The Belton Evening News. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 1907 Page: 2 of 4
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YOUNG BRIDE RISKS
LIFE FOR HUSBAND.
MRS. PETRA LIEN RIDES THREE
MILES IN NIGHT ROBE TO
SUMMON AID.
BITTER COLD HAS NO TERROR
Woman First Carries Injured Man
from Burning Home—Is Now
Near Death Because of Her
Awful Experience.
Harrold, S. D.—South Dakota’s new
heroine is Mrs. Petra Lien, the bravest
girl in the west, who is hovering be-
tween life and death at the home of
‘her sister, Mrs. John Eiseman of this
place, and the title of heroine will re-
main with her whether she lives or
dies.
Petra Peterson, aged 23, married
Andrew H. Lien three months ago, and
their honeymoon was scarcely over
when the tragedy occurred. They
lived on a farm ten miles south of this
town and their home was a favorite
place for the young people of the com-
iinunity to gather. When the young
couple retired a few nights ago, the
fire in the sitting room above was
j quite low. About midnight the hus-
band arose to look after it. Fearing
it would go out he threw in some kero-
|sene, or possibly, as some of the
i neighbors think, gasoline. An explos-
ion followed, enveloping the man in
flames. He was - terribly burned, his
thin attire being consumed instantly.
His screams brought his young wife
from her bed. -
With a skirt which she had grabbed
jas she ran, she fought the flames and
(managed to drag her husbtand from
| their midst. The whole room was1**
ablaze and she realized the useless-
ness of trying to extinguish the fast
growing fire. ’
Although mtr6h smaller than her
sturdy husband, she practically car-
ried him, herself, barefoot, through the
,snow to the barn. She laid his quiver-
ling form in a pile of hay and returned
to the house for clothing. The whole
building was in flames. She could
neither enter to get wearing apparel
|nor to telephone to neighbors. She
knew she must, herself, go for aid.
Returning to the barn the brave
-yowtig bride took the scorched skirt
with which she had fought the flames,
and wrapping it about her now semi-
conscious husband, prepared for the
'terrible ordeal of riding through snow
and bitter cold wind, almost nude. A
ibridle was hastily put on their fleetest
horse, but no saddle, the wife realiz-
ing that the warm body of the animal
jmust be relied upon to supply needed
heat to keep her own tender flesh
(from freezing. And so she began the
notable ride which will be related for
years to come to the children of this
community and state.
Through the dark, moonless night
she urged her horse, her stiffening
fingers and limbs from the biting cold
being forgotten in the mental anxiety
for her suffering husband. The thin
night gown offered but meager protec-
tion from the near-zero weather and
the snow flung from the hoofs of the
running horse struck her continually.
But she conquered, where failure
would have been more logical. Three
miles were traversed and a wail from
the freezing wife brought quick re-
sponse from neighbors. When helped
from her horse she seemed on the
verge of collapse, but rallied quickly
and insisted upon going back to her
She Rode at Furious Pace for a
Doctor.
husband at once. She would wait for
nothing but to be hurriedly dressed in
clothing of her neighbor, and then
astride her panting horse she again
covered the three miles at top speed.
Friends came and medical aid. All
effort to save the life of Mr. Lien was
futile, however, and he died at day-
break, in the barn where his young
wife had placed him. Knowledge of
his death was the signal for Mrs. Lien
to collapse and she was taken to the
home of a friend.
Burned and frozen and suffering
from nervous shock the bereaved
bride is still in a precarious state at
her sister’s home here. Her hands
and face were scorched terribly by the
fire. Their home and all its contents
were destroyed. The funeral of Mr.
Lien was^one of the largest ever held
in this (Hughes) county.
FIREMAN FLEES FROM
GRAVEYARD GHOSTS
ALONE IN A CEMETERY AT MID-
NIGHT HE SEES WEIRD SPEC-
I TERS AND RUNS AWAY.
/ St. Louis.—Lost for an hour among
the tombstones of Calvary cemetery
at midnight, fleeing till out of breath
from mysterious white figures that
The Ghosts Appeared on Every Side.
seemed to rise up from among the
graves, William Carpenter, a fireman,
had an experience which he hopes will
never be repeated. ,,
Members of his fire company, still
talking, about Carpenter’s experience,
look on the whole affair as a joke. He
is nqt quite convinced that the white-
garbed figures were not ghosts.
Late at night, about half-past ten
©"clock, the Baden firemen were arous-
ed by an alarm turned in from a box
at Calvary and Florissant avenues.
