Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 7, 1887, Page 2

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE THEY RAISED THE LONG HAUL The Burlington Road Turns the Tables on Governor Larrabee's Request. IOWA HARD CIDER MUST GO. The Drink of the Daddies Pounced on By Prohibitionists—Fixing to Boom Colfax Springs—Uther fowa N It Jumped the Wrong Way. Des MoiNes, Ta., Mareh 6.—[Special to the Ber.]—The business men of Des Moines and Jowa generally are very much concerned over the effect upon commerce of the new railroad law. There is a good deal of solici- tude and half-coneealed fear that western interests are mnore dkely to suifer than to be benelited by its oper “ons. low: hipping Interests are so lu.gely Inter-state and re- quire 50 much from the long haul that if the rallroads decide to raise the long-haul rate to the short-haul figure it is going to make trou- ble. There seems to be a disposition to do this very thing, as was shown in a small matter just recently. 1t will be remembered thata few weeks azo the governor complalned o the railroad commissioners that the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad was dis- eriminating unjustly in the matter of rates for coal carried from a point in Lucas county to Council Bluffs and to Glenwood, several miles this side. The state had been com pelled to pay a higher rate for having coal carried to the deaf and dumb asylum at Council Bluffs than to the asylum for feeble- minded children at Glenwood, some distance this side, and the commissioners, in passing upon the case, said that if the principle of no discrimination was a good thing for Inter- state commerce it also was for local traflic. So they advised the railroads to come to time by charging no more fof a short than for » long haul. That was the first innings. Now the railroad has Its innings, and for the time being at least, it has knocked the state quite out of the diamond. The " has ofticially informed the authorities that it will comply with the new ruling— oharging no more for the short than the long haul—and accordingly raises its rates for coal from the Lucas county mines to Council Blufis from $1..25 to $L9%, The cat has Jumped, but notin the way expected. In- stead of lowering the Glenwood rate, wh ich 'was 8180, to the Council Bluffs fizure, $1.25, or making a compronise rate, it lifts the rate for the longer haul to $1.9% and holds the shorter haul at the same figure, $1.80, The railroad ¢ s that $1.98 is only a fair com- pensation, and asserts that the $1.25 rate formerly was a losing rate forced upon it by cumpetition with other roads. 1f this be so, At will practically shut Lueas county ming out of a Council Bluffs market, and the state will have to get its coal for the deat and dumb asylum sumewhere else. This is men- tioned as a sample case of what the railroads may do under the new law. 1f they are goin ¢ fo raise the lonz haul rate above the short haul rate ins of reducing the latter, then thero will be a “how dy’e do,” and the peo- Yla will find their last estate far worse than heir former. PROHIBITING HARD CIDE ‘The prohibitionists bhaving disposed of other worlds have ficum:ml down upon hard cider, and the drink of our daddies will have to go. A local court has subjected a seizure of this beverage to a chemical analysis, and declared that it contains more alcohol than beer and is a very dangerous fluid to have around the house. Whether it would be ul- lowed to mingle with the ]utcly mincemeat or Not has not yet been ofticially determined, but it is probable that such an alliance wil mot be tolerated by some of the zealous peo- ple who are endeavoring to rogulate the ap- petites of their countrymen. The local chemist who passed upon the qualities of hard cider declared that it contains about 5 wer cent of alcohol, or from 1 to 114 per cent more than comuion beer. 1f so, then cider Will have to walk the plank on the theory that that is more than a man can do who finbives it freely. Thus gradually the festive Inven’m in prohibition Iowa are growing beautifully lem} and some apollinaris water and Colfax will have the floor to themselves. Bmkln1 of Colfax, that sugcests the new yproject which is now being discussed for con- mecting that popular resort with Des Moines gy & boulevard and cable road. Colfax prings, now one of the popular resorts of the west, is located about l\vem‘y mlies east of Des Moines on the Rock Island, Its ‘waters have a national reputation and draw m‘plo from all parts of the country to enjoy r medicinal properties. But the little city in which they are situated is totally devold of other attractions and is too far from Des Moines to be reached easily, except by the rezular trains. It is proposed to build a boulevard and cable road between the places and thus build up suburban homes all the ‘way out. It is Delieved that if this were done, giving quicltand cheap communication between the twn.rlms. that many visitors at the springs would prefer to_spend their days there and come up to the city and stay over night, while the city people who are engaged all day would be glad of a chance and go to Colfax for the night and return in the morn- Ing. It 18 understood that some California capitalists are behind the enterprise who have contidence that it can be worked with reat success, and it is not improbable that @ project will be started this spring, pro- vid the necessary concessions along the ‘way can be secured, THE WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS. “‘One of the best though most unostenta- tlous of lowa’s charitable Institutions,” said & veteran observer, *'is the wonian’s relief corps, It is doing a work that no other or- ganization undertakes, and is instilling a triotic spirit in the winds of the young hat is having a noble effect.” Investigation shows this to be true, and t"e rapid growth of the order is quite surprising, = Althou :h oranized less than v years ago, the na- tional organization contains thirty depart- ments with 50,000 members. The department of fowa, though orianized less than three years ago, contains 103 corps and over 3,000 embers. The members of this organiza. lon are composed of the wives, sisters and aughters of union soldiers, and one of the llllll.rlll'p(hxefl I8 to assist in the work of the Grand Army of the Republic. They do a great work ot charity in looking after the needv and dependent veterans, administer- ing to the sick and giving o woman’s sympa- thy and help to the suffering old soldiers, who are neglected by ail else. During the past_year the lowa department has raised at $4,000 in woney alone, which has been distributed through the charitable agencies of the society. Ln this city the woman’s relief corps takes a very prominent and very useful part in all the social and benevoleut enter- rises of the G. A. K., and is proving that it as a large and very important mission to perfor: TRIALS OF OFFICE Some people have a very queer idea of the duties of a state ofticer and imagine him to a sort of general intelligence oftice or universal factotum for the good of everybody who wants his services. The gentlemen who Jive at the state houso receive some very queer inquiries and very strange requests alinost every day, ‘U'hey are plied for information on every variety of topic from the Noachian deluge o the size of the largest city in China, and people don’t hesitate to ask for all sorts of services, construing “public service idea with the largest 1i ty and most ex- acting literalness, A good exawple of this was afforded recently whe tate Lyons found in his mail a request from old farmer up in Guthrie county to bunt hini up a good second-hand stove here in Des Aflvlnu and ship it o him. The old farmer evidently thought it was a part of the auditor’s business to serve the publie in any way desired, even to playing the role of a Junk shop. BASE BALL MATTERS, “The patrons of the national game in this ty are getting very enthuslastic over the spects of the Des Moines elub this season. @ Wway the club has started in at New Or- us has raised publie expectation very high, thair opening gawe the Cincinnatis, who were strengthened by Preffer, Chicago's reat second baseman, and Buck Ewing, Su fawmous catener, beat tho boys by to1l. The Cin- oines’ new pitcher, rreater surprises are yet in store, One of the i’n Moines team, who was but little known and was taken at some risk, is going to prove & mascot, Several eastern mauagers have Irea handsome bids for b are to be played with Omaha, and it is ox- Jécted that base "ball mattats witlhavo a ively boom here this season. Missouri Valley Matters, Missovrt VALLEY, Ia., March Special tothe BEE.|—At a ¢ meeting Inst night a most excailent city ticket was plaeed in nomination, which will undountedly be elected on Monday. 'The nominee for mayor is & young man of much ability, aud is recog- nized as one of the leading attorneys in Har- rison county. He served ona term a3 mayor and did good work for the city. The entire ticket isa ¢ood one, the nominees for coun- being our most substantial and repre- ive business men, and the citizens feel that city aifairs will be safe in their hands. The ticket is as follows: Mavor, J. 8. Dewall; solicitor, 1, Brown : treasurer, L. k. Massie: assessor, W. N, Foutz. Councilmen “irst ward, C. H. Dent and J. | rowder nd ward, K. F. James and W, tl. Fens: Ihird ward, A Edgecomb, ‘Ihe Knights of Labor have nominated W, W. Seaton for mayor, but the rest of their ticket has not yet been delinitely settled, This city will take mlllLllel)fl forward this season. Alrendy a number of buildings are planned, and the boom is expected to arrive with the good weathor. The railrosd com- panies will do much grading and improve and increase the capacity of their {nrds here, in order that* they may be better able to han- dle the immense amount of freizht thatis transferred here, and it is expected that they will make other substantial ——— mprovements, THE WEEK IN WALL STREET. The Course of Speculation Very Er- ratic and Disappolating, NEW York, March 6,—[Speclal Telegram to the Bek.