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CHAPTER II.
Promotion was rapid in the cavalry
in those days, so soon after the war.
Indians contributed' largely to the gen-
eral move, but there were other causes,
tpo, Dean had served, little over n year
teeonff lieutenant in a troop doing
duty along the lower Platte, when va- j Gap, and the more the youngster saw
caneies occurring gave him speedy and 0f the rotund quartermaster, the less
unlooked-for lift. He had met Air. he cared to cultivate him. A portly.
They left the infantry there to guard
the site and protect the gang of wood-
choppers set to work at once, then
turned their faces homeward. They
had spent four days and nights at (lie
A
Folsom only once. The veteran trader
had embarked much of bis capital in
heavily built
years of age,
man was he, some 40
a widower, whose ehit-
businefeTat tlaieUUy, beyond the Rock- ! ^ren were at their mother's old home
ies, but officers from fort Emory, close , *11 H'e *ar eflst> a business man with
a keen eye for opportunities and in-
vestments, a fellow who was reputed
to have stock in a dozen mines and
____________ „„ kindred enterprises, a knowing hand
'Hp"rp7thc* bimi* I who drove fast horses and owned quite
’ ‘ a stable,* a sharp hand who played a
week, hunts and picnics all through | driving game of pokej and had no
the spring aud summer in the moun- i compunctions as
to ihe new frontier town, occasionally
told him he had won a stanch friend in ;
that solid citizen.
“kou ought to get transferred to
Emory,” they said. "Here's the band,
half a dozen pretty girls, hops twice u
,
tains, fishing ad libitum, and lots of >
fun ail the year around.” Hut Dean's |
cars were oddly deaf. A classmate let
fall the observation that it was be-
cauiie of a New York girl who had jilt-
ed him tha4 Dean had foresworn so-
ciety and stuck to a troop in the held;
. but men who knew and served with the
young fellow' found him an enthusiast
in Ins profession, passionately fond of
cavalry life in the open, a bold rider, a
keen shot and a born hunter. Up with
the duwn day after day, in saddle long
hours, scouting the divides and ridges,
stalking anletope and black-iaii deer,
chasing buffalo, he lived a life that
hardened every muscle, bronzed the
bkiu, cleared the eye and brain and gave
toeveu monotonous existence a “verve”
and zest the dawdlers in those old-time
trai l isons never knew.
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All t he long summer of the year after
his g:aduatiou, from mid-April until
November, be never once slept beneath
a wooden roof, and more often than
not the sky was his only canopy. That
summer, too, Jessie spent at home,
I’appoose with her most of the time,
and one year more would finish them
at the reliable old Ohio school. By
that time . Folsom’s handsome new
home would be in readiness to receive
his daughter at Gate City. By that
time, too, Marshall might hope to have
a leave aud come in to Illinois to wel-
come his sister and gladden his moth-
er's . yes. But until then, the boy had
*aid to himself, he’d stick to the held,
and ihe troop that had the roughest
work to do was the one that suited him,
“'“t so it had happened that by the
•ing of his service in the regi-
tern was held in higher
officers or regarded
by the lazy ones among
than the young graduate,
o, were days in Which grad-
were few and far between, except
-----------;s' Twice had he ridden
winter the devious t rail
ne Bow range to
Frayne. Once already had he been
1 to a™JJr°m the
to winning. Officers
at Emory were fighting shy of him.
He played too big a game for their
small, pay and pockets, and the men
with whom he took his pleasure were
big contractors or well-known.“sports”
and gamblers, who in fibose days
thronged the frontier towns and most
men did them homage. But on this
trip Burleigh had no big gamblers
along and missed his evening game,
and. once arrived at camp along the
Fork, he had “roped in” some of the
infantry officers, but Brooks and the
engineer declined to play, and so had
Dean from the very start,
“All true cavalrymen ought to be
able to take a hand at poker,” sneered
Burleigh, at the first night's camp, for
here was a pigeon really worth the
plucking, thought he. Dean's life in
the field had been so simple and inex-
pensive that he had saved much of his
slender pay; hut, what Burleigh did
not know, he had sent much of it
home to mother and Jess.
