Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 13, 1887, Page 5

"STILL WORKING THE SCHEME i h'ie Btoock Yards Company Making Every Effort to Secure Valuable Laud, KENNARD ADVISED TO GO HOME. \ The Lincoln Driving Park Sold to a Syndicate of Capitalists—A New Corporation—State Capi- tal Happenings. |PROM THE BEF'S T The Nebraska Stock Yards company, who are seeking to gain possession by purchase, of 600 acres of valuable state lands adjoining the city, through a scheme of purchase under a lease, are continuing their exertions to bring about a passage of their bill notwithstanding the violent opposition it met when consid- ered inthe house. Since the real inward- ness of the scheme has been given to the publie, a number of citizens of Lincoin ¢ spoken unqualifiedly against the idea of allowing one sct of capitalists to swallow up such an amount of property to foster their own particular invest ments, and it 1s not probable that the plan will succeed, Another hitch was taken in the house proceedings the other day in their interests, by raising a com- mittee of six to personally visit the ground in question and report. Four of this committee were to make a visit yes- terday to the grounds in question, and it is presumable that the fight will be on again in the house if a favorable report is secured from them. The idea remains unchallenged that for the state to dis- pose of these lands just at a time when they are liable to increase in value, wouid be a reckless and unexplainable aet, es- pecially when the state has no possible way to use the proceeds, except to lie dly in the state treasury. The fact fur- ther remains that it isnot to the in- terest of the oty of Lincoln- itself to build up and put money in the purse of a few speculators to give them the edge over otbher parties who may invest money in manufacturing in ests in the city. A good one is told o Tom Kennard, one of the interested speculators in fhe scheme, that when he was at his busiest lobbying for the meas- ure in the house, one of the other spec- ulators, realizing that Kennard's efforts meant death to the measure, approached the time-tried lobbyist and veremptorily prdered him to go home and stay there. If any were to judge from the tem per of the house when the bill was considered it will take more than the raising of a committee or the sending of Kennard home to galvanize it into life again, ANOTHER LARGE DEAL 1 Lincoln transfers was under diseus- sion yesterday and that was the sale of the Lincoln driving park to a syndicate of capitalists headed by John H. McClay. ‘The driving park 18 located on the north of R street and is inside property. It sold for $%0,000 and the fifty-seven acres comprised in the tract will, it is stated, be at once platted and placed upon the market. This sale of the park necessi- tates the Lincoln base ball association se- curing a new location at once, and it is simuitaneously announced that grounds for the ball season have been secured on South street between Tenth and Eleventh and that the three different street car lines in the southern part of the city will be made to converge at that point to ac- commodate the public. A NEW CORPORATION. Articles of incorlmution by the Callo- way Loan and Building association were filed with the secretary of state ves day. The business of this association be to buy and sell real estate, mnegotia! loans, build houses and conduct a ‘1 eral loan and building business. The capital of the company is $200,000, divided {nto shares of each, payable on the installment plan, the corporation to com- mence business at once and the limit of indebtedness made in conducting the general business is $300, The tollomag named are the |nm?oryam:‘ C. W. Root, Patrick Moran, J. Woods Smith, L. eedham, C. W. John: M. L. Sawyer and OLN BUREAT.| Yates, arke. A FEDERAL APPOINTMENT, Moses Openheimer, one of the veteran democrats of Lincoln, has received of- ficial notitication of his appointment as store keeper at the Willow Springs tillery at Omaha. Mose, as he is famil- farly known, was highly delighted at his recognition, and he is receiving numer- ous congratulations over his good luck in being selected from among the scatter- ing democrats in Lincoln who have not been supplied already with office. It is understood that Mr. Openheimer’s duties are to commence at once. ABOUT THE CITY. Yeosterday was a veritable sand storm in the desert day in Lincoln, the dust flying in ctouds througn the principal streets, so that everything at times was obscure