The National tribune., 1910-07-21
TIE NATIONAL rk1huRE WASHINGTON 411taaDA9 july .1st

quires every Wild West show promoter
who wishes to utilize the services OF his
wards to make a deposit as evidence OF
good faith and to assure every Indian
not only safe return to his home. but
full wages for all the time he is con-
tracted for. This was the clause which
saved the Indians. The Commissioner
directed the sending nf sufficient funds
to bring the entire band back to this
country, all as first cabin passengers.
Somebody ought to tell Ollie James.
of the First Kentucky Congressional
District, that the Treasury Department
has contracted for $4,000 worth of
electric light bulbs for the use of the
Government for one year, and that this
sum of money procures one million
bulbs. That will help to show Mr.. Ollie
James why it is that it costs more now
per capita to ruin the Government than
it did IS years ago.
Mai. David Roe Burnham. u. s.
Army, retired. died at Pasadena, Cal,
last week of acute uremia. He was ~
years of age. Maj. Burnham went out
as First Lieutenant of the 67th Pa. in
August of 81. He was mustered out
as Captain of the 18th Pa. in 1864. He
WAS lildue d oeCOllu III tiiC
S5th U. s.. and was retired with the
rank of Major.
According to a statement given out
by Postmaster-G Hitchcock, the
postal deficit of approximately $40
10000 has been reduced more than
$40, 100000 in nine months, due to in
creased receipts.
In the quarter ended March 81,
wi he
cal year 1910, the Postal Service earned
surplus of $1,363.0O0.
The revenues for the quarter amount
ed to SIS, ,934, 900 and expenditures $57.-
$4,000 This showed an increase of
10 per cent in revenues and less than
four per cent in expenditures. The
surplus earned during the quarter has
reduced the postal deficit for the first
nine months of the fiscal year to ST.
5000, as against deficit of $12,S32,-
900 for the same period year ago.
James Whitley Heron, business
manager of the Washington Evening
Star, died last week. Mr.. Heron was
probably one of the best.known news
been for 81 years connected with the
Star. He was one of the most genial
and popular men in the community,
and his death is distinct loss in both
business and social circles.
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot, the close per-
sonal friend of former President Roose-
velt and deposed United States Forest
er, has gone to California to speak in
the political campaign in the Golden
State and to assist the Gubernatorial
nomination in California of Hiram
Johnson. Mr.. Johnson is opposed by
the regular Republicans of the State.
and hence Is called an insurgent. Mr.
Pinchot is also going to speak in behalf
of William Kent, an insurgent candi-
date for the nomination for Congress,
who is opposing Representative McKin-
lay, who is a candidate for renomina-
tion. Mr.. Pinchot stopped off at Kan
sas City on his way West, where he
addressed the Knife and Fork Club on
Conservation" on July Is. 1t will be
that it was in his famous
speech before this club that Speaker
Cannon made his attack on the insur-
gents.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer has gone
to Restigouche, Canada, where he en-
joys the fishing facilities tremendously.
He has been going there off and on for
several years. He will spend very little
time in Washington this Summer.
AnOtner cnapter Ill the arOun0-the-
world cruise of the little gunboats
their arrival at Yokohama last week.
These two gunboats left the Bremmer-
ton Navy Yard, Washington State, about
the 1st of June, and made the passage
of the Pacific along the Alaskan Coast.
They will now head for the Atlantic
Coast of the United States or by way of
the Suez Canal.
James r. Garfield, former Secretary
of the Interior, in accepting the 'tinsur-
gent" nomination for Governor, in e
speech delivered last week before the
Progressive Republican organization of
Cleveland, declared that the Nation Is
in a critical situation, that a problem
confronts the country whether the fight
of the progressives is to be carried to
successful issue OF whether they are to
surrender and admit that Government
for and of and by the people is a fall
ure, and he added that he was himself
very glad to be counted an "insurgent."
And what would his father have
thought of that were he living?
Postmaster-General Hitchcock is
having troubles of his own concerning
the franking of mail by Mrs. Cleveland
and Mrs. Harrison. The way the Post
trouble began was
when some letters mailed by Mrs. Fran
ces Folsom Cleveland widow of Presi-
dent Cleveland, have been charged with
postage due at the post Office to which
they were addressed. This is also true
of some letters by Mrs. Mary Lord Har-
rison, widow of former President Har-
rison. The Postmaster General has is
sued an order calling attention of Post
masters to the bill passed at the last
session of Congress whereby the mail
of both ladies is entitled to transmits
sion free of charge. 1t should be stated
that this Is concession that has been
granted the wives Of other Presidents
after the passing away of the President
himself.
Senator Cummins, of Iowa, is "be-
tween the devil and the deep sea-" He
is not critically i'll, but his trouble is
with heart affection which makes it
exceedingly dangerous for him to re-
as he is one Of the masters of the in
surgents, 1t Is felt that 1t is necessary
for him to be in the campaign. He has
given up all of his Chautauqua lectures
and hopes to be able to go thru the po-
litieal part of his plans, but it looks
now as If he will have to give up that
also.
As the cost Of a piece of vanity Mrs.
Marjorie Connor, wife of Capt. VIM. D..
Connor, Instructor of Engineers at the
War College, is minus 81 500 ring to-
day. Mrs. ConnOr was travelling, and
in the ladies' room at the Union Station
in Baltimore took off her diamond and
emerald ring to wash her hands. She
laid it on the shelf, and then walked off
and left 1t there. In few moments