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rUEST OF KING EDWARD.
FITZHUGH LEE’S VIEWS.
Once Told General Howard Southern
NEW SHERIDAN STATUE.
THE YOUNGEST SENATOR.
Burkctt, of Nebraska. Who Defeated
IN TROPICAL ARIZONA.
km. J. Bryan tor the Toga.
!& POTTER PALMER, SOCIETY
OHIO ERECTS MONUMENT AT A
Defeat Would Work for Good.
DESERT SANDS BEING TRANS
LEADER, SPENDS SEASON
COST OF TEN THOUSAND
From the farm furrow to the Sen
In March, 1896, I had the pleasure,
FORMED INTO VERDANT
recently remarked an official of the In
ate is the somewhat remarkable
IN LONDON.
DOLLARS
FIELDSAND ORCHARDS.
years. Thousands of acres of vines
and orchards perished miserably and
the desert once more began to en
croach upon the cultivated fields.
With a courage born of experience
with arid conditions, a sublime faith
in their chosen Held, the people brave
ly. tried to meet misfortunes and to
overcome them. It was u hopeless
struggle. Salvation, though near, was
Just out of reach. The great Hoods
which came each year, sweeping away
bridges and tearing out canals and
ditches, could not be utilized because
dian Department, of traveling in com
record of the youngest member of that
pany with the "Indian party" from
body, Elmer J Burkett, of Nebraska.
Striking
Figure
of
theCaz.ilry
Lead
Washington City on its way to Car
To be elected a Senator is considered Country Was Once Inhabited by an
lisle, Pa„ to attend the annual com er as He Appeared in toe Later a distinction worthy the ambition of Ancient People—Only Ruins Left to
mencement exercises of the Indian Years of His Life, But Not as He any American youth; to be the "baby” Indicate a Teeming and Prosperous
Looked During the War.
school there.
member of the greatest of legislative Population.
With the party, which included
■ Mrs. Potter Palmer, social censor
The dedication of a statue of Gen bodies is a higher distinction, and es Swinging gently in one’s hammock
ter the great world of society in Chl- some members of both houses of Con eral Phil Sheridan at Somerset, Ohio, pecially as in the case of Mr Burkett, beneath wide spreading tig trees load
tego, is numbered among the few gress and a tew officials of the Indian
ed with luscious fruit, aud breathing
■nerican women who have really and service, were the fearless, forcible on Nov. 2nd, revives interest in the where the race was a hot one, and his into the nostrils the fragrance of a
opponent
an
able
and
renowned
an
career
of
the
great
cavalry
leader
of
Fitzhugh
Lee,
and
that
knightly
■uiy penetrated to the inner circles of
field of Peruvian clover mingling with
Christian soldier, Major-General O. O. the Union armies. The state of Ohio tagonist, no other man than William the almost tropical bloom about me, it
■elusive society In England.
erected the statue, an equestrian one J. Bryan.
■One hears every day of I,.?s. This or Howard.
indeed hard to itelieve that this very
Out in Nebraska, says Edgar C. is
Naturally the two old veterans, and there his birth was recorded,
■rs. That who has set the "octal world
spot, only a few years ago, boasted
■ London agog, but few of this vast serving on opposite sides of our coun which will stand in the public square Snyder, of the Omaha Bee, who Is fa nuught save the horned toad, the
[umber ever do more than receive an try's most desperate war, found much of the quaint old village in which miliar with state polities, there has Gila monster aud the rattlesnuke. A
nvitation or two to affairs which are in common to talk over and discuss; Sheridan lived as a boy. It was al been In the past a number of long suspicion of a scent of desert sage
■ no means the entertainments of the and were together during the entire ways believed prior to his death, that drawn out senatorial deadlocks. The wafted on a summer morning's zephyr
trip.
Sheridan was born in the village. He people were not only dissatisfied with
■art set.
