The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1907-04-18

there were sold 150,910,464 acres, an
amount greater than the number of
acres of land contained within the area
of the combined great States of Ohio,
West Virginia, Kentucky, New Jersey.
South Carolina and Louisiana. which
have altogether total acreage of 49,
944 400.
The warship Marion, one of the last
of the old iron ships of the Navy, buiit
just after the close of the civil war ana
bridging over the time between the TIM
Der ships and the vessels of the modern
navy, has been ordered to be sold at
public auction and stricken from the
naval lists.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is
now at the head of the Carnegie Trust
Company. and can truly be called
president" tho he may never reach the
hight of his ambition and be President
of the United States
Word comes back from Secretary of
War Taft, who is down IN Cuba nosing
round trying to find out just what is
the matter. that the Americans cannot
evacuate Cuba bebfere 1903. two years
off yet. Things are nearly at a stand
still down there. il would seem.
tNIS ne tTcdSOn, tlIC ihoSl VI
it," The famous English writer and
reformer and editor, William T. Stead,
after a visit at the White House was
asked by newspaper reporter, DO
you regard President Roosevelt as the
greatest living American ?' and received
from him the reply, II think Mr.. Root
is big man! My. my! Now, If he had
only said Taft
But, then. Senator Scott. Of West Vir-
ginia, says that Secretary Taft does not
want the nomination for the Presidency.
but that he does want to go on the SUI
preme Bench.
The Minnesota House of Representa-
tives, by a vote which the Speaker de-
clared nearly unanimous" has indors-
ed President Roosevelt for a third term.
And there you have it.
One Of the large buildings in the
League Island Navy Yard, containing
the sawmill, joiner shop and pattern
shop, was almost entirely destroyed by
fire one day last week. Officers at the
yard estimated the loss between $4,000
and 100000.
Much Of the furniture intended for
the battleship Kansas was stored in the
building and was destroyed. The Kan
sas was to have been placed in commits
sion within a few days, and 1t Is thought
that the loss of the furniture will delay
the ceremony.
Mrs. Fairbanks left Washington last
week for Indianapolis to remain for a
few weeks prior to her departure for
Ohio. where she will spend some time
as the guest of her mother and also the
mother of the Vice President.
Later in the season Mrs. Fairbanks
will go to the farm in Illinois to remain
/ for an indefinite period.
Ex-senator Thurston. the silver
it. SO he has, His speech, In which he
took occasion to differ with the Presi-
dent on some political questions, has
angered his admirers in the swell Fon-
telle Club. In Omaha. and they have
turned his picture to the wall! O, tenn
poret o, mores! The day was when
Senator Thurston's name was one to
conjure with. but it isn't any more.
Nobody who heard It will ever forget
the speech he made on Cuba libre,"
while yet a member Of the Senate. He
called up all the rhetoric and oratory in
the recorded pages Of the past, and
then some. He beat the air. and his
voice broae and shivered against the
| stained-glass medallions of the Senate
Chamber ceiling, as he described how
his dearly beloved wife had lost her life
On that trip to Cuba, and how he
| brought back with him to bury under
the Flag he loved all that was dear to
him in life. and then he ended that