Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1897, Page 20

) THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897-92 GES. REAL COWBOYS. A CATTLE ROUND-UP The Men and Horses That Do the Work ot Bunching Steers. CHARACTERISTIC INCIDENTS OF CAMP The Real Broncho and the Real ne Cowboy Out in Wyoming. —— BUCKING AS If IS BUCE ED) petebe eee tar. 20, 1897. ING IN the early part of the | Se month the inhabi-j é = tants of this quiet| town were startled | by the appearance of | several hundred s gnd thirty or! hor: forty mounted men. It was the Two Bar S outfit on a up. Upon the of the freight tents were vitch camp fires ral for the horses put up and preparations for supper were on in the mess tent under the direc- Ed, the chef, who is an artist The tender, juicy steaks he . the zing roasts done to a turn, light. wholesome bread and ples he . and th rious other good things that he prepares, and which only a cowboy knows of, all in the same flat-bottomed ket with only sage brush and chips for fuel, would be a revela- erfoot. And he is the only | ump who fs never idle. From the | of early day, when his musical “roll | " resounds through the camp and out over the prairie, till the “last call for sup- per” he is bu He must not only nd the purchasing of supplies, but | 1 and drive his mess wagon, see that wood is brought, fires lighted and at- snd to various other duties which fall only © the lot of a round-up cook. The Work of the Nighthawk. Another interesting character is the | nishthawk, who gvards the horse cavy | after the riding for the day is over. He t remain in the saddle all night, in all | ith several hundred | bent on getting as far from ible. Sometimes during a ses will stampede, and then weird glafe of lightning flashes, | the horses making wild efforts to the country,” the spectacle is one ting in the extrem wagons, mu the ricer, the nighthawk has no sino- I e cavy over s grease wood, dodging i Washouts, when a false step his horse means a severe fall, and Pe rhaps a fractured limb or broken neck Skip the ity by day and also manages to keep the oplied with fuel. He will draz timbers that would make a half | wood by ply tying them to mmel of his saddle with his lariat ng the load to drag along be- Kid attends to the same } of the party was made up € cireuit riders, under the foreman, Mr. | familiarly known as Dave among w punchers, and it is safe to say steers ever become “outlaws” on es that Dave works. eek being the starting point for Wreming Round-up No. 7, a halt was made for a ¢ : two to allow the rep- es from other cattle companies It is also the shipping point for } n. During this enforced delay spent in shoeing horses. nding saddles and making other prep- tions for the round-up. Everything be- in readiness, the start was made, the wegons keeping along the morc ns of the prairie, with the horse ng in the rear, while the cir- | lers strung out in little groups of three, finally separating so that Ty n would be searching for ca tle in a certain direction. lecting the Cattle. And here is where nerve, training and a knowledge of the country display them- To start over an unknown prairie ndmark in sight, save,perhaps, mountain peak, with nothing to sectt Fs him but bis sense of direction; on, on rider pursues his way, generally on a dead run and never slower than a smart sallop, for miles and miles, over level prairie, then over steep buttes, through «anons with perpendicular walls and over- hanging rocks: fording rapid streams, till . In some sheltered draw he dis- covers caftle. Then he must approach gently till he di iscern the brand, as the cattle are often as wild as the antelope with which they share the plains, and it iakes a good . Killful rider to! the b nd bring it to nD. in the moved meantime been thirty to fifty miles from ler left it in the mornin; ride being only an ordi man from early mo After all the riders have reach- nd dinner over, generally about esh horses are roped and another Each rider has from ten to besides his cow horse and . Yet with the hard work that is required of them the average life of | on | have neve ! gave him a place in history. | loons and up to bars without dismountin; | and window lights and tenderfeet are alike | country they are passing aw will carry a rider over steep mountalas where a man on foot would have to support himself with his hands to make his way up. The plains are covered with short grass, which grows in bunches and would seem to an eastern man to furnish no food for any- thing but sheep and jack rabbits. In the draws, however, the grass !s often luxur- iant, and here cattle grow sleek and fat in a few months. Horses are given no more attention than cattle till they are wanted, anQ then, after being driven into a corral, the twister takes them in charge, and in a couple