Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1887, Page 5

COFFIN DEALERS 1N CONCLAVE Proceedings of the Annual Convention of Nebraska Undertakers. A VERY SOLEMN SITTING, @he Membership of the Association On the Increase—News From the State House—Other Lincoln Happenings, IFROM TIE BEE'S LINCOLN BURBAU.] There has been a solemn conclave at the rooms of the Wisconsin Furniture and Coflin company the past two days, it being the aunual convention of Nebraska undertakel In the spacions roomws of this company a room was set aside for the use of the convention. On the wall facing the delegates were life-size por- traits of dead men illustrative of the em- balmer’s art; handsome coflin trimmings nbounded on every side and the approach to the room was between rows of coflin boxes. All these rendered a peculiar and home-like air to the sarroundings for the undertake and the body almost ap- peared cheerful as 1t quicted down to business sessions. 1t was noticeable that 1f a delegate crossed the room during the session he would tip-toe across as though expecting a glance of caution from a di- wvine, and the more timid members of the craft would rise and address the chair in much the sume hoarse whisper that the undertaker on the Mississippi did on certain funeral occasion, when Huck Finn and the king and the duke were masquerading as chief mourners. However, it only required a very short acquaintance = te find that the Nebraska undertakers were all as jovial and full of business as the rest of mhnkind when removed from the restraint of business sessions, and they were all unanimous in pronouncing this the best session they ever held. At the closs heir annual meeting a year RO the membership was some forty, and it has boon increased the present year to between sixty and soventy. Almost the entire business transacted was carried through yesterday and members contin- ued to arrive up to the noon hour. A mew constitution and by-laws were ndu{:wd and one of the special features of theday was & lecture and course of instruction in embriming, condu Protf J. H. Clark, of Springfield, U., presi- dent of the Clark Chomical works. The nssociation, in consideration of the valu- able things learned, raised a $60 purse for Mr. Clark during the afternoon session. The association selected Omaha as the lace for the next lncctill%" the date to be xed during the month of June, and the lollowlni(ollicuu were elocted: dent, H. K. ed b Fre K. Burket, Omaha; vice-pri dents, W. Reed, Hastings; Henry [K) Plattsimouth; Louis Sessons; secretary, John Redline, Chester; treasurer, James Heaton, Lincoln; executive committee. P Barrett, Omaha; M. Reed, Hastings; John M. Doyle, Cret delogates to national convention, F. Bwitz, H. K. Burket, P. S. Barrett; co: mittee on resolutions, George Brown, Superior; H. W. Werner, Hebron; Henry Bocck, Plattamouth. The oommittee on resolutions passed resolutions thanking the Wisconsin Furniture and Coflin com- any for courtesics and room for mee ngs, thanked Prof. Clark for his work, the entertainment given by Lincoln undertakers, and adjourned, peace and harmony prevaliling. AT THE STATE HOUSE. The assertion published in the Omaha Herald that Governor Thayer has been in communioation with the police com- mission is emphatically denied. The overnor has not telegravhed the com- ission, or written the commission, or tolephoned the commission, nor held communication with them in any man- nor, either directly or indirectly, and the removal of Seavey was equally a surprise to him as was the rcinstatement,the news of which only reached him through the medium of the press. The assertion also made that the governor has asked advice of the supreme court as to the logal status Bf the controversy between the council in maha and the commission 18 denied with equal emphasis, The BEr repre- entative ocalled upon Jud, Amasa Jobb, the supreme judge residont in Lin- fulu. and the judge stated that never dur- ng the recent session of the oourt had the niuust.ion been brought bofore them Bt all by the governor himself or any other parties, and the governor had J mever, privately or otherwise, asked an pinion from him in any manner regard- Fnu the question in any of its bearings. The governor has reposed confidence in the Omaha police commission, and inter- fered in their workings with no plans or