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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
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ChicSgo-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $7.20; hogs, prime heavy, $500
TO $6.57 sheep, fair to choice. $500
to 1913; wheat, No. 2, tic to re; corn,
No. 2, 39c to 40c; oats, standard, &c to
34c rye. No. .. 64c to Gee; hay. timo-
thy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, $500 to
1890; butter, choice creamery, Doc to
2Sc; eggs, fresh, pc to 26c potatoes,
&c to 40c.
apolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
S670 sheep, common to prime, $3.50 to
$4.75; wheat, No. 2, re to 73c; corn,
No white, Ale to 43c; oats, No. 2
white, 35c to SIC.
hogs, $500 to $6.45; sheep, $3.50 to
800 WHEAT, No. 2, 74c to 76c; corn,
No. 2, CSC to 40c; oats, No. 2, 34c to
3Gc rye No. 2, Gle to 63c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to 1918;
hogs, $500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to
S4.75; wheat, No 2, 74c to Toe; corn,
No. mixed, 42c to 43c; oats, No. 2
mixed, 36c to Csc; rye, No. 2, zoe to
Tic.
$500 to $6.45; sheep, $3.50 TO 1925;
wheat, No. 2, 74c to roc; corn, No. 3
yellow, 43c to 44c; oats, No. Q white,
35c to Bic; rye, No. 2, Csc to 69c.
Milwaukee Wheat, No. 2 northern,
76c TO 7Sc; corn. No. 3, 3Sc to 39c;
oats. standard, 34c to Doc; ye. No. /,
65c to &c; barley standard, 54c to 55c;
nork. mess, $3.50.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
800 to 5000 hogs, fair to hoice $500
to s6.65; sheep, common to good mixed.
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to $500.
New York Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. 800 to 500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50: wheat No. 2 red, TSc to soc;
corn. No. 2. J1c to 52c; oats, standard
white. 40c to 42c: butter, creamery, 25c
TO 2sc eggs. western, 24c to pc.
Toledo-W Wheat, No. 2 mixed. TIC to
76e corn. No. z mixed, 42c TO BE;
oats. No. 2 mixed. 35c to 37c; rye. No.
2. &C to Csc; cloyer seed, prime, $3.50.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
NEW YORK.

There are some cross currents in
trade which prevent generalization,
but as a whole the situation loses lit
tie by comparison with preceding years
at this early stage of the season. The
need of seasonable weather is noted
throughout the country. In wholesale
and jobbing trade spring season activ-
ity is not marked as yet, but it is to
be noted that a number of lines of cot
ton goods have been advanced, that
Eastern shoe manufacturing centers
are filled with buyers looking around
and that shipments of goods on orders
are being called for The Western cen
tiers also report rather more buying
from country merchants In Industrial
lines previous activity continues with
out changes. The money situation is
easier in few centers, notably the
Southwest, where the banks are re-
ported well supplied with money, but
collections in the Northwest are affect
ed by backward grain movement, an
other example of the cross currents
affecting trade settlements. As a whole
the market is firm and higher than a
year ago ut this time.-Bradstreet'
Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
Formulation Is 10000
News of Minor Note.

City Marshal Hemrico Frisby of La
mar, Colo, was shot and killed by two
strangers who subsequently escaped.
Fire in the Ernest & Cranmer building
in Denver caused a loss of 100000 to
the structure and various occupants.
Fire at the shipyards at Newport News
Va, caused 100000 damage. The Old
Dominion liner Jefferson was damaged.
At the Monroe Yacht Club annual
muskrat banquet. held at Monroe, Mich,
1.50O yachtsmen consumed 5000 musk.
rats.
In a Madrid counterfeit coin factory.
raided by the police, it was found that
women were used to distribute the spuri-
Gus product.
A receiver for the Bennington, VT, Gas
Company was asked for in petition filed
in the County CeIrt by J. G. Colgate of
New York Mr.. Colgate holds note
for $4,000 on which. it is alleged, pay
ment has been defaulted. The operation
of the plant will not be interrupted.
A lamp being used by Mrs Ella J.
Longley of st. Louis exploded. covering
Der with oil, and she was burned to death
Her husband Alexander Longley, was
badly burned in trying to save her. She
was sc years old and he is a. Longley
anu his wife conducted a paper called the
Aitruist.
F.. f. George, clerk of Tazewell county,
Virginia. was found dead. His throat
had been cut and his body thrown into .
creek.
Fire destroyed the Vow business block
at Toccoa, Ga. entailing a loss Of So
600 with only $500 insurance. Toccoa
has no IRE department and at time
the whole business section was threat
ened.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson. Chief
Chemist Wiley and Solicitor McCabe in
spected distilleries at Ptssburg, Pa. to
soc how they were complying with new
pure food law in regard to the prepare
ton and labelling Of their products
Frank J. Russell. private secretary to
John NJ Dubois. the millionaire lumber
man of Dubois. Pa, was found suicide
at the Hotel Henry in Pittsburg.
1t was stated at the national conclave
Of the Phi Delta Kappa at San Jose.
Cal. that the fraternities planned taking
the high school fraternity fight to the
Supreme Court.
By vote OF to l the members of the
Great Falls, Mont, Mill aud Shelter
Mems Union have decided TO make de-
manu- on the management of the Boston
end Montana smelter for an increase of
sc cents day for all employees who work
ON chanOa shifts in tho variOaIe donarf-
ments. Three thousand men are affected.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
SUBMARINE BELLS GOOD.
Experiments Show Value of Signal
ing System for Naval Vessels.

