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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20

The land of the NavajOs may be roughly
outlined as 300 miles in greatest length from
east to west and 80 from north to south,
and, including the Zunis and Moquis along
their southern border, there are perhaps
5000 Indians in all that region. The Nava-
jos are worthy Of honorable respect as a peo-
pie in whom hope and natural sense Of
humor have triumphed over the most adj
verse circumstances. Their women are quite
industrious and the men do occasionally work
under extraordinary temptation. Their coun-
tenances are more pleasing than those Of In
dians in general, and wit is not entirely lack
ing to them. Practical jokes occasionally
enliven the groups around the camp fire,
and, contrary to our ideas of Indian charac-
ter, they laugh heartily at everything anus
ing They have theology, Of course, and
account for the origin Of the world and
things III general quite satisfactorily.
They believe that the first man was made
out of a turkey and the first women were
made out of fish, for which reason they eat
neither Of these creatures, and they have
kind of vague idea, which they themselves
cannot explain. of future state of rewards
and punishments; bat whether this is an in
digenous aboriginal conception or caught
from missionaries is one of those things no
interpreter can find out. Bat this is a digres-
sion. Let US return to the desert. Myself
and the Indian Travelled from Defiance up
Canyon Benito over spur of red hills and
into a green valley about mile square,
walled in by columns and ridges of sand rock,
thence out upon bare rock, thence through
forest, thence on TO sandstone plateau, at
least 1000 feet above the sea, and then down
into Bat canyon and Canyon Dechelley.
1t may be added incidentally that from the
level of the plateau there was descent Of
LOO feet into the canyon, which we made
through a sort of a groove in the side of the
cliff, and were three hours in going that dis
lance; but little thing like that is hardly
thought worth mentioning in Arizona.
Canyon Dechelley, in which | remained
day, is noted among western antiquarians for
the SO called cliff cities, old Indian towns of
fiat stones laid in white cement, built on the
shelving cliffs of the rocks, anywhere from
so to 600 feet above the bottom of the cam
yon. 1t is alleged by savants, of course that
a semi-civilized people once inhabited these
cities and were driven away by the nomadic
Indians; but think their leaving the best
proof that they were civilized and that they
went to a land of rains
Early the next morning we issued from the
mouth of Canyon Dechelley, across a fat
plain some ten miles wide in which the black
and yellow earth was as dry Us ashes, and be-
You'd that entered upon the White Desert.
Hour after hour we toiled ON across this arid
waste, onr horses suffering from heat and
thirst and the little water in our canteens
simmerng warm. At last we reached a
range Of gray and chalky looking hills where
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20

over the journey. Between his seventeenth
and twentieth years he produced as many
as thirty dramas, farces and burles1ues, He
also wrote a number OF pantomimes for small
theatres under the nom de plume of Fran
co.'s Frost
He was so well known as a dramatic writer
In ISL that be was retained as the stock dra-
matIst at the Olympic theatre. London. At
the age of Il he edited weekly literary mis-
eeuany entitled Chambers London Journal
While busy with his Journal be wrote a one
act farce called The Artful Dodger,n for the
Olympic theatre. In another year he wrote
droll piece called Pork Chops, or a Dream
at Home for the same theatre
Aside from stage work, Mr. Blanchard de-
lighted IN writing for the comic press. and be
contributed TO most of the comic sheets that
for time tried 10 strive against Punch. One
of these Is Fun. which has lived and for
which he wrote Q great deal Of witty matter.
Two novels, Temple Bar and "A Man
Without Destiny" are from his pen. At
Is be was the editor Of The New London
Magazine. The Carpet Bag and Sketch
Book" and THE Seven Ages Of " oman are
his best works. Since 1888 he remained on
the literary staff OF TIE Daily Telegraph.
oNA ASA G-Si I N~-aal ecu NEclc WEEKLY
essays on London amusement for The Biz
mingham Daily Gazette
Mr.. Blanchard piayed mary parts during
his life time, such editor, compiler, essay
ist, wrist. critic. novelist and 6ramaeiss
BE has probably written more largely for the
amusement OF children than any che sushor.
Boeson's Latest Acquisition.
By purchasing the entire Omaha team Boz
ton secures Clarke and Nichols, the PICK Of
the minor lsagae pitchers developed this rear,
and NaEis, tie crack catcher OF the in
telders they VIII have no Use for FIRST base
man andrews, secoad baseniaa Cooney and
third basezr.an Ciss~eAen6, all good mea. but
they may find it 70 thsr advantage to hold
on % Walsh, the short stop, vino is coaer.
The three ootiel6eEs are good ones. Willis
and Aassit baing hard hiriers. but Caravan
ss ss.n- in that raxaaanf
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20

