Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 26, 1885, Page 7

» (______________-.-.————-——-—————-——— COUNCILBLUFFS ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEW 8, RALLYING REPUBLICANS. Chris, Strand avd E. L. Shngart Nomi- nated for Ward Aldermen, Bennett be Alderman-ate John to Large, The republicans held their caucuses Isst night. They were well attended, and by representative men. Aldermen weros nominated in the Third Fourth wards, and delegates chosen in all wards to the city to-day. All these delegates have been insteucted to vote for John Bennett, the county treasurer, for alder. man at large. FIRST WARD, A. 8. Bonham, chairman, and V. S. ler, seoretary. Dolegates—E. B. Gardofer, A, J. Bump, N. W. Williame, M. B. Brown, J. J. Newton. Committeeman—E. B. Gardaier, SECOND WARD, Ed. Mott chslrman, and Jacob Sims secretary. Delegates--T. J, Evans, Frank Grass, Jacob Sims, Ed. Mott, D. M. Coonell, J. 0. Rhodabeck, G.H. Jynes, A.S. Clough, W. G. Dorland. Committeeman—J. C. Rhodabeck, THIRD WARD, W. A. Wood chairman, and G, F. Smith sccretary, For alderman, L, E. Bridensteln, F. 0. Gleazon, P. C. DeVol, Chris Straub and E. B. Washburn were namea. Mr. Bridenstein and Mr. DaVol deolined. Informal ballot taken resulting: Brid. cnatein 11, Gleason 13, Etraub 8, Wash- burn 1, W. A, Wood 1, N. P. Dodge 1, J. Bennett 1. Formal bilot—Straub 29, Glesson 4, Wood 3, Berdenstein Bennett 1. Nomination of Straub made uaanimous. Delegates—J. M. Phillips, D, B. Clark, N. P, Dodge, D. Malthey, W. A, Wood, J. W. Rodefer. Committeeman—Tohn Lindt. FOURTH WARD. Dr. Hart chairman and A. secrotary. Informal ballot for alderman—E. L, Shugart 54, G. 8. Lawson 34. Formal ballot—Shugart 70, Lawson 34, Mr. Shugart’s nomination made unani- mous. Delegates—Dr., Evans, F. Wies, L. 0. Empkle, E. Shugart, A. B. Walker, A. J. Hart, O. M. Brown, G. S. Laweon, Committecman—Walter Smith. BOARD OF TRADE. Judge Casady Wanted for Govern- ment Director of the Union Pa- cific—Other Business. and 9 2y J. Brown N. J. Lawrence, J. T. At a well attended meeting of the board of trade last evening the following resolution was adopted: ‘Whereas, The eastern terminus of the Unlon Pacific rallroad is in the clty of Council Bluffs, and the interests of the city closely identified with the interests of the said company, so far as compre- hended In the volame and character of busiaess transacted atand through this puint, Whereas, The importancs of both and the Interests of the people everywhere seem to point to the necessity cf a gov- ernment director in the affairs of the road, who 18 at this terminus perma- nently; and, Whereas, Such officer and director should be a person ~f dietingaished and unexceptionable character, of the strictest integrity, with a wide experience in the observation and mavagement of our local concerns, having an intimate knowledge of the relations existing between the sald railroad company, and the other railroad companies, doing business with the Union Pacific at this and other contigucus polnts; and urquestioned qualifications and character aund reputati n above reproach and an ex. tended publicacquaintancs with busine: interests aud men, therefore be it unani- mously Resolved, By the board of trade of Council Bluffs, rapresenting all these, en- tial elementsfof the business intereste of the city, that it is our opinion, that the Hon, J. P. Casady, of said city, combines all of the foregoing chatacteristies, and in glving this expraseion as to his charac- ter and (ualifications, we &t the same time, urge upon the executive department of the government hisap- pointment as such directcr, in behalf of the government of the United States in the management of said ra lroad com- pany, a3 provided by the charter of sald company and the various acts of congress supplementary thereto, Some very important manufactoring enterprises were discussed and plans laid which when successfully developed will give Counsil Bluaffs a boom in the manu- facturing line. Hon, John Scott presented s petition for the signature of those willing to obli- gate themselves for the sum of §: defray expenses of Iowa's exhibit at New Orleans, Mr. S. Hads and J. C. De- Haven were appioted to secare other signatures, the signers simply endorsing, 80 that the money may be advanced by some bank, until ths logislatare meast and make the torded appropriations, The move is 1o relieve the financlal stralt of the Iowa commission and make Iowa's exhibit worthy of the state in all respsots A DISGRACEFUL ROW, Walters and One of the Fire Linds Have it Hot and Heavy, Yesierday Chief Walters, of the fire de- partment, and Charles Nicholson, cne of the best known moembers of the depart- meant, had a set-to, It seems to bave grown out of the fact that the ofticial positions in the fire depariment are being made merely political poeilions. The present chief in his anxiety t> ratain his position is sald to be working the wires, and securing pledges of prospestive alder- men, a practice which other aspirants for the chlifainship sre said to be fo!