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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
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The government has succeeded in put
ting an end to almost all the lotteries ex-
cept marriage.
That Wisconsin husband who waited sc
years to sue for divorce took long time
to think it over.
In spite of the steady work of the
bomb-throwers, there are still a few I'M
killed Russian generals lodging around.
When New York butler can retire
with 100000 it indicates that prosperity
has trickIed right down through the popu.
Luton.
A pretty Nebraska woman who won Ter
lawsuit promptly kissed the judge. You
see, it's worth while being a judge in Ne
braska.
A California professor says 10 cents
worth of peanuts is more nourishing than
a psrterhouse steak. Walk up to the pea.
nut stand and get dinner for a dime
That Ohio boy who is TO get S25OOO0
if he is a patriotic American will proba-
bly, put up Fourth of July celebration
that will make the country scream for
help.
4 lunatic who escaped from the Mid
dletown IN. " insane asylum has been
mailing back souvenir post cards from
every station No doubt now about his
being crazy.
That Washington girl who sat on a
wrecked boat and ate chocolates while
she waited for the rescuers ought to be
given Jerome medal by the Don't
Worry Cub.
Mormc elders have just brought over
from Europe 123 girl converts. And the
fool killer was not on the dock to meet
them.
That Atlantic City waiter who got &c
cents reward for finding a lady's 1900
can't believe that women are such liberal
spenders.
The King Of Siam calls himself THE
Brother of the SUM- There are several
people who think themselves the human
sunburst.
A sting from bee has just killed a
PENNSYLVANIA boy. and yet Senator Knox
is reckless enough TO go around with a
bee in his bonnet.
Americans pay 100000 a year for
life insurance. How many millions of
that is spent in calendars and picture
cards is not stated.
Charles NJ. Schwab thinks that every
wife should be cook but when he came
TO build a nome he erected a structure
that doesn't look a bit ike kitchen.
western scientist says that the girls
of the United States are kissing their
lives away" . death, where is thy vic
tory? o grave. where is thy sting:
So many men are being killed BY tbs
strenuous life that DIR. Evans predicts
that Chicago viii soon be an '-Adamless
Eden Ii may be Adamless. but it's
hard TO imagine Chicago as an Eden
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
LAND FRAUD PROVED
BENSON OF SAN FRANCISCO is
FOUND GUILTY.
Arrested After Being Decoyed TO
WashfngfOn-Suft Is Hard Fought
Fast Work on Panama Canal
Eats Up Appropriations.

After hard-fought trial, Astounding in
sensational features, John A. Benson,
wealthy real estate dealer in San Fran
cisco. was convicted in connection with
the national land frauds. Benson was
the operator for the firm OF Benson &
Hyde. Benson was arrested last Deem
Der in Washington charged with defraud-
ing the government of at least 100000
acres of forest land by various schemes.
1t was alleged that he fraudulently ma
nipulated land under the forest reserve
act TO hugh profit. The operations were
said to have been carried on in Washing
ton, Oregon. California, Montana, Idaho,
Nevada, Colorado, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota,
Arizona and New Mexico. To secure Ben
son he was decoyed to Washington and
apprehended By officers of the Department
of Justice. Later he was sent to San
Francisco. When the trial was to be
called it is said that heavy influence was
brought to bear to lessen the effects OF
the law on Benson. But Secretary Hitch
cock and the Department of Justice were
determined TO break up the workings of
the land frauds and they prosecuted the
matter vigorously. The final punishment
Of Benson will be decided upon soon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
TALK BY TAFT.
Would Revise Tarif and Put Big
yfoIatcrs of Law i'm Prison.

