Indian Sentinel (Newspaper) - December 16, 1899, Tahlequah, Oklahoma VOLUME INDIAN DECEMBER A Wholesale Manama Captain Recalls Ills i As Hangman Indians In ft II Kill resides In a now 71 years who more than a third of a century ago officiated at one ofthe largest legal executions thin country has ever It is Asa and December of when a captain in the volunteer army of the United acted as hangman far 38 Indians at This wholesale hanging of Indians the climax to Indian war of in which so maily women and children of the scattered settlements of Minnesota were massacred by the the story of that historic day and of his connection with it as follows In the floret said the aged I have mighty little sympathy for the for my in living among them for 40 a wit ness of their fiendish the horror and atrocity of their methods of leaves for I hnd organized a company for service in the civil of Minnesota which I waft before the the company was nt Chip pewa agency en for Paul no lie mustered into the service of United On orders from then in command of 1he Minnesota company proceeded to Man to in and do duty mind he was a without any and J had my doubts whether he would be able to perform this duty when the final had to be accom Among other arrangements made by the commander to have every thing pass off it was undir stood that the rope be rut at the beat of a bass I looked at before giving the signal which was to drummer that every thing was faid to him Get ready my and me a as his knees knocked together with an audible lie stood just under one corner of the with uplift ed hx I waved my as a signal all was the drum and Hewlett hi his the ax into the post o the the rope fully four The slight est touch with the sharp frige of the on the rope drawn so taut around this which sole support and the great weight of 38 was nnd drop the Instantly seeing Hew letts I ripped out nn FO frightened him that lie drew the nx from and in doing so accidentally touched the rope with its whirl severed and ihc had paid the penalty of their rope was cut and sprung by pure The execution was eminently suc us only one of the ropes EXECUTION OF THE THIRTYEIGHT At December the Having been a build my services of course were needed in helping to build the This quite a crude ar yet ingenious and The was 10 feet twith a on each of the four sides 3yt feet wide and eight or ten feet from the There was no flooring over the middle A heavy post placed in the ground ex tended above the platform through this open which held the ropes rigging supported the trap of the platform on which the victims stood prepar ing for It was so arranged cutting of a single rope all of the four sides dropped at the Mime I shall never forget the day if the It clear and the void of but a typical Minnesota winters About were confined in a jail and which stood a from where the scaf fold was All of the details been two lines of soldiers oil each side of the were uj on while a detachment marched the In dians the jail to The savages out exhibiting great each one with u pipe in his arms pinioned in such a to give them the use of their They ascended scaffold by the steps shown in the and each was position under the dangling From the time the Indians were marched out of the jail and onto the they a continual hooping and to show how brave they were and little they feared This scene was visible from the prison through in the nnd through every available opening pair of glittering eyes looked out upon 1 liis I was last on the scaffold nnd il was my the so that the knot would come directly tinder the left ear of each This was considerable of a ber of the continued yelling und lancing which was kept up to the very 1 been around adjust nient only 1ind mi looking around thai work to be oxer am d the ikird A b the of 11 let wife bri r he In ill u of hni of be a ti cut being that a Kin of ok Cut a very heavy weighing over 30 lie was Instantly drawn up by three or four us his neck was broken by the the was entire The In at tend a net pronounced all of the dead in of IU Several army wagons were imme drawn up to the Indians cut down and loaded inli The bodies were hauled a distance to a sand bur running out ti a Minnesota river mam i and were in a trend j was about 5U but no I very Over Indians were Court i and but the i and the balance wen I finally taken to when j kept at the i and were later sent to Stain j Rock and turned I tu the took j IIIn J thought you were u I used but gave if Did you find that your sys tem required meat my daughter married the son of one of the wealthiest and I consider it my to refrain from anything miffitt have a tendency to in jure the Tinies Work of Shes a sho doesa fancy On that lathe envy of her mother Hut it ninke you To tho wondrous style Jn which stitched patch trousers uf her Tim Henry calls three times a but 1 dont think he means anything He says he dont take any slock in thinks a man is better off single and is exceedingly apathetic tuul inattentive Scott That shows he wants you worst way a you to SoninLaw Ahem You re you said that after we wer sist me in th my around the corner with me Ill introduce you to a friend of mine who is in the busi married you would as matter of furnishing n the that creature howls If I hnd a Id it at then wed get Borne A V This Is ft we have solved Of what js safe for us to eat din of II IN did you go on your went out west to look a corner lot 1 bought by it Ves went swimming in Out of iver I catch your goat ine washin Ill sue ye no nade of