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Albuquerque citizen., 1907-09-23

Born. to Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Hauenstein of 2O9 North Arno street,
a birl baby Mr.. Hauenstein is a
popular Santa Fe fireman running on
the coast lines All Mr.. Hauensteins
friends smoked pure Havanas when
the announcement of the arrival of
the stork was made.
Albuquerque citizen., 1907-09-23

John Fall who had been firing a
Santa Fe passenger engine on the
Silver City run for the last several
years, has passed the examination
for engineer and is now running a
switch engine in the yards at San
Marcial.
Albuquerque citizen., 1907-09-23

Engineer Peter Henderson and
wife of Williams, passed through the
city yesterday en- route for a sixty
days visit with relatives in Canada.
This will be the first time that Mr.
Henderson has been home in twen-
ty-five years.
Albuquerque citizen., 1907-09-23

Jack Donahue, a passenger con-
ductor of the Rio Grande division of
the santa Fe, has returned to work
after spending some time i'm the east
While gone he visited the James,
town exposition and also spent some
time at Buffalo and other places.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
MAKES WAR ON ROADS
ALABAMA GOVERNOR WANTS
DRASTIC LEGISLATION.
Summons State Lawmakers Together
and Asks for Regulatory Laws
Four Young Men Drown OF Key
port. New Jersey.

Gov. Conner of Alabama has called an
extra session of the Legislature TO con-
vene Nov. {. The call provides for the
enactment of laws to regulate railroads,
secure reasonable rates, prevent discrim-
ination. and prepare the proper means of
securing obedience to the enactne nt: to
amend the act to regulate railroads so as
TO give the State more power ard further
define the duties of the commission: to
prohibit receiving more for service of any
kind by common carrier than is allowed
by law, and fix a time in which over
charges may be recovered to authorize
actions for damages for charge of any
amount over that allowed by the State
act. Laws are also advocated TO prohibit
transportation companies from refusing
admittance to trains to those who have
tried to buy tickets at the reduced rates
and have been denied them; to provide
a maximum charge; to amend the maxi
mum and other State laws to the extent
that they may be enforced; also to pro-
vide for testing reasonabeness Of their
ra ties and to provide a rule of proceeding
IN cases where injunction may be issued
against any State officer. Other measures
to be discussed provide for handling bag
gage, taking care of cases arising in other
States. free transportation on street cars
of city officers and school children;
amending of the demurrer laws: the bull
letining of trains and the amending of
any law that may seem best with regard
to railroad control.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17

tistics issued by the Lunacy Commission
of England and Wales, said there was
steady numerical increase in insanity both
in the United Kingdom and in the United
States, but he did not believe that this
implied an increase in the ratio of in
sanity to population. The increase of the
insane in England and Wales had been
from 36,162 in 1859 to 123,9SS in 1907,
or 231 per cent, whereas the estimated in
crease in population in the same period
was only II per cent. In spite of these
figures DR.. Macdonald calls attention to
several new factors in the problem, among
which are the widening conception of in
sanity so that many cases now appear in
statistics which formerly were not count
ed, and the increased confidence in insti-
tutionS for the insane, whereas formerly
relatives sought to conceal the condition
of insane persons. He also asserts that
there has been an increase in the lOngev
ity of the insane under modern methods,
and says that the statistics are padded
by a great many readmiSsions which APP
pear as new cases. Speaking of the
causes of insanity, he attaches less inn
portance to exciting causes and greater
Importance to predisposing causes. Only
people with unstable mental organiza-
tons are likely to succumb to the ordi-
nary exciting causes grouped under the
general heads, wine. women, worry and
work His observation among English
men has led to the conclusion that the
modern Briton is anaemic rather than
full-blooded
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17

