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Show hhhh """""" '"" "" i i i. , HMMH GOVERNOR QUITS UNDER FIRE H ' '''' Herbert Jnmes Hagorinan, tho governor ot HHl ' ' - 'AfflP Jv Mexico, who hns resigned his ofllco while HH fS'siWji u"ei'r Investigation by tho legislature concerning HHl Ar, 'M, l,ls ,)ilrt 1,1 ""tfi0'' extensive land frauds, is only HH ''K X' Ai H'ars old and ond or the youngest governors In HHI ;, Ym tin. oountiy. HH ''jh . w 'ne c,ll,rK '8 that tho governor, without th& HH '''j) 'J knowlcdgo nnd consent of tho commissioner of HH "'Wo y '." ' imu",! 'um'a delivered to tho Pennsylvania Do- H y vclopnient company n deed for 7,000 acres of tlm- k '' hmd; thnt ho took tho seal of tho commls- k i'M'n. H'0,,or' unlawfully ulllxed It to tho deed, that ' yWy 11,0 lnn'1 ,s worth fro" 2G to $100 nn acre, but ' j was sold nt only three dollars nn ncrc, that tho j J fedeinl law at tho tlmo forbado tho Belling ol j 4 a t I more thnn 100 acres to nny ono purchnser, and M that therefore tho territorial Institutions to which these lands belonged wero defrauded. Kx-Uov. Hagcrmnu Is n product of tho west. Born In Milwaukee, ho spent his boyhood In Colorado and his youth In Now Mexico. Hngorniaii wnfc appointed In 1807 by President McKlnley second secro-tnry secro-tnry of tho United States embassy in Hussln. E. A. Hitchcock, now secro- fl tnry of tho Interior, wns then ambassador nt St. Petersburg. It wns largely due to his good work as secretary of tho embassy, both under Mr. Hitchcock mid Inter under Charlemagne Tower, that his appointment as govornor was tW secured. Mr. Hitchcock urged tho appointment upon President Uoosovelt. Following as it did closo upon that of another young man to a similar post- tW tlon, tho Inferenco wns drawn that Mr. Hagorman secured his place through a former connection with tho rough riders, as did tho governor of Oklahoma, but this is n mlstnke. TO HEAD THEOSOPHIjSTS I Mre. Annlo Bcsant of Bcnaras, India, has W)j)Il)l)))l)jllW been nominated ns world presldont of tho Thco- IW sophlcul society, to succeed tho lato Col. Henry JKJWjjTp's' Stcclo Olcott, tho president-founder of tho or- gnulzutlon. Col. Olcott, who wa an old Now mWXvyW York newspaper man and a veteran of tho civil 'nk Ujw 1 war, died recently following his return to India WymmBk ' 1 from Chicago, whero ho had attended tho annual ffiTl W convention of tho American section. On his nkJt- Wm deathbed Col. Olcott formally named Mrs. Bcsant, flEm AtxMm LLa who had for years boon hl co-worker, to succeed WmyWk2LC&, ' Um. a prerogntlvo ho held. Tho nomination must WWflWE45k cm ratified by a two-thirds voto of tho societies of . ' tho world and tho voto Is soon to bo taken. vJPSBr 1 1 Mrs. Bcsant Is a noted wrltor and lecturer. 2&aL i Sho wns born In Ireland. Her brother is Sir R&M f I Henry Wood, secrotnry of tho Society of Arts of London, who camo to this country in 1903 on business connected with the world's fair at Chicago. Mrs. Bcsant hns mado three lecture tours of America. Sho foundod tho Ctatral'HIndu College for Girls at Benares, India, which has dono wondr- , ful work In raising tho condition of the native girls ot that country, and It it,s president. HI Tho Thcosophlcal society should not bo confounded with tho society at Point Lomn, Cnl., presided over by Catherlno Tingley, which Is an offshoot HJ from tho parent body. Tho Thcosophlcal socloty was foundod In Now York HJ city in 1875 by Mme. Blavatsky and Col. Olcott, and now haa branches In HJ alt tho principal cities ot tho civilized world. Tho headquarters of tho society HJ aro at Benares, India. - HJ TO PAINT KAISER'S SON I WMJWJWMJA Mrs- Iluth Jowott Burgess, wlfo of Prof. John H 22i W. Burgess, Boosovelt