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

I T .i Fast Trains to the Missouri River. The determination of the Burlington cond to reduce the time of travel be- tween Chieago and the Missouri river five hours, commencing December 4, has naturally aroused the managers of othes lines, who last Tuesday were in conference in Chicago to consider the situation. The proposed action of the Burlington was notregarded with favor, but it was understood that it would be adhered to, and it was admitted thatthe effect would be to compel all the other roads to meet the time reduction. No definite action was taken at the Chicago conference, but it is inevitable that so far as the lines from Chicago to Omaha are concerned they will have to come to the new arrangement. It may safely be assumed that early in December all the roads running be- tween these cities will reduce their schedule time five hours, making the trip in seventeen hours instead of twenty-two, as at present. There is no sound reason why this change should not have been made long ago. Travel between Chicago and Qmaha is at present at the average rate of a fraction over twenty-three miles an hour, an unnecessarily slow speed, that renders the trip a very tedious one and deprives those traveling on business of valuable hours. Under the new arrange- ment the average rate of travel will be about thirty miles an hour, which is not at all excessive, and the time gained by those to whom time is valuable in doing business between Chicago and Missouri PUBLISHED EVERY MORN TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily (Morning Edition) including Sunday ¥, One Year vesaninee or 8ix Months. 'or Three Months. ... .20 The Omaha Sunday ek, mailed to any ad- dress, One Year.. .. fagireies 2 00 OMARA OFFIC N AM STREET. Nuw Yonk 10%, ROOM 06, TRIBUNE BULL ING. WASHINGTON Orrice, No. b} Foum TEENTH BTRERT. CORRESPONDENCE, All_communicat Nlnlhui news and editorial_matter should be addressed to the EmTor or e Ber. 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We have not the * month of November, 3 a 5 coples: for Decemt e 7 a doubt that the roands also 1K, will find that the change will not be without some advantages to them. In supplying a faster service the ronds will for July 14,068 coples % . 91 cople Septeinber, 14, 4 find it necessary to give asomewhat October, 1887, 14,35, more carcful attention than they have GEO. T £worn to and subscribed in’ m; been giving to the condition of their y of October, A. D, 187, ) road beds. There is no oneof them who caunot improve in this direction, and under the changed conditions they will be compelled to do so. In a word, the proposed new arrangement is an important step forward that must bring 1IEF OF POLICE SEAVY has won his spurs in the fight, but he should not lose his head over the famous vic $1. Loulsis clamoring for a mew | other improvements, from all of which union depot. It will not perhaps be | the teaveling publie will derive advant- moddled after the union cow-shed of | ages, and which are to be welcomed as Omaha. gratifying evidences of prog New England’s 111 Temper. It is from the New England senators that efforts to obstruct a settlement of the fisheries dispute, unless their view of what should be done is complied with, will chiefly come, and among these the leading spirit is Frye, of Maine. The senator has shown great solicitude in this matter at all times, and the tend- cwey of this has not been strongly fav- orable to o setslement by diplomatic metLods. It has been quite evident from the first that of all the plans sug- gested the Maine senator regarded most favorably that of retaliantion, and if we remember rightly he is on record as one of the warmest advocates of such a policy. The senator is a very earnest and aggressive man, if lacking some- what in breadth and the higher quali- fications of statesmanship, and having recently expressed his disgust with the fisheries commission and de- claved his opposition to any treaty ar- rangement, saying frankly that he’ pre- fers annexation, there is no uncer- tainty as to where he will be found when this subject comes before the sen- ate, as it must do, very earty in the sea- son. Other New Eungland senators may not be willing to go so far as Mur., I but very likely nome will have the courage to champion & more conservi- tive, intelligent and practicable policy such as & majority of the people outside of th seetion believes to be desirable and proper under the circumstances. Tt remains to be seen to what extent the senators of other states will be disposed to indulge the somewhat unreasonable temper of New England on this subject. ‘o if it shall appear that the an- nexation remedy is gencrally approved by the people of that section, as may be fairly inferred from the preference given it by Mr. Frye, it will be the imperative duty of the senators representing other sections to give New England to understand that that must be the very last resort instead of the first. The country does not want to ex- tend its area northwerd by absorbing any part of the British dominions, cither by purchase or conquest, and the man who advises such a course is not a wise counsellor. As we have already said in reference to this controversy, it can bd settled