Indiana State Sentinel, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1894 — Page 10

THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 23, 1891-TWELYE PAGES.

of the patriarchs militant undT the command of Gen. W. V Canala cl "Winchester. Every one rf the 000 mtn forming- this division wjre a full uniform of the rank, with sid anus. The second division was composed of lodges from Shelby, Cass, Pulaski, Fulton, Rush and Sullivan counties', together with lodges and members of the order from Da-nville. III., and one f am Chicago being amonj? the visitors. The division boasted of two bands, the Shelbyvllle military band beinff especially attractive both on account of the excellent music rendered and the handsome uniforms. With this division was the first float. "The Sea of Life." This was a boat in the form of Cleopatra's galley, painted white to signify the Initiatory degree of odd fellowship. In the stern rat Father Time guiding the boat, and in front of him. under a canopy, were two figures, forming a tableaux vivant. One was an old nia.n. a guide, the other a young man, a novitiate into the order. The sage pointed to the altar, on which was written the words: "Friendship. Love and Truth." In the bow of the boat was a young woman representing truth. The division was commanded by Edward Farrar. The third division was under the command of Seth D. Coates and was made up of lodges from Randolph, Delaware, Montgomery and Greene counties. The Richmond city band and a. strong military band from Logansport made the inarching music for the division. Pnlloxenia lodge of this city contributed to this division a float representing Jonathan before King Saul pleading for David. This float was richly draped In scarlet, 'and represented the king on his throne, surrounded by his body guard &nd Jonathan, harp in hand, kneeling before him. All the accoutrements of the Hebrews were reproduced with good effect. The fourth division was under the command of O. H. Bogue, and contained "Wabash. Miami. Grant. Tipton. Johnson and Howard county lodges besides Capital lodge No. 121 of this city. The latter l"dfre contributed a flot entitled: "The Good Samaritan." This represented the biblical road to Jericho, the two priests, who have "passed by on the , other side" and the Good Samaritan, who was assisting the fallen man. The fifth division had two very good band? and two floats. The first floit to appear was a humorous one entitled " Capricornus." It was a white pyramid surmounted by a white goat. On the side of the pyramid was the inscription: "The cau.-e of all the trouble." The other float vts "The Temple of Truth." and was contributed by Marion lodge 'o. 4S0. Th!s temple was of pure white, decorated in gold and surmounted by a golden el'imo Four figures were in front of the temple. They represented the high priest and h's assistants. They were dressed in white, pink, blue and scarlet, denoting rank. Near the front of the float was an altar in gold with an p.ngel on the other side of it. The fifth division was made up of thd Hendricks county lodge, Putnam county lodsre. Clay County lodge, the Nashville lodge, Carroll county lodge and Madison county lodge. The last namcl lodge had over four hundred men in line and presented a striking appearance under the command of J. W. Zeul'lin. The division was commanded by George W. Scearee. C. C. Binkley, who was to command the sixth division, was unable to be present in the parade, and th chief of hid staff was placed in command. The division was made up of lodges from Wayne. Bartholomew. Marlon. Morgan, Knox, Greene. Owen. Hamilton, White and Lake counties. Midway in the division was the float entitled "The Altar of Odd Fellowship." Th alt.u was made or layers f'i different -olors of marble white, to typvy purity; p.'nk, friendship: blue, love, scarlet, truth; green, faith: old nMd, hope; royal purp!?, charity. There werf also three figures for friendship, love an4, trail, and a female figure at each pillars to represent the character designed A secortf altar in white and gold, .ipproaena by nine steps, represented th nine degrees of the order. This fioat was comrih'ited by Indianapolis lodge No. 45. "Some Indiana 'Odd' Fellows" was anrthr float of this division, which brought up the rear. This float contained f 'lir interesting members of the order. The first was the largest odd fallow in the state. P. Thurman of Moresville. He weighs 3S5 pounds. Near the renter of the float was Louis A. Ht?ej- of 'lr?encastle. and Frank C. Kppy of Anderson. The former is six feet six inches high and is the tallest odd fell w in the tate. His companion Is f ur ff-et four inches in height and is the f mall-st odd fellow in the state. The r-ther 'old' fallow was Thomas L. Bedford of Danville. He is eighty-six years old and has teen a member of the order since h- was twenty-one years of ago. He is supposed to be the oldest in point of membership in the world. W. W. Lane commanded the seventh division. on of the largest in the parade. It was made up mostly of lodges surrounding Indianapolis. as follows: Mapleton lodge. Traders Point lodge. Broad Ripple loise, New Augusta lodge, Lawrence lodge, Oaklandon lodge, Br! ghnvo.j lodge. Acton lodge. Southport l"dge, Gknvcod lodge and Irvington lodge. Beides these there were lodct'S from Boone, Tippecanoe and Franklin counties. The feature of the division was the float "Charity," contributed by the Map! -ton. Broad Ripple. Traders' IVint and New Augusta lodges. This float was emblematic of the care givn by the odd fellows of the aged and orphans of its membership. It represented the "Odd Fellow's Home." There was a house, a fac simile of the home, In the door of which was seated an aged couple, while in the garden, which was filled with flowers