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Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

Red Cloud took an active part In
this struggle, and although not a
chief by hereditary law his prowess
soon gained him that honor. One
may easily, believe this If credence
is given to the statement of the old
chief himself, who boasts that in his
warrior days he counted coup" 80
times, and that any one Of these deeds
Of valor against the enemy entitled
him to some distinguishing badge of
honor His most notable encounter
was an engagement with the Crows,
in which he is said to have killed IA
Of the enemy.
The discovery of gold in Montana, In
the early '6Os, created demand for a
new route across the northwestern
plains, and it was in trying to open a
trail across the hunting grounds of the
Sioux In northwestern Wyoming that
the government had its greatest trou-
BILE with the Indians. In the summer
Of 1866, Col. II. B. Darlington With
a force Of troops began building Fort
Phil Kearney on the headwaters of
Tongue river, near the Big Horn noun
tains, and ON territory over which the
Sioux claimed Jurisdiction. no treaty
for right Of way having yet been
completed. The soldiers were con-
tinually harassed by the savages, but
not until December 21, 1866, did the
trouble culminate In one of the blood
lest massacres on record.
About IL o'clock that day a force of
some 80 men, who were two miles
away preparing pine t1mbers with
which to complete the fort, were at
tackled by band of Indians. A look
out stationed on a hill near the fort
gave the alarm and relief party was
at once started out in command of
Brevet Lieut.. Col. William J, Fetter-
man. The detachment numbered "a
men. Ignorant of the fact that 1000
Indians were skulking in the ravines,
waiting for a favorable moment in
which to strike. Fetterman led his
men over a ridge, thinking to cut off
the retreat Of the band which had at
tackled the party in the pine grove.
Anxious watchmen at the fort saw
Fetterman's command disappear over
the crest of the ridge and soon heard
the firing. 1t became more rapid. and
they grew fearful Of results Rein
forcements were sent out after little
and the only story Of the fight is the
one which they read on the bloody
field and sadly reported ON their re-
turn to the fort, for not one of Fet-
terman's men was left to tell the aw-
full tale. Clustered on a space less
than 40 feet square were found the
bodies Of Capt. Brown, Col. Fetterman
and 65 of the men. A more horrible
sight could not be imagined. They
were stripped naked, scalped, and so
terribly gashed and mangled as to
be almost unacceptable. Years af-
terward the Sioux showed a rough
knotty war club Of burr oak, driven
full Of nails and spikes, which had
been used to beat their brains out
1t was still covered with brains and
hair, glued to it In clotted blood.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

crashing through the skull Of a foe.
With LIES energies nearly spent the
old chieftain must await the final
struggle with a foe which knows not
q conquerors power.
True to his name the famous chief
has been a red cloud of terror on the
western horizon, whose tornado-nke
course has swept to destruction many
a person and devastated many a
hearth. Does he think of this now,
as the end draws nigh? With the
een1lity Of age does his mind revert to
the stirring scenes of his earlier life?
Does a tottering memory now recall
his many triumphs on the CORY field
or by the smouldering embers of some
stricken home and give to his last
thoughts a sense Of pleasure? Or
can it be that his departing soul, paus-
ing upon the brink Of that dread
chasm which separates the known
from the unknown before taking
flight, wavering between doubts and
fears, view with remorse any action
Of the past wherein his hand was rails
ed In Ca1n-like attitude?
IL WOulu U0 more III ACCORDANCE
with the traditions and teachings of
his race to believe that he will 20
hence with a conscience free from
all self-accusation for wrongdoing.
No doubt he just1fes all his acts of
violence by the same process of rea-
soning that has served to pacify the
minds Of thousands who in all ages
have ever deemed it just and proper
to repel with armed force any whom
they honestly considered as usurping
invaders.
Bloody Deed Brought Fame.
As was the case with many before
him, Red Cloud secured fame by the
shedding of human blood. Prior to
the Fetterman or Fort Phil Kearney
massacre he was but little known.
That dire tragedy, swift and terrible
In its execution, brought him into sud-
den prominence; although for some
time previous he had been wining
Tor himself a name among the Oga,-
lalla Sioux, to which tribe he be-
longed, for bravery and wise planning
when on the war path. The massa-
ere at Fort Phil Kearney was one Of
the principal events in a war which
broke out between the Indians Of the
northwest and the government in
1853, and lasted almost continuously
until 1853.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

