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now constituting A NEW TRIPLE CIRCUS, A SUPERB MUSEUM,
A COLOSSAL DOUBLE MENAGERIE and ROMAN HIPPODROME,
TWO BIG SHOWS exhibiting: together, joining their arenic displays in a
new triple circus, combining their menageries into one BIG 200, showing
under mammoth joined tents for ONE PRICE OF ADMISSION! NOW
TRULY THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH! This year four times
larger than ever and exhibiting more new, big features than ail other shows.
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The Tromcndously Tusked and Fiercely Formed I'o' avery Beast that
Treads the Jungle. This Marvelous and Fir-ret Cr9&"ua is ti native of
Africa, where it lives among the most unfrequented nicrasses and jungle
thickets of deadly fever-breeding tropical waters. Its haunt* ire inaccess
ible to the white man and but few natives have ventured to hunt it in its
natural retreats. The specimen which the Gollmar Bros. & Schumans "and
they alone" exhibit, was secured at, enormous cost and brought to America
as one of the Exclusive Animal Features of their Great and New Menagerie.
Gollmar Bros. & Scbumans Ponderous Performing Elephants. The Wertz and
Adair troupe of acrobats. E. V. Hocum, oohr. Will's, iunor Sc.-erico, Miss Mauri
Hocurn ana Elbrldge Sisters, champion male and female riders. 7 Funny Clowns 7.
3 Brass and Reed Bands 3, Troupfe of Athlete-:, .1
tutors, Cor.f-irl!, ni«,'Aoria!
Ists, Tumblers, Leapcrs, and Gymnasts. The Simpson Famiij, Statuary Artists,
and hosta of other famous artists and performers. The j-inest Lions in An-crlca,
Royal Bengal Tigers, Leopards, Hyenas, Kangaroos, Zebras.
Remember the GRAND FREE STREET PARADE every morning at 10:30
O'clock, the moat sumptuous ev?r beheld. Two performances dally. Ooor3 open
at I and 7 o'clock, performance commences one hour later. GRA1SD FREE EXH1*
BITION on the show grounds.
E N I S A 3 1 1 9 0 2
You must either shut the flies out or shut
them in. If you want to shut them out,
get your screens up at once. The
WHEELER SCREEN is easily fitted, self'
adjusted, slides up and down like a sash, fits
any window and is absolutely fly proof.
For sale by
Green Bay Lumber Com'py.
Also a good line of Screen Doors plain and fancy.
LADIES!
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It came from Japan
It is the finest that ever came
to Denison
It is our own importation
It is beautiful
It is odd
AND
If you want to know what IT
is, watch our window.
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A Mystery Story
Southwest.
THE CAVES BY THE SPlJlXi'i.
1 was at Ash Peak, in A
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'.oa:i some
years eo and there I saw two enves
They are down the canon (canyon),
about a quarter of a mile from the
spring, and the fouthmost one has still
a Ktt'e wnll of rock standing at the en
trance. KrowiDgr the Apaches had
devastated that country for genera
tion?. I wondered who had made their
last desperate stand.
Not long after. 1 was at Fort San
Carlos, on the White Mountain Indian
reservation and there became ac
quainted with an old Indian. He was
a g'ood-natured old devil, and Capt
Tottle, chief of the Indian police, told
me he had been one of old Geronimo's
men but was now real °rood. Finding
him in a loquacious mood one day. due
to grifts of tobacco, I thought to ask
him if he knew who built the little
wall of rock at the front of the little
cave near A-h Sprinp. He iooked at
me, hi dim eye= lighting with the
memory cf these bsppy, bloody days so
long- gone by, and after a little, said.
'•That was a long-, long time age."
