Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-09-22

nations at the end of each six months
to determine whether the men sent are
peculiarly fitted to master them.
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A report prepared by the Department
Of Commerce and Labor shows that the
total imports for the month of July
reached $S6414,639, against $124,621,-
1913 for the corresponding month of
1907, and for the seven months ending
with July, it showed $60S,S65, 794,
against $S75,901, 076 for the like period
of 1907. The exports for the same pc
riod showed a similar remarkable fall
ing off, the total for July, 1908, being
S102 1885, against $12S,549,535 in
July, 1907, and for the seven months
ending with July, $960,997 ,O39, as
against $1,O6S,999,907.
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Senator McCumber, of North Da-
kota, predicts that the extra session
of congress which is to be called after
the fourth of next March for the re-
vision of the tariff, will be of long
duration, and that it will witness many
stubborn contests over the various
schedules which it is proposed to
change Mr. McCumber said that the
West will demand that several articles
which are now on the protected list
shall be made free of duty, and he in
Guided lumber and coal as among those
on behalf of which a strong fight will
be made.
Orders have been issued by the War
Department directing Col. William F..
Stewart of the coast artillery, who sew
eral months ago was sent to the aban-
doned military post of Fort Grant,
Ariz., on account of "temperamental in
capacity" to proceed to Fort Huachuca,
Ariz, to take the riding test prescribed
for field officers. At the conclusion of
the test he is directed to return to
Fort Grant, Colo. Stewart is reported
pleased with the order.
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The outcome of the prolonged con-
sideratiOn of the appeal of the eight
West Point cadets expelled for brutal
bnZing is the announcement that upon
the recommendation of the President,
Secretary Wright had decided to let
the dismissal of two, ROssell and
Weaver, stand, but to suspend for one
year the other six who are younger.
The two who are expelled were men,
bers of the first class.
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The retirement of Rear Admiral Rob
ley d. Evans placed Rear Admiral Cas-
per Goodrich, commandant of the navy
yard at New York, at the head of the
active list of rear admirals of the navy.
Admiral Goodrich will be retired in
January next. The position of senior
reaG admiral will in no way be a ma
terial advantage to him.
The summary of reports of the con-
dition Of the national banks at the
close of business July 10, 1908, shows
the total of the item "bonds, securities,
etc." held by the banks to be $685.
ST5,220.
That there was a net increase of
100000 in the population of the coun-
try as the result of immigration for
June, is shown by the report of the de-
partment of commerce and labor.
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President Roosevelt has established
zone sixty feet wide along the Next
can border, the land of which is with
drawn from settlement. The purpose
of this action is to render it more diff
cult to smuggle Asiatics over the line
into California.
Secretary Straus has approved the
action of the immigration officials Of
Boston in the so-called Mormon cases,
wherein a number of immigrants were
held upon the allegation of entering
the country in violation Of law.
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Capt G. A. Merriam, q. S. N, COM
mandant of the Portsmouth navy yard,
died following an operation for appen-
dicitis. He was IS years old,
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Twelve non-commissioned officers
have just been commissioned as second
lieutenants in the army as the result
Of recent examinations.
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An ante-election warning against 20
litical assessments was issued TO em
ployes of the Treasury Department by
Acting Secretary Beckman Winthrop