Children like it to Cure their Coughs and USE wuums' eeueu "Elem , WILLIAMS & CARLETON co. HARTFORD. CT. House-cleaning. Lustriue. 1 Oc fill} Gill IN FREE- 011‘ MEAT .L __ . Round, Sirloin .nd Por- terhouse Steaks, Sausge, P01: and Rio Roasts Reduced 20. e Pound All First Quality Meat. J. W. BOGARDUS, 6 ‘VATER. S_T., NORWALK DRINK 'HATHBRN seume WATERFARTHE Kidneys. FOR SALE BY Tue-1131 es, Keeleu &Selleel Bu NEW CAFE RESTAURAN T AT l‘ACHE D. MIKE. BATCHFORD, 44 Wain Street, The Best Wines, Liquors and Cigars.’ uoouwu rue quou, Glolhier, Halter and Furnisher, I70 WASHINGTON STREET SOUTH NOBWALK, CONN.. Has alarge assortmentof White and Blue Silk mixed Diagonal Suits. hand-made, good trimmed and furnished at verv reasonable figures. Woosted Suits $8; Blue $11,-and White and Blue, 512. Fine Custom Work_made.~to order. Finest Hats in So. Norwalk. from best shops in town. Gents’ Furnishings in all varieties; low figures. - ' Horace E. Dann, EXOELSIOL 'LWBT‘VjEQEflGS Stable. Opposite Danbury and Norwalk Railroad aepot' NorWalk. Conn. Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers , Safe horses for women andehildr'en. . SADDLE HORSES A SPECIALTY I . . THE EV ENi ' ‘ 1 ABOUT THE BANNOCKS. —— The Indians Who Have Been Giv- ing the Government Trouble. A Warlike Tribe That Is a Disturbing Ele- ment Among the Savages of the Northwest—One Version of Their Grievances. , ,— The Bannock Indians, who were re- ported to be on the war-path because of the settlers interfering with their killing of elk, occupy the Fort Hall res- ervation in southeastern Idaho with the Shoshones. The Shoshones, says the Philadelphia Telegraph, are more numerous than the Bannocks, who in 1894 were 772, all told, 132 being males over 18 years of age, while of 1,745 Shoshones there were 286 males above 18 years of age. The Bannocks, or Bannaks, belong to the general family of Shoshones or Snakes, which family ' also includes the various tribes of Utes, Comanches, Moquis, Chemehuenes, Ca- huilla and the Kechi, Kizh and Netolo tribes of California. Their tradition is that they came originally from the far east, and their language, which is so different from. that of the western Shoshones, resembles that of the Co- manches, whose home when white men first found them was about the head- waters of the Brazos, the Colorado and eastward to those of the Arkansas and Missouri rivers. The main tribe of the Bannocks was first found near where they are now es- tablished, at the Fort Hall agency, in Oneida county, in the southeastern part of Idaho, along the Snake river valley. They are taller and straighter than the mountain Indians round about them, and have the reputation of being more warlike. They are nearly all able to speak the language of the Sho- shones. but the latter do not speak the Bannock tongue. This is the same as that of the Piutes, and the latter say that the Bannocks split off from them. Before the Bannocks got horses they were very expert in the use of the bow and arrow. They are distinctly a hunt- ing tribe, and look upon work as an everlasting disgrace, except for squaws. They view themselves as the salt of the earth. They have earned a reputation for bloodthirstiness, and are said some- times to kill their aged parents when the latter begin to become a burden. The only purpose for which the Ban- nocks appear to be preserved is to vex and annoy the Shoshones, who take more kindly to labor, schools and the use of other clothing than blankets than do the Bannocks, who have ap- . peared to be incurably opposed to civ- ' ilization for themselves and other In- dians. The two tribes have been thrown together for many years on the same reservation, and while the Sho- shones have manifested a willingness to ‘- accept the benefits of schools and in- structioninthe use of implements of agriculture, the Bannocks have as- sumed a superiority because of their refusal to be civilized, and have taunted the Shoshones as “squaws” because they embrace the opportunities for im- provement held out by the government. - The Shoshones are peaceful and indus- trious. There were raised and sold for the reservation during 1893 more than $15,000 worth of agricultural products, of which it is safe to assume that the Shoshones produced a very considera- ble share. The reports of the Indian agent show that of all the Shoshones and Bannocks on the reservation only 140 can speak enough English to be un- derstood-in ordinary conversation. The degree of civilization to which these Indians have reached is indicated by the statement that there was one mar- riage during the year, and fifteen chiefs were living in polygamy. Gradually whitemen came into the prairie, and, finding it well adapted to the raising of hogs, turned thousands of these animals loose in it. The hogs ate up the roots which had supplied the Indians’ winter needs, and they com- plained of this as a great injustice. This led to bad blood between them- selves and the whites, and in 1878a party of the Bannocks went on the war trail, killing several settlers and steal- in g horses. They went along the