Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 5, 1888, Page 4

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FEIL,, - ) _ Notary Publfc A POPULATION of nearly 115,000 for not a bad showing for 1888-9. ———— 3 ', SOUTH OMAHA packers join- the' pro- ." cession in -getting cut freight rates to Chicago. * . . g . —— . ANOTHEI important.oil discovery hans been made in Wyoming in which Ne- braska investors are interested, The fleld is said to be a large one»nud gives WHATEVER site the' government +* | architect may sclect for the new publio . building, it is almost certain %o be lo- - ‘eated within a stone’s throw of the pres- -#nt postoffice.’ S LR D ‘BY all means lot the directois of the ‘Board of trade accept John 'Evans’ ‘sug- Restion and reconsider the vote gn ‘ths out rate problem, - The question is too . ‘fmportant to be shelvéd without .a .. 4horough discussion. i : - IN spite of. the Burlington’s serious . treubles with the locomotive engineers, . thie managers of that rond make another deep cut infreight rates. .. When ‘thére 8 hardly a freight: wheel turning, a re- * duction in rates assumes the nature of a, . big joke: -MR. VILAS has earned the distinotion of being the aristocrat of the aiminis-. ; tration. He is less approachable than even Eundicott. "It is not évery countiy " lawyer clevated to a cabinet position who would ‘keep his head as well as Vilas has done. q 3 ;- 'IT18 a wonder that more accidents have not resulted frowm the reckless manner in which the patrol wagon: is, driven. There is no ncoessity of run- ‘ning such a light-weight wagon through * :the streets at a break-neck speed -when Roing to a fire. 2 f ——— 3 DEMOCRATIC aspirants for the-vice . presidency are multiplying. ‘Asthe con- . wention will have little to do for entor- tainment éxcept the selection of a'can- didate for the second place ou the.ticket the more aspirants there are. the. mer- «wier the fun will be. .v -.. RO8COE CONKLING is a wise child. He knows when to-stay away from a five ' mnd not'burn his fingers. 'In reply to a '+ eommunication from some of his Penn- sylvania friends asking him to uccept a nomination. for president Mr. Conkling declines with thanks, . g : — : . . PouiTies over.in England -appenr. to be of the battle-door and shuttie-cock * order after all.. First theie . comes the’ ' surprise of an overruling liberal major- ** fty in a tory stronghold. Everybody in the liberal cammpsdons his holiday attive ready for.the queen’s call to form a new eabinet. The next day the tories carry the election: in some liberal borough. and celebrate the occasion by a great glorification of - conservative govern- ment. Tn: Grand Army of the Republic has all along . taken a&n honorable and petriotic stand on the pension question now pending in congress. All that is, asked of congress is thatthe govern- ment should provide a reasonable com- pensation to the men who risked their _ lives aud who are not able to earn their living on account of the disabilities re- ceived in the war. It is due to bun- eombe politicians that extravagant :lill{lzl: are tacked to the bill in order to THE latest advices regarding the con- ‘dition of the crown prince of Germany Jeave no ground of hope for his recov- sery, though his death may still be a matter of months. We have never had any faith in the favorable view pro- fessed to be taken of his case by his .physicians, not one of whom, we fully lieve, has ever seriously doubted that; “his afiction was cancer, and that the most that could be done was to prolong This life by every device of medical skill. The fine constitution and strong will of the prince have very likely had more to do with keeping him alive until now than has the treatment of the doetors, his equanimity in the face of death will undoubtedly be maintained to the last. It seems certain; however, that the end eannot be very remote, and as it ap- proaches grave considerations are pre- sented respecting the effect .which his death may have. 'T'he impression is that she emperor would not leng survive #on, and there is reason to believe measures are now being considered 9 provide for the succession. ‘of the majorisy in the senate. Making it & Partisan Master. "The democratic members ol the ways and means committee having ignored the counsel of the president to approach the question of tariff revision “in a spirit higher than partisanship,” the party they represent will have no fair ground of complaint if the republicans shall, as they seem disposed to do, ap- proach the subject with reférence to the question of partisan advantage to be gained. When the majority of the com- mitteo shut themsetves up to frame a tariff bill, wholly ignoring the minor- ity, the confessed purpose was to bring forwitrd & measure which the country would be compelled to recognize as en- tirely of democratic construction. They wanted a distinctively party meas- ure, of which it could be said that © no republican had seen a single ' feature of it or made a single suggestion regarding it. They. finished their work on this line, and it has been submitted to the coun- Huving set the example of making this a partisan matter, the republicans will in -all probability emulate the ex- ample. Just what their programme will be is niot yet clearly defined, but.enough is known to make it pretty certain that the course to be pursued will be that of hostility to the proposed bill. The ma- jority will not be ‘permitied to realize their professed expectation of a