After thinkinea moment he continued,
"I will tell you.'-' and sitting- down
beside my lire he told me the follow
ing story
'"It was many snows atro. he said,
"soon after the soldiers came and gave
us no rest by day nor by night until we
quit the war path, that my young men
and I won: up the river. We went by
the way of the vallev. but did not
molest Putbio Vijoe (Old Town), be
cause tbe walls of their houses were
very thick and they had many guns,
but ia the morning thej mourned their
horses with iron on their feet, their
fat cows and the birds that white men
keep.
We traveled until we came to the
spring under the strange peak, where
the Evil Spirit has touched the land
with his linger and burned it. We
were resting there, hiding in the rocks,
and a little while before the ,-un went
to sleep in the west we saw a man and
woman ride into the canon from below.
The woman had a prettv face and hair
the color of the corn silk when it was
ripe. And the man was a soldier chief
and had clothes the color of the sky.
The man detected our presence just
before they got to the spring and
speaking to his companion, they
whirled their horses and dashed down
the canon, hoping to escape by the way
they had come, but my young men
were swift of foot and cut them off, and
finding the way closed they left their
horses and took refuge in the little
cave^you have asked me about: and
then he threw up the little wall of
rock, and from behind it he spoke to
us fast and often with his little hand
gun and some of my young men never
went back home.
But after awhile he did not speak so
fast nor so often and then the little
gun was still, and we crept closer and
closer, from bush to rock and rock to
bush until we were almost to them
ana then we heard the little gnn again,
once! twice! and then all was still.
When we drew near and looked over
the wall they were both lying on the
floor of the cave head upon her
breast.''
"It is not the custom of my people,"
he continued, "to molest the self-slaiu,
nor do we often take the trouble to
bury our dead enemies, but we took
the woman with the pretty face and
the young soldier chief and made them
a grave on top the hill, over the cave,
and we put a big pile of stone over it
so that our brothers, the wolves, could
not molest them. He was a wise
young man to take the maiden with
him over the dark river before my
young men got to them."
The Apach in speaking of the wolf
always alludes to him as his blood
brother. Now, 1 am pretty well ac
quainted with both tribes and I think
the wolf has an action for slander
against the Indian.
was at Ash Spring again, I think
it was the following year, and I went
to the hill above the cave to see if the
old Indian had told me the truth about
burying the ill-fated couple, and there
I found the remains of a grave. I dug
I into it and found a silver crucilix, some
beads and buttons and a lock of long,
yellow hair. I replaced the mound of
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stoua and in it set a little cross of
cedar boughs and came away, leaving
the lovers sleeping quietly.
PAT AND THE LION CUBS.
I was camned with a party, "once on
a time," as story writers say, at the
head waters of the San Francisco river.
We were out looking for cliff dwellings.
We had madejour camp at the base of
a cliff full of holes, but bad seen no
cavities large enough to shelter a man,
to 9ay noth.ng of a family.
In our party was a jolly Irishman.
He claimed to be dutch, but his name,
Patrick Murphy, and a brogue that
would stop a burro going down hill, led
me to think he was joking about it
Pat was a tireless cave hunter and a
Jttle while after supper we heard him
call out from a couple hundred yards
away, "Oi say, boys, come an' see the
cute little cave oiv found."
of the
By A. F. BONNEY.
We paid no attention to him: we
were resting, and the most of that,
party could stand a real lot of rest
without hurt-iny them. Presently we!
heard him again. "O. boys, wud ye
moinr] the two cute little Kitten cats
oiv found." And pretty soon he came
into view holding in each hand
the groping, spitting cubs of a moan
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tain lion.
Knowing the danger Pat was in if
the mother cat snowed up just then.
We sprung to our feet, grasping our
rifles, aud yelled to "Drop the kittens."
"Oi'li not," said he, 'Oi'm going to
kape them and raise eni fer pets."
"Drop them," I veiled, "they're lions."
"Oi'll he veiled back, "but if
ycr ?o 'frini i,f 'era oi'li take 'em
bnck to where L,i got "em."
