Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-09-13


which President Roosevelt would approve
for the construction of a cable between
the United States and the insular posses
s1ons in the Pacific ocean was made at
Oyster Bay. The only practicable offer
to construct this cable had been made by
the Commercial Gable Company, headed
| by the late John w. Mackay. The pro-
posed cable company must keep free from
! foreign alliances or mOnopoliStic combi-
nations, and touch only American terri
tory, the government to have the right Of
| purchase at any time or to assume full
control in time of war. Employees must
! be American citizens and cable rates rea-
sonable and at speed of not less than
| twenty-five words minute to Manila.
! The traffic manager of the Commercial
| Pacific Gable Company announced that
! his company was not satisfied with the
| conditions proposed by the President and
would make a counter proposal. Compen-
sation from the government will be ask
| ed in war time.
The part which postal employees are to
be permitted to take in a political cam
paign is outlined in the following in
structions which Acting Postmaster Gem
eral Wynne has addressed to a postmas-
ter who sent a letter of inquiry: "In re-
ply to your letter, you are informed that
you are not prohibited from joining a
political club, nor from making vOlun-
tary financial contributions outside of a
government Office or building, nor from
acting as a delegate to a county, State or
| congressional convention. You should
not, however, serve as chairman Of
| State or county committee, nor take part
in conducting a political convention, nor
make yourself unduly prominent in local
political matters"
The annual report of the auditor of the
interior Department shows that the DIS
bursements from the appropriations for
army pensions for the year ending June
30, 1902, amounted to $133, 556, O39, as
follows: Survivors of the Mexican and
Indian wars and the war of 1912, $685.
O20; invalids, $780, 707 100; widows, $685.
1865 minors, SIZE, 304; dependent
relatives, $2,4O0,616; helpless children,
$123 $50; army nurses, $93, 362. The dis
bursements for navy pensions for the
same period amounted to $3,S44,702, as
follows: Inyalids, $2,617, 906; widows, ST.
ia, $3.50; minors, $33, 9S9; dependent rela-
tives, $76,091; helpless children, 81, TIC.
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The United States government has de-
cided to increase the number of Siberian
reindeer in Alaska to $4,000 head. The
Rev. Sheldon Jackson, educational agent
for Alaska, obtained permission to expert
ment in this line in 1892, and since hat
time a number of importations have been
made with great success. LaplanderS
have been imported to care for the ami
mails at regular herding stations, and, not
withstanding many difficulties and some
losses, the animals have multiplied fast
and become indispensable as beasts Of
burden.
1t is reported that the Grand Army Of
the Republic is to have permanent head
quarters at Washington, and that the
organization is to be put on a business In
stead of a social basis. Owing to the adj
vanced age of members, the spectacular
features Of the yearly gatherings viii be
abandoned and the material welfare Of
it's members will be made the main object
Of the organization.
In the experiments in wireless teleg-
raphy conducted by the Navy Department
at Annapolis, the first of four systems
tested resulted in the successful exchange
Of signals with Washington, thirty-fve
miles distant. -Four systems, not includ-
ing Marconi's, will be tested on land and
at sea- and the best system will be adopt
ed by the department.
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The attention Of President Roosevelt
and the Treasury Department has been
called to alleged undervaluations in the
importation of china and pottery from
abroad, and a strict investigation is I'M
der way. The losses to the treasury are
said to be from $1,000,00 to $1,500,OOO
a year.
Patents have been granted to Prof.
Fessenden of the weather bureau on
eleven parts of a wireless telegraph appar-
atus. 1t is understood that Prof. Fes-
sender has a complete working system,
and will begin at once the operation Of
actual business. His experiments have
been conducted at Manteo, n. G.
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Pension Commissioner Ware has evolv-
ed a plan for helping G. A. r. men by
means of a big reception in the Pension
building during the coming encampment.
Each soldier who attends is to receive a
STATUS card" on which he may inscribe
his military record 50 that clerks may de-
termine whether he is entitled to new
or increased pension.
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The War Department has ordered the
return to Manila of all the prisoners in
Guam who have taken the oath Of ale
glance to the United States. They will
be released under the terms Of the Presi-
dents amnesty proclamation of July 4.
If no other good comes Of the joint
maneuvers of the army and navy many
weak places in the coast defense system
Of the United States will be discovered
in time of peace when they can be rene
died.
/ Worthless money has been circulated
! In Morristown, n. j., and vicinity, prob
/ ably from old bank plates. AS the notes
are not counterfeits of any United States
notes, the makers can be punished only
/ for fraud under the State law.