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Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05

cnlef-makel. Ostensibly, the truce still
held, but at no time since it's signing
had matters been SO freighted with the
menace of gathering storm. The
attitude Of each faction was that Of
several men standing quiet with guns
trained on one another's breasts. Each
hesitated to fire, knowing that to pull
the trigger meant to die himself, yet
fearing that another trigger might at
any moment be drawn. Purvy dared
not have Samson shot out of hand, be-
cause he feared that the Souths would
claim his life in return, yet he feared
to let Samson live. On the other hand,
if Purvy fell. no South could balance
his death, except Spicer or Samson.
Any situation that might put condi-
tons to moment of issue would
either prove that the truce was being
observed, or open the war-and yet
each faction was guarding against such
an event as too fraught with danger.
One thing was certain. BY persuasion
or force, Lescott must leave, and Sam
son must show himself to be the youth
he had been thought, or the confessed
and repudiated renegade. Those ques-
tions, today must answer. 1t was 4
difficult situation, and promised an
eventful entertainment Whatever
conclusion was reached as to the art
lists future, he was, until the verdict
came in, visitor, and, unless liquor
intiamed some reckless trouble.hunter.
that fact would not be forgotten. Pos
sibly, it was as we'll that Tamarack
Spicer had not arrived.
| Lescott himself realized the situa-
tion in part, as he stood at the door Of
the house watching the scene inside.
There was, of course, no round dane
ing-only the shuttle and jig-with
champions contending for the honor
of their sections.
In the group about the door, Lescott
passed youth with tow-white hair
and very pink cheeks. The boy was
the earliest to succumb to the tempta-
ton of the moonshine jug, tempta-
ton which would later claim others.
He was Keeling crafty, and his albino
eyes were now red and inflamed.
"Thet's ther damned furriner thet's
done turned Samson inter a gal" pro-
claimed the youth, in a thick voice.
The painter paused, and looked
back. The boy was reaching under his
coat with hands that had become
clumsy and un:esponsive.
Let me git at him." he shouted,
with a wild whoop and dash toward
the painter.
| Lescott said nothing, but Sally had
heard, and stepped swiftly between.
you've got ter git past me fust,
Buddy" she said, quietly. II reckon
ye'd better run on home, an git yore
nanny ter put We ter bed"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05

to gain accurate information and an
answer to one vital question. Was
Tamarack held as feud victim, or
was his arrest legitimate? How to
learn that was the problem. To send
body Of men was to invite bloodshed.
To send q single inquirer was to de-
liver him over to the enemy.
"Air you men willin' ter take my
word about Tamarack?" inquired Sam.
son. There was clamorous assent,
and the boy turned to Lescott.
Il wants We ter take Sally home with
We. Ye'd better start right away, afore
she heers any of this talk. Hit would
fret her. Tell her I've had ter go cross
Their country a piece. ter see a sick
man. Don't tell her whar I'm a-goin'."
He turned to the others. II reckon
I've got yore promise tibet Mr.. Lescott
hain't a.goin' ter be bothered afore I
gifts baclk?''
Vile McCager promptly gave the A.
surance.
II gives We my hand on hit"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05
GERMAN SHELLS DESTROY
MANY BLOCKS m RHEIMS

of Rheims was more severe on the
night OF Feb. 21-22 than at any other
time, according to C. I.enoir, deputy
for Rheims, who was in the city at
that time. Shells began falling at g.
o'clock and continued to rain down
until 2:15 a. m. The projectiles came
from all parts Of the German front
from the northwest to the east.
The gunners seemed to aim especial
ly at the first ward of the city, M. Le-
noir said. This section hitherto had
been spared. Fire broke out in 90
places at once and whole blocks col.
lapsed like card houses.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05
MISS EMMA PETERSON, 81 YEARS
OLD, is STRUCK DOWN At
NIGHT WITH HEAVY
GAS PIPE.
OLD WOODEN GLOVE is
ONLY CLUE POLICE HAVE
Bloodhound Picks Up Trail, but Losee
It at River Edge-Goaded to Des-
perate Measures by Third Un-
solved Staying Police Arrest
Forty-Two Suspects.

