Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 9, 1888)
14 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNDAY , DECEMBER ,0 , 1SS3.-SIXTEEN PAGES. LADIES , THIS WILL BE A GREAT N&DEICH FOS I B l Ofc V\ft d.i llcllTl Tlie T anroest C31oak , Suit and Fur Mouse in tlie West. The continuation of the warm weather into the Fall has left us a large surplu s In Ladies' , Misses's and Children's Oloaks and Dresses. In preference to carrying over the same , we have decided to make a S AGRIIT1GE I We offer 250 Ladies' and Misses' Cloaks and Suits , single garment of a style AT ONE-HALF THEIR FORMER PRICES ! COMMENCES MONDAY , 10 , AT . PROM NOW UNTIL AFTER .THE HOLIDAYS OUR STORE WILL BE KEPT OPEN EVENINGS UNTIL 9 O'CLOCK. RUN TO EARTH AND CRUSHED Mackenzie's Successful Expoditlon Against Iho Oomanohos. HE TAKES SUMMARY VENGEANCE Duel Ilrtwccn a Coiiinnclio and Ton- ftnwa Tlio Village Surprised , and the Warriors Corrnled The DcprcdntlonH landed. Indian Warfare. Far The Jtee. For Bomo years prior to 1872 north western Texas was the scone of moro massacres , murders and abductions by Indians than any other state or terri tory in the union. Ono day after an other brought to the frontier posts Bomo harrowing tale of a family being killed , their houses burned and the children carried into captivity worse than death. These stories were , uuon investiga tion by the troops , amply verified. Lit- ilo children , too young to travel , had their brains beaten out on the doorpost of the cabin , the men were staked out BO that they could not move , and Urea built upon their stomachs , and the women , after being outraged were pinned to the floor by a lance and left in that position to die by inches. * This is not a fancy sketch , but a fact f for which there are many living wit- . nesses. f This having continued for some time , ft the United States troops wore called upon to act , and they took ample re venge. The state of Texas did organize rangers , but they wore found to be of little use at the time. On their nrst expedition they were attacked and their horses stampeded and they arrived in Fort Griflln packing their saddles ; a very scared and dejected looking crowd. In the spring of 1871 General Mac kenzie received orders for an expedi tion , and his regiment , the Fourth cav alry , and about ono hundred Tonlcawa Indians scouts wore ordered out ; in all about six hundred men. After inarch- fng for several hundred miles in a northwesterly direction , into the then unknown region of the pan-handle of the state , the site of the village was located ; but being entirely out of ra ' tions Mackenzie returned' a point near Fort Griflln to relit. After recruiting his command the general made a forced march and got within about eight miles of the village , but finding that the Indians were on the alert , by seeing thorn on the hills in his front , ho again halted. At about 8 o'clock in the afternoon while the horses wore grazing and the troopers were preparing their supper , a sudden attack was made by about five hundred Indians , mounted on their war ponies and painted up in great Btylo. "Thoro was mounting in hot haste " and the Tonkawas , on their war ponies led the advance. A chaivo was ordered ; but the jaded horses of the cavalry could not begin to overtake the fresh , active ponies of the redskins. Aftqr an ineffectual charge the cav alry would halt , and the Indian scouts would then take the field. Then fol lowed a most interesting exhibition of Indian warfare. About widway between the lines , about three hundred yards apart , thov would moot. Ono line would turn to i the right , the other to the left , and throwing themselves to the right and loft of their horses respectively , would dash past each other , firing as they passed. The war-cry of the Comanches , bounding like : Ha-ha-ha-ha , would bo followed , by the Touknwa , Ah-kun-ak- hn , commenced inn whisper , but rising to the full power of their voice. The war-cry would bo followed by such taunts as : "Como on you Tonlcawa buaws [ , " "Come on you Conmneho old women. " Among the Tonkawas was an old man named by the soldiers 'Moo1 ; ho was the medicine man of the tribe ; a fellow but little over five feet in height , and almost as broad as ho was long. Becom ing enraged at the taunts of a certain Comanche ho challenged him to a duel. It was accepted. Both turned their horses at the same time and dashed towards each other , one lying on one side of his pony , the other on the oppo site side. When within a few yards two puffs of smoke were seen , and the Comuneho chief dropped heavily from his pony. He had hardly struck the ground before Old .Too was upon him. His knife gleamed twice in the air as ho blabbed his opponent to the heart. With a circular move ment of his knife ho removed the scalp and ears of his enemy , and shaking the ghastly trophy in tlio face of the Com manding who were charging up to cap ture him. ho dashed buck to the lines. Finding it impossible to accomplish anything in the then condition of his horse , General Mackenzie wont into camp. A council of war was subsequently held , and the war chief of the Tonka- was stated it as his belief that the Com- manchcs were simply trying to draw the troops away from the village which lay as ho believed some twelve miles east of'their position. Acting upon this advice , after leaving a strong guard with the pack-mules. General Macken zie at midnight moved out with his com mand , enjoining the strictest silence. At about S o'clock the village was seen , and dispositions made for an attack at daylight. Ono troop was sent to the further end of the village by a circui tous route ; one was posted on the left , and another on the right , , and two troops at the upper end. The signal for the attack was to bo two shots from General Mackenzie's re volver. * The moments passed very slowly to the waiting troops. Babies could bo heard crying and roosters crowing in the village , the day was beginning to dawn , but still no signal shot was fired. Just before the sun rose an Indian came out of the wigwam nearest to the lines where Mackenzie stood and stretched himself. Immediately the signal shots wore fired and a simultaneous attack was made. The surprised redskins dashed out of the tepees , rillo in hand. They first charged to one hide and were re pulsed ; they then tried the other side , with like result. They wore completely hemmed in. All this time the olfectivo fire of the cavalry was playing havoc with them. Finally , with a frantic rush they broke through the lines und made their escape. On the field the bodies of fifty-three wore found , and over one hundred and fifty squaws and pappooscs were cap- urcd , and in the neighborhood of six liundrcd ponies. Their whole winter supplies of pemmican ( dried ' meat ) , etc. Tlio loss to the troops wa's very slight , Lho surprise was so complete. A sergeant , as ho was passing over Lho field after tlio light , saw a little threo-yoar-old sliding through the long jrnss. Reaching down ho gripped him jy the breech-clout ami lifted him up to the gaddlo in frontof him. lie caught i Tartar , however. The baby did not cry , but ho bit and scratched and fought like a little fiend incarnate , and the sergeant was not sorry when ho had turned him over to one of tlio captured squaws. By General Mackenzie's order , the entire village and "tores were destroyed by lire , the six hundred ponies shot , and the squaws and children brought to Texas. Tlio squaws and children wore subso- quqntly exchanged at Fort Sill for two white girls who had long boon hold in captivity. This expedition of General Macken zie's practically put an end to depreda tions in Texas. The Indians , after the loss of all their ponies and winter sup plies , wore only too glad to return to the reservation , and their rai'ds completely ceased. General Mackenzie , a major general of volunteers before ho was twenty-five , and who was regarded most highly by General Grant and fairly idolized by the people of Texas , is now hopelessly insane in BloomingUalo asylum , in Now York. That "Torrltiic Ont.li , ' . COUNCIL BiiUKKs , Iowa , Doc. 1. To THE BISK : In your issue of Sunday appeared an article under the caption of "Facts about Little Phil" written by Henry 1) . Gregg , a former private secretary - rotary of General Sheridan. The writer says : It is popularly supposed cwinj ; to Bu chanan Head's poem that ho [ SheridanJ was addicted to usinp strong Inngimco nt times. This is a mistake. AH the time I was with him I never heard an oath from his lips except mi occasioniil-"By pad. " Few people know what "tho terrible oath" mentioned by Head really was. Hiding along the ranks of his routed troops at Cedar Creek he shouted "Face the other way , wo are ROitig back to our camps. I'll sleep in my camp to-night or I'll sleep in hell" ! Truly this was a terrible oath but there wiis nothing vulgar about it. With ail due doflcrcnco to Mr. Gregg I wish to enter a protest against a part of that statement , it was the fortune of ray regiment tlio 116th Now York Infantry , to be with General Sheridan in his campaign on the Valley of the Shenandoah. Wo were at Cedar Creek and participated in the defeat without Sheridan and victory with him of that historic battle. No soldier will over forgot the moment ho saw Sheridan dash upon the field. lie came as an incarnation of irristiblo energy and in vincible power , and it awoke the rank and file of that retreating army to a consciousness that that which Sheridan revealed was theirs as well as his. The courage of the soldier responded to the bravery of tlio generaland the invincibility of the line joined hands with the irristiblo en ergy of its heroic leader. On the part of the army it was an instantaneous recognition of its own power which it had lost sight of in the suddenness of Karly's attack , and the confusion which followed. Sheridan was intuitively conscious of all this , and ho implicitly rolled upon it , else ho never would have "right about faced" the retreat ing columns or dared to assume the of fensive. Those