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TALES ABOUT TOM TIBBLES
Stirring Incident! in the Career of Leader
of Nebraska Populists.
MATERIAL FOR A DIME . NOVEL HERO
A Friend ot John Brown, Student
of Peter Cooper and Chummy with
General Crook Contest for
Indian RIhU.
"The candidate for vlciy president on the
populist ticket, Thomas H. Tibbies, has
hsd as adventurous a career as the hero
of a dln.o novel." So concludes the New
York Sun, which prints several columns
of breesy biography of Nebraska's eminent
citizen, editor and politician. The Sun's
story is Instructive, full of breezy Inci
dents end anecdotes, many of them new
to the younger generation. It follows, In
part:
Thomas Henry Tibbies was born In Wash
ington county, Ohio, in 1810. When 6 ho
ran away from home and joined an emi
grant wagon train sent out by Henry
Ward Beecher in the movement to settle
Kansas and make it a free state.. On ar
riving In Kansas he Joined the forces ot
the anti-slavery party In the border war.
Colonel Titus was In command of the bor
der ruffians, and General Donaldson; fed
eral marshal, appointed by President Bu
chanan, was at the head of the free staters.
During one ot their first engagements Tib
bies was eaptured by the enemy, tried and
convicted by a drumhead courtmartlul ot
being an abolitionist and sentenced to b ment which he was going to establish in
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He tVas taken to Fort Titus that night
and confined in a tent. Guards were sta
tioned around it with Instructions to shoot
him if he tried to escape or his friends at
tempted to rescue him.
The next morning he was awakened bf
a volley of musketry. His tent was riddled
with bullets and one of the guards rush
ing In, thrust a muxket in his face anij
fired. At the same instant Tibbies Invol
untarily raised his arm and struck the gun.
The action saved his life, but the bullet
plowed through one ear, and he bears
the scar of It today.
Running out of the tent, he saw the free
state force on a nearby hill, and started
toward them on a run. In the early light
lils friends did not recognize him and began
firing at him. Ills enemies behind did the
same thing, and for a moment Tibbies was
between two fires. Seventeen bullet hole
In his clothes, one In his shoulder, one In
his arm and one In his leg were proof of (
his nan-ow sscape .
Ills friends were
rifles. Jocularly known as "Beecher's Bl
bles." Seizing one of them, he took pari
In the fighting, and soon Fort ;Tltus sur.
rendered.
"His plan was to capture the' arsenal at
Harper's Ferry, arm all the negroes and
prpclaim a new government. I argued with
the old man all night, and tried hard to
dissuade him from the project. I told him
It was treason and was bound to fall.
When I left him I thought he had relin
quished his scheme, but, of course, the sub
sequent events proved that he hadn't."
Chasing llurae Thieves.
His Kansas experience only whetted
young Tibbies' dvpetite for adventure, and
he next took part in a movement to rid
the country of horse thieves. His very
first experience come near being his last,
for somebody gave him a dose of strych
nine In a saloon one night, and a local
doctor pulled him through only by the nar
rowest kind of a margin. Ultimately they
succeeded In breuklng up the gangs of
horse thieves that Infested both Missouri
and Kansas.
During the- civil war he had a set-to with
Wi.antreu. One day, while In auest of
ci...nn norse tnieves, he was separated from his
rn c "DornKa.'. Ttl- . .
inenas nnu was caught by a party
ot Quuntrell's men. He was taken before
Quantiell ajid naked to tell the where
abouts of his friends.
When he refused Quantrell called for a
halter and his men strung Tibbies from a
limb of a tree. At the last moment they
Like Divy Crocket's Coon.
' As soon as the white flag went up Tib
bies dashed down the hill to find Titus,
Seeing him come out of the fort, he or- cut him down, but still he refused to giv
dered him to stand. Up went Colonel Tl
tus' hands, as he exclaimed:
"Dou't shoot; I surrender."
