Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 13, 1887, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. PUBLISHFD EVERY MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally Morning Bdition) including SBunday Bun, One Y L] N 5 i AND 018 A RS Ax SrnenT. NEW YORK OFFice, Room 65, TRISUNE BUILD- ING. WAsnINoTON Orvice, No. b3 Foun- TRENTH BTREET. CORRESPONDENCE. 4 11_communicati lating to news an editorial matter should be addressed to the EniTor or THE Br, BUSINESS LETTERS: .‘All business letters and remittances should be dressed to THE BER PUBLISRING COMPANY, g.uuu. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders to ‘made payable to the order of the company. The Bes Pablishing Company, Proprstars, E. ROSEWATER, Ep1ToR. THE DAILY BEE. Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btate of Nebraskn, |, County of Douglas. phed Geo. Tluhuc% secretary of The Bee Pub- 1ish company, does solemnly swear that the nctual eirculation of the Dally Bee for the week 'ndlns 7, 1887, was as follows: Baturday, Oct. Sunday, O Average. Bworn to a 8th day of October, A. D. 1587, . P. FEIL, (SFAL) Notary Public Btate of Nebraska, P County of Douglas, {5 % Geo. I Tuschuck, befng first duly sworn, do- poies aid says thit ho fs seretary of The Biee ublishing company, that the actual average daily circulation of the Daily Bee for the month of October, 188, 12080 coples; for November, 1R, 13,48 coples; for December, 1888, 13,23 coplea; for January, 1887, 16,206 copies; for Feb- 847, 14,108 coples; ' for March, 1887, 14,400 for April, 187, 14,316 _copies: for May, 2 coples gor June, 1897, ULLT copiexi Iy, 1865, 140 coplos: tor Augist, 1861 14 oples; for September, 187, copies. 1 o GRO. B, 1280 UCK. Sworn to and subscribed in' miy presenios tiils oth duy of October, A. D. 1887, _N. P. FEI (SBAL,) Notary Public. Titx Knights of Pythias can justly be proud of their demonstration. THE supernumerary tax-eaters should be dropped from the city pay roll. Ir is a question whether the chamber of commerce should be used for political conventions. Mi. HOLE-IN-THE-DAY will not warm Judge Maxwell’s seat next winter—not by 25,000 majority Now that Grover has found out how rich his wife is he may feol like buying her a new sealskin cloak. TIMME is the old man of the sea car- ried on the back of the democratic Sinbads and he will pull them down to the bottom. COLONEL CHAMPION S. CHASE was absent. A public parade in Omaha without Colonel Chas e is like the play of Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Tue democratic county ticket is pow- erfully weak at both ends and not very heavy in the middle. With perhaps one or two exceptions, it is practically out of the race at the start. WHAT .has become of J. Sterling Morton? Is the Arbor Lodge states- man disgruntled with Grover, or does he look down with supreme contempt on all the pomp, glory and circumstance of this world? THE outlook now is that about two- thirds of the voters in this city will be practically disfranchised under the new election law by failing to appear in per- son before the registrars to have their i bed on the roll of electors. WHEN Paddy Ford passed under the streamer with big black letters, “Pub- lic office is a public trust,” he ex- claimed, “I take no stock in such chaff. I always kept a sign over my bar—pay to-day and i) GLADSTONE will be known in history as much for his active old age as for his statesmanship. He still has a firm grip on his popularity among the Eng- lish people and does work emough to tire out & man in his prime. He is shortly to address a meeting at Notting- ham and 24,000 applications for tickets of admission have been received. NEBRASKA ranks third among the states in railroad building this year. Kansas leads with 1,184 miles of new track, Texas comes next with 665 and Nebraska has built 536 miles. Seven states and territories west of the Missis- sippi have constructed an aggregate of 4,000 miles, nearly two-thirds of all that has been built during the past year throughout the entire country. THE wooden pavement contractor is, we are informed, inclined to lay off for the season and leave several several streets which were to have been paved this fall in an impassable condition for the next eight monthe. We hope the board of public works and council will take proper steps to enforce the con- tract. If, as charged, Mr. Rogan in- tends to transfor his force across the river to lay pavementsat Council Bluffs, because the contract in that city is more profitable, he shows a lack of good faith, and he and his bondsmen should be notified that they will be held re- sponsible for failure to carry out their contracts with this city within reasona- ble time. THE Indians’ Defense association at Washington is cugaged in fighting the government’s Indian policy with great bitterness. The interior departinent recently received a letter purporting to come from the consolidated Omuhu and Winunebago reservation in this state complaining strongly of the action of Miss Alice Fletcher. It asserts that she is driving the Indians from lands which they have long occupied and de- priving them of their improvements. Secretary Lamar refuses to believo the allegations, and statos that Miss Fleteh- er's work in connection with Indian af- fairs hus been highly satisfactory. This lady made & strong plea for our wards during the convention of the chavities and corrections in this city, and pro- duced a favorable impression on all who heard her. She seemed to have the wolfare of the Indians much at heart and it is imaprobable that she would do Anything to injure their interests. Omaha’s Ovation. The president of the United States hasseen Omaha and received from its citizens and its many thousands of vis- itors the respect due to that great office. A more delightful day for such an ocer.