Experiments Show Value of Signal
ing System for Naval Vessels.
Experiments conducted. by the light
house board in this country and by the
British admiralty and the Danish govern
ment, supplemented by smaller tests by
Rear Admiral Evans, have convinced the
Navy Department in Washington of the
values of the system of submarine sig
mailing by means of bells to indicate the
approach of a ship in thick weather or
nightfall to the shore. Steps are about
to be taken to equip most of the vessels
of the navy with devices for transmitting
and receiving the bell signals under water.
Admiral Evans tried the submarine Dells
on the Alabama and Maine with salts
factory results, and it was found that I'M
like the doubt which exists in the case OF
aerial signals transmitted through FOG,
it is possible in the case of the subma-
rine signals to locate the source OF SOUND
within one-half point of the compass.
As the receiving and transmitting devices
already have been placed on all the light
ships on The Atlantic coast, it is believed
that when the naval vessels are properly
equipped they will be able to keep in
touch with these ships from Maine to
Florida when off the coast, thus reducing
largely the dangers of stranding and of
collision
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
Inter Ocean.
STAND TO WIN MILLIONS.
Profits to Lowest Bidder for Panama
Cantracf &a.45O.OOO.

Profits to Lowest Bidder for Panama
Contract $9,45O,0OO.
Proposals opened by the canal commits
sion for the entire construction OF the
Panama canal were as low as had been
expected by experts on construction
work. For some time it has been known
that several members of the commission
believed { per cent upon the estimated
cost of the construction would be fair
remuneration for a contractor under the
form of contract prepared by the COM
mission.
The lowest proposal, that of William
j. Oliver of Knoxville, Tenn, and Arson
III Bangs of New York City, who offered
to do the work for 60 per centum upon
the estimated cost, falls even lower than
had been hoped for
Granting that the estimate of $140.-
100000 for the construction of the canal,
which has been frequently spoken of IN
Congress, is accurate, the remuneration
of the Oliver-Bangs combination would
re $9,450,O00 in case it were to be award
ed the contract. Much discussion has
been caused by the great difference in
the only four bids received. as they rang
ed from 6.75 per cent to % per cent.
William J. Oliver and Arson NJ. Bangs
have both been in the contracting business
for many years and the statements they
furnished with their proposal show that
they have done much important work.
Mr.. Oliver states that he has completed
SIS. 100000 worth of work in the last
ten years and now has $31, 100000 worth
10 Uiy
at S3,OO0000. Mr.. Bangs gives his as
sets at 100000 and states that he was
the contractor for the Poe lock at Sault
Ste. Marie, Mich; Delaware breakwater
and Buffalo breakwater, the contract
price for each of these being $2,500,000.
The other bidders were George Peirce
& Co. of Frankfort, Me-, and New York
City. who offered to do the work for 7.19
per centum upon the estimated cost; the
North American Dredging Company of
Los Angeles. Cal, which offered to do
the work for % per centum upon the esti-
mated cost, and the Macarthur Gillespie
Company of New Jersey, whose bid was
12.j per centum.
Bidders were required to accompany
their proposals with certified checks for
100000 and the successful bidder is re-
quired to give bond in the sum of $1,000
600 to protect the government from any
loss.
1t is believed by the commission that
the estimated cost of completing the canal
will be reduced by the application of new
principles of construction which will be
discovered as the work progresses.
The proposals provide system of re-
wards for the completion of the work in a
much shorter time than the contract calls
for and this. it is contended, will effect
a saving sufficient to Offset the entire
percentage required to be paid the con-
tractors on the estimated cost of the
work
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
reiegraphic Brevities.

