The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-13
CRIMINAL DOCK
FOR OIL
MEN
Roosevelt Socks the
Standard With
Big Stick.
CMan Special to the Advertiser.)

Ia tMdll Speclai 10 the AuNertlSer.J
y WASHINGTON, D. c., September 80.
The President has come and has gone
again. His special car is speeding
westward, and behind him is the real
ization of four feverish, pulsating, pro-
gressive days. The shadow of high
officialdom was constantly athwart his
threshold. They brought bundles of
important official papers, which were
spread out on the broad mahogany
desk where the President sits and de-
liberates. Many important matters
were decided, as high officials were
aware while they folded up their bum
dies of papers and started back for
their respective departments.
1t was race against official tasks
for a bear hunt. The President so
stated Thursday, when forty newspa-
per correspondents were admitted to
the cabinet room for a half hours run
ming conversation. The country was
led to believe that he had decided to
go to the Louisiana canebrakes any
way. AS a matter of fact, his deci-
sion to go bear hunting depended upon
his ability to catch up with his work
When his train departed from Wash
ington Sunday. the President had not
said whether he had caught up, but
well-informed people hereabouts be-
lieve he had and that the bear hunt
is a certainty. The extensive prep
arations for it are going forward in
Northern Louisiana The nearer the
President gets to the hunting ground.
as he voyages down the Mississippi,
the greater the certainty that he will
go hunting. He wants to go.
FOUR STRENUOUS DAYS.
The country will be talking for |
month yet about the things the Pres |
ident did in his strenuous four days. /
He had an international tennis match
on the White House courts with the
Lord Bishop of London. He decided to /
approve the constitution of the new I
State of Oklahoma, although with a /
wry face, because its provisions do not
suit him and would have been dis
approved but for the mammoth ma
jority by which the people adopted the
new document. He conferred with
Special Attorney Kellogg, who is con-
ducting the Standard Oil hearing, and
told him to go ahead and soak the
Standard Oil magnates-if possible, to
get them into the criminal dock. He
told a vivid western anecdote, show
ing that he has not the slightest in
fanfinY1 of rnaa1Iino he .
fleet to go to the Pacific. He conferred
about a dozen important naval mat
ters. decided the award of contracts
for nearly s3,000,o00 worth of subma-
rines, directed Secretary MetcaIf to
inquire why the navy is just letting
contracts for 24-knot torpedo boat de-
stroyers, when fore ,gn navies are
building 33-knot boats of the same
class, spent an hour and thirty-five
minutes discussing with representa-
tives of American vessels about the
advisability of letting contracts to c
them for carrying 10000 tons of coal !
to San Francisco. and finally gave di- :
rections TO the Navy Department as to
what should be done. He announced 1
that he approved of the appointment q
Of Wu Ting Fang as Minister from d
China. although he had not had the
opportunity of consulting with the
State Department about 1t. And he d
lid a hundred other things that fill
ID his four days stay in Washing =
on with constant activity.
1OUNG ROOSEVELT HAS SNAKES. a
A very unusual and thrilling Incl Il
lent was a visit his young son Quen- r.
in made to the White House offices ri
with three snakes. He had a
own upon his fathers desk to the di
of Attorney General
and two green snakes, cl
Which were in a paper bag. The Pres OF
dent shooed his snake-lOving progeny Sc
Ito an anter&pm where Colonel Pete" sc
iepburn of iowa and Postmaster Gen. bI
raj Meyer were waiting. The lad, F
loving about on his ball-bearing roll ne
r skates, frightened the Postmaster CT
eneral away and gave Uncle Pete" m
re jimjams by enlisting his aid TO oil
uIl the king snake out of his (Quen- bu
n'sl coat sleeve. 1t had crawled up ar
lere so far that its head was well
to the youngsters shirt. Snakes tn
ave been his playmates at Oyster tn
ny during the past summer, and two on
them were brought over on the Gil
residential special Wednesday and to-
ven to a local animal and bird kn
amer for safe keeping during the tir
inter This same bird and animal fri
amer gave Quentin the snakes with no
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