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MAGAZINE SECTION.
THOMASYILLE. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1906.
PAGES 1 TO 4.
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NO RACE SVICIDB INFAMILY OF
GREAT FINANCIER JXDRAIL
ROAD MAGNATE.
Married Life of Son ol Jay Could and
Wife Described as Ideally Happ:
Recardless of Great Wealth,
Live Very Simple.
The Goulds h*ve been: married 20
years. It w%s In 1886 when the eld
est son of Jay Gould, then almost as un
known and Indeterminate a factor in
finance as either of his two brothers,
Howard and Frank, is at present, pro
vided the town with a momentary sen
sation by wedding Miss Edith King-
den. who was a member of Augustin
Daly’s theatrical company. The match
wag regarded as Ideal in all respects.
Miss Kingdon’s position socially' and
professionally was assured. Her heri-
Mrs. Bleakeley and the baby, bundled
her into the hack, and took her to the
Sofa He train. They were compelled
to wait a few minutes, and while they
sat In the hack Judge Smart, who had
awarded the baby to the other woman,
passed it on his way to the Ottawa
train.
"When the train came in Mrs. Bleake
ley was placed on the Pullman with
out attracting any attention and put in
charge of the frat. boy’s parents.
’’The parents were simply ordered to
see Mrs. Bleakeley through Kansas City
safely, and, like good modern parents,
they obeyed.
’’The difficulty lay in the Union depot
at Kansas City, where it was expected
a detention telegram would be await
ing them. The Sheriff of one of the
largest counties in Illinois, J. H. Ray,
Wills county, was on the train, a man
as big in proportion as his own county,
big of body and big of heart. He made
the acquaintance of the father of the
fraL boy, and in bis dilemma the lat-
RODE TO THEIR DEATH.
HEROIC CHARGE OF TWO COST-
ERNE INDIANS AGAINST FIVE
TROOPS OF CAVALRY.
A Tragic Romance of the Tepee-
Repetition of the Days of Chivalry-
Flesh and Blood Against a Hall of
leaden Bullets.
ST V. a. VOOSTXB.
About fifty miles north of the Big
Horn Mountains, and forty miles south
from the Yellowstone River, in south
eastern Montana, live the tribe of fear,
less Northern Cheyenne Indians. A
few decades ago they ranged the great
plains, following the buffalo, but are
now attached to the Tongue River
Agency.
The men are tall, well-built, brave;
and their women are proverbially
chaste. With the disappearance of the
game and the decadence of inter-tribal
warring, the young braves have had
little or no opportunity to show their
prowess.
In the summer of 1890, two young
men—Head Chief and Young Mule—
who bad failed to And favor with the
maidens of their choice, took to the
war-path to win distinction and wivea
A moon! and the disappointed lovers,
wearing their eagle feathers red-
tipped, as warriors do, were again at
home.
Rumors of their return soon reached
their Agent, who recalled that a white
herder living near the reservation bad
been mining from his home for nearly
month.
The Murder of a Sheep Herder.
The returned braves were questtoo-
I. They openly admitted going on
the war-path and killing the herder. A
yards from the Agency. They take
position in the form of a crescent, and
sit with loaded carbines unslung,
waiting.
At the top of the long steep hill in
their front, silhouetted against the
flaming sky, sit the two slender braves
on their ponies. Cooly they lash them-
selves to their saddles. Raising their
rifles high above' their heads,' they
shake them at the troops and begin a
shrill song of defiance. Suddenly they
Are at the Agency. Their signal!
detachment of the two troops of caval-
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MRS. tiEORGE J. GOULD.
A MOTHER OF SEVEN ARIGHT CHILDREN.
tag* was undeniably suitable for an
alliance with the chief heir of one of
the wealthiest men of the day. Per
sonally she was the embodiment of a
beautiful, gracious, vivacious, well-
bred and mentally dowered American
girl.
Ideal is a hackneyed and greatly
abused word, but It is the only one
that aptly and satisfactorily describes
the life and companionship of the
Goulds in the two decades that have
elapsed since they stood at the altar.
