Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 25, 1887, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE SATURDAY, JUNF 25, 1887. THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. TERVE OF BUBSCRIPTION ¢ Dafly (Moeniag Edition) including Sunda; = “Ber. One Year. ot 7 e10m or 8ix Months . 1] For Throa Montha 0 fie Omaba Swnday’ ik addross, One Year. 2 200 a\nm OFFICE, NO. 014 AND 018 FARNAM STREEY autied to’ any EW YOWK OFPICE. ROOM 6, TRINUNE BUILDING. ASHINGTON UFFICE, NO. 51) FOURTEENTIL BTIEET. CORRESPONDENCE! All communioations relating to nows andedi- torial matter should be addressed to the Epr TOR OF THE DEX. JUSINERS LETTERS? AN bueiness lotters and romittances should ba addrossed to THE BEd PUBLISHING COMPANY, DMAA. Drafts, checks postoffice orders 0 be made payabie to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CONPANY, PROPBIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Ep1tor. THE DAILY BEE, Sworn Statement of Oirculation. Btate of Nebraska, }, a County of Douglas. o Geo. B. ‘Izschuck, secretary of The Bee ublishing company, does solemnly swear hat the actual circulation of the Daily Bee for the week ending June 17, 1887, was as follow: aturday.June 11 unday, June 12... onday, June 1: iesday, June 14, ednesday, June ghursr(n)’. June 16 riday,June 17, Average B. TZsCHUCK. GEO, Subseribed and sworn to before me this £0th day of June, 1857, N, P. Ferm, ISEAL.] Notary Publie. Geo. B. Tzschuck, being first duly sworn, gapous and says that he Is secrotary of The e0 Publishing company, that tlie actual averago daily circulation of the Dally Bee for the month™ of for June, 188}, 12.208 coples; for July, 1883, 12,314 cop for August, 1856, 12,464 copies; for Septem- r, 18%, 18,030 copies; for October, 15%, 2,980 coples: for November, , | 13,348 roples; for December, 1856, 13,337 copies; for Jnnu:r‘v 1887, 16,200 copies; for February, 1857, 14,108 coples; for March. 1857, 14,400 eoples: for April, 1887, 14,516 copies; for May, 1857, 14,227 coples. ro. B, TZ8CHUCR, G Bubseribed and sworn to before me this 4th @ay of June A. ., 1857, (SEAL.| P. Frrr, Notary Publie. Tue fflutvpmls still havo co‘x‘nrolfi Kansas City. Tae Pacific investigating committee appears to investigate. | CLEVELAND'S campaign history, re- cently made, is all that is bothering him, ! Two men were hanged in Missouri yosterday fand the legislature hasnot yet sdjourned. TuE school commencements through- out the country have ended, and children and boquets receive a rest, | Tue Pacific investigating committee finds truth in the Scriptural injunction ¥eading, “Seek, and ye shall tind,” | Tue wood cut pictures of Quinn Bo- hanan will cause the desperado to return and surrender in order to vindicate him- self, MaNy papers of Nebraska are now demanding a two-cent passenger tariff. What is most nceded are lower freight rates. THE most cheerful reports regarding Nebraska’s crop outlook come in. The croaker this year 18 like Othello with his occupation gone. IN view of the fact that the Cook county Ireebooters are being speedily convicted, it will soon be safe to write it, uneasy lies the head worn by a boodler. EvEN Jeff Davis has admitted that ordering the rebel flags returned was a mistake. This is the first time in history that Mr. Davis has opened his mouth without swallowing his boots. YESTERDAY was a black Friday in Wall street. The rumor that Jay Gould took advantage of the report to the effect _Bhat ho was dead, to enrich himself, dem- nstrates that tne gambler was a very ively corpse. —— TuE San Francisco dita says “Omaha 38 making pretensions to being a seaport pity. They had a clam bake there the other day.” Aad the Alta could have ndded that those in uttendance at the bake saw sea serpents, SEEE———— Irlooks very much as if the street sweeping gang had & gripon the council. Last week they smuggled through a olaim of extras for $551.80, which was a olean steal, and this week thoy vulled through a resolution that will increase the street cleaning expense by $2,000 a . month, CEES— TrE Hon. Willam F. Cody—Buftalo Bill—is credited by a London corre- spondent of @ New York paper with being a greater man than Gladstone. Mr. Bill Buffalo, the honorable, may just g now be attracting more attention, but "+ when his cowboys and Indians disband, he will not be the lion of society, as nuw proclaimed. BEVERAL cases of children being at- tacked by dogs in the street have come to pur knowledge within a few days, and on Thursday a little girl was bitten by a pavage brute on Twentieth street. The thoroughfares of tne city swarm with dogs of high and low degree, and the ac- pepted theory is that at this season of the ear they are particularly dangerous. Whether as a matter of fact this notion s correct or not, there can be no question that too much freedom is allowed the eanines. People who own dogs should ‘be compelled either to confine or muzzle them. It was striking evidence of the very fmportant part which Mr. Gould plays in ponnection with financial affairs, so far s they are related to the stock exchange, that a rumor in Wall street yesterday of his death caused great excitement and a tumble of stocks that threw the market nto greater confusion than 1t had ex- rienced before tor a very long time, t was anindication of what may be ex- pected whenever Mr. Gould does die, though in his present reported state of health it is likely the effect of his sudden Staking off” will be in a measure dis- oounted. The eftorts of his friends and those otherwise interested to conceal the faet that Mr. Gould has been a very sick . man were not successful, and there is no ~doubt that he is growing steadily more feeble. An indomitable will has prob- ably more to do with keeping him alive ihan any other influence. Hostility to Immigration, The eastern press are giving & good deal of attention to the