San Antonio Daily Light. (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 194, Ed. 1 Monday, August 12, 1895 Page: 3 of 8
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Jhe gaily Sight
MONDAY AUGUST 12 1895
FR. B. CRAIG.
(Successor to O’Connor * Co.)
204-206-208 bit Hmmloi Strut
DBALBBIN
Fine Furniture
Parlor and Bed-oom Suits Wardrobes
Hall Kitchen aad Dining Boom Furni-
ture. In fact everything seeded in this
line.
Low Prices. Polite Attention
Give as a Call.
R. B. CRAIG.
■ A. NORDMANN
Manufacturer ano
Dealer n
PUNOS.
Artistic Plano Tuner and Repairer tort
years experience. Manufacturer of the first
piano made In Texas. .All hinds o' ‘.nstru
ments repaired.
420 Goliad Bt. Telephone 392.
ON ITS OWN RAILS
VH Y M r
TRAINS ON THE
MISSOURI KANSAS & TEXAS
. . RAILWAY . .
Now Run Solid
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St. Louis
Chicago
Kansas City
WITH - <
Wagner Buffet sleeping Cars
.‘.AND.*.
FREE CHAIR CARS
H. A. JOHNSON.
City Passenger and Ticket Agent
07 Alamo Plain San Actinic. Texa
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K. P Endowment Life
Safe and cheap insurance for
members only.
T. B. Johnson Secretary.
NOWTHEN!
The Latest Things That’s Dated.
“King Cotton March"
[by Sousa.]
Written lor the Cotton States Exposition at
Atlanta.
“Chicago Girls”
[Two step march.]
“OH UNCLE JOHN”
“The Sunshine of Para-
dise Aliev.”
“The Band Played On”
Alway something new in the Music line at
M. J- HEWITTS
101 W. Commerce Street.
BON TON MUSIC HALL
No. 1116 W. Commerce Street.
Dancing Every Evening.
Yourself and friends respectfully invited
M. ATKINSON Prop. 7-13-im
BED THUNDER IN JAIL.
The Old Chief Led the Recent
North Dakota Uprising.
Although Eighty-Eight Tear* Old He la
Making Lots of Trouble—llas Rilled
Seven Indian Braves and
One White Man.
Red Thunder one of the belligerent
leaders of the recent Indian uprising in
the Turtle mountains is imprisoned in
the Ramsey county jail near Devil’s
Lake N. D. The old man who is 88
years old has had a stormy and event-
ful career. Red Thunder’s tribe was
once a part of a large band of Indians
the majority of whom are now located
on the Red Lake and White Earth res-
ervations in North Dakota. His office
has been that of orator for a band of
Chippewas although he is himself a
full-blooded Cree and is a type of the
simon-pure aborigine. He has never
submitted with good grace to the en-
croachments made by the pale faces
upon the vast territories once held by
the Indians in undisputed sway. Born
in the Pembina mountains in 1807 he
has passed his life in that region lying
between there and the Turtle moun-
tains. Descended from a long line of
chiefs counselors or petty chiefs he is
possessed of a proud and warlike
spirit and looks upon the white man as
a trespasser whose only right is that of
might.
He has a wife 45 years old forty-
three years younger than himself and
five children three daughters and two
sons. Three times he has journeyed to
Washington to negotiate treaties for
his tribe. He boasts of having killed
seven Indians and one white man. The
latter was one of a band of horse
thieves near Fort Chapel and was shot
in self-defense. His Indian vic-
tims four Sioux two Gros Ventres and
one Assinaboine were killed in tribal
wars.
Red Thunder is nearly six feet tall
and was once a man of massive propor-
tions. The sheriff has found the old
man a model prisoner. He is suffering
from a chest trouble which the physi-
cians say will develop into pneumonia.
The captive longs for his freedom
though he refuses to take any exercise
around the jail.
The trouble which led to the im-
prisonment of Red Thunder was caused
by a contest for certain lands in the
state.
