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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
PANAMA BILL ADOPTED
MINORITY OF HOUSE COMMITTEE
WILL FILE DISSENTING REPORT.
Measure Gives President Power to
Fix Tolls on Canal and Name
Zone Officials.

Washington.-The bill for the gog-
eminent of the Panama Canal zone
and the operation of the canal was
agreed to by the house committee on
interstate commerce.
There will be a minority report OH
The bill. Representatives Knowland.
California: Broussard, louisiana: Cal
der, New York, and Doremus. Miehi-
gan. dissent from the toll charges.
AS ADOPTED. the bill gives the presi-
dent authority to fix tells within GER
tain limitations, maximum of sl.25
ton being prescribed. with mini
mum not below an amount sufficient
to maintain and operate the canal.
No preference is given to American
ships.
Ships owned or controlled by rail-
roads and operated with the intent to
restrain trade, or ships engaged in
any agreement or ship ring" Or com
bine. under the terms of the bill. are
prohibited from passing through the
canal
The bin ratifies and legalizes all
the work done on the isthmus of Pan
anna by executive authority since the
taking over Of the canal zone. and de-
fines and legalizes the courts there
until changed by subsequent iegisla-
ton. 1t provides the government pro-
cure title to lands not yet acquired.
Dismissal of the Panama commits
sion when the canal approaches COM
pletion is sanctioned The president
is authorized to appoint a governor of
the Panama canal and canal zone at
$4,000 a year to serve term of four
years.
Authority is given the president to
name all other persons necessary to
the maintenance and operation of the
canal, and to provide for its santa
ton.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
NINE KILLED IN WRECKS.
Five Die in Canadian Crash-Four at
Georgia, Two In
Indiana.

Ottawa, Ont. = Five were killed
and several injured in a wreck on
the Canadian Pacific railroad, Pom
tiac line west of Hull, Quebec.
Social Circle, Ga. Four per-
sons were killed, and nine injured,
six of them seriously when passenger
train No. of the Georgia railroad,
which left Atlanta at midnight. col
lided head-on with a freight train
three miles from here.
Danville, Ill. - With the exce2-
ton of a negro cook, unidentified,
the score of persons injured in the
wreck of passenger train on the
Wabash railroad near West Lebanon.
Ind, will recover. it was said at the
hospital in which they are being cared
for
The bodies of Mrs. D. B. Good of ST
Louis and Mrs Fred Grant OF Adrian.
Mich, crushed to death when the day
coach of the train rolled down a 30.
foot embankment, are at West I,eba.
non. The report that two unidentified
men were dead in the wreckage
proved unfounded
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
WILL TRY BARROW MAY IA
His Attorneys Accept Transcript of
Franklin's Testimony as Supple
mented by informal Notes.

Los Angeles, Cal-Clarence S. OAR
row, former chief counsel for the Nc
Namara brothers. will be placed on
trial May IA on the charge of having
bribed jurors in the case of the con-
fessed dynamiter, James B. McNa-
mara, now serving a life term in San
Quentin prison
Multiplying two previous rulings
which conficted, the Judge held that
with the addition of informal notes
of the testimony of Detective Bert
Franklin before the grand jury, the
transcript was sufficient. Franklin
confessed having offered a bride to a
Mcnamara juror. Darrow's attorneys
said they would accept the transcript
which previously had been refused.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
RATIFIES ARBITRATION PLAN
Senate Passes Treaty Measure After
Making Many Changes in Its
Original Form.

Washington.-After making changes
in President Taft's arbitration treaties
with England and France, the senate
ratified them by vote of 76 to 8,
The treaties as they have been left
by the senate exempt questions sub
ject to arbitration, all disputes over
the application of the Monroe doctrine,
all differences as to the admission of
aliens to the United States or to the
public schools, and all matters relat-
ing to the territorial integrity of the
several states of the United States.
So riddled are the treaties that 1t is
not believed that the president will
press their acceptance upon the gov
ernments with which they were to be
concluded.
III had been expected that the
treaties would be ratified as they
stood by a close vote Such an as
sault on them as was made by the
combined forces of the Democrats and
the Progressiyes proved such a sur
prise that the friends of the admins
tration were powerless to meet it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
Those "Soonerv Rasuues.

