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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18
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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18

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Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1909-09-18

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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
NORTH POLE IS DISCOVERED
Telegram to Colonial Office in Copen-
hagen Says American Reached
the Goal April 81, 1905.
START MADE IN SUMMER OF 1907
Navigator Last Hear1 from Eighteen
Months Ago in the lee of the
Arctic Region.

DR.. Frederick Albert Cook. the
American explorer, reached tne north
pole April 81, 1908, according to a
telegram received at the colonial Of
fee in Copenhagen from Lervik. Nor
way.
Unless the cables lie. unless Cook
has been the victim of polar madness,
unless he has perpetrated upon the
world the biggest canard of a'genera-
ton, the search for the north pole has
ended in a manner as dramatic as he
roic. Almost alone, unsupported by
any great scientific association, his de-
parture unnoticed and unapplauded,
two years ago Frederick A. Cook en-
tered the awful arctic wastes. I'm
sought and unexpected he has return
ed to rekindle the spirit of adventure
which civilization after 5000 years
cannot destroy. No captain of indus
try, no financier, no famous scholar
gave or found the fund which sent
him on the search which has tempted
men to death and disaster since the
days of Davis and Baffin, of Ross and
Franklin, of Hoelmskerc and Hudson
His little expedition was fitted out by
plain Jack Bradley, of Chicago, who in
his spare time travelled through the
empty places of the earth in the pur-
suit of game and adventure.
DR.. Cook started on his trip for the
north pole in the summer of 1907
wintered on the coast of Elsmoreland
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
NEW YORK.

AS the season advances trade tends
to show further expansion and indus
trial lines are becoming more active.
Outputs are being increased by plans
already in operation and frequent re-
ports come TO hand of assumptions by
concerns that have been shut down
for some time past. Under the cir
eral. pay-rolls are larger and more
money IS available for spending
In nutshell, trade is good; indus
try, particularly iron and steel, is ac-
tive; outputs re>close to normal. and
prospects are pleasant, the most nota-
BILE drawbacks being reduced yields of
cotton and a smaller than earlier ex-
pected corn crop. Within the week
house trade has expanded in marked
degree, especial activity being noticed
in demand for dry goods and milli-
merry. Buyers have been in the mar
kets in large numbers, and while they
have taken hold quite freely they are
nevertheless exercising much care in
making purchases.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending with Sept.
2 were 100, against POI last week, 30
in the like week of 1908. 1870 in 1907,
121 in 1906 and 1877 in 1905.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number 81. as compared with SO
last week and IL in the like week of
190S.-Bradstreets
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $S.05; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $50; sheep. fair to choice, $4.25
to $500; wheat, No. 2, $1.00 to $1.01;
corn, No. 2, &c to soc; oats, standard,
36c to &c; rye, No 2, re to 74c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $14.50; prairie, $500
to $1,000; butter, choice creamery, 25c
to 29c; eggs, fresh, tic to 21c; pota-
toes, per bushel, 4Sc to SOC
Indianapolis-Cat shipping, $500
to $3.50; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $500; sheep, good to choice,
$3.50 to s475; wheat, No. 2. $1.0s to
$11O; corn, No. 2 white, TIC to 72c;
oats, No. 2 white. CSC to 39c.
st. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $685. sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No 2, s1.05 to $1.0S;
corn, No. 2, sc to CSC; oats, No 2,
SIC to 39c; rye, No. 2, nc to 74c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $3.50; hogs,
$500 to $500; sheep, $3.50 to s425;
wheat, No. 2, s106 to s1.O7s corn, No.
2 yellow, 72c to 73c; oats, standard,
&c to S9c; rye, No. 1, &c to CSC.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
$1.02 to $1.04; corn, No. 3, SEC to csc;
oats, standard, &c to 39c; rye, No. l,
nc to 73c; barley. standard, Gee to
csc; pork. mess, $3.50.
Buffalo Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 to $500; hogs, fair TO
choice, $500 to $3.50; sheep, common
to good mixed. $500 to $3.50; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to s815.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $500 TO 1915;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, s1.Os to sL10;
corn. No. mixed. zoe TO Tic; oats.
No. 2 mixed, 35c to 36c; rye, No. 2.
Tic 70 nc.
New York-Cattle, $500 to 800;
hogs, $500 to $40; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. red, s1.Q6 to s1.07;
corn, No. 2, TIC to 7sc: oats, natural
white, Csc to 42c; butter, creamery,
&c to goo; eggs, western, 22c to
25c.
Toledo-Wheat, No 2 mixed, s1.0e
to $lOS; corn, No. 2 mixed, CSC to,
zoe; oats. No. 2 mixed, BIC to Csc:
rye, No. 2, CSC to sec; clover seed,
S7.05.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
TRADE AND INDUSTRY