early explorers were either untruthful or in
capable of judging of what their eyes saw.
Courteous reader listen to the confession of
a man who believes in the Great American
Desert 1 have seen and suffered 1t. But
before the confession, a small concession is in
order.
The American desert, it is true, is not half
as big as men thought it was in 1850 and con-
tairas q few more GASES, but AL the same 1T Is
there-a hard, objective reality. 1t is both
hard and dry. A third of it is barren noun
tain, bare brown OF gray rock. Another
third is plain, mixture of sand, salt, soda,
flint and alkaIi. The remainder is incoherent
red earth. barren because of drought, but con-
tanning the elements of fertility and capable
of being made highly productive where album
dance of water can be had for irrigation.
But it is largely a desert for want of heat,
for at least 800, 900 square miles of the far
west Lie a mile or more above the oceans
Level, and consequently are reliable for few
crops except grass.
And on this level the changes are sudden
and terrible. In Arizona ] have seen corn
and other tender shoots literally frozen solid
in June. At Cheyenne l have seen a sheet of
ice an inch thick formed by hail in August.
In November I have seen whole herds Of
stock dead in pile, frozen as they crowded
together, and Indians, who had been caught
in storm, getting into camp with fingers
stiff and not sound nose enough left to blow
When the Mormons settled at Salt Lake they
INDUCED the pleasing deiusion that stock
could .'live out all winter in the valleys" and
the first two winters they were there hap
pened to be the mildest ever known. The
third QS5O-5D was a crusher Snow came
early and staid late Everything froze that
was left out and for three months at a time
distant settlements were isolated by the
snow packs an the mountain passes.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20

looking mountain side. We toiled upward
for thousand feet, to a point where lime
stone rift broke across the sand mountain,
and there we entered sort Of cave and
found a pool of cold water.
According to the custom of the country
used nv Mexican hat as horse bucket and
succeeded in getting enough to keep the ami
mails in spirits. and we again sought the plain
and continued our former course southwest
along the foot of the mesa. Hour after hour
we logged on, l often falling asleep on my
horse and waking with start while dream
ing of Indian ambush, and at midnight
reached the first good grass-at least sixty
miles from where we had started in the morn
ing.
The next day ride of twenty miles over .
desert as dry as a lime kiln brought US to
that curious people commonly called the Mo
auis. though Moqui is merely the name Of one
of their towns, and there we remained four
days. Their villages are on lofty rock, their
corn fields are red sand, their meat is goats
flesh and their fruit is the pulp of peculiar
desert cactus called ''mescaln-and still they
live tried hard to learn how, while was
with them, but failed. Nowhere else in
America, am sure, is life sustained by man
fact, they do not strictly live-they are a de
caying race. And the nature Of the country
from there to Kanab, Utah, cannot be more
forcibly described than by bare itinerary
just as I kept it daily and hourly, rocks, des-
erts, canyons and scant water holes all emu
merated as l went and distances estimated by
time.
June 25-Northwest over a mesa OF black
rock for twenty-five miles: found hole full
of bracl1ish water and filed canteens; climbed
to summit of rocky ridge and made 'dry
camp" 26-Climbed down to a sand plain
and rode hard till 10 a. NJ, reach'r spring
in green valley; Navajoes caIuped there;
rested till next morning. 27-Last water
three miles out; rode hard across red desert
till D. M and found hole in the rock full
of water: rode ten miles further to find grass
and made dry camp. 2S-Went about
twelve miles out of way to find water; then
off west twenty miles, and got into tolerably
good pasture. 29-Reached cliff Of Colorado
at 10 a. m and got down to river by dark.
3O-Devised means for crossing. July l.
Got over to John d. Lees and remained three
days; Navajo left me and returned home.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20

