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INJUN’S HEART GETS BAD
CAUSES OF THE USUAL YEARLY
OUTBREAKS IN THE WEST.
' TUe Ghost ai\d Wav Diini’PS Potent Cauaoa
of the ltod Men's Uprising-While
Smoking tlie Pipe of Fellowship In¬
dian Orators Arouse the Warlike Spirit.
It is the custom, upon the occasion
■ of each Indian uprising at any of the
Western agencies, to assign some
special cause, differing according to
the circumstances, for the outbreak.
Iu the case of the Cheyennes, who
have been making trouble at the
Tongue River Agency in Montana, it
is said that the disturbance originated
in the murder of a sheep herder by
the Indians because they feared that
he would inform against them for
cattle stealing. There can usually be
found, of course, some incident upon
which to fasten the outbreak, but the
real cause of the Indian troubles lies
deeper than this.
At certain times, as the red man
liimself says, “Injun’s declares heart gets bad.”
Very often, the New York
Tribune, this occurs in the spring,
wheu the fresh, new grass lias put the
ponies into perfect condition and when
the mild weather has caused the ponies’
masters to shake off their winter
lethargy. Then the aforesad “bad”
feeling manifests itself, and the In¬
dians desire nothing so much as to go
forth and kill. The killing of human
beings would be preferable, as furnish¬
ing more excitement, hut hunting, if it
is good enough, offers a substitute
which may be accepted. Thus, as
long as the buffaloes lasted they pro¬
vided a menus of outlet for the Indian’s
surplus destructive energy,’ but now
this resource has disappeared and
there is no other legitimate hunting to
compare with it. So, when the coun¬
cils and the dances have aroused every
particle of warlike spirit in tlie hearts
of the young braves, what more nat¬
ural than that it should be found easy
to pick quarrels, and that the thirst
for the white man’s blood, once ac-
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The ghost dances and the war dances
held in the spring are always more
effective than those at other times of
the year. The Indians are pleased at
the thought of being able to hold them
out of doors again, after the close con¬
finement which the cold of a Dakota
or Montana winter enforces. An extra
amount of vigor is infused into the
savage and grotesque contortions of
the dancers, and the spectators gaze
as if they could not see enough of these
movements, which are suggestive to
them of the highest type of valiant
dariug.
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ended, when the warriors are seated
around in a circle on the ground, that
the fighting desire is worked up most
surely and powerfully among them.
The pipe of good followship is first
passed in silence, each Indian taking
only two or three pttffs, and then haud-
ing it on to his next neighbor. Jus!
here it is interesting to note that the
red man does not smoke after the man¬
ner of his white brother. In the whole
circuit which the pipe makes its mouth¬
piece is never wet. The Indian merely
lays the end of the stem against his
lower lip and, with his mouth partly
■open, draws a deep breath. Remov-
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A GROUP OF SIOUX GHOST DANCERS.
ing the pipe, he exhales this smoke,
and then perhaps lays the stem to his lip
for a second puff, but never does he put
the mouthpiece into his month, in the
common white man’s fashion. If asked
to smoke a peace-pipe after a white
man he first wipes off the end of the
pipestem where it has been in the pre¬
vious smoker’s mouth.
To return to the circle which is
formed after the dance, ^the smoking,
as was said, takes place in silence.
Then some noted warrior of the band
rises and strides into the centre of the
group. Wheu he has fixed the atten-
tion of all, he begins to recite the brave
deeds which he has accomplished in
war, illustrating his remarks with a
most picturesque variety story’to of gestures,
and certainly allowing his lose
nothing in the telling. As he talks,
the eyes of the young braves glow, and
their features work with excitement
and a desire to emulate such achieve¬
ments. The fact that the Indian
habitually represses his emotions need
lead no one to doubt their strength,
and the amount of pent-up energy
which is expressed in the attitudes of
these young braves is enough to make
the civilized spectator shudder as he
thinks of the savage expression it
might find.
At the conclusion of the speaking af¬
ter all the famous men of the band
have recited similar experiences to
those of the first orator, the excitement
is intense. Then it is, and sometimes
for many days afterward, that the
Indians are to be dreaded, for they
are ready to seize upon almost any
pretext to pick a quarrel with the
whites. It is the opinion of many
people experienced in Indian affairs
that nearly all of the difficulties arise
from this uncontrollable fighting ardor
of the young men of the tribes. They
have heard their fathers tell so often
the glories of killing the white men
twenty years ago, at the time of the
Custer massacre and other noted fights,
that they feel as if they must also
achieve something of the sort or for¬
feit a reputation for bravery.
