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EL PASO, TEXAS, SATURDAY, JULY 21. 1900.
20th YEAR, NO. 17
PRICE 5 CENTS.
PASO
A LAST
STAND
The Boers and Roberts Are
Engaged In a Fierce
Battle Today.
IS
And Urging The Boers
Carry On the Conflict
Until They Win
Or Die.
To
LONDON, July 21. The Central News
has a dispatch dated Capetown under
today's date, saying: that a big: battle is
in progress la Middleburg- where Ro
berts has made attack in force upon the
Boers.
Kruger.the dispatch says, is with the
Boers, urging: them to fight to the
death.
SURVEY BEGUN
For the Line Between Presidio Anc
Chihuahua.
City of Mexico, July. 21. The Kansas
City and Oriental railway (StllwellV
railroad) survey party has oommenoec
the BU"vy betwen Chihuahua and Pre
strife Del Norte, a distance of 150
mics.
With the ezceDtlon of the ranges of
northern Chihuahua, where the maxi
mum grade is 3 percent, the road is
comparatively easy, and the surveys
will conclude inside cf one year, while
the construction will proceed as soon as
the line is located.
Three other surveying parties are in
the field between Presidio and Kansas
City.
STRUCK BY WHALE
Slaking the Pilot Boat at the Golden
6ate.
San Francisco, July 12. While
pilot boat Bonit was lying to just out
de the harbor this morning it was
struck by a whale and sunk. All hands
were saved.
FIGHTING
Stories Of the Old Southwest No. 6.
Told By the Men Who Made Paths Through the Impassible, Who Risked
Their Lives That We Might Live, and Who Bave Done
and Dared Much the Pioneers of the West.
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When Perk Had a
A Laughable Story Of a Joke That Might Have Been a Funeral. A
Hot Fight With Comanches. The Glorious United
States Cavalry.
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Though his back Is bent and crooked,
His soul Is pure and bright.
With the glory of tha Rockies on his face.
He can find an Indian trail.
Hold it down, and never fai'.
And he don't think drlnkln' whiskey's no
disgrace.
Oh. his home is in the mountains far
away, far away,
Ob, his home is in the mountains far away.
These '(te plains la gettln' small.
And they don't suit him at all,
Cause his real home Is a mountain far
away.
Though his back is bent and crooked
It ain't stopped him in his life;
He's just gone along and done the best he
might.
He can threw a rawhide rope.
Break a bronco In a lope.
And there's nothln' ha likes better than a
aght.
Ob, his home is la the mountains,far away,
far away.
Ob, his home is in the mountains, far
away.
These 'ere plains is gettln' small.
And they don't suit him at all,
Cause bis real home Is a Mountain, far
away.
Tales of Perk the Wo" far.
"Did I ever tell you how I once bad
every gun in a whole regiment pointed
at my hsad?" queried old Perk look
ing at ma through his half closed eyes
and a cloui of tobacco smoke. "I
don't guess I ever did. I happened llk-j
this:"
"The Indians had broke out cf tbelr
reservation eooiewhres; it was after
DALLAS BOND ISSUE
Causing the City a 6ood Deal of
Trouble.
pedal Dispatch to the Herald.
Dallas, July 12. MayorCampbell
and City Attorney Henry are in Austin
today, to eee the attorney general
relative to the bond !sues for Dallas
public improvements voted last April.
The attorney general has so far fail
ed to approve tbem. Somebody is
fighting1 the bonds, and the city officials
are trying: to straighten the matter
out.
A QUIET TIME
For the President at Canton
Canton, Ohio, July 21. President
McKinley is having a very quiet
time. There are no visitors of note.
He is well satisfied with the way
things are going at Washington and he
is not worrying.
This afternoon Senator Hanna and
his wife, with Col. Her rick and wife,
will arrive for a social visit and con
;erence. QUEEN REGENT
Of Spain is 42 Years old To Day
Madrid, July 21. The birthday of
the Queen Regent of Spain, mother of
the boy king Alfonso XIII, is being
celebrated throughout this country to
day. She is forty-two years of age.
