Slayton gazette (Slayton, Minn.) 1883-1893
June 2, 1892 · Page 1 of 4
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GAZETTE THE each the his'tale. This A. HUXTABLE, of J. actors in man, and the gourd with little it to ran a ancient and- withered, seemed live to that hard donga by, for I knew that was General Contractor and Carpenter, again in the far It past. the past was there spring of Presently water. was a that spoke his to listener, telling of 2. I back with the THURSDAY. JUNE gourd full of SLAYTON. came SLAYTON, MINN. deeds long forgotten, of deeds that are My mother water. tried catch to me, Ea timates known. all work in line cheerfully on my no more for she but I past was very angry; ran furnished. RUANE, JAMES Editor. her and the gourd the boy. to gave CHAPTER L Then mother ceased interfere, trying to my WM, P. HALL, THE BOY CHAKA PROPHESIES. only she beat the with her woman You ask father, tell to the me, my you Contractor and Builder, all the while, evil that tongue dig sr.j tale of Umslopogaas, who named was krac’ ! had husband, to her come our om Bulalio the Slaughterer, of love and his SLAYTON, MINN. ; that and she felt in Ik rt more for Nada, the beautiful of Zulu .. most Estimates all work in line cheerfully '‘rom evil would her on my come upon r ~ son. It is long, but if I live tell to women. furnished. Her Ehlose (guardian told her sp.ii.) so. it, it shall be told. Ah! father, her Ehlose told her true. my JUST You LUMBERS- think RECEIVED that I old, old witch am an While talked, I and the mother my doctor Zweete. named So all have -U IHerything men V in the line still of with the white face stood and cow Building Material, thought for but that is at not many years; watched, and the baby Baleka cried LOWEST WHOLESALE PRICES. None have known it, and my name. Unandi’s aloud. The boy, having son, We make specialty selling direct of a to though I live under law of the the now t’.:o gourd, did offer taken not the water Consumers, and give particular attention white and the Great is Queen Alliance trade. We believe to man, my we can save his mother. He drank two-thirds of to and pul Son Tillotson & [Copyright, 1882, by Write for prices. you money. chieftainess, assegai might find yet an them.l with himself; I think he "would have drank it special lished by arrangement UNION LUMBER CO., this heart did know A LARGE STOCK OF any my name. his thirst been slaked, it all had but not WINONA, MINNESOTA. Look this hand, father—no, not on my had done he when he what gave was that which is withered with fire; look mother, Wells. left his and she finished it. Wells. to INTRODUCTION. tliis right hand You of mine. it, on see took Then he the gourd again and TARBOX SCHLICK’S came Some since—it during the & years was though I who blind But cannot. am forward, holding it in hand; the in EDWARD white McMAHON, before winter the Zulu one war—a still, within I it it me see as once was. had short stick. other he Natal. His a traveling through man was I it Aye! red and red with strong, the SLAYTON, MINN. see is boy?” ho said “What - - does he plays your name, for not matter, no name blood kings. Hearken, of two father; will I drill my bore wells from four (4) to or he in this well till part All me. story. went bend and hearken. I to inches three (3) feet in width, depth your ear me to any “Mopo is name,” I answered. had Stanger, passed the little of town my desired. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mopo—ah! I felt start; am you you “And what is the of the which site of Duguza, the name your people?" was once start the regiment Bees of the started as kraal of Chaka, Zulu king. the first ADAMS HOUSE. FINE SHOES when Mopo walked before their ranks, The night after he left Stanger the air I told him the of tribe, the name my • and from his the assegai in hand the * bitterly cold. Heavy clouds turned Langeni tribe. gray blood of Chaka dropped slowly the to W. S. FRENCH, Prop., filled the sky and hid the light of the tell “Very well, Mopo; I will now you earth. [Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon, was hot I “Now if I in Natal stars. My is Chaka, of