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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
WANTS INVESTIGATION.

The PILOT is in receipt of letter
from j. f. Detz, the much talked OF
man who for three years has held sway
at Cameron dam, in defending with a
rifle what he believes to be his rights
His log cabin is located near dam site
on the Thornapple creek, and he has
informed the Chippewa Logging Co
that it can't get its logs by hisplace-not
hya dam site-unless they are hauled
around his farm, which the company
hs.s not, up to the present, elected to do.
,fhe story is old. 1t is known to nearly
everyone in the state and we won't
mention it further.
1t will be seen from the letter that
Mr.. Dietz kindly invites us to visit him,
and no doubt he would make our visit a
pleasant one, but we can't find time to
accept the invitation. AS for the
troubles between himself and the lum-
ber company, that is none of our
funeral. and we don't care to mix in it.
Neither do we care to denounce him for
the sake.of pelf we might derive from
lis enemy. Our advertising columns
are open for clean, legitimate advertis-
ing-not for exploitation of "interests. y
Here follows the letter:
WINTER, Wis, MAY II, 1907
Editor Wdlsau Pilot.
DEAR SIR
1 respectfully invite you to come here
and make q thorough investigation OF
this corporation conspiracy to defraud
us out of our home, so that the public
may know the truth. 1t is q disgrace
to the fair name of Wisconsin that such
a conspiracy has been allowed to run
for three long years, so thet the con-
spirators themselves can trntafully say
that anarchy exists in Sawyer county.
Ii is sanctioned by the so-cailed law and
order, for two circuit judges have lashed
their tongues to blister with all the
foul epithets known to moderII English,
to place me in an unpleasant night be.
fore the public to please theil corporate
masters # can't satisfy you that we
are absolutely in the right, then you
will be at liberty to denounce me as
that lie machine at Chippewa Falls is
doing, and there is no question but the
lumber trust would pay you handsomely
for so doing. That rot about that
grand jury, me being insane, and it be-
ing dangerous to come here is all for
the purpose of keeping the people from
coming in contact with the truth. That
resolution introduced by Mr.. Weber
will die in committee, at the instance OF
the lumber trust, for their infamy has
opposed a square deal at every turn oi
the road Yours very truly,
JOHN +. DIETZ
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
A HOUSE BREAKER.

The family of Louis Dionne, residing
at 9O4 Warren street, was frightened
Thursday evening by the appearance of
a man around the house. Mrs Dionne
and daughter, Emma, were in the house
at the time, Mr.. Dionne being absent
from home. AT about nine O'Clock
Mrs. Dionne saw a man on the front
porch peering through the window.
When he saw he was discovered he ran
away Later Miss Donne discovered
him again looking through the window.
She was so frighten ed that her scream
scared the fellow away and summoned
the neighbOrs. A search was made for the
man but he could not be located Next
morning it was discovered that he had
broken two panes of glass in base
ment window, and finger marks on IA
window of the first floor showed he
had attempted to raise the sash What
the fellows motive was cannot be
stated II was too early an hour for "a
house breaker to work. He was per-
haps off mentally.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
WAUSAU TRIAL ORCHARD
Articles in Regard to From the Pen of Frederic Cranefeld
Secretary OF the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society,"
ARTICLE NO. 4

In my last letter concerning the State
Horticultural society trial orchard at
Wausau, lists of apples and cherries
were given but no plums.
The experiments with plums in this
orchard show plainly that the different
varieties OF native plums are the only
KIND that can be grown in Wausan.
These are improved varieties of the
wild plum and are all shades of red
when ripe The European or blue
plums like Lombard, Quackenbos, Ger
man PruDe. etc, cannot be grown sue
cessfnlly in the vicinity OF Wausau. An
occasional tree may live long enough
to bear one or two crops. but not much
longer The same is true of Green
Gage, Yellow Egg and the Japense
pinms. All of these have been planted
in the trial orchard and none remain,
while the natives are all alive and
prove az hardy as the native oak trees.
Some Of the best of the native pums
in the orchard are Surprise, Wyant,
Quaker, Forest Garden, DeSota, Ham
mer and Hawkeye
The feeling too often prevails that a
fruit like the native plum that grows
wild can get along with less care than
the apple or cherry but this is not true.
The native plum to succeed requires a
rich soil, thorough cultivation, careful
pruning and above all at least one third
of the fruit should be pulled of when
about one-third grown that the re-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
TRIAL TRIP.

