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Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20

Miss Broadway at all. And then had
 thing, into the schoolgirls life. No less than twelve pages did sixteen year-old Pappoose take to tell it, and when girl finds time to write twelve page letter from the Point she has more to tell than she can possibly contain. MT. Dean had actually invited her her, Elinor Merchant Folsom-Wino- ma, as they called her when she was a toddler among the tepees of the Sioux -Pappoose as the girls had named her at school-"Nell, as Jessie called her sweetest name of all despite the ring Of sadness that ever hangs about it and Daddy Intellectually smiled and ap- proved her going to the midweek hop on a cadet captains broad chevroned arm, and she had worn her prettiest white gown, and the girls had brought her roses, and MT. Dean had called for her before all the big girls, and she had gone off with him, radiant, and he had actually made out her card for her, and taken three dances himself, and had presented such pleasant fel- 1ows-frst crassmen and ''yearlings." There was MT. Billings, the cadet ad- jutant, and MT. Ray, who was cadet sergeant "cut on furlough" and kept back, but such beautiful dancer, and there was the first captain, such 8 witty, brilliant fellow, who only danced square dances, and several ca det corporals, all hop managers, in their red sashes. Why, she was just the proudest girl in the room! And when the drum beat and the hop broke up she couldn't believe she'd been there an hour and three-quarters, and then MT. Dean escorted her back to the hotel, and Daddy had smiled and looked on and told him he must come into the cavalry@when he graduated netx June, and he'd show him the Sioux country, and Pappoose would teach him Indian dances. It was all simply lovely. Of course she knew it was all due to Jessie that her splendid big brother should give up whole evening from his ladv friends. Miss
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20
CHAPTER IT.

Promotion was rapid in the cavalry in those days, so soon after the war. Indians contributed largely to the gen. eral move. but there were other causes, too. Dean had served. little over a year as second lieutenant in troop doing duty along the lower Platte, when va cancies occurring gave him speedy and unlooked-for lift. He had met MT. Folsom only once. The veteran trader had embarked much of his capital in business at Gate City, beyond the Rock ies, but officers from Fort Emory, close to the new frontier town, occasionally told him he had won a stanch friend in that solid citizen.
 You ought to get transferred to Emory" they said. Here's the band, half a dozen pretty girls, hops twice week, hunts and picnics all through the spring and summer in the noun tains, fishing ad hDitum, and lots of fun all the year around" But Deans ears were oddly deaf. A cIassmate let fall the observation that it was be- cause of a New York girl who had jilt- ed him that Dean had foresworn so- ciety and stuck to a troop in the field; i; but men who knew and served with the young fellow found him an enthusiast in his profession, passionately fond of cavalry life in the open, bold rider, a keen shot and born hunter. Up with the dawn day after day, in saddle long hours, scouting the divides and ridges, stalking antelope and black-tail deer, chasing buffalo, he lived life that hardened every muscle. bronzed the
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20

