Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1907 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Judge Wood- of Idaho. Judge Fremont Wood, who Is presiding over the trial of William D. Haywood, the union mine official charged with complicity in the murder of former Governor Steunenberg of Idaho, was hprn on a farm near Wlpthrpp, Me. He was educated In the common schools and at Bates college, Lewiston. For a time he studied law

In his native state, hut in 1881, at the age of twenty-five, he journeyed west to seek his fortune. Settling In Boise, where he was first admitted to the bar, Judge Wood began the practice of his profession. Not many years after he was made district attorney for the state of Idaho. This honor was unsought, but after his acceptance he filled the duties of the office so successfully that his appointment to a judgeship followed. Judge Wood has earned a reputation for fairness andMmpartiality since ascending the bench. Physically Judge Wood is a big, broad shouldered man, with a high forehead and prominent brow. Mr. Fairbanks Telia a Story. While speaking at Chattanooga recently Vice President Fairbanks by way of Illustrating the present sentiments of the south told of being present y*vith President McKinley when General Joe Wheeler applied for assignment to duty in the war against . Spain. i “You wish, general,” the president said, “to take up service in active warfare?” And the little man with gray hair and beard replied; “Yes, Mr. President. Once under a mistake I fought against the flag. Now, please God, before I die I wish to fight in that flag’s defense.” * Sadly Reduced. In a speech last winter John Sharp Williams referred to the alarming decrease In Democratic congressmen. Formerly they had lapped over, on the Republican side. Now it was the Republicans who overlapped. Continuing, he said: “I sat in the gallery the other day ‘and heard some one ask: ‘“Which is the Democratic side?’ “The response came that there was no Democratic side; that there was only a ‘Democratic strip.’ ” The Japanese Envoy. Viscount Aoki, Japanese ambassador to the United States, according to common report, has not been a social success In Washington. This Is due, It is said, partly to the fact that members of the diplomatic corps have learned that he considers himself above the other envoys, as he “represents the sacred person of the mikado of Japan.” Another reason for Aokl’s social failure Is that he married a German woman. When this wedding took place, Emperor William was angry and divested Viscountess Aoki, who was a

/ member of the German nobility, of all her privileges and barred her from court. At her marriage she became a subject of tbe mikado. At the time of the -marriage, twenty-five years ago, the viscount was the Japanese minister to Berlin, where he had bdfen educated and pent many years apd where he had acquired many German ideas and tastes It was the first Instance in the history of continental Europe where a woman of rank and title married an oriental. The Japanese ambassador and Viscountess Aokl have one daughter, the wife of Count Hatzfeldt Trachenberg. an officer In tbe German army. 1

FREMONT WOOD.

VISCOUNT AOKI.