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Show BEAVER CITY PRESS Foundered on His Own Cooking t By AD SCHUSTER rrrro o 9 THE KITCHEN PARINFT "'WO.) I And that the great thins li. world la not so much wW. stand, aa In what direction moving. Oliver Wendell HolmeJ - THEI &'Tv'&m 5i (Copyright.) called hira Old Bill in the where he was as much hat-rac' CULINARY KINKS the a fixture as mechanithe or the pastry case the boilA delightful dish for cal contrivance which timed luncheon his head supper Is prepared as with moved BUI eggs. ef follows; ing his way between forward, MUd Toma. same the tables. It would not be the toea.Rem0T4 the stem enj place without him. and befrom six medlDia. For the little extra money was cause as he explained, there slsed tomatoei restaurant that, Take out the s nothing outside of the a to take interested him, Bill refused and most of tired of running the pulp and la. day off. At night, rehe around with trays and dishes, ert let t.M tired to his room to rest for another twenty minutes. Cook three month in and of butter with six day and so he went on, to the mulmeals of chopped green nenw. month out, serving comnve minutes. Add s . titudes, making complimentary ment on the weather and the food he cupful of soft bread crumbs, offered, and collecting what tips that iUli" vi me removed pnln. n. fourth teaspoonful of salt, pepper to came his way. As Bill arrived early and left late taste and a little onion Juice. Fill he was able to get breakfast, lunch the tomatoes with the mixture and dinner at the restaurant thereby bake fifteen minutes. Baked Larded Liver. Skewer ti solving his housekeeping problems and adding to a growing bank ac- and lard the upper surface of a calft count. Incredible as it may seem to liver. Place in a baking pan and those who are not aware of the many spread with the follolwng: Cream, remarkable records made by men and three tablespoonfuls of butter and add women who lack publicity agents or one and teasnoonfula nf conspicuous employment, Bill worked salt, one-haeach of teaspoonful fifteen years without so much as a cloves and pepper. Pour around one- day of vacation. Then he approached halt cupful of boiling water and cook the proprietor smiling as bashfully as in a moderate oven one hour, basting a girl. every ten minutes. Kemove to a ser"If you don't care," he said with the ving dish, skim off the fat from tht air of a man asking an unusual favor, pan and add one cupful of orange "I will take tomorrow off. There is Juice and strain the sauce over the something important I would like to liver. do." Scalloped Potatoes With Hat-iHe told no one of a dream he had Wlth a very small amount of cold a dream for years, been cherishing cooked ham, sliced thin or put througU which was to be fulfilled in a single the meat grinder, arrange a layer of rememday of happiness. It is to be sliced potatoes, then a sprinthinly resbered Bill had been eating In the kling of shredded onion and a layer of taurant where every day on his trips ham; repeat nntll all is used. Cover to the kitchen he could watch the with sweet milk and put covered Into cooks preparing the food. Fifteen a moderate oven. Bake until the pyears had seen many cooks come and otatoes are tender. Servg from the same the was restaurant, but it go, dish. the same methods, and, somehow, the Soak two tablespooFruit same taste. It was Bill's ambition, on nfuls of Jelly. gelatin Id granulated to would take off, the day which he cold water, dissolve In one of cupful eat such a meal as the restaurant had s and cupfuls of boiling wdinner, ater never provided, a of sugar, one l one add ; cupful and he would be cook. For months he of a cuof grapejulce, planned it, altering the menu as new pful of orange Juice, three tablespooideas occurred and then, when at last nfuls of lemon Juice, strain and mold. he regarded It as perfect, he voiced Chill and cut In cub is to serve at the request. ' . He started out early buying the garnish. Havt a Hot Biscuit things he needed aud he was three In summer or winter there are few times going back and forth from marmore tempting than dainty ket to his room. Before noon be was things Ue hot biscuits. For- peeling potatoes, cleaning fowl, and I meriy they were served 1 arranging salad. The task of prepaI only at such Informal ration lasted all day. His gas stove meals as luncheon, breakradiated heat and appetizing