Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 3, 1888, Page 4

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Btate of Nebraska, 6 Uuull({u’ Douglass, el Geo, I, Trschuck, being first duly sworn,"fe- ses and says that he s secretary of The Bee ublishing company, that the actual average dadly circulation of the Daily Bee for the month gfdunuary, 147, 16230 copiesi for Kobruary, 1867, 14,078 copies’ for March, 1887, 14,400 coplex! for April, 187, 14316 coples: for May, 188, 14,227 copies: for Juhe, 187, 14,147 coples:' for' July, , 14,0883 coples: for' August, 187, 14,151 coplesi for Beptember, 1847, 1449 coples;’ for October, 187, 14,383; for' November, 1857, 15,22 coplos; for December, 187, 1,041 coples. GEO. B. TZSCHUCK. Sporn and subscribed to fn’ my preseuce tits 2d duy of Junuary, A. . 138, 'N. . FElL, Notary Publi His name is Maginnis and he is to be chief justice of Wyoming. — THIS is to be one of the exceptional leap years which only contain 365 days. New Years day was forty-cight hours long. E—— THEY have struck a rich vein of gold and silver in Wisconsin, but raising hops and barley will yield more revenue to the acre. Ir the senate means to do away with secret sessions let them be abolished at once. There is no excuse for dallying with a needed refol THE board of public works has very properly laid off the inspectors of sewers and pavements, The city cannot afford to keep men on the pay roll when there is no work for them GOVERNOR SWINEFORD of Alaska is going to Washington to present before congress the need of extending to that territory the land laws in force in the states and territories. There should be no opposition to such a measure. THE output of precious metals in Leadville for the last year is reported as an average of one million a month but that still falls two millions a year short of the output of precious metals by the Omaha Smelting works. — ALLOWING Des Moines, St. Joseph and Lincoln all they claim in the num- ber of new houses built and aggregate value of improvements made in 1887, Omaha still has a fair margin over them combined. The aggregate population of Lincoln, Des Moines and St. Joseph, ns estimated by their own papers, is 161,000. S—— THE high license advocates of New York state will this winter attempt to establish by law three grades of liquor license ranging from five hundred to two thousand dollars. This scheme is im- practical. The lower grade license would cover all the high priced liquors and wines under bogus labels. THE ticket brokers have sounded the alarm all along the line against a bill in congress, which embodies the Penn- sylvania law that prohibits dealing in railroad tickets except by regularly em- ployed ticket agents. Itisclaimed that if this bill passes the railroad managers will adopt stringent regulations that would put an end to the traffic in cheap railroad tickets, Boss CLARKSON, of the Des Moines Register, thinks it is high time for Iowa to send asoldier to the United States senate. We should say so. But isn’t it singular that Mr. Clarkson has kept Iowa waiting twenty-three years after the war before he could find a veteran who would fill the position creditably. It is passing strange, too, that Colonel Hepburn, the Chicago & Burlington railroad attorney, should be Boss Clark- son’s highest ideal of a soldier-senator. e—— THE railroads of the country at first regarded the inter-state commerce law as an enemy and sought to make the act unpopular. Later they found that by complying with such of its regulations as were favorable to them and quietly ignoring those that pinched the other boot leg they could make the acta means of increasing their earnings. This has been done and the opposition to the law on the part of the companies has in the main ceased. NINE of the applicants for license to deal in liquor have been rejected by the licensing board on the ground that their places of business are notorious rosorts of vice and crime, and reported by the chief of police as disorderly. This 18 a very wholesome new departure, It is in accord both with the letter and spirit of the high license law and will meet the approval of decent and respect- able citizens of all classes. It is the first effective step toward ridding Omaha of dens, dives and resorts that harbor crooks and professional outlaws, Mayor Broatch, who took the initiative in this reform, deserves the thanks of the community and due praise should be accorded to President of the Council Bechel and City Clerk Southard for joining hands with the mayor. Having taken position against disorderly haunts we hope the board will firmly maintain it. They can rely upon the cordial support of all law-abiding and orderly people and the unwavering backing of this paper, Lessons For Labor. Nointelligent workingman will ques- tion, we beliave, that one of the chief néeds of the great majority in the army of labor is & more thorough ncquaint- ance with and a more careful study of the practical side of labor conflicts. Very few ever think of this phase of the question, a large number have only such super- ficial knowledge of it as they may have gained from personal experience,which quite generally does not make a lasting impression strong enough to deter them from entering into other conflicts, and the small minority who have familiar- ized themselves with the practical facts aro powerless to make them avoidable except as a guide to their own conduct. We believe if the masses of labor were better informed respecting the cost of conflicts, affecting not only ‘la- bor and the employers of labor, but the entire body politic, there would be fewer hostile contentions, particularly of the nature of the present Reading difficulty, which seems to have little warrant in any substantial griev- ance. In this view the report on strikes and their cost during the past six years, just submitted by Mr. Carroll P. Wright, commissioner of the bureau of labor, must be regarded as of great value. Al- though the commissioner does not claim for this report absolute accuracy, it is the result of most careful investigation, and those who know the interest Mr. ‘Wright has always shown in the cause of labor will not doubt that his presenta- tion of fucts is made without prejudice. The most reliable data obtainable shows that during the past six years the aggre- gated losses to strikers amounted to the enormous sum of $51,816,165, to which must be added 88,182,717 repre- sonting losses sustained by em- ployes from lockouts. Thus the total wage losses to workingmen were $59,948,882, These losses occurred in 24,518 establishments,averaging to each establishment 82,445, and to each striker or locked-out operative nearly $10. On the part of the employers the losses were also heavy, amounting to $30,732,- 653 from strikes, and 3,432,261 from lock-outs, aggregating $34,164,914. The combined losses of employers and em- ployes amounted to the enormous total of $04,113,796. But this is not the full measure of the disastrous financial effects of the strikes and lockouts of this per- iod, for every community in which con- flicts occurred suffered material losses. The dollars unearned and unpaid were 80 much taken out of actual circulation, so much taken out of the receipts of the grocer, the butcher, baker, and other trades-people. Every channel of trade necessarily felt this less, and in the diminished production the nation as a whole suffered. In cases where these conflicts resulted tothe advantage of labor in an increase of wages there was perhaps a return in time to in- dividuals of the loss sustained by strikes or lockouts, but there is no process of computation by which it can be shown that the sum of nearly one hundred mil- lion dollars was not really a loss during the past six years as the result of labor conflicts. The privation and suffering it may not be necessary to consider, though to many thousands these have certainly been a very practical matter. ‘We do not expect the time will ever come when there will be no more con- flicts between employers and employed. So long as these relations exist injustice and oppression on the one side, or ill-advised and unreasonable de- mands on the other, will bring about contentions only "to be settled by the strike or the lockout. There are con- ditions, and they must recur while human nature remains what it is, that will yield to no arbitration short of war. But there is reason to expect thata time will come when all workingmen, assome now do, will deliberate intelligently and carefully upon their duty to them- selves, their families, and society before engaging in hostilities to remedy griev- ances that may be removed by other means. As was said by the president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En- gineers, at their last convention, the strilie should be the last resort of intel- ligent workingmen, and when it be- comes their only court of appeals they will never want the public sympathy. ‘Workingmen should carefully study the practical side of this question as shown in the impressive figures of the labor commissioner’s report. The Towa Senatorship. The Iowa legislature, soon to meet, will elect a United States senator to suc- ceed Hon, James F. Wilson. The indi- cations are that Mr. Wilson will be re- elected, but he is not without a more or less formidable opposition. Whatever has been objectionable at any period of his political career is being raked up and made to serve by his opponents for all there is in it. On the other hand his friends are able to point to his later record as one entirely creditable, and in this they have a good vantage ground. Senator Wilson has unques- tionably represented Iowa in the senate with ability und merit, and while it is true that formerly his sympathies were too much with monopoly it must 1n justice be said that this ob- jection does not lie against himas a senator. The candidate who seems to be most in favor with the opposition to Senator Wilson is Colonel Hepburn, who was defeated for congress at the last election, The anti-monopoly senti- ment in Iowa cannot hesitate between ‘Wilson and Hepburn. If the latter has any allegiance more hearty than an- other it is that which he gives to mo- nopoly. As a railroad attorney he was always the trusted and unfailing friend of the corporations in congress, and we have never heard that there has been a divorce between them since. It is a reasonable and safe supposition that most of what- ever backing Hepburn is now getting comes from or is due to the influence of the Burlington road, and should the Towa legislature commit the blunder of electing him to the United States sen- ate there would be no more reliable friend of the corporations in that body than he. Colonel Hepburn's unpopu- larity was sbown in his defeat last fall, and it is too soon to attempt to res- cue him from that popular condemna- tion. As to the plea that Iowa ought to be represented in the senate by asoldier, it 1s a mere subterfuge so far as'{t isused [ in the'interest of Hepburn, It is very Iate in the day to bring forward guch a plea, and