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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
SOME RESCUED ALIVE
FROM PIT At CHERRY
Miners Thought Dead for Seven
Days Are Snatched from Their
Living Tomb.
WILD SCENE IN LITTLE TOWN
Heaps of Corpses Found Where 1t Is
Evident Entombed Men Tried
to Escape Flames.

Twenty-one men rose from the grave
in Cherry, ILL.,, Saturday. Twenty-one
men, pronounced dead days ago by all
the mining experts in Illinois, rose
from the depths of the st. Paul mine,
where, with 80 others, they had been
entombed for seven days, and when
the people looked at them they were
alive. Cherry saw tragedy one Sat
urday. The next it witnessed mir
acle.
But, just when the hopes of the wait
ing wives of the remaining entombed
miners were at their highest, when
the rescuers seemed likely to bring
scores of other living men to the sur
face, the sickening news came that the
mine was again on fire. At midnight
small fire broke out, cutting off the
rescue work. Fire apparatus had to
be lowered and a stream of water had
again to be turned into the mine.
The news of the rescue of living
men swept through the village like a
telepathic wave. 1t transformed a
community which was groveling in the
deepest pits of woe into a community
delirious with joy, intoxicated with
hope. When the men came forth from
the shaft they found the whole COM
munity gathered to give them well
come. When their eyes, accustomed
for week to the inky blackness of a
sealed-up mine, were able to take in
the sights around them one of the first
things that they saw was the piled-up
collins in which, by all the laws of
science and engineering, they were TO
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
DANGER AHEAD IN THE COST
OF LIVING, SAYS J. J. HILL
After Visit to White House, Railway
Builder Sounds Note of Warning
and Predicts Disaster.

History shows that the high cost
of living is the beginning of every ma
tional Decline" philosophical James
J. Hill in Washington the other day,
after he had talked with the President.
."Of course it is better that men should
be working for 81 day while they are
paying 20 cents a pound for meat than
to be without work and have the price
of food at the present level, but the
future of the country would be more
certainly secured if reduction in the
cost of living could be brought about" "
Mr.. Hill did not wish to go into an
application of his views or furnish
a panacea for the i'll that he sees is
threatening the country. Generally
speaking, however, he thought that
economy-the cutting down of useless
enditures-individua and govern
mental-would go further than any
thing else toward aiding III improve
ment of conditions
Mr.. Hill is serious in his view of the
danger threatening the country in the
constant increase in the cost of living.
He has studied history, and he finds,
as he stated, that national decline be-
gins when the cost of living becomes
burden to the masses, while the inn
mensely rich are in no wise affected.
AS Mr.. Hill sees it, there must be deep
and serious consideration and without
unnecessary delay of the questions
dealing with the cost of food and dress
of the people of the country. Prosper
ity is not the cure, he admits, although
it is a help.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
DISSOLVE OIL TRUST
IS COURTS DECISION
Standard of New Jersey, Rookie
feller's Head Company, Branded
as an Illegal Monopoly.
GOVERNMENT IS THE VICTOR
Ruling of st. Paul Tribunal Re-
garded as Death Blow, but Cor
poration Plans Appeal.

The federal Circuit Court in st.
Paul Saturday stamped the Standard
Oil Company as an illegal corpora
ton in restraint of trade, and mo-
nopoly, and decreed its dissolution
within thirty days In its decision
the court is believed to have dealt the
Standard Oil Company what will prove
to be its death blow, and to have
placed weapon in the hands of the
government that will enable it to wipe
out of existence all similar combina-
lions. The company affected is the
Standard of New Jersey, the king pin
of all the Rockefeller oil concerns.
The government won a sweeping
victory over the oil trust, for there
is nothing in the decision to soften
the severity of the blow Every con-
tention made by the government dur
ing its three years fight against the
greatest of industrial trusts was sus-
tanned by the court
The decision is based upon the Sher-
man antitrust act of 1890, the form
of the company's organization, and the
methods which it pursues in business
being declared contrary to and in
direct violation of Sections and of
that act. Section l declares every
form of combination and trust in re-
st-sint of trade and commerce to be
Illegal, while Section prohibits any
monopoly Or attempted monopoly, or
any combination or attempted combi-
nation, for the purpose of securing
a monopoly of trade. The law, accord
ing to the court, is plain and explicit.
and by inference it can readily be ap-
piled to nearly all of the great indus
trial combinations of the day.
The purpose of the government,
should the Supreme Court uphold the
decision, is declared to be that it
shall be speedily applied to all COM
binations and trusts which have so
markedly changed industrial eondi-
lions in the United States during the
past decade. What will be the ulti-
mate effect of the decision of the
SOuiCs bheLS ChO OupA ChlO
Court of the United States, to which
the case will go direct, concurs in the
view held by the Circuit Court, is the
question that is being asked on all
sides. The attorneys for the govern
ment do not hesitate to say that it
will revolutionize the industrial world
of the country, and will eventually
throw back into the hands of smaller
corporations the business which the
great combinations have absorbed.
There will, it is claimed, be a recur-
renee to the industrial conditions of
ten or fifteen years ago. when the man
or the corporation with comparatively
small capital could embark upon the
sea of commerce with the assurance
that he would get fair run and that
he would not be gobbled up by a great
er and more powerful rival
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30

