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ASTORIA OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 1H, lfHXt. THY LIFE STORY OF GEN. MILES Comini to Astoria Biography of the General Just Retired From Active Life - Rose From Obscurity 4. Th retirement of Lieutenant General allies on August S, after nearly eight y furs' of service s the highest officer on the active list of the army, classes a distinguished and brilliant career. Be ginning a lieutenant of Volunteers h am out of the Civil war a major-general, and bearing the soars of four wounds received In a many battles. Afterwards, by subjugating the Sioux, he made safe for settlers a vast region then harnmaed by savages, but now di vided into prosperous states, while his conquest of the Apaches on the south western border put an end to the dep redations or centuries. Nelson ApplMon MUea was born in hm of the most rugged parts of tne Wachusett mountain region, about fifty miles from Boston. He was taught in the district school and the local acad ,emy.andat the age of sUteen,like many another country lad. be went to Boston, where he served as clerk or salesman In store. His pay was very small, and fits uncle, Nelson Curtis, for whom he was named, took him into his family ! to live at West Roxbury, and gave him his board. But young, Miles was too Independent to consent to suetr an ar , rangement. So he hired a room In Bos ton, and, as his earnings would not ad mit of his going to a boarding house, he took his food to his room and boarded himself. "-' f : The soldier's Instinct developed as soon as the war broke out and fired him with a desire to enlist. He spoke to his employer about tt.being advised to ask bis uncle's consent. They expressed their willingness, providing he would take military Instruction. His employ er paid for a six month's course at a military school, which a Frenchman had started in Boston at the beginning of the war. His uncle further equipped him by recruiting a company of one hundred men for him to take command of, giving liberal bonus to the men. This company was organised In Ba con's hall, on Washington street, a building which stands in the busy mer cantile part of the Roxbury district. There were two a'der men who aspir ed to the offices of captain and first lieutenant of the new company, but, though STOes was but 21, be was so far superior to the other Aspirants that he was elected captain. Gov. Andrews, j however, looked upon him as a "mere boy," and sent him a commission as a rcond lieutenant. . When Miles receiv ed It he went to his uncle and asked him what he should do. "Take It," said the unrle "and go to the front. We don't want any trouble or delay at this point." . ',, , .."'., Young Miles accepted this ? an I atriotic advice, and had no cause tu ie fret hia action, for soon after reaching the front he was detailed on Howard's staff, in the Peninsula, and at once won official praise for great gallantry and effective service. A specially valuable and skillful effort at Savage's station in leading reinforcements to Col. Bar low's regiment, the Sixty-first New York, when hard pressed, was followed by his commission as lieutenant-colonel of that wrte regiment on Barlow's greatful recommendation. It was a most unusual and significant step to take a young lieutenant from another stateWd raise him to a command so high. Barlow's promotion made Miles colonel of the regiment at a little over 23 years of age, and thence he passed to the command of a brigade, and final ly to the First Division of the renowned Second ;erps, whose aggregate In killed and wounded exceeded that of any oth er division in the Union Army. Miles himself, as before' stated, was four times wounded, and twice so as to bare ly escape death. At Fredericksburg he was shot In the throat, the scar remain ing to this day, and at Chancellors vllle through the groin and hip bone, this wound at first appearing to be mor tat. General Miles before the end of the wah reached the full ranktf major-gen eral of volunteers, end In September, 1866, ha "entered the regular army as colonel of the Fortieth Infantry. Rou tine garrison life occupied him for a few years, but in 1874,as colonel of the Fifth Infantry, he began an extraordinary series of Indian campaigns and victor ies. : The first of these was the over throw of the Cheyennes, Arapahoes, Kl owas, and Comanches, in what Gen. Sheridan declared to be "the most suc cessful of any campaign In the country since the settlement by the whites." This was a summer and winter cam paign over a vast area, including the desolate borders of the Staked Plains, first In intense heat and then in bitter cold. The results were such that these Indians have never again been on the warpath. -. With a very brief Inter 1 followed