if it had any substantial merit there must surely be other sol- diers in the state more worthy to be chosen than Hepburn. We believe there will bo no danger that the interests of the soldiers will not be fully cared for if Senator Wilson shall be re-clected, and we are confident that in all other respects lowa would be bencfitted by continuing him in the senate. —_— Consular Reform. Congressman Belmont, of New York, who, it is expected will be continued at the head of the house committee on foreign affairs, has some advanced ideas regarding reform in the consular ser- vice of the country. He appears to have measurably justified his sclection as chairman of the foreign affairs commit- tee by giving careful investigation and intelligent study to the consular service, and the result is a conviction that there isample room and great necessity for improvement. There is nothing new in the disclosure of this fact. The country has heard at every session of congress for quite a quarter of a cen- tury that this service was in large part insufficient, untrustworthy, and almost worthless. It is very likely that it has been subjected at times to a severer oriticism than it deserved, but unquestionably it has always been far short of what it should be. It is perhaps better now than at any time in the past, but it is still needing re- form, and will not compare favorably in character or usefulness with the service of any other large commercial nation. Mr. Belmont has recently presented in a magazine article his views of what is required to improve and elevate this service. His leading propositions are that our consuls should be American citizens, adequately paid for the per- formance of duties for which their fit- ness has been ascertained, and tho abo- lition of the system of compensation by fees. These officials, representing not only our commercial intorests abroad, but in some degree the charac- ter and dignity of the nation, should be men of a high order of intelli- gence, of unquestionable integrity and of a physical and mental vigor that will enable them to perform their duties and look after the interests they are expected to serve with thoroughness and efficioncy. The well-understood trouble with the the consular service has always been that it was made to a very large extont a retreat for politicians who had ceased tobe of any further use at home, or whom senators and congressmen thought it desirable to put as far away from themselves as possible. Such fol- lows of course never had any idea of doing anytning more than the merest perfunctory duties of their office, and nothing more was expected of them. ‘With such material the consular ser- vice necessarily grew more and more inefficient and ‘worthless, until it bocame at last a reproach to the country. Then there was an effort to reform it that resulted in some improvement, but much more remains to be accomplished in the direc- tion of reform. Mr. Belmont will achieve national distinction in so im- pressing the importance of this matter upon congress that it will make intelli- gent and liberal provision for improving the consular service. There was not many years ago a demand that the service should be done away with, but a great commercial country like the United States can not dispense with con- sular representatives, nor can it afford to employ in this service incompetent and inefficient men, as too generally it has done. Such a consular service as the country ought to have would un- questionably be greatly to its commer- cial advantage, and would return many times the additional cost that may be necessary to secure it. The required reform in this matter can not begin too s00n. Purblind Partisans. The advocates of the confirmation of Mr. Lamar seem to find a great deal of comfort in harping on the fact that cer- tain ex-confederates were appointed to judicial and other positions by republi- can presidents, and also that Mr, Bay- ard and Mr. Garland, who were equally guilty with Lamar in not voting for the resolution in the senate declaring the war amendments valid, were confirmed without question for the positions they now hold. It is singular that these champions of Mr. Lamar, otherwise ap- parently clear-sighted, cannot see that none of these assumed precedents can be admitted, and that the present case of Mr. Lamar is wholly exceptional. (The appointment of an ex-confederate to an executive of- fice, or to the bench of an inferior court, is obviously a very different matter from appointing one holding the views of Mr. Lamar to the bench of the court of last resort. This seems to us to be so entirely clear that we cannot under- stand how anybody can fail to see it. There were a great many people who did not think it was a wise and proper course on the part of the republican président in appointing ex-confederates to judicial positions, but none of those who were so appointed had a record so obnoxious to the loyal sentiment of the country as is that of Mr. Lamar. There was no feeling of danger to pos- sibly result from their appoint- ment for the vreason ' that they are powerless 1w do any seri- ous or irremediable harm. There is & check upon them, and both their political heresies and their judicial blunders are subject to review. But there is no power to overrule the su- preme court’s interpretations of the laws and the constitution, and therein lies the danger of permitting a man having the political views and unre- coustricted opinions regarding the con- stitution possessed by Mr. Lamar to occupy a seat on the