Aurora, H., March 1.-Women Of this
city locked themselves within doors
or ventured into the streets only in
groups Of two or three while the men
gathered to discuss the best means to
apprehend the murderer who struck
down and killed Miss Emma Peterson
in the streets and who is believed to-
be the same person who killed Miss
Jennie Miller in similar manner
some months ago.
The city council, after a hurried
special session, announced a reward Of
$1,000 for the arrest of the murderer
and agreed to take whatever steps
should prove necessary to help Frank
MickeIs, chief of police, in finding
him.
Aurora, H., Feb. 27.-The murder of
Emma Peterson has aroused residents
Of Aurora to great excitement. 1T is
the third unsolved killing within
year.
In each Of the three murders the
victim has been slugged to death. In.
no case has the murderer been caught
Aurora, ILL.,, Feb. 27.-In an old
WOODEN glove, one that was worn at
some time by a man engaged in hard
labor, the police pinned their greatest
hope of running down the mysterious
murderer who struck down Miss En-
ma Peterson, 81 years old, with short
section OF heavy gas pipe.
The glove, with the piece Of pipe.
was found within Il half block of where
fIC ;,,
fashionable Lake street
The young woman's handbag, open.
ed and rifled, was found block and q
half away, on the Northwestern rail-
road tracks. The glove has been care
fully guarded and will not be exposed
until it is given bloodhounds for the
scent
One of the bloodhounds arrived and
after smelling the old glove, picked up
a trail.
This led to the Northwestern rail-
road tracks, where the young woman'e
handbag was found, then back towards
the city, then back to the tracks, then
two blocks east to the Fox river.
There the trail was lost in the water.
Third Mysterious Girl Murder.
Goaded to desperate measures by
this the third mysterious girl murder
here in a year, plain clothes men and
uniformed police, working under the
personal direction of Chief Frank
Michels, arrested twenty-five negro
and seventeen white suspects in their
hunt for the slayer of Miss Peterson.
The officers are hopeful that the
bloodhounds will be of great aid to
them. as a Gordon of police stood all
night around the scene of the crime.
No one was permitted to go near the
spot, near former Senator Hopkins.
home, where the body was found with
the head crushed in.
AS in the murder of Miss Jennie Mil
Ter, the daughter OF former Mayor Mil.
Ter, who was crushed to dei.th with a
pipe wrench as she passed out into the
shadows of the Free Methodist church,
great. tall man, wearing a long
overcoat," is being sought.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05
Austrians Pick UP 5000 Dead.

Geneva, via Paris, March dur
ing the night of Friday, Feb. 10, taking;
advantage Of lull in hostilities in the.
Carpathians, the Austrians picked up,
at Svidnik 5000 wounded men and,
over 5000 dead. The wounded had,
been lying on the ground. some OF
them, for eighteen hours without food,
or succor. A chief officer of the Aus
trian medical department is authority
for the estimate that 20 per cent Of
them will be invalids for life. A ma.
jority of the wounded at Svidnik were,
wounded In the head.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05
lcopyzishs. 1913. BY w. ]. Wat. 4 CO.
SYNOPSIS.

On Misery creek Sally Miller finds
George Lescott. a landscape painter, UNI
conscious. and. after reviving him, goes
for assistance. Spicer South. head of the
family. tells Samson South and Sally that
Jesse Purvy has been shot and that Sam
denies it: The shooting of Jesse Purvy
breaks the truce in the Hollman-South
teld. Samson reproves Tamarack Spicer
Tor telling Sally that Jim Holman is
hunting with bloodhounds the man who
shot Purvy The bloodhounds lose the
trail at Spicer South's door. Lescott dis
covers artistic ability in Samson. While
Tamarack discovers Samson to a jeering
crowd of mountaineers. Samson thrashes
MIN and denounces him as the truce
Das.er. who shot Purvy. Lescott tries to
Pernnade Samson to go to New York with
him and develop his talent. Sally. loyal
nut nut heartbroken. furthers Lescott's eff
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05
CHAPTER VII.

