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Dear NJ. b. Friends:


The above poem WAS sent me By "Mu-
tual'' who sthought it rather good, but
did not know as it was just the thing to
head a newspaper column gotten up by
women. But you know the men read
our column.
Aunt Emma, W no has been i'll about five
months, has birthday March 2, and am
sure the niecee will be glad to remember
her with cards or letters. Am sorry had
not known it few days earlier 80 as to
have mentioned it last week. Never mind
il they are q few days iate-remember
her. The address is Mrs. Emma A. Hardi-
son, West Franklin.
One day last week, when the mercury was
IS or 20 degrees below zero. l received from
Aunt Sue and her John some ''glimpses"
OF ST. Petersburg, Fla, which were in
striking contrast with what Maine people
were experiencing. 1t seems only few
days ago she was writing from Alaska.
Evening star., 1916-10-31

tiful weather. OF course. all this is
highly detrimental to the health Of the
community. Our throats and nasal
passages are kept in such an irritated
and inflamed condition that a culture
bed for any sort Of germs is good and
ready for them to begin their deadly
work. OF course. the white wings"
and mechanical sweepers cannot keep
the street clean IL the railway company
dumps more dirt as fast as the city
cleans up. In Baltimore. said to be our
most progressive city, l recently saw
motor water car traversing the car
tracks and sprinkling the same. l saw
the same thing some years ago in At
roads put such machines in use here?
OF course, the "fifty-seven varieties
company" will throw a fit at the idea
and threaten to go to law, for it's Off
GERS ride in automobiles and not in the
cars and along the route named.
In the meantime, IT is up to the
Commissioners to operate washing ma
chimes along East Capitol street, even
II some have to be withdrawn from
other streets, some streets being regu-
larly washed where there is not frac-
tfon OF the dust that there is along this
street. In this connection let me say
that there are a number of sidewalks
covered with powdered leaves from
ser-by. As Abe Martin would say, who
remembers the oid-time housewife who
always prided herself on her clean
sidewaik?''
If there is anything in the theory of
the dust transmission of disease our
city is surely in line for test.
GEORGE H. EVANS.
Evening star., 1916-10-31
Story Told by Betting Boards.

Story Told by Betting Boards.
The betting boards in Indianapolis
tell a story of their own. few weeks
ago the Hughes hackers were offering
two to one that Hughes would be
elected. These odds gradually shrunk
until now they are offering nothing
more than even money. Democrats re-
fuse the even money bets. and are
Evening star., 1916-10-31
:TWO-DAY MARCH
FOR D. c. TROOPS
ON Op u hOOt ~
Guardsmen at Camp Wilson to
Work Out Military Problem
at Texas Ranch.
MACHINE GUNS INSPECTED
BY ]. CROSBY MCCARTHY.

CAMP WILSON, San Antonio, Tex
camp of the Cd Regiment. Infantry
n. G. D. C.-October 30.-District of
+, Columbia guardsmen will take part in
q practice march lasting two days, be-
ginning Thursday. A provisional bri-
gade, consisting of the Sd Infantry.
n. q. D. c., and Mississippi and West
Virginia regiments, commanded by Col.
Lyman w. Kennon, u. S. A.. acting
brigadier general, will march Thursday
to Landas ranch, near here.
The encampment will be under shelter
tents. and for two days the troops
will engage in maneuvers in an en-
deavor to work out a military problem.
Makes Inspection of Machine Guns.
Brig. Gen. William Crozier. chief of
ordnance, who has been in San Antonio
several days inspecting the arsenal and
ordnance department, made an unex-
pec,ed visit yesterday afternoon to the
machine gun company of the Sd Regi-
ment. He had long talk with Col.
Young and Capt. Herbert {. Earnshaw.
He made close inspection of the COM
pany's equipment and complime en- ed
Capt. Earnshaw on the excellent condi-
tion in which he found everything. He
questioned Capt. Earnshaw closely on
the work done with the company's four
rapid fire guns
Gen. Crozier took apart one of the
guns. examined it's mechanism close,y.
and asked Earnshaw's opinion of the
type of machine gun in use. His ques-
tions were of particular significance in
view of the machine gun investigation
which has been ordered.
The general made particular inquiry
as to the personnel of the Machine Gun
Company and showed great interest
when he was informed that Capt. Earn
shaw and Lieuts. Frank B. Schlosser
and Perry L. Baldwin are all skilled
mechanics and that the company COM
Irander is an ordnance draughtsman by
profession.
Evening star., 1916-10-31