were the conditions created by Sheridan's appearance , and ho was too great a soldier to hazard any advantage which they gave to the situation. In the emergency which then existed Sheridan's appeal was not to brute force , but to the heroic soul of his sol diers. It was not a requisition for more cannon , or a demand for more bayonets , but for the ignition of tlio lire of battle service in tlio consciousness of every veteran. In doing this ho called upon the flying soldiers to "face the other way" with terrible earnestness , but that ho ever added 'TU sleep in my cam ) ) to-night or I'll sloop In lit-lll" is open to the grave sui-pieiou of the or iginal being enlarged upon by a fiery imagination. Such an expres sion from a commanding of ficer would have done nioro to destroy the fighting morale of the army than a successful flank movement by the enemy or an unexpected enfilad ing fire. The American soldier , under neath whatever rough exterior ho chose to appear , maintained a conscious sentiment of _ dependence upon a higher power , to trifle with which in a great emergency would have boon a greater shock than the shockof battle. What Sheridan did say. as I remember it. was "Face the other wny. ' ' which left his lips as a command that must not bo dis obeyed. to which ho added "We'll lick hell out of them yet. " tie never stopped to see whether the men faced the other way or not. but with his spurs close to his black charger's flanks ho dashed on to reach the immediate scone of battle. When he arrived there. Ouster rode up to him and exclaimed , "General , we're whip ped.1 "Not by a d'n bight , " replied Sheridan , who proceeded to give him orders what to dog I\ was .standing within twenty feet of tlifcm at the time. Our column was at > oiu-e faced about and the Nineteenth and Sixth corps commenced to form in line with their faces towards thoonqm J Wo wore then beyond the range of , the enemy's bul lets. but as BOOH us we could be got in readiness wo were marched back to meet Marly 's victorious columns and to check their further advance. This wo did. Then we were nllqwcd to rest un til quite late in the afternoon , I think until about 4 o'clock , when "attention" was bounded and General Sheridan rode along the line apparently looking everyman in the face and "I man remarking , ex pect every man to do his duty ; wo are going to sleep in our old camp grounds to-night. " The result is well known : we did sleep in our "old cam ] ) grounds" and the noai'cst our thoughts ever came to the warm regions below was when Sheridan would remark as ho rode among the boys who were pursu ing Early 's routed army , "Give them hell , boy&I" It was not elegant , but wo all felt that it was appropriate. R. C. Ht'imAJin. She Didn't Scare. Detroit Free Press : "Say , fellers , ' ho remarked to a crowd in a grocery the other evening , "I know how we can have some fun. " Several parties asked him to explain , and he said : "My wife is always tolling how bravo she is , and what she'd do in an emer gency , and 1 want to take her down a pegI believe bhe'd scare like a cat. I want ono of you to go to the back door and do ugly and sassy and demand supper , and ben if she won't fly out of the front. " Ono of the crowd said he'd cheerfully go. and go ho did , while the others posted themselves in front. By and by a woman came to the door , looked up and down , and baid to a boy who was passing : "Bubby , won't you go over to the store and toll iny husband to come over ; ' " "Ycs'm. " "Needn't hurry any. but just drop in if it's convenient. " When the crowd came over they found the volunteer lying on his back in the rear yard , unconscious , and his nose broken , and the wife said : "Ho wanted supper and was uirly about it , and so I laid him out with a flat-iron. " And an hour later , when the poor man felt of his nose and wanted to know who was to pay damages , echo sadly answered "Who1" ; Fuctsi , Figures nnd Fancies Anent Chained Lightning. NEW SYSTEM OF TELEGRAPHING A Peculiar Case 'lelopnonic ll"volu- tIon American Klcctrialaiis In London Klcctricnl Phenom ena W lih TornndocH. A Peculiar Case. Commercial Advertiser : There is a lnd.\ now living in Cleveland. O. , upon whom an electric shock has loft the most remarkable trace. Some fourteen years ago. during a thunder storm , she was so shocked as to bo partly para lyzed for borne days , and since then , whenever there is a storm , though she suffers no pain and retains speech and coiibciousncbS , she lo es all muscular power , and only regains it when the weather grown calm. She feels bharply the dillomiee in a storm confined to the upper currents and one that stirs all the aerial deeps. In a mountainous , broo/y region , she says , the electric in fluence is not so strong as in one whore the hum is level and the air measurably calm. * Tlie only preventive she has is to go indoors and shut herself into a room darkened and lit with gas. Kvon thoro. if the storm lasts a few hours , she is overcome by it , though the fall or absence of rain