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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-05-08

The fo.liwing corporations have filed
their certificates of organization at the
Office of the secretary of State:
Spokane Sewer Pipe Co. organized at
Augusta, for the purpose of manufac-
turing and dealing in sewer pipes. etc.
with 100000 capital stock. of which
nothing is paid in. Officers: President,
r. S. BuzZell of Augusta; Treasurer.
e. J. Pike of Augusta. Certificate filed
MAY g. 1909.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
TELEGRAPHIc BREvITIEs

Judge Waddell, of the United States
Circuit Court at Norfolk. Va, has au-
thorized Receivers Kerr and walcott.
of the Norfolk and Southern Railway
To issue S45C geo worth of certificates
for the purchase of 500 box and zoe
fiat cars.
Marie Acosta was burned to death
and Miguel Gomez made a prisoner in
Tampa. Fla. She accused him of break
ing into her home. with two confed-
crates. saturating her clothing with
gasoline and then applying lighted
matches because she refused to marry
hsT..
When an aI.c struck a street car
sauarsly in the side in Portland, Ore.
AIRS. A. j. Olds. of Weiser, Idaho. had
her skull fractured. She is not expect
ed TO live.
Ms. Rose Pastor Stokes. the settle
ment worker. has promised TO aid the
striking shirt-wasst makers in New
y,,rk. She says the girls were paid
miserable wages
Ernst Roberts and Burton &. South
ard. former cashiers of the failed Dorr
street Savings Bank of Toledo. Ohio.
were arrested on the charge of perjury.
They are charged with having made
false reports TO the State Auditor OF
the condition of the bank
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
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The Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul Railway, which instituted freight
traffic on its new Puget Sound extern
sion by rates Independently of the 9TH
er transcontinental lines, with some
especially low tariffs on Oriental ex-
port and import business, has aban-
doned it's Independent attitude so far
as the import traffic is concerned.
One hundred miles of eighty&five-
pound rails have been ordered for the
Improvement of the Central branch, a
subsidiary road of the Missouri Pa
cific system. The line traverses a rich
section of Kansas. Governor Stubs.
of that State, recently threatened to
institute receivership proceedings
against the line unless it was speedily
improved.
We are moving freight at the rate
of billion gross tons a year, and to
do this we employ nearly two million
and one-half freight cars, and nearly
fifty thousand locomotives. We i'm
port about nineteen million gross tons
of merchandise yearly, and export
about ffty-two million gross tons. Our
foreign trade shows a return of So
900, 100000, and our domestic trade one
of 81 ,000,000,0O0, annually. One-haIf
of the worlds ocean commerce moves
along North Atlantic routes, and for
the greater part of it our foreign trad
ing is responsible At this its volume
is a drop m the bucket as against the
great trunk-line tonnage in this coun-
try
The Pennsylvania Railroad has
placed orders in Philadelphia for 10
600 new freight cars. These are in
addition to the orders for the regular
requirements on the 1909 and 1910
scheduled, for which $4,000 cars had
already been ordered since the first Of
the year
The New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company has been au-
thorized to issue stock to the val2s of
s44, SIS. 900, OF 44.65s shares, the stock
TO be sold at par. OF the proceeds
nearly half viii be used in the dis
charge Of certain three-year 5 per cent
gold notes. which mature in February,
1910
Our railroad ackage-maIn track
and siding-is $50. 900 miles in length.
and this would girlle the equator four
teen times. In twenty years we have
built more railroad mileage than Great
Britain and France combined in fifty
wears. Two-fifths OF the worlds entire
railroad trackage is laid down in Tn
Gle Sans territory. We have more
than FIVE times the allotment Of rail-
road mileage in Europe for each TO-
600 inhabitants. the figures being:
Twenty-seven miles in the United
states: FIVE miles IN Europe. More
over our railroad capitalization a mile
OF railroad is less than cne-fourth OF
that Of Great Britain on the sams basis
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
SAY COOKS POLE DATA
IS A FAKE AND FRAUD
Landsman and Veteran Navigator
Swear They Made All of Doc
tors Records for Him.
SAY DOCTOR FAILED TO PAY
Were to- Have Received "a, OOO-Got
Only $3.50 on Account Before
Explorer Disappeared.

