The Sunday Oregonian., February 28, 1909, Section Six, Page 6, Image 58

TITO SUNDAY OREGONTAN, FORTLAyP, FEBRUARY 28, 1909.
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UD GLORY will be floetin' In
Washington next Thursday, all
right, all right." remarked the
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House Detective of the St. Reckles.
T It Georgle Cohan opening In a. new
chow down there, or whatr asked the
Hotl Clerk.
No. the inauguration: what else?" an
swered the Houre Detective. Teddy goin'
out and T?tg BUI goin In."
"Oh, yes. to be sure." said the Hotel
Clerk. The Inauguration. That imprea
rtve ceremonial by which every four years
a Republican form of government keeps
right on being Republican. Well, I don't
think i n go. It'll be a quiet affair by all
accounts; nothing to compare with the
laet one.
"You remember how it was then. Darry.
You remember, don't you. the band of
blanket Indians led by old Chief Gall and
the great army of marching office-holders,
Jed by other members of the gall family?
And the cowboy hand playing the Nation
al anthem of that time, entitled. "Every
body Works But Fatherr And Frofcesor
Mike Donovan on a float made up of
punching baps and ftve-ounce giovee? And
Ben Daniels riding a Government mule
(borrowed) and Jack Abernethy eating a
gray wolf alive? And the Spanish War
Veterans cheering vociferously while in
voluntarily marking time In front of the
Pension Bureau? And the survivors of
fnn Juan Hill m their worn and r&sii
khaki uniforms, still stained with the
typewriter smudges and Vodak developer
of that historic campaign 'neath the burn
ing Cuban Fkies. and all the rest of the
glittering pageant that filled Pennsylvania
venue ft-om end to end with its left wing
resting on the New Wlllard bar and the
right wing hoisting 'em in the same as
the right wing always does when the left
wing is resting in this convenient manner.
"Now. there was a. real inauguration
procession for -ou. One that had the
Kingling Brothers parade looking like a
grand Jury going to dinner. But this
year, from what I on gather, the quiet
elderly gentlemen who belong to the Su
preme Court will have the place of honor
that went to the boys from the Cross Bar
A ranch four yeans ago. and probably the
rnost spectacular part of "the show will be
the marching clubs, from the Sunny South
land, where so many stalwart Republicans
are to be found, except on election day."
"There's a lot of talk about Taft bustin'
tip the Solid South next time," said the
J louse Detective. "I wonder will he do
itr"
"I wonder." said the Hotel Clerk. "It
looks like a big chance. Although unused
to the climate and the victuals, he spends
the beet part of the Winter down there,
and survives, So doea his stomach. It's
a great feat. Not since William Tecum
teh Sherman paused through in the latter
rrt of l1 has any invader from the
North had so many hard and indigestible
thing hurled into hia midst by the people
the South, and lived. And because our
Presldept-elct has faced the baked "pos
um and the boiled collard. the gumboed
crawfish and- the barbecued ehoat. with
out a visible qualm, there's a strong belief
springing up here In the North that he'll
be able to break into the Solid South, by
way of the kitchen window. But it's a
long, rough trip sometimes from the din-ng-room
table to the polls, and so I don't
Inow.
"Tell you what, I-arry. this thing of a
great section of the country being so
et and partisan that It always votes
the same way, Is a distressing spectacle,
rvnecially to open-minded patriots In such
tin biased communities as Pennsylvania,
eay. and Michigan and New Hampshire.
Take Vermont, now. Nobody has called
l-.er the Solid Vermont; but you'll con
cede she's reasonably firm. The only way
to make a shoeing or the JJeraocratlc
vote of Vermont on the morning after
NATCHEZ, NOT GERONIMO, WAS CHIEF
OF WARLIKE CHERRY KOW INDIAN TRIBE
Brave Who Has Just Passed Away Was, However, Leading: Spirit in Many Outbreaks Against Whites.
j;y Oskar Htiber. ex-Topographical As
sistant of the United States Govern
ment. GEROXIAIO (pronounced He-ron-ne-mo)
was not a full blooded Indian,
he was part ilexlcan, lie was not
t:ie hereditary chief to the Cherry Kow
tribe of the White Mountain Indians. The
rhief of that warlike and bloodthirsty
tribe was Natchez, an Indian of command
ing physique and warlike personality.
