Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, June 13, 1922, Page Page Six, Image 6
SITTING BULL RECALLED j
Sergeant Who Prevented His Escape
\ is Teaching Mail Clerks to Shoot.
GREAT STORY OF FRONTIER TROOPS I
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' Was Best Shot in His Regiment but
M He Mitced Bad Injun Six Times?
Happened Just After Massacre of |
' Custer.
By William Dibble.
"Next."'
Thti kortsorial jcall. shouted In the
bilscmerit of the 9th Regiment Armory
f.'by. "Sergtj Coriie; 23d Ehglneerh.
moused a fat mail clerk with gin-sRes.
who-Stepped to the pistol rrnge. He
? was a* timid man, this clerk who was
being taught to kill Iwndlts, and his
*r mp* pudgy fingers trembled about the gun.
He fired. He fired again and again,
Then the marker stepped forward and
' examined the target. .
"Six 11113808!'
The clerk grew pale and rubbed his
" hands in agitation. *
a "Now," caid Sergt. Corri , compassionately
and gently, "you vc got to
do better man mm. niercs u wmw .
out that If you can't shoot h. April"?
, "I know," said the clerk.
, "Well, take six more, and see if you
can do better."
ri1-,So it goes, day after day. "The
pistols apout llama the crashes Of the 1
* guna make loud fno ranges, and mail j
clerks pass or don't pass ; nd shoot
ft aKa5n. first slow lire, six shots at
twenty feet, then rapid fire, three
" shots in a minute's time. And day
after day Scrprt. Oorrie, crack shot,
winner of a dozen prizes, cajoles, pets,
advises young men and old. ex-army
... men with half a dozen children, men
jRrho have lived in mail offices all their
lives and shftdder at the feel of the
pistol, bravos who know they can
shoot and then nearly biow their feet
. "woff, idubs who look down the barrel,
to put these chunks of lead somewhere
near the hull's-eyc.
f. It is a risky job, this .teaching, but
* Pefgt. Corric is a man without nerve*,
and he has a kindness that no amount
of stupidity can spoil.
'"Tell me, sergeant." I said one afternoon,
when there were only a few
candidates for heaven left, .11 me
something about yourself." The ser'
geant is a modest man, oh, a very
modest man. timid, you might say,
a respect for officers that be- |
trays long service in the Regular
Army. I urged him to synk about a
match in which Gen. P^mhing and
himself had congested. But Sergt.
_ .Corrie appeared abashed. He shuffled
? his fftet removed his glasses and wiped
"It^. would be fresh," he murmured.
^ "to omiplc my name with a general
ofricVvirJlift'Vttitfci
And he would not speak more about
that match. So then I asked him to
|e ' iell me about his prises ar.d about his I
services in the woolly West, those
s days when the Indians galloped tn.e I
fF plains and picked off United States
troopers in facile manner.
$ He' hemmed a little, pushed back
p., ,^is white hair from his ruddy, smooth
forehead, considered. Th-'n he began:
"I enlisted in the 17th Infantry in
1879. Well, in September, 1881, I was
V at Fort Yates, S. I). That was a little
time after the Custer massacre,
"^ lind Sitting Hull and about three hundred
of his men were at the fort waiting
to be taken to Fort Randall by a
party under command of C'apt. Howe.
The day came for Sitting Hull to be
carried away, in a wood burning boat,
tfp the river.
"Now, there were about ten thous?
and Sioux Indians on the other side j
of the river. They had heard of SitViili*
:'Iflh'g Hull's removal, and they were
-hanging around in the distance, hoplaA
r>. ing that maybe he would get away to
them.
"The boat came in sight and Sitting
CD,,1) nn/1 Kio mnn 1i.ai.fi mil niwl i
placed under guard close to the river \
liank. I was there, right near him. j
Well, sir, the boat gave a toot and let
let off a cloud of white smoke. That
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must have sounded bad to Sitting
"Bull. I guess he realized that his Inst |
chancy had come. So what did he do?