The New York Times publishes af-
fdavits from Captain August w.
Loose, who says he is pilot and nav
igator of ocean-going steamships, and
George H. Dunkle, an insurance bro
ker, who claims to have been hired
by pr. Frederick A. Cook to supply
books and charts whereby his data
and observations in the arctic were to
be SO "doctored'' that they would be
accepted by the University of Copen-
hagen. DR.. Cooks friends in New
York said that the explorer had met
Mr.. Dunkle once, and that he was SO
pestered by him that when he called
a second time he sent word that he
could not see him. The affidavits in
effect are that DR.. Cook engaged the
two men to fake" the report he has
submitted to Copenhagen, promising
them $4,000 for the job; that he paid
them $3.50 and then disappeared.
The story told by the Times in part
follows: Captain Loose describes at
length how, working backward from
the pole, he calculated observations
that would fit in with Cooks nara
tive, and coached him on the neces-
sary notifications of the latter-as
for example that he must be sure to
record that he rose before Ais o'clock
on a certain morning because it was
at that hour that a certain star men,
toned in one of Losses calculations
would be visible
Mr. Dunkle describes the inception
of the enterprise; how from the news
papers they gathered that DR.. Cook
was in deep water and inferred that
he would be glad to pay for help; how
Dunkle got John r. Bradley, Cooks
hacker, to introduce him; how the
subject was led up to delicately and
the bargain finally struck and carried
out, and how, at last, DR.. Cook disap-
peared, after accepting their work and
paying only $3.50 for it.
Both Captain Loose and Mr.. Dun
kle tell of visit to the shop of John
Bliss s. Co. at 129 Front street a few
days after the captains first talk with
the explorer at the Waldorf-Astoria
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
BIG FIRE AT KALAMAZOO.
One Life Probably Sacrificed and
Much Property DESTROYED.

One life probably was lost, many
fremen were overcome by smoke, 300
hotel guests were driven into the icy
streets and property valued at $1,000
900 was destroyed by fire which
started in Kalamazoo at 10 o'clock the
other night and was extinguished af-
ter an all-night struggle by the COM
bined fire-fghting forces at Ka.lama-
zoo, Battle Creek and Grand Rapids.
Originating in the basement of the
Star Bargain house, a 5 and 10-cent
store on West Main street, the flames,
famed by a strong southwest wind,
spread east along the north side of
Main street, destroying the Burdick
House, four-story hotel and store
building covering more than half a
block. Along an arcade running north
through the Burdick building 20 Water
street were half dozen small estab-
lishments, and these were burned.
Sweeping east on Main street the
flames made their way through the
Postal Telegraph and American Ex-
press offices, Chase's shoe store, Cowl-
beck's furnishing store, Kennedy's
drug store and smaller business places.
To low pressure in the mains is at
tributed the spread of the fire. The
city depends for its supply on artesian
wells and the water from this source
was inadequate. A large standpipe at
the asylum was connected with the
mains, but gave only a temporary adj
vantage
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
TWO DIE IN FLYER WRECK. :.
Northwestern Train Jumps Track at
Northern Limits of Chicago.