MINNESOTA. SLAYTON, were name. my name son of the greatest geniuses and - most one should heavy fall that there Senzangacona, and people called say a was my are wicked who lived. He Special Attention Given the Comfort to men ever was of coming,” said the white to the Amazulu. I will tell And snow man now you Guests. of killed in the having slaughtered 1828, FOR year LADIES AND GENTS. liimself. “I have often the sky lam little something today, and seen more. than million human beings.] more a look like that in Scotland before snow.” people little people. But I my are a lam THOS. MOE, Mopo who slew Chaka the king. I Then he reflected that there had been shall big, and people shall grow my grow slew him Dingaan with and Umhlangana deep in Natal Painter Hanger, for and Paper with They shall the big eat no snow years. me. up the princes; but the mine . wound that was During the night he awakened by lam big whole world. And when and was his life he crept of, and but for out SLAYTON, MINN. me Gents’ of bitter cold and the low big and have Hats people stamped sense a moaning my aro we would have been slain. I slew never Stisfaction kinds of guaranteed in all the tied the of that to far the earth flat travel, oxen were as as men can him with the princes, but Dingaan I and Painting, Wood Finishing, Graining, Hard trek-tow. head through He thrust his then I will remember tribe—the your other slew alone. one Carriage Painting, Calsomining Sign and looked the and curtain out. of the who tent tribe Langeni, would of the not “What do Dingaan say? died by and Paper Hanging. you and the The with earth white give mother milk and of snow was me my a cup the Tongola?” along by bitter air full of it, You swept when this a was weary. see were we Yes, died, he but there. He not of yes, all styles. WM. FORSAITH. FRANK TERRY. wind. it will hold gourd; for drop the every Ghost died the mountain. Ho lies on on FORSAITH TERRY, 8t calling did Now he he —the blood of blood shall flow of up, as sprang a man breast of the the old Stone Witch, who who slept beneath the Kaffirs the to of But because so you one your men. gave forever PROPRIETORS aloft OF sits waiting for the world the I will and water wagons. spare you, me you The City Livery, perish. But I, I also to the was on boys,” he said them in “Quick! to under and make great only, you you me. Ghost mountain. In those days feet my “quick! Would the cattle Zulu; You I will harm. That alone I you see never SLAYTON, MINN. still could travel fast, and vengeance and cold? Loose the the die of But woman,” for that and he snow swear. would let Special not sleep. I the Traveling traveled by attention given me to MEN’S AND BOYS’ trek-tows drive them from the and “let her pointed mother, make to oxen my Public. day, and by night I found him. I and will give between the that in I have haste die, do not and that to wagons; so another, killed him —ah! ah! we shelter.” lighting And them time death teach her long what a some a can Why do I tell this? What has it ’ BROS,, ENDERSBE you the lantern he into spoken.” out take I have to snow. sprang come. do with the loves of Umslopogaas to and task, last it done—no for At My mother stood still awhile. Then SALE LIVERY, FEED AND was easy Nada the Lily? I will tell I slew you. could numbed hands of the Kaffirs CLOTHING the she “The little liar! He gasped out: Chaka the sake for of sister, Baleka, my STABLE. reins. The loosen scarcely the frozen he? The speaks like does calf - man, a the * mother of Umslopogaas. I and Umslopogaas by side outspanned side MINN. will teach him SLAYTON, lows like bull. I were wagons a another - Dingaan slew for the sake of and into between them, with evil note—the brat of prophet!” Rates. First Class Rigs Reasonable a space an at Nada, who daughter. was my Solicited, thirty-six Your this the mob of And down Baleka she Patronage putting at oxen was space ran Yonder, beneath at the burying us, reins tied secured by driven and there the boy. place kings, of there is hole. In that a hind front and crosswise from the Chaka still till she stood quite was lie the hole bones of Chaka, the king who