Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-11-25
PAPER Mill
STORIES
How a Paper Mill "Super" was
Placed Under Suspicion--Eels
in the Wheel Pit.

Correspondence of The Paper Mill.)
Appleton Wis, November 18, 1909.
Two good stories in which well
known Wisconsin paper makers are
concerned came to light here this
week. The first concerns the deten-
ton at Rhinelander of Jack" Nc
Corkindale, Of Stevens Point, under
suspicion as a bank rObber.
Rhinelander some little time ago
had an experience with a Jesse James
sort of a character and naturally
the police of that city were on the
lookout for suspicious looking fellows
One night last week McCorkindale,
who is superintendent of the paper
mill at Stevens Point, had business
at Rhinelander Thinking to combine
pleasure with business the genial
Jack" took his gun with him to the
northern paper mill town so he could
do a little shooting in the woods af-
ter completing his business errand.
McCorkindaIe arrived in Rhinelander
in the evening. He went directly
to the leading hotel in the city, ask
ed for and was shown to a room on
the second floor. Evidently he look
ed like a suspicious looking char
acter''to the clerk at the hotel, for
the latter individual went directly
to the police authorities and whis-
pered his find" The police, think
ing to be especially cautious in land
ing their man, waited until they were
convinced that the fellow was sound
asleep. Finally hearing a we'll de-
fined exercise in deep breathing they
concluded that the physiological mo-
ment had arrived and they carefully
but forcibly made ingress to the
room occupied by McCorkindale. A
rousing him from his slumbers, but
assuring him promptly that they had
the drop on him and that it would
do him no good to start a rough
house, they ordered him to dress and
accompany them to the police station
Jack demonstrated with all the
pleading powers OF an unframed or
ator, but all to no avail. The Off
GERS contended they were from Mis-
souri, and they had to be shown.
Jack" finally donned his tCgs and
then asked the officers to go with
him to the homes Of some of Rhine
lander's best citizens, where he
would establish his identity and re
veal to the police the awful mistake
they had made. 1t took Jack only
a fewminutes after leaving the hotel
to prove to the police that this was
a case of mistaken identity and also
that every man that carries a gun
is not highwayman or bank rObber.
The other story of the week comes
from Peter Thorn, of the Kimberly
Clark Company. Several days ago
metropolitan papers carried a dis
patch from an Eastern paper making
center saying that a paper mill there
had been obliged to shut down for a
the wheel pits to chop out cells that
had clogged the wheels and stopped
the mill machinery. A local news
paper took up the dispatch and in
a sarcastic manner editOrialiZed on
the work of the penny-a-liner who
penned the message. w. B. Murphy
oft-repeated eel story that he brought
with him from COnada when mere
boy was rehearsed by the paper in
question and this brought out the
story of Mr. Thorn, who declares that
when he was employed in a paper
mill at Griswold, Conn, away back
in 1879, he had an experience with
eels and because of that experience
he is disposed to believe every word
Of the dispatch that made the rounds
last week. Mr.. Thorn declares it was
in the month of October when the
eels broke loose and stopped the ma
chinery in the Griswold mill. And
he insists that the fish had to be
chopped out of the water wheels be-
fore operation could be resumed.
About three barrels of eels were re-
moved from the wheel pits
Wisconsin,