The Norman Transcript. (Norman, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 08, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1897 Page: 3 of 10
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AN INDIAN WAIF.
NEW-ECONOMY.
CAREY. THE SCOl 8(3 E.
FOUND AFTER SLAUCHTiZR AT
WOUNDED KNEE.
Zliilliii Wilt Adopted |,y (ion. Colby nml
Taken to Wa.Uliigton Nur-
rrimiUinR* I <> Nut Scow to Curb II rr
W il.l Iii.sl tIK'! .
HE recently threat-
ened Indian upris-
ing In the WfSi has
" TP directed attention
<-■ \fl a liule llu,lau
v . V I g|r| now a resident
of Washington. She
is the adopted
daughter of General
leonard W. Colby
and wife, who re-
side at No. 1325
Tenth street., N. \V. The child s name
is Zintka Lanuni. Her legal name by
adoption la Zintka Colby. She is now
nearly 7 years old, a typical Indian in
facial appearance, physique and ac-
tions. Thus far it has been impossi-
ble to curb the wild blood that flows
through her veins, and, although sur-
rounded by all the advantages ol a
modern American home, goes to
school, Sunday school, has been taught
to pray and has as companions refined
children of the neighborhood. Zintka
is what her foster mother frequently
calls a bad girl. She is wild and at
times ungovernable, stubborn and
possessed of the well known revenge-
ful spirit of the Indian. She will re-
sent the real or fancied offense of a
playmate, no matter how long it takes,
and is equally as eager to appreciate
any kindness done her. Zintka is of
a roaming disposition. She runs aw ay
from home every day. her favorite
amusement being to ride on the belt
line street cars around past the Capitol
and circuiting the city.
AH the conductors on the line know
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ZINTHA.
her. and she rides free. Frequently
lie is out until ions after dark, but al-
ways finds her way home. No amount
of correction or admonition lias yet
had any effect ou her uncontrollable
spirit to roam. Zintka was found on
the battlefield of Wounded Knee creek,
on the afternoon of Jan. 1, 1891. Lilie
was then three months old. The mas-
sacre of Uig Foot's band having oc-
curred on the morning of Dec. 29, it
was over three days that she lay on
the battlefield in the arms of her dead
mother. The latter had been shot
and killed in the fusilade of the United
States troops. The day after the bat-
tle there was an attack on the agency,
which kept the relief party from going
over the field, and the day following
there was a fearful blizzard, in which
they could not venture out. When the
baby was found she was only slightly
frozen on the head and feet, having
be.'!] protected by warm clothing, by
the body of her mother wrapped in a
heavy Navajo blanket and by a cover-
ing of drifted snow. General Colby
learned to love the infant, and. having
no children of liis own. consulted his
wife, and they determined to adopt her.
A IVunt'ttfteo Community That I.Ives *9
One Uig Family,
A Tennessee community, apparently
founded on Institutes drawn from the
precepts of Ruskin, has just established
a college, to which they ?v/e the name
i. tn. t rhapsodlst, the N v Kconomy,
the town they have built up In the last
three years. The community now
[ numbers 213. and possesses property
' Valued at fso.ooo. When It started
f h head of a family put iu and
'.list increment represents what they
hine earned in the interval beyond
their living expenses. Tile Settlement
live, as a single family; its standard
of value is an hour's labor; in its home
commerce it ha3 no money and needs
none—a certificate that labor has been
po'1'ormed taki « its pluce. A pound of
tea costs eleven hours' work; seven-
ty hours' pay for a pair of shoes; two
and a half for a pound of crackers,
ami so on. Everybody works and all —
men and women alike—receive the
same wages. They have heretofore
worked ten hours a day, but expect
soon to reduce It to eight. They have
a kindergarten, an adequate education,
machinery, music, languages and a
limited technology being taught in ad
dition to the regular branches. The
majority of the communistj are agnos-
tic!.'. There is no church, but those
who like can go to church outside. Of
the great number of similar commun-
ities first and last founded in this coun-
try few survive. The most do not out-
last a decade, and it would not on safe
to predict a longer term for this one,
(hough its institution of a college
shows that it lias so far no misgivings
on that score. New York Tribune.
