Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 12, 1887, Page 3

. whatever clse they could lay hands THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1987, ADVENTURES 0F A SCOUT. |'and. Sioux. 1 was deputized by the | u.n'-d up two or thyee times around, ead [ - A LYNCHING BEE AT RAWLINS. | the other two deperadoes were lmnvll company to go there and take charge of the station. my force consisting of five men an 1 one woman, the wife of one of Faul C. Bloom Details Some of His [ my nid« Bxperiences, hl'fl!:\u:‘l.‘\‘” uhave any trouble with the “Yes, we had two fights during the N THE GOVERNMENT EMPLOY: | first week. Our station v.,umu-nl of a log cabin and stable surrounded by a strong cypress scockade, A Brave Youth Among the Sloux— “Ons mght, shortly after midnight, Hhe Custer Mistaoke-Daaling one of our men who happe ned to be . awake heard a noise on the roof of the With the Road Azzais— cabin, and on going out discovered two Ge 1tobberies. Sioux Indinns trying to get into the hnul.w- llhn ugh the vln(lnnn\.ll\ulc ntly with t entio stealing our Bt & voporter of the Nashville | Noces whil par (i the sthtls cons American to Paul €, Blum: I under- | necting with the cubin. An alarm was stand that you have had a great deal of instantly given, and after a sharp fight experience upon .Hu- frontier {(1 in the twolye o filteen mon or squaws. . When government scrvice as & scout morning dawned we discovered, about “Yes," wasthe reply. 'L was born | a mile from the stockade, traces of a at Cooperstown, N ight | battle. vo prospectors who c years ago, and after residing there five {”;'1"1"'.“' er \:';'ni'rfv':ll"d ;vl"‘lfi‘l':ll l‘inl ! o Have ; it P hullets minus the : o years my parents moved tost. Puul, | (b LURCC diccoverod un old trapper Minn., then a thriving town of 5,000 or | 00 Marehant, who had - been eattip- 4,000 inhabitants, My father and 4wo | ing on the bottoms near our stockade, uncles became interested in Indian | lying on the open prairie, wh he had trading shortly after our avvival in | been left for dead by the Indian He Minnesota, and it is but natural 1 | was dangerously wounded in the breasty i 1 i and had heen scalped. - We took him to grew up with an infatuation for Ind A for Indian 1o siation, and af a trading and the varied and wild life of [ Caverul nuvsing he was able to the plains, as I frequently accompanied | Cook City, sixteen miles distant, where them upon their expeditions into the [ he thovoughly vecovered. Chippewn and Sioux nation v “In the spring I returned to the lint we drove off the reds, who numbered | started for the door, in what is known as murderers’ row. The . Escape of Jos. Chambers From and beside the graves was rl an Unenviable Fate. board to the memory of Chambers. drown ed o Joseph in the Platte while Stop -I":‘my pansed, then looked around mildly “revvonchful at Preseott, who ¢ ks e - \lmn‘ Wehind the b One of the party | New York Sun: For many year Oga- | egc aping capture CHURCHILL PARK CNAB H LE -M B o o BT | RRERIS i oo 1| Dl APCURT et W, | teder o e, Y hanced to be in Abiline. o X P Ie8 WA hille. Thve 1 CONSIRaHE BY sWEMAPE: man: tha whtel e G A man o6, Jonen Sireet, Retween h and | Wooa Carpets and Parquet Flooring. m--aln-.lg il R G IR assed me on the street one day whose | . Wb, Owaha, Nebrasia. \ Millinery and Notion showing no more emotion than a brass | PIACC hetween the ocenns un wWwiing | fuce was strangely familinr. 1 tur N B | s showing no inote emotion thun a brass | LIS ENEL B OUE e hine | lnce was ngely familiar. 1 turned LININGER & METCALF CO., S ame iy 0 J to my 1 asked wh Vils, 1. OBERFELDER & C ““Gentlemen, you've forgotten some- | Wiglt in Rawline in the fall of 1878, and UHRL S G said) 18 208 GhAMYYs, one mcfllmml lmlelnfllllx Wa!on: Carriages Tmporters & Jobbers of Im]“ry&lm thing. Please to pay folwhat you've | then Leame to the contlusion, that ‘life | of pur most respe tlzens™ Sud- xies, Ete. Wholesale, Omaba, Nebraska. tad.? in any other town would be tame and | jeyly the scene of the lynching at Raw- OR!NDORP . MARTIN, yer some-other tim the pleasures which | that “place could X b “iWall—we've got no money. Pay without A-.n'ilc‘m': tin‘comparison with ]‘;“M.""