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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
TROOPSH|P SHERIDAN
Probably Win Prove a Total
Loss.
EFFORTS so FAR FUTILE
Work Of Yesterday Was of No
Avail.
WRECKING OUTFIT ORDERED
To Go From San Francisco Tomorrow
History Of Vessel-One Of
the Finest Troopships.
wREcKING OUTFIT ORDERED

Reports received today by Col. Pond. act
ing quartermaster general, indicate the
Sheridan, one of the crack troopships of
the Pacific service, which ran aground on
one of the islands Of the Hawaiian group,
will be a total loss. Official dispatches
were received today from Honolulu,
through Col. Devol at San Francisco, and
show that conditions have grown worse
since yesterday.
Efforts So Far Futile.
The tug Fearless, the revenue cutter Man.
ming and the interisland steamers Kinau,
Helen Neihau and Kiauhou spent several
hours yesterday Juggling at the Sheridan
without result The Manning parted both
hawsers. There was a heavy swell during
the entire afternoon. The Sheridan's
pumps gave out and the water came into
the engines and the fire room. The officers
predicted that the boilers will be useless
by tomorrow morning, and recommended
that wrecktng outfit be sent at once.
The. vessel Is still af1oat fore. and aft and
those IN charge say they will attempt to
moor her in position until the wrecking OUT
fit arrives.
To Send Wrecking Outfit.
To meet the situation orders were today
Issued for the transport Buford, at Seat
eAo, ~ PioCceu dI Onco 10 f1dWdn, duQ IOT
tho shipment Of wrecking outfit on the
steamship Korea, which leaves San Fran
cisco tomorrow. Additional wrecking ap-
planes will be sent also on the transport
Thomas. That vessel was scheduled to sail
from San Francisco Wednesday, but she
has now been ordered to sail tomorrow.
History Of the Sheridan.
The Sheridan was formerly the British
steamer Massachusetts of the Atlantic
Transport Company, and was purchased by
the United States government for $3.50, 600
at the outbreak of the Spanish war, and
subsequently converted into a troopship for
service between the United States and the
Philippines. She and the Grant and Sher-
man. were considered the finest troopships
in the world, and her loss is a serious one
The Sheridan Is AS feet inches long
and 48 feet 2 inches beam. Her gross ton
mage Is 1878 and her draught under nor
NAL conditions Is 80 feet She was named
the Sheridan in accordance with the plans
Of giving names OF eminent military COM
manders to the army transports.
All Passengers Safe.
The transport Sheridan sailed from Manila
on August II and from Nagasaki on Au-
gust 49, She had on board seventeen sick
men, one general prisoner and four enlisted
men. All her passengers have been re-
moved to a place of safety. She Is COM
manded by Capt Peabody. and the quarter
master in charge Is Capt. Frank j. Mar
row.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
Three Women Committed Suicide.

Three women ended their lives in Phila-
delphla yesterday. Fife Leavell sixteen
years old, died from the effects OF a dose
of bichloride of mercury. She had. 1t is
said. brooded for year over an assault
committed upon her by John Evans, who
is serving a fve-year sentence for the
crime. Because of Ill health May Hook
killed herself by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Despondent Because she had lost all her
possessions In fire. which destroyed her
home, Mrs. Chrissie Snyder. thirtytwo
years old ended her life by inhaling IL
Eliminating gas.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
Mexico Prepared to Crush Rebellion.

An article was recently published in an
American periodical to: which Mexicans
have taken exception. The article In pur-
port. charges that no Mexican visits the
United States without being thoroughly i'm
bued with the idea that the American gov
eminent is DESTROYS of invading Mexico.
and that the internal feeling in Mexico is
such that revolution is likely to result IN
the near future. coupling the name of Gen.
Reyes Herewith. The article has inspired
Gov. Reyes of Nuevo Leon to issue an en-
phatic denial. Gen. Reyes says:
Never before has peace In Mexico been
better assured. The government, perfectly
organized. has the power and dispersion,
should the necessity ever by possibility
arise to crush any rebelious feeling with
a hand of iron. The people themselves
would rise to annihiiate any person SO
foolish as to consider a revolutionary at
tempt no matter what his position
never had any dispute or grievance with
the president. as is stated by the Ameri-
can newspapers, when l was ct the head
of the army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
Deaths in the Philippines.

