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: *•- *? BREAKING THE WISHBONE "Another Year of Prosperity** ft fi V i&v' '.-• •"'.' « . fT\S f;« I • 4.*' .«? ILLINOIS STATE NEWS FRONTIER THANKSGIVING Only One Gobbler for Forty Hungry Troopers to Make a Feast Of "Boots and saddles!" What stirring strains were those bugle notes as they echoed and re­ echoed up the canons and through the tall tamaracks at Camp Watson, a typical frontier post whose bartack buildings were of solid logs, located In the part of the beautiful Blue moun­ tains where the hostile Snake Indians ranged and disputed with gory hand the advances of the white man. The little garrison at Camp Watson had had hard work all the fall hunt­ ing hostiles far and away even to the Owyhee, and now looked forward |s?ith keen appreciation to Thanksgiv­ ing day, which the next sun-up would bring, and the frontier feasting It Would bring with it 1 -- "It will be to all the boys at least ft taste of home and mother," said Major W. V. Rinehart, post command­ er, as he instructed Lieutenant Tom jHand to lighten labor and give his •jnen all possible liberty. So the company game hunters had teen out on the near-by ridges and l>rought In dozens of big, fat grouse, three deer and an elk, and the com­ pany cooks had given it out that they * ivould try their hands on mince pies provided some commissary fire-water <<vere rustled up for flavoring. Everything looked promising tor a , fine feast. But the two hunters who had ttrought in the elk also brought the »ews that half a mile away they had found the fresh tracks of an Indian fony, and the telltale sign showed .- that his rider had been spying about Camp Watson. The tracks, two miles * ft way, Joined the trail of a large party Which had headed southwest. In the * trail were the familiar footprints of : Jfcany mules. . Then dashed into camp young Fred ^llmarth, whose tough cayuse had brought him from Fort Dalles, more ^han a hundred miles away, with the sews that the hostile Snakes had raid­ ed down the John Day and captured horses at the Maupin and Clarno Stanches, and burned Jim Clarke's Jlouse. The rough-riding mid ofthe Snakes had been very successful, for at Mud­ dy Creek they had captured Henry Heppner*s entire train of pack mules, and that energetic pioneer had to fort VP in the rocks, and after escaping With his scalp and reaching The Dalles, had to begin business all over ftg&iii. "Boots and saddles!" soon sounded , aft Camp Watson. Such news always l|rought that stirring calL ^ Thanksgiving thoughts were laid Sslde; they would have to keep for toother year. Capt Boutelle's troop- •eni were quickly mounted. Their trailer was Donald McKay, whose grandfather was John Jacob Astor's partner, and his grandmother a prin­ cess of Concomly's Chinook tribe. Away went the troopers just as the westering sun went behind a cloud which broadened and blackened and soon began to patter down in rapid raindrops. , It was to be a swift pursuit and a sudden striking of the enemy, and so every trooper traveled light, except as to ammunition, which was 150 rounds to the man. And big 60-caliber cart- rides they were in those days. Not a superfluous ounce was car­ ried on the horses; there was no pack train, no impediments; merely a few hardtacks stuck into saddle pockets comprised the commissary; the ene­ my had food--capture it. . A good trailer was Donald McKay, and the footfalls of his trained cayuse told him in the dark the kind of tracks he was stepping in. Where a small party of the hostiles had branched off to the northwest Donald knew their number and guessed their object. Silently the pursuit continued. Day­ light could not be much further away than over the next divide. Suddenly in the darkness just ahead, what was that? The yelp of a coyote? If so, It would soon be followed by a chorus. No. It was the bark of the coyote's close cousin, an Indian dog. Soon it was followed by another bark, and bang! A bullet zipped past the troopers. Then came the defiant war whoop, telling that the Indians had put none but Americans on guard that night, and that the warriors were stirring and ready to meet the United States, the great nation with whom they were at war. Quickly the troopers accommodated them. There were volleys from both sides, a dashing cavalry charge through the camp, a reassembling by bugle call on the other side, and another rush through. It was blind business in the dark, but the Indians gave shot for shot as they scattered around In this • sage brush and posted themselves in ra­ vines. As daylight came, the troopers closed in on the camp, and what warriors remained In it died defiant The camp was a medley of willow- pole wickiups and tule-matting wind­ breaks shaped like the modern hats worn bx women. When the soldiers got full possession they rather ignored the scattering shots that came from the ravines, for they would rather hive the bees that were left than kill them. And they knew that the bulk of the women and pappooses had escaped to the ravines. The firing showed thftt the hostiles' strength had been re­ duced. So