Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 2, 1885, Page 4

-_———————— THE DAILY BEE. Ouana Oyrien No, 914 axp 918 Fanxax f». Maw Yorx Orrion, Roox 65 Tamsvws Bomo- 1xme, overy ing, Sunday. The e e T pviabed Inthe sate WY MATL ‘Three Months. ....0 2.50 ml ?g One Month, .. .oe 100 ¥he Weekly Bee, Publihsed every Wednesday RS, PONTTAID, One Yoar, with premiam. One Yoar, without preminm. ‘Months, without premium . Monih, on brial.. .. commroroncat eations relating to News ol e A b vadressed ko e Horron oF THR B WURINESS LETYRRA. Buat, ters and Remittances should be e o T, Bwn, PURLISHING CONPAXT, ONAHA Ohooks and Post offios orders to be made pay- ‘the order of the company. YAE BEE PUBLISKING €O, Pros. £ ROSEWATER, Epitor A, H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circalation, O, Box, 488 Omaha, Neb. Avaust Wriss fsa good deal bstter judge of Iager than law. Tire United States will have to put a fall stop to that Colon effair. S————— Wi have always oppcssd rings and bosslem in the republican patty, and we do not proposs to help Boss Boyd and bis democralis ring. 1 |1n its office. THE TELEPHONE]AS A COMMON CARRIER. The Baltimore & Ohlo telegeaph wvom- pany in its westward extensions naturally meets with vigorous opposition at every point from the Western Union. In St Loule it was obliged to bring a sult of mandamus in the. United States cfrcult court to compel the Bell telephone com- pany, which s tled up with the Western Unlon, to place a telephone Instrument Judge Brewer granted the application on the geound that the tele- phone company 1s like a common carrier, and In permlitting the use of its priviloges it cannot dlscriminate in favor of any particalar individual or class. The use of the telephone had been granted to the Western Union telegraph company, and therefore could not be denled to the Baltimore & Ohfo telegraph company. Judge Treat, however, dissented from this opinlon, and held that to allow an instrument to be placed in a telegraph company’s office was In dirsct vlolation of a provision in the contrast under which the Bell Telephone company of Miesouri acquired its rights as a liconsee of the American Telephone company of Masea- chusetts, and that to order it to violate this provislon would deprive It of its rights as licensce, Therefore it was his opluion that the court ought not and could not lseue the mandamus asked for. Ir is becoming more and more manifeat overy day that Grover Cleveland is presl- dent of the United States and will re- maln so for four years. Tuere is a monument on Prospect Hill over the remalns of a gray haired, {noffensive workingman, who was pinned to the ground by bayonets. TuE republican city ticket is in every respect superior to the democratic ticket. ‘Why should republicans desert their colors and go over to the enemy? Cirizens of Omaha who want good government cannot supporta man for mayor who Is above obedience to law himself and never tried to enforce the law when he was mayor. Wit a candldate for mayor who s swapplng off his asacclates on the demo- cratle ticket for mugwump republican support, it will be a *‘devil take the hind- most” race next Tuesday. Tuk reglstration books are now open. In some wards new election diastricts have been formed, and the only safe way is for every votor to personally see that he Is properly roglstered. Ir Jim Stephenson decldes to run as an independent candidate for councllman " he will teash some of the high-toned gentlemen who chested him out of the nomination a lively lesson. Now that a fall *‘citizans’ ticket” has been nominated, let Mr. Boyd define his position. Will he labor for the election of the cltizens’ ticket or the straight democratic ticket? No dodging on this question. Tr it Is true as Mr. Boyd clalms that all our public improvements were chiefly his own ecreatlon what would have be- come of Omahd it Mr, Boyd hadgone over to Europe for a two or three years vacation. Mz. Bov» and his eelect cltizons’ com- mlttee hawe no use for Mr. Tewls, the democratic candidate for auditor, but they expect Lew!s to pull their chestnuts out of the fire by roping In the working- men to the support of Boyd, Tue Chleago Tribune dlvides the prea- idental nominatlons of Monday last into threo clessos—first, graduates of Wost Polnt who secved with distinction in the rebel army; second, gentlemen who were active in the democratic convention in bebalf ¢f Mr. Cleveland; third, brothers- In-law cf distinguished mon who ren- dered valuable eervice to the democratic party in tre last campaign. Wirn the exception of a few working- men in Boyd's packing house, no work- Ingmen in Omaha have come to the sup- port of Mr, Boyd, unless ho is already hired for money or has been promised someoffice. Whether the workingmen nominate a tisket or not, wo know enough to kaow that every laboring man in Omaha