Thcowln£ Hice and slippers.
In the Ladles' Home Journal Ed-
ward W. liok notes the abuse of the
pretty custom of casting a small par-
cel of rice or a dainty slipper after a
departing bride and groom—ail un-
spoken Godspeed. "The dainty slip-
per," lie also says, "has been trans-
formed Into the old shoe of doubtful
origin, and thrown with force and ac-
curacy, causing no end of discamfoit.
And this is what two pretty customs
have degenerated into. They have been
vulgarized, and, therefore, the sooner
they pass into disuse the better. The
sentiment of the custom has been lost.
Rice and shoes are no longer omens
of good luck. The modern thrower of
them has transformed them into mis-
siles with which to annoy and mortify
1 the bride anil groom. The better class
! of people have already begun to sub-
stitute a shower of ro.=c petals, and
this new and far more beautiful idea
is rapidly being followed. We might
have preserved the old customs, but
we have not. Henceforth, promiscuous
rice-throwing and the casting of old
slices at weddings will be left to the
boors of our modern scciety, into whose
hands these acts have fallen, and who
seem happiest when they can convert
the graceful customs of olden times in
to practical jokes."
Iii4 Fame with llotli I tonsils.
From the Washington Post: General
Robertson tells a story of the late Gen-
eral Benjamin F. Butler which is new
to me. and as the old hero himself told
it to General Robertson it may be new
to S*ou as well. It happened one time
when General Butler was in Portland.
A great reception had been arranged
iu his honor, and the largest hall in
town was engaged to hold it in. The
place was lavishly decorated, and one
white muslin banner especially at-
tracted the general's attention. On it
was painted in large black letters:
"General Benjamin F. Butler, the
hero of Five Forks."
And beneath the big letters some-
body had written:
"And goodness only knows how
many spoons."
MhilKtcr to Hush hi.
Mr. Hitchcock is a great grandson of
the famous Col. Ethan Allen of revolu-
Tlie Teiescriptor.
Among recent interesting inventions
for the transmission of intelligence at
a distance is the "telcscriptor," which
might, perhaps, be described as a
"writing telephone." It consists of a
machine resembling a typewriter
which, instead of printing its letters
and w ords on the spot, sends them tele-
graphically to similar instruments in
distant places connected with it by
wire. The receiving instruments are
arranged to work in perfect accord
with the sender, and they print the
dispatch on paper, in order to send
a dispatch, it is first necessary to in-
form the receiver by signal, where-
upon. the receiving instrument being
1 brown in connection, no further at-
tention need be paid to it, as the dis-
patch will be received and printed au-
tomatically, and can afterward be read
at leisure.
I iiom. Made Suspension Uridyl'.
Necessity is said to be the mother of
invention, and certainly one resident of
Kansas has proven this beyond ques-
tion. His house was on one side of
the river and the school-house was
on the other. When the water was
high the youngsters were obliged to
remain at home. The man attempted
to remedy this evil, and succeeded in
building a suspension bridge that an-
swered every purpose. He anchored
the ends of strong fence wire to piers
made of good-sized oak logs. He then
fastened strips of board three feet long
to the wire and united the strands so
that they could not work loose. Then
a plank walk two feet wide was put
down. There were sides consisting of
a network of woven wire as a measure
of safety. The bridge is sixty feet
above the water and about I wo hun-
dred feet long.
CAD. RECKLESS. AND ABLE,
ALL THROUGH.
Kills, Steal*. : <! Flumier* and Defle*
MHiiucleft, I .o<-ti*, ami llaudcuft't ti*
Hold 'Hint iit'ltl l ast h> Texaus ami
Will Surely SafTer.
(I.ittle Rock Letter.)
