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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
RESULTS OF lST STATE
BATTLES At THE POLLS
Republicans Win in Vermont by
Plurality of About
$4,000.
RETURNS FROM THE PRIMARIES
Michigan, Wisconsin and Nebraska
Hold Significant Nominating
Elections.

Returns from the gubernatorial cleo
ton in Vermont indicate that George
II. Prouty, the Republican candidate,
is elected by u plurality of about $4,000
over his Democratic opponent, James e.
Burke.
The State election was watched with
the most intense interest by all of the
national political figurers. In the minds
Of many of them the final reports on
November's election night were to be
foretold by Vermonts voting. Whether
the Republican plurality was to reach
up TO the landslide figures of 1896,
1900 and 1904, or whether it was to
drop below the danger line of 25,000
absorbed the attention of Republicans
everywhere.
The Republican vote is more than s
per cent short of that cast for Gov
erncr Bell in 1904. The Democratic
vote vas 2 per cent short of that of
1904 Practically the entire voting
strength of the State was registered at
the polls.
Lieutenant Governor Prouty, who
has been elected Governor, was opposed
by James f. Burke, formerly known
as the Blacksmith Mayor" of Burling
ton. The Republicans made a strenu-
Gus campaign in the State, and the Ma
tional Committee sent in a strong bat
terry of speakers. Mr.. Burke made his
fight practically alone, and while the
Democratic national organization took
strong interest in the turn of affairs,
they sent in few spellbinders
For the first time the Independence
party had a gubernatorial candidate.
He ran ahead of both the Prohibition
and Socialist nominees
Vermont's vote has been one of the
shining consultations in the political
heavens by which political pilots have
steered in national campaigns, so soon
as the towns and cities of the State had
reported themselves on the night of the
September election. But once since the
wartime period has Vermont failed cor
rectly to forecast the political color OF
the succeeding national administration,
the entire proposition being based upon
the axiom that if Vermont gives less
than $4,000 Republican plurality in
September the Democrats will win in
the nation in November. That once was
in 1876, when Vermont slipped up.
There are plenty of Democrats who are
| still confident that Vermont was right
at that exciting political period. Yer
mont's September plurality dropped to
23,735, and Rutherford B. Hayes was
declared elected President by major
ity of one electoral vote
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy, $4.OO
to $40; sheep, fair to choice, $500
to $3.50; wheat, No. ,, 95c to 96c;
corn, No. ., Tic to 7Sc: oats. standard,
4Sc to 49c; rye, No. 2, 7Gc to 7Sc; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie, $500
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery, 19c
to &c; eggs. fresh. lie to zoe; potatoes,
per bushel, Coo to re.
Indianapolis-Ca shipping. $500
to $40 hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $6.S5; sheep, common to prime,
$3.50 to $500; wheat, No. =, Ole to
93c; corn, No. 2 white. 79c to soc; oats,
No. 2 white, 47c to 4Sc.
st. Louis-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 to $7.17; sheep, $500 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, 96c to 07c; corn, No. 2,
76c to Tic; oats, No. 2, 47c to 4Sc;
rye, No. 2, soc to Sic.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 to $J.75;
hogs $500 to sos; sheep, $500 to
$500: wheat, No. 2, 97c to Csc; corn,
No 2 mixed, SOC to Sic; oats No.
mixed, Acc to soc; rye, No. 2, 7Sc to 79c.
Detroit-Cattle, 800 to $500; hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $3.50 to $3.50;
wheat, No 2, 94c to 95c; corn, No.
yellow, Sic to SIC; oats, No. 3 white,
soc to 51c rye, No. 2, 73c to TIC.
Milwaukee, Wheat, No. 2 northern,
$1.OO to SOB. corn, No. 3, roc to SOC;
oats, standard, 49c to zoe; rye, No. l,
&c to re; barley, No. 2, 12c to 74c;
pork, mess, $14.75.
Buffalo-Cattle, choice shipping steers,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, fair to choice, $500
10 1925; sheep, common to good MIXED,
$500 to $3.50; lambs, fair to choice,
$500 to 500.
New York-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $3.50 to $715; sheep, $500 to
S465; wheat No. . red, $1.01 to $1.02;
corn, No. 2, SOC to SOC; oats, natural
white, 55c to SIC; butter, creamery, 20c
to 24c; eggs, western, 19c to pc.
Toedo-Wheat, No. 2 mixed, 93c to
05c; corn, No. mixed, 79c to Sic;
oats, No mixed, Acc to SOC: rye No.
2, 75c to 76c; clover seed, October, $6.17.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
CURRENT NEWS NOTES.

