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FACED DEATH T< WHITE W Thrilling Story of Gene One Companion, 1 Wilds of One night, more than thirty years * ago, a party of Ute Indian braves at the White River agency, Colorado, Ru-pnt down uDon the agency build ings, murdered the agent, Meeker, I ^ and every man they could find; looted i the reservation 6tores, and carried raway captives to the mountains three | "women and two children, says the , ^ Washington Post. I I The nation was horrified at the! suddenness of the tragedy, as the Utes had been known up to that time as a peaceful tribe, and had never given any trouble under the former agent, Gen. Charles Adams, who was on the most friendly terms with their great | Chief Auray and others of the tribe. But under Agent Meeker the Indians had become discontented and threats were made. Meeker asked the government to send soldiers for his pro-1 tection. The Indians learned they were coming and on that very night < the murders occurred. Panic seized the settlers in mai part of Colorado and they fled to Denver. The governor of Colorado, instead of urging that the troops be hurried forward, asked that they be halted and that Gen. Adams be sent to mediate with the Indians and se4 cure the release of the captives. The Indians would murder them if the 0*. soldiers-came, he said. Gen. Adams, then stationed in ; - New Mexico, was ordered to go to the scene with all possible haste. Accompanied by Count Doenhoff, a German nobleman visiting the West, he made a forced ride of 100 miles on horseback to the Indians' camp in the mountains. Here after a camp-J fire parley in the dead of night among the pines he succeeded in se-! ( curing the release of the prisoners and the promise of the Indians to surrender those guilty of the murders for punishment. It was a hazardous undertaking, as a nunfber of the braves in the council wanted to kill Gen. Adams, his companion, and all the prisoners on the spot ; Gen. Adams's Graphic Story. The sfbry of the conference as told by Gen. Adams, afterward appointed v United States minister to Bolivia in recognition of this service, follows: j ,1Tk tn the tent of Chief X\iUlUg W *r?W V Johnson, I found Mrs. Meeker, and a \ little farther on Mrs. Price and her 3 \ children. The women were pitiful looking spectacles. Wasted and wan and worn, with clothing torn almost into ribbons, hair streaming t and eyes dim with weeping they rushy ed toward me imploring me to take them out of their captivity. I promised them that I would not leave without them, and that they should soon be restored to their friends. "Some extra blankets, which the party had brought with them, were hastily fashioned into some kind of feminine apparel, and leaving them % these rude garments, with soap, water, and towels, I went back to my ** companions, leaving the women to " prepare for their return to civilization. "The children, who were playing about the encampment, looked well and healthy and said they had bee$ kindly treated by the Indians, who seemed fond of them and offered many ponies for their purchase. At noon Chief Douglas arrived with a delegation of his warriors, but it was nightfall before the council fires were kindled and the chiefs ready for the 'council. That scene I shall never forget. It is stamped upon my brain in ineffacable colors, as I fully realized that it was quite likely to be the last I should see with mortal eyes. The council was to be held in a little clearing in the midst of a deep pine foreet about a mile from the camp. The night was dark, and the deep blackness of the vast pine forest stretched away indefinitely, except where the little circle of the council fire threw its ruddy glow. Around it squatted the Indians, some 25 or 30 in number, their faces grim, watchful, and immovable, while I, with Count Doenhoff, sat apart and * looked at them reproachfully. ^ "They talked among themselves in the Ute language, of which I * knew but a few scattering words, all i,-if V> thorn hoinc far Ill V UiOUUUl OC mill lii^iu vw.4 ried on in Spanish. Presently Chief Douglas turned to me and offered . me the pipe of peace. I shook my head. Refused the I*ii>e of Peace. ; "I will not smoke the pipe of peace with bad Indians who kill white men and carry off my countrywomen," I answered in Spanish. "The India,ns looked sullen and once more ? talked apart. I could see that their discussion was hot and that opinions varied, some of the Indians seeming r 3 RESCUE rOMEN CAPTIVES ral Adams's Visit, With to Indian Camp in Colorado. to angrily protest against what others advocated. "Mv intemreter. a young Indiar boy who was very devoted to me, pulled my sleeve, and in the darkness I could see that he shook like a leaf. 