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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
Notes of Current Event..

-Four policemen rescued four men and
three women who were stranded and in
great peril on the rocks of the Bronx
Kills, New York.
Edward Burke, a prominent resident
of North Scranton. Pa. was killed on
the Delaware and Hudson railroad. His
body was cut in two.
The American Museum of Natural
History, New York, has been robbed Of
$1,000 in gold ores. part Of one of the
finest collections in the world.
Many buildings in the business district
of White Sulphur Springs Mont, We're
destroyed By fire. and one man burned to
DEATH Loss $4,000, with little insur-
ance
The body of Mary o. Rogers. daugh-
ter of Alexander Rogers of Leesburg,
Va, was found in Saranac river. near
Saranac lake. New York, She wandered
from the hotel in a delirium Monday
morning.
Major E. A Burke of New Orleans
is still alive and at Puerto Cortez, Hoa-
dur2s. according TO a letter from there,
d spite the recent report of his death.
de is assistcs- superintendent Of the
Honduras Interoceanic railway.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
DIGGING THE CANAL.
SLOW PROGRESS BEING MADE ON
THE PANAMA ISTHMUS.
Vacations Delay Seems Owing Chiefly
to the Dissatisfaction of Americans
with ConGitions-The Rains, Yellow
Fever and Malaria.

Slowly and unwillingly the American
government is awakening to the inn
mensity of the task of digging the Pan
anna canal, writes Junius B. Wood in
the Chicago Inter Ocean. A year has
elapsed since the starting Of the actual
work on the isthmus and all that has
been accomplished of permanent value is
the excavation of a comparatively trifing
amount of material and the partial or
ganiza-tion of a working force.
Unexpected and serious obstacles both
III the field of work and in this country
have impeded the work. Situations
which could not be foreseen on paper or
accounted for in figured estimates have
arisen. On all sides they have sprung
up-yarying from friction with the Off
Gals at Washington over problems of
policy to squabbles with negro laborers
over the necessity of coffee with every
meal But the problem which is of most
interest to the general public, and which
has made it almost impossible to form an
effective working organization from its
shifting personnel, is the dissatisfaction
of the American employees
Panama is distasteful TO the person
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

degrees, and quick trip to the hospital
Is the only chance of saving his life.
At the hospital each yellow fever sus-
pect is placed in a separate wire cage.
to prevent mosquitoes biting him and
spreading the disease to others. Malaria
Is more prevalent. and its effect on the
system is frequently worse than yellow
fever. Many of the men have recur-
ring attacks of malaria, which can be
cured only by leaving the country for
colder climate. Each succeeding attack
seems more severe than its predecessor.
until the victim finally is almost a ply
steal wreck
Through the country and the nation
runs Il spirit Of depression. due to the
hot, humid climate, that unconsciously
steals into the most active physique
The native of Panama has no need of
even gathering sticks for fire to warm
his sunburned shins. 1t is nation
without fireside. and civilization cannot
flourish without the hearthstone A few
bananas, a stalk of sugar cane to chew
and cocOanut to drink, occasionally a
little wild game, and some native rum
whenever it can be secured, keep life in
most of the residents.
Trade in Panama city is almost mo-
nopolized by few families Most of
the leading business men are related by
blood or marriage. So far. Americans
have confined themselves to running
boarding houses which have been failures.
Chinese are the middle class merchants
in the city and country
For miles on either side of the canal
zone-the narrowest point on the 18th
mus-mountains rise abruptly from the
low hills along the coast. Fisher huts
and villages are along the shore Half
clothed and dark skinned natives peer
from matched nuts scattered over the
plains.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
MUTlNEERS GIVE UP.
Kniaz PotemkiDe Surrenders to Rou-
manian Authorities.