Mrs. Gould is pre-eminently a domes
tic woman. Her -home and' her stal
wart boys and handsome, sprightly
girls are her first consideration, in
common with her husband.
Regardless of their great wealth,
the Goulds live their lives simply. Mrs.
Gould has artistic tastes developed and
cultivated along rational lines, and
these she Indulges to the top of her
bent Mr. Gould is in fullest sympa
thy with her Inclinations In this di
rection and shares them with her.
Probably there aro nowhere persona of
their means who are less in the public
prints than the Goulds. Mrs. Gould
cares little for society, as moat per
sons accept the term, but is found of
entertaining the congenial men and
women who compose their set.
THE INCUBATOR BABY.
Story of flaw Two Women Struggled
for Its Possession.
Tho tiny little Infant who repo&ed
in the incubator at the St. Louis Fair
has, since the close of that exposition,
attracted more attention than it did
during the entire time that It was the
object of Interest of the sightseers.
At the close of the Exposition, two
women sought possession of the child,
each claiming it to be her own. Each
secured a writ giving her the custody
of the child through decrees of differ
ent courts, but Mrs. Bleakley, who had
at first been awarded the care of the
Infant through the ruling of the law
at Moline, Illinois, took the law Into
her own hands when the court at Law
rence, Kansas, decided against her.
According to his own story, Senator
Fred D. Smith, of Kinsley, played an
important role in the case when the
mother' of the "incubator baby" re
cently disappeared suddenly with the
baby from Lawrence.
"When Mrs. Bleakley left the court
room at Lawrence after the decision
against her," he stated, "and returned
to her mother's house she was nearly
frantic. In mere desperation she
fled from the hack door and sought
refuge in a college fraternity house
nearby and begged the boys to help
her. It was then nearly 6 o’clock, and
the parents of one of the boys, a red
headed fraL youngster, were' expect
ed to be on Santa Fe train No. 6 en
route to Kansas City, and this boy
- wad a hack In readiness to drive him
' to the train. The boy* promptly raised
A pane of 125 to gf some clothes for
ter submitted the matter to hfm of (tow
to get Mrs Bleakeley and/the baby
acroes from the’ Santa Fe to the Rock
Island train, which might bp late, with
out observation. The Sheriff prompt
ly overruled that plan and) it was
agreed that Mrs. Bleakeley should re
main In the Pullman drawing room
while In Kansas City, and goj through
to the Sheriff's home town, where he
would put her on the train for Moline.
As a precaution the Sheriff added
‘Mrs.’ in front of the name oh a bench
warrant with which he had/been on a
fruitless errand to Colorado'and placed
Mrs. Bleakeley under arrest, techni
cally at least. /
"When the train reached Kansas City
the frat. boy’s father went out and
bought a nursing bottle and hot milk
and other necessaries for' the baby,
which had been left behind in the
hurry of departure, while the Sheriff
stood guard at the door of the draw
ing room, a massive and satisfying pro-,
tector. .---
"No one appeared, and the- woman
and baby went on without.'hindrance.
She stopped one night at the Sheriff's
home, cared for by bis wife, and on
Saturday was in Moline, under the pro
tection of that court’s decree.
"The whole thing was ludicrously
simple, and yet was woven of some cu
rious coincidences, each helping to
carry through the escape and each play
ing its unpremeditated but important
part In the Anal success.’
The red-headed college fraternity boy
was Eustlce Smith, son of Senator
Smith.
Eagle Quill for Statehood BUI.
President Roosevelt will 'sign the
Statehood bill with a pen made from a
quill plucked from an Oklahoma eagle's
wing.
When Charles Hunter, the newly ap
pointed clerk of the district court at
Oklahoma, was in Washington some
days ago, the President promised to
give him the pen which be would use
In signing the Statehood bill. Mr.
Hunter went home and had a pen made
from an eagle's quIIL /
A Great Hunter.
His brand new gun was "hammerless,"
His powder, too, was what
Is known as "smokeless”, and wa guess
That be had "hltlesa” shoL
The canals which form a network
throughout a greater part of China
abound in fish. The rice-fields, which
are supplied with water from these
canals, make ideal hatching places for
the eggs and for the young fry dar
ing their early existence.