Several soberer men closed around
the boy, and after disarming him, led
him away grumbling and muttering,
while Vile McCager made apologies to
the guest.
"Jimmy's jest peevish child" he
explained. "a drop or two of ticker
makes him skittish. l hopes yell look
over hit"
Jimmy's outbreak was interesting to
Lescott chiefly as an indication of
what might follow. Unwilling to in
troduce discord by his presence, and
involve Samson in quarrels on his &C.
count, he suggested riding back to
Misery, but the boys face clouded at
the suggestion.
EFF they KANT be civil ter my
friends" he said, shortly, they've got
ter account ter me. You stay right
hyar. and I'll stay clost to you. done
come hyar today ter tell 'em that they
mustn't NEEDLE in my business"
A short while later, Vile McCager
invited Samson to come out to the
mill, and the boy nodded to Lescott
an invitation to accompany him.
The mill, dating back to pioneer
days, sat by its race with it's shaft now
idle. It looked to Lescott, as he ap-
preached, like a scrap of landscape
torn from some medieval picture, and
the men about its door seemed medic.
val, too: bearded and gaunt, hard
thewed and sullen.
All of them who stood waiting were
men of middle age, or beyond. A num-
Der were gray-haired, but they were all
of cadet branches. Many of them, like,
Vile McCager himself, did not bear
the name Of South, and Samson was
the eldest son of the eldest son.
Samson" began old Vile McCagev,
clearing his throat and taking up his
duty as spokesman, we're all your
kinfolks here, an we aimed ter ask We
about this here report tibet yer lowin'
ter leave the mountings?"
what Of hit?" countered the boy.
"Hit looks mighty like the wars
a-goin' ter be on ag'in pretty soon. Air
ye a-goin' ter quit, or air ye a-goin' ter
stick? Thet's what we wants ter
know"
II didn't make this here truce, an I
hain't a-goin' ter bust HIT" said the
boy, quietly. when the war COM
mences. I'll be hyar. Eff hain't hyar
in the meantime. hit hain't nobody's
business. hain't accountable ter no
man but pap, an l reckon, whar he is.
he knows whether I'm a-goin' ter keen
my word"
There was a moments silence. then
Vile McCager put another question:
EFF ye're plumb sot on gettin' larnin'
why don't ye git hit right hyar in these
mountings?" RI.
Samson laughed derisively.
who'll I git hit from?" he causti.
cally inquired. EFF the mountain won't
come ter Mohamet, Mohamet's got ter
go ter the mountain, I reckon"
Caleb Wiley rose unsteadily to his
rect, his shaggy beard trembling with
wrath and his voice quavering with
senile indignation.
"Hev We done got too damned good
fer yore kinfolks. Samson south?" he
shrilly demanded. "Hev ye done been
follerin' after this here puny witch.
doctor twell ye can't keep q civil
tongue In yer head fer yore elders
I'm in favor Of runnin' this here fur.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05
Hadn't Looked for That.

"When we bought dear little Bobby
the electric flashlight he had been
begging for SO long," says a mother,
I'VE never anticipated that the first
time we had company he would hold
it up to the guests ear anu say: oh.
I just want to see II your ear u
clean!'"
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05
Swedish Ship DAMAGED.

Amsterdam, via London, March +.
The Swedish steamer Svarton, from
Rotterdam, arrived at Ymuiden, Hol-
land, with a large hole in her star
board side near the bow. The captain
reported that the Svarton had been
damaged by either a mine or a tor
pedo. In his opinion the damage was
inflicted by mine.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05

a small library of carefully picked
books, which the mountaineer eagerly
agreed to devour in the interval.
Lescott consented, however, to re-
main over Saturday, and go to the
dance, since he was curious to observe
what pressure was brought to bear on
the boy, and to have himself a final
word Of argument after kinsmen had
spoken.
Saturday morning came after night
of torrential rain, which had left the
mountains steaming under a reek of
fog and pitching clouds.
But, as the morning wore on. the
sun fought its way to view in a scrap
of overhead blue. From log cabins
and plank houses up and down Misery
and its tributaries, men and women be-
gan their hegira toward the mill. Les.
colt rode in the wake of Samson, who
had Sally on pillow at his back. They
came before noon to the mouth of Dry
hole creek, and the house of Vile Nc
eager. Already, the picket fence was
lined with tethered horses and mules.
From the interior of the house came
the sounds of fiddling, though these
strains of Turkey in the Straw" were
only by way of prelude. Lescott felt,
though he could not say just what con-
crete thing told him, that under the
shallow note of merry-making brooded
the major theme of troublesome
problem. The seriousness was below
the surface, but insistently depressing.
He saw. too, that he himself was mixed
up with 1t in fashion, which might
become dangerous, when a few Jugs
of white liquor had been emptied.
While the young persons danced
and 'sparked" within, and the more
truculent lads escaped to the road to
pass the jug. and forecast with youth
full war-fever "cleanin' out the Hoil-
MANS" the elders were deep in ways
and means. If the truce could be pre.
served for it's unexpired period of
three years. it was. of course. best. In
that event, crops could be cultivated.
and lives saved. But. If Jesse Purvy
chose to regard his shooting as =
breach Of terms. and struck, he would
strike hard. and. in that event, best
defense lay in striking first. Samson
would soon be twenty.one. That he
would take his place as head of the
clan had until now never been cues.
Homeland he was talking Of deser.
ton. For that, pink-skinned for
eigner. who wore woman's bow of
ribbon at his collar, was to blame.
The question of loyalty must be square.
ly put up to Samson. and it must be
done today. His answer must be def.
mite and unequivocal. AS guest If
spicer South. Lescott was entitled to
that consideration which Is accorded
ambassadors.
None the less, the vital affair of the
clan could not be baked by considera.
ton for q stranger. who. in the opin-
ion Of the majority. should be driven
from the country a. an insidious mis-.
Sioux County pioneer. (Fort Yates, Sioux County, N.D.) 1914-1929, 1915-03-05

