Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-10-10
SHORT NEWS ITEMS.

sided in Clintonville but came here dur
ing the summer for medical treatment.
She had been i'll for a year. Her re-
mains were removed to Clintonville
this noon for burial.
The crew employed in handling
freight in the Northwestern Ry. Co.'s
freight depot went out on strike yes
terday morning. There is a large
amount of freight to handle at present
and the men were dissatisfied with the
wages they were getting and requested
more pay. Their request was refused
and they walked out. The force en-
ployed in the office went to work and
took the strikers places, and have their
hands full attending to Office work and
wrestling heavy boxes of merchandise
Never before has a musical comedy
been presented in such an elaborated
manner, as will signalize the forth
coming production of that most delight
full of all musical comedies, "Hans an
Nix in this city on Sunday, Oct. Is.
The scenery, costumes and stage
properties are all new. An absolute
regard for the eternal fitness of things,
have led the managers of this produc-
ton to insist upon eXactness in the
matter of costumes, effects and other
things incidental to the production.
The cast, which has been employed to
interpret the various roles, includes
some of the best musical comedy per-
formers on the stage. Prices 25-35-50
cents.
The town of Knowlton last spring
was urged to start highways east to-
wards the Pike Lake country. There
was more or less opposition and moth
ing was done. The Holway Land
company has built road from the vii
lage of MOsinee leading east and large
amount of the Pike Lake trade is being
diverted from Stevens Point to Mosinee.
The people in the town of Knowlton are
discovering that if they had built SINH
lar road last spring, much of the trade
would come to their village. We are
informed that movement is now on
foot to extend the Knowlton roads to
the Pike Lake settlement early next
spring.
A horse belonging to S. Rutzky
mysteriously disappeared last night.
Rutzky conducts store in the north
ern section of the city, behind the
creek" and has been in the habit of
allowing his horse the freedom of the
stall in the stable to certain extent.
The animal is not tied up at night, but
is kept from going outside by a chain,
which is stretched across the stall en-
trance. This morning Rutzky found
the stable door pried open and the
horse gone, A halter was also missing
and it is presumed that someone
entered the barn and placed the halter
on the horses head and led him away.
The sheriff is making an effort to locate
the animal.
On Saturday a farmers team ran
away on the west side and that farmer
was the most frightened man imagin-
able. In the wagon box was box con-
tanning twenty-five pounds of dynamite
he had purchased for the purpose of
clearing land of stumps, and the farmer
naturally expected that the dynamite
would be exploded. The horses ran
along Third Ave. and collided with one
of the poles of the city's electric fire
alarm system, causing damage which
had to be repaired. Local hardware
men claim that an ordinary shock, as
might be produced from a runaway,
will not explode dynamite, unless
dynamite caps are contained in the
same box, but nevertheless we would
prefer to be about a mile distant when
such test is being made.
While w. N. Allen was in Mexico the
past summer, his partner, Mr.
Wallace, engaged an Indian sculptor,
Juan Panduro, to make two statues of
him, one of bust and the other full
length size. The statues are made of
clay and Mr.. Allen was required to
pose for eleven hours during the opera
ton. All the tools the Indian used were
a few sharpened sticks and broken
pen knife, and he is an expert. His
son, who is not considered so good a
workman as his father, was engaged
for $25 per day at the Chicago and st.
Louis fairs to make images of people.
The work of Panduro is so good that
anyone can at once recognize the
features of one whom he has modelled
in clay-his statuettes are all life-like.
In coming home, one of the images was
broken, but viii be fixed up and sent to
Detroit and done in bronze, when
Billy will be pleased to show it to his
friends.
There is probability that wood will
be cheap this winter-that is, consider
ably cheaper than for any winter for
several winters past. Three mills have
been supplying people with slabs and
have got nearly all their orders filed.
Now they are piling up their surplus
slabs which they cannot dispose ola
thing which they have never done be-
fore. 1t is estimated that each COM
pany will have large quantity on
hand for next season and it may be
possible to get dry wood early in the
spring. Those who burn slabs have got
a winters supply ahead and many of
those who burn hardwood will burn
coal this winter so that there is every
prospect that hardwood will be much
lower in price. The same condition
prevails up at Marinette. The mills
there have been piling their slabs near
~ all summer and will probably ship
them to some other market
Thos. Stack died suddenly this morn
ing at his home, 140S Sixth street, the
cause of death being appoplexy. His
remains will be removed to Tomah for