bench of that court. It does not very much quiet the sense of danger to say that Mr. Larmer would be a helpless minority, for it is by no means certain how long he would re- main 60 with four members of the court now at the nge which allows them to re- tire. But in un{ event the precedent would be an imfortunate one, and the safe way would be not to make it. E———— THE last week of 1887 witnessed a de- cided increase in the loans made by Now York banksand a elight falling off in the reserve. The surplus, however, is estimated at between cight and nine million dollars, sufficient to be regarded asa sound financial basis. Tnr readerless organ hasslobbered all over the city council. The official ad- vertising bids for 1888 aro to be awarded by the council at its next meeting. PROMINENT PERSONS. Walt Whitman's( latest poem is entitled “Yannondio.” Ex-President Greyy's memoirs arc being written by his nephow. Baroness Burdett-Coutts has just reoeived a hequest of $9,000,000 from a relative. Henry Clay is the only man who ever pre- sided over the house for twelve yeara. There is a tendency to refer to the new president of France as *‘Old Sad-Eye." Count Von Moltke's favorito game is whist, and hoisasgood & player as he isa statis- tician, A son of Admiral Glyn, who lost his heart with Adelaide Neilson, the actress, is now Lord Wolverton. . General Lew Wallace advises all young men to sow all their wild oats before they are cighteen years of age. New Hampshire, Rev. Mr. McKinney, has been in the Universalist pulpit during his ‘whole active carcer. There are nine natives of Ireland, seven Scots and two Norwegians in the present house of representatives. Millionaire Carnegie advises younz men to shun throe things: First, liquor drinking; second, speculation; third, indorsation. There are three ministers ir tho present house of representatives. Judges Stewart, of Georgia, and Cheadle, of Indiana, aro ex- preachers, but the new congressman from Ex-Minister Taylor, the oolored diplomat who recently returned from Liberia, isin ‘Washington obtaining subscriptions for a democratic newspaper for the negro race which he is about to publish, Lord Lytton, whose literary reputation was made by the poem of “Lucille,”” resembles his father in personal appearance, having the same long face, sad looking eyes, full, straight beard and prominent nose, William Black is thirty-five years old, slightly buist, with dark, earnest eyes and a long brown mustache. He dresses with faultless taste and has nothing of the con- ventional literary man in his manners and appearance. Robert Burns Wilson, the rising Kentucky poot, began writing verses at an early ago and is now thirty-seven years old, and not twenty, as has been recontly stated. His first volume of poems will soon bo published with the title of “Life and Love." David L. Boker left New York for the west twelve years ago, landing in Denver with $1.50 in his pocket. He went to work in a silver mine, afterward took up a claim, and is now visiting his early friends with letters of credit aggregating $100,000. Donn Piatt, who some yecars since made the Washington Capital the most aggressive newspaper in this country, is living in retire- ment in an Ohio ge, of which he is the postmaster, with ‘munificent salary of $40 a year. Colonef Piatt is about fifty-five years old. But Not on #e Transgressor. Chicago Herald. The weigh of the transgressor—1,800 pounds of coal for & ton—is particularly hard during the present style of weather. A , for Preachers. Philaddlphia Times. The preachers that complain of the Sun- day papers should take a lesson from the Sunday papers in making their sermons in- teresting. There are preachers who never complain of preaching to empty pews, —_—— Evil. Thomas Dunn English. A strr;:fic, weird taje in Russian homes they How once a peasant, honest, just and true, To whom for many_years good fortune fell, ‘Who naught outside of patient tillage knew, Heard from a stranger passing through the land That Evil dwelt within a wood at hand. Evil! that was some noble, rich, no doubt. The name had an alluring sound to him; And girding up his loins he sallied out And sought the woodland, where the shad- ows dim Awed and attracted, till he came to where A marble palace reared its form in air. The lofty, brazen doors were open wide. He entered. In a hall with statues lined Alame, blind giant, prone upon his side, On silken cushions helplessly reclined, Uttering no word; but such his aspect grim That the poor peasant shrank in awe of him; But, plucking courage, asked his lor dship name Of two wee dwarfs who waited on him here. Ths gian® spake himself: “This place is Shame; My name 'is Evil. Care!" So terrible the look upon his face, The peasant turned in fear to leave the place Then suddenly the brazen portals jarred, And on their hinges moved to close him in; But ere his exit from the place was barred By the huge doors that shut with noisy din He leapt without, and ran and ran until His Imfme hf\u reached, secure, he thought, rom ill. These ure Woe and Exhausted, terror-struck, the hut he gained, Unable for a while to stir or speak; Then hastily a cup of water drained. Something that moment rubbed on either cheels, And, looking up, upon his shoulders, lo! The ;.'u'nniug dwarfs were scated, Care and oe, A silly tale you , just fit to tell At peasant’s firesides, not to print or read. v, 'tis & myth, and when you scan it well, s o lesson which all men should heed: h not Evil; of its haunts beware, forever after Woe and Care. eI General