The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 2, 1905, Page 10

~ THE SAYING OF OREGON. HOW DR. WHITMAN BRAVED BLIZZARDS AND DEATH. Determined to Save Country From| 8¢W come British — Danic! Webster Opposed | '!!t the say | , te Retaining Territory. y* wilderness howe i a there set out for Washington. A bloody trophy in poss vernment at Washington hatchet. Th or wk reeks with red and horid association. It is the weapon with which Dr. Marcus Whitman, the Indian missionary and his wife were slain in 1847 and with Which the first blow of the tearsome Whitman masacre was begun—an en- ormous crime which nearly obliterated the white American settlers in the Ore- gon country, sent a thrill of horror and indignation throughout the Amer- Jean republic and saved to the Amer- j ican people the great northwest coun- try out of which Oregon, Washington and other states were created. It is | One of the very cruel chapters in his- tory-a chapter embrac eight years of war between setth and savages the result of which was that the Hud- son’s Bay Company and the British crown were compelled to relinguish their claim to the territory. Another result was the virtual annihilation of the Cayuse tribe of Ind s So much tragic history centers about this rusty hatchet that it is one of the rarest rel- ies of the government. A government official familiar with the period si “The Whitman massacre was the re- sult of the machinations of England to secure by treayy or otherwise all sion of the an In- CrWuitman p Starring Easton wis PERtLous Trip Across tHe oc nies. James Preanine nis Cause Berore . Wepster ano (The PRresioent, the territory west of the Rockies ane north of the 42nd parallel of north lat | t itude.” First White Women toCross Rockies. Th uviving settlers were not slow Presidential and Diplomatic It was in 1886 that Dr, Marcus Whit- aie Tal a ed aun He Entrance. » ihe of Maisie: xis mune "Paleface a fearful word to the i en ies int He ee redskin murderers of the northwest There will be special, entrances and to cross the Rock Mountains went | forests, War to the death was care’c T lag Foon an Sacsis OF te ge jad among the tribes of the Far North- inst the Indians for eight years, diplomatic corps and for He ee west. The counry was then in the} Gevernment troops were in the coun- | of the United States, who will thus be} ; ed: try, and a stream of immigration had enabled to quietly seek their train with- control of the Hudson's Bay Com- pany a British monopoly with nearly a thousand employes. Its power over the Indian tribes was nearly absolute. t It had a string of fortified Canac t posts from the Athintie to the DT . The company owned by men in Lon- don desired to exclude American set- thements grat! fo fs the stubbornly v and to foster British imimi- | y fhe | Washi mn government from haying any conception of | ¢ nitingained that it was] ¢ avortliless inaecessible by land. The great ebster said that it) was a land fit only for savage beasts and still more > omen Dr. Whitt ablished his mission among the use in the Washington near what is now Walla- Walla, then Fort Walla Walla, trad- ing post. In 1842 while attending a dinner given at the fort in of some British officers news came Were on their v and had already crossed the Rocky Mountains. There fwas great excitement at the table and a young officer unconscious of the presence of the American mission- ary jumped to his feet exclaiming “Hurrah for Columbia: (the Oregon country). America jis ‘too later We have got the country Dr. Whitman perceived that it was the purpose of the British to claim the country by right of settlement. He left the table rode rapidly to his and after a brief is parting words to his wife were “Fam going to cross the Rocky Mountains, reach Washington this winter, God carrying me _ through nd) =sobring = out’ s an’ immigration urough the mountains next spring or country is lost.” An Awful Journey. ” Winter had set in and the old chron- icles tell it was a severe one marked terrific storms and deep snows. . Whitman reached Washington pled by fro: hands and feet. le news he brought caused excite- it among the populace and concern ng many of the government offi- ts. He saw Daniel Webster Secre- ty of State represented to him frandeur and value of the Oregon antry, told him of the need of im- pts und explained the reason i bad induced him to brave the jor of the season by making the Mr. Webster was about to con- de the Webster-Ashburton treaty pouncing any clain) we might have t norhwest for a Newfound- cod-fishery. Webster was not d with Whitman's patriotic m. He