by both dress and manner tried to typify
the average young woman who, a stran-
ger in the city, seeks church affiliation
In only two churches of New York and
Brooklyn did the pastors voluntarily seek
her out and speak to her. In one other
the pastor was brought to her; while in
five churches thirteen members had spok-
en- to her, and in thirty-two she had been
ignored absolutely, in all thirty-seven
churches having been visited In Boston
she attended twenty-four churches, and
of these one pastor spoke to her, while
in four four members (two being ushers)
passed a friendly word, while in the other
nineteen mot a word from any one"
From the inhospitable East she turned
her steps westward, where the results of
her visitations remain to be recorded.
Several New York and Boston minis
tiers interviewed upon the question raised
by Miss Smiths test hold that it is now
generally regarded as beyond the true
courtesy of the church to force attentions
upon visitors, such as handshaking and
questioning. One says that because per-
sonal inquiries are not made or attention
paid is in no sense contradiction of the
invitation to strangers. He holds that it
is impossible in the great cities to make
the church the social club that Miss
Smith seems TO be looking for Another
says that normal persons go to church
not for Sociability, but for spiritual edif-
cation, communion and exaltation, hence
they appreciate the gentle courtesy of be-
ing let alone in their quest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
A MYSTERY CLEARED.
Body OF Missing Brooklyn Million
afre Found in Montana Cave.

Body OF Missing Brooklyn Million
aire Found in Montana Cave.
After a little more than year the
mystery surrounding the disappearance of
Abraham Gill, a millionaire Brooklynite,
was cleared the other day when his rela-
tives in New York City received a dis
patch from Sandusky, Mont, that his
remains had been found in a cave near
the ranch which he had sold the day he
disappeared The body lay in a heap of
ashes and the belief is that he was robbed
by bandits, who bound him and then toss
ed him upon a pile of faggots to which
they applied the torch.
Gill, who was a young man, was a
graduate of the Polytehcnic Institute and
a member of many exclusive clubs. Al
ter graduation he went to Montana, where
he purchased a ranch to raise live stock.
In 1906 Gill returned to Brooklyn, and
after arranging for beginning life anew
in New York, he returned to his ranch
and sold out to one George Goblin. Be
fore doing So however, as a United States
marshal he succeeded in breaking up the
most dangerous gang of thugs in Mon
tana. This led the authorities to believe
that the gang had killed him.
The day of the sale Gill rode at night
to the home of a friend, several miles
from the ranch to have the deed legally
registered. This accomplished, he and
Goblin, who is said to be a member of the
gang Gill had exterminated started back
to the ranch with the money he had re-
ceived from Goblin. He never again was
caeD alive The dav a fter Gill diSaDDear-
ed his horse was found near the point
where his master had disappeared from
view. 1t was within 100 feet Of the cave
where the charred bones of the deputy
were found.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
CORN GROWERS UNITE
FORM SOCIETY AS CLEARING
HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Association Is Expected to Reach
Membership of More than 10000
Persons-Dish of Potatoes Causes
Fatal Fight in Ohio.

TIE National Corn Growers AssOcn-
ton was organized Thursday night at the
Corn exposition at the Coliseum in Chi
cago, and is expected TO form the nucleus
for an organization of not less than TO-
900 members. Officers were elected as
follows President, Eugene d. Funk
Shirley, ILL.,; secretary-treasurer, ]. w.
Jones, Ames, Iowa. Executive commit
tee-Prof. +. &. Holden, Iowa Agricul-
tural college; Prof f. g. Montgomery,
State College of Agriculture, Lincoln
Neb., and other members and vice presi
dents 30 be selected by the various asso-
ciatisns of the corn growing States. The
objects of the association are as follows ::
To encourage the improvement of corn
by breeding; to disseminate information
regarding the best methods of soil culture
courage the holding Of national corn ex-
position annually; to stimulate interest in
corn culture in undeveloped territory :;
TO unity methods and standards OF corn
Judging so far as possible; to secure uni
form classification for corn exhibits and
rules governing exhibits: to encourage the
development and use of corn products :;
TO open up home and foreign markets
through education regarding the use of
Indian corn and corn products as food
for man and beast. The plan and pur-
pose is to make this great clearing house
for the most progressive ideas concerning
scientific corn culture in the several
States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17

