Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1887, Page 4

N - A Monopoly Judgment. Cass county is all ablaze with indig- nation over the conduct and ruling of Judge Field in the Plattsmouth B. & M. bridge suit. The case in- volves u vital issue to the tax payers of PUBLISHED E 1Y MORNING. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Morning Edition) including Sunday One Year . 10 Montiis Dafly J F Three Months. . o:0: S a3 the city of Plattsmouth and Cass e Omaha Sunday iy, aiied {0ty ad | county,” The Burlington road brought dress, One ) ar . OMAHA OFFICE, NO. 914 A NEW Y ORK OFFICE, ROOM 85, TIINUN 010 FARS suit to recover taxes paid for several i il e R RooR years past upon the west half of the TEENTH BTUERT. Missouri bridge at Plattsmouth. These CORRESPONDENCE. taxes had been lovied on the appraise- e e A r D dresimd to The | ment of local precinet nssessors. The EDIToit OF THE BER. company insists that the bridge is a BUBINESS LETTERS: part of its right of way, and as such should be assessed by the state board of All business letters and remittances should be sed to THE BEE PUBLISIING dr ; e 1*uw‘|-uv, OMAMA. Drafts, checks and postoffice orders €0 [ (o000 i 2 N om Ve mide payablé to the order of the company, | Cqualization at the usual mile age rate, © On the other hacd the The Bec Publishing Company, Proprietors. E. ROSEWATER, Epitor. attorneys of the county assert tha the bridge has not been assessed by the state board and is not properly a portion of the right of way. Their po- sition is fortified also by the notorious fact that the Burlington road charges and collects special bridge tollsat Platts- mouth, just as the Union Pacific does at Omaha. When the ease was given to the jury, they were instructed by Judge Field to find in favor of the Burlington road for the full amount claimed, namely $5,463.66. His instructions were imper- ative, and were accompanied by the statement that he would assume all re- sponsibility, nsthe question involved was THE DAILY BEI Sworn Statement of Circulation. Btatoof Nebreka, 4y . County of Douglas, " Tzsehuick, ecretary of The Tiee Prib- ek that the gompany, does woleriny swe actual circu the week mtiori of the Dally flee f ending Dec, 16, 187, was as follows* Fm"m.ylkl:‘w 0. Sunda, 15,57 T 15,004 B. Tzscnton, £worn toand subscribed in my presence this ith day of December, A. D. 187, Average..... PR NihaFFTle e | one of law ‘and not of fact. The jury ae- Btute of Nehraska, }_l cordingly brought in a verdict as Gounty ot Dougias, ‘Arst duly sworn, de- | ditccted. The local papers in Taxchiuck, being ores and says thit he s ¥ of The Bee Publishing company, that the_actinl_average secretu Cass county are intensely severe in daily circulation " of the mu{ Bee for | their comments orr this decision. The B Mok O e N vice ¢ Weeping Water Republican, which o labored earnestly for Mr. Field’s elec- tion last fall, scores the judge merci- lessly, as will be seen by the following extract: I'his high-handed outrage on common de- cency, common law and the people of Cass county, calls for a rebuke that can be felt; it calls for the gentleman to step down and out of a position that he is unfitted to occupy. Our people have no further use for a man in that important position who has a thought for anything else but justice. This modern tool of a wealthy, rich and powerful railroad corporation, comes to us to preside over our courts, dictating to them what they shall do, how they shall do it and how much they shall do. The plaintiff in the caso the Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy railroad company secks to evade the payment of taxes on its corporate property, it pays its taxes under protest, brings suit to recover it, by its influence it helps to elect a man for judge, to sit in judg- ment on its cases,who, true to the power that placed him in his high and exalted position, compels the jury to do his bidding, against their own convictions in the case at issue. The people of Cass county will demand that their commissioners carry this case to the highest courts in the land, and see if a tool of the railroad company can rob our treasury with impunity; see if a railroad company is to be rcleased from the burden of taxation, while the labor workers are com- pelled to foot the bills, so that this rich and political railroad company can increase their dividends on heavily watered stock, with protection to their property thrown in. The $5,468.06 is worth just as much to Cass county as it is to the railroad. We have got it; we will keep it if possible. We have got Field; we will get rid of him if possible, even though we have to spend the amount of money they are trying to get back in do- ing it. o This is plain talk, but we must say the people of Cass county are entitled to little sympathy. They have nobody to blame but themselves for playing into the hands of the Burlington monopoly politically. Field’s career before he was elected judge was well known. He was politically the creature of the Bur- lington road. The political bosses of that corporation had him elected to the legislature and made him speaker of for July, 1 o) 191 coplas ror September. 