The National tribune., 1903-09-17

that he was improperly connected will
the companies engaged in leasing and re
leasing Indian lands by a general denial
He admits his connection with numbe
of companies, and declares that his inter
est in them is legal and proper. He ad
mits that he has an interest in the Trlba
Development Company, of Tishimingo
which is charged with wrongful treatmen
of the Indians, but he claims that as I'll
as he knows the company is engaged il
proper business, and furthermore it is op
Grated wholly in the Southern District OF
the Territory. while he is Attorney of thu
Northern District To plain people this
distinction will hardly wash, and it Ger
tainly does not look as if it would satisfy
the Secretary and President.
The Department of Justice is als'
investigating Benjamin II. Colbert. Mar
shall of the Southern District; Leo q. Ben
nett of the Western, Benjamin +. Hack
EFT, of the Central. and William II. Bar
rough. of the Northern. 1t is claimed thai
Bennett divided the profits of feeding the
prisoners with several individuals. The
attorneys are also to be investigated
liam NJ. Melette, of the Western; John III
Wilkins. of the Central. and William r.
johnson, of the Southern.
Orders have been issued at the Wal
Department for the Sd Field Battery
Capt. G. =. Summerall. to march from
Camp George ii. Thomas. Chickamauga
Park, Tenn, to Fort Myer, Va.
This will be the longest march ever
made by an American field battery. The
distance is over 600 miles. and more than
a month will be required to cover it. AT
present the Sd Field Battery is engaged in
target practice. 1t will start OH its long
trip overland in a few days.
| China will get all that is coming to her
after awhile. Captain A. V. p. Anderson.
of the 9th Cav. has turned over to Gus
toms Surveyor Spear, of San Francisco,
three jade tablets taken from the ances-
trail temple in the Forbidden City, Pekin.
While Capt. Anderson was in Yang
Tsun. China. Russian officer gave him
the three. tablets. Two of the polished
stones are engraved in Manchu charac-
tiers, and the third bears mandarin letter
ing. Capt. Anderson accepted the stones
and turned them over to the Surveyor OF
Customs when the transport Logan ar
rived in San Francisco. The tablets will
be turned over to the Chinese Minister.
Gen. Fred d. Grant is pleading for the
has just submitted his annual report in
which he says:
NO argument can be too earnest for
the re-establishment of the canteen. Aside
from other recreation features of garrison
life. the canteen, which is the enlisted SOL
dier'S clubroom. is a protected circle into
which no vice or degradation can intrude.
There the soldier is guaranteed certain
privileges which. so long as not abused,
prove a bulwark against the temptations
and dangers that now surround almost
every post in the army, and especially Dor
der and remote posts. To close the doors
of the soldiers garrison club and send
him out into the hants Of iniquty and
vice run by moral vultures, who, degraded
themselves, set up no standard of moral
ity, but. breaking down all barriers of re-
straint invite and induce soldiers to join
in all sorts of depravity and infamy. is
a wrong to the soldier as well as wrong
TO the community in which the soldier is
located"
Gen. Grant is total abstainer himself.
Hot cook stoves have been stolen in
times; past. but Washington "steal' is
brick buildings are being torn down to
build the new union station, one of the
contractors has been piling up the old
bricks. The other day he discovered that
right under his nose 10000 of those old
brick bats had been stolen and carted
away.
A comrade who has received deserved
promotion is ]. William Palmer. who has
been promoted to Chief of the Orders and
Supplies Division in the Office of the Ad-
jutant- General of the Army. He is re-
garded as one of the most efficient and
energetic clerks in the office. He was an
original member of the famous LIST Mimi.
and took part i'll all that regiments bril-
liant fighting.
ter of Congressman Walter P. Brownlow.
of the First Tennessee District, took it
into her pretty little head that she had
waited long enough to get married. and
s e and her impatient lover, Mark Pritch-
EFT. the son of liveryman, of JonesbOro,
Tenn, eloped to Bristol, where they were
married. The young couple received a
warm welcome on their return home,
though the Congressman was reluctant to
give up his daughter at SO early an age.
The sensitive gentlemen of Washington
whose nerves are constantly kept unstrung
by unsightly things around the beautiful
city, are now after the posters and signs,
and want a more stringent law regulating
these.
Senator Chester /. Long, of Kansas.
has been summering at Colorado health
resorts, trying TO recover his health, but
without the success he hoped for. He has
come back to Kansas to rest, and to see
if lie will not get well more quickly at
home. His troubles are mainly stomachic.
Senator Hanna's physical condition is
such as to lead him to cancel all his en-
gagements for speaking except the one at
Toledo, when the monument of Mckinley
is unvailed. His physicians say that
while he is quite weak he will get along
all right if he takes more rest, and the
Senator is reserving his strength for the
political campaign.
Commissioner Richards. of the General
Land Office. reports that the reclamation
fund from the sale of public lands and fees
from the irrigation States, amounts to
So. 461 ,434 for 1903, making altogether
SIG. 191 .S3G, which is available for irriga-
ton purposes.
Whether the sensational charges against
the Interior Department are well founded
or not, the Department is certainly having
a sufiiciency of troubles. Last week Hugh
ii. Price. Surveyor General of Arizona,
was removed, and William Il. Murphey,
his Chief Clerk. was suspended. Frank
s. ingalls,, of Yuma, Ariz., was appointed
to succeed Price. The charge against
| Price was eXtortiOn, and he promptly ad-