who has avny self-respect will exerclse his franchise without regard to what Ed. Walsh, Jobn Quion, or Jason R. Lowls and other sach strikers, who make politlcs a trade, and who traffic in the votes of lsboring men, do or ssy. Tue court house at St. Joe was re- cently destroyed by fire malnly because the tower was constructed of combustible waterial, and the records were partly burned. This Is very suggestive to the clty authorities of Omaha, as our records are now kept In buildings that are llable to be wholly destroyed If they should take fire, and such a thing Is liable to happen almost any night. In the event of such » disaster nothing could replace the loss ifthe records were burned. If the delin- quent tax-1ist in the treasurer’s office were lost it couldnetbe duplicated byjthecounty lis, Beasldes this there are hundreds of thousands of dellars due for grading, paving and sewerage, If the Pattce bullding should be destroyed the clerk’s recorde, togother with all the ordinances and other official proofs that are requ'red in many cases pending In the courts would be burned. The en. gloeer's records are alto stored in an unsafe bullding. Any prudent business aman certalnly would not allow these re- oords to be thus exposed if he could avold it. The county building is fire proof, and the sity records should be taken there as s00n &% the commlesioners can make room dor them,' The attorney for the telophone company then asked leave to take the matter to the supreme court ‘on a eortificate of dlvision, but this was denied. The de- fendants now propose to file a superse- deas bond to prevent the execution of the writ, and the case will go to the supreme court for final determination, The amount involved s made to exceed $5,000 by showing that the valldity and longer existence of the coniract of the Boll telephone company with the Amerl- can telephone company is threatened if this case goes as Judge Brewer his ordered. The probability fs that the telephone company will be defeated, for 1t has been decided In other and similar cases that telephone companies hold the same posi'ion as common ocarrlers and cannot discriminate. GEN. STAGER'S FEAT. The late Gen. Stager once performed a feat that excited a great deal of wonder, as it was the first time lfi\\‘. anything of the kind had ever been done or probably ' thought of, said a well-known telegrapher, On one of Gen. Stager’s tiips in the interest of his company, an engine on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne aund Ohicago railroad broke down at night, nine miles from an office, ~Stager cut the wire and by touching the ends telegraphed to Pitts- burg and Brighton for anothier engire. By fixing one end of the lino above and ths other beneath his tongue, [the electric pulsations could be felt and he thus received reply that another engine would be sent atonce It was a remarkable porformance,—Omaka Lee, Ttisan ingenious feat which is here as- cribed to General Stager, but he was by no means the first to accemplish it. Towards the close of the rebellion, when the northern gen- erals began to realize the importance of the telegraph as a means of military communica- tion, and movable lines of telegraph came into constant requisition, the operators in the field soon acquired great skill. The feat ascribed to General Stager was quite common among them, The same thing is true of the tels- graph services on both sides in the Franco- Prussian war a few years later.—Sioux City Journal, Our Sloux Clty cotemporary evidently does not know what he {s talking about. In the firat place the feat of Gen. Stager was performed twelve or fifteen years before the war, and In the next place it is not true that It was a common practice among army telegraphers either in this country or In Europe. The trath is that there is not one man out of a thousand who can stand the shock produced by a wire charged with electricity when the two ends are applied to the tongue as s conductor. The tongue s one of the most sensltive organs of the human sys. tem, and the average man In attempting Genoral Stager's feat would see more stars in & second than could be produced in a minute by the sledge-hammer blows of John Sulllvan upon his skull. Brief messages have been recelved by holding the ends of a wire |between the fingers of both hands and having the body act 2s the conductor, but meesages by tongue or finger pulsation are at best extremely unreliable, Tue lowering of the flag over the in terior department, upon the order of Secretary Lamar “‘out of respecy” to the memory of Jake Thompson, a traltor to that fl1g, has avoused a storm of indlgna. tlon throughout the loyal north, and has no doubt put to shame the respectable and sentible people of the south, for Thompson was more than a mere rebel. He went to Canada and there plotted and planned the destraction of