The largest of telescopes is the 16-
Inch equatorial called the Universe
Discoverer, at the Lick Observatory 00
Mount Hamilton, a 4000-fbot peak of
the MOnte Diablo range In California.
ry stationed qt the Agency, assisted by
some Northern Cheyennes, made
search for the body. It was found on
the evening of September 9, and had
been scalped.
Fearing trouble, three additional
troops were hurriedly sent from Fort
Keogh, Montana, and the Agent called
a council of the chiefs and head-men,
demanding that they arrest and ^de
liver the murderers.
Two Moons, the war chief, battle-
scarred and old, pleaded for the young
braves, offering a ransom of thirty-
ponies for the dead herder. This was
declined. Chief Amelcan Horse then
arose and said his warriors would
light if the soldiers attempted to take
the young braves alive; and that their
Anal message was; -,-JV
"Select the place of meeting, and .we
will come and die In your sight, fight
ing the soldiers.”
The council was dismissed, and the
Indians returned In the evening to
their lodges in the hills south of the
Agency,
Twilight fell. Soon a flaming arrow
biased like a rocket in the soutberq
sky. And far to the north, signal fires
were seen.
Gathering of the Warriors.
Ail night armed warriors, hideously
painted, hurried to the' circle of hills
commanding the Agency, while lights
burned late In the valley below, where
the agency officers were consulting.
In the crimson dawn, watching war
riors saw a mounted Indian police
leave the Agency and take his way
southward along the misty mountain
trail. It was the decision for peace or
for war. As the first rays of the sun
glided the Indians’ tepees, he drew
rein and dismounted at the lodge ot
American Horse. The challenge of the
Into tho Jaws of Death.
A bugle blows. In an instant they
launch their ponies, straight as arrow
from the bow, at the center of the cres
cent of soldiers. Down the hill they
come, full charge, shouting the savage
Cheyenne war-cry and firing as they
ride.
A bugle blast! and a withering volley
blazes forth from five hundred guns.
Still the ringing war yell. On through
the smoke they come, apparently un
scathed, working their rifles like mad.
FARMING THE SWAMPS.
•LAN TO DRAIN MILLIONS OF
ACRES OF WORTHLESSMARSH
FOR NEW FARMS.
Representative Steencrson Has Bill
to Provide a Government Fund to
Reclaim Hundred Million Acres of
Wet Lands.
The great swamp areas are destin
ed to come in soon for their share
at the hands of the government The
irrigation of desert lands has been
provided for; but no definite move has
been made as yet to convert the enor
mous areas of government Bwamp
Jaud into productive farm homes. The
other'day a bill was introduced to pro
vide for the drainage of the great Dis
mal Swamp of Virginia, which Gener
al Washington, a century ago, pro
claimed would one day be converted
into farms.
shall be pro-rated among the
benefited and paid back by the I
into the "fund,” to be used oyer again
for additional reclamation work.
Would Create Thousands of Homes*
This plan of developing the internet!
resources of the country and making
homes of waste places, la splendid In
its scope, and appears to be entirely
practicable and profitable; Take for
Instance, the single example of the
of me Kankakee River
swamp lands
basin In Indiana and Illinois. Here
are some 400 thousand acres of the
very richest of bottom lands, but sub
ject to overflow. They are worthless
except where they have been reclaimd
through expensive private drainage
works, when they have become worth
21b0. and 5150. an acre. Yet it is es
timated by the government surveyors
and engineers that the entire system
could be effectively drained at a cost
In the neighborhood of 810. an acre.
The same can be said of the lands of
the Red River Valley in Minnesota.
These Include the finest grain and
farm lands in the northwest except
that they are frequently overflowed. It
would be worth millions of dollars to
the farmers and settlers, who would
occupy these lands in small tracts, to
have a perfect system ot drainage pro
vided. These extensive systems, how
ever, especially where they are inter
state, seem to be feasible for handling
only by the general government
Tho Steenerson bill places the en
tire management of the work in the
Reclamation Service and the plan of
operation follows very closely the Ir
rigation work now being done by that
branch ot the Interior Department.