“.. ck tome: and 1 knew that = ; y ¢ the last time 1 had seen that ) fi rmmnninanan FONONOL e e ot happened, The | 8fford. No one alighting from the ears | wil \tanding under tree With & rops ‘mcnmm”fllfllflmem, fl[flnumlmfi J_T. ROBINSON NOTION GO., little white-livered euss of a Prescott | in the quiet street in Rawlins would be- | qround his neck. 1 toid my friend the e e e SN sprang over the bar like a cat, his long, | lieve that the many stories of bloodshed v, and he evidently doubted my san- P. P. MAST & CO Wholesale_Notions and ansm“ Gools white apron flying between his legs, | 101d of it were true. On one side of the | ity if not my verucity, He told me i S A B L VA —— and., before the Kentuckians conpre- | Yailroad track stood a big barn like | 4fat Chambers came to Abilene !@,‘L@HUHF IJYBIICKGYB Ul'l“l smm) VINYARD & SCHNEIDER, hended what was to_happen. he had his | building catled the - United vhe the tow fivs U Dk gt {he Toon Mol the 11y g | Hotel, ind on the othier a row of T S g It Jeer Notions and Geat's I‘nmsnmu Goods, started. Mo invested money in| “WINONA o toughs covered with two big horse pis- town lots and made n fortune. He was Pl LI tols, His face waa ns whito ns chalk, of which wat n b y on a promoter of schools and churck but 1 tell you his blue eyes blazed. In | gambling house attached i 5t the HOXE AYOR: Agricultural [mnlflmeflt&v%“aflml — O ey lcultural 08, 210 and 212 South was tulked of for the next mayor. ol un instani. after recovering from their "‘::“{'fl;:""l'(i-'"; _T;i‘g;);‘f"‘; A g lhv\unl atmy hotel ]“n..-.. a tall Lorner 14th and Nicl CONSOLIDATED TANK LINE COu e Gt oot o e oo wel | Frontiersman's Delight.™ Behind the | Tocited round and then e st o | —~—Ariote” Matortate, | - Wholesale Reined and Lubricating Ofls E said: town at the top uldn hill was situated | e ou the man.” h id, “who A. HOSPE, Jr., Atle Grease, etc., Omaha. _ A.H. Bishop, Manager. ““Phe man that attempts to draw his yard; an immense CrOSS. | has heen telling a ubout Joe U = = shooter gets a hole bored through him h “‘"l‘]‘ be ';""“ "“"{‘ ;‘ V"l"f‘l'l‘ ‘]"‘i Chambers being Iynched ms!fn llatynal’ Plfl[lUS afll ur!a“l '———-w‘;r’ L e as big as a barrel. Not a man shall stood at the top of the hill anc [ acknowledged that I was """“!"f" LU CARPENTER PAPER CO.,, asa landmark for travelers for “Woell, and, miles across the barren | tell you that he'd shoot you on sight if That graveyard was the pr you' were in town to-movrow.” Two for about a minute, but Prescott’s blaz- | ¢ man thit Tived in Rawlind, The | Yonra Taer T | taking a night ride Jlmhefi M Bflfl.’. and Shues, ing eyes and his ugly looking guns took | inhabitants watched it _grow. and | yero b 1401 Faraam 1., Omaha, Neb. Manufactors. Summer the siurch out of the toughs. and pretty | pointed with pleasure to the fact that | = —_— Bireet, Boston. "WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION. Soom ey toted o wiinc out of tange, | there was hardly a man taking his final LT rest there who had not come to his ES & “® huriliary Pablishers, had what's due leave this room till 1° he veplied, “Joe told me to me, **It looked very mnch like blood there Wholesale Paper Dealers. ico atock of Ing and Wi edin atteniTon eivEn to tar 15ad idaret the prai i w6 o o v as messenger. While acting in that tions. They continued to do a thr capacity the rond agents got me twice and prosperous business until the g robbing all the passengers of their sioux outbreak in 1862, money and valuabtes, They did not in- “1 shall never forget the fivst warn- | terfere with the mails, however, asthey ing orintimation we received thas the nll\'l,ll fear of Uncle Sam, nd do not Indians were on the warpath. We had ‘d i;'l"'" his toes when théy can heard, of conrse, that the Sioux's an- i i nuities were late in arriving, and th; Another time we came upon them, they weve becoming ugly, and threats lln'. |-lmh--|~. they found us, and after a ened to mpbe it wapi T driver, three pas whites on the ¢ took them into word was re woundi he paid at 3 Indian traders started for the posts to be present the payment, asat that time, the Indians having money and wlts, trading was brisk and profits Ln'yv. We had two four-horse teams and wagons. and had g between Mankato and St. Peter when we re- ceived the first warning that the In- dians had actually begun their dreadful work at the Redwood agency HOur party consisted of my rmh:-n- one unele. and myself—then a lad of twelve —and two men, had just made camp on the beautiful banks of the Minnesota, when one of the drivers, who had just finished pr l]mrinp'(linm for the party, spoke up and said: “Hello! what's the matter with our friend coming down the trail?’ We all rose to our feet and saw a horseman galloping down the narrow road at i breakneck speed. Ashe passed the camp he yel W the top of his Vo *Look out! ing, and continued HiEmracntee T oo the incline. “We immediately hurried up the teams, knowing full well what the We urged our” horses to their utmost speed in the divection of treme frontie ed that annui ain time, and allt Wiliing one, Loier, and driving off the We had received warning that they were on the road, and were prepared for them, “Duding the same season we had two running fights, one of them extending over six miles of prairie. Our leaders were both Killed, and had it not been for the timely arvival of a wagon train the driver and myself would have ‘gone y t yewr's bird's nests,’ aving the employ of the stage compuny in November, I went to Fort Buford, on the mouth of the Yellow stone, and was detailed from there in the special government servive and Tongue viver. At the latter place, in any with X. Beidler, chief of llw and a noted border cha lowstone Kelly, I had n ts with the road agents and lmv ners who at that time infested that section. retched victim of ults, dyspepsia, constipation and biliousness are faithful i When one of these foes wlk the tem, the other two speedily follow in 2 St: Peter, on the way to_the agency to | wake. andesuccessively make th which we were bound, We did not” ve- | slaught. Successively, but not su fully, if Hostetter’s Stomach Bitt 1 to repel the onset. The Bitte sily extirpates these monsters *0) depicted in the act of doing to the dragon in the steel vignette upon the glass bottles which contain the med- icine. Th flight, like the dvance, is nearly simultancous. Their mutual- ity destroyed they precipitately retreat, leéaving health master of the ~ position, and -l|m|"|\ entrenched by the Bittevs, This grand fortifier is also a ble bulwark against the insidious assaults of malarial disease and stops the th of rheumatism. It, howeve \ervous complaints, and imparts to the weak. — - A MAN OF COURAGE. *the extent or violence of the out- break, however, and as we drove along we met scoresaupon scores of frightencd settlers carrying houschold groods and s upon, and all doing their’ utmost to th Mankato. Arriving at St. Peter we found the little settlemont in a state of fervish ex- ciment, and held a consultation as to whether to turn back or push o, We concluded to continue our way to Wash- burn, which placed we hed very late at night, and awoke in the morn- ing to find the town surrounded by ang pux under Chief Little Crow, riwo days the fighting was des- perate, the Indian repeatedly charging about the town, and froth time to time succeeded in gaining u foot-hold by get- ting into houses on the outskirts, from which they were as often driven, but with great loss of life on both sides, and the destruc of buildings which were fired by the Sioux before the evacua- tion. “After several days of this sort of warfare the Indians, failing to capture | the town, withdrew toward Abercombie, rring men, women and children stating the country. When Sunday morning dawned on New Ulm, and it was certain that the Sioux had withdrawn, a horvible scene of earnage met the eye. Lying about the streets inevery conceivable position w men and women, and, in some in- stance, children mutilated and torn, gome <dead, some wounded and dying, while here stood a sturdy yeoman, rille, in hand, with blood b nmed face and hands, ready to do battle and give up life if necessary for the protection of his loved ones, a5 =0 many sturdy set- tlers had donebefor chim. **The large atheneum in the center of the town presented a pitiful sight, as the wounded and the dead were brought in, and men were scen hacked'to picces by the frightful tomahawk, and in almost every instance minus scalps, which the bloodthivsty Sioux, however hot and bloody the carnage, never f.uln to take, ns a proof to his red-devil brother of his triumoh and bravery. “Returning to St. ul east to attend school, where several eears. “In and 1874 T was connected with the northwest houndar, 3 locating the line betw ica and the United son with the topographic terward as a bearer of dispatches and mail courier. Upon the completion of the survey I accompanied the Gordon party from Sioux City the Black Hills in senrch of gold, but we were captured by the military, our wagons burned, and everybody turned back except Gordon, who was detained and imprisoned for Incident in the Lite of an Ohio River Tavern Keeper. New York Vo, “Speaking about aid Brooks, as he sat at 4 table T) ne in ers’ xmm-nxnnou met was one Prescott. of Ind. He was a dai his place—a sort of tavern, saloon, *hil- rd room and dance all combined. Tt was like this: There was a bit of prop- erty which had been idle for years. All sorts of men had tried to run it, but they had to get out. lacked the requived = nerve bloods would cross over f Hen- rson, Ky.. and make it d cable the lundlord. 