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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
PROPOSED NEW STATES.
Oklahoma, Indian Territory. Ne

Oklahoma, Indian Territory. New
Mexico and Arizona Seek Admission.
With the admission of Oklahoma and
Arizona TO statehood, it is probable that
the story of their population, wealth and
resources viii come as a great surprise
to the general run OF Americans. The
story will surely be told, because the
granting of State rights 70 the last of
continental America, barring Alaska, is
bound to attract widespread attention.
Usually territories have been admitted
when they approached the dignity of ex-
listing States in population In thee ase
OF Nevada, Congress did not even wait
until statehood size had been very seri-
ously approached. The four territories
that seek to be admitted as two States
seem to have been kept waiting until
long after the time when they were quail
fled for the honor Unbiased men in
Congress admit that the new State of
Oklahoma will have a population of
100000 Some of the more enthusiasts
tic advocates of the new State that is
to be declare that its population will be
nearer 100000. For Arizona it is
claimed that the population viii be be-
tween 100000 and 100000
High Rank in Resources.
In railroads, banks, business and re-
sources Oklahoma and Arizona will take
high rank among the States.
In the Indian territory there are only
about 10000 Indians and more than 409,-
600 white men. About two-fifths of the
latter are from the south There is less
illiteracy than in many of the States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
News of Minor Note.

The main building of the Lebanon VAL
ley College in Annville, Pa. was de
stroyed by fire. Loss $4,000, insur-
ance $4,000.
The plan of establishing wireless
station at San Diego has been approved
by the Navy Department and the work
will be pushed.
Mrs. William GLADDEN. shot and killed
her husband at their home at Regua
gulch. south of Cripple Greek, Colo. She
says he beat her.
The United States battleship Iowa,
while being locked in a shipyar.i in
Newport News, Va. eollided with the
pier and was damaged slightly.
Announcement was made in st. Louis
that the Alps. one OF the features of the
world fair, viii be retained as d perma-
nent summer theater.
-Four men were killed and their bodies
terribly mangled as the result OF a boiler
EXPLOSION at the sawmilI of B. T. Red
line. near Rohrsburg. Columbia county,
Pa.
Sehn A. Lee. former Lieutenant Gov
ernor of Missouri. and his brother obtain
Ell lcl8t EotdAe TIC
stockholders in St. Louis Trade pub
LEGATION. of which they are officers, from
holding meeting for the election of OFF,
GERS.
A catlegram has been received at the
State Department from the acting Amer
lean consul at Asancion. Parag quay. stat
inc ghat the revolution has been success
ful aud that peace has been proclaimed
One OF the women of the Vanderbilt
family pays a maid 5000 year to dust
the bric-a-brac, and another equally we'll
known New York woman gives the per-
son who attends her toy dogs $1,000 a
yelr.
Coroner's jury, though unable TO point
to the murderer of Constable Julius f.
Biesiermann, killed in a slot machine raid
st Blue Island. H.. recommended ths.t
.Black Jack Gallagher and his two
companions be held for trial.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
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~ FAIR

E. Y. Searles. recently elected Gov
ernor of North Dakota, is the sen of a
Methodist minister.
]. Cannon of Utah is now editor of a
Salt Lake newspaper.
Mai. Gen. George /. Gillespie, U. S.
A.. has been granted a patent ON the
design for the new medal of honor.
Gov.-elect Edward c. Stokes of New
Jersey IS a bachelor. and all talk of
building an executive mansion has
ceased.
Gen. Joe" Wheeler still insists that
Russia VIII whip Japan. He would ike
TO go to Mancharia, but can't stand the
expense.
William o. Dawson. Republican Gov
ernor-elect of West Virginia. began life
as an apprentice IN a printing Office. At
ter few years at the case be studied
law.
]. Frank Hanly. Governor-elsct of In
diana. never touches liquor, neYer swears.
does not use tobacco. is a p;llar in the
Methodist church, and teaches a Sunday
school. class.
John w. Foster, former Secretary of
State under Gen. Harrison. is about to
add te his series of published books a
small volume entitled Arbitration and
The Hague Court"
Gov.-elect Hoeh of Kansas has re-
Iigious scruples against dancing, and
hence the inaugural ball at Topeka was
called ct.
Vice President-elect Fairbanks gained
flesh during the late presidential cam
paign. although he journeyed far and
made many speeches.
The next Governor Of Massachusetts.
W. L. Douglas, spends his evenings at
home. He and his wife are fond Of
reading 10 each other
George I'll. Utter. Republican candidate
for Governor of Rhode Island is editor
of the Westerly Sun, the only paper
east Of the Sierra Nevada mountains to
issue a Sunday evening edition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
OWEN KELLY IS NOT DEAD.
said to Lead a Double Life-Jecky11 and
HYDE Story