trail which Chief Joseph and ‘his band had followed the year before, driven to war by just such causes. Gen. Miles with 100 men and seven scouts went after them, and at day- light on September 4, 1878, surprised them in Clark’s Fork pass, on Clark’s Fork of the Yellowstone, beyond the National park. Eleven of the Indians were killed in the battle which fol- lowed, and the rést, nearly 100 all told, including women and children, were captured. Capt. Andrew T. Bennett, of the Fifth infantry, was one of the killed among the soldiers. This party of the Bannocks were held as prison- ers several months, their stock was taken from them, and then they were returned to their reservation. They have made no trouble since. The loss of their grounds for the supply of roots was not so serious to them as the loss of their hunting grounds. The game in the Yellowstone park has undoubtedly attracted them now, and it appears to Miles as if a party of irresponsible settlers or cowboys had gone after a hunting party and cap- tured it. Speaking of the reported killing of these Indians, Gen. Miles said that probably many an innocent settler would pay with his life for the acts of these men. Scalps and horses are the two things which the Bannock is taught to crave. The warrior who has taken these from his enemy will go when he dies to a land ruled by a big chief who wears the feathers and robes of a full chief and rides a fast horse. This big chief will lead them all in the chase, and buffalo and other game will be plentiful and easy to take. To pro- vide a horse for the chase the favorite horse of a dead. warrior is killed at his grave. Formerly a squaw was also killed at the grave and sent after him to wait on him. Although the Ban- nocks are comparatively few in num- ber Gen. Miles says that if they are much stirred up they may get recruits from among the young men of all the other tribes and make a serious dis- turbance. _ l ._ ’ SOME Gboo IN HIM. I How the Prisoner Succeeded in .Impress- 1 ing His Captors by 3 Speech. The Texas court had convened-at the - foot of a telegraph pole and the horse- thief was watching the proceedings. says the New York Sun. Presently the judge turned to him. _ ‘ - “Seein’,” he said, “as how the boys come off in a hurry and forgot the rope and it’s goin’ to take some time fer the man to git back that’s gone after it, p’r’aps you like to make a few remarks to entertain the crowd and git yer mind oflen the main objeck uv yer bein’ present on this occasion.” “I ain’t much of a speaker,” replied the prisoner, “but I’m willin’ to please, and as I used to be an exhorter before I got the Texas habit I reckon I might make a try at it.” minutes and the choice of subjecks. Considerin’ yer doin’ it to please us, we won’t be too pertickelar.” “Can’t you make it a few years,” smiled the prisoner. “lVe’d like to, but the objeck of the meetin’ wouldn’t git a fair shake. Be- sides, we’ve been to a good deal of trouble to git you here and we ain’t got time to waste that a-way. You jist go ahead and make the speech and make her lively, fer the boys may git to shootin’ before the rope gits here.” Thus importuned, the prisoner took his place on a pile of railroad ties and launched forth in an impassioned ad- dress, patriotic, religious, personal and highfalutin, the poor fellow evidently feeling, as had been suggested by the leader, that in this way he might for- get the object of the meeting. He kept it up for fifteen minutes or more and then the leader held up his hand for him to stop and he looked around nervously, expecting to see the man returning with the rope; and that’s what he did see, but the leader stepped out and beckoned the man to one side. \ “That’s all right,” he said reassur- ingly to the prisoner; then he turned to l the crowd. “Boys,” he said, “you I have heerd this man makin’ a speech j here for the last fifteen er twenty min- utes, and in all that time he ain’t said Q a dern word about free silver ner the ' Wilson tariff bill, and I move you now that we give him fifteen minutes to git _ out. Thar must be some good in him and we ought to give him a chance to : let it spread. All in favor of that mo- . tion say aye;” and with a unanimous vote those wild and woolly Texans gave that horse thief another chance . for his white alley. ; COWBOYS BECOMING EXTINCT. ._.._._.._ Rapid Decadence of the Genes That Made the Wild West Famous. The cowboy, like the buffalo, is fast . becoming extinct. In the dawn of the l new century now approaching he will 3 be regarded as a curiosity. Ten years ' hence, says Lippincott’s Magazine, he 1 l l will almost have attained the dignity of tradition. History, which embalms the man in armor and exalts the pioneer, holds a place for him. The niche may be a modest one, but he has his part in conquering a new country, and no im- partial record Of western evolution can . omit his picturesque figure. Before civilization devours his identity let us , try to detain it a moment in its real | likeness and garb. Dwellers in the long-settled com- munities scarcely realize how greata change