Not beinj willing for him to run
into further danger, we iet him come
in ind two of us went to where we
could watch the mouth of Pat's "cute
little caw" to await the mother lion's
return. It was not long before I saw
her coming, sneaking hke fe shadow
of ghost. I put a bullet into her brain
find put her to sleep.
We dragged '.-he body in by the lire
and when Pat saw the size to which
nis "kitten eats" would grow, if al
lowed to live, he changed his mind
about "raising 'em fer pets," and re
marked as he quietly knocked their
heads against a rock, "Oi'll not kape
them. Sure thev'd be too big fer ye to
move, abound when they got crowed
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But these were not the claps of caves
used by the clilT dwellers for their
houses though one saw on Bonita
creek, in Arizona, was but a little
larger than the caves at Ash Sm'iug I
have just, written of. It had been made
a little more roomy by a wall of rocks
thrown across the front. Evidently a
young couple had just gone to house
keeping aud did not require much room
1 will tell you the story of the larger
caves, the strange, lost race that oc
cupied t'nem, and something of their
decendents and the wierd country they
occupy.
In the year 1T9S. near the ancient
city of Rosetta, Egypt, was found a
large, black stone upon which was sev
eral lines of inscription in Egyptian
hieroglyphics and ancient Hebrew,
which when translated, proved to be
the key to the innumerable inscriptions
with which the rocks, tombs, temples,
and monuments of Egypt were covered.
There has never been found a Rosetta
stODe
in the Americas, and there never
will be. But from evidences left upon
the rocks in the desert, upon the
mountain cliffs and in the cliff dwell
ings we know that contemporaneously
with Che Pharaoh of Egypt there ex
isted a cilivization in the southwest
portion of the United States which
population, with a vast number of p:
pie all that vast country which, when
I was a boy, going to school, was put
down upon the maps as the Great
American desert. It occupied the en
tire southwest portion of the United
States and lapped over into Sonora
Mexico, and was supposed to be popu
lated, if at all, by wild beasts and sav
age Indians.
It seems strange that so many hun
dreds of generations of human beings
could live, die, and be so utterly forgot
ton as is their lost race. But they
were surrounded on all sides by hun
dreds of mile9 of burning desert which
shut them off from other people who,
had they known of their existence,
might have left some record of them
they were hidden away in the moun
tains where a little spring dripped from
the face of a cliff, or a stream dashing
down the side of the mountains only to
be swallowed up in the burning sands
the desert below, Mere they raised
their stores of corn, tobacco, pumpkins
cotton, and purhaps some succulenty
roots, lived a few thousand years and
passed awa$ and are now almost as ut
terly forgotten as are the lost Ten
Tribes of Israel, I say almost: for a
few years ago we began finding their
deserted houses in the mountains.
I have found a number of those
houses and explored them to their ut
termost resourses. I have set me down
by a lire that went out before Abraham
was born, and held in my hand the
Deshlesb skull of one so long dead and
thought "If these grinning jawi could
but wag what would they not tell me of a
people who passed away while Mother
Earth was yet young?" I have delved
in the cave mould that lay centuries
deep on the liour of those deserted
houses, deserted and never entered
until I passed their portals, and there
1 have found a little of their story. The
rest is written on the rocks in the des
ert we may read this story if we will
though the art be rude, always striv
ing to understand the simple, primitive
lives of a people shut off during their
entire lives from all others of human
kinds.
It is only in the mountains of the
great southwest that we find those
deserted dwellings which have excited
the curiosity o) the archaeologist and
ethnologist as well as of those who,
while they take no particular Interest
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in the scienr.iie aspect of the ca=e still
wonder who constructed and occupied
them: the homes of the cliff dwellers.
THE CLIFF HOUSES.
These houses were always built in
the face of perpendicular cliffs and
were to be approached only by steep,
narrow paths cut deep in the solid
rock. These people had no metal of
any kind with which to make tools,
and as some of these paths are several
hundred feet long the work of cutting
them, by peeking with harder rock,
may be imagined. When possible the
houses were under some natural pro
jection which served to protect them
from the elements and their enemies
overhead, for I am certain our old
time people constructed their houses
in this way for safety us well as com
fort.
