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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

surmounted by a graceful peristyle
with highly ornamental balustrades-
On the facade are inscribed the pro-
phetic words, of which the exposition
celebrates the fulfillment:
Westward the course of empire takes
its way"
OF the gross area devoted to the
exposition proper $50 acres are on the
mainland, and sixty acres from a pen
insula which extends into Guilds
Lake. This lake is fresh water body
22O acres in extent. separated from
the Willamette River by a narrow
strip OF land The main exposition
buildings occupy the ground bordering
on the lake. Eight large exhibit pal
aces. marvels of convenience and Of
great ar hitectural symmetry, form
the principal scheme. These structures
are dedicated respectively TO agricul-
ture, liberal and industrial arts, for
cign exhibits, forestry. fine arts, mines
and metallurgy. territorial building
aud machinery and electricity and
transportation. Around these main
buildings on the outer edge cluster the
State. Territorial and other and minor
paviIliOns. The Administration Build
ing. which contains the executive Of
fees of the fair association, is situat-
ed at one end OF the beautiful colon
made entrance.
Elaborate displays in attractive
buildings held the attention OF lie
thousands of opening day visitors. The
European exhibits building, which is
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

used through the lines, and testimo-
malls from those for whom I had rem
dered service
Il found Mr.. Lincoln in character
istic attitude, his long legs crossed, and
his attenuated form erect, but his
gaunt face, with its deeply sunken
eyes, surveyed me kindly 1 told my
story and produced my papers, which
the President scanned. Then taking
sheet of paper, he addressed the fol-
lowing communication to the Secretary
of the Interior:
Give this lad a job.
"a. LINCOLN"
Evans was made assistant messen-
ger in the Department Of the Interior.
Later he perfected his education and
qualified for the position he now holds.
Since becoming disbursing officer he
has handled $2O0,0OOOOO without sim
gle mistake. In addition, he is the
financial chief OF the department and
has supervision OF other appropriations
aggregating S16O,0CO,OOO yearly.
Major Evans was at Ford's Opera
House the night President Lincoln was
assassinated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
ALEXIS GIVES UP NAVY.
Grand Duke, Uncle of Gar, Resigns as
Head of Russian Fleet.

Head of Russian Fleet.
The sensational announcement was
made in st. Petersburg Thursday that
Grand Duke Alexis, the high admiral,
who is an uncle of the Emperor, and
Admiral AvelIan, head of the Russian
admiralty department, had resigned. This
announcement was followed Immediately
by an imperial rescript relieving the
Grand Duke of the Supreme direction of
the navy, which he had held since the
days of the Emperors father.
Although from time to time since the
war began there have been rumOrs that
the Grand Duke would retire on account
of the savage criticism, not to use harsh
er terms, directed against the admins
tratiOn of the navy, especially in the con-
structiOn of ships, the announcement of
his resignation came like a bolt out of
the blue. The instant disposition was
to regard the retirement of Grand Duke
Alexis and Admiral Avellan as a con-
cession to public opinion, following the
browning tragedy Of the Sea of Japan.
Charges of mismanagement and ineffi-
cheney and tales of corruption and even
worse against the marine department
have been rife for years.
Grand Duke Alexis himself did not es-
cape personal attacks and scandal was
so busy with his name that he was sew
eral times the subject of public demon
STATIONS The name of the Grand Duke
was high on the list of those condemned
by the terrorists, and after Red Sun
day Jan. % LAST it was reported that
he had fed abroad but it developed that
he was merely keeping closely within his
palace,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
TeIegranhic Rrevities.

