Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 14, 1882, Page 3

/ Y THE DAILY BEE-~OMAHA WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1882. 3 ILEEFRIEDS&&CO, The Only Exclusive Wholesale Hardware House IN TEE WTWEST. 1108 AND 1110 HARNEY STREET. OMAWA - - - - - NEB. S CAULFIRLD e WHOLESALE—— BOOK SELLER AND STATIONER ~AND DEALER N— Wall Paper and Window Shades 1304 Farnham 8t. Omaha Neb. d ROTHE & JONES Wholesale Lumber, No. 1408 Farnham Street, Omaha, Neb THE MOLINE .STOVE ! 7. Manufactured by MOLINE STOVE COMPANY. They make a speclalty of COOKING STOVES, and_have this year placed in the market oneof the MOST ECONOM .0 AND M ‘ST SA ISFACTORY STOVES ever made. They make both lain and extension top, and gusrantee all their goods. '“he agents for the company are. PIERCY & BRADFORD, ~——DEALERS IN—— Furnaces, Fireplaces, Heaters M AN T =B X. 13, i GRATES, RANGES, STOVES, HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, Ete. i OMAHA NEB 211 FARNAM STREET. JEWELE THE LEADING MUSIC HOUSE IN THE WEST | AL General Agents for the find all novelties in SBIL-|piect and Best Pianos and VER WARE. CLOCKS, Organs manufsctured. The Odet W'h_olse and 7 Retail JEWELRY HOUSE in Omaha, Visitorscan here Rich and Stylisbh Jewelry,| Our prices are as Low as she Latest, Most Artistic, (LY Eastern Manufacturer i " " land Dealer. and Choicest Selections in| Pianos and Organs sold RECIOUS STONES and fn?rt:g.sh l"’):i ins! ents at m Prices. all descripuions of FINE oA SPLENDID stock of WATCHES at as Low Pri- |Steinway Pianos, Knabe ces as 18 compatible with Pianos, Vose & Son’s Pi honorable dealers. Call |anos,and other makes, and see our Elegant New |, .80 Clough & Warren f [Sterling, Imperial, 8mitp ] e ™y : | I 3 Stars, Bower 3 é:ml(img, |American Organs, &c. D¢ corner 11th and ¥Farnham |, o+ fail to see us befe Streets chasing. MAX MEYER & BRO., MANUFACTURERS OF SHOW OCASES! Large Stock Awa.ys on Hand. HAVE'THE BEST'STOCK IN NEBRASKA---MAKE THE LOWEST PRICES This is the Only House that Does Not Sell High PERKINS & LEAR, FURNITURE NEW AND SECOND-HAND. Bedding, Mirrors, Feathers, Feather Beds, and all Goods'Pertaining to the Fur- niture Trade, and ‘Upholstery. PERKINS '& LEAR, 1416 Douglas Btreet, Omaha, wmon-wed-trilySrdp CALIFORIA'S “BIG FOUR." How Mackey, Fair, Flood and O’'Brien Got Their Millions. Big Risks and Lucky Ventures $7,- 000,000 at a Single Operation From Bartender to Bonanza The Kumored Ap- proaching Nuptials of Miss Mackey With a Bonaparte. New York Star, Gossip is rife in the circle of upper- tendom over the approaching nuptials of Miss Mackey, daughter of the bon- anza king, as well as among his sturdy companions and comrades of the his- toric days of '49, whea the vast gold fields of California were discovered and thousands of men full of adven- turous spirit became smitten with the gold fever. Miss Mackey and her mother have made the French capital their home for years, and if The Court Journal is to be credited, after a great many mishaps and disappoint- ments with other titled paupers, Miss Mackey is about to beatow her hand and fortune on Prince Pierre Bona- parte, and will receive in return the empty though high-sounding title of princess. In one of the cosey rooms of the Sturtevant house Mr, Jerome Leland, a veritable ‘Forty-niner,’ was found recently, and when the object of the reporter’s mission was made known the genial Jerome laughingly remarked: ‘‘Aye, my boy; those were good old days. They had their ups and downs and vheir excitable and monotonous moments, but I'd give half my life to have them back again. Now thatyou speak of Mackey, I was always at a loss to know where he came from originally. The newspapershave com- pelled him to be born in many differ- ent places and at various times, but my opinion is that the early lifeof the millionaire is known to very few. Mackey used to live in Nevada, and married a Miss Osgood, who was a school teacher in a small town or vil- lage about sixteen miles from Carson City. They were married in Virginia City.” “*You knew him intimately during burst the great Sierra Novada combi- l nation, with John Skea at its head and front, In fact they went to work and broke ng nearly every one who opposed them, and foar months after they got hold of the stock Sierra Nevada jumped up from £350 to 270 & share, They wero selling it short, and having money to carry it, they completely broke up the stock, which is to-day selling for about 7. Many of the old Californians will member the rise and fall of Sierra Ne- vada."” “‘You have seen Mr. Mackey since