Come over here an Ill give ye all the damages ye an tlie Good got iip a charity card party Did she success with it I should say Took i al most enough to pay the Home It mod i OH for Idl Nothing in this country nod enough for goes to for and ev she she even goes abroad for arc woman I sent there I After lio When i this the man the dry goods everything I had in the world was tied up in a red band And now asked the who was waiting for a And replied man on the scratching his Ive got in the world is tied down with Hml In He nt I it vus a of love ut It replied the dearest friend of tl woman in It hnd to It he had looked a second time hi never could him fallen in love Book youll buy this Ill guarantee youll learn one save Man of the take will it teach me Never to buy book from a book Tlie Old on boys you never hear of little girls throw and killing Jad Hoy Course yer dont Who ever saw a girl dat could throw a straight kill a Daily In lie I am sad Frert Constants coming aroun Although r always treated him right Tin sure to set turned 1 THAT I dont I had the im the great majority of i nit n were great j about ten oclock in the Asa was born at January A in 1S54 lied for a time 1au He followed lumbering for sunn and first settler at Steanis He i in lie u of i enlisted ing elected captain of liis the t roubles in unit his regiment to Si in for With lurking In each And folly neer This earth Is but a solemn place For those who fain Washington THIS OF TUB here be i in i hi i h JM nun I I WH 1 Up i old I was the were the thickest was the iyu tin ettr l uli 11 iim vou i an just u it j H Klvo 15i W va oJ iuo The my new stenog rapher a most the His T heard you call her Chicago Inter Ily ii not a that nol hla only For all whos him try declared llii couldnt tell a An The should victory al ways be represented by a female dont sec but jou havent The Only Im but we cant ex change those Hint my husband does not like Why exchange your hus band Multiline you take this man for better or for worse better than he anil Im sure he wont be x i Stunk The two men settled their squat ale resorting to Tho has u beautiful pink And tho other u lumpy l going tu write a book Thai ulnas si i u I hut uli I folks V it 1 I n i an they j jf Cy WAt the D of the If Some of Charies Experiences While Twelve Years A Prisoner ift He no other book of the year has excited much coin merit by the press of the entire civilized and especially in Amer and that of Churtis entitled APris oner of the Tho great ma of this has not been directed so much to the inter or lack of in the book itself as to refutation of charges manic against him by escaped prisoners from the Soudan who charged Neufeld with attempting to lighten his imprison ment by manufacturing for the kha gunpowder and cartridges with which the black army of the mahdi were to kill All of these charges which lost in their Neufeld refutes and presents voluminous proof in support of his Hut aside from this feature of the is still another side that of It js that which deals with the methods of the mahdi lir their treatment of the prisoners they held for so long a White men were captivity horde of Sou dan black fanatics from the lime of the death of Gordon Kitchener released them when he captured the mahdi stronghold at last Of his first reception and his treatment by the blacks acting orders from the says My feet wero next nnd a will a heavy ut my Dur the whole crowds to look ut in Ing a prisoners first night this terrible hole I havn already a la this Hole of It might not bo out of place to a silent description of thri Pasha of spent In that When taken to the anvil to his chains welded on broke down and In a swonn to tho with hla back In an anglo of the wall fur from ho door and thoro When tho batch prisoners were driven In at sunset there room for all to Ho down on foul and saturated When tho batch was driven In about an hour ami a half lator all had to sit up with tho and Kamis outstretched legs KUVO u dry and comfortable scat to four lilK I was driven In with the third batch after the night and then all hud stand tip or he trampled from the the received In one of the sorties from with four people sitting or standing on and being heavily unable to rise tp hla I hear him place near the door feebly expostulating with the wero standing upon J that ho was trampled to and my then frenzied to my way towards and foo Indiscriminately light wan soon In The warders bearing tho uproar opened tho as commenced to kibor of all they could roach with sticks and 1 recognized the voices of or their wa von hli At mid of tho cell wero thrown open und about 20 men wero Into tho there was no room for but they bad to be driven Iii by To inuko for them the gaolers resorted to favorite device Into tho cells of blazing mul und ut tho A CORNER OF THE PRISON YARD AT tho made from a hollow was sounded close eir the whole night A a sort of a and danced up and In front of singing and ges She wus calling up the followers of prophet to come and wit ness rny and was my death and my subsequent tortures In holl as an Hut those tortures proved to bo among the easiest of those he was be called to Of his ex the following morning Neu feld dervish camm tr mo nnd crossing my right over tho left at tlie palms to bind thorn a ropo mariu of When the ropes a bit of wood used as a beon drawn well Into the lesh water wus poured over Tho agony as the ropes swelled was With the off me with tho was I was led forth to the sport of tho Made to stand up In the