The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1902 Page: 2 of 6
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PEOPLEiS l
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EVENTS
and Things
MCMCNTO Of THE PRINCTB VIII»
IM I*m*4
Th** mint of the Orrmtn govern-
n»*nt ha* strorti off • three mark sli-
ver piece r-omm'-nujrstlv.- of The visit
of Prince Henry to the United flint**.
The coin la about the si/.c of the
United fltatc* half dollar, but la a-
trifle heavier. / !t« value Is 73 cent®,
'• On rtur *Mrf»r -bas-relief* of Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Pr1nr*> Henry,
wbkh are npicndld example* of mint-
ing. On. the reverse aide 1« a repre
sentatlon of « huge ship In tnldocean
TEAR DOWN IT. JOSEPH LANDMARK
Where IMi rent M
«• *• Mere*.
The little one-story tu>u«e situated”
at m« Lafayette street. Ht. Joseph.
Mo. which waa the scene o>f the shoot
|R| of Jmm James by Bob Kurd twen
ty' year* ago i* to l>e turn down aooa
to rank# way for a more pretentious
•j bttfVHAK- The ntraetdae l# on a hill
overlooking the MIssouH liver, and
since that day. April 3, JWJ2. when
Ford p bullet laJKt. low the noted ban
dR+ b *jt.' entertained • ud> f»-*er than
10l»SIa*o«|<i JL-*' ........
bloof^fatlned
^' A g’lswc?*''’ in Sole the
little roam - la ■ auMplent- to show that
*-rery one of the a1 gh tawenr rirfter c*r-
Abov* the engraving are the words
ijh ..German.*.. "fin Remembranc# of the
Journey tp Agy-rlca. 1902."“ wkU# In
smaller letters beneath thl» la pHft«d
"JJttyd atwuueh Kroupfrtn/. ~*VTOr#n
I .................' *
rled away some keepsake or wrote hi*
name of the wall. TheToor wallj
and celling, one?" white. miw’ look
like a directory of the world. The
room remain* th* same aa when the
Ford brothers that April morning
pulled their gun* and mad*- their $lb.4
dor*hf»t*. '
The" visitor to th« house la permit
ted to stand on the fatal chair front
which the notorious outlaw was shot
jostle the same picture frame which
Jesse James, waa dusting when h»
heard the ominous click of FonUajjjun
(the plcturg has long alnce been <-u*
out>, or poke bla Anger Into the bill
let hole Ifi The wall Where the leaden
messenger Imbedded Itself after pass-
ing through James' head The same
old beil on which the outlaw. In that
moment of forgetfulness, tossed hit
Gen. Georga
Rogers Clark
Who Wrested tMOrest
British a ad th* Indian#
HKRK has hewn a
tlon that Clark street Is Chi-
cago be rechrialaaed McKin-
ley avenue, and there is an
almost unbellevablh state of
Ignorance prevailing among
the cRixena of Chicago Tn
regard fo the origin of the
street's name and the history of tha
man for whom-it was christened. Even
the editors of fevers! Chicago Journsts
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MEW YORK S VARIED
„ Van mean spiny
All **iloaailti««
POPULATION '■«
Ktprr<«nt*4 Is tb*
Orest Aasrtet Ssltoyoll*
c.. The new Cathedral of 8t Jolifi. In
New York. wi)k In addition- ter its
main ball. haVe seven *'Chap*’lfl ^
- Tongues. wJu-xe........Ueeman. HpaflJ ah,
French. Swedish. Italian,„Anwdklan-
and Chinese services wiH lie hekl
« WI»W JrtM
and So became
Juan Wm Shat
each Sunday. Nevertheless, by \the, by reljc hunters ft wps here
'yy *•* w u »«.« ,
time the great cathedral Is finished It
~Is not unlikely that the crypt and
trdOTWPM and aute-rooms will be re-
paired for other nationalities. A
• clergypnao called on Bishop Potter
vfike other day to ask that aonie pro-
vision might he made for religious
services for some Mesopotamian 1m
migrant*. •
• Really." heplted the bishop, "ran
.“md .a handful of Mesopotamians be
pcmbled for in connection with your'
Armenian congregation f"
The youflg clergyman of th*1 tene-
ments- ratted. “I do tlVt know what
you call a handful, sir. There are
some eight hundred families ot Meso-
potamians within ten minutes' walk
of where we are sitting this moment,
and ns for their attendance upon Ar
menian services, the languages have
about as little In common as Greek
and Choctaw ”
PORTUGAL'S KINO MAY ABDICATE
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TkiwUSMl Bevolatto* aad
t'weetry the Cesses.