1987, 1449 copiess o Octover, 1887, 14,083; for November, 1857, 15,22 coples. e GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. gworn to and subscribed in miy presence this 8 duy of Deceniber, A. D. 187, " FRIL, (SEAL.) Notary Public. JLECTRIC lamps hung over tHe cross- ings of our principal business thorough- fares would add materially to public comfort and safety. ONE of Fanning & Slaven’s mud wagons was dug out of the dust on Far- nam street yesterday. Street cleaning will be resumed as usual next summer. CHEAPER fuel and lower rents are what workingmen must have in Omaha before they can work for the same wages as are paid in eastern manufacturing centers. ———— SoME of the leaders of the prohibition party think thatabout one million votes will bo polled for their presidential can- didate, General Fisk, next year. There is nothing small about the vrohibition- ists except results. — TrE Blair education bill has gained the right of way in the senate already, and this national bore will now drag its slow length along to the hindering of real business. It is time a quietus were put upon that monumental nonsense. E— THE steam heating apparatus on the coaches of the Chicago, Milwaukee & 8t. Paul railway stood the test of the recent cold wave admirably., Thore is no reason why all other roads should not heat their cars in a similar manner. KANSAS CITY i8 jubilant over the dis- covery that an Omaha brewer is trying to secure a location in that city for a brewery. We can assure our Kansas City friends that Omaha is in no im- mediate danger of a beer famine on that account. — the house four years ago. As speaker KiNe KALAKAUA is reported to| he carried out their behests, bave been emulating President Cleve- | packed the committees at their land in the exercise of the veto. The legislature, however, does not agree with the monarch, and there are pros- pects that the latter’s powers may sud- denly be vetoed by his subjects. bidding and made railroad legislation a sham and a farce. Such was the record of Mr. Field when he entered the race for district judge last fall. In the face of this record he carried Cass county by a large majority, Having proved loyal to his corporate friends in the legisla- ture, it is not atall surprising that he should lean in their direction on the bench. Judge Field’s decision only emphasizes the glaring outrage of our railrond assessment law, which virtually exempts railroads from local taxation and piles the burden of city and county government upon individual property owners, If Judge Field’s decision wakés up the people of Cass county and the state at large to a comprehension of this iniquitous revenue system the Bur- lington verdict may prove a blessing in disguise. AT last we on this side of the Atlantic have launched something of which the maritime powers are afraid. Thisis the monster raft of logs which ran away from its towboat during a recent gale, It is now plunging wildly about the At- lantic. Our navy is in imminent dan- ger. LINCOLN policemen have evidently concluded to run nomore risks with “*bad wmen.” One officor was seriously in- jured the other day while arresting a tough, and now another officer has shot and killed a man who didn't propose to spend Christmas in jail. The police- man’s lot in Lincoln may, in conse- quence, bea comparatively happy one in the future. - — NoRrvIN GREEN, one of Jay Gould’s lieutenants, says that Gould could settle up and have sixty millions left. This is the worst stab the financier hasreceived in along time. Sixty millions! What is that in this age of the world? The country had up to the present regarded him as a rvich man. Who so poor as to do him*voverence now? The Late Daniel Manning. The custom, perhaps “more honored in the breach than in the ob- servance,” which requires that only good be spoken of the dead, will doubt- less bo very generally regarded in the references that will be made to the lato Daniel Manning, ex-secretary of the treasury, whose death occurred on Sat- . Although in nolarge sense a great mun, he possessed qualities of mind and character that placed him above the average of men, and gave him within a not very extended cirele an influcnce perhaps greater than was ox- ercised by any other with whom he was immediately associated. His poli 1 education had not Dbeen acquired in the worthiest of schools, for democratic councils at Albany during the period when Mr. Manning was obtaining his knowledge of politi- cal methods and management, were dominated by about the most unserupu- lous politiciars New York or any other state has ever kuown, Fora consider- able part of this time Tweed was the democratic chieftain, and Mr, Manning as the manager of the organ of democ- racy at the state capital cime constantly in contact with that infamous boss. It does not appear, lLowever, that Mr. Manning seriously contaminated by intion, though undoubtedly it A LINCOLN paper which imagines that the only way to build up the town Is by tearing down Omaha has figured out the present population of Omuha to be about 46,000, In other words, the population of this city has decrcased by over 15,000 since the census of 1885, The fact that Omaha has built over five thousand dwelling houses within the past three years, and all of them are oc- supied, would seem to throw some doubt on the figures of our contemporary at the state cupital. —_— It transpires that the somewhat notor- fous Mr. Higgins did not make a sacri- fice to public clamor when he re- signed his position of appoint- ment clerk in the treasury dopartment, but merely dropped one bone to pick up another with more meat on it. 1t is said that he is to have a fat office in Maryland, where there will be no re- straint upon his political activity, and he can do the work of the Gorman machine more zealously and effoctively. The Maryland democrativ boss reccived a pretty vigorous warning at the late