The herald and news. (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, July 26, 1907, Page FIVE, Image 5
m FAMOUS SLEUTH. , (
^Remarkable Career of Gen. D. J. i
wf Cook?He was Feared by u
Bad Men. 1
\
m '' Whenever you hear that a man e
wis going to get .von, go after him. Hunt
Hiim up. If necessary net him first. c
Ak>ut generally, when the man is found, c
A: will not he ready. A talk and an ^
B^lorstandiug will remove causes of
i^ive a desperado no opportunity s
i" tv a pistol. My motto lias al- c
V was P'w: 'It is better to kiM two 1
"|:I) to have one kill you.' " t
statemei?-0 principles faithfully liv- ,
The-on, oUgi, forty-live years of ?
I l,,1'(UVS'Uhe frontier as a peace i
,1 > General Dav- I
? " -? lm" 'BU, fen red bv ,
Y f ' ?W? Hoek'v ,
I Wk will, ow alljfc tho Cunn(|i,,;,
I an. by hn^-Jfe , says the San |,
'""'""V,."ft. As a brigadier ,
_ ninn.M.vi ,; Indian Seoul, 1
United States marshal, chief of police 0
of Denver in the lawless days, sheriff
of Arapaho county and head of the j,
Kooky Mountain Detective agency, he
croalcd a name that was a terror to j
tlic bad men of the border. Though he *
was scnty-one years old when he *
died in his Denver home last week, j>
there are si ill men living in the West /
who heaved a sigh of relief when they 1
, hoard the dauntless peace olTieer had
' !1mwc(1 ihe ??uide across the range. (
tioneral Cook had little respect for j
t!u' professional "bad man." and '
uieiiihers of that class knew it. In ^
hi> lime he had arrested more than
"I I hem, beginning with his career
in Denver in 1S5J). Among them
were between fifty and seventy-live v
murderers, all gun fighters and pro- ''
A fessional terrors on the frontier, who 1
JB boa*tod of the notches on their gun a
Jf barrels. <'
Through so many dangers General .
funk escaped unharmed tc? an ad- 1
1 vanced age. He explained his good
fortune through the curious fact that
he was left-handed in handling wea- t
pons. Time and again the desperate .
bordermen, waiting for first chance,
had watched Cook's right hand while
preparing to got the drop. Then suddenly
Cook's unguarded left flashed ^
out with a forty-four on a bewildered
k prisoner. ?
Cook did more to drive outlaws
A from Colorado and keep the peace ^
ban anv other man in the Western
Country.' J,
v An ludianan by birth, horn in La
V Porte, where some of his lelatives still j
live, he early entered on the adventuron*
career to which a love of peril attracted
him. lie came to Denver in
the ordnance department until ISO!!.
One of liis exploits was I he externii- j
nation of the Reynold* guerrillas during
the war. Captain -lames RovV
nolds, a Texan, with a courageous
' band of riders, came north toward the,
dose of the war. intending to take |
^ and destroy Denver. <hi I he way i (
they burned a number of New Moxi-I
can and Colorado villages ol pro-1 n-! ^
L ion sympathizers. They were met by I
r Cook and his rangers thirty miles j
south of Denver, near Klk creek, audi
a pitched battle ensued. The Tcxans ^
were routed with a hiss of nearly all ^
their forces, and live of their captives v
were shot. One escaped.however, and (
told a story that has led to a neverending
hunt for buried treasure.
It seemed that the guerrillas on j
their way north, had attacked and |
captured a Mexican treasure train. ,
from which they secured $<0,000, (
mostly in greenbacks. T ie-e they buri- j
ed in a locality on I'-lk creek. inteud-||
ing to return and secure the treasure (
a ?'{ ;?r I hey had deslroyed Denver. I lie .
extermination of the band lost the so- ^
rret. and because the only survivor
was never able to describe I be place (
where the fortune was buried, it re- _
mains safe to litis day, ( ook liunte.l ^
for the treasure often, and every sum- ;
lner parties spoilt weeks seeking l'.
I" One of General Cook's most notable j v
I exploits was tho <|tielling ol the < hi-j ,
| Ariose riots iu Denver in ISSO. Keelingj,
% against the Chinese who then lived
here in great numbers, v.row to such ,
a pitch that infuriated mobs captured
Chinese on the streets and strung .
I hem up lo telegraph polos. I lie law- (
lessness grew to such an extent that |
the sheriff and the police were power- .
