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The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
One and One.Third Rate.

FOREST LAKE, Mimi, Dec. II, 80.
The undersigned, Secretary Mime
Sofa State Farmers Alliance, begs
leave to make following report in re-
gard to reduction in railroad fare
in favor OF delegates and alternates
who will attend the annual meeting
of the State Farmers Alliance, to be
held at St. Paul, Dec. 3Oth to Jan.
I'd. Said reduction will be granted
on the following conditions: 1t will
be on the certificate plan. The pas
senger pays full fare in going to the
meeting, and at the purchase of
ticket secures from his local agent, by
request, certificate thereof; and
this certificate countersigned by the
secretary of the State Alliance be-
comes authority for sale of return
ticket over the same road between
same points, at one third fare.
Failure to procure or present GER
tifcates invalidates any claim for re-
ductiOn in return fare.
The return tickets sold at the re-
duced fare will be for a continuous
passage.
Certificates will not be honored for
return tickets at reduced rates unless
presented within three days after the
date OF adjournment OF the meeting.
A. L. STRoMBERG,
Secretary State Alliance.
This applies to those roads listed
in another column in an article on
this matter.-ED. G. WI
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

A man by the name of S. B. Smith,
of Stevens County, writes that che
don't want it any longer?" Well
who said he did? It's long enough
now amt it?
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

The G. W. stated last year that the
alliance "would make history in
$780," Has the prophecy been full
filled? Now we offer that on Dec.
30th it will make more history-and
then will begin it's truest and noblest
mission!
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

S. NJ. Fairchild, Vice President of
the Iowa State Alliance, writes that
Minnesota has great advantage
over many states in that it has the
"bOld and fearless" GREAT WEST"
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

The Industrial Age is sending out
many thousands of copies of It's paper
to the sub-alliances, and all over the
state, a month after the election, free
of charge; giving them away, free
gratis, for nothing. Who pays for
all this? Paper, composition and
press work cost something. Who
foots the bill and what is the motive
Are the railroads behind this sheet +?
1t is observable that they have
touched the railroads very lightly.
The editor, Griggsby, is d man alb
solutely without means, and his
paper was sat down on by the labor
ing interests of Duluth. Mr.. Muller
is reverend young man who does
not "expect to fill q pulpit in Chi
cago," but has struck something in
St. Paul. The contracts these men
have made, with a publishing house
in St. Paul, and their headquarters
at tie Daily News ofice-together
with their relations to Albert Scheffer
and the rings, make the duet good
pair to watch.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

Merriam's plurality was 2,267
Harries won by 1928. Lind by 1872
ON. Hall by 1858. Castle by 1928
HalvOrsOn bv 5000.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19


about the operations of John La
throp, in Lac qui Parle County.
Probably every alliance man in the
state knows that John Lathrop was
almost (quite) unanimously expelled
from his alliance on account of his
financial work. 1t seems that he has
been at work lately to break up two
local alliances in Lac Qui Parle Co.,
and out OF them get seven men to
organize a new body, send 5000 and
get a charter. This has been accomp-
lished. And John Lathrop, an ex-
PEELED man, was one of the charter
members. This matter will doubtless
come up before the State Meeting.
The traitorous rascals are bound to
get there in some way. The follow
ing is a sample OF the letters re-
ceived:
MANFRED, Nov. Goth, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
We are under the necessity of MAX
ing inquiry in regard to the proceed
ings OF John Lathrop. He is making
an effort to break up our Alliance by
forming a new alliance by part Of
our Manfred and the Mahuron alli-
ance forming a new one contrary to
the wishes of our alliance officials,
and a majority OF the members. We
have heard that he made application
for a charter. The officials are op-
posed to the arrangement. We learn
that Lathrop says that he means to
defeat Donnelly for President.
SERGEANT STONE.
LATER.
We have received an official CON-
munication relating to the Lathrop
work, in which is direct statement
and charge by the three officers OF an
attempt to break up an active alli-
ance by reporting it dead to the
State Secretary, and getting four
men in that and three others to sign
a paper, send two dollars and get a
charter. The statement will appear
next week, as it comes in the last
mail before going to press.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