Riches From GIFT Bestowed.
When you give away happiness you
all Dc time gifts richer an richer in 1t
Atlanta Constitution.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10
PoE's HUNT FOR A PUBLISHER.
lie Set Forth In Letter to PROT.
Anthem Some of Ills Troubles.

one of the many interesting letters \
the sale Of the literary properties uf 'Ne
late Adrian a. Jolne. says the Boston
Transcript. is the original draft of l,'-
ter to Prof Charles Anthem. AN n tie
handwriting of Edgar Allan Foe show
ing his methods of constructing ru iw-
portant letter. with its many changes ~
words, phrases and even paragraphs In
this letter Poe writes:
"Before quitting the Messenger 7 saw
or fancied 7 saw, through "A Iohg ard
dim vista the brilliant field fu. an.h.-
ton which a magazine Of bold and noble
aims presented to him who should sire
cessfully establish it In America I uo~-
ceived that the country from IFS very
constitution. could not IA! of aGorH.ng
IN few years larger proporuo'n's
amount Of readers than any upon carh
I perceived that the whole emerge. q.
busy spirit Of the age tended wholly to
magazine literature-to the curt the
terse the well timed and the readily ~
fused. in preference to the old forms NJ
verbose and ponderous and the i.scpes-
sihle
Holding steadily in view my ultima =
purpose-to found magazine Of my own
Or In which AT least | might have pro
prietary right has been my constant
ende4VOr In the meantime. not 50 much
to establish a reputation great in itself
as one OF that particular character which
should best further my special objects.
and draw attention to my eXertious rs
editor Of p magazine. Thus ] have ,vrfj-
ten no books and have been 81 far essen
TALLY a maEazinis, bearing not only
willingly but cheerfully sad poverty ara
the thousand consequent Cou'umclics and
other ills which the condition Of tho moro
magazinist entails upon him IN America.
where, more than IN any other reg on
upon the face Of the globe, 10 be- poor
Is TO he despsed.
Setting aside. for the present. my rr ...
cisms. poems and m'scallanics 6suf'-
! emily numerous). my tales. a great Num-
! Der OF which might he termed fantasy
| pieces, are In number siN'y-siN Tucv
| would make perhaps i've Of the Ordintr'
| novel volumes. ! have then prepared n
every respect for the press; but alas
| have no money. nor that Influence which
would enable me to get a publshor-al-
| though I seek no pecuniary remunera-
| ton know that you have IN
bounded influence with the Harpcrs and
| know that II you would exert II IN my
behalf YOU could procure me the puhlica-
tlon I desire"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10
BISMARCK AND RUSSIAN.
X new the Language, hut wnnIdn't
Read Letters written In II.

Although Bismarck knew Ru sian woll
he declined to take any notice Of dcs-
pa tches addressed to the German For
eiRn Office In that language.
my predecessor" ha once related,
wrote 10 all the dlDloma'ists I'm Ger
man. and they replied each 40 his own
anguage-Russiar, Spanish. Swedish and
what not, / decided that al commur .,l-
tions received IN languages other 'aan
German, French, English and Italian
should he left unrotlccd
"Budberg. the Russian Ambassador
in Berlin. wrote me screed after scr,rf
always IN Russian. No answer was ""-
turned. and at last he came 20 ask I'VE
reason for my silence. There Is great
pile of documents In Russian Downstairs
told him: yours are probably among
them.
1--WE have no one who understand
Russian. and I have given instructions
for AL documents written IN Language
we do not understand 70 he pH' way
in the archives 1t was then arranged
that Rudberg should write to us N
French"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10
III.

