Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 21, 1888, Page 16

THE OMAHA DAILY B For = conservative and wise management, financial strength, carcful selection of risks, liberality to the assured and large dividends to policy holders, the National Life of Vermont has no superior in the world. PATRONS.—The JE: SUNDAY OCTOBER 21. 1 IXTEEN PAGES. Its interest receipts alon all death claims and left a ba has been the result of skill an bined with carcful medical se the most important points in Company, e since organization have paid lance of nearly gSo,000. This d prudence in investment, com- lection of sound healthy risks, a well-managed Life Insurance Insure with the National Life of Vermont THE SAFEST! THE CHEAPEST! . THE STRONGEST! THE BEST! INSTALMENT BOND POLICY The National Life Insurance Company of Vermont Crganized in 1848, Forty Tears .Agc. Facts for an Insurer to Consider. An ordi Life Insurance Policy provides an estate for your dependants after your death. An Instalment Bond Poliey is free from the cluims of ereditors. provides for death and also for one’s advancing years. The National Instalment Bond Policy offers both advantages combined in oné, and at a much reduced cost. This Bond Polic; nary Life Insuranee, not “'die to win.” Su perior to ordinary Endowment In- surance, beeause much less expensive. Superior to *Tontine™ Insurancy Ist. Because the results are not mated, but fixed in a positive contract. 24, Because there is no forfeiture of payments discontinuance of the policy. a cash value being guaranteed. to ordi- need is superior because you It is absolutely free from Technicalities, THe NATIONAL L1FE is the only com- pany, which, issuing a bond poliey. guarantees a cash nif you wish to discontinue, Busincss men appreciate the advant- ages of this new form of insurance, and are largely investing in it, becs the annual deposit 1s practically saved, while it we durng a designated period and is @ good, safe, payiug investment, Every man whode- sires to protect his family and himself, should buy one of these Instalment Bonds while he is in good health as this company selects its risks with great care. but when they issue an Instalment Bond Poliey it is incontestable and as £00( gold. The Instalment Bondsare issued from to twenty thousand and from e secures needed insur one run Tie Company Cuarmlees The National Life write no speculative plans of insurance. Estimates.) {5 ten to twenty years, payabl semi-anuually or annually, quarterly. For in- stance: You buy a $1.000 20-year In- stalment Bond Policy payable semi- fannually. This bond of $1.000 increased by profits becomes payable to you at the end of the 20 y¢ or y heirs will receive the $1,000 cash at once in case of death, or you cun withdraw any yeur without loss, thus combining a savings bank and insurance that is exempt from creditors, tax and reverses, In case of death your heirs reccive the full amount of the bond. If you live you receive the full amount of the bond with inte st It protects against ness, It an combined. adversity in busi- investment and protection ond. Goodas Gold. the surplus accerwed. THIRD-- to discontinue. | 1t guarantees that a | of money, with interest, mulated within a spe certain amount will be accu- ed time. The instalments paid are like depos- its in a savings bank, and are returned to the bondholder at his option. The bond matures at a specified time or previous at death, for its face and guarantees a definite sum in cach year, The bond is not hampered by any con- ditions or restrictions, and its cash val- ue cannet be impaired or jeopardized. The bond affords the very hest ity. and is negotiable the same other bond or stock. UNI seeur- as any SRCTHIS BOND YOU “PAY ASYOU TOP WITHOUT LOss; STOP WITI WOFIT, O CONTINUE FOR GREATER Prorurs,” and the s}i3mplest form of Insurance Contractin Use. The National's is the simplest form poliey in existence. This compan now in been in the ndvance in 1i eral dealings with its policy holders, The the country issuing the Instalment Bond Policy. Incontestabl Advantages of the Instalment Bond. of Vi ve business for forty years, b- fonal is the only company in lo This Bond can be purchased by either annual, semi-annual stalments. or quarterly i if the purchaser any time discoi tinues his instalments, the compan will redeem the bond for the stipulate sum expressed on its Should ye be unable to pay the instalments eon ing due, the company will advance th n- 4 d hu n- he amount desired and continue tne Bond in force. Safe as a Government sunt of $1,000 with all surplus sha'l be paid should death occur within twenty years. -That the bond shall be paid up in twenty