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- V :1 7 it ~~~1 he __ * 4 * 0 C, WAAZINE ECTION- ~XTTNT~TCDCVDC~ PAGES ITO4 ~?-~,* ~. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL ii, ~o6. ESTABLISHED 1344 j ______ _________ ____ __________ jA NEW GOULD BABY$ RACE SUICIDE IN FAMILY ( REA T FINANCIER AND RAIZ ROAD MAGNATE. arred Life of Son ot Jay Gould a: Wife Described as Ideally Happy Regardless of Great Wealth, Th< -ive Yry Simple. ulds have been m-,rried t was in 1886 whpn the el son O'.iyGouli, theD aimost as u Down amd indeterminate a factor nanCe as either of his two brother Howard aid Frank, is at present- pr vided the town with a momentary se sation by :wedding Miss Edith Kin donwho as a member of August Daly's th trical company. The mat< -was regar ed as ideal in all respeci Niss Kingdbn'4 position socially am :Professionally wv assured. Her he" MRS. GEOI A MOTHER -OF SEVI was undeniably suitable for a ce with the chief heir of one o wealthiest men of the day. Pe: ly she was the embodiment of tiful, gracious, vivacious, wel and mentally dowered America eal is a hackneyed and great] word, but it is the only or aptly and satisfactorily describe life and companionship of tb ds in the two decades that hav sed since they stood at the alta Gould is pre-eminently a dome woman. Her home and her sta i boys and handsome, spright] -are her first consideration, I mon with her husband. Regardless of their great wealt1 e Goulds live their lives simply. Mr uld has artistic tastes developed an imtivated along rational lines, an ese she indulges to the top of h< nt. Mr. Gould is in fullest symp -,hy with her inclinations in this d *rection and shares them with he Probably there are nowhere persons<4 their means who are less in the publ prints than the Goulds. Mrs. Goul cares little for society, as most pe sons accept the term, but is found entertaining the congenial men ax women who compose their set. TH IN 1CUBAT OR BABY. Storyof How Two Women Struggle for Its Possession. The tiny little Infant who reposi in the incubator at the St. Louis Fa has, since the close of that expositia attracted more attention than it d during the entire time that it was t1 object of interest of the sightseers. At the close of the Exposition, to women sought possession of the chi] each claiming it to be her own. Eai secured a writ giving her the custo< -of the child through decrees of diffE ent courts, but Mrs. Bleakley, who h, at first been awarded the care of tl infa't through the ruling of the la - t .Moline, Illinois, took the law in er own hands when the court at La: rence, Kansas, decided against he ~Accrding to his own story, Senat -Fred D. Smith, of Kinsley, played Simportant role in the case when t) mother of the "incubator baby" i cently disappeared suddenly with tl baby from Lawrence. "When Mrs. Bleakley left the cou room at tLawrence after the decisi< against her," he stated, "and return' to her mother's house she was near -frantic. In mnere desperation si Ifled from the back door and soug Arefuge in a college fraternity hou nearby and begged the boys to he Nher. It was then nearly 6 o'clock, ai - the parents of one of the boys, a re hea'ded frat. youngster, were expet ed to be on Santa 1'e train No. 6 route to Kansas City, and this b had a hack in readiness te dive hi to'the train. The boys peme rate ~a-puise of $M to get some eseas I Mrs. Bleakeley and the baby, bundled her into the back, and took her to the Santa Fe train. They were compelled to wait a few minutes, and while they F 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 d ley was placed on the Pullman with out attracting a-ay attention and put in charge of the f rat. boy's parents. "The parents were simply ordered to 0 see Mrs. Bleakeley through Kansas City d- safely, and, like good modern parents, they obeyed. in "The difficulty lay in the Union depot s, at Kansas City, where it was expected 0- a detention telegram would be await t- ing them. The Sheriff of one of the g- largest counties in Illinois, J. H. Ray, n Wills county, was on the train, a man h as big in proportion as his own county, S. big of body and big of heart. He made d the acquaintance of the father of the I- frat. boy, and in his dilemma the lat GE J. GOULD. :N BIGKT CHILDREN. a ter submitted the matter to him of how f to get Mrs. Bleakeley and the baby across from the Santa Fe to the Rock a Island train, which might be late, with [- out observation. The Sheriff prompt a ly overruled that plan and it was agreed that Mrs. Bleakeley should re y main in the Pullman drawing