Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-15

The statistics OF immigration into the
United States during the past eighty
FIVE years furnish a very interesting
study From 1921 to 1908, both inclu-
siye the total number of immigrants that
have come into the United States agSre-
gates 21,265, 723, equal to one-fourth Or
the present population of the country. IL
takes in almost every known nationality
Europe furnished 93 per cent, the west
ern hemisphere 4.5 per cent, and emma
and all other countries 2.5 per cent. VI
the total immigration into the United
States from 1921 to 1908, Germany and
the United Kingdom furnished o. per
cent, as follows: Germany, p per cent;
Ireland, 10 per cent, and England Scot
land aud Wales, 10 per cent. During
the same period Austria Hungary, Italy
and Russia and Poland furnished Il pee
cent, as follows: Austria-Hungary, per
cent; Italy, per cent, and Russia and
poland 6 per cent. OF the total immi-
grafton in 1903, Germany and the United
Kingdom furnished only II per cent,
while Austria Hungary, Italy, Russla
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 or
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 tile same time
and two Samuel Smiths, one Senator
from Maryland and the other Repre-
tentative 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
1880, after six years as Mayor OF Bar
timore He was in Congress from the
Third to the Twenty 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 to 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 it 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
F,>A - yAI Il
cussion, and after ruling out on n point
Of order tho amendment offered by SEN
ator Quarles Of Minnesota for graded
salary for carriers of from 5000 to $500,
tho committee amendment defining the
duties Of carriers was adopted without
opposition.
or fourteen samples Of drugs adver-
tised thirteen were found to be rank
frauds, and physicians often secure eff
fects exactly opposite those intended, de-
clared Senator Hepburn in speech nd
vocating stringent pure food laws. He
said it was n practice to keep meats in
cold storage for two or three years, when
1t was known that after three months
they are absolutely deleterious. He spoke
In favor of resolution, which later was
adopted, requesting the Department of
Agriculture to submit q 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 misbranded.
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United States warships will protect
the property of the Panama Railroad
from hostile acts OF the strikers, and If
the railroad management can secure
sufficient force to operate the line it will
DO upheld in such an attempt. Secre-
tary Moody was charged with the duty
of carrying out the decision and instruct
ed Admirals Glass and Sigsbee as to the
course which they shall pursue. No COM
pulSion will be used to compel the strik-
ers to return to work The canal COM
mission has arrived ut Colon and the
commissioners established themselves in
the De Lesseps quarters.
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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 $3.50. A man~who
represented himself to be Mr.. patter-
sons private secretary called the 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 $62.50 on bundle that when
opened by Mr.. Patterson was found to
contain an old and ragged oycrcoat
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The government supplies the White
House at the beginning of each admins
Hation with set Of china Before Lin
coins time the outgoing President used
20 take away with him what remained of
the set. Since that period the various
sets have been left at the White House.
With these later specimens as q nucleus,
Mrs. Roosevelt purposes 10 assemble in
the executive mansion collection which
shall include some Of the china used by
each presidential family.
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