“X know several men who would
have been the better for leaving it
alone,” responded Dean, very quietjy
They rubbed each other the wrong
way from the very start, and this was
bad for the boy, for in those days,
when army morals were less looked
after than they are now. men of Bur-
leigh's stamp, with the means to en-
tertain and the station to enable them
to do it, had often the ear of officers
from headquarters, anti more things
were told at such times to generals and
colonels about their young men than
tl.e victims ever suspected. Burleigl
was a man. of position and influence
and knew it. Dean Was a youngstei
without either, and did not realize it
He }iac} made an enemy of the quarter
master on the trip and could not but
know it. Yet, conscious that he hac
said nothing that was wrong, he felt
no disquiet.
And now, homeward bound, he was
jogging contentedly along at tlu
m mi
imm
.....Warrior Gap,
tains early in
De oi the new
mbs' troop, as
R*fevier
ilmeut, and made
ambulance, leav-
id of “0” troop
ction of the site Dean
Silently he looked
lasler. the eugineer
er from Omaha paced
ith their
waters of
of infantry,
along t he
...... range, had
and pitched
lant vedettes
every comma
i to secure the
se. Invade;
the India
as Indian Story
' "ie most beatilj-
jastra
Dess saw s confuted muss.
i°saM nothing
it he had no *
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head of the troop. Scouts and flank-
ers signaled “all clear.” Not a hostile
Indian had they seen since leaving tbg
(Jap. The ambulances with a little
iuad of troopers had hung on a few
~imerits at the noon camp, hitching
and leisurely that their passen-
„ iglit longer enjoy their post
prandial siesta in the last shade they
until they reached Canton-
Eeno, a long day’s ride. 1‘resent
mule teams would come
nding trail at. a spanking
Mww juni the troop would open out
° to right and left and let them lake the
as 1 lead, giving the dust in exchange, and
DOJj. once more the rapid march would he-
Fin‘ 11 was four P- *»• wipm the shad-
ows of the mules’ ears and heads came
jerking into view beside them, and,
8 guiding his horse to the right, Dean
be’ loosed rein and prepared to trot by the
open doorway of Ihe stout, black-cov-
ered wagon. The young engineer of-
‘J ficer- sitting on the front seat, nodded
cordially to the cavalryman, ile had
lose, known ant) Uked him at jhft point Re
“j l>»d sympathized With him in the
e vague difference with the quartermas-
ter. He had to listen to sneering
; things Burleigh was telling the aid-
de-camp about young linesmen in gen-
eral and Dean in particular, stocking
the staff officer with opinions which he
Jnr hoped and intended should reach the
Jo- department commander’s ears. The
, but was in no po-
I ait,on la dun... His st at ion was at
the scene of cavalry
j exploits in fort or field. Burleigh’s of-
ic em- | fire and depot were In this new,
fwmV n#' |T crowded, bustling frontier town, filled
e nan in me | rvitli temptation to men so. far re-
moved from the influences of home and
civilization, and Burleigh doubtless
and knew much to warrant his
But he knew no wrong of
—at young soldier, as has
had spent all but a few mid-
mt hs at hard, vigorous work
field, had been to Gate City and
-- Emory only twice, and then un-
orders that called for prompt re-
nrn to Fettermun. Any man with an
uinan nature could see at a
i fiance, as Dean saw, that both the aid
nd liis big friend, the quartermaster,
xchatiglng comments at ihe
's expense. He had shouted a
ry salutation to the engineer in
rer to his friendly nod, then turned
ddle and looked squarely at the
‘lie hack seat, and the con-
'keir manner, the almost suf-
their faces, told the story
tords.
