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HISS ALICHO WED.
COXGRESSUAX XICHOLAS lOSG.
IYORTU, OF OHIO, TUB MOST
FORTVXATS OF HEX,
A Crand White House Wedding In Mid-fcbruary-Culmlnatlon
of Komanc
Believed to lla ve Occurred on Ocean
Voyage.
There Is to be another wedding In the
White House, aud society at the capi
tal is already look Inn forward to what
undoubtedly will be the roost brilliant
vent la the history of the mansion,
It li Junt about two years el ore Rep
resentative Nicholas Long-worth, of
Cincinnati, began to lar aiuse to the
heart of the charming daughter of the
President, and bis attack has been un
remitting. Now he has caotured the
heart of Miss Alice, and will lead bor
to the altar la mid-February.
Several times during the last year
Mr. Longworth'f engagement to Mlsa
Roosevelt was rumored, but it was
never confirmed, and the social world
began to conclude that a warm friend
ship was about all that existed between
them.
Chance of a Lifetime.
It was when Miss Roosevelt deter
mined to accompany Secretary Taft's
party to the Orient that Mr. Ixmgworth
apparently saw bis crowning opnortu
ntty, and be forthwith became one of
the. party. .Throughout the Juunt bis
attentions to the daughter of the Pres
ident were more marked than ever be
fore, for la bis wooing he bad the ad
vantcgo of being the only courtier la
me noicj.
Though his friends now say that
mey nad observed the glint of a clorl
ous victory la his eyes when he re
turned from the long voyage, he never
confided bis triumph to a soul, and the
nrst information of the engagmnnt
did not reach society until Mrs. Roose
velt told It to a few personal friends In
the White House. Then, of oourse, so
ciety soon heard of It.
Tour Europe.
It is expected that after their mar
rlage the distinguished couple will take
a leisurely trip throughout Europo.
They will, of course, be certain of a
splendid reception everywhere, ese
dally la all the capital of the Old
World.
Miss Roosevelt has never been In
Europe, although sho has hnd several
opportunities and invitations, notably
when cite was Invited .by Mrs. White-
law Hold when Mr. Reld went to Eng
land as siwlal ambassador at the cor
onation of King Edward.
la Paris, too, the Longwortha are
certain of lavish entertainment as Mr.
Longworth's sister, the Viscountess de
Charabrun. lives there.
Miss Roosevelt, who Is the only child
of the President's first marriage, will
be twenty-two years old In February.
and Is named for her mother, Alice
Lee, or Boston, to whom the President
became engaged In his college days at
Harvard, and whom be married In
1883.
On the death of her mother, one year
after the latter marrlago, Miss Rooso-
HON, NICHOLAS LOSawORTIL
velt became the charge of ber aunt,
Mrs. William S. Cowles, who was then
Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to the pres
ent day Is as much the child of Mrs.
Cowles' affection as though she were
her daughter Instead of ber niece.
Her Debut In Washington.
Miss Roosevelt made her debut at a
ball given In the great East Room
early In January, 1902, since which
date she has enjoyed a succession of
attentions never before offered any
American girl.
At the World's Fair In St. Louis,
when she was the guest of Miss Catlln,
Miss Roosevelt was admired by thou
sands who saw her, and was voted a
true type of the American girl. Thou
sands followed her wherever she went,
but her demeanor did not lndlcate'that
she was any more than a plain Amer
ican. Her sweet smile completely cap
tivated the throng, and in 8t. Louis or
the West the President's daughter will
always be welcome.
Mr. Longworth Is the only son of the
late Nicholas Longworth, one of tho
great millionaires of the West His
mother Inherited all of the estate of bis
father. : . r
Wholesome Sort of a Man.
The future son-in-law of the Presi
dent is an enthusiastic lover of outdoor
sports, as his splendid physical devel
opment plainly indicates. He la an ex
pert on the golf links, a cross-country
rider, a good marksman with shotgun
and rifle, and a veteran fisherman. At
Harvard he was a member of the
'varsity rowing crew, and for three
years subsequently, rowed la the claBS
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rrew. He also was a member of the
freshman class of the football team,
and actively participated In the pro
motion of college athletics.