An Indian face which is the very
type of cruelty and cunning is that of
the Sioux Low Dog, here reproduced.
His nature does not belie his name,
either, for he committed, several years
ago, a particularly horrible murder
upon a United States mail carrier.
The unfortunate man was going to
Fort Buford, on the line between
North Dakota and Montana, and near
the junction of the Yellowstone and
Missouri rivers, when Low Dog at¬
tacked him. Not
der and the mere killing, the savage
Sioux resorted to the most dreadful
species of Indian torture, and his vic¬
tim, though still breathing when
found, was mutilated and his flesh was
burning in several places. Owing to
a not uncommon conflict between the
civil and military authorities, Low
Dog was never brought to punishment.
A United States Marshal came down
from Helena with a warrant for the
murderer’s arrest, but as the officer
commanding at the reservation re¬
garded this as an infringement upon
the military rights, nothing could be
accomplished.
Low Dog is now living at one of the
agencies in Montana, and has rather
subsided since this conspicuous
achievement in his career. Such a
deadlock as the foregoing, between
the Army and the State officers seems
difficult to avoid, judging by the fre-
W ivitli whieh it has occurred
White Bull, whose portrait is like-
wise given, is a well-known leader. It
was his band, numbering 125, that es-
caped from the Tongue River Agency
and betook themselves to the hills on
the Tongue River, near Ashland.
There are many points of similarity
between the Cheyennes and Sioux,
and they have not infrequently joined
on tlie warpath. It is often stated
that the Indians who took part in the
battle of the Uittle Big Horn were all
Sioux, but it has bv*a been proved that
they were assisted considerable
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band of Cheyenne..
MOVING A BIG CHIMNEY.
Tall Structure Conveyed Nearly 1000 Feet
Over llougli Hoads.
There are two ways of moving a
chimney. One way, and that usually
followed, is to tear it down carefully
and rebuild it in the desired place.
This utilizes only the brick and means
a great deal of labor, The other
method of moving a chimney is to
handle it much as a house would be
handled and to move it bodily and
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TALIi CHIMNEY SUCCESSFULLY MOVED
950 FEET.
without tearing it down, by putting it
on skids.
This latter method was followed by
a firm of contractors of Binghampton,
N. Y., in moving a chimney for the
Manhanset Improvement Company at
Manhansett, N. Y. The chimney is
eighty-five feet high and seven feet
square at the base. It weighs nearly
one hundred tons, and yet it was
moved a distance of 950 feet over
rough roads and up and down steep
grades without injury or accident.
But six men were required to do the
work. One horse attached to a wind¬
lass furnished the needed power.
The accompanying picture, from
a photograph reproduced in the Scien¬
tific American, shows the style of
braces used and the sort of sled
on which the chimney was moved.
The skids were well greased on the
bottom, and the rate of progress was
so fast that but nine day3 elapsed from
the time work was begun until the
chimney was securely located in its
new foundation.
Bag Carts in Street Cleaning.
Kansas City will adopt another of
Colonel Waring’s New York ideas in
street cleaning. Along with the white
brigade and clean streets, the Street
Department will have bag carts to be
used by the street sweepers. Bag
carts are something new in the West.
They are little two-wheeled push carts
arranged to hold a large jute bag. The
street cleaner deposits sweepings to
the bag as dirt is gathered from filled the
pavement, and when the bag is
ties it up and lays it on the curb to be
hauled away and emptied. Each cart
is provided with half q dozen bags.
They answer the purpose better than
the little dump carts, doing away with
dust and facilitating the cleaning
work.—Kansas City Star.
Don’t believe that every one else in
the world is hapnier than you.
THE PARIS HOLOCAUST BROUGHT
UP IN NEW LIGHT.
SAID TO HIVE BEEN PREMEDITATED
Positive Proof Has Been Found Pointing
to a Dastardly Plot of An¬
archistic Origin.
The Chicago Post of Thursday says:
“Acording to a story which has
reached Chicago from Pains via Wash-
ington, the terrible holocaust which i
wiped out over one hundred lives at 1
the French capital May 4th was the i
work of anarchists thirsting for re- I
venge on the upper classes of France,
“It is claimed that while the official
rounding inquiry into the catastrophe circumstances little snr- | j
the threw
light on the cause of the fire, the secret
service department is working on a
clew that points to an anarchistic con-
spiracy of stupendous magnitude.
