The Krebs Eagle. (Krebs, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 17, 1899 Page: 3 of 4
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■'iri 'li is iimki!i” ]i'.vparation
tn cnti‘l-1 aiii tli()M' who attend
t ho free school conviaitiun in i!
city lUs'(‘iiil)i'i- j.
li is I'stimutc,] ilia; over (}()()
marriiififs, lic*tw*h*h whitp iai
and ('lux!,aw mnidons. has <»-
•' within the last ihivi
tnmirlis.
’Rlars sec tiff : sTo monfn
f «)!U the safe of C. r. liie-ram A
< <>.. at iiin-niiT. las; Wednesday
night. Not liiiiff else was taken
or disturbed.
Kumnierlield. 1. T.. advertises
in the 1 t. Smith papers for a
............... to settle in that
town, ami (’•uarantees ;i e-ood
trade to the right man.
We wish to call your especial attention to our good.
You already know we carry a complete and
well-assorted line of General Merchan-
dise, embracing
twenty persons eharged with
murder w ill ho tried at t he He-
mnber t«*rm of court in tho
\ )Y\horn <]istri«*t. wnilo twoutv-
lour liquor crises will Ik* hoard.
DRY GOODS.
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CLOTH
SUNDRIES. HARDWARE. IMPLEMENTS.
1 lie I ulsti Republican says the
price of t own lets in the North-
ern district is kept so high as to
retard the growth of the towns.
Other localities are similarly
afflicted.
Near ( hiekasliM last Sunday,
in a dilliculty between Hen \\ ea ver
and Mr. .1. II. [.aw. Ids mther-in-
law, the latter was shot and
killed. At the examining trial
\\ouvor was held without bail.
But the point we wish vou
to notice now is the quality.
feT- THE BEST QUALITY
Everything we buy is of tile
best, and we huv everything.
MILLINERY.
(.'hristiunity is Hotangl >d up nt
Ihirnni tiiai one denoniiiiMt'ion
ims four (list inot organizations
in that i own, arid the Magic man
says •'thingsare going straight
to Hades on a greased pole."
Sehenck, oi the Antlers l>enio-
• rut. has asked the territorial
press to quit publishing to the
world that he is dead. Mr.
Schenek is w illing to make affida-
vit that he is very much alive.
Tho Cluremore Courier says
that ".Muskogee has purchased
some Kansas horses for their
fire department, and it is feared
they w ill set fireto some of their
hoarding houses just to demon-
strate their fighting ability." .
The nut horities up in the North-
ern district are making things
torrid for the dispensers of the
seductive fluid called "Mist."
Forty barrels of the stuff was
seized in Muskogee last Satur-
day. according to the Times.
The • Seminole 1 lard ware ('ran-
pany’s store at Wewoka was
robbed last week, and about $400
were taken. The Seminole pay-
ment is now in operation and
many suspicious characters are
present.
The < 'hoct.aw council adjourned
without appropriating funds for
the maintenance of the schools.
Inspector Wright’s dare has
been taken, and the accounts
will have to be attended to at
Washington, if at all.
A petition for the pardon of M.
S. Ballard, one of the men con-
victed of the Seminole Indian
burning, will soon be presented
to the president. It is now set
forth that, he was a spectator
and not a participant in the
crime.
The Sun says the “only small-
ness about Hartshorne is its
present business men,” who will
not, for reasons best known to
themselves, advertise in that pa-
per. The editor of the Sun says
he is ready to step down and out
if anyone will buy the paper.
The Pryor Creek Clipper says
that while F. M. McCullv, who
lives about two miles east of
Chouteau, was making sorghum,
his two youngest children, un-
noticed by him, crawled through
the fence to where the vat was.
Both stumbled and fell into the
vat. Medical aid was called m
and at first it was hoped they
would recover, but the youngest
died Friday morning. The other
one will probably recover.
Come in and exainin • our goods in this departm ?nt. Our
Milliner is one of the best ever in the Indian Territory.
We ha- e everything in the latest styles, and best makes
of hii.ts tor children, misses and ladies. There is no
stock superior to ours in this part of the countrv.
Krebs, I. T.
CHAPPELL BROS.’
Livery, Feed and Sales Stables.
Hack Line to all the Dr
pots and Rigs Furnishe
on Short Notice. v«t c*
KRSBS. - IMP. T6R
SHE WAS BLIND.
A blindness comes to me now and then. I have it „
now. It is queer—I car. see your eyes but not your nose.
I can’t read because some of the letters are blurred; dark
spots cover them ; it is very uncomfortable.
I know all about it; it’s DYSPEPSIA. Take one
of these ; it will care you in ten minutes.
