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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-08-05
YELLOW STONE PARK AS
SEEN BY LOCAL PEOPLE

Messrs. A. NJ Muir, Geo. w. Baker
and c. o. Baker are now seeing the
Yellowstone National Park and camp
ing out in the old fashioned way
They are enjoying it hugely and
catching their own trout as they go
along for camping purposes and are
delighted thus far with the trip.
What you can see and enjoy while
making this trip through the Park:
Although fine specimens of our
native wild animals may be seen in
confinement in many city parks
throughout our country, the sight
is not nearly so interesting and in
structiVe as to see these beautiful
wild animals in their natural habitat
in Yellowstone Park, where they
have practically become tame and
fearless as the flocks and herds Of
domestic animals, no doubt because
of an instructive conviction that in
this particular nook of the mountains
man is their friend and not their
enemy There is a value in mental
uplifting in this sight of the wild
animals in their natural home, prac-
tically fearless of man, as we'll as
in the natural scenic beauties of
this wonderland.
Only such species of animals and
birds as were found in the park
when originally laid out and set
aside exist here today. With intel
ligent management and comparatively
little expense a greater variety Of
birds and animals could be success
fully added and propagated within
the park, and under the protection
of a specially trained body of scouts
such animals as buffalo, that have
been exterminated, and mountain
sheep and antelope, which are
rapidly being exterminated in the
United States outside the park, will
undoubtedly increase in the park.
With each succeeding year the
wild animals in the park become a
more important feature of it. Here
is really thet only place where the
public in general can see, unhamper-
ed and gratis, the animals of the
forest and the wilds in their natural
state 1t has required years of ex-
perience for the elk, deer, anteIOpes,
and mountain sheep to become &C
quainted with the fact, in anything
like large numbers, that in Yellow
stone Park man is not evilly disposed
towards them The bears learned
this long ago and have turned the
knowledge to good account, as their
fat bodies and sleek, shining coats
abundantly testify.
There are large and interesting
herds of elk, deer, antelope and
mountain sheep in the park. Also
many black, brown and grizzly bears.
At Mammoth Hot Springs the
herd Of bison, or buffaloes, is to
be seen, a very interesting sight, and
the number gradually increasing
yearly by natural means. The sheep
and antelopes are not usually seen,
as these retire in summer to the re-
mote hills and valleys.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1909-08-05

In the late fall and during the win
ter and spring the deer, sheep, elk,
bison and antelopes may be seen on
the hills and in the valleys around
Gardiner and Mammoth Hot Springs.
The bears are seen at all the
hotels except at Mommoth Hot
Springs. They troop in to the gar
bage piles morning and evening, in
numbers from two or three to thirty,
and afford great amusement. If not
encroached upon there is no dan
ger in watching them.
The elk are seen here and there
along the road and the deer like
wise, the latter, some years frequent
ing the vicinity of one or more of
the hotels.
These animals in their natural stat
and unafraid, add most interesting
and contrasting element to the sights
of the park and are greatly enjoyed
by the tourists.
An effort has been made to a limit
ed extent in the park to feed GER
tain kinds Of game each spring. The
animals so fed are the sheep, the
deer, and the antelope, and the re
suits have been remarkable in at
least two Ways-it has rendered them
exceedingly tame; and while they
will not permit one to touch them,
they can be approached within a
reasonable distance at any time with
out their showing the least sign
Of fear It has also resulted in a
great improvement in their physical
condition, and starts them off in the
spring, when the females are about
to have their young, in such good
shape that few are lost from any
cause.
A few years ago a deer was sell
dom seen anywhere about the Nam
moth Hot Springs, and only occasion
ally a few tracks could be seen in
the snow showing where they had
crossed over the parade ground of
Fort Yellowstone during the night.
AS a matter of experiment, and with
a hope that some OF these animals
which passed through the post might
be induced to come around where
they could be seen, a few bales Of
alfalfa hay were scattered about the
parade ground. The result was re
markable, for on the second day after
the hay had been put out about a
dozen blacktail deer appeared. The
next day this number was doubled,
and from day to day the number in
creased, until finally they numbered
considerably over 100.
It was extremely interesting to
see how quickly these animals lost
ali fear of human beings, and even
when the evening pun is fired with
in 100 yards of them they pay little
or no attention to it, but show much
more interest in the lowering Of the
flag from the stat, which is locat-
ed in the center of their feeding
ground.
The mountain sheep, which are
supposed to be the widest of all Of
or western animals, have also
shown the same friendly disposition
under the same conditions, and have
became even tanner and more feer-
less than the deer. These animals
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
ACCIDENTAL HAPPENINGS.

