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Show effect an far as wns FRONTIER DAYS IN TEXAS! ( t the shot took known, except, one more from ('ox, who had the advantage of the other men " SETTLERS KILLED os to another Inlie j I BY INDIANS. J position, dropped dian thirty feet from the first, but In making a run to get to biin was wound-- 1 rd In the face with an arrow, The Indians shot arrows back as they ran, and another one wounded Jesse Bond severely In the shoulder. The boys, in their desperate efforts to catch the flee-I hag Comanehes, tore their clothing bad. ly. The first Indian that Cox killed had on Piereea hat and boots, This firing alarmed two other bands of Indians, who were camping In the Salt Creek bottoms some distance below, and they got up and ran away, They had a large drove of horses and succeeded In getting away with them, The band which Cox and the others fought lost all of the horses it had, even having to run off In the mountains on foot. The two wounded men were suffering a good deal, and soon the hors were rounded up and a return made, although it was hitter cold. A. J. Sowell, in the Dallas News, CALIFORNIA HEIRESS MARRIES FAMOUS FOOT BALL PLAYER OF THE T seems that during the many long years that Texas was settling, ns new counties were formed and the border gradually extended, each county had its equal proportion of troubles. Brown County was no exception and furnished her bloody chapter to swell the crimson pages of frontier history, During the fall 'of 1857 numerous hostile bands passed through Pecan Valley, riding over the country In day light and attacking every one they met, During tills time a band of eight Indians came upon Brooks I.ee. He was riding a mule nnd was about half a mile from his ranch In the valley just below the present town of Brown wood. There was a small field near by, and to this Lee succeeded in get Brava Mtlla Japs, ting and took refuge behind the fence. no I make defense of the ambition The Indians were close upon him and to cross thousands and one causes that arrows dismounted when he shooting and crossed the fence. His only thousands of miles of Isml and water weapon was a sixsbootcr, but he was a to come to a strange and alien country cool, brave man, and Ills first shot for the pitiful employment of domestic killed an Indian, which put a check service in a foreigners house, old, says an the advance of the others when Onoto YVatanna, In the New Metropolithey discovered that their enemy was tan, There are not many Americana not afraid nnd knew how to use his who would do this. Still there Is gome pistol. They halted at the body of the thing admirable in the spirit behind It, fallen one; some dismounted, and, tab which, after all, Is superior to the pride tng him up, placed him behind an scorning such employment Many of other Indinn to be carried off. This the Japanese who come to New York halt enabled the settler, with the ad are bitterly poor. It Is an old delusion vantage of the fence, to gain addi- that the average student here is sent tional distance, and the Indians soon by the generous Japanese Government. gave up the chase and rode away, On the contrary, most of the young They left the sinln Indian's blanket, Japanese men In New York have come which waa covered with blood. Ar- on their own account to aatisfy their rows were In the fence and ground, native curiosity and thirst for more knowledge of the great and fascinating and some in the mule. A short time after the attack upon West, How many of these youths arBrooks Lee a man named Lewis, who rive utterly penniless and friendless! lived three miles lower down the val'ey But having reached the land of desire near the mouth of Stepp's Creek, had they must at once "study the country." Miss Beryl Whitney of San Fran- town on a candy buying excursion. gone out about a mile or less from his For this time and money are required; cisco, daughter of J. Parker Whitney At the retreat In Connecticut the house to unhobble nod drive up his the former they have; the latter they of Rocklyn, Cal., and heiress to young woman managed to use the teleonce must obtain In at to order exist horses when five Indians ran upon him, was married in New York last phone unheard by the other occupants, killed him and captured the horses And so they go to work the easiest week to Thomas H. ("Blondy") Gray-do- called up her fiancee In New York, rk to obtain. They make excellent The arrow which killed Lewis went the Harvard full back, a telegram hinted to him that he was her brothvalets cooks. and are butlers, They clear through his body. The Indians giving' Miss Whitneys parents the un- er, and begged him to come to the cotexcellent now passed on down the valley and fell both clean nnd dignified expected news. The marriage makes tage. Graydon played his part so well, In a servant. traits In with another band, which increased the concluding chapter of a romance scolding his "sister for her escapade their number to seventeen. From there of which much was printed when Miss with such apparent sincerity that the now Homo Horae Ara Abased. they went through Lampasas and on Whitney passed off Graydon as her matron of the