Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 4, 1889, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:' THURSDAY, APRIL 4. 1889, OUT OF AFRIC DARKNESS. Nows at Last From the Great Bxplorer Stanley. A LONG AND GRAPHIC LETTER. How the Brave Man and His Follow- ers Battled With Famine and Hard Fortune Among the Hostlle Natives, Stanley's Letter. [Copyright 1859 by James Gordon Bennatt.] Loxpox, April 8.—(New York Herald Cable--Special to Tar Br ~The great Afrioan explorer, Henry M. Stanley, hus at last boen heard from in a long ana graphic lotter, dated on the Aruwimi river, in Au- gust lust. It gives n most dramatic account of the miserics through which ha and his men passed on their way to the relief of Emin Pasha, Starvation, nakedness, de- sertion of native troops, pitlage and desola- tlon spread in his path. Months of gloom in the heart of dense African forests, and the Joyful entrance ut last into sunshine and a land of plenty, form his thrilling narrative of adventure. After devailing a series of cruel mishaps, hunger and rebellion on the part of his native followors, some of whom he punished by death ; after describing 160 days inthe gloom of an almost impenetrable fornst, it tells of the escane into the open country, and con- tmucs us follows: On the 9th we came to the country of a powerful chief, Mazamboni. His villages were scattored over a great extent of coun- try 50 thickly settled that thero was no other road except through the villages or fields. From no great distance the natives sighted us and were prepared. We seized a hill as 8000 as we arrived in the cerf¥re of a mass of villages, about 4 p. m. on the 9th of Decem- ber, and occuvied it, building & rude fort as fast as bill hooks could cut brush wood. The war cries were terrible from hill to hill, pealing across the intorvening valleys, The people gathered by hundreds from every point. - War horns and drums announced tnav a struggle was about to take place. Such natives as were too bold we checked with littlo dificulty. A slight skirmish ended in our capturing a cow, the first beef we had tasted since we left the ocean. The night passed peacefully, both sides preparing for the morrow. On the morning of the 10th we attempted to open negotiations. Tho natives were anxious to know who we were, nnd we were equally anxious to glean news of the land that threatened to ruin the ex- pedition. Hours passed 1 talk, the parties keeping a respectable distance apart. The natives said they were subject to Uganda, but that Kabbarega was their real Jing, Mazambovi holding the country for Kabbarega. They finally accepted cloth and brass rods to show their King Mazamboni, and his answer was to be @iven mnext day. Meantime hostilitics were suspended. ‘T'he morning of the 11th dawned. AtSa, m. we were sturtled at hearing a man pro- claiming that it was Mazamboni's wish that we should be driven back from the land. The proclamation was received in the valley around our neighborhood with deafening cheers. Their word “kanwana’ signifies to make peace; “kurwana” signifies war, We were therefore in doubt, or rather we hoped we had heard wrongly. }Ve sent an inter- preter a little nearer to_ask if it was kan- Wwana or kurwana. ‘Kurwana, thoy re- sponded, and to emphasize the term, firea o arrows at him, which dispelled all doubt. Our hill stood between a lofty range of hills and a lower range. On one side of us was ea_narrow valley, 250 yards wide; on the other side a valley three miles wide east and west. The valley broadened to an extensive plain, and a higher range of hills was lined with hundreds preparing to descend. The broader valley was already mustering its army. There was 1o time to lose. A body of forty men was sent under Lieutenant Stairs to attack the broader valley. Mr. Jeppson was sent with sixty men east. A body of sharpshooters was sent to test the courage of those descending the slope of tho highest range. Licutenant Stairs pressed on, crossed 8 deep, narrow river in the face of 'the na- tives, and assaulted the first village and 100k it. The sharpshooters did their work effectively and urove the descending natives rapidly up the siope until there became a general flight. Mr. Jeppson . 