Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 1, 1887, Page 5

B\l e ." CAMP THAYER BRICATENS UP. Th, val of the Cavalry Company Adds *‘2!\ Interesting Feature, ROSTER OF TWO REGIMENTS, Orders Tssued For the Arrest of De- serter Rufus Rood—Good Work of the Second Regiment—Lancas- ter County Politics. |\FrROM THRE DI COLN BUREAU.| Camp Thayer brightened with the weather to-day. The ground as viewed by the visitor is handsome and exactly adapted for the purpose of a camp, while the lines of moving soldiers at drill and at recreation add animation to the scene. In spite of the two heavy days in which the camp opencd, all 18 now complete and in working order, and the line of work for the week is going smoothly on with everything harmonious. The best of order and military discipline prevails. Lines of guards surround the camp, and company and regimental drills are regu- lar features. With vprevailing fine weather the afternoon dress parades will attract large numbers of visitors daily, and at all hours spectators may be seen asking for admission, The arrival of the cavalry company yesterday added a new ture to the encampment, and with provitious skies Friday the display and march througtethe eity will be the finest ever witnessed by = Lincoln people. Twelve hundred 1s o low estimate of the number of men in camp, and nota com- missioned oflicer is absent. Following is a complete roster of the commissioned °rs 1n the two regiments: FIRST REGIMENT, Colonel, O, H. Phillips, Lientenant colonel, J. P, Bratt, Major, W. W. Woltort. Acting adjutant, L. 1I. Cheeney. Quartermaster, O, M. Enlow. Serzeant major, J. M. Burd, upany A—Captain, H. Jeffrey; first Henry Baer: second lieutenant, Compi lieutenant, C, A F. S, Conn. Company € lieutenant, U. 8 Melvin; second leu Captain A, J. Glick; first . D, Hall: second lieutenant, A. A, Reed, Company D—Captain, H. 8. Hotenkiss; first lieutenant, L. H. Cheeney; second lleus tenant, M, M. Decki Compan, first 1 tenant, W, F Company F—Captain, H. A. Moreland first lieutenant, L. A. Ballou; second lie tenant, W. A, Baliou, Company (i--Captain, T. L. Williams; first lieutenant. ¥, A. Williams; second lieuten- ant, Geo. C. Clark. Company H—Captain, J. Rittenbush; first lieutenant. H, W. Short; second lieutenant, Geo. Lyon, Jr. Company I—Captain, Geo. R. Wilson; first lieutenant, A. €, Smith, Company K- Cantain, . Hanson; first lieutenant, [l E. Martin; second lieutenant, 0. A. Darling. SECOND RE nel, Franklin Swe W. I McCannj maj Gieorge irgeon, 8 D. Halde- ain, George . Martin: adjutant, L « L. Wilson. edges; first nd licutenant, . B. Johnson, H. Webster, second ompany utenant, Company Y w first lieuten lieutenant, § Stacy. Company C—Captain, William Bishoff, Jr; first lleutenant, William James; second lieutenant, H, ¥. Beckwith, Company D—Captain, C. J. Bills; first lieutenant, P. 1. Hanchett; second lieuten- ant, W. L. Emerson. Compauy E—Captain, F. M. Dorrington; first lleutenant, W. G. Burk, second lieuten- ant, N. W. Smit Company F—Captain, J. E. Brown; first lieutenant, E. Roseucraus; second lieuten- ant, Madison Finch, Company G—Captain, F. A. Whitmore first licutenant, John B. MecArthur; secon lieutenant, W.'J. Courtright, Company H-—Captain, 8. 8. Skinner; first lieutenant, Charles F. Beck: second lieu- tenant, Charles 'T. Dickinson. s Company I—Captain, JacobH. Colman; first lieutenant, — KEdwards; second lieu- tenant, L. E. Stanton, Company K—Captain, B. F. Arnold; first lieutenant, George H. Thomas; second lieu- tenant, A. M. Parsons. CAVALRY AND ARTILLERY. Battery A. Lightartillery of Wymore, fifty- nine men rank and file—Captain, C. M. Mur- dock;; first lieutenant, F. K. Hoag: second lleutenant, James Crawford., Milford cavalry company, thirty-nine men —Captain, J. H. Culver; first lieutenant, W. Weyant; second lieutenant, C. L. Smith. THE FIRST DESERTION. The first desertion from Cump Thayer was occupying the attention of the officers at headqguarters yesterday. The order issued giving the new arms to the First regiment was not favorably re- cewved by the Second regiment, but the men understood themselves and obeyed orders, the members of the Second ac- cepting the old arms with as ;ioud Tace as possible. Sergeant Rood, of the Fair- bury cumnnuiy, however, threw his gun to the ground, said that he would not drill with it, and insisted that the officers could have gotten the new arms if they had tried. The captain told him that he would drill, and the man was reduced to the ranks for insubordination, and or- dered to remove his chevrons and appear for duty as a private. During the night, however, Rood eluded the guard, and about midnight was seen by a city po- liceman taking the train south for home. The following general orders were at once issued: Head\unarters Company ‘D"’ Sacond regi- ment Nebraska National ummu§ Camp ‘Thayer, Lincoln, Neb., August 31, 1857, Colonel Franklin Sweet, commanding Second regiment. 1 have the honor to report to you that Private Rufus Rood, of oy command, desorted on the evening of Aucust 80, 1857, Very respoctfully é‘lm\' obedlent servant, . J. B Clylnln Commanding Company *D,” Second Regiment Nebraska National Guards. Headquarters Second regiment Nebraska National Guards. Camp Thayer, Lincoln, Neb,, August 31, 1557, tain C. J. Bills, Commanding Company “D” Second regi- ment. Sir: "Iam in Teceint of your com- munication of this date. Yon will detail one 1 officer to take charge of such made from_these headquarters and immediately arrest Private Rufus Rood wherever found and have him report to me immediately after such arrest is made with the prisoner, Very — respectiully your obadient servant, FRANKLIN SWEET, Colonel Commanding Second Regiment, THE IND REGIMENT. The Second regiment of the state mili- tia has been organized but little over lhirlly days, and the companies are all newly orgaunized since the close of the legislature. ‘The regimentis composed of companies, every one of which has as bandsome a body of men as could be lik‘kod. When it is remembered that this s an entirely new regiment made up of