Robert Hunter, the wealthy New York
Socialist author, has been nominated for
the Assembly by the Sixth District.
North Dakota and northern Minnesota
are calling for thousands of harvest hands
at wages ranging from $1.75 to So per
day and board.
The elevator men of the country north
of Thief River Falls promise to deliver
to the Twin Cities and other wheat CEN
ters 100000 bushels Of wheat this sea-
son.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Cincinnati. which is aiding the unem-
ployed of that city, recently sent 200
men at one time to the South Dakota
harvest fields.
A disease, believed to be cholera, is
killing many hogs in the vicinity Of
Corning, Iowa. Death usually follows
within four days after the hogs come
down with the disease.
At a meeting of farmers in Deer Lake,
Mimi. to discuss the ACCESSIBILITY of
building a cooperative creamery, it was
decided that the time is not yet ripe for
the project, but an organization was per-
fected to promote dairying interests.
Prof. William Seaver, who has been
assistant in the botanical department Of
the North Dakota agricultural college,
has received notification that he has been
elected superintendent Of the laboratories
in the botanical gardens in New York
City.
A number Of Perham, Nina, business
men have formed a stock company, with
a capital of 5000, for the purpose on
building and operating a potato ware
house. The people of that locality have
begun raising potatoes on a large scale
and they win be bought the same as grain
in future, instead Of being handled by the
local merchants.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Alaska will ship at least $S,000,0O0 in
gold to the United States mint this year.
The Upper Mississippi River Improve
ment Association is due to raeet at Gin
ton, Iowa, Sept 22-24, to formulate de-
mands to be made at the next session Of
Congress.
AS a result of the board of review rails
ing the value of their property from $685.
600 to $4,000 the Eau Claire, Wis,
Gas Light Company is up in arms and
will fight any such assessment.
Annulment Of an Assessment of $685.
O3O for bonds and stocks other than bank
stocks was asked of the Minneapolis board
of equalization by the Standard Oil Com
pany through its Minneapolis manager.
The Western Elevator Company Of
Winona, Mimi, has purchased the prop
critics Of the Northern Grain Company
of Manitowoc, including fifty-fve coun-
try elevators and two terminal elevators,
with storage capacity OF 100000 BUSH
els. This gives the Western Elevator
Company elevators in over 200 towns in
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and South
Dakota, with direct connection with east
ern markets.
The men employed on the tail race Of
the new electric power plant at Kau-
kauna, Wis, struck for 81 per day, but
some of them have since returned to work
at the old scale Of wages. the Green Bay
and Mississippi Canal Company refusing
to grant an increase.
Major Skunk and a number of assist
ants from the United States engineers
Office in St. Paul are making the annual
inspection of the Red river. Quite
little dredging is to be done at down
river points this season by the govern
ment. The dredging outfit has been over
hauled and now is ready for work. There
has been some delay on account of high
water in the river
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
NEW YORK.

Buyers are more in evidence and as
result business has expanded measurably
at leading western and Pacific coast
points and at n few southern centers
Some western cities note evidence of new
life in buying by southern and southwest
ern merchants of fall and winter goods
incidentally some new stocks are reported
being bought at Chicago, which is rather
in contrast with a year ago. when COM
ing depression had already begun to make
for precaution in embarking in new en-
terprises.
Despite the improvement, however, the
volume of business doing does not equal
that of last season and conservatism and
caution still are visible. Retail trade is
dull the country over. Industry tends to
increase in activity, though slowly, but
current production is still below anticipa-
tons in many instances.
Business failures in the United States
for the week ending Aug. % number 232
against 236 last week, 167 in the like
week of 1907, 13S in 1906, 161 in 1905
and 1S9 in 1904. Canadian failures for
the same period number 81, as against SO
last week and 20 last year.-Bradstreet's
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PNTICS % ~
@FOLITIelANZS