of weeks they are supposed to be 21 to the saddle. It would not, how- , he well to try the Fort Myer style of mounting or riding them. On being first iven into a corral, the twister front foots mal he selects for a pupil, and after ing It and strapping on a bridle with a lariat for a halter, its first lesson consists in “learning the ropes,” as it were—a horse being considered tractable when rope broken. After working a number of streams, among them the Medicine Bow, Little Medi- cine, Snake, Wagon Hound, Foot creek and others, the outfit finally reached the Platte. In Camp on the Platte. Under the shade of a grove of cotton- woods, the only timber in this part of Wyoming, the western.limit of the round- up was reached, and all felt relieved that the return to Rockcreek the outfit would at no time be far from this mighty ibutary of the father of waters. Occa- nally, in some secluded place, nestled mong the hills, with neighbors from ty-five to fifty miles away, a pionec was found who had established his ranc! along some wooded mountain stream. His irrigated lands show prosperity and his cottonwood-shaded buildings show content- ment, and here he dispenses hospitality to the chance stranger with an open hand. Many of them have their herds of thorousn- breds that would do credit to an eastern farmer. ‘A cosiderable number of cattle having been gathered by this time, it became ne essar to detail several men to stand guard, each taking his turn for two hours at ight, mounted on his night hors care is taken to prevent a siampede, no firearms being discharged, and no wild rid- ing done near the cattle. Everything mu: give way when the cattlemen appear wit their cavy—the nighthawk and the kid be- ing obliged to search for pastures newer. Working the Cattle. Every few days the cattle are “worked,” as the process Is called, the cowpunche taking their cow horses and cutting out theze animals that are not wanted. Here nice discernment is required, as {t happens sometimes that the brand on an animal will show evidences of having been tam- pered with Thus the mark 11 could be easily converted inte a letter H and pre- ceded or followed by some other letter or character. If the animal is killed and skin- ned the brind placed upon it firsp ca. re tly be distinguished by reason of its bein, deeper. “Outlaw” steers are those that have escaped the round up tll they are from twelve to eighteen years old. If caught they are sometimes “kneed,” an operation which prevents rurning, but does not inter- fere with walkirg, and in this condition the animal takes on fat more kindly. Such animals often reach che Washington mar- kets. Maveracks are those animals that r been branded and formerly be- longed to the first man who could put his brand on them. The Cowboys of Today. ‘The round-up having reached the starting point the cattle were loaded on cars and shipped to Chicago. It was a successful round-up, carried on in the old way, but not with all the swagger style that for- merly characterized the cowpuncher and | Cowboys no | longer wear tapideros forty-six inc! and weighing ten pounds to the pair gles end silver ornaments on the hat’ are a thing of the past, and even the spirit of the cowboy of teday is not what it once was, though when he goes to town he fs not apt to be unnecessarily interfered with; he no longer amuses himself by riding into sa- safe in his preset Though made up of light haired sons ef Sweden, men from New York to Texas, as well as from Mex- ico and Califcrnia, yet no more honest, whole-souled and hospitable lot of men can found than the cowpunchers of the west; but as a picturesque feature of the y, and in a few years more will be known only in the pictures of a Remington and the tales of a Warman. ONE OF THEM. ———— Icelanders in Minnesota. From the St. Louls Globe-Democrat. The most Icelandic town in America is Minneota, Minn. Even its mayor fs an Ice- lander. As.most of these Icelanders are Lutherans, they joined together a few years ag? and organi: an indepenient synod. Until recently they have been greatly hampered by the lack of a Htera- ture. This lack has been felt with much severity in their Sunday schools, where they had nothing to read or study printed in a language that either old or young un- derstand. To meet the want a firm of young Icelanders has recently started the publication of a Sunday school paper containing the lesson: These Iceland- ers live, for the most part, in .Minne- sota, North Dakcta and Manitoba. Two years ago the Manitobians suggested the foundation of a college. It met with in- stant approval, but the town of Crystal, N. D., which has in it some New Engiand et terprise, get in the first inducement to lo- cate in the shape of an offer of a bonus of 2.000 and six acres of land. Park River, N. D., almost immediately offered $1,000 and ten acres of land. This was all done before Winnipeg had waked up. The latter claimed that as the suggestion had come from them they cvght to have a chance to hold out an inducement to it to locate in yinnipee. Accordingly, to give the slow hmen up there time to decide wheth- er or not to help their Icelandic neighbors, a decision concerning the location was postponed until the Ist of next January. | On that date Park River, N. D., ts to have > is about three years, when it is eondemned and sold for ranch purposes. A Real Wild West Show. ry time the horses are saddled a few ents are taken to watch the wild west that is sure to follow. Always one pmetimes several horses will start to vck, and the frantic efforts of the horse to free itself from its burden seem to be enjoyed as much by the rider as by tae rs. On these occasions every cne saddle; it is the only safe ld west riding can only be I! its thrilling recklessness on the There is a wide difference between bueking pony in a st ring, made k to order, and a half-tamed bron: native plains, with nothing to pre- vent him going several miles and bucking jump. horses in bucking have only a kind sccelerated gallop, while others literally change ends.” Few accidents happen, and these are not genrally serious, though ometimes it happens that a man fs severe- hurt or even crippled for life. Horses and cattle alike being allowed to care for themselves till wanted, they become ac- customed to roaming over broken ground, full of holes and washouts, and it is very Fare for a horse to stumble. These horses the Iceland college if 11 raises its bonus to $5,000, and if Winnipeg meanwhile ts able to make no tempting offers. ——__ + e+ ____ A Renson. ” 2 Life. Why were you discharged from your last place?” asked the merchant of the applicant for a situation. “I was discharged for good behavior, i + sir, ‘Wasn't that a singular reason for dis- charge?” “Well, you see, good behavior took nine months off my sentence.” ——_+ e+ ____ A Tarkish Episode. From Puck. Messenger—“Slave, the sultan sends thee the bowstring.”” The Siave—“Thanks—thanks! I would do as much for the sultan if I had the chance.” a a a ee Mrs. Cumso—“Your husband dresses very quietly.”" Mrs. Cawker—“Does “he? You ought to hear him when he can’t find his collars, or his cuff buttons become mislaid.”—Harper's OLD SITTING. BULL His Story of the Massacre of General Custer's Army, CALLED If A GREAT MYSTERY —_+—__—_ Scout Allison Tells of the Great Sioux Prophet. —— A PECULEAR TRADITION Sa a ar a ‘ Written Exclusively for The Evening Star. Prior to my second visit to the camp of the hostile Sioux, in the latter part of Oc- tober, 1880, I had no more real knowledge of Sitting Bull than the ordinary reader of the dafly newspapers, though I had lived many years among peoples of the same great tribe to which he belonged. I had, of course, heard from the agency» Indians the same conflicting stories which were published from time to time in the news- papers. Sitting Bull was of the Hunk’papa band, and I had heard Thunder Hawk, an agency chief of the same band, say that he was not a chief. I had heard Long Sol- dier, a chief of the Hunk’papa band, and a rival of Thunder Hawk for official honors and preference, say also that Sitting Bull was not a chief in any sense of the word, but a pretentious fraud, “just like Thunder Hawk. Another petty aspirant for the honors of chieftainship in the same band, and at the same agency with the two men- tioned above, was Tee-zig-zi-tea (Belly Fat), who declared that Sitting Bull was a usurper, a coward and a fool; that, in truth, he was no better than Long Soldier or ‘Thunder Hawk. _ There were other warriors of the Hunk’- papa band at Standing Rock agency, how- ever, who were not chiefs, who had no am- bitions in that direction, but were content to live the humble lives of common, every- day braves, who had better words for the great philanthropist Sitting Bull, the Peter Cooper of the Sioux nation. ‘But these kKindlier sentiments were expressed in a whisper, while the speaker looked anxious- ly around, fearful least he be heard by a spy of the regime of the white man. In whispers they declared that Sitting Bull was a great man, that he was a true patriot who loved his fellow men, pitied the father- less and motherless, the aged and infirm, and loved to feed the hungry and shelter the homeless, and they would conclude with a deep-drawn sigh that rose from a hopeless heart laden with love for the last great priest and prophet of a once proud but now vanquished and vanishing race. Early Life. During the winter of 1880-'81, while con- @ucting negotiations for the surrender of what were known as the hostile Sioux, I was a guest for many days in Sitting Bull's ledge, and at night after we lay down to he told me much