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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29

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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29

GotoH II. Il. HTLLMAN & CO.'S for your
Diamonds and Watches. 40. IS Eleventh
street,
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BAZAAR and Social at the o. P.
church Thursday, December /, from 8
10 10 o'clock. Admission 10 cents.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29

Try Cosgravo Brewing Co.'s ales and
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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29

RUGE-NoBLE--on June IS. 1892. in the parlors
OF Rev. D. A. Cunningham. of Wheeling, by
the Rev. S ". PrIngle, Of Mt. Pleasant, o.,
MI. AUBREY W. RUGE. OF PearSells, l. l., and
Miss BERTfE F. NOBLE, of this city. "
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29

BrEonAn's PrlIs arc faithful friends.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29
ruRwRsRs~oEo.E srlFEL&eo
E.S..&C CO.
WRAPS.
FuRwRaRs~aEo EsrLFEL&co

Our special Fur Opening will DO ION
tinued on through this week, and We
call special attention OF all persons who
contemplate the purchase OF a SEAL or
FUR GARMENT OF any kind, FUR
LINED CIRCULARS, MUFFS, B0AS
or FOOT MUFFS to tho fact that this is
the finest line ever brought to this city,
and we arc making Specially Lou Prices
During This Sale.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-29
Cloth Wraps
LADIES, MISSES and CHILDREN

Will also DO sold at SPECIAL Prices
TINS WEEK. Our Holiday Goods are in
and must be sold, so to make room
quickly VIC offer this special induce
ment. Take advantage OF it.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

and Chief Parker's power has waxed
until now his rule is that of a car. But
he temperS his government with good
deal of shreWtlnesS. From the families of
the deposed chiefs he has taken wives one
after another until he has seven families
living in peace ard unity under the roof
of the big white house with wide galleries
in the beautiful valley of the Washita.
His first journey among the whites cam"
perilously near TO being his last. He and
his co-chief, Yellow Bear, one of his seven
fathers-in-law, went to Fort WORTH Tex,
took a room together, and, like another
western dignitary of our own race, blew out
the gas When the door was broken open
Yellow Bear was dead, and it took several
dollars worth Of brandy and electricity to
put Quanah on his feet again. He was
worth all it cost and great deal more,
for he has made the Comanches one of the
most tractable tribes in the Indian Ter
ritory; has secured for them the best land
in the Red river valley; has induced them
and their allies, the Kiowas, to take land
in severalty-1G0 acres apiecc-and sold the
rest to the government at rates which give
the tribe permanent fund of 50, 100000.
Such an Indian naturally eXcites deal
of curiosity, and on inquiry it transpires
that he is only half Comanche. His
mother was white woman, and her story
and that of her family are among the sad
dsst of border tragedies. Sixty years ago
Elder John Parker, of Coles county, Ills,
an experienced pioneer, led small party
to the region that is now Limestone coun-
ty, Tex, and built blockhouse which
was the beginning of Fort Parker The
rest is the ofttold tale-a sudden attack in
what was thought to be time of peace
and safety, the slaughter Of all the men
and captivity of the women and children,
with all the sickening details of murder Of
infants which Americans have heard of
since Hannah Dustin, of Haverhill.
In three years all the captives were re-
covered by negotiation with other Indians
except Cynthia Ann Parker aged nine
when taken, and her little brother John.
The latter lived an Indian in all save color
for many years, then married a Mexican
girl who had been taken captive and went
tolive with her relatives in Mexico. He
returned to Texas on visit just in time to
get into the civil war, served through it as
Confederate soldier and then returned to
| his ranch beyond the Rio Grande. Twenty
! five years had passed since the Fort Parker
massacre, when Captain Sui Ross-since
| Governor Ross-surpPlsed and defeated the
| Comanches on Pease river. Their chief,
Petanocona, was killed, and his wife and
child were captured. That wife was Gym
thia Parker, and that child was younger
sister of Quanah Parker.
For a year or two Cynthia had to be re-
strained to prevent her escape to her wild
friends, but in time she became reconciled
to civilization. Ten years later she died.
and her daughter is good Christian white
woman in all save the half Indian blood.
Her two sons grew up Conanches, and
now the strange vicissitudes of Indian life
have made Quanah white man in habits
when among the whites, but still Co.
manche when at home
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
HE'S HEAP Big INDIAN.
Strange Life History of Quanah
Parker.
A POWER AMONG THE COMANCHEs.

