Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 25, 1887, Page 5

Y fall and winter months this man has had ' {HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY. JULY 2 HNOWS ITS MASTER'S CRIB. The Burlington & Missouri Railroad Organ at Lincoln Again Heard From, BILLINGS AND HIS MISSION, Trainmen Feel Certain That the Oper- ator at Havelock Was Responsible For the Disaster There—News Fromn the State Capital, [FROM THE DEE'S LINCOLN BUREAU.] The editor of the Journal, who bore false witness against the entire city of coln in his long dissertation on the B. & M. as a public benefactor, in which he stated that 1t had given Lincoln all it asked in rates, is apparently suffering Irom another attack of liver complaint, The well worn pad has evidently shifted + from the position where it is" usually worn and scems to irritate him. The editor of the Journal was as quiet asa clam when its fulsome flattery follow- ing Manager Holdrege's visit to Lincoln on the rate question was exposed and the gall has entered his soul evidently that he should be caught up and have nogrounds for an answer. Now, however, in sup- port of its assistant editor and special protege in the person of one Billings, the Journal's wrath breaks forth that it should be criticised when it lets this asso- ciate editor have full swing in manifest attempts to belittle the live stock com- e matter, as every ble man knows them to be, are regents of the universit geen fit to employ this man Billings a: nenter on animal diseases. One ¢ regents ashorttime since expressed the belief that it was a useless expendi- ture, but the expense is made however. There would be no criticism now, but it \ notorious fact that all through the full swing of the Journal in that which has been considered an assault on the commission and veterinarian, It ceascd for awhile, but has evidently broke again in the Texas fever trouble at Teka- mah. The state has ed $60,000 for the work of the Iv ommission for the coming two years, and much is expected and ought to be secured from them., Sowing seeds of discord through travels on alleged invostigations are not in order, and the experimental luxury provided by the regent's primarily, and as associate editor on the Journal second- ary, in no wu}' helps to stamp out the trouble by breeding discord. The editor of the Journal should muzzle his associ- ate and return to songs of praise for the {i. & Il\l., for which his voice is especially uned. THE BEST YET, The wide awake city of kunrnny. that is attracting such general attention at the present time, is to have a grand auc- tion sale of city lots Friday, July 29, the lots being the entire Monroo and Wiley's addition to Kearney. This 15 witont dis- pute the grandest of all sub divisions platted and added to that city the pres- eni year and nceds only to be seen to be appreciated. It contains eighty beauti- fal lots on the northeast of the eity proper and ig easy of nccess to the business part Th st car line now will within sixty days be zular cars to the addition. Excollent judges of city property in Kearny do not hesitate to say that within sixty days these lots will double in value and that the opportunity for investment and to o woney i at tho present time, The lots are full size, high, dry and handsomely located and buta very few blocks from the business center of city. A number of capitalists in Omaba and Lincoln are interesting themsclves in Kearney and will be present the sale. Parties attending and buying lots will have their railroad fare to the salo deducted providing their purchase prico is more than §100. There will bo tes on all railroads leading nd ample accommodations will be provided for the visitors. The to the city, ¥ promoters of the salo in fact want people to go and look at the city on the day of sale whether they purchase or not, The terms of sale on these lots are one- third cash and the balance on one, two and three years at 10 per cent iuterest. ‘There will be no _postponement of the sale, and Messrs. C. C. Pace and Ben. O. Rhodes, the Lincoln auctioncers, ke the sale. There will be a pavi erected on the ground and a band of music. For any additional particulars the projectors rofer to W. G. Albright, at Omahna, and Colonel Hyde, of Lincolo. OF ONE OFINION, Thero is but one opinion among train- men and engineers in regard to the recent Havelock wreck and that is that the responsibility restod with the operator or the ‘“!