odor. Its L fast or tea, but now they oven was stuffed and its top piled nave eageu nnu eim high. Now all Bill had to do was wait wider popularity and are until the dinner was brown and tenserved at difrequently der. He sat down with a long spoon both at hotels isi nner, in one hand, with appetite won by a in private homes. day of fasting, and thought of the Joys Not every cook knows that biscuiti to come. be made, cut and placed in the can It struck him the cook In the restaufor baking, and then lc! rant had been none too particular, and tins ready Ice box"to wait several hours or that there were many fine little points the Is u all night before baking. This or in the culinary art in which the waiter supper boon for a night could excel the chef. The more he especial where one has no maid and the the thought of it plainer It appeared wishes to have everything ready that he had been abused all these tess In the morning. years. No man should be forced to before Buttering the biscuits eat meals in one place, three times a douj& Is liked by many. Roll the W day, for fifteen years. It was too rather put usual, as cut thin, much. awitb of butter on each and top Bill opened the oven, basted a simbatter nother biscuit In cooking the M mering fowl, and returned to the enflavor melts, makes a delicious joyable task of self-pitWell, he easily. would show them what a real meal the parts separqte serving i Orange Biscuita. When was like. For once In his life he ' biscuits sweet these salad would eat a dinner In which no fruit Sift be especially appropriate. thought of economy, no tricks at apof flour with four teaspoono and bids for price were cupfuls pearance, nful of sugar, four tablespoonfula considered. He would eat a dinner er gn shortening, one tablespoonful cooked by a real cook in a clean manand ner. He was tired, he reflected, of eat- ed orange peel blscul 1 1 cupful of milk. Roll the ench piaci ing whatever was set before him. of On top So Bill ate his dinner. He started cut as usual. M half-sizelump of don.no m at seven o'clock was going strong at P"" Juice. in orange eight, and at nine was regretting that dipped he was only human. Next two eypjj VCh.e Biscuits.-S- ift day he did not appear at the restaurant and the of flour with four teaspoonful proprietor, knowing Bill, was alarmed. one It was then they found him, the man ing powder and of n tablespoonfuls add two salt, whose one day off was his blended well last, the one who was tired of restaurant food enlng,.and when l ot m a s of a victim of his own cr cooking and mix to a soft dough, adding o ptomaine poisoning. Roll cheese ful of grated J and third of nn Inch thick cutter. ' Twelve Greatest Riven one and Wkb small makes two dozen Of the worlds twelve greatest rivyou wis )( ers, only three are In the Western In a hot oven. When Boor. pastry the use biscuits fine hemisphere, and the Mississippi, debat mak spite its popular reputation, is not one Is uot as economical biscuit. of them, the Farm Journal T.hlter, fluffier f ,,, points out Cra. Chee.a Browned The Amazon In South America, the common crackers, spread w" ,ril Mackenzie in Arctic North cne America and the Missouri, measured from i sparingly, then with grated- salt witli a dasn oi c-- nnl" n ff. source to where It enters- - the Missis dripping pan and bake two sippi, are all longer than the flj Scotch 8conea.-T- ak "Father of Waters." 0 oocnoonfu'a ,.., . uu. VI ..our. Of the remaining nine o( greatest rlv-t is.nfiiniiui'K six are in Asia and three In 1'V'nyri, teaspoonful )p Africa. The Nile, which meanders for ana one-hal- f cupful or cm ju paf UKiO miles, is the longest In the the drv Ingredients and world. tablespoonfuls of butter; " , it blended add the PP The Timid Soul ep. on a floured Boar J n"" , , The coward is one who. on a monds or squares, ''nnvoy-ngnnd will protest that the wlih nipnr sprinkle promontories lfr hot oven fifteen minutesif a high sen gets areivateersnd, "P. k If there Is Cheese anyone on f n slightly, add b'jnrd who has not been Initiated. He M.v ' Pt up his head salt. melted butter, and ask the .oersmnn If ie , ,, r, and one tablespoon-f e M'!t "ieI,:, ,nV i f the ; k, d many-pronge- g three-fourth- one-ha- one-fourt- h lf I'T By ELMC SCOTT WATSON iHB recent announcement ' that plans are under way to restore Fort I'liil Kearney In Wyoming and maintain it as a memorial to the old Indian-fightindays In