Nebraska Newspapers

    NEWS OFTHE WEEK
CONDENSATIONS OF GREATER OR
LESSER IMPORTANCE.
I BOILING DOWN OF EVENTS
National, Political, Personal and Other
Matter* in Brief Form for All
Classes of Readers.
Congress.
Representative Rupley has intro
duced bill to increase the supreme
court by two justices.
Senator Lane has introduced a bill
to remove federal restrictions in the
manufacture of denatured alchohol.
Senator Fall asked consideration
for his resolution for protection of
Americans in foreign countries and
precipitated a general discussion of i
the Mexican situation.
Republican House Leader Mann is
fillibustering against any business in j
an effort to force the democrats to al- j
low the republicans to discuss Diggs- ,
Camlnetti white slave cases.
Democratic members of The House j
. banking committee who are opposed j
to various features of the Glass cur- i
rency bill have drafted another bill I
to submit to President Wilson and
Secretary McAdoo informally.
Representative Hardwick has intro
duced two resolutions embracing a
budget system designed to overcome
objections which caused regulating
budget scheme by democratic caucus.
Chairman Simmons of the Senate
finance committee has announced that
the tariff bill would be taken up para
graph by paragraph for amendment
as soon as the republicans have con
cluded their debate.
Domestic.
The average age of death in this
country is 38.8 years.
The business section of the town
of Honeoye, N. Y-, was thrown into
a panic when dynamite which John
Everett was carrying through the dis
trict in a basket exploded. Everett
was killed, but no others were injured.
Julian Hawthorne and Dr. William
J. Morton, serving a year's sentence
In the Atlanta penitentiary for mis
use of the mails, have been recom
mended for parole by the parole board
and the question of the release is now
under consideration by Attorney Gen
eral McReynolds.
Having crossed the Pacific ocean
In a sixty-foot Sampun, with a six
inch map of North America and a
primitive compass to guide them on
their seventy-day voyage, eight Japan
ese captured at the village on the
coast north of Vancouver, B. C., were
deported.
Dr. H. F. Asburv a member of the
lower branch of the ^Vest Virginia
legislature, was found guilty by a
jury at Webster Springs, W. Va., cf
having accepted a bribe for his vote
in the recent contest for a United
States senator. Asbury is the third
of seven legisltors to be convicted.
A constitutional amendement to em
power congress to regulate marriage
and divorce has been proposed in a
Joint resolution by Representative Ed
monds of Pennsylvania. The amend- :
ment would provide that congress j
have the power to establish uniform
' laws on the subject of marriage and j
divorce.
The discovery at sea of the head- !
less body of an expensively dressed \
young woman was reported by Cap- j
tain Charles White of the schooner
Jennie Gilbert upon his arrival in
Boston from a sword fishing trip. To
the captain it appeared that the hedd
had been skillfully severed with a
sharp knife.
■ Litigation at 90 cents a case is the
unusally cheap price Kansas City, Mo.,
paid in settling 5,534 legal cases in
the last twelve months. That record
was achieved by the city’s free legal
aid bureau. The cases included the
collecting of $10,962 in 2,396 wage
claims, the handing of 304 nonsupport
cases and 178 child and wife abandon
ment cases.
Major Beecher B. Ray of the army
pay corps has applied to the district
supreme court to enjoin Secretary
Garrison from certifying to the presi
dent for promotion any other officer
who w-oulcl thus be jumped over
him
Thomas E. Hayden of San Fran
cisco, associate counsel for the gov
ernment in the Diggs-Caminetti white
slave case, against whom strong pro
tests racently were made on the
ground was too inexperienced as
a criminal lawyer to participate in
the case, has tendered his resignition
to Attorney General McReynolds.
Cuba has become the twenty-third
nation to accept in principle Secre
tary Bryan’s pence plans.
Alaskan purchases from the United
States proper have grown from
*317,000 in 1879 to *9,044.000 in 1899
and to *20,000.0000 in 1912.
Nine electric engines for the New
York Central will haul 1,000-ton trains
at a rate of sixty miles an hour.
Francis B. Sayre, nnace of Miss
Jessie Wilson, the president’s daugt
er, says he has been offered the posi
tion of secretary to President Garfield
of Williams college, but has not yet
decided whether he would accept.
-“Wee Willie” SudhofT, one-time star
pitcher of the St. Louis Browns, is*
reported violently insane.