Two w~orkingmen were killed and
two injured at Los Angles when the
walls of the old county Jail, on which
they were working, collapsed.
+! Two men were instantly killed and
four more are entombed as a result
of an explosion in the Echo mine at
Beury, Fayette county, w Va.
Roy Farnum Of Sumner, Iowa, was
killed when duck hunting. The death
of Farnum is the last in a long chain
Of accidental fatalities that wipes out
his family.
Ten persons were injured when
Frisco Meteor No. 3, a fast express
from st. Louis to Oklahoma, left the
track at Ritchey, Mo. Five coaches
left the track.
Two prisoners confined In the coun-
ty Jail at Geneva, Neb., started a fire,
supposedly by accident. One was
found dead from suffocation and the
other is in a serious condition.
While riding to the surface in No.
8 shaft of the Tamarack mine, at Cal
umet, Mich, William Polkinghorne
slipped from the cage and fell a mile
to instant death. He was twenty
years old and unmarried.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOMt
Digest of the News Worth Telling Con.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

II President Taft makes a trip
West during the coming summer, the
Twin Cities and other places in MIN
nesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and the Da-
kotas will be included in his itinera'
ny.
Senior Carlos Garcia Velez, the new
Cuban minister, has arrived from Ha-
vana. He asserted it would be his
purpose to foster cordial and friendly
relations between this country n
Cuba.
Halstead p. Councilman of Mime
apolis and G. E. Nikirk of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, are among the civilian can
didate for appointments as second
li"eutenants in the coast artillery
corps who successfully have passed
the recent competitive examinations.
Congressman Stevenson has APP
pointed Jens F. N. Bothue of Hitter
dali. Mimi, a cadet to the Annapolis
naval academy. Hilmer V. Kruse OF
Bemidji has been appointed alternate.
They take the places of Ralph Leon
and William H. Russell, both of Be
midi, who were appointed but failed
to take the examination.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
FORT WORTH SWEPT BY FLAMES
One Person Killed, Six Seriously In.
iured and 800 Families Rem.
dered Homeless.

Fort Worth, Tex, April 6. TO a
party Of small boys and a carelessiy
thrown cigarette is generally credited
the fire of Saturday, which destroyed
property in South Forth Worth valued
at 50, 900, 900, caused the death OF n
person, the serious injury of six oth-
ers. rendered 300 families homeless
and will cause the temporary ldleness
of several hundred wOrkmen employ
ed in manufacturing plants and bust
ness houses burned.
The burned district is under the
guard of state troops to prevent loot
ing. Although worn out by their con
tinuous labors, the entire fire-fighting
force of the city still is engaged in
extinguishing the burning embers
which, with the wind still high, spas
medically springs into a blaze.
Fire Started by Boys.
The boys are said to have started
the fire by dropping their cigarettes
into straw. The flames spread quick
ly, and the local department, realiz-
ing that the fire would be a big one,
telegraphed for aid to Dallas, thirty
two miles away, and to Waco and
Weatherford.
So rapidly did the flames spread
that people living within a radius of
three blocks of the place of origin had
no time to save anything except the
clothing they wore. The fire, which
started at Jennings avenue and Peter
smith street, in a fashionable resi-
dence district, was not checked until
dynamite was resorted to, four hours
later.
A stiff wind was blowing and the
heat was so intense that the firemen
were driven back as the fire advanced.
Several times they we're forced to
abandon their hose lines and several
thousand feet of hose were burned.
Burn Thirty-two Blocks.
The flames, spreading to the south,
burned through t~hirty-two blocks and
continued until they had swept
through the yards of the Texas &
Pacific railroad, destroying the rail
road buildings and a large amount OF
rolling stock, where the fire practical
ly burned itself out.
The burned area is approximately
a mile and a half in length and a
half mile wide.
Today, it is declared, plans will be
made to rebuild the fire-sweDt district.
Yesterday morning citizens named re-
committees. However. because
the burned residence district was
populated largely by those in comfort
able circumstances, monetary relief
needed will be small.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
ARREST LEADER
OF BLACK HAND
Trapped In Office of Doctor OF
Whom He Demanded $4,000
on Pain of Death.
GIVES EVIDENCE ABOUT PLOT
Chicago Police Expect to Arrest Sew.
eraI More Members Of Gang of
AssaSSins.

