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r A NEW GOULD BABY.
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. NO RACE SUICIDE IN FAMILY OF
GREA T FINANCIER AND RAIL
ROAD MAGNATE.
Married Life of Son of Jay Gould and
Wife Described as Ideally Happy-
Regardless of Great Wealth, They
Live Very Simple,
The Goulds have bees married 20
years. It was 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
dim, who was a member of Augustin
Daly’s theatrical company. The match
was regarded as ideal in all respects.
Miss Kingdon’s position socially and
professionally was assured. Her heri-
MGS. GEORGE J. GOULD.
A MOTHER OP SEVFN
tags tvas undeniably suitable for an
alliance with the chief heir of one of
ihe 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 are nowhere persons of 1
their means who are less in the public
prints than the Goulds. Mrs. Gould
cares little for society, as most per
sons accept the term, but is found of
entertaining the congenial men and
women who compose their set.
THE ISCUBATOR liABY.
Story of How Two Women Struggled
'or Its Possession.
The tiny little infant who reposed
in the incilbator 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
jomen 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.
u “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 back door and sought
refuge in a college fraternity house
nearby and begged the boys to help
her. It wa:-: then nearly o’clock, and
the parents of one of the boys, a red
headed stat. youngster, were expect
ed to be on Santa Fe train No. 6 en
route to Kansas City, and this boy
had a hack in readiness to drive him
to the train. The boys promptly raised
/a. purse of $25 to get some clothes for
Wc\t Ufamitar.
Mrs. Bleakeley and the baby, bundled
her into the hack, and took her to the
Santa Fe 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 eame 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. Kay,
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
frat. boy, and in his dilemma the lat-
BRIGHT CHILDREN.
ter submitted the matter to him of how
to get Mrs. Bleakeley and the baby
across from the Santa Fe to the Rock
Inland train, which might be 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 go 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 on 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. hoy’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 his wife, and on
Saturday was in Moline, under the pro
tection of that court’s decree.
“The whole thing was ludicrously
simple, ami 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 final success.”
The red-headed college fraternity boy
was Eustice Smith, son of Senator
Smith.
Eagle Quill tor Statehood Dill.
President Roosevelt will sign the
Statehood bill with a pen made from a
quill plucked from an Oklahoma eagle’s
I wing.
When Charles Hunter, the newly ap-
I pointed clerk of the district court at
Oklahoma, was in Washington some
dav-s ago, the President promised to
I give him the pen which be would use
l in signing the Statehood bill. Mr.
Hunter went home and had a pen made
from an eagle’s quill.
A Great Hunter.
His brand new gun was “hammerless,”
His powder, too, was what
Is known as “smokeless”, and we guess
That he had “hitless” shot.
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 dur
ing their early existence.
The largest of telescopes Is the 36-
inch equatorial called the Universe
Discoverer, at the Lick Observatory on
Mount Hamilton, a 4000-foot peak of
the Monte Diablo range in California.
MOUNT VERNON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1906.
RODE TO THEIR DEATH,
HEROIC CHARGE OF TWO CHEY
ENNE INDIANS AGAINST FIVE
TROOPS OF CAVALRY.
A Tragic Romance of the Tepee
Repetition of the Days of Chivalry-
Mesh and Blood Against a Hail of
I eaden Bullets.
BY W. M. WOUSTCR.
About fifty miles north of the Big
j Horn Mountains, and forty miles south
from the Yellowstone River, iu 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 aro
now attached to the Tongue River
Agency.
The men are tall, well-built, brave;
aud their women are proverbially
chaste. With the disappearance of the
game and the decadence of inter-tribal
warring, the young bravos have had
little or no opportunity to show their
prowess.
In the summer of 1890, two young
men—Head Chief and Y'ouug Mule —
who had failed to find favor with the
maidens of their choice, took to tho
war-path to wiu distinction and wives.
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 had
been missing from his home for nearly
a month.
The Murder of a Sheep Herder.
The returned braves were question
ed. They openly admitted going on
the war-path and killing the herder. A
detachment of the two troops of caval
ry stationed at 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 Ameican Horse then
arose and said his warriors would
fight if the soldiers attempted to take
the young braves alive; and that their
final message was:
“Select the place of meeting, and we
w’ill 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
blazed like a rocket In the southern
sky. And far to the north, signal fires
were seen.
Gathering of the Warriors.
All 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 j
southward along the misty mountain I
trail. It was the decision for peace or
for war. As the first rays of the sun
gilded the Indians’ tepees, he drew j
rein and dismounted at the lodge of!
