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fourished over the bosoms of departed
worth: The marks OF sacriIegious de
struction upon the monumental pile by
idle, rude, and vulgar hands, siekened
my very soul, and almost determined
me not TO be buried in a place appro-
priated to the dead. or even to allow q
turf 10 mark the spot where my remains
may rest"
This communication caused a good deal
of comment, and led TO prompt action
for the care of the cemetery. a number
Of ladies OF the Presbyterian congrega
tion called meeting. elected the late
Miss Mary Thomas chairman, and in
duced the church TO give into their
charge the care of the buryfng ground
The fences were then repaired. walks
were graveIed, lots were sodded. and tho
grounds cleared and beautified. For
thirty years. as long as Miss Thomas
lived, the old cemetery was we!I-kept
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casses Of the bufaloes as they ium-
bered off generally meant that The ami
nal was your meat, if you wanted meat.
or your hide. If you were hide hunter.
have been told that one man has
been known to kill over 200 in single
days hunt, but never got that many
except on one occasion. and that is go
ing to be the story Of tonight.
Christmas Day, that year was as
bright a day as man ever saw There
was a little snow on the ground and the
air was cold enough to make a man
thrash his arms considerably 4 an ef-
fort to keep warm. The day before
had killed five or six bunaloes and had
sent three skinuers out with orders to
bring the carcass of a yearling calf into
camp. intending to roast a good part OF
it for our Christmas dinner The
weather was 50 fine that I concluded
to get back into camp about 4 O'Clock
In the afternoon for dinner.
Stampeded Over a Bluff.
Down below Forsyth. you remember
the river sweeps close against a high
perpendicular bluff. Leading back from
this bluff there is a long grassy ridge
and near the river fringe of scrubby
pines follows the edge Of the bluff q
crescent-shaped fringe being on eact
side Of the ridge. I had frequently no
ticed the place, and thought what d
good place it would be to stampede g
herd Of bunaIoes over and make a phe-
nomeraI killing.
Well, that is how l made the big
killing. Near the head OF the ridge
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other cemeteries. Nearly 500 bodies thus
found rev resting places. Possibly 200
remain. but the number and location Of
the graves no man knows Many Of the
stones have disappeared, and others
have been displaced. 3 Graves unmarked
have been Ieveled and are now impossi-
Bile of Identification. Neglect and van
daIism have done their perfect work.
a Pathetic Inscription.
Arrong the inscriptions still TO be
read upon the battered and mangied
headstone is that of Sarah, wife Of John
Gardiner, ..to whom she was in ad-
versity faithful helpmate, in pros
perity pleasant companion. in sickness
an excellent nurse. to their twelve chill
dreE a most afectionate mother, and TO
the distressed benevolent beyond her
scanty income" The dates OF birth and
death are gone, but the tribute TO good
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OF their winters work. and there was
more than one of these men whose fate
has never been learned.
One winter night a crowd Of congenial
fellows sat around a warm fire in
Dickinson saloon. It was Christmas eve.
and the memory Of the day brought back
more than one interesting reminiscence
of early day ChTistmases. For a long
time Trask was a good listener. and
finally he was pressed 10 give his expe-
rience on some Christmas Day in the
past, TO tell of some adventure which
befelI him in the times when he was
buffalo hunter.
a Christmas Day Round Up.
I do not know whether this story will
interest you OF not" he said, but the
very. nearest ever came TO having my
scalp lifted was on Christmas Day ia
1878, when l was hunting buffalo in the
Yellowstone Valley IN company with
four SINNERS, I had established my
winter camp in a thick growth of cotton
woods. which can now be found few
miles below where the town Of Forsyth
stands. and On the opposite side of she
river. I had followed the occupation
Of a buffalo hunter for several seasons.
and it was seldom when I got less than
1 900 hides as the result OF the winters
hunt The winter OF '78 passed off un-
usually we'll and I made an extraordi-
nary killing before ] had been in camp
over week, knocking down over eighty
fine fellows in 8 single day. ] had the
best buffalo pom in the entire country
and could leave him 10 hts own devices,
once IN herd The method I pursued
in killing the animals, will explain to
you tenderfeet, was TO get as close as !
could to a band as they were grazing,
and then dash into them astride of a
good pony.
