
should ssk for security in the handling
OF q triae like $40.0OO.000.
AT the death OF a prominent business
man of Des Moines il developed that he
had three wives. This is not an Iowa
idea 1t Is one that was imported
direcr from Salt Lake
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
oLEoMARGARINE LAW UPHELD.
Court Says Tax on Colored Article Is
COnstitutional.

Constitutional.
The United States Supreme Court has
handed down a decision declaring con-
stitutional the act of Congress which
imposes a tax of 10 cents a pound on
oleomargarine when colOred like butter.
This verdict is expected to make it diff
cult for butterine manufactures to exist.
The issue was taken TO the Supreme
Court as the result Of the prosecution
by United States officials of Leo w.
McCray Fifty pounds of oleomargarine.
colored like butter were bought by Nc
Cray for resale. On his stock he paid
a tax of one-quarter of j cent pound,
which is the tax on uncolored oleomar-
garine, instead of the tax of 10 cents a
pound. which Congress has declared
should be paid on all oleomargarine col
ored to look like butter McCray was
convicted in Ohio and then the case was
appealed.
According to the men interested in the
making of butterine III Chicago, the pay
ment of the tax not only means loss or
the money, but it also means loss of
all the money spent in the building of
the factories There is no loophole of
any kind for either the government or
the octterine manufacturers. The decis-
ion says explicitly what constitutes col
ored butterine, and declares the law to
be constitutional.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07
ANT DESTROYS BOIL wEEv1L.
Scientists Find Insect to Protect Cot.
ton from Worst Enemy.

Scientists Find Insect to Protect Cot
ton from Worst Enemy.
The Department of Agriculture an
nounces that an ant had been found in
Guatemala that is an effective enemy
of the boil weevil 1t will be immedi-
ately introduced into the cotton STATE ).
The greatest significance is attached to
the discovery, which was made by @. Il.
Cook, the botanist in charge of the trop-
ical agricultural Investigations of the
bureau of plant industry. Cabled in
structions have been sent to him to re-
port Immediately to the department what
assistance he needs in the way of men
and money. During a trip in Central
America last year Mr.. Cook discovered
cotton grown by Indians which gave
evidence of being immune from the at
tacks of the boil weevil. BY order of
the department he began an investigation
in the province of Alta Vera Paz, Guate-
mala. The wevils are present there. but
the investigations show that they are
unquestionably kept in check by the
presence of an active enemy. a large
reddish-brown ant which is attracted to
the cotton by the food which it secures
from sets of floral hectares. Mr.. Cooks
Investigations show that these ants
spread themselves over fields of cotton
four or five TO a plant, and that they are
constantly engaged in the destruction of
the boil Weevils.