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HERO OF THE RED POLICE. > I x Fire Bear Slew Most Popular Medi- J cine Man of the Crow Indians. Unlike the Royal Northwest Mounted police and our own Texas 1 Rangers the Indian police have few to ( sing their praises, iney mase no i reports aside from the few grunts of 1 explanation that are furnished the ( agent. That individual's transcript < is in the forming of a report to < the government?and who reads i government reports these days when there is so much more attractive 1 literature beckoning from every news l stand? Deeds of heroism have pass- t y . ed unnoticed because they have hap- < pened on Indian reservations, which 1 are like stretches of backwater, close t to the surging tides of civilization t and yet removed from all their influences. The courage of the Indian police is not always purely physical. It takes W ' moral stamina to stand with the t white man in enforcing rules that , ' are unpopular with the policeman's < ?, own people. On the Crow Indian reservation, in Montana, the second in command of the native police is a t huge old fellow named Fire Bear, f who slew the most popular medicine man the Crows ever had, at a time when the tribe seemed ready to fol- , low their idol on the warpath. The , ; medicine man was a young brave , * named Chesche-pah, which means, , literallv translated. "Wrap-up-His- , Horse's-Tail." Indians, when going j on the warpath, always wrap their ponies' tails in some gayly colored . cloth and the medicine men who be- c stowed the old name on the future ? prophet of the Crows probably saw ? some brave wrapping the tail of his \ war pony, and the infant was chris- t tened without further waiting. The ( name became shortened by the white ^ people to Wraps-Up-His-Tail,- and it i is by that title that the leader of the j Crow uprising is known to-day. ( 31 Wraps-Up-His-Tail. when a young i man, led a band of Crows into the s Piegan country on the trail of a bunch z > * of horses which it was said the Pie- r gans had stolen. The Crows sur- c prised a camp of Piegans, ran off as | many horses as they could find, and t killed two squaws. The C^ow agent c immediately put the offenders in jail, t Wraps-Up-His-Tail sent out word to j the Crows that he was a great medi- I cine man and that it was an insult to s the Crow people to imprison so s mighty a man. t A delegation of Crows waited on 1 the agent and demanded the release v of the prisoners, and instead of 1 "standing pat," the agent weakened, 6 and Wraps-Up-His-Tail went to I * Cloud Peak, the largest of the Big t Horn Mountains and there he had great visions. He setn word to the s Crows that if they would follow him c they would become a free people, as t in the days of their forefathers, and s that the b ffalo would come back i and everybody would be happy. c > The Crows had always been well * disposed toward the white..people, but 1 the warlike young medicine man ( > made a powerful appeal to the im- I agination of the tribe. His stock t rose when a series of his prophecies came true. His braves had begun j to grow hungry but he said: "To- 1 morrow you shall have plenty to eat ] if you come to me." They followed j him toward the agency, and about 4 1 o'clock in the morning they met a i freighter with an ox team. A thun- r > derstorm had come up?son^ething < unusual in Montana at that time of ( the day?and lightning struck the s team, running along the -chain and i killing the eight oxen and giving the j Indians all the meat they wanted, i Then Wraps-Up-His-Tail prophesied ] that the agent would be killed or in- < jured, and that official's team ran ] away throwing him out of the wagon j and nearly crippling him for life. i The tribe became so restive, owing 1 to the "big medicine" that was being practiced by Wraps-Up-His-Tail, that J the government was appealed to, and , soldiers were sent to the agency. They brought two Hotchkiss guns, ' and when the other Indians told J Wraps-Up-His-Tail about the guns 1 v that would shoot to-day and kill to- 1 morrow, he said he would let them < shoot once oij twice and then they 3 would be destroyed. At target prac- ( tice, which was being carried on to awe the Indians, one of the Hotchkiss guns blew to pieces, and immediate- ( ly it was noised about the reservation 1 that another of the medicine man's 1 prophecies had come true. Wraps-Up-His-Tail from his mountain stronghold, prophesied a great : storm which would destroy the soldiers. Immediately there arose a ter- 1 rifle windstorm, accompanied by tor- ] rents of rain, and half the tents of < the soldiers and the tepees