Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 2, 1888, Page 2

oo ent, and -unplyl much felt want. ore are two chiurches, the Catholic and the ethoglist, slso two achools, the Catholic and ljo. Both are well attended and ably conducted hy efficient. teachers, Several brick bulldings are talked of to be erccted in the spring. The surrounding. country was settled years before Humphrey was heard of. and whilst it has neither the beauty of Las Vegas vor the grandeur of Yellowstone park, ltfisnmflhh of far more value to the For fertility and easiness of ‘cultivation it ennot e surpassed in any part aof the state, We do not claim any boom, or expact Humphrey ever to be a great city, but we-are confident thut in the newr future fts pulation will be greatly increased. People king for farming land or a business loca- tion will do well to come here before they in- west clsewhere. Culbertson Cullings. CurLnerTsoy, Neb., Dec. 80.—[Correspond- ence or the Bee, | —Culbertson has organized & bonrd of trade and steps will be taken to thoroughly advertise this thriving place throughout the east. The board 18 composed of live, energetic business men who will ma- terially advance the best interests of the town. Sufficient steel and other material for the new Frenchman Valley & Wyoming railroad has been received at this place to build sixty miiles of the road. ‘The road is complete and i -gunning order from Holyoke, Colo., to Cheyonne, and it is_quite certain that the en- tire line from this place to Cheyenne will bo finished by next June. The leading towns on this road will doubtless be Culbertson, Pali- sade, Tmperial, Holyoke and Sterling, the two Iatter in Colorado. T'he $16,000 roller flouring mill just com- leted at this place is the most complete mill T the vanloy sind fills & long felt want in this section, It has a daily capacity of 150 barrels of flour, besides the corn and buckwheat manufactured into meal. The diptheria that has been raging in the southern portion of the county has been checked, the last death being that of Young ‘Occobok, who reside with Cavter's family of whom three died of the dreadful The people wlong the line of the B. & ) this section have just cause to complai the action of that road in ignoring the needs of the people in the way of passenger and mail facilitics, But one muil and passen, train each way per day is regarded as p poor accommodations, A competing line road is sorely needed and allindications point to un carly consumation of such an adven- ture. Ttems From Ainsworth, Arsswonrti, Neb,, Jan, 1,—[Correspond- ence of the Be. | —Ainsworth precinct is now building a £10,000 court house, and the walls are well under way. 'This building the pre- cinet will donate to the county to be used for county purposes so long as she desires, For several days this section has had very severe*weather, inaugurated with a genuine, howling blizzard. There was ono fine day and then the steady cold sct in, 'There is but little snow—not enough for sleighing. The onl the churc Japtists presenting 6 can- tata, “Catching Kris Kringle,” which was very prettily acted, the Sunday school chil- dren bofug thoroughly trained, and receiving the generous appliuse of hundreds of specti- tors. There were also two beautifully il- luminated Christmas trees with gifts for the children. The Congregational church had songs, recitations, a tree loaded with vres. ents and nicely illuminuted; a genuine Santa Claus presided over the tree, calied out the gifts and everybody was hay - There have been many visitors in town during the holidays, and there were some family reunions. ~Quite a number are out of town during the holidays, visiting homes or friends. S Norfolk's Street Railway in Trouble. Noirouk, Neb., Jan. 1.—[Special to the Ber.]—The Norfolk street railway company, which deferred building its line until cold woather made the work of construction very difticult, 8o that the grading is_in an_inconi- pleted condition, is now confrouted by an- other trouble. Mayor Koenigstein has noti- fled the company to have the streets placed in as good condition as_they were before the trick was lnid, otherwise it will be declared @ nuisance and ordered removed. A Newspaper Change. Nonrork, Neb., Jan. 1.—[Special to the Bee.]—The Daily News this morning an- nounced that P. F. Sprecher has sold his in- terest. in the paper but will continue as ed- itor. “The old ‘firm of Norton, Sprecher & Bell is sueceeded by the News Publishing company, of which Messrs, Norton and Bell are members. ————— MURDERED H'S MOTHER. Terrible Ending of New Year's Spree in Baltimore, Bavtrvore, Jan. 1.—Stephen Conroy and Patrick O'Donnell were drinking togetner for some hours last night at the home of the former, und about miduight a fight took place, in which O'Dounell was badly beaten and thrown out of the house. Shortly after he was found unconscions in the street and taken home, when he charged Conroy with assaulting him. The police went to arrest Conroy und found he had killed his aged mother with an ax. The room in which the murder was committed presented a horrible appearance, the walls being splashed with blood. O'Donnell was so badly beaten that he is almost certain to die, ety Fatal New Year Observance, ForGETOWN, Ala., Jan. 1.—A terrible catas- trophe occurred, last night, in which three persons were killed outright and between twenty and thirty injured. The colored Bap- tists had assemblod in their ¢hurch to watch the oid year out and the new year in, as is their custom, and during the festivities, so great was the crowd that the floor gave way, and the building collapsed. A scene of ter- Allison, and Mrs. Jones and her child were taken from the wreck — Backed By un Afiidayit. 8t. PauL, Jun. 1.—A Winnepeg special to the Pioneer-I'ress suys: Some time ago the Free Press charged that the Norquay gov- ernment had misappropriated some $60,000 belonging to a half-breed miner. This the wernment denied, and the same paper will lo-morrow publish the avit of Arthur Sylvan that be was authorized to collect this claim, but had his checks refused repeatedly. nk officials state that the funds were with- drawn by the government, the checks being signied by Hurrison, new premier. Iuterest- ing developments are expected, B All the Boomers Ask. Geupa Serines, Kan,, January 1,.