Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1907-06-06
WASHIN GTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

There is a report in circulation
of serious friction between th e.
management OF the jamestown
Exposition and the authorities
at Washington. This story has
not come out on the surface yet.
but it is said that everyone on
both sides is tired and angry and
that it wonld need but little to
bring about an open rupture. 1t
is claimed that the whole trouble
is jealousy on the part OF federal
officials at Jamestown of q Sou
thern enterprise. Admiral Robe
ly Evans, the Fighting Bob" of
the navy, is credited with the dis
turbance. He was in command of
the American fleet at Jamestown
and the complaint is that he has
Handicapped the displays there
by failing to send detachments Of
sailors on shore for the various
ceremonies when they were want
ed, and chasing the foreign fleets
out of the harbor before they
were ready togo. 1t is said that
on the opening day OF the Expo
sition he was not going to send
any sailors ashore to take part
in the display and was only
brought to time by a sharp tele-
gram from the Secretary Of the
Navy. Afterward it is said that
be urged the departure OF t h e
foreign fleets which were expect
ed to remain and be q part cfthe
display SO long as the Exposi-
ltion lasted. Admiral Evans
laughs at the report and says he
has done everything he could to
make the Exposition q success,
and if there is any trouble it is
because OF the incompetent local
management OF the Exposition,
The Navy Department of course
enters an official denial to t h 9
whole story, but the fact tremainf
that the British squadron pulled
lup anchor and left just before
.liust before jamestown Day which
they were supposed to help cele
brate, and the action OF the Wal
Department in calling off lunch
con that had been arranged in
Honor OF Gen. Kuroki all indi
cate that the official attitude o
some of the high officials in Wash
ington has not been as friendly
as might have been expected.
! A curious search hasjust beer
concluded by an English lawyer
in Washington that ended in the
cemetery Of the government in
sane asylum at Saint Elizabeth.
across the Eastern Branch OF the
Potomac. The lawyer was here
trying to locate the heir to q fol
tune OF $6, 100000 left by {
wealthy manufacturer in Eng
land. The legal heir would hay,
been one John Cook. a nephew 0
the dead man. A long search il
, this country indicated that he
had come to Washington and th'
lawyer fully expected to find hin
! here. After considerable trouble
) he found that Cook had gon'
down in the world, and finall.
after being arrested as a vagran
on the street, had been commit
tied to the government asylum
as All insane pauper. No one kney
anything about him, and afte
lingering at the. asylum for
while he died and was buried q
public expense in the little GENE
! terry attached to the institution
! At this very time the fortune
I 81, 900, 900 was awaiting him i
England. There was no record {
ANY other heirs to the money ez
cept o sister ofthe dead man VIII
is now a permanent inmate Of a
insane asylum in Norfolk, We
(Some OF the money was set a
side to pay her expenses in tina
9 institution and the remainder
4 the immense sum will revert t
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