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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
QUESTIONS ABOUT THE FARM.
President Asks Many and the Com
mission Is Busy.

mlSSlon Is BUSY.
President Roosevelt wants to know
whether the farmer likes his farm and
commission on country life, consisting
of six members, is now conducting an
investigation. After the farmer has
made known his advantages and draw
backs, other citizens are to be asked
whether they like their job, their home,
their neighbors and why.
Some of the questions now going over
the thousands of rural routes are as
follows:
"Are the farm homes in your neigh
borhood as good as they should be under
existing conditions"
"Arc the schools in your neighborhood
training boys and girls satisfactorily for
life on the farm?'
DO the farmers in your neiglbOrhood
get the returns they reasonably should
from the sale of their preductsF'
DO the farmers in your neighborhood
receive from the railroads, highroads,
trolley lines, ETC., the service they rea-
sonably should have?"
do the farmers in your neighborhood
receive from the United States postal
service, rural telephone, etc, the service
they reasonably should expect?"
Are the farmers and their wives in
your neighborhood satisfactorily organ
lied to promote their mutual interest"
Are the renters of farms, in your
neighborhood making a satisfactory liv-
ing?"
neighborhood satisfactory?
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27

Senator Culberson of Texas has been
appointed to succeed David r. Francis of
Missouri as chairman of the advisory
committee of the Democratic national
campaign organization. Mr.. Francis has
gone abroad.
Candidate Taft came out of his vaca-
ton seclusion at Middle Bass Island and
started from Sandusky across Ohio by
train, making many short addresses from
the rear platform of the observation car
in which he rode.
The Indiana campaign of the Indepen-
dence party was opened in Indiana polls.
William r. Hearst, Thomas L. Hisgen,
presidential candidate, and George w.
McCaskrin, candidate of the party for
Governor of Illinois, spoke.
Candidate Bryan has issued a reply to
the pamphlet published by President Van
Cleave of the Manufacturers Association
in the interest of Taft. Bryan says that
the Democratic labor plank is not an
assault on the courts, and asks if the
labor question is so important as to JUS
tify business men in ignoring all other
issues. Instead of creating the class
spirit as Van Cleave had said the jury
trial clause did, Bryan holds that it aims
to prevent having the writ of injunction
used to create or to favor a class.
In a letter addressed to Rev. r. 81.
Gesner, rector of Christ Episcopal church
of Oswego, James s. Sherman, Republi-
can vice presidential candidate, expressed
himself unequivocally in favor of the re-
nomination of Gov. Charles E. Hughes.
"a prohibitionist does not have to be
a total abstainer," said Eugene w. Cha
fin, prohibition candidate for president,
in a speech at the old capitol building in
St. Paul. THE prohibitionist is the man
who votes the prohibition ticket on cleo
ton day because he believes the principle
is right"
After Withdrawing from all speaking
engagements in the national and State
campaigns, Senator Joseph B. Foraker
declared he will publicly answer the
charges made by W. R. Hearst and will
make a personal tour of the State in be-
half of his own reelection. in a writ
ten request to National Chairman Frank
III. HltclcOck, SeualOT I OGdkeT dSkeu 20
be relieved from the appointments which
had been arranged for him by the national
speakers bureau and in a communication
to State Chairman Williams of the Ohio
Republican committee made the same re-
quest as to the engagements which had
been arranged for him.
Novel bids for support are figuring in
the campaign for office in Delta county,
Mich. this summer. One aspirant for
the nomination of prosecuting attorney is
making use of huge kites TO carry aloft
appropriately inscribed banners. Another
candidate is distributing TO the boys OF
the county 5000 caps advertising the fact
that be is in the field. Now third seeker
of public Office is giving away TO the
Juvenile population paper bags filed with
candy and nuts. Printed on the bags is
an appeal for support.
Republican leaders are advising Judge
Taft not to go personally into the cam
paign until October, when the farmers
can give more attention 10 politics
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
HUNT FOR PRIESTS FOE.
Attack on Father Fielding Part of
Chicago Anarchist Plot.