- sion could not have becn desired, and not a single incident occurred to mar the interesting event. The people were enthusiastic, orderly and respectful, the procession was one of the finest ever seen here, and the judiciously planned arrangoments were carried out without hitch or hindrance. There is every reason to believe that Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland found gratification in their short stay here, and there was no lack of evidence that the people were glad to soe them. Omaha acquitted horself most creditably, and we are ploased to think that their reception in this city will not be among the least agreeable recollec- tions which the president and his wife will retain of their journey. Mr. Cleveland has secen a part of the great west, and the efféct cannot be otherwise than to have enlargod his views and broadened his impressions of this vast country. He has found here a degree of civilization not less elevatod than that in which he has passed all his life, and an energy, ambition and spirit of progress far exceeding those of the east He has seen, also, what should be even more to his gratification as the first citizen of the republic, that here the spirit of patriotism s as act- tive and fervent as in any other section of the nation, and that this people are not less appreciative than those of any other part of the country of the charac- ter and dignity of the executive offico, or of the respect which should be shown its incumbent. Ho has been among a strong, earnest, sincere, progressive and patriotic people, who are building up a power that is to exert a mighty influence upon the future of the repub- He. It has been a pleasure to them to honor the nation’s chief magistrate, and to him the experience should be of great and permanent benefit. Mr. Cleveland’s journey is now southward, and in a few days he willbe in a section and among a people who will present a somewhat differ- ent phase of American character, but he will doubtless find there a no less hearty and sincere respect than that which has thus far boen accorded him. Let us hope that the continuance of his journey will be as entirely pleasant and gratifying as has been that part of it through which he has passed, and that he will return to the seat of gov- ernment in all respects a gainer from the more extended knowledge he has acquired of the country and its people. Another Calamity. Another terrible railroad calamity, apparently the result of most criminal blundering, will again call public at- tention to a theme which has been made much too familiar this year. The dis- aster at Kouts’ station, on the Chicago & Atlantic railroad, lacked few of the horrors, the heartrending scenes, and the pathetic incidents which character- ized the fearful accidents that preceded it since the beginning of the present year. There were fower lives lost than at Chatsworth, the last preceding horror, but at Kouts the holocaust had o larger share of victims. From the facts at hand there would seem to be no difliculty in fixing the responsibility for this ca- lamity. The superintendent of the road is said to admit that no flag- man was sent back to signal the train behind, although it was well known to be approaching at a high rate of speed. Most recklessly the conductor of the train relied upon the semaphore, an apparatus for exhibiting signals and operated by a cord, which was located about an eighth of a mile from his train. ‘With danger imminent and understood such inadequate precaution was a piece of criminal dereliction that cannot be palliated, and deserves summary and severe punishment. As usual in such cases the officials of the road are keep- ing from the press all the facts within their knowledge not to be other- wise obtained, but it is to be hoped the coroner’s investigation will go to the bottom of the terrible affair and bring out every fact necessary to fix the re- sponsibility. There seems a chance in this case that merited punishment may be administered,and no effort should be spared to make an example of whoever can be shown to be guilty of the care- lessness and blundering which resulted in this deplorable calamit; Governmen t Control of the Telegraph. ‘Washington dispatches state that the absorption of the Baltimore & Ohio tel- egraph by the Western Union has given new vitality to the question of government control of the telegraph system of this country. The opinion obtains there that the subject will be brought forward in congress and urged with greator vigor than ever before, and it is thought probable that it will receive a stronger support than hereto- fore. The rapid growth of popular sen- timent against monopoly is certain to have an influence upon the next con- gress, and as the policy of conquest of Mr. Gould and the Western Union man- agers is plainly in the direction of u monopoly of the telegraph service of the country, it is not improbable that it will r ve some attention. The extent of this, how- over, may depend a good deal upon the course the Western