open burn with I tho moment for my decapitation hail anil muttering a short prayer I knelt down and bent my but was at once pulled to my feet the populace wanted sport nio Der rushed at me prodding with and and while this wan going on two one 6in cither side of with the mouths of their war trumpets placed my blew loudest Tho which I wus bound had now done their work gave wayand thn horrible tension was re tho ropes sank Into tho A messenger from tho came to mo and Bald Tho has sent mo to toW you that he has determined to the same mes senger returned with from tho saying The changed his mind your hend Is not to bo cut off you are to bo crucified aa was your en the An later 1 was or dered off to the place of and be ing unable to walk upon a On coming to a of the I hud expected I found a set of goJ A tell placing his hand on my The gratified at your and to show this offers you the choice of the manner of your death When replied that tho could himself the black replied will be dead In a few minutes what will you die as a Moslem or a Kaffir I replied that religion Is not a dress to bn put on today and off While wo wore talking a man on horseback made his way through the crowd ami spoka to tho turning to Be there Is no death for the in his great has pardoned youi Such was the a 12 years While there was not the same and torture ing all of that time there was none of the 12 years in which the blacks did not fiendish Neufeld was most of the tho During t he day t all were permit to of the uni once u a is to go in tinban of to lint tin At they N till uf thilll ojH coin tu until O time laying about the bare heads and shour ders of tho prisoners with their That was but one of hundreds of just such A man who went down during one of them was usually trampled to death before the morning came to relieve was but seldom that any effort was to rescue an For much of iho 12 years that Neufeld remained in captivity the prisoners were kept employed during the and so heir opportunity for sleep was but Kor food only what friends purchased for as in when money was sent to Iii in from friends the NEUFELD IN HIS desert much of it was appropriated bj his jailers or the was wellnigh fpt to reach a place of safety it was neces sary tp cross the and Impossible without relays of And KO tho poor unfortunate whites blacks ull who did not in the teachings of the were tortured day after filial of 1 IV el 1 i ni h hii J uu b i vi ill nn et hn iu in uch ttt tlit STORAGE OF Up nnd Writer In the Most Now that is a generous crop ol apples localities this the general query arises how to winter them in best We have found no way that answers the require ments of the majority of farmers sa well as mound them up and covet this method the retains or rather secures a flavor fai superior to of apples kept in tht It is therefore quite to bury them up vrith only re moving them to the cellar as they required for The proper method of mounding ia winter apples is better explained inthe A box five feet long it SECTIONAL VIEW Earth Box or up from two by perforated us shown in illustra tion with to permit escape 01 gases and foul A small watershed is at leaving vents in gabled for This box is erected apples mounded around it until u fodt from the The mound of fruit is incased around with old boards and of straw und several inches o This is freezing coating of earth should he placed upon 1his be done weathes is quite cold and frozen fay throwing t litter the heap in the earth may not frozen and be accessible for After is in place a load or of coarse manure may bs scattered over tlie By this method the mayhave apples in storage until fate spring and also have them secure from frost in the cold est The board is in order that the apples may not be come compacted and mashed from weight of and the pile also if much easier to use from than a mount not protected by thus caving in an the fruit is used who have cellars pw fcr to store in as it is somewhat more even though flavor and be hot so well re Very convenient crates may be for this purpose by sawing plastering lath in two equally and nailing them up with prepared from boards inches in These boxes will hold a bushel aw made and can be stacked rows or upon temporary shelves in Ch where they maybe easily ac cessible to use iri regard to vari These crates arc Very superior to storing iii or as no largo quantity can be crushed nec making it inconvenient to sorl W iii Ohio ORCHARD AND Soil and location will change of fruit and also Mixed husbandry gardening anc fruit growing is necessary to the bes In trees of any kind it is bet ter to have one strong or three weak Whenever water is given to house plants enough should be given to wet the soil few fapple and peach frees should bt planted every year in keep up a good supply on the Sod is a protection to an orchard in It is an exceptional case when It is best to plow in the The English walnut is said to be the most profitable of all When in full bearing they will yield about 300 pounds of the The nut sells on an average at about eight cents per If only are planted oh an acre the income woulf be about Louis and Cider made from windfalls and green which contain a much less pro portion of sugar than ripe ia consequently the being sour and Where the are well matured the quality of the elder made from them will found vastly improved by the simple process of throwing them in small piles in the and to When u to the If you in I he nf ilia HUi ulii D IsV WJ u fiit nf VilUT Ui lhe sv
