The Washington herald., 1906-11-21
HEARD AT HOTELS.

NSW NhldId Win MS vile, as president
Of the North American Society IN Buenos
| Ayres, had the distinction Of introducing
/ Secretary Root 10 vast audience in the
capital Of Argentina on the occasion Of
/ the latter's visit to that city. Mr. Purdls
/ Is the representative sf 2. G.. Dun & Co.
in the great Latin-American republic He
speaks Spanish with absolute auency. and
/ his information as 10 the commercial
| conditions and native resources Of the
/ Argentine is accurate and profound
/ Argentina" said Mr.. Purdie. is
country one-thIrd the combined extent OF
the United States and Alaska. and with
only $4,000 Of people. Of which Buenos
Ayres has 10000 l do not cxaggerate
/ in saying that in natural wealth it has
been favored by Providence 10 an Unsur-
/ passed degree II Is indeed a land Of
/ superabUndant riches, and In the near
/ future is going TO be the granary ~ the
/ world. because at TO distant periC- the
people OF the United States are going 70
need all the cereals produced here Tor
! home consumption The wheat crop Of
/ Argentine this year was 100000 bushels.
! 1t Is a country that is yet in the in
! fancy Of its development, there being 2f5,-
! V0J,V0 acres Of the most fertile soil that
this country, With its great volumes OF
! products has scarcely any business re-
lauons with the United States. The
Panama Canal will give 20 US the trade
4 OF Peru and Chile, but Argentina is to
/ day worth ten times in a commercial
/ way, the whole western coast OF South
/ America England has oue-third OF al
/ It's business, and the amount Of British
/ capital invested IN Argentine railways
I al ~ I.s4 a.
/ ing the flag of the United States comes
/ into the harbor Of Buenos .Avres. and II
/ one wishes 10 20 from that port 10 New
/ York. the best route is by Southampton.
| / should have also said that the climate
/ OF Argentina is superb, and white man
can live anywhere within its borders.
1T is up TO the merchants and manu-
/ facturers Of this country 70 bestir them
selves to get their just share Of this
/ valuable commerce. and Secretary Roots
visit did a great deal toward putting the
! citizens Of Argentina in friendly frame
/ Of mind Here is a land where the people
/ are consumers Of the best products we
could send them; not like the Asiatc
/ coolies. who wear an inexpensive dress Of
/ cheap cotton stuff. but buyers Of the
/ finest fabrics; a land where the harvest
/ hands get s a day. and where money Is
spent with a liberality that astonishes
/ every visitor. Its capital, the second
! Latin-American city in the world. vies
even with Paris in the beauty OF its
Z streets, parks. and buildings. and with
a population Of the most Urbane and hos
pitable men and women on the globe. To
think that as close a neighb0r as is the
/ United States gets such an insignificant
/ proportion OF the trade of this country
when il ought 10 exercise a dominating
commercial influence there, is exasperat-
ing"
when went 70 Texas just thirty
years ago" said Mr T. c. Battle. Of Fl
Paso, at the Arlington, 1T was still the
rendezvous OF some as bad men as
ever held up a stage coach or robbed help
/ less grangeTs Of their work horses.
'One Of the most desperate villains IN
the western part Of the state was a feI-
low named Buchanan, a fugitive from
justice. who had 10 leave his native State.
Tennessee, between two days Buch-
/ anan's long suit was stealing ponies on
the Texas side Of the Rio Grande and
! running them over into Mexico. He varied
this only by cOnfiscaung Mexican horses
I and driving them across 10 the Texas
side. This got 10 be a regular industry,
/ and Buchanan, who had a viilainous
/ gang Of outlaws under him. kept up the
plundering for several years before the
! Rangers finally got him.
/ Il was yOungsteT and by mere chance
/ happened 70 be with the Rangers the
day they came up with the outlaw and
! his followers. and took part in the fight.
/ We killed Buchanan and three Of his men,
and captured half a dozen others. several
Of whom were wounded. With the pris-
oners was a Mexican lad. apparently not
over nineteen or twenty, who could not
speak a word Of English. but who seemed
l strangely elated over the death Of the
r0bbeT chief On the night OF the fight.
by meTest chance, il was discovered by
the captain Of the Rangers that the sup
I posed boy was. in fact Il girl who had
become enamored OF the dead bandit. and
had run avsy from the hacienda Of her
father. wealth. citizen Of Chihuahua.
our captain understood enough Span
ish 10 make out that Buchanan. after pro-
Tossing at first great love for the girl.
/ had begun 10 be very abusive 10 her and
had several times struck her with his
riding whip. II was because Of this cru
city that the senorita was joyous over
hls death. She was returned 10 her father
as speedily as possible. and I don't sup
pose she was ever again tempted to elope
with frontier desperate"
yes that's him; that's the boss" said
one Tennesseean TO another with more
emphasis than grammar, in the lobby OF
the Raleigh yesterday. The speaker
/ pointed 10 d heavy-set man with good
/ humored face. who was just entering the
/ hoted The boss to whom he alluded
was Representative Walter Brownlow,
/ Of the First Tennessee district. the first
I Of the delegation 10 reach Washington.
/ His primacy among the Republicans Of
/ the volunteer State won for Mr Brown
/ low the nickname above quoted.
! This year extraordinary efforts were
/ made to defeat him. Alfred A. Taylor,
! brother of Senator-elect Bob" ran as
/ an Independent Republican against
/ Brownlow, while the Democrats had a
+ candidate in John H. Caldwell. When the
/ returns We're all in, Brownlow had a clear
l majority over both OF Loo and he beat
his Republican opponent over IG0o. MIR.
Brownlow is a member Of the Appropria-
/ tons Committee and is credited with ex-
/ traordinaTy ability in obtaining things
for his district Not long since an admir-
ing constituent published a laudatory
paphlet. in which il was asserted
that the boss" had obtained more cash
for his district from Uncle Sam than all
the rest Of the Tennessee Senator's and
Representatives had managed to get for
the entire State. Nobody has as vet
come forward 10 refute the statement, and
BrOwnlOw admits IT,
Col. II. J. Lawrence, Of Cleveland. editor
OF the Ohio Farmer, is at the ShOreham,
accompanied by his wife. Col. Lawrence
has for years published the most success
full agricultural weekly newspaper in the