You Alls Doins. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1901 Page: 3 of 8
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president Mckinley assassinated
While Holding Public Reception
in Temple of Music.
TWO FATAL SHOTS IN STOMACH
f ..The Filibusters of Venezuela.. \
Or the Trials of a Spanish Girl.
By SEWARD W. HOPKINS.
Copyrighted 1800 by Robert Bonner's Sons.
Buffalo, N. Y.. Sept. 7.—Yesterday the President was shot while holding a
reception in the temple of music, in the Pan-American exposition. The assassin
pressed quietly through the crowd surrounding the president anil delivered two
shots which entered the president s stomach.
The man was a stranger. He was hurriedly taken away and the public 13
not informed where he is held. Secrecy is excused as a prevention of quick
vengeance. .
The first dispatches sent out were to the effect that the president was in
danger; soon went forward the terrible words'"undoubtedly fatal."' The na-
tion held its breath, trembling. This was made evident by the demand for
specials everywhere.
The man who shot the president was well dressed and was shaking hands
with the president. As he approached his victim he held the revolver covered
with a handkerchief. At (1 o'clock the president was still conscious and resting
easily. . . .. .•
Buffalo, Sept. 7.—The president's physicians issued the foltiwing bulletin
jut !> o'clock: "The president is free from pain and resting well. Temperature,
^.03.3; pulse, 130; respiration, 34."
The prisoner declares he is Fred Nieman of Detroit, but he is identified as
rzolgocz. When arrested he was asked why he had shot the president, and
replied: "1 am an anarcnist and have done my duty." Later he denied to a
wlice official that he was an anarchist.
CHAPTER XIV.—(Continued.)
Jacnta's beating, bounding heart was
crowded with a flood of emotions. Hei
father would be saved. She also and
her mother would be taken out of the
power of the conquerors. She would
escape from the hateful alliance with
Francisco. She would be with him
the brave American—her hero.
A low whistle broke in upon her
meditations. Salvarez and Jacinta,
quickly snatching a moment when the
sentinel could not see, sprang to the
window.
A pistol and a knife were thrust
through the bars.
"My pistol." said Medworth. "Phil-
ip's knife. The coast is clear. But
don't shoot if you can possibly help it.
Use the knife it' you must; it is silent."
Salvarez grasped the instrument of
his salvation and breathed a blessing
upon Medworth.
Jacinta caught his receding hand in
hers and kissed it.
"Hurry!" said Medworth. "Hide the
weapons. Shall 1 attract the guard
"Yes," whispered Salvarez, drawing
back from the window.
Immediately there arose outside the
window a low, peculiar cry, startling
and weird, sounding like neither the
cry of man nor beast. The sentinel
heard it.
He saw the three prisoners standing
in apparent fright, gazing toward the
window.
"What is it?" asked the guard.
Jacinta. whose excitement might eas-
ijy be taken for fear, pointed with
trembling finger toward the window.
"Something—there!" she said.
Again the wail, beginning in almost
nothing, rising, swelling, until it seem-
ed like the dying cry of a demon.
With a murmur of surprise and
alarm, the guard sprang to the window
with his gun. ready to fire.
Like a flash, Salvarez was upon him.
The desperate general hesitated not a
moment. The knife flashed in his hand,
gleamed as he poised it a second above
the doomed man, and then descended.
The sentinel groaned, staggered, gave a
despairing look at his executioner, and
fell at Jacinta's feet a corpse.
"Come!" said Salvarez. I hey fol-
lowed him from the room, and in the
twinkling of an eye they had disap-
peared through the sliding panel.
They entered, and looked hastily
around the large apartment.
There, under the window, lay the
guard, his face upturned and distorted
with the agony of his sudden death.
"By heaven!" exclaimed Philip. "Sal-
varez has escaped. What was this man
doing here? Did Salvarez go out by
the window?"
Gomez shook his head in a gloomy
way.
"No. He could not have gone
through the window. The guard was
enticed in here to be killed. But how
did Salvarez obtain a weapon, and how
did he know we were out of the way '
A traitor's hand has aided him. I
suspected one before. My suspicion has
been verified."
"You suspected one of our people?
"Yes; I suspected Francisco. Did it
not seem strange to you that Francisco
should ask to have the rebel's execu-
tion delayed till midnight."
"Now that you speak of it, it certain-
ly was strange; but I was so anxious
about Garza's daughter 1 gave the
other matter but little thought. Fran-
cisco said that Salvarez, his wife, his
daughter, all begged for twelve hours
more in which to say farewell—to pray
together."