The old parties can no longer hide
their concern over the Alliance move
ment.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19

a few days ago the great reform
element Of the country was en-
livened by the announcement in the
papers that q great convention
would be held at Cincinnati on Feby
28th, to put q third party ticket in
the field. Every reform patriot re-
joiced. We prepared full account
OF the matter, with the names Of
those making the call. 1t sprang
from the Ocala Convention. Now we
understand that the call has been re-
called. We will make no comments
now. But we will say this-that if
the men who have forged to the front
in this great movement fail the peo-
pie the people will shelve them-and
the movement go on. No ten or a
dozen men can monkey with the old
party minions of Wall Street, and be-
tray the cause for which people have
torn themselves from all party ties.
Let these men take warning.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
on this measure.

A friend writes us from Clay coun-
ty, and asks us, "who hires Eric
Olson, and a horse and vehicle, to
travel the whole length and breadth
of the state, canvassing against Ig-
natius Donnelly? Eric is very poor
man. Whose money is it?"
We cannot positively answer the
question. We would ask our CORES
pondent, however, who is interested
in controlling legislation, in the COM
ing session? Is it not the Railroads
and Rings that are plundering the
people? Would not Mr.. Donnelly's
election as president strengthen him
in his fight against them? Would
not his defeat, (on the plea OF har-
mony, weaken him? Can our cores
pondent put two and two together
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-19
Part of the Game.

St. Peter, Dec. II, 1890.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

on fifteen year, m yo' know It 1 know
yo're a coward IN a bully. Yo' hear
me?"
Buxton turned without a word and
walked back to his companions, but his
hard fac wore a look of awful ma
hgnity. All the evil in his perverted
nature was boiling over what he deemed
an insult and a thWarting of his au-
thority.
Before sunrise next morning the little
gray mounds scattered here and there
among the pines began to heaye. From
each crawled out a tousled cowboy, who
speedily made his mound into a fat gray
roll and tossed it into the front of the
wagon. While Jimmy's kettles were
singing over the hot little fire the boys
were saddling their horses with the fifty
pound COW saddles necessary for such
work as theirs-in which the RESPONSE
bility of not only the dead weight, but
the momentum, too, OF q ponderous
steer might at any moment be thrown on
the horn; or the tremendous slow strain
of hauling a ''bogged" animal from a
shoulder-deep %quioksand be trusted to the
same little knob of wood and leather.
Some, holding a reluctant hoof between
their knees, we're replacing a lost shoe,
and othere were whipping out their
reatas to evict stray kinks.
The frying-pan bread-a crisp, deli
cious baking in a covered iron pot
set beside the fre-was done. So were
the fried bacon, the boiled beef and
potatoes. and the violetly black coffee.
The boys squatted upon the ground
roundabout, zach having fished from
the dish-box a tin plate, cup and spoon,
and an iron knife and fork, and then
filed his dishes from the various pots.
Little time was wasted. Rough but good
natured jokes and chat flew around the
circle, and no one seemed particularly in
q hurry; but it was marvellous how 80
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

on the frontier, or if it be a young lieu
tenant-always a favorite target for
filings of this character-remember
that every one of our great soldiers was
once a young lieutenant and that his
turn is yet to come.
1t isn t safe to sheer at the youngsters,
either, boys. The wits thought they had
fair game in a blithe young second lieu
tenant who came east on q brief
~''leave' some years ago to be usher at
a beautiful wedding. He came straight
from the mountains of Southern Ari-
IONA, where, only a few days before, in
a savage tussle with the Apaches, one of
his men was shot down and left writhiug
among the rocks, from which the troops
were compelled to retreat, and this par
ticular young West Point "carpet
knight, - 'fparlor SOLDIER ETC.. :,
dashed back in the face of q storm of
bullets and bore his darky corporal out
of danger on his own brave young shoul-
ders, that still pear the barren strap of a
second lieutenant. England would have
decorated him with the Victoria cross
''for valor, - boys. but we don't have
such things in the United States.
CHARLES KING,
Captain, Z. S. A.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

