The Portland daily press., 1900-07-18
PERSONAL ANDsPECULIAR.

Bank Examiner Timberlake has just
received present which he values highly.
He has camp at Rangeley lake, and re-
Gently, when the Portland Knights Temp
lar were on pilgrimage to that place, he
invited the members to call on him.
They had most pleasant time. The
other day he was much surprised to re-
ee1ye an elegant rosewood case, in which
was another case, of silve r, which was
filled with choice cigars. A card on the
present stated rat it was present to
Sir Knight Ti1nberlake from his Portland
friends with pleasant recollections OF the
entertainment given them by him at
RangeIey.
Colonel John W. Geary, the last Alcalde
and the first mayor of San Francisco, has
been invited to take part in the semi
centennial Admission day celebration.
San Francisco's first city charter was
adopted on May !, 1850, and AIcalde
Geary was elected mayor under it's provis-
ions. He refused reelection, and in 1852
left the Pacific coast for Pennsylvania,
where he is now living.
David p. Henderson, speaker of the
House of Representatives, is spending
the summer with Mrs. Henderson in the
AdtrondacIs. Later he will go to Paris
to visit the exposition.
Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri
is authority for the announcement that
he VIII be a candidate for the Senate to
succeed Senator Vest.
A despatch from Colorado Springs,
Col, says that Captain CoghIan, U. S..
N, is there slightly i'll, but not in ser1-
Gus condition as reported in the East.
The man who commanded the Raleigh at
the battle Of Manila has had a slight at
tack OF pneumonia, but is out of danger,
and Will soon recover all his accustomed
vtgor.
A movement is on foot at Malpas,
Cheshire, for the restoration of the
church with which the name of Bishop
HebeF is associated. It was In the neigh
boring reetory that he was born, and the
register testiffes to the fact that he was
christened in NIalpas Church. Not only
so, but his father, Reginald Heber, was
the builder OF the rectory, and his mother
was the architect.
+ j. J. Van Allen, the rich New Yorker,
reached New York saturday from abroad
with one ''I'' and fifty trunks In his
possession. The unkind officials OF the
charged 81, 400 duties above what he had
declared. 1t is all amicably settled.
Small dynamite cartridges are laid
about the chicken yards of George w.
Raughley, a farmer of Caroline county,
Maryland, for the benefit of chicken
thieves, who, Mr.. RaughIey says, have
stolen several hundred fowls from him.
The dynamite is buried, and at night it
is attached to surface wires so that any
thing coming in contact with the wires
sets of the explosives. The result up to
date is that the tail OF one of Mr.. Raugh-
Iey's calves has been blown off and the
dog OF neighbor has been sent into
eternity.
The Chicago Tribune is making plea
for Chicago as a summer resort. It's
climate, says its defender, makes it the
Riviera Of America. 1t has, again, ''thes
great lake, a veritable Italian lake,
''noW blue as the heaven, now green as
emerald, and anon shimmering in rich
p1nks and puppies, changing in tone with
every cloud that drifts above it, The
city has distant sweeps" of landscape.
1t offers opportunities for the strenuous
or the passive life. Take your choice,
but cease carping There is no end to
Chicago claims.
The Baroness Won Ketteler was Miss
Maud Ledyard, native OF Baltimore.
She is the daughter of Mr.. Henry b.
Ledyard, presidetnt Of the Michigan Cen
trial Railroad, who lives in Detroit, a
sister of young Lieutenant Le6yard, killed
six months ago in the Philippines, and
of Commodore Lewis Cass Ledyard Of
the New York Yacht Club. Her mother
was Miss Mary II. L'HommeCfieu Her
father was born in France, son f a secre-
tary of United States legation there, and
was at one time (1S67-69 J instructor in
French at West Point