|—The week, taken altogether, was a disappointment . in various interests in the stock market, the course of speculation hav- ing veen very erratic and fraquently the re- verse of what was expected. Washington news was larzely responsible for the vagaries of the market in the absence of anything im- portant from abroad. At the start the bears sold stocks freely on the backward state of the appropriation bills, which gave grounds for the impression that there would be an extra session of congress, and also on talk of prospective tight money arising from di- minished reserves of banks, To assist th in their efforts in the direction of depr they had a sudden break of points in American cotton oil certifi- cates, which weakened a number of small operators and frightened them into liquidat- ing on their general ventures. Still, with these influences the impression made upon prices was comparatively slizht, and there ‘was a scramble to cover as soon as it became apparent that the leadine bear was running on his shorts. THv result of this was a sharp rally, which carried some shares up to the highest point of the week, the rise being as- sisted by favorable traflic returns, by the prouress made by the railroad managers in arranging schedules to conform to the new inter-state commerce law, by a special move- ment here and there in the” list and by sur mises of felegraphic and railroad deals grow ing out of the Garrett dinner. Whan cor gress adjourned and some of the approjr tion bills failed and mone; sellinz movement set i was partially lost. the week were on a limi tions outside of Milwauke Western common and preferr h - vanced from 5 to 10 points, and American cotton oil certiticates, whic Ilied 11 points from the early decli 11y com- passed within a range of 1 to 3 points ecither way. The movement in railroad bonds was far less important thah during the previous week. Some of the issues which were con- spicuous for strength then made some re: tion, but a few others came to the front an.l scored smart_advances, Union and Central Pacifics 15t3 rose 4(@il¢ {mlllb& on talk about the companies being enabled to invest their sinking funds in those bonds instead of United States currency 0's because of the high prices for and the small return of inter- est by the latter. Green Bay issues jumped about 8 points,and the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western in- comes little less, ‘The Atlantic & Pacifics were in good demand near the close and re- covered l@?‘ points, ‘The Texas Pacifics were weak for & time, but soon rallied and left off firm, with only lizht offering of tixed date issue.’ The foreign exchanges were weak until near the close. the demand hav- ing been light and offering of bil Is some- what larger than of late. The market showed a little more steadiness in late dealings but rates are still below gold-exporting points. While foreign exchanges had a orable turn, the monetary situation was character- ized by a firmer feeling anda higher range of rates. T mprovement ns throuzhout s ‘ferrible Double Tragedy. CHICcAGO, March 6,—An Inter Ocean spe- clal from St. Louis says: James F. Godman, a wealthy citizen of Huntsville, Mo., had a dispute last night with his wife in the pres- ence of his little son. He kicked his wife out of bed and brained her with a_ boot-jack. He then went to the barn, severed an artery in his arm, and hung himeelf to a rafter, o Coal Miner:’ Strike Ended. PEORIA, 111, March 6.—The strike of coal miners in this vicinity, which was quite gen- eral, Is substantially ended. Many men have returned to work in one mine, and a new force has been engaged at another. The men will goto work on the co-operative plan. ‘I'he operators refuse to employ the mlners who instigated the strike, e DIED, BOYD—In this city, March 6, William Boyd, aged 71 years, Funeral to-day at 2 p. m, from the family residence, 413 South Ninth street. BREWSTER—In this city, March 6, at 8 a. ., Albert. son of O. P. and Ella M. Brew- ster, aged 1 year and 6 months. Funeral to-day from the family residence, 1444 North Twenty-second strect. Inter- ment at Kennard, Neb, GIBSON—In this city, March 5, at 6 Edua, daughter of J. 1. und Hattie son, aged 6 years and 6 months, Funeral to-day at 2 p. m. from the family residence, 1152 Delaware street. Friends in- vited. FREEMAN-—March 5, at 7 p. m., at his room, 214 North Eleventh street, Sherman