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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
TRADE AND INDUSTRY.

Railroad contractors are rushing la
borers to Alaska and contractors on the
Pacific coast are compelled 10 pay extra
wages to keep their men.
The Seattle chamber of commerce has
appealed to the Senate to double the
present duty on shingles to protect the
coast lumbermen from Canadian cJmpe-
tition
The Winnipeg builders nave settled
their differences with the labor unions
and operations are not likely TO be again
interrupted BY strikes for another year
at least.
A farm society that shall be active in
politics and represent the rural popula-
ton In the Affairs Of the nation is de-
clarc,i to be the great need in the United
States BY Noral j.. Kemp. Of Dayton.
Ohio, former secretary Of R55sevelt's
farm commission.
The land Office has ruled that the
widow or other heirs Of hoIursteader
in order 70 make communication proof
must show both residence on the land
and cultivation for fourteen months. The
entryman who sells his improvements
and relinquishes his claim may not make
a second entry.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and 81. Paul
Railroad Company mas completed its line
to the Pacific coast in record time. The
first earth on the 1.400-mile extension
was turned April II. 1905. The ballast
ing Of the new trans-coHtinental line will
be completed about June ]. 1900. and
regular freight and local passenger ser
vice will be established thereafter.
The annual report of the American
Telephone and Telegraph Company
shows a net revenue Of SIS.121.707. after
dedncting ST.7773s07 for interest. The
net earnings Of the year before were
Sic, 26i. 3Ss. There is on hand bal
ance Of $5.s62551.
Railroad officials are sesking 20 find
some practicable means Of preventing the
enormous amount Of damage to their
track equipment and consequent danger
to trains caused by the dripping Of brine
from refrigerator Ears. Figares compiled
By the Michigan Central Railroad for a
year show tina; on "a niles Of track the
deterioration aScribed to this cause
amounted 10 $4,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

fields of ice are pouring over Niagara
Falls, constantly adding to the, accumu-
lation which clogs the exit of the river
into Lake Ontario. This increases the
height of the mound of ice at Lewiston.
which already is nearly eighty feet above
the normal stage of the river. Appeals
Cor help have been made TO the War De
partmeut and Gov. Hughes and the Gov
ernor has sent an expert in the use Of
explosives Col. James Il. Price, in
charge of the Buffalo Office of the United
States engineer corps, declares that the
department is absolutely helpless to rem
der any assistance at Lewiston and
Youngstown. He inspected the cond-
tons on Sunday and found the ice at
the mouth OF the river at least seventy
FIVE inches in thickness and that a boat
would be poweress. Dynamite, he said
would make about as much impression aS
if exploded in soft dirt. He saw abso-
lutely no way to relieve the condition.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
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Oddities of Legislation.

Wisconsin Legislature proposes meas
ure to make all drunkards wear red but
tons. Superfuous. Most of EN- do but
on the ends of their noses.-Cleyeland
Leader.
The announcement that the anti-cigar-
cite law is now in force in Kansas"
must have been a typographical error.
The anti-cigarette law is now a farce in
Kansas.-Kansas City Times.
A bill has been introduced in the Illi-
nois Legislature making a man legally
incapable of entering into { marriage
contract if he has been intoxicated twice
during the year previous Washington
Herald
A legislator in Texas wants to make
law to prevent fishing on Sunday.
About the only way to make an effective
law on this matter would be to make it
Illegal for the fishes to bite on Sundays.
Springfield Republican.
They are trying to make it law in
Minnesota that chorus girls, who wear
tights of the national colors, will have to
go to Jail. Still, we can't exactly see
why the national colors are worse than
any others-Augusta Chronicle.
When that bill prohibiting the foretell-
ing of future events for money by cards,
frances, inspection of hands. mind read
ing, so called, or by consulting the heav-
emily bodies becomes law, will the wealth
er man be an outlaw Detroit Free
Press.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