—The Herald aunounces thut Geuda Springs is the ‘Readquarters of the Oklahoma movements and adds: ‘“We are authorized to say there 8 no movement, either concealed open, Jooking to an invasion of tho territory. All the Oklahoma boomers ask is that congress shall act, and act promptly, and that the resident shall respect and comply with the W requiring him to appoint u comuission 1o treat with thic Indians for lands.” e A Fistic er at Baltimore. Bavmivorg, Md., Jan. 8.—[Special Tele- gram to tho Bee.]—H, Mortimer Black, of New York, administored & sound thrashing to J. Oreighton Davis, of this city, In tho street last c\'onlnf. The cowhiding was wit- mnessed by only a few persons, and the parties ‘being prominent in society circles, offorts were made to suppress the publication of the affair. Mr. Black accused Mr, Duvis of send- ing an insulting letter to a woman to whom he is engaged to be married. et Will Fight if Forced. Prstn, Jan. 2.—Promier Tisza, replying to New Year's congratulations from the liber- als, to-day, said he did not believe war was jmminent. Ho was convinced Hungary would not provoke, but she would be ready #f war was forced upon her. Among the deputics the speeches were peaceful in ten- dency. e Two Firemen Killed. Aupaxy, Ore., Jun, 1.—This morning a wouth bound pussenger train ran into u alide t miles south of Riddles, killing Firemen Buren und Roberts. No others were in- ured. i The Death Record. BEruIX, Jap. 1.—The death is announced :mmu reiguing duke Saxe Mein- .+ BIX RALLED, The Cincinnati Senthern Weeck More Sertous Than Fiest Reported. Lexixaroy, Ky., Jan. 1.—The collision on the Cine ath Southern road, near Green- wood, Ky., on a sixty foot embankment re- porjed briefly last night, is now known to have resulted in the death of the following persons: Lee Withrow, baggagemaster; James Seyerens, postal clerk; L. C. Candee, hreman: Lawrence Callan, bagiagemaster W. B. Powell, express messenger, and Miss Jessie Green, of Chattanoogs, & passenger. Ffteen persons, passengers aad train hands, whose names have not been secured, are known to have been seriously, some fatally injured. In addition to them the nort bound train this evening ‘carried to Cincin- pati five or six badly injured passengers, Railroad officials here refuse the associated press reporters access to them and would not give their names. The collision was caused by Conductor Schrumm missing the orders delivercd to him at Winficld. He mistook Sumit for Sumn- merset and hurried his train down grade at fifty miles per hour to make that point. After the collision the conductor of the other train ran up to Schrumm and said: “I'm not to blame for this, read your orders and see.” Schrumm took out his or- ders and looking at them threw up his hands and exclaimed, “Oh, my God, I've made a mistake.” The baggage car and smoker of train No. 2 rolled down the embankment and the ladies car was thrown on the engine, the inmates being thereby scalded. The two engines col- lided with such force that they were virtu- ally welded together and could not be pulled apart to-day. A corredpondent visited the sceno of the wreck this morning. There is no doubt that several were burned to death, as a number of charred bodies were found where the smoking car of No. 1 was burned. Innumer- able tolegrams are passing over the wires in- quiring for relatives or friends on the fatal train, and a number of passengers inquired after cannot be found. Early this morning the charred remains of what is. supposed to be Fireman Candee were dragged out of the de- bris. The only things left unharmed were his boots. Caunsed By a R pss Brakeman, Prersnune, Pa., Jan, 1.—A west bound freight train on the Pennsylvania road stopped near Bennington this morning to sdide track for the Pacific express. Through the neglect of the flag brakeman the Pacific express crashed into the rear of the freight at full speed. The engincer and fireman of the freight train were fatally injured, and the enginer of the second engine of the ex- press train very badly hurt, and a number of pussengers were shaken up. T GAMBLER DONOHUE. His Presence in Ohicago Revives a Baltimore Sensation. Crcaco, Jan. 1.—[Special Telegram to the —-James Donohue, the noted gambler who was employed in Boston to murder the servant daughter-in-law of rich Hotel Keeper Mellen, of Baltimore, and who was four months ago reported to have been shot dead at Winnipeg, has turned up in this city. An interview with him published to-day says he is going back to Boston to faco a charge of bigamy which he asserts has no foundation except that given by Mellen's counsel. Donohue relates what is said to be the first complete story of the conspiracy to murder young Mrs, Meilen, whose marriage had never been made public, and who was con- sidered by the wealthy hotel proprietor far be- meath his social station. The salient feature of Donohue's narative is the claim that he went mto the conspiracy with the full knowledgo and approval = of Chief Inspector Hanscom and Inspectors Geraughty and Houghten, of Boston, the object baing not to commit the murder, but tosift the plot to the bottom. Donohue says he at first velieved that the overtures to him to commit the erime were part of a plot to murder him, as u bitter fight was 1 progress at that time to break up the gambling fraternity in Bos- ton. Afterwards, when it was found that the scheme was what it purported to be, Donohue, who had been in tho federal se- eret service during the wir, was induced by the police to follow the matier to the end, he cxposure of the conspiracy, the flight, of the elder Mellen to Canada to escape justice, . and the imprisonmenoc of his female confeder- ate, Mrs. Coolidge, wereall, Donohue asserts, direct results of his co-operation with the po- lice of Boston and Baltimore. LT A TWO-YEAR-OLD RACE. Morlaine and Sudie D. Likely to be Matched in the Spring. Lexivorox, Ky, Jan. 1.~([Special Tele- gram to the Bee.]