Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-03-17

tradited from London, charged with
wrecking Two banks in the vicinity
of New Whatcomb, Wash, was ar
1aigned and entered plea Of not
guilty. The court set March "a as
the time for the trial
Don Jose Vincente Concha, Colon
bian minister to the United States,
| in a communication to the general
consul of then New Panama canal
company, denied the charge that his
country is blocking the sale of the
canal to the United States.
new feature is to be introduced
| into the course of instruction at West
Point, it's purpose being to give practi-
| cal ideas in the arts of war, especially
military engineering. The first class
will visit old battlefields annually.
| beginning with Gettysburg this year.
! George Musgrove, said to be leader
of band of southwestern desperadoes
and brother of the noted "Black
Jack, who was hanged a year ago,
has been captured near Alamo Gordo.
N. M. Musgrove is wanted in New
Mexico for murder, postoffice and train
robbery.
President Roosevelt has requested
the cabinet members not to talk to
newspaper correspondents about mat
| ters under discussion at the semi
weekly meetings. The president
| himself will hereafter make public
such matters as he deems proper TO
| be given out
The census bureau reports a total
production of wheat in the United
States in 1890 of gel ,657 900 bushels.
The estimate made by the department
of agriculture on the same crop gave
the production at 647,303 ,846 bushels.
The census figures exceed those Of the
department of agriculture by POS per
cent.
There is posted in the twenty-six
| barns, stables and power-houses of
the Metropolitan Street Railway COM
pany, New York, notice from Presi-
| dent Vreeland announcing the estab-
| lishment of a pension system for SUI
perannuated employees. This is the
first pension system ever established
! for street railway employees.
Rear Admiral Howard will be retired
March 16. Next to Admiral Dewey, he
| is the ranking officer of the navy.
| His retirement will result in the pro-
motion of Captain Crowninshield,
chief of the bureau of navigation, to
rear admiral. and permit the execution
of the plan to place that officer in COM
| man of the European station.
The house committee has unani-
mously ordered a favorable report on
| the general immigration bill 1t
codif1ies all the existing laws and per-
fects the administrative features. 1t
increases the head tax from 81 to so
| and extends to five years the period
during which immigrants may be de-
| ported if they become public charges
! Representative Kahn, who intro
| duced the Chinese exclusion bill, has
| received a dispatch from Canada say
ing the special commission of the
dominion takes a position against
Chinese immigration similar to that
taken by those favorable to rigid ex-
: C1uO1Ou 1IOilI InS Ou1CSu OIdC0S. 1u0
| commission recommends a treaty
which will permit strict exclusion and
| in the meantime $500 per head tax
on Chinese entering Canada
Although the pension committee of
| the two houses of congress has not
passed upon the pension bill sub
mitted by the pension committee If
| the G, A. r., headed by Commander
in-Chief Ell Torrance, the bill is not
| to sbe favorably received The lie
pendent pension law, passed in 1890,
was originated by the pension COM
mittee of 1he G. A. r., and there has
! been much complaint about it. II is
said by members in both houses that
| the leaders of the Grand Army, al
| though men Of good judgment and
sincere in their desire to remedy the
defects in pension legislation, are
not sufficiently informed of the in
tricacles of the multitude of laws en-
the subject.