Their shortest route to the fire was
through Calvary cemetery. At the
big iron gates on the Broadway side
of the cemetery Capt. Ammon and
Fireman Carpenter left the hose reel.
Ammon opened the gates and then
sprang to his post on the wagon. Car-
penter was left behind to close the
gates after the engine.
When he had closed the gates the
hose reel and engine were a hundred
feet ahead of him, dashing rapidly up
the hill. Carpenter ran after the
wagon, shouting loudly.
He saw the lights of the engine dis-
appear in the distance and started to
find his way out of the cemetery.
“I kept oh running,” he said to a re-
porter, in telling of his experience,
“wishing every minute I could get out.
“All around me were white tomb-
stones. I heard a noise in another di-
rection and then I saw a white thing.
It seemed to rise out of the ground.
My hair went up, too, I think.
“Then I did run. I’ll admit I was
dead afraid. I just wanted to get out,
of that place of horrors. I think I
prayed. I was damp all over with a
cold, clammy sort of sweat.”
Carpenter wiped his forehead with
his handkerchief in memory of the
event before he went on.
“I thought all the time that I was
heading for Calvary avenue. After
a time I saw the light of a street car
in the distance and it sort of kept me
company. I followed the light, and
the next thing I knew I had stumbled
and fallen, and there looking at me
was another white thing. It wasn’t
as bad as the first, though. I was
getting used to the spooks a little.
“I got up again and ran until I came
to a barb wire fence. I got over the
fence without a scratch, and found I
was in Walnut Park, north of the
cemetery.
“A policeman told me where I was,
and how to get back to the engine-
house. He said we had made a run
on a false alarm. I had been in the
cemetery an hour.”
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From stereograph, copyrlgnt, by Underwood St Underwood, X. V,
Magnificent lion recently presented to the New York Zoological Gardens
by Andrew Carnegie's little daughter. It was stuffed and mounted in the New
York Museum of Natural History.
A MASTODON ON ICE.
PREHISTORIC MONSTER, PRE-
SERVED INTACT, FOUND.
Will Be Taken from Resting Place in
Alaska to Yukon Exposition at
Seattle—Big Beast to Look
as if Alive.
Seattle, Waall^-When warra- weath-
er comes again a party of men with
well-developed domes of thought is go-
ing to take out of cold storage the
largest and the oldest piece of meat
ever preserved in this manner. They
will be strengthened for their work by
roasts from this wonderful bit of cold-
storage preservation, and will bring
back to civilization enough to prove
the almost unbelievable stories they
will tell.- )
The particular piece of meat, which
is to be taken out of cold storage
shortly after the robins’ nest again, is
a mastodon, which was discovered in-
cased in ice in the Cleary creek region
pf Alaska late last summer. The prop-
osition is to induce this monster to
yield up its hide, hair and bones for
exhibition at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific
exposition, to , be held at Seattle,
Wash., year after nextr "•-------------
The flesh will be eaten, as it is not
considered practicable to preserve it
, with embalming fluid by the process
practiced during the late unpleasant-
ness with Spain in the case of roast
beef prepared for the fighting men.
Skeletons of the mastodon have been
reconstructed from scattered bones
and exhibited at former fairs, but no
exposition has had the big beast just
as he looked when alive.
The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition
will be held primarily for the exploita-
tion of Alaska.
! Late last summer, while President
■J. E. Chilberg of the exposition was at
Nome word was brought in that a com-
plete specimen of a mammoth incased
in ice had been discovered by W._ E.
Thomas on Cleary creek.
Mr. Chilberg investigated, and learn-
ed that the specimen was practically
perfect, the flesh and hide being intact
except in one small place, which the
melting ice had exposed, where some
animal had eaten away a portion of
the flesh.
Aside from the small hole in its
back, the animal was in excellent
shape. It is probably the finest ex-
ample of the preservative powers of
cold storage extant, for the animal got
caught long before people knew even
how to keep ice during the summer
months.
President Chilberg learned also that
■the mastodon could be removed from
(the ice, preserved and shipped to Se-
attle at comparatively small cost.
I It was too late then to send a crew
of men to preserve the specimen, but
there was present the consolation that
the approaching cold weather would
freeze it solidly and no harm could
come to it until next summer.
Early next season Prof. Trevor Kin-
caid, the zoologist of the University of
Washington, will be sent into the in-
terior of the northland to save every
particle of the creature possible. The
job of preserving the monster will be
a big one for some taxidermist.
