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reasonable time for personally answer
ing the same in writing, etc.
obviously, good administration re-
quires that an employee be not so in
trenched in his position as to destroy
discipline and to give his immediate
superior no authority over him. Equal
ly, the authority over him should not
be despotic, arbitrary. nor exercised
against him for any reason except in
efficiency or misconduct. The civil serv-
ice commission is the guardian of both
the spirit and the text of the law.
For variety of reasons the number
of persons taking the civil service ex-
aminations is increasing tremendously.
For the fiscal year 1913. a total of 1884,
SCI persons were examined; during the
present fiscal year, which is that of
1916, it is estimated from data we now
have in hand, that no less than 235, ZOO
persons will be examined.
The commission is being called upon
more and more to conduct examinations
for positions not strictly within the
classified civil service. For example,
it's machinery is being used in many
cases for conducting examinations in
connection with appointments TO West
Point and Annapolis and appointments
in the governments of the District or
Columbia and the Philippine Islands.
The commissions examinations may
be divided into two main Glasses, az
Sembled and assembled. In the
former the competitors are all required
to appear at "A stated time and at stated
places, and are examined by means of
written tests relating to the duties to
be performed. In many of these eX-
aminations is included a rating of the
competitors education and experience,
while in some of them physical condi-
ton is either prerequisite Tor admlS-
sion or a separate ratable subject. Elk
aminations of this kind are held to
provide eligibles to fill vacancies in
practically all positions paying less
than $500, except vacancies in me-
chanical trades positions.
For the latter positions it is i'm
practicable to assign written tests. and
a non-a ssembled examination is given
consisting of consideration of evil
dence OF the competitors physical abil-
ity, secured through a medical exam
nation, and practical experience based
upon the competitors sworn statement
Gus employers.
I'm the case of high-grade positions.
paying $500 per annum or more, for
which men of actual attachments in
special technical, professional or sci
entific lines are required, experience
has shown that a better grade OF COM
petitors can be secured by means of
non assembled examinations than by
requiring competitors to assemble for
written examinations. For majority
of such positions the examinations con-
sist of a thorough investigation of the
education, fitness and experience of all
sometimes combined with a
consideration of their published works
or @ thesis"
1t is but natural that about the civil
service commission there should be an
commingling of the atmos-
phere which is much the same in a
federal department at Washington as
1t 10 In . county courthouse-and the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-10

: The growth of the merit system in
the federal service is shown by the
following table, giving the approx
mate number of positions filled by
competitive examinations on the re-
spective dates named:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-10
Uncle Sam Tests Applicants for Work Civil Servic

nee upon a time civil service
reform was a political issue
in the United States. That
time has passed. The civil
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
MOONSHINER CAUGHT
REVENUE MEN RAID STILL IN
WOODS NEAR AMIGO.
Mash and Finished Product Is Found
When Officers Enter Abandoned
Lumber Camp.

Milwaukee.-For the first time In
many years successful raid on
northern Wisconsin moonshine plant
was carried out near Amigo by gov
eminent men when, under the leader
ship of Revenue Agent James OBr1en,
an exceedingly active still was sur
prised under cover of darkness and
William Coon, a Kentuckian, acknowl-
edged leader of transplanted southern
ers, taken into custody.
The illicit still was in an abandoned
lumber camp, and from the evidences
of permanency, doubtless had been
operated for a considerable length OF
time in what Coon considered COM
parative safety, being in wild section
and of difficult access. The raiding
party found fully $50 gallons of mash
and ten gallons of the finished prod
uct. Mr. O'Brien estimated that in one
week the plant was capable of turning
out several hundred gallons of moon
shine whisky.
Coon was the only person at the
still, and he was so taken by surprise
that any attempt at resistance would
have been useless. None was offered.
After inspecting the place thoroughly.
the revenue men removed the worm of
the still and other parts sufficient to
be used as evidence, and removed their
man to Amigo, where he was locked
up.
Mr.. O'Brien declares that there are
other illicit stills operated by Ken
tuckians in the fastness Of northern
Wisconsin, and that his department
will work night and day to eliminate
them. There have been false alarms
and empty handed raids from time to
time in the past few years, but moth
ing has been accomplished until now.
A fine as high as $500 and three
years Imprisonment may be inflicted
in a case such as Coon's.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
BRITISH SEIZE MEAT
FOUR cARGOES, WORTH MILLIONS
OF DOLLARS, CONDEMNED.
Products Owned by American Packers
Are Declared Forfeited to the
Crown by Tribunal.

