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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
HORSES SCARCE IN TEXAS.
Demand Far Exceeds the Supply and
Prices Are Soaring.

Demand Far Exceeds the Supply and
Prices Are Soaring.
A horse famine of serious proportions
prevails in Texas and the Southwest. So
far from the automobile putting the horse
out of business the demand for horses at
present in the United States far exceeds
the supply and the price is constantly ris-
ing. Contractors who have for many
years been furnishing horses to the Unit
ed States army are either refusing to
make bids or making them with limita-
tons and restrictions. They declare that
after securing Texas and the adjoining
States they find an unprecedented scare
ity of available stock and that at present
breeding is cot being engaged in on scale
large enoLsll to promise relief in the next
two or three years. They are unable to
account for the scarcity of horses except
on the theory that the breeding stock was
depleted in this part of the country during
the Boer war and the Spanish war and
has never been re-established. 1t is prob
able that this scarcity of horses and in
crease in prices will operate to attract
men to the breeding of these animals.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
NEW YORK.

Trade and industry are still in a con-
dition of midsummer quiet, with prepara-
tons for fall trade, stimulated by gen.
orally good crop progress, going forward
with confidence but with Conservatism
ruling operations. pending clearer views
Of ultimate crop and political results. Ac-
tivity in retail rade is conferred in the
disposal of surplus stocks of summer
goods at concessions, but reduced public
buying ability is reflected in reports from
some centers of slow progress in clearing
shelves of goods Jobbing activity is still
mainly confined to filing small but fire.
quent repeat orders for summer fabrics,
though a few southern and northwestern
points report enlargement of takings for
fall
There is a little more life in building
lines, particularly South and West, and
yellow pine is frmer, with optimistic pre-
dictions from southern and Pacific north
western lumbermen.
Iron and steel are quiet, but slightly
larger percentage of finished capacity is
claimed working, a larger proportion OF
this, however, than usual on export BUSH
ness.
Business failures for the week in the
United States ending July IL number 25S,
which compares with DAG last wee,s, III
in t,o like week of 1907 1888 in 1906,
166 in 1905 and 100 in 1904
Business failures in Canada for the
week number 2S. which compares with
30 last week and 26 in this week of 1907.
-Bradstreet's Commercial Report.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
RATES ARE RAISED SOUTHEAST.


Advance Decided Upon at Conference
of Associatien at Louisville.
That freight rates should be advanced
in the territory of the Southern Freight
Association and the Southern Mississippi
Valley Association, which takes in all of
the territory south of the Ohio river and
east of the Mississippi river, was decid-
ed on at the meeting of the executive
officers Of all the railroad systems inter
ested, whirh was held in Louisville. The
advance, it Is SD, will be from to 10
cents hundred pounds, horizontally, to
correspond with the advance decided on
by the Southwestern Freight Association
recently. The advance was decided on
after considerable opposition on the part
OF certain railroad executives, who main
tanned that an advance Of rates al. the
present was impolitic, but this opposition
finally was won over by the argument
that, in order to meet the various in
creased expenses, an increase in rates
was absolutely necessary. The clerical
forces of the railroads interested are
quartered in Louisville temporarily work
ing out the tariffs. 1t is considered prob
able that the tariffs will not be in shape
for filing before Aug. /, and in accord
ance with the requirements of the inter-
state commerce commission, compelling
rates to be fled thirty days prior to be-
coming effective. the new rates will not be
in force until Sept. !.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
CASH REGISTER IN CHURCH.


Offerings of Worshfpers Recorded In
Strictly Up to Date Method.
A cash register ct the entrance of
Worcester, Mass. church to receive the
offerings of worshipers is the latest appli-
cation of modern business methods to
religions affairs. The visitor at ST. CAST
mer's Lithuanian Roman Catholic church
of that city now passes at the doors .
brand new cash register in the charge o.
four collectors. Although the familiar
ring of the bell is wanting, the machine
does very lively business. The reason
given for installing the cash register is
that the receipts from the admissions to
the masses did not come up TO the calcu-
lations of those who thought they knew
what they should do. The Rev. Julius
Rodziewicz, the rector, said he would se.-
tie that point by placing cash register
in the church. 1t is the custom at the
church to charge an admission fee of 10
cents from all who attend tire masses.
The dime pays for the sitting, and the
money collected in this manner goes to-
ward defraying the expenses of maintain
ing the church. The attendance at the
church averages from 500 to 1000 at each
mass in the church Sundays, and 1t is
said the receipts should be in the neigh
borhood of s175 week from this source.
Members of the committee, who have been
making an investigation of the church
finances, claim that the receipts, accord
ing . the books of the church, have aver
aged from $40 TO $40 a Sunday. Now
there is no dispute. The register is in
disputable proof of the amount received.
Each worshiper has the satisfaction of
seeing his offering registered, and, in fact,
can have the little ticket receipt for it
if he wants it. So everybody is happy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28

