Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1881, Page 6

i ! ; t R i O “COMANCHE BILL." Geners] Terry's Favorite Scout and Hig Wild Life, Thirty-one Years in the Saddle Pastols and Soalps Kansas City Times., William Porter, known farand wide by the apellation of Comanche Bill, has been for rome time With (‘lonarnl Reynolds at Fort Reno, and is now on his way to join General Terry's command at Parton, Dakota territory. He came direct from the Ponca coun- try here, riding horseback the entire distance, and, indeed, from Reno. He put up his horse at a livery stable and at once started out to see the town. From here he will have his mustang shipped to Omaha, where he will again take the saddle and proceed on his way to Parton, ‘‘Comanche” disdains all such modern conveniencies as rail- road cars, and it is only when pressed for time that ho will use them at all. Ttis his favorite boast that he has been THIRTY-ONE YRARS 1N THE SADDLE, Ho rode from Tola, Kansas, Tues- day, to this point, and, indeed, made the whole trip almost as quickly as he coul have donp on some of the slow trains, He says he made the entire journey by horseback in five days. COMANCHE BILL i 47 years of age, but looks much ounger. No one would take him to .be over 30. He wears the proverbial “long hair, eropped closer behind than somo who affect this style, and a heavy mustache, which is allowed to run far down on the side of his face. He is not over flve feet ten inches in height, with a broad chest and brawny. arms an iron frame, which fatigue cannot overcome nor exertion subdue, He has a slightly aquiline nose, & piercing gray or dark blue eye, and is in all respects the typical scout and frontiersman of fact and fiction. He is taciturn almost to a fault and loathe to speak of himself. In the far west his reputation as a guide, scout and interpreter is great, aud he looks with scorn on such lesser luminaries as Buffalo Bill and other would-be heroes. When seen by the reporter Bill had already moulted his buckskin suit and med something like the garb of < tion, but ho still wore his rid- ing boots and pants, a dark blue flan- nel shirt, and the indescribable heavy felt hat, with a depth and curvature of brim which would have made a Quaker or a stage scout turn green with envy and die of jaundice the ht. m Porter was born of Scotch musota, seventeen miles 1 | there un- pos of 1862, WaS massa- sistor yot living in e the roporter. ¥ ar ot my blood flowin' in the veins or any livin’ hu- man bein’,” was the sad response, Toevery question asto when they died Bill responded bluntly, ““18th of - August, 1802.” Ho then told the story of the mas- sacre of his mother and sister, and the eyes of the sturdy plainsman wero suffused with something which looked like tears. ’ “I tell you it's enough to make a man a demon,” he said: ‘“‘father, mother, sister, two cousins, an uncle, aunt and wife, killed at one blow, I remember that little mother; ahe wa'n't bigger'n your fist, and she loved me like & gcnmh mother can love. She used {0 say to father: ‘‘William’s get- tin’ too big for you to handle now;' but she could do anything with me, | remember she came to me and leaned over and kissod'me and said: ell, there's a kiss from your mithe and when I came back she lay across the floor with a hole in her skull, kill- ©d by thom red dovils, Father,mother, sister, two cousing, an uncle, aunt and wife killed at one blow [Bill hud a fancy for repeating this phrase n his abstracted moments]. -1 tell you, boys, it made a demon out of me,” and the strong man H,mmd his hands to his head, and threw back his long hair with a wild gesture in the agony of the awful revelation. *Who killed your mother, Bill?" ATt was oo of Buthone's band o | €208 0Fcomo to that period of o *‘Is he alive yet?” ! “‘Wa'al, T guess he'll never scalp any more women,” UDid they kill your wife, too?” “‘Yes, they tortured her to death. Oh! I've ha calp for every drop of blood they spilled that day,”” he con- . dinued. I topk an oath thatas long » ¥ | & ¥ as T could look through the hind sights of a riflo I'd kill every Sioux Indian T oot a chance to shoot at. = T went back there afterward and sat down to a table to cat and somebody says, “That's Oomanche Bill.’” Another man #aid ho didn't blame the Indians for | what they dauie that day, | T jumped » "over the table and sealped that fellow * and I'd do it again to-day if anybody e:fiumnuod to make another such a talk.” *‘Do you know Buffalo Bill?” “Oh! Butfalo Bill; yes, I've heerd ‘of Limi" ’ + **What kind of a seout is het” “Seout? What that d ——+d fool 't fell a beef trall from a pony track.” ‘‘Have you any friends in Missouri, Comanche, or are you just stopping here to seo the town?” ‘‘Friends? . No, I ain't got no friends anywhere. The only friends T ever had were a pair of good six- shooters, and when they cracked T knowed they reached for keeps.” “‘Were you ever in Kansas City be- fore?” “Young fellow, I reckon T was in this town before you was foaled.” It seems strauge that wheu Bill's special aversion was the Sioux Indian he should have won the sobriguet of “Comanche” Bill, but such 18 the mnawme he has gone by for years. i3 Slus wly_ A I n Bioux were ‘seare wud I have hing o ice on, "’ ““Who gave you that namet” “Muu'vflp'mnfir, chief of & band of CANRL. u%‘qumhu-ww Pugh w urdyr F hioard he was Yilled, that’s L/ | Y1 “How are the Oherckees getting