/{ cher and mnot with the en- rinecr. A good sized volumn could be filled with the reasons advanced and they are practically expert testimony for if uny cl of railrond men understand signals it is the trainmen. One advances the ovimon that the order was given wrong from Lincoln, that 1t was attempted to be rectiticd at Ilavelock but that the rator did not awaken until the engine ed. In fact tho statement is made that the aay after the wreck the operator admitted to one of the under oflicials at. Havyclock station that he was asleen when the train reached there. These are after statements that may be given weight or not, but it remans certain that the boys who run on the road wore of one opinion and they have that opimon positively. BRIEF ITEMS, ‘I'he police in arresting & drunken col- ored mun on Saturday evening attracted a crowd of not less than a thousand peo- ple and the band concert was for a time ing deserted. The man has his hearing to-day. Governor Thayer goes to Loag Pine the first of the weck 10 attend the Chau- taugua session there. The governor in accepting these invitations and visiting among the peoble shows that he is in sympathy with them in their enterprises. A prisoner in the city jail serving a sentence for drunkenness has been trans- ferrad to the county jail to answer the more serious charige” of defrauding the First Nutional bank out of $30, the de- frauding being done a year ago. He will be given a heaving. Two colored people from the bottoms are awaiting an audience with the police judge and to be on hand Sundaved in the eity jail. They were locked up for using each other for targets in a shooting mateh, There are man; ) evidences of Lincoln gmsparllylhvsu ¢s in the large num- er of new buildings’ i proeess of eree- tion and builders are busy. Some of the handsomest residences in’ the west are in course of conssruction in Lincoln, — - A Nose of Silver. Roston I'ost: ‘I once knew a sea cap- tain who came from about here," he eontinued in a higher strain, ‘‘who had an cncounter with a shark in his youth and lost s nose, and for the sake of bar- <'mony rather than vamty he had a tin false nose made to look as much like the Jost feature as possible. When he went to sea he tried Always to make the crew recognize the Sabbath with appropriate respect and observance. He therefore ingeniously had & silver nose made for himself, which he wore on Sunday, keep- ing the tin nose for week days, and the signal was always respeoted, 8o far as he knew. Perhaps he neyer heard that the sailors always ealled the Sabbuth ‘Silver Nose Day," ae they might well have easily been pardoned for doing." - Ehe has the comp m of a Poeach, *Pozzoni’s Modieated Complexion powder didit, Sold by all drnurl | CARGED WITH A NOVEL CRIME. A Lowell Jeweler Who Stole Elec: tricity. Russell Cnfford, a Shattuck street jeweler at Lowell, has been arrested charged with "““mfi large quantities of electricity from' the local telephone ex- change, The first offense, it is set forth, was committed by tapping the wires of the telephone company, and the next by tampering with the company’s 1 f For some months the local managers of the telephone company were conyinced thut many were using the wires without paying rental, but the inspectors and clerks were unable to detect them. Clifford, who W de- tected fourteen months ago tap- ving the wires of the company on Sha tuck strect, was one of those suspected and stories were tola the officials that he was running an independent telephone enterprise. On a recent stormy evening one of the operators discovered that her wire had been crossed in a peculiar man- ner. She ulso found that she was talk- ing with strange persons who were not regular subscribers. The fact was re- ported at headquarters, and the tele- phone officers have cver since been investigating the case. It was not until Clifford’s arrest, however, t I tery was solve i investig then made the telephone oflicials become convinced that Chiford ebtained some telephones formerly used b{ W. N, 8. . a local inventor, and hired them cular subserivers, The dircectors uperintendeet, who continued their mvesugation, refused to disclose the manner in which Clitfford worked his mdependent exchange. They claim to have knowledge, however, that he had three lines running from his various points in the city. It is s that he had a dozen patrons. denies that he has been runuing exchange, a yival but admits that he tapped the wires of the telephone company. —— Yor fear of losing a day’s work, many persons put oft waking physic until Sat- The better plan is to not dela but take it ns soon as necded, it may save youa hard spell of sickness. If you ant the most benefit from the least amount of physic without causing you inconvenience, 1 of uppetite or take St trick's Pilis, Their ion on the liver and bowel are thorough, they give a freshuess, tone and vigor to the whole system and act in harmy with nature Transfers Filed July 22, 1887, William Altstadt_and wife to Simon Hoffman, strip adjoining lot 6, block 7, Kountze & Ruth's add, q ¢... 