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Show BOUGHT FOR THE QUEEN. REMARKABLE ADVENTURES ABROAD OF AN IROQUOIS INDIAN. At a Sailor and Soldier In Hie llrltlsh K.M-vlre He Ylsltmt Many Mimes, Hat. tieil In I.gvpt unci Koasteil l India. Icu Years Absent from Home. by few, if any, white men of Us age, ha j ulso enjoys the distinction of being the ! only American Indiau to serve as a sailor j ou the high wan. During his ten year ! absence lie never divulged tho secret of his birth, and his old oflicers and com-j com-j panions are today ignorant of the fact that an Iroquois served the queen faith-! faith-! fully ou all the seas aud on three conti-! conti-! nents. j Young Oaren says that ho has had I enough of foreign lauds, and that be ' will spend the rest of his life in America. I He leaves in a few days for New Mexico i and Texas, where he expects to find em-! em-! plovmrnt on some of tins imm"iise cattle ! ranches. Fm:t) L. Wexneh. HEM A Kit ABLE family reunion has just taken . pli.ee in Arkansas Arkan-sas City, Kan. The participants were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas (Ja-reti, (Ja-reti, of Au.ularka, ; I. T., th"ir two sons from the t'hilo'-co Indian schools and an older son, Peter Oaren, who has been tliM'iit iu foreign lands for ten years. Tliid family U-lons Ui the liii-torio nation na-tion of the Iroquois, ami lliounh tho members hiive associated niMch with vhite people, they still relaiu many characteriMics of their race. In 1.0 they were living in a IHfla kr;iu!et called Cauhiiawago, on one of the Canadian Indian reservations. That year Peter Haren, a lad of I I. ntarted with nn uncle on a peddlim: trip. The two Hold fancy articles of Indian manufacture manu-facture and traveled throin,'h a nnmUer (,f slates, niakirn; n Ions stop at 1 lenver, t'olo., and then ffoini,' on to San Fran-Cisco Fran-Cisco via New Mexico and Arizona. The boy was ill used by the undo on many occasions, and resolved to run away at thehrstopportnnity. When they reached Kan Francisco an English fleet wan lying in the harbor. Peter boarded one of the vessel u and enlisted. The squadron soon sailed for home, and during; tho voyage, the little ' recruit sutl'ered sea sickness, kicks, cnil anil many other disagreeable thini;:i incidental in-cidental to becoming sailor. He went on several cruises, touching at Liverpool. Liver-pool. Philadelphia, Halifax, Portsmoutlt and London. At the last named plaea ho was transferred ton training ship, and sailed for Hamburg, (jermany, thence to New York and again back to London. A wound ho bad received from a Mexican while crossing the plains be- , gau to bother him, and, having sol ved riTKR CI!EN. three year with the navy, he enlisted ii the royal artillery and was stationed at liilse liarracks fuf eight months. Then the troubles in Fgypt began, and yoinig Oaren volunteered to go with Maj. William's draft to tho land of mummies mum-mies and pyramids. He served as a mounted trouper in fho Seventeenth, lancers, and ascended the Nile wit h Gen. Wol.seley. His father fought under this same general in Manitoba in 1H07, when the halfbreeils defied tho Canadian government. gov-ernment. Peter wi in several battles with the natives of Upper Egypt, and saw many English soldiers perish from wounds or disease. "When Gen. Wolse-ley Wolse-ley returned to Fnglaml young Garen was among those detailed as an escort. After a brief time spent on English soil he Wiis assigned to duty iu the East Indies, lie was placed in tho field artillery, artil-lery, and stationed first at Calcutta and then at Singapore. His description of life in that country is very interesting. The temperature, he says, is uniformly high, and tho air is like a breath from an oven. The soldiers do their drilling before sunrise, and during the day lie in the barracks and have natives swing largo fans over them. The natives receive re-ceive two cents a day for this service. The inhabitants of the lowlands are Bmall of stature and wear very littlo clothes. Europeans are often attacked with cholera in that country. From the draft of 400 men to which Garen belonged be-longed over half perished with the dis- THE HABFS TAXHI.T. ease. It is a remarkable fact tVmt during dur-ing all his service in the army and navy the yonnR American Indian was never tick an hour. From Singapore he went with the troops to Bnrniah, where he was stationed sta-tioned for gome time. The horses used ' by English soldiers in India are obtained from Australia or New Zealand, and ova day Peter was sent to thnse colonies for remounts. Returning to Iiurmah he received re-ceived a medal fur honorable service and was ordered back to England. Arriving Ar-riving there he obtained classification aa an able seaman, aud sailed ou the royal yacht Adelaide to Ruasia. lie afterward after-ward vimted Spain, Italy and llaita ud cruised in Scotch waters. A few weeks ago his time expired, and. securing hid discharge he took passage for America. At Quebec he learned from an old family friend that his parents par-ents had removed to Indian Territory. He thereupon ntarted west, and on arriving arriv-ing at Anadarka was royally welcomed by his father aud mother. The three then went to Arkansas City to meet the two brothers who are at school. The reunion was a happy one, aud the family fam-ily spent a number of days together. They are fine looking people, and few would take them for Indians. The story of Peter Garen s wanderings wander-ings i remarkable, considering that he h but 24 years old, and that he belongs to -1 race which ha been considered incapable incapa-ble of education or of self eustenance under conditions of civilization. Having Hav-ing passed through experiences equaled |