Bright Indian
FULL BLOODED MASHPEE WINS
FREE SCHOLARSHIP,
Vindicates Her Race in Education and
Will Prepare Herself to Teach—
A Descendant of Mighty
Warriors.
Boston.—The aboriginal American
—the long-time predecessor of the
Norseman, the pilgrim and the purl
tan, the red-skinned first settler of
these happy hunting grounds—has at
last been vindicated by a modest
twentieth-century maiden.
May Simons is a pure-blooded In
dian girl, though born and raised in
Massachusetts. She has won a free
scholarship that assures her the great
•object of her life, a thorough educa
tion.
She has just started for Hampton,
Va., where she will take the two
years' course which will prepare her
ior a teacher of the higher grades in
v the public schools.
In a little two-story cottage which
faces Onset Bay Grove lives an Indian
woman, an old Indian woman, who
has of late formed the habit of smil
ing much to herself.
Isaac Simons and his wife, who was
then a beautiful Indian girl herself,
•came to Onset Bay some 12 or 14
MISS EVA MAE SIMONS.
"(Pretty Indian Giri Who Vindicatss
Her Race in Education.)
years ago and with them came the
merest bundle of a baby, a tiny crea
ture with silent lips and big dark
•eyes.
Isaac Simons and his wife loved the
life that the white man lives and so
tliey called the child by the name of
the white people's child —Eva May
Simons —and as soon a.-; she was old
■vnough they sent her to school.
A WATCH 300 YEARS OLD.
Made ,in London and Handed Down
From Father to San.
Kansas City.—Probably the oldest
watch in this city and one of the old
est in the United States is owned by
Guy H. Claiborne, a telegraph opera
tor. This watch has kept accurate
time for 298 years. It i 3 a large sil
ver hunting case, key winding time
piece, the works of which are set with
numerous small chipped diamonds.
Instead of the Roman figures upon vhe
face there appears the name Geo. T.
Claiborne, the letter G indicating the
twelfth hour, the E the first hour, etc.
Its first owner was William Clai
borne, who was born in 1587 of Eng
lish parentage. The watch was pre
sented to him by his father upon the
attainment of his majority, and since
then it has befen handefi down from
father to the oldest son. It was he
who brought it to America and car-
Tied it throughout his incumbency as
treasurer of the Virginia colony in
1638. He also carried it with him
when, with his fellowf Protestant col
onists, he engaged in a minor conflict
with the Catholics of Maryland, which
resulted in the latter being driven
•out of their domain, although later on,
after the Catholics received reinforce-
Old Claiborne Watch.
ments, they recaptured their lost trad
ing post. This engagement is re
corded In history as Claiborne's rebel
lion, although the name is spelled
Clayborne.
At the death of William Claiborne It
was presented to his son, Lieutenant
Colonel William Claiborne, and who in
„ turn presented it to his son, William
Claiborne, Jr., of Romaneoke, who
died in 1705. It then passed Into the
hands of the eldest son, also named
William Claiborne, who carried it un
til 1740, at whose death it passed into
the hands of Phillip Whitehead Clai
borne, the husband of Elizabeth Dan<l-
The Mashpeo Indians are the orig
inal owners of Masachusetts. Before
the white man had stepped foot on the
rock-strewn shores the Mashpee In
dians were monarchs of all they sin
veyed.
Though the name of the Onset Cay
family is Simons and for a couple of
generations back has been Simons,
it was not always so. Time was when
the grandslres of Eva May Simons
stood proudly erect because they were
mighty warriors of fame and the aris
tocratic blood of chiefs ran In their
veins and because to hunt and fish
and kill was the consummation of
man's desire.
When they took the white man's
name Isaac Simons and his father,
who bore this name before him, did
not lose their pride of race. They
would have told you proudly that they
were pure-blooded Mashpee Indiana
and even now in the third generation
of the Simons name they look you
just as proudly In the face as they
claim the ancient blood of warrior
chiefs for their own.
One gets just glimpses of that
earlier life after Isaac Simons and his
wife came from Mashpee, from the
old woman who smiles by the lire. It
is of the present she talks most —the
present and the future of the girl May.