immigration question, and some of the most influen- tial papers are pronotinced in favor of more restrictive legislation than now ex- ists, It1s evidently the intention to keep the controversy on, whenever opportu- ity for referring to the subject presents f, with a view to Interosting congress and creating a public sentiment that will make itself felt upon that body in favor aws for the further restriction of im- tion, The matter has importance. It is now pretty certain that there will be more foreigners come to this country this year than during any previous year. In the month of May the arrivals were 10,000 greater than in April, and in the current year up to the first of the pres- ent month the number of immigrants was greater by 76,000 than for the cor- responding period of last year. We are not only getting more than usual from the regular sources of supply, but from countries that do not in ordinary years figure as large contributors to our population, Italy, Sweden and Norway, for example, are showing a large in- crease, the [talian immigration being most marked, It 18 also doubtless true that in the matter of average character the emigrants of the present year do not compare favorably with those of other years of exceptionally large immigra- tion. It is this fact of the average inferiority of the new comers, together with the circumstances that a few people have been assisted by the British government to come here, which gives the excuse for hostility to the 1mmigration policy that has prevailed since the foundation of the government. If the purpose sought was simply & more rigid exclusion of the classes already forbidden by law to come there would be no reason to criticize it, but it isscen thatthe tendency is to go very much farther than this. The decis- 10n of a judge in the case of the assisted immigrants landed in New York, in Which it was held that the fact of their having been assisted did not necessarily class them as paupers,the evidence being that they were fully qualified to earn a livelihood, has been made the text of a great deal of adverse comment, which plainly betrays a disposition to keep out the very people—the poor and the op- pressed, who would naturally seek these shores, and who in the past have been welcome. In the case of these assisted immigrants at New York whom the com- missioners wished to return, they were all shown to be sound of body and mind, and for a number ot them work had been sccured. It would manifestly have been a most seri- ous hardship to these people to haye sent them back simply on the ground that they were too poor to come here unaided. They were certainly not less acceptable than thousands of others who have come here by the assistance of friends at home .or others who had preceded them to this country. But there is another, and perhaps a logical, development of this hostility to foreigners coming here which 1s even more serious, and that 13 an expression favorable to restrictions on eitizenship. A leading New York paper has recently used the argument that persons who do not speak and understand the English language with suflicient ease to serve as jurymen are unfit to be intrusted with the duties of citizenship, and suggested as a remedy a longer period of proba- tion. There has just closed at Chicago a convention of an organization calling itself the ‘‘Patriotic Sons of Amer- ica,” a part of the policy of which, ac- cording to its last platform, is to further such views as that advanced by the New York Journal. It will be unfortunate it there shall be any extensive drift of pub- lic opinion in such a direction. As we have said in a previous referenco to this question of immigration, all existing laws for the exclusion of paupers, crim- inals, and the insane, should be rigidly enforced, but this country is not yet pre- pared to shut out people from other lands who have the ability to earn an honest livelihood here and are disposed to con- form to our laws. And in any event only sound and practical reasons, unmixed with prejudice, should prompt any future laws or re%uh\tions on this subject that should be found necessary. The Street Sweeper Job. At the last meeting of the council a resolution was adopted to double the sweeping job. Heretofore each paved street has been swept once a week and for this service Fanning & Slaven,the con- tractors, receive 89 cents per 1,000 yards, or about $445 per week, computing the area of paved streets at 500,000 yards. Under the resolution of the council the st eets are to be swept twice a week and the street sweeping expense is thus doubled. This means an increase from $440 a week to $890 a week, which will aggregate $4,000 for a month of thirty days. The only excuse given for this reckless piece of extravagance is that *‘the boys must be Helped out,” because they claim there is no money for them in the contract at once a week. Now the question is whether the tax- payers are to be imvosed on for the bene- fit of street sweeping contractors. Four thousand dollars a month for street sweeping and only one-tenth of our streets paved. Can Omaha property owners afford this luxury even for the sake of ‘‘the boyst” But there is another question. ‘When the bids for street sweeping were opened a responsibie bidder offered to do the sweeping twice a week for $1.50 in- stead of $1.78. This would save the city $140 per week or about $600 a month on street sweeping. The contract was awarded to Fanning & Slaven on the assumption that the streets were to be swept only once a week and that they were a trifle lower for such scrvice than the rival bidder, If the con- up to this date, received an invitation to deliver'a Fourth of July oration. It was only a yoar or two ago that the captain spoke to the people of a meighboring town, and to fit his case an old fable was revised, which read as follows: “An