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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
SIXTEEN MILLIONS NEEDED
Estimate by War Department TO
Presentation tn Conpress

Estimate by War Department for
Presentation to Congress.
An estimate of S16,000,OO0 for contin-
uing work ON the Panama canal has been
sent to the Treasury Department from
the War Department to be sent to Con
gress.
The estimate of S16,000,000 is for ex-
penditure up to and including the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1907. A part of
this money will be necessary at once,
and an emergency appropriation will be
asked as soon as Congress cOnvenes so
that the work may proceed. 1t is stated
at the offices of the commission that I'M
less money is provided as soon as Con-
gress convenes all work must cease The
estimate is made without regard to the
proposal to Issue bonds.
Advocates of a lock canal have not
given up their plan, notwithstanding the
fact that the consulting engineers have
decided in favor Of sea level canal. 1t
is pointed out that the final decision rests
with the President, and that the matter
of time and expense will be considered
carefully by him. 1t is known also that
the President is very anxious to have the
work completed at an early date, and for
that reason he is believed to favor a lock
canal. A strong minority report in favor
of a lock canal will be made by the five
engineers who disagreed with the major
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
LAND OF THE CAUCASUS.

The chief cities are Tifiis, the capt
tai, and Baku.
In 1897 the population was 9,24S,6 $50,
or "a per square mile.
By cessions from Persia and Turkey
Russia had obtained by 1929 nominal
control over nearly the entire coun-
try.
The Russians entered the region in
177O. Kuban and Terek became theirs
in 1774, Derbent, Baku and Kubu in
1896.
The uprising against Russian con-
troll during the Russo-Turkish war,
1S77-7S, proved wholly futile, despite
the active assistance of the Turks.
The Caucasus is a very favorable re-
gion for live stock raising. The native
horses are held in high repute all over
Europe for their speed and endurance.
Enthusiastically there are three gov
ernmesats and provinces in Northern
Caucasia (Stavropol, Kuban and Te-
rek) and eight in Transcaucasia (Baku.
Black Sea Daghestan, Yelizavetpol,
Erivan, Kars, Kutais and Tilis with
Zakataly).
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Rricf News Items.

One person was killed and nearly 200
were injured by socialist riots in Prague.
According TO specifications sent to the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce,
Manila is to have ffty-two miles of sew
ers and ten miles of forty-two-inch water
mains.
C. p. Crawford, convicted Of having
murdered Heine Lundin in box car
1T Elk River, Mimi, must die Dec. 3.
Gov. Johnson fixed that date for the
hanging.
Mrs. Arthur Massengil of Oil Valley,
KY, was burned to death and her hus-
band and sister-in-law fatally injured
in blaze caused by starting a fire with
kerosene. ~
Raisuli. the Morocco bandit, has cap
tired a wealthy Moor named Abdeslam
Akahbon, whom he holds for ransom.
Raisula got $4,000 for the release of
Peridearis.
John Vaughan, his wife and 12-year-
old child were killed in runaway acct
dent on a mountain road near Bedford
City, Va.
Mayor Johnson of Cleveland, in order
to check suicides there, has named
committee to dissuade people from TAX
ing their own lives.
Arnold " Peterson, a dentist Of New
York, is urder arrest at Winnipeg
charged with stealing $1,000 worth Of
furs from a local store.
Mrs. Margaret Jenkins, deserted by
her husband, arrived at Wilkesbarre.
Pa. the other day, after a journey from
Nevada, disguised as a tramp.
Andrew Ingan, 81 years old, was shot
and instantly killed in a tenement house
fight in Canal street, New York. Tony
Mori. 20 years old. is wanted By the po-
lice for the shooting.
The Rev. Frank L. Ray, Phi. D.,
former student at the University of Chi
cago. has been appointed to the chair of
biblical literature in George Washing
.sa University, Washington, d. C.
The diplomatic Representatives of the
South American republics to this coun-
try viii decide Dec. at Washington
which country viii be the meeting place
of the next PaD-American Congress in
1907. Caracas. Venezuela, is likely to
be selected.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
POSTAL DEPARTMENT NEEDS.
Estimates Are Now Completed for
Year Ending June 30, 1907.