Chicago, April 4.-Vincenzo Geracl'
said by the police to be the leader OF
the Chicago Black Hand society, was
arrested here yesterday In the office
OF DR.. Peter Cutrera, from whom the
italian had demanded $4,000 on pain
Of death.
Geraci, it is said, has given evil
dence concerning his associates in the
plot, and the police expect to arrest
several more members OF the gang.
It is thought that the members OF he
Chicago society are in close touch
with the New York gang hat brought
about the death of Lieut.. Petrosino
recently in Italy.
Demanded $1,000.
DR.. Cutrera several days ago re-
ceived q threatening letter demanding
1000. He paid no attention to 1t.
A second letter was received. Yester-
day the physician received a tele-
phone message from a man who said
he was one of those who had written
the letters.
Unless you pay the money you will
be killed within an hour" said the
man on the telephone.
DR.. Cutrera invited the man to come
to hT Office and sent for the police.
Detectives came and were concealed
in an adjoining room. Geraci came
and asked for the money. The arrest
followed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
RIMES

Alex Ferguson, thirty-eight years
old, has been placed under close re-
straint at the Northern Michigan asy-
lum for the insane on the charge of
killing Isaac Fuller, a fellow "trusty."
An unknown man, supposed to be
an anarchist, created a disturbance
at ST. Ambrose church in Des Moines
when he tried to reach the altar. 1t
Is thought he wanted to kill the
priest.
Examination OF the books OF the
office of the city registrar at Balti-
more showed an apparent shortage OF
more than $67, 900 in the funds of that
office. William F. Downs is under ar
rest.
In the public gardens at Boston,
when the suburban rush was at It's
height, Lawrence r. Boyle, a news
and then turned his gun upon him.
self, both dying almost instantly.
A short time before the arrival Of
the Twentieth Century Limited on
Nv LANE oiolt iulliOou q ~ 10
Ohio, Max Huntington found a pile of
ties laid across the tracks. 1t is be-
lieved that tramps had planned to
wreck the train.
Following the receipt of a letter
threatening him with death IL he did
not leave $500 in a designated spot,
Fred Wolf Of Youngstown, Ohio. ask
ed a police Investigation of the case.
One suspect, whose name the police
refuse to reveal, is held.
s. c. Pooler, chairman of the Dem
ocratic central committee of Taos
county, New Mexico, and one of the
most proinent Democratic politicians
in New Mexico, was assassinated.
George Potter is under arrest, charg-
ed with the crime. Pooler was shot
down as he sat reading in the parlor
of his home at Taos, his slayer firing
through the window.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

T. s. Story, chairman OF the Texas
railroad commission, died at Austin
Of heart failure. aged seventy-two
years.
Mrs. Esther Wallack, widow OF
John Lester Wallack, actor, died In
New York, aged eighty-four years.
Mrs. Machla Schlatsky, log years
old, died at the home for the aged at
New York. She is believed to have
been the oldest woman In New York.
Jasper Rand, a New York million
aire, vice president of the Ingersoll-
Rand Drill company, president of the
Handbook Powder works and a
prominent club man Of New York,
died in a hospital in Salt Lake City.
Philip Sheridan Finn, who two and
a half years ago laid out the automo-
bile route for the Glidden tour and
who for two successive years finish
ed the Glidden tours with perfect
scores, died at Atlantic City Of an af-
lection of the heart.
Joseph Peter Mcintyre, chaplain of
the battleship Oregon on her memoir
able run from the Puget sound navy
yard around Cape Horn to Santiago,
died at Seattle from nervous disor-
ders resulting from services in the
Spanish-American war and by sh5ck
caused by exposure after the San
Francisco earthquake. He was a
brother of Bishop Mcintyre of St.
Paul.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
OTHERWISE