Free- man, aged 16 years, Remains were taken to Drexel & Mauls Funeral announcement htreafter, m., p. ! Gib- G Gigantic Buildings Are those to be built in South Omaha, for which the plans have just been com- pleted. Vast industr will be added this year and HENDREDS OF DW ELLINGS erected for those finding employmert there. ALBRIGHT'S CHOICE offers the best opportunities for those wishing to purchase lots in South Omaha, whether for residence or speculation. W. G. ALBRIGHT, 21885 15th st. Mre. Mackay's Sapphire. Mrs. Mackay's lntast acquisition in the line of exquisite gems is a sapphire of brillixnt hue, not quite the largest of its kind extant, but, nevertheless, one of the most valuable. Its former possessor, & Russian prince, whom necassity drove to a separation with the gem, looked long and lovingly at it before consenting to let it go, but the $150,000 which the bo- ranza king's wife offered for the bit of stone finally overcame his reluotance and the gem is hers. Of this lady's match- less jewelry much has been already written, but the fame of all her other possessions has boen eclipsed for the time by the set of coral ornaments, lit- erally encrusted with diamonds, which she has also added to her store. It is more than two years since the first piece of this matchless coral—whose color is the rarest and most delicate shade of rose pink—came into her nands, and it has taken her Paris jeweler all this time to complete the set as desired. There is only one other set in the world that will at all compare withit in beauty, and that is owned by the reigning Queen of Portn al. # e —.—— For Rent--Store building 831133 feet, 4 stories high und basement, 1114 Har- ney, loremer'y esecnpied 2y Clarke D:iug Jo. CONCERNING THE CREOLES. Romantic History of This Peculiar Class of Bouthern Peoples SOLDIERY, SENSITIVE, SOCIAL, 01 Times in New Orleans—Fighting Under Jackson—Great Mistake in the Meaning of a Namo Pure Whites, s correspondent of the Chronicle writes: Al though the early history of that lurge territory which was once embraced under the title of Louisiana is clesely as- sociated with the numes of Hernando de Soto in 1539, of Joliet and Marquette and La Salle in 1673 and 1682, yet these first explorers left no colonists behind them. Itis true that La Seclle planted the banner of the fleur de lison the banks of the Mississippi and took solemn possession of the territory in the name of his most puissant majesty, Louis XIV, “by grace of God, king of krance and Navarre,” but the honor of found- ing the first settlement belongs to two distinguished French officers of noble birth, Bienville and Sherville, who brought a colony of Canadians to Biloxi in1609. The settlement of Mobile fol- lowed soon after that of Biloxi, anda foew years later Bienville sent his en- gineer, Sieur le Blond de la Tour, a knight of St. Louis, ‘‘to choose a site for a city worthy to become the capital of Louisiana.” The city was laid off in the form of a square, which is_suil known among the Creoles as le Vieux Carre, and forms the principal portions of what is now called the French quarter, The new town was named for Phiilippe d'Orleans, and Bienville, then governor of the province, soon deter- mined to make it the seat of government. For many years New Orleans was a strongly fortitied city. Along the s which constitute its outer bound: an i with fosse in tront both ¢, and numerous fortresses <y distances. Traces of these ihitary defenses ave still foundin cinity of the cit to them we owe the beauty und _gr width of such streets as 1, Esply port. THLE The e like a ro v pages ROMANCE OF HISTORY. rly history of Lowst nee of the middle ages. m to resourd with th reads Its warlike din of trumpet-blasts, the elashing of arms, the f uent marshaling 1 of knights of | meeting with wonderful adventy depths of t less for the Creole historian say tl souvenir of Louisiana chivalry.” The intr little band of heroi aguinst the N a souvenir of Bienville led s to w; Indian wo those shiipers of the sun whose civilization so tar in advance of other tr also aguainst the fierce in _which last conflicts brilliant French ca A number of French succeeded Bienville, who: tions were more or les none of them rivaled of ms poeople, by whom he was long called *“Father.”" In 1705, and during Bienville's rule, his majesty of France sent out a cargo of carefully s ted, respectable and industrious girls, under the charge of several priests and nuns, to be wives to the colonists of his_ posse sions in America. Most of these girls were Parisians. They soon found hu bands among the common_ soldiers, and each young couple received substantial help from the government wherewith to commence their housekeeping.. Tha birth of the first Creole—that is the first native of unmixed white blood --was considered an event of sufliclent impor- tance