Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1909 — PEOPLE OF THE DAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE OF THE DAY

Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Robert Gordon Valentine, the new commissioner of Indian affairs, got hist first training in the bureau be now' heads as private secretary to former Commissioner Leupp. During his four years’ connection with the bureau he has made an exhaustive study of the Indian problem. A great part of his time has been spent in travel, visiting the various tribes that make up the 300,000 Indian population of Uncle Sam’s domains. To do this he had to visit twenty-six states in which the Indians are scattered, and a great part

of his travels were made in the saddle. It is Mr. Valentine's intention to keep up this policy, so far as his new duties w ill permit, with a view to developing the red man along social and economic lines. “We will try to make the Indian help himself,” he says. The new Indian commissioner is a native of Massachusetts, a graduate of Harvard and is thirty-six years old. Before going to Washington as a newspaper man be was successively an instructor in the Boston Institute of Technology, a bank clerk in New York and a railroad statistician in the west. Hedin’s Experience In Tibet. Sven Hedin. the celebrated Swedish explorer, who has just returned from a journey through the unknown parts of Tibet, has had many narrow escapes from death in the course of his adventurous career. He was once rescued by an auxiliary expedition when he had been lost for several weeks on the "roof of the world.” The doctor In the party describes his appearance at the time he was found, “His tongue was white, dry and swollen, his lips bluish, bis cheeks sunken, his eyes dull and glassy.” Speaking of that experience, Dr. Hedin tells that be found a small pool of water after going three days without a drink. In ten minutes he had absorbed five pints of the fluid. End of • Gould Romance. Mrs. Howard Gould, who has just secured a decree of separation from her husband, will in the future be compelled to struggle along on a paltry $30,000 a year. That was the amount of alimony allowed her by Judge Dowling of the New York supreme court. During the trial of the case it was shown that Howard Gould, who is the third son of the late Jay Gould, was in receipt of an income of about SI,OOO, ■ 000 per annum. The court decided

that Mrs. Gould could live comfortably on $3,000 a month, although she demanded about eight times that sum. Before her marriage to Mr. Gould in 1898 Mrs. Gould, then Katherine Clemmons, bad been on the stage a number of years. She had been successful iu California and later for five years bad tcored in London under the patronage sf “Buffalo Bill” Cody. Since the wedding the Howard Goulds have been much in the public eye in one form or another. When they were abroad several years ago the kaiser and the czar were entertained on their yacht. But they never secured entry to the smart set of New York.

ROBERT G. VALENTINE.

MRS. HOWARD GOULD.