The Statesman. (Denver, Colo.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 27, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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TJjion* Oatliei lap*.
W. Foster, Justice
*T n tarv Hay. Admiral Dew-
vei' 'ii. Mn ban. Colonel Den by and
CaPritiii''iii>lit<l citizens who are
-r - r tl't' churches of Wasb-
»..iverl invitations to par-
tt D;„ .,n ecumenical council on
ate S^i,„.s to be held in New
n r,.' 1st Of May next. All
^..,1 ,1,.nominations throughout
r> I niii all organizations devoted
L* >'i'-v work will be represented
rf Two similar internation-
P il liav.- been held, the object
!" ^t!'niilate interest in missions.
r, 1 /.. ut Harrison will preside.
■ *V,,i~'•<!j> of Canterbury will be
lar ! ,'r. 'idcnt to represent the
I V ,.f 1'ntiland. the earl of Aber-
*rci !, ';i delegate, ex Senator Ed-
, ...pi he the vice president for
urntrMaiit Kpiscopal .hutch, and
-' :,i-.iiniuence will represent
vnViiiiiiiations from all parts of
I The program is now in
p.u-ation and will be an-
' .,1' ii us acceptances have j
'p;v.••! from gentlemen who
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MEN OF IRON NERYE.
THE CALIFORNIA RANGERS OF
LONG AGO.
How an Organization Vested with
J'lenary Powers Bids a State of Oat-
laws—The Killing of Joaquin Maril-
etta, Leader of Mexican Bandits.
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Dewey.'.'
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in iiinu."
"We can't re-
st aport of the South.
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evident that the
Idi'v "iifr'-a-ing movement of grain
merchandise towards the south-
eea'b(i-ir«l would demand an in-
| " of si:i;>:»ing facilities on the
bean CI til f- *i he most promising
lort city is La Porte, at the head of
teston liav. Peculiar natural ad-
bges surround La Porte, notably its
U tr." fartiierest inland seaport on
J Gulf, having high dry land with
|ect drainage and the purest arte-
k water, a climate unsurpassed in
[south and an attractive city site.
\m or if an Land Co., 188 Madison
chii.iso. is interested at La-"
ke anrt announces the first general
of property will be held Feby.
■T. iooo.
I ntprmiiiatingT Mnsquitos.
|,,w in i \K ruiiiiate the mosquito has
V problem for a long time until
L,<j,l,ni •»! Sydney, Australia, tried
Iritis ki-n»riie on the water in a
with iin- happy result that the
^ie wlii in-, mosquitoes spring were
nl. a hi'-ai municipal body has
ilic ki-roM-ne cure on the water
iu ii - dist rict. and so eonspicu-
ly b;»s lii-i n the success of the ex-
Irueiit thai steps have been taken
listribun- a circular among residents
Erting them to use kerosene on the
|er holes that belong to them.
Concerning the lives and exploits of
the bandits who flourished in Califor-
nia during the termative period of the
state's history, a great deal has been
published calculated to throw a glamour
of romantic sympathy ab6ut the per-
sons of desperate scoundrels whose
only real virtue w«s physical courage.
Fable and fancy have been particularly
kind to the memory of that picturesque
cut-throat, Joaquin Murrietta, who has
been painted as a sort of modern
Claude Duval—with the manner of a
Chesterfield, the form of Adonis and
the heart of a pirate. The real story
of his life, in its entirety, may never
be written, but here_is the true story
of how Joaquin Murrietta, the most
noted, feared and hated of all the des-
peradoes who figure in the annals of
the state, came to his death. It is
.the first authentic account ever pub-
lished of the killing of the famous ban-
dit, as related by the only man now
living who was an eye-witness of and
a participant in the tragedy.
The facts are given by Capt. William
J. Howard, the last survivor of the
celebrated California Rangers, who
followed the bandits for hundreds of
miles, and routed them in the San
Joaquin valley, where Joaquin and !*is
lieutenant, "Three-Fingered Jack,"
were killed, and the former's head
hacked off with a bowie knife. Capt.
Howard is a native of Virginia, served
in the Mexican war, was a member of
the Walker filibustering expedition in-
to Nicaragua, and went to California,
where he still resides, with the earliest
goldseekers.