Upon the completion of bis course
at Harvard. Mr. Longworth studied
law In the Cincinnati Law School, and
was admitted to the bar la 1834. lit
served as a member of the school board
of his home city until elected to the
Ohio House of Representatives In 18U9,
by the Incredibly small majority of
4. being the only Republican elected
that year. Subsequently be served In
the Slate Senate until elected to the
Klfty-elghth Congress, and was re
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turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by
an overwhelming majority. There Is
a great light in "Nick" Longworth's
eyes these days.
What Became of the Change,
Con. ChnfiVo was onoo asked by a
soldier to lend him a quarter.
"Dldn t you receive your month s
pay yesterdnyr asked the General.
"leu," said the veteran.
"Where's your money now?"
"Why I left thc.H)st and crossed the
ferry with $15.50. I met a friend, and
wo bad dinner. The bill was 1 8.00.
Then I bought $1.00 worth of clears;
then we went to the theatre for $4.00.
After theatre we went down to the
Rowery and I spent $2.00 there."
"That makes $15.00," said the Gen
eral. "What became of tho other
fifty cents?"
The old soldier seemed puzzled, and
finally snld:
"Why, 1 must have spent that fool
ishly."
Eusy When You Know How,
A farmer left to bis eldest son one-
half of his seventeen horses, to bis
second son one-third and to bis third
son oue-nlntli. The executor did not
know what to do as seventeen will not
divide evenly by neither two, three or
nine. In the afternoon a neighbor
drove over and learning of the dlulcul
ty said, "Take my horse and you will
then have eighteen." The eiecutor
then gave ne-linlf, or nine, to the
eldest son; one-third or six, to the
second son; and one-ninth, or two, to
the youngest and the neighbor took his
horse home and ever after called him
Troblem" In tho morning and "Solu
tion" In the afternoon.
Peace Xovr Reigns,
After warrlrics for more than a hun
dred years, In which time thousands
of lives have been sacrificed and the
greater portion of the Washoe and
Piute Indian tribes wiped out, peace
has been declared between those tribes.
This arrangement was -brought about
by Capt. Pete, head chief of the Washoe
tribe, and Capt. Dave, head chief of the
riute tribe. They met in Reno, Nevada,
and through Johnny Kay, Capt. Dave's
lieutenant tre two old warriors sbok
hands and for an hour or more over
the pipe of peace discussed the plans
that led to the ending of hostilities.
Now they are.-plannlng a big peace
dance. It will take place at Sparks,
and for six days both tribes will join
n celebrating the big event The Plutes
once constituted one of the largest
tribes in the Northwest and the Washoe
tribe was a close second.
The forestry station at Dodge City,
Kansas, Is giving away trees at the
rate of 600,000 a year. Since the in
auguration of tree planting ,on an ex
tensive scale there have been remark
able changes In the climatic condi
tions of Kansas.
SENATOR'S DEATH IGNORED.
EXTIREL T 0 YERL OOKED AT CAP.
ITOL, WHERE UB HAD SERVED
ilAXY TEARS,
Due to Conviction for Defrauding Gov
ernment of LandsBoth Oregon
Congressmen Air Under Indict
mentor Conviction.
All precedent was Ignored by the
United States Senate In the case of
the death of the late Senator Joha IL
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ROOSEVELT.
Mitchell, of Oregon. Tet there Is no
body of men on earth which Is a great
er stickler for ceremony governed by
precedent .than is the United States
Senate, But the Mitchell case pre
sented a unique situation. The official
recognition 0f the death of a Senator
Is always a solemn and affecting pro
ceeding, but even the usual funeral
rites were omitted In this Instance.
The Oregon Senator had been convict
ed of a grave crime against the gov
ernment. Excepting Senator Burton,
of Kansas, no other members of the
Senate has ever had to face a criminal
court trial. The Senate has expelled
members and has often exercised Its
constitutional prerogative of unseating
a Senator, but with the two exceptions
above stated, it has never been con
fronted with such a situation as was
forced upon the public attention by
Senators from Oregon and Kansas.
The Vice-President, who la the
President of the Senate, did not ap
point the usual committee to attend
the - funeral held in Portland, Ore.
Senator Fulton, the sole representative
of Oregon left in Congress, had Intend
ed presenting a brief resolution, re
citing the death of his colleague, and
asking that the Senate, adjourn as a
mark of respect but even this was not
done. Not even was the desk which
the late Senator occupied veiled In the
heavy mourning drapery as Is the cus
tom. In a word, the Senate, In Bad
ness, passed over the death of Its for
mer Senator as quietly and unostenta
tiously as possible. There have been
no eulogies. His successor, appoint
ed by Governor Chamberlain, a Dem
ocrat comes to Washington from the
fnr Pacific slope and the sovereign
State of Oregon'Wlll again have Its
full representation In the Senate.
x Seats Vacai.t In the House.