Oeronimo Has a resident of the San Car- .
1 Indian reservation, a well-watered
end fine section of Arizona, under the
urener of a military officer. Where. 1
frst met him. in lvvi. was along the line
f the northern boundary of the reserva
tion, which I surveyed for the War De
partment tinder direction of General
ierge Crook. He was, unlike Natchez,
short in stature, rather squabby, with a
wrinkled, greasy, equare face and promi
nent Jaw. lie had the confidence of his
tribesmen, was always restless, and broke
out several times from the reservation.
By a treaty with the Mexican govern
mnt. American troops were allotved to
follow hostile Indians into Mexico, and
general Crook organised an expedition to
:o aftr Geronimo and his followers Into
t.ie wilds of the Sierra Marire. He took
nm troop of regular cavalry with him,
tindr command of Captain Adna R.
"haffee. of Troop "O." Sixth Cavalry,
end eight pack trains, each train con
sisting of a chief packer, supercargo, a
cook and e!:ht packers. All these men
were armed to the teeth. After many
days of hard marching the command
Uruck the camping ground of Natchez
and his followers, but the Indiana were
nut on. a raid and no one but the squaws,
Tappoosea and some old bucks and three
aptured Mexican-women were found in
t ie camp. These Mexican were in a pit
iful condition, and their first request was
to b killed and burled by some Chris
tian. I forgot to mention that also in connec
tion with the regular troop of cavalry
and the men In the pack train, there were
about r0 Indian couta in whom General
Crook had the utmost confldence. These
eoouts were moMly White Mountain In
dians, of whom the Cherry Kow tribe Is a
branch. At night time the bucks came In
from their raid and mingled freely with
tiie scouts of the Government forces. Late
that night they retired to their own ha
cienda and It was expected that by early
dawn thev would make an attack on the
Government camp. But General Crook
had In the meantime moved his forces to
higher ground and was well prepared for
an sitack.
The next morning, the Indians and the
General had a pow-wow. and after much
r-arlv ard negotiations, and after Cap
tain Burke, of the Third Cavalry, had
crtened their temper with Jelly, pro-
nerved awicots ar.d other luxuries, thy
agreed to coma to th boundary tine.
WITH SUNDRY' REFERENCES TO
election would be to print the pictures
and sketches of their lives. The citizen!
of Vermont cannot understand how any
people could be content to go on year
after year blindly voting any ticket, un
less, of course. It happened to be the Re
publican ticket. They view the situation
In the South with alarm, often.
"But there'll be cheer for the New
England heart in the great outpouring of
Southern Republicans at the inaugura
tion. When the returns come In in No
vember you wonder how South Carolina
and Mississippi ever scraped toget.ier
enough delegates to sit in at the last Re
publican National Convention: but when
you see the great host of plain and col
ored Southern Republicans in Washing
ton the following March, you wonder
that there's a Democratic Congressman
left south of the Ohio River.
"Something seems to draw them to the
Capitol of the Nation at such a time.
Their warm, affectionate Southern na
tures make thera long to snuggle up, as
it were. If you should happen to be in
Washington next week, you'll see them
by the thousand, swinging up the avenue
toward the reviewing stand, with their
eye roving eagersjl Trom one large publio
building to another, their faces alight
with hope and their shoulders squared
to receive any official burdens that might
be thrust upon them by a grateful ad
ministration. That display of America's
Fifty. Greatest American Male Beauties
at the inaugural ball may fall down, be
cause most of the good-looking men are
Democrats, like you and me and John
Sharp William. But there'll be no fault
to find with the turnout of Southern Re
publicans In the parade; take it from me,
there won't. And there'll be only one
peril to fear for them. Passing the Post
office Department, they're liable to be
seized by an uncontrollable Impulse and
crush one another to death in the stam
pede to be the first inside its hospitable
doors. But Just guide thera safely past
the danger point and they'll all be there
at the finish, coming strong, with the old
scores forgotten, the old wounds closed
and the old branches healed, or else com
petently repaired by a merchant tailor
before leaving home.
