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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07
By Gen. Andrew Burt, q. S. A.

7 HAVE witnessed many different
dances by various tribes of Indians
of the plains in the frontier days
OF long ago. but the one which lives
in my memory as the most revolving
CT them all is the torture dance, a test
of endurance, contest in which the
men OF the tribe endeavor TO show
the stuff they are made of. The tor
trre dance among the Indians is cere-
mony now. TO a large extent, discon-
tinued. The Interior Department has
largely succeeded in an effort TO stamp
out this barbarous practice. AS a mat
ter of fact. such dances as a public per-
formance, as was once the practice, are
row entirely forbidden. Though held in
secret the torture dance Is the grand
gala day of the old medicine chief"
Endurance CT the Indian.
The Hottest virtue Of the American
indian is endurance When religious
superstition and the high social virtue
CT n people combine in a given direction.
or toward any one action 1t may be re-
Earded as sure that that act will be
performed The Indian believes, like
many Christians, that self-torture is an
act most acceptable TO the Almighty
anG the extent of pleasure he can give
his Maker is measured by the amount
OF suffering he can bear without finch
ing. There are always. therefore, some
warriors who are actuated to the self
torture OF the 'Hoch-e- a-yum" by mo-
tIyes as pure and sentiments as holy
rs ever led a Christian martyr TO the
stake. Others are actuated by pride or
an tition. They wish to signalize TO
The whole tribe their possession in an
eminent degree of the chief of manly
virtues, or to lay foundation for future
pIeferment by an act at once holy and
popular.
Brutal and Bloody.
But very few years ago every as
Ijrant for the position and honor of
warrior in the plains tribes was obliged
70 go through an ordeal as brutal and
as bloody as can well be imagined. That
practice. too, has gone in the rapid prog
less OF change. The boy of sixteen 10
twenty years. painting for his position
as warrior. is no longer allowed by the
Interior Department to bare his breast
TO the knife yet it is done). to be tied
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07

The Musk OxFrom heFrozeR
North, the Largest Giraffe
Ever Killed in Africa, and
the Lion That Dragged About
His Descent From the Beast
That Bit Livingston, Among
the Late Arrivals. :. :. :.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07
d BEASTS OF THE FOREST THAT NO LONGER HOWL AND BITE

Skins That We're Once Inhab-
tied BY Wild Creatures in
All Quarters of the Globe
Now in the Hands of Expert
Taxidermists Being Stuffed
for Exhibition at the Ma
tional Museum. :. :. :.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07
Animals! Animals!

Animals! Animals
Shot by cannibals,
Modelled and stuffed and propped up straight,
With green eyes glarin full Of hate!
Johnnie and Willie and Susie-um- mi
Amt il fun at the VI oo-ze-um!
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-06-07
Try to Tear Loose.

IT is good medicine" to tear loose
at once. bad medicine" to be several
days about it. AS soon as freed, he is
examined by the medicine chief and old
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
NEW YORK GIRL
FOUND DEAD IN RIVER

OsWEGO. n. Y, Sept. Fully
dressed and bearing marks of violence.
the body of Miss Ina BowIey. of Bel
gium, n. Y. was discovered In the Os-
wego River. ten miles south of this
city. Several bad bruises were found
on the head. and an autopsy revealed
blood clots near the base Of the brain.
There were marks on the throat which
may have been caused by the bands of
the dress. Coroner Cusack, OF Fulton.
believes the death OF the young woman
was caused by wounds inflicted with q
blunt instrument.
Miss Bowley. who is nineteen years
old. had admirers by the score. but
Frank Horton. son OF a neighbor. won
her love. and they became engaged two
years ago. 1t is said Mr.. Horton broke
off the engagement a week ago. telling
Miss Bowley he could not support a
wife.
Young Horton denied having had any
quarrel with the young woman. and de-
clared that he had no knowledge OF her
death. He has many friends in this
city. and has borne a good reputation
in Belgium He will be held to await the
result Of the inquest
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
VIRGINIA COAL LANDS
IN TAX DISPUTE
Court to Determine Between Title
and Possession.

