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r£. B. THAYER, Editor and Prop.—VOL. XLII.
Wisconsin Mey
Trust Cos.
CAPITAL, 550.000
$25,000 deposited with State Treas
urer to secure depositors
PAYS 4 PER CENT, on DEPOSITS
OFFICERS:
A. L Kreutzek, Pres.
M B Rosenbekkt, Vice-Pres
C. B. Bird, S*c’y aud Treas.
DIED ON TRAIN.
Rev. Chas. G. Greuber, pastor of
Lutherau churches id the town of
Maine this county, and town of Scott,
Lincoln county, was taken sick on the
south bound St. Paul train last Tues
day evening and shortly thereafter ex
pired.
He was on his way to Milwaukee, in
company with Rev. H. Sieck, of Merrill,
to attend a conference of Lutheran
ministers. When the train had left
Pine River station, Rev. Greuber was
suddenly taken ill and calling his com
panion to bis side, he complained of
severe pains in his left side and asked
that the latter accompany him through
to Milwaukee as he did not wish to be
alone if anything happened to him.
The two intended taking different
routes to Milwaukee, oue to change
cars City, the other at New
Lisbou. ’ -w
Rev. Greubes. called for a glass of
water and when £fcis was placed to his
lips he fell back iu his seat and in a few
seconds thereafter life was extinct.
This occurred shortly after the train
left Brokaw and the body was taken
oil the train here aud the dead man’s
relatives notified.
Deceased was sixty-four years of age
and is survived by his wife and four
children. The funeral was held Sun
day from his late home in the town of
Maine.
JUNE WEDDINGS.
Theodore, sou of Mr. aud Mrs. Dau
Deluodar, of this city, and Miss Edua
Webster, of Wakefield, Mich., will be
married tomorrow iu Mcßadeu, Mich
Dau aud John Deluodar, father and
brother of the groom, will atteud the
wedding.
Alfred Huuger, bookkeeper for the
Geo. Ruaer Brewing Cos., and Miss
Agues Baerwaid will be married to
morrow evening at the home of the
young ladj's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Cbas. Baerwaid, 524 S. Third Ave.
Emil Will and Miss Dora Roloff, both
residents of the city, will be married in
St. Stephen’s church tomorrow after
noon. The young man is employed as
a Draktjinan on the C. & N. W. Ry.
Gustav Pagel aud Miss Bertha Bar
teldt, both of the town of Maine, were
married Saturday in St Jubu’s Lutberau
church, iu that town, by the Rev. F.
VVerhahn of this city.
Walter T. Guenther and Miss Daisy
Kaoedler, both of Kuowltou,wiil be mar
ried tomorrow morning The young
man is a son of Cbas. E. Guenther and
the young lady a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Adolph Kuoedter.
Louis Goerliog, formerly of this city,
now of Marinette, was married last
week to a young lady of that city.
Low Rates to Pacific Coast—Via Chi
cage. Union Pacific & North-West
ern Line
Very low rates for the rouud.trip will
be in effect to Sau Francisco and Los
Angeles daily June Bth to loth aud June
22nd to July sth ($2.00 additional for N
E A. membership fee). Also to Port
land, Tacoma, Beattie and North Paci
fic Coast points June 20th to July 12th
Juue 20th to July 12th to Spokane.
Liberal return limits. Variable routes.
Favorable stop-over arrangements
For tickets aud full information apply
to any ticket agent of the North Y\ est
ers Line. j4-4t
Dollars
Invested
in an Edison Phonograph will bring large returns
in enjoyment tor yourself, family and friends. You
will never tire of it if you select records that live.
We have that kind in stock and are always pleased
to show them. Prices lower than in Chicago. $lO,
S2O, S3O, SSO delivered in your home. Sold on easy
payments at the same price.
314 Stall SI.
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
WAUSAU (TRIAL ORCHARD
Articles in Regard to It From the Pen of Frederic Cranefield,
Secretary of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society.
ARTICLE no. 8
Nearly all of the apples which come
into Wausau from local orchards are
Duchess. During August and a part of
September the stores are loaded with
Duchess apples aud from one to a dozen
farm wagons peddle Duchess from
bouse to house. Naturally prices go
dowu aud farmers will tell you that
there is no mon y iu raising apples.