n frank, outspoken,
as he Jiad always
...G any species of back-
e had heard of Burleigh
i the art, and a man to be
aiing to his sergeant to
,...nmn opened out, as the
s almost level now on every
- ffie swiftly on, revolving in
id how to meet and checkmate
insidious moves, for in-
iveiy he felt he was already at
- The general in command in
e a*y» Wft# uqi B field soldier by
* v
iny means. His office was far away
st the banks of the Missouri, and all
he knew of what was actually going
an in his department he derived from
afficial written reports; much that
was neither official nor reliable he
learned from officers of Burleigh’s
stamp, and Dean had never yet set eyes
jn him. In the engineer he felt he lfnd
a friend on whom he could rely, and he
determined to seek his counsel at the
Jampfire that very night, meantime to
hold his peace.
They were trotting through a shal-
low depression at the moment, the
two spring wagons guarded and es-
?orted by some 30 dusty, hardy-
looking troopers. Tn the second, the
yellow ambulance, Brooks was
stretched at length, taking it easy,
an attendant jogging alongside. Be-
hind them catne a third, a big quar-
termaster’s wagon, drawn by six mules
and loaded with tentage and rations
Out some 300 yards to the right and
left rode Jjttle squads as flankers
Out beyond them, further still, often
cut off from view by low waves of
prairie, were individual troopers, rifl-
ing as lookouts, while far to the front,
full 600 yards, three or four others,
spreading over the front on each side
of the twisting frail, moved rapidly
from crest to crest, always carefully
scanning the country ahead before rid-
ing up to the summit. And now, as
Dean's eyes turned from his charges
to look along the sky line to the east,
he saw sudden sign of excilement ami
commotion at the front. A sergeant,
riding tvitn two troopers midway be
tween him and those foremost scouts,
was eagerly signaling to him with his
broad-brimmed hat. Three of the
black dots along the gently rising
slope far ahead had leaped from their
mounts and were slowly crawling for-
ward, while one of them, his horse
turned adrift and contentedly nib
bting at the buffalo grass, was surely
signaling that there was mischief
ahead.
In an instant the lieutenant was
galloping out to the, front, cautioning
the driver to come on slowly. Brea
ently he overhauled the sergeant and
bade him follow, and together the
four men darted up on the gradual in
cliDe until within ten yards of where
the leaders’ horses were placidly grnz
ing. There they threw themselves
from saddle; one of the men took the
reins of the four horses, while Dean
and the other two, unslinging carbine
and crouching low, went hurriedly on
tip the slope until they came within a
few yards of the uearest scout.
“Indians!” he called to them, as
soon as they were within earshot.
"But they don't seem to be on lookout
for us at all. They're fooling with
gome buffalo over here.”
Crawling to the crest, leaving ftis
hat behind, Dean peeFgd over intp fbe
swale beyond, and this was what be
saw:
Half a mile away to the east the
low, concave sweep of the prairie was
put by the jagged banks and curves
of a watercourse which drained the
jnelting snows in earlier spring, Along
the further bank a dozen, buffalo we.t
placidly grazing, unconscious of thf
fact that in the shallow, dry raving
Itself half a dozen young Indian^-
Sioux, apparently were lurking,
awaiting the nearer coming of the
herd", whose leaders, at least, were
gradually approaching the edge.
Away down to the northeast, toward
the distant Powder river, the shallow
stream bed trended, and, following
the pointing finger of the scout who
crawled to his side, Dean gazed and
saw a confused mass of slowly moving
objects, betrayed for miles by the
light cloud of dust that hovered ovey
them. covering, many an acre of ih;>
pi-kirie, "stretching away down t
vale. Even before he could unsling
his field glass and gaze, his plainscraft
told him what was slowly, steadily
approaching, as though to cross his
front—an Indian village, a big one.
on the move to the mountains, bound
perhaps for the famous race course of
the Sioux, a grand amphitheater in
the southern hills.
And even as they gazed, two tiny
Jets of flame and sjnofep shot froift Jbp
ravine edge there below them, and be-
fore the dull reports could reach their
ears the foremost bison dropped on his
knees and then rolled over on the sod;
and then came the order, at sound of
W’hich, back among the halted troop-
ers, every carbine leaped from its
socket. . . „
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CAMP.
