Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 3, 1886, Page 2

R ADDITIONAL COUNCIL BLUFES, The Very Latest Returns from the Oity as Far as Obtainable. At3 o'clock there were two precinets to hear from, the Second ward and the First precinct of the Kourth. The precinets already counted give the democratic state ticket in (he city a majority of 207. Kentley's ity is 390, Shea 257, Williams 86, Thomas For supervisors Maxfield gets . Frum 621 Waite smecratic majority on the town- is 150, Justices Whittlsey 5, ¢ 627, Hendricks 416, Bar- Kilgore 436, Schurz 622: constables 8, Rlein 005, W 603, Spauld- dden nd ward, cond precinet, com- The state ticket, blicans 52, Keatley cial, democratic 190, re ubtican %6, Sihéa 161, Math 02, Williams 162, Daily 99, ‘Thomas 177, Chambers 87, 1eld 83, Max- field 173, Janjes 163, Waite (6, Whit- tlesey 145, Biggs 107, Bar- nett, Kilgore Schurz 104 Ricketts 15 Klein 149, Westley 105, Spanlding cFadden 4, Fox n the Second ward, First preeinct,'toere is it tie chance of the'count being completed be- fore 7 o'clock, In 1his precinet, out of 498 votes cast, only 47 were straight’ democratic, and 114 straichit republican votes, The Andes Rallroad Now York Mail and Express: The publication recently of an advertisement sigred by que C. Busodre, M. 1., arning all persons from takin i the syndicate formed for the purchs the Andes rulroad, by Michael P. ( e, the brother and partner of Mayor Grace has renewed all the discussion’in regard o the peculiar features of the ros purchase was made about two years ago from the goyvernment of Perue,” and the following description then given of what called the eighth wonder of the world will undoubtedly prove interesting at this time. Th ond was bogun by Mr, Melgs in 1870, Starting from the sea, it uscends the ow valley of the once sacred Rimac, rising 5,000 feet in the fivst forty-six miles to beautitul vallay, whese people of Lima bave found an ctive summer resort; then it follows a winding, giddy. pathway along the edge of precipices over bridges ~ that scem in the ‘air, tunnels the Andes at an al- titude of 15,645 fect—the most elevated gpot in the world where a piston rod is moved by steam-—and ends at Orova, 12,178 feet nbove the sea. Between the coust nnd the summit there is not an inch of down grade, and the track has been forced through the mountuns by a series of sixty-three tunnels. whose agaregate jo 1,000 feet, The great tunnel ot which the pinnacle nd 1pended of the Andes is pierced, will be, when comploted, 5,800 feet long, and will be tho highest clevation on the earth’s sur- face where any such work been undertaken Besides bor moun- tains of granite afid blas » clefts along the sides to vest the tr sleep cuttings and superd bri system of reverse tangents adopted in eanons that we for a curve, ck upon, , the nad to be too So the track zigzag mour on theswiteh principle, the trains taking one leap for- nd after being switched on to an- ack snother leap backward, until the snmmit is won; 50 that often there are four and fiv s of track parallel to each othier, one above anothier, on tho ide. mated that the construction of road cost Peru 7,000 lives from p ceident. " Land slides, falling boulders, vremaft explosions, sor- rache—a disease which attacks those who are not accusiomed to the raw air ot the high altitudes—fevers caused by the de- DOSits of rotten granite, and otlier S resulted in a frightful mortality the seven years the road w. struction, but the project was pushed on unti! the fund; we out. The cost in human life was no obstacle, A curious ident occurred at one point in the line, where a blumber was soldering a leak je w water-pipe. of mules was being driven, up the trail, loaded with cans of powder. One of them rubbed against the plumber, who nimal with his red hot sol- & iron, which in some way i tet with the powder and ¢ explosion, which blew the whole tr: males, the gang of workmen, the plum- ber and everybody who was by over the s, during under con- g precipice, whose sides and bottom wer strewn with fragments of men nd mules for & mile. Lhe scenie grandeur of the Audes is prosented nowhere more impressively thun along the canyon of the Rimace river, which this railroud follows. The moun- tains are entively bare of vegetation, and are siuply monstrous masses of rocks, torn and twisted, rent and battered by the tremendous voleanic upheavals winch often oceur here. At the bottom of the - eanyon,and where it oceasionally spreads out into a valley or minute dimensions, are the remains of towns aud cities whose origin is hidden in the mists of fable, and whose history is unknown, Here is a re- gion