Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-09-06

wireless telegraph stations to provide
communicates between Key West and
Panama, Porto Rico and Key West,
the southern coast OF Cube and Pan
anna, Pensacola and Key West, and
southern Cuba and Porto Rico The
shortest distance is four hundred aud
nifty miles from Pensacola to Key
West. and it is a thousand miles from
Key West 10 Porto Rice and to Pan
anna. 1t will soon be possible to COM
municate with Alaska by the wireless
system; and, when the stations are es-
tablished on the Aieutlan Islands and
in Kamchatka, it will be easy to talk
with Japan. Great progress has been
made in the perfection of this new sys-
tenn within the past year or SO. The
| steamer Campania. on its voyage TO
this country early in June. on one day
received messages from Poldhu in
Wales. Cape Breton in Canada aud
Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
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The government has failed to pre-
vent the immigration of the undesir-
ables from Europe with all the re
strictions in force TO keep them out.
In consequence there are 10000 insane
and criminal persons in our prisons
who are supported by our taxpayers.
/ The insane are three-fourths of the
/ whole OF the $4,000 mentally affiict-
ed by far the largest portion are from
Ireland, although the proportion of
| criminal Irish is very small. or the
! 5000 in prisons and reformatories a
! large proportion comes from Italy. The
1 startling fact has been developed that
no less than 80 per cent of all the muir
derers now confined in jails and pris.
| ons in New York State are Italians.
| Most of the Italians who reach this
| country stop in New York City or the
| immediate neighborhood. In Pennsyi.
| vania, where the proportion of Italians
received is not so large, 1t was found
that Italians constituted 80 per cent OF
the murderers awaiting trial or under
sentences OF death or Imprisonment
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Records of the public land office for
the fiscal year ended June so, 1904
show that 16.25S, S92 acres Of public
lands were disposed of during the year,
as compared with 22,650,92S acres last
| year. The total cash received for these
lands was IS, 795, 1893, as compared with
| $10,55T, 61S last year. The number OF
entries was 172,S57. These figures in.
dicate, according TO officials Of the land
office, that the public land boom of last
! year is subsiding somewhat Last year
was the record year for twenty years
and the present is next highest in the
number OF acres disposed OF by the
! government. Lands were taken up in
| twenty-four States and four Terrific.
ries. North Dakota led in the number
/ of acres and Oregon In the amount OF
cash received. In North Dakota ], 1885,.
| 551 acres were disposed Of, the money
received for the same being 81, 234,21S.
! In Oregon 1,170,655 acres were taken
up and $1,442,576 received for the
same.
Just now there is considerable agita,
ton among professional guides in
Washington on account of the spread
OF the seeing Washington" idea in
street cars and automobiles. These
gentry formerly had a good thing OF
| it with tourists, whom they would take
| in hand when they first reached town
and conduct them all around and
| through the various government build
| ings and to see the other sights. A
few years ago some Of the depart
ments shut down on the professional.
| guides The treasury forbade them TO
steer parties through It's buildings. The
| National Museum and other places fol-
| lowed suit When they take parties
to any of these buildings the guides
have to wait at the entrance while the
visitors find their way around as best
| they can or secure the services of a
| government messenger. There are gov
! eminent guides in the treasury, capt.
tol, bureau of engraving and printing
and other buildings.
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The annual report Of the Pension
Commissioner for the year ending June
80. 1904. shows that 47,374 persons
were added to the rolls and 40, 157
dropped, a net decrease for the first
| time in the history of the department.
The appropriation for the year was
STAG, AIS, 296 and the expenditures only
S144712,7S7, leaving a balance Of ST.
706, sos. or the 47,374 persons added
to the pension rolls 326 were by spe-
cial act of Congress. and of the 40, 1877
pensioners who were dropped death
claimed 1880, Of whom 31.72S were
soldiers, 30,071 being volunteers of the
civil war. The total number of pen
sioners on the rolls as covered by the
report is 720315 soldiers. 3,s4i wild
ows and dependents, and COG army
nurses.
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That sudden cabinet changes are
sometimes confusing TO United States
officials in other parts OF the world is
shown by 4 message received recently
at the Navy Department from Admiral
Stirling, in command of the Asiatic
squadron. 1t read: instructions re-
celyed. will be carried out Who is
Norton" The admiral had not been
informed of the appointment Of Paul
Morton, OF Chicago. as Secretary OF
the Navy.
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Minister Conger has cabled the de
partment that The Chinese government
has ordered the punishment Of the
officer and soldiers OF the detachment
that fired Upon and killed Louis Etzel,
the newspaper correspondent. 1t VIII
also pcy an indemnity of $4,000.
which will be turned over to the
widowed mother OF Etzel in Denver
and TO other members Of his family
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The stoTehouse In Washington where
the Department OF Agriculture keeps
its stock OF seeds for free distribution