The Norsemen are not the only peo-
pie credited with the discovery of
America before Columbus. Francois
Michel, in lie Pays Basques," main
tains that the Basque sailors who
went north for whales and cod were
familiar with the coast of Newfound-
land for centuries before the birth of
Columbus, and that it was probably
from one of their countrymen that
The navigator learned of the existence
of another continent. There is also a
mystery about the origin of the
Basque people and the strange resem-
blance between their language and
North American dialects. Whitney,
the American philologist, declares:
mo other dialect in the old world so
resembles the American language in
structure as the Basque Did the
Basques come from America to Eu-
Tope.-London Chronicle.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
FRESH AIR FOR CONvICTs
Board of Control Extends Prisoners
Priviliges-No Sign of Reported
Friction at the Meeting.

Fond du Lac.-If friction existed
at the state penitentiary, as has been
intimated, no trace of it came to the
surface at the meeting of the state
board of control here, when Warden
woodward was present. On the
other hand, the board received the
recommendation of the new war
den and gave hem unanimous en-
dorsement. Recommendation were
made to reform the prison manage
ment and to extend the privileges
of the prisoners.
The most important proposal re-
lated to the use of time on Sunday.
Under the old rules, prisoners were
confined in cells from noon Sun iay
till O'Clock Monday morning This
had bad results fer them physically,
mentally and morally Upon the rec
ommendation of Warden woodward
a special relief guard will be pro-
vided and prisoners taken out, the
occupants of one cell house at a
time being put through military
drills on the prison grounds Sunday
afternoons
In recommending the change, Mr.
Woodward declared he believed it
would be a greater sin to keep men
confined in cells away from sunlight
and fresh air on Sunday than to take
them out and permit them to have
es rcise and recreation which they
require.
1t was decided to increase the
school year by two months. 1t now
ends in May. During the school year
instruction is given three evenings a
week, from to $50 O'Clock.
The board decided to extend the
honor system as far as the laws of
Wisconsin would permit. 1t also en-
acted that prisoners be clad in khaki
uniforms in summer instead of the
regulation blue wool, which they
were hitherto required to wear the
year round
Warden Woodward nominated the
following officers, who are present in
cumhents of their several offices, to
serve the remainder of the fiscal
year: Chaplain, Rev S. ]. Bowling !;
physician, DR.. l. r Sleys;er; matron,
Mrs. M. H. Schiliing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
SPECIAL SESSION
DETERMINED UPON
Now Practically Assured That
Legislature viii Convene.
MAKE NO CALL UNTIL APRIL
Black River Falls Situation the Prin-
cipaI Subject for Consideration
Special Ga ctions to Fill Vacancies
Necessary Before Solons Meet.

Madison That there will be a
special session of the legislature call
ed to consider the situation at Black
River Fails arising out of the condi-
tons left by the flood disaster of last
fall and to take up other subjects
which Gov McGovern believes are
pressing for solution is now stated as
a fact. That a special session can
not meet before April % is a legal
aspect of the case that must control
and may result in determining The
date of the special session at a time
still more remote
Gov. McGovern has said that he
would not consider the proposition of
a special session now but for the ur-
gent appeals from a distressed peo-
pie of Black River Falls, backed by
strong sentiment throughout the
state. The committee appointed some
time ago to have charge of the relief
fund for the benefit of the stricken
city has urged persistently the neces-
sity of legislative aid. It's efforts
have reached the limit OF accom-
plishment in the way of relief and,
except for what the school children
of the state and here and there a pri-
vate charity are doing, contributions
to the fund have practically ceased
and the needs of the appealing COM
munity have only been half met
But before a special session of the
legislature can be held there must
be two primary elections and two
special elections held to fill vacan-
cies, one each in the membership of
senate and assembly. Since the last
session adjourned two deaths have
occurred Assemblyman Carl H.
Dorner of Milwaukee and Senator
Jas. A Wright of Merrill, Thirtieth
district, and the state constitution
provides that these shall be filled by
special election called upon the pre-
cept of the governor. The machin-
cry of election takes time, and as the
legislative superintendent made by
the last legislature becomes opera
tive on April |, any special election
that may be required now must be
in accordance with that law of ap-
portionment and cannot be held be-
fore April %, giving proper time for
canvass and return of the vote at the
primary election.
With the prospects of alspecial ses-
sion aftirmatively established there
will be discussion and consideration
of what other matters, aside from
the Black River Falls situation, shall
be made subjects of legislative
action. 1t is understood that the wa
ter power question, recently the sub
ject of an adverse decision by the
supreme court, is almost certain to
be taken up again with a view to
passing a bill that will stand the tests
established by the court Then, too,
it is probable that some minor de-
fects that have been found to exist
in the primary election law and the
corrupt pTactl ,es act will be cor
rected.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
Fall Killed somnamhuIist.

