Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 24, 1888, Page 5

SUFFERERS FROM THE STORY. Btate Superintendent Lane Issues an Appeal For Teachers. CRAIG STOCK MEN COMPLAIN, Bubjected to Overcharges and Delay By the Omaha Road—The Coming School Exhibit at Fremont-— New Notarfes. & LINCOLX BUREAU.] t Lane yesterday issued superintendents that ine of the suggestions h\ the Beg of Saturday last, in favor of substantial recognition of the work of teachers in the recent storms. In discussing the question Mr. Lane gaid that he did not feel at liberty to single out two or three cases of heroic work and suffering ‘and ask for special contributions for them, but he thought rather that it would be best to get cor- rect data of all the meritorious work of teachers in saving pupils or in their individual struggles for life and from such data direct work could be done. Superintendent Lane favors a general contribution that can be used to aid teachers who have lost alimb or become crippled, so that their means of liveli- hood is taken from them, There are a few such cases in the state and the teachers who were heroic in the strug- glo with the storm, will undoubtedly prefer seeing those who suffered the most helped by generous contribution. Such steps will be taken upon receipt of replies 1o the circular forwarded to-day, which is as fnllu\w To the braska: I o e teach fFROM THE DE Superintende ular to count Ne- action of re storm of Junuary 12 have been reporte In order to ob- tain all the facts con ‘hers and pu- 1 this severe trial, 1 (dosiro each county sndent o report to me us soon us possible 1. The number of school children in his county who perished during the storm. 2. The number who have since died from this exposure, 8. ‘The number who have lost a limb from freczing. 4. Names of teachers who pr-mhml. 5. Names and address of teachers who have been maimed by freezing. 6. Names and address of teachers who performed heroic actions in saving or at- tempting to save the lives of their pupils, Nanies and address of teachers who are sick from exposure or prostration. Please give full accounts in answer to questions 4, 5, 6 und 7. Newspaper accounts of occurrences in your county should be sent. 1 wish each superintendent to_be prompt in making this report, as meritorious actions and heroic deeds should be promptly recoy nized, and those left in distress should be membered by us. Outside of the teachin fraternity warm-hearted people are already offering assistance and rewarding heroism. Gro. B. Lase, State Superintendent. Lincoln, Néb., Jan. 23, 1858, TWO COMPLAINTS, There were two new complaints filed with the board of transportation yester- day, both covering questions of inter- state rates but of direct interest to stock shippers of Burt county, where the complaints came from. The com- pluints and the response to the railroad are as follows: Chato, Neb., Jan. 10.—Secretary Board of Transportation, Dear Sir—We have a com- }‘lmnl to cnter against the Chicago, St. Pagl, linneapolis & Omaha railroad for rates1o0 Chicago. Tho Blair rato is 0, our rate ‘0 twenty-seven miles further, , 2025, The rato for the past years has been $75. Now they claim, according to the new law, they charge §75 for the little old cars and §80.25 for new or 33-foot cars. They claim that they want 1o exterminate shippers and feeders of cattle as they get more out of the grain. We are large feeders and they are putting rates down on corn and up on live stock, thereby forcing us to pay more for freight to get siock to the market. Wo have been obliged to_drive our cattlo when the roads and weather would permit, on account of railroad officials war- TIng against us. On yesterday the agent at this, Craig station, refused to bill cars to Chicago only by way of Omaha, He says he now has orders to allow none of their cars to go over the Northwestern railroad. This forces shippers to bill cars to Omaka, rebill there for Chicago, pay switching and incur a day’s delay and a foed bill. The agent at Craig station said he could not get North- western stock cars, but there aro plenty idle at Blaw, [ want to know if L have any rights. L. MiNiER. This complaint together with the fol- lowing communication was forwarded to the general manager of the Chieago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omuha rond: M General Manager—I ith enclose copy of a letter to this board ruulummg complaint of L. Minier. This statement of facts shows a radical wrong T”""" ‘ed upon the uhl’xpcra of this state. It s truc it is a matter of inter-state commerce and this board, as such, has no jurisdiction ght the wrongs complained of. But the courts of this state and of the United States have jurisdiction as well as the inter-state commerce, and unless these wrongs are righted, these parties are entitled t our aid, and will seck relief before the proper tribunal. Yours truly, 2. MASON, ‘Secretary Board of Transportation, The following letter from the same point and covering the same question was received yosterday, A roply was made to it eiting that theinter-state law governed it and that the board were without direct power: ACnraG, Neb, Jan. 18. Secretary Board of ‘Transportation—I wish to cali your attention to the dificulty myself, as well as other shippers and feedersof cattle and hogs in Burt. county are having with the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad company. Th tariff rate charged by the company on mul hogs to Chicago has been for many $75 per car, the company either furnishing their own or Chicago & \'nrlhv\.