What is it ?
A Ripans Tabule.
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( TIA!' 1 !■.!t 1 What Sunohn said in answer is not
Tin* Ft.'.g-1 ;u li was invi-ihlo in n recorded, but now he was watching the
•Ii.od • f ns own dint ns it lure!;, d mid coming of the star" from Ynnni. Some
relied dong the a,kali lints d, u n the one li.id warned him Lieutenant I',hike
valley, and tsiim ho, I!;-1 riuielik("’pi'r
could not lnukn out wlictlier tiny pis
Flutters were on top ,r not. Ho had
brought a lino binocular to In nr just as
scon ns the Fhrill voice i f 1’edro, a
swarthy little scamp of a half breed,
announced the dust cloud suiliug over
the 11uin|i of willows below tltu tend.
Pedro was not tho youngster's oris
iual name, and. fo far iik could tie dc ti r
mined I v ecclesiastical records, mvinn
to the omission of the customary church
ceremonies lie tore none that the chap-
lain at old Camp Cooke would admit to
bo Christian. Itinerant prospectors and
occasional soldiers, however, had sun
jested a change from the original—or
aboriginal—title, w hich was heathenish
in the last degreo. to the much briefer
one of Pedro as fitting accompaniment
to that of tlie illustrious head of the
establishment, aud Lieutenant Hlnke. an
infantry sub with cavalry aspirations
which hud led him to sack arduous
duties inthis arid laud, had com; re
heusively damned the pretensions of tiic
place to being a ‘‘tliuner riitHh" by do
alaring that a shop that held Saudi!
aid Pedro and didn’t bavu game was
unworthy of patronage.
Sancho bad additional reasons ft.:
iisnpproving of Blake. That lino biuoc
olar. to begin with, I; ro the brand id
Undo Pam, for which reason it v,a
nevi r i:i < videuce when an officer or sid
iicr happened along, it liml bet tilth
stracted from Idaho's signal kit win i
tie was stenting the Dragoon mount;.no-
mil swap) ! for tho vilest liquor nniici
die sun a! Sancho’B, of course, and ilu
,alno of tho glass, not of the whisky
was stcpin tl against the long lieiitm
ant’s pay, having him, as he rueful• y
put it, "short enough at tho end of tut
moot it. ’’
Homebody told Blake ho would fin I
his binocular at Snnobo’s, aud I'.lake
instituted inquiriesaftcr his own pecul
lar fashiou tho very next time be hap
pehsd along that way.
"Here, you Castilian castaway.'
said lie as ho alighted atSancbo’adot r,
"I am told you have stolen property in
the shape of my signal glass! Hand it
over iustauter 1"
And Sancho, bowing with the grace of
a grandee of Spain, having assured the
seuor tenionte that everything within
his gatos was at his service, without
money and without price, had promptly
fetched from an adjoining room a but-
tered old double barreled lorgnette that
looked as though it might have been
dropped in the desert by Kearuy or
Fauutleroy or some of the dragoons
who made tho burning inarch before the
Gadsden purchase of 1853 made us pos-
sessors of moru desert sand and desolate
range than we have ever known what
to do with.
“This thing came out of the ark,’
said Blake, rightfully wrathful. "Whut
1 want is the signal glass that deserter
sold you for whisky lust Christmas.”
Whereat Sancho called on all the
saints in the Spanish calendar to bear
wituess to bis innocence and bade the
teuiente search the premises.
"He’s get it in that bedroom yonder,”
whispered old Sergeant Feeney, "and 1
know it, sir, ” and Blake, striding to the
door in response to the half challenge, ,
half invitation, of the gravely courteous J
cutthroat owner, stopped short at the
threshold, stared, whipped off his scout- I
lug nat aud, bowing low, said, "I beg [
your pardon, senora, senorita; I did not
know," and retired in much disorder.
"Why didn’t you tell mo your fain- ;
lly had come, you disreputable old rip,” I
demanded he two minutes later, “or is
that, too—stolen property?”
“It is the wife of my brother and his
daughter," responded the rauobman, !
with unruffled suavity.
Notbiug could equal 8ancho’s equa-
nimity in the presence of those be desired
to placate, notbiug exceed the frenzy of
his wrath when angered by those whom
he could harm without fear of reprisals, j
Blako was backed by a troop of horse i
and the conviction that Sancho was an
unmitigated rascal; therefore were his
palpable allusions to be accepted as
mere peasantries or deprecated as uu- j
merited Injustice.