"A pure-blooded Indian woman is
more of an American woman than the
white woman," she says."l am a
pure-blooded Mashpee Indian," and
her head is thrown back as she looks
at you —a handsome woman still, with
her skin of copper and big dark eyea
and hair with the blue black tinge.
"My girl May is an educated girl
and now she is to be a teacher. That
is as she wished, for many years sha
talked of it. She is gone now. Three
days ago she rode away over the hill.
It may be two years before she cornea
back. May bo sine year. L don't know."
"It was Mr. Lcverlug who got the
chance for my girl May," she explains.
"He is a congressman—Congressman
William C. Covering," She rolled the
syllables out as though she loved the
sound of them. "Congressman William
C. Lovering—ho knows how anxious
my girl May was to learn and study.
"She was graduated at the Wrent
ham high school. She graduated
high. Then she thought she could go
no further. She came out and helped
me gather oysters and pick the cran
berries, and then the word came that
she could go further, that she could
learn to be a teacher down 111 Vir
ginia, Hampton, Va., and we were
glad."
Among her schoolmates Eva May
Simons was always popular—no dis
tinction between her and others was
ever made and it was her brilliancy
at school which caused Congressman
Lovering to hear of her and her de
sire to be a teacher.
ridge, a great granddaughter of Thom
as 11.
In 1771 it became the property of
William Dandridga Claiborne, who in
1701 was married to Miss Euphamie
Taylor of Taylorville, Va., the daugh
ter of an old and aristocratic Virginia
family. From his hands it passed into
those of Dr. George Claiborne, at that
time a practicing physician of Rich
mond, Va. It was ho who had the
original face removed, replacing it
with the one that bears his name.
With this exception the timepiece has
never been in the hands of a jeweler
to receive other than a cleaning and
readjustment.
Its next owner was Thomas Nelson
Claiborne, who was born at Liberty
hall, the old Claiborne manor, near
Richmond, a son of the Richmond
physician and father of its present
owner.
The watch was worn by William
Claiborne in his duel with Andrew
Jackson, which resulted in Claiborne
being slightly wounded by the famous
Tenncsseean.
SELF-RIGHTING LIFE BOAT
Craft Which Cannot Be Swamped by
Filling with Water.
New York.—The self-righting, self
bailing boat herewith illustrated is
one of a number used in the United
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Keel Openings Are Bailing Device.
States life saving service. Possessing
great strength and buoyancy, and be
ing very difficult to capsize, its supe
riority over the ordinary lifeboat for
long trips is at once evident.
In the floor of the boat, which is
so placed as to be o« a level with
the water when manned, are several
openings, each connecting by a
metal tube with an opening in the
bottom.
| As water cannot rise above its
| own level, and as each tube is closed
| at the floor level by a valve which
j opens downward, no water can pass
J up into the boat, while any dashing
in from above is at once shipped
j through the tubes. So quickly is this
i accomplished that a full boat can
j empty itself in about half a min
j ute.
In order to procure the self-right
ing quality, each is furnished with a
j heavy iron keel and well provided
i with ballast.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1907.
ARE CAUGHT
By Secret Service Agents
Posing as Engravers.
THREE SCHEMERS
Who Planned to Counterfeit the
Money of the Colombian Re
public are Arrested.
New York. — J. D. Sulsona, a tutor
and said to be head of a school
of languages in Far Rockaway, was ar
rested Thursday by secret service
agents, charged with complicity in the
ownership of a plant to counterfeit
100 peso notes of the Colombian re
public. Simon Boehm and Samuel
Otero were arrested several days ago
on a similar charge. It is said that
other arrests may follow. Sulsona
was arraigned before United States
Commissioner Shields and held in
$5,000 bail for examination. He is said
to be prominently connected with a
number of well known South Ameri
can families who are now located in
this city.
The arrest of Boehm, Otero and Sul
sona followed a long investigation by
the secret service officials in the
course of which it was learned, they
allege, that the men had planned to
have the plates made in this country
and then print the notes in Cuba. Most
of the evidence was obtained by a
secret service man who posed as an
engraver and displayed plates as a
proof of his workmanship. These so
called sample plates were loaned for
the purpose by the government bureau
of engraving and printing.