It is announced from Washing-
ton by the close friends of Sena
tor George C. Wellington of Ma
ryland that the latter will take the
stump for Bryan and Stevenson.
The Republican senator’s hostility
to imperialism is given as the
cause. He is quoted as follow:
“Iam opposedto President Mc-
Kinley because he has deceived
meiD national affairs, and I shall
oppose hie re-election.”
Jackson H. Ralston and Clem-
ent S- Ucker, two other prominent
Republicans of Maryland, will ac-
tively support the Democratic
presidential ticket this year.
General William Birney of
Washington, has announced him-
self as a supporter of Mr, Bryan
against Mr. McKinley and says he
has been drawn into communion
with the Democratic party be-
cause of its position on the ques
tion of imperialism. He wants a
republic and not an empire. He
wafits the constitution observed.
If it is to be changed or modified,
he contends that it should be
amended in the constitutional way
and not arbitrarily set aside. Gen-
eral Birney was major general in
the Union army during the civil
war. He is a son of James G.
Birney, who was twice a candidate
for president of the United States
on the Free Soil or Liberty ticket
in 1840 and 1844, and who con-
tributed so largely to the defeat
of Henry Clay.
Col. Charles James, of Washing
ton, a Lincoln Republican, will
vote and write and speak against
McKinley and Roosevelt. Colo-
nel James was appointed collect-
or of the port of San Francisco
by President Lincoln.
Henry F. Keenan, an author of
note, who has heretofore always
championed the cause of the Re-
publican party, will do what he
can to aid in the election of Mr.
Bryan. Mr. 3£een&n is a success
ful novelist, among his works be-
ing the “ Aliens,” “Trajan,” the
“ Mcney Mskers.” He is also the
author of a history of.the Spadish-
American war. He is a Demo>
erat only on the issue of imperial
ism. Even the question of trusts
he regards as trifling compared
with Ibis.
Oapt. Patrick O’Farrell, a prom-
inent local pension attorney, who
has heretofore sffiiiated with the
Repnblian party, is now a Bryan
man, and has offered his services
to the Democratic national com-
mittee. He is a speaker of con-
siderable force is prominent in
Irish-American circles, and is con-
sidered a valuable acquisition to
the Democratic party. j
Rossa Downing, a local atton
ney, who heretofore has made the
announcement that he will take
the stump for Mr. Bryan.
Dominick 1, Murphy, former
commissioner of pensions, who
though a Democrat, has been rath-
er a silent one for several years,
is active in the support of Mr
Bryan, and wi*i take assignments
on the stomp from the Democrat-
ic campaign managers.
Dr. W. A. Oroffat, who has been
known as a life-long Republican,
and who has voted that ticket at
every presidential election since
1860, with the exception of the
Oleveland-Blaine contest, says he
will go npon the stamp in the in-
terest of Mr. Bryan. The over-
shadowing issue is, he said, impe-
rialism. There were a number of
minor issues, which he thought
would be lost sight of as the cam-
paign progressed. Thongh men
might disagree upon these subor-
dinate points of difference be-
tween the two great parties and
their candidates, he said, on the
qnesrion of imperialism all Amer-
icans, who believe in a republican
form of government should stand
with the Democratic party.
Ex-Attorney General Frank S.
Monett of Ohio, who led the fight
in that state against the Standard
Oil company and who was retired
from politics by Mark Hanna for
so doing, says:
“One is surprised at the cold
indifference on the part of the
ignorant, pillaged victims of the
trust, who are only too willing to
look at the balloon while the trust
robbers reach their bauds into
their pockets and- enter their
homes and rob them of their re-
sources.