When the natural cave was not large
enough tbey made it more roomy by
building walls on the sides and one
across the front. These they carried
to the rock overhead, or if that-was
beyond their reach they covered the
projecting walls with cedar poles or
logs over which was put a layer of
grass and dirt. I found one hom^,
which, parched upon a ledge uot. over
four feet wide and cemented to the
perpendicular cl'ft", hung over the
valley like a swallow's nest. If the
natural cave was large enough they
simply built a wall of rock across the
front with entrance in or near the top.
There was another class of dwellings,
however—natural caves with smali
openings, and in the few of this class
1 have seen I never found indications
of a wail of rock in front. They were
well enough protected as it was.
All the cliff dwellings I have ex
amined, with the exception of a few
small ones, had built inside the living
rooms smaller apartments. These
were 3x0 to 6x6 feet in size, made of
stones cut to a size and laid up neatly
in cement. do not know the compo
sition of this, never yet having made
an analysis of it, but I think it was an
impure gypsum burned, ground to
powder and mixed with water for use.
whatever its composition, however, it
is hard and firm to this day.
These rooms were always covered,
either with limbs of cedar or the
rlowcr stems of tho mescal or soto
cactus, and layer of bear jrass aud
dirt put over the poles. These rooms
may have been used for store rooms or
sleepings apartments. It is hard at
this late day to guess which.
In some of these cliff dwellings
paintings are found upon the stone
walls. More strictly speaking, etch
.ngs, for they were made by pecking
into the rock with sharp, bard stone.
The art is very, very rude, but we can
identify the deer, bear, wolf, serpent
atid rude drawings of human beings
and at irregular intervals, are strange
characters. I think this a rude form
of picture writing, such as is possessed
by most primitive people. It may have
been the idle work of idle men but I do
not think it was, for out upon the
desert, from Mexico to Colorado and
from California to the eastern confines
of New Mexico are to be found many
rock pictures and there is -a strange
and striking similarity in ail of them
and we know that where the rock
pictures occur the old time people
camped along t'me, for near by in the
desert sands, we find arrow-heads and
kuives of Hint, fragments of pottery,
basket working tools of wood, bone and
deer horn, occasionally a stone ax or a
grave.
Near Ft. Apache, Arizona, I found
and axplored a cave that was produc
tive of several strange discoveries.
We could see indications of the dwell
ing from the opposite side of the canon,
a thousand yards away, but it took a
long, tedious search to find the path
that led up to it. However, we finally
discovered it only to find that it came
to an apparent abrupt end near where
the cave should be. But upon close
examination we saw the projecting
rock was polished smooth as glass from
I the contact of moving bodies. In this
rock was hand-holds also worn smooth
from use. By grasping these depres
sions and swinging around the obstacle
we found ourselves on the front porch
of the house. The lady of the house
was not at home.
This house or dwelling was a con
tinuous series of caves in a limestone
cliff. They were about 100 feet above
the river bed and faced south! The en
trance was a passage about -10x40
inches in size and five feet long, open
ing into the first chamber which was
approximately 15x20 feet in size, and
upon the right hand side, going in,
was a couple of the small, inside rooms
I have mentioned. Just inside the
passage way, or door was indications
of a fire, some charcoal scattered about
while the walls were indellibly stained
with smoke. By this ancient hearth
stone was an earthen vessel and in it a
gourd ladle, both cracked, but the
ladle had been neatly repaired. Three
holes had been drilled on each side of
the frizzure and it was laced shut with
strands of deer sinew. In both ladle
and olla was dried corn meal mush.
Besides we found an unbroken olla
(jar), fragments of broken pottery, a
sandle of corn husk, make for a little
bit of a baby, the bones of animals and
birds and some other trifles.
