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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
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The most accurate returns obtainable
until the official count is made indicate
that Charles e. Hughes plurality for
Governor of New York is 6f,500-the
largest obtained in an "off year since
Morton was elected in 1894.
The National Petroleum Association,
with Headquarters at Cleveland, Chic,
has received written promises rom the
Governors of Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota,
Missouri and others, that they will do
all they can to obtain the enactment of
an anti-rebate law, similar to those re-
Gently enacted in Iowa and Kansas.
Secretary of Navy Bonaparte has been
advocating a scheme for improving the
quality of candidates for public office.
1t is to have each party authorize an
individual to choose all candidates with
in a designated territory, thus doing de-
liberately and intelligently the work
which is now done so hastily and unsat-
isfactorily by nominating conventions.
Such a legalized boss he would have elect
ed annually by the voters Of his party,
and should be himself disqualified to hold
Office.
United States Senator Dick Of Ohio
remarked at Cleveland that he had be-
come convinced that the income tax was
the nearest we could come to an equit-
able and impartial system of taxation.
The report of Treasurer Sheldon of the
New York Republican State committee
shows that S332, 011.36 was spent in the
campaign which resulted in the election
of Hughes as Governor. OF the total re-
CENTS. s313.923 were personal contribn-
lions. The largest contributors were ].
p Morgan & Co. and ex-Gov. Morton,
each of whom gave $4,000. There were
1900 contributors.
In the Commoner, w. J. Bryan calls
upon the Democrats who believe in pro-
gressive reforms to begin now the effort
necessary 80 recapture the national and
State organizations, so that "the party
may not be crippled b, an organization
out of harmony VIII its purpose" In
his opinion, the party took a backward
step in 1904, yielding to temptation held
out by Wall street, which offered to help
secure some of its reforms if it would
abandon others" He declares that there
will be no platform contest in the CON
vention of 1903 and that the party VIII
be drawn up solidly against the en-
croaehments of predatory wealth.
Ex-Goy. Odell, in an interview, char
acterizes the Republican management
during the recent New York campaign as
Jasmine" and says that the result was
a defeat for the Republican party, mas
much as Hughes was elected BY Demo
cratic votes He says that th2 party can
hope to succeed in future only by recog-
nizing some of the issues which made
Hearst so formidable, and that the la
boring man must be allowed his just
share of prosperity and be treated Ike a
human being. The Ex-Governor casts the
mote out of his own eye Dy frankly adj
hitting that his mistake was deyoting
time to politics when he was Governor
which belonged TO his official duties.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
MAY REPLACE FRISCO.
Thousands Have FIOcI<ed from
Stricken City to seattle.

Thousands Have F1Ocked from
Stricken City to seattle.
Seattle is beginning to believe that it
is her destiny to become the greatest city
of the Pacific coast. After the destruc-
ton of San Francisco an invitation was
extended to the stricken people to come
and make their homes here until the de-
stroyed city could be rebuilt. Transpor-
tation and temporary homes were furnish
ed for those who desired to come. The
result is entirely unexpected. Instead
of making a temporary abiding place OF
Seattle, the California people have be-
come enamored of that city and there
are hundreds of them who will never re-
turn to San Francisco.
This has resulted in a great boom for
Seattle. The population is growing with
wonderful strides and the commercial
development is unprecedented. Many OF
the great shipping interests of San Fran
cisco have transferred their headquarters
to Seattle and it is an actual fact that
the railroads, many of them, are quite
unable to handle the great volume OF
business that has come to them. -
The railroads are realizing that Sc
attic has a great future and an evidence
of their faith is the big extensions that
are being made and the heavy purchases
in the open market of the necessary land
for terminal facilities.
Seattle people have had their troubles
with this unexpected boom. Hundreds
of the wealthy people of San Francisco
who came to Seattle after the earthquake
and fire, Immediately set about procuring
homes for themselves and they have
bought houses that were always used for
renting purposes and have practically
forced the natives to make extraordinary
efforts to shift for themselves. Rents
have almost doubled and it is next to
impossible to secure a house at all.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
CHILDREN ARE SOLD.
LITTLE SLAVES SAID TO EXIST
IN NEBRASKA.
EmpIoye of State Land Commission
er's Office Makes Serious Allega-
lions Against Certain Private In
stffufions-Tossed by Storm.