ROANOKE, Va, Sept. THE most
important case ever 10 litigation here,
so far as citizens Of Buchanan county
and their interests are concerned, has
been instituted in the county court A
motion has been made by the Tazewell
Coal and Iron Company to dismiss an
application Of c. W. Tebault for the
purchase of 1900. 900 acres of coal lands
assessed and sold for taxes to the audi
tor of Virginia in the name of Frederick
Pearson. Judge Alexander Beavers re-
fused to sit in the case for personal
reasons. and the matter was referred to
Governor Montague. who must now
designate a Judge to preside at the
trial OF the case
Local interests hope to have the court
decide that the applicant has acquired
a good title by reason of his paying the
taxes. The lands are said to be In the
name OF Frederick Pearson, yet the land
is claimed by hundreds of other persons
by reason of possession, one of them
being the Tazewell Coal and Iron Com
pany. The taxes levied exceed $50 900.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
RUHLIN AND CARTER
TO FIGHT TONIGHT
Both Men in Pink of Condition for
the Bout.

Gus Rubin and Kid Carter. the clever
Brooklyn boxer. are scheduled TO meet
In six-round bout before the Washing
ton Athletic Club. of Philadelphia. to-
night The bout is one OF the most i'm
portant between big men that has been
fought in the Quaker City in some time,
and there is considerable interest mani
tested in the result of the encounter.
Carter. although much lighter than
his opponent, is one of the most dan
gerous men in the ring, and he will
no doubt make things interesting for
Rubin. The latter will have to make a
very favorable impression. as he is after
match with Jeffries or Fitzsimmons
Should he meet defeat at the hands OF
Carter or be outpointed it would hurt
him considerably.
The Akron Giant is taking no chances.
however. and he will enter the ring In
good condition as result of couple Of
weeks hard training at Dyker Heights.
Carter has been training at Atlantic
City. and the work he has been doing is
said to have put him In splendid con-
dition.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
LOCAL AND BAL TINORE
PRINTERS TO PLAY BALL
Will Cross Bats in Monumental
City Today.

BALTIMORE, Sept. Probably one D,
the most interesting amateur ball games
today will be that between Baltimore
and Washington printers at Clifton
Park
The WashingtOnians arrived in Balti-
more at IL a. m. and were escorted by
a committee composed of Messrs. Pal
mer. Wizard, and Wagner to Clifton Park.
A large delegation of rooters accompa-
MED their comrades from the Capital
City.
On Labor Day last year the Crescents
defeated the Waverly Young Mems
Christian Association team before a
crowd estimated by Superintendent Fit
ton at 5000 and today it sexpected that
the crowd will exceed that number
The baltimore team will be stronger
than when IT played in Washington, as
Sunstrom, the crack pitcher of the Cres-
cents. will do the twirling.
AS previously stated. the team will be
entertained at dinner immediately after
the game.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
PROHIBITION A JOKE
IN PINE TREE STATE
Portland Deals Out Some Kind of Liquid Fire
That Fills All LOCk-UpS.

which is but few miles from any OF
the principal Aroostook towns, and
there, at the so-called Zine houses" get
ali the liquor they want.
The Good Templars are interrogating
the candidates for the Republican nomi-
nation for governor in 1904 as TO how
they stand on the liquor question. Jo-
seph II. Manley. OF Augusta, has an
swered through his paper. the Maine
Farmer" that he is for prohibition
right UP 10 the handle and William T.
Cobb, the limerick millionaire of Rock
land. has intimated that he will state
his position "at the proper time"
The Maine League OF Resubmission
Clubs" advertises that IL will hold a
State convention in Bangor on Septem-
Der 2. and that Mayor Beal. OF Bangor.
Will deliver an address of welcome This
league started out few weeks ago 20
enlist the business men in a movement
TO secure the resubmission of the pro-
hibitory amendment TO a vote of the
people. but there is no prospect OF any
thing being accomplished in that direc-
tion this year.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
WILL POWER COUNTED ON
ID CURE OPIUM FlEND

CHICAGO. Sept. 7.-Dr. G. W. Fam
uecy, who is in a cage-like cell In the
Peoples Hospital trying his own cure
for the morphine habit. was delirlous
part Of yesterday.
Il have only two days more" he
moaned. 'If they won't give me any
OF the drug for two days I'll be a we'll
man.
The physicians say that they will not
give Dr. Fanuecy morphine under any
circumstances. and that, although his
sufferings are keen now because he can
not get the drug, he will be completely
cured II his will holds out.
]. w. Gossard, a wholesale milllner.
will found a hospital to be devoted to
the cure Of victims OF the drug habit If
the Fannecy experiment is a success.
Attendants watch Fannecy and ad-
minister to him the remedies he r,re-
scrtbed for himself before he went 10
the hospital. By Tuesday he will have
gone far enough with the treatment to
take up the tonics. All the morphine
will have disappeared from his system.
and then the work Of building up the
wasted tissues will begin.
Fannecy is a graduate of the Unlver-
sity OF Michigan, of Bellevue Hospital
New York. and of the College Of Ply
sicians and Surgeons OF Chicago.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
COLLEGE GRADUATES TO
ORGANIZE AN ELEVEN
Games VIII Be Arranged With
College Teams.

