Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 10, 1883, Page 2

S A LIVEES. [mwvrsen] HIAR this, all ye people, and give em all yo invalids of the world, Hop Bitters will make you well and to re joioe. 2. It shall cure the people and p wickness and suffering under foot. 8. Bo thou not afraid when yow family is sick, or you have Bright's dis @ase or Liver Complaint, for Hop Bitters will cure you, 4. Both low and high, rich and poor &now the valueof Hop Bitters for bilious, nervous and Rhewmatie complaints. 6. Clonse me with Hop Bitters and 1 shall have robust and blooming health. 6, Add disease upon disease and_lot SNAKE DANCERS. Rorrible Orgies at the Albnqnerqne Fair, How the Moqui Indians Feast on th Monsters, Rocky Mountain News | To-day the Moqui Indians will give their great snake dance the Albu querque fair. Captain 8. G, Heaps, who lias seen the Indians in these horrible orgios, gives The Journal & vivid descrip tho worst come, T am safo if I use Hop | tion of the dance, added to the story told Bitters. by Mr. Frank Sumanstein, of the Navajo 7. For all my lifo have Theen plag Indian agency THE SXAKE DANCY year ago was I cured, by - s a religious rite, and only occurs at long 8, He that keepeth his bones from [1% & religious rite, gl aching 1cm Rhou hatism and Neuralgia, ““"’""*v -‘I" days before the wla with Ecg. Bittoss, dooth wisely. for the Al‘unw‘-J o men. go out v‘)” hunt 9. Theugh thou hast sores, pimples, |for the suakes, Thoy tako with thom e e Thiess | the sacred meal, meal which i chanted poisoning, yet Hop Betters will remove them all. 10. Wkat woian is there, feeble and sick from fomale complaints, who desireth not health and useth Hop Bitters and is made we i 11. Let nct neglect to use Hop Bit- tors bring on_ scrisus Kidney and Liver complainta. 12, Keop thy ongue from being fur- red, thy blood pure, and thy stomach i’ the ground about ten feet deep and from indigestion by un'wiz Hop bitters, 13. All my pains and easo go like chaff before the wind when 1 use Hop Bitters. 14. ark the man who was nearly dead and given up by the doctors after using Hop Bitters and becometh well. 16. Cease from worrying about ner- vousness, general debility, and urinary trouble, for Hop Bitters will restore you. onsos Hostotter's HStomach Bittors is boyond all_compari- son the best remedy that can be taken, As a means of restorin the strength and vi- tal energy of persons Who aro ainking une der the debilitating effects of painful dis- o v - I ronic SELEBAA constipation an 24 b other abstinate dis- A\ ) ordery, thisstandard vegotable invigorant is " confessedly un STOMACH equelled, For sl by all ; Druggists and Deal: ors gonorally, CREAT ENGLISH REMEDY. 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In to jos we will sy B0 ovidence Gnumbug about this. - On the contrary: Wha advectiners o very bighly indorsed, Lotaros may get seal ing Erle Medioal Co., P 0, box 618, Buffalo wTralado Even. milly aches 4 id dis- run In our ¢ thero Js olreulars giving all partioulars over, and over which the sacred rods arc | waved—the sacred rod, a stick five feot long with a fork at the end They take every snake which they find. When they find one, they raise the stick over him, and they watch their chance, and when the snake starts to run with the speed of the lightning's flash they seize him behind the head and carry him to the Pueblo, where they put them into a place called an estufu, which is a hole eight feet wide and fifteen long, and which is covered all over, except a round hole in the center. They enter the estufu by a ladder. As soon as the snake is left in the estufu, they go outand | HUNT FOR MORE SNAKES, when the same thing is again ropeated. | One-half of the estufu is raised about one | foot higher than the other, and in this | end tho snakes are kept by the snake | herders, in the other is the altar, which is | about six foet square, painted on the floor | in different colors, around which are hun- | dreds of huge serpents painted, and at one end of which is the snake god, a hor- rible clay image. Around the altar at | equal intervals are the rain stakes, 33 in | number, round stakes an inch in diame- ter and 18 inches long. When any one brings a snake he goes to the altar and breathes over one ofthese rain stakes and calls on the snake god to send rain, Should none come in their owa name be- | fore noon of the eighth day the 33 oldest men of the tribe take the rain stakes, go HALV A MILE TO THE EAST, and in the name of their squaws implore the rasn god to send fain; and each one digs & hole and lays in his rain stake and puts in a little sacred meal and buries tifen, and returns at preciseiy noon of the eighth day. All who have not found any snakes, bury