northern citles by incendiary fires, and the wholesale death of northern people by the attempt- ed introduction of Infectious diseases. Refusing the amnesty of the United States at the clase of the war, he died as a man without a country, and as an enemy of mankind, hated and desplsed by all patrlotic persons. Becretary La- mar's respect for the memory of Jake Thompson finds but little eadorsement either in the loyal north or {n the recon- structed south. In the langusge of the Chicago 7'ribune such Infamous tributes to unrepentant rebels are enough to make the wounds of every loyal veteran statt afresh, —— Wiie Mr, Boyd, the member of the national democratic committee, bolt the democratlo candidate for auditor and po- lice judge? Wl he use his money and influence to elect the straight democratic tioket, or s he going to bolt it snd sup- port one half of the republican ticket, which the *‘citizens” have endorsed? — Tue lower house of the Illinols leglsla- ture hss passed the Chicago Cltizens' awociatlon bill for governing primary eloctions, and the bill will very likely pass the senate, This bl legalizes pri- mary elections, and provides punish- ments fer ‘offenses against it. Itisan THE DAILY BEE---THURSDAY APRIL 2, 1885 optional measure, that is to say the cen- tral committee of any party In any olty can elect to hold its primarles under the Iaw, and in that event the party is bonnd by it. It is simflar to the Oolorado law, and Intended to make the primaries an honest expression of party cholce. Such o law s needed in every atate, for under the present system the majority of pri- maries are fraudulently conducted. Tuere is In Washington an organiza- tion called the Jackson Democratic Asto- ciatlon, composed mostly of men who were turned out of office fn 1861 for belng sonthern sympathizers, On Inaug- uration day these moss-backs marched in the procession snd presented the ap- pearance of having jast been res- surrected from all the political grave- yards In the country. It being under- stood that Grover Cleveland is takingy o engage In businees which is so per.| ‘M care of all such veterans, they have sent in a batch of applications, and now the president need not waste any time in hunting around for moss-backs, Our speclal corcespondent at the na- tlomal capital informs us ‘‘that there are more mad democrats in Washipgton than at any time since the close of the war.” This madness It sesms is caused by the fact that Grover Cleveland continues to make his appointments without consult- ing the party leaders cr acting upon any suggeations that they may offer. The re- appointment of Pearson, the New York postmaster, who is an Independent re- publican, has increased the democratlc wrath to a white heat. It really begins to look as if Mr. Cleveland was a pratty independent man himself. A Missovrt farmer took to his bed elghteen years while laboring under a hypochondriacal delusion that if he got out of his bed he would dle, and con- sequently he has remained there ever slnce, although in apparently good health. Once his houte took fire, but the peril of being burned alive did not shake hls faith in his delusion. He is a democrat, and it was thought when Cleveland was elected he would shake off his delusion and arise and walk to Washington for an office, but strange to eay even the demo- cratfc victory has had no effect upon him. Prruars Tae Bee has after all unjust- ly criticlsed Grover Cievéland for ap- polnting 5o many moss-backs to office, There is some excase for his course in regard to the septusgenariansand octo- gonarians of the democratic party. They have been out of office for twenty-five years, aud if not given a chance now to nibble at the publlc crib they will go down to thelr graves hungry and without having enjoged the fruits of a quarter of a canturg’s straggle. Under the circum- stances the young democracy can aff)rd to walt until the septusgenarians and octogenarlans have paesed away. Youne people can now partly realize what the newspapers were in the days of the civil war. Of course the battles In the Scudan have not the vitsl, personal relation to us that Antietam and Gettys- burg and all the rest had, but still they are exclting enough to arouse an eager intereet, and together with the wars and rumcrs of wars in Canada, Gautemals, China and Afghanistan are glving us mora excitement than we have had since the Franco-German war. I 1871, Riel was paid $3,000 by Sir Jchn A, McDonald to skip the country, and he skipped. As there was no agree. ment as to the length of time he should rema'n away, he tosk the liberty to re- turn and kick up another row in the hope of recuperativg his purse. Judging by the size of the rebellion he has stirred up in the Northwest Territory nothing less than $100,00 could buy him cff this time, Tir post-office department certainly ought to prove