Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934, May 03, 1906, Image 3

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A NEW GOULD BABY.
suicide in family of
great financier and rail ­
road MAGNATE.
J RACE
larried Life of Son ot Jay Gouid and
Wife Described as Ideally tlappy-
Regardless of Great Wealth, 1 hey
Live Very Simple.
The Goulds have been married 20
rears. It was in 1886 when the eld­
est son of Jay Gould, then almost as un­
it nown and indeterminate a factor in
(finance as either of his two brothers,
Howard and Frank, is at present, pro­
vided the town with a momentary sen­
sation by wedding Miss Edith King-
don. who was a member of Augustin
Daly’s theatrical company. The match
was regarded as ideal in all respects.
Miss Kingdon’s position socially and
professionally was assured. Her heri-
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Seetion.—Tillamook, Oregon, May 3, 1906
Mrs. Bleakeley and the baby, bundled
her into the hack, and took her to the
Santa Fe train. They were compelled
to wait a few minutes, and while they
sat in the hack Judge Smart, who had BEHOIC CHARGE OF TWO CHEY­
ENNE INDIANS AGAINST FIVE
awarded the baby to the other woman,
passed it on his way to the Ottawa
TROOPS OF CAVALRY.
train.
“When the train came in Mrs. Bleake­ A Tragic Romance of the Tepee
ley was placed on the Pullman with­ Repetition of the Days ef Chivalry-
out attracting any attention and put in Flesh and Blood Against a Hall of
charge of the frat, boy’s parents.
I eaden Bullets.
“The parents were simply ordered to
BY W. M. WOOSTKK.
see Mrs. Bleakeley through Kansas City
About fifty miles north of tho Big
safely, and, like good modern parents,
Horn Mountains, and forty miles south
they obeyed.
from the Yellowstone River, in south­
‘‘The difficulty lay in the Union depot eastern
Montana, live tho tribe of fear­
at Kansas City, where it was expected
Northern Cheyenne Indians. A
a detention telegram would be await­ less
ing them. The Sheriff of one of the few decades ago they ranged the great
plains, following the buffalo, but are
largest counties in Illinois, J. H. Ray, BflU/
ti t f nil fr»
i vor 1
now attached
to Flicx
tho n'nncriiir
Tongue U River
Wills county, was on the train, a man Agency.
as big in proportion as his own county,
The men are tall, well-built, brave;
big of body and big of heart. He made
tho acquaintance of the father of the and their women are proverbially
frat, boy, and in his dilemma the lat- chaste. With the disappearance of the
game and the decadence of inter-tribal
warring, the young braves have had
little or no opportunity to show their
prowess.
In the summer of 1890, two young
men—Head Chief and Young Mule—
who had failed to find favor with the
maidens of their choice, took to the
war-path to win distinction and wives,
A moon! and the disappointed lovers,
wearing their eagle feathers red­
tipped, as warriors do, were again at
home.
Rumors of their return soon reached
their Agent, who recalled that a white
herder living near the reservation had
been missing from his home for nearly
a month.
RODE TO THEIR DEATH.
q
FARMING THE SWAMPS.
yards from the Agency. They tako
position in the form of a crescent, and
Bit with loaded carbines unslung,
waiting.
At the top of tho long steep hill in PLAN TO DRAIN MILLIONS OF
ACRES OF WORTHLESS MARSH
their front, silhouetted against the
flaming sky, sit the two slender braves
FOR NEW FARMS.
on their ponies. Cooly they lash them­
selves to their saddles. Raising their Representative Steenerson Has Bill
rifles high above their heads, they
Provide a Government Fund to
shake them at the troops and begin a to
Reclaim Hundred Million Acres of
shrill song of deflauce. Suddenly Liey Wet
Lands.
Are at the Agency. Their signal!
The great swamp areas are destin­
Into ttio Jaws of Death.
ed to come in soon for their share
A bugle blows. In an instant they at the hands of the government. The
launch their ponies, straight ae arrow irrigation ot desert lands has been
from tho bow, at tho center of tho cres­ provided for; but no definite move has
,,.UL ul
cent
of Buluiolo
soldiers, . Dowu the bill they been made as yet to convert tho enor­
r„me, fu]] charp... DUUUUU(i
shouting tho savage mous areas ot government swamp
Cheyenne war-cry and firing as they land into productive farm homes. The
. _
other day a bill was introduced to pro­
ride.
