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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01

time. 1t does not suffice that ends Of
the notes be exposed. The entire
wrapper must be taken off and the
paper money must lie in loose pack
age before the counters. Each package
contains 1000 notes, and. of course, it
is just as easy to count $4,000 in one
dollar bills as 100000 in $4,000
bills.
All coin in the Treasury, except that
kept in the cash vault for current use,
is stored in the two great underground
vaults, one beneath the north court Of
the building and the other adjoining,
beneath the cash room in the north
front. These great strong boxes are
protected by heavy masonry, thick
slabs of steel, immense swinging doors,
cunningly devised time locks and in
genious burglar ala1ms. Since the
money in the building was last count
ed, in 1897, two new vaults have been
added to the eight already in use in
side the building. One of these, Sc
lected to illustrate what the treasury
officials regard as the ideal strong
room, is u feet in each of its three di-
mansions and the lining walls are of
BeSsemer steel plate three-eighths of
an inch thick. By huge screws and
bolts they are fastened to a frame
work of steel built into heavy mason
ry. The 5000 pigeon holes are of steel
and there is not scrap of in1ammable
matter in the furnishings. There are
duplicate locks on the doors, at which
is always posted a guard of two men.
About seventy watchmen are en-
plOyed to guard the treasury vaults.
They work in three renefs, patroling
the entire building at all hours of the
day and night. In the office of the
captain of the watch are recording in
struments to which ea>h Waterman
must send an automatic report once
every half hour.
The office is in CONTINUAL communi-
cation with the chief of the Washing
ton police force, the commandments at
Forts Myer and the Washington ar
senal. Instantly, at the summons of
the captain of the watch, 1000 armed
men-cavalry, artillery and police
would spring up from three points
of the compass and rush upon the
classic building.
a well-equipped armory near the
vaults contains sufficient weapons to
arm more than LOCO men cap-a-pie.
The interior of the great building is
honeycombed with wires facilitating
quick communication, and should any
burglar gang attempt to overpower or
intimidate one of the employees the
pressure of a button would bring an
armed force to the visited room in less
than thirty seconds. At O'Clock each
afternoon all doors of the treasury
building. save the main entrance, are
closed. BY O'Clock all employees must
have left the building and the keys TO
the various doors must have been
turned over to the captain of the watch.
Cooperating with the interior guards
are a force of outside watchmen. sta
toned in sentry boxes commanding n
view of every possible approach to the
building.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
CROW INDIAN LANDS.
In Bargaining with Uncle Sam, Chiefs
Prove Masters of Finance.


Prove Masters of Finance.
Awaiting the word of President Roose-
welt, ], 100000 acres of rich agricultural
and grazing ground are ready for settle
ment under the homestead and other acts
by which a citizen of the United States,
although poor, can acquire an estate.
The land is a part of the hunting
grounds of the Crow Indians in south
eastern Montana, which were years ago
made into a reservation for the members
of the tribe. The government began
negotiating with the Indians for this land
in 1896, and so many delays have there
been that it looks now as if it will be
next spring before the reservation will
be actually thrown open for settlement.
In the bargain for that part of the
reservation for which they have no use
the Grow Indian chiefs have shown them
selves to be masters Of high finance. Not
for kegs of brass tacks, red blankets and
barrels of rum did they barter away the
lands of their fathers, as did the Allan
tic coast Indians in the days when Man
haitian was being settled. Pretty Eagle,
Two Leggings, Medicine Eagle and the
other chiefs were entirely too cup to
date" for that. They saw to it that the
government paid the tribe $1,150O00 for
the surplus acreage, and by this one deal
they made themselves the richest Indians
in the world
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
COL. DANIEL s. LAMONT DEAD.
Passes Away Suddenly of Heart Dis
ease at His Home


