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The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-18

buying long strips of land bordering a great
area, then OF running q wall and ftncs
around the strip. inclosing literally his owr
lad. but also with it the many thouss. =
acres Of Government land that lie within
his.
Yes" said Mr.. Carr. sturdily, as thu
| feudal Baron would lave said in his day
Il bought a strip here and a strip ;her,
!. and i built a stone wall around my lani
wall stopped l continued with a barbed
wire fence until l guess l have of wall ans
fence together nearly a hundred miles. y
nnd T paaen rana' ,h rane are w about .s.occ acres
and all together within my fence and wall
have about Coco acres inciosed.
I'm the only one in Modoc County who
has made improvements to amount to any
thing.
II have spent about $1,000 in improve
ments on that land up there. l think that
fence of mine cost me something like 49,
600 alone, and" confided Mr.. Carr. with a
chuckle, do you know what h United
States Marshal said about it when he was
sent out here to investigate at the time
they were trying to force me to pull 1t down
during Cleveland's administration? Well.
he looked IL over carefully and he said to
me. Carr. / don't know which is the big
gest id fool-the Government for wanting
TO pull down that feice; or you for putting
est appreciation. was the most sensible
thing l ever heard about that f~ence-even IL
Il had the fence put up originally on ac-
count Of my stock. 1 believe in good blood.
and I put in some fine Durham and Devon
bulls. l don't want scrub cattle on my
And you have had a hard fight keeping
oh, no fight. no actual fight. No blood
for a word that would express his con-
tempt. that is all ~poppycock. My vague
ros have orders to keep my stock inside
the fence and other peoples outside--that's
all. i haven't shut them out opffrely
either. The whole Clear Lake watershed Is
mine. but I've left one place open where
they can get in to water"
Thinks Mankind Contrary.
"But that Is a place where they don't
want TO go in"
o course said Mr.. Carr tremendously:
that's always the way: a man never wants
What you're willing to give him He 81
It's only spite that wants nv fence down."
And II 1t has to come DOWN.
Carr. with the comfortable air of a man
with a right bower still to play. There
is" he continued. "a bill pending before
Congress which will probably be passed
upon this next session. 1t provides for the
passes / can lease what Government land
1 have inclosed and pay rent for it-and
keep my fence up"
"And II IL doesn't pass"
lymph. said Mr.. Carr.
"And you are ordered to take down your
fe ITs and ib Isays tn. sa;s G Sr rn.r x, land 9psnc'
ton. whoever goes after that land will
not find any fit to live on. / have no Gov
ernmen. land inclosed that n man can live
land inside my fences that Is worth while
belongs to me. and so does every drop Of
water. Pulling down my fences will do no
one any good after aIi-and anyway" he
added as an afterfhought. there's no law
against a man fencing In his own land all
round.
But" Mr.. Carr added cheerfully. a. he
said good-by. IT dom tbink I'll begin pull
ing down those fences of mine yet awhile
not until I have to-"
The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-08-18
WHITE WOMAN THE BRIDE OF
FULL-BLOOD OSAGE INDIAN,
One of the Antenuptal Provisos Was That the Happy Bridegroom
Wear the Clothes of a Paleface Three Striker Was
Lonely and Got His Wife by Advertising.

dress like a pale face: that the ceremony
should be conducted by a minister and not
according to the ritual OF the tribe. Three
Striker was infatuated with his prospective
though the day following the marriage he
declared he was unable to become accus-
toned 10 his new clothes and wnated to
again don his blanket.
The moring on the day following the ap-
pointment to meet in Pawhuska the cere-
money was performed. the Reverend Mr..
M Muir oficia;ing; Three striker was a..
minus the vest and a shirt. A crowd OF
men and boys witnessed the ceremony.
Conversation Much Mixed.
minister was unable TO speak any but the
English language. as was also the bride.
On the other hand. Three Striker could
speak and understand only the language
OF the Osages, and an interpreter was
After the ceremony Three Striker was
juhalant. He proposed going to the photo
graph gallery and having his picture taken
currence for an Usage Indian to desire
having his likeness taken. but Three Strik-
er was In such a state of happiness that
tribe.
After the visit to the photograph gallery
the bride and groom. at the suggestion OF
the latter. toured the city the remainder
or me forenoon: Indian fashion. the
Ing. Three Striker was radiently happy. al
though apr arently Ill at ease. not hav-
ing learned what to do with his hands
when dressed in the garb Of the white man.
He had not yet formed the habit of putting
his hands in his trousers pockets. and he
had no blanket to hold about his form.
The couple have gone among a settle
while Three Striker is as happy as ever, the
bride seems contented with her choice.
H. E. GONDER.
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Jesse ID. Carr Has Defied Courts
and Deputy Marshals for %
Years-Still Full of Fight.
FENCED IN GOVERNMENT LAND.
Sixty Thousand Acres Are InclOsed
by His System of Putting a
Wall Around Thin Strips
He Actually Owns.