American Horse. The challenge of tho
two braves to fight the soldiers had
been accepted—to fight at the Agency
at set of sun.
Directly runners were off to inter
cept the fleeing squaws and children.
The warriors clamored for a fight with
the troops but the chief refused. The
council, he said, had spoken with
straight, not crooked, tongues.
Slowly the chill September morning
warmed to amythest afternoon. An
eagle wheeled high above the hills,
which formed an ampitheatje. In the
center, or arena, were the Agency
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 the
circle of hills. They would see the
fight.
1” With Hearts of Iron.
Forth from their refuge in the Wolf
Mountains, rode Head Chief and Young
Mule, painted and armed for war. Un
-1 guarded they rode. Still was there time
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 Us
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 of
birds winging southward. They
thought of the maidens they loved; of
ths war-path: of the 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
jto the west arid drew rein. The sun
I was almost down. For an instant they
gazed; then pointed to the earth, and
raised their arms in supplication to
the Great Spirit —wheeling, they head
ed east at a gallop.
Presently they pass some warriors
who promptly signal their approach to
the waiting Indian spectators. Now
they gallop to the very crest of a high
hill, perhaps five hundred yards west
of the Agency buildings. There they
' atop In full view of the soldiers.
A bugle sound*. The troopers mount
and move to a dry creek-tied about fifty
yards from the Agency. They taka
position in the form of a crescent, and
sit with loaded carbines unslung,
waiting.
At the top of tho long steep hill In
their front, silhouetted against tho
flaming sky. sit the two slender braves
on their ponies. Coolv 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
fire at the Agency. Tlielr signal!
Into the 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 bill they
come, full charge, shouting tho savage
Cheyenne war-cry and firing aa 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 com©, apparently un
scathed, working their rifles like mud.
sfd
They seem to spring to meet the boo
ondiiwful 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
Durst, like devils incarnate. Some of
tho 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 bis
saddle. His pony goes down with a
sickening thud, riddled by a dozen
balls, not twenty feet from tho cres
cent, line. Young Mule convulsively
throws his arms in the air and lurches
backwards. Again the merciless volley,
and he collapses. His pony plunges 1
headlong. Dead! Stone-dead they lie,
still lashed to the bodies of their
twitching ponies.
Again the bugle calls. The fight Is
over. Squaws begin their walling.
Their young braves have died fighting.
They are heroes.
Many of the girls in tho Alps wear
trousers.
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FARMING THE SWAMPS.
PLAN TO DRAIN MILLIONS OF
ACRES OF WOR TIILESSMARSH
FOR NE W FA RMS.
Representative Steenerson Has Bill
to Provide a Government Lund 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 lauds has been
provided for; but no definite move has
been made ns yet to convert tho enor
mous areas of government swamp
land 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 ono day bo converted
into farms.
A very comprehensive bill has been
introduced In the House of Representa
tives by Congressman Steenerson of
Minnesota, who, if ho can push his
measure to enactment Into a law, will
be deserving of the praise of not only
thi« but future generations. Ills bill
Is a practical extension of the old
homestead Idea, or rather, perhaps, an
application, to the vast areas of our
swamp lands, of (he Idea embodied in
tho national Irrigation law.
There are in the neighborhood of
100 million acres of swamp lands In
tho United Stales, some 70 million of
which have been surveyed, the great.
Du Ik 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 Is
framed after the irrigation law; It pro- !
vldes 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-1
merit In great drainage works, and
further, that the cost of such drainage]
PART TWO.
shall ho prc-rated among tho land
benefited and paid back by tho settler*
into the ••fund,” to he used over again
for additional reclamation work.
Would Create Thousands °f Homes'
This plan of developing tho internal
resources of the country and making
homes of waste places, is splendid in
its scope, and appears to ho entirely
practicable and profitable. Take for
instan >e, the single example of the
swamp hinds of the Kankakee River
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 reclaimtl
through expensive private drainage
works, when they have become worth
sloo. and $ 1 SO. 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 $lO. an acre.
The same can he said of the lands of
the Red River Valley in .Minnesota.
These include the finest grain and
farm lands In tho 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 a* stem of drainage pro
vided. These extensive systems, hows
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 tho ir
rigation work now being done by that
branch of 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 lie borne by the owner of tho
land and no settler can have drainage
provided for more than lfiO acres, thus
Insuring tho division of tho tracts into
small farms which must he 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 an 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,
Bcorescntatlvo Mulvcr Stcenerton of Minnesota
Vo do tills tliu Service* has its own farm
and soil experts. Some of ths irriga
tion projects have distinctively drain
age features, in fact are almost as
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