The guns we used in those lays were
heavy caliber Sharps rifles. and a bull
let almost any place in the huge car
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woman remains, one of the best preserv-
ed epitaphs of all. Beside it is a broken
stone sticking out of the ground still
announcing that Caleb Peele Gardiner
lies buried there.
Tomb of Young Englishman.
On the highest point of ground beside
the beaten path through the graveyard
work of art to perpetuate the memory of
John Haydock, a stonecutter, who died
April 10, 1907, only twenty-seven years Of
age. He was d native of Lancastershire,
England. The slab is sandstone and is
beautifully carved with an appropriate
inscription. The lettering is exquisite,
and none approaching it in excellence is
10 be seen on any other stone The top
and corners OF the slab have been knock
ed off. but the beauty of the stonecutting
remains, and seems to have been its pro-
lection through the years, though most
exposed of any.
Monuments to the Mackey Family.
Two almost perfectly preserved tombs
are shown in one of The illustrations,
standing side by side close up to the
north line Of the cemetery. The tombs
are each surmounted by tablets resting
upon posts at the corners. They contain
the remains of the Mackey family. One
Of the tablets marks the final sleep of
Sarah. who died August 4, 1s45. and Of
Alexander, who departed April q. 1886
The other tablet is sacred to the mem
ory of Martha. wife Of William Mackey
merchant of Georgetown, and the in
sCTiptiOn states that near the grave are
deposited the bodies of Alexander. Cath
crime. Christiana and Helen. their
children, removed in the morning of life
The broken remnant of tablet near by
once covered the grave Of William
Mackey. who died November %, 1889.
4 dismantIed tomb not far away is
partially covered by the tablet of Mar
/ tha NJ. SeawelI. wife of Capt W S.
seawelI, who died in Tampa, Fla, No
vember II, 1889. in the twenty ninth
/ year of her age.
Died in 1905.
/ A nicked and broken stone on the
south side OF the cemetery marks the
resting place of David Hepburn. who
/ died November II. 1905, giving a clue to
/ the great age of the burying ground
/ The monument TO William Waters re-
ferred 10 was once q pretentious shaft.
{ and one OF the imposing ones of the
J cemetery. It is now dismantIed and
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II He Yellowstone River Valley ad-
joining the region where Presi-
dent Roosevelt and his party are
At present sojournIng for the purpose Of
studying animal life, was the scene of
the last great buffalo roundup twenty
FIVE years ago. One of the best-known
men who followed the occupation OF buf-
falo hunters in the days when the val
ley was the wintering place of thou
sands Of the Indians cattle was Char
ley Trask, who has spent the past. sew
eral years of his life on cattle ranch
near Dickinson, 5 D., says the Ana
conda CMon) Standard. In all prob
ability he was the last OF the army of
hide hunters" 10 give up the Occupa-
tion. and II was only when the last
large band Of buffalo was killed of that
he engaged in some other pursuit.
In the winter Of 1878 he established
his camp on the Yellowstone. a short
distance below where the town of For
syth nov stands AT that time there
were thousands Of buffalOes roaming the
grass covered hills which border on the
Yellowstone River NaIleys~and the kill
ing of these was an easy matter for the
experienced hunter Each hide meant
from 81 to $ for the hunter. and the
tongue. which was the only part Of the
carcass generally saved. meant from TWO
to four bits more. after il was smoked
and cured. Ire Yellowstone was not the
safest place in the world for a white
man in those DAYS, for il was the hunt
ing ground of several warIike tribes Of
Indians, each of which claimed eastern
Montana at that time. and no man
knew when he would be assaiIed by
either Sioux or Crow warriors. But
the hide hunters cared but little for the
danger. Each winter they stood TO clean
Up several thousand dollars as 2 result
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CHARLEY TRASKS STORY OF THE
LAST DAYS OF THE BUFFALO SLAUGHTER

capped with little injury. their less for
tunafe herd mates serving as a cusa-
ion to break the fail and. after being
stunned for few minutes. they dragged
themselves across the slippery ice and
crossed the river 10 safety.
