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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
UNDER STATE CONTROL.
New York Public Utilities Measure
signed by Governor Hughes.

We" NACasuA =
Signed by Governor Hughes.
The so-called public utilities bill was
signed Thursday by Gov Hughes. This
bill is probably one of the rnost far-reach-
ing reform measures ever passed by an
American Legislature. 1t places under
direct State control every public service
corporation, great or small, in the State
of New York, with the exception Of the
telephone and the telegraph. 1t applies
not only to the railroads, street railway
and subway lines, express companies do
ing business exclusively in the Stale, but
to the business within the State of all
railroads or other common carriers which
enter the State at any point. The two
commissions created by the act will have
most sweeping powers in regulating the
corporations affected. The bill prohibits
the giving of free passes except in few
limited instances. 1t provides also that
no franchise shall be capitalized in excess
of the amount actually paid to the State as
consideration for the grant of the fran
chise; that the capital stock of a corpora
ton formed by the merger or consolida-
ton of two or more corporations shall
not exceed the sum of the capital stock
of the corporations so consolidated at
their par value, or such sums and any
additional sums actually paid in cash !;
nor shall any contract for consolidation
or lease be capitalized in the capital
stock of any corporation whatever; nor
shall any corporation hereafter issue any
bonds against or as lien upon any con-
tract for consolidation or merger" 1t
is provided, also, that no corporation
shall purchase or hold stock in another
such corporation or common carrier un-
less authorized by the commission.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18

$50 the best grain in our Northwest
States is all the offspring of a single
stalk of wheat numbered 476 of the 1892
plot. This was the most promising plant
grown from 400 seeds selected from the
best then in existence. But, by setting
this plant aside, and raising from it sew
eral crops of seed, new strain was de-
veloped, Minnesota $780, which grows
from one to two more bushels to the
acre.
do you realize what it means to add
a single bushel to the yield per acre
In ten years it would add 100000, 900
the Minnesota experiment station selec-
ton and hybridizing has already pro-
duced a gaia of % per cent in yield.
This per cent, if generally applied, would
add to the worlds supply of wheat 625,-
100000 bushels At so cents a bushel
this would be worth $5O0,000,0OO a
year.
THE cost of breeding this whes. is
about one-tenth of / per cent. And yet
some business men say that the man of
science does not realize about business
values?
THE beauty of plant-breeding is that
any farmer can do it for himself. Pa
thence, rather than learning, is what is
required. A farmer, or small gardener,
has only to select his subject and go to
work at it. He may originator dis
cover-a new sort which will be gold
mine to himself and to his section of the
country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
Kill HOPELESS CONSERVATIVES.
Noted Specialist So Advises National
Tuberculosis Convention.

Noted Specialist So Advises National
Tuberculosis Convention.
DR.. S. A. Knopf, the famous New
York tuberculosis specialist, who was dec
grated by Emperor William of Germany
for his work in fighting the white plague,
and who received a prize of $1,000 for
the best treatise upon that disease, star
tied the national tuberculosis congress at
Washington by 'sising that hopeless sut-
ferers from tuberculosis be killed quickly
ard painlessly by heavy doses of NOR
phine. He said it was his practice to do
that, and he regarded it as sacred duty
that the end might come quickly and pain
lessly.
The committee on medication had made
a report condemning the use of morphine
and its compounds in these cases, and a
bitter debate was in progress when DR..
Knopff spoke. Doctors Flick and lands
had approved the report, but favored
using creosote in advanced cases. KnogI
was opposed to the use of creosote, but
said he did use herDin and codein, both
of which contain morphine or cocaine.
One of the plans Endorsed by the con-
gress is to organize classes of consump-
tives among workingmen and school chill
dren for home treatment instead OF in
hospitals and sanitariums. DR.. Fulton
said the secret of the success of the home
treatment was that not only the patient,
but the entire family, learned the road
to health, while the man who returns
from sanitarium usually cannot change
his family's mode of life. DIR. Lowman
urged the seclusion of consumptiye school
children in special classes, which, so far
as possible, may be taught in the open
air.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
NEW YORK.

