The National tribune., 1907-08-29

000,0 900 which was appropriated by Con-
gress on June 90, 1906, to satisfy GER
tain claims of the Eastern Cherokee
Indians against the Government be de-
posted in a National bank in order that
the Indians might have the benefit OF
interest thereon.
The money appropriated by Congress
is to be distributed to the Indians per
capita, and as it will require two or
more years to determine who of the
tribe is entitled to a share in the dis
tribution the suggestion was made that
the money be put where it would draw
interest.
The law, according to the Attorney
General, does not seem to authorize the
Secretary to place at interest moneys
directly appropriated by Congress for a
specific purpose
The United States Department of
Agriculture is watching with interest
the work of the State chronological
Commission of Kansas in its efforts to
eradicate that horrible pest of the farm
er. the San Jose scale. The orchards of
Kansas are said to be ravaged by the
pest. The last Legislature of Kansas
appointed a Special Commission to study
this matter, and the personnel of the
Commission is F. D. Coburn, Walter
Nciiiiouse, oeilatoF II. H. otaHHaru, Oh
Ottawa; Prof. e. A. Popenoe. Ento-
mologist of the State Agricultural
School. and Prof. S. J. Hunter. EntO-
mologist of the State University. The
Commission has authority to designate
Inspectors, whose duty it is to visit the
orchards of the State for the purpose OF
discovering the scale, and taking steps
TO prevent its spread.
1al>1 af E,l, 0f
Brownsville, Tex, last August by the
colored troops of the 25th Inf. is found
in the annual report of Brig.-Gen. AL
bert l.. Myer. commanding the Depart
ment of Texas, for the fiscal year 1907,
who refers to it as "lamentable occur
renee which is still shrouded in mystery
20 great extent" He adds:
However. it seems to have been es-
tablished that on the night in question
a few enlisted men OF the 1st Battalion,
25th Inf, then garrisoning Fort Brown.
did go armed into Brownsville. and do
some promiscuous firing, resulting in
the death of one civilian, one horse and
the wounding of one policeman. Up %
the present time it has been impossible
to identify the individuals who actually
did the firing. Undoubtedly there was
at that time mutually bad blood be-
tween a part of the garrison of Fort
Brown and some of the citizens of
Brownsville. and this fact must to some
extent account for the occurrence"
AS result of the occurrence Fort
Brown has been deprived of a garri-
son. and the reservation has been tenn
porarily transferred to the Department
of Agriculture. which transfer, how
ever, because of it's Importance. Gen.
Myer hopes may be but temporary.
The death of Frau Won Rredow, wife
of Lieut.. Waldemar Leopold Won Bre-
dow, of the Curassiers of the Guard, of
the German army, daughter Of Senator
Francis G. Newlands, of Nevada, which
occurred in Berlin last week, will throw
one of WashingtOn's smartest families
again into mourning. Frau Won Bre
dow was the youngest daughter of Sen
ator Newlands and his first wife, who
was a daughter of the late Senator
Sharon, California. she has been
i'll since early in the Spring. when Sem
ator NewIands was apprised of the Sc
riousness of her condition and left with
Mrs Newlands and Miss Ada Newlands
at once for Berlin, where they have
been ever since. The present Mrs. New
lands was formerly Miss Edith Meal
lister, a cousin of Ward McAllister, of
-Four Hundred fame, who was the
girl friend of Miss Frances
who married Lieut.. Won Bre
U.
1905. 1t is thru her friendship with
Miss Newlands and her visits to her in
the Washington home of the Senator
that she met and married her friends
father.
Dear me, but what pessimist Prof. |
Charles Zeubin, of the Department OF
Sociology of the University Of Chicago, |
is. He thinks that we all, Washington !
people and everybody else, are devoured (
by kind of dry rot.
They are not very serious about |
anything, religion or anything else" he |
said in a lecture. I'VE are in a period |
of comparative Indifference to nearly |
everything except the matter Of getting |
on.
1--WE are all in danger of losing our
capacity for friendship thru shutting
ourselves up and thru a diffusion of in
,erests. Even when rock-bottom sub
jects are discussed it is only in a con-
ventional way.
"a peculiar attitude of constraint is
IN American racial characteristic. On
the whole, our phlegmatic. conventional
attitude precludes certain spontaneityl
Of expression"
Brig. Gen. r. M. O'Reiily, Surgeon
General of the Army, has made the rec
that al! hospitals ana
quarters now IN use by troops in the
Philippines be fitted with wire screens.
A recent inspection has disclosed the
startling fact that screens are supplied
10 but three posts in the islands In
view of the fact that malaria is preva-
lent in the Philippines at all seasons,
it seems inexplicable that the precau-
lion of providing screens has not been
made before.
One almost hoped that the Teddy
bear was about to fade away, but here's
another scheme cooked up to keep the
'creeter" on deck another year. live
bear, of whom no one claims owner
ship. has taken up his home in the
woods on Sycamore HILL and in the
early foggy hours he paid visit to the
residence of President Roosevelt
The trampling of the underbrush
reused the secret service guard to ac-
Liyity. The sleuths went into the woods
and the bear came boldly into the clear
ing. When the guard returned to his
post he was given another start by
hearing scratching on the roof of a
ean-to at the rear of the Presidents
house.
Upon the roof went the guardsman,
but what he>saw caused him to stop and
pinch himself and rub his eyes AS he
was doing this the bear made over the
other side, jumped to the ground. and
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