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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Claimed to BE 1O6 Years old.

TROY, N. Y, May 10.-Captain Joseph
King, who claimed that he was 106 years
old last Wednesday, died at his home in
L~ansingburg this morning. He claimed to
be of Indian descent. Captain King was
the father of Stephen and Mart King, who
were among the pioneers of baseball in this
country.
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Drowned in Pigeon Creek.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
ROCKPORT. Ind. May 10.-Claude Sum-
mers was drowned in Pigeon creek, near
Gentryville. this morning. He was fishing,
and while sitting on the bank was seized
with an attack of epilepsy and fell into the
nnn
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creeks i'm Epirus Routed.

CONSTANTINOPLE. May 10.-The Turk
Ism commander at Janina telegraphs that
the Greek forces at Kamarina have been
routed by three battalions of Turkish
troops, who occupied Kamarina. Later the
Greeks gathered in a church on the heights
above the village, when they fired on the
Turks, who eventually took the church by
assault, killing many of the Greeks and
capturing some prisoners. The remainder
of the Greeks retired TO the bridge of Agros
Georges, where they made q determined
stand, but Were finally routed by the Turks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
Suicide of "a Tilted Lover.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
VINCENNES. Ind, May 10.-At Decker,
this county, to-day, Mack Hobson, aged
twenty-one. Tilted by his sweetheart, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in the
head.
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William R~ernheizer.

Special 20 the Indiauar oils Journal.
RICHMOND Ind, May 10.-William Bern
heizer, q w~ell-known citizen and Union SOL
der, died suddenly this evening of heart
trpt1hla
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Benjamin Carr.

Srocial to the Indianapolis Journal.
VALPARAISO, Ind, May 1O.-Benjamin
Carr, proprietor of Carr's transfer line in
this city, died this evening, aged sixty
fhrnp
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-11
MANY Miners KILLED.

LONDON, May 10.-A terrible explosion
has taken place on the Isle of Man in the
Snaefell lead mine. A large number of
miners were entombed and it now seems
certain that at least seventeen have been
killed.
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Chicago Record.

Chicago Record.
They do strange things in Indiana"
What, for instance?"
Well, 1T Indianapolis Knickerbocker
Hall is a girls school and 'Bloomer Ae2d-
envy Is 9 college for boys"
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William II. Best.
LONDON, May 1O.-William T. Best, the
organist and composer, is dead.

William Thomas Best was born at Car
Isle in 1926 and showed his musical genius
early in life. He was the most celebrated
%organist in England at one time. He held
the position of organist for years at st.
Georges Hall, in Liverpool, and afterwards
at the London Albert Hall. He introduced
into England the separate pedal board on
Bach's system. Organists are familiar with
his compositions the world over.
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Thirty-one Nietims of am AvaIanche.
Cable notes.

SIMLA, British India, May 1O.-A British
officer and thirty coolies have been killed
by an avalanche on the Sprinagarleh road.
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Mrs. Cyrus Fillmore, widow of the
Late Ex-President's Brother.

STURGIS. Mich, May 10. Mrs. Cyrus
Fillmore, widow of the brother of eX-Prest-
dent Fillmore, fell from the porch of her
daughters residence yesterday n died
shortly after from concussion of the brain.
She was the Oldest resident of the town,
being over ninety-five years of age, and
very wealthy.
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OBITUARY.