on o fair and just basis it approach ed 1 the right spirit. We have no doubt as the situation now stands the advantage of the facts and arguments is with the United ate: but there will have to be mutual conc sion, and two enlightencd nations ought to be willing to make thisin order to maintain friendly relations and continue the peaccful contest for ma- terial supremacy which for three-qua ters of a century has gone on to the im- measurable advantage of both. The people of this country desire in connee- tion with the matter only what is just, and this can undoubtedly be wuch more certuinly secured by pursuing a fair, candid and honorable course, evidenc- ing good will and a sincere desire to perpetunte peaceful relations, than by attempting to coerce conditions by any sort of meunaces, If such a course fol- lowed as far as the nation could with reason be asked to go fail to effect a set- tlement, it will then be time to seri- ously consider what other action our rights and our honor call for. The ill temper and relentless sentiment of New England may be given a reasonable latitude to vent itself, but it must not be nitted to divect the policy of the ion in dealing with the fishery dis- pute. PAT Forp says he doesn't care a nick for his seat in the council since he can't get his hoarders on the police force. S'moutrage. MANUFACTURES make great citios. They should be encouraged and fostered to insure permanent employment for workingmen. ‘WE have given the railroads the free- dom of the city with miles of right of way through public thoroughfares. Now let us do something for mills and factor- ies. MINNESOTA prohibitionists declare high license a failure, Yet this does not make it so0. Those familiar with the Towa prohibition luw declare prohibi- tion a failur Now PREPARE for the meeting of con- gress and the presidential message. But every cloud has its silver lining. The holidays follow hard upon those dreary days, Dr. PARKS is going back to Eng- land. He says he is not tired but dazed by the size of the country. We advise him to wait until the daze has time to settle into clear daylight, TRE New York policemen are raiding the bucket shops, and some of the pro- prictors are being arrested. Yet .when New York is short on gamblers the mil- lennium will have come, ThE alleged illegal consolidation of the Atchison & Nebraska railroad, as discovered by Mr. Dawes, is o considerable comment. Attorne eral Leese promises to fully inve the matte Gen- gate SENATOR EVARTS announces emphat- ically that he will not be in the pre dential race next year. A few more such cheerful announcements from pos- sible candidates, would greatly relicve eee—— s said that the sentiment against ion i1t Dakota is gaining ground in the territory since the recent election. The reason for this change is the hostil- ity on the part of resident demoratsto form. admission in an — Tur Washington “‘rumor bureau™ has something now. This is that the pres dent will let Mr. Lamar remain in the cabinet and nominate some one else for the bench. The rumor bureau hasa hard time of it with Mr. Cleveland. A REMARKABLY brillinut meteor was seen to hover over Los Angeles re- cently. It pnused for a moment over the city and then shot upward and out of sight. It probably bad a glimpse of the price of real estate in that locality and hastily concluded to go back into spac Mz, H. RiIpER HAGGARD is coming to America to lecture. Mr. Haggard is very much dissatisfied to know that American publishers have taken his ‘books and given him no royalty. So he comes to get even with Americans on the lecture platform. As THE time for the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America draws near rival claimants spring up in all directions. Ireland now contends that one of her navigators came to this country about the miadle of the sixth century and penetrated inland as far as the Ohio riv Ciry ATTOH is very w indignant over Councilmun Lee's reso- lution to relieve him from defending damage suits against the city. Mr, ‘Webster claims he has hired an assist- ant expressly to attend to the city's business. This is precisely what is ob- jectionable. Mr. Webster receives 93,000 a yeaf as city attorney, and he should either devote himself to the duties of that office or resign, The city eannot afford to have its important busi- wvess done by substitutes, . No More Nonsense. And now comes the hand organ of the anarchists’ section of the city coun- cil, which has for months sought to fo- ment lawlessness, disorder and riot in the city of Omaha, and attempts to ad- minister a rebuke to the pupers that have raised their voice against the star- ion of policemen and the policy that has advertised Omaha abroad us the rowdy metropolis of the west. Why should the newspapers that have stood up for law and order and good gov- ernment be condemned and branded as incendiaries? Is it because they have refused 1o ~lay lickspittle to councilmen THE OMAHA DAILY BEE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1887, who arrogated to themselves powers which were not conferred upon them by law? Could there be anything more de- grading in journalism than this venal catering to lawlessness in exchange for a few hundred dollars of city advertis- ing? What other incentive