The national committee of the new In
dependence party met at New York and
chose William r. Hearst as chairman and
Charles A. Walsh as secretary.
W. ]. Bryan, in talks with visitors at
Lincoln, declined to be drawn into the
Brownsville controversy and denied hav-
ing criticised President Roosevelt's &C
ton.
In the Federationist monthly organ of
the American Federation of Labor, Presi-
dent Gompers has,. leading editorial,
calling upon union men to support Bryan
and Kern.
Chairman Frank Hitchcock of the Re-
publican national committee met the va
rious State managers of the far West at
Colorado Springs, and held a series of
conferences.
The widely published interview with
the Socialist candidate, Debs, to the effect
that he had predicted the election of Taft
is denied by him in letter to the Chi
cago Daily Socialist.
The Republican executive committee
has selected Representative Mckinley of
Illinois to succeed Candidate Sherman as
chairman of the congressional committee.
Former Comptroller of the Treasury
Charles c. Dawes was chosen treasurer
of the same committee.
Upon the personal request and advice
of Candidate Bryan, the subcommittee of
the Democratic national committee has
chosen as chairman for the present CAM
paign Norman e. Mack, editor of the
Buffalo Times, who has been a member
of the national committee since 1900.
Candidate Bryan at Lincoln gave out
reply to the platform of the Indepen-
dence party. pointing out that it contains
many planks identical with the Demo
cratic platform. and urging voters who
want these things not to throw away
their votes on a party that can not hope
to win.
Candidate Taft made his formal entry
into the ranks of union labor at CiRcin-
natl the day after his speech of accept
ance. when a delegation from the Interna-
tiouaI Brotherhood of Steam Shovelmen
and Dredgemen formally notified him of
his election to honorary membership.
In his first statement. replying to Taft's
speech of acceptance, Bryan said it show
ed that the Republican candidate was not
satisfied with his own party's platform
and that he was disposed TO appropriate
the reforms first proposed by the Demo
cratic party. Gov johnson of Mime
sofa has agreed to be a member Of the
BRYAN campaign committee.
Gov. Charles E. Hughes of New York
will accept a renominatpn il the Republi-
can party OF his State desires him to be
its candidate. In a statement made pub
lie the Governor declared himself willing
to run if the people desired continue
ten of the administrative policy he has
pursued.
James G. Phelps Stokes, the millionaire
Socialist, will run FOR the Assembly from
the Eighth New York District, which
takes in part of the lower East Side.
II is announced that Mrs. Stokes viii
take the stump for her husband in the
coming fight. This district ia considered
one Of the strongest fields Of socialism u
the city.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
INCREASING IN PRODUCTION.
Statistics of Forty Years Shows Soil
LIS Not Wearing Out.

Statistics of Forty Years Shows Soil
Is Not Wearing Out.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
that after forty years investigation the
Department of Agriculture was ready to
say conclusively that American land is
not wearing out. On the contrary, he
said at the Iowa State fair in Des Moines.
that its productivity, on the whole, was
larger to-day than ten years ago. This
is the first information upon the matter
given out by the Secretary. The depart
ment has jus ended an exhaustive and
scientific investigation on this subject,
and Secretary Wilson regards the result
as conclusive. Taking the productivity
of the soil of the country of ten years,
between thirty and forty years ago, as
the basis measured at 100 per cent, the
Department of Agriculture has discovered
that the productivity for the next ten
years was 81 per cent, for the next ten
years it was "a per cent, and for the last
ten years it was 1OS per cent. while
the investigation disclosed that the crops
of between thirty and forty years ago
were better than those of ten and twenty
years ago." said Secretary Wilson, dur
ing the last ten years there was a bigger
average crop per acre than during forty
years."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
CHICAGO

Trade generally exhibits a more cheer
full tone under the stimulus of sustained
improving conditions The returns as
10 volume of payments through the banks
and business failures show close COMPARE
sons. Recovery becomes more distinct
in the leading industries, outputs being
increased and new demands larger. Iron
and steel branches secured important or
ders this week, and there were also nota-
bic operations in wholesale staples.
Contracts for freight and passenger
cars, light rails and structural shapes rose
to the best aggregate for some time. Much
cries, and this permits additions to ma
chinery and hands employed.
The building interests have much work
in sight. and this injects further strength
to dealings in lumber, mill stuff and
quarry material. Structures for mercan-
tile purposes are planned in larger cost
than at this time last year.
DiStributive demands have advanced to
the expected seasonable proportions. Out
side buyers assembled in greater numbers
than year ago and, although many yet
pursue cautious methods, the bookings
make a gratifying total in dry goods, APP
parel, millinery and food produces. Col
lections show more promptness in the
West and South, and credits occasion but
little difficulty where the harvests have
been good.
Corn growth continues to be satisfac-
tory, live stock IS in better supply and the
markets for breadstufs and provisions are
mainly higher.
Bank clearings, $201,649, 400, are 40
per cent under those of the corresponding
week in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number "a. against 81 last week and
"a a year ago. Those with liabilities over
$1,000 number 3, against last week and
S in 1907.-Dun's Review
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
SHONTS SAYS RAILROADS WAIT.
Will Make Few improvements Until
They Know Election Results.