doubtless his strange bird was the shore
lark, a Northern bird, that comes to us
in focks in the late fall or early winter,
and of late years has become a perma-
nent resident of certain parts of New
York state. 1 have heard it in
full song above the hills in Della
ware county, after the manner OF the
English sky-lark, but its song was a
crude, feeble, broken affair compared
with that Of the sky-lark. These birds
thrive well in confinement. 1 had one
seven months in a cage while living in
Washington. It was disabled In the
wing by a gunner, who brought it to me.
Its wound soon healed; it took food read
lily; 1t soon became tame, and vas an
object of much interest and amusement.
The cage in which 1 had hastily put it
was formerly a case filed with stuffed
birds. It's front was glass. As it was
left out upon the porch over night a
strange cat discovered the bird through
the glass, and through this glass she
plunged and captured the bird. In the
morning there was the large hole in the
glass, and the pretty ark was gone. L
have always INDUCED a faint hope that
the glass was such q surprise TO the cat
and made such a racket about her eyes
and ears as she sprang against it that
she beat a hasty retreat and that the
bird escaped through the break.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

wall Of indescribable r~uggedness.
From the strange bowl peak to
the north a stream of liquid rock
had poured, roaring down the valley I'M
numbered centuries before, until spent
and cooling, the fiery river had stopped
short here, its last wave frozen to Jet
rock before it could curl and break upon
the smooth slope below Where huge
aIr-bubbles had formed in the law were
now dark, ragged caves; and from one
in the very center of the wall poured a
strong, clear rivulet, cold as ice, which
fed the valley and gave it its name of
Aqua Frio, "cold water
The "ohuck wagon drew up beside
the spring, aud its four powerful mules
now hobbled by their forelegs with Nav
ajo manillas of twisted rawhide-were
turned loose to Craze. The door of the
big box in the back of the wagon was let
down, forming a table, and JimmY's
pots and pans were huddled thereon in
preparation for supper.
"Hullo, Greaser!' called a coarse
voice from the knot of men up in
the edge of the pines, where they were
stretching reatas from trunk to trunk
to form a corral for the horses. San
tiago started. He had never before
been called by that opprobious name,
which is only used by rough and man
nerless Americans in speaking of Mexi-
cans. A stalwart Texas six-footer of
hard face stepped out from the knot of
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

Santiago to take in the lava-beds yam
side o. the south crater; N, of ever any
thing was plain 'twns tibet Bill Buxton
flowed to foller him. Tain't fur no
good, nuther-sfter las night. Santiay-
go IS a good boy, m he hain't got no
gun! Thet's wotl IN jes' light out
thetaway myself, m see II there aim
no crooked work!'
Jimmy unslung his Winchester, jumped
to Pete's back with surprising agility,
n went off on q lope. Five miles west
on the stony trail he turned to the left
and crossed a high ridge-the Continental
DiVlde-from whose eastern slope the
rivulets find their way to the Gulf of
Mexico and the Atlantic ocean, while
those from the western slope roll through
burning deserts to rest 1T last in the Gulf
of California and the blue Pacific. In a
few moments he reached the foot of q
huge black cone of frightful steepness,
rising 5000 feet above the lofty valley,
itself 5000 feet above the level of the sea.
The cone looked impossible of ascent,
but Pete, long used TO the asperities of
territorial travel, Z~igZagged patiently
up, and in q few minutes stood panting
ct the top. They were on the rim of a
s~tupenduous bowl, whose bottom lay
black and barren nearly 1000 feet below
the crater of a long-extinct volcano.
The BOWL was perfect ave at the south
ern side, where a great V shaped gap
split it from the top half way to the bot
tom. For twenty miles along the dark
plain could be traced the black, frozen
flood which had Once burst its mighty
dam and gone seething down the valley.
Jimmy rode slowly around the narrow
rim-in places not more than a yard
wide-looking carefully down upon the
surrounding country; but not until he
reached the very brink of the great gap
and looked down 600 feet to the black
channel which the lava had gouged in
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