Mr.. Patter appears to be the police
man of the wheat pit.-Lousville Times.
May wheat is selling at SIPS. It's
worth what the farmer got for it.-St
Louis Dispatch.
In Chicago the shorts are singing that
familiar old song, 'In this wheat-by
and by !"-Cleveland Leader.
What fun the Chicago spectators are
having with wheat-and with innocent
bystanders Springfield Republican.
If the price of wheat goes much high
er the cavities in the bakers loaves will
become cavernous.-Galyeston News.
The price of May wheat is certainly
getting reputation among the farmers
for being a good fellow.-Toledo Blade.
The country has seen some very large
wheat CANDLES that hadn't the slightest
effect on the price of loaf of bread.
Don't have fits about this one.-Milwau-
kee Sentinel.
Book agents have been indicted on a
charge of swinding Mrs. James Patten
of Chicago out of $4,000 Her hus-
band, Mr.. James Patten, has just made
100000 by operating a wheat corner.
You see. the Pattens are still somewhat
ahead of the game.-Kansas City Times.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

154-Jacques Cartier sailed from st.
Malo on his first voyage to the New
World.
1754EThe first theater in Philadelphia
wss opened.
17S2--Holland acknowledged the indie
pendence of the United States.
1TS3-The Assembly of Pennsylvania
granted charter for ten years to
the Bank of North America.
17S4-Universal religious equality Great
ed by law in New York.
17S9-Gen. Washington received at Mt.
Vernon official notification of his
election as first President of the
United States.
1S12-Congress passed an act annexing
to Louisiana that part of Florida
lying west of the Pearl River.
1S1S-Congress authorized the territory
of Illinois to form a State eonstitu-
ton.
DISQUALIFICATION of the Black Sea
opened to American vessels.
1S39-Destructive fire in Charleston,
S. c..
1S49-The steamer General Pike" burn
ed on the Mississippi
1S54-Ship Powatan, from Havre to New
York, wrecked on Long Beach, with
loss of over 800 lives
1S56-QIebec made the capital of Upper
and Lower Canada.
1S61-Gov. Ellis of North Carolina seiz-
ed the United States mint at Char
lotte.
1862 Slavery abolished in the District
Of Columbia.
1854 Isaac Murphy became provisional
governer of Arkansas.
1865 President Lincoln assassinated in
Ford's Theater, Washington, by j.
Wilkes Booth. :. Remains of Abra-
ham Lincoln removed from the
White House to the capitol.
1S75-Boston celebrated the centennial
of Paul Revere's ride.
reduce the Presidents salary to
$4,000.
1S79-Over 200 persons persisted in col
liery explosion at Mons, Belgium.
1SS2-Frederick Maclean sentenced to
prison in England for attempting to
shoot Queen Victoria.
1S92-Behring Sea moSus vivendi adopt
ed in United States Senate.
1891 South Carolina Supreme Court
decided the dispensary liquor law to
be unconstitutional
1S95-State capitol at Springfield, H.,
damaged by fire. Railroad traffic
impeded in Vermont and New Hamp-
shire by heavy floods. Treaty of
peace between Japan and China
signed at Shimonoseki.
1S97-Internationsl Copyright Congress
began its sessions in Paris.
1903 Ex-P President Cleveland spoke in
New York in the interest of indus
trial education in the South. /.
Ninth annual Congress for Combat
ing Alcoholism met at Bremen.
19O4-Andrew Carnegie established q
fund of $J,O00,00O for the reward of
those who IRISH their lives for Others
An explosion on the United
States battleship Missouri killed
twenty-nine men . Fire in Toronto
destroyed $10,000000 worth of prop
erty.
1906 Earthquake and fire destroyed a
large section of San Francisco.
1907--William j. Bryan declared in ia
vor of the initiative and referendum.
190S-President Roosevelt sent a special
message TO Congress, advocating the
building of four battleships.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

Mr.. Payne put his foot in it with that
stocking tariff, sure Milwaukee
Sentinel.
The charge of the hat-pin brigade is the
one thing that really worries Mr. Payne.
Washington Post.
A tax on talk might have a better ef-
feet than a reduction of congressional
salarieS-Atlanta Constitution.
In the face Of this tariff on stockings,
dear old grandma merely smiles. and goes
on with her knitting.-Gleyeland Leader
If that duty on tea were restricted in
its application 10 the pink variety, much
complaint against the tax would be 81
lenced-New Orleans Times Democrat.
Those Congressman are undoubtedly
very witty. but humorous speeches at q
cost Of S10.OOO.000 a day to the coun-
try come a bit high. Why not reserve
them for the J0eent Chautauqua DE
troit News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

