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Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24

when the little girl kissed him and
called him her dear Uncle Joe. He
looked so sheepish and shamefaced
that we had TO turn our faces away.
and tell you in the same breath thai
We also felt ashamed of ourselves that
we had left that father and child to
drive away from our camp as we did.
In the mining camps a case of small
pox meant isolation, neglect and death.
The partner with whom you had work.
ca and hungered and suffered for years
would fee from you in terror at the
first sign. and il patient got up and
walked about in his delirium no hand
was outstretched 20 prevent him from
stumbling over a cliff.
In our shame we gave Joe all the re-
spect and admiration he could demand.
and it did us good 70 see the little one
take to him and realize that she Swed
her young life TO his heroic sacrifice
and fatherly care AS we crowded
around the pair the child knelt down
on the barrel and clasped her hands
and prayed:
Mother is dead, and father Is dead.
but God bless Uncle Joe and everybody
else,'
good many Of us turned our heal
away al that, and. TO our surprise, we
found that ytars in the camps hadr't
turned our hearts quite as hard as the
quartz among which we labored. !
caught a glimpse OF Joe OF Washoe
shutting his teeth hard together and
looking up ST the clouds, and | Won
dered If he was more strongly affected
when he charged a camp Of five out
laws single handed and left three OF
them lying dead for the sheriff TO bury.
That evening we had a public meet
ing on the pubic square, and Judge
Watkins hushed the crowd to silence
and said
Thar will be fusLly. secondly a1sn
thirdly in these remarks o. mine. The
fustly IS that II Joe Washoe will ac-
cept this we're airth well gladly buy il
fur him; secondly, the gal has got to
hey another name. and I'm fur calm
her Rose o Wasnoe. thirdly. she's an
orphan. and Black Hin diggn's is goln
to adopt her and provide fur her and
be the biggest kind o. father TO her.
Now then. let every critter give three
cheers and yell his loudest"
A month later. when Rose Of Washoe
was sent to the States to be properly
cared for the sum Of 81 600 went with
her She was brought out and stood
oil the same barrel again and s06 uscn
filed before her and shook hands and
said goodby. Joe Of Washoe came
last He lifted her up in hts arms and
kissed her and patted her head. and
her voice was broken with sobs as she
said.
God bless all, but God bless Uncle
Joe most Of anybody"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24

airy leaders and exercising his own in
herent "slimness" snugly ported away
at Tommy from behind his boulder OF
his sand bag of other extemporised
shelter, paying his foeman the COM
pliment, as he snipe him, of saying he
was a splendid fellow. 1t was magnif-
icient, but it was not war-at least
not as the enemy understood it.
So too, in peaceful victories and de-
feats 1t is not that British fingers are
less lissom or British brains less in
ventive than foreign ones; it would be
worse than unpatriotic to concede such
point. And yet good many things
are being made in Germany which
could be made just as well or even
better at home. But no; John Bull has
got into the way of taking these things
for granted. There was little foreign
competition, or none at all, in the DAYS
OF his grandheirs; and he has fallen
into the habit of acting as though the
world had stood still since then. But
II moves; and whoever wants to keen
pace with the times must move along
with it too.
NOW 1t has always been assumed
rather than proved that. whatever
might have been the shortcomings Of
the masculine gender in this respect
the failure would be more complete il
you changed it to the feminine. or
course such an ungallant theory as this
was neatly wrapped up, because. what
ever foreign critics may say, John Bull
is not so brusque as he is sometimes
made out. Man, it has been said. acts
from pure reason and by strict rules Of
logic, whereas woman acts upon intni-
1lon and with no rules worth speakino
OF whatever, logical or otherwise THAT
Is the priori fallacy which is inst AZ
present being
Slowly But Surely Demolished
by the force of hard dry facts. Victor
hugo says that present is lie steele des
Iemmes. 1t really looks very much
IKE 1t. Why should it not be So? The
men have had long inning. WHY
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24

