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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
CHICAGO.

Despite the telegraphers' strike and the
acute effect of this and other adverse fac
tors, trade conditions reflect no recession
in activity and volume of demands in
leading lines. There is, however, as ex-
peoted, more caution in approaching new
undertakings of magnitude.
1t is excellent testimony to the healthy
basis of commerce in this section that the
returns make a gratifying exhibit in pay
ments through the banks, in freight move
ments mercantile defaults and factory
production, all these comparing favorably
with high records year ago. The banks
successfully maintain ample reserves, but
there is more urgent discount Offering and
crop moving needs involve heavy ship
ments OF currency to the interior.
Pressure upon available funds causes
no discrimination against responsible Gus
toners seeking accommodation, yet close
scanning of credits is in order, particu-
larly with reference to commitments for
the future. Notwithstanding a heavier
tone pervades some quarters, current
transactions sustain good feeling in the
leading industries and wholesale branches.
Distribution of finished materials and
raw supplies is maintained at the highest
aggregate, and jobbers' shipments show
substantial advance.
Earnings of Chicago railroads surpass
all former gains, and lake traffic is enor-
mously extended in ore, coal and lumber.
Crude materials have not changed in
costs, aside from another decline in cop
per.
Crop reports again agree as to fine
progress in corn and spring wheat growth,
and the. improving outlook spreads
throughout agricultural sections, where
heavy OUTLAWS are made for farm addi-
tions and tools. This encouraging fea-
ture imparts more confidence to the buy
ing of staple merchandise
Country buyers in unusually large num-
bers now make their selections here, and
the bookings for early delivery run into
large totals in the textiles. clothing, boots
and shoes, furniture and food products.
Total movement of grain at this port,
6617, 1853 bushels, compares with 5,951,-
56S bushels last week and S,46S, sos bush
els year ago.
Bank clearings, $224, 169, exceed
those of the corresponding week last year
by lis per cent. Failures reported in
the Chicago district numbered %, against
% last week and % a year ago.-Dun's
Review of Trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
All Around the Globe.

Southern Pacific railroad boilermakers
at San Luis Obispo, Cal. went on strike.
A case of cramps seized John Pauley,
a pioneer of Washburne, Wis, and he lay
in the woods all night.
Simon Ward, air brake inspector for
the c., G. & L. railroad, was found dead
under a car at Peru, Ind.
Oscar Knolteight was fatally scalded
and seven others injured when a thresh-
ing machine blew up near Pefu, Ind.
Rev. George Steed, Methodist parson
of Los Angeles, Cal, got vacation with
out salary for injudicious conduct.
John Holley, a well-known young man
of Woodlawn, Ala, was shot and killed
there by Marshal Fowler while in the act
of robbing drug store.
The Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany has taken an appeal from the de-
cision of Judge Page Morris filming that
railroad $1,000 for granting rebates.
Theresa Sullivan, a ST. Louis girl, aged
%, severed the jugular vein of Michael
Sanders, causing his death, because she
said he failed to keep an appointment.
Fifty-nine pounds of gold dust valued
at $4,000 were stolen from a registered
mail sack between Eagle and Rampant,
Alaska. There is no clew TO the thieveSs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
NEW YORK.

Growing crops show further good pro-
gress toward harvest, and fall trade tends
to expand at leading western and eastern
jobbing centers. Cross currents are visi-
bit in different industries. Thus while
finished cotton fabrics are in demand
and some makes, notably bleached goods,
have been further advanced, there are re-
ports of smaller demand and lower prices
for cotton yarns. In wooden goods, while
high-grade worsted and fine wooden fab
RIGS have sold well, other grades are
slower of sale, and there is talk of accu-
mutation. In the leather trade there is
more life than of late, and good quality
leather and hides are on better sale, as
are also high-class shoes Low grades
are slower of sale, and eastern shipments,
so far, are 4 per cent behind 1906. In
iron and steel the lack of new buying is
still notable and prices tend to ease, as
the mills and furnaces find deliveries
easier to make.
Business failures for the week ending
Aug. 10 number 146, against 151 last
week. 143 in the like week of 1906, 14I
in 1905, 203 in 1904 and 166 IL 1908.
In Canada failures for the week number
80, as against 10 last week and % in this
week a year go.-Bradstreet's CONNER
cial Report.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
FARMERS TO TRADE WIVES.
Double Wedding Follows Two South
Dakota Divorces.