Even a returned African explorer can
hardly be more susceptible to the attrac-
tions of feminine proximity than is a
young Englishman who has spent two
or three seasons on a lonely ranch or In
rough crowded mining camp.
Young Charlie Hudson, who had been
fretting and Tuning at not getting home
in time to spend Christmas among his
assembled brothers and sisters and cous-
ms, forgot his grievances when allowed
10 chatter at Miss Thorne's side, or to
help her to pour out tea on extra rough
days, when the task was no sinecure.
Captain Kerr, that kindly little Irish
gentleman, kept her supplied from his
own apparently inexhaustible Stock of
fiction, and asked nothing better than to
lie allowed 10 yarn away about tie wife
ard cI ildren whom he was on his way
home to join.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

And Mr. Stewart, tall. gaunt. hageard.
with impressive face from which a pair
of sportSmen's eyes looked keenly out
under dropping ips-what part did he
take in the group?
Lounging in his usual listless fashion
on the sofa, putting in some keen taunt
or gibe at everything under heaven or
earth, or else letting fall some queer out
of-the-way fact or hint at some startling
bit of personal experience, as his share
il the conversation, stoically Indifferent
&c the severity of The storm or to the
length of the voyage. utterly reticent as
to any future after the landing at Liver
pool-how was it that be had established
a tacit footing of greater intimacy than
had the other two:
Wherein that intimacy consisted Miss
Thorne might have been puzzled TO say.
and yet she fel; that il was there. if oaly
in subtle comprehension of the seasons
of each others dark moods.
That she should ever be under the do
minion of such moods was probably =
quite unconsidered theory to either of
the other two men. for the girls manner
might always have been marked by the
same dreamy stillneSs-'.the perfection of
repose," Charlie Hudson called il, while
Captain Kerr praised the intelligence Of
so good a listener: and il was only Mr..
Stewart who guessed that that same man
ner might have been q blythe one but for
the t-mindedness entsiled by an
overmastering recollection or anxiety.
Pretending TO doze in an opposite cor
ner Of the saloon. Stewart had watched
the oper book remaining with unturned
leaves a. the girls hands. while she
stared ahead with the fxity that drew
weary lines around the young mouth.
Looking as though her world bad gone
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

Il have more respect for the man
who bets on horse races than / have
for the man who CANDLES in the wheat
market or other futures" said Gov.
Thomas r. Marshall of Indiana, who
attended the Gridiron Club dinner in
Washington.
There is some sport about the one,
and not a redeeming feature about the
othed If had my way, should do
away with all gambling, but | know
that III is not in human nature to pre-
vent speculation like racing, and.
after all. there is no sport in racing
unless there is betting, but that does
not mean that approve of gambling.
l may have peculiar idea of affairs.
but l have always believed that if the
state would make fewer attempts to
make laws regulating the morals of
the people in general and he people
would give more attention ~ individu-
ais the world would be better off.
If Congress would regulate the
manipulation Of the markets. which
causes high prices, such as is the case
In Chicago to-day. let it pass law
placing tax or all contracts in flu
lures
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
Bod,e. washed from Graves.

Several hundred frantic persons gath
cred at the entrance 10 81. Johns Gene
terry. near Pittsburg, after water main
hurst. allowing food of water TO pour
into the cemetery during the night.
Many monuments were thrown down. g
number of bodies were washed from- their
graves. end the tombstones over large
area thrown aside by the force of the
water. The crowd excitedly demanded
admittance to the cemetery 10 learn If
the bodies of friends or relatives bad
been washed away.by the water.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

voyage, and Miss Thorne was by undis-
puted right the ruling lady of the ship
Miss Thorne, whose young face and fig
ure formed the pleasar test central spot
to masculine eyes in that dre&Sv saloon,
even though the set gravity of her face
matched but too well the fresh blfsck that
clothed her figure.
No deck life had been possible during
that week of storms, and as the poor old
st. Lawrence did not boast of the mod
ernity of music room or library, Miss
Thorne's cushions and rugs were heaped
in a corner of the red plush diyan which
ran around the saloon. This corner, be-
ing recognized as her own peculiar haunt,
was approached by the Northwest men
with Difference when on social thoughts
intent. or, rather, by the two or three
from the Northwest to whom such social
thoughts were possibility.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
sheds His skin Yearly.