their sacred. rods with a little sacred meal and ruturn to the Pueblo, wherq all must be byl o'clocky Whore they will wash their hair with the soap plant, after which all go (the men m\ly& into another large estufu where they go through a series of chants and singing, and invocations to another god, which is set up at _the end of the es- tufu. After this they drink a decoction prepared from herbs and roots, and which sometimes makes them very sick, and which they think will proteet them from the venom of the snakes should any bite them, but which will not protect them as those ¥ WHO ARE BITTEN DIE. Meanwhile the snake herders are col- | lecting the snakew, which he says were | several hundred, into sacks, the rattle- | snakes are put into buckskin sacks tho | others into common sacks. The dance | ground is & common piece of ground | about sixteen feet in diameter, in the center of which is the sacred rock, on one side is the snake shado, a place about | four feet square, with walls on three sides about four feot high, and a curtain hung in front, in front of which is a flat board or stick. At a given signal eight- eon mon from the second estufu quickly ascend theladder and rush to the dance grourd. The snake herders bring out the snakes and empty them into the snake shade, where they are kept by the herders with sticks. The eighteen men rush three times around the sacred rock, stopping ench timo in front of the snake shade and stamping three times on the board or timber in front of the snake shade; eighteen women and eighteen | childens FORM A CIRCLE | around the outside of the dance ring, each with a dish of the sacred meal; 18 other men rush out, each with a stick two feot iong, on the end of which arg three sacred feathers tied; they wave them | above the snake shade three times, each | time making a loud, hissing sound, like the hissing of & serpent. The first 18 men then form a line, the right resting close to the shade, the other 18 form in | front ef them, the curtain is quickly | drawn aside, the herder stirs up the snakes with his stick, all the women shout, tho first man with the spoed of lightning 'scizes a handful of snakes, grabs them with his mouth, the man opposite to him seizes him around the waist with one arm, with the other hand he waves the stick and feathers in the face of the snakes to attract them, the man with his mouth full of snakes rushes madly around the ring supported by the other one as a partner who is waving the stick and feathers all the time. As he passes the women each one throws the sacred meal on the snakes, meanwhilo each man is g o handful of snakes and putting them in his mouth ~—it all being done in a moment, each one having his partner with the feathers, and all rushing around, the snakes writhing A victim of ealy Impradence, causin . B"'flrfi"fifiimflv amfi{ o fow-suferers. 4 Chatham jt., Now York. WestemComice-Works, IRON AND SLATE ROOFING, C. SPECHT, PROP. 1111 Douglas Bt. + + Omaha, Neb. MANUFACTURER OF Galvamizea Iron Cornices %- tontent Moalic Lyuxn, Pa Bar and Brackot Shelving. general above line of goods. Iron encing, Balustrades, Verandas, Iron Bank | meal, every man who can get one catches ards: also general for the alangs, Window Blinds, Cellar Gu: ent for Peerson & Hill -~ atent luside Blind. DUFRENE & MENDELSSIHN, ARCHITECTS AWREMOVED T0 OMAHA NATIONAL BLDIN Tron and Blate ten! 1 am in contortions, the rattlesnakes rattling, the copperhoad and bull snakes hissing, the women shouting and THROWING SACRED MEAL, the whole forming one of the most ter- rible, horribleaud revolting and unearthl; sounds and sights that aman ever buhul({ They rush around the ring three times, when the snakes are dumped by the sacred rock, Hesays he saw one man with five snakes in his mouth, one of which was a rattlesnake four feet long. One rattlesnake caught one of the men by the neck, his partner seized it by the head and picked itback, Anothercaughta man by the side of the head and could Iumll{ be jarked back, If the snakes are not all taken out of the snake shade, another lot go through the same thing until all the snakes are carriod three times around the ring. At the conclusion of the dance the eighteen maidens form a ring with the sacred menl, about six feet in diameter, the t | eighteen old women form two linesacross the ring at right angles with the saored a snake, throws itinto the ring, and the herders keep them there until THE SUN 18 JUST OUT OF SIGHT, when every man again frushes into the ring, seizes a snake, and all run as fast as they can towards the four points of the compass for half a mile when they are dropped aud let go, and all return to the on reace, N 'one of poace | kinds. sacred rod over the men that