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bunch of Cinnamon. About eighty of
them were on their way from Chico, Call.
to the Owyhee mines in Idaho. They at
first went along with white transfers,
who protected them. But one Chinaman
strayed away from the teams and got
among the Indians. They treated him
well. He reported this to the other
Cinnamon, and they thought they would
quit the teams. They struck out alone.
Near the mouth of Jordan creek the In
dams lit on 'em. The Cinnamon didn't
fight back, although they were well arm
ed. An Indian would run up to a China
man and the Chinaman would hand the
Indian his pistol and get killed with his
own gun. All along the creek for a mile
were scattered dead Johns The Indians
cut EN- up horribly. They were espe-
cially proud of the scalps with such nice
long tails to EN-. For weeks afterward
you could see Indians wearing the big,
wide bamboo hats of the Cinnamon.
Just one Chinaman got away. He came
Into Camp Lyons, down In southeast Ore
gon, and gave the alarm to the little
squad of soldiers there then. These regu-
lars had several engagements with the Sho-
shones, but nothing that amounted to much
was done against them until Gen. Crook
came
1.-The scouts and volunteer Indians did
the real fighting'
THE reg'lers didn't knowt all. by
d sight," old Bill broke In, did they,
n,ajorT"
Companies of Indians.
"Aost of the hghting." continued the
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lots o. men. Crook had come over to the
Harvey country. The chiefs of the Sho-
snones come in for powwow.
Crook says to EN-: Have we got less SOL
diers than we had two years agoP
g You got more gum one old chief says
back.
Then says Crook: Have you got as many
men?
. No, not half as many tillicums (war-
riors),' says the chief.
$50 the chiefs wanted peace. Crook told
EN- to put down their guns and stay over
In the Malheur country and he'd let EN-
alone. And SIR them Shoshones haven't
raised any racket since"
CHARLES N. CREWDSON. .
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could see, far over the roofs and spires Of
the town, the bluffs that marked the broad
he'd Of the tawny Missouri. He was not as
buoyant as his last words to the banker
implied Here he was, he reflected, man
of good eduction, as such things go, who
had lost his patrimony In single venture.
He had been sent partly out OF compass
sion, he felt, to take charge Of investments
that were admitted to be almost hopeless
ly bad. The salary promised would pro-
vide for him comfortably, and that was
about all; anything further would depend
upon himself the secretary of the NepOnset
Trust Company had told him; 1t would, he
felt, depend much more particularly on the
making over by benign powers Of the con-
siderable part of the earth's surface IN
which his principals money lay hidden. As
his eyes wandered to one of the office walls,
the black trail of great transcontinental
railroad caught and held his attention. On
one of it's northern prongs lay the region
of his first defeat.
meditated, land all my good dollars are
scattered along the right of way" Many
things came back to him vivid1y-how the
wind used to howl around the little ranch
house. and how he rode through the snow
among his dying cattle in the great storm
that had been his undoing. With his eyes
still resting on the map, he required to his
early school days and to his four years at
Harvard. There was burden or heart-
ache in these recOllections. Incidents of
the unconscious brutality of playmates
came back to him-the cruel candor with
which they had rejected him from sports
in which proficiency, and not mere strength
or zeal, was essential He had enjoyed at
college no experience of success in any of
those ways which mark the undergraduate
for brief authority or fame. He had never
been accepted for the crew nor for the
teams that represented the university on
diamond or gridron, though he had al
ways participated in athletics, and was pos
sessed of unusual strength. None of the
professions had appealed to him, and he
had not needed his fathers wish that he
enter the law. The elder SaXton, who was
himself lawyer of moderate success, died
before Johns graduation; he had lost his
mother in his youth and his only remain
ing relative was sister, who married be-
fore he left college.
review of these brief and discouraging
annals did not hearten him; but he fell
back upon the better mood with which he
had begun the morning; he had new
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cdedly the upper hand on him in the bat
tie of Pit river
"Pit river is away down toward the Cali
fornia line Crook had camped near by at
Lake Warner. The shoshones managed to
lead him over their way. They knew their
ground. Steep, rocky cliffs 300 feet high
walled in the river valley. On top of these
the Indians established themselves. The
place was a natr al fertilization"
"Bet your life it was again broke in the
old scout, this time taking the lead. "A
billy goat couldn't O. climbed up them
cliffs. Why, they was straight up, and
when the Injuns got into their forts one of
! EN-: was with ten Of our men. Them red
so as to git us down to this pocket. 1t was
a reglar death trap.
