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MISS ALICE TO WED.
CONGRESSMAN NICHOLAS LONG
WORTH, OF OHIO, THE MOST
FORTUNATE OF MEN.
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 Longworth, 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 Miss Roosevelt deter
mined to accompany Secretary Taft's
party to the Orient that Mr. Longworth
apparently saw his crowning opportu
nity, and he forthwith became one of
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 the 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 the long voyage, he never
confided his triumph to a soul, and the
first information of the engagement
did not reach society until Mrs. Roose
velt told it to a few personal friends in
the White House. Then, of course, so
ciety soon heard of it.
Will Tour Europe.
It is expected that after their mar
riage the distinguished couple will take
a leisurely trip throughout Europe.
They will, of course, be certain of a
splendid reception everywhere, espe
cially in all the capitals of the Old
World.
Miss Roosevelt has never been in
Europe, although she has had several
opportunities and invitations, notably
when she was invited by Mrs. White
law Reid when Mr. Reid went to Eng
land as special ambassador at the cor
onation 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 old in February,
and is named for her mother, Alice
Lee, of Boston, to whom the President
became engaged in his college days at
Harvard, and whom he married in
1883.
On the death of her mother, one year
after the latter’s marriage, Miss Roose-
HON. NICHOLAS LONGWORTH.
velt became the charge of her aunt,
Mrs. William S. Cowles, who was then
Miss Anna Roosevelt, and to the pres
ent day is as muck the child of Mrs.
Cowles’ affection as though she were
her daughter instead of her niece.
Her Debut in Washington.
Miss Roosevelt made her debut at a
ball given in the great East Room
early in January, 1902, 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 tjie guest of Miss Catlin,
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
ican. Her sweet smile completely cap
tivated the throng, and in St. Louis or
the West the President’s daughter will
always be welcome.
Mr. Longworth is the only son of the
late Nicholas Longworth, one of the
great millionaires of the West. His
mother inherited all of the estate of his
father.
Wholesome Sort of a Man.
The future son-in-law of the Presi
dent is an enthusiastic lover of outdoor
Bports, as his splendid physical devel
opment plainly indicates. He !s an ex
pert on the golf links, a cross-country
rider, a good marksman with shotgun
and rifle, and a veteran fisherman. At
Harvard he was a member of the
’varsity rowing crew, and for three
/ears subsequently rowed in the class
01te ilnntrtnmmt Monitor.
crew. He also was a member of the
freshman class of the football team,
and actively participated in the pro
motion of college athletics.
Upon the completion of his course
at Harvard, Mr. Longworth studied
law in the Cincinnati Law School, and
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 he served in
the State Senate until elected to the
Fifty-eighth Congress, and was re-
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Copyrighted by Frances Benjamin Johnston,
MISS ALICE
turned to the Fifty-ninth Congress by
an overwhelming majority. There is
a great light in “Nick” Longworth’s
eyes these days.
What Became of the Change.
Gen. Chaffee was once asked by a
soldier to lend him a quarter.
“Didn’t you receive your month’s
pay yesterday?” asked the General.
“Yes,” said the veteran.
“Where’s your money now?”
“Why I left the post and crossed the
ferry with $15.50. I met a friend, and
we had dinner. The ' bill was $ 8.00.
Then I bought SI.OO worth of cigars;
then we went to the theatre for $4.00.
After theatre we went down to the
Bowery and I spent $2.00 there.”
“That makes $15.00,” said the Gen
eral. “What became of the other
fifty cents?”
The old soldier seemed puzzled, and
finally said:
“Why, I must have spent that fool
ishly.”
Easy When You Know How.
A farmer left to his eldest son one
half of his seventeen horses, to his
second son one-third and to his third
son one-ninth. The executor did not
know what to do as seventeen will not
divide evenly by neither two, three or
nine. In the afternoon a neighbor
drove over and learning of the diidcul
ty said, “Take my horse and you will
then have eighteen.” The executor
then gave one-half, or nine, to the
eldest son; one-third or six, to the
second son; and one-ninth, or two, to
the voungest, and the neighbor took his
horse home and ever after called him
“Problem” in the morning and “Solu
tion” in the afternoon.