A. ID. Bennett of Port Huron. Mich,
has accepted the presidency of the New
York Night and Day bank.
Charles 3. Fink, editor of The Latrobe
(pa.1 Advance. dropped dead IN that city,
death being caused by apoplexy-
City Marshal Frisby of Lamar. Colo,
was shot and killed by two unknown men,
Who escaped after revolver battle
A man burned to death in camping
tent on the jamestown exposition glounds
at Norfolk Va. has been Identified
Burt Haws, a white painter, who is sup
posed to be from Chicago.
Archduke Leopold Salvador of Austria,
who renowned his family rights four
years ago to marry postofiice employe,
IS now seeking divorce.
A mine guard and two striking miners
were killed and a mine guard and three
strikers wounded in a battle at Sturgis,
Irn;on comfy. KY, between guards EN-
,,Iovad bv the West Kentucky Coal Com
many and strikers.
Nlrx James G. Blaine. Jr.. who has
i,,st obtained a divorce, announced at the
home Of her father, Rear Admiral HIGH
horn in Washington. that she would soon
he married to Paul s. Pearsall Of New
York. former rough rider, who is q
millionaire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
pglgs Of tie
NI&SA <SS>SSx&<
prscc

There is nothing that arouses n
mans ridicple so much for the fellow
that wrote them as the old love letters
his wife keeps until he finds they are
his own.-New York Press.
Walter Wellman thinks Peary does
not know everything about Polar ex-
ploration. ltremains for Mr. Wellman
to show him the rest by discovering the
Pole.-Philadephia Inquirer.
It's a strange thing, but the minute
a capitalist gets concession in the
rubber district of the Congo. it seems
to make his conscience more elastic
Philadelphia Nprth American.
Hall Gaines ,denunciation of Shak-
speare suggests how much picturesque
language the wbrld will lose because
Shakespeare is unable to denounce Hall
Caine-Philadelp Inquirer.
Rockefeller announces that he is not
interested in the exploitation of the
Congo Free State. There's money
enough for him in exploiting New York
Free State.-New York American.
"Skippie" is San Francisco for Jap
anese. A Chinese opium establishment
is Il hop joint" Hop, skip and jump
but who are to do the jumping, and
will they land hard?-New York Mail.
Is this billion-dollar country? Well,
the Interstate Commerce Commission
reports that the railroads alone did a
business of nearly two and half bill
lions last Philadelphia Inquirer.
When the Government of the United
States is prepared to assume owner
ship of all the railroads of the coun-
try, it can get some useful hints from
E. H. Observation-Disclosures Record.
1t does not appear that the cause of
the church or of religion in France has
been materially strengthened by the
fact that Count Boni &c Castellane has
rallied to its support.-New York Trib-
une.
"A road without speed limit is the
motorists dream" says William X.
Vanderbilt Jr. 1t may be a dream to
the motorist but to the rest of us it is
a stern reality.-Philadelphia North
American.
Recorder Golf has given the sanction
of law to kissing goodnight on the
doorstep. Not that kisses cared for
laws; they are in the jurisdiction of
the sovereign state of loye.-New York
American.
They have fined the Mormon prophet
$500 for having five wives. That's
pretty cheap. but no doubt he will get
the rest that is coming to him if he
stays married as much as he now is
Philadelphia Press.
When millionaires are marrying
more and more of our pretty type
writer's, it is not strange that there
should be an increasing demand for
this useful class of employees. Phila-
delphia Record.
Upton Sinclair in his boarding house
Utopia finds it difficult to get women of
the proper social standing to scrub his
floors. Standing is not the thing need
ed. The case calls for social kneeling.
New York Tribune.
Having raised wages 10 per cent be
cause of the great prosperity prevail
ing. the railroads now announce that
they will raise freight rates 10 per
cent TO meet the extra expense-Phil-
adeIrhia North American.
Yale's football profits for the season
total $4,000. That's better showing
than the department of Greek ever
made. And yet some people marvel
at the popularity of college athletics
over the classics.-New York World.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
TO CURB sALToN SEA.
President Asks Congress to Vote
$2,000,OOO.