Abraham n. Endler and Edward D.
Whisper two former Sweetwater, Neb.,
county farmers, have contrived in law
full way to trade wives. According to
advices received from Vermilion they re-
Gently applied for and obtained DEGREES
of divorce and few days ago, at a double
wedding celebrated in Arizona, each took
as a wife the woman the other had di-
vorced. The two men and their wives
had been friends and intimates for years
With no i'll feeling on the part of any of
them, they agreed that it would be best
for the two men to trade wives and the
husbands went to South Dakota and pro-
cured divorces, the wives permitting the
divorces to be obtained without contest
The couples have gone to western Canada
together to make their homes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
News of Minor Note.

Reports from Saranac Lake, Y. Y, are
that Richard Mansfield, the actoC steadily
is failing.
Three men were fatally burned while
repairing a gasoline engine by torchlight
at Vandergrift, Pa.
Gov. Deneen has commUed the SEN
tence of Stephen Quinn, who is in Joliet
for eighteen years.
a hobo who wouldn't tell his name
saved two sons of a farmer from drown
ing in the old Morris canal, near Center
vile, n. j.
The New York Public Service Commits
sion has decided to investigate the sub
urban railroad service Of the New York
Central railroad.
Lord Seton who was appointed master
of the horse when Sir Henry Campbell
Bannerman first formed his British min
istry, has resigned.
A purse of 800 has been presented to
Troop Z, Thirteenth cavalry, which found
Robert Barker, the 3-year-old hoy, near
Washington.
Olga MoIitor, Laughter of Frau Mo
lior. killed by Karl Hau, her son-in-iaw'
at Karlsruhe, Germany. may be prose
cuted on a charge of perjury.
The United States maintains 3.ffo mis-
sionaries in Japan, China, Korea, the
Philippines, Burmah, Siam, India, Iloet'
Persia, Turke.t Egypt and the South
American countries.
Emil Jerome Simon, the student OF Co
lu1nbia University who was sentenced at
Potsdam. Germany. to three months inn
prisonment for killing Frau Shultz in an
artomobile accident, viii withdraw his APP
peal.
The Bible which King Edward is to
present to Bruton church. at Williams
burg. Va. on the occasion OF its consecra-
ton on Oct 10 next, was sent recently 70
Ambassador Bryce, at Washington, who
will forward it to the church officials.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
Farmers Form Labor Union.

A number of the farmers of Orange
county, N. Y, have organized an associa-
ton called the Orange County Union, it's
purpose being to cut out the middleman's
profits and sell direct to consumers. To
this end they would form a company
composed exclusively of members of the
union and operate a large exchange in
Newburg, selling farm and garden pro-
duce slightly below present prices. To
secure the cooperation of the labor in
terests the farmers have asked to join the
Central Labor Union. The novelty of this
proposition has proved somewhat puz-
zling to the labor leaders, and a commit
tee has been appointed to look into the
matter. The union men of Newburg are
enthusiastic over the project, but are not
a little perplexed as to the proper way
of labelling the products of the farmers
organization.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
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Chicago-Cattle common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, S4'Uo
to S640; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1865; wheat, No. 2, SIC to Sac;
corn, No. 2, 53c to 54c oats, standard,
4Sc to 49c; rye, No. 2, 74c to 75c hay,
timothy, S14OO to S21.50; prairie, $500
to S11.50; butter, choice creamery, 2lc
to 24c: eggs fresh, 14c to 1Sc; potatoes,
per bushel, Coo to CSC.
anapolis-Catte, shipping, $500
to S7.15; hogs, choice heavy, $500 to
S6.45; sheep, common to prime, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, soc to Sic; corn,
No. . white, 53c to soc; oats, No.
white, 49c to soc.
st. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to 1925;
hogs. $500 to $6.40; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, S3c to Sic; corn,
No. 2. SIC to 53c; oats, No. 2, Acc to
47c; rye, No. 2, 76c to 7Sc.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $4O0 to $6.10;
hogs. S4.O0 to $500; sheep $500 to
1925: wheat, No. 2, SIC to Sic; corn,
No. mixed, soc to SIC; oats, No.
mixed, SOC to sic; rye, No. ?, Sic to SIC.
Detroit-Cattle $500 to 5000; hogs,
wheat, No. 2, S3c to SIC; corn, No. 3.
yellow, 59c to soc; oats, No. 3 white,
SOC to Ser rye, No. 2, 75c to G6c.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
94c to 9Sc corn, No. 8, SIC to j4c;
oats, standard, sic to 53c; rye, No. l..
75c to 76c: barley, standard, re to 74c;
pork, mess, S16.45.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
to $6.75; sheep, common to good mixed,
S4OO to 1925; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to S7.25.
New York-Cattle, $500 to S670;
hogs, 800 to 1926; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, SOC to Ole;
corn, No. 2, Soc to Gle; oats, natural
white, Gle to &c; butter, creamery, 22c
to 2jc; eggs, western, 16c to 19c.
ToIedo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, SIC to
Sic: corn, No. mixed, 5jc to 51c;
oats. No. 2 mixed. 41c to 42c; rye, No.
2, 74c to Toe; clover seed, prime. $685..
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
JAPS TAXED TO UTMOST.
To Spend $afs,22O,523 This Year
War Is Cause.


