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Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-18
Ill., - -. LAS Indian Killing

band was a mild hammered set long after
Harvey want back to Leavenworth.
"It was after this fight that Harvey threw
the Society for the Protection OF Western
Savages into q particular frenzy. The
wagon trail for oregon and California led
from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearnsy.
Neb., then to Juleshurg, In Colorado. from
there to Fort Laramie. through old South
Pass to Badger and then to Salt Lake. The
trip by OK train took about 100 days with
good luck. I kno Of a party that was on
the road 800 days. delayed by Indians ard
then snowbound. That wasn't . pleasant
winter for q boy Of l6.
Every now and then a band Of Sioux
would ride W to an or train, kill II they
felt like II and always drive ava the stock.
Soldiers would be sent out and have the
pleasure Of following the Indians trail I'M
til the weather would make winter quarters
necessary. Harvey started from Lsaven-
worth after one band. taking about 400 cav
alrymen, or dragons. The Indians loafed
along ahead Of him till they reached the
mountains. and then Harvey turned back.
II was the old story, the Sioux said, and
their scouts followed the soldiers until they
were well into Kansas. Then the Sioux
knew the country was clear for new opera
tons.
Harvey stopped on the Blue river In
northern Kansas near where MArysville
now stands. A wagon train reached there
from L~eavenWorth and Harvey had all the
freight Enthusiastically SEIZED the train
then he put 400 soldiers into those wagons
and in two were mountain guns. The great
covers were pulled close and, leaving q
guard over the abandoned freight and
horses. Harvey started on his journey as a
ull-whaeker. Not a soldier or ofacer was
permitted to put his head from under a
cover In the day time and only at night q
few got leave to stretch their legs. All day
they sat in those wagon beds. hot and dusty,
playing cards. hshting and chewing tobacco
for pastims.
There were twentY-six Of those wagons
and they trailed along as II they were car
ryins dead freight; nc faster nor slower
than the ordinary fFeighteFs, and making
camp a. the usual places. forming the usual
corral Of wagons and herding stock Al
night. The train reached Fort Ksarney
and slowly went across the South Platte d
JulsshuEE Occasional Indian signs made
Harvey have hops.
The outnt was seventy miles on the Way
to laramie when the big day came. and II
came quick. Behind them on the trail ths
men on the outside saw . war pArty-soms
say there we're 500 Indians in It. Even n
they hadn't been painted the fact that the,
were without women or children would hAv,
told the story. The uaA MADE Tie nsua
DreparAti0ns fog an Indian attack. throwing
the wagons into a circle. or more Of a
slIipss, and unlocking the Avs lead yOksl
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SHIVERICK FURNITURE COMPANY
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-18

ity. AS the business Is increasing, It II
probable that twice that quantity may be
used In a few years.
Fish Scales for Imitation.
The method Of manipulating the scales
varies somewhat in the different factories,
but the general principle Is much the same.
First. they are thoroughly washed to re-
move the blood and other foreign matter.
Fresh. clean water 10 then added. and they
are soaked and pressed to remove the pearly
essence which sinks to the bottom of the
vessel in the form of a b%lue-white oily mass.
When the water is drawn off this is col
lected and preserved from decomposition by
the addition Of ammonia or some other
volatile alkali. The quantity OF the essence
obtained is 30 very small that about 1,00e
nsh are required to produce one ounce Of
the material.
From fine glass, possessing a blush tint,
hollow beads are blown In the sizes and
shapes required for the pearls. For cheap
limitations this is accomplished very rapidly,
several thousand being made by a single
workman In one day. For choice products,
however, more care Ia exercised, and the
shapes and forms Of some pearls are closely
initiated even to the defects. When the
hollow glass bead is completed suficient
OF the essence OF the scales. combined with
melted isinglass. is blown into 1t until the
inner surface is completely covered. The
beads are stepped In alcohol and dried, filled
with cement and wax to give them weight
and consistenee, carefully drilled and lined
with slender tubes Of tinted paper to guard
the interior from coming in contact with
the thread on which they are to be strung.
Some manufacturers improve the appear
ance OF the finished pearls by exposing them
to the action OF the fumes of blsmuth, COM
bined with some mereurial preparation. the
exact nature Of which is not revealed. In
some factories each pearl is washed in q
fluid obtained by repeated distillation Of a
mercurial compound. Most Of these imita-
lions are manufactured in France, and
Lyons is the headquarters OF the industry.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-18
INDIANAPOLIS in seIectsd.