Buggestions. Jil Inspector Smith Caldwell i’asmrdny sppointed Captain Coons, of Butler county, as one of his deputies in addition gw the appointment of Captain Phelps 'aino, made the day previous. Yesterday nfternoon Mr. Caldwell and Mr, Paine fleparted for Omaha on a business visit preparatory to commencement of active Work July 1. Guy A. Brown, state librarian and su- reme_court reporter, has gone to Spirit “hku, Ia., for a month's rest and recrea- on. C nxsmn Hammond, of Columbus, com- andant at the soldiors’ home, Grand land, was in Liucoln yes r«lnr. The hive stock commission will hold & ‘Ybusiness meeting at their oftice to-day. ABOUT THE CITY. A man named McCormick, who has € becn tenting and holding horses for trade in the outskirts of the city, was fined $10 und costs in police court ,yesterday for @runkenness. The Dogye case was vursuinfiliu WORTY way through the channeis of the district court yesterday,and it bids fair to occupy !u\'n-r\x;l days yot before the testimony is ended, The celebrated Dawson will case that has involyed the title to a large number of homes in the southern suburbs of the city and also to a large number of city lots in that vicinity bids fair to reach finul settlement under a recent decision from Jludzo Brower and the titles become uieted. b The burglars in their recent raids in- waded the residence of one of the police force. The Journal marvels at their bold- ness, but the burglar is wise beyond his day and generation. The nearer a bur- glar Keeps to some of the present mas terly police torce the safer they are. The bourd of trade at their meeting Tucsday evening eviuced aotivity in sccuring industries for Lincoln worthy ~ of all commendation Negotiations have been opened with a con! storage company, a paper mill, a windmill company, iron and paint works, and an oat meal factory. From all these some one or two of them will undoubtedly secured. AT THE HOTELS. Amnmong the Nebraskans in Lincoln yes- terday were noted the following: Charles C. Wilson, Slerlln,: . W. Watson, Fal h\w; G. H. Peebles, David City; F. B. Woodrow. Omaha; J. L. Saunders, Stockville; J. A. Taggart, 8.R. Brown, EE. Day, Weeping Water; O. Bates, Beatrice: . Hamhn, York; A. F. Coon, Dawid ‘ Frank T. Ransom, Nebraska City; K. Leonard, David Clty, H. O, Boatty, Waloo; W. E. tare, Beatrice; John Chase, Weeping Water; A, P. Tukey, Omaha. e Bolle of Bourbon ten-year-old whisky. Tavelers who wish to carry a pure arti- el of whisky with them can purchase of clle of Bourbon for $1.25 per quart ttle at hotel bars or drug stores. THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: THURSDAY, JUNE 23. BITTER CREEK'S BAD MAN. The Orizinal Citizen Who Made Life Miserabie for the People. San Franeiseo Eraminer, er 1'd pour weet milk of Concord into helly ar the unive “I admit that T am fr W. F. Robbins at Russ house L can’t help it I was from an't very well get away , why should 1¢ doing very well theére and like the piace, “But I get a little weary, Everywhere I go when I put down my name the fool clerk says: ‘‘Oh, aha! You're the Bad Man from Bitter Creek, ave you?' “These things make me weary! New to the idiotic clerks and others, perhaps, who make the remark, but awfully old to me, You say you half supposed this Bitter Creek, or at least the Bad Man part of it, to be bypothetical? Not a bit of it. Con- sult your map. You'll find one Bitter Creck in Wyoming, two in Arizona, one, and pussibly two, in_Utah, one in Mon* tana, and one in Almost all are small strea ey would be called rivers, as you may suppose. “‘Well, the genuine and historic stream is in southwhstern Montana, and that's where [ hail from. The creek is 110 miles long, and empties into the Clark's [ of the Columbia. ‘The bad man w Yount, an exceeding! came there in very nessce. Nobody kne for he was ahead of most ¢ ody else. He was none of your ‘mild-mar nered’ sort of men as Slade was re sented to be. Originally in Tennessce, [ suppose he wasa Knob-hiller, and as he I3 older he rapidly grew worse, pon my word, he was th vicious, vindictive man I ever h. He fairly earned his title. was a murderer 1n Tennessce of three boys, playmates in school whom he didn't like. Ho sloped to Missouri and knifed an old gentleman, in whose em- he was, because the old man in- 1 on his getting up at 6 o’clock in the fellow named Jim rocky individual, ly