Child slavery is being practiced IN Ne
braska, according to the statements OF
Miss Cora CARRIER, one of the employees
in the State land commissioners ONCE.
Proof has been obtained, she asserts, that
one private institution in the State has
been importing children from Germany
fof the purpose of selling them at so per
head. A bill is to be introduced at the
next Legislature, says Miss CARRIER, which
will place every child in the State under
the protection OF the juvenile court law.
At present the law is so worded that the
courts have no right to enter private in
situations to inquire into the condition of
children. This provision, Miss CARRIER
says, was slipped into the law by the
managers of these institutions in order
to exempt them from legal investigation
and for this reason the juvenile court
law is unconstitutional. Miss CARRIER
refused to give the name either of her
informants or of the suspected institu-
tons, but said that all would be made
public in due time and that the work of
the '.'venders in little human beings
would be summarily stopped and the gull
ty persons punished.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
GALE ALONE BALks PEARY.
Valiant Explorer Reaches sydney
and Talks of His Voyage.

Flying the flag of the United States
which had been placed nearer the north
pole than any other national standard,
and weather beaten and disabled, the
Peary arctic steamer Roosevelt arrived
at Sydney, o. B., under sail and steam
after sixteen months of vain effort to
reeH the pole. The expedition got to
81 degrees minutes north latitude, with
in 203 miles of the pole. DIR. l.. j.
Wolff said the health of the party had
been excellent. There was no death and
practically no sickness. DR.. Wolff had
not the slightest doubt that if the gale
in the early part of March had not oc-
CURED the pole would have been reached
without difficulty Commander Peary
came ashore almost Immediately after
the steamer came to anchor and joined
Mrs. Peary, who had been in Sydney for
two weeks waiting for her husbands re-
turn. Asked what he thought OF the
suggestion embodied in Fridtjof Nansen's
interview to the effect that Peary's lat
est experience served 70 strengthen the
plan of reaching the pole by drifting from
Boring sea, Commander Peary said he
always believed there were great posi-
bilities in the drifting theory for men
OF the temperament to stand imprison-
ment for several years in the ice. For
his part he could not adapt himself to it,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
SEAS HEAVY DEATH TOLL.
Over Fifty Lives Lost This Season
on st. Lawrence Reefs

over LtteS LOSJ InlS season
on st. Lawrence Reefs.
Over fifty lives were lost and nearly
a score of vessels were swept to de-
struction on treacherous reefs and
sandbars of the gulf and Riyer st.
Lawrence during the season of nayiga-
ton now closed OF sixty persons who
persisted in these waters within the
last year nearly fifty met death during
November, the most disastrous to ship
ping in the ST. Lawrence in a dozen
years. The financial losses aggregated
$250,000
The majority of those who persisted
were lost from square-rigged vessels
of foreign register. The most thrilling
wreck during the month was that of
the Russian full-rigged iron ship Soyin-
to of Helsingfors. which struck on a
bar off Priests Pond, p E. l., during
a furious northeast gale. while on a
voyage from Dalhousie, n B., for Mel
bourne. Australia, with a cargo of
lumber Several of the crew were
killed by the falling spars. The big
ship broke in two soon afterward and
ten of the Sovinto's men persisted.
Another disastrous wreck was that
of the Norwegian bark Adeona of Aren-
dial, which was driven ashore by the
same storm at Richibucto. Capt. johann
sen and crew of ten men, one of them
a German student, after remaining on
board two days, evidently feared that
the great seas which were constantly
dashing over the vessel would smash
her to pieces, and during the height
of the gale they launched a boat and
attempted to reach land. The boat
was capsized by a cOmber and the en-
tire crew was drowned. The masts OF
the vessel went by the board and ev-
erything movable was swept into the
sea. The crew would have been saved
had they remained aboard ship, as the
hull withstood the tremendous seas for
ten days. When it was possible for a
life-saving crew to reach the derelict
the ships cat was found alive in the
forecastle. The Adeona was bound
from Sexton for Preston, England,
with lumber.
Another Norwegian bark, supposed to
be the Magda, bound from Riyiere Du
Loup, Quebec, for BuenoS Ayres, was
lost with all on board. The vessel
struck on Red Island reef and found
cred. 1t is thought that the captain,
his pilot and twelve men were lost.
Half a dozen lives have been lost in
the wrecks of schooners during the
fall, but only four on board the dozen
steamers stranded were drowned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
WATERWAY IMPROVEMENTS.
Congress 10 he Asked to ApprOpri-
ate S5O,OOO,OOO Year.