yfoIatcrs of Law i'm Prison.
William Howard Taft, Secretary of
War. and the administration candi-
date for the Republican presidential
nomination, at Columbus detailed his
views on pressing public questions be-
fore the Buckeye Republican Club. Sec
rotary Taft was received with enthusi-
asm, every person present rising and
cheering him vigorously.
The Secretary's address was the first
and most important of series to be
made at various points in the West
prior to his sailing for the Philippines
and Japan ON the 10th of September.
From a political standpoint it was
noted that Secretary Taft laid down
his opinions in such a way that there
was no mistaking his candidacy and
hardly any doubt, also, that he expects
to have as his chief opponent on tn.
Democratic ticket William Jennings
Bryan. Mr.. Taft singled Mr.. Bryan
out repeatedly in discussing public
questions and the views of other indi-
viduals.
The salient features of the Secre-
tary's address were:
He favors additional railroad rate leg
islation, notably an increase of power to
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
He favors changes in the antitrust
law which win more clearly define it.
He believes there can be such a thing
as a lawful trust, but emphasizes the
danger of unlawful monopoies
He does not agree with Mr.. Bryan as
to the trust license plan and as to what
should be done with the trusts"
He is in favor of remedying the ''swol-
len fortune" evil and suggests State leg
islation.
He believes that the graduated Inherit
ance and income tax might be properly
resorted to by the government in case
Of financial emergency.
He denies that Roosevelt's policies are
socialistic and that the President was re-
sponsible for State legislation reducing
railroad passenger rates or for Wall street
furries.
He designated Mr.. Bryan's scheme of
government as "neryeless" and denies the
practicability of national referendum.
He comes out squarely against govern
ment ownership of railroads.
He announces that he is against free
trade, but favors tariff revision and be-
lieves there should be no tariff tinkering
until after the next presidential election.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27

terest of the public health, but differ
ences have arisen at each stage of the
attempt to frame regulations for the
government of the export trade in such
commodities owing to honest difference
of opinion as to the proper definition of
adulteration.
Although taking an advanced position
in this matter as revealed in the strip,
gent legislation contained in the pure
food law, the government of the United
States has been obliged at times to take
sharp issue with some of the European
government officials as to the harmfulness
of certain ingredients of our food export
ed. Against purely technical objections
the Agricultural Department has been
contending with difficulty for long time.
But with the passage of the pure food
act, with the authority contained therein
to apply its provisions to imported food
and drugs and wines, the department finds
its hand much strengthened in dealing
with European governments, which are
now beginning to show very practical
interest in the inquiry which DIR. Wiley
is making into the nature of the ingredi-
ents of the great quantities of foreign
delicatessen and liquors that are flowing
into the United States.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
NEW YORK.

Growing crops show further good pro-
gress toward harvest, and fall trade tends
to expand at leading western and eastern
jobbing centers.- Cross currents are WISH
bit in different industries. Thus While
finished cotton fabrics are in demand
and some makes, notably bleached goods,
have been further advanced, there are re-
ports of smaller demand and lower prices
for cotton yarns. In wooden goods, while
high-grade worsted and fine wooden fab
RIGS have sold well, other grades are
slower of sale, and there is talk of accu-
mutation. In the leather trade there is
more life than of late, and good quality
leather and hides are on better sale, as
are also high-class shoes. Low grades
are slower of sale, and eastern shir nents,
so far, are per cent behind 1906. In
iron and steel the lack of new buying is
still notable and prices tend to ease, as
the mills and furnaces find deliveries
easier to make.
Business failures for the week ending
Aug. 10 number 146, against 157 last
week, 143 in the like week of 1906, 147
in 1908, BOB in 1904 and 156 in 1908.
In Canada failures for the week number
80, as against Is last week and % in this
week a year ago.-Bradstreet's CONNER
cial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
Farmers Form Labor Union.

A number of the farmers of Orange
county, N. Y, have organized an associa-
ton called the Orange County Union, it's
purpose being to cut out the middleman's
profits and sell direct to consumers. To
this end they would form company
composed exclusively of members of the
union and operate a large exchange in
Newburg, selling farm and garden pro-
duce slightly below present prices. To
secure the cooperation of the labor in
terests the farmers have asked to join the
Central Labor Union. The novelty of this
proposition has proved somewhat puz-
zling to the labor leaders, and commit
tee has been appointed to look into the
matter. The union men of Newburg are
enthusiastic over the project, but are not
a little perplexed as to the proper way
of labelling the products of the farmers
organization.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
MAY BECOME EXTINCT
FEARS FOR PEARLS IN WESTERN
RIVERS.
Government Is Asked to Protect
Mussels from Unchecked Raids by
Observation-Disclosures and Horses
Burn to Death.

