The National tribune., 1906-08-16

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Bryan used to board with Bride when
he was member of Congress. and il
| was stated with some degree of truth
that had Bryan been elected President
Bride was to be his Secretary of the In
terror.
Hoke Smith. former member of
Cleveland's Cabinet. expects to be the
next Governor of Georgia.
Here's little story about a wonder
full new dam in the Rio Grande at El
Paso. Tex. told by a Fort Worth man
who is much interested in it:
| "The new dam will cost about s5,-
100000. and will be the largest irriga-
ton project that has yet been attempt
ed. A solid wall will be built above the
city between two mountains forming a
natural gateway. and lake five miles
wide by 90 miles long will be made.
The Rio Grande in the Summertime be-
comes very dry. and in Winter 1t Is
often rushing food. This dam will
regulate the river, SO that it will supply
not only the city of FL Paso. but the
farms which will dot the thousands of
acres to be reclaimed.
"If one walks six miles up the stony
sides of Mount Franklin, which looks
down on FL Paso. he will see far down
the Rio Grande Valley a little green
of rock and sand and cacti. The geo.
logical formation there is said to be the
oldest on the continent. In five years
/ from now you will see green fields and
| irrigation bitches as far as the eye can
reach. The dam will do a great deal
for the city in the way of making 1t a
center for the farms thus brought into
| being. As the gateway to Mexico. ii
will become a city of 100000 popula-
| tiOn in five wears more" !"
Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris has gone
to England to spend several months
with the parents of her late husband.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt has finished her
18th book of postal cards. and is about
to begin on a collection which has come
from her sister, Mrs Nicholas Long
worth, who has sent souvenirs almos =:
daily since she arrived on the other
side. Cards pile in on Mrs. Roosevelt
| from friends abroad and even from the
Consuls and diplomatic officers. These
treasures, according to the New York
Press. are divided between Miss Ethel
and the two younger boys. She has
beaten her brothers in the race OF ar
ranging books. She has several sets Of
war pictures from China and Japan and
a hundred or more cards showing types
! in the Orient and the South Pacific
Archipelago.
| There is another new wrinkle in Civil
Service examinations. The Deputy Rev
enue Collectors, better known as the
raiders" of moonshine distilleries as
we'll as the gaugers. clerks, storel.eep-
ers and office deputies, must pass Civil
| Service examination. Presumably the
Deputies who raid the distilleries will
be taught how TO creep up on their
quarry. and will be examined as to just
how to shoot them. handcuff them. just
how to knock in the heads of illicitiy-
barreled whisky, just how many Of the
dogs 1t will be wise to kill, hJw the
women, who are the worst fighters i'll
| the moonshine district, are to be
handled. and the exact degree of cour-
tesy that shall be extended to them
really. you know, the examination of a
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue
certainly will be funny.
In order that the American people
may appreciate the merits Of the Shire
breed of horses and so increase the de-
mand for them. King Edward and Lord
| Rothschild have sent over a consign-
ment to be exhibited both in this coun-
try and Canad1. They arrived on the
Atlantic Transport Line steamship Min
netonka, in charge Of Edmund Beck.
| The lot is made UP Of four stations.
| three mares, two geldings and a foal,
and every animal has been selected with
| the greatest care, and a majority are
| prize winners.
They will be shipped at once 20 To-
ronto. where they will be shown at the
National Show in August. So far it is
planned to exhibit them at the Central
Show at Ottawa. the Northeastern Fairs
at London and Ontario and the Ameri-
can Royal Exhibit at Kansas City.
| Lord Rothschild has sent his famous
mare Guelder Rose to represent the
brood mares. She is by a son of the
famous Harold, out of Tudor Rose, a
daughter of Harold.
| John Holmes Goodenow, who for
many years represented this country as
Secretary of Legation and Charge DAT
faires at ConstantinopIe died at Atlantic
City last week. Mr.. Goodenow was born
at Alfred, Me-, about Is years ago.
w. G. Stewart, a business man Of San
Francisco. who is in the city, says
that the big town looks like a mining
camp just now. Every structure erect
| ed since the earthquake and fire Is tenn
porary, and majority Of them are
| wooden shacks. Van Ness avenue, the
former fashionable residence thorough
fare, is now lined with them. Over the
tIOunQdIlOnS OF 1nllUOUdlTeS palaces
wooden sheds. rooted with tar paper,
give shelter for the most fashiona Bile
| shopping places. Entrance to many of
| them Is over stone or marble steps.
Drug stores, telegraph offices. candy
shops, dining-rooms and every variety
of small shops is doing business in
frame shacks standing in the middle of
| the streets. and canvas signs in glaring
black letters announce to the passer-by
that rlrnnrfnfnrs 1p fnr tra 10
downtown the same conditions ex-
ist. The roadways are clear. but only
in a few instances has the debris been
removed from the sidewalks, with the
result that the thoroughfares are
choked constantly with a moving mass
Of humanity, wagons and street cars.
In some cases the streets are in the
same condition they were a week after
the fire, and vehicles are compelled to
downtown districts The street-car lines
are only temporary, and electric-light
power is inadequate. Yet everybody is
working for the upbuilding of the city
on broader lines than before"
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| Capt. Andrew =. Drum, 81 years old.
for the last IA years Superintendent of
the Arlington National Cemetery, died
in the Lee Mansion, last week after a six
months Illness, from Brfght's disease.
Capt. Drums wife and his son. Lieut..
Andrew B. Drum, U. s. NJ. c., were at
i the veterans bedside when the end
came.
At the age Of % Capt. Drum enlisted
as a private in the 18th Ohio. After
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