One-third of the employees of shoe
factories in this country are women.
Evening star., 1916-10-31
Clean the Streets!
he Editor of The Star:

To the Editor of The Star:
Somebody must be sleeping on the
job of keeping the streets clean. They
now look like a country road in Au-
gust, everything being heavily coated
with dust and the roadways covered
with dust and dirt. Certainly no one
would have the nerve to speak of
Washington as a clean city today. A
pail of dust hangs over the whole city
One great trouble is the depositing OF
sand by the ton along the tracks OF
the street railways, particularly along
the tracks of the Washington Railway and
Electric Company To give 4 specific in
stance of unbearable dust conditions, take
East Capitol street from 1st to 18th,
where the dust clouds stirred UP by the
cars completely all the cars so that
passengers have to hold handkerchiefs
to the face or try and not breathe.
Frequently car cannot be seen from
the rear owing to the enveloping cloud
of dust. AS the cars round the corners
of Lincoln Park vast clouds of dust
are raised and the whole park is
covered, rendering it impossible for one
to sit there during this overhead beau
Evening star., 1916-10-31
NAMED LASSEN PEAK,
NOT "MOUNT LASSEN'
Geological Survey Corrects Appar'
emily Wrong Impression About
Most Active Volcano in q. s.

Lassen peak should not be called
Mount Lassen," says the geological
survey. Perhaps it is thought that
the name should correspond with those
of some other famous peaks of the
Cascade range, such as Mount Shasta
or Mount Rainier. But Lassen peak,
as the most active and interesting vol
cano in the United States, is especially
entitled to be called by its own name,
and acts of Congress and presidential
proclamations in creating and recog-
ni1ing the Lasscn Peak National For
est and Lassen Peak National Monu-
ment have given the name Lassen peak
status Of high rank in the geologic
Evening star., 1916-10-31

cast at that election. The vote for
governor in 1872 w..a as follows: Rai-
stun. democrat. 27,.3o7: Durbin. re-
publican. 142,S50; Beveridge, progre3-
sive i66,l24. Eighty per cent Of the
progressive vote would be 1896.
This sum added to the republican vote
would make total of 276.746. which
would be sufficient to give the repub-
licans victory, provided, Of course.
the democrats made no gain over their
1912 vote and that the remaining 49,
224 progressive votes still stood at Az
mageddon at the coming election. But
it is well known that the progressivcs
will not cast 33.o2i votes. or anything
like that number, thi" year, and il is
reasonable to assume that Il large mum
Der Of progresaives viii vote for VIII
son. Therefore even 20 per cent OF the
progressive vote of 1912 would not be
enough to put the republican ticket
over.
And it must be borne in mind that
good many republicans will vote for
Wilson and that good many demo-
Evening star., 1916-10-31

w. H. Suter. a Norfolk liquor dealer
shot and killed himself at Ocean We've
Evening star., 1916-10-31

annals of the Cascade range. The area
has recently been set apart as the Las
sen Volcanic National Park
Peter Lassen. the sturdy pioneer who
guided many an early settler to the
sunny lands of the Sacramento, lies
buried in a lonely grave in Lassen
county. A small, crumbling monument
thirty miles from the peak marks his
Anal resting place, but his greater
and more enduring monuments are the
county and peak named in his honor
by a grateful people. The snow-capped
Lassen peak has piloted many an i'm
migrant to the mountain pass.
Evening star., 1916-10-31
INDIANA CAMPAIGN
AT HEATED STAGE
Both Parties Actively at Work,
Republicans Confidently
Claiming the State.
REVIEW OF THE SITUATION

