The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-05
SOME KANSAS FAKES.
THRILLING TALES TIE EASTERN
PAPERS SWALLOW.

Woman in the Bored WeII-Man Who
Called Dewey Coyard-ROmance of
Rosa Whitefnce-WaIIa Tonehkn,
whose Sentence of Death Was
Postponed.
From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.
'Kansas is the home Of newspaper
fakes?"
whats that?" said the telegraph editor,
who was raised on the Kaw river and has
often seen grasshoppers eat up prosper
Gus Kansas towns in one night. The old
reporter repeated his assertion The tele-
graph man saw that he was in earnest,
and made no hostile demonstration.
YES, Kansas is the home of newspaper
fakes, all right. but the fake business is
not what it was in the great old days OF
the Spanish war;" remarked the sporting
editor. "Still, you can gamble on Kansas
yet for tall corn stories, 1 shouldn't be
surprised, either if business looks up
when the campaign begins. Dewey's COM
ing-out will bring on more Of a mix-up
and give a live reporter a chance. Dewey
stories always CO.
"Sure, l know that" put in the old re-
porter. about six weeks after the battle
of Manila 1 sent New York paper a
story to the effect that a sailor had come
back here from the Philippines and de-
nounced Dewey as a coward. A coward,
a poltroon, q jaybird and no gentleman.
] wired. The sailor is now locked up in
the Wichita jail, guarded by twenty-five
United States marshais Crowds of peo-
nile or the w GCnff MuI-
berry and Yates Center to lynch the SAIL
or. Great excitement prevails
"Well?"
New York bit" the old reporter went
on impressively. The managing editor
rushed telegram, saying: Send full par
ticulars of the lynching. and, If possible,
get the crowd to pull 1t off for the first
edition of the paper"
Have some" said the telegraph editor
as he passed around a bottle of axle
grease.
The Woman I'm the Well.
"And that story reminds me Of the poor
woman who fell into the bored we'll
D'you ever hear of that? It must have
been six years ago, l reckon, when the
facts were brought to my attention" con-
tinued the old reporter. Jane Smith the
frugal, handsome. Woodworking wife of
farmer living five miles from Wichita,
fell into bored well. She was walking
along with milk pail on her head, II
remember rightly, and kchug! she went
feet first down that bored well The well
was only eighteen inches across and If
the handsome farmers wife had gone in
head first she would have been killed Of
course. AS il was, she stuck in the well
about six feet from the top"
When her husband found her she was
slipping down. inch by inch, and as you
may suppose 1t was pathetic sight. The
VyQ
your courage up Janer' shouted the far
mer, as he ran for a rope.
He lowered the rope and the woman
grasped 1t. BY that time she was thirty
five feet down In the we'll Try as he
would, Smith could not raise her with
the ropo. He ran for the neighbours and
by the time a crowd assembled Mrs. Smith
was nifty feet down, and they could not
hear her voice, although she had not
reached the water by twenty-five feet But
one hopeful thing about II was that she
had started slipping down in the solid
rock, the bore was little narrower and
she didn't go quite so fast"
My gracious. man; how. in heaven s
name, did they ever get that woman out ?''
Shouted the telegraph editor.
Simplest thing in the world," said the
old reporter as he knocked the ashes out
OF his pipe and reached for the bottle of
axle grease. They put in a suction pump
ana exhausted the air from the bore down
10 the head of the handsome farmers
wife"
''Yes?"
THAT created a vacuum In the top OF
the well and she rose to the surface with
the ease that a fishing cork hobs around
on top of the water. 1t took them two
days to carry out the scheme, however
and j gave the Wichita telegraph opera
tors nervous prostration getting off that
story"
Romance of Rosa Whitefnce.
THE Rosa Whiteface yarn was one OF
the most paying fakes that Kansas ever
manufactured. Rosa Whiteface was sup
posed to be an Csage Indian girl whose
hard-hearted and savage cid father decld
ed to auction her off to the highest bid.
der. The girl was rich--a regular Klon.
dike-you know that the Usage Indians
really are the wealthiest people in the
world. This gave the story a little foun.
dstion."
Sure" nodded the telegraph editor.
wei, Rosa Whiteface had a poor but
noble lover, who begged the sage father
20 delay the auction until he could svel.
OF gold mine in Arizona and enjoy q