President Asks Congress to Vote
$2,O0O,OOO.
That Congress appropriate S2,0OO,OOO
Immediately to dam the break in the Colo
RADIO river in the Imperial valley is the
recommendation made by President
Roosevelt in a special message.
Criminal negligence is charged by the
President to the California Development
Company in making the cut in the river
without reinforcing the banks This is
said to have caused tie present situation
in which 100000 acres Of fertile land is
IL danger of permanent inundation. the
homes of 10000 people are threatened
and several millions of dollars worth of
government works at Laguna dam above
Yuma are in peril. All of the property
in the Imperial valley or adjacent to the
Salton sea is likely to be destroyed by the
spring floods of 1907, declares the mes
sage, unless prompt action is taken.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany is named by the President as the
only agent which is capable at present of
&C ping with the situation and he urges
that whatever the government does be
done in conjunction and in aid of this
company.
The President says: 1.-The reclamation
service should be authorized to take steps
at once for the construction of an irriga-
ton project, under the terms of the re-
clamation act. for the lands in the Impe-
rial valley and in the lower Colorado
river valley
Referring to the California Develop
ment Company the President says it be-
gan its work by making representations
TO possible settlers of the great benefits
to be derived by taking up this land. The
claims were not only extravagant, he
says, but in many cases it appears that
Willful Misrepresentation was made.
THE money thus obtained from settlers
was not used in permanent development"
the President says, 'but apparently dis
appeared either in profits to the principal
promoters or in the numerous subsidiary
companies which to a certain extent feed
upon the parent company, or served to OBJ
scure its operations-such as a construc-
ton company, a company to promote set
Element and company to handle securi-
ties of the various other corporations"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
g24NAYysMe EERCIN
~ land 80 l9
III, y sss%s
aFHNANCAL
CHICAGO.

with volume of exchanges at the
banks which does not measure up to
tnose OF year ago, there are en-
couraglng offsets in steadily increasing
deposits and comparatively light
commercial defaults. The dominant
feature which characterizes the bust
ness situation is the confident feeling
in the general outlook for another pc
Rod of progress. Probably no previous
year started here with greater pres
sure upon available capacity, more for
ward orders or mere labor active at
the highest wages hitherto paid.
Notwithstanding additions to plants
under way and contemplated it would
appear that there is but slight posi-
bility for a material addition to the
outputs of iron and steel during this
year. Other important industries re-
ceived fair amount OF new bookings
for future deliveries.
Conditions remain good in heavy ma
chinery and hardware, electric power,
farm implements, brass products and
automobiles. Plans for new buildings
and other improvements exceed those
of year ago. woodworking lines make
larger outputs and lumber receipts con-
tlnue gaining, although scarcity still
exists for manufacturing purposes in
the hard woods.
Distribution of live stock ana pro-
visions reflects seasonable volume. but
demand is yet moderate for grain and
flour and prices for the latter score
only fractional recovery. The total
movement of grain at this port, $780,
POI bushels, compares with 7,5S5,164
bushels last year and 9,061, 741 bushels
a year ago.
Bank clearings. $3.50, 152, 159, are 81
per cent under those of corresponding
week in 1906. Commercial paper for
short terms is in fair supply, currency
comes back more freely and there is
increasing ease in money, but discount
remains at per cent.
Failures reported in Chicago district
numbered twenty-six, against twenty
nine last week and thirty-two year
ago.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
BRIDGE TO COST MILLIONS.

Span Connecting New York and New
Jersey Is Considered Feasible.
Announcement is made that the inter-
state bridge commission, which has been
investigating the question of the construc-
ton of bridge over the Hudson to con-
meet New York and New Jersey. will re-
port to the Governors of the two States
in few days. The commission will say
that the great span is feasible and that
it's cost will be between S25,0O0.OOO and
S30,OO0,0O0. As to the point at which
the bridge shall cross the Hudson the
commission will make no recommendation
except to say that it should be between
Twenty-third and Seventy-second streets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
FARMERS VICTIMS Of FRAUD.
Mysterious Firm Offers to Sell Prod
nets Above Market Price.

