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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

as we'll as mentally. President Roose-
Welt remarked when leaving Washing
ton Upon che of his tours that the gov
ernmental machinery would run along
all right during his absence because he
had left Taft sitting on the lid Sec
rotary Taft has held the war portfolio
for about two and a half years. At
one time he weighed over 800 pounds.
but during the past year or two he has
reduced his bulk
In describing the situation Secretary
Taft made public brief statement of
the facts leading up to the present
status. He said:
The moderates determined to force
American Intervention by the resignation
OF government officers, thus leaving af-
fairs in our hands. President Palma
chose to regard our suggestions as de-
mands and he rejected them emphatically.
We acquainted Alfredo Zayas, the lib
eral leader, with the situation and he
undertook to induce his associates to con-
sent to the original proposition of the
overwhelmingly, that the insurgents
lay down their arms and submit the en-
tire controversy to the American commits
sion, but the rebel commanders and men
in the field suspected insincerity on the
part of the government and declined
The negro insurgents especially insisted
on retaining their arms until peace was
assured. Zayas' report is indicative of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
HORSES HARD TO GET.
SCARCITY OF STEEDS AND
MULES FOR THE ARMY.
Quarternaster General Must Pay
from $40 to $50 Per Head
Man Charged with Throwing Wife
from window.

Difficulty is experienced by the quarter
master generals department of the army
TO obtain horses and mules. Even at
high prices good cavalry horses are scarce
and almost impossible to procure. The
scarcity is not local, but extends through
out the country, even in the stock-raising
regions of the West and Northwest. A
few weeks ago a contractor in the State
of Washington was awarded a contract
TO supply the army with about 500 cav
airy horses at his bid Of 500 head. He
has been unable thus far to fill the con-
tract and it is regarded as likely that he
may be ruined financially in his efforts to
meet his obligation to the government.
A short time before Gen. Funston was or
dered to Cuba he requested authority to
purchase, in an emergency fifty cavalry
horses at $50 a head. The request was
not granted by the department because of
the contract which the government had
made for such horses at 800 head Be
cause of the scarcely Of horses, animals
suitable for the cavalry now are worth
about $40 head. Mules are even scarcer
than horses. They are worth about $3.50
a head, and are difficult to get at that
price because Of the great foreign de-
-nsud
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
DEMAND HIGHER PAY.
LABOR TROUBLES HIT WORK ON
PANAMA CANAL.
Practically Every Class of Skilled
Workmen Ask for More Money
Peculiar Decision on Division of
BiSamist's Estate.

Following the example of the iocomo-
tive engineers, practically every class of
skilled workmen employed by the isthmfan
canal commission made a demand for
higher pay the other day. The steam
shovel engineers, now the best paid crafts
men on the isthmus, have asked for $3.50
a month, an increase of $40. Other de-
mands made are: Railroad conductors,
from $40 to $3.50; shovel cranemen,
from S1S5 to $210; shovel fremen, from
$50 to $110; molders, blacksmiths and
machinists, from So to So cents an hour.
Locomotive engineers asked for 1925 a
month, and are getting $50. They work
eight hours. If called upon to work more
hours the enginemen, trainmen and
shovelmen are required TO do so without
extra compensation. AIolders, black
smiths and machinists are paid time and
a half for overtime. All shop employees
are permitted to work as much overtime
as they desire, as the commission is badly
in need of these classes of mechanics. Ma
chinists at some shops frequently draw
from $500 to $3.50 a month under the
present rate of pay. No word has been
received from the commission as to the
disposition to be made of the demands.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
Brief News Items.