last second fitting away in the dusk.
A mighty multitude, 24,3T7 in number,
watched the tide of battle ebb and flow,
its cheering excitement passing into
screaming frenzy as climax was piled
On climax.
Although the total fell short of
breaking records by a narrow margin,
the gate receipts were the largest ever
taken in ut ball game. The gross
proceeds were 500, 1920, of which the
players share will be $15,747.75. I'm
der the rules of the series the tied
score makes it a no contest and thus
adds materially to the largess of the
players by permitting them to share in
the receipts Of five games instead of
four.
Donovan, known to fame as wild
Bill pitched for the Detroit team. and
Overall for Chicago. The twirling hon
Ors went TO the former, though the
giant Overall was in excellent form.
Overall was taken out of the game in
the ninth inning, when the Cubs needed
a stronger batsman, and Reulbach fol-
lowed him in the box, proving COM
plete puzzle for the Tigers.
According to a correspondent, the
hOarse thousands, who had filled every
available inch of space in the grounds,
came away gibbering about how the
Cubs would have won if things had
happened thus and so. There was logic
in their rawlings, for in the ninth, the
tenth, the eleventh and the twelfth
innings Chicago had the victory tightly
grasped, but each time the tickle god
dess interfered in favor of Detroit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
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The News ~
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The voice of the coal bin is heard in
the land.
This years peach crop went before it
came.
This is a seven-billion-crop year, ia
Guiding the hayseed.
There are new styles in hats, but the
same old styles in heads.
A little tar and feathers is a good cure
for marriage by affinity
The prevailing mode Of human distinc-
ton nowadays is to have come over in the
Lusitania.
4 Wisconsin woman died of overwork
at 81. These young girls always do over
tax their strength.
From the way they are followed, the
Roosevelt children must think Americans
are d nation of ''rubbernecks.'
Now that it is lawful in England fer
a man to marry his deceased wife's sis
ter, we suppose that the old charm cf
flirting with a pretty sister-in-laW has
vanished.
Motoring improves the lungs, it is said,
because motorists must yell at eae1 other
when they converse. 1t also improves the
lungs of other people who feel called on
to yell at them.
A Maryland convict says his wife has
disgraced him by clipping with another
man. Owing to the combining nature of
his occupation, it is hard for convict to
uphold the family honor.
4 Boston minister says that there will
I. w
that silly clergymen will also be rather
scarce.
People who buy things to eat and wear
at present prices are beginning to doubt
the old adage that what goes up must
come down.
The customs inspectors are even mean
enough to suspect a New York man who
returned from Europe wearing 80 yards
of $50 lace.
A man out in Washington has married
so often that he cannot remember the
names of all his wives, but they al re-
member him.
The New York woman who left $780,
600 on a railroad train must have teen
mighty deeply absorbed in ba-gaia-day
advertisement.
The American mother deserves sympa-
thy. She worked all summer to put up
preserves that the school children now
eat up at lunch time.
Eighty persons were killed il the Alps
during the summer. Climbing the Alps
has become almost as dangerous as cross
ing a motor speedway on foot.
policemen you wond-r how all those
American tourists arrange to slip through
that town without getting arrested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
A COSMOPOLITAN HARVEST.
Four Races Are Picking Cotton In
the Fields of Oklahoma.


An Oklahoma cotton field recently pre-
scented a cosmopolitan appearance, as
much so, perhaps, as it would be posi-
bic TO ind IN the entire West Engaged
in picking the crop were four races of
.men-white, black, red and yellow-and
i've nationalities-the American, Indian,
Mexican, African and Japanese. 1t is
true, also, that the crop has been gath
cred more promptly than usual. because
of new labor, which was greatly needed
to harvest the heecy staple
The Japs were the latest arrivals, and
Oklahoma IS the first cotton-gr growing
State to experiment with these people.
Many of them came south from the beet
fields of Colorado and Nebraska. and if
they prove valuable as pickers many more
will be engaged by the cotton growers,
especially in the more northern and east
ern counties of the State.
1t was found. in engaging Jap labor
ers for work in the beet fields and for
general improvement work in cities, that
many of them were not strong enough to
stand heavy labor, and it occurred TO NJ.
Chuma, one of their native citizens, that
it might be possible to find work for all
such in the southern cotton fields. Ac-
cordingly, he visited Guthrie several
months ago and made arrangements with
local cotton growers to give the JapS a
trial. They will be used next season also
for tending and chopping the crop as we'll
as picking it. 1t has often been found
as difficult to get cotton choppers as cot
ton pickerS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17