election, and he evidently intends to be in his best fighting con i when the next battle of the ballots takes place. Therefore he wants Higgins to be unfot- * terad by any civil service ruies or other conditions putting limitations upon his special usefulucss. But its prineipal advantage to way. him was in the keowledge it gave him of the inside work of polities, the busi- ness of organization, and the methods by which the political machine is operated., This instruction he used to good pur- pose, but beiang a politician of much higher instinets than those he had learnad of his poliddcal work was con- ducted on amuch more elevated plane. He attained his ascendency in the democratic party of New York by the ' THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1851, force of superior capacity for the work of politics, in the pursuit of which it has never been shown that he did any- thing dishonorable, from the politician’s point of view. Mr. Manning was conceded to be the most useful supporter of Mr. Cleveland in the presidential campaign of 1884, While Cleveland had not been his first choice, when he decided to support him he gave to his cause the utmost interest and zeal, It was through his exertions that a Cleveland delegation was chosen in Naw York,he was most diligent in behalf of his candidate in the national convention, and he was a force every: where felt in the party throfghout the campaign. Mr. Cleveland’s apprecia- tion of his services was shown in ap- pointing him secretary of the treasury, a position for which few could have sup- posed he had any qualifications. It is unnecessary here to review his career in that office, which there is reason to believe was something of a disappoint- ment to him, since he found his policy at nearly all points antagonized by the majority of his party. He showed con- siderable familiarity with principles of finance and political economy, and a rather marked ability in discussing them, but his standpoint of observation having always been Wall street, his range was necessarily narrow. It was undoubtedly a fortunate thing for the country that he retired when he did from the treasury depurtment, for had the policy he was pursuing been con- tinued a financial crisis could hardly have been averted. Congress had al- ready given expression to its disapproval of that policy, and as soon as possible after Mr. Manning had turned over the duties of the office to his assistant, the present secretary, the latter adopted a different policy, with results entirely satisfactory to the government and the Jpeople. It is not to be doubted that Mr. Man- ning was of great service to the presi- dent as a political adviser and very likely prevented a great many more mistakes than were made during the first year of the administration. It is also very likely that Mr. Cleveland has anxiously hoped to again have his po- litical assistance, and on this, as well as on personal grounds, will keenly regrot his death. It may make a very mate- rial difference to the democracy in New York unless they shall be able to find a man equally competent in organization and equally zealous and indefatigable. The death of Mr. Manning is in- deed rather a party than a national loss. He has been an active, skillful and moderately successful politician of the better class, but had exhibited no great qualities of statesmanship from which there might have been expected valuable benefit to the country had he lived and remained in its service. Cutting Down the Territories. The old scheme of portioning out the territory of Idaho is to be revamped at the present session of congress. Senator Vorhees,of Indiana,isanxioustohavethe Coeur d’Alenc district added to Wash- ington territory to advance the chances of his son, Delegato Vorhees, of Olym- pia, for the senatorship. Senator Stew- art, who represents the pocket borough of Nevada, is equally anxious to add pop-~ ulation and farming lands to the sage brush and quartzite of his state. With equal generosity he proposes to take the southern portion of Idaho and add it to Nevada. The two senators have accordingly joined hands in a scheme which, if carried into effect, would wipe the political subdivision of Idaho from the map of the west. No western state can honestly favor any such measure. Idaho now contains 85,000 square miles of territory within its boundaries. It ‘is growing rapidly and steadily. Diversified in its climate, its topography and its agricultural and mineral wealth, it is attracting immi- gration on its merits, and bids fair within the next five years to put in its claim for statehood on a showing which will compel recognition. To destroy its identity to advance the personal inter- ests of a brace of ambitious politicians would be a national erime. It would be a crime, because uncalled for by any rational demand. Both ‘Washington and Nevada are now each nearly as large as the whole of New England. There is no necessity for their enlargement, no de- mand from their people, no call from the country at large. It would be a crime against the west be- cause that immense section now lying be- tween the Missouriand Pacific slope isal- ready permanently subdivided intostates and into territories which will become states, cach of which is so large that, when compared with an equal political area of the east, eastern preponderance in the senate as against the west is as- sured for all time to come. Western in- terests demand that this 1nequality shall not be increased. The blotting out of any territory by its division among other territories means in the ..ear future the loss of two senators and an undetermined number of congress- men to the west. It will not do. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Leap year proposals are ripening. Lincoln county will invest $10,000 in a juil. The Masons of Fremont will rear a temple early next year. Dodge county boasts of a cornfield that yielded eighty bushels to the acre. The expenses of Fiilmore county for the coming year are estimated at $72,588. The Blair canning factory has been sold to D. W. Acker of Council Bluffs for $12,000. D. H. Clark, a town lot rusher, swin- dled the people of Venango, Keith county, out of $800, and departed. The Nebraska Bee Keepers' society will hold its annual convention in Red Ribbon hall, Lincoln, on January 11, 12 and 13, Aurora is threatened with a street car line, A little “sugar” rightly laid would secure the bobtail before many months. Fremont has put on the necessary trimmings for a free deliver® city, and anxiously awmits the arrivol'of the mail carrier, Fred Cobb, a Grand Island kid of twelve, toyed with a revolver and per- foratep the pal: of young Bagley,a playmate. About 125 familics are now using coal " Clure. mined by the Ponca mining company, and there is demund for all the coal that can be taken outy Lincoln has voted strong to build a railroad to Red Oak and Des Moines, The rond will make a capital commer- cial link—when built. Shuyler follows in the lurid wake of Weeping Water with a blaze that wiped out $22,000 worth of l\n»‘p«‘rl)x Good in- surance politics will reduce the loss by half. F A number of papers are discussing, in lengthened |Ill|~um‘u¥hn Sthe issue for next year.” The B issue for next year will consist of 366 daily chapters, with extras thrown in on great occa- sions. A Central City paper tells a huge truth when it says t‘lm Lincoln is**for, ing ahead as a jobbing center.” Un- fortunately the legislature is not now in session and traffic is in o state of in- nocuous deeay. Chunks of wood, somewhat decayed, have been found atadepth of thirty feet at Genoa. The find recalls and em- phasizes the tremendous force with which useless political timber was driven into the earth in days gone by. The Fremont Tribune suggests that between Fremont and Nebraska in the stock yards line, “‘the conviction is growing that Omaha will gradually ac- quire the name of Dennis.” This is the season for children to laugh and with their new dolls. their antics. Superior, Nuckolls county, promises to become a great railrond center, if local accounts are taken at face value. The Northwestern is heading straight for the town and the Santa Fo is de- bating the building of a branch in that direction, to ecapture u share of the traffic of the region. Colfax county has some of the best and most industrious young men in the state. Among the number mgy be classed two sons of Reuben Dickinson, of Lincoln precinet, aged respectively sixteen and seventeen years, The youni play The elders enjoy men cultivated and cared for ninety acres of corn this year,and it among the very best raised in that section of the country, averaging over fifty bush- els to thé acre. They also did about all the work on twenty-six acres of wheat, which yielded 606 bushels. Jesse Holmes of Avoca displayed un- common grit under puin[ul circum- stances last week. While working with a team three miles from Avoca, the an- imals ran away, throwing him out of the wagon, the wheels passing over and breaking both legs. Instead of going to the nearest house, Holmes, suffering untold agony, crawled to within half a mile of Avoca, where o passing farmer picked him up and took him to the near- est doctor, His injuries are dangerous, and will keep him housed for months. The Indianola Courier has discovered that the Omaha Republican has invested in an agricultural gditor at great labor and expense, and urges that the follow- ing be added to the hog rules recently promulgated by the imported thorough- bred: *‘Ourlimited experience on the farm has taught us that a new hog, a bran new one, that, weighs about three hundred pounds, ‘has a very delicate constitution. A new hog should always be furnished with an umbrella from the 16th day of May till the 24th day of Oc- tober and a linew ‘duster whenever he travels. The baldnce of the year tho new hog should, be provided with a chinchilla overcoat, as wet weather and sudden cold snapy ruin the hard oil finish of a new hag, and no amount of Sterling polish will ever afterward re- lieve his hogship of his second-hand appearance. We would caution farmers to be very careful of their new hogs.” Towa Itoms. The state legislature assembles Jan- uary 9. There is great com of transportation fac of the state. The records of the state board of health show the deaths in Iowa resulting from lightning in the past four years to be eighteen. The supreme court has decided that Oskaloosa has a right to contract with the Edison Electric company for light- ing the strects. ® Evidences of a coal mine within twenty miles of Akron have been discovered. The coal is in immense quantities and of excellent quality. There are 225 men at work on the raii- road bridge at Sioux City. The first sson is down thirty feetand going for rock bottom at the rute of four feet a int of the lack es in all parts rs. Fleming, of Des Moines, in re- sisting Constable Pierce, whoattempted to take from her o flask of brandy, let the bottle fall into an open stove. The liquid ignited, and communicating the flame to her person, caused