Show a Cause Trouble Bungling Diplomats J i on WAI r J a aI I v f sQ Ignorance Ignorance on the tle WASHINGTON part of amateur diplomats concerning concerning con con- corning the proper form of diplomatic correspondence nearly precipitated a war scare in two nations not long since It was announced that the emperor emperor em em- of Germany had deliberately affronted the United d States Stated government government govern govern- ment by employing affectionate terms In addressing President Madriz of Nicaragua whom our government had had refused to recognize Great and Good Friend is the thew w way y the kaisers kaiser's letter to Madriz was commenced This had sinister significance significance sig sig- to the amateurs Immediately Immedi the newspapers were filled with stories that Germany had espoused the cause of Madriz that the Monroe doctrine had been thrown down and repudiated by the warlike kaiser also the tho emperor had been acting queerly of late and undoubtedly was bent on making all the trouble ho he could for the United States After a little Inquiry the war scare faded away In all probability said a state department de de- de official official the emperor never Bad dad Land Title Tide Tangle e Is Revealed l a I I WONDER WHETHER I r Own THIS Oft oR 0 WHETHER I pONT REPORT made to congress by hy a A 11 commission appointed to examine land titles in the District of Columbia discloses that many lots of land occupied occupied pied by modern business houses and residences in the national capital are still sun owned by the government notwithstanding not not- withstanding the present tenants believe be be- believe lieve they have a clear title to the property This question of land titles In the national capital Is not a new one Two years ago c congress created a commission commission commis commis- sion to study it The commission consisted consisted consisted con con- of the attorney general the secretary secretary sec sec- of war Senator Scott of West Virginia Representative Bartholdt of Missouri and one of the district com corn commissioners missioners The report reveals a horrible horrible horrible hor hor- land tangle which the courts will wUl probably never be able to straighten out The tangle is the outcome of the wild speculation in real estate that took place for a good many years after the capital was laid out Private lands were acquired In DuRN THAT TRI LQ rc 0 MARKET EER and elk preserves may play an D DEER Important part In reducing the high cost of ot beef beet According to government government government gov gov- experts who have made an all investigation of the cost and methods of raising venison declare that the game laws of the various states are preventing deer and elk farming and denying the country coun one of Its chief sources of cheap and good meat Deer and elk can be raised readily in nearly nearly nearly near near- ly every state in the Union They are easily controlled and cheaply fed The Increase of elk under domestication tion is fully equal to that of cattle The state and the government through Its Yellowstone park officials have operated co-operated with individual ranchmen In caring for tor the vast herds of elk In the Jacksons Jackson's Hole region In Wyoming It is estimated that there are elk in the Yellowstone park region constituting the only great herd left For two or three winters these elk have been fed and have now I i i rw N the present census the government govern IN ment has made a great effo effort to obtain ob ob- tain through special agents full and authentic data concerning the tribal relation of the tha Indians as a decade hence when the fourteenth census will willbe willbe willbe be taken It probably will be found that those Indians who are aro now dependent dependent dependent de de- pendent wards of tho nation have become become be be- come full fledged ull edged citizens The Indian population of the United States deci decreased eased in the decade from 1890 to 1900 from to In 1880 1850 the care of the tho Indians cost the n national government In lu 1909 the cost had risen n to 15 more than three times as a's 1 much The total attendance of Indian Indian Indian In In- dian children in schools conducted by that the note m in ques knew routine matter matterson sent t. t It was a regular son fol folin foreign office and fol followed in the German lowed the stereotyped form excessively polite to toone toone Nations Nations are another In their Interchange o of 01 one communications Ev Every ry letter tetta that toa to toa state stute department goes out from the has this cere cero a foreign government finish the renewed assurance assurance as as- excellency Accept consideration of my highest The letters of all countries countries coun tries begin In about the same way all of England's communications com corn For Jor h Instance stance begin God of of the Grace George V. V by the United Kingdom of Great Britain of the defender and Ireland king faith emperor of India etc Nicholas by the Grace of ot God emperor emperor em autocrat of all the tho czar of Casan czar of Astracan etc etc- lord of and grand duke of lenski etc much Germanys Germany's letters are very like those of Russia in that they begin begin be be- announcing all the titles of the gin by ruling potentate w William mam II by by and of Germany Gods God's grace emperor king of Prussia etc Is the way the addresses his ceremonial ceremonial cere cere- present emperor letters Jetters The emperor writes writes with a quill pen pen and if it one may Judge by his signature on file In the state department does not take much time about it Washington in the uie Lue ean early days uy UJ y u very simple process The territory not exceeding ten miles square was ced ceded d to the United States government govern ment meat by Maryland and Virginia and placed under the authority of three commissioners appointed by the dent They or any two of them were required under the direction of the president to survey and by proper metes and bounds define and limit a 8 district of territory and the territory so defined was established as a permanent permanent perma perma- nent seat of the government of the United States Power was given the commissioners to purchase or accept land on the eastern side of the Poto Potomac Potomac mac for the use of the United States and the commissioners were further required to provide suitable buildings for tor the accommodation of congress the president and public officers of the government of the United States It was to raise money to erect the pub lie buildings that the government planned to sell sen its land to private par ties No sooner had the capital city been laid out than land speculators appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap on tho the scene and as a result o otheir of 01 their operations it is asserted much land which belonged to the govern governS ment illegally passed to individual owners I Now Planning a Substitute for Beef I come come to look upon the feeding as B a matter of course and State Game Warden Varden Nowlin of Wyoming who haled ha has led the fe feeding experiments says that tha the last of the great elk herds Is be becoming becoming becoming coming rapidly domesticated Several Severa ranchmen In the Rocky mountain coun coup country country try have conducted private elk preserves pre pre- preserves preserves serves for years Outside of ot the private vate elk preserves there are few herds left In the west Barret Littlefield who lives nea neat Slater has several hundred elk on his great ranch Every season he ships ship i many carcasses of elk to the market besides supplying zoological I. I gardens throughout the country He has found It profitable to raise elk foi for forthe i the market market so so profitable that he abandoned the cattle business years year I ago and has devoted himself entirely to the raising of ot venison There are two other elk preserves in northwestern northwest northwest- ern Colorado J. J B B. B Dawson a Routt Rout county pioneer has has' several hundred head of elk on his ranch near Hayden In nearly every state In the Union the killing of deer is forbidden ex excepting excepting ex- ex In the hill fall and during a lien period If It deer and elk are to be raised for the market the venison farmer must be allowed to kill IdIl for the market whenever the demand Is there I Governments Government's Census of Indian Wards I the tho government or by missionary en cn enterprise enterprise Is In these schools no effort is spared spared to teach the tho child some Industry by which he may support support support sup sup- port himself when he c comes mes of age ago and the Indians are gradually learnIng learning learn learn- Ing to live by the sweat of ot the tho brow bro upon the product of their own self respecting handiwork rather than upon up on the bounty of ot the government Tho The Apache Indians employed on the Roosevelt reclamation project under un un- under der the act of June Juno 17 1902 earned in 1909 and rendered eminent ly satisfactory service in regions where on account of tho heat a white whiteman whiteman whiteman man could not have labored Sheep herding has hns given profitable employment employment employment employ employ- ment to many hundreds of Navajos and Pueblos In the past year and Pima and Papago Indians employed as on the Southern Pacific railway earned many thousands of dollars donars The Sioux farmers have done well wen though they are deficient In the quality of ot persistent patience that makes maltes the most successful sort of ac ag laborer |