which bears no resewblance to any ather picture of nature; hsted above the rest of the world us coldly and ealmly silont, a3 impenetrable asthe Arctic stars. Here was developed a eivilization which left memorials of its advancement,geniug and 1ndustry earved in 1 i und written upon the eyerlasting hills in in sywbols which even the earthgnakes have beon unable to erase, kes - power of steam to ascend ad with its average grade of 4 per cent, but in coming down the boilers ai allowed Lo cool, and only steam enough is kept to hold the brakes and blow the whistlo. We came down part way in a hand car at th ¢ of & mule ib two minutes, snd 1t w iting a ride as ona eian imagin ‘I'he complotion of the line to the min- ing regions will cost $10,000,000, but the portion of the line already eonstructed wnd in operation, with all its rolling- stock, station houses and equipments of every sort, Mr. Grace gets tor practically nothing, as under the conditions of the ninety-nine yours' leaso he has the use of their railvoad and all that belengs with it for nothing for the first seven yeurs, uod s but 325,000 n year vental for the property during the remainder of the term, IT CAME FROM THE MOON. Several traveling men who had passed through Millsdalo *he evening before on their way to Roek lLsland, from which wity the! o to Goneseo, say that the bird is now on u farm uear Hillsaaio, re- marks the Genesco (I1L) News in an arti- cle o wondoerful ichis said to have mystitiod that ne rhood. 1t has been runuing sbout with a loek of tar- keys. Itis unlike any bird described by Audubon or any other writer. It is s tinctly and strikingly strange in all its appearanees, atributos and actions, It rkey Its color is snow white. 1t gives the bekoulor the imnres- sion of hemng “high-shouldered.™ This appesranee is vaused by its drawing its enormous wings so that they rise abhove the intervening surface where the neck joins the body. The face of the fowl is 2 singular combination of the features of the owl sod o There are distinet ears vising above the surface of the head, and saarp-pointed. These ears are not fanciful, us is the case with tho horus of the groat borued owl of Virginia, the “horos' of whieh are made by tufts of elongated feathers. 'Fhe ears of this fowl are gowuine, The neck awd I ure inas tall s at Sford” county, I enormously thick and strong, The neck, if divested of the strange, soft down that covers it, would be as thick as that of linary monkey's. This appearance of t strenth is magnitied in the wings. nnot be ascertained how long these are from tip to tip. Strong men, one at each wing, have attempted to stretch them; but the bird refuses to allow them to expand, and the men could not get them beyond six inches from the body. From the point where the neck joins the body, to and covering the head, is a very very long, and yery delieate down. remuinder of the bird is covered with strong feathers. 'The feathers extend down the outside of the legs. The fowl has uttered no sonnd except a guttur: croak far down the throat, 3 tulation, when the attempt were made to spread its wings, Like the pelican, it has a big pendent pouch beneath the' lower jaw, which it uses to carry food in, [t \as no breathing places in its bills, The actions of this que. ure are more strange than its appe Should the sun_ come out warm it hides in some cool, shady piace. On cold mornings and evenings it is happiest, It evinces not n particle of the fear which all other birds and animals exhibit in n greater or less degree. 1t looks on wonderingly when the tarkeys scamper away as men approach. It walked up to vage dog and stared him in the face so innocently and com jcally that the dog was nounlussed and ran away with his tail between his legs. In attempting_ to leap over a fence it does not assist itself with its wings, but invariably falls short the fivst leap,striking its breast against the ral. It fulls to the ground with ment depicted upon its half monke ce. Then it gives a tremendous spring and ¢ the tenc by five or six feet, and is again aston- ished when it lights so hard upon the ground, Should it attempt to cros a fence half a minute afterward it will repeat the performance of striking it It drinks no water and seems to_have no conception of its properties. The other day it walked straight into Rock river, with the manifest purpose of walking across on its surface. Its astonishment upon serambling out und observing the water dripping from its feathers was gl lio veling men could not reeall, upon whose farm this queer bird has beeome stablished, no idea wiich direction ame from. It came in the night Wi completely