The haunts of anarchists in Chicago
are being searched by the police in in
effort to find the man who shot twice at
Father ]. X. Fielding in the vestibule of
Corpus Christi Roman Catholic church,
Grand boulevard and Forty-ninth street,
that city, Sunday. The police can ac-
count for the shooting in no other way
than that it was the work of an anti
clerical red They see in the attack
similarity to the deed of the crazed Giu-
seppi Ala, who murdered Father Leo
Heinrich, a Denver priest, six months
ago. The attempt on Father Fielding's
life is declared by the police to have
been unusually bold. With number Of
children as witnesses two shots were fred
directly at the priest Father Fielding
grappled with the man and succeeded in
burling him to the floor. Before the
priest could follow up his advantage the
man ran from the church and escaped
through a crowd, fourishing his revolver
He was the most degenerate and desper-
ate looking man | ever saw" said Father
Fielding. The priest said he did not be-
lieve the man intended to rob, but that
he was the kind of man who killed the
Denver priest and the one who attacked
Chief of Police Shippy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
MONEY IN CANTELoUPEs.
Former Desert Land Now Worth
M $4,000 an Acre

PStOOO GIL 61SAC
In some sections of Colorado and In
the Southwest, where only a few
years ago the land was a worthless
desert, the canteloupe is king. The lus-
cious fruit is at its best where other
fruits and vegetables are not grown.
1t is hermit. Squashes, watermelons
and pumpkins grown in its vicinity
cause it to deteriorate, but potatoes
grown in its neighborhood seem to add
TO its virtue.
From four districts in the West the
export value of canteloupes this year
will be $10,00O,000. In the vicinity of
Glenwood, Colo, new land, redeemed by
irrigation and devoted to canteloupes,
is selling for $1,000 an acre This
statement seems preposterous until one
is confronted by the recorded deeds A
fruit farm of 20 acres which was
bought at $1,000 an acre three years
ago produced in cantaloupes per acre
in the three years $500, S2,1O0 and
$1,000, thus returning the purchase
price each year with 80 per cent profit
the first year and 100 per cent profit the
following years.
The region about Glenwood which it
is possible to irrigate does not exceed
10000 acres and most of it has already
been snapped up. The soil is incredibly
rich, but has no rainfall.
Another canteloupe district is the
Salton Sea, in southern California, for
merly a desert strewn with bleaching
human bones. Part of it is now irrigat-
ed and from one section there was
shipped this year 100000 worth Of
melons, while as much more rotted on
the ground. This former sun-baked des-
ert is now bringing apricot trees into
bearing in two years and giving crops
of barley, kaffir corn, onions and canta-
loupes in succession on the same land
in one year. The sun shines 800 days
In year.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS.

A course in mental healing will form
part of the curriculum at Tufts college,
at Boston, Mass this year.
The Michigan Federation of Labor
went on record in favor of woman suf-
frage and against prohibition.
Two persons were killed and three prob
ably fatally hurt when an auto leaped
an embankment at Ashland, Pa.
The list of dead in the collision at
Young's Point has now reached twenty
one and the injured are placed at nine
The cutting mill of the Williamsport
(Pa.) nail works was destroyed by fire,
involving a loss of $4,000 to 100000
About go men are thrown out of work.
Specifications inviting bids for dredging
Pearl harbor, Hawaii, where the United
States is TO establish an important naval
station at an estimated cost of 81. 5O0.-
600, have been issued at Washington.
D..
After a police search extending to ell
parts of the United States and Europe
Dr. George Morton of New York was ar
rested in Philadelphia on the charge of
obtaining 100000 by means of frasdu-
lent notes
The exploding of tire on an autono-
bile containing six persons, near Mount
Eden, Cal, overturned the car and all
of the occupants were injured, but none
fatally.
Three men lost their lives on the To
ronto, Hamilton and Buffalo railway when
e burning trestle gave way. precipitating
a freight train into the dry bed OF
stream.
An attempt TO kin Joseph Canister,
grocer az Reading, Pa, and his family by
exploding dynamite under his home was
made the other day. the members OF the
family being thrown OFT Of ted. but not
injured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
Man 100000 Years Ago.

Prof Peuck of Berlin is coming to New
York soon to lecture on the interesting
anthropological discovery in a wonderful
cave at Saints, Switzerland. In it DR..
Bachler has unearthed numerous remains
of colony of bears, with a quantity of
human bones of the prepaleolithic period.
1t is held that the men lived in the cave
and ate the bears, which had been hunted
and killed. Prof. Peuck claims to have
proved the life represented in these re-
mains must have had its being in the in
terglacial time or before the last glacial
modification of the Alps. That would
make the time about 100000 years ago.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
( $S{6;%s{S G
The News "

Looks like Bill is going to be elected.