I had the good luck to be included and his family allowed the Impression conditions, but they were determined awakes in one a realization that. Just
| Mrs. Potter Palmer, however, is a
this fair oasis, gaunt desola-
iroman whose social position is as in their conversation from time to to remain as there was some hope to stop it They concluded to direct beyond
tion, weird and
auu ui/Burriuun,
mysterious, stalks
siuiika
pired and has been for a number of time, and heard much that was in that he might be nominated for Presi the action of the legislature.
wide under relentless skies of brass.
dent. Sheridan himself was always
tears. To know her is the open ses- structive and entertaining.
All these thoughts and others nre
Nomination by the People.
From present events their conversa proud to call himself an Ohio man.
Ime to the most exclusive houses in
The newspapers took up the matter yours when you drop into Phoenix
America, and so when she went tion drifted back to the heroic days of When he died his relatives admitted
Abroad last summer and announced the civil war, and they fought over that he was not even born in this of a popular nomination very ener or Mesa, or any of the little oases in
.Jer intention of staying for the re again many of its battles. Then they country, but on a ship when l . s par getically, and the plan was suggested the Salt River Valley, after the long
recalled old days at West Point, when ents were en route from Ireland. of having a state convention nominate hot ride across the burning sands
[ ,_
_—- - ,
Howard was an instructor aud had They settled first at Albany, N. Y., a candidate for United States Senator, which intervene between it and El
"Fitz” as his pupil.
and there his birth was recorded and instruct their legislative nominees Paso, Texas. You are glad to feast
"Do you remember,” said General However It was in Somerset that he to vote for him when the legislature your eyes on the green verdure which
Howard, “the time at the Point that I grew up, a quick alert little Irish lad met. Of course, there was opposition seems to spring suddenly from out
induced you to attend chapel serv whose greatest delight In youth was to the plan in certain quarters, for it the sere desert
ices?”
An Almost Tropical Climate.
to await the coming of the stage that materially interfered with the desires
"Yes,” answered General Lee, "but he might ride the horses to water, of the "bosses” who had controlled Phoenix, beautiful in a garb of
I didn’t go for the services, I went for nis old mother used to tell in her de Nebraska politics for many years, and tropical luxuriance, with wide aven
OF THE SALT RIVER
you.”
clining years of Phillies great love for
ues shaded by magnificent palms or OIANT CACTUS VALLEY.
Again their conversation was about horses and bow hard his father used Burkett was not exactly to their liking. shapely umbrella trees, with pleasant
The opposition, however, did not de
storage necessitated an expenditure
the war, and its decisive battles, and to whip him for riding every horse he
velop any great amount of strength, homes almost hidden by vines and beyond the means of the people.
to the wonderful changes since those could find to mount
flowers,
bids
you
welcome.
and Mr- Burkett was unanimously de Many of her pioneers and her best
tragic days of ’61-5.
Once Lair of Geronimo’s Apaches.
Early Cavalry Training.
clared yfe choice of the Republicans of citizens came here to fight a Inst bat
They had discussed the industrial
Far up in the San Francisco Moun
That early love of horses stood Phil the state for Senator, to succeed Sena- tle with that dreaded scourge, the tains, once the rendezvous of the
conditions of the country, and General
Lee seemed unusually well informed in good stead when he entered the
White Plague—tuberculosis— and the Apache outlaw Geronimo, and his
cavalry
arm of the service and fitted
as to the needs and opportunities of
welcome they received from the des band of murderers, Salt River aud
him
for
the
famous
“
Sheridan
’
s
Ride
”
the South.
ert brought the bloom of health to Tonto Creek come together In Tonto
"Do you know,” he said, "the next to the battle of Winchester. Sheridan
their cheeks and new hope to their Basin and flow into a deep and nar
decade will witness an industrial re began as a clerk in the village store
hearts, and is reflected in the welcome row canyon. Near the entrance to
naissance for us. We are just begin and was sent to West Point by a con
which greets the stranger at their this gorge the Engineers of the Re
ning to get an Influx of Northern capi gressman who hoped to catch the
clamation Service are building the
gates to-day.
tal and push; and we are learning that Irish Catholic vote. Alas, the con
Ours is usually termed a new coun Roosevelt dam, one of the high,-st
gressman
was
beaten,
but
he
gave
the
we can get along without the niggers.”
try, yet in Arizona one views the re in the world. From bedrock to tsp
"Yes,” assented Howard, whose nation a great soldier and in later
mains of a civilization that flourished It will be 275 feet high, or about half
thoughts seemed still to cling round years when the man was in trouble,
as long ago as the eighth or ninth cen file height of Washington monuinenit.
