The National tribune., 1911-01-05

tute the second.
1t In announced that Francesca Leor
de La Barra, Mexican ambassador te
fugia Bornequi de Alaman are soon tc
be married. Madame de La Barre
died about a year ago. Madame dt
Alaman is the widowed sister of the
ambassadors first wife.
/ Alphonso Hart, 81 years of age, died
at his home in Washington last week
Mr.. Hart was formerly Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor of Ohio, being elected in 1873
with Gov. Allen, and served one term
| Elected to Congress from the 18th Dis
| trict of Ohio in 1885 he served one
term. He was born in Vienna, O., July
T. 1880, and attended the public schools
He took to the study of law, and later
entered public life, and he served sew
eral terms in the State Senate of ONO
! Appointed Solicitor of Internal ReVe-
nue. Service by President Harrison i'll
1888, he came to Washington, where
| he had since resided. He was promi-
nent in club circles in this city, and
was for several years President of the
! Ohio State Republican Association OIL
| Washington. Interment was in his old
home in northern Ohio.
Wm. A. BealI, IlIltdi uSSCcIiudll VI
| Ethan Allen and member of a good
| family here in Washington, has been
convicted in New York of sending
| threatening letters of an Internal ma
chine to a man in New York who Is
| the manufacturer of a milk prepara-
| ton. He was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary on Blackwelrs Island.
Senator Bristow. of Kansas. proposes
he no 90 M
claims bill if it is possible to do so. One
of the items contained in this claims
bill is for $4,000 worth of silk stock
ings said to have been stolen from a
vessel on its way to Java. Senator
Bristow is not from Missouri, but from
just across the line. and so he wants to
know why. Senator Bristow has never
been in Java, but he has seen lots of
pictures of the Inhabitants, and he
wonders and wonders and wonders who
in Java, where they wear only the alto
gether, would wear $1,000 worth Of
silk stockings. He judges from these
pictures that $1,000 worth of silk stock
ings would glut the market in Java,
and they would not be worth shucks
there, anyhow, and so he does not pro-
pose that the omnibus claims bill shall
pass, with this item in. anyhow.
It will be remembered that several
years ago charges were preferred
against Binger Herman, former Com
missioner OF the General Land Office
and later member of Congress- from
oregon, indicting him in the Oregon land
fraud Indictments of charges against
Mr. Herman have been dismissed by
the Federal Court of Portland. Nearly
all tho others whose names were con-
nected with Mr.. Herman have been
punished in one way and another eX-
m fsr
excused in the primary indictments, but
must now stand trial again, as the
charges against them were explicitly
kept on the docket:
Four Sioux chiefs up In Minnesota
have put in claim on behalf of their
tribe for 5000, 100000 worth of land,
comprising a tract 20 miles wide and
extending along the Minnesota River
from the South Dakota line to Mankato,
Mimi The Indians claim it by right
OF a treaty with the Government in
1851. They are asking the Government
of Minnesota to intercede with the au-
thorities in Washington to help them
to obtain possession OF the land or in
demnity Realizing that they would
have some difficulty in getting posses
sion, the Indians say they are willing
TO take an indemnity instead.
Under the new apportionment the
next National House of Representatives
will have 440 members, and where to
put them is puzzling Superintendent Of
tho Capitol Elliott Woods.
During the Christmas holidays Presi-
dent and Mrs. Taft went shopping in
the most democratic manner. They
started out in Mrs. Taft's great big
limousine, but found the machine un-
wieldy in the pack Of vehicles about
the department stores, so left it and
finished the trip on foot They bought
jewelry and various small trinkets.
Most of Mrs. Taft's Christmas shopping
was done in New York.
Admiral George Dewey reached the
age OF 73 Monday, Dec. 2S. He is in
excellent health, and was able to greet
with a hearty handclasp the friends
who called upon him, and received with
much pleasure the many letters, post
cards and kilograms of congratulation.
The new insecticide law that came in
force Jan. is designed to insure in
secticides OF a minimum strength to the
farmers. 1t applies to all insecticides,
but more particularly to paris green
and lead arsenate. 1t forbids the sale
OF deleterious insecticides anywhere in
Federal territory, and its most impor-
tant feature Is that ii forbids interstate
shipment.
The announcement comes from New
York that the Union League Commit
tee has rejected the application Of Col
lector of Customs VIM. Loeb, who de-
sired TO become member of the Union
League Club. II Is stated that George
r. Cortelyou, former Secretary of the
Treasury, headed the opposition on the
ground that Mr.. Loeb is a Hebrew 1t
is said that the committee addressed a
letter to Collector Loeb, asking him If
it was true that he is of that race, and
that no reply was ever received, and so
the application for membership is neg
ative. 1t Is one of the rules Of that
club that no Hebrew can be admitted.
Postmaster-General Hitchcock re-
| ports that the cost of mails is appre-
ciably lowered. The total postal re-
| ceipts for the fiscal year 1910 aggre-
gated S224,128.G57.62 This ia an in
| crease of S20,565, ,274.55, or 1910 per
cent, when compared with those for the
preceding year.
The expenditures for the last year
amounted TO $229,977,22450, an excess
I of expenditures over receipts of s5,-
| 84S. S.566S3. To this deficit should be
added the sum of s32.915.07, lost by
| burglary, fire and debts, etc, making a
| total deficit of s5,sS1, ,4s1.95, a decrease
OF 11,598,2ss when compared with
the deficit Of the fiscal year 1909.
Mai j.-Gen. Leonard Wood, Chief of
Staft of the United States Army, has