the West recalls the story of an American army post which was one of almost continuous tragedy from the day It was established to the dny It was abandoned. Its record In that respect Is almost unique, for, as one historian .of the frontier, 4 Cyrus Townsend Brady, has put It : Slnc th United SUtea began to be there never BUch post & Fort Philip Kearney, common-J- y called Fort Phil Kearney. From Its establUh-wen- t, Jn 1885, to lta abandonment, aome two yeara later. It waa practically In a atat of siege. I do not mean that it was beleaguered by the Indiana In any formal, persistent Investment, but it waa ao constantly and ao. closely observed by war In the adjacent woods and the parties, hidden mountain passes, that there waa little safety out-ailta stockade for anything less than a company of Infantry or a troop of cavalry; and net always, aa we shall see, for these. Rarely in the history of the Indian wars of the United Statea have the Indians, no matter how preponderant In force, conducted a regular siege, Fontlac's Investment of Detroit being almost unique In that particular. But they literally surrounded Fort Phil Kearney at all timea. Nothing escaped their observation and no opportunity to harasa and to cut oft detached partlea of the garrison, to stampede the herds, or to attack the wagon trains, waa allowed to pass by. Not a stick of timber could be cut, nor an acre of grass mowed, except under heavy guard. Herds of beef cattle, the horsea for the supply wagons and ' mounted infantry, the mules for the supply wagons, could not graze, even under the walls of the fort, without protection. The country teemed with game. Hunting partlea were absolutely forbidden. To take a stroll outside the stockade on a summer evening was to Invite death, or worse if the strpll- - .. er happened to bo a woman. There was no certainty about the attacks, except an assurance that one was always due at any given time. Aa old James Bridger, a veteran plainsman and fur trader, a acout whose fame Is scarcely less than that of Kit Carson, and the confidential companion ad' visor of Carrington In 1866, was wont to say to him: "Whar you don't see no Injuns thar they're aartin to be thickest," Fort Phil Kearney was built on a slightly ele. vated site between the Big and Little Plney forks of the Powder river In what Is now Carbon county, Wyoming, on the Bozeman trail from Fort Laramie to the Montana gold fields. This was lu the heart of the richest hunting grounds of the powerful Sioux nation and the Northern Cheyennes, who bitterly resented this Intrusion upon their lands. Early In 1800 government commissioners held a council with these tribes at Fort Laramie to secure the right of safe passage of emigrants through this country. The principal objector to signing any such treaty was Bed Cloud, the war chief of the Oglala Sioux, and, even when other Indian leaders did sign the treaty, he refused and served notice that he "would stand in the trail" if the whites attempted to Invade the country and especially if they tried to build military posts along the trail. Heedless of this protest and its possible results, the government went on with its plans and 6ent Col. Henry B. Carrington of the Eighteenth infantry with a little army of 700 men, four pieces of artillery, 220 wagons and enough ambulances to carry the wives and children of several of the officers to establish the new posts. Carrington marched from Fort Laramie to Fort I5eno, then 100 miles from Fort Laramie, moved thot post 40 miles westward and garrisoned it Then he pushed on to the site of Fort Phil Kearney, which lie built early In the summer of 1SG6. In August two companies were sent 00 miles northwest to erect and garrison Fort C F. Smith. From the first the Indians harassed the parties sent out to cut wood on Tlney island, seven miles distant, and there were several lively little lights with a number of casualties when troops were sent out to drive off the raiders. Early in December Cnpt. W. J. Fetterman of the Eighteenth was sent out with a party of 40 men to protect the wood train. Rashly pursuing a smart party of Indians which retreated slowly as he advanced, lie soon found his party surrounded, nnd only the timHy arrival of Colonel Carrington with reinforcements caved him and his men. Tills should have been a lesson to the captain, but as later events proved it was not- - lie was Inexperienced