PUT PONIES ON SNOW SHOES.
Novel Experiment on Mountain Trail
a Complete Success.
Granite, Ore.—To Elmer Thornburg
and J. W. Tabor of this place proba-
bly belongs the distinction of being
the first parties to travel over the
deep snows of the Blue mountains
with horses equipped \?ith snowshoes.
Their first venture in this way of trav-
eling was so successful that hereafter
for such trips they will use horses in-
stead of carrying heavy packs on
their backs.
The trip was to the Ben Harrison
mine, about 15 miles from this place,
in the Greenhorn mountains. The road
for six or seven miles this side of the
mine is buried under several feet of
snow. Packing mine supplies and pro-
visions over this snow on snowshoes
is a difficult proposition, and it was'
to avoid this that the experiment was
made with horses on shoes. The
horses used were two black ponies
by—..They
weigh between 600 and 700 pounds.
The snowshoes were made of board|,
!i2 inches square, one of these being
firmly clamped to each foot of the
ponies.
Thus fitted, the ponies were able to
walk over the snow eight feet deep
with perfect ease. They were hitched
to a beef hide, in w’hich had been
sewed 500 pounds of mine supplies
and provisions, and this was dragged
behind the team.
28 PITTSBURGERS “SQUARE.”
The Smithsonian Institute.
Mr. Charles D. Walcott, the new secretary of the Smithsonian institute
at Washington has announced that a fresh departure in research work has
been made possible by the gift of private funds which are to be applied to
particular investigations.
Chamber of Commerce Starts Hunt
Because City Is Called Sodom.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Every prominent and
wealthy man in Pittsburg is going
around with a worried look. Fear that
his name will not appear in the list of
“the righteous” selected by the Pitts-
burg chamber of commerce for its vir-
tue banquet is the cause.
Some time ago ja newspaper in a lit-
tle town in Iowa) -declared in an edi-
torial that if Pittsburg had been in ex-
istence in the days of Sodom and
Gomorrah, the city would have been
destroyed long before those ancient
cities. The paper went on to quote
from the eighteenth chapter of the
book of Genesis, twenty-sixth verse,
which says:
“And the Lord said, ‘If I find in
Sodom 50 righteous within the city,
then I will spare all the place for their
sake.’ ”
The paper went on to tell how Abra-
ham was unable to find the 50 right-
eous.
The Iowa paper remarked that Pitts-
burg could not produce even half a
dozen men who wbuld pass muster.
This statement “riled” the chamber
of commerce. They had an indigna-
tion meeting at which it was decided
they would show the world, at their
annual banquet, just how long the city
is on righteous men. The banquet
committee was authorized to select
the list. They have been working on
it ever since. They announce they
have found 28 men who will pass mus-
ter.
Growing Old.
It is ten p. m. They are seated in
the parlor. “No,” she says, bowing
her head: “Pa says I am too young
to become engaged.” It is just 1:30
a. m. They are still seated in the
parlor. Suddenly, from somewhere
upstairs, a gruff voice shouts. “Hen-
rietta, if that fellow waits a little
longer you’ll be old enough to accept
his proposal!”—Woman’s Home Com-
panion.
PROTECTION OF CHILD LIFE.
Congress for This Purpose to Be Held
in Brussels Next Fall.
Washington.—The department of
state has received from the Belgian
minister announcement of the second
international congress of “gcuttes de
lait” (protection of child life), which
will he held at Brussels from Sept 12
to 16, 1907.
This congress is to be held in ac-
cordance with resolutions passed at
the general meeting of the first con-
gress of “gouttes de lait” at Paris in
1905. There will be two sections. The
first will be concerned with philan-
thropic and social questions, the sec-
ond with the scientific problems of in-
fant hygiene. The congress will con-
sist of Belgian and foreign members
who have subscribed beforehand the
sum of 20 francs ($3.96. Any institu-
tion for the protection of child life
may be represented by a delegate in
whose name the subscription should
be paid.
An exhibition of infant hygiene will
be organized and opened during the
congress.
An Appropriate Name,
“But why do you call your dog
Thirteen?”
“Don’t you see he’s lame?”
“Yes; but what hgjs that to do with
it?”
“Why, he puts down three and car-
ries ene, doesn’t he?”
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Scott, J. M. The Belton Evening News. (Belton, Tex.), Vol. 23, No. 193, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 1907, newspaper, April 24, 1907; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth845438/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lena Armstrong Public Library.