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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17


S 81 Aia rn | am too old to secure T. -,
QehYerance. Nearly eVervhot, o'iie[ $50, 1oT
was seasick, and to make n netS ABOARD
me b1ige water in the hold gof W Ho5Sts
snaken up, and its sfckenine 3d. O@ ad,
tnealed the ship. The big wave va 5'1o
eteeded by half a dozen nearly as IaTeya
a. every impact the PASSENGERS feoE S0i
lnat masts or timbers would break T6 81
most narrow escape after RaIsar,s 40
lhat OF Missourian standing foru,arS
near the anchor chains. When The GO y
struck he was thrown nearly overboaT5
lie saved himself by catching hold Of the
standing rigging - 'ii0
During all this tins the sun was shin
ing brightly The mind of every one VIC
was not feeding the whale was occuniaS
IN trying to guess the cause of the tidal
wave. The actual cause was nor known
uIltll the passengers reached Tacoma,
Two weeks later. The vessel tossed ali
the afternoon. being thrown on her
beams end half dozen times. In the
afternoon the barometer took a sudden
drop OF two points, and about o'clock
a squan came on. With heavy breezs
the vessel then sped along at fourteen
miles an hour The next day the sea
Gained down and fine weather was ex-
perienced TO Puget sound. The wave
struck the Gen. Siglin about opposite
Cape Elizabeth and 200 miles south OF
Sunrise City. Passing between the main
land and the Barren islands. south Of
Cape Elizabeth. the tidal wave had its
paSsageway restricted, giving an in
creased height to it. It struck the Siglin
just after emerging from this narrow
channel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17

sister explained, therefore she is every
thing to him. 1t is easy to imagine then
to what flights the ambition of these two
maidens scared Together they dreamed
of a time when, among the many white
skinned explorers who were constantly
finding their way into the forests, two
would come golden-haired faIr-skinned,
scft-vOiced and offer to them a biGing
place among the white squaws.
All this happened when the depths of
California still held forth the promise
of gold. The spirit of adventure spread
from north to south. 1t caught In its
wave the youth Of Virginia. Exploring
parties were made up from all sorts and
conditions of its people. The flower of
Its aristocracy went to try their for
tunes with those of the lower classes.
TO just what set young John Hite be-
longed cannot here be put down. for
he himself has not given many data
With regard to his family before he came
into the Sierras.
While the two dusky Indian maidens
dreamed of happiness from mating with
the white man, John Hite one of the
young Virglnians, with party of daring
and enthusiastic companions pene-
trated from canyon to canyon along the
trail of the great Sierras
Suddenly In all the interest of their
hunt for gold they became aware that
they We're In the midst of a Sierra biz
zard. The snow f1oated in eddies. 1t
was carried about them in wnirlwinds.
1t moved not in one direction downward
from the heavens about, but in a thou
sand East, west, north, south, it was
impossible to calculate its direction. The
young men exploring for gold We're car
ried along without strength 20 resist.
Their song had ceased bitterly, abruptly.
with the struggle for existence There
was no power mightier than the power
of life. There was no temptation in the
allurement of geld. 1t might lie within
the reach of their hands and yet the
frozen hunters decided to struggle on no
further.
One after another in that. bitter winter
the members of the exploring party, OF
which John r. Hite was one, lay down in
the snow to die. Several of them per-
ished so-not all. Among the living
was this same John r. Hite, TODAY
northumberland.
How long in his trance so near to
death he lay he never knew. THE earth
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17