“ Onr Republican leaders are
banking on the spectacular, and
already see in their minds miles
of Rough Riders, on borBeback,
with slouch bats, following bands
paid for by Standard Oil money
and listening to United Sttftes
senators with Standard Oil fees
and steel trust fees in their pock-
ets, telling the poor deluded dev-
ils how thankful they ought to be
that the meager recompense they
have received for their day’s
wages allowed to them at all, and
that the times are not as they used
to be under Democratic ruling.
“ One dollar and a quarter, with
necessities from 50 to 400 per cent,
higher than normal competition
would make them, is the prosper-
ity that is much better than they
formerly had.
“ One glance at Teddy’s hat
and a whoop and a snort from a
rural postmaster and our leaders
think they will accomplish more
than all logical arguments and
anti-trust speeches.”
Mr. W. B. Haldeman, proprie-
tor of the Louisville Courier Jour-
nal and a prominent gold Demo-
crat, says: ““I am compelled,
with a sense of what is due to the
free America that I love, to earn-
estly, actively support an Ameri
can whom I believe loves his
country, and whom I believe to be
the highest and best type of an
American citizen, and thus believ-
ing I shall vote for and support
William Jennings Bryan.”
Former Lieutenant Governor
Felt, for a quarter of a century
prominent in the Republican par-
ty in Kansas, has resigned the
chairmanship of the Nemaha comi-
ty Republican committee, and de-
clared for Bryan and Stevenson.
Mr. S. J. Shivel, another promi-
nent Republican of Kansas, has
written to Secretary M z i of the
Anti-Imperialist League, placing
himself in line with that organiza-
tion. Part of his letter follows :
“ I have been a Republican all my
life and joined the army at the
president’s first call in 1898.
was a member of the Kansas reg-
iment of volunteers that went to
the Philippines. I was in all the
engagements of that regiment.
The- greatest wrong ever commit
ted by this nation is the forcible
annexation of the Philippines.
Those people ought to be free.
They are entitled to freedom.
They are capable of it.”
Ex-Congressman Johnson, for
many years a Republican leader
in Indiana, aud until now a strong
party man, says: “ As far seeing
men several years ago predicted
would be the case? a powerful fac-
tion in our country is now endeav-
oring to commit the republic to the
colonial system of an empire. Oar
sacred pledge to the world con-
cerning Cuba has so tar been dis-
regarded. She has been wronged
and plundered. The covetous
eyes of the syndicate are fastened
upon her. Taxation withoqt rep-
resentation has been imposed
upon Porto Rico. Q?er these
subjects, and not over the tariff
and finance, mast the great polit-
ical conflict of 1900 be waged.
“ Nor will it suffi ie to make per-
sonal attacks upon William J.
Bryan,” turning to that phase qf
the campaign. The people will
treat him fairly. They will jndge
him by what be really is, not by
what those against whose vicious
schemes he Btands may say of
him. Within the last four years
his countrymen have come to
know hjm better and to appre-
ciate his sterling character. Q*n-
did men, even thongh they do
not coincide with his opinions,
now admit his courage, his integ-
rity, and his ability. It can cer-
tainly be truthfully affirmed of
him that he is a consistent man,
and that his sonl is not u^der
mortgage to others. Nooneevor
saw him set forth with high-sound-
ing professions of virtue to free
one race and wind np by attempt,
ing. to enslave another. He never
started oat to secure a mere coal-
ing station and ended by purchas-
ing a whole archipelago at an ex-
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pense of $20,000,000, and an igno-
ble war which has sacrificed thous-
ands of precious American lives.
And what measure of ‘ plain duty ’
has he ever recommended at one
moment that he might eat his own
words the next ? ”
James N. Simms, a leader among
the colored people, writes as fol-
lows to the New York Journal:
“I believe, judging from the dis-
satisfaction that exists among our
people in regard to the policies
of the Republican party on trusts
and imperialism, that the majority
of its will vote for the Democratic
nominees.”
There has never been a time
when the colored people were so
opposed to the Republican party
as they are today. At the many
conventions, both national and
local, that have been held among
the colored race daring the past
year or two, at nearly all of them
resolutions have been offered, aud
in most cases passed, which con-
demn the present administration.
