Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1887 — Page 7
THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, SUNDAY JANUARY 30; 1887 TWELVE PAGES.
THE WOBLD OF SPORTS.
Gossip and News Regarding the Week's Doings in the Field and on the Turf.
How a Troublesome Farmer's Cariosity Was Excited Ij Hunters Need of a Law Prohibiting Kpringr Shooting Notes.
The morning after a recent enow-fall a couple of city Lunters boarded an out-going train on tho Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield railway, with tho ittention of spending a day among the rabbits of an adjoining connty. After a,n hour's ride they left the cars and immediately tied themselves to the nearest strawstack, where they commenced operations by uncaging a ferret one of the party had brought along. The holes underneath the stack were then stopped pp, save one, 'and the ferret sent on his search for the cottontails. The hunters did not have long to wait before a half dozen frightened bunnies eame rushing out of the only hole left for f gress, and these quickly fell Tictims to the deadly shotgun. But there was one thing the hunters had forgotten, and that was to look out for trespassing signs. This was brought forcibly to their minds when they commenced to look for another strawstack, by seeing an enraged sixfoot farmer approaching towards them; armed SUh a double-barreled 6hot2un and a monster ull-dog, whose fniial expression meant business tfrom the words "seize 'in." "Hey," said the farmer, "can't you fellows ftead? Do you see that sign over there?" pointing ko board nailed on a tree in one corner of the ileld, which had painted on it the customary legend: ''No tresspassing or hunting allowed on these premises." The hunters turned their eyes away from the flog with the wicked look, long enough to see the sign, and were about to apologize to the owner of" the land, when he interrupted them,by saying: "Look here! I'll just give you fellows three
miDutes tc git out of here, before I turn my dog
loose. Being Ip.w-abidin!? citizens, and having no deBire for a closer acquaintance with his dogship.
who prowled and showed his f&njrs in a way that boded no gcod. they hastily gathered their traps
together and made a bfe-ltne for the public high
yrny. Hero thev consulted, and concluded to try
another field a short distance from the farmer's
house and on the other side of the roadway.
This time they carefully looked over the ground
for warning signs, and seeing none, started their ferret under one of a number of contiguous
traw3taeks.
Meanwhile the farmer had boon watching
tbm from a distance, but thinking they were
out of his jurisdiction, the hunters paid no at
tention to him until they hoard his voice aeain
ordering them away. About this time the rab
pits mado their appearance from under the stack, and one of the party, who was armed with a new fancied rrpeating shQt-gun, commenced th oo tint firing six or seven shots in about as
many seconds. The farmer evidently had never before seen or heard of such a weapon, as his
face and actions showed both surprise and asjtopishnifnt, Tr.ingled with curiosity. lie stood atill ard looked on, no doubt thinking that his
dog would have stood a poor show if he had car
ried out his threat to turn him loose on the hunters. Whon the ferret made its appearance he
Could not restrain himself longer, and shouted: "There goes a white rabbit! Shoot him,
qnick!'
This was too much for the hunters, and they
lost no time m explaining that it was a ferret.
ana not a rabbit, ana was used merely to scare
the rabbits out of their holes. The farmer
seemed so much iutercsted in the iittle animal
that it. was proposed toshow him how it worked,
if be had no objection. 1 his he readily consent
ed to, saying that, although he did not own the
land on which they were, he had been asked to see that there was no hunUne done on it, but he thought it would be all right, anyhow. "Just wait a minute," said he, "until I take my dog home and tie him ur. He acts- kind o' queer
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sometimes wun strangers, ana migni curt your ferret" When the farmer returned they "tried another strawstack, with such successful results that another and another were tried, the farmer piloting the way through a half-dozen fields until the noon hour, when he a'sked them to dinner, seeming to have forgotten that a few hours previous he had invited a trage
dy by his threats. After dinner he bitched up his team, and took the hunters to another part of the country, taking the greatest interest iu the sport, and even suggesting that they enter likely grounds, whether protected or not. This the hunters refused to do, not wishing to encourage a repetition of the moraine's scene. At bight they left their now fast friend, who extended to them an invitation to come back as often as they wished. The moral of this story is that if a hunter wants to get on the right side of a farmer, it is better to arouso his curiosity than his anger. "There are few sportsmen," remarked J. E.