1 Simon Hoffman and others to William Alstadt, strip adjoining lot 6, block 7, Kountze & Ruth’s add, q ¢ 5 James F Boyd and wite to Mariin Quick, lot 7, block 458, Grand View, W d g RTI 0'Con- nor, lot %, block 27, undivided X4, q ¢.. erbert E Wells and wife to the Omaha Carringe & Sleigh company, lot % block 21, Patrick’s add, w ... ... A S Patrick (single) to John Lurieigit and others, lot 14. block 3, A S Pat- riek’s add, w d. ; Frank B Hanlon (irus Dundy, Jr., lots 6 and 7 and 8 block 2, 1 and 2, bloe add to West Slde, w d Samuel Cotner, Jr., to 'V Sehestedt, lots'5, 6 ‘and 7, bloek 4, Mayne's add, wd... G Samel Cotner jr to Wil Sehestedt, lot 8 blk 1, Cotner & Archer's add to South Omaha, wd 500 LP Pruyn and wite to George R Cran- 2, Hillside No 2,400 1,60 2,100 tax lot 42 in 10, Frank P llanlon Frank, lots 1, and lots 3, 4,5, 6, 7and 8, bik 3, Is add to Westside, wd...... George K Barker and wife to Mari Burgess, e 50foet n lot 6, blk ard Hill, wd. Warner L Welch and wite to 1T ' nison nudivided J§ e n w n e 26,15 3,600 George W Loomis and wife i ter G Phelps and wife to Jeremi A Whalen, lot 1, Arlington, w d James £ Riley and wifo to' Thomas Haley, undivided 3 lots 4 and 5, blk 50, Boyd add, w d..... Charless I Cofbett and 1,000 12,000 Ilawthorne, wd. John Bluett' nud wil § Bluett, lot 1, blk 4, Van Camp’s add, wd : 200 Jacob A Amburgh et al to Jake H Amburch, wig of swi sec 5, aud eb§ 3 sely 3 S H 1 Clark (trusiee} to Cliarles F Fahs, Tot 3, blk 5, lot 22 blk 5, lot 14, bik 11, lot 5, bik i8, and lot 6, blk 12| West Side, w d.. . . 1,025 James ¥ Robinson to William A Gates, lot 2, blk X, Shinu's 5d add, WHAR T 2,100 Byrnard “aind e « dd il .. 1,400 George (single) o Charles A Gos blk 13, Omaha View, W d. S 1,000 John D’ ‘Creiehiton and wife to " Fre- mont, Elkhorn & Missourt valley Ity right of way over s 10 acres nwl of sWiy 251612, deed......... g ) Rasimus Nelson to saie, right of ‘way avi a pieco of land in'se sw 1613 on C Ras: me, right of way over ne nw 25 16 12, deed.. . 0 Ilerman J Meyer and wife to same, rieht of way over se sw, 20516 1 700 same, right of way over nw se and so sw se, 31512, deed . 18 Geo M DeBolt to 5 thronzh nwig of se 0 204,04 08 1, 9 blk 6 Saml Richenberz and wife to Scoven, et al o ¥ of w!§ of lot 7 Cap- South Omaba. w d.. 0 1tol add, q e. Same o' sane, 403 Capitol add, q'¢ The d. ying vegetation of regions newly c! d of timber, exposed to the rays of the sun i3 sure to breed malaria,” Dr. J, H. McLean’s Chills and ‘ever Cure, by mild _ ai gentie action cents a bottle will radieally cure. 50 B Cured by Rattiesnakes, New York Sun: Besides the oil of a rattlesnakg, the woodsmen believe that the snake has many other valuable heal- ing properties. 'They believe that the heart taken from a hive rattlesnake and eaten will cure consumption. 'h' hain’t nuthin’ | kin_ give ye straighter th'n that,” said Uncie Hiram. ‘“Jes' look at my brotheran-law, Jo Moore. He was nearly dead with the consumption when he ate the heart of a live rattler. He felt the disease for a couple of days arter that, an' that was the end of it. ‘It never came back agin, and that was twemfiyuar ago. Then,’ continued Uucle Hiram, ‘‘sec what the bitin’ in the neck of a live rattler will do. A person that does it won't never have the toothache, an' his teeth 'll keep sound untl he dies, it he lives to _be 100, 1 was only 10 years old whon I bit in the neck of a'live rattlesnake, an’ jes' look at my chompers.” ———— The genuine Brown's G to do its work. Why lose time in experienting? In eholera and cram time is short. Fred Brown,Philadelphia, ) nger is known — Swimming bath at Cut-Of lake 25¢, L —— Be sure to buy Washburn's best flour at C, Hareen's, 701 N, 16th St. e — Survevors' Rods, Tapes and Cauains at Goodman's. e e—e Go to Pries’ Lake for fumily, elub and sohool pienice. 1887, A FOUR MONTH'S BANTLINC. The Present Prosperity and Bright Futare of McCool Junction A REAL WESTERN PHENOMENON. It is Bancroft, Neb, Which Grows and Prospers Without a Boom —Items From Oakland— Other Nebraska News. Manager McCool’s Namesake. McCoor Juserion, Neb,, July 23.— [Correspondence of the Bre.