He Is the Son of White Woman Who
Was Captured by the Indians and Conn
pelled to Marry a Chief-A Half Breed
of Great Ability.
The story of Quanah Parker and his
Comanches, of their last long struggle
with the whites, their pacifcation, settle
ment on Red river and subsequent develop
ment, is as interesting as any episode in
Indian history. The intrigues among the
aspirants for power. the interference of
United States officers and the final COM
plete ascendency of the most talented is but
the old story of Greek and Trojan princes,
highland clans and French feudatories
over again. Human nature worked the
same, but
Vain was the chiefs, the warriors pride;
They had no Homer, and they died.
General Mackenzie did the reconstruc-
tion act thoroughly for the tribe. After the
Comanches had left their reservation in
the Indian Territory and had been rounded
up on the Texas plains two or three times
at considerable expense and trouble and
some bloodshed, Mackenzie deposed the
chiefs, and by decree of his own put
Ouanah Parker at the head of the Co.
manche nation At the same time he
made the change effective by driving al
of the surplus ponies of the nation-about
5000 of them-into defile of the Palo Duro
canyon and slaughtering them. This last
act was little worse than tearing up the
railroads in hostile country Railroads
can be rapidly rebuilt. 1t takes time for
great herd of ponies to grow.
With sullen looks the Comanches footed
it back to the reservation and at the same,
time accepted unwillingly the election of
Quanah Parker from the ranks to the
office of principal chief. The nation has
remained upon the reservation ever since,
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
THE SQUARE GAMBLER.
He Doesn't Exist, Says Ono Who Claims
to Know.

He Doesn't Exist, Says Ono Who Claims
to Know.
"A man who was once prominent as the
proprietor of faro bank, but is now an
evangelist, recently said to a New York re-
porter:
'You hear often of the square gambler
There isn't any such thing. He will cheat
when the right moment comes. 1t is the
same with gambling houses. The faro
bank and the roulette wheel are run cor
rectly for period, and then something
happens, and the sucker loses his money
Ali the faro dealers have to be artists In
their line and know how to cheat. Next
summer I'm going to show in Long Branch
and Saratoga against the gambling houses
there, and can promise you some fun.
81 will strip this subject of gambling to
the nakedness OF truth and prove to the
young men of the country that gambling
dishonors God and degrades men, wrecks
honor. ruins business, destroys homes,
breaks wifely hearts, steals babes bread,
sends mothers sorrowing to the grave, and
at last, with pitiless bravado, drags the sin
stained soul before the bar of Gods dis
honored justice.
''It must be remembered that in all
countries carries WlJQ lb u Qe-
cline of public honor and private decency
in an exact ratio to it's spread. In the
business world it makes rife forgeries and
defalcations. Widows and orphans es-
tates are plundered by trustees, corpora
tions are wrecked by their officers, en-
ployers are betrayed by their employees,
one partner is made the victim of the other
ali because of this terrible vice of gam
bling. The day has come when we must
look in our brothers face and say, DO yo,,
mean to be honest with meS'
''Gambling has been and is the cause OF
the temporal and eternal damnation of
more men and women than all the other
vices combined.
''The chief reliance both in preventing
crime and winning from it is fear. Young
men are anxious to find out what there is
behind the closed doors. Tell them, and
the chief reason for opening the doors is
removed. The strongest incentive that
leads men to gamble is the hope of gain. /
can demonstrate to the dullest comprehen-
sion how impossible it is to win from
professional gambler. Gambling hells
cannot prosper without fresh victims.
Show men that success is impossible in an
uneven contest, and the ranks of the game
sters will be thinned out for the want Of
new recruits"
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

