Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 14, 1889, Page 10

1880.~SIXTEEN THE LOCAL WORLD OF SPORT The Weekly Resume of the Fight For the Flag. HORSEBACK WRESTLE ON TAPIS, A Merange of Local Sports—Prince Ridivivas -- Diamond Flashes — Questions Answered and- Miscellancous Gossip. The Kight For the Fia Thero has been but a trifling change in the Western association race since the last re- view, and it still continues hot and furious #0 far as the two leading teams ure con- cerned. St. Paul, by reason of Omaha's having a postponed game, has crept upon the Tocal team n few points, and a singlo defeat will drop the Whito Sox back into second notch, This defeat is apt to come any day, a8 the home team is not in good form, owing to tho erippled players. The Apostics are on their grounds again, and will again be the loaders iu the race by next Saturday night, unless the Omahas play in_uncommon good Iuck. Sioux City still clings to third place, Minneapolis to fourth and the Prohibi- tionists to fifth, while St. Joe and Milwaukeo are having a rough-and-tumble fight for tail- end honors. The National league the status of things is about the same as last week, although the Bostons, since returning home, have re- gained some of their lost advantage over the Clevelauds, but_at the same time Mutrie's giants and the Phillics are pulimg up good and strong aad are 1n dangerous proximity 1o the lead. The Bean Eaters must not_lag now, or the New Yorks will gallop by them with o rush, and once in front it will be no easy matter to head them again. Chioago, had struck a splendid gait just before starting on the presont_eastern pilgrimago, and her logion of friends expected to sce her forge up among the leaders. On foreign grounds, however, she again fell down, ' even the Washingtons tak- ing two games out of four from Anson's lambs. Pittsburg, Indianapolis and the Senators will get' the flag ere long ynless they brace up. In the American association race we have the finest struggle of all, as St. Louis, Brookiyn, the Athletics and’ Baltimores are running in s bunch for first place, with the Browns, of course, in the lead, A blanket would cover the other three toams, however, s they say in tur{ circles. It is '@ frantic, forlorn_chase, though, without a doubt, for the triumvirate just mentioned, and they cannot close up the gap between 'them and Comisky's marvel on this trip. They must be content with holding their own, and then, when thoy get back on their own grounds in tho east, make a last deverate effort for the pennunt. It is safe to say, should one of these teams ever wrest first place from St. they will hold it until under the wire. Cincinnati keeps up her erratic work and can’t expect better than fourth placo at the vory best. Kansas City, Columbus and Louisville aro strucgling along together in the qust behind the leaders. Prof. Lloyd's Ghallenge. Prot, Frank Lloyd, of Buftalo, N. Y., and the champion horseback wrestler of the world, is in the city and has issued the fol- lowing challenge: Omana, Neb, July13.—To the Sporting Editor of Tue Bee: [ arrived in_your city ‘this morning, and as [ will be here for a couple of weeks would like to get on a wrestling match at my style—horseback—of which I hold the championship record of tho world. I'will wrestle auy man in the country & match, three out of five falls to win, for $100 to 250 a side, and herewith post a 525 forfeit with you. '1would be pleased to hear from Walsh, of St. Louis, or Kasten, of Kavsas City. If a match is' made the Coli- seum would afford fine_facilities for holding the same, and I think the building can be se- cured for the ovent. Yours, Pror. Fraxg Liovn. The rules governing horseback wresthng, such as Prof. Lloyd jssucs his challenge, for are in substauce as follows: The horses must be bareback and matched in size. Contestants in tights, & man drawn or thrown from his horse scores a fall for his opponent. If both men fall, the one who strikes the ground first, loses. Grace-Roman and catch-ns- catch-can are the only styles of wrestling per- missiblo. Contestants aro allowed to bold themselves on their horses by the neck or bridle. All dangerous locks and holds go. Prince Redivivus. To the Sporting Editor of Tre Ber: Will you kindly insert the following in your next issue. While taking a traiuing spin on my bicyole at the fair grounds the other evening I heard it remarked by two or three horse- men thut they could find a horse that could beat mc for a ten-mile dash for $500 a side. Now I wish to state that I will ride my b oycle in @ ten-mile dash straight away, against any trotting horse or pacer