Congress 10 he Asked to ApprOpri-
ate $5O,OOO,OOO a Year.
In a few years the United States will
have the finest waterway system in the
world if Congress should vote its APP
prevail of the movement which looks for
an annual appropriation of $50,000,000
for waterway improvement.
The United States has within its boun-
diaries, exclusive of seaboard more than
$4,000 miles of waters which, with proper
attention, should be uavigable. On these
she has spent up to date S470,000,000 On
the other hand, the tiny kingdom of Hol-
land, with only 1000 miles of navigable
waterways, has already spent on them
more than 81, 500,000000. France, with
1000 miles, has spent $1,120,000,00,
while Belgium, with less than 1900 miles,
has since 1875 spent in excess of $780,
100000. These large expenditures abroad
have made rates there very low, whereby
shippers in general have benefited.
The average appropriation in this coun-
try for each of the last ten years for all
the rivers and harbors has been about
$19,000000. Germany it is pointed out,
has spent about four times this sum on
the harbor of Hamburg alone. On the
harbor at Liverpool, England, $200,000,-
600 has been spent. In fact, many a
harbor in foreign lands has been improv-
ed and made move useful to both pro-
Queer and shipper at a cost exceeding
the whole annual appropriation of the
United States.
The average cost of shipping one ton
OF goods one mile by rail in the United
States is no cents. On the other hand,
tine average ton mile cost in the Great
Lakes is only 90 of cent on the lower
Mississippi, one mill on the Ohio river
to Cincinnati, one-third of one mill, and
on the Erie canal, as estimated for its
12-foot depth when completed, about half
a mill
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
From Far and Near.

Harry Williams of st. Paul, Mimi,
the song writer, and Miss Caroline Dem
ing of Detroit were married in New York.
Judge Thayer Melvin, Circuit Court
Judge in West Virginia almost eontinu-
ously from 1869, was stricken with paral-
ysis.
The effects of the San Francisco earth
quake on the Conried Metropolitan Opera
Company showed themselves at the an
nuaI meeting, when it was decided by
the directors that no dividends for the
last year would be paid.
NewcoE,be Carlton, architect of the
Buffalo exposition buildings, welded Mrs.
Josephine WinsIow Smith of New York,
widow of Clifford Smith, an Omaha mill
ionaire.
Women and girls to the NUMBER of $50
in a five-story brick building III the Will
Iiamsburg section OF Brooklyn escaped
by fire ladders when the building caught
ERE. The loss is estimated at $4,000.
Four robbers and three street car con-
ductors engaged in desperate battle at
midnight at Portland. Ne. Two of the
conductors we're fatally slashed with "a
zors. A mob Of 900 captured two of the
bandits.
The enlargement of the pneumatic
mail tube service of Chicago, authorized
bv Congress during the last session, viii
he made at once Postmaster General
CorteIyou has awarded the contract to
the Chicago Postal Pneumatic TOE Com
pany for S294.47o-
Because OF the illness of Attorney Al
fred Jones. counsel for Lord Frederick
Seymour harrington, convicted Of the
murder OF James =. Mccain near St.
Louis three years ago and under sentence
Of death. another stay Of execution has
been granted Attorney Jones has been
given sixty days TO transmit the tran
script Of the case to the United States
Supreme Court
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
Told In a Few Lines.