Peace Now Reigns.
After warrings for more than a hun
dred years, in which time thousands
of lives have been sacrificed and the
greater portion of the Washoe and
Piute Indian tribes wiped out, peace
j has been declared between those tribes.
This arrangement was brought about
by Capt. Pete, head chief of the Washoe
tribe, and Capt. Dave, head chief of the
Piute tribe. They met in Reno, Nevada,
and through Johnny Kay, Capt. Dave’s
lieutenant, the two old warriors shook
hands and for an hour or more over
the pipe of peace discussed the plans
that led to the ending of hostilities.
Now they are planning a big peace
dance. It wfll take place at Sparks,
and for six days both tribes will join
in celebrating the big event. The Piutes
once constituted one of the largest
tribes in the Northwest and the Washoe
tribe was a close second.
The forestry station at Dodge City,
Kansas, is giving away trees at the
rate of 500,000 a year. Since the in
auguration of tree planting on an ex
tensive scale there have been remark
able changes in the climatic condi
tions of Kansas.
MOUNT VERNON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, i' 4. 1906.
SENATOR’S DEATH IGNORED.
ENTIRELY OVERLOOKED AT CAP
ITOL, WHERE HE HAD SERVED
MANY YEARS.
Due to Conviction for Defrauding Go
vernment of Lands—Both Oregon
Congressmen Also Under Indict
ment or Conviction.
All precedent was ignored by the
United States Senate in the case of
the death of the late Senator John H.
ROOSEVELT.
Mitchell, of Oregon. Yet there is no
body of men on earth which is a great
er stickler for ceremony governed by
precedent than is the United States
Senate. But the Mitchell case pre
sented a unique situation. The 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
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
Senate has ever had to face a criminal
court trial. The Senate has expelled
members and has often exercised its
constitutional prerogative of unseating
a Senator, but with the two exceptions
above stated, it has never been con
fronted with such a situation as was
forced upon the 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 Portland, Ore.
Senator Fulton, the 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 been
no eulogies. His successor, appoint
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.
Seats Vaca..t in the House.
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. Ringer
Hermann 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
appeal of his case, as was Senator
Mitchell when death gratefully re
lieved him of further humiliation and
woe.
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 that body of the
death of Senator Mitchell, so that no
official attention was paid the incident.
There is so little that can be 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. If he were the man I
always thought he was until the ex
posure of his wrongdoing was made,
then ho 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 gnmut of human emotions.
He had felt the glorious thrills of tri
umph and the pangs of disappointed
ambition. Ho had associated, tho
world around, with the men who givo
impetus and tongue to the uplifting
thoughts of mankind that aro hurry
ing us on to a civilization that will
eventually realizo the poet’s dream of
Utopia.
“What he must have suffered in his
last days—what devils peopled his
brain, what replnings of what might
have been must have 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
the stings of humiliation after expos
ure and conviction came with a
suddenness that carried hinr to the
depths of despair, no 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
resolutions of respect for the memory
of Senator Mitchell it is likely that
there would have been objection.
There is a precedent for such action,
for when\ Senator Broderick, of Cali
fornia, wai killed in a duel with Judge
Terry, of tnat State, resolutions of re
spect were offered in tho Senate. They
were opposed by Senator Foster, of
Connecticut, and the resolutions were
referred to a committee and never
were heard from afterward.
GHOST POINTS WAY TO.GOLD.]
Miner’s Story of Discovery of Rich
Miik-al Deposit in Unexploredl
Canyon.
Bringing a large 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 Cas
cades.
Theirs, however, was labor richly
rewarded, though the story is so in
terwoven with spiritualism and ro
mance that it is well-nigh incredible
Bartlett is the grandson of D. E. In
gels, a miner of the early ’6os in those
parts, who was murdered in the hills
by bis 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. C. 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 quartz
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 the
samples, or even a quarter as rich, a
man could pan out In a week’s time
enough of the gold to make him
wealthy.
As an evidence of their find they
have the bottle of gold /lust, which has
already been viewed by dozens of peo*
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A GROTTP OP FRAUDULENT LAND ENTRIES.
