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The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
The Difficulties of weII-Known

That a merchants lot is not always
happy Is evidenced by the difficulties
that the New York Clothing House finds
itsel! in at the present time The large
store at 81 Seventh street, in which
the firm is located, is going tn be en-
tirely remodeled, and it is necess airy
that the entire stock shall be removed
Anyone who mas been in BUSINESS knOwt
what heavy expense 1t VIII entail
both in loss OF time and business and
damage to the stock They are also
experiencing cons derable difficulty In
finding temporary building large enough
to hold their immense stock Belle wing
that first loss is best, they are holding
a gigantic sale at marvelOusly low prices
In order TO run off as much as possible
of the stock before moving II should
be a good chance 70 purchase summer
clGthing
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
Live Local happenings.

Prof. DeSaussure, of this city, sailed
from New York today for Liverpool on the
Cunarder, Lucania.
John HcKeever, stable boss at the Wash
ington Brick Company's stables, forfeiteG
SO collateral in the police court this morn
ing on the charge of cruelty to animals.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
SUSIE ROSES ESCAPE.
Got Away From the Reform School,
But Was .Recaptured.

Susie Rose is locked p at the South
Washington police station as @ fugitive
from Justice She is a tall colorcd girl,
twenty years of age, and male her escape
from the Girls Reform School several days
ago by scaling the wall
After gaining her freedom, Susie climbed
to the top Of a tall tree and remained
hidden in the foliage until dark, when she
climbed down and came to this city.
When Policeman Muller arrested the girl
she was trying to get a suit OF mems
clothes TO wear as a disguise. Supt. W. c
Endicott. cf the Girls Reform School, has
been nou. of her capture.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

Any day you will find crowd at our
office examining the Hartford typewriter
and purchasing, too. The Gramophonetalk-
ing and singing machine helps to bring
the crowd; free exhibitions daily; come
one and all Typewriter Headquarters
and Manufacturers Agency, 1907 st.
NV. Burket s. Hewett, Agents je5-tf-em
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

There is something suspicious in the in
dignation with which the London news
papers regard the rejection Of the arhitra-
ton treaty by the American Senate If
the compact was such prodlgious ccnces
sion to the United States 1t is strange that
our London contemporaries should get mad
over it's failure.-New York Mail and EX
press.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

Congressman Ridglcy to Lecture.
Hon Edwin r. Ridgely OF the Third Kan
sas district will deliver an address before
the Washington section OF the socialist la
Dor party at the Labor Bureau on Sunday
afternoon at 3 O'Clock.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
Electrician Fowler Falls to Death.

Chicago, June "a. S. Fowler, cleo
trician of the Illinois Steel Company, made
a ndsstcp last night while inspecting the
machinery at the top of au ore-lo l1ine
machine at the company's South Chicago
docks, and fell seventy feet, breaking III
most every bone in his body. He was in
stantly killed
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
Discharges TO Be investigated.

Assistant Secretary Of the Treasury
Vanderlip, WHO has supervision cNer the
mints, will go to Philadelphia soon to
investigate the allegations regarding the
dismissal of veterans from the mint n that
city under the last Administration.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

Do you want a cash register, and save
half the regular price? Call on US. Type
writer Headquarters and Manufacturers
Agency, 1907 F st. NV. Burket& Hewett,
Agents. je5-3t,em
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
Her TreaSurnS.

my daughter used TO sleep with her dia-
Inond rings under her pillow"
well how is it now?''
''She goes to bed with her bicycle boots
on. y Chicago Record.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
uc.,er However Was BIird.

UC:ner, However, Was BIfnd.
do you believe the Greeks have really
degenerated so much since the old heroic
Ola VS."
We'll, they certainly aren't turning OFT
an y such press agents as old Homer was y
Chicago Journal
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05
Gen. Collins Cunning Homo.