Blake had blackened the character of
the ranch cuisiue, even if he had been
unequal to the task of blackening that I
of the owner. Blake had declared Sau- j
oho s homestead to be a den of thieves
and the repast tendered the stage pas-
sengers a Barmecide feast, the purport 1
of which was duly reported to Sancho,
Who “allowed" be would ultimately
carve bis opinion of Blake on that offi
oer’s elongated car-ass, und until he
coold find opportnulty so to do it be
hooved him to loll the suspicions of the
prospective victim by elaborate courtesy
of manner, and of this is the Spaniard
or bis Mexican half brother consum-
mate master.
Blake left without a glimpse of his
glass, but not without another of “the
daughter of my brother,” but recently
arrived, and that peep made him desir
ons of a third. Hiding away, he waved
his hand.
"Adios, Sancho 1 Hasta otra vista!’
he had hailed, but his gaze sought the
little window in the adobe wall where
a pair of dark, languorous eyes peered
ont from between the parted onrtains
and a dusky faoe dodged out of view
Isiianl i« unw it was seen
would return that way, ordtred back to
the old post, to tlie north, as witness
before an important court martial.
Those were later termed “the days of
theeiepire" in Arizona. IVriiaps 5,000
souls were counted within its borders
at tlie time our story opens, not count
itig Hie soulless Apaches. Arizona had
tho customary territorial eqtiipiui nt id
a governor and certain other ollicinls
Nine nun out of the dozen Americans
in the only approach to a town it then
possessed—Tucson—would have said
"Damtino” if asked who was tho sec
rotary, I ut ull men knew the sheriff
Tho grave, oignrro smoking, scrape
shrouded cnhulleros who rodo at will
through the plaza and ogled dark eyed
maidens peeping from their barred win
dows could harbor uo interest in tin
question of who was president of the
United States, but the name of the posl
commander at Grant, Lowell or Crit
tenden was a household word, and it:
the eyes of the populace the second lieu
tenant commanding tho paymaster's
escort was inimitably "a bigger man"
than the thrice distinguished soldiei
and citizen whose solo monument : j
to that time was tho flagstaff at t n
add o corral aud LurracitH hucreu to n,.-
uutne.
Air. Bltilre had never been in such a
God forsakeu country nr community be-
fore, but there was something in the
utter isolation, the far stretching waste
of shimmering sand, the desolate moun-
tain ranges- sharply outlined, hostile and
; forbidding, tlie springiest), streamluss,
| verdun less plains of this stricken laud.
that hnmuuizcd with the somewhat
I savage and cynical humor in which be
hail sought service in the most iutolera
blu clime then opt it to the troops of
Uncle Sam. Blako had bei n jilted and
| took it bitterly to le art. Wearing tho
willow himself, he cherished it as the
( only green and growing tiling in the
Gila valley, whereas had ha sought
! sympathy ho would have found other
young gentlemen similarly decorated,
ami therefore as content as he to spunil
j the months or possibly years of their
j imbittered life just us far from the
j madding crowd and, as Blake cynic
ally put it, "as near hell."
Blake was a mau of distinction, as
relatives went, and those were days
wheu frieuds at court hat’ nore to do
with a fellow’s sphere of duty—very
much more—than had the regimental
commander or even the adjutant geu
era! Blake took Arizona in preference
to a tour iu the signal office at Wash
iugtou. He wanted to get us far away
from the national capital aud the favor
lte haunt of "the army and navy for-
ever" as he possibly could. It was the
most natural thiug in the world to him
that he should ask for duty in the laud
of deserts, centipedB, rattlesnakes and
Apaches. He put it on the gronud of
a serious bronchial trouble which could
Sancho/ 1/asta otra vluttil”
be cured only in a dry climate, but the
war office knew as well as the navy de-
partment that it was an affair of the
heart and not of the throat.
He wusn t the firHt man by any man-
ner of means to fall in love with Made-
leine Torrance, the prettiest girl aud
most unprincipled tlirt tbut ever wore
the navy button or tormented a sailor
father. Blake sought the roughest duty,
that uf escorting inspectors, stuff offi
vers or paymasters on their wearisome
trips through the wilderness, uuduooue
denied him. Tho cavalry was short of
officers, and he got assigned to Sau-
'ord's troop, aud the biggest surprise
that had co/uesiuoe his commission met
him one day nt Gila Bend wheu tbut
■ante old red stage, a relic of Galiforuia
days, emerged from the dust oloud of
its own manufacture and a quiet youth
iu pepper and salt aud sand colored cob
turns looked up from behind a pair of
green goggles and said, "Hello, Blakel"
It was the voice, not the face, that
the tall trooper recognized.