young men, in a8 great majority, nine- tenths of whom never saw mlitary ser- vice, their work in camp is worthy of the highest commendation. When it is re- membered also that many of the con Ite. nies did not receive their arms until after their arrival in camp, their proficiency in the manual of arms is worthy of espeo- inl commendation. There has ~ been ex- hibited in one of the papers of the aity 8 disposition to belittle the Second regi- ment, but, without in the least disparag- ing the First reqiment, it is but right to say that the Second regiment 13 worthy of the highest commendation. NOTES OF THE CAMP. The BEE yesterday mentioned that five men from the Chudron Journal oftice were in the company from that place. The company has, further,two of the Chadron Demoorat men on its roster and in camp. Brigade headquarters, presided over by General Colby and Adjutant Bates, is equipped for business, and the geueral aud adjutant take especial pains to afford all possible accommodation for the mem- bers of the press, who heartily appreciate the courtesies shown them The Second regiment band is covering itself with glory and is a credit to the new regiment. It “speaks well for the band and Nebraska €ity, to put in the field, on sixty days' notice, such excellent music- 1an3 Yesterday, Major George Cross,of Fair- bury, and, by the way, the provrietor of the Gazette there, was field oflicer, in charge of the company with Captain Williams,company A, First regi- ment, as senior oflicer of the guards. Tuesday the camp was in charge of Major Wolcojt, of the First regiment, with Captain Hedges, company A, Sec- ond regiment, senjor officer of the guard and Licutenant Fowler. company E, First regiment, junior oflicer o guard, The cavalry company from Milford reached the city and camp yesterday morning and presented an imposing ap- pearance as they rode through the ecity. The cavalry company is one of the best features of the camp, There was a foraging party out Tues. day night, and they went to the adjoin- ing farm of Mr. Cook, broke into his chicken house and strirpad the roost of every chicken in the place. The foraging party was traced to the tents of the First regiment and there the trace was lost. Mr. Cook notified headquarters of the depredation and Colonel Phillips is at work ferreting out the mll{ Kz\r(iss, Captain J.%lim-nbus h, of Nelson, has been appointed brigade quartermaster on the staff of Brigadier General Colby. The quartermaster’s oftice has been a busy one n the issuing of arms and mu- nitions of war. One of the camp feature evening was the organization of a lodge of Knights Templar at headquarters from among the commussioned oflicers of the state militia who were in attend- .ance. Itis stated that on the trial of the de- serter, Rood, that Judge Advocate Maj Watson will move for a change of venue to Otoe county, so that jf justice is slow to move the prisoner wiil be in a locality where justice is expedited. The ficld oflicer to-day will be Lieuten- ant Colonel Brattt, of the First regiment; Captain Bill, company D, Sccond regi- ment, senior officer of the guard; Lieu- tenant Henry Bear, -company A, First regiment, junior officer of the guard. CALL FOR A CONVENTION, The judicial committee of the Second distriot met at the Capital hotel ster- day pursuant to call by Chairman Ran- sota. Mr. Ransom and Dr. Claud Watson represented Otae County, Messrs, E. H. and M. D. Poik, Cass county, and the representatives from Lancaster were 1n attendance. Mr. Bernard Dolan was made secretary, and the following eall was 1ssued: “The republicans of the Second judicial district of the state of Nebraska are requested 1o send delegates to a convention o be held at the district court rooin in the_city ot Lin- coln at 1p. m. on October 5, 1887, for the pur- pose of placing in nomination twocandidates for judges of the district court of said district, The several counties comprising said district are entitled to representation in the conven- tion as follows: Liancaster 25, Cass 15, Otoe 13, BERNARD DOLAN, KT, RANSOM, Secretary. President. MEETING ON BATES, There was a conference meeting yes- terday between the Lincoln freight bureau and the managers of the different roads leading into Lincoln. The meeting for the purpose of discussing the differences existing between the whole- salers of the city and the railroad companies with lines centering here. There were present 0. G. Newman and 0. G. Geldt, of the Missouri Pacific rail- G. W. Holdredge and 7Thomas of the B. M., Thomas L. 1l and J. A, Monroe of the Union Pacitic, and F. Fitch and K. C. Morrhouse of the Fremont, Elkhorn, & Missouri Valley roads. Presi- dent Raymond, Secretary Utt and other members of the freight bureau were in attendance. The freight bureau, through President Raymond, stated what the board had to complain of from the railroads and the rates as they existed at the present time. The discussion of the discriménations followed, being handled by parties on both sides. But little was accomplished in the morning hours and the discussion was in progress during the afternoon session. The discussion was on the topic of giving wholesalers dis- tributing privileges over the different lines of road. s REAL ESTATE. Transfers Filed August 30, 1887, William Latey et al to Mary Louise Mansfield, w 84 ft ot lot 7, blk 3, Fos- ter's add, wd... . Jerry McGahan to Frederick 1 Davis et al, lot 9, blk 1, subdivision of John 1 Redick’s add, wd... John Power and wife to Robe etal, lot 5, blk 155, city of Omaha, wd. .. William H Latey et al to Mollie D Campbell, pet of tax lot 41 in w§ of sw 1y, 86C 10-15-15 6, Wd . .ovvuinns Mathewson ‘I Patrick and wife to Kemington, lot 5. blk Patrick’s 20d add, w d. Byron Reed et al to Fran ney, w S8 ft n;lot 8, blk 101, in city f Oma the Tuesday 22,000 n H. Levy, w 30 teet lot 2 and e 30 feet lot3blk 14, Improvement association add, Wd..oooveenens . George L Dunham and wife to K bert E French, e X of lots 9 and 10, blk 4 of Central park, wd..... 2 Egbert E French aud wite to Belle H unhan, lot 13 blk 5und lot 12 blk 