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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
MAIL POUCH THIEF CAUGHT.


Kansas City officials Discover Too
Late that They Wanted Hin.
That the Kansas City police department
had under arrest the thief who stole the
missing mail pouch from Los Angeles,
which contained money and valuables in
excess of $4,000, but released him be-
cause of no definite charge against him,
was brought out by the investigation made
by the government inspectors. The gov
eminent men have sent broadcast through
out the United States descriptions of the
man. The pouch was stolen, it develops,
from the platform of the Union depot
on the night of Saturday, June =. the
following morning patrolman arrested a
suspicious negro. At police headqua rters
he gave the name of Charles Stewar The
desk sergeant took a large amount of
money and several valuable articles Of
jewelry from him and he was ordered
booked for investigation. Later lawyer
see the negro. The charge agaiIst him
was changed to vagrancy, the lawyer was
given an order on the desk, sergeant for
500, and the next morning the negro was
released in the police court. The negro
was ordered to leave town. After sleal-
ing the valuable mail pouch the man is
believed TO have carried it to a secure
place, where it was cut open, rihed of
its contents and destroyed. The money
and valuables are believed to be hidden in
Kansas City.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
BRIEF STATE HAPPENINGS.

Christian Christensen of Rio, Fla, was
found dead in bed. at the home of his
cousin, H. H. Clausen, in Neenah. Heart
disease was the cause of death.
Rev. Frederick Tower Calpin, pastor
of the First Baptist church Of Madison
rendered his resignation to assume he
pastorate OF the First Baptist church IF
Detroit.
Miss Margaret Barnes, the 26-year-old
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. e. d. Barnes
of Sheboygan, was the happy recipient of
letter stating that she had been left a
fortune of $4,000 by her aunt in Lon
don. The latter died only a short time
ago. leaving her entire estate TO Miss
Barnes The latter visited her aunt last
summer, returning from England last Sep
TENDER.
North-centra1 Wisconsin is to have a
new railroad The articles of incorpora-
ton of the Wisconsin Northern Railway
Company have been filed with the Secre-
tarv of State. The line win run from
Red Granite to Poysippi, distance of
eighty-six miles The capital stock Of
the company is $4,000 and the incorpo-
rators are John Motif, II. w. Colts and
II. A. Dewey.
A public hearing regarding the con-
struction of a fixed dam across the Wis
consin river near Prairie du Chen will
be held soon. Unless valid objections are
presented against the construction of the
dam. the government will soon take up
its work of building it.
II II 81.
from Willmar. Mimi, as chief weighmas-
ter for the Wisconsin grain and warehouse
commission, has resigned. 1t is stated
that he will accept a more lucrative one
at another point. II. A. Juneau, chief
clerk of the department for several
months. will succeed Mr. Nelson.
Charlie Eagle. winnebago, living near
Millston. has a small farm, and in addi-
ton to raising some general crops. has
taken up the question of special crops.
Last year he raised and marketed $50
worth of cucumbers. disposing of them TO
the sailing station.
A crew Of surveyors. headed By A. r..
Richards viii make railroad survey The
men are in the employ of syndicate plan
q
cities and the head Of the lakes. The
route viii connect Lake Superior and
Lake Michigan by as direct line as pos
sible and at thelsame time open up a new
portion Of the State.
Huhert Falge. aged -, the oldest jus
tice in Manifowoc, tramped 70 HSrribel.
eighteen miles. the other day. following
custom be has observed for years of tax
ing an annual hike of at least fifteen
miles For several years past Reedsville.
twenty-five miles. has been the objective
point. but this year Married. was selected.
County Judge Chloupek and County
Treasurer Zeman accompanied him this
year
Diedrich Bnrzsop. aged -. q west side
business msn. was found dead in the She
boyean river in the vicinity of Ashby's
farm He had left his home at 80
O'Clock in the morning. telling his wife
that L was unable to sleep.
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DG4S zsIAaESgRS
s.ssS9 El@eM=.
e0E. 5000