The average weight per measured
bushel of this years wheat crop is
$50 pounds, against 5S.3 last year, and
of oats 1927 pounds, against 29.S a
year ago.
Buckwheat quality is GIL per cent,
against 90.7 last year, with the prelim-
mary estimate of the average yield
per acre 20.S bushels, against 1913
bushels in 1908, and total indicated
production of 16,692,000 bushels,
against 15,S74,000 bushels year ago
Potatoes show a quality of $50 per
cent, against S7.6 year ago, with a
total yield per acre of 1865 bushels
against S57 in 1908, an indicated to-
tai production of 367,473.00O bushels
against 27S,9S5,0 900 last year.
The quality of tobacco is S67 per
cent, against S79 last year; the pre-
liminary estimate of the average yield
per acre is 8077 pounds, against S20.2
pounds, as finally estimated In 1908,
and an indicated total production of
S95, 1S4,93 pounds, against 7lS,O6l ,O0O
pounds, the final estimate of year
ago.
The average quality of flaxseed is
92.1 per cent, against ola in 1908; the
preliminary estimate of the average
yield per acre is "a bushels, against
SO bushels, as finally estimated in
1908, and an indicated total produc-
ton of 25,767 900 bushels, against 25,-
sos, 900 bushels, the final estimate last
year
The average production of apples
this year is 42.5 per cent OF a full
crop, against 434 last year.
Traders in the grain markets gave
the government crop report on corn
a bearish Interpretation and sold the
market somewhat lower because of It,.
Other grains sympathized to a consid-
erabIe extent with corn.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
GHNyMEf2CLAl
3-SSS AND ssss IA
ES .ss 5sVE kSs
zFNANCAI
CHICAGO.

The weekly review of Chicago trade
by r. G. Dun & Co. says: Trade de-
velopments sustain optimistic views
as to the future. and further testi-
mony to the progress made is fur
nished by the bank reports. which re-
feet gratifying expansion in both de-
posits and discounts Credits gener-
ally are strengthened by the improv-
ed condition OF collections through
out the western territory, although
the trading defaults yet show more
than normal. Seasonable weather
stimulated wider demand for necessa-
ries and the leading branches of dis
lribution exhibit increasing activity
IN current shipments and forward
bookings. Retail trade here and at
the interior equals the best expecta-
tons. Heavy absorption is noted Of
winter clothing, blankets. worsteds-
footwear and food supplies. most
stocks undergoing gratifying reduc-
lions. Supplementary orders are nu-
merous in wholesale dry goods and
other staples, many requiring immedi-
ate forwarding and indicating that
consumption exceeds that for which
provision was previously made by
many country dealers. Another rise
IN costs OF cotton fabrics has also in
duced urgent buying against future
needs.
Prices of food products and other
needs average unusually high and cause
enforced economies, but increased
population and purchasing power as
sure prospects for very encouraging
results in Christmas trade.
Bank clearings, $277,S16,9o7, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1908 by AZ per cent and compare with
S196,S56,63 in 1907.
Failures reported in the Chicago dis
trict number twenty-seven. against
thirty-three last week, eighteen in
1908 and thirty-six In 1907. Those
with liabilities over $4,000 number six,
against eleven last week, five in 1908
and fourteen in 1907.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
LIFE TERM FOR CLEMINSON,
Chicago Physician Is Convicted by
Jury of Wife Murder.