'They would play his billiards and drink 1 whiskey, and then when asked for pay would set in and clean his shop out. Finally thisman || Prescott heard of this groperty for sale, found the price low, mm 0 bought itin. But I don’t suppose he knew just what ailed the property, for he was from New Hampshive. **1 just wish you could have scen the cuss!* Why, he didn’t look big enough to whip a cat. He was one of those Slim Jims, with sandy hair and weak legs, a sallow faced, light, watery, blue ed fellow. 1 was traveling lhmugh there at that time, and I happened along a week or so after Prescott got started. He had fixed the place up in style. | drove up at dusk, put out my team for the night, and after a drink, prepared to goout for the evening. 1 noticed ten strapping young bloods in the bil- liurd room. ‘I'hey were dressed well, and had gold watches with long chains. There didn’t seem to be anything the matter with them, and T left them play- ing billinvds and smoking cigars. with now and then a call on the ba When 1 got buck to the tavern, after a wh the sume crowd was there, and there seem to be anything the matter with them. But Prescott said to me (I was a Vermonter, and he and I felt somewhat acquainted) n lever ansville, T often stayed at orps and invading an_Indian reservation. Re- | **I'm afraid these boys will give me turning o eivili trouble. : tion once more, 1 ac- companicd General Terey on his expe- dition in 1876 against Sitting Bull, the greot Sioux chief and warric We en- iped at the mouth of Powder river, in)lnuluun:m\lh'nmlln‘rultx'l\n alCuster souting trip with the en- vy, instructed by Gen- t'l.ll lm‘r\ Inhu\l the Indian trall, and to follow the same until it became ‘hiot, and to send back couriers to await our coming with the main command, Cus- ter, discovering the Indian camp and not knowing the num strengih of the band, divided his » ment contain- ing 600 men into three columns, and at- tacked the camp. “The Indians, scei ng the attack abou to be made, attempted to guther in their hevd of ponies, but not having suflicient time, they turned and made a fight, which resulted in the total anni- hilation of Custer and his command, and the loss of nearly one-half of the troops under the command of Benton and Reno. The news of the mas \\lu n brought into General Terry Camp by a Crow Indian scout named curley, was received with inevedulity but was found to be only too tru “The winter of 1877 1 spent at home and in Maveh I accepted a position as ‘shotgun’ messenger with the North westeru Stage company, vunning from Bismarck, Dak., to Deadwood, in the Black Hills. Belle Fouche, a smull sta- tion at the feot of he hills, about the time became the seene of several Indian outrages, peipetrated by the Cheyennes *Why? *Well, this is that Hender I've rd so much of. They've all vich men's sons, and think they cu things. Their game is to get all they can and not pay nothing for it. But they will havo to pay me for what they get bhefore they get out of h *He said it all as quietly asif he had just remarked that he thought it would rain next day. I sat smoking near the stove, where I could see the young Is in the billiard room. I declare ecmed to be very decent young men. They had been to the bar pretty often,and they were a trifle lively in their play. and maybe a bit loud in their conversation, but that was all, and why Prescott was afraid of trouble I conldn’t for the life of me make out. “But pretty soon they began to show their hands,” First two of them took a good stifl drink and a cigar apiece, and then jerked their thambs over their lers ‘us they moved toward the on gang ‘Prescott said *Very well,” and then he howed them out like a prince of the royal hn Then a couple more 1ok a nd the best cigars, and out e othor boys in tharil scttle the “Thewve were now half a dozen big ones left inside. Pretty soon they came out, too. They runged along Lilt bar, el ENDQLL. JONES & Ci ccensord to Reed, Jones & Co.) d of the « ; $ i deathi by violenos: Dealers 18 type, prosges and prioters: supplios. 