Oregon's representation in the
House will remain vacant until the
courts have finally passed upon the
indictments and trials of the State's
two Representatives, Messrs. Blnger
Hermann and John Newton William
son. Mr. Williamson already has been
convicted by a Federal Court of of
fenses similar to those for which Sen
ator Mitchell was made to suffer, and
is now awaiting the outcome of the
appeal of hla case, as was Senator
Mitchell when death gratefully re
lieved him of further humiliation and
woe. ,
Mr. Hermann is yet to be tried. It
thus happens that there was no one
in the House from Oregon to make for.
mal announcement to that body of the
death of Senator Mitchell, so that no
official attention was paid the Incident
There is so little that can be said
of the strange, tragic, pitiful case of
Senator Mitchell that the men of the
Senate who knew him best who liked
him best, who had served In that great
forum with him longest,' and wbo'are
most grieved at the sad ending of his
career, have been disinclined to speak
of him at all.
"He is dead," said one Senator, "and
that ends all. If he were the man I
always thought he was until the ex
posure of bis wrongdoing was made,
then be must bave welcomed death as
a happy Untie out of all his trouble,
lie was an old man. He bad Bounded
the depths and shallows of life, IU
had run the gamut of human emotions.
He bad felt the glorious thrills of tri
umph and the pangs of disappointed
ambition. He had associated, the
world around, with the men who give
impetus and tongue to the uplifting
thoughts of mankind that are hurry
ing us on to a civilization that im
eventually realize the poet's dream of
miopia.
"What he must have suffered In his
last days what devils neonled ho
brain, what repinings of what might
have been must hava 1enreao1 hla
oul who can imagine these, let alone
tell about them? Kannlenn frottin
out his proud life on St Helena never
was as unbappy as John 1L Mitchell
must bave been while suffering
the stings of humiliation after f-xno.
ure and conviction came with a
suddenness that carried him to the
depths of df snalr. He told more thn
one Senator who had seen him since
his trouble that he would never go to
Jail.-
Had there been attemnt to crmsMpr
resolutions of resDect for tha mpmnrv
of Senator Mitchell it Is likely that
mere woum have been objection.
There Is a precedent for such action,
for when Senator Broderick, of Call
fornla, was killed in a duel with Judge
lerry, 01 mai stare, resolutions xiT re
ipect were offered in the Senate. They
were on nosed hr Rntlnr STwIpf nf
Connecticut and the resolutions were
reierrea 10 a committee ana sever
were heard from afterward.
GHOST POIXTS WA T Ta.GOLD.
Miner's Story of Discovery of Rich
Mineral Deposit In Unexplored!
Canyon.
Bringing a large bottle filled with
almost )ure gold, taken from a lode
long hHrfen In mountain fastnesses,
not a fTeat distance from Seattle. W.
E. Bartlett and M. C. Black, both well
known local business men, are reported
back -Iter a perilous trip to the Cas
cades. Theirs, however, was labor richly
rewarded, though the story Is so In
terwoven with spiritualism and ro
mance that it Is well-nigh Incredible.
Bartlett Is the grandson of D. E. In
gels, a miner of the early '50s In those
parts, who was murdered In the hills
by his partner. The Bartlett family
are spiritualists, and Bartlett declares
that bis dead and murdered grand
father, through a Portland medium,
appeared to him and described bow
he could find the lost mine and that he
would be Independent for life.
Bartlett asserts positively that he
received specific directions from the
spirit of his grandfather how to pro
ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, he
was tdld to select M. C. Black to ac
company him. The men will not tell
of the location of their find, but soy
it cannot be reached save by making
an extremely dangerous trip and one
filled with hardship, especially at this
time of the year, when the mountains
are firm In winter's icy grasp. In the
spring they will return and develop
their find.
In a rough and mountainous section,
they say, they found a gray quartz
ledge, literally filled with precious
metal. Small pieces were broken off,
pounded up in a frying pan which they
had with them and the gold picked out
Shouldthe ledge prove as rich as the
samples, or even a quarter as rich, a
man could pan out in a week's time
enough of the' gold to make him
wealthy.
As an evidence of their find they
have the bottle of gold dust which has
already been viewed by dozens of peo-
A GROUP OP FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES.