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
$500 to $40; hogs, prime heavy, $500
to 1913; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to 1928; wheat, No. 2, 92c to 93c;
corn, No. 2, &c to Gle; oats, standard,
Acc to soc; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to roe; hay,
timothy, $500 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to 23c; eggs, fresh. 12c to 16c; potatoes,
new, per lslshel, Sis to $l.25.
napolis-Cattle, shipping, $500
to 1925; hogs good TO choice heavy,
$3.50 to $50; sheep, common to prime,
$500 to $4.25; wheat, No. ?, soc TO
Ole corn, No. white, Csc to 69c; oats,
No. . white, 51c to 53c.
st. Louis--Cattle, $3.50 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 to $685.; sheep, $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, 9Jc to 96c; corn. No 2,
roc to Tie; oats, No. ., Ole to 52c; rye,
No. ., roc to soc. 81
Cincinnati-Cattle. $500 to S6.75;
hogs, $500 to $5.65; sheep, $500 to
S435; wheat. No. ., Ole to 92c: corn,
No mixed, re to T3c oats, No. 2
mixed, SIC to 54c; rye, No. ,, SIC to Soc.
Detroit Cattle, $500 to 5000; hogs,
S4.OO to S0.OO, sneep, H[.ou 10 @1'JD'
wheat, No. 2, 02c to 93c; corn, No. 3
yellow, Toe to ice; oats, No. white,
54c to &c rye. No. 2, SIC to S4c
MISUNDERSTANDING, No. 2 northern,
S1.O7 to $110; CORE No. 3, zoe TO Tie;
oats, standard, Ole to SIC. rye, No. 1,
re to 79c barley, No. 2, 59c to Goes
pork, mess, $13.72.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 TO $7.75; hogs. fair TO choice, $l.00
to $500; sheep, common TO good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair TO choice,
$500 to 5000
New York--Csttle, $500 to $I75;
hogs, $3.50 to $6.10; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2 red, 07c to Csc;
porn, No. 2, 76c to TIC; oats, natural
white, J6c to Goo; butter, creamery, 21c
to 24c; eggs, western, 13c to 16c.
Toledo-Wheat, No. mixed, 00c to
Ole; corn, No mixed. Tic to re;
oats, No. mixed, J2c to 53c; rye. No.
2, Sic to S3e; clover seed, October. SI.37.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
NEW YORK.

Weather, crop and trade reports dis
play irregularity. 1t has been too wet
and cool in the Southwest and Northwest
for best retail trade and crop develop
ments but east of the Mississippi river
conditions have been better and more
favorable reports come from the latter
sections. In wholesale lines evidences of
Improvement in fall buying are seen, but
purchasers are generally cautious. while
sales for immediate shipment are confined
TO strictly filling-in requirements. Polit-
ical and crop uncertainties seem likely to-
influence distant purchases for some time
to come, and trade is hardly better than
quiet to fair the country over.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending June II number 253,
which compares with 225 last week, 161
in the like week of 1907 10 in 1905,
175 in 1905 and Isl in 1904. In Canada
there were 80 business failures, as against
81 last week and % in the same week
of 190T-Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

From Minnesota, the Dakoias and Wis
consin crop reports are all favorable.
Iowa farmers are complaining of too much
rain.
Near Alma, Wis, John Grimes Of Clear
Lake and J. w. Erschern, with a pack
of wolf hounds, killed Al wolves in three
weeks.
The graduated land tax bill which by
excessive taxation seeks to prevent the
owning of more than $40 acres of land by
one person in Oklahoma. was finally
passed By the Legislature and sent to the
Governor. The income tax bill and the
inheritance tax bin are in the Governors
hands also.
Tie total wheat exports from the Unit
ed States last mopth amounted TO 3,ss15.-
501 bushels, of which Portland contrib
uted 1,10S,314 bushels; New York G67-
71E bushels the combined ports Of Puget
sound. 654.sG4 bushels, and Philadelphia
330653 bushels.
During thunder storm near Alma.
Wis, lightning struck the barn Of Jacob
Castleberg in the town Of Nelson. killing
thirteen horses, and several calves and
destroying the barn. William Kaufman
Of the town Of Beiyidere lost shree horses
by lightning.
During the worst electric storm wit
messed in years. in Faribault county.
MINI. six houses and barns were struck.
On the Rugg UnderdahI farm TIE barn
and seventeen animals we're burned. The
barn Of Or. ]. J. Mclaughlin. in 81.
Paul, was burned. The .genis dwelling
on farm about three miles south Of the
city was also brrned
The general Office has adjusted its &c.
count with IKE State Of North Dakota nn-
der the act Of Feb. y, 1883. showing the
per cent Of net proceeds Of sales Of pub
lie lands within said State for the period
beginning July and ending Dec. 81,
1907. as shown by the adjusted returns
from the various local land Offices. The
receipts from the sales Of public lands
during the said period were S1.102. 15I-91.
From the sales Of IpJian lands IL II 1885,
sS1.0S. and from the fees aud commits
sions. sos. 1884, a total from al sources
Of 81. 239. S31 %.
Fruit growers in the Black Hills claim
that .heir crop has been practically
ruined.
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Wisconsin
State News
ABDUcTs HIS CHILD AT CHURCH.