considered the coun- no value. He thought it would well to let Great Britian have ot satisfied with his interview the Secretary of State Dr. Whit- | gought Present Tyler who }him with attention, and prom- the diplomatic deal for the should be set in, were captured by the Nez Perces on wife fell at Wahula on that bloody Novem- { Une of the northwestern country | a little considerate in its treatment of Perces band? state of | from one thing to another, and then forgets. centered upon Port Arthur, and then it was transferred to the movements honor] of the na which wa that a company of British immigrants | hopes, when Rojestvensky entered the China | From the Washington Star. . a man of affairs who has done things | PALATIAL R. R. STATION. Develish Work. agents slowly poisoned savages against the ut it was not till 1S7 3 in council determined to massacre all the American settlers in their country. The site of Dr. Whitman's dwel-| ling was on the north bank of | With all the talk relative to Govern- the Walla Walla river at what is| ment control of railway rates, and the now the town of Wahula. The In- | probability of Congress giving the sub- dians surrounded the hous of the} ject at least consideration, the busy mission their weapons hidden under | gojons of the Senate and House this their blankets. At dawn of November | winter may not appreciate that within 20, 184 Indian entered the doctor's | q radius of eight miles of the Capitol house and asked for medicine. As| building there is work of railroad im- the missionary turned to his medicine | provement going on having a value of FINEST IN THE WORLD. the m = Construction of Structure and Build- ing of Adjacent Largest of Freight Yards to Cost $22,000,000. ———s chest the savage buried his tome | over $22,000,000. hawk in the good man’s brain. Mrs.) Just across the Potomac River, be- Whitman was killed a minute later | tween Washington and the historic by the same savage with the same) but sleepy town of Alexandria, the pon, The murder of the mission- | Pennsylvania railroad is well along in ary was the si; for the wholesale | constructing the largest freight yards slaughter to begin. The butchery com-/in the United States, at a cost of menced on all sides. The crash of | $7,000,000, while the Pennsylvania and firearms, the groans of the dying,| Baltimore and Ohio railroads are ex- screams of women, yells of the painted | pending $15,000,000 in the city itself in demons filled the air, The Indians eliminating grade crossings and erect- ing a new Union station—a station which, when completed, will be the largest passenger station in the world, even exceeding that at Hamburg, Ger- many. women and children danced and sang They and under as the atrocious work went on. multilated the dead. Women children of the settlers sar bloody knife and club, The massac lasted all day and then murde parties started in ev diireciion. Compares in Size with Capitol. Everybody in the Whitinan mission The new station, in itself but five wi killed and many settlers all feet shorter than the Capitol building, The | Will face a plaza 500 feet wide by about 1,000 feet long, decorated with artistic balustrades, terraces and fountains, Nine streets will lead into the plaza, which itself will provide a space for massing troops and spectators for pub- lic ceremonies, To give the required elevation to the station so as to admit the two passenger tunnels from the South, it was necessary to fill in the site of the station, some 1,000,000 cubic yards of earth being required to form the new plaza, the fill for a con- siderable area being over 35 feet In depth, Sanitary Train Sheds, Unlike most railroad stations, the architectural beauty of the Washing- ton station will not be marred by the usual gigantic semi-circular train shed, but each pair of tracks will be covered over with a sort of umbrella train shed, which will protect alighting and de- parting passengers from the elements, but will also allow the smoke and gases } to rise into the atmosphere, The bag- gage trucks will pass to the cars through tunnels to the end of the tracks, where the trunks and parcels will be brought to the surface by ele- Vators, so that at no time will the pas- sengers be in danger of collision with the baggagemen. The train concourse | will be the largest single room in the | world, nearly 700 feet long, the entire | Vis being unbroken by the usual) j labyrinth of pillars, The ceiling is to be constructed in what is technically known as of the self-supporting type. There will be 33 passenger 8, 2 on the main floor level und six on