a distance of a block away. It is getting to be in Lineoln that itis either impenetrable mud or clouds of dust, all of which constantly argues for xnv@ ments. Barrelsand boxes were flying in the streets yesterday, and a number ot serious runaways were hardly averted. Real estate was flying high in the capital city yesterday. . Dan Lauer, an old time newspaper man of the capital city, nas became a real estate tiend and has a suldivision of his own to place upon the market. The addition in questiou is located this side of the asylum, comprising twenty acres,and it will be put upon the market ot once. City polities are beginning to spring up with the warming weather, and a candidates are being groomed. gerald, J. D. MeFarland, of and ex-Commissioner Cald- well, who, it is related, sold some of the blooded stock to the poor farm that is un- accounted for, are talked of for mayor, while the only aldermanic candidate talked of as yet'is Hon. Bernard Dolan, of the First ward. ‘The publie are becom- ing somewhat apprehensive lest the new charter will not become a law in time to hold the comng city election under its provisions. 3 ‘The members of the legislature in lnrfin numbers returned yesterday and the members from the far outlying districts were hopeful that it would be the last two dn{lu‘ adjournment until the session is finished. The past week's business has accomplished little in hasting to shorten the scssion. Work has already commenced on some of the magnifticent blocks to be built the coming season and the founda- tion walls are being laid for the new Baptist church that will be one of the finest editices in this city of churches. -— Good Work by Firemen. Engine No. 4of the fire department, did an excellent picce of work yesterday morning at the Thirteenth street fire. The apparatus was partially engulfed throngh rotten ice in the street, and the members of the department connected with this division were compelled to pry the wheels out and afterwards do their work, ‘This they did, and very effec- wally as the eitizens in the neighborhood are active in their praise of the com- vany s work. &SI Ona e aren T r; Nanas Frank ™A A, 1.—Mr, 0, Dear Sir joyed artistic vio- v ":.....t’.'.’.‘.'u.:u ' ul H lio playing on e Aok g THE edze the debt this commnunity owes to you for the pleasure and profit thus gained, and to request that you will give us the oppor- tunity to attest our further appreciation, by aconcert, to be given at such a time and place as may suit your convenience, Mrs G M Hitencock Miss Mary e Miss Julia Knignt Miss Claire Rustin E P Miss Bella R G M Hiteheock Clement Clhase % W N Babeoe! forrissey e cCulloch nyder MeDonald Wilbur Gustave Anderson F M Stenberg W E Annin Chas E Clapp Altred Sorenson E Rosewater Wi F Bechel C P Needham C B Schmidt Fred W Gray H D Estabrook James Neville Win Coburn OwalA, March 12.—To Miss Poppleton, Miss Robinson, Mr. Kothacker, General Cowin, Mr. Rosewater and others—Ladies and Gentlemen: In reply to_your kind re- juest and considered offer of “a testimonial concert, I beg leave to thank you for the same and to say that 1 shall be glad to ar- range for the concert vou suggest. I _name Monday evening, March 25 and Boyd's Opera house as the date and place for the per- formance. Yours very respectfully, NAAN FraNko. COURT CULLINGS. Litigations Commenced and Finished in the Various Courts. The testimony in the Laurcase will pbobably be concluded to-morrow. In Judge Wakeley's court yesterday the jury, in the case of O'Hearne vs the Union Pacific railway company, a suit for damages for personal injuries, re- turned a verdict awarding the plaintiff 2475, In the county court the Omaha Na- tional bank commenced suit against W H.and A J. Beers for $281.77 on prom 18501y notes. Parrotte Bros. commenced a similar :r{!lun against W. H. and N. P. Hyde for $150. In the county court Adolph Kline commenced suit against the old time ot fenders, John Doe and Richard Roe, for judgment inthe sum of #4530 tor two old watches which he alleges the de endants wilfully and wrongfully took from mim. Si 8. Auch-Moody, commenced suit in the county court against Lyon & Healy. The plaintifl cites in his petition that he purchased a piano from the firm for $250 which afterwards proved to be a very inferior second hand instrument and he ordered the defendants to take back the instrument. He asks for judg- ment in the sum of §2560 and $10 for stor age ot the piano. Mrs. E. Hamlen commenced it against Miss E. F. McCortney for $105.49, a balance paid