Union managers shall pursue towards the public with their newly acquired advantage. If they decide, as they are generally ex- pected to do, to matorially incrense rates in order to make dividends on their watered stock, and in localities where they have no competition im- pose unreusonable tarifls on the people, there will be n gen and earnest public demand for some form of redress from congress which that body will be bound to respect. The Western Union, however, has more competition to de- stroy, and its method of deing that may be & present sufeguurd wgainst an ad- vance of rates to @ point which would incite the public to protest, The right of the government to pur- chase the telegraph lines of the country uppenrs to be secured by existing laws. The chnpter of the revised statutes re- lating to telegraph companies, after ve- citing the conditions under which such corporations shall construct and opecate the obligations they shall be required to enter into with the government, con- ta’ine a section giving the United States thae right to purchase all the lincs that have nccepted the provisions of the statute, which includes all now con- structed, “at an appraised value to be ascertained by five competent disinter- ested persons, two of whom shall be se- lected by the postmaster general of the United States, two by the company in- terestod and one by the four so pre- viously selected.” It would seem from this that at least & negotiation for the purchase of telegraph lines need not await the action of ccagress, though of course no postmaster general would proceed in such a matter without such direct au- thority. Senator Edmunds has been K most prominently identified with the advo- cacy of government control of the tele- graph, but his zeal in the cause was not conspiewous at the last session. There is a possibility that it may be stimu- lated by the last act of the Western Union in knocking out competition and the renewed evidenoe that transaction gives that the policy of the anaconda corporation has not changed. In any event congress will be compelled sooner or later to recognize the drift of public sentiment on this subject and to take action in response to it, if it be nothing more than subjecting telegraph compa- nies, a8 cemmon carriers, to such gov- ernmental regulation as is now exercised over the railroads. E—————— A Damaging Endors=meat. Senator Gorman, of Maryland, is both askillful and a resolute fighter. He doesn’t talk in the present campaign like a man who is afraid, and he isn’t offering any compromise to the enemy or seeking to soften hostility. Knowing that any such policy would be useless and that he must fight at his very best, he is hitting out hard and savagely. It is noteworthy, also, that he doesn’t omit to give adequate attention to the president in a very complimentary way, but while it is quite natural that Mr. Gorman should regard Mr. Cleve- land as entirely level-headed such testi- mony from that source is very sure to creato an opposite conviction with many others so long as the president seems not to disapprove of the methods by which the Maryland senator manages the political machine of which he has con- trol. Mr. Cleveland would have shown himself level-headed by having as little as possible to do with Gorman, but he was tolerated until he had succeeded in loading upon the public service most of his favorite henchmen, who have since made themselves notorious by openly defying the policy of the president re- specting the political conduct of federal officials,. Gorman’s influence may be somewhat less now with the president than it was during the first year of his administration, but the fact remains that the objectionable men which the Maryland senator put into office still re- main though they have become very much more objectionable since holding office, and Mr. Cleveland is not level- headed enough to see that this has lost and is losing him the confidence of tens of thousands of people all over the coun- try. In a word, Mr. Gorman’s testimo- nial is very well as an expression of that unscrupulous politician’s gratitude, but for that very sufficient reason is an injury to Mr, Cleveland outside of the ranks of those who follow or arc in sym- pathy with the Maryland boss. THE New York chamber of commerce recently passed a resolution declaring its conviction that business men of all parties should unite in demanding speedy action by congress looking to such a reduction of our revenues as will make the income of the nation conform as nearly as practicable to the necessary expenditures of the nation. This mod- erate suggestion is probably all that could be roasonably expected on this subject from the organization that adopted it, but the New York Post finds it much more weighty than it seems. “For,” says that paper, ‘‘if the revenue is to be reduced to the necessary expen- ditures of the nation, it must be reduced nearly or quite $100,000,000, and in order to reduce it by that amount the tariff must be reduced by at least $50,~ 000,000. But it is not possible to reduce the tariff 850,000,000 without reducing protective duties to an extent greater than was proposed by the Morrison bill of the last congress, because small tariff reductions, and Mr. Morrison’s were very small indeed, tend rather to in- crease than diminish the revenue. It is only large ones that accomplish the RITORY, Towa Items. Oskaloosa has 2,000 children