Mrs. Herbert B. Calkins died at st.
Louis as a result of inhaling chloroform
to cure a headache.
Gov. Jesse F. Mcdonald of Colorado
has called farming congress to be held
in Denver, Nov. %, % and "a TINS year.
The State convention of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians at Winona, Minn.y
elected Patrick Kenney Of Mankato presi
dent.
The great council of the Improved Or
der of Red Men in session at Niagara
Falls has decided to meet at Norfolk, Va,
next year.
George Early, conductor Of a Norfolk
and Western work train, was shot and
fatally wounded by John James, negro,
near Pembroke, west Of Roanoke, Va.
Mrs. Michael Kane and Mrs. James
Quinn, while crossing a street in Far
ROckaway, n. y, were struck by an auto
mobile. Mrs. Quinn died soon after.
The Hotel Gomez Farias in Chihuahua,
Mexico, collapsed. -Four persons were
killed and several others injured. The
dead are Carlos ArnaI, an opera singer
Jesus CastalIo, farmer; Edmondo Tel
lavas, a federal telegraph employe, and
an unidentified man. Amo1g those in
jured is j. H. Moulton, an American.
The convention of the Association of
Military Surgeons of the United States
convened in Bufaio, n. Y, being attended
by fraternal delegates from England,
Italy, Mexico, Turkey, China and other
countries. The Emo Saunders prize for
the best essay on 1.-THE Training of the
Medical Officer" was awarded to Major
James e. Pitcher.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
other hooters of responsibility for at
least 100000.

other hooters of responsibility for at
least 100000.
The defaulter made this statement
through his son Theodore:
Fear of my life, more than any
thing else, prompted me to run away
from this country. l am sorry for the
thousands of depositors, but unless
others have looted the treasury more
than I have they will be reimbursed
when the banks affairs are finally set
tied.
II think I can upon my return to
Chicago find a way of forcing others
to make restitution of stolen bank
funds and 1 am going back with that
intention uppermost in my mind.
81 am not a forger in the exact
sense of the word, though technically
may be guilty of that crime. l know
that others were forging signatures.
Some work of this sort was done I'M
der my direction, but from what 1
have heard from States Attorney Oh
son there were others doing the same
CQlQ9 WITHOUT LILY huON lCuSC.
with the hope of having the court
deal leniently with me, 1 am going to
plead guilty to such of the indictments
against me as I am actually response
BILE for, and in other ways [ am pre-
pared to render every assistance in
my power to aid in the prosecution of
those more guilty than l am. In this
way I believe that others. may be
forced to make restitution, as my son
has done for me by turning over my
property.
II have not employed counsel, 1
have never attempted suicide and I
have never signed a statement for
newspaper publication since my cap
ture at Tangier. I have told all the
minute details Of my populations to
Assistant States Attorney Olson. l
have given the names of all persons
connected with the bank wreck to Mr..
Olson, but he is pledged not to reveal
them uutil the proper time comes"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

PAUL o. STENSLAND. SlStant States At
torney Harry Olson and other Chicago
officials, by the Twentieth Century
limited at 3 80 o'clock Tuesday after
noon and arrived there at $50
Wednesday morning. Stensland de-
clared he would plead guilty and turn
States evidence. He promised to tell
enough to convict the men who were
his conspirators or who worked with
up forgery on forgery on the founda-
ton of wrongdoing which he rad
built
81 want to straighten out matters"
said Stensland. There is a good deal
behind this case, and 1 want to show
the public that 1 am not the black
sheep have been painted"
Stensland made a voluntary state
ment to Police Inspector Mclaughlin
in New York. Trembling with emo
ton, and W h tears falling down his
cheeks, the ex-bank president said:
Il made some bad investments and
they did not act as quickly as 1
thought they would. They were not
paying. The man under me-the cash
Ter, 1 mean-took advantage of the sit
uation, and he got more than I. All 1
got was 100000, but I don't know
what the other man got. The money
I went away with was a few thousand
dollars that l made in a real estate
speculation last summer. l had been
always in hope of paying the money
back, but suppose all is lost. 1 am
suffering from asthma. I want to get
back to Chicago just as quickly as pos
sible."
Stensland said soon after leaving
the Prinz Adalbert:
my transactions with the bank in
volve 100000 All deficits, defalca-
lions or losses over that amount have
been the work of Herring, his Cocoon
spirators and other men who can be
proved guilty"
As the total amount involved in the
bank failure is placed at over $4,000
900, Stensland's charge accuses the
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Reinhold Begas, probably the greatest
living German sculptor, has just passed
his 10Th birthday.
Benjamin Turner, who is believed to
have been the last survivor of the wreck
of the troopship Birkenhead in 1852, died
at Portsmouth recently at the age of II.
BY the will of the late Count A. Ka-
rolyi of Hungary, who was 70 years of
age at the time of his death, something
like S6,000,000 is available for philan-
thropic purposes.
United States Senator William Pinck-
ney Whyte OF Maryland is the only man
living who was a member of that body
and voted against negro suffrage when the
fifteenth amendment to the constitution
was passed by it.
Denver Stout, pilot on the Ohio and
Kanawha rivers, is the first white child
born in what is now the city of Denver.
He was born forty-seven years ago His
parents Travelled by OK team from Omaha
in 1859 and reached Denver in six weeks.
Sir Charles Tenant of England.
though an octogenarian, has four daugh-
tiers, the children of his second wife, the
Oldest of which is and the youngest is
still a mere infant.
l.. B. Abrahams, headmaster of the
Jews free school at Spitalields, England,
has retired after ffty-three years of ser
vice. He is 81 years old, and Israel Gang
will was once his pupil.
William Scott of California; indrick.
Motifs, claims to be the oldest postmaster
in England. He is 80 years of age and
was appointed in 1853. and at that time
was also village schoolmaster.
Sigananda, the rebel Zulu chief, who
has been court martialed and sentenced,
is 107 years old. His captive sons are
verging on 80, and many of his grand
children have passed the allotted span.
Eben Messerve, a veteran of the Cri-
mean war, has just celebrated his seventy
third birthday at Milford, n. II. He has
gold medal presented him for bravery
at Sevastopol. He also fought in the civil
war.
Waladotta, or Grey Eagle, an Indian
chief who took part in the Custer mas
sacre. and, like many others of the victor
ious force, took refuge in the Canadian
northwest. died recently at Prince Albert,
Saskatchewan.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
More HinnIe Securities

