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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1900)
OMAHA ILLUSTRATED BEOS. .Inmmry ' 8 , 1SKK ) . Frank G. Carpenter In the Philippines Next , week Tlio Hco will begin the publica tion of a , series of letters from the Philip pines nml the fnr east by Frank ( J. Carpen ter. Mr. Carpenter has already loft San Francisco for Japan. Ho will stop them ft few days and will then push rapidly on for the Philippines , whcro ho will remain for the greater part of the year , traveling from Island to Island and giving graphic descrip tions of the country , Its resources , the people ple , both savage and civilized , their curious euptonw and all about them. Mr. Carpenter has long been noted for bla fairness as ft correspondent. Her helloves In lulling the truth and his loiters will de- Hcrlbo things Just as ho finds them without political bias In favor of any policy and pnrty. His trip IH made solely for Information and holll spare noltbpr expense nor trouble to get at the truth. Ho goes armed with credentials from the secretaries of war and nnvy and loiters from the secretary of ntnto and General Miles , the commander of the army , which will glvo him every facility FRANK G CARPENTER AND HIS CO KB AN SERVANT , GENERAL PAK. 1894. that Undo Sam's ofllcers can furnish , and In addition to this n letter of credit big enough to pay for the autsldo expeditions and trips to the Interior which ho hopes to make. Krnnk 0. Carpenter Isull known to our leadom as a traveler and itillable corre spondent. 1I has trotted the glebe to a Bioator extent perhaps than any writer of today. Horn In Ohio about forty years ago , the son of a. lawyer and banker of John Sher man's town of Mar.blleld , after graduating ( i urn college ho began his newspaper career n.f ii correspondent of the Cleveland Leader lit Columbus. Ho wan noting as such In 18SO during the Oarlleld campaign , during which ho traveled widely over the country report ing and Interviewing. Ho overworked , how- uver , and at about the time of the election found himself down with typhoid fever. Klrwl Venture .Vlirmiil. Always sickly and weak , his Illness was such that ho saw It would bo nt least a year before ho could resume his newspaper work and ho decided to u o the time In for eign travel. Ho went tilono to Europe and traveled for about a year there , drifting about the eontlnuit and the llrltlsh Isles and making his way acioas the Mediterran ean to Egypt and up the Nile. Ho was too weak , however , during this tlmo to write much , although ho walked over tun Alps on fool , bueked the tiger nt Monte Carlo and climbed the gieat pynmid of Ghlzeh. When ho returned ho was sent to Wash ington by the Cleveland Leader aa n corro- upondont. His letters frrfm the national capital nt once attracted wide attention They wore copied In all the papers of thu country and continued to bo no until Mr Carpenter began to wrlto for the American Press association and there protected his letters by copyright. In the meantime his Income from hie writings had steadily risen. Ho was doliu some magazlno work , writing editorial pngi goeslp for the New York World and his letters - tors for the American Press , when he de cided to throw up his engagements and make n trip around the world. In his trip ho WHH accompanied by his wife. Ho left San Francisco for Japan , went thence lo China and Hie Chinese Wall , and then south to Slam , Durmah , India , Egypt , Turkey and Europe. The journey consumed over n year and during It Mr. Carpenter wrote letters to hl combination of American newspapers , and a series of or- Helen for the Coi-mopolltan Magazine. Ho had many remarkable experiences , seeing the sultan of Turkey , having an audience with the king of Coron , a long Interview with Prriico LI Hung Chang at Tientsin and news paper chatH with the khedive of Egypt and the king of Greece In their royal palaces at Cairo and Athens. Sonic KniiioiiN TrlpM , Shortly after his return to the United States Mr. Carpenter went to Mexico to interview President Diaz and later on to Europe , where ho Interviewed Prlnco Otto von Bismarck and other notables. He was In Russia , during the famine , traveling 3,000 miles over the Black Plain and up and down the Volga. Ho had hardly gotten settled at Washington after his tour before It Htruck him that the next foreign news center - tor was to bo China and Japan and ho pro posed an assignment for himself to his ed itors. This was to travel for them 25,000 miles for twenty-live letters. It Included journeys In the Interior of China , Japan and Korea and ft trip over the eastern end of the Trans-Siberian railroad. This was in the height of the panic of 1803 , but the schema was such a big one that the editors coiiHcntcd to Its expense at once and in 1894 Carpenter left Vancouver for Japan. Ho traveled for about a year at this time FRANK G. CARPENTER HOLDING UP A BRICK AT THE GKCAT WALL OK CHINA TO SHOW ITS SIZE. in the above countries , Inspecting the ar mies , the gun works and getting material which was of immense ) value to his papers In the Chinese-Japanese war , which broke out during his absence. While in Japan he had an interview with Count Ito , the premier and adviser of the mikado , in which ho predicted that the war would take place. From this time until his recent journey of ft year around and about South America Mr. Carpenter's travels have been confined to the United States , with the exception of n llttlo trip to Puerto Ilico , which was made during the last summer. IIlN 1'rvNont Journey. His present journey Includes the Philip pine islands , Japan , China , Java , Australia , Now Zealand and Hawaii. It will describe these countries as they are today , picturing them with pen and camera as they actually are In the year 1900. The letters will begin avout the first Sun