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‘MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, ’93.
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Boone: Saturday and Sunday Along the
Cherokee Strip.
Gurnam, 0. T., Sep. 18.——Sunday in a , -
new town, especially a t0wn made on Sat-
urday afternoon, is never a very enjoyable
day, and it was less so than usual in the
little city of Perry. The great majority of
tents and supply wagons did not arrive un-
til late and everybody was busy trying to
get away from the dust of a terrible gale.
The signal for the start Saturday
was the firing of the guns of the soldiers
and deputy marshals. .
P The greatest struggle of the day took
place in the rush of ten thousand people at-
tempting to get aboard ‘the first train,
which could carry but a few over a thou-
sand. .
Men were pushed Off upon the ground,
women jostled rudely, and the cars cleared
of all save a few favorites in the ring. The
people in the first train were told that
everybody must go up to the line to get in
the trains, and hundreds walked through
a mile of strangling dust to the line only
to find the train from which they had been
ejected go «by them without stopping.
'lhe first train was filled with people
who had been given inside information.
When the trains pulled up to the line
the terrible struggle began. VVomeu'had
their clothes torn off and were trampled
under foot. All decency, self-respect,
manhood and womanhood were laid aside.
The first train into Perry found the best
lots taken by sooners find fast horsemen,
and by the time the second train arrived
most of the town site was preempted.
Before night business houses were doing
business, and the inhabitants of the new
town were talking about electing city
officers. The people on the first train so-
cured residence lots in the outskirts, but
those upon the second and third secured,
nothing.
The race between the trains and horse-
men was an exciting one, with the odds in
favor of the horsemen. ‘
Lorenzo Holcomb, of the place, was fa-
tally crushed by a horse falling upon him.
One woman was injured in falling from a
moving train. .
A cowboy from Téxas fell from his
horse, shot through the body, but there is
no clue as to who fired the shot.
It is feared the death list will reach a
score, and the injured be numbered by
hundreds. -
NO '1‘ SO EASY.
Dlmcnlties in the Way of Continuing the
Fair After Oct. 1.
WORLD’S Farr. GROUNDS, CHICAGO, Sep.
38 —There are many intricate problems
involved in the proposition to keep the ex.
position open after October 2] for any
length of time, no matter how unanimous
may be the action of the local board of di-
rectors at its meeting to-‘morrow. One ob-
Stacie tobe overcome is the unwillingness
of many foreign commissioners and exhib-
‘tors to remain any longer away from their
' homes than the contracts between their
government and the exposition calls for.
In speaking on this point to many of
the British and Colonial commissioners
and exhibitors the invariable reply was
“We want to get away from here and go
home. There is only extra expense for u:
in this scheme to continue the Fair, al-
though it would no doubt put money in
the pockets of others. Our governments
and our employers have made no provision
for this extra expense, and We would not
to in favor of keeping our part of the expo-
sition here after October.”
There is another reason why many of the
foreign. exhibitors object to prolonging
their stay in Chicago. They have openly
declared among themselves that they have
been greatly disappointed at the lack of en-
tertainment in their honor by the officials
of the exposition and wealthy citizens of
Chicago who are identified with the Fair
management. They have taken umbragb
Over this alleged‘failure of Chicago’s four
hundred to invite them to their homes, and
the reasons the foreigners assign among
themselves for the apparent neglect are
not at all complimentary.
HUMANE DEGREE.
The Czar wm Stop a. Cruel Practice of
Russian Police.
LONDON, Sep. 18.—The St. Petersburg
correspondent of the Central News says
that an Imperial ukase will shortly be issued
abolishing the practice of knouting by the
police. It is stated that the initiative has
been taken by the Czar himself, who
ordered the governors of different provinces
to report on this kind of‘ punishment.
The reports submitted to the Czar revealed
the fact that the use of the knout was
often resorted to for the most trivial
offenses, that women, and even children
were not exempt'trom it, and that fre-
quently they were maimed for life. All
the governors favored its abolition. '
YELLOW FEVER WORSE-
Elurmn New Cases at Brunwack, 6a., and
Epidemic Declared.
