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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
SHE is A COWGIRL.
A REMARKABLE YOUNG WOMAN
OF OKLAHOMA.
Ono of the Chief Attractions at the
Z. Recent Reunion of Rough, Riders
Is Married and Has Two Pretty
daughters.
Especial Letter

NsSPSSieAA
Miss Lucille Mulhall is the most re-
markable cowgirl in the west. Re-
Gently she was. next to Teddy Roose-
yelt, the greatest attraction at the
tough Riders reunion at Oklahoma
City, Okla. There she gave an exhibi-
ton of her proves and received the
plaudits of thousands. Although she
weighs only 80 pounds she can break a
Droncho, lasso and brand a steer and
shoot coyote at 500 yards. She can
also play Chopin, quote Browning con-
strue Virgil, and make mayonnaise
dressing.
Mrs. Mulhall has two famous daugh-
tiers, and although she is intensely
proud Of them she shrinks from the at
tent1on they attract Miss Agnes Null
halls adventures suggested to>Hoyt
the plot of "a Texas Steer" and her
own figure may be recognized as the
heroine of the play. Her little sister
won renown by killing a Lobo wolf
ana last fall. took premiums for las
,soing wild steers against competitors
from every part of the COW country
from Canada to Mexico.
Z At the Rough Riders reunion Miss
Lucille matched her skill and courage
against the world of cowpunchers, and
because of her mammals refined views
on the up-bringing of girls this was
probably her last appearance in pub
lie. Let it be said that she covered
herself with glory.
She has already spent one term at a
convent in st. Louis studying the gen.
tie art with which women are equipped
for welding power in the great world
By this step her mother, while re:oic-
Ing in the bodily vigor which Lucille
had derived from her open-air life,
hoped to wean her from the bolster
GUS pursuits of the ranch
Lucille, having as great a thirst for
knowledge as she had for adventure,
applied herself to her studies with
great industry and returned home a
highly polished young lady. But
she was homesick for the plains, and
glad to mount fiery COW pony, with a
lariat coiled at her pommel And the
cowboys welcomed Miss Lucille as if
she had been one of themselves. Mrs.
Mulhall smiled as she sighed.
All the territory was talking about
the approaching Rough Riders re-
union. Delegations came to invite
Miss Lucille to give an exhibition of
her frontier accomplishments and en-
ter the competitions. Mrs. Mulhall was
distressed. This was the very sort
of thing she was striving to guard
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

entrances to several cities. They are
Iut there as objects of art, and not for
any religious purpose.
/ In many places in the country there
are also colossal statues of gods and
warriors
After Peit-Sang is Yang-Tsun, eight
cen miles from Tientsin. The houses
are built of mud brick. made with
straw. They are quite comfortable
inside, and very pretty in appearance
on account of the vegetation around
them, as at SO many other towns,
there is canal, crossed by boat
bridge.
Lola, about thirty miles from Tien-
tsin, is a more important place than
most OF the others mentioned. The
country is somewhat rolling here.
This place is the seat of an important
mandarin. His headquarters, or va
men, is big building of blue brick,
ornamented with dragons and queer
Chinese beasts. The entrance is ap-
propriately decorated with the heads
OF decapitated criminals. In a pound
alongside it other criminals may be
seen undergoing various form of tor
ture. A common punishment that is
inflicted for the most trivial offences
is the cangue, huge collar of wood,
almost to heavy to be borne, but so
arranged that it prevents prisoner
from lying down.
Forty miles from Tientsin is the i'm
portant walled city of Lang Fang,
which is near the army's route. This
place is about four thousand years old.
I had peculiar experience here in
what is described as a frst-class Chi
nese hotel.
There is a famous joss house in
Lang Fang which contains twenty
idols, or gods, including the God of
War, the God of Strength, the God of
Death, the God of Eyes, the God of
Fertility, and others. Followers of
Buddha and Confucius use these Joss
houses impartially.
There is also Temple of fortunes.
This is filled with figures made of clay
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

asserts, taan some Of the officers Of the
law who hunt them. The Dalton
brothers stopped at the Mulhall ranch
one night and asked for nights lodg-
ing. 1t was granted them. Miss Null
hall entertained them as ceremonious-
ly as If they had been bank presidents.
She played, sang, recited and con-
versed on topics far removed from
their crime-stained and harassed lives!
The outlaws were captivated and soft
ened They had probably never met
a more cultured woman before; they
had certainly never been entertained
with the same delicacy and considera-
ton.
They treated Miss Mulhall with in.
finite respect and departed in the
morning with many expressions Of
esteem and gratitude. On her part,
the impression from the encounter was
such favorable one that she will not
hear word said against the Daltons.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
A snarrow,s Odd Experience.

