Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 25, 1889, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE:IFRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, iS85 THE OMAIIA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS OFFICE, NO, 12 PEARL STREET. Delivered by carrier in any part of the Clity at Twenty Cents per Woek. H.W. TILTON seieenisy L MANAGER TRLEPHONES: Busisess Orric Nio MINOR N. Y. P. Co. Gleason coal. Council Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. Boston store, the leaders in dry goods. Carbon Coal Co. wholesale, retail, 10 Pearl. The attachmenta against the Ogden house aro bein ed of, and it is stated that all will actorily adjusted in a very few days, Fireman Norris Wicks is lamenting the 1oss of forty chickens, which some unknown thief abstracted from his hen roost Wednes- @ay night. The Indies should not fail to hear Mrs, John Bailey’s talk on physical culture, and select recitations at the Presvyterian church Saturday afternoon at § o'clock. D, K. Shreves, who had o harness stolen from his stable last spring, bad the good for- tune to find it in a corn field Wednesday, while on a hunting expedition. Owing to the funeral of E. L. Smith, which takes place this afternoon, the wolf chaso which as arranged for to-day has been postponed until to-morrow afternoon. ‘The name of the Becbtele hotel is to be changed to Hotel Jamieson, under the new management, which fact wiil soon be an- nounced to the traveling public by a heavy gilt sign. Two special motor trains were run from Omalia last cucning at the close of the Gil- more concert to accommodate the hundreds who attended from this city, and could not obtain passage on the regular trains. The Congregational church sociable will be entertained at the residence of alrs. J. Mueller this evening by Mesdames Clough, Cass, Crane, Barstow and the Misses Crofts and Buchell. All are ccrdially fgvited. Iearnestly request all menfers of the hotel committee who were at work yesterday to meet me at my office this morning at'9 o'clock. Two days’ work more will com- t'l;.'m the subscriptions and the hotel is ours, illiam Moore, Chairman, X A good sized audience witnessed the Old Stack,” as presented by Charles J. Davis (Alvio Joslin) and a first-class com- any at Dohany’s last evening. The typical ow England farmer was truthfully por- trayed, with all his oddities and eccentrici- ties in the inimitable mauner which is Mr. Davis' own, There was a quiet wedding uttheresidence of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Millard, No. 144 Glen avenue, Wednesday ovening, the contracting artics’ bemg Mr, George T. Spooner and iss Lucy B. Mill The ceremony was erformed in the presence of a few intimate riends. The groom is connected with the Citizens’ baok. The happy couple will reside in this city. In district court yesterday the case of the State vs Joseph Omig, charged with assault With attempt to commit rape, was on trial. The defendant is a boy about sixteen years of age, and the prosecuting witne: teen-year-old girl named Price. of the cuse are unfit for publication, defendant is out on bail. The case v cupy the remainder of the week, as there are several witnesses to be examined on each side. An enthusiastic meeting was held at the Broadway M. . church, the object of which was to effect the organization of a society for the non-sectarian advancement of prohibi- tion. About fifty members were enrolled. The officers elected were: Rev. A. Overton, srenldcnt; Rev. D. C. Frankiin, vice presi- ent; Rev. C. Hoover, sccretary: Miss Brown, assistaut secretary; Rov. Dr. Phelps, treasurcr: Miss Clark, choriste L. W. Tulleys, chairman of the executive com- mittee. The jury in the case of state vs George Feurhauken, charged with receiving stolen property, returned a verdict at 5:30 last evening, finding the defendant guilty, and fixing the value of the goods at $52. The jury was-out thirty hours, and during the whole timo the ballot was cleven to one for conviction. One man held off all that time, but finally wilted. The jury reported sev- eral times that they could not agree, but the court would not have it 8o, and beld them to It until a verdict was finully reached. The reception committee, appointed by the board of trade, to entertain the Pan-Ameri- can excursion party, have requestod the mayor to telegraph Special Agent W. E. Curtis, who has charge of the party, can- coging tho invitation to give them u_few hours' arive about this city, as the Bluffs committoe was unuble o make arrange- ments with the Omaha committee to receive them before 4 or 5 o'clock Sunday evening, ‘which would be too late for & daylight drive about the city. e The Pullman restaurant, 534 Broadway, - Western Lumber ana Supply Co., 13th and 4th streets and 2d and 54 avenucs, carry the largest stocic of lumber, piling pole, ties, lime, cement and building material in the west. E. W. Raymond, manager. e “‘One of Desirable dwellings for rent at moucrate rices. 