Murrietta, a Mexican, was the leader
of a gang of his fellow-countrymen as
bad as and worse than he himself. Rob-
bery, arson, murder, marked their
from this direction, and toward that
point* Lovo and his rangers were mov-
ing. As they drew nearer to the bank
of the arroyo the rangers divided into
two parties, crossed the stream and
approached the spot indicated by the
rising smoke from opposite direc-
tions.
Nothing but the smoke was visible
until the high ground was reached, and
then, not thirty feet away, the pur-
suers saw the bandits scattered over
100 square yards, preparing to camp.
Capt. Love signaled his men to dis-
mount, and the rangers walked delib-
erately up to the campfire. Bill Burns,
a ranger, who knew Joaquin, pointed
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CAPT. WILLIAM J. HOWARD,
to a tall, athletic young Mexican who
was leading his horse preparatory to
staking him, and exclaimed, "Captain,
there's your man."
Murrietta was not awafe yet of the
rangers' arrival. Capt. Love, with his
eyes fixed on the bandit chief, mo-
tioned toward a man who was bending
over the fire, and, in low tones, sa:d
to a comrade, George Chase, "That's
'Three-Fingered Jack'; if'he makes e.
move, shoot him!" Love then moved
quietly toward Joaquin. The man by
the fire had thrown himself down on £«.
saddle cover. As Capt. Love started
he Health and Fleaiore Besorts
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'ieis and could not find any
jelief whatever. I read what a
Fonderfu! remedy Ayer'sCherry
Pectoral wis for coughs and I
ought a bottle. Before I had
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cwington, Ont.. May 3,1899.
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Cures Colds
^eglected colds always lead
something serious. ' They
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trail. Affairs grew so desperate that
some of the most prominent and in-
fluential men in the state drew up a
bill providing for the organization of
a company of twenty men, to be
known as California Rangers. The
governor was given authority to ap-
point a chief or captain, the latter to
select nineteen others to complete the
organization. As the measure was
passed and approved, the rangers wero
given almost autocratic power. They
were permitted to take prisoners, try
and execute criminals without advico
or interference from the ordinary civil
authorities. Their mission was the
restoration of law and order, the pro-
tection of the lives and property of the
people of the state.
The man selected to command this
remarkable company was Harry Love,
a hercules in strength, standing six
feet in his socks, a magnificent man,
with curly black hair falling over his
broad shoulders, moustachios of the
same somber hue half covering his de-
termined and aggressive chin. - Love
was a noted Indian fighter, a veteran
of the Mexican war, and in all re-
spects qualified for his task. He se-
lected nineteen men, among them
Capt. Howard, and all but the last
named are dead.
Believing that Murrietta's audacious
operations were the chief inspiration
to the smaller fry of lawless charac-
ters, Capt. Love and his fellow-rangers
turned their undivided attention to the
capture of this bandit and the break-
ing up of his gang. But Joaquin was
a slippery fellow and managed to evade
the pursuers for many weeks. Finally,
however, word was brought to the
rangers that Murrietta and his band
were camped on the St. Louis Gonzales
ranch, on the west side of the San
Joaquin river. Love and his men made
a forced march to the scene, only to
find that their prey had departed. But
the trail was still warm, and after a
weary pursuit, on the morning of July
23, 1853, ";he gang was brought to bay
between the hills west of Kern lake.
The Arroyo Cantua flows between
these hills, and on the north side of
the little stream a wide depressfon in
the land concealed what was beyond.
thin wreath of srooke was rising
to walk away "Three-Fingered Jack"
inserted his "good" hand under the
leather blanket and, suddenly snatch-
ing a pistol previously concealed, fired
pointblank at the captain of the ran-
gers. Noticing the move, Ranger
Hayes had leveled his rifle at the rob-
ber, but the latter was too' quick, and
Hayes' gun exploded harmlessly in the
air. But it was "Three-Fingered
Jack's" last shot, for half a dozen of
the rangers were pumping lead into his
body before he could pull the trigger a
second time.
At the first fire Murrietta wheeled,
took in the situation at a glance,
HARRY LOVE, A HERCULES IN
STRENGTH.
jumped on his horse and plunged down
the bank of the arroyo, followed by a
volley from the rangers. By this time
all the bandits were on their feet, fir-
ing. Their bullets went wide, how-
ever, and after a small show of fight-
ing, the entire band scattered in a wild
dash to escape. They were followed
and given no quarter by the rangers.