Americans owe Mrs. DE Forest
great debt OF gratitude for her indus
try in discovering and her kindness in
pub fishing "a long forgotten record OF
exploration of part of the mouth of the
AmaZOnS and the coast of the Guianas.
This is the narrative Of the expedition
under the conduct of Jesse De Forest in
1923. 1t exists In a unique transcript
in the British Museum as Sloane Ms.
119 b. The eXacerbatlon Of the Nene-
2uela question in Mr.. Cleveland's adj
ministratiOn brought this manuscript
briefly within knowledge and some
slight use was made Of It's Information
in the minute research into original doc
uments which characterized that in
qury.
The authorship of the manuscript
and the draughtsmen Of its sew
eral and well executed maps re-
mains unknown Its characteristic
employment Of the first person singular
points clearly To some member of the
expedition, the fact that II IL continu-
Gus through the events on the Wild
Coast after the ship had returned to
the Low Countries to make its report
narrows II down to one Of the three
who were left behind among the savages.
OF the three, Jesse De Forest is
contraindiClted by reason of The fact
that the Journal records his death and
burial There Is some reason to narrow
the choice down to Johannes de la Mon
tagne. who later married into the De-
FOREST family. Furthermore, there Is
reason 20 suppose that this is not the
original Journal. but an ectype made
( for some particular reason, Here Mrs,
/ M 80 ~ ri frpaDip1ls in la n
argument and displays an extensive aC-
/ quaintance with the geographical liter
aturc OF the period which she has sedu-
lousy ransaCkcd for the discovery of a
channel whereby il was feasible for this
manuscript tn pass into the hands Of
sir Hans Sloane.
II Is not our original source of in
formation as to the Amazons and the
. Guiana coast. FOR they were both slightly
known 20 Jesse De Forest and the West
India Company before he ser forth upon
the voyage, but is of extreme value In
giving MS intimate pictures Of the life
of the coast and the position or its
Indian population before their social
state had been appreciably altered by
the coming Of the white men, The
story of the search of the Amazons for
n convenient place of settlement gives
us an interesting picture Of the trickery
Of exploration, Incidentally. we note
that Mrs. De Forest remarks upon the
consistent use In her text Of the journal
Of the plural as applied To the Amazons
II has escaped her attention that the
original name of the river was Amazons
that II still remains in the plural IN
Brazil and that the best geographical
usage conforms thereto. on the equator
just off the mouth Of the great river
the eXpeditlon came up with the shlr
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-10

Kabylia. between the Pass OF no. p. "A
on the west and the Pass Of tho I.ln .,
the east. Their nomenclature .. Dbl.
turesque. they give themsclyrs tr.
names Of birds and animals and ....r
towns descriptive appellatlons. Big i.,.
tie Mountain Top of the Steep Stone
Little Hill of the Backsmiths. EN,rss.
cence Of Dried Figs Puff NJ sYnt5,a
Vaulted Tomb. II there is a remote
suggestion Of highland Kcntuckv %,
these place names there Is another IA
the custom of family fcud. The
Kabyles of the Diurdjura used 20 1--we
like northern Albanans, and there VS.
logic in the settlement Of their towns
on high peaks affordrng no conceded
approach for invaders with the thr.,
for blood hot upon Them. only O..
holy men Of Kabylia would IN 'h..,
days have dared settle in the sheltered
valleys
The story Of one feud is told: \ n,--o
slave Of "a very devoted couple doc
termned to separate them. He told iN.
woman that she was to be Discarded
for a new wife and that the only t,lv
she could stavc off the impcndin, m .-
fortune was to shave off half her 'orrs
/
master that the woman mcdi,n'ci he
murder at night with a razor. The l...
hand watched, the wife entered v.tH .Hc
razor. and he struck hcr q fatal blow.
The woman's father slew The husband
and family warfare began tina. enc
dured through generations and crls'-
| ing the friends II either side. almost
caused civil war
with French Italian ard span n
labor" standing shoulder 10 shoulder
with Arab Moroccan and Kthy1 n
the galleries Of the iron mines of fr.
western Xaccar. with the S3I'rin
women disoarding their beautiful tr.urh
/ heavy water jars for modern "uDri
tins: with automobiles chug-Iua over
steppe and hillside and roads ,n.d WITH
signals Of tho Autrmoh.|" club "
/ France. one more resource Of tho me
pressonist bids fair to be wiped ou' II
existence.