The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-09-19

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SeCIeldry WILSON HAS maze u COLlpu"
tation showing that it would require
an investment of $780, 0O, 900 at two
per cent to reproduce revenues enough
to run the Department Of Agriculture
for one year. This is an illustration,
he said, of what is being done for the
farmer. The income to the department
from all sources, including the direct
appropriations, revenues from forest
reserves, and the allowance for public
printing is a little more than $11,O00,-
600 q year. When the new meat in
spection law, the work Of exterminat-
ing the cattle fever, tick, and the
gypsy and brown-tailed moth, and the
irrigation of dry land farming have
been put in operation, the department
will have q pay roll of over 5000 per-
sons. About half Of these are scien-
fists, trained along special lines. The
average salary is less than 5000 a year.
Over 100000 pieces Of literature are
circulated each year, and this amount
will be greatly increased as new lines
of investigation are begun. One Of the
new lines provided for this year is
grain inspection, and this promises to
be one of the largest fields Of scien'
tifc labor.
The census burea will soon begin
collection of marriage and divorce sta
tistics under the census authorized by
Congress. A few special agents will
go into the field at once to confer with
county authorities and others as to
scope of the information available.
Over 200 clerks will be sent out to
gather statistics on marriage and di-
vOrce from the records of counties,
State courts and like available sources
Of information. 1t is the intention to
gather data in large centers like New
York and Chicago this summer, and
later to obtain it in the rural districts.
The census will cover the last twenty
years. President Roosevelt is deeply
interested in it. Uniform divorce legis-
latiOn in the States is expected to grow
out Of it.
! Nowhere in the world are bank de-
posts increasing in a greater ratio than
in the United States. The French, just
ly famed for their economy and saving
proclivities, are easily outclassed by
the Americans, reputed spendthrifts
and the most eXtravagant people on
earth. Official figures just at hand
show that in France from 1885 to 1909
bank deposits increased from $1S2,OOO,-
600 to $4,000 ,0OO, or 21S per cent. In
the United States during the same
years the deposits increased from ST.
24S, 600 900 to 81, 100000 or 271 per
cent. This great increase is properly
c%hargeable to the prosperity enjoyed in
the United States rather than to a
healthy growth of the habit of economy.
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Hereafter every man in the military
service of the United States will have
his thumb print taken and filed with
the records of his enlistment, so that
there may be no mistake in his denti-
fication whether dead or alive. The
impression of different fingers will also
be taken, so that the loss Of a thumb
would not shut off means Of identihca-
ton. This system has been adopted on
recommendation Of a board appointed
by Acting Secretary Ainsworth. The
board found that the chances Of finger
prints Of two persons being alike was
one in "a, 900, OOO, 900. The system will
also be employed for the detection OF
deserters and to prevent fraudulent In
d~orSements.
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The Postmaster General has issued a
fraud order against the Vineless Pota-
to Company of Chicago, which has been
advertising a substance at $3.50 per
bottle known as potatine, which was
guaranteed to produce as many pota-
toes in a bin Of sawdust, without vines
or foliage, as could be grown on an acre
Of ground, within a period of sixty
days.
A statement made by the Secretary
Of the Interior showing the allotment
Of funds under the provisions Of the
national irrigation act, says that the
sum Of SAL, 100000 derivable from the
sale of public lands is available for
this purpose. Work will be continued
or begun in fifteen western States.
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A force Of fifteen special agents Of
the Interior Department which had
been furloughed for several months on
account of lack Of funds, resumed ag-
| gressive investigation Of land frauds in
the Western and Southern States under
the appropriation which became effec.
tive July /.