in the country, and am ready to make the match any time, to run on any half-mile track that can be gowten in good condition. Yours truly, JOUN S. PRINCE. A'race of this description would certainly be one of considerable interest, as Prince has had much experience in this line, having raced with such noted trotters as Centrallen, in San Fraucisco, in 15883; Scotland. in Phil- adelphia, in 84, and Mary Howard, in Hos- ton, in '81, and knows what he is talking sbout. There arc many horsemen here who think they can beat any 'cycle rider living in @ ten or twenty-mile straight race. The Chestnut Season. Tom Eck, whose bicycle combination, which includes Stanley, Woods, Armaindo and Williams, is now racing in Minneapolis, is out with the following in the Minneapolis Tribune: I will match Miss Lottie Stanley, of New York, against Miss Oakes, of England, for a eight hours per day, for $600, the Police Gazette medal and the champion- ship of the world, and the smd race w0 take place befora Miss Oakes' departure for Aus- tralia, and in order to give her time I leave this challenge oven for three weeks. Ihope Miss Oakes' baokers will not let this opportunity pass, 4s they must accept or forfeit the medal aud championship. Or 1 will mateh Miss Loulsa Armaindo against any lady bicyelist in the world for a twenty- mile race over any trotting track for $100 to 8200 »_ side, or Ium readyto match Miss Armaindo, miss Stunloy and- Miss Jessio Woods aganst any lady bicyclists in the world, Mr. W. J. Morgan's team, Miss Oakes, Miss Baldwin and Miss Brown pre- ferred, nny Jistance (rom one mile to 1,000, Respectfully, . W. EcK. At Schoutarn Park. ‘The Scheutzenverein held their weekly rifle practice at Scneutzen park, two wiles south-: west of the city, yesterday, the attendance being large and the shooting afforded much sport. H. Ruser.Schoutzen master, suys the ©lub containssome promising shots, aud that with practice will be enabled to compete with the best of thow, 'The strong wind yes- tarday muterially effocted the scores, which ware as follows, 200 yards off band, regula- tion Amorican target, a possiblo 200, H. Buser—0 £ 404700040 00070 Ch. Wuothricn—47 044 74034 W.T, Stocker—50066 00640 JulBchlup—4 454044444 44000 ©h, Rasmussen-—05 00 07650 R, Btockman~5 7466 56665 T.Walter—50008 76600 0 Jul, Nagl--00000 68600 00 George Jasten—70400 0 B, Pewrson-£41064 00407 Frod buller—s 1085 04048 . Mathics—0 41040 6044505 82 2 cso ca Sos ox bty R 8235 € ) aemcooSs b e 8 = The Nebraska Trotters. The Nobraska Association of trowting- horse breoders will hold its annual moeting at Hastings, tuis state, beginning August 20 sud continuivg to the 2id, inclusive. There is every indication that the meeting will bo Margely astended and highly successful, The pominations are in greater number than ever befors, and all the best bred trotting stock in the state will be on hand. Among the entries from this city are the rollowing: Ohestuut Wilkes, by Hlack Wilkes 3542, dam by Maino Haublétonian; Windsor Wilkes, by Hluck Ehln- #549; 'Orphan Maid, by Stockine hief, 2008; Ed by V dam by Vasco, from the Spring Valley Stock Farm. Famech, oh. m., by Shorman’s Ham- bletonian, and bay mars Dinah, by Floco, O. W. Pickard; Trenton, b, h. 'by Stranger 9030, dam by Jay Gould 197, Dick Wilde. In addition to theso there Is some eighty or ninety other entries from different parts of vhe stato, Movements of the Ball Team. The Omahas will return homo on the evon- ing of the 31st, and on the 22d, 23 and Mth moet the Denvers at tho local park. If tho team can hold its own on the prosent trip, it will bo in fine shape and in n fine position for the start in the final half of tho season. There will also be a game on the home grounds on Sunday, August 25, a postponed game with Des Moines, which by mutual agreement will be played here; also another postponed game with the s team Septon 22, which will be the last gaine of the season in Omaha. On the ovening of the 24th the team loaves for its second northern trip, returning here August§ for the final hote series with alt the clubs in the associn. tion, None of Omaha's players will be sold untii the close of the season Nat Brown's Stables. Nat Brown left Friday morning with his stable of horses for the Peoria, IIL, races, He was accompanied by his trainer and driver, Tobe Broderick, and they will com- plete the cireuit before returning. The great pcer, U Bet, is in manificont, condition, and Sroderick expects to give some wonderful exhibitions with him. St. John, Dau D, and Jack-Go-Easy are among the string Flashes From the Diamond. Omaha will have a sod diamond in another year. The