had the number of troop­ ers, and the wounded horses, unable to respond to the bugle call, neighed pitifully from where they had gone down in the charge. The wounded were being looked after and their misery eased where that seemed possible, when Donald McKay took the floor, and, in stentor­ ian tones and Snake dialect, told the hostiles they had better cease firing and surrender; otherwise the soldiers would kill the last one of them. A defiant answer came rolling back, and just then an Indian woman hold­ ing up a baby rushed toward the sol­ diers, saying she would surrender to save her child. A shot followed from the gulch she had left, and her own husband became her murderer. He was stalking out to secure the baby when a bullet from McKay's carbine ended his career. This baby boy was afterward raised by a pioneer cattle­ man named Altnow, and became the most expert vaquero on the great Pine Creek Range. After a twenty-minute parley the hostiles were given their choice ot extermination or surrender, and final­ ly chose the latter. Sulkily they came into camp, what was left of them, thirty warriors with guns, while as many more lay dead and dying around the camp. Dead soldiers were there, too, six of them, and ten wounded. Strapping fellows In the very flower of youth, laid low on that Thanksgiv­ ing morning, a sad sacrifice to the cruel war waged In the winning of the West. A sorry-looking camp it was, but there was meat in it for the Indians had killed and dried most of Henry Heppner's mules, and they had several sacks of dried crickets and cowse and camas, and a little flour stolen at An­ telope. And this was all they had to offer the guests who had Intruded on them. But where Indians can live, soldiers can exist, and the late Thanksgiving breakfast was nearly over when-- "Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!" Those were the words which came from the adjoining sage brush, and quickly Capt. Waters had surrounded the sound and brought in a big gobbler that the Indians had staked out. One of his tail feathers, painted white, caused him to be recognized as ft for­ mer resident of the Clarno ranch, which nestled tinder the shadows of the high Cold Camp country. The boy Frank Claras had painted the feather, and soldiers passing there had no- ticed it. That turkey furnished a feast for thOse forty troopers that Thanksgiv­ ing morning. There were no cran­ berries, but a sage hen was Inserted into his Interior for flavoring, and he was browned on the embers, and there was k taste for several and a whiff of the fragrance for all. There was one wishbone, which the mule meat had not--Los Angeles Times. WOMAN'8 DEATH 18 A MYSTERY , Five Men Held for Slaying of Mrs. An' derson at Forrestort. Mrs. John Anderson, wife of ft well known politician and saloon-keeper of Forreston, Ogle county, was instantly killed Saturday morning at 1 o'clock in a manner that has not been solved en­ tirely to the satisfaction of the county officials, although five men are under arrest for being Implicated in the af­ fair.. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson resided over the saloon which is conducted by Anderson. Prior to closing his saloon Friday night Anderson had an alterca­ tion with several men and finally forced them from the building. Saturday morning at 1 o'clock both Mr. and Mrs. Anderson were awak rened by a noise in front of the saloon ^and both, clad in their night clothes went to the window. They saw five men as though they were fighting. In an instant a pistol shot rang out and Mrs. Anderson fell back from the win­ dow dead, the bullet taking effect in her heart The coroner's jury ordered the ar> tj&st of Louis Swank, a prominent citi­ zen and an ice dealer of the village; Enno Bockholder, William Dalsbaigh and Emory and Herman Anderson. One of the five ts suspected Of firing the fatal shot. ADMITTED TO BAR AT 65. --• Nicholas Van Sant of Sterling, aged €5 years, has ^ust been -admittedto the Illinois bar. For thirty years he conducted a lumber and coal business, but two years ago he decided to take up a professional career, and entered the law school of the University of Michigan. He was graduated in the WEE LAD READS BIBLE LE880NS Five-Year-Old Translates Latin, Hav­ ing Mastered the Study Unaided. Samuel Laird, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Orley Laird, is amazing the people of Springfield by reading Bible lessonar in the chupch which his parents, attend. Those who are admitted to the Laird home circle say that the boy reads and translates Latin with the greatest ease, having mastered the language himself since last spring. He reads newspapers, magazines, or any* thing that falls into his hands. Mrs. Laird said that she first discov­ ered that the lad could read when he was 2 years old. A visitor handed him a magazine opened at random and asked him to read. He began on a sci­ entific article on the making of glass and pronounced the technical terms correctly. • Two years ago the Rev. A. A. Niles gave the boy a handbill and offered to buy anything advertised thereon. Sam­ uel chose a bunch of bananas. The boy is to start to school soon, and hla teachers are much concerned over his classification. . To put him in a class with those of his own age would be a waste of time, but his parents do not wish to class him as a phenomenon by putting him higher up.' " 1 . ii i Hunters Ask for Rehearing. A rehearing has been asked for in the state Supreme court of the case of Schulte vs. Warren. The court re­ cently handed down a decision hold­ ing that sportsmen had no right upon waters flowing over submerged 'and owned "or leased by private parties, and that all fishing and hunting rights were vested in such owners. The fish­ ermen and hunters affected held a mass meeting and decided to wait un­ til the rehearing is argued. If this is denied, the case will be taken to the United States Supreme court. TALE OF BRUTALITY SHOCKS LISTENERS IN COURT ROOM mm i Sunday Baseball Is Scored. Sunday baseball was scored and amusements on the Sabbath were crit­ icised at the annual convention of the Sabbath association of Illinois at El­ gin. These pfficers were elected: President," Dir. Charles Blanchard. wheaton; secretary, Rev. Mr. Wil­ liams, Wheaton: treasurer, Rev. Mr. Houck, Chicago. Rev. Mr. Klrtly and Rev. Mr. Schwartz of this city and Rev. Mr. Barrett of Wheaton were ap­ pointed a committee to prepare the annual address to the people of the state. regular manner, and recently at Springfield successfully passed his ex­ amination for the bar. Mr. Van Sant founght under Grant in the civil war for three years, and holds an honor­ able discharge. In all respects he is a self-made man. He stands high so­ cially, and is known as an energetic church worker, • Strict Rule for Clergy Lost. A resolution forbidding smoking or drinking in public; places by clergy­ men, introduced at the session of the convention of the Episcopal diocese of Quincy at Galesburg by W. F. Bai­ ley, a lay delegate, was voted down. The sentiment of the convention seemed to be that if the vows taken by the clergymen did not prevent the practices complained of the resolution would not. The resolution, however, was supported by a large number of lay members, and several told of clergymen who had been noticed at public gatherings with their clothes reeking with tobacco odors. Mother Beats Teacher. The Joliet school board won a nota­ bly victory in a fight for discipline wi.en a jury in Judge Howk's court brought in a verdict of guilty against Mrs. Charles Volght, who fiercely pounded Miss Fannie Emery, a teach er, because she whipped one of Mrs. Voight's children. Mrs. Voight, who was fined $10 and costs, is a large wo­ man, and had been misled by her boy, who told her he was whipped because he came to school in ragged clothes. Fair Association Officers. The Macoupin county fair associa­ tion has elected the following town­ ship vice presidents: R. L. Cower, R. B. Thompson, H* W. Reither, W. J. H. Fahrenkroy, Ory Loper, Her­ man Bloome, A. C. Hulse, S. W. Barnes, Henry Rice, E. A. Gent, Ira Ketchum, John Van Wormer, Welter Johnson, Elmer Day, George Luper. Arthur Boyle. The directors elected for three years are: J. J. Stowe, Gir- ard; H. F, Bycroff, Sr., Gillespie; R. T. Ross, Palmyra. Forest Fires Are Raging. Forest fires which have been raging up and down the Illinois river hav caused thousands of dollars damage and forced scores of families to seek safety in the higher land. The fires started by careless hunters, are now beyond control, though the danger of their reaching any large buildings or towns is not imminent. Thousands of rabbits and small animals have been driven into the vilUiges and hunters are reaping, rich harvests aB a result Suit Over Insurance Money. Mrs Josephine Hill has brought suit In the circuit court at Taylorville against her sister-in-law, contesting the right of thex latter to $2,000 paid to her by the Court of Honor as bene flciary under a policy carried by the late W. S. Hill. Hill was the husband of the plaintiff and a brother of the de fendant. The plaintiff claims that she kept the policy in force and Is entitled to the money. Train Kills Stock Raiser. Wtlle W. H. Parklll was driving across the Chicago, Peoria and St. ouis railroad tracks at Springfield, a fast train struck the buggy, shatter­ ing the vehicle, injuring the horse and hurling Mr. Parkill over the fence with such force that he was killed. He was 60 years old and a prominent stock raiser. Express A T H A N K S G I V I N G M E D L E Y Wmrn. Robber Is Sentenced. flobert Anderson, who stole $1,250 from the America Express company at Nokomis five weeks ago, was found guilty and sentenced to the reforma­ tory at Pontlac. Great Corn Husker. Frank Lindsbloom of Pleasant Groye township claims the champion­ ship of Coles county as a corn husker, having made a record of 1,500 bushels in twelve days, hauling them two miles to an elevator. Fatally Burned Lighting Pipe. George W. Scurlock, aged 50, agent for the Standard oil company at Anna, was fatally burned, his clothing ignit­ ing while he was lighting his pipe. He leaves a wife and three frown children. Bone Broken Four Times. J. W. Biggs sustained four fractures of his collar bone by a street car striking a buggy in which he was rid­ ing at Alton. The buggy waS demol­ ished and the horse badly hurt. The curtains of the buggy prevented him being thrown under the car wheels. Opera House for Duquoin. The Duquoin opera house company has been incorporated with a capital stock of $20,000. The_ officers are: W. E. Hayes, president; Samuel Cot­ ton, vice president; F. H. Long, sec­ retary and treasurer. The company has purchashed the planing mill build­ ing on South Mulberry street and will expend $30,000 in converting it into a model playhouse. Boys' Cigarettes Burn School. The scboolhouse at West Alton was destroyed by fire. The blaze was dis covered in the belfry of the building about one hour after school was dis­ missed, and before assistance could be obtained the building was burned. The fire is thought to have been due to schoolboys climbing into the belfry to smoke cigarettes. The loss is about $900. County Athletic Association. A movement is on foot to organize an athletic association^ to be composed of public school pupils in the eighth grade in J^rry county. Supt. Kim zey Houk and Prof. Moore of among the promoters. Wealthy Man Is Dead. Thomas Finty of Xenia, one pf the healthiest residents of Clay county, Is dead, aged 76. He had been con­ nected with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad forsoiqe years. Mrs. brought' Wabash ages bee band, Jo irhlle wor New Ra Secretary license to in Railroad com construct a easterly thro counties to a f the line from Haute, Ind. ^ Farm jkfriefe Weiss was injured aboi abdomen by th «f * shotgun wh d for $10,000. ine of Decatur, has $10,000 against ahe company for dam- death of her hus- who was killtd e road. ncorporated. * se has issued a. the Charleston ch proposes to om Charleston and Clark lark county On to Terre red. * of e. chest and >1 discharge nting. Agnes Renaude, mother of little Ger­ trude Hyland, told in the General Ses­ sions Court at New York the sordid, brutal story of her life with Gustav Dinzer, her common law husband, and how the man, after she had brought the child to live with them, began abusing the helpless infant and finally, in a fit of jealousy, beat her to death and compelled the mother to help him to hide the body. At the end of the horrible recital the woman went Into violent hysterics. The story began with the young woman's relations with Hyland, the father of her baby. Then she told of meeting Dinzer and her life with him, until her own child was taken to his home to live. "Up to that time," she said, "my re­ lations with Dinzer were pleasant. After the baby came Dinner began to mistreat me. He began to hit me with his shoes. He'd punch G&rtle and slap her in the face and call her a 'brat.' She wouldn't call him 'Father' and that made him mad. "Once he knocked her down so hard that she lost her breath and her eyes rolled up. When I threatened to leave him he told me If I did he belonged to a secret order which would punish me. Then he showed me a knife. He said it was dipped with poison. After a while he began hitting Gertie every time she came near him. He used to say, 'Keep that brat away from my children.' I begged him please not to hit Gertie, but he would not listen. Horrors of Tragic Night. "On t£e night of Sept. 4 we came in about midnight. He'd already hit me on the stoop. He told me to get some beer, and I was afraid because Gertie was there. Then he pulled off a shoe { and hit me on the head with the heel." For the first time the plaintive mono­ tone of the woman was charged with a note of acute bitterness. She took off her hat with its veil, and bent her rather shapely head until the black mourning boa at the back showed and put her hand in the place; where the boot heel struck. Shrf paused a mo­ ment, swallowing convulsively and moistening her lips. She did not vouchsafe a glance at Dinzer, but the accused murderer never removed his eyes from the woman's face, biting his lip and drumming with his fingers on the table in front of him to conceal his nervousness. I cried out with the pain and he went out," the witness continued. Then he came back where I was sitting at a table trying to stop the blood from running over my face, ana he hit me with an iron bar. Then he grabbed the baby out of the bed, car­ ried her in the parlor and threw her on the floor. He knelt down by her and hit her eight times with his fist as hard as he could. 'Don't hit her any more,' I said. 'For God's sake, dont. Pll take her away to-morrow.' 'I'll throw her out on the fire escape,' he said. Tries to Save the Baby. "I ran into the kitchen with the bftby, trying to get out. but the door was locked. I held the baby In my 1 arms all the time. I backed up against the wall. He grabbed np an iron bar with a hook and a ball on it. He hit me on the head again with the iron bar and cut my head. 1 staggered, but I held the baby fast. The blood ran down in my fall and the baby Was making a little bit of a faint cry--ft kind of a moan--that was all. "I said to him, 'Please give me ft' drink of water.' Still holding the iron bar, he drew some water and brought a glass to me. He sat the glass down, after I was through, and came back to me. I tried to shield the baby with my arms, but he hit ber in the face. She gave one little cry--she said 'Ag­ gie*--and stopped. "He grabbed her out from my arms and took her back in the parlor, drop­ ping her on the floor and hit her three times more. I ran in and fell down and tried to cover my baby up. He hit me again, but I held on. Then he got up and said: 'Here, take your ***_ she's dead.' " 'Oh, Gus, is she dead?' I said. "'Yes,' he said, 'she's dead. €R» wash your brat's face. Go wash her corpse.' Plan to Hide Body. "I washed her little face, but she was dead--just as he said. Then he told me we mu3t get rid of the body. I said to wait until morning and then we'd go to the undertaker who buried my mother. He said we must get rid of the body right away--that if I did not do as he said he'd fix me, too. "I took off her little clothes, and, oh, judge, they were all bloody. I put them in a tub to soak, dressed her in clean clothes, and he took her in his arms and we went out together. I dldnt s«y anything. I was too scared. "We walked and walked fWnwt meeting anybody. - After a while we came to a doorway. He said we'd leave her there. He went in alone, is a minute he came out--he dldnt have her any more. ' "And we went back to the house. I didn't speak, but he threatened to fix me if I said anything. We went to bed, but I didn't sleep. I was awalte all night thinking about Gertie. 1 think he slept a while." : Woman Falls In Hysteria. . Here the examination ended. Agnes Renaude had sobbed again when she spoke of her baby's bloody garments, but she did not really break down un­ til she started from the court Her face was working as she neared the witness room door, and when it opened she shrieked: "Oh, Gertie," twice and fell forward in hysteria. A court at­ tendant caught her and carried her out of hearing. Dozens of men in- the room had been wiping their eyes for a good while be­ fore this outburst came. They got np with twitching underlips and filed out slowly. But Dinzer hadn't winced. His face whitened around the nostrils, but he kept half a grin frozen on his face and he walked out steadily enough.-- New York Journal. ii Austrian Joins American Army, "A recent enlistment at the regtiltr army barracks in St. Louis was that . of T'olbert Von Watson, a native of Vienna. His father is an officer in the Austrian army and the young man is a cousin of Austria's military attache in Washington. Private Von Watson speaks and writes nine languages. HO is 26 years old and has studied medi­ cine in this country as well as in the Austrian capital. The young man has traveled extensively, including one tour around the world with his sister. He is very much infatuated with America and gives as his reasons for joining the hospital corps of the army that it will give him an excellent op* 5 portunity to learn English and study I medicine at the same time. A Georgia Goose Story. "Yes, sir," said the Georgia hunter, a drove of wild geese came flying over, and, for a wonder, they were all so close together that for a length of mile and a half they hid the <sun, so that the chickens went to roost at midday. I climbed to the woodshed-- so as not to strain the gun--and fired both barrels; then, quickly reloading, I gave 'em another broadside and for two days thereafter the farmers were picking up dead wild geese all over the settlement! What'll you fellers take to drink?"--Atlanta Constitution. Size of the Sun. We sometimes see a huge ring or halo round the moon, occupying a space in the heavens so large that ninety moons' breadths would but just suffice to span it Yet the body of the sun would fill all that space ere we had approached within 2,000,000 miles of him. Once on his apparent surface, were we permitted to travel thereon, and with the speed of an express train, it would require five whole years ol continuous Journeying before we ro\jld make the circuit oI his orb. Seattle Celebrates Birthday. Residents of Seattle have just celebrating the fifty-fourth birthday of the place, for it was on Nov. 13, 1851, that the little colony of twenty-four landed there and founded what is now a flourishing city of considerably over 80,000 inhabitants. For the first time in many years all the survivors of that colony was present to aid in the an­ nual celebration. A granite shaft In­ scribed with the names of the original colony was unveited at the exact spot where the voyagers landed. . Beauty Spots of Paris. Mo people are more celebrated fttr fj their love of beauty than are the * French, and the government keeps pace with their artistic tastes. In \ Paris each little crook in the street I has its tiny park, its trees and flowers, its benches and refreshing shade. Each * "three corners"--which are numerous has its miniature park, its electric light, its fountain and reposeful quiet. The people appreciate these tyrnra. and even the loafyrg jffPet * eminent propriety* .: „ " - t'% '<'%$ N."