self susiaining this year. Senator Harrls, of Tennessee, whose influence at the white house fs probably overestimated, receives five hundred letters a day from his office-seeking con- stituency, and we suppose thera are other eenators who are equally bom- barded with petitions, O~ Sunday last Presldent Cleveland attended church for the first time in Washington, It is unneceseary to say that he drew a full house, To the credit of the congregation, be it sald, there was no evldence of undue corioslty, and a stranger could not have told that there was any unusual event occurrlng, Ix over five hundred references to the fact that the European wars aro creating s demand for Amerloan products, we have as yet falled to ojserve one of these parageaphs that did not end with: *‘It is an {1l wind that blows nobody any good.” ‘WE notice that since the announce- ment that the Hazen court martial re. sulted merely in & reprimand, the weather has been warm and springlike, It wun’tunuh.wl’q after all for General Hazen, Boss MANNING has served notlce on all the beads of divisions in the treasury de- partment calllng for their resignation. Mr. Higglos, the Baltimore ‘‘fine worker," will soon fo'low suit, and chop off the heads of the rank and file, . Texas, which gave 132,000 wajority for Cleveland, has at last been rewarded by the appointment of Richard B, Hub-. bard as minister to Japan, where the ““Mother Hubbard” is all the rage. 18 4 man unfit to be mayor of Omahs unless he {s worth half & million dollars? th Carolina Tobacco s the REDFIELD'S RAGE. He Speaks Plainly and Emphatically Abont the Republican, He Belioves that the Paper is After a Man with a Bar'l, CAPPER YOST AND FRAUDIE NYE, To the edltor of the Bx, These two young men are circulating around the peanut stands and other favorable resorts for men of thelr 1lk, storles, which 1f true, or even told by men who might be believed, might be damaging. 1t seems atrange that the mutations of time should bring together from distant parts two indlvidaals so well ealculated fectly understood by the mers montion of their namee, CAPPER ATD FRAUDIR were baptized at the same time, and In the same bowl, and it Is said that while Cipper was entertalning the officiating elorgyman, Fraudie appropriated a beau- tlful solitaire worn by that functionary. This circumstansd suggested the names, and subsequent events show with what accuracy their future was foretold. Carrer first developed his peculiar ge- nlus when U, €. marshal of Nebraska, from which position he was Iglnomin- ously bounced because he used very nearly the entire fands allowed for the office in sending his cappers to different parts of the country, and bringing inno- cent men all the way to Omaha, that he might tatten on the mileage and per diem incldent to such dirty work. We next find him ranning the Omaha post- office,and without following him through all the moves of officlal corruption—the methods by which he depleted the revenue by imposing Ghinese bric-a-brac, permitting forbidden literature to pass through that office, and demanding and recelving large sums of money for such per week, converting a large sum of money that was sent to Nebraska from Washington as a campaign fund to his own use, disbursing bribe money to the smount of $22,000 and corrapting a whole legislature, defrauding a large number of republicans to whom he ap- pealed to save him from bankruptey, by agreeing to issue stock for the amount 80 contributed to bolster up his murky concern and when asked for the stock quietly telling thesa who hed saved bim with thelr money: *‘Yot owe that much to the republican party.” He the repub- lican party. God save us! Why, he “Wriggles in and wriggles ont And leaves the people still in doubt Whether the snake that made the track ‘Was coming up or going back;” He and Fraunie have been onell eides of politics, and to-day we find them flee- ing to the demccratic fold in hopes that they may gather some of the spolls. Carper snd Fraupie are adepts at thelr profession, and know befter than to fasten on to such men as Munray when the fat purse of Boyd is in sight. CarrEn has been thwarted by me many times in his efforts to defraud the pablic, and one of the late causes for his disgust for me is the fact that I refused to asslst bim in robblng the city of fourteen feet of ground in front of his residence. And he and Fraupie have now large clatms against the city, which they hope to get tf I am beaten for the council. These cla'ms are frandulent, and will never be pald by the mew council, unlees these scratchers for reform divert the attention of the new members by the refrain usual- ly indulged In by pickpockets. Some of these clalms have been pald once, others ae fictitious, I have fuolly and falrly stated In my answer tn Mr, Tarner the facts conunect- ed with extra grading tax. 1 haveshown just the manner in which that tax was placed agalnet the property. 