sk1n, cleared tne'eye ana Drain and gavo toeven monotonous existence "vervess and zest the dawdlers in those old-time garrisons never knew.
 All the long summer of the year after his graduation, from mid-April until November, he never once slept beneath a wooden roof, and more often than not the sky was his only canopy. That summer, too, Jessie spent at home, Pappoose with her most of the time, and one year more would finish them at the reliable old Ohio school. By that time Folsom's handsome new home would be in readiness to receiyes his daughter at Gate City. By that. time, too, Marshall might hope to have leave and come in to Illinois to we'll come his sister and gladden. his moth-. CTS eyes. But until then, the boy had said to himself, he'd stick to the field. and the troop that had the roughest
 work to do was the one that suited him, and so it had happened that by thos second spring of his service in the regi- ment no subaltern was held in higher esteem by senior officers or regarded
 with more envy by the lazy ones among the juniors than the young graduate. for those, too, were days in which grad
 uates were few and far between, except in higher grades. Twice had he ridden in the dead of winter the devious trail
 through the Medicine Bow range to
 Frayne. Once already had he been sent the long march to and from the
 Big Horn, and when certain officers
 were ordered to the mountains early in
 the spring to locate the site of the new
 post at Warrior Gap, Brooks troop, as
 has been said, went along as escort and
 Brooks caught mountain fever in the
 hills, or some such ailment, and made the home trip in the ambulance, leav-
 ing the active command of 'sC' troop to his subaltern.
 With the selection of the site Dean , had nothing to do. Silently he looked on as the quartermaster. the engineer and a staff officer from Omaha paced off certain lines, took shots with their instruments at neighboring waters of the fork. Two companies of infantry, sent down from further posts along the ! northern slopes of the range, had l stacked their arms and pitched their 1 "dog tents," and vigilant vedettes and 1 sentries peered over every commando 1 ing height and ridge to secure the in- l vaders against surprise. Invaders they 1 certainly were from the Indian point | of view, for this was Indian Story
 Land, the most prized, the most beauti- full, the most prolific in fish and game i in all the continent. Never had the red ] man clung with such tenacity to any section of his hunting grounds as did i the northern Sioux to this, the north 1 and northeast watershed of the Big i Horn range. Old Indian fighters among the men shook their heads i when the quartermaster selected . level bench as the site on which to be-
 gin the stockade that was to inclose the officers quarters and the barracks. l storehouse and magazine, and omin-
 ously they glanced at one another and ] then at the pine-skirted ridge that roses
 sharp and sudden, against the sky, not
 400 yards away, dominating the site en-
 tirelv-
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20

Broadway spoke so patronizingIy to her in the hall when the girls were all talking together after the cadets had scurried away to answer tattoo roll call.) Of course she understood that if it hadn't been for Jessie none of the cadets would have taken the slightest notice of her, a mere chit, with three years of school still ahead of her. But all the same it was some thing to live over and over again, and dream of over and over again, and the seashore seemed very stupid after the Point. Next year-next June-when Marshall graduated Jessie was to go and see that wonderful spot, and go she did with Pappoose, too, and though it was all as beautiful as Pappoose had described, and the scene and the music and the parades and all were splendid, there was no deliriously lovely hop, for in those days there could be no dancing in the midst of examinations. There was only the one great ball given by the second to the graduating class, and Marshall had so many, many older girls to dance with and say good-by to he had only time for a few words with his sister and her shy, silent little friend with the big brown eyes to whom he had been so kind the previous summer, when there were three hops a week and not so many hoppers in long dresses. Still, Marshall had one dance with each, and introduced nice boys from the lower classes, and it was all very well, only not what Pappoose had painted, and Jessie couldn't help thinking and say ing it might all have been so much sweeter if it hadn't been for that odious Miss Broadway, about whom Maj hall hovered altogether too much, but, like the little Indian the girls sometimes said she was, Pappoose looked on and said nothing.
 All the same, MT. Dean had had a glorious graduation summer of it., though Jessie saw too little of him, and Pappoose nothing at all after the breaking of the class. In September the girls returned to school, friends as close as ever, even though little cloud overshadowed the hitherto un- broken condolences, and Marshall joined the cavalry, as old Folsom had suggested, and took to the saddle, the prairie, the bivouac and buffalo hunt as though native and to the manner born. They were building the Union Pacific then, and he and his troop, with dozens of others scattered along the line, were busy scouting the neigh borhood, guarding the surveyors, the engineers, and finally the track-layers, for the jealous red men swarmed in myriads all along the way, lacking only unanimity, organization and lead ership to enable them to defeat the enterprise. And then when the whist ling engines passed the forks of the Platte and began to climb up the long slope of the Rockies to Cheyenne and Sherman Pass, the trouble and disaf- lection spread to tribes far more nu- merous and powerful further to the north and northwest; and there rose above the hordes of warriors a chief whose name became the synonym for deep-rooted and determined hostility to the whites-Machpealo CRed Cloud)-and old John Folsom, he whom the Indians loved and trusted, grew anxious and troubled. and went from
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20
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one he spent as a naru-worKed pieDe' at the military academy. His gradua- tion summer two years previous was glory to him, as we'll as to pretty sis ter, young and enthusiastic enough to think brother in the regulars, just out of West Point, something to be made much of, and Jessie Dean had lost no opportunity of spelling her soldier or of wearying her school friends through telling of his manifold perfec- tions. He was manly, stalwart, hand some fellow, as young graduates go. and old ones wish they might go over again. He was a fond and not too teas ing kind of brother. He wasn't the brightest fellow in the class by thirty odd, and had barely scraped through one or two of his examinations, but Jessie proudly pointed to the fact that much more than half the class had ''scraped off, entirely, and therefore that those who succeeded in getting through at all were paragons, especial ly Brother Marshall. But girls at that school had brothers of their own, girls who had never seen West Point or had the cadet fever, and were not i'm pressed with young officers as painted by so indulgent a sister. Most of the girls had tired of Jessie's talks, and some had told her so, but there was one who had been sympathetic from the start-a far western, friendless sort of girl she was when first she entered school, uncouthly dressed, wretchedly homesick and anything but compan- iona ble, and yet Jessie Deans kind heart had warmed to this friendless waif and she became her champion, her ally, and later, much to her genu- inc surprise, almost her idol. It pres ently transpired that "the Pappoose," as the girls nicknamed her, because it was learned that she had been rocked in an Indian cradle and had long worn moccasins instead of shoes (which ac- counted for her feet being so much finer in their shape than those of her fellows), was quick and intelligent be- yond her years, that, though apparent ly hopelessly behind in all their studies at the start, and provoking ridicule and sneers during the many weeks of her loneliness and home-longing, she sud- denly began settling to her work with grim determination, surprising her teachers and amazing her mates by the vim and originality of her meth ods, and before the end of the year climbing for the laurels with a mental strength and agility that put other ef- forts to the blush. Then came weeks of bliss spent with a doting father at
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20