about himself. His friends and relatives confirmed all that he told me, and they added many things which his modesty had forbidden him to reveal. From his old mother, who was still living at that time, I learned that he was born in March, 1824, on Willow creek, a small trib- utary of Bad river, in South Dakota. In his early youth he was different from other Indian boys only in an unusually mild dis- positioa and a marked desire to avoid dis- putes and altereations which were common among his playmates. Reaching that age when the young warrior’s ambition usually es him to the warpath, his friends and ves were disappointed to find that he ed the more peaceful vocation of » er; but*his energy and skill as a hunt- er, which enabled him to previde an abun- dant supply of meat and robes for his fa- ther's family, soon reconciled them to his preference. At the age of twenty-two years he mar- ried, and set up an establishment of his own, which proved to be a veritable home for the friendl In Sitting Bull's tepee there s food for the hungry, ¢ buifale robe or deerskin for the needy a“ place for the w traveler to lie down and rest. If, in passing through the. camp, he came upon an aged man or woman in need of food or clothing, he would conduct them to his lodge and provide for their necessities; an orphaned child he would lift in his arms and carry to his house, where it would receive the tenderest care. What wonder that where Sitting Bull pitched his tent there would cluster around him a band of devoted followers, and when a stran entered the village any brave, any sq Ww or little child whom he might’ meet would point him to Sitting Bull's tepee and tell him that there he would receive food aud shelter. And is it se very wonderful that the name of Sitting Bull should soon be- come a household word among all the Da- kotas, for that traveler would carry with him to his distant home a grateful remem- brance of his generous host, and when ed whose camp he v would be for him to ar Bull's.” Thus it happened th formality, without an became the great man, the Sioux nation. Not a Leader. Yet he was never a leader. The people carried him about very much as the Israel- ites carried the Ark of the Covenant, or as we carry the stars and stripes. What the queen bee is to the swarm Sitting Bull was to his people, with him they were united, without him they were scattered abroad. In these carlier years of his man- hood there was peace between the Sioux and the whites, so that his only practice in the art of war was in repelling an oc- casional attack by their Indian enemies and when on very rfre occasions he be came one of a war party on an expedition against the Crows, he never gained distinc- tion as a fighter; on the contrary, his con- duct in battle was such that he was nick- named “Hunkecui,” or Feeble. Nor was he regarded as a wise states- man. In matters of public interest his ad- vice or opinion was never asked, and if asked would probably not have been given. At the council which I held with him and the chiefs of his band to urge their sur- render, when asked for a decision he would turn appealingly to the chiefs and beg them to declare for the people what should be done, saying that tne question was so great that he dare not decide. But for deeds of charity and unselfish patriotism tke people ioved him, and he continued to hold the same high place in their esti- mation until the day he was murdered with his little son by the Benedict Arnolds of his own tribe. An Old Tradition. For about three hours in the early part of the first night that I slept in his tepee I listened to his talk about himself and his people and their experience with the white man, occasionally asking a question to draw him out. Immediately after we lay down in our beds Sitting Bull began the conversation by saying: ‘o your name is Hoga (Fish) is it?” “Yes,” I answered. “Is Hoga your real name, is that the name your parents gave you?” “No,” said I, ““the Sioux only call me Hoga.” “On what occasion and for what reason did the people give you that name?” he asked. I explained to him that the Indians called me Hoga because they saw me swim the Missouri river under circumstances which, they said, would have drowned anything but a fish. He was silent for a moment, when he asked: “What is your real name?” “Allison,” I said, “is my real name.” “Ollyso, Ollyso,” he muttered, “say it in Lakota.” I told him that Ally meant the same exactly as Lakota, and is simply another way of saying confederate, and I then explained the meaning of the word “son,” and showed that my name would have the same meaning if it was pronounced Confederateson, Lakotason or Allison. He was silent again for full two minutes when he said, as if to himself: “He may not, after all, be the Fish.”” I asked him what particular Fish