14, of Central park, wd.............. Jehu H Hungate trustee to Michael Mullen, lota 4 and 5, bk 8, Bedford Place, wd... Fesiacetiiiieiiesee James E MacDonald and wife to John M Dougherty, lot 3 blk 15, Improve- ment association add, wd........... James R Borland to Catherine Bein- dorfl part of Jots 5 and 6, blk 250, bOIng 120x22 008 WA ........cvvs vos Georee H Boggs and wife to Jacob Kendis, lot 8 blk 4, Park Forest, wd Wilson T Grabam to Ellery R Hume, lot 20 blk 6, West Cuming add_ . Sarah A Pain and husband to Elle: R Hume, lap 7 blk 1, d are oner et al, lot 16,blk 1, qged Eanrn h etal arey, lot 6, blk 2, Fowler place, wd...... Olin Swanson “and wifé to John Crackling, lot 8, blk 2, Riverside add, w d. John T Dillon " ‘and wife to Eugene A Lord, lot 7, blk 2, Keudall's add, John T Dillon and wife to William § McClanahan, middle 3 of lots 5 and 6, blk 4, Kandall's add, w d Israel Holmes and wife to tHugh Mur- phy, lot 6, blk 18, in city of Omaha, qed 5 Ak oph 3 Richards, lot 10, blk 2, tillside add Nol wd.... 5 John M Dougherty to James E Mc- Donald, lots 18, 19 and 20, blk 10, Cloverdale, wd.... e Twenty-five transters aggregating §52, Building Permits, The following building permits were fssued yesterday: D. Finlayson, Binney near Tweuty- second, two-story frame...... Willlam Kolbe, 1518 South Thirteenth, two-story block of tlats...... . J. W. Mayoard, Hillside, two-story 419 Dougl brick addition to store Fisher, Ontario neal Fowler piace, Doran, Castellar, one-story m‘lu i Jobn A. Johnson, Cedar between ond and Fourth,one-story frame.... Gus Erickson. Corby between Twenty- sixth and T'wenty-seventh, one-story cottage.. . o Charles Wlkins, Seven! Ohio, frame barn.... sivesssle J. R. Young, Blondo near Thirty-tfth, one-story frame Fred Harris, Eighteenth near Charles, tWO-StOry frame. ..oy vy . George Kurry, Seventeeuth uear Charles, two-story Irmne. ...oivveeie B,500 e it THE _OMAHA DAILY BEE: 'THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 1: 1887; NATURE'S ~ WONDERLAND. A Hot Spring Which Vomits Forth Human Bones. FOSSILS BY THE CARLOAD, Petrified Trees and Lignite — Lost Rivers—The Mystery of the Lava Bods. A correspondent of the Globe-Demo- crat, writing from Fort Keogh, Mont., says: Not all the natural wonders of the northwest are contained in the Yellow- stone National park. All through this newly-explored belt (the northern end of the former Great American desert) are natural surprises in every shape, which of course, are seldom, if ever, heard of, simply because they are in the neighbor- hood of the great collection of natural curiosities 8o closely grouped togéther in the Yellowstone park. The bad lands of Dakota contain any number of marvel- ous petrifications equa! to the best fomd among the petrified forests of the park; the Bitter Boot range of mountains in western Montana are full of beautiful cascades, lovely wetérfalls and petrifica- tions, too, for,that matter; the lava beds of Snake river are unequaled 1n their pe- cularstyle on the continent; and the cav- erns und bottomless fissures, not to speak of the stupendous scenery abound- ing all through the Big Horn range, would make the well-known and well- worn curiosities of the national reserva- tion look small in comparison. VARYING SCENERY. Strange as it may seem, too, cenery up this way changes with the seasons. In winter the country puts on an aspect seldom, 1f ever, seen by tourists except by those in search of “‘winter sun- beams.” I don't think Ieversaw a hand- somer sight in my life than 1 did one day last spring when T chanced to be at Liv ingstone, situated at the mouth of the tirst canyon of the Yellowstone, It was o bright, sunshiny day on earth, but up amony the clouds in the vicinity of the mountain tops, a fierce snow storm was raging. In half an hopr the storm broke away, when lo! the summits of the penks and half way down, far below the timber line, the mountaihs were encased in spot- less white, with a belt of sharp, well de- fined green below. It was mdeed a gor- reous sight, the monstrous Iril app hu: for all the world like a fleet of gigan- tic icebergs sailing down upon ths town, When the freshets come on in the spring, and theriyers break up, preparatory to running out, sometimes the narrow de- files through which they wind become choked with ice, and the streams become gorued. The hugh cakes of 1ce rush madly on- ward, and, coming to the obstruction, pile on and up, while the water, unable to tind an outlet, spreads out over the surrounding country for miles. A freezing snap comes along, and in night we have an ice field mensions and almost as those of the Arctic regions. A MARVELOUS GOR( On the eastern border of the Yellow- stone park among the Hodoo mountains, there is a wonderful and awe-inspiring gorge, through which rushes the waters of Calfee creek, which is simply impas- sable for man or beast except in the dead of winter. Towering walls of basaltic rocks rise to a dizzy height on each siae, and itis only when the cold of winter has congealed the waters below that the narrow and rocky defile canbe threaded. A hunter, two winters ago, hot on the heels of ue bull elk, waus surprised to see the animal dash boldly into this chasm; but, nothing daunted the veteran ,'pot hunter” held to the trail made plain by tracksin the snow for nearly two miles, when, becoming anxious for his own safety, he allowed his quarry to escape, and, by dint of hard and difficult climbin nally succeeded in reaching the blufis above. As for fossiis and petrifactions the country is full of them. There is a piece not far from here, among a lot of rocks cut out by the Northern Pacific railroad in blasting a roadway, a veritable photo- firaphic mine. e flat preces of stone when chipped off 1n layers, present re- markable pictures of leaves and twigs, all illlkflilll" stamped on the rocks and most beautifully and artistically exe- cuted, The writer has many such, whick have become faded and dim" trom expos- ure to the air, but by dipping the piece or picces in water the pictures are strongly Lronght