Looks like Bill is going to be elected.
Open season for political broadsides.
The most popular college this year is
the electoral college.
The habit of burning letters ought to be
taught in the schools,
That DR. Rustin of Omaha must have
been a cheerful citizen.
China has decided not to let France
slide down its cellar door.
No campaign is really hot until the
election judges begin to fight.
That is an ominous shadow which the
cholera is casting over Manila.
Business is beginning to pick up. Look
at the ready letter-writer industry.
Lots of people can see political rain
bows without going up in airships.
Nobody's being kept awake by the
noise of the campaign contributions.
Airship trips by moonlight. For re-
served seats apply to Wright brothers.
The American feet is experiencing all
sorts of novelties, including a typhoon.
The poor little tuberculosis germ will
now have time to take little needed rest
This country's record-breaking pump
kin crop ought to make pie lovers laugh
The new Chinese minister-elect, Chung
Men Yew. has a name like a midnight cat
If the freak styles in hats keeps Oh,
next thing we will have a mems millinery
store
Things seem to indicate that we are
now living in the United States of Stand
ard Oil.
Is giving $1,000 automobiles to ac-
tresses a pastime among needy Wall street
brokers?
Bulgaria thought she might as well take
a slice of freedom while it was going
around.
Who would have believed that the ma
chinery of politics had been so completely
oiled up?
Not in it now unless you have either a
new cure for consumption or Standard
Oil letter.
The case Of Thaw shows that even in
Jail the bill collector will get you if you
An automobilist who is not fined now
and then considers that he might as well
not have a machine.
This warning against collecting cam
paign money sounds like a grim joke TO
the committee treasurers.
Hunting bears in automobiles in yell
lowstone Park. Now it's up to the Presi-
dent 10 hunt African lions in an airship.
There are f17.4o4 paupers in London.
not to speak OF the ,264, 407 other people
who conceal the fact that they haven't
any money.
I.andslides are great things-unless you
happen to be caught under the landslide.
Looks like good business with the
virgins selling 80 aeroplanes at one time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
FlREeues SET $1,000, 900 FIRE.
Man Arrested as Suspect-FIame
Destroy Railroad Cars.

Incendiarism for revenge, according to
the police, resulted in a loss of nearly
100000 by fire in the mammoth docks
and freight yards of the International
Salt Company at 103d street and the Cal
umet river, South Chicago. One man,
who was discharged by. the company sew
eral weeks ago, was locked up on suspi-
rion after being rescued from a burning
freight car. The prisoner is Perchold
Gettford. He was unable to explain sat
isfactorily to the police why he was on
the company's property. The flames swept
through the docks, jumped the river, at
tackled and threatened a big grain eleva-
tor with destruction and blistered several
steamers and barges laden with grain.
Two freboats towed away the imperiled
vessels and saved them, while fremen
ashore prevented the burning of the ele-
vator. The fire is said to have been set
in two different places. Flames were
first discovered by James Norback, a
Waterman, in a salt shed 200x1O0 feet.
He ran into an adjoining shed, 5O0x24O
feet, and in a corner found another blaze.
The Waterman pulled an alarm box and
the fireboat Michael Conway was the first
to respond. Half a dozen calls for fire
engines were made, and the freboat Hi
nois was summoned before the flames
could be checked
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
AMERICAN MEAT Is PURER.
Board in Scotland Finds Less Pre-
sentative thnn in Home Product.

Board in Scotland Finds Less Pre-
servative than in Home Product.
In report covering analyses of Brit
ish and American meat foods packed in
tins and glass, the medical department
of the local government board OF Scot
land sets forth facts which go far toward
discrediting falsehoods circulated abroad
as to American meats. Consul Maxwell
Blake of Dunfermline says that the in
vestigation disclosed that large amount
of ham and bacon of British origin is con-
verted into prepared food, much of which
is found on analysis to contain boric pre-
servatives. Examination of samples prov
ed that American products contained only
Is per cent of preservatives, while Brit
ish products contained more than 40 per
cent. The British manufacturers attempt
ed to attack the justice of the findings on
the ground that many of the products used
for canning were of American origin. The
official report, however, contradicted this.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
NuRRINS OLE NEWS.