ous in- juries. Robinson & Hit will remove their omnibus and street car factory from Waterloo to Minneapolis in a short time. Cash and real estate to the amount of $.000 have been offered to the firm as a bonus to locate in Minne- apolis. Dakota. An effort is on foot to establish a pack- ing house at Tyndall. Real estate transfers in Sioux Falls for the year amounted to over $3,000,000. The Marion creamery has paid out $11,505 in the past eight months to farmers for cream. Dan C. Needham as secretary of the Territorial Farmers’ alliance, will open an office at Aberdeen. The metallurgical library at Rapid City school of mines is nearly completed, and a special class for miners will be organized January 1. The Dakota wheat crop of 1887 bids fair to overrun the 60,000,000 bushels estimated by Commissioner P. F. Mec- Already 25,000,000 bushels have been marketed, Typical A Hastings Gazelte-Journal. The marvelous growth of the state of Nebraska is illystrated by her cities, any one of which would honor the en terprise of any of the older states. First on the list of, Nebraska's youngest giants, as her representative cities may properly be designated, comes Omaha, the gate city of the west, through which two-thirds of the eommerce and traffic of the country flows from east to west or from west to east.. In many respects Omaha is the representative city of the west. With its round hyndred thousand people, its magnificent paved streets— the finest in the country—its eight and ten-story business blocks, its metropoli- tan newspapers, its immense wholesalo trade extending into every part of the great west, Omaha is indeed entitled to the distinction of being the representa- of the west. She is destined to become the metropolis of the ‘‘new ? which is growing west of the sippi, and in a few years no city west of Chicago will contest her suprem- acy. Next comes Lincoln, the capltal city. Lincoln is undoubtedly the handsomest city in the state and right royally does she carry the dignity of her position. She has® a population of nearly 40,000 and is just beginning to grow. Her prospects ave brilliant, and she labors under but one disadvantage, and at her proximity to Omaha. During the past year she has added nearly one million dollars to her public improve- ments and her private improvements have becen made upon an equally mag- nificent scale. Ranking third in the list of the Ne- braska’s principal cities comes Hastings, the Queen. Hastings is the only eity in Nebraska that is in a position to contest with Lincoln, the honor of holding second rank. This city is destined to become the Indianapolis of the west. Its railrond system is the best enjoyed in any city in the state and it is but in the infancy of its development. Hast- ings now has the Burlington, Union Pacific, Northwestern and Missouri Pacific systems and insido of two y will have the Rock Island and the Fe system, besides several branch lines in different directions. The wholesale trade of Hastings, inaugurated during the past year, has already reached flat- tering proportions. The amount of money expended for improvements of a public and private nature is exceeded by no city in the state but Omaha. After Hastings comes Grand Island, Nebraska City and Beatrice. It is difficult to tell which of these three ities is entitled to the distinction of ing the fourth city. Hastings 1sin- ned to award the honor to her enter- ] sing neighbor on the north, Grand sland; but Nebraska City and Beatrice make favorable showing, and it will not be until after the next official cen- sus that the matter will finally be do- termined. All three are growing, bustling, busy cities, and all three have a population of at least ten thousand. After these comes Kearney, Red Cloud, Minden, Holdrege, Fremont, McCook, North Platte, Fairbury, York, Seward, Plattsmouth, and perhaps a half score of others, all of which are destined to become bright stars in Nebraska's firmament of cities. st S tei The Bank Clerk's Mad Furniture. New York Tribune: The bank clerk reached his boarding house very late, In fact it was among those very small hours which produce yery large heads. He had some difliculty in finding the keyhole, and then occupied fiftoen min- utes in trying to unlock the door with his watch-key. A4 length observing this trifling error, he succeoded in get- ting in and reached his apartment, the third story back room. Here, however, he was greatly surprised to find that ything wasin motion. The bed,the and the chairs seemed swung on a -go-round and revolved with great rapidity. The bank clerk was in a most genial mood, and he leaned against the doorpost to observe this phenomenon. “Dunno zi care ’'but th’ burer,” he soliloquized, ‘‘bul mus’ cash the bed.” Accordingly, depositing his hat and coat on the floor,he gave chase. Around went the bank clerk after the flying bedstead, and having knocked down the towel-rack and smashed the blacking- brush stand in his efforts to catch his frisky furniture, he sat down on tho remnant of his hat to think up a scheme. ““Mos’ active bed I ever shaw,” he re- marked to himself, as he watched its devious flith. “‘Gesh I better wait right here,” he added, ‘‘and when she comes around jump on board as she goes by.” This plan seemed so excellent that bank clerk prepared to execute it and it soemed to him that the bed had reached the ri&hl place he gave a great leap and landed with a tremendous crash in the corner against the mantelpiece, bring- ing two pnotograph frames, a cup and suucer and a Chinese idol