in school. The federal court will convene in Des Moinos on the 18th instant. Burlington will soon saturate her pan- cakes with home-made syrup. The Rock Island road is flirting with Sioux City and will soon embrace her. Davenport banks claim to hold one- third of the money deposits of the whole state, James the pres! Towa. A carriage factory with a_capital of $40,000 is licensed to begin business in Des Moines. Miss Emma Trapnell gouged Red Oak out of 81,650 as a ponltice for defective sidewalk damages. G. W. Porter, a Sioux City canvasser, uttered forged checks to the amount of #04, and wus about to be married when the police took him in. The Towa Union Telephone company deci upon an_extension of its wes in southwestern Iowa, with Cres- ton as the objective point for all new lines. Contracts have been let fora line from Cromwell to Corning, and from Corning to Villisea. The medical and dental department of the stato university at lowa City opened with a good attendance, All the departments, with but & single ex- ception, the homeopathic medical de- partment 0 with even a larger at- tendance then last fall. Dakota. Prof. Homer L. Sprague hus accepted the presidency of the North Dakota university, Hot Springs, Custer and Spring Val- loy ure candidates for the location of the Methodist colleges to be established in the Hills, STATE Blaine held the throttle of ntial procession through lines over the public domain, and stuting l Prol. Moutgomery has for the preseut finished excavating the mounds on Devil's Lake.§ 8ixty skolotons and nu- merous boues of animals have been found. - Rev. Normanj Ransom, of Grandin, o Methodist Epfécopal clorgyman, who arrived in ckford, Ill., last weok !liied suddenly that ovening of typhohi over. The purvey of the Yanktog & Mis- sourl Valley railroad has lpmgremd from Yankton ss far as Mud creek, where the engineer corps is now search- ing for the easjest route through the nest of bluffs which cluster about the headwaters of Mud creck, Clay creek and Turkey creek. Colorado. Denver will groet the president some other day. During the first ten days of the month Greeley shipped 150 car loads of sommesto the east, netting the pro- ucers 821,000, The Caldwell & Cassidy syndicate con= trol 11,100 acres of the oil land around Canon City and nocth of the Arkansas river. The owners are the Mprlnolpul opponents of the Standard. Machinery for working the district is being put in Kénco. and drilling and pumping will gin at an early day. The oil shows a test of 42 gravity. One of the most wierd lunches ever tackled by hungry men was eaten in Leadville last Friday evening.. Two hundred laborers had becn sent to Glen- wood by the human leeches in Denver, who promised them work on payment of 82. No work being provided for them at Glenwood, they had taken forcible possession of a train and come to Lead- ville, where they remained for twonty- four hours. Friday Sheriff l.n.m‘ping. Mayor Cook and Joe Jenkins, of the Evening Chronicle, purchased 200 loaves of bread and 100 pounds of bologna gau-: sage and brought it up to the half-fam- ished laborers. I'ive carvers were & pointed from the half-famished crowd, and $ho way that the food was eaten ro- minded one more of a pack of wolves than anything else. Utah. A Mormon ‘“exhorter” has been jailed in Salt Lake City for assaulting seven little girls. The polygamous wretch is playing the crazy act. Thoe banks of Salt Lake City report the receipt for the week ending Oct. 5, inclusive, of $43,007.05 in lluhion and $106,108.36 in ore, a total of $149,115.51. The annual report of the United States marshal shows that there are 107 United States prisoners in the peniten- tiary and eighty-nine territorial, Of these 166 are married and 106 over fifty years of age. A flow of natural gas has been struck in Salt Lake City, near the Denver & Rio Grande railroad depot. With a sixty-candle powor jet the force is so great that the flame’is blown out, but by turning it partly off a good, steady light is left. In driving from the 50-foot level to the 70-foot leyel, the gas continued to flow, showing that there must be a good quantity of it. — - Personal Paragraphs. Joel Beatty, Chadron, is in the city. S. C. Webber, Schuyler, is a guest at the Paxton. Henry E. Lewis, of Lincoln, was in town yesterday. J. M. Knight, of Des Moines, is regis- tered at the Paxton. Hon. John Kurkendall, of Cheyenne, was in town yesterday. John M. Regan and wife, of Beatrice, are guests €t the Paxton. Harry G. Roggen and Fred Turner, Lincoln, were at the Paxton last even- ing. I E. Biles, a well known business man of Fremont, was at the Paxton yes- terday. F. A. Mayfield, of Reynolds, and editor of the Reporter of that city, was in town yesterday. ‘W. W. Montgomery, proprietor of the Elliott Graphic, of Elliott, Ia., was in the city yosterday. George L. Atkins, general manager of the California fig syrup company, of San Francisco, Cal., is in the city. Miss S. E. Easley, Mrs. W. D. Easley and Mrs. W. A. Greenwalls, of Falls City, were at the Paxton yesterday. R. L. Laurie, J. W. Demkin, Joseph Johnson, W. J. Stevenson and Emil Schwartz, of Aurora, are in Omaha. The presidents’ visit attracted John Kelliger, J. G. Mc(}lu&and, J. M. Irwin, all of Auburn, to Omaha yester- day. Among the Falls City visitors yester- day were T. W. Stock, Gustave A. Hal- ler, Ernest A, Bode, W. 5. Noonan and ‘W. L. Brannin. Nebraska City people were repres- ented