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A NOBLE RED MAN.
whitewater Slow aWhite Man and was
Educated by the State of Nebraska.
Icnaciai Correspondance

whitewater Slow q White Man and was
Educated by the State of Nebraska.
Especial Correspondence.l
FREMONT, Neb., Aug. lit is the
ambition Of all good Indians to 90 to
Washington and see the great white
father while they live, and to 60 to the
happy hunting grounds and have an
eternally good time when they die.
Among those who have enjoyed several
interviews with the great father in
question is an Otoe Indian named
Whitewater, who makes expeditions to
Washington from the Indian Territory
occasionally in behalf of his people, who
have the utmost confidence in his vast
abilities. There is no man of his race
more widely known in the west than
Whitewater, although a great part of
his life has been spent in the peniten-
tiary, where the opportunities for achiev-
ing distinction are not conspicuously
frequent.
On July 8, 1871, when Nebraska was
but thinly settled, a man named John
Walters, of Belle PLANE, Mimi, COM
menced journey from Thayer county,
Neb., to neighborhood called Charter
Oak, in Nemaha county, where his wife
and baby were awaiting him. He was
land hunter, and had selected farm in
the first named county. At Fairbury he
was Joined by one Sam Pasco, who was
also bound for Nemaha county, and the
two travelled together for mutual pro-
lection. Their route lay near the Otoe
reserve, and those Indians were not
friendly toward the whites at that time.
On the evening Of July the travellers
camped at watering place on the Blue
river. They were engaged in cutting
grass for their horses when Pasco was
shot down by an Indian who had ap-
preached by stealth. Young Walters
attacked the murderer with his scythe
and succeeded in inflicting several
wounds, but fell dead before the Indians
rifle. The bodies of the two men were
discovered on the following day, and
suspicion rested upon Whitewater as
the guilty party. He was arrested, but
made his escape and eluded the author
tiles for several days. There was in
tense feeling against the Otoes, who
were believed to be secreting the fugi-
tive, and such proved to be the case. A
demand for his surrender was made, and
the Indians, being scared, took him to
Fairbury with great display and
turned him over to the authorities.
The Indians arrived in town in pro-
cession, headed by six mounted war
riors, followed by wagon, in which
the murderer was seated, with an escort
of braves in all the panoply they could
muster. At his trial Whitewater stated
that white man had killed his sister
and he had registered large, voluptu-
GUS VOW that two pale faces would die
as an atonement. The evidence robbed
the case of this romantic element, show
ing that Whitewater was villainously
drunk and bad Indian, and that the
crime was without provocation.
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
better in The end. to transport the beef
than the live stock"
To this sshana" has recently added

better in the end. to transport the beef
than the live stock"
To this shard" has recently added
his testimony regarding life on cattle
ship. After the load had been made up
and the voyage had begun, the boss and
nearly all the helpers got drunk and
didn't regain their senses for nearly
thirty-six hours. Says the narrator:
"The cattle had not been fed OF
watered since they were put on ship
board. The boss had become sobei
enough to realize his negligence, but
was still drunk enough to want to make
reparation. We were short Of hands.
only one man having been sent to every
forty cattle. It took us nearly two
hours to give the cattle hay, and it took
me about three hours more to pick the
splinters and thistles out of my hands.
The next morning the boss had us up al
4 to water and feed the cattle. The
watering came first. Condensed water
is used. Pipes connected with the con.
denser ran to all parts of the ship, ex
cept to points where it was needed. Sc
faras convenience is concerned, it would
have been just as we'll to leave the water
at the donkey engine as to draw it of
into barrels and be obliged to pack ii
from them.
"My clothing was dripping wet, and
notwithstanding the severe exercise,
was thoroughly chilled. 1t took us three
solid hours to water. Then we had halt
an hour to sit by the fiddler to dry our.
selves. After breakfast came the hay
ing. and after the haying we had to fill
the barrels with water. That took us
till II. From II until 2 we had nothing
to do but lie in the sun. At Q we began
to get the hay up out of the hold, and
after it was up to feed the cattle and
sweep up the alleys. By the time that
was done it was 6 o'clock. At came
what may for the sake of courtesy be
called supper. After supper two men
went on to watch for the night. The
others went to bed or sat around the fid-
dler and told lies, but they had to be up
by in the morning."
And SO on for fifteen days-the aver
age length Of a voyage. When the cat
tie reach the Liverpool yards they enjoy
a brief space Of luxury before they go to
the slaughter. They rest, eat and drink
to their hearts content for from three
days to a week.. Then the ak knocks
out their life and the purpose of their
existence has been accomplished. They
have been born, have roamed the wide
plains, have traversed continent and
crossed an ocean that the roast beef of
old England shall not perish from the
earth.
So all honor to the Texas steer, even if
he has long horns, is not handsome and
often chases people through the streets
of cities in which he finds himself an
unwilling and unwelcome stranger.
FRED C. DAYTON.
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
WHITEWATER.