- lowirg aleo, Nicholson is said 0 have aspirations fur the chiefwinship himaelf, and to have been rather working agsinst Waltere, Tuesday night the two had @ war of words, and yesteriay it was renewed on the street, and cu minated iv blows. Accordlng to Walters' version «f the affuir, he asked Nicholson why he was trying to thaart bis plans, and tals- ing sgalast him, etz , and Nicholson de- nying that he had eald certain things, the two went to call on a party who claimed that Nichclson bad made such remarke. On raturning, Walters says Nicholeon became very abusive, was quite drank, and suddenly hit him two or three blows. Walters attempted to defend himeclf, and a policeman coming along Walters had him arrest Nicholson for assault. Waltera alto discharged Nicholson from the force tight on the spot, and then Informed the fire commit- tee of hisaction, Nicholson declined to tell hia slde of the affair to TrE Beg re- porter, He ls known as one of the best tiremen in the city, aud were It not for his occasionally Indalging too freely In the bowl he would have little difficulty in holding a good place In the depsrtment. It secems that the trouble originated mafnly from the making the departmenc amere bit political machinery, inatead of a property saving service, 10WA ITE Keokuk has packed ninety-five thou- sand hogs this winter, The loss of the whisky tax amounts to $22,000 in Ottumwa. Dr. Quigley, the Mt. Ayr bodyenatcher, bas been indicted by the grand jury. The sash, door and blind manufacturers of all the river towns in the state have entered into a combination for the future control of the trade. A Davenport produce dealer bought in Ogtober last 2,000 bushels of onions at 10 cents per bushel, selling them a few days ago in Chiesgo for §1.45. “‘The Davenport Cramation Scclety"” Invites correspondence with all persons desivous of a tropical send off to the other shore and prevention of resurrac- tion, Ransom Day bas sued the city of Mt, Pleasant fpr $10,000 damsges. Sult is brought on account ¢f an injury received by Mr. Day from falling through an open cellar door In front of & grocery. The ladies of the Woman's Christlan Temperance Unlon, of Stvart, by the atd of the Lord and the help of the sheriff, were completely successful in raiding the four saloona of the town, securing the self-convicting whisky in each place. The polics of Burlington deservos belt. They nipped four burglars in ono day las5 week, and it wesn’t a werm day either. What is st/ll more surprising is the fact that {he knights of the jimmy had not been cperating i the town, and the catch was a display of uncommon ehrewdness. The third sounding on the north shore of the Missouri riyer at Sioux Oity for the purpose of determining the depth at which a rock foundation for a bridge could be recured, reached a depth of 75 1., | feet when the augur broke off in tough clay. The soundings o far prove thata rock foundation carnot be found at much less than 100 feet. The Sigourncy News, with wise fore- thought, remarks: As there is a great deal of snow on the ground all over the state and the states north and west of us, great caution should bo ueed to remove all poste, wocd, lumber, ete,, from bot— tom land aloog our stresms, and also to firmly secure fencing along the water courses, as the heavy snow which now mantles the carth Js liable to go off sud- denly, which will produce an unusual flocd. A little precaution will save a large amount of property which would otherwise ke swept away, occasioning no small loss. Last October a horse wss stolen from a farmer in Van Buren county. The thefs was charged to Henry Spillman. He was arzeeted in Missouri. Spillman claimed and with good showlng that he was in Missouri the date when the horss was stolen, and sald witnesses would come from Missourl to subatantiate the claim, but they did not, and on circum- stantial evidence he