RAMON ORTIZ. MANUEL GR1JALvA.
In 1879 the driver of a private express
was murdered about thirty miles south of
Phoenix and $4,000 in bullion from the
Tiger mine taken, besides a few hundreds
in greenbacks. 1t was soon learned that
the robbery was the work of Ortiz, Gri-
ialva and an unknown Mexican whom for
some reason they had induced to join them,
and then the long chase began. Years
after Grijalva was shot and mortally
wounded in Silver City, N. M, and the
pursuers had the address to impose one of
their number on him as a priest. Grijalva
confessed everything, willed his share of
the bullion to the church and described
minutely the old adobe house by the side
of which the treasure was buried in Pha
nix.
Highly elated the pursuers returned to
Phoenix, but the old abobes were gone and
handsome residences and new streets COW
cred that section. There was much dig
ging, but to no purpose. Last winter
the story was published that Ortiz had
died in Hermosillo, Mexico; the priest who
absolved him was found and in due time
all the story not told by Grijalva came out.
1t appeared that they had buried the
money in Phoenix as u temporary measure
only, expecting to return and take it to the
mountains, but were SO closely pressed
that they had to fee to old Mexico.
In q few years Ortiz returned in disguise,
and though he spent q week in Phoenix
things had changed SO that he could never
locate the spot where he buried the gold,
and fearing to excite suspicion by digging
he gave it up for the time and ventured
into Sonora again, where, though aged, he
again engaged in his former occupation of
brigandage. When at Hermosillo he was
taken sick from an old wound and died.
So the treasure is lost forever, unless some
lucky man strikes it in digging well or
sewer and if he does the chances are seven
teen to one that he will keep very still
about it, and SO the world will never GER
tainly hear of that $4,000
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

there as a local leader in Democratic
convention. His hair, originally auburn
and fine as silk, was of a beautiful ashes
of roses color and hung down his back in
schoolgirl braids. His beard, little
purer white than his hair, was some two
feet long and the softest and finest ever
saw. Neither had then been touched by
razor or scissors for nearly forty years.
Horace Greeley long maintained that the
defeat of Clay in 1914 was largely due to
the concerted action of New York s'sports"
and others who had wagered heavily on
Polk. Another bet to attract national at
tention was that of the sanitary sack OF
flour" the story of which is SO well told by
Mark Twain in his "Roughing It." Mr..
Gridley, who first won the sack, made out
cry on the streets of Virginia City, New,
~ will now sell this sack of -four at auc-
tion for the benefit of the sanitary COM
mission" The whole mining region went
wild over it. Nevada towns contended for
the honor of bidding highest, and rival
contestants almost came to blows. 1t went
from city to city escorted by professions
with bands and flags, and the sum realized
for the great war charity was enormous
The bet, however, was the smallest part of
the history of the sanitary sack"
ne DlGGCSU NEW ORR pSO ytb TcpOTteu
in the wheeling line is that of James X.
O'Connor of Utica, who has to wheel
barrel of apples from that city to New
York, having bet with Theodore w. Brit
ish that the state would give Cleveland
$4,000 plurality. The odd fact is that Mr..
O'Connor cast his first Democratic vote
this year, having served two terms in the
assembly as Republican. He guessed
county, and altogether beats "Old Prob" as
O political prognosticator, but Demo
cratic slump" in two counties caused him
to miss it on the state. Mrs Otto Snyder,
wife of the proprietor of the National ho-
tel at Atlantic City, had to give Henry
Singer a wheelbarrow ride on the streets
as a penalty for her faith in Harrison's
success. AS she weighs some 200 and is
musccd accordingly, the job was an easy
one to her These are but samples of hun
dreds of wagers in the wheelbarrow line.
From Iazleton, Pa, comes the story that
Thomas McGrau and William Koons bet
their claims to the society of a lady whom
both were counting, the loser to retire from
the contest, and that Mr.. Koons, the Har-
rison man, refused to fulfill the terms. So
there is talk of blood. Another attempt to
carry out the terms of a bet was stopped
by the police in Philadelphia. A gentle
man Of very fine physique and dressed in
the height of fashion took position on Vine
street W til Il hand organ oIl which was the
placard II bet on Harrison and Reid"
He had made "a good start on the six hours
grinding contracted for when the crowd
grew so large and boisterous that the po-
lice had to stop the performance. There
was q small shower Of dimes and nickelS
into his little cup, and one lady threw in a
five dollar greenback. In an hour and
forty minutes he collected quite sum,
which goes to charity. His name is VIII
liam Nelson, and to complete his contract
he must go to Washington and play as the
Cleveland inaugural procession goes by.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