}—McCool Junction does not enjoy the dis- tinetion of being the third eity in size in the state, nor does it expect to be the center of ail the railroads in the state. Neither the car shops of the B, & M. rail- road nor the Missouri Pacific have been located here. Neither does she expect to eclipse Tastings and Lincoln m a short time. Without these glowing adyantages held out by nearly every town in the state what will McCool Junetion amount to?r To answer this its location must first be described. McCool Junction was platted this spring by the Kansas City & Omzuha railrond, It lies midway between York and Frirmont in the southeastern half of York county, sixty miles west of Lincoln, Thi ansas City & Omaha railroad forms a junction right here giving shippers three different routes, one to the north and northwest, to Omaha and Chicago, one south to Kansas City and St. Lows, and the ether west to Hastings aod Denver, MeCool is, strictly speaking, a railroad center and town, Itis named after D. MeCool, manager of the Kansas City & Omaha railroad, and owing to its superior location there i every reason to believe it will be diyision station of t roud. Tt is certain the B, & M., road will my 4 junction right here. Right of way and grade stakes have been partially bought and set from Milford here. Krom here they will build «# line to Aurora and one south to Fairmont. Situated by tne side of the Big Blue river in the valley of the Blue in the midst of a vast growth of tall, shady trees, here is one of nature's finest and best summer resorts, We are pleased to hear that the citizens and the Kansas City & Omaha oflicials are contemplating clearing and modelling the groves so that McCool will be the ftinest summer resort in the state. Splendid boating, good fish- ing and plenty of game in season will make this pl. very popular. The pop- ulation of McCool is now 1 the neigh- borhood of 800. There are now about twenty business houses representing dif- ferent lines of business. Last Monday a train load of cattle and hogs were shipped from this place. ‘Thousands of bushels of grain have been bought here this sum- mer, McCool is situated in the center of the richest and most productive and most thickly populated agricultural dis- trict in the state, Thesurrounding terri- tory can support a city of 2,000 nhabitants. ! Any manufacturer desiring a location can have one at McCool, where he can get all the water power necessary. It may be stated here that the Blue is capable of furnishing enough water power to run fifty factories. A good stock of furni- ture is wanted at McCool. A good dry goods merchant can find a splendid open- ing here. Mctool has no stock of cloth- i vho are looking for a loca- that no town in the is the State can men and residents, or more natural ad- vantages than McCool Junction. Bancrofd's Prosperity Baxcrorr, Neb, July 2 respondence of the Bek.]—B: has a phenomenal thing to report. It has no boom, but since the first tract of 50,000 acres of Indian land was thrown open to general purchasers at appraised valuation, it has steadily improved povulation and investments until at pre: ent a more thrifty town cannot be found in Nebraska. This 50,000 acre tract has, since its settlement three years ago, beon followed by another of 5,000 acres, one- tonth the size of the former, but settled by an equally industrious and enterpris- ing class of farmers. By careful invest- gation we find that the thirty-one farms comprisi i8 5,000 acres have now an actual valuation each of $2,400, exclusive of the land itself. old reservation, as the first, or 50,000-acre tract is now ealled, is entirely occupied by whites, the Indians being entirely excluded. But among the farms of the muny belong to Indians. « only from those farmed by their white neighbors in the amount cultivated, as they cultivate not more than thirty-five acres in all, which is led o sad waste of good land by those who only wait an opportunity to grasp the last of the few remaining acres left the red men. A drive over the old reservation by an eastern resident, would be an cndless succession of serprises if he knew th until five yeors ago every foot of this land was absolute waste without a ci ized habitation withinits borders. While now as compared with the old lement which has actually been occupied seven teen years, it has a much finer class of buildings, more timber, land in a higher state of cultivatson, more end better ronds, more school houses, a creamery company with a Chicago firm as the or- ganizers, and stockholders composed of citizens with neighboring farmers, is at Iast organized, and without doubt is only the beginning of more enterprises ot like beneficial character to atl. Anda any enterprise which promses any degroee of success will meet with every encouragement from Bancroft. n Crops, Politics and Personals. OAKLAND, Neb,, July 23.