A tragic death was that OF Eric
Zibberman, a German sailor on board
the steamer Vandalia, which has Just
been reported. While the Vandalia
was In the Red Sea, Zimmerman,
walking in his sleep, climped the rig
ging OF the foremost and fell to the
deck. fracturing his skull. The mates
said that he had always been a SON.
nambulist. He was a wealthy man
once and owned a schooner OF his
pwn in Hamburg. Three years ago he
took his wife and children for trip
from Hamburg to Hull During a gale
they were swept overheard and lost
After that he shipped before the mast.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
MARCH ON CAPITAL
REBEL ARMY, THREE THOUSAND
STRONG, MENACE THE CITY
OF MEXICO.
REVOLUTIONS CRUCIAL TEST
American Ambassador Wilson Appeals
to Washington for Marines-'Two
Thousand Loyal Troops to Oppose
Orozco's Advance.

Washington.-Acco to adyices
to the state department four rebel di-
visions, cautiously advancing for the
crucial test of strength with the Ma
dero forces, are closing in on the City
of Mexico
Fear that the outcome may prove
disastrous to Americans in the capital
city has quickened the ambassador to
send an urgent appeal to Washington
for marines to protect the legation
and similar action, upon the advice
Of Ambassador Wilson, has been taken
by the representatives of other for
-eign countries.
The latest estimate OF The number
Of rebels on the march, however, as
reported to Washington, is 5000
troops. The most formidable rebel di-
vision is that under the command CT
Mirandi, which was organized in the
state of Mexicco Itself. At present the
army is almost under the very caves
of the capital city.
Marching from the south is another
detachcment of 800 rebels under the
command of Zapata.
General Salazar hurriedly left Jua-
reg to take command of the southern
division. He and his command camped
at La Delicias, which is about half
way between Chihuahua and Santa
Rosalia.
Salgado, with 200 rebels, is in the
meantime advancing against Mexico
City from Guerrero.
The vanguard of Orozcos army,
which left two days ago for Mexico
City by way of Jiminez, is within
a few miles of that town.
The federals, meanwhile, to the num-
Der of 1000, have been rushed to Tor
reon, which is to the south of Chihua-
hua, and from which town the govern
ment troops will advance against
Orozco's troops in an effort to stay
the advance upon the capital.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
SUTHERLAND is PRESIDENT
Elected to Head Southern Wisconsin
Teachers-Madison Made Head
quarters of Association.

Madison.-Wit the election Of
President w. J. Sutherland of the
Platteville normal as president, the
twenty-second annual convention of
the Southern Wisconsin Teachers
association, closed a two days SEES
sion here. More than 500 educators
from all parts Of the state attended.
Other officers elected are:
Vice-President- Thomas, Co
lumbus.
Second e-president-An b.
Chamberlain, Madison.
Secretary Helen B. Martin, Elk
horn.
Treasurer-Fred Holt, Edgerton.
Executive committee. w. j.
Clough, Portage; E. G. Doudna,
Richland Center, Supt Kingsford,
Baraboo, and Fred Trainer, Lancas-
ter
The teachers voted to make Madi-
son the headquarters of the associa-
ton and to hold all annual meetings
here.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
DIDN'T TAKE TO THE GAME
That There Was Good Football Mate
rial In ole Was Not at First
Apparent.


No wonder Ole was sensation. He
didn't look exactly ike football mate
rial to US, I'll admit. He seemed more
especially designed for light derrick
work.
Bost went right to work on Ole In
a businesslike manner. He tossed him
the football and said: Catch it." Ole
watched it sail past and then tore aft
er 1t Ike pup retrieving a stick.
He got it In 4 few minutes and
brought it back to where Bost was
raving.
See here, yor overgrowr fox ter
rier," he shouted, catch 1t on the
fly. Herei" He hurled it at him.
AYE ent seen no fly" said ole, al
lowing the ball to pass on as he con-
Versed
You cotton headed Scandinavian
cattle ship ballast, catch that ball in
your arms when l throw 1t to you.
and don't let go of it," shrieked
Bost, shooting at him again"
"Oll right" said Ollie patiently. He
cornered the ball after short
struggle and stood hugging it faith.
fully.
Toss It back, toss 1t backl" howl
I'd Bost, jumping up and down.
''Yu tai me to hold It," said Ole, re-
proachfully hugging it tighter than
ever.
Drop It, you Mammoth Cave Of ig-
noraIce!" yellerd Bost. If 1 had your
head I'd sell it for cordwood.
Drop it,"
ole dropped the ball placidly. "Das
ban fule game" he smiled dazedly.
AYE ent care for 1t. Eny Teller got a
Yewsharp?"-George Fitch, cat Good
Old Siwash."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
URGE SICKNESS INSURANCE
Friends of Workmea's Compensation
Law to Ask Action bI Wiscon-
sin Leg stature.