to be muade the subject of & special dispatch to the French governinent. GROWTH OF THE COLONY. The colony grew and thrived; the Creoles multiplicd yearly, although the name Creole, whic ns the issue of n parents in_ Spanish or French . was not given to the native whites of Louisiana until during the Spanish occupation many years later. It had 1ts origin in the Spanish word criollo, a word coined from criar, to create, and ola,a wave, and signified born beyond the By an easy transition it became ench word creole. The name was isti sh the child of pure nish descent from rings of mixed races, such as tho a cross between the white and Indian; the griffe, mixed African and Indian, or the mulatto, of white and African purentage. The term creole has thus been bestowed from the earliest set- tlement of Louisiana ns a title of honor. Almost all of the yuung French ofticers with Bienville were nobles, so that many of the Creoles can boast an untainted lineage from the most exalted families in France. The Spanish officers who came with Don O'Reilly were, in large propor- tion, “lords of h degree,” who, in their turn, married the descendants of the French officers, so that an unspotted and exclusive aristocracy was maintained m the colony from an early period. Under the administration of Governor Kerlerec some very excellent families of Lorrame emigrated to Louisiana; and, still later, a large number of Acadian who had been d| by the English, ics of the state. » Acadians, or *‘Ca- j as the Amc 1s have nicknamed Creoles, but thpy have remained in a great measure distinct and sepurate from other colomists of French descent. A POINT OF HONOR. All classes of Creoles have united on the one subject of the preservation of their honor and disgust at any admix- ture of negro blood. ~As early as 1751 and during the rule of the French governor, the Marquis de Vandreuil, a decree was published which contained the following article: “*Any Frenchman so infamous to harbor a black slave tor the purpose of inducing him or her to lead a scandal- ous life shall be whipped by the public xecationer, and without enced to the ga again, under Spanish dominion, in 1785, the then Governor Miro issued a procla- mati in which an early decree was more idly enforced, which preseribed the kerchief as a headdress for all colored women, they being forbidden to wear plumes, jewels or other adornments ap- propriated by the white women., ‘This ar handkerchief headdress was 'y picturesque and was long a distinet- feature of the French negresses. zoyerno; mil iven from their homes ttled the western prair- ive From the pages of Gayaire's delightful history we gather that the disastrous rev- olution of 1768 arose partly from a race question, By the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1762, Louisiana bad been sold by France to Spain, but this transaction was long kept a secret from the people of New Orleans and aroused their deepest indignation when known. It is probable that the Orleanians were not disposed to look with unprejudiced eyes upon the new Spanish governor, Don Antonio de Ulloa, when he arrived in 1760 with his few companies of Spanish soldiers. The dislike of Spanish rule was a smoldering tire which needed the merest spark to Kindle it into flame, and the spark which ronflagration was, as purcly a question of OAUSE OF A REVOLUTION The nor{ is as fotlows: \When Don Ulloa had beon about a year in the colony he sent to Perv for his tianc the Marquise d*Abrador, whom he met at the Balize, wherd thdy were married and then returned in:“triumph to New Orleans, ‘The bride was accompanied by some young, Pffruvian ladies, her maids of honor, whys unfortunately had yellow comlexigns; The creole ladies declared that the Péruvians were mulat- and declined t visit the marqu would eonsent to send these off-colored frfonds of hers. he narquise haughfily refused; the New Orleans ladies Befi their ground, and soon the affair gamed such importance that the wrath efthe whole populace was aronsed, and themen conspired to tnrow ofl’ the (ul'I‘gu yoke. The chief romoters of the fuyplution that burst in Sn-.