St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1905-03-22
Postmaster In the Indian Territory.

President Roosevelt Appoints a Lady
Who is Pleasantly Remembered IN ST.
JOhnsbury.-Miss RObertsOu's Letter
TO the Colonel of the Rough Riders
Miss Alice M Robertson, who has just
been appointed postmistress at Musko'
et e, the most important town in the In
dian Territory, is the granddaughter o.
Rev. DR.. Worcester, pioneer missionary
am ug the Cherokees before their re-
moval from Georgia to the Indian Terri
tory. For several years she has beer
supervisor of Greek schools, position
for which the circumstances OF her early
life peculiarly fitted her. Many OF the
schools are in remote and almost mac
cessble portions OF the Greek nation
reached only by long drives over ROADS
so bad that she has several times bPen
thrown out of her buggy She has had
! to ford dangerous streams. sometimes
getting into swimming water, ana mas
had to depend upon the most primitive
Accommodations tor food and shelter
Il Boston Transcript.
Mss Robertson is a sister of Samuel
W. Robertson, who is at the head OF tht
Woodsvile schools, and her mother IS
the daughter of DR.. Worcester who was
for so many years pastor at Peacnah'
and student at St. Johnsbury Acaa-
envy in its early days. She Vlsit;u
here when her brother was a student
at St. Johnsbury Academy, beng the
guest of Mrs. c. M. Stone. At that
time she sang with her brother at the
North church in the Cherokee language
Her present salary is So coo and t1ere
was lively competition among the
politicians Tor the place.
Miss Robertson is an old fried OF
President Roosevelt and in his book the
Rough Riders" he refers to her as fol-
lows in speaking of how his regiment
was recruited:
1.-TWO of the young Cherokee recruits
came to me with most kind! letter
from one of the ladies who had been
teaching in the Academy from Which they
were about to graduate. She AID had
known one another in connection with
governmental and philanthropc work
on the reservations, and she wrote to
commend the two boys to my attention.
One was on the Academy foot )all team
and the other in the gee Glib. Both
were fine young fellows. The foot ball
player now lies buried with the other
dead who fell in the fight in San Juan.
The singer was brought to death's door
by fever, but recovered and cane back to
his his home"
After the war was over Col Roosevelt
says in the same book that ome of his
wealthy friends gave him suns of money
to be used for helping the mel that were
mustered out and were therefore out o
work. He wrote Miss Robe,tson to asl
if she could not use little money among
the Rough Riders, white Indian and halt
breed, that she might personally know
and here is her reply:
Muscogee, Ind. Ter. December 10, 1898
"My Dear Colonel Roosevelt:
l did not at once reply to your letter
September 23d, because l waited for ;
time to see if there shoul1 be need amonl
any of our Rough Riders of the none,
you so kindly offered. Some of the boy
are poor, and in one OF two cases the,
seemed to me really needy, but they al
said no. More than once l saw tear
come to their eyes, at thought of you
care for them, as l tod them of you
letter. Did you hear any echoes of GU
Indian war-whoops over your election
They were pretty loud. | was particu
larry exultant, because my father was
New Yorker and was educated in New
York, even if was bort here. So lar a
/ can learn, the boys are taking up til
dropped threads OF theirives, as thong
they had never been away. Our tw
Rough Rider students, Meagher and Gil
more, are doing we'll in their colleg
work.
81 am sorry to tell yor of the death Q
one OF your most devoted troopers, Der
Holderman, who was here serving on th
Grand Jury. He was stricken with menin
gifts in the jury-room, and died after thre
days of delirium. His father, who wa
twice wounded, four times taken prisoner
and fought in thrty.two battles of tn
Civil War, now old and feeble, survive
him, and it was indeed pc hetic to see hi
grief. Bert's mother, whD is Cherokee
was raised in my grandfather's family
The words of commentator which 20
wrote upon Bert's discharge are til
greatest comfort to his friends. The
wanted you to know q his death, b,
cause he loved you so.
! Il am planning to entertain all th
Rough Riders in this vicirity some ever
my during my holiday VACATION. l mea
to have no other guests, but only Civ
them an opportunity for Renaissance
= | regret that Berts death makes one les
| had hoped to have them sooner, BIT
our struggling young college salaries al
necessarily small and duties arduous.
make home for my widowed motht
and an adopted Indian daughter, who
in school; and as do the cooking for
family OF five, have found it impossib
to do many things l would like to.
Pardon me for burdening you wit
these details, but suppose l am lii
your boys, who say, The Colonel was a
| WAYS as ready tO listen RI a 0r;uo+e a @