PENSIONS! the white wheels of the Then Which he lifted the then suddenly stick I wagons. offer for near; died Baleka. Far sale for Zululand in at down away way back bed, and the shivering his crept to hit hard in his hand and her the man so on there is cleft the Ghost a upon mountain. LAW. THE DISABILITY BILL ISA gin, fortified with natives, fell or head that she down. After that he At the foot of that cleft lie the took Soldiers Since the War Entitled called locally, Disabled squareface, it is laughed, turned and with went are as away bones of Dingaan, the king who died for prices. drawing refuge the second his mother. a on wagon, dependent Dependent widows and Nada. parents now sail them. tent to I Presently mother. she went effects of over whose died from my sons army How old I? Nay, I know not. am “If the shall lose 1 wish included. If service raised and my herself from the ground ED. goes on sat snow you your are HOLMAN, Very, old. Had Chaka lived he SLAYTON. very prosecuted, claim speedilv successfully himself: “they and he said oxen,” to hands The with her her face. can over up old I. would have been [This as as JAMES TANNER, address bear this cold.” blood from the wound the stick had never have him would made nearly hundred a Pensions, Late Comiui sioner of Hardly had the words passed his lips made down her hands her breast, ran on old, rarely attained by years an age a C. Washington, D. shook; there when the with She and I wiped it wagon was a grass. away native. The writer remembers talking trampling sound of breaking reins and while child the sat for long while thus, a aged Zulu however, who to woman, an THE Once he looked forth. The hoofs. milked and I the lowed be cried, to more cow told him that she married when was had “skrecked” mob, running in wiped the blood with the oxen a RELIABLE grass. away DLD king.] Chaka None living was are find shelter from the cold. to hands and At last she took her awav away whom I knew when I boy. lam was a spoke to me. MEAT MARKET. old that I hasten. The must so grass son,” she said, “I have “Mopo, my winter Yes, withers and the comes. SLAYTON, MINN. while I speak the winter nips heart. my dreamed I dreamed dream. I that a ESTABLISHED 1882. Zulus people—for I the Before . were a he Chaka who struck the boy me; saw BEST We hand times the have all at beginning—l born will begin the on at was stalked giant. He like grown a found in was SUPPLY MEATS OF be to Langeni tribe. We of the not were a veldt, his the mountains and the of: Western Minnesota, consisting across all ablebodied large tribe. Afterward our lightning and in blazed like the MUTTON, eyes BEEF, numbered full regiment men one little assegai that his hand he shook a Veal, Lamb, in Chaka's [the full Zulu regiment army blood. He caught red with up was Fresh Pork, Lard, three would number between and two his handsand people after people in tore Shoulders Home cured Hams, probably Mopo’s tribe thousand men; with them; he stamped their kraals flat ESTABLISHED IN 1884. souls]; consisted of about nine thousand Breakfast Bacon. and Before him the of his feet. green was A. H. STEIFENHOFER, Now WECK, they but the brave. THOMPSON, C. F. Vice PafisnwJßC, J. K. P. President. are men were THE behind him the land black SOLD AT summer; was How all dead. That people is no more. DINEHART, CAsnufk C. E. the I when the have fires eaten PRICE. LOWEST as grass. it I will tell by and by. went Dealer in you people, Mopo; they saw our were many STATE Our tribe lived in beautiful All orders mail receive by OF SLAYTON, open prompt at a BANK and fat, their hearts laughed, the 0 sborne Harvesting men Machinery, The Boers, whom called country. tention. we brave, the fair; I girls counted were were and Paid Wool Cash Hides, Pelts, Then old told hijn the talc that for Amaboona, they tell the the there man now, are their children by hundreds. I saw Tallow. hfre. is set out My father, Makedama, chief was me. them again, Mopo. They bones, revealed were L. RIP PON, Prop. could be made Such search as kraal built the tribe, and his of on was OF ALL KINDS. white thousands bones, of bones tumbled had and