A Natural Stronghold.
''This cliff, you see, was about 600 yards
long. In front was the river and at both
ends was deep gulches. Behind 1t was
terrible rocky-lava rock. On top of the
cliff at the southeast corner was two hitler
cliffs. with walls thirty or forty feet high.
straight up nearly all aroun'. On top O.
these little knobs the Shoshones built their
forts, one on the east knob and two the
west knob. They got into the fort on the
east knob and laid for U.S."
We'll, did you go after them?' I asked.
This was getting exciting to me.
Go after EN-? Yes, but the wrong way.
Crook put us scouts, who knew how to
scrap the Injun, 400 yards away on bluff,
in line-a fool thing to do when you fight
Injuns. amt 1t. major? That was JUS what
the Injuns had been layin' for. and they
commenced crackin' away and droppin
Crooks men. Then he took tumble and
broke up his ranks. They want much
done the rest OF the day-just little sharp
shootin'.
.'That night we scouts scrambled over the
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lava bed and got up clost The reg-lers
come up, too. All night long we could hear
the Injuns rollin' rocks aroun' and yellin'
kind O. low They knowed what we was
up to- and we was dom jus what they
wanted. 1t was lightnin and thunderin
all night.
s"At daybreak we was all in a hundred
feet O. the fort JUS as the sun rose we
heard the word, forward We hadn't
more'n got up good before bang went the
Injuns. They dropped eight. of u.s. But
the rest kept right on. The sergeant Of
Company d was the first to mount the
wall. But he hadn't more'n got to the
top before the 1njuns pumped lead into
him. If the Injuns could JUS loaded fas'
'nough they'd plugged US all. But when
they saw us comm, out they scooted Well
sir, couldn't see how they cosld get out
but away they scrambled through the
cracks O. them lava rocks, JUS like lizards.
A Lively Scrap.
First thing we knowed Mr.. Shoshone was
in the west fort crackin' at us agin. But
they hadn't been shootin' long before they
quit We didn't go after the second fort.
We lost too many gettin' the one we had.
But oncet in a while an Injun would show
hisself-jus' to kind O. agg us on. That
night we could hear noise-papooses was
cryin'.
1.-THE devils had set another trap for us.
They left fort No. ?. We went up and
1OunQ 1t all empty. IHSy Wduleu US W lOI-
low 'em. If we'd done 1t we'd all a bin
scelped. The Shoshones had hid themselves
in cracks o. the lava rocks They was JUS
one pass we'd all a had to, gone through
and they'd had us. One of the boys went
forward a scoutin' and they shot him right
through the heart. That was the tightest
trap ever / got into. Crook certainly got
licked that time The command went back
to Camp Warner with their tails tucked
"But the Shoshones were finally over
come, weren't they?" / asked.
well, they want exactly licked. They
give up the next summer. They'd been run
pretty hard a couple of years and had lost
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Telephone on Farms.

From the Southern Farm Magazine.
Farmers are getting rural free delivery,
with it's opportunities for saving time and
money In shopping; in the more thickly
settled portions of the country they have
rapid transit by trolley lines, and in some
parts, notably in the west, they enjoy the
advantages in business and farm opera
tons of extensive telephone systems. Far
removed from the daily paper, with its
weather forecasts. the farmer can keep in
formed by phone of probabilities and thus
escape loss in crop time. When he him.
self is away from home the members Of
his family have a telephone at hand, g-v-
ing them the means of quick communica ion
with neighbors, as great protection
against providers as is the possession of a
shotgun or a revolver. The telephone On
the farm is a cultivator of neighborliness,
a saver of time and trouble and a pro-
tector of the home.