HER "DOUBLE" WAS rOUND.
A Remarkable Case of Mistaken Iden
tity Is Reported from New York.
New York. One of the most
remarkable cases of mistaken
identity ever brought before the
courts in this city reached its climax
Thursday when the victim, Mrs. Alex
ander Trautman, wife of a prominent
physician, was honorably discharged
after a hearing in police court on a
charge of larceny. After Mrs. Traut
man had been given her liberty her
accuser, Peter J. Hogan, a clerk, was
arrested on a charge of assault pre
ferred by Mrs. Trautman.
In support of her charge that Hogan
treated her roughly when he caused
her arrest she showed the magistrate
black and blue marks on her arm
where Hogan had seized her. The evi
dence against Mrs. Trautman was of
so flimsy a nature that Magistrate
Finn dismissed the complaint without
even bringing the most important wit
ness into the court room. This wit
ness, who was an unwilling one, i.-;
known as Kitty Wilson, and she is al
most a perfect "double" of the woman
who was arrested.
AN ALABAMA TRAGEDY.
Two Negroes Killed ana Two White
Men Badly Injured.
Selma, Ala. Two white men
were badly injured, two negroes
killed and a third negro wounded in a
shooting scrape near Nicholasville,
Marengo county. Alexander Jones, a
young negro, shot and wounded an
other negro during a crap game.
Jonee lied and barricaded himself in
his house. Leo Pope and Zeke Pope,
white men, attempted to arrest Jones,
when the negro opened fire, wounding
both. A crowd of white men gathered
and efforts were made to drive the ne
gro from the house. Bob Jones, fath
er of Alexander, tried to carry ammu
nition to his son, but was shot dead.
Several negroes joined the besieg
ing party and one negro, for a reward
of $5, crept up to the house and set
fire to it. Alexander Jones never left
the house and was burned to death in
the flames. There was not the slight
est rupture between the races, whites
and blacks joining in the attempt to
capture the negro.
SOLDIER ASSAULTS A WOMAN.
A Member of the Twenty-fifth Infantry
Adds Another to the List of Crimes
Committed by Men of that Regiment
El Reno, Okla.—A negro soldier
assaulted Mrs. T. S. Clifford,
wife of a prominent physician of this
place, Thursday afternoon near the
Rock Island station.
Mrs. Clifford and her sister, Mrs. S.
M. Clark, were attempting to pass a
negro soldier of the Twenty-fifth in
fantry when he viciously grabbed Mrs.
Clifford around the waist and threw
her into the street, exclaiming that
the sidewalk belonged to him. Mrs.
Clark screamed and the assailant fled.
News of the attack spread rapidly.
The entire police department, rein
forced by several hundred men and
boys, searched the town and surround
ing country, but last evening the chase
was given up.
Yaqui Indians Butchered Mexicans.
Nogales, Mexico. —Details are ar
riving here of the butchery of a
party of Mexicans by Yaqui Indians
near Valencia. Eight Mexicans and
one American were killed. There
were over 100 Indians in tho attacking
party.
Bryan Admits He Will be a Candidate.
Topeka, Kan.—ln an interview
Thursday William J. Bryan vir
tually admitted that he Would be a
candidate for the presidential nomina
tion before the next national demo
cratic convention.
BY THE POISON ROUTE.
A Man and Woman Commit Suicide in
the Jail at Elmira, N. Y.
Elmira, N. Y.—Although a guard
was standing close beside him
last night, Frank Delaney, a railroad
man, succeeded in a bold attempt to
end his life and the life of a woman
who occupied a cell in the woman's
dormitory of the Elmira county jail.
The woman was Bessie Wells, await
ing sentence, on January 3, for abduct
ing a young girl and harboring her for
immoral purposes.
.Delaney possessed a power of attor
ney for the worrtan, and when he
called at the jail and stated that he
wished to consult her regarding the
signing of important papers, there was
no objection on the part of the war
don, who sent a guard along with him.
The guard stood close by while the
man and woman were conferring to
gether, when suddenly Delaney drew
from his pocket a bottle of carbolic
acid and passed it through the bars.
