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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
"What are you thinking about now?”
asked his wife, sharply.
“Why,” began Galey. “the Cornell
Widow tells an awfully good story
about—"
"Indeed!" interrupted Mrs Galey,
freezingly. "Where did you n et *hie
interesting lady, may I inquire?'—jj.
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