'Oh, Adamus,' he gasped, 'they say best kill Adamus?Adamus bring white soldier, kill white squaw, too.' I laughed, not very heartily I admit, and broke into the discussion in Spanish. " 'You say you will kill Adamus, do you? Well, that's all right; you can kill me if you want to; I am a soldier, and a soldier expects to die in the discharge of his duty; I have been a good friend to you fellows and you know it; now if you want I to murder your friend, well and good, there is nothing to prevent you. 1 can only die once, and I am as ready to die upw as any other time. But for your own sakes I want to tell you one thing. The soldiers of my people are as the leaves on these trees. If you kill me or harm your captives, my countrywomen, the great white tather will send his soldiers and leav> not one of you alive..' "I rose as I spoke and placed my back against a tree, determined to I sell my life as dearly as possible. It was a critical moment. Count Doenhoft's Silent Eloquence. "Silently Count Doenhoff came and 1 stood close at my side. Alone in that : forest of blackness, the only white ! men within perhaps fifty miles, one hundred miles from civilization, we were absolutely in the power of those savnsres whn mieht torture us and put us to a most excruciating death. : I believe if I had wavered my life, and perhaps that of the count, would have paid the penalty. For a full | minute they sat smoking and looking i at me. Then a murmur went from one to the other, 'Adamus heap brave, Adamus no 'fraid.' "Then, long association of obedience to me, and, I really believe I their genuine affection for me, pre| vailed over the dictates of theii | savage natures, and again they of| fered me the pipe of peace. Again 1 shook my head and refused, saying, 'No, I cannot smoke with you until you promise me to give up your capj tives and allow the ringleaders ol I this revolt to be punished .ais thej deserve.' "This again raised a stormy disi cussion, and angry and suspicious looks were cast in my direction. i War Whoops Break the Silence. "A tew angry war whoops cut th deep silence of the night, and voices were raised loud in fierce discussion, In the midst of it, and when it looki ed as if my friends were getting i the worst of the argument, a ben1 and withered old squaw,, the mothei : of seven chiefs, rose painfully to hei feet, and leaning on her staff, with 1 her stiff, dry gray hair blowing about her peaked, wrinkled face, pointed her shaking, bony finger at the disputants and said in Spanish, 'Think, I you cl ie^s, what you are doing I Adamus is the friend of the Indian, ; the friend of Ouray. If you kill i Adamus or hurt the white squaws ! you will have to settle with Ouraj for :t and he is your great chiel | who will show you no mercy. You |a're few, Ouray is great and mighty he is the white man's friend, and il | you 1 ill Adamus Ouray will send hh ! chiefs to settle with you, and voui tribes will know you no more.' j T do not know how it is among ; other Indian tribes, but among the j Utek the aged are held in the verj I highest respect and receive the greatest care and attention. As this agec mother in Israel ceased speaking and | sank with a weary grunt once more j upon the ground, the chiefs talked once more together, and I could see that my cause was gaining. Agree to Surrender. "After some moments they turnec to me, and their spokesman saic | that they would give up the womer and allow the ringleaders of the re j volt to be arrested if I promised their i that they should not receive a white man's punishment (be hanged.) replied that I could make them ne ; such promise. "I am not here to make promise: for my government. I am here to res j cue and bring back my countrywo i men. You have committed murder Why should you not be punished foi it the same as a white man? Aftei this I talked tc them for a long time [setting their crimes before them ir i their true