has come over the far west dur- ing the last decade. Ranches there will always be—ranches for grain, hay fruit and blooded live stock—but not for the rearing of range cattle. Yet the time is in easy memory when there was a craze over the cattle business, when the cowboy. was king at Dodge City, when hundreds of educated young men went west to share the hardship of herders. To—day the cattle ranches are deserted or mortgaged or turned into farms. A more advanced intelli- gence has penetrated the possibilities of irrigation and water is reclaiming the wilderness once given over to the long-horn steer. The decline of the cattle industry has been as amazing and rapid as was its rise. The business is not simply suf- fering from stagnation; it has almost ceased to exist. Early in the eighties a beef steer running on the range rep- resented forty dollars; one-fourth that sum would pay for him now. Thirty dollars was the average price for a cow with a calf at her side; noyv whole herds are disposed of for six dollars a head. Keeping Up Appearances. It is difficult, says The Lady, to be- lieve the assertion made by a contem- porary to the effect that a man in Lon- don makes a handsome sum by vlending out to “smart” brides and bridegrooms a Bank of England note for one thousand pounds, which note figures as among the presents as the gift of the lady’s father (being carefully watched by a special person told off for that duty alone), and is then re- turned to its owner, plus a fee for the loan. No doubt it is, unfortunately, true that the “keeping up of appear‘ ances” necessitates many unpleasant expedients in these extravagant days. but really the enterprising person who discovered the latest “society ruse” might have invented something neater. What would happen, we wonder, if some wedding guest, possessed of un- usual aptitude for figures, were to carry in his head the number of that note from one wedding to another? And how do the happy pair dispose of sub- sequent questions as to what they have done with the handsome present? A Negro Superstition. The following amusing instance of the queer ideas current among the negroes of the south is related in a story by Miss E. F. Andrews in the Chatau- quan: “De jay bird is de meanes’ bird a livin’; he is wosser’n a crow. He go off ever’ Friday to de bad place an’ tell. ole Satum ever’thing mean you done endurin’ 0’ de week. Dat why you woan never seen no jay birds a flyin’ about us a Friday; dey’s all gone ofi, a carryin’ dere tales to de debil, an’ dey jes’ eavesdrop aroun’ all de balance 0' de time to see what dey kin fine out agin’ you.” " . “lVell, go ahead; you’ve got a few ' '- M TU L.'.L1. INSURANCECO. - OF NEW YORK. c AAEI ru ‘ RICHARD A. McCURDY, President. , ’ emen ur eYear. inglleefitlfllfi. . $221,2i3,721 33 194,347,157 58- $26,866,563 75 $48,597,430 5.1 Assets. ' . 'j . Liabilities , . . Surplus . ~ . . Total Income ~ .' ‘ . Total l’aicl Policyvholders in 1895, $23,126,728 45 Insurance and Annuities in force, . $899,074,453 78 Net gain in. 1895 , $61,647,645 36 _ NOTE—Insurance merely "17%“?an discarded from this Statement as wholly mlsleadlng. and only insurance actually issued and paid for in cash ls Included. I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same, to be correct. _ » CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Report of the Examining Committee. Ollieeef the Mutual Life Insuraueetumuany of New Ylllll, ' February 11,1896. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees Of this Company, held on the 18th day of December last, the undersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by con.— parison with the assets of the Company. The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the assets specified therein are in possession of the Company. I i” In making this certificate the Committee bear testimonv to the high character of the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in. general transacted; H. C. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson. James C. Holden, Robert Clyphaut, Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. Committee ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President. WALTER B. GILLETTE, General Manager. . HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Sec-y. ALBERT KLAMBOTH, Asst. Secy. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. J A MES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Treas ' EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier man A. FONDA, Assistant Treasurer. WILLIAM P. SANDS, Cashier EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL.D., F. I. A., Actuary. JOHN TATLOCKUJB” Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY S. BROWN, Asst. Comp. JOHN O. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, ED WARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. MEDICAL DIRECTORS ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, M. D. .NDHEN w. numerous. New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut. , ‘ As no GAM-PQ Local Agent. .~.
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