Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-08

| i ne Specldl committee appointed, by
| the county board to settle with the
county treasurer met Tuesday and COM
pleted its work Saturday. The COM
mittee was composed of Geo. Earring
ton, of the village of Spencer; Ben Lang,
of the town of Mcmillan; John Man
son, of the city. They were assisted by
VIM. Warehouse of the city. This is
a very important committee and there
is considerable work attached its labor
A. H. STANCE, one of Merrill's wealthy
| lumber manufacturers, has announced
his intention of building a factory il
Grand Rapids, which will cost in the
neighborhood of 100000 His son-in-
law, E. W. Ellis, of Grand Rapids, will
be associated with him in the business.
The factory will be equipped for the
manufacture of sash, doors, blinds, box
| shocks and other articles of a like
nature. AIR. STANCE gives as reason
| for locating in Grand Rapids that the
town offers better railroad facilities
| than does Merrill, four railroads enter
| ing the town.
A meeting is being held in Madison
| today by representatives of the Wiscon-
sin state baseball league cities, for the
purpose of perfecting organization for
the year 1907. President John Powers,
announces that an eight club circuit is
| now a settled fact The circuit will
comprise the cities of Wausau, Eau
Claire, Oshkosh, Green Bay, Sheboy-
gan, Madison, Lacrosse and Freeport.
| Another meeting of league officials will
be held in Madison in March to arrange
a schedule for the season. 1t is the in
tention to begin playing bali early in
May and close the season late in Sep
TENDER, each club playing about 165
games.
The new branch of the Northwestern
BY. Co. leading from Green Bay to
Eland Jet was completed last Wednes-
day and it is expected that trains will
be running by jan A. When certain
repairs and ballasting is completed in
the spring, this branch will be included
in the main line from all points in this
territory to Milwaukee. Trains leaving
Wausau will connect in Eland Jet. with
through train which will carry pass
engers to Green Bay and from there
over another new branch to Manitowoc
and then down the old lake shore
branch to Milwaukee. There is some
saving in distance and the country is so
level that much better time can be
| made.
John Bergstrom, an inmate of the
| county poor house, mention of whom
was made in our last issue, will leave
the city this evening for New York,
| where the latter part of the week he
will sail for his native country, Finland,
to spend the rest of his days The Rus
sian consul in Chicago, Baron Schlip-
penbach, forwarded 10 A. A. Book clerk
of the court, on Wednesday certificate
which gives Bergstom permission to
cross the Finland frontier, in lieu of a
he left that country. The transporta-
ton is furnished by the town of Texas
and will cost less than 500 As Berg
strom would have been town charge
the balance of his life, the towns Off
GERS feel they are getting off lightly to
thus get rid of him.
Every family has some chair or a sofa
that needs only new upholstering to be
better than new. Call on John Vogt to
have it done If
Wm. Kregel who was given the con-
tract to copy the Surveyors field notes
for the county into other books. has
completed his work and turned the
same over for the inspection of the
county boards special committee The
intention was to copy them into one
large book which could not be carried
away from the court house and lost,
but the work was so voluminous that
three large books were required,
amounting in all to 1900 pages. Sixty
smaller books containing the govern
ment surveyors field notes for town
and range lines and subdivisions were
copied into these books In the past
it was customary to loan the smaller
books to surveyors and cruisers, with
the result that many of them were lost
or not returned. In addition to copy
ing t notes into the large books, Mr.
Kregel has also compiled an index for
the books.
Chas. LaPointe entered plea Of
guilty Wednesday to the charge of
abduction and was sentenced in muni-
cipal court to serve term of four
years in the state prison. The crime to
which he pleaded was that of abduct-
ing his own grand daughter from her
parents home. The accomplished pur-
pose, as the girl has stated, was one of
immortality. The man who is past fifty
years of age resided in 0gdensburg,
n. Y, but recently had been visiting the
family of his son, Thomas, who resides
in the town of Bergen. Early in De-
cember the old man ran away with his
grand daughter, Edith, girl of sixteen
years, and the two were arrested in
Marinette. The girl has since been
taken home by her parents. This case
stands as parallel with bat few others
committed in this county and ii seems
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