down on his head. -A profound silence followed for a few moments, and then the door of the third-story front room opened slowly and the heads of the two maiden ladies came forth. ‘‘He’s been paralyzed,” said the elder maiden lady, anxiously, ‘“‘and got up to go to the window for air.” The younger maiden lady was so agitated that two curl papers fell off. ‘‘Junet;” she whis- pcrex: **do go and knock on the door and inquire.” *‘Doors, however were opening about the house, and heads came out over the banister to inquire the meaning of the crash. A moment more and there was a measured tread on the stairs. “Kdward, is that you?” whispered down young Mrs. Parsley anxiously from the fourth floor. It was not Ed- ward. It was old Mr. Rottle and as he hove in sight through the gloom of the stairs the two maiden ladies gave little shrieks and diiappeared, once move to appear through the crack of the door, one head above the other. Old Mr. Rottle wore a flowered dress- ing-gown and worsted slippers and car- ried his spectacles in his hand. “Are either of you ladies sick?” he whispered to the two maiden ladies. They assured him that they were as usual, but that the bank clerk had been tricken with paralysis, and they were sbout to aid him. At this juncture Prof. Nudge, who accupied the third story front hall bed- room, hastily opened the door, and pro- truding a night-capped and spectacled head-inquired in muffled tones that be- trayed an absence of testh, whether the house was on fire. Mr. Rottle did notdelay. He knoched on the bank clerk’s door and entered. That worthy was just falling asleep in the corner with his head in the wuste basket, as his visitor appeared. @G’ evenin’, old boy, he remarked, stupidly J % putting on his spectacles and looking at the bank clevk severely, *‘there was a tremendous crash in your room not long since that aroused the whole house. I feared y v 11,1 **Nozzi rejoined the bank clerk, **jus’ pullin’ off m’ boots and dropped one.” I'm waitin’ now for the bed. When she comes aroun’ again I'll ab her and get in, Jus cash a chair, ercan, Mizzer Rottlé, and make 3 s1f at home. Wottle yer have, ole fel Waiter, take the gentleman’s order.” — - Van Amburg's Eye. ‘When Delmonico, the negro lion- tamer, was asked what influence the human eye had on wila beasts, he said: 1 shoyld say about tho same influenco the eye of one man has on another,” and proceeded to illustrate this by u st of van Amburg, the great lion-tamer. Thoe latter, on one occasion, while inan American barrom, was asked how he got. his wonderful power over animals. He veplied, “It is by my showing them that Tamnot in the least afraid of them, by keeping my eye steadily on theirs, I'll give you an example of the powe my ey Pointing to aloutisi feliow who was sitting opposite, Von Aiabuzgh said: **You see that fellow? He'su ular elown. I'll mgke him come a¢ the room to me, and I won’t say a word to him. Sitting down, Van Amburgh fixed his keen, steady eye on the man. Presently the fellow straightened him- self, gradually got up, and came across. When he got close enough he d back his arm and struck the tamer tremendous blow under the chin, knock- ing him clear over the chair, with the remark, *You stare at me like that again, will you?” et e Do you suffer with catarrh? You ecan be cured if you take Hood’s Sarsapurill, the great blood purifier. Scld by all druggists. slightly cros seared appearance. write. a flannel overshirt, with an immense A MODEL WESTERN ROBBER. How Mr. Newsome Oleaned Out the San Anglelo Stage. ANTICS OF A TEXAS HIGHWAYMAN He Divided the Plunder With Those He had Despoiled—A Mistake n the TReckoning — Drinking with the Passengers. Waco, Tex., correspondence of the Globe-Democrat: Jaumes A. Newsome. has been sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for life. He is five foet eight inches high; weighs 150 pounds, has sandy hair, mustache and goateey his es are sinall and gray, sed, and with & nervous, habitual twitching that gives him a He has a small nose, with receding forehead, upon which is matted a growth of unkempt hair. His shoulders rise up around his neck, giving it a sunken appearance. He limps slightly, having been shot in the right foot. He is twenly-five years old,and claims to have no education whatever, not being able to read or When he was arrested he wore Mexican sombrero gaudily decorated with tinsel, His pants were shoved down in his boots, which had heels three inches long, tapering to a point. Eight years ago he was zmnd on_ the bank of thefConcho river by Mr. Rich Coffee, a farmer living near Paint Rock, Runnels county. Newsome had been shot in the foot and fainted from loss of blood. Old man Coffee lifted him on his horse and carried him home, where his wound was sufliciently healed for him to ride again, but his horse was not to be found. Newsome said that he was passing through that partof the country with other cowboys and that they be- came involved in a dispute about the ownership of a tin canteen. Ho was ghot, robbed and deserted. Mr. Coffoe gave him work to do in looking up cat- tle that were lost from the herd, and found that Newsome was very expert at it. Some cattlemen in that region think he was too expert, as he managed to ac- cumulate quite a little herd on his own account. On the 17th of September he was offered a very lucrative position— $15 a month—to herd horses, and left for the house of Mr. Ransberger, who lived a few miles away. Tt was at this point that the ambition of the cowboy became stirred with the idea of