Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-14
An AMERICAN KING.
, Empire of Chilli and "Henry
the First"
nance Surrounding His Realm in Now
Icsico-A Clergyman Interviews HIM
slavery, an "Institution"-Two
Miners Penetrate the Kingdom.
lOriginal.]

How little we really know of our own
|st country, though we think we I'M
|r,tand its history and geography thor
[ghlv. The man or woman residing
the New England States may by a
w weeks travel visit every important
OF pleasure resort, but he has only
come acquainted with a very small
rion of that scope of country known
The United States and Territories. A
pie Territory in the vast West is as
% as i'll New England. One may be
(asAt insane to assert that we have
Ehn the limits of the United States q
lg Emperor and a real Empire,
|ich in mca at least is considerable,
lt such is the fact. This Empire, like
|my OF the enchanted cities Of the
Firbim Nights" is known to but few.
cw>paper men have not invaded the
|r domain of this monarch, and he
|cs in peaceful security and royal
unity, swaying the scepter with an
N will. The Emperor's word is law,
his is as absolute Il monarch as can
tomd IN the most dcspotic countries
he earth. He makes his own laws,
HE Chief Executive and judiciary of
realm. Such is the emperor of
t.jIi. Way out on the Southwest,
IRE the sun blaZes on the white sand
Pies as far rs the eye Il see, where
an q@uivers with heat, is the Empire
Chilli. One may travel hundreds
miles over the desert and alkali lands
|tlout seeing q human habitation save
| rude adobe huts and pueblos of
ancient and dying races.
lilillll is Il certain tract of land COM
F>ng some sixty thousand acres in the
|l'Arastcm portion of the Territory Of
;" Mexico. 1t is isolated and remote
pm all lines of travel. About
Fly thousand acres of it
timber and eight or ten
F.'>&nd arabic land, and the re-
'In1cr is desert, like the desert which
Fg.'ches for q hundred miles around it.
l., 50 distant, SO difficult of access,
~ IL seldom has a visitor. Occasion
Il lost vaquero or hunter may stray
|'hGr, but those visits are rare, and the
(?oiailon rarely leave it. 1t is a vast
rs where men can live, and perhaps
aappE, and grow old and die without
! having stepped their feet on the
cat world beyond. There are many
(.lian beings living in this strange en-
who know little or nothing of the
[Sl1e world. The scope of land is an
[leht Spanish grant and was pur-
nearly forty years ago by a man
El's" Henry. 1t was then fully fifteen
PHl''Fe1 miles from the outposts of
|"zanon. Henry owns it s:ill, and
man disputes his title. He is its En-
oFa and acknowledges no other name
Il ilehry. Every human being who
T. mere addresses him as "your
.Sty and pays him tribute, and
Rvs no law but his will.
Is only recently that this Empire of
f..lI has become 4 fixed certainty.
years rumorS of it have been whis-
u about over the plain of Il small
%il OF people under a king, living
IT," 'he limits of the United States,
II mas been regarded as q myth. Fiji
4 Years ago q Western Spectator
',Su Michael Hogarth, having heard
stores OF the empire whichin rich
III minerals and wealth and beauty
''e,I an Fl Dorado, set out to find it
nN mel and four pack mules.
S"F'A and his little band have never
heard from since. and whether they
Snea on the desert, were murdered
w lli!lans, Or still exist in a state
1neiy to the cruel Henry, is not
,1 and probably never will be. But
H." tn" existence and locality of the
r,re are fixed facts. Rev. A. j.
%'L, IN a letter recently published
ne G"'Fstiam Adrocute, New York,
.nat ne met this man Henry, the
pgr9r OF Chilli, on the train between
re- and Lamy. The Emperor
injured to leave his domain for a
'ays to visit the Tertio-Millenial
f's!LlOu which thop ,u,. =; ,,.oou.oc,