my. Special precautions are being taken
o prevent the spread of the disease.
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order that the company there assem-
pieu may nave an opportunity to set
what fashionable headgear is like But
me company does not seem TO apppre-
crate inns privilege. As the owner oi
| the nat purchases dish Of tho ~ TX
| ture called ice cream by its nernatri
| Tor, another cowboy snatcf,es fac ,.un.
ana observing that anyone wearing
| Such tile deserves n warmer climate
! even IMAM The one afforded ny Altz, ma.
ne galiopS OF. The man with the hat
+ pursues him, and there follows some Of
/ the prettlest riding of the day, one man
I Trying 10 insert his spoon INTO the ice
! cream with which the other tries To
| escape.
a sudden turn throws the derby from
| the mead OF its owner. 1t is instantly
surrounded, and in moment half a
dozen men are shooting holes in the
ofendlng headgear as fast as their
practiced hands can fire the weapons
they hold Perceiving the sad plight of
the hat. its proud proprietor wheels his
morse, and dashing without hesitation
into the smoke-fogged circle. he stoops
froln his saddle and picking up his
much abused derby-which by this time
looks rather like small. black collan-
der-he places it on his head wrong
side before. and once more takes up his
pursuit Of his elusive dish of frozen
condensed milk
lie IS not, however destined to sue
coed. and his quest is soon concluded
BY the general movement toward a cor
raj AT the foot of the plaza, where the
principal business of the day from a
sporting standpoint. is 10 begin. For a
week the founders of the feast have
been collecting cattle suitable to their
purpose, and the cottonwood pole COR
raj is as full of them as it will hold
Lean, Mild-looking creatures they are
and but once before in all their wicked
In,
men This occasion was in their in
fancy when they We're branded. and the |
ftcoilectionS cherished by them are an
pafently of rather unpleasant nature.
twenty feet in front of the corrals a |
long line has been drawn in the sand; |
then an interval Of 40 yards and an |
other. little to one side the time |
Keeper. watch in hand sits on his horse. |
l he frst contestant. in this ease n |
young Mexican, places him. |
self with his back 10 the corral. and |
the fore hoofs of his pony just toeing
the first line
The bars are lowered and a long
legged red COW is allowed to escape.
Across the space she runs like q grew
mound. The instant she crosses the sec
pnd line the vaquero plunges in his big
spurs ana starts in pursuit, his RATA
Nn1stlihg around his head. The COW
points straight for Il growth of scrub
as though she knew that no Iariat
'ould be thrown in such a place The
lttle horse gains on her rapidly: before
she has made more than a third of the
distance to her goal he Is at her living
leels- Then the rope flies out so quick
y mat The eye can hardly follow it, but
he COW makes a quick turn and GAL
ops on. still free
Ihe Mexican makes no second at |
empt. The loss of time caused by his
inst failure would prevent his winning
he coveted prize. So he sulkily with
iraws. and his place is taken by the
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gentleman of the derby. who sits-bare-
headed. now-with straining eagerness.
as gray bull is sent careering across
the deadline
4 OF fore foot he cries as his pony
springs forward Then follows a quick
cast, couple of turns around the sad
dle-horn. and the horse braces back
tucking his head well down to keep it
out of the Way-While the bull. his
flight suddenly arrested, turns a half
summersault and lands on his back,
caught by the leg his captor has named.
Securing the lines, the man dismounts
and runs toward his prey as fast as
his high heels will allow 1t struggles
fiercely. but the pony is far too we'll
trained to let the bull rise. and with
a Tightening of the lariat neatly foils
every attempt The captured fore leg
is quickly made fast to a hind leg
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hog tied''-and then the cowboy holds
up ms hand to show that it is COM
pleted
Ihe Judges having pronounced that
the animal is properly secured, the
tllne taken to accomplish the feat is
entered, and another man tries his skill.
Inc scene is repeated as long as day
llSht holds, for the prize is a valuable
one, ana the winning of such a match
brings with it much glory.
The twilight comes at last. Dusk is
soon followed by darkness in these Iati-
tudes. and hardly has it fallen when
the strains of rude music announce the
opening of the great social feature of
the day the ball. The ballroom is the
Whole upper floor of the hotel The
walls are of rough adobe: the floor of
unplaned planks. From the rafters of
the flat roof hang all the lanterns that
could be borrowed in the neighborhood
that is, within radius of ten miles
ana candles burn on bits of board stuck
IN the interstices. Benches of panks
laid across boxes line three sides of the
room. AT one end of the hall, on a
rough stage erected there, sit the must
Clans. There are three of them all
MeXlcans, one playing a squeaky fiddle,
the other two guitars. All of them wear
their hats and smoke crooked cigarettes
of brown paper as they play.
racing the musicians at the other
end of the ballroom stand a dozen In
dams. As a great favor they have been
admitted to View this strange ceremony
OF the white man, and they seem to
regard it in the light of a huge joke,
FOR the Apache, unlike the Indian as
ordinarily conceived, is by no means
grave when anything strikes his some
what peculiar sense of humor, and now
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| senate kitchen. and the room is 80
| perfectly ventilated that no suggestion
| of the odor of the cooking reaches any
| of the floors above.
| The main room of the kitchen is 100
| feet long and Is feet wide. i was re-
| modelled three years ago at a cost of
more than $4,000. 1t is white-tiled
above and below, and on all four sides,
| so that its cleanness forces itself on
your attention. Opening out from it
are Store-rOOmS and refrigeratin y
rooms and bakeries One of these is
the oyster room. where a man does
nothing but open oysters all day long.
The store-room is about Ii feet square.
1t is filled With the -perishables-
crackers, and spices and potatoes, and
all the other grocery goods which will
stand an ordinary temperature for a
reasonable length of time. There is
fruit in this room, too-a lot of it; and
the wine is kept here, because the SEN
ators would not establish wine-roam
in the face of the regulation which pro-
hfbits the sale of Intoxicating bever-
ages in the capitol There is no diff
Guilty, however, aa5it getting a supply
of wine or of bottled beer.
In the kitchen proper there are two
big ranges. You can roast an OK in
either of them; the larger is Il feet
long. There is big soup kettle III one
corner-one of the biggest kettles in the
World-used for keeping the beef-stock,
with which every restaurant kitchen is
provided. Metal steam-pipes run
through this kettle and keep the stock
warm. In another kettle are kept the
sauces to be eaten with meats-apple
sauce and cranberry sauce. They, too,
are kept warm by steam. There is a
steam-boX for steaming oysters: a grill
big enough to broil a pig or a lamb |
under which gloWS a fire of red-hot
charcoal; and a patent turkey roaster |
which performs mechanically the turn |
ling and Lasting of the bird. which, in |
the old days. absorbed the time and at |
tention of two or three persons. There |
are steam tables in the kitchen. as
we'll as in the steam room. Ii takes |
