The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-05-25
WASHINGTON LETTER
Especial Correspondence.l

President Roosevelt is planning q
swing through the country in 1907. He
has announced several times that he
does not propose to indulge In another
tour of the United States during the
remainder of his term unless great po-
litical and other questions shall make
1t necessary for him to 60 before the
people to push forward his plans. He
has turned down hundreds Of invita-
tons in the last few months to take
part In various functions during the
present year.
For 1907, however, the President has
already accepted one invitation, and
indicated that he may accept another.
He has promised to speak to the stu
dents Of the Missouri Agricultural Col
lege at Columbia, Mo-, June 5. and has
been invited by Governor Warner Of
Michigan to speak to the students of
the Michigan Agricultural College Ell
Their the day before or the day after he
goes to Missouri.
Surplus Indian Lands.
Clarence B. Douglass. editor of the
Muskogee Phoenix, the only daily
paper in Indian Territory. recently had
q short conference with the president
about the proposition to allow certain
Indians to dispose Of their surplus
lands.
I'VE are tired of the tenant SYSTEM"
said Mr.. Douglass, "and want to see II
we cannot bring about a change In the
law which will permit Indians less
than full blood to dispose Of their sur
plus allotments. We do not advocate
a law permitting the Indians to sell
their homesteads, but think conditions
would be much improved If they were
allowed to sell portions which they do
not need.
mo responsible or respectable farm
ers are going to come into the territory
as mere tenants. The kind we have
there now stay during one crop and
leave the land In worse condition than
they found It, If the Indians could sell
their surplus lands they would secure
good neighbors. whose associations
would do them great deal of good"
To Boom the Capital.
That Washington possesses natural
advantages equal to and in many cases
better than those of many of the lead.
ing and most prosperous manufactur.
ing cities Of the United States will soon
be set forth in an attractive form in a
booklet to be published by the board Of
trade and distributed all over the coun-
try.
The publication and distribution Of
q booklet and literature concerning
Washington are purposed to correct the
view which Is held by many influential
persons that Washington is not
manufacturing city and that the in
PRODUCTION Of Industries in the District
would serve to rob it Of its chief
charms
Presidents Baseball Pass.
A gold mounted pass to all American
league baseball games was presented
to President Roosevelt the other day
by President Ban Johnson of the
American league, who was introduced
to Mr.. Roosevelt by Henry L. West, q
commissioner Of the District of Co
lumbia. The two presidents had a
pleasant chat about out of door sports
In general, baseball in particular.
Dahlla Blooms All Summer.
People who grow dahlias will be in
terested in an announcement by the
agricultural department that it has pro-
duced dahlia that will bloom all sum-
mer. This means that the department
has converted late fall flower into a
summer bloomer. An agent of the de-
partment who was in Mexico came
across an Insignificant looking flower
growing wild. He sent a specimen to
the department. 1t was a dahlia. but |
Its flower was Insignificant and Of a
pale yellow white. The only peculiarly
about the plant was that It started |
blooming In the early spring and kept |
on blooming all summer. It was plac-
ed in the care Of Mr.. Oliver, the plant
5uggler, who, by q judicious crossing |
and twisting Of its natural proclivities, !
finally produced a plant that not only
will bloom all summer, but will bear
large crimson flower as fine a. any
autumn blooming dahlia.
R1xey to the PAillDplnes.
Surgeon General Rixey Is planning q
trip to the Philippines to inspect the
government hospitals. In a few days
he will go to Norfolk for that purpose,
but the Philippines trip will not be
taken until the latter part Of May.
when Mrs. Rixey will probably accom-
pany him. The trip will take about
three months.
Temperance Crusade.
A crusade is now going on in Wash