Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 2, 1887, Page 5

COURT HOUSE BONDS VOTED. ¢ Lancaster County Gives a Handsome Ma- Jority For the Building. A CRAZY PATIENT SUICIDES, Another Accidental Death Recorded From the Asylum—A Convict Goes Violently Insane—Base Ball News—Lincoln Notes. [FROM THE BEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.] Lancaster county and the city of Lincoln by the votes of their citizens will have a $200.000 court house in the near future. The result of the election held to vote bonds in this amount for that purpose re- sulted favorably for the bonds,and while a few precinets remained to hear from at noon yesterday enough was known to show that a handsome majority has becn cast for the bonds.In the city public opin- ion and the votes cast all one way,some ninteen hundred majority being castin favor of the bonds. It wasexpected that the country would be largely against the measure, but the vote was very light and the opuosition not so pronounced as supposed, At 3 o'clock yesterday the county clerk had received returns from all precinets and the vote was found to be a follows: For bonds and court house,2,213; against bonds and court house, —-a majority handsome enough to suit the most fastidious. The question was ap- parent to all that the county neededn court house. Room for records in the present building occupied was wholly in- adequate, and the rooms were dingy, small and uncomfortable. That it will also be a boom for the citv in the building line is a fact also worthy of notice. DEATHS AT THE ASYLUM There have been several accidents or cntal deaths at the hospital for the in the past few wecks, the Inst one being Monday night, when a lady who bad only been inthe asylum for a few weeks hung herself in “her cell. The escape of a patient and his being run over and killed by a_train near Beatrice is already fresh 1n mind, and a fe after that a lady patient was r from the roof of the building, where had been for several hours exposed to doath at any moment. This last case of suicide will, with some, lead to the con- clusion that too lax a management must be in vogue at the hospital or so numer- ous accidents would not ari Th account of the lady who suicided Mon- day night, as given out, shows that in the - preparation and the slow death by strav- gulation, a good deal of time must have elapsed in which the patient was un- watched and unattended. The watch- men and attendants on guard at night ought to be able to look to and examine each cell often enough so that a patient could not have time to make a rope out of bedding, knot it, and strangle by a slow proces: f ‘watchmen and attend- ants_in corridors are nov supplied in numbeis sufficient to keep patients from self-murder, their numbers should be in- creased. FROM PRISON TO THE AS Alex Rudabeck, a convict in the state enitentiary serving a sentence from Juss county, was taken from the peni- tentiary yosterday and brought before the insanity board of Lancaster county, who adjudged the man insane and ordered him transferred to the hospital for the msane. Rudabeck at his exami- nation was v nt at times, so much so that the sherift had to keep him in irons. It 15 understood that he has exhibited s,l'mmomn of insanity i although wher 8 lived his insanity was not accredited as genuine. In pre paring his record for the asylum it was stated that the first evidences of insanity were noted two years ngo. BASE BALL. The new management that has taken the franchise of the Lincoln team in the ‘western league have their new grounds on R street in ship shape for the coming two weeks of ball in this city. These grounds are inside the city, and easy of access, and the R street car pusses by the round. The opening game occurs -day betwren the St.Joe's and Lincoln, and the opportumty is an excellent one for the people of Lincoln to show their good disposition toward the manage- ment by according a ‘liberal patronage. The home club 18 in excellent shape for the contest and some excellent fomes the remainder of the week may be ex- pected. STATE HOUSE NOTES. b The lolluwinf notaries were commis- sioned yesterday: G. W. Baullossom, York; Lous \\’ Weayer, Columbus; Daniel Sullivan, Alma; Frank A. W oolen, Alma;: Charles F. Yates, Chadron; Robert McAdams, Oakdale; William B. East- man, Broken Bow; Judson' C. Porter, Mason City; E. W. Olds, Lawrence; S. E. Starry, Imperial; John R. Pierson, Im- vial. peSu perintendent Lane has sent the third and last notice to superintendents in the different counties to forward theirenum- eration of the school census, six cBunties having failed to muke returns. He has also notified delinquent superintendents to forward their reports of coming nor- ~mal institutes. ‘The live stock commission are hanging fire on measures to take in regard to the Colorado quarantine and have deferred final action until Monday