1t Is not often that q monument is
erected in honor of the tactfulness of
a hostess in trying situation. One
Of the few such, If not the only one,
is a boulder from the battlefield of
Harlem Heights. removed to Park
avenue In New York, to mark the site
Of the home Of Mrs. Robert Murray,
who entertained and 80 detained the
British officers under General Howe
while the American troops under Gen
eral Putnam were escaping from the
city. The monument, which bears an
Inscription on brass setting forth Mrs
Murray's achievement, was dedicated
recently. What a difference there
might have been in American history
had Mrs Murray been a less capable
hostess!
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29
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The full dress iveries of the British
royal footmen cost $3.50 apiece.
The famous Maelstrom whirlpool is
four geographical miles in diameter.
A plague OF white ants is devour-
ing the wooden houses in New Or
leans.
The profit to the Government on
pennies pays the entire expenses Of
the mint
J Sheep used as beasts Of burden In
North India carry twenty pounds
weight apiece
| In nearly forty instances languages
have been first reduced to writing by
the British and Foreign Bible Society.
A waterspout spins with enormous
speed. Its velocity at the sea level
has been estimated at six miles min
| ute.
Eighteen observatories are at work
on chartering the stars. The finished
map will contain thirteen million
stars.
A man in Palmer, Mass, died re-
Gently Of chronic poisoning from ar
senic in the colors upon the wall pa
per of his sitting-room.
| Blank verse was first introduced
into English poetry by Henry How
ard, Earl of Surrey. in a translation
of Virgirs "Aeneid," in 1547.
The number of stars visible to the
naked eye is fewer than six thousand.
The number Of stars visible through
the largest telescope is probably not
fewer than one hundred million.
So many rabbits and quail are kill
ed by house cats running loose in the
woods that the New Jersey hunters
want to have a law passed allowing
cats found in the woods to be shot.
The present law provides that any
person allowing a dog to run wild
shall pay fine of $50. Cats are said
to be more destructive of game than
dogs, foxes, minks or hawks.
A remnant of the Sevis tribe of In
dians inhabits the island of Tburon,
in the Gulf Of California, and is ruled
entirely by the women. Formally the
tribe numbered about five thousand,
DuC Is low SuTuuk 10 rev Qunureu,
living a life of almost complete iso-
lation, and refusing to intermarry with
any of the Indians of the mainland.
The woman is master of the house
hold, and q council of matrons is at
the head of public affairs.
A boy who was killed in The Bronx
recently by lightning had the like
ness of fern imprinted on his body
by the shock. A similar incident is
reported from Europe. During
shooting competition at Pont, in the
Canton Vaud, the other day, the grand
stand was struck by lightning and
twenty-five persons received shocks.
from which, however, they sustained
but little physical injury. One most
singular effect, however, remained.
Every person who had felt the cleo
trio shock had photographically stamp
ed upon the back, the face or the arms
the reflection of the pine trees behind
the firing line.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29
ICE AT THE EQUATOR.
It L. to Be Seen If One VIII Risk I'll
Ascent Of Mountains.