and plants, were children at play. Lodges from Hancock. Fayette, Vermillion. Henry. Vigo. Clinton. Fountain and Parke counties, together with those of Haughville, Mt. Jackson and West Indianapolis, formed the eigth division, under the command of M. II. Chappell. The division contained the famous Rlngo!d band of Terre Haute and the float, -Rebekah at the Well." The latter was contributed by the Rebekah lodges of Indiana pol is, Mapleton, Haughville, West Indianapolis and Mt. Jackson. The float represented the scene from the bible, where Eleazer meets Rebekah at the well. There were nineteen figures in the scene. In the rear of the float sat the queen surrounded by maids of honor. The ninth division contained the noble grands, vice grands, secretaries and treasurers, each group of officers following a float typifying the office. The floats were "The Gavel," "The Hour Glass," "The Pen." "The Key. The tenth division did not march with the parade. It was made up of the grand marshal and staff, the' grand lodjje and grand lodge officers, also the grand Fire, Col. T. Campbell, Governor Matthews and Mayor Denny, all In carriages. The grand officers and the governor and mayor left the procession when it was discovered that it would be so long and took up positions at the Penlson house to review the pageant. The division was to have been headed by a realistic float containing fifteen persons representing by costume the nations of the earth, and this brought up the rear of the procession. It typified the time when Useless lances Into scythes shall bend. And the broad falchion In a plowshare end. At one end of the float was a blacksmith and his helpers making agricultural Implements out of Instruments of warfare. The different types of nationality signified the time when odd fellowship shall bind all nations by ties of brotherhood and war will be unknown. . Scattered along in the parade were banners bearing such Inscriptions as the following: "Odd Fellowship Points Up. Looks Up. Lifts Up;" "Odd Fellowship Pays Out Annually $3,351.000 For the Relief of Its Members;" "Indiana Odd Fellowship Pays Annually $00,000, or $23.84 an Hour for the Relief of Its Members." Another feature of the parade, which caused many smiles, was a cage containing a large goat. On the "ides were the Inscriptions: "Do you think you can ride me?" and "How would you like to ride me?" Immediately following the parade Canton Elwood. one of the best drilled com- . panles in the world, gave an exhibition drill in Monument-place. There are e'srht??, .rn7 Jij tha company. The

maneuvers were wltressed by several thousand people. At 5 o'clock Canton Wabash exemplified the P. M. degree at Lorraine hall and at the hall of th? grand lodge the Daughters ef Rebekah held a reception to the grand sire and grand master. OPERA HOUSE PACKED.

Thousand of Odd Felloira I.lnten to Many Add renne. The finale of the day's celebration. In the exercises held al English's opera house, was characterized by an enormous attendance, an Interesting program and an atmosphere throughout the house which was little less In temperature than the blast from the open doors of a furnace. It was simply so insufferably warm in the house that long before the close of the exercises more than half of the audience went out on the streets to seek comfort in coolness. The program was opened with prayer by the Rev. B. F. Foster, grand secretary, followed by an address on "Odd Fellowship" by Dr. Clarence T. Campbell of London, Ontario, grand sire of the sovereign grand lodge of America. He said he had become well acquainted with the grand Jurisdiction of Indiana and had formed a strong affection for the. branch of the order in this state. He paid a glowing tribute to the beauty of Indianapolis as the capital city of the state and spoke In terms of praise of the members of the orders whom he had met In this city. He was no public speaker, he said, but from an experience as an odd fellow, running through twenty-seven years, he had drawn some food for thought and many ideas as to the true significance of odd fellowship which should serve as the basis of the address which he had been asked to deliver. There were many who looked upon the order of odd fellows as a social organization, which afforded men opportunity to get away rrom home and amuse themselves. Even as a purely social organization, however, he suggested, the order would be doing a great service In the community. There were many others who considered the order as an insurance organization and yet others who spoke and thought or it as an exclusively charitable organization. It was not, said the speaker, an organization maintained purely for the distribution of charity. Indiscriminate charity caused pauperism. It was not an insurance organization for its most inherent principle was the spirit of mutual helpfulness, which underlies the sub-structure of the entire organization. Odd feil wship, said Dr. Campbell, inculcated In the hearts of Its followers a spirit of willingness to assist each other in distress and sorrow; to zealously guard the well-being of the widow and educate the orphan. "I believe," said the doctor, "that there Is no organization which has done so much for the state as the order pf odd fellows, for it has made its members good citizens and educated the children of the dead in those duties of life which have made of them good men and women. During its existence more than $i?5,000.000 has been expended In this work." Cicero .F. Northern of Greensburg, grand warden of the state, was next introduced and delivered a forcible addressupn the "Foundation of Odd Fellowship," the course of which he pictured the order as a temple whose walls extended to the uttermost limits of civilization and whose canopy was heaven Itself. The great foundation rocks upon which the temple of odd fellowship rested, he said, were as strong as the rock tf ages and could not be better named than as "friendship, love and truth." Past Grand Representative Charles C. Binkl?y of Richmond, in an address, then traced the history of odd fellowship from April 26. 