District Attorney Rotan of Philadel
phia said that he would investigate
the raising of the price of anthracite
"coal by retail dealer#^
Chicago l/ealth board offers free
typhoid ^erum inoculation to 1,000
citizens to popularize the idea.
Charles P. Chase of Croton, N. Y.,
a fireman and engineer on the New
York Central for the last eighteen
years, has been appointed a public
service' commspioner at a salary of
*l»,00(y
Patrick Quinlan, the Industrial
Workers of the World leader, who was
sentenced to a term in prison for in
citing the striking silk mill workers
to riot, was taken to Patterson,* N. J.,
from Trenton and released under
$5,000 cash bail.
About 2,400 men will be require*!
for the operation and maintenance of
the Panama canal.
H. Johnson, formerly of Itasca
county, Minnesota, obtained a $14,000
farm after waiting in front of the
land office at Moose Jaw Sask., from
May 30 to July 1.
Another advance of 5 cents a barrel
in the price of crude oil was announc
ed at Independence, Kans., the new
price, 98 cents- for all grades making
the mid-continent field.
The main building of the American
Agricultural Chemical company's
plant at North Weymouth, Mass., and
eleven cottages, occupied by employes,
were burned, the loss exceeding $500,
000.
Formal recommendation to the at
torney general of the appointment oi
Merton L. Corev of Clay Center, to be
solicitor general of the Treasury de
partment has been made by Senator
Hitchcock.
Governor Sulzer, after characteriz
ing the Binghamton, N. Y., fire as a
“terrible catastrophe,” declared in a
statement that the i?ople of the state
“wiilj hold Mr. Murphy of Tammany
hali responsible.”
John O’Brien, the Columbia- foot
ball star and heir to $1,200,000, for
whom his classmates have been look
ing since he disappeared from Netv
York two years ago, has been found
in Van Buren. Ark.
Concerted opposition has developed
in congress to Postmaster General
Burleson'S order reducing parcel post
rates and increasing the maximum
size of the packages to be handled
in the service.
Fire tarted in the mat shop at
Sing Sing prison and quickly spread
to the lumber, carriage and wagon de
partments and the ice bouse. Those
buildings were destroyed. The less
is estimated at $150 000.
A new policy toward Nicaragua, in
volving the virtual control of the af
fairs of that republic by the United
States trust protectorate, similar to
that now exercised over Cuba, was
outlined by Secretary Bryan at a con
ference with members of the senate
foreign relations committee.
Marching progress has laid hands
upon the last landmark in Richmond
of Edgar Allen Poe. His boyhood
home, the house of the Allens, long
ago gave place to commercial build
ings, the Swan tavern and the Bird-in
Hand have passed away, and now the
city has began razing the old-fashion
ed brick building in which the poet
edited the Southern Literary Mess
enger. Approaches to a new concrete
bridge over the James river will take
its place.
Foreign.
Suez canal tolls last year amounted
to $26,000,000.
The whole kingdom of Wurteraberg
was shaken by a sharp earthquake.
Many chimneys collapsed.
Peace between Greece and Turkey
is about to be concluded formally..
The Hellenic plenipotentiaries have
started from Athens for Constantino
ple to sign the treaty.
The wedding of Prince Arthur of
Connaught and the duchess of Fife
will be solemnized in the chapel of
Royal St. James palace October 15.
The prince of Wales will be best man.
The proposed treaty between the
United States and Nicaragua evokes
a few sarcastic comments in the Ger
man press on President Wilson’s re
turn to the system, of “dollar diplo
macy.”
A thirty-five mile cable for tele
phone connections between Vancouver
and Vancouver .island has been re
ceived from England. It cost over
$100,000, weighs 560,000 pounds, and
the expense in laying was $20,000.
From statistics published by th»
Geographic and Statistical institute at
Madrid, it appears that 184,410 per
sons emigrated from Spain during the
ten months ending October, 1912,
■whereas in 1911 only 161,267 persons
left the country in twelve months.
There was another brief scare in
the House of Commons, when a
blank cartridge was exploded. The
Right Honorable Reginald McKenna,
home secretary was replying to James
Kier Hardie's question about the re
arrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst,
when a pistol shot was fired from the
stranger’s gallery. The pistol was
found to be a harmless toy afTair.
The first international convention
of the Gideons, the commercial trave
lers’ association, widely known
through their efforts to place Bibles
in hotel rooms, took place in the Met
ropolitan Methodist church at Toron
to, Ont.