—There is likely tobea match race in the spring between the sensa- tional two-year-olds MorJaine and Sudie D., the first with a record of 2:31}, the other of 2:358{. Bowerman Bros. are confident that Sudie D, can beat Morlaine, for she has shown them a mile which is simply astonish- ing. In fact, as a record, it would put her in the 2:30 list, yearling as she is. Ttis a fact that Mr. George Bowerman, driver of Sudie D., is in California now for the purpose of arranging & match between the two fillies if possible, for any amount that may be named. The Bowermans are willing to take their filly to California and have the race there or if the Californan will come here they will pay the expenses of tho trij Brook Curry said to-day that not a in the world could beat Sudie D, The saw the filly ina paddock -at_the farm of Cluud Higgins. She is of 4 tall rangy, make with a long slender neck and _a Hambleton- ian head. She is a brown, and tn her build and finish shows her Ligh quality. Her sire, Sherman's _ Hamblotoninn, was i another paddock. The @ fi a striking resemblance to conformation, especiallv in the IEFS. Sudic D.’s dam has been breeding regulariy to all horses around here, but to Sherman’s Ham- bletonian she. dwflqmd the only trotter she ever produced. or performance is a great ‘thing for her sire, whose reputation has been greatly enhanced. . The mateh, if it should come off, will attract the attontion of the en- tive country and betting men in and about Lexington will risk going ‘broke on Sudie D. Sl ‘WILL NOT STRIKE. TResult of a Meeting Reading Knights of Labor. ReApING, Pa., Jan 1.—To-day an informal meeting rof the representatives from the Knights of Labor, assembled in this aty, whose membership consists principaily of Reading ruilroad employes, was held here and the situation was again fully discussed and it was given out as the sentimeut of the employes that under no circumstances would they strike because they considered it impo- litic and on the ground thatit would not help along the cuuse of the Knights of Labor, A ‘numbor of assemblies iu the neighboring towns telegraplied here that they would be guided by the action of the Reading assem- blies. A quantity of freight und cars of coal passed through to-day. About -eighty men were cmiployed here to-day and sent to Port Richmond to take the places of the strikers. e Was it a Bomb? New York,, Jan. 1.—The cause of the ex- plosion at the Equitable Gas-light works last night is still shrouded in mystery. It was at first supposed it was caused by the accum- ulation of escaping gas, but it is now ru- mored that a dynamite bomb was thrown into the engine house. Three minutes before tho explosion DO escaping gas was porcepti- ble. All the pipe conucetions of the engines and pumps leading to the storage tanks and purifying house were intact. e ——— The Fire Record. Kaxsas Ciry, Mo, Jan. 1.—The establish- ment of the Stevens & Brace Iron company burned last night. Loss $105,000. Fully insured. . Ecc Harsor City, N. J.,, Jan. 1.—Fire last night destroyed a great portion of the town. Loss $60,000. Arrkiy, Minn,, Jan, 1.—The store of W. Potter & Co., general merchants, burned this worning. Loss, $50,000; insurance, $30,000. et o e alisady Carnot's Reception. Pawrs, Jan. 1.—President Carnot gave the usual New Year’s reception to the diplomatic corps to-day. The papal nuneio, on behalf of the diplomatic body, congratulated the presi- dent, who iu roply said that he trusted that THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, JANUARY 2 1888. all fears would be dispelled and that the pations might fa complete rity devote themselves to the developthent of their miaral and material interests. B 4 ‘ e e e g sl A Murdorer's Exciting Time. Warsar, Wis, Jan. 1.—During a quarrel to-night Louis Butier was shot through the heart by Louis Schlicht. Schlicht hurried to jail and surrendered himself. Several hun- dred men surrounded the Jail, determined to Iynch him. Sheriff Healy declared that he had a posse of men armed with Winchesters and any hostile attempt would be met with a ~olley. The crowd then dispersed. bidain- ity Bank Thieves Frustrated. Cumicaco, Jan. 1. It was discovered to-day that an attempt was made last night to rob the vault of the Drovers' National bank at the stock yards, containing £50,000 in cash. The burglars blew out a portion of the door with dynamite and did hard work with jim- mies and drills, but evidently gave it up as a bad job, they being unable to get it open, sl Discrepancies Discovered. JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind., Jan. 1.—An expert has discovered & mare's nest inthe New Albany city treasury. No settlement has been had for twelve years, and discrepancies amounting to £100,000 have been disco but Sam Weir, the treasurer, has c! which will reduce the amounts somewhat. Efforts are being made to hush the matter up. matiditiestin Humbert Hopes for Peace. Rowe, Jan. 1.—The king and queen re- ceived the members of senate and the cham- ber of deputies in Lribulln}&mlnre to-day. Re- ferring to foreign affairs King Humbert said Italy had never enjoyed as good a position as now. He hoped 1888 would be a year of peace. N The Weather To-day. For Nebraska: Fair weather, followed by snow or rain, light to fresh southerly winds. For Towa: Warmer, fair weather, light to fresh southerly winds, or Dakota: Snow, warmer, followed in ‘western portion by colder weather, light to fresh, variable winds. el i Emperor William Observes New Yearss BeruiyJan.l.