'was not idle. He marched straight up the valley east, driving the people back, taking viliages as he went. At 3 p, m. not a native ‘was visible anywhere except on one small hill, mile and o half west. On the morning of the 12th we continued our march. During the day we had four little fights. On the 13th we marched straight east, attacked by new forces every hour till noon, when we halted for refresh- monts. Theso we successfully overcame, At 1 o'clock we resumed our march. Fifteen minutes later L cried: “Prepare for sight of Nyanza,” The men murmured and doubted and said : “Why does master continually talk this ay! Nyanza ingeed. Is this not a plain x: can we not seo the mountans " After a four days' march ahead, at 1:30 p. m., the Albert Nyanza was below them, It was now my turn to jeer aud scoff at the doubters, but as I was about to ask them what they swd, so many came to kiss my hands and beg pardon that 1 could not say a word. This was my reward. The moun- tains, they said, were the mountians of Unioro, or rather its lofty plateau, The wall pf Kavalli, the objective point of the expe- flition, was six miles from us as the crow ies, We were at an altitude of 5,200 feet Rbove the sea. Albert Nyanza was over B,600 foot below us. We stood in one degree twenty minutes latitude. The south end of the Nyanza lay largely mapped about six miles south of this position. Right across the eastern shore every tenton its low flat banks was visible, and traced like a silver snake on thadark ground was the tributary Laniliki flowing into the Albert from tho Bouthwest. Aftor a short halt to enjoy the prospect we commenced a rugged, stony descent. Before the rear guard had descended a hundred feet the natives of the plateau we had just Jeft poured after them. Had thoy shown as much courage and perkeverence on_the plain ns they now exhibited we might have been soriously delayed. The rear guard was kept busy until within a few hundred foet of the Nyanza plain. We camped st the foot of the plateau wall. A nignt attack was made, but our sentries drove the natives away, Autyol m., 0f the JAth we approached the vlu-fe Kakongo, at tho southeast corner of Albert lake. ‘l“‘hm hours were spent at- tempting tonake friends, We signally failed. They would not allow us to go to the lake be- cause we might frighten their cattle, The{ would not exchange blood brotherhood witl uy bocause they never heard of uny good ple coming from the west side of the lake. my would not acoept any presents from us ‘beoause they did not know who we were. They would give us water to drink and they ‘would show us our road up to Myamstssi. But from theso singular people wo learned that they had h there was & white man at Unyore, but "MJ. had never heard of white men on o wost side, mnor had they steamers on the lake. There were no canoes to ‘be had except such as would not hold men. ‘There was no excuse for nwralln% The people were civil enough, but they did not want us near them. ‘@ therefore were shown the path and followed it a few miles, when we camped half a mile from the lake, Then we hegan to cousider our position. ‘With the light thrown upon it by the conver- sation with the Kakongo natives, my couriers from Zauzibar had evidently not arrived, or 1 prosume Ewin Pasha with his two steamers would have paid the southwest side of the lake & visit to prepare the natives for our ming. My boat was at Kalonga- gflnl. 190 miles distant. No canoe was obtainable, and to seize & oanoe withont the excuse of & '?unrrel my con- wcience would ot permit. No tree anywhoro f @ size to make canoes could be seen. Qvu.m was & terriblo distance off for an sxpedition so reduced. We had used five oases of cartridges in five davs of fightin, on the plain. A month of such fighting mus! exhaust our stock. ere Was DO plan sug- which seemed feasible to me except fl:u retreating to Ibwirl, build a fort, send our party back to Kalonga-longas for our boat, store every load not conveyable, loave a garrison in the fort to hold it and raise corn for us, march back again to Al- bert lake and send the boat to search for Emin Pasha, This was the plan, whioh, after lengthy discussions with the officers, I resolved upon. On the 1sth we marched to the right of Kavali, on the west side of the lake. Years ago Kavali was destroyed. At 4 o'clock p. m. the Kakongo natives followed, shot arrows into our bivouac and disappeared as quickly as they came, At0p. m, we bogan the night march, and by 10 a. m. of the 16th we had gained the crest of the plateau once more. The Kakongo natives having persisted in following us to the slope_of tho plateau, we had one man killed and one wounded, January 7 we were in Ibwiri again, and after a fow days Lieutenant Stairs, with one