ass who had found a lion's skin put it on, and, for a long time, cut the figure of & lion among the other beasts without his true character being suspected. At lust a cunning fox by chance saw his long ears sticking out one day, when the wind had disarranged his borrowed olothing, and laid a plan to show up the pretender in his true light. So he got a number of the beasts together and persuaded them to ask king lion to make them & speech, representing that they were greatly in need of enlightenment on various sub- Jeots, as finance for example, and who clse 8o likely as the lion to be abletogive them the information they needed? The ass took the bait at once, but when he opened his mouth to speak he could only bray. An old rat was standing near with her young ones, one of whom said: “Mother, see what an ass that lion is making of himself.” *‘No, my son,’ said the old rat; ‘‘nature did that for him, and though he has succeeded in cover- ing up his real character for a while, only occasion was wanting for it to mani- fest itself.” ——— Now that the Council Bluffs & Omaha bridge company has a clear field, there is no valid excuse for delaying the building of the proposed wugon bridge. If the projectors and promoters of this enter- prise mean business work on the piers should be begun at once, and the bridge should be completed within twélve months. EVEN ten years from this time, Mac- Cauley’s New Zealander would find wonders in the changes wrought in Omaha, — How soon are we to have decent side- walks on our principal thoroughfares? Other Lands Than Ours. Jubilee week will end with the close of to-day, and the memorable event will have passed into history. For the past six days the English people have been concerned about nothing eclse, and all ad- vices from that quarter of the globe have been attuned to this theme. The event has undeniably been a great and brilliant succers, rogarded simply as to 1ts out- ward manifestations. All testimony agrees that the pageantry and enthusi- asm of Jubilee day were never surpassed in London, while all the entertainments of the nobility succeeding it have been on a scale of great splendor. ‘The occa- sion brought honors to some and benefits to others, England has moreo titled gen- tlemen now than a week ago, and the shopkeepers of the metropolis have pros- pvered. What else has been ac- complished, that will contribute to the real benefit of the nation, is not immediately apparent. The queen atleast ought to be happy after such a demonstration of loyal affection. The ensuing week will bring a resumption of interest in political affairs. The crimes bill will probably be pushed rapidly to its passage, the understanding being that the supplementary will be dropped if it encounters much opposition, It is re- ported to be the present intention of the cabinet to prorogue parliament early in August. *, e French affairs are likely to take on added inferest at an carlyday. Whether the present ministry is to stand or fall, and a new crisis be averted or invited, is expected to be determined on the 12th of July, when the session of the national assombly terminates. The great question that now confronts France, and which is responsible for the retirement of the late ministry, is financial. The country 1s deep in debt. The policy of Boulanger was expensive, even if it did not provoke war. Taking the report for 1886 we find that the total debt of France was 85 billion francs. This is $190 per head of popula- tion. The debt of Great Britain was about 100 per head of population. The debt of the United States, it may be added by way os comparison, was about #25 per head. Since then England and America have reduced their debts as ap- pears by the estimates, while France is Increasing hers. Since 1881 the annual expenditures have been very much more than the revenue. Thus the revenue for 1885 fell below the expenditure nearly 92,000,000 francs. These deficits have been covered by onerous indirect taxes. Sugar, wines, salt and railroad transport have been sources of added rev- enue. The bakers have been the last to feel the burden, When the actual neces- sities of life go up to meet public charges then may be expected political upheav. als. No French cabinet can expect to stand without changing this condition of things. When M. Goblet fell, the candi- date for premier was asked to retain Boulanger and a fearful army budget, reduce taxation and the public charges all in one stroke. It was very evident that something mustgive way. The debt has made the French conservative for once and may prove a positive blessing. It has been before remarked that money problems are holding the nations back from war. There have been enough provocations in the last twelvemonth to provoke a dozen wars. But fighting with heavy knapsacks on the back is as unde- sirable for nations as individuals. e The discussion of the Army bill in the National Assembly has brought out some striking facts as to the condition of the French army. This bill professes to re- tain the three years' obligatory service and to abolish a number of the exemp- tions now allowed, of which the one that excites the most feeling is that of the “'seminarists,” or students for the Cath- olic priesthood, But while the law makes three years’ service obligatory for all, the tractisto be enlarged so as to require two sweepings per week they should be required to do the work at the price at which the rival bidder offored to do it. There is no excuse whatever for a subsidy to the boys which will take §600 a month out of the pockets of the tax payers—even if it was really necessary to ncur the additional expense of $445 per week for double sweeping. It is the manifest duty of the board of public works to enforce the contract and compel Fanning & Slaven to do the work as required under it. One good sweep- ing and cleaning