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ernor of Arizona, Captain Frantz, Governor of Okla- 

 homa, and Captain Curry Governor of New Mexico. 

 Ben Daniels I appointed Marshal of Arizona; Colbert, 

 the Chickasaw, Marshal in the Indian Territory. Llew- 

 ellyn is District Attorney in New Mexico. Jenkins is 

 Collector of Internal Revenue in South Carolina. Fred 

 Herrig, who was with me on the Little Missouri, where 

 we hunted the black-tail and the big-horn together, and 

 who later served under me at Santiago, is a forest ranger 

 in Montana; and many other men of my old regiment 

 have taken up with unexpected interest occupations as 

 diverse as those of postmaster, of revenue agent, of land 

 and forest officers of various kinds. Joe Lee is Minis- 

 ter to Ecuador; John Mcllhenny is Civil Service Com- 

 missioner; Craig Wadsworth is Secretary of Legation at 

 the Court of St. James; Mason Mitchell is Consul in 

 China, having already been Consul at Mozambique, 

 where he spent his holidays in hunting the biggest of 

 the world's big game. 



Appointments to public office must of course be made 

 primarily because of the presumable fitness of the man 

 for the position. But even the most rigid moralist ought 

 to pardon the occasional inclusion of other considerations. 

 I am glad that I have been able to put in office certain 

 out-door men who were typical leaders in the old life of 

 the frontier, the daring adventurous life of warfare 

 against wild man and wild nature which has now so 

 nearly passed away. Bat Masterson, formerly of Dodge 

 City and the Texas cattle trail, the most famous of the old- 

 time marshals, the iron-nerved gun-fighters of the bor- 



