Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-08-02
WISCONSIN
HAPPENINGS

land adjacent to its terminals here
and will begin at once the construc-
ton of storage yards with a capacity
fer 5000 cars. The old roundhouse
will be torn down and replaced with
a modern structure, and this city will
be made the great central division
point on the system for both freight
and passenger service. The new ar
rangement on the Chicago division
viii bring to this city $50 skilled en-
ployes. The new system will be eff,
fective by October l. The city has
vacated three principal streets.
Chippewa Falls.-Peter Gilbertson,
aged fifty. was injured by an ex-
plosion In the stone quarry of the
Chippewa Falls Construction COM
pany at Colfax While preparing the
blast he had three quarts of powder
in tin can standing on a rock beside
him. The powder became ignited by
the fierce heat OF the sun. Gilbertson
was blown ten feet though he weighs
275 pounds. His face and arms were
burned, and fellow workmen rushed
to him and tore off his clothes. He
was taken to hospital here and
his condition is precarious Gilbert
son has blasted in quarries for thirty
years and this was his first mishap.
His home is at Frontenac, Mimi.
maintenance of the level
of Lake Okauchee and other i'm
proyements have been launched by
the Okauchee Lake Improvement asso-
citation of this place The aim is to
make it still more popular as sum-
mer resort for the people of Milwau-
kee and other cities. The level of the
lake Tas definitely settled by the as
sociation in 1909 1t is also planned
to place buoys in dangerous places, to
provide lights at night. to improve
the roads, obtain proper adjustment
of taxes, secure police protection, and
to provide regulation of launches.
Meetings will be held each Sunday
morning
Eau Claire-Tribe No. 1 of the
Bulawayo Indians, recently formed
organization composed almost en-
tirely of North side business men,
has erected a handsome and very at
tractive log cabin on the Eau Claire
river near the mouth of Seven Mile
creek. The log cabin has been built
from white pine logs and will be used
during the summer as an cutters re-
sort by the members of the tribe
Recently a guest from Wabasha.
Mimi, who was shown the cabin, was
so impressed with it that he donated
an appropriate picture of an Indian
chief, which is to be hung on one
of the walls
Manitowoc. - Manitowocs first
white slavery case was brought
before the court when Ida Ray.
charged with being a procuress, and
Henry Tegge, her son, were arraigned.
Tegge pleaded guilty and was fined
500 and costs. The woman pleaded
not guilty and will fight the case. She
was held on a bond of $500 for APP
pearance William Pail, also impll-
Gated in the case, pleaded not guilty
and is in jail in default of furnishing
a bond of $500. The complaint results
from the recent arrest of a young girl
of fourteen years, who is said to have
implicated the trio in a confession to
the police.
Racine.-The long standing iron
holders strike showed signs of
ending when forty strikers resumed
work at the American Seating com
pany's plant. Three months ago 400
molders went out in six different fac
tories. They demanded nine hours
work a day and the bosses wanted ten
hours. Since that time non-union
molders have been doing most of the
work.
Sheboygan. - Miss sosa Kopp,
aged twenty years, living three
miles southwest of Silver Creek, COM
mitted suicide by taking paris green.
She wrote on a slip of paper before
she died: ut is nobody's fault but my
sickness" She was the only daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Kopp and is
survived by brother
Grand Rapids. - Reinald Timm,
r. F. d. carrier No. Z, from
the Grand Rapids postoffice, who has
a route twenty-five miles long, has
been making an experimental trial the
last month of the delivery of his mail
with the use of motorcycle. After
months trial he feels we'll satisfied
with the experiment.
Sheboygan.-Si hundred dollars
worth of county orders will be
destroyed by the county clerk next fall
unless their owners call for them SOON
Three large books of unpaid orders
are in the Office of County Clerk
Meyers. The orders are destroyed
after being kept three years.
Beloit. - Beloit assessors return
a valuation of $9,20G,539, an In
crease Of 1885, 97 over last year. The
assessment was made on a basis of
so per cent. of fair valuation.
Fond du Lac-The new Methodist
Episcopal church in South Byron, Of
which Rev. J. c. Mccain is pastor,
will be dedicated.
Sheboygan. - The annual school
census of the city of Sheboy-
gan has been completed and shows an
increase Of forty-six children Of school
age in the city during the last year.
The enumerators also took a general
census and estimate the total popu-
lation of the city TO be 25,276, which
is an increase of 632 over last years
similar estimates.
Dodgeville. - The dates for the
opening of the Dodgeville park
are August and 10. over 5000 has
been raised by 100 business men and
citizens which will be expended in at
fractions and improvements.
Beloit.-After a separation of AZ
years. Mrs. Hattie Newman, Gin
ton. and three Of her former pupils
are enjoying a reunion in the home Of
w. c. Squier, Rockford. Her former
pupils are Mrs. Squier and Mrs. c.
II. Cocroft. Rockford. and Mrs. v X.
Stillwcll. Alexandra, s. d. Mrs. New
man shortly after the Civil war taught /