kotaro Date, Japanese student, has
been awarded the Wayman Crow media,
for 1905 at the St Louis School of Fine
Arts.
At a meeting in Chattanooga. Tenn,
it was decided that a handsome monu-
ment should be erected in honor of the
late General Henry V. Boynton.
In an oral announcement from the
bench the Supreme Court of Montana
has denied the application for a writ of
supervisory control brought by F. Angus
tus Heinze.
A will contest involving between ST.
100000 and $8,00000O is said to be
among the possibilities before the estate
left by Mrs. Charity Hayward, of Cali
fornia is settled.
General William ]. Palmer, of Col
orado Springs, and Andrew Carnegie
have donated respectively 100000 and
$4,000 as a nucleus to the 100000 en-
dowment fund the Colorado College is
raising.
George q. Glenn, for many years cash
Ter Of the Postal Telegraph Company in
Philadelphia is missing and a warrant
has been sworn out, charging him with
the emDezzlement of $4,000 from the
company.
Kentsuchi Imaduz, of Toxic, Japan,
native japanese, was the conspicuous fig
ure at the WitteGberg Ohio college COM
mencement exercises. being one Of the
twenty-four graduates.
A warehouse of the New York Dock
Company at Conover and Reid streets,
near Erie Basin, Brooklyn, which was
filed with cotton and hemp, caught fire
the other day. The loss is $40, Joe
The steamer City of CoIlingwood. own
ed by the North Shore Navigation Com
pany. and valued at $4,000, was de-
stroyed by fire at CoIlingwoCd. Ont. Two
deckhands We're burned to death. The
freight sheds of the Grand Trunk Rail
way were also burned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
All Over the State,

The 2-year-Old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Emil Otto of Hustisford died from the
effects of drinking from bottle of but
ter color.
The malleable iron works of William
2. Brown. at Racine, with Il large
amount of machinery and stock, was
damaged $4,000 by fire.
Susan Atwater Gillette, widow of
Judge Gurdin Gillette and an original
Daughter of the Revolution, is dead at
her home in Kenosha, at the age of %
years.
frankie Won Barlo, aged - years,
watching boys in swimming, had leg
cut off by the cars. He is dangerously
injured.
An explosion of illuminating gas in the
cellar of the county Jail in Kenosha re-
suited in the injury of Turnkey Theo-
dOre Lineweber The prisoners were
thrown into a panic.
Peter Mcdonald, a tramp giving his
home as Appleton, is at st. Nicholas
hospital Sheboygan. with a cash fifteen
inches long in his back and almost all
rest at the police station, one of them
accused of assault.
Burglars entered the w. F. Witten-
berg hardware store in Hartland and
carried off cutlery and $50 in small
change from the cash drawer
While playing near the dam at the out
let of Chetek lake. Byron Freidnger. the
11-year-old son of Alderman John I'rei-
dinger, lost his balance and fell into an
open gate and was drowned.
The mangled body of man aged
about 80 was found by John Schrump,
two miles out of Rhinelander. on the 500
track. Jack Henry. Il camp foreman.
identified the man as James Manning.
woodsman.
John Gorgen, aged II, and his brother.
Peter Gorgen. aged 10 sons of John
Gorgen. a farmer residing in the town
of Somers, just north of Kenosha, were
drowned in Pike river.
Robert Zeitler, Montpelier farmer.
captured a large wolf in a trap and has
been paid a bounty of so for the scalp.
This is the first instance where wolves
have been known to remain about so late
in the season.
John o. Nordness, who deserted from
the regular army fourteen months ago.
within three and one-half months of the
expiration of his second enlistment has
been caught at Madison. He WAS re-
urned to Fort Sheridan
Mrs Honora Wattles. widow of c.
". Wattles. former wealthy resident of
Kenosha. died at Chicago from blood
poisoning. The deceased was II years
Of age She is survived by two sons.
Charles and john Wattles, both of Ke-
nosha
Trying to see JUST how near they could
get to the edge of the GAINESVILLE dam
resulted in the sudden plungiug of row
boat containing Richard Dreyer. ElSer
Dreyer and Willie Phelps over the dam
into the whirling rapids twenty feet be-
low Members Of The fire department
were called 0ut. and, after ii half hours
work. rescued ali three. Hundreds wis
sa.sed tie rescue.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

bend everything within the time and
means that he has at his disposal. To
this end there are no monstrosities of
architecture to weary the eye and per
pick the understanding, no scores Of
miles of aisles TO sap the physical
strength from aching limbs, no torrid
days and nights to benumb vitality.
no dependence upon atmospheric CO.
operation to secure an adequate return
for all effort expended in seeing the
fair. The shrewd and competent man
ayers and the generous Oregon ell
mate have provided for all of that.
The main entrance to the exposition
grounds is an ornate, circular colon
made Of a double row Of Ionic columns
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
ARIZONA WILL FLOURISH
When Artificial Irrigation Is Applied
to Its Arid Acres.