each week would be ample. The doubling of the contract wijll’sml competition looks very much like o job, S ‘THE most blatent of all blatherskites, Captain Humptrey, of Pawnee, has not, budget does not provide money enough for the expense of keeping all who are liable in actual service. Some choice must therefore be made, and it is found that under one influence and an- other the relenses are so managed that less than one-half, perhaps not one-third, of the soldiers are retained long enough to receive any thorough training. One of the worst features of this system is that the number of compe- tent subaltern officers is much too small and 18 constantly diminishing. The vrac- tical result of equal and obligatory serv- ice for all this is that all are equally and necessarily incompetent, and there is no well trained “‘nucleus” or encadrement with which the less trained troops can be incorporated ana guided. A plan for a considerable force of paid volunteers cn- listed for a considerable term and offered liberal inducements for re-enlistment, with a two years’ term for the obligatory service, 1s strongly urged. It is not, how- ever, likely to prevail, », ot An international oxhibition Is to be opened in Melbourne on August 1, 1888, to celebrate the centenary of the found- ing of New South Wales, the first Aus- tralian colony. Aside from the growth of America, there is nothing more re- markable than the growth of Australia in all that relates to population, vroduc- tion and the general distribution of wealth, From a penal colony—inhabited at first by those true patriots who left their country for their country’s good— it has developed into a great mation, in which the arts, commerce and education are in hopeful process of development. Some slight idea of its marvelous growth may be obtained when it is known that during the year 1885 Australia, with & population of 8,500,000 imported from Great Britain alone goods to the amount of $105,000,000; that the aggregate length of railroads open for traflic amounts to 7,700 miles, and that when the lines of rail now in course of construction shall have been completed they will reach a total length of 10,000 miles. Communi- cation between this country and Aus- tralin is also rapidly growing, anda number of American industrial and man- ufucturing establishments have now thriving agencies in its chief cites; so that the proposed exhibition will doubt- less be taken advantage of by many of our manufacturers as offering an oppor- tunity for making the people of the anti- vodes better acquainted with our natural resources and with the products of our inventive skill and general progress. 0 e The agent of the O'Callaghan estates at Bodyke, where the evictions have recently taken place, says in the London Times that the refusal of the tenants to y the rents demanded owing to the mandate of the national league, and not from inability to pay. The Times and and other tory papers may be relied upon to furnish other evidence of the obstruc- tion methods of the league, and the mo- ment the coercion bill becomes a law, and that will not be many days, the government will be under bonds to take measures to suppress that orguni- zation. Violent crime is at a lower ebb than it has been for years in Ireland, and the crimes bill 18 thus a political and rent- coliecting measure quite beyond prece- dent in its severity even for Ireland, If vigorous government is what Ireland stands in need of, she is likely to get a good dose of it this summer. But what if crime increases and society is still more demoralized under 'the iron heel? The tories certainly cannot claim that they have not been given a free field in which to work out their theories « * " The sentences of the Loipsic prisoners for membership in the Patriotic league and their avowed purpose to encourage the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France, causes much irritation in France, but the demand that Presidént Grevy shall inter- fere in behalf of the prisoners is absurd. Germany may be committing a political blunder in drawing the lines so sharply in this territory, but the policy is within the lines of political: privilege. It is no- ticeable that the prosecuting attorneys used very moderate language during the Leipsic trials, and the sentences also were mild, considering that the charge was high treason and that the verdict was guilty. e Several circumstances combine to ren- der the critical 1llness of Dom Pedro, em- peror of Brazil,of interest to the reading, thinking people of the world. He is the oldest sovereign in duration of rule now living; he is the head of the only inde- vendent government on the American continent which retains the monarchical system, and his nation ranks second among the nations of the hemisphere in area and population, Peter II became emperor of Brazil six years before Victoria ascended the British throne. The fact that he has governed by constitutional methods, and that he has always shown a disposition favorable to the enlargement of the political privi- leges and prerogatives of his subjects, has reconciled the Brazlians to a mon- archy after all the other South American countries have adopted the republican form of government. It is altogether 1mprobable, however, that the monarchy will endure in Brazil many years after Pedro’s death. e The persecutions of Jews in Europe have again broken out, the Jewish quar- ter in a Hungarian town having been de- stroyed by fire and 125 families having thus been made homeless, The op- pression to which Hungary was itself once subjected, and the sympathy that was extended to it by all lovers of liberty, do not appear to have taught a lesson to its people or to have enabled them to free themselves from superstitions that savor of the bigotry of the middle ages. e Throughout Italy, at the recent munic- ipal