The big Russian battleship Kniaz Po-
temkine, which for ten days had been the
terror of the Black sea, surrendered to
the Rounlanian government, the mutt
neers having been promised that they
should not be given up to Russia. All
members of the crew, about $50 in num-
ber will be conveyed to such frontier as
they may select and set at liberty. The
flag of st. Andrew is once more flying at
the masthead of the mutinous warship
and the little torpedo boat which joined
her in rebellion.
When the mutineers offered to surren-
der as deserters the Roumanian authori-
ties demanded the breech locks of the
battleship's guns as a pledge OF good
faith. The mutineers offered to present
the battleship to the Roumanian govern
ment, as they declare they are anxious
that she should not be handed over to
Russia. They asked the Roumanian au-
thorities to guarantee that they would
furnish the sailors who surrendered with
Roumanian passports and also to guaran-
tee that they shall not be extradited to
Russia.
The Russian foreign Office undoubted-
" will make the strongest representations
against the mutineers being treated as
simple deserters and demand their sur
render to answer not only for mutiny but
also for the murder of their officers, the
bombardment of Odessa and Indictment
to a revolution.
The vainglorious proclamation issued
by the mutineers at Odessa will also
weigh heavily against them. Their crime
is one which is considered to be the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
SCANDAL AT THE ARSENAL.
Government Finds Leak of Millions
Throuol, Joasa Nafhods

Through Loose Methods.
Work on 100000 dress coats contract
ed for through the Schuylkill arsenal i'll
Philadelphia, has been stopped by per-
emptory order of Quartermaster General
Humphreys in Washington and 3 thor
ough investigation of the affairs at the
arsenal has been begun. Because Of the
condition under which contracts are given
out at the arsenal nearly half of the
dress coats in question have been manu-
featured and paid for They lie idle in
the storehouse at the depot aud in the
opinion of experts of the government who
have examined them are absolutely
worthless for the purpose for which they
were made. A contract for about 100000
pairs of dress trousers is in the hands of
the manufacturers Stoppage on this
work also is expected. 1t is believed
that the investigation which has been
started will show that the government
has lost millions OF dollars by the meth
DDS in vogue there. The contracts in
question are held by three firms which
have factories in Philadelphia and N Red
Bank, n. j., and Egg Harbor, n. ]. AS
yet there are no charges of fraud in
connection with the investigation. The
colossal losses are attributed to loose
ways of doing business. The investiga-
ton is the outcome of the trouble with
the arsenal employees dating back to last
winter and of the more recent scandal
when the foreman of the arsenal was
forced to resign and eight cutters were
dismissed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

ing and returning to the States. with
such conditions, work has necessarily
Jagged. A man often does not take time
to become more than partially familiar
with the duties of his position before he
resigns or quits and a new man must be
sent down from the United States to
learn the work.
Rain and Fever.
The rainy season started about April
l. All outdoor work until the season
closes. in November, is now carried on
under difficulties which are unknown in
a temperate climate. One or more show
ers-cloudbursts they would be called in
this country-are of practically daily oc-
currence. Sometimes they continue for
hours, or even days, but the usual pro-
gram is a shower of about an hours
duration every morning and every after
noon. In the intervals when the sun
shines things dry quickly, but when it
does not appear the atmosphtre is pain
fully depressing.
Under this downpour the ground be-
comes moist and unstable, the beds of
dry creeks become boiling mountain tor
rents, and for weeks. and sometimes
months, interior towns are cut off from
all communication with one another, ex-
cept by way of the oceans.
The dread yellow fever accompanies
the rainy season and is most active dur
ing July. No precautions thus far found
have availed to prevent it. 1t strikes
suddenly and hard, and within FIVE days
the victim is either on the road to re-
covery or is dead. A person may be
feeling in the best of health in the even
ing, but wake up with a splitting head
ache and with chills and pains in his
joints in the morning. Before noon his
temperature will have risen above 100
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
MAKES DIVORCES INVALID.
Odd Political ENHANCEMENT Existing
in Denver. Col,

CuO
in Denver, Col.
More than 100 couples whose divorce
DEGREES We're granted during the last II
months by Judge Henry V. Johnson of
Denver, Colo, acting as county judge,
are wondering whether the laws wide
blanket of public policy" will cover their
cases. since the Colorado Supreme Court
has declared that Judge Johnson and
nearl.$ all the other Democratic officers
had Ito right to their positions and are
ousted.
BY tic Rush amendment to the Denver
city chatter nearly all the county officers
were elected at the same time as the
city offic"ls, but the Supreme Court has
decided tbs Rush amendment invalid.
Some of ths divorced persons have since
remarked, a1d in three instances at least
children have been born since the DEGREES
of divorce ware entered. The parents
are told by lawyers that the stigma of
illegitimacy may be upon their children.
Aside from the divorce phase there GSe
many other com: licat tons, and chaos has
resulted in legal affairs. The Democrat
c officials who were elected under the
Rush amendment Rave drawn their sal
aries, and there is 10 money to pay the
salaries of the Republicans who are Civ
en- offices by tie Supreme Court yet the
Republicans are clearly entitled TO pay
The decision is admitted to be the most
important ever delivered in Colorado.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18

