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THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6,1906.
HISS ALICE TO WED.
CONGRESSMAN NICHOLAS LONG-
WORTH, OF OHIO, THE MOST
FORTUNATE OR MEN.
crew. He also was a member of the
freshman class of the football team,
and actively participated In the pro
motion of college athletics.
A Grand White House Wedding In Mid-
February—Culmination of Romance
Believed to Have Occurred on Ocean
Voyage.
There Is to be another wedding In the
White House, and society at the capi
tal Is already looking forward to what
undoubtedly will be the most brilliant
event in'the history of the mansion.
It Is Just about two years since Rep
resentative Nicholas Longvferth, of
Cincinnati, began to lay siege to the
' heart of the charming daughter of the
President, and his attack has been un
remitting Now he has captured the
heart of Miss Alice, and will lead her
to the altar In mid-February.
Several times during the last year
* Mr. Longworth's engagement to Miss
Roosevelt was rumored, but It was
never confirmed, and the social world
began to conclude that a warm friend
ship was about all that existed between
them.
Chance of a Lifetime.
It was when Mias Roosevelt deter
mined to accompany Secretary Taft's
party to the Orient that Mr. Longworth
apparently aajw his crowning opportu
nity, and he forthwith became one ef
the party. Throughout the jaunt his
attentions to the daughter of the Pres
ident were more marked than ever be
fore, for in his wooing he had tbe ad
vantage of being the only courtier In
the field.
Though his friends now say that
they had observed the glint of a glori
ous victory In his eyes when he re
turned from tbe long voyage, be never
confided his triumph to a soul, and the
first Information of tbe engagement
did not reach society until Mrs. Roose
velt told It to a few personal friends In
tbs White House. Then, of course, so
ciety soon heard of 1L
Win Tour Europe.
It Is expected that after their mar
riage the distinguished couple will take
a leisurely trip throughout Eu
They will, of course, be certain
splendid reception everywhere, espe
cially In all tbe capitals of the Old
World.
Miss Roosevelt has never been In
Europe, although she has had several
opportunities and Invitations, notably
• jrhaa she was Invited by Mrs. Whlte-
•“ r Rsw Reid when Mr. Reljl went to Eng
land as special ambassador at the cor
onatlon of King Edward.
In Paris, too, the Longworths are
certain of lavish entertainment, as Mr.
Longworth's sister, the Viscountess de
Chambrun, lives there.
Miss Roosevelt, who Is the only child
of the President's first marriage, will
be twenty-two years cld In February,
. and is named for her mother, Alice
Lee, of Boeton, to whom the President
became engaged in his college days at
Harvard, and whom be married In
-1881.
On the death of her mother, one year
after the latter’s marriage, Miss Roose-
was admitted to the bar in 1894. He
served as a member of the school board
of his home city until elected to the
Ohio House of Representatives In 1899,
by the incredibly small majority of
4, being the only Republican elected
that year. Subsequently be served In
the State Senate until elected to ihe
Fifty-eighth Congress, and was re-
SERAM'S DEATH MRU).
ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED AT CAP
ITOL, WHERE HE HAD SERVED
MANY YEARS.
Due toConvIctlonfor DcfraudlngGov-
ernme-nt of Lands-Both Oregon
Congressmen AIM Under Indict
ment or Conviction.
* All precedent was Ignored by the
United 8tates Senate In the case of
the death of the late Senator John H.
BON. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH.
veil became the charge of her aunt,
Ux William S. Cowles, who was then
Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to the pres
ent day is as much the child of Mrs.
Cowles' affection as though she were
• htf of her niece.
‘ Her Debut In Washington.
Miss Roosevelt msde her debut at a
ball given in the great East Room
early In January, 1901, since which
date she has enjoyed a succession of
- attentions never before offered any
American girl.
At the World's Fair In St Louis,
when she was the guest of Miss Catlln,
Miss Roosevelt was, admired by thou
sands who saw -her, and was voted a
true type of the American girl. Thou
sands followed her wherever she went
but her demeanor did not Indicate that
she was any more than a plain Amer
icas. Her sweet smile completely cap
tivated the throng, and In 8t Louis or
the West tbe President's daughter will
always be welcome.
Mr. Longworth Is tbs only son of the
late Nicholas Longworth, one of the
great millionaires of the West His
- r inherited all of the estate of his
turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by
an overwhelming majority. There la
a great light In “Nick” Longworth's
eyes these days.
JT&af Became of Ihe Change.
Gen. Chaffee was onde asked by a
soldier to lend him a quarter.
“Didn't you receive your month's
pay yesterday?” asked tbe General.
“Tee,” said the veteran.