their The nothing. oxen gone, the erest of hill; but I the not SLAYTON, MINNESOTA son a -was together in rocky place, and he, Chaka, a obliterated by the fresh fallen spoor was REAPERS, One when I of his chief wife. evening, MOWERS, RAKES, ETC. THE MURRAY CO. stood the bones and laughed till council over The white called man a snow. little, standing high still as a was as the earth shook. Then, Mopo, I “What saw Kaffir of his servants. to was Bank. Organized State I only, with elbow out went as a Maiket man s my Ne'vßelliabe Meat OPPOSITE You alone left BANK BLOCK, SLAYTON, you grown MINN. a man. were be done?” he asked. kraal mother below the cattle the to see of You people. behind the crept our up spoke, the driver Then Zulu who was a My mother driven in. fi@“Call him was very cows for the Best Bargains CAPITAL, $30,000, on and the giant Chaka, and with others, Best JAS. NICHOLSON, Prop., you came of the first wagon. and there fond of these one cows, was look. stabbed great of royal You men a the white “My father,” he said to Machines. follow her that would with white face a MINN. North Broadway, SLAYTON, him with little and he fell down a spear The “this is word: oxen are man, my carried little sister Baleka about. She BUSINESS, my BANKING A GENERAL and small he fell down and again; grew whither lost in the No knows snow. man her hip. Baleka riding was a on We have hand all times the prayed for But cried in his at on mercy. you whether they live they have gone, or the walked till baby then. We met we —the of Baleka, OF MEATS, BEST SUPPLY ear a name name your Yet hides and bones. at but or are now mother in the My lads driving cows. sister —and he died. Mopo, let Branches. GO All Its Transacted In TO us go and he pointed the kraal yonder,” to Consisting OB aMB ■ JI ■ * of M a a_.a a M home. the huts miles about two called the white faced and it on away some cow gave BEEF, LaMB, VEAL, MUTTON, So he turned and went home. Farmers’ The Headquarters witch doctor named hillside, “lives had brought mealie leaves which she a FRESH PORK, old—but he old—very Zweete. He is her. lads with with Then the went on LARD, HOME CURED HAMS, wisdom, and he tell where CHAPTER has 11. the the white faced cattle, but can you OoaiMtie Sold. Bought and cow and Foreign ■xchangs WHEN BREAKFAST BACON, YOU WANT father.” the if mother. She said that she Long lad Bheri Tima, stopped by Loaned oxen are any man may, my Honey on MORO TROUBLE. IS IN Sold the LOWEST PRICES. Flrst-cla*s Low Batsa. at Farm Loans Negotiated at would bring the kraal when she it to Now I tell how mother did must ~ my and Sold. Bought Orders and School Town, County “Still, Seeders, said the white “Stuff!” Drills, Orders All by Mail will Receive Prompt home. Harrows man. what the Chaka had told her, and came boy than this the kraal cannot be colder Attention. and My mother down the as sat died had grass quickly. For where his stick on will and ask Zweete. Cash Paid for Hides, Pelts, Wool and Commission, while around Sold nursed her I played and wagon, we go baby, Real Bought Estate struck her the forehead there came on on a later stood in the hut of Tollow. hour he An grazed. Presently her and the that would healed, and in cow we not be sore Wagons, Buggies, Road Carts, Pumps, him ancient Zweete. Before was a very walking toward the abscess, and the abscess across saw a woman us sore grew an of bones, with sightless bag walked like who is Insurance a mere the plain. She man, inward till the it to one ate came I CAN SELL hand —his left— with and eyes, one tired. On her back bundle McCORMICK brain. Then and mother fell down very was a my shriveled. white and she led by the hand boy of mats, and I died, and cried much, for I loved a very of Zweete, “What do seek my and you of about but bigger her. that poisoned After brothers age, own my my Placed In Beet Companies. REAPERS the asked the old in white father?” MOWERS. and man a We waited long while, than I. stronger the mind of and father against a my me of Europe. Steamship from all parts Tickets and to in “You do believe thin voice. not me and till last the to at he treated badly. Baleka and I But Low satm woman came up us and Promptly Remitted for Made at Collections me should I help you? and why wisdom; she my sank down the veldt, for loved each other, and she clung was to on me BOARD OF DIRECTORS: AND ALL KINDS OF against Yet I it is will do it, though your We by the her like the plain. to only tree in way very weary. saw a creeper a F. Larrabee, Wm. Larrabeb, O. P. Miller, C. F. Weck, Thompson, J, K. P. Yes, and ask law, do to you me. she of wrong hair dressed that not I that and our Now the witch finders was was Farm dVEaclb-imez?