the tunnel floor where trains from the South will arrive through the double tunnel under Capitol Hill, A feature of the station will be the absence of | |s © that even in a large crowd, for which Washington is famous dur- jing inaugural or convention — times, there will be no danger of accident to American Immigration Won the Day. the passenger arriving or departing, through the woods were slain. Cayuse attacked a dission among the Nez Verees but Ahese Indians eat them back and took the sides of Wispatching partias of raves after the murderous Ca NEW WASHINGTON STATION THE EUROPEAN GOSSIP: trigue. It seems that Mr. W. W. bought the historic Hever estate Kent, England, and is improving it. includes 2,000 acres of land and moated castle, nearly years old, where at one time Henry VIII. maintained Anne of Cleves. On this estate Mr. Astor has put to work about one thousand men, with due ap- paratus, and is making changes rated as improvements which the calculating natives estimate will cost him a million and a quarter pounds. He is building a lake, a model village, roads, bridges and gardens, and is doubtless having a good deal of the sort of fun that Mr. Kipling in a recent story has suggested as a suitable recreation for tired Amer- icans. Though the Sultan is himself a total THE SHAIL OF PERSIA, ner, the finest vintage wines are always offered to such guests as dine at the palace. The recent visit of the Shah of Persia to England recalls a former call of his upon Queen Victoria, when London was startled at the Oriental methods employed by this picturesque Eastern potentate. Thousands of dollars worth of damage was done in the famous Buckingham Palace by the nochalant orders of the Shah. The sheep which provided his mutton were brought into the palace rooms, which had been placed at his royal disposal, and slaughtered upon the magnificent and costly rugs and other such extravagant practices were the order of the day. While the meat which the Shah eats is always supposed to be slaughtered be- fore his eyes, it was believed at the time that these performances were simply the carrying out of an Eastern regal fancy, to show Western barbarians what the Orient was accustomed to. The Queen’s maids of honor have very little to do. They live at home, and when the Queen is in London they are conveyed to Buckingham Palace after luncheon in royal carriages, and remain in a suite of charming salons until required to accompany the Queeu and her unmarried daughter out driving. They must dress very well and not appear in the same clothes too often, and, above all, study the wishes Tales of Diplomatic and Court In- ajyears of age. be saved could cil in order that he may jtrouble.” As a dismissal this jhardly be improved upon. Father John of Cronstadt, whose extraordinary influence over the Czar, Astor has/no less than his propaganda against in|the revolutionaries, continually rouses It} the ire of the secret committee, is 86 In personality he} six hundred |answers to the description of the aver-| age Russian peasant, only in his case abstemiousness has wrought a refining effect on his features. VAN CALAVA. COUNTING UNCLE SAM’S CASI. Occurs Every Time a New Treasurer is Appointed. Owing to the recent change in the office of ‘Treasurer of the United States, a task of no small magnitude is going on in the Treasury Building. Every time one Treasurer gives way to another the cash must be counted and verified before the new official become, responsible for the money under his care. As soon as a change is made the Secretary of the Treasury appoints a Committee of Three to select a force to count the cash, This committee picks out a number of clerks in the various ottices of the Department, and they are set at work to count the mulions, Per- haps there may be forty men selected to perform this huge count; maybe fifty or eighty, It is always considered an honor to be one of these counters. The total sum counted by these men is somewhere in the neighborhood of five hundred and thirty money, bonds, notes and else, One vault alone contains over a hundred millions in silver dollars, An- other has a heavy amount of silver fractional currency, and many tons of nickel five-cent pieces and pennies. Tae worsing cash is handled first, and in order to give it a chance to do war duty it is counted at night. st of the money is counted in bulk stored away in vags, each contain- ing a certain sum, ‘Luese are weighed and if there is even one dollar short, there is insiant detection of the wrong count. As each bag is filled by a clerk. ittuches his name by a tag, any suey