St. Thomas and the neighboring is
lands experienced a prolonged and
unusally severe earthquake recently.
No damage was reported.
Sugar-refining profits in Australia
by the large company operating there
were $1,135,000 for the six months
ending. March 31, 1913,,half of which
was earned in Fiji and New Zealand.
The European conceit is faced by
j the most delicate and difficult sitult
: tion, requiring the exercise of the ut
! rncst tact, if Europe is not to be
I plunged into a general war by the
Turkish reoccupation of Adrianople
and Kirk Kilisseh.
Germany has more than 65,000,000
people living-in an area less than that ,
of Texas.
Mexico's demonstrations of friend
ship are pleasing but' embar.-assing
to Japanese. It is feared here that
they might be misunderstood in the
United States and affect the friendly
relations with' that country.
To show their defiance of death,
thirty-five French aviators brought
out their,machines recently at the
Avor aiviation ground and flew Sn
spirals around the sp^t where one of
tbeir comrades had just met his
death. j
The Chinese government still is dis
patching troops to subdue the revolu
tionary movement in the disaffected
southern provinces.
The society of American women in
London gave a luncheon at the Sa
voy hotel to welcome Walter Hines
Page, the new United States ambas
sador and Mrs. Page.
The Norwegian parliament has re
fused to vote a credit of $40,500,
which bad been proposed by the gov
eminent to cover the expenses of
Norway’s official participation in the
Panama-Pacific exposition at San
Trancieco in 1915
WILSON SUNOS PHI
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AMCASSADOR STILL FAVORS
HUERTA REGIME.
SAYS MEDIATION IMPRACTICAL
Proposed Plan Would be in Violation
of Monroe Doctrine as He
Views It.
New York.—Pausing here on bis
hurried Mexico City-to-Washington
trip in response to a summons from
President Wilson. Henry Lane Wil
son, American ambassador to Mexico,
announced his emphatic opposition to
several plans under consideration by
the State department for bringng
abouL.peace in the troubled Mexican
republic.
Supplementing previous statements
disapproving the suggestions of Amer
ican mediation or tire- appointment of
a tripartite commission, Mr. Wilson
gave his reasons why he considered
the plan for a tripartite commission
not a feasible one.
Monroe Doctrine at Stake.
"If we are to consider such a plan,
we may as well abandon the Monroe
doctrine entirely,” he said. "The
Monroe doctrine pledges the United
States to take care of the interests
of American governments without
the aid of any foreign country. Con
sequently under the Monroe doctrine
we cannot attempt to settle Mexico’s
affairs through the services of such
a body as the proposed tripartite com
mission, since it involves calling in
outside governments to help.”
Would Recognize Huerta.
While not saying specifically that
he favored recognition of the Huerta
government by the United States,
Ambassador Wilson indicated that it
was his view that recognition should
be given, in February, just subse
quent to the overthrow of the Ma
dero regime. Mr. Wilson said he sent
to American Consul General Hanna
at Monterey a telegram requesting
him to inform all consular officers
under Mr. Hanna's jurisdiction that
Huerta had ’ been established as
Mexico's provisional head.
“You should make this intelligence
public,” Mr. Wilson's telegram told
Mr. Hanna, to inform the consular
officers, "and tn the interests of Mex
ico urge general submission and ad
hesion to the new government, which
will be recognized by all foreign
governments today.”
Mr. Wilson said that he was will
ing to reiterate this sentiment at any
time publicly or officially.
View# Suffrage Without Alarm.
San Francisco.—Seretary of the
Navy Josephus Daniels told the wo
men of the' San Francisco Civic
league that, whatever the opinion of
individuals about the wisdom of wo
man suffrage, “we may as well get
ready for the inevitable, for women
are going to vote.”
“Only last month,” he continued
“Illinois gave them the ballot for all
except constitutional offices, and the
present generation will witness com
plete woman suffrage in every state
in the American union. And when it
comes, the constitution will not be
groken and the home will not be de
throned.”
Desperate Convicts Moved.
^Ossining, N. Y.—Sixty-six convicts,
the dregs of the New York City
criminal class, were taken one by one
from their cells in Sing Sing prison
and placed aboard a train for the
state prison at Auburn. Recent riots
in Sing Sing caused the warden to
take no chances. Each convict was
heavily handcuffed and shackled and
then chained to his place in the rail
road car, which had been brought in
side the prison enclosure. With the
ring leaders of their rebellion gone,
normal conditions at the prison re
turned.