1 have shown that as soon as the legslity of the tax was questioned, payment was stopped until the disputed point could be legally adjusted. 1 have shown that only $1,- 100 had been paid. The specification under which these contracts are let pro- vide that paving contractors shall exca- vate “below the established grade equal to the depth of paving material and bal last,” Stipulation of the contract reads as follows: *‘The seid party of the eecond part shall aleo do euch extra work in con- nectiomewith this coniract as the city en- gineer may in writing direct: —And when no prica for kuch work is specificd in this contract, such price shal! be fixed by the board of public works, butno claim for extra work shall b allowed un- less the same was done in pursuance of a written order as aforesaid, and the claim prasented at the first estimate afier the work was done,” Howard street never was put to grade, and the contractors removed an average of iwo feet of esrth more than was re- quired by the specifications. No pereon clsims, however, that I had anything to do with thls extra grading, If I except CAPPER AND FRAUDIE, The bill for $1,100 was handed me on the streets, and as it s the duty of the clty engineer and board of public works to adjust all such claims, as directed in the above cited stipulation, I handed the same to the city englneer and then my connect'on with it ceased. The city engineer and board of public works, have heretofora certified to the council just euch bills which after thorough canvass have been allowed by the coancil, and it had beoo: ettled policy of the anthorities to psy sueh bills and I inslst that such sctlon Was right. Is it right to require a contractor to re- move two feet or any other amount of earth from a street, when the specifica- tlons require them to move only to ‘‘the depth of paviog material and ballast,” and stipulation No, 4 provides just how such extra work shall be pala for. Carrer and Fravniz do not intend to deal jus'ly with me and I ask nothing at their hands. They fpslst on misrepre- senting everything connected with these sactions so far as they refer to me, snd have willfally, maliclously and wick- edly stated what they know to be abeo- lutely false. ours, 1 J. B, REpFIELD, e —e An Old Senste Page, From April 8t, Nicholas. Oaptain Bassett, the venerable sergeant at arms of the senate, has been In contin- uous service for more than 50 years. The csptain started In as a pege. At that time there wes hut one in the sevate, and Danlel Webster wanted young ILsaac Bassett appointed as an additional page. The other senators thought it a great ex travagance—two pages for 48 eenators! 1t was enough to bsnkropt the republic! Captain Bassett declares that there wasa hot debate over the suggesticn of Webster. However, Waebster fought hard and, with his great eloquence, suc- ceeded. So young Bassett was ap- pointed. Although his halr s now as white as snow, he loves fun and is still as morry as a boy. Just think of it! Ho was a renate officer when tho senate met in the old chamber, now oceupled by the supreme court; when the house met in their old hall, now occupled by stat- uary donated by the states; when the evening s ns of both house 'to be illaminated by ‘*‘tallow dips.” He had heard Webster, Hagne, Clay, Cal- houn, Benton and Doug The captaln's recollection of the days when senators dressed In swallow talled coata causes him to shudder when *‘inno vations” are siggested. But theso *in- novations” are constantly going on. It bas for'many years been the custom to write the name of each senator upon a strlp of ivorywhite wood and fasten on his desk by way of identification, as **Mr. Sumner,” “Mr. Cole,” “Mr., Fenton.” Last year these ®ooden labels were re- moved and sllver plates subatituted bear. ing simply the surname withont the ‘Mr.,” as “Bayard,” ‘‘Edmunds,’ “Ransom.” I understand the captain has not yet recovered from this horrible act ot vandallsm. — Sapreme Court Decisions 31, 1885, Bank ot Cass Co. va. Morrison, appesl March muzzn}m AND GRAY. An Ola-Timer Recites Some of His Adventures in the Mountalns, 8t. Panl Globe, The old veteran was grizzled and gray; the winds of fifty wintera had whistled through his unkempt locks and toyed with his flowlng beard. Yet ho was hale and hearty, a veritable man of the moun talns. It was in the fortles that he had left the glrl of bis cholee behind him to bo oared for by the other fellow, and gone with the other argonauts of the east to seek his fortune in the wilds ¢f the west, where rolls the Oregon to the placid watera of the Paclfie. The autograph that be registered at Colonel Allen's car- avansary was simple and unostentatlous John Wilson, but tho chirography was as pleturesquo a8 the disgram of & mining camp. Howaver, it attracted