Show ROUND THE CAPITAL info matios and gossip picked up here and there in washington washington friends of dent loosevelt Koo sevelt predicted that the east room tn the white house would turn green from envy when the president learned that the senate corn cittee on indian affairs witnessed a genuine war dance by senator owen of oklahoma the junior member of the committee wearing a magnificent war bonnet of eagle feathers worn for many years by plenty coos chief of the crow tribe senator owen is one quarter choc taw and three quarters game sport thus when senator clapp chairman of the committee declined to don the war bonnet at the request of chief plenty coos senator owen grasped it placed it on his own head and went through the proper movements of the chief of a victorious indian tribe lead ing his warriors into a war dance after a successful battle thereby sav ing the reputation of the committee in the estimation of the indians and preserving the pride of chief plenty coos THE latest romance ot washington society concerns joseph leiter and miss jullette williams the laugh ter of an army officer the announce ment of their engagement was made the other day mr letter has spent this winter in washington ailsa williams is the daughter of aleut col john wll hams now stationed at fort dupont del she was introduced to washing ton society largely through the influx ence of mrs corbin wife of gen henry corbin who became ac quainter quain ted with her in manila with her mother and younger sisters miss williams has an apartment in a fash conable apartment house until the recent visit to washing ton of the duke of the abruzzi mr leiter was very attentive to miss katherane Kather lne etkins since then his wooing of miss williams leaves noth ing to be desired in the way of ardor or persistence mr leiter has had a plenty coos came here with fire in his eye and vengeance in his heart against the palefaces at the capitol he had grievances dating beyond the arrival of christopher columbus he had several bouts with senator cupp the tall dignified chairman of the in dian committee the eloquence of plenty coos prevailed finally and an agreement was reached to bury the hatchet smoke the pipe and go back to the reservation plenty coos wound up his descent upon the capitol in the committee room by rising in his place and making a solemn tender of his beautiful eagle feathered bonnet to chairman clapp senator clapp who is from minnesota blushed and re fused to put on the royal headgear there was a moment of embarrass ment which was suddenly relieved by the senator of cherokee blood to him the bonnet was a call of the wild hand me the bonnet said senator owen plenty coos beamed with de light and extended the bonnet which was made of the trophies of a hundred american eagle wings senator owen gravely put it on his head and struck the attitude of osceola or black hawk or king philip delivering an ulal batum to the palefaces then he whirled around and around threw an invisible tomahawk and finally sat down amid great applause as they say in the congressional record joseph letter to take an army bride formidable rival in a naval officer who Is very popular but has no fortune that mrs leiter favored her son s suit was evident although she has bot showered upon miss williams the attentions she has sho miss elkins lat autumn mr leiter established hunts and took daily exercised on a nearby virginia farm to enable him to join the cross country riders of the orange county hunt of which miss is one of the two girl mem beis mrs leiter Is said to have in formed one of her confidants that to win the young west virginia girl as hei daughter in law she would settle 3 on the bride give the young 1 pop e the use of her dupont circle houe and bequeath to her daughter in uw the famous ruby tiara and neck ace that even in london society are regarded as particularly choice jewels according to the gossip of clubs and drawing rooms the engagement will ba a short one the honeymoon will be abroad with presentation at the court of st tames and a taste of the london season under the guidance of the countess of suffolk as its most brilliant and alluring features mrs leiter in view of her son s prospective marriage has abandoned her intention of going abroad for the summer graft charges make lilley unpopular NOT in many years has a member of the house of representatives been so thoroughly unpopular with his colleagues as Is representative ley of connecticut whose charges of graft and corruption in connection with submarine boat legislation in congress brought about the present investigation by the boutell special committee and this Is stated as a tact and not by way of criticism or disparagement mr lalley knows it too and it seems rather to please him than otherwise at least so his friends have gathered from his occasional ret erencen to the subject A brilliant example of the covent aesque attitude of the house member ship republican and democratic with reference to mr lalley was fur dished during general debate on the naval bill richmond pearson hob son once one of our lead ng tors had turned loose a line of war talk calculated to make the traditional dove molt out of season and theodore burton the cleveland student had followed with a peace pastoral of the millennium then came mr lilley s turn to howl everybody under the dome knew he was scheduled to speak and there were as many rumors in the air as motes in a sunbeam concerning the sensational tea tures of his address which by the way did not materialize but as soon as mr lilley secured the floor and stert ed in with the usual formal mr chairman the couple of hundred of republicans and democrats who had listened with the greatest interest to hobson and burton rose almost as it by lon and filed off to their cloakrooms when the connecticut had been talking for five minutes or so there gasn wasn t a corporal s guard in attendance on the floor either of Us own party or of the opposition and when be concluded his remarks and took his seat the 16 members who by actual count remained in the chamber dian didn t give him even a cour tesy handclap in the congressional directory mr lilley s full name is set down as george leavens lilley but this isn t so it can t be true george leaven lilley or anything about him his dough has never risen astrologer predicts reelection re election THE second elective or third term party consisting of senator jona than bourne of oregon and john A stewart of new york has received an addition in the person and cies of prof gustave meyer astrologer of hoboken N J in a communication sent to wash ington prof meyer says that taft Is wasting a lot ol 01 time and money and losing needed sleep because it is in the stars and planets that mr roosevelt will succeed himself prof meyer says that this is tortu nate as the gyrations and alons of the fixed stars and ot those that have not been fixed show that this country Is going to have an awful time in the next tour years so tar as he has been able to figure it out there Is not another man in the nation that could manage the trouble the professor says I 1 have obtained among the stars the nativity of president roosevelt and from the same I 1 find that he unquestionably will be nominated by the t republican party for president and will positively be re elected by a large majority but the president is not going to get off easily he is warned that he will be in danger of a peculiar trouble with his knees and that he should avoid firearms combustibles and impulsiveness he should also take care ot eyes and teeth then the deck or the stars show a man with high forehead and sleepy eyes he has a wayward disposition and bad habits and will be around in 1908 and 1909 the professor s source 0 informs alon however indicates that the dent will weather all storms and pull the country through with him |