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Loup City Northwestern J. W. BURLEIGH, Publisher LOUP CITY, - - NEBRASKA The Flood of Laws. Press dispatches carried out of Washington the other day a state ment from Col. W. M. Palmer, in charge of the enrolled bills of the sen ate, regarding the marked increase in the number of acts passed by congress during the past few years. The Fifty sixth congress, he declares, passed 1,962 measures; the Fifty-seventh, 2, 871; the Fifty-eighth, 4,041; the Fifty ninth, 6,940, and the Sixtieth, 9,711. In ten years, it will be seen, the num ber of bills enacted increased more than 400 per cent., whereas prior to that time, according to the same au thority, the number of measures en acted into law varied little from con gress to congress. There is no data at hand by which the merits and de merits of this deluge of new legisla tion can be justly measured. Many of the bills, without doubt, were classed as "private legislation,” which has increased enormously of late years—bills to pension claimants inel igible under the general laws, and the like. But it is fairly plain that no such mass of legislation could have been thoroughly studied or digested by the members of either house prior to its enactment, and that much of it, for that reason, was probably mere tricious and a good deal positively harmful. Xot the least of the benefits derived front the rural mail by any means is the responsibility it creates for the maintenance of good roads in com munities that desire the service. At Atlanta, Mo., the government revoked a rural route because the people would not keep the roads along the route in good repair. It is not possible that thera are many communities in Missouri where the people would part with their rural mail service rather than exhibit the enterprise necessary to make the roads accessible for the mail carrier. If it is understood that there will be no mail service where good roads are not maintained, as the government's policy at Atlanta ap pears to indicate, then hail to the rural mail carrier as the advance agent of better roads and consequent ly a better day!—Exchange. Inoculation is now suggested as a cure for typhoid, and some experi ments to that end have answered sat isfactorily. But the proposition for a wholesale inoculation of school chil dren if typhoid threatens a community seems rather premature, especially as the ordinary vaccination system has been attended with some terrible mis takes in the way of dangerous virus. There is not the outcry these days that there used to be over new meth ods investigated by medical science, but there is even greater need of care and prudence in applying apparently successful experimentation. It is announced that the package freight steamers running in the lake trade in connection with railroad lines will start two weeks earlier than they did last season. This is evidence that business in general is picking up rap idly, as the liners would not start were not freight conditions pressing. In a short time iron movement will begin anew, and then there will be no idle tonnage during the months in which, vessel property is usually ac tive. The strike of 4,000 Canadian coal miners, reported from Winnipeg, is a more serious development than that of the 400 anthracite miners at Pitts ton, who have laid down their picks and retired to the surface; but it is of no more importance to coal consum ers in the United States than the lit tle Pennsylvania blunder, because western Canada coal is not burned on this side of the boundary line, to any large extent. Dr. Ferrero, the Italian historian now lecturing at Lowell institute in Boston, says the odes of Horace were not written as a striving for literary merit or to express thoughts that de manded utterance, but to promote the wine industry in which he was inter ested. In other words, he was a wine agent, a sort of predecessor of Harry Lehr. Did you ever? It is well, wise and commendable to seek to spread intelligence in savage lands, but there are still men and women in the crowded centers of civ ilization who look for gas leaks with a match. It is not at all pertinent to the deterrent philosophy of the case that the seekers generally find the leaks. The American flag has been hauled down in Cuba. And never was it low ered with more credit to itself or In a better cause. It is going away as a friend from a new nation over which it might have still waved as a con quered province. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” isn't the play it used to be. The actors who take the parts of the cakes of ice do not seem to put the same enthusiasm into their work that characterized their predecessors of a generation past. Strikes are costly affairs. It is of ficially estimated that the losses sus tained by France through the late postal strike amounted to $100,000,000. Even if the strikers had won, how long would it take to make good that enor mous sum? Mexico's smelly oil well, which tar nishes metal 65 miles away and kills men, animals and birds at smaller dis tances, must be considerably more so than our own home institution, the stockyards odor. ft I BY T) IJI T Edward B. Clark r f /u_lJ^TfiAT/PA/''' Ry fcBDBsi&A/ Mr/v/i LATH Ccrr/ftc/tT «b, kXHar/Egsotf. dian wars fade rapidly from tne minds .of all persons who were not actively engaged in the hos tilities. In the ea3t the troubles in the past on the frontier held tne attention anu the interest but 1’or the moment. No ( easterner ever gave i full credit to the of- y fleers and the men ui tut: uimtu kjiotco army who faced danger after danger and withstood hardship after hardship with precious lit tle hope of any reward save the consciousness of duty well done. It is probable that not one person in a hundred can name the battle fought only 18 years ago and in which the casualties to the small force of the regu lar army engaged amounted to 90 men killed and wounded. That battle was the battle of Wounded Knee, and to-day it is nearly lost to the recollec tion of the masses. There are several officers now stationed m wasnmgton who had a part in that Dakota fight. The fight between Col. Forsythe's men of the Seventh cavalry and the band of Big Foot, the Sioux, was the result of the ghost-dance craze which had been started and fostered by the great chief Sitting Bull, on whose hand was the blood of Custer and his men. Sitting Bull was shot and killed by Indian police while resisting arrest, but he was killed too late to prevent the spread of the doctrine which he preached and which had run like pi airie fire among the men of ills nation. There were ail sorts of stories circulated concerning tion of a part of the people who preferred death to ex ile. The Cheyennes broke away. A battalion of infan try was thrown across theii tracks but the wily sav ages eluded all save a few of the soldiers, who in i » ('oim/rz )frCH£T fa/lTH \ OFd/rrm^st 3m the death of the great Sioux ctrief. Philanthro pists in the east who never had seen an Indian tepee insisted that Sitting Bull was murdered and that the blood of the savage was upon the head of the nation. It was left to Col. Edward G. Fechet, now pro fessor of military science at the University of Illinois, to learn the truth of the shooting of Sit ting Bull and to give knowledge of it to the peo ple. Col. (then captain) Fechet made one of the hardest rides known to the troops of the plains before he secured the facts in the case of the passing of the great Sioux chief to the happy hunting grounds. Sitting Bull’s home was in a log hut on the Standing Rock Indian reservation of North Dakota. In the summer of 1890 he gath ered many of his braves about him and told them in picturesque Sioux language that a Messiah was to come who would lead the Sioux nation to victory; that the whites would be annihilated; that the buffalo would come back, and that the red man would once more take pos session of the earth. Through the medicine men Sitting Bull worked so upon the feelings and the superstitions of his warriors that they came to believe that by wear ing certain garments which were called ghost shirts their bodies would be safe from the bullets of the soldiers. When Gen. Miles learned of the teachings of Sitting Bull and of their rapid spread, the chief's arrest was ordered. Accordingly Indian police led by Lieut. Bull Head and Sergt. Shave Head were dispatched from Fort Yates to arrest the chief at his log hut miles away. Capt. Fechet of the Eighth cavalry was ordered with his com mand. consisting of two troops., and, if memory serves, two light field pieces, to make a night march to Oak Creek, about 18 miles from Sitting Bull's house, there to receive the prisoner when he was turned over by Lieut. E;ull Head. Capt. Fechet and his men reached the rendez vous at 4:30 a. m. on one of the coldest mornings of a Dakota December day. There was no sign of the Indian police, nor yet of the scout which Bull Head was to send in advance to inform the cavalry officer of his coming. Fechet’s soldier instinct told him at once that there must be trouble. His men had had the hardest kind of a night ride, but they were will ing, and he pushed forward rapidly. After he had made several miles he was met by a scout who was riding like mad. The runner told Fechet that all the Indian police who had gone to arrest Sitting Bull had been killed by the ghost dancers, and that there were thousands upon thousands of them fully armed and in their war paint ready for battle. Fechet