Gomez pointed grimly to the dead
sentinel.
"Well, they have prayed to some ad-
vantage, it seems, and have said fare-
well—to us, not to one another.
"But the knife!" exclaimed Philip
"Where did Salvarez obtain tlu
knife?"
"Where, indeed, unless from I* ran
cisco?"
to meet me twenty feet below the se-
cret passage."
Medworth then hurried away, cau-
tiously worked his way out of the se-
cret passage and started off toward
Ramana's hut. He found the old In-
dian asleep in a rude hammock of
grass, and woke hini up to give hitu
the message of Salvarez.
He was much surprised at the agility
displayed by the old Indian. He called
Ravona, who slept in another ham-
mock, and, without wasting time in
saying farewell to Ramana's aged wife,
they hurried, accompanied by Med-
worth, to the river bank, where a long.
| light canoe was moored.
"Come," said Ramana.
Medworth took his seat, and the two
Caribs, with powerful arms, sent the
canoe speeding down the Coroni. In
a short time they had reached the
trysting-place, and the prow of the
canoe was shot into the overhanging
grass on the bank.
"Where is he?" asked Ramana.
"He will come," said Medworth.
"Wait here."
They had not long to wait. Sal-
varez hart timed them pretty accurate-
ly, and a few minutes after they ar-
rived he appeared, creeping along
slowly in the darkness.
"Ah! you are here," he said.
He pressed Medworth's hand, and
stepping into the canoe, said:
"Away, Ramana!" Then to Arthur:
"My brave friend, to you and your
companion I leave my dear ones."
"You will find them safe on your re-
turn." replied Medworth.
The canoe shot away in the dark-
ness, and Medworth speedily made his
way back to the cavern.
\ Reunion of XXth Kansas.
Ottawa, Sept. 4.—All preparations
for the reunion were complete yester-
day and the members of the Twentieth
Kansas are about all here. The city is
decorated profusely for the big parade.
A relies are erected on Main Street at
First. Second, Third and Fourth streets
as well as at several other places. All
residents were asked to decorate and
thev vie with each other as to who will
have the prettiest decorations. Ar-
rangements have been made with the
-lectric light company by which some
pretty displays will be made.
Kingsley Sold Ills Manhood.
New York. Sept. 7.—The Evening
World prints an interview with Wal-
r tor J. Kingsley, the alleged commis-
sioner for an English betting syndicate
to the effect the story of wagers be-
tween him and Pittsburg capitalists
aggregating 8400,000 was a skillfully
devised "fake." Kingsley, according to
the Evening World said that he merely
acted the part of a press agent, for
which service he was paid.
Lenalng Indian Allotments.
Hobart, Okla., Sept. 7.—The Indian
agent at Anadarko has issued the fol-
lowing letter:
"Please instruct the Indians of your
districts and all others concerned that
no leases of Indian allotments or parts
of said allotments can be made for any
purpose until authority for making
such leases is received from the Indian
office at Washington. D. and that
after such authority is received no
lease will be valid unless approved by
the Indian agent of the Kiowa agency.
"Very respectfully,
JAMES F. RANDLETT,
"Lt-Col. U. S. A.. U. S. Indian agent."
Soldiers Toltoned.
Atlanta, (la., Sept. 7.—Two hundred
and twenty-six enlisted men of the
27th infantry stationed at Fort Mc-
Pherson are in the post hospital, made
ill by ptomaine poison. Of the 416 men
enrolled in companies A, 15. C and 1),
only 190 are on duty at the post. Col.
J. W. French, post commander, has
ordered a rigid investigation.
Vegetables Coining Kast.
Stockton, Cal., Sept. 2.—A special
train of about forty carloads of pota-
toes left here for the Middle and South-
ern states. The potatoes are raised
on the river islands west of this city
and towed here on barges. Hundreds
of carloads of potatoes, cabbage and
onions will be sent from Stockton this
year. Local dealers are paying from
$1.50 to SI.60 a hundred pounds for
potatoes on the river bank. This ship-
ment is the largest single consignment
of potatoes ever sent out of the state.
Mark* Left by Flood.
Cleveland, O., Sept. 5.—Instead of a
great sea of muddy water, the citizens
of a large share of the East Side of th
(city gaze upon tumbled piles of wreck-
age and ruins and long rows of filth
and dirt piled on streets, sidewalks and
doorways.
