Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-08-17

reminded me somewhat OF g beef killing
at Standing Rock. The prisoners were
led out in q sort Of hollow square, and
made to kneel down. As soon as they
were properly placed, their hands were
fastened behind them, and they stretch
ed out their necks, under the subtle per-
suasion of a muscular Monaghan, who
stood in front Of them, with their long
tails OF braided hair in his hands.
Another sallow-skinned Celestial stood
beside the row of trembling victims,
with an implement somewhat after the
fashion Of a butchers c~leaver, which he
manipulated with both hands. He was
cloaked in a close-ftting waterproof, to
avoid soaking from the deluge of blood
which ensues after decapitation. As
soon as n offender is sufficiently head
less to insure his immediate decease, the
attention of the butcher is turned to the
one next to him. The ones who are left
until last, have a golden opportunity to
look about them, and read their futures.
After the killing is completed, the heads
and bodies are sorted out for burial.
Sometimes a misft is made, and a wrong
head and body are mated together.
This, however, is not a common occur
renee, and is not resented by the victims.
Gall is a glorious quality. It is an
admirable attribute. It has boosted
men up the ladder Of fame, two rounds
at a time, and has pushed merit careless
ly aside to make room for itself. It is a
potent factor of success, and it will give
naked brains a hundred yards start in a
half mile dash, and win out. But, while
1 admire a nan who is moderately sup
piled, I dislike to see a man saturated
with it. A case in point is that of Jones,
the gentlemanly highwayman, who, it
will be remembered, was one of a band
of five to hold up a Northern Pacific
train out in Montana a year ago. Sub
sequent to the robbery, four of the band
were killed, and Jones was the only one
captured alive. At the January term of
United States court in Helena, he was
found guilty of the murder Of one of the
pursuing party. He was too dangerous
a criminal to be sentenced at once, and
at the April term, he was granted a new
trial, which was set for August 9th. On
that date, Judge Knowles decided to
hear no cases, and Jones' new trial went
over. Accordingly, a day or 80 ago, the
defendant demanded his discharge, on a
writ of haheas corpus, because his trial
has not been a speedy one. Everyone
will admit the truth of this. Mr.. Jones
should have received his sentence with
out any second trial. And his cast-iron
nerve, under the circumstances, is moth
ing short of sublime. Mr.. Jones' gall is
stupendous. It is the most magnificent
exhibition of s~elf-assurance I have seen
in some time.
I have seen an advance proof Of that
letter of greeting which was sent to
President Dole by President Cleveland.
The text of the missive has not been
made public yet, but secrecy was not
provisional with my seeing of the letter
in question, and I do not feel constrained
to keep it from the public. The letter
is of the usual appearance of such COM
munications, but the style is easily fam
iliar, and not formal and stilted, as is
peculiar to most official documents:
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
Washington, D. c., Aug. 5, 1894
My Dear Dole: see by the daily papers
that you have fixed up that little trouble
with Lii, and are now occupying a similar
position in Hawaii to mine over here, ex-
cept that I think you have a firmer hold on
the people than I have. Now that theImat-
ter, is all settled, Dole, l want you to let
bygones be bygOnes and hold no grudge
against me over that message of mine in
connection with the former queen. Of
course, know l acted peculiarly in that,
but what the devil was 1 do? Lii was in
hard luck, and her position appealed to my
sympathies for the time being. But l am
convinced now that l wa wrong, and have
let the matter drop.
My particular object in writing to you at
this time, Dole, is to make a dlcker with
you, and tit you out with a congress. L
have one here which has done all the dam
age possible in the United States, and they
are anxious to see how long it will take
them to run a bran-new government into
the ground and break it off. The people
are also anxious tor them to move away.
and if we could arrange a deal, it would be
of great benefit to us mutually. We won't
haggle about prices in the matter, if you
want 'em. You can have some of our most
expensive sugar senators at a heavy dis
count, and I'll throw in a job-lot of con-
gressmen at SO per cent. off, if you'll take
the batch. Some of these men have cost
the nation thousands of dollars, and no
expense has been spared in getting the
rarest specimens. One or two specimens
are of the populist variety. and are very
rare and costly, the species being nearly
extinct. l understand you have trouble,
at intervals, with the volcano, Kilauea, and
if you will take Mr.. PETER OF Kansas. who
has just recently been fitted out with a
platinum tonRue and a new pair Of lungs,
| will guarantee him to talk every volcano
in the Sandwich Islands into the middle of
the Pacific ocean with one of his eipht.day
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