thoee stirring times, of course, Has his so quickly acquired wealth made any material change in his manner toward his old companions or others!” “Yes, ho always drops in to see me when he is in the city. Mackey 1 one of those men who I believe noth- ing could chlngbs. He was then as a remarkably quiet, unassuming He liked his toddy as we all did, and I believe he would prefer ‘‘The reported approaching nuptials with Prince Pierre Bonaparte do not appear to satisfy the old Forty-niners, do they?” ‘‘Indeed they do not. The money of the Mackeys was earned in Ameri- ca, and the prevailing sentiment is that it ought to be spent here. The boys don’t like it, and between yen and I, Mackey don’t either; but I guosa the wife and daughter are the bosses in that direction. Ho is very fond of both of them, and lets them have ‘protty much their own way.” “Thero is some question raised as to whether the present Miss Mackey is the daughter of tho bonanza king. 1 bave heard that Mrs. Mackeye was the widow of an offlcer in the Mexican war, and that Miss Mackey was the deceased veteran’s daughter. The story runs that the widow and her daughter were in very straitened circumstances, earning their living by needlework in this city until discov- covered by two comrades of her hus- one of the old cocktails in preference to a bottle of Mumm. 1 think Jim Mackey is a native of Massachusetts, for it strik me that I often heard ¢ iderable money out of the California mine, did he not{” “Oh, yes; everything that the ‘Big Four,” Mackey, Flood, Fair and O'Btien, put their hands on seemed to turn into money. But it was more luck than anything else. They don't Iay any olaim to genius or forsighted- ness. Tis true that the practicabilit, of Jim Fair stood them in good noed’; working of the machinery, and if any- thing went wrong, hawever trivial, he was the one who vould discever it at a glance. Before having anything to do with a mine Jim Fair donned his worst clothes—he didn’t have a very great assortment of good or bad then- and went down and made a_personal inspection, I remember well the day that the stock suddenly jumped from $3 t6 87 a share, This sudden rise plete his Wall street building, which will cost, when finished, nearly $0,- 000,000—on his feet. Ralston, Sharon, Head, Bob Morrow, Bill Lent soon as they thought they had a big thing, Mackey and his fellows swooped These two factions, if I may term them such, became bitterly opposed to each other, and at the time when the slormy days and exciting mining expeditions; did he have much money then?" “*If Mackey had §3,000 at that time that would size his pile; bat I do not think he had anywhere near half that amount.” ‘“What was he doing when you knew him first-—working in the mines ?" “No; when I first knew him, and that was shortly after his first ap- pearance among the boys, he used to speculate a great deal on a very small scale. He would buy small quanti- ties of mining stocks, aud was looked upon as a sort of jobber; but he was always regarded as a jolly, good-na- tured fellow, who, while he looked out for No. 1, never interfered with others unnecessarily. At the time I speak of Jim Fair was superintendent of the Calitornia mine, situated close to the Ophir mine, in which Mackey suc- ceeded in purchasing a 300-foot claim, This was his first atart, and Jim Fair —now senator from Nevada—and he Fined fortunes. They came to San ‘rancisco in the winter, and appeared to hold a kind of interest with Flood and O'Brien in a little drinking place called the ‘Bit,’ near the old Washing- ton market in San Francisco, where the boys used to hang out.” “Rather a curious name. Why was it called the Bit "’ ‘None of the boys had a great deal of money then, and we reckoned what strap cash we had in ‘bits’ We all liked our toddy, of course, and the cheapest place, if the stuff didn’t kill at a thousand yards, was the most frequented. At the Bit we got our Jersey lightning for a shilling, while the other places charged two bits, or twenty-five cents, for probably worse stuff, In addition to this, at the Bit they set a first-rate free lunch; in fact, it was a dinner in itselt, and you eat all you wanted, and have no fear of being fired out or your gormandiz- ing abilities made the subject of re- mark. Thenitwas a convenient place or the boys to talk over the minesand their luck.” “‘Did Mrs, Mackey tend bar in those days?” ‘‘Oh, that's all moonshine. It may make the surrounding a little more romantic, but there’s no truth in it. You iurfet the fact, young fellow, that a school-marm in those days was a somebody.” “‘How was it that Dlackey was so eminently successful in comparison to others?” 