light, and urging them t< make all the reparation in theii power. I spoke to them as a lathe: and a friend. and explainet to them the disastrous re suits to their people and their trib< 'should they resist. I pleaded for th< helpless women and the little children, and denounced in no measur1 ed terms the murder of poor Father ^ Meeker. j "The council lasted well on to morning, but ere the embers of its fire faded before the gray of dawn I the Indians had promised submis-j sion, and I smoked with - them the pipe of peace when they had given me their solemn pledge that I might take back with me the captive women and children, and that they would 1 give up to justice the ringleaders of tvio revolt if t would see that the 1 troops were turned back and no ' more soldiers sent against them. "I told them that I could make no promises for the government, but would use my best endeavors in their ' behalf, and with that they seemed content, and we returned to camp ' in the gray of the morning in a friendly spirit." Indians Kept Agreement. The next morning, when Gen. Adams had seen the women and chil' dren safely on their way back to 1 civilization under the escort of his. 1 friendly Indians, he, with Count ' Doenhoff, started for the White River ' to join Gen. Merritt and report on 1 the success of his mission. In accordance with his agreement the troops were turned back, the In; dians broke camp and went back to ' their reservations and the threatened Indian war was at an end. s The promoters and ringleaders of ' the rebellion were given up by the ! tribe and received a well merited punishment, and the surviving members of the Meeker family were granted a pension for twenty years. The Lever Bill. It is curious that so much of the comment, in Northern and Western newspapers, on the Lever measure , for agricultural extension work, has indicated a lack of understanding of | the attitudes of the different sections toward better agriculture. It is , true that agriculture in some parts of the North is more progressive than in the South. But the decadence of farming in many sections of the North, particularly in New York and New England, has been such _ as to make very plain that other sections of the country have ' their troubles in this regard. The Lever measure looks to cooperation between the States and ' the nation, in the great work of car" rying better farming methods directly to the farm. That there may . be no unjust imposition on the Federal government, it provides that j every dollar of Federal money provided for this purpose shall be J matched by another appropriated by ^ the State. Moreover, the money thus provided is to be handled in each! State, through the agricultural colleges, which are maintained jointly j by State and national funds. No | State will be able to draw its allot- | ment of the national money until it ) shall have made provision for its own ; i share. This plan will make available a . fund with which to put demonstra; tors of modern and scientific farm j 1 : methods into the field, to go to the j fa,rms and help the farmers improve' tlieir methods. The whole fund of i immensely valuable information ; about good farming?proper man[ agement of soils, crop rotation, hand ling of stock, use of fertilizers, and the thousands of other intensely . practical subjects on which scientific , and practical experimentation have I gathered information-?will be car; ried right out to the farmer on his r farm. It has been found that neithl er the publication of bulletins nor [ the work'of the farmers' institutes' , reaches quite the right spot. Per-; : sonal touch and contact is required. , An expert farm demonstration agent to every rural county, and as many j more of them as county needs may ; indicate, is the ultimate aspiration. > Under the leadership of the late I r Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, the real be-! - ginnings of this work were underl taken, and the greatest success was 1 A ^ ^1% T ? 