kenosha Man Takes Little One For
chilly from Grandfather.
George y. Bliss, Chicago manager for
the Thomas B. Jeffrey Company. forcibly
took his daughter, Geraldine Bliss. from
the arms of her grandfather, Robert e.
Wilson, in Kenosha. The grandfather
and the little gisl, who is years of age.
had just left church, where the child had
taken part in ehildren's day exercise
when Bliss rushed up and pied the little
girl from the grandfather aad escaped.
while his friends prevented Wilson from
following. The child had beet in the Gus
tody of the grandparents slace birth, and
it is alleged that Il was an agreement be-
tween the dying wife of Bliss and the hus-
OF nd tnaI the child shoGld be left with the
grandparents. The reputation of the
father and the grandparents is the high
est, but long legal fight is promised. The
grandparents declare Bliss never paid a
cent for the support of the child and has
by silence given consent to the agreement
with the mother. A year ago Bliss mar
ried Miss Hattie Symmonds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
HUGE LAND FRAUD CHARGE.
Conspiracy to Take Illegally from
Government 30 900 Acres of Land.

Conspiracy to Take Illegally from
Government &c, 900 Acres of Land.
The special grand jury in the United
States District Court in Portland, Ore,
investigating land fraud cases in eastern
Oregon has indicted eleven men, charging
conspiracy to defraud the government out
of 10000 acres of public land in the Una
tilla reservation. The persons Indicted
are: j. p. Raley, prominent politician,
lawyer and former member of the State
Legislature from Umatilla William Stu
sher, former member of the Legislature
from the same county; Alonzo Knots,
j. w. Grow, II. NJ. Wynne and William
Caldwell, sheepmen and ranchmen, we'll
known in the eastern part of the State;
G. w. Mathews, rancher; John Vert,
formerly president of the First National
bank of Pendleton, and Bailey Ross, Sam
uel Olmstead and William Rahe.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
RkNUS
or
9P9RR

At Mortified st. Olaf college defeated
the Luther college baseball team in a
fast game by score of to 0.
Tired after their long trip away from
home, the Fargo college boys fell before
he Hamline team at Norton field, St.
| Paul. by score of IA to s. The game
was listless and neither team displayed
much ginger.
In starting Powers Bros Newguile
was knocked almost to his knees at To
ronto. Foley quickly pulled him together
and after running an eighth of a nile
the horse stumbled and fell on his head,
breaking mis- neck.
August Belmont heads the list of win
ming owners in England, his horses having
piled up a total of about $4,000 in the
last six weeks. Richard Croker is second
In the list with $4,000, while Lord Rose
berry is third with only $4,000.
With Ed. Carson, the little south-paw,
pitching shutout ball, Manchester closed
its 1908 baseball season by defeating the
fast Fargo college team by score Of 3
to e. The game was full of plays worthy
of being features and was fast and clean.
With the sale of Hazel Atlantic, a
promising 5-year-old, the once noted Cent
livre brothers racing stables, of Fort
Wayne, Ind, are closed out and the men
will abandon the racing game. The mare
was sold to Lloyd Weaver of New Haven,
Conn.
President A. L. A. Himmel Wright of
the United States Revolver Association.
has announced that four experts of this
country will be sent to the Olympic games
to take part in the international competi-
ton of July 8 with the pistol and re-
volver. Trial competitions are open to
every citizen of this country.
In the snoot of the Mount Pleasant,
Iowa, Gun Club, George Maxwell, the
one-armed expert, broke 1917 targets out
of possible 200 making record among
the local professionals, o. Beckwith also
made a record for local amateurs by
breaking 100 out Of 200.
Manager Hugh Jennings of the Detroit
team was suspended BY President B. B.
johnson of the American League, pend
ing an investigation of alleged acts of
rowdyism during games between New
York and Detroit. resulting in Jennings
and Pitcher Donovan being ordered from
the field by Umpire Hurst. Donovan was
suspended also.
The Houston club of the Texas Base
ball League has adopted baby 10 months
old. The mother left it with Pitcher
Haster and disappeared from the train
On which the team was travelling The
team adopted the youngster as mascot,
and q fund Of over $1,000 has been pro-
vided as starter in caring for it.
Tommy Burns seems willing to take
aaance in 1ae wild and wool1y West This
was shown in . cable received By Jack
Curiey, wherein Burns stated that be
wss ready to box JACK johnson or any
ce}sr heavyweight at Gsldfeld or other
Nevada point provided be resolved $780,
600 as his end. Burns prefers Labor
cay ss tie date.
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The latest Official Register shows
2S6,902 persons employed in the ex-
ecutive civil service, of whom 1854
are subject to appointment by the ex-
ecutive, under civil service rules, in
Guiding 172,053 men and 1881 women.
OF these, 2S,94T are employed in the
District of Columbia, and they drew
salaries amounting to $31, 541. 225 last
year. That amount CT money has
flowed in an unvarying stream of cash
from the disbursing officers of the diff
ferent executive departments and the
Capitol into the banks, stores, shops,
hotels and boarding houses of Wash
ington and its suburbs, without the va
ration of a day. Uncle Sam is good
paymaster; he never asks his employees
to wait; he never has to go to a bank
to borrow funds to meet his pay roll,
and, although there is much complaint
because the salary list has not been
advanced with the universal increase
in the cost of living, it is safe to say
that nowhere else in the world is the
average compensation of the citizens
of community larger than it is in
Washington.
The regularity as well as the gen.
erosity of Uncle Sans paymasters
makes Washington prosperous. No
community in the country, or in the
world, for that matter, is so little af
fected by industrial depressions and
commercial stagnation. No matter what
the price of stocks may be or how
the earnings OF the railways may fall
off, there are no discharges in the
forces of the government and no re-
duction in the pay. The salary list and
the pension roll continues the same
$2,625,000 is distributed every month
to pay the butcher and the baker and
the candlestick maker; to buy shoes
for the children and pay the milk bill
and the rent. 1t may be said, too, that
the wage-earners of no city are so
well housed as are those Of Washing
ton. 1t is a familiar remark that the
population Of Washington has higher
income than any city in fhe world,
and that probably is true.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
BIG LOSS TO MORRIS.