a campaign against the til.iux, rtwi had massacred Gen. Custer's command. Miles had been summoned to the Tel lowstone wrion, there to winter with his own regiment and six companies of the Twenty-second, so as to be ready for the next spring, but, with charac teristic energy, he prepared for Immed hits operations, and accordingly when Sitting Bull worried his supply trains he at once started after htm. Having come up with him, a parley was held between the lines. Therewere to be but six men on each side, but more In dians saunteded up, one by one, and oiw of his scouts afterwards told Miles that an Indian, during the Interview quietly slipped a carbine under Sitting Bull's buffalo rote. Miles Insisted that all but six should go back, and, remember ins Canby a fate, he had also taken pre caution to have the whole party under range of his troops on the ridge. He told Sitting Bull his terms, and when he showed how much he knew of the chiefs purposes the latter's eyes "glis tened with the fire of hatued." A sec ond Interview resulted in another re fusal of the chief to yield, and then Miles gave him 15 minutes to geto his lins Sitting Bull, who had perhaps imagined that his overwhelming defeat of Custer's command .and subsequent experience with the larger force con centrated against him, would give him a great prestiage with Miles, started up in fury, and -rave a call to his camp as he rode back. Quickly the grass was fired to impede the troops, but the latter, although numbering only 398 rifles, went forward at the command witto a rush and swept back the Sioux, who were" for more numerous, many miles to the Tellowetone. Six days la ter, about 2000 Indians surrendered, while Sitting Bull and others broke away in disgust, with their bands, pur sued by M'les through the snow. There was another band still within striking distance, mostly Ogallalas, with somme Cheyennes, under Crazy Horse. The winter was a terrible one, but Miles fitted his men out with ex tra garments, and started from bis Tongue River cantonment between Christmas and the New Tear, with bne of the strangest looking columns on record.. The streams could be traversed by the two field guns and wagons on the ice. When the Indians posted on the crests of a deep valley of the Wolf Mountains were found, they called down In triumph, "Tou've had your last breakfast." Hut Miles answerwi by depoylng his entire force, keeping no reserves, and senamg mem ui me slippery and snow-gullied .illlsldes. They managed to get to the top, and then drove the Indians, who seemed to be panic-stricken when Big Crow, their chief medicine man, was killed. Dur ing the ensuing spring Crazy Horse i and many other chiefs and over 2000 Indians gave themselves up at the agen cies, while other chiefs and about 300 Indians surrendered direct to Miles. Sitting Bull took refuge in Canada. One band, mostly Minneconjous, un der Lame Deer, was still out on a trib utary of the Rosebud, and accordingly Miles moved against t.iem. A charge stampeded and captured the ponies. Riding up to one group of warriors apart from the rest. Miles stretched out his hand, calling "How-how-kola, meaning "friend" and Lame- Deer grasped It. Unfortunately, a white scout, with good Intent, to Insure the general's safety, but most indiscreetly, covered the chief with his rifle, Lame Deer, as if fearing treachery, wrenched away his hand, ran back a few steps, and raised ais rifle. Instantly Miles whfrVd his horse, the quick movement causing the animal to settle on . his haunches, and the bullet, whizzing past the general's breast, killed a soldier at his side. A hot fire broke from the troop, under which Lame Deer and Iron Star and others fell, and t.ie pur suit of the rest was kept up for several miles. Afterward the band surrender ed at the agencies. General Miles next campaign was against Chief Joseph's band of Nez Perces, which had come east from the western part of Idaho, fighting Gen. Gibbon and Gen. Sturgls on the way, and was aiming for Canada. Hearing of their approach, Miles started after them, came up with tnem in the Bear Paw Mountains, and after a hard fight, in which the troops lost twenty-three killed and forty-two wounded, the In dians surrendered. "As Chief Joseph was about to hand his rifle to me," says Gen. Miles, "he raised his eyes toward ths sun, whlo.i then stood at about 10 o'clock, and said: 'From where the sun now stands I fight no more against the white man.' From that time to this he hsis kept his word." In 1878, while traversing Yellowstone Park with some guests and an escort, Miles heard (hat Elk Horn's band of Bannocks was near by. Sending his guests under a proper guard to Fort Formal Notification Received that Flagship New York Will Participate Vessels May Reach City Monday