^ saw C. E. Dinehart. Dr. John Dennison, truth in Zulu show there is to - us you tribe. medicine in land, feared the llfe&iei men were J My father, I I will help doctors, 1 [I J . you. “Greeting said the looked you!” and that all people them, to to woman. up know know what seek. You seek to Come and look goods you and prices and be that I mother. convinced answered “Greeting!” that when they had only stick over my my so even w a have shelter for where oxen your run TERRY. “What do seek?” in their hands, ten with A. armed you men sell thing in line cold! Is it cheap the not cheapest. from the so?” you any my as as in,” said the hut sleep fly before them. Therefore “Food and to would a spears doctor,” “It is answered the white so, traveled far.” I “I have I determined that would be Monuments, Grave Stones, a woman. Peter “You have long ears.” Erickson, man. what is named, and witch doctor. So I learned the of “How arts are you TRACTS WILD. and father, I have long IMPROVED FARMS white “Yes, my mother. I made people?” asked the medicine sacrifices men. your my Grave Fences I deaf. I and yet they grow say ears, wife the learned much; for “My is Unandi; I and I there is -wisdom am name SLAYTON, MINNESOTA. - - I also, yet keen have cannot see eyes FOR SALE. Zulu tribe,” the of Senzaugacona, of in magic well lies. our as as Cheaper than traveling Send agent. Let Let hearken. face. any me Depot. your me Office Broadway the Cfir said till I the So things went twenty Time Long on near woman. on was Low Prices. and postal card I will call look.” me a on you. Now, By I had learned all there has been between of our war years age. now rocking awhile silent, to For he sat J. A. MAXWELL, people the Zulu people, and Senzangacona I myself, I and could learn of joined General Insurance. so myself “You have spoke: fro; then he and a had killed of warriors the chief medicine onto of some our man our FULDA, MINN. Pine Town, down white - farm, - man, near cattle. when and taken of So who named Noma. He tribe, our many was was And thought Ah! I is it not? an so. speech of Unandi mother heard the old, had only and my one eye was very Estate. Beal Loans Boer lives hour’s ride from farm your a money on dare she in “You to clever. Of him I learned, but last he at S., ST. & sprang up anger. L. P. IL P. right hand. only his fingers with four on and shelter, here and ask for food jealous of and to set trap come grew me a There kloof the Boer’s farm BLATTON,- is * ? on a cried; “begone, of dog Zulu!” she catch As it chanced, big of wife of a me. a a man There, in mimosa where trees. grow These Letters Initials whip I call girls neighboring tribe had lost cattle, will the to are the of the you or a some shall find kloof, the oxen—yes, your you country.” out of and with gifts to Noma praying New Wyoming Line came our through and NELSON, shall from here days’ journey HERMAN five you handsome, smell them Noma The who him to tried and out. Idaho Pacific Northwest. woman, was very to the all. I all, father, find them except say my finished her could his magic failed. Then waited till mother had not; the my black only—the big Africander three spoke words, then looked and headman and demanded grew angry angry up This line is composed of the Chicago, SLAYTON YARD. Zulu with the little red COAL ox ox, with slowly: “There by back Lis gifts, but Noma would give DEALER IN is not you St. a cow Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha and These speckled horn and the ox. one will which he had held. dropping udder; that The milk from its Union Pacific