5000 are seamen for the navy, 800 are
additional officers and enlisted men for
the marine corps and 3,36S are clerks
and other employees of the postal ser
vice.
The total apparent number of sal
aries Increased is 129,92S, at an annual
cost of SO, 146,575. OF this number A.
636 are commissioned officers, warrant
officers and enlisted men of the navy,
and s,9O7 officers and enlisted men of
the marine corps.
A comparison of the total appropria-
lions of the last session of the Fifty
ninth Congress - 1920, 79S, 143 - with
those of the first session of the Sixtieth
Congress-s1, $50, 397 5433-shows an in
crease of $751;, 599,399. Increases are
shown in all OF the general appropria-
ton acts, except those for the District
of Columbia, the Indians and the Mill
tary Academy, the reductions in these
three aggregating $43S, 700.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

Papers have been served on Frank ].
Gould IN New York in the suit for abso-
lutte divorce brought by his wife, who was
formerly Miss Helen NJ. Kelly.
John w. Riddle, the American ambas-
sador to Russia, who has been threatened
with an attack of pneumonia. is continu-
ing to gain strength, although slowly.
At Lebsig. Mieroslap Sjosynski, Ru.
thanian student, who shot and killed
Count Andreas Potocki. the governor OF
the Austrian Polish province Of Galicia,
was condemned to death.
A dispatch from Guayaquila says the
bubonic plague there is decreasing. Dur
ing the month of June there were four
teen new cases and eight deaths. Twen-
ty-five cases recovered and there are eigh-
teen in the lazaretto.
The power-greedy hand of Russia is
seen in the latest order of the Shah Of
Persia giving the Cossacks control Of the
npid-ire gun section at Tsheran and &C
cess TO the Persian artillery barracks. AT
Tabriz the Russian consul has brough.
about peace negotiations between the rev
Iolutionists and the government Many
women are taking part in the revolutions
airy movement in Persia
The registered mail pouch containing
$4,000 in money and 100000 worth Of
diamonds. which was stolen from a mail
car in Kansas City. Mo-. June 6. was
found in the switchyards in Kansas City,
Kan. but the money had been taken out.
Though the 5ewelry had been left
The funeral ir. Honolulu Of Prince Da-
v;d Kawanananakoa. who died recently
In SU Francisco, was one OF the most
imposing funerals eTer held in Hawaii
The ceremony was in accordance with
ancient Hawaiian usage II the case OF
chiefs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
BOYS RUN RELAY RACE.
z. NJ. c. A. Lads Bear Message from
New York to Chicago.


As pistol shot rang out on the New
York City Hall steps the other day a
little athlete in running tights, carry
ing a message from Mayor Mcclellan
to Mayor Busse Of Chicago darted away
up Broadway on the first relay of a
thousand-mile journey to Chicago. Her
bert II. Rapp was the runner.
More than 1900 Y. NJ G. A, boys
have taken part in the race, and a
strenuous effort has been made to break
all records for similar events Intense
interest in the long sprint has been
taken all over the country, and crowds
met the runners at every point on the
long course to cheer them on their way.
Each runner carried the message half
mile. when fresh runner took it on
to the next point Of relief. Perhaps the
most spectacular feature of the relay
run was the swimming of Lake Cayuga
by the boys of the Auburn IN. " de-
pertinent.
The easiest and straightest route De
tween New York and Chicago was Sc
lected, the course being carefully laid
out from government survey maps. The
route was divided into sections of from
fifteen to ninety miles each. the Y. NJ.
G. A. members of that district furnish
ing the rupaers to bear along the May
or's message.
Not minute night or day Except
Sunday passed that some lad was not
speeding across the country carrying
this message The message was en-
cased in silver tube, which was
passed from one boy to another at the
end of each relay. The message is as
follows:
City of New York, Office of the Mayor
To the City of Chicago: The city of
New York sends greetings by the fast
runners Of the Young Mems Christian
Association.
This message is borne on foot without a
halt from the Atlantic to Lake Michigan,
and the hundreds of boys who carry it
gain no prize except the consciousness of
having done their best.
GEORGE B. MCCLELLAN, Mayor.
The Hon. Fred A. Busse, Mayor, Chicago,
illinois,
Every boy in this relay race was
chosen because of his good character
and conduct as we'll as because of good
limb and lungs and muscles. He ran
for record not only in bodily excel
lence and efficiency, but also for rec
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
DEtS 81 EaAI!;2IS[5RS
,ss,$Sza}SSs EsSlEaEO-.
e@E,. -e&QCs