Liverpool, June 5.-Patrick A. Collins,
the retiring United states consul general
at London, is passenger On board the
steamer Campania, which left here today.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

wanted-Haye you cash register noa
sale Let Us know oft 1yPew riter Head
quarters and Manufacturers Agency, 1901
5e5-3t,e en-
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

Frances Minister to Siam Dead.
Paris. Jure 5. Ranchot, the French MN
lister to Siam, died yesterday Of cbolerne
at Bangkok.
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

SIPS To Baltimore and Re S1.25
turn via Pennsylvania Railroad.
Tickets will he sold Saturday and Sun
DAY. June 8 and 6, valid for return passage
until Monday, June z. Good on any train
1e1-5t-em
The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-06-05

Men can save big money ON shoes ut
CRoCKER's, $50 Pa ave Itemslast page.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11
A Georgia Negro Prodieu.

Robert Gardhire is negro and an un-
educated one, but when it comes to figures
he can't be stopped by any mathemati-
clan in the world. He is humble resi-
dent of Augusta, and is mpioyed as
iaborer at the Interstate Cotton Oil Com.
pany. In multiplication Gardhire is as
quick as thought. Before the average
person can set the figures down with a
pencil Gardhire has given the correct an
swer, and yet he cannot say how he
does it.
He was asked what was the sum total of
80 times 81, and without repeating the fig
ures to himself, Gardhire answered off
hand "6633." "How much." asked some
one, els SOL times 322" Without stopping
a second Gardhire replied, 16,03 And
thus for over half an hour num- bers were
thrown at him and he gave the correct
multiplication like fash. In the multi
plication of fractions the man is equally
proficient, and there seems no limit to his
powers, which are almost occult.
Gardhire cannot remem ber when he first
became aware of his power and does not
even know how ne discovered it. He SAYS
that when the figures are given him ne
sees their answer Immediately. Simply
by glancing at long line of figures he
can tell Immediately what the addition is.
Augusta Chronicle.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

ter, and jumping to the conclusion that I
had tired to commit suicide had made
things pretty decidedly lively in that vi
cinity without delay.
L explained matters as best I could and
was scolded and then forgiven, of course
but my punishment came all the same.
For three days and nights l shuddered
through existence, smelling, tasting,
thinking OF moth ing but the nauseating,
overpowering, all-pervading odor OF that
abominable drug! 1 lived and moved
and had my being, apparently, in the
center of a cloud of chloroform vapor, and
it made me s-i-c-kl So sick that I could
neither eat nor drink nor sleep, nor do
anything but shiver and squirm and
writhe internally and hate myself for be-
Ing weak-minded idiot enough to get
into such state of utter wretchedness.
When l confessed the truth to our
doctor he looked so grave, and told me
such dreadful things about the effects of
such ''sprees" on mind and body, that
nothing could tempt me to do anything
OF the kind again even had my initial e1-
perience been pleasurable-which it most
decidedly was not.
Thank heaven. our San Francisco girls
do not feel the need of induiging in such
dissipationsi And as for the girl from
New York, she can go to-New York, for
all me, and spend the rest of her expert
mental existence there, and no tear of
regret from my eyes shall sadden her de-
parture. FUNEGAL McVAHoN.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

main at home upon certain night Be-
fore morning, however, an alarm of In
dians was sounded, and the husband and
wife, each catching up child, started for
the blockhouse.
They had gone but short distance
when it was discovered that some much
needed belonging had been forgotten. The
husband decided to return, bidding his
wife hasten on to the blockhouse, which
there was two ways of reaching from their
dwelling-one a short cut through the
thick bushes, and the other by a wagon
road.
"The wife chose the former, while in
returning the hus band took the road. Not
overtaking her the safety OF his wife and
child weighed upon his mind, and the
necessity of silence was entirely forgot
ten.
HE loudly called her name and she,
though realizing tho danger of such an
outburst, felt compelled to answer.
Her exact location and the progress
she was making next caused him anxiety,
and his call was repeated. AS expostuIa-
ton was impossible the wife again re-
lieved his anxiety by. loudly calling her
answer. So through the strip of wood
land they went proclaiming themselves
an easy prey to the savages, who fortu-
nately for them were biding their time or
committing depredations elsewhere"
Although surrounded by dangers the
younger portion of the community felt the
need of amusement, and a dance was &C.
cordlngly given.
They congregated in the only hall the
place afforded, stationed pickets to guard
against surprises, and, stacking their arms
conveniently at hand, proceeded to enjoy
themselves to the accompaniment of a
brace of fiddles.
As young children formed an import
ant part of the community, and nurses
were not a feature of the frontier, each
mother participating in the gayety-and
young mothers were in the majority
among the women-placed her child upon
convenient bed in the dressing-room
and unincum bered joined the dance
One of the babies so disposed of is to-
day prosperous business man of our city.
received shock in the unexpected appear
ance of an elderly woman who but two
weeks before had a son murdered in the
whaleboat expedition. Yet in spite of his
awful fate she joined in dancing and made
merry with the rest. Her utter heartlass-
ness was circumstance never forgotten
by those who were present.
Mr.. Miller exclaims bitterly against the
blindness of the Government to the inter-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11
TRYING A CHLOROFORN SPREE