Plans are on foot for the formation oil
a football team composed Of college
graduates. 1t will be an amateur team
and games Will be played with various
colleges. The men in the scheme in
clude former crack players OF Cornell
Columbia. Pennsylvania. and a number
OF the smaller colleges.
Among the prime movers in the scheme
are Raymond Starbuck the old Cornell
captain. and later head coach of foot
ball at Ithaca; Peter Overfeld. the
former guard and center OF the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania; Henry Van Hoev-
enberg. jr., who played al end on the
Columbia eleven in 1901. and coached the
Rutgers College team last year; Ralph
Ashley, COlumbia's phenomenal drop
kicker OF few years since. and A. D.
Austin. the heavy guard on the Colum-
bia eleven two years ago.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
WEISS TO ARRANGE
MATCH FOR JOE GRAN

Manager Charles j. Weiss, of Balti-
more, arrived in the city yesterday
morning and registered at the Central,
Tenth and e Streets northwest. He was
accompanied by the local wrestler. Joe
Grant, who has been training with him
in Baltimore for the past month. During
the day there were many callers at the
hotel, a majority OF whom were aspir-
ing amateurs anxious TO take part in
Mr.. Weiss tournaments, which he viii
hold at Odd Fellows Hall during the
coming season.
Since Manager Weiss has taken Joe
Grant in hand the local boy has shown
wonderful Improvement and the proba-
biIities are that he will furnish lots of
sport for his Washington friends this
winter. Several high class men are on
Grants trail and Manager Weiss has
decided to give them a chance as soon
as possible
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
TROLLEY CRASH HURTS
TWENTY BROOKLYNITES
Passengers Loud in Threats Against
One of the Motormen.

BROOKLYN, n. Y, Sept. Twenty
persons were more or less seriously in
jured and a dozen others severely shock
ed in a collision between trolley cars
of the Myrtle Avenue and Seventh Ave
nue. lines, at Myrtle Avenue and Adams
Street, at $50 o'clock last night. Run
ming at a high rate of speed. Myrtle
Avenue car No. 1885 struck the rear OF
Seventh Avenue car No. 2950. Both cars
were thrown from their tracks and their
passengers hurled to the floors and
against the sides.
Both cars were closed. and none OF
the passengers had any opportunity to
jump before the crash came
Women screamed and several of them
tainted, and for several blocks their cries
could be heard. Two ambulance calls
were sent in. to the Long Island Col
lege and Brooklyn hospitals, and four
surgeons were soon busy caring for tho
injured in the Adams Street police sta
tion, which was turned for the time be-
ing into an emergency hospital.
For more than an hour traffic on both
lines was delayed and for several blocks
in four directions cars were lined
against one another. On all sides. par
ticularly among the injured passengers,
indignation against the motorman of the
Myrtle Avenue car was intense, and
threats were uttered against him, but no
arrests were made. The Seventh Avenue
car. which was struck, is said to have
had the right of way
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
BRITISH WAR SCANDAL
MAY END LANSDOWNE {
Monster Petition Proposed to Force
His Dismissal.

LONDON. Sept. Although impeach-
ment Of the Marquis of Lansdowne as a
result of the disclosure of the war com
missions report it deprecated even by
the present foreign secretary's politi-
cal opponents, IL is suggested that II
Lord Lansdowne will not resign a mon
ster petition should be sent to the King
praying him to dismiss the minister
from an Office which he is unfit to hold
The Daily Chronicle" considers Lord
Lansdowne's presence in the foreign
office a national danger, but thinks i'm
peachment is not practicable, as it is sc
long since minister has been impeach-
ed of high crimes anj misdemeanors that
to the man in the street the process
saVors Of medievalism.
1t is a long time since such Language
as the Chronicle" uses has been heard
in England with regard to minister oi
the crown. There is no excuse" II
says, ''for Lord Lansdowne's failure in
duty II was the result OF Incidence and
the sacrifice of the nations safety to
his OWE personal convenience, and 1t has
been avowed by the culprit with a
cynical disregard for the feelings OF
those who have suffered so cruelty. The
indictment against Lord Lansdowne is
proved I'D to the hilt by his own evil
dence. He refuses to resign. The nation
must extort his resignation under cir
cumstances that will infiict upon him In
deIible disgrace
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD TOLD BRIEFLY FOR BUSY READERS
BLOCK ISLAND CABLE
SUCCESSFULLY LAID

