Show WIVES OF THE NEW SENATORS Washington Wa Society Much Inter Interested In er t ested este in Mrs Smoot r TIN DEPOSITS o IN ALASKA TO BB DB AL ALLOWED A LOWED POSTMASTERS J 3 Special to The Tb Herald Jan 2 Much interest t attaches to the advent In to Washington official society of the new senators and their families and nd especial interest inter II enter centers C n this year In western members No more noi Interesting woman will WU be b introduced to the tile senatorial circle this winter than the wife of the new sen senator e ator from Utah Reed Smoot Slit She is te isone one oC of the youngest e t of the senatorial women despite the fact that she Is J the mother of a So terse We family She is Js a club woman wom and an active one too is a great get reader and keeps well in Ip formed on OB current events She was graduated from the University tty of Utah formerly called caUd the University of or Dee Des Deseret eret where the senator was also al o a student although he be was graduated from the Brigham Young academy Mrs Smoot moo is i a of more than ordinary ability ty She Sh e is also an ex cx Mrs Fulton Pul n wife of at the new senator from Oreo Oregon Ore on is Ie I delightfully located in the new apartment house hou The High Hi h lands idI and Senator Fulton having come early enough to gat settled tt for foi the winter before the extra session n be began began began gan Mrs was wa formerly Miss M Ada M lobon of Astoria Ore and aid was educated in St Helens hall ball Port land She is 3 in music and painting and very verr f like Ilke all aU aUern aO et etem era ern em women of f outdoor r sport wheT ey have one o 0 son Frt Fulton ton at school In Pasadena Pas CaL Mrs Heyburn wife of the new Idaho senator 6 is 18 an unusually bright and in tn interesting Interesting tere woman She is lit small has a 8 figure very bright blue blueeyes blueeyes blueeyes eyes and a fair tall complexion She is a gifted artist and has Bas many interesting and cleverly executed portraits from her het own brush of people well known to the public Among them is In a 8 splendid likeness of or Thomas F P Bayard Baard for formerly formerly merly secretary of state Mrs Yrs Heyburn Is quite skillful in her flesh tints and her paintings have both strength and vigor She he also alec has a beautiful and valuable collection of Indian relies relics and trophies which are souvenirs of her trip through the west and northwest These are aI az conspicuous eon ornaments in inthe Inthe Inthe the apartments of the senator and Mrs Heyburn at the Normandy where they will spend the winter Mrs Heyburn has a nephew young Mr Battings vie via visiting fling I them previous to his departure to London where he is in business buness Hoars Boars Position A little group of t western tem we senators Hansbrough of North Dakota Fulton of Oregon Burton of Kansas and War Warren Warren Warren ren of Wyoming lingered around the table after fter luncheon in the senate res ren restaurant restaurant the other day and were die dis discussing cussing the very live JIve question of land landJaw law Jaw repeal While they were talking Senator Hoar came caine in and ordered his I noonday meal He listened lI attentive attentively ly to the tha discussion slon and aDd finally said I It has been my opinion that it would I be b well for the country if the big bit ranches of the west could be broken up into small farms But I am free f to confess he added that I dont know anything about the matter and aM I am willing illing whenever the members of the senate from the western ern w l states agree upon any land or Irrigation policy to support what they ask uk for fOl and I be 00 believe believe lieve JE If all 11 of the tie C eastern e tern senators would do tI the same me thing you would soon have haTe western matters in I good shape Senator Burton of Kansas is of the opinion that the next irrigation eon con congress gress grese gr which is to meet at 31 Jel Paso Tex immediately ly after fter the presidential election next November will be the most important meeting of that body that has been held There will be a general genera agitation of ot the subject of oC water control and water con conservation FO fOO o that the goods floods of the southern states may be prevented by the conservation of the waters at the headwaters of the streams in the northwest Engineers have ridiculed Senator Burtons theory but in the face ce of this he be stoutly main maintains maintains the correctness of his position and says he has entered upon a cam em campaign campaign which will win lead to the th adoption of his plans for the