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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
The BADGER STATE
NEWS OF THE WEEK C;HclSELY CONDENSED
ROBBERS GET DIAMONDS.
Secure Gems at Appleton While Clerk
Is Waiting ON Customer.

A $1,000 diamond robbery was COM
mitted at the Henry Ramps jewelry
store, Appleton. at 6 o'clock the other
evening, two crooks managing TO get away
with tray Of mounted diamond rings
valued at from S1J0 to 5000 each. Henry
Marx was in charge of the store at he
time of the theft, but was busy waiting
on customer when the two crooks en-
tered. Aroused at their suspicious ac-
tons, Marx. after disposing of the Gus
toner, walked past the two men. OBJ
serving corner of a red velvet ring tray
protruding from the pocket OF one of the
men, he grabbed for it, removing about
$1,000 worth of diamonds that had been
stolen. As soon as the crooks saw they
had been discovered they made dash for
the door. Marx FASTENED to the diamond
case to see if anything else had been
stolen and discovered that the men had
taken another tray. The police were
promptly notified, but had no clue as to
the direction the men went after leaving
the store Two years ago the Ramps
jewelry store was robbed of $1,000 worth
of diamonds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
The Cost of Eggs.

If eggs are high In winter, 1t Is be-
cause they cost more in that season.
AZ has been frequently affirmed In
these columns, eggs cost but little or
nothing in summer, If the hens are on
range, and will then pay even IL
prices are low. If eggs are 80 cents a
dozen, the real food" material costs
the consumer about % cents a pound,
but when eggs are Is cents dozen the
consumer gets about PA pounds Of food
material for % cents. But in both
cases the farmer sends away the same
proportion Of material from his farm /;
and, whether the hen picks the food
UP herself or is given her share by her
owner, the loss of that much value
from the farm occurs. But, again, the
hen ON the range utilities materials that
the farmer can not SELL A dainty
young weed. piece of bone, insects,
seeds, grass and refuse thrown away
are all made to do service by the hens,
converting them into eggs. 1t will pay
in winter to save food by keeping the
hens warm. If they are not we'll shell
tered more corn will be necessary to
heat their bodies. Shelter Is not real
ly food, but it generally serves to
economize in It's use for preventing the
waste Of corn In the form of heat
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
The Largest Playground

Jersey City has authorized landscape
artist to transform lsvel plot Of sixty
nine acres west Of the citxand bordering
on the Hackensack river into mammoth
playfield for the benefit Of the boys and
girls Of the city. This win be the largest
playground in the world, as it is six
times as large as the Stadium at Athens
and half as large again as the Prospect
Park (Brooklyn) playground. The Jer-
sey City field will be surrounded by a
drive 100 feet wide for the use of horse
men and automobiles. Near the river
will be an immense swimming pool and
recreation piers. Baseball fields, golf
links, tennis courts and cricket grounds
will be laid out on the central portion,
and there will be a great fieldhouse where
all players may make ready for the
games. In the winter time there win be
an immense skating rink free to all.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Short Newa Nnte.

A girl baby was born to Gov. and Mrs.
Charles E. Hughes at Albany the other
day, it being their fourth child
William w. Prosser, st. Louis, city
passenger agent of the Clover Leaf mute,
died at Laporte, Ind. while visiting rela-
tiyes.
Three japanese belonging to a travelling
acrobatic troupe have been arrested in
Russia with plans of Notifications and
other secret military documents in their
possession.
n foreign government, supposed to be
Russia, says the London Chronicle has
awarded to a British firm of shipbuilders
contract for several battleships, cruisers
and gunboats.
Nelson Morris, the Chicago packer, has
leased 10000 acres of grazing land in
the Standing Rock reservation. South Da-
keta, comprising one of the finest cattle
racts in the Northwest
Gen" Lewis Cas- Fry. who in 1894
led $500 men, comprising the Pacific
coast division OF Coxey's army, from San
Francisco to Washington, is dead at
Brice, Mo.
George Hoey, veteran actor, died in
New York after short illness. He was
well known TO the old timers, having play
ed with Booth. Barrett, jefferson and
other famous players.
Asmond S. Meserve, warden OF the New
Castle county workhouse. near Whining
ton, Del. and one Of the leading criminol-
ogists of the country, has resigned be-
cause. it is stated. he disapproyes of the
Delaware whipping post
Cass Gilbert. New York architect, has
just purchased the old Keller tavern at
Ridge6eld. Conn.,, and will occupy it as
a summer home. The tavern was built in
I-66. At the battle 81 Ridgeheld April
&c. 1TT6. it was struck by a cannon ball,
which still is iua5e55el in one Of the
walls
Sensational disclosures, involving pad
ding OF accounts to the extent of hundreds
of thousands of dollars by the INTERIOR
ough company, headed By August Bel
mont. were made by the New York public
service commission It is alleged the COM
pany's plan was to charge the city an
excessive price in case il SHOULD take over
the property.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Belle, in woman,s Power.

Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish, the vel known
society leader, in recent interview took
direct issue with the expressions of
Charles NJ. Schwab, who not long ago
gave it as his opinion that the true field
for women's exertions was in the do1nes-
tic rather than the business world. Mrs.
Fish thinks that women should be fres
TO enter any occupation, and believes that
they are equal in mentality to men, the
difference being merely one of quality.
She said she would rather be a great
actress, writer or artist than to have all
the wealth she could command. She de-
cried the practice Of women marrying in
ferior znen for fear of being called old
maids, and urged that women should have
faith in their own powers and develop the
best within them.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Hipber Education for omcer,,

On the statement that "An officer Of
the United States army should be an all
round educated gentleman as it is now
his entire training, both preparatory at
the academy and postgraduate, is almost
purely technical" the board of visitors
to the Military Academy at West Point
has founded its recommendation for a
general revision of the scheme of aca-
demic instruction. The board says that
it is now imperative that che cadet be
graduated with an education approach
ing in general culture that acquired in
the best of American colleges. The re-
port says that hazing is now entirely a
thing of the past, and the remarkable
statement is made that there has been no
death among the cadets from disease of
any kind for more Gsan twelve years.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
FOR GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.
Unionists Urge Consolidation of Tel

= AESE COMMUNICATION OF TEL
egraph with Postal system.
President Small of the Commercial
Telegraphers' Union has called on the
United States and Canada to take over
Owned by the Western Union and
Post cal Telegraph companies. At the
same time he began a campaign TO Sc
cure congressional investigation of
the conduct of those companies in this
country To this end the union has
tabiished tT'o funds-one for the direct
support OF the strike and the other to
pay the expenses of the government
ownership campaign. He asks that
trade unl0niSts In general and telegra-
piers in particular begin at once to
raise 100000 for these purposes.
The strike was further strengthened
by the calling out of leased wire OPP
orators in many brokers Offices, and it
was expected that the cable operators
would also join. On the other hand.
the telegraph companies claimed to be
taking care of all business offered, and
say that the strike is closed incident
SO far as they are concerned. Wash
ington heard that Commissioner Neill
was about to submit a report regarding
the telegraph strike to the President
The strikers charge that the companies
are taking most of their business sub
ject to delay, and that the dispatches,
instead of being put on the wires, are
sent by messengers in suit cases from
one city to another, to be copied and
delivered by local messengers.
1t is said that a bill is to be intro
duced at the coming session by Con-
gresham Samuel Smith, of Michigan,
which will authorize postal telegraph
systems operated by the Post Office De-
partment.
Congressman Smith says: "We pro-
vide for carrying the mails by the
swiftest known method, steam, electric
railways and pneumatic tubes. Why
deny the right to the use of the tele-
graph? We carry the mails at loss.
Why not use the telegraph not only as
a convenience and blessing to all our
people, but to help wipe out the an
nual postal deficit? Who doubts that
the telegraph is an essential part of an
efficient postal service?"
The constitutional right to establish
a postal telegraph system is unques-
toned. The government started out by
owning the telegraph system. In 1915
the government had built a telegraph
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Language of seaguIIs Found,

