Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-01-29
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oklahema's star will be added to the
nag on July 4 next year If the formal
admission of the State to the Union
takes place before that time. The War
and Navy Departments have agreed
upon the arrangement of the forty-six
stars, to accommodate the new one
and to make it easy to add two moro
when New Mexico and Arizona are ad-
mftted. The plan provides for four
rows of eight stars each, and two rows
of seven stars each. The rows Of seven
are the second and fifth. The rows of
when the other territories are admit
ted. and the arrangement will then be
absolutely regular.
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Brigadier General Arthur Murray,
chief of artillery. in his annual report,
says that both the coast and field ar
tillery are deficient in both personnel
and material, and that neither is even
in approximately proper condition for
instruction in time of peace. much less
in condition for efficient service in
time of war. He also says that ii will
take years to put either in good condi-
ton. He estimates that the proper
defense of inSular ports will cost S19,-
of3,S9J, and that the cost of proper
defense at the entrances of the Panama
Canal will cost 81, S27, $50.
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About 100 tons of paid money orders
are annually filed in the Office of the
auditor of the Postoffice Department,
requiring more than 5000 feet of shelly
ing to file them accessihly. The law re-
quires these orders to be kept seven
years, but the tremendous accumulation
is expensive in rent for the necessary
storage room, and the Secretary of the
Treasury and the Postmaster General
have united in a request to Congress
for authorization to destroy the files
after five years The number of money
orders have increased about So per cent
in the last six years.
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Secretary of the Interior Hitchcock
has finally refused to rescind the order
withdrawing Indian lands from entry
for forest reserve purposes, as request
ed by a committee of senator's The
senators are exceedingly angry over
this refusal, as they regard the order
as amounting to a suspension of the
federal statute. Secretary Hitchcock
says that his action has been sustained
by the Department of Justice and that
it will stand unless modified by Con
gress.
Before the end of the present year,
it is expected that all of the negro
troops will be serving in the Philip
pines, as an order by the Secretary OF
War directs that the Twenty-fifth In
fantry and the Ninth and Tenth Caval-
ry, which are the only three negro
regiments now in this country, shall
proceed to the Philippines during 1907.
This is in pursuance Of the recommen-
uatlon from General WOOD.
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Mr.. William H. Moody is not the
first Attorney General to be promoted
to the Supreme Court Andrew Jack
son made Roger B. fancy Chief JUS
tice, and William Mckinley put Joseph
McEcHna on the bench Mr. Moody is
peculiar however, in that he is one of
the few bachelors to sit on the bench
of the highest court, if not the only
one.
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More than eleven and hall million
pieces of mail found their way into the
Dead Letter Office last year, and, as a
further mark of our national careless
hess they contained money, checks,
money orders, drafts and other forms
Of exchange to the value of nearly 81,
100000. A large proportion of both
mail and money Is eventually restored
to the senders.
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The pay OF the army has not been
changed in thirty years. while the cost
of living has almost doubled in that
tiine. The Capron bill, which is now
before Congress, and which is backed
by the War Department, grants an in
crease of 20 per cent all along the line.
1t includes the navy, marine corps, and
revenue marine service.
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Four warships now attached to the
Atlantic squadron, including the battle
ships Kentucky and Kearsarge, are to
be sent to join the Pacific squadron.
These, with the commissioning of otl.a
vessels, will double the strength of tbs
Pacific fleet Thus is changed the poll
cy of keeping all the larger warships
on the Atlantic.
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Officers of the geological survey have
lately announced that the coal deposits
in America will not be exhausted for
fouy or five thousand years. Since 1915
the country has produced more than
five billion tons of coal whereas its
total production up TO that date was
only seven hundred million tons
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The Internal Revenue Commissioner
is overwhelmed with letters from farm
ers asking whether the manufacture of
denatured alcohol on a small scale is
profitable. 1t has been necessary to
print circular explaining that the
Of alcohol requires expen-
sive machinery, that separate bonded
warehouse will be required at each fac
tory, and therefore only those who have
a considerable capital will find it profit
able to 90 into the business.
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President Roosevelt has become
member of the simplifed spelling
board, and viii continue 10 use the
"a.