elections, therc was a marked in- crease in the clerical vote. In spite of the statements of the radical members of the cabinet, the signs of the times point to a reconciliation betwaeen the quirinal and vatican. If such reconciliation should be accomplished the influence of Italy would undoubtedly be extended into European politics. % e The attempts of the Afghan insurgents to capture or destroy the British railroad leading from the Indl@ valley toward Candahar is one more hint that a large part of the Afghan people look upon the British forces asenomies, and desire them to keep out of Afghanistan. Une of the chief causes of the Aunjeer’s unpopularity is the belief that he is/a tool of Great Britain, and as betwean British and Rus- sian rule it is difficult to say which would be most ubnoxious to his subjects. The Library Funds. “How about those library funds?” City Treasurer Rush was asked by a BEE reporter yesterday morning. “They are all right,” he answered. No warrant will bedrawn upon that fund until after July 1st, and that gives me plenty of time to ascertain just who is the proper ofllcial or ofticials to authorize the issuance of these warrants.” ‘‘No trouble with the council, then?" *None at all.” r’—Dutcher's The most sucoessful exterminator. ery sheet will kill a quars, Quick ,work. Persistent use will huur ahead of repro- gunuon. Dutcbor's Dead Slot for bed ugs, FIGHTING AND TRAPPING. Buffalo Bill Tells All About Them Out West. Some Information Graciously Vouch- safed to Her Majesty's British Sub- jects by the Hon, Colonel W. I, Cody —Early Blood-Lettings in Bleeding Kansas — Bill as a Trapper—Halr- Breadth 'Scapes—Interesting Facts About the Indians Not Generally Known, W. F. Cody (“*Buffalo Bill") in Murray's Magazine for June: I am frequently asked whether the Indians who accom- panied me to this country are old friends of mine, accustomed by a long course of training to the parts they play in my ex- hibition of the “‘Wild West.” It would be more correct to call them old enemies. Their rehearsals have taken place on the war-path, and possibly they may some day return to it. Thelr experience of civilization is small; their services are at my disposal for a limited period, never exceeding a year, after which they re- turn to their reserves, richer and possibly wiser men. Itis indeed only by obtain- ing a constant succession of untutored braves that I can insure that freshness of incident and spontancous action which are 8o peculiarly characteristic of the red men. Civilization has very mixed effects upon an Indian; if _he once learns to gpeak English he will soon forget his na- tive cunning and pride of race. I find no difliculty in persuading a sufliciert number to join me. I explain to them what [ want done, and they have perfect confidence in my word that whatever agreement is made will be carried out to the letter, They know that they will be well paid and well fe other matters, clothing,for instance,th b requirements are small. Itis of course, only possible to arrange with them dur- ing a period of pence; if thoy over go on the \v:l\rpn\h aguin our relations will per- haps be of a different character. But in peace their most relentless enemies can safely traverse their country. They abide honorably by pledges once given, and among them, when the hatchetis buried, treachery is unknown. This is more than could always be said for the white men in my young days. My father was killed before my eyes by a coward’s hand striking _treacherously from behind. I was but a boy ot ten at the time; we were living in Kansas, and there was a struggle betweon the free- state party and the slave owners as to whether slavery should be permitted or not. Insomestates it was allowed, in others prohibited. As new territories were bought from the Indians or opened up to settlement, pending their subse- quent creation into fresh states, the two parties disputed the question so hotly that a kind of guerrilla war com- menced between ~those who were trying to extend slavery into those northwestern territories and free state men, who opposed it. My father wasa strong free state man,and in the political agitation which preceded the outbreak of actual hostilities he took a leading part. One day, in 1855, he was speaking at an open-air meeting, I believe the first po- litical meeting held in Kansas; the pro- slavery party mustered strong, but my father' made no secret of his views; the temper of the crowd grew violent and threatening; they began to press around the dry goods boxes on which he was standing before a frontier store; while he was trying to pacify the angry mob one of the” scoundrels, Charles Dunn by name, jumped onto the box behind and stabbed him in the back with a bowie- knife. He died from the wound, and for the moment the murderer esceped, for the sympathy of the mob was with the crime. But a few years afterward, when the civil war broke out, I had my revenge. The pro-slavery party of Kansas joined the southern cause; Charles Dunn was killed and out ot all those who had nurticipnlod in my father’s murder there was only one who escaped death at the hands of the free state men. Thus I had to shift for myself at an early age, and those were days when it was almost impossible to avold coming into contact with Indians at every turn. I drove a stage, rode the pony-express, took treight across the plains, did what- ever I could for a living, and gained a knowledge of every mile of country which none could beat; I got to know the ways of the Indians, too, and they soon knew me. I went trapping and hunting all over their country;they hated the trappers and were always on_the lookout for them, so that it wasa dan- rerous game, and a man always carried his life in his hand on such expeditions. One or two of us would penetrate up the stream in the wildest part of the country, far from any