Col. Daniel s. Lamont, Secretary of
War in the second Cleveland administra-
ton, died suddenly of heart failure at
his home near Milbrook, n. Y. Mr.. and
Mrs. Lamont were out driving Sunday
afternoon and Mr.. Lamont appeared to
be enjoying the best of health.
Daniel Scott Lamont was born in Cort-
landville, Cortland county, n. Y, Feb. 8,
1851. His father was John B. Lamont
and his mother Elizabeth Scott.
Col. Lamont's close relations with
President Cleveland began at Albany,
when Mr.. Cleveland was Governor and
Mr.. Lamont was political reporter. La
mont accepted Mr.. Cleveland's proffer of
office as private secretary and military
secretary at that time, and the friendship
then cemented grew stronger as the years
passed by. He was private secretary to
Mr.. Cleveland during his first administra-
ton and his Secretary of War in the
second. At the time of his death he
was vice president of the Northern Pa
cifc railway and a director and trustee
in many railroad and financial corpora
tions. He leaves widow and two
daughters.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01


the exception of silver coin, each piece
of money in the twelve vaults will be
handled separately by the fingers of
experts. The $154,000,OOO of silver
money will be taken from the vaults
in bags of 1000 coins. There being
standard weight for each sack, a cor
responding number of pounds and
ounces will be already resting in one
pan of the scales used by the commit
tee. Then the bags will be placed, one
at time, in the opposite pan, and any
which does not tip the beam will be
cut open, its contents being counted
by hand. Should there be a consider
able amount of money lacking either
the retiring or incoming treasurer,
through his representative, may de-
mand an entire count by hand, as was
necessitated eight years ago. In that
event the counters will probably have
to remain in the vaults until some time
in November
Contrary to what one might sup
pose, the hand count of the paper
money is task far less difficult than
that. of the coin. The Counting Com
mittee after unsealing one of the paper
money vaults breaks open the pack
ages of notes or certificates, one at a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Labor Notes.

Detroit, Mich, has a peddlers' union.
A movement has been begun to organ
ize the BARRIERS of Baton Rouge, La
The total expense of strikes and lock.
outs to labor unions in Germany in 1861
was almost 100000.
New lodges of machinists have beer
organized in Hartford, Conn. and Wor-
cester. Mass, by International Vice Pres
ident Walter Ames.
The International Iron Molders' Union
has been requested to accept travelling
cards Of members of the Scottish Iron
Molders' Society by the latter body.
1t is estimated that of total of 1OC,-
600 street railway employees in the Unit
ed States, Oae-half are organized.
Niagara Falls u. " grave diggers
who went out on strike at Fairview GEM
etery for an increase in wages from 81 so
to S1.75, have been frozen out Strike
breakers have been hired and are work
ing for $1.I5 a day.
Union bartenders at St. Joseph, Nc,
have voted to surrender their charter 10
the international unieu The bartenders
say the cooks and the walters control the
national organization and that they are
frequently called on to pay assessments
for strike benefits to them in the larger
cities.
Slate and Soapstone Workers Union
No. 1, of Boston, Mass, has determined
TO request a wage scale calling for mini
mum rates of $3.50 and 81 day in the
several lines. At present 1925 is the
lowest rate. The union says that it has
every man engaged at the work in that
vicinity in its ranks.
1t is said that recently an organization
of night watchmen. of Cleveland, Ohio.
applied for a charter of afiliation with
the A. f. of l., which was refused by
the Federation for the reason that they
are sworn police officers. it being the pol
icy of that body TO refuse to charter any
organization which is composed of sworn
public employees.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
TeIepraphic Brevities,

Fire that started in f. 3. Wright's
art and paint store at Spokane, Wash,
caused losses estimated at $4,000.
The late Baron Alphonse de- Roths-
child left 100000 to be expended in
charities of various kinds without dis
tinction of religion.
e. H. Funston, father of Brig. Gen.
Fred Funston and a former Congress
man, was arrested at lola, Kan, charg-
ed with uttering infammatory remarks
regarding the three saloons blown up
recently.
Independent sheet and tin plate manu-
facturers throughout the country have
announced their intention of accepting
the scale signed with the Amalgamated
Association.
The Venezuelan congress has accepted
the contract signed June in London
by the representatives of Venezuela and
of the sconto-Gessellschaft for the
settlement of the outstanding obligations
Of Venezuela.
Rev. w. d. Wastervelt, former pastor
of the Green Street Congregational
church, Chicago, and Caroline d. Castle,
daughter of /. " Castle, one of the pio-
neer missionaries in Hawaii, were mar
ried at Honolulu.
While on his way 10 work, Martin
ShuItz, a coke woESo', aged 80, was
murdered at UniontoWn, Pa. Informa-
ton charging Andrew Martichei with the
crime has been made and officers are
searching for him.
C. C. May, former president of The
Big Bend bank of Davenport, Wash,
under indictment Of the District Court of
Washington, charged with misapplying
SIS, coo of the funds of the bank and
making false returns TO the Comptroller
of the Currency, appeared before United
States Judge Dodge at Boston and fur
nished bail of 5000 for his appearance
at the September term of the United
States District Court at Tacoma, Wash.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
TO SELL 5000, 900 ACRES.
Texas Area Larger than Ma ssachGsetts
to Go at ST. Per Acre.