When in 1881 the interior depart-
ment determined to open for settlement
BED THUNDER.
the large tract lying west of the Red
River valley including the Devil’s lake
and Turtle mountain regions these In-
dians set up a formal claim to the en-
tire tract amounting to about 9000000
acres. In treating with them at that
time the Indian commissioners offered
them a reservation it is said of twenty
townships including the present town-
sites of Rolla and St. John lying along
the Canadian boundary and taking in
the eastern half of the Turtle moun-
tains. Two years later however this
reservation was cut down to two town-
ships its present size and the claim
now made by the band is for a restora-
tion of their reserve to its original size
and for the payment of a bounty of
$1000000 in annual payments extend-
ing through twenty years for the re-
linquishment of the larger tract.
Though a party of three commission-
ers sent to make an investigation three
years ago reported favorably to the
claims of these Indians men who are
well acquainted with the origin and
history of this particular band main-
tain that they have no valid claim.
This view is held on the ground that
had these Indians settled on the White
Earth reservation when it was set aside
for them they would now be as well
provided for and as prosperous as any
of the White Earth Indians.
The Indians have been upheld in their
position chiefly through John B. Bot-
tineau a half breed who is their attor-
ney and who spends most of his time
at Washington urging their claims be-
fore the interior department His home
is in Minneapolis. Whatever may be
the merits of the claims he represents
it is certain that the Indians place
great confidence in him being guided
by his advice in every move. White
settlers in that region therefore accuse
Bottineau of being responsible for the
constant agitation of the trouble with
the Indians and breeds by whom they
are harassed and frequently driven
from the claims upon which they have
jnade filings. The Indians themselves
Refuse to take out naturalization papers
jjnd make filings on the lands they in-
habit as they are advised by their
lawyer that such action would jeop-
ardize their claims pending before the
aitexivi as it would t®
ftffjncany an acKnowieugmeu. vuwv
the lands belonged to the government
and not to them. The white settlers
now hope that the government owing
to the late troubles will give attention
to the matter and make final disposi-
tion of it.
Red Thunder was the only one of his
rebellions band who refused to surren-
der to the deputies when they came to
arrest the Indians. It was necessary to
overpower and handcuff the old war-
rior before he could be taken to Devil’s
Lake. To do this it took the strength of
three deputy marshals.
Red Thunder will be tried before the
United States circuit court at Devil's
Lake.
OLD ENGLISH FARMHOUSES
The Still Room hi W hich Elder-Flower
Wine Was Compounded.
Through the open window by which
Dorcas sits picking off the elder-blos-
soms to make my lady’s favorite
cosmetic comes the sound of the hum-
ming of the bees in the herb garden
just outside and the snip-snip of Mar-
gery’s scissors as she cuts the fragrant
lavender and looks with some satis-
faction at the promising crops of dill
and marjoram. Wiien she comes in she
will with Dorcas’ nimble assistance
strip the little blue blossoms from
their stalks and as they are nice and
dry already place them in a bag of
muslin in the big earthen pot
honored by the appellation of the
"great pot” in contradistinction to its
neighbor the “lesser pot.” Besides
the fragrant lavender water and the
cooling velvety-feeling elder-flower es-
sence there must ere the year be
passed be added other rweet toilet wa-
ters the old cabbage-rose tree by the
orchard wall must render assistance
and the cowslips whose delicate scent
is to pervade my Lady Betty’s chamber.
A delicacy which is now well-nigh
forgotten although it is still to be
found in old farmhouses is the dam-
son cheese. Why this delightful con-
serve should be called a cheese beats
the comprehension of mortal man for
it is neither like a cheese in shape
manufacture color nor taste but a
cheese it is called and a cheese it will
remain as long as it survives the op-
position of its arch enemy cheap dam-
son jam which by the by is seldom
made of damsons at all but of small
unripe qualities in the common sloe
which were well-known to the house-
wives of old but are now almost uni-
versally neglected. Sloe wine is no
mean tipple and if kept for some years
resembles port (jlosely.