thirty servants TO run the kitchen and /
its appurtenances. The head cook mas /
a half-dozen assistants. There are two I
pastry cooks and the rare quality of |
their product is due in large measure
To the supervision of Mrs. Page. New
England woman, whose ideas of pie
are exalted. if one may judge by the
results of her cooking.
The nearest approach of the public
10 a knowledge of the kitchen arrange
ments of the senate is when one Of the |
three nimble attendants behind the
luncheon counter of the restaurant |
shouts an order down stairs, or a paper
slip IS seen going down on one of the
two dumb-Waiters. Everything which
reaches the dining room comes up IN
one of these dumb-waiters. They are
Kept going almost without ceasing
from noon to 3 o'clock every day
Noon 10 o'clock" explains the pc
which is probably response |
BILE FOR the alleged unprofitableness OF
ne senate restaurant There is no
breakfast hour worth speaking Of. and
no dinner hour. Very few persons eat
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and the few who have not troop a1ou,
on foot to a stretch Of sun-baked adob
cray, where quarter-mile straight
away course has been laid out. III,
horses that are to run in the first hea
| are being led up and down. and alrea a,
tney are cleared for action. They al,
all coW-ponies. and the method Of pre-
1 parlng them for a race has at least tho
merit of simplicity. 1t consists solely il
! removing the saddle and tying a rope
loosely around the body of the pony
/ he Jockey. after removing most of his
clothing, mounts and thrusts his knees
under this rope This gives him a very
secure seat, and a safe one for bv the
I mere STRENGTHENING of his leg he can in
stantly free himself
Seven horses are entered for the first
neat. The betting is heavy; even the
poorer Mexicans stake their scanty
supply OF silver on the result The race
IS obligingly postponed until all the
Wagers are satisfactorily laid
lhen the starter marshals the horses
10 the further end OF the broad clay
pain ana arranges them there on line.
WIN their tails toward the finish. Pull
ing To one side, he draws his pistol and
raises it. A puff of pearly smoke shoots
from It's muZZle, and before the report
reaches those who stand at the finish
the horses have turned as only cow
ponies can, and come pelting down the
course. The crowd yells. and so do the
riders. The latter have been obliged to
shed their spurs when. to prepare for
the race. they took off their boots to-
sether with other articles of attire even
more essential, but their two tailed
quirts go necessarily Each little horse
Is striving frantically: it seems scarce
~ an instant before the short course is
traversed. the winner led away 10 await
the ftnal heat, and "a new lot of horses
are IN line at the starting point when
the scene is repeated
TWO races. each of four heats have
been run, when the faint popping of a
slx-shooter, supplemented by distant
the hour for dinner. Spectators and
racers rush back to the plaza
Back OF one of the principal saloons,
between II and the base of the noun
tam, long trench has been dug and
lllled with mesquit wood. burned to |
clear. red Goals. over these Goals. rest
Ing on wei soaked green poles, quarters |
Of beef have been roasting for the last |
hours. These quarters are hung i'm |
the different verandas; and from them |
each man cuts such portion as seems |
good TO him and retires to eat ii. to-
sether with whatever provisions he
may have brought with him: While in
me burning sun of the plaza the Indi-
ans and dogs dispute for and gorge
themselves on the refuse.
The next event is To be the roping.
FOR this part of the sports. several cow
BOYS, unable to come before. ride up
he plaza. one OF these men is espe
Tally noticeable. With a handsome
horse and get-up more than usually
ornate, he has capped his climax with
derby hat. apparently quite new. bur
II the most pronounced gum drop"
ashton of ten years ago lie pro-
esses great admiration for his hard
BOILED hat as he calls it. and in reply
o the many inquiries as To his reason
or wearing ii, says that he does so in
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| anything but luncheon at the capitol
The senators breakfast at home and
dine at home; and besides, they are
not the best patrons of the restau-
rant. The public breakfasts at a hote
| ana dimes at a hotel or a restaura nj
| down town. Yet the senate restaurant
| has To keep as large a force of cooks
/ ana seullions and walters as though
I business continued brisk through the
| whole day
| There are many frequenters of the
| PIE counter among the senator's This
| counter surrounds the dumb-Waiters
| ana Is decorated with cold turkeys
| cold foaStS OF beef and salads as well
as many kinds of pie There are no
| seats of any kind. You plant your chest
or your notwithstanding To your
helght--against the cold marble and
one of the three colored attendants
hands out what you want 1t is a COM
mon sight for two or three senators to
be standing at this counter. with SEN
ate pages and committee clerks and
messengers and Washington CORE
spondents on each side of them, drink
ing big tumblers of milk and eating
pie. OF this pie / have already spoken.
so 1t Is not necessary to explain WHY
these senators are there.
rms and the oyster counter are in
the public restaurants room divided
into two parts by large columns. Two
small doorWayS. one at each end of the
pie counter. lead to the rooms which
are sacred TO senators only" These
rooms We're once open TO members OF
the house. but the senators complained
OF the lack of privacy. and now ii you
enter the inner sdnctum 1t riust lie as
a guest of a member of the senate |
have eaten there, and can assure the
reader that the food is no better and
the surroundings TO more attractive
than in the outer rooms. There is only
this dinerence-that they serve a more
liberal allowance of bread in the send-
tors rooms than they do in The pubic
restaurant, and frugal senators nave
been known TO order n Il cent plate OF
soup and ca whole loaf Of bread
with it,
Many of the New Englari senators
eat pork and beans: for there is only |
one place outside New England where |
real Boston beans are 20 be had. and |
that is in the senate restaurant. The |
New England members of the house |
learned this long ago. and they often |
make pHgtimageS To the senate wing |
ct luncheon time To revive memories Of /
home.
Sometimes there Is feast i'm the
senate restaurant. when a member
from the Northwest receives huge
salmon from Oregon or one Of the New
England senator's has a shipment Gf
game from his homr. Then Caterer
Page personally superViSas the prepa-
ration of the Niauas and there *
Jolly dinner party. at which a dczen |
of the senate sit down. DC
easionally the senate gets into a srarl.
which makes the presence of all the
members a necessity. and the dinner
party has Ia be postponed but it is
very unusual for any public business
to interfere With the good times that
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sounding boards almost browns the mu-
sic.
Between the natural temperature and
tnat arrived at by the masculine ele-
ment by means of the frequent pota
tons, it is warm work: nevertheless it
is thoroughly enjoyed until nearly day.
break, when the company disperses.
Horses are saddled, blankets unroIied:
and soon, save for the snarling of the
coyotes as they quarrel over the re-
mains of the supper, the little village
is silent.
! WOLCOTT LIE CLEAR BEARD.
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MlTGEIEN I'm THE UNITED STATES