was found guilty and sentenced to three years at Fort Madison and immedistely taken there. Sinca then it has been fully established that Spillman was in Missouri and knew nothing of the matter. Goyernor Sher- man has pirdoned Spillman. It was sald by the governer tv have been a case of mistaken identity clear through, and that the partles prosecuting wers cn- tiraly honest in all their efforts in con- viction. o — MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD, Ninetcen Metals Worth Morc Than $1,000 & pound. Followlag are the names of those metals valued at over $1,000 an avoir- dupious pound, the figures given repres- enuing the value per pound; Vanadium—A white metal discovered in 1830, $10,000, Rubidium—An alkaline metal, so- called for exhibiting dark rad lines in the spectrum aalysis, £0,070, Zircomum—A metal obtained from ‘the minerals zlrcon and hyacinth, in the form of a black powder, $7,200. Lithiom—An alkaline metal; the light- est meta! known, $7,000, Glucinum-—A metal in the form of a grayish black powder, §5,400. Calolum—The me'allic base of lime, $1,500. Strontlum—A mallsable metal of a yellowish color, 81,200, Terblum—Obtaived from the mineral gadolioite, found in Sweden, $4,080. Yttriam—Discovered in 1828, is of a grayish black color, aud its luster perfect- ly metallic, $4,080. Erbium —The metal found associated with yttrium, $3,400. Cerinm—A metal of high specific grav- ity, » graylsh white color, and a lamellar textare, $3,400, 3 Dibymium—A metal found assoclated with cerlom, §3 200, + Ruthenium—Of a gray color, very hard and brittle extracted from the ores of platinum, $2,400, Rhodium—Of a white color and meta'- lic luster, aud extremely hard and brittle. It requires the strongest heat that can be preduced by a wiad farnace for its fusion, $2,300, Niobium--Previouely named colum. b'num, fiest discovered in an ore found at New Loadon, Conn., §2,300, Bariaom—The metsllic bass of baryta, 1,800, Pal'adium—A metal dlscoverad in 1802 and fouad in very small geains, of & steel gray color and fibrous structure, $1,400 Osmium—A tritle, gray-colored metal, found with platinum, §1,300, Iridium—Fouud native as an alloy with osmium in lead gray scales, and is the heavies: of kuowd substancea, $1,000. L — The Electric Light Pool, CHigAGo, Feb, 25,—About one hundred rep- resentitives of the various electrle lighting corupanies of the United States and Canadas et here this morning to perfect an_ organiza- tion, with a view to advancing their various interests. Committees on permanent organ. ization und to se ect topics for discussion were appointed and adjowrnment taken until this alteraoon, e —— Seal of North Carolina Smoking tobuc- co is the best, POKER DOTS. ‘Woman's Institation, Chicago News, ““Hubby, what wers you dreaming about last night when you said you would straddle the blind?” ““Me? Strd—— Oh, yes, [ was dream- ing I was going for a horseback rids on a blind horse.” “Oh, I mee. That accounts for the rest you said. You were going to ridee overand call on your auntle, weren't you, hubby?" He Knew Its Value. New York Sun, A citlzen who had been playing poker the night before dropped a blus chip Into tne contribaution box by mistake. After service he went to the deacon who had passed the plate and told him of the mis- take, ““So I'll just glve you a dollar In ita place,” he said, ‘‘and we'll keep the matter quiet.” *‘No you don't,” replied the deacon, ignoring the money offered. “That's a blue chip. It's worth §5."” An Experience at Poker, Chicago News, A dlspatch frcm New York to the Daily News In_ralation tb the trial of Pollce Capt. Williame, who s charged with not using means to suppress gambl- ing, says that the captain read a tele. gram from a Chicago gentleman who offered to glve testlmony In behalf of Capt. Willlams. The gentleman referred to 1f Mr. Glov- anni Bresean, artlst, 242 Wabash avenue, He was found to-day by a reporter of the Daily Nows, where he was busily en- at w_rk on his picture, “The Dream of Faust.,” He said; ““Two vears ago I had oceaslon to vislt New York city. I stopped at the Brunswick andthere met a finely-dressed man who represented himself to bo a traveler for a silk house. Upon invitation I accompanied him to a room over a saloon to play a friendly gamo of poker. Two others were in the game. We had plenty of champagne and Iota of 50-cent cigars. First thing I knew I lost $260 in cash; then my dlamond pin went, and at last I staked my watch and chaln, Thoy went, but before I loet them 1 saw that my new acqualntance had five cards up his sleeve, 1 took oc- casion to count the deck and found five cards too many. 1 didn’t say much, but went and repcrted the matter to Captain Williame, who was in command of the precicet In which this bappened. 