Pearl dealers of the Maiden Lane dis
trict in New York are starting a move
ment to save the Western pearl fisheries
from destruction that is threatened be-
cause there is no restriction on the work
OF fishermen, who are taking from the
rivers tons Of mussels from which only
few pearls are obtained petition
was recently sent to Washington asking
for an investigator of the present con-
ditions affecting the ussels of the West
ern rdyets and the feasibility of estab-
fishing hatcneries in which the mussel
may be propagated. The men in the
movement have received assurances that
an investigation is already under way.
Dealers agree that, although 1900 or
1000 men are daily looking for pearls in
the upper Mississippi and the Wabash
rivers, now the most promising fishing
grounds, yet fewer round pearls are be-
ing received in New York than in any
preceding year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
CHICAGO

Desplte the telegraphers' strike and the
'cute effect of this and other adverse fac
'ofs, tfaue conditions reflect no recession
activity and volume of demands in
eading lines. There is, however, as ex-
pected, moee caution in approaching new
undertakings os magnitude.
1t is excellent testimony to the healthy
basis of commerce in this section that the
eetuins make gratifying exhibit in pay
ments through he banks, in freight move
ments, mercsntile defaults and factory
production, all these comparing favorably
with high records year ago. The banks
successfully maintain ample reserves, but
there is more urgent discount offering and
crop moving needs involve heavy ship
ments of currency to the interior.
Pressure upon available funds causes
20 discrimination against responsible Gus
toners seeking accommodation, get close
scanning of credits is in order, particu-
iarly with reference to commitments for
the future Notwithstanding heavier
tone pervades some quarters, current
transactions sustain good feeling in the
leading industries and wholesale branches
Distribution of finished materials and
raw supplies is maintained at the highest
aggregate, and jobbers shipments show
substantial advance.
Earnings OF Chicago railroads surpass
all former gains, and lake traffic is enor-
mously extended in ore, coal and lumber.
Crude materials have not changed in
costs, aside from another decline in cop
per.
Crop reports again agree as to fine
progress in corn and spring wheat growth,
and the improving outlook spreads
throughout agricultural sections, where
heavy OUTLAWS are made for farm addi-
tions and tools. This encouraging fea-
ture imparts more confidence to the buy
ing of staple merchandise.
Country buyers in unusually large num-
bers now make their selections here, and
the bookings for early delivery run into
large totals in the textiles, clothing, boots
and shoes, furniture and food products.
Total movement of grain at this port,
6,617, 1853 bushels, compares with 5,951,-
56S bushels last week and S,46S,50S BUSH
els year ago.
Bank clearings, 224,174,169, exceed
those of the corresponding week last year
by 11.S per cent. Failures reported in
the Chicago district numbered %, against
% last week and 2S year ago.-Dun's
Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
Cause of the Big Strike.

Higher wages, an eight-hour day, more
comfortable working conditions and the
free use of typewriters-t are the
essential demands of the striking teleg-
raphers. Ever since the union was form
ed, March 10, 1908, these have been its
principal aims, and in both the matter Of
wages and working conditions substantial
progress has been made. Much remains
to be accomplished, however, in the way
of securing further concessions from beth
the Western Union and Postal companies,
the strikers declare, before they will be
satisfied.
In a letter addressed to President
Clowry of the Western Union company
last May, President S. j. Small of the
union demanded for the operators:
That the standard Of wages be fixed and
that the increase of 10 per cent granted
to some of the operators last March be
That clerks and other employees be re-
munerated more literally.
That eight hours constitute a daytime
trick"
That seven hours constitute split day
That seven hours constitute a day for ex-
ira work.
That no ''trick' shall be divided into
more than two parts.
That no telegrapher be compelled to work
more than four and one-half hours with
out being allowed thirty minutes for lunch.
That a reasonable time for extra reliefs
be allowed
That the companies furnish typewriting
machines to telegraphers in the operating
departments
That all sliding scales so-called, be abol-
ished.
While the strike in Chicago was di-
rectly due to the refusal OF the union
operators there to work wires with nom
union telegraphers employed by the West
ern Union company in Los Angeles the
basic and chief contributing element was
the unrest caused by the above grew
ances. With the strike in full force the
telegraphers are now clamoring for an
additional increase of Is per cent in pay.
Data furnished by international Secre-
tary Wesley Russell of the union shows
the following conditions among CONNER
ciaf telegraphers throughout the country ::
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
An Around the Globe.

Southern Pacific railroad bolermakers
at San Luis Obispo. Cal. went on strike
A case of cramps seized John Pauley,
a pioneer of Washburne, Wis, and he lay
in the woods all night.
Simon Ward. air brake inspector for
the c., c. & L. railroad, was found dead
under car at Peru, Ind
Oscar KnoIteight was fatally scalded
and seven others injured when a thresh-
ing machine blew up near Peru. Ind.
Rev. George Steed, Methodist parson
of Los Angeles, Cal. got vacation with
out salary for injudicious conduct.
John Holley, well-known young man
Of Woodlawn, Ala, was shot and killed
there by Marshal Fowler while in the act
Of robbing a drug store.
The Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany has taken an appeal from the de
cision of Judge Page Morris dning that
railroad $1,000 for granting rebates.
Theresa Sullivan, st. Louis girl, aged
%. severed the jugular vein of Michael
Sanders. causing his death, because she
said he failed to keep an appointment
Fifty-nine pounds Of gold dust valued
at $4,000 were stolen from a registered
mail sack between Eagle and Rampant,
Alaska. There is no clew TO the thieves
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
Newa of Minor Note.