Some of the animals were crippled
so badly that they could not get up. and
after watching with chagrin over fifty
head cross the river 10 safety. / went
down to the river to put the wounded
animals out of their misery. My pony
left on the river bank grazing, and
was soon busy shooting the crippled
brutes. l counted over two hundred
carcasses on the ice, and was looking
over the bunch with considerable graft
fication when I heard something spat
in the ice Immediately in front of me,
Attacked by Indians.
An instant later heard the report of
gun. and looking across she river, 7
saw that I was the target for dozen
redskins and they were apparently
bound to have my scalp and the i'm
mense pile of meat I had killed The
instant / saw them I lodged behind
the carcass of d big bull ana opened
fire in return / had an old Sharps
rifle which would shoot and kuI nearly
a mile. and, with the buffers as bar
ricades. I managed to keep my skin in
tact until darkness came, laying out
one or Two reds in the meantime. Dur
ing this time one Of the red men, while
the others held my attention in the front
| crossed the river a mile or more above
and stole my horse. which left me afo0t
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Reberenoe For the Dead Seem
6qgLy Has Vanished From,
the Youth in the Nefghbor-
hood of tie Old Resby-
tertafa Cemetery Plan to
Concert the Grounds Into
a Public Park. e -

place. William Hickman was sexton
and grave digger in the period, and upon
him the keeping of records devoIved.
The rental for the lots was used first
to keep the grounds in order, and the
balance for charitable purposes.
Tombs of Pioneer Residents.
Richard P. Jackson, in his chronicles
.of Georgetown, described some of the
tombstones of this period as follows:
In looking over the tombstones the
chronicler discovers that Robert Peter.
the first mayor of Georgetown. died No
vember ID. 1906, aged eighty years John
Barnes, collector of the port of George
town for twenty years. and founder of
the poorhouse. died February II. 1925,
aged ninety-six years. James Gillespie,
member Of Congress from North Caro-
lima. died January II. 1905. Mary Boher,
wife OF John T. Boher, died August s,
1874, in the ninety seventh year of her
age Elizabeth Thompson died March 9.
IS47. aged eighty years. William
Waters, soldier Of the Revolution. died
August 19 1859, in the ninety third year
of his age. George Beall, born in
Georgetown. February 26, 1929. died Oc-
tober Is. 1907. in his seventy ninth year.
The town must have been village at
the time of Colonel Beall's birth
The tombstones Of George BeaH. Mary
Boher. and villain Waters still remain
near the east side Of the cemetery in a
fair state OF preservation.
The Last Interment in 1887.
The records of the cemetery now in
the hands of Charles Becker show the
/ last burial 10 have been in March. 1887.
About that time law was passed by
! Congress forbidding further buriaIs in
/ cemeteries within the limits of Wash
/ ington and Georgetown. Soon afterward
/ the old sexton died. and as there was no
/ incentive to appoint another there was
no one to look after the burying ground,
/ As years passed the fences fell down
/ piecemeaI. and were not repaired. After
] the prohibition OF further burials the
/ surviving friends OF the deceased had
/ the bodies disinterred and removed TO
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during almost unheard of privations that
I reached old Fort Ellis, footsore. FROST
bitten and in rags, a month later.
had nearly 200 prime hides in that camp.
which I was compelled to abandon, and
the thought of thes other 200 hides wait
ing to be stripped of the earcasses on
the river made me sick TO think about.
The following spring 1 accompanied a
Government party down the river and
sfter a considerable search we found the
bodies of my three other skinners. but
1 rever found a trace of the hides had
salted away in the camp.
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jumped a band OF nearly four hundred
head Of buffers and was soon shooting
among them. dropping one every row
and then. They were headed directly
for the blum and / did not shoot as often
as usual. but I had them thoroughly
frightened and they Numbered on for
the bluff, making the ground fairly trem-
BILE with their weight You know. d
butler always runs with his head down.
and the leaders of the band were fairly
in the trap before they saw #. The
leaders tried 10 check the rush and
swerye to the fringe of pines in an eff
fort to prevent going over the cliff but
the weight of beef coming behind was
so great that they could not stop. and
over they went. As soon as I saw that
they were headed right I turned my
horse TO one side and rushed him 10 The
top of a high butte in order to avoid
being trampIed by the rush of the sur
vivors. should any succeed in escaping
from the crush. Il is we'll I did for
within a few minutes after l had left
the trail fully one hundred maddened
animals plunged back along the back
trail fairly blind with terror
Fell One Hundred Feet.
