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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
'THAW TRIAL BEGINS.
MILLIONAIRE CHARGED WITH
NUMBERING WHITE.
One of the Most Remarkable Trials
in the Criminal Histosy of New
York-ResuIt Watched by Nota-
bIes In Two Continents.

The great Thaw trial is on liz New
York The fight to save Harry Ken
dali Thaw from death in the electric
chair for the Staying of Architect Stan
ford White began Wednesday morning
before Justice Fitzgerald. The drawing
of the jury to try the young Pittsburs
millionaire, began with the opening OF
court.
Long before the hour set for the
trial, crowds flocked to the criminal
Courts building and filed the rotunda.
An hour before the trial began the
crowd was driven into the street and
every entrance guarded by police. Only
talesmen and reporters were allowed to
enter the courtroom. The trial over
shadowed the Molineaux and Patrick
trials Over 200 newspaper men made
application for admission to report the
trial. No spectators were allowed in
the trial room. There were correspond
-ents from Paris, London and Berlin
and on the lower floor of the building
cable and telegraph Offices were in
stalled
Outside, crowds waited to get a
glimpse of the prisoner as he passed
over the bridge of signs. 1t was only
a feeting glimpse of shadow outlined
on an Opaque sheet of glass, but the
curious had waited hours to see that
shadow and they were satisfied.
Thaw came to his trial for the muir
der of Stanford White on the roof Of
Madison Square Garden on the night
of June %, last year The millionaire
prisoner believed that White was seek
1ng TO separate him from his wife, the
beautiful Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, the art
list model. Emotional insanity is the
defense offered to save the young Pitts
burg youth from the electric chair
When Justice Fitzgerald took his
sseat in court and Harry Thaw had been
brought from the prisoners pen to his
seat beside the counsel table, trial
was begun that will remain perhaps
forever on the pages of criminal his
tory in New York without a parallel
All the elements of a tragedy are
woven in the warp and wool of his
case. All the characters of the stage
world and of the gay Bohemia of a
sgreat city; titled sister, countess :;
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

velt's action in diseharging the negro
battalion on account of the Brownsville
riot.
\ bin was introduced in the upper
house of the Legislature at Lincoln,
Neh. designed to prevent the practice
of tipping and making persons or cor
porations employing walters or servants
who may demand or accept a tip guilty
OF mislemeanor. punishable by fine
New bills in the Wisconsin Assembly
provide for repeal Of the mortgage tax.
alton law. a railroad co-employe law. a
jail penalty of six months for autoists
who refuse to stop on motion of a horse
man. the establishment of a bindins-twine
plant at the State prison at a cost of
100000.
Joseph W. Bailey was reelected to
the United States Senate by the Texas
Legislature. He received a total vote of
los in the two branches. which haIIoted
separately. against 10 for all his oppo-
nents. The fight to prevent Bailey from
serving another term is not interr,rpted
by the result. but viii be prosecuted as
vigorously as before
IN HIS duhudt message troy. y X.
Mead of Washington says thar one of the
most vital questions that confront the
shippers of the State is the failure of
common carriers 10 perform the func-
lions for which they We're created. He
urges the enactment OF a reciprocal de-
lnUrrase Law.
The Senate at Denver passed 4 reso
luton for The appointment OF a commit
ZEE 10 investigate the alleged bribin-
Senator Richard Morgan two Years a-o
Senator Morgan during the Adaans-pea
lsody yubeE Material campaign having As
~erted he was paid 500 from Representa-
lives of the Colorado and Seathern raj
read to vote for Adams
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
State Faces Bankruptcy.

Secretary of State Frear surprised the
members of the Legislature by giving out
an estimate tending to show that the
State treasury wiz be bankrupt by Jan. L
next He estimates that after making
allowance for the customary appropria-
tions for the maintenance of the admin
istration. educational, judiciary and other
departments of State government there
will be balance of only $4,000 in the
treasury at the end of the present year
and that this will be more than swallowed
up by a deficit of 100000 in the State
university fund. 1t has been generally
believed that there was so much money
in the State treasury that the present
Legislature would have difficulty in find
ing ways to put it into circulation again.
The big balance, however, has been eaten
up by large remissions of taxes and uEex-
pectedly large expenses in the administers
tion of State affairs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
Another Bad Break.