Gen. Wood. at Manila, has reported the
following deaths in the army In the Phil.
ippines since the last previous report:
Pneumonia. Edwin H. Christman, Troor
q. 9Th U. 8. Cavalry. August %: suicide
Edward. C. Bechtold. Troop F, Sd u. s,
Cavalry, August %; James Broderick
Company N, 9Th u. s. Infantry, August 81
erysipelas. Gotfried Treybal, Troop I, 4tt
q. 8. Cavalry. August 4.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
ST, PAUL ROADS PLANS.


The plans OF the Chicago. Milwaukee and
st. Paul railway for the construction of its
projected extension to the Pacific coast
were announced officially Saturday. Sc
attic is to be the roads coast terminus
The Aberdeen branch. now terminating ut
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
of where the range Is crossed by the North.

OF Wnere tne rHnBe ID cIoSseu u saao ]So' VI
ern Pacific.
The exact route to be followed from
Butte to Seattle Will not be made public
for about thirty days. but 1t Is stated that
the enire right Of way has been secured.
The entire extension viii be substantially
1,5OO miles, It will cost about $4,000 q
nile or a total OF about $60000.O00 The
Pacific coast, and IL IL to be built and
under operation as Ear as Butte by January
1. 1908, and to Seattle within Q year later.
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Evarts, S. D., will be carried on to the

Evarts. s. D., will be carried on to the
coast.
Starting from Gienham. few miles east
OF Evarts, the line Will run for eighty
miles through the Standing Rock Indian
reservation. 1t wnI pass through Miles
city. Mont. follow the valley OF the Mus
sci Shell river and enter Butte through
Pipestone Pass in the Belt mountains at
an altitude of 6,35O feet few miles south
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03

rhe Esperanto universal language con-
gress, which was in session at Geneva.
Switzerland, last week. was highly sue
cessful Its sections dealt with extremely
varied subjects. The Red Cross. temper
ance, socialism, chess, education. peace and
the sciences were all discussed In Espe-
ranio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
.STENSLAND CAUGHT
IN FAR-0FF TANG|ER

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03
Message to State Department.

Mr.. Barbour then sent a message to the
State Department at Washington, signing
the name of States Attorney Heafey.
Notify Minister Gummere. at Tangier. to
hold Paul o. Stensland, fugitive Chicago
banker wanted for forgery and emblezzle-
ment. My assistant, Harry Olson, cabled
that immediate instructions to minister are
imperative"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03

Fire destroyed every house in the town
Of Saint. Cal. Thirty-th three buildings were
burned, causing a loss of $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-09-03

Newton Graves carpenter. and his two
sons John and Bascom Graves. were kill
ed by lightning at Troy. Ala, Friday, while
at work.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1906-09-13
The Lumber interests.

The local lumber industry has cX-
crciscd and will continue to exercise
business interests Of HOuma. An
immense sun has bccn invested in
The lumber business here, and The
the wake of these investments are
TOO apparent to be denied. \ man
moth saw-mill is daily al work on
the swampS adjacent to Houma into
finished material, the bulk Of which is
shipped to outsid" markets that are
our cypress timber Owe any other
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1906-09-13

available building material. The
erection Of another large saw mill is
being seriously contemplated. and
should this enterprise maferialize. the
town will be immensely benefited.
Electric Lights and Waterworks.
Houma owns its waterworkS plant
that it built several years z a. a
cost Of 100000. The system will be
gradually enlarged and extended TO
. III" demand now being created
by tn" city'S rapid growth. The city
is lighted by electricity furnished by
the IIouma Lighting and Ice Manu-
featuring Company, Ltd. Many of
III" business houses and residences
are lighted with in~candescent lights.
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1906-09-13
Local Enterprises.