pny, who married wealthy Mexican lady,
signs his bank checks as Timotheus Murfando
1t isn't English. you know, but it is charac-
teristically Mexican.
To Fort Wingate, nearly 200 miles west of
Santa Fe, and to Defiance, forty miles be-
yond, the journey was comparatively easy,
and from the latter place l set out on June
Is, on horse, with Navajo Indian for
guide and servant on donkey, for 400 mile
ride can shut my eyes now and by the eye
of memory see that country; the miles on
miles of red rock, the wide waste of burning
sand, the narrow, rocky de6les, the dried mud
flats, the salt plains and treeless, CRASHES
mesas.
We crossed over some deserts on which sand
and alkali burned our horses feet. We trav-
ersed broad plateaus of bare sandstone with
here and there green dell or wooded cove,
and rarely, very rarely. descended to the beds
Of lakes long since dry, to find in the lowest de-
preston small natural meadows or sullen
pools bordered by few sickly trees. 1t
seemed land cursed of God and forgotten Of
civilized man, where only hunters and herds
men could wiring scant subsistence
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20
E. LEHMAN BLANCHARD.
Something About One of England's Great
est Dram lists.

Something About One of England's Great
est Dramatists.
Edward Leman Blanchard, the noted dra-
matist, who recently died in England, was
born in London Dec. II, 1S40 His father,
William Blanchard, a noted comedian, played
in the United States many years ago, and
originally acted under the name of Bentley.
Upon the death of his father, in 1885, young
Blanchard realized that he had to make his
own way in the world. After vain search
for work he secured an engagement with an
exhibition OF the oxy-hydrogen microscope,
which was then making some stir. His en-
ployer proposed to give entertainments all
over England, but they did not pay, and
while in the west of England the capitalist
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20

and exhibitor re-
tired in disgust, and
t h US Blanchard
was stranded. with
out any money to
find his way across
the Mendip hills
to Bristol, England.
Fortunately he ran
against a scene
painter whom ne
knew in Bristol.
lie borrowed sixty
two cents from
him and with this
walked to London,
taking three DAVIS
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-20
FOUND IT NO MYTH
"A Rough Experience on the
"Great American Desert"
ON THE 18Th PARALLEL ROUTE.
Mountain and as Much More Barren
Sand and Alkan P1ains-Among the
Nayaj0es-At John d. Lees.

T IS the fashion
just n o W to say
that the G r 9 a {
American Desert is
a II Y tn. Land
a & en- is send out
glowing circulars
and gorgeously col
ored maps on which
wheat Lands" in
big / e t t er S are
spread all over half
a million square
miles of the wild
west, and one is al
most forced to be-
lieve that all the
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20

questions Of q local nature where
common interests are involved.
Chief among these interests are those
pertaining to irrigation and silver
mining, and on these questions a pretty
solid front will be presented. North Da-
kota alone not being q silver producer, the
cereal element will also be q prominent
one. 1t is officially stated by tho movers
that the association is to be non-partisau,
democrats and republicans being alike
eligible to membership. 1t was voted TO
ask publishers of newspapers in the above
states to send copies to be placed on file,
and q general invitation was extended to
all visitors from these states to enjoy the
associations hospitality. A committee
comprising Senator Stewart, Congressman
Carter and Delegate Casey, of Wyoming,
was appointed to perfect the roll of MEM
bership and take charge of the prelimin-
aries until the permanent organization Is
completed ami adopted. Senators aud
representatives from the states namel, ex-
cept California and Colorado, were pres
ent and pledged themselves to the organ
iyotipN
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
BRAZILIAN