MRS. POTTER PALMER.
past events, “it’s all the result of that Sheridan came to his relief tn a grate
tury, and mayhaps as ancient as that It will lie of rubble masonry, and in
ful manner. The mother ot Sheridan
at Gettysburg.”
of the first. There is an irrigation ca its construction; will require 229,01)0
ta season at Cowe3, it meant one flght
almost outlived him and died at the
"I
don
’
t
know
as
to
that,
”
responded
nal, deep and wide, cut from the solid bbls, of cement. When completed it
Sxnore distinguished American woman General Lee, “but I wish you would age of 90 retaining her faculties to the
rock by a race which lived in the will store 1,400,000 acre feet of water,
Ko be admitted to the King’s circle.
last.
He
visited
her
often
and
she
tell
me
how
’
you
’
ens
’
came
to
win
that
Salt River valley ere man had or sufficient water to cover that many
I Mrs. Potter Palmer never does battle."
was
never
so
happy
as
when
she
told
■things by halves, and this was never
learned the use of metals. On the acres, one foot deep. Once full, it
"Well,” said the gentle Howard, “I all her neighbors "My Phlllie is com
Knnre thoroughly demonstrated than didn
bank one finds a broken stone axe, will insure sufficient water to cover
ing.” He gave her a nice little home
’
t
win
it,
Fitz,
God
did.
”
■ when she arranged the marriage be-
mute evidence of the wonderful pa 200,000 acres In the valley with live
on
the
edge
of
the
village,
and
under
“
Yes,
General,
”
Lee
answered,
“
I
■ tween her niece. Miss Julia Dent know you went up into the steeple of a great tree that stands in the yard,
tience of a people of whom history feet of water, the amount needed to
■ Grant, and the Russian Prince Can- that old church at Gettysburg for some speeches have been made by the first
records nothing save this sign of skill produce a full crop. The people ire
| tacuzene. It was one of the mefct bril- purpose, but I didn’t know it was for President Harrison, by Sherman,
in engineering and irrigation. Van pledged to pay $3,600,000 in ten yuirs
lllant matrimonial achievements the that"
ishe<d are they into the misty for this work. To-day only 100,000
Tom Corwin, Garfled, Hayes and Mc
tile acres are irrigated under present sys-
[social world has ever known, and, un-
past So long ago
that;
Lee
gazed
for
some
time
out
of
the
Kinley.
The
father
of
Sheridan
lived
I like so many similar affairs, the union
I has turned out to be a supremely
[happy one.
When Mrs. Potter Pa.mer deter-
| mined to Join the social colony at
I Cowes last year she leased the hls-
r torlc Egypt House in England's fa
mous beauty spot, the Isle of Wight
I Everybody who is anybody in English
1 society goes down for the regatta sea
SENATOR ELMER J. BURKETT,
son, for the King is sure to be there,
of Nebraska,
I and society flocks at the royal heels.
This recalls that the interior of
tor Dietrich, and, of course, Republi
Egypt House is a splendid example of
can nominee’s for the legislature were
the simple luxury which prevails in so
pledged to carry out the action of the
many old English houses. Several
state convention.
years ago it was leased by Consuelo,
Hot Contest With Bryan.
Dowager Duchess of Manchester. The
William Jennings Bryan was the uni
Duchess is one of the oldest friends of
versally accepted candidate against
King Edward, and during the season
Burkett, supported by the Democrats.
that she was mistress of Egypt House
Populists and Free-Silver Republicans.
she was the King’s hostess on more
than one occasion.