horses. made fire, and then, climbing
half way up the hill, he called TO the
men 20 rods above him:
+ gWhen l found the wagon last night,
the man was dead and the leetle gal
was prayin' to God Thar was a moth
er and two more children, but they
ar dead. Don't come anigh us. The
leetle gals touched, and I'm sure to
come down."
That night the fever came to the
child, and men who crept down the
trail heard hel crying out and heard
Joe talking and singing to her. The
next day he reported her IS dreadfully
sick, and SO it went on for days and
Gays. 1t was time for him to develop
the disease, and each morning as che
men crept down the trail to leave pro-
visions on the fat rock they feared he
Nonia bot show up. But, strangely
enough, the danger passed him by
One morning, when ne stood up on the
wagon with the girl in his arms. it was
taken as a sign that the crisis had
passed and 500 men gathered on the
hill above and cheered the pair. 1t
was week after that when he set fire
t. the wagon, called for fresh clothes
and came up the trail into camp with
the girl wrapped in a blanket No
body was permitted even to see the tip
OF her nose until she had been dressed
UP as a boy from old garments cut
over. Then she was placed on the
head of a barrel in the centre of camp,
and half the men cheered and the other
half wept. She was a girl Of about
seven, pale and wan from her sickness,
but there was never a pit or a scar to
show how she had suffered. By that
we knew that Joe of Washoe had
watched over her with more than a
fathers care. She was fatherless and
motherless among strangers. Fright
and illness had so benumbed her brain
that she could remember nothing. not
even the family name. She said that
they had travelled for days and days,
but from whence she could not tell. The
one thing that she did remember was
mat her name was Rose, and she had
insisted from the first that Joe was her
uncle. II was queer to see this pros
pector and miner, this man who had
fought Indians and renegades and
knocked about through hundred adj
ventures and was no, supposed to have
soft spot about him-I say It was
queer to see how he was knocked out
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24

1t is distressing to notice how large
portion of civilized humanity is walk
eng tAis world in a condition of moral
socomotor ataxy. In this polysyllabic
complaint, though all the organs of
locomotion are present, the unhappy
patient lacks the regulating faculty for
guidance, to such an extent that the
organs might just as we'll be absent for
any good he gets out of them. lie can
not, as the phrase goes, get on To
use a still commoner but yet more ex-
pressive phrase, he wobbies.
In these bellicose times, an illustra-
ton taken from the noble art of war
fare is naturally more telling than one
of pacific character 1t is just the
difference between mob and an army.
The mob has all the elements of the
army, but it needs drilling. Hence the
failures which mark the career OF SO
many individuals and societies. If
peace has it's victories as well as war,
so also it has its failures. 1t is not
only ~ TIE tented field or in the ami
able effort at putting bullets through
your neighbours body that disasters are
apt to occur Even in this pursuit,
which would appear to require the
smallest amount of intelligence, the
British soldier has too frequently of
late proved inferio> 10 the Boer far
mer; not from any fnferiority in point
of physique, far from it; not again
from any failure in courage, farther
still from that. Even his enemies have
been constrained to admit that Tommy
Atkins was splendid" when
He Came to Close Quarters
The mistake was in coming too readi-
ly to close quarters or exposing him
self too thoughtlessly in the open,
whilst his enemy, trained by mercen-
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24

and can talk about anything from
washing a baby to the latest picture.
She knows English literature to the
Hast book. cut; and is well up on the.
latest pronunciation. If she stays sin
gle she goes on with her studies, and
even if she marries she continues to
progress.
Mrs. Charles A. Towne, whose hus-
band was nominated the other day in
Dakota on the Populist ticket, TO sup
port William J. Bryan, is a western
woman, highly typical of her part Of
the country and one of those who
could amaze the Gothamite with her
progress.
When the convention met in Dakota
Mrs. Towne declared that she did not
care whether her husband received the
nomination for the Vice Presidency or
not. 95 Ito pleased her sufficiently to
know that he had earned a place in
public favor and delighted her to think
that he held SO fast to his principles
Beyond that she did not care, but if
the people wanted to nominate him,
that was a different thing. Every
body knows now the way the name
of Towne swept the hall, when the
nomination for the Populist Vice Pres
ident was mentioned. And when the
news was flashed back to Duluth no
one was as delighted as Mrs. Towne,
who felt that, after all, it was the just
desert of a good man.
A Progressive Life.
Fourteen years ago Maude Irene
Wiley was one of the bellies of Lansing,
Michigan. Charles A. Towne was then
a building lawyer of that city, and peo-
pie thought that he did very well in
deed when he secured the hand of pref
ty Miss Wiley who had more suitors
than she could manage.
Miss Wiley was then the graduate of
an Indiana college and had taken a
special course in music at which she
was proficient. She was also an artist
Of fine abilities and, for time. thought
of pursuing her art in the best schools
abroad. While studying these two
great profession she had not neglected
the language and was French scholar
capa Die Of speaking the language like
a Partisan.
Such was the young woman whom
Charles A. Towne captured in Michigan
thirteen years ago.
After their removal to Duluth in 1892,
when Mr.. Towne came promptly be-
fore the public Mrs. Towne devoted her
self more enthusiastically to work of
a semipubhc character. She began an
energetic club life, half professional and
half social and soon made the names of
the clubs to which she devoted her eff
forts. known all over the country. She
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-06-24
ROSE OF WASH0E.
RN NJ. Quad.