out, as fuli and as perfeet as when first mined. At a small railroad ion west of here, rightly called “Fos- . A prospector has brought to light a large number of fossils of fish, leaves and insects. Not long since two fossils of unusual value aud interest were discov- ered by him. One of them was a num- ber of palm leaves, some of which were over tive feet 1n length, and the other a most valuable find, a perfect fossil of an Egyptian crocodile twelve feet in length, The latter is complete in every respect, and has been or will be shipped to the geological society of St. Louis. ‘The fossil beas of the Yellowstone, un- known to the tourist or geologists simply because much of this new country 18 yet unexplored and unknown, are capable of supplying not only the museums of this country, but also chose of the Old World with thousands of s mene. A PETRIFIED CATFISH. ‘I', Murray, a ranchman living 1n Pease Bottom, surprised his wife one morning by bringing in a perrified catfish, and re- questing the good lady to broil it for breakfast. He had found it in the blufiy near by. H. Geer, with a stick, pried out a petrified trout trom the fossil blufls on Clark’s fork of the Yellowstone, and says there is a stratum of fossils there four feet thick. Inthe bluffs at Deal's ranch, near Huntly, there is a series of fossilferous strata at intervals of about ten feet from the top of the blufls to the water, Two citizens of Billings went there re- cently -and secured about 100 pounds within two hours, On the Crow Indian reservation, among the kidney-shaped hemaute won deposits, there are many varicties ot bones, shells, insects and the Iike, which carry as much iron as the hematite itself. “At Alkali creek, Swim- ming Woman creek and Graveyard bot- tom there are great beds of fossils, Man beautiful l\-ur impressions are foun among the Bull mountains and along Razor creek, They can be quarried b; the carload in numerous localities with- out heavy expense. Over the line in D: kota there is a grove of petrified stumps of about an acre, six miles east of Youn, Man’s Butte and about one and one-hal miles southeast of Custer’s lookout, stand- ing apparently as they grew. The vetri- faction is & very hard quartz closely re- sembling tlint, while some specimens are found which resemble agate, somewhat translucent. Now it should be remarked teat the country roundabout is full of coal eposits, and it is possible that the trees formerly in the country, but now below the surface, have long taken upon them- lves the formation of lignite. But what seems to be the most remarkable thing about these dead trees is that the super- ficial portions are undeniably petritied, while the roots and portions low ground, though somewhat silicions, are yet already in the first stages of lignite transformation, The soi! all through the section in question is lightly charged with silica in soluble form, for” even the shafts of wheat and straw barbs are re- markable for their stiffuess and likeness to reeds. There nre thousands of hot springs in the areasurrounding the park, some of 1gZerous as numerous small firyu‘rn and bubbling pots, but none perhaps as wonderful as the celebrated group 1athe upper bnsin of the park. : THE BIG HORN SPRINGS. If the Big Horn river were to be fol- lowed through the iountains from whenece it takes its name, tracing it for miles along the mighty chasm rent by nature to where the famous stream has its origin in the Wind mountains, some astonishing and remarkable sights would be the reward of the venturesome ex- plorer. The hot springs of the Big Horn would fully repay one for the toil and trouble of making thé dangerous | ney' These freaks of nature are situated on both banks of the Big Horn river, number some thirty odd or more, and the steam and vapor rising from them can be seen for scores of miles 1n every direction, One is a_huge bowl-shaped caldron that keeps forever churning a mass of violet-hued stenming hot mud; another spurts up a double stream in jets every few minutes, while a great many others are called *‘blind springs.” If all the reports about these springs are true, they have taken to vomiting forth human bones of late. A correspondent, writing of them, says: “Quite a number of these springs are called 1n local parlance, ‘blind springs,’ that is they have for mnnr years appar- ently been chocked with mud and re- fuse aus to entirely retard their action, Every year, however, sowe of the ‘blind springs’ arouse themselves, burst the mud bonds which binds them, and de- velop into active boilers, Itis two of these geysers, so long inactive, which have lately signalized tieir return to hfe by the vomiting form of human remaing committed Yo their keeping by red handed crime of the olden days. The Wintl canyon cats through three moun- tain ranges—Rattlesnake, Owl and Big Horu. In the savage gorges ot its viein- ity tradition locates the headquarters aivl hiding places of a band of outlaw road agents, who preyed upon the emi- rrants westward bound over the old Bridger trail, ° “Countless robberies were ¢®mmitted fuge alway: of by this gang, and a safe awaited them in_ the neighborhood Wind Canyon. Tl S probably one of their fav in the mud sealed spri ims 10 now appear crimes of the the murder and recall the nd and the mewmories of UR D'ALENE LAKE. It is a curious and strange fact that over three times as much water flows into Ceur @’Alene lake asis discharged therefrom. Wicre all the water goes to it is hard to say, unless there are subter- ranean passages which conduct the supertluous fluid somewhere, or perhaps the lake has a false bottom. Now, there are two or three things to be considered in connection with the above ct which may to some extent answer the problem. Over on Snakeriver, many miles to the south, where that wonderful and tortuous stream rushes through the lava beds at n spot where the cut banks or blufls are Iigh and steep, a tremendous volume of water gushe m & cleft high up in the hasaltic walls and leaps a cataract into the torrent below. Irom distunce it has the appearance