Details of the new Japanese budget
have reached Washington. Estimates of
expenditures for the fiscal year, ending
March 81 Eext, aggregate 1913, 900, 523,
of which S102, 07O, $50 is set down as sex
traordinary expenditures showing an in
crease under that head of SO, 739, 219,
caused directly by the war, which requir-
ed the payment of pensions and annui-
ties the rehabilitation of the navy and
the maintenance of the japanese army at
the strength fixed upon as a minimum
after the war. Retrenchment prevailed
as far as possible, but the burdens of the
war remained heavy, though the treas
ury authorities declared they could be met
without increasing taxation and the only
loan necessary would be for the purpose
of securing funds to construct railways,
extend the telephone system, and establish
a great steel foundry. Although the rate
Of taxation per capita had almost trebled
in recent years, the japanese responded
in a fashion that assured the world of
their financial ability, and of their relia-
bility. For the present they will be taxed
to the utmost to keep pace with the stand
ard of development Japan has set for
herself
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
NEW FARM LANDS.
Over 10000 Acres in Wyoming
Thrown Open for Settlement.


More than 10000 acres of valuable
land in the Eden valley, Sweetwater and
Fremont counties, in Wyoming. has just
been thrown open, under the Carey act.
Thirty thousand acres are now available
Tor public entry. 1t is one of the finest
bodies of irrigable lands in the State. The
land is irrigated from the public domain
under the Carey act. Any person 81
years old or over is entitled to a claim of
$50 acres, or any legal subdivision there
Of, provided such person has never pre-
viously made use of the Carey act The
land is a rich sandy loan, free from
alkali and stones, and will produce abun-
dant crops Of grains, grasses, fruits and
vegetables. Water for irrigating is OBJ
tanned from the Big and Little Sandy riv-
ers and their tributaries, which head in
the great watershed of the Wind river
range of mountains and drain an area of
thousands of square miles. The water is
distributed by an extensive system of
canals and bitches. Elasticity to the sup
ply is obtained by two immense reservoirs
which impound billions of cubic feet Of
water. The fee to the State which ac-
companies application for each claim is %
cents per acre, and an additional % cents
per acre is paid upon making final proof
within three years. The cost of the irri-
eating system is charged against the land
at the rate of $50 per acre, payable in
ten annual installments. All of the irri-
eating works become the property of the
people who own the land, each acre rep
resenting one share.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
THE WAR ON MOSQUITOES.
BY Persistent Effort New Jersey Has
Triumphed Over the Pest