Orook's Reception. One of the pleasantest social events of the asthe reception given at the Paxton yes- fternoon by General Crook and staff, assisted by ladies, to'the officers stationed at Fort Omaha, and other. friends. The spac- ious parlors were handsomely decorated and the ladies appeared in full evening costume, while the army men were magnificent in new uniforms and gold 1 Over five hundred callers paid their respects to the general. Among the ladies present were Mrs. Crook, Mrs. Kennon, Mrs, Henry, Mrs. Hall, Mrs! and Miss Richardson, Mrs. Barringer, Miss Balcombe and Misses Lee. Bullock-Meade. On last Saturday night, Edward N. Bul- lock, the well-known byciclest of this city, of the most popular young athletes in town, was married to Grace L. Meade, daughter of Frank Meade, the well-known contractor at the residence of the bride's parents, 2110 Harney street. The bride is one the most amiable young ladies in Omaha, The ceremony -was performed by Rev. Johu ‘Williams, the pastor of St. Barnabas church, e Or b Tough Drivers. There are more complaints against the drivers of the Thirteenth street car line than on all the lines in the city. Sunday night the last addition was made tothe roll. Five roughs took possession of a car on that strect and filled it with the smoke of rotten cigars, and altbough the escort of & number of la- i asked the driver to stop the t the fellow refused to take any ent the smoking, “BLACK BART,” THE ROBBER. ‘The Hero of Twenty-Three Stage Robberios Released From Prison. HIS MANY ADVENTURES. A Bandit Who Had no Vice Excepta Liking for Other People's Money—How he Evaded Ar rest, “Black Bart, the Poe-8,” the most famous stage robber on the coast, who committed twenty-three robberies duc- ing sixfyears, was released from San Quentin prison, California, on New Year's day. He promises to turn over a new leaf and lead an honest life, and in view of this resolve a brief history his career will be found more than usually interesting, as the histories of stage robbers go. Itistold be a San Fran- cisco correspondent of the Globe-Demo- crat, as follows: Black Bart is the most celebrated of all the skillful highwayman, or road agents, asthey are called, who have flourished on the Pacific const since the early days of the gold rush. For six years he was the teyror of Wells, Fargo & Co.’s express agents. He seemed to be ubiquitous. He first levied on n small coach in the Sierras, and the next heard of him would be in the lonely Sis- kiyou mountains, on the old trail into Oregon. He was always alone, and he never failed to do his work in system- atic and gentlemanly fashion. If there was any doubt in the driver's mind of the identity of the lone highwayman, this doubt was always dispelled when the detectives arrived on the scene of the robbery. Attached to the rifled ex- press box would always be found some bit of paper, with a tew lines of dog- geral poetry, signed, “Black Bart, the Poe 8.” The express company has in its employ some of the most ekillful de- tectives in the country, yet these men were always baffled by ‘“‘Black Bart.” Up to the time of his capture they did not even know his name or any of his haunts. The chief cause of this mys- tery was that Bart was a phenomenal criminal who never had any confidants —never drank liquor nor had any rela- tions with women. In this way most of the sources of information upon which the police rely were cut off. Bart, when not on the road, was known in this city and Sacramento as Charles E. Ben- ton, or Balton, and Charles Barlow. He was supposed to be a mining man_who made frequent trips into the interior to look after his properties. These trips, it is needless to say, were always marked by a ‘‘clean-up,” but this was made at the express company’s expense, and the only tools that the ingenious miner used was a shotgun, to pursuade any refractory stage-coach driver, and a crowbar or axe to break open the ex- press company’s box. THE ROAD AGENT'S METHODS. Black Bart was finally captured in November, 1883, but this occurred only after he had pursued his lucrative cali- ing for six years. A brief sketch of his career and of his methods may not be without interest. His first appuarance in California was on August 8, 1877, when he halted the regular mail stage from Fort Ross to the Russian river. ‘The road at this point is along a high bluff, and, on the day mentioned, as the stage swung around a sharp curve, the leaders were halted by a scarecrow figure in the middle of the roaa with a doublebarreled shotgun in his hand. The make-up of the road agent was unique. He had jute wheatbags on the lower part of his legs; his body was clad in an old linen duster and his head and face were covered with a white flour- sack, through which gleamed the bright black eyes of the robber. On his head he had a cap which bore a striking re- semblance to the comical hat of the circus clown. HIS FIRST ROBBERY. Before the astonished driver could fairly take in this strange nlp[mruflnn he was asked in polite tones, “‘Please throw out the box and mail-bags.” As the gun was trained on him he lost no time in obeying. Then the figure nimbly leaped to the side of the road and or- dered him to drive on. No attempt was made to rob any passengers in the coach. When the stage reached the next station the sheriff started out, but he found only the dilapidated treasure box, the rifled mail-bagsand an old ax. From the box the road agent had secured 300 in com,a check on aSan Francisco bank for $305.52. On the back of a way bill of the company