The placing on the market of 100000
acres of land owned by the State of
Texas, which will be done on Sept. |
next, will cause the breaking up of many
large cattle ranches in west Texas, where
the land that is to be sold is situated
At present, and for years past, this land
has been under lease by the State to cat
tlemen. 1t was not until late years that
that portion of the State was thought to
be adapted to farming. The agricultural
element kept going farther and farther
west year by year until it began en-
croaching upon the domain over which
the cattlemen had long held undisputed
sway. Then came the contest for su-
premacy, and the farmer won. The de-
mand for additional land for homes for
these prospective new settlers became so
great that the State resolved to aban-
don its policy of leasing 100000 acres
of its public domain, and to give the
people who want homes an opportunity
to obtain them at small cost. In most in
stances, the cattlemen, who have these
lands leased for grazing purposes, own
few sections, which form nucleus for
their great ranches. With the abolish
ment of the leases these cattlemen will
be unable to continue ranching. and they
will be forced to take to stock farming
upon their reduced holdings or quit the
country. Many of them announce that
they will adopt the latter course. Some
of them have purchased or leased Is, BE
ranches in Mexico, and will move their
herds to their new possessions.
The area of the land which the State
is to place on the market on Sept. 1 is
come 9,400 square miles. 1t is larger
than Massachusetts, New Hampshire or
New Jersey, four times as large as Del
aware, and twice as large as Connecticut.
The land is to be sold in lots of one to
eight sections each. I,U purchaser will
be permitted to acquire more than eight
sections. 1t will provide homes for
about 5000 families.
Since the announcement was made that
this land is to be placed upon the mar
ket, State Land Commissioner ]. ]. Ter
rell has received letters from thousands
of people in all parts of the country,
making inquiry in regard to the matter
The fact that the land is to be sold at
a minimum price of 81 an acre, with 40
annual payments, at interest of only 3
per cent, makes it an attractive prOpo-
sition to many people who are seeking
homes in the West A residence of three
years upon the land is required of each
purchaser to perfect his title to the prop
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
JAPs WELCOME AMERICANS.
Miss Roosevelt and Congressional Party
Arrive in Tokyo.


Arrive in Tokyo.
The American Secretary of War and
his party of Congressman received dem
onstrative welcome to Japan, the princi-
pal buildings, streets and wharves of
Yokohama and the shipping in the harbor
being gayly decorated. A noisy display
of daylight fireworks along the streets
fronting the harbor announced the lr,
rival of the steamship Manchuria at The
quarantine grounds and continued until
the vessel was locked. Lloyd G. Girls
COIN, the American Minister the attaches
of the legation and Consul General III. b.
Miller of Newchwang, with representa-
tives of the japanese imperial household,
the foreign office, war department, and
the Asiatic Society, then boarded the
Manchuria and extended formal greet
ings TO the Secretary and Miss Roosevelt,
who held an informal reception on the
deck. The party was then driven to the
railroad station through crowded streets,
and, boarding special train, departed
for Toxic amid the cheers of the multi
tude. On arrival at Toxic the Secretary
and his personal staff were taken to
Shiba, where detached palace was pro-
vided for their accommodation. Miss
Roosevelt accompanied Minister Griscom
to the American legation. All in the
party are we'll
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
CHICAGO Strike IS ENDED.
Big Tie-Up Cola pses and Strikers Seek
Their Old Jobs