"Where’s your money now?"
"Why I left tbe post an0 crossed tbe
ferry with glSfiO. I met a friend, and
we had dinner. The bill was 8 8.00.
Then I bought $1.00 worth of cigars;
then we went to tbe theatre for 84.00.
After theatre we went down to the
Bowery and 1 spent 82.00 there.”
"That makes filfi-00,” said the Gen
eral. "What became of tbe other
fifty cents?”
The <
old soldier seemed pussled„and
finally said:
"Why, I must have spent that fool
ishly.”
Enty When You Know How.
A farmer left to bis eldest son one-
half of bis seventeen horses, to bis
second son one-third and to his third
son one-ninth. Tbe executor did not
know what to do as seventeen will not
divide evenly by neither two, three or
nine. In tbe afternoon a neighbor
drove over and learning of the diulcul-
ty said, "Take my horse and you will
then have eighteen.” Tbe executor
then gave one-half, or nine, to tbe
eldest son; one-third or six, to the
second son; and one-nlntb, or two, to
tbe youngest, and tbe neighbor took bis
horse boms and ever after called him
"Problem” in thb morning and "Solu
tion” in tbe afternoon.
-. Wholesome Sort of a Man.
The future son-in-law of tbs Presi
dent is on enthusiastic lover of-outdoor
sport* as his splendid physical r
‘ ‘ ' ;y Indicates. He is I
t plainly Indicates. He Is an ex
pert on the golf links, a crosscountry
rider, a good marksman with shotgun-
end rill* and a veteran fisherman. At
Harvard he was a member of the
‘vanity, rowing crew, and for three
yean subsequently rowed in the olass
Pence Now Relgna.
After warring, for more than a hun
dred years. In which time thousands
of lives have been sacrificed and the
greater portion of the Washoe and
Pluto Indian tribes wiped out, peace
has been declared between those tribes.
This arrangement was brought about
by Capt. Pet* head chief of the Washoe
tribe, and Capt Dare, head chief of the
Piute tribe. They met la Ban* Nevada,
and through Johnny Kay, Capt Den'S
lieutenant the two old warriors shook
hands and for an hour or more over
the pipe of peace discussed the p
that led to tbe ending of boetiu
Now they are planning a big peace
It will take place at Sparks,
and for six days both tribes will Join
la celebrating the big event Tbe Piutes
once constituted one of the largest
tribes In the Northwest and the Washoe
tribe was a close second.
The forestry station at Dodge CHty,
Kansas, Js giving away trees at tbe
rats of ooojooo a year. Since tbe In
auguration of tree planting on an ex
tensive scale there have been remark
able changes in the climatic condl-
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Mitchell, of Oregon. Tet there is no
body of men on earth which Is a great
er stickler for ceremony governed by
precedent than Is tbe United States
Senate. But the Mitchell case pre
sented a unique situation. Tbe official
recognition of the death of a Senator
Is always a solemn and affecting pro
ceeding, but even the usual funeral
rites were omitted In this Instance.
The Oregon Senator had been convict
ed of a grave crime against the gov
ernment. Excepting Senator Burton,
of Kansas, no other members of the
hS« ever had to face a.crlmlna!
court trial. The Senate has expelled
members and has often exercised its
constitutional prerogative of unseating
a Sepator, but with the two exceptions
above stated. It has never been con
fronted with such a situation as was
forced upon tbe public attention by
Senators from Oregon and Kansas.
The Vice-President, who is the
President of the Senate; did not ap
point the usual committee to attend
the funeral held in Portland, Ore.
Senator Fulton, tbe sole representative
of Oregon left In Congress, had intend
ed presenting a brief resolution, re
citing the death of his colleague, and
asking that the Senate adjourn as a
mark of respect, but even this was not
done. Not even was the desk which
the late Senator occupied veiled In the
heavy mourning drapery as Is the cus
tom. In a word, the Senate, In sad
ness, passed over the death of its for
mer Senator as quietly and unostenta
tiously as possible. There have bee\
no eulogies. His successor, sppolnt-
ed by Governor Chamberlain, a Dem
ocrat, comes to Washington from the
far Pacific slope and the sovereign
State of Oregon will again have Its
full representation In the Senate.
Scats Vacai.t In the Houm,
Oregon’s representation In the
House will remain vacant until the
courts have finally passed upon the
Indictments and trials of the State’s
two Representatives, Messrs. Blnger
ann and John Newton William
son. Mr. Williamson already has been
convicted by a Federal Court of of
fenses similar to those for which Sen
ator Mitchell was made to suffer, and
Is now awaiting the outcome of the
of his case, as was Sen
when death gratefully
lleved him of further humiliation and
always thought he was until the ex
posure of his wrongdoing was made,
then he must have welcomed death as
a happy Issue out of all his trouble.