prison cottage was deto the head of Nolan's Creek In Bell A young nurse of my acquaintance brother, and had his company for a ceived for a day and a half, when County, and there turning back passed frag found early one morning uncon- day and a half at the boarding school being questioned more closely, Miss scious on the entry floor; upon Inquiry cottage In through Coryell County south of Gate Connecticut, to which she Whitney admitted the visitor was not vllle eome ten or twelve mllea, On the I the doctor learned that from Monday! had been sent as punishment for leav- her brother, but at the same time head of Owl Creek they came upon two morning till Thursday night she had ing a fashionable school In New York strenuously defended her right to see men Brown and rierce who, with a I been without sleep, or even enough by means of a ladder and going down her fiancee. a little boy named Dave Elam, were time off to bathe and change bet hauling rails to fence a farm. The lit- clothes. Of course she was extremely NEW HEAD OF STEEL TRUST RUSSELL SAGE MAKES JOKE. tle boy Jumped from the wagon and foolish to permit such a thing, on the patient's account as well as her own. 'jlcd for life. Rome of the Indians him and catching up with hint but It was her first private case, and William E. Corey Recenly Appointed Aged Financier Facetious at J. P. Morto High Position. truck tdm several times, but seeing feeling shy about obtruding personal gan's Expense. William E. Corey, who has been one of the men about to get away left wants In a time of general stress, she Only once In a good while does Rusthe boy and ran to catch him. The two had relied on coffee and determination chosen assistant to President Schwab sell Sage permit himself to jest, and .men were killed nnd scalped, but the to puli her through. The stale Joke, of the United States Steel corporation, when he does indulge it Is generally lad made his escape. lie afterward Why, do you have to sleep? I thought and will be the active bead of the big at the expense of some other maglived In Coryell, and waa known as you were trained! unfortunately con- nate of the financial world. The latest "Indian Dave" credited to the aged millionaire waa talna not a grain of exaggeration. uttered about the time when Pierpont I have gono to a house where after In the upper or western part of Con. Morgan started on his recent trip to Yell County the Indians divided into a day's nursing, a night spent In spong-lna typhoid patient, at 10 o'clock on Europe. In noting the great man's three squads, each party having 150 head of horses. One squad passed up the morning of the second day, th departure the newspapers mentioned that Mr. Morgan had sold some flats the Leon Valley, one up Cow House nurse was still In charge; no one ha on rark avenue which had caused him Creek, and one up Lampasas Biver, and given her night lunch, breakfast, o: a good deal of annoyance. Upon readwere to come together, ns Indications even a cup of coffee. Rlie lmd been on ing which Uncle Russell commented showed, at the Salt Creek Mountain, duty for twenty-sistraight hours thus: So, Morgan has gone, hey? working strenuously nil the time; not a thirty miles west of the town of And he has disposed of his interests The baud that passed up member of the household seemed equal In those Park avenue flats? Well, I the Leon Valley was discovered Into to taking her place, or Indeed dreamt dont know about the fiats on Park cue evening by the mail carrier en of the necessliy of doing so. Atlantic. avenue, but Ill bet you a doughuut route to Brownwood, the Indians passa rithina run. against a doublo eagle that he has ing Mercers Gap. The carrier was not not parted with his interests in the discovered by the Indians and he reA fish that fishes, actually fishes with flats on Wall street. turned as fast as he could on a ftiule a rod, a line and bait, is a thing few even miles back to Elisha Bancroft's, persons have ever seen. That there Is BOY RISES TO HIGH OFFICE. arriving tlmre soon after dark nnd tell- such a fish one of the officers of the ing the news of the presence of In- Academy of Natural Sciences declared A. H. Smith Starts as Messenger and dians. Runner were sent to all of the yesterday. It Is called the Lophlus Becomes Railway Manager, settlements In reach and by 10 oclock l'lscatorlus, or fishing frog. It Is five From messenger boy at 4 a week that night a scout of twelve Comanche feet long, with a huge head, and, since to general manager of the New York County men were In the saddle and It la too awkward to capture It prey Central and Hudson River railroad la Tiding fsst, Rait Creek Mountain being with speed, nature baa given to the the great rise of Alfred H. Smith. Mr. the objective point, they thought by creature a natural fishing rod. There Smith Is but 39 years old and wag for leaching that place before day the In- are, rather, two rods two long, whip-likWilliam E. Corey, a year and a half general superindiana could be discovered and intertentacles, that extern! five or tlx cepted as they passed in the morning. feet from the fishs nose, and terminate corporation, has been president or th tendent under William