The street cars were rugged up the
past week with their attachments and
on Friday We're transferred from the
switch in the Plumer yards to the com
pany's track near the city hall. Pre-
vious TO that time, several men we're
sent along the track which traverses
macadamized streets, for the purpose
of cutting grooves in the macadam for
the fiange of the car wheels to run. On
Saturday afternoon the cars were
brought up on the Washington street
track, which is not yet completed with
the Third street track and they were
transferred on to Third street and made
their frst trip to Schofield. in the hands
of experienced motormen from Green
Bay. They were run slow on the tsIal
trip. so that no mishap might occur.
The cars run smooth and IL was found
that the power worked excelIently.
One thing noticeable is that the cars
make very little noise, they being of an
improved make and for this reason are
not liable to annoy teams.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
OFF TO EUROPE.

Miss Nina Kick busch and Miss Her
mione Silverthorn departed Saturday
evening for Europe A large number
of their relatives and friends went to
the st. Padl depot at 5 p. IN. to see them
off and to bid them goodbye The
young ladies spent Sunday in Chicago,
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ii. III. Hadley, the
latter a sister of Miss Silverthorn
They viii arrive in New York on
Wednesday and on Thursday noon,
May Both. will sail on the "Slayonia.s
of the Cunard Line, with party of
friends. They go directly to Naples,
and will travel in Italy, Switzerland,
Germany, France and England and
return to Wausau some time in Septem-
ber. Those of Wausau, who will be in
New York when the vessel sails, are the
Misses Anna and Antoinette Hoeflinger
and Mrs. H. w. Russei, Mrs. Thos.
Ryan, of Merrill, and Mrs. Aron, of New
York City.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
DIED SUDDENLY.

WIN. HI. Stead died in st. Mary's hos
pital OF pneumonia Friday morning.
after he had been there but short
time. He had been i'll bnt few days
Deceased came to this section from
Colby six years ago and entered .As
employ of John Manser as bookkeeper.
firing of a life of confinement, be two
years ago took up log scaling FOR MIR.
Manser and had been employed at that
occupation since. Mr. Stead was quite
well known in this city, where he spent
much OF his leisure time. He was born
in England fifty eight years ago and
though he spoke of his own affairs with
reluctance, enough was CLEANED by his
friends to show that he was born of a
good and wealthy family. and that he
had seen more prosperous days than he
enjoyed in the latter part Of his lie.
Business reverses caused him to cross
the Atiantic eleven years ago and come
to Wisconsin. He was well educated,
well read man, courteous and iovial.
When occasion offered, he would sit
down and pen poetry and prose articles
for prominent magazines and many of
these were widely read. He had an
excellent memory, good command of
English and thus was an able writer.
He had no relatives in this country
and the only known relative is sister
living in England
The rule of not holding funerals on
Sunday was broken in this case to allow
all the employees of the Manser mill and
people of Kelly to attend the services.
The remains were taken to the Pine
Grove chapel Sunday morning, and at
200 p. m. Rev. +. M Thompson per-
formed the list rites.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

The local lodge of Independent Order
of Foresters is busy at every meeting
now preparing for the coming state
convention of the order, which will be
held here June 4-6. The committee
which has charge of planning a
program has been successful In its
efforts ia securing the Supreme Chief
Ranger as one of the speakers. He is
Elliot q. Stevenson and he resides in
Toronto, Can. The general public will
Hilldreth of Fond du Lac, High Chief
Ranger of the state. will also be pres
ent. 1t had been planned to borrow a
moose from the Milwaukee zoo and
bring him here, to be placed on exhibit
ton. The moose is emblematic of the
order.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

Mr.. and Mrs +. O. Crocker and chill
dren departed last week for lronwood,
Mich, where Mr.. Crocker goes 10 take
the management of the large lumber
business of the Scott 4 Howe Lumber
company of that place. Mr.. Crocker
has always lived in Wausau and has
been in the lumber business for twenty
years past, twelve years of that time he
has held responsible position with the
Barker IL Stewart Lumber company.
When it become necessary for the Iron
wood company to select manager they
came here and consulted with Barker
& Stewart and they consented to let
MIR. Crocker go, inasmuch as it was
materially lettering his condition imam
cially All deeply regret the departure
of Mr.. Crocker and family.
Spring communion will be celebrated
in the Presbyterian church next Sun
day, June I'd.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

