New-York tribune., 1900-01-30
THE PASSING THRONG.

Riders. originally entered that organization as a
captain receiving his majority
DIDN'T through the general step upward
KNOW that followed Colonel Leonard
WHERE Woods being commissioned brig
NEW-MEXICO adler general. Major Llewellen.
WAS. who halls from New-Mexico saw
active service previous to the Span
lsh war In the Apache Indian campaign OF 1881. he
has lately been in the East advocating the admis-
sion of New-Mexico to Statehood and when seen
recently commented jocosely on the paucity Of
States.
But few people realize" said Major IewsIIeP
y as large in area as the New-England statefis
true that an old lady from Boston passing through
New-Mexico, once asked if she could purchase
m RRe RRS&Ef & &sPs ecgy f to 99a
6fat 6 she is not not the only Of It that at 9r
esn country m had or stuck o be
office in Boston to purchase the regular stamps,
the clerk selling them wanted me to buy five cent
But demonstrated, New-Mexico is part Of the
I'M United states He refused naty TO oeheye bg me- s
acknowledged that it actually was part of the
admitted to the Union as State. feeling that we
are entitled to the prerogstlyes Of Statehood Our
''The Duke of Orleans. the present head of the
French royal house." said Edward Unger at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday, 'as
DUKE OF he is an exile from France makes
ORLEANs'S his home in England, where he
TIGER HUNT resides at York House, Twicken-
ham. Much has been said and
written to make the Duke appear ridiculous, and
to make a man appear in an absurd light In France
is 10 sound the death knel of his political am
bitions Personally the Duke is an interesting man,
unquestioned. The Duke was formerly an officer
in the English Rifles, and as such saw service N
anxious to and participate in a tiger hunt, and
nd aus a4on @ MN In this dreSe3n on Was % more o thSn
on very grand scale, and the hunters were en-
plants, from which they were supposed to pot the
tiger whenever they got the chance tiger, you
but II once wounded his temper gets up and ne VIII
tiger charged the Dukes elephant, but missing the
head of that animal at which he had aimed, struck
occupant upon the ground. The tiger at once at
aGRef the Duke sezng him by the the s9G1deP f but
the wounds made by the infurated feIne's teeth.
aged n R hs s ss 6i his
a %as pretty 5ad used % f up and be a
visited this country in 1880. although it months
Injured that he was stiii unable to dress himself
without assistance. and he had hold his shoulder
stift1y and in one position"
'I think It was while General Grant was still
President" said Charles Melton. of Denver, yester
day at the Hotel Imperial that
PLUG UGLY his second son, Ulysses, better
BILLS known to his friends Buck
SERIOUS Grant, made a tour of the West
MISTAKE. mining camps In the course
of his travels he arrived at Lead
ville and the that Grants was there
spread the length and breadth OF the camp.
In of the mines the mountain side en-
ployed a character known as Plug Ugly Bill who
the cock of the walk in so far Leadville
concerned, and who had a tremendous repu-
tation a fighter. By curious mental
process Bill arrived at the conclusion that Buck
Grants presence in Leadvile would detrtmentally
affect his reputation as a fighter, and that the
only way that he C'BillO could maintain his pres
tige to seek out and thrash Buck Grant at
the first opportunity. In pursuit of this idea he
down into the town that evening and began
a systematic search for his victim Finally, quiet
y eating his supper in restaurant, he discovered
a neatly dressed young man. and as the stranger
shirt which at that time almost wholly un-
known in Leadville, 'Br jumped to the hasty and
for him unfortunate conclusion that he was the
man he looking for. Siding up to the table,
he passed rapidly from jeering personal remarks
to moving the dishes about, and finally upset the
others coffee At that the quiet man arose BIZ
never could tell afterward what 1t that hap
came in contact with every solitary inch OF floor,
walls and ceiling of the restaurant before he was
finally and violently elected into the street When
he came to he lying in the gutter As he sat
up and gazed around him the first object to fix his
glance was the he had tried to do up, ap-
parently unruff1ed as ever. Looking at him
Inournfully and with profound respect, BIZ said:
Boy you take powerfully after your pap The
man whom Bill had mistaken for Buck Grant
was a gambler known far and wide the bone
breaker on account OF his signal ability to care
for himself in rough and tumble fights, and to
place hia adversary in condition calling for the
Services of physician and surgeon"