looked over his small command and went ahead at full gallop, his only thought being to save such of the policemen as might be alive, and giving no heed to the other thought that ahead of him might be overwhelming numbers of the savages and the fate of Custer. It was i terrible ride from that time on. When the morning was a little advanced the men of the command heard firing, which seemed to come from different points. On they went un til they came to the brow of the hill. Below them at a distance was the house of Sitting Bull, and in front of it, some hundreds of yards away, was a horde of ghost dancers en gaged in emptying their rifles into the log building, from which came a feeble return fire. /fCMITJLS# f//5 l/rn.£ ///A Ml/) /)/!£// Oft 7//£ //£Vfi//6. Capt. Fechet had his Hotchkiss thrown into action and he dropped a shell in front of the ghost dancers, and then the command charged down the hill. The shell had its frightening effect on the savages, who held aloof though still pouring in their fire, which was answered by the soldiers as Fechet himself took a rapid course to the log house, with his life in his hands every step of the way. Inside the hut were found three of the Indian policemen dead and three mortally wounded. The wounded, resolved on exacting a price for their coming death, were still using their rifles against the besieging foe. The soldiers finally drove the savages to flight. The few that were left living of the little force of Indian police told this story. Lieut. Bull Head had arrested Sitting Bull and had led the chief from his cabin only to be confronted by hundreds of crazed savages. Catch-the-Bear and Strike-the Kettle, two of Sitting Bull’s men, strode through the Indian ranks, raised their rifles and fired. Bull Head was shot through the body. Dying, he turned quickly and killed Sitting Bull. Strike-the Kettle killed Sergt. Shave Head. Instantly Po liceman Lone Man killed Catch-the-Bear. Then the surviving policemen sought shelter in the cabin and held off the ghost dancers as has been told. With the Rosebud, Standing Rock and Pine Ridge Sioux, who went on the warpath in De cember, 1890, were a few stalwart warriors of the tribe of the Northern Cheyennes. That the Chey ennes braves were so limited in number was due to the fact that 12 years before the nation, exiled and longing for its old home, had met with prac tical annihilation in the attempt to regain it. The Northern Cheyennes had been sent to a reservation in the Indian territory following one of the uprisings against the whites. Their hearts they left behind them in their old home and the warriors yearned to return. Late in the fall of the year 1878 the Cheyenne braves, taking advantage of the temporary ab sence of their soldier guardians, gathered to gether their women and their children and dashed northward in the direction of the land where their fathers had lived from the tinie back of the beginning of tradition. They had been told by the Indian agents and by the soldiers, who acted under orders, that they . never could take the trail back to the north, but they paid no heed to what was told them, but gathering their possessions they set out. The Cheyennes' love of home, natural and sym pathy-compelling to everyone except to those who thought that an Indian should have naught to do with home-sickness, was the cause of the destruc sharp skirmish lost their commander. Maj. Lewis. The Cheyennes broke away. A battalion of in fantry was thrown across their tracks but the wily savages eluded all save a few of the soldiers, who in a sharp skirmish lost their commander, Maj. Lewis. The trail led to one of the low hills that chain the reservation. The Cheyennes had taken refuge near the summit in a natural hollow. The sides of the hills rose sheer and slippery to the lurking place of the savages. It was a place admirably adapted for defense. A few men could hold it against a regiment. Capt. Wessels, in command of the cavalry, saw that the attempt to take the hilltop by assault would be to sacrifice the lives of half of his men. He threw a cordon around the hill, knowing that the warriors could not escape, and trusting that in a fewr hours hunger would force them to sur render. Meantime the Cheyennes were active. They picked off many a trooper, and at noon on the day following the night of their flight a ball struck Capt. Wessels in the head. The wound was not serious, but its effect was to make captain and men eager for a charge. Capt. Wessels went to the front of his troops and prepared to lead them up the slippery hillside in the face of the fire of the best Indian marksmen on the great plains. All things were prepared for the charge, when to the amazement of the troopers, the whole band of Cheyenne