Reports from Saranac Lake, n. Y, are
that Richard Mansfield, the actor, steadily
is failing.
repairing gasoline engine by torchlight
at yandergrift, Pa.
Gov. Deneen has committed the sem
tence of Stephen Quinn, who is in Joliet
for eighteen years.
A hobo who wouldn't tell his name
saved two sons of a farmer from drown
ing in the old Morris canal, near Center
vile, \. j.
The New York Public Service Commits
sion has decided to investigate the sub
urban railroad service of the New York
Central railroad.
Lord Seton, who was appointed master
of the hors, when Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman first formed his British min
istry, has resigned
4 purse of 500 has been presented to
Troy f. Thirteenth cavalry. which found
Robert Barker, the 3-year-old boy, near
Washington.
Olga Molitor, daughter of Frau Mo-
HOT. Etlleu ~ Adii AAdA- IL NCA y 3
at Karlsruhe. Germany. may be prose
cuted on a charge Of perjury.
The United States maintains S.I76 mis-
sionaries in Japan, China. Korea, the
Philippines, Burmah. Siam. India, Tibet,
Persia, Turkes Egypt and the South
American countries.
Emil Jerome Simon, the student o. Co
lumbia University who was sentenced al
Potsdam, Germany. 10 three mcnths I'M
prisonment for killing Frau Shu1tz in an
automobile accident, viii withdraw his APP
peal.
The Bible which King Edward Is to
present to Bruton church, at Williams
burg. Va. on the occasion or its consecra-
ton on Oct. 10 next, was sent recently TO
Ambassador Bryce, at Washington, who
viii forward it to the church ofnciais-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
CHINESE EMPRESS QUITS.
Tzi-Hsu Announces She VIII Abdi-
cate Oriental Throne.

The Empress Dowager of China, ac-
cording to dispatches from Shanghai, viii
hand over the throne to her grandson at
the next Chinese new year. She has
secretly called a meeting of the Grand
Council to put the Change into effect by
declaring that the nominal Emperor of
the land shall in the future be the real
ruler. The Dowager Empress, who is
now y years old, has been supreme in
Chinese affairs for nsny years. Her
career is a remarkable one. The daughter
OF Manchoo, sold in infancy by faith
er who ran into financial difficulties, she
became, at an early age, one of the sec
ondary wives of the Emperor Hien-Fung.
She won his admiration and affection and
bore him a son. This son she placed on
the throne, but his career was brief,
poison, it has been thought, causing his
death. As there was no other heir to
the throne the infant son of Prince
Chung, the son in question, became EN-
peror under the name of Kwang-Su and
under the regency of Tzi-Hsu, the Dow
ager Empress. In 1889 the Emperor
nominally assumed full control of the gov
eminent, but nine years later, when he
issued some reform decree, the regency
of the Dowager Empress was restored and
she has since vigorously kept him in the
back ground
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $7.45; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to S6.15; sheep, fair to choice $500
to $500; wheat, No 2, SIC TO Sac;
corn. No. 2, 53c to soc: oats, standard,
4Sc to 49c; rye, No. 2, 74c to 75c; hay,
timothy $14.0o to S21.50; prairie, $500
to $11.50; butter, choice creamery, 21c
to 24c; eggs, fresh, 14c to 1Sc; potatoes,
per bushel SIC to 73e
indianapolis Cattle, shipping. $500
to $7.15; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
$685.: sheep common to prime, $500 to
S475: wheat, No. 2, SOC to Sic; corn,
No. white, 33e TO Doc; oats, No. 2
white, 51c to 53c.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to $40;
hogs. $500 TO $6.75; sheep, $500 to
$3.50 wheat, No. ?, SIC to Sic; corn,
No. 2, 52c to 53c; oats, No. 2, 46c to
Ale: rye. No 2. 76c to 7Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 TO 5000;
hogs, $500 to $3.50: sheep, $500 to
$500: wheat. No. >, SIC to SIC; corn,
No. mixed, 5Sc to soc; oats, No. ?
mixed, 52c to 53c; rye No. 2, Sic to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle. $4Oo to 5000; hogs,
Sf.OD 10 TD.-Ds SbttDs f-~.''O " Pt-sc
wheat, No 2. SIC to. SIC; corn, No. 3
yellow. SOC to 60c; oats. No. 3 white,
SIC to 54c; rye, No 2, Zoe to 76e.
Milwaukee-W Wheat, No. 2 northern,
94c to Csc; corn, No. 8, 53c to sac;
oats, standard. Ole to 53c; rye, No. /,
75c to 76c; barley. standard, re to 74c;
pork, mess, $16.45.
Buffalo--Cattle. choice shipping steers,
800 to $500; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to 1913; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $500; lambs fair to choice,
$500 to $3.50.
New York--Cattle, 800 to 500;
hogs, $500 to 1925; sheep, $500 to
$50; wheat, No. red, 90c TO 92c;
corn, No. 2, SOC to Gle; oats, natural
white. Gle to 62c; butter. creamery, pc
TO DC eggs. western, 1Ge to 19c.
Toledo-W Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SEC to
SIC: corn. No. mixed. SOC to J7c;
oats. No. mixed, Ale to 42c; rye, No
Q. 74c to TIC; clover seed, prime, 1886.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
THE WAR ON MOSQUITOES.
By Persistent Effort New Jersey Has
Triumphed over the Pest