Niagara, the seashore and the Folnt-- . dear old dad as i'll at ease in eastern circles as his daughter had been at first at school, until he found himself welcomed with open arms to the ofh- cers' messrooms at the Point, for John Folsom was as noted frontiersman as ever trod the plains, man old off cers of the cavalry and infantry knew and honored as "a square trader" in the Indian country-a man whom the Indians themselves loved and trusted far and wide, and when a man has won the trust and faith of an Indian let him grapple it to his breast as treas ure worth the having, great even as "the heart love of child" Sioux, turn to "Old John" in their councils, their dealings, their treaties, their per pIexities, for when he said thing was right and square their doubts were gone, and there at the Point the now well-to-do old trader met men who had known him in bygone days at Laramie and Omaha, and there his pretty schoolgirl daughter met her bosom friends big brother Marshall, a first classman in all his glory, dancing with damsels in society, while she was but a maiden shy in short dresses. Oh, how Jess had longed to be of that party to the Point, but her home was in the far west, her father long dead and buried, her mother an invalid, and the child was needed there. Earnestly had old Folsom written, begging that she who had been so kind to his little girl should be allowed to visit the seashore and the Point with him and "Pappoose," as he laughingly referred to her, adopt ing the school name given by the girls; but they were proud people, were the Deans, and poor and sensitive. They thanked MT. Folsom warmly. "Jessie was greatly needed at home this sum- mer' was the answer; but Folsom somehow felt it was because they dreaded to accept courtesies they could not repay in kind.
 "As if I could ever repay Jess for all the loving kindness to my little girl in her loneliness" said he. No, there was no delicious visiting with Pappoose that summer, but with what eager in- terest had she not devoured the letters telling of the wonderful sights the little far westerner saw-the ocean, the great Niagara, the beautiful Point in the heart of the Highlands, but, above all, that crowned monarch, that plumed knight, that incomparable big brother, Cadet Capt. Marshall Dean. Yes, he had come to call the very even- ing of their arrival. He had escorted them out, papa and Pappoose, to hear the band playing on the plain. He had made her take his arm, Ca school girl in short dresses" and promenaded with her up and down the beautiful, shaded walks, thronged with ladies, officers and cadets, while some old cronies took father away to the mess for julep, and MT. Dean had intro duced some young girls, professors daughters, and they had come and taken her driving and to tea, and she had seen him every day, many times day, at guard mounting, drill, pontoon- ing or parade, or on the hotel piazzas, but only to look at or speak to for a minute, for of course she was "only a child," and there were dozens of so- ciety girls. young ladies, to whom he
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20
CHAPTER I,