next. Com- - missioner Abbey departed yesterday for soveral western counties where, with Dr. ‘Wessel, of Hastings, they will pass upon diseased stock reported. The Sherman County Agricultural so- ciety has forwarded articles of incorpora- tion to the secretary of state, the capital stock of the sociely being $25,000. The 30-»13 will hold its annual fairs at Loup Jity. (fi)vemor Thayer departed yesterday afternoon for Omaha. TO REVERSE THE ACTS OF A CRAZY MAN. A case has been commenced in the dis- triet court in which Lizzie Mickey, wife of James B. Mickey, who was adjudged asane a few days since, secks, ns guar- dian of her husband, to recover a note for $475, that, as the petition recites, when Mickey was insano, ho gave to Milton Berger for a pony and buggy. The peu- tion recites that the value of the property purchased was not over $140, but that owmg to Mickey's insamty he was in- duced to give a note for $175 fer the property. This has since been tendered to Berger in exchange for the outstand- ing note, but Berger claims to have sold the note to H“flb'fl"‘ and n\‘lusml to ac- cept property back again. The petition ‘l thn}:fill)urlburt and Berger were in collusion in the trade, and that the former knew that Mickoy was insane at the time. The plaintiff asks that the note may be adjudged of no effect, and that the court order the vparties to receive back the property in exchange for the r. STRERT RAILWAY DAMAGE SUIT. The Lincoln Street railwny is con- fronted with a new suit for damwages that was filed in the district court a fow days . The suit is brought by the father mndmw J. Townsend. a young man sevontoen Yll\l’l of age, who rece permanent injuries at the hands of the Lancoln Street railwiy company through the negligence of one of the comwpuny's employes. The accident occurred at and Nineteonth streat some nine months since, the driver ordering Townsend to get off the front platform and ride on the rear one, the ear itsclf being filled with people. Without stopping the ear to let Townsend get to the rear rhl.(urm the driver ordored him off, and in getting off ved* Townsend slipped and fell, the wheels of the car crushing his clbow and arm, injuring him for life. ~He there- fore asks for #10,000 damages for personal injuries and £1,000 for lost time and medical attendance, together with costs of suit, INJUNCTION ASKED, Esther L. W arner has asked for a tem- porary injunction in the district court raining the Atchison & Nebraska wny trom entering upon and dam- aging her farm and lands through the construction of grades and ditches, The petition recites that they have already by force entered upon_the grounds, and that her property will be, it they are allowed to remain, permanently injured. She therefore usks temporary injunction, and that 1t may be made permanent upon final hearing of the case. BRIEF 1TEMS, ‘urnas of the state board of agriculture is in the city on state fair business. Mr, Furnas has been busily engaged the lnst month sending forth advertising matter, and he reports bis re- ceipts of mail matter aund inquiries as already enormous, The reform andministration seems to have it in for L. L. Lindsay's place of business, and the narrow contracted head of the city government seems to endorse persecution more thun prosecu tion. Detectives employed to work up cases have brought one against Lindsay, who has been ready for trial, but can’t getit. Persons who go to his lunch rooms after saloon-closing hours are wary for fear they will be called by the snide detectives as witnesses in liquor- selling cases. It ought to be stopped. Agent James, the Law and Order detee- tive who operated in Lincoln a y 120, and whose brief and brilliant ended 1n his arrest for adultery, n Lincoln again. He is in jail at the pres- ent time, having been brought from Kan- gas City, where he was found. Jumes, when arrested a year ago for adultery, was looked upon by the Law and Order league as u much persceuted individual, Good citizens went his bail with alacrity, and the present mayor vouched for him as u mee man. When the time for trial came, however, he was not to be found, und his vail was declared forfeited. The action of the bondsmen, however, in finding him and turning him over to the sheriff, will relieve them on that score. Work was commenced yesterday on the Rupid Transit streetrailway line, and a force of men were laying track up Q street from the B. & M. depot. This is the line that will connect the city proper with West Lincoln, and_it is proposed to operate it by cléetricity or smokeless dummy engines. About two muiles of track will be laid the present summer. Landlord Rooney, of the Iowa house, who has been under arrest for shooting at printers in the New Republic oftice, had his hearing yesterday before the po- lice judge, and was turned over to the county jail to await a hearing in the dis- trict court. Rooney could