—[Corres- pondence of the E.] — The cam- prign in Burt county is fairly opened, and 1t is evident that there will be no lack of candidates, judg- ing by the number of aspirants for the treasurer's ofice, The fight as hereto- fore will be for treasurer, it being the most lucrative office. Present indica- tions point to John Piver of Lyons as being the republican nominee for treas- urer, and a more worthy and eflicient young man could not be selected. Cop:ous rains have fallen during the past week, which makes the farmers bappy. Wheat and oats are about all harvested and the jyield is much better than anticipated. Many of the farmers during the past week took advantage of the boom in Er ces paid for hogs and haulea them in y the hundreas. J. G. Arthur who has been attendin law schoel at lowa City and who grad- uated recently returned to QOakland Fri- ay. énorzu Peasnor, formerly of Oakland but now of Omaha, has been 1n Oakland the past week shaking hands with old fricnde. Dr. Aathur, who has been on a pleas- ure trip in Ohio and New York state, re- turned Saturday and will resume her practice. John V. Wintergren will move his fam- ily to Umaha soon, where he has a posi- tion in the distillery there. I Another newspaper is5 talked of for Oakland, to be run by a syndicate. An effort is buing made to retain Rev. White, pastor of the Lutheran church, ! for another year, His work. for the past ! yoar in Qakiand merits unquaiified com. mendaton from every one; and be no [ doubt will be retained, and with a much wncreased salary. Anamosa Items. ANAMOSA, Ia., July 21.=[Special to the Bee.]—About six weeks ago the iron bridge across the Wapsipinican river at this place was destroyed by a herd of cattle. The board of supervisors of Jones county at once advertised for bids for n new bridge, and among them were two bids: one from the Milwaukee Bridge company for $3,000, and one from the Shefferd company, of Pittsburg, for §5, and for some reason the bid was lct to the highest bidder. It soon became noiged around that the successful bridge company had put up a job on the county, and fooled with some other bidders for the job. Sc the county repudiated the contract and let it yesterday to the Milwaukee company for $3,000, and the Shefferd company has uotified the county that they are constructing the bridge according to con- tract, and shall expect the compuny to take it, There are lively times abroad, and 1t is supposed the fall campaign in this county will be fought mainly on this point. Certain seientitic men say, after examining, that the Wapsi valley in this county contains deposits of oil and nat- ural gas, and it is quite possible that a well will be sunk at no distant day. Anamosa will putinasystem of clectric lights. The exceutive eouncil of the state have decided that !hug cannot_supply money to complete the building for the eriminal insane, which Warden Barr of the Ana- mosa penitentiary been pushing so vigorously this ye: They have notd covered any fund from which they could lawfully take money for this purpose, ex- cept it be the providential fund, the money 1n which 1s only subject to use n case of unforescen emergency, having a little of the miraculous in them. As the deficit in the appropriation for the crim: inal insane department is nothing mar- velous, it could scarcely be brought with- in the pale of the Juthcsts of the pro dential fund. ncomplete a8 it s, the building will have to remain unroofed torough the winter, In the interim between now and the time for the meeting of the legislature, War- den Barr will put his men to work on the walls for the building for female conviets, these finished. begin the construction of the main build- The Eastern lowa Veteran association will hold their ninth _annual reunion in this city, September 7, 8and 9. A grand time will be' had, and_our people will leave nothing undone for the comfort of the boys. Colonel Shaw, a hero of the Mexican as well as Jate war, is com- manding general. The Old Folks at Home, here, need a tonic now and then n them under growing intirmi- No safer or more thorough invig- orant for age and the delicate can be found than Hostetter's ‘Stomach Bitters, a seasonabie medicine in those ailments of commonest occurence plant, indigestion and bowe pure botanic safeguard against mal and a relinble means of counteracting rheumatism. To the convalescent, 1t is a valuable aid in the recovery of strength, and to the debilitated, nervous invalid it yields tranquil slumber and rencwed appetite—two prime _factors in the restoration of vigor. Being of purely botanic origin, 1t is free from those ob- jeetions urged aganst mineral remedics Uifficult or impossible of assimilation by the system, and which impair the tone of the stomach, which the bitters, on the contrary, strengthens and regulates. It 15 indorsed and preseribed by the medical fraternity. SN A. W. TABOR'S THREE AGES. The Plodding Store-heeper, the Dar- ing Speculator, the Hou Loving Man. The man who has stuck to Leadville— writesa correspondent of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat—with never-failing faith is Tabor. He came in with the excite- ment of 1860, when California Guleh was disclosing its millions of nuggets and dust. Just too late to sccure one of the hundred-feet strips of the narrow ravine for himself, Tabor contracted his muscle to an earlier