Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 31, 1883, Page 2

| | (3 2 THE DAILY BEE, OMAHA, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1883. PRESIDENT ARTHUR. His Experiences 'ni Kansas and Nebraska Twenty-six Years Ago. What He Saw of Politics, Business and Adventure in the Young Ter- ritories—Flush Times and the Collapse—Graphic Pen Pletures, ——— Correspondence Leavenworth Times. Wasnivaroxn, July 20, 1883, —[Special Letter. ]—Twenty-six years ago, in the early summer of 1857, a young man of fine promise and modest ambition, Wh“f has since become somewhat known to fame, left the city of New York on a prospecting tour through the west, for the purpose of exploring that promising field, with a view to a permanent settle- ment in some inviting locality. This gentleman was then twenty-seven years of age. He had been nine years from college, where he had graduated at the carly age of eightzen. He had been for some time engaged in the practice of law in the city of New York, with reasonable success. But the ‘“‘great west” was then full of promise, and the advantages offer- ed by that section, and which were per- sistently heralded, were not without their allurements t» an ardent mind, eager for a success achieved more speedily than was then usual in the commercial and profes- sional circles of the east. After a lapse of a little less than a quarter of a century, that young man, whose life, except as to its climax, has not been fuller of vicissitudes than falls to the lot of many, became president of the United States. The other day the correspondent of The Times had the rare pleasure of sitting in the library of the lsl"l!l!i(lulll's cosy cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, and hear- ing him recount, in a pleasant, u strained, and sometimes almost gleeful, manner, the incidents and experiences of that Western journey. For this privilege he is indebted to the influential mediation of a distinguished citizen of Kansas, upon whose every undertaking merited success seems to wait. Few are the correspondents who have been able to break through, not so much the president's renurvu—gor he is one of the most charming of talkers—as through the almost unpenetrable barrier of public duties and obligations which begirts him, and goarcely leaves him master of any waking moment, Thrice happy he who is not enly PERMITTED TO PASS THIS BARRIER, but to do so away from the hungry rush and eager waiting of the whierouuu, where every moment isalloted, and where a welcomed visit, unduly protracted, be- comes an intrusion! As I sat, the other morning, waitin the president's leisure to regeive me, could not wonder at his evident parshal- ity for that charming retreat, so near the great city and yet so delightfully rural in its aspects and surroundings. ~Through the cottage, which is of ample dimen- sions, a refreshing breeze was blowing, mumed with flowers, and through the -opened lattices vistas: of grateful foliage and grateful shade stretched far in the distance. From the southern veran- da a noble prospect met the gaze, com- ' prehending a broad sweep of undulating and higha'l deversified landscape, embel- ished with noble trees, shrubbery and flowers—a goodly portion of the city be- yond—the broad river gently flowing be- ' tween wt margins of the sea—and the it whitedome of the capitol re- flocting the ing sunlight. Mu&fiu mmwn of the p resident’s manner of receiving guests, and loud and universal has been the praise in that respect, nothing has been exaggerated. Without abaiting a jot,nor for an instant, from the true dignity that becomes the great office he holds, the president knows well how to relieve his visitor from the slightest feeling of dread or apprehension that he ‘may entertain, and to make him feel that he is meeting asimple gentleman, whose natural gifts of politeness and cordiality are beyond the reach of art. It has been mentioned in the press that the president made A TRIP TO KANSAS IN 1857, and also that he made some investments there, but it falls to your correspondent’s lot to be first to give the full story of that adventure, just as it was received from the adventurer himself, Lest there should be some doubt about it let me say that everything 8aid by the president on the occasion reforred to was taken down by a competent stenographer, whose man- uscript lies before me as I write. If I do not assume to give the writer's precise lan, e, in the order in which in was spoken, it is because the conversation was ily fragmentary and disjoint- ed, as incidents of the journey would re- cur to his recollection, out of their proper order in this narrative. The accuracy of every fact and statement, however, may be implicitly relied upon, and often the resident’s very language is chosen. The lity of the entire report is assured on the highest. sanction, As already stated, the future president visited the west for the double purpose ?l{g making invenman:ll and of establigh- a permanent ‘settlement if a fittin, lws\muti beMwlscwll. Ho was ulf companied by a Mr. Henry D, Gardiner, who afterwards became h?’: law ner, and, who, some sixteen years since, en- tered upon