DR.. Haldane Cleminson was found
guilty of the murder of his wife, Nora
Jane Cleminson, by a jury in Judge
McSurely's cort in Chicago Saturday
night, and his punishment was fixed at
imprisonment for life. Only one Juror
stood between the accused Rogers Park
physician and the gallows. The final
verdict was reached after the twelve
men had deliberated less than three
hours and four ballots had been taken.
Mrs. Cleminson was found dead in
her bed at the family residence, 1929
Wayne avenue, May 30 Her husband
telephoned to DR.. Paul Hullhorst, of
Rogers Park, and told him that burg
lars had entered his home, chloro-
formed him and his wife, and stole a
gold watch Cleminson said that he
had been unconscious for several
hours, and that when he recovered he
found his wife dead. The case was
reported to the police of the Rogers
Park station, and an investigation re-
suited. Burned matches and bureau
drawers were found on the floor, and
$50 the physician said he had in his
clothing and jewelry were missing
After DR.. Cleminson had been taken
to the Alexian Brothers Hospital an
investigation of the burglary story led
the police to believe it false Their
theory was strengthened when physi-
clans reported that Cleminson was
shamming illness.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

H. Rockwell, an Iowa strawberry en-
thusiast. after twelve years effort and
experimenting, claims to have pro-
duced an ever-bearing strawberry.
ST Paul officials declare that no adj
vance in freight rates is contemplated
in the Northwest, whatever may be
the plans of railroads in other parts
of the country.
The immigration commissioner an
nounced recently that arrivals during
the last three months from he United
States for the farming districts of
Western Canada total 1881. Every
month has an increase over those Of
last year.
Michael Ryan, president of the
American Packers Association, at
convention in Chicago. said that I'M
less a great many more cattle were
raised in America, this country would
soon need to be importing meat. No
hope of permanently lower prices for
meat is held out by the association.
James j. Hill viii distribute $4,000 in
gold as prizes at the Omaha corn ex-
hibit for the best grain grown in Mon
tana within twenty five miles of the
Great Northern. Nontana will have
on display products which will demon
strate that the State of fosmer mining
and cattle-raising fame Is now in tie
agricultural class.
a report from Canada is TO the effect
that a new tentative route for the new
WeIland canal. enlarged so that sue
cessful competition with the Erie barge
canal can be had, has been agreed
upon by the government engineers.
During the fourth annual convention
Of the meat packers at Chicago a com
nittee reported to the effect that
prices. which are now higher than ever
before. viii never go lower. and prob
ably must go still higher. This, il was
said. was due TO the rising cattle mar
ket. on account OF the increased cost
of raising cattle. The committee said
that the prices were purely a matter
of supply and demand.
One of the largest tobacco farms in
the world, a 25.0e0-acre affair near
Amsterdam, Ga, has grown about a
third Of all the Sumatra tobacco used
for cigar wrappers in the United
States
The fourth Dry Farming congress OF
the world was held at Billings. Mont,
recently. The purpose of the dry
farming congress" is to forward the
interests of what is known as dry
farming. ard dry farming is the sys-
TEN Of conservation OF rainfall by
whicl. the great semi-arid district east
OF the Rockies is being converted into
one OF the richest farming regions in
America
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
BIG APPLE YIELD.
U. S. and Canada Produce 12,0O0,-
600 More Barrels than in 1908.

U. S. and Canada Produce 12,OOO,-
600 More Barrels than in 1908.
Thirty-fve million barrels, or H.
100000 barrels more than in 1908, is
the estimated apple crop of the United
States and Canada this season, ac-
cording to Ben H. Rice, secretary
manager of the second national apple
show in Spokane.
The International Apple Shippers
Association has issued an official
statement that the crop in the New
England States is 20 per cent in ex-
cess of 1908, while the yield in the
Central States is about 71a per cent
below last year, and the Middle West
ern States report a crop double that
of last season, when the yield was
slight
Growers in the Southern States re-
port crop from 125 to $50 per cent
will have a smaller crop than last
year, but the decreases in Idaho,
Washington and New Mexico are more
than made up by the big yield in Col
orado, so that the western crop will
be fully as large as the previous sea-
son.
Losses are shown in reports from
New York, New Hampshire, Kansas
and Oklahoma. Michigan, Wisconsin
and other States have gains. The Do
minion of Canada, not including Nova
Scotia, shows gain of rs per cent.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
NEW YORK.