« were leading; officers of the govern- ment and prominent ‘merchants, notably Lafreniere, the attorney general; Noyau and Ihvu‘ of the city's ¢, two_ nephew: illere, Marquis Hardy de Bois oucault and others. Ulloa was d,a republic was projected and gates were sent to the other Ameri- can colonies to propose a union with them, But these dreams of victory were qui dispelled by the arrival of Don O'Reilly witha large force and Lousisiana again succumbed 10 the dominion of Spain. The heoric chiefs of the revolution were arrested, and despite the prayers of the people were_ executed in the old Place d’Armes. Noyau would have been par- doned because of his extreme youth, but preferred to share the fate of his com- rades. The gallant Lafreniere died with a prophecy on his lips, 1 liberty is already heard--victo follow,'" he said in farewell to Lis tellow citizens. UNDER SPANISH RULE. Although the race distinction which had assisted in bringing to pass that bl in the Place d’ rigidly maintained, yot the relation be- tween the and their slaves was of the friendlicst character. Although the authority of Span was agically inaugurated by Don yet the rule of the succeeding Spanish governors, during their soveY- cignty of nearly thirty-five years, was mild and conciliatory.” Nearly all of the proud young Sp grandees, inelud- al of the governors, selected Ing seve their wives from the Creoles of French nt. so that the population became iixture of Spanish and to introduce the however, proved a 'n the children re- belled against loarning their lessons in Spanish, and, although that language re- mained the vehicle of official communi- cation, yet the French tongne, manners and eustoms maintained their supremacy despite the city's frequent change of mas- ters. The yorng French officers enrolled themselves under the banner of the Span- ish Governor Galy and followed him « ly to the w nst the English, from whom they took the towns of Pen- sacola, Baton Rouge, Mobile and others then in possession of Great Brituin, FRENCI AT HEART, That the colonies remained French at rt was manifested in their joy at being aguin transferred ta Erance, in'1893; and deed that sold lang complete failur France s n these loving subjeets to the United States, Yet, while the Creoles have retained the manners, customs and langnage of their ancestors, they havg yever fallen behind any other Americanoitizen in their pa- triotism or fidehity ¢ to their adoptea country. Awmong the troops who fought with J son againdt the English, on the memorable field ot ('lthimette, none were braver than the toipanies of Creole soldiers, In the M n war more than 6,000 gallant Louisiantans sprang to arms ana marched side by side with ther American brothers'to the country of Montezuma., Persons who have kdown, or who have lived among the cultivated and refined upper class of Loudksiana Creoles, con- r it the grossest ignorance for an out- side world to ha i ole to imply an indiyidual with more or less taint of African origin. It bas been a crime worse than ignorance on the part of certain writers of romance to seek to convey this impression in their works; since a very little inquiry would have es- tablished the the fact that the term creole is not only a title of pride, but also an unanswerable claim to the possession of pure white blood. In the past an Awmeri- can of northern birth, an Eunghshman or a German, might, and sometimes did, marry women of mixed African descent; but, at no period in the colony's history would o THE HAUGHTY CREOLE have so demeaned himself. Up to a date shortly preceding the late war Creole so- ciety remained as exclusive, as diflicult of uccess to the stranger who possessed no_patent of good birth, nor held the divine right of genius, as werc the famous salons of the Faubourg Saint Germain, But once the stranger gained permission to surmount the otherwise impassable barriers, it was as if & fairy scene had opened before him. er els ere in this country has there existed a society equal tothatupheld by the aflluent Creole noblesse of New Orleans. Their princely fortunes enabled them to obtain all the elegance and luxury enjoyed by the fash- ionable world of Paris or other cities, while their good tastes dictated a proper use of these luxuries and forbade any os- tentatious display of wealth. It is difficult to understand how the slander originated, which cast so foul a smirch on this cultivated and refined community, but possibly it grew out of that larger significence with which the word *‘ereole’ was used after the Ameri can opposition, Slaves of the Creoles were then ealled creole negroes to dis- tingish them from the imported and American blacks. Now, as well as then, there are creole horses, creole oranges, creole corn, ete.; and the largest, whitest, freshest contributiens from the poultry- yards are sold rapidly and at higher prices as ole eggs. "It is not an un- common thing for an epicure to ask at his breakfast table: “Where did you get these egg: if the wnlmr ans " and ers, ‘'they are creole eggs, sir,” Monsicur begins his morning repast with gusto, Thus creole implies of the best, when applied to even so small a thing as an egg. -~ Alaska, The Alaska Free Press, a weekly news- paper recently started af Juneau by How- ard {l Sons, contains thefollowing : Alaska 15 probably {hy only place under the United States govarpment where dogs are profitably utilized—~ Here they are hitched to sleds whgn snow covers the ground and made do the work of draft horses. We think from pMctical observation