The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-11-01
LETTERS SOLD
FOR GOOD PRICE
Tom Platts Tender Missivss
Will Not Be Published.
NAE WOOD NEED NOT WORK
ANOTHER TOM REED STORY
BROUGHT OUT.
NAE WOOD NEED NOT WORK
Special to Ths Hcraldl

Especial TO The Hcrald)
Washington, oct. 31.-Miss Mae c.
Wood, the young woman pOstOfice
clerk whose reported prospective breach
Of promise suit against Senator Platt
divided New York's attention with
Dowie and the election fight for day,
IS back IN Washington. but not how
ever, 20 return TO her typewriter in
the department. When Miss Wood
went 10 New York a few days before
Senator Platts recent marriage she
took with her a bunch of about 200
letters, which the senator had found
time TO write her during the two years
OF their acquaintance. She returned
without them. for they suddenly be-
came OF great value to the friends OF
Senator Plat and under those cir
cumstances Miss Wood was prevailed
upon 20 part with them Now she is
IN no hurry 70 get back TO work; on
the contrary, she announces that pos
sibly she may not conclude TO work at
all Miss Woods acquaintance with
Senator Plat commenced about two
years ago, when she was doing de-
sultory newspaper work I'm New York
and was assigned TO Interview the
great political boss. Later she came
20 Washington and took a place IN the
pOstOfiice department She says she
had no thought OF a breach Of promise
Rtor Plat had been purely platOniC.
with no thought of matrimony or SEN
timent.. HIS letters to her were pO-
ri3lcal in tone-that is. many OF them
were, while others were devoted to ex-
preBsiOns none too complimentary Of
the lady whom he afterwards made his
bride Some Of the letters were 1f-
fectionate, and the entire lot made a
very interesting collection Of literature.
Mics Wood had been in newspaper
work long enough to understand that
the availability and value Of a story
depends largely upon it's being timely.
She decided that the occasion was a
most timely one for a publication to be
entitled. The Love Letters OF a Boss,
and she had engaged a publisher and
was arranging TO have her publication
copyrighted when the senator's friends
stepped in and robbed the public OF a
prospective literary treat
Passing Of Corbin.
On Saturday last Major General Cor
bin said gOOdby to the officers and
clerks Of the war department. His
departure from the wide field OF ma
tiOnl affairs TO the narrower sphere
OF a department commander illustrates
forcibly the varying fortunes of the
political soldier. For over four years
COrbin was the autocrat Of the war
department. He was the secretary OF
war. the adjutaut general and the
commanding general of the army all
cOnglOmeratcd into one. His word was
law. and politicians sought his favor
when they wished anything from the
war department, whether it was a new
military post or a lieutenants commits
sion. He sought still higher power
than that afforded him by his position
as adiutant general He saw his way
10 attain it by way Of the general
staff system. and he gave that propo-
sitiOn his earnest support having I'm
view his own appointment as chief Of
staff. Had President Mckinley lived
no doubt COrbin's ambition would have
been gratfed. But Roosevelt has
never been an admirer of Corbin. and
the influence and power Of the latter
has been declining from the day ROOse-
Welt became president. The general
stahf law took all the duties OF the
adjutant general away and left that
position an empty honor. Latterly Cor
bin has had absolutely nothing to do
and has been as much of a hgurehead
rs Miles. TO get out Of the chilly at
mOsphere OF the department he asked
for the command of the department of
the east. Through seniority he viii
vet become chief OF STAFF before he re-
tires from the active list. as ne is I'm
line to succeed General Chaffee. who
VIII be General YOunE's successor, but
his tenure will be brief. and he VIII
never gain again such asCendancy I'm
the war department as he held during
snd Immediately following the Span
fsh-AmeTiCau war.
Checkered Career Of Wilcox.
The death Of former Delegate Robert
w. Wilcox of Hawaii removes an old
figure from the field OF public life
For several years prior TO his election
as delegate from Hawaii, and while
the proposition 20 annex the Islands
was pending. Wilcox, tail, gaunt and
spectral looking hung around the lob
bfes of the national capitol, apparently
without friends or acquaintance. His
history had been filled with excitement.
He had been a revoluuOnist. had been
Eanrenced TO death. had lived in ex-
Sic. and had been with every party and
faction of Hawaii under its several
forms of government. wilcox was not
q fun blood Hawaiian. His father was
"a native Of Newport. r. l.; his mother
a native Of Maui. Wilcox was edu-
Gated in one OF the common schools
of the island OF Maui and in the
ROYAL Military academy, Turin, Italy.
IIe served as an officer in the Italian
army for a short time and then re-
turned 20 Hawaii. He served IN the
Hawaiian legislature, and led two rev
oIutions in the interest Of the native
IIawaiians one Of these was in 1889,
the other i'm 1895 His principal effort
was TO restore Queen Liliuokalani 70
the throne. For participation In the
latter attempt he was sentenced TO
death by a courtmartial Of the Dole
partv but congress interviewed and the
sentence was committed to thirty-fve
years Imprisonment and a fine OF $40,