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50: hogs. prime heavy, $500
to $6.S7; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to S4.75; wheat, No. 2, Ole to 92c;
corn, No. 2, 75c to 76c; oats, standard,
SIC to 5Sc; rye, No. 2, 14c to Toe; hay,
timothy, $500 to $1,000; prairie $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery. lOc
to gle; eggs, fresh, lie to DE; potatoes,
new, per bushel, 90c to Sl.13.
indianapolis shipping $500
20 $3.50 hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to S7O5; sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, SIC to
CSC: corn, No. white, nc TO 1Sc; oats,
No white, SIC to DOC
ST. Louis-Cattle, $3.50 to s7G0; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $500 to $4.40;
wheat, No 2, Ole to 92c; corn, No. 2,
nc to 7Sc; oats, No. 3 53c to soc;
rye, No. 2. 74c to Toe.
Cincinnati--Cattle 800 to 1928;
hogs, $500 to $7.05 sheep, $500 to
$685.: wheat, No. g Ole to 92c; corn,
No. . mixed, SOC to Sic; oats, No.
mixed, SIC to 5sc; rye, No. 2. Sic 10 SEC.
Detroit--Cattle. 500 to 800 hogs,
800 to $3.50: sheep. $3.50 to $f.2o
wheat, No. 2, 90c to Ole. corn, No.
yellow, roc to soc; oats, No. white,
Gle 10 &c; rye, No. 2, 75c to T6c.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. 2 northern,
s1.15 to Sill: corn. No. 3. 74c to Zoe;
oats. STANDARD. J7c to J9e; rye, No. !,
73c to Tic; barley, No. 2, CSC TO 69c;
nork mess. $1,000.
BufaIo-Cattle. choice shipping steers,
$500 to 500: hogs, fair to choice, 500
TO 800; sheep, common to good mixed,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair 10 choice,
$500 to $50.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $40;
hogs. $3.50 to 1925; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, 99c to 500;
corn. No. 2, SEC to Sac; oats. natural
white. COO to 63c butter, creamery, 2Oc
TO 23c: eggs, western, lsc TO 2ic.
Toledo-wheat. Nc. 2 mixed, SIC to
Ole; corn. No. mixed. tic TO &c;
CATS. No. 2 mixed, SIC to zoe; rye, No.
D Tic to re: clover seed, October, $500.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
TO STUDY FOOD FISHES.
United states and Canada Will
Begin Work at Once.

United states and Canada Will
Begin Work at Once.
The governments of the United States
and Canada are about to inaugurate an
investigation of food fishes in the inland
waters of the two countries, beginning
at the bay of Fundy. che Senate at
the last session ratified treaty provid-
ing for an inland fisheries commission for
the purpose of making such inyestiga-
tions, and DIR. David Starr Jordan of
Leland Stanford university, California,
was nade the American commissioner.
DR.. jordan had a conference at the State
Department with Assistant Secretary Ba-
con about the matter and left later for
Eastport, Ne, where he was to meet
s. I. Bastido, the Canadian commissioner.
They will begin their work at the bay
of Fundy and the Investigations will be
continued in all inland waters of the two
countries in which each are interested as
far west as Puget sound. DIR. Jordan will
be assisted by B. w. Evermand and Prof.
A. B. Alexander of the United States
fish commission, who are experts in fish
preservation. They will act in an advis-
DRY capacity TO the American commits
sioner
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
CORN CROP IN SPLENDID SHAPE.
Reports from Three States Show
Improvement of Conditions.