1819, when Thomas Wlldey, with four other common and plain citizens of Baltimore, organized the first lodge of odd fellows In America, to the present day when with a membership of nearly nine hundred thousand, the order had Its maginficent organization of the patriarchs militant, the great encampments, and last, but not least, the splendid sisterhood of the Daughters of Rebekah, numbering more than l.'0,000. Enoch G. Hogate of Danville, past grand master, then talked in an interesting and forceful manner with regard to the "Influence of Odd Fellowship in Home, Church and State," and was followed by Mrs. Anna I. Henderson, who told of the birth, development and ripe maturity of "The Rebekahs" as a branch of the order. She concluded with the sentiment that "it Is woman's shining Influence which Induces husbands and sons and brothers to turn aside from dark and forbidden paths Into the ways which lead up to a perfect manhood, a well established citizenship and finally to heaven." Henry A. Stone, grand master of Illinois, then described to the audience the rise and growth of the order in his state and was followed by John B. Cockrum, past grand master, who paid a glowing tribute to "The Ladies." The exercises were intiAVpersed with vocal music rendered by the Clio male quartet of this city and several very' pretty instrumental selections rendered by an orchestra of young ladies, known as the Indianapolis Teursama club. At Grand Iolnre Hall. The exercises at the Grand lodge hall were held In the presence of an audience which crowded the room and filled all the approaches. The addresses, which illustrated the history of odd fellowship and the benefits arising from the organization, were as follows: "Odd Fellowship, the Tree," John B. Cockrum; "Its Branches." Marcellus A. Chlpman, deputy grand master; "Its Tenets and Teachings," Uric Z. Wiley, grand representative; "Its Benefits and Chiritis." John B. Kerman, past grand representative. Mrs. Roxa S. Hathaway of New Albany described the work of the "Rebekahs," and Will Cumback responded to the toast, "The Grand Lodge of Indiana," Gen. J. P. Elliott of Chicago talked of "Our Military." and Cicero F. Northern, in happiest style, paid tribute to "The Ladles." The Rev. T. G. Beharrel dismissed the audience with the benediction. The grand lodge, I. O. O. F., closed its semi-annual meeting Thursday afternoon. The business transacted was purely routine and consisted In the hearing of reports and the nomination of officers to be voted on at the annual meeting, which occurs In November. The committee on the state of the order reported: "That we commend the action of the grand master in conceiving and setting on foot the celebration by this grand Jurirdlction of the diamond anniversary of tne order. For his arduous labor and the untiring work and Industry of W. H. Leedy. G. R.; J. E. Bodine, G. J. W.; C. E. Rubush, P. G., and all others whom they have enlisted In bringing our fraternal demonstration to the point it has reached, this grand body returns Its sincere thanks. "We also desire to commend the action of the grand master In inviting our grand sire, the Hon. Clarence T. Campbell, to be present with us on this anniversary occasion. Although he Is not of our Jurisdiction, nor of our nationality, yet we do most cordially welcome him as a brother and the honored head of our beloved order. Thus do we exemplify the fact that friendship, love and truth has no respent for sectional, divisional or national lines, but the chords of harmony and brotherhood extend fron nation to nation, from kingdom to kingdom, and from heart to heart. We are Indeed brothers." A telegram was received from M. S. Clapp, grand master, and C. H. Lyman, grand secretary of the Ohio odd fellows.

sending greetings from the grand lodge of Ohio, now In session at Cincinnati. Grand Master Talbott and Grand Secretary Foster responded to this by a telegram returning the greetings and saying that the session of the grand lodge of Indiana Just drawing to a close was th,e most numerously attended, and the display in commemoration of the diamond anniversary was one of the most imposing ever given by a fraternal order In Indiana. A resolution offered by J. B. Cockrum was adopted giving the use of the grand lodge hall to the grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias for its annual meeting, to be held June 5 and 6. A number of appeals which were previously passed upon by the committee on appeals were disposed of by the grand lodge. The following nominations were made: For Grand Master M. A. Chipman, Anderson, of Lodge No. 131. ' For Deputy Grand Master C. F. Northern. Greensburg, of lodge No. 103. For Grand Warden R. J. Loveland, Peril, of lodge, No. 539; George L. Reinhard. Indianapolis, of lodge No. 140; Phillip Schuller. Evansville. of lodge No. 7; Samuel C. Humes, Muncle, of lodge No. 74; Marcus R. Sulzer. Madison, of lodge No. 2; John T. Leach. Ft. Wayne, of Lodge No. 14; M. H. Campbell, Knlghtstown. of lodge No. 99; C. E. Rubush, Indianapolis, of lodge No. 18; Ulrich H. Howe, Paoll, of lodge No. 130; I. E. Edmundson, Bloomington. of lodge No. 166; H. G. Thayer, Plymouth, of lodge No. 91. Grand Secretary B. F. Foster, Indianapolis, of lodge No. 11. Grand Treasurer James A. Wildman, Indianapolis, of lodge No. 44. Grand Representative to Sovereign Grand Lodge Will II. Talbott, Orleans, of lodge No. 296. Grand Trustee John A. Furgason, Indianapolis, of lodge No. 44.