exhaus course theorists are not lack- Some « these say the ture came from abont one of the pol and where all water is frozen solid Others boldly declare their beliof v flew here from the moon. The moon but ninety-eight thousand miles away, and with that enormous pouch filled with food, and the tremendous velocity with which the descent would be made after getting out of the influence of the moon's ravity, gives some degree of color to the moon theory. Thethought natarally springs up that' it would dic from lack of air. But it has no breathing places, and was nevor seen to open its mouth for the apparent purpose of breathing, = HO FOR MANILLA! Special Saleof Lots in the New Town n lowa. The Milwaukee Land Company will open the sale of lots in the new town of Manilla, on Thursday mnext, November 4th, at 10 o'clock, a. m. Manilta is lo- cated in one of the most fertile valleys nd grain producing regions of Craw- at the junction of the Council Blnfts ion with the new Sioux City and Dakota extension of the i vaukee & St. Paul Iwa s sixty miles east of Council Bluffs and fiftcen miles south of Denison, the county seat, and destined to become one of the et inland cities in the state. Special E ion rules to Manilla will be made ove 3. M. & St. Paul R. R. for days of sale. Shops, transfer houses and on will be located at Manilla. Re- or the date and be prompt to at- div . Haugan, Land Commissioner, LML S POR.R.C Milwaukee, Wis. C. A. Padiey, General Land Agent, Milwaukee Land Co., Marion, la. Falconer’s opening to-morrow even- ing will be the event of th son. Some of the latest ereations of Madame Tier- ney will be displayed on that oc - - Defeated Candidates Should salve their wounded feelings with rofits to be made by purchusing a Hitcheoek’s add, J. B, Evans & Co C Sole Agents. Elected. i The prices and terms on which Yar & HEMPLE'S ADDITION is being sold m i st and surest for s pital- it the safe s, J. B, Evans & Co., Sole Agents, Don't Pay Rent. I have 7 neat new houses to sell, 3 and 4 blocks from street cars and scbool, on small monthly payments. Real Estate, -y Washburn's best Minnesota Flour, only §2.80 per ewt. at Heimyro Lot . Hoo, 509 Farnam, Hanscom Park Addition ly merits all claimed for it. A com- wding Iocation, unsurpassed view splendid lots surronnded by improv ments $500, $600 For Hanscom Park additon lots. pay you to see them. Aues, 1507 FArNAM St. Church Howe wir play. If he had boen an 1t will Pleads for Omaha man he wouia have been posted and advised ull to buy a lot in Hitch- cock’s add, J. B, Evaxs & Co., Sole Agents. e Cheap Houses, We bave four neat houses and good lots in desirable locality, which we will sell if taken this week. Eausy terms. CusNINGHAM & Brexvay, 1511 Dodge. — dle county has an A farmer in B tesian well on his farm that flows 100 baols a0 hour, is 678 foct devp and cost 4, 100, Hood's Sarsaparilla Combisgs, In a manner peculiar to ftself, the giliening rome- kingdom, You will fid this wonderful remedy effective whese ather nedicines kave falled, Try it now. It will v your biood, regulate tho digestion, 1 was tired out from overwork, meup.” Mus. G, E. S10ioss, Colioes, N, ¥ “Isuffered three years from blond pois 1 took Hood's Barsaparilia and think I am cured.” Mus. M. J. Davis, Brockport, N, Y. Puwifies the Blood Food's Sarsaparilia 13 eharacterized by three pecnliarities tho combination of remedial agents; 2d, the proportica; 5, the process of securing tho active mediciual qualltics. The resuit s amedicine of uuususl strength, effccting eures bithasto uuknown. Seud for beak containing additional evidence, “Jlood's Sarsapaitila tones up Wy system, puriges wy blood, sharpens Ill{ E¥ll¢lll8. an seeins Lo make me over.” J. P TuoMPSON, ciisten of Deods, Laweit, Mass, § ‘ihnlwl'l s:m,r i ‘mn‘ -Ix‘: othors, and s worth s weigl VL BARKLNURON, 150 Baitk Sirecs Now York City, Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by all deuggists. 81 s for 85 Made only by €. L MOUD & (O, kowell, Mass, 100 Doses One Dolar. rmer, whose name the | where man has never penetrated, | T | FROM THE FAR NORTHWEST. Interesting Scemes © o the Alaskan Coast. A LONELY INDIAN VILLAGE The Story of & Mask—A View of the Aurara Borealis—Homeward Bound. Charles Warren Stoddard in the San neisco Chronicle wrifes : . Sitka is the turning point in cruise. It is the hegining of the end; nd 1 am more than halt inclined to think that in most’ cases—eharming s the yoyage is and uhique in its way be yond any other voyage within reach of the summer totitist—Iam more than half inclined to think that'in most cases the voyager is glad of it. One never quite gets over the lopging for eonte