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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
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The Panama canal has too many bosses
and too few diggers.
The surprise is that the Castellanes
reD2ained married so long.
Give the Oldest Inhabitant wide
berth. He remembers a warmer one in
1897.
The Russians are now sowing the
bombs for the early spring crop of revo-
buttons.
Considering the responsiveness million
aires showed to Col. Mann's fine touch"
it may be supposed that he will find it
difficult to break himself of the borrow
ing" habit,
When the mine workers secure a 10
cent advance in wages the mine owners
pull a quarter more out of the consumer.
As other avenues of easy graft are
closed the gentlemen Adventures turn
their eager eyes toward the Panama
canal.
Perhaps the beef packers thought Com
missioner Garfield was just a nice young
man who was giving them a compliment
airy 'write-up."
1t begins to look as if it may be neces-
sary to enlarge the sea room so that our
warships can sail around without bump
ing into each other.
They do say the new voting machines
vote like an individual. But, then, we
have always had a lot of individuals that
vote like machines.
When a minister begins to run bank
or a banker tries to beat the stock mar
ket. they are usually headed for the
same danger point
If the rush keeps on there is danger
that the White House Democrats will be
crowding the front feet of the White
House Republicans out of the trough.
Any news to the effect that the French
republic means to administer a sound
spanking to Castro will be well received
even by our extreae Monroe doctrinistS.
The proposed two-dollar coin to be is
sued in commemoration of the jamestown
Exposition will be much sought after. Sc
will all other kinds of coin.
China might regret that she sent those
commissioners over here if they conclude
to introduce English comic opera and
American breakfast food into China.
Now that Mr.. Theodore B. Shonts has
told the country what a fine and able
man Secretary Taft is, it is up to the
latter to return the compliment.
The pictures of Miss Alice Roosevelt's
wedding dress by artists who have never
been within 500 miles of it must have
been made by the correspondence-school
method.
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KILLED BY A QUAKE.
Colombia Is Shaken and 2,OOO Are
Reported Dead,

Colombia Is shaken and 1000 Are
Reported Dead.
Two thousand dead as the result of
tidal waves and earthquakes, fierce
seismic shocks that have extended
from Colombia to Costa RIGA and panic
along the entire Pacific coast in Cen
trail America-this is the summary of
Mondays tidings from the stricken
district Two thousand are known to
have been killed in Colombia, accord
ing to advices from that section. The
entire coast has suffered another earth
quake and tidal wave, which has taken
heavy toll in human life. 1t occurred
Wednesday and the coast for fifty
leagues to the south was affected. Two
thousand persons were killed by falling
houses or drowned by the wave. Whole
families were lost. Sailing vessels re-
port having encountered hundreds of
cOrpses Many small settlements were
completely swept away.
The earthquake occurred at 10 As in
the morning, lasting about seven min
utes. The movement was from north
to south The town was considerably
shaken. The damage, however, was
small, but the people were thrown into
a panic, kneeling, weeping and praying
in the streets. Following the earth
quake there was Il tidal wave, which
was of no consequence here, but the
reports from the coast, including an
era of fifty leagues to the south, state
that 1000 were killed by the falling
houses or drowned by the wave, whole
families having been lost.
The damage done by the earthquake
and tidal wave at Tumaco was greater
than here, and few lives were lost.
The shock was felt in the interior, and
five people were killed at Tuquer-
resin. At Poyayan the people resorted
to tents, and thanksgiving services
were held on Feb. p and %. Twelve
distinct shocks were felt, but it is be-
| lieved that al danger is now over.
On January 81 an earthquake and
tidal wave swept the Colombian towns
of Mosquera, San Juan and Domin-
gortz. The towns of La Tola Antio-
qui, Barbacoas, Popayan, Tuquerres,
Manizales and Pereira were badly dam
| aged.
Most of the people in all the towns in
the provinces of Esmeraldas and Man
abb, especially Rio Verde, Camarones,
La lola, Limones, Borbon and Pin
guagi, were made homeless.
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EoreAfs md Rainfall,

