Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 August 1897 — Page 3
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THE DAILY BANNER TIMES, GKEENCASTLE, INDIANA.
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jllnno.ota Fr«pn.«» of Cnsliler Hay,vartl nptepmlMPd to Hunt Jump* Down—Generally Relieve** That jc»»e Jasae* Fired the Fntnl Shot. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. -It wouul he* a strange freak of Justice If I-rank James, the reformed outlaw, were to be brought to the Imr In Minnesota on the charge of killing Cashier J. L. jjjjY^vard of the First National Bank. In the historic Northtleld raid, on Sept. 7, 1S70. nearly twenty-one years ago. If certain Minnesota men can have their way, .Tames will be tried. These men were the friends of Hayward, and they have never forgotten or forgiven his cruel murder. They were the men who forced aside the tide of sentiment rolling In favor of the Younger brothers and caused the Minnesota State Board of Pardons to recently refuse to Hbomte the two outlaws. These men argue that Jim and Cole Younger are where they belong, and Frank James should be with them. Neither of the Youngers killed any one In Northlleld, while Frank James Is credited with the murder of Hayward. So they feel more bitterly against James than the Youngers. The fart that Frank James has been a lawabiding citizen for twelve years, that he has gained the respect of thousands of people In St. Louis by his Industry, modesty and upright way of living, are considerations which are Ignored by the people intent upon hunting him
down.
Just at the moment James is the guest of Col. Jack Chinn, at the latter’s Kentucky home. The Standard Theatre, at Seventh ami Walnut streets, this city, where James has been employed as watchman for the past several years, is closed for the summer, and James is taking a brief rest with the Chinns. He has to earn some money to keep his littlo homo going, and Col. Chinn’s sou. who is a rnoo horse starter, has offered him the job of holding the flag on his tracks. Thus the greatest outlaw that ever liv.si may soon be seen waving a little
piece of bunting as a signal for the]ways wears a oft slouch i;:it creased last to l«'ni> the counter, saw Hayward horses to begin the race. It is niikl ; in the middle. His face Is emaciated, reach for a revolver. With the ligb, work, but it pays ?.'! a day, and that 'the check bones arc high and stick ntng speed that made hiiu famous, will tide the James household over j out. while his checks sink Into big James whirled about on the counter until the theatrical season opens again, hollows. Ills nose is thin, long ami ami killed Hayward Just as his hand j Mild is the one word that describes ! slurp. Ills chin Is strong, bis neck is clutched the revolver. Frank James these davs. The only thin, his mustache is quit,, gray and ibis is the generally accepted story dine that it doesn’t tit is when he talks ! droops mournfully. Hi- lips are thin <>f the murder t s known Imwev n.
;and bloodless and the corners of Ins that at different times the men on
is the outside rushed into the bank be-1
politics, and then some of the old tin
eets into his voice ami eves the eves mouth droop like his mustache. !1<
that used to terrify whole comninnl- j ungainly looking, all eept hi- ,ys. eecliing the trio liur ^ r;yi. will op WORTH I FSS ties. He is nn an,em silver man. but and when dooSs ' Frank WILL ^ ^
he is no so much the champion of ', , ,1 straight at vou and James may these urns I silver ns the enemy of trusts and great | eyes- 11 • or quiver. The- sogers, ami it might have happened financial corporations. He reads a j ^ ^ S(>t ( . loS( , 'aether.•.ami that he reached the bank door Jus. as great deal, and his favorite literature '^rv small. aml bluish grav In color. Hayward tried to get bis gun. Any of Is that devoted to economic subjects. I • , , th ,. s( . same eves, and the robbers who saw such a move He can talk well—not learnedly, but * n 11,1^ young son dso lias them.'am! so would Instantly have killed Hie man. terse, plain, grammatical English. ' lias the ”” vear-old bov of Frank In his recent account of the mid Col<
indiscriminately slaughtering the females ns well as the mules and often-
times tlie pups.
Now Uncle Sam is going to make the skin of the female pup utterly worthless as a marketable commodity, and It will be Just as worthless when the female reaches maturity. Hunting 1 and capturing a worthless commodity is never profitable, and when greedy commerce, in the form of the English sealers, is thereby brought to a halt nature will be given an opportunity to re populate the rapidly disappearing herds. In the meantime the English and American statesmen will continue to wrangle, but the branding process will probably accomplish more in a week -can diplomacy lias done in the past dozen years. it would seem that the job of branding To.tMiu seals would be an immense task, but tlie careful arrangements made are such that tlie actual work will not consume mote than two or
three weeks.