Attempts to "Bold Governtoient Ind Claim Under the GovernmentVNorth Plafte Irrigation
Project Wyoming Nebraska. Photographed by Government Inspectors.
pie, and assays have been made which
prove that the
mineral ia the real
thing.
Hops were introduced Into England
in 1524 by a native of Artoris the
home of the Artesian well. Physicians
denounced their use as dangerous
and Henry VIII-forbade brewers In
his kingdom to use hopes In maUng
ale.
For nearly half a century the sew
ing machine has been in' use, and yet
for the shirt we wear the poor work
woman receives but sixty to eighty
cents, a dozen.
FOILS THE LAND THIEVES.
SECRETARY HITCHCOCK'S RE
LEXTLESS rVRSUT OF IAXD
CRABBIXG THIEVES,
Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate
of Government Irrigation Irriga
tion Work of His Department Highly
SuccessfuL
By Richard IL ttyrd.
It la rumored that among probable
Cabinet changes Secretary Hitchcock
is to shortly retire from the Interior
Department of which be has been the
bead since the second McKlnley ad
ministration. It will be recalled that
more or less definite statements as to
Mr. Hitchcock's retirement and bis
probable successors bare been of very
frequent and regular occurrence, but
the reason therefore Is probably not
bard to find. Mr. Hitchcock bas made
a very great Secretary of the Interior.
He bas torn to pieces a vast fabric
constructed to steal, not acres, but
square miles of the public lands, to
grab from the government great tracts
worth millions of dollars. The land
grabbers bave been men In high po
sitions; they have employed perjury,
bribery and forgery, to say not'jlng of
more forceful crimes to defraud their
country. Their ring was backed by
wealthy and influential-men and in
cluded members of the legislatures.
United States Commissioners, special
bind agents, notaries, etc. The trail
even led to the head of the General
Land Office, into the national IIous of
Representatives and Into the United
Stes Senate. The loose land laws of
the country made their task possible it
not easy.
Crime In High Places.
Secretary nitchcock, shortly after he
became a member of the Cabinet, bad
his attention called to evident frauds
In tbe acquirement of government
land. He set to work a quiet lurestl
gatlon. It finally culminated in the
Indictment of great numbers of people
and In tbe recent conviction of a
United States Senator and a Member
of Congress. Terbaps, though the cul
mination is not yet No man knows
whore tbe trail may lead next or how
much evidence Mr. Hitchcock bas and
is working up.
It is stated to have been a good deal
of a surprise to the wiseacres at
Washington, and in fact throughout
tbe country, to see the way ia which
the Secretary of the Interior bas "made
good" in bis land fraud prosecutions.
It was never supposed last winter
that the government could ever secure
a convlcion of any Congressman or
Senator in Oregon. It was announced
that the Secretary had been illy ad
vised and bad gotten himself into a
deep hole, the outcome of which would
be disastrous to himself.
Tried to Have Him Removed.
The Secretary remarked on several
occasions that the land frauds were
astounding Jn their magnitude but
that he proposed to stop them. He
was luughed at but just the same
some of the bind grabbers began to
get a little nervous and the newspaper
rumors began, to the effect that Sec
retary Hitchcock would probably re
signIn the course of two or three
months, after he bad f nished with cer
tain investigations being made at
that time. But the investigations have
never een finished. Before, one batch
of frauds has been disposed of.
another sensation has been sprung in
some other state so that there has
never been a time when a change in
the Interior Department would not
have been balled as a victory for the
land grabbers.
The Swetary's rugged honesty and
unswervable determination .to weed
out the despollers and the grafters
who are looting the agricultural and
timber lands of the west have called
forth many .high enconlums from
thoughtful people who have followed
his" course. No public official has
taken more literally to heart the
strong expressions against public land
grabbing of the President in his an
nual message to Congress.
Believes Irrigation Great Question.
Closely connected with the land
question In the west is the irrigation
question, and since he first came into
office Secretary Hitchcock has been an
ardent friend of national Irrigation.
Hla annual reports, even under Freal-
dent McKlnley's administration, were
as strong recommendations of this pol
icy as have ever been written. He
called attention to the fact that a vast
fortune was allowed annually to wants
Itself throughout the West; that a wa
ter aupply was uselessly running to the
sea which- would irrigate 70 million
acres of tbe most fertile desert land la
the world, and be called attention to
tbe fact that an irrigated west was
capable of supporting the entire pres
ent population of the United States.