that long journey that knows no retr footsteps. The travels of the two extended over some four months, and the president could not recall with- out access to his ‘papers packed away in his New York ‘house, the names of all the places at which they lwpred. By fi:”n it wour;l&cin.mu fln‘t he com- journey of trip, kept by the &rehdp‘l' traveler, would pmw!'e a v’;lu-» bonanza to the writerfortunate enough to get hold of them, ichigan was first visited en route to the more western states. They stopped also in Wisconsin, ,visiting Milwaukee, Madison, Beloit and Janesville. Thgn then went to Burlington and Keokuk, in Towa, m.kh'filquita a protracted stay in that stat. ey also spent some time in St. Louis, and afterwards went to St. Jo- seph, Missouri, where they remained a month, "The president has a distinct recollection of the oy HOTEL" AT BT, JOE, where they stopped, and of many of the men whom they met there. Among these were Atchison, who had been president of the United States senate and acting viee president, Gen. Stringfellow, an .k:n ‘Calhoun, ;2. pguni‘;:n leaders on pro-sla in Kansas con- troversy. ‘(gzlmnn is better remembered With these men and many others of sim- ilar views, Mr. Arthur and his friend had trequent and. pleasant conversations, and afterwards met some of them in Kansas, 1 Continuing up the river, something of astop was at Omaha. Settlement had just commenced there, and the place was a very small one. The hotel stopped at was, at a later period, called the ‘‘Hern- don House,” in honor of the memory of Mr. Arthur's wife's father, Captain Wm. L. Herndon, United States navy, who with his ship, was lost at sea in Septem- ber of that year, the news of which ca- lamity was received on the homeward journey. Omaha, though a small place place was found to bo a lively one, but not nearly so far advanced as Leaven- worth, which the president learns it has sinco considerably surpassed in popula- tion and commercial importance. He has visited Omaha since, and could hard- ly realize the vast changes that has taken place. It should have been stated in the proper connection that the president re- tains a very agreeable recollection of St. Joseph. T4 feinamibers it A & large pnd busy place, and is not at all surprised at the degreo of importance it has since assumed. THE VISIT TO LEAVENWORTH. The future president reached Leaven- worth at a time of great political oxcite- ment. There were, indeed, strong evi- dences that the final triumph of the free- state cause could not long be delayed; but the leaders on the other side were not disposed to recognize the situation, or to submit without further struggle to such a result. The question of slavery or anti-slavery for the territory and future state was boing everywhere discussed, usually with much heat, and frequently developing into violent and bloody en- counters, The political campaign which in the election of Marcus J. Parrott to congress had just opened. The president was under the impression that Calhoun was tne unsuccessful candidate, but ad- mitted his mistake when assured that the gentleman who enjoyed that distinction was named Ransom, and bore the formid- able surname of Epapuroditus, But Cal- houn wus very active in the canvass, and made many speeches. It need not be doubted on what side were the sympathics in that struggle of the eminent gentleman who has since re- ceived the sufirages of the great republi- can party of the country. He had inher- ited strong anti-slavery convictions from o pious and resolute father, who had been a delegate to the Utica convention where an “‘Apolitionist” had beenanobbed. His father was a great friend of Gerritt Smith, the leading man of that faith in Ney York, and as 4 boy he had seen the great hilanthropiab at his father's house, and carried into maturer life a warm ad- miration of his zeal and sincerity. Young Arthur himself had been early and prom- inently enlisted in the cause. As a law- yer in New York he had been counsel for the state in the celebrated Lemon slave case, which at the time of the visit to Kansas was awaiting decision, The president recollects Parrott very well, and spoke with some euthusiasm of his ability and eloquence as an orator. Not particularly profound in argument, he had a wonderful command of graceful language, was a master of repartee, and, taken all in all, was a dangerous competi- tor on the stump. SOON AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF MR, AR- THUR and his friend in Leavenworth, a big political meeting was held, which, after a fashion that prevailed then and still prevails in the West, was addressed by speakers of both parties. The pro-slavery side was generally represented by talent- ed and earnest young lawyers from the uth, who affected broadcloth mu{vhigh- eeled boots, and whose. oratory Was’ of the fervid order, imbued with devotion to the ‘‘Sunny South,” At this meeting in Leavenworth the platform was projected from the windows of the office of the Planter’s house, where Mr. Arthur and his friend stopped, and Parrott and Calhoun were the principal speakers on the respective sides. = The visitors, with other Eastern gentlemen, were