settlements and only inhabited by roving bands of In- dians. Choosing the ground, we would build a tog hut, or dugout, as it iy called, and set about lrunpingf beayer or hunting buffalo and wapiti. Hundreds of trap- pers have been killed while setting their traps along a stream or skinning the game they have caught. I have had many & tussle myself, but been as lucky as & man who goes unhurtthrough a bat- tle in which thousands are killed. When the Indians ‘‘jump” you, if you have been on the lookout, there is generally time to get behind a tree, and then make the best fight of it you can. remember one occasion, however, when the red men treated me quite gen- ereusly. It' was an experience I shall never forget. I was fourteen years old— still only a boy trapper, as oné might say —and started on an exhibition with a man named Dave Harrington. We went right away, 125 miles from any settle- ment, with a yoke of oxen and a light wagon to carry supplies and haul our fiu‘a back., We found a creek where there were lots of game, and there we made our winter camp, On a side of a hill we built a dug-out, and turned the oxen out to grazo upon a small island, where we left them; then we began trapping, and did splendidly for a_few weeks, every- thing going well. But one day, while we were out after elk, as we were (zoin round a sharp bend of the cre fel so heavily upon a slippery hill slope that 1 broke the shin-bone of my leg. Dave Harrrington maunaged to carry me back to the dug-out; but, unlucl K not long before this one of our oxen had slipped upon the 1ce in trying to cross from the island and received injuries which obliged us to kill it. We had thus only one left, and he was not strong enough to haul me back in the wagon to the settlement. So Dave had to leave me lying in the dug-out, and started upon his journey of 125 miles to get help, promising to be back in twenty days. L had plenty of food and snow water, so there was no fear of my starving. On the eighteenth day, hearing a noise out- side, 1 supposed it was Dave returned before his time, and sang out to let him know 1 was all right. For answer there sprang into the little dug-out a party of Indians; I was soon susrounded by as many as the hut would hold, and 1 ‘saw at a glance that they were on the war- ath. They began threatening me with nives and tomahawks, and things did not look very bright; then the chief looked in, and I recognized him as “‘Rain in the Face,”” an old man whose camp I had once visited. [ called out to him that I knew him, and that a year ago I had lived in the same place as he did, and had played with his children. He remembered me; and, jumping into the midst of his warriors, stopped them I iun as they were about to kill me. *“I'his s only a papoose—a boy!” he exclaimed; “we do not fight with boys, but with A ———————————————————————————— e e, e et et e e Sy men,"” 8o they spared my life; but everything I had'in the hut, except some ment, they took away. After this the days came and went, but no Dave Har- rington appeared. I feared ho must have perishpd in o storm or been eaught by the Indians, for the twentieth day was long past. But he camo at last on the twenty-ninth day, bringing a yoke of oxen, He had suffered terribly in the snow drifts; but ho persevered through everything, and, putting me in the wagon, conveyed me back safely to the settlement, where I finally recovered, Dave was a brave fellow, He imperiled his life {0 rescue me, and showed what what one man, whose nerve does not fail him, wtll sometimes dare for auother in that wild country. During the rebellion the Indians took advantage of the defenseless state of the the frontier, and became much bolder in their raids upon our territories. They made no distinction of parties; but saw their opportunity while the whites were fighting, and let” themselves loose upon us, as there was no one to stop them. As soon, therefore, us the north had whipped the south our troops were sent straight to the bordors to quell the Indians. I knew that part of the country better than most men, and was employed on scout- ing duty. The difticulty was to find the enemy, who had no fixed quarters; and men well acquainted with ~thewr habits and customs were reqvired to guide the troops in their haunts. Even when the whereabouts of a tribe was known it was not easy to come up with them. To fol- low the trail over dry grass needed much care and patience. A single hoot mark sometimes gave the only indica- tion; this must be followed until it ied to others, where the main body had passed. No tricks such as turning back along the track ought to deceive a clever trailer; and he must be able to move along quickly, or he would never overtake the Indians. The troops often got near them in the evening too late for an attack: all night the men would lie in cait, holding their horses by the bridles, while the scout steals forward on foot to discover the best side to approuch. Disguised as an Indian, he can often get close up to the encampnent,unperceived, and thus enable the commanding officer to form his plans with certainty. Cun ning as the Indians are, the white man an beat them at their own gal In- whether it be in shooting,or riding, ailing, or anything else, it is my ex- perience that a white man who is up to his business can always outdo men of any other race in the world, even on their own ground. Not that I mean to underrate the fight- ing powers of the Indians; our troops have often enough had to retire, as every one knows. Capture is the worst thing to be feared. For this reason the Indians made but few prisoners. Men knew that 1t was better to die fighting than to be taken, with the fate in store for captives of being tortured and burned at the stake. Yet it was not always possible to avoid oapture,and there have been friends of my own who suffered that awful