Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-03-14
WASHINGTON LETTER
iHearst News Special to the Graphic pY GEORGE WILL

Ia slowly recovering from her great day. Every four years she goes through the same experience. Her gates are crowded to bursting with the most thoroughly representative crowu of American sovereigns tha can De gotten together anywhere III the land who will bid farewell to the de parting president and hail with typi- cal American enthusiasm the one who has come into his own.
 Representative Americans rom every section and from the outlying islands and including every grade ana class of the nations population gath cred in thousands to join in the mighty shout, "Good-bye Teddy; hoo ray for Bill" which is the Americanese for "Le Roi est Mort; Vive lRoi.
 The crowds are thinning out no" sand President Taft with his new caD- inet is settling down for the coming -four years of work.
 Usually Washington enjoys a quiet time following the short session o' congress but by reason of the extra session of congress the prospective fight over the house rules, and the certain battle over tie revision of the tariff the quiescent period will be in definitely postponed this year. In fact things will be much more liVeller than they are when the law makers are here in regular session.
 Inauguration Visitors.
 Among the Inauguration visitors 1 met was Mr. William NJ. SwitZer, nf Missoula, Mont, who knows more about apples that Adam did. Apples have replaced gold as the lure for settlers in many parts of the great northwest sad Mr. Swiizer ears ago there was a rush to Montana and the surrounding country by those whose only thought was the possibil- ity of discovering hidden store of the precious metals.
 To-day there is greater move ment in the same direction, but it is on a more enduring basis and is much steadier Those who are noH turning toward the northwest do not have any thought of risking their lives in an effort to find and bring of hn dust as possible, they are planning to set out orchards, and to spend the remainder of their days in their new ly adopted homes.
 Another notable change has taken place in the type of those who are now going estward. The present tendency of men of wealth and educa- tion to seek sites for homes in some favorable western spot is we'll illus trated ill the Bitter Root Valley of Montana. one portion of which is be- ing populated with the families of university professors"
 One From Guthrie.
 Another visitor who came to see that MT. Taft was properly inaugur- ated was Col K. ]. Russell, of Guth- rie, Okla In conversation, Col. Rus sell made the remarkable statement that while hanging had been the legal punishment for capital crime since the territory was organized in 1890 there have been but four legal eXecu- tons in the state, three of them hay ing taken place since Oklahoma was admitted as state. In the same time there have been five lynchings and for one of these several Okla homans are now serving prison sen tences. To those who have looked upon Oklahoma as q land of quick knife. unrest and ready revolver shot this Is q remarkable statement.
 Col. Russell says, however. that "On the Indian Territory side of the state there were numerous hangings after the United States courts were established in the territory, and still before that time, when the federal court at Fort Smith, Ark, had juris- diction over Indian Territory, many Indian Territory criminals met theil death on the gallows at Fort Smith sentenced to death by Judge 1. c Parker, famous as hanging judge, George Muldoon, the hareman at For, Smith during most of t.,c Parker re- zine, says that he hanged eighty seven men, the great majority of them from Indian Territory
 Good "BOut" Expected.
 Those who love good fight will ,io we'll to watch the eff rt which is to be made to put Senato;' La Toilette of Wisconsin in his place Y the elder statesmen of the sen"lo.
 When Senator Tn:A.n first came to Washington he shook up the dr,