For some time George A. Clark 1ms been on the Islands with a force of men, making ready for tlie branding work. The principal task has been the erection of corrals into which the pups will be driven. Sheds have also been erected for the use of tin: tirnuilers, as the process to be employed is necessarily more elaborate than the hot iron of the cattlemen, lint at the same time it can be worked with
greater rapidity.
1’rolessor Jordan, of Sail Francisco, who, after a personal investigation of the evils of pelagic sealing, suggested to the Government last summer tlie remedy by branding, is in charge ot the work now to be done, and, In addition to Mr, Clark, he has as assist ants four college men. The branding apparatus to be used is an invent ion of Professor K. ]•:. Fanner, instructor in electrical engineering in tlie Stanford rniversity, and experiments made with it during tlie past winter and spring have thoroughly demonstrated 1 its practicability for the unique work
on the Priliylof Islands.
Professor Jordan had four objects in view when lie begun to search for a branding outfit. One was to mark the female, a second was to make the skin worthless, a third to make the operation painless, and the fourth to perform Hie work with unusual celerity. The Farmer apparatus shaves the fur oft the animal's back as close as a razor would, and at the same time sears tlie surface skin and kills the hair cells. Dozens of eats have been experimented on, and tlie fact that the felines did not howl under the operation is regarded as sure evidence that
ii is comparatively painless.
The bra tiding Is done by electrical power, a diminutive dy namo weighing but eighty pounds and giving seventy a .'".pc res at three volts being eon strutted especially for tlie work an 1 shipped on the steamer Queen. The motive power is furnished by a very small engine, light and portable. As the electric power required is but a small fraction over one-fifth of one 1 horse power. It can he readily seen
_ 1 that the mechanical requirements arc
j very slight.
In till' V\ :«> Inc!.- Sam Will Insure I'ho outfit consists of the engine, the the Fiitnrc of tlie I’rlbylof llcrtU dynamo and tlie wires running to the — \ 1 niiiiic Fleet rival iirauiler to i rnntery, which I in-operator works Just as He i »c«l. 1 horse clipping machine is employed.
It is estimated that eight or ten pups
NEWSBOV‘OF JOLIET.
ORSAN1US PAGE IS NOW ALMOST 80 YEARS OF AGE. SelU Only Chicago Paper* Pioneer Recounts Some of II iH Experiences During the Early ‘ill)’# In Ohio ami
New \<>rk. Joliet. (111.)
UOl'ND the railroad station of Joliet hobbles a man who is probably the oldest “newsboy” in the
world.
When t it e dawn ushers in the 11th day of next February Orsnnin- Pag"
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sale next morning and I sold my pursers for 16 cents a pound, as they stood squealing in the pens. That was the most successful trip across the mountains I ever made, though I had charge of many bigg'r droves. Once l rode west over the Alleghenies with $175,000 in my pocket. It was all in bills, a goodsized lump of money even now, and » princely fortune in the early ’30s.” When eastern Ohio became more j thickly settled. Mr. Page moved into i Illinois. He lived a score of years la 1 Braidwood. and has been in Joliet for more than a dozen years. He has lived half a century with only one leg. I It is some four years ago that he beg: n to carry papers. He became popu- , lar at once, and is now one of the I most trusted and most efficient newsI boys in the employ of George II. Me- | Clelland, the local agent of the Chicago papers. He refuses to sell anythin'; but Chicago papers. He claims that his high-water mark was reached
will celebrate ids eightieth birthday. | ore exciting evening during the big And he is laying his plans, too, for a j strike in ’94, when lie sold 315 copies celebration that will set a high old and then stopped only because his sup-
mark for all newsboys who may reach p!y gave out.
the age of fourscore in the twen icth !
century.
Morning, noon and night, month in j and month out, Joliet's champion old 1 newsboy stands on the depot platform 1 with his bundle of papers tucked neat- j ly under his arm. bike tlie ancient |
THE WAZIRIS.
A V. Utl amt Warlike Tribe on
llrltlsli Indian Frontier.