years, that it shall participate in the projits of the . ny during the twenty years, and that it shall then mature, and the $1,000 paid to the purchaser wi FOURT H--The bowd policics are as safe and the returns larger than @ United States Government Bond. M.Li. ROEDER & BRO., Managers Western Department, Rooms 401, 402 and 403 Paxton Building, cor. Sixteenth and Farnam Streets, Omaha. Neb. include men of the highest financial and pnf{cssinn;\l standing, men of national reputation for their shrewd, sound busine endors vor of its excellence. judgment, and whose patronage rent is in itself a strong, convincing argument in fa. nd LEGENDS OF THE ELKHOR. The Pathway to the Hills of Other Days. CHANGES WROUGHT BY YEARS. Towna Along the Road, the Country and the Legends Which Survive the Early Wars An the Indians. The Elkhorn Valley. P THE Elkhorn valle Years ago, the words meant the trail that led to the rich hunting >grounds of the Sioux, 4, 0L the pathway to the hid- = den treasures of the Black Hills, and, as of- ten happened, the road to the death place of “ many a hardy vioneer, who fought single- A 2 handed to win from the savage the lands that even now he re- fases to surrender to the nation. Ter- rible ta could be told by the gras: #lopes and wooded ravines if they had power tospeak: but, like the sea, they ecannot, ana they guard many a seeret of the dead that is better ur od. But now. times ave changed. The in- vestor and speculator have taken the place of the prospector in the same mad search for gold, hevds of cattle roam where bufialo feed, farmers sit at ease where the pioner died in torture, the iron horse has supplanted the canvas- cov d prairvie schooner, butthe valley ig still there and is still the pathway one of the richest mineral and agric tural countries in the world. What has + been loss to the lover of romance is g 10 the practival i and a trip up the pay those in scarch of or pleasure. Loaving the Webster street depot of the Fremont, lKikhorn & Missouri Val- ley railroad, the suburban traius that eluster around Omaha ave soon left be- hind, and the stretehes of farming land that lic between them grow wider and wider until they form one continuous tract broken only by well-developed tree claims and home-l looking farm novses. Near Scribuer is met the rnver that gives tho valley its name, and crosses the track for the first time, and then crosses and recrosses it, until at Inst, its headwaters are lost among the sand hills that ave tirst seen near Long Pine. Its waters are stocked witha finer variety of game tish than any of its neigh- bors, and old-timers still tell how years ago a Union Pacific train was chartered to convey choice living speci- mens of fish from the Atlantic to the Pagifie slope, there to stock the rivers of Californin. All went well until the bridge near Elkhorn was reoched, when, through some unforseen circumstance, the bridge collapsed, the cars were thrown into the river their finny prisoners rele from durance vile, happy their réturn to their . native element after the tedious journey over land. Whether the collapse was due to an &= cident or design has nevor been 1‘~:xx»n5’d but the old settlers shake their heads knowingly when telling the stor #Ay it was providentinl.. Le Scribner the farms larger, us the eyer-pr i, y will always r wealth, health, in ing is almost but it are po invisible from the train, is not until Norfolk and O'Neill d that the first glimpse of a prairie as pictured years ago is obtained. Far as the eye can reach the undula ing plains stretch out until they are lost to sight behind the clouds that scem to stoop down and meet them. And yet, the view does not hecome wearisome. Sec half seetions and quarter sections of cultivated land give a different color- ing to the verdure thatclothes it, and ht patches of pravie flowers leave to imagination what it must have been before the hand of man had left its imprint. But there is one thing be- vond man’s control,and the a prarie storm can only be imag those who have scen it, or witnessed o storm at sea. Such a storm swept ove the prairies in August last. The morn- ing warm and bright, but shortly after noon there came an undefinable cha The sun still shone but its v threw an altered light, and brought the praivie flowersinto brighter relief, while it cast o darke low where shadows fell. Away the horizon the waver- glimmer t curtnined the meeting place of sky and plain, beeame more tangible, and thin, black line framed th Gradually it grew b N and as it overlapped bright blue sky, the birds I ily from befove it, and such ¢ > in sight d closer together for protection. Gusts of wind that shook ' the train