S4lkAI xs
 Riding at ease in the lazy afternoon sunshine, a single troop of cavalry was threading its way in long column of twos through the bold and beautiful foothills of the Big Horn. Behind them, glinting in the slanting rays, Cloud peak, snow-clad still, although it was late in May, lowered above the pine crested summits of the range. To the right and left of the winding trail bare shoulders of bluff, covered only by the dense carpet of bunch grass, jutted out Into the comparative level of the east ward plain. A clear, cold, sparkling stream, on whose banks the little com mand had halted fer noontide rest, went rollicking away northeastward, and many a veteran trooper looked longingly, even regretfully, after it, and then cast a gloomy glance over the barren and desolate stretch ahead. Far as the eye could reach in that di- rection the earth waves heaved and rolled in unrelieved monotony to the very sky line, save where here and there along the slopes black herds or scattered dots of buffalo were grazing, unvexed by hunters, red or white, for this was 30 years ago, when, in countless thousands, the bison covered the westward prairies, and there were officers who forbade their senseless slaughter to make food only for the worthless, proving coyotes. No won der the trooper hated to leave the foot hills of the mountains, with the cold, clear trout streams and the bracing air, to take to long days marching over dull waste and treeless prairie, covered only by sagebrush, rent and torn by dry ravines, shadeless, springless, al- most waterless, save where in un- wholesome hollows dull pools of stag nant water still held out against the sun, or, further still southeast among the ''breaks" of the many forks of the South Cheyenne, on the sandy flats men dug for water for their sotfering horses, yet shrank from drinking it themselves lest their lips should crack and bleed through the shriveling touch of the alkai.
 Barely two years commissioned of fcer, the young lieutenant at the head of the column rode buoyantly along, caring little for the landscape, since with every traversed mile he found himself just that much nearer home. Twenty-Five summers, counting this one coming, had rolled over his curly head and each one had seemed bright CT, happier, than the last-al but the
Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-20

had to be attentive, especially 8 very stylish Miss Brockway, from New York, with whom he walked and danced a great deal, and whom the other girls tried to tease about him. Pappoose didn't write it in so many words, but Jessie reading those letters between the lines and every which way, could easily divine that Pappoose didn't fancy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-05
SIDNEY LUCAS GAME.
Attempted to Win Two Races in One
Day, and Nearly Did It.

Chicago, July 5.-Wednesday's pro-
gramme at Washington Park had one of
the most unique features in the history
of western racing. 1t was the attempt
of colt to win two races in one day
and in the latter event to concede weight
to and beat the two best youngsters in
the west next to himself.
Richard Thompson, the owner of Sid
ney Lucas, the American Derby winner,
started the colt in the second race at
one mile. and after he had won his
race sent him to the post in the Sheri
dan stakes just an hour later. Here
Sidney carried 129 pounds at 127 for Sam
Phillips and 125 for Advance Guard. 1t
seemed preposterous to believe the colt
could go the mile and a quarter route
under such circumstances and the book
makers made him the outsider in the
betting at two to one, Advance Guard
being the faNorite at three to four, with
Sam Phillips at seven to five. The race
was q loaf for over half mile, Sidney
Lucas being allowed to set the pace.
On the back stretch VittatOe on Advance
Guard became alarmed about the lead
er and sent the Canadian colt up Sid
ney Lucas and Advance Guard raced
together at top speed around the far
turn and to the entry to the stretch.
Burns did not begin his ride until he
was almost ready to make the run for
home.
The result was a thrilling finish, pass
ing the judges under a terrific drive,
only half lengths apart, with Sam Phil
lips leading, Advance Guard second and
Sidney Lucas third.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-05
COSTLY PATRIOTISM.
80 Persons Killed 1895 Injured
by Fireworks Yesterday.