A few weeks ago a strong body of Wazlris heat back a column of British
mariner of old, weathers have no ter- ! troops and native auxiliaries, on the rors for him anil when the mercury ! Afghan frontier of India. 1 lie Wa/.iris sizzled in the shade at the 115 notch ! are a tribe on the borders
recently he stood at ids post as stead-
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Every one speaks of the great out- ' law as Col. James. The Colonel to- ! day never goes armed, and it is said ! that he has never carried a weapon 1 since tlie memorable day, twelve years ago. when he walked Into the office of Governor T. T. Crittenden, and. tin- \ strapping ids pistols, laid them upon 1 the desk, saying: “Governor. I am \ tired." The Colonel never goes whore there is a chance of trouble breaking out. lie is taciturn among strangers and even among people who have known him continuously for the pasttwelve years. The only men lie ever : talks to tin reservedly are the few survivors of Qunntrcli's band, and to these:
SKATIT.K. Wash.,
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James.
It is said that (Riant roll would Younger stated that several times he p V) . r y t iiinj; [s going as it should, there
can lie lirandeil a minute, and. as it ptirpi se to work sixteen hours a
pick men xvit 1, that kind of ^l eye. fnr is sonie queer work being done on the |(1;lv S((M1 , tllinK lik „ „ight or nine thou
1 *•>11. 111 ( v11 iiiI will Lo in*irki»il fin* Ii
men with nerve
hurry, and he made no mention of any is i an ds of St. George and St. . am. .u| sani , wi „ niMrk ,, (1 (Iav
ITibylof group. Several days ago | lf „ n | v , mll - mnn , )( . r ’ is
withou, 1 'nerves!'' ,nt ! nf ,ho others on the outside perform
Frank Jam's Is not bothered by the: ing this service. ibi: steamer Queen sailed northward recent developments in Minnesota. A oungor. however, xvlth stern loyal- f r()m fi,,]-*., carrying on board tlie men Perhaps he knows that in* is Innocent ty. lias never e'en admitted that the n|)( j |iiiph*metits for branding tlie 7r>,nud that lie can prove it at the right j James boys "■ero in the laid. It his 000 female seal pups which summer on
time it is generally believed Hint it freedom from life Imprisonment could , hos ,. | slllll(ls .
was Jesse James who fired the shot be gained to-morroxx b\ making an ,, iR ,| u . t | ll)0 tllMt branding that Killed Hayward. Frank James, inorimiin.tlng mbnission agali.s ■ rank tho S1 , lls |,. ls ( . V(T attempted, and with Cole and in, Younger. Clell Mil James lit' 'V"'’!' 1 >'"t |llsl ll((VV su ,, V ssl’ul the experiment ler and Bill Chndxvell did not enter the he am ’J!!"' S . e' ir '.'.....o,,proves will not be knoxvn for some
bank Tlii"-e five rode tip and down Ker wliile fleeing from their pursuers, he inn in street of Nor.lifield shooting ; >-sse James wanted him to desert Ids their "tins to frighten the townspeople brother Jm, who had been shot to
, off the streets. J. sse James. Bob pieces, but < ole refused, and the James
he speaks of the guerilla days, but to I Young, .' and Cliarh y Plt.s were the
no on«» on earth, not oven his wife or men in the bank. I brse thioe .11* * . . ‘ .
eon. does he talk of hU twenty year* dead. James was killed by ^7in!mlma'\ns\i S (*iV' < bnt M none more - of outlawiw. Younger died in Stillwater seven >enis ! ovn i* t |,., n <'<>le and Jim Younirer. tention between thi8 eountry and KngA stranger would pick Col. James ago and (’barley Titis ‘ ‘ ’ " * land for n considerable period. Eug-
In Boston the monkeys can ride the lish statesmen have professed great
time. Fncle Sam is doing the iinind ing. and he intends to keep on doing it every summer until some better method is discovered for preserving
ids herds.
handled the herd of 75Jhm, will be lira tided in about eighteen days. The force of helpers will drive the pups into tlio corrals, and the males will be sorted out and driven back into tin water. Most of this work, it i* expected, will have been accomplished by Hie time tlie Iiratiding party rcnelies the islands, so that they can begb. as soon as tlie machine is set up. As rapidly as tin* assistants can lift up the pups the cautery will be run down their backs, cutting off a I strip of fur about two and a half
Every one knows that Hie protection | inches wide.
