The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-03-01

books. "COme with me, SAID Miss lay
lor, moving toward the private room, and
the boy followed her, Then Miss Allen,
the principal of the school was sent for,
and she and Miss Taylor succeeded in
disarming the bold captain Schuylkill,"
who burst into tears when the seven
chambered revolver was taken from him
and his father, baker at Corinthian av-
enue and Brown street was sent for The
father came and took "Jackn off in dis
grace. While the teachers were subdu-
ing "Schuylkill'' in the private room, the
other philadelphia cowboys who had
revolvers or bowie knives with them, sent
their weapons out OF the building, and
when a few minutes later the teachers
searched them, no arms were found.
Captain" Kalor is
THE SECOND COMMANDER
that the "cowbOys" Of the Thaddeus Ste
vens school have lost within week, for
on Friday last captain" Charlie Bed
ford, aged eleven, was subdued by the
teachers and disarued of navy revolver.
"Captain" Charlie has been imprisoned in
his fathers house on Brown street. On
Tuesday, in the cellar Of the Armstrong
family mansion, on Twentieth street, a
few doors south Of Brown street, Johnnie
Kalor was elected to succeed '.Captain"
Bedford, deposed. The "cowboysn who
were present when Captain kalor took.
the oath and title OF "Schuylkiil jack
were William Armstrong, aged twelve:
Charles J. Briggs, aged ten; Percy Bailey,
aged eleven, and John Y. Boyle, aged
nine. kalor was one of the most adj
yanced "cowboys.n His hero was Jesse
james, but he admitted that Mr.. James
paid too much attention to robbing and
horse stealing and not enough to killing
tribes OF Indians and rescung captives.'
so earnest was Captain" kalor
that he has for many weeks en-
deavOrcd to induce his fellow "cow-
boysn to leave home with their arms and
live in a hut on the Delaware River until
spring opened, when they could move
westward in search of scalps, captives
and treasure. His companions, however,
considered the weather too severe too camp
out in, and not even Captain Jacks argu-
ment that they could vary the monotony
of camp life ON the Delaware by becom-
ing pirates until summer came, had any
effect upon them. On the day after he
was made Captain of the band "Schuylkill
Jack" learned that one of the members
had threatened to expose the plans of his
companions. "Jack" placed his revolver
at the head of the supposed traitor and
made him promise to reveal nothing, The
boy promised, and an hour later told his
teacher the facts that led to the humilia-
ton of captain Schuylkill," and posi-
bly the destruction of an organization
that has been in existence for many
months. Several days ago kalor con-
vinced his companions that there were
many things, such as
HURLING A BOWIE KNIFE
with accuracy, throwing lasso, making
fire by rubbing two sticks together, and
eating raw meat that the cowboys"
should be perfect in before they could
reasonably expect to make their marks as
"Terrors' or Gndian Slayers," on the
plains. The boys recognized the force of
"Schuykill Jacks" argument, but there
was no place in which they could safely
practice the necessary accomplishments
referred to. On Monday the parents Cf
"Cowboy" Armstrong went to New York
to visit relatives, and since then the cellar
of their house on Twentieth street
has been the meeting-place for the
boys. There they made tents with
blankets from Armstrong; beds there
they spent hours hurting bowie and car
wing knives there they wore the skin
off the palms of their hands rubbing
sticks together without making fire,
and there John Kalor showed him
self worthy of being captain of the
band by eating a pound of raw beef.
For weeks they have been laying in a
stock of ammunition, and their revolv-
ers were bought from pawn-broker on
Ridge avenue, near Vineyard street. The
teachers of Thaddeus Stevens School
have for long time known of the
existence of secret among the boys,
but it was not until yesterday that the
whole story came out. Miss Allen is of
the opinion that the minds of the boys
have been as much influenced by the pic
toral printing of border plays at the
theaters as by dime novels.