BLOCK ISLAND, r. l., Sept. THE
new Government cable has been success
fully laid by the Scott Wrecking Com
pany's tug Alert, OF New London, under
the supervision of J. H. Robinson. OF
Washington, chief inspector of cables
for the United States Weather Bureau.
The island is now assured OF the re-
sumption of telephone service with the
mainland. after lapse OF two years. The
new cable was tested yesterday, and will
be opened for business today.
Provision Is made for both telephone
and telegraph wires. The old telegraph
cable, which is owned by the Govern
ment, is in such poor condition that the
island has been dependent solely on the
mails for communication with the main
land for periods Of two months at a
time
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
MISS BRYAN is NOT
ENGAGED TO H0BSON

LINCOLN, Neb.. Sept. Mrs. W. J.
Bryan last night authorized an emphatic
denial OF the story by an Eastern paper
that Ruth Bryan and Lieut.. Richmond p.
Hobson, OF Merrimac fame, were engag-
ed TO marry She said there was not
the least truth in the statement
This is corroborated by Miss Bryan's
intimates, who say the story doubtless
had it's origin In gossip that started
here when the lieutenant was a visitor
last month. Hobson dined with the
Bryans, and so thoroughly was he enter
tained that he almost forgot an engage
ment to lecture at a Chautauqua assem-
bly, and had to accept Miss Bryan's
services as a hurry-up guide
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
MINISTER SQUIRES FITS
UP NEW YORK HOME

NEW YORK. Sept. Herbert D.
Squiers. United States minister to Cuba,
will spend $3.50 in altering a house
here which he has owned for seven and
half years. Whether this means that
Mr.. SQuiers intends to return to New
York in a short time or is spending
money on the house for business reasons
is a matter OF conjecture. Mr. SQuiers
is now at Havana. and his architect.
Paul Grand d'Hauteville, recently sailed
for Europe.
The house is % East Eighty third
Street. an oId-fashioned four-story and
basement structure, twenty feet wide
Mr.. Squiers bought 1t in February, 1896.
Plans of the alterations have been filed
with the municipal bureau OF buildings
there
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
LETTERS MAY GIVE CLUE
TO ASSASSINS' PLOT

PITTSBURG, Sept. IA letter which
may furnish a clue to an assassination
plot by a band OF Nihilists was found
lying IN a street car on the Bedford Ave-
nue Line, and is in the hands of the
Pittsburg city detectives for investiga-
tion. The epistle is signed by seven
names in French and Italian and bears
none of the earmarks of a hoax.
The plain white paper bore the water
line of a foreign manufacturer.
Dated London, British Columbia, May,
1903, the letter requests" Mon. For
dessio," under threat of death, to hunt
what the writers desire in France, Ger
many. Russia, Italy, Asia, Africa, Spain.
and England. He is to kill his woman
companion in "Upias."
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
STARS NAMES CUT ON
CLUBHOUSE CHAIRS

hard-fought contest Followed by the
cheers of excited thousands, the vic
torious Phillies have crossed the sun
lit sward from the diamond to the club
house. and are crowding into their room
TO change from baseball 10 street attire.
Their spiked shoes clatter on the wooden
floor, they are laden with sweaters,
gloves. and bats. Wet and triumphant.
they throng the narrow hallway. laugh
ing and discussing the events OF the
game.
First are Delehanty and Lajoie, the
mighty burIies. inseparabIe companions,
the stars of the team. and for years af-
terward the two best batsmen in the
country
The red face OF DeIehanty is bent into a
great grin. 1t was his slashing dou-
bic TO the fence in the closing inning
that pulled out a game which seemed
hOpelessly lost. Larry Is twitting his
captain by saying that the ball would
have been an easy out had not the op-
posing outfelder misiudged II.
Thomas Unchanged
The swarthy Piatt and the black
moustached Mcfarland follow closely
They have borne the brunt OF the fight
In the points. and Liz" the pitcher.
holds up two dusty fingers to show
Thomas what was the total hits off him
Thomas was just the same then as
now. methodical, quiet a bit unenthu-
siastic. the baseball tactician. the SCI
entihc player Another brown face ton
ping great pair OF should
ers comes through the door II
Is Flick. His fight with Lato,e
1t was that kept the PhiIues ont
of pennant in that memorable season
The classic browed Wolverton and the
slender Monte Cross bring up the rear
OF the procession and the rotund shetts-
line enters the clubhouse TO give brief
directions regarding train time for the
next jump.
This is a scene in 1900. Only three
years have passed, yet II cannot be re-
produced. Larry. after having been one
OF the main causes of the baseball war
Is gone 10 Cleveland; Flick and Bern
hard are with him. Mcfarland is at
Chicago; Donahue at Cleveland. DR..
White is a Chicago star, Townsend
pitches for Washington. Piatt has Joined
the silent army of back-numbers. and
poor Delehanty is dead. His perfection
Of an athletic body, with the broad
shoulders, deep chest. and trunk-like
legs. after being torn and battered on
the rocks OF the Niagara River, has
round It's last resting place.
Brief, indeed. is baseball glory
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
CLUE TO THE THEFT
OF DREXEl JEWELS