of the i Crows were blown over. Wraps-Up- : Kis-Tail then sent out word that he ] did not fear the soldiers, because he ; had a powder he could toss into the 1 air which would blind them so that 1 their shots could not kill. He had a < cavalry sword which he had dyed red, and with this he said he could decap- : itate all the soldiers at one blow. ; i The commanding officer was reluct- ] SALOON KEEPERS SWINDLED. some $25,000 Lost by Them on Ac- I ceptance of Bogus Pay Checks. Hoboken, X. J., Dec. 19.?Three lundred and sixty-odd saloon keep- t irs of Hoboken were swindled out of t sums that reach a total of $15,000 c :>y two men, who posed as employees I >f the Lackawanna Railroad and r :ashed fake pay checks last Satur- t lay. The police of 20 cities are look- v ng for the swindlers. c In addition to Hoboken, the swind- S ers went.to Scranton, Pa., and there Dlayed the same game. *The amount c :hey secured in that city is estimated r it $10,000. Instead of forging signa- t :ures, the operators used a photo- r ?raph engraving process that makes :heir detection extremely difficult. d ?? j Digs Up White Slave Scandal. 0 h New Orleans, Dec. 17.?Federal a iourt officials yesterday declared * "V ;heir belief that when two men and p :wo women, indicted by the United ^ state grand jury yesterday on . ffiar^es of conspiracy and violations J )f the Mann statutes, are brought to s :rial plans for wholesale importa;ions of women from Chicago to this s iity ttill be disclosed. Those indicted are Jules Raoul Blanc, alias Jules 31anc; Charles Berger, alias Daivd 3renner; Bertha Blanc, alias Bertha g Ferrari, and her sister, Charlotte "errari. A special agent of the de- ^ nf in stir#* declared his be JCLi taxvav vi. j v?ww __ ^ ief that the indictments were the J nost important returned by a jury n conection with the so-called white , h ;lave traffic. r mt to shed any blood, but he real- c zed that something must be done or c he Crows would follow their medicine man in open revolt. He sent vord to Wraps-Up-His-Tail to come n and surrender, and the young jrophet sent back word that he would d come to the agency on a certain fc norning, when he ^rould kill all the I ioldiers and free his people. On the I \ tppointed morning the medicine man \ ode to the agency where the sol- c iiers were lined up. The Crows were c grouped along the river, the entire i ribe being assembled to see the outcome. Most of the Indian police had c :aken off their uniforms and had i oined the prophet's sympathizers. 0 ^ire Bear was among the few Indian e ;keptics. He rode among his people, itill clad in his blue uniform, trying t o stem the tide that threatened to $ ead his tribe to destruction. In spite e )f open threats of death from his own a >eople, the Indian policeman remain- ? cd at his post, where he was s6on to t )lay an important part in the drama t hat was being enacted. a Wraps-Up-His-Tail, mounted on a swift nnnv rcireled in front of the sol- c **v XT ? ?? > liers, crying incantations. He knew r ;hat every Crow warrior on the other a side of the Little Big Horn carried "9 irms beneath his blanket, and was c jnly waiting some encouraging mani- c estations to overwhelm the little s Dand of soldiers. The medicine man a ;ried incantations and tossed a white Dowder in the air. Word was given c ;o fire over his head. r When the volley was discharged * ind the medicine man did not fall, it a vas whisperedthat the magic powder ' lad blinded the soldiers. A serge- T mt's horse became unmanageable and I molted from the line, straight toward ? the medicine man. Wraps-Up-His- ( rail drew a revolver and shot the sol- * iier through the body. The medi- * nne man then waved his terrible red >word, but no headr^ fell. The order c vas given to charge, and as the cav- ? >ivt- toward him. the medicine * iii v' V? f? vj^/w w t. v.- ? , nan sped toward the river. A Hotch- 1 \iss shell burst under his pony at the i ?dge of the river and killed the ani- ? mal, but Wraps-Up-His-Tail plunged 1 nto the stream, and had 'he reached 1 the other side no doubt he would c have been assisted to escape, even if * tiis sympathizing tribesmen did not * ?o so far as to shoot down the caval- c rymen who were in pursuit. But * Fire Bear, seeing that the drama had reached its crisis and that something I must be done at once, rode down to J the edge of the stream, and before the Crows realized his purpose leveled his heavy service revolver and fired at the medicine man. The In- j dian policeman's aim was true, and \ Wraps-Up-His-Tail tossed up his arms \ and disappeared in the swift current j of the Little Big Horn while the