.aoxswrcx, Ga, Sep. 18,—“Eleven
new cases ofycllow fever and an epidemic
.i-Icizl'ed." Such was the announcement
made by the board of health yesterday.
1;. ith heart-breaking sorrow, hundreds hur-
riedly rushed to the trains and it will
need as military forceto depopulate the
g‘w. There are hundreds of poorin'Brunsv-
y .yho need help from" the government
and from peeple or the country. They
cannot leave for they havefluo money.
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A \NAR OF-RACES THREATENED
Three Negroes Hanged for Shielding a;
Brother Who Had Committed Murder—
‘ Another Negro Kicked to Death—The
Blacks Arming for Revenge.
NEW ORLEANS, Sep. 18.——-There was a
triple lynching almost within the the
shadow of the city Saturday night, but it
was conducted so quietly that the account
of the horrible affair published in the
morning was a surprise to the community.
The victims of the vengeance of the mob
were three negro brothers named Julian,
and the crime which they expiated in so
summary a manner was the shielding of
a fourth brother, Roselius Julian, who on
Friday afternoon shot Judge Victor Estop-
inal to death while the latter was trying
him for some trivial offense, seriously
.wounded the Judge’s son, and then made
good his escape. The shooting occurred
in the court room and the murderer con-
tinued firing until the Judge, who followed
Vtoclose in upon him, fell mortally wounded
immediately outside and to the left of the
building. The brutal negro then stood'
over the prostrate form of his victim and
fired a fourth shot, which is supposed to
be the one that passed through the heart.
Officer Korber ran- to assist the Judge
and the negro made a dash across the
grounds for his cabin. Just at this time
[August Estopinai, a son of the murdered
official, who is employed as a conductor on
'the Carrollton road, was coming in from
his work, and he gave chase to the man
whom he had just seen murder his father.
The negro reached his cabin and coming
out, fired two shots at the young man, who
sought safety in ahouse adjoining the resi-
dence of Mrs. Charles Flory. The negro
provided himself well with amunition while
in the cabin, for during his short stay he
grabbed up a valise and a Winchester rifle.
It was from this rifle that he fired the two
shots that wounded young Estoplnal.
The negro made for the swamps in the.
rear of the city and being familiar with
them, was soon in safe hiding. Posses
Were immediately organized and all night
and all Sunday the surrounding country
was scoured but the searching was fruit-
less so far as the real criminal was con-
cerned. The mother, two brothers and two
sisters of the negro Roselius were arrested
at the Black Ridge, in the rear of the city,
by the city police and were then taken to
the little jail on Judge Estopmal’s place
about Southport. Another brother was
arrested later in the day in the
same neighborhood and taken to the same
jail. They were charged with furnishing
supplies to the fugitive.
About 11 o’clock, a body consisting of
about 25 men, some armed with rifles and
shotguns, came up to the jail and litalan-
tern. They unlocked the door and then
held a conference among themselves as to
what they should do. Some were in favor
of hanging the whole five, while others
raised objections and insisted that only
two of the brothers, the short one andfthe
tall one, “Valsin” and “Bakile” should be
taken out and strung up. This was finally
agreed to, and several of the men went into
the jail, and coming out afterwards,
brought with them the two doomed negroes.
They were hurried across to a pasture, 100
yards distant and there asked to take
their last chance of saving their lives by
making a confession. The negroes made
no reply. They were then told to kneel
down and pray. One did so, thg,other re-
mained standing, but both prayed fervently.
The taller negro was then hoisted up. He
remained hanging fully five minutes before
the second one was hanged. The shorter
negro stood gazing at the horrible death of
his brother without flinching. The mob
remained at the place for about half an
hour when some one suggested that they
go back and hang the three others. This
was opposed by several, and it was finally
decided that they should go back and take
the remaining brother out to Camp Para.-
pet and hang him there. “The other two
were to be taken out and flogged, with an
order to get out of the parish in less than
half an hour. The mob then started back
to the jail, to put their threats into execu- _
tion. The third brother, Paul, was taken
out to the camp, wuich is about a mile
distant in the interior, and there he was
hanged to a tree, his body hanging in full
view of a morbid crowd during the day,
“as a warning to the. negroes that they
cannot go about killing white people,” as
one of the members of the mob put it.