At the recent election the vote of In
dian territory was 101 900 and that of
Oklahoma $4,000.
The United States Horseshoeing Com
pany, capital 100000, was incorpo-
rated at Trenton, n. j.
The Hongkong legislative council has
voted a further installment Of funds to
the Canton Railway Company.
r. f. Clements, white, pleaded guilty
to a charge of assault and battery in con
pection with the Atlanta riots and was
fined $500.
At the meeting of the Methodist gen
eral missionary committee at Buffalo, N
Y. it was decided to meet at Seattle
next year.
Gov. Harris issued a proclamation to
the people Of Ohio calling upon them for
donations for the relief Of the gulf cities
Of Alabama.
A desperate fight took place in the cen
ter of Portland. Me-. at midnight between
four highyaymen and three street railway
conductors.
The Great Northern railway announces
II will hereafter charge government en-
ployes si55 from Manila to Tacoma and
full rail rates east.
Norman f. Smith, Tenakee hotel
man and former famous bicycle racer,
has been killed at Tenakee Hot Springs,
Alaska, by Robert Reid.
Carl wache, an elderly citizen Of
White Plains. y. T., who was the valet
Of Prince Bismarck Of Germany years
ago, is dead from heart disease.
Prof. Andrew Fleming West. dean OF
the graduate school Of Princeton Uniyer-
sity. has declined the presidency of the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technology.
A company with an aggregate capital
of s160 100000 is being formed TO control
Cincinnati and Cleveland light companies,
soal-bearing lands and other properties
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
Homes for Millions.

Farming opportunities are still open
to millions in the Southwest. For in
stance. Texas has 172,000,000 acres, while
only 100000 acres are under cultiva.
ton. OF 20,000,000 acres of available
farming land in the Indian Territory
only 100000 are under cultivation.
Arkansas has 34,500,O00 acres of farm.
ing land, while only 100000 acres are
under cultivation.
Missouri, which was admitted to the
Union nearly century ago, still has
100000 acres of land in the south
western part of the State which is no:
in cultivation, and which can be pur.
chased at a moderate price.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
OCEAN LINER TOSSED BY STORM
For -Four Days 500 Immigrants in
Peril on the Florida.

For four days 1000 immigrant pas
sengers on the Italian steamer Florida,
which arrived in New York the other
day from Genoa and Naples, were kept
below decks while the steamer pitched
and rolled in gale which at times as
sumed almost the proportions of hurri-
cane. The Florida came through safely,
however, and none of her passengers suf-
fered any permanent injury. Capt.
Noera said that at times the steamer
appear to stand still and then would vi
brate and culver until he feared the en-
gines would shake to pieces. At other
times the seas would heel the steamer
over so far to leeward that the water
came on board. One night four or five
great waterspouts were sighted, some of
them very near the steamer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
Dtlz llA(2Ng7S
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime
$500 to 1928; hogs, prime heavy, Sf.oo
to 1928; sheep, fair TO choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. ., re to 13c; corn,
No. ,, 43c to 44c; oats, standard, 33c to
34c: rye, No. ,, &c to csc; hay, timo-
thy. $1,000 to $3.50; prairie, $500 to
$14.50 butter, choice creamery, &c to
Use; eggs, fresh, &c to BE; potatoes,
Soc to 43c.
indianapolis Cattle, shipping, $500
to S6.40; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
SG.32; sheep, common to prime, 500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2, re to Tie; corn.
No. white, 43c to 44c; oats, No.
white, 33c to 35c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 500;
hogs, 800 to $6.15; sheep, $3.50 to
1928; wheat, No. 2, Toe to 76c; corn,
No. 2, Ale to 43c; oats No. 2, 32c to
34c; rye, No. ., Gle to CSC.
incinnati-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $6.35; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, Toe to Tic; corn,
No. . mixed, 47c to 4Sc; oats, No. 2
mixed. 35c to 3Gc; rye, No. 2, zoe to
72c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $5.35; hogs,
$500 to $6O5; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 76c to Tic; ocrn, 20. 3
yellow, 4Sc to 49c; oats, No 3 white,
35c to 3Gc; rye, No. 2, soc to zoe.
Mlwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
nc TO Sic; corn, No. 3, 45c to 46c;
oats. standard, 33c to Soc; rye, No. /,
Csc 10 G0c; barley, standard, 54c to 55c;
pork. mess. S14.50.
Bufalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
S4OO to $500; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; sheep, common to good mixed.
800 to 1913; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $S.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $685.
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
Sj.25; wheat, No. 2 red, Toe to SOC;
corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c; oats, natural
white, 3Sc to doc; butter, creamery, zoe
to 27c; eggs. western, 27c to 30c.
Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 74c to
7Gc: corn, No. mixed, 42c co 43c;
oats, No mixed, 34c to 35c; rye, No.
9, Coo to 67c; clover seed, prime, $S.25.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
THE WASTE OF APPLES.
Good Fruit Lost to the Market
Through bad shipping system.