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. October 3l-
The lid has been pried off the political
pot in Indiana and the utensil has
boiled furious1y in the last week. There
is no longer any lack of interest in the
campaign. 1t required a long time to
get the game started right, but now
that it is going it is going some. Re-
publicans and democrats alike are
working as they seldom have worked
before in a campaign. Smudge pots
have been opened and their contents
are being smeared around indiscrirn-
inately. Bitterness has been engen
dered. and the campaign has taken on
some of the appearances of old times
in Indiana politics.. This is wholly Diff
ferent from the situation Of a few
weeks ago, when nobody was paying
any attention to anything that was
said or done.
The stage was usurped the past week
by the German-American issue. almost
to the exclusion of everything else
Jeremiah O'Leary, president of the
American Independence Conference,
came to indianapolis TO address
Hughes meeting, last Wednesday night,
and on the same night Samuel Gompers
addressed a Wilson labor meeting.
The democrats. including the oniy
democratic newspaper in indianapolis.
hoped on OLeary and his associates
and met them with the bitterest denun-
citation that could be manufactured.
They undertook to hook up the Amer
ican Independence Conference with the
republican organization. and they
printed in the newspaper and circulated
throughout the city facsimiles of sta
tionery used in sending letters to Ger
man-Americans in behalf Of Hughes
and the American Independence Con-
ference.
Evening star., 1916-10-31
Resolve to Fight It Out.

Apparently, the democrats have reach
ed the conclusion that a large part Of
the German american vote is gone and
that the only thing left for them to do
is to accept the issue and fight it out.
This has stirred up tremendous feel
ing among the races in Indiana. and
there is no telling now what the effect
may be.
II is a fact that some Of the repub-
lican leaders in this state believe
grave mistake has been made in ac-
cepting and encouraging the support of
the OLeary organization. They feel
that II will bring about a situation that
will be difficult to get rid of in the
future. But there are others who take
the position that they are justified in
using any possible means to defeat
Wilson at the election. and they refuse
to agree that any mistake has been
made.
Indiana is believed to be about the
brightest spot in the republican col
umn. Republican party conditions here
are said to be better than in any other
of the states in this section. The OF
ganization still insists that Hughes
will carry the state by safe plurality
and their claims sound good. Eastern
newspaper men who have toured the
west seeking out the truth about poll
tics say they feel a different atmo-
sphere In Indiana from any they have
found in other states. They bring word
that Illinois is wholly uncertain: that
Michigan is the same; that Missouri
probably will go democratic; that Kan
sas is extremely doubtful. and that
Ohio will go for Wilson. But they
nay Indiana looks like Hughes.
Republican Prospects.
In order to win Indiana at the COM
ing election the republicans must hold
all of the votes they polled at the 1912
election and gain not less than so per
| cent of the progressive votes that were
Evening star., 1916-10-31
San Felice Standard to Be
Maintained, Say Makers
All Dealers Now Sell Famous
Cigars at SC Straight.
In Effect Today,

OWING TO the greatly increased cost
Of quality tobaccos. in fact. every
the makers OF the San Felice cigar,
The DIESEL Wemmer Company. have
advareed the selling price to the Job
bers and Dealers. and henceforth this
cigar will positively be sold to the
consumer AZ cents strai1nt instead
of six for quarter as previously.
The SAN FELECE is national in it's
scope and character. having Justly at
tained this eminence through its un-
excelled excellence. To maintain this
unequaled standard of quality. the ad-
vance in question is absolutely unavoid-
able. The generous support Of all
men using quality cigars In earnestly
desired.--Advertisem
Evening star., 1916-10-31
Hospital Patient Identified.

Mrs. Vera Hughes. fifty years old. fs2
patient at Emergency Hospital. she
was taken sick on 9Th street Sunday
afternoon. and was unconscious when
she reached the hospital. She was mt
identified until today.
Evening star., 1916-10-31

