Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1903 — IN THE PUBLICEYE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN THE PUBLICEYE

Joseph Little Bristow, who has Active charge of the investigation said to -have been ordered by President Roosevelt into

the nlleged frauds in the postal service, has been Fourth Assistant Postmaster General since 1897, whem ha was appointed to that position b y President McKinley. ..ftp, to that time Mr. Bristow’s life- had been confined to Kansas, where he had been active in politics,

and where for five years, he Ivad been a successful editor, lie ,was private secretary to Governor Morrill to 181)7 and secretary of the Ue7*,tbji<;an State Committee from IfRH to ISDS. lie was born in Kentucky ill 1861 and removed ns a young man to Kansas, 1 where he was educated at Baker University. Mr. Bristow made the personal acquaintance of President McKinley in .1801 on the/dAcaslqn of Mr. McKinley’s visft to Kans’as. The M’estern editor bcemie pn enthusiastic supporter of McKinley two years subsequentTy, nnd it was largely through his efforts'that Kansas 1 was the first Noytlierii State to declare for the Ohioan. Mr. Brisfifw pfoi-ed a most valuable olflclal of the Postolflco Department, Arid it was ‘he who directed the Investigation in thri Cuban postal 1 frauds in 1900.

Rev. William Henry Milburn, whose death occurred in California recently, was 80 years old and the venerable blind

chaplaiu of the United States Senate. W hen Jlr. Milburn was 5 years of age a playfellow accidentally struck him in the left eye with a piece of glass, losing the sight of that eye, and dimming the other. He, however. pursued liis studies at school and .c o 1 I eg o for

about twenty years, bkv. \v. h. milbukn when lie became totally blind, in IS-13 he .became a traveling preacher of the M. E. Church, serving charges in various sections of tlie country. While in Eng; land in 1859 on a lecturing tour he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal Church, hut returned to Methodism in 1871. Mr. Milhnr.ti was twice elected “chaplain of Congress," the first time in 1845, when a little over 22 years of age. He was twice chaplain of the Hoftse of Representatives ' and lately chaplain' of the Senate, to Which office lie was elected in 1893. Last December he forwarded his resignation to Washington, but it never was acted on.

Alexander Ramsey, former Governor of Minnesota. United States Senator and Secretary <>f War, and the last survivor

of the great war Governors, died the other Evening at his Iwime in St. Paul. • lie had been confined Jo the house for two months by nn attack of gout, nnd this, coupled with : old age, was the I cause of death. Mr. I Ranifoy was horn in [Pen ii s y 1 v a nia I In 1815, and After serving a terfri' in

Congress went to Minnesota in 1849 to serve as the first territorial governor, having been appointed by President Polk. After the admission of Minnesota ns a State be was elected Governor, and in that capacity.' in 1801, ninde to President Lincoln tlie first offer .of troops for the Civil War. Mr. Ramsey later served in the United States Senate, and in the last two years of the Ilayes administration was Sciretarry of Wnr.

Levi Anokeny, the new Senator from the State of Washington, i* tho sou of a farmer and’is the richest man in. the

State. Twenty-five years .ago Mr. Aukepy went to Walla: w«IU a,nd established .tkeFir*t,Nation-, al Bank there. At present lie is, president of six .ifo.Ufl 111 }}, banks. .Last* year he iujfvestetih over rif wheat. In 1807 he ni^rffd. tile oldest da,ugmer of the late Senator Nesmith of

Oregon. In appearauce Mr. Ankeny Is simple and fnrmeriijke, * He has never held public office excepting one term as Mayor of Lewistoo, Idaho, and one term as city councilman of Wallawalla.

Captain Edwin Coffin, .who has been selected io command the William Zeigler arctic expedition. Is a veteran Yankee

jtiiiati— and .lias spent man! yearmof life in Hhe flMK'lffnh has InlrtSy Igft kis hone, pgllq|rt(Jru.' MartllCs I niielid. foflTrMiJffie j sTnrUng poinfl flfce |crejPfc»'ill helliiaa oBWb pmilors Ifrom vwenWJnglnnd.l

IsenatnP "Wiriexv Jki on tl lAjrrAkfU'toi a Nek York) *W>j4iVho dys she lgclngiuit' *am.'Gi»ni*Ml4stif T ,J j limd 'M•y&rKHW'tbWmy Mm, JL S escapedJffNltfy. \ U)r. yhif, *%iirriiT 1 ° . Ka HOItLF principle o? ine bicyct^Dy water can be traveled as easily as ’.ha land—so he says. He calls it the “aquaCycle.”

JOSEPH L. BRISTOW

EX-GOV. RAMSEY.

SENATOR ANKENY.

CAPT. COFFIN.