The lynching was conducted very quiet-
ly and note shot was fired during the
entire proceedings. In the meantime the
real murderer is at liberty, and his broth-
ers, who died to save him from the fate
which they met, willpsoon be resting in
unmarked graves, heroes of a peculiarly
destinetive type. .
There is a general belief in that section
that the murder of Judge Estopinal was ,
the carrying out of a preconceived
plan. The judge had been very strict in
is rulings when the negro tough element
of the parish'were brought before him. The
judge, however, had once saved Julian
from a mob of lyn chers. During the
search for Julian on Saturday, one branch
of the posse visited the house .of a negro
family in the neighborhood of Camp Para-
pet, and failing to find the obect of their
search tried to induce John Willis, a
young negro, to disclose the whereabouts
of Julian. He refused to 'do do, or could
not do so, and was kicked to death by the
gang.
The negroes are massing at Camp Para-
pet and arming with the intention of
slaughtering the white people in that sec-
tion. The whites in the rear near the
swamps have been served with notices to
leave, and many have abandoned their
homes.
Chinese Question.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 18.—J. Hubley-Ash-
ton, attorney for the Chinese Legation,
who prepared the case for the Supreme
Court in which the constitutionality of
the Genry law was affirmed last spring,
confirm the report that Judge Ross de-
cree of deportation- will be appealed rom
and the law again go before the Supreme
Court for contraction. ' ’ ‘ 3 . '
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.WEEKOF Hun WORK
Desperate Efforts "to Do
VOORHEES STILL PPUSHlNG REPEAL
More Silver Speeches on the Senatorial
Programme—Far in the House Over
Federal Election Laws—Long Session of
Arduous Labor in Prospect.
Wasmnorox, Sep. 18,—The seventh
Week of the present session of Con-
gress gives promise of great interest. The
situation is extraordinary in legislative
history in that both houses are just now
in ucondition where it is impossible to
make headway in the dispatch of public
. business. But if the present programme
is carried out this week will witness deter-
mined eflorts on the part of the leaders in
the Senate and in the House to break the
spell which has bound Congress for so
many days. On Tuesday Senator Mills of
'Texas is expected to deliver his oft-post-
poned speech for repeal of the silver pur-
chasing clause of the Sherman law. The
ticc has been given, will be delivered by
Senator George of Mississippi (against re-
peal) on Wednesday; by Senator White of
California (against repeal) on Thursday,
and by Senator Ilansbrough of North Da-
kota in the same line at the next con-
venient opportunity. The silver leaders—
Teller, Jones of ‘Nevada, and Morgan——
also stand ready to address the Senate
whenever there is an opportunity or neces-
sity for it. No one can foretell how many
of these speeches, or hOw many more, will
be heard in the Senate chamber, .for Sena-
tor Voorhees has it in his mind to renew
his request, next Tu‘eSday, that a time
be fixed for a vote on the bill. _. It is
- not to besupposed that he expects that
unanimous consent will be given to any
such arrangement. But the Senatorlbe-
lieves that the time for action has now
come.
before and it has been rejected. He will
make it again and it will be re-
jected. The Senator believes that
with this record behind him he will be
able to convince the country and the Sen-
ate that the repeal bill is being subjected
to unreasonable delay, and he will then
' ask the the majority of the Senate to re-
main in sessiOn almost continuously un~
til the point of action is reached.
The result cannot now be foretold, but
if Mr. Voorhees can command ~the con-
,stant attendance and support of 43 Sena-
tors, committed to the repeal bill, the his-
bly be a repetition of the history of3a week
of the celebrated campaign against the
Force bill. The silver men are fully pre-
pared to meet this phase of the case, and
may be relied upon to smell the Con-
gressional Record to proportions almost
unheard of.