He was convicted and sentenced to
the penitentiary for life, and arrived at
that resort on April "a, 1879. Walters,
his victim, belonged to an illustrious
family, the name occurring frequently
in the political history of Minnesota,
brother having once occupied a high
official position there.
During his long stay in the peniten-
tiary Whitewater was employed in the
laundry and became an expert. He de-
veloped wonderful fondness for reli-
gious literature, and read the Bible
from beginning to end thirty-five times.
His memory was remarkable, and the
promptness and accuracy with which
he would answer all manner of Scrip
tural questions might have excited the
envy of clergymen. He was proud of
his piety and of his war record, for he
had served in a Kansas regiment during
the s'unpleasantness" and had an honor
able discharge.
It was his delight to be interviewed,
and strangers from all parts Of the coun-
try called at the warden's Office to see
and converse with this amiable savage,
who related his history with great dra-
matte effect and embellished it with ap-
propriate and voluminous quotations
from the Scriptures. During legislative
sessions at the state capital Whitewater
spent good part of his time as an ora
tor, for no representative felt that he
had done his duty by his constituents I'M
less he interviewed the Indian and car
ried the result home to them.
Whitewater was pardoned by Govern
Or Thayer on July 4, 1889, and emerged
into the world of sunshine and freedom
at the age of forty-eight years, an edu-
Gated and renowned man. He at once
joined his people in the Indian Territory
and it is evident that they appreciated
his sterling worth from the first, for
within month he was sent to Washing
ton as their envoy extraordinary to the
president. As his years increase his
honors also multiply, and if Indians ever
have place in congress during White
waters life it is safe to predict that he
will be found among them.
He has cheerful variety of philoso-
ply in his possession, and the recollec-
ton of his awful deed of twenty-one
years ago doesn't for moment s.ruffle his
spirits sunny food" He thinks the dead
past should be its own undertaken and
bury it's dead. He is the bronze ideal
hero of his people, and he sees the great
father at intervals, and he is happy.
WALT MASON.
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17

You get ten time your moneys
worth in the PRESS at so cents month.
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
THE DEMOCRATIC CHAIRMAN.

Hon. William f. Harrity's Record in
Public Life.
William F. Harrity, recently chosen
as chairman of the national Democratic
committee. was born in Wilmington,
Del. in October, 1850, and graduated
from La Sale college, Philadelphia, in
1870. He remained at the college
another year teaching Latin, and re-
ceived the degree of A. M. From boy
hood he was a leader both in study and
sports, and on graduating took the hon
ors of the class. The fact that he was a
sort of athlete in early life and captain
of various ball teams has certain in
terest.
From 1878 to 1880 he devoted himself
to the practice of law in Philadelphia.
and with fair measure of success. He
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17

THE PRESENT MODE OF SHIPMENT.
board. Why, men have told me that
they have seen cattle jammed so vio-
lently against the bulwarks of a steam.
er in gale that their legs were ground
off, while other wretched brutes were
trampled to jelly on the deck. Some
times they are crowded together Sc
tightly that cattle lying down would be
trampled to death, and to prevent this
fires are lighted under the cattle, or
paraffine put in their ears. 1t was any
thing to keep them up on their feet,
anything to save their flesh. This is
horrible and inhunan. 1t would be
meSe humane, and perhaps would pay
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
Has to Get a Good Start.