/ holding out for 10 to 8. The result is
very little betting on the election.
Hughes is coming into Indiana for
| two days the coming week He will
spend all of this time in the south half
/ Of the state, where the German-Ameri-
| can vote is heavy. Republicans pro-
| fess to believe that he will clinch the
state for the republican ticket, while
recent OLeary- sensation
the coming of Hughes into the German
districts will do the republicans more
harm than good.
Republicans say the la Dor situation is
clearing up for them, and that many
workingmen who favored Wilson ear
1ier in the campaign are coming over
to Hughes.
In the campaign for the election of
the state ticket the republicans still
have the best of it. 1t Is also believed
that the republicans will pick up few
representatives in the state. because
encouraging to them. But the demo-
Gratis are depending on the strength OF
President Wilso to pull through the
rest of the democratic ticket.
There still remains. however. thu
suspicious sensation in the minds OF
political observers that there is an un-
dercurrent in Indiana that no one has
been able to figure out. 1t is sort Of
hunch or feeling comparable only to
that sensation one feels when he is
conscious of upeasiness. but does not
know what he is uneasy about 1t may
be ground swell or it may be fluke,
but the politicians will not rest easily
until after the election. Some of them
feel that this indicates great land
slide in one direction the other. but
they do not know what direction it will
take.
Hughes Woman Orators to Be Heard
The Hughes women's campaign train
with it's trainload of woman orators
will be in Indianapolis the night of
Monday, October 80. and plans are un-
der way for a demonstration for them.
Several meetings have been arranged
to be addressed by the women, and
there will be society dinner at a local
hotel. Some of the republican leaders
are considerably exercised over the
coming of the train, which has been
dubbed the Golden Special and the
"Billionaires Special They say they
fear that the occa sion will be so much a
society event that the great body of
women who cannot attend the social
functions will be offended they say
this will not do the party any good, for.
as one well known republican remark
ed: "The jitney vote is more important
than the limousine vote"
This, the last week of the campaign,
will witness a grand roundup in In
diana by the orators of all parties, and
the organizations will put in their fln-
ishing 1icks. The republican state or
ganization has received but little money
from the east and it has had to do
some real scraping in the last ew
weeks to keep things going. Some of
the old-line republicans of Indiana. who
always contribute to the campaign
funds, have trimmed down their con-
tributions this year. One instance is
known of republican who invariably
has given $1,000 to the campaign fund
in former years. but who, this year,
dug UP only $1,000.
Evening star., 1916-10-31

Gratis will vote for Hughes. In view
OF these figures how can any one make
substantial claim to Indiana?
Consideration Of all of these facts
increases the doubt about what Indiana
will do at the election. There has been
drift toward Wilson in the last three
weeks that has caused the republican
managers no little anxiety. but they
declare that this drift will not be
strong enough to overcome the normal
republican plurality Of 10000 to $4,000
in Indiana
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-16

to the attorneys at moderate an
nual salary, with contingent fee
of sum equal to ten per cent
of any amount recovered from the
United States on account of in.
volved treaty stipulations. There
is absolutely no basis for Mr.. Dan.
iels' statement that he saved the
Indians at least half million dol
lars" AS q matter of fact, if he
was in any way responsible for the
non-approval of the Henderson,
Wallace contract, which we do not
believe, he has caused the Chippe-
was the loss in interest on their
claims of many times the amount
of any fees that the attorneys
nigh: have earned.
To anyone who reflects, Mr..
Daniels proposition must seem
absurd, for ne would create the
impression that the present Demo-
cratic Administration had COM
bined with such prominent Re-
publicans as Senator Clapp, K. E.
Smith and Simon Michelet to get
rid of G.. G.. Daniels.
AS matter of fact, Mr.. Dan
iels is discrediting the Democratic
Administration under which he
held office, and is sacrificing it, to
gether with the interests of In
dams and whites alike in Mlnneso-
ia. We are reliably informed that
the Investigations Of the inspectors
disclosed this fact and that Mr..
Daniels was let out of the service.
It is our opinion that he made a
ridiculous failure during his tenure
of Office, in a position for which he
was imported into Minnesota,
probably because he was the broth
er Of the Secretary of the Navy,
and everything indicates that his
removal is for the good of the SER
surely, we believe, it is for
the good of the Indians.
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-16

If the statements of Mr.. Daniels
in regard to alleged frauds upon
the White Earth Reservation and
among the Minnesota Chippewas
generally, we're correct, and it is
our opinion that he has largely
exaggerated them, surely he has
done little during his several years
of service to correct the wrong,
for he states in the Twin City
newspapers that 400 suits were
started. Yet we are informed that
only II of these have actually been
tried, and Of those tried, only 3
decided in favor of his conten-
tions.
We would like to call your at
tention to the fact that even these
we're not fraud cases, but were
cases where Indians selling their
lands had made afidavits that they
were mixed bloods, in order to
bring themselves within the scope
of the Clapp Act, and later after
having the benefit of the money,
had allowed the Government at
torneys to set up the claim that
they we're full-bloods.
The Clapp Act, which Mr.. Dan
iels claims was enacted to despoil
the fulI-bloods, gave the latter no
right to ALLEVIATE their aIIotments,
so if they had already actually
sold their lands upon representa-
tions under oath that they were
mixed bloods, the fraud was COM
United, not ON the full-blood, but
BY him.
Self-respecting Indians have no
sympathy with fraud. even if com
mitted by so-called ignorant full
bloods. -
The fact Is that the Clapp Act
withdrew from the White Earth
Chippewas the curse of paternal
ism, formerly exercised by the
Federal Government over class
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-16
Chippewa Delegates In
digoant Over Daniels
Interview.
Repudiate Statements Made Against
Senator CIapp.
concluded from last ISSUE