The occasion of her birthday is as
usual being made one of the greatest
jollification.
QUICK DEFEAT
For Jimmy Handler In New York.
New York, July 21. Jimmy Hand
ler, the welterweight, went down to
quick defeat last night at the hands of
Andy Walsh. Walsh knocked him
out in two rounds.
Handler was a 2 to 1 shot, and his
defeat was a great surprise.
MCGOVEKN AND ERNE
May Fight Again at Light Weight.
New York, July 21. Sam Harris,
manager of Terry McGovern, says he is
willing to-accept Frank Erne's chal
lenge for a fi ?bt for the lightweight
championsh!? at 138 pounds.
Harris will endeavor to cancel Mc
Govern 'a theatrical dates so that he
can make the match.
Metal Market.
New YORK, July 21. Silver
lead, 3.80.
61
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for the Herald,
they had put tome of 'em up to keep
em' safe, and the government fed 'em
aad took oare of 'em just so'd they
oeuld think up some new devilment.
They was renegade Comanches, these
Indians I'm telling you about was, and
they was as hard a set of fighters as ever
lifted a scalp.
"They'd a been holdin' of their
ghost dances in tbelr villages, which
they kept up for threa and four, yes,
and more days than that. Just like
they'd a done a hundred times before
they kept dancing till they was crazy,
and then they went out on the war
path and murdered everybody on
three or four ranches and held up
wagon trains of immigrants before
they oould get the troops out after
them.
"It was in the summer of '67. They
sent for me to come up to the fort, Fort
Waller on the Smoky river, in Kansas,
I mean, and I promised Lieutenant
Conolln aad Lieutenant Clark that I
would, aad I done so. They wanted me
for a ecout, 'cause tbe country they wa
going to go through after them Co
manche? was pretty unknown.
"Well, some of tbe boys lound out
tbat I was a going and they p'ayed a
joke on me. They drawed a picture of
me, and It was a pretty good picture
too. It showed my hump and you
could a told it was Perk the minute you
laid eyes on It.
CHINA ASKS
The Emperor Telegraphed To the Mikado,
But He Got Small Satisfaction.
JAPAN CAN SEE
And Her Reply Is About All That the Nations
Of the World Could Wish, Much
To China's Chagrin.
Washington, July 21. An official
bulletin from the state department at
noon says: Chinese Minister Wu
communicated to the secretary of state
this morniag two Important telegrams.
The first i-s from Sheng, director gen
eral of telegripha at Shanghai, and Is
as follows :
"It is fortunate Minister Conger's
telegraphic report has come. The im
perial decree of the 221 of this moon
(corresponding to July 18) stated that
ail tha ministers were safe. The in
surgents are fighting and killing each
other. LI Huog Cbang is proceeding
northward to suppress tbe riots. He
will find it difficult to go."
The seoon 1 telegram is from Liu
Kun YI, viceroy of Nanking, dated the
21st of July, and received by Wu at 10
o'clock today. It is as follows:
"According to the edict of tbe 22nd
of this sixth moon (July 18), with the
ezoeptlon of the German minister, who
was killed by anarchists, and with re
gard to which event vigorous measures
are being taken to investigate and
punish the guilty parties, all other
ministers, to whom strenuous efforts
are being made to afford protection
are fortunately unharmed."
REMEYPARTLY CORROB ORATES
Washington, July 21. The bureau
of navigation received this morning
the following report from Remey:
Taku, July 2 Bureau' of naviga
tion Washington: Tien Tsin is quiet.
Acoarding to tbe latest report, frcm
Russian sources, July 13, the legations
at Pekin were still holding out. The re
"Then they printed on it in great
big black letters, 'Perk the Wolfer,
wanted at Eagle Pass for the murder of
Deputy Sheriff Calle White, five hun
dred dollars reward, dead or alive,' aad
sent it- up to the post.