With the arrival of cold weather this
week. retail trade hitherto inclin-
ed to lag, has taken on the appear
ance of activity, and distnoutive trade
reports are more uniformly encourag-
ing than for some time past. In some
sections, particularly the Northwest
the temporary effect CT heavy SHOWS
interrupting transportation to some
extent has been to dull some lines Of
wholesale trade, but the general eff
feet of the winter vlsitant has been
helpful.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending Nov. IS
were 232. against 22t last week, 273
In the like week of 1908. 265 in 1907.
212 in 1905 and 224 ia 1905.
Business failures in Canada for the
week number &c, which compares with
30 last week and 33 in the correspond
Ing week of 1905 Bradstreet's.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
.N1%gE15f%5GlzzT

Chicago-Cattle, common to prime.
s4.0O to 1926; hogs, prime heavy. $3.50
to 1925; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to $4.75; wheat, No. 2. $119 to $1.20;
corn, No. 2, Gle to 63c; oats, standard,
BIC to SOC; rye, No 2. GSc TO 74c; hay,
timothy, $500 to $500; prairie $500
to $3.50; butter, choice creamery. 27c
to soc; eggs, fresh. 25a to Csc; pota-
toes, per bushel, 30c to soc.
lndianapois-Catt shipping. 800
to $500; hogs, good to choice heavy,
$3.50 to $S.15; sheep, sood to choice,
$215 to $3.50; wheat No 2, $1.15 to
SLY; corn, No. 2 white, SIC to SOC:
oats, No white, soc to 41c.
ST. Louis-Cattle, $500 to $780,
hogs, $500 to 1925; sheep, $500 to
$475; wheat, No. 2, $1.22 to Sips;
corn No. 2, SOC to Gle; oats, No ?.
CSC to 39c; rye. No. 2. nc to 7Sc.
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to $500; hogs,
$500 to SSf5; sheep. $3.50 to S4.25;
wheat, No. 2, $1.2O to S1.22; corn. No.
yellow. Coo to 62c; oats, standard,
Acc to 42c; rye, No. l, zoe to 76c.
Milwaukee-Wheat, No. northern,
$1.06 to s109; corn. No. 3. 5Sc to G0e;
oats, standard. 4Oc to acc; rye. No. /.
7Sc to 75c; barley, standard. Csc to
&c; pork. mess. $23.75.
Buffalo Cattle. choice shipping
steers, $500 TO $500; hogs. fair to
choice, $500 to $40; sheep, common
to good mixed. $500 to $3.50 lambs
fair TO choice $500 TO $3.50.
Wheat, No 2 mixed, $120
to 1921; corn, No. mixed, Csc to
CSC; oats, No. 2 mixed, 40c to 42c;
rye. No. 2, 74c to TIC; clover seed.
$3.50
misunderstanding, $500 to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to $500; sheep, $500 to
$3.50; wheat. No. 2. s1.24 to S1.26;
corn, No. 2 mixed, SIC to SEC; oats.
No. 2 mixed. 41c to 42c; rye, No. 2,
76c to 7Sc.
New York-Cattle. :40O to $3.50;
hogs, $500 to 1925; sheep. $500 TO
s425; wheat, No. 2 red, s1.23 to s1.25;
corn. No. 2, zoe TO re; oats. natural,
white, 43c to acc; butter, creamery.
&c to S1c; eggs, western, zoe to
33e.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
BOYS cAPToR is KILLED.


Outlaw Shot After Refusing to Sur
render to Posse.
The unknown tramp who, for TWEEN
ty-four hours, held Harry Garrett cap
tive in an upstairs room of the Garrett
ranch house, near Boise. Idaho, threat
ening death to the boy should an at
tempt to arrest him be made, was shot
and killed Friday morning at day
break after the boy escaped. Wear
led by his long vigil, the outlaw fell
into a doze and his prisoner quickly
seized the opportunity to jump from q
window Shots startled the watchers
and moment later the boy rushed
from the direction of the house. The
man had attempted to kill the lad, the
men called on the desperate to surren-
der, but he refused and volley Of
shots were fired through the floor from
the room below.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
MORE TO EAT CERTAIN
Fur ALL IN AMERICA
Crop Report Shows One Extra
Bushel Potatoes Per Capita
Over Last Year.
CORN YIELD is NEAR RECORD
Traders Give Figures Bearish Inter.
probation and Market Sells
Somewhat Lower.