1 gave him a description of my pssudo friend. Ho sent out two detectives, who in about two hours srcested him. Next day I appeared In the police court to prosecute, The judge dismissed the man on the ground that poker- playing was not gambling. Capt. Wil- llams took the man aside, and, after talk- ing to him awhile, made him give back all my money, my pin and my watch and chain. Now here is the point. I of- fered Capt. Williams $100 in cash for what he had done for me. He refused to take acent. I afterward offered the two detectives $10 each for their trouble but they told me their orders were not to take money. Thatisthe reason that when I saw Capt Willlams was in trouble I wired him that I would be willing to come and testify in bis favor.’’ A Poker Btory. A good story comes from Troy, Lincoln, county, Missouri, which is told at the ex- penee of a landlord whoss love for the ex- citing game of poker caused him to part with a well-known wallet one night dur* ing last week, Having ordered a load or two of cord-wood from a farmer, the latter In due time dellyered the same In front of hls customer’s resldence, when not long after a seedy-looking individusl came along armed with a saw aud buck and secaring the joh went to work in dead earnest, for which he was to receive the munificent sum of $1. Accomplishing the task just as the bell rang for supper, he was asked to partake of the meal, which Invitation he accepted without much pressing. Sup- per over he was passed the dollar for the wood job, and loitterlng around the store ho heard his benefactor invite several friends there to join him in a friendly game of poker, to which they readily as- sented. The heaver of wood Ilcoked complacently on the game for a time, and addressing himself to the host re- quested the privilege of faking a hand, saylog that although apparenty de:tl- tute, he would blow in the dollar, and adding that cards wera the cause of his present degraded position In eociety. All advice on tho part of the plagers for the fellow to hold on to his only dollsr proved unavailing and fically he was adiitted to the game. Ina shert fime he found his winnings swelled to $50, when exasperatad, one of the party raised the pot to $200, think- ing by that means to freeza the fellow out, Going down in his boot-leg he pulled forth a roll and coverlng the bet, son found, to the dismay of the crowd, that the ‘‘boodle” was again h's, A szene followed which st one fime prom-— ised to become a cause cclebre at Troy, but the cheek of the wood-sawyer carried him successfully through the woods. He was surrounded by the crowd and threat- ened with death, arrest, cremation, pul- veriziog and even a dose of dynamite did he not return their money, Did ha do it! Not a bit of it, bu% drawing a pair of Smith & Wessons he defied them all and threatensd the “‘whole crew” with arrest for runnfng a gambvling hosse. No orrests were made, and the slick gant takivg the train for St. Louis bade the Torjaus a gentle *‘ta-ta, au revo'r,” until next time, Big Botting. San Fran cisco Call, “Faro was well enough for alight diet,” said an old timo gambler, *‘but the great game at the Comstock mines in the early days was poker, and it was played strictly on the honest, and for all it was worth. There may have been more or less hogging In the petty gamer, played by outsiders, but I mean that everything was above-board when the great poker sharps met in councll, Their r:galar game was unlimited as to stakes, and a $20 ente aplece, when ovly three or four were playlng, and & $100 ants from the dealer when five were playing, and the latter case the deal passing to the winner. Those werc the days when you saw tidy blufling, or guessed at it rather, for you rarely get & chance to look into the players’ hands **1 have seen $1,400 bet on a pair of lings and take the pot with 600 already m. 1cannowcall to mind two lively gomes [ saw In Bili Gibson's house. Oae of them was a small game in which there were five blayers, but where the ante only §20 from the dealer. Tom D, w dealing, and cld C, came in on two palrs; tens and eights, and raised the pot to $120. Three staid out, but D. having s palr of kings, made the