times from Ten- he exact most ard of. We heard he zed his way in this manner pretty affectually to the west. One of the first deeds, which the pioneers of Mon- tana recollect, was the shooting off of both ears of a bull-whacker by Jim. *Jim saw him driving along, and re- marked to a friend that he thought he could make & center-shot on the team- ster’s big ear. The friend doubted it,and he let her zo. He struck the auditing apparatus plum in the middle. Before the teamster could clap his hand on the shot ear, whack went a ball through the other one, “‘The bad man then asked the bull- whacker 1f he didn’t want him to present him with a couple of earbobs, since he had such nice round holes to put them in, “His next deed was to _burn a sschool housge, some twenty miles away. He claimed that the children made faces at him a8 he was going along onoe day, and ho'd be hanged if he'd have such Kkids to grow up to know any more than he did. “In a dispute with two confederates about some stolen horses in '60, a year after this school house, he killed both of them, took all the stock and gobbled their money. He didn’t even bury the fellows, but left their bodies lying lifty yards or so from the corral. “‘But his best hold was in the saloons. He'd drink a barrel of whisky every few days—no soft drivks for him— whisky every time. He had a bleared, blotched fuce, that looked like a chromo, and his oaths and language in gencral was some- thing frightful to hear. I J’nn'l recollecy & erime in those early days that he didn’t commit. He held ulp stages, stole bullion and robbed mails w’i‘fil impunity, Nobody molested him, Everybody feigned not to know who did it, and everybody went around cring- lnglg asking Jim a8 they patted him on the back, to take a drink. Quite often he’d get mad at this even, and tell them to have a vare how they came slobbering around bim or he'd shoot the tops of thelr heads off, ¢ wJim played many brilliant engage- ments ofptn s sort around Virginia City, in Montana, Boulder City and other places. His Bitter Creek ranch was only rendesvous for him, a sort ot a central or pivotal point, where he and fellow thioves rounded up their stolen horses and cattle. . “Jim ran nlong for several years in this w: .cutunf, shooting, and" killing until he boasted himself that two grave- ards wouldn't hold the peouple that he Tad Inid away. X “‘In '67, however, Jim made one trip too often to Helena. He had made his record over there. But the rich placers had drawn a host of bad men there, and one night when Jim drew his artillery in Tom Best's gambling-dive and began to lay on right and left he got a ball in his heart that forever fixed him. *'Of the crowd, though, he killed four first and maimed for lite three or four more, He was buried out in the foot- hills near Helena, and for a long time and until it rotted away a plain pine board marked his graveand bore the in- scriptiol 'HE BAD MAN FROM BITTER CREEK, “I think Jim was about forty years old when he was rounded 1n. It was a glad day for Bitter Creek and a joyful one for Helena,which for a long time boasted that it had tuoked our bad man away unddr the daisies. *‘Now, you might think that our region is full of such nifizuus as Jim, but it is notso. We are now at least, a quiet, eaceable community, deyoted to ranch- ng and agriculture, It would do you good to visit Bitter Creek."’ —— When the face is hagezard, the cheek hollow and the form lank and deblitated, the party vonclndes he is the victim of a wasting and mysterious disease; when. the simple trathis, his digestive organs are in bad order, if he would use Dr. J. H. McLean's Strengthening Cordial and Blood Puritier, he would look as well, and feel as hearty as the healthiest of us, hfi needs bracing up, vitalizing, that 1s all, e — A Locomotive Runs 17,112 Miles in a Month, Superintendent of Motive Power Wal- lace, of the Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore railroad, has just brought to a successful conclusion aun interesting trinl to determine how many miles a passenger locomotive, properly cared for,could run without detriment in a month of thirty- one days. Last summer a Pennsylvania railroad engine, during one month, made the round trip of the miadle division (Harrisburg to Altoona) twice dail covering during that time 16,268 mil. the lougest distance ever covered