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Show DIED IS TiiEIR were ROOTS- Wesley, runners, and TERRICLE DAY IN MEDICINE LODJH, KANS. A a Mfn Uib I'reitlent and fetUc ki'.o biggm-- t I,, Shootln th and Ar Them- ud I.) itched It Oc- - S4. j Ray we ever had s.:o n cattleman. .je. a uo in Med- - v. as in tkad limn on our an 'ids, .fil l:i,bd with llieir boots tn. .Moil!, ii.e Lti f was then an old town, as towns go in Kansas, and had tt l:.nk ox ib'pocits for latUer.iou and t'. nsaal r.ei.ber of dame laius and though the latter bad degenerated into "joints" under the prohibition ieK.m. Will, cn Ma 1, Wiley of the Lank, and a Paine. pit.iiL-nmail aa.jvii Get halt, cashier. opened the l.auk that morning a Lille tar'oer than usual. I was on the w ly to th? lV'4, v,nt j l:aii Six t b;. nk n.y-i.- f and v.a.s u.out a block away when saw four men ride up and tie their bursts. Tine went into the Dank. Thtre was an old woman crossing- the street, and all of a sudden she yell d "bank robber.-- . at the top of her voice and began to run. With that the shooting began in the bank, Bo, la tne president and easbier were shot to death ay the robbers. livery man in trwn v. ho had a gun. ami we ail carThere ried 'em. got ready to shoot. was a lot of cowboys at the hotel and in the joints. They had ridden their homes into town and liad left them at the livery stable with saddles on. to get hot When the shooting the robbers ran for their horses, climbed on and started up Medicine creek. The cowboys were right behind them, They couldnt riding and shooting. t in tango so it would b convenient to drop, so they quit shooting and made the bronchos climb. They never 1 once lost sight of them jobbers. don't know whether theyd have caught them very soon if the robbers hadnt made a blunder. Ilarry Brown, the city marshal of Caldwell, and Ben Wheeler, his deputy, vere the head robbers. Ben was a big 1 - an g.-- having been pre loos.y relieved of their Winchesters aai snt arms, they was easy to handle. Be- sides, the boys knowed em and did not want to disfigure them. They rounded and took 'em to a i' the lone tree handy to town and near th? river. Then the three were strung up on the one tive. Of course, ns Brown had already departed this life, there wasnt no nerd ef strmgin him up. It was a big funeral we had the next day. six men dead, an all died with boots on. It was the biggest day we Lo i"-- . ever bad in Mem-in- j j i i A-.-- i pii.-cnr- rs ('UNhier Captured urred Itark in Tke j PARIS FORTUNE TE1 LERS. eyes wer opened wider than usual, raid there was a fierce light m them, filaektulUir.? Ii One of th Trick of My mouth gievv dry; I tried to scream: the 1 moaf,-mm-our mara In i lettered. my tongue I first hoed of it just A i will trial mile on in uiy or tw riago. He cam? home it was lu then mint ail the ghost t torus 1 had ever , t the caurt. Jnugh of r read passed tt.ioogh my mind. raving in set terms of ait ceiKcrn-ii.swill at- trill' ng Lrioriui'e in ; A rushed words of subdued storm tho picture. on aecrc of the "act ait.nkoa frot.t the thuk lips, and teeth gleamed Way didnt ; i buy it? I ;r.x and the if rke "1 offered old Doughty $TK), and he within them. The language was lor- r, ex. Be. I hj th profession of vuue like Bernhardt the that eign; jeered. ; of Pall Mill n a Pari.run whn-r. siys The I gasped as ram h rs old Doughty when she curses in a or p rhaps the head ndvancid, fury itx the tace, mad Gazette. T..e an awlul mum thm. jeer.ul S5t.i) comm of most famous bei-unpora'y French Five juars ; ftozwa.'d o'd Doimhtv glare in the eye.--. The frame m ist-r!c raior.Dr. of that vvc. t of a a e black iirpous, sa hind mist. of lu died, end my h bum re.-.n- , lias teen era; rile! t take Nearer, tn.ii: r; I co ml feel his pictutos aii'l things; he is;.;o ha: K wham a" mist a tor, it,. gloomy, ii,' lo.d me that young breath. I thanked God silrntiy tint! -- cut 1:11111-t- 't a accuses of her J.c HMv.ug :1 a ttt an hmi no not ht and my could put up onus, Doughty was tfieie, Is Few of ',.1 libelous lii-pi o,le posl oT. ldd against him. They made un ar- ilda g hands to k( ( p v on 1.1 et nn extra.oruui'uy The artists soil was to Sudihn.y string. It cattle to my gs. rangement. to I rite Hi t acioss i he morn, sLimhed .Vuiber of ;"! a.m fe'irrs dr.ve a thrivhid i.p to $150, ami th" h uba-.iOne of ihe princi what amount lie