Triumphed Over the Pest,
By the intelligent expenditure OF what
seem ike absurdly small sums of money
when compared with the supposed diff
Guilty Of the task to be performed. several
of the parts of New Jersey that have
long had a national, if not an interna-
tional, disrepute for the number and vo-
racity Of their mosquitoes have been prac-
tically cleared of the dangerous pests.
The suggestion that the great Hacken-
sack Meadows could be freed of the in
sects, and the joys of summer life in the
cities around them thus be vastly in
creased, was received with derision, and
almost with Indignation, only a few years
ago. Yet a few thousand dollars spent in
digging bitches has done away with the
stagnant pools in which alone the mos
quitoes could breed, and they are no more
except in the benighted towns where the
people lack either the sense or the energy
or both to avail themselves Of the relief
so close within their reach. incidentally
and it is incidentally-a lot of worth
less marsh has been turned into good dry
land
What has been done on and around
the Hackensack Meadows can be even
more easily done almost anywhere else. 1t
ought to be as isgraceful-indeed, it is
as disgraceful-for a town to have mos
quitoes as it is for a town to suffer from
an epidemic of typhoid or diphtheria, for
the mosquitoes, too, are 'preventable,"
and their presence anywhere convicts
their human victims either of gross ig-
Of a,.ir1o al nd
always it should be remembered that the
use of Oil in a mosquito campaign is JUS
tifable, if at all, only as a temporary ex-
pedient, to be resorted to only for instant
effects while the real work of extermina-
ton is in course of preparation and per-
Torrance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
ALCOHOL POWER AGE.
Thousands of Farmers Soon VIII BE
Operating small Plants

LhOuEands OF FARMERS soon ~ III be
Operating small Plants.
The farmers of the United States are
taking great interest in the manufacture
of denatured alcohol, made possible to
them by the action of the last Congress,
which removed the disabilities of small
producers. Thousands Of inquiries are
coming 80 the government from farmers
in every section as to the new law and
regulations. These are being answered
as fast as they come in, and not only
this but every farmer who writes is sup
piled with process for making the alco-
hol and placing it on the market for 4
cents gallon, including a profit Of nearly
2 cents. The uses to which denatured al
cohol may be put are many. 1t may be
used for power wherever gasoline is now
being used, and it is believed that its
cheapness will force gasoline off the mar
ket as soon as the farmers begin to put
their product into circulation. 1t may
be used for running cars that are now be-
ing operated by electricity. Engines spe-
ciaLy constructed for its use are being
made by several firms, and these may be
applied to any kind of machinery from
farm implements to steamboats,. Here
tofore denatured alcohol has been kept off
the market by provision in the United
States revenue act which required the
presence of United States officer wher-'
ever it is manufactured, and the manufac
turer was compelled to pay a revenue
sufficient to meet the officers salary. This
provision necessarily operated in favor of
the big manufacturer, and kept farmers
p11f of +bn hncinacc aptirolU
pealed the provision requiring the pres
ence of a United States official at the
plants, putting each and every small man
ufacturer on his honor to make proper
returns to the government, including a
small tax. By doing this the government
has dealt hard blow to the distillery
monopoly and the gasoline interests and
opens the way to the alcohol age as a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
SPREAD OF STRIKE.
ORDER FOR GENERAL WALK-ouT
PROMULGATED.
Cali TO ''Guit" Includes All CONNER
cial TeIegraphers in United States
and Canada. Order, However,
Adds Few Recruits 10 Strikers.