It is strange indeed in these days of
adulteration that sloe port does not
take the place of logwood sirup. Sloe
gin is still to some degree popular
though its composition is commercial-
ly doubtful. In the old days some
bushels of sloes were each year con-
sumed by every still room worthy of the
name. Elderberries were also in great
demand and although the wine made
from them can hardly be said to be
rich or generous it is when heated
with spices and sugar a drink not to
be despised on a cold winter's night.
So many and so various were the
contents of the still room that we in
these degenerate days are apt to won-
der how all these delicacies were con-
sumed. Our grandparents however
were not at loss on this score. "The
more the merrier” was their motto
and well they acted up to it The
uncles and cousins in London and in
fact town mice generally were the for-
tunate recipients of frequent hampers
of country commodities among which
the results of the labor of the house-
keeper and still-room maids were very
conspicuous. Candied orange leaves
damson cheese and elder-flower water
were things not to be had in perfection
in town. The town cousins did not
however return the hampers empty
but crammed with oysters and other
such comestibles which were easier to
obtain in London town so that a sys-
tem of friendly barter was carried on.
These things are now no more. No
more does the stage coach deliver at
the Saracen’s Head or the Elephant
and Castle baskets containing stout
stone jars of Mistress Margery's special
quince marmalade or pickled beans;
the hamper when it exists at all has
degenerated into a mere pair of fowls
and some butter and eggs. The glory
of the still room has departed. Elder-
flower wine and cowslip water are
things of the past and the place of
wormwood wine knows it no more.—
London Standard.
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
—There are ten "fruit schools” in
France where pupils are instructed
practically how to cultivate and hus-
band fruits.
—Women of Ohio are preparing to
make the most of the school ballot in
bringing about many reforms in the
school boards and schools.
—Mrs. Hearst widow of the Califon
nia senator has given 8175000 to erect
a girls’ school in connection with the
Protestant cathedral in Washington.
—Bishop Balsley the oldest theolo-
gian in Denmark died last month
aged ninety. Of his textbook on theol-
ogy very many editions have been sold.
—The American Baptist Home Mis>
sionary society closed the financial
year with a debt of 8108799 an ad-
vance on that of the previous year of
87343.
—Rev. Dr. Newman Hall the emi-
nent dissenting preacher of England
though seventy-five years of age often
walks a dozen miles Sunday to and from
$47.00.
ajoa to - boston'
AND RETURN
Acnunt TRIENNIAL CONCLAVE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR
August 19 to 24 Inclusive.
Good to return up to SepL 10th 1895’with privilege of extending return
limit to October 3rd 1895 by depositing with'the joint agent at Boston on or be-
fore September 30th.
Southern Pacific Summer Excursion rates to all Eastern Excursion
Points now on Sale.
J. MMILLAN. 301 Alamo PlaM
L. J. PARKS Passenger and Ticket Agt. Opera House Building
Ass't Gen'l Passenger and Ticket Agt. C. W. BEIN. Traffic Manager. San Antonio Tex
Houston Texas. Houston. Texas.
Sai Anlonw I Anas Pass Bailvay
To Houston Galveston and Eastern Points. To Waco St. Louis and Northern
Points.
SCHEDULE:
Leaves at 3.45 p. m. Dally except Sunday for Boerne Comfort and Kerrvill*
" “ 2:15 p. m. “ Rockport and Corpse ChristL
“ " 8:50 a.m. " Houaton. Gaheeton and Best.
Sunday (only) at 9:00 a. m. ror Boerne and Kerrville. Thia train makes the
) round trip to Kerrville every Sunday.
“Boerne Comfort and Kerrville are noted health reeorta. Although! I have
viaited every place in the United States these equal any 1 have seen for beautiful
acenery etc GBORGK D. PiEMTiaa Nashville Journal.