Gus Kushel ca years old. Colorado
miner, is in the St Louis City Hospits:
for the annual shedding of his skin. hu-
shell says that as long as he can remen1-
Der he has shed his skin every spring.
Kushel is afflicted with hereditary skin
disease known as ichthyosis. Unlike the
snake, he does not crawl out of his skin
Every spring his skin from his neck 70
the soles of his feet peels OF in little
scales-like those of fish. hence the
name of the disorder The disease Is
painless and is attended by no internal
disorder
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

to pieces around her." he said to himself
az one who may himself have gone
through that bewildering process
The surface reason for these times of
sorrowful brooding seemed to lie in the
new black dress that she wore.
That the captains of Canadian steam
ships gather a fair amount of gossip as
they como And go was fact not un-
known to SIR. Stewart.
1t did not take long, in late even
ing chat over pipe ia the chart-room.
to get at the principal facts in Miss
Thorne's history
Ito be continued.)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

clared Senator Goebel Governor, an6
be was sworn in practically on hii
deathbed He died on Feb. 3. 1900.
Warrants charging Powess and sev
cral others with completely in the as
sassination were taken out soon after
the tragedy Governor Taylor was no
formally accused Of connection with II
until the return of an Indictment By
the grand jury in April, 1900.
Prominent Men Indicted.
Among the more prominent men in
dicteG were former Governor William
S Taylor former Secretary of Stat,
Caleb Powers. his brother, John Pow
ors. Charles Finley. another former
Secretary of State; William Culton
james II. Howard and Youtsey.
Caleb Powers and James +. Howard
we're pdrdOned two months ago Fri
day Governor Wilson lifted the hanc
Of the law from former Governor Tay
Tor and former Secretary Finley. who
have been fugitiyes in Indiana for the
last nine years John Powers. who is
believed 60 be in Honduras: Holland
Whitaker Of Bntler County. John Da
Wis of Louisville and Zach Steele OF
Bell County who did not flee from tlie
state.
Those whom the Governor did not
nard0n are Wharton Golden of Knox
County. nor, said to be in Colorado
Frank Cecil o. Bel County. now work
ing as railroad detective in St Louis,
and William II. Coalition OF 0wsley
County. who is said to have died out
West several years ago. 1t was report
ed soon after the murder that he died
in Kentucky. but later reports were to
The effect that he was out West
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
ICE JAM THREATENS BIG BRIDGE

Frozen Mass Piled SO Feet Above
Normal Level at Lewiston.
Thousands of tons of broken ice, piled
in a confused mass in the mouth of the
Niagara River. threatened the Lewiston
suspension bridge. which is eighty-five
feet above the normal level of the river.
Moving ponderously before tremendous
pressure of water, the mass of ice is
slicing off the river embankment as il
passes and threatens serious damage to
some OF the hotels on the river bank, or
dinarily high above the water Great
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

In the Daytona (Fla-l automobile
races Tuesday, Lewis Strang in a Buici
car made 100 miles in the record tins
of "a .0l 10. There were a bicycls
and a motorcycle race also. in which new
records were made. On Wednesday DA'
vid Brown. a New York amateur. made
new world mark in the ten-mile free
for-ail, OF 5:I4 20.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
FIees Fourth SET of Twins.

Informed shat his wife had given
birth to two bouncing girls, James ID.
Jordan. a well-to-do citizen of Carriers
vile. Ga. cried This is too much !"
packed a valise and fed. This is the
fourth set of twins in the Jordan family
and the father announced after the third
pair came that a fourth SCI would cause
him TO leave home.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
wed. -Four Ttme. I'm Five Years.

The marriage Of Mrs. Belle Roblee to
s r. Gray at Cameron. Texas. resulted
in this extended cogzomen. Mrs Black
well Pruitt windham windham Roblee
GRAY. nee Brumby. This Is her fourth
nssrriase in the last 6ve years and her
sixth in tzenty-three years
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
Mistaken.

why didn't you marry that girl yoU
were going WITH"
Il found l was greatly mistaken in
her"
How was that?"
Il thought she would marry me,
but she wouldn't. "-Houston Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
French Gardeners Sell Exts. soir.


