Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-25
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| bespoke a quiet and reserved nature,
st-olled out Of the Hotel Lawrence this
morning and walked slowly up E street
| toward Newspaper Row. AS he passed
the Press Club army officer stepped
| forward and shook hands with him cor
daily and then rejoined his companions.
DO you know who that is?' inquired the
military man. mo? Well, that's ex-Special
Agent Cooper Of the Indian Office. Every
| body In the far west knows Jim Cooper.
He has nerve enough to supply q whole
| family Of mountain lions and have enough
left to equip several companies of hard
riding Indian fighters. During the stormy
times At Pine Ridge agency several years
ago Cooper was a strong factor IN set
Ting matters with the Indians, being pres
| ent there as a civilian representative of
the government. His fame had preceded
| him to Pine Ridge from the Tongue River
reservation of the Northern Cheyennes. up
in Montana, where he followed a career
| that was full Of exciting adventures. One
incident that may give you some idea as to
| the character Of the man occurred up on
the Tongue River reservation in the latter
part ptr, Of the ., SOS: when Cooper was tern tern
Indian boys. as young unmarried Indians
are called, about nineteen or twenty years
Of age. respectively. had murdered a white
man. Cooper called the Cheyennes to-
gether. and they numbered about four hun
dred warriors at that time and equally as
many sQuaws, who are pretty near as good
as warriors when 1t comes to ructfon,
and told them that the boys would have
| to be brought in and delivered UP to answer
for their crime The Indians said they
didn't know where the boys were, and
| Cooper very plainly told them that they
were lying. Then they asked him how
many ponies he would take to let up in
the prosecution of the criminals, and
| Cooper said that he wouldn't listen to any
| n q T.. hnf ha ho he W. nfod
| was the boys, and that he wanted them
brought in without any further palavering
or subterfuge or delay. The father of one
| OF the boys grew very indignant at Coop
| er's determined stand. and said that the
| boys would come in all right. but that
| Cooper was too big a coward to meet them.
Cooper to fight. He never WINGED. but
| got mad in turn. He told the gathering
| that the whole Cheyenne tribe couldn't
scare him. and that he proposed to get
| those boys In spite Of all of them and see
that Justice was done and dared the father
to let the murderers know what he said
Then he rammed a few handouts of ammu-
milton into his pocket took I'D his rifle and
| started out. The Cheyennes ranged them
selves round on the bluffs and waited for
the run to begin. ready to take hand in
an instant II necessary: Cooper knew
that II he showed the slightest signs of
| nervousness or fear. the Indians would
make short work Of him. burn everything
IN sight and go cavorting off the reserva-
| e.oH. Dut ne grew mighty lonesome, Tor
| all the white employees of the reservation
| had become scared and gone to hiding. He
| called on the six or seven Indian police
that were on duty at the reservation to
stand by him, however, and took the pre-
| caution to send one of them after a cav
| airy troop, think 1t was troop Of the
nrst that was camped down on the Lame
| Deer. Pretty soon Cooper saw a couple of
Cheyennes in full war paint and regalia
| riding like mad down the trail toward the
agency They were the boys who had muir
dered the old man. As they came within
range the agent raised his rife and plugged
! one OF them SO good and hard that he
rolled on his pony and gave up the ghost
without single kick. The other one be-
while as Indians do. getting ready for
| rush. and Cooper awaited his opportu-
nifty TO get a good shot at him. when the
cavalry troop appeared. Then came the
strangest part of the proceeding. That
young Indian charged directly at the line
| OF United States soldiers and went right
through It, wounding four horses as he
did so. But when he had gone through
somebody whirled that troop around and
| the result was that in less than three ways
OF Sleeps tail Mr.. Indian boy was as full
ever saw in your life. There was no more
| trouble at the Tongue River reservati ton
wnlle cooper was there and the Cheyennes
respected him You mustn't imagine from
this tnat the Northern Cheyenne is a weak
| specimen of the Indian Those fellows at
Tongue river were the very same who
were taken down to Indian territory many
| years ago and escaped and were not owe
hauled or stopped until they had gone north
TO within fifty or sixty miles Of Pine Ridge.
ana the government didn't try to get them
TO go back any more They are fierce to
degree and the best fighters that live
today. but still they are upright in their
dealings, and the character of their lives
may be appreciated when the fact is known
that there is not a woman among the
MOI thern Cheyennes who is not perfectly
virtuouS."
Il believe there will be a great improve
ment in business from August on. whether
anything Is done with the tariff or not"
said Henry Curtis of Chicago, who is an
important person in the big establishment
of Marshall Field 4 Co., and who STONED
between trains at the National last night.
I'VE are feeling considerably encouraged
over the prospects for fall trade Business
Is. OF course, dull now, but not 30 much
SO as great many imagine, and we be-
lieve that the fall trade will be thoroughly
satisfactory. The shelves Of small dealers
were never cleaner of goods. The very
smallest stocks possible are being carried
by every one. When the demand does start
up 1t will be felt instantly. and 1 shall
not be surprised If the wholesale houses
won't experience more difficulty in getting
goods from the mills than they will have
In getting orders from customers, because
the mills have been running on short time
and are carrying no large stocks Their
accumulated product will be exhausted in
the first rush of orders, and they will have
to run full capacity to meet demands. l
believe this feeling prevails generally
among wholesale people in all branches of
business, and consequently l look for a
revival of a healthy condition in the coun-
try in a very short time"
EVERY city in this aggregation of states
should have an ordinance providing for the
compulsory cleaning out of every cellar and
back yard in the month Of April of each
year." said DR.. r. 8. Willard at the Ebbitt
House this morning. DR.. Willard Is now a
resident Of st. Paul. and was q wsll-known
champion Of sanitary improvements in New
York dozen years ago. mo matter how
Clearly a community may be, and how care
full housekeepers may conduct their kitch-
ems" he continued. ut is hard to get q
servant to properly dispose of the garbage
and refuse during the cold days of winter.
What mean Is this. Garbage receptaces
are usually placed at or near the gate of
the back yard. When the air Is freezing
nlnety-nine servants out Of hundred will
throw any liquid refuse they have. such as
greasy water, coffee-pot washings, and
things OF that sort, out on the bare ground
OF the yard. In preference to carrying it
through the cold to the place intended for
1t. II there Is snow on the earth the repre-
hensible custom is carried still further A
continual persistence in this sort of thing