—Emperor Will iam oberved New Year's day by giving a reception to his ministers, members of the diplomatic corps, generals of the army, ete, THE OPE! YEAR. New Year's Day a Quiet and Unevent- ful One in Omaha. With its fresh and bracing air and bright sunshine, yesterday was an ideal New Year's day; and if. according to the- meteorology of our forefathers, the three first days of Janu- ary are criterions for the three first months of the year, the opening month of 1888 is to be un auspicious one. The snow of the day before was well packed, making the first really good sleighing this season. Everybody was anxious to improve the opportunity for a sleigh ride, and from morning until night the strects were alive with dashing turnouts and ir full of the music of' sleighbells. The ear opening on Sunday there were but few social gatherings or other. indications of the nature of the day. In but fhree of the churches of the city were thore special cser- mons announced for that -day. These wero the Unity church, the pastor, Rey. Copeland, preaching on “The New Year;” the Seward street 5 church, Rev. Sav- idge taking for his subject “A New Start,” and Alfred D, Henry church, the pastor's subject being “‘A. 1886 'In the evening there were the usual Sunday night dances, but none specially dedicated to the opening year. The festivi- ties have all been postponed until to-day, and ns a result there is a flood of balls, recep- tions and other entertainments this dfter- noon and evening. Among these are the Y. M. C. A. reception, the Westminster Presby- terian church dinuer, the Hyperion and Esmeralda balls and a host of others. These entertainments seem to have utterly dis- played the time-worn custom of new year's calling, and but comparatively few in the city will keep opén house to-day. Off For Bostan, Hi Yesterday Messrs. Murray and Monford, delegates from the Omaha brickiayers union, started for the national convention of brick- layers which convenes in Boston, Mass., on Tuesday. —_— Bored by a Fortune. SanFrancisco Chronicle:, “Why,d— it, that article in the Chronicle has cest me 850 for wine since morning,” said Isaac H. Cory to a Chronicle reporter last night. Mr. Cory was visited at his residence, 326 Oak street, for the. pu pose of obtaining additional facts in re- gard to the legacy of 81,000,000 which was left to him and his family not' long ago by General Samuel L; Hunt of Mor- vistown, N. J., onc of his relatives, who died in that place on December 4. Mr. Cory, who was formerly a member of the firm of Carola; Cor; Co., is well known in bu and lives in eclegant style with his family. He is about forty-five years of age aud has a wife andseveral children, He was particularly averse last night to saying anything whatever about the for- tune left him, while admitting that everything which the Chronicle pub- lished yesterday was ecorrect with the excoption of the “‘bullion part of it.” ‘When pressed to explain where the d: crepancy existed, Mr. Cory withdrew into his shell, and became ‘as close- mouthed as the traditional claim, if that fish was ever known to be possessed of the power of speech. 1 won’t say a word about it now,” he continued; ‘‘not one wo T've been pointed out all over this n to-day as the latest millionaire. T’ve made a thousand new friends since the sun arose, and they’ve slobbered all over me and told me how much they thought of me, and all that sort of thing. Of course I'm on to their rabket; who wenldn’t be? But I wantthisnewspaper talk ahout me stopped. D—, T don’t want any notoriety. All I want is to be let alone. The reporter suggested that as it has not been fashionable recently to leave legacies of $1,000,000 to relatives or others, that possibly the facts concern- ing such an oceurrence might be of gen- eral interest. It was also natural to sup- pose that a feeling of satisfaction, not to say pleasure, would possess the person to whom the bequest was made. *1 don’t know about that,” replied Mr, “I have always had eyerything [ . Tdon’t really know what Iwould do with $1,000,000 unless T gave it away to persons to whom 1t might do some good. I have no especial use for it.” e — Trophies from Venezuel New York Sun: In the collections I brought back from Venezuela T have the skin of a black water serpent forty feet long, that of & boa twenty-one feet long, a rattlesnake with sixteen rattles, and a black centipede fourteen inches long, and nearly an inch thick. If the In- dians in the villages one might visit notice the interest one takes 1n this pranch of natural history, they will bring any number of snakes and other reptiles and sell them for a trifie. The only trouble one has with them is the transportation. One day, on the way from the Guarice river toGuigue, I must have resented a curious specticle, my sad- SIe bags stuffed with insects, Indian idols and ancient pottery. a dead ser- pent and an iguana (species of aragon) suspended from the saddle, asmall mon- key sitting beeind me on the horse, and a beautiful green parrot wit blue head and wings in frout of me. Many of these objects, besides butterflies and bugs, I had afterward very cleverly stuffed and otherwise prepared for preservation by a Swiss chemist, Mr. Johann Cunz, an assistant of Sturup’s pharmacy at Cara- cas, who furnishes a number of scien- tific institutions with interesting collee- tions of that sort. THE RANCHING OUTLOOK, Circumstances, Which' Have Pro- duced Fluctuation in Oattle Prices. - CATTLE INDUSTRY IN TEXAS. Changed Conditions That Have Made the Small Farmer a Necessary Ally of the Stockmau—Un« thrifty #‘im-nmmn. Correspondent writer to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat: A great deal of specu- lation has been indulged in by ranch- men as to the causes of fluctuations in the prices of range cattle during the past two years. To have a due apprec- iation of the situation it is necessary to look into the history of the industry. Texas, for years, has been the great breeding ground of the cattle industry of the west. For many years it fur- nished nearly all the cattle that were fed in the corn fields of Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, and was mearly the only source of supply for these three states. Soon after the war the range cattle in- dustry became an important factor in the southwest, and this made a further demand of the resources of the Texas ranchmen, The natural consequence was that stock for which there had been no out- side demand soon rose in value from §2 per head to # per head, and the steer cattle that had been sold at from $4 to #6 per head doubled in prices. As cat- tle became more valuable the necessity of protecting them from depredations became more and more important, and a complete change in the methods of ranching took place. All eattle were held on a common range, and the cat- tle of a hundred owners were indiscrim- inately mixed. Often a man