followed each other at intervals that grew shorter and shorter, and the frame of black was once and awhile illumined with flashes of summer lightning.which, as they came neaver, threw heavy banks of sulphurous-looking elouds into bold relief. Still, there was no rain, and the thunder of the train w broke the stillness. For hours the clonds maintained ) slow ch, and left the spectator to run fancy free and imagine the outstretehed fingers of some great ghoul to be slowly closing in to erush him. So strong did the feeling become that the more nervous passengers drew back and shuddered at each sueceeding gust, while others round windows and gazed, ed, at the coming storm, ast 1t came. One huge cloud shot out from the ap- proaching bank, and for a moment 1»m~m| in mic Plecey clouds, that ooked gh , hung round it like fringes ov 11,4l with ¢ of the train, it secemed to be rent in two with one streak of fire that turned the en- tire cloud into gold. From that on,and for wearly an hour it was ono continuous rumble, broken b sionally with a sharper erash, and accompanied by the patter of the rain that fell in torrent: Both sheet and forked lhightning ously and while clouds from bla [ 1 the jess into light the lat- tor sc nd them in fragments and stand out in lines of five for sec- onds at a time. At last it passed away, and the flickering lames that illumined the southern horizon ed like the volley-fiving of a retreating army,but so { was the expanse of prairie that never euntirely lost grew more und more until~ eighty miles further the storm again crossed track moving northward with dimin ing force, Slowly as it apy it had in short alf of acircle not less than one hundred miles in diameter, which would give it a rate of upwards of thirty miles an hour. The villago of Long Pine was mearly in the cendor oi this civele, and is noted the sh- , | them till the 1 1 west | hours | for he the dividing line between central and mountain time. It is here that passengers going west will find their w s an hour fast, and those coming an hour slow, but they are allowed minutes to refresh and make corvections. Ten years ago Long Pine w; frontier to it was near here that.a few years ago, the long-suffering cowboys "lynched Kid Vade, the chief of a gang of ho thieves who made their home in the neighboring sand hills, 1 were sca ailroad “whis- tle post” eight t high was made do duty for a gallows with w bridle vein for a halt nd while Kit was stranglin there, his father met his death a mile or twe L where his boots protrud- ing froma shallow in the sand was the only tombstone he ever got. Now the vil is a thorough-going business and possesses sev- eral attractions, among them very large natural springs. Four of them ave suflicient in volume to supply the entire village,and one many times larger, with all the water noeessavy for (ire and domest purposes, and tl have ordingly been utilized for that puv he others aré situated in Long Pine guleh, which has ulready been extensively ad- vertised as the meeting ground of” the Chataugua socicty. Long Pine, tric ng commend 1 one well-defined thir e marks out path followed by the California em- it of years gone by, Even yet they are often used by the settlers, and last swmmer the troops from K though not used now, stretehes noret ward aeross the plains as havd and solid hough it w wed. cutine is the next stopping for the sight-seer, for it is the to the Rosebud ageney of great Sioux veservation, Four miles from it is Fort Niobra L regiment of United States infantr, kept constantly on the watceh for any at- tempted outlh I on the part of their dusky neighbors, Next in order comes 7 miles further west than I lively, progressive that depends an the encrgy of its citizens to bring it to the front. Sur- vounded by a good farming country, it has bright prospects ahead, and it also has several naty attractions for the tourist. Near Crawford, the buttes th ¢ 50 often met with in the west- ern country t begin to crop out from the praivic. and stand like outposts of the hills that lie further Butte, Coffin Butte and ¢ I familiar to the resident each the traditions of the Indian still linger. The latter, by an almost imper- tible rise from the plain, altitude of some two hundr then ends abruptly in an pendicular cent to below, No human scale the face of yet this w battle A fi feud hadlong existed bhe- tween the Sioux and the Crow Indians, but fortune favored the former until they had driven their enemies up the slope to the edgeof the precipice. Then with one wild b they closed in on w in the band was yeed over the edge and ended the battle and his life on the crumbling boulders below. Once again, the