escorted to the platform, and, in the language of the president, ‘participated somewhat in the proceedings.” After the meeting had been in progress some time, and whilo Parrott was speaking, some one in the crowd below shouted, **You're aliar!” There was a retort from the stand, and instantly a pistol was fired. The president estimates that in the course of three seconds twenty or thirty shots must have been fired, which had the effect to clear the platform rather precipi- tately, but apparently did no further damage than the _wuundim( of one man slightly in the arm. The Eastern gentlemen naturrally considered this rather A LIVELY INTRODUCTION 10 KANSAS POLI- 108, but your correspondent could hardly gath- er from the president’s words or manner whether he was more surprised at the fa- cility with which a row could be inau- gurated, or at the different marksman- ship which made- its results so harm- less. The president spoke feelingly of Par- rott's death, and was pained to learn that that event had been preceeded by the almost total wreck of llniu intellectual fac- ulties, At Leayenworth Mr, Arthur found sev- eral of his college friends. One of them was Edward L, Berthoud, an engineer and surveyor, who was at one time city engineer of Leavenworth, Heo drifted off to Colorado at the outbreak of the gold-mining excitement, and If living is probably there now, There was alsoa Mr. Menlo Deifen- dorf, who, with Berthoud, was a class- mate of Arthur's, Fox Deifendorf, well known to all the early residents of Lea- venworth, was in the class below. He also weiit to Colorado, and, 1 believe died there. Mr, Arthur met several other old friends and schoolmates there, but he does not nowerecall their names, He remembers Thomas Ewing, now the well known General Ewing, who was then engaged in the practice of law and recognized him as one of the free stato leaders, though he had little, if any per- sonal intercourse with him, The president does not recollect of hav- ing met D. R. Anthony in Leavenworth, but he knew his family well. They all lived near Union Village, in Washington county, New York, now the town of Greenwich, when THE PRESIDENT'S FATHER lived from the time he (the president) was ten years of age until he became fiftoen, Anthony's sisters and young Arthur at- tended the same school, and the presi- dent spoke of Colonel Anthony as a friend of his elder sister. He also remembers the colonel as one of the older boys in the same school with himself, as wu{l a8 the entire family, and has no doubt that all their names appear in the journal kept by him during that period. He spoke of the family as of Quaker origin, but expi no surprise when assured that if the present head of the house had ever the rigid non-combatant principles of his family sect, he had de- flected widely from his early teachings. Mr. Arthur remained in Leavenworth for some days, and, with his friend, pur- | chnsed a good deal of property there. The residents think they bought two or | three hundred lots in all, but he had no means at hand of establishing their iden- tity or fixing their location. He thought at the time that the investment could not fail to turn out a grand success. This was: the period of ‘“‘flush times” all through the west. Speculation, espe- cinlly in real estate, run wild, Great sales of property were being made, with a view to the building of now ‘‘cities,” and the extension of the sites of such as already had an cxistence. Some exten- sions were made at this t which have long since fallen under the domain of less aspiring agriculture. The president spoke with some amuse- ment U} THE EMBRYO *‘CITIEs” with which the Missouri bluffs were lined, and the magnificent appearance that they presented on paper. 'They were mapped out as having long rows of fine houses, with stately public structures from which the national flag floated—with heavily- laden steamers lying at the busy levees with blooming parks and playing foun- tains! On arriving at the place nothing would be found but two or three tumble- down shanties and possibly a primitive blacksmith shop. ~How accurate that little picture is many a Kansas man of te-day can testify, and many a bitten Eastern investor will sadly corroborate his testimony. Up in Kookuk the prosident saw one corner lot sold for $12,000, which he does not believe has ever been worth one-third of that sum since. When he was in Kansas the president fancied from appearances that everybody was either very rich, or in a fair way to become so without much delay. ~ Every- thing was on a grand scale, and specula- tion, as has been said, had almost assumed the form of a mania, But there was no substantial basis for it all, and when the panic of that year struck the country the bottom fell out with a crash. Everythin, was revolutionized after that, and real estate was a drug in the market for years to come. It follows that the president and his friend did not amass fortunes from their Leavenworth investment. They took their titles home with them, and from time to time disposed of some of the lots, nmn{ as presents to their friends, none of whom appear to have realized anything from them. The