GIape El1zabeth, at the mouth of Cook
giazier, where the wave started The pho
Iograph was taken with a camera by NJ.
y Balsar. manager of the Navistoke Hy-
draultc Gold Mining company which is
operating rich placer mines on Cook In
let. Mr.. Balsar, with thirty-fve other
passengers, was returning to Tacoma
from the Cook Inlet mines. on the little
hundred-ton schooner Gen. Siglin. The
story Of their escape from the laws of
death, opened by this monster wave, is
thrilling
The day was beautiful. The sun shone
nrlil1antly over an unruff1ed sea. The
schooner was becalmed and moved only
because the ebb tide from Cook Inlet
was carrying her seward. The passen-
on the deck: There they lounged about,
telling hunting and mining stories, some
reading and some smoking, and having
altogether a jolly good time. And the
suddenly thought that the time was OPP
perfume to fish for halibut The captain
replied favorably, giving the depth of the
water as ninety fathoms. Balsar got SEQ
1t was about half unreeled when the at
tention OF every one on deck was arrest
ed by the sight of a sixtY-foot wall of
water rushing toward them with the We
pounds. Balsar moved almost as quickly
in tying his fishing line to the taffrail
and rushing below for his camera
What IS this coming?" was asked of the
returned to the deck. Capt. Johnson re-
piled that he didn't know Balsar sug-
gested that a fearful wind storm must
be raging outside the cape. The captain
than it takes to relate, it, Balsar rushed
to the taffrail, camera In hand shouting:
Captain, I'm going to have that If it's
the last thing [ ever take on earth!'
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17

the brand of bigamist. The red woman
has appealed to the white mans laws and
found Justice because of them. It is thu
strangest story that ever grew out of the
conquest of the Indians by the palefaces.
Thirty years ago Lucy, the Indian girl.
was beauty. re- dart with the shadowy
duskiness of her tribe. Day by day she
heard her eyes likened to the tints of
midnight that were familiar to the dwell
ers in the open air. She knew Of coral
that 1t was Of red similar to her lips. A
Wild rose was held to match her cheeks.
The texture of satin was explained by an
American who compared 1t to her wealth
of hair. Her life, wild, free, glorious as
the long fair days, had in it plenty of
admiration and plenty of excitement
With her sister Maresa, which is Indian
for Mary, with her father and her
brothers, she wandered through the
mountains Of the Sierras, hunting, fishing,
cooking. The white man was familiar to
her and pleasing. She met him constant
~ hunting gold whercwith to coin money
He paid her mary compliments and made
her OF much account among the red men
of her own tribe, whom in time she rather
locked upon with contempt
From Marssa. Who was some years her
senior, SHE learned that the white man
had many laws that were good for his
women folks" She learned with gu ok
encd pulse and beating heart that his
sQu"w was treated as an equal, never
beaten, never hidden to work unless she
desired She heard how III the towns the
white man dressed his squaw in satins
and plenty Of beads, how she had soft
feathers to lie upon and walls thicker
than any tent, where the rain never came
through.
Size heard how the white mans laws
made him always good and faithful to the
woman nc loved, how he would fight for
her, work for her and never Gesert her
unless she was very wicked.
Maresa made her understand as che had
learned it herself, from white men and
women of the mining towns, that the
civilized mans wife was his greatest
pride. He may only have one, the elder
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trees where his straightforward, duskv-
nalred wife would stand in the light of
the sunset ready to welcome him. How
she worked during those days to keep his
nttIe nome looking as neat and clean as
the "hite women In town kept their wig
vans for their chiefs! She was praised
tar and wide for it. But no praise was so
dear to her as that of her own chief.
HOW her heart thrilled with pride when
she heard him cry one day Justify: 'I
would not trade my wife Lucy for any
white woman in the United States
Day after day, when her chief left her
she would try to evolve from her inner
consciousness, for alas, poor soul she
had no female friends, little dishes. new
! ones, to tempt his fancy. BY woman's
instinct she had learned that the road 70
her chleEs heart was the same road that
leads to any mans. She thought, there
fore, to have her bread baked to exactly
the proper turn of crispness She knew
just how brown it should be to win his
FAVOR. And In those days none need have
pitied her, for her husband, as has been
but recently told in the San Francisco
courts. praised her constantly.
The Indian listened there with head
erect to the recital of Christian pale
face named Wilcox, who testified that
he had regarded her as the defendants
wife.
She listened with eyes aflame with won
der and disdain when she heard the man
testify that he had given John Htte the
best of advice. He had said to him.
John, why don't you sever your reIa-
tons with that Indian woman and marry
a decent white girl?"
@'Unfortunateiy,' the millionaire had an
nounced, your advice comes too late. 1
am as much married to Lucy as you are
to your wife,
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was gone for him and time had moth
ing mere of night nor day