of a stream pouring from the gigantic hose noz JeRtiita engine. Where does it come from? There is no tiver or strunin other than the Snake in the vi i nd pernavs it i8 an outlet of Lake Coeur d'Alene Near the lake, but over towards the mountain rang e two wells dug by men,bat the well-diggers had to abandon their labor before reaching water. The volume of air that came up through the bottom rendered further digging impossi- ble. So great was the force asto blow the hats from the heads of the workmen and almost freeze them in the bagain, and even now neither amps nor candles can held over the openings of cither without at once being extinguished, Ten miles above the persistent propect- ors sunk another well and actually struck water, but so cold is the sir witnin that the water readily froze, and a mass of ice now covers the bottom. BOTTOMLESS HOLFS, At Three Korks, in Montana, a silver mine has lately been opened, and a very strange {lhenomenon cognected with 1t is that of a fissure cut into while working the mine, which seems bottomless. Stones thrown into it seem to fall, ana keep on falling, without coming to an end. At times n gaseous stream issues from the cavity, and drives workmen from the mine. 'I'ne deposits of ore made on the walls by the stream are a1l sulphates. Every once in awhile a terrable rumbling is heard below, but it passes or dies away gradually, and can be heardheard reced- ing far down into the bowelsof the earth until lost in the distance. Tomy mind the lava beds of Snake River are about as wonderful and strange as anything in nature to be found on the known globe. Snake River itself 18 a re- markable stream, but is made doubly 11 - teresting from the nature of the country 1t drains, and its wonderful and tortuous course through the fiercest and most rug- fi.’mi portion of the Rocky mountain cham or - two _or three miles above Shoshone Falls it flows through immemse chasms th walls on cither side hundreds of feet high, then coming to an island which cuts it in twain, the dual rivers rush over a rocky precipice and fall into a rounded pool 175 feet below. Five miles below the river again descends in & solid sheet 210 feet, and then we come to one of the most re- markable sights ever to be seen by any- body. From the high bluffs on both sides issue numerous great springs, the waters of which fall over the rocks and are lashed into silvery streams of spray in their descent. The first one of these beauties pours over a clifl shaped like the arc of a circle, and falls over 200 feet. As seen from the opposite side of the river it is a magnilicent spactacle. But the next cascade eclipses the former one as the sun docs the moon. A small river pours out of the bank and falls over the rocks n silvery streams of almost every conceiva- ble shape and form, while the spaces be- tween are lined with green moss or shrubs, presenting to the velighted spec- tator a beautiful representation of an im- mense grotto. A LUNAR LANDSCAPE. The lava beds extend from the contin- ental divide of the Rockies on the east, from where the main Rocky mountain chain is cleft by an earthquake gorge 1,000 feet in depth, overhung by immense blocks of voleanic scoria, (00 miles across to the rim of the Cascades, through the great Umatilla plain to the Dailes, ‘where rolls the Oregon.” This wonderful relic of the Plutonic era is rent into milliogs of chasms. or thrown up into as many {antastic forms and outlines, but the origin of it all is un- known to man, In this great field of lava there are no craters, and the point or mouth from which flowed the lava which covers the vast valley is a myste- rious secret. Far off to the north threee mighty piles tower into the skies (the Three Tetons), but there is nothing voleanio about them, and we must look elsewhera for the cause of this tremendous lava bed. Even the Indians have legends con- cerning it, But their imagin answer the questions neither satisfactory nor scientifically. It is probable that, underlying all the region, in question, are numerous subterranean lakes. t river 8 bold mountain stream that plunges down from the mountains, and wiipping around the foothills in two or three circles, is finally swallowed up by a beautiful meadow vight miles long, but four miles further on it emerges from the ‘;round again and continues its course. Little Lost river and Birch creek also lose themselves 1n this same morass, and numerous other streams si. : into a8 g A I e o e T 5 S N AT ST il M D i o SRS e B many eand holes, and are seen no - more, The Iava beds are strange features of this earth, and, could they be seen in their eu\‘rely and from a distance, [ doubt not but that the picture, with the exception of the lofty lunar mountaios, would bear a very strong and striking resemblance to the landscape of the moon, JOM T - - - Dyspepsia Makes the lives of many people misera- ble, and often leads to’ seif-destruction, We know of no remedy for dyspepsia more successful than Hood’s Sarsaparilla. 1t acts gently, yet surely and efficiently, tones the stomach and other organs, re- ve k ‘s Sar- will do you goo The Progress ot Europe. Europeon Correspondence of Home News: I have been traveling in Eurone for the last thirteen months, seeing Eng- land, Scotland, France, Italy, Switzer- and and Germany. and my impression of the condition of those countries as compared with what nwm\rud to be their condition more than thirty years ago is one of progress and improvement. This is the most manifest and most astonish- ing iu Itay, The despot's heel was on the brow of that lovely peninsula at my former visit in _every one of her pro- vinces. The education of the common L:vu;vle was almost utterly neglected. Newspapers were fow, uninteresting and The old- church subjected to rigid censorship. est documents of the chri were often taken from tra custom houses and nd. 1saw the oflicials at ecchia rob a young Philadelphian of the bible his mother had given him, The people were oppressed with o sense of wrong and hopeless of better things. There was hittle activity in