Mysterious Firm Offers to Sell Prod
ucts Above Market Price.
Postoffice Inspector Ralph Bird has
discovered a concerted attempt to defraud
farmers, the seat of which is either in
Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St
Paul or Dubuque, Iowa, and which has
been operated from all the cities named
1t is believed that hundreds of farmers
in the Northwest have been cheated out
of produce shipments whose value aggre-
gates $1,000,000. Farmers have been
flooded with circulars containing prom
Uses to sell products at from l to cents
above the market. None of the farmers
who have shipped to the firm have re-
ceived a cent from the recipients of their
produce.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
@A ne .rS@
: G@ssSy ~
The News Y

Congress has adopted the simplifed
talking.
France is beginning to go up in the air
over aerial navigation.
King Leopold will no doubt look upon
Congress az a rubberneck.
judicial fines are sapping all the sweet
ness out of the sugar trust.
Graft is almost as much of a fad in
San Francisco as bridge whist.
The House has determined to make the
lumber trust take to the tall timber.
This Congress bids fair to be long on
resolutions and short on designations.
Chancellor Day of Syracuse appears to
have become thoroughly Rockefellerized
The United States Court of Appeals in
Ohio has pasted the wall paper trust
hot one.
The violation of senatorial tradition
seems to be almost as bad as talking out
loud in school
The income tax portion of the i2resi-
Dental message was probably not submit
ted to Mr.. Morgan.
Inlcago mas decided 10 employ press
agent since Pittsburg has been getting
ahead of it so rapidly.
Mrs. Parsons theory of trial marriages
has been scornfully received by those to
whom marriage is all trial.
The latest French invention is a phono-
graph that can be heard for a mile. just
to think Of a mile Of canned 20 Promise
Ne -
Secretary FIitchcock's reports show
that most Of the fellows engaged in the
western land frauds were out for the
dust
The north pole needn't consider itself
safe Peary is getting together the am
munition for another hunt in the ice
fields.
1t wouldn't be surprising if Harry
Thaw would plead insanity. He has
changed his mind so often there can't
be much of it left
The Count de CastelIane has been en-
gagged TO write political leaders for Paris
Figaro at 500 week. thus the dime
museums lose another attstction-
France is not 50 good that it can af-
ford to do away with any OF its churches.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
sr,ooo,ooo FIRE AT LANCASTER
Pennsylvania Town Suffers Heavily
Before Blaze Is Controlled.


A fire which started in the tobacco
warehouse of S. II Moss & Co. in Lam
caster, Pa. from the falling of an cleo
trio arc light spread to adjoining property
and caused loss estimated at $1,OOOOO0.
\ delay in turning in the alarm gave the
fire good start and when the firemen ar
rived it was beyond their control. The
warehouse vas four-story brick and was
well filed nth tobacco. The flames COM
municated to Moss cigar factory adjoin-
ing. a fse-story building which was also
destroyed. When the south wall OF the
cigar factory collapsed the only truck of
the fire department was buried in the
debris and a number of firemen had mar
row escapes from death or injury. The
warehouse of the American Cigar Com
pany to the north of the Moss buildings
caught fire, but was not greatly dam
aged. 1t is feared, however. that the
company's loss on the contents will be
heavy from water and smoke. To the
east of the cigar factory five dwellings
were completely ruined.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22

The city of Kingston. capital of the
Island of Jamaica, was devastated by an
earthquake Monday afternoon; fire fol-
lowed the quake and was burning at last
reports; cables were broken by the shock !;
100 persons are dead and 600 injured,
according to latest reports; property loss
is estimated at $10,O0OOO0.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22

Charles Whitenback and John Poynter
charged with attempting to kill George
Mellert and blow up the plant of the
King Powder Company at Lebanon, Ohio
were bound over to the grand jury in
1000 each. Neither could furnish this
and they were returned to Jail. George
King testified that If the attempt to blow
up the plant had been successful forty
lives would have been lost.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
Fake Bomb Cause. a Panic.

An imitator of j. ROLAND Steele, bomb
thrcwer. cleaned out the boardroom of
Wolf Brothers, bankers and brokers, in
Philadelphia, and threw into panic the
clerks and patrons in the place before it
was discovered that his bomb was a fake
The police are now looking for him, for
il is believed that he is crank who
should be in custody.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-22
Ohio Plumbers Are Indicted

The members of the Ashtabula, Ohio
Master Plumbers Association, otherwise
known az the plumbers trust, were in
dicted by the grand jury at Jefferson for
alleged violation of the antitrust laws
The men indicted are Frank e. Smith,
Earl NJ. Burroughs, George III. Ford
John Forman, Adelbert d. Mills. William
Orris. George b. Paine. T. II. Paine and
Herbert r. Burke. Burke is the city
plumbing inspector