"Of course I didn't knew nothing
about that, and I went up to the fort
to start out with the government
troops just as unsuspicious as a jack
rabbit.
"They was gettlc' ready to leave
the post when I rode into the fort, and
the whole regiment was drawed up
and the colonel was talking to 'em, and
a telling of 'em what they must do
with them Comanches when they met
up with 'em.
"I rode along sort of quiet like, not
wishln' to disturb the colonel, and right
while he was a talkin' every man in
that troop must have seen ne.
"Every man throwed up his gun with
out waltln' for no orders from nobody
and the first thing I knowed I was a
lookin' down Into what looked like
a million black muzzles. I've looked
into the wrong end of a gun a many a
time, but I never had no such feeiln'
as I had then. It seemed like I must
ha done something, and been wanted
pretty bad, but I couldn't think of
nothln' just then that I had done, ex
cept kill a few Indians, and I knowed
that didn't make no difference.
"The colonel he was so surprised he
couldn't open his mouth, just stood
there a lookin' at me ana turnln'
around kind a enquiring like to the
other officers to see if they knowed
anything about it.
"All this only took about ten seconds
and then the colonel yelled for the
men to put down their guns. They
done it but they dldn's want to.
Every one of 'em seen that five hun
dred dollars regard which tbey had
read ab3;t on that there pictur' and
waded it for kisself. It was a wonder
I didn't get shot right then. I guess
they knowed I couldn't get away.
They didn't none cf 'em know me, but
they seen this hump and they knowed
who it was right away.
JAPAN'S HELP
TBROOGB A LADDER
liability of this information is uncer
tain.
Major Regan, Captains Noyea and
Biok miller, First Lleuts. Lawton and
Sohoffel, wounded Ninth infantry offic
ers, and Second Lieut. Jolly of tbe
Marine corps, sick, are now aboard
the Solace. I expect about 30 wounded
men aadHwill then send all to Yoko
hama hospital. Remey.
Admiral Rjmey's ditpatch this
morning In part corroborates the news
of yestarday, by bringing forward tbe
date of the safety of the legations in
Pekin from previously reported dates.
It is also evident that at the tims
Remey cabled he had cot received
Secretary Long's dispatch.
The navy department hopes to re
ceive a further dispatch from him.
reporting that he had heard of Con
ger's report from outside source.
CONGER'S MESSAGE DISCREDITED
London, July 21. The evening
papers today follow the lead of the
morning papers in disbelieving Con
ger's message. This is partly due to
unwillingness on tbe part of the Eng
lishmen to admit that if the tales of
the Pekin massacre are false they have
been duped in a faBhlon never before
recorded. The arguments for and
against the reliability of the Ameri
can minister's message have been
about exhausted and .ttere is little
fresh evidence to adduce.
GERMANS SUSPICIOUS.
Berlin, July 21. German officials
regard Minister Cocger's message as
being a week old at least. They think
"Lieutenant Clark he come up then
and told the colonel who I was, and
that I was got ii ' to scout for 'em. They
hadn't cone of the officers seen the
picture. It had been put up in the
men's quarters. Lieutenant Clark ask
ed the men what the matter was, tbat
they was goin' to shoot me. They
didn't none of 'em say anything at first,
just looked at each other and at me and
keep a fingerin' of their guns. Then
one of 'em saluted, and it seemed like
hla gun pointed too much at me when
he brought it up on his shoulder.
"That's Perk, the Wolfer,' Bald
the sergeant. He was a ser
geant, and he was killed right
along aide of me a little while after
that. ' 'That's Perk the Wolfer,' he
said, "he's klled a deputy sheriff at
Eagle Pass, and there are five hundred
dollars reward out for him. I thought
I'd get it." He eyed me all the time.
Naturally that was new to me. I didn't
know anything about the pictur' and I
didn't understand what it meant. I
knowed I hadn't killed no deputy
sheriff at Eagle PasB nor any other
place, and Lieutenant Clark knowed it
t jo and he told 'em so.