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Attacks of Rebels Repulsed.
Shanghai—In the last twenty-four
hours rebels have made a series of
spirited jritacks on the arsenal, but
all of them have been successfully re
pulsed.
Twenty-four Hundred Johnsons.
Chicago.—The 19131 city directory
which has appeared contains the
names of 2,490 Johnsons, over 400 of
which have the initial “A." The Ol
sens come long fairly strong with 1,
040, while the Smiths are relegated to
third place with only 800.
Ojeda Reinforced.
Norgales, Ariz.—General Ojeda re
mains in command at Guaymas and
his command is reinforced to 5,000
men. asserts an American railroad
man who arrived here.
Rattler Bites Three Children.
Knoxville, Tenn.—Three children of
Mr. and Mrs. John Cooper of Town-'
send, Tenn., were fatally bitten by
a ratlesnakes and while Mrs. Cooper
sought for them an infant she had
placed near the bank of a stream fell
into the water and was drowned.
Son or G*ant W|nts Divorce.
Goldfield, Nev.—Jesse Root Grant,
youngest son of Former President U.
S. Grant, has filed suit for a divorce
from Elizabeth Chapman Grant, charg
ing desertion. ^ 14
Seven Men Killed by Explosion.
Montreal.—Seven men were blown
to pieces by the explosion of a ton
of gunpowder at the plant of the
Canadian Explosive company at Bel
oiel. Pieces cf brick and wood fell
a mile away. The cause of the ex
plosion is unknown*
Moracco Sultan in Rome.
Rome.—Mula Hafld, who abdicated
as sultan of Morroco last year, visited
the Vatican. He proceeded there in
a motor car belonging to the French
embassy.
NEBRASKA IN BRIEF.
Everett S. Frost has been appoint
«d postmaster at Opportunity, Holt
county, Nebraska, vice W. L. Down
ing, resigned.
The hearing on the application of
the Lincoln telephone company for a
raise in rates at York has been post
poned from August 12 to August 27.
Miss Cora Owens of Geneva, who
was so badly burned by gasoline, is
doing nicely. Miss Owens has taught
in the Geneva schools for a number
of years.
Burglars forced an entrance to the
Clyde and Clarke hair dressing par
lors at Hastings and made away with
switches, rats and other things used
in the parlors.
Miss Marcia Babcock, a Jefferson
county - pioneer, passed away at her
home in this city after an extended
illness. Death was due to dropsy and
other complications
Deshler is planning a corn and live
stock show for the latter part of Sep
tember. last year’s corn and live
stock show drew more than 'live thou
sand people on the big day.
A statement filed with the state
board of assessment gives the total
assessed valuation of property in Lan
caster county at $23,980,164. Last
year the amount was $23,504,189.
The ins and out of the Keya Paha
court house fight were reviewed be
fore the state auditor on application
of the county authorities for registra
tion of $17,000 in bonds with -the
state.
The Lincoln Telephone Deers, an
organization formed for the purpose
of resisting the raise in rates, pro
pose to get Louis D. Brandeis, the
famous attorney, to prosecute the
case.
John Hughes, a farmer living near
Pauline, fired six wild shots at his
son-in-law. Al. Whitmore, then at
tmpted suicide by swallowing car
bolic acid and shooting himself in
the head.
Governor Morehead lias appointed
Thomas J. Majors of Peru to the va
cancy on the normal board caused by
the expiration of the term of N. P.
McDonald of Kearney, who refused to
serve longer.
Major Hayse; and sergeant uni
went to Blatr and mustered out that
company as <t had fallen below the
standard and its place will be Ailed
by other towns which already are on
the waiting list.
Pawnee City is to have free mail
delivery, if the postoAice department
accepts the recommendations of In
spector W. M. Coble of Omaha, who
was there looking over the city with
the view’ to establishing the service.
The case argued in the Lancaster
district court in which an attempt
was made to have declared unconsti
tutional the new law doing away with
an election this year was heltf by the
judge, net of sufficient Importance to
warrant a trial and was dismissed.
John Radke, a farmer living noith
of Superior, unloaded a new threshing
outQt and set it at a neighbors to
thresh. After doing two hours'
threshing the boiler blew up, setting
the separator aAre and burning up
two loads of wheat and several
wagons.