Suppose that gardener has a plot
of raw ground to be put under culti-
walton. How does he go about it?
Ernest Poole, writing in Success
Magazine" describes the process as
follows: First, the entire surface is
covered with stable manure, mixed old
and new, in such huge quantities that
even when pressed down it makes
bed nearly foot in depth. On top of
this he spreads a second layer. about
six inches deep, of the richest soil,
which is also mixed with manure. So
the ground aas now an artificial sur
face of from fifteen to eighteen inches
deep. 1t is all one hotbed.
And not only warm The loan thus
made becomes in time too rich. AL
most every year the maraicher takes
off the top layer, replacing it with new
earth and manure, and the old rich
loan is either used in making new
beds in his own garden or else is sold
at high price. l reaG IN one report
of a three-acre plot where more than
two hundre. and fifty cubic yards of
old loan was SOLD each year.
With such treatment. the primitive
condition oe old Mother Earth is prac-
tically of no account. In the gardens
which l visited. threading my way
along nine-iDch paths, the garden rose
almost to my knees on either side
very slight pressure / could force my
cane down a foot or more. and then ii
struck as though against rock.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
Mob wreck. sa.t,ce,. Home.

Feeling engendered al the local option
election in Chapman. Neb.. led mon
early to attack the home Of justice Of
the peace, Alexander Stout. The mob
broke every window in the house and
smashed the doors and wrecked part Of
the interior.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

King Peter of Servia will quit for So
coo year That's what our Presidents
have been workin.. for What's the an
swer:-CieTeland Leader.
The King of Servia has changed the
names of his sons. but that isn't the kind
Of change the kiig-ridden people are
wanting. Atlanta Constitution.
King Peter Of Servia has held the
throne SO much longer than was expect
ed that he can vacate and still be consid-
cred success Washington Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
primary Election Figh, Fatal.

In general igbt st Pikegille. KY,
over primary election in the mountains
of Pike County. Anthony Taylor. Re-
publican worker. was shot and killed and
three other men were clubbed 50 severely
that II Is believed they will die.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
Suffrage alliance session ON.

The fifth congress Of the International
Womsn's Suffrage Alliance was opened in
London, England Monday under the
presidency Of Mrs. Carrie ChaDman-C Gait
A welcome was extended the delegates on
behalf Of the English suhragists by Mrs
MnIicent Garrett Fawcett
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
Rlver Boa. sinks, Elghs Drown.

Right people were lost and seven 9TH
ers on board had thrilling escape from
death when the towboat Eagle Of the
Louisiana Petroleum Company sank mys-
terioasIy 10 The Mississippi RiFs- aDocs
forty miles soash Of New Orleans.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

"You don't make very good music
with that instrument said the inno-
cent hystander TO the man behind TIE
bass drum as the band ceased TO play.
No. admitted the drum FOUNDER.
-but / drown a heap of bad"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04
Co. ~ Coin. Gone

Fool wlke up last night with
start. / dreamed that my watch was
gone.
Drool-Well. was it2
Fooi-No; but u was going-Yale
Record.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

DIR. y. II. Trpleis died Al has home
near MorgantowlS ". va, az the age
Of 81 years He osicia1ed az the birth
! Of 1.T6S babies.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

of going back to the miserable little
nubbins that grow wild in Mexico and
developing them over again into the
treasure houses of starch that do so
much toward feeding the world-a long
and costly task. We are not really
frightened by the Colorado mans apple
or by the kings approval of it, but the
situation is not quite as simple as it
seems, and 1t will be well to keep in
tiild the fact that cores" have uses
as well as inconYeniences.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1909-05-04

Western Senators are preparing to
fight the drawback provisions in the
Payne tariff bill. Deliver Of Iowa
claims that npder these provisions
packers are given free trade In cattle.
and Northwestern Senator's claim that
they allow the free importation -
wheat from Canada for export. The
House adopted an amendment requlr-
ing imported grain to be milled within
twelve months.
49,
Marcus ID. L. Simpson, Brigadier
General, Z. 5. A., retired, and said
10 have been the oldest living graduate
Of West Point, died at his home IN
Riverside. near Chicago. The remains
have been inferred In Rock Creek CEN
etery, Washington. Gen. Simpson grad
uated from West Point in 1876.
49,
Postmaster General Hisbcock has
approved rectangular design for a
special ISSUE OF stamps on June /.
commemorative Of the Alaska Yukon
Pacific exposition.
-.
When President Taft gives She sig
mai from the White House that win
fash across the continent and start
tie wheels whirling at the Alaska
Yukon Pacific exposition June ]. his
hand viii press key Of virgin gold,
studded with the lst nuggets taken
from claim In the glondike.
-:-.-
The bitter controversy which has
been in progress ever since the pure
food law was enacted as 10 what IN
whisky has been referred By Presi-
dent Taft to the Solicitor General.