The exact part played by forests In
conserving rainfall Is very difficult of
demonstration, although all unpreJu-
diced minds are willing to admit its
efficiency in this particular, and there
are hundreds of well authenticated
cases where countrysides have been
reduced to barren wastes by the de-
structlon Of the natural forest covering.
The part which the forests play In
the arabillty Of a region is being
studied by the reclamation service in
conjunction with their recovery Of arid
lands.
After studying the physical charac-
ter of several streams tributary to the
Hudson. and determining periodically
the relative flow in each, the conclu-
sion has been reached that tempera-
ture and precipitation being equal, the
relative regularity Of stream flow Is
determined, first, by the topographic
and geologic conditions, and, second, by
the character and extent Of the forest
cover
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

The Kansas State Veterinarian re-
ports several outbreaks of a trouble in
horses in different parts of the State
which was caused by parasites describ-
ed as the Palisade worm (Strongyius
armatusl. Each outbreak has caused
loss to the owner of nearly $1,000
worth of horses. From the fact that
the trouble does not always manifest
itself IN the same way it frequently
puzzles the local veterinarian for some
time
This worm may be found in any part
of the body. Its natural habitat, how
ever, when ful!-grown is in the lntes-
final canal, usually the large bowel
In its immature state is migrates into
the blood vessels, sometimes causing
rapture of large vessel or an obstruc-
ton of the flow of blood. and in this
way has lodged in the arteries of the
brain, causing the animal to show brain
trouble. Again 1t has INSTRUCTED an
artery leading to a portion of the in
| testine, causing some of the most seri.
Gus cases Of collie, impaction, paralysis
of the bowel and frequently death. Be
ing located in different parts of the
body. attacking different organs, &C.
counts for the different symptoms in
| different horses.
The life history of this little worm
is very interesting, 1t passes the great
er portion of its life in the intestine
of the horse: part of ii possibly. in
the arteries; another portion in the
outer world. Here it may be found in
stagnant water, in meadows, in any
damp place. If there is sufficient mois-
ture present and the temperature not
too cold 1t may live for months. In
dry weather or In absence of sufficient
moisture the parasite soon loses its
vitality and dies. The source Of infec-
ton IN the horse, 1t may therefore be
saen. Is stagnant drinking water. moist
pastures or green fodder.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
SENATE PASSES PURE-FooD BILL
Struggle of Fifteen Years Ends-The
Vote Is G2 to a


Vote Is 63 to A.
After fifteen years consideration of the
subject the Senate has passed the Hey
burn pure food bill by vote of 63 to 4.
The committee accepted a number of sug-
gestions and incorporated them in the
bill as passed. Those who voted against
the bill were Bacon of Georgia, Bailey of
Texas, Foster of Louisiana and Tillman
of South Carolina
The bill makes it a misdemeanor to
manufacture or sell adulterated or mis-
branded foods, drugs, medicines or liquors
in the District of Columbia, the terrific
ries and the insular possessions of the
United States and prohibits the ship
ment of such goods from one State to
another or to a foreign country. 1t also
prohibits the receipt of such goods. Pun
ishment by fine of 5000 or by imprisOn-
ment for one year or both is prescribed.
BY its provisions the Treasury Depart
ment and the departments Of Agriculture
and of Commerce and Labor are requir-
ed to agree upon regulations for the col
lection and examination of the articles
covered by the bill. The Investigations
by the Department of Agriculture are
placed in the hands of the chief of the
bureau of chemistry and if he finds that
the law has been violated the United
States District Attorney is required to
institute proceedings in the federal courts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
1T - sSSSA.NdIh1 Do
80 AbEgHEz ~
when workers Were slave,