On every hand the marks of the ter-
rible destructive flood could be seen.
A mass of almost undescribable stuff
now lies piled up in various places.
The ruins inside the houses is complete
•'•ynd indwribahle.
Taken Out In One Summer.
Seattle, Wash., Sept. 7.—The noted
Klondikers, Clarence Berry and W illiam
Stanley, arrived in Seattle by the
steamer Dolphin from Dawson. Both
men are Eldorado creek mine owners
and as a result of the summer's sluic-
ing brought out nearly $500,000 in
bank drafts.
McKlnley's Speech In London.
London. Sept 7.—President MeKin-
ley's speech at the Pan-American ex-
position at Buffalo is the theme of
much comment in the London papers.
"It will excite throughout Europe,"
says the Standard, "as keen interest as
it will arouse in the western continent.
It is the utterance of a man who feels
that he is at the head of a great nation
with vast ambitions and newborn
strength." The Post urges the neces-
sity for Great Britain to double her
efforts for trade supremacy. The
Chronicle says that the part of the
treaty relating to reciprocity outweighs
in importance all the president's re-
marks about kinship, the """"1 and
the lika.
CHAPTER XV.
Namampa, the Hero Doctor.
While Medworth and Tempest were
exerting thonselves to save General
Salvarez and Ins family, and were con-
gratulating themselves upon the fact
that Don Juan's daughter, if not free
from the clutches of the royalists, was
at least temporarily safe, owing to a
slight illness, the truth was that Lola
was in so feeble and dangerous a con-
dition that Don Juan, Philip and Go-
mez were all very much alarmed about
her.
While the exciting scenes attendant
upon the escape of Salvarez were being
enacted, it might well be wondered
that neither Philip nor Gomez should
have been in the council room, or any-
where near to prevent the successful
issue of Medworth's plot.
Don Juan, who, notwithstanding his
vaulting ambition, sternness and pride,
really loved his daughter, was torn
with anguish and bitterly condemned
himself for bringing her against her
will to a place that now threatened to
be the cause of her death.
Nearly the same anxiety was shown
by Philip, and he did not conceal it.
Gomez, felt, in his own way, a great
anxiety, but he skillfully concealed the
true state of his feelings and appeared
rather the sympathetic friend than the
baffled lover.
After a conference between the three
Mattazudo was dispatched for Namam-
pa, the herb doctor who lived three
miles distant. Mattazudo's eyes gleam-
ed with triumph as he bore away to-
ward Namampa's hut.
Gomez, perhaps, discovered the mis-
chief in Mattazudo's looks, for he
started to warn the half-breed against
any more treachery. But Philip stopped
him.
"Don't go, Gomez," he said. "1 wish
to speak to you in the council room."
Then turning to Don Juan, he said:
"My dear Garza, remain here with your
daughter, and let me know when this
herb doctor comes."
Philip and Gomez left together, and
went at once to the council room.
"How is this?" said Gomez, pausing
at the door. "The room where Sal-
varez is confined left without a guard?
1 saw one there when I left an hour
ago."
"Strange carelessness," muttered
Philip. "The most dangerous enemy
we have left unguarded.
As if actuated by a common impulse
they ran to the door of the room Sal-
varez had occupied. All was silent.
CHAPTER XVI.
In tlie meantime Geo. Salvarez. his
wife, daughter and their brave rescuers
have gained a place of safety in the
secret passage.
"You speak of getting to the Ori-
noco," said the wife of Salvarez. "It is
impossible, as you know. How can you
travel without being captured again?
'1 had already thought of that," said
the General. "The thing is difficult, 1
will admit. But the difficulty of trav-
eling is not the heaviest on my mind.
If I go. 1 must go alone. I must leave
you and Jacinta here. My anxiety is
for you. What will become of you
while I am away?"
"You need not be alarmed for them.
General Salvarez." said Arthur. "It is
certain that, aside from ourselves, no
person about the castle suspects the
existence of this place. While they re-
main in ignorance we are safe enough,
and I assure you we shall make no
effort to inform them of the facts. And
you may rely on us. We are only two,
of course, but as far as our protection
can go, your wife and daughter shall
have it."
"Right!" said Tempest. "Two Amer-
icans are as good as a dozen of that
rabble upstairs."
Salvarez smiled.
"You seem to have been better than
the entire force to-night," he said. I
agree with yon that this place is safe
enough; but how will you live? If
lacks the necessary comforts. Then
the matter of food is most important.
Tempest laughed.