a vast contempt for In fighting Indians, but them and Is said to have once declared that "with SO men he could ride through the whole Sioux g one-ha- " two-third- home-cooke- x enp-fu- one-thir- d de ' , nation." ' ' On December 21 the wood train was attacked about a mile and a half from the fort nnd Colone'. Carrington detached Capt James W. Powell, who had proved himself a prudent and skillful officer during the desultory fighting throughout the summer, with a force of 70 men to drive Mie Indians off. At the lust moment Captain Fettermnn appeared' en the scene and demanded that he be given command becuuse he was a senior captain. Although Carrington was fearful that Fetter-man'- s recklessness would lead hlra Into trouble, he granted the request, but gave strict orders "on no account to pursue the Indians beyond Lodge Trail Ridge (a wooded height beyond where the wood train was corralled). Cnpt. Frederick Brown, an officer who had shown himself as reckless as Fetterman, asked permission to go along and the force was Joined by two civilians, bringing Its total up to 81 men just the force with which Fetterman had boosted he "could ride through the whole Sioux nation." Although what took place on that day will never he known for certain, it has come down in history ; as the "Fetterman Massacre" and as inaccurately as the "Custer Massacre" for not one of the 81 men returned to Fort Phil Kearney alive. Fetterman had disobeyed orders, probably urged thereto by Brown, had pursued the Indians beyond the Lodge Trail Ridge and was there overwhelmed by Red Cloud's warriors. When Carrington heard the heavy firing he sent out all the available men in the fort by this time the garrison had been reduced to some 3T0 through the garrisoning of Fort C. F. Smith and the casualties suffered since Fort Tlill Kearney had been established under Capt Ten Eyck to reinforce Fetterman. But it was then too late, and all that Carrington found on the field of battle the next day was the scalped and mutilated bodies of Fetterman's men who had died fighting. Carrlngton's position was desperate. It was doubtful If the number of men he had left could hold the fort if the Indians, flushed with their success, should attempt an assault Fortunately, however,. a siege" of bitter weather swept down at that time which lessened the chances of Indian attack. But he knew that he must have reinforcements If he were to hold the post He called for volunteers to make the long perilous ride to Fort Laramie and John Phillips, a brave frontiersman, employed in the quartermaster's department and known throughout thot part of the country as Tortugee" Phillips, came forward. Although he realized he was risking Ids life at the hands of the Indians who swarmed about the post or in the bitter cold the thermometer stood at 23 degrees below eero rhlllips set out on the ride to Fort Laramie. The story of that ride is one of the classics of the frontier. Phillips staggered Into Fort Laramie on Christmas night and, after delivering his dispatches, fell exhausted. Great as was the horror with which his message of disaster was received at Fort Laramie, it was greater still when the news was sent out over the wires throughout the country. It was the first great disaster of Its kind on the western frontier and coming at a time when It was generally believed that conditions were peaceful there, the story of the Fetterman disaster shocked the whole nation. Unfortunately Carrington, whose conduct had In every respect as made the scupe-goa- t been skillful and prudent for the deeds of his rash captains. He was Immediately relieved of his command and In the face of the bitter weather which still held the country In Its grip he was ordered to change his regimental headquarters to Fort Caspar, some distance away, an order that was as cruel as It was foolish. It was not until several years later that partial restitution was made to the brave commander of Fort Phil Kearney and the Implied stain upon his fair fame ns a soldier removed. Fort Phil Kearney was reinforced Immediately and a yeor later the soldiers at that post were given a chance to exact a fearful revenge upon Red Cloud's Sioux for the slaughter of their com rades In Fetterman's command. All during the following year the fort was closely Invested and late In the summer Bed Cloud determined upon one master stroke which would forever drive away the hated white invaders. After his success In December, warriors by the hundred had flocked to his standard and he soon had a force of more than 3,000 braves, eager for blood. 