Sioux surrounded a remnant of the tribe, and once more they forced them to the same death trap. It was growing dark when they had reached the spot, and they iped for the night so that none of their enemies could pe them, as might happen if they charged them in the darkness, Establishing - a cordon almost per- the plains being could the eliff, and md of long de lust of sentinels around the doomed foe, | but were doomed; for being unable 1o they spent the awaiting the carnage of the morn. And it is heve the Indian romancer saves in one of the simple love stories eristic of the people, and with- out which no legend would be complete, Many moous before Laughing Eyes, the vourg and beautiful daughter of the Sioux chief, had wandered from her father’s eamp only to be captured by a band of roving Crows. No council was ary to decide her fate, and she was hirried away to the hunting grounds of her captors, where they could at leisuve wreak vengeance for the wrongs inflicted by he Cupid willed it otherwise, how cer. and before three days of the jour- ney had been completed, Owashna, a rising young chief, was smitten with her charms. Knowing that he alone would be powerless to save her, he rode ahead of the band, and veaching the village of his people before them. he induced an ancient squaw to adopt her in the place of a child she had losvdur- ing an incursion of the Sioux some years before, Although disuppointed in their victim, the Crows could not dispute the justuess of the exchange, and long all had forgotten it hnat and his reseued Langh- sShe had learned the story, and r case gratitude turnea to tolove listened to the stories of he lover’s achievemnt. When not on the wavpath he spent his time in the chase, and daily brought the product to the tepee of her adopted mothe Th he claimed her for his bride, and it was while she was accompunying him on the buffalo hunt thata few of them became separated and were so survounded by the Sioux. Then while the braves were gloomily await- ing the dawn, in which they decided to sell their lives dearly, her woman’s wit was busy devising the means of escape for herself and tl one she love Knowing that no mercy would be shown him, she quietly killed her favorite pony. and not until she appeared be- fore b lord laden down with the blood-staived hide did she divulge her plan. It was to eut the hide into strips, and knotting them togethe form a vope down which they could es vequired but a few moments maining horses to be dispateh onee more she steoped forward and, insisted upon only one vope being used, Her prequest granted, and one after another the cntive party reached the bottom in safety, and she alone remained above, ‘Then. pl aknife between her teeth, sl menced the perilous deseent, for w moment when about two-thirvds the way down. Here she drew the knife swiftly across the it, and with »il Spirvit, continued he The rvesult w and for whicl Kunowing that many Kinsmen would doubtless small ind of knew they would ke to i the the rope, s cul on it would have Barly nest morn- red their en night in feasting, severing rous descent. her former follow the Crows, she same meuns unable to 1 ened it whe no means of « ing the Siouxdi had out neraled them, and search ealed the tell-tule rope. Each was anxious to be first in pursuit, but after seeing that the curely fastened, the given the bravest one another, followed their chi went well they assed the place the rope had been. cut, com- bined weight of two or more of them eaused it 1o snap.and they were lurled todeath, Others weve on the way foot=sc the dese nd short rOpe Wits se- ¢ of honor was to warriors, who after All until where when the dowu, y rope they hung sus- pended betw ecarth and sky, until worn out nature could no longer stand the strain, and they too fell and died. The survivors clusterced around the edge above them listening to their death songs, until the last voice was silent, and then they returned to their tevees too appalled by the catastrophe to make an immediate pursuit. Owashun and Laughing Eyes thus escaped, and evidently lived and died happily. for they ave heard of no more in the legends of the nation, but the Butte that brought them into promi- nence stands as of yore, and is one of attractions to sight-se: t Crawford. SAM E. PETTIGREW. i - = MUSICAL / DRAMATIC. : Franz Rummel intends returning to Amer- ica. Patti Rosa | idays. Sophia Monte, a successful debut in weel. Dockstader has a called the boy Patti, trify New York. Bill Nye and James Witcomb Kiley will lecturing tour in Poughkeep: vember 13 s in London during the hol Brooklyn girl, made a Berlin in concert last boy tenor who will be e promiscs to clec