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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- « -**■ W'J a i X fc* mm. V t A ... 7 ‘/A ? t 'll »ifj, :■ A ■ i f, 1 V r i 'Ur now DOG. (A Sioux with a very bad record.) quired, should often take a long time to quern 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. But it is perhaps after the dance is y) .V ^ ■ S3 m T ;>■ s ex A J WHITE BULL. (A Cheyenne leader prominent in the recent disturbances.) 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- \ & 1 Wm v -j 1 ti- IPs 1 H iv; Jj i : i 1 ' 1 & m $ ; i#f - r± v - I Rill ife* /j a 9 KBlMl km Ll H a § i; w WM j 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 ' 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 w? 4 & ' M/H «vV ■32- • 0 0 ft nlnV 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 id 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 • , , ,, . - ., a °' nnnal 1 , 11 athenu 1 , 1 lle r • wlli e meet " lc *. “„i *1 tlanta f, lg 1 “ « « l 6 P* rp c ? 18 A 11101 'J. n in ^ as | > ” ,, st iet . 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 ' lu s- 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. — 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- »»• *> N™ 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. ' • 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.