that we are safe in making the assertion that there is more gold in twenty square miles of Alaska thun'in any state or ter- tory in the umion, and, too, that time will show it up. ) At Sitka they spread; if on rather thick. They adyertise beer for mechanical and scientific purposes. The children ot th tives run about during winter barefooted, and when t have waded through snow or over an un usually long stretch of ice they, as a means of somewhat warming their feet, stand unon one while they hold the other up, remmding us very foreibly of a roost of chickens on a snowy day. Nowhere can be found a more industii- ous or hard-working class of people than our native Indians. The men convert themselves into veritable beasts of bur- den and pack great loads for mere nomi- nal sums, and the women are equally in- dustrious, Wo never saw a country before where the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. But it does in Alaska. Old inhab- itants here say that it is liable to rise at any point of the compnss at any hour of the duy or night and travel any course it socs fit, MONDAY, MARCH ved the word cre- - [ 1 ROBBERIES ON RAILROADS. Thrilling Adventure of an Exp ger With Out-Throats. TAKEN INBY AN ODOROUS TRUNK 238 X Oyer $80,000 in One Fell Sweep—The Money Recovered — Arrest of the Thieves—The Messcn- ger's Roward, There has never been a time since ex- press messengers were intrusted with sums of money when they hayve not been conspired against by bad men. The number of those who have been killed or wounded 1 the line of duty would make a startling record. Now and then one has gone wrong and has landed himself in state prison, but for every such case hundreds have proved their sterling in- tegrity against all temptations. About twenty years ago I had a run as express messenger west from Chicago for several hundred miles. The amount of money passing to and fro was very large, and there were occasions when the run east almost made a millionaire ot me for the time being. While the orders to press messengers were not so stringent then the fear of robbery was justas great, and we were provided with stout safes and firearms, and cautioned to never re- lax our vigilance. The cars which I oc- cupied were properly the baggage cars, though I had about a third of the space divided off by a pine partition which 1 was supposed to keep locked at all times, but when we got out on the road, and my work was all in hand this door used to nearly always stand open. The baggage- man was allowed to come into the little room, and I'i turn would enter his part, and sit on the trunks and chat with him, The idea that the rmiroad hands would cever nave designs on the express money never entered anybody’s head. More than once I left the baggageman in charge of from §75,000 to $150,000 while I went to a meal in the railrond restaurant, CHUM BAGGAGEMAN. For over a year, on the run east, I had a baggageman with whom I could chum in all things, and 1 should have had no fear to hand him the keys of the safe He met with an accident and then one man and another had his place until our came and went inside of six months. e fifth man I liked least of all. Per- haps this was beeause he seemed to make adead set to_sceure my good will and contidence. He wasfull of fluttery, ove willing to offer his assistance anil spend his mon but this conduct had an op- posite_ effect on me from what he in- tended. Wlnle I could notsuspeet that he had'a wicked motive in his actions, [ took a dislike to him and had to fo myself to treat him with civility. He all right with the conductor and brakeman, however, and heard the engineer and fireman agree that he was a capital good fellow. It was, of course, the ¢ gainst the rules of oad to pass Qeatkcnts iniitho bag- gage car, but after this man who went by the name of Peter McCube, had been out for three or four weeks there was hardly a run that he did not ve a deadh with him. The conductor must been on to them, but he made no objec- tions. ‘I'hese deadheads were notun- fortunates, bat invariably well dressed, and sceming to have plenty of funds, They looked to me like tough characters and my respect for the honesty and mor- ality of the baggageman was not a whit increased. He never Introduced any of them to me,bat I afterward remembered how closely they sized me up and in- spected my end of the car. McCabe had been on the run about four months,when one evening at 7 o'clock as we pulled out of the depot for the run east two men got into the baggage car with him. ‘T'hoy were cautious abouat it, getting on in the | yaras after _the train was clear of the building. When I came to sec them bK the light in the car I discovered that bot! of them had been over the road with him before—not together, but singly, and at intervals. There was nothing in their appearance or conduct