by the plaintift on goods purchased by her for the defendant. In the United States court a transeript was filed of the case of Helen Ling, ad- ministratrix of the estate of John Ling, vs. the C., B. & Q. railroad, The case was commeanced in the district court of Gage county, and is a suit for $5,000 for the killing of her husband on the €., B & Q. railway between Beatrice and Filley on November 25, 18586. The case was commericed in the district court of Gage county and was transferred to the United States court on application of the defend- ant. CHURCH NOTICES. To-day's Services at the Different Churches Throughout the City. Beth-Eden Baptist church. Services 4 p. m. at St. Mary's Avenue Congregational church. Preaching by Rev. J. M. Sullivan. Sunday school at 8p. m. Prayer meeting ‘Thursday eve- ning at 7:30. everybody welcome. German Lutheran church, 1 uth Tywentieth street. Service every Si mx;y 10 a. m. Sunday school 2 p. m. E. Frese, pastor. Saints’ Chapel, Twenty-first and C streets. Preaching at 11a. 1 p. m. Sunday school at 12:30. body welcome. First Baptist church, corner Fifteenth and Davenport streets, Rev. Dr. Kenney willdpreu‘h at 10:30 a. m and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 12 noon. Prayer weet- lng]Wednesduy at 7:30 p. m. All are cor- A{iiuly invited to these services. Seats ree. Swedish Evangelical Lutheran church, corner of Cass and Nineteenth streets, divine service and preaching by the pas- A. Fogelstrom, at 10:30 a. m. p. m. Tuesday evening, prayer i,”nnd Tharsday evening, preach- ing of the gos| Sceandinavians are in- vited to attend all the meetings, Unity church corner Seventeenth and Cass streets. Services at 11 a. m. and Sunday school at 12:15. . E. Copelaud, pastor. Subject of morng serinon, “Henry Ward Beecher.” Subject of evening - lecture, “The Czar and the Nihilist.”" Calvary Baptist church, Saunders street. v. A. W. Clark, pastor, Ser- vices at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 12 o'clock. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening. All are cordially invited to the services of this church. First German M. E. church, corner Eleventh and Center strects. Preaching to-day at10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday school at 2:30 p. m. Prayer meeting Thursday evening at 7:30. All Germans are cordially invited. Rev. H. Kineger, pastor. Presbyterian church, corner Dodge and Seventeenth streets. Services at 10:30 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. Preaching by Rev. E. R. Davis, of Chicago. Sunday school at close of morning worship. Young peoples’ meeting at 6:45 p. m. Rev. J. M. Wilson will preach at 5 E m., at the Umited Presbyterian church, Park avenue. First German Free kvangelical church, corner Twelfth and Dorcas streets. Rev. F. H. W, Bruechert, pastor. Service at 10:30 &. m. and 7:30 p. m. Preaching) by the pastor. Sabbath school at 2:30 p. m. All German friends and thelir chil- dren are cordially invited and welcome. Remember the new church with the white spire. All Saints’ church, Twenty-fifth and llsownrd streets, Sunday morning, March ¢ d 7:30 Every- Morning prayer, 10:30 a. m.—Proces- sional, Oh, Paradise Venite 1st tone, Bth ending. Harmonies by Caryl Florio. Benedicite * *F 9 prlodi;xun b7 Ak it itany hymn ** i 2! (JAnu:eym. QOh, Saviour of the World, J088, Kyrie, Tourain F. _ Gloria Libi and Gratias Libi, Tours in F. Hymn, 34, nRocmonnL Heaven 1s My Home, Sul- yan. Even song, 4 p. m.—Processional, Sinner Rouse Thee From Thy Sleep Bonuw Est, 5th tone D, harmonies by Stainer. & i i Anthem, l’gi ill Arise, Florio. mo . Bgcuui(-nml. Hasten Sinner to Be Wise, Services at Cynthia Chapel (Walnut Hull) March 13, 1837, Rev. A. H. Sawyer or. The History of a Plant morn- ing: The Present Moment, night. The n{f‘hl lecture is the first of a course on *Our Country,” and “‘Some Threatened Dfingnrfl,“ which will be interesting to all. ‘The Presbyterians in the neighborhood of Park I"].I;::d will worship in the Park n OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, MARCH 13, 1887.