The National tribune., 1908-01-30

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which meant nothing more or less than
drawers leg was in evidence where
his trousers leg had slipped above his
knee. That's all.
The Isthmian Canal Commission Is
about to advertise for 100000 barrels
of cement for the canal work.
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Word comes from Havana that Moro
Castle, the historic fort that guards the
entrance to Havana Harbor, is in dan
ger of collapse. American engineers
who have examined the fort say it was
seriously undermined by}the storm of
Jan. IL. The seward battlements
threaten to fall, ana engineers say re-
pairs We're necessary 10 prevent the col
lapse of the seward structure.
Never again-until the next time.
Congress declared when it was bull
dozed out of two or three millions by
the jamestown Exposition gang that it
would never vote another cent for Ex-
positions, but Congress has a weak
backbone when it comes to denying to
do the same things for the North that
it does for the South, or vice versa, and
so the Senate Committee on Industrial
EXpositionS voted to report the bill
authorizing the expenditure of 500, 900
for Government exhibit at the Alaska
Yukon-Pacific Exposition. 1t will pass
all right, and it ought to. While the
jamestown people meant to make ducks
and brakes of their appropriation and
use it for private speculation, there is
no doubt at all that that neck of woods
has been greatly benefited by the Ex-
position. So, too, will the Seattle coun-
try be. 1t really is a wise expenditure
of money, tho not single Exposition
has ever come out even. always in debt.
Edward II. Allison, the man who
brought Sitting Bull into a camp of
United States troops and made possible
the great Sioux war, has received tardy
recognition from the United States
Government. Mr.. Allison lives at Rose
bud, S. D., and tho native of New
England, has been married to two wives
who were full-blooded daughters of the
Sioux tribe. By this first marriage and
adoption into the Sioux tribe he be-
came a brother of the famous Chief
Gall. the greatest warrior of the tribe,
not even excepting Sitting Bull, whose
forces overcame and destroyed Custer.
Allison went to the Far West in 1886
with a good record as a soldier, and
that same year married an Indian wife,
who lived only about year. He was
taken into full membership in the Brule
Sioux tribe, and afterward enlisted in
the Army, doing distinguished service.
In the fighting following the Custer
campaign Allison did service which
Gen. Sheridan described officially as
beyond estimation He was always
loyal to the Government, and was high
ly influential in bringing the Indians to
see the impossibility of resistance.
At the last, after years of the most
difficult and dangerous service as scout
and guide and interpreter, he was put
in charge of the effort to bring the
great old Sitting Bull into camp to treat
with the Government authorities. Alli-
son accomplished the task. and Sitting
Bull made peace with the white men.
For this work he was given probably
as high praise as any man who ever
served the Government in any of the
Indian wars.
As an old man Allison found him
self without recognition as a member
of the Sioux tribe. therefore unable to
get his allotment of lands on the Rose
bud Reservation in Trip County, S. D..
which is soon to be opened. He set
about to make his record clear. and
sent to Senator Gamble a mass of let
ters and credentials from. Army officers
of which any man might we'll be proud.
AS result Senator Gamble was able
Allison's name on the roll of the Sioux
tribe, and when the Trip County lands
are opened he will come in for an allot
ment of $40 acres of pasture or 320l
acres of agricultural lands.
The birthday anniversary of Gen.
Robert Il. Lee, who vas reared along
with most of the members of the Lee
family fer generations back ana front
oct DF.in NJ mia, he tft,an If
trial came chose to stand by his State
rather than by the Government which
had fed, clothed and educated him. was
celebrated here by the Confederate Va:
Grams with great show of Confederate
flags and colors. Dixie" was sung, too,
and the enthusiasm was great. as the
audience stood-you must always stand
for Dixie" Gen. Lee was eloquently
euIogized, and he is man who will
bear it, barring his disloyaltJ- TO his
flag If the daughters and sons and
men of the Confederate organizations
would confine themselves to euloSies of
their real Generals and men. and not
take up such infamous scnundrels as
Wirz and Winder and that ilk section
alism might die out. The really pa
thetic thing about the Lee anniversary
came. when an old. old follower of Lee. |
who wore his gray uniform. rose and
tried to give the rebel yell. This was in |
the Mount Vernon Methodist Church, |
the Methodist Church South. which |
begs for union between the sections. |
but has not yet been so endowed with
the spirit as to join hands with the
Methodist Church North, from which it !
separated on slavery. The old man |
gave feeble little cry which ended in
a hoarse gurgle in his throat, and sank
back into his seat in q state of collapse |
ConsulGeneral BergholZ. at Canton, |
China, has transmitted to the State De-
partment the results of the recent ex-
aminations in Picking of Chinese who
had been educated abroad, showing the
standing of American institutions.
Forty-two students were examined,
"a of whom had pursued their studies
in Japan, IA in the United States and
four in Belgium. Three from Japan
failed and one from America, but of
the SO who passed only seven secured
the Chin Shin, or doctors degree, and
five of these We're American students.
OF the 16 highest in rank America
had 10, the West taking the honors both
in the number of students and in the
rank obtained in the examination. The
of California was represent
ed by six men, land took the four first
places, while Leland Stanford Univer-
sity's one representative took seventh
place. b.d.l
Nine Of the 10 Americans were edu-
Gated on the Pacific Coast, tho two of
these secured their masters degree at
Columbia University and two others at