Representatives of the coal miners OF
Washington and the coal operators met
recently and signed an agreement for the
present wage scale to be in force for the
next two years.
President Roosevelt has told Israei
Zangwill, the playwright, who was his
guest at luncheon, that the line, Not be-
ing American, we hold our troth sacred, y
in THE Melting Pot" was an unjust slur
upon American domestic life and suggest
ed that it be changed, which suggestion
Zangwill is considering.
P. T. Ecker and S. Ecker were SEN
fenced at Clarksburg, w. Va, to four
years in the penitentiary for making spu-
rious nickels, which were used to work
slot machines.
Grand Duchess Elizabeth, widow OF
Grand Duke Sergius, who was assassinat-
ed at Moscow in 1905, has retired to a
Russian convent near Moscow. She may
decide to take the veil.
At a reception in the Lyric Theater,
New York, under the auspices of the
United Irish League, John E. Redmond
and Joseph Devlin, the Irish ENJOYS, were
given a rousing reception by large au-
dience.
A gift of 100000 to Tufts college I'M
der the provisions of the Braker viii, re-
Gently probated in New York, was an
nounced to Tufts students at Medford,
Mass. The money is TO be used as a
foundation for a school of finance and &C
counts.
D. NJ. Carr, an advocate of parcels
post legislation, In an address before the
National Rural Letter Carriers Associa-
tim at Omaha, Neb., urged the passage
o. the Burnham congressional bill, which,
hs contended, would make the rural post
a. service self-sustaining. He said one
fent postage, if it should become effect
ive, would entail loss of millions OF dol
lars.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
WOMAN HELPS BUILD HOME.

Says She Discovered New Facts
About Concrete Work as Mason.
Working far into the night, side by side
with three Italian laborers, Mrs. Charles
Rice, well known in social circles in
Verona, near Montclair, n. j., has vir-
tualyl finished the building of a hand
some four-story concrete residence, into
which she has just moved with her in
valid husband and three children. As a
self-taught mason, Mrs. Rice not only
supervised the work, but did much of
it with her own hands, and she declares
besides that she has discovered two new
methods of concrete building which she
hopes will ultimately add to her fortunes.
Mrs. Rice began the construction of the
building last March and her friends were
astonished when they saw her, clad in a
nondescript costume of her own design,
atop of a ladder, handling huge blocks of
concrete or mixing mortar. She not only
did work of that kind, but she built the
molds into which the substance was pour
ed and on the whole labored as hard as
did her cO-wOrkers.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
CHICAGO MAN TAKEN AS THIEF.
II c. TiedebOhI Accused OF Taking
100000 from Seinn brewery.

II C.. TiedebohI Accused OF Taking
$4,000 from Seipp Brewery.
Theodore G. Teidebohl, secretary for
many years of the Conrad Seipp Brewing
Company of Chicago, was arrested in a
leading hotel in Denver and led from the
presence of his wife to the city Jail. Pres
ident Theodore Oehne of the company
and Attorney E. E. Everett of Chicago,
who traced Teidebohl with the aid of de-
tectives, charge that he embezzled nearly
$4,000 from the concern, $4,000 of
which they claim has been shown missing
by checking the books. Teidebohl, who
is 80 years old and the father of eight
children, remained in Chicago until last
week. Attorney Everett says that small
discrepancies were found in his accounts
soon after he quit, and that in August it
was found that at least $4,000 was
missing. On Friday the ex-secretary
reached Denver. A few hours later there
arrived the president, the lawyer and d.
tectives. Several conferences were held,
but evidently they were unsatisfactory
and the arrest was ordered. Teidebohi
gave the name of Harry Horn and refus-
ed to talk. His wife believes him inno-
cent and collapsed when told that he was
under arrest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
COAL MINERS MAKE DEMANDS.
Anthracite Men Want More Money,
S-Hour Day and RecOxnftion.

Anthracite Men Want More Money,
S-Hour Day and Recognition.
The convention of the anthracite coal
miners closed in Scranton, Pa, after
making public the scale agreed to by the
scale committee and approved by the dele
gates. The demands are as follows:
That an agreement shall be negotiated
between the representatives of the miners
and operators of the anthracite region,
and all disputes arising under the con-
tract shall be adjusted as provided for in
the said agreement. We demand the
complete recognition of the United Mine
Workers of America as a party to nego-
tate a wage contract, and that the United
Mine Workers of America shall be recog-
nized in our right to provide any method
we may adopt for the collection of reve-
nues for the organization. We demand
an eight-hour day, with no reduction of
wages, and that all employees paid $1.5Q
or less per day shall receive 10 per cent
advance, and all employees paid more than
S15O and less than 81 per day shall re-
ceive a per cent advance"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
RELIEF TRAIN BURNED
AND MANY DIE IN FIRE
Refugees from Metz, Mich, Are
Trapped by Forest Fires and
Score Perish.
FIFTEEN SKELETONS FOUND.
Engineer and Fireman Have Thrill
ing Escape After Seeking Safety
in Vain in Water Tank.