—TWELVE PAGES. STORY'S STRIKING STATUE. The Last Wonderful Conception of the Great American Genius, SACRED SCULPTURE SENTIMENT The Saviour In Stone~Vivid Descrip- tion—Dressed Like an Arab— Snow Ia Rome — Mor- elli's Mahomet, srrespondence of y's last statue, a Christ, i3 an original and beautiful conception. The dress is thatof an Arab; the cetonath or under garment, rich and full, bound round the waist with a soft sash meil, an upper one, a mantle, w! he seamless garment we read that our Lord wore. On the head is the kiffyeh or scarf, bound around by a fillet, which forms u soft visor-like framing above the brow; the ends of this kiffyeh fall over the shoulders and cover the long which you see under the shalow of its folds; this is the napkin, as the Englisir t a- tion of the bible calls it, which was taken off, folded and laid beside our Lord in the grave. The costume 1s most effective, for it has the rich deep folds of the ori- ental quadrangular mantle, and is prob- ably exactly like the dress our Saviour wore. The person js that of a young man, tall, thin, but not emaciate The right hand is extended as if summoning you to ap proach. The left hand rests gently on the drapery of the breast. They are long, slender, refined, oriental hands, modeled with fecling and delieacy. The face is singularly tender and noble; hand- some, with fine brow and beautiful fea- tures. The eyes hawe a wonderful out” look, spiritual, and as if they yound mortalgaze. Theexpres: face is united to that of the outstretched, pleading, earnest hand. The words “Come unto me ye who are weary and are heavy laden and ye shall have rest," to be uttered by the lips,and yet the se¢ sadness of the face E ad little hope that humanity would 1i ten to the eall. 1 sat some time the other looking at this impressive statue, AVE MARIA SOUND and the late afternoon sl into the studio. The h figure of the young Me: h a startling likeness to life. [ spoke, thinking aloud And so He may have looked. It ought to look like him, for I seen him,'" said the sculptor quictly. I started, and turned to know if [ had med them. epeated Stor; mly, highting cigarette; “'yes, and [ will tell you how it wuas. It happened when I was young, about twenty. I was f{aing in the ‘hourly,” as the coach was called that ran in those days every hour between Boston and Cambridge, for it was long before the time of the omnibus and horse ear Of course 1 mean I dreamed I was in the coach, It was, as alldreams are, at once strange and prosaic. Soon after 1 got outside the coach, and we had started, I suddenly became aware that Christ was seated outside with the driver! My first impulse wasto touch him:so I leaned out, and rested my band on his ments— when I felt sure it was Christ! When the coach reached the half-way house at Cam- bridgeport, everyone got out, AND CHRIST ALSO, “1 did not t sat looking upon him as ternoon dow s gathered -lights gave the have he walked t nd fro. There were ordi- nary, common people about, and the nat- tural prosaic actions of such a place’ go- ingon. I was aware that no one but myself saw that strange being in orien- tal garments, moving with stately steps buckwards and forwards in front “of the bus}y ttle crowd whi smbles at u balf-way house when a stage arrives. But that did not seem strange to me, nor was [ surprised at his dress, so unlike anything I nad ever loo on, for, at that time I was not familiar with the Arab costume; I simply thought, ‘There 18 Christ!’ and 'every sense in my body was alive. hen came the bustle of starting, and then the whole dream ended—the disappeared! For years and years that appearance has " haunted me, and over and again [ have tried to give form and shape 1o that face and person, which 1 saw as plainly as I see you now.” A GREAT PICTURE. No wonder, with the vivid memory of that marvelous vision, ounr celebrated seulptor has been able to give us such a noble semblance ot the Divine Master. The new picture of the great Italian painter, Morelli, is attracting much at- tention. It will be linished in time for the Venice art exhibition, which obens on April 25. The canvas is over five feet large. The subject is Mahomet invoking Allah before a battle, surrounded by his followers. In frontof him are the kneel- ing faithful; they form a brilliant mass, made up of oriental draperies, many colored flags and banners, spears, arrows, ete. A fizure with a green turban is conspicuous; it is Sceicco, the father-in- law of the prophet. Beyond this crowd stands Mahomet, hands and face up- lifted. Around is the immense desert, s superb distance. The sparkling, ficry sunlight, the tender, soft white air are given with marvelous power of tech- nique, and land and sky are united by that STRANGE IRRADIATION of the hot sandy ground peculiar to the eust. The picture is remarkable for sen- timent and aeep feelin. | as for color and techniques. Morelli’s fame and ability were long ago acknowledged by his king and government. Italy was honored, some