intelli- gence from the outside world, never quite becomes aceustomed to the - lonely, way fecling that at times is a little paintul and often 18 a by In the last hours at Sitka, Mountidgecombe loomed gloriously, and reminded one of Fugj- At It is a very handsome and a highly ornamental mountain. So are the islands that lie between it and the Sitkan shore handsome and ornamental, but there are far too many of them. The picture 18 over- crowded, and in this respect 1s as unlike the bay' of Neples as possible, though some writers have compared them, and of course, as 15 usial in cafes of compa son, to the disadvantage of the latter Leaving Sitk ensi we ran oub to sew. It to do this than go a lot mong the istands, and as t 18 fuir the short cut was much weather w | lightful. We rocked like a cradle—the Aucon rocks like acradie on' the slightest provacation. L'he s sparkled; the wavelets leaped and elapped their hands, Once in a while a plume of blown over the bow, and the. doli stomach recoiled upon itselt suggrostive but the deliciousness of the air i the open sea and the brevity of the cruise we were but five or six hours outside— kept u state of wild delight. Pres ently w n back into the maze of fiords and locks and resumed the same old round of daily and mightly experienc vl . Juneau, Do nd, Fort Wrang: and seve ions were r ited, The little stale to in ¥ scemed a f and we were inclined to snub them ightly. Of course we thought we l-—-most of us’knew as much wred to know--and so 2 strolle urely about the littte settlements, it no doubt. but poorly ded o dis- guising the superior nir which distin zuishes the new arrivalin o strange land. tisbut astep from a state of absolute 58 on one's arei new port of languor, wherein nothing an_touch one furthei nd the step s wily and nsually ta side of a week. ay the old settlers torgive us our 1diocy. i at Fort s a r fternoon a very proper background, for dismal to n degr n old stern-wheel steamboat, beached n the edge of the village, used hotel during the decline of the gold fever, but while the fever was at its height the by aid to have cl d 000 per ‘The coolie ha into ‘its nd washes (liere, clad a Season. hollow shell semi-Boyton suii of waterproof. Lmade my way through the dense driz- zle to the Indian age at the far end of the town. The untrodden strects are ss-grown, and many of the little s, gray with weather stains, are de- serted and falling to decay. Reaching a voint of land that ran ou i mist, I found a fe and steaming, as the theirfeanoes. AN EMBARRASSING SITUA A long foot bridge spans a strip of tide land. 1 ventured to cross it, though 1t looked as if it would blow away in the st gust of wind. 1t was a long, long bridge, about broad enough for a single passenger: yet I was met in the middle o it by a well blanketed squaw, bound in- land. Tr was a question in my mind whether it were better to run ‘or leap ghtly over hier, since we must pass on o single rail, or to lic down and allow her to climb o happy inspi 1in, in the m af above the mudflats, 2 tide slowly sweeping 1n from the gray wastes beyond the cipes I seized my pariner conyulsively and with our toes together we swung as on a pivot and went our ways rei 1g- The bridge led to the door of a chief's fiuusu and the door stood open. It was a large, square house, of one room only, and with the tloor sunk to the depth of three i center. It was like looking into swimming bath. A step or terrac four sides of the room made the de: and I aescended. The chief, in a cast-off mulitary jacket.zave me welocome with # mouthful of low gutturals. found a good stove in the lodge and severul good-looking 1 , with chintz curtains and an oriental superabundance of pillow, A few photographs in_ch frames adorned the walls; a few flaming cliromos, erucifixtions and the like hung there, along with fathoms of fishnets, clusters of fishnooks, paddles, kitehen turniture, wearing apparel and a blunder- buss or two. Four huge totem poles, or honderous carvings, supported the & aws of the roof in the manner of atides. These figures, half vei shadows were most improssive and gave i of Egyptian solemnity to the ly lighted, half-subterranean appart- ment, noking at in the damp by TON. 3 LENCE AND SMOKE. The chiet was not alone. kis man Fri- day was with him, and together we sat and smoked in a silence that was almost suffoeating. It fairly snapped once or twice, 1t was so dense, and then we three exehange grave smiles and pufled away in great contentment. The interview was brought to a sudden close by the chic’s making me a very earnest offer ot 6 for my much-admired gum ulst I'refusing ivwith scorn, for it was