death. have been caught myself more than once, but my good fortune has stood by mé each time. On one occasion, while scout- ing in 1868, a tribe with whom we were at peace suddenly took to the warpath. I had been in their company in the morn- ing and found them perfectly friendly, but happening to visit the camp agamn in the evening I discovered that thoir atti- tude had changed during the day, and without anything to warn me I rode straight into the midst of the enemy, as they had then become. Instantly the warriors closed in upon m ircling round and beating me with whips and clubs. The surprise was so unexpeeted and I had no time to use my rifle or make any attempt at escape, so I had recourse to a stratagem. Putting a bold face on, I told them that I was bringing a num- ber of cattle as & present from the com- manding ofticer, who believed them to be still friendly. They knew that if I were killed all chance of ohmim“F the cattle would be gone, and I was allowed to retire for the purrose of colluclinfi the herd and driving it into the camp. Once out of sight, 1 made a bolt for it hnd suc- ceeded in reaching the fort, seventeen miles off, leaving the Indians to wait for the cattle as long as they pleased. Although their usual method of warfare is by means of ambuscades and surprises, the Indians are not afraid to meet their enemies in a_stand-up fight 11 the open. In the war of 1876, when I was chief scout under General Carr, we came one day face to face with the Cheyennes, and the two forces were drawn up opposite each other in regular line of battle, about half a mile apart. I had been employed in s0o many expeditions by this time that I had acquired a high reputation amon the Indians as a ‘‘warrior,” and while our troops were halted preliminary to an attack the Cheyenne chief, Yellow-Hand, rode out in front of his line and chal- lenged me to single combat. He shouted out that he was the greatest warrior in his own tribe, and honored me by s that [ was reputed the greatest war among the whites. If I dared he wanted me to come forward and fight 1t out with him, to see which of us proved the better man. Iaccepted his challenge, of course, and rode to meet him without delay. We both had rifles and both our horses were soon shot under us. Then we continued the battle on foot, he with a tomahawk, I'with a bowie-knife. But was too quick for him, and at last as he was rais- ing his arm to strike Iseized hold of it and held him until I could deal a deci- sive blow. Ihave his scalp now; had it ended the other way he would have had mine, for one of us must have been killed. That affairs was thought a_great deal of by the Indians, for Yellow-Hand was a famous chief, and after it 1 was looked upon as a _mighty warrior indeed, although, as I have said, a white man does not really deserve any special crediv for beating an Indian when they meet on equal terms, Still, it is a good thing for a_man who has to deal much with In- dians to gain their respect as a fighter. When peace is made they will always come 1n first to the man that has fonght them hardest. They ure great admirers of bravery and skill on the war-path, and although they will devise every poss sible means of killing an_enemy and taking his scalp, yet the oftener he de- feats them in battie, the further he out- wits them in trailing, and the more of their braves he slays, so much the more do they look up to him as a great war- rior, and when the war is over pay him all honor if he visits their country. I have fruqlmul][)’ proved this to be the case during the hunting expeditions I have organized when we have been right through the indian territory without mishap. When the Grand Doke Al of Russia came over to the United States I took him out into the buffalo country, and we had one of the largest hunts [ can remember. Of course we were es- corted by troops, although the Indians were pretty quietall the time, so there was no danger on that occasion. But it was an instance of the confidence which the tribes vlace in a ma know and respect that I was able t riors from a district 200 miles away, who were willing to accompany me all that distance in order to glnvu the grand duke a wur dance on the V ains, Only a few years before I had been hunting bufialo under very difterent cir- cumstances. It was when the Kansas Pa- cific railroad was being graded, and 1 nad undertaken to supply the workmen with meat. Troops were stationea all along the line to protect the works which were being carried through a dangerous Indian country. It was not safe to go even a few miles from the soldiers; but meat had to be procured, and 1 used to take my ceance, often traveling six, ten, or even fifteen miles after game without an escort. A wagon accompanied me, with one man to drive ana another to cut up the meat; all the nlmnun% I did myself. .We were often jumped by the Indians, but I arranged “with the o&cer commanding the troops that whenevet this happeded I would, if possible, set the grass nlight, and as soon as he sa smoko rising he sent & company ol soldiers to my _ rescue, Until the; came we managed to keep the Indians of as best we could. Directly we found that they were upon us we used to throw the buflalo hams and hind-quarters, the oaly purts we kept for meat, out of the wagon, and make a sort of breastwork of them, from behind which, lying un- derneath the wagon, we kept shootin, away at the Indians as they rode roun us. Ialsoset the grass on fire, and wo never failed to keep them at bay until help arrived, for they did not find it ensy to come to close guarters over the open prairie with men who could shoot as well as wo did. The actual hunting was easy enough to a man who knew his business. There were hundreds os thousands of bullalo, aud the only difliculty lay in the rough ground over which it was necessary to gallop with full speed