trade, manu- factures or commerce. The vi reverse 18 NOW true 11 these particu Italy is filled with new life and new hope. No other nation has more fully accepted the best ideas of the civilization of the nine- teenth century, and although the people, especinlly in the south, were sunk so deep in degradation that much remains to be done for their enlightenment. The; are making rapid strudes forward, The is no danger of reaction. The people aro greatly amused at the atempts to manufacture public sentiment by cor- respondents of foreign papers, who rep- resent them as willing to part with some portion of their hiberty, King Humbert has no desire to meet the fate of KEmperor Maxmilian. He knows that the nine- teenth century is the nineteenth century. France, too, has gained by freedom, I lonal character has gained in dignity and self-control, There are symptoms of the old maladies among the excitable populace of Paris and th be dangers abead; but it z more and more evident that ever since the great revolution republicanism is the only form of government which is leglti- mate in France. The restoration of any dynasty, if brongh 11 only mean its expulsion ten years afterwards. The government of the people is the only Zovernment which can possibly be per- manent among such people as the French, even if temporary deteats still await it. In Germany the inc prosperity is the mos Next to that 1s the inereas self-respect and the exultation in the achievement of national unity. In the southern provinces there is also a great advance in freedom of thought. Give Germany thirty years of peace and more liberal principles will prevail in her gov- ernment. At present the enthusiasm for the emperor and for the ablest statesmun whom the nineteenth century has pro- duced makes a semi-abolutism acqui- esced in. One of the most striking things in Eng- land is the improvement of the common Ln-oplu in intelligence and education. ingland now has onc of the best systems of popular education in the world; thanks to William Edward Forster and his co- djutors. The large number and the pness of the newspapers and the ability with which the provincial press is conducted, shows a striking change. The great growth of London and of the Iarger towns in general excites one's wonder. England shows no signs of decrepitude. There are gignntic evils still to be eradi- eated, but they are less than they were in the foriner generarion. America’s Only Feminine Mayor. Argonia, Kan., is the only town in America which ever elected a woman to the oflice of mayor. She is alone in a distinction that represents another step 1n the steady advance of liberal ideas re- garding woman’s work in society. Mayor Salter's maiden name was Su- sanna Madora Kinsey. She was born of who were members of the Society farm near Lamira, Be mont county, O., in 1860.# In 1872, when she was twelve years old, she removed with her parents 1o a farm twelve miles west of Topeka, Kan., which progressive state has consequently more property in her than any other commonwealth. She was a married woman when, about four years ago, she and her husband moved to Arizona. In 1878 and 187 she attended the Kansas State Industrial college, Man- hattan, where Lowis A. Salter, son of lisutenant governor of the state, to whom she was married in 1880, was a fellow stu- dent. Owing to ill health Miss Kinsey did not graduate, but left college for home in the early part of 1880, When, n 1883, her father’s family removed to Argonin, she and her husband went with them. The place was a settlement of ‘illtlk(‘l‘s, and its first mayor was Oliver . her respected father. After en- during considerable hardship srs. Salter and her husband began to prosper in business. From an early date in her time of residence at Argonia, its present chief magistrate was a busy woman in public matters. Shke and her helpmeet were prominent 1n organizing a Baptist church, and to her 1s L-,]y due the origin of a flourishing branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance union. Her husband is a lawyer and has a real estate business. The couple have four children, three boys and a girl, the eldest of whom is about six years old, Mayor Salter was elected last spring. Lattie interest being shown in the duty by the citizens of Argonia up to nearly the the day fixed for them to choose their mayor, only two days before clection, meeting of the W. C.T. U., was called, at which a candidate tor v or and five councilmen were named. Early on cle: tion day morning an anti-prohibitior thinking it a joke, ordered some tickets to be printed with the five councilmen on it as named at the women's meeting, but substituting Mrs. Salter's name for that of their candidate for may- or. Her friends having procured hoer consent to serve if elected, sct to work and accomplished wimt had been pro- posed as an ill-natured joke. The anti- prolubitionist and his allies, to use a omely saying, were made to laugh on the other side of their mouth. Argonia elected a female mayor, who is the head of an efficient administration, but one hardly as progressive as she desires it to be. Her anxiety for local improvements is checked by the parsimony of her coun- cilmen. Mrs. Salter's salary is §1 a year. The mayor of Argonia is about five feet three and a half inches in height. She is of active temperament, Her eyes are gray, and her crimped hair of a blonde shade. The cares of oflice have induced her to engage the services of a domestic, but otherwise her arrange- ments at home are as they were before her election to be the chief person in a population of about 500. She learned dressmaking while at college, and makes ber own and her children’s clothing. Mrs. Balter was busy at the wash-tub when her consent was gained to serve as 1 ~ mayor if elected, GRADUALLY TURNING BLACK. Horrifying Predfoament of a Saline County Farmer. Lincoln Democrat: Ivan Janescheuckn ie the name of & Bohemian farmer who settled on a homestead in Saline county fifteen yoars ago. He has lived there ever since and has prospered as his countrymen have all done. Four