makes but little difference in her condition. iuMii Klrutricians in London. Electrical World : George Westing- house's electric company has been awaidcd the contract for a plant to light the city of London , to cost about $ 'fOO- 000. It will bo the largest plant in the world. Wo understand that the sale above referred to has been made to the Metropolitan electric supply company , and that the apparatus for a first in stallment of the total 25,000 lights con tracted for is already on the spot. We are glad to see that American electric lighting machinery haw once moro cap- lured the English market. A Nc\v System of T Boston Advertiser : A now system of telegraphing has been invented by Dr. .1. II. Rogers of Washington , D. C. , which , it is claimed , will render the telegraphing of messages cheaper than mailing. This system reduces the English alphabet to ton elementary characters ; the messages being prepared by a typewriterlike machine which is similarly manipulated , and with the use of ten keys , ono for each character , any message can bo written. Its appli cation in telegraphy is to make two wheels , ono at each end of the line , re volve simultaneously , and tlio inventor says he can make ono wire do the work that it now takes ten to accomplish by tlie present method. Interception of MOSHH&I'B. M. II. Disohor , controller of the Aus- Lriau postal service , in a communication to the Berne .Inurnal Telegraphique , suggests a method of preventing the interception of metises in war time. Ho remarks that whereas it was fpr- norlv necessary to cut the line , the in vention of the telephone now renders it possible to read every Morse signal Hissing along the line from a consider- iblo distance by erecting a parallel line of short length with a telephone in cir- juit. lie recommends the employment ) f tlio duplex system , one station son ri ng the proper telegrams while the other transmits some text determined on beforehand. The signals then re ceived by any instrument interposed on the line , or by a toloplinno on a neigh boring and parallel line , will be so conj fused as to be unintelligible , lie re fers moro especially to the employment of the Morse instrument , as this is tlu % one most generally used in field opera tions. Klrctrlaiiv in Agriculture. Philadelphia Record : Prof. Wollny , of Munich , hay lately been conducting experiments upon the action of an elec tric current on vcgilation. Tlio soil experimented on was divided into plots four motors square , plates of zinc thirty centimeters broad and two meters long being placed at opposite ends of each square. Tlio line was carefully insu lated , and live Meidingor cells were in serted in the circuit. The test was kept up from seed time to harvestbut neither corn , potatoes nor any other vegetable or cereal wore affected in the slightest degree. Klootrlo Phenomena. Electrical World : The signal ollice of the war department , in anticipation of obtaining data of future storms , has pre pared for circulation a formula asking for information , relative to tornadoes. The circular is being distributed throughout the west , and among the questions are the following relating to the electrical phenomena accompany ing tornadoes : Were thunder and lightning observed , and if so in what portion of the horizon , at what lime of the day. and .vhothor violent or other wise ? Was lightning or any manifesta tion of electricity seen in the funnel- shaped tornado cloud as it approached , or in the dnvk heavy clouds surround ing it to the north and west ? Note tlio deflection of a magnet needle before and after a storm. Is there any reason to suppose that the clouds approached from opposite directions proceeding tho. first appearance of the funnel-shaped cloud wore opnositoly electrified ? Note , if the motion of tlio approaching cloud appears to bo accelerated at the moment - mont of , or immediately following any electric discharge. What portion of the tornado cloud presents the lightest color':1 Did the upper portion of the cloud at any lime present a glaring ap pearance like the colors of a brilliant sunset ? Were "balls of lire" observed to occupy tho'tornado cloud at any stage of its progressive movement ? What effect had the storm upon small vegeta tion and the foliage of trees ? In the ovontof death or injury to any person or animal observe very carefully whether the effect resulted from the electrical discharge or tlio force of the wind. Did you notice any peculiar odor in the atmosphere during the passage of the storm ? Can the roaring , which always accompanies a tornado cloud in its passage - sago over the country , bo distinguished from ordinary thunder ? Is thunder over distinctly heard as emanating directly from the tornado cloud ? How wore the telegraph wires affected. The San .Tone , Oil. , ICIcctrlo Jtond. Electrical World : California has proved a good field for the introduction of electric railways , and bids fair to have a number of such roads out of all proportion to its population. One of the most noteworthy of