The herald., 1894-01-29
THESE MEN DEAL IN SCOOPS,
They Are All Live Reporters
From Chicago Town,
And Many of Them Rave Had Some
Interesting Experiences.
The Newspaper Men Who VIII Arrive
Here Tomorrow Morning They Tell
About Some of the Scoops
They Have Made.

Tomorrow party of Chicago news
paper men will arrive in the city and re-
main until Wednesday night. They
will be the guests of the Press club, and
on tomorrow evening will be enter.
tanned at the club rooms in Bohemian
way. They will be taken up Mt. Lowe
and down to the big wharf at Santa
Monica, and will be given good time
generally.
The names and papers of the visitors
are as follows: Dan Greene, Chicago
Post; G. G. Seymour, Chicago Herald /;
G. W. Boiling, Chicago Inter Ocean
Irving J. Lewis, Chicago Times; John
W. Maxwell, Chicago Mail; George
AIDE, Chicago Record; j.. T. McCutch.
con, Chicago News; Edwin L. Shuman,
Chicago Journal; Clarence Hatsfeld,
Staats-Zeitung W. H. Simpson, Pitts
burg Dispatch; E. e. Bates, Cleveland
Plain Dealer; J. f. j. Archibald of the
San Francisco Chronicle.
The San Francisco Examiner gives
the following about the visitors:
1t ia a star lot OF newsgstherers who
have been assigned by Chicago to do
the midwinter fair for the great mid
continent city. They are all young
men, keen and very much alive, but il
the things they have seen, the expert
ences they have known, reckoned for
time in mans life they would all be
bent and bald.
They are seeing San Francisco and the
fair in their own rapid fashion, and
hot snanraaaso.o hr ~
across the continent every day.
An Examiner reporter corralled them
at the Palace yesterday afternoon and
set them-each of them-to telling what
they considered the best piece of news
paper work or the cleanest scoop they
had made in their time. And here are
the stories:
C. G. SEYMOUR OF THE CHICAGO HERALD.
"The Herald, and incidentally the
New York Sun, have several times sent
me out here to do the Sioux when those
gentry of the plains have undertaken to
make news, in so much that l have be-
come known in Chicago as The Indian
Reporter. It's an OLD story in Chicago,
but l can tell you little incident OF
those times that will bear repeating. |
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On the Goth of December three years
ago, just after the battle of Wounded
Knee, report came into Pine Ridge
had been shot-all of them in
their bodies lsy in creek soma
miles out. Captain Baldwin of the
Fifth infantry was given charge of a
party to investigate. He took with him
a deputation of Indian police under the
immediate command of Frank Swords,
Sioux chief, who had been in the SER
vice OF the government for several
years. Frank Gourard, faithful Sioux
scout, who became famous at the time
OF the Custer massacre; Big Bap,
another, and myself made up the party
We galloped away some 80 miles to the
point indicated, and coming out upon @
bluff overlooking frozen stream dis
covered the four bodies, stripped Of
everything but their mocassins, lying
upon the snow, just as it had been told
to u.s.
1.-THE body of Indians was left drawn
up in line on the bluff and Captain
Baldwin and the others named went
down. There was squaw and four
children, as | said. All of them had
been shot in the back of the head, and
the United States cartridges, which told
that they had been slain by soldiers,
were lying near. Then Captain Bald
win, turning to Gourard, said, DO you
know this woman
Eyes said the Indian, looking
steadily at the body of the woman.
"'Who is it?'
"'This is my wife these are my
children
Gan you imagine the effect of that
little speech? An Indian does not often
laugh. They are said to never cry. But
Gourald, maintaining his stoicism for a
little time, finally gave way and big
tears rolled down his cheeks. This ia
bad this is very bad, he said.
Here was a scout who had served the
government we'll and faithfully, and
this was his reward at the hands of his
friends. On the cliff above, and watch
ing our every move, was company OF
Sioux who knew at least that the fAur-
dered woman was one of their own tribe,
A word from Gourard would have
caused them to settle this little bill
with US personally. Gourard probably
saw what was in our thoughts as we
glanced at the silent line of figures
standing out against the sky with their
rifles slung upon the saddles before
them.
"'This is very bad,'" he repeated,
and then added, but my heart is true. )
"We took up the nude and frozen
bodies and carried them back to Pine
Ridge without any other of the Indians
knowing the circumstances. Gourard
said not word. They were given the
kindliest of burials, and the whole mat
ter, with the tell-tale empty cartridges,
was laid before General Miles. 1t was
learned that the woman with her chill
dren had been visiting up in the north,
and, learning that the Blackfeet were
about to go down to Pine ridge, had
joined them, and their death resulted
from the company they kept.
"But as to scoops, perhaps my most
important was the discovery of the
Carlson cottage. With Florence Sulli-
van found the cottage in which the
Cronin murder was committed, for
which Dan Coughlin is now being tried
in Chicago. We two were in the police
station, with Lederer, our artist, one
night when the city was all agog over
the finding of Cronin's body. A friend
of his spoke of suspicious doings in
certain little cottage, and we thought it
worth while to look it up. took
charge of the party and arranged that
we should walk past the place singly,
some distance apart, meet and give our
impressions. The place was dark, the
blinds closed one of them being broken.