in a month by a single locomotive up to that time. On the B%th of last April, Buperin- tendent Wallace started engine No. 817 from Washington to Philadelphia at 8 a. m. May 381, 17,113 miles had been re- corded,and the record beaten by 744 mules. No. 817 has 68-inch drivers, eylinders l? by 24 inches, weighs 100,600 pounds al ml’d. the weight on the drivers being 67,800 Younda. The distance between Philadelphia Washi is 183 miles, and 817" covers it four times every twenty-four hours, leaving Phila- dulpfihu 7:20 8. m. and 4:30 p, m., and leaving Washington at 11 a. m, and 10 p m. Four crews were sr:g]loyuu daily on the engine, and the splendid mechunism has come out of the test in first class con- dition. In addition to_the 17,113 miles traveled with a train, No. 817 made one mile unattached at each end of the route, or eight wiles empty per diem. This for Iam | thirty-one days wonld make 248 mile be added to the 17,117, or a total of 17 iles, R — Where 1s Captain Howgnte? Washington Post: ‘Do you know that it's a fact that the war ‘fu;mrlnn-m never wanted to prosecute Captain How- gate?" asked an ex-member of the signal corps of a reporter. *'No, that's news to me,"” reporter, ‘It is a fact, nevertheless," said the signal service man, “though 1 would not care to be quoted by name as saying =o, tor I am still in the government employ, you know, Captain Howeate has never been out of the county, and there has not been a time since he loft here that he could not have been brought back within three days if he had been wanted." “Where 1s he now?" asked the re- porter- ‘[ don’t know exactly where he is to- day, but I could find out inside an hour and & half. Why, when I was away on leave last summer, I met the captain on the street one day in a city not a thousand miles from Washington, and if he's not there yet, I know I could find him in an hour or so. He has several regular correspondents in this city, and his whereabouts are always known to his friends. If the war department wanted the captain very bad they would not have much difticulty in finding him.” - - Rhode Island's Pecullarities, Boston Globe: She is the only state that has no provision in her constitution for calling a constitutional convention She is the only stete that requires more than a majority of votes to ratigy amend- ments to the constitution. She is the only, state whose constitution draws a distinction betwecn native and ized citizens, s the only state whose legislatures vote by secret baliot, She is the only state that requires the goyernor to share the pardoning power With the senate She is the only state that reanires voters to register one yoar in order to vote the next, She is the only state that requires a mn{‘orily vote to elect all oflicers. She is the only state that requires & property qualitication of voters, i, REAL ESTATE. replied the Transfers Filed June 21, 1887, City of Omaha to Julius Wassells, 14x 60 1t, beginning at the se cor of lot 1bIK 445, ge Lena Edward: lard Slabaugh, lot 12 blk 4 Omaha View add, wd ... . Douglas county to N P Lindquest. lot 20 blk 7 Douglas add, wd.. ty to Andrew lot 7 blk 11 Douglas add, wd... .... Morris N Hamlin and wife to Mary J Ellis, lot 14 blk 3 Hillside add No 1, waiiioe G Josephine E Hamlin and husband to Mary J Ellis, fot 13 blk 2 Hillside Douglas county to August "Dofl, Tot i3 blk 8 lot 12 °to 15 blk 4 lots 10 to 15 inclusive block 5 lots 910 11 blk 12 Douglas add, wd Harvey D. Lovélan Loveland, lot 5 wd .. T5e0 Dennis Cunningham harles 11 Klapp et al, lots 7 and 8, Aubura lwd..... Cesreeesesansiress Ed B Williams et ol to ¥frank B Mitch- ell, lot 3, blk 4, Foster’s add, w d.. Larmon P Pruyn and wife ' to Miss Belle McDonald, lot 4, Pruyn’s sub- division of lot 283, Millard & Cald- well's add, w d.. Benjamin M Nicholson to Martha West, w 30 ft of 660 ft_of lot5 d iding an d, lots 1, 2, wd d wife i ] 25,07 acres in 4, 15, 13, W d . James ry Page, s 1 lot ftlot 14, J E Riley’s sub div, w d.... . ‘o Anna M Deiss and husband to Rutus B Clarke, lots 18i¢ and 103, Millard & Caldwell's add, g e........ Victor H Caldwell to Rufus B Clarke lota 183¢ and 19, Millard & Cald- well L, W . Louis Bradford to Rufus B. Clarke, lot 19, Millard & Caldwell’s addition, H. Brown, lots 18 & 19, Millard & Oaldwell’s addition, wd.... e Herman Kountze and wife Luther Kountze, lots 2, 5, block 16, lots 9, 10, block 17, lot 6, block 18, Kountze place, wd. . Herman Kountz wi Kountze, lot &, block 29, lots 1, 2, blk 80, lot 1, block 33, lots 8, 9, bloek & Kountze place, w d, Herman Kountze and wife to Luther Koun! lot 1, block 4, lots ¥, 10, bik 5, lot 3, block 7, lot 10, block 11, lot 1, block 12, Kountze place, wd. .. . Herman Kountze and wife to Luther Kountze, lots 1,2 block 19, Kountze place, w . L Bonner and wife to James Scott, ln|.~l 1 and 22 blk 4, Hawthorne add, wd. b George A Joslyn and wife to Graham, lots 4, 5and 6 blk 92, change Place, w d...... A Gregg Inghram et al lam_H Gm.f. lov 8blk 4, dawthorne add, Matthew B: lam lot 1blk 3, Hawthorne, wd. Lawrence D Spalding to M McCague, sl¢ of sl lots 1and blk 4, Reed’s lstadd,wd.. A J Law and wife to John D Silvis, los 10 blk 3, Elkhorn, w d........... George W Awes and wife to William C Allen, lots 8 and 4, bik 1, Hans- com Place, w 20,000 1,000 1 28 weee 1,400 —~—— Life in Mexico. Another peculiarity of Mexican life is that everybody lives over a shop, if the house be of two stories, or uses his lower floor for stabling the horses, quartering the servants, etc. Even mllionaires often rent the ground floor of their swellest residences for business purposes, and no one seems to have any domestic use for their lower front rooms, which Awericans consider most desirable. Go and call upon a bishop or some other high dignitary, or upon any family of known wealth, and if there is not & 8hoe- maker pegging away at his bench, just inside the front door, or tailor-shop, or hair-dressing or black-smithing os!aE[lsh~ ment, yon are ohli‘red to squeeze past earriages standing in the passage-way, or run the gauntlet of horses' heels, besides viewing the paraphernalia of the forever open kitchens and smelling the next meal’s menu.—Sacramento Record. MOST PERFECT MADE Used by the United States Government. h; the heads of the Great Universities c Pood Analzeta s Tho Strongeat, Purest, thtal. Dr. Price's the only Bakin ioes not contaln Ammonia, Lime ot Endors and Publi and most . Dr, Price’s inr ‘delicionely. PRI CINEER THE BLACK HILLS BUOYANT. The Approach of the Burlington & Mistouri Railroad the Canse for Much Rejoicing, THE PROGRESS AT DEADWOOD. A Building Material Combine—Dr. McGillicuddy's Stately Mansion— The New Masonlc Temple— Twicehop's Letter, Rarm Crry, Dak, June 20. [Corres- pondence of the Bee.] The Black Hills are looking their best now. A year ago now the ftields were grey instead of green. The copious rains of the past two months have done it, and the hearts of the rancher, the cattle man and the freighter are singing. The latter, perhaps, most of all, as he depends on grazing en route to furnish his quadrupedal locomotives their free fuel and enable him to com- pete with the iron horse. He is doing it. The arrival this week of several bull- trains from Pierre with freight for tho upper camps is a telling comment on the freight taniff of our only road from Chicago. This consignment was three weeks on the road from Pierre. If time seems to be in the railroad’s favor, it must be added that the bull train has also lowered the rccord of many shipments by rail; I have heard of one ll of goods that was six wecks on the road between St. Paul and Lead City by rail and teams, but that was exceptional. In view of both cost and _time the people here are already CLAMORING FOR RAILROAD COMPETITION. Interest to that end just now centers 1n the approach o the Burling- ton & Missouri towards the Hills from the south. It will Elkhorn line near Chadron, is reported follow up the se the Cheyenne to Rapid City. Here it will h for feeders by the “time it is completed, one and probably two nar- row gauge roads into the Hills, For work has already begun on the Rapid City, Wyoming & Western, and oable advices™ from England from James Wilson, principal owner of the prineipal tin mines and the only tin-reduction works in the Hills, announces that he has enlisted $10,000,000 of Enghish mouney to operate these and build the Ravid City & Southwestern narrow gauge through the tin eamps and Southern Hills to Wyom- ing and so on to? If this news 1s (rust- worthy—and it comes direct from Mr, Wilson—it will have a very important influence upon the development of the resources of this part of Dakota. Other mining regions have gold and silver. but the