Now if a little, just a very little, common
sense was used in planting orchards and
handling the crop, this annual glut
could be avoided, the grower would get
better prices and the apple buying pub
lic be better served. Instead of ever
lasting planting Duchess and other fall
apples, plant more Dudley, Wealthy,
Longfield and Northwestern Greening,
especially Wealthy.
The Wealthy will do well around
W ausau, it comes into bearing early
and if the fruit is kept free from worms
and properly handled, will keep until
Christmas or longer.
Even with the Duchess much can be
done to lengthen the season, if the
trees are heavily loaded, at least 4 of
the fruit should be picked when partly
colored or about f full grown. This
fruit can usually be sold to od advan
tage as almost any kind are
acceptable for cooking at that time.
When the crop ripens, if the market is
full, pick the apples carefully, pack in
boxes or barrels and store in a cool cel
lar. The length of time these will keep
will depend on the care with which the
fruit was handled. Apples for storage
should be handled in ail respects like
eggs. An egg that should drop the
heighth of the average tree-top to the
ground would scarcely be in good con
dition for storage. While the bruised
apple may not show the damage so
readily it is there just the same. Sound J
BAD RUNAWAY.
Last Tuesday afternoon, John Glasel
of the town of Wausau, had a bad run
away while in the city. He purchased
a stove and some furniture, a lot of
groceries aud other articles aud was
about ready to start for home. He
hitched the team to a post iu front of
the Pfeifer & Klecker meat market
while doing some more trading, wheu
a lady passed by with a baby carriage
which frightened the horses. They
broke loose aud started down Scott St
at a mad pace, scatteriug the articles
iu the wagou all aloog the street. At
the corner of Sixth aud Scott streets
they ran into a tire hydrant and broke
the same off the pipe. They continued
on their course a block further, when
they straddled one of Joe Lohmar’s
shade trees, bringing them to a halt.
Oue horse had the harness completely
stripped off. They were going at such
a rate of speed that the impact of the
wagon tongue tore the bark off the tree
for a s ace of about three feet, and the
sudden stop somewhat demolisued the
wagon. As soon as the ore hydrant
was broken off, the water gushed out
and soon a small sized creek: was flow
ing down the street. The water Cb}'
partmeut was notified and the water in
that main was shut off. A crew of men
worked all night iu putting io anew
pipe. The team was anew one Mr.
Gleasel lately purchased. His wife
accompanied him to town aud it was
lucky mat neither were in the wagon at
the time of the runaway.
NOTICE TO SIDEWALK CON
TRACTORS.
Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the Board of
Public Works up to 12 o’clock noon,
of July Ist, 1907, for the construction of
about 3460 square feet of cement side
walk along the south and east sides of
Mdndoe Park in the city of Wausau.
Plans and specification for said pro
posed sidewalk are on tile iu the office
of the City Engineer. The Board re
serves the right to reject any aud
all Lids.
Dated this 18tb day of June, 1907.
M. H. Duncan,
C. A Nuttek,
H. E. Marquardt.
Wa usm v J@i Pil\t.
Duchess apples should keep 4 to 6 weeks
in a cool cellar. Cellar storage of the
fall apple crop will help somewhat but
as stated before the real solution lies in
planting more Wealthy and later matur
ing varieties.
I am well satisfied that small orchards )
say of 100 to 500 trees, about Wausau
will pay. I base my belief on observa
tions of the Wausau market for several
years. Ask your storekeeper where the
apples come from that he sells in Octo
ber, November and December and the
prices he pays and then do a little think
ing. When through thinking, look over
the Wausau trial orchard which has
been planted for your benefit. If you
think of buying fruit trees this summer
or fall for fall plautiug, don’t.
Fall planting is poor business in Wis
consin. It may work all right farther
south but not here. The arguments of
the nurseryman who advises you to
plant in the fail are merely in his own
interest. He wants to get the stock oil
his hands to save storing it and get
your money into his bank. If be knows
Wisconsin conditions he knows better
that to advise fall''planting. If he is
honest he will not do it. Early spring
planting is the proper thing.
All of the trees in the Wausau trial
orchard (10 acres) were delivered and
planted in the spring. Go out and look
at the orchard while it still belongs to
you.
Frederic Cranefield,
Bec. Wis. State Hort. Soc’y.
P. S.—A word about the tree agents
aud uutcerymep: There are many dis
honest agents as well as dishonest farm
ers ud merchants and bankers and
lawyers, etc., but all are not dishonest.