to Its Arid Acres.
Perhaps the most striking illustration
of the benefits to be derived from the
artificial irrigation Of arid lands is to be
found in the territory of Arizona. Of
the 1892, 800 acres of land in this terri
tory, but 5,62S,66 acres have been APP
proDriated to private ownership, about
20 5 per cent of which is under actual
cultivation at this time. The natural
flow of mountain streams has been taxed
to it's utmost to supply water to irri-
gate this land often failing to provide
enough for a single crOp-from four to
seven crops of alfalfa being harvested
from the same land under favorable con-
ditions. When the rains come, the
streams are swollen and the food water
rushes off to the sea. Water sufficient
to irrigate millions of acres is carried
off without rendering more service than
to soak the ground to a depth of an inch
or more.
1t frequently happens that the long
delayed rains come in the form of cloud
bursts in some sections, overlooking the
cultivated lands and completely destroy
ing the crops. Agriculture under such
unfavorable conditions is an uncertain
and hazardous pursuit.
With 100000 acres of land in the
territory of Arizona susceptible of irri-
CATION, but 100000 acres are actually
cultivated. Storage reservoirs and sys-
tsms of irrigation would increase forty
times the wealth producing power Of
this one territory alone. and there are
thirteen more States and Territories with
similar conditions existing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

MAJ. G. W. EVANS. Evans, then in his
18th year, was recalled to Washington
by the death of his father. For three
years." he says, In speaking Of this
period, 81 had been with the army sell
ing papers, scouting and fighting when
ever | got a chance. l had tried earn
estly for enlistment, but my application
was rejected on account of my youth
You see I was only IA in 1861, when
| ran away from home and Joined the
Sickles Excelsior Brigade Of the Sec
ond Army Corps. had done the army
some service in my limited way, and
they knew it. In my pocket, when I
went to see President Lincoln, l car
ried a number of the passes l had
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
ALL OVER THE STATE
ITEMS OF INTEREST IN BADGER
DOM.
Former Commander of Waupaca Vet
GRAMS Home Kills Hims eif-Drown-
ing of Mrs. Jones Was Accidental
Horizon Marsh May Be Draiaed.

Col Charles ]. Ellis, former com
rzandant of the Waupaea Veterans
home, killed himself in Marinette By
shooting The sensation in connection
with the affair was enhanced by 4 note
written by Col. Ellis before he shot him
self, in which attention is called to let
tiers left in his room to his wife, ex-
planning his causes for self-destruction
it is believed. Mrs. Ellis positively re-
fused to make public the reasons for the
suicide. She is deeply stricken by the
affair. Col Ellis held many positions
of trust and honor and was influential
within a large circle. His family and
himself were held in the highest esteem,
and the blow caused by his death and
the manner of it has fallen as severely
as it was sudden.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
An Eufaut Terrible

The King of Spain in his baby days
obtained considerable renown as a
most original enfant terrible. On one
occasion, when accompanying his roy
al mother on a morning walk in the
courts and gardens, they paused at the
reading room of the officials. How
many papers do you read every day -
inquired the queen of one. Perhaps
seven or eight" was the reply. All,
that is not so much. l read ten every
day." said the queen. His little mai
esty pulled her sleeve impulsively
mo, no, mamma, you don't read
them" he corrected; you only lock at
themv
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

ed, but that did not discourage Mr..
Ziegler. The latter at once turned to
the refitting of another expedition and
that expedition, led by Anthony Fiala,
Of Brooklyn, is now In the Arctic.
Mr.. Ziegler was a native of Penn
sylyania, where he was born in 1913.
Early in MS career he was a printer,
but in 1870 engaged In the baking pow
der business and rapidly accumulated
millions. For many years he lived in
New York and was a heavy dealer in
real estate.
Mr. Ziegler's death was due to
runaway accident in which he was in
jured He had been an invalid since.
his injuries having been internal and
beyond the reach of successful medi-
cal treatment. He is survived by his
wife and one son.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
LAKE SHORE FLYER WRECKED.
Eleven Persons Are Killed When 49,
Hour Train CrumbIes.