lots were undoubtedly in due time sold for taxes, and are now, pethaps, the sites of handsome dwellings or profitable:business honses. LEANENWORTH T0 LAWRENCE, From Leavenworth Mr, Arthur went to Lawrence by stage, and he remembers agroesbly the excellent natural road up- on which the stage ran through the Dela- ware Indian reservation, and the pictur- esque country that bordered it. He was a tone less enthusiastic in describing the horrible ride to Weston, along the bluffs and across the Missouri bottom. The stage tipped over more than once, but the travelers being on_the outside, they had timely notice of the catastrophe and managed to alight in a safe, though gen- erally a soft, place. Then there was the the usual prying up of the vehicle ‘with fence rails, and the long muddy walks in mercy to the struggling horses. It sheuld have been mentioned before that Mr. Arthur visited Fort Leaven- worth several times, and .was charmed with its beauty, as so many thousands have been since. He does not recollect who was in command then, though if it was not Gen, Harney he was certainly there during the following spring. The president knew Gen. Harney well, but had lost sight of him for some years until he was making his preparations to visit Florida st spring, when he received a letter from the general, inviting him to to visit him at Pass Christian, Mississippi, where he is now enjoying & venerable and setene old age. At Lawrence, Mr. Arthur and his friend stopped at the *‘American House,” which wss destroyed by the cut-throat Luantrell in his destructive raid of 1863, Here the president FIRST MET GENERAL JAMES H. LANE, better known to all old Kansans, and still affectionately spoken of by them, as Jim” or “0Old Jvim” Lane, Lane intro- duced himself to the visitors, and the president recollects talking with him a great deal during the next two or three days. Lane also introduced Sam. Walk- er, known to and liked by every man of the old times, as one of the sturdiest, truest, bravest, and most efticient friends of freedom that ever touched the terri- tory. The president himself spoke of him and almost in terms of endearment, styling him the ‘‘celebrated Sheriff Walker,” and adding, “I always liked Walker, very much, indeed.” Inanother connection the president said: ““I think that the man who most impressed me, of all the men I met and talked with at that time, was Sam. Walker.” From these gentlemen, Lane and Walker,the prelisent says he gained quite, a clear idea of the political situation in the territory as it existed at that time. One morning Mr. Arthur started with his friend to ride from Lavrence to Le- compton, along or near the Kansas river, They were on horseback, and it was a beautiful summer morning in August, About half'way between Lawrence aud Lecompton they were overtaken by Lane and Walker, who were going up to Le- compton to attend to some business at the land office. Some of the mob at that lage had threatened,or it was rumored hat they had threatened, to hang Lane if he ever came there. But as he had important business to transact he thought he wonld risk it, and go over with Walk- er and attend to it, thinking there was little or no real danger. While the party were discussing the chances of danger SEVERAL MOUNTED MEN APPROACHED, coming from the direction of Lecompton, and seeing Lane they put their heads to- gother and held quite an animated talk among themselves, 1In fact, they seemed to be somewhat excited. After a few moments conversation they put spurs to their horses and returned towards Le- compton. Lane was confident that they had gone back to give notice of his coming, and was very anxious to ascertain if his party were all armed. When he learned that the strangers had no weapens whatever he was greatly amazed, He could under- stand how a man could come into the ter- ritory with one shirt, or none, bnt how ho could be desperate enough to invade Kansas without a brace of revolvers pussed his comprehension. Having an extra weapon, Lane insisted on foisting it upon the future president, who finally took it, with some amusement. if not ap- prehension, and thrust it into his belt, wondering somewhat why he shonld so soon have been transformed from a peace- ful traveler into an armed adventurer. The president said he did not believe there was any danger, and Walkershared that opinion. Both thought that rumor and the newspapers, then few but viru- lent, nad exaggerated the gravity of the situation, Finally the little cavalcade rode inte what the president called the “‘village” of TLacompton, but which, in_the_swelling nomenclature of the trmes was known as a “city.” Whether village or city, it consisted of a few scattered houses along a straggling street, at the end of which was situated the land office. THE DANGER ALL IN TAUK, As they rode along a large crowd of boys, ranging from tweive to sixteen years of age, followed them, yelling, “There goes Jim Lane! Let's hang him!" with other blood-thirsty cries of that na- ture; but there was nothing at all of the serious character of a mob, and the party rode along without interruption to the land office. Sixty or seventy men