in Omaha yesterday by D. M. Lewis, Thomas Wyman, H. Williams and Miss Minnie Williams. M. O. Maul has returned from a very enjoyable three weeks’ trill\ in the east, which embraced a visit to Toronto, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago. Judge W. L. Henderson, the state’s attorney of Knox county, and Attorney 0. W. Rice, both leading legal lights of Creighton, are in the city on busi- ness. Besides the company of Knights of Pythias, the citizens of Fremont in Omaha yesterday were W. J. Bliss, Miss J. J. Kuen, D. O. Coal, C. H. Stoner, Captain M. J. Mahoney, L. B. Cowan and Goo. H. Straub. P. G. Hale, of Chicago, and a repre- sentative of the Cleveland Stone com- pany, is at the Paxton. The company that he represents is furnishing the stone for the new county hospital, the United States bank and Henry W, Yates’ residence. Among the Lincoln people who came up to see President Cleveland yesterdny 1", B, Hapris, J. H. North, kla Gore, Walt Kneiss, Ed P, Kiefer, Shear, Henry E. Lewis, H. M. Me T. R. Stoner and wife, A. E. Hurgraves, H. J. Bell, Elias N(“)'('x'. M. 8. Johnson, H. W. Hartley, B. I, Pinney and wife, C. L. Tyler, H. M. Bushuell, D. B, Fuller, W. E. Churchill and wife, C. N. ndall and wife,J. C. Metzler, George W. Bunell and wife, Charles M. Kee- fer and wife, John M. Underwood and wife, Mrs. W. S. Hamilton, Libbie Wood, M. Jenney. Yesterday's inteenal revenue collec- tions amounted tg B3 : Jenny Lind at Home. Philadelphia Dyess: It hardly seems possible that the quaint little old lady, {me. Lind-Goldschmidt, with whom'I have recently spent so charming an evening, is really the same ‘‘Jenny Lind” who thrilled the world with her alleled v und made it her praiscs a generation Although woman, the g trice, judging from the 3 ferent portraits that are hunging about her house, must formerly have been at- tractive and engaging in her uppear- ance, but to-day sbo isthe plainest, most old-fushioned little body “imag able, dressing in the style of ‘thirty-fiv years ago, with a funny little eape folded over her shoulders and a curiously fash- ioned cap on her head, underneath thich her hair is drawn down emoothly unps with ving or on her face over her ears. Added to these peculiarities, she wours & dross 1 made in a perfectly plain manner, “"?themd’, into & belt at the waist, th no lttcmrc at ornamentation in the m! e, n{ or overskirt. W pod fancy, save her very intimate friends, are aware of the ex- ccedingly romantic nature of Jenny Lind’s marringe, not so many years ago, to Mr. Otto Goldschmidt, who is perhaps fully fifteen years her junior, and, although a bald-headed, rather el- deriy leoking gentleman, still appears to be much younger than his u\‘cnwd wife. When Jenny Lind came t& America Sir Jules Benedict also came a8 her accompanist. He was obliged to return for some reason suddenly to Eng- land, and the great singer suddenly be- thought her of a poor youn German musician, whom she hns met some time before in Germany, and as soon as possible secured his services in the place of Sir Jules Bene- dict's. The young man, like all who came within sound of the magical voice, soon became Jenny Lind’s ardent admirer and presently her slave. Never dreaming that he might in any way hope for a return of his passion he determined to leave her, and upon an- nouncing this fact and_telling her he could no longer endure her perfect in- differenco to him she told him of her concealed love ‘for him, and they soon went together to England, where they were married and have since lived. Their present residence is I Morton Gardens, Bolton, 8. W.,and is a com- fortable rather than a pretentious abode. It is full of souvenirsof Jenny Lind's early triumphs, and there are also many valuable pictures. A large portrait of the Princess Christian is hung in a con- spicuous place, and s the gift of her royal highness, who was a favorite pupil and is now a warm friend of Mme. Lind- Goldschmidt, often coming to visit her in the most informal way. Jenny Lind is also a great favorite with the queen and the royal family generally, Mme. Lind-Goldschmidt has three children one daughter and two sons, none of them, however, having the least musical talent. One is in the army. There is little left of the once glorious voice of Jenny Lind, and she rarely uses it at all except in instructing scme pupils how to render a passage of a song. She is a most charitable woman and for some years had had a class of ten poor girls whom she teaches twicea week at her own home, and prepares for opera and concert. She is, however, very careful in selecting for this class only those who have very decided tal- ent and unusual natural voice. The failing health of “the greatest singer that has ever lived” will deprive many a poor girl of her valuable instruction, and perhaps the musical world of some brilliant stars. s e ey A Dumb Woman Resumes Talking. New Haven News: A reliable physi- cian in Danbury relates a remarkable case of curing n woman who had been unable to utter a syllable in two years, She had been treated by a number of doctors for her loss of voice, but to no purpose. This physician satisfied him- self that there was no disease of the organ of speech, or any derangement, Ho concluded that she could speak if only she would be influenced to exert the will power. I'rom a conversation with her, carried on in writing, he dis- covered that she had great faith in mi- raculous