Miss Mamie Muldoon, chief clerk in
the office of Fire Commissioner Rid
gell, has prepared a very interesting
work on prevention of Ares, entitled
"Lessons in Fire Protection.” She
has had the work copyrighted and it
will probably be made a part of the
general school education.
An Increase of at least $7,000,000 in
the assessed valuation of all property
in the state will be shown when all
counties are heard from. Eighty
Ave counties reporting show a total
of $4^8,344,845. The total valuation of
the state last year was $463,371,889.
Several counties have not sent the
summaries of agricultural statistics
to the state board of agriculture as
required by the Scott act. The fol
lowing counties are missing: Boyd,
Butler, Cherry’. Daws, Deuel, Douglas,
Furnas. Gage, Holt,’ Jefferson, Nuck
olls and York. Lincoln is incomplete.
William Martin, from near Stella,
purchased the Henry Schw’an farm of
160 acres, two miles north of Hum
boldt for $28,000, or $175 per acre,
being the highest price ever paid for
a quarter section in that part of Rich
ardson county.
Workmen who were excavating for
the basement of the new Telegram
building at Columbus, unearthed
three skeletons. The bones were
found in an old unused vault and
those who have examined them say
they are males.
r . jjensnausen, eauor oi ine ix>up
City Independent, has been appointed
postmaster of his town.
The primary for postmaster at Os
rnpnd, held July 19. resulted as fol
lows: J. E. Scott, 220; Z. A. Schilling,
76; B. H. Farrow, 4(J: Flitz Eggert,
jr„ 16.
State Hotel Commissioner Acker
man has collected license fees from
801 hotels, which at the rate of $2
•«»*<* makes a total of $1,602. The
ia'r requiring the payment of such a
fee has been in force only six days.
The annual collections from this
source will amount to $6,020.
Three more counties, Butler, Cedar
and Jefferson have reported to thev
secretary of the State Board of As
sessment. Two of these. Butler and
Jefferson, show a decrease, the latter
of over- $900,000.
Major Arthur R. Haysel has return
ed from McCook where he investigat
ed the condition of a company of the
Nebraska national guard. It has been
decided that thff old company shall
be mustered out and sixty days given
for the organization of a new com
pany. The commercial club of Mc
Cook will give the new company its
support.
A movement has been launched at
Hastings to secure the North Amer
ican headquarters of the Seventh Day
Adventists.
Hebron believes it has the smartest
old man in the state in the person of
Allen McDonald, who is now past 91.
* He is up every morning with the lark
and wends his way to the Catholic
church, of which he is one ' of the
most faithful members. He can out
walk most any man in town and can
do his turn at splitting wood or “chor
ing” with'the best of them. Qe is
a Scotchman and has raised a large
family.
ARE PLANNING MANY FEATURES
FOR FALL MEET.
ROCK ISLAND FILES ANSWER
Denies Fruit Rates Are Excessive—
Conference Over Flour
Rates.
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Lincoln.—The boys’ acre contest,
started nine years ago by the State
Board of Agriculture, is on the pro
gram again for the 1913 fair. Here
the boys are given an opportunity to
beat dad raising corn. In 1912 sev
eral of them got away with the goods.
Dairy and domestic products are
well taken care of. Miss Anna V.
Day, assistant superintendent of pub
lic instruction, will have charge of
the educational exhibits and this de
partment -promises to be unusually
strong this year.
Superintendent W. B. Banning is
making arrangements for the record
breaking farm machinery display
which will be a big drawing card this
fall. Nebraska takes a high rank in
this regard.
Entries | for the "Better Babies'
show have surprised all who are in
terested in the department of eugen
ics. Mrs. M. E. Vance of Lincoln took
charge of this department at the re
quest of the club women of the state.
The sum of $394 is offered by the
State Board of Agriculture and $200
by an eastern publication. Prizes for
the two winners will be $110 each,
with generous allowances for the oth
e'P. This is not a baby beauty show.
The members of the State Boar^ of
Health will do the scoring.
Rates Not Excessive.
The Rock Island Railroad company
has hied its answer with the railway
commission to the complaint entered
by Representative O. A. Corbin
against the high rates charged* by the
railroads of the state on apples and
other fruit within the state.