when workers were slaves.
| Before the advent of trades unions,
2r less ths,n 100 years ago, men. women
and cnildren worked Is and IA hours
per day, and in a great many places 1G
hours, says the Cigarmakers Journal.
History shows that in 1870 the working
men and women started work in the
morning at o'clock, at 10 O'Clock they
had an hour for lunch, and at 8 O'Clock
an hour for dinner, from which time
they worked until darkness. AS late as
1886 women and children began work
in some factories in New England Mt
80 in the morning, and worked an
hour or two after sunset. One hum
dred years ago the bricklayers in New
York worked IA hours a day for 80
cents a day; to-day they have an eight
hour day at 60 cents an hour.
A union man named Michael Mention
wrote a letter to one of the papers de
scribing the condition Of the bricklayers
and while all of his charges were found
to be true, he was arrested for libel and
sentenced to go days in Jail. Hence, to
even say a word in defense of labor in
those days was crime.
The original American factories were
governed by the most outrageous and
oppressive regulations, in which regula-
tions the worker had no voice. There
was time in the history of this coun-
try when the workers were taxed to
support the churches, and fined if habit
ually absent from religious worship.
Some able writer's and historians have
women and children were dashed with
rawhide if the overseer detected them
sRatching moments rest.
Herbert n. Casson says the city of
Washington was built by workers who
received about 80 cents a day and work
ed from sunrise to sunset; that at the
commencement of the nineteenth cen
fury wages in New York were 40 cents
a day, in Baltimore So cents. and that
the average rate all over the country
was So a year, with board ana some
times lodging.
These frightful conditions, low wages,
long hours, poverty and degradation
have been gradually overcome and
steadily improved through trade union
activity. In a great many organized
trades the worker receives more in one
mouth at eight hours labor per day than
was formerly received by similar work
men in one whole wear.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
REFORMS FOR LIFE INSURANCE
New York Committee Presents Re-
port TO Legislature.

port to Legislature.
In a merciless and thorough arraign-
ment the insurance investigating commit
tee of the New York Legislature review.
ed the situation it has uncovered. After
making number of recommendations for
reform the committee in its long-expect-
ed report summarizes the sensational
testimony it brought out and showed how
matters could be remedied
Absolute prohibition of campaign con-
tributions, strict regulation of all life in
surance investments, limitation of new
business and the participation of every
policy holder in the election of company
oficers-these are few of the proposed
cures.
Lobbying is denounced as pernieious
and needless in plain terms, and the Leg.
islature is told that it owes it to itself
to stop the practice. AS to campaign
contributions, the report says:
The frank admission that moneys
have been obtained for use in State cam
paigns in the expectation that candidates
thus aided would support the interests Of
the companies has exposed both those
who solicited the contributions and those
who made them to severe, and just con-
demnation. The committee recommends
the passage of an unequivocal and dras-
tic measure to remedy this evil"
Matters demanding the consideration of
the Legislature for the purpose of rem.
edying existing evils and of establishing
more securely the business of life insur.
ance in this State are grouped under the
following heads:
L. Organization of life insurance cor.
poratiens.
?. Control, or the rights of policy hold
ers in the election of directors.
3. Retirement of stock
4. Investment including syndicate par
ticipations.
3. Limitations of new business.
g. Political contributions.
Z. Lobbying.
8. Limitation of expenses.
8. Valuation of policies.
10. Rebates.
II. Surrender values.
u. Ascertainment and distribution of
surplus.
13. Remedies of policy holders, or
right to resort to the courts.
IA. Forms of policies.
10. Publicity and State supervision.
16. Penalties.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Growing of Too Many Varieties.
Any one who will stop to think will
remember that they can call to mind
| readily a dozen articles of merchan-
disc selling at good prices simply be-
cause the consumer has been made fam
iliar with 1t by name. Soap, stove
backing, clothing linens, dress goods
and many other articles. Fruit growers
seem to have an idea that consumers
and especially those who live in the
city, have no particular care about any
certain variety; this is a serious mis-
take, for once let a consumer get a
! taste g, a fruit he likes, and the next
| time lie buys it he will ascertain. If
possible, where 1t was grown, it's varl-
| ETY. name and all about it; for mind
| you, the city man is ever ready to add
! to his stock of knowledge. His business
and city training has taught him that
! knowledge protects him from being
| taken in. We once saw a man who was
very fond of apples, buy a barrel Of
| King. The size and color of the fruit
attracted him, and after he had eaten
a few of them he did not want hny-
| thing else. Some months later l re-
ceived . letter from him, asking If l
remembered his purchase and wanting
to know the name of the variety so
that he could get more. Other sorts
had been offered him, but he wanted
King. l believe that if growers would
| select a limited number of the best
sorts o. any fruit and grow those only,
the returns would show that it would
be good policy. Identify in the mind
of the consumer some first-class fruit
and he will always buy that sort, while
now he is more or less confused.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
All Over the State.