Reports from Three States Show
Improvement of Conditions.
Special reports collected from various
points In the tri-State territory around
Sioux City, which includes the greatest
corn country in the world, indicate that
corn Is from week to two weeks ahead
of its growth at the corresponding pc
Rod last year. Incessant rains during
May and June caused alarm among the
farmers of Iowa, Nebraska and South
Dakota, but the popping weather Of
last week has brought corn out in great
shape. Even in the low lands of the
Missouri valley which were inundated
by floods corn has picked up remarka-
bly, and the loss viii be but slight. Con-
ditions are especially promising in
South Dakota; wheat, oats and other
small grains are doing exceedingly well,
and in some sections harvesting has be-
gun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
CHICAGO.

Payments through the banks furnish the
closest comparison seen in some time.
Other favorable indications of trade re-
covery appear in more active discor-. on
erations, increasing specifications in steel
working and more extended demand for
early deliveries of merchandise.
Announcement of an advance in Ameri-
can prints is calculated to hasten heavy
selections for the interior, and the dry
goods lines generally report sustained i'm
provement. Weather conditions stimulat-
ed sales in tbs principal retail branches
and lightweight goods have become re-
duced TO comfortable size.
Bookings in the industries include a
greater number for moderate tonnages OF
pig iron, structural shapes and wire, and
there is gain in production at fur
naces, rolling mills and electric factories.
Public improvements involving large
OUTLAWS are now pushed forward and re
quire much ms terial and labor. leather
working trades run strongest upon foot
wear, and there is much wider buying of
tanned material and hides, the latter be-
ing scarce in desirable qualities and SELL
ing higher than in June.
Crop reports sustain the favorable fea-
lures recently noted. Winter wheat grades
surprisingly well, and corn growth ad-
vances seasonably. Crop marketings have
declined more than expected but the mar
kets for breadstuffs, live stock and pro-
visions continue fairly active. Prices
mostly rose this week, with the leading
cereals, unusually strong and averaging
much higher than at this time last year.
The total amount of grain at this port,
6,594, 493 bushels, compares with $685.
165 bushels last week and 6,934.0iS BUSH
els year ago. Compared with 1907
there is IA decrease in receipts of 216
per cent and increase in shipments of
So per cent. Live stock receipts improv-
ed to 26S,906 head. against 216.510 head
last week and 29S.329 head in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago us
trict number 30. against % last week and
81 year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number 10, against 6 last week
and in 1907.-Dun's Review.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
COUNT Up NATIONS RESOURCES.
National Conservation Commission
Begins Task Assigned to 1t.

National Conservation Commission
Begins Task Assigned to 1t.
Although scarcely more than a month
has elapsed since President Roosevelt APP
pointed the national conservation COM
mission, the work of taking stock OF the
nations natural resources has begun. This
work will be carried on vigorously in or
der to enable the commission to make its
report to the President by Jan. ] next.
large amount of the material embrac-
ing the subject of conservation of waters,
lands and minerals, already is available
in the various executive departments, the
heads of which have offered hearty CO.
operation in the great task the body has
undertaken. Other important data will
be collected through special channels, in
Guiding State conservation commissions
now being formed, and some of the great
national organizations represented ar the
White House conference recently.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
ChaHn Head. ..pry. Ticket.

Eugene w. Chain Of Chicago is the
nominee of the Prohibition party for
President He was named at the national
convention in Columbus amidst scenes of
great excitement and enthusiasm. Aaron
$. Watkins of Ada. Ohio, was nominated
for Vice President after DR.. Palmore of
st. Louis had been s.osen and declined
the nomination. The shortest platform
on record and one containing for the
first time in the history of important ma
tional parties in this country a declara-
ton in favor of equal suffrage was
framed for the candidates to stand upon.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
COURTS MUST BE oBEYED.
Executive Departments Bound by
ssFuIl FaitE,' Clause.

Declaring that the executive branch of
the government is bound by the full faith
and credit" clause of the constitution, as
well as the judicial tribunals, Justice
Wright of the District Supreme Court in
Washington directed writ of mandamus
to issue against Commissioner Moore of
the patent office, who had declined to be
guided by a decision of New York State
court, which had been appealed from, but
had not been superseded. 1t is understood
that this is the first time the attention
of the executive department has been
called to the binding force of court DEGREES
in the States. The suit involved the con-
iros of certain patents by sewing ma
chine manufacturing company, and the
commissioner had refused to carry out the
Older of the New York tribunal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
Lightning Dresses Fowl.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jos. Scriber Of West
Colbrook, Conn, went TO Norfolk recently
to buy meat. The latter had scared so
in price that Mrs. Scriber decided not to
purchase any, saying il was cheaper to
eat ''our broilers, but l am tired of dress
ing Them Returning home, the Scrib-
ers found their hennery had been struck
by lightning. Nine fowls and broilers
were killed and six of them had been
dressed by the bolt so far as the featn-
ers were concerned.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
rae Fourth East River bridge.