he had reference to. He answered that my presencé in his “tepee récalled to his mind a mysterious prophecy which was made concerning him and his people many years ago. He studied at without any y public ceremony, he the head center of I asked him to tell it to me. & moment and then said: “I don’t know, perhaps I ong ht not to tell you, for you Tuay be the ¥'' th spoken of by the prophetic voice, and if you are, the prophecy is ful- filled by my teljing it to you.” He was silent} agafn for a long time, and I began to think thay he would say nothing further on the subject, but at last he said: “That which is to be will be. Man was bern only to die. No man lives forever. Why, then, should 1 fear thag which fear will not drive away It was many years ago, when the earth was new and mys- terious beings inhabited the air and rode upon the wind, and mighty rocks, with hu- man voice, held conversation with man- kind, Even the great Lak nation at that time was in itg youth, and in those days they heard thé words of the Great Mystery, and they prospered and became a great nation. It was then that the voice of a rock was ‘heard saying: “Listen, O ye who are calleq Lakota; open your ears that ye may hear my voice. Forget not the werds of wisdom spoken unto you by the ancient fathers; cease not to instruct the youth in all things that were intrusted unto you; let the young men sit in silence and ive respectful attention to the words of the old men of the nation; let not your yourg women go about with their faces lifted up to the tree tops, rather let-their eyes look in modesty upon the ground, and in the presence of young men let them hide their faces from view lest they set on fire the hearts of the young men to their own uncoing. And unto the strong ones of the ration I say: Hearken unto my voice and let my words rest in your hearts; shut not yeur eyes upon the aged and infirm, and close not your ears that ye hear not the cry of the fatherless child, for the Great Mystery has given these feeble ones into thy care; shirk not thy duty and thou shalt live. But a day shall come when Lakota Shall no longer remember the words of wisdom spoken unto them by the ancient fathers..In that day there shall come among you a strange people who shall de- ceive you with soft words and strange de- Vices. But be courageous, oh, Lakota, and tremble not with fear, for there shall sit cne in your midst in that day who shall be like unto a strong bull, and all Lakota shall be gathered unto ‘him as the con- avering bull gathereth the herd; so shall he sit in the midst of bis peopic. But woe shall follow that day when the Fish shall hear the words of this prophecy trom the mouth of the Sitting Bull.” The old prophet paused for a moment, and the acded a at ts Possibie that you are the Mish; are, the end of the gri ~ kota'is at hand. I hope note” | Seat Opposed to Treaties. I had Mstened with careful attention to all that he had said, and it puzzled me net a little. Was this really an ancient prophecy so strangely coincident: with present facts, or was that part of the prophecy which referred to the Fish an interpolation introduced for some purpose known only to himself? Later I inquired concerning the matter of Black Moon, Four Horns and other ol] each of whom contirmed Sitting by Sitting Bul ion of the prophecy. ed in silent re- he After a few moments 1 fection I asked the old pro; Was opposed to making a tr vith the white men. As ighed the question c: answered. At length } of peace has to m if the white man was s r fe » for peace his desire ready accomplished without the mock. of a treaty of peace. The only conditio required is that he stay in his own coun- try, where, theugh he Ive a thousand years, he will never hear the whir of Indian arrow nor the report of an In phet why jan inte: Let him stay away from my coun- and he has peace already. I am op- ed to treaties of peace because the ‘an only that the white man sh: aceful possession of the India ritance, while ‘tne ‘Indian. erable beggars in the lend of ers. Beggars! worse than based remnants of a once €s and daugh- ters that they may receive a pittance of moldy flour or damaged bacon from the hand of the man who is growing rich on a treaty of peace. * = “There is no thing more precious than the ground we walk upon. Out of the ground proceed all things necessary for the life of man. Do we want food? Out of the ground cometh ail kinds of julie fat meats. Are we thirsty? The ground is a reservoir from: which we take up water and crink. Are we naked? From the ground we receive the warm fur of the buffalo, the beaver and the mink, and from out of the ground we get the skin of the deer, the antelope and the elk. And ! the ground js beautiful to look upon, and, | Uke a loving mother, invites her weary children to He down and rest on