A word about both kinds iu a future
issue. F. C.
RACES FOR FOURTH.
Some time ago the officers of the
Marathon County Agricultural society
submitted a proposition to the directors
of the Wausau Base Ball association to
conduct a Fourth of July celebration
jointly, sharing the profits equally.
Several meetings were held but no deti
cite action taken. As there seemed to
be little hope of the latter organization
entering the deal, a similar proposition
was later made to the Wausau Driving
association and it has been accepted.
It has been decided to give a racing
matinee at the fair grounds on that day,
for which four races have been arranged
as follows:
MATCH RACE.
Mile Heats, best 2 in 3.
Cleaver, owned by Jno. Coleman.
M. W. M , owned by Wegner 4 Morgan.
CLASS A.
4 mile Heats, best 3 in 5.
Purse, $250
Rena K, owned by M. J. Kavf naugh.
O. K., owned by Adolph Holu i.
Paul K, owned by Paul Kickbusch.
CLASS B.
i mile Heats, best 3 in 5.
Purse, 200.
Mkttlft (Jon, owned bv Fred Schroeder.
Bill Wyn, owned by Paul Rickbusob.
Baby, owned by Cbas. Davidson.
Nellie D., owned by Jno. Coleman.
CLASS C
4 mile Heats, best 3 in 5.
Parse, $l5O.
Gambrillion, owned by Paul Kickbusch.
Doc Bosworth, owned by Ed. Johnson.
Aloy Alcott, owned by Wm. Faucett.
Miss Roundwood, owned by F. A. Hueb
ner.
Tbe following committees have been
appointed to carry out the plans :
Committee on entertainments, M. H.
Duncan, Dan Healy, Adolph Holub and
Dr. Mills.
Committees of privileges, Frank Char
tier.
Committee on advertising, M. Ft.
Duncan.
Soliciting committee. Ovid Belanger,
Frank Morgan and M. J. Kavanaugb.
There will be foot races, sack races,
etc , for wbicn prizes will, be offered,
also a game of base ball and other
features.
Disease Destroys the Best Forces ol
Body and Mind-
.No man with good judgment sill ex
penmen t when his health is to he
weighed in the balance, but every day
thousands of men take risks by believ
ing the misleading statements of those
who use uncertain methods of treat
ment. A long train of nervous diseases
and chronic afflictions follow as a re
sult of over-work, excesses or early
errors, and complete incapacity, mental
derangement physical helplessness re
sult unless the progress of the malady
is arrested by timely skill.
The man who has violated the laws
of bealttr'should lose no time in seeking
the best treatment for bis case. He
should seek a specialist who considers
every point in his case, modifies the
treatment to meet every iudidation, and
uses special means in such manuer as
to supply the nerve force and restore
the powers of the body.
Experience talks, and the eminent
specialist. Dr. L. M. Turbin, of Chicago,
has proven his ability to successfully
overcome the conditions present in the
cases where men have waited until they
are almost bourne down the rapids of
physical destruction; which carry so
many annually to unnecessary, prema
ture graves.
The correct medical methods em
ployed by Dr. Turbin in moat cases
give quick and permanent relief. The
many marvelous cures he has brought
about among our friends and neighbors
are proof conclusive that Dr. Turbin u
tbe physician to consult when in need
of medical attendance. Every individ
ual case is managed according to the
special conditions, the right method of
treatment is employed, and the result
is satisfactory. Dr. Turbin has visited
our city for the oast fifteen years and
may be consulted freely, in person,
when he again visits Wausau, Tuesday,
July 2nd at the Beilis hotel.
WAIISAVI, Wla.i TIIESPAY, JUNE 23, 1907.
LOSS OF $65,000 IN TWO
DAYS.
On Tuesday evening last a watch
man in the Hoeniscb sa w mill dis
covered that the of the Wausau
Quartz Cos. wae on tire and he lost no
time in notifying the fire department
and also sounding the mill whistle.
The night was warm and many people
were still out on the streets or sitting
on the porches of their homes. The
disastrous tire of the day before, when
the Wausau Box aud Lumber Co.’s
plant was entirely destroyed, caused
them to fear another disaster and hun
dreds started out to seek the cause of
the alarm. They soon saw ti>at the
whole southwestern portion of the city
was illuminated and that a large tire
was in progress. At first it was thought
that either the veneer mill or Curtis &
Yale’s factory No. 2 was ablaze. In
vestigation proved it tp be the plant
mentioned above. The run for each
tire department was a long one and by
the time they got there the flames had
made such progress in the destruction
of the plant that there was practically
no hope of saving it.