Is there no end to the follies of men ex-
cited by politics? Apparently not, for
since the result of the late election was
known it has transpired that in every city
in the country many hundred Thousand
dollars have changed hands. The pawn
brokers have enjoyed a wonderful increase
of business, both in the line of new pledges
and of old ones redeemed by lucky win
ners. And yet neither Cleveland nor Har-
rison is popularity supposed to be the sub
jecG for LnaG sort OF enthusiasm. Henry
Clay was the man for that. He not only
did a great deal Of betting himself, but ex.
cited betting among his supporters.
Scores of his ardent admirers swore to
never have hair or beard cut till their be
loved Harry of the West" was elected
president, and many of them kept their
VOW Only few years ago met one Of
these too enthusiastic gentlemen at Har-
risburg, and, singularly enough, he was
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
QUEER ELECTION BETS.
how Ben: Perley Poore Set the
Example in 1852.
HE HAS HAD MANY IMITATORs.


Remarkable Bets in Former Times--Cleo-
patra's Costly Drink-Gridley's ''Sani-
tary Sack of FIour''-Eenry C1ay's Long
Haired Admircrs-The Whcelbarrow.
copyright, 1892. by American Press Associa-
tion.l
Forty years ago one name was in every
political gossip's mouth. Every paper had
its minute details of his latest perform
ance. Every sober minded person won
dered at the folly of the man, and his name
was Ben: Perley Poore. His subsequent
fame as a journalist has caused the episode
of 1862 to be forgotten, but in that year he
was noted as the man who made ridiculous
bet, and no doubt he has often been sorry
he did, for he has had q hundred thousand
cheap imitators.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
BURIED THE TREASURE.
The Strange Romance Of Robbery or
the Border.

The Strange Romance Of Robbery on
the Border.
'Arizona banditti'' is a phrase taking
enough for the headline of the most lurid
article or the title of the most thrilling
dime novel Unlike most lurid titles, how
ever, it falls short instead of exaggerating
the actual fact. There is probably no other
region of equal area in the world SO we'll
suited for outlaws, and if there ever was
time when the rugged canyons and wild
wastes between the Gila and the San Juan
did not harbor land pirates it was before
the Aztec occupation of (Humboldt says)
the Twelfth century.
Certainly the oldest Mexican Indian ira
ditions and the subsequent written records
tell the same story, but the latest case of
really romantic interest is that of Ramon
Ortiz and Manuel Grijalva. Ortiz was
born in Seville, came to Mexico and took
part in the Maximilian war on the side of
the i'll fated monarch, under whom he held
a captains commission. Upon the dis
banding of the army he fled to Arizona,
accompanied by the Mexican Griialva,
who was a soldier under him. From that
time on their hands were against every
body, and everybody's hand against them.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
A Very Valuable Diamond.

A wonderful diamond is now being cut
in Antwerp, which is said to be the second
largest in the world. Atpresent it weighs
474 carats, but when properly cut it will
be reduced to 274 carats. 1t will then be
rather larger than pigeons egg, and only
slightly inferior in size to the Great Mo-
gull" the celebrated Persian diamond. At
present there are no rumors as to the prob
able purchaser of the stone, but faint
idea of it's value may be gained from the
cost Of cutting it, which is no less than
f1 900
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