lecturer at tho Unlvorslty CWy of nrl,n' 1,aa ueon commissioned to paint a por- WXl 7 trnlt ot 1r,nco Augustus Wllhelm, fourth son ot HJ jw&fK J WW Kmneror William of Germany. MM? r-Z) ' rW Mr8, UurECS8 was born In Montpellor, Vt., 42 HJ WfS ili VY rears nB' nn(1 was tho only child of Hon. T. P. HJ 'J. sjy) Jowotf. a leading banker and financier of Vcr- HJ OzT f'&W niont 11 fitnonUlon ago. Early in llfo sho showed! HJ WYM Jf WMM a (,oc'"ctl talent for nrt, and this was fostorod' HJ wW' nml Jevc'onou' Thomas W. Wood, for many years HJ MMwfyr vy president of tho National Academy of Design ofi HJ 'rV"V Now York' who was a natlvo of Montpellor and HJ Wlr t f the foundor of tho Wood art gallery In this city,. HJ 'm J. - - early 'took notico of Miss Jowett's talents nndt HJ y'r ' ' j under his instructions sho developed romarkabloi HJ jjklll. v HJ Whllo In Now York wltli her husband, When ho was professor of con- HJ stltutlonal nnd international law at Columbia uhlvefsTty, SITS studied under HJ William J. Whlttemoro and Kenyon Cox of that city. " HJ During tho past ton years Mrs. Burgess has been abroad several times)' H JHilili!njJ0IJJi2 SSl-Si1 Instructors and copying from tho old masters in H tho lainoua glorles oTtho old world. HJ During tho past winter while her husband was engaged in his duties at, I tho University' of Berlin, Mrs. Burg6ss hns been copying sovornl celebrated H pictures in the Knlscr Krledrlch museum and tho Knlser Frledrlch Donkmnl, HJ tho privnto galleries of tho emperor. Whllo engaged in this work her paint- H Ing attracted tho notico of Emperor William and tho commission to paint the HJ portrait of his son followed. HJ Mrs. Burgess inherited n largo property from her father, much of which fl sho has devoted to charitable purposes. Sho was much lntorestod In tho . H foundling of tho Wood nrt gallery in Montpellor, Vt., which was presented HJ to that city by Thomas W. Wood In tho hanging thoro of more than 100 HJ famous products of his brush. Prof. Burgess has been a trustco of this nrt H gallery slnco Itn Inception. HJ PEACE ADVOCATE HONORED I I Baron D'Estournelles do Constant, ono of tho WJJJJJMMWWWW mt distinguished orelgn representatives nt tho ro- WlmifWMw' cent dedication of tho enlarged Carneglo Instltuto WMlKe jH In Pittsburg, nnd who received tho degreo of LL. jwWr kaMy I D. from tho Weatorn Unlvorslty of Pciinsylvnnla, 'Mwf kwMy "D Is ono of tho foremoBt nuthorltlcs In tho world on fflwL mm Pwfr "I arbitration. Ho wns n mombor of tho first Haguo v5s Vffm jH conference, nnd Is now ono of tho Fronch mom- ftfw bcrs of Tho Hnguo court. WwAkmi WWJ Ho Is organizing tho rcpresontntlvo men of "Jb Jwwy every nntlon into an lntcrnntlonal federation, yWmyxW whoso motto Is "My country's good through tho wWforJ 2 pcaco of tho world." Tho arbitration group in HHHlnr vL tho French parliament, organized by him, hns en- MWWy '''if abled Franco to conclude many treaties of arbl- jHJyr Baron D'Estournelles somo tlmo ngo Invltod ' a delegation of 100 from tho United States congress to visit Paris and maka $ a tour of Franco as tho guests of hlc group. '"I, Baron Do Constnnt, who married an Amorlcnn womnn ami is a personal '& frlond of Andrew Carnegie, Is also a great admlror of Presldont Itoosovolt. f At tho tlmo tho British and Gorman clolms ugalnst Venozuela would havo Mjr led to tho uso of military force but for his Intervention tho presldont do- 'W mandod thnt tho question bo submitted to Tho Haguo tribunal. Bnron Do Vfr' CoiiBtnnt, a mombor of tho tribunal, wrote to tho president, thanking him Jr for saving it from extinction. Ho has beon French .nmbaBsador to Turkoy WH nnd to England. Ho has been n senator of Frnnco nnd Is un orator of note. Jflttt |