An escape of sparrow at the home
of Mrs. Susan Fox of East I'd street on
Thursday is remarkable enough to be
worth recording, says the Oil City
Derrick The bird in some manner
fell into the chimney and from there
made it's way through two elbows and
several points of stovepipe into the
back of the stove, through the damper
and under the oven into the ashpan,
where it's fiuttering attracted the at
tention of Mrs. Fox and she rescued
it, There was hot fire in the stove
at the time. but the line bird seemed
none the ssfse for It's yeS esfs s'Ha
journey.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Cape Nome
d Frdud....

So many stories of the wonderful
richness of the mining sands of Cape
Nome have been published that the
account of Walter Kane, who works
for one of the transportation compan-
les, and who certainly has consider
able knowledge of the state of things
there. will be received with bewilder-
ment. According to Mr.. Kane, who
has just reached Tacoma, Cape Nome
is a good place to keep away from.
He says:
ANY man who is making living
here who would go up there is the
next thing to crazy. 1t is nothing
more than transportation scheme,
and the proof of it is in the fact that
of all the steamers that have come
down from there now, after miners
have been working for more than
year, no gold has been brought down.
When the Klondike was discovered
and the first steamers came down they
brought the gold. That talked for it.
self. But no gold has been brought
down from Nome.
Nome is the most desolate country
on earth, and when you see scores of
women wandering aimlessly about the
streets weeping and wringing their
hands, without knowing how they are
going to live if they stay there, or
how they are going to get out, it
makes dismal picture.
Wood is $50 cord, coal is SIS per
ton, and everything else high, which
would be all right if there was the
gold there to pay for it: but no gold
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
sIBERIA's PROGRESS.
That Wonderful Region Has Now .
Population of 5000. 600.

reputation OF S,OUO,OOUs
The population of Siberia is now g.
100000 and yearly 100000 farmers mi
crate there, the Russian government
providing them with free transporta-
ton and giving to each family the use
of 371h acres of land for a stated
time. Making computation upon the
basis of the population of Russia in
Europe, Siberia is capable of sustain
ing a population of sO,0OO00O. The
annual production of cereals in Siberia
is 100000 tons, 100000 to 100000 tons
of which are exported. The country
can produce 100000 tons annually,
from 100000 to 100000 tons of which
are subject to expectation. Siberia
now exports butter to Denmark. 1t is
estimated that she can export annual
ly s15,440,0OO worth of butter, wool,
leather, dried and preserved meats, and
fish and tallow may figure conspicuous
ly in her exports in the near future.
A movement is now in progress in
the direction of forest preservation,
the destruction having caused scar
city of furs, blue fox and zibelines.
Siberia produces one-tenth of tho
worlds yield of gold and but few of
the mines have ben worked on account
of the climate. The immense coal de-
posits have hardly been touched. One
mine, with six beds, contains as much
coal as all the deposits in England.
The lack of transportation facilities
alone has prevented it from being
worked.
There is annually an excess of !, $780,,
600 births over deaths in Russia and
Siberia is the outlet for this over
flow.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
MISS LUCILLE MULHALL.