1. H. Sheafe & Co., rental agents, roadway and Main streots, up stai il *“The Famous” cash bargain house, 200 By Fine dressed chickens. G. Mottaz, Tel. 173, ASne Finest market in ciy—J. M. Scanlan's, bl Personal Paragraphs. Mrs. 8. C. Ward hus gone on a visit 10 the Pacitic coast. T, 0, Carlisle, of Missourl Valley, was a wisitor in the Biuffs yesterday. Mrs. Belle Hicks, of Dunlap, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Brown, of this city. J. G. Tipton left last evening on a business trip to Chicago, He will be absent about w0 weeks. Miss Arta Cody, of North Platte, Neb., is the guest of Miss Hotty Graves, Miss Cody s a daughter of the celebrated Hon, W. I Cody, better known as *Buffalo Bill.” Samuel Epperson, who has _served as de- pot policeman for the Milwaukee for soveral years, hus severod his connection with that Company to accept a more lucrative ouo with the electric motor company. Ledgers and journals, special ruled, extra first class paver and well bouna, by' More- house & Co., Pearl St., Council 13luffs. s Dwelling for sale on easy payments, Also building lots at lowest market prices. Call and examine our list. E. H. Sheafe & Co. ———— Bixby has removed to Merriam blook. - Always on Tim>, 1f you wish to purchase a good and reliable watch 25 por cont loss than club rates, and on easy terms, then call at once and make our own selection at C. B, Jucquemin & 20., 27 Main street. L The New Hotel, The committces of the board of trade en- gaged in soliciting subscriptions for the new hotel reported last evening $13,000 as the re- sult of their efforts since the enterpriso was started a fow days ago, There are only two days in which to raise the remaining $7,000 to secure the location on the Woodbury cor- mer, as the option expires on Saturday, Messrs, Kimball & Camp, who represent the eastern capitalists who waut to invest $100,- 000 in & hotcl on that corner, are positive the offer cannot bo renewed if the site is not secured by Saturday night. So far as they are concerned, the matter will end if the necessary amount is not ralsed, Said inent wholesale man yesterday: the last chauce for the Main streot rl. this great improvement on their street, f it fails now good-bye Woodbury corner. ‘We will have a new modern hotel within a ’.lr but it will be built on Broadway, not ar from the postofiice, 1f the Main street wnl: waut the grand building they should themselves.” - Mona_v loaned at L. B, Craft's & Co.’s loan office on furniture, pranos, horses, rsonal property of all kiuds, and all other articles of value, without mx‘ovul. All Lusiess striotly coufi- THE NEWS ABOUT THE BLUFFS Circumstancas Show the Nesd of a Rigid Police Investigation. A MYSTERIOUS MORNING BLAZE. A Froe Bridgo 1s Scoured 8o Far As Motor Travel 1s Concerned—Sub- scriptions For the Now Hotel— General and Personal. An Investigation Demanded. “‘What policeman has been talking to Tne Beri” is a quostion that several members of the force have frequently asked during the past day. or two, and are very anxious to find out. They are aware that many of the happenings of the past tew months in which they have figured prominently would not look well in print, for them at least, and are anxious to have the matter dropped. It may be said right hero that Tine Beg is indebted 10 no one or even two members of the ferce for information regarding the internal work- ings of that body, and indubitable proof is at hand to show that the situation 18 s _repre- sonted. As is well known, the Council Bluffs police force is not and never has been the most harmonious body in existence, and outbreaks have been more or less frequent. Whonever the trouble assumed such pro- portions as to seriously impair the working of tho force, & ventilation of the case in the pavers has proved effoctive ir oither causing the elimination of the troublesome element or rendering it imperative that the trouble be hushed up and brideed over, for a short time at lenst. In tho latter case 1t hus been insisted that no such trouble existed, and all was as harmonious as could be de- d. Such was the case on the occasion of the last outbreak a few months