A new Carnegie library is 70 be
erected at Bemidji. Mimi. at a cost of
SIS, 900.
vicinity of stephen, Mimi, DESTROYED
nearly 10000 acres of small grai,I
1t appears that the West is sending
a new appeal for laborers. The cry
from Nebraska is not now for handy
men about the farm, but for such as
can work in factories. Help is wanted
at once at Omaha, Lincoln and the
smaller cities. A story of the same
sort comes from Wisconsin It has
been said when there is a great de-
mand for harvesters that even good
wages are not as attractive as they
might be because the term of employ
ment is so short. Men do not care to
make a long journey into a land that
is strange to them. with the prospect
of being turned adrift within a few
weeks But this demand for factory
workers suggests permanent employ
ment
The 500 road has awarded a Contract
for the construction of a new passen-
ger depot in Duluth at a cost of 500. :
600.
Some farmers have discovered that
a ten-acre patch OF potatoes at 200
bushels per acre viii buy an aaltomo-
bile with one crop and leave the land
available foi. another.
The interstate commerce commission
predict a heavier year than has ever
before been known in railroad activi-
ties. 1t is feared that the work NAV
be greatly handicapped by a General
shortage of cars Crop prospects are
bright. but there is fear that roads
may be taxed beyond their capac
The Pressed Steel Car Company has
secured the services of nearly 1000
skilled American workmen to replace
the men who left on strike
Until Dec, 10 a competition will be
open TO architects of the world for sub
hitting plans and specifications for
twenty new buildings that are to be
erected in Buenos Ayres. Argentine re-
public
A new $50, 700 hospital is to be erect
ed at Fort Yellowstone to replace the
old frame structure which has done
temporary duty pending the erection
of the new building The structure
viii be Of brick or stone and viii ac-
commodate about 100 patients
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
SWEPT BY A WALL OF WATER.
Flood Near Rawhide, New, Destroys
100 Buildings nnd Six Lives.

Squatter Town, a settlement just
south of Rawhide, New, was swept by
a ten-foot wall of water following a
cloudburst in the hills Tuesday night
and 100 buildings were destroyed. 1t
is reported that two women and four
children are missing. The cloud broke
on the summit of the low hills north
of the camp. In few moments water
was pouring down the slope.
Several structures weer torn from
their foundations and carried down
the street, while the crest of the food
was covered with furniture, animals
and debris of all kinds. Gathering
force as it poured down the channel,
the water swept into and over Squat
ter Town. 1t formed a wall ten feet
high as it crashed into the structures.
Before the wave had passed 500 per-
sons were homeless and their property
was heaped in the basin at the foot
of National hill
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.

