davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-12

the number and size of its cotton mills, seems destined to be the Lowell of Ala bama- Its scenic surroundings are fa- nous, especially the landscape from the summit of Monte sano. which is sur passingly grand and beautiful.
 While Huntsville was fourishing vil- lage and many prosperous families had located throughout the valley and con- siderable commerce was carried on by way of the Tennessee river, consisting of keel boats and hat boats laden with ccun- try produce. that portion of Alabama ex- tending from Sand mountain to the white settlements of south Alabama was still in an undeveloped condition. A few families scattered far apart and bands of Indians rowing through the forests Where Bir- mfngham now stands was dense grove. The white traders and the missionaries stfll came and went. Indian trails and pony paths were the only highways. The buxles and drums of Jackson's army sounded the coming of . now dispensa- ton. It came slowly. consecrated with the blood of patriots, but it came surely.
 Before leaving the past and its memo ries 1t may be of interest to recall some dates and events relating to the era of the French possession. In the year 1899. IberviIle, an officer of the King of France. came with . colony of 800 persons and located them on Dauphfn Island. in the Bay of Mobile. from which point he es- tabfished a commercial intercourse with the interior Indian tribes. Alabamous. ChoctAws, Mobiles. Crooks end Chicka- saws. and flor many years. after his col ony grew in number, they were often in- evolved in wars with them. especially with the Alabamous. and later on with the EngIish from the Carolinas. At that pe- riod both England and France were at war with each other. and they both en- gagged the Indians to fight for them; this, of course. divided the tribes in their allegiance. As the colony had increased
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-27

bring them one by one.
No sooner had the chief spoken than
an unbearable minute of deathlike still
ness hung over the council chamber.
Blood was boiling at fever heat The
memories of midnight massacres bore
in upon them. The cries of helpless
children tied fast to Indian ponies and
carried far away were ringing in the
Texans ears The oft-repeated per-
fidy of the Comanches was crowding
into that one moment of suspense.
Who could speak? The chief caught
the meaning of that instant. He cried,
How do you like the answer"
A military company had been eau
tiously stationed at the rear of the
council room; another was marched in
side now.
The hour was becoming tragic. All
knew it. The very air seemed like that
which goes before the whirlwind
storm. The Texan ultimatum rang out
-"All your mighty chiefs are prison.
ers of war until every white woman
and child held captive among your
tribes is delivered into our hands!"
Terrific! Sudden! The chiefs sprang
forward-a strange glitter in the eye
The twang of the bowstring drove ar
rows to the feather. Knives glistened
for a moment-then dripped with
blood. When the few moments des-
perate struggle was over, twelve chiefs
and their captives lay dead upon the
council floor And about them, dead
and wounded, the Texans. One soli-
tary warrior took refuge in an old
stone house. A burning ball of rags
was dropped through the smoke escape
upon him. He leaped through the door
into hail of lead. One human soul
a renegade Mexican-escaped the aw-
full fury of that hour. But he lived to
carry the story back to the tribes.
The Mexican carried the news of the
terrible defeat back to the Comanche
land. 1t was at the time when Sum-
boy. the last of the Kiowa buffalo and
warpath chieftains, Joined the Com
anches in a great sun dance. He had
brought with him his fetish-the
Taime descended from his forebears. II
was his own dark-green stone image
that he hung on the western side OF
the Comanche medicine lodge. He
dressed it in robe of white feathers
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-27

gathered in the eagle eyries Upon
its head he placed the ermine pend
ants. About it's breast he hung
strands of beads and rattlers. With
gypsum and ochre he painted signs of
the sun and moon upon his neck and
bosom. Was it not the god of the sun
dance-the fetish that had ruled his
fathers in their wars? For all of this
the Comanches had prepared-the
coming of Sun-boy with his mighty
Kiowas
The buffalo hunt had gone before it
wild and exciting. All the braves
had pitched their tepees around about
the medicine lodge. The squaws in
very solemn procession had cut the
cottonwood pole on which to hang TIE
Taime. Sun-boy came. From his raw
hide box he drew the tribal fetish of
his fathers and hung it in the lodge.
Then began the great sun dance
more dangerous to the whites than all
the scalp and ghost dances. For four
days and nights-none eating or sleep
ing or drinking-the Kiowas and Com
anches danced together in savage
frenzy The event itself was to hold
in memory the hope that the Taime
would yet raise up some new messiah
who would deliver them from the en-
croachments of the paleface. For
said they in gruesome song, ARE we
not ike tne cIlaIl urlNeh poIoi0 'i0
wind?"
The moon was rising, soft and sill
very, over all the plains. Old Suyeta,
father of all the Comanches, sachem
of all the tribes, sat in his wigwam.
solitary and alone. He dreamed of the
past-he mourned the future. Sudden
ly as if by magic, the Mexican whis-
rered into the old chiefs ears the
tragic story of San Antoine. The fourth
night. under the wild hilarity of Sun
boy, had pitched the war spirit to the
highest key How propitious the mo-
ment!
Suyeta, now once more alone, bent
long stick like a hoop around the fire
mole of his wigwam. Beating time upon
it with another stick the old sachem
began. in the weirdest fashion, the
singing of his travel song The medi-
cine lodge was not so furious as to
miss that note 1t was Suyeta's call
Los Angeles herald., 1909-06-27