in the number of coins or coin missing from the sack is This is done, not only M and any charged to hin, to check any tendency toward dis- . but also to cause each counter se the e. The new urer is Charles IH, Treat, of New who takes the place of Eflis L. Roberts. cincinnati The Unemployed in Germany, It seems from consular reports that A Tension Indicator Its use means time saving and easier sewing. It’s our own invention and is found only on the WHITE Sewing Machine. niiliions in | everyvbing | there are none, Colonies for the so- called “unemployed” take tuem out of this class immediately and make pau- perism unknown, Each city supports large offices where hunters for work go and register, They get a bath, have their clothing disinfected, and if the unions which support these institutions have no work for them in cities, they are sent to the farm colonies in’ the country, where they can work at farm- ing, land reclamation, and in other pro- ductive capacities. The system of these unions is said to be very com- prehensive; they are open to all, and besides providing opportunities for worl ave of Her Majesty in regard to colors and modes. The millinery embargo, that is, not to wear a picture hat, must be fol- lowed to the letter. With a salary o $1,500 and the attachment of “Honor- able” to their names, the fair maii's-of- « out hindrance. t In the original bill introduced in Con- The Who attacked the Ca Whitman mi leaders of the he upper John Bay river ami five of hem were hanged at Oregon city. | The graves of Dr. Whitman and his pointed out near where they | ber morning 1847. In the light of this does it not seem hat the government might have been he late chief Joseph and his Nez —]— The World Moves Quickly. How the thought of the world passes Attention for months was al fleets, the meeting of so disastrous to Russian It will be remembered that | Sea he wired to the Czar: “If I am} victorious I shall inform you. If Iam vanguished, Togo will inform you.” | To the public Port Arthur is no more than one of the countless red} splotches that disfigure history, and! the naval battle of all history is already relegated to dry discussions as to what branch of service was most disastrous to ship and lives. Enforcing the Laws. There was nothing original in Gov. Folk’s address at Chautauqua, N. Y., recently, but the well-known truth he | enunciated took on greater weight for | his indorsement: He is no closet phil-| osopher, giving to the public the re-| sults of reading and speculation, ‘but | and noted the consequences. He was elected District Attorney in St. Louis | j in the expectation that he would ignore | ; the laws and let those who were vio- lating them continue to flourish on their iniquities, Instead of that, he| enforced the laws and saw ‘conditions | all around him rapidly improve. When therefore, such a man tells us that 4) gress allowing the railroad companiés cure for many of the ills we are endur-|to construct this station, provision ing as a people is the simple execution; was made to drive a tunnel directly. of the laws, he has the strongest pos-| beneath the Capitol building, with ele- sible claim upon our attention, and his| vators running immediately from the advice is worth following. Laws are| Senate Chamber and the House Cham- of little use unless their enforcement | ber into private Congressional stations. is demanded and backed up by public| This weuld have enabled the United sentiment. States Senator from Oregon, for in- stance, to pass out of the Senate and walk directly aboard his Pullman sleeping car without exposure to the open air until he reached his far western home. A great convenience this, doubtless, to delicate legislators; but a ee ee of bas goon by the rail probably . w' ex- cluded from the architectural plans. En Literature and Music Prosper. During the past year the Library of Congress made entries for copyrights to the extent of 106,577, an increase of 7,141 over those made in 1903. Of these, compositions of a musical char- acter head the list, there having been entered for copyright 23,740. Period- icals in single numbers follow closely behind, with a total number of 21,041. The classification of “books” showed TheBrickbats Never Touched Him honor manage to worry along until they marry, King Alfonso recently had a curious adventure at Madrid. He had left Granda one morning incognito, He guarded his identity so strictly that no one suspected his presence and when he presented himself at the royal palace the sentry refused him admit- tance. 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