was com- pelled to scour the country for a dis- tance of fifty miles on every side of his ranch in order to gather his cattle. Fifteen years ago there were, perhaps, not a dozen ranchmen who had in- closures for their eattle and but few of them owned the lands in their pastures. }\'uw nearly the whole country is under ence. As the Indians and buffalo gave way in the west each new ranch that was es- tablished selected a range, and while it was not enclosed by a fence, each ranch- ero tried, by means of “line riders,” as they were called—(men who were re- quired to ride the boundary of the range and keep the cattle within its limits and prevent other cattle from entering)—to keep their cattle together and prevent them from straying all over the country. Tt was this range- herding that gave the first real boom to the cattle industry of Texas. Con- servative business men began to em- bark in the busingss, as this method gave stability to the industry, and the hazard being less, values inerer 00 per cent. Additional railroad f: o ed in making [the business more certainly profitable, and enabled the ranchman to market his beef without undertaking the long and tedious way of driving up the trail to Kansasor Nebraska, that under the most fayor- able circumstances required months to accomplish, The business once becom- ar and profitable, there was a rush made to get into an investment that promised such handsome returns. The north- west was still making large demands upon Texas for stock cdtle, and the western part of the state was being rapidly occupied and yet the busi- ness was done in lands that were owned others than the stockmen, and the ranchmen, in many instances, held the lands to the exclusion of the owners,and without dreaming of ever so much as paying the taxes upon them, much less offering any furthercompensation to the owners. In Kansas and Nebraska the contest with the ranchmen was short and decisive, but in Texas the ranch man, seeing the inevitable, bought the lands he was using, The introduction of the barbed wire fencing enabled the ranchman to inclose his lands with com- paratively small cost, and he was not slow in thusprotecting himself, In 1881 there was a very severe drouth over sev- eral of the great meat-producing states, and the farmers were compelled to market nearly all of their stock cattle. Western Texas was a_sufferer in this drouth and was unable on account of poor condition tomarket the beef crop, thus compelling them to hold over the entire output until 1982, This kepl up the market for the farm- ers in the other unfortunate states. in the spring of 1882 the effects of acrifice of all classes of cattle in I1- and other states was seen in the ve demand for grassbeef cattle, and at once the price doubled. Fortunes were made by stockmen in a few months, body was wild to go into the This gave rise to the wildest speculation. Any one who had cattle and a ranch was looked upon as rich. Ranches changed handi withott further inquiry into their value than the repre- sentation of the owner who was settling. Banks were willing to extend credit to the stockman, and he was enabled to buy large properties with Rut little money, and in many instances the same stock of cattle was doing service for several par- ties in securing credit. But few liens Wi executed in the properties, and it was impossible to tell what was the lia- bility of any given stobk. The purchas- ing of lands for pastures thad had begun now fairly boomed. Land-owners now had their da, The country far and near was ransacked for unknown owners of lands that were wanted. There was ‘Whole were purchased by a few men; and weere the lands could not be bought they were inclosed without regard to ownership. The martgage companies made their debut in Texas, and ngarly every new pasture was mortgaged to enable the owner to increase his holdings, Little heed was paid to the changed condi- tions, and no calculatign was madu for the ineveased demand for ptofits in the cattle to make the business remunera- tive, and this was the yock upon which the ship was wreckéd, Heretofore the only demand in the cartle was for the expense of running the ranch. Now it was necessary to ailow, for the invest- ment in the lands that, was of greater value than the cattle it would sustain, Lands that could have been purchased at from 50 cents to §1 per acre when the boom began sold afterward at #4 and 85 racre. Cattle that in 1881 could have cen bought for $10 & head as they ran —that is, cows, calves, steers and all— sold in 1882 for $16 per head, and in 1883 in some instances at $25 per head, and the higher the prices paid the less careful the buyer was to get hiscomple- ment of stock. and the more swindling was done in the representations as to the number of cattl sold, To supply the northwest ranches and the old states where the stock cattle had been sold in 1851 continued the active demand for all classes of Texas cattle until 1883, and the trade was very good in 1884, but in 1885 the bottom dropped out, and every- one was asking what was the matter. The demand for stock cattle was gone sand the northern ranges were belug 2 ) AR k5 ‘broken up by,the encroachinent of the man with fhe hoe, and the farmer, by feeding during the winter, was able to raise his own feeders instead .of ‘going to Texas for them, and ns domestic cat- tle were introduced and the herds were improved, the presence of Texas cattle became a serious ovil, aa it was found the long horn carrled with him sure death to the domestic animal. Long be- fore the long horn had been excluded, except during the cold monlhs, from the older setlled sections of country, but in the great northwest he had still been accorded a welcome, But now he was no longer wanted, because his advent caused more loss than profit. Congress passed the pleuro-pneumonia bill that l)r’-’\\'(‘u!l‘d even those who wanted the ong horn from introducing him into the oid states except for slaughter. Texns drivers could not realize that things hud changed and prepared to drive as usual. They were unable to sell except at a great sacrifice,and many attempted to establish ranches in the worthwest to furnish