The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-02-05
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The National Museum has received Al
excellent example of Indian basketry. Thi
basket is an exact counterpart of that il
which Moses is supposed to have beer
found 1t was made for an Indian in Ari
iona in return for seine specimens lie pre-
scented to the Museum. The country Dor
dering the Gulf of Alden, from which TIL,
basket comes is famous for this kind o
work, and in going from the gulf to Ari
zOna, the basket consequently traverses al
most half the world.
The United States Geological Surve!
has in press, and will shortly issue, ;
detailed map of the San Bernar5inO Val
ley, Cal, noted as one of the most highl!
developed irrigation districts in the coun
try. 1t will be known as the Tuscamong:
Atlas sheet.
There are memorials and memorials
Some are huge piles of stone, or beater
and nodded bronze which teach but lit
tie aside from the infrequently read in
scriptions which mark Them. There wa:
dedicated in Washington, on Jan. -, a
memorial that will be as lasting as the
brick and stone and marble of which it is
constructed. The Mckinley Manual Train
ing School, which is the first architecture
memorial to the late President in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, will keep his great deeds
and kindly heart before the pupils of the
Public Schools Of Washington through
every hour of every day of the school
year. The purpose of the school is to
teach its pupils how to labor with their
hands, and how to make their brains move
those hands intelligently. Mckinley was
once a poor boy, and he had no such ad-
vantages. but he rose to the highest Office
in the gift of the people. His example will
be an inspiration to those who prepare
themselves for the duties of life in this
splendid and enduring monument to his
memory.
A third cousin of President Mckinley,
who has been searching for 40 years for
the grave of his brother, supposed to have
been killed at First Bull Run, is now
searching the National Cemetery at Al
exandria. He learned short time ago
from one who fought beside his brother
in that disastrous battle that young Nc
Kinley did not die Immediately, but after
being wounded was taken to the hospital,
and died in Alexandria. Rev. DR.. William
Mckinley is the Presiding Elder of the
st. Paul Methodist Episcopal District of
Minnesota. His brother belonged to the
LIST Mimi, and Bull Run was his first bat
tie, as well as his last.
William H. Collins, Chief Clerk of the
Government Printing Office, died last
week. Mr.. Collins was a splendid exam
pie of q man who knows what to do and
does it to the very best of his ability. He
began as an apprentice In the Printing
Office, 81 years ago. and had risen by
merit to be a trusted employee, with
place for life.
A man in Washington killed himself the
other day by mistake. He thought he was
using ammonia for toothache, and instead,
he got mouthful of carboiic acid. Ac-
cidents of this kind could easily be avoid
ed by keeping all poisonous liquids in col
ored bottles of irregular shape, and the
harmless ones in clear bottles of the ordi-
nary kind. In this careless age precau-
tons of this Kind seem absolutely neces-
sary.
It is announced, semi-officially, that
Judge William r. Day viii be promoted
to the Supreme Bench when Justice Shiras
retires for age as he viii; in the Spring
Assistant Secretary PIERCE has taken a
great deal of. interest in the fortunes of
Americans who go abroad for various rea-
sons and become stranded, through no real
fault of their own, and he wants the
United States to look after them. He is
urging upon Congress the appropriation OF
certain sum of money, from which our
Consuls and Ministers abroad can help
such stranded Americans to return. One
Of the strong reasons urged for this kind
of an appropriation is set forth in the re-
port of United States Consul Bigham at
Capetown, Africa.
He reports that there are number of
young Americans there who came as mule
teers, and some of them now are absolute
" destitute. Mr.. Bigham suggests that
the people of the United States should
raise fund to pay a low rate of passage
homeward for these men, and he under
takes to furnish the name of a reliable
American to handle the money.
Alone, far from the home he loved, and
in the land of aliens, Chief White Calf,
one of the noted members of the Black
feet Indian Tribe, died last Thursday in
Providence Hospital, Washington. He
was mighty warrior in his day, and the
scalp shirt which hangs among the
trophies of his lodge on Lame Deer Reser-
walton, Montana, is fringed with locks
a
many a woman, and many child, whose
souls winged their fight through his I'M
erring aim. His last great fight was at
Wounded Knee, the memory Of which aw-
full massacre is still with us. HIS power
was broken by the Govern ment, after that,
and White Calf kept virtual prisoner
for years.
White Calf came to Washington to pro-
test against the treatment of his people
on the Lame Deer Reservation, and was
partially successful in his mission. He
was taken i'll, and Wednesday was taken
to the hospital, while the half dozen In
dams who accompanied him went back to
Montana. Pneumonia developed, and the
Chief died, alone, during the night. The
ATTENDING physician said that the body of
the big fellow was one mass of scars, OBJ
tanned, presumably in battle. The SHOWS
of so Winters were whitening his locks.
White Calf was almost the last one OF the
great Indian chiefs left.
So
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, who sue.
ceeds ambassador DR.. Won Holleben, who
got out of Washington so quickly that the
newspaper correspondents never have
found out why he really left, comes with
the rank of Envoy Extraordinary and
AllDlSter IlelllpoteulidIs, ihSteau u the
higher Office. 1t is not at all probable that
Germany, in her wrath at the United
States, is going to reduce her Embassy
here to Legation, but she may wish te
satisfy herself as to whether the Baron
is going to be able to hold things down be
fore he is given full rank.
Germany does not feel any too good oyel
the information which has been impaired
to her that we do not want the statue OF