A bugle blast! and a withering volley vide for the drainage ot tho great Dis­
blazes forth from five hundred guns. mal Swamp of Virginia, which Gener­
Still the ringing war yell. On through al Washington, a century ago, pro­
the smoke they come, apparently un­ claimed would one day be converted
scathed, working their rilles like mad. into farms.
The Murder of a Sheep Herder.
Tho returned braves were questlon-
. They openly admitted going on
tho war-path and killing the herder. A
detachment ot the two troops of caval­
ry stationed at the Agency, assisted by
some Northern Cheyennes, made
search for the body. It was found on
the evening of September 9, and had
been scalped.
Fearing trouble, three additional
troops were hurriedly sent from Fort
Keogh, Montana, and the Agent called
a council of the chiefs and head-men,
demanding that they arrest and de­
liver the murderers.
Two Moons, the war chief, battle-
scarred and old, pleaded for the young
braves, offering a ransom of thirty
ponies for the dead herder. This was
declined. Chief Amelcan Horse then
arose and said his warriors would
fight if the soldiers attempted to take
the young braves alive; and that their
final message was:
“Select the place of meeting, and we
will come and die in your sight, fight­
ing the soldiers.”
The council was dismissed, and the
Indians returned in the evening to
their lodges in the hills south of the
Agency.
Twilight fell. Soon a flaming arrow
blazed like a rocket in tho southern
sky. And far to the north, signal fires
were seen.
shall be pro-rated among the land
benefited and paid back by the settlers
into the ‘‘fund,’’ to be used over again
for additional reclamation w’ork.
Would Create Thousands °f Homes*
This plan of developing the internal
resources of the country and making
homes ot wasto places, is splendid in
its scope, and appears to be entirely
practicable and profitable. Take for
instance, the singlo examplo of the
swamp lands of tho Kankakee River
basin in Indiana and Illinois. Here
are some 400 thousand acres of the
very richest of bottom lands, but sub­
ject io overflow. They are worthless
except where they have been reelaimd
through expensive private drainage
works, when they have become worth
$100. and $150. an acre. Yet it is es­
timated by the government surveyors
and engineers that the entire system
could be effectively drained at a cost
in tho neighborhood ot $10. an acre.
The sama can be said of the lands ot
the Red River Valley in Minnesota.
These include the finest grain and
farm lands in the northwest excel t
that they are frequently overflowed. It
would be worth millions of dollars to
the farmers and settlers, who would
occupy tliece lands in small tracts, to
have a perfect system of drainage pro­
vided. These extensive systems, how­
ever, especially where they are int r-
state, seem to be feasible for handling
only by the general government.
The Steenerson bill places tho en­
tire management of the work in ti o
Reclamation Service and the plan of
operation follows very closely tho ir­
rigation work now being done by that
branch of the Interior Department.
Government lands, ceded Indian lan s
and prlvato lands may be included in
any drainage project, but In each caso
the cost of the drainage Improvement
is to bo borne by the owner of tho
land and no settler can have drainaro
provided for more than 160 acres, thus
insuring tho division of the tracts in»-)
small farms which must be actually
settled upon and tilled.
Drainage Work Already in Progress,
TMP rVEKGLADES
C y ? i ;ESS SENTINELS
Or LAKE DRUM­
MOND. DISMAL
SWAMP.
Courte: y
This work the Reclamation Servl i
Is qualified to do at this very moment.
While primarily an engineering bureau
it has, in all Its great irrigation pro­
jects, to deal directly with the farmer.
It must outline a comprehensive draln-
: age system for each irrigation project
TOst^Kcrvlco
They seem to sprin ; to meet tho sec-i A very comprehensivo bill has been
ond awful crash and glare ot tho guns. ¡ introduced in the House ot Representa­
Not yet down? Impossible! No flesh tives by Congressman Steenerson ot
and blood could withstand such a fire! Minnesota, who. It ho can push his
Into and through the columns of measure to enactment into a law, will
shrinking horses and men in tluo they bo deserving of the praise of not only
burst, like devils incarnate. Some of this but futuro generations. His bill
MRS. GEORGE J. GOULD.
the horses reel and go down with tho is a practical extension of the old
A MOTHER OF SEVEN BRIGHT CHILDREN.