-flh‘lu cars, und they always furnished us thirty-three feet cars as shij @so anything smaller, r; hipped three cars of cattle from Ci 3lair and Missouri Valley to Chicago. company charged me $50.25 on thirty-thre feet cars. On my return I called in O. Briggs at Omaha, trafic manager of the Ch cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, and called attention to this matter. He refused to make any reduction saying the company now based its charges on the size of the car, 1tfound upon further investigation that the charges on thirty-three feet cars from Blair to Chicago was §0, making a charge §20.25 for carrying our stock twenty-four miles 1 feel that the additional charge is unjust and unreasonable and demands an immediate reduc and is a clear steal of #5.25 per car on every car of stock that goes out of our county. " If there is anything that you can do to assist us in getting the reduction it will be rr(-nlly appreciated by the cattle feeders of Burt county. The ground that the company takes that the charges are based on the size of the car are false, for they furnish us the sume sized cars furnished before for The company well know that we have other railroad whereby we can reach Chicago. Truly yours Jony F. KensLex. INSURANCE RET UX Tho following additional companies have reported their Nebraska business for 1887 to the state auditor: Lion, of London—Premiums received, $5,144.04; losses incurred, #$72.50; losses paid, #$1,184.46. Scottish l'nion. of Edinburg eminms, $3,800.55; losses incurred, £3,405.76; losses paid, $1,188.02. men’s Fund, of San Franci; miums received, $12,658.80; los curred, $11,485.18; losses paid $11,58¢ Firemen Davton, O, *l‘lumum‘ 83,170 4: losscs, none. St Paul and Marine—Promiums, #11,517.61 losses incurred, losses paid, 5, Hamburg, Hremen—Pre- miums; #,619.49;losses inc d $672.40; Josses paid, $1,172.40. Michigan Lpari and Marine, of Detroit—Premiums, 822.27; losses incurred, none; losses paid, #1,206.49. - American, of Philadelphia— Premiums, #9,410.66; losses incurred $3,420.88; losses paid, $2,521.5 Nort vestern, Millwaukee—Premiums, $10,- osses incurred, 39 losses |uuvl #8,126.61. In giving the Farmers and Merchants returns of Lincoln a few days ago a bad error was made in the itein, losses paid. The correct report is as follows: Premiums, $95,972.68; losses incurred, #17,264.50; losses paid, $16,- 280.25. SCHOOL EXTIBIT AT FREMONT. State Superintendent Lane has issued the following circular: ased to report that T have received of aid and material from many paris of the state for the exhibit of school work at Fremont during the State Ty hers' associa- tion, March 2 1888, T would suggest that the princips superintendents of the graded schools s far as they can do so, of th 1 by their respective schools, unty superintendents should also act, as a8 may be desirable with the |-r|nn}mls. s a committee in charge of the work from their countics, These exhibits may be sent b Prof.J. A. Smith, F -munl1 there as carly as March & Express charges will be paid by the committee at Fremont. In case some one brings the exhibit, who will assist in arranging it, it may be brought as late as the first day of the meeting. As a general rule, I would suggest that ex- amination paper and manuscrpts be written wlseap paper. Class work in t should be faste together ise. Draw. ings and maps should be made upon card board, drawing paper or other good paper, of such size as may be ecasily obtained. The name of the pupil, school and grade or class should be written upon each exhibit. Schools making a large exhibit should have a large sign printed upon muslin giving the name of the schoo It would be w to write me for space od at an early day that I may instruct committee how much room to pre- Very respectfully, Groner B, Laxe, State \u]nrmh'ndcm pare. Lincoln, Neb. NOT The following new notaries w lul)w list of u):p(untm(‘nhx . M. Weiss, Hastings: Broken Bow; Ge ry l[. 'In\lm' vemont; T. J. Burnett, Omuha; Simeoon Sawyer, Fairmont; Fred C. Page, Fairmont; W Seaver, Beaver yi Edward Child, Arvapahoe; James Lea trice; John R Marine, Holdreg: m- wnsen, ohn W. Early, Co: s Stowe, Red Cloud. Salt Rheum. With its intense itching, dry, hot skin, often_broken into painful cracks, and the little watery pimples, often causes indescribable suffering. Hood’s Sarsa- a has wonderful power over this discase. It purifies the blood and ex- pels the humor, and the skin heals without a scar. Send for book con- taining many statements of cures, to C. I. Hood & Co., Apothecarics, Lowell, Mass. — RAILROAD NOTES. WHITE VS, BLACK BRAKEMEN. There is quite an amount of excitement among the Union Pacific employes in the vicinity of the depot, over the removal of one of the white brakemen on the dummy run and the substitution of a coiored man. The brakeman removed, it is true, it is claimed has been transferred to a regular tramn on the main line, but his friends ana others assert that his removal is but the beginmng of & move to introduce colored men into the sorvice at rates greatly below what is now being paid to white hands. There gre now two colored men on one of the dummy trains, each of whom works for $40 per month. The wages of white brakemen are $70 per month, and with each change of from white to black, the company saves $30. The white men claim a8 soon as it can be done, company will replace & number of white brakemen with black ones, possibl, one on each train, and as a consequence they are feeling discouraged about