fsstfmates Are Now Completed for
Year Ending June 80, 1907.
Postmaster General Cortelyou re
Gently completed and forwarded to the
Secretary of the Treasury the esti-
mates for the Postoffice Department
for the fiscal year ending June 80
1907. They show reduction of ex-
penses wherever it is believed Il will
not impair the service, bur provision
for development of postal facilities to
meet the growing needs of all sections
of the country. The amount asked for
salaries in the department is $1,461,-
2S0, an apparent increase of SCI 800
over the current appropriation, but as
$4,000 of this is simply transfer
from other appropriations the net in
crease is only $1,000. The estimate
submitted for next year is $4,000 less
than the estimate submitted one year
ago. The clerical force of the depart
ment, therefore, will remain PRACTICAL
ly as it now is during the next fiscal
year.
Estimates for the postal service at
large-the field service - aggregate
1913, 100000, an increase over last
years appropriation of about $4,000
600. This increase represents The nor
NAL growth of the service based upon
what the postal authorities regard as
the most careful and conservative esti-
mates. Each succeeding year sees a
large increase in the business of the
department The principal items in
the increase are the rural delivery SER
vice. railway mail service, compensa-
ton to poStmasterS and their clerks
and the compensation of letter carri-
ers.
For the maintenance of the rural de
livery service and its proper extension
over $29,000,000 viii be required. This
is an increase of $3,600O00 over che ap-
preparation for the current year. which
in turn is over 100000 more than
that of last year, so that the present
estimate is $1,400O00 less than the in
crease of the present over the preced-
ing year.
The estimates for the railway mail
service and railway mail transportation
call for an increase of about $3,600,00O
over the current appropriation.
To provide for the compensation of
postmasters and clerks in postoffices
an increase of nearly $1,000 600 will be
necessary for the coming years. and
for the compensation of city letter car
riers an increase of more than 5000 OSO
will be needed, which is $4,000 less
than the increase of the appropriation.
for the present year over that for the
preceding year.
That the extension of the pneumatic
tube service is contemplated is shown
by the fact that the estimate carries
$4,000 more than the current appro-
priation.
The deficit for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 1905, ' as $14,572, 5S4. IF re-
cent calculations are as accurate as
they have been frequently in the past"
says the Postmaster General. "they
afford good reason for believing that
the deficit for the year ending June 80,
1906, will be considerably less. 1t is
an interesting fact that the total reve-
nue. for the fiscal year 1905 exceeded
the total expenditures for the fiscal
year 1904 by nearly $500,00O"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Denver Post.

Sunday morning, having missed the
tide, owing to the bad weather.
Nearly all the people on board were
asleep at the time. Two boats were
lowered, one of which was picked up
by the Ada, and the second was found
empty at st. Cast, where thirteen
bodies were washed ashore.
Seven bodies wearing life belts We're
stranded off the village Of st. Cast
The coast near st. Malo is covered
with wreckage and some cattle.
TwO-thirds of the Hilda's passengers
were French farmers returning to
France with heavy sums in gold from
the sale of their yearly harvest of
onions and potatoes. The others were
English families who were going to
pass the winter at Dinard The wreck
lies on the beach three miles off st.
Malo, showing only her main mast and
forecastle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
HEIRS CHARGE HUGE FRAUD.
James N. Gamble, Cincinnati Re-
former, Is Sued for $1,237,O0O.

James N. Gamble, Cincinnati Re-
former, Is Sued for 81, 237 1000.
In suit brought by Percy Jones and
olivia Minister, granddaughters of the
late William Proctor, one of the found
ers of the Proctor & Gamble Company,
1t is alleged that James n. Gamble,
leader of the reform movement in Gin
clnnati and chairman of the honest cleo
tons committee, together with other eX-
ecutors of the estate of William Proc
ter, have defrauded the defendants out
OF Sl,231 900. This represents 2212 per
cent Of the $6,5OO,OO0 which the old firm
received when the company was formed
1t being claimed that William Procter's
interest was that percentage. The allie
cations are that the appraisers, accept
ing the figures of Gamble and the other
executors, set the share of the Proctor
heirs at only $30S,000 and that this sum
has not been paid. The heirs allege
that the good will, worth $2,000,OO0,
was not counted in the appraisal and the
value of the plant was estimated al
$4,000, when it should have been 81
100000. Mr.. Gamble says a similar suit
was brought once before, but was
dropped, and that the Proctor heirs have
already got more than their shares.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
CORNER STONE LAID AT CANTON.
memorial Association Starts Free
fion of Mckinley Monument.

