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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
BIG ARSON PLOT SUSPECTED.
Underwriters Offer Rewards for Ar
rest of Persons Causing Blazes.

The arson committee of the National
Board of Fire Underwriters has begun
an investigation of chain of fires
which extended throughout the Middle
West and West during the last few
years. One of the first steps was the
posting of bills about Greensburg, Ind,
announcing that reward of $500
would be paid for the arrest and con-
viction of the persons guilty of setting
fire there. A further reward of 81, 900
is offered for the apprehension and
conviction of those guilty of firing the
premises at Brigham City, Utah, on
Sept l, 1909, when stock of mer-
chandise owned by Dennis Dannacher,
also of Greensburg, was destroyed.
The adjusters submit the following
synopsis of places and dates where
fires occurred: Fire at Lebanon, Ind,
February, 1901; stock owned by W. r.
Walsh, of New York, and managed by
w. n. Schoffner; amount of insurance
and loss paid not known. Greensburg,
Ind, February, 1902; stock owned by
H. S. Pinson & Co., in which r. c.
Shoffner was a partner; insurance,
$4,000. Brigham City, Utah. Sept. 1.
1909; stock claimed to be owned by
ID. 2. (Dennis) Dannacher, who is
known as R. c. Shoffner, and doing
business under the firm name of n. NJ
Ravens and others"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
SYMPATHY STRIKE UNLAWFUL.

Court of Appeals Sustains Recent
Judgment of West Virginia Judge.
Sympathetic strikes are unlawful, ac-
cording to a decision handed down by
the United States Circuit Court of APP
peals in Richmond, Va, in which it
sustained a recent judgment of Judge
Dayton of West Virginia. The case
was that of the Hitchman Coal & Coke
Company VS.. the United Mine Workers
of America. The company on Oct. "a,
1907, procured temporary restraining
order, which was later followed by a
temporary injunction, enjoining the
United Mine Workers of America from
interfering with the mining property
owned and operated by the company
near Benwood, w. Va. The bill alleges
that on April /, 1906, a strike was in
augurated by the employees of the mine,
and that this act on the part of the
men was without provocation and in
response to call issued by the United
Mine Workers of America, who design
ed in this manner to compel certain
coal operators in other sections to ac-
cede to their demands. The action of
the appellate court is to close the liti-
cation in favor of the coal company
and against the labor union.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
FOREST FIRES MORE; LOSS LESS.
Figures Compiled at Washington for
1909 Show Damage Less Severe.

1SO9 Snow Damage Less Severe.
Fire, the bane of the forest, played
less havoc in the woodlands of the ma
tional reserves last year than in 1908,
although the number of blazes was 40
greater, according to statistics which
have been complied by the Department
OF Agriculture. By reason of the pro-
tective measures adopted by the de-
partment, almost so per cent of the
fires were extinguished before as much
as five acres had been damaged; the
fires covered less than one and one
half acres to the square mile of ma
tional forest land, and the damage
done 20 the burned-over area averaged
only $125 an acre.
For the year ended Dec. 81, 1909,
there were 3,13S fires in the forests,
burning over 100000 acres, of which
about $4,000 were private lands in ma
tional forests, against 100000 acres in
1908 About 170,000000 board feet of
timber were consumed, of which 49,
100000 feet were owned privately,
against 230,O00,000 in the previous
year. The loss in value of timber de-
stroyed was less than 100000, of
which $4,000 belonged to private par
ties. The loss Of the year before was
about $450.000. Damage to reproduc-
ton and forage showed remarkable
decrease, less than 100000 being the
record for 1909 and over 100000 that
for 1908. Locomotive sparks were ac-
ccuntable for more blazes than any
other cause.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
PEOPLE DEMAND END OF STRIKE
Call for Arbitration of Philadelphia
Street Car Walkout.


The demand by the people for arbi,
tration OF the differences between the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
and its 1000 or more striking eni-
ployes has become insistent
In Philadelphia and outside of it
voiced. Everywhere it is recognized
that the failure to arrive at any arbi-
trail agreement is the only thing that
stands in the way of speedy calling
off of the general sympathetic strike
in the city, which practically has pa:-
which the labor leaders made renewed
threats to spread if the deadlock con-
tinued.
These threats, perhaps, were what
most stood in the way of an amicable
adjustment. The vested interests,
which are decided factor in the sis
uation, dislike and resent the hint OF
coercion.
