Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 10, 1881, Page 7

THE MAHA PUBLISHING 00., PROPRIE TORS 916 Farnnam, bet. Oth and (0th Streets. TERMS OF SUBSCH:PTION One copy 1 year, in advance (p stpaid) 8 months “ d 8 mon RAILWAY TIME TABLE, Leave Omaha—No. 2 through passenger, 11 o m. No, 8, Onkland passenger, 8:300. m, Arrive Omaha—No. 1, through ‘passcniger, 2:50 m, No, 8, Oakland passenger, 5:30 p, . LRAYVING OMAIHA EAST OR BOUTH BOUND, C., B & Q. 5a m.—3:40 p. m. C'& N, W., 6a m—340 p. m RI &P, 0. & . . 8:40 p, m. B., leaves at 8a.m. o d €:30 0. m, and 5:52 P. . Arrives at St. Louisat 6:8 p. m WRST OR BOUTHWRETH, ~emigrant, P §:2 p. m. 0 4. . —6:45 p. m. . m. and 8:40 p. it 6:40 @, m, and 7330 ave at St. Louis 12 p. m. colil Freight—8:35 a8 m, . P. Freight No, 10-1:40 p. m. No. 6— 4:2 p. m.. Emigrant, No. 8—10:50 p. m. No 12-11:85 a . 0. & R. V. mixed, ar. 4:86 p. m, NORTHL Nebraska Division of luw ‘st. Paul & Sloux City Koad, No. 2 leaves Omaha 8:30 &, m. No. 4 leaves Omaha 1.30 p. m No. 1 arrives at Oraaha o No. 8 arrives at Omaha at 10 DUMMY TRAINS ERIWEEN OMAHA AND COUNUAL_BLUFPS. at 8:00, 0:00 and 11:00 & m.; 100 2:00, 8: L o, 400, 6:00 and 6:00 p. m. Leave Council Blufs at , 11:26 o, m.; 1:25, 2:25, 3:25, 4:25 b:26 and 6:26 p. m. Sundays—The dummy leaves Omaha at 0:00 Leaves :95, 4:25 Leave Omaha and 11:00 a. m.; 2:00, 4:00 and 5:00 p. m. Council Blufls at 9:25 and 11:25 a. m.; and 5:25 p. m. Opening and Closing of Malls. RoUTR. OPRN. oLosR. A m, p. m. &.m. Chicago & N. W........11.00 0:30 4:30 Chicago, It. I. & Pacific.11:00 9:00 4:80 Chicago, B. & Q... ...11:00 0:00 4:80 Wabash.... .. . 12:30 4:30 Bloux City and Pacific. . 11:00 4:80 Bt &1tV i 1o . & M. 3 4:00 8:40 6:30 Omaha & Northy 180 4:80 T Local mails for State of Iowa leave but once a day, viz: 4:30 a, m. A’ Lincoln Mail is also opened at 10:30 a. m. i n Sundays from 12 m. to 1 p. m. ke e oA, - TAL OM.AXELA Buginess Nirectory Abstract and Real Estate. JOHN L. McCAGUE, opposite Post Office. W. R. BARTLETT 817 South 13th Strect. Architects. DUFRENE & MENDELSSOHN, ARCHITECTS Room 14_Creighton Block. A. T. LARGE Jr., Room 2, Creighton Block. Boots and 8hoes. JAMES DVINE & CO., Fine Boots and Shoes. A good mssortment of home work on hand, corner 12th and Harney. THOS. ERICKSON, . E. cor. 16th and Douglas. JOHN EORTUNATUS, 605 10th street, manufactures to order good work b fair prices. ~Repairing done, e Bed Springs. J. F.LARRIMER Manufacturer. 1517 Douclas st. Books, News and Stationery. J. L. FRUEHAUF 1015 Farnham Street. Butter and Eggs. McSHANE & SCHROEDER, the oldest B, and E. house in Nebraska established 1876 Omaha. G ngAUBANT RE! 'y MRS. A. RYAN, southwest corner 16thand Dodge, Bt for the Money. % Batisfaction Guaranteed. Meals at all fi"fi"'n R A T Boal the Day, Week or Month. Z ? Good Terms for Cash. Furnished Rnoms Rupplied. warriages and Roaa Wagons. WM SNYDER, 14thand Harney Streets. » vewellers. JOHN BAUMER 1314 Farnham Stroet. Junk. H. BEPTHOLD, Rags and Metal. Lymber, Lime and Cement. FOSTER & GRAY corner 6th and Douglas Sta. Lanps and Glassware. J. BONNER 1300 Douglas St. Good Varlety. Merchant Tailors. G. A. LINDQUEST, One of our most, popular Merchant Tatlors s re- ceiving tho latest designs for Spring and Summor Goods for gentlemen’s wear. ~ Stylish, durable, and prices low as ever 216 13th bet, Doug.