warriors, naked to the waist and yelling like devils, came dashing down the hill side straight at the body of cavalry. The Indians had thrown away their rifles and were armed only ■with knives. They were going to their death and they knew it, but death was better than a return to the reservation which they hated. Wessels and his troopers of the Third cavalry tried to spare the Cheyennes, but the warriors would have death at any cost. With their knives they plunged into a hand-to-hand conflict with the troopers and before they were slain they exacted a price for their dying. When the time came for the burial of the In dians, Tea Kettle, a chief, was found to be alive, but unconscious. Tea Kettle was carried back to the fort and there made comfortable. A squaw sought the wounded warrior's couch and handed him a pair of scissors which he instant ly plunged into his heart. He spurned life in the knowledge of the fact that his brother braves were dead. The Sioux nation heard of the bravery of the Cheyennes and they adopted the women and chil dren, and some of the boys, grown to manhood, went wuth the Sioux on the warpath in their last great uprising. ONE WAY TO CATCH COYOTES Indian Stratagem Secured More Than Army Officer Needed to Make Carriage Robe. “Coyotes and wolves were plentiful about the camp, and I decided to get a lot of skins and have an Indian wom an tan them, leaving the tails on, and make a carriage robe for my sititer,” Brig. Gen. R. H. Pratt, who was once stationed in Oklahoma, wrote lately to an Oklahoma acquaintance. “A Co manche named Essatoyet and his wife agreed to get the skins and tan them for a consideration, if I would give them a beef and some poison. The beef contractor sold me a beef for seven dollars. We were then paying $2.50 a hundred for the best beef for army use. I got the poison and went with Essatoyet and his wife to see them set the bait. They drove the beef to a glade a mile from camp, killed it, took the hide and reserved all the best meat for their own use, and then sprinkled the poison over the carcass. "Essatoyet had cut 30 sticks a foot and a half long and sharpened them at both ends. These he stuck in the ground in a large circle inclos ing the carcass, and on each put a chunk of liver or heart, saying as he did so: ‘Sugar, wolf heap like him.’ The next morning I went with them to see the results of our venture, and we found 27 coyotes and two large gray wolves dead about the carcass and vicinity, so I got my robe and had skins to spare."—Kansas City Star. Erect Immense Steel Shed. It is the usual custom to build ves sels under a shed, that the work may proceed without regard to weather conditions. The steel framework un der which the 900-foot White Star lin ers are to be built has just been com pleted. It covers an area 300 by 850 feet. WHAT COLORS SHALL I USE? This Question Is Important in Painting a House or Other Building. A proper color scheme Is extremely Important in painting a house. It makes all the difference between a really attractive home and one at which you wouldn't take a second glance. And it makes si big difference in the price the property will bring on the market. As to the exterior, a good deal de pends upon the size and architecture of the house, and upon its surround ings. For a good interior effect you must consider the size of the rooms, the light, etc. You can avoid disappointment by studying the books of color schemes for both exterior and interior painting, which can be had free by writing Na tional Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Building. New York, and asking for Houseowner’s Painting Outfit No. 49. The outfit also includes specifications, and a simple instrument for testing the purity of paint materials. Pure White Lead which will stand the test in this outfit will stand the weather test. National Lead Company’s fa mous Dutch Boy Painter trademark on the keg is a guarantee of that kind of white lead. ANOTHER BORING QUESTION. 11 I ii it ^ “I say, pa, is a man from Poland called a Pole?” "Yes, my son.” “Then, pa. why isn’t a man from Holland called a Hole?” CURED ITCHING HUMOR. Big, Painful Swellings Broke and Did Not Heal—Suffered 3 Years. Tortures Yield to Cuticura. ‘‘Little black swellings were scat tered over my face and neck and they would leave little black scars that would itch so I couldn t keep from scratching them. Larger swellings would appear ar.d my clothes would stick to the sores. I went to a doctor, but the trouble only got worse. By this time it was all over my arms and the upper part of my body in swellings as large as a dollar. It was so pain ful that I could not bear to lie on my back. The second doctor stopped the swellings, but when they broke the places would not heal. I