still raining. So we parted colaly, and I onee more walked the giddy bridge with fear and rembling, for I am ot & sonambu- list, who alone mnght perform there with impunity It wus a bad day for curios. The town had been sacked on the voyage un; vet L prowled in these quart where one would least expact find freasure, inssmuci as it wostly found just thero. the most ndeons faces was turned up at me trom the threshbold of a Juwnmble lodge, It was of a dead green eolor, with blgod trimmings; the nose beaked 'Iike a par- rot; the mouth & gapping erescent; the comed to sparkle and blick with inner set in the back of the skuil; murderous sealp locks stream- ing over the ili-shaped brow, and from the depths of ihis monstrosity some one thing said “boo!™ I sprang rd, only to hear the gurgle of baby Iaug and see the wee face of a half-indian eborub pecring from behind the mask. Well, thet musk is mine now, and whenever 1look at it I think of the rising dusk in Fort Wrangel, and of the 1 on all fours, who sturtled me on my voturn from the chicf’s house, beyond the bridge, and who eried s if her heart would bresk whea 1 puid for her play- thing and bore it eruc!ly awdy. A VISION OF THE NIGHT Some of the happiost hours of the voy- age wore the “wee soa' " ones, when 1 ‘ouged about the duserted deck with Cup- tun George, tho wlot. A gentlemun of o’ is Prosently THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY the Alaskan summer | vast experignae and great reserve, for years he has haunted that archipelago; he knows it in the dark, and it was his nightly duty ta pace the deck while the ship was almMbédtas still asdeath, He has heard the groat singers of the past, the queens of soffg'whose voices were long since hushed, We talked of these in the ast silence of the Alaskan nig 1 of the literatue.of the nd especially of that solitary sothwestern sea, while' we icked our way among the unpeoplod islands that erowded all around us. On such a nightiwhile we were chatting n low voices ay we leaned oyer the quarter rail,and the fow figures that still haunted the deck wert like veritable ghosts, Captain =~ GboYge seized 1 by the arm_ and exclaimed: “Took there!” I looked high up in the northern sky. There was nct a clond visible in all th wide expanse, but somethmg more flimy than cloud Noated like a banner among the stars. It might almost have been a cobweb strotched from star h strand woven from a star beam—but it was continually changing form and color. Now it was 3 fluttering and waving in a ze, and now it hung motion adeep fringo of lnce gathered in ample folds, Anon it epened suddenly from the horrizon and spread its panels like a fan that filled the heavens, and as it oponed and shut and spread to and fro a8 1f it were a fan in motion, it assumed all the golors of the rainbow, but delicny of tint and texture even beyond that of the rainbow. Sometimes it was like a sevies of transparencie: shadow pictures thrown ubon the sereen of heaven, by a light boyond it the mysterious light we know not of. That is what the pilot and 1 most of the passengers we the veritable aurora, and thy worth a trip to Al KO N One day we came to Fort Tong: port of ‘entry and our | i the British possessions wi w while slooping alone —a port in the at land—1or all the way down through o touch no lund until_we reach Victoria or N . Tongass i8 a desertod military post, snd the unmistakable air of w destrted and. Some of us were not at all eager to go on shore. You see we were begin- ning to get our fill of this monotonous out-of-the-world and ont-of-the-way hfe, 1d yet ‘Tongass is unique and ceftamly has the most interesting collection of totem pol that one is likely to see on the voyaz L Tonguss therd is a little curving beach, where the ripples sparkle mong the pebbles. Beyond the beach is astrip of green lawn, and at the top « the Luwn the old oflice rLers, now lling to dec ound’ there nd trees The se crywhere about and the seabredzes blow briskly seagulls waddle about the law sit in rows upon the xing roofs as if they w thoroughly domesticated. O! what droll place it is. After a little deliberation we ashore in several huge boatload: our surprise, were welcomed by i charm- ing young bride in white muslin and rib- bons of baby: blue. Somchow she had found he ay, to the desert asland; or yring up there like n wildflower? with which she did the s was the subjeet of unbounde during the remainder of the w nll wi A (¥ UL GUIT This pretty Bret Harte heroine—with all of the charms and virtues und none of the vices of big heroines led us through the jungle vocks of the dilapidated quar ters, down améng the spray-wet rocks on the