"The sergeant kept on insistin' tha
there was a reward out for me dead or
alive and that he'd go get the paper
that said so. The officers was standi'
around, and some of 'em was inclined
to believe I was wanted and some of 'em
wasn't. The men down along the line
was acranln' their necks to see what
was a going on and the colonel put 'em
at ease, so'd they could all look. The
sergeant come baok presently with that
plotur' and It looked just like me.
There wasn't no mlstakln' that hump
of mine. And there it' was, five hundred
dollars reward too, plain enough.
"The lieutenant he seen It was a
joke before I did, and then it was all
right. The colonel laughed like he
was goin' to die w ben he found out what
all the trouble was and I tell you I felt
alt mere easy myself.
"Wo started out from the fort that
afternoon, with just one troop. C troop
It was, and about seventy-five men.
It was intercepted by tbe Chinese and
finally forwarded to appease the Amer
ican government.
The alleged telegram of the Chinese
government in regard to mediation is
received as fraudulent, and an exper
iment with Li Hang Chang of the
temper of the powers.
It is officially learned that the Kaiser
will not take one backward step In
China.
TIEN TSIN QUIET.
Shanghai, July 21. The Chinese
at Tien Tsin are now unaggressive, the
victory of tbe allies of Saturday last
apparently having a prodigious moral
effect Anxiety over the situation is dl
mlnisned here. Several Chinese firms
yesterday received orders from Chinese
merchants in the interior, showing
that the country was quieter.
The report of the receipt of a mess
age from Minister Conger by the Ame
ican government has dazed the Euro
peans here.
MORE MARINES FORWARD
Washington, July 21. Without the
power to increase the fighting force in
China materially the secretary has de
termined that every possible member
of the marine corps shall be 6ent to the
front at once. More than this, the
service shall be recruited to the full
strength permitted by law, and not a
man will be left for barrack duty
where that can be avoided, and all
ships not on the Asiatic station will be
stripped to tbe minimum number.
JAPAN KNOWS BETTER.
London, July 21. The Dally Mail's
Shanghai correspondent, dating his
dispatch Thursday, says the emperor
of China telegraphed the mikado ex
pressing the hope that Japan would
make common cause with China. He
pointed out that the interests of the
two countries are identical, and
said that if China fell Japan's
position would be untenable,
China notbslng aline the object of the
ambitious western powers. The em
peror added that It was impossible now
for China to take proper measures to
avert danger, and she was therefore
oonstralned to rely for support on
Japan.
The mikado in his reply cald the
action of the insurgents was in com
plete violation of international law
respecting diplomats. The Chinese
government should suppress tbe dis
orders and rescue the ministers. He
added that Japan was ordinarily
friendly with China.
NO ADVANCE LIKELY
London, July 21. A Chee Foodie
patch says the commanders at Tien
Tsin have coocluded it will be useless
to try to advance to Pekin before Au
gust. They'd ought to have sent more. Cap
tain Nolaod was in command, and we
traveled all that n'.ght. The next
mornln' we struck the trail of tbe Co
manches and we followed it up as hard
as the horses could go.
"It wasn't no time to waste then.
All the way along we heard about
murders and such that them Indians
had been dole', and one Sunday
mornln' we come up on a wagon train
out on the prairie. The wagons was
scattered around and there wasn't
nobody In sight. We knowed what
that meant. Well, when we come up
on 'em close you oould a heard the
men swearin' under their breath and
I knowed it wasn't goin' to be no easy
job for them Indians when we met up
with 'em.
"There was about ten men and twioe
as many women and children lying
around dead. Their hair was took
off , and some of the women was still
in the wagons, where they hadn't no
time to get up when the Indians at
tacked them. It must have been over
in a little while cause the grass wasn't
trampled down hardly any, like always
is when there's a fight.