The investigation of the affairs of the
wrecked Real Estate Trust Company of
Philadelphia disclosed more than $5,0OO,-
600 in bad loans outside of the Segal
operations. These notes were part of
deals worked solely by the late President
Nipple. Receiver Earle made public his
reorganization plans as follows: The de-
positors to receive one-third Of their de-
posts in cash and to agree to accept pre-
ferred stock for the remaining two-thirds,
this preferred stock to be retired by cash
payments later OF when tie company de-
clares the 8 per cent dividend the direc-
tors to subscribe $2,5OO,OO0. This plan
has been approved by the directors and
waits the approval of the depositors and
stockholders
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
FOREIGN TRADE GAINS.
Imports and Exports for the Past
Year Exceed 100000.

The foreign commerce OF the United
States has crossed the $1,000, 100000 line.
In the twelve months ending with August
the imports were S1,254, 399, T35, and the
exports $1,759, Al, S9S, total for the
twelve months Of $3,013,S17, 633. These
figures are supplied by the bureau of sta
tistics Of the Department of Commerce
and Labor, which in bulletin says in
part: "The August figures of both imports
and exports exceeded those of any preced-
ing August in the history of our CON-
merce. Meat and dairy products exported
amount to SIG, 76S,067, against S14,212,-
21S in August of last year, and S11,219,-
51S in August, 1904. This growth in the
expectation Of meat is shown in nearly all
articles except canned beef, which shows
a marked decline compared with the cor
responding months Of earlier years" Other
figures exceed those of the corresponding
month of last year, fresh beef being a.
100000 pounds, against 1S,5O0,00O
pounds, sailed beef a little less than
100000 pounds, against 100000
pounds; bacon 100000 pounds, against
23,5OO,000 pounds; hams and fresh pork
practically the same, and lard 56,500,000
pounds, against 100000 pounds"
Breadstuffs aggregated S13,000,0O0,
against $7,J00,0OO in the same month of
1905, and $5,500,OO0 in the corresponding
month of 1904.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
HEARST AND HUGHES.
Named as Opposing Candidates for
knr-t G1..-o...o~.n.s.