There is more Catarrh in this section of the
country than all other diseases put together, and
until the last few years was supposed to be in
durable. For great many years doctors pro
nounced it local disease and prescribed local
remedies, and by constantly falling to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
tiopal disease and therefore requires constitu-
tional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure. manu-
factured by F. j. Cheney& Co., Toledo, Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the market
1t is taken internally In doses from 10 drops to
a teaspoonfull. 1t acts directly on the blood
and mucous surfaces of system They offer one
hundred collars for any case it fails to cure
Send for circulars and testimonials
Address: f. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
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EXCURSION RATES

State q. A. r. Ecampment, Oshkosh.
Via The Northwestern Line
Tickets on sale June /, 2, and4,
good returning June z. For tickets and
full information apply to any ticket
agent of the North Western Line.
m. 2S-aW
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EXCURSION RATES

Grand Lodge, l. o. o. f. Superior.
Via The Northwestern Line
Tickets on sale June |, 9, 3 and 4 re-
turn limit June T. For tickets and full
information apply TO any ticket agent
of the North Western Line. IN. 2S-2w
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

State of Wisconsin. county of Marathon S.:
l, III. q. Flieth, cashier of the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief. II. g. EIIETH. Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23d
day of May 1907. CHAs. E. PARKER,
Notary Public, Wis.
CoRRRCT-Attest:
C.. C. YAwKRY,
wALEER ALEXANDER, Directors.
CD. WINToN,
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First National Bank Report.

Report of the condition of the First
National Bank al, Wausau, in the state
of Wisconsin, at the close of business,
May 20, 1907
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

National German American Bank
Report of the condition of the Nation
al German American Bank, at Wausau,
in the state of Wisconsin, at the close of
business, May 20, 1907
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S1.770.Ma.62

State of Wisconsin, county of Marathon, IS:
i, A. II. Grout. Cashier of the aboye-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true TO the best of my knowledge and
belief. A. IL. CIRCUIT, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 23d
day of May, 1907. JOHN RNeLE, JR.,
Notary Public, Wis.,
CoRREcT-Attest:
JOHN RINeLE,
c. 5. CURTIS fDirectors.
ID. L. PLUMER,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

| mainder shall be of good quality and
size. Native plums tend to overbear
and If all the fruit is left on the tree to
mature, the result will be plnms that
are mostly "skin and stonesn while
severe thinning gives large and luscious
fruit and also helps the tree as the
maturing of the seed, in this case the
pits. is the process which exhausts a
tree or plant most.
We will admit that not all the things
mentioned above have been done in
the plum section of the Wausau trial
orchard and we sometimes hesitate 10
have visitors go down to that corner of
the orchard without certain explanations
going along. Owing TO some oversight
in management the plum orchard in its
early days was not thoroughly cultivated
nor pruned as it should have been,
neither was the fruit thinned. Some of
these things will be corrected this year
and we hope to be able to show visitors
to the orchard positive as well as mega
tive results in the cultivation of native
plums in the Wausau orchard In fol
lowing article something will be said
about four similar orchards in northern
Wisconsin maintained by the State
Horticultural society. In the mean
time do not fail to visit the Wausau
orchard.
+. CRANEFIELD,
Secretary,
State Hort. Society.
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Henry B. Huntington,
Law, Real Estate and Fire Insurance.
Scott ST., Opp. Court House. Wausau. Wis.
Over 900 Acres

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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

Progressive whist, bridge whist and
cinch cards. for sale at the PIL0T Office.
Prices nominal. IT,
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Advertised Letters.

List OF letters remaining uncalled for
in the Wausau p y. for the week end
ing May 13. 1907. In calling for same
nleaSe say "adyarfiaed -
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28

Satan was the first coacher He
coached Eve when she stole first and
Adam stole second When Isaac met
Rebecca at the well she was walking
with pitcher Sampson struck out a
good many when he slew the Philistines.
Moses made his first run when he slew
he slew Abel Abraham made sacri-
flee. The prodigal son made home
run. David was a distance thrower and
Moses shut out the Egyptians at the
Red sea. The game was called when
the flood came on account of wet
grounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
RAINS ARE EXPENSIVE.