its electric roads in that which has been installed and put in operation by Mr. Frank K. Fisher , the electrician of the Detroit Electrical works , and of which wo give an illustra tion on this page. The San .lose fc Santa Clara Electric railway lias 'boon in successful opera tion s'inco the 'Itli of September. The passenger trafllc averages 1:10,000 : nor month. The present equipment con sists of twelve cars , six dummies and six closed street cars. The construc tion is underground throughout , a little conduit on the Fisher system , with de pressed rail , being used. The road starts at East San Jose , following Santa Clara street to tlio olty limits , pi'o- ' coodiug thcnco along tliolninoda to the limits ofSanta Clara , the road covering a distance of four milo * . A double track is usi-cl , making eight miles of track and eight milo-i of under ground construction. The speed aver ages eight miles per hour through the oily , and ten on the Alameda out- aide of the city limits. Tlio power station is equipped with two of the standard dynamos built bv the Detroit electrical works , a'llay.elton boiler , and a Whoclock automatic engine. Tlio fuel used is crude petroleum , which costs $1.75 per barrel in San .lose , coal at present price being'JO per ton. Not withstanding the high price of fuel there is a difference of oO per cent be tween the cost of operating the electric cars and performing the same service horse cars. Spnin'H Now Klrctriu Torpedo Hoat. Electrical Review : Spain is turning over a new leaf , and preparing to take her place among the naval powers of Europe. She adopts invention at ill latest stage , and seeks to push it to its fullest development. Slio has just * launched from the arsenal at Sun Fran cisco the very latest edition of the tor pedo boat. If the I'eral should bo a success , "the glorious uncertainty" ' of naval warfare is indefinitely increased. She will ho largo at least L'lJ motor.- ! long and fast. Her motive power will be supplied by 000 . u-eumnlators , and her propelling oniriues will have ! ! ( ) horse power. It is stated that for two davri nliu can remain submerged without needing to renew her provision of air , She will be furnished with torpedos of all kinds , and will her-olf. if it bo de- desired , bo capable of being converted into an immense explosive , fatal to the largest iron-clad. If all this can bo j'o- alixed , the day of the invincible Armada seems about to bo renewed. only a Quiet Oranjier. Chicago Herald : Prof. James Conlcy is an Englishman , but he came to Chicago cage from Boston. He is by profession a prize lighter , and wants it to bo gen erally understood that ho can whip any man th'it ever stood on two feot. In short , ho is the worst kind of a bad man , and while ho touts for a Clark street ticket scalper as a means of making a , living ho does most of his bragging about his fighting qualities. Ho has- been in the ring several timOs , and among local sports was looked on as a light second only to John L.Sullivan. Professor wis plying bin vocation in front of the Grand opera house when a man who must hnvo boon born in In diana came along. Ho was tall , lank and rnwDoifcd , tlio brco/o disturbed the reddish growth upon bib face , and bin general appearance was that of a man who bad taken so much quinine for the ( 'hills and fever that ho hud no vitality loft. As he plumped a venerable look ing carpet tack on the ground ho asked the ticli'et seller : "How much to No York ? " "Seventeen dollars. " ' I can get ono for $10. " ' "Vou'r a liar , " said the pr'r/.o fightor. Just then something happened. That granger's treed right hand lit out. His big brown list landed on Professor Con- ley's loft eye and the pugilist wont roll ing in the mud. lie rolled and rolled and rolled , and after ho was through rolling ho lay where ho stopped. Ho couldn't got up , and while that tall , lank , lean granger from Indiana went up furoot softly whistling to himself the bad man , the pugilwt who could whip anybody but Sullivan , the prl/.o- fighter thai oven William Bradburn said ho was afraid to moot , had to bo picked out of the street and carried to a neighboring hostelry. Ho was knocked out by ono blow. ARTISTI H i A Fine Etching in hard wood frame , at A. , HOSPE'S. A celebrated Emerson Piano. f A genuine steel Engraving , framed , at A. HOSPE'S. A beautiful Hale Piano. | A beatiful water color paintingframedatA. HOSPE'S. A rich Hallet - Davis Piano , j HH cw A historical picture in oil colors , at A. HOSPE'S. A New Kimball Piano , f " < cwO A fine outfit in artist's materials , at A. HOSPE'S. A Renowned Kimball Organ. | A handsome serene in oak or bamboo at A. HOSPE'S. A fine lot of Music. | A bamboo brass or wood easel , at ' A. HOSPE'S. A Washburn Guitar. | . A plush or bronze lined album , at " A. HOSPE'S. A Stewart's finest Banjo. A Christmas card or novelty , at A. HOSPE'S. A Swiss M u sic .Box. t WHICH WILL MAKE AUTISTIC AND THE MOST SENSIBLE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS YOU CAN THINK OP , AT STREMT ,