Tale on the Umbria Oct. 15, to fill engagement with Mr. ‘Abbey. Ella IRussell, the Americun prima donna, who is credited with an enviable artistic success ubroad, hus returned home for short visit prior to her re-appearance in Lon- don with the Royal [talian opera company at Covent ga auline Lu hel ys she will close her b her coming r tists W I as o of their periodical with- d" was revived at W nights ag favorite burlesque a the French dand through which Schneider gled a score of ) Among twen Men music in Berlin are them Miss who carried it off once before competitor is Miss Beel, a pupil nii. Miss Fannie Aymar Matthews has brought David Belasco Lyceum the- competitors for the great t the lemy of two vine has applied for dates for the He writes that he will play th subseriptions fall of 'S0, compan Nitika is in Berlin, on Ler way to Mos: She says she will return to PParis and ma her debut at the rkoers in o Mar fow v Y | nators of the ney | he Poor. Puck this with def gentleman iding you of a means of livii- rit him fer a wan to he dis- Houor. -ac-ter, an’ h th’ mon ez hed ho charged me oMb’ shpot,” “What were the falsehoods this g tleman wrote about you'” “Bedad, wn’ he foold th' trout; but en- DIVIDENDS—Its large di of insurance below that of any vidend returns redu mpas th all hat the eash value guaranteed on margin of boad shall be paid to prrchaser a' any time ke desives This Instaiment Bond Poliey is very popular with business men, each option or settlement being guaranteed.(No For rates and other information regarding their Instalment Bonds and Life Rate Endowment, address 19 the cost s other company. Since its or- ganization, hundred of policies taken out in the National are not only self sustaining, but th e assured are receiving an an- nual income upon them. List of policy holders mailed in ap- plication, whose policies are more than paid by the di phwat koind av a char-ac-ter is thot to be afther givin’ a mon thet's wor- ruked for him a-goin® on tin ya would n' hev took th’ throuble write him fer a char-nc-ter, begob 1'd wanted him to put doon th FIRST-CLASS SHOES. Our Mens® Cuse tom Made SHOE, Perfect Fitters, > have and of Omuha, the finestline of Mer HAND SEWED, CUSTOM MADE Shoes ever shown in the city. PRICE, $5.00 (o $5.00 1o better goods made. MENS' CALF SEWED SHOES. $25 For Mens’ Calf Shoe in But- ton, Lace and Congress; “jrood dress shoe. $3 O For Mens’ Calf Scamless, all styles, better t advertised “'so-called $3.00 shoe 4 0 In this priced shoe we he . 1 style and with the same stock in our #.00 Hand Scwed Shoe. MENS' WORKING SHOES From $1.50 to $2.50, Good fitters and excelent wearers, Ladies’ Fine Shoes THE MARTHA WASHINGTON to sce this shoe. Our warm lined Shoes and Shppers now open and ready for your inspee- tion at prices lower thin the LOWEST for the same quality of goods, idends.: THOMPSON, BELDEN & (0, 1319 Farnam Street. PLUSH SAGQUES! PLUSH SAGQUES! We ave making a SPECIAL effort on Seal Plush Sacques this season. Oup stock was never larger, nor our priceg ever lower, and the quality never bete ter than this fall. Read the following quotations and investigate for yourselfs No. 1307 Plush Sac 10 long with four genuine seal Llined with brown quilted satin, sizes from 84 to 44, at $20.00, No. 1301--Seal Plush 40 inches long, with four seal loops, lined with brown quilted satin, sizes from 34 to 44, ab .00, No. 1302--Seal Plush Sacque, 40 inches with four genuir seal loops, lined with brown quilted satin, sizes from 54 1o 44, at $28.50, No. 1303—Seal Plush inches long, with four wine seal loops, lined with fine brown quilted satin, at §32.50; sizes 34 to 44, No. 1305—Seal Plush Sacque, full 48 inches long, lined with the very finest brown quilted satin, with four genuing seal loops, at $37.50; sizes from 34 to 44, No. 1306—Seal Plush Sacque, full 43 inches with four gen seal loops, lined with the finest brown quilted satin, and the very finest plush, at $12.50; sizes from 34 tQ 44. The foregoing Sacques ave all mada of plush manufactured by Lister, tha most celebrated manufacturer of plusheg in the world, We g that the $20.00 quality is you can huy elsowhere at 5.00 quality ig as d as others get $30.00 for; tha $25.50 as good as others get $33.00 fors the 832,50 as good usx othiers get $37.50 | for; the 837.30 as good as others get #45.00 for, and the $42.50 quality ca be matehed in this city for §50.00, Our Cloak Department | second floor, and hese Sueque purchase or not. | preasure, - Tako ¢ THONPSON, BELDEN & (0, 1319 Farnam Street, senl ue, que, genuine long 10 Suequo, long, ne ve made of 1te is on the s invite you to exame , whether you wish ta We show goods with ator, ine