At a representative meeting of bust
ness men the other afternoon the call
for arbitration was the keynote. Lo-
cal financial, commercial end official
bodies, and the federal authorities, as
well as the salutary influence of the
National Civic Federation, were ap-
pealed to to step in and end the diff
Guilty Gov. Stuart at Harrisburg was
petitioned by the labor men to take
aclion, and the patriotic citizens of the
city and State were invoked in reso-
buttons, statements, and petitions to
aid in putting stop to conditions
which Philadelphia daily finds grow.
ing more intolerable.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
NEW YORK.

Trade reports continue to display a
certain degree of irregularity, ten
dency particularly noticeable in the
East, parts of the nearby South and
in scattered sections of the West, Yet,
on the whole, trading at a majority of
points is probably better than it was
last week, the South as a whole re-
porting Improvement, the Northwest
showing up in good shape and the far
West being good, with the Southwest
satisfactory. More favorable weather
conditions appear to be the chief intiu-
enee making for improvement. but, on
the other hand, the poor condition OF
country roads tends TO deter anything
like a free movement Staple lines
are in chief request
Business failures .or the week end
ing with March 10 were ESQ as against
1S4 last week, 254 in the like week Of
1909, 27S in 1908, 1876 in 1907 and ISL
in 1906. -Bradstreets.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
ROOSEVELT IN KHARToUM.
Meets Wife and Daughter and Is
Given Possession of Palace.

Theodore Roosevelt has arrived in
civilization 1t was o'clock Monday
when he landed on the steps of the
station at KhartCum, still attired III
the khaki garb he had worn in the jun
gle. This was due to the non-arrival
Of his civilian clothes.
AS is characteristic of all Roosevelt
ian events, his arrival at this point
was on time and the details were pic
turesque. The elements gave up four
days struggle for supremacy and be-
came lamblike upon the actual APP
proach of Colonel Roosevelt, while the
ruff1ed Nile was as smooth as mirror.
Upon its bosom numerous native feluc-
cas- and British gunboats which had
served through the Kitchener cam
paign were decorated with bunting and
flags in honor of this American citizen,
green date palms fringing the shores,
backed by stately buildings amidst
luxurious gardens, forming a scenic
setting of no mean worth. fl#
DESTROYS of keeping his promise to
finish his book, Colonel Roosevelt an
chored in the Dial off Gordon's Tree,
the favorite resting place of the mar
tyred hero of Khartoum, six miles from
that city. When the last sentence of
the book had been penned he followed
it by stenographic dictation, answer
ing numerous letters. The Colonel
found the greater part of his mail
made up of absurd requests for tro-
phies and other things impossible to
do or answer.
At p. m. the vessel leisurely steam
ed down the White Nile, passing Om-
dIirmann, the historic scene of the
y,aa,ifas downfall With Egyptian,
English and American flags flying at
the confluence of the White and Blue
Nile. Slatin Pasha and Wilson Bey,
Respondent with gold decorations, welT
coined the colonel.
At the palace brave array of off
GERS as a guard of honor fianked- the
passage from the landing place. After
an informal presentation to the leading
UlHCidiS VI hHdl tOulA, SoiohOi AsoOoU-
welt went to the railroad station TO
meet Mrs. Roosevelt and his daughter,
after which he returned to the palace,
where he dined with the privacy of a
simple citizen, enjoying the luxury of
dress clothes for the first time in
twelve months, the party's togs of civil
lization having arrived. The palace
has practically been given up to the
Roosevelts. 1t is historic, yellow
building, and is surmounted by an
American flag for the first time in its
history.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
j. S. HAS No INSURANCE
Nation Owns Buildings Valued at
5000, 900, but Carries No
Protection.
STRUCTURES ALL FIREpRooF.
Loss in Country Over 81, 600. 600 q
Day Is Government Report
Figures Are Given.

Although the United States govern
ment owns buildings that cost more
than $S00.000,000, and is spending
$2O,000,000 year for new buildings.
none of this property is insured
against loss by fire. To avoid this
great tax, which, at the ordinary rate
of insurance, would cost over half a
million dollars, the government con-
structs only buildings that are secure
ly fireproof. Tests are being made by
the United States geological survey to
determine the strength and fire resist
ance of building materials, and, al
though primarily designed to meet the
needs of the government as the largest
consumer. the results of these tests are
available for general use by the coun-
try at large.