In the fight Captain Chambry of the free
staters was mortally wounded, and the no
torious Captain Walker took command. The
events which Immediately followed are
best told In Mr. Tibbies' own words:
"When I got old Titus among our boye
Captain Walker put him on a horse, and,
turning to me, said:
" 'Tib, have you a revolver?"
" 'No,' I answered.
" Well, here's one,' said Walker, ana,
the Information. ' They strung him un a
second time and again cut him down, only
to meet with the same refusal. Then
Quantrell ordered his men to string Tib
bies up again and leave him for good and
i all.
1 Quantrell's instructions were carried out,
! but Tibbies' friends arrived in time to save
him.
Following close on the events of the war
began Tibbies' Indian experiences. Gen
eral Crook, the fujnous Indian fighter, and
Tibbies were friends, and both were Inl-
tiated into the secrets of the Indian fra
i ternlty, which corresDonds to FVe urn-
putting one in my hand and pointing to aenry among the whites. The sign of mein
our luckless captive, he told me to shoot j ters hip Is certain scars on ths back, the
result of wounds made with a knife. To
this day Tibbies carries these scars.
When, in 1879, Tibbies was manna-inn
editor of the Omaha Herald, General Crook
him dead,
"I took the gun, and after a moment's
thought, handed It back to Walker, say
ing: 'I can't shoot a prisoner.' -
"Walker replaced the revolver in his ! wa m command of the Department of ths
pocket snd we continued our march. Two Platte, with headquarters nt Omaha.
Kansas histories publish pictures of this "One night," says Tibbie, 'Crook. who
Incident, with explanatory notes saying I wus a man of very quiet demeanor, came
that Walker is trying to wrest the gun I 'nto niy office looking troubled.
from me while I am trying to shoot the old
man. That is decidedly untrue, and this
Is, I believe, the first time that the true
story has been told."
Campaigning; with John Brown.
In 1856 Tibbies Joined the troops under
John Brown and fought the ruffians nt
'What's the matter?" I asked.
" 'Tom,' said Crook nfter a long pause,
'I've been on the plains for thirty years
and I've had all kinds of experiences, but
I've never known anything so cruoi and
inhuman as these orders from Washington.'
I "furl BxKura nn- than onra... . --
Lawrence. Speaking of his relatione with ,,,.. , .,. .
, TuM. .,.. Interior, and Ae had issued an order to
Brown, Mr. Tibbies says
"John Brr-rn was undoubtedly Insane,
and was not rerponslble for his acts. Hs
committed deeds In those days that to my
mind were cold-blooded murder.
"He believed that he had been sent by
God to perform a .mission in life, and that
mission was to free the negroes. Before
every fight he would make his men kneel
down and pray.
"Once ha captured four ruffians, and,
pointing a gun at them, ordered them to
have all the Indians driven oft their reser
vations and sent to Indian Territory. The
Ponca tribe was sent from their reserva
tion in northern Nebraska, and on the trip
one-third of them died.
"Old Standing Bear was chief of the
Poncas and his only son took sick. Before
he died he asked his father to send hit
body back to his old home for burial.
Standing Bear promised, end when his son
died ths body was put In a box and ten
bucks started with it back to the rcserva-
pray that the negroes would be freed. In ' tlon.
vain they protested, but the old I captain , ..,t . ml(Jwlmr. an4 th8 mtl bun,,
was obdurate. They prsyed. and pray.d .uffed Knmt hard.hlpB. rhe ehlef of the
bard. I Omahas. Iron Eva. hoarri nt th.ir rnmlnv
"Later, while at Mount Union college,
Ohio. I got a nots from Brown. It was
Just before his famous raid, and he asked
me to meet hlin.
1 wss elw.ys a great favorite of
Brown's. I met him as he desired and he
shewed me all his plans. He shewed me
a whrle constitution and laws which he
ntMt drawn up for Uw use of a new govern-
and Invited them to stay with hlin until
spring. Standing Bear accepted. The In
dian agent heard of the old warrior s leav
ing the territory- and telegraphed to Crook
to send a detachment of soldiers to Fort
Omaha and drive Standing Bear and his
ten followers back. These were the orders
which had so greatly upset the genersl.