The road denies that the rates
charged are excessive and sets out
that the railway commission is with
out authority or power to es’ablish
joint distance tariff rates on carload
shipments of apples and fruit within
the state.
Flour Rate Raise.
Railway Commissioner T. L. Gall
and Rate Clerk U. G. Powell are in
Kansas City to attend a special meet
ing of the inter state commerce com
mission in the matter of a'complaint
against a proposed increase in rates
on flour from Nebraska to California
of 10 cents per hundred. The rail
roads wantted to put the rate in force
March 21 last, but the interstate com
mission objected and suspended them.
The case will not be heard for some
time and it will be necessary to issue
another order of suspension. The
raise will make the rate 75 cents per
hundred if put in effect
New Plan For Support
Lincoln.—Taxpayers are to have a
direct ipterest^ in the State University
AJumni association from now on. ac
cording to plans worked out by the
heads of the organization. Hereafter
It will have offices on the campus and
.all expenses connected with the main
tenance of the headquarters will come
out of funds set aside for the conduct
of the university. The plan is similar
to that followed by several other
states, it is said, and has proven more
successful than the method of operat
ing the organization wholly on funds
collected by subscription or gift.
The university location fight re
sulted in a number of alumni mem
bers refusing to pay their subscrip
tions, it is said here, and, although
the association freed itself from debt,
the precarious position it might be in
in the future wTas not overlooked by
the authorities when they make the
change.
New Laws Become Effective.
Lincoln.—The new laws passed by
the legislature have gone into effect
which did not have the emergency
clause or which have not run against
the referendum snag in the political
river or the injunction sandbar. There
are 138 which did not have the emerg
ency clause, but three of these have
been put to the bad temporarily. The
Nebraska Ctly armory appropriation
of $20,000 has been suspended be
cause of the filing of referendum peti
tions, while the employers’ liability
law' is held up by the same process.
The new insurance code hw is in the
courts and awaits a run >nto effect
or knocked out entirely.
.ch will not become
electrocution law.
This does not go into effect until
October 1, because cf provisions to
that'effect in the bill. This does away
with ’legal death penalty by hanging
and substitutes the eletric chair.
Nebraska Assists Iowa.
Lincoln.—Expert L. E. Wettling of
the State Railway commission has
gone to Iowa to assist the Iowa com
mission in enforcing the law com
pelling the railroads to give a 3-cent
fate for the round trip to the Iowa
state fair. The railroads have se
cured a temporary Injunction in the
matter and the hearing is to come
before the commission. As the same
matter may come up in Nebraska, the
local commission deemed it. a wise
move to have Mr. Wettling assist the
Iowa commission in its fighL
State Dairyman’s Train.
Lincoln.—The special train of the
State Dairyman’s association will
make an extended trip in the north
western part of the state September
15 t.o 19. There will be lectures and
experts on the train, and stops of an
hour and a half will be made in each
town. School principals will be asked
to bring pupils to attend the lecture^.
The train will start from Niobrara,
go to Norfolk and then journey to
Hatrison. At Crawford the train will
probably be routed over the Burling
ton to Ravenna.
Pablo Desvernine Galdos, the new
Cuban minister, reached Washington
a few days ago and was officially re
ceived by President Wilson.
“Cuba is on the highway to peace
and prosperity,” said Mr. Galdos.
“The change of administration was
accomplished without the slightest
friction, and for the first time in the
history of the republic an outgoing
president handed over the govern
ment to a Cuban. You must remem
ber that when Cuba was declared in
dependent General Wood relinquished
tha government tt) the provisional
president, Mr. Palma, who later was
elected president, and retired upon
the second intervention of the Amer
icans. Then Governor Magoon as
sumed control, to retire when General
Gomez was elected.
"The inauguration of General Men
ocal, therefore, marks a date of his
torical importance to Cuba. That
there should be regrets at a change
of administration among the leaders of the liberal party is to be expected.
Vo political party in any country retfres from power without regret. Cuba
is no different. But that there will be revolution or even bitter partisan feel
ing because of the election of General Menocal. I do not believe. Certainly
there wijl be no revolution. We shall have political fights, of course, but no
bloodshed.
"President Menocal assumes office with the feeling of the utmost cor
dialtty for the United States. 1 do not think there are any Cubans who are
Inspired by unfriendly sentiment for Americans. The unfortunate incident
of a few months ago, in which the charge d'affaires of the United States was
assaulted, was due not to any unfriendliness on the part of the Cubans, but
was a personal encounter. All good Cubans deplore the assault. President
I Menocal will strive to establish even closer relations with the United States
; than have existed.”