Said to Lead Double Life ecky11 and
Hyde Story Rivaled.
The real life story of Owen Kelly of
Philadelphia, church worker, temperance
leader, manufacturer, director of the
Continental Title and Trust Company,
phiianthropist, patriot, club man and
prominent citizen, is said to rival the
dream OF Robert Louis Stevenson when
ne wrote his weird tale of ''Dr. Jekyil
and Mr.. Hyde" Mr.. Kelly disappeared
from Philadelphia Oct. IS. No one knows
where he is. but he is believed to be in
New York City. He was seen there as
recently as Dec % by Edward DAILY,
travelling salesman. Mr.. DAILY met Kelly
IN Ialrd avenue. They had q pleasant
chat for haI- an hour. DAILY did not
know at that time that Kelly was re-
ported missing. 1t is said, among other
things, that while delivering total absti-
hence speeches Kelly was a partner OF
a relative in the saloon business. The
owen Kelly his friends knew was
shrewd, careful business man. In expia-
nation of the disappearance and the ac-
tons that preceded it, Mr.. Kelly's friends
attribute them to a mental disease which
came to climax about a year ago. At
that time he was confined to his room,
Tor a month. and was under treatment in
the University of Pennsylvania hospital
Tor about six weeks. All this time he
was in absolute darkness, the physicians
1orbldding even candle light in the room.
While his eyes were most affected, it is
believes this affection was but the mani
hesitation of more serious disorder, af-
fectIng his mind. Although he was sup
posed to be wealthy, scarcely a penny
remains of his none
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
In the National CanifaI.

Porto Rico is to have a system of civil
service similar to that now in force in
the Philippines.
A bill has been proposed in Congress
giving interstate commerce commission
power TO FIX freight rates on complaint.
rates to stand pending appeal to Supreme
Court
Senator Stewart introduced a bill to
fix che salaries Of the President at $780,
600 the Vice President and Speaker Of
the House Of Representatives at $40
600 each. and each Senator Representa-
tive and delegate at $4,000
Negotiations are being pressed looking
for the reconvening of the joint high
commission representing the United
States and Great Britain to consider
Canadian reciprocity.
The War Department announced that
Il had named the various seacoast bat
teries after officers who had distinguish
ed themselves in the revolution and other
wars Of the country
Secretary Hays report on the natural
;zation of aliens, laid before Congress.
~bo.vs that during the calendar year Of
4oo2 the State Department issued &c.
41- nassnorts. Mr.. Hay recommends
that the law should restrict naturaliza-
ton to certain courts.
J. Hampton Moore OF Philadelphia,
president Of the National League Of Re
n,,b,ican Clubs. has been appointed chief
~ the bureau Of manufactures Of the De-
partment Of Commerce.
BIZ stipulation Of counsel the inter
stafe commerce commission postponed
until February the hearing OF arguments
IA the case Of W. Z. Hearst gainst the
anthracite coal carrying railroads.
By direction Of the President. Captain
Robert L. Howe. Sixth cavalry, has been
appointed commandant of cadets at the
West Point Academy from June Is.
1905. Captain Howe was one Of the
officers charged by Gen. Miles with haE-
lag abused and i'll treated Filipinos-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
HUSBANDS HORRIBLE CRIME.
Kills Wife and Two Infants and Fatally
Wounds Himself.