speedy success. Whatever obstructions can be thrown in the way will Gertainly be em- ployed. - It has been reparted.that the minority on'a review of the measure in | cammittee would demand that every in- terest to' be. affocted ‘by .the pro-: posed _reductions of dntids shall be allpwed. a hearing. " This - would necesgarily consume s groat desl of timo,’ bat the majority would hesitate to roject #uch a demand for the reason_that to do 80°'would subjeck them:to the. chargs of refusing the industries of the. country & fair opportunity to be hedard in their own behalf. ' The campaigh value, of such a charge ¢an_easily be understood. ‘But if, after all, the majority inélst upon their measure as it stands, the republi- cans will have ready at the proper time asubstitute to present to. the house, and whatever ita fate. there it "will, be pretty sure of commanding: $he support It would do this as & distinetively party measure, with the quoestion of relative merit ds a seepndary considernfion, The demo- crats ‘have themeelves created -this situation, In thelr eagdrness to give a partisan- character to “this legisla- .tion, fnstead:of gtving. it that ‘‘broad and *.national . eontemplation”. which the presidont advised, they have given the republicans every excuse and’ op- portunity they could desire for making a.atraight party issue on the tariff. If the Randall factor be left entirely out of corisideration, though it will cer- tainly play an important part, it will still be -obvious ‘that the prosposed measure has hardly a chance-of getting. through congress, and that thére is really very little probability of any measure of. tar- iff réductian passing unless & unidn. can ‘be affected of the republicans and, the’ Randall contingent, it which' case the ‘credit, if there should be any, would. b claimed by the républicans. -Itis under- stood that Mr. Randall will ‘present a bill, it is' - supposed - similar ‘in ite - general _character . to that he proposed in-the last congress. As we remember the provisians of that meas- are it contemplated ae many advanoes as réductions in tariff duties, and prom- ised very little forthe relief of the peo- ple, whatever: its ‘effect ‘might have been on the revenue. ‘An . undersfand- ing between the republieans and Ran-~ dall, however, in which the former would -have nothing - to lose from a party poipt of view,. is not.'to be re- garted.as out of the question. ' Inshort, there'appears:to ‘be . no.‘other way - in which legislation for. the reductioa of the revenueé can be enacted hy the pres- ent congress. - Such a possibiltity is any- thing but reassuring Tor those who re- quire relief from the unnecessary - 'and exeessive farift taxation. ‘The M'ADM.V No intelligent business man could | have been surprised at . the information in''the cable dispatch froin London, in the BRE of ‘yesterday, that the effect upon American . securitics abroad of the faflare of the grand jury in: New ‘York to indiot Gould and Sage is likely to be damaging. This may not result to -old and’ well-known securifies, with which Gould and Sage have nothing to do— and-such ag they are known to haye con- nection with are earefully ayoided by foreign buyers—but it will be injurious o the ready sale of n¢w securities seek- g purchasers in foreign markets. All such bonds will encounter more or less distrust which will be removed only after the closest scrutiny of all the con- ditions under which they are issued and the fullest information respecting their safety from’ any such fraudulent manipulation as that practiced by the two jobbers who escaped indictments on a technieal interpretation of the law, Nobody pretends that there was not ample ground in the charges of fraud upon which to base an indictment. Probably nobody doubts that if an in- dictment had been returned the charges could have been proved. But the frauds occurred some years ago, and the court ruled that under the statute of limitations the accusations came too late. In order to make this statute available it was held that its applica- tion must be reckoned from the time the commission of the frauds was begun, and not from the time the defrauded persons discovered that they hpd been robbed, It s extremely questionable - whether this duterpretation would - be’ sustained by the higher courts, but it was sufficient in this case to lead the jury to dismiss, the matter, and unless the defrauded bondholders determine to pursue it further, as they may do, Gould and Sage'cap congratulate themselves that a judge: who very likely is not un- friendly to them' has saved them from a disagreeable. prosecution, thbugh he could not rub out the criminality that is univérsally believed:to justly belong tQ them in the matter of their Kunsas Pacific operationi. L Such a state of facts cannot bus have a bad look to men of other countries ‘| where * justice ‘b not so easily thwarted. 