The crop reporting board of the De-
parment of Agriculture in prelimi-
nary report gives the indicated total
production of corn for 1909 as 2,767,-
$4,000 bushels. against 2,66S,65 900
finally estimated last year, with the
quality S4.2 per cent. against S6.9 last
year.
The preliminary estimate of the
average yield per acre of corn is 25. A
bushels, against 262 finally estimated
last year. About per cent (79,779,-
600 bushels) of the crop Of 1908 is es-
timated to have been in farmers
hands on November l, against 81 per
cent (71,124,000 bushels) of the 1907
crop in farmers hands at this time
last year. By states the total produc.
ton thousands omitted) for 1903
and total production for 1908 are as
follows:
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
NOTES OF CURRENT EVENTS

The plant OF w. ]. Hughes & Sons
Lumber Company at Louisville, KY.
was destroyed by fire, with n loss of
S75.OOe.
The seven story warehouse of New
ton 4 Davidson at Winnipeg. Manito-
ba. was Quilted by fire. The loss was
500 geo.
Charles Barker. Cincinnati laborer.
ran amuck and stabbed six people
with a butcher knife one of whom
may die The streets were crowded
nj the time William T. Winstandley,
a travelling salesman from Louisville.
Ky. was one of his victims.
Dire woe is in store for the Ameri-
can gum chewer. In fact. his favorite
nonperishahle delicacy is threatened
with extinction. according to Franklin
Canning. an officer of the American
Chicle Company, who has been inves-
tivating the chicle supply in Mexico.
owing to the great demand and con-
seouent high prices the chleie growers
Of Yucatan nave been tapping the
trees too often. ard as a result the
trees are being destroyed at a rapid
rate.
An antitoxia administered 10 Albert
Pierce. snake chsrsne-, after he Was
bitten by a big .'rattler" in New
York museum. saved the mans life
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
>NZZ2 REWZZS
SPgsRR

Wilbur and Orville Wright have
purchased 700 acres of farm LAND
northwest of Springfield. Ohio, neal
Tippecanoe City, as a site for a park
to be used for experiments with aero
plates.
Howard 3. Phillips. one of the old
est and best-known trainers and driv-
ers of light harness horses in Pennsyl-
vania, died recently at Pottstown. For
more than two score years Trainer
Phillips was a familiar figure at light
harness horse races throughout that
State.
Firestone easily won the Nassau
handicap at Aqueduct n. y, from a
high class field.
The thirty-seventh annual fall meet
ing of the Kentucky Trottfng Horse
Breeders Association has closed A
few of the horses went from Lexington
to Baltimore, while others were sent 10
Parkersburg. w. Va
The twenty fifth national horse show
held its annual five-days exhibit at
Madison Square Garden, recently
There were over !. 800 entries. Alfred
Gwynn Vanderbilt. president, his
brother, Reginald C. Vanderbilt and q
number OF other noted horsemen. were
present
Jack johnson retained the heavy
weight pugiIistic championship by
knocking out Stanley KetcheI in the
twelfth round at San Francisco.
T. c. Du Points grand little trotting
81. o. kfrA 10
been racing at Wilmington has been
booked to Del Coronado. z.0s6. and
win be bred next spring.
The Times. London. reviewing the
work OF American horses during the
past racing season. says that the gen.
eraI conclusion is that they held their
own in the matter Of speed, but were
deficient in stamina They no doubt
suffered from the change Of climate
and surroundings.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
THIS BOY BAD WHEN HE SLEEPS

Order Reversed in Case of Kansas
City Lad-Would Kill Parents.
What strange impulse leads Walter
Schoonover, IL years old, who is de-
voted to his parents in his waking
hours, to try to murder them when
darkness falls? For months his par
ents, who live at Kansas City, Kan,
have attempted to answer this ques-
ton Failing, they have appealed to
Judge Van B. Prather to help them
solve the mystery. Several times the
boys father and step-mother have
awakened to find the youth STOPPING
over them with a hammer, ready to
kill them. When awakened he returns
to bed in a peaceful frame of mind.
The boy asserts that he does not know
why he has such homicidal impulses.
The court ordered him sent to sani-
tarium.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30
Cotton Trust Has RiraI.

The Marquise de Breteuil and her
sister, Lady William Gordon Cumming,
formerly known in this country as the
Garner girls. have just closed a deal
with Southern and Eastern cotton
manufacturers for the sale OF the vast
cotton print manufacturing plants in
Northern New York, which they had
inherited from their father, who died
in 1875. It is said that the purchasers
are thus freed from the yoke Of the
cotton trust. which operates in the
New England States, and VIII be able
to reduce the price Of their goods TO
the public. thus nuIlifying the effect OF
the increase in the tariff.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-11-30

have been buried When they were
able to speak the first words that left
their lips were words that brought up
hope that hundreds of other men yet
in the mine might be still alive. Dur
ing the long watches of their own i'm
prisonment they said they had heard
sounds that made them sure that the
crannies and corridors about lem
held living men.