C. Brown, third About midnight a furious cold norther I iu a delicate filament, like a line, that I Carnegie company and the Carnegie vice president and general manager, olevr op, and while the boya suffered has on Its end a shining morsel of mem-Steel company since April, 1901. Mr. with whom he came from Cleveland In February, 1902. much they pushed on to reach a cer-- 1 prnnP jge a Corey is one of Mr. Carnegies thirty Mr. Brown gave up his position mile ten water bole from tain the The fishing frog stirs up the mud of young men." Fifteen years ago he mountain, at which they supposed the the bottom enough to hide Its head and was pushing a wheelbarrow la the Indians would stop, but In which they body, while In the clear water Its yards of one of the 'Carnegie mills In were mistaken, the Indians had trav- two rods, baited, lie. A little fist Braddock. He wheeled so much more eled to the mountains without halting comes up to the shining bait to eat It Iron In a day than the men at his eland beat them there. and Instantly the frog leaps out fron bows that he was soon made foreman The moon had gone down and it was the dark, turbid cavern It has made in over them. Then his employers notoo dark to see anything small distinct, the water for Itself, devours the fish, ticed that he got three times as much ly when the settlers arrived at the and then begins to angle again. Phila- work out of his men as the other foremen sad at the same time the men tmountaln, but they discovered the sto- delphia Record. len horses. worked harder without sny grumbling They had been driven over 100 mllea in less than thirty hours, sad swore by their new and youthful InOatnc f Ad? trtUiaf. and did not scare or run when the In A restaurant some men were dis- boss. Corey was straightway picked white men came close to them, Si- cussing the great out by Mr. Carnegie as a promising, quantity of cereal adlently the young Indian fighter for vertisements that have appeared tn the valuable acquisition and given conno old or middle-agemen were along He newspapers during the past year. They stantly widening opportunities. Imenrobed around, but could not lo- wondered If these advertisements had worked hard, studied at night to cate the Indians, and had to stand In bad nny great effect on the public. prove his public school education, and the cold wind with chattering teeth Due of them said: Well, I eoutoss, In time became an expert chemist and nntil daylight. The dawn was not far they have started me to eating a cereal armor plate authority. lie was made away and oun relieved their frecxlng for breakfast-- a thing I never used to superintendent of this mill and that tU Incas. Each pair of eyes now do." Two others said the same and Invariably Inrreasod tiling. department, canned the country, trying to local They uumU'red the. and three of the the output. He was burn at Braddock, the Indians, for they wrre uenr, os all five had been converted to the bieak-fas- Ia., In ISOS, AZZm ff STT knew. Finally Dan Cox discovered vice president and general manager food habit through newspaper admoke Issuing from a deep ravine, aud of the Lake Shore railroad to go Why It Pop. vertising. The waiter wa then called waving his hat toward It all advanced over ami lie wa asked If he hail noFinally a scientific sharp comes to to New York. In that direction. The Indian were ticed any Increase In the eating of cer- our rescue and in Rclcnee explains the roasting chunks of horse meat und did eal during the past year. I have. In- phenomenon of the popping of pup Ths Negro and the Razor, not discover the white men, who came deed." the man The Interand in an lurid corn question, "Why does a negro I extremely should sav replied, on foot, until Dan Cnx was within that throe hrcukfnsiei The learned gentle- carry a razor?" has never been now begin with esting manner. thirty feet of their fire with a shotgun A corral where only one answered. There la a good a yrnr man says: "The starch polygons are aimed at them. Both burn la missed of such nature and eoum ruction as to deal of flition about the "razxer" businnd there l. furilbimore, a growage, fire when ho Attempted to shoot, ami ing army of no n and women who I have known hundred of nee.it facilitate expansion nml rentier it de- ness. tracthrowiug the gun down drew hi p'stol. some sort of rerral Mr a both la slave and freemen, and In charm there e groes, Inposit lunch The Indians all sprang to their feet, stead of the pie or i luigbnuts of the tate of a particle slung It too radii, never knew one who carried a razor. tint at that Instant ft shot wa fired by Tb comic wukllra were largely rethe eitdiisepm t .veiling very Record. Eox which killed nn Indian dead In his mnslbli for the belief that the col the per'phernl portions cohertracks, breaking hi back. By this Aiilwrii MIHU.jp Mrrnglh, ing mil it th" tin I, but he t.Ri il, ed or-- brotlur adopted the shaving Inv--I time the balance of the boy opened Few plied, nr,, aware of lht oner, I. Is favorite etnt nt a politer tuning hail, to meet Mow. weapon of fire from a point: Just in the rrar of mini mUit.iiv 1, u;it offense nnd defense ami t never withf At.nv,rp the embryo," And there y t.u are. wa so thick ami Fine Dun t.. o Cox. but the lni-to ii t It? out It." New York h i olely ilmt-lejua,t th firing so much ut random that uotie j on her fouhicniiims. 