& Fam, Millinery. MRS, C. A, RINGER, Wholesale and Retal, Fan- cy Goods in groat varicty, Zephyrs, Card Boards, Hosiery, Gloves, Corsets, &c. Cheapest Houso in the Wost. Purchasers #ave 80 per cent. Order by Mail. 116 Fifteenth Stroot. Foundry. JOHN WEARNE & SONS, cor. 14th & Jackson sts Flour and Feed. OMAHA CITY MILLS, 8th and Farnhsm Sts., Waishans Bros., proprietors. Grocers, Z. STEVENS, 21st between Cuming and Izar .T. A. McSHANE, 032) 23d and Cuming Btreets. Hardware, Iron and Steel. OLAN & LANGWORTHY, Wholcsale, 110 and 112 L6th street A. HOLMES corner 16th and Californis. Harness, Saadles, &c. B. WEIST 20 18th 8t. bet Farn- & Harney, Hatels, ANFIELD HOUSE, Ge>. Canfleld,0th & Farnhau) DORAN HOUSE, P. H. Cary, 918 Farnham 8t. SLAVEN'S HOTEL, F, Slaven, 10th S, Southern Hotel, Gus, Hamel 9th & Leavenworth Iron Fencing, The Western Cornico Works, Agenta for the Champion Iron Fenco &c., have on hand all kinds of Fancy Iron Fences, Crestings, Fineals, Railings, ebe. 1810 Dodge stroe, apl? Clothing Bought. © SHAW will pay highest Cash price for second hand clothing, - Corner 10th and Farnl Dentists. DR. PAUL, Williams' Block, Cor. 16th & Dodge. Drugs, Paints and Olis. KUHN & CO. Pharmacists, Fine Panc Goods, Cor. 16th snd Dougiss strocts W. J. WHITEHOU E, Wholcsalo & Retall, 16th st. . . PARR, Druggist, 10tn and Howard Btreets, C. FIELD, 2022 Norws Side Cuming Street, | g Planing Mill. A. MOYER, manufacturer of sash, doors, blinds, moldings, newels, balusters, hand rails, furnishing croll sawing, &, cor Dodico and Ath strects. " Florist. A. Donaghe, plants, cot fowers, soeds, bogets ote. N. W. cor. 16th anl Dourias streets. Olvil Englineers and Surveyors. ANDREW ROSEWATER, Creichton Block, Town Surveys, Grade and Sewerage Systome & S“ff lalty s g = UVommission Merchants. JOHN G, WIL L18,1414 Dodge Street. D B BEEMER ails soo largo advortise: ment in Daily “Oigars and Tobacco. WEST & FRITSCE ER, manufacturers of Clgars, and Wholesale Dealers fn Tobaceos, 1306 Douglas W. F. LORE: mannfacturer 514 10th strect. Cornice Works, Western Cornice Works, Manufacturers Iron Cornice, Tin, Iron and Blate Roofiing. Orders trom any locality promptly executed in the best Factory and Ofifce 1310 Dodge Street. manner, Galvanized Tron Cor w Caps, o manufactured and put up in any part of country, T, SINHOLD 416 Thirteenth street te., the Orockery. J. BONNER 1809 Dougias street. Good line. "Clothing and Furnishing Goods. GEO, H, PETERSON. Also Iats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, Notions and Cutlory, 804 8. 10th street, "Fence Work OMAHA FENCE €O, GUST, FRIES & CO., 1213 Harney St., Improve. ed Ico Boxes, Iro; Wood Oftico and Railings, Counters of Pine and Walnut. Retrigerators, Canfield's Patent. ©. F. GOODMAN 11th St. bet. Farn. & Hamney. 8how Case Manufactory.| 0. J. WILDE, Manufacturer and_ Dealer in all kinds of Show Cascs, Upright Cases, , 1317 Cass St. FRANK L. GERHARD, proprictor Omaha Show Case manufactory, 818 South 16th strect, between Leavenworth and Marcy. All goods warranted first-class. Stoves ana Tinware. A. BURMESTER, Dealer In Stoves and Tinware, and Manufacturer of Tin Roofs and all ‘kinds of Building Work, 0Odd Fellows' Block. J. BONNER, 1800 Douglas 8t. Good and Cheap. Beeds. J. EVANS, Wholesalo and Retall Seed Drills and Cultivators, Odd Fellows Hall. Physiclans an1 Surgeons. W. 8. GIBBS, M. D,, R%om No 4, Crelghton Block, 16th Street. P. 8. LEISENRING, M. D. Masonic Block. C. L. HART, M. D., Eye and Ear, opp. postoffice DR. L. B. GRADDY, Oculist and Aurist, §. W 16th and Farnham Sts Photographers. GEO. HEYN, PROP. Grand Central Gallory, 212 Sixteenth Streot. Furst-class Work and Prompt- near Masonie Hall, ness guaranteon Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting. P. W. TARPY & CO., 216 12th St., bot. Farnham and Douglas, Work promptly attended to. D. FITZPATRICK, 1409 Douglas Street. Painting an Paper anging. MENRY A. KOSTERS, 141 Dodge Street, 8hoe Brores. Phillip Lang, 1820 Farnnam st. bet. 18th & 14th, 8econd Hand Store. PERKINS & LEAR, 1416 Douglas St., New and Second Hand Furniture, House Fumnishing Goods, &c., bourht and sold on narrow marvins. | . Waloons.” HENRY KAUFMANN, In the new brick block on Douglas Stroet, has just opened a most elegant Beea