Mr.. Roosevelt's underground sugges-
tons to State officers and legislatures
In the matter of insurance salaries are
another evidence that he is wholly de-
f1cient in appreciation of The functions
OF the Presidency. II be has violated
no law. since his suggestions and rec
concentrations were not communicated
over the Presidential signature, no
right minded person will deny that be
has committed gross Improperly.
Ethically and morally he has no
right 10 use the prestige Of his Office
u influence the course Of State officers
and TIE action of State legislatures
A former Senator Of the United States
IS now In Missouri Jail for using bis
Senatorial influence In behalf II a
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
senate Employex Appointed.

The Senate took the matter of APP
pointing its employees from the commit
tee, which it was charged had been tam
pered with by a recommendation from
Gov. Davidson, and put it in the hands of
the chief clerk, and sergeant-at-arms re-
spectively This resulted in the appoint
ment of Chris Paulus of Milwaukee post
master of the Senate in place of j. III.
Hibbard of Stoughton, whom the Gov
ernor wanted. Sergeant-at-Arms Falconer
of the Senate announced appointments as
follows
Assistant Sergeant. Charles J. Good, Ash
land postmaster, Chris Paulus, Milwaukee !;
document clerk, Elmer A. Pierce, Madison
policeman, Olaf Goldstra, Oneida; night
Waterman, NJ. r. Stanley, Waupaca ; labor
err, X. Thompson. Wood County.
essengers-Vincent KeIpinskL Milwau-
kee; Emil Cady. Grand Rapids; Lynn Smith.
jefferson; John Moffatt. Stevens Point.
Harold Lampert, Oshkosh; Karl Helenholz.
Madison NJ. Sutton, Green Bay Harry Co
tey, Merrill.
Chief Clerk Shaffer of the Assembly
announced the following desk force w.
w. Jones, Plattevillc; c. S. Summers,
Monroe; G. II. IRELAND; j. +. Noyes of
Greenwood
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
Natural MonopoIies.

The ownership of orr mineral wealth
by the Steel Trust, the Coal Trust, the
Copper Trust and the Snelter Trust
has become virtual monopoly, and the
reasonable prices of the past will never
return, as long as these trusts own the
natural resources of the country. The
present era has been one of develop
ment by competition and will evidently
be followed by an age of monopoly OF
our mineral resources unless drastic
measures are taken to suppress the
evil A few men controlling vast cor
porations with enormous capital make
our industries and trade and our ma
tional prosperity dependent upon these
modern oarons They control elections,
elect Congessmen and United States
Senators and dictate legislation in their
own interest, with the cooperation OF
the railroad magnates. The present
desire of the people to control the rail-
roads must be followed by deter
mined effort to control all monopolles;
In fact the people will never have equal
rights until they abolish monopoly,
and it is their own fault if they con-
tinue to allow either the railroad bar
ons or the trust barons to plumber
them.
A monopoly cannot exist without
special privileges of some kind, but
when monopolists have been allowed to
obtain control of the natural products,
such as iron ore, coal, copper or lead
it will require drastic measures to dis
lodge them Such monopolies can have
no competitors at home and may even
have combinations with similar monop-
olies abroad.
One would naturally think that the
people would not aid such monopolists
by law, but the fact is the United
States has protected them from com
petition by compelling those who would
escape their plundering to pay enor-
nous duties and thus allow the monop-
olists not only to charge good large
profits on what they produce, but also
to add to those profits the amount OF
the tariff tax and the freight and costs
of getting similar foreign products I'M
ported. That is why all these monop-
olists are staunch Republicans and
stand for the Republican policy OF the
tariff which protects them in charging
"all the traffic will bear" The natural
plan would be to at once abolish all
protection to monopoly by cutting Off
the tariff protection, but this major
ity of the people at the last election re-
fused to do, although enough of them
voted with the Democrats to cut the
Republican majority in the House OF
Representatives in half and defeating
some of the most ardent standpatters.
But the Democracy-th party of the
peoples not discouraged, but will
try, try, try again by appealing to their
fellow citizens for equal rights to all
and special privileges to none.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
made subordinate to another official on

made subordinate to another official on
the isthmus.
There have been stories of disagree
ment between Secretary Taft and Shonts
and it has been said that the President
has not been satisfied with him. Still,
these stories have always been denied at
the White House and in the War Depart
ment. where it has been consistently held
that Shonts was in perfect accord with
the President and Taft.
When Mr.. Shonts went to Washington
it is declared he did not at all realize
that the actual control over the digging
of the Panama canal had been officially
placed in the hands of the Secretary of
War. Out of this misunderstanding of
official status there grew a social tempest
which has dubbed up more or less in ev-
cry ) O'Clock teapot in Washington.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
rhe People and the states.