Peninsula sun dance was held on 1l;e
wa shita in the summer of 39 10 this
sun dance some friendly Osages came
n visitors-but they brought the small
nox. 1t killed more braves than We.0
lost in the war. Thoroughly dlsheaIt-
ened, the tribes began TO orlI.. ~
Kiowas and Apaches fled in consternd-
tion to the Staked Plains. The Co
manches fled to the south in Texas.
Rearing the final message OF the
Texans the three Indian chle1talns
turned their faces from san AnIoi'l9
toward the wigwams of their dePietSu
and disheartened people. Inc cliehS as
the lodge of the Comanche sachelii.
None hut the braves from the great War
frafernities met in that council. a
spirit of desperation brooded over dll.
Each had taken a pledge TO leau ever
battle charge to victory or TO ued1l.
None but the stalwart braves from tne
Kaitsenko stood in that lodge. None
hut those whose daring deeds had maze
them worthy of the Tonkawa and the
Amerind were there. This embassy
might take with them the squaWs VINO
had dressed their bearsklns ana
nlanted the maize corn for their 1easts;
They might carry the boys VINO ndo
sought the deadly serpents Wltn w@il.on @
to poison their arrow tips. These alone
would form that company that shou'd
90 with Muk- -war-rah to pear tne
sachem's message to the Texans in far-
off San Antoine
Tn peace they rode over the moonllt
plains and along the silent trails. just
as the down was falling from the cot
tonwoods two Comanche warriors en-
tered San Antoine. They announced the
arrival of sixty-five Indians who had
with them a little white girl-Matiloa
Lockhart. Twelve mighty chiefs walked
into the council chambers of the whites:
There they stood-the embodiment ot
war and fearlessness.
drew his peace pipe. 1t was very old
and strangely fashioned. The pipe
head was made of redstone brought
him from the far-away Dakotahs. IL
had a stem whose reed was covered
with feathers caught in some eagle
flight He filled the pipe with bark or
willows and put a burning coal upon
it, Around their own council fires IN
the wigwams of the mighty chiefs the
peace of boundless territories hinged
upon the white and the red man smok-
ing this pipe of peace Would the Tex
ans smoke 1t? So wondering, the chief
tain handed 1t to his host, the Texans,
and began to speak,
1--WE have brought the only one we
had: the others were all stolen by
other tribes"
But in an hour of the merest chance:
little Matilda Lockhart had Whispered
her story to the Texans. She told
them that many other prisoners We're
in the Indian camps far away and that
they brought her for high ransom
from her people. And so they would
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
SAP, 900 INVOLVED
IN SALE OF REALTY
Westover Apartment House Traded
for Justice Quarters on
X Street.

The biggest real estate trade Of the
year. involving property valued at S412,-
600, has Just been closed, whereby Mrs
Henrietta NJ. Halliday has disposed Of
the -Westover apartment house Six
teenth and L sire cts, to T. Franklin
Schneider for the Department of JUS
tice building, located at 1885 K street
The Westover was valued IA the trans
action al $4,000, while a cash bonus, la
addition to the valuation placed upon
the department building, brought the
total amount involved in the deal TO
$4,000 Story q Cobb represented Mr.
Halliday.
The Departu ert Of Justice building is
leased by the Government for an indefi-
mite period at q price understood 20 %
$1,000 per year The Westover is q
steel-constructed apartment containing
forty-three apartments. 1t was built
several years ago by John II. Nolan.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
PENNSYL RAILROAD
Bulletin.
SUMMER TRIPS AFFAIR AND NEAR.