The convention recently held in
Philadelphia by many of the lead-
ing men of the race, at which it
was decided to put a ticket in the
field for president and congress-
men, is a sign of a ravolution"15F
the colored vote at the coming
election.
An ex-McKinley clnb has been
organ'zed at Plattsbnrg, N. Y.
More than 30 per cent of the mem-
bers of the club voted for Mc-
Kinley in 1896-
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An Imperial Edict From Chi-
na Is Received, Asking
for Negotiations.
Washington, Aug. 12__Official
evidence of the desire of China
for a peaceful settlement of her
present difficulties was presented
to the Department of State to-day
in the form of an edict promulgat
ed by the Emperor, KwaDg Hsu,
appo inting K*rl Li Hung Chang
as envoy plenipotentiary to ne-
gotiate with the powers for an
“immediate cessation of hostili-
ties” pending a solution of the
problems which have grown out
of the anti-foreign uprising in the
empire.
Minister Wu this morning gave
to the Acting Secretary of State
Adee, at the head of dhe State
Department, a copy of the impe-
rial edict, which he had received
last night.
Mr. Wu expressed the belief
that the edict presented a means
of peaceful adjustment of the
trouble. Mr. Adee made public
the text of the edict in the follow-
ing statement:
“The Department of State
makes public the following imper-
ial edict appointing Viceroy Li
Huog Chang as envqy plenipoten-
tiary to propose a cessation of
hostile demonstrations and negoti-
ate with the powers, a copy of
which was delivered by Mr. Wu
to the acting Secretary of State
this morning:
“An imperial ediet forwarded
by the oonsifi the 4th day of the
seventh moon, to Gov. Yuan at
Tsin Nan, ShangTung, who trans-
mitted it on the 17 th day of the
same moon (Aug. 11) to the Taotia
st Shanghai, by whom it was
retransmitted to Minister-Wu,
who received it on the night of
the same day (Aug. 11).
“The imperial edict, as trans-
mitted by the privy council, is as
follows.
“ ‘ la the present condict be-
tween Chinese and foreigners
there has been some misunder-
standing on the part of the foreign
nations and also a want of a
proper management on the part
of some of the local authorities.
A clash of arms is followed by
calamitous results and caused a
rapture of friendly relations,
which will ultimately do nogood to
the world. We hereby appoint
Li Hang Chang as our envoy ple-
nipotentiary with instructions to
propose at once by telegraph to
the Governments of the several
powers concerned for the imme-
diate cessation of hostile demon-
strations, pending which he is
hereby authorized to conduct for
our part, for the settlement of
whatever questions may have
to be dealt with. The questions
are to be severally consider-
ed in a satisfactory manner and
the resalt of the negotiations re-
ported to ns for our sanction. Re-
spect this.’
“ The above is respectfully cop-
ied for transmission to yonr ex-
cellency to bo communicated to
the Secretary of State for his ex
cellency’s benefit,”
While it is conceded by the
Washington officials that the con-
ferring of plenary authority od
Earl Li to negotiate with the pow-
ers for a settlement of existing
troubles is a step in the right di-
rection, it by no means is assured
that the Uaited States Govern-
ment will consent off-hand to
open negotiations with him.
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regarded as higbiy improbable
that the government of the Unit-
ed States or any of the European
governments, all of which have
made practically the same de-
mands on China, will consent to
a “ cessation of hostile demonstra-
tions.”
The strong hope is expressed
here that the Chinese government
will aocede to the demands event-
ually, and perhaps very soon.
The following belated message
from Minister Conger was trans-
mitted to the war department to-
day by Gen. Chaffee. It express-
ed simply his ability to “hoid out”
until Gen. Chaffee should come to
his relief:
Adjutant general, Washington,
Toitsun, 8. Message received to-
day: “Pekin, Aug. 4.—We will
hold on until your arrival. Hope
it will be soon. Send such infor-
mation as you can.—Conger.
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