not raise the required bail bond of $2,000. District court resumed work yesterdny after a three deys adjournment, Judge Chapman presiding at the bar. Carr, jury tral. continued over at adjourn- ment and Judge Pond holding where cases were tried to the court, One di- vorce was granted by the latter judge yesterday. Another auction sale was held yester- day of lots lying northeast of the city. ‘The usual brass band contingent headed the procession. H. T. Clarke, of Omaha; B. D. Slaghter, of Fullerton; Dr. John Black, of Platts- mouth, and Cal Wilson, of Nebraska City, were prominent Nebraskans at Lincoln yesterday. A Long-Lived Judges. Cleveland Plaindealer: Speaking of the judges of the supreme court, the members of the tribunal seem to be long- lived, The youngest member is Harlan, who is fifty-four; Gray, fifty-nine; Stan- loy, Matthews, of Ohio, sixty-three; Waite, Field and Miller, seventy-one, and Brad ley. seventy-four. Of the present mem- bers Miller has been longest on the bench in that body, having been ap- pointed in 1862, a~ year before Kield. Bradley went on in 1870, Waite in 1874, Harlan 1877, Matthews and Gray in 1881 and Blatchford in 1882, Woods was ap- pointed 1n 1880. The St. Lows Globe- Jemocrat says the ‘‘best illustration, however, of the longevity of the members of the court is the fact that although most of them have been appointed when in the latter portion of the middle per- iod of life, the court at all times number- g from five to nine associate justices, yet the number of these officials from the date of the creation of the tribunal, ninut_v-ui%m years ago, until to-day has reached but forty-three. In thattime the country has had twenty-two vresi- dents, thirty secretaries of state, thirty- seven secretaries of the treasury, thirty- eight sceretaries of war, thirty-onesecre- taries of the navy, thirty-two postmasters general and thirty-nine attorneys general, although but one of each of these of oflicials was or is in seryl same time.” Seccretar; e L Why He Gave Up Chess Playing. It is told of Dr. Thomas, now assistant bishop of Kansag, who was renowned in Yale, and after his graduation as a chess player, that suddenly he gave up his fav- orite game. Asked the reason for his conduct he said: “I found that I took so much interest in the game that when [ was beaten it aroused in me feelings that I could not conscientiously entertain. “Thore was nothing left for me to do but to give up che Sl Young and middle-aged men, suffering from nervous debility and kindred affec- tions, as loss of memory and hypochon- drin, should enclose 10 ceuts in stamps for large illustrated treatise suggesting sure means of cure. Address, World's Ifiwgunsnry Medical Association, Buffalo —— The Invalide Russe, the ofticial journal of the minister of war, gives the efle forces of the czar on the 1st of January 1886. According to this account the Rus- sian regular army numbered at that time 824,762 soldiers and 30,655 generals and officers. The reserves amounted to 1,600,815 men. The militia of the first call counted 2,160,000 men. And this without counting the Finland regiments. c;)ils;tltliilonal l:atarm.” No single diseaso has entailed more suffering orhastened tue breuking up of the constitu- tion than catarrh. The sense of swoll, of taste of sight, of hearing, the human voice, the mind --one of more, and sometimes all, yiold to its destructive intluence, The poisonit distributes throughout tho system attacks every vital force nd breaks up the most robust of constitutions. Iguored, because but little understood, by most physicinns, {mpotently nssailed by quacks and chirlatans, those sufering from it havo little e relioved of it this sido of the grave. It Is time, then, that the popular treatment of this terriblo disoase by ‘remedies within the roagh of all pussed {uto hauds at once compe- tont and trustworthy. The new and hitherto untriod method adopted by Dr. Sanford in the preparation of his RADICAL CURE Las won the hearty approval of thousands. It is instan tancous ‘i affording reliof in all head colds sucezing, suufiling and obstructed breathingk and rapllly removes tho most oppressive Eywptoms, clearing the head, sweotening the Lreath, rostoring the senses of' smell, taste and ng, and neutralfzin constitutional 050y Of the disease towards the lungs, liver and kidnoeys. SAXPORD'S RADICAL CURE consists of ono bot- tle of the RADICAL CURK, one box of CATARMH- ALSOLVENT, and IMPROVED INHALER: price, §1. POTTER DRUG & CREMICAL CO., BOSTON. HOW MY BACK ACHES. Weak Racy Palns thromgh tha L a Sids ins throug! o 3 o Pains, Tack of Strongth and ‘fmv‘tly ™ O cured by th . IW‘Q’“; PLASTEN, § B, Original, slcgant 404 MmrAlibIo ntidote 10 palu and_infammation. At dri : five for $1.00: I3 250. 1 3 1 or Drug and Chomioal Co. . m'u'-'. !”u‘no' A GICANTIC MONOPOLY. 