1If there is no chance of punishing in this country the per- petrators of fraud in great railroad en- terprises, provided they are skillfal enough to coriceal the frauds for five or six years, the securities of such enter- prises will be regarded with distrust, and particularly so as permanent invest- ments. The escape of Messrs. Gould and Sage will not be quoted to the ad- vantage of American justice. —— THE investigation of trusts by a com- mittee of the New York legislature, of which a good deal had been expected, apvears to have amounted to very little. The New York World, which was largely instrumental in bringing about the in- vestigation, speaks of it as having been “either a fraud by design or a failure through cowardice or incapacity.” The smaller combinations, which are of no areat consequence, were vigorously at- tacked, while the Standard oil and the sugar trusts, whose methods and policy everybody is interested in, were ac- cording to the World, “handled as tenderly as a new-born babe bya careful ‘nurse.” Such trifiing with these great corporations it as bad, or . worse, than letting thém alone. Its. tendency is to give them increased confidence in their chances of immunity from honest and thorough investigation; and to stim~ ulate them' to pursue their course with less appréhension of danger and lesscare for public opinion.. Every such failure as this committee seems to have ‘made is &’ victory. for’ the combinations, and they are pot slow to take sadvantage of | their successes. . It brings legislative authority into. contempt, ‘and makes" & Iaughing-stock of "the ‘appeals of.the ‘peoplé to their representatives: for . pro- toction ageinst the growing ‘power and oppressicn of vast.combinations. Inthe degree that the: popular: demands ' are defeated and tha, legislative. nuthority defied, the ' monopolies become im- pressed with & . higher senso . of theéir' -own .power - and- grow less disposed to regard any public obli- @ntions. - If, therefore, we cannot have & thorough and bonest . investigation of trusts and other combinations that threaten tho public welfare, 1t ‘werc better not to attempt-any.. The dieap-- pointing character of the New ‘York committee’s efforts ‘to investigute is greatly to be regretted. ——— Fon some years immigrants at . Castle" Garden have been subject to'a system of tolls and fees amounting to extortion. Both steamship companios tnd ‘the rail- roads have shaved in' this mefarious plunder. Besides theso exactions, varis ous immigration companies have - had thoir agents in Castle Garden,. .whose business was the transmission of money to European countries, the. transporta- tion of passengers from Europsto Amer- iea and the selling of government . land toimmigrants. For all this business very liberal commissions were exacted, and the more ignorant mnd friendless the immigrant; the greater was the im- position of theseé ageats.” - From time to tine investigations:have béen made’ into the treatment of immigrants'by.the. state of Naw York, and the conditioh of. ‘affairs was improved. . But the.statehas | not always been *successtul . inr roeting out the evil. . For as‘soon as the eye of the authorities ‘was removed; the ' old tricks would be "revived. The inters state commerce ‘commission has taken in haud the investigation of ‘the treat- ment of immigrants. whon landing, on our shores., ‘Tt is to. ba: hoped that the investigation will not only be thorough, but will break up once for all the -rings that control Castle Garden. ¢ Tne Chicago & Northwestern has granted the request of Omaha jobbers tor tmsing. through rates on the sum of the.locals. - The meaning of this is, that héretofore the railroads havebilled through freight from Chicago to paints west of Omaha, at the same rates as charged from Chicago to Omaha. .Such action, clearly - discriminated against Omaha apd was 1n violation of the inter- state commerce law.. The new order of billing to points west of Omaha charges at the rate of transportation from Chi- cago to Omaha, plus the local rate from Omaha to the point in question. The - other railroads will be obliged to fall in with the Northwestern in basing their through rates, . ¥ TnE.prompt action of the mayor and chief of police with reference to the wine rooms is to be comu.ended, and it should be pursued until every place of this character in Omaha is closed up. A calamity is.sometimes necessary to arouse people to a full apprehension of duty, and but for the, tragedy of last . Friday night the wine room would doubt- less still be an institution of the city free to carry on its demoralizing busi- ness. That unfortunate event has had the one good result seen in the order of the chief of police, which undoubtedly that official will fully enforce. If more stringent legislation is necessary for dealing with this evil it should be promptly provided. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. Grant is the Shiloh of Perkins county. Shelton is negotiating for electric light. Blair has decided to invest in a horse collar factory. Crete voted solidly for a $25,000 high school building. The man with the performing bear is squeezing an existence in Fremont. Blue Springs has declared war on scarlet men and women and other nuis- ances, . Arlington lacks 81,500 of the neces- sary to make the creamery enterprise a sure go. H. T. Anderson, a prominent resident of McCook, died suddenly of heart dis- ease last week. The undertakers of Beatrice complain of dull times and the people joyfully witness their lamentations, : . The field is wide open and yawning for a -hotel in Arlington. The ‘paint is a superb one for a grub stake. The infant town of Gresham in York county is now patted on the back by the Review, published by S. B Rhodes. - Joseph Oxner, of North Loup, toyed with a loaded emery wheel in. motion. A fly(nf fragment shattered his knee and ankle. g A harp and crown, awaits the builder of an opera. house in' Fremont, ot to mention the chorus of kickers when'th¢’ show begins. 