The flght was thus narrowed down to
The Duchess had the old place done
one between Mr. Burkett and Mr.
over in anticipation of the King’s com
Bryan for control of the legislature.
ing and all the floors were highly pol
Which one would be senator was de
ished and covered with expensive rugs.
pendent upon the political complexion
His Majesty was escorting the Duch
of that body- The campaign, extend
ACENE IN PHOENIX, ARIZONA.
ess Into dinner one evening when he
ing over a period of about five months,
An Irrigation Ditch Runs Through the Town.
slipped on the polished floor and nar
was exceedingly virile, and there was oldest legends of the oldest Indian terns. The Roosevelt dam will double
rowly escaped getting a bad fall. For
plenty of uncertainty to make it inter tribes convey to us no word of an in the acreage. It will also furnish 10,-
the instant the King was angry and
esting, and at times almost bitter.
dustrious race of busbandmen who 000 horse power, which can lie used
reminded the Duchess that he detested
Mr. Burkett, like bls distinguished carried the waters of the Salt River for pumping wator from underground
polished floors and would never again
opponent, is of even temperament, out upon the desert and made it to sources where tne supply is known to
enter a house where they prevailed.'
slow to anger and plenteous in that blossom.
Merchants of London received or
What dreadful catastro be large. Some of the power will bo
ders the following day to take meas
brand of good nature that never wears phe overwhelmed them? What cruel conveyed electrically to the San Carlo«
urements of all the floors in Egypt
off; and so whatever may have dis fate overtook them and swept them Indian Reservation, and water pump
House, and when the King again vis
turbed others, it can be said that noth from the face of the earth? Ask of ed from wells may restore to the Pima
Papago Indians the lands which
ited the Duchess there he found every
ing harsh or bitter ever passed be the desert, which quickly returned and
room and corridor carpeted in fine
to claim its own and obliterated under are now worthless, and change a tribe
tween them personally.
now almost wholly nomadic into their
Persian effects. The King laughed
Roosevelt's great popularity made Its drifting sands the long lines of former condition of prosperous agri
and partly apologized for his bad tem
canals and ditches and the wide
the
state
surely
Republican,
so
far
as
culturists.
per on the previous occasion by say
the electoral ticket was concerned, but spaces of green. It answers not
Thirty miles of wagon road up the
ing, "You are very good, Duchess. You
Mr. Bryan’s popularity and hie force Centuries passed, and then the Anglo- rugged Salt River canyon have been
see. I am not as young as I used to
Saxon
came
to
battle
with
the
des
as a campaigner made the outcome as
completed, a cement mill at the dam
be.” Since that time polished floors
to the complexion of the legislature ert. . As his groat steam shovels swept site Is turning out hundreds of barrels
have been tabooed by the English
aside
the
sands,
behold
he
found
bls
one of doubt and uncertainty. Then,
cement dally, saw mills are
smart set.
linos crossed and recrossed by of fine big
timbers, brick yards are in
too, there were local conditions that canal
the ancient ditches or following them. cutting
were not advantageous to the Republi So great were the returns from ir full blast; thirty miles of power canal
Ia Saaless Dungeons.
now
furnishes
4000 horse power for
cans.
rigation in tlie vnlley, it was but nat
A victim of Russian severity who
These were the conditions confront ural that the old canals should be all constructive purjs>s<*s, telephone
THE SHERIDAN 8TATLE.
was at one time Immured in the grim car window at the flying trees and to see his son win fame In the war, ing Mr. Burkett when the campaign
lines, electric lights and water works
fortress of Peter and Paul, in St. Pe wheeling landscape. His thoughts but died from the kick of a vicious of 1904 opened- Mr. Bryan, brilliant, widened and lengthened and new are completed, a city of 1,000
tersburg, describes it as resembling a seemed far away. Then, without look horse.
shrewd and resourceful as be Is, took
house of the dead.
at Howard, he said, "Well I’m
advantage of every mistake of the Re
Took Care of Relatives.