8tory of the Maxwell Grant Written in Gold and Blood, LAND BARONS BUTCHERED, Eastern Men Make Miilions by Its Transfer to Foreigners—Mil- lions Left for Alien Owners. The Santa Fe, N. M., correspondent of the New York Herald, writes: The most notable of all the New Mexico land grants is the famous Maxwell grant swindle, and its history gives a tolerably correct resume of that of all the others. There does not, however, appear to-have been any fraud in connection with the American departmental survey of tins grant, although this scems most strange in view of the circumstances surrounding it from beginning to end. The fraud, as will be more clearly seen further on, was in the manner, tactics and deceptions of obtaining the grant originally. ‘I'here is tolerably satisfactory evidence that the original boundaries have been followed as closely as possible in the American survey upon which the grant was con- firmed by congress and patented. The grant is constantly before the courts on account of some claim or other, but it has thus far come out victorious in every case. There is, however, a suit pend- ing agminst it now which promises to shake it up a little before it is ended. It is a suit in chancery to recover five- sixt hs of the entire grant under a vlea that the title to this vortion of it never passed legally from the heirs of the origiaal owners to the present owners. The suit, though no one expects that it can beeven partially established, is nevertheless in such a shape as to make a good deal of trouble for the grant company, who will, no doubt, be compelled to fight it out, as it would take too much money according to present appearances, to compromise it. There over a hundred claimants parties to the suit, and a good many of them are wealthy Eastern merchants. They propose to push the case to the bit- ter end, vnd to this end have already en- gaged the services of General Butler. The title to the suit is,*‘Henry Clark and wife, Fanny Clark, et al., complainants, v The Maxwell Land ant company, de- fendants, in chanc or partitirn."” A RICH TERRITORY. The grant runs fifty miles from north to south and sixty miles from east to west, containing in all 1,714,764 acres, and is situated on_the boundary line between northern New Mexico and southern Col- orado,with the greater part in New Mex- ico. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad runs through its full length, and it contauns flourishing towns and villages, gold mines yielding the owners hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, exten- sive conl mines, timber forests and as good agricultural and grazing lands as there are in the territory. It is valued at §25,000,000 and cost the present company £ 000, including $2,000,00) spent in igation HOW THE GRANT WAS ACQUIRED. The history of the grant is one of un- usual interest on account of the many stirring ncidents connected with it and the vast fortunes made out of it. It was originally obtained from the Spamsh governor of the territory, General Man - uel Armijo, in 1841, by two men named Charles Hypolite Beanbien and Guad- alupe Miranda, Beaubien was a native of Nicolet, province of Quebee, Canada, and he made his way out of here with other French-Canadians in 1821, settled down in the ancient pueblo village of Taos, in the north of the territory, be- came a naturalized Mexican and married a Mexican woman, by whom he had a fanuly of two sons and five daughters. He died at Taos in 1864. His ass ciate 1n the grant, Guadalupe Mi- randa, was a native Mexican, and is stitl living in the state of Chihau- hua, Mexico. Having, no doubt, made themselves familiar with the loose way in which the lands were given away for cen- turies previously, they applied to Gov- ernor Armijo for *‘a large grant of land for the purpose of establishing colonies thereon and inducing immigration from France and Canada upon it.” They had a pencilled map showing the various marks or points by which they wished the grant described and recognized, but cuarefully avoided giving any hint or guess of the distance between these points. There was no survey of the grant until 1861, twenty years ofter it was se- cured After having secured the grant Beaubien and Miranda took an enterpris- ing American citizen named Charles Bent in with them and the three set to work to enrich themselyes as fast as pos- sible from the new acquisition by culti- vation, mining, ranching, and any other wu{ they thought they could turn oyer a dollar, THE FIRST DISPUTE. But the fortunate trio were not always to go unmolested, In 1843 Antonio Jose Martinez, the parish priest of Taos, as- sisted by other priests and laymen, made a complaint to the governor, who was then Mariano Chauez, ‘‘that too much land had been granted and locked up un- der the Beaubien and Miranda grant; that thev had taken in with them an American citizen named Charles Bent, who could not hold any property on the frontier under the law, and