Black Hills alone have tin inpaying quantities; have a specialty, and that is the next best thing to a monopoly. The extent of the tin deposits has yet to be definitely settled; no very deep explora- tion has yet been done anywhere. So far as developments have gone, the for- mation shows the same tendency to in- crease in richness with depth, as is the u the veins of the more precious metals, But very extensive deposits have already been uncovered and, what more encouraging, -the cassiterite yields two or three times the per centage of tin that the same does in other coun- tries. The mining and reduction of this metal, however, requires as close eco- numf and as careful management as are required to make our lowgrade ores pay, as under the man, ment of the Home- stake company, d to in my last letter. Therefore, it is hailed as a prom- 1sing future of Mr. Wilson's effort to put our tin productioh on a paying basis tnat l:lnnly of capital and experience are to ¢ enlisted in the undertaking. DEADWOOD AFTER A RAILROAD, A meeting was held mm Deadwood last week to start a movement to secure the extension of the Elkhorn line by a spur up the canon to that place. A committee was appointed to confer with the North- western authorities and a liberal purse raised for its expenses. The line on 1ts westward way passes through the valley ten miles north of Deadwood. Althongh the branch will be expensive'to build, { think its construction brobable for these reasons: dwood must have it or go to the wall, and that town is not one of the kind that ‘‘lays down.” It is always torn up with internal quarrels, but when a crisis comes it has a habit of uniting and ‘“‘getting there.”” This 18 a case of digging for the woodchuck, and Dead- wood is likely to be out of meat. The construction of the Rapid City narrow gauge to Dendwood's back door will divert its trade from the Elk- horn: Chapman is foreing the Elkhorn to Deadwood. And, finally, I have the best of aunthority for the statement that the Northwestérn people intend, and have intended ever since the Black Hills branch was decided on, to go to Dead- wood. Now, like a local wag, asked if he will take something, the; saying, “‘We might if we were properly approached.” Deadwood will “‘properly approuch” and get the road. But it 1s quecer to read some of the objections urged by old timers against making the approach. These mossbacks recall the haleyon days of the bull trains and stage coaches from Siduey, and mourn the encroachments of modern improve- ments. They are not asintelligent as the Richmond preacher who admits that the things ‘‘do move."” AFTER WYOMING COAL. A good deal of guessing is done asto the objective point of the narrow-gauge line hence to the bills, The projectors take unusual pains to keep secret the ul- timate route; having thus far announced only the same into the woods thirty miles from everywhere. Agamn [ am willing to g0 on record as a prophet. The line will take in all the mining camps and timber in the hills that it can and then strike a bee line for the coal fields of Northern Wyoming—to bring the Maho- met of fuel to the mountairs of minera! This is the obvious thing, the necessary thing for a paying local business for a little railroad. ‘These narrow-gauges will never be able to liva simply as feed- ers of the standard gauges at the terms to be dictated by the latter. The only local business " of any magnitude now assured is connected with the fuel and timber supply to the mines, and in that business the narrow gauge can most suc- cessfully compete with the standard, which i3 not going near the mines. The latter will probably use its power over the former to secure a division of this business, for the Elkhorn is projected to the coal fields also. Speaking of Wyom- mg coal, I saw this week some of that combustible burn; 1t makes a hot, semi- bituminous flame, and burhs clean with a white ash. The samples were quite free from slate. Ido notlearn that it is decided to be available for.coking, which is a great desideratum for this country's smelting prospects. BLACK .3 BUILDING MATERIAL. A company is incubating here to e- Rate a large number of claims on building materials —sandstone, marble, roofing slate, lime, gypsum, p\uurof—l’nm, ce- ment, and sand. It is understood that the building materials “‘combine” will go mto the husiness