Railway, you and reaches once up more died in they have find, for shall not you gourd of that he would kill Far Western not give and boy headman said Noma; Cities than other line, even me my a any MERCHANDISE, find the and sltall Send the you GENERAL snow. follows: her that would milk?” and she took gourd from Noma said he bewitch the as a Ido I ask fee. not No, no! others. no Kailey, Boise J. DOAK, City, Lewiston, Moscow ID. bundle and held it toward headman. us. and principal Idaho points. reward. Why “1 will not,” said I said, for I feared blood wonders for should mother. “Peace,” that work my Walla Walla, Colfax, Farmington, I? lam rich.” “We thirsty with long travel; will would be shed. “Peace, and let are mo see Rockford, Spokane Falls nnd numerous BROADWAY, SOUTH then, give of water? snake will tell where the cattle the white scoffed. But not, if IN And DEALER you me now man us a cup my Washington points. We have found for hours.” in the end, great is the of are?” Baker City, none many Pendleton, Portland so power and “I will wife of dog; seek nothing boy,” superstition, he And here it not, “You but answered principal sent. Oregon points. Cement, Brick, ijJtone, a go water are a Coal, Lime, may MINN. SLAYTON, Ogden and yourself!” Salt Lake City, the largest have stated that eleventh day of his for the headman. “Can boy wisdom?” be the a - on - points in Utah. The woman’s filled with the kraal of Zweete those tears, sojourn at eyes San Francisco, Los Angeles and all California folded his but the boy his known,” I said, whom he returned with the “That shall be sent on arms oxen, soon Mt. Salt. points from Shasta San Wood and to breast and scowled. He the three only. After that he taking the bones in hand. except very was a my Diago. handsome boy, with bright black screamed scoffed Those eleven days he “Leave the bones alone!” ZM.OZE, eyes; more. no •W\ O. also this reaches Butte, And line Anaconda but when he scowled his like of the old Noma. “We will ask nothing of hut man’s kraal, in spent eyes were a more and other points in Montana. many Slayton, Minnesota. the sky before thunderstorm. he good of this of Depot. afternoon and talked snakes for the of Yard East and by this line that a Also accommodations came our son a note every “Mother,” he said, furnished in Pullman wanted sitting far into the night. “we not Family with him, are are IN DEALR Cars low Sleeping holders here than wanted at rates to On third day he asked Zweete how “He shall throw the bones,” answered the very any more we were tickets going second class Washington, of to yonder,” he nodded toward the hand and headman. “If that his left white and the him it try to stop was was you and California. Oregon ANDISE, people lived. where Zulu country the I -will let sunshine shriveled, and Umslopogaas, through with who MERC GENERAL you my were ready West, before When get ta you go Dingiswayo; the “Let be going to assegai.” and Nada, of whom he had let fall us some call deciding of agents route, on upon your Umtetwa i>eople will protect us.” I Then threw Then old told him the the bones; snake stood words. the man my &O. Ry., who will C., St. P. M. cheerfully “Yes; let said be going, son,” I knew nothing here. Or, in truth, of the cattle, tale that is set out man’s information us my furnish and about up. rates Unandi, the long; “but is but spirit rather Was with and I “Lake he acted than told his story. service the Superior, through we way are was my me, soon over car FREE. DELIVERED ORDERS VILLAGE shall & Union Pacific Line” and fall by the way.” them Paul all, him, St. and warrior question, he and told -where death of in too, the weary saw a pamphlets for and connections, I heard, and something pulled at his stick, showing the they stabbed with how or maps my were. T. Minn: W. TEASDALE, address heart. I for the and the Slayton, did where; the blow fell and story Block, Bank was sorry woman Opposite grow General Passenger Agent, [TO CONTINUED.] boy, they looked tired. Then, without DE groaned, sorrowful, he wept. so or even Paul, Minn St. saying anything mother, I snatched to voices, he had for Moreover, my many one