The National tribune., 1906-11-08

under consideration the establishment
of various parks to protect the prehis-
toric ruins of Arizona, New Mexico,
Colorado and Utah, which recently
We're made the subject of a report by
Prof. Edgar l.. Hewitt, Assistant Eth
nologist of the Bureau Of American
Ethnology, and fellow of the Archeo-
logical Institute If America.
The new Navy. Medical School Hos
pitai, which the Government has had
in course of construction for some time,
is now complete. 1t is claimed by those
in charge that no appliance known to
medical science and no instrument ac-
cepted by the best surgeons has been
omitted in the equipment of the in
stitution. The institution will be used
only for the more difficult cases of sur
gerry, and for the care of patients suf-
fering with diseases requiring extraor-
dinary treatment. Special attention has
been paid to fittings. This is especially
true of the operating room. 1t is as
nearly germ-proof as is possible. The
floors. walls and ceiling are all tiled,
and the only woodwork is in the doors.
These, however, are made of one piece
of hardwood. and there are no joints to
catch microbes or bacteria. The furni-
ture is all of glass or iron, painted
white, and the whole room is washed
floor. walls, ceiling and furniture
every day. with an antiseptic solution.
The special pride of DR.. de Broull and
DR.. Clark, resident physicians. is the
instrument case. No surgical instru-
ment has been omitted, and it is said
that the collection of instruments is
the most valuable in the United States.
In a few months the officials plan to
have a number of other departments
added will be carried out.
President Roosevelt is devoted to
tennis. The finest tennis grounds in
this section of the country are just
outside of the Executive offices in the
White House backyard, so to speak.
The President is tremendous worker
and after six or seven hours in his
Office wants to stretch his legs and
timber up his muscles, so almost every
pleasant day. clad in negligee shirt, old
trousers and rubber-soled shoes. he
hikes out into the tennis court to have
a try with some of his friends, who are
all ready for go with him. The Presi-
dent plays most of the time in a double
set with Jean A. A. J. Jusserand. the
French ambassador: Afford w. Cooley,
Assistant Attorney-General of the Unit
ed States. and Lieut.. Roscoe G. Bull
mer. of the Navy. Others who play
with him are Lawrence c. Murray, AS
sistant Secretary of Commerce and La
of Corporations, and Herbert Knox
Smi,:s Deputy Commissioner of Cor
porations. ambassador Jusserand is
81, but plays a splendid game.
Congress certainly was mean to the
Alaskan Delegate. Mr.. Waskey. If itI
had not interfered, the Alaskan Dele
prince Cupid the Hawaiian Dele
gate. for Mr.. Waskey lives at Nome.
which is nearly as far from Seattle,
Washington State, as that town is from
Washington City, and nearly third
longer journey than the Hawaiian Dele
gate has to make. Instead of permit
ting Mr. Waskey to draw 10 cents a
mile each way, as all the other Dele
gates and Members of Congress do in
going to and coming from their homes
to Washington, Congress pats a clause
into the Alaska Delegate law providing
that the Delegate from the Territory
should be paid only his actual expenses
from Alaska to Seattle and the regular
rate from Seattle to Washing
ton.
Ex-United States Senator J. .. Wal
ker. of Fayetteville. Ala. last week
fell down a stairway leading to hisI
Office and was killed, his skull being
fractured. He was rs years of age.
The President has commissioned J.
D. Terrill, who is chief law clerk in
the Office of Controller of the Treasury,
as Receiver of Public Moneys in Cuba
under Gov. Magoon. Mr.. Terrill was
Auditor of Cuba under the American
occupation. preceding thel
Palma Administration.
1t is quite significant, perhaps. that
the President took to the woods in the
closing days of the campaign. Took to
went to Pine Knob, Mrs.
Roosevelt's country home in Albemarle
Va, where he "holed up," sol
to speak. until time to start to Oyster
Bay to vote. Furthermore, the Presi-
dent took a gun with him. the pre-
sumption being that he intended to use
it in case of necessity. Small game
was all he found, but it is thought like
Iy that in those strenuous closing days,
IL New York politicians had had the
to send an emissary to him
Imploring his Intervention in New YORK
politics. that the gun would have been
used on bigger" game. The President
really went down to Pine Knob orl
seems to know just ex-
actly what the place Is called, its first
name being Plain Dealing-but thel
President went down there for the pur
pose of writing his Message to Con-
gress. He took along with him his
secretary, Mr.. Latta. and his physi-
be ready for emergencies
and Mrs Roosevelt. who is his comfort
at all times. and without whom he has
never left the White House for more
than a day or two at time. The
President was attired for trough |
house, in old clothes, with a big mill
tary overcoat, a white slouch hat and
carried his own gun. Mrs. Roosevelt
was plainly attired in black. They re-
turned to Washington or Sunday.
The aid of the District Commission
ers has been asked in the effort of the
German ambassador to secure infor- |
nation concerning a sum of money!
which is said to have been left on de- |
post in Washington by Josef Dukrete.
who was killed while serving in the
Union army during the civil war. |
The ambassador first appealed to the |
State Department for information Of
Dukrete. 1t was referred to the War
where it was found Jo-
seph Ducret, a native of Otterstadt, |
Speyer. Bavaria, was mustered intot
service at New York Aug. 80. 1861, rs
a private in Co: F, 46th n. Y, and that
he died June 25, 1863, in the general
hospital at Hickmans Bridge. Ky. Mol
record was found to show that Ducret
deposited any money during the period
Of his military service.
Mr. Sternburg, the ambassador, saysl
that it is claimed that DDkrete emf |
grated to the United States in 1850, |
and was killed in the civil war afterl