was gone for him and time had moth
ing mere of night nor day
When timidly and painfully at last he
returned to life, with aching pulses and
t1ngling veins, he beheld through SWIM
ming eyes maiden OF dusky loneliness.
lie had fallen into a terrible slumher
IN the cold hard snow. He awoke to find
himself In wigwam draped with robes
OF Iur' streWn with wealth of straw
II seemed to him then in that long ago.
that this dear nurse was a queen and
this poor wigwam a palace Such Is the
power OF contrasts. An hour before he
mad been stretched upon a bed of Ice
Beneath him the straw now seemed a
down Of feathers. He looked into the
eyes black as night. Their glance was
a caress. He listened to q voice that
mao IN 1t the thrill Of music recalling
him thus to life
In that moment he vowed to love the
woman who had been his rescuer. She
was Maresa, one of the dreamers It was
meet and proper that to the elder should
come first the Mecca of all low. With
eyes that had in them the wonder of ad
miration, the joy Of unseIf1shness. the
younger, Lucy, watched. She did NOT
Know the meaning Of easy She only
knew that into the life of her beloved
sister had come the perfect white man
he who had never but one squaw at a.
time.
At the end Of but a short year Maresa
oled, leaving her husband as manv q
pale face has left her dear one. to the
care of her sister. Thus, in a wigwam
Wooed back to life and the eternal search
for gold, John R. Hite began the ro
nance that ended the other day in Jus
tlce for the Indian woman whom no had
sought to repudiate.
Lucy came to take her sisters place
by the banks Of the river MERGED. Thera
she worked for the white man whom
she adored because he had only one
sq'. aw at time. She learned his WAYS
and his habits She learned to be salts
ned to stay always in one place and not
search of red berries for her hair and
wild roses for her belt She studied all
the resources of her little black store
SO that not even the pale faces in Mari
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17

pcsa county could raise bread any finer
| than hers.
! And she had besides that a learning
| unknown to these women who seemed
| to look down upon her because she had
| come from a land of wigwams. She
| knew the trails better than most men,
better than most guides better than
any woman. She 1t was who discovered
| the mine which has finally enabled John
| Hite to pay her alimony and expenses
"Hfte's Cove" In Mariposa county, be-
came famous because of the great mine
that produced over 100000 in gold
1t was in 1873, according to the testimo-
ny recently given in the San Francisco
court by John r. Hite, that Lucy first
came to live with him. Twenty-six years
ago, with her mind full of dreams plant
ca there by loving sister, she came to
share fate with John Hite Under the
giant trees of the Mariposa grove he had
built his cabin and there lie Installed his
wife.
Wife? Yes. no one ever doubted it.
There she came, a pretty, dark haired
creature, with faith and love in her dark.
doting eyes. There she lived till the
weight OF years and toll bowed her figure
| and Silvered her hair.
When she began life with John Hite he
had nothing but what he earned by the
sweat of his brow. He had no service
but what she rendered him by the labor
of her hands. She mended for him, cook
: ed for him, brewed for him, cleaned f0r
him, nursed him in days of illness, re-
joiced with him in days of prosperity, en-
couraged him when others discouraged
hoped for him; yes, after her fashion,
even prayed for him.
For all this she vowed proudly that he
made her payment Was she not his only
squaw?
And after some years, with delightful
continuance, the gold kept pouring up I'd
up out of the mine they ha1 discovers
In those days no one sought to dispute
the fact that Lucy had been instrumental
in marking out the claim. Her man, Jchn
referred to it proudly. Lucy was still
young and good looking In those days
She still carried herself erect and COM
manded attention when she walked
through the town in her multi-coiored
skirts and Jackets
During this time Hite liked to see her
dressed up. 1t was his pleasure to take
his friends up TO the cove among the big
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17
TIDAL WAVE TAKEN
GIANT BREAKER SIXTY FEET IN
HEIGHT CAUGHT BY A CAM
ERA "FIEND"
OFF THE COAST OF ALASKA
Snapped His Shutter Just Before the
Mass of Water Struck the Ship
Upon Which He Was a Passenger
The Only Photograph of Tidal
Wave Which Has Ever Been Sue
cesSfuIly Taken.