San Francisco. Cal. Aug. E.-Now tina
the United States courts have had several
things to say about Jesse ID. Carr and his
hundred-mile fence. inclosing some eoe0
acres of Government land in Northern Cali
fornia and Southern Oregon. Congress may
be called upon to take a hand in the mat
ter.
The United States Court here has ordered
the fences to come down and the Govern
ment property opened up. Carr has not
taken the fences down. and the Government
land has not been opened VI. Furthermore.
Carr saws he Is not going to take the fences
down. and adds by way OF explanation that
Congress will be called upon to pass a bill
leasing the Government land and that he
VIII become the lessee.
That h the latest phase of the biggest
land fight between a Government and an
individual that has ever been waged. The
Fight has been going on for twenty-five
years. and while the courts have decreed
and Deputy United States Marshals have
gone forth to enforce the DEGREES. Carr has
kept his fences up. and the 6o.e0o acres OF
land have been. to all intents and purposes.
in his possession.
of 'sSquatterx."
Carr Is a "squatter." There are squattsrs
ard sQuatters. but in what the late Coils
T.. Huntington used to describe as "scopi-
ness' the Honorable Jesse ID. Carr leads
them all. besiue MIN the others fade into
iEsignificance.
TIT ordinary scuatter ventures to squat
himself into possession Of anything from a
town 10: to a townsite. but Carr hasn't
bothered with tribes Of that sort.
He is a squatter on a scale so extensive
that 1t at once Commands your u~ndisguised
interest and inspires your secret admira-
tion.
As a squatter he possesses a threefold
distinction:
In the extraordinary size Of his holding.
In the way he has barricaded 1t.
In the fight he has made for IL.
After a quarter OF a century of seesaw-
ing with Uncle Sam. Of Improvement max
ing. OF feEce-building. Of bulldog hanging
on, the law demands that. he give IL up; the
Law says that his fence must come down.
Judge Bellinger OF the United States Cir
cult Court SO decided. and when a motion
for q modification Of the decree was made
a step toward temporizing-he romptly de-
MED IL: no more temporizing-the. Carr
fence must come down.
The people of Modoc County and of SOUTH
ern Oregon. 20 It h set down in the COM
plant against Carr and his hundred-mile
fence are much injured By the existence
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given courteous treatment. 1t seemed, as
far as he was able to learn, a case of mis-
understanding. as he did not think any one
in the library would volunteer moral lee.
lures.
story of the Novel "Esther Waters."
Esther Waters is the candid story of an
untaught and unframed. but well-meaning
woman of the lower classes from childhood
to old age. Brought up by a narrow-mind
ed. but rigidly conscientious mother, a
member Of the sect known as the Plymouth
Brethren. and a drunken profiigate of a
stepfather, she is early forced to earn her
own living b. going out to service.
Her first place is at Woodview, the curl
Gus establishment of a trainer of race
horses. where. to complete the incongruity,
the mistress is a Plymouth sister. like Es-
ther herself. At this house she sepnds sew
eral months. the first part of the book being
picturesquely occupied with her life there.
The stable is extremely successful. One of
the horses wins at Goodwood. Esther is
gradually drawn into the racing and betting
excitement. although she never loses her
logged. conscientious sense of the sin OF 1t
all. At length one Of the servants, William
Latch. who has attracted her from the first.
leads her astray. under promise of marriage.
and her conscience. in a paroxysm of re-
volt. forbids her to speak to him again. He
hangs about a little in amazement and
oudgeon and finally takes up with another
ana smarter girl. Esther. finding she Is
about TO become a mother. fees from
Woodview.
TIT rest of the book describes her strug-
gies amid the direst poverty TO remain re-
spectacle ana bring up her little son in the
same way. She succeeds in preserving her
character and her health in hard domestic
service, and In process of time meets VIII
liam Latch again and becomes mis- wife. She
Is now reasonably comfortable for a while.
ana fairly happy, for he is faithful to her
and Is the proprietor of a prosperous inn.
He is still, however, saturated with the old
racing poison. and gradually his house De
comes notorious as a resort for gamblers
and bet;ors. The police come down upon
MIN. his license Is taken away. he falls Into
and dies a ruined man. Esther
returns 10 service. ending up her life at
Woooview as the companion of her old re-
ligious mistress. who has been left there IN
shrunken poverty. the only remnant Of all
the luxury and lavish display of the former
racing establishment. At the very close of
the book Esther's son. now a handsome
young soldier, comes down to see her:
She was conscious that she had accom-
plished her woman's work. She had brought
MIN up to a mans estate. and that was her
sufficient reward"
The book is profoundly moral. although II
concerns itself with the and
squalid classes stunned by the ordinary
novelist.
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REPUBLIC SPECIAL