Ihelr Ola Jobs.
The strike of the Chicago teamsters
was declared off Thursday, closing one
of the most important chapters in the
city's industrial history. Tie end was
a stampede on the part OF the striking
drivers to get back 70 rIeir jobs. Lack
of funds, general dissatisfaction with
the leaders, desertions by hundreds.
led to the collapse.
Headed by the lumber teamsters.
who came TO an understanding with
their employers, the express drivers
and the department store drivers fell
into line, the three unions that COM
posed the fighting force of the labor
side of the battle throwing up the CON
test. The effect was to swing the other
unions around, and the troubles were
given their quietus. The strike fever
had abated.
The coup de grace was administered
late at night by the teamsters' joint
council itself, which declared tho strike
off and ordered the men back to work
Strike leaders admitted utter defeat
and advised the 1900 men who remain
ed loyal to the union to apply to their
old employers for work.
The revelations of the one hundred
and five days in which the strike ran
from start to finish are prophesied by
prominent citizens connected with the
difficulties to mark the dawn of bet
ter understanding between the employ
erS and the unions and to mean. much
to Chicago commercially. The fact that
the strike was won and the transfers
We're forced to seek their old places
without condition is expected TO act as
an impetus to business. On the labor
side the strike is expected to be pro-
life in good results. The exposures
made by the grand jury of corruption
among the leaders have already had
their effect and are expected to place
unionism on a safer and more conserv-
ative plane. Sympathetic strikes, it is
predicted, will no longer be fad.
Although unionism of the legitimate
sort does net suffer by the abandon
ment of the strike, the close of labor
hostilities is considered a death blow
at INSCRIPTIONS leaders,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
TO FREEZE OUT DISEASE.
Shipload of Consumptives VIII Sum
mer in the Far North

mer in the Far North.
In search of restored health at what
ever cost of money and effort, seventy
consumptives have set sail from Halifax,
Nova Scotia, in the hospital ship Ha-
vana, under the command of Dr.. Freder-
lex Sohon, who has made two trips to
the Arctic regions with Commander
Peary, and was himself cured of this
disease. DR.. Sohon has great faith in
the idea that before sufferer has reach
ed the advanced stages of this fell dis
ease a trip far into the cold atmosphere
of the polar region will result in a COM
plete cure. as in his own case. He ex-
poets the bacilli of tuberculosis will be
frozen out by his patients remaining for
some time in those high ATTITUDES.
Dr.. Sohon has made a special study
of his subject and hopes that as a result
of the expedition philanthropists viii be
encouraged to supply money with which
to equip and send out several ships each
summer for the benefit of those afflicted
with consumption yet who are too poor to
pay for treatment.
OF course, such treatment comes rather
high in the way of expense, and in this
instance only those who can pay are to
be taken. The cost to the regular pa
tents will be $3.50 each for the trip. Sew
eral women are included in the list of
those on this experimental voyage in
search of earth's greatest blessing
health.
The hospital ship will cruise along the
western shores of central Greenland,
anchoring in various sheltered bays and
inlets Some of the latter extend inland
many miles to where there is plenty of
game, and in these digressions those who
are able will have plenty of opportunity
to get all the exercise needful.
The entire summer-three months
will be spent in Greenland, above the
Arctic Circle, the party returning be-
fore winter sets in. Each day will give
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
WOMAN Is FOUND MURDERED.
Body Discovered Strapped to Wall of
Clubhouse and Coroner Investigates.

Body Discovered Strapped to Wall of
Clubhouse and Coroner Investigates.
What was in all probability a murder
was brought to light the other morning
when the body of a woman about 40
years of age was found strapped to the
wall of an clubhouse back of country
school house near Carey, Ohio. The
body was in an advanced stage of putre-
faction, so much so that all efforts to
establish its identity have proved futile.
Examination at the undertaker's revealed
the fact thai tbs woman wore, under
meath a fine dress skirt, pair of mems
trousers, but this fact only serves to
deepen the mystery. That the deed was
murder is beyond doubt owing to the
finding of bar of iron hammered into
chisel near the clubhouse, which was
covered with blood spots. There was
also evidence of struggle near where
the body was found. A coroner is in
VestigatinE
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
Scared TO Death.

