Slayton gazette (Slayton, Minn.) 1883-1893
June 9, 1892 · Page 1 of 4
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GAZETTE THE till A. HUXTABLE, walk I said that would along J. so we vision said the that had and mother my Now happened. something we grew He beginning to true. seen were come General Contractor and Carpenter, and and weariness, faint with hunger had taken the place of his father, Senzangacona. down Baleka said that had better sit we Now I how remembered 9. SLAYTON. THURSDAY, JUNE SLAYTON, MINN. and die, for there would be then no this Chaka promised that he would make Es tfmates work in trouble. down by ail line cheerfully So sat on my a more we and I thought great, in myself that me furnished. I wish die yet, But did spring. not to JAMES RUANE, Editor. I would arise and him. Perhaps to go would though Baleka right, and it was he would kill well, what did it matter? me; P. HALL, WM, have •well do sat, the been to As so. we I should I certainly be killed if Koos bush that dog went to was near, a Contractor and Builder, Yes, staid here. I would But now go. him spring I heard and presently at heart pulled There another my way. struggling. and the sound of something SLAYTON, MINN. but thing I loved that in the NARA* was one t aught hold I the bush; he had to ran work Estimates all in cheerfully line world —it Baleka. My sister my on was my big himself, that buck, of duiker a as as furnished. father had betrothed her the chief of to in it. Then 1 asleep drove my spear was I neighboring tribe, but knew that this a JUST into the buck and shouted for joy, for RECEIVED marriage against her wish. Perhaps was here food. AJ LIL-O-Lj -Ll'erything -was J-J in of the line sister I would with if my run me away I skinned When the buck dead Material, Building at was could her tell her that I get to was near WHOLESALE PRICES. him, and took the flesh, LOWEST bits of we going. I I would would try. try—yes, specialty of selling We make direct to them in and them, washed the water ate a I the down, waited till darkness Consumers, and give particular attention came Ik. 1 fire them with. for to cook Alliance believe we no trade. We to we save can then I kraal. I went till to the on came Write for prices. It but nice uncooked flesh, is not to eat money. you Tillotson & Son and pub [Copyright, by Some 1892, of people seated outside were my UNION LUMBER CO., hungry that did not with them.] we were so we special A lished by arrangement LARGE STOCK OF I hut, together of talking fire. over a a MINNESOTA. WINONA, hid silently snake and crept back mind, and strength to as a near us came behind little bush. I knew that they Wells. Wells. had the food. When eaten from a we [continued.] could outside the ring of the not and washed TARBOX what could & SCHLICK’S see me ourselves we rose we hear firelight, I wanted what and to washed and EDWARD McMAHON, pleased, spring; but Now the much at the as we was man they I said. As thought, they of fear. good, and he magic Baleka looked and that if said were cry was gave a up my SLAYTON. MINN. talking called of and - the hill, about - gift should be of cattle, the For there, the crest found the me mo many on (4) will wells I drill bore from four ill They said I should bring of or party aud given to throws Noma taken from names. ten were a me. away, spear in width, depth inches three (3) feet to luck by having killed any the tribe people of It and these big six armed Noma so on men was angry. a men, very was desired. Satisfaction guaranteed. witch doctor Noma, also that great father of —children cattle, and if they found tribe of herd a as Iny my were own people of the headman would demand the take still pursued to all would —who I had said, then Makedama where us men ADAMS HOUSE. FINE SHOES the him. payment for assault raised Now they wizard. the slay They hold the greater on us; saw us or us. me • • I learned, that father had We too light he that the first shout and began to headman said at moreover, my run. a W. FRENCH, Prop., S. ordered all the of the tribe out to with the spot where and would to men my ran. go me sprang up hunt the and kill for to and cattle Before the ground snake said the me on morrow, was open SLAYTON, MINNESOTA. were. us - 1 wherever they found “Ah!” the White the banks of I, into hut and lay down sloped down to went me me. too, my Given Special Attention Comfort the to will thought, hunt, but “you We for the river. After I awoke, Umfolozi. sleep. Suddenly feeling you may to ran a of Guests. bring nothing home the pot.” Just FOR LADIES to neared AND GENTS. warriors. Now I tried weight breast. to start the we upon my came us dog that lying the fire then by got and full pricked it but something cold banks of the river; the a was my was up, MOE, THOS. aud began sniff I could to the air. angrily, throat I fell back again and looked. wide. Above the waters up ran us what dog it was—indeed I had not they white where Hanger, The