st. LOUIS, May i7.-Before adjourning
the convention OF the National Hardwood
Lumbermen's association selected Indian
resolution was adopted reeiting the fact
that all the national forest reserves are In
the west and urging upon congress the im-
reserve in the hardwood region OF the
southern. Appalachian. mountains, as a
preventing the disastrous floods In that
region.
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-18

He was an old cavalryman who had seen
service on the plains In the wayback, when
Indians had their war paint on. But no
one suspected 1t, because for years past
he followed the inactive and monotonous
life of q real estate agent in Kansas City.
The recent criticism OF the army in the
Philippines aroused his hghting and his
recollections of Indian warfare. and he
fled a few kicks in this style, In the Kan
sas City Star:
II oughtn't to have said anything. about
those days" he said, but this talk about
the war In Samar and the court-martial OF
old General Smith for trying to end hostili-
ties brought something back to me. !
knew Smith when he was captain and then
as now he was Jake Smith with his men
when he was out OF hearing. Blu Smith
has nothing to do with this tale except
that his case is nearly a parallel with the
one l have In mind. He's fighting Moham-
medan saVases in samar while my man
fought the painted variety on the Ameri'
can plains. From what I hear about the
samar people they're about as bad as the
Sioux we're when they were in control west
OF here.
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where Downing Fall Dress is Irlxsoms.


A belated traveller. who was compelled to
stay all night In a backwoods cabin, re-
lAtes In the Detroit Free Press, that soon
after the frugal supper of ''sody biskits"
and fried side meat" swimming In grease,
had been eaten, a tall. gaunt youth OF about
Is and an equally sallow and gaunt girl OF
II, both barefooted, took their hats from
wooden pegs on the wall and prepared to
go out, whereupon their mother. taking her
pipe from between her yellow teeth, said
reprovingly:
go long an wash your feet. Levi, you
an Looly both! Hain't you 'shamed to go
of TO an evenin' party without washin' your
feet?"
They obeyed. but as Levi took the wash
pan from a bench by the door he said, with
q srumble:
'Id bout as soon stay home from a party
as to have TO fx up so for hiti"
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to each wagon. A front wheel Of each
wagon touched . hind wheel Of the one In
front and the tongues were turned to the
outside. At the front end Of the corral an
opening about fifteen feet wide was left,
but at the rear the opening into the corral
was about nfty feet wide. That, also, was
according to the treighters' methods; after
. night camp the cattle would be driven
into the corral through the big end to be
yoked for the day.
Harvey didn't have time TO drive his
oxen into the corral, or else he didn't want
to. Only the ave Jokes Of leaders were un-
hooked, and they were then chained to the
front wheel Of their wagon. The space In
the corral was all clear for the Indians,
whose method OF attacking a wagon train
was to rush into the corral and do their
shooting. They we're . happy lot Of braves
this day; the war band started for the train
when the corral was forming; they spread
out like . fan and then came together again
aud started for the big opening as hard a.
their war ponies could carry them. A
whooping. variegated mob with no more
clothes han the paint gave, it fell into the
corral and then real fun began.
Those soldiers. who had been sweating
under canvas for q few weeks, wanted ex-
citement and revenge. The taTpaulins went
up and they shot down into that mess of
braves aS fast as they could load. The two
mountain guns completed the surprise and
the bucks hardly hred . shot before their
ponies we're climbing over one another to
get out the way they came. II was the only
real Indian panic. When the last siou1
brave able to ride disappeared across the
prairie there was a big meas to clean up.
I've heard all kinds Of stories from men
who said they were there giving Harney's
bag OF dead Indians as ranging from 100 10
400. Nobody seemed TO know the exacl
number, but Il was enough to cause the
eastern friends Of the poor Indian 10 de-
mand HRrney's court-mArtial. think there
was q court OF inquiry, but Il was held that
the method used was not only one with re-
suits, but was instructive TO the Sioux "a
we'll"
"pid 1t put an end TO attacks on waEou
trainsr'
yes. for Just about three months-maybe
less. In those days the Indians needed
school all the year around. However, one
old buck. a little chief. seemed 70 be I'm.
pressed. He was near a mountain gun Wheu
the IRE opened. Harvey is the man who
shot. wagons At u.s. IL the way he told about
u years later.
"Harnsy stayed on the plains for som,
years and was In command Of Missouri IN
the early years Of the civil war. A. usuaI
he got into trouble and got out OF II. They
said he was too friendly to the southern
slemsnt and ho vas relieved from command
Later he was fetirsd ~ . major general
The old man died about ten years As0l
must have bsea Somewhere near % year.
HH
Omaha daily bee., 1902-05-18