relief to theirover- crowded ranches in the south. This step has proven unprofitable. On the heels of dflfl unlooked for mis- fortune the state began to threaten tho }nrcun‘man with prosecution for unlaw- ul inclosure of public school lands and that they must pay an exhorband rental or they would have to gull down their fences. The land in" this part of the state was owned by private individuals, and the public school fund in alternate sections, and the ranchman had only been able to buy the private lands—tho school lands at the time not being on the market, except in limited quantitics. During the boom the ranchmen had negotiated large loans through the local banks, and this agitation about destroying the pasture fences in the western part of the state demoralizing the crediy of the pasture men through- out the state, without regard to the real condition of the industry, and re- sulted in nearly all foreign loans being called in. The market was, for the time being, cut off. ranchman had con- tracted his obligations on the basis of boom values, and was called upon to pay when there was no demand for his cat- tle. This pressure at a time when the vanchman was least provided for it could haue but oune result. Upon inves- tigation it was found, but few ranchmen had anything like the uumber of cattle claimed, This destroyed what little confidence there was left in the busi- ness, and cattle began to decline until they were sold during the past season for lower prices than atany time during the past ten or twelve years. Tho marked increase in the autumn and winter rainfall in western Texas has added to the ills of the stockman, and, just as he thought, by the purchase of land, he had fortified himself against the man with the hoe, he found that the changed seasons compelled him to seek the assistance of his old enemy in order tosave himself from ruin. He must now have ‘feed for his cattle in winter, as the rains rendered the grass almost worthless. The farmer now is a ueces stockman, and cattle-raising is on the eve of a complete revolution. The pas- tures must be divided to give room for the farmer and better beel must be pro- duced at the expense of numbe: This change will allow a much larger pro- duction in the aggrogate, but the bu ness will be in more hands. The in- crease in dressed meat shipment has done much to change the conditions in the cattle indust and while nearly the same circumstances exist now that ){rc\‘nilod in 1881, so far as a short pro- duct in many of the old states is con- corned, there will not be the same 8 It is not at all likely that prices for range beef will range so ~high as in 1882, This district, the Panhandle of Texuas,has not suffered from the depression in cattle as other parts of Texas, from the fact that there \ave never been any restrictions placed on the movement of cattle from here to other states, and as it combines the ad- vantages of the successful breeding of south Texas with good beef production of the northwest territories, the ranch- man here has fared very well, compara- tively. There will undoubtedly be some some advance in prices next year, but how much it is very hard to prophes The settlementof the great west and the abandonment of the large ranches would look like decreasing the cattle output, but such is not the case. A community of farmers produce more cat- tle than the ranchers. The completion of the Fort Worth & Denver railroad the country and the extension of the Southern Kansas into the Panhandle will bring the farmers that are deeded to make this section complete. —— Queer Customs in Dresden. Correspondence Kansas City Times: No one can play the piano in a private house after 10:30 o’clock at night, and it is a great offense to throw anything out of the window. In fact, you are not allowed to hang anything, either, from that portal, for the authorities fear it will drop on some one’s head and cause damage. Some friends of mine had a rather disagreeable experience in this way the other night, It was very warm and the ladies decided to leave their windows open. Their rooms are own the ground floor. One of them happened to leave a small napkin on the window sill (not out of the window). It had been wet and she wished to dry it in the air® About midnight the lady heard some one at the window, LookKing out, she saw a man using his cane asif to open the window further. The lady got up and went toward the man and asked him what he wanted. Instead of answering, the intruder jumped away and tried to hide himself by leaning up agaiust the side of the house. Inashort time the man again began to peer in at the window and use his cane as if to hook the end of it on the inside and pull himself in. The lady called her son, but the man went away when anyone noticed him and came back again when the coast was clear, These maneuvers continued until daybreak. Of course the lady told the landlady the next morning, and soon after a police officer ealled to inform the latter that her boarders were violating the law by having things out their win- dows. He pxplained how one of the night watchmen had spent the evening tryving to poke in the napkin from out the window, and finding that the occu- pants of the room spoke English, he did not wish to frighten them more, and so he did not answer when they spoke; but unless they conformed to the law they would be fined. - Sexton Reported Better. DubrLiy, Jan. 1.—Sexton is now reported to be better, Special police protection has been accorded to Balfour, chief secretary for Ire. land. prisons bourd has ordered that Father Matthew Regan, who is in prison under the new crimes act, will be permitted 1o wear his own clothing and underwear. to the Politics and Death. New OrLEsNs, Jan 1.—This morning an affray took place in a saloon, in which City Administrator Patrick Mealy was mortally wounded, Mike Walgh, dangerous and Daniel Markey painfully, The quarrel was over local politics. e League Contributions Falling Off. Dosis, Jan, 1.—Harrington, in an inter- view to-day, seid_the League receipts from America since 1885 had been very small, e tor A New Servian Mintstry. Brrorane, Jan, 1.