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Oklahoma Politics.

Editor National Tribune: 1 do not
suppose that you intended TO inject sew
eral news items into your editorial on
The Oklahoma ConSti tuition" printed
in your issue of Apri. 4. but there are
some statements contained therein
which will be considered news to resi-
dents of this Territory. Where. in
speaking of the personnel of the con-
vention, you say that IAN Indian was
elected President, and everywhere the
Indians were in control" you rather
surprise the people in this section. 1t
is true that President Murray's wife is
one-eighth Indian, but that hardly
makes a fHll-blood of him. The fact
Is there was less Indian blood in the
Constitutional Convention than there is
in the United States Senate, and l do
not think that you would say that the
Senate is dominated" by the Indians.
can hardly conceive that the Editor of
The National Tribune has fallen into
the error so common in the East, of
thinking that all the residents Of In
dian Territory are red men.
Again. you say that in the proposed
State sit is estimated there are about
100 Democrats to every IL Republic
cans Wonder who furnished that es-
innate. The fact that there were but
IL Republicans to 100 Democrats in the
Constitutional Convention does not
prove tHdt tne VotlnS strength OF the
respective parties bears the same ratio
In the election for delegates to the Con-
vention several things, purely local in
character, caused many Republicans to
vote for the Democratic candidate. In
this County, for instance, which is nor
mally Republican, the Democratic can
didates had a majority of about 500.
All know that this vote is no criterion
by which to estimate the relative
strength of the parties.-J. F. Ward,
Apache, Okla.
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The McCumber RIll.

Editor National Tribune: think that
the Headquarters. G. A. R., of the
United States should draft resolutions
and forward a copy of same to each
House of the United States Congress
thanking him in the name of the Co. A.
r. of America for his commemorate
actions in the passage OF the McCum-
Der bill, and also send a copy to Sem
ator McCumber, the father of the bill.
look upon the bill as being the most
liberal measure that has ever been
past by Congress in behalf of the SOL
diers of the civil war, benefiting as It
does class of soldiers who were I'M
able to get what they were justly en-
titled to under any other act. Soldiers.
many of whom served from three to
four years, always on duty. but having
no hospital record, found it impossible
TO secure pension If they did IL
would invariably be small pittance Of
Sc per month.-W. r. Oake, CO, A,
26th Iowa, Sabula, Iowa.
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Veterans In the City.

Rev. j. S. Thomas, South McCallister
1. L. Comrade Thomas, who was in
Washington attending the Baptist Con.
Vention, was boy in East Tennessee
at the time of the war; and enlisted in
Battery e. 1st Tenn. l.. A., in which he
served until the end of the struggle. He
was one of those who captured the gun
at Salisbury. of which there has been
SO much said recently in the paper.
After the war he gained an education,
entered the Baptist ministry, and for
the last IS years has had charge of a
chapel car in the Far West This chapel
car system is one of the magnificent
missionary efforts of the Baptists 1t
provides the thinly-settled regions of
the West with opportunities for wor-
ship and instruction. A fine Car is built
which will comfortably seat 100 people,
is well warmed and lighted and carries
an organ. going from place to place to
hold meetings which have been every
where unusually successful.
Rev. Alexander Blackburn, Salem,
Mass. Comrade Blackburn served in
the saith ILL.,, a splendid fighting regi-
ment, and entered the ministry after he
was mustered out.
Capt. George H. Pettis was In the
city last week attending the National
Convention of Sealers Of Weights and
Measures. Comrade Pettis, who was
captain OF Co. X. LIST Cal, and First
Lieutenant and Adjutant, LIST N. Mex,
Is the official Sealer Of Weights and
Measures for the State of Rhode Island,
and 10 well known to our readers thru
MS work as Secretary Of the California
Providence, r. I.
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A Veteran Journalist,

Daniel F. Shriner has an unsurpas sed
record among newspaper men of the
United States. having established sc
newspapers, all but four of which are
in existence to-day, and is still, at the
age of rs, hale and hearty. He has
been in the newspaper business for SIS
years, and is now running a printing
establishment in Dayton, o. He began
at the age of 16 as printers devil in
country office. and after learning his
trade located in Waverly. o., where he
started the Wilmington Republican. He
sold this out at a good profit; then went
to Jacksonville, KY, where he started
the Miners Journal, which he sold and
began looking around for another town
In which paper was a long-felt want.
me war came to interrupt this, and as
he was intensely patriotic he at once
enlisted in Milroy's scouts and served
thru the war. AS soon as he was dis
charged he resumed his business of
starting newspapers building them IN
to paying propositions and then selling
them out, and in the course of this
operation located all over the country,
from tho Atlantic to the Pacific.
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The National Tribune,
(F'rom the Fountain and Voice, Mount
Vernon, MOI