along in the nation?” “llwy are getting along all right, adi’ | W&u,”l said Bill; ns - | but they play h—1 with you if you don’t marry a squaw."” An incident is related of Bill which happened in Wichitaa few weeks Isince. Bill rode into town dressed in a complete suit of buckskin and with a gang of nonest rans®™ At his back As he went along he saw a ‘‘counter- | jumper,” as he was pleased to call him roughly entch a little girl about 18 years (?Ll by the shoulder and sollcit ner attention. The girl withdrew her arm angrily, and just then the scene fell under {hll'n personal inspection ““She was & poor girl,” says Bill, “‘and plainly clad in an old dress, but I wan't going to see her insulted by any duried counter-hopper under my mountain eyes. I jest jumped down from my hoss and 1 called for that fel- low to stop. Hedidn't seem to want to, but T made him stop, I took up the little girl in my arms and sat her down on a box, {took oft her shoes and said to the counter-jumper: ‘Now I want you to get down and lick the dust off the soles of that poor girl's feet whom you have insulted!” And I made him ({u it He looked down in the muzzle of a 46-calibre Colts for just about half a minute and then he came to his milk like a little lamb. And I made him lick that. girl's feet for a plumb two hours, though a_big crowd gathered aronnd, but T had all my men with moand did not care whether they liked it or not,” Improved Boo Koeping. Those who are not far from middle- age can remember when apiculture was quite a different thing to what it How, kept boes, and some of them with profit, strange as it may seemn. The Hivig wEts, ItECL HaNs Bt rough boards, hastily nailed_togother, or of hollow logs -~ *‘gums,” as thoy wero called. Two sticks were fastened across through the middle of the hive, crossing each other at right angles. to support the weight of the combs when they were filled with honey, The only way of looking into these hives was to turn them bottom-side up, and then one could see but a lit- tle way between the irregularly built combs., If a queen died it was often impossible to ascertain the fact until too late to remedy the loss in any way. It was difficult to tell much about the hives or to do anything with them or for them, if anything went amiss, The more ‘“‘advanced” beekeepers used to put boxes upon the tops of the hives for surplus honey; but the regular orthodox way of securing honey was to kill the beea in the fall and appropriate their stores. The way of doing this was really barbarous. A little pit was dug in the ground, iu which- sulphur was burned. The hive was set over this diabolical smudge, and the poor little bees, after all their hard toil through the summer, were speedily suffocated. This wasa process really worthy of a people living in ‘‘the stone age.” It was called “‘taking in the bees. But all this is,now changed, The bees are no longer killed. On the contrary, they are very carefully cherished and preserved, and it is found that they produce more honey, and are vastly more profitable, when allowed to live out their allotted period of existence. During these years that have intervened, ‘‘since you and I were boys,” the improve- ments in bee culture have been as marked asin any other field of use- fulness. Their habits are more ca fully observed and studied. New in- ventions, new processes of dealing with them, aro constantly coming to ;iuht. One excellent weekly paper - The American Bee Journal—publish- ed /in Chicags, and several monthly magazines, are devo to this especi- ally, which may, in fact, bo said to be “‘a great one,” Fouor leading inventions or discover- ies in bee manipulation have entirely ravolutionizel and put aside the ' methods —except perhaps hborhoods, or along se- bottoms, where Rip Van Winkle might have slept until this ¢ without disturbance. We refer: 1. To the invention of movable frames, in which the combs are built in a straight and symmetrical manner. By means of this change the bee- koeper can inspect every comb and overy nook and corner of his hive, and learn at any moment the precise condition of the colony. 1If a " queen has died, or disappeared from any when she ceases to be prolific, her place may early be supplied. And so ofany other difficulty in the hive, 2. The honey extractor—a German invention, By its use the honey is removed from the combs, which™ are returned to the hives to be used over and over again indefinitely, This is one of the greatest economies in this work, for the manufacture of the comb is a laborious aund expensive operation to the bees as well as costly to their owners, 3. Comb foundation. A machine has been devised through which thin sheets, of beeswax are passed, and they come out impressed on each side with lictle indentations or cups pre- cisely like those fashioned by the bees. The insects accept this work s their own and build these cells out to their usual depth, This is not only 8 very great saving of time to the bees, but it is really a magnificent “sotting out’ in their system of housckegping, Few or no intelligent beckeepers now attempt to get along without it, and many rival machines for its manufacture ‘are now on the market. Probably they all have merit. 