MlOS LUNjlLLE M ULHALL.
against. To decline, pointed out the
visitors, would be ungracious not alone
to the territory, but to its most distin-
guished guest. Governor Rooseyelt's
visit was an event of the highest i'm
portance. The festival was patriotic
one. 1t celebrated the country's vic
tory in war. And without Miss Lucille
Mulhall, Oklahoma's peerless cowgirl
1t would be inadequate.
This appeal to her patriotism con-
quered Mrs. Mulhall, and she consent
ed to her daughters appearance for
this occasion only. Lucille, overjoyed
went into training and was delighted
to find that her term in the scholarly
shades of the convent had not lessened
her skill with the lariat and rife. 1t
was her last chance and she meant to
make the most of it. In the fall she
will return to the convent in st. Louis
and in course of time. if her mothers
hopes be fulfilled, she will be too dig
nified young lady to engage in any
more boisterous diversions than CO.
tillion.
But she will never forget the proud
moment when, flushed with victory.
she was presented to Governor Roose-
welt, who bowed to her tremendously
and told her that not Rough Rider
in his famous troop could have done
better than she.
The Mulhall ranch is on Beaver
creek, fifty miles from Oklahoma City.
Its owners are of a Southern family
and have imported with them into the
solitudes most of the refinemeuts of
civilization. In the drawing room of
the homestead, for example, is baby
grand piano on which the mother and
daughters play classical music. They
are environed with books and period
icals and their conversation shows
that exile on the prairie does not pre-
vent them from taking lively inter-
est in the thought and culture of the
day.
Mr.. lack Mulhall, the father Of the
family, is the general live stock agent
Of the st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad, but the ranch is his own and
$ltIle MlSS LuCiile is Ills mdlnSCay IN
its management.
In earlier years it was her privilege
to claim every yearling calf that she
had without assistance roped and
branded with her initials 81. M"
This system worked very well for
time, but Lucille's ambition increased
with her skill and her private herd
kept pace with both. The climax came
when, during short absence of her
father, she roped and branded twenty
of the finest and widest steers on the
ranch. Wishing to avoid bankruptcy.
Mr. Mulhall made haste to repeal the
law.
/! Miss Agnes Mulhall, the elder daugh-
ter, is asaccomplished ranchwoman
as her little sister and is also fine
musician and elocutionist. She is best
known for her championship OF the
Dalton gang Of outlaws, whom she be-
lieves to have better qualities that
they are credited with and better, shl
~.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
ORIGINAL ROOMS.
Paris Has a Fancy for Dining Rooms All
White.

Originally furnished rooms, like clev-
erly thought out frocks, are decidedly
amusing" to use a cant work Of to-
day. l remember lovely drawing
room in a London house some years
ago-all green, green, green-shaded
upward from a light green palm Of
immense size. The carpet was in the
darkest tone of the color, and the pa
per in the lightest. On a hot sum
mers day it was room to dream Of
Only this morning heard of a young
couple who had taken a house in
Bloomsbury. Their purse is of the most
slender, yet a house of beautiful pro-
portions was their hearts desire. To
avoid the expense of papering they had
the house, staircase, rooms and all,
whitewashed, and dark red stair car
pets laid down. The proportions of
the staircase, ETC., show up wonderful
ly we'll, and every pretty nook stands
out in sharp relief. / have just come
across a fascinating description of the
boudoir of young married woman Of
in fact The walls and ceiling draped
with plated mousseline de sole over
pink; the lamp shaded with pink gauze,
placed on a stand of copper and rose
colored marble; the arm chairs Of
rose satin, with antimacassars Of plait-
ed white mousseline. In Paris tho
very newest vogue is to have an all
white dining room, ceilings and walls
either painted white or hung with
white brocade, white serge and brocade
curtains, and the electroliers or gas
brackets of white crystal and silver.
Silver chains are suspended from one
electrolier to another and fastened on
to a chandelier in the middle of tia
room.-Queen.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
California,s Early CAPITALS.

Vallejo was for a short period the
capital of the state of California. The
Legislature met there January 5, 1852,
and four days later there was adopt
ed joint resolution to move to Sac1
ramento and meet there on the 18th
Of that month. Subsequently an act
was passed declaring Vallejo the per-
manfnt seat of government and Gen,
eray Vallejo was to provide suitable
Quarters. In January. 1852. the gem
oral. having failed to comply with the,
terms Of his contract. the capital was
removed 70 Benicia.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Millet In Russia.

Millet has in some parts of Russia
taken the place of wheat as an article
of staple food. Millet can be grown
on soil unfavorable to other grains, but
it cannot resist the effect CT cold. From
1892 to 1896 the average annual pro-
duction of millet seed in Russia was
100000 bushels, but in 1895 it ran up
to 100000 bushels, and is remaining
more or less at this figure.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Makes Fortune Una.ded.