"Well—of—all—the—why, what iu
the name of Pegasus brings you here,
Loring? 1 thought yon had graduated
into the engineers. ’’
"I t. fji-l tee uewcuinur teuton a
, t ttsly
"Well, whet sun engineer doing io I
Arizona': I'd us soon look to see an arch-1
bishop.” i |
’ Scouting,’’ said the dust coloreds
man. " Where's dinner?"
“In tin: Eback y; ndor, if yonr stoin
j arc's copprr lined. Better como over to
tny ■ at ip an i take pot luck there "
V.’h cli Loring gladly did and then
1 w :it on his dusty way, leaving Bl::l:e
with something to think of besides his
own worn. Within half a year of his
graduation from West Point tlie young
engineer, one i f tho stars of his class,
bail been ordered to report to the gen
era! commanding the division of the
Pari lie and was set to work on a mili-
tary map in that general’s office. Lor-
iug found all maps of Arizona to be
Vague and incomplete and was ordoretl
forthwith to go to the territory und
gather in tho is oiled data That lie, too,
should bn lasslorn never for a moment
occurred to his comrade of the Hue.
Had sncli facts been confessed among
tlio exiles of tiinso days many a com-
radeship of the far frontier would have
been strengthened.
That tho girl who doped Gerald
Blake should have been kuown to lior
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who had captivated Mr Loring was
suspected by neither officer at tho time,
and that despite tliu efforts and tho ros-j'
olutioti of both meu both women wero'
destined to reappear upon the stage autlj
temporarily, at least, reassume theiri
sway was something neither soldier!
would have admitted possible. Yet'
strunger things had happened, and j
stranger still wero destined to happen. S
aud flic Iirst slop in mo firatrm was j
taken within tlie fortnight of this
chance meeting at Gila Bend.
Sancho, studying tho coming stage ]
with Blake's binocular until it dived |
iuto tho arroyo COO yards to tlie west, I
handed tbut costly instrument to the
siluut, dumpy, dark skinned woman
who stood patiently ut his side and said
briefly "Dos,” at which she vanished, J
ami after restor>"» the gluss to its hid <
iug pluoo iu her bedroom was heard np-,
lifting a shrill, raunous voice at tho
back uf tbo housu ordering dinner to bo
reudy for two. When the vehicle came i
rattling up to tho door, Sancho stood at
his threshold, tho old lorguottu in hand, i
bowing profoundly us two travelers, !
oiliours of the army apparently, emerged
iu tbnir dusters anti stiffly alighted. .
"Have uuy letters or dispatches been
left here for me?” usked iu quiet tone
the elder of the two, limping slightly as
he advanced, leaving to his comrade the
responsibility uf seeing that uune of
their luggugo had been jolted out of the
rickety vehicle.
Ono or two hangers on came languid-
ly yet inquisitively within earshot. ,
For answer the ranebkeeper, with an-
other elaborate bow, produced a bulky
official euvelopo. Tlie officer glauced at
the superscription, said, “This is for
me,” strode within tbe adobe wulled
corral, baited under a screen of brown
canvas and there tore open tbe packet.
Several personal letturs fell to the
ground, but tie paid at first little heed
to them. KupidJy his eyes ran over a
sheet of closely written mutter; then he
turned to the silent und ceremonious
ranchman.
“When did this come?" he asked.
"At sunset yesterday, seuor cornan-
daute. ” |
"Where’s the courier?"
"He returned before dawn today."
Tbe loungers drew still nearer as the
■euior calmly turued to his oompaniou,
who, huviug assured himself that their
impeaimeuta were all safe, came with
quick, springy step to join him.
“Where do you suppose Blake and
bis detachment to be at this moment,
Loring?" ]
"Perhaps 30 miles ahead, sir, over
toward Maricopa. Do you ueel him,
colonel?”
“Yes, mid at onoe. Our bird has
flown. In other words, Nevius has
skipped."
CHAPTER IL
Just wbut an officer’s actual rank
ought he iu the days that followed close
on tbe heels of the war was a matter na
man could tell from either his dress ox
address. Few indeed were they who es-
caped tho doluge of brevets that poured
over the army aud soaked some men six
deep
There wero well authenticated casee
of well preserved persons who had never
eo much as seeu a battle and were yet,
on one pretext or another, brevetted
away up among the sturs for "faithful
and meritorious service" recruiting,
mastering or disbursing. |
We bad oolouela by title whose func-
tions wero purely those of the file oloser.
We hod geuuruls by brevet who had
never set squadron in the field and
didn’t know the difference between a
pole yoke aud a pedometer. i
Every captain, except one or two who
had laughingly declined, wore the
atrapa of a Held officer, some few even of
generals, aud so wheu one beurd a mil- I
Uary looking mau addressed as colouel
tbe chances were tou to one tAat he
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