"We must do without the comforts,
General," lie said. "But as for food,
with a river full of fish running past
our hidden door, and fruit to be had
for the picking, not to mention a stray
calf or two from your own herds. I
don't think we'll starve. Don t lear
for us. If we continue to have the
same number of hours at night that
the country has had since the creation,
and the soldiers of the new king con-
tinue to drink plenty of intoxicating
beverages, we can walk all around and
never be caught."
"You give me renewed courage.'' said
Salvarez. "If two young men who are
strangers here can accomplish the.-,e
things, a General of the Republic
should not hesitate. Since I am as-
sured of the safety of my dear ones,
there remains nothing now for me to
do hut go. If I could but get word to
Ramana."
"Who? Ramana, the Garib?' asked
MedwoHh.
"Yes," replied Salvarez. "Ramana is
old, but he is a true friend."
"What message would you send
him?" asked Arthur. "I know his hut.
I can go there now.''
"You might he captured."
"Did not Tempest just now tell you
that we could go anywhere?"
"Go, then," said Salvarez. "See
Ramana, and say to him that Salvarez.
his friend, is in trouble. Tell hini that
I have escaped from the castle, and
must cross the Orinoco at once, with-
out being seen at Bolivar or any other
place on this side. Tell him I must
start before it is light. Tell him to
bring his large canoe, and bis sou,
Ravona. to help him paddle. Tell kiw
In the meantime Philip had been
roused trom his reverie by the messen-
ger who had been sent by Don Juau
with the information that Mattazudo
had arrived, bringing Namampa, the
herb-doctor.
Throwing off his dejection and
moody misgiving, he hurried to I.ola'a
room.
He found Don Juan and Mattazudo
there, with an aged ('arib whose
twinkling black eyes looked out from
under bushy eyebrows with an expres-
sion of great cunning.
His skin was wrinkled and seared,
and looked like rusty parchment, and
his hands were long and skinny, seem-
ing to be but the bony skeleton with a
covering of skin drawn tightly over
them.
Namampa bent over Lola, felt her
pulse, looked at her tongue and sol-
emnly shook his head.
"Very bad, Much fever. Bring me
some water," he said.
Water was brought him. and he dis-
solved some crystals in it. Then he
ponied the fluid down Lola's throat.
In an hour the anxious watchers
could see that the condition of the
sick girl had improved. Her painful
restlessness had given way to a sweet
repose. The high fever had subsided.
Don Juan's hope was renewed.
The Carib remained in the castle,
and was constant in his attendance
upon ■ Lola. It seemed for five days
that Lola was on the way to complete
recovery.
Five days of anxious watching for
Don Juan. Five days of cruel sus-
pense for Medworth. Five days nt dis-
sembling for Gomez. Five days of
villainous plotting for Mattazudo.
Then, one day. when Medwoith was
in his accustomed plac\ crouching be-
hind the secret panel.^ he heard the
sound of sobbing and voices that were
very sorrowful. At first he pricked
up his ears eagerly, for Lola's name
was mentioned, lie listened then be
heard what he bad hoped be would
never hear, l.ola was dead.
He staggered away, and crept back
to the cavern and his friends.
The pallor of his face was ghastly
I in the light of the lantern that hung
above their heads.
"What's the matter, boy?" cried
Tempest, in alarm. "You look like a
ghost. What's happened?"
"She's dead!" lie gasped. "Ilia's
dead. I heard them talking about it
just now. She died last night. 1 hey
are going to bury her in the garden to-
day."
"So soon?" said Tempest. "Why do
they not wait longer?''
"They do not wait long in this coun-
try," senor," said Jacinta: and then,
with her long lashes hiding the gleam
of satisfaction that came into her
eyes and could not be held back, she
placed her jeweled hand in Med-
worth's, and, leaning forward, she
pressed her rich, warm lips to his cold,
white brow in what seemed to be a
token of her honest sympathy.
That afternoon there was a sad and
solemn gathering near the fountain in
the garden of Salvarez. and while Don
Juan Philip and Gomez looked silently
on. the body of poor I-ola was lowered
into a shallow grave.
They did not see two pairs of eyes
that peeped from h secluded bower,
one pair being dimmed with tears.
Medworth and Tempest had risked
capture, and perhaps death, to wltuest
the last sad rites.
(To be continued.)
The Notre Dame church In Paris,
which has heretofore been lighted by
candles, is to be supplied with al ctrU
lamps at a cost of $90,000.
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