Omaha daily bee., 1899-09-24
ence, and many hundreds flocked to the
front and were thoroughly converted.

Charles u. 9rIeglnan OF this city served
during a number of campaigns in the south
west in the early SOS either directly under
the late Colonel stotsenburg, then a secont
lieutenant, or in the same command. SLOT.
senburg's services as the head Of the corps
of Apache scouts and as an officer Of his
troop were invaluable, and even at that time
he showed himself the thorough soldier.
one time" said Mr.. B%ruegman the
other day, II was in a scouting party which
Lieutenant S~totsenburg commanded and
which included a number of Apache scouts
Stotsenburg dressed just like the men un-
der him-a pair Of blue trousers, dark blue
army shirt and a red handkerchief about his
neck. Whenever the men were moving or
foot he walked, too. We had only three
clear days out Of twenty on that trip; most
of the time it was raining day and night.
"Stotsenburg was one of three or four
officers who came out from the Point to OUT
regiment in the same year. Most young
officers curse their men about as badly as
they can, but these lieutenants did not
Stotsenburg, especially, never swore at a
man. In camp he was n very strict disci-
plinarian, but on the trail he was always
looking out for the welfare Of the men and
treated them the best he could. Often, when
Wo WouIu tOlilo ~ Sp"H ohp SoiAS of sAS
boys were out Of money, they would go to
Stotsenburg and borrow a dollar or two and
he always let them have 1t.
1--WE went with an expedition of 300 men
that chased the Indians 400 miles into Old
Mexico. The treaty allows this country to
send an armed force 800 miles across the
line IL 1t Is on the trail OF Indians. Stotsen-
burg, Touey and Bird were the three young
lientenants we had with us. We got within
sight OF the savages, but a band OF Mexican
soldiers got to them before we did and
made good Indians OF them. That Is one
popularity of Mexican soldiers; they never
take prisoners IL they can help it. The
officers In charge OF an expedition will re-
port to his superlors that the captives were
killed while trying to escape, or that they
died OF over exertion or ssme such cause.
He seldom brings them in"
A maj was sitting in an easy chair at
the Her Grand the other evening in COM
pany with several others and the talk grad
ually drifted around to the trust conference
that has been in session In Chicago. After
the matter had been aired thoroughly from
all view points, this man settled back in his
chair, took two or three puffs at his cigar,
smiled a little, and then said:
A this talk about trusts reminds me Of
q mill L uSSu W hHOM ONCi ~ ilS ilNtu
a neighbor to me over there and he be-
longed TO the Grange, the forerunner of the
populist party. This man was dead set
against trusts. He hated the very name OF
trusts wonse than a tramp hates work, and
was always haranguing upon the evils OF
m~onopolies.
'Now it happened that one spring all the
farmers in that neighborhood had trouble
in getting their seed corn to grow. They
planted the corn as usual, but hardly a
kernel OF It would come up. There was
CONSERVATION among them until 1t was
found that the man who hated trusts so
savagely had a peculiar sort OF corn that
would grow. AS soon as this fact was
bruited abut there was a pilgrimage toward
this mans farm, and everybody bought
seed corn,
'Of course / was In the same boat with the
rest OF them and l went over one day TO get
q few bushels to plant. l had the stuff
loaded into the wagon and asked him the