was scribbled the legend which was scon to be so well known, ‘“‘Black Bart, the Poe-8.” The humorous signature of the highwayman caused much amusement throughout the state, but the express officers thought he was a crank, and they had heard the last of him. Y-THREE SUCCESSFUL HAULS., Rewards amounting to $800in all were offered for the capture of the stage rob- ber, but not a clew was gained by any of the small army of detectives that worked on the case. The detectives had only fairly given up the hunt when an- other stage robbery by a lone highway- man was reported in Mendocino county, and among the debris of mail bags and express boxes were some execrable ver- ses, signed by “Black Bart.” Again rewards were offered, and again un- availing search was made. During the next five years Wells Fargo & Co.’s ex- press boxos were robbed by this prac- tical highwayman about four times a year, He never tack! a stage that had a shotgun messenger: he never dis- turbed a passenger, but was notorious for his politeness to women on board, whom he assured that no harm would befall them; yet he always got away with a good swag, his clean-ups ranging from $300 to #5,000. He seemed to have a partiality for gold dust and amalgam but he also appeared to have means of knowing when heavy coin shipments were made. In this way. during the six years that he worked so regularly, he could not have avernged less than #6,000 a year, which came out of the pockets oithu express company and out of Uncle Sam’s exchequers. A FORTUNE OFFERED IN REWARDS. Although he always wore a sack ovor his head, it was sometimes carelessly adjusted, and the drivers of stages were notified to take speeial pains to get a description of him, In this way the de- tectives finally had a good description. They knew he was about fifty, an Amer- ican, with long gray hair, thin tace, deep-set gray eyes and prominent t that he was a teetoler and fond of r ing; that he always wrote his dogg in a different hand, but at times be- trayed great proficiency with the pen. Yet this photograph of *the mysterious criminal did not seem to aid them at all in the search for him. The rewards by November, 15853, had reached the hand- some sum of $15.400. E robbery was committed in precisely the same way. The mail bags were always cut just below the lock in the form of a let- ter T, aud the ax with which the ex- press box was broken open w 1 the ground. L s BART'S LAST ROBRERY. Perhaps he would still be lev ying on the stages in this state il it hud not been for a bitof carclessn, on the morning of November 8, 1883, when he robbed the stage between Milton and Sonora, in Tuolumne county, about three miles from Copperopolis, on the old mal road from J:fl Yosemite. 1t was his twenty-third stage robbery, and he had become &0 expert that he used a powerful pair of field glasses to detect whether any armed messenger was on the stage. On this day McConnell, the driver, had allowed a boy of the neigh- borhood, who had A& gun, to ride with him, but the lad got down just before the stage was stopped and had a gone into the woods to hunt. When Bart halted the stage he asked McConnell what had become of the man with the un. The driver told him the truth,when Bart ordered him to throw down the box and to unhitch his horses. Then Bart went through the box like anold hand, getting #4,400 of amalgamated gn}d, 2% ounces of gold dust, and #50 in coin packages. Ho gathered these up in his arms, said ‘‘good-bye” to the driver, and was scarcely one hundrod yards away when the boy with the rifle nmmnrml. Mr. McConnell snatched the rifleand fired four shots at the retreat- ing robber, but the thick bushes pre- vented him from taking goom aim, A PECULIAR CLEW, ‘When the detectives explored the scone a few hours later they found the remnants of Bart’s camp fire and near it a slouch hat, a silk handkerchief, and a linen cuff with blood stain on it. What delighted them, however,and furnished the first real clew they had ever gained was a laundry mark on the cuff. It was the mark used by one of the city steam laundries, and the detectives at once scoured San Francisco for the man who had handled this mark. They found him to be a laundry agent in_this city and he identified the cuff as belonging to C. E. Bolton,a man who had clothing awaiting him at the offic Hisdescrip- tion of Bolton tallied pretty closely with the appearance of Bart. So the detec- tives laid for the appearance of the stage robber. He returned in exactly a week from the date of the robbery and was arrested as he called for his clothes. He professed great indignation at his arrest, but a search of his room led to the discovery of his real name and to the finding of a number of article of clothing with the identical mark on ihe cuff. Hisreal name was Charles E. Bolles, as it was found in a family bible and in a discharge from the regular army, in which he served during the war, RECOVERY OF THE AMALGAM. Bart was taken to Stockton, where he was picked out of a crowd of 200 men, by a hunter who saw him a few hours after the robbery. This identi- fication rather staggered Bart, but he still laughed® at_the officers, until that night, when Detectives Thorn and Stone laid before him all the evidences they had secured. “Can you prove all that?” quietly asked the prisoner. I can,” returned Thorn. *“All right,” said Bart, *‘let's travel.” ‘Withouta word Thorn went out, or- dered a team and at 1 o'clock in the morning three officers and Bart started for the scene of the robbery. Bart acted as a guide, and took