years ago by Morelli being made senator of the kingdom. Rome has had many exciting incidents occuring this winter. A massacre of three or four hundred Italian soldiers in old Ethiopia, which news threw parliament into a wild hysterical state. The parlia- ment house at Monte-Citorio was sur- rounded by a large military force for two days. Of course the fall of the ministry followed. Then came such a snow storm a8 has never been heard of in Rome. Last week THE SNOW LAY ON THE STREET nearly a palm high. Crowds flocked to Pincio and Janiculom hills, Many pho- tographers also went, in order to pho- graph the most unusual sight of Rome and its environs covered with smow. A merry sculptor modeled a snow figure of a ‘Fron-Frou" on top of ane of the studio buildings in Via Marguetta: The eflect of the long train of the dress, the tournure and full drapery and high head dress as seen from the Pincio was very droll. It had a strange sort of life in 1t. The workmen of the studios of Piazza Bar- berini made some laughable snow statues also on that piazza. ‘The Roman forum and coliscum were ghostly and ghastly lwling. The snow Iay on'the columns and gathered in little heaps under the arches. The Palatine palms and other trees were grotesquely outlined. The baroque Roman churches had strange forms; the snow made capri- cious "“N’.ii"'" on their facades. The fountain of Trevi, too, was a weird sight. But the dreariest place was the Roman e-tnpmn h the curiously-shaped ele- vation of ground, the ruined tombs, sparse trees, aqueducts and miserable cabins swathed in snow. But the hot sun soon melted away the visitor. On Sunday after- oon, when I drove out on the campagna over Monte Verde to Porta Portese, I saw the ground which a few days before had “per’s Monthly been covered: with snow almost a foot | deep, carpeted | with ‘“crimson-lipped daisies’’ and golden buttercups, and the soft blues ky was “full of larks." ANNE HaupProN BrREWSTER - HURRAHS AND HOMICIDES. Four Bad Meén Who Made a Spsc- falty of Hanaling Guns, An El Paso (Tex.) correspondent says When Luke Short, a bad man with a record, shot Jim Courtwright, another bad man with a record, at Fort Worth recently, he reduced the professional killers of the west to a quartet. The list ands at predent, 1in order of precedence, Bat Masterson,Doc Holliday, Luke Short, and Wyatt p. There used to be more, but the same wise Providence that disin- tegrated the Jesse James gang and di tributed it among the cemeteries, peni- tentiaries and dime museums of the land, elected that bad men eventually kill each other. Thus the supply has been kept ahead of the demand. The interest that attaches to these men is purely tran itory; a dead killeris as quickly forgotte: as a knocked-out pugilist, but the qus tiesof netve and desperation that brought them to the surface in a country where everybody carries u “gun’ and people GO TO GLORY EVERY DAY without a benediction or a bootjack, stamps them as rather extraordinary characters. Bat Masterson first becamo a border celebrity through this paper, in which a correspondent rehearsed his pedigree some years ago. Since that time more has been written about him than all the other three put together. He is the Maud S. of man Kkillers. Nobody has ever lowered his record, but he claims that the twenty-six or twenty seven in es of his private graveyard were all sent_thither in pursuit of his dutv as an officer. All his life has been spent on the frontier. He was first a cowboy, then a scout in the United States employ, d afterward muarshall stern town, notably Dodge Kansas, and Trinadad, Colorado. sonally, Masterson 1s the best extant specimen’of the gentleman desperado, soyrighted by Bret Harte. He has trained the voice that erstwhile YELLED FOR COWS down to a low itone; he al- ways in black, wears no jewelry slender gold thread of a watch ain; a white cambiic handker peeps from the breast pocket of hi button cutaway, and he is careful his boots and ties. A friend who invaded his room when he was here recently found two six-shooters and a manicure set on his bureau. He never blusters. W hen he gets mad his mustache creens up under his nose ina peculiar smile that has no merriment in it, and he reaches for his revolver, which he car- ries thrust in the waistband of his “pants,”’ directly under the lower but tons of his vest. It looks like the iro: of tate that such a man should gravita into a theatrical +husband. Such, how- ever, was the destiny of Masterson. Not long since he marr.ed Nellie M a