A bat cannot rise from perfectly
level surface. Although it is re1narka-
bly, nimble in its flight when once on
the wing, and can fly for hours at time
without taking the least rest, if placed
on the floor or on fiat ground it is abso-
lutely unable to use its wings. The
only thing it can do is to shuttle help
lessly and painfully along until it
reaches some trifing elevation from
which it can throw itself into the air,
when at once it is off like fash.
The estimated number of sheep in
Australia i'll 1899, according to an Aus
tralian exchange, is 6O,000,00O against
81 ,000, 600 in 1884.
Professor Latta, of the Indiana sta
ton, gives the average length of time
required to mature corn as 115 days for
the earlier varieties and 1875 days for the
later ones.
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
TEXAS TO THE TABLE.
The Long Horned Steers Journey
from the Lone Star State.

He Feeds on the Grass of the Plains, and
at the End the Sojourner in Piccadilly
Feeds ON Hin-The Voyage and yoy-
ayers.
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signment reaches New York or Boston,
as the case may be, and the prisoners
who have lived the free life of the
prairies get taste of fresh air during
the transfer from the cars to the
steamer. The fever of confinement is
in their blood, the terror of crowds and
strange noises crazes their brains, and
for these reasons some break loose and
tear about the streets, scattering crowds
and precipitating their own destruction.
Years ago the cattle were transferred
to vessels by means of lighters and
hauled up the ships side in sings. IE
these days of rush and hurry the method
has been improved on and the beasts are
run into an entrance at the steamers
side through chute of the same style as
that used at corrals and by the railroads.
Once aboard they are packed together
in compartments almost as close as sar-
dimes, and during the voyage depend
upon the seattle boss" and his assistants
for food, drink and indeed for life. The
boss gets from $50 to 800 per trip and
the hands are given their passage to
England and back and all the way from
one to twenty dollars each in money,
They have week ashore and nothing
to do on the return voyage.
1t is in the care of the cattle that GER
tain abuses have developed which are
just now attracting attention in Eng
land, where buyers like to have their
beef prime and of the first quality. A
protest, put in shape some time ago by
Mr.. Plimsoll, indicates in few words
just what is thought Objectionable.
Said the well known member Of parlia-
ment when in New York:
"People who have not seen the suffer
ings of the poor brutes cannot tell what
agonies they endure. They are packed
in the hold, between decks and on deck.
Sometimes the steamers are loaded
down so heavily that in port the vessels
sway. Think of the torture of the poor
brutes in a storm, with seas breaking
over them, knocking them together
and sometimes sweeping them over
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17


tells of London "down Piccadilly way
as the ''roast beef Of old England?'
The fact that this can be done is one
Of the wonders of a wonderful age
an age in which a country where the
wheat crop fails can get its -four from
any land in the temperate or semitrop-
ical regions; an age in which the ques-
ton of the fresh meat supply has beer
solved by the application of ammonia
for freezing and steam for transporta-
ton; an age in fact of high pressure
rapid transit and electrical commrfnica
ton.
But although he can get his mutton,
veal and steaks in frozen chunks from
the antipodes at small cost, the wealthy
Englishman 'srather fancies, don'cher-
know" having cuts from animals killed
within his immediate purview, and that
is the reason why the Texas steer jour
neys in all his frisky and long horned
entity from the plains to Piccadilly. AS
calf he faces the sun, feeds on the
luscious grass and fees the norther.
Like Jeshurun, Of Holy Writ, he wakes
fat and kicks. His horns grow, he de-
fies the herder and enters into censpira-
cies for stampedes.
But all the same he doesn't know
enough to avert the fate for which he
was destined from youth up. Some fine
day he and his fellows are coaxed along
to corral, then chased into chute,
next forced into cars, and the last and
deadly journey has begun. The con.
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETING.
d1nynrtc