Games postponed on account OF ram
or wet grounds are source OF con-
siderable monetary loss to teams OF the
Wisconsin Baseball league. Their or
dinary running expenses go on just the
same. game or no game, and there IS
Such postponed games are also a
source of additional financial loss to a
home team by reason of the fact that
it is obliged to pay guarantee OF $50
to the visiting team for every game
that must be postponed on account OF
rain or wet grounds Thus the two
games that could not be played here,
as scheduled with Ean Claire and La
Crosse this week, cost the Wausau team
$40.
When games are played the visiting
team gets as its share, fifty per cent OF
the gate receipts, exclusive of the
grandstana receipts and the ten per
cent due the league. The home team
gets the remainder. On holidays the
receipts, including those from the
grandstands, are pooled and divided
equally among the eight clubs in the
league.
In the event of game being stopped
by rain or declared forfeited before the
completion of five innings, the home
club may Issue admission checks, good
for any succeeding game. If such
checks are issued the visiting club
shall not be entitled to its percentage
OF the receipts but If such checks are
not issued the visiting club shall be en-
titled to its share of tie, receipts pre-
cisely as ii the game had been fully
played.
The home club is to be the judge OF
the condition of grounds before start
ing play, but in all cases after play has
been called the umpire is to be the sole
Judge of grounds
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-05-28
WAuSAU POETESS.

Below we publish a poem from the
pen of Mrs. John Morgan, nee Alice B.
Crocker, of this city. We have selected
this one from among many others writ
ten by the same lady, because we
thought it applied best TO this season of
the year. Few people of the city are
aware that we have among us poetess
of exceptional ability, such as Mrs.
Morgan is. Her poems have
most all appeared in newspa-
pers and magazines of the large
eastern cities and at present they are
being compiled in book form and will
soon be Issued from the press of Rich
ard q. Badger, Boston. when they will
be placed on the market
Mrs Morgan was born and reared in
this city, though she lived in the East
for number of years. She is sister
of +. o. and Geo. Crocker of this city.
Mrs. Morgan is a lover of nature, as is
indicated by perusal of her verse
WILDWOOD IDYL.
Seeking wildwood, open sky,
Bithe beneath the trees am |
Watching squirrel chattering high,
Watching wOOd-dOve cooling nigh,-
Bliss to tread the forest way
Along trails where rabbits stray.
Greeting quail in ferny spray,
Hearing veery's tender lay;
Joy to watch the brooding bird,
CHIPPING nesting family heard.
Downy feather lightly stirred
Soothing note from mother-bird
Child of Nature, joyous, Free.
Seeking blossom with the bee
Tracing brook through fiowery lea,
Fringed by reed and willow tree;
Seeking violet hidden low
Where do moss and crosses grow
Beside the riyulets ripping flow
That through beechen grove doth go;
Plucking triIlium, wet with dew,
Frail hepatica, starr blue,
Finding elf ; whip poor-will shoe
Hid among the meadow-rue
Loving twilight, sunset fiush,-
Seeking haunt of hermit thrush
Trilling sweet at evening hush.
Sheltered by the swaying rush.
In the shadowy green lights dim
Watching ire-ties winging glim,
Moths f1uttering round the budding limb,
By weird light from the new-moon's rim,
Dreaming beneath dusky sky,
On soft boughs of fir to lie
Soothed by pine trees grooming sigh
Lulled by night winds passing by
All It's Natures child am l.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-22
YALE FRESHMEN MAKE GAY
GLEE CLUB CONCERT AT HY- PERION 4 GRAND JUBILEE,