William Travers Jerome announces
that he will be a candidate for re-elec-
tion as district attorney of New York.
Plans of the Navy Department con-
template large and efficient fiotilla
of submarine torpedo boats for defen-
sive purposes ar the United States ma
val station at Cavite. Philippine ISL
ands.
Glenn II. Curtiss. the aeroplanist.
declares that the objection of military
authorities to flying machines on the
theory that they cannot ascend suffi-
GENTLY high 10 be out OF range of guns
is without foundation
Or.tsrs, have been issued by the Car
negie Stee, Company to place its plant
AT Columbus in operation as soon as
possible.
At DAYTON. Ohio. Wilbur Wright rid
ieuled the report that his brother Or
willie had been married fifteen years
ago 10 a woman named Carson.
The plan for the organization OF a
negro tuberculosis league, pros
posed by the United States public
health and marine hospital service. has
met with a prompt response. Five
State organizations have been formed
and the movement has received the in
dorsement of the conference of State
and territorial boards OF health
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
HEAVY FROST CAUSES LOSS.
Corn in Some Localities Has Been
Almost Totally DESTROYED.

Corn in Some Localities Has Been
Almost Totally Destroyed.
|. A killing frost passed over the CEN
trail and northern portion of Michi-
gan Wednesday night, doing hundreds
of thousands of dollars worth of dam
age to vegetables and garden truck.
At Muskegon the most severe early
frost ever experienced in either Mus
kegon or Oceana Counties and the ear
Hest in forty years was felt Although
slight frosts have quite often been felt
short time after Sept. 1, there has
never been any heavy frost on that
date since 1869. Corn in most locali-
ties has beer nearly totally destroyed,
while potatoes are also heavily hit.
Garden produce was damaged serious
ly, and figures now on hand show the
total loss in Muskegon and Oceana
Counties to be at least 100000 White
hall, Montague and Hart also report
heavy damage. The mercury went
down to 80 degrees.
At Grand Haven the mercury fell to
20 degrees, and large quantities of to-
matoes, melons, and other vegetables
were destroyed. Vassar reports a
heavy hoar frost in that section which
ruined great quantities of beans, while
at Flint potatoes, corn and buckwheat
were damaged. The big cucumber crop
was totally destroyed and many farm
ers will lose heavily on this crop, as
they depended almost entirely upon
1t.
Extensive damage was done to the
tobacco crop of Western Wisconsin by
frosts. On some farms in La Crosse,
Vernon, and Monroe Counties, the GEN.
ter of the tobacco industry in that
State, the loss is total.
Heavy frost caused much fear that
corn in the Indiana lowlands was dam
aged. Vegetation was almost frozen
stiff and garden products rose in price
TODAY
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
ANOTHER YANKEE TRIUMPH.
Cooks Discovery Adds New Laurels
to Americas Achievements.

DR.. Cooks discovery of the north
pole adds new laurels to Americas
achievements in the twentieth cen
fury. For nearly five hundred years
adventurous explorers have wed for
the honor of being first at the north
end of the world. English, Dutch,
Scandinavian, Italian and American
the arctic ice, some of them to within
a comparatively short distance of the
goal. 1t has remained for an Ameri-
can to win the victory. The 10000
square miles of territory which Dr.
Cook has annexed to the United
States may never become popular or
populous resort, and the scientific
value of his achievement is question
able, but he has rendered good SER
vice by laying bare the secret of far
thest north and thus removing the
lure of the unknown, and he has earn
ed lasting personal fame. The ambi-
tions of explorers will now concen-
trate upon the antarctic, and competi-
ton will be greatly stimulated.
By his own claims, which were put
before the world through the slender
cable thread from the Shetland island
port of Lerwick, DR.. Frederick Albert
Cook, of Brooklyn, has INDUCED him
self in an experience such as no man
has had since time began. More than
kings and princes of the mythical
world, more than navigators of the
new world in the fifteenth century,
has this man found new thing under
the sun.
On that hour in April, 1908, that
this man stopped his dog sledges pull
ed out his sextant, and with mittened
fingers fixed the instrument Oh the
north star, shining out of the arctic
night, he found himself-if the world
will credit his statement-at latitude
80 and longitude anything he pleased.
He found that by shifting the position
of his feet on the tip of the world he
could throw himself across a span of
longitudinal lines that swiftest train
and steamer could not cover in forty
days. Perhaps in whimsical moment
this Brooklyn explorer balanced him
self on the toe of one bearskin boot
and whirled from right to left. Presto!
he had added day to his life
Whatever may have been the tricks
that Cook played with the laws of the
geographers, and the astronomers,
whatever may have been the secrets
of science that he discovered on that
day when he caught the near angle of
the north star almost directly over his
head, must yet be told more at length
by the explorer himself when once
more he is back in the nearer frontier
of the worlds civilization.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14

