Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1911 — SIRES AND SONS. [ARTICLE]

SIRES AND SONS.

Puccini’s Income from bis operas hi estimated at $50,000 a year. Former Senator Clark bf Montana la said to hare recently purchased a dinner service that cost him SIOO,OOO. Richard C. Adams Is the hereditary chief of the Delaware tribe of Indiana. He is a lawyer, and he la now pressing claims against the government aggregating $20,000,000 in behalf of hia, tribe. Charles Pollen Adams, who wrote the verses to “Leedle Yacob Strauss’* and gained fame thereby more than thirty years ago. Is still alive and a familiar figure on the streets of Bogton and In the lecture field. Before Congressman A. R. .Johnson of Ohio studied law and got into politics he was a schoolteacher and a laborer in an iron furnace. He also put In spare months working as a laborer on turnpikes and railroads. John Porter of Eldora, la., Is the oldest practitioner before the United States supreme court in point of years of service, having been adnfltted Maxell 3, 18p3. Mr. Porter has known every president since Ffilmore with the exception of Roosevelt anJ Taft/ J. Miller a Washington banker and attorney, la a fine performer with the gloves. In fact, he Js so good at it that, when Jim Jeffries was In the national capital prior to his battle with Jack Johnson, Kenyon wanted to go several fast rounds with him.