1t is human nature to want to see a
circus on a side show ticket.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
CHICAGO,

The highly sustained volume of COM
merce centering here is attested by aggre-
gate payments through the banks during
the past month and this week, which ex-
hibit striking gains over a year ago. Less
pressure for money and few business fail
ures make easier conditions for capital in
vestment, and with continued profitable
returns for farm and range products the
indications appear brighter fer a lower
olscount rate to mercantile borrowers.
Trade responds to the better effect of
favorable developments. Preparations
rehect renewed confidence among the lead
ing producers and little capacity remains
70 De booked up for this quarter. New
demands equal expectations in iron, steel
anu railway equipment, and the orders
tor luture deliveries are satisfactory in
urge WORK, machinery heavy hardware,
wire proaucts, furniture and footwear.
country merchants come from nearby
points In increasing numbers, and their
selections of fall and winter fares stimu-
late expanding activity in wholesale
branches. Shipping rooms work overtime
and the forwardings to the interior com
pare favorably in quantities with this
time last year.
Mercantile collections throughout the
west occasion little trouble, and, not
withstanding tight money, the defaults
carry no special significance.
Bank clearings, $263,309, 200, exceed
those of the corresponding week in 1906
by 10 per cent. Choice commercial pa
per Is quoted at 61@ per cent, and cur
rency Withdrawals to move crops make
smaller total than last year Failures
reported in the Chicago district numbered
-, against 16 last week and % year
ago. Failures with liabilities over So
OOo numbered 4, against Z last year
Dun's Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
WORK AT PANAMA.
Zig Ditch May Ee DE% Earlier Than
the Scheduled Date.

Gig Ditch May Es Bug Earlier Than
the Scheduled Date.
Official figures from Panama show
that the wcrk on the canal is being
pushed with considerable rapidly.
While the total amount of digging on
the Culebra cut was $4,000 cubic
yards in 1904 914.GC0 in 1895. and >
G63CCO in 1906. it was 4,9SJO00 in 1gT
for the seven months which expired
with August. Thus more work was
done in seven months of 1907 than was
done in the preceding thirty-siX
months, and not far from double as
much as was done in 1906. These rec
ords will be particularly gratifying TO
the country.
Some Of the immense gain in the
pushing of the canal is undoubtedly
due to the new experience which is
constantly being gained, but the great
er part of it is probably caused by the
increased efficiency of the military
regime over the civilian management.
A large part of the civilians energy
talks for the press and in squabbles
between the various members of the
commission at Panama and each other.
and between the heads of the commits
sion and the authorities in Washing
ton Since the entrance of the mill
tary men early in 1907 the procedure
has changed. The order of the day
now is work and not talk.
If the work continues 10 be left in
the hands of the army the predictions
about the time of the completion of the
canal may have to be shortened. Ac-
cording to the guess made recently by
Secretary Taft the boats will begin to
run through that short cut between the
two oceans in 1915 or hereabouts. Pos
sibly this contamination may come
little sooner. New orleans was recent.
ly talking about getting up an exposi-
ton to commemorate the completion Of
the canal and fixed 1913 as the date
for it. The chief reason why 1918
was selected by New Orleans was that
that would "e the Tooth anniversary of
Balboa's discovery of the Panama 18th
mus. He was the first white man
who, from any point on the American
continent, looked down on the South
Sea. For sentimental as well as for
practical reasons the world would re-
joice to see boats run through BalbOa's
Isthmus on the big anniversary. That
authorities at Washington do not ham
per the soldiers who are doing the
work, the joining of the waters of the
Atlantic and the Pacific may take place
as early as that year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
From Far and Near.