stood around in front of the office, and seemed to be hav- ing a parley among themselves, but no one attacked Lane nor was any violence threatened. Several friends came up, however, and had a whispered conversa- tion with him, and advised him not to stay there, as he would certainly be at- tacked. Mr. Arthur adyised him to re- main, and Walker, theugh he said llttle, did not appear to apprehend danger. The president considerately remarked, in this connection, that Lane and his advisers were more competent than he was at that time to estimate the chances of danger,as their experience had been greater and their knowledge of the character of the opposition was more exact. The result was that Lane received back his pistol, much to its temporary custodian’s relief, and returned to Lawrence without trans- acting his business, Walker accompany- ing him. The president remembers one circum- stance that probably INDUCED LANE TO GO BACK, and that was that a man named Bailey had been killed the night before, and Lane attributed it to politics, the de- ceased himself having ‘mun an anti- slavery man, It turned out afterward that it was only the result of a_drunken brawl, with which politics had nothing whatever to do. The man had been stab- bed, and the perpetrator of the crime had not at that time been found. Lane ac- cepted the killing as an evidence that the town was not a favorable one to remain in, and he therefore took his leave at ence, After Lane's departure Mr. Arthur, ac- companied by his fellow traveller, went to call on Governor Robert J. Walker, with whom he was acquainted. He had been secretary of the treasury, and his daughter is now the wife of ~Attorney- General Brewster. Knowing the family well, Mr. Arthur could not but be im- pressed with the “‘state” which the goy- ernor maintained, - This bit'of description is literally the president's own. “The building in which he lived was about one-third larger than the room in which we are sitting. [This room ap- peared to be eighteen or twenty feet long y ten or twelve wide.] It was a story- and-a-half house, with two rooms on the ground floor, and the upper half-story ~ontained a single apartment, with a small ante-room. The stairway was on the outside of the building, after the fash- ion of the south and southwest. The lower floor was used as the oftice of the secretary of the territory. THE GOVERNOR'S QUARTERS, “We went up the outside stairs and through tha little ante-room in the rear of the building. In one corner of this room lay an old saddle, and in another a trunk or two. There was a big pile of law books in still another corner, thrown down in the promiscuous manner of corn sacks, There was no carpet on the floor. We passed through into the front room, and there found the governor sitting at a round table covered with green baize. A few law books were on the floor, and nothing else in thé room except the chair UPOA Wi o&u nor was sitting, hard at work.” As is well-known, the position of gover- nor of Kansas was a very important _and trying one at that time, and the president, as has been mentioned, was much im- pressed with the surroundings and associ- ations, and naturally thought that they could not be very agreeable. Two two gentlemen remainéd in conversation with the governor for an hour or two, and then went down to the hotel to dinner. Another curious, and to the coming president rather a startling incident, oceured at the dinner table. A man who had been sitting at Mr. Arthurs left, and who had been plying him with questions, was suddenly dragged out by the deputy sheriff, upon the charge of having killed Bailey on the previous night! PRESSED TO DEFEND A MURDERER. Learning that his neighbor at the din- ner table was a lawyer, the accused, whose name is not remembered, insisted upon retaining him for the defensoin the coming examination, which was to occur immediately. Excuses and declinations were of no avail; the man was very much determing that the young lawyer from the east should remain and defend him. Finrlly, Mr. Arthus agreed to go with him before a magistrate, but upon arriv- ing there succeeded in inducing him to om’llduy other counsel. he oftice of the justice was, up stairs over the land office. It was a two-story frame building, probably the largest in the town. The president remembors vesy well the appearance of the justice when they went up into the ‘‘court- room” at the time fixed for the examina- tipn. He sat there without coat, and his unsocked feet, partially covered with an old pair of carpet slippers, protruded far into the room, The sheriff or per- haps a deputy, a tall, gaunt fellow, who had to stoop when he he walked about the room to avoid colliding with the ceil- ing, stuck his bushy head out of the window, and with the immortal formula of “Oyez, oyez," etc., etc., announced that the court was about to open! A still more amesing and impressive circumstance, which LING EYES and an infectious laugh, was that the sheriff had in this room in which the magistrate sat all the prisoners under his charge, was obliged to take his prisoners with him, and he had them all herded up in the corner like so many