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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
ROADS REFUSE RAISE
ALL RAILWAYS EAST OF CHICAGO
REJECT DEMAND FOR AN ADJ
VANCE OF 10 PER CENT.
MONEY BURDEN TOO HEAVY
Employers Say Charges Would Block
improvements Which Are Required
Increase.

New York. - Fifty rail- Dads COM
prising practically all the lines
east of Chicago and north of the
Norfolk & Western, refused to grant
an increase in wakes demanded by
their locomotive engineers.
The conference committee OF rail-
road managers which has had under
consideration the request OF the engi-
neers made its reply, which in sub
able to bear the increased expense in
svolVed, "and find it evidently impos-
sible to grant the request"
The engineers demand, presented
on January 20, was for an increase
amounting to about 10 per cent.
year. The railroads refusal is based
On the assertion that they are finan-
cially unable to bear the increased ex-
pense.
The reply was presented at joint
meeting of committees representing
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers and IL presidents and general
managers of the railroads.
liz all OdQS punt Out Nndb lllC PlO-
posed increase will amount to 1863
1872 annually. This increase they say.
would be equivalent 20 placing on their
property a lien of $1SS,S44,S1S of 4 per
cent. securities, which would have
preference over first mortgage bonds,
land to just that extent would lessen
the ability of the roads to make the i'm
provements necessary to increase the
efficiency of their service and to in
sure greater safety to the public and
employees"
Already the traffic of a growing
country has oVertaxed The existing ia
cilities," the reply continues. land the
heavy burdens incurred through legis-
lation. large expenditures for i'm
provements which produce no revenue,
and the previous wage increases have
made it impossible for many of the
roads to provide the added facilities
which prudent foresight demands.
Past history indicates that if these
Increases are given to the engineers.
they will be followed by similar re-
quests from other employees, which, if
granted, would result in actual bank.
ruptcy to some of ttR roads and would
leave them as a whole unprepared to
meet any sudden increase in the de-
mands for transportation"
The railroads point out that the
wage advance to the engineers and
other employees since 1910 was made
in expectation of "a much needed" ad-
vance in freight rates, which the in
terstate commerce commission de-
ciined to allow. Since that time, they
say, enforced reductions of rates have
been more or less continuous. and 9th
er rate reductions are pending
The railroads declare that the fix
ing of standard wage for the conduc-
tors and trainmen was the result of a
crisis developed in connection with
their demands and should not be taken
as precedent
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
THREE CHILDREN CIR | MATED
Zeimer Babies Trapped in farmhouse
Fire Near Shawano-Mother At
tempts Desperate Eescue.

Shawano. - Barred from their
frantic mother by the leaping flames
which enveloped their farmhouse
home, the three little children of Gus
tay Zeimer-Edward, aged 4 Alice,
aged, 3, and baby girl Edna, aged
months-were burned to death in
the blaze which destroyed the dwell
ing, eight miles from this city.
Mrs. Zeimer, who had Just return
ed from the village of Richmond, en-
tered barn to care for the cattle.
As she left the building on her way
to the house, smoke and flames burst
from an upper window.
Rushing frantically to the front Of
the house, she entered in a desper-
ate attempt to save the youngest of
the family but was driven back,
painfully burned about the head and
shoulders. In spite of her injuries,
the woman with the courage of des-
peration plunged through the smoke
and fire which belched from the rear
door, but was almost overcome be-
fore she dragged herself to the outer
air and collapsed in a semi-conscious
condition as her babies died.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
POSSE PRESS BANDITS
CLAUDE ALLEN ESCAPES BUT
OTHERS ARE SIGHTED.
Safe Out of Blue Ridge Noun
tain Region.