It was not in keeping with tbe spirit
of the times that this great oppor
tunity for borne building should be ne
glected by the nation.
Then, when) Colonel Roosevelt be
came President, tbe irrigation bill was
passed and the administration of the
law was entrusted to the Interior De
partment Mr. Hitchcock was, ready.
The Geological Survey, a bureau of
bis departement bad been making ex
tensive surveys and in reality, getting
ready for such a law, so that work
was immediately commenced and in
stead of eight or ten years of prepara-
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HON. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK,
Secretary of tha Interior.
tion and reconnaissances and surveys,
such as has been the history in the
great Irrisatlon works of every other
country, there are to-day in course of
construction, a dozen huge projects,
and last June, just three years after
the law' was passed, the first project
was completed. , :
Of Vast Import to Nation.
Secretary.nitchcock's vigorous work
In saving the public domain for home
seekers, and in bringing into praccal
operation a policy for tbe absolute
creation out of a desert nothing, of
thousands and eventually millions of
prosperous American homes is. In
reality the greatest work of the gener
ation. The actual benefit of thib great
Internal development and improvement
of the nation's property far surpasses
tbe work of any other department of
the government
( Tke foUjirinr is the last portion ef ft report
t the President's Public Lands Commission, tw
of tokos members are employed under Secretary
Hitchcock, and trhose views on iand Jraud accord
with their chief t. )
Grazing Lands.
The great bulk of the vacant publla
lands throughout the West are unsuitable
for cultivation under the present known
conditions ot agriculture, and so located
that they can not be reclaimed by irriga
tion. They are, and probably always must
be, of chief value for grazing. There are.
It Is estimated, more than 3uO,00O,0UO acres
of public grazing land, an area approxi
mately equal to one-fifth the extent of the
United States proper. The exact limits
can not be et, for with seasonal changes
large areas of land which afford good
grazing one year are almost desert In an
other. There are also vast tracts of wood
ed or timbered land in which grazing has
much importance, and until a further
classification of the public lands Is made
It will be Impossible to give with exact
ness the total acreage. The extent Is so
vast and the commercial Interests In
volved so great as to demand in the high
est degree the wise and conservative han
dling of these vast resources.
It is a matter of the first importance to
know whether these grazing lands are be
ing used in the best way possible for the
continued development of the country or
whether they are being abused under . a
system which is detrimental to such de
velopment and by which the only present
value of the land Is being rapidly de
stroyed. At present the vacant public lands are
theoretically open commons, free to all
citizens; but as a mater of fact a large
proportion have been parceled out by more
or less definite compacts or agreements
among the various interests. These tsrlt
agreements are continually being violated.
The sheepmen and cattlemen are in fre
quent collision because of Incursions upon
each other's domain. Land which for
years has been regarded aa exclusively
cattle range may be infringed upon by
large bands of sheep, forced by drought
to migrate. Violence and homicide fre
quently follow, after which new adjust
ments are made and matters quiet down
for a time. There are localities where
the people are utilizing to their own satis
faction the open range, and their demand
is to be let alone, so that they may parcel
out among themselves the use of the
lands; but an agreement made to-day may
be broken to-morrow by changing condi
tions of shifting interests.
i ne general iaca or control In the use of
public grazing lands has resulted, natu
rally and inevitably, In overgrazing and
the ruin of millions of acres of otherwise
valuable grazing territory. Lands useful
for grazing are losing their only capacity
for productiveness as, of course, they
must when no legal control is exercised.
It is not yet too late to restore the value
or many of the open ranges. Lands ap
parently denuded of vegetation have im
proved In condition and productiveness
upon coming under any system of control
which affords a means of preventing over
stocking and of applying Intelligent man
agement to the land. On some large
tracts the valuable forage plants have
been utterly extirpated, and it Is Imprac
ticable even to reseed them. On other
tracts It will be possible by careful man
agement for the remaining native plants
to recover their vigor and to distribute
seeds, which will eventually restnrA much
of the former herbage. Prompt and effect
ive action must be taken, however, If the
vaiue oi very mucn or tne remaining pub
lic domain is not to be totally lost
The conclusions as to graslng reached
byyour commission were based:
First. Upon the results of leng acquain
tance with grazing problems In the public
land States on the Dart of each mmhp
Of your commission.
tsecona. upon ta results of careful ex.-
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