From my station on the butte top I
had an excellent view of the avalanche
| of buffers as it poured over the edge
Of the bluff It was nearly one hun
dred feet to the frozen surface of the
Yellowstone and the majority OF them
were killed as they fell. Some of the
last ones that went over apparently es
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A SURE SIGN.

When Spring is comm in, an skies turn blue.
An the first grassblades are a-peepin' thru
I luv' to git out in the open air
An kind o loaf about, jest ennywhere;
No wonder tis TO me- that poets sing
The changin' beauties uf airIy Spring;
Fer somehow when the sap begins TO flow
There's unervarsal joy down here below.
March winds kin blow an turn an blow ag'in,
Mad ez a hare, an bitin' like oil sin.
Dry leaves kin fly an kind @ whisk around,
An rustlin' eornstalks make shivery sound;
But eff you jes kin hear bIuebird sing.
You know right of it sure enuf is Spring
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This I discovered after dark, when /
reached the bank and whistled vainIy
for the pony.
Comrades All TOmahawked.
BY keeping close to the bank man
aged TO reach camp. but found not a
sign of life about the place. The skin
ners had not returned. and the camp
cook I found tOmahawked a short dis
tance from the cold campfire.
''Afterward I found that all three of
my skinneTs had also been surprised and
murdered. and it was only by the great
est scratch in the world and after en-
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cemeteries in the Potomac valley. It
was laid out in connection with the
West Street Presbyterian Church. The
records Of the church and of the ceme-
tery were destroyed by fire many years
ago. so that it is not possible to state
with exactness when the first burial took
place The land was donated by the
owners of the original Beatty & Hawkins
addition TO Georgetown. and was a part
OF what was then Frederick county,
Maryland, afterward Montgomery coun-
ty The cemetery at first included the
entire lot now bounded by Thirty third,
Thfrty-fourth. Q and r Streets north
west Not being rapidly filed up, it was
thought the ground might be in part
utilized for building purposes. and an
old row or houses occupied by negro fam
lilies extends along three-fourths Of the
south side of the square on Q Street On
the dfagonaIly opposite corner Of the
square is another short row of houses,
and the east side of the square on Thirty
third Street is closely built up, except a
lot near the center on which stands a
chapel the property of the Methodist
Church South. This was intended as the
site of a chapel for the Presbyterian
Church and was sold 20 the Methodists
several years ago. The cemetery, there
fore. occupies about one-half of the
square. being two plats of ground, each
nearly square. located corner 10 corner
and overlapping about sixty feet. K con-
tains about an acre Of land.
Early Marks of Decay.
The burying ground was cared for by
/ the West Street Presbyterian Church
/ trustees. \ new fence was occasionally
erected, and work was done from time to
! time in the way Of keeping down weeds,
/ underbrush ard the like About 1919
much complaint arose over the condition
of the cemetery. AT that time the fences
were down, and the place had fallen
/ into decay. In 1850 the following ap-
peared in Georgetown paper from a
! non president"
Once in a year, for many years past
have / made pilgrimage 10 the grave
yard. belonging TO the congregation OF
| the Presbyterian Church. to drop a 81
lent tear upon the tombs Of departed
/ children and friends; but language can
not describe my feelings on visiting the
mansions OF the dead a few days since
It would have been difficult to believe
that the grounds belonged 10 Chris
/ tian community had I not known they
/ did The broken fences. open gates. and
! grazing cattle upon the very grass that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-24
Low Rates to tho East,

Particular attention is being called
by the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way to the low rates which have been
made for the meeting of the Nationa,
Educationa Association at Boston next
month. These round-;rip excursion
rates. with liberal return limits, are
available at a time of the year when
teachers, students and others are max
ing their plans for the summer vaca-
ton, and afford an excellent opportu-
nifty for journey to one of the most
interesting cities in the world. as wei!
as reaching the seashore and mountain
resorts of New England.