comer at $5 a day and shoveled pay dirt into a sluice. Out of the millious taken from the gulch during 1860 and "61, his share was enough to stock a little store in the then flourishing city of Oro, Leadville's predecessor. There Tabor staid and sold flour and bacon and picks and frying-pans to the miners year after yes He saw the city of 7,000 people dwindle to seventy in the course of the ten years following the but he never thought of leaving, W the few houses remaining were down and hanled & mile or two up the gulch to a more convenicnt location ‘Tabor went with them and kept on dealing out ‘‘grub’ at modest profits, When times were particularly dull Mrs, Tabor No. 1, new living in Denver and enjoying her share of the fortune alone, Or el took in boarders. The story that she took in washing is pronounced a latter- day liction by the old-timers. WHO NAMED ' JAMP. At length came the realization of the carbonate wealth hidden in these hills. Where Oro had been established in 1860 Leadville was laid out in 1878. Tabor was on deck. The all-important ques- tion arose, *‘\What shall we name the new city?”’ Some wanted *‘Harrison” chosen in honor of Mr. Edward Harrisor of St. Louis, who was a leading spirit here in the early days. But Tabor said *‘Lead- ville,”” and “'Leadvil she became, out of deference to the suggestion of the old- est inhabitant. ven in this period of new excitement Tabor's head was not turned from his routine of storckecping. His trade boomed naturally with the growth of the camyp, which added to 1ts population as many as 500 1n a day during the big rush. Lawyers, gamblers, everybody flocked to the hills "and laid out claim’s and strained their backs at the pick and the windluss. Taber was not so carried away. He stood behind the counter and weighed out the bacon and the meal. *‘He was a stead —you might say ploddin is deserip- tion given by the pioneers. 'hat was all there was to him, Nobody ever thought of him as & mining man.'” GRUB STAKE VENTURES. Occasionally the impecunions pros- peetor came to Tubor with a proposition for a "frub ke The storekeeper usually fell imwith the, suggestion, weighed the supphes. The miner shouldered the pack ana went over the hill. And Tabor enter¢d up so many vounds of bacon and so many pounds of flour to profit and loss. W many mi- ners Tabor has “grub staked” in s time Leadville does not pretend to say. Prob ably the number is well along 1n the hun dreds. If ever anything came of this ‘‘grub staking' for nearly twenty years, no reecord has been kept of the fact. But Tabor accumulated a few thousands and a good name during this plodding period of ms hife. No ill word is spoken of him as orekeeper, One day a man named Rische made the usual credit arrangement witn Tabor for “'grub,” and walked up the hill as so many others had done %rlore him and went to work, He came down town of evenings and gota tailor interested with him in the prospect. This tailor was George Hook, who, after listening to Rische's specuiations about the claim, chucked his goose under the table, fol- lowed the miuer up the hill and went to work at the shaft. For some time would have nssigned that ‘‘grub stake’ claim for tifty cents on the dollar, and George Hook " secretly regretted the day he left the bench to become a mining man. THE ROMANCE OF LITTLE PITTSBURG. But the time came when two_of the partners sold gut their thirds for £100,000 apece, while Tabor, true to his character for hanging on, staid in and saw that claim yield 28,000 a day,half of which he put in his pocket as the interest on his “'grub stake” principal, This is the romance of the Little Pitts- Rische, Hook and Tabor, the d-broke prospector, the tailor and the plodding storckeeper were made famous and rich in a single day. The eflect of this sudden leap into fortune was strik- ingly different in each case. ische speedily plunged his $100,000 into other mining ventures and ran through it. Hook prudently invested his $100,000 in bonds, 4 per cents for the most part, moved to Denver, got a comfortable home and enjoys life, cutting off the cou- pons as the months roll by and living within his income, with a margin sufli- cient to help Rische out of a tight place whenever the latter draws,on the strength of the old partnership. TABOR'S NEW LIFE. As for Tabor, the plodding storekeeper became another man _entirely. He and Jerome B. Ch held on to Little Pitts- burg until it yielded $8,000 a day. Then they stocked it. One day when they had just received returns from the latest ship ment to the smelter and were sitting in the back room of the bank, Tabor said to Chatice: “We'll stock this mine for £10,000,000," “0h, no,”_protested Chaflec too much. Make it § thing reasonable, like t “Come to think of it, Tabor, pay