Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-04-25
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The following is list of the official po-
sitions to be filed in connection with the
organization Of government in Porto
Rico:
| Secretary 1000
Attorney General ,................... 1000
| Treasurer ... 5000
Auditor 4, 600
| Commissioner OF the Interior ....... 1000
| Commissioner Of Education ........,. 5000
thief Justice Of Supreme Court. 6.Oo0
Associate Justice $500
Associate justice .................-.. 1900
United States Marshal. ......*...... 5000
United State District Attorney. $50. 4,0o0
United States District Judge. .....,... 1900
District Marshal --.t..t..*......... 800
| Collector of Customs .......... 5000
Collector OF Internal revenue. ....... 5000
Commissioner to the United States. 5000
Commissioners to revise laws dhree). 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 ID
| the purpose of the Presideat 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 at :
ministratiye affairs in the United States.
While ii is not necessary, it is advisable
that they should speak the Spanish IAN
gage.
A traveller recently returned TO this
country from the Philippines gives an In
| teresting description Of the graceful car
| riage aud walk of the women in that
place. AS a rule the women OF all
classes are as straight as the wall OF a
house, il 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 a peculiar swing
| which is quite noticeable. Some charge
this, as we'll as the straightness, TO their
habit of carrying all burdens, from
cake of soap to a 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
a toe cap. Sometimes the cap has room
for all tte toes; sometimes not Often
the sole is raised from the ground by
| wooden heels and soles-bloeks like, but
lower than those used by the japanese.
| Stockings are not usually worn.
| 49,
4 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
improyident. 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
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 A
Ne. / investment on the island-the dis
tillery.
At a conference of Baptist ministers
recently held in New York DIR. Frank III.
| 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. lie
said that the greatest objection to Amer
lean rule was because of our having in
troduced whisky into the islands Il
know he said, that there are 800 whis-
ky saloons in Manila run by Americans.
My statements have been denied by some
officers, but / challenge an investigation.
| The situation is just about the same in
Cebu and Tloilo as in Luzon. In the city
of Cebu native women sit about the
streets, with baskc.s full of bottles Of
whisky, and they sell drinks TO the sol
diers in coeoanut cups, much the same
as peanuts are sold in the streets here p"
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Prof. \. f. Frye. superintendent Of
public schools in Cuba, has come to the
| United States 10 arrange a trip for l.
GOO 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 10 New York. Chi-
cago, Washington and then back to Cuba.
Discussing the results of his work In
Cnba. he said "On March we had B.
o99 schools in operation, with 10000
children in attendance. | appointed Gu
ban teachers because it was necessary to
teach In Spanish and because they helped
10 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 viii reach at least
Sc, 600, a large part of these expenses
, having been incurred in finding homes
for the people who were burned out by
the fires. particularly the great coniiagra-
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
1890. If the request Is granted it would
lie 10 omen the way for similar claims
On The part of some 10000 Chinese and
nearly rs many natives.
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Private Elliott Hook was cooking a
bcefsteak ut Ca}oecap when q Mauser
p bullet hit the par in which the steak was
2 ! sig2ling. knocked 1t about a rod and
$ | snrjnkied Hook with hot grease. The dis