230-ml- le During the summer a civilian outfit was engaged in cutting wood on Plney island for the winter supply of the garrison. A military guard was stationed on the Island to beat off any Indian attack and on August 2, 1SC7 this guard, consisting of 32 men and officers, was under the command of Capt James W. Powell. Red Cloud had decided to wipe out the woodcutters' camp first and then proceed to an attack on the fort. Early on the morning of August 2 a party of some 200 Indians attacked the woodcutters, who Immediately beat a retreat towards the fort, pursued by the Indians. Captain Powell attacked the savages on the rear and when they turned on him, he retreated with his little force to a corral of wagon boxes laid on the ground In the middle of a broad plain. The Indiun leader, believing that It would be a simple matter to wipe out the small force of soldiers, sent a party of 500 mounted warriors to charge the Improvised fortress behind whose thin walls Powell and his men were crouching. He did not know that the soldiers had Just been Issued the latest model breech-loadinrepeating rifles and that they had an ample supply of ammunition for them. So in a splendid panoply of savage warfare the whooping warriors swept down upon the corral. Powell waited until the Indians were within 50 yards, then gave the word to fire. Immediately an unbroken stream of fire poured forth which mowed the Indians and their mounts down like a scythe of death. But so great was the Impetus of their charge that they could not stop until they were almost on top of the wagon boxes. Then their solid front broke, they swerved to each side and rode swiftly out of range of that devastating fire. Again and again that hot dav Red Cloud hurled his warriors against the little biind of heroes and again and again their steady tire ripped great holes in the ranks of his charging braves. It was afternoon before Red Cloud had had enough. As a relief party from the fort appeared, he withdrew his forces and gave up the idea sullenly of proceeding against the fort. It was not until some time later that the full measure of Powell's astounding victory was learned. The captain had lost three killed and five wounded, but Red lost 1,1371 Some one has truly said of t!i:it nud fight "It reads like a story of Cortes." Historians' of the frontier call It "The Wagon Box Flaht" nnd are unanimous in pronouncing it one of the est victories ever won by the white race grent over Its red antagonists. What the Indians think of It is shown by the fact that to this dav the Sioux refer to the fight ns the "Bad Medicine Battle" where "the white man made his guns fire 'ti,f.m selves without stopping." Although Red Cloud paid dearly ot the Wa-o- n Box Fight for his victory over Fetterman and "for all the other toll of soldier lives which he Ind collected In and around Fort Phil Kearnev the final victory In the dispute over whether that should stand on his hunting grounds was his fort The next year commissi. rs were sent out l,v t1H government to treat with the Indlans-s- im thev couldn't whip them and make them stay whipped' And Red Cloud, the greatest fighting chief Sioux had ever had. made the powerful United States government "hack down" and In the treat which was signed (and later shamelessly violated by the whites. It might he added) nearly all of his demands were acceded to. One t.f them was that the fort al ng the Rosen.nn trail should be abandoned, and accordingly on .inly mcS . a little more than two years and two weeks I ,,! the date of Its establishment Ir was eva, A little Inter It was burned to the croimd bv Sioux. Now. If present plans go thro,,-- !, . ti,p' morlal Is to be erected on Its site whirl, will tingly commemorate of the h;h white and red. who fought there-'- he ..!.li'. . Colonel Carrington and Captain lt,enan and Captain Powell of the Cnited States nr ,v nnJ the warriors of Red Houd nf ,. g . d the-val- . lit-- - fc m-ln- three-fourth- s d J three-fourth- J fc io w r alf , ( e. O-- J : one-hal- nuehs; remarking '? faV,;f tie , . ,p next him that cor: a!n Mm fee. urn,,,-- rPf , . or he will akl)ore.-TIor,,.i- !v!j,. l,rIki, ... , , p ,f butt- -r In n hot omo.pt In the omelet uprlnkle ,t with doiie. , 1 0 |