pot good, snd ame back with a $400 raise. Old O. chipped io, drew one card thit was no good, and passad. D. took three cards wok a peep at h's draw, and bat $900, which C, called a3 quick as & shot, and THE DAILY BEE---THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1885 ost his monoy, as D. had captured an ace and two fives,” *‘The other game was one in which Jowett A y Steve J——, Old O—o and Bill Gibson were playing. Each man antied §20 every time, and each man had passed out threo times, 8o that there were four antes, all around, making £1,286 in the pot, Gld C—— was deallng and all passed to him when he opened the pot for 8320, nual(ingb it $1,000 In _all Jewett A—called the bet and so did Bill Gibson, while Steve J.——went $800 better, Old O——called this, but other dropped out. There were $3,200 then in the pot, and J. drew one card, while C. drow three. After the draw J. tapped himself for 81,600, which was all he had on the table, and O. called, aa there was no room for o ralse, J.showed down aces and fours,”and C. raked In the $6,- 400 with a pair of sixes drawn to the pair of nces he had held up, You can be- lieve me that for two-palr betting that was pretty lively sport. “‘Steve J. made the largest winning at one poker winning that 1 saw on the Comastock, ou which occasion he pocketed a good $10,000, Bill Gibson lost in two months at poker just $15,000; §9,400 the first night and $5,600 the next. The work of those two nighte, by the way, cost him a huge fortune. He had just got a sure pointer on Crown point, waich was then salling at §7 or $8, and started down town to give an crder for as much as his $15,000 in cash in hand would cover., On the way he etepped into his house and found the boys walting for him to opena poker game. The result was that he sat down to play with them for a little while, took a hieader in bad luck and dropped his cah, entirely forgetting the pointer that had been given him. Crown Point went up to $1,900, so that Glbson, 1f he had carrled out his origlnal intention, would have cleared anywhere between §3,000,000 and §4,- 000,000. “If I bad time to think them up J could toll you any number of gambling stories, but you would ecarcely care to have too big a bunch of them in one lump, and so 1'll ask you to excuse me, as I am expected home about now. Béfore say- ing good-by, however, I'll take the lib- erty of giving you a plece of advice Never play poker with a stranger, and don't bet at taro unlees your income is large enough to permit that sort of thing asan occacional amusement; and doa’t even do it then if you find you have not etrength of mind enough to quit when you have lost a certain amount.” Poker Sharps at Sea, New York Sun. A recent London cablegram in the Sun eaid there was a revival of the outery 8gainst gambling on the Atlantic steam- sbips, and many letters have been pub- liched giving instances of passengers be- Ing fleeced by card-sharps. It was also conjectored that some o1 the professional gamblers, having been starved oat of thls city, were plying their vocation on the steamers. These travellng sharperas are sometimes called ocean tramps. They are not confined to themale sex, and were crossing and recrossing the Atlantic before the poker sharps and brace gam- blera were driven out of the'r favorite dens by the police. Two of these sharpers are slender, bright girls who are familiar to ocean travelers in the summer season. Not long sgo the writer eaw them on board a fast steamer for one of thelr per- iodical round trips, and thoy appeared very pleasant to thé eye. They were simply yet richly dressed in becoming trav- eling suits. One of them had an alligator tourist’s bag slung over hershoulder, and the other, with equal grace and archnees, carrled a pair of marine glaeses, The small, snug gray hats that surmounted their pretty heads of neatly done-up hair, their close-fitting jackets and strong yet shapely rhoes all bespoke experienced travelers, As they stood at the steamer’s rail watching the busy, jostling crowd they were the cynosure of all eyes. ‘They wers not unattended. Looming up in the background with a bland face was the male guardian of the pretty pair. As the younger men who were going to be theic fellow passengers eyed them with i1l concealed admiration the gray-mous- tached chaperone frowned in a manner that was discouraging to the most auda- clous. As the reporter gazed at the pleture he was startled by feeling a huge red hand upon his shoulder, and hearing a volce in his car that sounded as if it came from the depth of the gea, It said: “Well, cld man!” Tarnipg around, the reporter saw the rotund form of the jolly chief officer of the steamer, ths flagship of the line. “What, are you looking at thoee glrls, eh?” “Yer. T wonder who they are—Eng- lish girls going home with papa afier doing the states, I suppote; or, may be, they’re Boston belles abandoning thelr crade and barbarous native land. 