day In February and will run regularly ovcry Sunday , without the correspondent should bo held up by the savages of the Philippines , for ono year. Outside of the news value of the letters Is their Instructive and educational value. Frank G. Carpenter paints things so you can see them. Ills letters of travel , In addition to their vital interest , are wonderfully Instructive. Hie Geographical Readers on Asia , North Amer ica and South America are already amonK the standard text-books of the public schools. In fact no ono who wishes to have the latest and best information upon the out-of-tho-way lands of the Pacific , and es pecially the Philippines , both for hlmscll and hia children , can afford to miss theei letters. The Illustrations of this article are made from photographs from Mr. Carpenter's col lection of foreign views made especially foi his work In different parts of the world. Effect of Ashes Detroit Journal : "Tho ashes , " sighed tin man , "of my fondest hopes ! " Then ho smiled In a sweetly resigned way "Perhaps they will make the way to sue cess a bit less slippery for those who follov mo ! " ho said. This sounded so much like Concord phll oecphy that the man then and there resolvei to wrlto a book. i' * ' " * * * j * . * FRANK Q. CARPENTER IN HIS BOLIVIAN MASK ON TOP OF TUB ANDES , 1898 Plum Creek Massacre WHITING , la. , Jan. 14. To the Editor of The Sunday Illustrated Bee : In your Issue of this date I see an article on the Plum creek massacre of the Fletcher outfit of Sidney , In. , written by George M. Thomas of Nebraska City. On ono point he le mis informed. Of the two women who escaped death nt the time , neither committed sui cide , but one of them , crazed by seeing her husband shot down by her side , and her little boy brained while she held him by the hand , cither could not or would not mount a pony to go on with them. After punish ing her severely to no purpose , a volley of twenty arrows ended her misery , and the villains went on. Often the papers review the facts during the last twenty years , but ono of the most remarkable episodes of that massacre seems to have been forgotten. A girl baby , from a year to a year and ft half old , by some means wholly unknown , escaped. The next day troops were sent from Fort Kearney to try to punish the Indians , and it happened that ono Jake Fletcher was among those soldiers. He was also a relative of the Fletchers In the murdered outfit , and of the captive Nan Fletcher , now Nan Stevens , who was ransomed and returned to her friends and who now lives near Jefferson , la. While digging ft trench to bury the dead , Jnko Fletcher discovered a child a half mile up the trail and went for the child , which was nearly famished for want ot food and drink , and when refreshed said her name was Hattle. When taken among the dead and asked which was papa , she went and touched ono of the corpses , so swollen , bloody and blackened that her accuracy was doubted. Tried from several standpoints she went to the same corpse. On examina tion n pocketbook was found with no money In it , but a note running to n merchant at Sidney , la. , recently cancelled and made originally by William Smith. A diary in the pocket bore on the flyleaf the name Will Smith , Sidney , In. , and In it was evidence that Will Smith had worked for a year or more for Judge Bosbyskill In Fremont county , Iowa. Years of correspondence with many parties who knew Will Smith fall utterly to show who Will Smith's relatives are , or where they live , or where he came from originally , and I write this now with the hope that it may catcli the eye of some party who can and will enlighten me In the matter. When the dead had been buried the soldiers started back to the fort , taking the little girl with them. On tholr way they met a long train of emigrants bound to Helena , Mont. A woman In the train became Interested In the child and learning that there wore no women at the fort , offered to takp her to Helena and place her where she could bo carefully cared for. She took her and placed her with an Irish woman at Helena , who promised volubly that she "would rise her tinderly and very dacent , " but she soon began to beat the child bru tally on the slightest provocation. One day a miner saw the woman administering a largo dose of "tlnderness" to the little waif and offered to buy the child at $10 cash , and was told to pass over his money and "take the dlvll'e own brat. " The girl was placed In a family where she received fairly good tteatment until she was a beautiful woman of 19 , when she married a man from south western Oregon whoso father was killed by the Rogue lllver Indians when the son was about 10 years old. The tribe was soon In open warfare against the whites and many a bravo lay down and quit the light , in duced to that course by lead from that boy'e rlllo. Ho knew the Indians well , their hab its , language and haunts , and ho soon be came Invaluable as a scout and a most im placable fee of the Indian seeking blood Ho never laid his Winchester asldo till the last ono had sought peace or the happy hunting grounds. His last scrap with Indi ans was in Montana. While at Helena hemet met the wnlf of the Plum creem massacio and what more natural than that ho should marry her. They are living happily In his old homo In the Rogue river valley , blcet with live interesting children , but often a seriousness overtakes the mother and when' atkcd the cause , It is ever the same : 'Oh , I do wish I knew one of my relatives , for 1 am so tired of wondering who I really am. " Can any of your readers write mo what she wishes to know ? Very respectfully , J. II. MORHIS. Reflections of a Bachelor New York Press : Probably the first thing Adam said after ho saw Eve was that ho wished ho Jiad his rib back again. 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