Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-11-22

be conducted as if it were independent
of the United States, although in point
OF fact it will be directed by the Blu
reau of Insular Affairs of the War De-
partment. When Governor MagOOn
wishes to communicate with the bureau
he will send his message to the Cuban
Secretary of State, who in turn will
forward it to the Cuban minister in
The Cuban mini5;er will
hand it over to the American Secretary
of State, and he in turn will deliver
it to the Secretary of War. Finally,
the chief of the Bureau of Insular
Affairs will receive the document, reply
to it and place it on file, properly mark
ed. This roundabout process is adopt
ed to keep the record straight, but
there is a more direct method of COM
munication in use, so that the Bureau
knows what the message contains, and
has an answer prepared before the
formal document reaches it by way
of robin Hoods barn."
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Plans for the proposed giant battle
ship have been submitted to the secre-
tary of the navy by constructors who
have availed themselves of the oppor-
tunity to compete for the floating for
tress. Very little is known of any
plans for the gigantic ship, which, it
is assumed. will have displacement OF
at least 10000 tons. All plans are to
be submitted to Congress, which is TO
pass on the navy departments action.
marked every part of the
bill relating to the new
warship, which is described by the bill
as "a first-claSs battle ship, carrying
as heavy armor and as powerful arma-
ment as any known vessel of its class,
to have the highest practicable speed
and greatest practicable radius of ac-
ton and to cost, exclusive of armament
and armor, not exceeding $G,000,Oo0."
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It seems strange. and not altogether
pleasing, that the United States govern
ment, as represented in the Navy De
partment, should be obliged to go into
the show bushes to encourage enlist
ments. The latest AID most successful
scheme is the moving picture machine
which shows the life of the bluejacket
on shipboard, and some of it on land
The advertising value of the plan lies
in the readiness and completeness by
which it enables the recruiting officers
to give applicants or possible applicants
an accurate idea of their duties and
pleasures. 1t is especially eflicacious
in the West, where less is known about
life at sea. A recruiting party in Ne
braska lately displayed the moving pic
lures to a crowd of fifteen thousand
people.
Plans have now been submitted by
the bureau of construction of the navy
which, if approved, will
give the United States the most power
full battle ship in the world. One plan
a 20,000-ton ship, and the
other 25,000-ton vessel If either
plan is adopted, battery of 10 or IL
inch ms will be so arranged on CEN
ter line as to give a broadside of all
the guns.
Attorney General Moody has in
structed District Attorney Devlin to
dents of San Francisco in bringing in
junction proceedings in the Circuit
Court to compel the board of education
to allow japanese subjects to attend
any school in the city. President All
man insists that he will obey the State
laws, which require separate schools
for the orientals.
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Proposals have been submitted to the
Postmaster General by the American
Bank Note Company of New York for
stamps and stamp books for
the next four years at 5-10O0ths dollars
per thousand, whereas the Bureau Of
and Printing, operated by
the Government, bid 57-1000ths dollars
per thousand. For special delivery
stamps the company asked 10 cents and
the bureal 1876 cents.
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For the year 1906, according to the
report Of Auditor Layton of the State
receipts from the consular
service have exceeded expenditures
SO, I'D. This is the first time in six
teen years that this service has been on
4 self-suppOrting basis. Under the new
law consuls receive more pay, but are
required to turn all fees into the treas
Try.
In the postoffice department building
1t Washington the largest American
lag in the world has just been unfurl-
I'd. When it was suspended from ca
Die at the seventh floor across the in
Ter courts $500 employees Joined in
singing, 1.-The Star Spangled Banner"
The flag is 80 feet long by 80 feet
vide.
The State Department announced
that James l.. Gerry, chief Of the GUS
toms division of the Treasury Depart
ment, and n. J. Stone, tariff experts
Of the Department of Commerce and
Labor, will accompany Census Direc-
tor North to Berlin to confer with Ger
man tariff experts regarding changes
i'm our customs administration. The
object is to ascertain what it is that
the German manufacturers expect Of
rs in the way of concessions under
their new tariff system.
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The President has detailed Mrs. J.
Ellen Foster, the noted woman lawyer
and reformer in the Department OF
Justice, to investigate the condition of
women and children workers through
put the country, on which subject leg
Islation is now pending for Congress.
Last year Mrs. Foster made a special
report on the condition Of women and
children in the Philippines and only
recently she returned from a trip
around the world, during which she
studied the woman and child problem