western soubrette; and now he the pu nd wears fur on his overe collar. Mrs. Masterson (nee McM is not troubled with mashers. DOC HOLLIDAY WAS A DENTIST at Tombstone, Arizona, before he be- came a killet. When he e up the forceps for the six-shooter his old pa- tients said it was simply a change of method. The glare of publicity first struck him in 1 n an_article in Har- criptive of a trip through the territories, and detailing, in connection, a street tragedy at Tomb- stone. At thetime a deadly i-u-l existed there between the gambliug fraternity and the cowboys. When killings were a matter of alm daily occurrence, a long, lean man with a straw-colored moustache and a facile six-shooter sud- denly bloomed out as a leader of the sports. This was Doc Holliday. He killed three or four cowboys und his careless indifference to danger made him conspicuous even among his dare- devil associates. He did not know what fear was, and when the town became too hot to hold him, calmly walked out, down the length of the main street, through & continuous cross fire from both sides. But the friends and relatives of his victims were relentless. Warrants were sworn ont and he fled to Durango, Col. The Jeading men of that place feared his presence mightdisconrage im- migration and determined to get rid of him. Accordingly one nizht at 12 Holli- day was awakened by the deep-tolling of the be!l that called THE VIGILANTE COMMITTEE TOGETHER. He knew that a lynching was on foot; realized that he would probably furnish the sublect, and quietly jumped out of a back window. Everything grew still and he was slipping out of town when, at the end of the street he saw the motionless figure of a man on horseback barring the way. Tne horseman sat his saddle fiken statue of bronze, and the fugitive murked the dusky barrel of a Winchester balan- ced across thebow. Every road had been guarded in advance. Holliday treaded his way . keeping in the shadows. He felt the circle of pursuit closing on him. His haunts were being ransacked; the sound of opening and sfiu{:iuz doors came to him ¢n the night air, and then the tramp of men. It came nearer and nearer, when of a sudden his eyes fell upon & wooden gutter crossing almost at his feet. In an “instant he had crawled ath, and a moment later and his passed over where he | stayed there all that night, all next day, and the following night walked over a mountan pass toward Leadville, where society was iess exclusive- An effort was made to get him back to Arizona, but the governor of Colorado refused to sign the requisition papers, and he has since lived at Leadville and Denver. He was at Col rado Springs for a while, but was not garded as a suitable ssory to a health resort, and got the hint to leave. He ekes outa livelihood asa faro dealer and “staka player.” LUKE SHORT ILLUSTRATES THE FACT that a bad man (the term is used in its conventional §ense) cun acquire a reputa- tion without Xilling a great ny men. Jim Courtwrizht was only his second. Something abeut his manner, dificult to describe—for he’ is by no means a b gart—convinad 'people that he wa good man to'llet alone. He was always cool and imperturbable. The first man he killed was Churdey Storms, a gambler. Storms begap shooting at him from across the street, and Short, quietly dropping on one knee, ammed over his elbow and sent, a builet through his heart, Luke Short is a gambler by pro- fession. He i very small, about five feet four inches tal, and weighs somewhere near 120 poupds—without' his gun. He obtained natienal notoriety some years ago through '(uing exiled by the authori- ties of Dodge City and returning with all the noted desperadoes of the west to claim his own~ Such a collection of bad men was never seen in one spot before They all mads their headquarters at the “Long Branch,” Short's saloon, and promenaded the streets in a body, armed to the teeth, The expense of pur- chasing clothes, food and whisky forthis congrass of killers eventua lly forced Short to leave Dodge and he went to Fort Worth, Texas, where he became interested in « rather gorgeous saloon called the White Elephant.” He is the most popular m: of his class, and, when not professionally engaged is re- ally disposed £ be quiet and pleasantin s manners. uflily enol he is a well posted biblical student, and fond of arguing on religious topics. AN INCIDENT THAT WILL ILLUSTRATE the fearlessness of this man occurred at Salida, Col., ie 1881, A foot race had four- bout DOES this CATGH your EVE? We have an idea it does, and it