^ )r',s, and the Chinese quarter, with j
&L its population of 11,000 was threatened
^Rwith burning. In desperation the ,
county and state officials appealed to j
H General Cook for assistance. lie swore (
Bin twenty-five picked deputies, all (
I dead shots and fearless men like him- ,
B self. They were known to the rioters ,
H as men who would do their duty, and {
mobs dispersed as fast, as they ad- (
vanced. Without bloodshed peace was t
restored in a few hours and many ar- ,
I rests of leaders were made. (
It, was about Ibis time that Cook
performed a feat as famous in the j
West as the ride of Sheridan in war <
n annals. One of the banks at Lead- j (
villc, then a camp just bursting into',
fame, was threatened with a disas-L
HL-'.
ou.s run 11,ore was teiegraph, but
1;u,roa(l- The bank oflieials wired
0 1 enver to a correspondent lor aid
'?< tins bank employed funk to ride
,, '"'V'8 ,,vt'r mountains to Leadl,,c'
lV'?l,-h ?" outlaw eotuilry, to
an'-v *??'??> to the distressed l,i?k.
Cook undertook alone the dan?er"*
nussion, and heavily armed starlit
with the lortune in his saddle bags.
Mierever (|,e telegraph wire reached
1 Mage station messages were sent for
nil? ?t |U)1'S0 S J?mpiii?; from the
addle ot one exhausted horse to an>1
her Cook spurred over the trail in
rs ,lu:M ?welvo hours. AH olle day
he cashier stood at the window and
>aid the clamoring crowds of angry
inners, while Cook was making his
1(,e- ,he bank had twenty minutes
l)Uoer to last When Cook spurred
h rough the streets of the camp and
ode a horse covered with foam
V-l!r 11,0 ei"owd8 up to the door. As
ie lilted the bags of money from his
addle and carried thorn inside the
"ie of cursing miners broke into
boors and melted away.
The most noted detective work done
>v Cook was in connection with the
nut dors of four Italian musicians in
'enver. The murderers, who were
line countrymen of the victims, had
our days' start when the bodies wore
mnd hacked *o pieces in a shanty,
'ook traced and arrested them all in
lifforont j.arts- of the state, and later
aved their lire:. when, with his depuies
he fought off a mob that tried to
vnch them in Denver. At! nine were
onvicted. As a govermmvit detective
n?k saved the government *'100,000
n case- handled by him.
In >pite of his advanced a.je Genral
Coi?|< appeared regularly at his
osk at the Denver poli.-e headquarters,
where his experience made his
ssistanoe valuable, lie was assignd
to special duty and contributed
nly recently to the solution of a
u.mber of difficult cases. Until atacked
by heart disease only a few
iionths ago he was vigorous in spite
f a life of great stress and activity.
Ie stood over six feet in his stoekugs
and was as agile as a cat.
General Cook was a thirty-second
egree Mason and was high in the Odd
Allows and Knights of Pythias orers.
Among police and detective
flicers his reputation was national,
nd lie was equally known in military
ircles. From 1803 to 1S00 he held
he posts of commander of the state
roops during the Indian wars or was
heritf of Arapaho county or chief of
lolice of Denver, almost without a
ireak. Pioneers assembled from ali
>arts of the state to attend his burial.
DETROIT'S GIRL DIVER.
jaid Up Comfortable For time by Her
Calling?Her Father is Captain
of Divers.
Detroit's ijirl diver. Miss l'Yancis
>aker, is regarded as a p rot eye by all'
lie sailors of the Great hakes, says I
Deiroii dispatch t. ihe N'ew \'<irk
.Vorhl. She i< twenty-one years of
ige and has laid up a comfortable
tank account by following her hazirdous
calling. Her first professional
vork was when she raised $20,000
vortit of copper from the ship \V. II.
Sevens, which sank in eighty feet of
valer in Lake Krie several years
i go.
Miss Raker's father, Capt. II. V.
iaker, was a captain of divers, and
'mm the first time she was allowed to
o down to the river alone. she used
o watch her ruber's wrecking ship
eave i he .lock and longed to go with
tint. The ambition to become a div>r
matured in her as she grow older,
tnd she deplored the fate which had
'.ondenined her to be ;t girl.
At last her desire to become a diver
ivercatne the objection of her friends,
tnd site began making wrecking trips
villi her father, anil soon became his
nspearahle companion. She made a
study of the machinery connected
villi diving, and in lime learned to
ommand the wrecking boat with
real skill and assurance.
Iler first descent was in Lake Ifit*on,
where a l?ig wooden ha rue had
rone down, and before the wrecking
it earner had reached t!ie s|>ot where
lie barge sunk, the owner spoke
0 Miss Baker, regret t in*: I lie i ->s of
1 diamond ring which wa- ::i the cabn.