This paper is published at Washing
ton, ID. c.. and Is in its 25th year. II
is published at 81 per year, and is the
only paper in the United States that is
absolutely published in the interests of
the Union soldiers. There is no soldier
but what ought TO be a subscriber to
this paper. 1t is TO the soldier what
the church paper is to the Christian
church member. There is nothing that
Is OF interest to the soldier but what is
advocated by this paper. That is the
simple way of expressing what can be
FOUND from time to time in The Ma
uonal Tribune. Anything you want to
inquire about relative to the Army or
about anyone will be answered in The
National Tribune. All the pension leg
islation has been Influenced by this pa
per. and it will continue to ask for a
fair pension law that will euualize all
pensions. Besides all that, there is not
weekly in the Union that you can get
the real gist of what is being done in
the way of legislation at Washington
than thru the columns of The National
Tribune. 1t is the most independent
newspaper, and consistent with it. in
the United States. The editor is John
McElroy. who served in an Illinois regi-
ment. The editor of this paper met
him many years ago and became some
what personally acquainted with him.
Send for one sample copy. 1t will only
cost you postal card. or come into nv
Office and l will send for you.
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Wants q Poem.

Mrs. Ada Worden, Albert, Kan.
would be very much obliged to any
comrade il he would send her the poem
entitled, "Onr Marye's flights" It was
written by ]. K. Drury, and published
several years ago in The National Trib-
une. Her father, who was with the I'd
vt. at the time Of the battle, knew the
author well. and she wants to get the
poena for her children - relic Of the
civil war.
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RECENT LITERATURE.
A BATH IN AN ENGLISH TUB. By
Charles Battell Loomis Published
by A. S. Barnes & Co, New York

