The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1901-11-05

things he did was TO get into trouble.
Since then he has been getting into
trouble with the most persistent fire.
quency, having been under arrest TWEEN
ty-four times and having been court
martialed nine times. Major Armes
says his troubles have been due to the
fact that he will not submit TO being
imposed upon.
Major Armes was born May 20, 1914,
and in book gives Il history of his
early life in Fairfax county, Va. up to
1860 when he declined TO join his com
panions In the Confederate service He
went to Washington and began life as
a newsboy, One day he accosted Sec
retary Seward on the street to ask him
for position and later received APP
pontment as confidential messenger to
that statesman, thereby gaining access
to President Lincoln. From that time
on he was arrested many times.
His twelfth arrest was In 1867 for
assault upon Captain Lauffer, who,
Major Armes declared, was the ag-
gressor In the quarrel. For this act
Major Armes says he was ordered 10
Leavenworth for his second court mar
tial, which honorably acquitted him.
Arrest No. 13 occurred the following
spring. and n month later he was sent
before his third court martial at Fort
Hays, which honorably acquitted him
of several charges, but found him
guilty of allowing negro TO dance in
a suffers store. After being reprmand-
ed he was released. Four other ar
rests closely following resulted only in
release.
Here is Major Armes' account OF his
trouble with Governor Beaver:
March %. 1SS9.-Whlle at the Riggs
House this afternoon noticed Govern
or Beaver shaking hands with several
of his comrades in the lobby. and upon
his discovering me he excused himself
from his friends and came over and
shook hands. | asked him IL he had
received my note, demanding an apol.
ogy lie said he had, but proposed TO
LEI the matter drop, as Il had passed.
| reminded him that II was n too seri-
Gus matter 10 let drop, when he ex-
lilAlAfAl Alf hlAfN Ihkllllk NhhuA Allt az
fair that happened on the 4th of March
ana that everything was done by his
aGJutant general, Hastings. | suggest
ed that he put that In writing M once
in order that | could pulS%Ah the ex-
PLANTATION over his signature. when he
remarked he had to sustain his adJu-
tGnt general.
81 told him that II was very singular
that | should suffer an insult, and that
he should sustain a drunken loafer in
an ungentemanly act, and that | did
not propose TO let the matter drop, and
he then asked me what I proposed 10
40 about IT, He at once Informed me
that he would throw off his position as
governor OF the state OF Pennsylvania
W@lilc I'm Washington and put himself
down on the same platform with me.
and that | could do my worst, which
resented" cat this point Major
Armes tweakcd the governors nosel
zone of his comrades threw his arms
about him aud took him out 10 his car
riage, Another ex-soldier threw his
arms around me. when reminded him
that the matter was all over"
For this he was court martlaled and
sentenced 20 confinement I'm the Dis.
! trict of Columbia with nifty miles limit.
Before the expiration OF the term OF
sentence he was pardoned by Presl-
dent Harrison. His twenty-fourth ar
rest was made on the order of General
Schoheld but he was released on the
| order of Justice Bradley.