the matter, The Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha pay car came in from St. Paul Sunday in charge of Paymaster Clark. Yesterday ing Mr. Briggs, the general agent, and ynes, superintendeut, of the same road, loft with the car to malke the trip over the division. THAD N. Mr. Fran ‘who repre- sented that line at the m(‘clmg of the Trans- continental association held in St. Louis, re- turned home yesterday, and reports that the sessions were harmonious and beneficial to involved. Many vexatious points were settled, and auniform set of rules estab- lished. The following of importance to people patronizing railroads west of the Missouri will be of interest; A rate of onehalf of the unlimited rate will be made for regularly ordained minister of religion, for sisters of charity, and prop certified missionaries; also for railroad er ployes and the members of their familics actually dependent upon them for support Only wearing apparel and “articles of per- ourts have in the past de Illl'd 10 be baggage, shall be accepted as such, and merchandise, furniture, machinery, wagons, pianos, organs and other hike articles, shall not b clussed or received as baggage. For the transportation of each special car and party of fifteen persons or less fiftecn first class tickets, regular or excursion, will be required; for more than fifteen, one ticket for each additional person, Children under five years of age accompa- nied by their parents or guardians, will bo carried free, and only children five years of age and over, and under twelve years of age, will be carried on half-fare tickets. For a corpse, whether of adult or child, a first-class ticket, limited or unlimited, will be required for its transportation in baggage car, when accompanied by a passengor in charge. Only 150 pounds of baggage wili be allowed on each full ticket, and seventy-five pounds of baggage on each half-ticket except that on foreign steamship orders sold in foreign countries, for transportation through the United States to foreign ports, in either di- rection, 250 pounds of baggage may be ac- cepted 'on each full first-class ticket, and 125 pounds on each half first i Emigrant sleepi the \l|~)\nun riv 3 8, St. Louis tood that the ific railway is not prevented from runningits colonist cars through over its own road between its termini PERSONAL, General Passenger Agent Tebbetts, of the Union Pacific railroad, will arrive home to- day from a western trip. It is understood that E. L ant general passenger agent of the Union Pacific rai will start in a fow days on a trip through California, partly for pleasure and business. Word was received yesterday from Gen- cral Pagsenger Agent Eustis, of the B. & M. was then at Sacramento, Cal., - ports that for the first time in the rec tion of the oldest inhabitant there was snow on the ground. . N. Babcock, general western agent for the ( ‘hicago & Northwestern railway, left yesterday for Chicago. Belle Bound Over. Belle Smith, the soiled oue charged with stealing #13 from Henry Kline, was given a hearing in the police court yesterday and was bound over in thesum of §700to apear before the district court. In .default she wis sent to Jail. Mrs. Crow, the landlady of the dive in wnich the altercation between Kline and Belle occurred, claims that Kline ruined about §150 worth of her furniture, in- cluding loooking glasses, chairs, ete., and she intends prosecuting him for it. The place run by the Crow womau is one of the tough- est in the city Lomax, assist- sl : Let us be thankful that any poor suf- rcan buy with 25 cents a bottle of Salvation Oil, Vennor's predictions, though in the main pretty accurate, are not infallible, But Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup was never known to fail, to cure a cough- SONE STORIES OF THE STORM Talos Told by Those Caught Abroad by the Blizzard. QUEER AND COOL EXPERIENCES. A Desperate Father Whips His Family for Life—Bucking the Drifts— All Night in Haystacks and Cellars=Notes. There have been changes of tempera- ture in Nebraska as sudden as that of Junuary 12, 1888, They have been mainly in midsummer. The rBcord will be searched in vain and the prolific and veracious memory of the oldest inhabi- tant will tremble and grope in darkness for an mkunl of that which chilled the northwest ten days ago and brought grief and anx to hundreds of homes. It was an irresistable combination of death dealing furies, unexpected in its approach and blinding in force. Man can successfully battle with fires and floods and tornadoes—they are limited in range and peaceful compared with the all-per vading blizzard. Against the latter there is but one sure method of preservation for those away from home —to burrow deop in the first snow drift, and remain there until the storm sub- sides. The experience of scores in the late storm proves it to be the one sens ble and safe action. Lives by the score have been needlessly saerificed by aim- lessly wandering in search of shelter in torms—shelter that is found by L accident. There is no danger of ng in a snow drift; it is thor- ough protection; it saves tho energy and heat wasted in violent walking and en- S the person who accepts the drifts sist successfully the lowest temper- ature. Few persons will accept this truism if compelled to chose. Natur- ally one believes his strength and know- ledge of the neighborhood so great that he can reach a house without injury. He does not calculate on the blinding force of tho storm, He gropes about on what he believes to