Again, as at the tire of Monday, there
was insufficient water pressure. Al
though factory and mill owuers hare
thousands ot dollars invested iu facto
ries and stocks in that locality, they
have a tire protection that is uot worthy
of the name. Here, again, the city has
followed its impecunious-like policy
of laying small water mains.
Within a very short time the flames
bad licked up the last vestige of the
buildings and reduced them to ashes.
The origin of the tire can only be
guessed at. There had been no tire
under the boilers for six weeks past,
and during that time men had been en
gaged in overhauling the mill and in
setting up new machinery, which
would give the institution an increased
capacity. It was intended to start
work again some time this week.
The plant was erected in 1897 by F.
P. Corwith, H. T. Moulton, and Henry
French. Since then the company has
twice been re-organized and at the
time of the tire the plant was controlled
by 1). J. Murray, C. 0. Yawkey, W. L.
Eumonds, H. G. Flietb, A. L Kreutzer,
C. B. Bird, M. B. Rosenberry, all of
this city; Senator Stout of Menomonie;
W. H. Hatten of New Loudon aud
Brown Bros, of Rhinelander.
A meeting of the stockdolders will
be called soon to determine a course as
to future plans. The factory has been
a fairly profitable institution, with an
abundance of raw material at baud and
it may be rebuilt. The loss is estimated
at about $15,000, which with the destruc
tion of the Wausau Box and Lumber
Co.’s plant, makes a Are loss to the
city of about $65,000 in less than two
days’ time.
It was a fortunate thing that there
was no wind blowing at the time
Had there been a high wind like the
day before, sparks might have been car
ried to numerous other factories in
that section, as well as dwelling houses
The Wausau Quartz Cos. employed
about twenty-hve men and the mill
was operated steadily throughout the
year except when repairs were neces
sary.
STREET R. R. NOTES.
I'or the past two weeks the work of
extending tbe Wausau Street Railway
Co.’s lines has beeu retarded because
of not having any ties. Toward the
latter part of the week they began to
arrive and from now on it is expected
that the work will proceed without a
hitch.
Linemen began stretching trolley
wire northward on Third street from
the Washington street corner last week.
The wire will be strung as far north as
Chicago Ave. at present and it is likely
that work of extending the line up
Third street to connect with that phrt
built north of the St. Paul tracks last
fall, will begin soon. .
Two more open or summer cars
arrived in the city last week and will
be mounted on trucks and put in ser
vice. They have no motors and will be
run as trailers. Unlike the other two
previously shipped here they have re
versible seats. They came off the liue
of Twin City Rapid Transit Cos., doing
business in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Their first service will probably be on
July 4th.
The long expected steel for the. Wash
ington street and Third Ave. crossings
arrived the latter part of the v/eek and
was laid Sunday.
For the present the car liue will only
run south on Third Ave. as tar as two
blocks beyond the intersection of Gar
field Ave.
The patronage of the line holds up
well and promises to continue so
This means of transportation meets
favor with picnic parties aud others
desiring to spend a day in the woods
and along tbe river near Schofield. An
oft heard question propounded by tbe
gentler sex is, "Have you trolleyed
yet V All day Sundays the cars are
crowded with people going back and
forth between the city and Schofield.
MARRIED,
Miss Nellie May Adams and Martin
F. Fogarty, Jr, were married at the
home of the bride's parents in Ingram,
Wts., last week, Monday. Tbe Ingram
Record says of tbe young people
“ The bride is the daughter of one of
Ingram’s most respected people, and
is very popular and highly esteemed
by all who know her. The groom is
from Wausau and enjoys a large cir
cle of friends here.”
Mr. Fogarty is a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Martin Fogarty, of this city. They
will reside in Hannibal, Wis.
FIRE INSURANCE,
Kretiow & Lament wish to announce
that they are prepared to write fire
insurance in approved stock companies
at reasonable rates. They also place
plate glass and boiler insurance and
surety bonds. First National Bank
building- ’Phone 1033. 120-tf
- WESTERN LOGGING.
L. K Wright Tells of Conditions .n the
Oregon Lumber Region.