08 oW left our money home. Let us | ) Vv Aflaroon whe . 7 | Whlesale Manufcturersof Bots and Shoe AL \1:‘ 7\<‘ ! (l]|"\‘1’ ye. my hm R Inited: S J | Asents for Boston Jabber Shes Co. 1102, 1104 & 1108 By Ruuner Goods, ST s Prescott's dotermined an- x‘v‘:'lllllullfl::::-ll ~|::-‘;|"‘:.—l'~‘(]|:|lv"|l:;i“:.{-n-.'pli The oF THE com’u l;lols Eto, swe Indicating one of the party with 160KE LRYGWI L TS Weve fAr - (FOM 118 . 2. ol o it Lok Aot e weve T oM e | Ghicaga, Milwauked & St Pauf Y, SLanke corree cor | Nanufotarers and Deales n Runhr oot e Fowite poeigar Omaha ' d Spice M 01l Clotk) d Leat) Belting. 1008 Farnam Strae! l“N.‘\v ou put your watch on the cigar i lm-u med into the hotel. Hardly y Teas Cufl“ -su n B,cks muP C ng and Leather Belting. nrnt e 1o i eated: T0 10 | had Ttakien ay seat in the dining room 6os pices, Baking Powder, e S LR LET LR Was IR REoId IiiEh Fi e, evidently forming a | The Best Route from Omaha and Council rln-mn-‘nmnu Laundly Blue, Inks, e raethie ek delegation approached me. They d Bluffs to fary ureah itk Ral Mo T Y san IR tBIBETY : cleg approached me. oy de- L — e e The big horse pistols were lowered. |y ded my business and what brought _Crockery and Glassware. Pmfllls Pllll'vs and E“Em“ ‘OMAMHA RUBBER LO., Now. gentlemen, come upand have | 11040 Rawlins in o way which left me THE EAST W. L. WRIGHT, " | Beam. watg et A something on ine. alternative but to dnswer. My an- T Man i _— Prescott said this with all the sua- 4 . R BRI R ORe TWO TRAINS DAILY BETWEEN OMAHA AND Agent for the Manufacturers and Importera of ‘CHURCHILL PUMP C vity maginablo ns he vesumea Jus | AR SISO, GG O o COUNCHIENFER mckel’? Glassware, Lamps, Chimneys, | Wholesale Pumps, Pipe, Fitings, place hehind the bar, and pretty soon | 888 T e idea that 1 | Chicago, «eeAND-es Milwaukee, Kte. ‘Oee, &17 8, 13th bt.. Omahn) Nebr g ‘st iascers SN the Kentuckinns were lifting i Hauor | (o 5 qéputy sherift and frankly told | St Paul, Minneapolis, Cedar Raplds, ~ Commission and 8t = | S S Cos goods. 1t nrh-::.':x":un%m ""."\“[:“I'.';“l. W L’\":’l‘"::‘L“h'&‘if‘&"{j‘{\\{l":!f' me that if 1'had been I should have been | Roek Island, Freeport, ~ Rockford, ——Commisal Hum.lzvm“ U.8. WIND ENGINE & PUMP’ e ston S il caled o ound | Seeredout of town. e o goverment | Cliton, Dubuque, Davenporty Commission and Jobbi Steer and, Water Supplics, ufter vound and paid for it. and refused HiEHG hey further informed me that | EXEIMy Madison, Janesville, 8 U 0g, Falliday Wina Mile, m;.::.nwmm. St., Omahay to tuke any change. Of courseafter | p0,0" s 1o be one_of the prett Beloit, Winona, L Crosse, by bt g LT R e awhile they got tired and wanted to i prett 8T8 ave Buskers. 1ets Dodge St D BROWNELL & CO Iynehing beas in fown that night that | Andsll other important points East, Northeast and eV LR e RipIRG Kouthenst. RIDDELL & RIDDELL, v e e T come to Ttawling ten | pERLEREL ket ol o 1 uener sentad 1t torage and Commission Merchants, Egg[llfinlgllm‘g_llfl Gflnfil_.d‘l;‘xlm m:lnl&% weeksbefore, and had taken the town by | Depe N o Fullman Sleepers and the finest Dining Cars in the !Mllllll»l Butte E..I Cheese. Voultry, (-Illl storm. They had made their headguar- | world's ';:'(“:"" (i main Bine o the Clenga il ters. K 11 Bouth 1aih Begeet e | = == v SR & die waukeo Paul Kallwiy, ind_every Attention is | ——-— = tersat a tavern almost opposite the | FRGEES passengors by caurieous enpioyos of (6 WIEDEMAN & CO., hotel, and had levied a tax on every me Sompan who entered. Anybody who ohjected to paying ling treat was heaten. lean against the furniture, while one o them insisted on kissing the bartender Finally they went off loaded right to but perfectly good natured, he gold watch along, of left about a hundred vs of good Kentucky money in the »of it. o _iBeedu.; . RS PHIL. STIMMEL & CO., s | s 1AM CODSOL MRS, | il Favm, Pl ad G Sl e later Tstopped at Prescott when B waus shown pistols were 0. K HEAFFOND, Assistant General Pastenger | ——— GEO —s‘g:;o;g;; OO SLand 913 Jonies Sb. OmenR )5l o the Hender | used. Ten men had received their death L e o L 0 20., = brwarding & CommiesIon « Prescott. have ‘the Hender | s from these three men. and the | 2™ —— (Buccessors Lo McSuane & Schrocder.) Btorage, Forwarding & mie A youlots yets2 town hiad determined o set i example z ———— | Produce Commission and Cold Storage, | o, ARMSTRONG. PETTIS & CO. customers he had were those wild Hen- vk : ! devson boys. They knew nerve when | {0 H0 HEECE0E 0 d bl () o saw it and they and vefused to come out or to allow s 3 T 5 * | one to enter. Tt had been determined Keep your blood pure und ou will not | 1o dislode l\p"l that night, in spite of e rheumatism, veaparilla | all p and T was invited to t purities the blood, and tones the whole in the “n dr. The thre Branel kouse of the 1 whioleanlo ang retnil, 4 ot DMAHA COAL, COKE & LIME CO., | — Jobbers of Hard and Sot Cogl. | ooy ronB o Cluare. o WM. A. WILSOM & CO., 0 South 19th Strect, Omabia, Nebraskar — S on & oo | Tmporters and_Jobbers of Teas & Cigars, Bpices and Daisy Baking Powder, 1410 and 1418 Han system, named! Joseph Chambers, Jack Willis Manufactarers of llinois Wmte I.lme. iskred kel e and Wat Simmons, and weve desperate shippors of Conl, Coko, Defeat of a Famous Pirate. outlaws with lavge sums upon their B""“'““"" Draatia, Neb. »_ The l'mtumww government has heads. —NF.BRASKA FUEL CO. ceived ai official t#egram from M AURAW1NE T bique announcing that Bonga, the or | ¢ tacking par- | Cicato ous pivate of the Zambesi, has been com- | ties were divided into two forces. One | Chicago pletely defeated by the Portuguese | approached the point of attack from the Shixmers of Coal and Coke. 214 South 13th 8L, Omisha, Neb. “EAGLE CORNICE WO KS. Manufactms Galvanized Iron and Cornice, thirty-six villages, | rear, while the larger number marched o e Jubn Epeneteg, Progriotar, 92 Dodge aud 10 sud 10 defended by palli- up to the front. All the citizens wore ). North 0th Straet. Ownha.* M. E. SMITH & CO., = Dry Guufls Furnishing Goods and Notions | . Smoke Stacks, '°"='=-=;.M4 have been destroyed. handkerchiefs over, their faces. T was is man, of whom Living: one wrote | With the main body of attackers, or A ¥ t. P, in his first book of explo; rmhtl-1l~ h(-);m]xl ;v. W ::"\ ll( hl{'uught to Depot | lhunlll W 'm.m nm-nauumoul s, Cor. 11th 8t., Omaha, Ne H. K. sIvasn,K s' l 1 the advance of the white asudden halt by a rifle shot from one 5 — e e fen Tonger und. mora. Succosstully | of the windows ‘of the beseiged house, s KiLpATRICK-KOCH By Goopscs | Mamfitring ealer in Smoke Stacks. d deneral Holler Hepuiring. 1318 Street, O and one of our leaders fell. Every means was tried to dislodge the three men, but to no purpose. Every time Sometimes | theslightest advances were made their | Dy 58, les rang out, and some one on our Night 1“! s than any other native chief been the avowed enen Portuguese since though several years h Tmportersand Jobbers in Dry Goods, Notiong | ™r<voes s Gents’ Furnishing Good: rLith and ulmoy Bta., SOURI PACIFIC. | o ith and Webster st lron Workn ) TTPAXTON & VIERLING, i) Furnltun clapsed without hostilities, it has only | Vi Y 0. e T e tSen) h(:g.m-uo‘huI’ul'(ugucw meuanwhile | side dropped. At lust a small man SUNULBANIATATNG! DEWEY & STONE, Er‘flggh‘!"?!lgo Cast ]I‘l)ll Bfllmlfl[ 'fll‘t have let Bonga severely alone. Many | slipped up in the shadow of the adju- Wholesale Dealers in Furnitare. M ; rencgade Portuguese, half-breeds and | cent buildings. and threw a lighted can | Running Between Council Bluffs and Albright P A AT o SRR ¢ als. " most of the robbers and disorderly cl (':‘ k"l'fl;“"w \md}t;l"flll‘;llllu'ilhling- S"""li]t 1n Additioh 1o e ;:‘l“tlfip\!:t;;:;'l"ém-;';‘l- oioe ' % OMAHA WIRE & IRON WORKS, e e o rLeSe oy - egan to burn, but sti he men wold 0} hd e! . stre e oo . B standurd. nd | not come out. At Jast the Touse was | 4148t the Sumit in Om e Manufacturers of Wire and Iron Railings his authority was supreme from the | €nveloped in flames, and the three | b PAXTON, GALLAGHER & GG Desk ralls, window ‘;l,-mmm wire sigun Zambesi, within twenty-five milesof the | men were obliged to make a rush for | Broad- Ty Rtock | Al . important Portuguesc settlement at | their lives, They were half blinded | _Way. | fer. Tete, 150 miles southwest to the king- | by the heat and smoke of the | Am | dom of the Muntabele. One of Bonga's | burning: so they were quickly captured. | . e sons-in-law was a n ; full-blooded Then 1l the citizens of Rawlins, not