be a straight road to a house, but usually turns to the left and soon trudging aimlessly in a circle, he victim feels the stinging force of the blizzard only while vigorously blood courses in the veins, but the cold s00n numbs this feeling, the limbs and arms lose their energy, and the vietim, falls on his track tosleop like one who, “drawing the drapery of a couch about him, lays down to sweet and pleasant dreams.” Freezing, to contemplate, is one of the most fearful of deaths,yot the Creator decreed that it should be pain- less and peaceful. The complete story of the late bliz- zard willmever be tfold. Its agon anxieties, terrors and joys are hallowed memories to those who battled against the storm, or kept sleepless vigil for loved ones abroad, while to the lgynes and families bereft of one or more Fiem- bers it will remain a dark shadow and source of sorrow for life. The accounts following are actual experiences. taken mostly from the newspapers of the re- spective neighborhoods. PUSHING THE SNOW PLOW. The crew which opened the Beatrice branch of the Union Pacific had a cold, hungry and sleepless experience. The blockade-raisers, consisting of the new rotary plow, in charge of Frank Good- sell, engineer, and W. M. Dailey, flre- man, engines 804, 596 and 513, and a couplo of way cars, left,_Omaha Friday moruing at ¢ o'clock. They cut a holo to Valley in six hours and ‘then turned southward. Between Valley to Valpa- raiso, thirty-eight miles, the worst drifts were met, and twenty-two hours were required to make the trip. Two miles beyond Valparaiso they run into a huge drift three to four hundred feet long and twenty-five feet high,and stuck fast within twenty feet of the end. The water in the engine tanks was exhausted. The snowbanks towered above the cabs, the grub was poor and scarce, and the mereury bobbed from 252 to 302 below zero. For twelve hours the men shoveled snow into the tanks and melted enough to give the plow a fresh start. The effort was suc- cessful and in 1 than half an hour they were again free and sailing for Beatrice, where they landed at 7o'clock Sunday morning. Inone of the cuts outside Beatrice the rotary struck four head of stock and made mince meat of them in a minute. The plow worked admirably. A bank of snow melts away before it and disap- pears in clouds in the fields, The fan makes 400 revolutions a minute, and the speed of a train in a drift is never more than two miles an hour. The snow is thrown from the chute over the telegraph wires and descends thirty to fifty yards from the track. All that the machine needs to open a roadway through a drift is ample force behind it. The round trip occupied seventy-six hours. The men were completely ex- havsted, having had but little sleep, and not a few of them were laid up sev- eval Hays for vepairs., WHIPPED FOR LIFE. Mr. W. E. Brereton, wife and son, nine years old, living in Holt county, started with a team and sleigh to visit a brother, four miles away, a few hours before the storm struck the country. They were within half a mile of their destination when the storm struck them in full force. The horses as well as the occupants were blinded by the fury of the blast. Mr. Brereton applied the whip to the horses, hoping they would keep the road, But he was mistaken. The force of the storm was so severe that the horses turned off, ran imto a gulley and capsized the sléigh. Mr. B. unhitehed his horses and turned them loose, and decided to remain where he was, hoping the storm would abate in a fow hours. The gulley was of sufficient depth to afford some shelter. The sleigh bed was dragged to the least exposed point, and with the hay it contained and a few blankets the family were fairly comfortable. Night came on rapidly, and the cold grew more and more severe. No complaining word was heard until near midnight, when little Ralph said: O, papa, T'm 50 sleepy!” The father realized at once what this meant—the sleep of death. He shook the child and pulled him closer to his breast; and fora time all were © comfortable. About midnight Mrs. B. and the child were so benumbed by the cold that they lost hope and re- signed themselves to the slecp that knows no waking. Mr. Brereton was almost_distractes He wrapped them tight in blankets and vrolled them around in the sleigh with the strength of desperation, but no answer came to his repeated calls, Maddened by the steady approach of death he grasped the whip and began to beat both his vife and child, yelling like a wild man ¢ blow. He plied the whip vigor until both answered to s call and begged for merey. The ap- peals had scarcely been made when loud shouts were heard in the distance. They were promptly returned, and in & few minutes a rescuing party was upon them. It was Me. Brereton’s brothef and two sons. Ralph and his mother | were taken up in stroug arms, and with the two brothers following wera: soon in the house, 800 yards from where the sleigh was upset. Mrs. B.'s. face and feet were sevérely frosted, but not dangerously, and little Ralph escaped with frosted arms. Both showed plainly the marks of the father's whip. It seems that aftér Mr. Brereton had turned loose his horses, one of them walked into his brother’s yard. was re oguized by one of the boys, and led to the rescue of the inperilledsfamily. TATUT VICTIMS, M. B. th-\ and Enoch Bowman left Stuart in the morning with four horses and a sleigh to get a load of hay about three miles south of town. They had just arrived at the stack and commenced toload when the storm struck