John b. Watson, professor of psychol-
ogy in the University of Chicago, has
just returned from the Dry Tortugas
Islands. off the lower coast of Florida,
where he carried on investigations at the
Andrew Carnegie station. He says that
he has found that the sea gulls have a
language of their own which can be imi-
tated by a human being. He finds that
they live in family groups in houses con-
sciously built for their purpose, and he
believes that they have politics in their
governmental affairs. For several months
Prof. Watson has lived in hut of boughs
on these tropical islands, tanning the great
ocean birds and getting close to them.
He thinks that these birds converse with
each other by means of the volume, tone
and duration of their vocal sounds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
NELSON MORRIS DIES.
Pioneer Chicago Packer and Millions
nj pr~aax

nire Passes Away.
Nelson Morris. pioneer Chicago packer
and muItimillionaire, died Tuesday. Nell
son Morris was the third member of the
famous ''big four'' packers. Philip D.
Armour and Gustavus L. Swift preceded
him to the grave and Michael Cudahy
is the only survivor of the city's pioneers
in the packing industry. Mr. Morris
death was due TO chronic affection of the
heart. with a kidney complication, which
had its origin some time ago.
Nelson Morris was born in the Black
Forest, Germany, Jan. Z, 1910 Ills faith
er originally was a wealthy cattle dealer.
but he became reduced 70 poverty after
joining the revolutionary movement TO
unite the Black Forest TO Switzerland
The father was an exile until the son
paid bis ransom twenty years ago. Carl
Schur1 was fellow exile of young Nor
ris. who, when he landed in Philadelphia
pennilesS was IL years old.
The young man walked to New York,
where he hired out to haul charcoal in
Lakevile, Conn. for s. a month and
board. Later he worked his way on a
canalboat to Buffalo, thence walking to
Chicago. Here he went to work in the
old stoekyards. Five dollars a month
was his salary the first year, increased
to $40 the second year. All he
saved from his earnings he sent to his
relatives across the ocean. He began TO
buy hogs when he was -, making enough
to start himself in the cattle business
year later. The packer used TO tell how
at first he killed and dressed his own
cattle. He slept on the slaughter house
floor at night in order to be on hand early
in the morning with his beef and pork.
His first financial reverse came when he
was 10 years old. When he was % years
old Morris suffered another reverse. He
indorsed papers for creditors who went
back on him. Within a year, however,
he had recovered from his loss.
He started his packing house in 1862
and during the latter part of the war sup
piled the army of the West with beef.
Mr.. Morris was the first to export live
cattle from this country to Europe. He
received the first contract ever given to
supply government with beef. He OBJ
tanned important and profitable contracts
with France, England and Germany.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Free Employment Agencies.

The Massachusetts, Labor Bulletin, as
digested in American Industries, shows
that fifteen States now have free public
employment agencies in operation, as fol-
lows: California, Connecticut, Illinois,
Kansas, Maryland. Massachusetts,, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Ne
braska, Ohio, Washington. West Virginia
and Wisconsin. Eleven of these have
State systems, with twenty-eight offices In
twenty-six cities, and FIVE States have
eight municipal offices. The motives ad-
vanced to justify these agencies are the
belief that State competition would drive
unscrupulous private agencies out of bust
ness, the need of assisting the unemployed,
and the bringing together of laborer and
employer with the result of reducing the
army of unemployed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03

EMPEROR OF KOREA strong opinions.
This would seem to be obvious when
the japanese are willing to place him
on the throne. 1t is alleged that III
Syek never recovered from the shock
he received at the time his mother was
slain, because of the brutality attend
with swords, then taken to a court
yard, wrapped in silk and borne to a
grove, where, after wood was piled on
the body and kerosene poured over the
mass, it was set on fire.
-
Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, whose
company have been instrumental in
forming a huge iron and steel combi-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
keclaiminr Al..ali Lnna..

Experiments have been conducted by
the Department Of Agriculture at Fres-
no. Cal, with view to retaining al
kali lands by drainage. Operations are
now being conducted in a large vine
yard near Fresno. where alkali has
come rapidly TO the surface. IL is
hoped. says the Scientific American.
that Immense tracts which have long
lain waste may thus be rendered fer
tile. There are many thousands of
acres Of these aRaIi plains IN Fresno
County, Cal. which are now useless,
but it Is believed that their drainage
could DC easily accomplished through
the use OF electric power for pumping
ElIlr-TasDSaS
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03

