Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-10-22

Of Frank p. Sargent, Commissioners
General of Immigration, will show
that the total number OF immigrants
admitted during the year ending Juns
80. 1907, was over 100000. or 2o0.-
600 In excess Of the number that came
during the preceding year Mr.. Sar-
| gent does not agree with some MEM
'sers Of the Congress immigration Com
mission that undesirable immigrants
come from particular localities, such
as Italy, Syria and Asia Minor. He
| says that our need of laborers necessi-
tates our taking such natiolalities as
come, and it is impossible TO exclude
all the Hunchakists and Black Hand
| people who come in with the others.
but we must have laws which will as
far as possible exclude such persons
rom the country. Regarding the d.
| weston of the tide OF immigration. Mr..
Sargent says that 1t is impossible to
divert the growing influx into such
place as New York in day or a year,
although gradually the tide is turning
to the South, the Southwest and the
Northwest, and it Is only a question OF
time when foreigners will learn that
they can do better in smaller places
than in the big cities.
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The postoffice profits slightly by the
destruction of stamps which have been
paid for, and the Treasury gets the
benefit Of bills which are lost and new
er found. A larger source of irregular
profit lies in the failure Of bondholderu
to present their bonds for redemption.
Unclaimed money in the Treasury due
to bondholders amounted to nearly .
million dollars in 1861, and the sum To
much greater now. OF loan which
fell due in 1900, the sum Of thirty-two
thousand dollars remains unclaimed.
Nearly a hundred thousand dollars are
still unpId of the five per cent bonds
which were due in 1904. This year over
hundred million thirty-year four per
cent bonds came due on July /. Spa-
cial inducements were offered to Sc
cure early redemption. Yet at the end
of the month thirteen million dollars
still stood in the Treasury on this ac-
count, although interest has ceased.
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| Railroads of the middle west are
charged with conspiring to ruin the
large creamery interests in seven states
and territories in a complaint filed be-
fore the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. 1t is held that business aggregat-
ing $14,ooO,0o0 annually, besides mil
lions worth Of equipment, will be ruin
ed because Of conspiracy The COM
plainants are dairy companies of Iowa,
Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Okla
homa, Wyoming, Kansas aud South Da-
kota, collectively producing 60,0OO,OOo
pounds of butter annually. The COM
plant charges that the railroads agreed
on an increase of rates for transport
ing cream amounting from GO to 40
per cent. The increase was announced
to go into effect Sept. /, but the cream.
cries were granted an injunction In the
federal circuit court until the commits
sion investigates the charges.
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The Navy Department is reported to
have made successful experiments at
Newport with the invention Of a
Frenchman designed to protect war
ships from submarine mines. The
mechanism depends upon magnetic pow
er, but its precise nature is kept se-
cret. Mines such as would be laid by
an enemy were blown up long before
the ship carrying the apparatus crossed
the explosive field.
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At last the order to test the horse
manship of all officers on duty at the
War Department has been issued. 1t
requires that these officers shall report
to board of surgeons before their ride
is undertaken, and II any are found
not fit they may be excused. The test
ride will be fifteen miles, the first FIVE
at walk, the second I'VE at a trot and
the finish at a gallop.
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Chief Chemist Wiley of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has organized q
new class of young men upon whom he
will experiment with the drinks usual
ly sold at soda fountains, this being
the result OF a request from the War
Department for information regarding
the different kinds of aerated drinks
sold at army canteens.
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Surgeon General Wyman of the Pub
lie Health Service, under instructions
from the President, is taking steps to
uncover alleged crookedness in several
large cities, where physicians are said
to be concealing the facts about cpl
denies caused by impure milk.
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The War Department has ordered tina
Twenty-fourth (colored) Infantry, now
on duty in the Philippines, to bs
brought home and stationed at Fort On
tario, Oswego, N. Y, and &C Madison
Barracks, near Watertown, N. Y.
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The Navy Department has received
bids from two concerns for the old
warshlp Saratoga, one Of Perry's IA
nous feet which visited Japan In 1854.
and which is now 10 Be consigned b
the junk heap.
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The Signal Corps Of the United
States army has organized balloon
corps Of nine men under Capt. Charles
De F. Chandler, who has been detail
Cd for some time on this work
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The State Department has concluded
modus yivendl between this country
and Great Britain which covers not
only this years fishing, but Is to CON
tinue until the questions in dispute ara
settled by The Hague tribunal or an
adjustment is otherwise reached. Prof.
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