John Miller, % years of age, waiter
employed II Porter's restaurant, killed
his wife and Two children at his home, SO
Lewis street, Chicago. After shooting
them, he cut their throats with a razor
Then he cut his own THROAT and shot
himself in the breast. Miller had been
drinking in North Side groggeries all
evening. He returned to his home after
midnight with all his money gone and
much the worse for liquor His wife,
who is Il waitress also, met him at the
door. She lectured him severely upon
his drinking and dissolute life, which bad
shifted the burden of the family's sup
port upon her own shoulders. Stung to
madness by her tongue lashing, the
drink-crazed man drew a revolver from
his pocket and began shooting. His
wife fell at his feet with two bullets in
her body. Miller, thoroughly aroused
then, dashed past her PROSTATE form into
the room where his two little children
he been sleeping. They >were vide
awake and were rubbing their eyes to
learn what all the noise was about, when
their father leaped upon them and shot
them, one after the other, with unerring
aim, and they toppled over upon the bed
unconscious. To make sure his work of
death had been successful, Miller secured
q razor from bureau drawer and delib
erately cut the threats of his wife and
children, and then hacked their bodies,
Then, standing where he could survey his
murderous handiwork, he cut his own
throat. He did not die quick enough to
suit him and he pressed the pistol to his
breast and sent its remaining load into
his bosom. \ moment later neighbors
burst down the door of his rooms. Miller
regained consciousness after being taken
to the hospital, but. cannot recover.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
FREED FROM PRISON.
William E. Hinshaw, Convicted of Wife
Murder, Paroleu in Indiana.

Murder, Paroleu in Indiana
The last official act of retiring Gov.
Winfield L. Durbin of Indiana was the
unconditional parole of William Z. Hin
81 W, a minister, convicted of the muir
der of his wife, Thurza Hinshaw, at
Belleville, Ind, ten years ago Since his
conviction the Rev. Hinshaw has been
confined in the Michigan CITY prison. In
issuing the unconditional parole Gov.
DurbiH took the position that the State
IN the prosecution of the ease had failed
utterly to establish a motive for the
crime The case to-day, the Governor
Years ago, and all the intervening years
have failed to throw new light on the
tragedy. According to the Governor, the
history of the case is sufficient reason
Tor the release of the prisoner. The
murder occurred at Belleville about ] a.
IN. Jan. 10, 1895. Hinshaws story was
that burglars got into the house and that
he and his wife had a desperate fight
with them. Mrs Hinshaw was slashed
eighteen times with a razor and shot
twice. The trial occupied five weeks in
the Hendricks Circuit Court, the theory
OF the prosecution being that Hinshaw
and his wife quarreled over another
woman; that Mrs. Hinshaw threw her
self down on the bed and was shot by
her husband, who inflicted the wounds
on himself to carry out the burglar story;
that he carried her TO the place where
she was found and then gave the alarm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
CHICAGO.


Results of last years business.
viewed as a whole. present better
showing than was expected. this being
entirely accounted for by the rapid
recovery in the consumption OF com
moditieS throughout the last quarter.
Manufacturing returns are not equal.
but most of the leading distributive
branches of general merchandise ex-
hibit gains over 1908. clothing and dry
goods being conspicuous in this re-
spect.
The new year trade opened under
encouraging conditions. wholesome
confidence in the future forming the
basis Of the new effort. The ont
look generally seems to be gratifying
in all lines of industry, and this is
supplemented by the favorable state of
fhe growing crops. Local dealings this
week We're of the normal yolume.
Frequent recorders Indicate that stocks
of winter goods already are we'll
broken into, while country adyices
show that sales have been well IN 10
expectations, particularly so during
the holidays.
Agriculturists continue to realize
probably upon their products. and
this assures the mems for liberal pur-
chases of necessities ana for improve
ments. Good reasons appear for ex.
pecting large trade in spring staples.
and statesmen are now actively can
vassing with fair success in the in
terror. Notwithstanding difficulties Of
transportation due to severe weather
railroad earnings are larger than
year ago, and an unusually heavy move
ment is noted of farm products and
manufactured materials. Mercantile
collections show more promptness, de-
faults in this direction having de-
creased and the failures include few of
importance.
Board of trade activity. rs reflected
by increased clearings for 1904, have
been fully sustained by the volume of
current operations Grain shipments,
3,313,260 bushels, are 80 per cent more
than those a year ago, while receipts
aggregated 4,S55.436 bushels, against
3,056,T1S bushels year ago. QGota-
tons for wheat. corn and oats closed
a little under those a week ago. but
flour turned slightly higher. Provisions
and live stock have been in more ample
supply. and the average of prices
showed a small decline. although pork
and lard advanced.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17

A sign Of the times which is of a most
encourag ing nature. is the fact that there
were fewer iynchings in 1904 than in
any previous year since 1885. LyBelings
for the past year number 81. as com
pared with 104 the previous year, 90 in
1902 and 135 in 1901. November was
the one month in twenty years during
which no lynching was reported north or
south. OF the 81 lynchings s. took place
in the south and in the north. There
were Sc negro victims and whites. Two
women were among the number. The
high water mark for lynchin9s was in
1892. when nab vengeance was wreaked
on 235 persons.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
SOCIETY ABOVE HER BABES.
Man Alleges Wife Dragged Children
So She Might Leave Them.


