The National tribune., 1908-04-09
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q new thing in merchantable quantities
has been discovered in New Mexico.
Deposits of meerschaum have been To-
Gated in New Mexico. according to re-
por; made to the Geological Survey by
Special Agent Douglass B. Sterrett, inl
the Upper Gila River Valley, one about
% miles northeast of Silver City. and
at a mine about IL miles northwest oL
Silver City. Mr.. Sterrett recently visit
cd the deposits, and states that sam
Piles which he secured, when tested, con-
taincd iron stains, and particles of grit. !
and were inferior to the meerschaum of
Asia Minor. He states, however, the
more compact massive material may, |
perhaps, be found free from stains and
of better quality at a greater depth.
The Dorsey mine, visited by Mr.. Ster- |
rett, II miles northwest of Silver City, |
lies in the bottom and walls of the can |
yon of Bear Creek. The rock forming
the canyon walls is chiefly light, and
dark gray to brownish gray limestone, |
with some sandstone strata included. |
The meerschaum occurs in veins, lenses,
seams and balls in the limestone.
They are telling good story on Rep
resentative DalZell, one of the leaders
of the House. who is credited with be-
ing one of the principal figures in what
was known for some years as the hog
combine" The Pennsylvania Repre-
a small boy from his district and the
youngster proved to be right bright.
This appealed to Representative Serene
Payne, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, who patted him pa
tronizingly on the head and said, You
may succeed Mr.. DalzelI in Congress.
Who knows?"
The boy looked grave. Don't be-
1ieye,' he said, Il would like to crowd
Mr.. Dalzell outl''
Senator Rayner, of Maryland, has all
ways been noted as an erratic charac-
ter. and this trait is showing up in his
only son, young man of some 80 years
of age who has a wife and children.
Rayner, Jr., disappeared a few days
ago, and up to now no trace of him has
been discovered.
Until about six months ago young
Rayner scarcely ever left home without
saying where he was going or when he
would return. He was a most devoted
husband and father, and spent almost
every hour of his spare time with his
wife and children. 1t began to be OBJ
served, however, that he was suffering
from a peculiar nervous trouble, which
the physicians at that time pronounced /
durable. The malady, however, began
to. develop to such an extent lately that
rapid inroads were made upon his
health.
For a long time the Surgeon-General
of the Navy has been asking for women
nurses in the hospitals of the Navy and
aboard hospital ships.
The bill to establish and organize !,
corrt tof trained woman nurses for the
Unite States Navy was ordered favor
ably reported by the House Committee
on Naval Affairs one day last week. 1t
authorizes the Surgeon-General of the
Navy to appoint one Superintendent of
Nurses and as many chief nurses, nurses
and reserve nurses as may be needed.
The Superintendent and all the nurses,
according to the bill, must be graduates l.
of hospital training schools for nurses
having a course Of instruction not less
than two years.
These nurses are to be eligible for
duty at naval hospitals and aboard hos
pital and ambulance ships, and for such
special duty as may be deemed neces-
sary by the Surgeon-General-
~ In order to bring back the victims Of
the explosion which blew up the old
battleship Maine in Havana Harbor 10
Years ago, the United States will now
have to assume the anomalous position
of entering into convention with Cuba,
over whose destinies at present an
American Governor is practically ruler.
In compliance with resolution pass
the Navy Metcalf sent to Congress all
the information in the possession Of his
Department concerning the Maine and
the men who went down with her. |.
According to Mr.. Metcalf, an expen il
diture of about $4,000 to raise the
wreck of the Maine will be necessary.
The wrecking company which inVestil
gated the Maine shortly after the war
ended has already been paid a large |,
sum for such work, but an additional
expenditure will be necessary TO float
the ship. /,
After reviewing the men lost in the
explosion and stating what disposition
has been made with the bodies-this be-
ing part of the information requested By
the House-the Secretary says that the
question as to the right of the United
States to raise the wreck has been raised
on many occasions. He says that while
the United States is undoubtedly in a
position to raise the Maine in spite of
Cuba il is best that a convention be-
tween that Nation and the Uuited States
be made.
Dr. Harvey w Wiley Chief of the
Pureau OF Chemistry of the Department.
of Agriculture, has been asked to un-
dertake the organization of the Ameri-
can Committee of the first International
Congress for the repression of the adul-
teration of alimentary and pharmaceu-
flcai DrDIuCtS, WHICH VIII De neIu IN
Geneva, Switzerland, in September DIR.
Wiley, it is stated, will associate with
him on the committee those in the vari-
Gus States who have charge of the ap-i
plication of the food and drug laws.
Capt. G P. Rees has been detached
from duty at the Navy Yard, Ports
mouth, \. H. April 4 next, and ordered
10 proceed by way of San Francisco to
Honolulu, Hawaii, and assume the du-
ties of Commandant of the naval sta
tion at that place. He will relieve Rear
Admiral S. w. Very, who has been or
dered home to await retirement on the
2Sd of April.
President Roosevelt and Secretary of /
State Root want Congress TO reimburse
the citizens of the United States who
raised the sum of approximately $4,000
in 1901 to ransom Miss Ellen NJ. Stone,
the American missionary who was cap-I
tured by brigands in Turkey in the year
mentioned.
The people generally will scaIoe.y
like the idea of Congress being asked /
to pay back the ransom money In The |
first place, Miss Stone has made enough |
out of the notoriety of the thing to keep
her the rest of her life. In the second |
place, she went poking her nose into
Turkey when she had been warned to
stay away, and mad been told pretty |
CHI farl,.