The programme in the House the com-
ing week is pretty clearly outlined, a con-
dition of things growing out of the fight
inaugurated by the Republicans, last week,
against the proposed repeal of the Federal
election laws. On Tuesday, the Democrats,
having then a quorum of their own faith
in attendance and voting upon the _main
question, the repeal bill will be reported
from theCOmmittee on Election of ' Presi-
dent and Vice President and Representa-
tives in Congress and be placed on the cal-
cndar.
nying reports can be printed, ' Mr. Tucker,
who is in charge of the measure in the
absence of Mr. Fitch, chairman of the
committee, expects to call them up for
consideration. When the}. debate thus
begun will end, the future alone can de-
termine.
The interim between the presentation of
the report and for the beginning of the de-
bate may be consumed by a further dis-
cussion of the bill to regulate and reform
the public printing, which has already had
one day devoted to it, and which was
blocked last week by the struggle over the
election law repeal bill. It is doubtful,
however, if the time that it is expected
that can be devoted to the printing bill
will be sufficient to dispose of it. Much
fate in store for it is believed to be the
same that it met'in the last Congress.
It is not probable that the McCreary bill
to modify the Geary Chinese registration
law will come to the front this week in
such a way as to command the attention
and consideration of the House. lt-will
notbe reported to the full Committee on
Foreign Affairs until the regular meeting
day, (Thursday) and even if it be reported
to the House at once it will probably find
the Election Law Repeal bill in possession
' of the right of way. - Governor McCreary
says he will not undertake to antagonize
the Repeal bill with his measure. Doubt-
'1ess a favorable report‘w‘ill be ordered by
the committee this week. Mr. Geary is
the only member of the committee who
is known to be opposed to it.
Speaker Crisp’s attitude in favor of
forcing the Election bill to the front now
is in line with hisexpressed determination
to have Congress Continue in session and
go ahead with the legislation marked out
for it instead of taking a recess as soon as
the Wilson bill is- disposedTof in the Son-
ate, if it ever is, until the regular meeting
time of Congress in December. The chair-
men of the leading committees of the
‘House were at first in favor of the rec’ess
programme, but the Speaker put his foot
on this, and it looks very much as if ‘ ‘an
era of business” is to be inaugurated in the
House even if Senator Voorhces fails to set
his agoing in the Senate. The protracted
and constant, tarifi hearings of the Ways
and Means Committee will soon be at an
end, and if the Speaker were so minded
the House could adjourn after the close of
the hearings until ,the new mm bill is
ready to-be brought into the House. If
the Speaker, however, 'has any influence
with the members, and he thinks he has,
there will be no prolonged recess of the
present Congress until the session winds
up for good. next spring, and it is hoped
that in the meantime a' great mass of
promised legislation in the interest of the
people will have been enacted. '
The Spanish Flood.
MADRID, Sop. 18.—The bodies of 28 per-
sons drowned in the recent flood at Villa-
Oanaa were recOVered yesterday. Fourteen
bodies known to be in a cave near the feet
of a hill 'canuot' be reached on account or.
the high water. . Many ,more bodies are
suppbeedm be in the ruins? of the 800
dwellings which were wrecked by the flood.
7, Advertise in the Galleria
convent, residence of only the priest and;
his relations, we hung on: hammocks,»
‘on a linewith the convent and other
other speeches for the week, of which no- ’
- his valiant compeers.
He has made that request twice
tory of the week in the Senate, will proba- '
As soon as the bill and accompa-.
opposition exists to the measure and the-
one or both eyes would fight if an ’ " '
tunity was given to them, for these ms ,
are so ferociously ‘ brave that unless, ”
wanted .to' fight “19% have to be kept out; ':
‘ on us to bear Witness that the
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TO A COCK FIGHT.
An Enthusiastic Lora of Game Rooster.
Enter-talus His Congregation’WIth-‘Rfio »
Contests Between Belllgerent Cocks.‘ ..
Ono Sunday’s Sport.
“It was in a Mexican village," said the ‘
explorer. “Great had been our surprise
the evening before when a little after 5
o’clock we rode into the public square
up to the door of the convent and ob--
served a long line of game cocks guard-
ing one side of the great church. Well,
that was our first impression.” Closer
inspection made things plainer. In. the
rested awhile, refreshed the inner man
with tortillas and black beam then went
forth to vestigate the feathered 1mi-
ment. 9 large church was built out"
into the square, so that its rear wall was
structures forming that side of the
square.