when violin is played close to it, in
beautiful series of geometric figures,
squares, circles, triangles, and every con-
ceivable modification of those forms.
A moment or two and the bits of ire, as
they ranged themselves side by side, lost
their individuality and. merging into each
other, became an intricate lacework of
golden threads hanging between me and a
dusky background, which now began to
glow with a soft crimson radiance deepen
ing to purple, then frightening to vivid
scarlet, as if forest fire were raging
fercely but fitfuliy behind a light screen
OF drifting fog.
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

the other day. 1t was recently Obtained
the specimen-by j. W. Detweiler of Beth
lehem. Pa, from an ancient and probably
-Colum bian grave in the Rio Cauca
Valley. in the Republic of Colon bia. Here
the idea of cross symbolism in ancient
America, rather than mere decoration by
means of intersecting lines, is well
brought out by the eight smaller crosses
between the arms of the central cross.
ITO my mind the specimen shows
First, the cross symbol existed in ancient
America before the coming OF Christian
ity; second, the cross symbol carved OH
spindle whorl by ancient Americans in
just the same manner as ancient Asiati cs
and Europeans had carved crosses on
spindle whorls before the birth of Chris
tianity; third, the identity of peculiar
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

change. This work was done principally
by the squaws, who dug gold or helped IN
unloading vessels when they ventured
in to the dangerous, breaker-beset harboIs.
"The Indians were four years preparing
for the war which they fancied would rid
them of the whites and avenge their
wrongs.
"Sea otter were at that time plentiful
and mum bers were caught by the Indians.
The usual price paid by the traders for
skin was three rifles, and in this way arms
and ammunition were purchased. These
were carefully cached for the contemplated
outbreak.
The greater part of the guns traded 20
the Indians were what was termed the
United States auger gum These were
short -barreled affairs holding an ounce
ball, which was discharged with rotary
motion. The cash price paid for this gun
was sl2.
When rumors of impending trouble
we're noised about, the traders, the ma
iority of whom were what is termed
squaw men, remarked with complacency
that under any circumstances they had no
cause to fear the Indians. as the presence
of their squaws was protection. 1t was
significant that these traders were the
first to fail victims TO the wrath of the
savages, and were all mercilessly tor
tured. The most prominent among them
was Ben Wright, known as an Indian
fighter. who for such services drew q pen
sion from the Government The success
sive slaughter of other well-known char
acters followed and soon brought us to q
realization that bloody war was full
upon US. Plans for resistance were soon
put into operation. A numoer of men in
whaleboats started to aid the settlers liv-
ing at the mouth of Rogue River. The
effort was futile, as the Indians attacked
them when about to land, killing all save
one OF their number, who escaped to the
fort. Among them was a merchant named
Jerome, who had taken advantage of the
expedition to collect a debt from debtor
al that point.
1.-THE instigator and leader OF the In
dians. Chief John, was acknowledged by
the white officers to be warrior indeed
crafty tactician, who tried to the utter
most the military skill of his white ad-
versaries. Besides employing the usual
signal fires resorted to by all savages he
invented a unique and effective human
telephone system. Knowing that the
women of his tribe would be safer than
men from the guns of the soldiers. he sta
toned young squaws al intervals of 300
yards from one point to another between
which he desired communications to pass
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY

An archaeological specimen has been
presented to the University of Pennsyl-
vania by the Bucks County Historical
Society which proves that the symbol of
the cross was known and used in ancient
America before the birth of Christ The
importance of the facts proven by this
relic of ancient days was first made known
by Henry c. Mercer, curator of the Sec
tion OF American and prehistoric arch
zoology of the Museum of Science and Art
OF the university. The object which has
demonstrated the interesting facts stated
is a spindle whorl.
This whorl or weight used to give mo-
mentum to the spindle-stick, q thin rod
about foot long pushed for an inch or
more through an orifice in the center of
the whorl. In discussing these facts Pro-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

The threads grew thick and heavy; the
colors a confused mixture of conflicting
hues harsh, aggressive and disagreeable,
and the artistic marvel changed into an
immense curtain of coarse wooden che.
mile, ornamented with row after row of
thick and heavy chenille fringe.
A sudden sense came TO me that every
thing around me was made of the same
material, that l myself was covered with
a chenilie-like fur, and that my fingers
were pieces OF thick chenille stiffened
with bits of wire.
The dronlng undertone of sound-beats
gathered force and volume until it be-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

A young woman from New York, with
whom I became acquainted while she
was visiting San Francisco and stopping
at one of the City hotels, de-
scrihed to me a "chloroform SPREE"
which she declared was in vogue
among some fashionable women in the
East, and which ''came nearer to being
bit of nirvana to order" than anything
else she knew.
l determined to indulge in one of these
"sprees" for san experience" have had
the experienced
| stopped at the drugstore nearest my
home, and, with what l trusted seemed
like my usual unconcerned and rather
superior manner, asked the dapper clerk
for -four bits worth of chloroform." He
looked at me with wild but decidedly dis
composing surprise.
How much of what, Miss?" he asked,
and when l repeated my order with sever
ity, conscious that my ears were beginning
to burn furiously, he disappeared behind
the fence erected to conceal him and his
associates from the public eye when en-
gagged in putting up prescriptions.
Evidently he consulted the proprietor
in his lair, for he returned looking trou-
bled and interrogative. though smiling
feebly.
What did you say you wanted it for,
MissP" be asked, and my face turned the
color of an overripe tomato. What did /
want it for, indeedP L certainly could not
confide my intentions to him, SO grasped
at the first nebular idea which foated
across my confused brain.
'For my cat, of course answered
with asperity, and my questioner looked
relieved
Concluded to do away with old Tom 2"
he said cheerily. That's all right, of
course, but we have to be particular, you
see- l can't sell you that much anyway
without prescription. but 10 cents worth
will do the business all right"
And then while he was m aking thing
OF beauty out of the small bottle by means
OF snowy paper and pink string he told
me just how to arrange matters so as to
make poor old Toms taking off painless
certainty, and l departed smiling.
Arrived at home / made my prepara-
tions with eager haste, and lying upon my
couch uncorked the vial and tipped it up
on my handkerchief two or three times.
Then l pulled the cover up over my
head and snuggled down among the pill
lows to enjoy my "bit of Nirvana."
Ugh! Was ever anything so intensely,
burningly. disgustingly sweet as the smell
of that chloroform2
/ shuddered from head to foot as the
first Whit of it went up my nostriIs. The
second sniff was not so bad. At the third
l became conscious OF a singular rhythm.
ical buzzIng and throbbing. faint and
far off. to which l seemed compelled to
listen with the greatest intentness, and
which grew momentariy louder and
louder until it seemed like the deafeninp
rush and roar and rattle of locomotive
coming at full speed through a lon amouu-
tain tunnel.
A thick cloud of pitchy smoke seemed
surrounding and half-suffocating me. and
then suddenly shower of tiny fiery
sparks glittered and danced in the dark.
ness like millions of fairy fireflies.
The roaring grew fainter and fainter
ana became again rhythmical murmur.
droning undertone, to the vibrations of
which the sparks began to arrange them
selves, as fine sand does on a sheet of glass
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