other side of the island, and all along the dreary waste that fronts the Indian village, Oh, how dreary that waste 1s! the rocks, black and barren, and scat- tered fur into'the frothing sea; the sandy path along the front of the Indiun lodges, with rank grass shaking and shivering in the wind: the solemn and grim array of totem poles stunding in frout or at the des of the weather stained lodges—and the whole place deserted. [ know not where the Indians had gone, but they were not there--save a sick squaw or two, rob- ably. being fishermen, the tribe had gone out'with their eanoes and were now busy with the spoils somewhere among the thousand passages of the archipelago. The totem poles at Tong: I carved briliiantly colored s in the extreme. Some of the loi roomy, but sad looking, and with a petnl shade hovering through them found inscriptions 1n English ve We y rudely lettered on many of the lodges and toteny of” some one or ble red man. Over ption: *‘In mem- poles, “In_memory anothor chicf or one door was th insel ory of —-, who died by his own hand,” The lodge pole was foswened with arusty padlock, and the place looked ghoulish, THE DEPARTURE. 1 think we were all glad to get out of Tongass, thongh we received our best welcome there. At any rate, we sat on the beneh and got our feet wet and onur pockets full of sand waiting for the de- iberate but dead-sure boatmen to row us to the ship. When we steamed away we left the little bride in her desert islund to the serene and sacred joy of her honey- moon, hoping that long before it 1 begun to wane she might return to the world, for in three brief weeks wo were beginmng to lust after it. That evening we ancho; ina well wooded cove anc took on se il lighter lJoads of salmon casks, while Captam Carroll and the best shots in the ship passed the time in shoo ing at a barrvel tloating 300 wny. So we passed the time as we were home. ward bonnd and rapidly nearing the end of the vorage. — Arrwval of Vicuna underwear at Ramge - Special Bargain for 30 Days, HILLSDALE, The che: markey pestssuburban property in thy selling at #175 to $225 per lot, $25 down and 3 to $10 per month on balunco. Hereis a chance to suve money and mako men » 1507 Farnam, SiLvER Cures CoAL has no superior in this market. Only $6.50 per ton Jevr W, BEDFORD, 213 S, 14th St, i ul—Best’ quality lowa Nut Coal 5. Coutant & Squires, 213 5.13th st - Don’t pay “big prices for lumber but buy cheap at Bradford's Paint_your soofs with . X. L. Slate paint. Leays orders at oflice, Room 6, overCommercigl Natioval Bank —— Tuttle & Aflifon, fns, Agts., 211 S. 15th, ‘Bancing. 108 school of dancing, Met ' W. Cor. 14th und Clasews for children, Wednes aturdauy ternoons; for ladies atlenren, Wednesday and Satur- duy evenings Mrs. Magr ropolitun Dodge - We have repairs for your stove OMmanA STove REpar Wonks, 613 8. 13th - Engravingsin bronze frames at Hospe's - hest Minnwsota Flour, §2.50 rod"; - ILVER CREEK is the best Sott Coal. For sale by Jivy W, BEDFOLD, o 218 8. 14th S Ktohingsin hardwood frames st Hospe's per ewt, at He —— Be Careful What You Buy. Abogus brand of NONPAREIL FLOUR of inferior quality is being sold. The genuine NONPARELL Co'orado Flour hus name J. W. Denio, Manager, on ovory sack. Buy the best, it costs no more. W.J. WeLsuaxss & Co Agents. NOVIMBIER 3, 1886 | A FANOUS EXPRESS KOBBERY The First Instance of a Successful Swindle by Tapping a Telegraph Wire, | CLEVER DETECTIVE WORK How the Cunning and Bold Thicf Was Discovered--He Makes His St. Louis Republican notable exp aceurred for de One of the most committed in Pennsylvania in 1877, and time created quite a sensation. The 1s will'prove particularly interesting atthis time. [t was the first instance on record in this country of a successful swindle by tapping a telegraph wiro, ess robberies Ve On the 13th of March, 1§ Wm. W McCalla went to a pomnt, about three miles north of Kittanning, Pa., on the Allegheny ralway, tapped the telegraph wire and made an attachment, He was a first-class operator, and conducted the work in perfect shape. He had a pocket instrunent, which he placed in position, and telegraphed nortn to Brady's Bend | asking the express agent at that pl what express messenger was coming down on “No. 2" that afternoon. He | signed the telegram “George Bingham, superintendent.” Mr. Bingham was su- perintendent at that time. McCalla ve ceived an answer telling him that Lom Bingham, who was a nephew of the su- permtendent, was the wessenger, and that e would be on train No. 2. This telegram was signed by the agent at Brady's Bend, and was addressed to Su- perintendent Bingham Pittshurg. While MeCalla was doing this