4 The contract has been lot forthe for the pi Farmers' Co-opesadive elevator at North Bend. Tt will have.aj ity of 15,000 bushels and will cost RW The West Point (Republican advises the Omahogs to get into their holes and ive Chicago the freedom of north Ne- gmkl and southern -‘Dakota. The Dawson ' County Herald has erccted a monument to Blaine’s retire- ment with inscription, “Sacred to the Memory of an Unburnt Letter.” The [rm cotset factory in Omaha imperils the sacred hts of man kind. Every arm that Kriows its place should be raised to smité‘thé intruder, The North Bend Mail belicves the commissioners of Douglas county choked a big steal by rejecting the Omaha & Yankton railroad ‘bond prop- osition. The land office at North Platte last ;&#r handled 1,411 proofs, equal to 225,- acres of land. This vast area is now added to the taxable wealth of. the country. The indicfments returned by the grand jury in Nance county have been quashed. The jury was improperly called, but the cost will make the regu- lation hole in the county finances. The Nebraska Cig Prebs gives a score of reasons why General Van Wyck should be nominated by the republicans idency. A positive decli- nation from the general is in order. All great men do it. The Bachelors’ club of West Point ad- vertises its anxioty to disband by giv- ing stag dinners, with songs and solemn jests on the side. Such an aggregation of reasoning fools would make s fortune for a dime museum. One of the imported Pinkerton toughs shinned up to the marshal of McCook with a hickory. The latter pulled his Sm'suader and gave the impudent bull- ozer one hour to get out ot town. He walked to the next station. . , Kearney’s extensive advertising last season has borne profitable fruit. A latp census of the city shows a popu- lation of 7,800, which ‘invests her with the glory and tribulations of a city of @ second class'and a town council, A‘number 31 cure-all quacks, repre- sontating muvder shaps in Beatrice, have harvested 3500 in notes in Oxford .and Acapahoe. The crooks succecded by amasterly exit to escape an over- coat of tar with feather trimmings. -The Wayne Herald. is confident that the Omaha & Yankton railroad will be built some time: in the gwentieth cen- tury. - The official fathers, overwhelm- ing with wisdom.and gencrosity, lcaves the legacy of enterprise o coming gen- erations. All the striking engineers and fire- men at McCook have been sued by the Burlington company, -and ordered to appear in the district court, April 2, or judgment will be taken by default. Just what they are sued for the complaint does not state. - Probably the company ‘wants to keep theém in town and give théma job when it 'ilresol incompetents. The Burlington’ is' humping alon with its welgit of scabs in ifircgultfi‘ jérks. Out at Crete a few days ago the c¢onductor of a trair in'charge of an ex- engineerof a thresher jjeglected to grab hold of the stanchions When givin, signal to start. Hé was not missed un- til the train wastwo mles from town. He managed to walk to the next station uhead of the train. A L Towa items. Three coal minés'ure in operation in Runnels. g Hualf & million dollars worth of veal estate changed hands in Sioux City last week. e : . Theoil in the well recently discovered in Charles City is thought to be petro- leum. The first sign of spring in Dubuque is the arrival of an organ grinder and monkey. The contract _for building and equip- ing astreet railway four miles in length at Fort Madison has been let. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway has decided not to construct an independent line into Keokuk, as orig- inally contemplated. Patrick Hanlon, an employe of the Towa Iron works, was probably fatally injured at Dubuque by a large piece of iron striking him in the neck. An alleged case of leprosy is reported from West Liberty. 'he unfortunhate sufferor is a young Swede girl who ar- rived recently from the old country. During the year 1887 the Burlington fire department responded to 100 alarms o. fire. The aggregate damage due to all of them amounts to only about 88,000, ‘When a Davenport man isseen emerg- ing from a bath-house the reporters im- ‘mediately rush to the newspaper offices and chronicle ‘“‘Another movement in real estate.” The police of Des Moines made sev- enty-three arrests during February, thirty-three of which were public drunks. The capital is a model prohi- bition town. The closing of the saloons at Sioux City is a bonanza for the ferry company. The bulk of the population cross the river every week to secure a supply of appetizers. A wagon and foot bridge is now proposed to accommodate the travel. the % Dakota. . Sioux Falls is the largest city in the territory. A creamery company has been organ- ized at Bismarck with a capital of $25,- 000. The Bowman hotel, at Ashton, enjoys the distiction of being the first building in the territory heated by natural gas. Arrangements are being made for the eompletion of the work on the grade for the Minneapolis and Pacific extension from Fargo to Grand Forks. Miller is very much excited over the suc s of experiments that have been ¢ d on for some time 40 separate and burn the gas that escapes from an artesian well at that place. Republican Central Committee Meets. The members of the republican state cen- tral committee will meet in Omaha at the Millard hotel Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 p. m., for the purpose of dotermining the time and places for holding the several conventions for the election of delegatep to the national republican convention which convenes in Chicago June 19, 1855. ‘A full attendance is desired GrorGE D.' MEIKLEJOUN, ‘WaLt M, SEELEY, Chairman. Secretary. e — Republicans Should Organize. FuLLgrToN, Neb,, Mareh 2.