IM CAREY, who Is
now confined in the
Van Zant county.
Tex.. Jail on a
charge of burglary,
Is probably the
most desperate
man, certainly the
most desperate
young man in the
United States.
No jail will hold
him. Handcuffs of the latest design
are of little more inconvenience to liini
than a kid glove would be; iron man-
acles drop from his ankles, aud steel |
locks and iron bars cannot detain liim.
He does not know what fear is, and
human life cuts no figure with liim
when that life stands between him and
freedom. Carey is only 23 years old,
a mere boy as he now appears, with |
smooth shaven face, tolerably hand-
some features, and a keen, bright eye.
His soft, white hands add to his boyish
appearance. He bears little resem-
blance to the hard looking character,
dressed iu rough clothing and wearing
a soiled, yellow sioucli hat, with a
face covered with a growth of hard,
bristle-like beard, who was landed in
the Jefferson county jail at Pine Bluff,
Ark., a few weeks ago on the charge
of bank robbery and murder. That
man appeared to be 30 or 3."> years old.
and at first glance left the impression
in one's mind of the typical south-
western bad man; just the kind of man
who would walk into a bank in some
small town, casually engage the teller
in conversation for a few moments,
then suddenly present a six-shooter at
his head, remark, "Hands up, young
feller," clamber over the little iron
grating on the counter, produce a corn
sack, chuck all the money iu sight into
it, murder the teller if necessary,
mount a horse and ride away. That
is the way Jim Carey looked then, but
he is a different person now. The
means he employed to work the trans-
formation showed liim to be a man of
.many resources.
was activity in Warren. Arrange- ' He was arrested at once on a war-
ments were being made to give the rant from Van Zanl county, Texas, ou
prisoner a reception—the reception ten- ] the charge of burglary and was placed
dered -ometlines ti> bank robbers and in jail to await the arrival of the Texas
murderers on their return to the scene ] officers. He was not handcuffed. The
of recent operations. Had Jim Carey, officers had learned that lliere was no
guilty or Innocent, been taken directly use putting handcuffs on the prisoner,
to Warren at that time he would never , Carey Is said to be the only criminal
have come to trial. Hut the officers in the I'nited States who cannot be
of the law did not want the people to held with these instruments, lie has
lynch him. Besides upholding tlie ma-
jesty of the law. they had another im-
portant reason for wishing to avoid the
mob. They hoped to learn enough
from Carey to lead to the arrest of his
pals. So, to avoid the mob, the sher-
iff took Carey to Pine Bluff and placed
him In inil there to await trial. Sev-
eral Warren people went over to l'ine
Bluff and identified Carey as the man
who had fired the shot that killed
President Goodwin.
Carey wrote some letters while in
jail and employed a lawyer in Shreve-
port to defend him. and matters
big bony wrists and small, soft, flexible
hands. A handcuff placed tightly on
his wrists can be slipped over his
hands as easily as one can remove a
ring from the finger. So Carey was
placed in manacles. Irons were placed
on each ankle and he was chained to
the cell floor,
During the night be broke both man-
acles from his legs, wrenched a power-
ful leek from ills cell door, and was
soon in the outer corridor. The noise
he made aroused the jailer, who rushed
in to see what was going on. Am lie
entered the corridor Carey felled liim
dragged along uneventfully until with- ; to the floor with a murderous blow over
in a few days of the date set for the the head with one of the broken ni.ni-
trial. The prisoner was allowed to i acles, took the keys from him, unloik-
talte baths and lie received clean mi
dergarments and a new suit of clothes
from his friends. Then he asked the
jailer fer a zazor.
"Oh, no," said the jailer. "You don't
get Hi) razor. Von wears them whis-
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MINISTER HITCHCOCK.
tionary days, born in Alabama, edu-
cated in Connecticut, and identified
with the business interests of the
west. He is well acquainted with Rus-
sian customs, having spent some time
in that country and in C^hina. He lias
been identified in politics only in a
business way.
in This \\c Are Tartly.
li is strange that while this country
is so far advanced in electrical rail-
ways it should be behind Europe ir.
the pneumatic tube system of trans-
mitting messages and small packages.