Attempt* to Hold Government Land Claims Under the Government’s North Platte Irrigation
Project—Wyomlng-Nebraska. Photographed by Government Inspectors.
pie, and assays have been made which
prove. that the mineral Is the real
thing.
ITops were Introduced into England
in l. r >24 by a native of Artoria-the
home of the Artesian well. Physicians
denounced their use as aangerous
and Henry VIII forbade brewers in
his kingdom to use hopes in making
ale.
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 a dozen.
FOILS THE LAND THIEVES.
SEC RE TA R Y HITCHCOCK'S RE
LENTLESS PURSUIT OF LAND
GRAIUIISG THIEVES.
Was Earliest and Strongest Advocate
of Government Irrigation—irriga
tion Work of His Department Highly
Successful.
By Richard 11. Byrd.
It is rumored that among probable
Cabinet changes Secretary Iliteheock
is to shortly retire from the Interior
Department of which he has been the
head since the second McKinley ail
ministration. It will 1)0 recalled that
more or less definite statements as to
Mr. Hitchcock's retirement and ills
probable successors have been of very
frequent and regular occurrence, but
the reason therefore Is probably not
hard to find. Mr. Hitchcock has made
a very great Secretary of the Interior.
He lias torn to pieces a vast fabric
constructed to steal, not acres, but
square miles of the public lands, to
grub from (lie 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 their
country. Their ring was backed by
wealthy and Influential men and in
eluded members of the legislatures,
United Stales Commissioners, special
land agents, notaries, etc. The trail
oven led to the head of tho General
Land Office, into tin* national House of
Representatives and into the United
States Senate. The loose land laws of
the country made their task possible If
not easy.
Crime In High Places.
Secretary Hitchcock, shortly after be
tiecamn a member of the Cabinet, bad
his attention called to evident frauds
in the acquirement of government
land. lie set to work a quiet investi
gation. It finally culminated in the
indictment of great numbers of people
ami iu the recent conviction of a
United States Senator and a Member
of Congress. Perhaps, though the cul
mination is not yet. No man knows
where ihe trail may lead next or how
much evidence Mr. Hitchcock Ims and
Is working up.
It is staled to have been a good deal
of a surprise to the wiseacres at
Washington, and in fact throughout
the country, to see tin* way in which
the Secretary of the Interior Ims “made
good” In his lnnd fraud prosecutions.
It was never supposed last winter
that the government could ever secure
a eonvieion of any Congressman or
Senator In Oregon. It was announced
that the Secretary had been illy ad
vised and had gotten himself Into a
deep hole, the outcome of which would
be disastrous to himself.
Tried to Have Him Removed.
The Secretary remarked on several
occasions that the land frauds were
astounding in their magnitude but
that he proposed to stop them. He
was laughed at but Just the same
some of the land grabbers began to
get a little nervous and the newspaper
rumors began, to the effect that Sec
retary Hitchcock would probably re
sign in the course of two or three
months, after he had finished with cer
tain investigations being made at
that time. But the investigations have
never been finished. Before one batch
of frauds has been disposed of,
another sensation lias been sprung in
some other state? so that there has
never been a time when a change in
the Interior Department would not
Imve been hailed as a victory for the
land grabbers.
The Secretary's rugged honesty and
unswervable determination to weed
out the despoilers and the grafters
who are looting the agricultural and
timber lands of the west have called
forth many high enconluma from
thoughtful people who have followed
his course. No public official has
taken more literally to heart the
strong expressions against public land
grabbing of the President in his an
nual message to Congress.
Believes Irrigation Great Question.
Closely connected with the land
question in the west Is the irrigation
question, and since he first came into
office Secretary Hitchcock has been an
ardent friend of nationul irrigation.
His annual reports, even under Pre»i
dent McKinley's administration, were
us strong recommendations of this pol
icy ns have ever been written. He
cnllcd attention to the fact that a vast
fortune was allowed annually to waste
Itself throughout the West; that a wa
ter supply was uselessly running to the
sen which would irrigate 70 million
ncres of the most fertile desert land In
the world, and he 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 wheqi Colonel Roosevelt be
came President, the irrigation bill was
passed and the administration of the
law was entrusted to the Interior De
partment. Mr. Hitchcock was ready.