Portland, Ore., June
Friend ’Gene:—
Since writiug you last I have had an
opportunity to see something of Oregon
logging, au account of which may be of
interest to those unfamiliar with west
ern logging. In company with F. C.
Knapp, manager of the Peuiusula Lum
ber Cos., of St. Johns, 1 vHteu their
camps at Columbia City. This is the
company of which C. C. Barker is presi
dent aud H. C. Stewart vice-president.
Columbia City is ou the river of that
name, about 32 miles below Portland,
file camp is back from the river about
three miles and is reached by the com
pany’s railroad, which runs back about
tire miles into the timber. This road is
equipped with three engines and about
30 logging cars; the trucks of each car
and the cars themselves, are coupled
with 12 foot couplers, as ail the logs are
cut from 24 to 80 feet in length. Whtn I
uot loaded the couplings telescope into
the trucks, makiug a short train easily
handled. The camps consist of a num
ber of small board shanties, with bunks
for eight men to a shauty, iustead of the
large unsanitary camps seen in Wiscon
sin. The other buildings are similar to
our own. The “chuck” is good and
real butter is furnished in place of
“oleo.” Oue hundred and twenty-five
men are employed, including two crews
of section hands (20 Italians) and 17
railroad construction hands (Austrians)
This class of ‘‘American labor,” boards
itself aud lives in tents, out on the line
froju the camp. The timber the com
pany is working in, is principally red
fir, with some yellow and bastard tir
and red cedar. They also have some
white fir which goes to the paper mills
The timber is small for this country, a
tree cutting six or eight thousand feet
beiug a big one, but it stands thick and
runs about 50 M to the acre. The
cedar butts go to the mill for shingle
umber and the tops and small red tir
iuto piling timber. 120 M feet is an
average daily cut.
Probably the greatest problem at this
camp is water. The three locomotive
engines and the donkey engines drink
a great deal of this and it has to be
piped and forced back into the woods
with a lifting ram or pump. I think
this camp has five big donkey logging
engines aud three small donkey loaders.
One of the large ones being used iu
moving cars'. A large denkey crew
consists of engiueer, fireman aud wood
buck, while one man performs the
trinity of occupations for the small
donkey.
So much for the camp, crew, timber
aud equipment, the actual logging I
wJI attempt to follow from the tree to
tb*tnH:
The falling is done by seven gangs of
fallers, a head faller and assistant to
each gang. The rough ground and
large butts, necessitates the use of
spriug boards, a notch beiug cut into
the tree on each side, in which boards
with iron shoes are put, so that the
fallers are the same heighth from the
ground. The tree is first notched with
the saw aud the notch cut out. the head
faller sighting along axe blade and saw
handle, to fall the tree where he wants
h. aii me timber is felled io straight
lines away from the “yard* 4 where the
donkey is placed and when a strip ifc
dowu the trees lie as straight as cut
graiu and there is hardly ground
enough to fall it ou. After the notching,
the tree is sawed and this struck me as
the hardest work on the job, as the big
trees run gallons of pitch and it is all
the men cau and. to pull the saw, care is
taken to keep the cut even, the fallers
calling to each other how many inches
they have left. Stumps are about four
or five feet high, instead of double that
heighth as was the custom before the
eastern mill men arrived.
Following the fallers, come 15 buckers
or sawyers. These sawyers work
singly and as the timber goes mostly
into long logs, two buckers cau about
keep up with a gang of fallers. Anew
thing to me aud one which I think
could be used in the Wisconsin hemlock,
where the saw so often biuds, is the
“under cutter.” This is a two foot bar
with two dogs, which are driven into a
log, wheu the saw pinches or wheu the
cut cannot be made from the top, there
is a clamp at the bottom of the bar which
holds a short shaft ou which a corru
gated wheel runs. The back of the saw
rests on tips wheel aud the sawyer saws
from the bottom of the log. The bar is
moved further up the log as occasion
demands. A large portion of the saw
yers work is swamping a place to do
bis sawing. A good crew of fallers in
this timber will fall from 15 to 25 M per
day, whjle a good bucker will saw about
10 to 15 M per day.
Before speaking of the woik of get
ting the logs to tbe skidways 1 must
speak of the skidways and donkeys.