1 In-dla- n, pur-sue- I I g x I i e 1 u t satis-facterll- y thi-l- r past."-Millndet- IDIOSYKCRAsIiT repaid-i-rabl- phiit - I Do-lld- In-sa- . TIGER. Most Difficult of All Ani- mals to Conquer No Such (Thing as a Tamed Tiger flaw He is Trained....... -- over and scarred, but F all wild animals trained turned . another attack. show and for menagerie That is the lesson for one da? Is as oue not purposes and a raw huat hard to couquer as the ceding catnip to the meat, and while digesting gpnJ Compared tiger. ele- and the meat the animal ponders or training of lions and as the queer experiences he has had is a of tiger phants the training boarhound the friend of the queer man. ThatC the breaking in of a vicious a does ponder over the situation 1? ,h() to the first lessons in etiquette of Even by the fact that the next day puppy. chubby Newfoundland another chair Is placed Inside the trainers animal wild most expert the a no attack Is made on It. Instead, break to balk at an assignment In ten propuzzled tiger walks around and rZ one tiger. Not more than to nerve it, sniffing at It finally, and then C the has trainers fessional lion lu a corner, content if not down try his hand at the great, ferocious, at any old intrusion the queer hapr maum,. striped cats. wish to Inflict. such no Is there of fact, As a matter It Is only then that the trainer Few and thing as a tamed tiger. inside the cage armed with th turn far between there are instances where wand and a biacksnake wt yellow and trained as the animals are shown In latter days of progress an li these broken In, but the friendship of the woman tiger trainer, genious have who may animal for the trainer for twentieth century 11 more regard befriended It for years hangs at the than the history of her profession, ury blacksnnke whip. mans end of the used what is known as an aiumon From the dry the acquaintance is made gun In teaching the tiger a lesson are beast and separated to the day man The gun was simply a rubber bn there Is a stealthy warfare between supplied with a nozzle out of which i the of pondercatlike slyness them; the of diluted ammonia could bt solution nim oue the ous brute directed toward by pressing the ball. squirted of man and the vlgilauce the of killing Is biacksnake whip, bower, the It that to frustrate the master ever alert upon which the real tiger trainer de plan. pends, rather than a solution of mu. fine of the peculiarities of taming a monia to get Into the eyes and no be performed of the tiger is that the feat may splendid animal. As he enters much better by a man totally strange the for the first time to fight th cage has who one to the animal than by the which Is certain to be made th attack helped rear it by the side of Its mother. man carries with him a pecniixr What the reason for this Is few animal weapon considering the nature of th men can explain, unless it is that the expected encounter a wooden chair a be more to Is by Inspired apt subject the kind first used in Introducing th wholesome fear when It encounters tiger to the elements of civilization. a man totally strange. Surprised beyond action by the iThe first step taken In training any ntrusion of the man the tiger at Hr wild cat animal is to familiarize It as scouts to a corner of the cup listlessly much as possible with the fact that to thinks Is going to he what await the newcomer Into Its life means no an attack. For all of five minuteih Indithe harm. Much depends upon be before he takes the Initiative, vidual nature of the animal to be may the trainer watching sharply and a trained in deciding upon proper every moment the terrific ocourse for the primary lesson. If the nslaught which will mean life or death. Is he treacherous Is brute unusually Everything In that climax of the tlgtfi given ample chance to work out his education depends upon the trainn'i conIs who the trainer, plans against swiftness. and If he win th pluck tinually on guard nnd sees to It that brute Is once and for 1 conquered each attack results in failure. remain to he if it falls, practically; a to The early lessons administered to help bis outside assistants the cage tiger are ridiculously on the and to p: in bis with fight pitchforks in stands front plan. The trainer him of out the clutches of the of the cage Inviting the inmate to a animal as best they can. be the Unless attack. tiger stealthy It is when the tiger crouches, read; an exceptionally quiet subject there Is not long to wait. Cunningly cowering for the spring which Invariably j i In a corner, the tiger makes ready for cedes his attack, that the trainer the attack. Nearer and nearer he on the edge ns to the outcome, Wti th itches and Inches toward the stranger, lng closely without directly facing I animal the man stands. The next near unawares the standing seemingly bod bars of the cage. Other men may have stant there is a giant, yellow b Before air. the fed the big fellow for years. His old shooting through aslih can man land the has jumped brute would not think