Cross currents in trade and crop con-
dltions prevent generalization. There has
been further slight improvement in
crop condition. This has made for a
more optimistic feeling as to ultimate
yields and future trade in the sections
enjoying even a small share of seasonable
weather, but the great majority of cities
and particularly those in the eastern half
of the country complain of continued slow
retail trade and collections. On the other
hand the reports as to fall trade are quite
satisfactory, reflection possibly of the
fact that retail stocks of heavy goods
were well cleaned up last winter. Crop
uncertainties and the fact that recorder
business this spring has been practically
absent in many lines, however, induce
conservatism as TO future ordering and
there is less disposition to embark freely
In future commitments until the situa-
ton becomes clearer
Business failures in the United States
for the week number 155, against 142
last week, and 1852 in the like week of
1906. In Canada, failures for the week
number is, against II last week and IL
a year ago.
Wheat, including -four, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending June 6 aggregated 5,263 1873
bushels, against 2,401 1914 last week and
3,3O1, 0O1 this week last year. For the
last fortynine weeks, 160,944 ,S9S BUSH
els, against 12S,627, 113 in 1905-19O6.
Corn exports for the week are 1,135,O65
bushels, against S64,255 last week end
513,139 a year ago. For the fiscal year
to date, 6S,74S,026 bushels, against 10S,-
506,S40 in 1905-19O6.-- Bradstreet's Com
mercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
HAYWOOD TRIAL ON.
OPENING OF FAMOUS IDAHO
MURDER CASE.
Marry Orchard, seif-Confessed Stay
err of Ex-Governor Steunenberg,
Tells His Story ON the stand
Prosecutions Startling Charges.

Boise. Idaho, correspondence:
Harry Orchard, the witness who was
to lay the foundation for the case of
the State of Idaho against William D.
Haywood, charged with the murder of
former Governor Frank Steunenberg,
went on the stand at Boise Wednesday.
The appearance of Orchard marked the
real opening of the case. Orchard by
his own confession is the actual MUIR
derer of Steuenberg. Haywood is the
first person to be tried on the charge
of that murder and the self-confessed
murderer is expected, according to the
statement of the prosecuting attorney,
to convict Haywood.
The specific charge against Haywood
is that he was accessory before the fact
to tie murder of Frank Steunenberg.
former Governor of Idaho. Steunen-
berg was blown up with a dynamite
bomb as he entered his front gate on
the night of Dec. 80, 1905. In every
day speech the charge is that Haywood
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
Told In a Few L.inea.

Fire at Carnegie, Okla, wiped out the
entiJe business section of the town, en-
failing loss of $4,000.
Nathan Hawk, veteran of the Mexi-
can war and the man who in 1S4S first
brought east news of the California gold
discoveries, is a hale and hearty citizen
of Folsom, Cal.
One man was fatally hurt, another
badly injured and six less seriously hurt
by the explosion Of boiler in a planning
mill at Sycamore, Ohio.
The ninth biennial convention of the
General Federation of Women's Clubs
will be held in Boston during the week
beginning June %, 1908.
Irving Talley, colored, an expert bank
note raiser, was sentenced in the Unit
ed States Court at Baltimore to twenty
years in the federal prison at Atlanta.
Fire in New Orleans destroyed six
frame residences and damaged several
others at Pension and Chestnut streets.
A negro servant girl was burned to death.
Ex-Gov. Frederick Holbrook of Yer
mont and ex-Gcv. William Sprague of
Rhode Island are the only living war
Governors in the United States. The
former is 81.
George Paw, who was member Of Sir
James Ross antarctic expedition in 1889,
viii celebrate his 91st birthday in a short
time. He was also a member Of the
Franklin arctic expedition
The coroner's jury which investigated
the recent collision between Baltimore
and Ohio express train and freight near
Wheeling, w. Va, in. which four train
men were killed, returned verdict FIX
ing the blame En- A. I. Wilson, . brake
man.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
Chicago.

NO important developments appear to
aetract from the underlying strength
"nlcn sustains confidence in the business
outlook. Weather conditions were mainly
favorable to operations and activity is
more evident in production and distribu-
tioh. Leading retail lines find the gen.
eral demand steadily expanding. ildicat-
ing that the purchasing power is undimin-
ished, but there is some accumulation of
lightweight apparel, which needs warm
wave to bring quick disposal. Wholesale
dealings now show the effect of the be-
tween seasons period and current ship
ments dwindle, but forward buying for
fall and winter supplies compares fav-
orably with a year ago, and road sales
men obtain orders making a substantial
aggregate in the principal staples.
Notwithstanding the late spring and
other adverse factors, farm conditions in
both Illinois and Iowa never before were
more encouraging, and land and stock
values have advanced to the highest aver
age. Mercantile credits remain cutie sat
isfactory and money works easier, while
trading defaults occasion little anxiety. Z
Failures reported IN Chicago district
numbered %, against II last week and
20 year ago.--Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
GOLD MINE IN WHEAT.
Government Expert Tells How
Riches May BE Won.