Copyright, 1900 by c. b. Lews.)
One day in the early spring a pio-
neer's wagon approached within mile
of Black Hill diggings, and a rough
looking man got out and started to
climb the trail He was yet half
mile away when he fell down exhaust
ed, and half a dozen miners hurried
Gown to succor him. He shrugged ~
before they reached him, and, waving
them back, he shouted:
Don't come near me, for I've got
smallpox, but for Gods sake bring me
some provisions! Me and my gal hev
rot had bite to eat fur these two
daysl'
Smallpox was the dread of the
camps. When a miner was taken
down with the loathsome disease, he
was as good as dead. The miners stop
ped dead in their tracks as they heard
the pioneers words, and after brief
consultation he was warned to remain
where he was while they returned and
gathered up a liberal lot of provisions.
These were placed on the trail, and
when he had picked them up they
threatened him with their pistols to
hurry him away. The man neither re-
turned thanks nor berated them for
their seeming harshness. They saw
him reach his wagon, they saw him
feebly climb UP beside a child on the
seat, and when the vehicle slowly roll
ed on they heaved signs Of relief. That
night Joe of Washoe arrived at Black
Hill. 1t was dark, with a cold rain
falling, when he heard of the incident
Of the day. His face went stern ami
his eyes grew hard as the story was
told. and when it was finished he rose
up and asked:
Did the man say thar was a gal
with him?"
And you saw her in the wagon"
Yes.
and you driv' EN- off TO die when
you could hev lowed EN- to camp at
the foot of the hill If that's the kind
O Een you ar at Black Hill, | want to
git out quick
But it is smallpox" persisted one
of the men.
"More's the pity. Think o. that sick
man drivin away with that leetle gal
alongside o him-drivip' away to his
death, There may hey bin a wife and
mother-other children. Mebbe they
was dead in the wagon. Men, you did
cruel. wicked thing,"
But think Of the 30 men the small
pox took out O. the camp al Red Rock
last fall"
BUT / amt thinkin' o. thai. I'm
thinkn' O. man drivin of to die,
with leetle gal sittin' up alongside
O him."
He packed up some provisions,
rolled UP his blankets. and. picking up
water jug and his rife, he said:
I'm goin' TO overhaul EN- and stand
by EN- unless | find both dead"
A score of protests were hurled a.
him. but the man stepped forth into
the black night without word in re-
play and almost instantly disappeared
from sight. At noon next day the wag-
e1 NaDpeared. Joe Of Washoe was
iyin. and on the seat beside him
as child. When the wagon halted,
he Embarrassed and turned loose the
The Washburn leader., 1900-06-16
A Mllrderous Assault.

A murderous assault was
committed last Sunday morn
ing on H. ]. Burns, a cook in
the tracklaying camp on the
Washburn railroad several
miles north of Bismarck.
Timekeeper Brllmm, who COM
mitted the deed, had been
attacked and abused by the
cook, whereupon Brumm as
saulted Burns with a large
butcher knife inflicting many
dangerous and painful gashes.
Brumm Immediately went to
town where he surrendered t.,
the authorities. Burns was
taken to the hospital where
physicians were summoned
and his injuries dressed.
Burns is in critical condition
and is not expected to live.
The Washburn leader., 1900-06-16
A LOCAL ROMANCE RECALLED.

