The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-06-25
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 Ranking with Thermopylae, the glory of the ancient Greeks, and Bala- klava, rnmortaIlized by "The Charge of the Six Hundred" is the battlefield of the Little Big Horn in Montana. where, thirty-eeven years ago to-day, General George Armstrong Custer and his men made their last stand against the Sioux. Thermopylae had it's messenger of defeat, Balaklava it's survivors, but from that deadly com bat on the Little Big Horn not one of Busters command escaped alive. Gus ter's last fight is the classic of Indian warfare, Of western empire building.
 Clusters memory is 1oerpetuated by a monument erected on the battlefield, where Yellow Hair.'' as the Indians called him, and his brave soldiers, sleep the long sleep. A statue at West Point also serves as an example of heroisrn to the cadets Song and story. the books of Clusters widow, and reproductions of the famous painting, Clusters Last Stand, also serve to keep his memory green in tens Of thousands of households and schoolrooms.
 The Custer battles1ead xcan now be reached by rail, and Is only a short Journey from the city of Sheridan, wyoming It is preserved as na- tionaI cemetery, under the control Of the United States War Department and is annually visited by hundreds of admirers of he-great Indian fight CT.
 It was two days after the battle two days too 1ateNvner1, a relief force reached the scene of carnage on the Little Big Horn In the meantime the Sioux had fled to Canada where they remained several years, until they made their peace with the s.great white fatherS' at Washington. and were permitted to settle on a. reser- vation in South Dakota.
 Save for the buzzards, the only Hv- ing thing in sight when the relief force arrived at the scene of the mas sacre was Commanches the horse of Private Keogh. Seriously wounded in haM a dozen places, the faithful horse stood beside his dead master. At first it was considered necessary to shoot the suffering animal, but no sol- dfer could bring himself to do so. For weeks ola Comanc11e fought a bat tie with death, but eventually he con quered. He was taken in charge by the troops of the Seventh cavalry, and it was officially ordered that he be given a separate stable, the best of ratipns and care, and that he should never be ridden again. Co., manche sleek and fat and lazy, sur vived for sixteen yearss the pet and pride of Troop Of the Seventh Cav airy. He died at Fort Lincoln, not far distant from the Custer battle field, and was buried with full mili- tary honors. while weeping soldiers gathered about the grave Not long ago the War Department granted the troop permission bo remove the re- mains of Conanche to~the battlefield. Gyp the B1ood'' and ~M1he the Bite and other gunmen of Gotham have long since vanished from the public prints Rumor has 1t that some Of them are in Sing Sing, await ing electrocution. but the world wags along without any drst-page knoWf- edge of their fate. Harry the Buzz however, Is no ordinary gunmans be- ing rich, and is entitled to greater consideration. Therefore lest the public be permitted to forget that squalfd tragedy of Illicit love, it is well to point out that to-day Is the seventh anniversary of the shooting of Stanford White by Harry Kendall Thaw: that the Mattewan 7naduan proposes soon to resume his light for freedomS that he denies the paternity of the child of Evelyn Nesbtt Thaw; that the latter, now on the stage de- sires only to forget. and says so in column interviews at every opportun- ity
 The first Methodist conference was held 169 years ago to-day, June 25. 1T44. This pioneer conference 0i what is now one of the greatest of the worlds religious denom1nattons was called by John Wesley. who felt that a. more definite and extensive or ganizat1on than he had first given his followers was inperatively demanded The conference was composed of six c1ergymen. who proceeded to consad- eration of three topics: What to teach; l how, to- teach, and what to do. The first two days were occupied with the l discussion of several doctrines, evan ge1ical and Arminian. which were de- fined with precision. On the three following days they discussed the re- lation of the Methodist societies to the Established Church, and secession 1 from 1t was discountenanced. Tn a l second conference, five years later
 1fethodisrn took an organic and defin- ite form, as WesIey's opinions or l s.church order'' had undergone 2 . f