The Chicago and Northwestern flyer
No. 5-the 1880 a. m limited between
Chicago and Milwaukee-while run
ming forty miles an hour jumped the
tracks at noon the other day at How
ard avenue, the boundary line between
Chicago and Evanston. The train was
damned into smithereens, two immi-
grants were killed, and at least eight
cen passengers injured. The wreck
took place in Chicago. The victims
were killed in Evanston. The train
jumped the track within the city linn
its, but had passed the boundary line
before death visited the passengers.
Just beyond the limits the locomotive,
which had left the tracks, dislodged a
rail- The rail curled up beneath the
locomotive, punctured the floor of the
baggage car like great knife. and
slit this car and the one behind it into
distinct halves.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
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1t is reported from Rome that the
Duke of Abruzzi has been promoted
and is now rear admiral.
Twenty sailing vessels went to the
bottom and an unknown number of
sailors were drowned in storm which
recently swept the Mediterranean sea
from Port Said to Gibraltar.
An effort to draw the United States
into the revolution in Nicaragua is be-
ing made by many who are circulating
a petition asking this country TO re-
store peace. The United States, the
petition says. is the only country to
which the Nicaraguans can look for
assistance.
Canadas naval plans have been laid
before Parliament They provide for
the construction of three cruisers of
the improved Bristol" class. and four
destroyers of the improved river class.
The cost of the cruisers is estimated
at SIS, 900. 600. and that of the destroy
ers at 81, 100000. The annual cost OF
maintenance of the vessels is estimat-
ed at s.. 00e. 900.
The Finnish diet the last legislative
body of Finland preserved from the
domination of Russia, has been dis
solved. The dissolution is looked up
on as the beginning of the end of Fin
nish independence.
During the past few months remark
able excavations have been in opera
ton at Jerusalem and startling results
are expected. A hitherto unknown
tupnel bss hean discovered and ex-
plored and two deep shafts have been
sunk. In spite OF the secretly MAIN
tanned. it is understood that the quest
is for the tombs of David and the
kings of Judah and the treasure
thought to be buried with them.
Having finished their inspection of
the Panama canal works. the members
of the American Congress Appropria-
lions Committee has began work of
the s4S, 900. 600 estimate for 1910. pre-
pared by Col Cocktails. chief engineer
and chairman Of the Isthmian canal
commission
!, An official report from Ottawa, Can
ada. bespeaks an immense harvest
The wheat crop is put down at 1885,
$4,000 bushels. giving an average o.
twenty-five bushels an acre. and barley
at s-.oea. coo bushels. or rhirty-one
bushels an acre The yield of oats is
given at $4,000 o0o bushels. or thirty
eight bushels an acre
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
DIE IN TENEMENT FIRE.
Sleeping Families Trapped in Burn
ing Building in Cincinnati.

At least seven lives were lost and
scores more injured in a tenement
house fire at 327 and 329 East Third
street, Cincinnati. The building is a
four-story structure with tenements
on every floor except the first. The
Railways are lighted by kerosene
lamps, and in some way the lamp on
the second floor was upset and in a
very few minutes the dry wood work
in the hall was aflame. The blaze
shot upward, making it impossible
for the tenants to get out by way of
the stairs. Some of them jumped out
of the windows and were badly hurt
There were fifty people in the house
at the time.
The first fireman to reach the scene
saved several persons from the rear
of the burning building. One captain
carried down two dead bodies on the
ladder and several others were found
huddled together on the fourth floor
While the fire was still burning it
was estimated that fully half of the
fifty occupants of the tenements were
either dead or badly injured. The
bodies taken to the morgue were so
badly burned that Identification was
impossible
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
BLIND EYEBALL TATT0OED.
White Surface Made to Match Young
Girls Healthy Optic.


An operation performed only few
times by the greatest eye specialists
of the world was recently successfully
completed in Philadelphia hospital
clinic. BY the use of six needles, in
dian ink and vegetable dye, the doe
tor succeeded in tattooing the perfect
semblance of an eye on a young girls
blind eyeball, which was covered by
an ugly white blemish the size of
scent piece.
The girl sought to have a glass eye
in place of the diseased tissues, which
made her face repulsive to look at. The
doctor upon examination, found that
the growth over the cornea was so
strong that the delicate operation that
came in his mind could be performed
with a chance of success. Cocaine was
inserted to destroy whatever sensibili-
ty remained, but no anesthetie was adj
ministered to the patient, who did not
appear to suffer any pain while the
operation was going one. The students
saw the skillful hand of the doctor
guiding the tattooing needles produce
the semblance of an eye with the skill
and patience of a trained artist on
surface that had been blank white.
India ink was used for the pupil For
the iris a vegetable dye which had
been carefully experimental with was
employed, and the brown color of thp
other and healthy iris in the girls 9th
er eye was duplicated.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
CHICAGO.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Weekly Review
of Trade says:
THE general conditions indicate
that business is progressive. despite
the hiDdrances interposed by rough
weather. freezing and railroad difficult
ties in the Northwest. Bank clearings
show a satisfactory gain. money is
in broad request for commercial pur.
poses and trading defaults have de-
clined. Factory outputs in the prin.
cipal industries exceed all former ag-
gregates.
Specifications assure considerable
forward work at rail mills, FORCES
and car shops. Improvement is main
tanned in structural steel activity,
wire, machinery, hardware. electric
and woodworking The leather mar
ket Is steady in values.
Further increase is noted in fac
tory capacity and hands employed in
the Calumet district and additional
furnaces are operating at South Chi
cage.
"Snowstorms impeded crop market
ings and heavy freight and merchan-
disc movements. but the lower tenn
peratures stimulated brisk demand
for seasonable wares. Heavy-weight
apparel, furs, jewelry, art and Christ
mas lines are freely bought Mail and
road orders continue their favorable
comparison with year ago in dry
goods, footwear. clothing, woolens,
mems furnishings and food products.
Lake navigation closed for the sea
son with results satisfactory to vessel
owners. Earnings of the Chicago
steam roads disclose notable gains in
gross over those at this tire last year.
Bank clearings, $270,717,579. ex-
coed those in the corresponding week
last year by 6.5 per cent, and compare
with $19S, ,971 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago
district number 90, against 80 last
week, Al in 1908 and % in 1907. Those
with liabilities over $4,000 number Z,
against Z last week. 1S in 1908 and
in 1907"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
RAILWAY RATE FIGHT
OPENED BY CUMM|NS
Iowa Senator Introduces Bill at
Washington for Radical
Changes in Law.
POWER TO THE COMMISSION.
Uniform Classification, Interstate
Body. to Act on Own Motion and
No Court Interference.