"He asked me to belp biro. I told him
It would probably mean ruination for both
of us, as we would have to fight the whole
Indian ring. We talked it over to daylight,
and then I decided to give up my Journal
istic work and help him. ' '
General Crook's Speech.
" We shook hands, nnd with tears in his
eyes Crook promised to do anything for
me but make a speech. Although I prom
ised then never to ask him to make one,
I broke the promise afterward, for in Bos
ton. In the, old South Church, before a big
gathering of Indian sympathizers, I intro
duced the old Indian fighter as one who
had something to say. With white face
and trembling hands, the Intrepid warrior
who led one of the greatest cavalry charges
ever known, that at Cedar Creek, got up,
after one last agonizing appeal to me to
save him, and said:
" 'Ladies and Gentlemen: I've fought In
dians for thirty years. In all that time I
have never known the government to keep
a treaty with the Indians, and I have never
known an Indian tribe to be the first to
break one. That's all.'
"The day after the all-night conference
I resigned my position as editor and called
a church meeting in Omaha. It resulted In
all the ministers and the prominent men of
the city sending a telegram to Washington
asking that the order be rescinded.
"The request was refused, so I began a
suit In habeas corpus proceedings, based
on the fourteenth amendment of the fed
eral constitution. The case was trjed be
fore Judge Dundy, and the contention was
that the Indians were citizens of the
United States, and were entitled to the pro
tection of the law.
"Judge Dundy held that the Indians were
not citizens, but released them, all tlite
same, and old Standing Bear was allowed
to carry out the dying wishes of his son."
Bright Byes on the scene.
It was at this time that Mr. Tibbies met
the Indian maiden Bright Eyes, whom he
afterward married. While the case was
being tried he wrote, to Dr. Dorsey, an
ethnologist in the employ of the Smith
sonian institution, who was then at the
reservation at Omaha, for Indian wit
nesses. '
Dr. Dorsey sent Bright Eyes, who was
the daughter of Chief Iron Eyes. She was
beautiful and well educated. Justice Miller
of the United States supVeme court, who
was also Interested in the rase, said she
was the most remarkable Indian girl tie
had ever seen.
.After Judge Dundy's decision Bishop
Clarkson of Nebraska and James Cook
urged Mr. Tibbies to continue the fight. He
did so with vigor, and for the next five
years lectured on Indian reforms all over
the United States. To push the matter still
further; one presidential election day Mr.
Tibbies went to 'Omaha and Induced John
Elk, a full-blooded Indian, to go to the
polls and vote.
The election officers refused to allow Elk
to cast a ballot, and through Mr. Tibbies
hs brought suit against the United States
government for 110,(100 damages. In the end
he was defeated.
Then Mr. Tibbies tried to get congress
to pass an act enfranchising the red men,
and finally succeeded In getting passed the
Dawes severalty bill. This he regarded as
giving to the Indiana substantially the
rights for which hs had been contending.
To celebrate the victory, a great meeting
was held in Boston, st which, besides
many other notables, there were present
Longfellow, Helen Hunt Jackson. Thomns
Wcntworth Hlgglnaon, E. E. Hals snd
Oovernor Long. After the meeting Long
fellow gave a dinner and stood st the door
of his house welcoming the guests. When
Bright Eyes came along, the poet, taking
her by the hand, said to a group of friends:
"This Is Minnehaha."
The poet evinced a greet fondness for the
Indian girl, and on one ocranlnn said:
"I have been a student of English ell my
life, yet It I could speak the language as
that child does I would think that I had
accomplished something."
Mr. Tibbies was always very proud of his
wife. She died In May. 1903. She was
christened Yosette La Flesche. Her mother
was a daughter of Nl-Ko-Ml (Voice of the
Waters), who was of Omaha and Iowa de
scent. Bright Eyes was born in Bellevue, Neb.,
In 1S54. When 8 years old she entered the
school on the Omaha reservation. She
soon learned to speak English with ease
and rapidity. Her Intelligence and beauty
made her a favorite among the teachers,
and one, an Eastern girl, kept up a cor
respondence with Bright Eyes after leav
ing the reservation.
seeking" an Education.