Nearly score or men, women ana
children, refugees from the Michigan
forest fires that have destroyed seven
towns and have caused property losses
estimated at several million dollars,
were burned to death in a relief train
wreck Friday The train, consisting Of
box cars, after leaving the town of Metz
In the upper peninsula, struck a burn
ed out culvert and left the track The
passengers were trapped on all sides
by the flames and cremated in p fiery
furnace. Fifteen charred skeletons
were found in the burned wreck.
The forest fires above Alpena, in
PresQue Isle county, suddenly become
threatening Thursday, after it was be-
lieved that the heavy rains early in the
month had eXtinguished them. They
spread rapidly and soon were menacing
a number of towns along the line of the
Detroit and Mackinac Railroad The
'AAAetSS VI ~hSbAJ Win ClbOul 1OO
itants, lay in the path of the flames.
Its situation became dangerous Thurs
day night.
Relief Train of Box Cars.
The railroad sent in a relief train Of
box cars. Household goods and
mercantile stocks were loaded on some
of tho kio
others. How many were taken aboard
is not known, nor is it known whether
any of the farmers from outlying
points had come into Metz seeking
refuge from the flames
With it's load of frightened men, wo-
men and children the train pulled out
of Metz about midnight and started
for the north, with flames along the
tracks on both sides. The cars pro-
ceeded toward the north as far as
Hawks station about halfway be-
tween Metz and Millersburg. There
the fire was sweeping across the track
SO fiercely as to make further progress
in that direction impossible and the
train was headed back toward the
south for Alpena. While rushing
through the fire and smoke the engine
struck a culvert which had been burn
ed. Tt left the rails and fell into the
ditch.
Engineer Foster and Fireman Lee
took refuge in a water tank, where they
stayed until the water became so hot
that they had to leave the tank and
run for their lives. They, with Con-
ductor Kinville, realizing that the
train was hOpelessly ditchod and that
to remain with it meant certain death,
started to Posen. They left the wreck
and escaped by crawling along the
tracks on their hands and knees, with
the forests on both sides roaring fur
naces. Conductor Kinville is reported
to be blind from his burns, but Foster
and Lee are understood to be not
severely injured. There are reports
that several others escaped with the
trainmen. George Boston, travelling
salesman, was on the derailed rescue
train, but succeeded in reaching Posen,
where he arrived badly burned. lie
says that one car of the train was
filled with men, women and children
and that probably about twenty must
have persisted in the fire.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
SUSPENDED FOR HAZING.


John N. Garfield Is Sent Home from
School at Waterbury, Conn.
John n. Garfield, son of the Secretary
of the Interior, was among a number of
students suspended from the Taft school,
Waterbury, Conn, for the hazing of I'M
der classmen. Four were suspended in
all. The upper classmen did not like the
actions of some of the new boys and so,
after the latter had retired, the cd stu
dents went to the rooms and ro4ted them
from their beds and, naked, took them to
the Mushroom below. The next afternoon
the faculty met and the suspensions for
hazing were ordered. Garfield is suspend
ed for three weeks and the others for six
weeks. Three were members of the regu-
lar football eleven, Garfield playing CEN
ter on the team.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-10-27
TyvO-Men Flying Record.

Using a more powerful motor and pro-
peller than formerly, Wilbur Wright made
new record flight at LIE Mans, France,
when his aeroplane carried himself and a
reporter for the Paris Figaro through the
air at high speed for ffty-fve minutes and
thirty-two seconds, the latter part of the
fight being after dark had settled down
over the field. The speed with passenger
was 37.S7 miles an hour. Lazare Weller,
the Paris fnancier and promoter of in
vention, has ordered the construction Of
flock of Wright aeroplanes, and all
France is rejoicing at the prospect of TAX
ing the lead of other nations in this new
industry and possible means of defense.