- - m 81 IN f-ackrn& mouse tive nara
Task TO Fighters.
Fire that started before daylight Fri
day morning in the S2,225, 600 packing
plant of Nelson Morris & Co., in Kansas
City, Kan, destroyed large part of that
establishment. Two laborers were killed
and another was perhaps fatally injured.
The spread of the flames was so rapid
that dynamite had to be used in an effort
to check them. The plant is in the food
district and is entirely surrounded by
water. Because of this fact the hremen
were unable to reach nearer than two
blocks of the building with their appara-
tus. The fire was started by an explosion
IN the chemical department, and from
there extended quickly to the sausage fac
tory The contents of this building fur
nished much inflammable material for the
flames, and by the time the first streams
could be turned on that section of the
plant was doomed The loss of meat was
large. The coolers were packed to their
capacity, as the food had interfered with
railway traffic long before the water shut
down the plant. This is the second seri-
GUS Are loss suffered by the Morris con-
Germ this year. On Jan. % the plant was
damaged to the extent of S750,OO0.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
DRY WAVE OVER OREGON.

Prohibition After July I in Twenty
One of Twenty-Three Counties.
AS the result of the local option cleo
tons held in Oregon this month, county
prohibition will prevail in twenty-one of
the thirty-three counties after July /.
There are from four to sixteen dry pre-
cincts in each Of the other twelve, so that
there is not a county in the State in
which there is not some dry territory. A
total of 237 saloons were put out of bust
ness in the thirteen counties carried for
prohibition June l. and this number is
increased to go by the addition of the
saloons removed by precinct elections in
other counties. Earlier elections carried
eight counties and forced approximately
200 saloons to abandon business.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23

wisconsin Trio Born in 1874 Observe

Wisconsin Trio Born in 1874 Observe
Their Anniversary.
The famous Windecker triplets. who
have 5Ald the record for some years as
the oldest in the world, celebrated in Fond
du Lac the other day what seems likely
to be the last birthday with all three of
them present. For sixty-fonr years these
triplets, Sidney Windecker of Fond du
Lac, Sylvester Windecker of Byron and
Mrs. George NJ. Pier of wausau, have
been together on their joint birthday. Syl-
vester Windecker is i'll of a malady which
it is feared will prove fatal before an
other anniversary. The WindecKers were
born in Lowville. y. Y. on June 8. 1874,
and when ) years old came TO Wisconsin
with their parents. Mr.. and Mrs. John
Windecker, settling in Byron, and it vas
at the oil homestead that the final birth
day anniversary feast was spread At the
same time the birthday of Mrs. Sylvester
windecker, who is 50, and Mrs. Sally
Stroup, the latter's aunt, who is 81, was
observed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
SAYS HAYES WAS DRUNK.

