The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1891-11-14
In NORTHERN MEXICO.
The Land Of the Unknown-The Great
Sierra Madre.

The Land of the Unknown-The Great
Sierra Madre.
The Sierra Madre region of northern
Mexico. au extensive mountainous country
which has never been scientifically explor-
ed, may be called continuation of the
Rocky Mountains and is an extremely rich
field for prehistoric research, as well as
for ett nology, minerology, zoology, and
botany. Its northern part used to be the
favorite haunt of the Apache Indians,
who, for about two centuries, have been
the actual masters of al that district, de-
vastating the valleys at the foot of the
Sierra Madre both to the east and west.
Only since General Crook, some eight years
ago, made his memorable campaign among
these angels of destruction, has it been at
all possible for any peaceful expedition to
contemplate penetrating into this unknown
portion of tine country. The Mexicans
never entered the Sierra Madre, heing en-
tirely paralizad by that powerful tribe,
who so long held the neighboring Pueblos
in abject subsection. Crosses on stone
heaps are yet seen in many places, and
mark the sites where lie buried the victims
of Apache massacres. Such Is tue dread
inspired by these savages, that the Mexi-
cans to-day consider it TO crime to shoot
an Apache on sight.
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sing'y into these mysterious regions,
about which still linger such memories OF
terror and blood.hed. Small roaming
bands of Apaches are yet left, and others
are constantly breaking away from the San
Carlos reservation in Arizona, who keep
alive the fearful traditions of the past. At
Las Cueva we saw fresh tracks Of such
band, and when halting at Cave Valley, in
| the eas. erp part of the Sierra Madre, the
Mexican Colonel Kosterli.zky, with eight
soldiers, called one day at my camp in
search of a party of savages. from whom
he, but short time before, had succeeded
in capturing twelve horses.-Dr. Carl
Lur,holtz in November Scribner.
WHAT WOMEN HAVE INVENTED.
Devices Which Have Proved OF Actual
Benefit tn Mankind.
A California woman has invented
baby carriage which netted her SIC, 600,
while to Mrs. Catherine Greeu, the wife
and widow OF Washington = ablest Glitter,
Is due some of the honor of inYenting the
gin, one of those distinctly American in.
ventions, the value and importance OF
which have been recognized by the whole
industrial world A horseshoe machine,
which turns out completed shoes, was the
invention of woman; also the reaper and
mower, the idea OF Mrs. J. Manning, of
New Jersey Mrs. Manning seems to have
stimulated the inventive genius of her
neighbors, for few years after her reaper
and mower was patented, Mrs. Elizabeth
Smith, of the same state, took out pat
ent for an improvement on this machine,
being device for changing the knives
without stopping the wheels.
ODe of the most complicated machines
ever made Is that for the manufacture of
reinforced bottom paper bags. 1t was the
invention of MISS Maggie knight, who,
from it and other inventions in the same
line, realized large fortune. A street
sweeper of great merit was devised and
patented by New York woman, who had
a costly dress ruined by the mud splashiug
on it from defective machine. Most re-
r,arkable of all is tue invention of Mrs.
Mary b. Walton, for deadening the sound
of the car wheels. She lived near the ele-
vated railroad, in New York, and was
greatly annoyed by the sound of the roar
ing trains passing her house. The most
noted mschinists and inventors of the
country had given their attention to the
subject without being able to furnish the
solution A woman'S brain did the work,
and her appliance proving perfectly sue
cessful, was adopted by the elevated roads,
and she is IS now reaping the rewards of
happy thought.