4. The artificial rearing of yueens. This is another most important help to the modern beekeeper —for it soems to be an absolute necessity all through the working season to be uble to supply colonies, both old and new. with young and vigorous queens the mother hees, upun whose con- stant supply of eggs the life of the establishwent depends, This is car- ried on to a gr‘J ‘extent, not only by individual apiculturists for their own privato use, but many parties rear them for sale. Boe keeping has become a groat in- Fu,lry of our times, though it is yet 0 its infancy. There is not ouly & dnrge field of usofulness and profic in this work, but it offers tewpting in- ducciuents as a lifo profession 1o auy intelligent wan or woman. None but' bright, intelligent people can follow it » 1 ) hope of success. ;| To be sug Gesdful Oiié tiust be fully ‘up with the Mauy farmers and villagers | * THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY AUGUST 12 1881. books, papers and magazines_treating sf the subject, but with studious and observant a d industrious habits, Tt is a work that requires much labor, The bees do theit shame of the toil,but by no means all of it. Close and un remitted attention must be given to it at all stages and in all sensons of the year, and the manager of an apiary must expeot to becomé & s0ecialist f he would succeed, and must not have ‘‘too many irons in the fire” tn other directions. It cannot ba made a profitable addition to farm opera- tions, unless some member of the family makes it a subject of such special study as we have pointed out. When the bees need attention and at- tention will pay back dollars, the bee-keeper must not be disturbed in his thoughts, nor diverted from his work by the necessity of cultivating corn, making hay, or harvesting grain for the honey-storing season is short in most northern regions, and must be improved to the very utmost, It is a matter of special pride to the writer of these lines to be able to express the opinion that bee-culture has been developed and thriveu in the woest to a.greater extent than in any other part of the world, Not only are the representative bee publications issued in the west, but the represen- tative bee-culturists are mostly western men. And notwithstanding all that has be there is still room alinost every where for enrnest and effective worker Kidnoy Complain B. Turner, R serions disorder of the k s, dind otten unable to attend to busines; 1 procured your Burnock Broon Birteks, and was relieved before half a bottle was used, I nd (o continue, as 1 feel confident that they will entirely cure me.” Price $1,00, trial size 10 cent; augl-eodlw. Porsecuting the Jows. London Telegraph, 1t was hoped that the worst of the persecution to which the Jews have been exposed in Russia was now over, for even Russia is not inaccessible to the influence of civilized public opin- ion, and that has been expressed with sufticient distinetness. But the out- breaks just reported from Pultowa show that the danger is not yet past, and that Muscovite fanaticism receives little check from the authorities. Race and religious antipathy prevails in rank much above the lowest through- out the czar's empire, and the unfor- tunaté Jewish minority has to reckon with this constant peril. A special correspondent of the Jewish World, who was sent to Kiefl to report par- ticuiars of the riots there, draws at- tention to the glaring facts of the complicity between the officials and rabble, but for which no outrages would have been possible. He gives a shocking account of what took place when the “‘peasant mob,” secure of impunity, had fairly settled down to the work of destruction. The plun- dering, burning, and wrecking of houses and shops, the Jew hunts in the streets, the robberies, the assaults, were not by any means the worst of the horrors, Women were outraged by dozens, and the correspondent states that at one place two married women and three young girls were so ill-treated by the mob that they died next morning. Children were tossed out of the window to be brained on the stones of the street beneath. But during all this what were the authori- - | ties about? Gen. Drenteln, the gov- ernor, when his attendon was called to the gathering of the mob, and he was asked by the chief rabbi to pre- vent its action, postively declined; he would not, he said, “incommode his soldiers for the sake of a pack of Jews.” The spirit of this brutal re- mark was feithfully reflected in the nest conduct of the governor's m subordinate’s. While the ous went on, soldiers and police res: them with calm unconcern, and only in one case, where a woman, after be- ing stripped naked and flogged, was about to be flu n a huge bonfire of her husband’s good and_chattels, did : | a police functionary mildly expostu- late by saying that it was “‘not neces- sary to go so far.” It was enough if they stopped short of burning alive, A military ofticer, when urged by a poor woman to save her fumily from being burned in the building which the mob had surrounded and fired,an- swered: ““‘Well, burn; it does not much matter whether you roast now or hereafter.” As for the poor crea- tures who were driven out of the town to starve, the governor had no word of pity or suggestion of help to offer, When a member of a deputation which waitad on him about them asked: ‘“Where were the unfortunate people to go?” Gen, Drenteln's answer was: “'Gol why to Jerusalem or into the Dnieper " With such men as these in autority the prospect for Russian Jews is gloomy indeed. 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