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FOREIGNERS IN RUSSIA.
Obstacles That are Placed in the Way
of Their Investigations.

In relating an interview with a
Russian official, in his article Rus
sian Peasant Riots" in Everybody
Ernest Poole says:
''The Chancellor smiled.
"'Not long ago. he replied, "a gen.
tleman came here with just such a
letter. But meanwhile the Governor
had received different orders from
some one else iii Petersburg. The
gentleman did net see the peasants
"Let's get out of this, I said,
speaking low in English. Let's hire
a sleigh, and just begin looking as
we did in those other villages. At
least we can see something before We
get expelled.
Unfortunately tie Chancellor
caught my meaning.
eff you try to see the peasants by
yourselves he said, you will not only
be watched by the police, but some
at least of the peasants to whom you
talk will be our spies. We have tele-
phones to every village, and in two
hours at latest we shall know not only
whom you have seen, but also what
YOU yourselves hav. said. Meanwhile
YOU will have been seized and thrown
into a village Jail, awaiting our ord
ers.' He smiled grimly. Our village
police are rough fellows. They would
doubtless fog you both in Jail before
we could inform them who you were.
OF course, we should be sorry for this
and should reprimand them. But in
the meantime, you see, you would
have been logged
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IIncIe SANS Wards.

We sometimes think the Govern
ment pays more attention to the care
of it's worthless citizens than it's in
dustrious ones. The Government is
like a mother who usually has the
tenderest spot in her heart for the
black sheep i'll her flock of white ones.
A deputy sheriff has been appointed
to care for the no-account Indians on
the reservation south of Sabetha. This
man is to care for them when they
get drunk; to preserve order, and
keep them from eating each other up.
The Government pays 500 a month to
the deputy, furnishes him with a
horse and buggy and pays for the ami
mails keep. Yet the rural mail car
riers receive less salary; buy their
own outfits, pay their own expenses
and work hard and faithfully to serve
the best ard most Industrious class of
citizens. If the Government pays for
the keep Of its no-account Indians it
ought to pay twice as rIuch for the
comfort of its farmers. The most de-
serving people on the American con-
tinent are the rural mail carriers and
the school teachers. When they strike
we announce in advance that we are
or their side.-Sabetha Herald.
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for life he was forced to yield to the

for life he was forced to yield to the
universal conqueror
AS soldier and statesman Gen. Wheel
er occupied prominent place in pub
lie life. He fought in two wars. The
sword which he welded in behalf of
the "lost cause" ne offered to re-
united nation in our war with Spain,
and be came out of that struggle a
popular idol. In the Civil War Gen.
Wheeler and his cavalry command
were the inspiration of the southern
armies. No task was too difficult for
him to undertake, no danger too great
to incur In four years he was three
times wounded and had 16 horses shot
under him.
Gen Wheeler, who was a gradudse
Of the United States Military Academy,
entered the Confederate service in 1861
and was made a colonel of Infantry.
At Shiloh he commanded brigade and
soon afterward was transferred to the
cavalry service. IN which he won his
greatest honors. During the Kentucky
campaign of 1862 he commanded Gen
Bragg's cavalry and fought at Green
River and Perryvllle. At Murfrees-
.,oro and Chickamauga he led the
cavalry. After the latter battle be
crossed the Tennessee River. attacked
Gen. Rosecrans' line of communications
defeated the opposing Union force. de
stroying 200 wagons, with their
stores, ind inficting on national prop
erty a less of S3,000.0OO. At the siege
Of Knoxville be took an active part
and covered tbs retreat Of Gen. Bragg
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Utah. The particular depression now
being filed is known as the Salton
Basin, and lies at its center 287 feet
below The sea level. 1t covers an APP
proxinate area of $500 square miles,
and is partly in Riverside and partly
in San Diego Counties, California, with
the southeriy end extending short
distance into Mexico, south of Calexico,
an American town on the border.
The basin is defined by an old beach
that can be traced all around the lake.
This beach is filled with small marine
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
2ut it could be condensed into two