The Geological Survey, a bureau of
liis depurtement. had been making ex
tensive surveys and in reality, getting
ready for such a law, so that work
was Immediately commenced and in
stead of eight or ten years of prepara
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IlnN. ETHAN ALLEN HITCHCOCK,
Secretary of the Interior.
tlon uud reconnaissances and surveys,
such as lias been the history in the
great irrigation works of every other
country, there are to-day in course of
construction, u dozen huge projects,
and last June, just three years after
the law was passed, the lirst project
was completed-
Os Vast Import to Nation.
Secretary Hitchcock’s vigorous work
in saving the public domain for home
seekers, and In bringing into prac-cal
operation a policy for the absolute
creation out of a desert nothing, of
thousands and eventually millions of
prosperous American homes is. In
reality the greatest work of the gener
ation. The actual benefit of this great
Internal development and improvement
of the nation’s property far surpasses
the work of any other department of
the government.
( The following is the last fort ion of the report
0/ the President's Public Lands Commission , two
of whose members are employed under Secretary
llitclicock , and uhosevtews on landfrauds accord
with their chiefs.)
Grazing Lunds.
The great bulk of the vacant public
lands throughout tlio West are unsuitable
for cultivation under the present known
conditions of agriculture, and so located
that they can not be reclaimed by Irriga
tion. They are, and probably always must
be, of chief value for grazing. There are.
It Is estimated, more than 300,000,000 acres
of public grazing land, an area approxi
mately equal to one-tlfth the extent of the
United Htutcs proper. The exact limits
can not be set, for with seasonal changes
largo areas of land which afford good
grazing one year are almost desert In an
other. There are also vast tracts of wood
ed or timbered land In which grazing has
much Importance, and until a further
classification of the public lands Is made
it will be Impossible to give with exact
ness the total acreage. The extent Is so
vast and the commercial Interests In
volved so great as to demand In the high
est degree the wise and conservative han
dling of these vast resources.
It Is a matter of the first Importance to
know whether these grazing lands are be
ing used In the best way possible for the
continued development of the country or
whether they are being abused under a
system which Is detrimental to such de
velopment and by which the only present
value of the land is being rapidly de
stroyed.
At present the vacant public lands are
theoretically open commons, free to all
citizens; but as a mater of fact a largo
proportion have been parceled out by more
or less definite compacts or agreements
among the various Interests. These tacit
agreements are continually being violated.
The sheepmen and cattlemen are la fre
quent collision because of Incursions upon
each other’s domain. Land which for
years has been regarded as exclusively
cattle range may be Infringed upon by
large bands of sheep, forced by drought
to migrate. Violence and homicide fre
quently follow, after which new adjust
ments are made and matters quiet down
for a time. There are localities where
the people are utilizing to their own satis
faction the open range, and their demand
Is to be let alone, so that they may parcel
out among themselves the usd of the
lands; but an agreement made to-day may
be broken to-morrow by changing condi
tions of shifting Interests.
The general lack of control In the use of
public grazing lands has resulted, natu
rally and Inevitably, In overgrazing and
the ruin of millions of acres of otherwise
vaiuable grazing territory. Lands useful
for grazing are losing their only capacity
for productiveness, as, of course, they
must when no legal control Is exercised.
It Is not yet too late to restore the value
of many of the open ranges. Lands ap
parently denuded of vegetation have Im
proved in condition and productiveness
upon coming under any system of control
which affords a means of preventing over
stocking and of applying intelligent man
agement to the land. On some large
tracts the valuable forage plants have
been utterly extirpated, and It is Imprac
ticable even to reseed them. On other
tracts it will be possible by careful man
agement for the remaining native plants
to recover their vigor and to distribute
seeds, which will eventually restore much
of the former herbage. Prompt and effect
ive action must be taken, however, if the
value of very much of the remaining pub
lic domain Is not to be totally lost.
The conclusions as to grazing reached
by your commission were based:
First. Upon the results of long acquain
tance with grazing problems in the public
land States on the part of each member
of your commission.
Second. Upon the results of careful ex-
PART TWO.