hundred men, was sont to Kalonga-longas to bring the bontand goods up. I also sent Surgeon Parke and Captain Nelson. Out of the thirty-eight sick in coarge of the ofti- cers only eleven men were brought to the fort. The rest had died or deserted. On the return of Stairs with the boat and gaods ho was sent to Urgarrowwas to bring the convalescent. I granted him thirty-nine duys’ grace, Soon after his departure I was attacked ‘with gastritis and an abscess on the arm, but after a monty's careful nursing by Dr, Parke 1 revovered, and forty-soven days having ex- pired 1 sst out again for Albert Nyanza, on April 2, accompanied by Jeppson and Parke. Captain Nelson, wno had now recovered, was appointed commandant of Fort Bodo in our absence, with a garrison of forty-three men and boys, April 26 we arrived in Mozambini's country again, but this time, after solicita- tion, Mozambini decided to make a vlovd brotherhood with me, though I had fifty rifles less on this second visit. The example of Mo- zambini was followed by all the other chiefs as far as tho Nyanza, and every dificulty seemod removed. ood was supplied grotis, and cattle, goats, sheep and fowis were also rivcn in such abuudance that our peoplo ived royally. One day's march from the Nyanza the na- tives came from Kavali and said thav a white man named Malegji had given their chief a black packet to give me, his son. Would I follow them? ‘“Yes, to-morrow,” T answered, ‘‘and it your words are true I will make you rich.” They remsined that night, tell- ing wonderful stories about big ships as large as islands, filled with men,et which left no doubt in'our minds that th white man was Emin Pasha. The next day's march brought us to the Chief Kavali and aft while he handed me a note from Emin Pasha, covered with a strap, over black American oileloth, The note was to the ef- fect, as there had been a native rumor that a white man had been seen at the south end of the lakey he hud gone in his steamer to mak inquiries, but had been unable to obtain r liable information, as the natives were tor: bly afraid of Kabbarega, the king of Unyor and connected every steamer with him. However, the wife of Nyamsassic, a chief, had told a native ally of his named Mogo that she had seen us in Mozambini's country. He therefore begged me to remain where I was until he could commu- nicate with me. The note was signed “*Dr, Emin” and dated March 26, The next day, April 23, Mr. Joppson was dispatched with a strong force of men 1o tako the boat to the Nyanza. On the 20th the boat’s crew sighted Mawa station, the south- ern post belongimg to Emin Pasha, and Mr. Jeppson was there hospitably received by the Igyptian garrison. The boat's crew say that they were embraced, one by one, and thut they never had such attention shown to them as by these men, who huiled them as brothers, April 20 we once again reached the bivouac ground occupied by us on December 16, and at 5 p. m. of that date [ suw the Khedive steamer, seven miles away, steaming toward us. Soon after 7 o'clock Emin Pasha and Signor Casak and Mr. Jeppson arrived at our camp, where they were heartily welcomed by us, Next day we moved to a better camping place about three miles above Nyamsassic and this spot Emin Pasha also made his camp. We were together untit May 25. On that day I left him, leaving Mr. Jeppson, three Soudanese and two Zanzibaris in his care. In return he caused to accompany me three of his ir- regulars and 102 Mabdi natives as porters, Fourteen days later 1was at Fort Bodo, where were Captain Nelson and Lieutenant Stairs. The latter had returned from Ugar- rowwas twenty-two days after I had set out for the lake, bvinging with him, alas, only sixtéen men out of fifty- six. All the rest were dead. My twenty couriers, whom I had sent with letters to Major Barttelot, had safely left Ugarrow- was for Yambuga on March 16. I"ort Bodo was flourishing, with nearly ten acres under cultivation, Ote ‘crop of Indian corn hud been harvested, and whs in the graner They had just commnenced planting again. June 16 I left Fort Bodo with 111 Zanz baris and 101 of Emin Pashw's people, Lieu- tenant Stairs had been appointed eomman- dant of the fort, Nelson was second in com- mand, and Surgeon Parke medical ofcer, ‘Che garrison consisted of fifty-nine rifies. 