None Of you remainder Harvey. old
General William S. Harvey. He was a
mighty big man in his day aud hasn't been
dead so long-died a major general, ! be-
lieve, Harvey was a Tennessee product
Tennessee grows the ~runtiest and the big
gest men or earth-6 feet 8 inches.
When he was IT he got his COM
mission and from that time until he was
retired he fought when he wasn't sleeping.
He helped to clear Florida OF Indians and
was brevetted and court martialed with
equal regularity. Through the Black
Hawk war, through Mexico back to Florida
and then to the west. Along In 1885 or
1856 the old man had an ambition to be-
come acquainted with his family and asked
for a leave. He got 1t. you bet. and was
just trimming himself into shape for eivili-
zation when President Pierce sent for
him.
General. I don't like to ash you to go
west after all the servioe you have had, he
said. but 1 would be glad n you'd whip
the Sioux bands that are threatening
"Rarnsy saw his leave gone and was
soon in the Sioux country. As ! remember
the story. he established his headquarters
At Fort L~saVsnwoFth. Little Thunde was
At the head Of the Sioux. and sent word
that he vas willing either to hsbt or shaks
hands with the white soldier. Harvey re-
piled that n the Indian was without choies
In the matter Il might ~ we'll BE light;
besides. - he remembered his orders. hs
was 10 Whip someone. 70 HamU net Lit
tie Thunder and about l.O0e war men on
the North Platte In Nebraska he ShipDet
them and some Of the IndlAns' friends hael
east tried to make uouhle TOR AArnsy -
cause he had not had . long pTsliminAFl
eonfab With Ltts Thunder. Thai aiOal
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-07

Washington were assigned to make regu-
lar monthly visits to the insanitary build
ings Six divisions were made, covering
the entire city, as follows:
First dvision-Georgetown: Professor B.
t. Janney, DR.. Charles P. Neill and Mrs. H.
f. Blount. Second division-Rock creek to
10Th street northwest: Mr.. John W. Foster,
Col. George TrueSdell, Mr.. John JOY Edison,
Mr.. w. S. Woodward and Mr.. John B. Hen
derson. Third divison-15th street to North
Capitol street: DR.. George M. Kober Sur
geon General George M. Sternberg. Herbert
Wadsworth, Surgeon General Walter Wy
man and Thomas E. Waggaman. 1t will
probably be desirable to subdivide this part
of the city into two sections respectively
east and west Of 7th street northwest.
Fourth Observation-Disclosures: Mr. Cuno H.
Rudolph. Mr.. j. b. T. Upper. Mrs. H. B.
F. Mcfarland, Bishop H. Y. Satterlee and
Mitchell Dyrenforth. Fifth division-North-
east Washington: Mr.. Thomas w. Smith,
Mrs. Archibald Hopkins, Mrs. Chas. Moore
and s. w. Curriden. Sixth division-South-
east Washington: Mr.. B. H. Warner, Gen
eral John NJ. Wilson, General w. K. Van
Reypen and Mr.. S. r. Bond.
The committee instructed Secretary We'll
Ter to communicate with other cities con-
corning the methods Of work pursued by
similar committees in New York Chicago,
Boston and elsewhere.
+ The following were present at the meet
ing: Mr.. 8. w. Woodward, chairman: Col.
George TruesdeH, first vice chairman; DR..
George M. Kober, second vice chairman;
Professor Charles P. Neill, Mr.. Thomas W.
Smith, Mr. John W. Foster, Professor B.
7. Janney, Mr.. J. B. T. Upper, General
W. K. Van Reypen, General Walter wy
man, Mr.. Mitchell Dyrenforth Mr. George
8. Wilson, Mrs. H. B. F. MacfarIand and
Mr.. Charles F. Weller, secretary of the
Associated Charities.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-07
BENEFIT ENTERTAINMENT.
String Quartet Gives Performance at
Columbia Theater. -

