The National tribune., 1910-09-08

President Taft has new steam
1anch. He has been using an $lS,0OO
gasoline launch in his visits to and from
the Presidential yacht Mayfiower, but
1t has gone TO the Boston Navy Yard,
and a regular man-o'-war steam barge
has been instituted. 1t is said that the
officers of the Mayflower are not sorry
the change was made. The old lanch,
which was fitted out in mahogany and
was a mighty pretty craft, seemed to
have gotten so badly out of gear that
it would scarcely stand the strain of
being raised and lowered from the
davits. She back-fired frequently, and
at Providencetown, when the President
Went to dedicate the monument, she
refused to start from the landing stage
until she had been tinkered up quite
good deal.
Former q. S. Senator Wilkinson Call,
Of Florida. died of apopleNy at the
Emergency Hospital last week, and was
buried in his family lot in Oak Hill
Cemetery, this city. Senator Call, who
had been away from Washington for
several months. reached here week be-
fore last and appeared to be in excel
lent physical condition, and his attack
came without warning. He was born
in kentucky, and was 76 years old.
While yet boy his family moved to
Florida. He served in the Confederate
army, and was Adjutant-General at the
close of the war. He served is years in
the U. S. Senate, beginning in 1879.
John L. Ramsey, WahpetOn, n. D.,
who has been in Washington recently,
rather objects to fiction writers exploit
Ing in weepful way the idea that the
old West is dead. He says it is not so.
He declares that in some parts of the
thn ic or
as wild and woolly as it ever was. Mr..
Ramsey says:
"It is true that you do not see cow
punchers parading in picturesque buff
falo hide chaps, with a couple of big
guns buckled around their waists. That
kind was very peaceable, anyway, and
there never was a time in the history
of the West when there was more fair
play than when those same wild and
woolly gentlemen loafed around the
railroad stations.
up along the Canada line in North
Dakota, Minnesota and Montana, and
down in Wyoming there are hundreds
and hundreds OF acres of land that is
absolutely aboriginal. I have driven
for 800 miles in Montana without see
ing sign of a human being. There
isn't any law up there. Counties some
times have no Countyseats, and there
fore no Sheriffs. Other Counties have
one town of perhaps 300 persons.
Every now and then you will come
across a hester. or settler, who has
cleared ground and claimed it. They
live their own lives in their own way,
and every man is a law unto himself.
In the cattle country, off the big
ranges, things are somewhat different,
of course. But when you hit cow towns
off the railways, you'll find the young
men toting' siX-guns just as they used
TO 80 years ago.
There isn't much bloodshed and sud-
den death, and all that sort of thing.
There never was; that is, except in the
minds of fiction writer's. killing is a
serious business, and men in that coun-
try try to Sidestep it as much as they
can. I've seen two COW punchers, car
rying Colts. fight it out to a finish with
their fists and never make try to get
their guns going. That's the West"
Comrade Alvin S. Bundy, who was
born at Charleston, n. H, in 1881, and
who served in the 9Th n. H, died at
his home in this city last week. Com
rade Bundy, who was a carpenter, had
been an employe of the Government
Printing Office for nearly 80 years, and
was foreman of the carpenter shop.
During his term as foreman Comrade
Bundy was credited with having intro
duced many of the latest devices and
methods for turning out the work of
his Department. He was a member of
Lincoln Post, G. a. R., and of the
Union Veteran Club of the Government
Printing Office.
Maj. ]. NJ. Carson, the retiring Chief
of the Manufacturers Bureau of the
Department of Commerce and Labor
has been appointed to a special mission
abroad, and has departed for his new
field of labor. A farewell reception was
given him on the eve of his departure,
and beautiful travelling outfit of sill
yer, crystal and leather was presented
him as token of his esteem from the
boys with whom he had been so long
associated. His trip will be an EXTEND
ed one, and will be in the way of re-
Taxation from the Department for Mai.
Carson, who has been closely confined
to his desk for the last two or three
years. Maj. Carson served in a Penn
sylvania regiment, and for the last two
years of the war was a staff officer He
is genial, whole-souled newspaper and
business man Of sterling integrity whom
everybody likes.
William Brown Glasby Chief of Po-
lice of Newark, n. j., died last week
Glasby served as a bodyguard for Lin
coin on the trip from New York to
Washington when he came to take the
Oath OIL ONCE TO the PreSid ency for the
first time. Glasby was 81 years old
Director of the Census Durand quiet
iy squelched n determined attempt
p made by census enumerators to grab
more money out of the L.. S. Treasury.
The organization was to be known as
the National Association of Census
Enumerators." There were about 10 =
600 of them, and they had organized
for the purpose of obtaining $40 each
more than the Government paid them
A circular was sent out by an officer of
the Association, who lives in Milwau-
kee, requesting the enumerators to pro-
duce 81 each to help pay for legal cOun-
sci and otherwise meet the expense of
prosecuting the case before the Court
of Claims. This Association claimed
the additional compensation as paw
1nent for the work of distributing the
advance schedules of population. Di-
rector Durand states that under the
law the enumerators have no claim
whatever for extra compensation, and
SO the organization died a-borning; but.
just the same whole lot of silly enum-
orators, in hopes of gaining SO which
they had not earned, cOughed up the
II, and the company" has this. since
the organization has busted up
Phillip g. Bonner, of New Orleans
made us all feel like a lot of kids a feu