This teacher one Christmas wrote to
Bright Eyes and asked her what she most
desired. Instead of asking for a new dress,
a string of beads or pretty ribbons, she
replied that the thing she wished for most
was to have a good education. Impressed
by the tono of the letter, the teacher made
arrangements with the principal of a
school at Elizabeth, N. J., whereby Bright
Eyes won a chance to obtain her desire.
. For four years Bright Eyes attended
school in Elizabeth and took every prize
offered. Then, graduating with highest
honors, she returned to her reservation.
The three years which followed, she often
said,' were the unhapplest ot her life, and
but for a copy of Shakespeare and the
Bible she believed she would have gone
mud.
One day while reading the rules govern
ing the reservation she discovered a pro
vision that any qualified Indian was to bo
preferred over a white person for any
position in the Vidian service. She re
solved then to beoome a teacher. But in
numerable difficulties remained to be sur
mounted. Letter after letter to the commissioner
of Indian affairs and to Mr. Schurs fa1 lei
to be answered. Finally she announced
that she would appeal to the American
people through the press. That brought
a reply and she waa sent to Tacoma. to try
an examination.
8he mounted a pony, rode to Tacoma,
passed the examination and was then told
she could not teach without a certificate
of good churacter. Whitelaw Reld gavt
her a certificate, and finally Bright Eyes
got a place as teacher for X a month.
Other teachers were getting 140. On this
amount she fed, clothed and provided tor
the members ot her family and the puptlt
she taught until she married Mr. Tibbies.
She accompunled her husband on all hl
lecturing tours and was herself an attrac
tive speaker. After a lecturing tour
abroad Mr. and Mrs. Tibbies settled down
In Lincoln, Neb. Mr. Tibbies engaged in
newspaper work and Mrs. Tibbies wrote
magazine articles.
for his love of liquor. One night he thought
he ' heard a burglar In his quurters, so,
pistol in hand, he stepped across the hall
to the dlninz room door.
Sure enough there stood an intruder at
the sideboard, where the silverware wus
displayed.
"What are you doing there?" salde the
captain, covering his man with the gun.
"'Getting a drink, of whisky," the burglar
answered, calmly filling a glass from one
of the captain's bottles.
The fellow's serene audacity appealed to
the brave contain.
"Say," said he, lowering his pistol, "make
It two." Brooklyn Eaglo.
He Didn't WM- Much,
"I've seen a good many different sorts of
tramps," recently remarked a woman who
lives in the suburbs, "but the prize article
stopped at my house the other day. I hap
pened to be in the kitchen when he knocked
at the door.
" 'Lady,' he said te the cook, 'would you
be so kind as to give a poor man a drink
of water?'
"The cook picked up a glass and held it
out, pointing to the pump.
'Thank you very much lady,' said the
tramp, without niovlng a muscle, 'aud now
if you'll please hold that glass and ths
other lady kindly work the pump handle
we won't be long.' "Philadelphia Press.
The OK General Again.
The old general has bten reminiscing for
me acaln. This true story is one of the
results.
In the days of frontier army posts and
Indian fighting a certain captain was as
famous for his courage as he was notorious
HE WOULDN'T BE SEARCHED
Strong Circumstantial Evidence Re
vealed In R Sleeping Car
Incident.
"Several years ago I took a late train
from Boston to New York," said a man In
business in Kansas City. "In the morning
I was awakened earlier than usual by the
porter, who said that a robbery had been
committed In the sleeper during the night,
and that all the passengers would have to
get up. Someone had taken six $100 bills
from the clothing of a gentleman who oc
cupied a berth In the middle of the car.
Every section had been taken before we
left Boston and as the train had been al
most constantly In motion It seemed cer
tain that the person who had committed
the theft was still on the car. The porter
said no one had been aboard but the pas
sengers, and that none of them had left.