“It is said the Paris detectives have
not only satisfied themselves that an-
archists were at the bottom of the
awful crime, but that the leaders fled
to America as soon as they had seen
with what frightful success it had
been executed.
“It is also asserted that several per¬
sons are under arrest in Paris under
suspicion of knowing more about- it
than they care to tell ;
A member of the French legation
at Washmgtoi is said to be authority
for the story.”
A Washington special says the offi-
cials of the French embassy there re-
fuse to impart information concern-
ing any connection that the anarchists
may have had with the holocaust in
early part of May.
Mr. Lefevre, the first secretary of
the embassy, said that there had been
no communication received from his
government looking to the apprehen-
sion of the leaders of the outrage "W'ho'
it is said have fled to America.
This, he thinks, would have been
the case had it been believed such
persons Ld„,n. were engaged in the affair
t» tUi. M. L.I.™,
was in Paris at the time of the disaster
and remained there for several days.
Immediate!v immediately afterwards alt,.rvards there there were were in- m
timahons in some of the newspapers
sources, but tney soon ceased. 7
case which according 8 to investigations ad
showed that the fire was due to an
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HAVOC WROUGHT BY IIAIL.
TJntold Damage Done at Topeka—Animal.
Killed, and People Injured.
The worst hailstorm known in the
history of Kansas struck Topeka short¬
ly after 6 o’clock Thursday night.
Hailstones weighing twelve and six¬
teen ounces stripped the trees of their
foliage, smashed window panes on ev¬
ery hand, including the finest plate
glass store fronts, cut down telegraph
and telephone wires, riddled awnings
and inflicted unprecedented damage
throughout the city.
Dogs were struck in the streets and
instantly killed. Horses were knocked
to their knees. Runaways occurred
throughout the city. When the fury
of the storm had passed dead birds
were found everywhere.
A heavy wind and terrible lightning
accompanied the storm. • had
Topeka looked like a city that
withstood a siege of war guns. There
are not a dozen buildings in the town
that are not almost windowless and
many roofs are caved in.
The damage wrought can better be
imagined when it is known that the
hailstones ranged in size from that of
a hen’s egg to an ostrich’s egg and that
thirty mimntes after the storm one
hailstone was picked up which meas¬
ured fourteen inches in circumference.
Surgeons were kept busy dressing
the wounds of persons injured in the
storm and reports of injuries cantinue
to be received.
The damage cannot be estimated,
but it will amount to thousands.
Window glass rose to a premium and
three carloads were at once ordered
from Kansas City.
SAYRE HOLDS HIS JOB.
Alabama Supreme Court Sustains Gov¬
ernor Jones.
The supreme court of Alabama
Thursday affirmed the opinion of the
circuit court of Montgomery county
in the contest for judge of the Winter city
court between Judges J. G.
and A. D. Sayre. This continues
Judge Sayre in office.
It will be remembered that when
Judge Arrington died in 1896, Gov-
ernor Oates appointed Judge Winter
to the vacancy. When the general
assembly met in February, Governor
Johnson held that thore was a vacancy
and lie appointed judge sustained Sayres. this
The circuit court
action.
WILL NOT PURCHASE CUBA.
Senator Hanna Gives Denial To a Well
Circulated Rumor.
A Cleveland, Ohio, telegram says:
Senator M. A. Hanna was asked Friday
morning whether there was any truth
in the telegraphic statement that Pres¬
ident McKinley is considering a
whereby the freedom of Cuba is to be
purchased from Spain for $100,000,000,
the amount to be secured by Cuba.
“The statement is not authoritative,
said he.
WIFE USED SHOT GUN.
Fromlnent Cttlirn of Kuyrtta County, G«.,
Fatally Wounded,
A terrible tragedy occurred Thurs-
day afternoon in Fayette county, Ga.
The Hon. Enoch G. Jones, a prorni-
nent and popular citizen of the county
and a man well connected throughout
the state, is dying as the result of a
load of shot being fired into his head
by his wife.
Jones, who was told that he would
die, made a statement. He said that
he and his wife bad some slight difli-
culty and his wife, in a fit of anger,
seized a shotgun and fired the contents
into the top of his head.