1 had thus deprived myself of all my officers in order that I should not be encumbered with baggage and provisions and medicines, which would have to be taken if accompan- jed by Kuropeans, and every carricr was necessary for the vast stores had been left with Major Barttelot. we reached Kalonga-longas and July 19 Ugar: rowwas. The latter station was deserted. Ugarrowwas, having gathered as much ivory as he could obtain from that district, had roceeded down the river about three months efore. Ob leaving Fort Bodo I had loaded every carrier with about sixty pounds of corn'and we went through and passed the wilderness unscathed, passing on down the river as fast as we could go, daily expecting to meet couriers,who had been stimulated by the reward of £10 per head, or the major himself leading an army of carriers, We indulged oursclves in these pleasing antici- pations as we neared the goal. August 10 we overtook Ugarrowwas with an immense flotilla of forty-seven canoes, and to our wonder our couriers were re- duced to seventeen. They related an awful story of hair-breadth escapes and tragio scenes. Three of their number had been slain, two were still feeble from their wounds, and all éxcept five bore ou their bodies the scars of arrow wounds, A wceek later, on August 17, we met the rear column of the expedition at Bunalya, or, as tho Arabs corrupted it, Unarya. There was a white man at the gate of the stockade whom Tat first thought was Mr. Jamieson, but a nearer view revealed the features of Mr. Bonney, who left the medical service of the army to accompan, W far Bonney,” T asked, “whore “Well, my dear is the major {" “Dead, sir, shot by tho}Manyuema about & month ago." **Good God!" T eried. “And Mr, Jamieson " “Gone to Stanley Falls to get more men from Tippoo Tib. 3 “And Mr. Troupe!” Gone home, sir, invalided.” “‘Where is Ward?" I said. “At Baggala, sir.” “Heavens ulive! one here!” ‘Yes, sir." 1 found the rear column a terrific wreck— out of 257 men only seventy-one remaining, and out of the seventy-one only fifty-three fit for serviee, and these were mostly scare- orows. The advance had performed the march from Yambuga to Cunalya in sixteen days, Gospite native opposition. The rear column performed the ame dis- tance in_ forty-three da; accord- ing to Bonney. During the thirteen months and twenty days thathad elapsed since I bad left Yambuga, the record is only one of disaster, desertion and death. 1 have not the heart to go into the details, many of which are incredivle, and indeed I have not time, for, excepting' Mr. Bonney, I have no one to assist me in reorganizing onr expedi- tion. There are still far more loads than I can carry at tho same time, Articles need- ful are missing. For instance, I left Yam- buga with only & part of my campaigning kit, leaving my reserve of clothing and per- sonal effects in charge of the officers in the rear. Deserters from the advance column reached Yambuga to spread the report that I was dead. They had no papers, but the officers acce) the report of the desert- 1 January Mr. Ward, at an meeting, proposed that my in- hould be canoglled. The only one who appears to bave dissented was Mr. Bonney. Accordingly my personal kit, medi- cines, soap, candles and provisions were sent Qown 10 the Congo. a8 suporfuities. Thus, after making this immense personal sacrifice 10 relieve them and choer them up, I flnd myself naked and deprived of even the neces- saries of life in Africa. But, strange to say, 1 bave kept two hats, four pairs of boots and a nel jacket, and 1 propose to go bacle to Emin Pasha and across Africa with this truly African kit Liviegstone, Then you are the only poor was all in When I met him, but wil e the reliever himself who will be in patches this time. Fortunately, notone of my officers will envy me, for their kits are intact. ‘Wo only lost three men, one by desertion. 1 brought 181 Zanzibaris here. 1left 50 at Fort Bodo, a total of 190 men out of 859, a loss of fifty per cent. At Yambuga I left 257 men. There are only 71 left, 10 of whom will never leave the camp. Loss over seventy rr cent. This proves that though the suf- ferings of the advance were unprecedented the wnortality was not so great as the mortal- I"v was in camp at Yambuga. The survivors of the march are all robust, while the sur- vivors of the rear column are thin and most unhealthy looking. I have thus rapidly sketched out our move- ments since June 28, 1837, I wish I had loisure to furnish more details, but cannot find the time. I write this amid the hurry and bustle of depurture and amid constant iterruptions. You will, however, have gathered from this letter the nature of the country