STATE OF MAINE, CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
Portland, August Is, 1892.
To the Stockholders of the Aroostook Con-
densed Milk Co., notice:
DERSUANT to the order and call of the
Il President of the Aroostook Condensed
notified that there will be special meeting Of
the Stockholders of said Aroostook Condensed
MIX Co., at the Elmwood House, Watervllle, in
the County of Kennebec. and State of Maine.
on Monday, the twenty-second day of August,
A. D. 1892 at 10 O'Clock a. m, for the following
purposes, viz: To, see what, measures the
Stockholders will take to further equip and
onerate factories and all other business that
may legally come before said meeting.
+. O. BUZZELL.
aug16d1w Secretary.
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
RHEUMATISM
BOTH ARMS.
Thought Disease lncurable.
No Other Remedy
Could Do the Work.

z,,,. w.,,re 70 KEENE, N. II.
GENTLEMEN:-I deem it my duty to in
form you of the great benefit I derived from
the use of Strout's Rheumatic Elixir Improved.
suffered with Rheumatism in both arms for
several years and tried about every known
remedy, both internal and external, without
effecting cure.
After years of suffering, the expenditure of
large sum of money and my whole stock of pa
thence, / had about reached the conclusion that
the disease was incurable. was rapidly grow
ing worse and my arms were almost useless 1
could not use them without excruciating pain,
could not comb my hair or dress myself Had
severe attack of Rheumatic Fever, with tne
prospect of long run and severe suffering
A Sfriend recommended Strouts Rheumatic
Elixir Improved, and although had no faith
in 1t consented to try bottle, and com
time was able to go to work. continued its
use until had used two bottles, and it drove
the disease entirely from my system.
In my estimation there is not another rem
edy on the market that will do the work as
quickly and effectua1y as Strout's Rheumatic
Elixir Improved, and do not hesitate in the
least in recommending its use to all who
suffering from Rheumatism. You may use this
testimonial for the benefit Of suffering human
ity and will back up my statements by credi-
bic witnesses Will also answer any inquiries
from doubling parties. Iremain
Yours truly, Ad
LNG Ga2a~%
jy4 d1mynrtc
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17

AN one conceive
of a more marked
evidence of hui
m an progress
than this that
cattle born in
Texas and herd
ed mostly by
Mexicans are
slaughtered in
Liverpool and
served at the res
taurants and ho-
The Portland daily press., 1892-08-17
Grocers, Provision and Fish Dealers
ANNUAL OUTING
and PICNIC DAY,

cushing's, Long island,
wednesday,, Aug. IL.
Tickets s1.OO, for sale by the committee.
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ANTON FAIRAR.
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Office of the WOOD RIvER TINES i'll HALEY, Idaho
whose editor is authorized to receipt for the same
ANTOINE FAIRAR.
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SILVER WAVE AND TEE SIXTY-SIX LODE
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your interest in said claims will become the prop
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Idaho. whose editor is authorized to receipt for
the same, ANTON FAlKAR.
First publication, February 10, 1892.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-28
Opening OF the New Theater.

A week from today Manager Hanna will
open the new Seattle theater with the
Duff Opera Company, in "A Trip to
Africa" The building will be finished to
the last touches by that time, and the
opening will be the greatest society event
in the history Of the city, as we'll as mark
ing the commencement of new epoch in
theatrical affairs of Seattle. The seats for
the opening night will be sold at auction
next Tuesday at the old theater, corner of
Fourth and Jefferson streets. Several
reasons have influenced Mr.. Hanna to
decide on this course. First of all, the
unusual demand for seats warrants it from
a business point of view. Another reason
is that it was only with great difficulty
that he secured the lease for five years and
he has to pay very large rental for that
period. None of the additional receipts
due to this mode of disposing of the seats
win go to the company which will give
the initial performance, but all will go to
the management, which has deserved we'll
of the people for the good attractions
placed before them under great difficulties.
After the opening night schedule of
prices will be established as low as at any
theater in the country for the attractions
given. They will necessarily vary accord
ing TO the value and cost of each attrac-
ton, but will always be as low as possible
and no higher than the same companies
would get elsewhere.