Portuguese, and a number of these out- | excepting the women and children, lawed Europeans have smuggled ammu- [ formed in line and marched quictly nition from Madagascar and in oth d"“" to the cattle pens, where an old ways contributed largely to Bon rad tree stood, which had served remarkable suce times as a gallows. A rope Livingstone, feuring trenchery, did | been brought along, and it was quicl not visit Bongs stronghold on the thrown over a branch, and everything Zambesi, but one or two other white | Was ready for the hanging. It wasat velers have been hospitably ente first intended to dispose of all three at tained there. Some years ago the Por- | the same time, but there was not Yards. [bright. OMAHA SAFE AND IRON WORKS, o, | Whulste Groeres and PrOvisum. . “\en'hs of Fire & Burga Pou iy 'McCORD, BRADY & CO., VR ioen, Biopr. "Cor. 1eth Apd Jackson b Whalesale Grocers, MOLINE,MILBURN&STODDARD Co lu-nflhnun-unnmmu,o--n- Nebran Munutucturers and Jobbirs in e e Wagons | Buggis, Rakes, Ploys Bt ih et iadifie Sise, Gl Nel Wholesale Gmcefl, MEACHER & LEACH, M5, 1721 and 129 Haraey Btreet, Omaha, Neb. General Agenta for Diebold Eafe & Lock Co.s ALLEN BROS., Plvre.anIlGinlglar.Plpur Safes, Time Locks, tuguese attempted to knock the de- [ enough rope, soit was decided to ha gz ARD T eTU RN GG o8 fenses of this place to pieces with can- | one at a time, Jack Willis was the 900 non, but Bongu's soldiers made havoe | first to be strung up; his end was e g S B Mannfactarers of UVEI‘HHS, among the gunners, and compelled the | bastened by a dozen bullets, which 2 LEE, FHIED & CO., Jeans Pante, Bhire, e, 10200 104 Douglas Breot, whites to raise the seige before the | Were fired into his body while it was vard. . Jobvers of Hardware and Nails. v very strong stockade had been de- | Still writhing. Wat Simmons was then - = h = Eosea! disposed of. and them came the turn of | —A% [ §to¢ e O | Trams: Iromd | TmwareShoes Lop R A s, a | ______8ash, Doors, Eto, The campaign in which Bonga has | Joseph Chambers,the leader of the gang. A apI¥/ED S L8| WAYs SBROW & GO., defented, is the fourth | Just as he was led under the trec he HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR, anufacturers of been_hopele: H T U sorious attompt by the Portnguose have | Made o sign that he had something Builders’ Hardware & Scale Repair Shop | Sash, Doors, Blinds and Monldings, made to subjugate him. Th )nng de- | tosay. The gag was removed from his Mechauics' Tools -nu nun-!u MB® Douglasst. Brag 12h and Izard Streets, Omaba; Nel ferved triumph will give them complete | mouth and he said: *“If you will take e ST I T mastery over the Lower Zambesi and | this rope from round iy neck and RECTOR & WILHELMY CO., | MANUFACTURING CO., its thibos. slightly locsen these'bonds, Lwil tell Whotesale umwm, Manufactarers of Sash, Doors, Blinds, ———s 3 on something that will interes ; ; For fear of Tosing a day's work, many | You all.” There secmed nodanger with R R Pey ey e Mo 'i‘"L‘Lr‘.?.’r'hn‘:2."?‘“.’.‘2.'..'.?,1.‘.‘s’l‘:‘.’&l‘ T Omnha, Nob. OMAHA PLANING MILL C co., Manafactarers of Mouldings, Sash, Doors, Heavy Hardwam Imn anu Stegl | o RN RS o omee - T und Foppieion Aven e, rings, Wagon_ Btock. e e hall Hakney meu fLt — S EDNEY T8TORZ & ILER Wholesale Iron aud Steel, ..,.Lmr Beer Brewers, Wagon and Carrisge Wood Btock, H e 1 avenworis B, i b | 5o many on guard, o his request was 21t a8 8oon. 18 needed, it may loossned _h(- Tohe | Siratahon b ke bang suve you a hard spell of sickness, if | began his speech; *‘You arc aset of you want the most benefit from the | d-— villains,” he_yelled and_you can 15t amount of physic without causing | 11 £o to h- He knocked down the i ce, lass of appetite | tW0 men nearest to him and mad sh : iclcs Pills, ''heir | for the sage brush on the open pr action on the liver and bowels are | Al the horses were left outside the bar- thorough, thoy give freshness, tono | 100m when the desperndocs were cap- Jlizie gor to the whole system and act | tured. Some few men, however, dashed COUNOCIL BLUF into the sage after Chambers, which | _ made it impossible for the men under the tree to use their guns lest they hit some of the pursuers, After an hour's use. less chase the hunt was given up for the night. At daylight thenext morning aranch- man rode into Rawlins and electr the town by saying he had seen Ct bers near Fort Fred Steed, sixteen Brewers. 1421 North Elgtitcenth Stroet, Omabs, Neb. NG LINES. enesmmne—— | SO0 OHAEL Debts on the Bank of Sense. The way to have a good credit keepout of debt, To be intelligent is to be honest, kind and good. You have as much right to put your hand into unother man’s pocket as your W.L. PARROTTE & CO. 5 to Wholesale Hats, Caps and SITaW G00d8, | © ™" sathmen micnman. &'cooms 1107 Harooy Street, Omaha, Neb. Live Stock Commission HBI‘DI]HI][S mlos e m | IR ot msnone o | OMoe-Rogm 20 Oupoute Bxch 700 b . | WILLOW SPRINGS DISTILLERY CO | —.\0ck Yards South O nose into another man’s business, miles bolow. Ho said he had just fin- : and ILER & CO,, McCOY BROS o ‘ P o /5 C. . . P 0:40 a, i jeai; o Kind word costs you nothing und the | jshed his breakfast. after spending the [ aliaindu baiy. (540 p. Importers & Jobbers of FineWines &Lignors | Live Stock Commission Merchants, rveturn of it mdy come utatime when | night in a small house on the bunk of East India Bitters and Domestio Liquors. 1112 Haruey | _ Market furnished free on application. Stookers and you need it most. the Plattg river, when a hatless man, S ——————————————— | fecdurs furaishad o0 g 18 Referancen: Omae Trust no man’s appearance. The roughest bark covers the soundest tree, and the thinnest ice has the smoothest LomL % A om, .. 008 p.om. | - _..Ltumber, OMAHA LUMBER C o ik and South Omuha National, Union uth Omakia, LORIMER, WESTERFIELD & MALEY whom he recognized as Chambers, came in and de d''shelter. The ranch- man that something was | * bt Surfuce, A A e T ot o MlhflflSMBflllfllMlfllfiflfllilt Whulesalc Live Stock Commission, He wholongs after good precepts is | gnee started for Rawlins to wive the 9:40 a. Broet and Union Pacific Track, Omaha. 18, Exchange Buildiug, Union Stock Yards, <quickened in his imagination, and | yjgpm, Thirty men immediately sad- 70 p OUIS BRADFORD, e Sth oMb, 7 mun.n.m.mnu his_cxpression. The [ gleq their horses and started in pursuit " HORN & SHARP vine which grows iu the sun is the T TN Dealer in Lumber, Lath, Lime, Sash, : fullest of sap and the sweetest ‘of fruit, ,{“': ,,I,',“,,f(l,l,\d‘”“.hmd ik eRi N(}hrd\kd I\(‘tm"(ll Bdnk Doors, sto. Yards an;r.l:nndl)oul ! Coraer dn m?flmml“lflfl flflfl]fll’b Il{ LIVB Stock, A good-souled child, is afortress of | in‘the door with o Winch e o ngth between its pavents and sin. | his hand, Without a word he 5. DEPCSITORY, CMAHA, NEB. C.N.OET tock Yaris: Hauk, S Omaha, i -l stump i beautiful when | gpened fire on the . advancing v.s. t " ! Dfla]fil‘ m flll Klflfls 0[ l.llmbel‘ »r o u ‘.Un.uhui ““‘::. i»; IL}::\‘IH{‘H;"\;I\‘u'nl' o e pirty. Two men dropped from their Paid Up Cawml - $—‘§0.UOO ana califoraia Sus. Oma 4 ALEXANDER & FITCH, _There is o such thing as ¢ cless | Guddles, andas the rest. of the party | Surplus S Olooe:| S paet in" Tivn 4 it o S0 could e more Gt | Wi ol Pt and ol | 57 : Freo w.arav, | Commisson Desles in Live Stock nope, thu > body 0! toward the hut, Chambers, who had | H W. Ya7ES, President Room &, opposite breath. done the shooting, vushed dovn the hill LEwis & Hero, Vi nt. anhcr Lime, Cement, EIt, Etc - ks — O e o] and, plunged iuto the Platte. There A B President, Sarasrith sas Boogial Bs.. OBy UNION STOCK YARDS CO,, Travelers should b prepaved for the | had been heavy riins. and the river Huanes, Cashier T.W. HARVEY LUMBER changes of weather and the effécts of exposure by providing themselves with Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup. Finin 8, CoLbinm, | To Dealers Ouly. “[Hv(l Ln:l[lfl”,lelm‘llcdfl‘ LEwis B, RUSD, OBice. 14 Faraam Burcet, Omade: was i tovrent, which made it scem im- possible that & man could r wh the | IV alive: - All the horseman, A Nashyille doctor's pr er, drew up along the Dahk and a lady suffering with neuralg waited with guns in readiness 1o sheot | Banking Office-— ,-‘ bonnet, a cashmere shawl, @ paiv of. | Chambers, should he by any chance get THE IRON BANK. et w2 o MOREE, YATES, JUDICIOUS AND PERSISTEN Z Advertising hus nlwiys prove stul, Uefore placing an B auneayman guiter hoots—and a bottle of Salvation | acros. They waited for half an hour, . 8 3 o Newspuper Advertising consulg Oil. The lady recovered immediately, | and as there was no sight of him they [ A Genersl Bamting Bucibee frunsuctid. o Jflfllflfl'l 9lml9u LORD & THOMAS, of course. returned 0 Rawlins. That afternoon 'O’IHIJJXVM 'Y NHOC ABTARTILG SUEERS. 45 10 49 Kuadoloh Birest, CHICAGO. 0