were bitten, chant and invoke the snake god to save them, And so ends this frightful and horrible orgie. Of course those who are bitten die, but the only wonder is that so few are bitten, as many of the snakes are rattlesna He does not know how men are chosen to carry the snakes, but all are anxious to do 80, considering it a at privilege to do so. Those who are 1 die willingly, thinking they are bitt dying for the good of the others, and that they will go to the great spirit and Quakers, 3 In politics their afiliations are with the republicans, though they seldom publicans. | vote according to their they vote so goes the But nc | party or clique can influence or contro | them. . As has been stated, they began fow ir number, and poor. Additions were made county. church, and is precisely like that of the vote. | For national officersthey vote with the re- | For loeal county officers they | views as to their best interests financially, and as 1 N 173 poarity 9Ty 017w ‘STIS “Sonid SVInIRI 39pa0 “vjqeed Jj PIRoTs 0K BN gg i@ e S ol invoke him to send rain on his people. | by acretion. Whenever a porson dosired & This is the only correct account that |t join the society, ho had to make formal | ey has over boon given of the snake danco, (application. A thorough investization | Py i it is not an over-painted picture, but | followed of the antecedonts and character | 3 a plain statement of the event by one |of the applicant. 1f accopted, he sur-| I § who saw it. Ho says words will not con- | rendered all he possessed by legal convey- | 3 vey any idea of the horrible affair, and |ance to the society. Should he become | "1 § he never wants to witnese another. | dissatisfied and _esire to leave, he could| ® E i go, but take nothing with him. Numer- | : No Storm Can Shake Its Sccure |0U8 applications are to_ unite th W: Foundstion. | with them every y but for seve i # all have been rejected, as they have ITIS; It matters not what palitical tevolutions oc. | ag large a membership as they desire, the | J9 g T e the Monthly Drawyag | Pepulation be g about 2000, The socicty .':»5 A it oy eV | s immensely wealthy, and has no need of | ) i event we chronicle as s: It hap- | money. | *5{ usnal, at Now Orloans, on the sec. | At the beginning of each year, a gon- | @43 in’ Septembor, 1883, Ticket No. | eral account of business is taken. < Vi at 81 eachy) won the frst | balance sheet struck. To every person| ™ B fohiich was | of the society is set off a certain sum, | 53 h- | such as will bo necessary for his use dur- ie nable | ing tho year, = Tn each villago is a gen- 1 woman; or bold, of | prize of holder of Ticket No, 77,826 drew the third i of £10,000- rold in_fifths - one to W. C. Merrill, of Albert Lea. Mlnn., one to A, Miller, No. 721 Tremont st., Boston, Mass, Tickots Nos. 3,496 and 11,587 drew tho fourth eapital prizos of £6,000 each, and were sold in fifths to varions_ holders scattered hero and there—among others Chas, L. Mayer, care of Hitsh, Mayer, & Co., 160 Market st., Chicago, 1L, and to parties in Boston, Mass., on the Kast, ‘and Steelo P. 0., Dakota, on the West, and #0 from Dan to Beersheba the good work of enriching the poor goos on. _The next (the 162d Monthiy) avont. will be Novembor 13, 1883, and M. A. Dauphin, New Orloans, La., will f ecly give any information on ap- plication, — A German Commune in Toww, CorrespondencesNew York Tribune. The traveler over the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad, soon after passing Towa City, will ge greeted by the voice of the brakesman as he announces “Homestead.” Stopping, and taking a lumber wagon with spring seats, in charge of a pleasant faced man of evident Teu- tonic extraction, a ride of a mile, across Towa river, will land him in the midst of a curious people, with quaint and strange surroundings. The Amana society is the outgrowth of a small band of people who came to this country from the north of Germany in 1846, Their religion was Their governmeut de- manded of every male person military service., This they refused to give. They were then imprisoned and_ their property sequestered About 40 of them came to this country and settled near Buffalo, N. Y., but soon afterward removed to this spot and named it Amana, which signifies “here we will rest.” They purchased from the government a whole township sixmilessquare, through which runs Towa river, one ef the largest streams in the state. They perfected an organization of the community, and gave it the name of Amana_ society, which is now incorporated under the laws of the state. All that each individual possessed was consolidated into common property. dividual ownership of anything, with slight exceptions for personal use. The community is