Some of the largest cities of Europe,
such as London. Liverpool, Birming-
ham. Paris and Berlin, have been pro-
vided with pneumatic tubes for trans-
mitting messages for forty years.—
Philadelphia Record.
Shallow men believe in luck, believe
in circumstances. Strong men believe
in cause and effect.—Emerson.
JIM CAREY.
Tn February, 1896, the only bank in
the town of Warren was robbed. The
president. J. W. Goodwin, was shot and
killed by one of the robbers, and the
cashier, J. 0. Avery, was shot and
wounded seriously. Three men did the
job. They got all the money in sight
and escaped. Avery stood between the
robbers and their booty, and lie was
shot down. Mr. Goodwin stood be-
tween them and freedom and he was
shot down also. Avery recovered after
a time, but poor Goodwin never spoke
again.
Warren is a country town of about
500 inhabitants. A stranger never goes
! into a town of that size without at-
I tracting attention. For several days
before the Warren bank robbery there
were three men with three horses
camped just outside of the town. Near-
ly everybody saw the men and noticed
thom because they were strangers. One
day these three men went into the
town, robbed the bank, shot Cashier
Avery and murdered President Good-
win. Everybody knew that these
three men did the job. and they were
all able to give good descriptions of
the men, and many were certain that
they would be able to identify any one
of them. The country around War-
ren was scoured for the robbers, but
they escaped. The sheriffs and police
all over the country were notified, de-
scriptions of the men were sent broad-
| cast, and big rewards were offered for
i the arrest of the robbers. Nothing was
j heard of any of the robbers until a
I month ago. when the police of Shreve-
port. La., wrote that they had one of
the men under arrest. In the letter
was a photograph of the suspect. Tho
photograph corresponded with the
description exactly and the Warren
sheriff was hopeful. He took the pho-
tograph to the bank and showed it to
the teller. In an off-hand way the
sheriff asked:
"Ever see this fellow before?"
The teller glanced at the photograph
a moment, and then his eyes flew wide
open and a look of astonishment
spread over his face.
"Ever see him!" he ejaculated. "Why
this is a picture of one of the fellows
who robbed this bank; this is the very
man who fired the shot that killed Mr.
Goodwin."
The photograph was shown to others
who had often seen the three men in
camp near the town before the rob-
bery and had seen the robbery com-
mitted. The result was the same.
The identification whs romplete. Tho
papers were made out and the sheriff
went after his man. And then there
PRESIDENT GOODWIN,
kers light down to Warren tomorrow
morning. They will hefp in the mat-
ter of identification, you know."
"All right," replied Carey, "we'll go
down to Warren in tiie morning, but
the whiskers won't be there."
The jailer chuckled to himself and
went away. That night Carey showed
himself to be a man of resources. Ev-
erybody knows that in the manufac-
ture of shoes a small piece of steel is
used, extending from the heel to the
instep. It is put there to give a
springy movement to the step df the
wearer. Everybody may not know this
fact, either, but Jim Carey knows it.
That nignt, when everything about the
jail was quiet and as dark as pitch,
Jim Carey, without a knife or any oth-
er tool or implement save those which
nature gave him, his fingers, ripped the
steel spring from the sole of his shoe,
got down upon his knees, and on the
concrete floor of his cell sharpened
the spring. Witli this instrument and ■ , , .. .
... , .. . - .. ,i made by themselv
v Jt:!9Ut one ray of light he dispossessed j .
himself of the last particle of his
whiskers, and when the jailer unlock-
ed his cell door on the next morning
lie found Carey as smoothly shaven as
if he had just stepped from the bar-
ber's chair.