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block or two before he threw 1t away,
saying: Heap white man all same buff
falo. Injun no whip white man
Big Foot was the leader of the Sho-
shones. One of his feet was three times
as big as the other. They could track
him for a while, then all of a sudden
they'd lose all trace of him"
He a willy old cuSs-that Big
Foot" put in the scout
Started the Ball
What started the ball a rollin;'' went
on the major, was the massacre of a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05
WENT ON THE WARPATH
When the Shoshone Indians
Rose in Revolt.
LEARNED A LESSON
ONLY AFTER THEY HAD PUT UP
A STIFF FIGHT.
Incident in One of Gen. Crooks Cam
paigns Described by Two
Survivors

Copyright, 1903. by Charles y. Crewdson)
Written for The Evening Star by Charles n.
Crewdsun.
Every Indian tribe in this country has
had to have one good lickin' before they
would quiet down." began Mai Moore
house, we jaunted one day alongside
the Umatilla river. Bill Woodward, the
old scout, was driving.
After the Yakima war of 30" contin-
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better. In one fight near Camp Harvey
they got twenty-four scalps. Crook kind o.
took too much credit for this to himself
because the Shoshones afterward got de-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-12-05

Did you have a full meeting at the fire.
house last night?" asked PARKWAY. -
No, indeed" replied Subbubs of the
Swamphurst volunteer hose. nowhere near
and all the boys were there. '-Philadelphi
Press
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takes his cloak and appears before the
priest disguised as the Boyar himself
The Princess advances believing that
she is about to marry the Boyar ana
only discovers the supposed goldsmith s
apprentice upon reaching the altar Ine
vows are said to the satisfaction Of the
Czarevna. and the supposed Boyar
leads his unwilling bride away But
the Strelsi are raging without ana II Is
impossible for them to leave the krenl-
lin. They are compelled to hide in the
basement and only after nigntfall
amid fearful pelils do they escape, ana
the marquis takes the Princess to MS
lodgings.
All this time the Princess supposes
him to be only a gOldsmith's apprentice,
and almost Immediately he is seized BY
the Strelsi and borne away. After hours
of torture he escapes, only to ind the
princess gone upon his return After
long search Maluta discovers that she IS
again imprisoned in the palace. but by
bribing the guards the marquis secured
her escape. and together they fed 10 a
convent in the country, whence the
Prince Voronin. the father of the Prln-
cess Daria. had already escaped with
his household. The marquis claimed the
princess as his wife. but the prince was
furious notwithstanding the fact that
he had saved her life, and drove the
marquis away. Again the marquis was
abducted and was taken far on the way
by the Prince Galitsyn. another enemy
of the marquis and sutton for the hand
Of the princess. but the villains fell out
among themselves and again the mar
quis escaped. On his return he found
that the Prince Voronin had taken his
retinue and gone far to the south to his
own duchy Thence the marquis and
the dwarf follow They reach the palace
of Voronin Just as the Prince Galitsyn
is about to be received. The marquis
marches boldly in and demands his wife.
The prince orders him out. but the de-
cision is finally left to the princess. She
is brought in, and while her heart is
evidently pleading for the marquis, with
her lips she asks him to leave. Silently
and with a detected spirit he does so
and returns to the dwarf who is wait
ing for him But under the cover Of
the night she comes to him, confesses
her love. tells him her former action
was to shield him from the fury of her
father and Galitsyn, and begs him TO
take her to France.
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Germans evidently do not read our gen.
ial prince of humorists-
The following is a "sketchy inter-
view with NTH. G. Wells. by Punch:
ON our pressing the electric button
the door was opened by a well-trained
Marian, who in answer to our question
hooted politely that Mr.. Wells was out
on his AeFoplane, experimenting the
flying drill of the Sandgate Highland
ers, and was, for the time being. an in
visible man. but that he was expected
in any moment.
