The National tribune., 1911-04-06

The Navy Department received some
startling information from San Fran
cisco last week. 1t seems that Chief
Boatswain Carston Nygaard became
suddenly unbalanced while aboard the
United States naval tug Navajo, and
played the game with a high hand un-
til he was cowed. He drove all his
crew below deck at the point of pis.
tol, and for hours paced the deck OF
the tug, menacing every man VINO
dared to show himself. He imagined
that the crew had become mutinous
and was trying to kill him. Oddly
enough, the first news of the AFFAIR
reached the flagship in wireless mes
sage from Boatswain Nygaard hlmselI,
who informed the Admiral that the
crew of the Navajo had mutlmed A
little later the Admiral received an
other wireless message that was signed
by a member of the crew, that the
commanding officer of the tug had
gone insane. The message asked for
immediate help. Armed crews were
Immediately dispatched from the Cali
fornia and West Virginia, and the IN
sane boatswain was taken into Gus
tody This might be counted another
triumph for wireless telegraphy.
Dr. William c. Mason, the Medical
Examiner of the Pension Office for 80
years, died last week. He was mem
ber of Meade Post, of this city. During
the war of the rebellion he served in
an Indiana regiment
Prof Samuel E. Emmons. an emil
nent scientist in the service of the
United States Government, died last
week. He had been identified with the
Geological Survey since 1857. He was
a member of many of the leading scien-
tific societies. and his discoveries ire
mendously aided in developing the min
eraf resources of the country.
The naval authorities butted upI
against a pretty stiff proposition one day
last week, when a deserter from the
United States ship New Hampshire was
turned over to them. The subject was
Elmer Hood, % years old. He had
Served few months of his first enlist
ment aboard the New Hampshire and
then deserted, understanding that the
penalty was from six months to two
questioners by declaring he would rath-
er serve his term in prison as a desert
er than go back on board the ship.
case of what would look like base
ipgratitude came up in the Department
Of Justice the other day. George NJ.
Scarborough. of the Department of JUS
gathered most of the information which
Resulted In the Departments wide
spread raid on bucket shops, and theI
Department knows that it is owing to
Scarborough's activity that bucket-shop
gambling has been reduced TO the min
imum. When Attorney-General Wick
ersham discovered that Mr.. Scarbor- |
pugh had been taking legitimate
"fers" on his own account and had
PLAYED the stock market he promptly
dropped him. What is that petition,
LEAD US not into temptation"
George A Pearsons, assistant clerk
ts TIE Senate Committee on Agricul- |
ture. died alone in his room at the Ma |
fional Hotel of acute gastritis last |
Thursday night He is the only BROTH |
er of Mrs. John P. Dolliver. widow of
the late Senator Dolliver He had al |
ways made his home with them until
after the death of the Senator, when |
he took an apartment at the National
Hotel
To permit public museums to take
away specimens from the Petrified For
est National Monument in Arizona, a
Scientist from the National Museum
here soon will be sent by the Generali
Land Office to the forest to mark off
an, area from which these institutions
may obtain collections. These may
fhen only be obtained upon the issu-
$nce of permit by the Secretary of
the Interior.
No large shipments of souvenirs from
this monument have been made, say
officials, who also point to the rail-
roads repested refusal to carry the
goods because the shippers had no per-
fnits TO take the rock. The only pieces
that could have been taken from the !
forest are those which could be carried
in suit cases or similar containers.
George F. Hicks. of Chicago, a pat
ent attorney, who has been in the city |
looking after some patent business, ad- |
yanced rather startling idea, and yet |
one that ought to be known to every |
body if one had Just stopped to think |
about it. He said that officials of the |
Patent Office have time and again ex-
pressed doubt as to whether there is
such thing as a complete invention.
ITO the popular mind it would seem"
paid he, "as if the sewing machine or
fhe steam engine had been so long SUBJ
s----------------