Galax, Va-Claude Allen, twenty
two-yeas-old son of Floyd Allen
and one of those indicted for the
Hillsville courthouse murders. has
clsanly eluded all pursuers, but MS
uncle, Sidna Allen, and cousins. Yves
ley, Edmunds and Fred Allen, are so
closely pressed on the south SIDE OF
the Blue Ridge mountains that they
probably will be captured within three
days.
Claude Allen, it was learned, took
a pocketful of money from the FAMILY
cash drawer ON the night OF the trag-
edy, put on his best clothes and van
ished on horseback beyond the North
Carolina line Hope of finding him
in the mountain region has now been
abandoned
Not so, however, with the other
three outlaws, who are lodging about
in the Blue Ridge mountains between
here and Mount Airy, n. c. They
have been seen at distance, detec-
tiYes having been within thirty min
utes' rides of them
Il hope they will give themselves
up; they had better do it, for they
have no chance at all, was the frank
comment of Sidney Edwards. likewise
indicted for murder. who was taken
for safe keeping to the Roanoke jail,
where he Joined his uncle. Fred Al
len, his cousin. Victor Allen. and his
chum, Byrd Marion-all indicted for
completely in the courthouse shooting
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
ADVOCATES SCHOOL FARMS
Board Of Public Affairs Expert Rec
ommencs They Become a Part of
States Educational System.

Madison The cheapest and
most profitable Investment that a
school district could make, would be
to provide school farm in connec-
ton with a centralized or graded
school, where a competent teacher in
agriculture could, I4der proper SUI
pervision, conduct a model farm"
This conclusion was reached by S.
C. Lindholm, director of the New
York school of municipal. research,
in reporting to the Wisconsin board
of public affairs upon the progress
made in the study of rural schools
undertaken under the auspices of the
board.
He advised that, not only as an
aid to arithmetic but as valuable
help to the parents, simple but AIDE
quate systems of farm accounting
should be taught, market reports ex-
planned, and the method by which
farm produce reaches the world
markets used as lessons in geography
and wherever possible methods of
testing and weighing milk should be
explained.
A summary of a report of the field
study undertaken by Mr.. Lindholm
and his associates showed that the
school conditions on the average
compared very favorably with other
states.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
MAY END COAL STRIKE
President White of the United Mine
Workers to Ask 5 per cent.
Increase.

Cleveland, O.-John p. White, pres
ident of the United Mine Workers OF
America, and the district presidents
are considering a possible solution of
the threatened strike of the bitumin-
Gus miners of western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
They purpose placing before the
workers the plan to drop all their de-
mands except that for an increase in
pay and that they ask for five per
cent instead of ten
This compromise has not been de-
cided upon definitely. but it was con-
sidered one loophole by which there
would be no strike on April l or sus-
pension of operations until new wage
agreements can be effected
The union officials are in doubt
whether such a compromise would be
approved at a referendum vote.
Members of the executive board and
policy committee of the United Mine
Workers of America are preparing to
draw up recommendations for ref
eerndum vote by the union.
The union officials say an agreeable
adjustment of the bituminous dispute
would have much influence in secur-
ing for the $4,000 anthracite miners
settlement of their differences.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
WILEY RESOLUTION HELD UF
Senator Gallinger Objects to HEARING
Commendatory Measure on For.
mer Chief Chemist.

Washington.-"Th senate has
learned with profound regret of the
resignation of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley.
head of the pure food bureau of the
United States government" Such
was the first sentence of a resolution
introduced by Senator MARITIME, Dem.
ocrat, OF New Jersey. He asked for
immediate consideration, but Sen
ator Gallinger objected and the reso.
luton went over after being read.
The resolution proceeded:
I'VE feel that DR.. Wiley's services
have been Of incalculable value and
take this opportunity to express our
confidence in his great ability and the
splendid service he has rendered this
country"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
RAIL TARIFFS ARE HIT
COMMERCE COMMISSION RULES
STATE RATES MUST APPLY
ACROSS BORDER.
MINORITY OPPOSES PLAN
Far Reaching Principle is Establishes
in Case of Louisiana Body Against
Roads Operating in That State and
Texas.