governed by a president and executive committee, elected by vote of the community. This committee has general supervision of all business of the society, elects the superintendents of the various departments of labor, and directs all its affairs. The president is simply an advisory officer and is selected for his age and mature judgment. He prosides at meetings of the executive com- mittee. Towa river makes a large bond near the castern boundary of the township, From the eastern deflection a_canal about 10 feet wide was cut, five miles in length, through the village to the western point of deflection. Along this canal are lo- cated the residence lots, cach lot abut- ting on the canal. The canal furnishes water for domestic use and watering gar- dens. Each family has a house for its own use, surreunded with yards and a garden. The highest cultivation is there attained of vegetables and fruit of all Girapes are extensively grown, and palatable wine made from them,each family making its own supply. Large boar iu)g houses are provided in eacl willaga {for there are now six villages) for the accommodation of the unmarried people. At these boarding houses also the entire people take their meals. No cooking nor general housekeeping is done at the residences. There are appointed at regular intervals persons to perform the various duties of the society: To overseo the boarding houses; to do the | work therein, cooking, baking, laundry work, scrubbing, carrying water, etc.; some feed and care for the poultry, swil sheep, horses, cattle. All the various kinds of farm work are set off te | difforent porsons. o in the mills, facto- ries and shops. Just betore meal hours a man will come to a boarding-house with live poultry, which is at once taken and dressed; an- other will bring vegetables, another meat. After each meal the garbage man comes round and all refuse is carried away, fed to swine or put in the compest heap. Each and every person has his or her g lotted work, and all moves on in perfe system. There are no drones. There are large cotton and woolen mills, a starch factory, and fruit-canning shoy The cotton goods made ure the best and most uudum{':lu to be found in the United States, and - they get higher prices than enstern” manufacturers, They sell all they can make to retail dealérs in this nd adjoining states, who have regular ustomers for them. 8o of their woolen goods, the stamp of the Amana society establishes their quality, They ave a thoroughly honest people. Whatever they do is well done. They are a slow |and plodding, They never got in a hur- {ry. They retain many of the habits and customs of Fatherland, The older people till retain the quaint dress ef their an- cesters. The younger portion have Americanized themselves. They have good schools, and are thor- | oughly educated. They print their own books, and do the printing of labels, cards, and work necessary for their man- ufactured articles. They wake nearly | everything used by the fociety, except | farm implements. | They are very devout people. Their religion is similar to that of the Quakers, Thoy do not accept the New Testament. | Marriage is a divine iustitution with them. | In each village is a meeting house, where | religious service is held every day. About 11 o'clock when the church bell rings, all work stops and the people go to church, the men and women sitting apart. - Sor- vice is conducted by & leader, but the | speaking is done by different individuals a8 the spirits moves them. The marriage dancing ground, where they wave the | VINCOBOUKGE UL LU AVOPUUAURI e vy a0 | 10, |ceremony is conduoted always at the )| the families and individuals, | eral store, where supplics are keot. At | these stores this portion is credited to and what- r they get at the store is charged at the exact cost. Outsiders have to pay a good profit. When ‘a_man_dies who is the head of a family, his affairs are im- mediately sottled, and a new apportion- ment is made to the widow and placed to her credit. If orphan children aro loft, a guardian is appointed, and he repre- sents the parents. remainder of the profits of the ye.'s business after this ap- portionment is nude is invested in im- provements. At each village are immense barns and sheds where all hay and grain are stored, and where all feeding in winter 18 done. Oxen are extensively used in farm work, being admirably suited to the plodding, easy-gomng ways of the people, ~The peo- ple are eminently social among them- selves. They are courteous to strangers, but do not desire their presence, except for pure business. The Great (ierman Remedy, St. Ja cob's oil, is a household necessity. It conquers pain. oy i oo 5 New York's Oystes Trado, From the New York Sun, sl