Charles w. Armstrong, a well-to-do
Seattle business man, on the stand in
the Superior Court testified that his
WIFE, whom he is suing for divorce,
caused the death of their three children
by doping them with drugs to make them
sleep that she might attend to social
duties. lie added that he had been told
IN each instance by his physician that
TINS was the cause of their death. In
the day time when he was about the
mousse he said if any of the babies wor-
RED or cried Mrs. Armstrong jumped
lor bottle of patent medicine designed
TO induce sleep and forced the stuff down
the infants throat until it lost con-
seriousness. All of the children died with
IN lew months after birth. My wife
never thought of leaving the house to
make call without putting her babe In
a comatose state, in which it would re-
main until her return" On this testi-
mony the decree was granted. Mrs.
Armstrong is at the present time in the
East, having separated from her hus-
band. Whether or not action will be
taken on the testimony the prosecuting
attorney refuses to state.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
Bradstreet's weekly
| New York.

F Bradsueet's weekly
Nav Y0rk trade report takes hope
49, =- ful view of the situation
Throughout tho country. 1t says: Sea
sonable quiet rules distribution at
present. Consideration of past favor
able results and preparations for what
is confidently hoped to be a prosperous
years trade eugrosses wholesalers and
jobbers. Cold weather, however, makes
for a fair retail trade in winter goods,
and this. with necessary replenishment
of broken stocks, induces fair we
asserting demand at leading centers.
Buttressing the expectations of a sat
isfactory spring to come are the fair
volume of orders already booked in
leading lines Of dry goods. shoes, cloth
ing and kindred articles and the gen
orally small stocks reported carried in
final distributors hands. Western job
bers' stocks are reported 10 to 30 per
cent smaller than a yeaf ago at this
date, and this fact coupled with the
knowledge that the coming three and
six months business will compare with
a reduced volume 4 year ago. leads to
the belief that comparisons from now
on will favor the present year.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ended Jan. num-
Der 262. against 21S last week, 262 in
the like week in 1904, 33G in 1903, 346
in 1902 and 322 in 1901. In Canada
failures for the week number Is,
against 20 last week, and 40 in this
week a year ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
IDLE YARN COSTS s5,ooo.ooo.
Fear of cabbage Snake. Causes Grea'
Losses on That Vegetable.

rear of cabbage Snake Causes Great
Losses on That Vegetable.
Five million dollars paid for lie' is
the way J. w. Brown, Des Moines
wholesale produce merchant describes
the sequel to the story concerning the
cabbage snake. Some one started yarn
to the effect that small worm, or snake,
was concealed in many of the cabbages
on the market, and as a result cabbages
are rotting in the produce cellars. Peo-
pie are afraid to buy them. 1t is esti-
mated that there are at least $4,000
worth of cabbage in Des Moines which
no one viii purchase, while it is claimed
that the damage caused by the story
throughout the nation will not be less
than 100000. Trade papers are dis
cussing the matter in a furious vein, and
regular cabbage raisers declare they
would raise a big reward for the punish
meIt of the cabbage snake liar if pun
ishment We're possible.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17

election commissioners We're properly Off
GERS of the court, and as such it was
their duty to turn over to the legislative
committee the ballot boxes used at the
last election. The chief justice therefore
issued an order to that effect. Follow
ing the courts decision the two houses
of the Legislature met, annulled all ac-
ton taken Friday after the big row be-
tween Speaker Dickson and Lieut.. Gov.
Haggott, and then proceeded to canvass
the vote for State officials. Alva Adams
was declared elected Governor and was
given the certificate of election. He was
inaugurated Tuesday.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
VERGE OF cHURcH-GoINe EPOCH

DIR. Hills Says Religious Enthusiasm
Is About to Sweep Country.
That the golden age of religious enthu-
siasm and activity is about to sweep
over this country and that an unequaled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17