years since he was the VICTIM OF A SUNSTROKF, from which he has never so tully re- covered as to be free from its eflocts when the weather grows very hot. Two years ago he was somewhat exposed to the sun and was so much distresscd that he re- turned to the house. He felt shooting pains all over his right side,which finally sottled in the right leg. Aftor some weeks the pain gave place to asensa- tion of numbness, and the afllicted man was surprised to notiee that the skin on the leg IAD TURNED BROWN. As the numbness departed and he re- covered the use of the limb the skin grew darker and darker, finally becoming per- fectly bilack. The cuticle remained healthy to all appearance. Medical advice was had, but no physician seemed able to account for the strange atfection, much less remove it. Time went by and as the hot weather of the summer came on the shooting pains re- turned, but this time on the left side of the body. They were succeeded by the same sort of numbness, and when that disappeared the skin had become discol- ored on that side. The unfortunate man was J BLACK AS A FULL BLOODED AFRICAN from the soles of his feet to the armpits. All possible measures were resorted to for relief, but in vain, As the blemish was concealed by his clothing it beeame known to nugmly except his immediate fanuly. As the present summer ap- proached Mr, Janescheuka was driven almost insanc by fear of a coutinuation of ius strange experience. He took up his abode m o root cellar and never stirred out during daylight, aim- ing to keep cool and shaded, One hot day about two months ago one of his chiidren, at play about the stairway, fell down the steps to the cellar, Forget- ting all about his affliction, he seized the sensel form of the little one and rusned into the house through the blaz- ing sun. He fainted us he crossed the doorstep and when he recovered con- sciousness, the shooting pains pervaded hisshead, chest and arms. he most em- nt doctor in Chieago was induced _to visit him, but could do nothing. The fearful aflliction continued its steady course. The pains subsided to numb- ness, and the skin of the arms and tace began to take on the durk tint that cov- ered the rest of the body. The sin larly afllicted man has so far recover as to be able to travel and passed through the city this morning on his way to Paris, were he wili consult M. Pasteur an other renowned physicians. A reporter of The Democrat was accorded a brief interview. The man looks, as to color of skin on his face, like a cross between the Me. n and Indian, s cyes are the bluest of blue and b a light and silky blonde. Ho speaks quite in- telhigently in English and says he has no hopo of relief, but goes abroad at_the ntreaty of his wife. A curious tance connected with the case is that a pair of twin babies born to him last April show the effeet of the parental aflliction. One of them is fair haired and blue eyed, with the milk and white skin peculiar to blonde Bohemian babies, The other is a dark bronze color from head to heel. Thee case will undoubtedly attract world wide attention wlh it becomes generally known as it must be. e the Sty Electric Lustr reh will oot stick to the iron. 1t is the best starch, — The Winans Family, Philadelphia Times: This history of the Winans family is as remarkable as it is interesting. Over forty years ago there lived in this city two brothers named Thomas and William Winans, Both were men of natural railroad genius, though far from cultivated or scientific engineers. The two had made money and they began to foresee the future of railroad building 1n Russia. About this period the czar drew his famous pencil mark across the map from St. Petersburg to Moscow as the route of the railroad he vrojected. The story is old, but it bears retelling here.” After all the engineers had given their opinions about the best practicable routes. Nicholas, confeseed by the clash of 1 ruler and, drawing a stra across the map trom St. otersburg to Moscow, handed it to them as the ‘zilml route of the railroad. The alarmed Russians had recourse to foreign en- gineers, and the Winanses toc work. The road was si ssfully built and a great future secured for them, but 1t was not until 1861 that a completely successful locomotive was built. In those s Russian engines burned wood en- tirely, and it was only after seventeen years that the right kind of locomotive was constructed. KFrom that period on the fortuncs of the Winans family began to be colossal. Thomas married the daughter of a Russian shopkeeper. She died, leaving him two children—Ross Winuns, of this city, and Celeste, now married’ to Mr. Hutton, a young Englishman in the di- plomatic seryice. /illiam had married an Knglishwoman of the middle class and retired to England to enjoy his wealth. Since the time he first crossed the ocean on his way to Russia in 1884, Mr. William Winans has never returned to this country. A strain of eccentricity early developed 1tself in both brothers, and in William it took the formof a ner- vous dread of crossing the ocean. Never before did an American become so thoroughly weaned from his country. William says that he wou!d not cross the Atlantic for $5,000,000. Nor 1s he willing that his sons Walter and Lewis shall. Charley McCormick has returned from a trip to the ecast, the greater part of which was devoted to a wisit to Mt. Clemens, Mich. Tts superior excellunce proven 1n millfons of hofuea o mote chan a quarter of u century. 4 by the United States Government. by the hivads of the Great (niversi A a Most Health only fiaking Powder that ain Ammonia, Lime, or Alum. Sold onl: y in caus. PRICE BARING POWDKR CO., " WEW YORK €HICAGO, Louis 8 “TIMELY ADYICE. Unhceded May {2usc AnyAmouns of Trouble, More Important Testimony Voluntarily - Offered by One Who Has Been Through the Mills MR. W. G. HENSHAW. “For tha Inst sixtaen years."safdMr.W. G. Hens shaw,who was city lnmpiightor for a number of yeurs' and is now omployed by the Barber As it Pavine compuny, to the roporter, 1 have had in uphill tme in order to keep at my works While a hoy and livine at my fathor's countr, residonce on Long Island Sound, New York, mado A practice of gOINK 0 swiniming from ton o0 twonty times & dny whon t 2 by this moans 1 develoy h in its worst form. My throat and hond was stop- ped up &t timoes. 