Canada has consented to pay $4,000 to
Japan for the damages arising from the
Vancouver riots.
\ memorial tablet was unveiled at the
birthplace of Gen. Grant at Point Pleas
ant. Clermont county, Ohio.
Prof. Hervey s. Cowell of Ashburn-
ham was nominated for Governor of Mas
sachusetts on the Prohibition ticket.
Several persons were killed in a fire
in Port Lmon, Peru. which destroyed
four business blocks. Loss 100000.
The Democratic convention in San
Francisco nominated DIR. Edward Robson
Taylor to succeed William II. Langdon
as district attorney.
The handsome home of Francis G. Ian
don. ex-secretary of the American en-
bassy at Vienna, was robbed by two men
at Poughkeepsie, \. Y. A lively fight
and a vain chase followed.
The automobile of Mrs. William Ora
ham of Santa. Barbara, Cal. killed a
peasant at Auxerre. France. The driver
in trying to save the man ditched the
machine and Mrs. Graham was injured.
J.
and J. A. Gates. superintendent of the
Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone
Company, were arrested at Dallas on in
dictments charging them with violating
the antitrust and anti-pass laws.
The president Of the board of educa-
ton of New York City has announced
the appointment OF a committee on cor
noral punishment, as the result of recent
agitation by the public school teachers to
secure the right of corporal punishment
The committee will investigate.
t,nother turn in the affairs of the army
and navy union in Washington. p. C., oc-
Cured the other night when the Gen.
William F. Barry garrison barricaded it
self in its hall and refused admittance to
Department Commander Robert c. Cal
braith. It was the failure TO recognize
the department commander that recently
caused National Commander Browne to
suspend the Theodore Roosevelt garrison.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
FIRST GAME is A TIE.
Darkness Calls Thine" with the
Score Standing 3 to 3.
FRANTIC THOUSANDS CHEER.
Chance Evens Up with Jennings in
the Ninth Inning.

The Cubs and Tigers fought and
clawed one another for twelve thrill
ing and spectacular innings at Chi
cagos West Side jungle Tuesday after
noon, and darkness finally put an end
to the Titanic battle, with a score 3
to 3. Never in the history of the
worlds series under the national agree
ment has more fierce or exciting bat
tie of champions been waged. 1t was
Greek meeting Greek, and diamond
scratching diamond. but neither would
allow the other to carry away the first
plum in the great worlds series.
The struggle will go down in baseball
history as one Of the most exciting and
dramatic ever played It was Il game
of painful SuspenseS and thrilling sur
prises, with victory lowering alternate
ly over the rival benches. and in the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
THAw's SECOND TRIAL.
Agreement Between Attorneys De-
ciIeS DnfR.

Harry X. Thaw's second trial for the
killing of Stanford White will begin Dec.
:. This agreement was reached between
District Attorney Jerome, Martin w. Lit
Teton, counsel for Thaw, and Justice
Bowling OF the Supreme Court, in New
York. Mr.. Littleton wanted the date
fixed for Nov. 1, but Mr.. Jerome opposed
this and offered the date which was Sc
lected. Worn and impatient under the
stress of his long confinement, Harry
Ihaw exhibited satisfaction when told
that the beginning of his second ordeal
was less than two months away. During
the last few weeks. when his actress wife
was prevented by illness from making her
daily visits to the tombs Thaw has shown
perceptible signs of worry. His appetite
his grown variable and he has been impa-
tient to ascertain what his lawyers were
doing with regard to the retrial of his
case. well, I'm glad it is settled" he
declared when told of the court action.
Anything is better than this uncertain
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
NEW YORK.

Collections, while still dragging, in con-
sonance with the tightness in money, APP
pear to have improved at a number of
centers. Some orders for early spring are
being placed, but the volume of business
done as yet is rather light Many indus
trial lines are less active on new business,
and working forces in such lines as iron,
steel, car manufacturing, electrical goods.
shoe manufacturing and copper mimi.
are being reduced. Lumber is less active
and new building is lighter, due in part
to the approach of the closed season, but
more particularly to the stringency in
money.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Oct. 8 number III,
against 1GG last week, 1876 in the like
week of 1906, 1S9 in 1905 1913 in 1904
and 1917 in 1903 Canadian failures mum
Der 81, as against SO last week and %
in this week a year ago.-Bradstreet
Commercial Report.