Mi.- - Laker immediately offered fo
ecover it for him, as she had been
danning for some time to make her
irst descent upon the first favorable
ipportunity. When everything was
nade ready for her to descend, her
;w!i father manned the compressed
lir apparatus, which meant life or
leath to her, as she calmly walked
h?wn I h<i. ship's ladder and without a
nomenf's hesitation disappeared tinier
the. water.
In describing the sensations of the
nitial trip she said that the feeling
it the oufset was as if some great
reatnre with a thousand arms was
M'esspi" her gently but firmly on all
ides, and as if in a few minutes her
<'
I- ' ..
broil Hi would l)o nil off entirely, but!
\'u' vvas Ji,r lrom frightened, anil c-oiitniut'd
Jier descent uuiil the shadow '
?1 the sunken barge loomed up bot?ro
lior. Siio had a stranj-e feeling!
>t buoyancy and tho twenty pounds I
?l lend attao.hed to hor loot seemed !
'<> heavier than leal her soles as she '
ollowed her companion to the walls
>1 the sunken ship, and with his aid,
'limbed over them.
At this point she experienced severe
Jiltns in her head and felt as if her
lose was going to bleed, but, still unlaunted,
she reached the cabin of the
large, where she entered, and, with
lie aid of the electric light at her belt,
iou?'lit out the corner of the cabin'
vliich contained a small stand, upon
\.hieh was the tiny box containing the
nucli desired diamond ring.
fn hor haste to reach it she sturned
and toll, and for the moment
vius consumed by a terrible fear, as
he pressure of the water, together
vi1 h breatJiing the compressed air,
iad now become almost overpowering,
>nt she (juickly gained her self-eonrol,
and with the box iu her and reurned
to the deck of the wrecker.
As a reward for this exploit Miss
^aker wj<s presented with the dianond
ring she had recovered, and it is
low in her possession.
The ring marked the beginning of
ior fortune, as she had proved that
he could live under (lie water, and
o be able in do this niean< that ;;
lorson is worth any when- iroui .f.'jU
0 f-liO a day t<> a wrecking conipaiiv.
\s ninety-nine tlul ol every one hunlred
men who descend into the waer>
ot tlx? lakes will in a few niinules
H'"iu !< sutler I r? * in bb ding at the
lose, head-splitting pain... and suffo Vition,
that is why all good divers
roni one end of the Great Lakes to
lie other may In; counted on one's
itigers and toes.
Mother.
^o sweeter woman ever (rod the earth
THAN mother!
\ flower of sweetness, to her soul at
birlh
Mauds of her infants clung with baby
grace,
And little eyes looked up into her
face
And little lips of love in childhood
bliss
1* ell I lie soft roseleaf of her velvet
kiss;
Willi happiness too much for trniguo
to tell.
11 iey wandered trustful in her beauteous
spell!
No gent.or spirit over dwell with men
fl I AX mother!
1 ?rinv :ii - the old times sweetness back
a : a i n.
W il!i ( i * a l in e. p.iiie.-: !] mcI I
:itrol,
No : slider couraue in a -t rouger 'il.
Ken above disaster and content
W i the sweet love she gathered ;>s !
>he went
i nun 1 iio-t ;!ii draw alnn.it her davi
by day
In the calm beauty of her mother- j
way!
Nu sweeter name sweeter spell of
life
Til AX mother!
"own the dark valley of the years of
st rife,
mother, mother, we go our wav
As inoii found fighting where the light-j
nings plav,
1'Ook back with longing to vour arms
of old.
And dream the dreaming of their
sweet enfold,
And know your goodness, and are
glad to creep
(hi the soil pillow of your breast to
sleep!
1 have an excel
one can put it oi
Sapolin Floor Pc
Sapolin Furnitur
Star Enamel.
Aluminum Enam
Gold Enamel.
Wire Screen Ena
Try a 10 cent cat
WE W AI
TO COt
that while we sell goods \
is always first considerec
of shoes for 75 cents or c
it must be the best pair t
ey will buy.
New Lawns, Etc. I
Just received, 50 pieces colored Muslin worth
12c. at special for Saturday and Monday, 9c. yd.
5 pieces Brown Linen at 10c. yd.
10 pieces Brown Linen worth 20c.. at special
15c. yard.
3 pieces Brown Linen worth 25c., full 30 in.
wide at 20c. yd.
Sheets, Pillow Gases, White Quilts. Etc.
40 do/., hem stitched Sheets, full size worth
Si.00. at special 75c. each.
125 doz. Pillow Cases worth i2^c. at special
6 pairs f r$i.oo.
Light and dark Percales for Shirts, Shirt
Waists, etc., cheaper than you can buy them
elsewhere.
Clothing! Clothing!