The cautery itself is a simple little
out of a crowd of men as a sure vie tim of consumption. He is a trifle over six feet in height and looks ns thin as a rail, but he xx'oiglis 170 pounds and is as hard and as tough as nails. He dresses quietly and nl
the hunt
immediately following the
raid.
It was not the intention or hers in tlie bank to kill any one
the rob- Id'-yH*'-'
solicitude about the preservation of
instrument about a foot long. It con slsts mainly of copper plates and levers and platinum wires built upon a body of non conducting fiber. Be
, t “That’s notliing: Boston parrots have the seals, hut each year lias passed '"ecu tlie ends of two extended arms
Kl " n.n; for '»oen quoting Emerson for years
xvlieu tlie tliroo men xxete dashing t r r>n,,-ni* 1.’-..,, i
and without any really effective measures ' s stretched a platinum wire about two
the door Jesse James, who
was the . VO!irs and years.”—Detroit Free Press, being taken to crush the practice of
THE MA CHINE THAT WILL BRAND 8,000 SEALS A DAY.
and a hull' inches long. The current of electricity passes through tills wire, heating it to incandescence, and it is this wire that does the branding. Tlie ingenuity of the instrument lies j largely in the means employed to make i a practical branding instrument of it. ) A current Hint would heat the wire to ! white heat in the air xvill not keep it i hot enough xv hen applied to tlie back of a seal, and a current creating enough heat to do the branding xvill fuse the xvlre when It Is not being cooled by the fur and skin of the animal. To surmount this difficulty a resistance coil is used. That is, a coil of platinum xvtre is In the circuit, offering resistance that subtracts from Hie force of the electric current. The straight xvire at the end is in consequence heated only to white heat and
is ready for the branding.
The instant it touches tlie back of the animal Hie resistance coil is Hiroxva out of the circuit by means of a lever and the straight wire gets the full force of tin* current, xvhieh keeps It at Hie proper heat xx bile it is being drawn along the back of the seal. Just as it is removed the resistance coil is throxvn into the circuit again and fusion of the branding wire is prevented. Tlie intensity of the heat of the xvire at inenndeseence kills Hie hair cells xvitliont hum ing into the tlesli as a hot iron
does.
“I wish,” said the bothered proofreader. as lie adjusted his green simile at a different angle of crookedness, ••that I knew xvhether tills was a new Greek xvar name or a pied line.”—Nexv York II, raid. Miss ILgliup-- it's perfectly ■’candalous! Did you hear about Miss Do
Pink?
Miss Tiptop—No. What has she
done?
"Oh. the most immodest thing Imaginable! She's let all the xvorld knoxv she is crazy to get married by going and joining the cooking school.”—Nexv York Weekly. "But 1 am so unxvorthy, darling!" he inurmered, as be held the dear girl’s band In ills. “Oh. George”’ she sighed, "if you and papa agreed on every other point ns yon il„ on that, hoxv happy we could
be!"
fustly as when the thermometers froze hard in the blizzard of last winter. Joliet commuters and the regular passengers and trainmen xvlio ride through this city have come to look upon the weather-beaten newsboy as an Immovable landmark. A bare glimpse of his tall, slim figure reassures Joliet passengers that they have reached their right station more convincingly than the brakeman's barbarous yell of “Jolly-ett." Between ttair.s Hie aged "newsboy" stumps the block or so to his cozy little callage on Jefferson street. Once at home he places his papers on a stand close by the open door, drops into a high-back-ed arm-chair that icoks older than he decs, and unbuckles Hie wooden leg which has given him his nickname of "Peg-leg.” Then lie goes to sleep. His nap lasts until train time. Orsanius Page is proud of being the oldest newsboy in the world. But he xvants everybody to realize thaat lie hasn't always been a newsboy. He has lived a life full of interest, and lie has in his time handled thousands of dollars where he now counts over cents. Ho xvas born in Cattaraugus county In the western c truer of New York state, February 11, 1818. When he 1 was 10 years old liis father moved Hi, family a distance <>f about 100 miles across the state line into Ohio. It xvas there he grew up and spent the
best years of his life.