The skidways are a big proposition,
they have to be built up sometimes 20
or 30 feet at the rear and very solid,
large timbers are used and the end
where tbe logs are pulled on have in
clines of long logs. The timbers in a
platform are often worn clear through
and must be replaced before they are
abandoned. In connection with each
platform or skidway, are two doukeys,
a small one for loading cars and a large
one for puliing in tbe logs. The large
engine has two drums or spools, on
which the cables are wound On one
drum runs the heavy wire caOle which
pulls in the log, on the other is a
smaller cable to pull the large cable
back into tbe woods. This small cable
runs through pulleys, attached to
stumps and trees. The logs are pulled
onto the platform with the large cable,
a distance of 1,500 feet, in all directions.
This whole area is called a yard or set
ting. It will be seen that over a quar
ter section of land can be iogn *i in one
setting, if the formation of tbe ground
will pesmit and as some quarters will
go eighteen million feet, you will have
an idea ai the amount of timber that
can go to a skidway. In addition to
the two cables 1 speak of there is a sig
nal wire, on which the men in the
woods signal the engineer of the
doukey, whether to pull in or slack
back. A crew to get the logs to the
skidway has oue hook tender, who
attaches the cable to the log, two rig
ging rustlers, to pull the cable where
wanted, oue swamper aud a whistle
boy. The hook tender gives two short
shouts to pull in the cable and one to
slack back. These signals, the whistle
boy transmits to the engineer, by
pounding the signal wire. If the signal
is to “pull in,” the log starts and one
of the men called the “chase! 1 ” starts
after it and follows it in to see that
nothing fouls or goes wrong. The
chaser has a wire running to the signal
wire, so he can signal the engineer,
when out of hearing of the signal boy.
This chaser is said to earn his money
during the rainy season. The sniper
is a man who rounds the ends of the
logs with his axe so they won’t plough
into the ground too much. The plat
form crew consists of a first and second
loader, all this work is done by
machinery, the loaders only placing
hooks and cables.
The cars loaded and ready for the
train are then hauled out to the river,
eight cars to a train and talk about
your busy brakemen; up hill and down.
Mr. brakey is bounding on and off the
cars, setting and loosening brakes, all
done from the side of th* train.
At the landing the cars run onto a
platform which tilts up and then a crane,
book and tackles dumps them into a
pocket from which they are run into
the raft sticks and the rafts towed to
the mill.
So far, wood has been the fuel for the
locomotives but the company have just
completed au oil tauk aud dock, so the
oil scows can land and the oii will theu
be pumped through pipe line to the
tank.
This trip was very interesting to me
and with some variations, is typical of
all logging out here. A schedule of
the w ges paid at this camp may be of
interest, but the greatly increased cost
of living here should be considered:
Donkey engineers $2 75 to $3 o 0 per day
Rigging rusllers 275 to 325 “ “
Chaser 325 " “
Rollway men 336 to 350 “ ‘
Donkey firemen 250 to 275 “ “
Wood buck era 250 to 30u “ “
Whistle boy 175 to 200 “ “
Buckers 3 25 ....
Swampers 175 to 275 “ “
Snipers 300 to 350 “ “
Hook tenders 4uO to 500 “ “
Locomotive engineers 350 to 385 “ “
“ firemen 275 “ “
Brakemen 325 “ “
Loaders 350 to 400 “ “
Blacksmiths 300 to 350 “ “
. “ helpers 250 to 275 ” “
First fallers 325 to 376 “ “
Second fallers 3 25 ....
Saw filers (special men tor tbist... 350 “ “
Section men (2 25 to 250 “ “
Graders 225 to 275 “* “
Boom men 275 to 300 “ “
After the timber is cut the land is left
much cleaner than cut over laud with
us, as the timber cuts clean and the lops
do uot litter up the ground one-fourth
as much as ours.
I cannot attempt to describe the
beauty of the river, which is 18 feet
above low water mark just qow.
I will tell you also of the wheat
country of the Paulouse and Willa
Walla valleys, in eastern Washington,
which 1 saw on a trip to Colfax and
Walla Walla. I have read, and the
natives tell, of the 40 bushels per acre
crops of wheat, which are harvested
year in and year out in this district. I
talked with farmers and think I got
the facts. For a great many years,
wheat has been grown on this laud,
Which is quite hilly. They discovered
the crops were growing smaller and of
late years they have practiced a system
of summer fallowing. The land
cropped one year is idle the next but is
plowed aud worked over several times,
the weeds being nearly exterminated in
this way. It is then sowed in the fall
and the next year yields from 26 to 4u
bushel of wheat per acre. The wheat
is soft. F’ine barley is also raised. The
farms are very large, often comprising
whole flections. The grain is now
Beaded out aud looks well. With SI.OO
wheat in Chicago, eastern Oregon wheat
worth about 70 cents. All the wheat is
jacked direct from the thresher and
most of it goes to the Pacific for ship
ment. With proper elevator facilities
aud up to-date grain carriers on the
Pacific, a saving of 5 cents per bushel
will be made on the sacking charge.