her broad besom, and when we die we go down to the ground which first. gave us birth. xe the ground is precious above all things. Then ask not again why I am op- pcsed to treaties of peace. I love my na- tive land, ard would preserve all of {t for my people. Is my land better than the White man’s land that they should leave their own to harass me~for the little I have left for’ my people? No. But they would rob my people of the land the fathers gave them, and then destroy them. But,” he added, “I suppose it is to be; we can but perish.” The Custer Battle. ~ I asked him to tell me about the Custer battle, and after a long silence, he “I know very Uttle about that battie; it | was all so sudden, so unexpected, and so quickly finished, that I had not time to reallze what was happening until it was over and we were hurrying around the base of the Big Horn mountains in our fignt toward the north. We were not on the warpath, we were living peacefully in our own country, we were not secking the life of any man, our wives and our little ones were with us in the village, with no thought of impending danger, and our ponies were grazing untethered in the hills. We were in the full enjoyment of that peace which the white man loves so well to tal'c about. | It is true that visitors in our village from Red Cloud had seen soldiers in the Indian country away to the south, and Rain-in- the-Face, with other warriors, had gone in that direction to watch them, but no alarm was felt. Why should we apprehend da ger? We were invading no man’s cou: we were waging war against no nation. Our camp was widely scattered up and down the west bank of the Little Big Horn river, so widely wére we scattered that an alarm beginning at any given point would not become general for a good while. Thus it happened~ that though an alarm was given at two different pcints, it did not reach the main village until the soldiers had crossed the river and began fring into the tepees at the upper end of the camp. By the first volley they wounded one o! man and killed a pregnant woman, de- stroying with one bullet two innocent lives. They did not tell us that they came there to make a treaty of peace. They Aid not ask us whether or not we wanted to make peace, or if we wanted to fight or run away. They asked no questions whatever, but simply began shooting down our wives and little ones. Under these circumstances what should we do? Well, Indians are after all. only men, and being taken so complete- ly by surprise, and not knowing the num- ber of the attacking force, we fled pre- cipitately with our women and children to- ward the hills west of the village, where our ponies were grazing. My lodge was near the center of the village and I fled with the rest. The twin boys you see lying here with their mother were then but a few days old. We were 80,badly frightened that one of them was overlooked and left to perish in the lodge, but he lives, and we call him Ixpeya,,Napapi (Fled and Aban- doned). Up to this time I had not seen a soldier, but looking eastward across the river I then saw, a large body of cavairy moving down through the bluffs toward the lower end of the village. This increased the general panic,.for we said to each other: ‘And there they are, too, the hills and the plains are’ pes with soldiers,’ but at the same,time I saw warriors near the upper end of;the village pause in their flight, then turnipg they charged back into the valley. by Calls ilt.a Mystery. “We knew the, that the soldiers were re- treating, and we. Qurselves turned and went in that directiom, but before I reach- ed the scene of cOnflict the soldiers had been driven back across the river, and all the able-bodied warrlors came rushing to the lower end of the village, toward which point we had seen'the body of cavalry on the east side of the river marching. 1 do not Know wny the soldiers who made the attack at the upper end of. the village ran away, for they ran while the warriors were also running, and no doubt would have continued to run had they not seen the soldiers running the other way. There must have been some mysterious power from on high which turned the tide of battle and delivered the soldiers up ‘to death. Some say that the leader of the attacking party Was a coward. I don't know, but I think’it was the power of the great mystery helping the Indians all that day, for when I reached the hattle ground at the lower end of the camp the soldiers were all lying there dead, mys- HOTELS. This List Appears Every Saturday. 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LONDON,Eug.DeVere Hotel) _ DeVere Gardens. y2t-tuthaslee Mee he aL do....Brovdwalk do, | Kensington Palace, W. ) Specially recommended Express (Ps each, Beautiful pe For Baltimore, 6.25. NEW ORLEANS,La.New St.Charles H't'1 A P..$4 up ern conveniences. 