Isgrige to a Journal reporter, "who will not agree with mo in saying the quail-shooting we jhave around here is hard work. When you are
compelled to get up at J o clock in the morning In order to catch a train that will take you out of range of the thousand and one shooters of tho
city, including the small boy with, the Bingle larrel, as well ae the professional who baa noth
ing else to do but hunt every day, in season and Oitt, ar.d after riding an hour or more, you are landed at some small station twenty-five milss f'ut, where you wait another hour for daylight, hen start out and tramp tea or fifteen miles, and if you are in good luck you may find one or two coveys, possibly jjone, you manase to keep out until dark trying te add another bird to your bag, them coming 16 the station, where you wait three hours more I for the train to bring you back to the city, you get home about midnight, with a half dozen quails, worth ten cents a piece, having been up the bettor part of two nights, you find yourself the next morning totally unfit for business, and Jrour half dozen birds represents the tvst part of flve-dcllar bill you had broken to p;y for your jcket the day before, and an extra half-dollar Jo the baggage-man for the privilege of having your dog cared for, this not counting the cost of your 6bells." "I veuture to say," remarks a local sportstoan, "I can name four dogs owned in this city ihat will find more quails, make more points, hetter retrievers, run fewer rabbits and are letter broken than any four dogs that were iver awarded first prize in the national field trial?, providing a three-days' race be run, within 115 miles of Indianapolis, and putting the flogs down for not less than eight hours each flay. I will further say the home dogs will be Jn better shape the morning of the fourth dav than the field-trial winners on the morning of the second, and that our doss would find more ? nails on the fourth day's hunt than the field ogs 'ound in the three days. We want no Jockeying here when our trials aro run. The pwner must be the handler, and the prizes awarded to the best dogs, regardless of who the iiwner is, pedigree or color." It is suggested that the Legislature should ass a law prohibiting spring shooting. There was a prat scarcity of ducks last fall, and it is J, fact that there is less shooting each year.' If he ducks wore left unmolested during their
ight north to the breeding grounds there would e good shooting next fall, for every pair killed
u the spring means a dozen less in the tali.
Representative Covert has introduced a bill to prohibit tho sale of pheasants, woodcock and srild ducks during certain months, and tho selling of quails for two years. . The Proposed Transfer of the Maroons. ' The letter cf President Stromberg, of the
Maroons, was the general toplo of conversation
imong the Indianapolis base-ball people. They
taire come to this conclusion, based upon author
Jt&Jtive statements, that it is an assured fact that iha liaroons will sooner or later go by Ihe loard. StromVcre will, berhaps, try. in
defiance of the League, to dispose of Denny to the New Yorks, Glasscock to the Chicagos, and
Boyle to the Detroits, and thereby make up $13,000 of hi3 loss. But it is fair to suppose that the League will prevent this. He will then play an inferior nine for a month or so and disband, or perhaps alone toward May he will be willing to sell his franchise for a small sum. He has, at any rate, no intention of playing out
the entire season. Sucn is bis supposed plan, but there are many im
pediments which the League can throw
in his way, the principal one being that a bond
will be required of him at the beginning or the
season to piay it out. the Indianapolis people express a desire that Mr. Stromberg will come
to his senses before it i3 to late, and if he will
offer the franchise for any reasonable sum, they
will accept the offer. As it is, they are lying
low and waiting developments.
General Sporting Notes.
The Baltimore race meeting will begin on
Mav9.
The Missouri Legislature has a pool bill be
fore it.
Wm. Sowders has stoned for next season with
the Maroons.
There are eighty-six horses left in tha Ken
tucky Derby to date.
No ball-player in the Louisville club gets over
$1,800 for the season.
Congressman O'Neill is no longer a director of the St Louis Browns. Mr. Pierre Lorillard. jr., has ten horses in training at Jerome Park. It is said that there are sixty-seven horse3 that have a record of 2:18 and better. The Cincinnati team is contemplating a trip to New Orleans in March for practice. During the year 1S8G there were 3,223 races run in the United States, and $1,233,650 won. White & Co., of Lexington, have paid $53,750 for the pool privileges ot the Latonia race meetings. Real Indians are taking to base-ball. Legg, the catcher of the Oshkosh club, is a redskin by birth.