King Carlos t. of Portugal, who. it
.* said, contemplates abdication ow-
ing to the threatened' ivvotwrlon and
the bankrupt condition of hi* king
ilom. ascended th* Portuguese throne
Oct. 19. 1SH9 .Since that time he has
been constantly harassed by flsanctal
trouble*. In 1992 he ahd th* entire
ror*l family gave up a fifth ^of their
guns and so’ became ah easy. prey.
Sag sun he flpen.'alao fhe cellar, part
of the fsihaa* where th* pins
waA stored
i* rendezvous
ferred another kind or patnanding,
sn44»T»?;,-4a consultation with Gov
Patrick HeflVy. he plsaped his expedi-
tion to the Northwest. ^Arlfcer reaehinr
Kaskaskis without nfaeh
he set out from threw In February.
1779 .10 recapture Vincennes. which
had been taken and garrisoned by tbo
.British under Harrison.
For five days he waded Ml army
Mur juf the J9m
•died Ui* hoses waa die
hHhht daredJ#U re-dWd
The stable in the rear of the tmiuf-
Ipg has been almost watirefy cayrled
Jesse James kept Tils famous horse
jdlroc, which carried him safely out of
so many battles, with officers of the
law.. It I* plain from the location of
the house that tho James gang could
have withstood an army from the,
hoilse. Twenty years ago there was
not a bouse within 400 yards, and
perched on this knoll those Inside the
house could shoot down from every,
side.
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AMERICAN LADY A POWER IN INDIA.
la tha Sir* of lh* l.laa«*a*al-flsfaraai
•f tha Worth weak ProTlaws.
Two American . women now hold
undisputed sway in India by virtue ot
their high oAciai rank. One of them
Is I^dy Curxon. formerly Miss Letter
of Chicago, whose husband is viceroy
of the Indian empire. The other Is
Ijidy f<* Tourhe. who was Julia Roth-
tacom g to help oat the fut a. The. -i
ST
to nJli •"
• is.- on. George Rogers Clark, th*
soldier and gloaeer. witlk Capt WU-
liaro Ctatk^tk# explorer ef the famotu
l>wis and Clark expedition.
It was Gen. George Rogers Clark
who wrung tkhrsection from the Brit-
ish and the Indians, and, trims* unpnr-
i1l-b"l fortitude in the frontier cam-
paigns at Uae and of the eighteenth
century* led the men who laid out the
.Jjreefa of Chicago Id honor on# of
rhem with hts name, ft wit Gen.
George Regers Clark, who It 1.779
raised a small voluirt?er fbrde fn Vir-
ginia. crossed the Ohio, redured all
the British posts between tflv Missis-
sippi and the gre^t lakes and made
them the boundary, of the United
states instead of the Ohio, river.
Ills marches through tftr pathless
wilderness ware marvels of endurance,
his prudence was tp> great that *•#
rarely lost a man and his daring baa
not baan surpassed In the annals of Che
heroic pioneers: Few things in his-
tory or In fiction are finer than his
march to and atiactk upon. Vincennes
In the winter of 1771.
Oen. Clark waa born in 'Albemarle
County. Virginia.'in i?£L Ua waa at
surveyor, like Washington, but he pre:
ferred another kind of pathflnding.
Ota. neorge *o|*rt Clark..
across tpa valley of,. the Wabash.
to-hast any snch among ua The
whole gave a cry of approbation and
on wa went. - ».
-This was the most trying of all the
dlBeultlc* am exparienced. I generally
kept lira of the strongest men near-
est myself, snd lodged from my oata
feelings What most be that of th*
others.