OFFICIAL DATES. Lint of Connty Fair Received by Secretary Kennedy. Secretary Kennedy of the state board of agriculture has received officially the dates selected for the county and district fairs to be held In Indiana this year. The Indiana state fair comes from Sept. 17 to 22 and there are four local fairs which conflict with it. This list as far as completed is as follows: JULY 30 TO AUG. 4. Ripley County Agricultural Association Osgood; W. C. Leslie, secretary. Putnam County Agricultural Association Balnbridse; H. C. Foster, secretary. Wayne. Henry and Randolph County Fair Association Middletown; F. A. Wisehart, secretary. AUG. 6 TO 11. Wayne County Fair Association Hagerstown: John Bowman, secretary. New Ross Trotting and Pacing Association New Ross; (I. O. I'.ran. secretary. Jennings County Agricultural Association North Vernon; Fred H. Nauer, secretary. AUG. 13 TO IS. Delaware County Agricultural and Mechanical Association Muncie; M. S. Claypool, secretary. Jeffers-n County Fair Association Madison; S. E. Haigh, secretary. AUG. 20 TO 25. Hancock County Agricultural Association Greenfield; W. P. Bilgood. secretary. Tipon County Fair Company Tipton; Lee Nash, secretary. Newton County Asrieultural Association Monacco; A. E. Purkey, secretary. Spencer County Fair Association Rockport; C. M. Partridge, secretary. Warren County Joint Stock Agricultural Association West Lebanon; Frank J. Goodwin, secretary. AUG. 27 TO SEPT. 1. Johnson County Agricultural and Horticultural Association Franklin; W. S. Young, secretary. Decatur County Agricultural Association GreenslHjrcv. Ed Kessins, secretary. Clinton County Agricultural SocietyFrankfort; Joseph Heavllon. secretary. Harrison County Agricultural Society Corydon; T. S. Oetzendanner. secretary. Remington Fair Association Remington; Jasper Guv, secretary. Warrick County Agricultural Association Roonville; Rice Wilson, secretary. Oakland Agricultural and Industrial Society Oakland City: W. C. Miller, secretary. Scott County Fair Association Scottsburgh; Joseph H. Shea, secretary. SEPT. 3 TO 8. Grant County Agricultural Society-Ma-Tion; H. G. Hamaker. secretary. Montgomery County Union Agricultural Society Crawfordsville; W. W. Morgan, secretary. Benton and Warren Agricultural Association Boswell: W. H. McN'ipht, secretary. Sheibv County Joint Stock Association Shelbyville; E. E. Stroup. secretary. Washington County Fair Association Salem: E. W. MenauKh. secretary. Sullivan County Agricultural SocietySullivan: C. II. Crowder. secretary. Francisville Agricultural Society Francisvi'ile; E. H. Applegate, secretary. SEPT. 10 TO 15. Monroe County Agricultural. Live Stock and Driving Association Bloomington; C. K. Worrell, secretary. Kentland Agricultural Fair Association Kentland: W. T. Drake, secretary. Lake County Agricultural Society Crown Point: W. L. AUman. secretary. Gibson County Fair Association Princeton; S. Vet Strain, secretary . Warren Tri-County Fair Warren; Nathan Fisher Banouo. secretary. Clark County Fair Association Charleston; L. Cf Morrison, secretary. SEPT. 17 TO 22. Steuben County Agricultural Association Angola; H. L.. Huston, secretary. Tri-State Fair Association Evansville; R. L. Akin, secretary. Pedford Fair and Trotting AssociationBedford: Frank O. Stannard, Springfield, secretary. Marshall County Agricultural and Industrial Association Plymouth; C. Fisher, secretary. Vermillion County Fair Association Cayuga; 1. S. Grondyke, secretary. SEPT. 24 TO 29. Importe County Agricultural Association Laporte; J. V. Dorians, secretary. North Manchester Tri-County Fair AssociationNorth Manchester; B. F. Clemens, secretary. Vermillion County Joint Stock SocietyNewport ; John Richardson, secretary. Huntington County Agricultural Society Huntington; A. L. Beck, secretary. Eastern Indiana Agricultural Association Kendallville; J. S. Conlogue, secretary. Jay County Agricultural and Horticultural Joint Stock Company Portland; George W. Bergman, secretary. OCT. 1 TO i. Green County Agricultural Society Linton; D. J. Terhune, secretary. Fulton County Mechanical Society Rochester; G. P. Dawson, secretary. Poplar Grove District Fair Poplar Grove; A. D. Woods, secretary. Randolph County Union Agricultural" Society Winchester; D. E. Hoffman, secretary. ' OCT. 8 TO 13. Northeastern Indiana Agricultural Association Waterloo; J. G. Johnson, secretary. Marion County Agricultural and Horticultural Society Indianapolis; Ida F. Richardson. 66 Virginia-ave. Bourbon Fair Association G. D. Ettinger, secretary. Xew Sush Curtains. Sash curtains may be half length or full, according to one's fancy, single or double, plain or full. There is a great variety of fabrics adapted to this purpose silkolene, both plain and with a border; chintz, pongee, china and India silk, besides muslin and the thinner fabrics. A very pretty material, which is new this season, is admirably suited for this purpose. It la a fine white muslin, or lawn, with tiny flowers In blue, pink, yellow and red scattered over It. wirti hemstitching on either side. In price it Is very reasonable, selling for 18 onts per yard, says the Decorator and Furnisher.A Wenlern I'se for It. Ludgate Hill (London) "Ah, but this la such a fiat, ugly country. England has such beautiful scenery of valley, hill and dale." Mr. Packingham (Chicago) "Yes, if she was only a little nearer we'd float her over to Chicago and make a park of her." Puck. Ilia Remedy. Jack Ford "Do you ever suffer from Insomnia?" Tom De Witt "No; whenever I can't sleep I Just imagine that It's 8 o'clock In the morning, and I havs been called twice for breakfast." Life.