them to a hol- low buckeye, not far from the road, where the plunder was concealed. Here everything was found except the coin, which Bart declared he had spent. He was bronght to this city and locked up. He pleaded guilty to this one robbery, but strenuously denied that ho was the famous stage robber. He made an ap- peal to the court, doclaring that it was only urgent necessity that drove him to the crime, and the result was he re- ceived only six years in San Quentin. He was sentenced November 17, 1883, just a fortnight after his robbery. IN HIS PRIVATE CHARACTER. ‘When the aliases under which he was under which he was known here were published, a large number of people recognized the stage robber as a man whom they had known for five years. His landlady had been _acquainted with him all this time. He always paid promptly. He boarded at a restaurant where he was wont to’ entertain his friends with army reminiscenses. He claimed to have been captain in an Ohio regiment, and he was a good story- teller. More than a dozen policemen knew him, and had frequently talked with him when a small fortune was awaiting the man who should arrest and identify him as Black Bart. The story appealed to the popular imagina- tion, and created a greatsensation here. HIS PRISON EIFE, When Bart was finally transferred to San Quentin, he made no secret of his identity, but he refused to talk of' his previous exploits. He declared that he had robbed his last stage, and that when he got out he would lead an hon- est life. He has been a model prisoner, giving no trouble to the officers. He has worked during the greater part. of his imprisonment in the drug depart- ment of the prison, and he has pe- come an expert chemist. Officers who have had long experience with crimi- nals are doubtful of the highwayman’s repentance, but he is so well known now in California that it would be uscless for him to attempt to operate as a road agent anywhere on the coast. Whether he retires from the road or not, he still remains one of the phenomenal crimi- nals of the age—a man who pursued a business that requires unparalled nerve and ‘“‘sand,” and who never showed any traces of fear in the worst predicament. —_— The Press Club. The Omaha Press club met Sunday for the first time in their new rooms. The large attendance evidenced the growing interest in this association. Several important com- mittee reports were received in regard to the pooposed entertainment for the benefit of the club. 1t has boen decided to complete the furnishing of the room so that the formal opening may take place January 17. Thurs- day afternoon at 4 o’lock the annual election of officers will occur, and at this meeting a a full attendance is desired. A Since its organization the Press has met with most generous recognition on the partof the citizens of Omaha. Its success is assured and the benefits derived from such an or- ganization will more than repay those who bave so liberally aided in its inauguration, Sick and bilious headache, and all de- rangements of stomach and bowels,cured by Dr. Pierce’s “Pellets"—or anti-bil- jous granules. 25 cents a vial, No cheap boxes to allow waste of virtues: By druggists. —_—— Last Friday afternoon a ma his name as Smith while intoxicated at- tempted to drive a horse on the railroad track near Florence, when the animal fell and broke its leg. Smith abandoned it and returned to Omaha. It is thougnt from his suspicious actions that the horse had been stolen. giving Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria, ‘When Baby was sick, we gave her Castoria. ‘When shie was a Child, she cried for Castoris, ‘When she becamo Miss, she clung to Castoria, ‘When she bad Children, she gave them Caatorls, SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. What a Reporter Learned While on a Recent Visit There, The “Meancat’” Man in Omaha—His Name Unknown to the Soribe, But His Face Familiar, an who is mainly ro. conditfon of the slow al T service of South Omaha,'" The speaker was a woll known Omaha mer chant growing gray fn the act of_enduring a six for quarter ride “Southward ho,” and wearing the will we-evergot-thero stylo of countenance which distinguialies the Sotth Omaha car pate o from his feilow riderson the other ronds, “Who is he” eagerly demanded his compan- fon. recont graduate from the position of Mes. senger boy, to whom the car appeared to bo golig ninety milos an hour inclnding stops. “He 15 the meanes ) R b man in Omahs, and his “South Oma drowning the m time warning th his Jorurney's ond. ‘I'he name of Omaha's meanest man 18 thus Tost to history through the close attention to duty of the found-lunged conduc made at the residence of Mr, L. ¢ reul estate doaler residing on H st Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth stro throw " any light on this sub; Harry Carpenter Know all about 1 ghouted the conductor, \auts reply, and at the reporter that ho had reached Inquiry enter, the L hetweon ots, failed to But Master nother matter of more interest to our readers, and very kindly gave the reporter all the information in hiy vossession, MASTER HARRY CARPENT I have,” said he, “becnafllicted with a dlsease of the nose and throat. My 1ose would stop up and I would dfscharge hird scabs or chunks which when pressed between the figners emitted bad odor.* For awhile my nose and_ throat seemed to bo dry, and appeared to hav ing sensation, but after awhilo the discharge be- came mo-e free and I would frequently soll two or thre . hundkerchiefs i a day. The Senseof smell I began to notice was beginning to leave me, and my breath became very offensive and seoined to be short. 