New Mexico and the proposed State of Okla
homa, taking in Oklahoma and Indian Ter terry.
Immigrants are descending upon the ter
ritory in a great food, and its resources
are being developed at an amazing rate.
The territory is declared by some au-
thorities to be the richest section of the
Union, Its soil is so fertile and climatic
conditions so varied that crops varying
all the way from cotton to wheat con
be raised within its borders
There are mineral deposits that have
hardly been touched, but are already
yielding great wealth. This is true par
ticularly of the coal and oil lands The
Indians, as a rule, are intelligent. as the
result of excellent schools scattered
through the territory. They are engaged
in farming and mercantile pursuits. A
man getting a letter from one of these
Indian chiefs is liable to find that it is
typewriter and has been dictated to a
stenographer
In point of territory the new State of
Arizona will comprise 235,000 and Okla
homa 70,430 square miles.
Their Railroad Facilities.
Every county in Oklahoma has some
railroad mileage and several cities have
from three to eight lines. The assessed
valuation of the railroad property ex-
ceeds 100000. Flour mills i'll the
territory have a capacity of 1865 bar
rels per day. The capacity of the wheat
elevators is 3,525, 000 Returns made by
the assessors this year place the taxable
property in the territory at $90.609, 073,
but Gov. Ferguson estimates that the
true value exceeds $500,000000.
Deposits in the national banks of Ari-
IONA exceed $5,000,000. The copper pro
duction last year was 250,000,000 pounds.
The territory is rich in agriculture as
well as mining and irrigation will soon
add by many thousands to the acres of
tillaole lands.
New Mexico shipped last year 100000
head of cattle and 30000,000 pounds of
wool. 1t is traversed by three transcon-
tinental railroads. The territory is rich
in COAL iron and lumber, as well as the
more valuable minerals, and it is claim
ed that when the waters now wasted are
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17

becoming creative" he said. 1--WE have
been in a dollhouse condition for twenty
years. We have analysed the Bible and
do ymatized the Bible, and have had
heresy trials that were more dangerous
than Chicago fires, and we have asked
questions and answered them. We have
passed from the old thought that the
werld was created in six days to the new
thought that God is making a new world
every moment. AT length we understand
that God is not far off, that He is Dot to
interrupt eur laws with miracles, but
that He is close to man and is living
with him all the time. All this is the
result of science. We are at the begin
ming of one of the greatest church-going
epochS in all history"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
Big Transportation Deal.

Deal for merger of the Chicago
Union Traction Company and the Chi
eago City Railway Company was ear
ried out in New York. j. Pierpont Nor
gan being at the head of a syndicate
which will control the two lines. Mar
shall Field, John ]. Mitchell and other
Chicago capitalists arr parties to the
huge transaction, which involves the ex-
penditure of $36000,000 for City Rail-
way stock and possibly $50000,000 for
rehabilitation Of the lines
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
FATALLY SHOT IN OFFICE.
Man Likely to Die from Wound In
fitted hv Unknown Enemy.

While Wilson Addington, a well-known
politician and horseman, was seated i'll
his office in Marion, Ind, a man came to
a window, and, after a hasty glance in
side, fired through the glass. Addington
fell with q gaping wound in his abdo-
men, and it is believed he cannot survive.
Ten minutes later, Charles Sprong, an
oil r;S5 builder in the oil field, who came
there recently from Spencerville, Ohio,
was arrested. I'm Sprong's pocket was
found a revolver with one of he five
chambers e1pty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
CAN TIED TO DOG ExPLoDEs.
Boys Prank Wrecks Home and Two
Are Badly Hurt.

Two boys, battered tin can, piece
of string, a homeless dog, the mother of
one of the boys and her infant-these
were the dramatis personae in lurid
melodrama in Rush county, Indiana. The
boys, George Gowdy and Cornelius Win
ship, found the can near an abandoned
gas well. With a piece of string they
attached it to the tail of the dog. Mrs.
Winship opened the door, attracted by
the bowling of the dog. Enter dog. Tx
plosion. Mrs. Winship and infant hurled
through doorway, badly hurt Two rooms
demolished. Crib and furniture wrecked.
Can contained nitroglycerin. Where
abouts of dog unknown. Damage $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-01-17
Canadian Capitalists Buy Railroad.

The Alaska Central Railroad, building
from Seward to the Tanana River in
Alaska, has changed hands. Canadian
capitalists have purchased the interest
owned by Shedd Brothers of Chicago
The Chicago capitalists did not want to
build more than twenty miles "a year.
This did not suit the stockholders, so the
sale was perfected. The road will be
rushed to completion.