In one of the charming villas at Belve-
dere lives George w. Miller, who, some
thing more than forty years ago, was first
ueutenant of the volunteer company
raised at Port Oxford, Or, to aid the regu-
lars in the defense OF homes and the sup
preston of the Indians in what is called
the Rogue River Indian war.
An alluslon to the massacre in . recent
publication has awakened in his mind
personal "reminiscences of that struggle,
in which little band of whites success
fully resisted the desire for their exter-
mination which lurked in the breast of
old Chief John of the Tootootneys.
Port Oxford was at that time collec-
ton OF perhaps a dozen houses, with the
fort, in which Major Reynolds of the
United States army was stationed with
possibly thirty-ive regular soldiers.
THE cause of the outbreak was, un-
doubtedly, system of indignities prac-
ticed upon the Indians by a number of
lawless whites" said Mr.. Miller to his
visitor from THE CALL.
zone of the outrages bitterly resented
by them was that of robbing their burial
grounds of the boards with which ii was
customary for them to protect each grave.
These boards were hewn with much labor
from great cedar trees and with tools that
q carpenter would have scorned. They
were from foot 10 two feet in width and
OF various lengths.
whenever lum Der for certain purposes
was needed, there were those in the COM
munity who did not hesitate to appropri-
ate the nicely finished boards, without re-
gard for the sacred significance applied to
them by their lawful owners Protesta-
tions upon the part of the Indians or set
tiers possessing sense of justice were met
with either insult or Indifference.
''At that time there was no dearth of
the tiotsam which society ever casts upon
the frontier A certain numb of young
men, whose ages ranged from % to 30,
were banded together and gave full play
to any lawless inclination without regard
for consequences. They affected the long
haired, buckskiu-suited style of the dime
novel hero. Some of them deferred to the
Indian law of purchasing their squaw
wives; others defied the custom, and, in
timidsting friends and relatives into re-
linqulshing the squaws on whom their
fancy lighted, bore them away after the
fashion OF barbaric conquerors.
before the feeling generated by these
and other indignities had arisen the In
dians were peaceful and friendly. On
finding that their primitive shell coin
could not purchase the white mans sup
plies they willingly gave labor in ex-
The San Francisco call., 1897-04-11

"W hen General Buchanan sent word
for Chief Johns surrender, the Indian re-
piled that through necessity he yielded
to the great Tyee's command. When the
order was given for them to leave the
vicinity for the more fruitful northern
reservation a chief called Tagpatia sor-
rowfully protested.
'' L was born here said he, and here
| hope to lay my bones when die.
have always befyiended the whites and in
my heart is no enmity toward them.
His request was unheeded and with the
Indians well known to be hostile he was
commanded to take his departure.
"Tagnatia was an Indian of fine phys
ique, being fully feet tall, of a benevo-
lent and intelligent countenance. He was
noted among his people for his ingenuity,
and among other useful things could make
an excellent saddle similar to those used
by the Mexicans.
when the Indians, some 1900 in num-
ber, took their departure they passed
through the lines of the soldiers stationed
at Port Oxford. They formed procession
which was the personitication of wretch
edness, poverty and despair. Old men
and women were led in their blindness by
younger members of their tribe or family,
Women weak from sickness bore heavy
burdens or children upon their backs.
Woli-eyed warriors stepped with an air of
naughty nonchalance and a look of baf-
fed hatred upon their dark faces. Troops
OF children crept along, ragged. dirty, pitt
full; and leading his people was Chief
John, mounted upon a sorry mule, look
OF indifference on his face. his eyes, which
seemed to observe nothing, fixed straight
before him.
Port Oxford was never attacked by the
Indians, though scouts were often sent by
them to take account OF and report any
opportunity for slaughter. These scouts
Travelled at night, running swiftly upon
the beach and in the waters edge to hide
their footprints. In spite of this precau-
ton, however, they were usually seen by
the watchful sentinels and shot sent
them precipitately into the sea.
"a number of peculiar incidents of that
bloody period remain in the memory after
the general dark background has worn
dim. AT the beginning of the outbreak, 1
remember. a blockhouse, two stories in
neight and torty-tive feet square, was
built on the outskirts of the little town.
in this blockhouse families found shelter
at night.
There had been no indication of the
presence of Indians for some time, and
one OF the families, growing tired of the
constant moving TO and fro. decided 10 re-