bought a set of the Cuticura Remedies and in less than a week some of the places were aearly well. I continued until I had used three sets, and now I am sound and well. The disease lasted three years. O. L. Wilson, Puryear, Tenn., Feb. 8, 1908.” Potter prut Chem. Corp., Sole Props., Boston. Awake to Danger of Tuberculosis. The number of state and local anti tuberculosis societies in the United Slates has ^hown over 100 per cent, in crease during the past year; the num ber of sanitoria and hospitals for tu berculosis. nearly 30 per Cent, in crease; and the number of special tu berculosis dispensaries and clinics, over 40 per cent, increase. The rate of increase in the number of workers is estimated at over 200 per cent., and the amounts given for tuberculosis re lief have been doubled during the year. Thirty-three legislatures, out of 39 in session up to May 1, 1909, have been considering laws pertaining to the prevention or treatment of tuber culosis. In a large number of states legislation affecting this subject has already been enacted, and more laws will be passed belore the close of the spring session. The Irreparable Loss. “What has happened to me?" asked the patient when he had recovered from the effects of the ether. “You were in a trolley car accident.” said the nurse, "and it has been found necessary to amputate your right hand.” He sank back on the pillow, sob bing aloud. “Cheer up.” said the nurse, patting him on the head, "you'll soon learn to get along all right with your left hand.” “Oh, it wasn’t the loss of the hand itself that I was thinking of,” sighed the victim. “But on the forefinger was a string that my wife tied around it to remind me to get something fot her this morning, and now I'll nevei be able to remember what it wan.” FOOD FACTS What an M. D. Learned. A prominent Georgia physician went through a food experience which he makes public: “It was my own experience that first led me to advocate Grape-Nuts food and I also know', from having pre scribed it to convalescents and other weak patients, that the food is a won derful builder and restorer of nerve and brain tissue, as well as muscle. It improves the digestion and sick pa tients always gain just as I did in strength and weight very rapidly. "I was in such a low state that I had to give up my work entirely, and went to the mountains of this state, but two months there did not improve me; in fact I was not quite as well as when I left home. "My food did not sustain me and it became plain that 1 must change. Then I began to use Grape-Nuts food and in two weeks I could walk a mile without fatigue, and in five weeks returned to my home and practice, taking up hard work again. Since that time I have felt as well and strong as I ever did in my life. "As a physician who seeks to help all sufferers, I consider it a duty to make these facts public.” Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts, when the regular food does not seem to sus tain the body, will work miracles. “There’s a Reason.” Look in pkgs. for the famous little book, “The Road to Wellville.” Ever read the above letter? A new one appear* from time to time. They ■re genuine, true, and full of human Interest. MADE NEAT BIBLICAL RETORT Writer Who Expected to Score Off of Editor Met with a Really Witty Counter. Few editors have the humor am! good nature which characterize Robert H. Davis, chief of the Munsey staff and author of the play, “The Family.” A writer who had submitted a story to hip? received a courteous rejection. Seating that the fale, although charm ing, was not suited to the Munsey pub lications. In the course of a few months the story won a prize in a contest, and. highly elated, the writer dispatched the information: "Dear Mr. Davia: “Psalms 118:22. See -’s an nouncements in the current issue.” The Scriptural reference was: The stone which the builders refused is be come the head of the corner " The next mail brought Mr. Davis' answer: “Dear-: “Psalms 118:23.” The chagrined writer found that the fatal juxtaposition reads: This :s the Lord's doing: ; it is marvel ms in our eyes.” A DOUBLE EVENT. Mrs. Highfly—And has she reallv got two servants? Mrs. Flutter—Yes—one con;::'. ' and one going. His Conscience. “Will you have a cocktail, Mr. Snidgerly?” “No, my wife does not permit me to drink intoxicants of any kind. 1 “Let me buy you a cigar.” “My wife has made me promise that I will never smoke any more “ “Well, well. I wish there was some thing 1 could do to make it pleasant for you.” “Is there a naughty show of any kind in town? If so, take me to it. My wife will not be able to smldl it on my breath.” Prologue Required. During dinner Mr. Galey began to smile apropos of nothing. 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