NightCommittee Wire Rear Admiral Glass Commanding Squadron for Further Ad vicesQueen Frances Will Be Crowned By Admi ral Smith Official Program of The Regatta x Official notification that the flag ship of the Pacific squadron, the New York, under command of Rear. Admiral Glass, and the cruiser Mar blehead and the training ship Alert had been assigned to participate in the regatta, was received yesterday in a letter to Senator Fulton from H. C. Taylor, chief of the bureau of navigation, The squadron includes besides the New York and Marble head, the gunboats Bennington and Concord and the naval tug Fortune, but it is not thought probable that the lalter. vessels will reach Astoria. Immediately on receiving the offi- The regatta committee yesterday gave out for publication the official pro gram of the regatta. Beyond question it is the finest orogTam ever arranged on the Pacific coast, and will attract to the city the best athletes in the country In all lines of sport. The program follows: FIRST DAY AUGUST . v MORNING 9:00 Reception ajid coronation of Queen. Greetine of royal guests. 9:30 Gasoline launch race, large boats. Greased pole contest. 9:45 Junior four oar shell race, Astoria crews. Tub race 10:00 Junior four-oar shell race, Victor la, Vancouver, Portland crews. Log rolling contest. 10:15 Junior four-oar barge race, San Francisco crews. Swim ming and high diving exhibitions. 10:30 Cutter -ace between Heather, Col umbine and Manzanita crews. Duck hunt. 10:45 Junior single shell race. High diving. 10:00 Single paddle can oe race. Parade between 11:00 and 1:00 o'clock. AFTERNOON 2:00. Columbia river fish boats twice around course, working sails, anchor start. Exhibition Pt. Adams L. S. crew 2:15 Portland yachts. Exhibition, light house tender placing and taking up a buoy. 2:30 Shoal water Bay sloops. Upset race. 2:45 Whitehall boats.-Tilt ODD AND INTERESTING NOTES. A license lay appears prominently In the oldest known laws those of Khammuraba, king of Babylonia,whieh have recently been discovered and de ciphered. In those days women exclus ively, were the saloonkeepers. The law is as follows: "If a wine merchant has not received corn as the price of drink, has received silver by the great stone and has the price of drink less than the price of corn, that wine merchant one shall put her to account to throw her into water. A rather drastic penal ty for selling drink too cheap. It was, however, less severe than the punish ment for allowing disorder in licensed premises: "If a wine merchant has collected a riotous assemblage In her house and has not seized those rioters and driven them to the palace, that wine merchant shall be put to death. Ellis, lie marched to Clark's Fork Pass, and, waiting till the band came up, at tacked and captured the whole of them, eleven being killed In the fight, while the principal' loss of the troops waa an excellent officer, Capt. Bennett. The next year Miles drove Sitting Bull across the border, and after that peace reigned In the Northwest, and safety was assured for the march of settle ment and civilization. Several years later came the memor able campaign of Gen. Miles against the Apaches for which he was expres sly transferred to the Department of Arizona, having in the meantime re ceived his well-won star of brigadier general. He organized with the great est care a system of scouting and of watch stations, drove the hostile Chir icuhua and Warm Spring bands of Ger- onimo and Natchez across the border Into Mexico, and there a force under the cial notification, Chairman Brown rive tomorrow; the Victoria crews and Secretary W'ctt of the regatta will reauh Coble this afternoon at committee wired Rear-Admiral Glass 4 :jo, the Portland and San Fran at the Ptiget Sound Navy yard stat- ! iseo crews being due to arrive on ing that the news of his assignment jTuesday. Admiral A. N Smith had been received, and asking for and staff, Governor Chamberlain advices as to when the vessels would land staff, and visiting royalty will arrive. No reply had been received also arrive on Tuesday, when the at midnight. It is expected that street fair will be opened, they will reach here tomorrow. j It is stated that Admiral Smith The regatta committee received tel. w ill place the crown on the head of egrams from Victoria, San Francisco Queen Frances, and Portland yesterday stating at j The royal robes reached the what time the crews from each of city yesterday, and everything is in these cities would be in Astoria, 'readiness for this part of the cere. The Shoalwater Bay crews will a'r- mony. Ing match. 3:00 Cannery tenders. 3:30 Inhibition drill, W. O. V. team. 4:30 Hoc race. Speed race, Astoria, Ore gon City, Vancouver. Foot lines, UW yard dash. 220 yard dash. EVENING 9 0O-Kegatta ball, Foard & Stokes hall. SECOND DAT AUGUST M MORNING 9 3ft Arrivil of queen.. 