Ine RcOpte anu thC
If you want home rule and to pro-
tect the States in the rights reserved
to them and not granted to the Unit
ed States, you must elect State repre-
sentatives who will exert those rights
by the exercise of constructive talent
and meet changed conditions with
promptness and infexibility. Usurpa-
ton of power can never succeed
against the protest of free and ro-
bust public sentiment. Corporations,
whether railroads or industrial COM
bines, cannot plumber the people of a
| State, unless allowed to, and it does
not need to call in the United States TO
curb them. The State has power to
say what shall be maximum railroad
rates on business within its borders
and similar rates will be sure to pre-
vail on interstate business, if the
State law is rigidly enforced. Indus
trial corporations called trusts can be
compelled to do justice and are al
State. The taxation of corporations is
just as much within the power of the
State as the assessment of taxes
against individuals, but the assessment
of property and taxes thereon must
be equal. The State c.n punish cor
ruption and grating and it does not
require United States Marshal or Il
Federal court to enforce the law. for
the State courts and a sheriff have am
pie power to arrest and punish Of
tenders.
1t is necessary however, Cor the III
dividual citizen to uphold the law and
see that honest and capable officials are
nominated and elected. Without such
individual effort and its effect on pub
lie opinion all laws are worthless and
and execution of just laws is in the
hands of the majority of the voters. II
the people are careless and supinely
allow incompetent and grating repre-
sentatives, whether legislative or exec
utive, to be elected, they deserve to be
piundered and are sure to be the foot
ball of corruptionists and incompe-
tents. Home rule and the reserved
rights of the States and the people soon
vanish under such conditions
1t is folly to imagine that the Unit
ed States can do what the States leave
und0ne. for the concentrated power OF
all the States will NOT rise superior to
the desires of the mi Jority of the in
dividual States. Onl; by eternal yigi-
lance can the peoples rights be pre-
served, and If the majority Of Use PEG
pie Of a majority of the States are
equal to the occasion the republic is
safe. To the Democracy belongs the
duty of creating in the young md fos-
tering in the old the ancient spirit of
liberty which requires constant replen-
fishing, for the trend of the Republican
leaders is ever toward concentration
OF power in the hands of the few,
which has been the destruction of pop
ular government in the past and viii
be in the future. unless the people
guard the rights reserved to the States
and to themselves by the constitution
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
Wisconsin
State News
FIND MIsER's GOLD.
o~o-oo~-~~o

Small BOY Pulls Coins and Papers
from StOvepipe.
A small gunny sack filed with bright
so and $40 gold pieces, an old tin mail
box in which were ten crisp $40 bills.
three certificates two of which were certi-
fcates Of deposit ON the Milwaukee Ma
tional bank for $1,000 and the third an
insurance certificate valued at $400-
these were the hoard found by John
Haennecke, 12-year-old boy. at the
home of John Tenhoff in Milwaukee, the
old man who was found dead in his hut
some days ago The total amount found
was $4,000. Neighbors had been firm in
their conviction that there was a consid-
cradle amount of money concealed on the
premises. The coroner and policemen
searched for the money all one morning
aided by Undertaken Il. Voth, and Public
Administrator Rollin r. Mallory. Be
coming convinced that there was nothing
concealed about the premises. they gave
up the search which, however. was con-
tinued by a number of boys and neigh
bors, and Edward J. Scheidhauer, gro
GER, from whom Tenhoff bought all his
provisions. The money was found in an
old stove pipe in the attic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
a standpat Dilemma.