a. Brief Summary al Past .nd Presenf
Conditions AMI Intentions.
1t is stated that the greater portion of
the higher officers in the Brazilian army
were anarchists and joined the republican
minority in the recent outbreak in Brazil
under the belief that the demonstration
was to be merely against the ministers and
not against the empire. They only be-
came aware of The true facts when they
had gone too far to rctrace their steps.
When the revolution started thousands of
students armed themselves and threat
ened to kill the emperor and his family.
A boat manncd by students patroled the
harbor, it being their intention to inter
cept the emperor when he embarked and
do him injury.
Tho imperial family has not decided
upon a special policy, but are Watching
developments. They have not yet fixed
upon tine place where they will ~sojourn in
Europe. Advices received by steamer
o Rio Janciro at Lisbon, state that the
adhesion to the republic by persons of
hig position, WHO We're supposed to be
reliable monarclists, astonishes and dis
courages the supporters of the imperial
government and increases their fears that
the republic is founded Oh n permanent
basis. In conversation with Brazilian adj
hercnts Dom i'odto has expressed many
doubts as to whether the new government
will contribute to the prosperity of the
country. Although he had himself told
very many persons they should continleto
serve the country, still he had not expect
ed there would be so many desertcrs from
the standard of the MONARCHY.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
Time 10 DO Something.

"Don't you think, Maria" said a fond
father to the partner of his joys,
don't you think il is about time we
put little Freddie into some good
school?"
"Yes, indeed, lido, John. Why, lean
do nothing all day long except watch
that boy. Only this morning he threw
the cat into the cistern, cut the top off
one of your new boots to get leather to
cover his ball with, dropped your razor
into the we'll, spilled ink all over the
parlor carpet, and"
"Great Scott! Clean the c~istern,
buy a new pair of boots, a razor and o
parlor carpet all for one day! Some
thing must be done, that's sure"
eyes, John. He is so active. We
must be very careful in the selection
of a school for him, dear, SO much de-
ponds upon it, you know"
"Yes, know. How would q reform
school do?"-American Commercial
Traveller.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
Easy to be President.

Well, my little man. what will you
he when you grow up?"
It'll be a President"
high, my boy"
"lep. But that's what I'll be, you
bel. Why. bein' Presidents runs in
u family"
"Were any of your ancestors Preai-
dents?"
@'F YOU mean any my relations, they
WIZ mighty near oil of 'em Presidents.
Dad, he is President of the Hod-Ca
riers' Union, an Bill he's President of
The Teamsters' Amalgamated Associa-
lion, an' Jim he's President Of the
Brotherhood. of United Dock Wollop-
ers, an Tom he's President Of thb
Coal-Heavers' Assembly, an svens
marin, why, marm's President Of the
Wdshladies' Protective League. Presi-
dent! You jest wait an see IL I aint
o President. ..American Commercial
Traveller.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
As He Was a-saying.

A man led q raw-boned, humble
faced mule down Clifford street YES.
terday morning, turned into Griswold
and finally DISAPPEARED in a blacksmith
shop.
"Shoes?" queried the stalwart smith.
"Yes,"
"Hind?"
dyes"
"As I was a-saying when you came
in"
Here he picked up one Of the mules
legs and was sent half way across the
shop by n twist of the animals hip.
He returned to the attack with unruf-
fed calmness saying:
"As I was a-sa.ying when youth the
mule came in"
This time he got a hind foot in the
ribs. and was almost knocked over his
anvil. He braced up, opened his eyes
little wider, and making a grab for that
same foot, he repeated:
CAS- 1 was a-saying when the mule
and you howe
This time he got both feet in quick
succession, and was driven to the wall
ten feet away.
What is it YOU, are trying to tell
me?" asked the owner of the mule.
"Why, / was a-saying as You turned
the corner that if you brought that in
fernal brute to this shop I'd break his
back with a crowbar, and now you get
him ont or I'll do it!"-Detroit Free
Press.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
Ur AGAIN.
The Efforts To Open tho Butte Burning
Mines Abandoned.