A controversy over railroad legisla-
ton which for interest and impor-
lance promises to surpass the legisla-
tive conflict over railroad rates four
years ago will be precipitated in Con-
gress this winter. The first gun was
fired by Senator Cummins of Iowa
when he introduced bill proposing
radical changes in the interstate COM
merce act.
In brief, the Cummins bill requires
the Interstate Commerce Commission
to promulgate a uniform classification
of freight and to prepare a plan for
the statement of rates, which there
after would be made in a uniform way
The carriers are required to adopt this
classification. The commission is to
be authorized to consider rates on its
own motion, with a view to determin-
ing their reasonableness, and is en-
powered to fix maximum and mini
mum rates. In an action in court to
set aside an order of the commission
respecting rates, the courts would be
prevented from inquiring into the
reasonableness or sufficiency of any
rate fixed by the commission.
The bill also provides that changes
shall not become effective before they
are approved by the commission. 1t
prohibits acquisition of control of par
allel and competing lines by any COM
mon carrier, or acquiring of capital
stock or bonds of any other carrier
that is a competitor
A carrier is prohibited from issuing
capital stock without payment at par
either in money or in property, and,
in effect, the commission shall have
supervision of issues of stocks and
bonds by any carrier Specific direc'
lions are set forth for the disposition
of the proceeds of any sale of bonds.
After Jan. 1, 1911, no railway doing
interstate business shall be permitted
to engage in other business than that
of common carrier.
A resolution authorizing the Presi-
dent to take the necessary steps for
the apprehension of President Zelaya
of Nicaragua and for his punishment
on the charge of murder, if the facts
in the possession of the State Depart
ment warrant such action, has been
introduced in the Senate by Senator
Rayner. The resolution recites the
circumstances connected with the exc
cution of two Americans, Grace and
Cannon, by order of President Zelaya,
lished reports from Nicaragua.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
NEW YORK.

Colder weather and the nearer APP
proach of the holidays have stimu-
lated trade generally throughout the
North and West. and have even helped
Southern trade. AS the week advanced
there seemed to be evidence that the
railroad strike was losing its effective
ness as a trade deterrent.
In wholesale lines there is some
thing like a seasonable quoting down
shown. There is no particular evil
denee of slowing down in industrial
operations.
Business failures In the United
States for the week ending with Dec.
8 were 259. as against 23O last week,
29S in the like week of 1908, 2S4 in
1907. 200 in 1906 and 226 in 1905.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number 80, comparing with %
last week and so in the corresponding
week of 190S.--Bradstreet's
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
The Week
in Congress


The Senate met promptly at IL
o'clock Tuesday. with a full attendance
Of Senators on the floor. The Pres
ident's message was brought in short
ly after the call to order and the read.
ing began. The Senators manifested
deep interest In the document. some
following the reading AMI others turn
ing over the printed pages to find sub.
jects in which they were specially in
terested. Following the eastom the
message was referred to the committee
OF the whole. The Senate then held an
executive session until 2:30 o'clock,
adlourning to meet Friday. The House
assembled at II. and a few minutes
after when the Presidents message
was brought in there was scramble
TO get copies. The actual reading of
the document consumed a little more
than an hour and half The message
was referred to the committee of the
whole and the House adjourned until
Friday
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
ALL AROUND THE GLOBE.