fore. That blood boiled now at the in
science of the Texan, but Santiago had
learned unusual s~eIf-control for his
years, and continued quietly:
81 am work for Senior Hail. I I'm
right to be here. Perhaps 1 am as good
vaquero as you.'
HsDon't yo' give none o. yo'r back
talk - shouted the bully, with an oath.
Sc 'R I'n shoot yo' so full % holes
yo' CANT throw a shadow -
And he reached his hand back to
his heavy revolver. But just then the
coffeepot fell clatterIng upon the ground
and old Jimmy had caught his Winches-
ter from its hooks alongside his pantry.
"Yo' Bill Buxton! # yO' monkey
'th tibet boy IN give the sun a chance to
tan yo'r fool brains. CANT yO' never
mind yo'r own self 'thout pitchin' onto
somebody smaller N yo' be? The boys
a good boy N he shain't be buffalered
while I'm round. Yo' know me goin'
would have put it. When the last tin,
shiney as scrubbing could make it, re-
fleoted his grizZled face from the shelf,
Jimmy slammed up the hanging door
and locked it with an air that was al
most vicious, and sat down upon a rock.
"No! 1 cain t says L like the looks
ONT at all!' he broke out, with such
vigor that old Pete, the off leader,
pricked up his big ears and came hop
ping down the slope as fast as his hob
bles would allow. 'I heard John tell
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

the living rock, did he see the objects of
his search. The lava bed was there 800
or 400 feet wide Its sullen crust upheaved
in strange swells, and fantastic crags and
needles, and split by unfathomed
crevices. Ia the middle was the great
rock-hewn gutter of the outflow, fifty
feet deep and 100 wide. From his high
perch the old cook could see a figure
sprawled behind a boulder in the bed Of
this channel. The waiting attitude was
one which an eye so practised as Jimmy g
had no difficulty iu interpreting, and that
CLINT of the hot sun on something in the
right hand was ven more ineligible.
'tThe cowardI' muttered Jimmy,
slipping lightly of Pete's back and
creeping cautiously down the slope, rifle
ia hand. "He's layin' fur Santiaygo-
knows he'n come up here to see Of
there's cattle in the canon. Dassen't
even tackle that boy to his face? But
III Spite his dough-"
just then the old man stopped short
and caught his breath. A ragged,
brown and ~shambling figure stepped
from behind a ridge OF lava and stood
looking up n down the cleft. II was
Santiago. Not q hundred feet away was
the rock behind which Bill Buxton was
lying. Jimmy opened his mouth to yell
q warning, but saw the boy start sud-
denly, look intently up the gulley and
begin running out the reata which he
was carrying coiled in his hand. In the
same instant Buxton sprang up from be-
the rock aud levsied his revolver,
not at the boy, but at q point fifty feet
away Jimmy could see the boys jump
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

much food disappeared in so little time.
In ten minutes the last plate had gone
into Jimmy's big dishpan, and the last
cowboy was hobbling away TO his pony
with that ridiculous gait caused by the
h~igh-heeled boots. A couple of minutes
for einching up the broad horse-hair
girths, a free swing into the saddle, and
away they clattered up the rocky slopes.
John, the black-browed range foreman,
had given them their specific orders the
night before, and as they left the camp
they scattered in all directions to scour
the woods and bring all the cattle to a
common point on the shore of "Big
pond - where the "chuok- wagon"
would be awaiting them at nlghtfall, and
where branding would begin next day.
Old Jimmy banged his dishes about
with unnecessary and unusual roughness,
and was grumbling to himself in a low
tone which even the mules, that had
known hin so long, oould not fully
catch. Something was evidently rub
bling him sfagin' the grain, - as he
cowboys and staggered down toward
the spring. He was one Of the new
from a distant Arizona ranch.
"wot yo' doin' yerf" be demanded,
gruf1y. "Down on on range we don't
How no greasers round. Yo' best skip
firm yer-I can't bear no greaser, now
how"
81 am not one greaser," said Santi-
ago, quietly but proudly. He knew
that. poor as he was, the blood that ran
in his veins was that OF one of the bravest
of the Spanish heroes who conquered the
new world more than three centuries be-.
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