Hall, ‘Hot Lunch from 10 to 12 every day. “ Calodonia * . FALCONER, 670 19th Street. Undertakers. CHAS, RIEWE, 1012 Farnham bet. 10th & 11td. P. PEMNER, 803} Tenth street, botween Farn- ham and Harnéy, Does good and cheap work. 89 Cent Stores. C. BACKUS, 1205 Farnh Fancy Gooda To Nervous Sufterers THE GREAT EUR_OFEAN REMEDY. Dr. J. B. Siu_J;son's Specific MEBEDIOCINE. It is & posjtive cure for Spermatoirhea, Semina Weokness, Impotancy, and all diseases resulting trom Self-Abuse, s ‘Mental Anxiety, Loss Memory, Pains in the Back or Side, and diseases onm. arim. (that lead to Consumption Insanity and p cerlyrate ¥ |The Specific b [Medicine being used with wonder- ful success. LIIT="| Pamphleta ‘Write for them and get full par- sent free to all. tloulars, Price, Specific, 81.00 per package, o six pack- .00. Address all orders to B, SIMSON MEDICINE CG. Nos. 104 and 106 Main St. Buffalo, N. Y. ages for 85, 8old in Omaha by C. F, Goodman, J.'W. Ball, J. K Ish, and all druggistaeverywhere. » GR.déwlv KENNEDY'S T-INDIA /4 EAS AGE A FAMILY |TONIO '389UBTIBFTR28( SNOMIY 03 ‘WSILLVIWNIHY 'VISd3dSAQ BITTERS ILER & CO., Sole Manufacturers, OMAHA. ST. LOUIS PAPER WAREHOUSE. GRAHAM PAPER C0. 217 and 219 North Main 8t., St. Lows, —WHOLRHALN DEALERS 1N— M% t PAPERS 1WileiRe ENVELOPES, CARD BOARD AND Printers Stock. 437 Cash paid for Rage aud Paper Stock, Sera fron and Metals, h g Papor Btock Warshouses 1220 to 1287, North Prof, W, J, Ander’s 8elect Dauc; ing Academy, A. Hospe, Jr. Hali, 1619 Dodge 8t. Class for gentlemen commencing Tuosday even: ing, Oct, 4. Class for ladies commencing Thurs. day evening, Oct. 6. Terms liberal. The cas méthods I have for teaching the Waltz, Glids, e, | can gusrantee porfect satisfaction ¢ sclilars, For teruw, &c., call at A, Hospo, Jr, or address 1116 Capitol Ay s17din Dry Goods Notions, Etc. JOHN H. F. LEUMANN & CO,, New York Dry Goods Sore, 1310 and 1812 Fam- bam strect. L. C. Enewola_also boots and shoes 7th & Pacific. Furuiture. A P. GROSS, New and Second Hand Furniture ud Btoves, 1114 Dougias. Highest cash price aid for second hana go09s. BONNER 1809 Dougia st. Fine goods, &c. Pawnbrokers. J ROBENFELD, 10th Bt., bet. far, & Har, Nebraska Land Agency DAVIS & SNYDER, 1606 Farnham 8t.,, ... Omaha, Nebraska 400,000 AORKRES Care.ully selected land In Eastern Nebraska for sale. Great Bargains in improved farms, snd Omaha city property . 0. F. DAVISY WEBSTER SNYDER Late Land Cow's U, P, B. ., wu | A Twenty Years' De cent from THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: M( A BEAUTIFUL WRETCH. fhe Sad Wreck of a Former Belle of the Frontier. High Life to the Lowest, « Carcer of a Leadville Character. San Francisco Exan “There is a woman sitting there in that cell whose history isa very re markable one,” said the turnkey of the prison, a fow nights since, ‘‘but she has such an utter detestation for officers and newspaper men that 1| doubt whether you could get her to talk to you. Sheis too drunk uow. and when she is sobershe won't talk, The woman sat with bowed head upon | a rough wooden bench in the corner of the cage usually assigned to inebri- ated females. Her hat and shawl had been torn off in her resistenco to ar- rest, and her long black hair hung down, forming a complete veil over her face. Her dress was torn and dirty, and, upon the whole, she pre- sented a pitiable object -a complete picture of abject misery and despair. Shortly aftorward she arose and advanced to the bars, and, in coarse, hoarse tones and a mixture of oaths and im- precations, demanded a drink of wa- ter., Asthe gas rays fell upon her countenance the reporter recognized her, It was Belle Siddons, alias Mme. Vestal, alias Mrs. Hallett, once the reigning belle in a Cheyenne gam- bling house, then the notorious “fence” and doctor for the Black Hills