The contrast between the small loss
es by fire to government buildings and
the immense losses reported from the
country was responsible for the inves
tigation instituted by the geological
ed States and their exact cost to the
people. The findings of this investiga.
ton are published by the survey in "a
report, which is, in part, as follows:
The investigation disclosed the fact
that the total cost of fires in the Unit
ed States i'll 1907, excluding that OF
forest fires and the marine losses, but
including excess cost of fire protection
due to bad construction and excess
premiums over insurance paid,
amounted to over $456, 4S5,000, a tax
on the people exceeding the total value
of the gold, silver, copper and petro-
leum produced in the United States
that year. The cost of building con-
struction in 1907 in forty-nine leading
cities of the United States reporting a
total nor1idt,on of less than 1S,000.00O
amounted 20 1861, 076,2S6, and the cost
of building construction for the entire
country in the same year is conserva'
lively estimated at 81 ,O00, 0O0, 900. Thus
it will be seen that nearly one-hali
the value of all the new buildings con
structed within one year is destroyed
by fire. The annual fire cost is great
er than the value of the real property
and improvements in either Maine
West Virginia, North Carolina, North
Dakota, South Dakota, Alabama
Louisiana or Montana In addition tC
this waste of wealth and natural re
sources, 1,449 persons were killed ant
1854 were injured in fires in the Unit
ed States. in 1907.
The direct loss by fires in this coun
try is eight times as much per capita
as in any country in Europe. The
actual fire loss in the United States
due to the destruction of buildings
and their contents amounted to $215,
084,709, a per capita loss of $2.51. The
per capita loss in the cities of the si1
leading European countries amounted
to but 33 cents. Comparisons of the
total cost Of fires, which includes thu
items already stated, show that i
buildings in the. United States were al
nearly fireproof as those in Europe thu
annual fire cost would be $90,000,00I
instead of $456,000,000.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
6HOOZS
erD (oLLEGEs
~~~~~~~N~N~-

President Trewin, of the Iowa State
board of education, is strongly opposed
to modern intercollegiate athletics, and
speaks emphatically against foot ball
as it is played to-day.
1t is the intention of the Iowa board
of educational control to create a de-
partment of athletics for the univer-
sity, so foot ball. track athletics. base
ball and basket ball will be under the
coaching of one head
Dr. William Everett, Clergyman, edu-
Gator, lecturer and politician, recently
died at his home in Quincy. Mass. As
author and lecturer he was known on
both sides of the Atlantic. He lectured
at oxford and Cambridge.
A fund of $4,000 for the use of the
Augustana College and Theological
Seminary at Rock Island, H., is to be
raised by the Minnesota Conference Of
the Augustana Swedish Lutheran
synod during the present year. to be
put with a fund of $4,000 to be raised
by the other seven conferences in the
synod
Harvard University has decided II
accept. on favorab BILE terms, liberal
number of exchange students from
scandinavian universities. who may be
nominated by their respective univer-
sition and recommended by the Amer
ican- Scandinavian society.
@. p. Hardenberg, graduate Of the
University of Wisconsin in 1905, for
several years stationed at the Grand
Rapids cranberry substation Of the
University Of Wisconsin agricultural
experiment station. has resigned mis-
position as representative OF the Uni
ted States bureau Of entomology to ac-
cept position as State entomologisr
of the Transyaal. South Africa
A newspaper laboratory is one Of the
new features in the course in Journal
ism at the Universify of Wisconsin
this year. 1t is equipped with seven
standard typewriters with desks, en-
which the students are required to
write their stories.
Three prizes. amounting to 500. have
been offered by John Clay. Of Chicago.
for the best articles written by stu
dents in the college of agriculture OF
the University OF Wisconsin on topics
relating to the live stock industry OF
the State. The competition is open to
members of the Hoard Press CluD.
which includes students interested in
agricultural Journalism in the college.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
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CHICAGO.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review Of
Chicago trade says:
The volume of payments through
the banks sustains high levels and is
favorable index of the extending ac-
tivity in commerce Further ease also
appears in money, and this has in
duced better borrowing fer both trade
and investment.
Current operations show steady
progress, aided by more seasonable
weather. the desire to push construc-
ton and wider demands in the leading
industrial and distributive branches,
Movements of grain. live stock and
provisions exhibit declines, but the,
gross earnings of the Chicago steam
roads rise, and there are heavy for
warnings of finished outputs. raw sup
plies and general merchandise.
