Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, March 10, 1904, Page 2

gy g B The Daily Pioneer AN NN PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON. PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. By R. W. HITCHCOCK. N ANANAANANAANA NN NN ANNNN NN PN NN Entored in the postoffice at Bemidji, Minn., as second class matter. NN AN ANN PN NN NSNS AN AN Official County and City Paper A ANNNAA NN NN, SUBSCRIPTION $5 PER YEAR 1904 MARCH 1904 A SPANISH PIRATE ICopyright, 1903, by C. B. Lewis.] One afternoon fn the year 1803, as the Jane Snow of Newburyport, bound for the West Indies, had sighted Porta Rico, a pirate brig appeared to wind- ward. She had been so often described that there was no mistaking ner. Sho 'was a Spanish craft familiarly known as the Black Devil, Josiah Marsh was skipper of the Bnow, and his crew numbered twelve men. As he had no guns aboard and as the craft was a slow sailer he order- ed out the longboat, and everybody got into her, and the Snow was abandoned. The pirates chased the longboat for a couple of hours, but as the wind was light they could not come up with her. Then they returned to pick up the Bnow. She was loaded with staves and lumber, and there was little ot nothing aboard of her the fellows could make use of. They dared not set fire to her, and the holes bored in her bot- tom only waterlogged her. A cat and a parrot were left aboard, and in-re= venge the pirates tortured the cat to death and hung the parrot to one of the beams of the cabin. As the longboat, with Joslah Marsh and his crew aboard, ran down through the Mona passage they met the British frigate Courier and gave her the news. They had left the pirate craft forty miles behind them, but the Englishman ‘was prompt to go in search. The Amer- icans asked that they might be taken aboard and serve until the Black Devil was destroyed, and their request was complied with. In a spirit of bravado the pirate cap- tain had entered her capture on the log and had added that he should cruise for a week between Porto Rico and Barbados. Accident had changed his plans, however. As his craft lay along- gide the Snow their rigging became en- tangled, and the Black Devil had her fore topmast sprung. She came to an- chor under the lee of one of the Virgin islands to repair damages and had just got all autanto when the Courier hove in sight. The Englishman knew that he must disguise his ship if he wished to get near the Spaniard. As he took up the pursuit he began to overhaul his top hamper, and after a few hours the smart frigate looked as slovenly as any . merchantman afloat. The pirate let herself be overhauled to within a mile before she flew the black flag, and as the emblem floated to the masthead she fired the first gun. She mounted twelve guns and had a crew of 118 men. The frigate mounted twenty-four guns and a crew of 140. It was not many minutes before the pirate found that he bad been tricked. He would then have got away, but the breeze fell, and he was under the guns of the Courier, The only thing {o the credit of the Black Devil was the fight she made against superior force. Cap- ture meant the halter, and for four long hours the pirates stood up to their work. the end of that time they had lost eighty wen, half their guns were dismounted, and the Dbrig had been hulled so often that there was five feet of water in her hold. She was still fighting when the frigate ran her aboard and poured fifty wen on her decks. In ten minutes they had pos- session. Little of value was found aboard the brig, as she had just returned to her cruising ground, but many of the ar- ticles removed are to be found in the British museum today. She was regu- larly fitted out with a stock of imple- ments of torture. Betwcen decks there was a large caldron set in brickwork and close by a stock of seven barrels of ofl. She had thumbscrews by the dozen, spiked boots, the racks and benches used in the inquisition, and in- deed nothing was lacking in the tor- ture line. Only twenty-eight men of the pirate’s crew lived to Dbe taken prisoners. Among them was her fourth or fifth captain, whose name was Alva He was a man of thirty, and a greater fiend never lived. Ile v the last man to give in and wu 0 severely wounded that for some days it was a question whether he would live or die. The brig was so badly knocked about that she foundered, and the frigate landed the pirates in Jamaica for trial They were a swaggering, boasting, de- fiant lot. Not one of them