road agents, and more recently proprietress of the largest and most fashionable dancing hall on State street, Leadville, Colorado. Her presence in a San Francisco station house was no surprise, but when and how she left the scenes of her former glory was a question that interested the curious news-hunter. This was satisfied next day, when an interview was had with the formgr queen of the faro table and roulette board in Dead- wood. Nearly four years ago Mme. Vestal lay upon what she imagined to be her death bed, in a small, close chamber in one of the back streets between Deadwood and Central City, Dakota. Ina fit of drunken frenzy and grief, caused by the lynching of her lover—Arthur Cummings—a no- torious road agent, she had taken a large dose of morphine. Her vanity had prompted a desire to have HER OBITUARY PROPERLY WRITTEN, and to send for a reporter to take down notes of her remarkable career. In her insane desire for death she had taken an overdose of the deadly drug, and, being both an opium-eater and an inveterate opiuni-smoker, the mor- phine refused to do its work, and she recovered; but before leaving Dead- wood she twice attempted the assassi- nation of suspected murderers of her lover, Cummings. Her deathbed con- fession annoyed her so much (although it was not published, owing to her failure to die) she left the place, but not berore sending threats to the re- porter that if he published the details of her confession she would make her men ";)ut his light out;” that is kill him. Her appearance here in San Francisco, a perfect wreck of what was once one of the handsomest women ou the frontiers—recalls to mind some outlines of a very remark- able life. Belle Siddons was known during the first two years of the war of the rebellion as the belle of St. Louis. A relative of the last gover- nor before the ‘war broke out, she had made quite a sensation in Jefferson City on her dcbut in society. Coming direct to the state capital from the female university at Lexington, her accomplish- ments and remarkable beauty, com- bined with her distinguished family connections, won for her the homage of all the gay and hot-blooded youths hovering about the state cnpitufi In- tensely southern at heart, this beauti- ful girl reigned supreme over the minds of all the chivalric youth pre- paring to march forth to follow the state flag southward, But it was the fortune, or rather the misfortune, of a young journalist of St. Louis to re- ceive, almost unsought, the love of this imperious queen of fashion, Al- ready plighted to a lady of Louisiana, Missouri, Captain Parrish was slow to reciprocate the undisguised manifes- tations of favor on the part of Miss Siddons., But the spell was irresist- able. He became the devoted wor- shipper of the reigniug belle, fought a duel with the brother of his discarded affianced up the river, and soon after left St. Louis to follow Claib Jackson south, where he fell upon one of the first battlefields in the southwest. His death seems to have CHANGED THE ENTIRE DISPOSITION and course of life of Miss Siddons. She wore no mourning and made no out- ward show of grief. On the contrary she became the gayest ot the gay, Her most devoted admirers were the Union officers attached to General Halleck’s or General Curtis’ headquarters, She rode with them, danced with them, and might be seen almost nightly in theircompany at De Bar's Operahouse, lavishing smiles upon these gaily- dressed staff officers. In December, 1862, General Curtis ordered her ar- rest asa spy. One of her admirers, attached to Curtis’ staff, had warned her of her impending danger, and she attempted to escape southward by the usual “‘grapevine railroad,” known only to Southern sympathizers. She was captured near St. Genevieve with positive evidence of her guilt.in