Many old timers will remem-
Der ex-Sheriff Edwards once
noted in the early annals of
Montana, as an officer of vim,
but in the whirl. of fortune found
himself proprietor of a wood
yard near where the town of
Mannhaven now stands. This
was in the early eighties. Just
before that date he had been
tried and acquitted for the MUIR
der of soldier at the Point
opposite Fort 4 braham Lincoln.
Once in the wood yard business
he bethouyht himself of a wife,
and betook himself to the In
dian village at o!d .Ft Berthold
to get one. He. knew how a
coy Indian maid could be quick
" won and went about il in a
: ~ .
matter of fact way. He picked
out a little miss Of l3-saw her
parents about the nuptial event
put up a pony and planked
down a $50 in earnest tesimo
nial and went down TO an APP
parently lucky woodward to
sfestivate the honeymoon. The
girl bride eChitty" whith her
adaptibility to the English
tongue became a prime favorite
with, all callers at the Edwards
home. But sour grapes or some
thing fsthat -Droughtsdes-
, pondency. to the heart Of the
master, so one morning G Chitty
walked up fnd that her white
husband was lying stark and
stiff having suicid led by cutting
his throat from earto ear. After
seeing her venerab BILE husband,
buried and his affai1 ssrtraitened
up.I the girl went back tcgthe
village and married a chiefs
son, hut liz the rec ord Of a re-
cent death, is again a widow. IL
The Washburn leader., 1900-06-16
Fargo several days taking in
the sights at the Fire Festival
and reports a fine time.

The work of grading Jewell
Ave. across the large .oulee
east of town, IS nearing COM
pletion. Sewer pipes have been
installed through the grade to
allow the water to pass down
the coulee. The grade when
completed will be about 300 it..
long by 25 ft. high and will be
a great Improvement over the
o.d bridge.
Contractor Jackson was in.
the city from Wilton Thurs
day. jackson says that the
grade between Bismarck and
Wilton will be completed next
Tuesday and the track will be
laid into Wilton couple weeks
later. Jackson was in the city
engaging men to work in the
cut at Wilton. There is work
for all,
The Washburn leader., 1900-06-16
TESTING LIGNITE ON THE
/. WASHBuRN ROAD.

i I'D lll<NT LlJl<ll IL YIN l. II
4 WASHBuRN ROAD.
From Wednesdays Bismarck Trib ne.
A test was made on the. Bis
marck. Washburn & Great Falls
road last night with Ignite
coal, as a means Of steam pro
ducing for engine driving
The test was made with a view
of ascertaining whether yhe
use Of Ignite coal I'm the haul
ing of trains over the road
would be practicable. The
matter is an important one tc
the road, as Ignite, if it can be
used as fuel, can be had by the
road at about a tenth the, cost
of the bitu1ninous coal in use
on railroads through the
country, as it can be secured
from the mines on the Wash
burn property, within a short
distance of the line of the road
and without the payment of
freight charges over other
railroads. There is an mex
haustable supply of Ignite on
lands recently acquired by
General Waslburn, and it will
be a matter of. great saving in
the operation of his road if it
cad be used to furnish motive
power.
The test that was made last
night, while not complete in
all respects, proved that the
Ignite coal can be used on the.
engines and will give good re-
suits. A supply of three tons
of the coal was brought from
the Satteriuhd mine, north OF
Washburn, to use in the expert
ment. The engine was coaled
up with the coal and worked
about the yards in the afters
noon and last night a test was
made with the coal for hauling,
A train of thirteen heavilR
loaded freight cars, several of
them being the heaviest freigh Y
cars on the Northern PacifiV,
loaded to the roof with ties, was
hauled for a distance of several
miles up a 1 per cent grade,
with an ordinary standard
engine. The run was made
from the curve north of the
penitentiary to the top of the
grade. From the weight of
the loads and the size of tile
cars the train was equal to
an ordinary train of sixteen
or seventeen loads. With
steam produced from the lig-
mite coal, the train was drawn
to the top of the hill without
trouble. Under favorable CON
ditions, it was demonstrated.
that the coal would serve we'll
as a steam producer for haul
ing trains over the road.
Several men were on the
train that made thetest, includ-
ing Traffic Manager Walker,
John SatteIlund and sE. A.
Hughes, who said from obser-
walton of the working Of the
coal, that with the Ignite for
fuel the efgine worked to with
in eighty per cent of it's effect
i've capacity. The fires.bnrned
we'll, and there were no un-
favorable effects noticed in the
consumption Of the coal blythe
engine. The coal can beSlaid
down from the mines for use
on the engins for abaiss 50 Gents
a ton, against a cofral mo S5 .,
SIS for the coal at prd Shy % Of use
The value Of the coaN war FINED
in making the expeXp sntal
run last night and ytt ferday )
afternoon was about Sit 4 The
immense saving SIS apparent
All Of the persons who Wit
messed the experiment stated
this me orning that they haad lle
duo btoftlie fac that the ignite
could be. used with econ ms 4
and satisfactory results In thu
seugines on the sroad. THO Goa
IE5is. q superior grade of gnite
and hasa gre per cent 81
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The Washburn leader., 1900-06-16
JAMES MCCULLOUGH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
WashDurn N. ID.
LOCAL ITEMS.