inspiresthe “ofticial organ™ of the council with its insolent thrusts at contemporaries that have not seen fit to prostitute them- solves to the support of policies that were palpably in violation of the char- ter, and were tending to incite resist- ance to the police authorities? But the organ of the council goes a great deal further than merely prod- ding the papers that have upheld good government in Omaha. It foreshadows a reactionary programme on the part of the council which law-abiding citizens of Omaha will not tolerate. This is nothing more nor less than an attempt to continue the starvation policy by withholding the necessary levy for an efficient police force, Speaking for the law-defying majority of the council, the Republican insists that the con- trol of the police by a commission appoitited by the governor makes the police force of Omaha the creature of state government ‘‘and the council who represent the peopte have no voice in this control.” This is simply a repeti- tion of the pettifogging by which the bell-weather of the council has for months led a lot of ignoramuses by the nose. It isthe most arrant humbug. It is true that the governor appoints four ovt of the five commissioners, but they are citizens of Omaha, and just as much in accord with local self-government as it they had been appointed by the mayor. The people elect our dis- trict judges, but when a vacancy occurs on the district bench it is filled by the governor. Is such an appointment in violation of the spirit of local self-gov- ernment? The milk in the cocoa nut is the fact that the control of the police has been taken from the council. This was a re- form demanded by the people and granted by the legislature because the citizens of Omaha hadincorporated this reform into theic metropolitan charter. It is true that the charter originally provided for the appointment of the commission by the mayor, but the change was made through the pernicious interference of the notorious combine in which the edi- tors and managers of the Republican were chief factors. They should their own medicine like men and ce: whining. THE second campaign of the people of Atlanta on the liquor question will come to an end to-day, and the election to- morrow will determine whether prohi- bition is to continue in that city or give place to a license system. The present campuign has been even more heated and bitter than the former one, business partners being divided, personal feeling running high and animosities being created that may hold for a lifetime. There is n strong array of earnest and zealous men on either side, and political affiliations have ‘now, as in the first campaign, had nothing to do with de- termining on which side of the question aman would place himself. There has been a most liberal expenditure of elo- quence on behalf of continuing prohibition. Mr. Henry W. Grady being perhaps the most brilliant advocate of that side, but the avgument of facts prosented by the champions of license, showing that pro- hibition during the past two years has been a failure, is more forcible to the minds of practical people than the rhetoric of the other side. Tt is shown that since prohibition went into effect the number of the distilleries in oper- ation in Georgia has more than doubled, and the collector of internal revenue reports that his collections for the cur- rent fax year will be $75,000 greater than the last tax year, It is also shown that in the month of October there went into Atlanta 32,500 gallons of spirituous liquors. which were dealt out in part by fifty-seven places in which liquor is sold by the drink in that prohibition city. Surely such facts amply demonstrate that prohibition is not u shining sue- cess in Atlanta. Each side is confident of success in to-morrow’s election, and as before the colored vote, which holds the bulance of power, is the uncertain fuctor. PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has quite generally shown a disinclination to give official position to men who have re- ceived a boom, and he is especially averse to selecting those who have cured liberal and fulsome newspaper advertising. He. apparently proceeds upon the hypothesis that men who are vigorously backed by politicians and the press cannot be sufficiently free from obligations and entanglements to enable then: to be entirely independent in their official capacity. He may have changed in this, as in some other re- spects, so that the newspaper puffery Mr. Don Dickinson, of Michigan, has been getting may not operate agninst him as a candidate for cabinet honors, yot his friends ave reported to be very apprehensive that it will. A great deal will depend upon how anxious Mr. Cleveland is to secure the fullest advantage of Mr. Dickinson's alleged ability as a political manager, The administration is confessedly very weal in this direction, the retirement of Mr. Manning taking from it the only skillful and far-seeing politician it pos- sessed. Vilas is a blunderer,and Whit- ney's ability in political management is not suficient to spread over more than one congressional district. Therve is really no one near the president except Colonel Lamont who can be depended on for safe and effective political servico on an extended scale, and munifestly it would not do to commit the national campaign to the control or manipulation of a private secretary. If, therefo the president can be convinced that Don Dickinson is the marvelous manip- ulator of poli his friends claim, de- spite the fact that his work in Michigan last year resulted in largely increasing the republican vote. doubtless in his desperate need Mr. Cleveland will take him, albeit his friends have had re- course to newspaper puffery and other meretricious means to give him notori- ety, implying that he iscarrying a as postmaster general he would be ex- pected to cancel. |, 4 One thing is patent to every intelli- gent observer. Mr./Hascall and his fol- lowers cannot afford to ignore it. The citizens of Omaha will stand no more nonsenso about their poliee manage- ment. The councilmen are their sevvants, and as such they are expected not only to submit to the laws as interpreted by the courts, but they are in duty bound to provide the necessary ways and means for ample protection to life and property. attempt to continue the re policy of starving the police or to re- duce the force toa mere skeleton will be resented. — LOYAL L. Symitit is now figuring in the Chicago courts, Mr. Smith posses- ses some of the qualifications of a states- man and business man. He knows the use of a brass band and the benefits to be derived from advertising. He lacks, however, the more essential require- ment—common honesty. It is claimed that some of the money sharks are getting 5 per cent a month on thirty day loansin many parts of Nebraska. Such unscrupulous usurers should not be tolerated. There is no business in the world, least of all farm- ing, that will justify the paying of over 10 per cent per annum, KEEP up the boom and don’t stop un- til Omaha has passed the 200,000 popu- lation milestone. PROMINENT PERSONS. Mr. Ruskiu realized £4,900 from his books last year., 1t is said that H. Rider Haggard is coming to this country to lecture, The widow of General Thomas Francis Meagher will spend the winter in Rome, 1t is reported in Buffalo that Mr. William D. Howells will spend the winter in that aty Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, is going to do his best this winter to have a navy ) tablished on Puget Sound. General Butler has become a pronounced cold water advocate. He will present Colby university with a handsome fountain. Unele Billy Freen, of Petershurg, TIL, was a warm friend of Abrahum Lincoln in Lis youth and used to conch Abe in grammar State Senator Fountain H. Ketchum, of St. Louis, has been found guilty of having added some bugus names to a registry list in that city. W. K. Vanderbilt has a complete collection of Louis Quatorze furniture, purchused at the sale of the private effects of the late King Ludwig of Bavaria. Hugh T. Jewett, the noted railway ox-pres- ident fell from a porch at his son’s house, in Hartford county, Md., a few days ago, and in consequence s eritically il Itis said that John L. Sullivan has in- creased his vocubulury o 500 words. But he will never make an orator. 1t is in dumb- bells, not in elocution, his path to glory lies. s an observer, speaking of Secretary “Personally he is the best sed and most aristocratic looking mem- ber of the cabinet, nog sxcepting Mr. Whit- ney." Sam Jones recently lectured in Conn. The original title of the discourse was, “Get There E1i," but Le said that he had learned thut the people of Hartford ob- jected to slang, und he had therefore, loft off Hartford, the “Eli,” and named his lecture “Get There.” He got there to such an extent that some of his audicnce went away in anger. B. Haskell, formerly of the Boston d, is in Atlant , making o ments for the establishing of a daily paper. Hehopes to make it “the biggest paper in the south.” Col. Robert (i, Ingersoll recently wrote to afriend: “Cleveland’s luck made him pre dent, and his love made him popular.” Clev land's two “L's."" thercfore, have, contra to the laws of poker, beaten Blaine's three SR’ Charles Henry Jones Tyler, United Stafes minister to Liberia, who is now in this coun- try on leave of absence, is a fat, slock, jaunty young colored mun who dresses in the height of fashion and seems to cujoy life to the ut- wost. His position as American representa- tive in Liberia pays him $,000 a year, and he has little or nothing to do o -Candidates Appre Lowell Citizen, Haste is inadvisable at any time. running for an office, for exwmple, is likely to be tripped up by s very smail obstacle. —— Where the Jaw Fails, New Orleans Picayune, Men who bite off more than they can chew are no worse off than those who waut to chew more thun the an bite off. iate This. A man Recipe for a Philosopher. Puck. Tt is the easiest thing in the world to be a philosopher. All you have to do i truths you don’t believe and other people believe, either. to utter can't make Named for the Occasion. Minncapolis Tribune, Kilman C. Justice was the singularly ap- propriate name of & gentleman who was hanged at Hywassee, Pa., the other day. His parents must have kuown what he was coming to when they named him. ——— He Understands the Growler, Pittshurg Chronicle. A recent magazine writer wants some wealthy man to offer & prize of §100,000 for the discovery of some means of opening com- munication with the lower animals. Why not use as medium a man who has gone to the dogs ———— The Ship. C. Mackay. A king, a pope and a kaiser, And & queen—most fair was she— Went sailing, sailing, sailing, Over a suuny sea. And amid them sat a beggar, A churl of low degree; And they all went sailing, sailing, Over the sunny sea. And the king said to_the kaiser ‘And his comrades fair and free, “Let us turn adrift this beggar, This churl of low degree : For he taints the balmy odors That blow to you and me, As wo travel suiling, sailing, Over the sunny sea.” “Tho ship is mine," said the beggar, “That churl of low degree: “And we're all of us sailing, sailing, To the grave, o'er the sunny nd you may 1 ou eannot, Gt rid of wi No,not for your crowns and sceptres— My name is Death ! quoth he o ———— Omaha a Won Ml City. Cheyenne Leader, The Denver Republican says the move- ment among Omaha business men to raise the necessary funds to pay the expenses of the Republican national couvention is silly, Lecause the couvention will be held in a city —Denver or Chicago, for instauce. *No Mis- heavy load of political obligations which | souri mud hole wili gver get it," the paper adds. This {s about the worst specimen of hide-bound local bigotry we have lately come across. Denver is a charming city, beauti- fully located and filled with enterprising citi- zens, but admitting all this, it cannot on the other hand be denied that Omaha is one of the most wonderful cities in America. That its citizens are enterprising s evidenced by the fact that they are subscribing liberally to meet the necessary expenses of the conven- tion, and until Denver makes good its claims to at least that extent it should indulge in no flippant criticism of the claims of a rival city. What Ou et Sl Surplus Taxes Could Do. Philadedphia Record. The biggest unfinished enterprise now on foot is the Panama ship canal, the construe- tion of which appears o empty the pockets and stagwer the faith of the French invest- ors. Butwith the surplus taxes unneces- rily wrung from American taxpayers wo uld finish the canal in six rs. Only 500,000,000 is needed to complete the job, i SIX TIMES A BRIDE. Unusual Marriage Record of a Lady ‘Who Has Just Died. Palmyra, N. Y., special to Cincinnati Times-Star: The acceet death of Mrs. Josephine Baxter, at her home in Trumansburg recalls to those who knew her the remarkable series of vicissi- tudes through which she passed during her eventful life. Her married life was an extraoadinary one, and in de- tail reads more like fiction than a story of real life, She was six times a bride and five times a widow. Born In Canandaigua, 32, her maiden name was Jesephine Tobor. As a child she was the acknowledged beauty of the neigh- borhood, and everybody who remembers voung ludy recalls her part vivacious and delicate manners. ), when she was eighteen years of age, she was sent to the Palmyra aca- demy. From the day of her arvival she was the conceded belle of the academy. Her affection soon set upon an im- pecunious but smart_young teacher in the academy named Odell, and one night in December '51, she eloped with him. Her father and mother had re- peatedly begged her to discard Odell, and when the announcement of the mar- riage was made they were wild with of. Josephine returned to Canan- un two weeks luteo, and stopping at a hotel theed, begged for a roconeilin- tion with her parents, who remained obdurate, and she went to Toledo to struggle for alivlihood with her hus- band. He beeame a teacher in o night school, and to make ends meet his young wife was compelled to do sewing in her rooms. In July, 1858, Odell died of copsump- stion, leaving the widow dependent on her own labor. She was too proud to return to her home and ask for help from her parents, but maintained her- self by her needlo until February, 1860, when' she married Clarence Cushman, a wealthy bachelor pork packer at Cins cidnatl. She was then twenty-eight, and, notwithstanding her hard toil for alivelihood, was as handsome as ever. She lived in quiet style, and no couple were ever more devoted to one another. Two children were born to them, but both died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Cushman went to Kurope in 1862 In Rome the husband _caught the Roman fever, of which he sud- denly died. The young womun, again a widow, returned " to London only to find that her husband had been insolv- ent for several weeks previous 19 his death. She was left with only a few thousand dollars, For a year or iwo she was a governess in the house of a Lon- don banker® and then, losing all of her money in an unfortunate speculation, she returned to America. years she was o ina New York dry June, 66, she was mi Y.. to Licut. Oscar United § to Fort Sully pily together, and Mrs. Willi came a favorite at the fort. In 67, her husband was drowned wife became for a third time a widow. Her fa who had heard of hisonly daughter's misfortunes, begged her to veturn to her home and be forgiven, but she would not go. For two yeurs she was in the family ofa Louisville me nt. She married Rev. Edward Lukes at Covington, Ky., in '69. Her husband was sent a little later as_Presbyterian missionary to India and she accompanied him. They made their home successively in India, Hong Kong and _Honolulu, in each of which places Mrs, Lukes was well known for her devotion to her husband, who was a consumptive. Mr. Luke died in the Sandwich Ts- lands in '74, and his widow made her way back to Americawith her husband’s body. Fora year she made her home with her brother near this place, then removed to Philadelphia, where she en- tered a private hospital agnurse. Among the patients to whom she ministered, was Graham 12, Estey gar and mo- lasses merchant at Orleans. fell desperately in love with his and after months of very wi ship, maveied her in Mar, happy home in New Ovle upby her roand neial lo: 3 Left a widow for the fifth time and broken in health and spirit, Mrs. turned to her brother’s hom s after her husband’s death. leswoman goods store. In »d at Nyack, N. Williams, of the ites urmy, and went with him ived hap- be- Dk, They ns was broken husband’s failure the next his suicide because of his a few For -al months she was very ill and was nlescing when her futher died of old age. Until '81 she lived with her brother, and about that time by with a wealthy and ret named Albert Baxter. married at Palmyra in '82. me acquainted :d gold miner Phey were The couple spent a or more in travel in Kurope * and Egypt. During has been the past year Mr. Baxter engaged in building a magnificent man- sion for thei ipancy, near Ithaca It w their intention to spend th remaining days there, and Mrs. Baxter, who had known so many disappoint- ments and bereavements, looked for ward with pleasure to her bright pros- pects. Butinall this there was still another disappointment for her. She was attacked about two months ago, when about to remove to her mausion, by a fatal discase. She died last Fri- day. S . He Owna His Man. Philadelphia Press: A rather singu- lar bet was made in this city on the night before election. No money was wagered, but it was agreed that the winuner should be privileged atany time within twelve months to eall upon the loser at any time, night or day, and in uny phace, and proclaim in a loud tone: “Town this man. He dare not den d 1 possess a seeret about his life that him completely in my power. He not refuse to do any thing 1 tell hir prove my assertion I will order him to every one within sound of my voice to champagne.” Imagine the situation, should this be sprung upon the unfortunate loser in a crowded cafe, or at . business meeting, or at a banquet! It was mutually agreed that no matter how offeusive the tone or manner may be the laser not resent it. The manner in which the gentleman who goton the wrong side of the fence avoids the gentleman who got on the right side in crowded placesis nmunin!(' {0y the loasts Ho has bean tiviag fo dread since election day. e OLDEST SCOUT IN THE WEST. Strange Career of Jim Baker, Bosom Friend of Kit Carson. THE OLD MANOF THE MOUNTAINS He Has Been a Hunter, Trapper and Indian Fighter — Taking Part in Al the Great Battles Against the Redskins, Denver correspondence of the New York World: In a humble home on Snake river, near the boundary line be- tween Colorado and Wyoming, lives Jim Baker. He is familiarly known as the Old Man of the Mountains. Ior over fifty years he has been hunter, trapper, scout and guido on the frontier. After half a century of thrilling adven- ture, both on the plains and in the mountains, his almost iron constitution refuses to yield its strength to changing time. He is now over eighty years of age, and many say older, but ho laughs at his years and says he is still young. His eye is as keen and quick as the eagle’s, even though the burden of four score years is resting upon him. His hair is long and silken and white as the mountain snows. The locks are curly, and, flowing far down on his shoulders, make him look verily the patriarch of the Rocky Mountain coun- try that he is. His is the most charac- teristic face on all the frontier, and no Westorn artist feels that he has achieved success until he has painted old Jim Baker as the finest type and the last of that old class of hunters who will ever live in the romance that has always given o mystery to the border land between civilization and the home of the savage. His fuce isas rough as the unhewn and rugged rocks, and the sharp rough features show the strength and nerve that has always chavacterized him. KIT CARSO! FRIEND. Kit Carson and Jim Baker for y were boon companions and_tried trusty frieuds. — Together they fought many a battle with the Indians, and went through hundveds of ad and hair-breadth escapes. H Carson spoke from experience when he suid, I have never met & man in all the Rocky Mountain country who had a nerve like Jim Baker's.” “They hoth married squaws and lived happily with them ker fell in love with o Shos- hone Indian maid, courted her and won her after the style of her tribe, and by her has raised a family of half-b well known in thewest. Son that Baker and Carson married sisters, but that cannot be stated as a fact, Jim Baker first began to be a promi- it figure on the frontier about the time of the coming of Fremont and Gil- pin, but he had acquired considerable fame as a hunter even before that period. The first time the Fourth of July was celebrated in the Rocky Mountain country was on the St. Vreain in 1843 and in that little band wer e mont, Gilpin, Lieutenant Maxwell, Jim Bak m\ Kit Carson. nor Gil- pin is not quite sure now that it was on the Fourth of July, but it was near that time and the object was the sume. The ic was hoisted and Fr er thundered its salute, One of Baker's first hard fights with the Indians was on Doniphan’s march at the time of the Mexi 1 wis scouting with Gilpin's part of the com- mand and came upon a band of Indians on the line of the Pandhandle. There was hot skirmish ;and the arrows of the rages came thick and fast, and Baker I other scouts was compelled to fall ck. The men intrenched themselves but it was two or three days hefore the Indians were driven back. There is now living ut Trinidad or near theve, this state, an old man who lost both legs in this fight with the Indians. It was the work of Jim Baker as a scout that saved Albert Sidney John- ston’s army from starving in his expe- dition against the Mormon cretary Floyd, under Buchanan’s administra- tion, planned a campaign against the Mormons, and about three regiments were sent out from Fort Leavenworth, and in_their trip across the plaind dragged along in weary, broken at- tachments. When the first of the com- mand reached Fort Bridges, the strag- glers with the commissary were cut off by the Mormons, and their provisions destroyed. Johnston was then sent out to take command, but before he could begin an active campuign winter had setin. Their supply of provieions was getting small, and they were afraid to buy from the Mormons, for fear they would poison them. Johnston then do- hed Captain Marcey with a detail o0s, N. M., for provisions and intrusting this command to Jim scout and guide, Baker 4 It was a long expedition, full of dan- i3 in midwinter. Over a thousand miles of an almost unknown countr Johnston and the nearest settlement. But what if there was snow on the trail? Jim Daker knew the way. On a recent visit to Denver Baker pointed out to a friend the spot on the Platte where ptain Marcey stopped a few days to st his men. it of the city of Den- r now covers that old camp ground, and Baker could hardly find the pl . But they made the trip in safety. pur chasing provisions of Lieutenunt Max- well and hor from Kit Carson, ex- pending about $100,000. The return was full of danger. There were hostile ians to guard against on the one side i Mormons on the other, was sev and several The times there was danger of mutiny among winter Marcey's command. perilous march, but Jim Baker's ve and patidnce and words of courage pulled them through, and Johnston's command of about three thousand men was saved. Jim Baker did good work with Gen- eral Harney at Ash Hollow, and, as the story is mow told in the wost, it was Baker who discovered the whereabouts of the Indians. In that fight was Spotted Horse, then only a common warrior, but who later became a great war chicf. After the battle many squaws and pappooses were eapturcd and the Indians fled. Baker was with the scouts that followed in pursuit, and he tells the story of how, later, the Indians wanted peace and of sccing Harney talk to them. He wanted the murderers given up within four days und they then could have their squaws and pappooses. Within the time specified thre Indians were surrendered, and wmong the number was Spotted Horse, Baker then told of how these Indians were sent to Washington instead of be- ing killed, and how Huchanan, with his own hands, hung a silver medal around the neck of Spotted Horse, In reward for this elem Spotted Horse,during the Indian wars on the piains,murdered and massacred over two hundred men, women and children along the Platte. Baker thinks that Spotted Iorse was in after years roasted to death by the Bannocks for treachery and that such a death was none too good for such a BAVARO. g Duels were as common in the west in those days as in the south, and the fol- 1t was a long und lowing story is told of Jim Baker chal. lonfi(ing Loft Hand, tho great war chiet of the Arapahoes. He was known by that namo by the whites as it was ro- markable to see an Indian who was left handed. His Indian name was Ni-Wot. A mountain stream and a little post- offico near Denver bear the name Ni- Wot, in honor of the old warrior. It wos carly in the sixties, when Jim Baker was living on Clear Creok, that he had excited the animosity and hat- red of Left Hand, On onc occasion Left Hand and & band of his tribe camped near Jim Baker's cabin. Believing that they were bent on mischief and that his old enemy intended tomake waron him, Baker, with rifle in hand, went alone to Left Hand's camp. The Indians wero amazed to soe Baker enter their camp alone, and much more so when they saw him walk up to Left Hand and say: “Is Left Hand the great chief and warrior of the Arapahoes, here for peace or war?" The chief, startled by the nerve and also the abrupt question of the speaker, hesitated a moment. “Which is it my Indian wants? "’ again said Baker. “Paleface no friend of Arapahoe,” re- Vh“d Left Hand. “*Me no afraid of Jim 3aker. He shoot rifle like Kit Carson, but Left Hand no afraid."” Angry words followed, and Left Hand shouted ou “*Me heap gres mad at paleface. fight, and fight now defiantly. “Fight with rifles?” asked Baker. “Left Hund no afeaid paleface rifle fight with rifle hundred yards." “Left Hand has spoken'like a warrior and T will fight,” replicd Baker, for he knew that he was mo than a mateh for any Indian with his rifle, and al- though the only white man in or near the Indian camp, he feared them not. The hundred yards wag paced off, and Baker and Left Hand took their places: hut before either had fived shot the Indians interfered and put end to the intended ducl. Baker th threw his rifle over his shoulder and v turned to his cabinand wasnever g wards molested by Left Hand, The old hunter took o great interest in the education of his two half-hreed daughters, and sent them to o convent, He had them taught music, and onco noona trip to Denver he bought the melodeon. Before leaving the city, after thinking the matter over, ho came to the conclusion that it would not be doing the fair thing to buy a melo- deon for one and not for the other, and, veturning to the musie store, bot another, and when he went back to tho mountains he took with him two me! deons—one for each daughter, these half-breed daughters is have wonderful strength. 1t is of her that on one oceasion, when milk= ing a cow, she became angry ab the at- tending calf, and seizing it by the tail, swung it over her head and thenee over the fence, 1 Baker is like n sphinx. brother iorof Arapahoes; t Hand come to shuking bis riflo His long life in the mountains and among the In- dians has made him one of the most ro- ticent of men. He refuses to talk about his exploits, and only oceasionaily fers to the great events of his life some pri talk with a friend. 1f try tointerview him italarms him woro than an ¢ o ear. J “Don't ask me any questions, he s in his dry, Dluff wiy; “you newspape fellers want o make o —— fool of m Such are some of the characteristics of old Jim Baker. A more honest man never lived. He has the cours f lion combined with the simplic child, and many a frontiersn ily has felt doubly safe beeause Jim Baker. with*his r] wias beneath the roof. Big hearted and loyal, and one who never de ted o friend. But his mission is over. His work is done. He will live in history as one of thoso who first opened the 1 and lod the way for a new civilization, though not a part of it. A Mystery Blackwood's - he Congo. Magazine: Having landed the woodcatters and mado everything right, we then—the e tain, Licutenant Dhanis and mys sat down to dinner, and soon aft was over 1 turned in, being tived, I should explain that there no enb- ins. Our sleeping 5 wees w at tho stern of the boat, the captain’s b farthest aft: our mosquito curt were fastened up to our sides, and our camp mattresses reached right across her, as she is only about six feet in the beam. Captain D.was in high spirits and kept playing tuneson a melo- dian we had with us; talking in the in- tervals of his home at Brusscls and his delight gt soon seeing it again. Pres- ently he poured ont three glasses of Portuguese wine and handed one to Lieutenant Dhanis and the other (under the mosquito curtain) to me. ted itand passed it out vin with SIS 100 strong: put some He added a little water Tang it I never | man. it’s pure d him sponk fter, T turned over to sleep, with the straing 1 had asked —ringing in my enrs. Next morning. inst of being ealled hy lim, as usual. Islept on until aroused by Lieutenant Dhanis, who came to mo white, seared face, asking: is the captain? odon’t 1 replied. believe he's in the Ysuid Dhanis, Of course | wag up hot. Sure h. there wag the captain’s bed—his clothes, boots, liat, all lying beside it: his mosquito- s soon and went of “Myosoti him to pls cartain tntorn showed theat nothing unusual had taken place, and hie could not have got ashore without awnkening cither Dhunis or myself, as the hoat wid anchored with her bow to the bank. We tioned the men, but none or heard anything splashes in 1l which no one on the Congo ev ) a5 the erocodiles and hippopotamii muy be heard splashing all night long How it happened will never be hear till the day of judgment; we could only come to the conelusion that he had got up in the night, fallen over the stern of the boat, and gone down (being unablo to swim) without a cry, perhaps never cven rising to the surface a second time, a8 the currcnt is very strong. We searched the sandbanks for milos down the river, and promised large re- wards to the natives for finding the captain’s hody or any traces of him, but in vain. Thesea may, but the upper Congo never gives up its dead. - - Nuggets By the Pint. Couer @' Alene Sun: The sight in Buckskin Guleh yeste would have made 1t} olde mincr's heart leap for joy. The surface gravel had been washed off, and the cut in the jagged bedrock for over 100 foet was a nuss of glittering gold. 1n Jlaces where it had | |y.».|) in lm.» creve ices it could be picked up by the spoon= ful. About a pint of nuggets, from $20 10 850 in weight, were picked up in the forenoon by Charles Dudle and about twenty pounds of gold had ulready been taken to the bank, which had been scooped out of the potholes. No very large pieces had been found; the largest would probably go over three ounces. The clean up, which will probably take two or three days yet to make complote, will be by far the largest ever made in the camp. It is estimated W resch ?'1‘!.{ pounds or in the neighborhood of $9 e