A BATH IN AN ENGLISH TUB. BY
Charles Battell Loomis Published
by A. S. Barnes & Co, New York
City.
Charles Battell Loomis is a graceful,
agreeable humorist, who has a world
of friends and admirers turnout tho
country who will welcome this last pro-
duction of his pen, which does credit
to his ability and charming talent Of
seeing the bright and humorous side
of things.
THE GREAT HARRY THAw CASE.
By Benjamin H. Atwell. Published
by Laird & Lee. Chicago, Ill.
This is report of the trial, and con-
tains the arguments of the counseis
on both sides.
Magazines and Notes.
In the June number of Smiths Maya.
zine, which is now on the news-stands,
there is an article by E. Idell Zeisleft
which will attract any one who is in
terested in fine houses and artistic fur
nishings 1t is illustrated with fifteen
or more large half-tone pictures Of
the homes of wealthy Americans, both
inside and outside. In the same maya.
zine there Is an article by Annette Aus
tin entitled THE Girl Who Comes to
New York Alone" It tells in narrative
form the story of girl who leaves her
home in Texas and comes to New York
to earn her living. There are short
stories and articles by such writer's az
Holman f. Day. Charles Battell Loomis,
c. II. Forbes-Lindsay, and Edwin L.
Sabin. The magazine is bigger and
more profusely illustrated than any on
the stands.
Ainslee's for June carries a list of
nine short stories, which is rather
unique. To collect that number of a
quality so high and type so DIVERSE
fled is something of feat in magazine
making and one that deserves attention.
story of the West by Roy Norton one
of child interest by Marion Hill, one Of
the detective type by Robert E. Mac
humorous story, one at
which the reader must laugh, whatever
his mood. by F. WaIworth Brown: one
of intense emotional interest by H. F.
Provost Battersby. and others by owen
Oliver. H. B. Marriott Watson, iona
Gale. and Eliza beth Banks, all the best
work of these authors, make a remarks
4 BILE com bination
American Lawn Tennis-This is
the name of a handsome monthly
for the devotees of lawn
tennis. 1t is well illustrated, published
at Plainfield, N. j., and is the official
organ of the American Lawn Tennis
Association.
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Hipparchus, the first astronomer, down
to Darwin. Fine arts are represented
| by Homer, Shakspere, Goethe, Hugo
| Beethoven and several others. The min
| ing panel shows a scene in a mine, and
the agricultural panel harvest scene
| Men building a railroad occupy the
panel on engineering, while the iron
and electricity panel shows workers in
iron and electric factories Naval archi-
| lecture and commerce are depicted by
a sailor holding flag with liberty cap
| on top. by boy studying globe and
by several other symbolic figures.
! Statuets and medaliions of the Amer
leans who have been foremost in the
various professions and arts surround
the respective panels. Among them
are Franklin. Jefferson, Webster. Madi-
son, Henry, Poe, Latrobe. Marshall. Hol-
ley, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.
Howe, Whitney. Peter Cooper, Rowla nd,
Eads, Gen. Casey. Fulton. Ericsson. Ed
fson, Charles Graham Bell, Simon New
comb and others who have won fame
as scientists. inventors, jurists or in
some other way.
Having been given a clean bill of
health by his superiors in the Interior
Department who Investigated charges
against him, Tams Bixby. for many
years Commissioner to the Five Civil
lied Tribes of Indians in the Indian
Territory, has sent his resignation to
Secretary Garfield, to take effect June
80
M. l.. Mott, of North Carolina, who is
an attorney for some of the Indians,
filed charges against Mr.. Bixby some
months ago. A careful investigation of
these brought out facts greatly to the
credit of the Commissioner. and he was
IT.
ing this fact, Mr.. Bixby concluded to
put n stop to further complaints by re-
signing.
He will devote his time to newspa-
per in Indian Territory, of which he is
the owner.
Officers and enlisted men of the Navy
and Marine Corps suffering from tuber-
culosis will soon be accommodated at
the Naval Hospital established at New
Fort Lyon, Colo, for treatment of this
class of cases. Patients OF this charac-
ter have hitherto been sent 20 the Naval
Hospital at Pensacola, Fla. or to the
Army Tuberculosis Hospital at Fort
Rsyard, n. Mex, the Navy not pos
sessing a hospital of its own in a high
altitude. However, the opening of the
new hospital will now enable them to
be transferred to New Fort Lyon.
OF course, the children had to go, but
sure it did look funny to see Gen. Mel
son A. Miles, late Commanding General
of the United States Army, at the cir
Gus, but he was. He accompanied his
daughter, the wife of Maj. Reber. and
her two children, and seemed to enjoy
the tinsel and the clatter and roar of
the show even better than did his little
grandchildren. Gen. Miles looks not a
day older than when he reluctantly quit
active duty in the Army by virtue of his
to the age of retirement He
is still the most military-looking man in
the Capital, and in any assembiage
would be voted the handsomeSt man.
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"Mult-Curs eares Piles" See
page 8.
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Hipparchus, the first astronomer, down
to Darwin. Fine arts are represented
by Homer, Shakspere, Goethe, Hugo.
Beethoven and several others. The min
ing panel shows a scene in mine, and
the agricultural panel q harvest scene
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discovered funny thing about
Senator Wetmore to-day" declared
Henry Wilson, of Providence, r. l., an
Attorney, who Is here on business be-
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More than 1900 men have held
seats in Congress since the birth II the
Republic. OF these the late Gen. John
I'd ketch.sm, of New York, who served
altogether, tho not continuously, 30
years, being a member of the House
when he died last Fall. The late Justin
Morrill,. of Vermont. served longer than
33 years. counting his service in both
the House and Senate, and when Sena-
tor Allison shall finish his present term
in the Senate he will have served A
years In Congress. eight of which COW
cred his service in the House. No other
member of Congress ever had so long
a service as has already been experi-
enced by the veteran Iowa statesman.
Senator Hale. of Maine. has already a
combined service record of "a years in
both branches of Congress. Speaker
cannon has served 80 years in the
House. and would have added two years
more TO his record but for the accident
In 1892 by which he was defeated for
reelection. With the close of the next
Congress Mr.. Cannon's record will show
longer service in the House than that
of any man who ever held a seat in that
body.
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Secretary of the Treasury CorteIyou
has discovered a serious mares nest in
the Denver Mint by sending several spe-
cial agents there a few weeks ago 10
Investigate complaints.
Having settled these. he investigated
further, in his desire to ascertain how
deep-seated the differences were. 1t is
understood that disclosures point to the
necessity of reorganiZing the entire
Mint force from Superintendent down
Inc Secretary will take no action
! until he has received the report of the
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according to James Hill, son-in-lav
or James j. Hill, the building of the
Panama Canal is the greatest bushes.
Diunder OF the age. Mr.. Hill, who bear.
the same name as his father-in-law
and seemingly holds the same views
said IN an address before the students Of
the University of Nebraska:
THE Suez Canal Is barely paving ex.
penses. and the Panama waterway car
DO no better, because only small per.
centage of the population of the world
lives south of the equator"
The products to be sent thru the canal
OF necessity, he said, will have to be
shipped from the Middle West to New
York and then reshipped to the South. -
at is a tradition that no American
ever refused a Presidential nomina-
tion." said Judge w. b. Rodgers, the
well-known Pennsylvania lawyer, who
is CITY Solicitor of Pittsburg.
That is perhaps true, and yet ! saw
a very noted man stammer forth "A re-
nunciation OF the place. altho it had
not really been rendered him. 1t was
at the Chicago Convention of 1880,
when we battied for days before Garfield
nnally Won out. 1 was there as one of
me 306 who stuck by Grant to the La ST
ditch. Somebody in the Convention
Hall shouted out: Mr.. Chairman, /
nominate Gen. Phil Sheridan for Pres
ident.' There were cheers, and in a
moment the little cavalryman was on
his feet. very greatly confused, very
red in the face, and yet determined to
speak. Please don't mention my name.
he said. i assure you that I have no
such ambition. l am loyal to ray old
chief Then he sat down amid a tre-
mendous uproar of plaudits. It was
one of the interesting incidents of a
Convention which abounded in more
dramatic scenes than any ever held in
this country. 1t was a long while ago.
but it comes back as wildly as IL it
We're yesterday-that picture of Conk-
ling. as slowly he assembled the plat
form and with fine Evolutionary effect
uttered the lines:
When asked what State he halls from.
Our sole reply shall be:
He halls from Appomattox
And its famous apple tree"
A little more than a year ago Q Wash
ington newspaper man who had been
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The models of THE large bronze doors
which the Washington sculptor. Louis
Amateis, was authorized to design for
the main west entrance to the Capitol,
need but few finishing touches before
they Will be ready toiibe cast in bronze.
THESE massive doors will be nearly
elsht feet IN width and over 10 feet in
hight. They viii. replace the plain
wooden doors which are now at the
west entrance.
The bronze doors at the east entrance
OF the Capitol represent the discovery of
America, and those at the Senate and
House entrances, the American Revolu-
ton and the forming of the Nation. The
new doors will tell the story in bronze
OF the intellectual and physical progress
OF the country, the apotheosis Of Amer
lea.
The transom panel shows the figure
or America seated in a chariot drawn
by lions, typical Of strength, and led by
child, signifying the superiority of in
teIlectuai over brute force. On this
panel, to the sides Of the chariot, are
hsures representing learning. architec-
ture, literature. painting. music, sculp-
lure agriculture, mining, commerce
and industry.
The four panels on one side Of the
door stand for jurisprudence, science.
the hne arts and mining. and those on
the other side for agriculture, iron and,
eiectrlclty, engineering and naval archi-
lecture and commerce. The jurispru-
oence panel poYtrays . meeting OF the
nrst Supreme Court, presided over by
Chief Justice John Marshall.
IN the science panel 10 Q group of the
Worids greatest scientific workers, from
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little more than a year ago q WASH
ngton newspaper man who had been
The Ketchikan miner., 1907-07-20
JULY 1907
A WELL DESERVED TRIBUTE.