the atten- tivn of a Globs repor:er and he siught J. W. out and of course found him posed as & petrifaction fiom the Bad Lands against the bar of the merchante, Solie- {tad for the story of his nderings, he was reticent uhtil he ha? been mellowel by o congenial cocktail, when he grew gor.ulous and gave up the story o his life ‘It was in '48,” he sald, “*when 1 found that the aay-dream of my life way from Cass county, aflirmed. Opinion by by Reete, J. 1. Where a material alteration is ap- darent on the face of a writteu instru- mont offered fn wvldencs, tho question as to whether eald alteration was made be- fore or after the examination and de- livery of such instrument is in the last {nstance one for the jurg, or trlal court. 1t is like any other fact in the case to be diasipated by the only girl I ever loved refusing my suit for a young fop of our set. This was In York stato, 1t mat- tera not, but, the town was Cazenovia, whore ~ the mcmlnary s locafed. The girl's name! That s asking too much. Man of the mountains that T am, and have boen for a quarter of a century. 1 am too chivalric to betray her namo to the world in print. Fact is, I have for- gotten the gil, and after many yoears of settled by the trler or triers of facts. Generally in such case the Instrument may be given in evidence and may go to the jury; or trler of fact, leaving the par- ties to such explanatory evidencs of the alteration as they may choore to offer. 2. In cases tried to a court without the intervention of a jury, the finding of questlons of fact is entitled to the same reapect in the supreme court on appeal as_would be accorded to the verdict of a jury under like clrcumetances, and will not be Interfored with unless clearly wrony, MoLaughlin va. Sandusky, ante. Kimbro va Clark. Error from Lancas- ter county. Reversed., Opinlon by Roese, J. 1. Under the code of clvll procedure of this atate, new parties to an action by way of Intervention is permitted only where the intervenor clalms tome interest in tho subject of the action. In an ordinery actlon on a promissory note, and In which actlon an order of attachment has been Issued aud levied upon real estate, the titlo to which is held by a third party, the queetion cf the ownership of real estate cannot bs adjodicated by the interven— tion of the holder of the title; that ques. tion aot being_involved in any degree in the action. Insuch cates a judgment against the maker of a promlssory note and an order that the attached property be sold will not debar the holder of the legal title from afterwards claiming title to;the real eatate. 2. Whero an attachment is levied upon real estato belonging to a non-resident debtor, or which 1t fs claimed is owned by him, whether held in his own name or not, the a'tacking creditor acquires & lien upon the intereat of the debtor, if any, in the land, which he may enforce after judgment by an action ia the nature of a creaitor’s bill. Such an action may be maintained even though the original judgment was obtalned without other service than by publication in & news- paper. 3. In an aclicn in the nature of a creditor's bill, for the purpose of subject- ing real estate to the payment of a judg- ment obtained upon a promlssory note, the question of the consideration or pur- pose for which the nots was executed is an immatertal one. wandering, I am golng back to take care of her aund her children, She Is now in sore distrees, the husband having died a tragic death, leaving her with a large family and in straightened circumstances, while I have acquired an_abundance of the world's treasures. Yes, she was the only woman that over awakened the softer sentiment In my heart. Through all the trials of frontier life, under in a blanket in the fastnesses of the mountains, I have never forgotten this, my first love. What of my past life? Well, it fs a long and to you perhaps woald prove to be a tedious story. It bas been full of exciting inci- dents. When in camp in the mines of the Sterra Nevada my messmate, about whose life there wasa mystery, disap- apeared and the vigilantes accused me of his untimely taking off and gave me threo days to find him or_suffer the just- foe of a mining camp. The theory” was that I had killed him for his dust, and thrown himdown a shaft, to penotrate the bottom of which meant death from nox- fous gas, To convince them of my in- nocence, I agreed to descend to the bot- tom with any one of their number whom they might designate. All atood appalled at the proposiiion, yet held me to account for my missing mossmate, until finelly a sturdy miner who belleved in my fnno- cence volunteered to make the descent with me for my eake. Ropes were pro- cared and we started onm our perilous miseion. I shall never forget thatawful day. Isurvived it, but my new-found frlend guccumbed, and when we were bauled up he could