'Lhey're protty gitle, anyhow, and 1 feel jeslous siready of that gaunt, round-shouldered dude who is making up to the fair-haired one in opite of her father's scowl.” » The jolly officer burat into a peal of Jaughter, which reached the ears of the beauties at the rafl. They turned, looked at him, crimeoned with resentment, and haughtily left the rail to go below or get out of the way of the officer’s eyes. “‘Knglish swells cr Boet:n bel es, eh? That's_your way of reckoning it, s it?’ laughed the jolly tar. ‘‘Why, my dear fellow, you're all off. Those are the three cleverest swindlers that workjthe herring pond. I presume you've he: of the card sharps and confidencs opera- tors who spend their tlme during the summer months between New York and Liverpool fleecing thelr fellow-passen— gors. Well, that's the slickest trio m the bueine 1 bave had 'em twice on this ship, and on the eecond voyage they got so deep into the pock- ets of two young Englishmen western bound that the skipper got thwart their hawse and confined thém to their state- room for the rest of the passage. Yon #ee, they book as a father and two daughters, and as soon as the ship's in blae water they begin to throw out eig- nals, First one and then another green- horn runs alongside and makes fast, Then they sound him, If he is clever or on short allowance they sheer off and let him alone, But if he's what you Yan kees call well fixed, they make fast to him, fliet with him, drink fizz end brandy i garct tes with him, and in due time play poker cr nap or baccarat with him. The poor dupe thinks they are too awfally nice for any- thing, All the other lady passesgers are below, or off the wind, snd he thinks it a charmipg Amerlcan charasteristic, this freedom ard audacity and good fel lowship, The cover—ihat's the old sharp—he makesa protense of shorten- ing #all once in a while, butit's only a blind, my boy, Then, the first thing you know, jast as you make the light ship, Mr, Greenhorn is cleaned out of every ehilling, and may have chucked in half a dozea checks or promissory notes besides, ‘‘They're the hardest class of frauds to tackle, because no skipper |kes to run afoul of a lady pesengers. Suppose he should maks a mistske and order a young 4| The man was very drunk, Indy whose worse fault is that she s o | == littie pay, t5> keep to her stateroom, as he can, under British law? Why, she might mekolt as hot s o'd Harry for the compsny; for such an action would be false imprisonment of the worst kind. *‘My old man took his chances though and the damee! will give our line a wide berth when they are operating in tha futare. Some of the agents have black listed & Ict ot the jmost noted of these rouges, but new ones appear every now and then, and as long as there ars goese there will be foxes, It scoms almost im possible o keap the poker sharps off the ocean steamers. but we do our bost to keep cur patrons from belng swindled oven at tho rlek of tabooing the wrong person,” e — A MYSIERY SOLVED, Neither Murdered New York Sun, Capt. C. . Cutlar of Clalon Mills Pa., purchased a ticket for Omaha at a rail- road ticket office In this city yesterday. ‘That ticket,” sald he ‘s for a man who for twenty years has believed himself to be a murderer flseirg from justice, and whose frlends. on the other band, have for twenty yoars thought he was the victim of the man whom he believed he bad murdered. His name is Alexander Baer, and it was only a few weeks ago thet he found out he was not a murder- er.” or a Murderer. “Bacr worked for a me In 1863, He was paying attention to a girl named Hathaway, and 1 thivk they were en- gaged to be marrled. She was a servant at the laomberman's .boarding houte. In the fall of that year a good.looking young Scotchman by the name of Gray Cameron came to my mills to work, He belonged somewhere in Steuben county New York. He soon cut Aleck Baer out with the Hathaway girl, and tho result was that the two bacame bitter enemies. They worked in the same logging- camp. One day