about it could be condensed into two
paragraphs.
At 10 O'Clock on June II, 1902, Mr..
half holiday, got a carriage and took
his family, consisting of Mrs. Clarke
and his four boys, Walter, Wilbur,
Russell and Harry, the latter a baby
in arms, for a drive into the Essex
County woods. By chance they came
to Chebacco pond about noon and were
invited to eat their lunch at the camp
Of Mr.. Ryan, an ex-alderman of Salem,
who had gone there for days outing.
Mrs Clarke took the baby and the two
other boys to the cabin, while Wilbur,
four years old, remained with his faith
err while Mr.. Clarke unharnesseA the
horse and hitched it to a tree. When
the horse was attended to Mr.. Clarke
look around for the boy, but he was
gone.
A cry was raised and a hunt Of the
woods begun In an hour or so search
ers brought back from wood road
half mile away a blue chambray tie
which the mother identified as belong
ing to the boy Near the spot where
this was picked up the footprints of
man and boy were found. An old pair
of Wilbur's shoes were found to fit
exactly the small footprints in the mud.
Beyond these two bits Of evidence
nothing definite has ever been discov-
cred except the very significant fact
that a fashionably dressed man with
Panama hat and pink striped outing
shirt was seen by one of Mr.. Ryan'5
boys half an hour previously near the
path where Wilbur Clarke disappeared.
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LONESOME BOY.
7 rs awful lonesome to our hous

IT'S awful lonesome to our house
since Ma went away, and my Pa,
he don't want to say a word when
1 ask him when she's coming back. He
just signs great big sigh and tells
me, Sonny, don't. Your Ma would
come right back here If she could, but
she can't, and there isn't any one left
'cept you and me, and we must stick
together And then he signs again and
we both feel so awful sorry inside OF
US
And mornings when my Pa tries to
dress me we have such turble times
with buttons and the things at holds
my clothes on, and my Pa says but
tons is the meanest. But my Ma knew
just where every button went and
when she dressed me she'd kiss ME in
the hollow Of my neck and snuggle me
up close and warm and say: Hearts
delight, 1 love you, cause you're my
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

More of an unfathomable mystery to-
day than when the child disappeared,
three and one-half years ago, is the
case of the missing little Wilbur Clarke,
Of Beverly, Mass. Since that fateful
June II. 1902, when the boy vanished
almost from beneath his parents eyes,
no tangible clew has been found. Tho
efforts of skilled detectives of the STATE
police department, as we'll as the aid
of local officers of all the surrounding
towns, and a cbild-hunt made by hale
the population of that part of Essex
County, the use of blood hounds and
the offering of large rewards at tan
time-all proved unavailing.
AS time has passed the case has only
become more ineXplicable, more like the
famous kidnapping of Charlie Ross a
generation ago.
A startling suspicion has gained
ground of late that the reason of this
profound mystery and the reason why
no rewards have brought any news of
the boy is that the kidnapper was a
wealthy summer resident who stole the
boy to adopt him, and that all the re
sources of wealth, influence and a great
family name have been used to sup
press any information about the case.
The kidnapping of Wilbur Clarke at
the time became a newspaper sensa-
ton even greater than the Charlie Ross
case. Pages upon pages of details about
it were telegraphed all over the cOun-
try and the reports continued for
weeks. Yet all that was ever known
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
GENERAL JOSEPH WHEELER.