HOuma has two banking @institu.
tons that, under honest, capable and
conservative management have prov
EN- live factors in the development OF
the town and parish; it has two 0
ton gins that were established some
cotton grown in Terrebonne parish;
il has a moss gin, a barrel factory. 4
cistcrn factory. and a bOttling factO-
~, several large wholesale and retail
mercantile establishments and a mum.
lcr Of stores and business houses.
The percentage of business failures
in town during the past ten years has
been comparatively small. showing
that investment has yielded satisfac-
tory returns and that business is CON
Quoted on a conservative basis.
Schools.
In EOuma there are a number of
private schools and two of these, the
s.. Francis de Sales Academy and the
l.orton Preparatory School are on
Quoted on a large scale. A compe-
tent corps of teachers have charge Of
the public schools. and the instruct
in" department compares %favorably
with that Of other towns the size Of
HOuma. A movement is atioa, to
build handsome modern school houses
in l1ouma. and a proposition to levy a
tive-mill tax for this purpose will be
submitted to the taxpayers al the
coming November election. AS little
opposition to This tax has material
lied, the adoption Of the proposition
seems a %foregOne conclusion.
Churches.
There are three cnurches for white
people in HOuma. the St. Matthews
Episcopal Church, the ST. Francis de
Sales Catholic Church and the Pres.
byterian Church. These churches all
have yood-siZcd congregations and
the buildings are all modern and
handsome structures.
Secret Orders.
Great interest is manifested here in
secret orders and all of the orders
enjoy a good membership. There are
six secret orders in the town of Hou-
ma. the Masonic order. Knights Of
Confined on Page 100
The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1906-09-13

elsewhere in this edition, at length
and in a mdnn"r commensurate with
its significance. In his articl" only
the beneficial influence The industry
is eXcrting on the business interests
of Houma will be referred to. The
new epoch that may continue until
liouma some day becomes a city Of
importance. strange to say, began
with the establishment of tn" first
oyster factory. OF courS" the towns
progress and prosperity has not been
dependent entirely on the oyster in
luSlry: but that the said industry
prosperity cannot b" disputed. Al
ready the Houma oyster is known all
over the greater portion of the Uni
ted States. and its superiority ov@r
other ovSiora is generally recognized.
The possibilities for the future de-
NrlOpmun' of The oyster industry here
lily. practically unlimited. The facto-
RIGS here give employment 10 hun
drcdS of men. who receive good
wages, and the bulk of their earnings
is put III circulation in this ONT
.A> the shipping seasons las about
seven months in the year, the stimu-
la'in@ effect during this period on
every line of business can readily be
conceived.
Fish and Game.
During )he winter months many
thousand pounds OF saltwater fish,
shrimp ana diampnd.lack turtles are
shipped from IIuuma. With an mex
hmlstitl" supply of The finest fish fur
nishrI Iv The salt water lakes and
havs along the T"rrCDonne coast
there is an exceptional field for the
development of the fish industry on a
lar@cr ana more extended scale than
has vet been attempted. Ducks and
other wild game ar" sent from here
to other points in large numbers
every year during the open season.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
HONOR DEPARTING ASSOCIATE,

