Eureka Reporter | 1904-03-04 | Page 5 | Not Altogether a Stranger

NOT altogether A STRANGER at least he had R gl t to vote n 11 wash agton A few das after lieutenant gen eral chaffee v as inducted into his of fice one of the oldest and roost wide ly known of the washington boire coire spon dents who had never met the lieutenant general was presented to him in at the war depart ment by the chief of one of the mill tary divisions when the correspond corre spon dent was formally presented general chaffee arose and grasping the band of his visitor cordially said I 1 am pleased to meet ou how long bava vou been in the this with a re assuring smile supposing his caller was a cabal visitor the general was nhen the correspondent promptly replied thirty years the visitor was invited to a seat and an intel esting quarter of an hour fol lowed