"This much I will say for an inaugura
tion. Larry. If a great time for patch
ing up the differences of the past and
letting bygones be by-goshes. It was a
desperate campaign that we had last
Fall, as you well know. Many were bit
ter and some were bitten. There was a
tidal wave coming out of the West, that
turned out to be cither a tired wave or
a tied wave; some say one and some say
the other; but anyhow it failed to tidal
up in the desired manner. Hard words
were spoken in the heat of debate by
Henry Cabot Dodge, who never speaks an
easy word anyhow, if he can think of a
hard one; and by others. Many mistakes
were made at the last moment. Hisgen
and Graves I think those are the gen
tlemen's names got two votes in Mem
phis; yet nobody arrested the Indepen
ence League manager in that city for re
peating; and when the news came flash
ing into the Hearst office that the Hearst
ticket had polled 60 votes In the state of
Georgia, I never could understand why
the telegraph editor didn't show his usual
enterprise and wire back 'Rush names.'
"Yet when the dust of contiict rolled
away, or bud been carried away by per
sons having accjss to the campaign
funds, and when it was found that the
District of Columbia was not going to be
enriched at the expense of Nebraska and
Indiana, people on every aide stood ready
to forgive anything and forget every
thing, including their unpaid election bets.
"Somehow, I don't think we can be
such partisans as we used to be. I
can remember how it was once. 'Gen
tlemen of the Jury,' the lawyer for
the defense down in Kentucky would
near Sulphur Spring Valley. Ariz., after
so many moons. General Crook always
maintained that in all his experience as
an Indian fighter, an Indian never had
lied to him. and so, with utmost confl
dence he relied on the chief of the Cherry
Kow to come to Sulphur Spring Valley.
True to their promise, they arrived In
the valley to meet the General. A great
number of troops had gathered down in
the valley to eecorj them to Fort Bowie,
according to the promise made by
General Crook to send them back to the
San Carlos Indian reservation. General
Crook's headquarters were at Fort Bowie,
Ariz., which was about 16 miles from
Bowie's Station, on the Southern Pacific.
I presume all would have gone well
and the Indians would have marcnea
back to the 'reservation had not a
man named Dibble from Tombstone
sneaked into camp with several gallons
of firewater, which was too much for
Mr. Indian. .General Crook had gone in
the meantime to Fort Bowie to rest and
left Lieutenant Marion P. Maus in
charge of the cemp. Much to the sur
prise and to the chagrin of General
Crook next morning all the Indians had
skipped. In spite of the cordon of sol
diers they had sneaked away into the
adjacent hills, and finding them was
like finding a needle in a haystack.
The Apaches, when on the warpath
and when they are crowded in pursuit,
very seldom march - in -a body. They
scatter in all directions and meet at a
designated point of rendezvous. Gen
eral Crook made a telegraphic report
to General Sheridan, commanding the
Army, and Informed him what had hap
pened, and in reply the answer came:
Since you always have wished to be
relieved from the Department of Ari
zona, your request shall be granted and
you will be transferred to the Depart
ment of the Lakes. General Nelson A
Miles, now commanding the Depart
ment of the riatte. will succeed you
In the command of the Department of
Arizona."
In due time General Miles arrived and
he kept ua very busy in preparing road
maps and all the data available to be
distributed among the different mili
tary camps in the field. Heliograpuic
stations were established and many of
the soldiers in a short time became very
efficient in signaling by light flashes, by
the adoption of the Morse code. We
soon heard of the doings of the rene
gades. Isolated settlers were murdered
and mutilated, the corrals were depleted
of horses, carcasses of cattle were found,
with unmistakable signs of Indian
work. The signaling system was es
tablished from Mexico to New Mexico
and Arizona, and as far as into Colo
rado. General Miles concluded to organize
a strong cavalry column to march
against the Indians, and by means of
trained scouta to trace their trails and
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eventuallv overhaul them. For that
purpose Captain Lawton, of the Fourth
Cavalry, was selected to head the col
umn, with Lieutenant Gatewood, of the
Sixth Cavalry, as chief of scouts. Lieu
tenant Gatewood was at that time In
dian agent at San Carlos. Captain Law
ton (afterward General) was a man of
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commanding figure, six feet four in
height and every inch a soldier. Lieu
tenant Gatewood was tall and lean with
an eye of an eagle and prominent fea
tures and both men brave to the limit.