Denvers are now cslled “'the umpire killors.” Dave Rowa has got & jawel in Pitcher Mc- Nabb. St. Joo threatens to rob Milwaukee of the tail-end honors. Ciarke has won 17 games and lost 7; Nich- ols 17 and lost 4. Maybe old Dal. of tho Denvors isn’t sali- vating the ball | The Omaha management has received s flatering offer for Kid Nichols. Morrissey leads the Milwaukee team in stick work with an average of .325. Cooney's sore hand has about mended and he will join the team at St. Joe to-morrow. Tho great and only Pickett has been laid off by Kunsas City owing to his weak hitting. “Spud”? Farrish's team, the Diamonds, play with the Valleys at Missouri Valley this afternoou. Elmer Foster is at last doing fine work for Minneapohis. He isa great player, if New York did release him. Manager Farrish is arranging for a gamo betwen the Dismonds and tho Mint Juleps for the benefit of St. Joseph’s hospital. Walsh is hitting just now as hara and often as any man in_the team. His hits are gen- erally at the right time, when thore aro meu on bases. The Western association has the largest quota of old back-numbers from the Leaguo and American association of any association in the country. Crooks of tho Omahas and Murphy of the Hartfords are the only players in the coun- try who have made three home runs in a single gamo this season. Sioux City misses £d Glenn. He was the corn huskers’ best thrower, base runner an.l hitter. He will not be able to play again this acasou it is feared. The following 13 tho batting per cent of the Omaha team up to date: Crooks .3s, Cooney .820, Canavan .810, Cleveland .08, , Willis 298, Strauss .265. Walsh 210, Andrews .210, Clarke .200, Nichols .160. ; The Milwaukee club has signed Kuouff, late of the Athletic club, and he will join the team at once. Doyle, the pitcher secured by Milwaukee from the New England league on recommendation of Catcher Hurley, was not given a trial, because of his poor showing in practice. Every member of the Omaha team feels confident that the club will win the pennant. While their _confldence may be misplaced, this is ecrtainly the proper spirit, as a lack of confidence is as_great @ factor in defeat a8 poor playing. If one team goes into a game feeling that 1t has @ snap, and the other that it hasn’t much of a chance to win, the former comes out victorious nine times out of ten. McNabb, who has just_signed with the Denvers, came from the Waco, Tex., team. He has a record of sixteon strike-out in ono game with Galveston, In twenty-two games he struck out 176 men, an average of eight per game, and allowed his oppunents an ay- erage of but six per game. This is a groat record and one that any pitcher may well fecl proud of. A number of league and associa- tion clubs were aftgr him without success. His relcase cost §1,000. Miscellaneous Sports. A dog fight, between two big fifty pound purps, is down on the card for this afternoon, Sioux City 1s taking a lively interest iu the proposed Western Polo league, and Manag: Common is already casting his lnes for players. Another one of Ed Rothery's homing pigeons released by the editorial excursion came in Thursday afternoon. Whether from Salt Lake or Ogden is not known. Ned Reading, the soldier, challenges Miss Willinms to & cyclo race, the lady to ride twenty-two and one-hatf miles whilo the military byker goes twenty-five, for $100 a side. J. G. Tipton, of Council Bluffs Rifle club, won the championship badge for the third consecutive time at the club shoot yesterday, which makes the trophy his personal prop- erty. This is the badge the Council Hlufts team won from the Omuha Gun club team. ‘The Omaha Gun club's attention 1s called to the fact that young chicken are already being shot, and that they have graced the tables of ono of the city’s best hotels on two difforent occasions during the past week. 1f the violators of the law can bo discovered, the only course to pursue is to prosecuto them 0 the limit. For the benefit of thoso unfamiliar with the Nevraska game law, 1t is herewith sppended: It shali bo unlawful for any person to kil., cisnare or eap any wild buffalo, elk, mountain sheep, deer or antelope, (except for the purpose of dom cation) between the first day of January the first day of Octobor in each year, or to kill, ensnare, or trap any wild grouso ve- tween the first day of January and tho first day of September in each year, or to kill, en- snare, trap or net quail or ‘wild turkey, be- tween the first day of January and the first day of October in each year, or to ensnare, trap or net the same at uny time of the year, or to buy, sell, transport or carry, or have