9:45Ja.io line launch race, small boats. Hoys' Swimming race. 4:00 Junior outrig ger skiff. . Plank race. 10:15 Senlpr singles. Vancouver, San Francisco, Vic toria and Portland. Tub race. li):3o Four oar barge, Alamedas. Ariel and South Ends, 8. F. lsg rolling contest 10:45--Cutter race, U. S. S. Alert, 4 boats to enter. High diving. 10:00 Senior f.,ur oar shell, Portland, Victoria and Vancouver, It. ( Creased pole con test. 11:15 Swimming race. Duck mint. 11:30 Double pleasure boat race, Pt. Adams nnd Ft. Can by U S. crews. Punt race. 11:45 Double paddle canoe race. 12:00 noon. AFTERNOON 1:00 Columbia river fish boats, twice course, w , I , slart. Exhibition, Ft. Canby L. 8. trews. 1:15 Free-for-all sailing race. Exhibition, tight house tender placing President Loubet had a strange ex perience recently at the distribution of prizes for meritorious conduct. After the ceremony a .collection was taken, nnd one of the collectors. Mile Con science, mounted the platform and ap proached the president of the republic from whom she requested a contribu tion. Mr. Loubet felt In his pockeyi and found he had forgotten his purse. There was an awkward pause, and then M. Gpmbarien leaned forward and tend dered his purse to the president, who placed a louls In the bag, amid ap plause. M. Devlc, a French engineer, has been trying experiments at Elbeuf with u new application of the mini. null de vised by him. With a small model on the seals of one-tenth of what the ac tual working train will be, he secured brilliant Lawton followed them, endur Ing the greatest hardships, but the ul timate result being the surrender of all the hostlles, who, with 400 other In dians of Fort Apache, were sent under guard to Florida, and thus the South western border, the prey of Indian hos tilities for years, was made tranquil and safe, as the northern border has been. Gen.' Miles wu made a major-general in April, 1899, and transferred from tne Division of the Pacific to the Di vision of the Missouri, with headquar ters at Chicago. Shorty after tibe well known "Messiah" disturbance broke out, and this extraordinary mania be came more serious from being Joined with certain complaints against the government. Sitting Bull and others sought a general uprising, and runners were sent out to the various tribes of Sioux, to the Cheyennes, to the Utes, 1 and taking up buoy. 1:30 Whitehall sailing nice. Upset race, 1: 43 Cannery under. Tilting match. 3:00 Shoot ing tournament, first five events. 4;utt -Hose race, dry test, Vancouver, Or egon C'ty, Astoria. Foot races, 440 yards, 1 1-4 miles. EVENING .0O to 12:0O-Min. V. O. Wilkinson will Hive a public reception at her home where visitors and people of Astoria w ill have the pleasure of nut-ting Queen rVtnces I. THIRD DAY-AUGUST 21 MORNING 10 no-Arrival of queen. 10:15-Cutter race. IT. 8. S. Alert. Catch the duck 10:30 Single shell. Hoy swimming rac. 10: 45 -Four oar shell. Greased pole walking. lt:00Senlor Outrigger skiff. 11:15 Single canoe; tub race High diving contest 11:30 Four onr bnrge. Punt rnce. 11:45 Double pid die canoe. 12:00 Noon AFTERNOON 1:00 Hose race, wet test, Vancouver, Oregon City, Astoria teams. Logger font nice, 100 yard dash. To wear rcgu latlon spiked boots. 130 Shooting Jt five e race, New York race. 6:00 Horse race, Amor street. Another race will be held Saturday afternoon. with ease thirteen miles an htnir, from which he deduces that with a real train he enn easily obtain 300 td 400 kilo meters an hour. He relies chiefly on two factors, a diminution of weight and a more effectual grip of the driving whee's on the single rati. . Three learned supreme court Justices sitting In appellate term, In New York have decided that there are "no rules of ctluutte that reoulra a man, whi'e eating In a so-called qult(k-lttnch res taurant, to take off his overcoat and hat." This decision was the outcome of an appeul taken from the Judgment of the municipal court for 44 40 'n favor of Lewis Harris, who alleged his over coat was stobn white eating In a lunch room. The court ruled that ha had ;ot used proper care In hanging up Ills cont. Mandans, Asslnlbolnes, flhoshones, Nex Perces and other tribes. But Miles, who had a large force of troops, sue ceeded In controlling the Indians, and good order was soon restored. The next noteworthy service of Oen. Miles was his skillful handling of the Chicago Hots In 1894. In November of the same year he was transferred to the Department of the East, and In Septem ber,' 1895, succeeded Gen. Schofleld as senior officer of the army. Finally in April, 1901, the "nk of Lieutenant-gen eral was revived by Congress and con ferred upon him. Hie retirement next Saturday completes a tour of