of supplying contractors. Thus far, little has been doune towards in- troducing this material; the chief effort having been to interest outsiders with capital to do it; trying to sell undeveloped olaims instead of what was in them., ’lllul last is the right way to introduce the stuff, and as it is an industry that does not re- quire axfenmvo plants and large working camtal, I rather wonder that local rustlers have waited so long 1o begin the actual work, But the truth is, that the ple here are not opulent, and nearly every- body has already *bitten off more than 1887, ‘THIS SEASON'S business has been a surprise to us, particularly the enormous sales durine the past four weeks. We are determined to keep itup- New goodsare constantly arriving by express, and everv dav we have new bargains to offer. This time it’s in the furnish- ing department. Our fancv Percale Shirts at 350 are equal to anv 750 shirts offered bv other houses. Better ones in propor- tion. The white laundried shirts which we are selling for70 and 900 cannot be had elsewhere for less than double the monev. In unlaundried white shirts we have oneat 30c. We do not keep it for a special sale,but sell it evervdav forthat price,and it isas good a shirt as others are offering at special sales for 40c or 500. In Underwear our sales have been marvelous andwe can not get them in fast enough. Our 15c¢ gauze Shirt is the talk of the citv---another supplv has come. We have also just open- ed anextra fine short sleeve clouded gauze Shirt, a noveltv in color, at 35¢. The shirt is cheap at 60c. Our 25¢ a dozen four in hand Scarfs are the hit of the the season. No old stock, but new, fresh and beautiful patterns; the manufacturer cannot make them fast enough for us. Other dealers sell them at 10¢ apiece. A noveltv in this line is a straw scarf a beautiful thing, 20c¢. You can see itin our corner window. All goods marked in plain figures and at one price. Nebraska Clothing Company Cor. Douglas and 14 he can chew' of minming stocks and claims, But the day is coming when the useful minerals will contribute more to the prosperity of this section than the precious ones, By wn{ of advertising these building stones, Dr. McGillycuddy is building a stately and unigue mansion here, the first story of brown sandstone, the second of white, and the third of wood, The new Masonic temple 18 to have its foundations of marble. In all these formations there are many solid colors and many variegated. I wonder that no one finishes inside with some of the beautiful colors that are all about here in the gypsum beds and sand-pits. Only the dead,tombstone white finlsh is used— and a very hard_finish and very dead wall it makes. Isaw a rancher’s shack leumrud with gypsum and sand out of his yard, It was a finish that would have delighted the Associated Artists of the east, which has in late years wrought such wondertul changes of taste in inside finish. The rancher, indced, ‘“builded better than he knew.” He wasn't acsthetic. He was economical and wanted to keep warm. People here do not half know their aesthetic advantages. TwickHoP. S Chronic nasal catarrh positively cured by Dr. Sage's Remedy. o ——— FRANK JAMES. The Ex-Bandit, Now a Dry Goods Clerk, Talks a Little About His Former Kventful and Preda- tory Oareer. St. Loms Globe-Democrat: A gontle- man who registered at the Lindell yester- day reports the result of an interview with Frank James, who is now Hving at Dallas, Tex., where he is employed as salesman 1in a wholesale clothing store. He is visited daily by large crowds of peovle from all parts of the country, to all of whom he extends a cordial greet- ing. To the gentleman who called on him he said: “Yes, I am living quietly enough here, and I think the balance ot my life will be passed peacefull 1 have never carried a weapon since I surrendered my revol- vors to Governor Crittenden in ssouri. I do not carry any arms because I do not want to have any trouble with anyone. 1 do not think anybody wants to kill me, unless it might be some crank who wanted notoriety, and a gun would be no protection againet such a man, for he would shoot me in the back, or at some time when 1 was not expecting it. When asked if he was a good shot Frank replied. *No, L am nothing extra; but there was a time when I thought that no man on earth could draw a gun quicker than 1 oould. I practiced it for twenty years, and always felt safe while talking with a man who had not already drawn his weapon. 