from northern cline. just as an arts
tic photograph brings out the beauty and
striking features of the scenery, so do the
official reports and interviews describe
Panama. Souvenir postals show it to be
land of pleasant sunshine, waving
palms and picturesque houses, gorgeous
fruits, and bubbling rivers. All these
exist, but the countless odors the ever
present black buzzards, the all covering
pail of dirt, the damp, depressing, fever
laden atmosphere, the dusky man and
woman and dozen children that eat live
and sleep on the dirt floor of the pretty
matched huts, do not show on the postal
cards.
The person who goes to the isthmus
from the United States knows from his
appointment papers just what he is en-
titled to. He can be assured that it
will be carried out to the letter, if not
in the spirit. He knows the amount of
his salary. his hours of work, how many
weeks of vacation and sick leave he will
receive each year. and that part of his
living expenses will be borne by the gov
eminent.
That much of the picture is apparent,
and he probably adds a little dark color
ing on account of current reports of fever
and disease. However, not until one
sees Panama does he appreciate the dull
mOnOtOny and the emptiness of life in
that section of the tropics. This is the
reason why so many return to the States
on the next steamer; others wait only
long enough to earn their passage home;
and so few have any sincere interest in
work
length of time.
That something is wrong with the
general conditions is shown by the fact
that defections are not confined to the
ranks of subordinate clerks and ordinary
workingmen. but that men holding super
vising and executive positions are leav-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
FLEEING FROM RUSSIA.
Citizens of Wealth and Title Prefer
Other Countries Now.

Mobiles. landed proprietors, retired
merchants and other people of means are
leaving Russia by the hundred every
day. The Westward bound trains are
crowded 1t takes three or four days
notice to secure sleeping berth on the
European trains.
This exodus is one of the most signifi-
cant signs of the times. To all careful
observers it suggests the inevitable par
allel of Paris before the revolution. when
the mobiles scuttled like rats out of a
sinking ship. The reason is the same in
Russia as it was in France. Well-to-do
people want to escape the perils and tur-
moil of a revolution, and to take their
money with them.
The emigration has been proceeding
steadily since the January massacre
Families have been leaving Russia by the
score for Scandinavia, Germany and
France, and none of them returns. The
departures have become much more nu-
merous since the colossal disaster of the
Sea of Japan, and they are increasing
daily.
Except for the official classes and the
merchants and manufacturers who cannot
lily of wealth in the country seems to be
trying to realize money by selling securi-
ties or disposing of land at almost any
price that may be offered.
They want to invest their money in
a safer country than Russia. Many of
them actually sold their Russian securi-
ties to invest in the Japanese war loans
They confess it quite openly, without fear
of exciting contempt for their lack Of
patriotism. There is no loyalty left
among the wealthy classes: that is among
the many things the war has destroyed
They say it is not Russia's war at ALL
but the war of the bureaucrats, and that
tae governing classes must pay the price
o: it as best they can.
Russia is beginning to feel the loss of
the money they have taken out of the
country. Retail trade, particularly in
luxueies. is almost at a standstill. There
is az alarming number of bankruptcies.
The nation is face to face with a coLl-
laercial crisis as serious as anything re-
sulting from the war or the political:
rising
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
RECEIVER FOR ST. LOUIS BANK.
Institution Against Which Postal Au-
thorities Issued Fraud Order


