Miscellaneous Mentions

In Vermont, onetime (1900-02) Governor William Wallace Stickney announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Senator against Porter H. Dale, the incumbent. The interest in Stickney's candidacy rests on a number of facts: 1) Senator Dale has not been a very close supporter of the President. 2) Governor Stickney is a cousin of the President and was chosen by him to administer his father's estate. 3) Mr. Stickney is also a law partner of Attorney General Sargent.

Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis received a letter from Representative Rankin, Democrat from Mississippi. The Congressman first related that in the Robert E. Lee mansion at Arlington, Va., there hangs an autographed copy of a speech by Robert G. Ingersoll. This, said the Congressman, "is offensive to every decent, loyal, self-respecting individual from the South. . . an unusual and unnecessary desecration" of the Lee mansion.

The War Department last week made an official communique. Two weeks ago, four carrier pigeons of the Navy were released in Chicago. Each carried a message addressed to the Secretary of War:

"This commemorates the opening of Chicago's municipal air port. Chicago has provided facilities for the landing of airplanes and the War Department is invited to avail itself of this opportunity.

[Signed]

WILLIAM E. DEVER, MAYOR."

One of the pigeons arrived in Washington two days later, a second followed. A third flew into a wire en route, was injured, will recover. The fourth flew against the tower of a Methodist church in Virginia near the Capitol: "Dead in the line of duty."