—To the Edi- wrof the Bee: 1 wish to call attention again to the necessity for immediate orga- nization of all republican clubs that wish to be represented in the state league which meets in Omaha March 15. To republicans all over the _state, I would say, organize, Through your. organization_Information will be disseminated and the fact of having'a rp yfiblu‘un lub In your place will beneh you n every way as a party. Send-to my address the list of oficers of each club at once. ' Geonae D. MRIKLEIOTN, Chairman Republican State Ceatral Com. e .. A farmer cannot afford to have cracks in the stable, as they are too expensive, the closing of the cracks being but a small matter compared with the cost for extra feed to keep the animals warm. Uuless a stable be ‘warmn and comfort- able, exlravnfigncn in _feeding will be the result. * Shelter and protection can be provided at less cost than grain. .see that the . Hxtraordinary Contest Between a Gorilla and a Lion. WHAT A HUNTER SAW IN AFRICA. The Giant Ape and His Mate At Home ~Challenged By the King of Be The Gorilla a Superior Slugger. New York Star: In the gloomy re- cesses of the primeval forests still to be found in Central Africa there is a vast unexplored field still stretching forth its unmeasared paco to the hunter and the naturalist. To those who know the face of nature as it is before the corro- sive hand of civilization sweeps across it, there is little ground for wonder that the twoare almost always in a greater or lesser degree united. Occasionally then, even the most ardent hunter will lose the .blood instinct that animates him, and, lowering his rifle, perhaps in a moment of great personal danger, will forget his long and laboriously sought quarry to watch some new trait or fresh instinct in the animal that, unconscious of his presence, gambols before him. It is of such an episode thatI now write, My guide and I had been for two days after big game, with little success,until shortly after noon on the second day we struck what appeared to be one of the dense patches of impenetralia that can- not bo described, but must be seen to be undergtood. Behind us stretched vast avenues of trees, the height of which was lost in the leafy clouds, which shut out the flerce, burning glare of the sun,and rendered even the terrible noontide cool and pleasant. In front of us came the closer stems and thick, interwining growth of vines and creepers, with stunted bushes and long, pendant masses, impenetrable save where some gigantic brute had crushed a passage through, leaving his tracks in. broken branchgs, crushed bushes and thickly scattered twigs. Birds of gorgeous plumage, with harsh, disso- nant voices peopled the trees, the chirp of a grasshopper, the sharp hissof a serpent, or the shrill sound of a locust rose from the matted grass, with occa- sionally the hoot of an owl, or the chat- ter of astray monkey, which sounded strangély in the peculiar silence of the forest. As we advanced along the track, slowly and with great difficulty, we seemoed to leave them far behin and entered into a region of semi-darkness, a faint greenish-black light, as thoufi: the glorious sunlight overhead, balked in finding a direct inlet to the ground, had been fil- tered through yards of close-growin, green foliage, and, unconquered by nfi the forces of vegetation, had succeeded in sending afaint, subdued semblance of itself, like that found in some vast ca- thedral aisle. My eyes struggled with the gloom and seemed to have an in- stinctive power to dilate their pupils sumcionfl({ to magnify or condense the attdnuated rays until they were able to illumine the surrounding Plutonian depths. l?ly guide suddenly paused and made a sign to me with his open palm, which, in the langnage of the hunter, said that he had struck a trail,or heard some tolsenof the proximity of game that had escaped my less acute wers. I cau- tiously advanced to his side, and follow- ing the direction of his finger, peered through the brush, and saw that we lay n the edge of a small clearing, over- shadowed by an enormous tree, whose foliage, without .eally admitting a greater volume- of light, seemed to equalize the gleam, and so render ob- jects at a distance of thirty or forty yards perfectly perceptible. Right opposite to us, with his back against a tree, was the sleeping form of a huge gorilla, his hands hanging down by his sides, his legs crooked in front of him, his head Hstfessly lying sidowise on his shoulder. Some distance from him was the female, apparently busily engaged in gathering nuts, swinging from tree to tree, now disappearing into the surrounding forest, l{zu'. ever and anon returning to keep watch and ward over the sleeping lord and master. For some minutes I hesitated as to what course to pursue, whether to atfempt to get any closer, as the distance was rather o long one, in such a light, to attack an animal 1il{e the gorilla, w‘m. if only wounded, would, in all probabil- ity, with the female, charge right down into us; or if I should take all risks and rely upon the second rifle of my guide. At last I decided to take my chance where 1 was, but u})on raising my rifle I heard a scream of agony from the fe- male, which caused the sleeper to start to its feet, and as it did so the female literally fell from a tree on the edge of