Madison.-Now that workers in
Wisconsin are insured against loss
by accident, the state may go step
farther and provide sickness insur-
ance, say friends of the workmen S
compensation law Such a measure
will receive serious consideration be-
fore the next regular session of the
legislature opens. 1t is argued that
so far as it incapacitates one from
earning a livelihood, sickness is in
the same category with accidents,
and that sickness insurance is rea-
sonable and elsewhere has proven
feasible and popular, especially in
Germany
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
SENATOR GUILTY OF BOODLING
Two-Thrds Vote, Necessary TO Expel
Accused New Jersey Scion,
Lacking.

Trenton, N. 1.-THE vote on the
question of the innocence Of guilt Of
Senator Richard Fitzherbert on
charges of conduct inconsistent with
the duties Of a state senator resulted
in verdict of guilty by a strict party
vote IN the senate. The eleven Repub-
lican senators voted guilty, and the
nine Democrats voted not guilty.
This means that Fitzherbert will
not be expelled, as his expulsion
would require two-thirds vote.
Fitzherbert was charged with at
tempting to extort $4,000 from a gas
company as the price of the with
drawal of bills.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
PERCY DEFIES LEGISLATURE
Reply of Statesman Rings With Ac-
cusations of Cowardice and False
hood-Cites fractional Hate.

hington.-Senator Leroy Percy
has replied to the Mississippi legisla-
lures demand that he resign by fatty
declining to do so. He has sent his
answer in a letter which rings with
accusations of cowardice, falsehood
and factional hatred.
Senator Percy replies that when,
just after his election, he offered to
resign his unexpired term if a primary
were held in 1910 to name his success
sor, he limited his proposition to that
year and not 1911, the year in which
a primary finally was held.
The primary he proposed In 1910
never was held, Senator Percy says.
He declares he never did say he would
resign If not elected in the 1911 pri-
mary.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
FIGHTS WOLVES WITH KNIFE
Man Seats Off Pack, But Gets Bitten
and Is in Serious Con.
dton.

Chippewa Falls, Wis - Jachery
Thoma lies in a local hospita' IN a
serious condition as a result o; title
with a pack of hungry wolves IN the
northern portion of the state. His only
weapon was jackkrife, and he fought
for several hours until the beasts
finally left him. He was exhausted by
his struggle. and besides suffering
from the cold he had been severely
bitten by the wolves.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
CLANCY DISMISSAL ILLEGAL
Court Holds That Deposed MilIwau-
kee Fire Chief May Resume Po-
sition and Receive Sack Pay.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. A. Clancy is
reinstated as chief of the Milwaukee
fire department by a decision of
Judge James b. Wickham of Eau
Claire. Judge Wickham had been
called to Milwaukee to try the ap-
peal of Chief Clancy from the de-
cision of the fire and police com
mission discharging him from the
office.
Chief Clancy may at once resume
charge of the fire department, which
duty he relinquished on August g.,
last year, when he was suspended by
the police and fire commission. He
is entitled to his full salary of $4,-
600 a year from the day of his dis
missal to the time of reinstatement.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
SOCIETY WOMAN is ARRESTED
Mrs. Harley c. Gage is Charged With
Threatening to XIII Prominent
Washington Man.

Washington.-Charged with threat
ening to kill Charles j. Bell.
president of the American Secur-
ity and Trust company and nephew of
the telephone. Mrs. Harley Calvin
Gage, who owns handsome residence
in fashionable Dupont Circle. where
she entertained lavishly, was arrested
and without a hearing hurried to St.
Elizabeth's Hospital for the Insane.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
FEAR WASHOUT Of
D|KES At PORTAGE
Citizens Aroused by Prospects
Of High Water.
PETITION TO STATE FOR AID
Comm tee Calls on Governor for
Relief from ril-6reaktng O. the
levee Would Cause Flooding of
VaIley-Ask SPECIAL Session.