plearnd. it wtiu for over a chair, anil foil. Hu- - head turned. ing trade i:i I at the prefecture of functionaries I on pal the co. curls black couhl ii se, so? $37.50. mod rue retenily tint hs infoi police Closer went as of turn'd. bankit its noth nape Lately young Doughty and adrupt ignorance of bookket ;nng was it came, closer. but slowly. Only a department had2. tie nameswho make his explanation to the creditors. My foot or two separata d the face fiorn dresses of over ('20 persons their livim., an in many cases an exhusband was on the warpath again. mine, and 1 was paralyzed. Closer only an inili off. when all at cellent living, by the most eh numtery He asked yours D Highly to dinner, and said he meant to buy the picture. cnee my muscles awoke and I fled from and common n all t lie forms of the pseudo-scienc- e of divination, by telling tile room, hanging the door. The young artist raised his from fortunes T.n:v are other cards. nl'fi.-I to t my bn said nothing ;u hands in horror. ylore; Its aeemst! It has the evil eye! husband about tin manor; ho is very varieties of fortune tei'ersre from a those who pmiiet the fan The guvnor bought it for $250, and s nip. .the tim hut sovk v. it.. t skeptical. a on 1 of handful at thrown hatrd was lie and rich 11 housemaid it. Whenever a. m. phis At the worshiped 1 the shapes or of ofat tort tiom oho.s beard, with him least took down the splendid picture-tempt people fers, and when he was p aor hj coul In t looked on, and slv took it down. There assumed by the drees of coTee in the to bottom cf a saucer, tho.-- who re.-osell it. He once pawmd it ior St5. T he seemed nothing abnormal about it. 1 ve rue. Then we put it into a cab. The me&merL'm and somnambulism, the beastly thing lias ruiad been offered $1,"UU for it when I was dealer refused to civ? more than $2a ehirngrapliist.s. the drawers o? horos, The flush. scopes and many others. for it. a are in the 1 however, majority. And refused? Hitherto lie ar l have never had The methods of all of them are identiI suppose that se.cti n GarYes worse luck: Lat year, when quarrel. Id sold my academy picture, a rich den of Eden state of affairs could not cal, but their price.- - vary greitlv. Their stock in trade, apart from some litt'e Australian came to the studio. He was last forever. From l!u Fhoteh. THAT SPA X1SII WOMAN cowboys, but, being poor 1 th-i- per-oiiak- iy i of - i vs r -- h-- r Other Monarch. is more superstitious or more careful not to infringe on any cf the old mythical adag--than William II. First, thete is the white lady. Then the fear rf a seventh son, for when the present kaiser was quite a lad a sorceress predicted that three emperors would occupy the throne of their ancestors in the course of one year; that one of tlr-sthroe, who should have scven sons, would bring bad luck to the German empire and eli.w it to s ip ju.iver from the grasp. The ku.sor always assures him. elf before s rg on horse- back that he has a pieivcd piece in his pocket, supposing it will ward off danger. lie inherits these scrr.pl, j from his father, the late Emperor Frcdeiick, who rather shocked the strong-minde- d Princess Royal of England Ly bringing a sprig of white hoatlic'-emblem of good luck, when be proposed to her. Remembering all the senseless forms connected with the Russian court and custom, it is not surprising that Nic- oias is supenaitious, and very much j j 1 e , ring which gm j Mu-covit- zml- - es 'l rt ' carto-trancist- j . y, 11 Zie-the- r. $3,020 RICH IN RESOURCES when he saw The Gurndo and said, Vre Open Some Stlt nnl Oprorf unii I Who painted that ugy tiling? n ili.ui 1 Aiidlr ('ttlonieu, the he hat Oh, its nothing, replied, Queensl tn is pracin' ally undevelwent and gazed and fell victim to the me oped as yet, and ii is only b) ye irs old, ugly Spanish wonmn and offered tint having lit. cn tin- time since its $1,000. It contains I was firm; he got shirty and separation as a enlonv. and lias Gem miles, The 725,00) of out the place. squaa'e nearly stalked will he in the sale, but dont buy The only 500,00 pepulition. North Queensland his a population of only 100.000, Garrido.' Itll bring bad luck. to and sale went the and husband yet it is an exceedingly rich secMy brought hack the p.cture in a cab. He tion in natural resources. Charter Towers, 82 miles west of Townsville, paid only $35. I looked with