If President Roosevelt really wants
to arrange our tariff difficulties with
Germany, which will come to climax
Ia June, it will be necessary for him
to call special session of Congress.
The present Congress is SO tightly in
the grasp of the standpatters that 1t
evidently does not intend to even dis
cuss any tariff matter, although an at
tempt to compromise the tariff difficulty
with Germany would seem to be inn
perative. The German government has
suggested way to escape revising our
tariff, but it will hardly be any more
welcome TO the trusts and combines
that control Congress than a general
revision of rates. 1t is proposed to
allow German exporters to fix the price
of their exports and thus reduce the
ad valorem rates of duty, which are
assessed upon the actual value of the
goods at the time of export. Such
concession would be open TO constant
friction and might be made to encour-
age gross frauds.
England, France and other countries
would very naturally object to such
Partially for Germany and would de-
mand similar rights for their exporters.
The modus vivendi with Canada on the
tariff rates on the products of the
Newfoundland fisheries also expires in
few months, and unless adjusted will
work serious harm to our New England
fishing interests SO to continue to
stand pat means to injure our own peo-
pie, and yet that is the Republican
doctrine that is being carried out
But is 1T likely that when the Sixth
eth Congress meets either in special
session, or at the regular session next
December, that it will be any more will
ing to go into tariff revision than the
present Congress is? The standpatters
will still control the organization and
undoubtedly Speaker Cannon will be
reelected. This extraordinary pro-
gram Of party subservience to trust
greed will at least open the eyes of
those Republican voters who were de-
ceived by promises of tariff revision,
and when the pinch comes from the
prohibitive rates of the German tariff
against our agricultural products, 1t
should lead many voters to the Demo
cratic side of the fence.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
PETTY GraftiuU.

The Republican machine that runs
the State OF Connecticut must be the
most consummate set Of grafters in the
Union. Governor Woodruff in his in
augural address delivered before the
two branches of the State Legislature
called attention to the big expense to
the State for gratuities, including those
to newspaper tnen. The item for knives
and fountain pens for members of the
Assembly Of the last Legislature
amounted to s15.531. and for represen-
tatives of the newspapers $5.40O. It
M st be presumed that there was a big
steal in the Knife and pen items. and
probably in many other things and
that the graft to the newspaper men
was TO act as bribe to prevent ex-
posure The people Of Connecticut.
with all their Yankee thrift. are GER
.sinly an easy mark for the graftsrs,
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+
j NEIORK OF MANY
: - SrArt LEGISLATURES
Observation-Disclosures


Gov. Ansel of South Carolina, in his
inaugural, urged the abolition of the State
dispensary and the outlawing of bucket
shops.
Gov. George E. Chamberlain in his
message sent to the Oregon Legislature
urges the enactment of a law creating a
State railway commission.
Five bills calling for 2-cent fare were
introduced in the Legislature at Des
Mones, Iowa. Three bills also were sent
in calling for the enactment of a primary
law.
The lower house in Missouri at Jeffer-
son City passed bill taxing undivided
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
Kansas Indorses Parole system

The annual report of the Kansas State
penitentiary takes strong stand in favor
of the parole system. which has been
under experiment for two or three years.
The officers say that persons discharged
in this way are kept in restraint and
strengthened in manner that aids them
to become good citizens. Few persons vio-
late their parole and few are afterward
returned for new crimes. On the other
hand, two or three term persons are gen
orally found to be those who have been
discharged without restraint Warde1i
Haskell says that the parole law has
passed the experimental stage and that of
49, persons thus released only thirty
five violated their promise. The peniten-
tiary was run at net profit of S6T4.-
9I6 in two years 1t cost s 50 cents a
tlay 20 feed each prisoner. owing to the
quantity of food raised on the farm.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

The annual report OF the civil service
commission says that the practice OF
levying political assessments on govern
ment employees has been discontinued.
but thinks that public servants are still
far TOO active in politics. The commits
sion held ESQ kinds of examinations for
various positions, and of the S4.l9l per-
sons who competed in the educational
tests, 59.1l3 passed Including the non
educational tests, 122.034 persons We're
examined. of whom a5,o35 passed. and
41.S7T were appointed. The decrease of
26.696 in the number examined is thought
to reflect the prosperous condition If the
country.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
SMALLPOX EPIDEMIC IN STATE.