TWO DUELS TO THE DEATH,

FOIGHT BY DESPERADOES IX FT. DEXTOX'S PALMY DAYS. T Mexican Ilnlf-BrecI Killed III Man with Iii . Teeth George Ron and Little" Edarnr Fought as Lonjf an Life Remained and Died Together. In 1878. Ft. Benton. Mont., was a nervous, sleepless, busy town. It was playing to the limit. It was the entrepot for all the goods that came Into and went from an empire of unsettled territory. It was at the head of navigation on the Missouri river, and It still holds that geographical distinction, unimportant now because there Is no more business for navigators. From its hills were dusty trails marked with flying coaches and the canvas-covered wagons of slow moving bull trains. Its levees were piled high with goods for waiting steamers beneath; its streets were lined with miners, adventurers, gamblers, traders, and that restless society that seek new climes for reasons best known to itself. And so it was until the Iron march of the locomotive crosted the valleys and tunnelled the hills and left new centers of commerce In Its wake. Now Ft. Benton is but a grim and hopeless shadow of its former glory. Sand bars removed by the government at the cost of millions again stretch their muddy lines to the sunshine. The'Teign of that autocrat, the river pilot, is lost in the love of the old timers. A steamboat is as rare- a sight as one of the dark and billowy herds of buffalo that quenched their thirst at the river banks. They the few who are left where hundreds worked will tell you that some day the people, like the lost tribes of Israel, will return to Ft. Benton. Youwill not believe it. You will see only pitiful evidence cf decay.. Along th? levee is Front-st., once a real thoroughfare of trade, and now a grass-grown lane. At one end is the old Overland hotel, a two-story structure of logs split and whitewashed to give color and finish to the interior and rough hewn without to tell the passing tourist of the common architecture in the Ovei land's best days. It was a famous inn. and its dust-worn walls were the background for startling scene-s. In the bar-room, an apartment that combined the hotel office, reading room, and wash-room, took place many gun fights between the best known desperadoes of the country, political speeches from early politicians, and such gambling as would make the games nowadays seem as dull as jack straws or dominoes. It was in this historic room of the Overland that two famous duels were started in one day" between four men as nervy and determined as ever drew guns on the frontier. They were Geor?e Ross. "Little" Edgar Erwin. John F. Roger, better known as "Aces Up." and a half-breed Mexican inonte dealer, Manuel, or "The California Greaser." All were gamblers and thoroughbred fighters of a class now fast disappearing. Ross had come from Colorado a few years before with a well-grounded reputation as a bad man. He was known to have turned several graveyards Into business centers, and was the friend of undertakers and sexions. Erwin was a man of the same class, of quieter diposition, but quite as desperate. He was of slight build, extremely nervous and as quick and active as a mountain lion. Rogers and "The California Greaser" were representatives of two types of fighters, common enough in the West, but distinct from each other. The former was a blustering bully; who claimed to have killed many men that never existed; the "greaser" was a cowardly, treacherous fellow, who would fight, but like most Spanish-American desperadoes preferred to kill his men from behind in the seclusion of a dark alley. Ross and "Little" Edgar were fine examples of men- afflicted with a mania for gun fighting, a mania which no student of mental disorders seems capable of analyzing. They fought for the fun of it, or for that undefined love of excitement which impels men to fight without such causes as sensible men would deem sufficient. They were clo6e friends until that fatal day in the Overland's bar-room, because they had been associated for years as partners in faro games from Arkansas to the Pacific coast. They were, moreover, men of keen perception and well versed in that knowledge of humanity which successful gamblers must acquire. They had little in common with othr gamblers of frontier sports, aside from the exchange of faro chips for gold dust." They were sometimes accused of estabilshing a gambling aristocracy, but they were always respected. Each had almost superhuman quickness with a gun. It was paid that Ross was once marked as a victim by a gang of Texas cutthroats, and that the plan of attack seemed to give him about as much chance as a yellow dog would have fighting a troop of cavalry. An ex-ranger named Jack Hosford was to have the first crack at him. because he and Rose .had a row over the smiles of a Mexican donna. The fingers of the ranger's left hand remained as souvenirs of the occasion. Women had caused many rows for Ross. They were attracted by his tall, stalwart figure and finely cut face, and as a matter of course, trouble followed. One evening Ross was behind the bar of his gambling house in San Antonio chatting with friends when half a dozen of the ranger's friends came in and scattered about the room. Five minutes later Hosford came in unobserved. Suddenly he stepped from behind a screen at the door, .ind, without a word of warring, fired his six-shooter over the bar point-blank at Ross. By a marvelous scratch he missed, though the