Lieut.. Gov. M. e. Hay was sworn in
as governor Of Washington last week,
to succeed the late Gov. C%osgrove.
Samuel L. Gilmore (Dem.) was
elected to congress from the Second
Louisiana district. The Republicans
did not nominate a candidate.
Word has been received at Manila
of the murder of DR.. W. NJ. Jonas, the
noted anthropologist, who was in the
field for the Field museum of Chica-
go, at the town Of Dumobato.
Abe Attell, featherweight champion
White Of Chicago in the eighth round
of what was to have been a twenty
round bout at Dayton, Ohio.
In the course Of an address at Gin
authorized to announce that President
Taft would do all in his power to
have established a national bureau Of
public health.
Reading matter for the blind is to
be carried in the United States mails
free of postage, whether printed in
Braille, New York point or moon
type" If a bill introduced by Senator
Burkett becomes a law.
A single steam shovel on the Pana-
ma canal recently removed 3,911 Gu
bic yards of rock and earth in six
hours and fifty minutes. This breaks
all records for a single days excava-
ton by one steam shovel.
Seventy thousand American set
tiers will come TO Canada this year."
said Commissioner Walker of the i'm
migration department. They will
settle on Fl, homesteads, an an
crease of 100 per cent over last year."
At the second day of the thirteenth
annual convention of the National
Dentists association at Birmingham,
| Ala, pyorrhoea was discussed. Some
members declared that this gum trou-
BILE is more prevalent among women
| whose lsair is made blonde by artif-
cial means than In any other class.
1t is communicable by kissing.
The entire iron country of Michi.
gan is aroused owe hat provision
OF the Payne bill placing iron ore on
the free list. and mass meetings are
being held all over the range. Citi.
zens are forwarding protests to con.
gressmen and senators, fearing a rep.
| etition of the former iron slump when
food was shipped in from the copper
country TO keep the miners from
starving.
While digging for the foundation OF
the new Russell Sage Memorial
church at Crestwood, near Far Rock.
away. workmen unearthed a casket
containing the body of Tacoma, the
great Indian chief. who was buried
there more than 100 years ago.
In the opinion OF Dana Estes. a Bos.
ton publisher who arrived in New
York on the st. Louis after a 25. 900
mile journey in Europe, Asia and
Africa. former President Roosevelt
will find hunting big game in East
Africa like shooting cows in a back
yard"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
ROOSEVELT SWEPT INTO SEA.
Former Presidents Patriotism Results
in Exciting Experience in Azores.

Former Presidents Patriotism Results
in Exciting Experience in Azores.
Gibraltar, April 4.-Theodore Roose-
welt was in serious danger Tuesday
afternoon off Ponta del Gada, in the
Azores. A great wave swept him into
the sea from a small boat in which he
was returning from a visit to that
city. He might have lost his life, or
at least had a hard struggle for 1t,
had not two brawny sailors caught
him when another wave pitched him
towards the side Of the Hamburg.
Mr.. Roosevelt's patriotism placed
him in danger. He had been visiting
the American consul 81 Ponta del
Gada. and as the small boat neared
the side Of the liner on the return
trip the band struck up THE Star
Spangled banner"
Goes Into the Waves.
The former president rose and
barred his head in respect for the an
them. Two sailors held him, the sea
running high and choppy. The ma
tional hymn ended, the boat was
pitching beside the Hamburg, and Mr..
Roosevelt made a flying leap for the
rope ladder that dangled from the
side Of the vessel. Just then the big
wave tossed the boat, threw him of
his balance and he went into the sea.
He is a sturdy swimmer, but might
have had a hard time Of II in the
rough water IL the succeeding IA
had not tossed him UP almost to the
foot of the rope ladder. Two seamen
who were hanging to that grabbed his
arms and held him until he got a grip
on the lowest rung and clambered up.
Lands at Gibraltar.
Mr.. Roosevelt landed at Gibraltar
shortly before 10 o'clock yesterday
morning, and for nearly two hours
IVES the center Of an enthusiastic
demonstration, in which England took
advantage of her first opportunity to
pay her respects to the distinguished
traveller.
Gen. Sir Frederick Forestier-W Walk.
er, governor of CHAR, and Richard
l.. S%prague, the American consul, took
Mr.. Roosevelt, his son Kermit and
other members Of the party in tow.
Thousands were at the pier.
An Auto Ride.
As the Hamburg's stay at Gibraltar
was limited to two hours, the recep.
ton committee Immediately took the
party in automobiles on a sightseeing
tour. The north part Of the city, OF
Gibraltar proper, was decorated in Mr..
Roosevelt's honor. He was cheered
continuously.
King viii Not Meet Teddy.
Rome, April 4.-The Tribuna prints
an official denial that King Victor
Emmanuel will meet Mr.. Roosevelt OF
take him to Messina.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08