cav- , alrymen halted on the opposite bank ' and watched the willing Crows search ( for the body of their prophet. * Fire Bear is still a Crow police- t man. For years he was unpopular with his own people on account of t the killing of Wraps-Up-His-Tail, but he has gone on doing his duty and i earning the confidence of each succeed- ( ing Indian agent. He and his chief, i Big .Medicine, have been the leading c figures in the Cro* Indian police for t a J ^ c r many years, a uu^eu ui uuccu ui ^ these Crow police guard a reservation that is about as large as Massachu- j setts. They have to contend against c "bootleggers," horse thieves, cattle e rustlers and "bad men" whose speci- i altv is gun fighting.?Harper's Week- c ly. < f WILL SUE COUNTY FOR $5,000. A lesult of Auto Running Into Rope S Across Road. A suit for ?5^000 has been instiuted by "Virginia Latimer^ a minor t >y her guardian ad litem, Mrs. Mari- c n Latimer," against the county of 1< Anderson as the result of an auto- li nobile accident a few miles south of A he city on the 8th of July last, in b rhich Miss Latimer, who is 14 years j Id, Miss Beulah Armstrong and Mr. S iamuel Latimer were injured. The accident occurred on a Mon- a lay afternoon in which Miss Lati- F ner was a passenger coming in con- o act with a rope stretched across the G oad near the Four Mile Branch. s The party had been in Anderson p luring the day and was en route to J "U r? trirt rr 1 Ci Ff O hnil t 3 t juv\ iiues v 111c, navijui^ uuvul v v >'clock in the afternoon. The rope d tad been stretched across the road a it the direction of County Super- o isor, B. J. Pearman, for the pur- a iose of warning people traveling the e lighway of an undermined culvert ust beyond which had resulted from h . recent shower of rain. It was not s een by young Latimer until too late 1; o stop the car and the collision re- v ulted. I Samuel Latimer was caught be- t leath the chin by the rope and hurl- a d onto the back seat, striking his ister. Miss Virginia Latimer, in the a ace, knocking out several of her t eeth and breaking off another. Miss \ Armstrong and James Latimer suf- p ered some cuts and bruises, and all b hree were brought to the hospital t iere for treatment. Mrs. Kirkpat- t ick, Wendell Latimer and little Lui . ile Kirkpatrick, the other members d if the party escaped without injury. I ?Anderson Daily Mail. c Blacks Barred at This Church. ^ New York, Dec. 19.?A note of * liscord has crept into the otherwise ^ tarmonious parish of St. Luke's s 'rotestant Episcopal church, Con- * ent avenue and One Hundred and E i'orty-fifth street. Tha trouble was 1 aused by the Rev. Dr. George A. 13 )ldham, rector of the church, drawt ng the color line. The rector's ultimatum to the coined folk was not issued voluntarily t is sal' but at the urgent demand >f his white parishioners, who object- r id to mingling with negroes. c George Washington Marsh, one of I he dozen colored men whose chil- r [ren went to St. Luke's was indig- a tant yesterday at the discrimination gainst his race. He said it had J 'destroyed the unanimity of God's c louse and announced that he would i; ake the matter to Bishop Greer for 1 .djustment. g Negro children have found the e ushioned seats, the sermons and the c nusic at St. Luke's attractive. They ilso delight in the sociability of the e vhite boys and girls. And the black s hildren seemed to learn their catehism as well as the whites. The as- t ociation with the others seemed to i ict as a spur. \ Some of the old-time parishioners | ibjected to this mingling with the i legroes. The dissension was quieted hen, but recently showed itself Lgain. Those who had first objectid were joined by others and they vent to Dr. Oldham with their com)laint. He argued with them, but irgument was futile and he surrenlered. As Dr.^ Oldham's spokesman, lis curate, the Rev. John Hines, thus explained the incident yesterday: "It is true, all true, that the little :olored ones are not to attend the Sunday-school any more. Dr. Old1am found their case disappointing. They were uncomfortable in their solated quarters in the Sundayschool. They were not isolated by is, but what happened can readily >e grasped. Dr. Oldham, in all 'harity and kindness, wrote a letter :o their parents and suggested that hey send their children to the hurch of our faith, built exclusively or colored folk. That is all." 0 The church mentioned is in the larish limits and is in charge of the ^ev. C. Hutchins, colored. s ? < Kail roads Have Killed Hundreds. Washington, Dec. 18.?Every time ] he big railroads of the country took \ n $3,556 from the operation of their Teight and passenger trains, during i ;he fiscal year ending June 30 last, 1 ? human being was killed or injured. l The casualties amounted to 180,123. 