troopers. But Instantly the cavalrymen homestead idea, or rather, perhaps, an
tage was undeniably suitable for an ter submitted tho matter to him of how
whirl and give the swaying flying application, to the vast areas ot our
alliance with the chief heir of one of to get Mrs. Bleakeley and the baby
braves another deadly volley at cioso swamp lands, of tho idea embodied
the wealthiest men of the day. Per­ across from the Santa Fe to the Rock
range.
the national irrigation law.
sonally she was the embodiment of a Island train, which might be late, with­
Head Chief reels frightfully in hla
There are in tho neighborhood
beautiful, gracious, vivacious, well- out observation. The Sheriff prompt­
saddle. His pony goes down with a 100 million acres of swamp lands
Gathering of the Warriors.
bred and mentally dowered American ly overruled that plan and it was
sickening thud, riddled by a dozen the United States, some 70 million
girl.
agreed that Mrs. Bleakeley should re­ All night armed warriors, hideously balls, not twenty feet from tho cres­ which have been surveyed, the great
Ideal is a hackneyed and greatly main in the Pullman drawing room painted, hurried to the circle of hills cent line. Young Mule convulsively bulk of which would make splendid
abused word, but it Is the only one while in Kansas City, and go through commanding tho Agency, whilo lights throws his arms In the air and lurches farms, if the excess ot water were
that aptly and satisfactorily describes to the Sheriff’s home town, where he burned late in the valley below, where backwards. Again the me-cilcss volley, drained off.
the life and companionship of the would put her on the train for Moline. tlie agency officers were consulting.
and he collapses. Ills pony plunges
The Steenerson bill provides for the
Goulds in the two decades that have As a precaution the Sheriff added
In the crimson dawn, watching war-. headlong. Dead! Stone-dead they lie, beginning of the vork of reclamation
elapsed since they stood at the altar. ‘Mrs.’ in front ot the name on a bench rlors saw a mounted Indian police' still lashed to the bodies of their of these huge areas.• The measure is
Mrs. Gould is pre-eminently a domes­ warrant with which he had been on a leave the Agency and take hl3 way ¡twitching
ponies.
’*-*•■
’ “
framed after the irrigation law; it pro­
tic woman. Her home and her stal­ fruitless errand to Colorado, and placed southward along the misty mountain
Again the bugle calls. The fight is vides that the receipts from the sales
wart boys and handsome, sprightly Mrs. Bleakeley under arrest, techni­ trail. It was the decision for peace or over. Squaws begin their wailing. of public lands in ‘he non-Irrlgatlon
girls are her first consideration, in cally at least.
for war. As the first rays of tho sun Their young braves have died fighting. states shall constitute • a “drainage
“‘When the train reached Kansas City gilded the Indians’ tepee3, he drew They are heroes.
common with her husband.
fund” to be expended by <he Govern­
Regardless of their great wealth, the frat, boy’s father went out and rein and dismounted at the lodge of
ment in great drainage works, and
Many
of
the
girls
in
the
Alps
wear
the Goulds live their lives simply. Mrs. bought a nursing bottle and hot milk American Horse. Tho challenge of the
further, that the cost ot such drainage,
Gould has artistic tastes developed and and other necessaries for the baby, two brakes to fight the soldiers had trousers.
cultivated along rational lines, and which had been left behind in the been accepted—to fight at the Agency
these she Indulges to the top of her hurry of departure, while tho Sheriff at set of sun.
bent Mr. Gould is in fullest sympa­ stood guard at the door of the draw­ Directly runners were off to inter­
thy with her inclinations in this di­ ing room, a massive and satisfying pro­ cept the fleeing squaws and children.
rection and shares them with her. tector.
The warriors clamored for a fight with
“No one appeared, and the woman the troops but the chief refused. The
Probably there are nowhere persons of
their means who are less in the public and baby went on without hindrance. council, he said, had spoken with
prints than the Goulds. Mrs. Gould She stopped one night at the Sheriff’s straight, not crooked, tongues.
cares little for society, as most per­ home, cared for by his wife, and on
Slowly the chill September morning
sons accept the term, but is found of Saturday was in Moline, under the pro­ warmed to amythest afternoon. An
entertaining the congenial men and tection of that court’s decree.
high above the hill3,
“The whole thing was ludicrously eagle wheeled
women who compose their set
formed an ampitheatre. In the
simple, and yet w’as woven of some cu­ which
arena, were the Agency
rious coincidences, each helping to center, or and
the troops. As the
THE INCUBATOR BABY.