Memorial Association starts Erec-
fion of Mckinley Monument.
In the presence of Mrs. Mckinley. the
trustees of the Mckinley Memorial As
ISOLATION, other noted guests and citizens
and school children of Canton, the corner
stone of the Mckinley monument, the
gilt of the American people, was formal
ly laid in Canton, Ohio. Justice William
X. Day, Secretary Of State and peace
commissioner to Paris during Mckinley's
administration, presided. Rev. y. w.
Holmes. ID. D., pastor of the First Meth
odist Church, Of which Mckinley was a
member and trustee. offered prayer. The
Grand Army Band played America.
A box containing the records. newspa-
pers and list of the names of trustees
was put into a niche of the corner stone
by Frederic s. Hartzel, assistant secre-
tary of the memorial association. The
corner stone was then formally placed by
Justice Day. Nearer, My God, to
Thee" was played by the Grand Army
Band, and the assemblage dispersed.
The trustees present included Vice Pres
ident Charles w. Fairbanks, Postmaster
General George B. Cortelyou, Governor
Myron 7. Herrick, Cleveland; Charles q.
Dawes and A. H. Revell, Chicago; Z. n.
Bliss, New York.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
CAD" FINDS LOST DAUGHTER.
Girl Missing for Twenty Years to
RejOin Her Anxious Father.


RejOin Her Anxious Father.
Printers ink is responsible for G.. r..
Bennett of Sayre, Pa, securing infor-
nation regarding his daughter. who when
he last saw her was a crying baby in
her grandmother's arms but is now in
the full flush of womanhoOd. The daugh-
ter was born in Riegelsville, Pa, on Nov.
-, 1888, and was baptized as Louise
d. Bennett in the Episcopal church at
Easton. Six months after her birth her
mother died and the child was given into
the keeping of the grandmother with
the understanding that Bennett would be
notified once a month as to her welfare
After two years the grandmother ceased
writing Bennett. During all the inter-
vening years he has yearned for his
child and recently Rev. f. t. Cody
rector of the Church of the Redeemer,
advertised in all the religious papers OF
the Episcopal church, saying that he had
valuable information for Louise ID. Ben
nett. She finally replied herself from
the home of her uncle in Denver, Colo,
where she resides, financially indepen
dent and now a reunion of father and
daughter is being arranged
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28

as it was attended by all the princes
and princesses and their suites, the
diplomatic corps, including the Amer
lean minister. Mr.. O'Brien, and the
high court officials.
President Berner in a speech lasting
five minutes invited Prince Charles to
become King of Norway, and King
Christian, with similar breyity, accept
ed the offer. The old king was much
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28

affected as he blessed and embraced
his grandchildren, King HaakOn VII.
and Queen Maud
The close of the ceremony was sig
nailed by the firing of a royal salute.
An enormous crowd gathered in front
of the palace and gave a rousing re-
cepton to the new king and queen CT
Norway as they left the palace in a
gilded state chariot
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
OvERRUN With Thieves.
Battle Royal Between PicIxpockets
and Police in New York.

Battle Royal Between PicIxDocI1ets
and Police in New York.
New York City is overrun with pick
pockets. According to Captain McCau-
ley, Of the detective bureau, from fifteen
to twenty suspects are arrested daily
and battle royal is going on between
the police and the light-fngered gentry.
Night and day every part of the city is
covered with Commissioner McAdoo's
men, and it is an exceptionally alert pick
pocket who does not walk into the net.
Every car line in the city has its detect
ives. They work in pairs covering their
section, which varies according to the
district.
The preferred field of activity of pro-
fessional pickpockets is the crowded
street cars. Most often the woman with
children is the victim of their operations.
The pickpocket, who is oftentimes a
woman, will play with the children or
engage them in conversation, to distract
the mothers attention. When she does
this successfully her confederates seize
the opportunity to ''sneak" her pocket.
book and make off.
Most of the professional pickpockets
NOlh III SAOuDSs anu every CIQue has
its speciality. For instance, a pickpock-
ct who would "sneak" a pocketbook
would seldom attempt to purloin a watch
or a diamond scarfpin. Some thieves
have a mania for diamond scarfpins and
would never think of touching anything
else. Most thieves prefer the pocket
book, as there is less danger Of their
theft becoming known. One pickpOcket
at headquarters explained that he would
never run the risk of lifting a watch,
because, he said, people make a good
deal more fuss about losing their watch
than they would a pocketbooA or any
thing else.
Nearly 5000 photographs in the
rogues' gallery at the detective head
quarters, of men and women who ply
tie profession of dipping" as they
themselves term it. testify to the in
creasing number of members of the
light Fingered gentry.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Bridge Company,s Plant Rnrn.