1 had at times difficulty of breathing owlig to thio xtopped up condition of my nose, would' have spells of coughing and would spit up considerable. Noticing the ad- yortisouent of Drs. McCoy & Henry in the dul papers I was advised to consult them, which did and began treatment at once. 1 free from the offensive broath, perfectly cloar, and I am ontirely well, IF SO, THEN YOU HAVE CATARKH A Few Symptoms of a Disense That May ¥ e Serious to You, (Do, you hiave frequent fits of mental depres- sfon: Do you experionce ringing or buzzing noises in your ears? o You feol ns though you must sultocato when lying down? Are you troubled with a hacking cough and debility? Are your eyes generally weak and watery, and frequently intiamed? Does your voice have a husky, thick sound, and a nasal sort of twang? 18 your breath frequently offensive from some unaccountable cause? I, oppressive headache gener- 0 eyes? 1)o you have to hawk and cough frequently in tho eifort to clear your throat? Aro you losing’ your sense of emell, and 13 your sense of taste becoming dulled? Does your nose always feel stopped up, force ng you to braathie through your mouthi )0 you frequently feel “dizzy, particularly when &tooping to pick anything off the floor? s every littlo draught of air and every &light change of temperature give you u co) T you annoyed by & constunt desire to hawk and spit out an endless quantity of phlegm? Are you always tired and indisposed to exer: tion, whether of business, work or amusement? et effort required to keep your thoughts fixed upon matters that formerly were easily performed. Do you rise from bed as tired and weak as you were the night before and feelas though you wanted to lie there forever? Is your throat filed with phelgm fn_the morn. ing, Which can only be discharged after violent coughing and hawking and spitting? Do sou occustonally wake ffom a troubled sleep with & start and foel as it you had just escaped a horrible death by choking? THave you lost all interest in your calling or business or former pleasures, all ambition gone, and do you feel indiflerent whether to- morrow finds you alive or dead? Are you troubled with a discharge from the hend in the throat, sometimes watery and ex- cessive, sometimes mucous, thick, sticking to whatever it touches, sometimes bloody, and nearly always putrid and offensive? Tho above are some of the many symptoms of catarrh and the beginning of lung troubles, Not one case ina hundred will have all of them, but everyone affected will have a few or many of them. The greater or more serious your symp- toms, the more serious your symptoms, the more dangerous your condition. This class of diseases {3 treaied very successfully by Dr. oy and his associates. The many cases re- ported through the columns of the duily papers prove this and sach statement publighied b nub- antially the same as given by the patient cured. Dr. McCoy and his assoclate, Dr. Henry, use no secret nostrum, but cure diséases by their skill- ful combination of the best known remedies, u]?llhnl in the most approved munner, and b; usfug the latest and niost highly recommended appliances known to their profession. They thus produce results which speak for them- selves in the muny patients cured, and we as- sure our rendera that these eminent physicians have achieved a success in curing disease which fow or no other doctors can duplicate, CATARRH CAN BE CURED. The Successful Methods as Used by Drs. McCoy & Henry. The treatment for catarrh, lung asthma, rheumatism and other chronie diseases can only be applied successfully by one who hus investigated and made a lite-long sudy of such Qisenses, Careless doctors and: those who ure ot thoroughly acquainted with those troubles are liablo to fail, when @ skiliful specialist who has devoted years to that particular business, as Drs, McCoy & Henry, will succeed, Nothin but the very best trestinent known {0 medica sclence 13 given to all patients, and it can be safely suid that these gentlemen are musters of wlthat is known of consumption wnd oflior chronie diseases up to date, ith them it 15 no longer speculation and * experiment—it i3 strajghtforward treatment, resulting from high intellectual and scientific attainments, added to @ thorough medical education in the greatest n hospitals and under the greatest n masters of medicl and surgery. These gentlemen have added 10 the exhaustive knowledge of their speclalties a ation for moderate churges, ax thelr consultution fee i3 but #1, whether at their oflice, or an opinion given by mail, trouble, ), CRESAP McGOY, Latg of Bellevue Hospital, New York, AND Dr. Columbus Henry sylvania) FFICK No. 310 and 811 IN KAMGE BUILDING, Corner Fifteenth sud Harney sts., Oubs, Neb., where all curable cases a6 troated ‘with success. Medical diseases troated skilifully, Cousump- tion, Bright's disease, Dyspepsiv, Kheumatis and all NERVOUS DISEASES, All disenses po- culinr to the sexes & speclalty. CATARRIL CUREL €O TATION at office or by mal, #1, Office hours— to 11 a, m., 20 4 p. m., 708 p. m.. bundsys included. ‘Correspoudence recoives prompt attention, diseases nre treatud succostully by "oy and Henry through the mails, an possible for those unable to make & ¥ 1o obtain successful hospital treatuent at thelr homes, No letters answered unless accompanied by 4¢ in stamps, “Address wil letters to Drs, McCoy and Henry, Yoowa 310 and 511" Bamge bullding, Oumukiay o, (Late of Unixoraity of P HAVE OFFICE