Chicago, July 5.-The Tribune says:
AS a result of the celebration of indie
pendence day with firearms, toy cannon,
giant crackers and other forms of ex-
plosions, thirty persons were killed and
1926 injured, according to reports re-
ceived from 125 cities. The toy pistol
and the toy cannon are shown to have
done as deadly execution as sometimes
has been done in war by those loaded
with bullets and canister and aimed to
kill. Sky rockets, anvil and powder
explosions and the premature discharges
of Fourth of July cannon help to COM
plete the list of mishaps.
In several instances. persons were
killed through runaway accidents, due
directly to fireworks. A fire loss Of
$123, 1926 was caused by the fireworks in
addition to the injury to human life.
In Chicago one boy was reported killed
against one death last year, but the ac
cidents were less numerous There were
no costly fires in the city. Frankfort,
KY, alone suffered a fire loss of $4,000
due to fire crackers. Other cities also
suffered heavily.
Out of the total of 1925 persons hurt
in an attempt to be patriotic 442 can
attribute their injuries TO firecrackerS
and dynamite torpedoes- The deadly
cannon firecracker did most of this ex-
ecution- Out of 152 injuries by firearms
in sixty-seven cities, the toy pistol
caused los. Gunpowder explosions, in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-05
AN IDEAL CLIMATE.

The first white man to set foot on
Utah soil, Father Silvestre Velez de
Escalante, who reached the GREAT
SALT LAKE on the 23rd day of Sept,
1776, wrote in his diary: "Here the eli
mate is so delicious, the air so balmy,
that it is a pleasure to breathe by day
and by night.'' The climate of Utah
is one of the richest endowments Of
nature. On the shores of the Great
Salt Lake especially and for fifty
miles therefrom in every direction
the climate of climates is found. To
enable persons to participate in these
scenic and climatic attractions, and to
reach the famous HEALTH, BATH
INC AND PLEASURE RESORTS of
Utah, the UNION PACIFIC has made
a rate to OGDEN and SALT LAKE
CITY of one fare for the round trip,
plus $500, from Missouri River, to be
in effect June 21st, July 7th to 10th in
elusive, July 18th, and Aug. I'd. Re-
turn limit Oct. 81, 1900.
For full information, call on or adj
dress, F. 4. LEWIS, City Ticket Agt.,
or J. c. FULTON, Depot Agent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-05
NIGHT SESSION.
Wild Scenes Enacted After Mention
of Bryan's Name.

Kansas City, July 5.-As the delegates
filed out of the hall after adjournment
yesterday afternoon, they passed Sena-
tor Hill, who for half an hour was the
center of an enthusiastic personal greet
ing from individual delegates. At a
O'Clock the committees were not yet
ready to report and another adjourn
ment was taken until $3.50 p. m.
1t remained for the night session to
bring the most remarkable demonstra-
ton of the entire day. Again the great
structure was invaded by thousands
and the moving picture took on new
gloTieS of color and animation under the
glare of countless electric lights. For
the first hour the proceedings were for
NAL and proftless, but when, at the close
of the speech of permanent Chairman
Richardson, he paid glowing tribute to
William ]. Bryan, the historic scene of
ByanS nomination at Chicago was re-
peated, even exceeded, in a frenzied
demonstration lasting half an hour. The
state standards were wrenched from
their sockets, and borne aloft, battle
of supremacy was waged between the
standard bearers, urged on by the deaf
ening applause of the entire shouting
gesticuIating multitude.
Outside of the proceedings of the day
interest was conferred in action of the
platform committee. AS the evening
advanced it became known that a de-
termined struggle was in progress in
VOlV1nS not only the question or 1ncOr-
pOrating a specific 16 to l declaration in
the party declaration, but to some ex-
tent involving the desires of khe possible
nominee as to the terms of the plat
form.
The conclusion of Chairman Richard
sons speech, which he had arranged I'M
der IS heads. was the signal for terrific
applause and cheers.
His mention of the name of w. J.
BRYAN brought the convention to its feet
in a frenzy Of excitement. Delegates
sprang upon their chairs, waving hats,
handkerchiefs and umbrellas in the
widest fashion BY common impulse
the poles bearing the names of the states
t.re torn up and thrust into the air.
Then down the aisles toward the speak
er's desk came groups of delegates sur
rounding one man who held the name of
the state aloft-
Texas and New York became engaged
in rivalry as to which should hold the
name of the state highest in the air.
The Lone Star state had the advantage