That the approaching election will have
much to do with the making or the MARI
ing of the railroad future was the gist of
a statement made by T. P. Shonts, presi-
dent of the Chicago and Alton and Clover
Leaf railroads and father of the Duchess
de Chaulnes, who was in Chicago en-
route for Homecoming celebration at
Centerville, Iowa. He refused to COM
NIT himself with regard to political pref
erence.
Railroad property is falling away be-
low the usual standard at which it is held
because of the uncertainty in the outlook.
The railroads of the country are not
spending a dollar for improvements.
have not spent a dollar for such purpose
within a year nor bought nor laid ton
of rails. The other day l bought 1000
steel cars for the Alton because they were
absolutely necessary. That is the only
reason that any railroad will spend a
penny at this time"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
NEW TRAGEDY AT SPRINGFIELD
Woman Who Is Said to Have Led
MOI Commits Suicide.

Woman Who Is Said to Have Led
MOI Commits Suicide.
Mrs. Kate Howard, who is said to
have led the fierce mob during the re-
cent race riots in Springfield, Ill.,, made
good her boast that she would die by
her own hand if pushed too far" She
died at the county Jail at 6 :15 o'clock
Wednesday morning. few minutes
after she had been arrested on charge
of murder. Poison swallowed while in
the custody of an officer at her home
did its deadly work while en- route to
the prison and she collapsed before en-
tering the steel doors, dying a few min
utes later. The woman was AZ years of
age
To the last the woman on whose
shoulders had been laid much of the
responsibility for the reign OF terror
that possessed Springfield on Aug. IA
and Is denied her guilt. Her last
words to the officers who had arrested
her were: II am not guilty of the muir
later she swallowed the deadly draught
which ended all her earthly troubles
and fulfilled her boast that she would
find release In death should additional
charges be preferred against her.
The special grand jury investigating
the recent race riots returned its first
indictment for murder Wednesday af-
ternoon. Three indictments were re-
turned for the lynching of Scott Burton
ard William Donegan, the negroes who
met death at the hands of the mob.
Mrs. Howard and Abe Raymer were
charged with having led the mob which
lynched Burton at the corner of 18th
and Madison streets early Saturday
morning, Aug. 10.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
80 ARE sUFFocATED IN MINE.
Men Entombed Alive When Fire
Cuts OFF Surface Connection.

Men Entombed Alive When FIRE
Cuts Of Surface Connection.
More than thirty men were suffocated
Wednesday morning in Hailey-Ola mine
No. 1 at Haileyville, Okla, when fire de-
stroyed the hosting shaft and airshaft
and cut off air from the men below.
Twenty-six bodies were removed from
the mine, following a successful three
hours battle with the flames. 1t is be-
lieved that six or eight more will be
brought out. Twenty-Five mules were suf-
located and some of their bodies were
burned. After the entombed men had
gone down in the cage fire broke out,
occasioned by the ignition of barrel of
oil which a miner was trying to divide.
The flames spread at once to the hosting
shaft and the air shaft and all communi-
cation with the top was at once shut off.
The HaileyOla is owned by DR.. d. NJ.
HALEY, James Elliott and a number of
Chicago and st. Louis capitalists.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
WATcHMAN sRUTALLY SLAIN.
Blackhand Blamed for Murder at
White plains

biacknanc blamed Tor Murder at
White Plains, n. Y.
Clubbed until his skull was pounded
into pulp, choked with strap tied
tightly around his throat, and then
thrown into brook to make death trebly
certain, was the fate which was meted
out to Frank Brady, a lonely Waterman
on the State road between Tarrytown
and White Plains, N Y. Sheriff Charles
NJ. Lane, who is working on the case, has
one suspect under arrest That Black
Hand agents were responsible for the
death of Brady there is no doubt. Re
venge is believed to have been the mo-
tive. Brady was employed as night
Waterman by Contractors Mallory & Muir
ray, who are building the new State road
between Tarrytown and White Plains,
which will form a boulevard between the
Hudson and the county seat. FRIDAY night
Brady had day off, and an Italian was
placed on guard. Saturday night Pas
quale Giovanni was made Waterman, as
it was not known whether Brady would
return, but he did come back to work
He ordered the Italian Waterman away,
and that was the last seen of him alive.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08

Assistant Secretary Of State Bacon
has left Washington for vacation
which he win spend chiefly in the
Rocky Mountain regions, where he ex-
poets to hunt and fish.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
NATION OWNS HUGE LAND AREA
Report Shows 754, 1895, 1906 Acres IN
disposed OF in Various States.