the hut swirls of Painter and Paper door of The breaking into see was open. I drew forgotten .all the dogs when about sunken rocks; below low sky, like ball of passed lay the was a over moon on a MINN. SLAYTON, kraal; the that is what of through could it near in which might live; between I comes rapid, fire far see none away. Gents’ Hats experience, want of father. The kinds into the Stisfaction guaranteed in all of crept' where light my the two deep pool, the its the door, and a Finishing, dog sniffed and sniffed, then he began Hard Wood Graining, Painting, Noma, the the face of quiet but the strong. hut. fell stream It water upon was Calsomining Painting, Carriage Sign and growl, looking always to and I He seated brother, shall do?” what my way, “Ah! witch doctor. across me, was we my and Paper Hanging. afraid. with his and in grew Baleka. gasped glaring at me one eye, “What is the growling dog at?” said It which knife. that hand is this choose,” 1 answered, “There his to was a was to another. “Go and see.” of throat. FRANK TERRY. all styles. felt prick one people WM. FORSAITII. had man “perish the of I my spears our or on But the other taking snuff and FORSAITH &. TERRY, bred “You whelp, whom I have to was river.” man the try up, did not like “Let the dog to “You me!” he hissed into iron,” move. go die by than “Easier to water tear ear. my on PROPRIETORS OF and for himself,” he answered, failed, did you?” divine I see dared to where sneez- answered. she The City Livery, the knife under he began in “Now snakes and driving I said. “Good!” our may dog ing; good of keeping “what is the a chin. and tire spirits of toward look our us my SLAYTON, MINN. if have catch the thief?” “Go to on, you said. “Have I “Mercy, uncle!” with At the least fathers us! be we can my the and then,” said the first to dog, Special Traveling attention given the to man will!” whatever led her of the and I will do I the head swim.” And to MEN’S AND BOYS’ you mercy, Public. he forward, barking. Then I saw ran still this?” he asked, “Will do pool. We threw everything you away except him; it dog, Koos, very a was my own knife. “Will pricking with the assegai—which I held in you my me an lay knowing good dog. Presently, I not as ENDERSBE BROS., cattle and drive dog's find the plungedin, get wading and swimming, tt-eth—and up, go smell, what he smelled to do, my hide them place and certain them the dog Koos leading the to SALE LIVERY, FEED AND a way. around stopped barking, and running valley he named secret there?” and appeared Then it that the soldiers a was lick the bush he found and began to CLOTHING me STABLE. few. “If that known to bank. “Ah! little people,” the very you was upon face. quiet, Koos,” I whispered “Be « my - and give do that I will Well, cried, swim, do .MINN. you? SLAYTON, “you you spare you one lay him, and he down by - to my play If refuse the three of will drown; and if do not you or First Rigs Reasonable Rates. cows. Class you you at side. I father's spirit, by will Solicited, false, then, know ford, and drown Your Patronage my me a we we said “Where has that dog now?” gone kill you!” will find to And he hurled kill you.” catch and a way you first “Is he bewitched, that the man. uncle,” I will do it, “Certainly I fell between after which asseagi my us, an he barking does suddenly and not stops PENSIONS! did “Why not trust answered. you me us. back?” Which I come offer for sale at down that wanted I known before? Had you could Now hard, for way we swam we “We will see,” the other, rising, said LAW. BILL IS A THE DISABILITY cattle I would have keep the to this: If never well. It just swim was we his in hand. a spear I did fearing only smelled them Entitied out. Soldiers Disabled Since the War so, could reach the bank before into got are we afraid, Now I terribly prices. was once more presents.” lest should lose the if rapids safe; not, thengood you the dependent widows we were Dependent and for I thought that they would catch parents now me thought,” I “You wicked not as strained, struggled. so We are night! effects of died whose from we I for life again. But army must sons as or my run “Get then, and do he growled. wish my service included. If up, and she Baleka brave girl, your swam are you was a I big black snake to sprang up run a ED. HOLMAN, here be back in prosecuted, SLAYTON. bidding. You two speedily successful!