The general strike order to all COM
mercial telegraphers not working under
union agreements. which was issued bv
President Sylvester ]. Small of the
Commercial Telegraphers' Union of
America at l 80 o'clock Friday morn
ing, had produced almost no change in
the situation Saturday afternoon, TWEEN
ty-four hours after it had been promul-
gated
In fact the general order. heralded
in advance as the browning feature of
the strike, hardly created ripple III
Chicago, according to a correspondent
The force of the Chicago and Milwau-
kee Telegraph Company, which oper-
ates for public business between the
Chicago Board of Trade and the NIL
waukee grain exchange, six men all
| told, went out and i've men employed
on leased wires by Hulburd. Warren &
Chandler, a brokerage house, also left
their keys. The situation in the stock
yards and along the LaSalle street dis
trict otherwise was undiSturbed, and
! there were no new developments in the
strife between the union and the two
big companies. the Western Union and
the Postal
All the reports which came in to
Chicago over the wires of the Assoclat-
ed Press and through other sources out
side of the union were to the effect that
| there had been no change in the situa-
| ton. Nevertheless union members were
unanimous in declaring that the coun-
| try would feel the effect of Small's or
der.
Advices from New York and Boston
said the order for a general strike had
met with no response from the men at
work in either the Western Union or
the Postal offices or those in the Associ-
big companies said they had failed to
discover that the strike order had had
any effect on the situation. The extern
sion of communication to the more re-
mote and smaller towns was proceed
ing rapidly and business was being
moved expeditiously
1t is estimated that nearly $4,000
men are on strike. The strike, it is
said, will be confined strictly to the
commercial telegraphers. The railroad
operators will lend their moral and
financial support. There will be no
sympathetic strike of railroad teleg-
raphers, who are working under con-
tract and will live up to their agree
mentS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
GRAFT BANANA ON CACTUS.
Nevada Capitalists Form Syndicate
to Carry Out Big Scheme.

Nevada Capitalists Form Syndicate
to Carry Out Big Scheme.
Report is current that a number of
Goldfield, New, capitalists and promoters
have organized a wealthy syndicate for
the purpose of establishing the banana
industry in the country surrounding the
great gold camp. The idea of the new
company is to use the Joshua trees,
species of cactus which abound in that
vicinity, for the production of the fruit.
The agricultural and horticultural experts
of the United States government, as we'll
as those connected with the leading uni
versities and agricultural colleges of the
country, have been conducting expert
ments in grating and the budding of trees
for several years with this in mind This
science has so far progressed now that the
bananas can be grated upon the Joshua
trees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
Cnt Ruins Marital Career.

A marriage resulting from a matri-
monial advertisement in a Milwaukee
German newspaper had its sequel in the
County Court at Waukesha, where The
resa Herring was divorced from Gott-
lieb Herring of Muskegon, and received
$125 alimony. A French cat played an
important part in the proceedings, the de-
PENDANT alleging that the plaintiff insist
ed on having the feline sleep with her
and that he objected to its crawling over
him during the night
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
ONEIDAS SELL THEIR LAND.
Farms in Reservation Disposed of at
Low Figures

If the Oneida Indians continue to sell
their land as fast as they have the past
two weeks, it will be a comparatively
short time before the whites own the ma
Jority of the Oneida reservation. located
IN Outagamie and Brown counties Not
only is the land being rapidly sold by
the Indians, but it is going at what is
considered by real estate men as half its
value. Hundreds of acres have been sold
this month for SO an acre. The Indians
are rapidly obtaining patents from the
government, and many, as soon as they
obtain their title, sell it at an unreason-
ably low price, simply because $500 or
$500 in a lump looks big to them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22

Woman Tries to Turn Electric
Switch and Is Nearly Killed

Pokers have their uses. but Mrs. Henry
l.. Rowland of the Bel island summer col
ony near South Norwalk, Conn, has dis
covered that shutting an electric switch
is not on the list. Mr.. Rowland is super
intendent of the island, and in his alb
sence Mrs. Rowland attempted to light
the public lights. Being a short woman
she used a poker to reach the jack knife
switch. There was a flash. the end of the
poker was reduced to ashes, and Mrs
Rowland landed in the opposite corner of
the room. She was found unconscious by
the residents, who rushed in when they
saw the fash. Mrs. Rowland will recover,
but electricians say her escape was a
marvellous one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
Five Killed in CoIIapse,

An avalanche of rotten timbers, furi-
ture and plaster crushed to death five
sleeping persons and injured eleven 9TH
ers, three seriously, when a two-story
frame boarding house at 80 Fry street,
Chicago, collapsed at / 80 o'clock the
other morning. Four of the victims were
killed instantly and the fifth died a few
minutes after being taken to hospital.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-08-22
Famous Detective Dies.

Robert A. Pinkerton, head of the fam
Gus detective agency that bears his name
and son of Allan Pinkerton, world-known
detective and one-time head of the United
States secret service, died on the steamer
Bremen while on the way to Germany.
Fatty degeneration Of the heart was given
as the cause of the detectives death.