—A new ministry has been formed ‘ SMART YOUNG MEN. Legislators Who Enter Pablic Life Under Forty. Corregpondence of the Boston Adver- tiser: The members of cougress who saw young Arthur O'Connor on his trip about the capital with Sir Thomas Es- mond Colling, red-head: Meshane, of Omaha, and the rest, t stared - at him, espocially on hearing that he was an M. P, With a smooth, boyish face, patent leather shoes, neatly creased trousers and satin-lined overcoat, he looked rather a bright-faced dandy from the departments than & no- tional legislator. He was a young sprig to be sure, and considerably younger than any one who has been in congress for some time. He was twenty- five and did not ook all of that. But even making the comparison, the fifti- eth congress finds yh-m.y of young and lively men within its number. There are more than there have been in pre- vious years. Whether this is due to the educating influence of the primary, to the founding of schools of political science, or to the growth of a love for public life among American youngsters, 1t would be hard to say. But it is here, and it puts beside the score of white heads and bald haads in the house smooth faces, bright eyes and slender forms. There are quite a few men un- der thirty-five, and a regular squad who could take oath to being under forty. The youngest man is Ben Shively, of Indiana, & newspaper man when he was elected to the forty-eighth congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig- nation of W. H. Calkins. He is only thirty now and will not attain his thirty-first birthday until March 20. He is a smart young lawyer, who grad- uated from Ann Arbor university; looks young and sprightly, isa fine and popular. He is an unpretending chap and dresses plainly. He is an In- diana democrat, trained in the school of Uncle “dgerton, of the eivil sorvice commission. The youngest man of the Forty-ninth congress has come back to this. Thisis Bob La Follette, of Madison, . He is rather short, with not a particle of is face, and stiff black hair, which he brushes back from his fore- head, dressing quietly in black with a sack coat. He is thirty-two, and a dozen years or 50 ngo he was between the plough-handles. He got into the state university at Madison, and had great luck on the under-graduate stage. First he won the prize for speaking at lhome then he captured thatof the State Inter- collegiate Oratorical associationi then he captured that of the north- west. This gave him a con- siderable reputation as a svmukm'. Two years after he was out of college he was chosen district attorney. One of the cases which he nandled was the prosecution of the Buddenseik who put up the state capital at Madison, that tipped all in pieces one day. La Fol- lette is a warm admirer of ex-President Bascom, who has just returned from Madison to his old haunts in Williams- town. He says the retirement was due to Boss Keyes, who tried to manage the itution after hisown per: ed dent Bascom fought him and then gaveup. La Folletts Keyes could never have Bascom moved. There were 700 alumni ready to back him in any emer- gency. James Phelan is only thirty-one. He is a Tennessee member and editor of the Memphis Avalanche, and clever as can be. He doesn’t fill the Boston ideal of a wild Tennesscean. Ho is quite slender, with a soft, smooth voice, with a dark full brown benrd and & thick crop of hair of the same color. His father was a confederate senator, and he notes the fact boldly in his biography. He began his schoolboy training in Ken- tucky and continued itat Frankfort. He hasn't finished it yet, he studies late at nightover history and politieal economy, his favorites. He got a Ph. D. at Leipsic, but that does not satisfy him, for he studies law in Memphis anc prac- ticed it, too. The name of the man he defeated was Zachary Taylor. There are a couple of very lively young hustlers from the territories. n is sturdy Fred Dubois, who 72 was catcher of his class nine in This was his senior year, and vh he had been willing to go on the *varsity nine for four ye he never did. He came from Illinois originally, but before he settled he got clear out to Idaho. There he has been mighty lucky in politics. He went into the last campaign bucked by a crowd of young men. They fought the fight on the Mormon issue, loaded every one of the Idaho weeklies with editorial and snowed in the territory with circulars declaring that the people who did not obey the laws could not help make the laws. Dubois went on a three weeks’ stumping tour, and when the vote was counted he had whipped the Mormon defender by above 400 votes. 3eside being sent here to keep the Mormons under, he has the job of keep- ing Washington territory fingers out of the Idaho pie. The Washington people, with Dan Voorhees, of Indiana, would like nothing better than to annex the Idaho panhandle with its riech gold mines, make Washington a state and Charley Voorhees the senator. Charley is the son of the Tall Sycamore of the ‘Wabash, and graduated from George- town college here in 1873, He was a territorial delegate in the Forty-ninth congress and now is only thirty-four years old. He was born June 4, 1854, and so Jucob Yost, who owns the Virginia, a weekly in Staunton, Va., and rep sents the Tenth Virginia district, is a couple of months older. Yost is short, as dark, as smooth-faced, and slenderer than La Follette, He is a quiet little man, with just a touch of soft southern wecent in - his pronuncia- tion, He was o a@vil engineer a little while, but he did not like this so well as printing. He has been mayor of Staunton, and represents one of the so- called white districts in the state, his constituency being less that 10 per cent colored folks. 