A resolution has been presented IN
the Paris municipal council for the
adoption Of fire escapes In the Paris
schools similar to those in use In the
United States.
In anticipation Of a possible out
break of, cholera in Paris this sum
mer and its extension to Western Eu'
rope, instructions haev been issued to
insure purity Of water and an ample
supply of d%isinfectant.
The duma has adopted the bill for
the establishment of a Russian agri.
cultural agency at washington, with
the object of introducing American
methods and machinery into Russia.
The Yekaterinesia Zemstvo maintains
such an agency in Minneapolis.
A dispatch from st. Petersburg
says that a woman named Popova has
been arrested at Samara charged
with having poisoned at least 800 per-
ons during the last thirty years. She
made a business of Kidding wives OF
their husbands for a small fee.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
IS BIG BONANZA
FOR THE FARMERS
Patterns Corner on May Wheat
Means Wealth for Growers
of Grain.
IT AMOUNTS TO $37,SOO,OOO
Figures Show 100000, 600 Bushels OF
Grain on Hand at n Cents
Over Normal.

Chicago, April Over $~37,OOO'ooo
has been put into the pockets OF Ine
farmers of the United States by Ihe
spectacular deal in May wheat Which
James A. Patten and his associates
are carrying on in the Chicago Doaro
of trade. To be exact the figures are
$37, 800, 900. These figures are arrl'eu
at in the following manner.
Best estimates Of the amount Oh
wheat now on the farms, In the
granaries and bins of the men VINO
plant, cultivate. reap and thresh the
grain is 40, 900, 900 bushels IN the
United States.
During the week that has just q
prices of May wheat on the chicago
board of trade ranged from $l.22 Ia
a bushel to $1.1S. These prices are
abnormal. They are the hlghest
touched by May wheat since the Ia
nous Joe Letter corner in 1881
The price of May wheat now Is at
least q cents a bushel higher than II
would have been had not the great
Dull movement Ol the, hihS Vi ~
pit" Patten, been inaugurated.
With these figures 1~4O,OOo,0OO
bushels and 81 cents as a basis OF
calculation-the figure $37,SO0,OOO Is
easy.
Every One Is "BuIl Crazy"
On the Chicago board of trade-to
use the language of n Of the biggest
operators-"every one is bull crazy
Never in the history Of the wheat pit
has there existed such a condition or
affairs as holds at the present time.
Never has there been such a wild
scramble to buy, buy, buy, and then
buy some more. May wheat or July
wheat, it matters not; it all looks
alike to the frenzied crowd which
wants a line of wheat in anticipation
of a rise in prices Of the commodity.
tits going up and up and up. Get
aboard the band wagon" is the cry.
James A. Patten, out Of his long line
of May wheat Saturday, just to keep
the price from skyrocketing and from
going to too high a figure, dumped
1000, 900 bushels Of May wheat into
the pit.
Gobb!ed Up by the Crowd.
Like a school Of hungry trout rising
to a fly was this 100000 bushels
gobbled up. 1t was all sold in less
time than it takes to tell about it.
Men fought, fought, fought like mad
men to get a slice of this wheat. Prac-
tically every man in the country who
takes a flyer in wheat is a bull now.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
FOREIGN.

Dispatches received at st. Peters
burg from Radon. In Russian Poland.
state that thirty persons have been
drowned by the floods. The river Wis
tula has reached the highest point
since 1852.
The Prussian government has pub
lished a bill providing for $50. $50. 900
to be used in the construction of sec.
ondary railway. double-tracking the
present lines and ether railway i'm
provements.
Members Of the Krupp family au-
thorized a denial of the rumor that
Frau Halbach. daughter of the ia
nous gunmaker of Essen. was con
templating divorce proceedings. They
would not discuss the reported mart.
tai difficulties of Frau Bertha and her
husband, but characterized the stories
now current as cruelty unjust"
A German wireless company has
succeeded in establishing wireless
communication between Berlin and
Vienna with two light portable field
outfits. Emperor Francis Joseph has
sent a message of congratulation Oh
the achievement.
II has been decided to permit rep.
resentatives of the official press OF
China. as well as foreign newspaper
correspondents. to witness the funer,
I'll services May l over the remains
OF the emperor and dowager empress,
This is the first time the press has
been recognized in this manner.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-04-08
Priest Sent to Prison.

st. Joseph, Mo, April 4.-The Rev.
Father Daniel Pembroke, formerly in
charge of st. Patrick's parish at
Maryville No, was given six months
in jail by a criminal court jury yes
terday fo' sending a Matchmaking let
ter to 8snop NJ. E. Burke of the St.
Joseph diocese. ;.