Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1904-07-27

Tibbles, recently nominated for the
vice presidency on the Populist ticket,
is a unique character of the middle
west. He is a man OF strength, IN
lomitable resolution and original
thought The nomination was entire
ly unsoueht and the compliment came
as a complete surprise to him.
The law, the clergy and the press
have numbered Mr.. Tibbles in their
ranks He is now the veteran editor
OF the Nebraska Independent, week
IL paper AS an editorial writer he Is
aggressive, merciless and sarcastic,
but never INDUCES in personalities.
Ia the days of the grasshoppei
plague in Nebraska Mr.. Tibbles at
tGacted some attention by his uncoln-
promising dispute with the noted
scientists who were here studying the
subject ard trying to stop the fllght
of the pests. The scientists declared
that the srasshoppers did not travel
! at night and devastated the fields dur
| ing the day only laughing at Mr.. lib
bles' assertion that the pests were
active during the night as we'll as the
day. MI Tibbles proved his point
and turned the laugh by sending up at
night a huge kite literary smeared
with tar. When he pulled it down
the next morning hundreds OF grass
| hoppers were stuck fast to the tar.
Three Times Hanged.
When the Kansas Nebraska bill was
! agitating the country and John Brown
was organizing his raiders, Mr.. lib
bles, who had been educated for the
law. was practising in Council BLUFFS.
He became converted by John
Browns arguments and left the law
| to follow that intrepid leader
Quantrell with a party of his boz
derers' once gave chase to .aw OF
| John Browns men and capt tired lib
bles. his comrades escaping into a
| nearby hiding place. nree times
! Quantrell and his men hanged Mr..
! Tribbles on a convenient tree, cutting
him down twice with promise OF his
life if he would diyulge the wherea-
bouts of his comrades. He steadfast-
ly refused, and the third time the
"borderers" strung him up and rode
away AS soon as they dared Mr.. Tib-
| bles comrades crept from the brush
and cut him down-none too soon, as
it took hours to revive him.
Mr.. Tibbles tried the ministry after
the Civil War. For several years ne
was a Methodist minister, and later
Presbyterian, but strict creed and de-
nominational boundaries were irk-
some to him. and he left both churches
because not enough latitude in speech
was allowed. He drifted into newspa
per work, and in thai and in politics
he has seemed to find his niche.
While he was employed by DR.. Mill
er on the old Omaha Herald Mr. lib
bles married his first wife, an English
woman. He built home in South
Nineteenth street, where the Great
| Western terminals stand When Mrs
| Tibles died she left two daughters
one of whom is now Mrs Barris and
lives in Council Bluffs. The other
now Mrs Herbert Bates lives in
Brooklyn.
! ~ bal
came up. few years after the death
of his wife, Mr.. Tibbes became much
interested in the rights of the Ponca
Indians and was engaged as one OF the
leading counsel. He went to the res
ervatiOn to look up the case and
| beautiful Indian girl, popularity known
as bright Eyes, was recommended
| TO him as one who WoH!l fe apt to
give him clear and intelligent testi-
mony. He net the girl and became
greatly attracted by her unusual beau
| ty and quickness of mind She hac
received an excellent education at an
| eastern college in Elizabeth. N. j.
MF. 1lpDleS ana Bfignt Eyes wee
married in 1882.
Bright Eyes. who was cnrlStened
Yosette-laler changed to tha English
form, Sunsette-l.a Flesche was one OF
the seven children of ,,;isefh La
F'lesche, chief OF the Omanas. ana his
| lie, Mary, @'fs was tho oaiv laugh
| ter of the beautiful Indian woman, Nj.
| ko-mi, and DR.. John Gale an Eaa.:sfl
surgeon in the United States army.
Bright Eyes was born in Bellevue
Neb., in 1854, and attended the Indian
school on the Omaha reservation from
the time she was until she was Is
years old Then letter to a former