the clearing down to the ground, utter- ing the most viercing cries that human imagination can conceive. Then a terrific roar that shook the ground broke upon the silence and told the history of the female gorilla's !rith. It was a lion, and at the sound of his voice she again fled into the tree, while the male uttered a deep, savage, hoarse roar that was the answer to the lion’s challenge. Immediately a crash- ing sound was heard, and a full-grown lion bounded into the open, and stood, his head erect, his mane bristling like the hair on a cat, the personification of brute strength and courage. As his eyes lighted on the gorilla his tail began to wave toand fro. Wider and wider grew its sweep, until at last it struck its ribs, first one side and then the other, with resounding blows, while roar upon roar gave token of his in- ng rage and anger. The gorilla placed his hands upon the ground and bounded into the air fully six feet, alighting on his four hands and bound- ing up again and again, seemingly for the purpose of enraging the lion to the greatest possible degree. He then rose to his full height on his hinder hands, uutering tremendous roars and beating his breast with his great fist, producing sounds like those of a bass drum. Then he dropped upon all-fours again, re- maining perfectly motionless, with the exception of - his eyebrows, which worked upand down with lightning speed, giving an expression of ferocity 1o his face that is indescribable. Fascinated at the sight, my rille dropped from my shoulder and ms‘ guide and I lay flat upon the ground, mute witnesses of the tragedy about to be enacted. Suddenly the lion uttered another ear-gplitting roar and bounded forward, A few-short steps, ‘a tremen- dous leap, two or three sharp, short growls, and both combatants were in the air together, the gorilla] having leapeéd high and straight as the hon charged. In mid-air the lion turned and struck -apparently: vainly at the gorilla, who, as the lion fell on his side- upon the ground, alighted on him, struck him two terrilic blows -and bounded away with a sidling run to a distance of several yards. 1 oould now orifla - was - ‘soverely wounded on the head and side, and that the lion had a fearful gash in his side, for surely his ribs could uever have. withsteod those two tremeéndous blows. A soon a8 he vegained his feet he DUEL BETWEEN BRUTES. charged at the gorilla again and again, but was eluded every time, it being al- most impossible to follow their rapid movements in the half-lightof the clear- h\s. At last the lion paused, and as he did 8o the ape dashed at him and, strik- ing him a stunning blow on the side of the head, completely rolling him over. Again and again. the charges were re- newed, and at every pause the gorilla returned the charge and knocked the lion sidewise. These blows seemed to daze the great cat,and as he rose he more than once -mgyered and fell, the gorilla meanwhile dancing with a pe- culiar bobbing movement around and in front of him. The lion now began to make feints to draw his adversary within range. At last, stopping in & mad rush, the gor- illa llruc‘( short, the lion rushed in, turned upon his back, and received the gorilla with teeth and claws. Growls, snarls, and roars peeled forth from a whirling mass of leaves and dust; limbs and ies l'.rnngel,v mingled were dimly seen through it,as though twenty beasts instead of two were engaged in one conglomerate death nrugg 0. At last there was a sickening crash, a hor- rible crunching of bones. a demoniacal yell of pain, faster and faster whirled the mass, then followed a pause, and 1 saw the lion was um)ermnn. with the left arm of the gorilla in its powerful jaws; his claws were fixed in the ape's shoulder, and he himself was one mass of gashes and rents. The right hand of the gorilla was fixed in the lion's side, and both his hinder hands were drawn n&:nd seemingly imbedded in the lion’s ribs, There was a moment's pause, as if for breath, and then' the gorilla suddenly twisted his head around the lion’s throat, the hinder hands straightened out with a nauseating sound of rending flesh, as with one swift stroke he com- pletely disemboweled the lion... There arose a terrible cry of angush, a sudden swirl around several strokes of brown paws and dark, hairy arms through the cloud of dust, and then all was over. The whirling leaves settled, and there in a death grip lay the two mighty mon- sters of the wilds. The lion was utterly disembuweled, his entrails hn\'in% been seized by the prehensile hinder hands and literally drnfiged out by the very roots; while the lion by a last dying effort had succeeded in getting his throat freed from the gorilla’s teeth, and, with one powerful blow, hnd smashed the ape’s head, as & hammer does a hickory nput. There they lay, motionless, and there we lay, too, fas- cinated, enthralled, at the strange spec- tacle we had just witnessed. Presently a figure moving on the edge of the clearing attracted our notice and we saw the fame gorilla peering out be- tween the bushes, with an agonizingly human look upon her face that was dreadful to see. Slowly and cautiously she advanced across the open space un- til she reached the bodies; them she touched first one and then the other, ut- tering plaintive cries of grief that were touching in the extreme. At last she managed to disenungle the body of her mate, looked into the eyes, examined the wounds, and still erying, took it in her arms and laboriously drnggln‘{ it