in possession any such animal or birds, be- twoen the dates within which the killing, ensnaring, trapping, or netting of such ani- mals or bikds 15 prombited by law. It shalt also be unlawful for any porson, agent or employo of any @ssocia- tion, corporation, railroad company or ex- press company to receive, carry, trausport or ship any such animal or bird at any time of year. It shail be unlawful for any person t0 20 upon the premises of another person or corporation for the purpose of hunting, trappiug, netting, ensnaring or killing any animal or bird at any season of the year, un- less by the consent of the owners of said premises. It is further enacted, that any pevson, agent or employe, as aforosaid, who shall violate any provision of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall pay a fine of 815 for each buffalo, elk, mountain sheep, doer, autolope or wild turkey, so as ufore: said killed, onsnared, traped, netted.bought or sold, shipped, trausportea or held in pos- lon_1n_violation of this seotion, and the of 35 for cach grouse or quail, as aforesaid killed, trapped, eu- netted, bought, sold, ‘trans shipped' or held in possession n violation of the provisions of this sectiou. Haying in possession sny of the named aui mals or birds between said dates, shall be deemed and taken as presuwptive evidence ¢hat the samo were killed, ensnared, nettted or trapped in_violation of this section, snd the civil authorities of auy city, Lown or precinct whero any animal or bird shall bave been killed or held in possesaion 1 violation of law be found, are hereby authorizod to cause the same Lo be seized With or without warrany, aud to be distributed among tho poor persons of wuol, eily, town uF procinat; and any person who shall go upon the land of unotlier, in violation of this section, shall, upon ' couviction thereof, pay for such offcnse iu any sum of less thai § nor more tian $50. and shall be liable to the owner of the promises in an action for trespase. Questions und Answers. Your wrticle ou the dead-arm brigade in 50 Sunday* ing department was very timely, you woula please_tell me what to do for & sprained arm.—Bert Kob- erts, Thurman, Ia. Ans.—Use Briel's Family Remedy and give your arm plonty of rest. 1f a pame of base ball is intarrupted in the first half of the seventh inning, with one team four runs ahead at the end of the sixth inniog, does said team win aud is it a game! —F. Wylie, Omaha. Ans.—Yes. Five full Innings constitute a game, Will you please inform me whethor Jack Dempsey and Charlie Mitchell aro in the same class, Where was Dempsey born and where is he now?! Has he & fight on hand, and do you think he could whip Mitchelli— Country McCloskey, Davenport, In. Ans.—No. Dempsoy 18 a middlewsight and Mitchell a heavyweight. He was born in Ireland. Is in California now, and is booked for a finish fight with the Marine. Hardly. Will you inform me how many times Kil- rain has faced Sullivan! This is to decide & bet.—Paxton, city. Ans.—Threo times, including the recent battle at Richburg, Miss. There has been but little saia or written about the two first meetings of theso two men, but on both oc- casions John L. was the victor. One of the fights occurred in Boston, and Jake was 80 badly punished that ho was forced to throw up the sponge at the close of the third round. In the second meeting, Kilrain again quit of his own accord, for bad he coutinued he would have been knocked out. At least, so claim the wuthorities. When docs the Westorn Base Ball associa- tion season close in this city I—Awmuteur. Ans.—Sunday, September 15, Is prizo-fighting lawful in any state in the union? Is it lawful anywhere! Was there evor a man killed in tho ring.—The Henicia Boy, Fort Omaha. 4 Ans, —No. No. Yes, any number of them In England, within the past centu ry, Wat- son, Curtis, Smith, CJayton, Noon, Brown, Phelps, Byrne, McKay aud Jones were killed. Nearly all of them by a blow in the neck. In this country MoCoy was kitled up the Hud- son in 1842, and Kelley, Walker and Full- james have sinco met death fn the same man- ner. Can you give me the real name of the Washington catcher, Mack! 1 bet that Mack is not his name.—Cognomen, Plattsmouth. Ans.—His namo is McGillicudy, and he is called Mack for short. Deuny Mack,the old- time player, also plaved under au assumed name. His name was Dennis McGee. Pitcher King, of the St. Louis Browns, isan- other one; his real name is Koenig. Is it true that £d Rothery liberated one of his homing birds at the scene of the late Sul- livan-Kulrain fight, and _that it_urrived here with the news of the battla?—Flyer, Farnam and Fifteenth. Ans.