Though one would not know it from
market conditions, a Chicago correspond
ent says, it is fact that the apple crop
of the United States this year is 1928
600 barrels greater than last year-or
So, 10000 barrels, all told. Where two
apples were available to delight the apple
lover last year there are three now. Rath-
er, there should be three, but so great
has been the waste ef apples which could
not find markets that the consumer will
not be able 10 benefit in anything like
the proportion he should.
Early in the season, when the fall
apples began to ripen. the woe of the
man with the big orchard was pitiable.
He would see his trees breaking down
under the weight of fruit, and know that
even if he hauled the apples miles to a
market town he could not get better than
20 cents a bushel for them, with pos
sibility that the local dealers would re-
fuse TO take them at any price. The
hogs were the main benefic:aries of the
crop.
When the winter apples riLened the sit
uation was no better. An observer at a
small town in central Illinois, from
which the apple product of about n
third of county was shipped, has re-
ported that there was waste of 10000
barrels in that territory alone, or about
a quarter of the crop.
Consumers in the cities have benefited
despite the waste by being able to get
the poorer grades of apples at very low
prices, but strange to say, the better
grades have sold at retail for almost as
high prices as they have brought in re-
cent years of short crops. The quality
of the apples is a little better, and the
price little lower, but the improvement
In both factors combined does not begin
to equal what would be expected from
the huge production.
The causes of the waste have been sle
high freight rates and car service which
is not adequate for the emergency. With
out the cold storage warehouses and the
development of fruit transportation lines
the situation would be worse than 1t is,
and the country would have even less
benefits from the bounty of nature. The
problem of organization to enable the
country to get the best use of its re-
sources is an enormous one and will re-
main such so long as the population con-
tinues to grow. 1t is one in which ev-
cry citizen has an interest. To make
two apples grow where one grew before
is hardly more important than to make
the two apples, when once they are
grown reach the mouths which want
them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
WiIson,s Body Disinterred.

The body of James Wilson, a signer
OF the Declaration of Independence and
one of the trainers of the federal consti-
tuition, after lying for 10S years in a
cemetery at Edenton. \. c., has been
placed opposite those of his wife in the
graveyard of Old Christ church, Phila-
delphia. A wreath on the coffin was sent
by President Roosevelt. Among the speak
ers in connection with the ceremony were
Messrs. Andrew Carnegie. DIR. S. Weir
Mitchell. Alton B. Parker and Attorney
General Moody.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04

and there was smaller
demand upon the jobbers for staple
goods, but the buying of holiday spe-
cialtles maintains an exceptional aggre-
gaze No dlminution appears in the
volume of production in iron and steel
and other prominent industries, and
steady flow of new demands added fur
Their to the pressure upon manufactur-
ing capacity and maintained firm mar
EetS for raw materials.
More congestion is noted in railroad
transportation and various business in
terests suffer severe drawbacks from
lack of cars. Advices from interior
points continue cheerful as to the ex-
cellent outlook for winter trade, stocks
of merchandise undergoing timely re-
duction, and mercantile collections at
western points make good showing
Distribution of commodities Is swell
ed beyond all previous magnitude,
much of the gain being due to unprece-
dented quantities of heavy materials
for construction and power. Earnings
of the Chicago railroads increase large
ly in gross over those of a year ago,
and with the liberal additions now be-
ing made 70 equipment some relief soon
may be apparent where congestion is.
acutest.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict numbered 26, against 81 last week
and 21 year ago.-Dun's Review of
Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-12-04
STILL TO PRINT OWN STAMPS.
Government Decides Not to Let Con
tract to Outsiders.

Postmaster General Cortelyou has
awarded to the bureau of engatving anc
printing of the Treasury Department the
contract for furnishing postage stamps
and books of stamps for the postal ser
vice during the period of four years be
ginning Feb 1, 1907. There were only
two bidders, the bureau of engraving and
printing and the American Bank Note
Company of New York. Had the award
been given to the bank note company the
annual saving to the government would
have been about $4,000. In memoran.
dun Mr.. Cortelyou says: at appears to be
the policy of the government to manu-
facture its currency, revenue stamps Sc
curities. etc, by its own agencies and
it would be contrary to that policy to
give over to a private company the con-
tract for the manufacture of postage
stamps solely for the purpose of saving
an amount relatively small and largely
problematical