great curiosity at the the principal gold mining cation, prowork of art, undoubtedly a superb duced 457,850 ounces of gold in lb9S, piece of painting. It represented a of the value of $5,781,720. and the total young Spanish woman, full face, with output of gold for the colony during a passionate, scowling countenance, the past year was 920,018 ounces, valeyes that followed you about the room, ued at $13,751,775. The colony has and black hair which somehow stood produced, up to date, minerals to the out against a background. She was an value of $225,000,0u0. Copper, silver, tin, ugly woman, and yet fascinating. etc., are some of the minerals existing We hung the picture over the manin large quantities. Within the next and raved few years there will be a tremendous telpiece in the dining-roooutput of copper, as a railroad is being built to the very rich Cliilagoe mines. North Queensland is a great grazing country, and, as the elinmte and the abuouance of native grasses are all favorable to grazing, the profit on sheep and cattle is very large. There are numbers of sheep ranches on which there are 100,000 sheep, one of which has 1,250,000 head. Cattle raising is also extensively engaged in, the exports of cattle from the northern portion of the colony alone being 2,500 head a day for ten months in the year. at with a A herder t an sell cattle profit $5 a head, and when he gets $10, as he often docs, the profit is very Commercial-Tri- b great. Cincinnati une. 1 -- j m TO LOOK AT THE SPANISH WOMAN, about it during dinner, and came back a dozen times after dinner to gaze at it. The husband even stopped tying trout casts to visit the Spanish woman. Luck! he said. Hang luck! and ha stuck a peacock feather in the frame. It may have been a mere coincidence, tut there came unexpectedly a slump in the husbands work, he got broken in the first Thames trout he ever hooked, a plate of soup was spilled over my best new froclt, the moths got into my furs, the parlor maid caught tne measles, and the dog distemper. All these trifles were within a month, but we were resolute, placid, and philosophic. A friend, hearing us tala, and admiring the picture, offered us $250. We jeered; he left for Jericho. One night I heard a strange noise in the flat. I did not awaken my husband; he has theories about not attacking burglars, but is very I crept down tb the dining-rooThere was a noise inside. 1 burst open the door, saying all in a breath: Youd better go quickly and leave everything. Ive rung the call for police, boy messenger, cab, doctor, and lire escape; A cat, youve just time to get away. a mere, harmless cat, bolted past me. The I went to close the window. blind was up; the moon streamed in. I chanced to look at the Spanish woman; she was looking at me, starI gasped, then walked ing, glaring. bravely toward her a step or two. The I CHANCED hot-heade- d. cunning and Imagination, unlimited impud nee, consists solely of the tarot, a special'y prepare pm k of cards, as a rule clumsily hand paintel nnd panted on to square t f car lhonr 1. The co- -t of consultiu ; the tarot ranges from a fi w shillhigs to 5 mil even 7. The fortune teller who can command these litLr pric's deals with somrfy clients ladies, but the mod of all are actresses, who, with scarcely an exception, believe in the talents of the cartomancists, and many of whom go week after v ek to rh" same wise woman and swallow, with incomprehensible docility nnd contradictory revelations elaborated for their benefit. The cheaper fortune tellers are seldom or neor consulted by men, but curiously enough the cartomancists, whose charges are high, often lnve men among their customers. Thee is one n speculator on the Paris bourse who never ventures his money unless the tarot has assured him of the likelihood of hi? tming successful, and it must be admitted tint his confidence in the cards has, so far, not betrayed him, for he is exceedingly rich. con.sid--ra.bl- 1 j well-know- man-of-wa- just about to buy The th' m for The Gem is an old salon i ously affirm contains a portion of the true cress is handed down from one autocrat to the other, and nothing in the world would induce the czar to perform the most trivial act without it. Empress Alex has no patience with her husband's whims of this stamp. The phantom of the Hopsburg dynasty, like that of the Hohenzolierns, is a