in the winter of 1864 Cameron came {0 the scttlement with a bloody face. He sald he and Baer had got into a quarrel over the Hathaway girl and had come to blows, Baerhad knocked him senseless with a clubavd when he came t5 he was unable to find his rival. Baer had not appeared in the set!lement and was no: seen agaln aboot any of the camps. As Baor had nearly $200 du him from our company, and had left $100 in his trank at the boarding house, his disappearance had an air of mystery about it that puzzled us. The suspiciop was pretty general that in the fight between nim and Cameron the Scotchman had killed his rival, and, fearfal of the conse- quences, had secreted his body. Camer— on was awara of theso suspicions and of- fered to pay for the fallest Investigation of the affair and all expenses of a search for the whereabouts of the missing lum- berman. He employed an officer to fol- low every clew he could find that might lead to clearing up the mystery, but noth- ing could be learned. “'When the ice broke up in the epring some boys who wera fithing for suckers in the north branch of the 1iver were at- tracted by a peculiar-looking object that came along with some ice and they drew it 1t to shore with a pike pole. On drag- ging 1t out they saw that it was the half- clothed body of a men. They hurrled to the lumber camp and told the men at work there what they hiad found, The flesh was entirely missing from the face and head of the dead man and rec:gnition of the features was impossible. There were ramnants of a plaid coat, or jacket, on the body. Alexander Baer was the only one in the the region who had worn such a coat. The plaid was made by broad strip:s of green and black. An inquest was held, at which the remalns were declared to be those of the mlesing lumberman. The finding of the dead body aroused anew the guspicions that he had been killed by Cameron. The verdict of the coroner’s jory was that the man had come to his death in & manner unknown. “‘Baer’s frlends demsnded the arrest of Camercn. A warrant wes issued, and Cameron ran away. Every one then he- lieved he was gouilty of Baer's muarder. He was pursued and captured, but while he was being teken to the county seat he escaped from the officer and was never re- captured, It was belicved that he had en- lieted in the army, and a soldicr in the sixty-eoventh Pennsylvania regiment sent home the news in 1865 that he had seen the dead body of Cameron among thoss who had died in Libby prison. At all events, nothing elss was ever heard of the alloged murderer, and the incidents connected with the trsgedy wers grad— ually forgotten. A fow days ago a stranger appeared at the Clarion Mills and asked for me, To my great surprlse he told me he was the missing Alexander Bser, and he suc- ceeded in establishing his identity beyond a doubt, He told a sipgular story. He ea'd that Cameron’s version of their fizht was true. When he knocked Cameron senseless with the club he became fright- ened and tried to revive him, Falling in this, he believed ho had killed his rival, and, without a thought of anything elss, fled from the place t> escape the conse- quence of hls crime, Hs muit on the edge of the ocamp a men named Perry, who was In the habit of makiry occasloral visits to the lumber regioLs for the purpose of buying up waste and rags of all kinds, Knowing that if he was adve. tised bis coaspicuous plaid coat would lead to his detection, Baer traded it off to Perry for a cast-off coat he way wearing. Perry had told Baer thst he was golng to croes the ice at the eddy above on his way to Crotty's Mills, He had undoubtedly broken through or stepped into an air hole and was drowned and hls body, with the remnan's of Baer's plaid coat on, was the one the boys found next spring, ““‘Baer went to Plttsburg, where ke enlieted fn the stmy under an assumed name. After the war he went to Oali- fornia and cother western states, never baving heard a word from the mills or settlement since he fled untll the later part of last December, Then he met in Denver a man named Philip Craig, who was working for me at thetime of the supposed murker, They recognized one another, and Craig told Baer the story of the affalr, greatly to hissstonishment and relief DBaer worked bis way gradually cast to revieit the old scene, and set things right. The Hathaway glirl, over whom the two men quarreled, was mar- ried in 1867, and dled last yaar. 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