carry through the escape and each play­ buildings
shadows
crept
out in the valley, the
ing its unpremeditated but important spectators—warriors
old and young,
I an<1
—- — J squaws
— -
* * * papooses
....— — «-• -4 ^LilJwon
Story of How Two Women Struggled pa>rn,,D
rr«femitv
bov
with
and children
The
red
headed
college
fraternity
boy
faVInD
,
nn the
for Its Possession.
of’ senator
Senator —Mian of taking Tbey
their would
places on the
or
was
Eustice
Smith,
son
The tiny little Infant who reposed
in the incubator at the St. Louis Fair Smith,
fight.
•
has, since the close of that exposition, I
C With Hearts of Iron.
attracted more attention than it did
Forth from their refuge In the Wolf
Suring “he.enti«. time that it was the Eagle Quill for StuleLood Hill.
Mountains, rodo Head Chief and Young
object of interest of the sightseers.
President Roosevelt will sign the] Mule, painted and armed for war. Un­
At the close of the Exposition, two Statehood bill with a pen made from a guarded they rode. Still was there time
women sought possession of the child, quill plucked from an Oklahoma eagle’s , to
escape, but the pride ot their race,
each claiming it to be her own. Each wing.
them. They went on.
When Charles Hunter, the newly ap­ held
secured a writ giving her tho custody
Five miles to tho north lay tho peace,
of the child through decrees of differ­ pointed clerk ot tho district court at ful valley, and the arena with its
ent courts, but Mrs. Bleakley, who had Oklahoma, was in Washington some
’d “o "ass.-d five hundred guns. The trail
at first been awarded the < are ot the days ago, ? tirP^id'eM'promise
—
blwonbl
us- wo,in,l in r.nd out among the hill^
would Mr
use
infant through the ruling of the law give him the pen which he
Leaves trere railing, and here and
at Moline, Illinois, took the law into in signing the Statehood bill. ?**
a pen made iIbero were bright red splotches of foll-
her own 1 hands when the court at naw
Law- Hunter went borne ant' d d ' had
had a pen maxi.
0Terhead they noticed a flock of
her. from an eagle’s quill.
rence, Kansas,
R«.—„ decided
--------- against
—
birds winging southward.
They
According to his own story. Senator
thought of the maidens they loved; of
Fred
D.
Smith,
of
Kinsley,
played
an
r reu *-'• *»**-**.
A Grout Bunter.
the war-path; of the feathers tipped
Important role in the case when the
with blood, and their faces darkened
mother of the “incubator baby re- His brand r-w gun was “hammerless,"
His powder, too, was what
, Silently they he! i their way north-
cently disappeared suddenly with the
Is known as ‘‘smokeless ’, and we guess w“ra *, - Econ was reached the crest of
baby from Lawrence.
a high spur. They turned their ponies
That he had “hitless" shot
“When Mrs. Bleakley left the court
to tho west and drew rein. The sun
room at Lawrence after the decision
vIwas almost down. For an instant they
against her," he stated, “and returned
The canals whl h form a network
then pointed to tho earth, and
tOer mother's house she was nearly throughout a greater part of Chin*
their arms in supplication to
frantic.
In mere desperation she abound in fish. The rice-fir 1 Is, which
(>reat Spirit—wheeling, they head-
are
supplied
with
water
from
these
ed east at a gallop.
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vs
canals, make ideal hatching places for Presently they pass some warriors
the eggs and for the young fry dur­ who promptly signal their approach to
ing their early existence.
the waiting Indian spectators. Now
I they gallop to the very crest of a high
SI7™"»“£•
The largest of telescopes is the S6- hill, perhaps five hundred yards west
inch equatorial called the Universe'of the Agency buildings. There they
ed to e von««« City and tbia boy Discoverer
at the Lick Observatory on stop in full view of the soldiers.
h.ckTn wading to drive him
had a naca >n
promptly raised Mount Hsiniiton, a 4000-foot peak of I A bugle sounds. The troopers mount
the Monte Diablo range in California. ¡and tupvo to a dry creek-hed about fifty
Bcorescntatlve flalvcr Steenerson ot Minnesota
To do this the Service has Its own farm
and soil experts, borne of the irriga­
tion projects have distinctively drain­
agefeatures, in fact are almost pa
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