4 “Ah, that's the rub, my boy. Wheels within whecls, you know. I'll tell yon; Jim Fair took a sort of liking to Mackey and gave him the tips as to what stocks to dabble in, Things were different then. Why, a share in a mino then covered o foot of and only cost from share, but it i four years nd to vse fornia phraso, lers out, by putting o until th full co; as this w mill the 000 to divided » he out got fr 00,000 per mc 8o few, cal wealth to accumulate very fast, Later on they got control of the Comstock lode, which, so augmented their for- tunes as to enable them to start the Bank of Nevadajin San Francisco with a capital of $10,000,000, f which was raised by the quartette, “‘How long did they run that con- cern? Itis said that venture was not as successful as it might be,” ““That's a mistake, They manipu- lated the Bank of Nevada for about 8ix years, and through means of their great capital in comparison to any other concern at the time, were en- abled to use the stock market of San Fraucisco pretty much as they pleased. Subsequently they invested a great deal of money in San Francisco prop- erty, and government bonds, and, hav- ing 8o much money, were always suc- cessful, Why, to give you an idea of what they could and did do, they the bank of California went by the board, Ralston made the remark that Flood and O'Brien would be selling drinks again for a bit, and they in reply retorted by saying that if they did they would sell it over the coun- ter of the California bank. The time the bank of California broke this com- bination put some $2,000,000 in gold, by depositing it in the lower vaults of James A. Donohue & Co., of which Eugene Kelly, now one of your New York real estate spsculators on a grand scale, was a partner. This was what capped the climax. The money market becameo paralyzed and every- thing went to the bow-wows. The excitement was intense, and was not equalled by Black Friday here. They burst the bank, and, just as they threatened, they sold, not drinks for a bit each, but sterling gold over'the counter.” “‘There were some other schemes in which Mackey took the leading part, were there not ?"' “‘Yes, there was another bonanza they succeeded in capturing. At that time there was a big field for opera- tions in the water works of Virginia City. They first got their eye on it, and then their grip, whichthey tight- ened and tightened, and finally the combination gobbled it in and realized the snug little pile of §7,000,000. Cau you wonder that these men grew so suddenly rich ? The fact is, nothing could withstand them., Talent be ---; well, T won’t swear. It was simply a well and thoroughly organized syatem of bulldozing.” “‘And stealing?” ““Hold on, now; I didn’t say quite 's0 much; but you and the readers of the Star can form your inferences and conclusions.” “You knew Mrs. Mackey mn those set D, O. Mills—wh, is about to com- | and others followed after it, and as|T down on them and swallowed them up. i band, one of whom brought her to San Francisco as a better field for their labors. Is that true?” ‘T have heard something of the sort, but cannot vouch for it, I think it can hardly be true. My opinion is that Miss Mackey is the bona fide daughter of the bonanza king.” How They Were Removed. Nortu Torexa, Kas., May12, '81. H. H. Warner & Oo.: Sharp pains in the region of the neys, frequent desire to urinate and scalding sensations wero easily re- Liver Cure. HeNRY SANDERS. “The Tribune” Interviews a Gentle- men Who Has Prevented More Bur- glaries than the Entire Police Force of Chicago and New York, *‘@ood morning, sir,” sald a representative of be 7 ribune Lock Company’ day. Mr, N to whom ‘the a: busily en, with the ex supposed to be of the second grado. *“ Iribune ro.ders en the canss of ti blowing, b nk robbe . Norris—1 think 1 general cause. ing wha* tyone unfami business might i ents of a postofh L cnlighten the requency of ol to give & common have they become of | public bezin to think that exist only in name, and nos h th facts in the case? ar from i, burglar-pro in reality, Mr. Norr burglar-proof one of the fon years its Ger Whose handy all western orders are plac:d, weporter—1{ 1t ' a fair question, Mr, Norris’ how many of your safes known and sold as ab solutely burglar-praof ~ have ever been blown epen with powder or other substances, drilled or becken i \ Digbold any way by bu lar-proofs ¥ more wealth than the entire o 1 recod has orter—What h us with iven up’ by tho polic ne