traversed by us. Weo were 160 days in the forest—ono continuous, unbroken, compact forost. The grass land was trav- ersed by us in eight days. The limits of the forest along the edge of the erass land are well marked. We saw it extonding north- eastorly with its curves and bays and capes like & seashore. Southwesterly it preserved the same charactor, North and south the forest arca extends from Nyaugivo to the southern borders of Monbuttu. Kast and west it embraces all from tho Congo at tho mouth of the Aruwimi to about east longi- tude &0 degrees, latitude 40 doarees. How far west beyond the Congo the forest reaches 1 do not know. The extent of the fract thus desoribed, covered by forest,is 246,000 square miles. North of the Congo,between the Apoto and the Aruwimi,the forest embraces another 20,000 square mile; Betwoen Yambuga and Nyanza, we came across five distinct languages, the last spoken by Wanyoro, Wanyankore, Wanya, Ruandor, Wappa and the people of Karangwi and Ukerwe, The land li ently from the crest of the plateau above Nyvanza down to the Congo river, from an altitude of 5,600 feet to 1,400 feet above the sea. North and south of our track through the grass land the face of the land was much broken by groups of cones or polated mountains or ridges. North wo saw no land higher than 6,000 feet above tho sea, but bearing 215 de- grees, at a distance of about fifty miles from our camp on the Nyanza, we saw a towerin, mountain, its summit covered with snow an probably 17,000 or 18,000 fect above the sea. It is called - Ruevenzori, aud will proba- bly prove a rival to Kilimanjaro. I am ot sure that it mav not prove to be Gordon H3ennett mountain in Gambaragura, but_therc aro two reusons for doubting it to be tho same. First, it 1s a little too far west for the position of tho lat- ter as given by me in 18i6; aud second, we saw no snow on the Gordon Bonnett. I might meution a third. which is that the lat. ter is a verfect cone apparently, while Rue- vengori is an oblong mountain, nearly level on the summit, with two ridges extending northeast and southwest. 1 have met only three natives who have seen the lake toward the south. They agreo large, but not so large as the Al- The Aruwimi becomes win epali about one hundred miles above Yambuga, and as it nears the Nepako it is called the Nevoa. [ nd its confluence with the Nepako it 18 known as the Mowelle. Three bhuudred milea from the Congo it 18 called Niri, which is soon changed into the Ituri, which name it re- tains to the source. Ten minutes march from the Tturi waters we saw the Nyanza lake, a mirror in its immense gulf. Before closing, let me touch more at large on thesubject which brought me to this land —namely, Bmin Pasha, The Pasha has two battalions of regulars under him. The first, consisting of 750 rifles, ocoupies Dufll Honyn, Labore, Muggi, Kirri, Bedden an, Rejal. The second battalion, consisting of 640 men, guacds the stations of Wadelai, Fatiko, Mahagi and Oswa—a line of com- munication along the Nyanza and the Nile, about one hundred aud eighty geographical miles in length. In the interior, west of the Nile he retains three or four small stations, with fourteen in all. Besides these two battalions he has a respectable party of irregulars—sailors, ar- tisans, clerks and servants. “‘Altogether,” he said, away from here we shail people with us." “Were I in your place I would not hesitate one moment or a second in doubt what to do fellow, patches it il “if I consent to eo have about 8,000 “What you say is true, but wo have a large number of women and childr rob- ably 10,000 people altogether, How can all be gotten out of here! We shall want many carriers.” “Carriers for what?" T asked, “Ior the women and children. You surely would not leave them and they cannot travel.” “The women must walk. It will do them more good than harm, As for the littlo chil- dren, load them on donkeys. I hear you have 2,000 of them. Your people will not travel very far in the first month. Littie by little they will get accustomed to it. Our Zunzibar women crossed Africa on my scc- ond expedition. Why can’t your black women do the same? Have 0o fear of them. They will do better than the men." ““They would require a vast amount of provision for the road.” “True; but vou have thousands of cattlo which will furnish beef, the countries through which we pass must furnish grain and vegetable food.” “Well, well, we will defer further talk till to-morrow.” May 1, 1855, we halted in camp