The jailer was dumbfounded. He
hardly believed the smooth-faced, boy-
ish-looking fellow *o be the same in-
dividual on whom he had turned the
great iron key the night before. At
the trial, which began on the next day,
and lasted four days, the witnesses,
who had positively identified Carey as
the man who murdered President Good-
win, were unable to identify the pris
eel an outer door, and was soon in the
jail yard, with nothing between liiin-
self and rreedom but a high rock wall.
He was captured by a force of deputy
sheriffs just as he was scaling this
wall, and was again ironed, placed iu
a straight jacket and heavily guarded
until he was delivered to the Texas
officers. It required the seven men to
transfer him to Texas.
Carey is now in strong hands. The
Texans are familiar with the handling
of toughs, and that they will give Ca-
rey full justice is the belief of every-
body familiar with the facts.
famous Cilrl * College.
Vassal' girls in America and Girton
girls in England call to the mind the
same image.
At this popular English school for
girls •-■Girton the collegiate when not
working is playing with a vim—
hockey, cycling, golfing or tea-drink-
ing—going to bed early and enjoying
splendid health. Girton college is a
mile from the town from which it
takes its name and a mile and a half
out of Cambridge, standing in an iso-
lated position. The original building
has been added to from time to time
and has a rambling appearance that
grieves an architect, but it is a happy
place for all that. A career at Girton
costs about $500 a year. Each student
lias two rooms. The establishment is
self-supporting. The* girls' rooms are
up a spiral staircase which resembles
that of a church-tower, but the girls
do not seem to mind racing up and
down these heights many times a day.
The entrance to the college is hand-
some and imposing.
The life at Girton is easy and plea: -
ant. The girls arise whenever they
choose and breakfast between s and D.
Then comes a morning's work. Lunch
is to be had at any time between 12
and 3. After t hat they play tennis,
golf or hockey or ride wheels. Then
comes afternoon tea, served in the
girls' rooms if they are working or
out on the lawn
j if they are resting. After tea each
one amuses herself in her own way.
Dinner is from U to 7. Then there are
I coffee parties and at 9 a little supper
I is served. Every one goes to bed by
i 10 or 11. From this it will be seen
that the Girton girl has much more
freedom than the American college
student.
Itirt hda > m.
The pnetty fashion of making a holi-
day of the birthdays of the family is
taken, like many pleasant festivals,
from the German. There is an ancient
superstition that each month is con-
oner. The case fell tlat. A few wit- i trolled by a jewel, and that the per-
nesses from Shrevcport were present son born under the influence of this
and testified that Carey was in Shreve- j gem must wear it continually as a
port in February, 189(1, on the day the : charm. The English devote a flower
bank robbery occurred. Young Carey's j to each month of the year, and tills is
father lives near Shreveport, and close the birth flower of tho individual born
by lives a young woman tn whom C'a- in the month. The old astrologers con-
rey is engaged to be married. It was j sidered that the sign of the zodiac un-
largely through her testimony that he | der which an individual was born con-
was acquitted. An alibi was establish- | trolled his fortunes. All the super-
ed and Carey was discharged. stitions recall the old childish simplic-
a?, %tr:-r,FTV-
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Ity of belief of tl.ose picturesque days
when fairies daneed iu rings and every
grove and fountain ?it<l its guardian
spirit. It is a pretty fashion to revive
them in the celebration of a birthday.
The gift of a ring or some other Orna-
ment with the jewel associated with
the birth month of the recipient is 11
favorite present for a birthday. The
flower of the mouth is an appropriate
one to use In decorating the birthday
cake or the parlors where the birth-
day party is given. A gift of a pair
of sleeve buttons or a pin in the form
of the sign of the zodiac under which
the recipient was born is an appro-
priate birthday gift. The list Is pub-
lished by special request: January,
garnet, snowdrop, aquarlus; February,
amethyst, primrose, pisees; March,
bloodstone, violet, niles: April, dia-
mond, daisy, taurua: May. emerald,
hawthorne, gemlni; June, agate, hon-
eysuckle. cancer; July, ruby, water lily,
leo; August, sardonyx, poppy, virgo;
September, sapphire, morning glory,
libre: October, opal, hops, scorpio; No-
vember, topaz, chrysanthemum, sagil-
tnrius; December, turquoise, holly, cap-
ricoruus.