The efforts made to reopen the Ana
conda and st. Lawrence mines at Butte.
Mont, was premature. Tho miners
worked under difficulty in the GOO foot
level of the st. Lawrence all day, having
the strong presence of gas to contend
with. The men could only work q short
while, when they were relieved by others.
AS the men worked air was thus let into
the place where the fire originated, and
caused the almost extinguishcd fire to start
up with fresh vigor. Early next morning
smoke began to issue again from the Ana
conda Shaft i'll volumes sufficient to indi-
cate that the fire was once more under full
Roadway. The Anaconda shaft Mt once
closed again, the miners withdrawn from
the st. Lawrence workings and the bulk
heads i'll the one hundred and six hundred
levels replaced. The experience from fires
in other mines is that fire in n mine once
started and the mine sealed up is never
cxtineuished in less than three months
and even longer. The work of injecting
steam into the mines was resumed again
and efforts to reopen them will not be
made this winter. 1t is expected the COM
pa1y will at once begin development work
on other properties belonging to it, SO
that the output i'll the aggregate will not
he reduced.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
An Old Hero.

Il tell you, sab, we had some mighty
exciting times during the wah," said
the Colonel to the Major.
YES, indeed: it's IL comfort. sab, to
think of them after they are all ovah."
TO be sual. DO you know that I
don't believe I was ever really scyaht
once. sab, in the midst of all the dan
ger. sah."
well, I can't say as much. 1 was
scyaht oncc-only once"
How was that?"
at was in 'G3. Everybody was lying
around the campfire telling stories,
when Zeb Hickey proposed a game of
pokah-"
sand there was a sudden attack on
you?"
before the draw, and 1 didn't have
anything in my hand but q pair Of
deuces. I got three kings in the draw
and took the pot, but l tell you, sab,
it gave my nerves a jolt. Nero
1yareler.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
OLIVER N DEAD.
Demise of tho Last of the Twelve orirf
nal Abolitionists.

Demise of tho Last of the Twelve Origf-
nal Abolitionists.
New York dispatch: Oliver johnson.
one Of the associates of William Lloyd Gar
rison in the organization of tho abolition
party. has died at his home in Brooklyn.
Mr.. johnson was born in the village
of Feacham, Vt, Dec. %. 1902. When a
boy he was apprenticed to the Waterman
at Montpelier, but in 1871 he went to Bosr
ton and began the publication of a weekly
paper called the Christian Soldier. He
was four years younger than William
Lloyd Garrison and his paper was estab-
lished but a week later than Garrisdn's
famous Liberator. The two men were
soon drawn together and for thirty years
and more they worked side by side in the
great aust of freedom. Mr.. johnson
lectured frequently ON the subject Of slav-
cry, n Travelled throughout the eastern
States agitating abolition. In 1894 MI.
johnson was appointed assistant editor of
the New York Tribune. In 1880 he pub
lished q book IN civilian Lloyd Garri-
son and His Times" and up TO q few
months ago was connected with the New
York Evening Post. Mr.. johnson was
twice married, and leaves . widow and
ons daughter.
The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-12-20
.lMronriNG COAL MINERS.
The Operatives in the Spring Valley I;
giOn treated To IA Surprise.

The Operatives in tho Spring Valley Re-
giOn Treated To IL Surprise.
Twenty-nine negroes have just arrived
at the S%eatonville shaft of the Chicago,
Wilmington and Nermillion Coal company
near Spring Valley, Ill.,. to dig coal. the
first appearance OF the kind i'll that sec
tion. The shaft was running all during the
strike. the men being paid by the day, but
soon after the stfike was settled the COM
pany, ignoring its contract, established IL
new basis of pay which %rcsrlte.l in II mate
rial reduction. Most of the men quit work.
many of them seeking and obtaining en-
rloyment at Spring Valley. The arrival of
the negroes has caused a tiuttcr of excite
ment. us there is IL strong feeling against
them among the miners III the SUR aund-
ing locality. A second invoice of about
fifty has also arrived. clearly indicating the
policy of Manager Sweet to pay less wages
than any of his competitors, even though
he resort TO this means.