in order to come up with them. Sometimes a wounded bull would turn upon you, but in all kinds of hunting, whether of griz: or buflalo or anything else,it is generall, only the greenhorn who gets maules through his ignoranc Ohto Natural Gas, M. H, in Cincinnati Commerefal-Ga- zette: The business strect of Findlay happens to be on the boundary line be: tween the gas and oil fields. ~ North of the street there 1s gas, south of it oil— this is at a dopth of between twelve and thirteen hundred feet. The Karg well is tho groatest of the gas strikes, 1t was for several months une controllable, pouring out with a roar lhike that of Niagara. When it had been har- nessed down for a couple of months, it broke out again worse than ever. The power of the well, so far as it is possible to judge, is greater than at first, but the instrument used to test the force of the in tiring heavy artillery would be re- quired to vro ything, ~ If one could imagine a string of steam boilers under about four hundred pound pressure put up like Chin kers and exploded as a ackers and fired, he could ro the Karg well turned loose. Even the engincer who handles the lever to turn the gas on, or off, rather—that is, to let 1t go—is afraid of it, for it ceches, yells, roars, howls, and reverberates. It'seems to bo mad— to have an awful fit of everlasting anger. An attempt was made to discharge the Karg Well through a lofty perpendicular pipe, but the pressure was so great the pipe could not be mamtained, so the low-off is at the edge of the river and horizontal. When it is hghted the flame 1s as a balloon or a pear in shaps, and glows like the sun, looking Jike one of those resplendant protuberances the as- tronomers see at the edge of the sun in eclipses. There are thirty wells about Findlay that yield gas, and there have been but three or four failures to getit on the right side of the town. Very little gasis wasted at this time when new wells are opened. The earth is removed near the drill, heavy walls_built, and iron braces arranged to sustain the valves, and thus the beneficent monster is collared and made ready for the connecting pipes. But the gas is not tractable as oil. [t refuses to flow down hill, and its force departs from it rapidly. This is largely the rcason for the rise of real estate Frices about Findlay. They have the uel and offer incomparable inducements to manufacturers. The natural gas will burn brick or lime to perfection and without cost, or at any rate an expense so trifling that it need not be counted. ‘This provides building material of the best, and the supply is suflicient to repro- duce Babylon. How long will the gaslast? That isthe conundrum. It is found n a porous lime- stone, which must be a prodigious store- S and ol {\'e cannot well o what is going on in_the bosom of the earsh. The wells at Findlay are about a quarter of a wmile decp. What there is in the next ten miles who shall say? The burden of belief is that the gas will continue to be evolved from the carth; that it is the product of certain vast combinations, including the crack- ing of the crust of the earth by the quakes that are the convulsions of the continent. Some hold that the gas is a product of petroleum, but the weighter opinion is that the petroleum 18 the pro- duct of the gas, even as whisky is a con- densation of vapor. The gas, under pressure and subjected to a low tempera- ture, is distilled into petroleum, is the theory. The division that Findlay marks be- tween gas and oil fields is remarkable. Just now Findlay talk is all gas. The day may come when petroleum will be highestin favor, As the case stand 1t costs something more then $1,000—$200 or $300 more pos- sibly—to bore a gas well and got it read: for piping, and §3,000 to drive an oil wel and provide tankf that the flow may not be wasted, In the oil country the drill strikes first gas, second oil, und third salt water without tapping it. The deeper you go without striking the salt the bet- ter, and if the salt water is struck the well is spoiled. A new oil well—-a gushor —about four miles from Findluy, was visited, It was in the corner of a corn field, and three 300 barrel tanks had One of these was full gush, and the oil was forced cond through two two-inch pipes, At intervals the dark product poured witn an immense splut- tering, fairly boiling with gas, and ran into the tank as if rushed by high stoam. hen the flow would cease for a few min- d be resumed with hoarse and gurgling fury, The action is quite like that of a geyser, only the geyser is a steam hole, and the petroleum is thrown to the surface by natural gas, and with it bubbles like champagne. Along the country road to the oil well ono could seo in the grass the rusty lines of the pipe carrying the product of the neighboring wells to storage tanks nine miles distant, and the gutters by the roadside were often dark, and the 'grass stained with oil. The marks of super- abundant flows were frequent in this county. The littje river Blanchard was greasy. ‘L'l s pools that appeared 1o be of petroleum in' some of the fields, i d by J & T, COUSINS SHOBS Embody the highest exellencics in Shape liness, Comfort and Durabiltty and are the Reigning Favorites n fashionable ci Our name is on eve- ry sale, J. & T. Cousins, New York Waterworks. IEALED proposals will be r MY ottice until 6 o clock p. m ; oived at this 1887 necoraing 1o the pluns and will be on filo in this off and after 1857, ‘Ihe exclusive franchiso will be given for wonty-five years to the lowest und best bidder with proper and equitablo conditions, a8 to the purchase of the sy of the term, or suu vided for, Proposs dorsed, “Proposal for constructing water oity roscrves tho right to reject auy or yor and city council, WILLIAMS, City Cl 125-miedt ON 30 DAYS’ TRIAL. LASTIC TRUSS & bad different 10 il a dad i ey s Leon i iring fia fal Gy