telegraph- ing north he had the south cnd of the wire grounded, and therefore Pittsburg was fgnorant of what was being done, Having obtained all the information he desired. . McCalla removed his instru ment, closed up the wire, and went his way rejoicing. U reaching a con- venient place he wrote a letter rodue ing himseif as “J. H. Brooks,” and ad- | dressed to Messenger Bingham, orderc the Iatter to turn over his run to him (Brooks), who would take it to Pittsbury. The letter ordered Bingham to retu from Tempteton on train No. 13 (which 3 the passing points for trains Nos, 2 and 1) to Paf and report there to Mr. MeClel would be there noov 10 nwaiting I coming. The letter was gned “George Bingham,” bore an of- ficial air, and wus caleulated to deceive, | MeCatla then boarded train No. anshannock and went north to Tem- | where be met truin No. 2. This | s where the tram stopped for suppe He eoolly presented the forged lotter t Binzham, who never suspeeted anything | the g i tonching them, and From this time on Mr. Furlong had little trouble in that the rob Billy Mot him to T had swindled an ting convincing evidence ry bad been committed by . He succoeded in tracing xns, where it was found that he CxXpress m senger on the Sunset ronte out of a large sum of mon W had disappeared. My, Fur- long followed him to Havana, Cuba, and found that he had just sailed ‘for Rio Js hout to followy, when & ched him informing him of ittsburg riot and ordering bim home neito He w telogram the at once, thus putting a stop to the chase. George MeCalla was ar of the stolen money was recovered, but Billy never was heard from - vain to soek & powder dety the complexion. that defies tion, but use Pozzoni's to improve e An Alaska Forest, Wandering around near camp [ was struck with astonishment at the gr si we had erept, says Lieute in the New York Tin feet of the of which measured the other 17 feet in height of a person’ The lafter had its and thus losi ment. About thir mp was 2 tree that circumference at from the in feet | most astonishing part was th forest should be found in every direction. before the ice and this forc onee connceted wite the for great flat lands Here evidence that this small for ing obliters front of the Guyot glucier, the foot-ice | grinaing the the huge tre into puip nd gphinters S surely ! as a quartz-crusher rock into powder. Tree foet through were bent ov tered ns though they woer n act rounded by ice ten to twenty miles Of course it is onable'to suppose that trees we 3 brush, while of the treesof the forest into which t Schwatka Within twenty amp-lire wore two trees, 12 feet 7inches, reumferenc arm from the grand thick, shagg to the gronnd, being | « much in yards from | wive about ground. ne and at the v bark its 21 feot six The sueh u Iy sur 088 3 at [ t probably sts of the was undoubted st was be- o vapiply by the advancing inds the e and six - splin- some of the len trunks were split Tongitudinully into perfect kindling wood. Tt w mg slowly, ete. ing so very slowly, either, see i aring them glae action near by, oll, prob Wi cler in the past had shown by th 15 the inlls of the gods But biy a half mile to a mile aw <mudl clump of woods, into which protraded, fallen shattered trunks rind Nor wore they grind- s one could with other little wa, lay near. the cdge of a small mo from which the glacier had now ret a great number of rods. Ouat from the bristling line ot shattered piled over cach other for ne: a hundred y dead but still 1ding, tl trunks and long, gaunt trasting strangely and with the trees that formed their ba dead eve had been by the proximity to the ic wrong, turned over to McCalla the key to the safe, the books. ote., and took the | other train b | McCalla took charge of the exwvress matters and attended to it as properly as | if he had been at 1t for years. Il ran from Templeton to Pittsbnrg, a distance of sixty miles, withont making an error of any sort. When the train arvived the latter point at 8 o'click in the even- | ing, he transferred everything to the | wazons of the express company, which | wer vaiting, except about $14,200 in currency and some valuables which were in the safe. Ho put the plunder in his | pockets and mounted the express wagon | with the ompty safo, which ho had | locked. His nerve at this stage of the procecding was s mething remarkable, He was seated beside the driver und rode | to within a block of the express oftice, | [ when he left the wagon, telling the drive that he wanted to speak to a man that be pointed out on the street, adding also that be would be at the ofi in a few minutes. He disappenred and was not | en afterward. | After a