Washington.-in an opinion made
public here the interstate commerce
commission esta blished the far-reach-
ing principle that a railroad must so
adjust its rates that justice will be
done between communities regardless
of state lines.
If railroad makes low rate upon
traffic wholly within a state, even
when forced to do so by a state COM
mission, it must accord the same rate
to interstate traffic moving under sub
stantially similar conditions. The prin-
ciple was laid down by a vote of 4
to 8.
The minority held that the powers
of congress were usurped by the ma
jority opinion and that the remedy for
such a situation should be applied
through additional legislation in the
case of the railroad commission OF
Louisiana against the st, Louis
Southwestern railway and other car
riers operating between Louisiana and
Texas.
The opinion of the majority of the
interstate commission, prepared ant
handed down by Commissioner Lane,
is a definite assertion of the SUI
premacy of national regulatory author
ity over the powers exercised by any
state.
1t is the first time this assertion has
been made distinctly by the commits
sion. In making it Chairman Prouty
and Commissioners Clark and Meyer
concurred with Commissioner Lane,
and Commissioners Clements, Harlan
and McChord dissented.
The proceeding brought by the
Louisiana commission placed in issue
the right of interstate carriers to dis
criminate in favor of state traffic and
against interstate traffic.
The low rate within the state of
Texas was forced upon the railroads
by the Texas railroad commission in
furtherance of policy to protect and
promote the jobbing interests of Tex
as.
The Louisiana commission and that
states commercial interests declared
that Louisiana was being discrimi-
mated against because of the exaction
of the higher rates from Shreveport
westward and demanded an adjust
ment of the rates.
The contention of Louisiana was
sustained by the commission absolute
ly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
DENEEN CALLS EXTRA SESSION
Governor Summons Illinois LegisIa-
ture to Pass the Presidential Pri-
mary-AlI SoIons Notified

Chicago.-Governor Deneen, at his
Chicago headquarters issued a call
for a special session of the legislature,
for the purpose of passing an emer-
gency amendment to the primary act
to make preferential vote on presi-
dent possible on April 9.
The governor called his secretary
by long-distance telephone and in
structed him to summon all of the
members of the assembly by tele-
graph, fixing the hour for meeting at
p. m March 26
Two bills have been prepared for
introduction in house and senate. SEN
ator Samuel A. Ettleson of Chicago
has prepared one and Representative
Lucas Butts of Peoria the other.
Neither has made public the provi-
sions of his bill. but it is said that
both carry the statewide primary
idea rather than the preference vote
by congressional districts.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
SEND JUDGE SECOND BOMB
Package of Explosive Detected in
Mails May Have Given Police
Clue.

New York.-Although it has be-
come known that the police are
in possession of a second bomb mailed
to Judge Otto A. Rosalsky of the court
of general sessions, the trial Judge In
the Brandt case. detectives would not
disclose what clues they are work
ing to solve the mystery of the two at
tempts upon the life of the jurist.
The new bomb, which was detected
in the mails and kept intact, coupled
with threatening letters sent to De-
lancey Nicoll, attorney for Mortimer
l.. Schiff in the case of Folke E.
Brandt, Schiff's former valet, are be-
lieved to have encouraged the police
to renew efforts in running down
the sender
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
Twenty-Five pays in Open Goat.

A terrible story of shipwrecked
crews sufferings was told at Liver
pool (England) recently, when the
Booth liner Denis landed the captain
and six men of the schooner Hibern-
fan, which became derelict in mid
Atlantic some time ago and had drift
ed, waterlogged and dismasted, for 29
days. The provisions and water were
washed overheard, and for IA days
before being sighted by the Denis the
men of the Hibernian were without
food. They had lived for some time
previously on timed salmon, and to
uuench their thirst they chewed tea.
Their last meal before being picked
mp by the Denis was turnip boiled
in sea water, and as the captain re-
marked, "the only thing left was to
kill and eat the ships cat and then
die" Three steamers stood by on
one day, but so violent was the gale
that nothing could be done. Suisse
quently number of me1 of the Denis
fought their way through mountainous
seas in lifeboat, and the seven starv,
ing seamen were rescued.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
Short on Sugar.

Many horses that have been fed Oh
Jumps of sugar will miss their ac
customed tidbits for little while.
THAT is because the horse poison
ers are abroad" said a woman. Every
time | went for walk used to take
a bag OF lump sugar along to feed to
the horses, but now ! am afraid to-.
My intentions would be perfectly inno-
cent, but there is no telling how soon
some one less guileless might come
along with poisoned sugar.
Then If anything happened to the
horse | might be blamed for it. Horse
dealers and drivers everywhere are
advising animal lovers to stop giving
sugar to horses for their own good I'M
til the epidemic of poisoning is over"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
MAY CANCEL BLACK
RIVER FALLS DEBT
Attorney Generals Opinion De-
fines Scope of State Aid.
CANNOT REPLACE The DAM
Neither Can Legislature MAKE Appro-
priation to Aid Pubic Schools
Money for Retaining Wall Must Be
Taken from Drainage Fund.