3f that number 10,585 were killed md 161,538 were injured, according { o the Interstate Commerce Commis>ion report sent to congress at noon j o-day. j During the year the railroads hav- ] ng incomes of $1,000,000 or more 1 jarned on an average a few cents t nore than $3,362 per mile of road jperated; During the preceding year .hey earned a few cents more than >3,465. 3 There was a decrease in earnings )er mile of road operated and an in'vpnsfl in number of persons kill ?d and injured, the decrease in earnngs being $103.16 per mile. The in:rease in casualties was 189 in killed and 19,397 persons injured. LLLENS SMILING, BEGIN TERMS. iidna and Nephew Behind Pen Walls for Sentences. Richmond, Va., Dec. IS.?When he cell doors in the State's prison langed behind Sidna Allen and Weszy Edwards yesterday afternoon the ast of the Allen clansmen except Victor, whose proud boast it had een that they would never go to ail, were behind the bars of the itate penitentiary. Heavy manacled at wrist and .nkle the noted prisoners reached tichmond yesterday afternoon at 2 'clock from Roanoke in charge of luard R. R. Penn, who had been ent after them. The guard and his risoners were met at the station by Iajor Superintendent J. B. Wood, of he penitentiary with a carriage rawn by two handsome bay horses nd driven immediately to the prisn. Both men were neatly dressed nd both were smiling as they walkd through the station. Wesley Edwards spent much of lis time in writing while on the train ending back missives to several adies back in Carroll county, and a ery lengthy letter to Miss Maude roler, his sweetheart, who unwitingly led the officers to where he ,nd Sidna Allen were hiding in Des loines, la. He does not believe for ,n instant that she had the least idea he officers were following her. Vhen the men got here a phgotograiher was on hand to snap them, and ioth men smiled and pushed back heir hats so that a good view of heir faces could be had. "Sentiment has changed a good leal up in that section," said Sidna = Lllen, regarded as the leader of the lan, "and when the real truth is mown, when the full story is told, here will be many others who will ake our side of the case. Now that he doors will soon close on us, posibly for a great many years. I want o say that in Wytheville and in Roaloke the people have been very kind o us, especially in Roanoke, where Qany ladies did kindnesses for us." The men will be put to work in he shoe shop on Wednesday. Relationship is Eadly Tangled. Gaffney boasts of a family whose elationship is possibly more compliated than any other in the State, '""or the purpose of narrative, the tames may be given as Dr. Blank nd J. C. Jones. Dr. Blank's daughter marries J. C. ones. Dr. Blank marries the sister ?f J. C. Jones, therefore Dr. Blank s his own daughter's brother-in-law, lis son-in-law's brother-in-law, grandfather of his nephews and tieces or uncle of his own grandchilIren. Dr. Blank's daughter is her fath- i tr's- sister-in-law, aunt of her half isters and brothers. J. C. Jones is his father-in-law's trother-in-law, father of his brothern-law's grandchildren, uncle of his vife's hal/ sisters and brothers. Dr. Blank's children (by his second narriage with his daughter's sister n-iaw; are nair sisters aim uruiuers >f their aunt, who is their father's laughter, and also his sister-in-law. They are the nephews and nieces of lis daughter, being children of her lusband's father, and their own fath>r, Dr. Blank, is their granduncle, >eing the father of their aunt, their nother's sister-in-law. This is an accurate record and the igures have been verified so that here can be no doubt of the accuracy >f the relationship thus established. The family is probably the most inique in point of relationship of inv in this community. A woman may not know just what ;he wants but she usually gets it. ; DANGER FROM 6RIPPE Lies in That Cough and Weak, Worn-out Condition. Grippe, pleurisy, pneumonia, these ire greatly to be feared at this time )f the year. To prevent grippe from being followed by either pleurisy or pneumolia, it is important to drive the last traces of it out of the system quickly. Our advice is to take Vinol, our lelicious cod liver and iron preparation without oil, and get your strength md vitality back quickly. Mrs. A. A. Gr^oill, of Strasburg, Pa. says: "Grippe left me weak, run lown and with a severe cough, from r/hich I suffered four years. 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