London, Sept. 18.-Chicago packers
when that tribunal handed down de-
cision on Thursday confiscating to the
crown large American cargoes taken
from merchantmen. The prize court
held that these cargoes were ultimate.
ly destined for Germany, to be used by
that country for her army and navy.
The firms whose contentious were
overruled by the court were Armour
& Co., Swift & Co., Nelson Morris &
Co. and the Schwartzschild-S ulzberger
company.
At the conclusion of its decision the
court granted leave to appeal, provid'
ed $4,000 security was posted as Sc
curity for the costs of further pro
ceedings.
The judgment was delivered by Sir
Samuel T. Evans, president of the
court. 1t involves the cargoes of the
Norwegian steamships Kim, Alfred
Nobel, Bjornstjerne-Bjor and Frid-
land.
All the goods on these vessels, con
sisting principally of American meat
products, are confiscated, with the ex-
ception of a small portion which the
court released to claimants.
The meat cargoes, shipped for the
most part by the great American pack
ing companies and valued by them at
$15,000,000, were found by the presi
dent to be destined, except for some
small items, not for consumption in
Denmark, but for delivery in Germany
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
STEFANSSON, EXPLORER, SAFE
Discovers New Land Southwest of st.
Patrick lsland-Was on Ice
for Several Months.

Nome, Alaska, Sept. 20.-The power
schooner Ruby arrived from Herschel
island, on the Arctic coast west of
the mouth of the Mackenzie river,
W tn news that Vilhjalmar Stefanssor,
the Canadian explorer. who with two
companions, StOrker Storkerson and
Ole Anderson, set out from Martin
Point, Alaska, March %. 1914. over
the frozen Polar ocean to search for
supposed new lands in the Beaufort
sea, is not only alive and well, but has
accomplished every purpose for which
the hazardous journey was under
taken.
Capt. S. F. Cottle. master of the
Ruby. says that Stefansson is on
Banks lard. east of the Mackenzie,
Quitting for continuance of the ex-
plorations to the westward to ascer-
tain the full extent of the new land
he discovered southwest of st. Pat
rick island.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
WILMA IS CAPTURED
GREAT RAILWAY CENTER OF RUS
STA FALLS-SLAVS FLEE FROM
GERMANS.
TERRIFIC BATTLE IS FOUGHT
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg Now
Controls Route to Petrograd and
Moscow-Czar Loses Importan. Rail
Lines-Defenders Are Routed.

Berlin, Sept. 21.-Vilna, the great
railroad and industrial center of north
western Russia, has fallen before the
German drive, which has taken Is
great cities and fortresses since the
capture of Warsaw, capital of Poland.
The goal upon which the eyes of
General Won Hindenburg and all Ger
many has been set since Warsaw was
entered, was captured Sunday by the
forces of General Won Eichhorn,
which have been fighting stubbornly
eastward since their capture of
Kovno three weeks ago. The most
desperate Russian resistance encoun-
tered in the entire German offensive
has been crushed, and Germany now
holds the key to the vital railroad sys-
TEN of Russia.
The coveted lateral railway from
Rovno in the south to Riga in the
north, with lines extending from Wilma
tc PetrCgrad, Moscow, Odessa and
through the very heart of Russia is
now controlled by German forces.
The capture of Wilma, town of 170,-
600 population, and one of the manu-
featuring centers of Russia, is the sew
enteenth similar success attained
since the German drive, which started
on May 2 against Przemysl, has
crossed into German soil near Warsaw
and the Lublin- Cholm line in southern
Poland.
The actual capture of Vinla, though
predicted as imminent since the fall
of Brest-Litovsk several weeks ago,
appears to have been accomplished at
last by desperate rush of General
Won Eichhorn's forces, aided by a
simultaneous offensive by Generals
Won Scholz and Won Gallwitz and
Prince Leopold of Bavaria, conquerer
of Warsaw.
The official announcement that the
Russians were routed completely at
the fall of the city leads to the as
sumption that though their losses in
men killed and wounded were great,
no body of troops was surrounded and
captured.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
SPARKS FROM
THE WIRE