"We didn't stop very long, but took
the trail again and made the horses do
their best too. But we'd been goin'
for a right good time, and along about
four o'clock we seen we would have
to stop. We hadn't eome up to the
Indians yet.
"The next mornln' we found the
trail again and started off. Every
where we seen eome thin' the Indians
had done. There was more wagon
trains. We passed one rancher's house
which was still smokln'. It was not
t'.ll Wednesday mornln' tbat we come
up on 'em. The signs had been get
tin' liccacr &.1 u& time and we know
ed we would have them soon. It was
way up, near the head waters of the
Smoky Platte, aud along about sunset.
"We fought five days. It was five
days of hell and blood and grimo and
sweat. There ain't nothln better or
grander on God's earth than a troop of
United States cavalry. They was ev
QUARTERS
SCARCE
The Republcans Have Taken
What the Democrats
Left.
And They May Have To
Take What the Repub
licans Didn't Care
For.
Chicago, July 21. Republican na
tional headquarters for tbe west are to
beopeoedMonday.lt is expected tbat
upon the arrival of Perry
Heath the rooms will be prac
tically ready for occupancy and Graeme
Stewart, national committeeman from
Illinois, Is authority for the statement
that campaign activity will be started
by the end of next week.
Sergeant at Arms Wiswell has made
arrangements for the installation of
lights, telephones, and desks, and after
Monday .will spend most of his time
in headquarters.
DEMOCRATS HUNTING
Chicago, July 21. Tbe democratic
national executive committee Is still
looking for quarters. The republicans
have taken one set where tbe demo
crats refused, and the democrats are
now considering the quarters the re
publicans ocoupied four years ago.
SLEEPING NUNS
Came Near Belnq Burned Up.
Chicago, July 21, -Fire this morn
ing destroyed St. Jarlath's church,
Hermitage avenue and Jackson bou'e -
vard. Twelve sleeping nuns in tbe ad
joining structure were around and res
cued.
Incendiarfsn is suspected.
FIFTY MILLIONS
The Capital of a New Steel Company
Trenton, N. J.. July 21. The
Crucible Steel company of America
was incorporated here today with a
capitalization of fifty million-.
ery man of 'em grit to 'be backbone,,
clean grit and a fig r tin' education.
There was five hundred Comaautea
and there was seven i Sve of us. Seventy-five
men agtiuot five hundred'
devils, and the r-en beat. They w as
bound to. The Indians can fight, and
the Comanches can do it as well as any
of 'em, but if they tee they're g ln' to
get beat they'll run. There ain't no
body ever r. heard tell of United
States cavalry ruonin' froca nothln
on earth, Indian or white man.
"Yes, we beat 'em finally, but U
took five days. You see, there was so
many of them. Big tree was the
Comanche chief which was leadia' tbe
Indians, and he was killed. I saw him
after .the fight was over. It was a
natural battle field there where the
fight took place, seemed like it was
made to fight Indians -on. Army
tactics can beat Indiana every time,,
provided the soldiers ain't surprised
The doughboys oan do it too but the
cavalry Is the oest.
"The Comanches broke and run on
the afternoon of tbe fifth day of the
fight. They bad got enough, and so
had we. Of course we ooulJn'c follow
'em. We wasn't feeiln' that way. I
reckon they must have been punish d
pretty considerably. Anyhow, they
was quiet for two or three years.
"We buried our killed and carried
the wounded back to the post the best
way we could. We never did count
the Indians tbat was done for. They
was too many.
''Yes, the old serteant that wanted
to shoot me at the post for tbem five
hundred dollars was killed so near to
me tbat his blood soaked my face and
shirt. He was game, he was. Ha got
a bullet through his lungs and kept on
lightin', and then be got one In tbe
head tbat blew the top of it off. We
bad got to be good frier d by that
time. You find out all abojt a mau
when you are fightia' al- ag side cf
him.
"That's the only tlma Per th
Wolfer ever had a price on his head."
George R. Brown.