cures, and thought she could only be relieved in some such way. He found, too, that she was superstitious. He concluded to try the effectof a little mummery upon her. Accord- ingly, one morning when visiting her he sat down by a table some five min- utes without speaking, as if in wrapt meditation. He suddenly jumped up and told the woman thné’ he was now right, that he was going to cure her on on a certain day. He' then gave her minute directions in respect to it. He told her that on the day he should come to the house at 10 a. m. that he should first give three raps upon the window, and then he should go to the front door and give two raps; that when the door opened he would be found standing with _both hands upon the door post and his head leaning upon them; that the door to her room must be opened wide, and that he would walk in with measured tread, and when he got to her bedside he should say:, “Good morning,” and that she wouf answer in reply, ‘‘Good morning, doc- tor.” On the appointed day he aid just, as he said ho semuld do, and when he said *‘Good morning” promptly made tho w"tj’" ing, doctor,” in a loud, strong voice. She seemed utterly astonished herself, but said she felt that what the doctor said would be true, and firmly belioved that he had wrought a miraele in her cure. m;;“ of tri to her she “‘Good morn- e A MODOC WARRIOR. An Indian Tribe That is Rapidly Dwindling Away. Yreka Union: The Modocs on their native heath were as determined a tribe of Indians as ever attempted to remove the dandruff from the heads of their white brothers. It cost millions of money and dozens of valuable lives to subdue them when they put on their war paint a few years uEu and com- menced to raise Cain and the hair of the settlers. No tribe of equal number ever cost the government half as much trouble as the Modocs. The remnants of this once powerful tribe are being slowly extinguished by inter-marriage and consumption, on their reservation in the Indian territory. Two of their William Clinton and the his- m Feithfull, called at our Thursday. The former is a bright young man who was but a child when his people were wrestling for su- premacy with the United States govern- ment. He is well educated, speaking and writing the English language fault- lessly. In'speaking of his people he said: “There are not many of us now, death having reduced our number to less than ninety, and in a few years we will not have o living representative. The cli- mate does not agr servation, and many are slowly dying from consumption. I beliove if they wore brought back to California they would recover, Icame out here four- teen months ago with five of my people, whom it was thought would die before they reached their old home. Only one died and the other four have entirely recovered. Iam going back to-morrow to sell off my posseasions and will return with as many of my people who are sick as my money will bring.” Clinton spoke with feeling, and seems to be anxious that his tribe shall not be- come extinet. Accompanying Clinton was Willinm Feithfull, who said that he elso was on his way to Indian territory. Feithfull is well udvanced in years, and his stiff, wiry hair will soon be gray. During the Modoe outbreak he fought from the ng to the close with Captain Juck, houor and principle than that noted chie Through Clinton, an int spoke freely of his part in the wa can speak very good English, but says he hates to use the langunge of o ruce that has done him so much wro: “We were being wronged,’ Lfull, “and had to fight. After- ward we were sorry we started on the war-path, but were afraid to stop, for Captain Jack said we would be killed anyway. and might as well die fight- ing. Lots of times sowe of us weuld go to Jack and say that wo would fight no more, but wo would make a long wfieh and we would agree to fight on. hen Captain Jack planned to deceive the commissioners and murder them made up my mind to go and warn them, but I was watched so_closely that I could not get away. I then senta squaw namod Toby Riddle and she warned Colonel Meacham, but they be- lieved in Jack and not in me. ~Dr. Thomas was killed. ~Colonel Meacham was in Indian ',orrllm‘*l aftorward and guve mo 810 for saving his life. Lots of times I could bave killed white men, but never did. I have oue squaw and am going home to get her out here whero she will bo happy. 1 have no children.” . A Dead Beat Bear. Jacksonville Times-Union: As pas- songer train No. 6 on the F. R. & N., from Cedar Key to Jacksonville, was passing through what is known as the Gulf Hammock, at a point about twelve or fifteen miles out from Cedar Koy, some cattlo on the track caused the train to slacken speed almost to stop. The train was composed of an engine and tonder, a combination car, contain- in% o compartment for expross atone end, a place for mail in the center, and the other end being used as a baggage car, and two passenger coaches. ‘When the train slowed up to prevent running over the cows a large black bear trotted leisurely out of the woods and climbed up the platform to see, probably, if there was anything of an eatable nature aboard. He had gotten on the front platform of the combina- tion car, and, finding the door open, decided to continue his search in tho interior. Inside ho found three nice strings of fish, all of which were soon transferred to his stomach, except the entrails, which were carefully deposited on the car