Brownsville, Tex, Sept 2O.--At
least twenty-five Carranzista soldiers
are believed to have been killed on
Friday by American troops in two bat
ties along the Rio Grande. There
were no American casualties.
Both battles were started by the
Carranzistas, who fired on American
troops. One took place before Mata-
mOros, the Mexican town across the
Rio Grande, three miles from here,
and the other at Los Ebanos. fifty
miles north and west of Brownsville.
AS a result of the attack by Car
ranZistas on American troops serious
international complications are
feared
Chicago, Sept. 21.-Mrs. Maldwin
Drummond, formerly Mrs. Marshall
Field II, is dead in England. Mrs.
Drummond died on her estate, Cad
land, near Southampton, on Saturday.
In addition to Marshall Field III Mrs.
Drummond is survived by two other
children-Henry and Gwendolyn The
two boys are said to be the richest in
the United States.
London, Sept 21.-The Canadian
aviator, Hay, has been killed while fly
ing on the Northumberland coast.
Bombay. Sept 21.-Eighty thousand
persons have been rendered homeless
by floods in the Ganges valley since
Auuucf 90 apd Q0O dma1J;poo bovo
collapsed, according to dispatches
from Lucknow. Forty-ive persons
have been killed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
U. S. HITS SEA POLICY
WILSON AND LANSING COM
PLETE NOTE TO ENGLAND.
Call Ship Seizures Illegal and Acts
UnfriendIy-Denounced as Un-
Justified by World Law.

Washington, Sept. 20.-President
Wilson and Secretary of State Ian
sing conferred at length OH Friday
on the completed note of this govern
ment to Great Britain and on tho
phases of the controversy with Ger
many over the sinking of the Arabic.
The points of the new note to Great
Britain, as obtained from officials who
have had part in putting it into pres
ent form, are:
That as the United States has re-
peatedly and consistently denied spe-
officially every one of the Qualifications
set up by Sir Edward Grey, the British
minister for foreign affairs, and Lord
Crewe, his assistant, this government
cannot fail to regard the persistent OPP
preston of American commerce as IN
friendly.
That Great Britain acted illegally
when she took cases of seizure and de-
tention out of the domain of diplomacy
and made them merely matters for
the British prize courts.
HAT Il6 dI uU16uI ny GI6dI DIlI1lLl
for such action is indefensible. because
it is based on the order in council.
which is itself an illegal policy.
That the establishment of block
ade under the order in council which
pretends to include neutral ports. is
not justified by international law on
the mere suspicion that neutral ports
may be made the basis for unneutral
acts.
That the contention of Great Britain
that cargoes may be seized and de-
tanned on suspicion alone, without any
assertion of reasonable proof, is abso-
lutely untenable under any form of
recognized law of nations.
That the United States has hereto
fore given Great Britain notice that it
would not tolerate acts such as in the
packers case. which were based on
the illegal withdrawal of questions of
seizure and detention from the cate
CORY of diplomatic questions. The
United States has in fact filed it's
caveat, putting Great Britain on no
tice.
1t is stated that there is in the note
no suggestion of the ultimatum of re-
mand for a definite answer from
Great Britain within any specified
time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
ILLINOIS BANK IS CLOSED
Private institution of Fuller & Son at
Winslow, ILL.,, Fails to Open
Cashier Missing.

Winslow, ILL.,, Sept 22.-The private
bank of Fuller & Son, with deposits
of about S13S.OOO, failed to open on
Monday. J. B. Fuller, cashier of the
bank, has been absent from Wmslow
since last Tuesday, when he left os-
tensibly to visit A. l.. Noel, his BUSH
ness associate, who conducts the In.
vincibie Metal Furniture company Of
ManitowOc. Fuller is said to have in
vested large sums III ventures engf-
neered by Noel.
The entire family fortune OF the
Fullers-until recently the wealthiest
in Stephenson cOunty-went into the
bank. His two invalid sisters are pen
niless if the fears of depositors are
justified, and his three children are
left without means.
Fuller was treasurer of the school
district and funds in his custody for
that purpose were in the bank.
A few months ago, with the death
of Mrs Fuller. the bankers three chill
dren inherited a considerable estate.
Their holdings were in the bank.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
PUT BAN ON ELECTRIC PIANO
Take Out Devices to Furnish
Music by Oct. I.

Observation-Disclosures pianos and all
other mechanical musical instruments
in saloons must be removed by Oct L,
by order to Chief of Police Don Nc
Kay by Mayor E. R. Estberg. Mr..
Estberg believes that such instru-
ments are only alluring in nature and
that they help to create animosity to-
ward saloons. He said that as soon
as all saloons we're stripped of such
instruments and petty gambling de-
vices it will be long step toward pro-
longing the life of the retail liquor
BUSINESS. Mayor Estberg recently or
dered all gambling devices to be re-
moved from public business places.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
MRS. LAWSON CHOSEN HEAD
Milwaukee Woman Unanimously Re.
elected at State Convention
Sessions in Eau Claire.