}- claim and can pushed her down bravely; the but water off glided between the and went men TANNER, JAMES address hours after dawn.” could do nothing and 1 to below aside me, toward the huts. They jumped in ft- Pensions, thinking all the while if I Commissioner of So I Late got rock the up, help her. I foot got upon my fright, then all follow turned to great a D. C. Washington, I spring him. But should try to was on There and looked around. she and was, this the snake, saying that what was had the knife; also, and he without arms, her the broken eight from water paces the dog barking at. was and killed prevailed if perchance I had back. But the I could THE boiled. not go When they had I off the crept gone that I him would have thought it been barking, dog Koos He to her swam saw. followed At other and Koos RELIABLE )LI) me. way, should have murdered him, and I had for the then turned around heading I would kill him, first I thought that So I made another assegai. tasted the tail him by the She grasped shore. I lest betray when he should but me; MARKET. MEAT She struck hand. too with her right the called him knock him to to the cattle in and find plan. I would on me go left hand, and with her feet and her SLAYTON, MINN. out So I thought I head I could do it. not I had smelt them out, valley where the Then slowly, drew slowly, ESTABLISHED near. very 1882. would take chance, and went the secret bring them to but I would not my we on assegai handle of I stretched the out my BEST together. This First the hand all times We have No, would drive them at hiding place. I was my purpose: on with her caught it toward her. She found in MEATS SUPPLY OF be hut and get to into to and denounce the kraal my straight to my own creep pulled, I pulled and Koos left of: hand. consisting Western Minnesota, blanket, then gain assegais and skin to father, and Noma before the chief, my the bank, and brought her and to MUTTON, BEEF, reed we I the speech with Baleka. to in all I the people. But came was young fell gasping. she there huts. Nobody Veal, the Lamb, fence that surrounded the not know all those days, and did soldiers the other Now when the on which be the gate, to at Pork, Lard, Fresh heart of Noma. was seen they had crossed, bank that we shut with usual. That saw not thorns Noma Shoulders I the of hut, cured went to as Home Hams, was corner my then threats snouted at us, ran away and not been 1 had duty, there took while, and was my all the watching ESTABLISHED a and Breakfast Bacon. IN 1884. me down the bank. lie down So, bidding the dog do it. to A. H. STEIFENHOFEH, I small shield. Then kerrie and a J. K. THOMPSON, C, F. WECK, P. Pbesident. Vice President, THE SOLD AT I “they have “Arise, Baleka,” said; through boldly, stepped nntfddo, I came moonlight. through the started ford.” PRICE. to seek LOWEST DINEHART, CashieL C. E. to the door hut listened. It gone a of and traveled swiftly hour I For my over an Dealer in “Ah, let die!” she answered. there breath me empty; not hillside plain, till I to the the was was even a came Ail orders by mail receive at prompt STATE SLAYTON, But I forced her rise, and walked to BANK OF be heard. I Osborne to So in and began to we crept began. last I found Harvesting bush At where the Machinery, tention. till last far large at search for assegais, water gourd on away, we saw’ a buffalo path I sought, and and little Pelts, Wool the my my Cash Paid Hides. for kraal. and wood pillow. Tallow. Presently I turned along it. to my came an Prop. “Keep heart,” said. is RIPPON, Now 1 “See. there L. kraal the of the chief, father, where the moonlight crept place my open OF ALL kraal Chaka.” KINDS. the of Makedama, hundred two knelt and I down the in between was paces trees. SLAYTON, MINNESOTA. Presently path that and there I for to must there we a ran had lied came looked. Yes! snake not to away, go, my REAPERS, CO. MOWERS, ETC THE MURRAY RAKES, kraal the ford the Umfolozi. the from of to Baleka slept. Also I dared not enter by of the cattle! the there me; was spoor We followed till the path at the gate, because always till I reached gladly Then I man went a was on a on Market Organized State Bank. Ne’vßelliabe Meat as a half hour’s last but journey OPPOSITE guard there. So I BANK through BLOCK, cut SLAYTON, were softly. we an MINN. through which the water dell my way ran back, from the kraal. Then looked the reed fence with assegai and wo of the cattle broad; Here the trail my was O“Call him JAS. NICHOLSON, Prop., for the Best Bargains there behind the and lo! and the Best CAPITAL, $30,000, the hut where Baleka with on crept to pursuers. us w’ere ferns had broken down the with they was Again they gained but of her half sisters. I knew what upon we ran, their feet and trampled the flat. some on grass Machines. SLAYTON, MINN. North Broadway, 1 thought of the Then side of the hut it her custom to lie once more us. Presently I pool. I knew it— to was came a BUSINESS, BANKING w’hat A GENERAL dog. I called him and told him to and where her head would be. I lay So pool snake shown it the had my me. was We have hand all the times at and flew tow’ard do. He understood, on down side and gently, I stepped forward and looked round. on my very gently, OF MEATS, BEST SUPPLY tried kill him growling. They them to began bore hole in the to My caught something; it the a grass was eye kerries, and but he jumped with covering of the hut. Almost I it All Branchea. Transacted In Its GO spears TO light of the dawn glinting faint gave on