Summer days are coming fast Already vacation days
being discussed in the home and in the office, and in
few weeks the annual exodus to country seashore and
tain will have been begun.
America abounds with delightful summering places in
valley mountain and beside the seathousands of resorts
whittier wend the pilgrims in search of pleasure and recreation
Pennsylvania Railroad ticket agents have sale
excursion tickets the greater number of these resorts by the
first week in June there will be about eight hundred points
covered by Pennsylvania Railroad excursion tickets
From the rock-bound bays of Newfoundland to the
sunny slopes of the Virginia shores from the White Noun
tans of New Hampshire to the Cumberland Mountains of
Tennessee along the forty beaches of New Jersey
the far coast of the Pacific Ocean, these summer resorts stand
ready to entertain the transient or a-summer guest
Any Pennsylvania Railroad Ticket Agent will cheerfuly
give information concerning routes and fares to these resorts
enabling pilgrims to plan their outing at minimum
of time and cost.
may addressing ". Boyd,
Philadelphia;
p Chestnut Street Philadelphia Thos F.
p Avenue. Pittsburgh B. p D. A.
Main Street Buffalo H asson Jr D. P A. Baltimore and Cal
frt sss Baltimore = ~ NeT0o p f e. Eiftse fb and
P A,
+ Yungman, d. r. A, WiIamsport, Pa
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
TRAIN ON A BARGE
BLOWN OUT TO SEA
Breaks From Galveston Tug.
Passengers Near Death
Before Rescue.

GALVESTON, Tex. May "a ship
wrecked train is Texas latest novelty.
The twenty-five passengers are ready to
testify today that the novelty is not
popular They were brought into Gal
weston late last night after being res
cued from a barge that attempted to
ferry two cars and an engine Of the
Gulf and Interstate railroad from Bolt
var Point to this city.
A sixty -mile-an-hOur gale broke the
cables that held the barge to the tug.
and the barge was blown through the
channel into the sea The tug went IL
pursuit, but not until the boat went
aground near Fort san JacintO did the
tug furnish relief.
The passengers were taken of BIZ
means of life lines. They were drench-
ed by huge waves that broke over the
coaches.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
TEA STORE MOVES
TO NEW QUARTERS
Atlantic and Pacific Com
pany Will Have Formal
Opening Tuesday.

Modern and up to date in every re-
spect, is the verdict OF those who have
visited the Atlantic and Pacific Tea
Company's new store at Coz Seventh
street northwest.
The new establishment will be for
maHy opened Tuesday. June /. although
1t is expected that il viii be ready for
business Friday. Located directly in
the center Of the business section of
the city, the store is so situated as TO
command a larger trade than ever be-
fore in the history OF the Washington
branch.
The store viii offer to its customers
complete new line of teas. conees and
fancy groceries. Every device for at
tending TO the wants of critical Gus
toners has been supplied. Shelves are
so arranged as TO display to the best
advantage the large stock
A butter cooler. said TO be the largest
in the city, and which contains device
for cutting and weighing butter, is one
of the features.
The storeroom is sanitary and dry,
and is reached by large freight eleva-
tor. The offices are elevated and are
in the rear of the store.
modern cash system completes the
business arrangement for conducting
the business.
The general color scheme of the store
is green, an innovation in tea and coffee
stores. which are usually finished in
red.
The Washington branch is one of the
three hundred and fifty stores owned
and managed by the atlantic and Pa
cific Tea Company. It's manager is
Pierce NJ. Bealer. who has been with
the company since he was twelve years
old, and who has held the position of
manager since he was twenty-One years
old. Mr.. Bealer has had personal super
vision of the arrangement and decora-
ton of the new store
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27

Look to Lottery for Funds
to Realize GomeZS
Projects.