is to make you aware of the fact that OMAHA HEIGHTS will be placed on sale MONDAY, MARCH 14th, and no time should be lost by iparties seeking a safe invest- ment. A few words as to the locatlon and merits of OMAHA HEIGHTS. Itis directly west of Ft. Omaha and adjoining Cen- tral Park on the north, is beautiful, nigh rolling ground and affords an elegant view of the city from all points. The new Northwestern R. R. line runs through the tract and a depot will be established on the ground, thus giving it the advantage over any addition ever of- fered to the public of Omaha. Prices very lowand very easy terms. For full particulars call on Office open nights. CLARKSON & BEATTY, 219 South 14th Street. ONLY THINK A depot on the grounds and a five minute’s ride from OMAIXAXA HHEIGHTS Will bring you within 4 blocks of the Union Pacific Shops or Smelting Works. $250 TO $s550 Will buy a home in thisaddition onsmall payments and if you study your own interest you will not pass this opportunity. REMINGTON & McCORMICK, Carriages to accommodate all heen arranged between a couple of local sprinters. Short backed one and had fixed things to win by what is technically known asa ‘“‘doublé cross.’’ Thatis to say, his man agreed to sell out tothe or side to lose the race but had it pri- stood with Short to win any- ferce got a tip and prom- ised to see the thing through. On the day of the race the track was lined with the toughest kind of wesiern sports, and upwards of $: ) was bet on the result. ARl however, did not come_ out _accord- ing to programme; for, as is customary with sprinters, the crooked racer decided to double cross Short himself, and actu- ally did lose the race by about four feet. Amid tremenduous excitement the referee, stakeholder, and winners ad- journed to a_neighboring saloon to di- vide the spoi but before the money was produced Short strode in, his hand on his pistol and inquired: ““Who won that race?"” “Why, didn't you see:" asked the referee. “Who won that race?" repeated Short, “ guess your man won it by about a foot,” replied the referce, getting out of range. I thought so,” said Short, coolly ing the sheaf of bills out of the nervele hand of the stakcholder. *“‘The fact i gentlemen,'’ he continued, as he moved toward tue door, ‘‘you know my man can win, but you did your best to rob me,and I just reversed things on you.”” By next to a miracle he got away with the nioney. Tue following day John Cozad, the referee, was poisoned by unknown parties. JIM COURTWRIGHT, the man Short kille boned individual, K legs, a sus- picious stare, and 4 thin, sallow face. I as the sort of a man who is almost in- sepal cted, on the frontier,with an official star; in fact, he a life'long oflicer, ing been a sheri marshal, detective, and agent of the departient of justice, United States, His record as a Killer was ong and gory one, but in- cluded a number of Mexicans and In- dians, whom the border authorities do not count, but threw out of the returns. During the late great southwestern_ rail road strike he added a coupla of homicides to his tally, and at the time of his death the New Mexican authorities were trying to get him to try for murder. Nobody realized better the danger of having a record, and he always carried too heavy revolvers. Noblesse oblige. A bad man may be called on at any moment to defend the title. Short's defense was that Courtwright reached for his revolver,and to allow him to pull it was death. So it seems that every sort of greatness has its drawbacks. Wyatt Earp, the last of the quartet, was evolved from the license, liberty, turmoil, danger, and outlaw that he al- ways fringed the ragged edge of civili- zation with red lire, HURRAH AND HOMICIDE, He came to the front easily and naturallyy and has many of the qualities of a leader about him. ilo was the cause of numer- ous tragedies, but it can be truthfully said that hs presence checked a good many more, for he was an oflicer when bhis Killing took place. His record was made in Arizona at about the time Doc Holliday distingunished himself there, and since that timeqm has lived in that terri- tory, Texas, and New Mexico. Personally Earp is tall and shm. He has red hair and wears one of those long, drooping moustaches in which a section of the beard is worked in to bring it to the edge of the jaw. He is the last of three broth- ers, territorial vendetta having disposed of the others. Of late years Earp hasbheen a gambler. His last exploit in that line was at Tomb- stone, Ariz., where he turned up with