Kirby
WILLIAM FOSGATE, United States Senator from Arkansas, born in Miller co., Ark. in 1867. He was educated in the public schools and studied law at Cumberland University. He began the practice in 1885. He was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1893 and again in 1897. From 1899 to 1901 he was a member of the State Senate. In 1904 he compiled the laws of the State. He was Attorney-General of Arkansas in 1907-1908 and was defeated for the nomination for Governor in the latter year. From 1910 to 1918 he was Associate Justice of the KIRKDALE CAVE Supreme Court of Arkansas. After having been defeated in the primary election for Senator in 1914, he was elected in 1916 to fill out the unexpired term of James P. Clarke. He was a Democrat in politics. He was defeated for renomination in 1920.
KIRGHIZ (kēr'gēz), a nomadic Mongol-Tartar race, numbering in its various branches about 3,000,000, and inhabiting the steppes that extend from the lower Volga and the Caspian Sea in the W. to the Altai and Thian-Shan Mountains in the E., and from the Sea of Aral and the Syr Daria in the S. to the Tobol and Irtish on the N. The Kirghiz are a slow, sullen people, small in stature, bad walkers, but born riders.
Their food is chiefly mutton and horseflesh, and their drink the nourishing fermented mare's milk called koumiss. They dwell in a yurt or semi-circular tent, the wooden framework of which is covered with cloth or felt. Agriculture is almost unknown; their possessions are in sheep, horses, and camels, and their manufactures consist of cloth, felt, carpets, leather, etc. They profess Mohammedanism. Most of the varied Kirghiz tribes are, at least nominally, under Russian government.