Madison. - That the legislature
may cancel the obligation of the city
of Black River Falls for money loan
ed from the trust funds, at the same
time replacing in the trust funds
the amount so cancelled, is held in
an opinion by Atty. Gen Bancroft
upon request of Gov. McGovern
Also it is held that an appropria-
ton for the preservation of the pub
lie health or to relieve distress is
valid; that moneys in the drainage
fund may be appropriated to build
a retaining wall only upon the
theory that it would assist in the
reclamation of lands granted by the
United States under the swamp and
overflow land act; that the state has
no right to replace the dam at Black
River Falls.
Following is part of the text of
the attorney generals opinion:
II understand that the city of
Black River Falls is indebted to the
trust funds of the state in the sum
of about $31, and is also in
debted to private individuals and
corporations in the sum of about
$4,000 In so far as the indebted
ness to private individuals and cor
porations is concerned the legisla-
ture is, of course, without author
ity.
IAN appropriation for the main
nf
a local purpose and the legislature
would have no authority to make it.
THE preservation of the public
health is upon the same footing as
the relief of distress, and an appro-
priation for that purpose is valid.
"ln my opinion, the only theory
upon which an appropriation for
building a retaining wall or other
wise improving the river could be
justified would be that it would as
sist in the reclamation of lands
granted by the United States to this
state under the swamp and over
flowed lands act. Such an appro-
priation would have to be made from
the drainage fund.
THE committee also suggested
that as the dam at Black River Falls
was destroyed by order of the rail-
road commission. acting under a pro-
vision of the water power law, since
declared unconstitutional, the state
might be under obligation to replace
it. 1t is very clear there is no OBJ
legation on the mart of the state IN
replace this dam"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
Portage viii Ask Sl7,6oo.

Portage Residents of the low
lands south of this city and through
out Fox river valley are elated over
the prospects that the legislature will
relieve the district from food dan
ger. The bill which will be present
ed at the special session of the leg
islature will ask for an appropria-
ton of $17, 500. There are seven
teen miles of levees in that vicinity
that need attention, ard the engi-
neers assert it will require about ST.
600 for each mile to raise and
strengthen all the bikes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
chapIain,s Religious Chats.

At a recent meeting of the guard
fans of Keynsham workhouse, near
Bristol England, the chaplain of that
institution stated that for some time
past he had been having chats with
the tramp inmates, each Sunday, in
stead of conducting regular services.
He said he had given the talks a re-
ligious turn, and the venture had met
with varying success, for some of his
hearers had expressed their apprecia-
ton by concealing themselves in
straw, while others had tried to escape
into the bathroom. Oaughter). The
rest, however. had welcomed his WIS.,
fits The chaplain was recommended
TO continue his course.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
GIVES S13,ooo,ooo TO SONS
Henry Phipps Deeds Over Pittsburgh
Realty Following Transfer of
Chicago Holdings.

Pittsburgh, Pa.-Ten million dollars
worth of Pittsburgh realty was trans
ferred by Henry Phipps, ST., to his
three sons, John S., Henry and How
ard Phipps, all of Nassau county, New
York
Phipps' representatives here init
mated that the father was actuated by
the same purpose as was the case
when he decided to his boys holdings
in Chicago recently which were valued
at 100000.
At that time friends said that Phipps
desired to be relieved of the worries
incident to his vast real estate hold
ings and was shifting the burden to
his sons.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
"a HEROES HONORED
FINAL TRIBUTE PAID TO UNlDEN
Titled MAINE MARTYRS.
Services Begin in White House Ground
and End at Arlington Gem
etery.