Witness In Murder Case Claims
Slayer Was Intoxicated
The sensation of the Hayes murder case
in the Circuit Court in Manitowoc was
the testimony of Patrick O'Hearn of Ma
pie Grove, who witnessed the tragedy and
who is witness for the State, that Hayes
was intoxicated. when Kuchimberg, the
murdered man, insisted that Hayes accom-
pany him, the defendant threatened" he
said. ''Kuchimberg said, L am not afraid
OF your gun Hayes pulled the revolver,
pointed it and with the words, You're
not; take that fired the fatal shot,
OIlearn said that he was within five feet
of where the tragedy occurred.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
DOOM OF "FREE CUBA" SOUGHT.

Mexican Herald Hears of Plot to
Overthrow Government.
The Mexican Herald says that news
has reached the City of Mexico from an
unimpeachable source to the effect that
the business interests of Cuba have sub
scribed to a fund for the purpose of
financing a revolution as soon as the
United States makes good its promise and
withdraws its soldiers from that island.
According to the Herald's information,
the troops will get but to Tampa when
they will be recalled. The return of the
troops it is declared, means the doom of
free Cuba" forever. 1t is to bring about
these conditions that the secret revolu-
tionary fund is literally subscribed to by
foreigners of all nationalities.
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500, 900 IN STOLEN MAIL POUCH.
POstofiice officials Admit Robbery
Is Biggest I'm History.

Reluctant admissions made by the post
Office officials of three cities indicate that
the disappearance of registered mail
pouch somewhere within the jurisdiction
of the Kansas City postoffice Saturday
night will prove one of the biggest hauls
in the history of the department From
private sources it was learned that pack
age of at least $4,000 in currency was
among the contents of the pouch, which
carried in addition an unusually large
number of letters and packages contain
ing money and other valuables to an
amount which only can be conjectured,
but which may reach $4,000 more. The
registered pouch was from Los Angeles.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
KEPT JEWELS IN JAIL.
After Being Released from Lookup
Woman Gives Police Rings.

After Being Released from Lookup
Woman Gives Police Rings.
Three weeks ago, Mrs. l. f. Larson of
BeIoit, wife of a jeweler, went into the
Northwestern railways wash room in
GAINESVILLE and left two diamond rings, val
ued at $3.50 each, on the wash stand. She
took the train for Chicago and did not
miss the rings until several stations away.
The rings were gone when the station
agent was notified and the police advertis-
ed the loss in the newspapers. The other
night Edna w. Wheelock appeared at the
station with the missing jewelry- Since
finding the rings and while the police
were hunting for them. the woman has
spent several days ID Jail on charge of
attempting to kidnap her own child from
her sister-in-law, to whom she gave the
child year ago. During the time she
was in Jail she had the rings with her.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
OLD swEETHEARTs ELoPE.
WidOwer Renevys Romance Of Child

Whoever Renews Romance of Child
hood and Defies sons Opposition.
Rudolph Ploetz. aged 70, wealthy wild
over of the village of Prairie du Sac,
eloped with Miss Ursula Hinges. aged
50, his sweetheart of childhood days I'm
known to his six sons, who had bitterly
opposed his marriage, the aged bridegroom
and his bride slipped into Madison and
were married by justice of the peace
The system of espionage on the old man
established by the sons had failed to pre-
vent him carrying out his desire. The
couple were sweethearts in youth and had
parted after petty quarrel. Miss Hinges
had never married, waiting lifetime for
her first love.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-06-23
STANDARD OIL FOUND GUILTY.
Fines of 100000 Possible on Con-
vfction of Accepting Cut Rate.

Fines of 100000 Possible on Con-
viction of Accepting Cut Rate.
Guilty as charged in the indictment
was the verdict brought in by the federal
court jury in the Standard Oil Company
case in Rochester, N. Y. Daniel j. Ken
elk of Buffalo, who conducted the defense,
moved for a new trial, and 1t was ar
ranged to have Judge Hazel hear argu-
ment on the motion on July Z. Special
Assistant Attorney General S. Wallace
Dempsey, the prosecutor, gave notice that
he would move for judgment and sentence
on the adjourned date. The oil company
was placed ON trial June l for an alleged
violation of the interstate commerce law
in accepting a concession from the filed
tariff on shipments of oil from Olean,
n. Y, to Rutland and Bellows Falls, VT.
There were forty counts. The maximum
fine on each count is $4,000, or a total
of 100000.