Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-23
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

countless schemes for imposing upon the
public" said q prominent newspaper man
at the Riggs House. this morning, "but one
of them caught a Tartar yesterday. In the
person of my father-in-law. The old gen.
tleman was strolling about the suburbs en-
joyfng his evening walk. when he was ap-
preached by a man of quite respectable APP
pearance. who accosted him and proceeded
to pour forth a touching tale of woe. The
stranger said he had come over from Balti-
more. where he resided. on the day before
and had been detained over night. He had
taken room at cheap hotel and left 1t
for a few moments early in the morning.
Upon his return he discovered that some
thief had entered during his brief absence
and stolen all his money and a gold watch
and chain. In conclusion he said that he
had been walking ever since 8 o'clock in
the morning. and had not tasted mouthful
OF food. Before he could ask for assistance
my relative informed him that he had been
walking to very little avail. The man want
ed to know why, and the old gentleman
replied that steady pedestrianism in the
proper direction. commenced at o'clock in
the morning, would have landed him among
his friends and family in Baltimore by the
time he had commenced the conversation
I'm progress. The seff-constituted unfortu-
nate gave his expected victim a look of ut
ter disgust and slid of down the street in
hurry. 1 understand the same fellow or
one very much like him, has been telling
northwestern part of the city, and it may
be as well for people of susceptible SYM
pathies to keep their eyes open"
1.-THE base ball cranks are growing more
and more numerous with each recurring
season." said Albert Walker, a sporting
man, in front of WIZARDS last night, land
the one that opened Thursday will add an
other regiment or two to the army In every
q
everything in creation when the league
games begin and devote every moment Of
their time to base ball. They talk about it
all day and dream about Ii all night and
when the home team is playing in other
cities on the circuit they congregate where
the reports OF the games are received by
innings and become as excited as II thew
itself
II reckon every man about town in
washington" continued Mr.. Walker 're-
members Keno Billy, who for many years
threw hazard and whirled roulette wheels
IN the gambling houses here. When the
ponce broke up the games here. Billy went.
TO Baltimore, and he hadn't been there six
months when he became interested in base
bail. 1t drove him crazy He could talk
or nothing else. He knew the fielding and
pdtting average OF every player in the
country and would argue for hours on the
merits of this or that club. When he saw
game he grew so excited that he would
frequently faint dead away, and when the
club was away he would get down on Bal
timore street, across from the American
Office, and shout and scream as the returns
were posted up like a perfect maniac He
was the worst base ball crank I ever saw
p tsi,I there are lots of them nearly as bad
BUY was killed by train some years ago
ana his pockets were filled with papers con-
tanning ngures relating to base ball for sew
eral seasons previously"
wit hofr
ing from gray to white. sauntered into the
Arlington last night. The warm, sultry
air was evidently unpleasant to him. for
he removed his soft hat and used it as a
fan. peculiar feature about his head
attracted the attention OF an observer.
Shining through his thin locks, and forming
semi-circle on the back of the SCALP was
a bright red Irregular line. He inquired at
the desk for Granville Stuart, and seemed
greatiy disappointed to learn that the new
minister to Paraguay and Uruguay had
departed from the hotel His card that he
twiried nervously in his fingers bore the
name or Lewis Parks. and an old gentle
man IN the lobby greeted him affectionately
as Lou" When he went out his friend
talked about him to a circle of interested
loungers. That was old Lou Parks" he
remarked, with an infection of admiration
he was one of us when we went up into
the Bitter Root country, away back in
1893: Did you notice that red ring on his
head? Well, gentlemen, the jagged edge of
a biacktoots knife made that scar. and all
the skin and hair inside of it was torn
from the skull by a red scoundrers mus
cuiar arm. The event occurred just about
where Pocatello. Idaho. now is. Lou
Parks and three other white men had gone
over in that neighborhood to search for
something or other, / forget what. and
one day Lou went out from camp to kill
some meat The other fellows heard him
shoot once, and after awhile wondered
bring int
or shoot again, as the country just swarm
ed with game. Then they concluded to go
out and find out what was the matter.
About half or three-quarters of a mile
away they saw man living in some
bushes and rode up to find Lou. He was
unconscious and his head was covered with
blood pouring from hole about as big
as tin cup. 1t was easy to see he had
been scalped. No Indians had been seen
In the neighborhood. and the boys couldn't
understand where they had gone. because
Louis gun and knife were still with him.
They looked around for signs, and deeper
in the chapparal about twenty yards
away found the dead body of a Blaclxfoot
Indian. He was shot in the spine, and in
his cienched hand was a bunch Of hair.
IL was Louis scalp. The boys loosen ed
the nigger's grasp and released the thing,
and one of them suggested the bright idea
OF sticking II back on LOUIS head. They
washed it in water from one fellows
leather bottle ana washed their partners
head. Then they fitted the scalp back in
place and tied 1t on with strips of horse
blanket. When Lou came to his senses he
said that he was kneeling down waiting
for an elk, which he thought he heard
below him. to come along, when he sudden
ly felt something grab his hair from be-
hind and then pull the whole top of his
head off. He said that before he went of
he saw something black go in front of
him and pulled his rifles trigger as he
himself fell forward on his face. For
months he fingered between life and death,
but finally recovered. When the blanket
strip bandage was taken off some time
after the attack by an army surgeon at
a post four or five hundred miles away.
where Lou was taken, 1t was found that
the scalp had begun to grow on again,
ard after several years treatment Ii be-
came you see Ii now. Lou would give
COW any time to find out what that In
dian was doing out there alone and why
he took the chances on scalping him alive
when he had dead cfnch on getting his
hair by sticking the knife in his neck
first. Lou Is here from Missouri, where
he is now living, but he amt after any
post office. you can bet"
Lake Muskogee is now a thing Of the
past, and where its water once covered
many square miles of territory the
ploughshare will soon be turning up some
of the richest soil In Minnesota" The
man who spoke so carelessly about such
q remarkable metamorphosis was C. s.
Westcott of Milwaukee, who was gossip
Ing in La Normandies smoking room.
1.-THE lake WAS about ten or twelve miles