Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-01-17

ruling has been made by Land Com
missioner Hermann which will have i'm
portant effect upon entry of public lands
under what is known as the reservoir act
Inc ruling recites that "a declaratory
statement, under the act of Jan. 13, 1897,
does not withdraw the land covered
thereby from other entry" Under the
act IN question the interior Department
has heretofore held that declaratouy
statements absolved lands filed upon
from other entry, and as by fling such
declaratory statement and the payment
OF nominal fees 1GO acres could be held
by entrymen for two years before COM
menclng construction of reservoirs or
other improvements necessary to secure
patent. Immense areas have been so Sc
cured in western Kansas, Nebraska, Col
orado, Wyoming and Utah by land-grab-
bling concerns to the exclusion of actual
settlers. The department. believes that
opening lands taken under this act to
entry under general land laws will ma
terially check the evil.
A rare distinction is that enjoyed by
Judge William Richardson, who+has been
chosen to succeed Gen. Joe Wheeler in
During the Civil War, when a mere boy,
he was under sentence of death and mar
rowly escaped the gallows. He had en-
listed in the Confederate army, been cap
tured in his first battle and taken to In
diana as prisoner of war. He escaped
and falling in with a Confederate spy,
tried to make his way back through the
Federal lines to the South. The spy,
known to the outside world only as ''NIr.
Paul." was captured, and with him
young Richardson. The boy was con-
denned to be hanged, as we'll as the
older spy, when the Confederate general,
Forrest, attacked the Union forces under
Crittenden at Murfreesboro just in time
to iberate the two condemned men, Rich
ardson went back to Alabama, studied
law after the war, became probate and
county judge and now occupies Joe
Wheelers seat in Congress.
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The dispatches from Manila tell of the
deportation from that island OF several
important generals and leaders OF the
insurgents, who will be sent to Guam to
reflect upon their folly. This is new
policy, and the result of recommends
tions from officers over there, who have
at least learned that the Filpinos dread
exile more than Imprisonment or even
death. It is said that the natives are
so attached to their island that emigra-
ton is unknown. The knowledge of this
popularity has suggested Punishment as
a punishment for the leaders of the in
surrection, and the experiment will be
tried:
During the last three months the post
Offices in the country have shown an in
crease in receipts that surpasses all pre-
cedent. st. Louis shows the largest
gain. The sales of stamps at that office
during the last quarter Of the calendar
wear 1899 were $243,671, while during
the last quarter Of 1900 they have almost
doubled and amounted to $482,864. The
receipts in Chicago jumped from 81 344,-
225 to 81, $50, 522, and in New York from
81, 991 ,237 to 1858, 929. The increase
in Philadelphia and Boston was barely
nominal.
There is a proposition to abandon the
bayonet. which army officers on duty III
the Philippines say is useless. Most OF
the soldiers serving in the field find the
hayonet a hindrance. 1t is related III
some of the reports that they discard
the article in going through the jungle.
One officer, in a report to the War De
partment, says: 1.-THE days of hand-to-
hand conflicts have passed. The bayo-
| net on land is not of as much ut1ilty as
the cutlass at sea-
The debates in both the Senate ana
| House of Representatives show that It
was the intention of Congress to tax the
| telegraph companies and the express
companies upon their gross earnings, ana
| not the people who patronlze them' put
| the law was so carelessly drawn mat
| both the telegraph and express companies
| have been able to evade the tax and COM
mel their patrons to pay it.
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Sneaker Henderson has recovered sur
6ciant0y TO resume the chair of the house
| of Representatives. Secretary hay IS
better. and is able to go out. MI. De
| new is also improving, but the grip epl.
demic is extending, and the doctors are
| an busy. The social program IS very
much interfered with. Washington mas
| suffered from the grip before, but never
/ so much as now.
No information has been received oy
| tho Denartment of State either through
i lily ..~,x- IN, WaShin CfOn or