At the Columbia Theater last evening
the Stephenson String Quartet of Phila-
delphia gave it's first concert in Washing
ton for the benefit Of the summer home of
ST. AIMS Infant Asylum. Phe audience was
composed of many of the music-loving
people of the city, besides representatives of
foreign legations Senator Hale, Represent
atives Driscoll Kahn and Fitzgerald and a
number Of catholic clergymen of Washing
ton were present. ,.....-
The personnel of the quartet is Miss Lalla
Stephenson. first violin: Mrs. Elsie Stephen
son Kerrick, second violin and viola; Miss
Clara Stephenson, cello, and Mrs. Eta
Hunter Stephenson, piano, It was assisted
in the program by several local s0loists.
The quartet's work met with the apprecia-
ton Of the audience and was of unusually
artistic, merit. Among the numbers rem
dered were selections from Jadassohn, Mas
senet. Nevin and Dvorak Other numbers
which aroused hearty applause were a vio-
lin solo by Mrs. Elsie Stephenson Kerrick,
cello solos by Miss Clara Stephenson and
violin solo by Miss Lalla Stephenson. The
local artists on the program were: Mr.. H.
s. Whitney, basso: Mrs. Esther Gumprecht,
soprano. and Mr.. Charles e. Myers, tenor.
Prof. Charlemagne Koefller gave recita-
ton and was repeatedly encored, and the
Delsarte class from the Immaculate Con-
ception Academy gave beautiful panto-
mime drill. Every number met with ex-
pressions of approval from the audience.
The accompanies were Mr. Armand Gum
precht and Mrs, Imogen Avis Brosius.
Miss Mary Helen Mccarthy, president
and secretary Of st. JoSeph's Union was
chairman of the committee on arrange
n,ents, and Mrs. A. Gfiien. Mrs. j.. J. Col
Inns and Mr.. William F.. Mccarthy were
members. This committee has for the past
five years arranged an annual concert for
the benefit of the summer home, and the
profits accrnfng have been about 81, 600
each year. Last nights affair was one of
the most successful events In the history
or the movement, and the receipts will like
ly exceed those Of previous occasions
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-07
VALUABLE GEMS RECOVERED.
The Property Of Mes: aHarriet Blaine
Bea1e. = 80 70

Local officials ii fiies Southern railway
were Informed SATURDAY night Of the re-
covery at Charlotte IN; NJ, CO The 5000
diamond and pearl NECKLACE which was
lost by Mrs. Harriet Blaine eBeaIe, the 7th
of last month. gao 80. - -k5-
The necklace, from Which. many of the
gems had been removed, twaa recovered in
Charlotte by DetectiveI,W S. Orr of that
city, with the assistance Of the jewelry
firm Of Garibaldi & Burns Five pearls were
bought by the jewelry firm from fiagman
employed by. the Southern railway. The
jewelers. paid IS for them and afterward
learned learn .1 from New York jewelers. that they
Members OF the jewelrg urn; communicat-
ed with Mrs Beale's Relatives about the
pearls. Railway officials learned of the
transaction in Charlotte and the investiga-
ton resulted in the recovery of the neck
lace and the diamonds and pearls The
fagman turned over the valpables to ex-
Mayor Mccall and the officers tnvestigat-
ing the case with the understanding that
he would not be prosecuted
When first interviewed the man claimed
he had found the necklace. on the street in
Savannah, and later, 1t is reported he adj
mftted having taken 1t from berth in a
Pullman car. A reward OF $3.50 was offered
by the Southern Railway Company for the
recovery OF the Jewels. Mrs. Beaie was on
her way here from Florida when the neck
lace was stolen She came here to meet
Miss Alice Roosevelt and accompany her to
Havana. where she now is. Upon her re-
turn she VIII be given her necklace.
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ALEXANDRIA COUNTY NEWS.
Judge Loves Order for Condemnation
of Lands for Road Purposes.