10.50, live AM do. -Hotel Grunewald, E.P., $1 up : do. -The Cosmopolitan Hotel, E.P., $1.50 up M4 9.00, RAS, R40 4, 10.40 and 1 NEW YORK. -Fifth Avenue Hotel, A.P., $5 -The Majesti 2 B. Barry) St. Cloud Hotel, ED’ Hotel Westivinster, E.P Hotel Endicot THE NUTTALL, 1 Atlantic Cits, ") $8 to § second louse from be: Mrs. M. M. FARE terms, r wk. 4.29 PM, Mes. M.A. ATKINSON of Washington, D. CG. 90 AM. and s.A.Davis) Hotel St. Aa ini* Ma and pointe nsovQuinn)Htl. Empire, E. = eS erie i: Sasa ‘oble) Hotel Grenoble, The Scarborough, “weak days 15th st.)Hotel Kensington,E BEACH FRONT. MARY XD AVE The Rutland, 57th and Broadway. Quiet, refined, 4 ior apartinents, $1,200 to $3,500 yearly. Every ‘modern ‘oy SPECIAL RATES FOR ‘a..New Walton Hotel, E.P., $2] gag ot ALFRED W SI ~The Aldine BS a Sera ae — er Altantic : r.. rl A.M. 318 and 1 M carie)NewLafayette,E.D..$1Up | Seq end South Caruline aven ot Wharf, 9.00 AM. «Sa 12th st.) Hotel Mrs. M. 1. THOMAS, and 12.45 1M, PITTSE ___" Formeiy of Baltimore, Sundays only, PLYMOU HOTEL LURAY Hallways extend to ocean pavilio®, dir the boardwalk. Always breezy and cool. structed ocean view. » AZAD P.M. work at 3 streets. and at JOSIAT tion x 3. R woon, SYRACUS! mn: passenger T Pass. Agent, TROY, N. wkly, $9 to = WASHINGTON, D. Arlington Hote - e Raleigh, E. Schedule in eff Leave Washington trou of New “POTOMAC RIVER BOAT: #t. tinted Limited ~ POTOMAC RIVER Steamers WASEFIELD hendsome sooms; good tal) pan. SMITH. __ Leave W mod.; bovklets free. JAMIE: and Cleveland, Express datly, 10:00 wharf)—Waketield = = pam a.m. for rive rolt, 11:30 p.m. Way stations, 45209, $1143 Hotel I » nd ‘e-story mperial & Cottages. nd Esplanade Full ocean vie For New Orleans, Mem: tancoga, Knoxville. Bris turbing, rrive at Wasi M Piney Point, Conn end Was! Leonardtown, Swith’s Creek, cocomico rivers, ington early on Wed See Kentucky ave., 50 tect fre view from all Tooms, or from str 3 abont 10 p. 26. 6. W. schedule RIDLE BRIGHTON, HOTE! General "Manager. jezs-tt | So. Carolina ave. “and beac — ——— ee He * comforts, Terms reason . RANDALL'S POTOMAC RIVER LI SCHWEISFORT, Formerly on eck days, S00 a.m. Steamer HARRY RANDALL will Teave River | _™mb10-156t 8 » 9:00 aan, 1215, View wharf days, 4 Th. ¥: TS : Ri A ey D Garantie ASBURY PARK, J Gatthershurg and way Sac habe and ali’ wharves as far down as > Creek, Rez [Si a $:00. 9:40 a.m.. 12:50, 3-00, 4:30, 433, 8:90, & eo a ere Se pe ee tt O D-, and | rnin noose trum beer bathing ground: 10-15, pin Fo: Passenier accommodations first-class. Freight re | _plcrcle accommodations: @ o-clock dinners: For Washington Junction and w: ceived unui the bour of sallinz, —terms for ‘B.S. RANDALL, Proprietor aud Mavager. neral Agent, Washington, The Engleside. Beach Haven, N. J. 8 bay for sailin 4 fistin relief from Hay r. Send f Parlor car on aftern on trains ROB'T B. EN: CAPE MAY, N. J. OARPINTER. G: M. Fi YEEMS STEAMBOAT ¢¢ hedule in effect June RS POTOMAC AND. Steamer Potomac will leave Sneday et 4 p.n. for Balthincre s will leave «very far Unsurpassed Tilustrated Iday at 4p. as) Miller's Wh; Monday at 4 p.m. aau THE BR x. >. = ye CON- r me ; oe accon modation: rte! st- tinue ope iD vo at reduced rates. rlor Cars on al iy trains, sehen eee ee D So sae nome, eer eee the City, 7:05, 10:00 a.te-. 12:00 noon STEPHENSON & BRO., Agents, | _seStovel MYERS, | 12:40 tind 3.00. p.th. ‘Week days. : Omer. 910 Pi. ave. Telephone 745.” Jel-tf days. SEASIDE—MI ‘or Cape May, 12:00 tExcept Sanday. ‘Daily. §Sanday only. xExpress. trains. fora {rom hotels and OCEAN TRAVEL. American Line. rates, $8 per York aver ue and 15th street, and at Den New York: WM. M. GREENE, D. ‘Twin-sc } Gen. Manager. M 47 {Piney Point, Md. POINT HOTEL, ©. near the mouth of the Potomac; rates, $1.25 day; $6 and $8 per Week; take Steamer Potoma: Sue or Arrowsmith. Address P. Cowart, SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Schedule in effect July 4, 1897. ns arrive. and leave at Penns ep! 10 am St. Pauls. .0ct Red Star Line. NEW YORK TO ANTWERP. September S, 12 noon iD.— 15,12 noon indant aut 2 22, 12 noon n with at : EES |) Bae daily for tn Bridse and 1 NATIONAL NAVIGATION COMPANY, Hotel. Washington. le 11:15 AM a Piers 14 and 15, North River. Gfice, 6 Bowling Green, N. ¥. GEO. W. MOSS, Agent, 921 Penn. ave. IN THE MOUNTAINS. ties Palla, Butter A REST RESORT —MONTE from station; «1 of the Alleghanies. No malar house open’ throngh the VISTA, Vakland, mh22-Gm —ONE MILE points in the highest bo hay rar. Ad Co., Md. D ROvAL ROYAL, Great in all its appoiu lithia water: broad ve it change. 