Worthy to be classed among women
of achievements is this little Syrian
girl, Rose Ability, who is just return
ing to her own country with a fortune
large enough to keep her people in
luxury for the balance Of their lives,
and every penny Of it honestly earned
upon the Pacific coast. She ran away
from home and came to San Francisco
five years ago, then but Is years of
age, determined to win relief from the
poverty from which there was no es-
cape at home. At first she sold jew
elry, notions and trinkets from door
to door, and later she developed a keen
instinct for the safe investment of
her savings. At one time, learning
that the soldiers Of the Kansas COM
panies, then awaiting transportation
to the Philippines. were without funds,
she went out to the camp with $3.50,
which she loaned In small SUNS to TIE
.soldiefs ON TIL. verbal Use
pay With 10 q cant s
=: ::
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

The wagon road from Tientsin to
Fekin crosses the S-shaped loops Of
the Pei Ho (river) at several points
between the two cities The country
= 1s very level and devoid Of picturesque
features.
The river is shallow and very broad
IN places. The channel is only suited
Tor light dvaught vessels and is hard
to follow. The Chinese boats are
poled up the river and sail or drift
down The Chinese have now blocked
the channel. A large part Of the coun-
try can be. flooded by means of the
Grand Canal. This rises high above
the surrounding country.
The land is given up almost entirely
to the cultivation of millst the prin-
cipal Chinese grain, and to truck gar
dening. The truck gardens are the
most interesting. The cabbages, as
paragus, peas, tomatoes, pumpkins and
other vegetables they grow are
the finest in the world. The Chinese
cultivators are independent of nature
and the elements. They depend neith-
er on rain nor sunshine to raise their
vegetables. The work goes on unin-
.terruptedly all the year round.
There are hardly any woods here,
hut from time to time there are little,
thick clumps of trees, which give shade
and have peculiarly Chinese appear
ance. Small hamlets are scattered
everywhere. The landscape develops
many strange features as one ap-
breaches the larger towns. Chief
among these are high poles with de-
capitated human heads stuck on top
OF them. This is the commonest form
OF punishment in China, and the man
DARN puts the heads outside the CITY
to remind travellers without delay of
The fate that awaits evildoers. Tele-
graph poles diversity the scenery with
s7head poles. Another curious feature
consists Of rows of huge, grotesuue
elephants, tigers and other animals
carved in soapstone. They form !. a
sort Of artificial menagerie. There are
avep1es of these things leading to the
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Not Constituted for Swimming.

Camels can not swim. They are
very buoyant, but i'll balanced. and
their heads go under water. They can.
however, be taught to swim rivers.
with the aid Of goatskins or Jars fas-
tened under their necks. During the
Beluchistan expedition Of 1898 the
camels were lowered into the sea from
the ships, and their drivers, plung-
ing overheard. clambered on to the
back Of their charges, causing the ami
mails heads to come up: and thus as
sisted they were successfully piloted
ashore |Pearson.s Magazine.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Peat of Germany.

A scheme for the utilization of the
great peat beds of North Germany 70,
the generation Of electricity has been
proposed in German contemporary
The author estimates that an acre o,
turf 10 feet thick would give thou,
sand tons OF combustible material
equivalent to 4S0 tons Of coke The
MOSES Of the Ems valley, which cove,
an area Of 1000 square miles, would
furnish the equivalent Of 100000, oO(
tons os pit coal; that IL to nay, more
than The total production of 0srmany
Tor three years.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

the boys Of various regiments had left
camp she had gained between $4,000
and $4,000 by loans, always without
security. and by the sale of jewelry
and various trinkets. Through it all
she preserved the respect of all she
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
Crickef's Wane IN Eneland.