NEWPORT. r. l.. Sept. IA clue has
been obtained that may lead to the find
ing of Mrs. John r. Drexels diamond
and emerald Dendant, which was lost at
Mrs. William E. Carter's dinner July 4.
1t has been supplied by an Italian
woman.
She says that a month ago she heard
two men OF her own nationality talking
about pawnshops of Providence and Fall
River. One of them opened a handker-
chief and showed the other a jewel. and
both later boarded a trolley car going
TO Fall River
The Washington times., 1903-09-07

BANGOR, Sept. Numerous inter
esting and amusing features have re-
Gently been developed in the progress
OF prohibition in Maine.
In Bangor. which for twenty five
years has been pointed out as a free
rum town. the liquor dealers are In a
state of panic over a sudden and most
unexpected onslaught by the courts and
the prosecuting attorney. About 200
dealers have been indicted, and many
have fed from the city TO escape the
jail sentences threatened by the court,
while not more than a dozen saloons
are open.
In Portland. where prohibition in the
past few years has been most strictly
enforced. the situation is depIora BILE
Under a Democratic sheriff the saloons
are all running, and the quality of the
liquor sold IS the vilest within the mem
Ory of the oldest topper. The police sta
tion was so crowded last Saturday
night that three wagonloads OF drunken
men had TO be removed to the county
jail TO make room for late comers
These men are not drunk" said a
policeman; they are insane"
The Portland newspapers openly de-
clare that the liquor trade is in the con-
troll Of politicians. known locally as The
Big Four" These men say who shall be
allowed TO do business and who shall
not, and also dictate what brands OF
liquor shall be sold.
Going to the other end OF the State, a
remarkable condition of affairs is dis
closed in AroostoOk county. Here the
sheriff has closed all the saloons. and
the men 60 over to the boundary line
between Maine and New Brunswick
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
TOBACCO RUINED BY
HAIL OF GREAT SIZE

SPRINGFIELD. Mass, Sept. THE
damage to the Connecticut Valley to-
hacco crop by Saturdays hailstorm will
reach S25O,o00. The towns most serious
ly affected are Agawam. Feeding Hills
and Southwick, Mass. and Sufield
Thompsonville, and Windsor, Conn. In
Sufield alone the loss will exceed
500, 900.
Tobacco on more than a thousand
acres Is utterly ruined. The hail varied
from the size OF peas to hens eggs. On
hundreds of acres the stalks alone re-
main. having been stripped of leaves as
cleanly as though they had been at
tackled by an army OF tobacco worms.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
HURRY-UP RACE FOR
NURSES, MAKING BEDS

BINGHAMTON. y. Y. Sept. L
Twelve women nurses. in uniform. caps
and aprons. took part in a bed making
contest at the Binghamton Hospital
yesterday Six beds were spread out in
line on the tennis court, with the bed
ding lying on the side OF each The
contestants had TO start from the oppo-
site end Of the tennis courts. race TO
the beds. make them, and race back to
the starting point. The pillows had 10
be put inside the cases
Mrs. Elizabeth Holmes was the win
ner. and received the prize OF 81. Her
time was minutes and 19 seconds. Miss
Sadie Webster won second prize.
The Washington times., 1903-09-07
PROF. OTIS T. MASON
RETURNS TO HIS DESK

Prof Otis T. Mason, of the bureau OF
anthropology of the National Museum.
has returned to his desk after an alb
sence Of FIVE weeks spent in Pennsyl-
vania sanitarium. Prof Mason was
greatly improved by his vacation. and
appears in better health than he has 70. =
some time.
The book upon basket work. which has
engaged the attention OF Prof. Mason
for months, is nearly completed. and
when II is published will be the most
comprehensive OF its kind in the world