ruption, £20,000,000.” And they did. The 200,000 shares of $100 par value were issued and elimbed until they reached $33, representing a capital of 27,000,000. Aud then Tabor showed that besides possessing a capa ity for holding on, he knew when to 0. Telling people plainly that while Little Pittsburg was o great mine he didn’t belleve it was a fair equivalent for that valuation, he let go of his stock. There were plenty of takers, for the re ports made by experts could not have been more glowing if the whole Fryer kill was solid silver. Little Pittsburg was a grand producer for awhile, and has yielded $7,000,000, just 100 per cent on the investment represented by the stock at $30 a share. But the date of the last dividend is ominous—March, 1880. CHICKEN BILL. In four months Tabor made out of Little Pittsburg $1,300,000. But his luck didn’t stop the There used to be character in Leadviile known as Chicken His mother kuew him as W “‘that'’s 100,000 or some thongh,” said ention to the inter- t make it Bill. am Lovell, Before the Leadville discovery or excitemont Mr. Lovell was o miul car- rier in the mountains, and did a little ex- press business, One winter day two game chicke were confided to Mr. ovell for dehvery at a certain mining camp. On the way the carrier was storm-bound for two or three days, and when he got to the end of the route he had nothing but the feathers to show for his way-bil te hud eaten the fowls. Ever after that he was knowe as Chicken Bill, and while there is no difliculty in identifying him in the history of laead- ville as Chicken Bill, yery few men hel ber him as Mr. Lovell. ken Bill took up a claim on Fryer nd worked it industriously for But after the sh down to such a depth that it w. tiresome to haul the dirt up i a bucket, he became disgnsted. In the language of Leadville, “*he hadn't a smell of ore.” In a condition of mind which obliterated s moral sense as completely as the snow drifts made it easy for him to de- vour another man’s chickens, Bill left his], ufi one night and walked down the hill, HOW CHRYSOLITE WAS SALTED. As he came to George Fryer's New Discovery mine his eyes fell on some 'y good ore which had just been taken out. Bill looked around.” That was be- fore the days of watechmen at the dumps and when all Leadville was sapposcd to be honest. Bill gathered up a lot of ore, what he coulda carry comfortably, walked hack to his shatt and threw the chunks m. Then he went down town in a yery good humor. The next morning bright and early he was down his shaft pound- mg away among the rocks. About noon he went down town and told Tabor and others that he had “struck it"’ at last. Tabor, flushed with his Littie Pittsburg pericnce, was then on the lookout for everything, and he sent & man Chicken Bill had got. Th or came and revor inches of uice-looking o Tabor asked Bill what find, and Bill said he “grub,”’ whbich must be on top of that he wanted £ for spend- g money. Tabor paid $1°0 and took NOsi on. He sank that salted shaft =z five feet from where Bill had stopped and struck ore £1,000,000. which yielded over ABOR'S JUDGME romance of the b) lite. stand it.” Prosperity by proxy w much for him. " He told the whole s on himself. Chicken Bill's claim those which the Chrysolite Mining com- pany consolidated with it have yielded 50,000, but no dividends have been paid since December, 1884, This was another mine which Tabor stocked on a scale large enough to let everybody in, but in this case he did not recognizc the time to let go, Chrystolite was made to carry 200,000 shares, with $50 as the par value. ‘The stock went nup steadily, boosted by the enormous product, for n time. [t tonched $46. Tabor said: *'1 believe it will go to $50. Then I'tl un- load.” He was mistaken. If he had sold at #40 he would have realized $7,000,000, He let his shares go at eonsiderable less, but when he balanced acc paid to Chicken Bill wasn n- beside the seven figures which "abor’'s prolits THE STORY OF MATCHLE Chicken Bill wasn't the only man who thought he had *“'played it fine”’ on Tabor ALLED, liscovery of Chicken Bill couldn't too and realized afterwards that the store- pper had the best end of the bargain, Matchless was another ilinsteation of Tabor's wonderful luck, Tim I and his partners, Wilgus and ot worked this claim uutil they had uncov- ered some ore, and sold out to Tabor for $112,000. They went around Leadville shaking hands and receiving congratuln- tions of having “‘put up on the oid man this time,” But Tabor held the property and kept on with development work. When he had taken out £1,000,000, senti ment began to change decidediy as tothe wisdom of the investment. But the pro- duction kept right on up to £2,000,00 Then the people began to wonder wlh Tabor didn’t stock the mine and unload. Still