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GENERAL HOIt
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TER former
ambassador to
France who has
been appointed one
of the representa
tives of the United
States at the peace
conference at The
Hague believes in
arbitration though
be was a gallant
fighter in days gone by when there
was hard fighting to be done General
Porter was an ardent admirer of Gen
eral Grant on whose staff he served
during the latter part of the civil war
He is always In great demand as an
after dinner speaker At a dinner giv
en to the late Henry M Stanley he once
said
I am somewhat of an explorer my
self The first time I went abroad I
determined to explore Ireland I went
from north to south to discover the
spot where it is said one of my ances
tors lived near Londonderry I met a
man who informed me about It In
fact I began to believe that every man
in that part of Ireland was an inform
er 1 said I was looking for my an
cestors who emigrated to America
about 100 years before The man look
ed at me in a quizzical way and with a
sort of mildewed countenance said
Youre looking for your ancestors I
said I was He replied You said they
emigrated to America 100 years ago
Then why are you looking for them
here I said My friend that settles
it I will dally with them no longer
And he didnt
There is no more energetic advocate
of irrigation legislation in the United
States senate than Francis E Warren
of Wyoming Not long ago Senator
Warren in a speech in the senate told
of one of the garden spots which bad
been made by a Mormon colony and
raised its Industry and sobriety and
wound up with a statement that there
had never been a case of polygamy in
the colony
put in Senator Patterson of Colorado
what all that has got to do with the
repeal of the desert land act
Who is making this speech any
way retorted Warren
The incident has a special signifi
cance In view of the report that on the
famous Taft Philip
pine excursion the
senator from Wyo
ming and the sen
ator from Colorado
were rivals for the
hand of the same
fair lady Mrs Ma
bel Nagle of Chey
enne The Wyoming
statesman won The
circumstance will
still further enhance
Secretary Taf ts rep
utation as a match
SENATOR FRANCIS
E WARREN
maker as this is the third engage
ment resulting from the Philippine
trip the others being those of Miss
Roosevelt and Mr Longworth and
Congressman Swager Sherley of Louis
ville and Miss Mignon Critten of Stat
es Inland New York
Senator Warren Is sixty two and Mrs
Nagle thirty two He is a large land
holder and owns sheep by tens of thou
sands She too is rich About six
years ago she married George n Na
gle a wealthy merchant of Cheyenne
The union was unhappy and a divorce
resulted While they were still living
together their coachman who had be
come infatuated with Mrs Nagle but
found that his affection was not re
ciprocated shot himself in the stable
Senator Warren was formerly govern
or of Wyoming
Captain Frank Frantz who was in
augurated as governor of the territory
of Oklahoma on Jan 1 owes his posi
tion as a territorial executive in part
to the fact that he is a good boxer He
is a member of a family of athletes
and one of his brothers is famous as
a baseball player and known as
Home Run Frantz Governor Frantz
went to Harvard and besides studying
the dead languages and mathematics
learned how to handle himself well in
a contest with gloves When the Span
ish war came along
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Captain Frantz
he joined the rough
riders He fought
as a lieutenant on
San Juan hill and
h i s gallantry on
that occasion led to
his promotion to be
a captain As lieu
tenant colonel and
later colonel of the
regiment Mr Roose
velt became famil
iar with the cour
ageous record of
and not long after
he became president he appointed his
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little later the president wanted a
good man for the Osage Indian agency
and asked Secretary Hitchcock to ap
point Frantz The latter did not want
to accept as he thought the postmas
tership was the better place but when
he heard that the president wished him
to do so and that there were grafters
to be cleaned out he said he would do
anything his old commander ordered
One day Captain Frantz was at the
Wnite House and the president asked
him to put on the gloves He did so
and the chief magistrate came out of
the contest second best His respect for
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the captain was so much increased that
he took the first opportunity to show
it and at the same time reward him
for his faithful service as Indian
agent That was how Frautz got his
appointment as governor
Harry S Lehr who was a witness
In the case which recently brought in
to such prominence the publication
known as Town Topics is a very ver
satile man He has occupied a con
spicuous position in the smart set for
some years and his name lui3 appear
ed frequently In the columns of Colo
nel Manns journal of society Ac
cording to one witness in the
suit Mr Lehr was put
on the list of those
HAHRY S LEHR
Immune from crit
icism by Town Top
ics and also writ
ten up without
charge In Fads
and Fancies on
the understanding
that he was to
supply Information
about what was go
ing on in the world
of the rich and gay
This however he
denied He stated
on the witness stand that his occupa
tion was that of an agent of wines
but this vocation docs not Interfere
with his leading cotillons and devising
entertainments to aid the members of
the smart set in driving away that
tired feeling In fact it has been said
that themakers of the wines in whose
sale he is interested consider them
selves fortunate in having so popular a
member of exclusive society as their
representative Some seasons ago Mr
Lehr made a great hit by appearing as
a soubrette In amateur theatricals He
wore a decollete costume did skirt
dances and sang ragtime song to the
great amusement or his friends
Herbert James Haserman the new
executive of the territory of New Mex
ico has the distinction of being one of
I would like to ask the senator the youngest governors in the United
Mates He was born In 1S71 in Mil
waukee but during his youth and early
manhood his family
lived in Colorado
New Mexico has
been his home since
1895 He attended
Colorado college
and Cornell univer
sity and graduated
from the latter in
stitution In 1S94 In
1S97 he secured the
appointment as sec
ond secretary to the
American legation
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This was during the time that Ethan
Allen Hitchcock now secretary of the
Interior was the representative of the
United States at the court of the czar
and the record made by Mr Hagerman
created a good impression on the elder
diplomat Mr Hagerman returned to
the United States and to his home in
New Mexico where he practiced law
and engaged in business In due time
Mr Hitchcock showed his appreciation
of the services of his former subordi
nate in the diplomatic service by urg
ing President Roosevelt to make him
governor of the territory
And the president took the secretarys
advice
Jerome K Jerome novelist and play
wright was dining with some lawyers
In New York
An odd client he said called on
a legal friend of mine one morning She
was an extremely pretty client but her
clear soft eyes were red with weep
ing and her little form shook with sobs
Well my dear said he perhaps I
should explain that this client was
hardly more than seven or eight years
old well my dear what can I do
for you
Please sir said the child weeping
plteously I want to get a divorce from
m3 papa and mamma
Political contests in Kentucky are
usually exciting and that which ended
In the choice of Thomas H Paynter to
succeed Joseph C S Blackburn in the
United States senate Avas no exception
to the rule Senator Blackburn has
been a conspicuous figure in the house
of representatives and senate for near
ly a quarter of a century and he made
a vigorous campaign for re election
But when it resulted In his defeat and
the election of Judge Paynter as his
T H PAYNTER
successor he paid a
high tribute to the
character and abil
ity of his victorious
rival
Senator Elect
Paynter is a na
tive Kentuckian and
was born in Lewis
county on Dec 19
1S51 His early ed
ucation was ac
quired in the public schools and was
supplemented by study in the Rand
academy and a course at Center college
at Danville He was admitted to the bar
in 1S73 and was county attorney at
Greenup for several years He was
elected to the Fifty first congress and
was twice re elected serving from 1SSG
until 1S93 In 1S94 he was elected to
the appellate court being re elected in
1902 Judge Paynter has a wife and
two children and is a man of fine
physique and geaial manners
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