Only the best horses, the lightest and
most wiry riders were selected for this
expedition. After many weeks of un
told hardship the trail became hot and
Lieutenant Gatewood with a white flag
and an Interpreter went forth alone to
locate the hostile camp (In Mexico).
He found Geronimo and his followers
In bad condition on account of the con
tinued harassing by the troops, but still
defiant.
Lieutenant Gatewood without any
preliminaries ordered the hostilea to
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come along with him and surrender to
to the authorities, casting his piercing
eyes on Geronimo. Drops of presplra
tion like hazelnuts stood on the brow
of that savage tribesman,
once, for Geronimo wanted terms of
But the brave bluff did not work at
peace. Lieutenant Gatewood left the hos
tile camp and reported to Captain Law
ton, who communicated to General Miles,
who was stationed at Fort Bowie. A
conference was held by which the Indians
agreed to come back to the reservation
with Immunity. The War Department ob
jected to these terms, and I do not know
what promises were held out to the hos
tiles, but at any rate they surrendered and
were brought back under strong escort to
Fort Bowie, where they were installed In
one of the barracks under strong military
escort. Within due time they were taken
down to Bowle'e Station and sent by rail
to St. Augustine, Fla.. where they were
kept In confinement and later they were
transferred to the reservation north. Of
all, the Indian troops in Arizona, the
Pimas, Mohaves, White Mountains and
the Nvajoes, the troop of Cherry Kow
Indians was the only troublesome one in
the territory.
General Miles removed his headquarters
to Albuquerque, X. M., where I prepared
the official map of the campaign for the
War Department and a copy for Senator
Sherman. Cherry Kow Indians without
exception were poor horsemen, but won
derful pedestrians and runners. I know
of an instance where the hostiles actually
walked 100 miles in 24 hours. Geronimo
was not the leader, but simply the chief
of staff to Natchez, who was the hered
itary chief. Natchez lacked the energy
end strategism of Geronimo. General
Crook, as I well remember him, was a
kindly, generous and able Indian fighter,
but his experience with the northern In
dians misled him to Judge the character of
the Apaches. General Miles was very en
ergetic, resourceful and ambitious. Both
did their best to weed out the scourge of
the Southwestern territories. General Miles
was presented with a gold sword by the
people of Arizona.
Mark Twain.
Oliver Herford In Collier's.
"When I recall how nrst I met
Mark Twain an Infant barely three.
Rolling- a tiny cigarette
While cooing on hia nurse's knse.
Since then in evory sort of placs
I've mt with Mark and heard him Joke;
Yet how can I describe his face?
I never saw It for the amoke.
At school he won a smokership
At Harvard College (Cambridge, Maes.),
Hi name was eoon on every lip;
They made him "smoker" of his class.
Who wilt forget bis smoking bout
With Mount Vesuvius our cheers
When Mount Vesuvius went out
And didn't smoke again for years?
The news was flashed to England's King.
Who begged 'Mark Twain to come and
stay.
Offered htm dukedoms anyt-hlng
To smoke the London fog away.
But Mark was firm, "I bow," said he,
"To no imperial command;
No ducal coronet for me;
My smoke is for my native land!
For Mark there waits a brighter crown!
When Peter comes his card to read
H"'l' take the sign "No Smoking" dowsi
Then heaves will be heavea Indeed.
WELL AS THE
say to the twelve intelligent,
minded men facing him from the Jury
box. 'gentlemen of the Jury, while
is .not disputed that my client may
have shot this person, yet his
ever beats true to the principle
the Democratic party.' And up around
Minnesota there was' a deep-seated
prejudice against actually convicting
anybody of being short in his accounts
If he could nrovo his father was
delegate to the convention that nom
inated John C. Fremont.