—It 18 not. Is it a fact that the Omaha base ball club again finishes the seasou away from homot— Jerry Denny. Ans.—It is, Please answer the following questions Suaday’s sporting columns: Where is Ned Williamson, the old Chicago shortstop, also ‘Tom Daily, of the same team! Where did Wally A s play in 'ST aud '881 What is meant by the in-field?—Hard Hitter, New- hawka, Neb. Ans.—Willismson is in Chicago hobbling about on crutches. Daily is with Indianapo- lis. In Louisville and Memphis. First, sec- ond and third basemen and short stop. Will you oblige a constaut reader by an- swering the following? I make a bet with o party that if a horse was ruled off the track he could not go on again until the time ex- pired or he was reinstated. The other party bets that by changing owners the horse could go on the track again.—T.R., Six- teenth and Charles streets. Ans.—You win the bet. For the information of several Foaders will you state in next Sunday's issuewhen Me- Garr was releised by the: Omaha - club; and whether he did not play with them in some championship games this year.—Thomas S. Hurrow, Osccoia, Nef. ‘Ans.—He was released at the closo of last season. He has played noue with Omaha this year. Thomas Burchmore will find the ansier to his query in the reply to Paxton in this column. What is John L. Sullivan’s age? Please answer in Sunday's Bes—R. B. Hennan, Tekamah. Ans.—Thirty-one. In a gamo of cribbago A starts by leading a4spot; B follows with a 6, C witha 5, counting arunof 8; D witha 7, counting a runof 4 A then follows with ' deuce and B with a_tray, and claims a run of 0. Answer in Sunday's Beg if correct.—Crib- bage, $42 South U'wenty-first stroet. Ans.—B is correct. To decide a bet, will you inform me whether Sullivan was ever knocked down by Mitchell in a sparring exhibition; if so, in what roundi—C. A., Edgar, Neb. Ans.—Yos. Fifst. —— SINGULARITIES, A sixty-one-pound salmon has been fished out of the Severn by a Mr. Ffenuell. A radish twenty-five and one-half inches aro und wag exhibited the other day inastore at Winter Haven, Fla. y A cat at Port Jervis digs ankle worms, and ufter biting them into small picces feeds them to young canary birds. There is a giant rose tree in Roostoen, Holland, which has held 6,000 roses at the same time. 'The owner, Mine. Rognen, con- siders it one of the great wonders of the world, John McDonald, who has been blind for thirty years, suddenly recovered his eye- sight while ill at Waterbury, Conn. His case is attracting greal attention in the medical world. An_alhgator and an English sparrow en- gaged in o battle near Davien, Ga., the othier duy. The 'gator provoked the fight by snapping at the bird, which in turn flew fu- riously at its ugly antagonist, aiming with precision ut the suurian’s eyes, Tho 'gator finally gave up the contest and took to the river, One of the funniest things that has hap- pened in Greonville, Tenn., for some time was the shooting of & negro the othor night by a policeman. The cop blazed nway at the mwau and shot him in the eibow, the ball glancing and striking the negro in the cheek. As he spit the ball out he said: *‘Look heah, white man, you quit dat shootin’ at me; fus' thing yuh' knows yuh gwinter brake some ’spectable pusson’s winaer glass.” H. P. Braziel caught a genuine flying fish in Sterrett's creek, near Seynburn’s Point, Fla. This was uniike any flying fisn which has ever been written about, in that it had two perfectly formed bird-like wings in ad- dition to fins, also four legs rosembling those of a big spider. The wings were beauti- fully tinted like the prisms of a rawmbow, and when drawn out of the water with an ordinary hook and line the bird-fish flow to 4 height of some six or eight feet, A Brooklyn horse lately suffored au wjury 10 ono of his feet, and forsome Lime traveled on'three legs. Finally the wound was per- fectly healed, but still the animal refused to put that foor’ to the ground. A veterinary surgeou was called in, who made an examina. tion, and then pronounced it simply a case of *Strap up the other hind foot This was done and the injured foot was thus forced into use. It did not take @ block's travel to show tho horso thalhis nervous fears were ground- loss, and whon the strap was removed ho trotted off squarely on four feet. — Ho Was J Cincinnaty M{ you had this man? them? Convicted Felon—You sce, I was the aditor of & comic paper, and the de- ceased wanted to sell me a joke about a typewriter girl, Judge—Typewriter girl and the old man? Felon—Focled the old womez, know? Judge—SBame ove, long-sufferivg friend. tifled. Enquirer: Judge—You %Vood reasons for shooting ould you miud stating you Dismissed, my MORE ROPE, THAN RED TAPE, How the flldbeet Oourts of Ne- braska Administered Justioe.] THE TRIALS WERE VERY BRIEF. LILL e Thrust Him fitough the Ico—An Old Man's Mardor Quiokly Avenged ~Tho Wamous Horse- tther BilL No Trifling With Them. NEBRASKA CIty, Neb., July 13.