How much the completion of the Pana
ma canal .will mean to these farmers 1
will not attempt to say, but it will be
milliuus, annually. This is almost ex
clusively $ graiu country, although I
saw some good orchards in the Palouse
country. Un this trip I journeyed ou
the Oregon Railway and Navigation R.
R, a Harriman line. This road fallows
the south bank of the Columbia aud the
scenery is tine. Across the river, close-
Ij following the north bank, is the tine
grede of Jim Hill’s N. P. liue, running
Iron Pasco, YYasb., to Portland, and
crossing the Columbia, at Vancouver,
where a great bridge is being built.
At St. Johns, a suburb of Portland, it
crosses the Willamette with another
mighty structure.
1 have discovered an unpleasant
feature of Portland. Tiring of my
mother-in-law’s cooking, I undertook
to inquire for rooms aud houses aud
found I must get rid of the children be
fore securing anything in this line. I
know miaaouary money is often sent to
Africa, where the natives insist on feed
ing children to the crocodiles, to appease
the anger of their gods, but here iu
Portland tbe landlords insist ou
destroying tfie childreu and unlike tbe
African deities won’t furnish the
crocodiles. Perhaps you will use your
influence to have soms of the foreign
mission money expended iu christianiz
iug the benighted Portland landlords.
1 have met a number of old Wausau
residents in Portland lately, among
them beiug D. A. Sau born who has
offices at 5954 Ist street; Joe Feicht and
his sister, Mrs. John Lutzenberger, who
live at 945 Vancouver Ave., and Aug
Schiaviuski, the latter and Joe Feicht
work iu tbe S. Pacific freight depot.
Mrs. Paul Powers, formerly Mildred
Son ill, whose husband is manager of
tbe Cowi#tz County Lumber company,
lives at 18th and Everett streets; her
brother George is at Spokane. , 1 also
met Bob McCoukcy tbe other da;.
Mrs. Kiog, formerly Rose Yonkeol
Schofield, lives here, her husband is a
filer.
Will Liljeqve t who is working in
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER
No. 31— TERMS, SI.BO Per Annum
Heijry B. Huntington,
Law, Real Estate and Fire Insurance.
Scott St., Opp. Court House, Wausau, Wis.
Over 11,000 Acres
of Fine Farming and Hardwood Lands for Sato in Marathon, Lince/n
and Taylor Counties, Wis.
The lauds described below are among the choicest and are located in
Marathon County.
Fine Residence Property, Business Property, Building Lots
and Acre Property for sale in the city.
MONEY TO LOAN ON REAL ESTATE SECURITY.
FOR SALE—seTi of nw)4 and elt of sw'4< sent ion 3, town 28. ramie 3, and nK ot swig. aaotioa
8, town JB. rauge 8, and w'-£ oi section 1, town 29, range 7, and neV of sH otft^i.
section 31, town 29, range 10, and neVs. section 8, town 30, range,?, and of section 28,town
So. range 7, and e‘4 of ne*4 section 85, range 7, and nV£ of nwV*, section 86, town 30, range
7, and sell of ee*4. section 4, town 30. range 8, and n‘4 of sw(4 and w>4 of ae>£. section 10, town 30
range 8, and seV* of a*Vi and sw*4 of section 12, town 80, range 8, and n oW of ak, section
13, town 30, range 8, and ot neyi. section 16. town 80, range 8, ana ot umx, section 23, tovn
80, range 8, and n)4 of nwVi, section 24, town 30, range 8. end e% of section 16, town 80, rautte
9, and a6%, section 18, town 30, range 9, and w(4 of sel4, section 19, town 30, range 9, and of
w!4, section 20, town 30, range 9, and s)4 of neVi and se%, section 21, town 80, range 9, and neli of
nw£ and wH of and ot sw)4. section 22, town 30, range 9, and ee^4,section 27,t0wnj30,
range 9, and of aej4 an a nw)4t section 28, town 30, range: 9, end of ne% end section
3, town 30, range 9, and swig, section 10, town 80, range 10.