floor. l)urlnfi the time the bear was taking his lunch the baggagemaster, Mr C. Mahoney, came down '.hruugh the car, whistling “Captain Jenks.”” When he arrived at the door of the express car he threw open the door, with the pucker from the whistling still on his lips. ‘When he saw the occupant of the ex- press compartment he says that he can- not remember whether his heart tried to climb out over his standing collar or whethor it got down in his shoes. The next thing he remem- bers distinctly was finding himselt back in the coach, breathlessly reciting the tale of his discoveries to the con- ductor. The usually amiable conductor muttered something like ‘‘got ’‘em again,” and went to the car to investi- ate. When Mr. Dewson returned rom taking a peep at the bear his c;‘p wouldn’t quite come down to his head, and he was fully convinced that it was no fallacy of the baggagemaster's brain. ‘When the train started up after the stop the swaying of the car shut the door, and all thought that an important capture had been made. The bear soon became tired of his ride and looked about for means of egress. Nothing ap- peared so vulnerablo to attack as the windows in the side of the car, which were protected by iron rods about a half inch in diameter. He selected one of theseand clawed the woodwork about it very badly. He then evidenly caught two or throe of the iron rods with his paws, and giving them a hug broke an twisted them off clean. His lumbering body was then forced through the aper- ture and struck the ground like a rub- ber ball. He turned two or three somer- sets and ambled off into the woods. This story is vouched for by the train men as being entirely true. The car shows plainly the marks of the sharp claws, while the twisting off of the iron rods gives evidence of the power exerted in the hug. e A Southern Mountaineer. Atlanta Constitution: He was a big strapping fellow, probubly twenty years old and weighing 180 pounds. As he walked into tho police station yesterday afternoon, his shoeless feet made no noiso. “I'm from Ducktown, Tenn.,” he said in response to Captain Couch’s ques- tions. ~ “My name is William Wurd] an’ I come to 'ton’ United States court.’ He was a typical mountaineer, strong and not bad-looking. He wasn’t much of a dude in his cotton shirts and home- spun pants. This was the first sight of a oit{. His mountain home is fifty miles from a railroad, and in order to reach Atlanta he walked those fifty miles. He had never seen a railroad or a train of cars before, had never owned a book, could neither read nor write, knew nothing of what are generally termed the com- forts of life—yet was happy. The oflicers about the station house took an interest in him and began ply- ing him with questions. He had beén subpaenaed to appear in the United St witness in an t distillery case. He had come 150 miles, and is entitled to 10 cents per mile as mileage. “Did you ever have that much be- fore?” asked Captain Couch. “No, I reckon not. Never saw that much before.” “What do you do?” “0, I work for a fellow. I don’t get any pay. He told me he’d do the right thing by me. Ian’t going to work for that any more. Would stay here if I could get something to do.” He was asked to sit down. He looked suspiciously on the chair pointed out to him, shook it gently, and sat—on the doorstep. Of course he didn’t know anything about making corn whisky, but he had hunted, and had brought down many a deer and turkey. Do you use caps on guns up there?” “A few of the follers have them new guns, but flint and steel is good enough for most of us.” He looked it. Later in the evening he was offered some supper, but he had his hunk of venison and corn-bread with him. Then he curled up on the floor of the court room, and in a few minutes was sound asleep, free from care, and happy. Rl It ot Killing Alligators Vor a Living. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Thomas Nevitt, of New Orleans, better known in the south as *“‘Alligator Tom,” is in town, and will remain a few days. Ne- vitt is quite a well known character in the south, where for twenty years he has followed his peculiar occupation of kill- ing alligators, earning a living by sell- ing th hide and meat. He was orig- inally a native of Ohio, but moved to the south at an early age, and has since re- sided in the vicinity of New Orleans. Nevitt is now forty-two years of age, but is as active as ever, and is never so happy as when in pur- puit of his favorite game. He works from New Orleans right along through Florida, and kills several hundred alli- rators during the course of a season. Ie kills the animals with a rifle. A great many authorities have maintained that the place to shoot an alligator is in the eye, ()ul Nevitt claims not. He says that if shot in this portion of the body an alligator will “sink, and that the wound will heal. The ball must be di- rected Lo a point just back of the fore leg, whcre for an’ineh thero is a place unprotected by natural armor, Very often Nevitt picks up young animals, whieh bring v rendy market. The skins of ulligutors are now worth from 20¢ to G0c, nnd the chief source of profit is from the sale of meat, which is said to be delicious. The tail is cut off and thon the body sliced in the chape of stoaks, . Nevitt tells many wonderful stories of his thrillin riences during his many yoears of hunting the scaly alligator, [ — An Ingenious Advertisement. Noew York Telogram: The choapest and most ingenious advertisement now visiblo is that of a Fulton street hatter, Hung toa wlegr::fm pole in front of his premiscs is & card board sign with the uestion on it, “Are you color blind?" n the oenter of the card s the name of ing red, and in the o a white diamond with black., Below is another perfectly black, ex- cept for & diamond shapod space in the conter similar to the one above. Be- tween these two cards is the informa- tion that “'if you look stoadily for thirty seconds at the diamond in the name and then transfer your gazo to the dia- mond below for thirty seconds more you will seo on the blank card the name you saw on the above, If the name you seo the second time is red, your oyesight is all right; i not red, you are color blind. This is an infallible test. And of the thous- ands that daily pass the sign it is safe to eay that 40 per cent try their eye- sight and see at the same time a sight that tops the other two—to the offect that at no place in_the city can you buy headgear 8o cheaply as within. This natural phenomenon, for such it is, is caused, scientists say, by the bright flame being photographed on the retina of the eye by refiected light, and when one looks at a white space the photograph gradually appears to you as if part of the sign. Then as slowly as it came, occupying about thirty seconds to come and go, it fades away,as a photographic plate would were it exposed to the light with- out first boing treated by acids, ete., to render the refloction permancnt. The Fulton strect man’s test, how- ever, is not infallible, for a man may be ablo to distinguish red, yet, were he color blind, yellow would appear to be green and blue brown. The signs cost, altogother, about $1.50. Tho value of the ndvertissng, os- timated by an advertising agoent, and from a cold business standpoint, is $40 per day. . 5 Duel With a Snake. Last Sunday, says a Fririta, Idaho, dispatch, aboy named Monroe Keys fought a desperate battle with a rattle- snake in a gulch about four miles from this plade. Monroe is a stout boy of fourteen years, and accompanied by his two sisters, by some years the seniors of Monroe, startod from tho house to the spring, a short distance away, to get a pail of water. When near the foot of the slant to where the sprind was, to their surprise the ]mrty discoveed a huge rattlesnake, which lay coiled a few paces in their lead. The appear- ance of the young couple scemed to en- rage the rattler to such an extent that it at once commenced slashing its tail and hissing with such fury that the noise could be heard for a consider- able distance awny. Not wanting to be further disturbed the huge reptile made a dash at the crowd, springing far into the air and falling on the ground. The boy remained very much composed, and with the determination of a youn, warrior calmly took off his belt an attacked the snake in a fight to death. After a struggle for some time the snake made & final spring at his antagonist, and its terrible fangs were clinched on either side in the muscular part of the boy’s arm, just above the elbow. After the snake’s hold had been broken it dropped from the bleeding wound to the round and started to run, but still hav- ing the determination to kill his enomy, the boy scized it by the tail and, in swinging itaround his head, fortunately, undoubtedly for the = boy, tho reptile’s head struck a bowlder which lay close by and was crushed, caus- ing death. Without a moment’s dolay,a messenger was summoned to this city for o physician. When Dr. Fortner and the messenger returned, in com- pany with B. B, Bower, of this city, the unfortunate 1ad had been well treated with liquor and his life saved. Dr. Fortner extracted the clotted blood from the wound, and administered such other treatment a8 was necessary, and left the young man in a fair way to re- covery. The snake was examined, and was found to be of the genuine diamond stripe, the most isonous, measuring four and a half loa{xi)n length and fully fixe inches through, carrying twelve monster rattles. The boy was of very robust stature, and fully the equal of the snake in physical strength. L ill, representing The 1 Nows company, Chicago, is at room 96, Paxton, with a beautiful line of samples of books, stationery, and fancy goods for the holiday trade.” Doal- ers from tho country and city will do well to call and inspect the line. A Mother's Courage. Pall Mall Gazette: Every one is fa- miliar with the story of the mother whose child had been “carried off by an eagle, and who, to rescue her child, climbed alone to the eyrie from which the boldest mountaineer shrank bacle appalled. This stock illustration of the force of the maternal instinct is now capped by a bear story from Savoy. A bear having killed a shep- herd boy, the villagers organized a hunt for the animal. The mother, armed with a gun insisted upon accompanyin, the party. They came back. She dis not. Vext day the poor woman was found lying in a secluded spot, her dress in rags, her arms crushed and her face covered with blood. At her side was a huge bear quite dead, its head smashed by a discharge from the gun which she had takcen with hor. Tho hops is entor- tained that she may eventually recover, but the woman has not yet been able to give an account of her struggle with . the bear which had killed her child, which must have been terrific. 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