He was an old man. He had sounded
the depths and shallows of life. He
had run the gamut of human emotions.
He had felt the glorious thrills of tri
umph and the panga of disappointed
ambition. He had associated, the
world around, with the men who give
Impetus and tongue to the uplifting
thoughts of mankind that are hurry
ing us on to a civilisation that will
eventually realise the poet's dream of
Utopia,
“What he must have suffered In Ills
last days—what devils peopled his
brain, what repinlngs of what might
have been must bave depressed his
soul—who can Imagine these, let alone
tell about them? Napoleon fretting
out his proud life on St. Helena never
was as unhappy as John H. Mitchell
must have been while suffering
tbe stings of humiliation after expos
ure and conviction came with
suddenness that carried him to the
depths of despair. He told more than
one Senator who had seen him since
his trouble that he would never go to
Jail.”
Had there been attempt to consider
cesolutlons of respect for the memory
of Qpnator Mitchell it la likely that
there would have been objection.
There Is a precedent for such action,
for when Senator Broderick, of Cali
fornia, war killed In a duel with Judge
Terry, of tbat State, resolutions of re
spect were offered In the Senate. They
were opposed by Senator Foster, of
Connecticut, and tbe resolutions were
referred to a committee and never
Were heard from afterward.
GHOST POINTS WAY TO.GOLD.]
Mr. Hermann Is yet to be tried. It
thus happens that there was no one
In the House from Oregon to make for
mal announcement to tbat body of the
death of Senator. Mitchell, so that no
official attention was paid the Incident
There Is so little that can lie said
of the strange, tragic, pitiful case of
Senator Mitchell that the men of the
Senate who knew him best who liked
him best who had served In that great
forum with him longest and who are
most grieved at the sad ending of his
career, have been disinclined to speak
of him at all.
“He Is dead," said one Senator, "and
that ends alL U he were tbe man I
M
Miner's Story of Discovery of Rich
Mineral Deposit In Unexplored!
Canyon.
Bringing a larfeo bottle filled with
almost pure gold, taken from a lode
long hidden In mountain fastnesses,
not a great distance from Seattle, W.
E. Bartlett and M. C. Black, both well
known local business men, are reported
back after a perilous trip to the Caa-
Theirs, however, was labor richly
rewarded, though the story is so In
terwoven with spiritualism and ro-
-mance that It la well-nigh Incredible-
Bartlett is the grandson of D. E. In-
gels, a miner of the early '80s In these
parts, who wa» murdered In the hills
by his partner. The Bartlett family
are spiritualists, and Bartlett declares
that his dead and murdered grand
father, through a Portland medium,
appeared to him and described how
he could find the lost mine and that he
would be Independent for life.
Bartlett asserts positively that he
received specific directions from the
spirit of his grandfather how to pro
ceed to the lost mine. Moreover, he
was told to select M. O. Black to ac
company him. The men will not tell
of the location of their find, but say
It cannot be reached save by making
an extremely dangerous trip and one
filled with hardship, especially at this
time of the year, when the mountains
are firm in winter’s icy grasp. In the
spring they will return and develop
their find.
In a rough and mountainous section,
they say, they found a gray quarts
ledge, literally filled with precious
metal. Small pieces were broken off,
pounded up In' a frying pan which they
had with them and the gold picked out
Should- the ledge prove as rich as tbe
samples, or even a quarter as rich, a
man could pan- out In a week's tlmo
enough of tbe gold to make him
wealthy.
As an evidence of tbelr find they
have the bottle .of gold dust, which has
already been viewed by doxens of peo-
FOILS THE LAND THIEVES.
SECRETARY 1 HITCHCOCK’S RE
LENTLESS PURSUIT OF LAND
GRABBING THIEVES.
-Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate
of Government Irrigation-Irriga
tion Work of Hie Department Highly
Successful.
By-Richard H. Byrd,
It Is rumored that among probalile
Cabinet changes Secretary Hitchcock
Is to shortly retire from tbe Interior
Department of which he has been tbe
bend since tbe second McKinley ad
ministration. It will be recalled tbat
more or less definite statements as to
Mr. Hitchcock’s retirement and his
probable successors have been of very
frequent and regular occurrence, but
tbe reason therefore Is probably not
hard to find. Mr. Hitchcock has made
a very great Secretary of the Iaterior.