1344-Earl of Derby defeated the
French at Auoeroche.
14S3-Edward V. anu his brother, Rich
ard, Duke of York, smothered in the
Tower.
1513-French routed by the English az
the Battle of Spurs"
of Antwerp.
1642-Fort Riehelieu, in Canada, found
ed
164S-Cromwell defeated the Royalists
at battle of Preston.
1654-Port Royal taken by Sedwick.
1692-Five persons executed for witch
craft at Salem, Mass.
7o4-English and the Allies, command
ed by the Duke of Marlborough. de-
feated the French and Bavarians at
the battle of Blenheim.
1717-Turks defeated by Eugene at
Belgrade
1719-Capitulation of st. Sebastian.
1721-First issue of the New England
Courant.
1760-Battle of Liegnitz.
1T62-Havana taken by British force
under the Earl of Albemarle,
1T66-First issue of the Nova Scotia
Gazette.
1777--Americans defeated the British at
Bennington, Vt.
17S2-British warship Royal Georgs
sunk near Spithead.
17S4-The Province Of New Brunswick
formed.
1199-Peter Hunter appointed Lieuten-
ant Governor of upper Canada.
1SO6-Napoleon laid the first stone for
the Arc de Triomphe de rEtoile in
Paris. :. Baden elected into grand
duchy, as member of the Rhenish
Confederation.
1S09-Foundation laid for Nelson's
monument in Trafalgar Square, Lon
don. Flushing taken by the Eng
fish.
1S12-Capture of Detroit by Gen. Brock.
1S14-Americans repulsed the British at
Fort Erie.
181S-Sir Peregrine Maitland appointed
A%ltulCAcuL 0ONG1nOl VI uRPtA N&Ak~
ada.
1S21-King George Nv. of England Wis
tied Ireland.
1S43-Cardinal Rampolla born.
1S5O-T McKennon of Pennsylvania be-
came Secretary of the Interior.
1S59-Blondin walked rope across
Niagara. i. !. Foundation stone laid
for Surgeons tabernacle in London.
1S65-Great Britain and Prussia con-
cluded navigation treaty.
1S67-New reform bill passed for Eng
land.
1S91-The President ordered the Chero-
kee strip in Indian territory closed
co whites. Steamship Teutonio
broke the transatlantic record. Time
days, 16 hours and 81 minutes.
1S92-Conhict between State troops and
miners at Coax Creek, Tenn.
1S94-Explorer Welman and party ar
rived at Tromsoe, having abandoned
attempt to reach the North Pole.
1S95-Boiler explosion in a hote. at
Denver, Colo, killed % persons. -.
Viscount Wolseley succeeded the
Duke of Cambridge as commander
in-chief of the British army.
1S96-Dr. hansen, the Polar explorer,
returned to Vardo, after an absence
of three years and twenty-three days.
1S97-Prince Henry of Orleans and the
Count Of Turin fought duel near
Paris.
1900-President Sanclemente of Republic
of Colombia, resigned Office
1906-Many lives lost in earthquake and
fire at Valparaiso, Chile.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
CURsING is EXPENSIVE.
Black Wolf Farmer Pays $1O7 fol-

Black Wolf Farmer Pays $1O7 for
the Glorious Privilege of an Oath.
1t cost Charles Keeper of Black Wolf
Winnebago county, $17O.36 for swearing
at John Dueli, a conductor ON the inter-
urban line, between Fond du Lac and
Oshkosh. Keeper got on the car at Lake
Shore drive and handed the conductor a
81 bill to pay his fare. Later he said
that he had given the conductor 4 So bill
and asked for the change, which he said
was due him. Mr.. Duell refused to grant
Keepers request and as a result was sub
jected to TRADE of profanity and abuse
qhe court sentenced Keeper to pay fine
Of 500 and costs or spend ninety days
in Jail.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
The Pedigree Alone won,t Do.


The pedigree is all right In itself In
selecting breeding stock of what ever
kind. In cattle breeding is, perhaps,
more neglected than in other kinds.
In word of caution on breeding. Prof.
Boss, of the Minnesota Station. says TO
young breeders that beginners In live
stock breeding seem to expect the pedi-
gree of an animal to make UP for lack
Of feed, poor quarters, and poor man.
agement. This, of course. viii not do,
but well bred pig. If given good care
and comfortable quarters. will unques-
tionably give better returns for the
money invested than any number of
scrubs can do.
Many breeders overlook the fact that
! stcSk breeding like produces like"
lust as surely from poor individuals as
from good ones This is evidenced b.
the number of scrubby individuals that
are often seen in breeding herds, to be
sold to some one who sends a mail or
der II is matter of doubt whether
or not the scrubby pure bred Is more
likely to bring scrlbby offspring. than
is even the scrub without pedigree
The fact that the good lines have been
concentrated for some generations and
that an effort has been made 10 keep
the animal pure in breeding emphasizes
the likelihood OF like begetting like. and
scrubby pure breeds are the result IN
/ less the inferiority OF the parent is
due to poor care rather than poor
breeding.
The pure bred pig that is scubby Is
likely to be cause OF damage in the
| breeding herd Of the owner, and 10 In
jure the reputation Of any breed which
may be unfortunate enough to possess
animals OF this description The only
pure bred pig that should be used as
the breeder Is the one that Is good as
an Individual and whose ancestry have
been good individuals. All others
should be consigned 10 the packer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
BUGS EAT APPLE TREES.
Deadly San Jose Scale Discovered in
Outagamie County.