mouse, or any of the other luxuries pro-
Nlded Tor the members of congress
me senate restaurant keeper orcu-
PIES a peculiar position. 1t looks at
hrst glance like "A very enviable posi-
tlon; but If | am to believe the state
ment of the man who has held tho
privilege for a dozen years. that idea
IS incorrect. T. l.. Page of Maine has
peen the purveyor to the senate under
bolh republican and democratic rule.
and he tells me the Job is MOI profitabIa
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be young because her heart is young and
there is rich, young blood circulating in her
veins. She doesn't need cosmetics and face
powders and skin-preservers. Pure blood
Is the only true skin preserver
But when womans blood is full of bill
ious impurities, she can neither look younf
nor feel young Her whole constitution is
poisoned with bad blood 1t permeates ev-
cry part. II paralyzes the nerve-centres;
weakens the stomach: irritates the heart
preys upon the lungs and bronchial tubes.
IT reduces woman to state of weakness
nervousness, irritability, detection and mel
ancholy. Such a woman can't possibly be
youthful, no matter what her age may be-
She needs the youthfulness of highly vital
lied blood. DR. Pierces Golden Medical
Discovery will give it TO her 1t will help
any woman to get back her youth and
freshness again.
1t gives the digestive and blood making
organs and the liver power TO produce good,
pure, healthy blood. 1t gives color to the
cheeks, and sparkle TO the eyes; drives away
pimples and blotches; wipes away wrinkles;
rounds out ernaciated forms, and creates
firm, natural, healthy flesh.
Mrs. Rebecca +. Gardner of Grafton. York Co..
Va, writes: When was married / weighed rag
pounds. was taken sick and reduced in health
was eczema. He treated my disease but failed to
do me any good, and I fell away to o. pounds
began using Or. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
covery, and thank God and Won began TO i'm
prove Now weigh lao pounds and have only
taken two bottles. cannot saw too much about
the medicine. My husband SAYS look Younger
than did the hrst tine he saw me, IS years ago"
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this. too, in the face of the fact that
he pays no rent for his kitchens or his
dining rooms. and gets the light and
fuel free. ] don't know how Mr.. Page
hgures it out, but he says his books
will prove it.
The senate kitchens are in the base
ment of the capitol. The only way in
which visitor could reach them would
be by the elevators-and the elevator
men are not encouraged to take people
down stairs. That is because the en-
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MOST EXPENSIVE;