4 John Kean, jr., of New Jersey, is a year older, Kean is o Yale ma Congressman Russell, of Conecticut, who is just his age. Kean got into college two years ahead of Russell, The former is dark, short, well knit. He has a neat brown moustache and a great iriendship for William Walter Phelps. His bang is only u buby beside Phelps’, however. Kean was admitted to the bar, but is making money in a banking house, Rusell is one of the nutmeg state’s young men—smart young Yan s they have been called. Both of v newspaper 1 He has done a good deal of work for Sun beside running hisown New | Herald, and this explains, pro why he and Amos great chums. He i brigade of one of the reddes! the state central commi his little political snaps from your uncle, William H. Barnum. Bob Vance's quarters are not quite as swell as Rus- sell’s at the Hamilton nor Kcan’s at Worm but there is always plenty of fun there. Some of the Texas dele- gation got in there the other night, and the ‘northeast and southwest clasped hands in & manner truly touching, Mr. Rose, of Arkausas, is only thirty- six. He studied law with I nl]olrh Tucker and has been practicing law for fourteen years, He came to the house re- such red when Senator Jones went to the senat from the lower branch, Mason, W. E., of Chicago, is n little dumpling of .a man, roly-poly, curly- headed and ' thirty-soven. Ho has's brown moustache, and having flgured as o considerablo man ot home, in Springfield, 111, is expecting to make a kit in congress. He isn New Yorker by Dbirth and lived in lowa for some time, but finally decided that for a hustler, Chicago was the place. His figuure and face are not unlike those of Captain Jim Christie of the United States senate, and well known in New Hampshire, Perry Belmont, bang, family, money and all, has been in this world thirty si rs. He is slender and rarely the monotony of black in his aress, perhaps ont of respect for his . brother who died not a_year ago. He has o black bang and a face inchued to | be florid. He has nervous black oyes, and is casily rattled on the floor of ‘the house, though very apt to make blun- ders. He has a nérvous self-confidence and that carries him through. Lloyd 8. Bryce, one of the New York city congressmen, is but thirty-five, He has just demonstrated his title to cleverness by anoael called “Paradise,” which shows up the divorce business in a docidedly lively manner. Bryce was at one time paymaster general of the state, Bourke Cochran has streaks of gay, thick streaks in his hair, but he is only thirty-three. He was born in Ircland, but looks French when clean shaven and close-buttoned. Ho has droopin, eyelids, full, ruddy cheecks, well-cu trousers, and the perfect self-assunanco due to several years in New York ward 0litic The brond-shouldered, rosy man who sits next Mr. Davis, of our own state, in the house is only thirty-two. His name is Jaw chooleraft “Sherman, and ho has alceady been mayor of Utiea, N. Y., his home. He is a Hamilton college graduate, a lawyer by profession, and ing Go-on-and-finish- A Snake Story. Philadelphi for a snake story, is its” said o man who has just returned from a trip through the state. “It's'not a harrowing tale, but it’s true. A few weeks ago I was traveling by stage conch from one town to another up in the state, and as we were going slowly up a hill I saw a hig blacksnnke running along the side of the roud and apparently trying to get through a stone fence that divided the road from the fields. There was a young fellow on top of the conch who had boen up to all kinds of pranks ever since we started, and as soon as he saw the snuke he jumped down and van after it. ' We thought he was trying ' to kill it, but instead of that he caught it by the neck with a quick movement and came running after the stage with it coiled around his arm. He jumped up on the step, and as I happened to be sitting next to the door 1 got the full benefit of the ghastly fun he seemed to be having. He would squeeze the snake’s neck until it spread its mouth wide open and then run his finger over its teeth. This was too much for his mother and sister, who were in the stage, and they sent him aloft again. When we arvived at the next town he tied a string around the snake’s neck and put it down in the street, where it amused the boys until someone killed it. “But that wasn't my only experience with ashake while I was gone,” con=- tinued the gentleman. *‘I had another adyventure that made all tho flesh of my body creep. One da went with a friend whom 1 was visiting up into the beech woods to shoot pigeons. They come there in great flocks to feed on beechnuts, After bagging a good man birds I sat down on an old log to wntcg the effect of some of B——s shots. i had put my hand back on the log to brace myself, and thus look up into the tree more comfortably when suddenly B—— said something that sent the cold shiv- down my back. He spoke in the quictest anl majter-of-fact way, for fear of styrtling me, but there was a orld of meaning in every syllable: ry, continue looking' up into the trée precisely as you are yow doing, and don’t make a movement as you val- ue your lif Trust to me and be asstill asdeath!” The words were hardly spoken when the report of his gun broke on the air, there was a peculiar rustle or rattle in the leaves at my side, and I jumped to my feet to see an enormous rattle- snake writhing in the death struggle within three feet of where I had been sitting. B—— told me that he hap- pened to glance toward me and saw the snake coiled up on the log within strik- ing distance of my hand. The least motion on my part would have been the signal for it so strike.” —— A Daughter of Liszt. Some interest hasbeen ance of a young be a daugh of she s, was and » of the reigning fam- indecd, one of the most. eminent rog Her birth was kept ; of course, to avoid scandal ught up in ignorance of . “She was, however, treated almost like a young princess. When Liszt died she was visited one night secrctly by the royal lady in question, who first obtained from her an oath of secrecy, and then told her the story of her b The young lady still conceals the name of her mother, who is living, but feels under no obliga- tion to keep the oath so far as her dead father is concerned. She is a ha some girl, with Liszt’s cast of features and bas received a handsome fortune from her mother, and so will not be de- pendent upon her own exertions for a iving, but her enthusinsm for music is so grent that she will give a series of public piano-for tals, and perhaps make a concert tour of the world, wims 1o Adszt. 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