becoming a banker. He reas- oned: ‘A bank must have depositors; people will not voluntarily leave their money with me, ergo, I must compel them.” A few nights later the most wonderful feat of stage robbing on rec- ord startled the whole state of Texas, and the moonlight banker’s cash capital was over 81,200, Tt was 11 o’clock at night on the 29th of September and the stage was filled. There were seven drummers on it who had been to San Anglo with their sam- les and were eager to get to Bal- inger, the nearest railroad point. San Anglos a very important town in the western rnn of Texas, and is the coun- ty seat of that enormous district called Tom Green county, which has an area of 10,000 square miles. The stage was but twelve miles from Ballinger; and each mile post was counted impatiently by the weary men. A mounted highwayman, with gleam- ing pistol, suddenly halted them,spring- ing up miraculously us if from the very earth. “Hold up, gentlemen! Stop your team, driver! Gentlemen, will you please oblige me by getting out of the stage? This side, please. Now stand in a row with your Knnds up while I place these slicker caps over your heads to prevent your seeing what ' do. Pardon me for running my hands down in your pockets and searching you, but I must get your money, and I want you to keep your hands up.” When he had finished with the pas- sengers and had rifled the mail bags, he made a mental inventory of his pos- sessions and found that he had $1,175 in money, seven watches and four pistols. Then he removed the bag-like caps he had placed over their heads, and said: “Gentlemen, I am sorry to detain you longer, but I have made up my plans to rob that stage coming from Ballinger, and you must wait here until it comes up. Business is business, yvou know.” He then sat dowm and began to look over the boodle, while the passengers loitered about and amused themselves as best they could under the circum- stances. Among confiscated pistols was found a small fl-mllihflrwcu]nn.s\nd the highwaymau yelled out. “Here, who in h—l owns this dog gasted, measly, two-bit toy gun?” “I did,” said one of the passengers. “Well, I'm going to make you take it back. If the boys were to find that on me they would swing me up for con- tempt.”’ “Mr. Robber,” said a Dallas drum- mer, “You haven't treated me white. You have cleaned me out entirely, and 1 won't be able to get home.” *“Is that so? Well, I'll do this: I'm no hog; I'll give every man a per cent of what I took from him for traveling expenses.” *You have no use for that watch of mine,” said Mr. Kaufman, ‘‘and you can't sell it, because my name is cn- graved in it; won’t you give it back to me “*Here,you take the whole lot of them; they are not much account; there ain’t a good one in the lot.” \ “Pardon,” said the driver, “it's mighty cold sitting here; can't you ‘sct ‘em up’ to something to drink?” _ *'That's whatever; you all just wait here a few minutes.” . He leaped on his horse, mained near them grazing, galloped oft rapidly and disuppeared in a small chaparral thicket near by, and almost instantly scen to emerge aguin, holding high his left hand two quart bottles of whis He suddenly reined up his horse when about fifty f from the men and suid: - *I know that while I was gone you fellows were laying son 1o to tuke me. I suppose you think you will shoot me with that litile pistol. " Now, I don’t want to have this ev: ng's entertain- ment wind up in a row, and 1 am going 1o make every feilow come up and gev his drink onc at a time.” 7 The whisky put every one il good Lumor, und it was gencrall that if it were not for his crratic ide: meum and teum the robber would be & clever fello Newsome went to work 10 count over his gains again, nu gome calculations on the ground with a st which had re- ally he seid: “Boy 1 must rob you over I have given some fello piece for a dollar.” He! them sgain end discoy pocket of the man 10 wh tended to give &3, Ie g g 2 and put the gold piece ) pocket. As he was moving off the pus- senger touched him on lt:‘u shoulder, 8 three dollars?? “Wasn't I to hav * s auother dollur, That’s s0; hor - U SRR, 5 T AR D0 7000 e The driver was seizod with a schome and said: “Suppose, Colonel, that you let us drive on until we meet the other stage and you ride along by our side?” “That's a good iden,” snid he; “‘pro- ceod and keep quiet, and if you fellows will just lay low and watch me ‘m through that Ballinger crowd, you will have fun enough to pay for what you have lost.” The stage was soon met up with, the first was stopped about eighty yards off, and the robbing process was ropoated. on this stage there wore four passengors, two ladies and two old preachers. The ladies he declined to rob, and the preachers had nothing. When he had concluded his work he galloped off to the chaparral thicket and fired a shot as a signal for them to move on. They moved, Newsome is sentenced to spend tho remainder of hislife in the United Statos prison at Albanv, N. Y. — A BIG GAME OF CARDS. Money, Horses, Clothes and Liberty Staked on a Game of Cards, Fort Smith letter: The presence in this city the other day of an enormous negro named Jim Zeigler veealled as in- teresting game of poker as was ever played in this county. Jim is perhaps the biggist man in the Indian terrvitory, being six feet eight inches tall and weighing 284 pounds, well proportioned, perfectly ercct and strong as an ox. This dusky hercules has for the past ten rs commanded both respect and ad- mirvation from half the Choctaw nation. Over in Kully Chaba, where he