“A BAD INCIAN.”
CAREER OF ZEKE PROCTOR, DEPUTY |
UNITED STATES MARSHAL.
A C orokee Hunterand Covernment Scout |
Wi h a Record Written in Blood--Sang- |
uinary Incidents in Which He has Taken
Prominent Part,
I'he indian bordering
Western Arkansas has produced aany |
individuals who have become conspicu
for their both as the
gervacors ol the peace and c:vil govern
and defiers of the law The
conspicuous fighter and killer
living in the Cherokee Nation, |
writes Carl P. Johnson, in the New
York Times, is Proctor, ex-High
sherill Disurict He is
sixty
country on |
qus daring, con
ment
1NOSt
HOW
as
2
LURE
of Golng-snakKe
a fuli-blood Cherokee, is near
five year age, and notwithstanding
8 of
his numerous battles, made
club, knife, and b
and ke
uy
vigorous, active, n-eyed
Je went tn she Nation from Georgia
when a when the
removed from their Southern Reserva
tion to their present lands. When h
was yet a yi ung man, he became
among his people as a hunter, tr
and fighter. His first
man named Year-Old
with’ whom he
altercation He
Year-Old, and adorned
f.int rocks A road
rocky ound, in
‘Indian
after this
dance in
boy Cheroke werd
note
pper
Deca
buried the
the grave
Now nm
what
Hollow
Proctor
during th
volved
named J
shot Jay-1
through I
ter r
outbreak
as Proct
he offers
States Gov
capacity
and sharp
At the cl
for Sheriff of
was elects
of his
for som
deposed him. §
+ difficulty with ons
Fis
friends aped
Pres
proviso that thes
nary
donned by
contentions
Proctor engaged
tnrn to the
|SO0ON
Indian Territ
raising. He t
enterprige
Woodruff,
the pecpie center theyre suspicion
mm Proctor
The excitement grew
up
Yoodrull
the
i# i
as
until a
committe formed to
of Woodruff by noon
Proctor in a body citi-
zen led the avengers down to Proctor's
ranch, As they approached the house
they saw him sitting out in the vard
surrounded by about twenty Cherokees
squatted in the ground, every one of
them with a Winchester across his lap
Very few words were spoken, and they
were by Proctor, who. pointing to a
spring branch that flows near his
house, shouted: “Don’t you cross that
stream!” They took his advice, and
returned to Siloam Springs, and that
ended the Proctor-Woodruff deal.
Proctor is still riding as Deputy |
United States Marshal. and with his
record as a killer and the Government
at his back, his prowess is feared and
his autherity is respected.
vigilanes
was the
avenge
oni}
fain we fryer
ean waitin
A prominent
Formation of Amber.
The main source of the amber sup-
ply is the sea coast of the Baltic
Ocean. It is fossil gum, originally the
exudation of a species of conifer now
extinct. This grew in luxuriant pro-
fusion hundreds of thousands of years |
ago on the marshy coasts of northern
Europe, when the climate was mich
warmer than it is to-day. The nat.
ural history of amber is thus ex-
plained. The immense forests of am- |
ber ping anderwent their natural)
accumulated in large quantities
bogs and ponds and in the soll of
the forest. Where the wie
glowly sinking, the gea by-and-by cov-
ered the land, and the amber, which
had been gradually hardening, was at
last at the ocean boltom,
But regions the pine con
wood
const
deposited
in higher
continue to be washed down to
and deposited in the later
and the still later
lignite brown
the shore,
formed green
stratum
sand,
of or
coal
The became fossilized by its
round. More then
two hundred specimens of extinct life,
been found
includ
leaves
gum
burial unde:
animal and vegetable, have
embedded in amber specimens,
ing Inse plants,
frul ete... whicel had
gum
shells
and en
caught
Some
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about
Indeed
able
Cut
108,
regular paid em-
ng loath, and
t
08 every
the cheap
gain instead of
taking conven
distance from the
ministerial
ographic An
other name, his daughter acting as his
assistant Fortune favored him, and
the his constant ab-
scence from home was fathomed by the
curious his flock he had made so
promising a business that he stood in
no awe of deacons or church, though,
indeed, the former have taken a very
gseneible view of the matter, and ad-
mire rather than condemn his enter-
prise —-Cassell’'s Saturday Journal,
work, and
it some
labors, set up
artist” under
before gecret of
of
Gueer Family Register,
A singular kind of family register is
in some parts of Switzerland.
Wherever those well-known gigantic
round cheeges are made, it is the cus-
tom for the friends and relatives of a
pre-
kept
a family register, on which the fam-
dings, ete., are marked by crosses cut
custom dates back as far as the sev-
enteenth century, and a good many
cheeses two centuries old are said to
be extant.
Switzeriand has forty-six wmeuntain
rallweoys.
According to the latest German col-
onial budget, every dollar's wort
colonial trade costs Germany 70 cents,
and every colonial settler costs the
empire £1,000 a year, At that
great colonial empire will be a costly
thing.
fire now con-
cable
and Spain
submarine
the ends of which are
Emden and Vigo It 18 the first
in a series of lines to pe extended
Brazil and to the United States by way
of the
Germany
nected by a
miles long, at
link
to
AZOroes
A learned clentist says that the
whole human body is full of microbes
that a sreon Is
re in
ig, What can a fel
good fOr
1 "ne
long
and healthy as
good condition
will always be
on the m
A coaling
atn
few moments as
and is prevented from thawing by
a1
fixture. Many exquisite ef
fectg can be obtained in this way, and
for the decoration of ball-rooms on a
midsummer night the snow statuary
be ideal.
freezing mm
must
A sensation has been created by the
discovery that both the Austrian and
Italian governments are busy day and
night constructing the most costly and
elaborate fortifications at the points
where the empire and the Kingdom
meet in the Southern Tyrol and in
the neighborhood of Pontebba. Thies,
{t would appear, means that neither at
Vienna nor at Rome is
confidence on the part of the authori-
ties in the extension of the existing
Triple Alliance, since allies do not, as
a rule, consider it necessary to adopt
guch means of defending their domin-
lons against cne another. There are
frontier of
Why should there be any on the Aus-
tro-Italian boundary line?