It wus proposed to search everybody. A
man who had a berth directly opposite
from the one who had been robbed ob
jected. He told his name nnd sold anyone
might easily find that he was a man of
Sood reputation. In the meantime some
officers boarded the car, and after a little
sweating, got the money from the colored
porter, who was the guilty one. Then the
passenger who had refused to be searched
asked the officers to examine his pockets.
This seemed strange, but he Insisted. In
an Inside pocket they found six 1100 bills.
It was merely a coincidence that he should
have the same amount of money as the
other passenger had lost, and in exactly
the same denominations, but he knew that
under the circumstances he could hardly
establish his Innocence. How was that for
a case of circumstantial evidence?" Kan
sua City Star.
FURY OF ANTARCTIC STORMS
Driving Force of a Southern Gale Ei
- perlenced by n Ship's Crew
In July.
. On the Fourth of July I wore a heavy
watch coat and boots; the enow fell on
an average over one foot In depth; the air
was filled with sleet and snow; the atn o
phere was gray, the horizon close, the
wind blowing a gale, but steady for days.
We carried only the three "courses" and
three topsails, the main -topgallant fall,
spanker and Inner Jib. Our speed was
terrific. By patent leg and reckoning both,
we made over sixteen knots twenty stat
ute miles an hour a mile In three min
utes under shirt sail. . . .
The weird atmoapher of such a situa
tion Is difficult to be Imagined or described,
especially at night. In July to be clad as
In the cold of midwinter; to look cut on
the steel-gray air, thick with He-t or
blinding snow; to look up to a starless sky;
to. feel shut In by a closely clrcumtc. t'.sl
dome and tbe horizon; to watch the huge
racing waves furiously rhsklng out their
fnara and spray; to feel the steady on
bearing impact of the swift rushing cur
rent, hurrying unobstructedly like a resist
kos fate, wide rouud tbe globe; to bo
dinned by the Incessant roar of the sus
tained gale;, to see, but not hear, the night
watch, muffled against the rigor of the
cold and storm, moving like ghosts; to hear
the grinding roar of the cordage and the
report like artillery of the bellying Sett
as it occaFlorally flapped; to feel the fierce.
bodefu almost human leap of the ship,
as it answered to the shifting wheel; to
realize that you are In unknown waters
on untried routes; that. In case of dis
aster, there Is not the slightest chance for
rescue these ere senrations,, once experi
enced, never to be forgotten Frank J.
Mather In the Atlantic.
PERILS LURK THE STUMP
Senator Depew Warns Spellbinders
Against Getting Gay and Ex
pecting Much.
When campaigning in a western town
some years ago, relates Senator Depew, I
had an experience which will serve at
commentary upon the attitude of the peo
ple concerning humor as an ally In a po
litical campaign.
The night before the one upon which I
was to speak, a gentleman who was dis
tinguished for hie magnificent eloquence
and convincing arguments held the au
dience for two hours and a half local his
torians whispered that fully two-thirds of
the assemblage left before' the gentleman
hud finished, , snd the papers the . next
morning chronicled the event and acclaimed
a second "Daniel Webster."
The speech was reported In full, It waa
burdensome reading to me; but the orator
had appreciated the fact that the public
demands sonorous eloquence and ponderous
wisdom, He had given it to them.
Contrary to established custom and waiv
ing time-honored tradition, I Inserted fn
my speech as much humor and wit as waa
consistent with the dignity and the serious
ness of the occasion. It was gratifying te
me to note that the audience stayed In tire
hall until my lecture was ended. The
laughter and the applause that greeted m
afterward were pleasing to my ears. Ths
chairman coming up to me and shaking
hands with me said:
"Mr. Depew, your speech has won mora
votes tonight than"any other speech In the
campaign."
I looked In the papers the next, morning
expecting, naturally enough, to see a re
port of my speech; and I suffered a little
mortification when I saw only a short
notice of the meeting, and at the end of
the paragraph, "Mr. Depew gave a char
acterlstlcally witty speech."
This was the public estimate of my ef
forts; the press merely voiced the tradi
tions of the people.
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