Triumphed over the Pest.
BY the intelligent expenditure of what
seem like absurdly small sums of money
when compared with the supposed Diff
Guilty Of the task to be performed. several
of the parts of New Jersey that have
long had national, if not an interna-
tional. disrepute for the number and yo-
racity of their mosquitoes have been prac-
tically cleared of the dangerous pests.
The suggestion tina: the great Hacken-
sack Meadows could be freed OF the in
sects, and the joys of summer life in the
cities around them thus be vastly in
creased, was received with derision, and
almost with Indignation, only few years
ago. Yet few thousand dollars spent in
digging bitches has done away with the
stagnant pools in which alone the mos
quitoes could breed. and they are nc more
except in the benighted towns where the
people lack either the sense or the energy
or both to avail themselves of the relief
so close within their reach. Incidentally
and it is Incidentally lot of worth
less marsh has been turned into good dry
land
What has been done on and around
the Hackensack Meadows can be even
more easily done almost anywhere else. 1t
ought to be as disgraceful-indeed, it is
as disgraceful-for a town to have mos
Quitoes as it is for a town to suffer from
an epidemic of typhoid or diphtheria, for
the mosquitoes, too, are "preventable,"
and their presence anywhere convicts
their human victims either of gross ig-
norance or of criminal carelessness. And
always it should be remembered that the
use of oil in a mosquito campaign is JUS
tihable, if at all, only as temporary ex-
pedient, to be resorted to only for instant
effects while the real work of extermina-
ton is in course of preparation and per-
Torrance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-08-27
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Told in a Few Lines.

Postofice Department orders reduction
of S1,O0O,O00 in pay to railroads for car
rying mails.
A 50O-mile canal. projected to drain the
great swamps of Florida, would reclaim
100000 acres Of land.
To-day Tudia has 100000 school chill.
dren. Fifty years ago only 10000 ma
tive children were being educated.
1t is estimated that the total first cost
Of England's present navy was $780,
OoO, 600, and about S390,000,000 has been
spent in the last ten years.
Senator Palmer p. Woods of the island
of Hawaii is going to make an effort for
the preservation of the Hawaiian Ian.
guage.
A movement for the erection of a
bronze statue of Gen. Philip Sheridan
has been started by the Irish Fellowship
Club of Chicago.
DIR. Isaac p. Funk says the epidemic
of crime new raging in New York win
spread like a tagious disease TO other
sections Of the country,
A ton Of water from the dead sea viii
yield 1874 pOunhs u SAT- ei-Nt lAS ny
Atlantic ocean. 81 pounds; and from the
Pacific, 20 pounds.
The golden crested wren is the small
est of British birds 1t is three and a
half inches long and seventy-two Of them
weigh one pound.
The postmen of Spain are unable to
read and write as a rule, and it is com
mon saying that those who treat the post
man best get the most letters.
Impeachment proceedings ig Congress
against Federal Judge Peter C. Pritch-
ard are rumored because Of his decision
in the North Carolina rail rates case.
American capital to the extent of $780,
100000 has been invested in Canada dur
ing the past few years, induced thereto By
the Canadian British preference policy.