An immense tidal wave sixty feet high
swept along the Alaska coast on Sept. 10.
On that day the whole Of Southern
Alaska was shaken by the greatest earth
quake experienced there within historic
times At Glacier bay, near Yakuttat
Prince William sound, the entire face Of
a glacier half mile broad was broken
off by the terrific seismic disturbance
This vast ice chunk, weighing perhaps
millions of tons, fen into the sea with a
roar which made the natives tremble fif-
ty miles around. Its most notable effect
was an enormous tidal wave which sent
shores for 300 miles in each direction. The
accompanying picture reproduced from
the only photograph of "a tidal wave ever
taken, shows the immense wave as it
appeared from the sdeck of a small YES
sci which was beating out to sea off
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17

An American red woman has been fight
ing white man northumberland for her
honor, her status as a wife and her share
IN her husbands many millions, and the
1noian woman has won
She has fought without money In
strange courts, against tremendous odds.
She has fought for years.
Her antagonist was the millionaire John
r. Hite, Of Mariposa county, California.
BY all The laws Of the white mans civ
ilization the Indian woman and the mill
ionaire have been man and wife for nigh
on twenty-five years. Yet the millionaire
married secretly one of his own race in
San Francisco two years ago-married
her, while in MariDosa county, g. gray
haired, red skinned woman, bowed with
years spent in serving him as wife. wait
ed for him 10 come back to her.
She would have been waiting for him
now with faith born Of ignorance had not
some one told her that in San Francisco
there was another-a beautiful paleface-
who had stepped into her rights Then II
was that she gathered her blanket about
her and came down from Indian Peak
ranch to claim recognition as the lawful
Mrs. Hite and she has won 1t.
Her husband, the millionaire white man.
was unfaithful. She has placed upon him
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17
Cash Calculation.

If all the money in the world were
divided equally among the people each
person would get about $50
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-12-17
INDIAN WIFE WINS
ESTABLISHES HER CLAIMS I1poN A
MULTI-MILLIONAIR IN CAL
NORMA COURTS
LIFE ROMANCE OF JOHN H1TE

Lucy, an Indian Maiden, Deserted
After Years of Service, Proves Her
Right to Bear the Name of the
Wealthy Miner-White Man a Big
nmist by Reason of n Marriage ut
San FranciscO.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-19
SCHOOL BUILDING BURNED.
Dastardly Crime Often Attempted I'm
Savannah at Last Successful.

Savannah, Ga, December 16.-The
Chatham academy, the central build
ing of the public school system and the
largest school house in the city cover
ing half a block. was destroyed by fire
before daylight this morning. The loss
viii approximate $4,000. with insurance
OF about 1000. There is no doubt that
the fire was incendiary. During the
past week attempts at incendiarism
city school buildings. Night before last
at an early hous fire was discovered in
a desk in Chatham school No. /. II
was put out without serious damage
Early last night a fire was found in
the desk Of one OF the teachers OF St
Patrick's school. This also was extin-
guished without much damage TO the
building or furniture. Several evenings
ago, a teachers desk in Chatham
academy lin the building destroyed)
was discovered on fire
Following each of these incipient
fires. ii was ascertained that desks in
the buildings had been forced. II was
the theory of the school authorities
that boys had broken into the desk
looking for Christmas money collected
for the janitors, and had started the
fires TO hide their raids. In the fire
this morning it was said that kero-
sene was plainly smelled by those who
| entered the building first. There were
several arrests today in connection
with the fire, but for lack OF evidence
the suspects were released. Chatham
academy was founded in 1913 and was
one of the oldest schools in the state.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-19
A NATIONAL BANK CLOSED.

