The National tribune., 1908-09-17

The Comptroller of the Currency has
| arranged for meeting of all the Ma
tional Bank Examiners in the East in
Washington on Sept. 81, to discuss plans
| for raising the standard of bank exam
| nations.
The Comptroller believes there is
| room for improvement, and that good
deal in this way can be accomplished
| by calling the Examiners together sor
discussion The plan is to have several
| of the Examiners describe the methods
| they employ in making periodical ex-
aminations of banks, and to bring about
an agreement which will be employed
uniformly henceforth
| A similar meeting of the Western
Bank Examiners will be held in Chicago
at later. date.
The Navy Department is about to|
organize hospital corps. With this in
view, and under the ruling which gives
the Department a complete corps of
woman nurses, Miss Esther V. Hassan
| has been appointed chief nurse.
Miss Hassan comes from the East
She was engaged in hospital service at
the outbreak of the Spanish-Americal
War, and served on the hospital shipI
Relief
Since 1901 Miss Hassan has served in
New York Baltimore and Washington.
Surgeon in the Army, who died several
years ago.
President Roosevelt has granted al
pardon to Isaac King, full-bloOdedl
Choctaw Indian, serving a life sentencet
for completely in the murder of Joe
Drake, a white man who had married
into an Indian family, and commuted
the sentences of Abel McGilberry and
Norris Cooper, connected with the same
murder, and also serving life terms.
These men were convicted May ..
1902. The petition for their pard' n
claims that they did not have far
trial: that they were tried in the West |
ern District of Arkansas upon a change
of venue; that they should not havel
been tried in the United States Court, |
and that in Arkansas the prejudice
against Indians is such they could not
get a fair trial. |
Miss Ethel Roosevelt is much in de-
mand to assist at fairs and socials at
Oyster bay, and last week she poured
tea at garden party and fair at STran-
quillity," the home of John A. Weekes,
Jr., at Oyster Bay. The fair was given
to procure funds for the Nassau Hcsp; |
tai at Minneola.
Hon Serene Payne, Chairman of the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House, has been renominated by the |
Republicans of the 31st Congressional
District of New York. Mr.. Payne says
he'd rather be a member of the House |
and revise the tariff than be Governor
of New York.
The health officers Of the District are
still busy, and propose to keep up the 1
warfare against uncleanliness Theyi
have just ordered bakery, saloon
and restaurant closed up because they |
have not Obeyed instructions to clean
up. It is drastic. but certainly just
from any standpoint.
The President has just issued a par-t
don to Yoshido, a Japanese murderer. |
The man was a gambler up in Alaska, |
and in a gambling row killed a man.
He was sentenced to 80 years in prison, |
and confined at Leavenworth. He isl
going insane from homesickness, and
it was a question as to whether it was
best to bring him to the insane asylum
here or send him home, and. the Presi-I |
dent took the humane course. and sent
the man back to his home in Japan.
The primaries in Washington went
over 10000 for Wesley Jones for Sena-
tor over the incumbent, Senator An
keny.
Representative Francisco W. Cush-
man, one of the humorists of the Ma
tional House of Representatives, has
been renominated for Congress accord |
ing to the primaries held in his district
in Washington.
Miss Elnora Mizer, a young lady |
teacher of Newark. n. J., died suddenly
on the street last Thursday night of
,ta tv,Ii oh ,if,,r
from the theater
The American Veterinary Medical AS
sOciation, in its 44th annual convention
held last week, took occasion to apply |
fiy-blisters to Secretary of Agriculture |
Wilson, but they won't stick. The blis- |
ters wont. because the Secretary doeSn {
know when he is blistered, you see. Th |
Department of Agriculture has en-
doing a good many things for amin a. S, |
and it needs in its service veterinarians
of high scientific knowledge, and IL
doesn't propose to accept men of any
smaller caliber, even IL they do carry
high-keyed diplomas from colleges with
names, SO to speak.
The doctors can criticise me all they
please, but / will protect the Govern
ment in the class of men that come into
this Department" declared Secretary |
Wilson. with great emphasis. when his
attention was called to criticisms By |
members of the American Veterinary
Medical Association in Philadelphia re-
Gently concerning the Secrctarys atti-
tude In rating the various veterinary
schools with reference to the eligibility |
of their graduates for service with the |
Government. and Suggesting certain
courses and how they should be ar |
ranged, following a report made to him
by a committee of the association. 1t !
was declared at the convention that |
Secretary Wilson was without authority
to dictate what the courses or the man |
agement of the schools should be-
There have been veterinary schools
organized that have not faculties capa- |
BILE of educating in some parts of the |
country" said Secretary Wilson. "Wcl
appointed a Commissioner to .inQuireI
into and report upon the matter, so as |
TO protect the United States Government
in the character of men we shall en-
ploy TO look after the animals of the
country, their diseases and the meat
food of the people, etc. or course, |
where that report criticised an instftu-
tion anywhere we sent that institution
a copy of what pertained to itself"
Referring to the work of the Bureau
of Animal Industry. which cmplOssl
about ZOO veterinarians, the Secretary |
said: II think we have probably spent
10 years and a quarter of a million dol
lars in money to find out how to pre-
vent hog cholera. We have succeeded