Eau Claire-Mrs. w. A. Lawson, Mil
waukeO, was reelected president Of
the Wisconsin Women's Christian
Temperance Union, which held its
state convention here.
The other officers, all of whom were
reelected, are Mrs. A. W.. Warren,
Stoughton, vice-president; Mrs. E. w.
Follett, Marshfeld, corresponding Sec
rotary; Miss Julia Hubingson, Wau-
paca, recording secretary, and Mrs.
Ida M. Cooke, Green Bay, treasurer.
Presidents of the county organiza-
lions submitted their reports, and all
told of gains made in membership.
The greatest gains, according to these
reports, were made in the counties Of
Grant, Milwaukee, Barron, Forest, Ash
land, Bayfield,, Fond du Lac, Pierce,
ST. Croix and Green.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
MAY ARREST JOHN D.
MINERS DISCUSS PLAN TO HAVE
HIM HELD FOR LUDLOW
MASSACRE.
VISITS SCENE OF TRAGEDY
oil Kings Son Keeps His Promise to
Mother" Jones to "See for Himself"
Party Tours Country in Automo-
biIes-LaWson Still in Jail.

Trinidad, Colo, Sept. 22.-With the
arrival of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
here on Monday, to inspect his Col
orado interests, plans were being
made by leaders of the United Mine
Workers to have him arrested on a
charge of being responsible for the
massacre of women and children at
Ludlow during the coal strike.
A. NJ. Belcher, general counsel for
the miners union, arrived in Denver.
William Diamond, an international Of
fcer of the union, was authority for
the statement that action would be
undertaken Immediately against the
oil kings son.
Rockefeller arrived here In an ordi-
nary sleeping car and was unrecog-
nized except by the party of Colorado
Fuel and Iron company officials who
met him.
G. o. Heydt, secretary to the oil
kings son, said Rockefeller proba-
bly, would spend two or three weeks
in the state. The Rockefeller inter-
ests fear nothing from the threats OF
prosecution, it was stated.
1t was the first time in II years
that any Rockefeller has come to Col
orado to inspect the family's vast in
terests in the state. 1t was recalled
that at the New York hearing of the
federal industrial commission at
which Rockefeller testified he prom
ised Mother" Jones he would visit
Colorado. At the same hearing Rock
efeller met John r. Lawson, leader of
the miners lost cause, and exclaimed
on seeing the big labor leader: What
fine men the West produces!"
Lawson is in Jail awaiting the out
come of his appeal for new trial
He was sentenced to life imprisonment
for conspiracy in the death of Rock
efeller mine guard
Mr.. Rockefeller stopped his car for
several minutes while his companions
pointed out to him the various places
connected with the battle of Ludlow
fought April 20, 1914. between strik-
ers and militiamen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
SCORE HURT IN TRAIN WRECK
Missouri Limited Crashes Into Box
Cars When Freight Leaves Tracks
at Western Springs, Ill.

Chicago, Sept. 22.-The Missouri
Limited train of the Chicago, Burning
ton G Quincy railroad, bound from
Kansas City, running fifty miles an
hour, crashed into freight train at
Western Springs about seven o'clock
Monday night, and twenty persons
were badly hurt.
The trains were running parallel.
The freight train, for some cause that
has not been ascertained as yet,
jumped the track. Anumber of freight
cars were piled up on the track d.
rectly ahead of the limited. Before
the engineer could use the brake his
train had struck the barrier and was
going into the ditch.
This is partial list of the injured:
Richard Keefe, engineer, badly
hurt; Hart Roumer, Knox City, Mo-;
S. +. Hardy, Shelbina, Mo-; Hal Tor
rance, Chicago; B. Wigg. Kearney,
Mo-; w. B. Stroneker, Aurora: C. E.
Taylor, Kansas City. porter; Nicho-
las Redey, concert singer. Chicago;
Patrick Crafty. engineer of freight.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
MARKETS
Milwaukee. Sept. q, 1915.