(To be continued.) g-
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RI.AI. ESTATE TRANSFERS.
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Uattendorf lot:! blk 17 Charter O.'tUS 200
Emil Kvuger and wife to I'oter .Mohr
lot 1 unci
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Tho Deioit W. T. LT. will serve"
ice cream and cake on next Friday
afternoon and evening Aug. 1st. The
proceeds of which will go toward pay
ing the expenses of an Institute, which
will be held in Deioit probably during
the month of September. This Insti
tute will be a grand treat for all, come
ar.d buy a dish of cream and help the
ladies financially.
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Cheap Exenrion to Omalui (Sunday.
The Illinois Central will run an ex
cursion to Omaha, Sunday, Aug. 3rd,
from the fcllowing towns:'
SCHEDULE OF TI?AIN AND RATES.
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RETURNING: Special train will leaver
Omaha Union Depot at 8:00 p.
Council Bluffs at 8:20 m.
SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS:
Western League Champion baseball
game, Omaha vs. Des Moines. Game
called at League Park at 3:45 p. m.
Krugs Park: C'odcert Band, Passion
Play, bowling and outdooramusements.
Courtlar.d Beach: Special Vaude
ville, Concert Band.Balloon Ascension,
Bowling. Boating, etc.
Trolley car ride to Council Bluffs,
Lake Manawa and Fairmont Park.
Lake Manawa, Council Bluffs: Boat
ing bath'-ng. vaudeville, concert band.
balloon ascension, etc. j|
Take a dav off and come.
See Illinois Central agents for full,,
particulars.
Notice.
Remember the date Aug 1st. Slfl
By order of Com. Jill
Special Excursion Kates. iff®?*
Via the North-Western line to Hotwl
Springs, Deadwood, Lead and Custer,
S. D.. and to Colorado and Utah points,
good to return until September 15, a
splendid opportunity is offered for an
enjoyable vacation trip. Several fine
trains via the North-Western Line
daily. Apply to agents Chicago &
North-Western R'y.
ADVERTISED LETTER LIST.®
For week ending July 29, letters for
the following persons remained uncall
ed for at the Denison Postoffice:
Andeison, Peter
Ehle, Sei
Ford. Walter
Green, E
Hoirnberg, Frank
Hurlev, James
Jack.
When calling^for the above please
say "advertised."
F. W. Meyers, P. M|S§
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WANTED—Common sewing to do Mrs
AI. Matthews residence on Walnut
Street north of Washington Park.
57-3w*
GASOLINE—And Kerosene stoves,
Steel Kanges and Cooks, cheap, at
Wygant's.
MEN WANTED—20 good agents.
None but hustlers need apply. In
quire of j. B. JOHNSON,
54-tf. Denison.
LETTER LOST—A brown enevlopf
addressed to Mrs. D.C, Thew. Leave
at Post office.
TWO APPRENTICES WANTED—At
Mrs. Gourlay's dressmaking parlors.
TEL. 11314.—For your stove wood, I
have a good line on hand. $2 50 per
load, delivered. A. M. Co 9.
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FOR SALE—160 acres, 3 miles south
of Vail, Iowa, SEJ-1-83-38. Running
water, bluegrass pasture, smooth
land handy to school. Ten years
time, 5 per oent inst. Write George
A. Rogers, 609 South Yak Ave.
Tacoma, Wash. 54-tf
DRESS-MAKING—First class. 2nd
door north of McKim Hall, appren
tice girls wanted. Misses Warbasse
and Bayne 48-tf
Wanted—A girl for house work August
1st. Mrs. Theo Walker.
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WIRE YOUR HOUSE—For electric
light. We wire any house no matter
how long it has been built, conceal
ing all the wires and leaving the
house in the condition we find it,
wiring at cost of labor and material.
Fixtures at factory prices,
DENISON ELECTRIC LIGHT&
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McKim Hall, Inquire of Mrs. Mc
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