Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1900-04-19

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Commissioners of Education ......... 5000
Chief Justice of Supreme Court. ...... 5000
Associate justice .................... 1000
Associate justice .................... 1900
United States Marshal. ............... 5000
United States District Attorney. ..... 1900
United States District Judge. ......... 5000
District Marshal .................... $500
Collector of Customs. ....... 1900
Collector of Internal Revenue. ....... 5000
Commissioner to the United States.... 5000
Commissioners to revise laws (three). 5000
Five members Executive Council, salary
not fixed.
Thirty five members of Legislature. IS per
diem.
Clerk of Supreme Court salary not fixed.
Interpreter Supreme Court. salary not
fixed.
Clerk District Court, salary not fixed.
Interpreter District Court. salary not fixed.
All of these officials, with the exception
of the members of the Legislature, who
are elected, and the clerks and interpret
ers Of the courts, who are selected by
the judges, are appointed by the Presi-
dent and confirmed by the Senate. 1t is
the purpose of the President to select ma
tive Porto Ricans for these offices so
far as possible, but it is probable that the
first lot will be men of experience in add
While it is not necessary, it is advisable
that they should speak the Spanish lam
guage.
A traveller recently returned to this
country from the Philippines gives an in
teresting description of the graceful car
riage and walk of the women in that
place. "As a rule the women of all
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house, if not straighter. A plumb line
dropped from the nape of the neck would,
in most instances, fall well behind the
heels. But the gait is peculiar swing
which is quite noticeable. Some charge
this, as well as the straightness, TO their
habit of carrying all burdens, from
cake of soap TO house and lot, on the
top of the head. That is probably the
cause of the erect bearing, but think
the peculiar gait due to a certain swing
of the limbs required for keeping the
shoes on the feet The local woman's
shoes consist usually of a fat sole with
toe cap. Sometimes the cap has room
for all the toes sometimes not. Often
the sole is raised from the ground by
wooden heels and soles-blocks like, but
lower than those used by the japanese.
Stockings are not usually worm"
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A correspondent Of Leslie's Weekly,
who has trudged about the island, gives
these condensed facts about Guam: Not
a newspaper is published in Guam. There
are fourteen horses in Guam. Guam has
sixty soldiers and as many carbines.
There are fifty natives of the Carolines
who live in Guam. They are absolutely
improvident. There is one good road in
Guam, six miles long, extending from
Pill to the capital. There are two dozen
bullock carts in good repair in Guam.
There are now two Spaniards in Guam.
Guam has a population of 5000. The
subsidiary currency at Guam is worn,
chopped and bitten until its early respec-
liability is open to question. Guam is a
free port. There are two japanese ON
the island. They own the principal
stores. There is one Chinaman in Guam.
He is the sole proprietor of the only
No. / investment on the island-the dis
tillery.
At a conference of Baptist ministers
recently held in New York DR.. Frank M.
Wells, who was chaplain Of the First
Tennessee volunteers in the Philippines,
denounced the evil of the American sa-
loon in our new Pacific possessions. He
said that the greatest objection to Amer
lean rule was because of our having in
PRODUCED whisky into the islands. Il
know" he said, that there are 300 whis-
ky saloons in Manila run by Americans.
My statements have been denied by some
officers, but 1 challenge an investigation.
The situation is just about the same in
Cebu and Iloilo as in Luzon. In the city
Of Cebu native women sit about the
streets, with baskcss full of bottles Of
whisky, and they sell drinks to the SOL
diers in cocoanut cups, much the same
as peanuts are sold in the streets here
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Prof A. r. Frye, superintendent of
public schools in Cuba, has come to the
United States to arrange a trip for l.
600 of these teachers to this country
during the summer. His plan is to spend
six weeks at Harvard with the teachers
and then take them to New York, Chi
cago, Washington and then back to Cuba.
Discussing the results of his work in
Cuba, he said: ION March l we had 81
900 schools in operation, with 10000
children in attendance. l appointed Gu
ban teachers because il was necessary to
teach in Spanish and because they helped
to support many needy families. We
hope to add English TO our course of
study and night schools for adults have
already been started"
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1t is estimated that the cost of fighting
the plague in Honolulu will reach at least
81, 000,0 900, large part Of these expenses
having been incurred in finding homes
for the people who were burned out by
the fires, particularly the great coniagra-
ton on Jan. 20. Eight hundred japanese
residents who were burned out in that
fire have petitioned the Government to
exempt them from taxes for the year
1900. IL the request is granted it would
be to open the way for similar claims
on the part of some 10000 Chinese and
nearly as many natives.
Private Elliott Hook was cooking
beefsteak at Caloocan when a Mauser
bullet hit the pan in which the steak was
sizzling, knocked it about a rod and
sprinkled Hook with hot grease. The dis
appointed soldier Immediately loaded his
rifle and watched all day long to get
shot at the rebels, saying to his COM
rades: II went into this war at the call
of my country, but since that fellow
spilled my meat 1t has become personal
natter" And so he regarded it until
he sailed away from Manila.
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Rear Admiral Philip says that once
when his flagship lay in New York har-
Dor he was walking the quarterback wbea
a sailor approached him and asked per-