at Nsabe, The Pasha came ashore from the steamer Khedive about 1 p. m., and in a short time we commenced our conversation again. Many of the arguments above we repeated. He said : *'What you told me yesterday has led mo to think it best that we should retire from here. The Egyptians are willing to leave. “There are of those about one hundred men, besides their women and children, Of these there is no doubt, and even if I stayed 1 should be glad to be rid of them because they undermine my authority and nullify all ‘my endeavors for retreat. When I had informed them that Khar- toum had fallen and Gordon Pasha was slain, they always told tho Nubians it was a concerted story and that somo day we should seo the steamers ascend the river for their relief. But of the regulars, who compose the first and second battalions, I am ex- tremely doubtful. They have led such a happy life here that they would demur at leaving a country whero they have enjoyed luxuries they cannot command in Kgypt. The soldiers are married and several have harems. Many of the irregulars would retire and follow me. Now, supposing the regulars refuse to leave, You can imagine my situation would be a difcult one. Would .be right in leaving them to "their fate! Would it not bo consigning them to ruin! I should have to leave them their arms and munitions, and on returning all diseipline would be at an end. Disputes would arise and factions would be formed. The more ambitious would aspire to be chiefs by force, and from these rivalries would spring hate and slaugh- ter until none were loft.” “Supposing you resoive to stay, what of the Egyptisus!" I asked. ‘1O, theso I shall have to ask you to be good enough to take with you.” *“Now will you, Pasha, do me tho favor," I'snid, “to ask Captain Casati if we are to have the pleasure of his company to sea, for we have been instructed to assist him also should we meet.” Captain Casati snswered, through Emin Pasna: “What the governor of Emin de- cides upon shall be the rule of conduct for me. If the governor stays, 1 stay; if the Eoyernor goes, 1go." “Well, Pasha, that in the event of your staying your responsibility will be Rreat. augh followed. The sentence was translated to Casati, and the gallant captain replied: "0, 1 beg pardon, but I absolye the Pasha from all responsibility connected with me, because I am governed by my own choice entirely.” Thus, day after day, I recorded faithfully the intérviews I had with Emiu Pasha, but these extracts reveal asmuch as is ncces- sary for you to understand the position, 1 left Mr. Jeppson with thirtcen of my Soudanese and sent & message to be read Lo the troops, as the Pasha requested, Every- thing else is left until I return with the united expedition to the Nyauza within two months. The Pasha proposed to visit Fort Bodo, taking Mr, Jeppson with bim. At Fort Bodo I have left instructions to the oficers to destroy the fort and accompany the Pasha to Nyanza. I hope to meet them all again on the Nyanza, as Iintend making a short cut 10 the Nyanza along a new road. Yours respectfully, Hexny M. Sraniey, e Dr, Gluck eye and ear, Barker blk. THE RAILWAY WORLD, A Union Pacific Train Meets a Peou- liar Accident—+Other News, No. 1, the Pacific express on the Union Pacifio, leaving here at 7:25 in the evoning, came very noar being wrecked at Mercer station Tuesday ovening. Morcer has but one siding and it was upon this that a Rock Island box car was left standing yestorday. About dusk last night the wind blew a gale and the car, not having its brakes set, was driven by the wind from the side to the main track and was out a distance of two miles when it camo in contact with the westbound passenger. Engineer Kirk, on the passenger engine, discovered she obstruction, but not in time to stop his train, and he dashed into the car at a thirty-mile gait. The box car was smashed into splinters, and the head- light, smokestack and boiler of the engine ‘was badly ailapidated. Kirk was slightly in- | jured by being struck in the head with a fly- ing plece of debris. No other personal jury resulted, aithough the passongors wera ndly shaken up. Tho engine was rendered useless and another was dispatched from Omaha, The debris of the wreck, togothor with the engine, wero brought to Omaha yesterday morning. Exorbitant Rato Investigation. To-day the state board of transportation will meet at Tokamah, Neb., for the purpose of investigating tho charges of discrimina- tion and exorbitant rates preforred