5S eursion Throng! y to San Francisco w Local fo> Front carr Lael tor Charlottesee, au2+-2w 3 PM. u rik TED AND 80. “a4 Tort SI WESTERN V >» LIM ED. conywes noon | HOTEL SI! Pullmen Vesti D ars and Day HH. M noon | Bath Coaches. Pal pers New York to Nashville Bremen. Ps , noon cony ess nm Tenn., via A Knecviile ud Chottancega ee 8 Se ES New York to Ts a vita, Nae F bs 192m | _aug-1m j ¥annah and Jacksonville. sk to Atom GREEN, | Beis, ia Birr via Atlanta and Mcntzom: Coach Washington to, Dining Car Grecnsbore” 125 Pa. ave., Agent for BOLIVAR HE HARPER'S F 1,800 feet hizh Washington, 5 in! boating, bathiag, fishin; TRAINS ON WAS! French Line. teed. Apply early.” W. Jox leave Washivet on SENERALE | TRANSATLANTIQLE, | M-DOWELL HOUSE, HARPER'S dase only fer ‘Reand Ii Y LIN! ) PARE FRANCE, open June 1. Deligt-ful rooms ay. for Leesty VIA HAVRE. nuderat + prices. B. E. MeDOWFLL, “Returning, a at W La Touraine, Santelli i 11, 10 a.m 26-4in Proprietor, | 3 40 pain. daily and 3-00 p a.m. | Sp wi T R Sunday, from Roun im, 7. a. New: ¥ork 20] Siry- plenty of shades t = da’, from Leesburg eee eet eed SS nae scopt La le Ay P. DANIEL Through trains from the south arrive at Wash- ung r is nd tani cto, G42 a.m 2 30 pom. vand 25 pm, daly. see eaten Second Chas tapas Sea Tee ae Sum- | HILL TOP HOUSE, HARPER'S FERNY, W. VA— “Dally Gran Charkeeecavaie Gt” General Agent, Geteral ofits Nev's Rowing | Ne pooalar esout is yen. Rettataction guns. | SumMay. #04, 8:20 a.m, dau from, Chavtorte ile ees ceecen . antecd. Dancing, fishing, boating; telegraph in fp wm he \ oo Gen NX MOSS, 921 Penn. ave., Washing: | house. Apply carly for roots. E'S LOVETT." | tion furnished at offices, 611 em EN pn ae a tee sis thon.” “WH GREES. General Supt. EEN'S MOUNTAIN HOUS! S FERRY, 3M. CULP. Tratic Manager, terious must have killed them. — Surely | CWP YS MOUNTATS HOUSE, HAMPERS FERRY, S.A TURE. Gen. Pant Agent. they ‘could not all have been killed by the | Blue Ridge mountain, 20 min. drive from depot, | 2% 1. 8. BROWN. Gen, Agent Pass, Dop warriors in 90 short a time, while we lost | 5, $6 and §1 per week: $1 and $1.00 per day ~ — - — only twenty-six warriors killed in that bat- | medicine! water; conveyame-s meet trains, Sead | WASHINGTON, ALFXANDRIA AND MT. VERNON for circular. my24-Gm SPR'NGS AND BATHS. BERKELEY SPRINGS, WEST VIRGINIA — THE tle and one woman with her unborn babe killed by the soldiers at the upper end of the village during the first attack. Two warriors diel from their wounds while we RAILWAY. FROM STATION, 13% STKEET AND PA. AVE. In effect May 9, 1897. ‘e on our way north into Canada.” Berkeley Springs Hotel is open for the season. Mexandria «week days), 6.30, 7:05, 7:35 ex. ner aS old Troohee told Se aaee more These celbratea *prings are famous for ave a etter 10:05 ex. um, Bed about the battle I failed to hear it, for at | gire.of quewmatiom, gout. kidnex affections, dys. 3.30, 4:00 € : this point I fell asleep, only to be awak- ly three hours’ ride to Berkeley Springs via ened shortly after by the firing of guns| B. and O., without cheuge. For rates und cir- YD.) and the yelling of Blackfeet savages, who | culars appiy to oye eo et 8 had made a night attack on the Sioux vil-| CHAS. P. JACK and A. R. . , : Fy . UNGER, Props., < SI we 1 . ), 3:00, 4:00, 4 au24-19t Beckey Socom, W.Va. | 223 Ee FS 00 3:00. 10 For Mount Vernon Dyke and WV lage. They were scon repulsed, but I was 30, 1 favored with no more stories that night. p.m, ations (woek 5 Ei ALLison, sou. | Bedford SPPings, | so 2s, Wwe, NS TTR, Tat Bad English. Bedford, Pa. Por" Mount. Vernon aa War Riations Gunday Fiom Life. THE CARLSBAD OF AMERICA. Rates reduced from August 25 to Sept. 15 to $2.50 per day or $15 per week. au2l-lid3w pm. ggage checked free for cnesticketa at station. Bi dy Dr. Leatherman, Expert specialist in the cure of all special dis- eases of men ant women. Consultation free. 5 Fears: Sao as Ss 8s Se Toes, Sheen eee ee CHESAPEAKE AND O10 RaILway, exenings, 7 to S. @02 F'n.w. ‘Closed on Sunday. | THROVGI THE GRANDES SCENERY op aui7-im? AMERICA, ALL TRAINS " VESTIBULED, ELECTRIC LIGHTED, STLAM HEATED. ALL DR. CZARRA, MEALS SERVED IN DINING CARs. STA- z acl J TION SIXTH AND B STREETS. agate at disease oF one any complication, pit DAILY Gime wel ane Bas al Ineases |! = a MM. cinneti ¥ Is Spe- Wenkuess and. special diseuses cored and. guaran cai Salih train. tor Cineiagatl, Pulltnan sieepets iced; references civen: hours, 9 to 12, 3 to 6; closed | {)' Gyncivaatl, Lexington. Louisville, Indiansjelte on Sunday. 619-€21 Pa. ave. n.w. and St. Lovis without change. Parlor cars Cincin. = mati to Chicago. Sounects “at Covlugton Wee” vi Tot Spr mp Be nia, __'W. R. Speare, Aah Hee, irae bal: | without chang ‘and ‘Baten. Undertaker & Embalmer, | Sorbo) aon tet Sees Louts: Fr x terms. ‘Telepline call at ville, Stauaton and for Richmond daily, except Sante aM.. EXCEPT SUNDAY—Parlor car Wash- Richmou@ and Rick | seize ube, via Peta, Hy Wad. 00d ag railways. It matters ‘Reservations sod tickets at Chesapeake soe eBece, gis 20d Teas Penneyivania soy “want”