John White, another ranger, who was
leading one of Howard's thorough-
breds, seeing the flight of the man
they had sworn to capture, leaped on
his horse and dashed after Murrietta.
The chase continued for three-fourth?
of a mile. White's animal was greatly
superior in speed to the mustang bear-
ing Joaquin, and the rang' / v- soov.
within .shooting distance. I A.; fired
twice at the robber, the secoorl time
at close range. Murrietta half jumped,
half fell from his horse, and, raising
a torn and bleeding hand, aaid ic
Spanish, "I surrender."
White noted that the bandit was un-
armed. He had left his belt of pistols
lying on the ground near the lire, un
conscious of danger. White kept his
man covered, and had just ordered him
to move toward the camping plac:.
when a party of the rangers, hot from
the pursuit and extermination of the
bandits, came galloping onto the scene.
They were excited, angry, reckless.
Under the impression that the robber
chief W23 resisting White, and no
stopping for inquiry, the men fired a:
the wounded bandit. He sank to til
ground, riddled with balls.
In the pursuit of tha Mexicans oji1.>
two prisonsrs were taken. As to th
fate of the other robbers, Capt. How.ir,.
remarked, dryly: "None got away;
and we didn't take any wounded pris
oners." After a consultation, it \va
decided to cut off the head of Joaquin
and the "game hand" of "Three-F.n-
gered Jack" as proof that these nole;i
desperadoes had been sent to their len
accounts. Jim Norton took a bowie
knife and hacked off the head of th:-
bandit chief, which was placed in a
sack with Jack's hand. The ranger-
started for Millerton, the nearest set-
tlement, where Dr. Leach pickled the
head of Murrietta.
When it became generally known
that the great bandit, Joaquin Mur-
rietta, had been killed and that his
band had been dispersed, the salutary
effect on the lawless element was at
once apparent. The great majority o
the tough characters, warned by the
fate of Murrietta, left central Califor-
nia and sought other spheres of useful-
ness. And so the California Rangers
were disbanded three months after
having organized. But the terror of
their name had the effect of discour-
aging the co-operative robbery busi-
nez3 for a number of years.
SWORD OF THE FINEST STEEL.
One of tile Marvels of Smith Work Re-
cently Seen In Madrid.
From the New York Tribune: "Of
all the cities I have visited in Europe,"
said R. A. Stinson of Boston recently,
"I found Madrid one of the most in-
teresting. It has a number of out-of-
the-way features that appeal to one.
While I was in Madrid I tried to pur-
chase one of the famous Toledo blades.
The old-fashioned two-handled sword
was what I wanted to get, one of those
that were built to cut through armor
and which fulfilled their mission com-
pletely, as many a bloody battlefield
in ye ancient days bore witness. I
had to- give it up on account of the
expense. They cost from $150 up, but
while I was looking for one a shop-
keeper showed me a most scientific
trick. His store was very lofty, run-
ning up two or three stories, and he
was descanting on the beauties of this
particular sword when, in order to
prove the perfect temper of the metal,
he drove the point into the floor and
bent the blade until point and hilt,
met. He then suddenly released the
hilt and that six feet of gleaming
sword sprang up into the air like a
thing alive. Up and up it went, al-
most to the lofty ceiling itself, when
it lost its impetus and began its de-
scent hilt first. It returned almost to
,the place whence it started, the shop-
keeper catching it by the hilt with
practiced ease and returning it to its
case. I was crazy to try it myself, but
the owner refused to allow me, as he
said I would probably not only wreck
the store, but perhaps injure myself
as well. He told me that if I wanted
to learn the trick I had better practice
it in a large open lot and that a suit
of armor wouldn't be a bad thing to
wear until I got the hang of it."
Investors Want Their Money Back.
Four additional attachments have
been issued against the Investors'
Trust, at Philadelphia, a get-rich-quick
concern, the office of which has been
cloned and the officials missing since
the disclosures regarding the Miller
syndicate of Brooklyn. The complain-
ants are Hannah Lovering, Somerville,
Mans., who claims to have been de-
frauded to the amount of $200; Lucy A.
Harmon, Somerville, Mass., $150; F. C.
Bishop, Fairmount, W. Va., $200. A
letter received from F. M. Lovering of
Somerville by a private detective who
is investigating the Investors' Trust
states that in that town and Charles-
town there are hundreds of victims
who hold stock in the trust to the
amount of $100,000.