sheep! The })P\midunt remembers a little red-headed ellow, apparently about sixteen years of age, who had been arrested for killing his own cousin in a quarrel over a game of cards. There was some half-dozen other prisoners, all crowded into the corner and surrounded with a kind of paling, The examination of the alleged mu derer continuen for a day or two, and the president believes he was finally discharg- ed; but in the meautime hcmn{lliu friend had returned to Lawrence. Again recurring to his recollections of Sam Waiker, the president said: *‘I was more particularly impressed with SHERIFF WALKER, 1 think, than with apy wan I met out there, ed with him a great deal at Lawrence, and I have no doubt he will *still remember our ride over to Lecomp- ton.” Who can doubt itt The president recullects visiting one or two other places in the territory, but can- not now recall the particulars. He did not go up to Topeka, then scarce- ly more than a mere settlement, as he was informed, but which he now knows to bo a large and flourishing city. But for the panic of 1857, and its far reaching consequences,the president feels persuaded that he would have settled in the west. In that event the probable careor, and the influence that it may have had upon the fortunes of the country, open up a field of interesting but hope. less conjectnre. SUMMARIZING THE RECOLECTIONS" of his memorabie trip, the president sug- gosted that they were entirely novel and very exciting to him, The excitement at the political meetingin Leavenworth,and its sudden dispersal by the shooting; the sitting at the dinner table in friendly con- versation with a man dragged out a few minutes later to answer to the charge of murder committed the night before; the incidents of stage riding over the roads both excellent and excreable; the ride to Lecompton and the peculiar experiences of the visit there—all these incidents not unusual to people in a western territory, were entirely novel and somewhat excit- ing to aman reared in and fresh from the orderly society and finished civilization of New York. It may be added that the president spoke depreciatingly of THE IMPORTANCE OF THIS EPISODE in his personal history, as of scarcely enough consequence, in fact, to justify publication; but the writer ventures to dispute the president’s judgment in this respect, and to believe that the experi- ences which he has kindly recounted for the special benefit of the people of Kan- sas will be found of ]vecu{inr interest to those yet among us, who, in the early days, amid trials, discouragements and dangers, securely laid the foundations of u strong and enduring commonwealth, The cordial and winning manner of the president has already been touched upon. This was maintained to the last, despite the strain upon his patience, occasioned by the correspondent’s perhaps too boldly expressed, but certainly sincerely enter- tained opinion, that if the president could personally meetall the people of the country there would be few other than Arthur men. W. 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Passenger Elevator to all five rooms. CHAS. SHIVERICK, 1206, 1208 and 1210 Farnam Street, Omaha Neb. E. B. CHAPMAN & CO. Wholesale Grocers! 1213 Farnam St., Omaha, Neb. Lt OMAHA, - plate-iron business, Second-hand Boilers will be kept on hand. cor. 19th and Plerce Streets. WILSON'S Sl It Build all kinds of Steam Boilers. Smoke Stacks, Breeching Lard, Water and Oil Tanks, and do |a genera Repairing done in City and Country. Works| NEBRASKA, All work Done at Eastern Prices and Warranted ! 1 Having had many years experiencein the trade in different parts of the country, Tam confident I can give satisfaction, having the best shop and tools in the State. Shop J. M. WILSON Proprietor. Steam Packing AND SCHOOL BELLS. Double and Single Acting Power and Hand PUMPS, STEAM POMPS, Engine Trimmings, Mining Machinery,{ Belting, Hose, Brass and Tron Fittings, at wholesalo and rejail. HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, CHURCH Corner 10th Farnam St., Ongaha Neb. GATE CITY PLANING MILLS! MANUFACF EKS OF Carpenters’ Materials —ALSO— Sash, Doors, Blinds, Stairs, Stair Railings, Balusters, Window & Door Frames, & First-class facilities for the manufacture of all kinds of Mouldings. Planing and Matchi) » dalt) Orders from the countey wil b promptly executed, G Wk ot eyl Address all communications to A. MOYER, Proprietor. 4 OMAHA, - 2l e A. M. CLARK, iPainter & Paper Hanger SIGN WRITER & DECORATOR, WHOLESALE & RETAIL i WINDOW SHADES & CURTAINS, 4 Cornices, Curtain Poles and Fixtures, WPAINTS, OIL & BRUSHES, 107 South 14th Street, NEBR ASKA PIANOSKLORGANS On Long Time--Small Payments. At Manufacturers Prices. A Hospe, Jr 1619 DODGE STRE ONMAZELA. - - Particular attention iven to re airing. J. H. CIBSON, CARRIAGE AND WAGON MANUEAGTORY. CORNER TWELFTHZANDZHOWARD ] IRETS, mwras* Batis act™c aranteod. Skylights &e Thirteenth Street T. SINEOI.D, MANUFACTURER OF Galvanized lion Comices, Window Caps, Finials, Neb PERFECTION IN Heating and Baking Is only attained by using CHARTER OAK Stoves and Ranges, WITH WIRE GAUZE OVER DOORS. For sale by MILTON ROGERS & SONS OMAHA-