not be resuscitated. Then I was held rosponsible for his deatb, and had I not made a sneak out of the camp that night, 1 would not now be hero telling you this etory. I left some good claims In_that camp, and 1 guess the boys wanted them, but 1 never returned o question thefr title. It wasn't lealthy for me in that camp., I then drifted to Oregon, thencs to Wash- ington Territory, later to Idaho, and finally into Montana, where I spent cev- eral seasons looking fr the Lost Cabin mine without avail. It was while I was on this miesion tnat I had the adventuie of my life. I had been in the mountains for months, ard given up all hopes of employed for the past ten days In clean- ing and hurnishing the parts. Although over 70 yoars of age the old clock looks Ilke anew machine, and Mr., Monson sagn it Is just as good as new. When taken to pleces many of the brass wheels and stell parts were black and rustg, and a dea]of work had been nocnul:z in hrlngl‘ng out the shining surfaces hen new the clock must havo cost $400, but the trastees of the Conmecticat achools for glrls have sccured the histerle mech- anlsm at o much less cost. The steel parta of the escapement show bat lttle wear, although there parts are usvally the first to woar out. The cogs In tho largo brass wheels have also worn won- derfully well. The machinery is in a heavy frame two feet high, three feet long and elght inches in width. The clock will be placed In the sixty- five-foot tower of the new chapel of the industrlal school. o — Antiquity of Horse Stealing. London Soclety. Horse ateallng is a crime of conslder. able antlquity in England, where 1t has always boen regarded as deserving very sovera punishment. Holinshed mentions in his “‘Chronicles” that duriog the reign of Qaeen Elizabe'h a noted horse stealer named Ditch was approhended, charged upon nineteen indictments, eighteen of which he confessed to. It appears that between tho timoe of his apprehension and tho sassions “‘he appeached many of stealicg horsee, whereof many of thom wers taken up, and ten of them condemned and huog a% Smithfield, on horso-market day,” a day spocially eelected, weo pre- sume, In order that tho warning and ex- ample to such like evil-doers should be the more notorious and eflicaclous among the fraternity. This mn Ditch was evi- dently postessed of the full canning pe- culiar to his tribe, as it Is sald he prac- the dodge of acting also the part of in- former, by helping many to recover their Where it 1s alleged that the note wes | finding the lost mine of territorlal tradi- given only na a memorandum to show the |ti-n when T set out for the Yellowstone, amount to be paid to the payeo out of | determined to return to the states, the proceeds artsing from the sale of (I bad not seen any campfire except my propertyeplaced in the hands of the|oWn for weeks, when as I neared the riv- maker,” by the payee, for sa'e, and|er I saw smokeaud thought I had come that the maker of the note contrary [ Upon 1he camp of some trappers or skin t) his Instractions exchanged the prop- erty for real estate, causing the title to be taken in the name of his wife, and the holder of the note brought an actlon thereon, attached the real estate, pro- cared a judgment for the amount dae, !t was held that such action on the part of the payee was sn abandonment of any equitles he m'ght have arising out of the original contract, snd in order to eubject the roal estate to the payment of his iudgment it would ba necersary to prove the fraudulent character of the convey- ance the same es any other creditor. Young va. Roberts Error from Nance county, Affirmed. Opinion by Cobb, Ch. J. 1. Qaesttons of fact and upon conflict Ing testimony are to be dccided by the trial- jury, and a verdict will not be set aeide ‘on the ground of a want of sufli- clent evldonca to suppat it, unlees the want is 50 great as to show that the ver dict is manifestly wrong. Sycamore & Co- vs. Grundrad, 16 Neb. 8. C. N. W. Rep, 832, 2. Where sn action of replevin of property levied upon by an ofiicer as the individual property of A, ond the prop- erty is claimed by the plaintil as the hunters. The night was awfully darlk, but I made direct for the fire, But be- fore I got there 1 was challenged in an ucknown tongue, and was almost instant- ly seized and bound with thongs. I thought then that 1 was in the hands of the hoatile Sioux snd that my hour had come. After a night of apprehensive ageny I was confronted by a band of In- dfang whom 1 belleved would bura me at tho stake, but a’ tunrise I was taken tothe tepee of the chief, whom I found to bo mo less a personage than Chicf Joseph of the Nez Perces. then on that memorable march, which ranks with the expadition of Hannibal that I read of when 1 was a boy, from Oregon to the Bear Paw Mountaios, where you will remember he was rounded up by General