1 know that whenever he made & motion I could kill him before he could draw.” “‘What kind ot gun do you prefer?" “Well, 1 always used a Remington 44. The same cartridge used in this six- shooter fits a Winchester 44 rifle, so there 18 no danger of a man getting rattled in a fight and putting the wrorg cartridge in hns‘}un Itis a bad plan to carry two kinds of ammunition when you have to used it in & hurry sometimes.'" “‘Do you meet many yeople here whom you have known before?" *‘No. Imeet a great many who claim to know me, but the fact is I really know very few people anywhere, and fewer still know me. The reason I was never captured was because I never made a confidant of any one and I never placed perfect confidence in any human bemng. 'here was a time when no man on earth could have killed me without a fight. I never let those who were with me handle my guns, and if any one asked me to 1ook at my pistols [ always took out the cylin- der before handing it to him."" “Did you know many of the noted men who have figured in the west?" *I know them by reputation, but never mot any of them. ~ 1 always made ita 0int to keep away from bad men. These illers are always™ seeking 1 tried to avoid them as much as possible, [ always hatea to kill anybody and never did uniess ( had to. No reasonable man wants to ke the life of another if he can help it. I always taied to keep away from the western country, where all the detectives supposed me to be. 1 staid east of the Mississippi river most of the time, and always among quiet people who curr{ prayer books in their pockets instead of six shooters. I found it much safer. 'Do you ever drink?®'" was asked by the visitor, who wanted to set 'em up, but got a temperance lecture in reply. “Inever touch liquor. ‘Inis is one reason why I was never caught; nothing could induce me to drink a drop, so 1 always carried a cool head. Some men need two or three drinks to give them courage enough to make a fight, but as for myself, I always want to gointoa fight with a clear head. 1 can see better, shoot quicker, fight harder and protect nyself bette 0, sir, I thank yau, no whisky for me: Five Sizes. any other. New Model LawnMower Will cut higher grass than Has noequal for simplicity, durability and case of operation. This is the latest Improved Ma- chine in the Market. Low Prices, Send for circulars. s PHIL STIMMEL & CO. 4 St RELIABLE OMAHA, NEBRASKA. ate Agents for Porter’s Haying Tool andJobbers of Binding 1wine. CS.RAYMON JEWELER. Watches, Diamonds, Fine Jewelry, Silverware ‘The largest stock. Prices the lowest. Corner Douglas and 15th streets, Omah. PacificRailroad Company. Repairing a specialty., Work warranted. a. Licensed Watchmaker for the Union P 5% il r Black is & disease which is considered o e s T e R el e ies of SwirT's 8PECIFIC—nOW known all over the world as 8. 8. 8. Mrs. Balley, of Weat Somervill Masa. neat Bosion, was aiiackod eoveral sears a ideons black eruption, and was treated e, 1 0 ith tl b} the best medical talent, who could ouly say that e disease was & specles of LEPROSY- and consequently incarable. It is imposstble to de- scribe her sufferings. Her ly from the crown of Ter head to the soles of her feet was a masa of decay, masees of flesh rotting off and leaving great cavities. Ter fingers featered and turee of four balls dropped off at one time. Her limbs contracted by the fearful uicerntion, aud for several years she did aot jcave her bed. Her welght was reduced from 195 o 60 1bs. Perhaps some faint idea of her condition can be eaned from the fact that three pounds of Cosmo- e of olulmfnl ‘were used ‘week in l‘l!lllllqhnfl hysicians acknowled; it yll In‘cml»i‘gulir hearing wonderfal reports of the wse of Swirr's S¥ECiFIo (8, 8. 8.), prevailed on her to try it as o Inst resort. Khe began its use under pro- et bat soon found that ber ayetem was being e, Hevad of the poteon an the pores sssuinod & red Realthy color, as though the blood wus becom! Mrs. p) ned, 8.8 .8, carded chair and crutches, in twelve years a well woman. Her husband, Mr, C. A. Bailey, 18 fn business at 17)¢ Blackstone Street, Boston, and wiil take pleasure in iving the detalls of this wonderfu) cure. 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