The SkagWay Alaskan pays the foi- lowing well deserved tribute 10 the character and sterling worth of its late editor. John w. Troy:
 John W. Troy's departure Is an event that not only concerns the people of Skagway but every pat riotic resident of Alaska. He goes at the stern call of duty bidding fare well 10 fond friends and the sacred cause to which he has dedicated his abilities and the best years Of hls life. He has been the Gheyalier Bay ard of the Alaskan press without fear anu without reproach, erring perhaps sometimes in judgment, but never from his heart or a soul that has en- abled him to scorn power. place ano money offered for principles.
 He has been the spokesman of q people in the days when ring rule gagged the pulpit. press and platform and has yicariously suffered from the shafts and vilifeatiors spewed at the cause of liberty by the combine oi spoilers, political heelers, confidence grafters. mining frauds and gildea deadbeats. who, thanks to such men as Mr. Troy and his confreres, are about to De trampled to deserved ruin bv an outraged people growing into intelligent power and honestly cameo wealth. MT. Troy has builded so well his portion of the structure that t can be completed in a regular course without him. though he will be sorely missed
 The Alaskan but voices general sentiment in wishing him every bless ing wherever he may go and hoping that his lot may again he cast in the great land that owes so much to his efforts.
The Ketchikan miner., 1907-07-20

Prof. William B. Brooks. which is peculiar in that it has no tail, an ex- change says that what the country will want to know is why comet is allowed to roam around in the sky without it's tail, and how it comes so. Is it freak of nature or the victim of m accident? Was 1t born that way or did it come into disastrous collision with some other astral body: If the latter be true would it not be worth while to keep an eye out for a stray tail floating around by it's lone some? This, however, may be a pollywog comet that sheds it's tail, pr of the kind that grows new one. At any rate it is comet without q comets chief glory. and aside from how it happened 1t would be interest
 ing to know what k this comet standing in sky society.