would turn king’s evidence, nor did any fear death. In cold blood, and knowing they would be used against them, the cap- tain, mate and_several of the crew made statements which “held them up as veritable devils. The captain hdd only engaged in two captures, and both vessels were English. One had.a crew of fifteen and the other of eighteen men. He boasted that every man had been tortured to death and that somé of them had lived six hours after their torture commenced. Ie said that with his own hand he had cut ofr the. ears, toes and fingers of a merchant captain and then spiked him down on his own deck with no less than fourteen ship nails. The mate had been with the brig from the outset of her career. It took him two days to make his “confession.” All the implements of torture were In his charge, and he was the one who di- rected their application. Te said he had been the death of 160 English, French and American sailors, and there was sufficlent corroborative evidence to prove that he was not boasting. The trial of the pirates lasted about two weeks, and’ they were given two more in which to prepare for death. Not one of them weakened in the slightest, and they sang songs and Joked with each other as they went tc the gallows, M. QUAD. THE MAN WITH THE PATIENT SMILE [Original.] “When I was running the Olympic,” said the veteran manager, “one day I ‘was stopped on the street by a cadaver- ous, threadbare, hungry looking chap who asked if I was Mr. Fuller, the manager. I told him I was, where- upon he pulled from his pocket a roll of manuseript, a play, and asked me to read it. “‘What do you call it? I asked. #¢4A Lucky Pind.” The lbero loses his fortune and finds it again in the third.act. The heroine’— “‘Yes, yes; I'll oblige you.’ “Be careful of it. It's the only copy I have, and it’s not copyrighted.” ““All right. T'll take care of it. “I Liad to go to several places before returning to my office and must have laid the manuscript down somewhere. At any rate I never thought of it again till one day the playwright came to my office. For my life I couldn’t remember where I had seen him. “‘Have you read my play? he asked. “‘Your play? Ob, yes; now I remem ber. No. .I haven't had time to get af it yet” “Meanwhile I was trying to thin} ‘what play it was and where it was. “‘All right,” he said, with a winning. patient smile. “I'll n. “As soon as he had gone I hunted high and low for his manuscript, but it was nowhere to be found. Finally I recalled taking it from him and going to several places afterward, but what places they were I couldn’t remember. I was very busy at the time, too busy to take any definite action in the mat- ter. Indeed, there was no action to take except to confess that I had lost his play. In a week he was back. “‘Haven’t got at your play yet’ T said: Then, fearing he would ask for it to take it away, I added: ‘I'm going to have some time next week. Could you wait till then?" “‘Oh, yes,’ he sald, with the same smile. “‘f you need a little help, I could let you have a fiver while we're wait- ing.’ 4‘Oh, no. I've had a bit of luck Iy. I don't need anything.’ *‘Well, come a week from Saturday. T'll be ready for you.' “When he called again, T was ready for him—with excuscs: ‘Couldn’t more than get through the first act. It opens well. Let me see. The next few days I'll be very busy, but—I tell you what I’ll do. I don’t like to work Sun- day, but in this case I'll do it. Come in Monday week." o “‘All right? he said, with the usual smile. ‘Don’t hurry. When I saw you last, I'd just got $100 first payment on a play, and today 1 got §400 more; so, you see, I can afford to wait. “Meanwhile I was lying awake nights worrying over the matter. After he had told me that he had sold a play I worried all the more, for a claim from him for damages would now be good. If his play were successful, he might make me pay a large sum. There was nothing for it but to put him off as long as possible. Ile came again at the appolnted time. Fortunately I had a cold. “‘You gee the condition I'm in, I sald, coughing. ‘A man’s not fit to pass on a play when he has to blow his nose between the lines. Bea: weather we're having. On Sunday 1 thought every minute I'd surely choke. But I've got through the third aci.’ ‘Clin 11 right?" ‘Capit: Notwithstandjng I had a coughing spell I was much affected.” “iCry “‘Cry? My eyes were all water.” “‘Climax or cold? Ile was as serl- ous as a tombstone. “ ‘O, both. You come in here a week from today.” *I was getting tired of that smile of his. Such a man too angelic to Ilive. Instead of writing plays he should be sitting in heaven with all the heroes and heroines who have died on the stage from an exc of virtue. I de- termined that at our next meeting I'd sound him on the subject of buying his play for as small m as he could be prevailed upon to accept. When he came again I said to him: “‘Your play will never do in world. You've got an anticlima tmpossible situation, in the sccond a and the whole scheme is undramn But I can use a part of it for a curt: raiser. Would you take a hundred dol- lars for it? “There was no verbal reply —only that confounded smile. T drew my check book and wrote him a check. “T can’t take this,’ he d. ‘Some- body has got hold of my manuscript, and the play is to be put on at the tional’ “I turned pale. He smiled “‘Say, my friend; what *ll you take to let me out of this? “‘If you'll give me the hundred dol- lars for keeping me waiting I'll call it square.” “‘Take it and welcome. late- the “As soon as he had gone T heaved a | deep sigh of relief and congratulated myself on having bad a man to deal with who hadn’t any more sense than to take $100 for a play he owned and was to be put on the boards by ahother manager. “‘4 Lucky Find' was a gr cess. I received seats for B night and was invited to supper the performance with the playwright. Curious to know who had stolen the play, T accepted. Who should greet me but the man with the patient smile. ““Fhe manuscript” he said. ‘had on | p-goin' to turn up his toes permanent | But nobody knowed it till he turned on | | Phil Steere.” r dinn contracted for. This is yo | dy paid for | me, and it has been alr with the check you HEL Ha FAE 46D O “Who's that slender, blue ¢ derfoot looking fellow over there” in- quired a passenger of the stage driver | during a change of horses, pointing to a man standing in the door of the expre: office. “That? - That' ain't o meck as he loc up alongside of me on the box for the 1y, and Tl tell you somethin’ wleston., Ile Jist ye get Joe about bim.” In a few minutes the driver got the reins in between his finge the holding the leaders let go and flung away down the road. “Waal, as to Joe I driver when the pac 1 settled down. “I always thought Joe a quiet, inoffcn- sive chap with no great spunk till his affair with Jennie Robbin Jennie’s people were poor enough o eat gopher meat, and as Jennie wis as purty as i pictur’ and had all the men in the neighborhood n love with ler they wanted her to make #ood h. Jennie was only fourteen at the time they set their I on her marryin' Phil Steere, a big cattleman, but she had all the monkey shines of a woman of twenty. She w 't bavin' much of a time when Steere asked for her, she didn’t object, thinkin’ that with his money she might make things Lum. He was forty, crossgrained and mean ag snwdust. “She hadn't much more'n said ‘yes' when along comes Joe Eggleston, nine- and as fair lookin’ for a was for a .gal../The men didn’t think much of him. e seemed a timid sort of a feller and most of the time didn’t even carry gun. Ie was a clerk in the expr office, and a man that dabbles in ink isn't ginerally much good for blood. But the wimmen all scemed to cotton to him. He had a way of lookin’ at ’em out of them blue eyes of his'n. At any rate him and Jennie jist went together like two magnets. Joe knowed that she was laid out for Steere, but that didn’t keep him from bein’ about with her a hull lot. “One day Joe sez to her, sez he, Jennie, there’s goin’ to be a weddin’ down at the City hotel in Park Ci Park City was a relay station for the stage line, and, as to parks, they was on the maps of the town that 1o be. “What ('ye say, sez Joe, ‘to us goin'? After the pair git hitched there's to be a dance. “4U'1l go with ye, Joe,’” she sez, ‘but if Mr. Steere finds it out he'll put holes enough in yer body to make a culender of ye. Have ye gota gun “uThere’s plenty of guns in the office,’ sez Joe. ‘Il take a couple along in case Mr. Steere gits on to us.” “They lit out after dark, but, as bad luck would have it, one of Steere's cow- boys suw 'em and went off to tell the big cattleman that his little bird had flown. Steere was kind of puralyzed at fust, but the more he thought about a measly clerk takin’ his gal away from him the madder he got. Ie mounted the fastest borse he could find and dug out in the direction Joe and Jennie had started. e followed ‘em all right enough till he came to where the road forked; then he took