While he was speaking whirring
noise was heard overhead, and Mr..
Wells swooped to earth. Divesting him
self of his cellufoid cloak, studded with
plasmon buttons, Mr.. Wells, on de-
manding and receiving our assurance
that we belonged to the middle classes,
ushered us into his sanctum. We ex-
perienced considerable difficulty in
keeping our feet owing to the curvature
of the flOor-A1r. Wells adopts this sys
tenn to prevent the collection of dust
but finally succeeded in anchoring our
selves to a selenite paperweight, while
our host settled himself comfortably in
the cushioned seats of his Time Ma
& inc and began to talk.
The reporter left the house by way of
a moving staircase and came to himself
.'in the surgery of a Sandgate prac-
titioner."
HERBERT BREWSTER.
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ANoqHER KANsAs AUrBoR.
Miss Maud Menefes, Formerly of OF
tawa, and Her Work.

Miss Maud Menefee. who formerly
lived at Ottawa. Kas-, is making sue
cess in Chicago as a writer. Miss Men
efee has brought out several books. two
of them called "Chnd Stories from the
Masters" and Ceres and Persephone-"
The latter has brought Miss Menefee no
small amount Of praise.
Miss Menefee was born in the south,
but spent her childhood in Kansas. She
says: What ever value there is in
what 1 have done or may do I know
is due largely to the wholesome in
huences of western life and ideals. its
freedom from WORKOUT traditions and
prejudices and its inherited instincts OF
denOc-acv.''
Miss Menefee went to Chicago a few
years ago. She lives on the North
side, at Bellevue Place, and she is
known as the friend of little chill
dren."
The Chicago American says of her:
Slowly, and among the elect few, the
world of modernity is becoming aware
of the existence in it of poets. In q
day when the great art of fiction has
come to serve the daily needs of the
reading public in much the same man
ner that the daily newspaper does, and
with but little more promise of per-
manence. there are men and women
writing lines that future years, If NOT
these, viii be glad to acclaim as part
of the great and beautiful body of Eng.
llsh literature When a young Chica 90
gentlewoman writes little play for
children out of the old myth. calling il
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came to his house, asking for his auto
graph. His power to write one in the
usual way was altogether gone, but
not so his desire to give pleasure to an
other. Accordingly his daughter gave
him one of his own autographs. He
sat down with this before him, and
with all the care of a painstaking child
at his copybook, he wrote another. and
presented this to the applicant with
that old sweetness of manner which
even disease could not destroy.
Whoever Annie Flint may be, she has
written a noteworthy book in her first
attempt. "A Girl of Ideas" published a
few days go. The story is that of a
young college girl who starts life after
the completion of college course with
the purpose in view of becoming a
great writer. Her first book is rejected
by all of the publishers, but in spite
of this discouraging fact, she is in
spired to open an office from which she
may dispense ideas for other writers.
According to the tale, the heroine IS
most successful in this course Al
though she has been unsuccessful as u
writer herself she tells dozens of am
bilious writer's what sort of articles
and stories to write-and they all sue
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BREwsTER,s MILLIONS.
A Book with Which to Spend &
Summer Day.

A Book With Which to Spend q
Summer Day.
