Show Private Secretary Gets Good Job Washington Scott Smith private secretary to Secretary Hitchcock has been selected by him to take charge of tho Hot Springs reservation In Arkansas Ar-kansas Smith has been Hitchcocks adviser and to his influence is attributed attrib-uted much of the friction which has I occurred between tho secretary and western senators and members of congress con-gress It was Hitchcocks wish to have Smith made assistant commissioner commis-sioner of the general land office but the certainty that tho senato would not confirm tho nomination prevented him from pushing for this place |