*T ordered the canoe to play back
and fourth and with all diligence to
pfek np the mei. lnff to enhoarag*
party sent none of the strongest tor-
all artsy ~ ^
ward wiLh orders'that when-they bad
advanced a certain distance to past
the word back that the water was get-
ting shallow, and when near tBe wood*
to cry out ‘land/
•'This stral^gehi had the destred ef-
fect. Th* men. encouraged by It. ex-
erted themselves almost beyond' their
abilities, the weak holding on to the
stronger. On repelling the wood, where
they expected to find- landv the water
was ap to tbelr shoulders, bur th#
waukty held on to the trees and floptsd
on the drift nittfl they were taflaa oJf
adtmtiirs l ^ tl,g OQPM- Th* strong and tall
got aahorc and
feeble,
on rei
AS EM HEROES EQUAL
KENTUCKIAN OHI NOT UNCOVER
i:r. BEFORE OOM FEORO.
r*"'i •• . '
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M tk* KvliHil|lse ad
^ ‘ Toast I* Hsmikk of
The visit *f Prince Henry recalls
to n correspondent of the Kansas City
•tar an incident which hw relates as ~
^IUma> i
J>< lOwg,,
Just after the close of: the civil
wear Emperor Horn Pedro ef Brasil
visited the I n Red Slate*. Oke.of the
place* ha visited was the mamma**
cave in Kentucky. On bla antral at
The tiro
built fires
«f the feeble. nnaMe to support;
selves on reaching TAhfl.
ng And
r, but many
ttlenr-
woufd fail
With their bodies half in the stater.
The falter were to benumbed with cold
that fires won Id not restore them and
tb* strong war* compelled to exercise
them with great severity to - revive
their circulation.
eept Jack. Horn Pedro railed the at-
tention ot the Interpreter to the fact,
tolfl Mm to «ty th thw dvtvsr that be
wna IP* ampfror of. Uraail and that It
the «.♦-!.m> tUaL wtwm the em-
paror drank all pmeant remove their
Th* message was conveyed, th*
Interpreter adding: "Yoa stUl please
remove your hat’’ Jack. Raiding his
Unas In one hand, straightened up
and replied: "Sir. any to your em-
peror that aa an set ot politeness I
would remove my hat to the most
humble peasant la bin country, but
as n command 1 would not remove it
for no dam man on ear tlx. I am an
emperor myself!" 7.J3L
Tke interpreter fold' Dom Pedro In.
6en. Clark’* ia«t Important mllUnrv ha own tatvgnage pfeeftely what Jack
service waa against the savagemln the
dial
Wr Miami. He died at LoutsviQ*,
Ky.. Feb. 19. ifrM. after paaaihg ms
declining years in sorrow and' pov-
erty. ,.*v ^
There is an insignificant tombstone
(W«( tha grave, and in Indianapolis
t here la a handsome Clark monument^ r my life that I have had the Opportunt-
surmounted by a statue, but that is ty aud pleasure of drinking with' an
all posterity has to s«y abQUt.Gencge
i llftm'rt Clark. k .'■*»»
............ - -%•
flooded with melted snow for a bnuulth
of six miles, generally waist deep end!
•omcCmes up to the shoulder*—-am ex-
ploit that parallels Hannibal's cross- wtU*
log of the Thrasymene march. HI*
ragged men suffered, Incredible hard-
ship. but they touted the British at
Vincennes, within * f«W *hort hours
after they reached the fort.
This l| the way Oen. Clark -tiinRHi"
tells in bis journal of ape day on tip
march to Vlncannd*. t
"The nearest land 'to u# In tfcw di-
rection of Vineetyaes woa'Rrspoh catted
Sugaf Camp" iofe the eppoaltd aid* jf
s slough. I sounded the water IM
finding It a* deep as my neck returned
Lha m*k.
with the
transported ua board thKcMnoo* to thv
A* April Fable.
. AX the forks of the road March loot
his way apd loudly called bia winds
that wandered in the crimson, deeps
and violet vales ef April. They cried
to the kills, tint signaled them with
banners green and glorious and sent
the echoeh of their voices back t» tha
opposing hlils. And then did.. March.
tnimp«tv..Jhlast. command, hit
winds to storm t*he rosy battlement*
and all the wreath-crowned captains
of the April armies; and the captains
tell before their might, and thslr rlcn
raiment was teat and scattered aver
a thousand hills; and under a sky
serene and beautiful th* soldier-wind*
My down to rest and sighed them-
selves to sleep, and. keeping, dreamed
of little.«hHdren. sweet-singing Ut the
sunshine.' find reaping from that
storm-swept battle field bright anna
11 of bloom.—Atlanta Constitution.
ramp, though 1 knew It wotfld.toke
whole day and th# ensuing mght: as
the vessels wo«M pas* slowly through
the bushes. I ,-4 ; '-ji i !