' Veacb, Sowders, Hale and a number of other players are in daily practice at the Virginia-
avenue Kink. Jem Mace will leave for America in March with his string of unnamed English boxers. Henry J. Rice, of New York, will be manager.
The Enquirer yesterday states that the Maroons and Kansas City will both disband. The
latter have already given up their League fran
chise, and it was their intention to enter the
V estern Association.
It has been arranged between the presidents of the Oxford and Cambridge University boat clubs that the next university boat-race shall be rowed on Saturday, March 5, between the hours
or A and 4 o clock in the afternoon.
Many of the stakes of the Western jockey clubs have failed to fill well because of the determination of Western owners to race their
horses in the East. The country isn't yet big
enough for all the jockey clubs. They have come into existence too rapidly, and yet three
more are talked of.
Johnny Reagan has been challenged bv Jack
McGee, of Boston, a 150-pound man, to fight him
seven rounds at catch-weight for a purse. The fight i3 to take place inside of two weeks, at the Athenaeum Club, Boston. Reagan is but little
more than a light weight, and he should not
fight men who are heavier than himself.
Here is a tip on the American Derby. Matt
Storms, the California trainer, told a Chicago
reporter to back '"Lucky" Baldwin's stable for
all he was worth, as he was likely to start both
Miss Ford and Qoliah. He thinks Miss Ford is the finest filly ever foaled in America, not excepting Molly McCarthy or anything else. "She can carry weights," said he, "go a distance, and
you can place her where and when you please,
I saw her run a half in 471 seconds, six furlongs
in 1:14J, and then run. with her mouth wide open, in 1:30J, a seven-furlong race. She has never been forced to her best yet, and you will
thins so before the season closes."
O. H. Smith, the Dakota champion, says that
u t'atsey Cardiff could Btand before John L. Sul
livan Pat Killen could whip the champion with
ease. "I have sparred with Cardiff, Donaldson,
and all the rest of these Northwestern fighters,
put l tell you ivuien could licit them all in one
afternoon. I have taken some pretty hard blows
in my time, but never anything like those from
Pat . Killen. I came to stay five rounds, but
after the first I knew I was done for. Killen
fiehtB like Sullivan. His object is not to draw
claret, but he is continually reaching for the
neck, which he knows to be a vital spot I feel a
eood deal like Bradburn at present, and believe
Killen to be Sullivan's successor. All these peo
pie who think they can fight are welcome to a 'go' with Killen. I owe Killen an apoloey for even thinking I could Btand before him. Please
say I said so."
accumulated considerable wealth through their
tradma with the White settlers. They did pot
want to take their money with them for fear they would be robbed of it by the warlike red men in the far West, and buried it under a rock
with a view of some day returcing and getting
it The rock is said to have been marked with the imitation of a turkev-foot Hardly a year
passes that does not bring an Indian wandering
through these counties in search of the rock. A
good many white people have been led to give
the story some credence, and they have fre
quently joined in the search. There are three
or lour large rocks in Hendricks countr. and
two in Morgan answering the description, and
they have all at different times been dug around,
either by whites or Indians, in search of the hidden wealth.
"Do you know who named Indianapolis?'
asked a pioneer of a Journal reported the other
day. "It was Jeremiah Sullivan, of Sullivan
county. He was a member of the Legislature in
session at Corydon when the new capital was lo.
cated here. The name Delaware, after the Indians
that inhabited the countrv. waB first proposed.
and was about to be agreed upon, when Mr. Sul
livan objected to the name, for the reason that
there were several towns of the same name in the country. He wanted something new. and
proposed Indian-apolis. The name took, and
was agreed upon without a dissenting voice."
"The mania for secret marriages seems to be
growing on the young people," said an attache
of the county clerk's office, yesterday. "You
would be surprised to know what a large per
cent of those who secure license want us to keen
the matter a secret We are not allowed to do
this, and because of our refusal many secret
marriages are nipped in the bud. Those who
want to marry without letting their parents
know anything about it, now have to secure their license in some other county, and a great
many do that I have no wav to account for the
desire, unless it is to evade the enormous and
unnecessary expense attending a public wed
ding."