Former Judge Selden p. Spencer has
been appointed receiver for the Peoples
United States Bank of St Louis. against
which a fraud order has been issued by
the federal postal authorities. Judge Ic-
chimney of the st. Louis Circuit Court
made the appointment at the request Of
Secretary of State Swanser of Missouri.
Judge Spencer qualified with a bond of
$250,000 and took charge Of the bank.
Secretary of State Swanger made the
following report in regard to the bank 5
assets:
The Peoples United States Bank has
various sums on deposit with banks in
different cities of the United States. the
total amount of cash being about ST.
100000. 1t has also $4,000 in govern
ment bonds. There are also securities Of
The University Heights property and Of
the Lewis Publishing Company amount
ing to 100000"
The Peoples United States Bank was
organized by Edward q. Lewis Of s..
Louis last year. and has a capital stock
of 81. 100000 The banking business was
conducted along new lines. most of the
subscriptions for stock ana deposits be
ing solicited and received by mali.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
FALL In HGT BATTLE.
BANDITS KILLED IN FIGHTING AN
ARMED POSSE.
Two Highwaymen Who Murdered Rail-
road Man in CedarvaIe, KAN, Are
Pursued and Despatched-New York
Company to Build Cuban Lines.

Two highwaymen who shot and killed
j. Z. Calhoun of Kansas City. a special
agent of the Atchison. Topeka and Santa
Fe railway, at Cedarvale, Kan, were
surrounded by a posse at Hewins, near
the Oklahoma line and shot and killed.
The murderers resisted capture with all
the desperation they could command.
They fired repeatedly at the posses, but
so carefully had the plans of the latter
been laid that no one in the pursuing
party was hit. The murder of the rail-
way officer had been a cold-blooded affaj-
and aroused the entire community. Git
zens assembled from all sides and with
guns and other weapons pursued the
murderers. The fugitives were finally
trapped, a Gordon was thrown around
them, and when they sought to break
through il both were shot dead.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
CHICAGO.

[ o.. Broken weather inter-
Ulll6QQU. fered in the principal re-
tail branches, yet deal
hgs reached large aggregate, due
TO improved holiday demand. and the
depletion of merchandise stocks has
oeen OF satisfactory extent. Country
adVlces indicate that retail sales en-
larged and that this feature is steadily
spreading to those sections where har-
Vestlng p ogresSes and money be-
comes more abundant. Records in
seasonable goods have held I'D well
Tor both interior and city, testify
ing TO heavy consumption.
Wholesale lines report fair advance
sales in forward selections for fall
delivery and there is sustained shin
ment in dry goods. summer clothing.
footwear and food products. Ware
house exhibits now are being prepared
for the approaching advance guard of
visiting buyers and the outlook fayors
large transactions.
The rush of building needs main
tains good demand for lumber al
though receipts of latter are lower.
34,753,000 feet, comparing with 46.-
$50 feet last week. Orders have been
liberal for stone, brick, cement and
plumbing material. Receipts of hides
were 2,114,057 pounds. against $500
SS3 pounds last week and 2.1OT.9S7
pounds year ago. Consumers made
fair purchases and the higher prices
were maintained.
Primary foodstuffs again furnished
active dealings, especially in the lead
ing cereals, which were subjected to
conflicting reports as to the status
of new crops. Flour, however, has
shown no recovery in the general de-
mand, and millers bought wheat only
to satisfy absolute needs.
Receipts of live stock. 2S4, 600 head.
comparew it'll 245,131 head a year ago.
Packing operations We're large, and
the monthly statement of provisions
in store showed a smaller reduction
than was looked for
Bank clearings, SITS, POI 400, exceed
those Of the corresponding week in
1904 by 50 per cent.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered 16, against 81 last
week and 10 q year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18


Wall street control of great companies in
Which the money of the people is depos-
tied.
Chauncey NJ. Depew, United States
Senator, WILL a correspondent says, have
to resign from the board of directors of
the Equitable society. He will be given
an opportunity to send over his resgna-
ton from Europe where he now is max
ing his annual rounds. If it is not forth
coming in reasonable time he will be
forced out by the trustees. 1t is said
that Grover Cleveland will not stand
longer for Mr.. Depew's connection with
the society.
A strong demand is being made by
Yale men that Depew resign from the
Yale corporation. the university govern
ing body. because of the scandal inyoly-
ed in his connection with the Equitable
Life Society.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
DROPS 1000 FEET FOR WOMAN.
Aeronaut Leaps from Balloon to Save
His Fair Com panion.

