Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1907-10-17
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| admltled during the year ending June
| 80, 1907, was over 100000. or 2OO,-
| 600 in excess of the number that came
| during the preceding year Mr.. Sar-
! gent does not agree with some mem
/ bers 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 nationalities as
! come. and it is impossible to exclude
( al. 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 di-
version Of the tide of immigration. Mr.
/ Sargent says that it is impossible to
divert the growing influx into such a
place as New York in a day or a year
although gradually the tide is turning
to the South, the Southwest and the
Northwest, and it is only 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 bondholders
to present their bonds for REDEMPTION.
Unclaimed money in the Treasury due
to bondholders amounted to nearly a
million dollars in 1861, and the sum is
much greater now. OF a loan which
fell due in 1900, the sum of thirty-two
| thousand dollars remains unclaimed.
Nearly hundred thousand dollars are
still unpaid of the five per cent bonds
which were due in 1904. This year over
a hundred million thirty-year four per
cent bonds came due on July /. Spe-
clal 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 &C.
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,O00,0O0 annually, besides mil
lions worth of equipment, will be ruin
n1 Of
plainants are dairy companies of Iowa,
Nebraska, Missouri, Colorado, Okla
homa, Wyoming, Kansas and South Da-
kota, collectively producing 100000
pounds of butter annually. The COM
plant charges that the railroads agreed
on an increase of rates for transport
ing cream amounting from &C to 40
per cent. The increase was announced
to go into effect Sept. 1, 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
Frenchman designed to protect war
ships from submarine mines The
mechanism depends upon magnetic pow
er, but its precise nature is kept Sc
cret. Mines such as would be laid by
an enemy were blown up long before
the ship carrying the apparatus crossed
the explosive field.
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 if any are found
not fit they may be excused. The test
ride will be fifteen miles, the first five
at a walk, the second five at trot and
the finish at a gallop.
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Chief Chemist Wiley of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has organized
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 the
Twenty-fourth (colored) Infantry, now
on duty in the Philippines. to be
brought home and stationed at Fort On
tario, Oswego, n Y, and at Madison
Barracks, near WATERFOWL, n. Y.
The Navy Department has received
bids from two concerns for the old
warship Saratoga, one of Perry's IA
NOUS feet which visited Japan in 1854,
and which is now 10 be consigned to
the junk heap.
The Signal Corps of the United
States army has organized a balloon
corps of nine men under Capt. Charles
De F. Chandler, who has been detail
ed for some time on this work.
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The State Department has concluded
a modus vivendi between this country
and Great Britain which covers not
only this years fishing, but is to con-
tinue until the questions in dispute are
settled by The Hague tribunal or an
adjustment is otherwise reached. Prof.
Alexander of the Fish Commission has
gone to Newfoundland to observe meth
DDS during the fishing season and to
have conferences with Premier Bond.
Canada has now consented to refer all