6 ~ a a . ~
II. Rohrer took trip TO Bis
marck this week.
The Leader enters on its 18th
year with this issue.
A party of land seekers from,
Iowa, arrived in the city Tues
,rn to Mr.: and Mrs. Ole
Ms ~lasss TUESDAY. a baby
htractor Reed returned
ghA9 a trip to Bismarck Tues
yhay.
A party of graders are at
work on the new road east of
town.
A very heavy rain visited this
section Thursday and Friday
nights.
Lost: A small chain brace
let. Finder please return to
this Office.
Auditor Johnson took a drive
to the thriving city of Wilton
Tuesday.
Wilton is preparing for a
large celebration the coming
9TH of July:
Landlord Charleboise took
business trip to the Capital
City this week.
The glass front for WahTs
new store arrived on the
Bachelor yesterday.
Commissioner Solenberger
and Fred Phifster of Hancock,
are among the arrivals in the
city.
E. l.. Craw, of Grand Rapids
Mich, is in the city looking
after his land interests in this
locality.
There will be children's day
!. day exercises at the Wash
burn school house next Sunday
at IL o. clock.
Martin Hagen has finished
plastering the court house and
has returned to his home at
Painted Woods.
E. S. Neal, the bonanza cat
tie man of Douglas creek, was
transacting business in Wash
burn this week.
Rev. C. A. Huges Of Minot,
who has been visiting his
brother in this city, returned to.
his home Thursday.
Attorney Lamb returned
from Grand Forks Tuesday.
where he attended the demo-
cratic State convention.
"A ball game last Sunday
afternoon between the regulars
and the scrubs, resulted in q
score of 8. to II in favor of the
regulars.
Attorney James Mccullough
has returned from Minnesota,
aud arrived in the city yester.
day. Mr.. Mccullough will
open up a law Office in the city.
Lewis Hanson, of the Wash
burn Impliment Co., returned
from a trip to Fargo Tuesday.
Mr.. Hanson was accompanied
by5his son, who will visit in
! the city. for some time 4
ID IS + ~ q -. d
Contractor Reed is erecting
a one story frame building on
Willow ST.. south Of the n1er-
chants Hotel. The building
when completed, will be used
for office quartes BY the B, W-. Y
q s. IA. r; R.y.
A ball of binding twine
manufactured at the penite A.
tiiary.tMine plant at Bismarck,
has been r.eceived at this office.
The tWine is q fine sample and "
can be exanainl!sdll BY any one 9 svt'
desiring to do 50 NY 4 cal & ling at
THE office Il
Dr. Forbes returned
Il from Fargo the first of q the be
week, where heE went az A dele.
gate the detl,oc tics e,,'lvenl-- (, ,.ll-
on, The doc ctpr Tteslii.a ainsdd {, in| I
The Washburn leader., 1900-06-16
MRS. A. JOHNSON DEAD.

Mrs Anderson johnson, Of Weller,
after an illness of several months, died at
her hone on Wednesday: She was sixty
seven years of age-was. a native of Swe-
den, though she has resided in Mclean
county about sixteen years. She leaves,
her venerable helpmeet and husband. her
companion of over forty years, aud sew
eral sons, one, James NJ Anderson, is
well known to every old citizencf Mclean
county. Funeral se rvices. will be neld at
her husbands home. Sunday, at IL a m.
and at Washburn, 2 O'Clock p m.