The loss in the fire at the Riverside
Bridge Company's plant in Martins Fer
ry, Ohio, will exceed 100000. All the
buildings, which were iron and steel and
regarded as fireproof, were DESTROYED.
The cause of the fire has not been ascer-
tanned
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
TEAR DOWN WIDOWS HOME.

Thousand Men defy Court and
Wreck House in Owners Absence.
A thousand men were employed by
Jones & Laughlins in Pittsburg to tear
down the house of a widow who refused
to sell. thus retarding proposed $40,
100000 improvement. The woman was
offered a $4,000 bonus, but refused be
cause her husband took her there as a
bride Notice was served on her and she
started to court for an injunction. While
away the 1000 employees overcame fe-
rocious watch dogs and, defying the
court, tore down the house within half
an hour.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Frost Buys Trolley Line.

A deal has been closed whereby A. c..
Frost, president of the Chicago and
Milwaukee Railway Company purchased
the Kenosha Electric Railway franchise,
the consideration being $35O,OOO. Mr.
Frost said the line would not be taken
over at once owing to certain laws gov
erning the Kenosha property, but that
the through line would be opened Dec
2 next,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
nrnnes RnptismaI Font nIncI,.

Rev. Francis II. Sinclair pastor of
IS. Peter and Paul's Roman Catholic
church in Rochester, n. Y, registered
protest against race suicide by causing
to be draped in mourning the baptismal
font in his church. He was prompted
to this act because for six weeks not
enc infant has received the sacrament of
haptism in his church.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Get. Divorce from con,.

Countess Louisa May De Szilassy was
granted a divorce in Detroit from Count
Gyula De Szilassy of Austria on the
grounds of desertion and non-supnort
The countess was Miss Hecker, daugh-
ter of Col. Frank ]. Hecker of Detroit
former member of the isthmian canal
com mission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
McCurdy's Salary Reduced.

President Richard A. McCurdy of the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, coin
cident with drastic report of the spe-
cial investigating committee, made at
the meeting Of trustees in New York.
demanding reforms and economies in the
management of the company announced
a voluntary reduction of his salary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Fatal Fire in Scottish CITY.

Thirty-nine persons met death and n
large number of others were injured in
a fire which swept through a crowded
cheap lodging house occupied by $50
men in Glasgow. The fire started at G
a. m, when most of the men We're asleep
and many were killed by suffocation.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
CASUALTIES OF THE RUSSIANS.
Mnnchurian Army Lost 1852 in
Battle and 1880 by Disease.

Col John Van r. Hoff, medical de-
partment L. S. A., who has recently re-
turned from the Russian army in Man
cburia, with which he went through part
of the campaign in the war against
Japan, has been authorized by the chief
of staff to give out excerpts of his Off
cial report. According to Col. Hoff the
number Of killed and dead Of wounds
was 1862 men and the number of men
dead from disease 1880. These statis-
tics are exclusive of casualties at Port
Arthur and show almost exactly two men
dead from results Of battle to one man
dead from sickness. This record is,
according to statistics, the best made
in any war up to the present time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28

The annual distribution of vegetable
and flower seeds by the Department
of Agriculture will begin soon, and be-
fore planting time 1t is expected the
entire amount, aggregating 3S,0O0000
packages, will be in the hands of the
people in all sections of the country.
Congress for several years has appro-
priated $290,000 for this purpose, but
a portion of the amount is used for
foreign experiment work. Most of the
packages are subject to the order of
Senators and Representatives for dis
tribution among their constituents, the
Secretary Of Agriculture reserving one
fifth of the entire amount to supply the
statistical crop correspondents, the
weather bureau and for other pur-
poses.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Cbicomo Hunter Ia Killed