them. They started immediately for town, but had not proceeded more than ten rods before the sleigh was upset. Being be- wilderea by the storm, they unhitched from the sleigh, and each taking a team, they started with the storm, in hopes of coming across a house or some other shelter. About the middle of the after- noon they across a small, half- rotted hay stack. After trying in vain to make & hole in the stack large enough to shelter them, they unharnessed the horses and nguin struck out with the storm, wandering until about sundown, and when about to give up all hope of getting any shelter, and ready to he down and die, they ran against_another hay stack, into which lhv made a hole and took up lodging for the night, with little hopes of ever coming out alive. Their clothes were wet through by the drifting snow, but by kicking and slapping their nds they were enabled to keep their blood in circulation, and when morning dawned they crawled forth to find themselves one mile from the nearest house, for which they startod, Bowman in sock foot, he having lost one of his shoes in the stack during the night. After getting breakfast at the farm- house they started for Stuart, arriving there ahout noon. Sisle, ce and u(*('h are badly frozen. Bowman's face and feet are severely frozen. Sisloy was thout an overcoat throughout the en- tire storm, it being warm in the morn- ing, and having but a short distance to go, he thereforo neglected to preparc r such an emerger Their return was almost a miracle. Frank Skinner, ng on the Nio- brara river. near the mouth of Clay creck.started from Stuart on foot on the morning of the bli rd. When about nine miles north of Stuart he was ove r- taken by the storm, and being unable to face it he turned back, passing east of town some time in the afternoon, when he commenced to climb a supposed snow bank, and to his surprise he fell through a shed (the property of Mr. Clevenger) where the covering had been eaten away, landing AMONG SOME CALVES, Knowing that he was near a house he took the lines from the harness, which lay in the shed, and tying them around his waist he went as far as possible in a circle, in hopes of catching a glimpse of the house, but in vain did he look, and finally concluded to take up lodging for the night with the calves. Frank’s face fs badly frozen. Maggie, daughter of James Skirving, in company with Mrs, Campbell, wife of Thomas Campbelly left Stuart in the morning for their home twenty miles north of town. When about eight miles north of town they were met by the storm, and had proceeded about three-fourths of a mile when the horses suddenly turned around.and brought up at a vacant sod' house which was without either doors or windows, they having been removed. They succeeded in getting one of the pénies in the house, but could not persuade the other, which was a mule, toenter the building. By the time tlmy got into the house (or rather hovel) their clothing was wet, and in this condition they sat down on a snow drift against the wall, in which position they remained through- out the afternoon and night. In the morning stiff and chilled by the cold, they crawled out and made their way on foot with clothes frozen stiff to Mr. Kirkindall’s, about three-fourths of a mile distant. MRS. CIIAPMAN’S DEATH. Mrs, Malinda Chapman, aged fifty-one years (mother of Mrs. Faust and sistor of Mrs. Yocum) left Mr. Faust’s place in Turtle Creek precinet, near the Keya Pana river, on Wednesday last for Stu- art with twoof Mr. Faust’s children— Edie, aged five years, one of the twins, and the girl baby, Mattie, aged eleven month On Friday afternoon James Skir returning from Stuart, re- ported that nothing known of My Chapman’s whereabouts, Saturday morning Mr. Robertson, William and Gabriel Brodie and A Jenks started in search, following the Stuart road and looking for tracks where they left the main road. While thus engaged one of them looking to the west espi a team standing on the slope west of the Beaver Creck, about two and one-half ntiles southwest of Andrew Robertson’s, the last place they were seen before the storm. They immediately started to where the team was standing, and upon arriving their worst fears were realized for there cold in_death lay Mrs. Chap- man beside the sleigh 1n the snow, the babe lying in the seat on its face where it had fallen when Mrs. Chapman left the sleigh. The boy was sitting in the seat well wrapped and not so badly frozen as the woman and baby. The team was standing to the sleigh with two tugs un- hitched. A NIGHT IN SCHOOL. Miss Susie Baxter, who isteaching the school four miles southwest of Stuart, very wisely kept her pupils in the school nouse till the next morning, not allowing any of them to start home. Harry Hufftle, after six attempts, got to the school house about 12 o'clock in the night. Charles Morrill, ng a mile south of the school house, attempted to reach it in the afternoon. He tied a vope to his dog and, took the animal with him. The dog's eyes soon became tull of snow and he refused to go further. In returning ho passed his house. The dog, howe getting scent of the buiMing, uuu!ul him to it. Otherwise he doubtiess would have perished. Charles Senate, liying out in the val- ley south of town, had goue to the hay field. He was in his shirt sleeves with- out mitten or a scarf. He was two miles from his house and -putting whip to his horse he followed his tracks home. When within thirty yards of the house he lost it. He was obliged to crawl on his his hands and