“Its dungeons, utterly sunless, are d ing
-----
n
glad.
General,
that
you
licked
abodes of gloom and silence. Not a us. It was the best thing that could
The General did much for all his publicans, and he went into the cam
paign determined to elect a Demo
word is spoken among the hapless pris have happened for the South.”
relatives and his memory is blessed cratic legislature. He strove mightily;
oners, intercourse being carried on
in
the
old
town
of
bls
boyhood.
Ills
he held meetings In almost every dis
mainly by gestures. Prisoners com
WTiere Age Drought II callh.
municate with each other by knocking
A proud father in a western town, younger brother "Mike” is a retired trict; he completely covered the state
on the walls of their cells, so many who has a number of daughters of a army officer. Another brother, John, with a special train, and made from
times for each letter. But even this marriageable age, in speaking of the died some years ago and his daughter five to eight rear-platform speeches a
Is sternly repressed by the authorities, qualities of the girls, said to an ac Ellen is now postmistress of the vil day. arousing as he always does, great
and captives detected in the practice quaintance that while he loved each lage. Mrs. Sheridan, the widow, was enthusiasm. But Mr. Burkett was also
are liable to severe punishment.
of them very much, he would like to present at the unveiling with her over the state. He made as many
"In short, the prison reproduces all see them comfortably married. "I have children, one of them being an officer speeches as did his opponent and he is
the horrors of the dungeons of ro a little money.” he said, "and they in the army. The sculptor, Carl a convfncer. and he visited every por
mance, with mildewed walls, cold si will not go penniless to their hus neber, endeavored to represent Sheri tion of the Commonwealth.
lence and despair. The fortress, in bands."
dan as be may have appeared when
Genius for Organization.
deed, is never spoken of in Russia
"There Is Mary, twenty-flve years making bis famous ride, except that
Probably one of Burkett's chief at
without a shudder, for imprisonment old, I shall give her $1,000 when she he has pictured Sheridan as be looked
there is little better than being buried marries. Then comes Bet, she is more in the lafer years of his life. The tributes in his genius for organization-
HUGE ALFALFA HTACK8.
•Uve.”
than thirty-live, and she will get $3.000. Sheridan of the battle of Winchester As a result of the marshaling of his ditches constructed. With the op inhabitants rests In the reservoir
forces,
a
legislature
was
elected
with
timism which has ever characterised where 170 feet of water will cover It,
while the man who takes Eliza, who is wore a full beard as pictures taken
Noah was a Wise One.
more than forty, will receive $5,000 then give proof. The Statue cost ten every one of the thirty-three members the desert pioneer, great works were Geronimo's Apaches working every
in
the
Senate
a
Republican
and
only
thousand
dollars
and
the
dedication
undertaken-
day on roads or timbering—all those
< little girl was asked by her Sun with her.“
There came a day when the sup signs of activity breathe unmistakable
The acquaintance after some few mo was attended by Corporal Tanner, nine Fuslonlsts out of one hundred
•ay school teacher, “who was the
members
of
the
House.
The
legis
ply
ceased
to
suffice,
Periods
of
commander
of
the
G.
A.
R..
who
made
promise of speedy prosperity for the
ments
of
aarious
thought,
wanted
to
wisest man.” "Noah.” she answered.
•Re was the only one who knew know if ha had any daughters fifty or a speech. Adjutant Tweedale re lature met and in Just six minutes unusual and protracted drought fol sunny valley sixty-two tnl.’es beto*.
lowed each other for a number of Phoenix redlvlvua.
elected Mr. Burked a Senator,
cited “Sheridan’s Ride.”
sixty years old.
aaough to go in out of the rain."
ased “Egypt House**, Isle of Wight
■Polished Floors of Famous Man
ion Persian Carpeted to Please
loyal Whim.