Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-06-19
MR.. BORAH NEARLY
FORGOT HIS WIFE
One of the Amusing Incidents of
The Pre- Convention Days.
Kansas Man Selects His Own Cabinet
Observation-Disclosures Button
Is Adopted as the Official
Roosevelt Emblem.

time, Mrs. So and So, while you are
attending the convention?"
! And the interviewed usually tries
The question was duly put up to Mrs.
William E. Borab, wife of the senator
| from Idaho, on her arrival, and right
| off the bat she said:
THE first thing I mean to do Is to
straighten up this room. thought
! I'd try to make it look as If woman
ever saw it. You never saw such
looking place as it was when | got
| in. Papers-papers everywhere; and
books! I'm always afraid to move
one far, for If 1 do Mr.. Borah can't
find it,
Il was in California and he tele-
graphed me to come to be with him.
J Well, l haven't seen him but about
ten minutes. l think he forgot l was
here. He went down to the barber
shop this morning and I went down
to meet him for breakfast. We came
together in Peacock alley, and don't
think he recognized me- l stepped
up to him and he looked at me as
much as to say, Where have l seen
her before?'"
Study in Headgear.
Anybody interested in the sort of
headgear that may be found in the
ring about the Congress hotel head
quarters will find an interesting study
in examining the thatch coverings
that adorn the heads that bob about
there in the course of day.
Colonel New wears broad soft hat
that bespeaks the Importance OF the
position he is occupying at the present
moment. Nobody could miss him II
told to look for that hat. Governor
Stubs may be found beneath funny
little white felt hat that is not at all
like the sort of covering one would ex-
pect to find protecting a state execu-
tive.
There are at least twenty Texan
sombreros, each having exactly the
same kind of a little strap around
them and the same kind of brown
and be-mustached face beneath them
Also, there is Colonel Younger, from
Alabama, whose hat looks as bell1ger-
ent as it's owner 1t falls off every time
he opens his mouth, which is about as
often as any self-respecting person
would desire to lose his hat.
Looking for Taft Money.
The corpulent man who looks like
Taft, talks Roosevelt and exhibits
money in peck measure lots is Major
| Thomas Dunphy of Topeka, Kan.
He took his stand in the middle of
the Congress hotel lobby and began
offering to wager money on Roose-
velt's chances of nomination. He
wanted to bet any figure. from 81 up
to $4,000.
Major Dunphy isn't delegate to
the convention. He simply is Roose-
Welt advocate at large.
I'D like to bet this roll on Colonel
Rooseyelt's chances Of being nom1-
mated and elected" said the major,
exhibiting the interior of pocket
that might have been a section of
subtreasury.
The interviewer suggested that he
might be prevailed upon to take lit
tie If the bet was broken up into car
fare lots.
"Say, this is no joking matter"
said the indignant Roosevelt man. Il
came all the way from Topeka to lay
a small wager on the colonel and l
am going to find some hacker Of the
president with sand enough to take
It,"
So he stumped away in high dud-
geon.
Envles Chicago Policemen.
st can't think of anything that I
would like to do more than to be a
policeman in Chicago" Mrs. Sarah
F.. Bond of Oklahoma City, where she
has bene police matron. patrolman and
deputy sheriff and had uniform. too,
made this wish from fund of expert
ence. She is here to attend the Re-
publican national convention, though
not a delegate. She fears that the pro-
posed suffrage plank will never be
nailed on the platform.
eve have to get suffrage" she in
sisted. TITS the first wedge for re-
demption"
Mrs. Bond has been police matron
|
three times. The first time was when
It was a fierce young town.
Then they had ninety-three saloons,
and killed their man daily" she said.
"The Republican party ought to
know" said Mrs. Bond, that the par
ty that gives women the votes is the
coming party"
Healing Picked the Winner.
! Taft headquarters at the Congress
hotel resolved itself into baseball
grandstand and occupants devoted
themselves to watching an information
al contest on the lake front
team OF Italians from the Gault
court district clashed with a picked
! nine from the West side. Numer-
Gus bets flew back and forth between
spectators of the game and excitement
ran high when the game neared an