brlgadier general, major general and
lieutenant general, he remained in the
cavalry until the end of the struggle.
After the war he studied law, and
this profession, together with the occu-
patton Of a cotton planter. he followed
until his advent into national politics
in 1880. In 1898 after serving for IS
years as a congressman from Alabama,
he offered. his sword to President Nc
Kinley in the war with Spain. As a
major general Of volunteers he became
one Of the most talked of men in the
country and served with distinction
in Cuba and the Philippines. When
the Filipino instruction was suppress
ed and the volunteers were disbanded
he was commissioned a brigadier gen
eral In the regular army. With that
rank he retired In 1900. Gen. Wbeeler
was GO years old last September.
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and fresh-water shells, perfect In form.
hut which crumble under slight pres
sure The fact that this beach in many
places still retains its old form despite
the force of sandstorms and other ac-
ton on the part of the elements is held
by SON as conclusive evidence that the
basil, WIS a sea at no very distant
time.
There are some who hold the opin-
ion that, if the flow of the Colorado is
not controlled. it will. in time, again H.
the entire basin to sea level.
This newest salt lake is now FROM
ten to eighteen miles wide, about fortf
FIVE miles long, twenty-three feet fouE
inches in depth at the deepest sound
ing, and is rising steadily at the rate
of from one-half TO three-qudrters of an
inch daily under the combined inflow
of the Colorado and ella Rivers.
The ella empties into the Colorado
about three miles above Yama, Ari.,
the hottest and driest place on the
face o. the earth, and from there the
combined flow formerly swept on lOO
miles to the Gulf of California.
To-day from a point twelve miles
south of Yuma and four miles below
the line in Mexico the river bed of the
Colorado is a dust-dry, sandy waste
FIVE feet higher than the present chan
mel. the river having changed its course
from due south to west-south-west
Even at low water the flow is pouring
into Salton Sea by two channels-those
of the Alamo and New Rivers.
The map shows the source Of the
water that is pouring into Salton Sea
ana which is now from ten to eighteen
mile: wide and forty-five miles long
At the upper heading, just below Yuma
but on the American side, an irrigation
company cut a canal, which was moi
Of sufficient capacity to .upply the ir
rigable district. At the lower head
canal sixty feet wide and eight feet
deep was cue in the quick-sand bank
OF the Colorado. This canal the rive.
quickly enlarged to 600 feet wide and
thirty feet deep and below that poin
the old channel Of the river is dry, the
entire flow pouring through the intake
To relieve the situation in the irrigat
ed district and at Salton, the DUAL
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she'll hug me in her arms and say,
Sonny. there comes your Pa
And these times when l most for
get. | say to my Pa: Maybe my Ma
will come home soon and put the sup
per on Pas eyes look all bury and
he SAYS he isn't hungry and at my
Ma can't come And then l say,
isn't hungry either, and my Pa says
so low can hardly hear him, its aw-
full hard, and 1 don't quite know what
he means. but l think it's cause my Ma
has gone away so turble far she can't
get back again. | know she didn't go
a-purDose She liked me and Pa too
well to 60 away and stay less she
couldn't help it.
Nights when she don't come to put
the supper on. and we say we isn't
hungry. my Pa rocks me In his lap
and rubs my head with his hand almost
as soft as Ma, and he asks me if don't
want to take a nap. And everything's
so still with no one in the house 'cept-
ing Pa and me- at in a little while I
Idll d3lbGD anu llC JboI SiIo anu iONAo
and rocks. but he don't never go to
sleep at all. And when l wake up
his eyes is looking way off somewheres
| can't see the place, and I say, IS
YOU trying to see where my Ma is at?'
And we sit and rock and rock till
I 90 to sleep again, and my Pa don't
want to let me go to bed, so we sit
and rock and rock. and my Pa hugs
me tight and he don't go to sleep az
all. He says, Sonny, there isn't any
one left 'cept you and me and we must
| stick together
| Its awful lonesome at our house
now cause my Ma has gone away. l
wisht so hard l could hear my Ma
say, Hearts delight I love you, cause
your my baby Toledo Blade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
WE'LL KEEP THE LITTLE FARM.


Well, Jane, guess we'll keep the plac
We've lived here, you and l,
Upon this little farm so long,
Let's stay here till we die.
You know | tho; ght I'd sell it once,
To Jones, or Deacon Brown,
And take the money we have saved
And buy house in town.
But when the buds begin to swell,
And grass begins to grow,
Somehow it doesn't seem to me
ought to let it CO.
/ love the crimson clover,
And the fields of waving corn
The quiet, balmy evening,
And the fragrant, dewy morn;
The pink and snowy blossoms
Hanging on the apple trees
The chirping of the crickets,
And the humming of the bees.
love the summers honey breath,
The blushing buds of May;
The teeming autumn, rich with fruit,
The scent Of new-mown hay;
The noisy babble of the brook,
And laughter of the rill;
The lowing herds upon the heath,
And hocks upon the hill.
And when l think of leaving all.
1t fills me with alarm;
So, after all, l guess it's best
To keep the little farm.
j. Edgar French.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