Vp goes his arm with the handcuffs
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TEN OX POWER SPEEE
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One of the most picturesque
? recent '.'Days of 'W celebration ;at
1 timers jdtnltted; that the- ISfSl njot
4 tained that when-it came to travel!
Above, Miss Edith Sperry of
Springfield, Mass, one of the three
chosen to go abroad on a mission
for the American Committee for
Devastated France. Above, at
right, Miss EHsabeth, Rooney of
Schnectady, another member of
the Good Will delegation. Miss
Marion See of Newark, the third
member of the party, is at tho
right. The party will sail on
- July 22.
on it and ^knocks the sentry's gun
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rrom nts snomaer, anu un. 6? ???--.|
"ting Bull, running for a spot further
down the river where his friends
might make a stab at getting him
away. Off he goes, hell for leather,
through the officers' tents, and nobody
dared to shoot him. But I wus
right behind all the way, ahout fifty
yards back, and running to beat the
band. On and on wc go. I guess I
never ran so fast before or after, and
I began to gain on him.
""Stop, Bull!' ,1 yelled. I couldn't
yell 'Sitting Bull,' it took too much
bgeath. Stop Bull,' and I pulled my
pistol out and took a crack at him.
Missed. Bang?I fired again, misSed
again, nndMhcn I gave him the whole
works, four , shots, and missed him
clean. ftut I was coming -close to j
him, and now 1 "put everything into 1
my legs and gained ten yards on him.-1
Tins* tft Him and eould-have-al-*
most hit hini with the em'pty gun.
Then I gained a?little, gave a devil of
a jump and landed on ^his neck
Down he went and I began to load my
gun. I would have finished him off
right there if the interpreter hadn't
come up just at the wrong minute,and
stopped me."
"Hut why did yon want to kill him?"
"I dunno," said Sergt.. Corrie~ Innocently,
"I guess I was angry. Hut
wouldn't that heat the Dutch how I
missed him six times, and me the best
shot in the**regiment!"
"Oh, you were a crack as early as
that ?"
"Sure," said the sergeant, grinning,
"I could shoot ever since I was a tiny
lad, and I'll be darned if I know where.'
I learned how. County Monaghan,
Ireland, is where I was born. I never
missed a bird there.
t "The best shots out of the bunch j
that come in here," Corric went on j
"arp the men fr.om the railway mail.
A lot of them are service men. Hut !
some of them"? He abruptly ceased
his mournful headshnke and rose.
"Hey," he called, "quit pointing that |
sun around like that." The rookie !
turned with the sun in his hand, its j
snoot directed at us. I shuddered a*id j
calculated quickly my chances of par- )
adise. Scrpt. Corrie moved toward j
the offender.
"Don't you know you shouldn't do
that?" he said quietly, lay ins his hand
on the pistol and pointing it down
the range. "Never point a gun at a '
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i sights in the revival of the scenes of
. Sacramento, Oal* was this ten ox teai
1$1 jtru-.lf (lid not ftave u? much speed r
ing'un<'tr adverse conditions the old ox t
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man whether it's loaded or not." Then
ho tifrnod, smiling, to me.
"You see?"
TEXAS POLITICS
Ex-Governor Ferguson and Wife Both
crinmnrpiliA Nomination.
Both Ex-Oov. James E. Ferguson |
and his wife, Marlon, have entered the
race for the Democratic nomination
for the U. S. senator, says an Austin,
Texas, dispatch. Ferguson several
years ago was impeached while, governor
and he then formed the American
party in Texas, which he supported
in Iho last general election.
A state law provides that a Democratic
candidate must certify that he
supported the Democratic party's candidates
in the last election, which
Ferguson cannot do/ But while/he
may be barred his wife won't, for she
voted the Democratic ticket. Another
provision of the law says that if a
twfintv-fivo citizens to i
petition to have his name placed on !
the ballot the state committee may
place him in the field. Hut Ferguson
is taking: no chances. He is afraid
flint he will be barred anyway, and if
he is he will stump for his wife. If
he does pet on the ballot then his wife
will withdraw and stump for her husband.