. “On the following morning -sjjj
harangued thSTB*. Whst 1 said I
not now able-*» rarifl. hf*. It |
easily he ire ^hai UMhaiMmo
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« IC’W Easy 0.
w«U of 1j* .GrasffAv Ind. The latte*
has Sufif beeAlae by the appointment of
ie, 'aa lieu-
northwest
iP^Hacw of MIA. the first lady Ui
empire of 50.000,000 Deople^kiio
ranked only by Lady curxon here*
her husband.. Lord La TouchR, aa Ueu-
govemor
an
only by Lady Thirxon hetseU.
Ixird 1a Touche ids been connected
for sonny years with the Indiai hfiMu
service and It was while an a vacatioa
la Ixindoc. several years ago, that h*
met Mis* RdUiirellj and married her.
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railroad to the case, hit stopped, with
hts suite., at the village hotel aml seot
his Interpreter to cdt a conveyancer
to take Nto party to the en*e. - The-
interpreter found nil the public flrtk-
veyances hwd already gone^ to tke-
cave The landlord told him the tolly
suitable private conveyance In the vil-
lage belonged to Jack Thompson, who
was north" tsu tnratt of driving bis
Kentucky hemes amT hts fine canopy-
topped. three-seated rig except for' hla-
own family. However, a price wan-
named that suitod Jack and the party
waa soon under way to the cave. The*
emperor’s party constated of six:
parson*.
After a pleasant ride of Mx miles
the party arrived-, at A grove of maple
trees, where they-stopped ang alighted
for refreshments, ef which a bountiful'
supply had been brought. One ot the
party filled a golden cop with fine
spirits and handed.lt be Dogs Pedro.
Upon the emperor'* taking the cup the
party all removed their hnto—dll ex-
had said, whereupon tike emperor or-
dered another golden cog filled from
the decanter and hanosd It to hla in-
terpreter, telling him to present it to
the "other emperor” Jack took' ft
and Dom Pedro said, throagh his in-
terpreter: "This Is the first time In
life that I have Ha# the opportunl-
Here is to> your health and
emperor.
tn«g life."
During the rest u# the visit, which
was three days at the cave, Dom Pe-
dro and Jack and the toterprvter were
the beet of friends, the emperor never
drinking without i llhhlng rope -with
Jack. Dom Pedro ptod aU bills, and
at parting with Jack Thompson shook
both Ms hands many, many times.
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HIST
PATIENTS
• r
Weald
DIDN'T FEAR
* -.’'i I- \
Oerter Net Afraid
Treabto Ola*
There la n doctor of the old school
hi one of the Ness England villages
near Randolph. Naso., the former
home of Mary E Wilkins, whose
house Is surrounded by n cemetery.
The cemetery Is behind the house and
come* up flush wtth the rood on either
aide, running oft to the east and westi
for an eighth ot n mile. Some peon)*-
might find such n house lot dolcfdh.
and Merely th* neighbors are not.
lively. But tfaot'thought never trout*
led the villagers so much as the proer
pect of going home at night In tb*
..New ;fi^RRlaad th*-
There srw
(
ror.
still towns where nil the graven are
dufi Th a Mia running due east and
west, with the foots tones toward! the
east, so that the dead may rise face
to face with the Judge on the lasti
day. Sn tfh* doctor is often asked
the question. “Are you not afraid to- ’■
go home sometimes at nlght?“ , /
v/Anil hts answer is always the same:t
"No; my neighbor* will never trouble
9y.«»,P0 pw«ey.’> --
S',^S
i*«f u|m • d», ikhk due.: t*
which th* Indies wear ping poug
Batches and powdered hair, l* the
latest devslepment Of the present
'0.*m
the ball room and mast at a aUki
Batting begins. ^Am ^SOOi» ^0*
• scarlet hoH. with a "Corre-
ia white, walk down
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Newton, W. B. The Daily Index. (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 20, 1902, newspaper, May 20, 1902; Mineral Wells, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039784/m1/2/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.