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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1906)
MAGAZINE SECTION. r A NEW GOULD BABY. \ . 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. 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Minn., MO; and 111 ernl offer.. «UK PRIZES have gladdened the bemrta of &** A S 'S?vfe M Si?- (S?hUVi« ; wSi •“Ct'oriAT. oet yon, name on onr IM and win . PdM Forty fifth Htrect, Sew York fity, K. Y.. >2O. Wme^lalnly^^bb^^,,,^,^,,^^— ————————^ I tubt* nnpglNS PUBLISHING COMPANYp I 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 i (Joi)UiJ u*ci ou next i>as«.)