— [Special to Tie Bee.l—* By order of the court,” criminals in the pioneer days of Nebraska City and Otoe county received swift and oftentimes severe punishment at the hands of the “eourt's” appointed executioners. The ‘loourt” recognized but two modes of punishment for crimes committed with- in its jurisdiction—death and a public flogging. In a few special instances, however, eternal banishment was re- sorted to, but these cases were fow. In the manner of eapital punishment, the mothods of the executioner varied in accordance with the instructions from the ‘“‘court” and the atrocity of the erime. 'The floggings also differed in the methods of administration accord- ing to the sentence, from half a dozeun lashes up to several hundred. The ‘*court” was ALWAYS IN SESSION, and its rulings and decisions in import- ant cases were always impartial and just. The *‘court” was an important adjunct to that pioneer necessity, the vigilance committes, which held full sway and dealt out justice in Otoe countyfor many years, in the’ 50%s and 60’s. The committee numberéd among its mem- bers nearly avery citizen in the com- munity, excepting the criminal class, and oven the duly olected city and county. officers were prominent in vig- ilance work and justice, and 1t was sel- dom that a guilty man escaped. The original committee is still in ex- istence, although its membership has been reduced by death to about twenty meu, and the orzanization is now in a state of “inocuous desuetude,” although members of the committee are still called upon when a hangman’s knot is in demand. The members of the com- mittee still REGARD THEIR OATH AS SACRED aud hinding and it is nexv to usvless t y to draw one of them out on the sub- jeot of tho committee’s work in the carly da ‘although some of the survivors take npleasure in relating many ‘interesting stories in conuection with the organization. The time of the ‘Yommittee’s disorgan- ization dates baek some twenty yeu and was the resuif of a discovery that there were traitors and horse thieves in the committee. ! Among the 14t hets of the committeo was a decision rendered by the ‘‘court,” directly aftor the war, which fixed the death penalty \fpdn the notorious Me- Waters, Quin Bohannon -and several others then l¥ing in the vicinity of Wyoming City, northwest of this The crime for the penalty w ming postofiice , master. 'I'he_ori| had not been clearly prover, figgingt tho condemned men, iymz there' wa§ ot afJoubt in the minds of the ~ cbupniitde, and the ‘*court’s” order Was to “HANG, SHOOT OR OTHERWISE KILL" the accused. Every arrangement had been made; and the following night the exacution was to have been carried into offect, when information was brought to the “court” that the mep had gotten wind of -the decision and had dis- appeared. They had gone for good and remained away for a uumber of years, and returned ouly when the committee had gone out of business. The committeo then turned its atten- tion to itself to find the traitors. They were unsuccessful in securing adequate proof, but the suspicion pointed strongly to a well-known member who soon after left the country In the fall of 1868 Dominick O’Rourke, then quite a well-known citizen, as- sisted a man whois only remembore as *“Tecumsch” to steal a hovse in broad daylight. The animal was hitched in front of Captain Laboo’s hotel. The thief and horse escaped into Iowa and the matter was reported to the commit- tee, who gave immediate chase and brought them pack. Both men were turned over to the sheriff for safe keep- ing and were confined in the old block house. The committee, however, was not satisfied with the law’s delay and demanded the prisoners, which were refused them without a written ‘‘order from the court.” The order was soon produced and the men were turned over mmittee and taken before the ’ for trial, O’Rourke employe: neral Coe, now of Omaha, to def him, and he did it with suech effect that a compromise verdict was reached, the defendant agreeing to leave the state and never roturn. - Ho did so, going to St. Joseph where b 1 ME A PROML T BUSINESS MAN, but he never came back to Nebraska City, Tecumseh did not fare so well, and he was sentenced and received 100 lashes on his bare back. He wasstripped and ed to a post and three strong members of the comnittee each