gray Consisting of biting at them and kept around them, thinking I would alone, that fly cattle’s horns. the over, VEAL, LaMB, BEEF, MUTTON, hit last him, them back. At and when suddenly I heard girl wake and a man The Then I collected them and drove them Farmers’ Headquarters a FRESH PORK, seized and the by the he begin other side to the of the man up before down the sprang path back cry on me narrow HAMS, LARD, HOME CURED There he clung, and dog throat. thatch. “Ah,” I thought, “that is Baleka, man toward the kraal. Now the daylight PomMtic Bought andPoreigu Kxchaug* and Sold. BACON, BREAKFAST and together, till the rolling who for her brother!” So 1 over WHEN over quickly, and the had YOU been WANT weeps came sun up Long gad Tim ihort Loaned Monty m that they both died Sold LOWEST PRICES. end of it together. the at lips where the thatch put thinnest was I hour when reached the spot where my was Flrtl-claM Negotiated Low Bates. Farm Loam at an and Order* Bought County and Prompt Town, School BST’AII Orders by Mail will Receive and whispered: I should turn if I wished hide the to cattle Seeders, Drills, Harrows Attention. hundred “Baleka, sister! Baleka, Meanwhile but three do not in the place, Noma had secret bid we were my as Wool and the kraaL Cash Paid Hides, Pelts, weep! I, Mopo, here. from the of for Say gate not But this I No, I would do. not am a paces me. Bought and Sold Commission, Real Estate on 'follow. word, but hut, “Run Baleka, on!” I said, rise. Come of the out would kraal to the with them, and run on, go on Now Buggies, bringing behind. she staggered Wagons, skin blanket.” dropping all Road tell that Noma Carts, Pumps, thief. your men was a kraal. I down Baleka understood, and after awhile toward the sat get to Still, I down sat and rested awhile, for on Insurance I CAN SELL I about from the hut. breath again, for to fight crept I tired. I I As heard noise w’as sat, my was a McCORMICK “Why here?” she whispered four looked There, and the slope of are you men. up. over “Surely will killed!” The running, and met. be two two, the rise, crowd of and leading as we you men were came a men, Beet Companies. “Hush!” throw between Placed In the I said. “Will with with the length of them Noma, and by his side a spear you come REAPERS was MOWERS. and Steamship Tickets to and from all parts of Europe. pair will back into the hut them. But of the first five the headman who owned the cattle. I one me, you was or creep Collections Made and Promptly Remitted Low rata for at and bid front of the other. This farewell?” six in stood still wondering, but I stood me or paces as BOARD OF DIRECTORS: She and charged thought awhile, said, shouted loud then she out they AND toward shouting ALL KINDS OF and man me, ran me, waving Wm. Larrabee, J, K. P. Thompson, F, Larrabee, O. P. Miller, C. F. Weck, waiting “No, 1 stood for brother, I will though I shield and sticks and my come, spear up. spears. JETamzcL Dr. John Dennison, C, dVEadtLiner’y. believe that him back the to stab E. Dinehart. this will be the till he drew end of it— “There he is!” spear Noma. screamed “There H■ TH t w’** |[ H I if that will lead suddenly 1 dropped to Then to death.” he is!—the clever boy my whom I have you me my me. with all So slipped upward together, followed knees and thrust brought to bring shame we away my up on me. Come look and goods and prices and be convinced that I over my of his shield; by the dog Koos, rim and running strength beneath the w What did I tell you? Did I tell soon were not you TERRY. A. his toward the of he also thrust, but the Zulu and country tribe. that he thief? Yes—yes! over me, I know sell was thing a in line cheap the cheapest. you any my as as of shoulder. the skin only cutting tricks, Mopo, child! my See! he spear is your my Monuments, Gravestones, Ah! it And assegai? CHAPTER LV. stealing the cattle!” And he ran my made Peter a Erickson, middle. He his through and through TRACTS WILD with his rush IMPROVED FARMS and at stick lifted, and after THE FLIGHT MOPO me OF AND BALEKA. Grave Fences the plain. I rolled and him the headman, on grunting over over came of weaponless, the haft for SLAYTON, MINNESOTA. with my was now rage. FOR SALS. - - Cheaper than traveling Send agent. any throwing light spear—it but I understood, father. My assegai—broke heart was a my Low Tims Long postal card and I will call Prices. Broadway the Depot. but yon. leaving nothing me a on in two, on near mad in Everything went began to me. J. A. MAXWELL, And hand. little bit of stick in swim round; red cloth my seemed to lift a a General Insurance. looked tall He the other me! itself and down before was on I one up FULDA, MINN. my eyes. - - above tree have always it me. thus when I as a seen was hands and knees and 1 fell onto forced to fight. I my screamed out one Real Estate. My body Loans sideways. flung myself word only—“Liar!”