Heavier contracts for equipment
are now issued and important tonnages.
closed for rails, pig iron, motive pow
er, cars and miscellaneous steel shapes
Building operations assure much work
throughout the coming season. while
additional machinery and hands are.
employed in Woodworking, Dealings
in the leading retail lines are stimu-
lated by the attractive exhibits of fash
ionable wear.
Bank clearings, S312 456,4l4, exceed
those of the corresponding week in
1909 by 1874 per cent and compare
with S24l,S07,751 in 1908. Failures
reported in the Chicago district NUM-
bered twenty-nine. as against twelve
last week, eighteen in 1909 aud thirty
in 1908. Those with liabilities over
$4,000 number six, as against three
last week, ten in 1909 and eleven in
1905"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
I'M MI>Jsl|gHELL
~

One of the largest steers ever
slaughtered in the West rs killed at
San Francisco On the hoof the steer
weighed $500 pounds and dressed l.
500 pounds net.
According tc government reports the
total value of the horses. mules. mich
cows. cattle. sheep and swine in the
United States was on Jan. i, 1910, S.
I3S, ass, 900. This is an increase of $613,-
227,0o0 since Jan. /, 1909.
Farmers near Marshall. No, COM
plain that wolves have been very trou-
blesome during the last winter. They
killed twenty eight pigs recently for
one farmer and others have suffered
losses of lambs. pigs and poultry.
At New Richmond, Wis. the new To-
cal independent telephone compa Nv
has been incorporated under the name
of St. Croix Valley Telephone company
and capitalized at $4,000. more than
the necessary amount already having
been subscribed. The plan is to make
this new company the nucleus, the
clearing house for all the independent
telephone companies up and down the
ST. Croix valley.
Final details closing up the $4,000
coo merger of the four street car COM
NAMES in the =tath division of Chica :
go have been completed and the Chi
cago City and Connecting Railways
Company becomes fact
Announcement has been made al
south Bethlehem. Pa that Charles NJ
Schwab. as president OF the Bethlehem
Steel Company. has awarded a con-
tract TO German firms in Berlin and
Stetten for the erection of 400 coke
ovens at the Saucon plant OF the Beth
lehem Steel Company nj a cost of near
" 5000. o0e The capacity Of the ovens
will be 5000 tons q day Saucon IS
about eight miles south OF Bethlehem
That Minnesota farmers received last
wear nearly SIS. 600 GOO for milk sold >
crea neries is estimated by Dairy and
Food Commissioner Andrew French
from incomplete returns received by
his office.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
.N%RgGfa'Nzzx/

Chicago Cattle, common to prime,
$500 to $3.50; hogs, prime heavy. $500
to S11.O0; sheep, fair to choice, $3.50
to 1925; wheat, No. 2, S1.1S to $1.22;
corn, No. 2, Gle to Csc; oats. standard.
43c to 45c; rye, No 2, 7Sc 10 zoe; hay.
timothy. $1,000 to $1,000: prairie. $500
to $500; butter. choice creamery. 2Sc
to alc; eggs, fresh, 1Sc to 22c; pota-
toes, per bushel, Use to &c.
Indianapolis Cattle. shipping. $500
to $765; hogs, good to choice heavy.
$500 to 5000; sheep, good to choice.
$500 to 1915; wheat, No. 2. $1ls to.
$120; corn, No. 2 white, soc TO zoe;
oats, No. 2 white, 43c to 45c.
St Louis-Cattle, $500 to $500;
hogs, $500 to $10S5; sheep, $3.50 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2, s1.25 to s1.27;
corn, No. 2, SIC to SOC; oats. No. @,
43c to 45c; rye, No. 2, 7sc to SOC.
Cincinnati--Cattle, $500 to 800;
hogs, $500 to s11.00; sheep. $500 to.
1854; wheat, No 2, $1.2i to Sl.23;
corn, No. 2 mixed. coo to Gle; oats,
No mixed, 47c to 4Sc; rye, No. y
SIC to S5c
Detroit-Cattle, $500 to s6.25; hogs,
$500 to 5000; sheep, $3.50 to to $3.50;
wheat, No. 2, $1.17 to s1.19; corn, No.
3 yellow. Gle to 62c; oats. standard.
46c to 47c; rye. No. /, 79c to soc.
Milwaukee Wheat. No. northern.