Fire of unknown origin destroyed the
West Branch Hat and Cap factory at
Northumberland, Pa, at loss Of $780,
900.
Contracts are to be placed for two
submarines for the Russian navy. They
are planned to cruise in company with
a battle-ship fleet.
While sleep walking. 17-year- old
Human Knowlton of South Framing
ham, Mass, is believed to have fatally
shot both his parents. The boy was
arrested
The Keck Manufacturing Company
of Cincinnati was declared bankrupt
in a decision handed down in the Uni
ted States District Court
An endowment fund for the support
of a post graduate school for teacher
nurses has been given to the teachers
college Of Columbia University by Mrs.
Helen Hartley Jenkins. The amount Of
the gift has not been made public.
The national executive committee Of
the Council Of Jewish Women, in con-
vention in Pittsburg. elected Miss Sa-
die American Of New York as a dele
gate TO the International white slave
traffic association to be held at Madrid
next May.
Henry T. Hart, Jr.. charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 while he was collector
Tor the Illinois Central Railroad, plead
"a guilty TO one count In New Orleans
sentence was deferred
BRITAIN Medith and Richard Pace
fought q duel near Charleston. w Va.
after sMedith shot and killed Lulu
wickiine- Pace was wounded mortal
~. Medith shot himself
Asserting that the United States gov
eminent set bad precedent in grant
ing her father. the late Capt James
Hall $4,000 for his polar explora-
tons. Miss Anna Hail Of Cincinnati
viii return her share Of the money to
the federal authorities
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-12-21
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Chicago-Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to 1915; hogs, prime heavy, $3.50
to $3.50; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $575; wheat, No. 2, S1.19 to S121;
corn. No, 2, 64c to sec; oats, standard,
41c to, 43c; rye, No. 2, 73c to 75c; hay,
timothy, $1,000 to $3.50; prairie, $500
to S1400; butter, choice creamery, 29c
to 33c; eggs, fresh, &c to soc; pota-
toes, per bushel, zoe to soc.
Indianapolls-Ca shipping, $500
to $500; hogs. good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $50; sheep, good to choice,
1925 to $3.50; wheat, No. 2, $1.1S to
$1.2o; corn, No. 2 white, soc to 5Sc;
oats, No. 2 white, 42c to 43c.
st. Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$40; wheat, No. 2, SIPS to s1.27;
corn, No. 2, 5Sc to Goo; oats No 2, Ale
to 42c; rye, No. 2, 75c to 76c.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to ss15; sheep, $3.50 to $4.25;
wheat, No. 2, S119 to 1921; corn. No.
yellow, SOC to soc; oats. standard,
Ale to 43c; rye, No. 1, 75c to 76c.
Milwaukee-Wheat. No 2 northern.
s1.0s to SLIP; corn, No. 3, SOC to G2c;
oats, standard, 43c to 44c; rye No. 1,
73c to 75c; barley, standard, 66c to
Csc; pork, mess, $1,000.
Buffalo - Cattle, choice shipping
steers, $500 to 1925; hogs, fair to
choice, $500 to $500; sheep, common
to good mixed, $500 to $3.50; lambs.
fair to choice, $500 TO 1896.
Toledo Wheat. No mixed. s12O
to s1.22; corn, No. mixed, COO to
61c; oats, No. 2 mixed. 43c to 44c;
rye, No. 2, 75c to nc; clover seed,
$500.
Cincinnati Cattle, $500 to SIPS;
hogs, $500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to
$500; wheat, No. 2, s124 to s12e;
corn, No. mixed, SIC to 5sc; oats.
No. 2 mixed, ACC to 44c; rye. No. 2,
ne to 79c.
New Yerk--Cattle, $500 to $3.50;
hogs. $500 to 1856; sheep. $500 to
$3.50: wheat, No. 2 red, s1.25 to Sips;
corn, Ne. 2, roc to nc; oats, natural,
white, 45c to 47c: butter. creamery,
zoe to 34c; eggs. western, zoe to
34c.