Iv.irly WaiiriftrinRft of I in- Chincae.
Simultaneously with the discovery of
inscriptions near Hcrmosillo, Mexico,
which prove the existence of Chinese in
Mexico 2,000 years ago, information is
received by tho Sun from Australia
concerning the reports of F. W. Christ-
ian of the Polynesian society, who has
returned to Sydney after an extended
tour of tin Southern seas and in the
Caroline group. Christian lias discov-
ered extenr-ive traces of Chinese and
Japanese in the islands of the Pacific,
and declares that lie has discovered
evidence pointing to the existence of
civilization nearly 2,000 years ago,
which in linked with the ancient civil-
ization In Central America, and will
probably explain the origin of the Az-
tecs. The steamer Coptic brought to
San Francisco from Sydney accounts
of Christian's two years' work In tho
Pacific, which resulted in finding an-
cient records, specimens, handiwork,
and weapons that prove that the
Asiatic races were extensive traders
among the South Sea Islands thou-
sands of years ago. Evidence of a de-
cisive nature was secured, which shows
that trade was carried on by way of the
islands of the Caroline group between
China and Central America, and that
the ancient Chinese emigrated and col-
onized extensively.
MAIN* ENTRANCE.
a, tb«.
"Oom i'rtulV Coach.
"Oom Paul" has at last set up a state
coach, to the surprise and delight of
his subjects. Tho faithful Hoers have
been trying for years to have him put-
on more frills, but the simple old
Dutchman has a horror of ostentation
and expense particularly expense.
A few years ago lie was almost wild
with the toothache. 11 in family, hi*
eotineillors, li is friends besought him
lo have the tooth out. At last "Oom
Paul" decided to go to a dentist. Ar-
riving at the man of torture's office,
the South African president asked
what it would cost to have the offend-
ing member out. The sum demanded
was equivalent to $1.25. "Never," said
"Oom Paul," and, feeling In his capa-
cious pockets for his clasp-knife, he
pried out the molar with his own
right hand.
l*OiKOtlOllH ltllt t< r<?tl|)M.
The London Lancet says: it Is not
generally known that tho buttercup,
which is such a favorite flower with
children, has poisonous qualities, yet
such in the case, and an inquest has re-
cently been held 011 a boy who, after
eating some buttercups, died within a
few hours with all the symptoms of ir-
ritant poisoning. The buttercup be-
longs to the Ranunculaceae, and near-
ly all the members of this group por-
soss poisonous qualities, chiolly of an
irritant nature, though !n ;< i.w nar-
cotic principles are to be found. The
virulence of the poison varies very
much, but there are very few individ-
uals of this order which are inert.
Cows avoid buttercups, but hogs ami
some other animals eat them with im-
punity. The active principle is volatile,
so that when the buttercups are dried
with liay or exposed to the air they be-
come Inert. Luckily the buttercup,
though pretty to look at, does not usu-
ally tempt children to eat it whole-
sale,otherwise cases of poisoning might
be less rare than they fortunately ire
at present.
No Club Kat<*§.
"Jorkins' wife is very strict with
him."
"In what way?"
"She charges him a nickel every time
he uses an oath, and she won't let him
have six for a quarter." #
(>um tfokr.
A little fresh air child saw a herd of
cows for the first time, and, after
watching them chewing their cud. in
amazement lie said, deprecatingly, to
the farmer: "Oh. mister, do you have to
' uy gum for all those cows to chew1"
It MakoH a DUTprpncp.
"The high price of liquor in Alaska
should promote temperance."
"Perhaps it will only promote ex-
travagance."
President Kruger has presented a
rare specimen of native gold to the
Royal Geological Museum at Berlin.
The gift is said to be worth about 100
pounds.
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