across the open space, disappeared in the forest beyond. She was safe from my rifle. I would not have shot her for & million of dollars, and it was witha strange feeling of depression that I turned my back upon the clearing, and following my guide, left behind the scene of one of the most interesting and lviif\."ul experiences of my not uneventful e. —_— MONEY IN MINING. Men Who Have Made Great Fortunes in the Western Gold Regions. St. Louis Globe-Democrat: Mr, James H. Myres, superintendent of mines in Summit countv, Colo.,and a successful miner of twenty-five years’ experience, was encountered at the Ex- change by your correspondent vester- day. Mr. Myers picked up $100,000 in old dust wasHing placers in Arizona, Jolorado and Montana before he was twenty-five Iyeura of age. He is a pleas- ant and obliging gentleman, and was readily drawn 1nto conversation on his favorite theme. “Mr. Myers. is there any money made in mining?” The reply was almost startling: “I never knew a man that stuck to mining closely for ten years who did not make a fortune. Last year $108,- 000,000 were taken out of the mountains. ‘Within the past seventeen years the states and territories west of the Miseis- sinpi have produced $615,000,000 in min=- am? products. The 825,000,000 invested in machinery produced 832,000,000 last ear. Half the product may be marked own as clear profit, The mines of Colorado alone give emrloyment 1o 20,000 men. Yes there 1s money in mining. It stands alone as the only in- dustry in whicha man may engage without a single dollar to his credit, and wind ug a millionaire. This is en- tirely possible in mining.” “That sounds like a romance, Mr. Myres. Will you Lo kind enough to name a few of the men who have made fortunes in the mountains?” The veteran settled himself in s chair, crossed his right leg over his lefi knee, tilted his hat over the back of his head and began his reply. “‘Senator Hearst, of California, is be- yond doubt the best miner in America. Originally from Missouri, he began in the mountains as a day laborer. He steadily ascended as foreman, superin- tendent and owner. He is to-day the richest man in the United States, There is not a mining state or territory in which he is not owning and working some mining property. He has 6,000 men in his employ in this country. He stated to me recently that he had not lost a dollar in mining in twenty vears past. Have heard him say that he would much rather be in his mines than in Washington. His wife’s social as-. pirations led him to accept official posi- tion. “Jim Witchlatch was formerly owner of the Witchlatch Union miue, near Unionville, Mont. He sold his mine for $1,800,000 in gold. He lost this stake on Wall street, went back to Leadville, and in six months made $120,000, and lost every nickel of it in 1883 by the failure of Grant & Ward’s bank. Noth- ing daunted by his recent collapse, ‘Witchlatch turned up at Kingston. N. M. Last spring he got a bonded lease on a piece of property, opened itouta little, and sul& to St. Louis parties so as to place a bank account of $150,000 to his credit. At the presenttime this lucky child of fortune is in Brooklyn nursing a broken leg. “The Mary Murphy miné was sold by the discoverer six years ago for 810,000, St. Louis parties bought it. For three ears pust the. Mary Murphy mine has Deen paying a dividond on 83,000,000, “Tom Bowen went to Colorado from Arkansas ten years ago. He was broken in health and, being a member of the Masonie fraternity, they paid his board the first winter. h{nt Bowen won 8100 at poker, gave it to a prospector for a grub stake, and gained the Little Annie and Golconda as the result of his venture. These two mines have paid as high as $10,000 a day in hard cash, A concervative estimate places the ore.in sight at $2,500,000. To-day Tom Bowen is & United States senator and the most populnr man in the state of Colorado. *The Sreward of perscverance. Joe Stanley, one of the. wealthiest men of’ Denvyer, vice Mtd the Lene ver cnyfllonl nk, had » prospoct ton years .ago in mlmhooun y. His wife took in wlans to buy flour and bacon while Joe “fi his way 700 tect, through barren rock. He had no capital and'couldn’t hire assistanco. At tho end of 700 feet he struck pay ore and named it the California mine. ~ A party of Englishmen on a tour throu, Rnnm | state gave him 81,000,000 in oash for tho mine. It has pala him over $5,000,000 in dividends and is still being worked. ‘‘Governor Tabor is sup to havo made more money out of mines in ton years than any other man in Colorado. Outside of 81,000,000 thet he has in- vested in Denver real estate, his fortunc is all invested in mining property, At the same time the governor isthe heav- iest borrower in the state. “Diamond Joe Reynolds’ income from mines he owns in Colorado is over 8500, 000 a year. His investments in tho Centennial State were mainly made through an Irishman that fworked on one of Reynolds’ steamboats on the Mis- souri river. Diamond used_ to that he hadn’t mnuch education himself, and he wanted a partner in the same lil‘ 80 that he could depend on a square deal.: His partner, Colonel John Morrissey, is immeunsely wealthy, and has over - 000 invested in race horses. His stables in Denver hold 175 of them. Three years ago he married a school teacher, as he claimed, in order to Jearn to rend aud write. Diamond Joe lives like a prince in a magnificent residence in Chicago. “The first mine ever sold {n Colorado was disposed of by Joe Watson, twenty- five