Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-04-19

Ohiteu states *uuring Jne past eighty
i've years furni very interesting
study. From 1921 to 1903, both inelu-
sive, the total number of immigrants that
have come into the United States aggre-
gates p, 265,123, equal to one-fourth of
the present population of the country. IL
takes in almost every known nationality
Earope furnished 93 per cent the west
ern hemisphere 40 per cent, and China
and all other countries 2.5 per cent. or
the total immigration into the United
States from 1921 TO 1908, Germany and
the United Kingdom furnished SO per
cent, as follows: Germany. "A per cent:
ireland, 10 per cent. and England. Scot
land and Wales, Is per cent. During
the same period Austria Hungary, Italy
and Russia and Poland furnished II per
cent. as follows: AUSTRIA Hungary, per
cent; Italy, 8 per cent. and Russia and
Poland, per cent OF the total immi-
grafton in 1903, Germany and the United
Kingdom furnished only II par cent
while Austria Hungary, Italy, Russia
and Poland furnished 6S per cent
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In the ninth session of Congress there
were nine Smiths among the member
ship, including five Senators. three OF
whom were named plain John Smith"
mad represented the States of New York,
Connecticut and Ohio. There was an
other John in the House at the same time
and two Samuel Smiths. one a Senator
from Maryland and the other a Repre-
sentative from Pennsylvania. Senator
Samuel Smith of Maryland holds the rec
ord of service for the family, having been
In Congress forty years in succession.
serving eight terms in the House and
four in the Senate, and finally dying in
1889, after six years as Mayor Of Bal
timore. He was in Congress from the
Third to the Twunty-secor5 session, in
elusive. The Smiths have also represent
cd twenty-three States and one territory
in legislative capacity. Maine Rhode
Island, Delaware, Mississippi and Flor
ida are the only States east of the Mis-
sissippi river which have not yet sent
Smith to Congress, Only last session
Michigan had three Smiths in the House.
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Rural free delivery carriers are to be
permitted 20 carry merchandise for hire
and receive subscriptions for and deliver
newspapers and magazines at the request
of patrons residing upon their respec-
tive routes whenever il does not inter
fere with the proper discharge of their
official duties. No carrier shall be per
mitted to refuse to deliver or take orders
or subscriptions for any merchandise,
newspaper or periodical requested by
any patron. This decision was reached
in the Senate the other afternoon. No
feature of the bill provoked more dis
cussion, and after ruling out on a point
of order the amendment offered by Sem
ator Quarles OF Minnesota for graded
salary Cor carriers of from 5000 to $500.
the committee amendment defining the
duties Of carriers was adopted without
opposition.
OF fourteen samples of drugs adver
| tised thirteen were found 10 be rank
frauds, and physicians often secure ef-
| fects exactly opposite those intended. de
cared Senator Hepburn in a speech i'd
vocating stringent pure food laws. He
said it was practice to keep meats in
| cold storage for two or three years, when
| il was known that after three months
they are absolutely deleterious. He spoke
in favor of a resolution which later was
adopted, requesting the Department OF
Agriculture to submit report of the
result of its investigation OF drugs, Mr..
Hepburn asserted that half the foods
sold are adulterated, and half of the re-
naming half mishranded,
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United States warships win protect
tile property of the Panama Railroad
/ from hostile acts of the strikers, and IL
the railroad management can secure
/ sufficient force to operate the line il viii
be upheld in such an attempt Secre-
/ tary Moody was charged with the duty
of carrying out the decision, and instruct
| ed Admrals Glass and Sigsbee as TO the
course which they shall pursue. No com
| puson will be used to compel the strik-
ers to return to work The canal com
mission has arrived at Colon and the
| commissioners established themselves in
| the DE Lesseps quarters.
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Texas is not only the greatest cotton
State in the country, but the greatest
cattle State as well. Its farmers own
more horses and more mules than there
are in any other State. and. exclusive
of swine sheep and mich cows. they
own more than twice as many other cat
tie as the farmers of any other State.
New York farmers own the most mich
cows: the greatest number Of sheep is
owned in Montana, and Iowa stands first
as a swine-raising State, according TO the
figures in the government crop report
for February.
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An April fool joke played on the High
lands apartment house, where Senator
Patterson of Colorado lives, netted AN
unknown swindler $62.50. A man who
represented himself 70 be Mr. Patter-
sons private secretary called tie High
lands up by phone and told the clerk
to pay for package that would be de-
livered by the Senator's tailor The
clerk paid SG2.50 on a bundle that when
opened by Mr.. Patterson was found TO
contain an old and ragged oyereoat
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The government supplies the White
House at the beginning Of each admins
tIation with set of ,nina. Before Lin
coins time the outgoing President used
TO take away with him what remained OF
Che set Since that period the various
sets have been left at the White House.
With these later specimens as a nucleus.
Mrs. Roosevelt purposes to assemble in
the executive mansion a collection which
shall include some Of the china used by
each presidential family.
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The Interior Department has decided
TO proceed with the erection of a gov
eminent cement plant in the vicinity OF
the Tonic basin, A. T., for furnishing
material for the big irrigation project
there. This decision 10 the result of the
rejection OF the bids submitted by cement
manufacturers.
Telegraphic Brevities.
One man was hilled and four injured
in a premature explosion st the mining
camp Of K. y. Price, near Middlesboro.
Ky