the autumn Of '79 which practically put
an end TO it. Far out among the Colorado
mountains g little battalion of white cav
airy lay behind breastworks of their dead
horses, surrounded by a horde of we'll
armed savages. The major was killed;
the three troop commanders wounded;
many of the men shot dead; all of them
worn with anxiety, thirst and constant
battling, and all praying for the coming
It succoI. Scouting through the beauti-
iul park country the captain of a coIored
troop or this same Ninth regiment caught
sight of a little scrap of paper in the
FORK of a stick planted by the side of the
trail. 1t told the news of the
desperate plight of the white SOL
diers, and though he had barely fifty
men, what did the captain do but ride
all that day and night with his ''buffalo
soldiers, - as the Indians called them,
gathering after, and at daybreak he and
they were fighting side by side with the
oesieged. Capt. Dodge had all his beau
tltul horses killed, but he helped his
comrades to hold out against the mob of
murderous Utes until Gen. Merritt with
the best troops of the Third and Fifth at
MS heels came trottlng down to the res
cue three days after, just in the nick of
Time A wonderful march he made of
II, 100, night and day, TO get from the
railway to that beleaguered band. One
hundred and seventy miles in sixty-nine
hours Is pretty fast travelling for cavalry,
II you have never tried it,
SIDE by side with the darkies at Leav-
ehworth rode a troop of the Fifth cavalry
On beautiful bay horses-and in our regi-
ments horses are assigned TO companies
according TO color. They looked in the
perfection Of condition, so shiny and
sieek and mettlesome. The men, too,
IOokeo bronzed and hearty and well fed,
as they certainly are, but ] could not
help thinking Of the appearances of that
same troop as it came dripping from the
tOTu OF the Belle Fourche on the last of
sHe eIeFen days of the CHASTITY march
rom the head waters of the Heart river.
- nae rained piteously al the time. We
nau neither tents nor wagons. Rations
we're all gone by the time we reached the
Grahd-the Palanata Wakpa, as the
SIOUX called it-and everybody had been
III NAN ratlons for days before-every-
oouy out the horses, and they, poor
etu'es, had only the scant grass the In
LIans mad not succeeded in burning off
oeiore US. Some men, when they reSched
tHe lord Of Belle Fourche, were too faint
stagser through. Only half the
'aofses ever reached the Hills at all.
ana yet with all the hardships and
prlFations Of those campaigns I doubt if
mere lives a man who served with the
'SFslry who does not recall them With
Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-13

pride and pleasure, or who would have
missed them for many q months pay
except, of course, those poor fellows
whose health were permanently shattered
by the severity of the ordeal.
Until very lately the sight of cavalry
troops east of the Missouri a been con-
fined to a peep at the little battalion at
Washington. The Fifth, Seventh and a
couple of troops of the Sixth were on
duty in the Southern states for a while
after the civil war, but since 1872 or 1873
our guidons never futtered further East
thar Jefferson barracks, Missouri, until
Gen. Sheridan decided on bringing two
companies to the Potomac. Cavalry
officers in uniform were a very rare sight
in our Eastern cities as a consequence,
n the nature of their real services is
very little understood. It has happened
within the past ten years that two or
three of sheir number have been ordered
to the East on staff duty and have ap-
peared on state occasions in the full-dress
uniform of their rank. Now, there are
some of our people to whom the sight of
a regular officer in uniform is something
like the traditional ''red rag to a bull -
and there are always newspapers ready
to sheer at the soldiers for the benefit of
luis pdTLHCuldE CldSS. AS Ill lUStSuC6s a
Washington correspondent referred some
little time ago to the "carpet knight'
of a cavalry officer present at a social
gathering. The gentleman so disdain-
fully spoken of happened to be a tall n
most MISUNDERSTANDING trooper, who
had fought with Gen. Thomas from Mill
Spring to Nashville in every one of his
great battles; had been perforated by
rebel bullets; had been twice 'tbrevet-
ted for gallantry IN action during that
great war; q led his troop and fought
every tribe of Indians from the ella TO
the Upper Missouri had starved or frozen
with his men %(having to surrender sew
eral fingers to the surgeons knife or
loose an entire hand); who had been
thankful time Il again for a bit of
horsefiesh on which to sustain life, and
finally after years of service over the
plains and mountains, had been ordered
East on staff duty to be sneered at by