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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
SUFFER FROM COLD.
HARDSHIPS FOR FRIScANS IN
REFUGEE CAMPS.
Tented Camps in San Francisco
Parks Are Poor Shelter Against
the California Winter Rains
Eighteen Thousand Homeless.
San Francisco correspondence

San Francisco correspondence
With the cold rains of winter upon
them, $4,000 persons are still living in
the refugees camps of San Francisco.
There were 100000 in the camps when
order was restored after the great fire,
but warm weather was at hand then
and the problem of caring for even
this great number was simplified in
measure by this fact. Now it is differ
emit The winter is on and the author
tiles realize that it will be harder to
care for $4,000 in the next four months
than it was to care for over ten times
that number early in the year.
The refugees are divided into two
classes-the self-suppOrting and the
non-supporting. The first are those
who are earning enough to support
themselves, even to paying reasonable
rent, but have neither the furniture for
houses nor the ability to buy and who
in many cases cannot secure houses at
reasonable rentals. The non-supporting
are those who were rendered absolute
ly destitute by the fire, mostly old per
sons, who are being cared for in
camp set aside for them at the Ingle
side race course. These nOn-supporting
ones have been made comfortable in
shacks. where they are looked after
by relief captains. But the self-sup-
porting ones are having a hard time of
it. DR.. Edward 7. Devine, who had
charge of the relief work up to Aug. /,
had planned to have permanent houses
built, but to escape bankruptcy the
corporation had to abandon this plan
toward. the end of August, when the
refugees were all in tents. Then it
was decided to build wooden shacks in
the parks to take the place of the tents
in which there would be little shelter
for the inmates against the rains of the
California winters. In all about 5000
shacks will have been constructed when
the work is finished but only a small
fraction of the shacks have been erect
ed and these are without plumbing and
without chimneys. 1t is doubtful if
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
Cost of Federal Criminals.

Uncle Sam has 3204 of his own pris-
oners. They are confined IN government
penitentiaries at Leavenworth. Kan:
Atlanta. Ga; Mcneil Island, Wash. and
in sixty-five State institutions In year
there has been a decrease in number of
10, although LOO new occupants enter
ed cells. Forty-nine died in twelve
months: fifteen went insane The of
Tense for which the largest number were
incarcerated was violation of the postal
laws. but al of the prisoners were coun-
terfeiters and 76 had sold liquor to the
Indians. Less than half the prisoners
had better or worse half Most of them
committed crimes when they were be-
tween 20 and 80 years of age. although
the statements of age by the 81 women
prisoners may have brought down the
figures. Nearly 80 per cent of those ques-
toned confessed to intemperanee. It cost
Uncle Sam at Leavenworth S16S.7J a
year for each prisoner. Each one at
Washington and Atlanta cost between
II and - cents a day. But those who
keep out of Jail find the cost of living
higher.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
CHICAGO.


Inc favorable conditions which have
characterized commerce so strikingly
throughout the year have suffered no
decline, and it is fitting elimination
TO the unprecedented activities that the
volume of Christmas dealings has sur-
passed the high record made year
ago. Notwithstanding the enormous
buying of holiday goods, the general
demand is well sustained in seasonable
lines, especially high-grade apparel,
footwear and household needs.
The buying power of the people never
before has been so strongly demonstrate
ed and liberal purchi ses have carried
sales of the luXuries to a remarkable
extent jewelry, art and music stores
sharing largely in the general prosper
lty. Stocks in the leading retail Sec
tons throughout the city have under
gone satisfactory depletion on fairly
profitable margin, although the selling
expense forms an enhanced item. A
feature of the dealings has been the
greatly increased number of visitors
from many outside points who bought
literally, and it is clear that this mar
ket has become more attractive CEN
ter than hitherto for discriminating
buyers.
Wholesale branches now settle into
the usual quiet of the dying year, at
tention being given mostly to prepara-
lions for the annual Inventories Road
statesmen return with satisfactory or
ders for spring delivery, and the vol
ume Of sales thus far compares very
favorably with that of last year in dry
goods, clothing, boots and shoes, ladies'
suits and mems furnishings Advices
testify to continued Roadway made in
the business done by interior merchants.
Agricultural conditions remain good,
winter wheat doing well and there be-
ing no enforced marketing of crops.
Little complaint is noted as to western
collections, while a higher ratio of fail
ures this week is without special indi-
cations of an unhealthy kind.
Bank exchanges year ago were con-
siderably swollen by the closing OF
three local concerns and, allowing for
this, there is sustained gain in the cur
rent total. Conditions in the leading
industries reflect no material chang
The customary falling off appears
the aggregate of new demands, but IT.
pressure is undiminished upon produo
ton, and few plants can be shut down
for more time than is necessary TO
make imperative repairs. Raw mate
rails are yet rapidly absorbed and
prices maintain their high position for
pig iron finished steel, lumber, hides
and leather. The markets for bread
stuffs, provisions and live stock show
seasonable activity, and, with few ex-
ceptions, values, range higher.
Failures reported in Chicago district
numbered 2S, against % last week and
Is year agO.-Dun's Review of Trade.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
NEW YORK.