Washington. Nov g. -Uncle sam
owns the costliest kitchen iii the world.
probably. 1t is not the largest There
bs at least one hotel kitchen i'm the
United States, which surpasses it in
size But it is fitted out with every i'm
nrovement that money can buy, and no
show-piate at the capitol is more in
Heresting or less known The public
never gets chance to see the senate
Kitchen, the marble bathrooms of the
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gine rooms are in the basement and
the chief engineer does not want visit
ors fooling around the machinery. 1t
takes great deal of machinery to run
the Senate-more than you would
think Much of it is used in running
the electric light plant and the eleva-
tors, and much more in the ventilation
OF the building. Huge fans pump fresh
air into the senate chamber and the
committee rooms, and other fans pump
the foul air out. One of these is in the
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at the sight of the revolving couples he
bends almost double in an ecstacy Of ST.
lent mirth
] There are about 20 girls, many Of
them pretty and all of them dressed
with neatness and taste quite remark
able when one considers their limited
resources. About the same number of
older women complete the feminine con-
lingent' ana all are in demand, for the
men number 100 or more.
Dance follows dance in rapid success
sion; the measured pounding of the
feet as they noisily caper over the re-
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the senators have in the senate res
taurant
GEORGE GRANTHAM Balm.
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Never Ruled a Feather.

From London Punch.
Sportsman (who has just shot duck)-
| think he'll come down, Duncan
Duncan-Ay. sir, he'll come doon-when
he's hungry.
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Warm Enough for Anybody.
Restaurant Guest-Everything you have
brought me is stone cold.
Pole Waiter-Here is the mustard an
pepper. sab.