4-1 n r> f o I 11161 in 1116 OUUlll. iuuccu, Liiuo iai i i the South has been vastly the most I appreciative follower of the depart- i j ment of agriculture's Drogram for improvement of farming. Perhaps agriculture in the West has been so firmly established and prosperous 1 that it has been a bit lofty in its at' titude toward "book farming," while 1 the South has been willing to recog-j nize frankly that it needs to learn 1 much. At any rate the South has ' absorbed more than its share of the ' benefits of department activities. There is no section that cannot greatly benefit by adopting the 5 South's attitude of open:minaedness on these subjects. Especially is this true of the region east of the Alle' ghanies and north of the Potomac: r the country where, despite proximitv tn Hip hpst markets and surest ' demand, agriculture lias made the 1 poorest showing in the last half cen} tury. The Lever program offers 1 more to this section, if the people r will but recognize its possibilities * for them, than to any other.?Editorial in Washington Times. ; ^ Read The Herald, $1.50 a year. J'SON'S REPAIR SHOP Gun, Pistol, Rifle, - ? i vvr 1 Bicycle and Electrical Work ALL REPAIRS GUARANTEED Next to G. A. Ducker's New Store J'SON'S REPAIR SHOP * _ | to SMOAK'S STABLES to [| lit see those fine Horses and Mules, and that 1[ H swell line of Buggies, Carts, Carriages, g fS Harness, Whigs, etc., that he now has. If ? p you want anything in my line come to see ?j |g me. I can save you money. 1 H Railroad I I CMAAI^ Bamberg I || Avenue J* J* So. Car. jf Chicora Fertilizers For Sale By C R. BRABHAM'S SONS, Bamberg, S. C. 0 1 HMfe Rk ( Rheumatism I I B II H| I I Blood Poison I I ^^B J Scrofula, Malaria I I \ Skin Disease I b i c iai d i Because it Purifies i ||FpOpR(^ the Blood I BEAD WHAT NOTED PEOPLE SAT OF B LIPPMAN'S GREAT REMEDY?P. P. P. I ^8 Dr. AHdredge, Regency, Texas, writes: Rabbi Solomon, of the Savannah Con* B[ H "It is the leading blood purifier." gregation, writes:Had seven attacks of H B Dr. Whitehead, Metcalfe, Ga., prescribes Malarial fever lasting from a week to ten H H it, and with P. P. P. completely cured J. days. I took your medicine as a forlorn M M EL Davidson, who had suffered fifteen hope, bat now confess that P. P. P. was H U years with blood poison and sores. a real benefit." H B IT WILL HELP YOU, TOO-AT ALL DRUCCI8T8-$I.OO H | F. V. LIPPMAN, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA | Imitators Take the Dust of. ALWAYS IN THE LEAD For Colds, Croup and Pneumonia. Just rub it on. Thousands of testimonials from those who have used it. Mone; back if not as represented. I have used Gowans Preparation in a number of cases ar.d have been agreeabl surprised by results. It has always come up to expectations of it. W. HT CROCEFORD, M. D., Petersburg, Vs Have given Gowans Preparation a thorough test and ean say it is the bes preparation on the market for the relief of Pneumonia, Whooping Cough, Croup cola in the head and chest. JAS. P. SMITH, M. D., Augusta, Gs All Druggists sell Gowans. 3 sizes, 25c, 50c and $1.00. , GOWAN MEDICAL COMPANY Concord, N. C. T and Bad Colds are caused by germs. _ Fc i_^a Urrippe Quick relief^take The Giant Grip Germ Kiiie 25c and 50c, and Tablets 25c = Johnson's Tonic A .? t Real Estate Bargains 84*4 acres good land near town, limits, dwelling and outbuildings, worth $2,500.00, under wire fence. H sold promptly will sell at a sacrifice. 388 acres 7 miles from town; dwelling worth $2,500; timber enough to pay for property and some to spare. Prices and terms right. Must be sold at once. See me quick or you will be too late. Modern two-story dwelling in the town of Bamberg, prices and terms right if sold by January 1st. With the new railroad coming in now is the time to buy city property. H. M. GRAHAM .* FRANCIS F. CARROLL Attorney-at-Law Office in Hoffman Building GENERAL PRACTICE. BAMBERG, S. C. E. H. HENDERSON 1 J| Attorney-at-Law \ BAMBERG, S. C. I General Practice." Loans Negotiated. ^ I J. F. Carter B. D. Carter J CARTER & CARTER :| | Attorneys-at-Law | BAMBERG, S. C. I Special attention given to setI tlement of estates and investig gation of land titles. I RILEV & COPELAND t , :'$M | a Successors to W. P. Riley. , ? | Fire, Life f I Accident | * INSURANCE t | Office in J. D. Copeland's Store | I BAMBERG, S. C. | V| % \ J. P. OTT, JR. CIVIL ENGINEER FARM SURVEYING A SPECIALTY j| Address: 1341 Main Street, 11 COLUMBIA, S. C. FIRE INSURANCE Old Line Companies J. F. FOLK, Agt BAMBERG, S. C. / jjf ! DR. THOMAS BLACK, JR. || DENTAL SURGEON. Graduate Dental Department University of Maryland. Member S. C. 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