Holiday buying, easily the pre-emi-
nent trade feature, increases as the sea
son draws TO a close and early predic-
lions of record turnover are being
fully realized. Stocks have been so well
disposed of that jobbers have. booked II
large volume of recorders. Otherwise,
however. general retail trade in senson-
able goods has been subjected to vaga-
ries of weather. being excellent where
low temperatures have prevailed, but
backward elsewhere of the South and
in the Northwest. where the weather
has been too mild or too rainy for the
fullest developments. In the larger
distrbutive lines, wholesale and job
bling business is comparatively quiet in
consOnance with the season, drummerS
being in for the holidays, while inven-
forging is under way. The failures in
the United States for the week ending
Dec 20, number DOT, against 22O last
week. 80 in the like week of 1908, 249
in 1904. 243 in 1903 and 1876 in 1902 In
Canada failures for the week number
2G. as against 81 a week ago and 3S
in this week a year agO.-Bradstreet's
Commercial report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
CAPTAIN SHOT BY NEGRO.
Thought to BE Soldier Dis
charged Inv RooseyeIt

AssaiIant Thought to Be Soldier Dis
charged by Roosevelt.
Captain Edgar B. Macklin of Company
G, Twenty-ffth United States infantry,
whose trial by court martial for failing
to exercise due diligence in preventing
rioting at Brownsville, Texas has been
ordered by the Secretary of War. was
shot twice and dangerously wounded at
Ell Reno, Okla, by a negro. Belief is
expressed that the assailant of the cap
tain is one of the negroes recently dis
charged from the Twenty fifth infantry
as a result of the Brownsville riot The
tiers at Fort Reno. Captain Macklin
and his wife were seated at the dinner
table when someone tried to gain entrance
at the side door. Captain Macklin ask
ed: who is theref" The reply came:
Il have a message for you" Come
around to the back door," said Captain
Maeklin. A negro. part of his face COW
cred by a mask, entered with the com
mand: Throw up your hands and give
me all the money you've got F" Without
giving Captain MacLlin time to reply the
negro fired twice and then fed into the
darkness. One bullet entered Captain
Macklin's abdomen. the second struck him
in the jaw. TIL: surgeon says that while
his wounds IRE dangerous obey are not
about 30 y'aars old and is A son of Col.
Macklin, who recently was retired with
the pay OF brigadier general.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
SEMINARY IS SEARCHED.
Thefts at Washington, Pa, Lead to
Search md Return of i8oOty.