John Gebhardt, young Chicago Bohe-
milan. was shot and killed while hunting
on the grounds of the American Coloni-
cation Society of Chicago, near Rich
mond, Va. Ed Xehle, the man who kill
ed him accidentally, is being watched
to prevent him taking his own life.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Presidents SON Hurt in Game

Worn out by hard fighting against
team composed of men far heavier than
he, battered and smashed by end plays,
in which he was trampled down and
stepped upon, Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.,
was laid out in the Harvard-Yale fresh
man football game so that he had to be
carried from the field.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Hunters Seek Giant Moose.

giant moose of remarkable coloring
is reported to be ranging in the woods
near Duluth, MINI. Several parties of
hunters have sighted the animal, which
is said to combine the national colors-
red white and blue. There is great
competition among huntsmen to kill this
moose.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
To Renew Chinese Boycott.

Renewal of the Chinese boycott
against American goods is planned, WI
Ting Fang being removed from power
to make way for the leader of the anti
American party, which demands the abo-
litiOn of immigration restrictions by the
United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28

There promises to be the hottest kind
of fight in Congress over the ques-
ton of the type of canal to be con-
structed across the isthmus of Pana-
ma. Whatever may be the recommen-
dalton of the President, based upon
views expressed by the board of con-
sulting engineers and the isthmian ca
nal commission, advocates of sea
level type and lock type will engage
in a battle royal, which is calculated
to please only those interests charged
by Secretary Taft and Chairman
ShOnts with working to prevent the
building of the waterway.
A historian has been appointed for
the Panama Canal. He will hence
forth keep track of every event in
connection with that world-famous
project. How glad the chroniclers of
the past would have been to get on
the scenes destined to command the
worlds attention just before the ex-
element began. Many photographs
have accidentally been taken at criti-
cal moments. A care-free tourist had
his camera pointed at the Campanile
in Venice just as it fell.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
Girl Climbs High smoIsestnck.

Fifteen-year-old Grisella Held met a
dare from her classmates in Waterbury,
Conn, by climbing to the top of the
smokestack of a manufacturing plant.
$50 feet. Grisella never faltered until
she placed a flag at the top of the stack.
The girl made the ascent by means of
ladders and a rope inside the chimney.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28
SAVES CHUM IN ICEBERG CRASH.
student Rescues Friend on Ice Noun
tain When 1t CoIIaDses.

tain When 1t CoIIapses.
Word has been received in New York
City that Clifford Hamilton Easton, the
young Biltmore student who is Dillon
Wallace's sole companion now in the re-
mote regions of Labrador, narrowly es-
capped drowning off the coast of St.
Johns, n. F., as the result of the col
lapse of an iceberg. G. w. Richards,
the young Columbia student who left tho
expedition and is now on his way home,
saved Easton's life. Easton had rowed
to the iceberg in a skiff from the ship
and climbed to its top. While he was
still clinging to his perilous perch the
ice mountain split in two and Easton
was seen to plunge forward into the sea
amid thousands of tons of ice fragments.
Young Richards, who had put off in an
other boat to join his friend, at the great
est hazard to his Iife rowed in among
the great plunging chunks of ice and
pulled Easton into his boat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28

Offificia statements show that the
Postoffice Department deficit for the
last fiscal year amounts to the large
sum of S15,0S7O0O. This TALES prac-
tically with the treasury deficit for the
first quarter of the present year and
the sharply suggested deduction is that
if the mail service should be placed
on a paying basis the governments
finances would present a fairer face.
The width of the gulf between the re-
ceipts and the expenditures of Mr..
Cortelyou's department has brought
to Washington Representative Jesse
Overstreet, chairman of the House
Committee on Postoffices and Post
Roads, who is in consultation daily
with the official in the effort to devise
means to cut expenses or increase the
income.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-11-28

| of Elyria. Ohio. has been on trial. rem
dered a decision that the charges of inl-
morality against him had not been
proved. The council finds. however, that
Rev. Mr.. Wannamaker has been indisr
Greet and advises that he retire from the
ministry for the present.