E. J. MARTIN ALLEN IRVIN
Gen'l Freight 4 Pass. Agt. Depot Ticket Agt.
ELMENDORF & CO l
NORTH SIDE MILITARY PLAZA
Gin Farming and Mill Machinery of all Kinds.
Mechanics’ Supplies Cassidy Sulky Plow (wai ranted lightest draft made)
Thrashers Engines Scalas Mowers and Respera Hardware and
Agricultural Implementa. Agents for the Celebrated
WAUKEGAN BARBED WIRE.
CORRUGATED and ROOFING IRON.
• CH MUELLER
• WALL’ PAPER*
• PICTURE' FRAMES ■
ARTISTS AND PAINTERS SUPPLIES • 2I7HousrOHST
Notice of Trustee's Sale.
Whereas. The Alamo Heights Land and Im-
provement company did by its deed of trust
dated June 221891 and recorded June 30.1891
in Book Volume 90 on pages 354 to 358 of the
records in the office of the County Clerk of
Bexar County Texes convey to Geo. C. Alt-
gelt. a? trustee the following described prop-
erty to-wit;
All that certain tractor parcel of laud lying
and being in ihe State of Texas. County of
Bexar near the City of San Antonio at the
head of the San Antonio river part of origin-
al City lot No. 38 formerly known as the “Ar-
senal Lot" which was conveyed by rhe City of
San Antonio to Charles Anderson by deed
dated September 20. 1861. and recorded In
Book S. No. 2 pp 121-122 that is to say that
portion of said original lot No. 38 which
is designated as block No. 26 upon the
subdivision and plat of the property made by
said Alamo Heights Land and Improvement
company. The said block 26 thereby conveyed
includes the house and outhouses formerly
known as the MeLane place and is bounded
by Casa Grande street and by Patterson and
Argyle Avenues containing 2 1 acres of land
more or Jess. The plat herein referred to Is
now on file for record in the office of the
County Clerk of BexarCounty. Forchalnof
title see Vol. 61 p. 154 to 157 Vol. 94 p. 54 to
58: and
Whereas. Said conveyence was made in
trust to secure the payment of its two prom-
issory notes dated June 22 1891 and due two
years after date one for 82000 payable to the
order of Mrs. Emma Altgelt at San Antonio
Texas with interest at ten per cent per an-
num from date until paid interest payable
quarter-aunually and the other for 81000.00
payable to the order of Charles Hummel at
San Antonio Texas with interest at ten per
cent per annum from date until paid interest
payable quarter annually: and
Whereas Default has been made In the
payment of the interest and principal of said
notes and the same are long past due and un-
paid and the holder of said note has made
demand upon said trustee for the sale of said
premises:
Now Therefore. Notice is hereby given that
I Geo. C. Altgelt trustee as aforesaid under
and by virtue of the power and authority in
me vested by the terms of said deed of trust
will on the first Tuesday to-wit the 3d day of
September A. D. 1895 between the hours of
10 a. m and 4p m. sel> said property of the
said The Alamo Heights Land and Improve-
ment company lu successors and assigns
therein at public sale before the Courthouse
door of Bexar County Texas tor cash for
the purpose of paying the indebtedness se-
cured by said deed of trust and the costs of
executing this trust. Geo. C. Altoelt
Dated August 21895. Trustee.
8 12 4 Mon
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
A home costing $lOOO can be
paid for in full during 81 years at
the rate of 450 per dayj this pays
principal and interest.
6 30 tf J. W. Darv & Co.
AUCTION AND COMMISSION.
Auction and Commission House old
Green Front 103 to 109 North Flores.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Outside sales
promptly attended to. Second-hand fur-
niture bought and sold. Watches dia-
monds and jewelry at private sale or
auction. My motto is "Prompt Sales and
Prompt Returns.
7 25 Im A. Bebgeb.
WATfff FoR opening chapters
VV A 1 vH o f oar new Serial story
“A Set of Rogues.”
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