Omaha daily bee., 1903-05-19
BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE.
Minor Scenes and Incidents sketched
on the spot.

/ NAnOE EGoh1A anu AhGANNhNA
on the spot.
For over forty years John Fogarty, an
| army veteran, carried in his neck a re-
minder Of Indian warfare. Fogarty was a
sergeant in the First cavalry and while in
Death Valley in 1860 he was hit in the neck
by an arrow fired by an Apache Indian. He
was one OF a party Of soldiers riding down
q mountain side, when a redskin fired an
| arrow. The missile hit Fogarty in the
neck and he fell from his horse The In
dian was promptly killed by the troopers,
VINO pulled the arrow from Fogarty's neck,
leaving behind, however, some portions of
the piece Of flint that formed the tip of the
arrow. The surgeon probed for 1t unsuc-
cessfully, and the wound closed with the
| fragments still imbedded in the bone. The
souvenir of the flsht Of Death Valley caused
the soldier little trouble for many years,
| but lately IL has given him acute pain. Re
Gently he went to the Army Medical Mu-
! scum in Washington and had an X-ray
| picture of his neck taken, which clearly
| showed the bits OF flint still in position.
| In the course of a few days the army
surgeons will remove the remnants Of the
arrow head, after which Fogarty hopes TO
/ be relieved of pain.
"The fifty pages OF itemized expeditures,
as reported to the secretary OF the treas
ury by the government bookkeeping de-
partment. are interesting reading to all
Americans" says a writer in Success.
'They show how complex is the financial
management of government like our own.
| One must be struck by the great variety
of interests the Treasury department over
sees in keeping the wheels of government
moving.
"Of the 5000 persons on the Treasury de-
| partment rolls, some 1900 are at work
caring for the funds. The collection Of the
revenue and the payment of authorized
| debts are done in a systematic business
way, and nowhere In the world is Hhere to
| be found a great commercial institution
| more perfectly managed than the United
States treasury Its billion-dollar business
operating around the world and dealing
with s0,0o0OO0 Of people, is so finely or
ganized that, at the close of every day, the
exact financial condition of the government
is known to a cent. The daily public re-
port of the condition of the treasury, which
the newspapers bring to business mems
breakfast tables, from Maine to California,
gives in detail the days receipts and ex-
penditures of the government, and the COM
| plete count of all the moneys in the treas
| ury. The handling of many billions of
| funds In the course of year by the treas
| ury's $4,000 employees is rarely marked by
an error. The auditing departments in
Washington are marvels of business or
ganization, that for the Postoffice depart
ment being the largest auditing office in
| the world"
The remarkable resemblance of DR.. A.
p. Pardon, of Washington to the late Presi-
| dent Abraham Lincoln has been the sub
| ject of comment for many years by the
people who have known both men, and
especially who have seen them together.
AS DIR. Pardon has grown older in years,
says the Star, his resemblance to the
martyr president of the civil war has be-
come more pronounced to those whose
! acquaintance with Lincoln was at time
when his age was about that of DR. Pardon
today.
When DR.. Pardon stopped in Washington
| at the close of the war on his way to his
nome in New Jersey he called on Presi-
dent Lincoln. who expressed a wish that
the doctor might remain in this city and
accept an appointment to position under
| the government in which he particularly
desired his service. The doctor was then
young man. but still his resemblance to
Lincoln was striking.
"If you lived down in kentucky" said
the president to him one day, you and
would pass for father and son. Just walt
until you are as old as I am and you will
be Just as homely," concluded the presi-
dent in assuring tones. President Lincoln
untimely death prevented him from carry
! ing out his purpose in relation to DR..
Fardon's appointment to position under
| the government.
Isaac jackson Of Glossop England. is
in washington making plans to recover
his rights in a patent which he lost through
carelessness He invented some years ago
a device for fastening betting, which was
protected in the United States AS he was
busy with the manufacture of the fastener
In England he sold the American rights
| to a firm in Newark N. ]. Later he bought
hack the rights, but failed to have the fact
of the purchase recorded at the Patent
ONCE That was a fatal error, for when
| Jackson arrived here last week to look up
| the matter he was informed that, accord
! ing to the official records, the Newark firm
was still the owner of the manufacturing
rights in this country. In the absence of
the receipt OF a notification of the transfer
back to the original owner, the Patent
| ONCE holds that the Newark firm controls
| the rights In America. The Newark
firm evidently holds the same view. for IT
seems that It has been manufacturing the
belt fastener for the past four or five years.
Jackson SAYS he proposes to bring suit to
recover his losses from the manufacture
| NJ the fastener in the United States.
ENJOINING A wOMAN's TONGUE.
Chicago News: II that Injunction issued
IN Omaha restraining a woman from talk
Ing could be put up In small packages for