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PRINCESS MARY TO DANCE TANGO
Queen Mary has given another ex
j ample of the strictness of her views
| of propriety. At the same time she
has shown^hat she is not prejudiced
: and is perfectly open to conviction if
| her views are satisfactorily proved to
I be erroneous.
The queen is an excellent and en
; thusiastic dancer and she has had
! both the Prince of Wales and Prin
| cess Mary carefully taught in this art.
Hearing recently of an excellent
teacher of dancing, a Mrs. Marshall,
who lives in Kensington, the queen,
after making inquiries, determined to
send her daughter to her to take les
sons. Mrs. Marshall teaches quite
young girls in the best society.
Queen Mary gave the strictest In
structions that her daughter. Princess
Mary, should not be taught or even
allowed to see danced any of those
modern dances which may be grouped
under two headings, the tango and
ragtime, any approach to which is
rigidly Darrea irom HucKingnam palace, or any aance wnicn is auenaea oy
the queen on account of her particular disapproval.
A few days ago, however, the dancing mistress earnestly begged Queen
Mary to see some of these dances, assuring her of their grace and perfect
propriety The queen saw half a dozen of Mrs. Marshall's pupils dancing
the tango and some varieties of ragtime steps. The result was that the
queen freely admitted that there was nothing objectionable in what she saw
and the princess has been allowed to learn these dances.
Having given this proof that her mind was open to conviction the queen
at the same time demonstrated her unconquerable aversion to certain ten
dencies of modern dress. The only feature of the entertainment at Mrs.
Marshall's to which Queen Mary took exception was a rather pronouncedly
low-cut afternoon toilette of a pretty young daughter of the Countess of
Huntingdon, who has now been requested by Mrs. Marshall to come to the
dancing lessons in future with a higher cut frock.
PRESIDENT’S DAUGHTER TO WED
President and Mrs. Wilson the
other day announced through a WThite
House statement the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Jessie Woodrow
Wilson, to Francis Bowes Sayre of
Lancaster, Pa., and New York city.
Mr. Sayre is an attorney attached to
the office of District Attorney Whit
man.
The wedding is expected to take
place next November in the White
House.
While close friends of both fami
lies have known of the engagement
for some time, announcement was
withheld until the first anniversary of
Mr. Wilson's nomination at the Balti
more convention.
Miss Wilson is twenty-four years
old. She was born in Princeton, N. J.,
and is a graduate of Goucher college,
Baltimore, Md.
She was an honor girl at the Bal
timore College for Women. She has
always been devoted largely to social
service and is noted for ner intense interest in settlement ttora.
Mis® Wilson Is an artist of ability, but with her art takes second place.
During her father's term as governor of New Jersey she made it a practice
to spend every Monday and Thursday at the “Lighthouse" in Philadelphia, a
settlement. Since going to Washington Miss Wilson has taken a deep inter
est in the Y. W. C. A. and has given much of her time to it.
t Mr. Sayre was born in 1885 in South Bethlehem. Pa. He entered Will
iams college in 1905 and was manager of the football team. He organized ,
and was president of the Good Government club and is a Y. M. C. A. worker.
STEFANSSON POLAR EXPEDITION SAILS
Official ceremonies having been
held and Dr. Vilhjalmar Stefansson
and party sailed from Victoria. B. C..
the other day. on an exploring and
ethnological expedition in the Arctic
on the steamer Karluk. The official
photographs of the members of the
scientific staff were taken for the
government archives and a luncheon
was given to Mr. Stefansson by the
members of the government of British
Columbia.
At the end of the luncheon Sir
Richard McBride, on behalf of the
people of British Columbia, presented
to Mr. Stefansson a silver plate en
graved with a suitable legend and
containing also the names of all the
members of the staff. x
Doctor Anderson, who commands
the Victoria Island division, and Cap
tain Bartlett of the Karluk also re
plied on behalf of the expedition.
The Stefansson expedition differs
m mnst nf the other Polar under
takings in that its objects are practical and commercial. Us purposes are to
learn whether a Polar continent exists; to map the islands already discovered
east or the mouth of the Mackenzie river; to make a collection of the Arctic
flora end fauna; to survey the channels among ^he islands in the hope of
i established trade routes.
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