It is quite astonishing how many
games were originally invented and
are to-day practised by people we are
accustomed to think of as savages.
The Canadian game of lacrosse orig-
inated among the North American In.
dians,
one wei day he thought to amuse his
Dyak boys by
cradle, but he found
that they
he The
actually
history
fiber
kind
figures than
of New Zealand
sort Of pictorial
cradle figures of twisted
| Sandwich Tsjanders
draughts, The
| nearly all |
| Polo comes from Persla and is
| magnificently by wild hill tribes
northern India
| tricate
in
play a
Sea
kite
South
are adepis at flying
before
the
#0
in his recent address
Engligh church
bishop of Canterbury gave
ngmen, speaking o
He
at
Arch
CONETress
© ad
vice to work! {
elf
left
him
Kingman had i
he
as a4 wor
fatherless,
sald, the age o
living since he wa
what it
PF Own
1
had known
time.
attacks the 3
voice If a member of the
his beat he wags his
receives the countergign, but
leave his in fact, he is
per n
teeth
tail
does
passes
seat.
takes a pride in
Francisco Chronicle,
and who duty
done. —--8an
Anecdote of Dana
Once, when the late Editor
rounds of the “Constitution” office.
one of the editorial rooms he
wade through a sea of discarded
changes.
| the littered condition of the room.
“I like to see iL.” he said,
| §t looks like business, and it
that work has been done,
i tion.
without effect,
| rocks.
FOR THE YOUNG FOLK®
FINOnns
Here, little
rhyme,
START TO LCHROOL
fiiger, wou start this
And don't be so poky and slow;
You, gold finger, begin on time,
And don't let one les
You middle finger, be
Tho you fire so stout i
SON HO;
good
You, fore nyer,
And don't think of {
Von, little thumb, don't
But listen and be still
and you, little hand, whate'er you do,
Do it with a will
Woman ws Ho:
ready
+ chain $ in
Abdul roared for ail he
¥ op
was worth Fifty time
Abdul was
eration repeated, and then
taken to a componnd, where he
to remaiy & prisoner for two years,
Was
HOW THE SIX WEXT HAVING,
had
how
Papa apd mamma gone fo
Floridd, and that is the ix
happened to be at grandpa’s There
were Amy and Hugh; then came Paul
and Polly, the twins: next sweet little
Daisy, the darling of grandma's heart;
and iast, but by no means the least,
Baby Joe, who was five, and greatly
objected to being called baby
Baby Joe had a round, freckled
face, fiery red hair, sud the faculty
of always being in mischief when he
wasn't eating. He hadn't been on the |
farm a day before he had fallen into
the pigepen, cut his fingers on a seythe, |
narrowly escaped being run over by
the milk-wagon, tumbled off the hay- |
mow, and performed various other
remark jJe and dangerous exploits |
which Jlled grandma's gentle soul]
with horror. |
“Good morning!” sa'd grandpa,
one bright day in November, as the
six came down to breakfast, with Baby
Joe bringing up the rear ‘I wonder
if 1 could find any childr' n who would
like to go haying with ®me to-day?
Do you think ou could find me some,
Daisy 1”
a ——, — ean a
“Why. grandpa,” said the little
zo
maid, wonderingly, ''do people
.
with u tw
indeed,
re plied
inkle in his eve,
grandpa,
“But what
I want to know is, ean 1 findan y chil-
dren to go ? ’ >
Uh
3.11.1
chlidren, Bal v Joe Deing
"
of
too «
the
iy
vuckwheat-cakes and
we'll go cried five
ee)
engaged in his
syrup to know what the conversation
about
inst Were rend
they WARY May
dressed by careful grand there
hey hurried outdoors, and there stood
grandya by the ¢ havriel with
ry and Kate, res,
he
Bil Ar
kh have revealed
As it is
that memoranda of
to pay on demand had found
av into the world long prior to
establishment of the banking
house in Babylon, it may be ms well
to restrict our survey {to notes on pa-
per only. And so far as that goes, the
Chinese appear to hold the record. The
old Greeks—did not Xenophen project
the first co-operative bank *-—had their
bankers, who were sufficientiy enter.
prising to pay interest on deposits and
letters of credit, and the Ro
mans improved on their example by
inventing checks: but neither used
notes, or paper money, in the ordinary
of the term Notnwith-
standing ail that has Seen said in
favor of other claimants for priority,
the firet real bank, according to Sir
John Lubbock, was the Bank of Bar.
celona, founded in 1401; and the Bank
of Stockhelm, founded in 1G6S, was
he firm's existence
le. however
fusue
are undoubtedly bank notes.
AS EN
Solid Nuremburg.
A specimen of German architectural
and buriness solidity is afforded by the
fact that in Nuremourg there are
houses still in good order which were
erected in 1080, and that in the same
town a firm has been engaged in man.
ufacturing barmonicas since 1560
sixty years before the settlement of
New England. ,