Miles. Afterasceriaming that I was mot a spy from General Howe1d, ho treated me with the honors of war and released me on parolo with all my equipments. Yos, he was the noblest Iodian I ever kuew, and I regrct to learn that he is held practically as a pris- oner of war in the Indian territory, and bis people is exiled from thelr fair Oregon homes, Well, after that experlence 1 prospered in the Clark’s Forks country and the other mineral districts in Mon- partnershlp property of A & B, and upon trial the jury find speclally that the property In controversy was the sole property of A at the time of 1he levy, the question of the right of the creditors of A tolevy upon the partnershlp property of A & B becomes unimportant, and the refusal of the trial court to admlt testi- mony tending to prove that the indebted- ness of the parinership exceeded the assets held not prejudicial to the plaintiff. | Kleeman V. Peltzer, appeal from Dodge affirmed. Oplalon by Oogh, Ch. J. A transfer of proparty from a mother to a daughter with a rent charge on a tana, sold out rome promising claims, got together all the money I ehsll need for wyself, for the woman I have never for- gotten, and for the children that ought to be mine, took the first traln that I had seen for many years, at Custer Station, and here I am making 8 —~ fool of mys:1f talkiog to a mewspaper man, who lkely as not will print these rambling incidents of a misspent life. . But I must be off on this trainfor the east. I think the old girl will be glad to tee me now, and I am anxious to get there. o — An Old Yale Timepiece, stolen [horses, charging as a fec ten shil- lings each, whereby, as Holinshed says. ‘‘ho made fifteen pounds of current money toward his charges.” TEST YOUR BAKING POWDER T0-DAY. Brands advertisad as absolutely pure CONTAIN AMMONIA. THE TEST: in top down on a hot stove untiiheated, then romOve the cover and ameil. A chemist will Ot 56 e quired to detect the presence of ammonia. 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ATWGOD, Novraska HEREFORD IND JERSEYBATILE AND DURDO OB JNRANY RAD SWIND a part of It duriog the life of the grantor | From the New Haven Palladium, and providing that at her death s part of | In about two wi the old clock the value ot such property should be|which for sixty-six years anvounced the dlvided between and paid to ether daugh- | hours from the tower of the Yale Athe- ters of the grantor, indused by & repre-|nwum In the **0ld brick” will be lhilppad sentatlon of the grantee that there was|to Middletown, where It is to be placed grut, danger of her losing sald property |in the tower of ene of the state bulldings y reason of certaln lit/gation thea pend- | there. When the brave Yankee defend- ing or about to be commenced between |ers were fightiog for the preserqation of ber ton and his wife unless she made|the states againet the English invader in such transfer, when In fact there was o |the war of 1812-15,a well-known New Ha- such danger, will be set aeide by & court|ven clockAnaker wes toiling patlently and of equity slowly upon this veteran timeplece. In 2. A voluntary seitlement should con- | those dsys wheels of brass and bearings taln & power of revocation; if it does |of steel wore wrovght out by hand, aud|® not, the parties who rely upon it must |slow and tiresome was the work, The prove that the eellor was ‘Efl)pul’ ad- | clock was put up for Yale college in 1814, vised when he excavated it; that he thor- | and performed i s duties till five years oughly understood the effect of omitting [ ago, when the bullding of the Battoll the power aud that be Intended to ba ex- | chapel, with its new clock and bells, ren- cluded from the settlement. If that ls [dered it no longer necossary. The clock not established, aud the court sees from | was made by Simecn Joslyn, of Pember the surrounding clreurn: oes that the | Joslyn aud Simecn Joslyn - father and sellor belleved the Instrument to be re-|uncle of the late Nathavisl Joslyn, the vocable, will interfere and give relief, |ariist. These clockiakers were smong agalnstit. Hall va. Hall, L. R. 14, the best workers i the trade, and made — — * Jwany of the old s'yle kitchen aud ball Tree-planting iveystematically fostercd | clocks. The clock 1snow on exhibition 1o Ohins, and durlog the last year 330,. [at the jewelry storeof C.J, Moason & 0C0 were plant:d in Hong Kong alone. ! Co , workmen for the firm haviog be:n Oornor 18th 84, ALMA E.KEITH. Offers this Coming oo Special Inducements HAIR GOODS! 1412 Dovelas 8t. Omaha. Neb D. 0. BRYANT, M, D. OCOLIST & AURIST 1224 Farnam Street, Offon hcurs 10 18 . m., 10 Y ™ 'on yoars exporion opeak Gorman, D Amelia Burroughs OFFICE AND RESIDENOR' 617 Dodga St., = Omaha. ELEPHONE N JAS.H. PEABODY, M, D, Physician & Surgeon Restidence No. ek B Tve o § e dad e orn 18 40 § D oue, 08 0iHon 01 fesidence 18k,