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ESTATE AT AUCTION
THURSDAY, FEB. 3,
A LIVING WONDER.
A Freak of War Ali Pasha, a Transparent
Tork The Greatest Marvel of the Age.
The results of war are heartrending in tho
extreme. Men have received wounds and have
survived, which, nine hundred and ninety-nine
times out of a thousand, are necessarily fatal.
A portion of the brain has frequently been shot
away and the victim has survived; the lungs
have been pierced with a rifle ball, and the
wounded man has recovered and lived years
afterward. The latest, and perhaps most
wonderful case which has developed to
puzzle scientific minds was exhibited
last week at Chicago, where the community, by
thousands and tens of thousands, have nocked
excitedly to see a Turk named Ali Pasha, who
had been shot through the body, and, the wound
having healed, left a bole large enough to see
through. The distinguished Turk was on the
6taff of the Sultan in the war between Prussia
and Turkey, and at the battle of Plevna a cruel
ball, swift on its errand of death and destruction.
passed completely through the brave officers
body. By remarkable surgical skill the officer's
life was preserved, and a pane of French window-
glass was fitted into the gaping cavity, by means of
which you can read through him. lie is a living,
walking, talking marvel, the greatest mortal freak of the age. Mr. Frank R. Carter, of this
city, learning of the wonder through the papers,
visited Chicago last week, and, after much difficulty and the payment of no inconsiderable sum
or money, secured the presence of the Turkish
officer for the Casino Circus this week. (Ar
rangements have been made for special care and
attention to women and children visitors during
the rush of the week which is sure to follow the
exhibition of this wonder of the nineteenth cen
tury, and the most remarkable since the days of
Adam.
we ass no appointment as to our skill as
watch-makers; our work will talk for itself.
Bring in your watches that other jewelers have failed to make go; we will guarantee vou satis
faction, at Marcy, "The" Jeweler's, No. 38 West
Washington street
Tree Out-Door Exhibition at the Casino.
Professor Weitzman, the noted Russian wire-
walker, will give a free exhibition in front of the
Casino at 12 o'clock noon, Monday, Jan. 31, and
every day thereafter during the week.
THINGS T1IAT ARE HEARD AND SEEN.
Bits of Information Gathered During the
Daily Saunter, of a Journal Reporter.
A young man was vesterday being led by two
policemen through the station-house to the turn
key's room, when he slipped a deck of cards
from his hip-pocket and threw them in one corner. He knew he would bo searched, and didn't
want the cards to be found upon him. "That
reminds me of the way soldiers did during the
war," said Captain Campbell, who was present.
'TVio.o irura lint, f o TV Rnlriiare rri ir nnt
card-players, and they nearly all liked to own a
deck. They had a dread of being killed with a
deck on their person. Whenever we would hear
the cannons begin to boom and the guns of the picket men begin to clatter, we always knew
that a battle was coming, and you would see the
men by the hundreds drawing their cards from
their pockets and throwingthem along the road." One of the members of the House got tired of
his boarding-house grub the first of the week,
and moved to the Bates House. His life had
been a seclusive one, and fame and fortune had
never before brought him in contact with hotel
life. When he sat down to his first meal in the
dining-room, the waiter politely dropped a billof fare beside hts plate, and asked, "What will
you have?"
"1 want my dinner," was the reply. "Yes, sir; but you can select from this what
you want"
"Well, bring me the whole thing." The waiter, who saw the embarrassment of the guest, left and brought in a meal of his own ordering. For the last four days there have been an equal number of marriage licenses, divorce complaints and insanity commitments. Can it be all the people who are marrying, get divorced and then go insane? "If that's the case," said a young clerk in the clerk's office, yesterday, then l"am going to stay single."
Tho two suits that have come up in the Superior Court this week over bad trades between farmers calls to mind that there are many 1 'tricks of trade" that are played in the city, es
pecially by the horse-traders. The honest and
unsuspecting farmers are always the victims.