Anonymous Letters and Poisoned Candy
Because he made certain charges in
the choir at the Lafayette Methodist
Episcopal church at St. Louis, Mo.,
Frank L. Shaw, chairman of the music
committee, has received two anony-
mous letters of a threatening character
and a box of poisoned candy. The let-
ter advised him to remain away from
the church.
A Sore Sitn.
Briggs—Do you know, I really be
lieve that Miss Whipperly is fond of
me:
Griggs—What makes you think so?
Briggs—She told me the other night
I was the most disagreeable man she
ever met.—Puck.
TOLD ABOUT WOLVES.
LOS ANGELES IS PESTERED
WITH COYOTES.
One of the Interesting and Typical Ani-
mals of the West—His Canning and
Oreat Speed—Only a Specie of WUd
Dogs.
Sleeping with the hair pinned up
tightly is not only bad for the circula-
tion, but it is said to prevent the IwUr
from growing.
(Special Letter.)
One of the interesting and typical
animals of the far west is the Ameri-
can wild dog, lowland wolf or coyot®,
it being known under these and other
titles. While a very common animal*
it is rarely well figured In the books,
and is made to look more foxlike than
wolfish. The accompanying illustra-
tion gives a correct idea of a young
male two-thirds grown. In general
appearance it resembles the typical
wolf, the fur being a dull yellowish
gray, with dark, even black, clouded
spots: beneath it is sometimes reddish
and white.
The coyote is virtually a wild dog
and breeds with the domestic dog,and
dogs will often refuse to injure the fe-
male coyote. Huxley. contends that
there is no material difference between
the skull of a coyote and that of a dog,
and a cross between a collie and an
A TYPICAL COYOTE.
Eskimo dog produces a very fair coy-
ote, so far as appearances go.
"Don Coyote" is essentially a night
animal. On the outskirts of Pasa-
dena, Cal., a city of 15,060 inhabitants,
he comes boldly up the bordering
streets, evading the dogs the best he
can; now giving them a wild chase,
then stopping in some vacant lot and
defying the town, and with head aloft
yelping to the moon. At such time the
yelps come in such quick succession
that they fairly overrun one another,
and seem echoed back and repeated
from every hill, rock and bluff. One
must give Don Coyote credit for much
intelligence, as on one occasion at
least he led hounds and horses out of
the way to a barbed wire fence, passing
under it himself but witnessing the
complete demoralization of the hunt as
he bounded away. While the coyote
hunts singly in towns or villages, he
runs in packs in the open, and it is
here that he demonstrates his skill and
cunning. A naturalist once observed
a pack of coyotes on the edge of the
desert manipulating a jack rabbit.
They swept across the country in a
line, soon starting a hare, then formed
in two parallel lines about 200 feet
apart. There was a regular plan of
action, and none of the coyotes seemed
over-excited, but when the hare was
started they wheeled into columns,
like soldiers, the leading coyote run-
ning at the top of his speed. After a
few moments he dropped to the rear
and a fresh coyote took the lead; and
this was kept up until the hare was
run down. The chase was a silent one.
This method recalls the wild dogs of
Australia, or dingo.
' Where's Your Dead Spot?
Most people have doubted their eyes
when at some conjuring performance
they have seen a man run needles and
pins through both cheeks, evincing no
pain, as he does so. In reality every
person has hundreds of senseless
specks of skin all over his body
through which he could run pins, or
even cut them out, without feeling any
pain. If some one else were to do so
when he was blindfolded, he would not
be even aware of the fact. Physicians
call them dead spots, and the reason
that one man can sew his cheeks up
while another could not is simply be-
cause the former happens to have
many hundreds of these spots in gne
place. These dead spots are caused
by the minute nerves which convey
every sensation to the brain being
either absent in these particular places
or dead and senseless. But should
any one of our readers allow himself
to be blindfolded, and then get one of
his friends to prod him very gently
with a clean needle, say all on one arm,
out of every hundred pricks he will
feel only about sixty or seventy at the
most. In the other cases the needle
will have touched dead spots.—Cincin-
nati Enquirer.
Ready For It.
During the recent European cholera
=care a French prefect wrote to a
mayor requesting him to take precau-
tions against, the disease, which had
broken out in his department. The
mayor was rather puzzled at these in-
structions, which appeared vague to
bim; but after deep thought he an-
swered that he and his electors were
prepared for the plague. On inquiring
into the measures taken by the worthy
mayor in order to ascertain their effi-
ciency it appeared that he had caused
as many graves to be dug as there were
inhabitants.
