The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-25
ROUGH RIDERS WIN OFFICES.
FEDERAL JOBS FOR ROOSEVELT'S
FORMER TROOPERS.
twenty-five Per Cent. Of Those IN Oklahoma
ana Indian Territory Draw Salaries
From Uncle Sanl--ROugh Riding,
Therefore, thought 10 Have Paid.

ana indian Territory Draw Salaries
From Uncle Saul-RouBh Riding,
Therefore, Thought 10 Have Paid,
GUTHRIE, Okla, March 24.-Rough riding
paid. This wat demonstrated to the people
of the Southwest when Capt. Frank trantz
was appointed Governor OF Oklahoma at
xs 900 a year and Charles +. Hunter, presl.
dent OF the National Rough Riders Asso-
citation, was made clerk Of the United Statee
District Court for the Third District, with
headquarters at Oklahoma City, an Office
carrying fees estimated at Sl2 900 a year
and considered the best paying political
Job In Oklahoma.
The records OF the Rough Riders Associa-
ton show that the regiment has followed
Col, Roosevelt in his charge up the heights
Of political prefement as successfully as
Il charged UP at San Juan Hill. OF the
ORIGINAL 800 members, Of the First United
States Volunteer Cavalry recruited from
Oklahoma and Indian Territory by Lieut.
Col. Roosevelt eighty-hve are now resi-
dents OF the two Territories and nearly
rs per cent. Of these are holding Offices
under the Federal Government.
Frank Frantz did not want to be Cover.
nor OF Oklahoma. He had been postmaster
at Enid, and Usage Indian agent at Paw
huska, and had several years work mapped
out In the latter Office when the Governor
ship was rendered him. He was induced
to accept the office only by the strongly
expressed personal desire OF President
Roosevelt. Frantz was a Lieutenant In
Troop A and was made captain when
Bucky o'Neil was killed at San Juan.
Arthur Porter, United States Marshal
for the Southern District Of indian Terri
tory, al a salary Of $500 a year, and Ben
Colbert, whom he succeeded, were both
well toward the front in the race up San
Juan Hill.
s.. A. Mo Ginniss Of Oklahoma City. re-
Gently appointed a clerk for the Dawes
Commission at a salary Of $500 o year,
distinguished himself in tho early days of
the Cuban campaign by working incess-
antly for forty-eight hours at shoeing the
hitherto unshod Western bronchos for his
troop when no one else in the company
could be found to take the job.
Rem Daniels figures in the chronicles Of
the DOING Of San Juan and Las Guasirnas.
He has been nominated as United States
Marshal Of Arizona by the. President, but
the Senate has held up ;, the a,t RSmi1 "a Dr.
fore that he lived at Dodge City during the
wild md woolly stage Of It's development:
Red Musgroye, formerly a letter carrier
a. II Reno OF. = 81 Is Si now w se5v me,s si x oGpn amy
less wages, in a Federal prison. When Presi-
| dent Roosevelt attended the annual reunion
| Of the Rough Riders. Association at San
Antonio, Tex, last fall Musgrove's desire
| official honesty and he stole a letter con-
tanning $500, with which he and a couple
Of comrades had a hilarious week at the
reunion.
Chris Madsen. for four years Chief Deputy
Chickasha, T.. T., viii have a similar office
under John Alternately at Guthrie April /,
at about $1,000 a year. Abernathy Ii the
Comanche county coyote hunter recently
homa by the President because, 1t Is said,
while riding at full speed during the hunt
in the big pasture last fell he caught wolves
and killed them with his bare hands.
Jim Hidden, from Clayton, n. NJ, viii be
No one 10 Guthrie knows Hadden and it 10
presumed he was suggested by the Presi-
dent.
William Mitchell, a member Of the Guthrie
police force, will also be deputy marshal
II" Ira i. Hi wiz be appointed clerk Of the
court for the Sixth Oklahoma district by
Judge Panooast. The place pays between
$4,000 and 81 900 a year.
Joseph w. Proctor, m Oklahoma rough
rider, was recently appointed a deputy
United States marshal for Nebraska on the
recommendation OF the President, who
found that Proctor was q street car con-
ductor in Omaha.
William Simms, who was left on the field
at San Juan for dead and was crippled for
life by a fra gment Of a shell which struck
him in the right side, has been appointed
court bailif at Whit, !. t., by Judge
Human F. Parker, Jr.
j. NJ. jackson is a deputy United States
marshal at Pauls Valley, l. T., with fees
Amounting to 81, 900 a year.
William Bailey of Winnewood, l. T. is
constable for the Purcell-Pauls Valley, I, T.,
district at 81 800 a year.
Lon Muxlow, court crier for the Okla
homa Supreme Court and also for the First
District Court at Guthrie, gets 81 900 a year.
j. Rea Hall, the cowboy parson and the fins,
man up San Juan Hill, died in the arms u
Muxlow, who was his bunkie.
NJ, r.. Randolph is postmaster at Wau-
komis. o. T., at a 81 1000 year.
Mrs. Robert Huston, widow OF 4 rough
rider Captain, is an applicant for the post
office at Guthrie, formerly held by her hus-
band.
There is an Oklahoma rough rider on
the Indian police force under the Indian
agent at Muskogee, I. T., and another was
| recently appointed to the Supreme Court of
Arizona. Seven other former rough riders
hold civil service places in oklahoma and
Indian Territory.