that they were making high handed use of the land generally.” The result of this petition was that the governor issued a decree suspending the whole grant. Reaubien and Miranda, however, were not to be dizcoursged. They immediately re- paired to this city and succeeded in con- vincing the governor that Bent had noth- ing whatever to do with the grant; that ihe whole tract did not contain over eighteen leagues, and that they were making the best use possible of it. Governor Chauez, who seems to have been as y going as his predecessor, Armijo, immediately upon this showing 18sued & decree restoring the grant to the grantees, much to the just dmfm“ of the opposing priests, some of whom were also present. More **Americans” came, and, as they generally had both money and enterprise, they were eagerly taken into their contidence and partnership by Beaubien, Miranda and Bent, each of whom knew all the tricks of the swind- ling busin In this way they took in with them Cevan St. Vrain, Luis Lee and Cornelio Vigil, and secured more grants, covering over seven million acres, and extending across the Rocky mountains from the Rio Grande river to the Arkansas. WAR, They then renounced all allegiance to the Mexican gonernment and set up one of their own, with Charles Bent as gov- ernor and Beaubin as associate chief jus- tice of the supreme court. They, of course, still kevt their headquarters and seat of government at Taos. Prior to this arrangement, however, & new set of American adventurers came along and invaded the territory of and partially conquered the Beaubien and mrlndn crowd, and finally compelled them to content themselves with their original grant from Governor Armijo. This, how- ever, was given to the original three— Beaubien, Miranda and nt—by the “‘new government,’’ and the rest of the robbers were taken into part ownershi of the $7,000,000 acres remaining, whmfi have since become known as the B&. Vrain,Das Animas and Saugre de Christo 8. This was in 1846, and the adven- rs were no doubt encouraged in their operations by the declarations of war against Mexico that year by the United tates. BUTCIERING THE LAXD TII As was to be expeeted, this high- handed system of lawlessness, usurpation of authority and plugdering by a few Awerican Adventurers and Mexican con- federates and leaders was not very taste- ful to the honest element of the peovle of Tnos, who followed tire dead of Father Martinez, who naturally enough de- nounced the whole robbery and the rob- bers and usurpers in no very measured terms, and continued to do so as steadily as opvortunity offered. The people, and even the Indians, beeame thoroughly aroused and resolved wpon vengeance, at which, however, the Amcricans and their Mexican _ confederates simply laughed. The Mexicans and Indians were, however, 1n earnest, but no serious disturbance of the pe ook place until the night of January 16, 1846, That night “Governor” Charles Bent, Narriso Beaubein (son of Charles A. Beaubein), Luis Lee and Corneilo Vigil got up a dance in Taos and inyvited all the Ameri- cans and Mexicans in their confidence and working with them to be present. As soun as the dance was fairly under way the townspeople and Indians took advantage of the occasion, organized in very short time, gathered around the house where the dancers were enjoying themselves and butchered every one except two or three, who managed to es- cape, and even these were caught and similarly butchered the next day. Some of the women present were also killed in the scrimmage. There must have been over a hundred people Killed altogether. ‘This put an end to the ‘‘new American government, ""butnot to the grants,every mch of which reverted to the descend- ants of the dead adventurers and are s in existence. MAXWELL COMES 1IN, When General John C. Fremont eame along in 1847 he had with him a young man named Lucien B. Maxwell, who was evidently a born adventurer. He was a native of Kaskaskia, 11l General Fre mont was delayed at Taos, and Maxwell improved the oceasion by looking into things generally and satisfying himself as to what inducements there were for speculation and plundering. He accord- ingly remained in Taos instead of pro- ceeding across the” continent with Gen- eral Fremont, as was his original inten- tion, and subsequently became the man after whom the famous grant 1s called He married the eldest daughter arles H. Beaubien shortly after parting with Fremont, and received nearly thirteen thousand acres of the grant with her. He immediately settled down upon his holding, and was the first permanent scttler upen the grant, none of the original grantees hav- ing ever lived upon the grant., Being of an industrious turn he soon acquire some wealth from his property, and also received pecuniary assistajce from time to time from his father.in-law. Becom- ing ambitious for territory he was thus enabled to buy