The Lake Shores new eighteen-hour
train-the Twentieth Century limited
crashed into the freight depot was
wrecked and two ears burned in front
of the railway station at Mentor, Ohio,
at $50 Wednesday night. Twelve per-
sons at least persisted, four are fatally
hurt, and over a dozen injured more or
less seriously.
The Lake Shore officials assert the
train was wrecked deliberately. The
division superintendent said that every
evidence showed that the disaster
was the result of a deliberate attempt to
wreck the train. He said the condition
of the rails and switch was such as to
suggest that the switch had been forced
by some malicious person or persons
He declared that the wreck could not
be attributed to excessive speed, and that
the same accident would have happened
to any train proceeding over the road
at that time.
The train, running at a speed of more
than sixty miles an hour, struck the de-
ranged switch directly in front of the
railway station, where between IS and
100 of the citizens of Mentor were stand
Ing to watch lie flight of the train. Sud
denly the heavy train of six cars seemed
hurled into the air, turned half over,
writhed along the roadbed, and plunged
squarely on to the freight house. In
the twinkling Of an eye the fastest and
one Of the most perfect trains in the
world the pride of the Lake Shore lay
mass of wreckage, piled against the
freight depot, the cars filled with crush
ed, mangled, torn humanity.
The engine turned completely around,
the combination buffet and baggage
coach piled on top of it. The Chicago
sleeper, which was behind the combina-
ton car, swung from the track and
crashed into the freight depot. The four
heavy cars behind showed the tangled
mass of wreckage ahead of it along the
track, ripping up the roadbed for fifty
feet before the impact was broken and
the remnants of the eighteen-hour train
~ m RI stO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Death by Accident.

The drowning of Mrs EmeIine Jones,
wife of Long Jones, which occurred
in Waukesha, is believed to have been
accidental. Elmer Russell a 10-year-
old lad, who was fishing on the opposite
side of the river, told Coroner Hill that
he saw Mrs. Jones come to the edge of
the river and stoop over to wash her
hands. She evidently lost her balance
and fell into the stream, as he saw her
fall into the water and heard her scream
twice. 1t is supposed that Mrs. Jones
had been working at the flower beds in
the park as was her custom and went 10
the river to wash her hands. The Incl
dent did not impress the lad at the time
and it was two days later that he re-
ported It.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Russian Wheat Outlook Good.

The prospects of a good Russian wheat
harvest continues. In the south, south
west. northern Caucasus, Yistula region
and the Ural provinces the condition Of
the crops is far above the average, but
the outlook is correspondingly bad in
some of the central governments and the
Tolga region.
The outlook for rye is less satisfactory,
the failure Of the crops covering the same
area as the wheat failure and is nrac-
tically complete in the upper Volga re-
gion. Famine is predicted in some of the
governments.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

@OAVIIS'- d IOUIS, j, A. WAKEFIELD.
on Sept. %. 1906, they had covered a
distance Of 5000 miles. most of it
through a veritable wilderness; but
they had taken possession of the only
part Of America which this nation has
ever acquired by right of discovery.
The Lewis and Clark Exposition in
Portland celebrates what has been
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
The Professors Tant

Miss Gushleigh-I'm sure, professor,
I'm immensely battered, that you
should leave that learned crowd and
come over and talk TO poor little me!
Prof. Chumpleigh-Well, you see
er-the fact is I'm tired of their clever
talk and l thought I'd come and listen
to you and rest my mind a while.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Kills Self on wife's Grave.

Herman G.. Hurand of La Crosse,
aged 30 years, whose wife and five chill
dren died suddenly short time ago, shot
himself and was found dying on the
grave of his wife. Dependency due to
the loss of his family was the cause of
the suicide. When found Hurand refused
to be removed from his wife's grave and
finally expired reclining upon the grave.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
To Drain BIG Marsh.