ton in Washington by the recommen-
dation for corporal punishment of wife
heaters in the Presidents last message.
The bill provides that any male per
son w.o shall be convicted of beating,
bruising or mutilating his wife shall
be whipped upon the back, the lasheS
not TO exceed 80. The marshal of the
Distri, of Columbia shall WELD the
lash within the prison Enclosure in the
presence of a physician and the keeper
of the prison.
Adams says the value of the bin is
based upon the historical demonstra-
ton that the treatment of women by a
nation is one or the best tests of its
progress in civilization.
Whipping brutal husband, he
claims, does away with the objection
to imprisonment-dest Of the
wife aud family left without support.
He says that In Pennsylvania in 1904
there were 525 complaints of wife beat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

from Missionary Ridge and Lookout
Mountain. His soldierly qualities were
we'll displayed in his resistance to Gen.
Sherman's army in its march toward
atlanta, and in the desperate attempts
made to sever the Union line of COM
munications. Whether in the rear or
in the front Of Sherman's army he
fought with remarkable brillfancy aHd
dash, always striking with lightning
like rapidity and vanishing when the
blow fell. Successfully promoted to
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

River cut was made into the RIO
Padrones, in the hope of carrying the
water into Volcano Lake and thence
by Hardy's Colorado to the gulf. Just
north of the lake the water cut a chan
mel through to New River, and thence
flowed northwest to Salton sink, which
is gradually rising under the flow from
two channels, the Alamo and New
Rivers
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
FORM ARMY OF EDUCATION.
10000 Men and $4,000 WOme
Employed as Teachers.

10000 Men and 100000 Women
Employed as Teachers.
The army of education teachers in
the United States is made up of 450,-
600 teachers, of whom 10000 are men
and 100000 women. The overwhelming
majority of the teachers are natives Of
the United States, less than 10000 hav-
ing been born abroad-one in fifteen.
Most of the men teachers are between
the years of % and 80. The majority
Of the women teachers are between 10
and %.
There are 2,300 men teachers over
60. There are less than 1900 women
teachers over 60. Three times as many
women as men teachers are put down
as age unknown"
There are 21,0O0 colored teachers in
the United States, thus divided be-
tween the two sexes; 100 men and
1890 women. There are 500 Indian
teachers liz the Indian schools of the
United States-240 men and 260 wom-
en-.
The average age Of teachers in the
United States is higher than in Eng
land and lower than in Germany. The
proportion of very youthful teachers
is much greater in the country than in
the city districts.
The largest proportion of men teach
ers is to be found in West Virginia,
where they number 80 per cent of the
total The largest proportion of wom-
en- is to be found in Vermont, where
they form 80 per cent of the whole
number. The standard of education is
much higher in Vermont than it is in
West Virginia.
The number of teachers in the United
States has increased greatly in recent
years. In 1871 there were $4,000: in
1880, 225,O00; in 1890, $4,000, and it
| iS of nrpSenf 450 600
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HIS BILL WOULD APPLY TO
WIFE BEATERS.

The introduction of the whipping
post for wife beaters in the District of
Columbia has been put up to Congress
by Robert Adams, Jr., a representative
from Philadelphia, who fathered a
simiIa' measure in the Pennsylvania
Legislature twenty-five years ago He
is encouraged to revive it for applica-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Too Busy To Hear Il.

when the old man is shaking down
the furnace, carrying out the ashes,
feeding the cat and six kittens, and
making the beds" remarked the OBJ
server of events and things, "of
course, he is too busy to hear his
daughter in t e parlor, singing: "Ev-
erybody Works but Father. 3an
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
A Lively Catch.

Mrs. S.-And SO you are leaving us,
Bridget? And what are You going to
do?
Bridget Please, mum, I'm going to
get married.
Mrs. S.-Dear me! Isn't that rather
sudden? Who is the happy MANI
Bridget-Do sou remember, mum, me
askin' you about four weeks ago to go
TO the funeral of a friend? Well, l do
be goin' to marry the corpse's husband.
Sure. he told me then 1 wuz the life o.
the party.-Ha-per' Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Coed Time TO Tame Ducks.