Search and Return of Booty.
Fifty girl students of Washington SEM
mary at Washington, Pa, left for their
homes the other night on their Christmas
vacation, all suffering more or less from
hysteria following the discovery OF many
petty thefts and the subsequent method
of the principal to find the culprit- The
thefts were committed in one of the DOR
mitories, and teachers as well as students
suffered. Articles of wearing apparel,
money and jewelry have been missing
One day, when the time came to dismiss
the school, the girls in the dormitory were
summoned to chapel, where the principal
announced that students would not be al
lowed to depart for home before the and
their rooms had been searched. Teachers
began their disagreeable duty. and ole OF
them was notified that student who had
reported a s. bill stolen found the bill
crumpled up near the door of the room,
where apparently it had been thrown IN
hurry. Other reports of the hasty return
of stolen property were made. and soon
all who had lost anything mad found 1t.
The search was stopped and the keys to
trunks were returned to the students. The
faculty and some of the students are said
to know the culprit, but her identity
i concealed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
FIRE IN BOSTON CENTER.
Studio Building swept by Flames
Firemen Incased in lee.

Studio Building swept by Flames
Firemen Incased in lee.
Fire caused heavy damage in the block
bounded by fremont, Bromhed. Wash
ington and Winter streets N Boston, and
although most of the damage was con-
fined to one structure, the Studio build
ing, on fremont street, the flames threat
ened for a time to cause much greater de-
structiOn. The fire broke out on the
lower floor Of the Eldridge & Peabody
furniture establishment and swept
through six floors of the firms section OF
the building. The roof fell and the fire
jumped across an alley to the roof OF the
Orpheum theater, formerly 9oston's fam
Gus music hall, and to the top of the
building occupied by the Talbot Company,
clothiers, on Washington street The
flames did little damage to these struc-
lures, but the Talbot building was flooded
by bursting hose. The fremen had to fight
in narrow alley on ice-coated ladders
and fire escapes and with their bodies
incased in ice. \ rough estimate OF the
loss places it at $150000, of which Ed
ridge < Peabody bear about $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
LIVING TOMB OPENED.
Rescuers Reach Miner Buried Thir-
teen Days.

Hescuers Reach Miner Buried Ihlr-
teen Days.
After being mourned as dead and then
found alive under thousands of tons of
earth, where he remained entombed thir-
teen days while rescuers sought tc dig
an exit for him, l.. B. Hicks was reach
ed Friday. Hicks was entombed by a
cavern Of the Edison tunnel, which he
was helping to dig into the side of the
mountain at Bakersfield, Cal. Through
out the thirteen days that Hicks was
buried alive his courage had much to do
with keeping up the nerve of his rescuers.
Through an improvised tube which con-
necteL him with the top of the shaft he
was given food and drink. At one time
he drank a gallon of milk through the
sixty feet of pipe. When the reScuers
got close enough to talk to Hicks they in
formed him they would soon have him
out. He replied: That's fine. We Will
all have a picnic at dinner" DR.. Sunch-
field was the first to congratulate Hicks.
You have stuck it out bravely. Hicks,
and l am proud of you" said the physi-
clan, who has kept the long vigil at the
top of the tube. God bless you all for
standing by me-" said Hicks
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
studying Potatoes for Alcohol.

In the hope of hitting upon the best
plan 70 enable the American farmer to
produce his own alcohol for light and
fuel. the Department OF Agriculture has
sent agents 10 Europe to study the large
potato grown in many sections Of the con-
tiuent and ARA nge to introduce it in this
country Ii is several times as large as
our common potato and it IS estimated
that an acre Of ground VIII grow enough
10 make 600 gallons of alcohol, which
would provide Hight, hest and power for
a farm household for one year. 1t IS said
that the potatoes are still good food for
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
RACES FIERY DEATH.
BOAT MAKES WILD DASH FOR
NOVA SCOTIA PORT.
Almost 400 Passengers Landed I'm
Safety from Vessel Which Rapidly
Burns to Waters Edge, 2S3, 415
Aliens Expected.