The general land Office in Washington
has compiled its annual statement show
ing the area of the public domain re-
naming undisposed of on July 1, 1908.
The reports were recently received from
the various local land offices in the pub
lie land States, excepting Alaska.
From the statement ii appears that the
government still has an area of 754 $685.
296 acres of surveyed and unsurveyed
public lands distributed as follows:
Alabama, 129,713; Alaska, 36S,021,-
500; Arizona, 42,769, POP; Arkansas, l.
0601S5; California, 29,S72,493 Colo
RADIO, 23,696,69 Florida, Ala, $40; Idaho,
&c, 1885, 02; Kansas, III, 446; Louisiana,
116, 249; Michigan, ,551; Minnesota,
1,7SS,705; Mississippi, 42,791; Missouri,
81, 4S0; Montana, 1852, 40; Nebraska,
3,O74, 65S; Nevada, 81, III $50; New Mex
leo, ATT, 905; North Dakota, 1922, 100 (;
Oklahoma, S6,339; Oregon, 1887 ,913 F.;
South Dakota, 6,561, 295; Utah, 36,57S,-
99S; Washington, 4,635,001; Wisconsin,
1920; Wyoming, 81, 145, 302; total, T54,-
SQ5 DOG
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08

The electoral proceedings which for so
long a time threatened the peace of the
Panama republic ended happily the other
the national jury of elections, delivered to
Senior Don Jose Domingo de Obaldia the
document setting forth the final count of
votes, which makes him the constitutional
successor of President Manuel Amador.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
MANY WouId Marry Her.

Nearly 500 offers of marriage have
been received by Mrs. Anna Rowe, who
is waiting in line to file on a homestead
in the Fond du Lac reservation, which
will be opened in Duluth Sept. 10.
Through an error the papers said that
she was unmarried and Immediately pro-
posals began to come from all parts of
the country
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
CUT OF 500, 100000 BY JAPAN.
Enormous CurtaiIment of Expendi-
lures Part of Financial Plan.

The japanese governments financial
policy, decided upon by the cabinet in
Toxic, involves the curtailment of ex-
penditures by S10O,OOO,0OO, of which 80
per cent will be taken from the army
budget and 10 per cent from that of the
navy. The postponement of the interna-
tional exposition, Premier Katsura says,
is not purely due to financial reasons,
but is owing to the fact that the work of
preparation has been insufficient. and it
will be quite impossible to make a cred
liable exposition within three years on an
appropriation of $5,OOO,O00. Therefore
the exposition will be held in 1917, the
anniversary of the accession of the EN-
peror.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
BIG VALUE IN KANSAS FARMS.
Assessed by the State Tax Commits"
sion at S1,2O4, 426,913.

The people of Kansas have practically
as much money invested in farm lands
as in all other forms of property COM
bined. The tax returns, made public by
the State tax commission, show that the
taxable value, which is the cash value
under the new law, of farm lands alone
aggregates $1,204 ,426,913. The value OF
public service corporations, which in
cludes railroads, telephones and trolley
systems, but excludes the Western I'm
ions property, amounts to $4O1, 16l,03O.
The Western Union is excluded because
of a suit pending in the courts enjoining
the tax commission from assessing its
property. All the town lots in the State
are valued at $36S,621,S 77, and all per-
sonal property at $474, 191 ,255.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-08
TRY TO BURN BOY AT STAKE.

Two Youngsters Are Arrested on
Complaint of Father of Victim.
On complaint of Simon Barbagei the
New York police have arrested Annie Ar
bucho and Joseph Asselta, each 8 years
old. Barbagei alleged that the two boys
had attacked his 5-year-old son John on
Aug. 16, tied him to a post in the cellar
of the house where they lived, and set fire
to him. He charged also that they had
sprinkled gunpowder in the flames. Young
Barbagei was severely burned, but is now
out of danger.