to arouse suspi- on, however, and they gave me not the least attention. I had my way bills to cheek up and parcels to put away, and this keptane busy for the first haif hour. A COSTLY SMELL. “Just put your nose down here,” said | McCabe, his te W atures at the same ring a look of deew disgust. I bent over the trunk to get a sniff, and the next instaut the three men seized me and bore me to the floor, one of them time could not utter a sound lashings and a eag at hand, and in t! minutes I was tied hand helpless as one could be had ree d foot, and as They v j to use you in this way, George," id the baggageman as he fastencd the gag in my mouth, “but we must have and we didn’t want to crack you on the head, Now then, boys," One of them opened the sliding door while the other two went after the safe. I don't suppose it was tive minutes from the time they seizod me until they had thrown the safe out and followed it. My feet were lashed to the handle of a trunk, my elbows pulled beind me and tied,and the gag would notpermit me to utter asound. There was nothing todo but to let them go, but £ had had a good look at both the strangers, and I went to work to paiut their portraits in my memory. LOOKING FOR THE SAFE, My condition was discovered at the first stop, and the loss of that money raised an awful row. There was upward of $30,000 in the safe, but had there been less than a hundred the company was bound to get it back. I got off, against the advice of the con- duactor, and telegraphed the fact of the robbery an asked for insturctions. While “awaiting an answer I took a deputy sheriff, both of us mounted on horses, and rode back to the scene of the robbery. 1t was June, and scarcely had we started when a thunder storm came up. We rode right down the railroad track until we were, as near as 1 could judge, at_the spot ‘where tho safe hud heen thrown out. [ remembered of the engineer whistling for a crossing just be- fore the men jumped, and now I was going on the theory that they had con- federates waiting” at the crossing for them and their plunder. About half a mile from this crossing we had to leaye the railroad track and take to the woods, on account of a trestle work over a cre During all this time the lighting was striking about us with heavy crashes, and the flashes were sometimes so sharp that the horses seemed dazed for a mo- ment. When we finally struck the highway we were half a mile from the crossing, The thunder and lightning had passed over, but it till raining heavily, and the night w rk. We turned to ride to the ¢ t gone a hun- dred feet before 1 human voices. Whoever they belonged to were coming toward us, and we slipped off our horses and stood under the trees at the edge of ces came nearer, ntified that of the aid N CONFESSION, s to blame for it, but w lost precious time and must get now. AT a it we made out three black spots in the darkness, and I heard a sound which convinced me that the sate was being carried by two of the men. It weighed two hundred pounds or more, nmhh(mgh provided with handles was a dead weight to carry under any circum- stances. As the trio came up we dashed at them with a yell, each of us having a drawn revolver. Igot the bagguge! but one of the strangers opened fire on the deputy and wounded him, and both “Nobody e ahead got away, though they were caught in a week. McCabe made a an breast of the matter, as rogues often do, He had been planning for weeks to rob’ me. A confederate was to be at the crossing with a team to haul off' the safe, but he was half an hour late. Then hardly had they loaded up the safe when a bolt of lightning prostrated an old stub and killed one of the horses. He started off after another, but was gone so long that the robbers became impatient, and thought to carry the safo to some more secure spot. By the time 1 got a tele- gram ordering me to Chicago to give par- ticulars 1 had the money and one of the men, and I also gave the local officers the clue to overhaul the others. How was 1 rewarded at headquarters? 1 was inves- tigated, bulldozed, laid under suspicion, and finally deprived of my situation on the grouud of carelessness. My testi- mony sent the thres men to prison, and the papers called me a hero, but the ex- press company laid me aside without s ing charges of any sort, and I was never re-employed. ——— Miss May L. Potvin, a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music, is visiting Mrs. E. C. McShane on Cali- fornia street. Are the months in which to purity the blood, for Wt no other sauson is the body xo suseeptiblo to ben - fit from medicine. The pecalinr purllying and revi ing qualities of Hood's Sarsupurilla ure just what a; needed tolexpel disense and fortify ihe system aguinst he debilitating effects of mild weather. 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