The San Jose scale the most ravenous
and destructive pest to apple trees known
to science, has been discovered in Outa-
gamie county, hundreds of trees being
doomed as result of being attacked by
the insect The discovery of the presence
of the scale was made a few days ago by
Prof. H. j. Brinkley of the chair of BIZ
ology at Lawrence university, who de
clares that unless steps are taken imme-
diately to eradicate the pest every fruit
tree in the county will be ruined in a
short time
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03

to race suicide, Prof. Ross says he is
with those who hate famine, war, saber-
toothed competition, class antagonism,
degradation of the masses, wasting of
children, dwarfng OF women and cheap
ening of men," and asks if the time will
come when the mother of more than three
is regarded as a public benefactor and
placed on the pay roll of the State"
Prof. Ross himself is the father of three
children.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Rnnra Farors Octnnns.

The Naval Submarine Board, which
conducted competitive tests at Newport,
has reported unanimously that the 0ctu-
pus is the superior of the boats tested and
the equal of the best now owned by the
United States or under contract. The
opinion is also expressed that boat SINH
lar to the Octopus. but larger, would be a
superior naval weapon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Is sHERrFF DEsERTER.
Complaint Declares Frank l.. Taylor
Left Army Twice During War.


Robert e. Bundy has begun quo war
ranto action in the Circuit Court Of Pepin
county to remove Frank L. Taylor, sheriff
of the county, from Office. The grounds
for the acton, as set forth in the COM
plant, are that the defendant is not a
citizen of the United States. Mr.. Bundy
alleges that Sheriff Taylor was a deserter
from the United States military service
on two occasions, once in 1862 and again
in 1868. The complaint states that the
defendant was a soldier in the Sixfieth
New York Infantry on the first occasion
and member of the Sixteenth New York
cavalry when he was alleged to have de-
serted the second time. The complainant
alleges the standing of deserter has never
been removed from the sherif's military
rppOrd
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
line between Washington and Balti-
more, costing $4,000.

line between Washington and Balti-
more, costing 100000.
Two years later, under a notion of
economy, it was turned over to pri-
vate ownership. Among the public
statesmen who protested against this
course were Henry Clay and Cave
johnson. Prof. S. f. B. Morse also
prophesied the evils of private owner
ship.
Justice Brown. of the United States
Supreme Court, has said: IF the gov
eminent may be safely intrusted with
the transmission of our letters and pa
pers, l see no reason why it should not
also be intrusted with the transmits
sion of our kilograms, as is almost uni
versally the case in Europe"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Trea.ury MAKE. Good showing.

The report Of the operations OF the
United States Treasury Department for
the month of July. the first Of the fiscal
year, shows a gratifying reduction Of the
defc.e which is always anticipated for
this particular month by reason OF thu
many appropriations which become avail
able at the beginning of the new fiscal
year. The deficit this year was sl0,SO1s-
555. as compared with 1881, 147 for tina
same month last year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03

The Minneapolis, Kansas City and Gulf
Railway Company has just been incorpo-
rated in Oklahoma, with $J9,000,000 cap
ital stock, for the purpose of constructing
a donble-track electric railroad along the
line indicated by the title. The line is
routed from Minneapolis to Des Moiness
thence to Kansas City, Wichita, Guthrie,
Oklahoma City, Dallas and Galveston.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-09-03
Re.,r,cted Birth rate DesirabIe.

Prof Edward A. Ross, head of the So
GEOLOGY Department of the University Of
Wisconsin, in a lecture to the students,
said that restriction in the birth rate is
a movement which at the bottom is sal
utary, and the evils in its train appear to
be minor or transient or self-limiting or
curable,' thus taking direct issue with
President Roosevelt's well-known idea as