The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-22
7. R. LOOKED ON.
Nandi Tribesmen Kill a Lion
With Spears.
Two of Their Number Severely
Injured.
SLEEPING SICKNESS.
Ravages Have Been Tremendous
in Uganda.
Men Still Succumb to 1t by
Thousands.

New York. July 22.-Colonel Roose-
velt's latest installment of his AFRICAN
Game Trails appearing in the August
Scribners, describes two of his most
picturesque experiences. He was one
of the first white men to see ana tell
about the killing of a lion by the
Nandi tribesmen. armed only with
shields and spears. 1t is a thrilling
narrative. He then pictures a unique
Journey of 100 miles from the shores
of Lake Victoria Nyanza to Albert
Nyanza. This is different entirely from
the previous scenes of his hunt. and
the strange peoples, the wild chiefs
and the novel landscape. furnish him
abundant rich material for a graphic
portrayal of little known region.
How Natives Kill Lions.
or the killing of lion by the Nandi
tribesmen, MI. Roosevelt writes: 'At
last the tense ring was complete, and
the sDearmen rose and closed in. The
lion looked quickly from side to side,
saw where the line was thinnest. and
charged at his topmost speed. The
crowded moment began. With shields
held steady and quivering spears
poised, the men in front braced them
selves for the rush and the shock; and
from either hand the warriors sprang
forward to take their foe in flank.
Bounding ahead of his fellows. the
leader reached throwing distance, the
long spear fiickered and plunged; as
the lion felt the wound he half turned,
and then flung himself on the man in
front. The warrior threw his spear; it
drove deep into the life, for entering
at one shoulder it came out of the op-
posite flank. near the thigh, yard of
steel through the great body. Rearing,
the lion struck the man, bearing down
the shield, his back arched; and for
moment he slaked his fury with fang
and talon. But on the instant 1 saw
another spear driven clear through his
body from side to side; and as the lion
turned again the bright spear blades
darting toward him were flashes of
white flame. The end had come. He
seized another man. who stabbed him
and Wrenched loose. AS he fell he
gripped a spear head in his jaws with
such tremendous force that he bent it
double. Then the warriors were round
and over him, stabbing and shouting.
wild with furious exultation.
From the moment when he charged
until his death I doubt whether ten
seconds had elapsed perhaps less; but
what ten secondsi The first half dozen
spears had done the work Three of
through the body the points projecting
several inches; and these, and one or
two others, including the one he had
seized in his jaws, had been twisted
struggle.
I'VE at once attended to the two
wounded men.
Then the warriors. raising their
shields above their heads, and chanting
the deep toned victory song, marched
with slow, dancing step around the
dead body of the lion; and this savage
dance of triumph ended a scene of as
fierce interest and excitement as 1 ever
hope to see"
Sleeping Sickness Ravages.
Mr.. Roosevelt writes of the terrible
ravages of the sleeping sickness IN
Uganda as follows: I'VE passed by
many islands, green with meadow and
forest, beautiful in the bright sunshine,
but empty with the emptiness of death.
A decade previously these islands were
thronged with tribes of fisher folk;
their villages studded the shores, ami
their long canoes, planks held together
with fibre furroWed the surface of the
lake Then, from out of the depths of
the Congo forest came the dreadful
scourge of the sleeping sickness, and
smote the doomed people who dwelt
beside the Victorian Nile, and on the
coasts of the Nyanza lakes and in the
lands between. Its agent was a biting
fly. brother to the tsetse whose bite Is
fatal to domestic animals
This fly dwells in forest, beside lakes
and rivers; and wherever it dwells after
the sleeping sickness came 1t was found
that man could not live. In this coun-
try. between, and along the shores of,
the great lakes, two hundred thousand
neople died in slow torment, before the
hard-taxed wisdom and skill of medical
science ard 0vernmental administra
ton could work any betterment what
ever in the situation. Men still die by
thousands, and the disease is slowly
spreading into fresh districts. But it
has proved possible to keep 1t within
limits in the regions already affected !;
vet only by absolutely abandoning GER
tain districts, and by clearing all the
forest and brush in tracts which serve
as barriers to the fly, and which per-
init passage through the infected belts.
on the western shores of Victoria Ny
anza and in the islands adjacent there
TO- the raVages of the pestilence were
such the mortality 4 caused was so ap
palling, that the government was finally
forced to depOrt all the survivors in
land, to forbid all residence beside or
fishing in the lake. and with this end
in view to destroy the village and the
fishing fleets of the people. The tenn
ing lake fish were formerly a main
source of food supply to all who dwell
rear by; but this has now been cut off
and the myriads of fish are left tc
themselves, to the host of water birds
and to the monstrous man-eating cro-
coolies of the lake, on whose blood the
fy also feeds, and whence it is sup
posed by some that it draws the germs
SO deadly to human kind
Jones Company Heavily Involved.
Kansas City, July 22.-The first re-
port of the receivers for the Jones DRY
Goods company of this city gives as
sets of $1,034.797 and liabilities OF
S1549,343. The report Is made as o.
June 4. at the beginning of the re
ceivership. The receivers in their re
-o-4 ip6Ioafa that fhe hI1cipess Of III.