At cost, for reason, our store room is too small
to carry any goods from one season to another.
We will sell all spring and summer Clothing and
low cut Shoes at or about first cost.
Shirts! Shirts!
25 doz. Coat Shirts worth 75c. and $1.00, at
special 49c. the Shirt. By the doz. S5.75.
All $1.00 Shirts at 85c. each.
Undershirts from 25c. up.
5 gross Men's Washable Ties at special 5 for
$1.00
NOTICE--This store se
If you will pay for goo
your money will be refur
E. L. Bail
1 j _ciI! it for less,
?sm.*^uc.iwomnwa?tr,aaisrv
Modest Chinese. I "IMeniy uf A-l
| Tin following i> ;i literal t ransla-i men ) kmnv my it
j tion >>I a Chinese ink maker's adver- er cheated?they
I tisement, ami is a lairly yood example a ?ood name. I m;i
o1' thv "1>U,T |?f Heaven' and a
At tlie simp Tae-sliinu (prosperous .
in til.- extreme)?verv nood ink, line! .< \ . i, ? ,
. ' | As the roar <1
line. Ancient shop, irreat-irranillather,
" ramilather, father ami self, make OTCI!Ki2B3i:
this ink: fine ami hard, very hard;: Capital $50,1
picked with care, selected with at-:
I tent inn. 1 sell very <>ood ink, prime j
j c?i>t i- very. This ink is heavy; so is' |jj|
land dazzles, s<? does ihis ink. No one || g j|
makes like it. Others who make ink
; make ii for ihe sake .d' accninnl.itinn !
j Itase coin and cheat, while 1 make it '
1 only lor a name.
lent Polish. Any
n.
dish.
e Polish. T'
an err
I 1
iel. I is prepared to
i at legal rates,
j or for other pu:
imel. positors of com
^ ^n^eres
_ JP'IVJH
NT YOU
MSIDER
'ery cheap, that quality
I with us. If it is a pair
i pair of shoes for $5.00
hat that amount of monFall
Shoes Coming In.
We arc agents for six of the best factory made
Shoes on the market.
i ,000 pairs Dean's second Brogans, worth
$1.70 a leader at $1.25 the pair. These were
shipped ten days ago, but haven't come in yet.
Ladies' coarse or work Shoes, made by Wolf
Bros., Columbus, Ohio. Every pair guaranteed,
worth $2.50, special $1.98 the pair. One pair
will last all season, cheaper than two $1.50 pairs.
We also handle this line in Boys', Misses and
Children s. Look at this line before you buy
your fall Shoes.
We are also agents for the Bu.>ter Brown Blue
Ribbon Shoes for Buys and Girls, C.. II. Gerber's
Shoes for Children, T. B. Barry's finer Shoes for
Men, the Brown Shoe Co.'s Shoes for Men,
Ladies and Children, John Michel's special ?^.00
and S3.50 Shoes for Men. We handle only factory
made Shoes and sell them for less.
All.low cut Shoes and Oxfords at cost.
1986 pairs Men's Odd Pants to close at less
than you can buy tlieiu elsewhere.
Ladies' Skirts.
427 Ladies Skirls in all the new cloths from
98c. each to $7.50.
7 bolts 25c. Matting left, to close at $5.^0 the
roll.
Coats' Spool cotton 5c. spool.
8 balls good Sewing Cotton for 5c
? ? rrr?n? ! 1111 1 nan imbi
sits goods for cash only,
ds and not satisfactory
ided.
les. Prop.
Cheapest in Stale.
ammcnv, -T.n>11
\waii-ts;ios (?cntle- j In c\ct \ |?I:??* , so docs llu; J'ame of
?k- my I amity nev-jihe dragon's .jewel' ( meaning his
have always liorne | ink.) Conic, all A-Kwan-lsaos (ironikc
ink for ill.' ' Son j IIcnx'ii). com,, lo my shop ami see iho
II ?Ik* mandarins in . siyn Tea-shin- ai I he side of the door.
j 11 i< Sea-im-shwiiy si reel (small walI
Ilic fiiifr extendsj vHeei) outside the South ale."
300,00 Surplus$54,924.33
Deposits $324,552.84.
of Newberry, S, C.,
O XSiSnXJQd 23 Ca"V.Tt3X*.
lergency you may need a little money.
he Commercial Bank
loan reasonable sums on acceptable collateral
If you need money to pay or discount your bills
rposes come to the bank and talk l.t over. De"se
receive the preference.
-at p. c.
t Paid in Savings Department.
Bank for your Savings "
^D, Pres. o. B. MAYER, Vice-Pres.
J. Y. McFALL, Cashier.