Streaners Fill the Air Despite Rulcs of
 Fire Department and Notes Freely
 Passed From Galleries to Prom Girls
 BeIOw--Names of Freshmen Disturb
 CTS Taken by the Fire Marshal to be
 Referred to City Attorney.
 Tn spite of the demands for better order among the freshmen urged by the Yale News, the prom. concert last night at the Hyperion was very much the same bowling freshman jubilee that other years have known. The demands of the News was very mod est, only that the audience be allowed to hear the music, intermissions to be free and unrestrained. For the first two numbers the freshmen did well. They were almost attentive. But it's hard to be good, and when moment later two young roosters came Hopping down from the gallery, and a large Teddy bear danced from the end of a fishing pole, every freshman realized it was no use. Joy was unconfined. After that. if the Glee club sang a popular song, freshmen all joined in, and the Glee club was nowhere. When MT. Carter's well coached singers struck a we'll coached harmony of teflors and passes, a wall from future glee club singers in the gallery quite vanquished them.
 The city fire department also had it's I trouble The curtain was dropped once because paper streamers were l thrown in defiance of the large sign on the curtain.
 1 Fire Marshal Joshua Gladwin with Attorney Walter Pond as deputy patronei the top gallery, and took the 1 names of ten freshmen who were lead 1 CTS in throwing the confetti contrary to rules made by the fire department. | These names will be presented to City Attorney Simpson to-day, and the men will probably be arrested
 MT. Carter, the leader of the Glee club, remonstrated in curtain speech The throwing ceased, and the concert was allowed to go.
 The freshman found time to fish for notes after the me-honored custom. 1 Hundreds If ctrings dropped messages to the prom. girls below and drew up | gifts of vioets. They are S2 per hun dred, and the juniors are buying them The supposition is that the music furnished by the musical clubs was very good. It is impossible to make Q definite statement. It was the fresh mems night, and they deserve the credit if the prom. concert was 2 l pleasant affair
 After the concert the juniors and their fair guests were whisked away in coaches to spend the rest of thc night in dancing at the various ger mans. The lhumbled freshmen content ed themselves with getting rid of the surplus confetti to the adornment ot Chapel street pedestrians, some oi whom enjoyed the performance, anC others of whom were annoyed.
 A large squadron of patrolmen un der Sergeant Smith preserved order ii
 the vicinity of the theater, and kep
 the hacks from blocking the street.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-22
FRANK SHERRY HEARD FROM
ALIVE AND WELL AND AT HIS
 HOTEL.

Word Received Last Evening by Frank
 H. P. Quimley of this City by TeIe-
 phoning to a Philadelphia Man Just
 Home From Jamaica and Who Talk
 ed With MT. Sperry Some Time After
 the "Quake" Was Over.
 The fears that Frank sperry of this city, proprietor of the Knutsford Park hotel, Jamaica, might have been one of the victims of the earthauake at Jamaica were set at rest last evening throuGh the efforts of Frank H. P, Quinley, who for years has been with the firm of Sperry & Barnes, as their superintendent. MT. Quinley saw in the New York Post of last evening that John B. Avril, Philadelphia publish CT, had arrived at New Y9fk from Ja- maica, on the steamer Baker, and that Mir. Avril while at the island stopped at the Knutsford Park hotel MT. Quinley knowing that Mir. Avril had had time to get to his home in Phila- delphia, used the long distance phone and fortunately connected at once with Mir. Avril, who had just arrived home. In response to Mr. Quinley's inquiries regarding MT. Sperry MT. tAvril replied that he left MT. Sperry alive, well and uninjured sometime after the earth quake, and that when departing for the steamer to sail for home he settled his bill at the Knutsford Park hotel with MT. Sperry personally. The hotel had suffered no damage to speak of. MT. Avril is of the Avril Publishing company of Philadelphia.
 MT Quinley at once 'phoned the good news to MT. Sperry's wife at her home on lTrumbul street, and also to MT, Sperry's father, Hon. Joel A. Sperry, head of the firm of sperry & Barnes.
 MT. Quinley said he had no doubt that MT. Sperry had cabled word of his safety to his New Haven home and that the message had not arrived ow- ing to the crowds of messages that are waiting transmission. The telegraph company was still receiving no mes sages except with the proviso that they might be much delayed i'll sending.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-22
CONSOLIDATION COMING.

Subsidiary Trolley and Steamboat
 Lines to be Merged With the New
 Haven Company.
 It is stated on high railroad author ity that during the present year there will be very extensive consolidation into the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company, as the parent company, of many of it's sub sidiary properties. These will include large part of the trolley properties and the New England Navigation com- pany, which owns the steamboat prop erty, including the terminals. on Long Island sound and at New York city and Boston.
 Under the Consolidated management financial and legal obstacles can be cleared away and considerable economy effected.