Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-01-05

ing at the Mendoza state hospital for
the insane, across Lake Mendoza, in
the occupational therapy building.
Firemen battled the Candy shop blaze
five hours before it was brought un-
der control. The fire was believed to
have been caused by an overheated
furnace. Fire of unknown origin dc
stroyed the occupational therapy
building at the Mendoza hospital, with
loss estimated at more than $4,000.
The building was being used to train
shellshocked soldiers receiving in
struction under direction of DIR. w.
F. Lorenz.
Fort Atkinson-Large shipments of
purebred dairy cattle to Mexico from
the Edgewater stock farm at Fort At,
kinson have put that city on the map
with Mexican cattlemen as leading
dairy center. Thousands of cattle
have been shipped to Mexico during
the last three years. At first the cat
tie were loaded in freight cars and
it took fifteen days to make the trip
to Laredo, Tex, where they were un,
loaded, but now they go by express
in specially constructed cars leased
by the Edgewater company These
cars are hauled by fast passenger
trains and the trip to Mexico City
takes only week. The cattle travel
as luxuriously as do Pullman passen,
gers. They have excellent ventilation
in the cars and are fed and wateTed
in the cars with no stops.
Eau Claire-Judge James Wickham
of Eau Claire has granted The petition
of Pehrnot Dahley and other stock
holders OF the Chippewa Falls Hotel
Co. that they and other stockholders
wishing to participate be made CO.
defendants with the directors, Elks'
lodge and Peter Layman, Junction
City, in the suit brought by the state
to confiscate the Hotel Northern. Eau
Claire, owned by the hotel company.
on the grounds that it has been made
the prize at a lottery. This suit will
come up for trial in April. Peter
Layman held the lucky number in the
drawing for the $500 900 hotel sold at
the conclusion of the big mardi gras
celebration last summer.
Madison The states pay roll for
employees in Madison amounted to
$225,000 for Decemeber. This amount
does not include salaries for univer.
sity employees. normal school en-
ployes, or employees in the state char.
table and penal institutions, Henry
Johnson. state treasurer. said He ex.
planned that the pay roll includes
slightly more than 1000 employees,
working for the various boards and
commissions. There We're few marked
increases in salaries of state EN-.
ployes during the period when wages
were being. raised and as conse.
quence Mr.. Johnson says there will
probably be no reductions.
Madison The state and county
penal and charitable institutions
house 1868 persons, 653 more than
last year, report of the state board
of control shows Of the number s.
III are in state institutions and 1886
in county, County hospitals for the
insane have 6.973 inmates. and state
hospitals 1907, or 1862 more than last
year. while the number of feeble
minded being cared for is 1882, an
increase OF 36. There are l.2l7 pris.
oners in The penal institutions. l.lS2
in the industrial schools, and l,OOl i'm
the Institutions for tuberculosis.
Madison-The state supreme court
meets 70! its next assignment Jan. 10.
according to announcement of A. A.
Mcleod. clerk. Rcargument on the
writ OF certiorari obtained by attor-
neys for Hans Rodd. Oneida county
sheriff. ousted by Gov. Blaine. to bring
the case before the court for review.
will be held Jan IL. under the assign
ment
Ladysmilh-A to census for
1920. Rusk county has foreign born
population Of IN per cent. more than
h scors. OF nationalities being repre-.
scented or the foreign-born. natives
OF Poland lead: Germany is second.
and Norway third Forty-one Indians
live in the county. decrease of IA
since 1910
Portage-Miss Jennie Bowman. Xii.
bourn. becomes sole heir to an estate
valued at s145.615.76, which was set.
tied in county court at Portage. The
inheritance tax amounts TO s7.732.3O.
Miss Bowman's father was one of the
pioneers OF Wisconsin and the family
figured In the early settlement of this
vicinity.
Fort Atkinson-An eagle, believed
to be the largest ever brought down
a.