The National tribune., 1910-10-27
! IINa37N'|hgzan a. II
Y IHG-zwuuuzz1l42llll19i l1iz-zzzzz11| Y

Senator Robert La Toilette, who is
recovering from an operation for ap-
pendicitis in the hospital in Rochester,
Mimi, is very much upset by the news
of the death of Senator Dolliver, to
whom he was devoted. 1t is stated that
La Follette's condition is very good. and
that while the severe shock of his
friends death caused great grief there
Is no real danger
Brig.-Gen. George H. Torney, Sur
2eon- General of the United States
Army, recommends in his annual re-
- port TO the War Department that anti
typhoid vaccination be made compul-
sory i'll the Army.
Since May, 1909, when the system
was first instituted, more than one
seventh of the Army have been Volun-
tarly vaccinated, and of this number
only three have had typhoid fever. Gen.
Torney recommends that the recruit
be vaccinated Immediately after enlist
mont.
The first decision handed down by
the United States Supreme Court in its
present sitting is adverse to the Gov
ernment The Government had made
claim to the title of 4,S00 acres of land
in Iowa; that it had been patented to
the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway and its predecessor some 80
years ago, and then had been disposed
of to homesteaders. The homesteaders
hold their land.
Miss Ethel Roosevelt, who has been
up in Glacier Park, Mont, near Helena,
FOR an outing during the past month.
is returning to her home at Oyster Bay.
in the party are Prof. and Mrs. H.
Fairfield Osborne. VIM. Williams, Miss
Josephine Osborne, Lloyd Derby and
Prof Atterbury. Miss Roosevelt has
been taking Summer outing, sleeping
outdoors and having a splendid time
generally. She went prepared for the
outdoor life, wearing leather coat,
fiannel skirts, Rough Rider hat and
heavy boots procured for the occasion.
She and her friend, Miss Osborne, are
paid to have stood the somewhat rigor-
DuS weather up there better than the
men. The last few days of the stay
the men took to the tents, but the two
girls crawled into their sleeping bags
ht night right out in the open, and only
used the tents as dressing rooms. They
had expected to remain somewhat long |
er but the huge prairie fires came so |
Elose to them as to fairly smoke them |
out, and as this was very disagreeable |
they concluded to return to civilization. |
phey were at Lake Mcdonald, and the |
butfit consisted of 25 horses, the chief |
guide, four helpers, cook and a gen. |
tral utility man, who acted az valet for
the men,
There died in Washington the other
Gay woman aged 124 years accord
tng to the record of her life history.
Her name was Ann Walker, and she
was a negro. She was born in Freder-
fcksburg, Va, in 1886. and lived there
Tor nearly three-quarters of a century,
coming to Washington in 1865, where
she has lived ever since. She had "A
great-grandchildren. One daughter,
who is nearly 95 years old. lives in
Mississippi 1t was the intention to
have this daughter come to Washington
10 the funeral of her mother, but she I
is too infirm to travel, and so the I
friends of Grandma Walker had to give &
1T up. Grandma Walker had been blind
for great many years. but in her
minds eye she could see many of &
the scenes of the past. When IL years
old she saw President Washington, and
could give an accurate description of
him as he looked at that time. She
was great-grandmother when the war
broke out, and millions OF grandmoth-
ers have been born and died since then.
She had made her home with a great
grandniece, Henrietta Thompson, for
the last quarter of a century. She was
a slave in the family of Mr.. and Mrs.
George Coder, Of Virginia.
President Taft is to receive a very ,
handsome and costly present from the {
people Of Tacoma Wash. The people
up there are very fond Of President I
Taft, and have been preparing his pres
ent for some time. 1t is a section of
mastadon tusk, % inches long, heauti-
fully carved in bas relief and wrought
fn unalloyed Alaska gold. It is sup 1
posed TO be desk ornament but
desk would have to be of mastadon .
proportions if it held many ornaments I
of this character. Perhaps the most
interesting thing about the present is
that 1t was taken from a placer mine
In Alaska, and in making il over $1,000
worth of gold was used
Representative A D. Capron. of the
Second Congressional District Of Rhode !
Island, has declined to again become a
candidate for Congress. He has been
q member of the House since 1897, and L
gays his health prevents him from
again being a candidate. Representa-
tive Capron is one of the few veterans
left in the National House of Represen.
tatives. Representative Capron is the |.
second member of the House Commit
tee on Military Affairs. of which Capt
John A. T. Hull is Chairman. Capt l;
Hull was defeated for denomination. L
and now Col Capron has declined to
run.
Mrs Levi Il. Letter, who selected
Beverly -by-the-Sea for her Summer
nome, ana VINO IS erecting q magnifi- :
cent cottage there, came to the rescue
of the Tafts in their search for a home
since they must leave their present res I
sdcnce, and offered them the use of her :
cottage for the next year, and she has !
now decided to go abroad and remain
Tor at least year or more. The Tafts
have not yet decided whether they will j
take the offer or not. The cottage is to {
be finished in time for early occupancy
bext Spring. .
The Tafts have had a pretty serious I
lime of IL with their automobiles at {
Beverly. Early in the Summer a young
italian workman was quite severely I
hurt by a Presidential auto driven by I
his son, Robert Taft President Taft |
looked out for the workman and paid
his bills thru the hospital and then [
Bent him back to Italy with a hand
Bone present The other day. while ;
passing thru Salem, the Taft automo- )
bile occupied by Mrs. Taft and her two
sisters. struck d little boy and hurt him
Slightly. In neither case was the Taft q
chauffeur responsible for the injuries, '
as both the workman and the child got c
in front OF the automo- $
bile. Mrs. Taft held the little boy on :
her lap as they hurried to the hospital 1
with him, and it was found that no !
bones were broken and that the child /
was only bruised up. Mrs. Taft visited Q
the child at the hospital, and looked c
alt@r nm al his home after he left the s