Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-03

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Indian laws of the country. was related
recently by a westerner who was passing
through the city.
II was sitting in a restaurant out in -
last fall" he said. " and was talking with .
doctor who Is well known in that section,
but whose name I will not mention here.
He Is full-blooded Indian, who has been
well educated and has won considerable
respect among the citizens and great IN
fiuence over members OF his own race.
Many of the Indians of the state have Sc
cured their citizenship and In such hot
political fight as was going on at rnat
time their votes counted for a great deal.
won't you come over and join us?' saio
the representative.
Then. looking down at his own glass
of spirits, he bethought himself, and hast
ened to say:
GA glass OF lemonade or some pop
mean.
''The Indian who had risen In the world
scowled heavily, turned on his heel sno
left the place. l looked inQuirfngly at the
representative.
"'You know he said. there Is q law
against giving those fellows alcohol. bull
I've got myself into trouble, all right.
X X u "
man, with a rather wild look in his eyes.
occupied a place in the dock of police
court in nearby Virginia city. 1t was
Monday morning. and he had been haleo
before the tribunal of justice to give an
account Of his part in disorderly proceed
ings which had disturbed the peace of the
Sabbath. The evidence for the prosecution
made out pretty clear case
Ss,f~ bod IA I'd
er had come to town Saturday from his
nearby home in the country, and had pro-
ceeded to load up on cheap liquor. In gay
and joyous frame Of mind he had strolled
about the streets. with nothing apparently
to mar his happiness until. In passing a
group of men standing on a corner he over
heard a remark which seemed to reflect
upon his honor as gentleman. Then his
effervescent mirth changed to stormy
wrath Boiling with indignation he turned
upon the party and began such an outpour-
Ing of vituperation that one of those thus
rilified lost his temper. He dared the tall
individual back. saying he would kill him
If no came.
And so. of course, 1 went back" said
the defendant. with the confident air of q
man who had fully justified his cause.
"Ah. you went back to get killed, did
your" said the justice. Then 1 will put
you in a safe place. Thirty days"
One day not long ago Lieut.. Sutton,
commander of the harbor police precinct,
received a request that the members of
his crew drag the river for the body of
missing man. Numerous requests of
this kind are received and denied, but in
the recent case the friends of the missing
board al a particular place, so search for
the body was instituted. The members of
the crew had worked about the river front
an hour or more when a friend OF the miss
ing man appeared and declared that he
had seen the missing man twice after he
was reported to have disappeared.
Fooled again." was the remark made by
a member of the crew as he started from
where he had been working SO hard. But, .
he added that's nothin new. We have
done similar work before and will prob
ably do 1t again"
Lieut.. Sutton recalled an instance of the
kind that happened several summers ago
when the weather was intensely hot and
when a resident of South Washington was
reported to have jumped into the James
Creek canal. There seemed to be no ques-
ton about the missing man having jumped
into the canal as q small girl declared that
she saw him jump in.
1T was right there the child told Lieut.
Sutton, pointing TO place where the water
was deeper than at most other places
mere WAS HUtHliS Iett Tor the police to
do but search for the body. Several DAYS
were spent on the canal and the search was
finally abandoned. Some weeks after the
crew had put in the hard work on the canal
the supposed drowned man met Lieut. SUIT
ton on the street. His condition was abo11;
the same az It was the day he was reported
drowned, and he called to the police official
/ heard you were dragging for rue. but you
didn't catch me. / was soaked all right b,t,
| wasn't dead"
Il can catch the live once .tr
lieutenant While relating the story to a
friend. but l cannot always catch the
DEAD ones unless they are the right KIND
OF dead
A number of base ball fans were talking
the other afternoon about the long hits
they had witnessed in contests on the dia-
mond. One was Of the opinion that of all
the hitters big Dan Brouthers. who PLAYED
in Philadelphia some years ago, was the
best. Another said he had seen the late
Delehanty drive the ball about one hundred
feet over center field fence in a contest in
Brooklyn. At this statement the others
looked at the narrator with expressions Of
doubt on their faces.
But the climax came. when the last man
10 speak said: You can talk about your
long hits, but some years ago | saw Pete
Browning of the old Louisville team nail
the sphere for the longest journey l ever
saw ball take. 1t was In Atlantic CITY
and when Lewis Rogers Browning landed
upon that ball with a big yellow hickory
bat the sphere sailed out into the briny
waters OF the ocean and foated out OF
sight 1t is going yet | suppose"
The group of fans dispersed
4 x X x
The English foot bali game. now be.
coming popular in this country remarked
an army officer to Star reporter, is fire.
quently miscalled 'socker The right nam,
OF the game is soccer pronounced as Il
spelled 'so-sher.' 1t Is simply corruption
of the word association The fact Is thai
soccer is the game played under the rules
of the English Foot Ball Association. az
distinct from the Rugby game which 1:
governed bN the Rugby rules. -