Two gasoline fishing boats were caught
in the ice off Two Rivers. and were in
imminent peril until rescued by the car
ferry Ann Arbor No. /.
John Lind returned to his old home at
Stoughton, after an absence of several
years, and found that his wife, supposing
him dead, had married another man. Lind
Immediately took the next train for the
West.
Emil Lowe, young man living in
TiIden, was accidentally shot in the
mouth by brother. The brother didn't
know the gun was loaded. The bullet
went into EmiTs mouth and down his
neck to his shoulder, where it struck a
bone and stopped.
Prof. Thomas f. Brown of Beloit has
accepted chair in Rochester college at
Rochester, Ind. Prof. Brown will also
have charge of the athletics. He former
~ played quarterback for the Beloit foot
ball eleven and was prominent in base
ball and basket ball circles.
An indictment charging ex-County
Clerk Otis T. Hare and Frank Keogh
of Milwaukee with fraudulently submit
ting claim for $9,535 to the county
board in 1902 for printing ballots was
quashed.
Notice of a contest over the will of
Ella F. Sutherland was fled in the Pro
bate Court in Minneapolis by attorneys
for Leeds Green of Sheboygan. a son of
the deceased woman, who was cut off
with 81. The woman left her estate to
]. Lewis, superintendent of detective
agency, and Green charges that undue
influence was exercised.
On complaint of Rev. Perry E. Baisler
of Kenosha, William E. keenan, was ar
rested, charged with having circulated
scandalous tales about the clergyman,
who is pastor of the Grace English Luz
theran church.
A little toy teapot cost 4-year-old Mae
Swan of Waldo an eye. She was play
ing with the toy and was struck in the
eye by piece of tin from the cover.
One eye was removed in order to save
the other.
Robert Schilling, a farmer, driving a
team and sleigh, was struck and killed at
a crossing by a train going seventy miles
an hour near Altoona. SHILLING Leaves
a wife and seven children.
Although disowned by her parents for
adopting the Jewish religion, Miss Helen
Verran of Chicago, a Roman Catholic,
was married the other day at Appleton to
Irving f. Strauss of Ripon.
Because his sweetheart Tilted him John
Wagner, a farmer of Hokah, committed
suicide by hanging himself from a tree
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
xxr;aaonSir, 7 ih1.arv Association vvaS hald
in Madison.
r. NJ. Bashford, in announcing at Mad
ison his withdrawal as candidate for
the vacancy on the State Supreme bench,
declared that it was beneath the dignity
of the position to make the race hampered
by party campaign machinery.
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c. A. r.. AT MAR1NETTE.

State Encampment of Three Allied
Societies VIII Commence June IL.
The State encampment Of the Wiscon-
sin @. A. r. will be held in Marinette
on June II and 13. These dates were
agreed upon by the committee of the s.
II. Sizer Post of that city and The State
department to permit the attendance of
Corporal Tanner, national commander IN
chief of the Grand Army. The State con-
vention of the Women's Relief Corps and
the Sons of Veterans viii be held in
Marinette at the same time. Several
thousand visitors are expected. The big
camp fire will be held at the Chattanooga
auditorium, which holds over 5000 peo-
nle
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PRENTICE NEARLY BURNS.
Big Tannery Is Destroyed, with Loss
of $4,000.

The big tannery dry loft and hide
house of the Prentice Tannery Company
were destroyed by fire in Prentice Sev-
eral fremen were badly hurt in their
desperate work to save the village from
total destruction. The origin of the fire
is supposed to be hot box" on the dy-
namo engine. 1t became so threatening
that Medford and Phillips were wired for
assistance, but before they arrived the
fire was under control. The loss is $780,
600 and the plant will be rebuilt.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
FIND GOLD IN WISCONSIN.
Discovery of Rich sands in Old Well
Makes Farmer wealthy

Discovery of Rich Sands in Old Well
Makes Farmer wealthy.
As the result of the discovery of gold
bearing sands in an old well. the offer
of S33OO00 for a farm that sold for Sl3,-
600 but three years ago has been made 20
a retired farmer of River Falls. The farm
contains 225 acres and was sold to Green
leaf Doe for $50 per acre. The geolog-
zeal formation of the place IS similar 10
that covering an area of fifteen square
miles about River Falls and aside from
this tract nothing similar is found in the
State of Wisconsin. Sandstone bluffs
filled with peculiar quality of sandstone
are the prevailing characteristics Gla-
eiers left these in strange formation,
which rise several hundred feet.
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FAMOUS COLLEGE PITCHER DIES.
''Herb" Farr of BeIOit Killed in CAL
ifOrnie Mine.