During: her husband's term as
pqxTfnor Airs. Ferguson assisted liiiu.
She is regarded as a capable womar.
Just "Playing Safe."
"I am not running against jny wife
for the nomination." Ferguson explained.
"I nm simply moving to protect
my rights, ft is true that I did
not support the Democratic nominees
ttvo years ago. There is another provision
in the same law, however,
which provides that twenty-five qualified
voters may' ask the state committee
to put a man's name 'on the
ballot. In that event the candidate
only must ihdorsn across the application
that he will qualify for the office
if elected. This was done in my case,
in strict compliance with the law, and j
the committee will have no legal
ground for keeping my name off the
ballot.
"The fact thm it has no legal
:aufgrnia revival.
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former years, which featured the
in and old prairie schooner. Old
is the l/?22 model, hut tney muiueani
was at the hoJd of the Hit.
R FRANCE. ^
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ground, liowever, dors not necessarily
mean that It woyld not keep hie bit.
It haB the arbitrary ppwer. I feel
that my name will be placed on the
ballot, but I am taking no chances. I
have no gnoney to fight' an action
through the coifrls compelling them
to olnco mv nnme on. should thev re
(use. It is for that reason that m?
wife has filed. There can not be a
shadpy of excuse for refusing her a
plare on (he ticket. Two years ago
she supported the nominees of the
Democratic party* > '
Wins if He Loses.
"If it should develop,/ which I do
not expect, that tlm committee arbitrarily
bars my naipe.' T will continue ^
on the stump for my wife, explaining
to the people of Texas that I wilt be
her private secretary if she is elected,
with full privileges of the floor of. the
senate. " v
Forty thousand signatures = to the
wine and b?er petitions have already
been received by his office, Ferguson
said.
Abolition of the whole- Federal Reserve
banklng'gystem and 'restoration
to the government -of the privilege
and duty of issuing sufficient amounts
of money to carry on the commerce
of the country in advocated as part
of his platform.
"I saw a man in ^a.| iaotol recently
pay $3 for a meal,". ?wgnson said.
"They? are families of Uvt. by the
thousand, in Texas who live on $3 a
week; and the Federul Besterve System,
by contraction of the currency,
is mainly responsible for this'awful
condition." " o
SCHOOL FOR BRIDES
Welfare Worker Says There is Greal
N?ed for One.
Everybody has heard about the
poor husband, who, after a hard dfty
in shop or office, pomes hopie to
dinner prepared^ by the extensively
advertised thousand cooks Of certain
well known cantfers in collaboration
with the delicafe&hen man on the corner
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And, in pnssing, nearly everybody
has pitied the poor husband and censured
his lazy, presumably, i^iovie mad
or gaddy gossip wife, writes Mary
Margaret McBride in the. New York
mail. Nearly, I say, bui,'not everybody,
for here's Mrs. Willard D.
Straight, sooicty woman. welfare
worker, perfect mother, and, accord- j
ing to those who kno\? exemplary j
housewife, rising to put 'n a defen- |
sive word for the wife.
"Perhaps it's not her fault," Mrs. i
Straight suggests. "Perhaps she's !
never had either time or place to '
learn the business of bfefng a wife !
and a housekeeper. In spite of the
haughty censpsj w'ho, never
having heen one, classify a housewife
as "having no occupation," there's
considerable of a job- connected with
the title.
Girls Not Used To Housework.
"And the working rAdn's wife, es
pcclally if she happens to be an exworker
herself, jg facM by more of a
problem than the casual bystander
imagines. Before marriage she lives
in a crowded flat where the housework
is usually done by mother. The
PROFESSIONAL CARDS |
Dr. C. L. WOOTEN
? DENTIST ?