the wrong fork. This is why they got to I City long before him. If they was goin’ to git married, they'd ’a’ had time enough for a dozen hitehin's before he come up, but Joe hadn’t no moncy to support a wife. They was jist follerin’ the in- stinets of. two children of nature. It beats anything the w ich will run their heads into a noose jist for a little fun! “Waal, the weddin’ was over, and the guests was all a-slingin’ a lively leg in the dinin’ room, the tables bein' piled up agin the wall. A fiddler stood on a bar'l scrapin’ away and callin’ ‘Ladies change! ‘Alaman left! and all that. Joe was a-slingip’ Jennie in ‘turn cor- ners’ when all of a suddent Steere rode up to the open door and begun to pump lead into the room. The change that come over that dance was remarkable. There was a screamin’ of wimmen and 1" of men, though none of the od a gun, for they never sup- posed Steere would be shootin’ that a-way onless lie was hacked by a dozen or more of his cowboys back in the dark holdin' the drop on the crowd. “Phen was when Joe showed up. Satehin® sight of Steere outside and knowin’ well what was up, he drawed with his left hand, for Stecre had winged his right, and begun shootin’, movin' for'ard at the same time. Jen- nie she got out his other weapon, and as soon as he had emptied the first handed it to Lém, and he kept on pump- in’ man they ma “One of Joc's shots knocked the big cattleman oft'n his horse. Then one of the men said to Joe, ¢ little fool, git out of this while yo have a chance. Some on ‘em hurtled Joe and Jennie sut a back door, and they for home, leavin’ Steere to be c upstairs to a room, where he lay for ® monih not knowin' whether he was ir not. “Meanwhile some of the people told him if he ever shot into a dance agin they'd give him a chance to dance him- self where the grass was too short. The expr compar, rin’ about the Incident, put Joc in charge of their treasure in sportation, givin® him a big salary, and he married Jennie six months after they went to the wed- din' at Park City. Since then Joe has twice saved a train from robbery and been loaded down with reward “No, sir, ye 't always tell about a man's pluck from his appearance. Joe Eggleston is one of them mild cyed fellers that ye want to steer cles VICTOR S. BERNARD. nl )l ¥. O. E. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Bemidji AerieNo. 351 Meets every Monday at§ p m., Gilmour’s Hall. President | A.T. Wheelock, = W W, Secretary H. 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Sheep—Good to choice yearling wethers, $4.50@4.75; heavy, $3.75@4.10; good "to choice lambs, $5.00@5.25; fair to good, $4.50@5.00. Duluth Wheat and Flax, Duluth, March 9.—Wheat—In store ~—No. 1 hard, 95%c; No. 1 Northern, 94%c: No. 2 Northern, 91%c. To ar- rive—No. 1 hard, 95%c; No. 1 North- ern, 941%4c; No. 2 Northern, 91%c; May, 94%c; July, 94%c; Sept, 83%ec. Flax—In store, on track and to arrive, §1.141 May, $1.16%; July, $1.17%; Qct., $1.18%4. Chicago Union Stock Yards. Chicago, March 9.—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.10@6.00; poor to me- dium, $3.40@5.00; stockers and feed- ers, $2.50@4.25; cows, $1.50@4.00; heifers, $2.25@4.50; calves, $3.00@ 6.50. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $5.35 @5.75; good to choice heavy, $5.70@ 5.85; rough heavy, $6.40@5.65; light, $4.90@5.60. Sheep- ood to choice wethers, $4.25@4.80; Western sheep, $3.50@5.25; native lambs, $4.25@5.90; ~Western, $4.50@6.00. Chicago Grain and Provisions. Chicago, March 9.—Wheat—May, 9215c; July, 88%c; old, 89%c; Sept, 8215c old, §414c. Corn—March, 48%c; May, 51%c; July, 49%c; Sept., 483c. Oats—May, 403%c; July, 38%; Sept, 333c. Pork—May, $13.77%; July, $14.00. Flax—Cash, Northwestern, $1.14; Southwestern, $1.08; May, $1.- 10. Butter — Creameries, 14@23%c; dairies, 13%@2lc. Eggs—16%@17c. Poultry—Turkeys, 12¢; chickens, 12¢; | sorings, 12c. M Dealer ER HENRY BUENTHER Naturalist and Taxidermist 208 Second St. Postoffice Box No. 686 BEMIDJI, MINN. BIRDS, WHOLE ANIMALS, FISH, FUR RUGS AND ROBES and GAME HEADS mounted to order and for sale. carry a all times a good assortment of INDIAN RELICS and CURIOS FUR GARMENTS made to order, repaired and remodeled FURSin season bought. I guarantee my work mothproof and the most lifelike of any in the state MY WORK I EQUALLED BY FEW, EXCELLED BY NONE A Deposit Required on All Work YOUR TRADE SOLICITED J[tumbermens State Bank BEMIDJI SIS ET ) I General Banking Business. 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