Named as Opposing Candidates for
New York Governorship.
William X. Hears. was nominated for
Governor on the first ballot by the New
York Democratic State convention at
Buffalo, the vote standing: Hearst, 300;
Sulzer, 124; Dix, IL. The platform says
in reference to Bryan: "In common with
the Democrats of all the States and ex-
pressing the sentiment of the high minded
citizenship of the republic without party,
we view with pride and satisfaction the
hospitality and acclaim which have been
accorded at home and abroad to that great
Democratic leader and typical American,
William Jennings Bryan, to whom the
Democrats of New York extend most cor
dial and sincere Fluctuations"
Charles q. Hughes, the New York law
yer who probed the life insurance com
panies, was nominated by reclamation for
Governor by the Republican State con-
vention at Saratoga. The nomination
was distinct victory for President
Roosevelt, a partial victory for 3. 3.
Odell, Jr., and a crushing defeat for the
Higgins State machine.
The platform adopted opens with an
eulogistic tribute to President Roosevelt
pledging the Republican party of New
York to follow in his footsteps The
administration of Gov. Higgins, it is de-
clared, ''passes into history as one of the
greatest" the State has ever known As
the result of the recent insurance inVes-
tigation unworthy officials were driven
from power and laws have been enacted
to secure the protection of policy holders
against long existing and widespread
abuses"
The wisdom of the protective tariff is
affirmed, and it is demanded "that it's re-
vision, as occasion may require, be in
trusted to its friends and not to its enc
mics" Legislation for the restoration
of an American merchant marine is fav-
ored.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

future trouble with the lawless element
and rebels. l feel certain that settle
ment of the trouble is possible only along
the lines suggested by us.
After an exhaustive investigation we
informed both the moderates and the lib
erals that unless they were willing to lis
ten to reason the United States must en-
force a settlement. l told them that a
proclamation would be issued establishing
a military government in the island, but
that this would continue only so long as
necessary to restore order and insure the
holding of new and fair general elections.
1 made it plain that this military govern
ment would surrender the conduct of af-
fairs to the persons fairly ,,ected as soon
as they could fairly establish themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
TO RESTORE GREAT GAME.
Government Proposes to Establish
Natural Preserve

NATURAL preserve.
Nearly 10000 acres in one natural
game preserve! Such is the new enter
prise which the national government is
establishing in Oklahoma.
As far back as tribal tradition runs.
the Wichita mountain region has been the
fayorIte hunting grounds of the Comanche
and hlowa Indians, drawn thither by
abundance of game and delightful eli
mate. But now game, ike the Indians.
Is largely a thing of the past. 1t is pro-
posed TO reproduce in this splendid nat
ural park all the best species of game
ANIMALS and birds that once made the
great West the hunters paradise. Deer,
antelope, bear, the otter and beaver. quail
and doves, prairie chickens and wild tur-
keys viii be given protection and encour-
aged to increase and multiply.
Probably the most interesting feature
OF the undertaking will be an effort to
have, IN the course of years, large herds
OF buffalo again roaming the plains
within the reservation-as they did before
the pitiless warfare upon them was car
RED so nearly to the point of extermina-
ton.
At present the preserve is tenanted only
by such game birds and animals, pitiably
lew IN number, as have escaped the horde
OF hunters who have overrun that region
ever since Oklahoma was opened to set
dement. The animals of Importance are
deer, antelope, small black bear mountain
lions, bobcats, wolves, coyotes. otter and
beaver. Before the adjacent country was
opened for settlement, deer and antelope
were plentiful, but both have been slaugh-
tered almost to determination. The deer
are usually found on the high ridges, while
the antelope feed in the prairies. Both,
however, can still be found in sufficient
numbers to form a start for large herds,
If they We're given the necessary protec-
fion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
AMERICAN flag NOW
FLOATS OVER CUBA.
CAREER Of CUBAN REPUBLIC
TOLD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

DEC. 10, 1898 Relinouished by Spain
through the signing of the treaty of
Paris after having been continuously
in possession of that country since the
discovery of the island.
NOV. >, 1900-Convention meets to de-
eide upon a constitution for the new
republic
FEB. 81. 1901-Cons,itution is adopted
and the United States Congress passes
a law authorizing the President of the
United States to make over the island
to its people.
JUNE q. 1901-Cuba accepts the con
ditions laid down by the Congress of
the United States
FEB. a, 1902-President Tomas Estrada
Palma is elected President of Cuba
MAY 20, 1902-Control of the Island of
Cuba is formally transferred to the new
government
DEC. %. INVESTIGATIONS between Cuba
and the United States made closer
through the operation of the reciprocal
commercial convention.
SEPT. %. Secretary Taft declared
armed Intervention by the United
States in Cuba, as an absence of a gov
eminent had been created.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
FARMER HAS BALANCE.
His Exports Show Trade Adyan-
tage of S2S5, 100000.