R i then that *0 begrad- ten or more yoars ago, hecamo such cxpert:; secoud, {nterior makes of so-callod burgiar-proof work madeto compe'c in price, without recard to principles involved or material used; third, and without question cons itutiog the bulk of complain‘s, tho ordinary fira proof sAfes, no mattor whose make they may be. Reporter—Then wo are t) urderstond that all fire-proof safes, wnen th.y pritect at all, guad against fio only, and nosagaiost burglary. Mr. Norris —Preci ely; the expert burglar will drill afire-proof safo wit1 comparativelv Jittle troubls,, It isonly the ekil ful combloation of that now and most wondeiful of a1 known hiome rteel” ard iron witn pat- , solid rteel corners, ruch as metals called entent-off epl onlv “‘Diebold’s” are made of, that defy the skill and Ingenuity of burglars, no matter how ex pert thiy may be. How well they do this we remvectfally refer you to twenty of the leading Chicago banks, the managers of which have moet thoroughly investigated the whole ques- tion and emphasizcd their decision in cach in- stance vy large orders a8 you will see from our books, Reporter—You speak of byng busy. Are you making many eals, and to what class of buyer.? Mr. Norris—We give from our order bok a fow late ropresentatives buiglar-proof sales. You can judge for yourself (handing us the fol- lowing list). " Mr. Norrls thoroughly improssed us with the bolief that he himselt believed in the Dichold Safes, both fire and burglar-proof and backs up all h3 says with unoubted proofs: First Nationol Bauk. Ubicsgo, 13 Burglar Proof Safos, 2 Fa'e Depesit Vaults, 1 Steel-lined Cash Vault, 7 Burglr Proot Vau t Doors, and several thousand Ssfe Depositories; Omaha National Bank, Omaha, Neb ; Streator, National Bavk, btreator, I 1.: Farmors' Nationl Bank, Sprin fleld, 111'; Marine Bank, Springfie'd, I buque, Jowa,; Mercha, Paul, Mion.; A mers' Bank, tional Bank Bank, D waukee, Wi Palmer, Chicy; o: L. Z. Leiter, Chicag days. What kind of a person was she 7" “‘A very plain, modest, pleasant and unassuming lady. She was very agreeable and a capital and entertain- ing conversationalist. Being a school teacher, and s good one at that, she had the advantage over most all the men and women with whom she came in contact.” . ‘“‘About what age Mrs. Mackey be, now?" “Let me seo—Mrs, Mlcke¥ must be about 45 years of age; I don't think she can be much over that.” ‘‘And the reigning belle and heiress of Pans, whose wealth is setting all the poor, unfortunate, titled fortune- seekers of the continent of Europe by the ears?” T should say about 25, Hold on; put her down at 22 or 23, 1 don't want her to take a special steamer and come over hero to wool my hair. It won't do to make her too old, you might point of beauty, I nld g v in the cal £ ho- ing a very inary loo! young irl, bnt ve {compauy, You have mude her by a thorough Par- ing and the in- m of youth, you festive Jerome at his little joke.) er work in the miner, as has been » certainly never s0 far as I know s the pra kings. Ma worker forthe Bonax Klood and O'Brien carried out schemes through the assistance Louis McLean, who was then pre dent of the Bank of Nevads, and car- ried throv all their big schemes, just as Bill Ralston of the Bank of California did with the other fellows. The latter, howeyer, came to grief.” “How ie Bonanza King to-day? Does he keep aloof from his old ac- quaintances! “Not in the least. Riches have made no changoin Mackey. The shake of his hand is precisely the same as of yore,” “‘Carry any headlights in the form of diamonds!”’ I never saw him sport one in my life before or after his miraculous suc- cago Tribune, Genius Rewarded; The Story of I;Imo §ew1ng Machine, A baodsome little b, blus and gold cove with nummuz:i-a'flln.‘., Wil e o GIVEN AWAY to, uy mault porson callng for 1, b any branch or sub-office of The Singor Manutacturing Com- pany, or will be semé by mall, post pald, to any person living a6 & distance from our oftices. 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OMAHA, - - NEBRASKA DEWEY & STONE, St £y SN A (el TUR F B FoRT URNITURE I!_rwim e =il G &0 ORCHARD & BEAN, J. B, FRENCH & CO,, CARPETSIGROCER TS 8 S.W. WYATT WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN UV IEEER., THE STAR TAILOR. Lath, Shingles, cess, He doesn't forget his old triends either, and that's & good trick with Mackey, who is, after all, the best of the crowd.” 1Door W. of Cruickshank's, §ASH, DOORS, BLINDS AND MOULDINGS. Has now » flne complete Btock of Bpring Good " ™ e aon "o e o 0 U 16th and Cuming Sts, OMAHA, NEB