Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-04-23

has been learned OF the relation OF MIX
to public health, it can be found in the
report on the subject which Surgeon
General Wyman has lately made TO the
Secretary of the Treasury. In passing,
it may be remarked that il seems
strange for health officer to be a sub
ordinate of the chief financial officer
Of the government, and have to make
reports to him. The surgeon-generals
investigation was made at the direction
of the President, who wished to direct
attention to the need of protecting the
milk supply of the cities from contamin-
alton, and to the Importance of so treat
ing the milk given to young children
that their lives might not be put in
danger. The report, of course, recon-
mends Pasteurization, that is, raising
the milk to a temperature of one hun
ored and forty degrees, and keeping it
there for twenty minutes. This kills
the common disease germs without in
juring the milk tuberculosis, typhoid,
scarlet fever and diphtheria are COM
municated by milk, to say nothing Of
the infantiie bowel troubles. Seventy
two cases of diphtheria We're traced
cooler was washed by person attend
ing a diphtheritic patient. He did not
mean to give the disease to others, nor
does any milk-producer deliberately
neglect the proper precautions against
contaminated milk. He usually sins
through ignorance, but the time is rap
idly passing when such ignorance can
be excused.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has issued a special report made in con-
nection with the preparation of uni
form system of accounting for all inter
roads have been interviewer into vast
systems of stock control, and makes
possible uniform balance sheet For
the first time it gives official statistics
Of the amount of stock in the hands of
the general public. Out of about S1S.-
000,0OO,0OO of outstanding railroad Sc
curities, S5,5OO,OOO,OOO is held by the
corporations, leaving in the hands Of
the public $7,S00,O00,0O0 of funded debt
and S4,700,0OO,000 of stocks.
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In order to make room on the flag
for the forty-siXth star, which must
sIi 10 ,.fh Of T,rly
rows will be entirely rearranged.
There will be six rows, four containing
eight stars each and two containing
seven. This leaves two vacant spaces
flag involves an expense of many thou
sands Of dollars. The army will need
about thirty-five hundred new flags, and
the Treasury Department will have TO
federal buildings throughout the United
States.
An Indian fight took place on the
other day. OF course neither Indian
lost his scalp. Senator Curtis of Kan
sas and Owen of Oklahoma, both of
whom had Indian ancestors, disagreed
over the propriety of designating Mr.
Owen as a ward of the government -
The necessity of treating the Indians
as national wards is disappearing rap
idly, and the controversy between
Cherokee and Kaw on the floor of the
Senate is a picturesque reminder Of
what is taking place.
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The President in a letter TO the At
torney General has directed proceed
ings by injunction to compel certain
railroads of the South, where Jim
Crow cars are operated. to furnish
equal accommodations to white and
coIored passengers, as ordered by the
Interstate Commerce Commission. He
refers particularly to the case of the
Nashville, Chattanooga and st. Louis
Railway, which has not complied with
the order.
In recognition of the growing intima-
cy between the regular army and the
national militia, Acting Secretary of
War Oliver has issued an order Gre
ating a new division in the War De
partment, to be known as the division
of militia affairs. Col. E. H. Weaver.
of the coast actillery, has been named
as chief. 1t will supervise and partic-
pate in national guard affairs.
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Representative Scott of Kansas,
chairman of the House Committee Oh
Agriculture, proposes the establishment
of 100 experimental farms of one acre
each in every county in a group of four
Western agricultural States for the
purpose OF giving the farmers a prac-
teal demonstration of the best meth
ods of growing different kinds of crops.
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The Signal Office of the War Depart
ment has received ten bids for the CON
struction of a dirigible balloon, the
bids running from $4,000 to So. 900.
The specifications cover the construc-
ton of a balloon to carry a combined
weight of $50 pounds and at least 100
pounds of ballast, and to have a speed
of twenty miles per hour in still air.
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The United States Patent Office re.
ports that in the last year there has
been an increase of 100 per cent in the
number Of applications for aeronauti-
cal patents, the majority of ideas deal
ing with a combination of the aero
plane and the dirigible balloon.
The Marine Hospital Service, in or
dering the yellow fever quarantine
against Cuba, has excepted the Ha-
yana district, this exception being
made upon the assurance of Governor
Magoon that Havana is now clean
city.
The House, by a vote of $50 to 5.
no In fa,- %ho