The National tribune., 1907-04-11

President Roosevelt's itinerary is
made up for the Summer President
Roosevelt is planning to spend his SUM
mer vacation at Oyster Bay, as usual,
and expects to leave the White House
for that place about June 90. However.
It is announced, if it is found he can
get away conveniently at an earlier date.
he will do so.
A Journey to Indianapolis and Lans-
ing. Mich. and two trips to the Jane
town Exposition are en- Mr.. Roosevelt 5
schedule before his regular vacation be-
gins.
Some time ago the President prom
ised TO deliver an address on Decoration
Day at Indianapolis. This address is
not To be Memorial Day address, but
an address at the unvailing of the mon
ument 10 Gen. Lawton. the veteran or
rwo wars vino lost his life in the Phii-
ippines There is trouble brewing in
that section, however. and 1t looks pref
" serious. The Grand Army veterans
of Indianapolis look upon the intended
dedication on Memorial Day as direct
attempt 20 supplant the usual cereIno-
MES of the day by the Lawton decica-
ton. Memorial Day is absolutely Il
Grand Army day 1t was established by
COMMUNICATIVE Chief John A. Logan.
and has become the National Saba tn
of the loyal. Any kind of interference
with the ceremonies of the day as es-
tablished by the Grand Army OF the
Republic is bitterly resented. the IN
diana veterans want to honor Gen. Law
ton. who was a gallant soldier. but they
want tC do it on some other day.
O, Nav RI he will go to Lansing. the
Capital of Michigan, and participate in
the ceremonies incident to the semi-cen-
tennial of the Michigan Agricultural
College 1T neither place, it is stafea-
will the President make any reference
to political issues in his speeches.
Mr. Roosevelt will attend the opening
of tn. jamestown Exposition April 26,
and later be present at the naval re-
view.
After he takes up his residence at
Oyster Bay in June the President viii
remain there probably until he returns
TO Washington in the Fail.
Numerous invitations have been en-
tended TO Mr.. Roosevelt to visit differ
ent parts of the country this Summer.
but up to date he has declined them l..
1t is said that he does not contemplate
at present making another extended
journey until after he retires from the
White House in March, 1903. He Is
said To be planning hunting and ex-
pioring trip 10 Alaska as soon as he
ceases 10 be President The party has
not been all made up as yet, but ii is
said 10 he Mr. Roosevelt's intention to
penetrate into the une- piored regions
of the country's north arnmost posses
sions. He has also be- credited with
q desire To hunt big game in India
When Mr. Roosevelt shakes the dust
OF his Presidential office from his shoes
and hies himself to India to fight the
tiger in his native jungle, as We are told
he wants TO. he will have the sport of
his life before him." said an old travel
er the other day, who has passed much
time in that part of the globe. when
he shoulders his trusty rifle. mounts his
trained elephant and goes into the des-
ert after the man-eeters that roam i'll
the outer parts of Bengal and the other
provinces he will take great risk in
HAND.
The feFocious old Bengal tiger his a
knack. as many English army officers
can bear witness to, of doing a little
hunting on his own account occasional
~. and more than one hunter has been
victim to his willy habit. Tiger hunting
is chivalrons and kingiy sport. but We
all know that no man on this green
earth will enlist more heartily in the
dangerous pastime than Theodore
Roosevelt
schedule for Dir. Roosevelt, and he can
indulge in that also In India, but to get
10 the real sentiment Of the thing he
must seek il in the interminable Black
Forests Of Germany-and that Is hunt
ing the wild boar. The sport, as far as
] can learn. is entirely unknown in this
country or I'm England. and of late years
Is rarely engaged in in Germany, while
in old times. in the days Of the ancient
barons. there was nothing SO fascinating
az boar hunt. In northern India il Is
not even in this day infrequent, but II
doesn't carry the glory with il as it does,
or rather did, in the dense woods Of
Germany. In India the boar is as saw
age as he is anywhere else on earth.
When driven 10 bay he is worse than a
panther. and panther Is more to be
feared than tiger. Put as he is hunt
Cd nowadays he doesn't get a square
deal He is decoyed into a pit. and the
hunters finish him at their leisure.
"A boar hunt can be organized with
~ut much trouble. The hunters have to
aid them always pack Of trained
hounds. and il never happens when the
bristiy beast is driven by the dogs into
the last ditch that the roll call of the
hounds viii not be found to have been
shortened after the fray"
continues to questionable fitness Of the
food supplied by the Government to its
employees i'm the Canal Zone. Represen-
tstiye Rsiney says the meat is rotten
how that hanks US back to 1S3S.-and
thai il old Mother Graft were to light
down Panama Canalward she wouldn't
know her own progeny, even in Penn
s:lvania. / forget whether Representa-
tive Rainey went 20 the Canal Zone
alone or with the Speakers junketing
party. However. he went. he herded by
himself after he got there-went about
incogni.o, all the same like Imperial
IIighnesses. and rooted into deep. dark
d-a-a-ble secrets to see what he could
see. Mr.. Rainey say much to commend
IN the manner Of digging the canal. the
treatment of the laborers and all that:
but the commissary- alack. The only
reason he isn't saying more about its
shortcomings as to quality OF supplies
and the Graft. with an u. c. &c" is be-
cause he has exhausted the Websteria.
supply of vituperative adjectives.
Former United States Senator Will
liam A. Clark, of Montana, had close
call for life. liberty and the pursuit OF
happiness last week, but he must have
had a lucky penny in his pocket, as he
came thru the ordeal all right The
Senator. in company with his wife and
little daughter. has been travelling In
his private car inspecting mines ant
other property in Colorado about ~
miles from Trinidad. The Senator, with
party of men, was going cross countr,
in carriage, and coming to an ice-cov
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