The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-10
WASHINGTON'S
SOCIAL SIDE
Capital to Be Invaded by SEX.
elusive New Workers.
BARBARIAN" BROWNS CLAIM
INDIAN EDUCATION HAS so FAR
PROVED A FAILURE.
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NJ ASHINGTON, Nov. Sin every
w other country in the world the
capital is the center of social life,
but in the United States the leaders Of
fashion have made New York the hub of
the glittering wheel, and Washington is
regarded as a sort of outer rim made up
of the winners IN the game of politics
and rapidly acquired wealth. But the
advent Of Mrs. Michael Herbert, the wife
OF the new English ambassador, promises
to bring to this city her sisters, Mrs
Cornelius Vanderbilt and Mrs. Ogden
Goeiet- Naturally these brilliant women
VIII bring with them much of the bril-
lance and gaiety of which they have
been the leaders N the metropolis.
american women who have married
prominent foreigners have taken great
interest in the politics of their adopted
countries, and there is little doubt that
the new element in the capitals society
will be glad 10 vary his social diet of
balls, teas. theatres, etc. with the fas-
einating political game. Women abroad
are far better informed on matters of
state than the majority of American
women. France, England, even Germany
has had her famous women, who. by hook
or crook, have ruled the destiuies of not
number OF netghboring states Washing
ton has had world-famous bellies, but
fairs. :,
Western women have ever made the
capital the Mecca of their social pill
grimages and probably owing TO the
privileges they enjoy in their own states,
have gone in" for politics with a zest-
Dinner giving is the favorite entertain
ment in Washington, though most OF the
dinners given lack the lavish display OF
similar New York functions Mrs.
Thomas +. Walsh is famous for her din
ners, and at her house the conversation
has that mordant tone that comes of in
innate acquaintance with the Utmost cen
ter of the world affairs.
Barbarian Brown"
The state department has on hand a
claim of 100000 against the Transvaal
government in behalf of r. E. L. Brown.
as Barbarian Brown. When this man
died of quick consumption in New Mvxd-
co a few days ago, there passed away a
character familiar to the big mining con-
Germs of two continents, a man who, In
the brief space of ten years, had risen
from the position Of a newspaper reporter
to that OF one Of the worlds leading min
eral experts. Brown first came INTO
prominence in the Occur dAlene mining
district of Idaho. and in the adjacent
city of Spokane, Wash, at the beginning
of the COS, when the strike trouble broke
cut among the miners of the Occur
d Alene district. During the trouble the
mine owners decided TO start news
paper to mold public opinion in the min
ing section. They cast about for a man
TO run the paper, but had great trouble
TO find such an editor. it being considered
take the task; but Brown appeared and
consented TO do the running. The
paper was named the BARBARIAN.
Editor and office were protected by an
| armed guard
Browns bravery in the Occur dAlene
won for him the admiration of the tinan-
uuainted with the Northern Pacific Rail-
road cOmpanys plans and aided some OF
| their projects. All this time young
Brown was studying mining, and when
| he hr-olx "a mt IN
Africa, he was among the first 10 start
from the northwest to the new Eldorado.
The richest, newest district on the HAND
was about to be thrown open to the
! prOspectOrs- Every claim in the district
/ had been staked out for days, before the
government registry office was opened
/ On that day a mob of several thousand
miners was massed about the registry
office Brown was in the crowd, eager
to get his notices in first. II was here
that he made use of the college football
/ wedge familiar to every college man
] Secretly, Brown got together a oano OF
/ the sturdiest men he could Tina ana
| trained them in the tactics of the flying
wedge. AS soon as the registration Win
! dow opened, Brown gave the signal, hlm-
| self leading the wedge, and ploWed over
/ the other certificate holders IKE nine
pins. His were the first papers filed
Later the first Boer war broke out, and
all the mines were confiscated- Brown
given Judgment for $5.0o00O0. Before the
case was settled, however, the second
| trouble was started, and Browns claim,
won at the edge of a football rush, anu
pushed through a phlegmatic Boer court,
now has the tremendous power of the
| United States government to back it.
Education a Failure.
Indian Agent Erwin, returning from a
recent tour through the western reServa-
tons. has this to say of the Indians;
Hardly any of the young INDIANS, those
who have graduated from non-reserVation
| schools as we'll as those who have at
| tended for a number of years, DO any
work at all. 1t can De set down as d
| perfectly safe rule that, as a class, the
/ young Indians are the most worthless
! ones in the whole tribe. Nearly all the
work done by the tribes is performed by
| the middle-aged, able-bodied ones, who
| cannot write or speak English The edu-
! Gated Indians. coming from the schools,
| usually give the excuse that they nave
| nothing with which to work, neither
| money implements nor stock of any klno.
J This is true. but / notice that Lhey man
| age to live on their annuues ana tease
/ money and buy horses, buggies, etc, on
credit and borrow money from the banks
with very little prospect Of ever DelnS
| able to pay their debts Any able-Dodleo
man or woman is able TO obtain work at
/ fair wages Many of the people are al
dicted TO drink, and both men and women
are inyeterate gamblers. They have prac-
! fically nothing TO do. Their days are
/ SUent almost in utter idlenes5. and vice
| and debauchery are rampant. The degra-
! dalton of these people Will commune anu
| increase until they are made TO work ana
/ live by the result of their labors-
| As a remedy for this condluon OF al
] fairs Mr. Erwin recommends that the
| Indian children be educated only at reser-
/ walton boarding schools, further eduea-
( ton heine 30 per cent waste OF effort and
money.