The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
LETTER


Besides tie Usual staff of Stcnogra-
pliers. Mae seq It service officers will
be on duty at O..ster Bay during the
presidents vacation. They are in
charge of James Sloan and Stephen
Connell. the White House men who are
detailed regularly to look after the
president. Chief Wilkie selected the
men. and they know personally nearly
all people likely to call at Sycamore
Hill. Ordinarily nobody is permitted
to approach the presidents home un-
less he may have an engagement with
the president, made through Secretary
Loeb.
Such a regulation Is necessary that
the president may not be overrun with
callers whose business is not of sufd-
cient Importance to demand his per-
sonal attention. 1t occasionally hap
pens that friends Of the president.
whom he may desire to see. call at
Sycamore Hill without previously hay
ing made a definite engagement. In
| such instances Sloan and Connell exer-
else their discretion about admitting
them. They make no mistakes. They
are not there to make mistakes.
The President's Guard.
It is practically impossible for a Wis
itor to reach the president at night
during his sojOurn at Sycamore Hill
unless he shall have made an engage
ment. No discretionary authority is
lodged with the officers on duty mt
night.
The duties performed by the secret
service ut Oyster Bay are exacting, but
not onerous on the individual officers.
The men are on duty In tricks and
have ample time for rest and recrea-
ton.
The president always has been just
q little restless under the constant
guard by which he Is surrounded, but
his friends and advisers will not con
sent to its removal, and he submits as
gracefully a. possible. Many times.
however, in the course of the summer
he goes away from Sycamore Hill n
tirely unguarded. He takes long walks
through the woods or goes for boat
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back many miles from his home. On
these excursions he is unaccompanied
by secret service officers. The thought
Of personal danger never occurs to
him.
Work Of the Fish COmmissi0n.
According to the statistics Of the
lsh commission, a total Of I. 759,475.O 39
food fishes were Matched and distrib-
uted in 1904. In previous years the
distribution has been as follows: 1885.
173, 666, OS3: 1890, 3~7O.54S,OOO; 1895, &c.
015,S52; 1900, 1,O56,371.89S; 1900, 1,164,-
446, 754; 1901, 1,173,SS3.462; 1902, 1895,
543,374, and 1903, 1,226,O57.475.
In 1890 it cost $436 per million to
hatch and distribute fishes by the gov
eminent. but the work has been SO
thoroughly studied and systematized
by the officials connected with the fish
commission that they had reduced the
cost per 100000 to 1923 in 1905.
Propagating the salmon.
George NJ. Bowers. commissioner OF
fisheries, says there is a possibility of
the extinction Of the red salmon In
Alaska waters, and the sock eye salmon
will also be depleted unless something
Is done to propagate it and protect 1t.
He will visit the waters in which these
fishes abound this sumine for the pur-
pose of remedying the conditions which
seem to tend to the destruction of these
valuable fishes.
Mr.. Bowers says the fishery bureau
has taken more salmon eggs ut the
Baird (Cal.) station OIL the Sacramento
river than the year before. and as a re-
suit the bureau has ~replenished the
Sacramento river with the famous fish,
This year the bureau has planted over
10000 600 more salmon from the sta.
ton at Baird alone at small stations
in the Sacramento river and in the Nc.
Cloud and Pitt rivers, which empty In
the Sacramento. The bureau is also
propagating @.OOO.OOO Holsters at the
station at Boothbay Harbor, Me-,
which Mr.. Bowers hopes to increase to
13O,OOO,O0O within the next month.
OF Oklahoma.
Oklahoma, the latest acquisition to
the Union of states, consists Of 7O,23C
square miles in area and is slightly
smaller than Kansas. but larger than
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Missouri, Wiscon'
sin, Indiana and Iowa. Oklahoma Is
rich In mineral deposits, while the Goa
beds of Indian Territory produce some
thing like 100000 tons annually. The
state is also rich in natural gas, OF
deposits, salt. granite. asphalt, gyp
sum-, lead and zinc. The state is con
nected with -four corners Of the United
States by railroads, 5000 miles Of MAR
trackage being laid in the state. Thu
taxable property Of the state Is valued
at $500 ,OOO, to say nothing Of lant
owned by the Indians, which Is ex
empt. while the bank deposits exceed
$38.OOO,OOO.
The constitution Of the new state vii
be framed in November by 112 dele
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