The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-06-14
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence

NC0u u tAc hepuDlkCdu udtIOAdI COLL
mittee will mean his resignation from
President Noosevelt's cabinet. Already
there is considerable stir regarding his
successor at the head of the depart
ment of commerce and labor. The
president has not intimated whom he
has In mind in the event of Mr.. Cor
telyou's retirement, but Mr.. Garfield,
now chief Of the bureau of corpora
tons. son Of the late President Gar
field and formerly q civil service ON
missioner, has been talked of for the
place. Two others who have been men,
toned In this connection are eX-iov-
ernor Winthrop Murray Crane Of Mas
sachusetts and Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury Robert b. Armstrong.
Authorship Of "0pportunity."
Hanging in President Roosevelt's
private office in the executive Offices
is the original of John j. Ingalls, noted
poem opportunity" It was presented
to the president some years ago by
Mrs. ingalls, and was framed and hung
in the presidents Office. In the June
number Of a magazine DR.. Nicolo
Gigliotti of Erie, Pa. declares that
he is the original author of the world
famed sonnet. He claims that it was
first written by him in 1887 and was
successfully printed in a number of
Italian papers, the names of which he
gives. He says it vas afterward pub
lished in an Italian paper in Denver.
DR.. Gigliotti says he sent to Mr.. In
gals u copy of it in Englishs the trans
lation having been made by Martin
Battle, a follower of the late Henry
George. The two poems are said to be
wonderfully similar.
Dog Party at the Capital.
The dog party has at last reached the
national capital. The Misses Bell,
daughters of Charles j.. Bell, the bank
er, gave a tea recently at their fathers
country home where each guest was
accompanied by a dog of high degree.
The Countess Marguerite Cassini was
accompanied by two splendid grey
hounds which were presented to her in
Russia two years ago. Miss Durand,
daughter of the British ambassador,
took her st. Bernard, Duke. Nine
classes of dogs were represented.
The Dockstader Incident.
It has been learned that part of the
costumes worn by Lew Dockstader and
his confederate in the i~mpersonation of
President Roosevelt and Booker 7.
Washington at the capitol the other
day We're secured from the stock of
a local costumer. "Lew Dockstader is
a nervy man." was the remark made at
police headquarters while the cast was
under discussion. "He was here two
years ago and succeeded in getting an
amount of free advertising by having
his band follow a company of English
visitors. His band played nothing but
ragtime music, and the English visitors
were unable to keep STEP"
Mr.. Cromwel1's Big Fee.
William Nelson Cromwell, the attor-
ney who negotiated the sale of the
Panama canal company's property to
the United States, laughs at a story
that he would probably not secur all
of the fee it is alleged he was to have
received for his services. This fee is
variously fixed at from 100000 up
ward, but it is not publicly known what
it will be. There is no doubt, however,
that the sum will be a large one. Mr..
Cromwell has worked on the case for
seven years.
American Silver In Canada.
There has been much fun at the treas
ury over a newspaper dispatch from
Ottawa, Canada, to the effect that the
Dominion senate has brought to the
attention of the minister Of finance
1.-THE fact that Canadian cities are food
ed with American silver which is not
worth its face value and should be sub
jected to a discount by the banks" The
dispatch adds that cit is the wish of
the senate that American silver be
driven out of the country"
Curios From Porto Rico.
Professor Fewkes, who has been
touring Porto Rico for additions to the
Smithsonian institute, is happy in the
possession of two images. fine pieces
of Indian work.
These stone carvings, which were up
turned from earth near the south
shore. are curious in detail, the center
representing a mountain, at whose
base on n side is a contorted foot Of
an animal and at the other a savage
head. Among other interesting finds
are collars cut out Of solid stone, about
the probable use of which there are
twenty-one different theories; stone
bowls entirely covered with exquisite
chiselings and a maidstone"
This island, so rich in Indian lore and
STEPPED in savage superstition, is sur
prising it's own people by it's recent
yield of wondrous things. A fifty year
resident Of Mayaguez was heard to re-
mark that he had eve before heard
Of such things as have been brought