Government lands, ceded Indian lands
and private lands may be Included in
any drainage project but in each case
the cost of the drainage Improvement
is to be borne by the owner of the
land and no settler catt have drainage
provided tor more than 160 acres, thus
THE EVERGLADES
CYPRESS SENT4NEL5
OF LAKE DRUM
MOND. DISMAL
SWAMP.
small farms which must ha actually
settled upon and tilled.
Drainage Work Already In Progress.
This work the Reclamation Service
Is qualified to do at this very moment.
While primarily ad engineering bureau
it has, in all Its great irrigation pro
jects, to-deal directly with the farmer.
It must outline a comprehensive drain
age system for each ^irrigation project,
Court uy
council, he said, bad spoken
straight not crooked, tongues.
warmed to amythest afternoon. An
buildings and the troops. As the
shadows crept out In the valley, the
spectators—warriors old and young,
and squaws with papooses and children
—began taking their places on ths
circle of bills. They .would aee the
light
" With Hearts of Iron.
Forth from their refuge In the Wolf
Mountains, rode Head Chief and Young
Mule, painted and armed for war. Un
guarded they rode. Still was there tlqpe
to escape, but the pride of their race,
held them. They went on.
Five miles to the north lay the peace-
ful valley, and the arena with Its
massed five hundred guns. The trail
wound in and out among the hills
Leaves were falling, and here and
there were bright red splotches of foli
age. Overhead they noticed a flock ot
birds winging southward. They
thdUght of the maidens they loved; of
ths warpath; ot ths feathers tipped
with blood, and their faces darkened.
Silently they held their way north
ward. Soon was reached the crest of
a high spur. They turned their ponies
to the west and drew rein. Ths sun
was almost down. For an Instant they
gazed; then pointed to the earth, and
raised their arms In supplication to
ths Great Spirit—wheeling, they head-
ed cast at a keIIodl
Presently they pass some warriors
who promptly signal their approach to
the waiting Indian spectators. Now
they gallop to ths very crest of a high
hill, perhaps five hundred yards west
of the Agency buildings. There they
stoPi in full view of the soldiers.
A bugle sounds; Ths troopers mount
and move to a dry creek-bed shout fifty
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They seem to spring to meet the sec
ond awful crash and glare of the guns.
Not yet down? Impossible! No flesh
and blood could withstand such a fire!
Into and through the columns of
shrinking horses and men In blue they
burst, like devils incarnnte. Some of
the horses reel and go down with the
troopers. But Instantly the cavalrymen
whirl and give the swaying flying
braves another deadly volley at close
range.
Head Chief reels frightfully In his
saddle. His pony goes down with a
sickening thud, riddled by a dozen
bails, not twenty feet from the cres
cent line. Young Mule convulsively
throws his arms in the air and lurches
backwards. Again the merciless volley,
and bo collapses His pony plunges
headlong. Dead! Stone-dead they lit,
still lashed to the bodies of their
twitching ponies.
Again the bugle calls. The light Is
over. Squaws begin their walling
Their young braves hare died fighting..
They are heroes.
Many of the~fflfls~ln the Alps wear
trousers.
A very comprehensive bill has been
Introduced in the House ot Representa
tives by Congressman Steenerson of
Minnesota, who, if he can push his
measure to enactment into a law, will
be deserving of the praise of not only
this but future generations. His bill
is a practical extension of the old
homestead idea, or rather, perhaps, an
application, to the vast’areas of our
swamp lands, of the idea embodied in
the national irrigation law.
There are in the neighborhood of
100 million acres of Bwamp lands In
the United States, some 70 million of
which have been surveyed, the great
bulk of which would make splendid
farms. If the excess of water were
drained off.
The Steenerson bill provides for the
beginning of the work of reclamation
of these huge areas. The measure la
framed after the irrigation law; it pro
vides that the receipts from the sales
of public lands in the non-irrigation
states shall constitute a “drainage
fund" to be expended by the Govern
ment in great drainage works, and
further, that the cost of such drainage;
Representative Halvcr Steenerson ol Minnesota
l’o do this the Service has Its own farm
and soli experts. Some of the Irriga
tion projects have distinctively drain
age features, in fact are almost as
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