Crickef's Wane in En9land.
Cricket is said to be losing its popu-
larity in England. In several of the
British newspapers this is discussed
as an established fact, and it is said to
be due to somewhat the same reasons
that have led to the decadence Of
baseball in the United States. Inst
as here professionalism has ruined the
national game. SO the same evil seems
to have arisen in England 1t seems
that the best cricket clubs are made up
of professionals and alleged amateurs
who are really professionals and do
little else than play the game and reap
financial benefit thereby more or less
surreptitiously,
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06
xosya,r Temple Of Labor
eaiiA.srw WI. PEklN

xotUa:s Temple Of Labor.
The Iowa labor temple as it will
look when built at Des Moines is pre-
1sented herewith. It will be an insti-
tuition which will give to the toilers
what the Y. NJ. G. A. now affords to
1.-THE salaried citizen. The labor unions
Twill own and control it.
The temple as planned will be 66x132
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

Lord Roberts is afraid of about only
one thing in the world, and that is a
cat. He cannot bear one OF those
animals to come near him.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1900-09-06

elusive use. There is good reason to
believe the removal will be made.
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I Int. period. BID. / Asked.
THE TRADE IN CHICAGO.

Chicago, Dec. S (specisn.--Wheat prices lost ssc
and close1 about the bottom. To-nights figures
just about where they were a week ago, and
only &c the low figures Of ten days ago, Jan
uary at 7l5sc and 7O1ke and closed at Tol5e 10
7gSsc The May closed at 73lsc 20 731Ie Large re-
ceipts the bear influence, as they had been all
the Week-S40O0O bushels against 6o9.O0 bushels al
primary points year ago. The primary total Tor
the week Ss5 900 bushels 100000 bushels ahead
OF the week previous and 10000 bushels ahead o.
last year Tae greatest rush is In the Northwest
Minnea polls declares the wheat is being marketed
50 fast because Il Is OF too poor quality 10 Keep
There Was a bearish crop announcement from Kan
s1s to-day. its winter wheat condition S97 and the
area sorn per cent larger than last year. The
Chicago stocks viii decrease moderately. There
VII he increase in the visible but probably
tone decrease on passage. Worlds shipments Will
lt around eco00oo bushels.
Corn was weak especially for December. The
htter lost lEc the deferred futures &c. December
aosed az 2Gasc. January at S5ssc and the May S64c
SouRUy offerings were somewhat increased; the
weather much improved. cold wave is advancing;
u IS clear everywhere To-day's local receipts were
% cars; there nothing IN contract The esti-
mate Tor Monday is 275 cars. Gables were a frae-
uon lower: seaboard clearances. $4,000 bushels.
stocks here viii show some decrease. The selling
o' futures was OF a very influential character to-
s-y, fatten large seller OF May. The December
pfe2k was on scattered liquidation
Hc with corn The December closed at 2lstc and
we Nay 25&c. Receipts were i77 cars. with llo
slmated for Monday. Ciearances were 200 900
eS-saes Stocks here are likely 10 show some in
S'caee for the week
~ iaKseed slow. and nominally &c 10 Sc lower:
,..e cash was about 81 62 bid: December. s. 63. and
sr S go. The three points had a cars received.
.isrovislohs were fairly steady; prices of only
/ rl.t The list however, showed advance for
~ week; pork i5c higher than last Saturday and
A. end ribs l0c higher. To-days steadiness was
~ spite of large hog receipts and OF weak grain
rns,e.ket There - 900 hogs, with 100000 esti-
..ttn Tor next week. IL Is the trading belief that
t.oFislons bought around Christmas pay profits be-
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financial nleeilnas
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY

OF NEW YORK.
WHEREAS the respective Boards OF Direc-
the BANKERS TRUST COMPANY OF NEW
YORK and he ATLANTIC TRUST COMPANY have made
and entered into under the respective
porae seals ~ said Companies for the Of the said
Bankers Trust Company OF New York into the said
Atartc Trust Company prescribing and condi-
thereof the mode carrying into effect
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN that a special meeting OF
the tockloders Of the Bankers Company OF New
York viii be held az the Office Of said Company No ~
Wall Street In the Borough % Manhattan. in the CITY Of
New York Il clock Monday the 10Th day OF
December 1900 "a consider upon such agreement
OF which viii then be submitted 10 said stock
holders their approval
The transfer books OF this Company viii be closed Al
three O'Clock p NJ. the 30th day OF November lSJO
and reopenea az ten O'clock A. n the iith day Of
December, 1900
Dated New York. November 2l 1900
BY order OF the Board
ALFRED H. swAYNE1 Secretary.