REPUBLIC SPECIAL
Pawhuska. /. T.. Aug. T.-For the first
time in the history OF the tribe of Usage
Indians has a full blood been married TO a
white woman without a trace of Indian
blood in her veins.
Three Striker is a full blood Usage. He
Is about 30 years of age, and was never
married before. He says IT was because he
was determined to marry a pale face; In
dian girls say It was because he was so ut
terly worthless that no squaw would take
him. But a short time ago Three Striker
a TO a white trader his desire of pos
sessing a white wife. The RAIDER suggested
a matrimonial advertisement in a newspa-
per. to which Three Striker consented. The
advertisement YVES printed. II stated that
an Usage Indian desired to marry a pale
face with sunny hair and eyes like the
sky"
Mrs. Cora Severance was a young widow
who had been raised on the Kansas border.
Her parents live near Elgin. Kas. She had
noted that many white men had become
"sauaw mcn," thus securing for themselves
Uncle Sam. but she never heard of a white
woman marrying an Usage. unless IL was
one who was SO nearly white that the Indian
was hardly observable. She knew that
were she to marry an Usage and become
the mother of a child that she was assured
Of a home and an annuity for the balance
OF her natural life.
Answered the Ad.
Being a blonde and having blue ewes, she
answered Three Strikers advertisement
and the result was an appointment for
them to meet In Pawhuska. Their COURT
snip was carried on through the medium of
prefer.
Mrs. Severance agreed to become Mrs.
Three Striker on the conditions that the
Indian should lay aside his blanket and
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Young Boston Woman Asked for
George MOore's Esther
Waters" at Library.
INDIGNANT WHEN REFUSED.
Refuses to Seek the Volume in
That Way and Declares She
Will Not Submit to Moral
Lecturing-The Book.


SPECIAL.
Boston. Mass. Aug. T7.-Because she did
not have a teachers card and would not go
to the librarian a young woman. who re-
fused to give her name. was unable to Sc
cure a starred" book from the Boston
Public Library, and she has been making n
stir about it.
She presented a card at the delivery win
dow with an application for two books. ty
George Moore. The Confessions of a Young
Man" and Esther Waters" The young
woman acting as delivery clerk noticed
tnat the latter was a starred" book and
SO ordered the other from the stacks ana
called the young woman's attention to the
fact that. while the starred books were
NOT for general circulation. the one desired
oorld be obtained for hall reading. or. "
she insisted on having it. she could see the
librarian, whose permission was required TO
obtsin IL.
Librarian Explanation.
The applicant replied: but i thoight
that teachers could take out the books"
The clerk esked IL she had a teachers
card. and the woman was obliged to say
that she had none. She had been a teacher,
but was now married. She did not insist on
her demand for the book, though the priv
ilese Of seeing the librarian was open 10
her. She talked to newspaper men, how
ever. and declared she had been scolded Tor
askin for such books.
When seen tonight Librarian whitney
said that the library did not intend to let
such books 90 into the hands OF young per-
sons not competent to understand them. 1t
was necessary for the library to own copies
of many works which were kept in the in
ferno" as part Of the collection Of literature
which 1t is one Of the duties Of the library to
make.
MI. whitney thought that the woman who
asked Tor the book must have misunder-
stood. for the book In question was not a
work to be denied to proper persons. ana
had she come to him she would have been
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BIG DiTCHES WILL !
DRAIN LARGE AREA.
st. Louis Man Reports on a Huge
Irrigation Scheme in
Montana.