wore out several hasel switches across the horse thrief’s back, the blood being drawn at every stroke. He wis then escorted out of town; he has remained away ever since. © In 1860, about the time of Nebraska City’s great fire, {lic committee arrested a nian on the alldgéd suspicion thut he was the incendiavy, and that belief is general yet, but ji ifember of the vigi lantes told me ygsterday that the arrest was for the purpose of making him con. fess his knowledge of several criminals with whom he,gsspeiated. The man was taken to Mprt, Sheckler’s black- smith shop ang, hauged, but was cut down before lifg,was extinct, He was revived and thep cofifessed all he knew of his associates, and he was let off, but the men he ipfoymed on were soon in the toils, nnvs‘,wmu of them, alter a fair trial by the ‘jgeourt,” found them- selves dangling ut &hie end of a rove. Some time iny P9 an old man fell asleep on the rivgnhank while waiting for u boat on whigh; he wanted to re- turn home, and ‘was robbed of several hundred dollars by a Mexican cow- puncher. The old man was nearly crazed over his loss and reported it to a member of the committee, who pro- ceeded to investigate, It was certain that the Mexican would be drunk in less than an hour with so much money in his possession, aed with this clue to work on a visit was made to the saloons. The first place stopped at a Mexican was found dgink'mz and FLOURISHING THE OLD MAN'S MONEY bag, which was recovered, and the greaser was swinging from she limb of & tree before he could sober qu‘ During a part of the war the people along the river bet#een this pointand Missouri were kept. in_a constant state of terror by the Saprodations of Clave- land’s notorious bushwhackers. In the fall of 02 three members of the gahg wore on @& foraging expedition in the bottoms near Peru, and broke into a house ulonilng to_a widow and inhabited by her and a daughter. They nssaulted the women and after brutally outraging them they killed the motfer by crushing her head with a rifle. The news of the outrage soon ronched the city anda the blood of the vigilantes was excited to the boiling point. A few trusty and determined men were placed under the leadershin of City Marshal Thomas, one of the most courageous men that has ever grown up on the frontier,and they started on the trail of the murderers, whom they succeeded in rnnning to earth before they got far from the scene of their crime. The officers wero discovered by the busbwhackers, who opened fire upon them from ambush, the bullets whistling uncomfortably close to their ears but hitting none of them. The mnext instant Marshal Thomas, who was one of the best shots in the territory, got a glimpse of the murderers and three shots fired in rapid succession killed one of the men out- right and wounded the other two, one fatally. The other villian was captured and taken to town and in the night was guarded at a hotel kept by a man named Rhodes. During the evening a com- mittee called upon the marshal and de- manded the prisoner, and it boing use- less to refuse, the man was turned over to the vigilantes who took him to the river, where theyjbound him securely hand and foot. A hole was then CUT IN THE ICE and the murderer put down with his head first. His body was found the next spring some miles down the river. About this time a gang of Knosas jayhawkers made a rade into this sec- tion of the country and stole horses and cattle in such numbers that it was found even more stringent meas- ures were necessary. Jayhawkors were hung on sight, and perfect terror reigned for a time. Farmers could vot leave their horses standing alone for half an hour without finding them stolen when they returned. Hogs and cattle had to be locked up, and the death rato among the jayhawkers in- crensed daily, but stealing continued. It was at this point that the famous horsethief bill was drafted and pre- sonted to the legislature, then in ses- sion at Omaha, through Representative Birchfield, of this city. The principal provision of the bill was that which empowered any and every man with the right to shoot, or in any other way kill, any person who was caught leading an- other man’s horse. The bill was drafted and presented in all seriousness as the only protection agninst the thieves, but it was defeutea after along and bitter fight in the legislature. The vote upon it having been a tie the bill was not again brought up. . It, however, had the effect of lessening the crime of horse stealing at that time, and the vigilance committee was given a needed rest. e — An Avsolute Cure. 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