The desperate woman, fearing that
a mob might wreak summary venge-
anee upon her for her terrible and rash
deed, hastened to Fairburn, five miles
distant, and gave herself up to the
sllpriff of Campbell county. She said
? he wan l« d protection from the Jones
)0 J S - sheriff was told that the
boys might lynch Mrs. Jones if they
found her and he decided to leave at
once wlth the woman for Atlanta,
The sheriff left hurriedly on the
train Thursday evening for Atlanta
and Mrs. Jones will be kept in the
Fulton county jail until the matter can
be further investigated.
The shooting is a sensation of con¬
siderable magnitude oil account of the
partiw , being . we! ... known and - stand¬ A ,
so
ing so high in social and political life.
Mr. Jones is past sixty years of age
and Mrs, Jones is something over
fifty.
YETS HAVE MONSTER PARADE.
The CIo Scene . of the Be . Unlon at
Na.nviiie.
A Nasbville special says: Ten thou-
, * faced a beatin „ raiu and i
marched out Thursday moving in a
procession unprecedented £ in the annals
of the south ince the war It was a
c ij max ' to tbe g great reunion
At ■ ht t 0 old 80 i d j ers broke
ranks addre88 by f Genera i
Gord anJ the ea 8( attered to
tbeir different sta tes, not to meet
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m .° P " re8( l ue e '' er gl .T e ° |
the vetel ', an3 - Prom the time that i the
" arrlor fl S ,:re of Commander-m-Chief
;'in ,1 o*. “J Si
o 01imn u ^ 1 Jr. ft. e l iue s of
cr edraggled . soldiers brought up the
rear guard there were shouts which
)nade the waIls of tbe cit tremble> a8
the miles and miles of grim, scar-cov-
ered soldiers came by .
tne host swept Dy silently
^ ma ^ ° £ tha V ° teranS W6re Weep '
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Then again the 10,000 throats would
burst out with the rebel yell, which
would go down the line with an elec-
trie thrill.
CONGRESSMAN COOKE DIES.
Found Dead In Bed In a Washington
Hotel.
Congressmad Edward Dean Cooke
of Illinois,was found dead in his room
at the Cochran hotel at Washington
Thursday morning about 5 o’clock,
presumably from heart disease.
Mr. Cooke retired about 11 o’clock
Wednesday night apparently in perfect
health.
About 5 o’clock, a. m., tbe night
clerk w mt to Mr. Cooke’s room to in¬
quire for him. Mr. Cooke was dead,
and the physician who was summoned
immediately said he had apparently
been dead for several hours.
The members of the Illinois delega¬
tion were at once notified and took
charge of the body, which will be pre¬
pared for shipment to Chicago.
Mr. Cooke was a native of Iowa, and
was 48 years old. He was educated
in the public schools of Dubuque and
later graduated from the Columbian
university law school of Washington.
In 1882 he was elected to the Illinois
legislature and served on important
committees in that body.
He was elected to the 54th congress
from the “north side, ” or sixth Illinois
district,and then re-elected to the pres¬
ent congress.
Republics Form Union.
Advices from Honduras state that a
treaty for provisional union of five
republics of Central America has been
signed at Guatemmala.
A BAR TO EX-SENATORS.
Sir. Hale, of Maine, Surprises the Senate
With an Amendment.
Senator Hale, (Maine), came for¬
ward Thursday with a surprise in the
form of a proposed amendment to the
senate rule admitting to the privileges
of the floor of the senate only ex-sena¬
tors who are not interested in any
claim or in the prosecution of the
same or directly in any bill pending
in congress, and added to the text of
the proposed change the following:
“The purpose of the proposed
amendment is to prevent ex-senators
from enjoying the privileges of the
floor of the senate for the purpose of
urging or opposing claims or bills in
which they act as attorneys.”
NEW RAILROAD FOR GEORGIA.
Will Be Built In Dooly County By a Num-
ber of Capitalists.
The secretary of state of Georgia
has issued a charter for the Dooly
Southern Railway company,from Rich¬
mond to Invinville, a distance of 35
miles.
The incorporators are: Geo. W. Par¬
rott, Sr., Geo. W. Parrott, Jr., I. X.
Chenes, W. S. Thomson, Jacob Haas,
B. P. O’Neal, Wm. Scaudrett, W. B.
O’Neal. J. T. West and T. A. Scott.
UNION PACIFIC OIF CUSSED.
