St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-09

dis quarter OF a. century after the lighting
except when on some memorial day they
soften as the veterans stand beneath the
stars and stripes while the orator takes
them back to the bloody days and rehearses
the hour OF victory. Some ten minutes be-
fore the two men had seated themselves on
the piazza, they had been on the street
One came down Third street at as brisk a
pace as pasSible in his crippled condition,
and at the same moment the wooden peg
OF the other was beating comparatively
brlsk tattoo on the Jackson street sidewalk.
AT the corner the two men came into COL
lision that staggered both. Each looked at
the other, at the face and then at the
wooden leg, and fellow-feeling came over
them and each smiled. 'tWhere did you
lose your Lego" asked the man from
Wisconsin, as he shook hands with the
Minnesota man, Tor they had needed no in
PRODUCTION and fallen INTO conversation on
the corner
SAT Gettysburg" was the reply, ''a
cannon ball struck me a half hour before
the fight was over. When did you lose
yours?"
I'm the same battle" said the Wisconsin
man. land it must have been about the
same hour of the day, for it was about that
length OF time before the fighting ended
that was struck down. I would have
been there yet if rebel surgeon named
Gray hadn't have taken care of me- 1t is
about the only thing I've got to thank the
Southern people for, but he used me white
although he was on the other side"
"a rebel surgeon named Gray?" said the
other. Ibid he dress your leg. He was
my brother-in-law and he found
me that same day and amputated my
leg" The veterans shook hands again and
adjourned to the Merchants portico where
they went over old times for an hour, and
as they shook hands ON parting they prom
ised to keep up the acquaintance which had
resulted from the collision on the corner.
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In dark cell in the county Jail brown
faced, black-eyed Indian woman sat on
rough bunk yesterday fondling round
checked pappoose, who divided it's time be-
tween pulling the disheveled locks of it's
and playing with Its tiny toes.
The woman is charged with the murder
of another Indian maiden who usurped her
in the affections of her husband. The
woman robbed her of her child as we'll as
the copper colored love of her husband, who
turned her from the door of his wigwam.
When her liege lord told her to go she es-
sayed to take her child with her, but the
usurper refused to give it up, and hieing
herself to neighboring woodpile the en-
ragged mother procured an axe, and, going
back to the smoky tent. chopped an eye out
of her.
Her bravery and devotion to her child re-
awakened the admiration of her husband.
who concluded that there was more to ltAe
in her than in corpse and he took her hack
to his bearskin couch and now occupies the
same cell with her. charged with being an
accompicein the tragedy. They were both
arrested and taken before United States
Commissioner Mills at Morehead or pre-
liminary examination. The
MOTHER MURDEREss
was taken into the commissioners office
and seated directly beneath telephone.
Every effort to wiring confession from her
failed. She presented brown stone front.
Her stoicism was aggravating. The COM
missioner was about giving up in despair,
when suddenly the telephone rang. The
woman Sprang up, and making to the oppo-
site side of the room, stood looking at the
instrument, her eyes wildly staring and her
frame quivering with excitement. The
commissioner quietly arose from his seat
and walking over to the telephone began
talking through it. When he had finished
and turned away from the instrument, the
woman uttered a shrek, and falling on her
face muttered wildly and incoherantly
something about the Mighty Father and the
Great Spirit. The commissioner saw his
opportunity, and while the woman was in
her supersttious frenzy he piled her with
questions. and thinking that he stood in
with the Great Spirit via the telephone, the
frightened creature confessed all, and she
b., ,Nf IL
grand jury.
The term ''rustler'' which has come into
very frequent use in the semi-slang vocabu-
larry OF the street has peculiar significance
in the wilds of Montana cattle ranches.
Here it is used to designate man who is
full of vim and goaheadtiveness. One of
the Montana stockgrowers in the city for
the past few days explained the meaning of
the term. They call cattle rustlers which
will get down through the snow in the
winter and get the grass beneath, the rub
bling motion of their noses going back and
forth to remove the snow being called rus
thing. Cattle that do not know how
to rustic are called ''dogies" and
it was common expression of the
Montana men when they saw cattle
mere 10 remark. 'I0ey are pTetUy GOOD
dogies." They also use the word ''rustler"
to designate horse thief. Sometimes
ranchman will meet troup of cowboys on
horseback, and in answer to a question of
where they are bound, they will reply:
Were going to roundup some rustlers,"
which being translated is to hang some
horse thieves.
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Do dogs reason? 1t would seem that
they do from the conduct of canine yes
terday. He was an old, weary-looking
dog. His eyes were dim, and he limped
painfully as he sneaked in and out of the
alleys on Third street. His head hung low,
and through his dirty coat his ribs were
plainly visible. Hunger was depicted in
his every movement and in the painful
whine that he frequently uttered. Slowly
he made his way in the direction of the
river and finally he reached the wharf, on
the verge of which he seated himself and
looked wistfully down into the dark waters
that rolled quietly and swiftly below him.
He sat thus for fully five minutes, when
suddenly looking up to the sky he uttered
q cry half human in its plaintiveness, and