two men were only three feet apart. Before he could fire again Ross had snatched two guns from the sink beneath the bar and set them going in two directions. In a flash he had read the plot to assassinate him. The ranger fell back dead at the first shot, and then the guns were snorting fire and smoke at his friends, who were shooting from all points of the compass at the man behind the bar. When the clouds of battle were cleared five men were lying dead on the floor and Ross was sitting in a chair tying a handkerchief around a bleeding arm. It is small wonder that his word was law afterward. The friendship between Ross and "Little" Edgar was formed under circumstances similar to this adventure. Edgar was. playing; "bank"' in Ross's house one evening, when four drunken Mexican vaqueros insisted on interrupting the game by stealing Edgar's checks. They protested when ordered out by Ross, and when Edgar intimated that the fight, was his own they drew their knives and started for him. Ross was knocked down and would doubtless have been killed if Edgar had not laid out his Mexican assailants in one, two, three order. The real western gun fighter, a man, for instance, like Bat Masterson.of Colorado, George Thompson of Billings, Mont., or Johnny McMurray of Butte, always avoids discussing hi3 battles. He always claims that he fought in selfprotection, and in most cases he is right. Fights are forced upon him by aspirants for his distinction. Ross and "Little" Edgar persistently refused to recite their records. People at FL Benton were then too busy to talk much about their neighbors and gun fights were almost as common as dog fights,, so little wss known about Ross and Edgar beyond the fact that they were. nrvy. desperate men. It turned out that neither knew much about the p:ist life of the other. Ross and "Little" Edgar paid a round sum for the privilege of running the only faro game in the hotel.., There they caught the best class of customers, because they were known to be dead square. It was then that the Incidents of the liveliest day in the brief but lurid history of Ft. Benton began early one morning in a rrry, common way. The first row started over a dispute between.

Ross and Edar on one side and the Mexican half-breed, Manuel, on the other. As is usual, two shifts of dealers and lookouts were employed to run the faro game, each shift lasting six hours, and the game never closing. Ross and Edcar owned the bank and worked together. Manuel and Rogers, or "Aces Up" were hired to deal and watch. Every other week they had what is known am the dog watch, lasting from 4 a. m. until 10. Now. faro bankers find no difficulty in getting expert dealers, but it is not so easy to get honest dealers. Ross and Edgar had experienced this difficulty. After frequent consultations, they decided that Manuel and "Aces Up" were pinching out money. When he finished his watch one morning the Mexican was told that his services would no longer be required. When b asked the reason in a jargon of broken Spanish and English, he was told very plainly that he had been stealing. Manuel's shifty black eyes danced with anger and he muttered a few oaths. He was too smart to start a fight with the proprietors, but when told that a watch had been set on him he sent a vicious glance toward Rogers, who was as yet ignorant of his discharge. A new dealer and lookout dropped into the seats and the game went on with a passing remark from Ross to Edgar that the Mexican might be looking for Rogers before the day was over. They did not have long to wait. The Mexican's anger was made fiercer and more cunning by a few drinks of bad whisky. Rogers, too. was drinking and. as usual, bragging about his fighting ability. Finally the two men turned up side by side against the bar. Rogers was at the climax of a tale of gore when the Mexican, with a sneer, remarked: "Umph. You tinka you fight?" "Fight? Why, you half-breed greaser, I can eat you up blood raw." said Rogers, with a vicious grin. "You wouldn't make a " "You fight? Fight now!" yelled the Mexican, with a yell of hatred. With that he snatched a heavy Mexican army revolver from his belt. Rogers Jumped forward and knocked the weapon from the Mexican's hand, but before he cculd pull his own gun the Mexican had ripped him. and both rolled on the floor under a billiard table. There they chewed ear3 and tore about, each unable to draw his weapon. The faro game in the meantime had stopped, and the spectators were scattered about waiting for the men to get on their feet and begin shooting. The shooting did not come, and it is probable that no other combat in the West ever ended like this. The Mexican, as lithe and quick as a panther and quite as treacherous and bloodthirsty, knew that the fight must end quick If he was to win, for Rogers was much the heavier and stronger. The guns bjing out of reach he employed his animal instinct. With a quick move he threw bath hands on Rogers's arms, dsrted for the man's throat, and fastened his glistening teeth in the flesh. A yell of horror came from the lookers-on. hsrd men as thy were. They jumped for the Mexican, but were too late. When a blow on th head with a gun had knocked him from his victim, a spurt of blnod shot from Rogers's throat. Rogers never moved. His jugular had been severed, and with scarcely a gasp he died. The crowd soon recovered from the scene, the bar was lined up. and the checks at the game were rattling