he held on. The Matchiess last year vassed the £3,000,000 point, is still producing. Tabor owner. lar’s interest in the property. He enjoys the aistinetion of being the only Lea ville man who has bought a big mine, de- veloped it, and held on to it without forming a company or taking in a part- ner. Matchless is the only prominent mine in the district the title to which rests in a single name AND NOW MAID OF ERIN, Besides these three big deals, Little Pittsburg, hrysolite und Matchless, Iabor invested wisely in a smaller way. He has an interest in_the Maid of Erin. This was one of the first locaions in tho camp. A patriotic [riskman, named Jack McComb, took up the claim and worked it He called his fuvorite ware the Maid is the sole He has never parted with a dol- Mistress—Did you clean all the paint in this kitchen with that little basin ? Girl—Certainly, Ma'sm, for I uso Sapolio, and you must admit that it {s clean. Mistress—Indeed, 1do ; but T was woudering whethier such a thing was possible, “ GOOD SERVICE IS A GREAT ENCHANTMENT.” Those who have used SAPOLIO in house-cleaning know that Its servico 1s ko magie. Common soap fails to accomplish satisfactory results in scouring and cleaning, and necessitates a great outlay of time and labor, which moro than balances any saving in cost. Practical peoplo will find Sapolio the best and cheapest soap for house-cleaning and scouring. Try s cakeof it at once. No, 18, {Copyright, March, 1687 of Erin, and he named his mine the same. After he had developed pretty good indications McComb sold out for £20,000 to bor and Major Du Bois. They in turn sold out to an English syn- dicate for #200,00. But the Englishmen “beefed” 80 vigorously that the sellers took the property back, and now it ranks as one of the best in the camp, and couldn’t be bought for $2,000,000. No- body knows just what ‘Tabor’s interest is, qut he do not control. The ruling spirit in the company is Moffatt, the Den- ver banker. 1f Tabor had stopped with these four ventures he would be to-day the bonanza king of Leadyille. 1f he had put the ag- gregate of those winnings into 4 per cent bonds, as his old ‘“‘grub stake’’ part- ner did with the Little Pittsburg strike, he would be one of the wealthiest men in the west. But Tabor kept right on turn- ing his money over and over. Heturned it so_fast that it not only gained nothing but dropped off rapidly. Some of his immense fortune went back into Lead- viile hills, Some went into the most de- ve of epcculations—grand opera houses—one here and one in Denver. Some went 1nto the [ifth avenuo hotel. More disappeared in South America Embroidered night-shirts and big di; monds absorbed their share of profits. And finally the indulgence in a new wife proved an expensive luxury. The wo- man who helped tend store and who boarded miners in California Gulch,gave the millionaire hiy freedom at a ' very cheap _price, considering his ability to pay. She took a divorce and something like $300,000, and is living & quiet retired The Best and Safes Vapor Stove Made. C. W. Sleeper, head of St. Marys' Av- enue. James & Smith South, Omaha. PIesaTHo Tasts, £ Promptin Action Always Reliable From crow 1 e Piles. 1t etito 1t 800u 08 Ol ot the' land *§'SELTZER neur ot hand pression has gone out that T'abor is breken in fortun o has lost heavily m _his nuwmerous ventures, hut there “aro few men in Leadville who wonlin't trade even to-day for what Tubor has got left. *‘Huh!" one of them said, “I wish [ was as near broke us wbor is,'” The losses have not been without their lesson to the once lucky investor. e has stopped indulging in all sorts of speculations “on sight and unsecn,” as he bought mines in the carly days, and is devoting himself largely to the rearing of u young_ and interesting family. Ho ¢omes to Leadville occasionally for a few days on business, but spends most of fus time in Denver. His mining prop- erty here returns him steadily from 3 $10,000 to $15,000 a month, an hed secms to havo given up all idea olsplurg: ing ns a spoaulator. In short, Tabor is now lLiving his third life. ¥ he was the plodding storekeeper on California Guich from 1860 to 1867. Then for near- ly a decade he was the daring spocula- tor, ready to invest in any proposition from Alaska to Patagonia, dazzling com- mon folks with diamonds and embro:d- ered night shirts. And now nhe is a model old man of retiring manners, with 2 couple of babies who are the apples ot his eye, looking after the handsome remnants of a once colossal fortune, and one of the most_considerate men to those associated with him in business. He leaves his interests i the hands of others, si ards gencral divec- rest of the world us only oue kindly tors ABSOLUTE PERFEGTEE_I! 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