In the county court of Alexandria county
Friday, Judge James NJ. Lowe, rendered
his decision, condemning certain lands and
opening what is called the Garrison Public
Road from the village Of Clarendon,
westerly. through a thickly settled sec
ton of the county just north Of Ballston,
toward Mt. Olivet Church. The establish
ment of this road has been warmly opposed,
but the judge said, in rendering his decis-
ion, that the evidence clearly showed Ii to
be a public necessity. Attorney James E.
Clements filed the original petition for the
road, but later on Attorneys Lyon, Doug
las and Machen and Moncure were employ
siderable Importance. Though much of the
land was donated for the new highway
about twenty-five different pieces Of land
had to be condemned.
In the case of John Bruce, the court de-
MED the petition for a writ of habeas cor
pus, and remanded the prisoner to Jail to
serve out his sentence. Exceptions were
noted, and the case may be taken to the
Court of Appeals 1t Is stated that Bruce
struck Coleman Williams in the head with
crowbar, at the brick yard In Alexandra.
county last November, injuring him so
that he had to go to the hospital Bruce
was tried before a magistrate, and found
guilty of assault and battery and fined s..
Later, the grand jury indicted Bruce for
feloniouS assault, and he was tried, found
guilty and sentenced to confinement in the
county jail for six months. The prisoner s
attorneys, Messrs. Machen and Moncure
sought to have the prisoner released upon
the grounds that he had been tried twice
for the same offence, but Judge Love held
that the conviction for a misdemeanor was
no bar to a trial for a felony, and that the
prisoner was lawfully held. Attorney j.
E. Clements represented the common
wealth
Charles Smith, colored, who was indicted
for assault with intent to kill Samuel
Thompson in Alexandria county, some
months ago, and who is confined in jail
awaiting his trial. gave bond before the
court in the sum of $50 for his appear
ance at the next term of court for trial.
William T. Burrows, qualified as executor
of George II. Mortimore, deceased and
John Schurb. jr.. was appointed admInis-
traitor of John Schurb. ST., deceased, and
gave bond In the sum of 5000. The court
will be in session until Tuesday next
The knights of Pythias of Baiiston and
vicinity have purchased two lots of ground
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Twenty six prominent men and women of
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The third in series OF lectures was de-
livered Saturday afternoon In Columbian
University lecture hall by Prof. Mitchell
Carroll; whose theme was ..Sagpho, the
Tenth Muse" So
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-07
HOUSING CONDITIONS.

Business Before the Committee on Care
of the Poor.
The second annual meeting of the COM
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in that village and WILL during the COM
ing summer. erect handsome public hall.
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We provide vehicles for every re-
quirement of pleasure or business SER
vice. Our product includes Runabouts,
Victorias, Pfaetons, Surveys, Cabrio-
lets, Touring Carriages, Brougfams,
Hansoms, Landeaus, Opera Buses.
Wagonettes, Onnibuses, Traps, De-
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lands had not been known to be mineral
when Clarke selected he would have had
good title, provided NJ had complied with
the law and shown that at that time they
were not occupied under the customs of
miners, which, the Secretary says, are part
of the mining land law. But as he had not
done So ii Is claimed he did not entitle
himself at the time and before he did any
thing further it had become generally
known to everybody that the lands were
mineral, and SO not open to selection.
Clarke the answer says, knew and the land
office could not know whether the lands
were actually occupied, and for that reason
1t was incumbent upon him to show by his
affidavit that they were not in order that
he might select them.
After the appeal was decided the River
side OH Company, to which Clarke had
sold his rights moved for rehearing.
which was granted. but on the rehearing
the Secretary, acting with the advice OF
the assistant attorney general OF the In
terror Department. reaffrmed his former
decision and the Riverside OH Company S
counsel appealed to the courts for man
damus to require the Secretary to issue
patent for the land. claiming that his con-
struction of the statute was erroneous and
that in demanding proof that the lands
were occupied he had transcribed his au-
thoritY.
In his answer Secretary Hitchcock says
that the construction of the statute in the
administration Of the land laws is for him
to decide and that the failure OF Clarke to
comply with the statute by showing the
lands to be subject to selection prevented
any title from resting on him, and that he
is not entitled to patent.
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REPORT ON ARC LIGHTING.
Reasons for Recent Outage Given by
Mr. Fisher.

Thomas ]. Fisher has submitted a re-
port to the District Commissioners on the
complaint of W. A. Knapp, concerning the
recent frequent outages OF the arc electric
lights on Pennsylvania avenue west of 18th
street Mr.. Fisher explains the matter to
the Commissioners as follows:
''On April 26 the lamps on circuit Is were
changed to the latest improved style of in
closed lamps. The machines for running
these lamps were found to have been sent
from the factory improperly wound and
that caused trouble from the start. The
new lamps carry about % more volts than
the Old lamps and this tended to overload
the cable. which caused the lamps to burn
out Both Of these troubles were unfore-
seen and as soon as they appeared the COM
pany took immediate steps to remedy them.
This circuit has been put on other ma
chimes which are now working satisfac-
torily. Several hundred feet of new cable
has been installed, and there has been
no other report of trouble since May 2
am Of the opinion that the circuit is nov In
good condition. and that very little trouble
will occur in the future.
II recommend that the complainant be
informed that the company has been active
ly engaged since the first trouble was dis
covered trying to overcome the same: that
the lights in use being new style Of SER
vice. there has naturally been a little din
Guilty. but that the company gives assnr-