Riches May BE Won
"a handful of wheat is worth less
than cent; and yet single kernel in
that handful may easily be worth half
million dollars. Is it not worth little
effort to discover which is the half mill
ion dollar kernel?"
The Assistant Secretary of Agricul-
ture in Washington was explaining one
of the wonderful things of modern plant
breeding science. Mr.. W. NJ Hays was
brought up in the Minnesota experiment
station and is one of the authorities on
this subject.
I'm fairy stories there were magic
peas and magic beans, which had won
derfrl power concealed within them, :"
Prof. Hays continued. but nothing in
those fairy stories is really more won
derful than the simple facts. The magic
of heredity makes a single kernel of
wheat equal to a gold mine, single
kernel of corn worth a kings ransom,
a small and despised apple seed equal in
value to. the revenues of one Of our rich
est commonwealth.
1T is the power to transmit certain
qualities that gives the value. One seed
has it and another has net. That is the
whole proposition.
'.Old Peter Gideon bought 10000 APP
pie seeds, and grew 10000 apple trees.
There was one in the 10000 that had the
power to ripen good fruit in the Mime
sofa winter. That was the magic seed.
That seed has been the parent of all the
fruit in the great Northwest. Its lat
ent power was literally worth kings
ransom.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
SOLDIERS ON GUARD.
PROTECT PARKER, COLO, FROM
THREATENED BURNING.
Is Man Whose Property Is Being
Guarded-Indfana Bandit Shot
After Daring HoIdup.

Fearing an attempt to burn the saloon
of l.. +. Lambert. which probably would
result in the destruction of the entire
town, Parker, Colo, is under guard night
and day. A squad of soldiers from Fort
Logan is patrolling thefmain streets and
state of terror. Lambert cheated sol
der Friday night. it is alleged, and when
the latter protested emptied bis revolver
into squad or twenty, injuring two so
badly that their lives were despaired of
for time. He escaped after the shoot
ing and friends of the wounded men have
vowed they will get vengeance by burning
the building. One Intellectual attempt was
made to fire the place.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18

knew that Steunenberg was to be killed
and helped plan the murder. Under
the law of Idaho, as of most other
states, an accessory before the fact is
deemed equally guilty with the actual
murderer.
Chief Prosecutor Hawley presented
the introduction to the alleged trail of
blood that runs through half a dozen
states and leads finally to the doorstep
of Frank Steunenberg, who was blown
to eternity, according to the prosecu-
ton, as a part of conspiracy within
the Western Federation of Miners-a
conspiracy directed by Haywood, Meyer
and Pettibone and executed by Harry
Orchard, Steve Adams and Jack Simp-
kins.
In the remarkable statement to the
jury by ]. II. Hawley for the State, a
number of overt acts were charged
against the Inner circle" of the West
ern Federation of Miners. Mr.. Haw-
ley, however, stated that he was hold
ing other cases in reserve. These he
agreed to submit in writing to counsel
for the defense, but he said that it
would be preferable for the develop
ment of his case If for the present the
announcement were withheld from the
public.
1t is understood that the list of muir
ders and other crimes charged against
the Western Federation numbers at
least twenty-six, but the specific cases
mentioned by counsel for the State in
his opening address were some six or
seven. These murders are not confined
to the State of Idaho, but extend to
nearly every mining point in Colorado.
where there have been mining troubles,
and to other states.
William D. Haywood, it is declared
is not on trial for being an official OF a
labor union. He is not on trial in any
representative character whatever He
is on trial, simply as citizen for help
ing to murder another citizen.
The lawyers for both the prosecution
and the defense have publicly express
ed themselves as entirely satisfied that
the jurors chosen will render a fair
and impartial verdict. Consequently
there should be excuse for recrimina-
tons whatever the verdict may be.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
FILIPlNos ARE lMpRovlDENr.
Cornell Professor Says They Lack
Thrift and SeIf-ControI.