Every instantaneous hit has its inn
itators. Nine out of ten people who
pick up "Brewster's Millions" new
novel by Richard P Greaves from the
press of Herbert S Stone & Co, Chi
cago, win be reminded Immediately OF
Wilson's The Spenders." And although
it is quite reasonab bic to suppose that the
two books are coincidents there is SUI
ficient similarity between them to justi-
fy the suspicion that the former was in
spired by the latter. ''BreWster's Mil
lions" is a good book for a tedious rail-
way journey. 1t would go well with
hammock, a warm summer day There
isn't much to it but it is very readable
and moves with the proper celebrity for
summer fiction. The story concerns
itself with the laborious and anxious
efforts OF the hero, Monty" Brewster
to spend a million dollars in a year. He
is left that amount in the opening chap
ter by the viii Of his grandfather. Just
as he is beginning to get used to the
idea he learns Of the death of one of
those hitherto unsupported uncleS so
rare in real life and so frequent in fie-
ton who leaves him seven millions with
a proVisO. The prOVisO is that he shall
be penniless when he comes into this
new fortune, the date Of which IS set
at year from the time of the uncles
death. There is a method, as it de-
velOps in the mysterious uncle's mad
ness A feud had existed between him
and BreWster'S paternal grandfather,
resulting from the marriage of his sis
ter. Brewster's mother, and the grand
fathers son, Brewster's father, and the
uncle is unwilling that his money shall
mingle with Brewster wealth. The viii
makes certain restrictions as to the
spending of the million which is made
the condition of the Inheritance of the
seven million: It is not to be exactly
squandered. no reckless gambling, no
idiotic board of trade speculations, no
endOwments to Institutions Of any char
acter, no indiscriminate giving away of
fund; no mare than ordinary dis
sipatiOn; no excessive donations to
charity, are among the prohibitions.
AS might be imagined. the problem
which confronts the young heir is some
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Ceres and Persephone," and one may
read such dialogue as that I am
about to give between Persephone and
the abducting Hades, king of the lower
world it deserves commemora ton
This is it:
Perse2hone-
Who keeps the dark2
Is there no light,
No little CLEAN
Of watchers torch or candle beam
In that dull place?
Only the embers of the evening-ends.
Where falls the charred dropt torch of
dag.
But eyes that shine with light of love
Are lights from that great Light above
The sun. my mother says.
Hades-
Child. death is blind.
And seeing not is death
But choose thee to be my sight
And day-dawn of my endless night
No one can read this description of
the land of shades, placed in the mouth
OF It's monarch, without that quicken
/ ing OF the pulse which comes from con-
tact OF the senses with something sim
/ pie, sensuOus and passionate in Mil
tons definition of poetry. There is no
light in that abode of ghosts, only
the embers of the evening-ends'' for
there comes no sun nor other fire, there
falls the charred dropt torch of day"
\ What IS the debt of humanity to one
! who sets down such an image for her
] fellows to rejoice in, making two mes
of perfect poetry where there were none
before?
Miss Maud Menefee has done other
excellent work. and those who follow
1 the literary performances of our Chi
cago writers know well her Child
! Stories From the Masters" which has
gone through several editions, though
/ without the imprint of a publishing
house. Her newer book has been seen
through the press by Ralph Fletcher
/ Seymour, and is in every way a more
/ ambitious performance than its prede-
! cessor. Nearly all of it is in verse
sometimes with altogether too little at
rentiOn paid to it's scansion, not even
so much as the younger French poets
are paying in their vers hbre. The
| rhyme too, comes and goes in a man
ner somewhat battling, and in too great
disregard of the good rule that verse
must be rhymed or must not. a COM
bination of half rhymed and half blank
verse being uniformly condemned.
These defects in technique do not.
however, conceal the fact that Miss
/ Menefee has made an adaptation of the
story of the lost daughter of the earth
mother admirably suited for dramatic
representation by children. and that
she has impaired to it a wider and more
profound significance than the original
held. such as is intinated in the lines
spoken by Persephone and quoted a mo-
ment ago BY way of affording her
readers an opportunity TO compare the
spirit Of pure paganism with the story
as informed by the thought of a uni
versal love ruling the earth. the book
also contains Andrew Lang's excellent
prose translation of the Homeric
Hymn to Demeter.' The volume closes
with a list of the proper names used in
the text. their pronunciation indicated
by accents. This should have been re-
-vised by some competent Hellenist in
the interests of accuracy, the accept
ance of the authority of webster not
being ADEQUATE to such work
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