“Along the wall that stood at t an~
glass with the front of the co’nvon‘ 1' small
wooden stakes had been driven in the
ground. To each a plumed warrior was
securely attached at asafe distance from
Who could have
dared to utilize for such a purpose the
shade afforded by the wall of: the sacred
edifice? Another instant and we should
have voiced this thought. It is general-
ly a mistake to speak in a hurry. The
good old priest had followed us and was .
now at our side. Pointing a lean brown
finger at a very proud looking rooster,
he said: ‘That is the prince of this lot,
though they will all prove themselves
splendid fighters, I know! I have not,
studied the creatures 49 years for nothing?
Sol They were his own property! Yes,
another five minutes’ talk made it plain
that the pet hobby of this holy man was-
cock fighting! We will call him Father
F. because it is not necessary to give
the name of our kind host. ‘ Fairly
launched on his favorite topic, he talked
aWay for a full hour and was ut-
terly amazed, not to say somewhat in—
credulous, when informed that we had
never seen a professional tussle between
those birds so dear to his heart and
purse, and which he loved to see fighting
in the ring. 'But you must come with
me tomorrow afternoon,’ said he; ‘the
people here all like it, and we enjoy the.
harmlesssport every Sunday afternoon.’
He intended no sarcasm ‘
“Nolens . volens, when Sunday after-
noon came,,our host, having laid aside
his saccrdotal ,. robes after celebrating
high mass, piloted us to the scene of ac-
tion.~ The pit was in the interior court;
yard of a private house. A circular
fence of slender" sticks surrounded the
carefully leveled ground dedicated 'to
the carnage. ' Chairs surrounded it, and
a. shed, thatched with palm leaves, shel-
tered the Spot from the scorching rays
of the sun. ,In gay attire the most re-
spected matrons . and maidens of the
place were there,.the performance being
countenanced and '. partly provided by
the priest. A lively conversation was
kept up, all presents-(being acquainted.
The roosters had been shorn of their
feathers, save those, of the wings and
tail. Each bird was Weighed; then
curved steel spurs were secured to the.
stumps of those providedby nature, but
which had been cut oif.'- Quite suddenly
conversation ceases. ‘Two birds are in
the ring. The struggle commences.
Heads lowered, eyes glaring, quivering
with rage, the heroes fly at each other. »-
"Calculating that his opponent has
jumped too high, the otherone crouches, '
avoids the blow and turns upon his foe,
who stands firm. Both rise in the an,
breast striking against breast, each striv-
ing to deal his adversary a mortal blow.
One is stabbed—he staggers. Profiting
*by this weakness, his adversary follows
up the attack, but the wounded one
keeps an eye on his enemy. and not be-
ing ready for him dodges, regains his
position and inflicts a wound. Both now
have difficulty in keeping on their feet,
though neither will yield. More wounds
are dealt. Both fall exhausted. One
recovers, sees his foe prostrate, so does
not attack, but shakes his lowered head
and claws the ground in his fury. Im-
patiently he thirsts for the life of his
opponent, who, 'no less savage, regains
his feet, and with glaring eyes watches
every move of his adversary.
“The enthusiasm Of their owners and
backers increases as the wounds become
more numerous—the excitement is in-
tense, and bets run high. The creatures
engaged in deadly strife keep cooler than
the audience. A moment arrives when’
all the backers talk at once. ‘Five dolr
lars .more on the white!2 ‘Ten on the
canelo’ (cinnamon color). The stakes do
not exceed $50. At last One warrior
falls. Dead silence follows, so great is
the suspense. Will he rise once more?‘
Victor examines victim 've distrust--
fully, intakes sure hols dead, is ”on mount--
ing on the prostrate form draws himself
up with an exultant cry of victory, just
like some gladiator of olden times. .
“All through the long summer after-
noon one battle succeeded another. The
birds that 'survived‘were‘taken home to
be carefully tended until restored enough
to fight again. ’Even those that-had lost
of each other’s mac .
“At the Do'clock dinner in the con-
vent our reverend host talked of um
but his triumphant master! and calls
one
he hadpointed out hedprovedflsé that
day the greatest hero of them “If—New
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