The National tribune., 1909-10-28

welfare of the country, all of which is
extremely pleasing TO the American.
The much-heralded acquisition of
Mrs. Alice Roosevelt LouSworth to the
ranks of the suffragcts is busted wide
omen. Mrs. Longworth, as soon as she
heard of IT. stated most positively that
she is not a suffraget ind that she
doesfi't mean to be.
My goodness, what does this mean
We have been hearing all this time
about the magnificent big game" that
former President Roosevelt has been
bringing down with the Scenter shot
so often that we were beginning TO be-
lieye that he was armed with the ar
rows of Apollo, which went straight
and unerring to the heart. Indeed, that
is The news that has been coming back
to us all the time; but now Mr.. Cress-
well. a Government engineer in the
Public Works Department at Nyori, in
an interview says that Mr.. Roosevelt
had a very narrow escape when shoot
ing his first elephant bull. He was
charged by this bull and had to get
behind a tree, and he stayed there until
Mr.. Cunningham, the big-game hunter
and guide, killed the creature. The
former Presidents life seems to have
been saved great many times in this
way, which seems q heap more naturai.
wu Ting-fang, the Chinese Minister,
who has been recalled. is contemplating
n visit to Mexico and Cuba, to which
countries he is also accredited. before
his departure for home. He Is going
to Mexico for the purpose OF thanking
President Diaz for the honor paid the
memory of the dead Emperor of China
in sending a special envoy to attend MS
funeral. For this particular purpose
DR.. WI has been created Special En-
bassador.
He had intended starting for the City
of Mexico several days ago with two
members of the Legation staff, but de-
cided at the last moment to delay his
departure for short time. he Will re,
main away from Washington for several
weeks. coming home by water and stop
ping at Havana on the way. When ne
returns to Washington DIR. Wu VIII
thank President Taft for the action OF
the Government in designating Minister
RoekhilI to attend the obsequies of the
Emperor.
Minister WI does not expect his sue
cessor to arrive until December.
The National Museum In Washington
has had a rare addition made to It's
specimens in the shape of mounted
takin. The name Is of Chinese origin
and is pronounced "tarkin." and the
creature this means Is an ox-gazeile OF
ox-anteIope, having reference to the
bovine form of its horns. The animal
is very rare, and nothing was known
about it until 1880, when British resi-
dent of India brought some specimens
down from the Mishmi country. sec
4ta, nnrtbarp Aesarn absolutely I'M
penetrable to Europeans on account OF
the hostile character of the natives. The
creature ruminates at an, elevation OF
10. 900 feet above sea level, in precipi-
tous mountains clothed in q dense jun
gle of bamboo. The animal is difficult
for sportsmen to track. as 1t comes 10
the lower ground for only a BRIEF Pc
riod, as the snow is rapidly thawed by
southerly winds from the plains, ana
as soon az the thickness of the snowy
mantle Is diminished goes back to its
alpine home, SO that the sportsman
must be ION the Job" to get shot at a
takin, There are only two specimens
living. One Of these is in Regent Park.
London. 1t Is thought that the takin
and the muskox are nearly related, as
their habits are very much the same
The country was very much shocked
to learn last week OF the death OF VIM.
j. Buchanan, formerly American MIN
lister to Panama and late Special Envoy
to Venezuela, who was stricken with
heart failure In Park Lane, London
When found by q policeman he was
unable to speak, and was taken direct
to st. Georges Hospital. where he died
before the doctors could aid him.
rau,ona,S Sfnrv True
The Rev. VIM. II. Ketcham. Director
of tho Bureau of Catholic Indian Mis-
sions, has returned to Washington from
a four months' tour OF Inspection OF
Catholic Indian Missions that included
500 miles of overland travel In Mime
sofa, Oklahoma and the Dakotas and
with visits to the missions of
southern California. DR.. ketcham feels
very sorely the conditions as he found
them in the land Of orange blossoms.
He says that the condition of the In
dams down there is much more pitiable
than It Is elsewhere, and that the
wretched condition of these mission In
dians was not at all overstated in Helen
Hunt Jackson's pathetic story of "Ra-
mona" He made a very thoro study
of these historic missions, and he seems
to have found that conditions are get
ting worse there. He reports that these
poor mission Indians have all been driv-
en- from their rich valleys to the barren
rocks of the mountain tops, and there
Is dispute as to the boundary resefva-
tions, the work of early surveys having
been obliterated and the landmarks re-
moved, as he believes, by designing in
truders. Where boundaries are in dis
pute reservation fences cannot be put
up, and hence the cattle and sheep Of
the Indians, altho few in number, wan
der into the forest reserves, and the
foresters in charge exact heavy tax
for what they call the damage the cat
tie have done to them. He says that in
the beautiful and fertile valleys of San
Felipe and Aqua Caliente there are
many deserted Indian dwellings and
chapeis to tell the tale of the white
mans greed, of the eviction of the In
dams from their historic homes and
their deportation to strange and unde-
sired places of abode. to Pala, where as
homesteads each now has but two acres
of watered land and five of barren,
rocky land on which coyote could not
exist.
The Catholic divine believes that un-
der the present humane and intelligent
OF Indian affairs the con-
ditions will improve. but he states that
there Is plenty of chance for improve
ment, and he can't but think that the
manner In which the Indians there
have been treated has been for their
Gen. ods Dead.
Gen. Elwell Otis. u. 8. Army, retired,
died at his home In Gates, n. Y, Oct.
81 Of heart complications. He had been
Ill only two weells His widow and