Although the imports of farm products
were larger in 1905 than any year since
1890, says a report of the Department of
Agriculture in Washington on exports of
farm and forest products, the value of the
exports exceeded that of the imports by
more than one-half and there was a bal
ance of trade of $2S5, 100000 in favor of
the farm products. The report adds:
During the last sixteen years the bal
ance of trade for all products was $5,092,-
100000, while the balance of trade for
farm products was $5,635,O00,000. In
1903 the balance of trade in favor of
farm products was the lowest since 1893,
due to falling off in the grain trade and
to the increase in the quantities and in
the average import price of certain arti-
cles imported in large amounts, as sugar,
wool, hides and skins and coffee"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
News of Minor Note.

Frederick Kiley, a Flatbush o.. ID
youth of 90 says a New York broker
worth $j,000,000, whose name he refuses
to divulge, has offered him $4,000 to
give up Clara Thiele of Brooklyn, his
iancee.
The National Federation of Trade
Press Associations was formed at Nj
agara Falls John A. Hill of New York
was elected president AMI J. Newton Mind
of Chicago vice president.
Fearing that he would be lynched, John
Smith, a negro, was taken to Norfolk,
Va, by the sheriff of Princess Anne coun-
ty for safekeeping in the local jail. Smith
is charged with insulting a woman.
Prof. Bergman and his assistant, Dr..
Bier arrived in Constantinople from Ber-
lin to visit the Sultan professionally 1t
is semi-officially announced that the health
Of the Sultan is almost re-established
AS a result of clash between employees
of the Cleveland and Pittsburg and
Wheeling and Lake Erie railroads at Bel
laire, Ohio, a riot occurred. No one was
seriously hurt.
Tie new steamship Creole of the South
err acme company was successfully
launched at Quincy. Mass. She was chris
tenel by Miss Mary Hartman, daughter
of E. II. Hartman.
Fort Thomas, near Cincinnati. Ohio, is
to be enlarged and made into a brigade
post. An agent of the War Department
is said to have secured options on extern
sive property adjoining the present reser-
vation.
The body of Harry G.. Nutter, promi-
nent tailor who disappeared from Kansas
City, was found in the lake at Paramount
park. 1t is believed that Nutter was
drowned while swimming.
The members of Wilder's Brigade,
Army of the Cumberland, met at the
brigade monument on Chickamauga battle
field. The next meeting of the associa-
ton will be held in Charleston, III.
The Clark memorial tablet, the gift of
the National Bank of Commerce, erected
under the auspices of the Civic League
and the Missouri Historical Society, was
unveiled at St. Louis by Miss Marie
Christy Church, eat-great-granddaugh
ter OF Gov. William Clark of Missouri.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04
BIGAMIST'S ESTATE IN MIX-UP.
First Wife and Children of the Sec
ond Divide Property.

In Wichita, Kan, Federal Judge Pol
lock rendered a decision in an unusual
case that came up from Comanche county.
1t was the result of an alleged bigamous
marriage by James Mclaughlin. Nc
Laughlin was an old soldier who deserted
his wife, Rebecca, in Pennsylvania, and,
coming to Kansas with a young woman
named Annie Scott, married her and lived
with her thirty years, raising eight chill
dren. Upon his death the second wife,
who says she knew nothing of his previ-
Gus marriage, applied for a pension, and
this led to the discovery of wife No. /.
The court decided that the Pennsylvania
wife was entitled to half the estate and
McLaughlin's children by his second wife
were entitled to the other half, while the
second wife was entitled to nothing,
though it was largely through her efforts
that the property was accumulated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-10-04

applause which greeted this address show
ed plainly that a majority of the congress
was against the proposed amalgamation
with the dominant school of medicine.
DR.. William Fl. Diffenbach advanced the
striking theory that many cases of cancer
are due to the modern introduction of
enamel ware in the kitchens. His argu-
ment was that chipping of the hard-coated
dishes caused dangerous particles of for
eign matter to become mixed with the
food, and that they started cancerous
growths in the stomach by abrasions made
in the walls of the organ. The mortality
from cancer was steadily growing. DR..
Henry q. Dean, the British army expert
on preventing the spread of the bubonic
plague, assailed the generally accepted
theory that rats are the principal agency
of spreading this disease.