away as merrily as usual. The Mexican was hustled away by the city marshal. Later he was released, and got the customary twenty-four hours to get out of the country. He took the hint, but got no farther than Helena, where he was killed. This was excit?ment enough for one day, even in Ft. Benton, but there was more in store. After the general verdict that perhaps the authorities were neglecting business, and that man-eating should be confined to cannibals, the crowd scattered to the river. The first boat of the season had churned its way around the curve of cottonwood trees and was drawing up to the levee. When the gangplank dropepd over the muddy waters there was a loud hurrah from groups of dust-covered freighters, merchants, whose prosperity warranted the bringing out of their families, and tenderfeet who had ieached the land of their golden dreams. Nobody noticed a fine-looking old man wearing a long linen duster and a wide-brimmed white felt hat. such as you see on the proudly poised heads of Kentucky gentlemen. With the crowd of passengers he worked his way through the sands of Front-st. and along the levee to the Overland. He may have made a few passing Inquiries at the hotel desk to old Uncle Pete Xolan. the landlord. Information on that point is lacking. But there are a half dozen old-timers left in Ft. P.enton who will tell you what happened at the other end of the room when the old gentleman stopped short in front of the game and sent a curious glance toward the lookout's seat, where Rosa was sitting. He shaded his hat to be sure that he saw right, his eyes shone, and in a quick, deep voice, he said: "John! John, is that you?" Ross jumped from the lookout's chah to the old man, and the crowd around "Little" Edgar, the dealer, wheeled back. "And, my God, John, is that him. Henry Ashely?" exclaimed the old' man, pointing to "Little" Edgar. Edgar's face had turned to the yellowish white color of the dust in the road. His hands dropped from the check rack and the card box. and the crowd, as if divining that something was to happen, kept silent. "Why, father," said Ross In a hollow voice and with face as white as Edgar's, "you don't mean the man that took our Esther " "Yes, yes! there he is! Let me at him!" said the old man, struggling to the table. "Are you the man?" asked Ross, turning to Edgar. "Yes," was the reply in a cool, firm voice. Ross walked to the bar and returned with a gun in each hand. Edgar had risen from the table and was facing the old man. who was held back by the crowd. Neither of the men raised a weapon. Ross stopped his father and, turning to Edgar, said: "You saved my life once, and I'll give you an even show. Come outside." .The other man made no reply, but reached under the table and from a drawer took out two heavily-mounted revolvers. The crowd, not knowing what it was all about, drew back, and the men passed between and out into the street. On the other side, along the raised levee, were two cotton-vood trees fifteen feet apart, and here the men took their places. Not a word was exchanged. The crowd, silent in anticipation of a fight where death must be the Issue, gathered in a semicircle. The old man was in the center, calm and Immovable as a statue. In an Instant two guns were raised, two puffs of smoke met in the air in a rattling fusillade of shots, and when they melted away Ross was on the ground and Edgar's right hand was hanging limp at his side. Edgar took two steps forward and fell to his knees with a bullet in his chest as he was bringing his gun down for the other man's head. There the two men lay, glaring at each other like panthers. It was evident that Ross had been hit hard at the first fire, for blood was oozing out of his cotton shirt, near his heart. But he was a long way from being dead. As calmly as If shooting at a mark, he reached his left arm out, and throwing his gun over It for a rest, fired twice. The first bullet clipped off Edgar's right ear and the other was buried in his hip. Edgar replied by sending a shot through his partner's right wrist and Into hi3 body. A slow exchange of a half-dozen shots followed without results, for both men were becoming very weak. Then Edgar stopped firing. His guns were cleaned out. Ross, seeing one chance, fired the last shot, without effect. The two men lay still for an instant, their eyes half blinded by t the film of death, and then started to crawl through the sand for a closer meeting. Ross had managed to draw a long, keen-edged knife from his shirt, and Edgar had grasped his revolver by the barrel to strike , the last blow. People who saw the fight say that the Journey of the men seemed to last all the afternoon. Each man, with a helpless arm and all but dead

from loss of blood, gouged his way along by digging his heels into the heavy sand and pushing his bodj The crowd. In breathless silence, moved closer around to see the end. It finally came. When the men, face down, were within reaching distance. Ross gathered his feet under his body, and, with a last desperate effort, raised himself, and lunged with the shinning knife for Edgar's htad. The blade fell harmless in the sand, and Ross's head dropped. At the same instant Edgar started to raise his revolver, gasped once, and fell dead. The old man did not tell the story. He buried his boy by the side of Edgar in the little plot of bunch grass that serves as a cemetery, and went down the river tfce next weey. X. Y. Sun.