It L. to Be Seen If One VIII Risk the
Ascent of Mountains.
It must be almost inconceivable,
even to many people who have been
to the equator, that within the swell
tering barbarism Of the tropics there
are places where there is any guam
tity Of ice and snow. Natural ice,
moreover. and not the dirty apology
for it which is manufactured, and re-
garded now as a necessity by the
white people, who are gradually crowd
ing into the languid warmth perennial
ly filing the equatorial portions Of the
earth.
Right on the equator there are both
ice and snow covering wide districts,
where, as in an English January mid
night. ''the air bites shrewdly and it
is very cold" The law that as we
ascend the air gets cooler and cooler
about degree for every hundred feet
holds good in the tropics as well as in
temperate climates, and thus it is
merely question of the existence Of
sufficient high land anywhere to insure
the presence of both frost and snow.
As a matter OF act, if we look at
spherical map Of the earth, or globe.
the line where snow lies perpetually
rises in great curve, which begins at
the sea level within the arctic circles
and rises and rises over the equator
to a height Of between $4,000 and H.
600 feet. In the British Isles this line
passes but a few hundred feet above
the tops of the Scotch Mountains, and
it strikes the Alps about 1000 feet
above the sea.
The Alps and the Caucasus. the
Pyrenees and the Himalayas and the
desolate arctic wastes are always Gov
cred with ice and snow above certain
heights and above certain ATTITUDES;
but all in these extra tropical regions
the snow and the ice shrink and ex-
pand as the seasons wax and wane,
the snow of the arctic extending the
winters over wide areas in the tenn
perate regions, while from the high
mountains the snow fields invade the
deep forests and the cultivated areas
in the valleys every time the winter
sets 1n--Pearson's Magazine.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

Once the recognized chief Of q nu-
merous tribe, now stricken with the
infirmities Of his IS years, broken In
health and spirit, scarcely able to see
or hear, Red Cloud, the famous Ogal-
lalla Sioux Indian. Is dying in tepee
In the corner Of the yard surrounding
the little wooden house which the gov
ernment built for him many years ago
on the Pine Ridge agency near the
Black Hills in South Dakota
His mind, once 80 powerful, has be
come greatly enfeebled with the
weight Of his years. His speech,
which once rang through the council
house Of his people in impassioned ut.
terances, melting to action that horde
Of dusky and bepainted braves whose
well planned attacks made many q
soldier or hardy borderer tremble for
the safety Of himself and the help
less ones entrusted to his charge, is
now but a hoarse, whisper scarcely
conveying to an attentive ear the ma
ture Of his simple wants. His sight,
once 80 keen that with piercing gaze
he detected from afar those who were
hot upon his trail, spurred to their ut
most by the grim purpose to avenge
some outrage, 10 now SO clouded by
the mists Of time that he recognizes
with difficulty those who attend at his
bedside. His sense Of hearing, once
50 quick to note the stealthy approach
Of his enemies when darkness hid
their movements from his vision, is
now dulled to all sounds except the
call Of the Great Spirit.
Gone is his strength! Those sinews
Of steel, which once so easily bore his
powerful frame over rough mountain
trails where even the hardy Indian
pony could not pass and which gave
to him the victory when engaged in
deadly conflict with his foes, are
now shrunken with age. No more can
his once powerful arm deliver the
fatal knife-thrust or sever the much
coveted scalp lock from the head of
quivertng victim, no more can its
important force send the tomahawk
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

No empty cartridge shells were
found around the bodies. and there
were no signs Of a struggle. Instead
every bit Of evidence seemed to show
that after their ammunition became
exhausted these men had started for
the fort and been surrounded and
struck down on the way. It was also
evident that rather than endure tor
ture, Fetterman and Brown had. eacl,
used his last charge to end his own
life. ..........t .:......
The bodies Of the others who made
up Fetterman's command were found
further on, and here the empty shells
denoted that a last brave stand had
been made and a strong effort ON the
part Of the heroic remnant Of the force
to hold the savage foe at bay until
their friends could escape to the fort.
The bodies here were shockingly mu-
tilated.
The Indians say that Red Cloud was
not present at the Fetterman massa-
ere. Be that as it may, he certainly
got the credit Of having planned it,
a circumstance which he did not hes
itate to fully make use of in gaining
absolute control over his tribe. He
continued fighting against the govern
ment until about 25 years ago, when
he signed peace treaty. H..
He then buried his tomahawk and
has never since then broken his COM
pact with the government. When he
fought the whites he did SO with ter
rible earnestness and ferocity. De-
scending like whirlwind Of death
upon settlement, he always left q
CORY path behind him; but when he
signed the treaty Of peace he did it
in good faith, and for % years he has
lived in amity with his white breth-
rem. 1s-.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

