The National tribune., 1907-08-22
THE

Tho Attorney General in Manila ha
been instructed by the Department o
Justice at Washington 10 file suit agains
the Standard Oil Company to recove
100000 import duty on an old CLAIM
dating back to the time when the mill
tary turned over the government of tn
islands to the civil authorities.
The amount represents the differenc
between the Dingley rate and the pres
ent tariff.
Mrs. James Mcmillan, widow of tn
late United States Senator James Nc
MILAN. has announced the engagement
of her daughter, Miss Amy Mcmillan
to Lieut.-Col. Sir John Harrington. Brit
ish Envoy Extraordinary and Ministe
Plenpotentiary to Abyssinia. The mar
. . riagc will probably take place at Eagl,
Head, Manchester-by -by-thc-Sea, in Octo
Der. Miss Mcmillan was maid of honor
, at the marriage of Baroness Won Ket
tier, whose husband was killed by tn,
Boxers in Peking. The Mcmillan nHar
! rington wedding is to be very quiet
owing to the fact that the Mcmillan
family is in mourning.
Lieut-Gen. H. C. Corbin, when asked
what he had to say about the announced
Intention of his friends at his old home
Batavia, to nominate him for Congress
in the Sixth Ohio District. said:
Il am not asking anything from my
people. but there is nothing / would re-
fuse them. I am not ambitious. 1 am
la plain American citizen. accustomed to
obey commands. 1 would do anything
to serve my people if they wished 1t So
The Sixth District has had Il factional
fight on hand for several years. but it Is
believed by many that with Gen. Corbin
as the Republican candidate all friction
within the ranks would be eliminated.
Fred w. Carpenter, private secretary
| to Mr.. Taft, will accompany the latter
on his trip to the Philippines in Sep
tember, returning with him by way of
the Trans-Siberian Railroad and Europe
to this country. Mr.. Carpenter acted in
the capacity of private secretary to Mr..
Taft while the latter was Governor
| General of the Philippines, and has
many friends in the islands. He will
join Secretary Taft at Seattle, from
which place they sail for Manila Sept.
10.
General orders to the Army prescribe
that national color or standard, made
of bunting or other suitable material
but in all other respects similar to the
silken national color or standard. shall
be furnished to every organization of
the Army.
These colors and standards are for
use at drills and on marches and on all
service other than battles. campaigns
and occasions of ceremony; but battal-
ions and squadrons detached from regi-
mental headquarters and garrisons of
coast artillery posts other than district
headquarters may use them upon all oc-
casionS. Not more than one national
color or standard will be carried when
the regiment or any part of Il is as
sembled.
Charles Emory Smith. Postmaster
General under President Mckinley and
later with President Roosevelt, is to be
married again in October The first
wife of Mr.. Smith had been dead just
a year to a day when the announcement
of the second marriage to be was made.
Acting Secretary of State Alvey A.
Adee tells more jokes than he does state
secrets. When the newspaper army that
does service at the Department assem-
bled there the other day for Mr.. Adee's
o'clock levee he was ready with an il
Illustrative anecdote. He had no news
to give out and the boys" kicked.
There seems to be lot going on.
said Mr.. Adee, but when it is boiled
down there isn't much to it after all. |
1t reminds me of a sponge that was
presented to me in Spain a few years |
ago. 1t was large yellow sponge, big |
as my head. 1t looked dirty, and 1 told
my man to take it out and wash it. He |
brought back something the next dayi
of the size and general appearance of a |
black walnut.
He told me it was my sponge and
that he had boiled it down to that size
and il had changed to that color So /
whom Enii InIvp w a
now seems very large will be about the
size of a black walnut, like my sponge"
But your sponge was not SO attrac-
tive after it had been boiled down."
suggested newspaper man.
NO, but the yellow was all boiled out
Of it."
The War Department has decided
that deserter apprehended by a civil
officer authorized by United States stat
ute to apprehend deserters from the
Army is in the custody of the United
States. and. under the decisions of the
Supreme Court, State Courts have no
to interfere
1t has been decided that the conceal
nent by an applicant for enlistment of
he fact of a previous application to en-
list, which fact. if disclosed, would have
,aused his rejection, will. in the event
,f his enlistment. constitute an act of
Tauuulent enlistment.
A deSerter who is in the Philippine
Stands. in immediate contact with the
authorities, still passing under ,
lis military name, is not considered to ,
De absent from the United States in the ,
sense of the statute of limitation, and ,
hat statute does not operate to prevent
he granting of a deserter's release in
'uch a case. II
A fake check for the exact amount of
he fine recently imposed upon the |,
Standard Oil Company by Judge Lands. ,
It Chicago, was received at the Treas f
Try Department Friday from an un-
;nown sender.
1t was mailed at Toledo, O., was
lrawn on bank there. and was signed {
~ the Standard Oil Company and John i
D. Rockefeller. The receipt of the |
heck caused much amusement among |
he Treasury officials.
That the War Department contem- d
'lates the assignment of a brigade of I
roOps TO Fort ID. A. Russell, Wyo.. /
hereby making it brigade post, is in t
Heated by orders issued placing Brig
len. Charles Morton in command there. h
From Baden-Baden comes the reDort s
# the illness of Mrs. l.. u. Letter, who
or some time has been stopping at the v
fOtpl SteDh3nie At ono tirna ba, cnp l.,