OFFICE OVER THE POSTOFFICE
Telephones: Office, 128; Residence, 53
CLOVER, - - S. C.
71 t. f. r.m
J. S. BRICE
Attorney At Law.
Prompt Attention to all Legai
Business of Whatever Nature.
Office on Main Street in the Moore
Building, First Floor, formerly occupied
by 8. E. Spencer.
J. A. Marion W. G. Finley
MARION AND FINLEY
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
nAitrf^mtan
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Phone 126. YORK.S. C.
YORK FURNITURE CO.
Undertakers ? Embalmers
YORK, - 8. c.
In All Its Branches?Motor Equipment
Prompt Service Day or Night In
Town or Country.
JOHN R. HART
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR
AT LAW. .
Prompt end Careful Attention to Alj
Business Undertaken.
Telephone No. 69. YORK. 8. C.
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girl is too tired to help out in the
evening even if mother didn't usually
regard her as more of a nuisance than
a help.
"During the day she toils over a
machine, usually doing one tusk over
and over, day after day, until she be- \
comes accustomed the routine and
loses her adaptability.
r "She is used to crowds, hurried", unhygenie
meals and excitement. After I
working hours, disl'king the clutter at 1
home, she goes to bnd or a movie or
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dance. Totally without responsibility
Except in the narrow groove of her
factory job, she lends an abnormal life
(in which excitement and monotony al-.
ternate.'* ' ' '? Mrs.
Straight paused and seepied to
contemplate with pitying eyes the
picture she had drawn. Tl^en she
hasteneil on, as if to have the worst
over.
Then." nhe continued, "the girl
' TAKE NOTICE
The Sanitary Market
Has moved from Congress
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Madison Street
And wo-arc now ready to
promptly fill all orders,
^fust continue to
Call No. 6
t*? ?n
} uur wants 111 an
kinds of meats.
SANITARY MARKET
LEWIS Q. FERGUSON, Mgr.
See, Phone or Write to
THOS. C. O'FARRELL
FOR
High Grade Monuments
In Marble and Granite
Plant on Eaat Liberty Street, Adjoin*
infl Rote Hill Camatary.
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stops working and marries. Unless <
she is very lucky, her drama immediately
takes on a tragic tone and the
end will be that of all tragedies.
"She begins work of the hardest, j
yet of a kind utterly unfamiliar to her.
She misses the people who constantly
surrounded her in her old environ- i
ment. Hen husband gets home tired !
and not as given to suggesting. 'Lets
go dance awhile' as be was before '
marriage.
Babies Make Life More Nf^ging.
"When the babies come there are
new Jobs to learn and sometimes the
wife grows peevish, slatternly, nagging.
She has ^ever learned to cook !
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X cago to this work alone.
% years they have rebuilt ar
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X every way equal to NEW
X antee. Etei'y machine
Z - machine, in either No. 4 c
% 4 carries 76 characters ai
* acters. Both have 10 incl
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j; for $77.50 and the No. 5
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well and the canner and delicatessen
man inevitably are her best friends."
" It is characteristic of Mrs. Straight
that-she doesn't stop with stating a
proljlctrr. Utiles she has a Solution to
offer prefers to go silently on 1n^ sti^aHng.
-riiis time she believes
the solution is at hand, and that is
why she ifi-'tt leader In the effort society
women; are making to help the
Women's Trade Union league to get a
building tliat working girls and women
ran use as th^lr more fortunate sisters
do the exclusive cllibs uptown.
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it9 John D. Rockefeller never sold a
luprlcatit, equal to ''courtds^."
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heir Rebuilt Underwood ? j
ritory. Thh Shipman- ??
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a large building iti Chi- i;
During the past dozen ;;
id sojd hundreds of thou- ;;
pewriters, eyefy one of \;
n-elad guarantee to'be in
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offered is an up-to-date ;;
>r No. 5 Models?th? No. ; \
id th, f No! 5 has 84*char- ! I
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, The Model No. 4 sells |
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