knees to find it again, and then reached the stable in un(uty. It was a close call, AROUND SCHUYLER. The saddest incident of the storm at Schuyler was the death of Mr. J. V. Himes, who in company with his son Walter, went to the school house after the children at school. Mr. Himes, who has not been well for over a year and had a stroke of paralysis, became utterly exhausted when home and unable to go further. Iter a ted the children in the house and re turned to his father whom he ered to be dying. exertion had proven too much for his week frame, and death’s hands had fixed its firm hold on him. Poor 1- ter assisted his father, or rath, him home, where he instantly Michael Kline, of Grant precinct, started after his children at school and becoming turned around began going south and wandered on until he struck Steve Fuller's place, He had unhitched the team from the wagon aund drove them loose this far.. When ' arriving at Fuller's, Mr. Kline was completely’ ex- hausted and his face badly frozen. ' He was just able to get in the house. His family fearing that he was lost, two of the older boysand a girl started 1n seareh of him the next morning. After hunt- ing around for a while the boy came on to town where he arrived with his feet fd lmdl\ frozen that three of his toes have to be amputated. The other xluhlnn also froze their feet and hands dly, the girl frzecing one leg nearly knee. Whelpley, who lives about three miles and a half southwest of Schuyler, started home, the storm strik- ing him when within a mile from home by the old Gasman farm. Mr. Whelp- 1oy thinks he could have made it, but in fixing the blankets around him the horse became unmanageable and left the v He finally brought up at tho stables there, and tying his horse to the side of the corn-crib, went to the hous where ho stayed in a hole under th house that had been used some time ago for a cellar. There he stayed all night, keeping himself from freezing by whittling picces of pine board and burning them. The place was only three feet high with the floor abov and a pecson can judge of the diminu- tive fire Mr. Whelpley was obliged to keep so a8 not to sct the floor on five. He stayed there until 7 o'clock in the morning, alternately freezing and smothering from the smoke from the fire, and then went out where he left the horse, which was all right, having been blunketed. Upon arriving home he was completely exhausted and could <onvcely speak, but fortunately not rozen much, only his nose some, and all the fingers on one hand. = Mr. ‘Whelpley has been in Nebraska twenty vears, and been in most of the big storms in that time,and he says he never saw anvthing compared to it. Mr. and Mrs. Guthrie, of Wilson pre cinet, Colfax county, had a _rough e perience. When coming home from somewhere in a sleigh, they became lost within a mile or so of home, and not being able to find a place to stop, turned the hlmgh on its side and stayed thero all night. They had plenty of wraps and were not frozen. Mrs. Guthrie sang snatches of song during the night to help keep them awake, Tommy Tillian, a little boy twelve years of age, who lives with his parents in the vd‘,n- u{ Dodge couty, justeast of the Irish settlement, was out all night, He got lost on his way from school, and noarly froze to death in a snow bank within fifteen rods of his father’s house Early the morning after the storm h parents heard some one calling, and going out found their little son frozen to the ground. At last account it was feared that he would lose one or both of his hunds, His feet ave also very badly frozen. Henry Smith, of Butler county,got off of the road between Schuyler and the river, and was cnmpcllmfle camp all night in a clump of willows near where the old Platte river bridge used to stand. He broke the end-gate out of his sleigh, and with it and some dead p a fire which kept him ng. STUCK IN A CUT. There were over forty people aboard the snow bound train that left Beatrice Thursday evening and was stranded about four miles out. There were six- teen passengers and fourteen section men. The train didn’t get to Jansen till Sunday morning, The passengers were fed from the stations and the farm houses in the vicinity. There are twenty-five men in Jansen. Of these all but three went to the cut, about four miles away, and helped to shovel snow. Of the three who remained, one was the agent, who couldn’t leave, and the other two are cripples. A SAUNDERS COUNTY NERO. Among the many narrow escapes dur- ing the recent blizzard, one that comes from Saunders mety, in the Molloy neighborhood, is one of the most re- markable. A hired man working for a farmer in that neighporhood started out with a team of mules, when the storm was at its highest, to go to the school house after soveral children, whom it was feared might attempt to go home alone during the storm. He got five of them in the sleigh, butafter proceeding some distance the mules became blinded with the furious snow storm, and re- fused to go any farther against it. The children had to be protected in some way, 80 with rare presence of mind, he unhitched the mules to let them find their way back home, and turning over the sleigh box he comfortably wrapped up the children in the robes and blank- ets, and prepared to await the cessn- tion of the storm. They were shut up in the box for several hours, and finally venturing out he found that one of the mules had refused to go away and was frozen to death. The children wero taken home without being any the worse for