Milwaukee, Sept. Il, 1910.
Butter-Creamery, extras, 25c;
prints, 26c; firsts, 29@291Ac; seconds,
2o@22c; renovated, 22@23kc; dairy,
fancy. 23c.
Cheese-American, full cream, new
made twins, 13@13hc; Young Ameri-
cas-, 14@141Sc; daisies, 14@142c;
longhorns, 14@141ac; limburger, fan
cy. lbs, 13@191ac.
Eggs-Current receipts fresh as to
quality, 2Ok@22c; recandled, extras
25@26c; seconds, 14016c.
Live Poultry-Fowls, 12@13kc;
BOOSTERS, &c; springers. 15c.
Wheat-No. 1 northern, 1.O5@1.O7;
No 2 northern, 1O2@1O9; No. 8 nor
thern, SS@96c; No. 1 velvet, 1910
LOS.
Corn-No. 8 yellow, 73c.
Oats-No. white, 34@35c; stan
dard, 351ac; No. 4 white, 34@34Ac.
Barley-No. 8, 55@59hc; No. 4, $40
55c; Wisconsin. 52@55c.
Rye-No. 1, 94c.
Hay-No. timothy, 1350@1400;
No timothy, 115O@12.5O: clover and
clover mixed, 11.OO@12OO; rye straw,
6.5O0700.
Hogs-Good heavy butchers, 1000
$50; fair to best light, 6.25@I90; pigs,
6.45@715.
Cattle-Butchers' steers, 7.25@9.25;
feeders, 6.5O@7.OO; COWS, 3.75@6.75;
heifers, 5.0O@775; calves, 9.5O@10.50.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
DUMBA PROTESTS HIS RECALL
Austrian Ambassador in Letter to
Lansing Says Action Is Unjust
Sought to Aid His People.

New York, Sept. 21.-Doctor Dumba,
Austro-Hungarian ambassador, has adj
dressed to Secretary of State Lansing
a letter protesting the request for his
recall as unjust.
The letter is devoted mainly to de-
Tense of the ambassadors plan to find
other work for the nationals of his
government employed in American
munitiOn plants.
Except to say that he takes excep-
ton to Mr.. Lansing's charge that he
confessed to having conspired to bring
about strikes in American munition
works, the ambassador makes no ref
erence to the intercepted letter to the
Austro-Hungarian minister for foreign
affairs, upon which the request for his
recall was based.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
ACCEPT BERLIN EXPLANATION
Germany Tells U. S. That Liner Hes
perian Was Not Torpedoed by
German Submarine.

Washington. Sept. 1S.-The case of
the Allan liner .Hesperian, which was
destroyed by an explosion about two
weeks ago near Fastnet, has become
practically a closed incident at the
state department. Secretary Lansing
received the report of the German ad-
miralty in this case on Thursday, and
the department is disposed to accept
the German explanation. The main
point in the admiralty report is that
the vessel could not have been de-
stroyed by German torpedo, for the
reason that the reports from subma-
rines at the time of the accident show
that none of them was in that locality
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
DELAY ACTION ON MEXICO
Be Recognized-Aspira Must
Prove CapabiIity.

New York, Sept 21.-The Pan-Amer-
lean conference on Mexican affairs an
nounced at the conclusion of its meet
ing here on Saturday that each of the
diplomatic representatives would rec
ommend to their government that in
their judgment the time has now come
to extend recognition to a government
in Mexico.
The faction to ne recognized was
not decided on.
They decided that the de facto gov
eminent aspiring to recognition must
possess the material and moral ca
pacity necessary to protect the lives
of nationals and foreigners"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28

Birchwood.-An outside power
company has sent its representative
here to find out whether it would nav
to install a plant here. For years
the water power at the dam here has
been wasted.
Neenah-Joseph A. Ullrich. Men
asha meat dealer. has retired after
forty years Of activity. His sons sue
coed him in the business.
Chippewa Falls.-Dogs entered tbe
enclosure Of the four English fallow
deer at Irvine park zoo and killed the
entire family.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
Municipal Water Plant Pays.

Antigo.-After paying interest on
the funded debt of 100000 and mort
gage bonds of $4,000, and the contrac-
tual sinking fund requirement, the An
tigo city water works, owned and OPP
Grated by the city, shows surplus for
the year ending June 80, 1915, of
$4,96595. according to figures just
given out by City Engineer Henry ok.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
Mexicans Die of Starvation

Mexico City. Sept 20.-Two hundred
and forty persons died of starvation
here. II is feared that the death rate
will increase. as the American Red
Cross has been compelled to abandon
its relief work for lack of funds.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
War Veteran Dies.

New Richmond-Oscar Hemenway,
a resident of the town of Star Prairie
and city of New Richmond since 1869,
is dead, following a lingering Illness
the result of paralysis. He served dur
ing the civil war in the Tenth Yer.
mont infantry.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
Pace Insures AGAINST Raids.

London, Sept S.-Ambassador Page
has taken out policy insuring his
residence against damage by Zeppe-
Inns. Zeppelin insurance is obtainable
at very low rates and insurance COM
panies are reaping a harvest
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-09-28
CITY TO Entertain Farmers

Shawano.-The third annual Booster
day viii be held on Saturday, Oct 80.
Farmers viii be entertained by the
business men, given a free dinner and
free moving picture shows in the af-
ternOOu