room e while in Kansas City, and go through s to the Sheriff's home town, where he e would put her on the train for Moline. e As a precaution the Sheriff added 'Mrs.' in front of the name on a bench 5- warrant with which he had been on a - fruitless errand to Colorado, and placed Y Mrs. Bleakeley under arrest, techni E cally at least. "When the train reached Kansas City , the frat. boy's father went out and 5. bought a nursing bottle and hot milk d and other necessaries for the b~aby, d which had been left behind in the r hurry of departure, while the Sheriff L stood guard at the door of the draw i- ng room, a massive and satisfying pro r- tector. >f "No one appeared, and the woman *C and baby went on without hindrance. d She stopped one night at the Sheriff's r- home, cared for by his wife, and on )f Saturday was in Moline, under the pro d 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 d: part in the final success." -The red-headed college fraternity boy d was Eustice Smith, son of Senator ir Smith. ie Eagle Quill for Statehood Bill. President Roosevelt will sign the r Statehood bill with a pen made from a d, quill plucked from an' Oklahoma eagle's ah wing. Ly When Charles Hunter, the newly ap r- pointed clerk of the district court at td Okahoma, was in Washington some e days ago, the President promised to1 w give him the pen which he would use to in signing the Statehood bill. Mr. " Hunter went home and had a pen made - fro'm an eagle's quill. e. Great Hunter, e- His brand new gun was "hammerless," ie Hi~s powder, too, was what Is known as "smokeless", and we guess rt That he had "hitless" shot. dThe canals which form a network throughout a greater part of China 1abound in fish. The rice-ields, which iare supplied with water from these se canals, make Ideal hatching places for Ip the eggs and for the young fry dar-1 d ing their early existence. mn The largest of teleseopes is the 36 y inch equatorial called the Universe m Diseoverer, at the Lick Observatory on Id Mount Hadnlton, a 4000-foot pea-a of .. th Mo.+e Uabl ane In California. RODE TO TEIR DETH, HEROIC CHARGE OF TWO CHEf= ENNE INDIANS AGAINST FIVE t TROOPS OF CAVALRY. f 0 A Tragic Romance of the Tepee Repetition of the Days of Chivalry Flesh and Blood Against a Hail of L eaden Bullets. S BY W. X. WOOSTM. About fifty miles north of the Big Horn Mountains, and forty miles south from tne Yellowstone River, in south eastern Montana, live the tribe of fear. less Northern Cheyenne Indians. A few iecades ago they ranged the great: plains, following the buffalo, but are C now attached to the Tongue River r Agency. The men are tall, well-built, brave; b and their women are proverbially q chaste. With the disappearance of the t 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 had failed to find favor with the maidens of their choice, took to the war-path to win 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 -y 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 iver the murderers. Two Moons, the war chief, battle carred and old, pleaded for the young braves, offering a ransom of thirty ponies for the dead herder. This was declined. Chief Ameican Horse then trose and said his warriors would fight if the soldiers attempted to take the young braves alive; and that their T inal message was: 0 "Select the place of meeting, and we N will come and die in your sight, fight- a ng the soldiers." I The council was dismissed, and the s1 Indians returned in the evening to b their lodges in the hills south of the t Agency. t Twilight fell. Soon a flaming arrow V blazed like a rocket in the southern b: sky. And far to the north, signal fires r' were seen. Gathering of the WarIors' s4 All night armed warriors, hideously b painted, hurried to the circle of hills C commanding the Agency, while lights t! burned late in the valley below, where b. the agency officers were consulting. al In the crimson dawn, watching war- h, riors saw a mounted Indian police si leave the Agency and take his way t southward along the misty mountain rail. It was the decision for peace or o, or war. As the first rays of the sun TI ilded the Indians' tepees, he drew T1 rein and dismounted at the lodge of American Horse. The challenge of the ti wo braves to fight the soldiers had een accepted-to fight a~t the Agency t set of sun. Directly runners were off to inter ept 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, tongbes. Slowly the chill September morning warmed to amythest afternoon. An eagle wheeled high above the hills, which formed an ampitheatre. 