their exciting experience. With less presence of mind, every one of the party might have been lost. The driver was a young man of only about sixteen years of age. A NIGAT IN A TAYSTACK. Ed Maxwell, of Gage county, who took lodging in a haystack the night of the storm, is slowly recovering. He had a terrible expetience. He says that after leaving his team in the ravine, he made his way along in the awful storm without knowing where he was going. Finally he came upon a haystack and got upon the sheltered side. There he stood up all night beating himself with his hands to keep from freezing. He says his legs first grew numb and he felt sleepy. He knew that he must not go to sicen, so he kept beating his knees to keep up circulation in his feet and legs. Thus he passed the long night. As he grew colder he felt more comfort- able, but he knew it was a case of life or death, and he kept his arms going and bimself awake. After daylight he saw about a quarter of a mile away a small black speck. He started toward it. At first he could scarcely ve, for he seemed to have lost his power of loco- motion. He was cold and his limbs were stiff, He fell down several times, and froze his fingers worse than he had during the night. How he got to Stevens he ardly know He could hardly talk. Stevens’ people lethim in, and seeing his condition, did what they could for him. Maxwell kept saying, “I'm so cold,” and wantel to get to the fire. His friends, however, kept him away, and put him in a cold room and placed his feet and hands in cold water, By the time the doctor arrived Maxwell was in quite a comfortable condition, ANOTHER HEROINE. Among the many bright examples of heroism in the storm noue ranks higher and nobler, though ending in death, than that shown by the little daughter of Mrs, Peter Westphalen, a widow of Couterell township. Dodge count She was thirteen years of age. S lost in last Thur 's storm return- m« from school, accompanied by her wr old sister. and the bodies of s i younger one wrapped in the arms of the older were found Monday, the former wearing all the outside clothing of both. How the brave, self- sacrificing girl hud comforted the little one, ~nMrm r with )ld, how she had held her » t rself as the numb- ness that pr des death thoughts were as she self of warm garments that her ¢ might be protected and, perhaps even though she perished, no one can ever know—but there should be a spe- cial heaven, better than any other, for such heroines. The teacher at the Sut and. school house west of Blai Mre. Curtis, de- e s to be highly complimented for arare display of grit and good sense in an emergenc The storm gave him the alternative of staying in the school house all night or attempting to get nine children to their homes, a walk of one mile in the teeth of the blizzard. Tying the well rope around his hody. all took hold of the line and were guided to a place of safety. A STORM PANIC, The first blast of the storm in Fair- mont took off the tops of the chimneys of the Pirst ward school, and send them crashing through the roof, instantly fill- ing the rooms with smoke. The pupils were seized with a panicand vushed from their room frantically into the raging storm and seattored over the commons in i The alarm was soon given and a number of citizens went to their reseue, and after bravely breasting the storm, finally suceeeded "in finding them and conveying them to their homes, The pupils were generally young, and when the panic began, Hloise Jackson, the teacher used every exor- tion to keep them in the room, but having no keys for the doors, the c¢hil- dren bolted out of one door while sho was holding the other. Without thoe prompt assistance of the citizen some would have probably perished. A SCIOOL TEAC CAPE, One of the closest calls in Butler county was that of W. L. Austin, who is ing school out in the W, O, Timms ct, one and a half miles northeast of David City. He took the children all over*to Solomon Perkins’ dence in his cutter. There were two or three loads of them, and by the time he got them safely caved for he was pretty well exhausted, when he started for home. He got lost and traveled in a circle several times, besides numerous upsets. After battling with the storm nearly all the afternoon he was found by parties out near 1. K. Dot in the lmrlhvufll{ 't of town, stuck in a drift, with hardly enough strength to help himself any more, besides being lost. He had become 8o cold by this time that he felt those sleepy sensations which are unfailing hints of “one’s nearness to the border land. With assistance and a Dbrave heart he got home all right. One of his wrists was badly frozen. ALL NIGHT IN A WAGON. A few cases of suffering and hardship aro reported in Cuming county, but no loss of life. son Jarrett, who lives on the Frey pl southeust of West Point, was londing hay from a stack about a half mile from the house, when He was assisted m and Herbert, A son of W. ., Miller, of West Point. They immedi- ately attempted to return home, but alized that this would be a hope- k as the team would not face tho They they tried to find thei way back to the hay stack, and in this they were bafled. They then did the only thing that remained for them to do -—unhitched the teawm, tied it to the wagon and buried themselves in what hay they had on the wagon. In thi way they passed the night without freez- ing, but in hitching up the team and getting to the house the next morning Mr. Jarrett froze his right hand so so- verely that it is foared amputation will