Enveloped in flames and with $50
panic-stricken passengers huddled on the
decks, the steamer Strathcona raced for
shore in the darkness of a recent night.
II was a race with death and the steamer
won. The $50 passengers were landed at
Port Dufferin, y. s., and in less than an
hour the steamer had burned to the
waters edge. The flames. famed by the
speed, were spreading with tremendous
rapidity, and the ship presented a ter
rible sight as it forged ahead at the top
notch of its speed toward shore. The
engineers stuck to their posts in the en-
CINE room till the flames broke through,
but still they refused to abandon the hold.
Most of the passengers were Christmas
shoppers returning from Halifax.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01

all In all, it was a scene to be remem-
bered.
All along the line of march there
were fights and incipient riots. Sew
eral times the driver was all but pulled
from his seat Captain ]. n. Kilian,
camp commander at Ingleside, had not
been notified of the descent that was
being made upon him. When the mob
escorted truck reached the outer gates
of the camp. Kilian. upon learning who
was thus being thrust upon him, denied
Mrs. Kelly admittance. on the ground
that she would spread dissatisfaction
and discomfort among a people who
had become resigned to their unhappy
lot.
For two days, while the several fac
lions of the relief corporation were
disputing as to what disposition should
be made of the unhappy old woman,
the shack-laden truck remained in the
county road, outside the gates of In
gleside. The building was, of course,
without fire. The six-mile journey
through the streets had racked it bad
ly the windows and the door could not
be closed. The rain entered at hun
bred places But the determined old
woman did not desert her home
After two days stay in the roadway
the shack was finally dragged inside
the camp. Mrs. Kelly was warned that
it was to be pulled down. Still she
refused to leave \ force of workmen
thereupon set upon it. until nothing
was left but three boards of the floor
upon which stood the resolute old WON.
an, waving her flag, while denouncing
those whom she termed her prosecutors.
Then she went back to the tent which
she had occupied before she seized the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
MOUNTAIN OF GOLD.
The Richest Find in the History of
YellOw-MetaI Seeking,

The uncovering of what promises TO
be the richest find of gold since mining
for this metal was begun, is reported
from the province of Saskatchewan, Man.
A prospectOr named Hughes ran across
vein which he found was ten miles long
by one mile across, and a good part of
it lies only ten feet below the surface
The ore has been assayed at Ottawa
and shows $50 to the ton. In the assures
in places can be seen yellow streaks in
dicating large quantities of gold.
The discovery is near Birling, in the
Battleford district, and AZ miles west of
North Battleford. Birling is 500 miles
west of Winnipeg. $50 miles north of
Great Falls, Mont, and $50 miles from
the northern frontier of the latter State.
1t is 100 miles away from the nearest
railroad station and lies on the north
branch of the Saskatchewan river
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
JAIL DELIVERY AT CINCINNATI.
Thief of Famous Painting and Eight |
Others Escape from Prison.

Others Escape from Prison.
Nine prisoners escaped from Hamilton
county Jail in Cincinnati Among those
who escaped were some desperate crimi-
mails, including Clarendon Henri (arrest-
ed in New York recently, who stole the
famous picture, Girl Knitting" from the
Cincinnati Art Museum. Others that
escaped are Hugh Gastright. George Cur
tbs, George Sherrod, Willie saunders, Ed
ward Ness, Frank Kammf, Joseph
Thatcher and j. Sutton. The prisoners
made their escape during church service
hour. at which time more liberty than
usual is permitted. Their escape was
effected by unlocking the 1oor to mar
row passage leading to the areaway be-
tween the outer wall and the cell block
Here two ladders were found and spliced
together by bedcothing, one of the bars
to the outer window was sawed and shov-
ed aside. The spliced ladder was placed
from the window ledge to the top of a
one-stOry structure in the jail yard, from
the roof of which the prisoners dropped
twenty feet to the ground.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
Needn't Paw noni'S Debts.

Nine. Gould, the former Countess Boni
de Castellane, has been victorious in the
suits brought by creditors and money
lenders against her with the object of
making her jointly responsible with the
count Thirteen of the fifteen cases were
dismissed by the Paris court with costs
against the plaintiffs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
Admits Plot to Dust king.

In connection with the recent rumors
of plot to place Prince Arthur of Con-
naught on the Servian throne NJ. Mi1ato-
witch, ex-Servian minister "a London. in
a published interview admits that twice
within a year delegates from Belgrade
have vainly endeavored to interest him
in the proposal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
oVERRUN BY THIEVES.
New York Police Helpless in the
Face of n Crime Epidemic.