her possession and brought to St, Loul When brought before General Scho- field the proud southern beauty dar- ingly announced her guilt. She con- fessed to having kept Generals Forrest and Sterling Price informed of every movement made at the Union general headquarters, and claimed the honor of assisting Forrest in his well- executed raid on the Memphis & Mo- bile railroad, which cut off Grant's supplies at Helly Springs and com- pellad him to take the river route to Vicksburg, She defied Schofield to do his worst, and was sent to the Gration street rebel prison, from whence she was permitted to go south a few months afterward through the influence of her remarkable beaut, upon the provost marshal gencral, Her career in the south is known only to herself, as she declines to speak of it. She reappeared soon after the close of the war as a successful lob byist at Jefferson City during the cor rapt regime of Governor Thomas C. Flotcher and that of Governor Me- Clurg, the last radical governor of Missouri. There she became notori- ous for her subtle power and influcnce upon certain members of the legisla- ture, and many were the scandalous storis afloat of carousals, wine sup- | yersand mysterious excursions to Ln:us. While the legislature of 1871 was in session, MISS SIDDONS SUDDENLY DISAPFEARED from the state capital, 1o one knew | where. It scems she had fallen in love with a handsome young sport from Kansas City named” Newt Hal- | let, to whom she was married, and | started with him for Tes While living in Houston Hallet died of yel fover, and the widow left the “‘Lone Star” state for the northwest country, wheroe sho appoared ina now role, Discarding the name of her hushand (Hallet) she assumed his business as faro dealer, under the name of Mme, Vestal. Thousande who have visited such places as Wichita and 'l'lllmurlh ~the cattle headquarters in Kansas and Cheyenne and Deadwood —will remember secing this remarkable wo- wman, attired in velvets, lace and dia- monds, presiding over a faro table or sometimes twirling the roulette wheel in the most popular gambling saloon in those cities, There she would sit, night after night, month after month, pale, stern and impassive. No matter how the game went, whether the bank lost or won, Mime, Vestal never chang- ed a muscle of her countenance. She was regarded as infallible by the sport- ing fraternity with whom sheassociated. Many a pistol has been taken from maddened disputants by her white be- jeweled fingers, and many a boisterous bully has sneaked, cowed and trem- bling, from her presence, while she ointed her deadiy revolver toward Eim and the door. Her will was law, and no queen ever ruled her subjects with a greater ease, or treated her wor- shipers with such supreme contempt, While on her n\lp‘foud death-hed, Mme. Vestal laughed scornfully as she related incidents of her gambling course in Cheyenne, Wyoming, of ruined, despairing dupes, who nightly left her table to go forth and kill themselves or rob others. She boast- ed that she had never donea kind act, returned a dollar won, or asked a favor sinco she became a gambler. Said she: “My luck was invariable, and T bad a supetstition that if I al- lowed the first thought of kindness to enter my soul it would break the spell. T hated every man who came to play against me; they came to break my bank.” WHY SHOULD I SPARE THEM/ My husband never gave back money or spared either friend or foe iu play: why should I?” She went to the wildest excesses of dissipation. When not sitting behind her gambling table she was eating or drinking, But she was never known to drink in her gambling hall. There she would sit, silent and brilliant, coldly shuffling the cards or carelessly twirling her roulette table. ‘Women she despised, and seldom spoke to or of them. Ske