prevention or oc con control control trot of the destructive d floods of oC the Mississippi l and he be intends Intend at the next irrigation congress to exploit his bis theo thee theories ries rica to the delegates interested in the subject who will win attend atten from all aU the southern and aDd western we t n states state Alaska Tin Deposits Formes Fo Lieutenant Governor Joseph JosephH H of Idaho who has hu inter interested Interested ested sted himself recently in the develop development development ment mont of or th the tin deposits depo l i of Alaska ka ar C I rived in Washington a few days da ys ago I and was obliged ob ged to go into thIn a on account of an attack of Tp ip He has now fully recovered and I ar r business matters In I connection n with the organization of a anew new n w Alaska tin mine which has just been b n incorporated Inc rated linger the laws of the district There is not at present ft cit tin tta produced in America he said Ad laft ladt night The millions of pounds of tin used in this country are Imported from Cornwall the Ute Straits Settlements Set em and a afew afew afew few regions r glons The n deposits however lIow ver are nj gw w known to be immense and it seems not S in the least improbable that they th y will wUl willbe willbe be able o supply tile entire American market masket ia Ii the course of a af few w years it itA r A party p of gh stud students colleges collages in the east are spendIng pending the Christmas holidays in Washington as guests of the son of the Peruvian minister ter Peru Contributes utes more young men to universities l S ties than any other of f tile South Amer American Am lean ican republics It is estimated that over Mf bOO y ung men from that country are attending American institutions c of f learning The majority maJ are are in attend attendance attendance attendance ance upon technical schools school and col eel colleges colleges leges leg and the desire d tn to a tt education to be utilized in thede the development de of oC thi S of their country se sens ms prevail 1 J More Latitude Allowed The civil service commission co has reached an important conclusion u lon in reference to allowing postmasters P more latitude and ald freedom in dismissing g clerks who are incompetent The claim is to made that t at under the present system who get g t temporary appoint appointments meats ments work with ith great industry until they get on the permanent roll when they cease to show su h l knowing that the postmaster experiences dif difficulty difficulty in dismissing them when they are In the classified l service The new scheme which was W wa recommended reco by a committee of postmasters provides that permanent pe appointment shall not riot be made until six months after fter class classification thus giving ving the postmaster r ran an opportunity to dismiss during duDI g that period if the dO does s not acme e Cl me up to requirements ts Story on An officer of the quartermasters de department department department who has hen just returned from Manila tellS tell this story of t General Chat ChaC Ch fee In the Chinese campaign a afield field hospital ho building had been put up and the medical corps had it pretty well filled up with typhoid and other pa patients patients patients General Chafee Cha fee came tame in one morning to Inspect conditions co and as ashe ashe he passed along the row of bunks a atall atall atall I tall lank soldier arose with apparent weakness from his bed ana ane as the gen general oral eral approached stood at Attention How ow are you feeling my my man manId said Id the general IP iI a kindly tone toneA toneA A little better this Is morning sir said the patient p with a tinge of sick sickness sickness sickness ness in his voice What has been your trouble tro asked the general still more kindly S Kicked by a mule sir Oh h hl hi 1 recover sold said the general shortly short as he walked w away avay Cadets Wanted The United States State civil l service serIce corn com commission mission wants applicants for the post position position tion of cadet ca et in the revenue cutter held I Ie service Examinations will e early eally e in January in all of the th cities of the country The uary s of ofa ofa ofa a cadet det is 19 but llO per annum but aft after after after er three years satisfactory s service he e emay may be commissioned as aaa a lieutenant with salary lalY of 1400 1100 per annum Pro Promotion motion up to the grade of captain at atS S 2500 per annum is open to him The TheS S place Is open to oung young men between be een S the he ages agas of IS 38 and Si Ii |