At Montgomery, Ala, Dennis Sim
mington died in the anteroom of the local
Odd Fellows lodge from fright over his
initiation into the order. After going to
the lodge he was left in an anteroom to
wait. Several cloaked figures came out
of the main hall and walked around
him, making remarks calculated to give
him a creepy feeling.
He grew more and more excited. and
at last tumbled from his chair in heap.
Hearing the fall, some one ran to him
and found him dead.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
RIVER MANDATES A TOWN.
Village of Vark, Kas., Flooded - One
Drowned-Loss, 100000.

The food waters of Spring river reach
ed the big dam at Lowell, Kan, Friday
and with all the flood gates open the
water raised within two feet of the top
OF the dam. The gauge showed twenty
eight feet of water. Half a mile above
the dam the water broke out of the
banks and flooded Vark, a little village,
with three feet of water. The wagon
bridge across the river at Lowell was
washed away and the bridge of the st.
Louis and San Francisco railway was in
great danger. Good telephone service
along the river provided an opportunity
to warn people residing in the lowlands
and they sought safety on higher lands
So far only one death has been reported
that of Calvin Rudy of Carthage. 1t
is estimated that damage to crops and
live stock will amount to 100000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
UEE5 lEAA[s21[5RS
.satSzS91S stSsE %~,cA.
SB. 5000
@(OONO\~~

hicagO-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to $5.S5; hogs, prime heavy.
$500 to $5.95; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $500; wheat, No. 2, SSc to 90c;
corn, No. ., 56c to SIC; oats, standard,
30c to 32c; rye, No. 2, Tic to 73c; hay,
timothy, $3.50 TO $13.00; prairie, $500 to
$11.50; t. tier, choice creamery, 1Sc to
20c; eggs, fresh, 12c to 14c; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 4e.a to 47c
Indiana olis-Cattle. shipping, S.. 90 to
$5.75; hogs, Choice heavy, $500 to 5000;
sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to $500;
wheat, No. 2, SEC to SSc; corn. No
white, 55c to 56c; oats, No. white,
32c to 34c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 to $685.: sheep, $500 to S4.75;
wheat, No. ?, SIC to 8Sc; corn. No. =,
53c to 55c; oats, No. ., 30c to SIC; rye,
No. 2. zoe to re.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs. $500 to $5.95; sheep. $500 to
S425: wheat, No. 2, 9Oc to 92c; corn.
No. . mixed. soc to SIC: oats. No.
mixed, Bic to &c; rye, No. ?, Toe to
SOC
Det-oit-Cattle. $3.50 to $500: hogs.
$500 to $G.10; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50:
wheat, No. >, Ole to 92c; corn. No. 3
yellow. Sc to SOC; oats. No. 3 white.
SAC to BIC; rye. No. Z, 77c to 79c.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No northern.
S1.0S to Sill; corn. No. 3, soc to SIC:
oats, No. . white. 33c to 34c: rye. No. ].
75c to &c; barley, No. 2, sic TO 53c;
pork. mess. $12.S5.
Toledo-Wheat. No. . mixed. 9Oc to
95c; corn, No. mixed. 4Sc to SOC:
oats, No. mixed, Zoe to 32c; rye. NJ. ,,
T4c to 7Gc; clover seed, prime, -770.
BuffalO-Cattle, choice shipping steers.
$500 20 $500; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $6.10; sheep, common to good mixed.
$400 to sos; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 500.
New York-Cattle, S4OO to s5.45;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat. No. 2 red, 94c to 95c:
corn No. ?. Gle TO &c; oats, natural.
white, SIC ID Csc; butter, creamery. 19c
to lie; eggs, western, lie to 19c.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1905-08-01
TWO DIE IN DAKOTA TRAGEDY.
Man Rejected by Married Woman
Kills Her and Himself.

Frank Woodberry at Brookings, S. D.,
shot and killed Mrs. Anton Dokken and
then put bullet in his own body, caus-
ing almost instant death. The cause of
the crime is said to have been the refusal
of Mrs. Dokken to marry him. Mrs.
DOkken some time ago commenced di-
vorce proceedings against her husband,
supposedly with the intention of marry
ing Woodbury.. Afterward the proceed
ings were dropped, the wife declaring her
allegiance to her husband, but all the
time, it is alleged, she continued to meet
Woodherry