The PILOT made mention in its last
issue of Hon. l.. A. Pradt being present
ed with loving cup by his associates
in the court of claims. The presenta-
ton speech was made by John G. Fay,
who represented the bar association,
and he spoke as follows:
''Mr. Pradt: Members of the bar of
the Court of CLAIMS with whom you
have been associated for the past eight
years, have thought it not inappropri-
ate at the severance of your official re-
lations with them, to record in some
way the esteem and friendship which
they feel for you, and to that end they
have delegated to me the very pleasant
duty of presenting to you, in their
name token which they hope will re-
mind you of pleasant days spent in
association with them.
81 voice the universal sentiment of
the bar when | say that your fairness,
candor and universal courtesy have
made you hosts of friends, and have
demonstrated that one may not only
be jealous and faithful to the interests
of the United States committed to his
care, and carefully guard them, but be
at the same time fair and courteous to
those who have had to combat the prop
ositions advanced in the interests of
the United States. No one can or will
say that any case defended by you was
ever defeated by means of unfair deal
ing, chicanery, dishonest methods or
the suppression of facts. Long before
it became cant phrase you were al
ready giving us a square deal
"The record you have made is alike
honorable to you and to the profession
which you adorn, and you carry with
you to your Wisconsin home the kind
est wishes of the bar for your success
and prosperity.
''As the laws of hospitality command
to speed the parting as well as welcom-
ing the coming guest, | am commits
stoned by the members of this bar to
hand you this token of friendship and
esteem. 1t cannot measure our love
for you, but perchance, filled with that
liquid that made the metropolis of your
state famous, it may drown the sor-
rows which may at times come over
you, as you remember the days you
spent at the capital of your country"
Tn DraAf x1ofA .r~I
tribute to the Bar association and
spoke feelingly of the intimacy which
has characterized the relations which
have existed between himself and his
associates during his eight years in
cumbency of the office of assistant at
torrey general. Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
ANNUAL MEETING Of The STOCKHOLDERS
OF THE WAUSAU TELEPHONE co.

The annual meeting of the stockhold-
ers of the Wausau Telephone company
was held at the court house last Tues
day evening, Feb 9Th. There was a
goodly number in attendance and more
than enough stock represented to do
business.
The minutes of the last annual meet
ing were read and approved.
The annual report of the board of
directors was read and adopted. The
report is published in full following this
article.
There was short time given to ex-
pressions of the workings of the new
automatic telephone system which was
installed in our city last year, and all
were highly pleased with the service,
and in every instance it was thought
that the service was ahead of any that
had ever been tried anywhere. The
increase of rates was also discussed and
inasmuch as the advance was made to
wipe out the Indebtedness contracted in
putting in the new system, none seemed
to think but what it was a move in the
right direction.
The matter of issuing bonds to the
extent of 800, 900, to apply on its indebt-
edness, was discussed. AS it requires a
majority of the stock to carry resolu-
tion authorizing the issue, it was moved
and carried that the annual meeting be
adjourned at the close of business, to
Thursday, Feb. 18th, to consider the
question.
The old board of directors was re-
elected and the meeting was adjourned
to the evening of Feb. 18th.
The board of directors met ard re-
elected the following officers:
President-Nat Heineman.
Vice-President-E. B. Thayer.
Treas.-James Montgomery
Sec'y-W. w. Albers.
Counsel-G. d Jones.
The following is the report submitted
by the board of directors:
To the Stockholders of the Waeesau Telephone
company,
GENTLEMEN:
We take pleasure in presenting to
you our eleventh annual report.
Many of the problems which con-
frOnted us year ago have been solved,
we trust successfully. In our last re-
port we stated the conditions we were
facing, and we stated that in our
judgment the time had come when we
should rebuild our lines and install a
completely new telephone system; and
we recommended that we increase our
capital stock, that authority be given
the directors to install such new tele-
phone construction, and to raise the
money needed for that purpose. All
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13