"I began to work about as soon as 1 could stand alone,” sai 1 tlie old gentleman, giving an account of his experiences. “In the first quarter of this century boys, and girls, too, for that mntater, were brought up to begin xvork as soon as they were strong enough to sit on a horse’s back or scour a tin pan. I xvasn't more than ti years old when my father lifted me on the back of an ox. My hands were hardly big enough to go around the v hip handle, and that’s the way I learned to drive oxen to plow. When I had grown up to be a man and was 20 years old, 1 was given charge of a drove of hogs, and told to drive them to New York city and sell them there. It xvas about 500 miles, and part of the journey was pretty rough. 1 got across the ridge of the Alleghenies and xx as pushing the drove down the slopes on the Pennsylvania side, when a snowstorm came on. I had a couple of drovers with me, and by hard work we finally succeeded in getting the whole 785 hogs into pens in a little vil-
are a tribe on the borders of that frontier, and are one of the wildest mil most warlike tribes on the frontier. Their character has long beeu. established for murder and robbery. 'Ihey have in former vears received more than one exemplary lesson for th# improvement of their manners. In 1860 Sir Neville Chamberlain xvas sa-ot to punish them, and passed almost right through Waziristan. It was in 1879 that they again became trouble some, and this led to General Kennedy being sent among them with a re*.rib'
ORSANIUS PAGE.
lage nearby. The snowstorm turned out to be a blizzard, and for three xxeeks we were corraled there. It took p heap of corn to feed almost 800 hogs, and corn there was worth $1.25 a bushel. I had just about run out of money when the snow began to melt. I rode 20 miles to a town where there xvas a bank. In T xx’nlkeil, and, going up to the president, I said: T want $3,000 on a drove of hogs that are snowbound up In the mountains. They belong to Wolf brothers, of Eastern Ohio.’ He forked over the bills, and I rode back up the mountains and got my hogs and pushed on toxvard New York. I kept them going most of the time, and when my drove reached New York c!ty they were the first hogs or fresh meat of any kind to get into New York after the blizzard. Butchers by the dozen followed me and the hogs as we pushed along toward the pens. I found the .•rowd of butchers all on hand at the
Fl'TTEH KHAN, TYPICAL WAZiRI. utive force. Sir William Lcckhart had to be sent to Waziristan only three years ago witli an expedition, and at the end lie made arrangements that were expected to preserve laxv and order in the locality. From the previous experiences it seems likely that theHo natives will probably receive a severe punishment for their most recent out-
break.
A RATIONAL SPARROW. It<*<*0(gnl/R(l Ti indy ALI and l{em<*iid>or« tin* llflpcr. Tlie truth of the folloxving incident is vouched for by a correspondent oi the Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal It is a rare occurrence for animals iu a wild state to select man for a com ■ panion and friend, yet well authenticated instances when this has been done are a matter of record. The following instance is vouched for by my correspondent, a young woman xvho ss a close and accurate observer: Last week my brother (a lad of 12) killed a snake which xvas just In the act of robbing a song-sparrow's nest. Ever since then the male sparrow has showt: his gratitude to George in a truly wonderful manner. When he goes into the garden the sparrow will fly to him sometimes alighting on his head, at other times on his shoulders, all the while pouring out a tumultuous song of praise and gratitude. It xvill a<ompany him about tlie garden, neveleaving him until he reaches the garden gate. George, as you know, is a quiet boy, who loves animals, and this may account in a degree for the sparroxv's extraordinary actions. I am per fectly convinced that the nesting birds on my place knoxv mo, and that they remember me from one nesting time to another. I have repeatedly approached my face to xvithin a foot of sitting birds without alarming thorn On one occasion I even placed ray hana on a silting cardinal, which merely , fluttered from beneath it without | evincing further alarm; yet no wild bird has ever evinced toxvard myself any special degree of friendship. When I was a lad 1 remember that a certain decrepit oM drake would follow me like a dog, and which appeared to enjoy himself in my society. 1 cot.Id not appreciate hie friendship then, and greatly fear that I xvas, at times, rather cruel to tfni old fellow. I’alil For. "Mrs. Cumrox' children seem to bv very fond of their school," remarkod one woman. "What makes you think 8 „'.*" "T". ' are alweys speaking of their ’dear teacher. Oh. Mr Ctttnrox insists on that. He says that considering how much he pays for extra tuition it’s only proper.”—Was ington Star.
Down in Florida the veracious hr >a iclers report a mare that has developed an appetite for genuine spring chickens. New York Sun.