In New York City more than $1,000
600 worth of property, chiefly jewelry,
has been stolen during the past year, and
only a small proportion of it has been
recovered from the shops of pawnbrokers.
Upward of 1000 lists of articles taken
in robberies, some of the individual cases
running as high as $4,000 in value, have
been scattered broadcast in that time with
the hope either of finding the booty or
obtaining a clew to the thieves, but in
nearly every case without avail, and the
police are virtually at their wits end.
Detective Sergcants Murphy and Ware
have been trying to clear up the situa-
ton and have visited every pawnbroker's
place in New York, but they have been
hampercd in their work by the fact that
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
More Soldiers Cause Riot.

Several members of the squadron of the
Ninth cavalry stationed at Fort Leaven-
worth, while intoxicated. created a dis
turbance on a Fort LeavenwOrth-bOund
electric car in Leavenworth, Kan. They
kicked all of the windows out. beat the
conductor and the motorman. locked them
in and raced with the car TO Fort Leaven-
worth, where the rioters We're placed in
the guard house.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
uar Prize Is RIoua Tn

The revenue cutter Mohawk has re-
turned to quarantine after blowing up the
hull of the coal barge Buena Ventura.
which sank in a storm off Montauk FONT
a few days ago. IL was thus that the
first prize captured in the SpaniSh-Amer-
lean war passed into maritime history.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01

they were not permitted to cave copies of
the list of stolen goods with the pawn
broker lest too much publicity should fol-
low, and they were allowed only to show
the lists to the keepers of the places. re-
lying on their memory for the rest. As a
result, not the slightest trace has been
obtained of something more than 100000
separate pieces of jewelry which were
taken in the course of the year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
New Pneumonia Treatment.

DR.. Robin of Paris has reported to the
Academy Of Medicine a new method of
treating pneumonia, with the application
of which only six fatalities out of fifty
one cases occurred. The treatment con-
sists of subcutaneous injections of
metallic element. Dr. Robin said the
kind of metal used seemed to make little
difference, though heavier metals and gold
and silver seemed to have stronger action.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
Seven Hurt In Wreck

Chicago. Rock Island and Pacific pas
senger train No. so was derailed at Guilt
son, south of Hutchinson, Kan. Two
cars and the engine left track and the
cars turned over. Seven persons were in
iured. some of them seriously. The wreck
is believed to have been caused by spread
ING rails
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
Killed on Way to Buy Gift.

Tracy Crist, II years old, was killed,
Rachael Shaffer, 16 years old, was seri-
ously injured, and five other young per-
sons had narrow escapes at Windber, Pa,
when the party was run down by a train
on the Pennsylvania railroad. The seven
were on the way to Windber from Scalp
Level to buy their school teacher a
Christmas present.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
Held for sisters Death.

In Dayton, Ohio, Collins Gilman, broth
er of the murdered Dona Gilman. was
held by the magistrate to me grand jury
for action on the accusation of completely
in the Staying of his sister. Eayne Gil
man. another sister, was discharged at
the preliminary hearing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
Found Dead In Bed.

B. Huston. -. and +. KruSe. -, of
Auburn Junction. Ind, were found dead
in bed in the Riverside hotel IN Fort
Wayne. They had come to Fort Wayne
for a good time and upon retiring blew
out the gas. Kruse was a bachelor. Hus-
ton was widower
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-01
PAUPERIzING REFUGEES.
Charity Organizations of the CITY
Attack Relief Committee.


Attack Relief Committee.
Declaring that the relief committee is
pauperizing the thousands Of refugees IN
San Francisco, practically all those who
have been prominently identified with
local charitable organizations have united
in petition and protest to the relief
committee, asking that the reorganized
charitable institutions of San Francisco
be given control of the distribution OF the
relief and Red Cross funds. 1t was not
asked that the money be handed over to
these institutions outright, but tEat the
relief committee should hereafter take
back seat and allow the rehat'litated
charitable bodies of the city to attend to
the wants of those in need and to handle
the funds necessary for that purpose. 1t
was proposed that the relief committee
should act as a clearing house for the re-
organized charities