Schools of Towns Near Viola Closed
and Families Quarantined.
The schools in the town of Bloom have
been closed on account of an epidemic
of smallpox. The Cook and Kidd schools,
where the disease first appeared, were
closed to prevent any spread of the dis
ease and a number of families quaran-
tined. The cases are reported as seri-
Gus. although no deaths have as yet oc-
cured All public schools at Cooksyille
have been closed, owing to an epidemic of
diphthcria
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

A bill amends the primary election law
so that voters using the primary ballot
of one party may vote for candidate for
a nomination on another party ticket, and
have their votes counted for the candi
date as the candidate for such other par
ty In short, it proposes to obliterate
the necessity of voter being either of
one or another party for the purpose of
making nominations, for if this bill be en-
acted one may be part Republican and
part Democrat and another part Prohi-
bition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
GIANT WRECKS THE JAIL.
Throws stove Through Window and
Follows 1t to Freedom.

Sheriff Dwinnell was summoned to
Mukwonago to quell riot. When he
arrived at the village he Sound that Ca
mute Thompson giant Scandinavian
had become intoxicated and started a
trough house." When placed in the viii
lage Jail he wrecked the structure throw
ing the stove out of the window and then
following it. He was corraled by party
of citizens who detained him until the
sheriff arrived. He pleaded guilty in the
municipal court to a charge of using abus-
i've language and went to Jail for thirty
days.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
NEVER KILLED A PASSENGER.
Northern wisconsin Road Has Re-
marIxabIe Record.

Northern wisconsin Road Has Re
marl<abIe Record.
Here's a railroad after the interstate
commerce commissions own heart 1t
was built through sparsely settled coun-
try. was the Duluth, South Shore and
Atlantic and while the national rate
board is investigating wrecks in the east
this line of the north Wisconsin and
Michigan country. the original OF the
1.-TWO streaks of rust" parallel, has never
had a passenger killed. This, at least,
was the argument made to the State rate
commission, which was asked to make the
South Shore stop its trains at Marengo
saying it would have to run the trains so
fast to make up lost time that the speed
would be dangerous
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
GoETHKEs NOT GUILTY.
Man and Charged with Threatening
Farmer, Acquitted.

Man ind Charged With ThreafehihS
Farmer, Acquitted.
August Goethke and daughter. Anna
of Liberty were acquitted in Circuit
Court at Manitowoc on a charge of writ
ing threatening letters to August Lip
pert. Aug. Leubke, a third defendant,
was discharged without the case going
to the jury Lippert, a prosperous farm
err, alleged that his barn had been burned
and that his family had suffered much
from unknown persons who had made
threats. Leo Koebel, a neighbor, aged
%, is serving six years at Waupun for
firing the mill. A brother of Koebel is
in an insane asylum, having been commit
ted when brought into court on charge
of being implicated in the writing of the
letters
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
hoy OF THREE SAVES INFANT.

Remarkable Act of HerOism Per-
formed by La Crosse Child.
A remarkable act of heroism was per-
formed in La Crosse when the residence
of J. +. Schrank, proprietor of cafe
caught fire. Mr.. Schrank's two children
a boy of 3 years and an infant in cradle,
were alone in the house. Unaided the eld-
er child dragged the other from the burn
ing room and out of the burning house.
Assistance would have arrived too late to
save the children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

Metropolitan Com
pany of New York,
vice August Bel
mont. Shonts is TO
get $4,000 a year.
1t was learned
authoritatively that
headquarters will be
removed from Wash
ington to the 18TH
mus and that a
high-salaried chair
man to serve in that
capacity alone will
- l. - III
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05
Elopes Disguised as a Nm.

Disguised as a nun and wrapped in
heavy furs to escape her parents. who
We're attempting TO nvertske her Miss
Ora L. Dunn of Juneau county eloped
with Alexander Skeede. travelling sales
man, and they were hurriedly married at
La Crescent, Mimi. fed on an east
bound train
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-02-05

After he had been warned time and
again to keep away from the tracks, An
tor Lorenz, aged 70 years, in need of
coal to keep him warm. allowed the warn
irgs to pass UNDECIDED and was struck
by switch engine in the Northwestern
yards at Sheboygan. He sustained a
fracture of the skull which may result
fatally