lady, and her appearance presages death or other misfortune. Every tragic event and goodness knows there have been enough of them which has yet happened at the Aus- n trian court, a archduchess declares, "has been announced by a woman of iare beauty who wanders in the corridors of Schonbrunn castle. Different Austrian notables avow they saw this inauspicious creature shortly before Archduke Rudolphs death, and again before his mothers assassination. The white lady of the Tuilerles was an ugly dwarf, whose appearance predicted an unnatural death to some member of the royalty. Though the Italian court has no such visitor, King Humbert is just a trifle superstitious, and no matter where he is, or under what circumstances, he makes it a to change his linen three times a and six feet more point than high, fellow, weighed 225. lie was too heavy for his day. horse, and the horse was losing his wind. So what do they do but turns Kob Luetgert Sansae plant. The trial and conviction of Adolph up into one of the deep canyons, thinking they could ride somewhere, 1 L. Luetgert on the charge of wife murreckon. Anyhow, they started up the der and his subsequent death were recanyon, with the cowboys after them. called in Chicago the other day, when It was a deep one without any outlet it was reported to the Sheffield avenue First thing they police that the Luetgert sausage facat the upper end. knew we had em penned in by the tory, at Diversey and Southport ave.steep banks of the canyon on three nues, which has been vacant for some sides and the cowboys on the other. time, and which was said to have been It was a tight place, and it did not take the scene of the murder, had been them long to agree to surrender and broken into by burglars and $509 worth 0 back to jail. I guess we did promof brass trimmings and gas fixtures ise em protection, leastwise we said it taken. Officers were detailed on the they would go back with us we case, and arrested Frank Beckowski. wouldnt hang them on the way to jail. an expressman, and Rudolph Prankski But we declined to be responsible for and Rode. They also recovered August accidents. Thats natural enough. the stolen property. The prisoners conHow could we help it if something did to the fessed Beckowski burglary. happen to them after they got back to hauled the stuff away in his express jau after the other two men, it is Course, something did happen. They wagon had broken into the factory asserted, was we knowed that it knowed and it. and stolen goin to. They had been caught in the act of lulling bankers and in them Lawsuit, Lasted Over a Century. days bankers were held in great reA lawsuit that has lasted over s spect, so they had nothing else to expect. We put em in jail safe enough century has come to an end in Ireand put handcuffs on them. Along land. In 1797 Mr. Robert Smyth, a toward evening the boys began to ride brewer of Smock-alleDoublin, failed in from all over the county. They had A dividend was paid, but the assets did heard about the killing, and after ma- not realise 20s. in the pound. Foui ture deliberation it was decided that generations of creditors have in turr the jail was no safe place nohow, and supplied grist to the legal mill, and the state had expenses enough of its has now been discovered that a smal own. So, for the good of the com- sum invested at the time by the couri munity, it was thought best to make a as too trifling for distribution has, by short, sure job of them and relieve our- the accumulations of compound interest in a hundred odd years, developed selves from further anxiety. Along in the evening some of the into four figures, enough to pay off al' boys went up to the jail to see how the debts and leave a good sum besidet As I told you. for law costs. Strange to say, ther the prisoners were. we left em is a claimant for every penny due ii In when all were irons they in the morning, but when we got up 1797. there that night they had got the irons How they done it I never did off. An runnaal Feat. know, and they didnt have time to exKaiser Wilhtlin presented to the When the door was opened Hussars as a New Years gift a plain. they broke to get away. Brown got copy of the Dutch naval flag taken by tueh a start that it was necessary to the regiment in 17S7. It then accomperforate him then and there. He died plished the unsual feat for a cavalry His deputy, Ben regiment of capturing a without a kick. n Dutch brig ran ashore in Wheeler, had to be winged. They shot A him so he couldnt run and held him trying to break down the dikes and the The other Hussars managed to board her. New for the final ceremonies. two robbers, Billy Smith and John York Sun. ten-gu- ra-pe- 1 No sovereign so. A j o ant lrntu Wilhelm pn-on?