be necessary. Young Miller has two tocs frozen, but the two Jarrett boys completely eluded the advance of Jack Frost and came out unscathed. THREE HUNTERS IN YORK, Of all the narrow escapes from freez- ing, during last Thursday’s storm, none were more thrilling than than that of John Gardne| ph. Post and A. P. Snyder, these three gentlemen were out hunting in asleigh and quite a dis- tance from York when the storm struck them. The horses became terrified and overturned the sleigh, and after des- perate attempts to control them they were turned loose and the bewildered hunters started on foot, with the storm, knowing not where v.huy were nor whore to find shelter. Finally the railroad was reached and they started down the track in the direction of York. Mr. Snyder was nearly exhausted and had to crawl on his hands and knees, while Mr. Post was even ina worse condi- tion and the eflorts of Mr. Gardner and Mr. Snyder were required to keep him from lying down by the track. Aftor walking about seven miles the Thayer depot was reached, and none too soon as Mr. Snyder’s hands and feet wi badly frozen, and Mr. Post was com- plotely exhausted and hud to be draggod the lust hundred yards by Mr. They are all right now and u)nm"\\u ing themselves that they escaped at all, NOTES. The oldest inhabitant had the sashes of his memory taken off. Five hundred head of cattle are re- rted lost in Knox count, Michael Cline, of Schuyler, read his obituary in the Omaha papers. William Rice walked from Bazile to Creighton, five miles, in the teeth of the storm and suffered no inju; Mr. E. B. Reckard, of Norfolk, con- tradicts the report that he was frozen to death, and begs to be spared the pain of reading his own obituary. A woman and two children in Holt county found refuge in a pig pen, and escaped death by nestling down with the pigs. They were badly frozen, but will live Charles Haines, of Blair, was obliged to be out during the night of the bliz- zard to look after his cattle and hogs. He brought them through all right, but froze his wooden leg stiff. The Crete Vidette stakes its reputa- tion that the recent storm, for sudden change of base, keenness of breath, de- pression of spirits and blinding of snow, 1as seldom, if ever had a superior. A woman dressed in men’s clothes was found on the north branch of the Ve digree, in Knox county. She wus ver nearly dead, and her name could not be learned, It is probable that the woman resorted to men’s clothing, thinking that it would better protect her from the cold. One young lady in attempting 1 turn home from school near O , found refuge in a hay stack. burrowed into this as far as i and soon the snow drifted over her,com- pletely, burying her in. Here she lay until the next day, when her moans at- tracted the attention of a man out feed- ing his stock, who rescued her. In the meantime the mice had eaten at her ars and r and her feet and limbs ver zen that amputation will probably be necessary. The scholars of the Reedville sc ™ sighton, Miss Etta Ewing her, were kept in the house all sht owing to the preparation and ad- vice ‘of Oscar Norton, and were seriously by the storm. enjoyed u very curious electricul |.n . Every object and person in was heavily rged with Persons coming in contact another would exp nand a succession of would be cmit . amuscd them! s through the hours of the night watching and menting with this strange fc of nature. Wi hool, electricity - Internal Reve Th oflice y o Collections. internal revenue Real Estate Transfers. B A Bonson trustee to Robort 13 Wind- Tham, lots 1, 2, \b and 10, son, wd J Hascall to H |‘2‘ 13 and 14, blk ¢ blk 73, Ben- . Hascall’ s-ub Patrickc Hinha i Cassady, lots 4 und Hill, wd. iy South'Omaha Land ¢o' to Charl Fali, lot 12, blk 114, South Omaba, il George E K lot 45, add, w d.... A Benzon & § G dohnson Plat, 1ots f Millard and Caldwell's, . tt tod A Doe etal, lot 8§ outh Omaha, wd. . LoRoy ‘Mayie to A Nelson, 1ots 6 and blle 5, Movers Richards & Tilden's ife 10" Fdwn , blk 8, Bowe ¢ot'al to dohn W Taul, Cunuingham & Brennan's 8,000 2,500 800 g \\ ||| I( Ball ot al to Nottie Weeler, n‘ 1ot 1, blk 4, Newport, w d. South Omaha Land Co to Heory lh*ul 1ot 11, blk 89, South Omaha, wd. ... Auna S Fanbrass to L P l'|'n_\||. lot 9, blk 48, Shinns 20 quit elaim. .., 1 Omaha Real Estate and_ Trust Co to Benton Bell et al, lot nnuuuml. wd... o 1L Zin ol \I ers, lot 20, blk b, ‘s subd, and wife to 4 erman, same, w d. . 3 Shaw and husband 8 Shields, lot 17, 18, 19, blk t place, W d.. ... Patrick Hoctor and Wige 1o (¢ ald, lot v, wd, William T Haw! foy and wife to John H Spafford, lot 10,11, Hawley Ter- race, w d . Edward Haman et al to !|\'|| lot 13, bl Riversid d Ised da or Miller, 160 ac executors deed Nels A Christranson ||m| wife rie A Hubbard, lot 7, I ulnlluunl lace, wd. Carrie A Hutbard and hisband to Nels A Christenson, beginning at se cor lot 1, bk 8, Quinn’s add, w d.. .. Third Congregational church of Omaha to school distriet of Om: lot 5, bik 8, Lake's add, w d. \\‘nml Pickett to A ran, ¢ lots6and 7, blk 3, Omaha V wd. A G Ingram and wife to Picl koll lot 6, blk 3, Omaha Vv iew, w itagor- k 1, South Omala v add, w or executor s N E, 14, »Hammond ot al fo’ A Skinner, lots 9 and 10, blk blor place, Wd.ivieeiisions Twenty-five decd: Building Permids, Yesterday Superintendent Whitlock issuod the following building permits : P. Flani addition to dwolling, S ard near Twenty-fourth. . H. Lyck, cottaue, Park, near Twenty fourth’. 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