Boston, Mass, December 16.-As a
result of the failure of the John P.
Squire Company (corporation), OF
Cambridge, for $3,OOO,OOO, which was
announced late yesterday afternoon,
the Broadway national bank here, in
which the Squires were largely inter-
ested, did not open it's doors today,
and a notice at the entrance stated
that the affairs of the bank were in
the hands of the comptroller of the
currency. The news circulated widely
and all sorts of wild rumors were set
afloat.
The bank was incorporated in 1858.
Its last statement, week ago, showed
a capital of 5000, 900, loans 81 900, cir
culation $4,000, individual deposits $2,-
24S, 900, due banks $131 200, due from
reserve agents 1000, due from banks
$16S SQ00, expenses in clearing house
$273,000, legal tenders $15S,O00, specie
$4,000.
Cashier Curtiss, of the Broadway
bank, said today the bank was solvent;
that it had actually $600,000 in cash this
morning and that all the heavy deposit
tors had expressed their confideEsce in
the institution.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-19

Grant needed to take Vicksburg, is now
called into requisition and kept there
for nearly year to subdue one small
fraction of one small tribe! Is that
the source of your prosperity? Is your
Egan pension of s75,O00 for being re-
duced, degraded and dishonored? Is
your beef trust, that murdered 4,S00
men while the Spaniards only killed
$50; is that the source of your prosper
ity? (Applause on the democratic
side). Is your humiliation and subor-
dination of the man who won the most
magnificent naval victory that the
world has seen, Winfield Scott Schley:
(Applause on the democratic side}: is
that the source of your prosperity? Is
your subordination of Brooke and
Miles and Merritt. the men who had
been trained, together with their as
sociates, at an expense of millions of
dollars to this country, and the putting
Of politicians in the army saddle; is
that the cause of your prosperity? (Ap-
plause on the democratic side). You
will live to be ashamed of your
record"
The scenes attending the close of the
debate were exciting and dramatic.
When Mr.. Dearmono concluded, but
twenty minutes remained before the
debate was to close under the rule. Mr..
Richardson, the minority leader, pro-
tested against what he assumed to be
the purpose of the republicans to take
that time to close the debate. He de-
| manded the regular order. Thereupon
Mr.. GroSvenor, republican, of Ohio
| got the floor for five minutes. which
| he occupied in taunting the demo-
Gratis for their evident desire to aban-
| don free silver at 16 to 1. During the
| six days debate, he said, the house
had heard no arguments for free sill
yer and he humorously hailed it as a
sign Of the coming regeneration of the
/ party. In conclusion, he said that out
Of the debate had come the settled
conviction on both sides of the house
that the enactment of the pending
measure would put into law the policy
which had governed and guided the
country for nearly thirty years.
| Mr.. Richardson Indignantly denied
| Mr.. Grosvenor's assertion of the pro-
posed abandonment of the issue OF
free silver. He said that if the gentle
man from Ohio had followed the de-
bate he must have heard some strong
| speeches in favor of free silver. He
called attention to the fact that but one
section of the bill had been read and
charged that the special order which
did not permit the offering of a sub
! stitute or a motion to recommit, ha(
! been framed for the especial purpos'
of preventing the offering of a free sill
yer substitute.
The house adjourned until Monday.
The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-12-19
Sparks.

Venezuelan troops have completely
defeated those of General Hernandez
near Tocuyo, a town in the of BarGue-
simeto, thirty-four miles from Trujilo.
United Stayes Minister Loomis, at
Caracas, has cabled the state depart
ment that President Castro's forces
have completely defeated the insurrec-
tionists under General Hernandez.
The Cedar Grove property opposite
the Norfolk navy yard, for the pur-
chase OF which $145, 1000 was appropria-
ted in the naval appropriation bill,
will be sold to the government for
$3.50
Former Mayor Patrick j. Gleason, OF
Long Island City, files with the clerk
of the United States district court in
Brooklyn a petition in voluntary bank
ruptcy, in which he gives his liabili-
ties at <726, ,S94; assets IS, 839.
A contract for the construction OF
four new freight and passenger vessels
for the Morgan Line has been awarded
TO the Newport News Ehipbuilding and
Drydock ompany. The total cost il to
be 81, 400, 600