1 coughed and hawked ogin, nd to Llow my nose constantly, T ha constant dull fooling in_my head, roaring in the enrs, then I got deat gradually but so sure- ly that cutur T HECAME MUCH ALARMED. This wns not ull. 1 found thut T talked through my noso, wid at night 1 could not breathe thiough iy nostriis at all. | sawa doctor und he told mo T hud i tumor growing in my nose caused by the catarch, which he called a polypus. I tried ail munner of romes dios to 0o avail, and when six weel o) cnught a fresh eold, which caused the catarrh 0 down on my Tungs, my condition was not only annoying, but grently nlarmed iy wife. Why, felt at like choking, then [ couk o much I could not sleep ut night. T would have violont spolls of coughing which wonld eausc me to vomit, “As T said before, my condition 8o alarmed my wife that on the'15th of this month sho in. sisted that 1 go and consulta doctor next duy. I was loth to stop work, but at last consonted,and lnst Monduy 1consulied Dr. J. Crosap McCoy, Hamyge Block, this eity, who siid ho could cure me. hin 1 wi willing to believe, but did not atm of how quiick part of my troubles could b relioved. Why, sir.ho removed this entire poly« U8 in two or' thred minutes: hero, you see it in the bottle I have, and then made an application o my disensod throat. 1 breathod through my noso’ at once, something 1 buve not done in yours. I have boen onconstant treatmont since, and now have in u large moasure rognined . ] L1 have not_boen ablo to smell g before for eight yours. My oatarrh i greatly benefittoa, my hoaring i3 coming around All right, and I wm cortain_the doctor will s0on have me us well as 1 over was, 1 we home Monday from the doctor's office ind sie) all night & quiet sleep, gomething | hnve n done for o long a timo 1 can't remember, M. gtrength and desi for work has returnoed, don’t get up in the morning feeling us tired ag Defore I went to bod, as I used to do. 1 foel like & rostored man.” Mr. Honghaw is well known ahout town, and the truth of his story can_easily bo veritiod by calling upon or addressing him™ at his address above given. When catarrh has existod in the head and the upper part of the thront for any length of time —-tre patient living in a district where peopl are subject to catarrhal affection—and the 8- enso haa been lert uncured, the catarrh invaris_ ably, somotimes slowly, oxtends down tho windpipe and into the bronchial tubes, which tut tho hunges, tubos becomo 8 the aweliing and the mucous arising from catarrh, and, in some instances, become plugged up. 8o that tho air cannot get in a8 froely as tt should. Shortnoss of broath follows, and the patient breathes with laborand diMioulty. In eithor case there is & sound of crackling and wheezing insido the chost. At this stage of tho disoaso tho breathing is usually more rapid than when In health. The putiont Las also hot dashes over his body. The pain which accompanies this condition is of a dull charactor, folt in the chest, bohind, th breast bone, or under the shoulder biado. T ain muy come and go--lust fow days sud thon he abscnt for several others. The cough that oceurs in the first stages of bronchial aatarrh is dry,comes on at intervals, hacking in ohurao- ter. and {8 usunlly most troublesomo in tne morning on rising, OF goink to bod at night and it may be in the first evidenco of the discaso ox- tending into the lungs. Sometimes there aro fita of coughing induocod by the tough mucus so violent as to cause v iting. Lator on the mucus that is r found to contain small particlea of yello ter, which indicates that the small tubes in t} lunis are now affectea, With this thero are often streaks of blood mixed with the mucus. Insome casos the patient bocomes very pale, has fever, and expectorates before any cough apnears. In some cnses small masses of chevsy sub- stance aro 8pit up, which, when pressod be- twoen the fingors, omit a bad odor. (n othor rticios of & hard, chalky nature are raising of choosy or chalky lumps indicate serivus mishiof at work in the lungs, placed undor influences that will restore the defoctive nutrition wnd tend to invigorute the constitution. to be remembe t that in evory cnse the presence of cats an evidence of predise Position to consumption, and no mutter how slight the attack may bo, it should be trented with the greatest caro’ and tho trcatment should be “continued until all tiacos of the cntarrh have disappeared. 1t the oatarrh is allowed to reach the gmaller tubes in the lings—which condition is indi- cated by the spitting up of & yellow matorial - then immedinto attontion to the malady is de- munded or serious lung trouble will result. Catarrh, it i8said, Is nino times out of ten the cnuso that produces consumption, and hongo 10 one can afford to nogleot a oase of oatarrh, however glight, [t {8 ously cured it taken in time und treated rogulurly sad correctly by & specialist. If loft to itsolf it is_rarely curcd without & change of climate, but with cach new cold it gots more and moro troublesomo, ex- tend 3 a little deeper into the lungs, until & cure’ becomes dificult und somotimes impossible, Tasuch & climute as this, the throat should be 1y und froquently 1ooked aftor ns tha Yos, mucl Ot AT 1NOTe NN ous than and,while the Initer ¢ uso only DOCTOR J.Cresap M'Coy Late of Bellevue Hospital, N.Y AND DOCTOR Columbus Henry Have Oficos 310-311 RAMGE BUILDING Cor. 15th and Harney Streets, Omaha, Neb. Where all curable cases aro trente. coss. Medical disensos treated sk sumption, Bright's Dise: matism, snd wll NERVOLL S ¢ BURSES e lar to the sexus a spociulty. TARRNI CURED, CONSULTATION ut of Offce hours: ¥ to 1l 9y, 0. Sunduys i ¥ or by mail $1 2todp. w.i Tte by tho mails, and it 18 thus posal. uble L0 make & 0Urney to ob- at thelr Accompas Addross ¢l lotters 1o D Ators . rueis ¥ 810 aud 3l Kamge Building,