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Flr»t Stajin Toward lled««mlnK the Road
from Prior
A Washington special says: The sen-
nte committee on Pacific railroads Fri-
day agreed to report favorably the res-
olution introduced by Senator Harris,
of Kansas, expressing the sense that
the senate of the United States should
redeem the Union Pacific railroad from
prior liens and take steps to foreclose
the government mortgage,
The resolution was amended by the
addition of a provision at the instance
of Senator Morgan requesting the
President to suspend proceedings to
carry into effect the amendment al-
leged to have been made to sell the
interests of the United States in the
Union Pacific railroad and in the sink-
ing fund until further action of Con-
gress is had iu reference thereto,
The action of the committee was
unanimous. Senator Harris was au-
thonzed to make the report.
INDICATIONS atjavs np 01 IMPROVEMENT. ni 1ROVFMFNT
Treasury Department Has Heavy De¬
mand for Small Notes.
A Washington telegram states that
,, b ® treasury department, , , . within the
last week, received a considerable
number of requests for small notes in
unusually large quantities. This in¬
quiry was entirely unexpected, and is
confidently regarded by the treasury
officials as an indication of improving
business relations.
At least once a year the treasury
meets demands for small notes from
the west and south where they are
needed in the movement of crops.
Rarely, however, has the inquiry be¬
gun earlier than the tenth or the mid¬
dle of July, and, therefore, it is as¬
sumed that the call for notes of small
denominations is not in anticipation
o£ crop movement. It has become
so general, however, particularly in
the sout h, that the treasury officials
ascribe it to renewed activity iu gen-
eral business,
PRESIDENTIAL NOM1NATIONS.
Senate Conflrmt » Nuininr«f CbMximr***: Xnmei Sa*-
The president Friday sent the foi-
lowing nominations to the senate:
To he consuls—Frank C. Denison,
0 f Vermont, at Woodstock, New Bruns-
wick; F rftnk Dillingham, of Califor-
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rhe 8enate m executive session con-
firmed - , the following nominations:
AlbertC.Tliompson,ofOhio;Alex-
ander and " ^ c Botkin of Montana and
’ Texas to be
criminal and neual laws of the
Illinois; Walter P. Johnson, from the
-ortUern district of Georgia; Addison
Davis James, for the district of Ken-
tucky, also a number of consuls,
CORNELL CREW WINS RACE.
Five Lengths Ahead of Yale at the Close of
the Contest.
The great ’varsity race at Pough¬
keepsie Friday afternoon was the most
exciting ever witnessed on American
waters.
At 3:45 o’clock the crews were off
with Cornell leading slightly, and at
end of the first mile Cornell was first,
Harvard second and Yale third. Yale
was gaining on Harvard. Yale fought
gamely from last place. Harvard’s
strong stroke was telling on Cornell.
At the end of the second mile Cor¬
nell was first; Yale had taken the sec¬
ond place with Harvard third.
Cornell won by five lengths; Yale
second, Harvard third, Time, 20
minutes and 34 seconds.
TERRELL HUDSON HANGED.
Expiated Crime of Murder Upon the
Callows of Decatur, Ga.
Terrell Hudson, the DeKalb county,
Ga., murderer, was hanged in Deca¬
tur Friday for the murder of Seaborn
Maleorn, another negro. The drop
fell at 11:46.
His neck was broken, and in six
minutes his pulse had ceased to beat.
The body was allowed to swing 12
minutes before being pronounced
dead, and at 12.01 it was cut down
and turned over to the dead man’s re¬
lations.
Hudson died with a remarkable de¬
gree of fortitude, considering his ter¬
rible state of mind before the hour of
execution was announced. He made
no confession of guilt upon the gal¬
lows.
A QUESTION OF BOUNDARY
May Result in tine Finding: of Gold in Oak
Point Island.
A special from Duluth, Minn., says:
Gold has been discovered on Oak
Poinv island in Rainy lake, and the
discovery will undoubtedly lead to an
international boundary dispute be¬
tween Great Britain and the United
States.
According to maps of the geological
survey, the island is in Canadian ter¬
ritory, but according to the \yording
of the treaty of Ghent, the island is a
part of the state of Minnesota. '
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Canada has issued patents to several
valuable mining locations on the isl¬
and, and vigorous protests are being
sent to Washington by prospectors.
CAN SHIP CUBAN TOBACCO.
An Order From Spanish Government That
Pleases Americans.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
has information through Third Assist¬
ant Secretary of State Gridler, at
Washington, to the effect that United
States Minister Taylor has telegraphed
from Madrid that an order has been
sent by cable to Havana allowing ship¬
ments of all tobacco purchased in Cu¬
ba by Americans.