never quarreled or exchanged words of gnger. Her prompt argument was her pistol, which always lay beside her stacks of money. Her favorite costume was red or, {hck velvet, or- namented with a profusion of gaudy {(’:wclry, mostly diamonds and rubies. er luxuriant black hair usually hung carelessly looped over her shoulders with gold and diamond clasps. This sensational costume, she said, was a part of her stock in trade. ‘It ex- cites curiosity and draws in_the suck- ers,” she said. When the Deadwood and other Black Hills gold-diggings were creating excitement in 1876, Madame Vestal chartered a four-horse omnibus i Denver, had it modeled into a beautiful boudoir and bedroom, and, attended by several of her at- tendant sporting men, with wagons loaded with tents and gambling furni- ture, started for the Black Hills. On her arriving there she opened her gambling palace under canyass. There it was she became acquainted with Archie Cummings, a former guerilla on the Kansas border, and with whom this strange woman fell madly in love. Through him Mme. Vestal became acquainted with the well-organized gang of stage robbers and road agents, who for several years made the stage roads between the Black Hills and the Union Pacific railroad anything but a pleasant route for people with money. Mme Vestal, according to her own confession, became the confi- dential adviser of the gang. No rob- bery was undertaken which she dis- approved of and none failed when she advised and planned the details. SITTING IN THE GAMBLING HALL, quiet and observant each night, she could hear the conyersation of all kinds of people. Detectives were NDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1881 d daring chief of detectives Sidney, Cheyenne & Black Hills stage line, was then a stage driver. Cunning, reckless and brave to a de gree almost incredible, he WON HIS WAY TO THE VESTAL, FAVOR OF MWE, 1l by his carcless manner, and gay d fostive style, attracted the atten- tion of the fomalo gambler, and soon won trom her suflicient information to put him on the track of the road agents, Boone May never talks to newspaper men it he can avoid it, and has never revealed the details of the tragedy here related. The story was told by the woman on what she sup posed to be her death-bed, and in such an excited and disjointed manner that only the outlines could be obtained. Boone May and his gang suceeedod m obtaining such information from Mme. Vestal as justifiod him in sending a dispateh to Cheyenne, which caused the arrest of Archio Cummings and two of his companions just as they were boarding the west-bound train at Laramie City, on their way to San Francisco, where Mme. Vestal had arranged to follow them. They were sent to Cheyenneo; and from therd under guard and i irons to Dead- wood. Soon after crossing the Platte river, near Fort Laramie, a party of thirty armed men stopped the coach and took the three road agents from it, and hanged them one by one, using the same rope for each, allowing the last to sce the first kick and strangle before suffering the same penalty, Archie Cummings, not yet recovered from his wounds, asked per- mission to pray, and for time to write a tavewell lettor to his mother, This was granted on condition that he give up the names of his confederates in crime and revealed the hiding place of his money, aceumulated from frequent stage robbories. This he declined. He was then offered his life if he would give up his hidden treasure. He accepted the conditions, and after re- vealing the hidding place of his stolen gold he was at once strung up, and a warning written and posted, warning all persons to let the bodies hang. This was on Cottonwood creek, on the Black Hills and Fort Laramie stage road, ONE OF THE VIGILANTES, for a share of the dead Cummings’ money, related the details of the trag- edy to his devoted paramour, Mme. Vestal, who, after attempting to drown her grief in liquor, took an overdose of powson, as above stated, On her recovery Mme. Vestal an- nounced her determination to kill Boone May and every man engaged in the hanving of her pet. But up to this time Boone May still lives, the terror of the renegades and despera- does of the Black Hills and Western Nebraska, From the time of her attempted suicide this remarkable wo- man appears to have lost all of her characteristic courage and surrender- ed herself to drink. She appeared in Leadville, Colorado, during the fall and winter of 1879, where she made herself uite promment as the pro- priotress of the largest music hall and dance house on State street. From thence she drifted to Las Vegas, New Mexico, and thence to Tucson and Tombstone, at each place losing money in gambling and specu- lation. She says she arrived in San Francisco last May, since which time she has been living aloneina furnished room on Kearney street. She still pos- sesses some money, sufficient perhaps to keep her until her limited life is ended, for she is fast drinking hersclf into the grave. A slave to opium and brandy, this once bright ornament of St. Louis must soon find her way to the oblivim of the grave of the stranger. There have been few women who started out into the world with brighter prospects or under more brilliant auspices. Beau- tiful, accomplished, highly connected, well educated, she might Lave chosen her place in the higher walks of life, Her carcer has been eventful and ex- citing. She has passed through the several phases of life, belle of society, aftianced bride, spy, hospital vurse, lobbyist, gambler’s wife, gambler, confederate of robbers,saloon kecper, and now, after wandering all over the frontiers, she finds herself behind the bars of the female cell in the city jail at San Francisco! Set Back 42 Years. “T was troubled for many years with Kidney Complaint, Gravel, &ec.; my blood became thin; T was dull and inactive; could hardly crawl about; was an old, worn out man all over; could get nothing to help me; until I got Hop Bitters, and now I am a bo; again. My blood and kidneys are all right, and I am as active as a man of 30, although T am 72, and I bave no doubt it will do as well for others of my age. It is worth a trial.”— (Fath- lured to her tables by ‘‘cappers” and “steerers” sent out for that purpose, and by her permitted to win money, while she listened to their conversa- tion about road agents. By this means she was enabled to keep the gang posted as to what was going on, when treasure was going to be sent or when a gold-laden miner was about to take the stage for the railroad. When the road agents were surprised by a party of armed officers, concealed in a decoy treasure coach between Dead- wood and Rapid City in 1877, Archie Cummings and one of his ““pals” were wounded and Alex, Casswell killed, This strange woman at once aban- doned her gambling place and went out into the woods to where her lover and his partner lay Jless and wounded and there attend- ed their wants, Not dar- ing to bring a swgeon from Deadwood to dress their wounds lest detectives should follow to their place of hiding, thesewounded robbers must have died had not Mme, Vestal come to their assistance. She had learned something of surgery while in the South during the war, and, according to her own statement, was competent to extract a bullet orset a limb as well a8 any surgeoninthe Hills. Her cun- ning devices batfled all efforts to dis- cover the hiding-place of lier beloyed stage-robber and his companion, and by her management they were even’ taken into Deadwood, unseen by the detectives, and there treated success- fully for their wounds and sent forth again to prey upon the stage line. About this timc}wfl;Mmlumu Vestal scems to have first met her evil gen- ius, or at least a man who neither fear- ed her nor her fornudable influence as qucen of the desperadoes and sports in the hills, Boone May, the present er.)