out any one who had a share in the grant that wanted to sell it. Following out this policy he secured the entire interest of his father-in-law and those of all others except Mirand who was still halfowner. Miranda, however, soon afterward yielded ahd gold his en- tire half interest to Maxwell for %2745, Maxwell thus became the sole owner of » whole grant. This was in 1867. He already imulated enormous Ith from h:s cattle lndustry and the mines on the grant, but as soon as he got the whole thing into his- own hands he plunged into princely extravagance and 'm-;m. ity and landed himselfinto finan- cial difticul ithi year, BOUGHT BY ENGLISH GOLD. He then resolved upon ing the grant altogether negotiations were opened with the late Senator Chaflee and ex-Senator 'imr%l‘. M. Chilcott, of Color- ndo, and Wilson Waddingham and Judge George F. Holly, of Néw York, atthe close of 1868, for its purchuse. These gentlemen, however, did not have the money at the time necessary to make the purchase, and the money, of course, Maxwell had to have. The pricc he asked and _afterwards received was $1,375,000., He, however, had faith in the ability of the syndicate just mentioned to raise the necessary amount of money under favorable circumstances and ac- cordingly gave them a sale bond of the grant to work with Mr. Widdingham took with him to London a Denver news- paper writer named Bliss, who was s genius at writing puffs and adverti: ments. As soon as they arrived in Lon- don Mr. B8liss wrote pamphlets and newspaper articles, giving most extrava- gant accounts o the mineral wealth and fertility of the grant. 'The English- men were, however 1mmoyable at first, but after a year and a half's writ- ing and pufling by Mr. Bliss and & num- ber of trips across the Atlauc by Mr. Waddington they came to terms, and a syndicate of them finally purchased the grant for §5,000,000. The papers were executed in favor of the Enghshmen in 1870, and Maxwell stepped down and out with his§1,875,000. Mr. Waddintfhamis said to haye made £1,000,000 out of the deal; Mr. Chaflee; £500,000; Judge Holly, #$300,000; Mr. Chilcott, 300,000, and other persons interested smaller amounts; but poor Bliss, who did ull the advertising and pufling, was left in the lurch in Eng- land without bmnzFiven a single cent. At least, this was the common story at the time. SOLD TO THE DUTCH SYNDICATE. In the meantime a great many people had settled down upon the grant; cattle kings came along, and, among other lo- cations, trespassed upon the Maxwell grant withoul limit. The Englishmen thus found themselves in such a mess all at once that they became disgusted with the whole thing, and, ke Maxwell, resolved upon selling out at once, if possible. Mr. Waddingham was n}znin called to aid, and through his skillful management of the case the Englishmen succeeded in un- loading the elephant, as they thought it was, upon a weathy Dutch syndicate at Amsterdam for $10,000,000. THE TITLE HOLDS GOOD. The same difliculties that coufronted and disgusted the Englishmen also con- fronted the Dutchmen, with the addition that the title to the property was now dis- puted, and for a time they “thought they had been badly cheated in the transaction, but they kept up courage and held on to their purchase. The htl? dispute being within a sing| apparently the e seripus difficulty on hand they took legal adviée from the late Judah P. Benjamin at Léndon,and Judge Davis, George Ticknor Curtis and svarts at New York, Attorney G Williams and Mr. Bayari4] now secreta®; of state, were also conbulted, and all without exception agreed that the title was perfect and indisputable. The ques- tion of defect was, however persisted in and a suit upon this ground was ordered to be entered against: the company by Attorney General Brewster. The suit was contested b, the company and tried at nver a year ago, and decidedrin favor of the company. The decreeiof the Denver court was confirmed by the supreme court at Washingron on the 18th of last month. This brings down the difliculties of the company to the present suit, but, as already mentioned, no one believes that it can be maintained, though it may prove troublesome and expensive for a time. The grant is increasing in value all the time, and the prospects are that the Dutchmen and their descendants. in- stead of having an elephant on their hands, will reap a rich harvest from it, which, indeed, they are already doing. After rncew(nl his “ 5,000 10 1870, Maxwell purchased a large ranch in an- other section of the territory and retired to it with his family. 