about 500 miles from the pole and,
starting from point north of Etah on
Feb. &c, 1908, was within little more
than a fortnight lost to the knowledge
of the world. Word received from a
point forty miles north of Cape Thorn
as Hubbard on March II, 1903, said
that, the explorer expected tc return
not later than September 1908, that
everything had so far gone well, but
that the weather was extremely cold.
Then for seventeen months nothing
was heard from him and by many he
was given up for lost
Admiral Winfield S. Schley, as head
of the American Society for Polar Re-
search took an active interest in max
ing plans for such an expedition, and
not only contributed to fund started
last winter for the purpose of fitting
out vessel to go in search of the
missing explorer, but during the last
spring and summer has made appeals
for assistance from all quarters.
DR.. Cook was accompanied by Nor
wegian when he left Etah, Greenland,
in March, 1908. He took with him
eight Eskimos, four sledges and
twelve dog teams. He was to make
his way through Ellesmere Land. Or.
Cook was we'll equipped for his at
tempt, and started or his dash to the
north with the utmost confidence In
a letter written from his winter quar-
tiers on Dec 6, 1907, he explained the
plans which he had conceived for
reaching the pole.
Cook had had large experience as
an explorer previous to the present
trip. He is a physician and New
Yorker. He was educated in the Uni
versity of New York and the College
of Physicians and Surgeons there, but
instead of entering upon practice to
any extent he took W exploration.
When 26 years old he made his first
journey to the north as g. member of
one of Peary's expeditions. He organ
ICED several other trips, gaining fame
each time among scientists in many
countries DR.. Cooks home is in
Brooklyn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
RNZ7S
SSPs9SRR

Over half a million dollars were ex-
pended in the construction of the new
Speedway at Indianapolis.
William * vanderbilt's Seasick. II.
won the Prix de Longchamps, two
miles and one furlong. at Paris.
J. r. Keene's Hilarious, 2:06. won
the $500 -ravers stakes for 3-year-
olds. at a mile and a. quarter at Sara
toga.
Seven sectional records were broken
in the Central A. A U. championship
meet in Chicago recently and the Chi
cago Athletic Association won all the
honors with. total of ITO points out
OF possible 126.
The winning trotters at Detroit.
which repeated at Kalamazoo. were
Margin. Country Jay. Baron Mckinney
and Lady Jones. The PAGERS were
George Gano. Cecelian King, Walter
w, and Lady Maude c.
Herman Long, at one time the most
famous shortstop of the National
League. and for years a member of
the Boston team. is seriously i'll at
Denver He went to Denver few
months ago because of lung trouble.
ST. Yves. the long distance cham
pion. was defeated by Percy Small
wood. the short distance runner, in a
1s-mile race at Cincinnati.
Jack johnson and James ]. Jeffries
have signed articles of agreement for
a hght 10 come of some time within
the next eight months. The big bout
will determine the worlds champion
ship for heavyweights.
During the construction of his yacht.
Hispania, King Alfonso. of Spain.
evinced curiosity regarding conditions
governing the contests for the Ameri-
can cup The Spanish monarch is ru-
mored to he possible challenger for
the trophy.
During the Detroit Grand Circuit
meeting nineteen races. ten for trot-
tiers and nine for PAGERS. were decided.
and they Carried a total distribution Of
$4,000 in prize money.
Detroit has secured an option on
Johnny Ness. Chicago. first haseman
of the Madison team in the Wisconsin,
Illinois League. agreeing TO pay $1,000
for him if he makes good
Oliver W. Shead. a graduate of Har-
ward. and the Columbia Law School.
and former champion all-round- indoor
athlete OF New England died in Boston
as the result of an INJURY TO his spine
received in the gymnasium OF the Bos-
ton Athletic Association in 1sos.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
FARMERS TO KEEP RECORDS.