Pioneer Itellcs. Martin Weston brought to this office last Saturday a number of relics from the old Menard mansion, near Kaskaskia. Martin has been .engaged for several weeks past in repainting and repairing the house. Several days ago he had occasion to remove one of the oldfashioned locks from a aoor. when a one-half franc pice fell to the floor, having been confined in the lock. The piece bore the date 1840. and had evidently been in the position from which it fell for forty years. Martin aJso had two arrows, ' the points of which were made of steel, worn and rusted with age. The steel is bound to the ebaft with sinew, and the shaft Itself is perforated with holes made by wood worms. The arro-vs were formerly the property of the grandson of Marqua. an old Indian queen, she and her son being the last of the tribe of the Kaskaskia. For years they lived in a wigwam in the yard in which stands the old Menard mansion, and several of our oldest citlzents remember seeing the boy diligently engaged shooting birds from the trees through the bottoms and on the hills, or chasing deer, which ab that time were abundant in this part of the country. Chester (111.) Tribune. Frnlt I AI-viij Winter Killed. A commission man. who has been in business here since 1S7. sail yesterday that he had never known a spring during that time but what all the fruit was winter-killed. It is the regular thing to say and it is always said. This spring, as usual, "all the fruit has been killed by late frosts." but in spite of this oft-repeated statement there will be fruit and lots of it. The time has gone by when a freeze or a frost in any one, two or half-dozen places in the United States can kill all of th fruit. The country is too big for thru. If there is not fruit In one pltoe there will be in another, and the consumer can always be sure to get what he wants if he is willing to pay for it. The frost may kill the berries in Southern Illinois or.e year, but Michigan fruit will be all right. Or if Michigan berries are a failure, California can furnish thousands of tons, or Arkansas, or Tennessee, or any one of half a dozen othr states, can always fill up the deficiency. The time has gone by for total failures of anything in this country, unless undfr extraordinary circumstances. Bloomington Pantagraph. A Revoluilonnry Roll. A miniature iron bell, a relic of revolutionary days, was unearthed In a pile of rubbish in the garret of the old Schuyler mansion yesterday by James Doherty. The bell was coated with rust and the dust of ages and when discovered its original form was scarry perceptible. When the rust had been removed there was revealed a bell of crude pattern inscribed on one side with the word "Liberty" and on the other "1776." The lettering was blurred and worn and the figures are not at all plain. It is believed that the bell was cast from metal used In the old Liberty bell and if this is true the relic Is extremely valuable. Albany Argus. Radishes. Radishes possess valuable medicinal "properties. They are demulcent, stimulating and diuretic, and should be eaten freely when fresh and crisp. They are usually eaten with salt only, but if sliced thin are very nice with a French dressing. In this country the radishes themselves are rarely cooked, though the tops of young radishes are often boiled. The radish is a native of Asia, where it has been cultivated from the most ancient times. Nearly an inch of the green top should be left on the radishes when they are prepared for the table, and this littie portion of the top should be eaten. as the peculiar properties they possess j help to digest the radish itseir. w est Chester News. Coal Miner Strike. The conference of coal miners and operators has come to naught and the great strike, with all its disastrous results to all kinds of business, is on for an indefinite length of time. The operators in this case seem to be the parties responsible for a continuation of the strike. But few of them consented to participate in the conference and those few seemed rather to wish to prevent than to promote a settlement. The operators have acted in bad faith not nly with their employes, but with th public and public sympathy must be with the miners. Another Kind. It was about 10:30 p. m. and the young' woman was talking to the man in th" case. "What I like in a man," she was sayincr, "is energy one that has some go in him." The young1 man glanced hastiliy at the clock, then at the door, then at the girl, and got up. "I beg your pardron," she said, blushing; "you may stay as long as you please. You are the first man that ever understood that statement properly." Detroit Free Press. Uns in of Jndgnient. Mr. Porkingham (of Kansas City) "Now. here's a question: Who shall go first in to dinner. Mr. -nd Mrs. Packer or Mr. and Mrs. McCann?" Mrs. Torkingham (with a sn?er at his ignorance) "Why. there is no uestion as to who takes precedence! The MrCanna kill 200 more hogs a day than the Packers." Puck. Signs cf Mk You don't have to look twice to detect them bright eyes, bright color, bright smiles, bright in every action. Disease is overcome only when weak tissue SCOTTS EMÜI5I0H !.-. Ill" I is replaced by the healthy kind. Scott's Emulsion of cod liver oil effects cure by building up sound flesh. It is agreeable to taste and easy of assimilation. Prepared bf Scott A Bowco. 5. Y. All flrnggirtt. IFrnrti IT fi. 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