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It cures the worst Wounds and buras, it has no Am never without y ). H. FOXW Lincoln, Nely \was a confirmed invalid, from Rheumatism; could not walk; all medicine e my suffer. ings, Tiried RAILROAD REMEDY, and was entircl i three 30 pounda since L left my bed. Truly wonderful arc the effects of this Sincerely yours, D. Over 2,000 tost cases cured. For sale by allfirst class druggists. ardson Drug Company, Omabia. he following is from Judge Foxworll Injury soomy hipr” T tried Sts Jucob's Ofy selief. By ndvice, I tried RAILROAD RE The nervous pains and twi feadache in half an hour. itin my famil In colic, sore throaf Tradc supplied by Rich- fraudulenty obtained and then frauda- lently “‘surveyed out” under the auspices of the authorities at Washington were the Martinez grant, originally about 48,000 acres; ‘'‘surveyed out'’ 1n 1876 to 595,515 acres. The Estancia grant, or- iginally about 40,000 acres; surveyed in 1877 to 415,000 acres. The Chanez grant, first less than 10.000 acres; surveyed to 243,000in 1877. Then there were the Mon- toys, Sedilia, Gonzales and many others, stretched out from tens and twenties of hundreds of thousands of acres. It has been stated in a previous paragraph that these grants covered some 15,000,000 acres of the best lands in the territory, but this is only the old Spanish and Mex- ican grants. early all of the territory that remained had n taken up and a great part of it fenced in by the cattle kings without the slightest right to do so or a single dollar of consideration. These monarchs don't even pay any tax on the lands which they have thus grahbed. D A beautiful woman must be healthy, and to remain healthy, and beautiful she should take Dr. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Purifier, It impurts tone and flush to the skin,strength, vigor and pure blood; is equally adapted for all ages, from the babe to the aged, and either sex. Traits of Oriminals, Science: An Italian scientist, Marro, findgghat criminals arec more apt than normal people to be the descendunts of very young and very old purents, in op- position to parents of middle age; and the same is true of the insane. In a table founded on 1,865 normal men, 456 criminals and 100 insane, 8.8 per cent of normal men were born of K)arenu in the growing period of life, 66.1 per cent of parents in the period of maturity, and 24.9 per cent of parents who had already reached the declining period of life. Sim- ilar percentages for criminals are 10.9; 56.7and 82.2, and for the insane, 17.0, 47.0 and 36.0. ‘The same writer also finds that bodily temperature of criminals is slightly higher that that of normal per- being about 87.07 C. n thirty cuses h he examined B Definition of A Gentleman, Exchange: A writer on etiquette says that no man is a gentleman who parts his cont tails when he sits down, “‘because n gentleman is above caring whether his coat-tails get wrinkled,”” The man who gets full of wine, rolls ander the table und goes to sloep on the floor, not caring & cent whether his coat tails are wrinkled or not, must also be a gentleman,accord- iug to the foregoing code of -ctiquette. DRS. §. & D. DAVIESON 1707 Olive St., St. Louis Ma, Of the Missouri State Museum of Anato St. Louis, Mo, University College Hos, tal, London, Gicsen, Germany and New York. Having devoted their attention SPECIALLY TO 'l'l‘l‘lli TREATMENT Nervous, Chrznic and Blood DISEASES, More especiatly thee arising from Impru- dence, mvite all so suffering to correspond without delay, Discases of infection and contagion cured safely and speedily with- out detention from business, and without the use of dangerous drugs. Pa- tients whose cases have been neglected, badly treated or pronounced incurable, should not fail to write us concerning their symptoms: All letters receive immediate attention JUST PUBLISHED, And will be muiled FREE to any address on receipt of one 2 cent stamp. “Practical Observations on Nervous Debility and Physical Exhaustion,” to which is added an “Essay on Marriage,’ with important chap- ters on Diseases of the Reproductive Or- gans, the whole forming a valuable medical treatise which should be read by all young men, Address, DRS. 8. & D. DAVIESON, . 1707 Olive St.,St. Louis, Mo. gent (Merenan® onis) wantod tn evers town for nk you most of o delight, A, them whon they can bo obtained. C. Chalmers, Drugyist, Smithfield, Va. ADORESS, R. W. TANSILL & CO., CHILAG olgar su- v uro tho Paid up Capital Surplus H. W, Yate A. E. Touzglin, Vice-Prosider W. H. S. Hughos, DIRECTORS: W. V. Morse, H. W. Yates, BANKING OFFICE: THE IRON BANK, Cor, 12th and Farnam Sts. A General Banking Business Tran sacte RIBDMATISV LA BACK And many other complaints cured by $10 AND UP d0 axv org EVIDE A Prominent Buffalo Physician says: BUPFALO, N, Fob. 14,1387 teago, 11l.—Deur Sir. somothing n t6 Tndoras I ing ¥ one of your Klectric rheumatism, from ‘which I lad have rocomiended your inventi of my patients suffering with chron rious kinds, Viz; Palpiti‘fon of tha heart, nervous dobility, epilopay, in {n the buck Kidneys, ete. etc, otc. Al © purchased an gratifying resulta. 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