SoEAeh frctensor says They L4cA
Thrift and SeIf-ControI.
The educational and social problems Of
the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico
claimed the attention of the members of
the American academy of political and
social science at the recent annual meet
ing of that body in Philadelphia. Prof.
h. NJ. kemmerer of Cornell university, in
speaking of the Philippine savings bank.
said that the first postal savings bank
was opened for business at Manila on
Oct ] of last year, and by Jan. 81 of
this year there were sixty-two banks in
operation in various parts of the islands.
AT the end of December, three months
after the first bank was established. there
were 621 depositors, having on deposit
$92. 800. The principal classes of depos-
itors in the order of their numerical
impoi lance were clerks, artisans, profess
sional men, laborers. soldiers and sailors
and policemen. He said "A striking fact
in the figures is that of the 621 deposit
ors up to Dec. 81 500 were Americans
and ninety were Filipinos. The evidence
is sufficient to prove a strong witness to
the truth of the F'ilipino's reputation
for improvidence, and in so doing to show
the imperative need of an educational in
stitution like the postal savings bank and
of carrying on a vigorous educational
campaign through the schools and through
the officers of the bank in the interest of
teaching the saving habit to the rising
generation of Filipinos. For until the
Filipino has learned the lessons of provi-
dence, thrift and self-control which the
saving habit exemplifes and inculcates
be cannot expect any tigh degree of eth
er economic or political independence"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
AMERICAS ASSIMILATION.
WESTERN LEAGUE.
TEMPEST WRECKS A rowN.
Public Buildings Unroofed, Steamer
Sunk and Darkness Result of storm.
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Public Buildings UnrOOfed, Steamer
Sunk and Darkness Result of storm.
Catlettsburg, KY, was in total dark
ness the other night. and there is scarcely
whole roof, skylight or window in town.
A number of houses were completely I'M
rooted and one dwelling house was blown
off its foundations by the most terrific
storm in the history of that section. The
streets are strewn with all sorts of debris
Wires Of the telephone and telegraph
Companies are a tangled mass The cleo
VIC light plant was smashed by the fall
ing of the stacks and will be disabled for
several days. No casualties have been re-
ported. The steamer Cando turned over
on its side and went down the river. The
Emma Marie went to its assistance, but
could not land it. The Cando was valued
at $4,000. The roofs were blown off the
court. house, the Methodist Episcopal
church, The Meek Printing Company's
building and a number of other buildings.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
MRS. HELEN COUGAR DEAD.
Noted Temperance Worker Expires
at Home in Indiana.


at Home in Indiana.
Mrs Helen NJ. Cougar, one of the
best known temperance and suffrage lee
turers in the country, dropped dead from
heart failure at her home in Lafayette
Ind, early Thursday morning. She had
risen and was dressing when the attack
came. Mrs. Cougar was 10 years old and
during the last few years she had not
been as actively before the public as for
merly. For many years she was one OF
the best known woman orators IN the
country. She was a warm personal and
political friend of John p. St. John, and
when he was nominated for the presi-
dency on the Prohibition ticket, in 1884,
she took to the stump for him. She
travelled hudreds of miles during that
campaign and was indefatigable in her
work for the Prohibition ticket. Her
forceful and witty speeches made during
that campaign brought her into greater
prominence than she had had before. The
last FIVE years Mrs. Cougar had spent
abroad, having returned to her home only
recently. She had made her home il
Lafayette since her marriage in 1868.
Mrs. Cougar was born in Hillsdale,
Mich, on July Is, 1887. She was grad
uated from Hillsdale college in 1862. At
ter her marriage she was admitted to the
Indiana bar. The law for woman's mu-
nicipal suffrage adopted in Kansas was of
her drafting and she was instrumental in
securing suffrage on school matters for
women in several States. For twenty
three years she served the Woman's Suf-
frage Association of Indiana as its pres
ident. At one time there was talk of
nominating Mrs. Cougar for President
or Vice President on the Prohibition
ticket, but she never was a candidate. She
was the author of Forty Thousand
Miles of World Wandering" Strange
Incidents in One Life, Two Little Psu-
pers" and THE Traficin Poison"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
WELL BAREs MURDER.
Body of Mrs. Mozart Found and
Brother-fn-Law Cornered.