years ago. He received $100,000 for his mine. That was big money in those days. He lost it all by dissipation and went broke for two years. In 1882 he got $700,000 for his interest in the Evening Star mine near Leadville. Joe XVulson has not one cent on earth to- ay. “I know a busted prospector that ap= ligd to Jack Haverly several years ago or a loan of 8100 as a stake. Jack gave him 81,000 The prospector located some property and gave Mr. Haverly a half interest in it, He can sellout any day for $50,000, “Denver has more men in it worth over 8500.000 than any other city in the Unitea States except New York and Philadelphia. They all made their for- tunes out of mining. New mines are being discovered every year. The work 80 far has merely scratched the surface. No figures can estimate the wealth that will be taken out of the Rocky moun« tains in the centuries to come.” o L L Cajoling the Farmers. New York World, The anti-tariff-reform republicans are very much afraid ok the farmers. This accounts for some entertaining per- formances of late on the part of the Tribune. Recently it endeavored in vain to manufacture. a convention of agriculturists favorable to its cause in this city. The finsco seems.to have led it to adopt the plan of representing it- self as the recipient of letters from some thousands of farmers fairly blood- thirsty for still moro taxes. A committee headed by ‘“Woodpulp” Miller having been appointed to digest these alleged letters, the result of its labors appeared in yesterday’s Tribune in the shape of a sort of agriculturalt manifesto to the nation and a petition to congress for an extension of the tarift list. The address at great length pur- ports to show how the prosperity of the farmers is due to the taxesplaced on what they have to buy. But as the prosperity of the farmers just now has no existence it is superfluous to discuss how it was built up. The address admits, however, that the farmers have a grievance and demands relief. It indignantly says that they shall not ‘‘compete at any point with the labor of serfs or slaves, crofters or coolies,’and calls for duties on garden truck and staples. The utter bosh of such talk is so quickly discerned that it is difficult to see why it should be ven- tured upon, however desperate the need for an argument. Duties piled moun- tain high would not affect the price of staple ~ products. They are fixed in Liverpool, or wherever our sur- Ilalus crops and meats are disposed of. 'here may be some localities where duties on vegetables would have a slight effect, but this consideration is a mere drop in the bucket. It isinane trifling with a great interest. There isno overcoming the fact that our farmers, under the present tariff, sell their goods in the cheapest market and are compelled to buy in the dearest. They are perpetually discriminated against, and are not prosperous in con- sevuence. Morcover, they are becom- . ing increasingly intelligent on the sub- ject. —_—— He Struck for the Woods. Atlanta Constitution: Here is a story that Sam Jones told in the First Meth- odist pulpit last week. He said: “I was making a prohibition speech in Robertson county, Tennessce, last year, and noticed on the rI};ht of the platform a bleared, bloated fellow who was about three parts drunk—each part athird, As I talked he would screw his fist into his eyes and wipe away the tears. After the speaking I wenttoa friend’s house perfectly exhausted and lay down. The ladv of the hous called at the door in a few minutes thal a man wanted to see me. “vPell him Iam tived," Isald, ‘and please excuse me.’ “‘That is all right,” she said, ‘any- how, because he is a drunken, ragged, vagabond.’ “I said: ‘If he is that sort of a fellow let him in, I used to belong to that gang myself, and I never go back on them.” "The man came in, and I found he was the drunken fellow who had listened to me speak. “He s ‘Mr. Jones, I don’t want any mor Money can do me no good. I am arvuined man. Drink has made me a wreek, A short time ago I'had a happy home und household, A few weeks ngo [ buried my wife, having crushed overy drop of blood out of her heart, beforé she died. My two boys are at the orphans’ home in "Nashvslle, One of them is a little blind fellow. My ‘two girls aro at Murfreesboro, and this (here he pulled a_little biack cap out of his pocket) this is the last thing that is left to remind me that I ever had a household, It ismy little blind boy's cap. Now.I do mot want any money from you, but I just got an idea from the way you talked that maybe you had some sympathy for me, If you have prr;uy for me. Good bye.” And he startel ol ““‘Hold on here,’ said T, and I called on Mr. Taylor, my secretary, and said: ‘Frank, go up town with this man and wash bim all over with soap, and put & new suit of clothes on him from head to foot and bring him back.’ In an hour or two he came back, and 1.did not know him. Thad to be. introduced to*him over, 1took out$l and handed it to him and said; ‘Railrond fare in this state is.8 cents a mile—here is 81, Now, you.get on a train and ride thirty-thres miles, no matter ip what direction, and. get the conductor to put you off in the woods when your thirty-three miles is out, and then you strike out through the woods for a new life.’ . Yo s“The fellow did exactly.ns T told h 1 got a letter from him the other and he said that he got into the ¢ and struck for a new life. He got a school, sent for his children, rented him & home, and was doing well-*: