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ASHtNGTON.--Memories of In­ dian wars fade rapidly from the minds of all persons who were not-actively engaged in thfc hos­ tilities. In the east the troubles in tlie past on the frontier held the attention and the interest hut for the moment. No easterner ever gave full credit to the of­ ficers and the mfen of the United States army who faced danger after danger and withstood hardship after hardship with precious lit­ tle hope of any reward save-the consciousness of duty well done. It is probable that, not one person in a hundred can name the battle fought only 18 years ago and in which the casualties to the small force of the regu­ lar army engaged amounted to 90 men killed and wounded. That battle was the battle of .Wounded Knee, and to-day it is nearly lost to the recolle# tion of the masses. There are several officers how stationed in Washington who had a part In that Dakota fight. The fight between Col. Forsythe's men of the Seventh cavalry and the hand of Big Foot, the Sioux, was the result of the ghost-dance craze which had been started and fostered by the great chief Sitting Bull, on whose hand was the blood of Custer and his men. Sitting Bull was shot and killed by Indian police while resisting arrest, but he was killed too late to prevent the spread of the doctrine which he preached and which had run like piairie fire among th« men of his nation. There were all sorts of stories circulated concerning k tion of a part of the people who preferred death to He. - . The Cheyennes broke away. A battalion of infan- ^|try was thrown across their ^tracks but,; the wil£ sav­ ages eluded all save a few ~6t the soldiers, who in a ALLEGED CONSPIRATORS IN QOE- MEL MURDER FREED BY KE* TUCKY GOVERNOR. H*; MAY RETURN TO THE STATE Taylor, Flnley and Four Others Ac­ cused as Slayers, After Nine Years Are Relieved of Charges by Action of Executive. \ f£CH/:r *X'V * mm: i* 7-i t te5i . fa/tm i, OFd/rrm : dffU tfce death ofthe gr^at SJour chief. Philanthro- pists in the east who never had seen an Indian tepee insisted that Sitting Bull was murdered and that the blood of the savage was upon the head of the nation. . * , ' \ It was left to Col. Edward G. Fechet, now pro* lessor of military science at the University of Illinois, to learn the truth of the shooting of Sit­ ting Bui! and to give knowledge of it to the peo­ ple. Col. (then captain) Fechet made one of the hardest rides known to the troops of the plains before he secured the facts In the case of the passing of the great' Sioux chief to the happy hunting grounds. Sitting Bull's home was in a log hut on the Standing Rock Indian reservation of North Dakota. In the summer of 1890 he gath­ ered many of his braves about him and told them in picturesque Sioux language that a Messiah was to come who would lead the Sioux nation to victory; that the whites would be annihilated; that the buffalo would come back, and that the red man feould once more take pos­ session of the earth. Through the medicine men Sitting Bull worked so upon the feelings and the superstitions of his warriors that they came to believe that by wear­ ing certain garments which were called ghost shirts their bodies would be safe from the bullets Of the soldiers. When (Jen. Miles learned of the teachings of Sitting Bull and of their rapid spread, the chief's arrest was ordered. Accordingly Indian police led by Lieut. Bull Head and Sergt. Shave Head irere dispatched from Fort Yates to arrest the chief at his log hut miles away. Capt. Fechet,of ^he Eighth cavalry was ordered with his com­ mand, consisting of two troops, and, if memory servee, two light field pieces, to make a night march j^o Oak Creek, about 18 miles from Sitting Bull's house, there to receive the prisoner when hS was turned over by Lieut. Bull Head. t Capt. Fechet and his men reached the rendez- j TOUS at 4:30 a. m. on one of the coldest mornings J of a Dakota December day. There was no sign I of the Indian police, nor yet of the scout which (t Bull Head was to send in advance to inform , the cavalry officer of his coming. Fechet's soldier instinct told him at once that there must be trouble. His men had had the 'hardest kind of a night ride, but they were will­ ing, and he pushed forward rapidly. After he had made several miles he was met by a scout who was riding like mad. The runner told Fechet that all the Indian police who had gone to arrest Sitting Bull had been killed by the ghost dancers, and that there were thousands, upon thousands of them fully armed and in their war paint ready for battle. Fechet looked over his small command and -ytyoX ahead at full gallop, his only thought being flo save such of the policemen as might be alive, and giving no heed to the other thought that ahead of him might be overwhelming numbers . ©I the savages and the fate of Custer. It was . ft terrible ride from that time on. ,4 When the morning was a little advanced the -Hen of the command heard firing, which seemed to come from different points. On they went un­ til they came to the brow of the hill. Below " \ v thfm jat 4 a distance was the house of Sitting Bull, and in front of it, some hundreds of yards away, was a horde of ghost dancers en­ gaged in emptying their rifles into the log building, from which came a feeble return fire. Capt. Fechet had his Hotchkiss thrown Into action and he dropped a shell in front of the ghost dancers, and then the command charged down the hill. The shell had its frightening effect on the savages, who held aloof though still pouring in their fire, which was answered by the soldiers , as Fechet himself took a rapid course to the log house, with his life in his hands every step of the way. Ihside the hut were found three of the Indian policemen dead and three mortally wounded. The wounded, resolved on exacting a price for their coming death, were still using their rifles against the besieging foe. The soldiers finally drove the savages to flight. The few that were left living of the little force of Indian police told this story. Lieut. Bull Head had arrested Sitting Bull and had led the chief from his cabin only to be confronted by hundreds of crazed savages. Catch-the-Bear and Strike-the- Kettle, two of Sitting Bull's men, strode through the Indian ranks, raised their rifles and fired. Bull Head was shot through the body. Dying, he turned quickly and killed Sitting Bull. Strike-the- Kettle killed Sergt. Shave Head. Instantly Po­ liceman Lone Man killed Catch-the-Bear. Then the surviving policemen sought shelter in the cabin and held off the ghost dancers as has been told. With the Rosebud, Standing Rock and Pine Ridge Sioux, who went on the warpath in De­ cember, 1890, were a few stalwart warriors of the tribe of the Northern Cheyennes. That the Chey­ ennes braves were so limited in number was due to the fact that 12 years before the nation, exiled and longing for its olu home, had met with prac­ tical annihilation in the attempt to regain it. The Northern Cheyennes had been sent to a reservation in the Indian territory following one of the uprisings against the whites. Their hearts they left behind them in their old home and the warriors yearned to return. Late in the fall of the year 1878 the Cheyenne braves, taking advantage of the temporary ab­ sence of their soldier guardians, gathered to­ gether their women and their children and dashed northward in the direction'of the land where their fathers had lived from the time back of the beginning of tradition. They had been told by the Indian agents and by the soldiers, who acted under orders, that they never could take the trail back to the north, but they paid no heed to what was told them, but gathering their possessions they set out. The CheyenneB' love of home, natural and sym­ pathy-compelling to everyone except to those who thought that an Indian should have naught to do with home-sickness, was the cause of the destruc- /£Ctf£rl&>///5 l/7TJL£ C0#Sf/fN£> //V/?Ms// M/te/A&mS. sharp skirmish lost their commander, Ma]. Lewis The Cheyennes broke away. A battalion of in­ fantry was thrown across their tracks but the wily savages eluded all save a few of the soldiers, who in a sharp skirmish lost their commander, Maj. Lewis. The trail led to one of the low hills that chain the reservation. The Cheyennes had taken refuge near the summit in a natural hollow. The sides of the hills rose sheer and slippery to the lurking place of the savages.. It was a place admirably adapted for defense. A few men could hold it against a regiment. • j Capt. Wessels, in command of the cavalry, saw that the attempt to' take the hilltop by assault would be to sacrifice the lives of half of his men. He threw a cordon around the hill, knowing that the warriors eould not escape, and trusting that in a few hours hunger would force them to sur­ render. Meantime the Cheyennes were active. They picked off many a trooper, and at noon on the day following the night of their flight a ball struck Capt. Wessels in the head. The wound was not serious, but its effect was to make captain and men eager for a charge. Capt. Wessels went to the front of his troops and prepared to lead them up the slippery hillside In the face of the fire- of the best Indian marksmen on the great plains. All things were prepared for the charge, when to the amazement of the troopers, the whole band of Cheyenne warriors, naked to the waist and yelling like devils, came dashing dbwn the hill­ side straight at the body of cavalry. The Indians had thrown away their rifles and were armed only with knives. They were going to their death and they knew it, but death was better than a return to the reservation which they hated. Wessels and his troopers of "the Third cavalry tried to spare the Cheyennes, but the warriors Would have death at any cost. With their knives they plunged into a hand-to-hand conflict with the troopers and before they were slain they exacted a price for their dying. When the time catae for the burial of the In­ dians, Tea Kettle, a chief, was found to be alive, but unconscious. Tea Kettle was carried back to the fort and there made comfortable. A squaw sought the wounded warrior's couch and handed him a pair of scissors which he instant­ ly plunged into his heart He spurned life in the knowledge of the fact that his brother braves were dead. The Sioux nation heard of the btfavery of the Cheyennes and they adopted the women and chil­ dren, and some of the boys, grown to manhood, went with the Sioux on the warpath in their last great uprising. CandidateDefeitsfiffc Story of New York by Eight Votes. K' ONE WAY TO CATCH COYOTES fx Indian Stratagem Secured More Than v Army Officer Needed to Make ff " i -Carriage Robe. L w "Coyotes and wolves were plentiful |? -about the camp, and I decided to get " S lot of skins and have an Indian wom­ an tan them, leaving the tails on, and V make a carriage robe for my sister," Brig. Gen. R. H. Pratt, who was once stationed in Oklahoma, wrote lately to % ,.v ft an Oklahoma acquaintance. "A Co­ manche named Essatoyet and his wife agreed to get the skins and tan them for a consideration, if I would give them a beef, and some poison. The beef contractor sold me a beef for seven dollars. We were then paying $2.50 a hundred for the best beef for army use. I got the poison and ,want with Essatoyet and his wife <o pee them set the bait They drove the • *C. - • ; ' , v'. * beef to a glade a mile from camp, killed it, took the hide and reserved all the best meat for their own use, and then sprinkled the poison over the carcass. "Essatoyet had cut 30 sticks a foot and • a half long and sharpened them at both ends. These he stuck in the ground in a large circle inclos­ ing the carcass, and on each put a chunk of liver or heart, saying as he did so: 'Sugar, wolf heap like him.' The next morning I went with them to see the results of our venture, and we found 27 coyotes and two large gray wolves dead about the carcass and vicinity, so I got my robe and had skins to spare."--Kansas City Slaju •reel Immense Steel She#' It is the usual custom to build ves sels under a shed, that the work maj proceed without regard to weathet conditions. The steel framework un der which the 900-foot White Star Ui> ers are to be built has just been com pleted. It ©overs aft an a 300 by IM feet. Frankfort, Ky.--Pardons were grant- ed Friday night by' Gov. Willson which clear the dockets of the Ken­ tucky courts of all charges growing out of the assassination of Senator William Goebel, who had been de­ clared governor in January, 1900., ex­ cept those against state's evidence witnesses. Those pardoned without trial are: Former Gov. W. S. Taylor and former Secretary of State Charles Flnley, who have been fugitives in the state of Indiana for nine years; to John Powers, brother of Caleb Powers, who is believed to be In Hon­ duras ; to Holland Whittaker of But- Jer county, John Davis of Louisville, and Zach. Steele of Bell county, un­ der indictment and who did not flee the state. Those over whom indictments are left hanging are Wharton Golden of Knox county, now in Colorado; Frank Cecil of Beil county, now a railroad detective in St. Louis, and William H. Culton of Owsley county, said to have died in the west a few months ago. These cases, with the possible ex­ ception of Cecil, will be dismissed, leaving Henry E. Youtsey, now serv­ ing a life sentence in the state peni­ tentiary, the only person to suffer fpr the taking off of Goebel. Reiterating the belief he expressed some months ago, when he granted pardons to Caleb Powers and James B. Howard, that no one but Youtsey had part in the murder, and that it was not a conspiracy, as the common­ wealth charged. Gov. Willson says lie believeB it a "sacred duty, which I must no longer delay, to carry this belief into effect," and grant pardon to the men charged, and who fled the state as they "had the greatest rea­ sons to believe" that they could not "have a fair trial," and if they stayed here would be forced to trial before a partisan jury under conditions which would give them no chance at all for a just decision. In extending clemency in the Taylor case, the governor, after reviewing the state gubernatorial election of 1899 and the contest instituted before the legislature by Senator . William Goebel, says: "For years it seemed as if there never would be an end of the political use of the Goebel murder to keep up hatred and contention. In the cam­ paign of 1907 it was again brought up, as it had been in every campaign since 1899, by speeches in which it was claimed that the Democratic nominee for governor would not pardon Taylor, Powers and others, and that the Re­ publican nominee would pardon them If elected. "I made no answer to these speeches until I came to the home of Powers in the mountains, where I told the peo­ ple, his friends, that I would not pre­ judge these cases; that I would not promise anybody either to pardon or not to pardon these men, but'that if the cases ever came before me I would take them up officially and decide them on their merits, and that I was as anxious for the conviction and pun­ ishment of every person guilty of the murder of William Goebel as anyone in Kentucky. "There is no need to repeat here the statements of the Powers and Howard cases; they are well known to the people. The study of these records constrained me to believe, to the ex­ clusion of a doubt, that Howard did not fire the shot which killed Goebel. "The only evidence in all of the four trials of Powers and three trials of Howard by which the prosecution in any way attempted to connect Gov. Taylor with the murdft.rjjfaa the testi­ mony as to his writing to get Howard to come to Frankfort to kill William Goebel, and tending to show that How­ ard, on the request in that letter, did come to Frankfort, entered into the plot and committed the murder. "But Howard did not kil Goebel, and Gov. Taylor could not be guilty of getting Howard to do what he did not do ^ "From the fair, Impartial study of all of the trials from my knowl­ edge of the conditions of these times, I believe that William S. Taylor had no guilty knowledge of the murder of William Goebel, and that he would never have been indicted but for polit­ ical excitement and passion." The governor then reviews the cases of the other defendants, against whom he says there was no proof of conspiracy. In a statement issued at Indianap' oils Taylor and Finley expressed their gratitude for relief from the burden of being exiles. Taylor will remain in Indianapolis but Finley^ will return to Williamsburg. Ky. ^ Get Psper to Fight Licfttor. ^ ; 1 Evansville, Ind.--The temper&rfte women at Mount Vernon, Ind., have engaged B. O. Hanby, editor of the Unafraid, a Socialist paper at Mount Vernon, to publish a daily paper for them to fight the saloons local option. . . . i Tries to Slay a >rl«& r ^ •' Newark, N. J.--An attempt to as­ sassinate Rev. Glacomo Seucarelli, pastor of St. Rocco's Roman Catholic church here, was made on the paro­ chial grounds Saturday. Convicted of 8laying Father. Mason City, Ia.--After having been on trial for five weeks on the charge of having killed his father, Edward McNamara was found guilty of mur­ der in the second degree. He will be sentenced to imprisonment for life.. . . . V Washington. -- Ken and women of Illinois here in Washington are happy over the victory of Mrs. Matthew T. Scott of Blooming- ton in her race for the presidency of the Daughters of the American Revo­ lution. Backed by the administration Mrs. Scott defeated her rival, Mrs. William Cummings Story of New York, 436 to 428. Mrs. Scott's election was a victory for the administration faction. A number of delegates refused to make the election unanimous on Mrs. Story's motion. The second office in point of honor, that of vice-president general in charge of organizations, however, went to the anti-administration fol­ lowers by the election of Mrs. Miranda B. Tulloch of this city. The congress approved the election Of the various state regents. They In­ cluded the following: Alabama, Mrs. Robert ATMcClellan; Arizona, Mrs. Mrs. Matthew O. 8cott. Walter Talbot; Arkansas, Mrs. John barrow; California, Mrs. Frederick j. Laird; Colorado, Mrs. Frank Wheaton; Florida, Mrs J. M. Mahoney: Georgia, Mrs. P. W. Godfrey; Idaho, Mrs. David H. Tarr; Illinois. Mrs. John C. Ames; Indiana, Mrs. John J. Dinwiddle; Iowa, Miss Harriet Lake; Kansas, Mrs. George T. Guernsey; Kentucky. Mrs. Sarah H. Chenault; Michigan, Mrs. J. P. Brayton; Minnesota, Mrs. Edgar H. Loyhed; Missouri, Mrs. Samuel G. Green; Montana, Mrs. Emil H. Ren- isch; Nebraska, Mrs. O. S. Ward; New Mexico. Mrs. L. B. Prince; Ohio, Mrs. Clayton R. Truesdall; Ok­ lahoma, Mrs. William J. Pettee; Penn­ sylvania; Mrs. H. P. Perley; South Car­ olina, Mrs. Robert M. Bratton; Ten­ nessee, Mrs. William G. Spencer; Texas, Mrs. Seabrook W. Sydnor; Washington, Mrs. D. A. Gove; West Virginia, Mrs. R. H. Edmondson; Wis­ consin, Mrs. Ogden H. Fethers; Wy­ oming, Mrs. H. B. Patten. GALE STARTS ICE PACK. Engineers Rest While Current Carries Huge Bergs from Resting Place Along Shores. Youngstown, N. Y. -- A bustling northwest squall,, followed -by an even more energetic southwest gale, cleared the Canadian channel at the mouth of the Niagara river, broadened the passage torn out by dynamite along the American shore of the stream and so viciously ripped away the lower end of the ice pack that it is now possible to cross the river in a boat by a straight course from the fort to Niagara-on-the-Lake. „ The engineers did not work Sun­ day, and, judging by the rate at .which the outbound currents are dragging monster mounds of ice from the main mass of the jam, there will be little need to-day for them to explode the ton of dynamite stored jfe the fort'a magazine. * i TORNADO KILLS TEN. Taft Witnesses Third Degree. Washington.--President Taft Thurs­ day night attended a regular session of Temple Masonic lodge of this city. The president saw the third degree worked upon several candidates. Msny Are Hurt and Much Property Damaged at Cleveland ahd' Ash* tabula, O. Cleveland, O.--Nine persos were killed, six fatally hurt, at least fifty sustained injuries and property val­ ued at more than $1,000,000 was de­ stroyed in a tornado which swept through Cleveland and northern Ohio Wednesday One man was killed and a dozen hurt at Ashtabula. An unidentified woman was blown into a pond at Wade park and drowned. In the blinding rain pedestrians were blown off their feet and hurled against buildings, in many cases struck down by flying bricks and tim- which filled the air. ,3 Bomb Crash In Churolv ftew Orleans.--The famouB" 6ld St. Louis cathedral, in Chartres street, was shaken Sunday by an explosion believed to have resulted from the placing of a bomb in the south tower Q£ the building. No one was hurt. .Stewart's Body Is 'Cremated. Washington.--The body of William M. Stewart, former United States sen­ ator ft;om Nevada, who died here Fri­ day, /w^as cremated Sunday in accord­ ance with a wish expressed just be­ fore his death. In no year since the development off ( Western Canada began has spring brought a brighter outlook than it brings this year. In no preceding spring has there been greater assur­ ance of advancing development and prosperity. < The movement of immi­ gration has already assumed large pro­ portions, and is as desirable in char- acter as it is satisfactory in volume; from across the Atlantic sturdy, indua trious and thrifty newcomers are ai*» riving in large numbers, homeseekers from Ontario and the other older Provinces are coming An a steady stream, and from across the intently tional boundary a movement is al­ ready in full flow, which, it is confi­ dently predicted, will beat the records of all previous years; special settlers' trdins are crossing the Hnec loaded with effects, actual material wealth being thus brought into the country at the rate of millions of dollars' worth monthly. The movement is so unprecedented Sy large that extra Dominion Immig|£fc» tioa officials have had to be provided at both North Portal ahd at Emerson, and it is estimated that the total num­ ber of new settlers from the United States this year will be 70,000, at least, and may run well up toward 100,000. Last year's total of new set­ tlers from the South was 53,723; thus the area that will be placed in whe«t and other grains this year will greatly exceed that of last year. Settlers are making extraordinary efforts to get on their lands and begin seeding opera­ tions. The price of wheat now, away above the dollar mark, is incentive enough, and when one has in view the splendid results that the past few years have shown, it is not to be won­ dered at that the present will be tfce banner year for Immigration to Cap-.'" ada. Ask your nearest Canadian Gov­ ernment Agent for rates of transporta­ tion, and he will also send yon illufe trated pamphlets. ANOTHER BORING QUESTION.^ "I say, pay 1s a man from Poland called a Pole?" " "Yes, my son." v\ ;•*>>-*• >.• "Then, pa, why isn't a mah trcp| Holland called a Hole?" t •*; PRESCRIPTION FOR NERVOl|| MEN AND WOMEN--TRY IT ^ The impairment of the nervous force in men and women is first manifested by extreme nervousness, sleeplessness, dread, worry and anxiety without rea, son, trembling of the hands and limbs, with the slightest exertion, heart pal­ pitation, constipation, kidney trouble, and a general inability to act ration­ ally at all times as others with healtj* in their bodies do. In a half pint bottle get three ounces of syrup sarsaparilla compound and add to this one ounce compound fluid balmwort, and let stand two hours; then get one ounce compound essence cardial, and one ounce tincture cado- tnene compound (not cardamom); mix all together, shake well and take a tea* spoonful alter each meal and one at re­ tiring. : Practical Gain. Teacher--Lennle, if you were to take your father's razor and leave the steel blade open out in the grass ove«w , night, what would happen? Learned Lennie--It would get as re­ sult oxidation of the steel or what If commonly called rust. Teacher--Quite right. Now, Willi#, if you would put your mother's dia­ mond ring In the fire, what result would you get? Wise Willie--iI'd get a lickin*. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward lOr aaqr mm of Catarrh that canoot be cured by Hmn Catarrh Cure. _ F. J. CHRN'EY A CO.. Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney tor the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly hMV orable In all business transactions and financially |hi« to carry out any obligations made by his Una. WALOIKO, KINNAN & MAHVIN, Wholesale IJrureista. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally. artllMI fllrectly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of tM system. Testimonials sent free. Price 71 eenw P® bottle. Sold by all DruKRists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Commits Suicide on Husbsnd's Grave. Detroit. Mich --Mrs. Amy Wilkie, SO yearB old, whose husband died last November, was found dead Friday lying on her husband's grave in the Gern>in Lutheran cemetery. A car­ bolic acid bottle and a small glass lay near the body. ^ ... /t,; Ex-Senator Stewart DeMf»-'V Washington.--The body of former United States Senator William M. Stewart of Nevada who died At Georgetown hospital Friday will be taken to Nevada for burial Saturday. No Escape. rr "The smell of smoke certainly dqf§ make me ill." "Then why do you allow your hWK band to smoke so much in the housef* "I might as well. When my hp^y band isn't smoking the chimney is." Important to Mothers. ^ Examine cart'Tuny every uutw6 Cm CASTQR1A a safe and sure remedy liar infants and children, and see that ft Dears the Signature 01 *<000*4*4*,} > ^ In Use For Over ;5© Years. . _ The Kind You Have Always BougpL - A Natural Doubt. ii Uo you think that oculist is a prijj^f tlcal man?" "Why shouldn't be be?" * ' * r "Because of his business. Dbestft ^ he go in for eye deals?" _ >* Steak* Into Your Show Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder for your feet. 1 tt cures painful, swollen, smarting, sweat­ ing feet. Makes new shoes easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores. Don't api> T cept any substitute. Sample FRISK, * dress A. S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. , Defined. what is a 'tropical tionr - "Mostly hot air. Tonuagr/% Red, Weak, Weary, Watery Eyes Relieved by Murine Eye Remedy. Co^» pounded by Experienced Physicians. rine Doesn't Snmrt; Soothes Eye Pate. Write Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago, tor illustrated Eye Book. At Druggist*. . Of the 147.000.000 of Russia's pop> Illation 100,000,000 are peasants. Smokers have to call for Lewis' Singk Binder cigar to get it. Yono dealer or Lewis' Factory, Peoria, HI. fefTfes.: Two Is company; three a Boullea§ corporation. % v •, JT< . "«!, aL ' h /jg.iL\ J*"* ,k .