Parties are being formed at various
points in the west for the purpose of
making this journey in congenial COM
pany. The officials of the Chicago &
Northwestern advise that the move
ment as now anticipated will be very
large. For particulars apply to ticket
agents of the Chicago a. Northwestern
railway.
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EXPOSING SHIP COMBINE.
Some Of the Methods Of Its Organ
ization Shown up in Court.

Trenton. ~ j., June 24.-Efforts on
the part of applicants for the receiver
ship to show that the United States
Shipbuildng company, known as the
shipbuilding trust, had been using it's
subsidiary concerns as scapegoats. to
avoid its debts, distinguished the hear
ing in the United States court.
Another feature of the proceedings.
which involved a spirited discussion
among half a dozen prominent lawyers,
was continuous attack by the COM
plainants on Charles NJ. Schwab, who
was charged every few moments dur
ing the day with having used the ship
building company for his own ends.
For the first time the answer of the
shipbuilding company to the bill of
complaint was made public. The prin-
cipal allegations against the trust are
denied. and others are met by excuses
After it was read the lawyers of the
complainants spent much time in at
tempting to call to the witness stand
Lewis Nixon and A. c. Gary, president
and treasurer of the shipbuilding COM
pany and George r. Sheldon, head of
the reorganization committee. the plan
of which, it is said by the compliments,
is to enrich Schwab to the destruction
of the ordinary stockholders. The COM
panys lawyers fought all efforts to put
the witnesses on the stand, and finally
scored temporary victory by causing
Gary to be excused after the judge
had already permitted him to be
sworn.
The complaint read by Attorney
Woolmar stated that Nixon conceived
the idea of the combination and or
ganized it. Each subsidiary company
was heavily indebted at the time and
the values of their plants grossly ex
aggerated. The officers and directors
were responsible for Misrepresentation
in the statement that the combinations
working capital was $5,000,0OO, and they
falsely put down their contracts in land
as amounting to $3600O,0o0.
During the reading Mr.. Woolmar
brought out the facts that Charles M.
Schwab had received for the Bethlehem
steel works $30.000.000, made up as
follows: Ten million dollars preferred
stock, 100000 common stock, and
SO 100000 of collateral bonds. Judge
asked what the collateral
consisted of, and was told that 1t en-
braced two mortgages, one on the
Bethlehem plant and another on the
company's entire prop
erty. Surprise was indicated not only
by the lawyers for the first mortgage
whose priority of liens it
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BREATHE HEALING BALsAMs.
Hyomei's Novel Way of Curing Ca
tarrh-McB Bride G. Will Guarantee q

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Two or three years ago when phys
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or blood purifier. Today the advanced
physician will tell his catarrhal pa
Hent to breathe Hyomei.
This novel treatment for catarrh con-
Sists of an inhaler of a size convenient
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purse, medicine dropper and bottle
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to breathe while at home or at work.
air which is almost identical with that
of the mountains of North Carolina
or other health resorts where the air
Is laden with healing and health Civ
Ing balsams.
No other medicine gives such prompt
relief as Hyomei in the treatment of ca
tarrh The first breath soothes and
heals the irritated and smarting air
passages, and its regular use for few
days or weeks will cure the most stub
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Mcbride & Will have sold hundreds
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been with the personal guarantee to re-
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two outfits have been returned, and in
each instance the money was refunded
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whatever in buying Hyomei, for your
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-24
WAGES WAR ON ouAcKs.
German Authorities to Drive Alleged
s4ealers Out of the Country.

Berlin, June 24.-The German au-
thorities have begun an active cam
paign against medical quacks. In no
other civilized country are there so
many quacks of all sorts, and nowhere
else are they so rewarded by numer-
Gus and well to do patients.
The German government has finally
determined to subject all PROGRESSED
curers who are not recognized medical
practitioners to the seVerest Surveil-
lance They will be given one month
to secure other employment, and ii at
the end Of that time they persist in
practice they will be prosecuted
The government is in possession of
statistics which show that more than
100000 men and women ale Illegally
praeticipg medicine and the art of
healing in Germany, ana that this num-
Der is rapidly increasing.
One medical statistician says that he
has found $50 leases of cancer IN his
province. OF these twenty-five are at
tended by authorized physicians and
los by quacks. He main aims it is
nearly as bad in other diseases. which