Helena. Mont, Aug. 17.-Henry SempJo
Ames Of st. Louis. a representative of the
big trust company which has financed the
bonds for the irrigation Of the Dearborn
and Sun River district in the northern end
of Lewis and Clarke County. announces
that a canal to irrigate 1000 acres Of land
will be completed in October. Arrange.
ments have been made for beginning settle
ment on an organized scale the FIRST thing
In the spring. -
Mr.. Ames has just returned from q viatt
to the canal. accompanied by his brother.
Edgar Ames of Seattle. who is also an
officer of the trust company. and Donald
Bradford. a member Of the State Arid Lard
Commission.
THE work has progressed very well since
the rainy season ended" continued M.
Ames. and the canal will irrisate a tract
Of very fine land. which will raise prolific
crops. The settlers will come from Ne
braska. Iowa. Northern Illinois and WIZ
consin. q
There will be no difficulty In getting anx
number cf them. We have assurances frc4E
the agencies which furnish settlers that
they can get frst-class people, who arg
leaving land worth SIS to 80 an acre. which
Is subject to drought, to come out here -
take land with a perpetual water right q
one-seventh the price they win receive g
will produce twice as much as Easter
land.
Il inquired into the market for the PEG
ucts Of farms In the center Of this regfdS
and ascertained that an unlimited MARI
exists on the farm for all kinds Of hay
and grain, the purchasers being the cattle
and sheep men OF the vicinity. I an satfse
fed that this will be only the beginning g
an extensive development Of the farm ana
in the arid region of Montana.
The canal will be completed next year
ard will irrigate the whole 33000 acres p1p-
yided for In the contract. This will furnil1
farms of 1O acres each for over 800 famili43
"It II also contemplated that reservoirs
will be constructed from time to time TO
be flled with the flood waters of the Dear
born and Sun rivers. This will reclaim all
the irrigabie land in the territory bounded
by the Missouri River on the east. thu
Rocky Mountains on the west. the Dear
born River on the south and the Sun River
on the north. or about LEO. 900 acres Of "a -
land in Cascade and Lewis and Clarke cout-
ties. This will add greatly to the taxab1e
wealth OF those counties"
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New York. Aug. H.-According TO gener-
ally accepted report. Mrs. Louisa Hutch.n-
son and her youthful husband. Willard H.
Hutchinson. an actor. have been reunited
after d separation lasting a year. Mrs.
Hutchinson is nearly 80 years old and was
married to Hutchinson. who is q, eighteen
months ago. She had been married three
times before she met him.
In the early part of last summer they had
a disagreement which resulted in a separa-
ton. The disagreement was due to money
matters. Mrs. Hutchinson had signed a
deed by which all of her property was to be
held in trust for the benefit of her hus-
hand. Subsequently che revoked this and
signed a new decd of trust. by which each
was to share equally in the income of the
estate. A short time after that the couple
had their disagreement that resulted in the
separation.
Then the aged bride began an action to
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OF that fence. With il he shuts out would
be settlers from that land. and cattle hun
eering to Craze on its meadows. and with
It also he shuts in all the waters of the
Clear Lake watershed. all the lakes.
streams. rills and springs OF that country:
and these things, the people Of Modoc
hence they pray to have the Carr fence re-
moved.
But. MS before remarked. the fence has
not come down..
Will Fight the Case.
Jesse ID. Carr is an old man now. He
was born a year before the battle Of
Waterloo was fought. He was strutting in
his first trousers when Napoleon was dying
on ST. Helena. He lived his young man
hood and prime through events that IRE
only printed history TO us OF this genera
ton. He IL now in a hospital here. recov-
ering from an operation for cataract. He
has pulled through admirably. with sturdy
stubbornness.
He Is temporarily blind and almost deaf.
but when asked. what are you going TO
do about it," he replied with vigor and
promptness and a snort OF defiance:
I've been fighting for that land for twenty
five years and I'll keep on II they think
to tire me out they'll have a hard job doing
Carr and his code belong to another
period. There Is none Of the hair-spiitting
moSernness in him. no aitruisiie nonsense;
have waxed rich and strong and powerful
as a Baron of his day
Il never" he safu, Dy. way OF preface,
got a p~icayune. from the time 1 was Is
years old. thai l didn't make myself"
And you have" 1t was volunteered. "a
good many picayunes..."
"Oh. enough" he laughed. enough to
How He Got the Land.
But his fortune is one tina was lost and
made many times. Once 1t was swept away
with one fen swoop in the Mexican War.
and he came adventuring to California in
cover It. The star Route mail contracts did
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have the deed of trust set aside on the
ground that II had been obtained by fraud.
In the last wear friends of both Mr.. and
Mrs. Hutchinson had been trying to bring
about a reconciliation. and this was accom-
plished last week. Mrs. Hutchinson and her
husband have been spending the last few
DAYS at the seaside resorts near the city
and will continue their summer outing at
Saratoga.
Mrs. Hutchinson is reputed to be worth
several million dollars. When Is years old
she was married to Doctor Frederick A.
Caldwell. but three years later obtained a
divorce from him. Colonel Wilbur Temp
kins was her second husband. but she
again obtained a divorce. Cornelius Il.
Marco. an actor. was her third husband,
whom she married in 1891. but several years
ago she obtained a divorce from him, n
last st. Valentines Day took Hutchinson
as her fourth husband.
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Gloves.
Our FINAL cleanup of1adies' odds
and ends of Gloves. Come early
get some of the good things.
Ladies' Kid Gloves, in colored
and black. small sizes only. re-.
duced from 81. e1.50 Or
and 81, to, per pair.
Ladies' Pearl Gray and White
Kid Gloves. finest quality. actual
value %. while they SON
last
Ladies' Washable Chamois
Gloves. regular s1.oo A2c
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much toward building 1t up again: there
was a time when he was one of the biggest
mail contractors In the country, drawing
down s30o.eo a year from the Government
for mail contracts. among which was me
for delivering his own mall.
IL was Mr.. Carr who carried the frs.
mail between Virginia. City. New, and
Boise. Idaho. in that thrilling early day
when all the tomahawking Indians were
not confined to picture books. He had an
other mail route between Oroviile and PORT
land. and to this he owes his thousands OF
acres IN Modoc County and all the trouble
abou; his famous fence. Going back and
forth. the value of the hills and valleys and
mountain meadows of Modoc for cattle
ranges appealed to him. and he began ac-
curing his big holdings.
II used ordinary common sense and BUSH
ness sense." explained Mr.. Carr. II took
up land and ! bought land. I looked it over
carefully and selected the best to be nad-
and as that country was a wilderness when
/ went into IL l had my pick, of course. /
am charged with fencing in all the water.
Why shouldn't i? It's mine. bought IL.
i went over every bit of that country. end
where there was a spring or q creek or a
lake, that was the land I was after. That's
the way I got the wate.."
And the landT"
Proud of His Fence.
Mr.. Carr Is accused Of very judiciousiy
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CHICKEN PIE TO HELP CHuRc
Young Men Cooked It, Served!
and Washed the Dishes. ]