A noted American reached London
when the English newspapers were
harging American women with vul-
garity beca use a large crowd Of dress
makers and their assistants filled the
streets about the church where an
English duke recently married an
American girl The visitor was asked
by reporter what he had to say on
the subject "YGu have to be three
thousand miles away before you can
even suspect American women Of vul-
garity." was the quick response
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

these it is good to remember Agassiz,
who refused to lecture at $500 night
because he was too busy to make
money; Charles Sumner, who declined
to lecture at price because. he said,
as senator, all his time belong to
Massachusetts,; Spurgeon, who refus-
ed to come to America to deliver fifty
lectures at $1,000 a night, saying that
he could do better-he could stay in
London and try to save fifty souls, and
Emerson. who steadfastly declined to
increase his income beyond 81. 200. be-
cause he wanted his time to think.
Such stories of fine haughtiness did
not seem quixotic to the young men
in college thirty years ago. A gen.
erous idealism was abroad and it was
unashamed.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29
Useless Phrase.

Bobby had returned from his first
tea party, his round face wreathed In
smiles. II hope you were polite, Bob
by" said his mother, "and remembered
your Yes, please and No, thank you,
when things were passed to you.
81 remembered Yes. please" said
Bobby, cheerfully. ''but 1 didn't have
to say No. thank you mother, because
I took everything every time 1t was
passed"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in
a recent address to students, admirab bly,
epitomized an important secret to sue
cess: IF you take my advice" he
said, you will never work for hire.
If you work for hire, life will have
little else for you but drudgery, and
eight hours per day-ten hours per day
at the most-is all that you can stand
and keep your health. But If you work
for the accomplishment of the thing
you are employed to do, you can work
life will be full of sunshine and song.
God implanted in the human mind the
desire to do things" In other words,
real success lies not 50 much in what
we can get out Of our work as what we
can put into It. If we love our work,
we have taken long stride not only
toward happiness, but toward accom-
plishment that is worth while. The
man who gets no more out Of his work
than mere support. though he may be
enabled to live in most lavish style,
is no more than an animal. The hog
works only for living, and that is all
he gets or cares for. But man, with
his emotions, sensibilities and aspira-
tions. requires more. With man, work
is not merely a means, but an end.
He must work that he may live, but
he also lives that he may work. 1t
is a melancholy fact that millions of
men are forced to devote nearly all
their lives to sustaining life. It seems
slavery. Yet the drudgery is due,
not to the tncessant work, but to the
dislike of it. While one man bitterly
laments the cruelty of his fate, an
other working at his elbow finds his
labors sweet. The difference lies
within the men. The immortal things
in this world have been wrought for
the things themselves. With the most
Of us. satisfaction Is found in the
things we do rather than in great re-
wards or in the plaudits of the world.
Usually. large measure Of the sue
cess which, in the popular conception,
means wealth or public honors, fol-
lows as the result of devotion to the
appointed duty. Certain 1t is that
there Is small hope for the success or
happiness Of the man who does not
find work congenial and a pleasure in
itself. This is true whether we are
searching for new stars in the skies
or are engaged in the humblest every
day duty. Aside from moral and cor
rect living and the love of wife, fam
lily and kindred, there is nothing in
which a rational man should have
more real heart interest than in his
work. 1t is a safe prediction that
failure will follow him who works
merely for his wage. He cannot ex-
pect progress or advancement With
zeal and aspiration wanting, he is
doomed to lifelong drudgery.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29
In Natures Kitchen.