—and over rushed money on to meet ST. L. S., P. & U. P. stab legs of the about to struck the him. Ou Noma. man He struck at came beneath him. gmnf his feet from SLAYTON, lifting with his kerrie, r , but I me, caught the . • . . . me heavily. Before he had Down he These Letters Initials blow little shield came and back. hit the are the of upon my His I off it. ground touched the Wow! I did hit! The was New skull Noma Wyoming of Line through and his hand. I stooped, had fallen from HERMAN NELSON, kerrie, met and down he fell, dead spear Idaho Northwest. Pacific my to the stabbed it, and he I him seized I feet. yelled rose at again and as rushed my shake the of through the back. In a the headman. He at threw on an assegai, This line is composed the of Chicago, I for Then leaf he also dead. but it missed was ran, and next second 1 me, St. & Minneapolis and IN SLAYTON COAL Paul, Omaha DEALER YARD. hundred valor About hit him too. He a got his shield, I my was gone. but Union Pacific Railway, and reaches up more staggering Baleka from knocked it down his head, and paces me was Far Western Cities than other line, upon any MERCHANDISE, GENERAL caught her she along. By the time 1 he follows: rolled senseless. Whether he over as City, Boise forty the of Kailey, Lewiston, from gate Moscow lived died I know but his head was some paces not, or cr. K. ldclaik:, and principal Idaho points. left the kraal. But then her being of the thickest powers I think it likely Colfax, Farmington, Walla Walla, she fell Yes! her altogether. there that he lived. Then, while the people Rockford, Spokane Falls nnd numerous and I stood her. And there, senseless, by stood astonished, I turned and BROADWAY, SOUTH ran. Shouted out loud and charged Washington points. me. I slain had not should have been too, DEALER They turned, IN and too, after and me. Pendleton, Portland ran Baker City, All the of journeyed, rest that night we this chanced, for the other two But of them could men, and catch points. principal Oregon none me, till the tired. Then dog even was having by their dead MINN. staid instant SLAYTON, I Lake City, the presently Ogden and largest Coal, Lime, Brick, out of sight and alone. one Salt Stone, Cement, was hid mealie field in for day, - - we a a as we mad with fellows, against Utah. points in me came on afraid of being Toward the were seen. Angeles California San Los and all Francisco, For that the of wrath. at moment gate CHAPTER ILL afternoon heard voices, and looking Shasta Mt. San we points from to kraal through it the opened, and came a through the mealies the stems of Wood MOPO VENTURES HOME. Diago. Salt. and we saw dragging by the of soldiers party a man reaches Butte, Anaconda also this line I threw myself of father’s searching And •W. down the and party MOE,. O. a men pass my on grass walked After them great a man, arms. points in Montana. and other panted till for They went strength back; to neighboring then many my us. on a came shoulders skin his who leopard wore a on accommodations this line that by Also note I went and hid in kraal ask had if been patch of reeds to down a we seen, ** with him laughing, and of Depot. and Yard East Slayton, Minnesota. Pullman Family furnished was in are by All day and after that them long I lay there for a swamp. we saw no more councilors, and six ringed holders five DEALR IN low Sleeping Cars rates to were or at very thinking. What I awhile. At night traveled to do? Now I again, was we Washington, going of second class tickets to them again of after company came a jackal without fate would have it, but, hole. If I met went was a as we California. a were and Oregon warriors. GENERAL MERCHANDISE, back people, to certainly by old who looked they would oddly West, before at ready my When an woman, ta get go you killing The soldiers that was go- saw kill call of whom they said nothing. After thought but thief. that deciding agents route, ‘A me, on us we your a upon who will Ry., cheerfully &O. C., St. P. M. My blood would be given and night, for pushed day for knew Noma’s, ing slayers and just the on we on as ran up information about and furnish rates and that I did that the would not wish, though old tell the reached woman my pursuers us. “Lake Superior, the through service over heart sad. car Then there if she met them; and indeed into it “Who cried, “who dare was you?” they L so came are VILLAGE ORDERS DELIVERED FREE. Pacific Line” and & Union Paul St. - mind the thought turned of Chaka, the boy out. I kill of the Elephant’s to the gate my at and pamphlets for connections, maps or I whom had given But to the I doubtful of water whether kraal? alone!” Here Elephant kills the now was cup we TEASDALE, T. W. address Minn: Opposite Bank long would Chaka, Block, Slayton, to for after what ago. go Agent, General Passenger yve heard had I had of him; I continued.] his afraid lest he should [to Minn Paul, St. seen name was grew be kill land. The Still known in the he had had words nowhere to turn, us, we PAGE defective