service most remarkable for the number and sucresses of Its achievements, and which has been Interwoven at every turn with grsat and momentous events in our history. TOBACCO PIPES OF THE NOBLE RED MAN Except the bows and arrows, toma hawk and scalping knife nothing t more closely (inundated with the intlinu than his tobacco pipe; In fuct one of the earlier chronlclcm had deitcrlbed th Indians Itouiu'lmtd stuff u connlNtlnM of " tobacco pipe, a wooden illdh and t hutclict made of broad Hint," The tnatcmi'iit, which neglects many nthe-r things which the Indians actually pin. scsised, utiows how very prominent was the pipe among the Virginian Indians whom this particular Indian was ;ce crlblng. Hut It Is only during reivui year. In such Institutions as tho Tea body Muneuni "f Harvard t'ulversUy and the National Museum at Washing' ton, ttiat there Ins been any gi iiciat op portunity to study the different kinds of pipe lit which the utsirlglnal Indian consumed not only tobacco but various other wee Is that he made to answer the same pursH. t'wUms'y enough, the Indian never lmd the tobacco habit, IIS Hie term is Uliderstomt llow-a-'t'lSH, until It had been Introduced by Kurop eans, Whoever examines the splilldld collection i Indian pipes III the glass ease i-f tli" IVubody musuem, fur ex ample, Cannot fall to b struck Uy the fact that they were evidently intended for leisure or ceivmonl il moment, and that 110 Indian could haw gone about hi ordinary occupations, like the v. 'llised siuok. r, with his pipe III Mi mouth. Tim earliest Indian pl', siecliii'li of which have ben found fruit time to time In practically all pints of the ccmntry, was a simple tube, very much like a targe cigar holder. tlnl'l l'lng the larger end of Hie tube and the mouthpiece either Iho smaller end or it piece of wood uttaeh.'d to it. The pipe was usually smoked with the head thrown back ami the tul perpen dicular, thus keeping the content from falllne out. It ws In mil h a pipe that Montezuma, according to (lie an cient records smoked his bdiiuco mixed with liquid amtsr at the time of the t'onqiicsrof Mexico, nor lias any tr ice been foil id in the ancient and iicIkIi Isirlng Mali civilisation of ("utral Am erba of anything more cli aily nppiox imutlng the modern tobacco ple. In DO YOU WILL MADISON-? Keeps All Iialiii 534, Cotn'l Si,, anil 114, ulh St. mm Manufacture "PENDLETON" INDIAN ROBES AND SHAWLS. HAKE EXCELLENT Couch Covers, Lounge Covers Driving' Robes Bathing Robes, Veranda Wraps Trunk Throws 4 For Fancy Corners and For the Bed A Large Assortment of the Above Goods at C. H. Cooper's The Leading Dry Goods and Clothing House of ASTORIA deed the Ili'st sign of sinoslng I hal Co lumbus come upon was a roiiMlt Ver sloti of thi rlgar or cltiaicitu that U still so mu ll more isipular than U Pipe In Central America. This use of tobacco was reHired to (Vluuibu by two messenijers who were sent out In lllspuulol.i, Nov, 2. H!ff Willi Idler to th? Knhn of Cathay whom Urn gr-al discover"!" still confidently expected to find ut the end of hi Journey, The m winter. Columbus himself Is quoted na hiving said, "found a great number of Indian, men nnd wouum, holding tl.etr hiimbi Hill. lighted bntlld icid" f borbs, of which they Inhaled accord Inn to their eilspini." The miter cover ing or wrapiwr we should call It now of these primitive clxum was culled "tnbam" from which the name b'bacio as nfb'rwiird applied to the principle Ingredient of thii combination of herb rolled up lnsld" of It. IVsplij lite many evidence that the .indent odvlhxVtloii In Central .in'la was much more lilnhly developed than lb it attained by the N'U'tli American Indians it wa the North A merit im lit. illim who carried Hie plis' to H high est native evolution, doubtless i led 111 some deie by liiieretnirsc with V.tir Man traders and advcntinvr IV primitive tubular pie, Jiitlnlng from tin wide distribution, vius smoked from one end of Hie icntlnent to the otlo r It bus Urn found from Washington to Mania cliusctt and from Texas to North la kola. Uko th" "thrtr In Han pipe, of which the tubular pltc is tmj a" t to have bn the ancestor. (bee olis. tn made fiom stone, wood. bom, endier and metal, althotiKh the oiuu ler wen ma it 11 fad 11 red from two mln eriilK, 1 hlorit nnd steatite. wlch the (niliiin had discovered were e-tpid illy vci-Si ud ipt'-d for pipe making Th" ma terial wtl chlppwl into shape nnd then drilled from both ends by means of a stialgbl shaft revolving between the milkman's hands or between hi hand an 1 thigh. Till earhest American pipe according to certain Indian traditions. Is often an object of reverence the must ancient pia of the tribe and xiit h II hn flu a red prominently In some nf the oldest ceremonial. SMOKE? Brand! of Cigars. Astoria, Oregon.