With a straight drop of 1000 feet to
what seemed certain death, William Can
field, a Boston aeronaut, leaped from his
balloon over Lynn common, in Lynn,
Mass, in order to save Mrs Camille
Stafford, woman aeronaut who ascend
ed with him. She escaped unhurt. He
was badly injured by striking the side
of house as his parachute swung in
the strong wind. Five thousand persons
witnessed his startling descent. The
balloon was found to be leaking and the
gas was escaping rapidly. Mrs. Stafford
leaped some time after Garfield left the
balloon, striking in an apple tree, from
which she was rescued unhurt.
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is SLAIN AS THREATENED.
Well-known Ranchmau Murdered and
One of His Ears Missing.

According to information received from
Thermopolis, Wyo., Bob" Mccoy, a
well-known ranchman who lived on the
Big Horn river above Thermopolis, was
murdered several days ago by assassins
who had decoyed him to a deserted
cabin and shot him in the back as he
was about to enter. His body was
weighted with rocks and sunk in the
river. Several times in the last few
months Mccoy had received anonymous
letters warning him to leave the country
and threatening his life. In each of the
messages the statement was made that if
it became necessary to kill him one of
his ears would be cut off so that others
who had been warned to leave might
know how he came to his death. One
of the ears of the corpse is missing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
LAWS HAND HEAVY ON FoRGERs
Report to Bankers Association Shows
Increased Penalties Inflicted.

That the punishment for forgery
melted out in court sentences is increas-
ing is the opinion of the detectives of
the American Bankers Association in
report made by James r. Branch, secre-
tary of the association, covering bank
robberies and forgeries since Sept. /,
1904. Since May 81 alone six profess
sional forgers have been sentenced to
total of thirty-two years and nine
months Imprisonment. which is an aver
age of five years and FIVE months each.
Since Sept. l, 1904, the American Bank
ers' Association has secured arrests in
twenty-five special cases of forgers, of
which eleven We're convicted, and arrests
in forty-nine general cases, of which
twenty-five were convicted
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
MESSENGERS FOIL ROBBERS.
Stun Guard and Grab Money Chest, but
Are Driven Off by Shots.

Two unknown men made a daring at
tempt early Monday morning to hold up
two messengers of the United States
Express Company who were guarding
treasure which was being hauled from
the Lake Shore to the Lake Erie sta
ton in Laporte, Ind The messenger
guarding the money box was rendered
unconscious by a blow on the head, but
regained his senses and opened fire with
the other messenger on the two men who
were dragging the iron box. The rob-
bers took alarm and escaped in the dark
ness. Charles Angerman, a Cleveland
man, the injured messenger, is under the
care of a physician.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-07-18
CROP REPORTS MAY BE CUT OFF.
Leakage in Cotton Statistics Leads
Uncle Sam to Think of Doing So.

Leakage in Cotton Statistics Leads
Uncle Sam to Think of Doing So.
One result of the cotton leak investi-
CATION just completed in Washington by
the secret service. under direction of the
Secretary of Agriculture, viii undoubted-
~ be a vigorous agitation in favor OF
the discontinuance of all crop reports
by the government. 1t is pointed out
that at best the government reports are
only estimates. and that they are or no
real benefit to the farmers. They are
of value only to spectators, ana SO
many and so great are the temptations
thrown about those engaged in collect
ing and preparing the reports that, de-
spite all precautions, il seems lmpossl-
bic to prevent fairly accurate advance IN
formation being handed out to favored
few. The report of Acting Chief Moran
of the secret service on the investigation
of the cotton report leakage is In the
hands of Secretary Wilson. 1t is expect
ed that at least one official connected
with the department in Washington and
several agents in Southern States VIII
be dismissed. Evidence that corrupt
ring exists among employees of the lnte-
rior Department, from which Wall street
spectators are able to obtain close
idea of the character of the cotton re-
port in advance of its publication, has
been obtained, it is said.
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tain of the Kurile Islands. A sentimental
demand that it again become part of
their national territory has always been
strong among the japanese, though its
value, except for the fisheries, is small
When the peace negotiations begin
Russia will be much better able to ex-
plain the cession to her own people if the
japanese are already in possession than
if she is asked to give it up by voluntary
act. At the same time she will be able
to let it weigh in the balance as part of
the japanese spoils in her effort to in
duce the japanese to reduce the amount
of the indemnity they ask.