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For prices and terms, or any information relating to the above described
lots and lands, apply at my office, Henry B. Huntington.
•WV VI W VI From $3.50 to t’2.00 for a
Why Mn Ynw ° f stqck
® J ® ®™ ™ ™ J FOOD when you can buy
Dr. Hess Stock Food
at $1.45 tor 25 lb. Sack
or $1.60 tor 25 lb. Pail
or $5 for 100 Pounds ?
If this Stock Food is not just as good and better than what you
are paying a fancy price for, we will refund your money and want
cost you a cent to try it. Guaranteed and sold only by the
Pardee Drug Cos.
Salem, spent Suuday with us two weeks
ago.
Just now there is quite a stagnation
in lumber circles, due to bad conditions
at Sam Francisco and also to tbe car
shortage.
How would the Wausau housekeepers
like to get the finest of strawberries, 42
box cases, for $2.50 *
L. K. W right
LIGHT; LOVE; LIFE.
(Written by Alic* B. Waits.!
Pare joy! to see tbe forest flower,
Wake to the light, tbe dew, tbe shower.
To ope beside tbe foaming broox
Among tbe ferns of rocky nock
Not 1 one tender stem to break
From parent leaves, one flower to take
From out tbe gieu, a withered bloom
To press with!a a manual tomb;
No more to breeze fresh petals swing
Their fragrance wide, for love of Spring,—
Spirit of Light!
Not I, to do the thoughtless thing.
Pure love! to watch the dragon fly
On jeweled wings go sailing by, -
Or dream In trance on swaying reed.
Along the flowery wind-swept mead.
Not 1, !n weuton chase to grabp
Its brilliant shape, to rudely claap,
To pin and name, on numbered board,
Its brittle form to be adorned;—
No more in life, ou gauzy wing
To woo, to r.lueflag Tightly cling,—
Spirit of Lore!
Not I, to do the useless thing.
Pure bliss! to bear the song of bird,
To selfish ears joys half unheard; ,
To hear sweet trills at rosy dawn,
Glad Wildwood songs to dream upon.
Not I, one happy bird to catch,
To leave lone mate or helpless batch,.
To mount dead form o'er twigs and moss,
One loved voice still’d, to earth a loss.—
No more with life to gayly wing
O’er brooding mate to blitneiy sing ;
Spirit of Life!
Not I, to do this sinful thing.
SIOO Reward. SIOO.
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn that there ts at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to cure In all its
stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall’s Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known to the
medical fraternity. Catarrh being a cousistitu
tiouai disease, requires a constitutional treat
ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken Internally,
acting directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system, thereby destroying the
foundation of the disease, and giving the
patient strength by building up the constitution
and assisting nature in doing Its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its curative
powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for
any case that it fails to cure. Send for fist of
testimonials.
Address: F. ,1. CHENEY A Co.’Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggesn, 76c.
Take Hail's FaultT Piiis for conucipation.
NEW DENTAL OFFICE.
Dr. YV. T. Lawrence has opened a
dental office over Dunbar’s jewelry
store, where he is now prepared to re
ceive those in need of ius services.
’Phone No. 1782. aSQ-lf
MARATHON COUNTY BANK,
Organized under the General Banking Law of
the State of Wisconsin.
Will receive deposits, discount notes, buy and
sell drafts, nake collections, and do all other
business connected with General Banking.
Ai.ex Stewaht, Pres’t. K. C. Zimmerman,
(J. W. Hamhek, Vlce-Pres't. Cashier
Directors—Alex Stewart, W. Alexander, C. W.
Barger, E. C. Zimmerman, A. Solllday.
HAS SAFETY DEPOSIT VADLT.
BOXES FOR RENT AT 2 PER YEAR.
AVINGfi DEPARTMENT IN CONNECTION.
PHILIP DEAN,
Meet ami
Sopeitestt,
McKinley Block. W3MSB,Hi
wn. zmnER
Decorating,
If you are a Paper
in want o Hanging,
of any Hardwood
Finishing,
CALL ON
wn. zinncn,
P. O. box, 216; telephone, No. 1640.
Estimates given on short notice.

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