a Chicago sport named Hamilton, and a couple of companions, and shortly after began plaving faro with phenomenal success. The party won somueh and so regularly that it was soon apparent that they had some sort of an advantage over the game, but what it was nobody was ableto discover, - They nearly broke up the lambfinfl #t Tombstone, and the games were linally barred to them, It mhuqmnll‘ leaked out that the edges of the cards had been marked, and were read by means of a convexed mirror at- was a tall, raw- | 220 South 15th St tached to the sleeve of a man who sat next to the dealing box. He guided the other by his bets, and as he only played a few chipsatatime he was not sus- pected. Lo those who understand the cheerful game this explanation will be reasonably clear. Since this episode Earp has not figured much on the sur- face. ——————— Meaning of “‘Sublime Porte.” A phrase often seen 1n despatches from Constantinople is thus explained by M. Julliard in his article on ‘'Life Beneath the Crescent,” 1n the March Cosmopoli- tan: The building of the porte, called sub- lime, is, or was, a kind of long, low bar- racks, without style or beauty. A fire destroyed some of it years ago. ! The phrase "uublimoerm" is applied to both the building and the administra- tion, two things that are important, but neither the one nor the other is sublime. This word bas, however, a very ancient origin, When the Turks, loug before the conquest, were only hordes of Tartars “and nomads, ~their chiefs or sultans were in the habit of dis- pensing justice at the door of their .tent. There the cadis assembled and heard the complaint and then the defense. The sultan appeared ubon the spot only atthe conclusion of the trial to get the opinions of the judge and to render his on. To go to the porte was for the Turks the equivalent of seeking justice at the hands of the sultan and his counselors. . As to the pompous epithet “'sublime,” coupled with this poor porte, it is one of those oriental speecnes that the flattery of the weak has bestowed voluntarily upon the tyraany of the strong, The Turkish language abounds in these qual- nicauom——lnfilmeu, excellence, divine, celestial, sublime—which in_our day and | in the west offend the dignity of those that receive them, and of those who be- stow them, but which one in the east can freely bestow upon high personages with- | out laugning or making them laugh. e d Firing the Largest Gun. Palt Mall Gazette, F 16: A further trial of the 110-ton gun—although only a single round--took place yestecday at the butts of Woolwich arsenal. On the former occasion, it will be remembered, the powder charges, commencing with 600 poands, were inereased to800 pounds, The tiring was made yesterday with a cylindrieal shot of 1,800 pounds weight as before, but with an increased powder charge of 830 pounds, The highest pressure to which the gun will be sub- jected in service is_intended to be about seventeen tons. In proofs, however, higher charges than service charges are frequently used to test the quality of the weapon. This one round has already proved the suflicient strength of the new weapon gfor the service requirements. Although the pressure rose beyond antic- ipatior, the velocity was not increased proportionately, the estimated velocity being sligiitly over 1,200 feet per second, while the actual muzzie velocity attained was 2,078 feet. The recoil of the gun on its carriage was three feet three inches only, as compared with four fect six inches with the 800 pounas powder ¢ on the former occasion. The ren; of the programme, to fire %00-pound and #30-pound charges, will most probably be carried out with siower burning 'Waltham Abbey powder, Hanley-La Blanche, The mateh between Hanley and La Blanche will take place at the St. Paul Crib ciub on Monday night. It will be a fight to a finish with two-ounce gloves for a purse of $300. Hanley 1 h! backer, Ld Rothery, leave to-night for St. Paul. Woodflridgenrofheri STATE AGENTS FOR THE Decker Brothers PIANOS. OMAHA, NEBRASKA. THE RAILWAY TIME TABLES, OMAHA. ve Omaha UNION PACIFIC. Depot 10th and Pierce sts. Pacific Express. . Denver_Express. *Local Express #Except Sunday. Mailand Express E‘igntlExpnss. U. B.& % R. R Depot 10th and Pacific st3. Mall and Express Chicago Expi 7:10pm, K. C. St. J. & C. B, Depot 10th and Pacitic sts, Via Plattsmouth... e Lincoln Express. *Except Monday. tExcept Saturday. 7:10 pm| . [*7:00am, C.8t. P. M. & 0. Depot15th and Webster st. 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