A woman who teaches in a college
for girls vouches for the truth Of this
story She presides over one of the
college dining tables at which sit a
dozen students.
One day some curly lettuce was
brought on. A freshman looked at it
and exclaimed, How clever of the
cook to crimp it that way! How does
she do it?"
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

The truth about Waterloo has seem
I'd to the impartial student about this:
II Blucher had not arrived yelling
ton would have been licked, and If
Wellington hadn't been there when
Blucher arrived. Blucher would have
been licked. But as they managed to
get together It was up to Napoleon,
and they made another map OF Eu-
rope. and we have troubles enough
now without digging up any old ones.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

Big headlines in the newspapers told
of the killing of eight persons and the
injury Of more than a score Of others
in recent wreck. The blame for the
catastrophe was charged against a
brakeman Of a freight train who, it
was alleged, had failed to flag the
passenger train. The brakeman had
been on continuous duty for twenty
two hours, according to his state
ment. If that was the case who will
say that the brakeman was at fault
and not the management Of the rail-
road which had kept him at his post
beyond the period of physical endur-
ance2 1t is a criminal practice, almost
inconceivable, that railroads will en-
danger the lives Of hundreds Of pas
sengers by trusting their safety to en-
ployes whom they have worked to the
point Of exhaustion.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29
TOPICS OF THE TIMES.
a CHOICE SELECTION OF INTER.
ESTING ITEMS.

Comments aud Criticisms Based Upon
the Happenings of the Day-Histori.
cal and News Notes
Most writer's who drop into poetry
manage to drop clear through.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

Four-year-old John Nicholas Brown,
OF Rhode Island, with 100000 of
his own. ranks as the richest young
ster in the country. He wasn't born
with a silver spoon in his mouth-it
was q complete gold table service.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

The statisticians tell US that 3O,000.-
600 people are living in prohibition
territory in the United States now.
This sounds very encouraging. until
you see the statistics Of the sale Of
liquor for the last year.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

Mr.. Rockefeller has aided one Of his
boyhood friends. 1t is altogether
likely that he will now hear from the
rest of the people who used to 60
swimming with him.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29
Not the Gown, but

Tes+I'm afraid this gown doesn't
become my complexion at all.
Jess-Well, why don't you change
it?
Tess-How can L? It's made up now
and they won't exchange
Jess-But you can wash it off and
make up Philadelphia
Press.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

you wouldn't want to tell me the
secret Of your success. suppose. "
said a young woman to a teacher
whose influence and position had been
secured by years of work. II have no
secret" she replied, Except that ]
have always been ready to pay the
price for what you call success. Some
times it has come high; it always de-
mands cash down." Women, from
the very fact that most of them live
outside the business world, like to be-
lieve that there is some escape from
the price named by life for many of
its prizes. The bargain-counter at
tracts them, in society as in the depart
ment store. In point Of fact, how
ever, the principal Of a great school
who succeeds must pay the price of
getting up at six o'clock in the morn
ing instead Of sleeping till eight; of
laboring with refractory girl instead
Of reading a novel; of plodding through
examination papers instead Of driving
over pleasant country roads-in short,
of giving up the little things that she
likes as the price Of her larger desire.
So the mother who wishes her chill
dren to be loving and well-bred must
pay the exacting due of patience by
day and by night, Of cheerful SYM
pathy even in WEAKNESS and illness,
and of unf1agging devotion to the de-
tails of household life. The girl who
resolves to become a pianist must pay
the price Of long days Of drudgery,
spent in compelling reluctant muscles
to do the bidding Of the willard
that without hope that the discipline
may ever be relaxed. Lowell, in a
charming piece of verse, after warning
us that the Earth gets its price for
what Earth give u.s." assures his read
er:
IT'S Heaven alone that is given away,
IT'S only God may be had for the ask
ing.
Lowell to the contrary, however,
this Is not the plain, hard truth.
Heaven itself descends only into the
heart made ready for it by the stern
expulsion Of all that Is common and
unclean, and by the steady, painful
search for whatsoever things are lovely
and Of good report.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

Ladrones who recently looted the
municipal treasury at Bosoboso, Lu-
zon, left the place In "Woozy
Woozy" condition.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29
Giving 1t a New Reading.

Gregory Gigglesby-I don't know
what the governor would say If I told
him I was going to get married.
Polly Parquette- let me see.
Couldn't you persuade him that two
can burn less money than one?-Puck.
Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-29

The Historical and Genealogical
Society says that many expensive
American family trees are impostures.
We have noticed that q man with an
elaborate family tree usually smokes
a cigarette.