"Things are different now. These
times the Kentucky Jury might even
go so far as to fine the fellow seventy
five or a hundred dollars. And next
week you'll notice that there'll be all
sorts of people ready to cheer for the
Big Fellow when he's taking the oath;
and after he moves into his new home
and stacks up his Cincinnati. Ohio, law
library in the corner now occupied by
the stuffed cinnamon bear mentioned
MORE ONE-CENT PIECES
MADE FOR USE IN WEST
Over a Million Minimum Coins Struck Last Year for Use on Coast.
THE striking of more than a mil
lion cent pieces at the San Fran
cisco mint in 1908 made a new
record in the history of the United
States mint and its branches, for never
before since the coinage of pieces of
this denomination was begun. In 1793,
had such coins been struck anywhere
but at the parent establishment at
Philadelphia.
As a matter of fact, no need for the
making of coins of this denomination
in the West presented itself until with
in recent years, as the demand for cent
pieces was confined almost exclusively
to the Atlantic and Middle Western
states. In the West and Southwest
this minor coin has had no purchasing
value, was not recognized and was sel
dom seen in circulation. Indeed, even
at the present time there are many
Western localities in which cent pieces
are not accepted.
In Colorado, for example. If a person
tenders a five-cent piece to a post
master for two two-cent stamps he re
ceives in exchange, together with his
his stamps, not a 1-cent piece but a ?
cent postage stamp. There are no cent
pieces in the money drawer of the post
master, and he doesn't desire any.
In a Denver store a certain commodity
is quoted at, say, IT cents a pound. The
purchaser must take either 15 or 20 cents
worth. Nothing less than 5 cents worth
is wold. Apples may be four for 6 cents,
but one apple ia also 5 cents, just the
Sw the people of the Centennial State
are going to have a chance of becoming
acquainted with the little bronze cent, for
it Is the intention of the Governor to
strike cent pieces at the new Denver Mint
'"cWornia has had as little use for the
cent as other parts of the Vvest. For
many years no coin of less denomination
than 10 cents had a purchasing value
there and in the gold days nothing less
than 25 cents would buy anything, miners
frequently throwing a handful of small
silver pieces out into the street as useless
weight to carry,, the "two-bits" or quarter
being the minimum current coin.
Times hav changed and the people
along the Pacific Coast have been quicker
to adopt the cent than thofe in the Rocky
Mountain district. Now the coin Is used
in such quantities that it has been found
advisable to manufacture cents on the
ground and thus save the expense of ship
ment across the continent from Philadel
phia. For the calendar year of 1908 the
t'nlted States Mint report shows that $11,
60 worth of cents were struck at the San
Francisco Mint and $323,279.87 worth at
Philadelphia.
Following the custom of placing a dis
ln Volume XIII of the published worka
of the retiring occupant of the prem
ises, he'll still find quite a lot of us
willing to boost hi3 game along. We
don't all belong to his party or want
to be made Ambassador to the Court
of St. James, right away, either. He's
inclined to be fleshy, as you may have
noticed from his pictures, and there's
a strong belief in this country that
you can trust a fat man with almost
anything except a sirloin steak. So
we're going to trust Big Bill.
"Yes, sir, Larry, our new I'resident
is going In, Just as I wns telling you,
without undue noise or excitement,
and there are spme who go so far as
to trust that things limy continue
generally along the same lino for quite
a spell, if it's not asking too much.
But a man with a forty-eight-inch
chest, which slipped down, is apt to be
more or less sedentary in his habits,
and so I imagine there'll be nothing
radical doing. A calm and soothing
personality will bo in charge. Hold
over members of the Cabinet will drop
tennis and go in more for the game
made famous by Mr. Rockefeller, Sr.,
and we'll see stout Army officers riding
less on warhorsea and more on Pull
mans. The center of intense activity
will be shifted from Washington to
either Mumhassa or California, depend
ing on whether the lions or members)
of the Stato Legislature offer the best
hunting, for the time being. And while
the large globe-shaped statesman in
charge of the main works may not see
his way clear to carrying out some
of the undertakings In line with Pres
ent Policies, such as curing the an
cient Irish Sagas of their poetlo club
feet and revising tho Slarquis of
Queensbury rules to suit newer condi
tions, there's an impression that prob
ably he'll be able to devote a con
siderable number of hours dally to a
plain, straightaway Job of smooth-finished,
hand-worked Presidenting. Ob,
yes, it'll be quieter after Thursday.