—Sunday Mercury. oct1-15. Moral Effect of the Garden. We recommend to all women who are furtunate enough to have a piece of land at their command to cultivate a vegetable garden. The culture of strawberries, currants and garden veg- etables is as delightful and profitable as anything in which a woman can en- gage. She may sprinkle her garden well with flowers: All the better for that, A snowball in this corneranda vose in that, a dahlia bed there and a border here, will not be out of place. Only let the substantinl and useful constitute the chief part. A touch of the ornate, likea ribbon a goed bonnet, is not in the least objectiona ble. Inall the schools the girls study botany. It is healthful, pleasing and useful. The principles of horticul- ture are the principals of botany put into practice, Farmers study agricul- ture; why should not their wives and daughters study horticulture? The employment is both healthful and pleasant, What woman cannot raise beets, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, and furnish her own table with them? What women cannot plant a raspber ry bush, currant or gooseberry bush, and attend to it well” The experi ment is hoth pleasing and profitable, Notiug the Effects. It. Gibbs, of Buffalo, N. Y., writes: “‘Hearing your BUuknook Broon Birrens favorably spoken of, I was induced watch their effects, snd find th chry diseases of the blood, liver and kidneys your bitters have been signally marked with success, 1 have used them myselfl with best results for torpidity of the liver; and in the case of « friend of ne suffering from dropsy, the effect was elous,” Price $1,00, trial size 10 cents, octBeodlw INVITATION WATCHES AND CLOCKS TO BE REPAIRED, ENGRAVING —T0 BE DONE OR— JEWELRY . MANUFACTURED. While our Work is better, our Prices are Lower than all others. AT TEIE LAST S A LDNH CEYVAL L R | received all of the SIX FIRST PREMIUM offered for Competition in our line Over All Competitors. For the Best Watch Work, For the Best Jewelry, (own make.) For the Best Engraving, For the Best Diamonds (own importation) FOR THE BEST QUALITY: GOODS DISPLAYED, ETC. Having lately enlarged my workshops and putting in new .nd improved ma chinery, I hope to still more improve the quality and finish of our ork and fill orders with more promptnoss than 1s usual. CAUTIOIN ! My Motto has always been and always will be: “First to gain superior facill ties and then advertise the fact—not beforo—no wild advertisements. Some unprincipled dealers bemng in the habit of cepying my announcements, I would beg you, the reader of this, to draw a line between such copiec. advertisements and thoso of Yours, very truly, A. B. HUBERMANN, The Reliable Jeweler, Omaha, Neb., Sign of the Striking Town Clock. EDHOLM & ERIGKSON, ~GIVE THE BARGAINS IN ALL KINDS OF— JEWELRY, WATCHES, CLOCKS, SILVERWARE SOLID AND PLATED WARE AND DIAMONDS. At Prices that Suit Any Customer Who Really Wishes a First- Claes Article, STAR TINTED SPECTACLES Ar+ alno sold exclusively "00 NYJH0 NVOI4INY H.I.IWS‘ ALSO WESTERN AGENTS FOR THE "SNYOUO0 S. CKSON, THE JEWELERS, Opposite the Post inge. A. POLACK, S3mns Colorado Fall and Winter CLOTHINGI!I LATE AND NOBBY STYLES FOR MEN, BOYS AND GHILDREN. Hats, Caps, Trunks, Valises. OLOTEHING MADH TO ORDER IN THE]LATEST STYLES, Satisfaction Guaranteed. Prices to Suit a. 18316 FARNHAM STREET, NEAR FOURTEENTH, Max Meyer & Co. OMLAXLA. Guns,Ammunition,Sporting Goods ‘ FISHING TACKLE, BASHE BALLS, and a i FULL LINE OF NOTIONS AND FANCY GOODS, MAX MEYER & CO. Omaha, Ne Omabha, Cheyenne,