lives alone in a poverty ken dug-out, his half-breed Indian and desperado neigh bors eall him Hauta Kalausa (the black giant,) and he is treated with a deferenee consequence upon so meritorious a title. Nobody knowsany- thing of his past life; but of ono thing all are certain,he isaman to avoid at all times. Go has it that at ono time he killed with his fist three deputy United States Is who had at- tempted to ar im for illegal liquor selling, while at another time ho is said to have run 240 miles neross into Arap- hoe county to escape an armed posse of this as it untrammeled with government fette and struts the In- dian territory with us much freedom as the ch af the council, IR PLAYING PROWESS is commensurate with his siz He used to sit for whole days beside tho rough Indian “sawlog” without a change of countenance, without a sound, save the oceasional grunt of disappointment or approval, without a thought as to food, time or results. He i)luywl with an earnest determination and grim reck- lessness that usually won and always ex- cited n suspicion among the Indians that Black nt was bewitched. So deeply had thissuspicion taken root thut no Indian would play with him alone. The presence of white men scer remove their fear, and when the pian lost under such circumstance: due alone to the presenceof a Caucasian rival. His persistent winning has won_for him, beside a long *‘string,” eight dou{() scars. Qne of these, a bright rod mar| that stands out with grotesque ugliness against his black skin, extends from his right temple to the corner of his mouth. This was presented to him by an unsuc- cessful Cherokee Indian about three years ago. Another gish received at the hands of an infuriated white man in Tahlequah, sliced off half his ear; this combination of scars giving him a demoniacal appearance which, added to his tromendous stature, causes the ave- rage Indian small boy to hide behind his mother’s apron or scamper off in the wildest torror. It will bo readily seen that Mr. Zeigler is neither the beauty nor the pet of his community. One evening, about fourteen months ago four Indians, one white man named Bud Tucker, and Jim himself met around the “‘saw-log” at Jim’s camp to “go their luck.” The game, as usual was ‘‘hulla ko busko” poker. After the “‘oskahoma” (whisky) jug had been passed around the conventional number of times, loungers dropped in to witness. Candles were stuck opposite_each man, and the game started. Honors were evenly divided towsrd the first hour, the Indians having a slight advantage. Then by degrees luck turned Jim's way. Towar mhfilight his success continued to the evident chagrin of the Indians, who began to mutter disappointedly as their strings vanished. Bud Tucker, however, played more earnestly than ever. He never lost hope, but now and then eyed his brawny competitor with a hatred so keen that the giant drew his next hand with an undisguised nervons- cowling now and then so savagely that the Indinns became more and mora nervous, and finally dropped out_about 8 o'clock, leaving the giant and Bud facing each other to play to afinish. As the first stredksof daylight pushed their way between the cracks of the dug-out, the scene inside hecame one of terribie earnest malignity. Tucker refused cards and stood pat. Big Jim drew two cards. ]‘.h\tlhgfi bogan. After every chip had becn lai on the log, the excitement of the half- breed spectators found vent in uncon- troilable cries of wonder, mixed with terror. Many . of them instinctively moved toward the door us !hqugh. fear- ing a lost hand on the giant’s part would result in a general demolition of everything inside the hut. Under the mask of suppressed excitement, worn by the two players, there raged a trem- endous struggle between passions of scorn, determination and deadly hatred., Huge knots stood out upon the durkey s head, perspiration steamed from every pore u, his bared neck, his breath camo Lurried and desperately, and his hands trembled like leaves, The white man may, Jim is to-da, jerked his mustache with in- sd vigor and nerved himself into a half- shed ostu us though dy to spring at his black an- tagon throat. The giant squan- dered his elothes, his pistols, his Win- chester, his horse, and finally his house and outlaying clnim, yet the gray beard aguin smiled and . Without a moment’s panse Zeigler hi tho gtartling proposition that his life should back his next hund, and that if _he lost he woulfl serve hisvanquisher faithfuily in any capacity he should name. At the announcement of this unprecedented stake a perfect howl of surprise went up from the enlookers, anil before it had died away the Black Giant was a slavi in the hands of hiz puny rival. Zeizle held four queens, the white man four aces. With one glance at his opponent’s hand, Tucker fell in a dead faint, while ler, with a_terrible curse, shud- dered from head w foot and stalked out of the hut. From that day to this he his served Bud Tucker faithfully, and a quasi friendship has sprung up between mas- ter und slave. Jim attends to Tucker'’s ttle and acts ns a whole N furm, herds ¢ armed posse in rizing the horse- thieves of the surrounding country, while in compensation he is allowed to visit the village occasionally and enjoy a few days of frcedom. He is now ing the third month of his second and, in conversation with your spondent during his visit to town other day, he suid that from the the ) memorable day on which he lost his life down to the present time, he h neither toughed & card nor witnossed 8 POKer guwe. A