SLIP 10 s116; corn, No 8, Gle to 63c;
oats. standard, 44c to 45c; rye, No l.
7Sc to soc; barley, standard, roc TO
Tic; pork. mess, $500.
Buffalo Cattle. choice shipping
steers, $500 to 1925; hogs. fair to
choice, $500 TO s11.OO; sheep. common,
to good mixed. $500 to $40; lambs,
fair to choice, $500 to 1915.
New York-Cattle. $500 to $3.50:
hogs, $500 to s1O.e5; sheep. $500 to
$3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, s1.26 to 1927;
corn, No. 2, &c to 65c; oats, natural.
white, 49c to sic; butter. creamery,
29c to S2c; eggs. western. 22c to 25c.
Toledo--W Wheat. No. 2 mixed, s1.19
to s1.20; corn, No. mixed, SIC to
64c; oats, No mixed, 45c to 47c,
rye. No. 2, 79c to Sec; clover seed.
S712
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
BLACKHAND ON OIL KINGS LAND
Workmen Terrorized After Rescue
of Kidnapped Pocantico Boy.


New York detectives are aiding the
West Chester County authorities in
trying to run down a band of black
handlers who have terrorized the work
men on the John d. Rockefeller estate
at Pocantico hills, New York, and
whose latest exploit was the kidnap-
ing of the 4-year-o!d son of Leonard de
Carlo. The boy was found several
miles from home in the custody of
two women agents of the blackmail-
ers, who became frightened and fled
when approached by trolley car con-
ductor. The trolley mans suspicious
had been excited by the crying of the
child and the woman's actions.
The gang now operating on and near
the Rockefeller estate is believed to
be the same as that which four or five
years ago was investigated and whose
operations were checked temporarily by
the late Lieut.. Petrosino. The terror
lied workmen on the estate can be in
duced to say little about the black
mailers' extortions, but the police are
working on clews that it is hoped will
result in the final dispersal of the
gang.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
SHORT npwa NOTES.

A slight earthquake shock was felt
at Portland, ore.
A voluntary Increase Of conductors
and motormen's wages from 1sHs 10
20 cents an hour. effective March To-
has been announced by the Reading
Traction Company.
Charging issuance Of fraudulent
whisky receipts as collateral for loans
amounting to 100000. a. warrant was
issued at Baltimore for George 7.
Gambrill. president OF the Rosbury
Disiiiling Company, now in receivers
hands.
]. s. Rinehart. former cashier OF a
Wayneyburg, Pa, bank. serving a fir
teen-year prison sentence on charge
of footing the institution. Is fighting
the effort OF the banks receiver Ia
seize his $4,000 estate to cover part
Of his alleged defalcations.
With a jury in the box ready to hear
the trial at Kansas City Of Eugene
Hays. charged with killing Edward
Hays. the State dismissed the case on
a plea by the defense that a. deputy
prosecutor had made shorthand notes
in the room Of the grand jury that in
dicted Hays a new charge Of murder
was fled later
J. D. Shewalter. OF Kansas City. an
nounced his candidacy for the United
States Senate as a Democrat TO sue
coed William Warner Republican.
whose term expires in 1911.
Justua l. cozad. founder Of the
Guarantee Title and Trust Company Of
Cleveland. died in that city. aged 70.
He had been active in banking and real
estate circles fer twenty five years.
frank Dever. head Of the Lehlsh
Valley Coal company's engineer corps
In the Hazleton. Pa. district. and Jo-
seph GrulIa. a laborer. were killed by
dynamite explosion In the Buch
Mountain cclIiery.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-03-22
BALLINGER PUTS THEM BACK.
Lands Withdrawn by Garfield Are
Restored by Secretary of Interior.

Lands Withdrawn by Garfield Are
Restored by Secretary of Interior.
A large part of the lands withdrawn
by former Secretary of the Interior
Garfield along the Grand River, in
Colorado and Utah, on the ground that
they contained power possibilities, will
be restored to entry by Secretary Bal
linger, an examination having shown
that only 1882 acres are serviceable
for that purpose. -
A House bill was passed by the Sen
ate the other day authorizing the Sec
rotary of the Interior to withdraw
from all settlement for one year all
lands which a State or territory pro-
poses to enter. The purpose is to give
States and Territories the preference
provided for in the Carey act and pre-
vent spectators taking up the lands
and compelling subsequent purchases.