He has tom to pieces a vast fabric
constructed to steal, not acres, but
square miles of the public lands, to
grab from the government great tracts
worth millions of dollars. The land
grabbers have been men In high po
sitions; they have employed perjury,
bribery and forgery, to say nothing of
more-forceful crimes to defraud tbelr
country. Tbelr ring was backed by
wealthy and Influential men and In
cluded members of the legislatures,
United States Commissioners, special
land agents, notaries, etc. Tbe troll
even led to tbe bead of the General
Land Office, Into tbe national House of
Representatives and Into the United
States Senate. Tbe loose land laws of
tbe country made tbelr task possible It
not oasv.
Crime In High Places.
Secretary Hitchcock, shortly after he
became u member of the Cabinet, bad
his attention called to evident frauds
In tho acquirement of government
land. He set to work a quiet Investi
gation. It finally culminated In the
Indictment of great numbers of people
and In tho recent conviction of a
United States Senator and a Member
of .Congress. Perhaps, though th# cul
mination is not yet. No man knows
where tbe trail may lend next or how
much evidence Mr. Hitchcock has and
Is working up.
It is stated to bare been a good deal
of a surprise to tbe wiseacres at
Washington, and in fact throughout
the country, to see the way In which
tbe Secretary of tbe Interior bas “made
good” in bis land frond prosecutions.
It was never supposed last winter
that the government could ever secure
a convldon of any Congressman or
Senator In Oregon. It was announced
tbat tbe Secretary bad been Illy ad
vised and 'bad gotten himself Into a
deep hole, the outcome of which would
be disastrous to himself.
Tried to Have Him Removed,
Tbe Secretary remarked on several
occasions that tho land frauds were
astounding In their magnitude' but
that be proposed to stop them. He
was laughed at but just the same
some of tbe land grabbers began to
get a little nervous and-tbe newspaper
rumors began, to tbe effect that Sec
retary Hitchcock would probably re
sign—In tbe course of two or three
months, after he had f airbed with cer
tain Investigations being made at
that time. But tbe Investigations bave
never been finished. Before one batch
of frauds has been disposed
another sensation has been sprang In
some other state so that there has
never been a time when a change in
tbe Interior Department would not
bake been hailed as a victory for tbe
land grabbers.
dent McKinley's administration, were
as strong recommendations of this pol
icy as have ever been written. He -
called attention to the fact that a vast
fortuno was allowed annually to waste
Itself througboutrihe West; that a wa
ter supply was uselessly running to tbe
sea which would Irrigate 70 million ,
acres of the most fertile desert land In
tbe world, and be called attention to
the fact that an Irrigated west was
capable of supporting the entire pres
ent population of the United States.
It was not In keeping with the spirit
of the times that this great oppor
tunity for home building should be ne
glected by the nation.
Then wbeqi Colonel Roosevelt be
came President, tbe Irrigation bill was
passed and the administration of the
law was entrusted to the Interior De
partment Mr. Hitchcock was ready.
Tbe Geological Surrey, a bureau of
his departementf bad been making ex
tensive surveys
ready for such
was Immediately
ptead of eight or ti prepara-
HON. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK,
Secretary of the Interior,
tlon and reconnaissances and surveys,
such as bas been the history »in the
great Irrigation works off every other
country, there are to-day in course of
construction, a doxen huge projects,
and last June, Just three years.after
the law was passed, the first project
was completed-
Of Vast Import to Nation.
Secretary Hitchcock's vigorous work
In saving tbe public domain for home-
seekers, and In bringing loth prececal
operation a policy for the absolute
creation out of a desert nothing, of
thousands and eventually millions of
prosperous American homes Is, la
reality the greatest work of tbe gener
ation. The actual benefit of this great
internal development andimprovement
of the nation's property far surpasses
tbe work of any other department of
the government (-
ofthtrtfrrt
A GROUP OFIFRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES.
pie, and assays have been made which
irove that the mineral Is the real
thing.
Hops were Introducod into England
In 1824 by a native of Artorie-tbe
home of the Artesian welL Physicians
denounced tbelr use as dangerous
and Henry Till forbade brewers In
kingdom to use hopes in making
For nearly half a century the sew
ing machine has been In.use, and yet
for the shirt we wear the poor work
woman receives but sixty to eighty
cents adosen.
The Secretary's rugged honesty and
unswervable determination to weed
out tbe despoilers and The grafters
who are looting the agricultural and
timber landk of the west bave called
Xorth many high enoonlums from
thoughtful people who have followed
his course. No public official '
taken more literally to heart the
strong expressions against public land
grabbing of tbe President in his an
nual message to Congress.
Believes Irrigation Croat Question.
Closely connected with the land
question In the west Is the Irrigation
question, and since be first came Into
office Secretary Hitchcock has been an
ardent friend of national irrigation.
His annual reports, even under Free!-