The harbor channel known as the East
River which separates New York City
from Long Island, was SPAWNED by a
fourth bridge June IL, when the towers
Of the new Manhattan Bridge were con-
nected with two cables to support foot
bridge, on which the cable weavers may
work. This is near the old Brooklyn
Bridge, or between it and the newer VIII
liamsburg Bridge. At the same time the
new Blackwelrs Island bridge is ready to
turn over to the city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
$4,000 FOR A CUP OF COFFEE.


Woman Rewarded for Kindness to
Stranger Many Years Ago.
For cup of coffee which she once gave
to a stranger, Mrs. Harvey Bartlett of
Wellingsley, Plymouth, Mass, has receiv-
ed $1,000. The gift is from Mrs. B. Lii
ley of New York City. Many years ago
while waiting for train at the Knee
land street station of the Old Colony
railroad Mrs. Bartlett's sympathy was
aroused by the sight of an elderly woman,
who was travelling alone and who APP
peared to be ILL., Mrs. Bartlett went to
lunchroom and got cup of coffee for
her. Mrs. Lilley, as she proved to be, did
not forget the kindness and has since sent
Mrs Bartlett numerous gifts. The most
recent remembrance is $1,000 worth of
stock in a New York manufacturing COM
pany paying per cent dividends.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
Barrains in Brains.

Recent circulars issued by II. ]. Hap
good, head of the Employment bureau
known as Bapgoods. throw a curious
light on the industrial situation Re
ferring to the effect of the recent panic
the circular says that employers have
been cursa;ling their pay rolls, and now
offers to supply better men for various
places at bargain prices 1t says that
these men are now willing to work fol
from q third to quarter less salary
than they were receiving during prosper.
nrs f;rraac
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
ARIZONA vALJEAN CAPTURED.
Long "A Deputy sheriff, He Is Be-
trayed by Fellow Convict.

Long "A Deputy Sheriff, He Is Be
trayed by Fellow Convict.
With a pistol pressed to his chest by
H. e. Woods, Frank Sherlock, alias
Charles Bly,, recognized as a convict who
rode away from the New Mexico peni-
Tertiary on the warden's horse eleven
years ago, quietly surrendered at Will
liams, Ariz., the other day and started for
Santa Fe, where he has two years to
serve on four years sentence for horse
stealing. Sherlock was betrayed by fell
low convict whom he discharged from a
position with the Grand Canon Lime and
Cement Company at Nelson, Ariz., where
Sherlock had taken a contract. Sherlock
was a real Jean Vatican. Since his es-
cape he has lived an exemplary life. For
eight years he has served as deputy
sheriff of Mojave county and in that time
has run down many desperate criminals.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
WANT NoIsELsss TOWN.
Citizens of MontcIair, N. j., Would
MuzzIe Farmyard Poultry.

MuzzIe Farmyard Poultry.
Rubber tires for trolley cars, muzzles
for growing ROSTERS, and mufiers for au-
tomobile horns were discussed at the last
meeting of the Montclair, n. j., town
council when long petition was present.
ed from Victor s. milford, Frederick s.
Gage, Mrs. Catherine Temple, w. L. OH
plant and sixteen other residents of the
Crescent and South Mountain avenue,
asking that the noisy ROSTERS, ducks and
geese of the town be suppressed. The
petition cited in strict legal phrases that
the fowls constituted serious nuisance
be reason of their growing and cackling
between the hours of midnight and @
q. ia. Chief of Police Harry Gallagher
has received a communication from man
in Beverly, Mass, who wishes to aid the
anti-noise crusade. He told the chief that
q sure way to stop the ROSTERS from
growing is to place them on roosts too
high to allow them TO stand upright in
their coops. He says that ROSTERS can
not crow when compelled to stand in
crouching position.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28

A joint board representing the War
Department and the bureau of forestry
has taken up the matter of preserving the
forests on military reservations. An ar
rangement will be made for a most bene-
fetal cutting of timber and for preserv-
ing the trees which will remain. Under
this arrangement the War Department
retains control of the forest on the reser-
sation and at the same time gets the val
liable services of the forestry bureau.