HAVANA. May zi.-There is grave
doubt among many Cuban politicians
today whether the revenues for next
year Will meet the budget of ne 4rly
S34. 0CO,000. which President Gomez has
just sent TO Congress.
The president himself is confident
that the budget is not excessive, des-
pite the fact that it is s.. 100000 heavier
than that Of the current year. The in
crease is necessary, the president
says in his message, by reason CT the
unfinished contracts maze by former
Governor Magoon.
New sources of revenue, including an
estimated 100000 from the national
lottery, are counted on to meet the in
crease in the budget. The presidents
estimates of the revenues for the
coming year are generally considered
too high
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
BANK IS TERRORIZED
BY ESCAPED LUNATIC
Crazy Man Holds Up Cashier and Demands $4,000,
Threatening to Throw Dynamite Bomb-Panic
Ensues Before Intruder Is Captured

REDWOOD CITY. Cal. May 27--An
inmate of the State Lunatic<Asylum at
Agnews was returned to his ward today
where he is rejecting upon the glorious
time he had yesterday when he terror
lied Redwood City and caused a panic
in the Redwood city National Bank.
The national bank was crowded with
men and women when Wild-eyed man
entered the counting room, and craning
his neck into the cage of Cashier l. H
Behrens said in a hoarse whisper:
Give me $4,000 or III blow the whole
building and every one in it to high
heaven with this dynamite bomb"
The stranger exhibited a bundle wrap
ped in q handkerchief
Behrens tried 70 argue witt him, and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
SHOT IN PLAY SHOW.

SLATINGTON, Pa. May 27.-While
arranging an an ateur Wild West
Show in a small building filled with
boys, Bernard Gallagher was acct
dentally and perhaps fatally shot.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
MRS. NULTON'S HAT
BURNS ON HER HEAD

WINCHESTER. Va, Nay 27-Feath-
ers and draperies on her large and
fashionable hat catching fire from
gas jet, Mrs. Mutton. wife of Lieut.. Com
Louis Mccoy Mutton. T. s n. had a
very narrow escape at her home here
Dnabl to reach the hat pins through
the flames, Mrs. Mutton rolled on the
floor in her efforts TO smother the fire
Her father Edward ]. Evans. rescued
her just after her hair had been singed
and her hands blistered
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
FALLS FIFTY FEET.

HARTFORD, Conn. May 27-Four-
year-old Rose Kaling, daughter of
Carl Kaling. OF % Ahleck street. fell
out OF a window and landed in a
hammock fifty feet below. She was
picked up scared, but little hurt.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27
FALLS FAR, UNHURT.

WILLIAMSBURG. Pa, May u
George Biehl, a bellboy a. the Hotel
U1degraff, fell from a fifth-fioor win
dow. but alighted on a net Of telephone
wires and escaped practically unhurt
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-27

the men aud women il the place made
a sudden Give for tbs exits. In the
panic that ellsued two women tainted.
Behrens tempoTized with the man un-
til the police had been summoned and
appeared. They seized on the wOuld-be
dynamiter, handling him carefully. fear
ing that MS bomb might drop TO the
floor and explode. But the bomb was
merely a large piece of clay The lunatic
was returned to the ASYLUM
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-10
Answers to Queries

SCAB-Reader City What is the correct
organizations? '0-
The dictionary definition is: "a name
for workman who works for lower
wages than are fixed by the trades
unions; also applied to one who takes
the place or a workman on strike"
Recently in a court of England the fol-
lowing was given as the definition OF
"scab": "A scab is to his trade what
traitor is to his country, and though
both may be useful in troublesome
times they are detested by all when
there comes a time of peace, so when
help is needed the 'scab' is the last to
contribute assistance and the first to
grasp the benefit he never labored to
secure. He cares only for himself; he
sees not beyond the extent of day
and for a monetary appreciation. He
would betray friends, family and coun-
try; in short. he is traitor on a small
scale who first sells the journeyman
and is himself afterward sold by the
one who employed him until he is at
last despised by both and deserted by
all. He is an enemy to himself, to the
present age and to all posterity."
LHAsSA-subscriber; City. In an article on
the young Turks. / read that the unyeiline Of
Yildiz Kiosk is something Ike the unyeiiing OF
Lhassa." What is the latter?
Lhassa is the capital of Tibet. on the
Dantzug 1870 feet above sea level.
noted for the converts In and near n,
composing the ecclesiastical establish
ments of the dalai lama, whose per-
sonal residence Is in convent on the
adjacent Botala. It is the headquarters
of the hierarchy of lamas. who by
means of the dalai lama exercise
priestly (Buddhist) control over nearly
all of Mongolia as we'll as Tibet The
temples are respondent with gold and
precious stones. Prior to 1890 only two
Europeans had visited the place, one in
1911 and the other in 1916. 1t was
afterward opened to outsiders, and that
was called the unwilling
ALIEN-w. N. City Can an alien who has
declared his Intention to become citizen OF
the United States vote in any state or terri
tory?
In Arkansas. Alabama, Indiana. Kan
sas, Michigan. Missouri Nebraska. Ore
gon, South Dakota. Texas and Wiscon-
sin an alien who has declared his in
tention of becoming citizen of the
United States is entitled to vote after
he has been a resident for a period
varying from three months to one wear.
In California only full fiedged Ameri
can citizens. natives or naturalized.
can vote.
| QUOTATIONS.. S.. Santa Clara. Cal. what
| Is the quotation In which are the words s.Con,
| pound for sins we have" and who wrote it,
The quotation is:
Compound for sins they are inclined to
By damning those they have no mind to-
1t is from "Hudibras," by Butler
part l.
| MISUNDERSTANDING, City. How far aid
| Marconi send wireless messages in his drsf er
periments in 1895 or 1896?
| About zoo feet. Four years later
messages were sent and received to and
from points 200 miles apart.
PER Gents. City. Is 1t possible for man
! in business to make 100 per cent on his outlay
1t is.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-10
MongreI Cur Turns
Dislike to Respect