against the Ghicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha, by Senutors Southertand and Manning. and applying on the rateon live stock shippod from Tekamah to South Omaha. In viow of the shipments being handled by the Belt line from Omaha to South Omahn, the Missouri Pacific is also made a party in the defenso. The samao individuals have filed a complaint against the Omaha rond alieging that exorbitant rates aro charged on lum- ver, coal and such classes of freight between that point and Omaha. Fast Trains Avandoned. April 7 the Burlington -will discontinue passenger trains No. 5 and 6, trains west of Lincoln. The fast servico will be confined to the territory between Lincoln and cago. On that date No. 1 will leave Chicago av 6 p. m., arriving in Omaha at 9:30 a. m, At Lincoln this train wilt be consolidated with No. b and will handle the local trafic wost of Lincoln to Denver. Nos. b -and 6 1 be the fast trains botween Lincoln and 70, now running between Chicago and r, and west of Lincoln will be discon- tinued. ' This will reduce the train service about 6,000 miles per week. Contracts Awarded. Genernl Purchasing Agent MoKibben yesterduy awarded the contract for the fur- bishing of tools and machinery for the Union Pacific shops at Cheyenne as follows: Man- ning Maxwell & Moore, New York; Putnam Machino works, Fitchburg, Mass.; Nilos Tool works, Hamilton, O. The distribution of the contracts has not been made, but the New York tirm will get tho lar portion of tho deal which involves about $200,000. Bids will soou be received for equipments in tho shops at all points on the Union Pacific system. Wires Shacters The wind storm of Tuesday played havoo with the railway telegraph service as usual. No. 3 wire used by tha train dispatchers of the Nebraska division of the Union Pacific is broken at several place$ betweon Omaha and Grand Island, and No. 1, the regular North Platte wire, was pressed into service by the train_dispatcher. to-day. The Bur- lington wires at a point in eastern Iowa are vadly wrecked. Trestio Work Burned. The Buriington trestle works across the sluiceways in Montgomery county (Iowa) at a point near Stanton, was destroyed by fire and wind during Tucsday night, and in consenuence o trains arrived from the cast at this point until late in the afternoon. Ratlrond Notes. Trainmastersd'oley, of tho Union Pacific at Beatrice, s in the city, Superintendont Swobe, of the hotel de partment of the Unton Pacifio, left for Chi- cago lust night. The crew of men injured on the Union Pacific in the wreek at North Omaha, Mon- day, is reported convalescing. Engine 1160 is out of the O'Don two weeks ago near th olting works. The venerable 12, Touh, ant super- intendent of the Nebraska division of tie Union Pacific at North Platte, is ia the cit The Union Pacific has compieted jts for a traclk to Lake Manawa an 5 ban service will be extended to that point June 15. The hotels on _tho Kansas division of the Union Pacifie will be inventoriod next week by Superintendent Swobe and will be ab- sorbed by the Union Pacific May 1. John T. Bradley, the man that was in- jured by a passenger train on,the Union Pa- cific at South Omnaha last evening, is at St. Joseph hospital in a precarious condition and it1s thougit he will not recover, hop with Pat 1 about Thousands of Dollars are spent every year by the people of this state for worthless medicines for the cure of throat and lung diseases, when we know that if they would only invest §1 m SANTA ABIE the new California discovery for consump: tion and kindred complainis they would in this pleasant remedy find relief, 1t is ommended by min , phiysicians and pu lic sprakers lden Sold and guarantec Co. at §la vottle. Three for The most stubb ily succumb to CALIFOI Six months' treatment for ¥ mail $1.10, tarrh will TR~ Marringe Licenses. Following arethe marriage licenses issued »day in the county coart : and Residence, Erastus B. White, Grota: Paulme Taylor, Omaha John B. Roth, Omaha ..... Josephina Relneger, Omah Age, An Absolute Cure. 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Any sufferer from this dreadful disease send- ing a self-nddressed stamped envelope to Prof. J. A. Lawrence, 88 Warren St., New York City, will receive the recipo free of charge. May Finish Their Terms. The law reducing the uumber of justices of the peace of this county will not affect the present incumbents until thoir terms of oo expire next January, as the enactmont pro- vides that no changes shall be made until that time, but that at tho elestion next iall six justices shall bo elected instead of eighteen, and that they shall take ofiice on the 4th of January following. Advice t0 Mothers. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should al. ' o used for children toothing. 1t soothes the ohild, softens tho gums, allays all_pain, cures wind colic, and is the ' best romedy for diurrhoa, con ts a bottle. SOUTH OMAHA. 2d Johnston on the Fourth Ward. The mayor's proclamation,” said Mr. Johnston, “‘postoed the legal period called for closing the polls at 6 o'clock. Inasmuch as Mayor Sloance personally notified the Iirst and Second ward boards to keop open till 7 o'clock, and sent a written order to the Fourth ward to close at 6 o'clock, it looks as though ho wanted to exclude the packing house vote, which he knew would be for me. Had the polls been kept open till 7 o'clock, I should have had at least twenty majority. Several illegal votes were casc for Mr. Jettor.” Caused the Third Ward Trouble, “Iwish you would state,” said John Irwin, chairman of the democratic city cen- tral committee, “that the cause of the trouble in the Third ward was because outsiders came into the ward and tried to run the polls, to bulldoze voters and to run in illegal votes, The Third warders would not allow it and that is what caused the trouble." Counc'lman Jo tter Will Contest. B. Jettor says ho fias the names of at least two illogal votes cast for Mr. Johnston, “Ishall contost and am confident of success. Tho polls were closod contrary to law at 6 o'clock. H. H. Ravon, with fivo mon, wore at the windows just at 6 o’clock to voto for me, and their ballots were 1¢jected.” ob H. Eggers says “in the Third ward a fair election was not had. 1 know of at least twenty friends prevented from voting by the rowdy element infesting the poils. 1 shall contest and am confident of success as I was justly and legally elected.” Notes About the City. Bruno Strathman says he will contest po- lice election, H. McCune has removed to the uld block. Dr. H. Y. Bates will remove his " family from Albright to Council Bluffs, William Clark, of Red Oak, Towa, is visit- ing his sons, Frank H. and Edward K. Clark, Albright. Fred C. Van Liew and family, of IKenton, Ohio, are visiting Samuel P. and Alvert E. Brignam, Thomas T.. Maloney, a large real estate owner, is here from Carroll City, Ia., looking after his interests. _George Atthors has commenced work his buggy manufactory, No. Twenty-sixth street. Mrs. George W. Makepeace has returned from North Platte, whero she has been visit- ing friends for some weeks. William C. Wood, of Swift & Co.'s pack- ing house, has removed from Omaba to Twentieth street, Brown park. Mrs. R. I", Hall, of Red Oak, visiting her daughter and son-in-law, and Mrs. Frank H. C Albright. A public mecting will likely be held this week to arrange to secure ovidence and prosecute law violators on election day. John Wells and family and Mrs. Higeins have removed from the block to Seventy-sixth str v Balkory, Louis Stopler, of Roushor's force, has removed his family from Iowa and has taken a_house on Seventy-second and S streets, Brown Park. William Atkins, superintondent of the motor power at Swift & Co.’s packing houses, has removed from the Lister block ty-third and Q streets. ‘Thomas 'ox says the Third ward election id and states that when he went to vote he was knocked down three times, and Martin Spoettle was badly “done up. H. L. Fisher and Thomas 1. Whittlesey have been made huppy by a check from the insurance companies representod by lra B, Mapes, for damuge caused by the Q street fire, in 309 aud 311 is Mr. Towa, A prairie fire, starting just east of Oberno & Hosick's rendering works Tuesday after- noon, took & southeast run down to tho leart of Albright. No particular damage was done. Monday afternoon the barn of U. Omaton, residing in Sarpy county, south of Albright, was burned to the ground. The fire w probably due to the carelessness of childr playing with fire. Some harness and other articles of small value were consumed. Charles Cumings has - identiied Johu Dougherty, or “Reddy the Rough,” of the Third ward, and his val, who now he does not know, as the men who assaulted him in front of thi change Tuesduy night, and hes had a warrant issued for their arrest. The ladies are making extensive propara- tions for a donkey party at the Emanon Fri- day evening. 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