Portage flood condi-
lions of the Wisconsin river because
of the excessive snow this winter
has caused intense excitement in this
vicinity, and fearing disaster that
would be repetition of Black River
Falls, not in Portage alone, but many
of the towns along Fox river valley
1t massmeeting that filed the
court house here the city council as
well as the levee commissioners
urged action on the food danger this
spring In response to the pleas the
loco people present signed resolu-
tons calling on the state to protect
the property and lives of residents
of the Fox River valley from a dis
aster similar to that at Black River
Falls.
It is declared here by the fright
ened populace that only quick work
can prevent the bursting of the dam
near town by the force of the spring
floods.
A committee of citizens went to
Madison and appealed 20 Gov. Nc
Govern for redress. Last fall when
the flood was at it's height Portage
maintained armed patrols on the
levee to prevent people from taking
the situation in their own hands to
arrest the destruction of their prop
erty by cutting the levee and letting
the food of water pass from Port
age down to Oshkosh and the other
Fox river valley towns.
Gov. McGovern gave the state
levee commission and a committee of
citizens an extended hearing on the
question of food protection. 1t is
hoped here that the levee question
will urge a special session of the
legislature
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
plscouraulna a Student.

Nobody can learn all there is that's
worth knowing In lifetime" said Mr..
Meekton wisely, land man ought
never to assume that his education is
Finished. I'm going TO keep right
ahead with mine. I'm going to study
astronomy"
His wife looked at him sharply, and
hhen In a cold. hard tone exclaimed:
'Leonidas, you'll have to think up
some better excuse for staying cut at
lnight!"-Youth's Companion.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
MAY SELL FRUIT IN BOXES
Opinion Holds Tn t Net Weig Must
Be Equal That Bargained
for by Purchaser.

Madlson-Assistant Attorney GEN
eral Gilman has given an opinion
relating to the sale of peaches and
similar fruits in original packages.
1t is held that such fruits may be
the actual net weight contained is
equal to or exceeds that bargained
for by the buyers. II is held, how
ever, that cranberries may be sold
only by the barrel, bushel or divis-
ion thereof or quart or pint. This
is because the law provides that this
fruit may only be sold by dry meas
urp
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
OHIO TO GIVE WOMEN VOTE
Amend the Constitution to Legal
ize Equal Suffrage.

Columbus, O.-The fourth constitu-
tional convention of Ohio. in session
here adopted proposal to amend the
state constitution so as to permit
women to participate in all elections.
The action by the delegates will be
submitted to the man voters, with
other proposed amendments Of the
100 delegates voting. rs cast ballots
for the equal suffrage amendment
There are 119 delegates in the con.
vention
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
Holstein Breeders Elect.

Fond du Lac.-At the annual
meeting of the Wisconsin Holstein-
Friesian Breeders association here
the following officers were elected:
President, w. ]. Gillett, Rosendale;
vice president, julius Linstedt,
Manitowoc; secretary and field agent,
John G.. Voss, Elkhorn; treasurer,
F. j. Bristol, Oakfeld; directors, F.
B. Fargo, Lake Mills; w. G. Schroe-
der, Elm Grove; H. B. Giddings, She
boygan Falls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
Investigate Dance Halls.

Chippewa Falls.-The common
council has taken active steps to in
vestigate immoral conditions said to
be prevalent in city dance halls. Reg
uIations restricting the age limit and
governing conduct at public dances
will be adopted.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
Given Sentence of Death.

Port au Prince. Haiti.-Gen. Jules
Coicou, the former military tyraut of
Haiti, was condemned to death here
by a jury in the criminal court on the
charge Of having heen the principal
author of the fusillade OF March Is,
1908. in which ten persons. including
three of his brothers, were Titled.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
Exactinc.

"only a pound of porterhouse steak
for your large famiiy?" said the butch
or.
THAT isn't for the family" replied
Mr.. Cumrox. you surely don't ex-
pect our new cook to eat sausage the
same rs We do"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19
port washIngton Pio 1eer Dead.

Port Washington.-W H. Ramsey,
who died here recently, vas a mem
Der of the state Legislature in 1855
and again in 1851, acted as state
bank controller from 1852 to 1866
and was one of the oldest Masons
living in Wisconsin. He had lived in
this vicinity since 1S47.