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. E~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 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 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 of birds winging southward. They thought of the maidens they lovedt of the 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 to the west and drew rein. The sun was almost down. For an instant they gazed; then pointed to the earth, and raised their arins 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 stop in full view of the sohiiers. * A bugle sounds. The troopers mnount nd move to a dry creek-bed out fity ,ards from the Agency. They take iosition in the form of a crescent, and it with loaded carbines unslung, maiting. At the top of the long steep hill in heir front, silhouetted against the la-ning sky, sit the two slender braves in their ponies. Cooly they lash them elres to their saddles. Raising their 'ifles high above their heads, they hr.ke them at the troops and begin a hrill song of defiance. Suddenly they Ire at the Agency. Their signal! Into the Jaws of Death. A bugle blows. In an instant they a.unch their ponies, straight as arrow ro :n the bow, at the center of the cres ent of soldiers. Down the hill they ome, full charge, shouting the savage hEyenne war-cry and firing as they ide. A. bugle blast! and a withering volley la::es forth from five hundred guns. till the ringing war yell. On through ie smoke they come, apparently un calied, working their idles like Imad. hey seem to spring to meet the seo ad awful crash and glare of the guns. :ot yet down? Impossible! No flesh ad blood could withstand such a fire! ito and through the . columns of irinking horses and men in blue they urst, like devils incarnate. Some of ie horses reel and go down with tpxe -oopers. But instantly the cavalrymen hirl and give the swaying flying raves another deadly volley at close Lnge. Head Chief reels frightfully In is iddle. His pony goes down with a kening thud, riddled by a dozen ills, not twenty feet from the cres mt line. Young Mule convulsively irows his arms in the air and lurches ekwards. Again the merciless volley, ad he collapses. His pony plunges eadlong. Dead! Stone-dead they lie, :111 lashed to the bodies of their vitching ponies. Again the bugle calls. The fight is rer. Squaws begin their wailing. heir young. braves have died fighting. hey are heroes. Many of the giIh i lie lps wear' musers. 1I1 CAS IOther Prizes are Civer IN CASH PRIZES WI FREE to the persons Arrange the 511letters printed in the centre gro citiesof the United states. Can yon do it' Larg' bielow. to those who send in the neatest solut o May 15. First Prize, $30.00 In 825.0O In Gold. Third Prize, $15.( Prize, $10.00 in Gold. Five P'rizes e Prizes of $2.G0 each. 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Court Uy IrStserwee A very comprehensive bill has been introduced in the House of Represent& 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 swamp 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 is 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, H PRIZEI for Sending us Subscriptior LL. BE AWARDED ON MJ Ssending us the neatest 001 CI!PRIZE, as lited who ae gained 1an God. Second Prize ut only give a few 0 ini Gold. Fourth out by an alert and cieve r 65,.00 each. Ten AND SPELL OCT TE $1.0o each. Mak. - are winning many goldez in Pris. Don't send see if you are clever an RULen GERIG would rathier take this wa ae six cities, the ietter in~ (Spendin nmany thousands c hey appear, and no letter cheerfully give the money ave found the sIX correct gets the money. 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They are worthless except where they have been reclaimd through expensive private drainage works, when they have become worth $100. and $150. 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 $10. 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 of 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. The Steenerson bill places the en tire management of the work in the Reclamatiou Service and the plan of operation follows very closely the 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 be borne- by the owner of the land and no settler can have drainage provided for more than 160 acres, thus insuring the division of the tracts into small farms which must be 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 ects, to deal directly with the farmer. t aust outline a comprehensive drain ge system for each irrigation. project, . 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