Judge Dick has handed down his de-
cisiOn in the Horizon marsh drainage
case. 1t is in favor of draining the
marsh, for the reason that draining
would be for the health and welfare of
the public. If the decision stands it will
mean also the taking down of the dam
at Hustisford, and much valuable land
along Rock river could be claimed by
owners of farms. The case will go to
higher courts before it ends. Judge Dick
will appoint commissioners required by
law, whose duty it will be to appraise
the lands through which the drainage is
made in order to drain the marsh.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

the other day. All
his life he took a
deep interest in
north polar explo-
ration and four
Y e ars ago he
financed an expe-
dition which was
conducted to the
far or t h, IN
search Of the pole,
by Evelyn B. Bald
nj
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
A Laughing Likeness

Lawyer-How can we use this fash
light picture as evidence against the
accused? His eyes are shut tight,
Detective-But his mouth 10 open so
wide we can identify the filing in one
OF his back teeth.-Detroit Free Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

done in developing the resources of
the far Northwest since we announced
to the rest of the world that it was
ours by the notice on the wall of Fort
Clatsop.
1t is not claimed for the Portland
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

re gio II at st.
Louis, Mo, and be
gan their voyage
in May, 1904, up
the Great Muddy"
river with their
little band Of fifty
trappers and vOy-
ageurs. When the
returning surviv~
ors of the party
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

disbursing officer
of the Department
of the Interior,
Washington. When
the two first met,
Major Evans waJ
a young newsboy
1 a t ~ returned
from accompany
ing the Army of
the Potomac in its
campaigns. That
was in 1864 and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Amounted by La Toilette.

Gov. La Toilette has named Prof B.
H. Meyer of the University of Wisconsin
commissioner of labor AM industrial sta
tistcs and Halford Erickson and Second
Assistant Tax Commissioners Nils p
Haugen as members of the railroad rate
commission of Wisconsin, created by the
rate bill which has just become law.
Meyers term is for four years. Erick-
sons six and Haugen's eight years
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

W hNA e'Aliil4AAc VI III
in the game pre-
serve. So annoying
have they become
that the United
States government
has given John and
Homer Golf. cele-
brated guides and
hunters, a contract
10 clear them out.
John Golf was Pres
ident's Roosevelt's
guide on his recent
trip. He and his
brother Will have
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Pretty Good scheme.

A Somerville man is thinking seri-
ously of keeping his furnace fire 60
ing all summer long. He heard his
wife say the other day that It isn't
any use at all TO begin cleaning house
until after the furnace fire had gone
out.-Somerville Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Taps the Wire.

I'D love to be an author. Do you
write for money!
Sometimes, but usually telegraph,
Dad sends IT quicker Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
sEFRIENOeD BY LINCOLN.

Major Evans, of the Interior Depart
ment, Got Position Through Him.
Few persons living have better
cause to remember President Lincoln
than Major George w. Evans, chief
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

Thin peoples jokes are better than
those told by fat people. Fat people
laugh so easily that any Old joke
strikes them as funny.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Refuse to Strike; Four Shot.

Three Italians were seriously shot and
one was terribly beaten in a riot among
$50 railroad laborers at Lynxville. \
gang of fifty or more men of Ferryville
were driven out of the town by laborers
armed with shOtguns revolvers and axes
The trouble arose over an effort of
STRAW bosses to induce the laborers to
strike for high wages. The men refused
to do this, and when one picked up Il
shovel to work he was beaten on the
he with the butt of a revolver, this
starting the riot
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
GREATEST OF HUNTS.
Contract to Kill All the Mountain Lions
in YeIIowstoue Park

Mountain lions are SO numerous now
in the Yellowstone Park that they threat
en- the extinction of the deer, elk and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

Strangers Pizen Pete still hang
ing around here? Bad Mike-No.
They cut him down yesterday.-EK.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
Dietz to Saw His Logs.

1t is reported that john Dietz, who
won fame in his fight against the logging
companies at Cameron Dam for the pos
session of over 20,000.000 feet of tim
Der. will put in Il sawmill and cut up
enough of the pine to cover his claims
against the companies. w. w. Dietz, a
brother to John, said that he believes
the fight is over. as the companies have
already spent 100000 in a vain effort to
recover less than $25O,000 worth Of tim
Der He said further that nothing but
a criminal warrant could GUST his brother
and that the companies had already fail
ed to secure one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27

One hundred years ago the trail to
"old Oregon" was blazed by Captain
Merriweather Lewis aud Lieutenant
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-06-27
BIG PORTLAND FAIR.
GREAT EVENT FOR THE PEOPLE
OF THE NORTHWEST.

The Course of Empire as Exemplified
by the Pacific Coast Show-Exposition
Comm morates the Most Important
Northwest Explorations.