One of the most successful tricks the sharks
h.ave is to stop a farmer on the street and offer to trade him a very inferior team of horses for the one he drives. He, of course, refuses. The trader then proposes that if he will trade he will
insure him a buyer for the team at a certain
amount a much larger sum than the team, or
the farmer's own horses are worth. If he hesi
tates the stool-pigeon of the trader appears and
announces that if the trade is made he will take
the horses at the sum named. The farmer con
eents. While the horses are being changed the buyer leaves, ostensibly to get his money, and never returns. Tho trader presently leaves with the farmer's horses, saying he will return with
the buyer, which he never does. The police say
that this trick is frequently played on farmers.
Thero is an old story afloat to the effect that
under a huge rock somewhere in Marion, Hen-
d ricks or Morgan counties, there is a large sum of money buried. The story runs that when the Delaware Indians were compelled to leave
tha Wtite river Talley for Arkansas they had
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tho highest bidder. The vacant around in this Diat adioins the railroad, and is well located and well adapted
to the uses of a urnber, wood or coal yarft, as well as for factory purposes. Entire premises now rent foil
fijOi; per year. Immediately following: this sale, we will sell two lots situate on the southwest corner of what is known as MERIDIAN AND TWELFTH STREETS, and described as Nos. 140 and 141, W. H. Morrison's third ,1 ,"1 J 4 : 4--v 4 1. C T 3: U I. t rcn a i i ,1 ill -r .1 .1 x i.1
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GRANDMA'S LETTER
EAR ALICE: JTis lonsr
since I've written
CALIFORNIA EXCURSION
Via Iron Mountain route and Southern Pacific rail
way, leaving St. Louis at 9:10 A. M., Feb. 9 and
Id arch 9. This is the only Southern roxite issuine ex
cursion tickets to all points in southern California and
including fcan Jfc rancisco, and is also the only Southern route permitting passengers to return a different
route without additional cost. Very low rates.
For circulars and full information call on or address
Coke Alexander.
District Passenger Agent Missouri Pacific railway , I 6t) West Maryland street, Indianapolis.
PACIFIC COAST EXCURSIONS. Via the vandama mxe. This company will sell excursion tickets to California point Jan. 18 and 2G, Feb. 9, 15 and 23, good six months from date of 6ale, at $80 for the round trip from Indianapolis. Passengers who desire to do so can go by one route and
return another. Tickets will also be sol,a by way of New Orleans, good to return by either of the direct Vl rr - 1 i" 1
uues, xjio t auuaua was mue special arrangements
or sleeping-car accommodations from St. Loui3, Kan
sas City and Omaha, and those who desire to secure such accommodations before starting can do so through he agent of the Vaudalia line. For further information call upon or address
George Rech, ticket agent, or H. R. Peeing,
assistant general passenger agent, corner Washington and Illinois streets, Iudianapolis, Ind.
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i A letter, my darling, to you;
13 ut, my child, I've been feeling so downcast As to think that my days would be few. But my sickness is conquered, thank Heaven No more to affright and appal; And, Alice, what think you I am using? The famous "Carbolic Smoke Ball." You know my Neuralgia wTas awful; And troubled so long with Catarrh ' " That I thought I would never recover, Which, of course, life's sweet pleasures did mar. But by chance I once heard of my glory, And my star blazed as bright as of yore; I inhaled the blessed fumes of the Smoke Ball, And, my dear, I am troubled no more. You knew of my deafness, and wonder When I tell you I am hearing quite well; It's a fact, Alice dear, and your grandma Is surprised at the force of the spell. E'en my sight is much stronger by using The Smoke, just commenced in the fall; And to-day I indorse wTith strong phrases The famous "Carbolic Smoke Ball." These terrible Neuralgias and Headaches, Catarrh the great curse of mankind Are driven away by the power As chaff 'fore the whispering wind. Delay not, and publish this letter; Let friends and acquaintances learn Of the boon that is working such wonders Of the Smoke for which invalids yearn. And now, Alice, darling, I've finished, Feeling young and as bright as of old; You will certainly hear from me often Of my story that now has been told, For I never get tired of spreading My triumph to large and to small; For I owe what is left of existence To the famous 1 'Carbolic Smoke Ball."
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