- p ROYAL SUPER5T! HONS. rear- ke 1 as-hki- well-know- Quaint, London Kent Paid. Certain ancient and quaint rent serv- ices, which are due to the crown by the corporation of London, were, in accordance with custom, performed at the offices of the queens remembrancer, in the royal courts of justice, in the presence of a rumber of curious and interested spectators. George Pollock, the remembrancer, made the usual explanatory statement as to the origin of the custom, and proclamation was then made: Tenants and occupiers of a piece of waste ground called The Moors, in the county of Salop, come forth and do your service." Gen. Butler' Bendy Wit. solicitor advanced and cut a I see that Watkins Grant of Boston, The city wood with a hatchet and of has lately been telling some stories faggot with a billhook. Proclamation another about Gen. Butler. I have in mind was made next: Tenants and occuseveral good ones which he didnt tell. of a certain tenement called The Once when Gen. Butler was in congress piers Forge, in the parish of St. Clement he rose in his place and gently insinuDanes, in the county of Middlesex, ated that the member who was occupyThe forth and do your service. come ing the floor was transgressing the occasion counted on this solicitor limit of debate. Why, general, said city sixty-on- e nails. the member, in reproachful tones, you six horse shoes and remembrancer replied, The queens 1 know divided your time with me. Faithful suit and Good number. I did, rejoined the grim old warrior, been made the certhus service having with I divide but did not eternity London ended. Telegraph. emony But perhaps Butlers most savyou. conage retort was made in a political The Great Wall to Be Ilestroyed. vention, in which a distinguished Unitarian divine, I think it was James It is curious that when China is just Freeman Clarke, sat as a delegate. on the eve of introducing western While the subject of candidates was methods of engineering she should being discussed this clergyman an- threaten to demolish the greatest ennounced that if a certain nomination gineering work she possesses; that is Very to say, the Great Wall, erected 200 was made he would bolt it. You are years B. C., for the purpose of keeping likely, Butler blurted out. good at bolting; in your religion you back the Tartars. It is stated that an The American engineer is en route to China of the Trinity. bolt convention broke into a roar of laughin behalf of a Chicago syndicate which ter in which the clergyman joined. is expected to take a share in the conNew York Mail and Express. tract to be given out by the Chinese government for the demolition of the Snlclil. Insect Committing wall. The Engineer states that one It is stated that insects have been French, two British, and three Gerknown deliberately to kill themselves man firms are also bidding for the under certain forms of torture or prov- work, payment for which is to be in ocation. Experiments have been tried the way of rich concessions. upon wasps, which are extremely sensitive to benzine and dislike the odor Short on Fes. very much. A tumbler was sprinkled volunteers in the Philippines The with benzine, then inverted over a wrote home to the old man as follows: wasp, which at once attacked a bit of Father: I need $50 immediately. Lost And paper that was under the glass. Finalanother leg in battle yesterday. from received he ly the wasp appeared to become desthe was reply this perate. He threw himself on his back, the old man: James: As this is the dfove and his bent himself together fourth leg youve lost according to sting three times into his body, then your letters you ought to be accushe died. Repeated trials convinced the tomed to it by this time. Try and scientists that wasps would. under these wobble along on any other legs you circumstances, take their own lives, a9 may have left. Thats all I can say ta several of them got out of their unAtlanta Constitution. you! comfortable atmosphere in this way. two-thiri- ls |