time the absence of the messen- | ger was noticed atthe oflice, but the safe could not be opencd uniil the messener ved with a key. About midnight the man in charge of the oflice beewine rmed and reported the non-appear- anee of the messengerto Superitendent Bingham, who had The safe opened, and the the di . Mr. Thomas Furlong, vresent chief of the Gounld system secret service, and at that time conneeted with the Allegheny railway in asimilar capacity, who was that time at Oil City, was notified by tele graph and at once 100k hold of the ¢ He first went wo the place where the w had been ent and begun his investi tions. There was no ¢lue to the perpe- trator ot the robbery and it looke if his tracks had been eficetually covered. But with his charncteristic perseverence Mr. Furlong worked steadily from the 14th of March until tie 20th of July,with- finding any satisfuctory results. y one who had seen Brooks on the n between Templeton and Pittsburg nonnced him a thorongh expressman: 1 posted apparently, in all the details of the work, and acting ns it he had been aceustomed o it for ye; Quite a hum- ber of these people Temembered having 1 somconc on the train frequently who strongly rescmbled but the, could not tell who o ‘They nad an idea that he might been an express messengoer, but they not know him the name of Brooks, ont Finally Mr. Furlong encountered a little girl between seven and vight years of aze who Bim the first pointer that led to the solution of the mystery. She pzhter of u sectionman who lived 1 the station bouse at Cowanshin- She remembered the mun that o train No. 13w that voint on the noon of the robberv, amd gaven te deseription of him, He had waited there thicty minutes for the train, and during the greater portion of that time sat on w log near the denot She noticed that he took sonre pan from a memorandum-book, tore them np into fine pleces, and _scattered them on the ground. Mr. Furlong visited the spot, und found that, fortunately, cindors had been thrown there, which beld a large number of the seraps of paper to " the ground. After a protracted saarch he sueccecded in pieking av a num ber of frugments, n placed together, formed heck on i bank at Carlisle, solinany with Joe Cuppies, who w: prowmnent teetiv r. Furlong went tod und ¢ [ graph ottice. 1 exprossed a ¢ end @ telegram to a point in Lo ¢ s bl previonsl learned no telegraph ofice existed, pid wiis s0on engaged 1n 4 conversation wiih the operator, He said that he bad ben up in the oil regions and had met a tels graph operator there who told bim that if he ever visited Curly the eperator. He member the opers cribed hinr as th deserthed the s Cowanshannock operator once that it was “Billy McCalin.” “Why, Bitly has beon up in the oil re gions, I recollect,” said the aperstor “You must know iis brother, aorge McCalla; he used to be an express mes cer on the Allegheny Vatley roud. © was the mystery soived wt e he must enlt on ha eonlda’t v id s name. tionman r she Th dang had 5 " 2t t Phe whole seheme Hashod upon the nee. tective's nund at graph operator, while his brothe an express messenger, had furnished th information which hud made it possib for Billy to make the ruu to Pittsburg without moking wistakes M. Fur long tulked for some tme with the opes ator, and learned that George was sick, and had heen unable work for seyeral mouths, and that Bitly Lad guue tolexas Billy was a tel eapped the wire wito haa been | influen: \te r growth; for was always snting t u of ic st muddy of the foot cier rds all the spruc tree-trunks imb conspicuously Leovered with folinge sund. Th tually killed without its cither by its chilling s Kept up throughout the year for (bly centurics. or the cons | cation of the ice-w 1t appli- whout their roots along this rshy ater draining off to the ek or rill. not camp in the This W over fi forest, for here we ot our water for cooking pur- DOSCS; here, also, the ice of the g cier had evidently come forward so 1 wWe that the trees rather Kiiled by dircet crushing of their trunks and limbs than b, the slower one of the influence of great m of 1ce near by, and it was possible to sit down on this foot-ice of the Guyot glacier, prob- ably ten to twenty feet thick at that ed two me time, son tesi at the hus usion that the front vas like the i nd retr t would re 1 (fter the other to ud its b: and at the same time be under th of a huze evergreen tree, if a per 1ch cooling influcnd f L came of thi fingers of some huge longing themselves to the long in- v iman ward flow. Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey and Duffy’s Formula. 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