attracted the laughing an
ton of all who witnessed the desperate onslaught
Il little like that remarked Dr. H. > warren out my
kindly feeling for him and III tell you why
and night when returning from
Pullman smoker well known bench ho"
right to the name may be
dted dogs We talked thooushbds and
something the wonderful bond of friendship that
small and the dog Here is what
he told
whether horse other
guess wouldn't have animal for
a thoroughbred
heels home and WIFE
knowing tried to drive the dog but he
finally and let the dog and boy pS
in the yard until home
"eNhen got home the
Immediately the The child had already
which apparently recprocated
the little fellow began losing his playmate the dog
back.
story hard that had let
the bane of existence
Whenever of him that could think
anything friendly toward
him much possible Then boy fell sick
suffering All this time the dog stationed himself under the ch bed
could driven him from the had the
He his meals and wife carried his food in
the childs
Finally told what already knehat
All that night wife and beside only child and
Pickering fading
there
I'm the early when all the front
of the In
suddenly of 1
seachng parties
hired and in the few weeks
think have been the thorough search for dog made
all o purpose. The dog found.
still dogs
for yellow and whenever
is a fight there"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-08-10
CITY of SAN FRANCISCO

In view of the great and growing i'm
(Yerba Buena), situated on the great
bay of the same name, we have con-
densed a few statistics from copy of
the Californian of last August.
The town site, as recently surveyed.
embraces an extent of one and half
square miles. 1t is regularly laid out,
being intersected by streets from so to
so feet in width. The squares are di-
vided into lots of from 1914 varas (the
Spanish yard, of about 33 inches) front
smaller and more valuable of these
lots are those situated between high
and low water mark. Part of these lots
were sold in July last, at auction, and
brought from $50 to $500. The estab-
lished prices of the so and 100 vara
lots are s12 and SIS.
San Francisco, last August, contained
45s souls-of whom 375 were whites,
four f1fths of these being under 40
years of age. Some idea of the COM
position of the white population may
be gathered from the following state
ment as to the nativity of the larger
portion:
English. %; Germans, 81; Irish. IA;
Scotch, IA; born in the United States,
22S; Californians. SO.
Thirty-two of these last mentioned
being Californians proper. it will be
seen that about three-fif of the
whole number of emigrants are from
the United States. We do not give the
Indians, Sandwich Islanders, negroes,
etc; neither is mention made of the
regiment of New York volunteers.
OF the white population, there are SO
who can neither read nor write; but
when we learn that there are SO chill
dren under 10 years of age, and only
one teacher-the fact will not be won
dered at.
Previously to the 1st of April, 1S47,
there had been erected in the town 10
buildings, nearly all of which were
erected within the two years immedi-
ately preceding that date. From the
1st of April to the 1st of August there
were raised IS buildings. 1t appears,
then, by comparison of the above
two statements, that there had been
erected within five months. as many
buildings as were erected in all the
years previous.
This is an increase which may well
challenge the banks of our own rivers.
and this is, as 1t were. but the first
footprint OF the Americans.
There can be no better evidence of
the advantages and capabilities for i'm
provement of the place than this single
fact. Center of the finest harbor on
the Pacific, and seconded by the enter
prise and intelligence of its hardy citi-
zens, San Francisco is destined to be-
come the great commercial emporium
| of the north Pacific coast