of trainer the thrown his chair full at the ifcid cj attacking In this way. But the strandown ft W ger is an Intruded, to be struck from the wild beast and brings would n with biacksnake that cut whip atbehind, from where most tigers an ot blood hide from of draw the tacks come, and there lies the first Then It Is time to heat a retreat and lesson. to give the tiger time to eat the cualr As the great paw with the cruel and to consider, as before, claws shoots out between the bars the when the Not until the stranger steps to one side. Nothing lesson has been day following, does the same digested, happens. Not even a switch Is brought continue. For n week or ten days it down on the dreadful paw. The stranbe necessary almost daily to re ger merely stands ami looks. So does may the peat dangerous experiment xvitb the tiger. The next move depends upon the desire of the brute to work the chair and the biacksnake whip. Irs harm. If the claws are withdrawn the At the end of Hint time the tiger It Isarned among other tilings, two: is to understranger simply prepared the first place, unless he begins the go a second similar attack. If the attack tlie man will not hurt him. paw remnins ibfiantiy thrust through ti the bars, up rises a slim, yellow wand in the second, do what he may. intruder is bis in cunning superior in the hand of the man. Rlowly nnd with full Intent to show the brute what defense, for bo can cut like a kni Is happening the wand Is raised higher ami see, ns no enemy of tigers mi and higher. Then a swish, nnd with all from the buck of bis head. Under d to the strength of a powerful man's right circumstances it Is necessary to arm, down mines a rawhide neros gin a truce, Iu time the man and the choir the threatening paw. If the animal shows fight there is an enter the den with impunity, thnrfl unfair dud between the paw and the there is still another fight due wbrf chair-rawhide, which can end but one way. the man attempts to sit In th familiarly which no tiger will Hil Then the tiger Is left alone to cool off a and to ponder over what happened. nnresented In Ills presence unless be bo to. hns that toiight Under no consideration the animal The battle between the puny a181 further treated while It Is angry. In time, even In the most stubborn eases, and the blneksnake whip on th the tiger learns that If he leaves the side and the tiger on the other M man In peace nothing will happen. taken up to this point about tbr Also, that if he tries to attack the re- weeks at least, but now It Is practical1? sult Is pain and defeat Also, that the finished. Finished, at least, as m01' man will feed the tiger dally, not alone as It ever can be in th case of with meat and eatables, but with lux- tiger. uries of the cat world-catn- ip, Of all tigers none Is probably for example. dlfliuelt to train than the big. Am Once this reaction has been estab-llshe- Siberian chap, the most gorgcowdJ between man nnd beast the sec- marked of all the tiger family, and ond stage of the training 1 under- the whole the most powerful. WA taken. It becomes necessary to pre- It enormous size there seems to to pare the brute for a closer interview combined the slightest trace of so with the stranger, who now prepares to nature, common In most Mg thia? enter the cage. Exactly ns In the an.l this comes to the aid of W ease of lion taming, a chair is the first trainer In civilizing the king of col thing Introduced Into the den. lie of cat Russia. the catnip and the wand opens the typ Of the real Indian cage, regards the surprised tiger, who of tiger there Is hut one trained si1 wonders whnt Is going to happen. He nmn In existence-th- nt In Ceylon, I8, piflcw ft wooden ehnip Jo thp engo of din. One of the tamest of the tnn i tli brute and, leaving the cage a eating tigers Is to ! found right this city nt the Central Bark nmnsf quickly as he had entered It. watehe eric. Only Keeper Hilly Rnydcr l developments. Unused to the strange intrusion, ever ventured In the cage of the Ml the tiger lies scowling In a corner and re- Indian, and then only when the brut gards the ehnlr. That the chair must lmd been first bound and made belF die Is settled. NVver before tin caS he less, but from the outside of the aeon such a qundruped. He dm- not the big cut delights In being P1'" even know in which direction It moves. and rubbed and scratched by the to! II begins to reconnoitre a they dally pas and rep.i by circling er around and arouml tho tiling Trent of it yet, dally, the The ra1, chair stands motlotiU-p- n, tier fea ture of the great animal crop out. D ture which the animal two hours after It ha been fed e regard with distrust nnd disgust. Never tlte tiMml iiienl of raw meat sU dlff iM,fl,rp ,m he encountered nn eenmy. for liiimnn eimipnithiiisiiip vanlxl' the except man with the cninlp nnd the rye in out of tlie great, yellow one, ad th back of hi fiend, iff attempt tn ttll, cage present a fro, ,t ready f,lrl1,r,,iwr jl0t th! time would iii nii an ntinrk-l,- i York Comiiicreini Advertiser. f'lnnlljr coniPt thp n violent spring the l.imls'm u ehnlr. buries It over nnd 1. enin. hr Amirw, Unit 'iinre. 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