"Maybe we'll appreciate the quiet
and maybe we'll miss the rapid motion
and the loud noise. When a man has
been listening to a steam riveter six
fr seven years, the voice of the pianola
might seem sad music to his ear, and.
on the other hand, after traveling so
long on a merry-go-round, we may en
Joy the slower yet more restful sen
sation of a ride on the horse cars.
We'll have to wait, and see. At any
rate, we'll have a chance noMr to find
out at last whether Teddy's constant
state of activity was due to his having
so many lobes in his brain or so many
brains in his Loeb."
"Well, there's one thing I like abmit
inauguratin' a new President," said the
House Detective. "It shows that any
boy born in tills country kin grow up
to live in the White House."
"Wrong again, Larry," said the Ho
tel Clerk. "There's one that can't."
"Wot one?" asked the House Detec
tive. "His name." said the Hotel Clerk, "is
Bryan."
The Ilailnn Bootblnrk.
Atlantic Monthly.
What right divine gives me tho kingly plane
O'er him, my youthful subject, bonding
low ?
Strive as I may. not mine his thoughts to
linow;
Only to watch, wtlh what iinoonrlou grace
(Each flashing gesture telltale of hia race)
Ilia eager handa fly swiftly to and fro.
Soft-syllablfd hia alit-n a''cent.a flrfw;
Ha i;fts Ms eyes; at last I see his faco.
No menial soul bow" in that eazo to mul
Out of such depths, the pallid Florcntms
Haw down to Hell, looked up to Parariisol
Lorenzo's orbs are his that darkly aliinal
A nation's history is in these eyea.
Thy pathos and thy promise, Italy!
tinguishing mark upon the coins struck
at the different mints the new cent pieces
made at the San Francisco and Denver
mints will respectively bear the mint let
ters 3 and D.
The cent piece is the most profitable
coin Uncle Sam turns out at his mints,
the profit on its manufacture being esti
mated at something like So cents on the
dollar when the coins do not return for
redemption. The number of these pieces
that do come back for redemption is in
finitesimal in comparison with the mil
lions coined every year.
The use of the cooper cent has been
yearly Increasing in all parts of the conn-try-
As an interesting example of the
small proportion of the cent pieces that
are presented for redemption compared
to tho vast number Issued the report of
the Director of the Mint for 1W7 showed
that the cents of all kinds and dates, in
cluding old-time copper cents and the
nickel cents, that were redeemed amount
ed to only $27,453.22. Yet In the Fame year
nearly a million dollars worth were newly
coined. Tlie coinirg presses of the Philadelphia
Mint are always making cent pieces. The
coinage of gold and silver pieces may Ptop
temporarily, hut tho manufacture of cents
teems to go on forever.
The making of a cent entails almost aa
much work as the coining of a double
eagle, for while a coining press has the
capacity of striking 90 double eagles a
minute, yet the same press can make only
100 cent pieces.
For a number of years the mint pur
chased from private contractors the blank
circular pieces of copper to he used for
striking cents already prepared to go into
the coining presses. Now arrangements
have been made to do away with much of
this outside holo and the mint makee the
cent through the different stages from the
pig metal.
The San Francisco Mint began opera
tions in ISM with the colnase of gold
pieces. In 1ST.3 tho coinage of silver pieces
of the denomination of quarters and half
dollars was, begun. In tho following year
JO-cent pieces were made, the striking of
silver dollars not being bcKun until 1S.".
In M33 silver G-cent pieces were struck
and a limited number of these coins were
made In each of half a dozen or eo years
following, the small figures Indicating
clearly that little need existed at that pe
riod for even a 5-cent piece In that part
of the country. The few coins made evi
dently were struck as curiosities rather
than as coins intended for circulation.
Woman Wsnta to Be Town Policeman.
Trenton, N. J., Dixpatch.
Miss K. M. Sloat. of New York. Is
asking to be made policeman In Bay
onne, X. J- She Is an Amerlrsn. 29
years of age, 5 feet Si inches tall and
weigh 168 pounds.