Mrs. McSosh-I thought you told me
you had been duck-hunting?
Mr.. McSosh-Yes, m dear-thash
where I been.
Mrs. McSosh-Now, see here, sir !;
those are tame ducks that you've
brought home.
Mr.. McSosh-Yeshm. I tanned 'em
after I shot 'em.-Cleveland Leader.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

In round numbers the Christians OF
misunderstanding Roman Catholic
and Greek-numl1er about $4,000
church members, with a community
of about 100000.
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Maintaining the Balance.

Maine hunters this year killed more
game and fewer of each other than for
many seasons. By these tactics 1t Is
hoped the supply Of hunters will last
az long a. the deer.-Omaba Bee
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06
Carry Autos In Navy.

Motoring is now SO popular in the
British navy that some officers carry
their cars a1oat with them. The
Autocar says Lord Charles Beresford
is one OF them
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

The depression
which the diverted
waters of the Col
orado River are
now filling at the
rate of 5000 cubic
feet a second Is q
part of the Great
Basin once a
mighty sea and
tributary to the
Pacific through the
Columbia River,
and until recently
survived only Ia
rapidly diminishing
Great Salt Lake in
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FOUGHT HIS LAST FIGHT.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler, Soldier and
Statesman, Is Dead.

Another military hero, especially
dear to the southern heart, but dear,
too, to the heart of the nation at large,
passed away, in the death of Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, at the home of his
sister in Brooklyn. A few days before
Gen. Wheeler was stricken with pneu-
monla, and though he battled bravely
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-03-06

Since Illuminated texts have become
all the rage, wouldn't this be a good
one: mo doctor can cure what ails
you; it's your mean disposition"
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-24
TUESDAY, APRIL "a, 1906.
DENNY WAS ARRESTED

WiIliston Banker is Again In the
Toiis-conspiracy ls the Charge
] Against Him. S@
Z W. H. Denny, the Williston banker,
who has had considerable difficulty In
tevading the Montana authorities, and
who has remained in the Second
Judicial district very closely for sever
al months, was arrested at Churchs
Ferry yesterday by Constable David
son, of Williston, on a warrant issued
Sat Williston, charging him with con-
ispiracy. He was taken to Williston
on train yesterday morning. s.
Some months ago warrant for a
similar charge was issued in Valley
county, Montana, for the arrest Of
Denny, and Denny was placed under
arrest. He made d fight against the
issuance of fequisition papers, and
Governor Sarles honored the demand
of the Montana governor. Mr.. Den.
ny made application to Judge Cowan
for a writ Of, habeas corpus, which was
issued and he thus gained his liberty.
Since that time he has not wandered
far from Judge Cowan's district.
Assistant Attorney General R. N.
Stevens went to Williston several
days ago, and it is claimed that the
issuance of a warrant there for the
arrest Of Denny was sanctioned by
him. ~ y # -.9...;.c. III. 81 IL Il
1t is claimed that Denny conspired
with Montana and North Dakota men
to steal horses from the ranchers Of
Montana, and it Is further claimed
that Denny received the horses in this
state and directed how they should be
disposed of. ! y ID = S. s 81 80 49,
| In order to evade any possible hitch
in the proceedings Constable David
son, armed with the warrant for
Denny's arrest, drove out of Williston
and caught a train at a station this
side Of there, and by this means was
able to reach Churchs Ferry before
Denny's friends had been able to ad.
wise him of the new turn of affairs.
I
Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1906-04-24
Wild Flowers.

y ~
Yellowstone is truly one of the
Seven wonders" AS a place Of
grandeur and scenery it is unsur-
passed by the famous Alps. Wild
flowers abound there in great pro
fusion. S.ss r
+ In order to furnish the public with
a souvenir. within reach Of all, the
Northern Pacific Railway has pre-
pared a dainty publication, containing
twelve specimens of some of the most
beautiful wild flowers within the
Park, which have been pressed and
nicely mounted in portfolio form. /
This magnificent souvenir, which
also contains six full page halftone
Illustrations, will be mailed prepaid
upon receipt Of SO cents. - vs., 9...,. N
Al. M. yCLELAND, ri II
Gen. Passenger Agt., st. Paul MINI