With reference to Senator
Clapp's part in Chippewa legisla-
ton, we know that he has worked
only for such measures on behalf
of the Chippewas of Minnesota
and of the White Earth Reserva-
ton, as the Indians themselves
through their General Council and
their local councils on each reser-
walton have asked.
1t is we'll known that he has
been severely criticised by the
public press of Minnesota for hav
ing aided in securing the passage
of bill known as the Clapp Act,
which placed the White Earth
Chippe was on an equality with the
whites, as free, Independent citi
zens; and for this, we submit, that
he deserves the thanks of all alike.
This legislation, though bearing
the name of Senator Clapp, did
not originate with him, but with
the Indians, at whose request it
was passed. Moreover, it had the
consent and approval of the then
Commissioner of Indian Affairs;
and the bill providing for the law
in Nestlon was first introduced in
ia by Congressman Stevenson.
Referring to the employment of
Webster Ballinger by the Chippe-
was of Minnesota, which Mr.. Dan
iels comments upon, this was done.
in order to test the right of the
Interior Department to expend
last year the sum of $160, 100000,
which was used principally for the
payment from tribal funds of Gov
eminent employees; and it is doubt
full whether Senator Clapp or any
member of Congress knew any
thing about this employment. 1t
was purely local matter and not
one in which Mr.. Daniels had any
occasion to NEEDLE. The refec-
tons cast upon twill add to the
conviction Of the Chippewas, gen.
orally, that he is not really in
sympathy with their interests or
their efforts to conserve tribal
funds.
The statement of Mr.. Daniels
that there is white mans coun-
clip among the Chippewa Indians
which authorized the employment
of an attorney in Minneapolis and
one in Washington is untrue. So
far as we know, the only contracts
that have been made by the In.
dams with attorneys of late were
made under the authority of the
General Council of Minnesota
Chippewas, regularly and duly
held, pursuant to notice, according
to tribal custom. The particular
contract to which Mr.. Daniels re-
fers was authorized at a council
held in May. 1913. at which Chief
Supervisor E. p. Holcombe was
present under instructions issued
by the Secretary of the Interior.
The Indians had informed the Sec
rotary of their purpose and had
requested the presence of repre-
sentative of the Department.. The
contract made pursuant to that
| Council authority provided for
compensation for two years only
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-16

any member of said tribe or used
for his or her benefit shall be de-
Quoted from the share of said
member in the permanent fund of
the said Chippewa Indians in Min
nesota to which he or she would
be entitled: Provided further,
That the funds hereunder to be
paid to Indians shall not be SUBJ
ject to any lien or claim of attor-
news or other third parties.
Go be Continued.
The Tomahawk., 1916-03-16

of Indians that Congress declared
capable of managing thei: own
affairs, and VIC speak with CONN.,
dencc when we say that the In
dams, generally, have feeling OF
thunkfulness only for those who
assisted in any way in bringing
about their individual freedom.
If Mr.. Daniels had desired hon
estly TO convey to the public a
correct expression through the
article published in your paper,
he would have said that the So
called full blood delegates are en-
tireIy at liberty to come to WASH
inyton, and do regularly come TO
Washington, and are given the
fullest consideration both by the
Departments and the Committees
of Congress.
lie would further have stated
that no Indians on the White
Earth Reservation are starving,
who are willing and able to work,
and that the old people who are
unable to work are we'll taken care
If.
He would further say that the
motive back Of his interview is
primarily to express his resent
ment at those who have assisted in
his too long delayed removal from
political office.
Very respectfully,
John G.. Morrison,
Pres. Gen. Council.
Paul II. Beaulieu,
Sec. Gen. Council.
b. l.. Fairbanks.
VIM. Sayers.
+. Joseph Jourdan.
Pay -she-keshig.
O-be-zaun-e-keshig
WIN. II. Lyons.
Gus. III BeauIieu.-
Frank Pequette.
Mike Diver.
N. j. Head.