Wash1ngton-The nation has Maid
hnal tribute to its martyred dead. The
chief officials of the United States hon
ored the memory of the men who Der
lshed in Havana harbor fourteen years
ago when an explosion DESTROYED the
battleship Maine. Thirty-four unidenti.
led bodies recovered from the wreck.
age were entered in Arlington GENE.
terry with ceremonies that were most
impressive. President Taft was pres.
ent, as were also members of the cahi.
net, other high government officials.
many officers and men of the navy
ana army and thousands of private
citizens.
The funeral began with services in
the park behind the White House and
a procession thence, the escort be
ing second in size only to that al
the funeral of President Mckinley.
At the cemetery the services were
conducted by Rev. G.. Livingston
Bayard, chaplain of the Washington
navy yard, and Rev Father John P.
Chadwick, who was chaplain of the
Maine at the time of its destruction.
The thirty-four buried were the last
OF the martyrs recovered from the
Maine wreck, the other 227 having
been taken out shortly after the ex-
plosion, when they were identified.
shipped to their several former homes
IN dlnerent parts of the country and
buried in separate private funerals by
thelr families. The last thirty-four
bodies, however, which had lain under
Havana harbor for fourteen years,
could not be identified so the one
great funeral was arranged as a trib
ute OF the nation to her heroes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
STATE GETS TITLE TO ISLES
Possession to Bits of Land in Lakes
Vested in Wisconsin by Act
of Congress.

Washington, d. C.-The house
passed a bill transferring to the state.
of Wisconsin patents to between 800
and 400 small islands in the lakes
within the state forest reserve on the
headwaters of the Wisconsin and
Chippewa rivers.
The islands average about two
acres each and most of them are
rough and rocky and are too small
for homesteads. The islands will be
valuable, however, as sites for sum-
mer cottages such as the state is
erecting on banks of lakes in reserve
and will add materially to the adj
vantages of the state as summer re-
sorts for people of the middle west.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
NEPTUNE NOT TO BE DENIED
Young Woman Long Had Defied sea-
sickness, but Her Time Came
at Last.

When the steamer Tagus got In
from Bermuda, "a hours late, Captain
Laws reported that she had battied a
head wind which at times assumed
the vigor of West Indian hurri-
cane. With all the power OF her en-
gines, there had been times when she
could barely make two knots an hour.
On the way up from Bermuda the
steamer hit the gulf stream cater-cor-
ner, and the waves were something
ridiculous. A ship not only gets
fore and aft motion, and a motion
from port to starboard, but also does
little jerking wiggle that Is most dis
tressing even to seasoned seagoers.
when we were In the middle Of that
blow" said one of the Tagus' passen-
gers, Miss Helen Gray of New York
was wrapped in her steamer rugs and
curled in her steamer chair, on the lee
ward side. Miss Gray felt impossibly
well. Now and then she would glance
pityingly at the rows of persons feebly
sucking lemons, and watching weakly
their cups of smoking tea, and nib
bling family at soda crackers. why
do such people go to sea-" asked Miss
Gray.
Gust then the ship mounted on a
hill of water. She slithered down that
hill sidewise. When she got to the
bottom Of the hill, a further valley
opened beneath her, and she swooped
down again Miss Gray's mother, an
anxious lady, shook her daughter by
the arm. Helen said she; Helen,
smell smoke! Maybe the ships afire.'
Miss Gray heif rose from her chair.
And then she sank back. and turned
few new fall shades, and little drops of
moisture appeared at the corner of her
mouth. Let said Miss Gray, let her
burn, ma Herbert Corey in the
Cincinnati Times-Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
Will Require New Sureties.

Madison.-State Treasurer Dahl
has computed that twenty-one sure
ties or bonds of sixteen depository
banks, held by the state, are either
dead or are no longer with the bank
and that the total amount qualified
by them is $1,510,000. He has re-
uuired these banks to furnish new
bonds. In one Milwaukee deposit
tory, S75O,000 was qualified by sure
ties no longer living.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
'CAIRO SAFE FROM HIGH WATER
Mayor Parson Denies ST. Louis Reports
That Mississippi Will Submeree
Railroad Tracks.

Cairo, Ill.-Reports scattered broad
cast from st. Louis that the Mississip-
pi river here would overflow the levee
railroad tracks called for warm de-
NAL from Mayor Parsons.
He claims the reports do the city
an injustice and asks that this wrong
impression be rectified.
The river here is now forty-eight
feet on gauge, and government fore
casts predicts about one foot higher.
1t will take eight or nine feet higher
water to reach the tops of the levees
and this is impossible under present
conditions.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-04-02
sa5. 900 Fire on Stock Farm.

Dodgeville.-The most disastrous
fire that has taken place in Iowa
county for a score of years occurred
at the farm of George Harker, five
miles west of this city. Two barns,
a hay shed, silo, a granary, 100
head of thoroughbred cattle and a
store, together with their contents,
were destroyed and the loss is esti-
mated as being between $25, 900 and
$4,000.