Census Director Durand's Appeal for
Accurate Farm Data.
twill be suggested by U. S. ecu
sus Director Durand to the farmers
all over the country that the work of
securing accurate returns at the COM
ing census of agriculture will be
greatly facilitated if the farmers will
keep or provide some sort of written
record of their farm operations dur
ing the year 1909 This effort to Sc
cure the farmers personal co-opera-
ton is but one of a number of ways
and means chosen by Director Durand
in the effort to secure an accurate, ex-
peditious ard economical census con-
corning population, agriculture, manu-
features, mines and quarries, which
are the subjects of inquiry defined in
the census law.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
AERoPLANIsT FALLS IN LAKE.
Picked Up by Launches After AT

Picked Up by Launches After At
tempt to Cross Ontario.
c. Foster Willard, in the aeroplane
Golden Flyer, made his first attempt to
cross Lake Ontario from Toronto,
Thursday night, but a sudden increase
of wind and trouble with the ballast
made the machine dip it's bows at a
terrific pitch and he fell to the water
when about three-quarters of mile
from the shore. He was picked up by
the launches which had been waiting
to see the attempt. The aeroplane left
the land at about Ills and appeared
to be completely under control. 1t
went at terrific pace, at height of
about thirty to fifty feet. Another at
tempt to cross the lake will be made
as soon as the repairs are completed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
KILLS MOTHER AND SELF.
Youth Who Was Denied Money with
which to Marry Dies.

Youth Who Was Denied Money with
which to Marry Dies.
A week after numbering his moth
er because she had refused him money
with which to marry, George Simons,
young civil engineer, shot and killed
himself in the home of his sweetheart,
Viola Hartrslnft, in Pottsville, Pa. ST.
mons slept for week in a room adj
joining that in which he had conceal
ed the body Of the slain woman After
killing his mother he carried the body
to room on the third floor of the
house. Covering it with quicklime,
he screwed fast the door and filled the
cracks with parafin to make it appear
a solid wall He put up a sign with
the word Paint" on it, so that none
would touch the door. When he killed
himself, Simons was not even under
suspicion for the crime.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-09-14
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CHICAGO.

r. F. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
OF Chicago trade says:
Favorable developments continue to
strengthen the commercial position.
Heavy payments through the banks
are attested by aggregates exceeding
those at this time last year, and the
record OF trading defaults again is
satisfactory as to the effects upon
credits, Financial conditions general
ly reflect an ample supply of money,
but the improved demand for wider
enterprise has created an advanced
rate for accommodation.
Unsettled weather throughout the
agricultural regions is temporary
hindrance to soil preparation, but
the prospects of an unprecedented
corn crop is not diminished. New de-
mands in the leading industries come
forward rapidly and there is notable
increase in the movements of both
East and West bound freight. Fur
mace and steel mill outputs in this
district rise to new records and addi-
tional capacity under way is rushed
to completion.
Railway equipment needs become
more clearly defined as the crop sea-
son progresses, and heavy contracts
are yet being booked for locomotives,
cars, coaches and supplies, Structural
steel remains in strong request.
Bank clearings. S249, 1884, 94, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1908 by 1873 per cent, and compare
with $219, OO5, 499 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number % last week. against
&c last week, 50 in 1908 and IL in
1907 Those with liabilities over
$4,000 number 4, against last week,
10 in 1908 and in 1907.