our recommendations were adopted, and
by your direction the stock of our COM
pany was increased from so, 10000 to
$50, 10000, and the additional stock was
disposed of as directed by you. After
careful investigation your board of
directors decided that the automatic
telephone system was the best system
in existence, and the one which we
should install, though we found this
would cost us somewhat more than we
had anticipated. We further concluded
that it was for our best interests to
install our exchange on the basis of
200 lines, and to give our main juno
ton box, situated on Fourth street,
that capacity, and to install immediate
ly 700 telephone instruments. We
therefore entered into a contract with
the Automatic Electric company, of
Chicago, for 700 complete sets of tele-
phone instruments and Office construc-
ton, exclusive of receivers and trans
mitters, at cost of thirty dollars and
twenty-five cents (S3025) per set, duly
installed ready for use. We procured
the best assistance possible in laying
out our lines, and rebuilt all lines,
using the best construction and
material, We have very largely done
away with wires, and have installed
now about eleven miles of cable
Wherever possible we changed our
lines from streets to alleys, and in
stalled in the center of every block in
the business and principal residence
portions IF the city circle top dis
tributing box for the accommodation of
our patrons in that block, and on the
9th day, of October, 1905, our new tele-
phone system was duly completed, and
the change made from the old to the
new without any incon, enience or loss
of telephone service to our patrons, the
disconnection of the old phones and
the connection with the new taking
less than five minutes at our central
office.
Naturally we expected there would be
some disturbance in the new system,
and that it would take some time to get
matters settled down to a good work
ing basis. In this we were happily dis
appointed. From the first the new
system worked admirably. There
were, of course, some little faults that
had to be corrected, but at this time we
believe there is no one using telephones
in this city who is not pleased, and we
believe we are justified in claiming for
Wausau at this time the best telephone
exchange and the best telephone SER
vice of any place in the state of Wis
consin.
This construction work has neces-
sarily been expensive. The cost of
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
Our present monthly expenses. as
nearly as we can approximate them,
STILL WITHOUT A CITY HALL.

The city of Fond du Lac, which is
about twice the size of Wausau, is still
without city hall An attempt was
made to have the question of bonding
that city for the purpose of build
ing one, submitted to a vote of the
people, the coming spring, but the
council voted it down A beautiful
city hall, is an expensive luxury for any
city, but to put large, amount of
money into building of that kind
when a city has water works and
sewers to build, streets to pave, school
houses to build, is sheer folly and the
tax payers will bury such proposition
deep under their votes, or any one who
favors it, everytime. The Fond du Lac
Reporter has the following to say about
the attempt recently made to bond the
city of Fond du Lac for city hall:
I'm deciding against submitting the
question for bond issue to secure
money to build city hall to the peo-
pie at this springs election, the COM
mon council saved the people the
trouble of voting the proposition down.
There are many things that Fond du
Lac needs worse than city hall. Bet
ter streets and better sewers are far
more necessary than city hall. There
are always offices that will answer the
purposes of the city fairly well to be
had at reasonable rental, but we can
not rent streets or sewers. We are
reaching out for new people and new
enterprises. They don't ask us how
much our city hall cost or how fine it is
But they do ask about our schools, our
churches, our transportation facilities
our streets, our water supply, our
sewer system and all of the other Things
that help to make place pleasant and
convenient to live in. 1t would be nice
to have fine city hall to show strangers
when they visit our city and sooner OF
| later we will have one, but just at pres
ent 1t would be luxury that We can il
afford.'
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13

The remains of Joseph Mo 1endorf
were brought here from Martin, N. D.,
Thursday and inferred, Friday, from the
court house, where they lay in state in
the meeting room of Cutler Post. Mr..
Mollendorf was an old settler of this
county and highly respected in the
community where he resided for so
many years, the town of Berlin. Last
spring he moved from this county to
North Dakota to reside with his sons,
and it was in the home of one of them
that he died last Tuesday. He was
seventy-one years of age and is sur
vived by his wife and eight children,
Mrs. Elizabeth Schuman, of the town
of Stettin; William and Otto, of this
city; Emil, Joseph, Louis, Ernst and
Carl, of Martin, n d. He was vet
eran of the civil war, serving as a
private in Co. H, 18th Wis. Vol. Inf,
and members of Cutler Post attended
the funeral in a body.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
CITY COUNCIL.

The regular monthly meeting of the
city council was held last Tuesday
evening.
The plans for new city hall build
ing were presented for approval and
accepted.
Mrs. Bertha Kuhlman was allowed
s25 on claim previously presented for
damages. A defective sidewalk caused
her injury.
A resolution was adopted fixing
salaries for the next two years as fol-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-02-13
MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY.

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