Philadephia. Pa. Aug. H.-It remaine(
for the congregation. and particularly IN
young men Of the congregation. Of the DaIez
Memorial u. p. Church. Thirty-second and
Cumberland streets. to evolve something 4
the line Of church suppers- This events
they served . genuine chicken pie suppeE{
The chicken Gle was cooked by some =
the young men Of Dales Memorial. II ~
served by other young men Of Dales NJ
mortal, and the dishes were washed by G.
young women OF Dales Memorial. and ~
older women. too. did nothing but eat q
c~rfticise. The proceeds WI Be Devoted
church work -
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FOUND SNAKE IN HER BED.
Young Woman's Serious Expert
ence With a CODnerhead

Fayetteville. Pa, Aug. T7.-Josephine Pat
terSon, q younG woman living at Pond
Bank. was awakened by a snake crawling
into the bed on which she was sleeping.
She gave . scream OF fright The reptile
on the breast. Her shrieks aroused the
other members of the family. who ran In
and killed the snake: which was = very
large copperhead- The young woman's
condition = seriouAI
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BIG PRICES FOR CABBAGES.
Colorado Farmers Enjoy Unheard
Of Remuneration

Colorado Sprir gs. Colo. Aug. n.-Farmers
of Fort Lupton nave been getting $1.7s and
= per 100 head I. o. b. for cabbage this
year. an unheard-of price. caused by COM
mission men.
Charles Wagner Of Fort Logan says that
twenty-five tons Of .abbage are being daily