The woman seized it and swallowed
the contents. Instantly Delaney
pressed a second bottle to his own
lips. The guard sprang upon him,
but the man fought him fiercely for a
moment and then collapsed. He died
before a physician could be called.
When the door of the cell was un
bolted the woman lay dying on the
floor. She, too, died within a short
time.
A CHARGE Of FORGERY.
It Is Preferred Against Cashier Rin»
hart, of the Wrecked Bank at
Waynesburg, Pa.
Pittsburg, Pa. —An additional charg«
of forgery was on Wednesday
preferred against J. B. F. Rinehart,
former cashier of the Farmers and
Drovers' National Bank of Waynes
burg, Pa. In the information he is
charged with forging the name of a
prominent Waynesburg man to a note
Cor $5,000. Rinehart waived a hearing
and gave bail for his appearance at
the February term of criminal court.
The information was made by Pres
ident Reed, of the First National Bank
of Reedville, Pa. He charges Rinehart
with forging the name of County Re
corder J. F. Tilton, of Waynesburg, on
October 31 last to a note of $5,000. A
warrant for the arrest of Rinehart was
issued and placed in the hands of a
constable. Before the warrant could
be served, however, Rinehart appear
ed before the justice, waived a hear
ing and gave bail of $2,000. Almost
immediately following this J. E. Miller,
John A. Goodwin and John Strosnider,
local contractors, stated that they
would immediately prefer charges
against the former bank cashier alleg
ing that he had raised a note given by
them from SSOO to $5,000.
THE CAR SHORTAGE.
Letters from Residents of Northwest
ern Stater. Tell of Almost Un
believable Conditions.
Washington, D. C. lnter-state
Commerce Commissioner Lane, who
has had direct charge of ameliorating
conditions in the northwest, where
both coal and car famines have pre
vailed, is in daily receipt of hundreds
of letters from dealers and residents
in North Dakota, Minnesota, Wyoming
and Idaho that tell an interesting
story of existing conditions.
Some of the writers goto the extent
of saying that in many instances
freight trains have not passed railroad
stations for a month or six weeks, and
that hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been lost to the farmers and ele
vator men, particularly in North Da
kota, by reason of their failure to ob
tain cars to move their wheat and flax.
Commissioner Lane received a let
ter, which is a sample of many, from
Cheyenne, N. D„ in which it was
stated that on November 20 a car was
billed from that point and that on the
17th inst. the car was still on the side
track and a freight train had not
passed up or down for weeks.
MAN AND BOY DROWNED.
The Former Lost His Life While Try
ing to Save the Latter.
Morristown, N. J. Before the
eyes of his young wife, George
Davis, aged 25, on Wednesday lost
his life in an unsuccessful attempt to
rescue John Arke, an 8-yoar-old boy,
from drowning. The boy went out on
the ice of Rockaway river and broke
through. Davis and his wife saw
Arke drop into the water and Davis
cut down the clothesline in his yard
and tied one end about his waist. He
gave the other end to his wife and
started toward the boy, who was
floundering about in the broken ice.
Lying down, Davis reached out and
seized Arke and shouted to his wife
tx> haul in on the rope. She drew her
husband back from the hole until the
boy was out of the water. As she
started to pull again the rope broke
and the man and boy slid back into
the water and were drowned.
Trolley Road Raises Wages.
Columbus, O.—The wages of the
conductors and motormen on
the interurban line from Columbus to
Zanesville will be increased January
1, from one to two cents per hour, ac
cording to length of service.
Express Mariager Shoots Himself.
New York. Benjamin Brown,
financial manager of the Amer
ican and United States Express
companies, shot and probably fatally
wounded himself while in an office of
the two companies in Brooklyn, Wed
nesday.
Furnace Workers' Waseg to be Raised.
Pittsburg, Pa.—The employes in
the blast furnaces in the Mahoning
and Shenango valleys have been noti
fied that they will receive an increase
of 10 per cent., with the beginning of
the new year.
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ffi Chinaware is selected with
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£3 Art Squares and of fine books in a choice library
£1 Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of Globe- Pf
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|| plate or leaded glass doors.
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heads and warranted.
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