Herbert Farr, aged 40, a famous Beloit
college pitcher from 1881 to 1884, met
death in a mine accident at Angel Point,
Cal. He had been a mining engineer for
many years. He was unmarried DIR.
L. r. Farr of Beloit is a brother, and
the remains will be brought back for
burial
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ment of the Lakes,
U. S. A, is a vet
eran of the regular
army and a noted
writer on military
topics. For more
than two years he
has been stationed
in the Philippines.
He has just come
from Japan, where
he spent the great
~. no,sE af a civ
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never sell high. But 80 long as only a
few know how to coax them up to
business, those few will be able to
make fancy profits. Some persons
seem to have the matter down to a
science. Those who want to know
how real bad" can study up the pro-
cess, too Nothing in stock or poultry
management is matter of mere
chance. 1t is all the result of he
right sort of treatment learned By OBJ
servation and study.
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Aged woman Fights Fire Alone.

With brisk blaze which every moment
threatened to destroy her home in Ia
Crosse, Mrs. Anna Johnson, aged 50,
bravely fought the flames and succeeded
in smothering them alone, without raising
an alarm. On account of the severe ex-
ertion and exposure Mrs. Johnson is i'll.
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(Ohio) district. i
an attorney at Chill
licothe, o. He j
80 years old, am
was gra d u a tc'
from the Harvard
law school thirty
two years ago. III
has been county at
torney, and srvel
years ago the dele
gates from hi
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Chambers Found mt lola.

State Veterinarian Roberts of James
vile was in lola to examine several
horses which were under suspicion for
having CHAMBERS. Two horses. one belong
ing to Louis Trogner and the other to
Martin Jensen were condemned.
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Ex-Mormon Dies at Lima.

Willard Woodstock, one of the oldest
residents of Lima Center, is dead. In
his youth Mr.. Woodstock was a follower
of Joseph Smith. lie left the church af-
ter Smiths death, refusing to follow Brig
ham Young.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Department for six
years, but has been
connected with the
force over twenty
We a rs. Anthony
Huebler then was
placed at the head
of the force, retain
ing the position
eight years, when
Harrigan again as
$ u IN g q command.
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Wisconsin
State News
DELAvAN SCHOOL DEDICATED.


Many Educators and Alumni Make
Addresses at Ceremony.
Delayan's new 100000 public school
was formally dedicated Thursday. The
speakers, excepting one, were former prin-
cipals and graduates of the school. The
principal address was by Superintendent
E. w. Walker of the Wisconsin School
for the Deaf. and Edward Tilden, presi-
dent of the Chicago board of education,
also spoke. Mr.. Tilden was a Delavan
boy and an early-day pupil in the Della
van school. The former school building,
erected in 1894. was destroyed by fire
Oct. II, 1904. The new structure is one
of the finest in southern Wisconsin.
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Costly Fire in La Crosse.

Fire destroyed the plant Of the La
Crosse Engraving Company and badly
damaged the buildings of the La Crosse
Cornice and Roofing Company and tbc La
Crosse Camp Company, electrical manu-
facturers, in La Crosse, the loss being
100000
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Upe OF nls INST acts MATTHEW hIEIl.
was to make Kelly captain and TO place
him in charge of the big central dis
trict. While Governor Folk was prose-
cutting attorney friction arose between
him and Kiely, the reason, as alleged.
being that Kiely had refused to place
the police department under the or
ders of Mr.. Folk
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dalous nature. had
been pastor of the
First b a pits t
Church and also
was at the head of
two banking insti-
buttons. Mr.. Sim
mor.S studied in
Georgetown Univer-
sity. and had held
pastoral charges in
Kentucky. Tennes-
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school Principal Dies Suddenly.

Prof. Bodman, principal of the Nelson
graded school, died suddenly Of perito-
nitis. Mr.. Bodman was first taken i'll
while speaking at the Tri-County Teach
ers' meeting in Durand.
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Gets can to RhineIander.

Rev, f. W. Fayer of Burlington has ac-
cepted a call as pastor of the First Bap-
fist church at Rhineander.