Brother-in-Law COrnered.
The body of Mrs. Catharine Mozart,
who lived at 1901 Franklin avenue, east,
Minneapolis, and who has been missing
since May u, was found by detectives in
an abandoned we'll on the farm of George
Katelbach few miles out from the city.
The woman's head had been crushed with
blunt instrument. The body was partly
clothed. George Katelbach, the owner of
the farm, is brother-in-law of the
woman. All night detectives, assisted by
friends, guarded the house. while Katel-
bach had barricaded himself inside. The
officers made no effort during the night
to get the man, as they did not care to
risk being shot down in the attempt.
Soon after the woman disappeared Katel-
bach gave out a statement that she came
to his house ON May "a and left for her
farm, about two miles away. George
Nash, who works Mrs. McCart's farm,
said she had not been there Then Katel-
bach said the woman had probably been
devoured by wolves which infested that
locality.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
ohio BrevitIes.

The car barn of the Buffalo Lake Erie
Traction Company at Blaisdell, N. Y,
was burned, together with twenty-five
cars The loss is estimated at 100000
The Iron Springs hotel, one of the
largest summer hotels at Manitou, Colo,
was destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000. The
house had not been opened for the season.
Albert Crowell of Henderson, N. O.,
was found dead in his room IN a New
York hotel swith a bullet in his brain.
The police believe the man registered un-
der an assumed name.
The lineal descendants of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence are
preparing to effect a permanent organiza-
ton July next at the jamestown expo
sition at Norfolk.
Announcement was made at Sandusky,
Ohio. that Cedar Point, a summer resort,
will be the scene of the national conven-
ton of United Spanish War Veterans
Sept 8, 10 and II.
While on trial on a charge Of having
murdered an Italian butcher in Brooklyn,
Rocco Panagiro, an Italian, committed
suicide in cell in the Raymond street
jail Ia Brooklyn by hanging himself with
his own belt to his cell door.
The contempt charges brought against
Police Captain 0. II. Dyer, Night Turn
key George W. Clutches and Headquar-
tiers Officer George W. CASTOR were dis
missed by Police Judge Roy L. Wilder
math at Columbus, Ohio. THE blame"
declared the judge, attaches all along
the line from the chief down."
Grand Master P. 81. Morrissey of the
brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen, dis
cussing train wrecks at Cleveland, said
what was needed to insure greater safety
was more men to inspect trains, guard
switches and semaphores and to guard the
tracks. The main cause Of railway dis
asters, be said. was economies in opecs
ating expenses
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
PREACHERS BUILD A CHURCH.
Ten Pastors and One Evangelist Do
the Work Of Carnaufers


Ten pastors of Christian churches il
Kansas City and one evangelist have
begun the work of building a frame
church. The structure is to be built
entirely by ministerial labor. The Roam
oke Boulevard Christian church, as it is
to De called, is to serve the purpose of a
congregation in the district until funds
enough are raised to build a more pre-
tentious structure. The ministers arrived
at the site early the other morning.
Coats were discarded, overalls donned and
work began in earnest. Not a man among
them is an expert carpenter, but each can
drive a nail and saw board. Besides,
the work is being done in systematic
manner, as it is being directed by w. O.
Holdman, a regular carpenter, who is
employed to supervise. At noon women
members of Christian churches served
luncheon to the workers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
San Franciscan. Fear to Ride.

While the United Railroads, which con.
troll the San Francisco trolley system,
have succeeded in running more than
half their usual number of cars, despite
the strike of union men, these cars are
receiving but scant patronage, through
the fear of the public to incur the hos.
tility of the unions by riding. The big
department and dry goods stores provide
omnibuses to carry their employees home,
and notices have been posted in many Of
these stores warning clerks and other EN-
ployes not to patronize the cars, on pen
atty of dismissal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-06-18
Files in homemade Airship.

Cromwell Dickson, II years old, made
a successful fight with an airship of his
own construction at the Columbus (Ohio)
Driving Park. The airship, which is
about thirty feet long, follows the model
of the modern dirigible balloons. Instead
of a motor, a foot-power mechanism is
used to drive the propeller, the boy oper-
ating it after the fashion of riding a
bicycle.