Another Philadelphian, John Leithead
(highly appropriate name), had to sit on
fireplug and let William Bennett throw
four dozen eggs at him at a distance of
thirty feet--ard in the line of fool bets this
will do to quit on. In legitimate betting,
to speak by comparison, Michael Dwyer Is
the hesyisst w'tff1..sr yet reported In New
1orls .ity, He pulls out with about $780,
600 gcined. Jim and John Mahony own
to gains of $4,000. Edward Murphy, Of
the state committee, is credited (or chafged)
with having won $1,000 on the state, but
is not saying much about it pending his
candidacy for the United States senate.
Billy Edwards held stakes for bettors
who wished to remain unknown to the
amount of S140,0 600. In Wall street the bets
were for rather small amounts, and the
aggregate about 100000. From other
cities the reports sho.y betting in much the
same proportion. AS a story like this
should have q moral, l will adopt as my
own the view Of current humorist,"
who gives US this:
THE CHAMPION CRANK.
This world is passing full of cranks
OF every shape and size and kind;
Where'cr you see dozen men
AT least eleven cranks you'll find.
There're baseball cranks, and cycling cranks,
And cranks who walk ten miles day,
| And there's that drear and dismal crank
| Who claps the wrong place in the play.
| And there's that hectic hothouse crank
| Who shivers sitting by the fire,
| Who should he feel a breath of air,
| Would straightway shrivel and expire.
| And then there are the Browning cranks,
! Biavatsky cranks and all the rest.
| Oh, no, you have not far to go
| If it's of cranks you are in quest
| But taking cranks both great and small,
| There're surely none that these can beat
! Who keeping prediction VOWS
| Now wheel each other through the street.
These are my sentiments.
j. II. BEADLE.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
Money Makers Always Get There.

The person who has genius for money
making always gets there someway or
other, as witness the following: Private
soldiers in the United States army don't
get big pay, and few of them, therefore,
can put away much money. A soldier
stationed at Salt Lake City, however,
managed to save small sum, with which
ho bought piece of land, on which he
erected number of cheap frame houses.
He rented these houses to his comrades,
and now he is worth $500
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
Falling Hair

Produces badness. 1t is cheaper to buy
q bottle OF skookum root hair grower
than a wig; besides, wearing your own
hair ia more convenient. All druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

The people of Portland, Me-, call the
poets mantle that falls in heavy folds
over their statue of Longfellow ''that
rubber overcoat."
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
Dangers of Newspaper Work.

w. G.. Cooper tells us the following story
of his journalistic perils. He says: II had
several narrow escapes from violent death
while engineering an afternoon paper in
Texas. My foreman once got the sui
eide of prominent citizen mixed up with
description of a iyew abattoir, and the re-
suit was appalling. Friends of the de-
ceased insisted on shooting first and listen
ing to explanations afterward. AT another
time he got head intended for double
hanging over a swell wedding 1t read as
follows: 'Toughs turned off. Awell mated
pair of brutes merrily meet their doom. A
large croyd witnessed the rites preceding
purgatorial pains Well, hid in the
chaparral for a month after that. |
thought my time was up, land I tried to
get little consolation from the Bible, but
the book opened every time at the pas
sage, Lo. the bridegroom comethn didn't
wait for him."
In recent letter to the manufactur-
era, Mr.. A. w. Baldridge, Millersville,
ILL.,, says: "Chamberlain's Cough Rem
edy gives the best satisfaction of any
cough medicine handle, and as q
seller, leads all other preparations in
this market. 1 recommend it because it
is the best medicine ever handled for
coughs, colds and Group" For sale by
@. F. Heinzeman, druggist, 222 North
Main street.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

There are eight soldiers located in Ire
land to one in Scotland, and over twenty
boys under eighteen years of age have
won the Victoria cross.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

Candollo, the investigator, says the
health of dark eyed persons is much su-
perior to that of the ight or blue eyed
type.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
you Need = Truse

Call at Beckwith's pharmacy, 3O3 North Main,
A fii guaranteed. Our book all about hernia,
or rupture, now ready, free at our store or by
mail. JOHN BECKWITH q son, Druggists.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

Porson, the great Latinist, was the
son of weaver. His taste for learning
was kindled by the accidental discovery
of book of Latin proverbs.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11
fer Infants and Children.

"Castoriaissowe wen adapted to children that
Irecommend itas superior to any prescription
known 60 me-" II. A. ARCHER, II. D.,
III So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, Y. Y.
Los Angeles herald., 1892-12-11

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