CHINESE NEW YEAR'S FESTIVAL
Customs and Ceremonies That Inaafu-
rate the Oriental Anniversary.
The New Year's festival of the Chi-
nese, said to be the most complete hol-
iday season kept by any nation of the
earth, is celebrated wherever a single
Chinaman is found, whether in Pekin
or New York, writes Belle M. Brain in
January Woman's Home Companion,
discussing "New Year's Customs in the
Orient." It is a movable festival, fall-
ing-on any date between Jan. 21 and
Feb. 19. Preparations for the great
holiday begin weeks beforehand. The
accumulated dirt of many months dis-
appears as if by magic. Even the
Chinaman himself passes through the
cleaning process, washing his clothes
and -J,»athing his person—the latter be-
ing a great event in the lives of a few,
since it occurs but once a year! Build-
ings of every descriptions are elabo-
rately decorated. Flowers are in great
demand, the favorite being the Chinese
narcissus. The prospect of happiness
for the year is believed to be in pro-
portion to the number of flower stalks
produced from a single bulb. During
the closing days of the old year Chi-
nese streets present a busy and ani-
mated scene. Shops are thronged with
customers eagerly laying in large
quantities of food, clothing and New
Year's gifts. Debtors and creditors are
seen hurrying to and fro, endeavoring
to settle their accounts, for according
to a most commendable custom aM
debts must be paid or settled in some
satisfactory manner before the new
year dawns. To meet these liabilities
shopkeepers offer their goods at un-
heard-of-prices and families frequent-
ly part with odd bits of bric-a-brac,
curious relics and valuable ornaments
for a sum pitifully small. No disgrace
is equal to being found on New Year's
morning with an unpaid debt. On
the other hand the creditor who fails
to collect his debts at this time may
press them again for many months.
He therefore pursues his debtor far in-
to the night, continuing his search in-
to the New Year's day if necessary.
This he may do if he carries a light«J
lantern to indicate that he is still en-
gaged in last night's business and has
not discovered that the day has
dawned! =
AN INDIAN "SWEAT HOUSE."
The "Medicine Man" of early In-
dian history has been partly succeeded
at least by the "self-healer" remedy
which some individuals in Indian
tribes of the west have invented for
their use. The "sweat house" is a
remarkable creation of the North
American redskin. The" "sweat
house" of the average mortal is a su-
perheated room and a swathing of
thick blankets—perhaps, to a degree,
the Indian has borrowed the white
man's method of nursing some phase
of bodily disease.
In some western tribes the "sweat
house" has come to be an invaluable
department of the "Indian hospital."
The picture presented herewith is a
view of one of these old "sweat
houses"—"Wis-te-te-mo." The Indian
sitting beside it is Smo-ho-lo. The
big pile of rocks at the left is heated
and placed inside the little house, and
the flap thrown over tne door. Water
is then poured upon the hot rocks, and
a dense steam arises and fills the nar-
row quarters almost to suffocation.
Thereupon the Indian, after wrapping
himself in a blanket, crawls into the
structure and remains until the per-
spiration pours from his body in
streams. He then leaves the house
and plunges into the chilling waters of
the Muati, a river which flows near by.
AN INDIAN AND "HIS SWEAT
HOUSE."
(The redskins have copied to a degree
the white man's method of treating
some ailments. Photograph by Lee
Moorhouse, Penakton, Oregon.)
It is said that this treatment acts upon
the Indians like a medicine. The aver-
age white man could stand all but the
last cold plunge—that would mean per-
haps death.
Col. Verry's Strategic Cat.
From the Worcester Telegram: Col.
Horace B. Verry has a cat which is the
terror of dogs passing the Verry dom-
icile on Cedar street. There is a par-
ticular stone post at the gateway on
which the cat likes to sit, waiting for
a victim. If the dog approaches the
post, as dogs sometimes will on busi-
ness intent, the cat promptly drops on
his back and gets a firm grip on hair
or hide as the case may be. The dog
lets out up the street or down the
street, whichever way he was headed,
or the shortest way home, as if the
devil himself had got him, instead of a
plain cat of feminine gender. She
seems to enjoy the free ride, and final-
ly drops off, the dog never stopping
to say good day.
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