Twenty-five years ago the oyster mar- kets were situated at Coenties slip on the east side, and at Washington market on the west, The first move up town was to Catharine market on the east side, and to Spring street on the west. The oystermen did not remain very long at Catharine market, the most of those who were there ug on to Broome street, where they tied up about 17 years ago. A few went to Spring streot. - About 15 years ago the Spring street market was moved up to West Tenth, and now the Broome street men have followed. The row of little frame houses, with Daskets and barrels of oysters packed three deep all over the parlor floor, with the basement filled with oysters in bulk, with a neat little office, occupied by a man who frequently eats 100 Blue Points a sitting, in one corner of the kitchen, and with the garrett filled with tongs, sails, ropes and other ‘_]ly the terms of the compact there is no dunnage used on the sloops, will ex- tend from West Tenth to West Eleventh street. The oyster businesshashad the remark- able growth of 300 per cent in the past five years. Formeily, aboutall the oys- ters wero brough {areiin sloops and schooners. Now, during the busy season, one line of steamers alone brings 5000 baskets a week. Thousands are brought by schooners and sloops, and other thous- ands by the cars. New York city alone consumed 8,000,000 bushels last season, it is said. The out-of-town trade is enormous, also. The capital invested in the New York oyster business is estima- ted at $25,000,000, the commission bus- iness, with once flourishea, having died out. The number of people who find employment is also very large. At Princess bay 3000 men are employed, and their wages amount to about §7500 a day. At Great South bay 8000 are employed, at wages not quite so large. The 3000 oyster houses of this city employ about 10,000 persons. 1t is estimated that 50,000 persons in this state make their living in handling oysters. So rapidly is the business increasing, that the larger dealers are beginning to substi- tute steamers for the old style sailing boats, in getting their oysters to mar- ket. {What is the state of tradeat the open- ing of the season?” was asked of a large dealcr, “Prices are about the same as last year, but the volume of eur trade is 25 per cent larger. The quality of the oysters is the best in 10 years, dJust now we are handling Rockaways, Shrewsburys and East Rivers.” ““What are East Rivers?” It is the trade name for all oysters brought from the Sound. Then we have some cheap ones from the Princes bay and Keyport. According to law, the Blue Points will come in on the 15th,” A number of baskets of clams stood near. Referring to them, the dealer suid: ++1t has been a good season. To sce what is printed about slam-bakes and clam- chowder, one would think that the clam business was about as large s tho oyster business, The factis, we sell more oysters in the summer, even, than we do of clams,” 7S “Oysters in summer? 3 “Cortainly. Oysters spawn in summer, and so do clams, for that matter. Neither oyster nor clam is fit to eat when spawn- ing. But the beds do not all spawn at once, When, for instance, those at Oyster bay are spawning, those at Reckaway are not. There is always an abundant sup- ply of healthy oysters all the year aound, 1 the laws only protected oystermen in Now York, as they do in Connecticut, the business would be greatly increased beyond its present proportions, to the advantage of the consumer, and to the advantage of all who are directly interest- ed in the business." - enm— “Meno sana in corpore sano,” A sound mind in a sound body” is the trade mark of Allen's Brain Food, and we assure our readers hat, if di fied with either weakness of if dissat . Brain or bodily powers, this remedy will per- manently strongthon both, . $1.=At drug- gists, e A Thrilling Incident §t Libby, Albany Evening Jourual. found themselves in Lib! 1{ Prison in 1863-4, one was a fine looking Colonel from Indiana—a big-bodied, big brained, big-hearted fellow, chock-fall of energy. He werked like a steam engine until he got out of Libby. Once he found his tunnel too mnul{ for his burly form; once he was checked at the outer end of it by two or three armed Confederate soldiers, who had been quietly waiting for him; § Smvet, MUAYY VA WATA ARV, | S EIT) VA e g i vvi Of thefsix officers of theregular army who ¥$s0> ‘sdep T ¢ SULoRPUY BiL) 105 810 783 5118 ‘91wD 1w i e S by 8881 *Aosiop MAN ‘uociSuiyse 5 awy 591 20 2 e g 3 jou S SIGL—"HOILON LN VLINOJII &1 9d X0 SUY QUI{) PIIIUT] I} IIT PAT W0 £ax sapun uasty , 1055w Junt 401 10\ Fupmories 9my 991y 3 I3 £ E"“ A B4 B 3 2585 it i &'39 \ N, GIS. "SHVIA 9 QALNVHYV N “HOXIN HNIAVIONT 1 —anondexes o "KINO [SdoLs 621 SNYDHO 3did Zapi0 n0L popiaoad DISA ANV HOOL o S 30 21wp uros : 8 ¢ g g i I el 3 ) g g7t HH faird aef L Gill o it - & 2850 T8 el S PR R e dagri e i | Q1 again aclever ruse was detected just as he got to the middle of the gate, and so it went, until he had made several at- tempts. But he never gave up, and fin- ally got out, and is now a prospering citi- zen of Indianapolis, a trifle stouter than he was in Libby, and a good deal richer; but otherwise unchanged. As Uncle Re- mus says, the Colonel's “‘min’ wnz allng wukking.” After two or three attempts to get out of Libby had failed, he began to suspect that his failures were the re- sult «f treachery in the prisoners’ camp. Exchange, like kissing, went by favor. The Colonel, after thinking each failure over, came to to the conclusion that some poor devel was selling his manhoed for a mess of pottago—currying the favor which would *‘exchange” him to his home by betraying the plans of his companions in arms to the enemy. He looked about him for the man. Cautious inquiries at length gave him such information as prompted him to say to the other five regular officers: *Meet mo at such a spot at widnight. I have found the traitor. We will court-martial him to-night.” At midnight the six men met in a dark corner, and_in whispering voices organ- ized a drum-head court-martial. The Colonel presented the name of the sus- pect, and then his proofs. In the ballot that followed each of the six voted ‘‘guil- ty.” “Now, said the Colonel, “this is not a farce. We must vote asentence, and then execute it.” “*Very well,” said the next man. “Well,” said the Col- onel, “Ivote for death. The wretch de- serves it.” “*So do I,” said the next, and so down to the sixth—a Pennsylvania Major. He knew the cr'lprit, a Pennsyl- vanian like himself, better than the rest. He knew that he was quite capable of the crime]being charged against him. He had no doubt of his guilt. He wanted to see him punished. He said all this to the other members of the Court, and then added: “But you know we are not a legal Court-martial. We have no au- thority to act—certainly no authority to kill. 'We may sift the evidence present- ed against a man for our own satisfaction, but we cannot sentence, much less kill him. The most we can do is to prefer charges against him to the War Depart- ment. We can’t kill him”—Suddenly interrupting himself, he said, *“Colonel what's that in your hand?” ““The rope,” said the Colonel grimly; “I've been plait- ing it as we talked,” and he passed it around. He had taken an old shirt, torn into narrow strips and woven it into something that looked like arope. *“Now, Major,” he said, when it was handed back to him, “what you have said is all very well, It does credit to your heart as well as to your head. But ‘you are out- voted; the majority is against you. The sentence of the court is that the scoun- drel shall die, and die he will this min- ute, for I'll kill him myself. Come Cap tain,” he said to the brawney Irishman next to him, “youand [ will settle the rascal!” “Why, you wouldn't strangle him in his sleep, would you?’ asked the Major, also on his feet as the others start- ed toward the sleeping form of the trai- tor, “‘Certainly,” whispered the Colonel; “‘why not? He can’t pray, and we can't have any noise,” *‘You never will,” said the Major firmly, getting in front of the Colenel; ““1 won't let you; you'll have to kill me first. I won't stand by and see you stain your honest hands yith his dis- e A o o) Why, man, itwould bemurder, You would bo o murderer, 1 won't pormit it.” Gliding softly before the rest, he reached the sleepeng man and sat down beside his head. There ho sat till the gray morning came stealing in through the chilly atmosphere. Long before that time the Colonel and Ins companions, baffled and _disgusted, had stolen away to their sleeping places, carrying the plaited rope with them, As R e, EATHEN faco in the dim light of the dawn, he waked him and told him all that occurred. “Now, sir,” he said sternly, 1 saved your life last night, although I believed you | worthy of death, T won't do it again, 1 saved your iife for my sake not for My advyice is that s soon as the g comes in for roll-call you get out of Lib- by, and as soon as you get to Washing- ton get out of the army. If you're in the army when I get out I'll prefer charges against you, and if 1 meet you I'll kill you,” Trembling with excitement the wrotch, without & word of denial or palliatial, got up, and as soon as the guard cawme in, got out. The stalwart six forwarded charges against him from Libby When they got out of prison they found him outof the army, 8o they dropped the matter. 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