ago, but whether or not the situation warranted the claim the reader can determine, Freauent complaints have been made of Inte rezurding the mauner in which affairs have been conducted, and now the door i thrown ' open for a careful and searching iuvestigation. A prostitute was shot in her room in a notor- lous bagnio, and_the weapon with which the doed was done belongs to a policeman, who was with her at the time, und the circum- stances are such that the ofiicar is taken into custody to determine whether or not he did tho shooting with murderous intent. It transpires that the ofticer had been consort- ing with prostitutes for months, and the charge is made that this was with the know edgo of those in authority. This is denied, but it is certain that stories of this character had come to the cars of the superior officers. 1t seems that several months ago a certain young man of this city was living in the capacity of “friend” of tho Leland woman, Just then the officer entered the field, and and aspired to the position beld by the said young man, in the woman's favor, The officer was drawing & salary of $70 a month, which he was willing to lavish on her, while the impecunious young man could do nothing of the kind. While much pre- ferring the attentions of the latter, the cash in sight ved far more potent, and the star was duly installed as the ‘woman’ ver.” Shortly afterwarda this state of affairs was brought to the notice of the chief, but what action he took is un- known. It is known, nowever, that Scott took the woman before the chief, and that she denied the story 1n the strongest langrage of which sho was capable, and de- clared most emphatically that Scott had never sustained any such relation toward her. Whbat weight ehould have been given to any such statement of a prostitute, to whose interest it was to screen the officer, any man of ordinary intelligence may easily determine, Not oaly is it certain that Scott's amours with the woman were known to nearly every other officer on the force, us well as numer- ous others, but that he was cordially dis- liked for his braggadocio, overbearing ways and the evident partiality feltvtoward him by the chief. IFor the past month there has been hardly a man on the force who has spoken to him. Officer Joslyn’s name has been brought into unpleasant prominence in connection with the case. He denies the truth of the reports concerning him, and asks for an in- vestigation. His request is reasonable, and if compliea with and his statements corrob- orated, a complete vindication is his just due. During his connection with the force his work as a policeman has been commendable, a fact which the record shows. If, how ever, these reports are confirmed, ignomin| ous dismissal would be butv slight punish- ment for any oficer found guilty of such conduct, ‘The opinion prevails that the method now in vogue, of changing the captam every week, is Tesponsible for many shortcomings that cause complaint. It will be remembered that since tho dischargo of Captain Dyer several months ago the practice has been to appoint a patrolman to serve one weck as captain, thus changing the captaincy about among all the members of the force, The result of it1s thus expressed by one of the patrolmen : *“It's just as bad as no captain at all. For instance, we will say that I am captamn this week and you will be next. Perhaps I liko to get off my beat oceasionally and so do you. Now ‘then, do you suppose that I am ing to report any of your shortcomings, when you will have 4 chance to hold the whip over me next weeki Well, I guess not. That’s the way 1t goes, and the men do justas they please. They stay on their beats when they want to, and when they don't they go where they choose. If theve was a captain to look after the men they would be found on their beats. I don’t blame a man for doing as he pleases when he can get just as much for it as he can for being tied down by strictly enforced rules. It is very poor encouragement for & man to work hard and do his duty when others get just the same for soldiering. Especially is this true when a man don't get any credit for whatever good work he may do. This last occurrence is a tough one for all the boys, and it 13n’t helping the sale of tick- ets for our ball. I haven’t had the nerve to ask a man to buy a ticket since it happened, for fear he would throw it up to meand want to know when we were going to kill another one. It was only this morning that oue of the most prominent physicians of the city met the chief ana saluted him with, ‘Well, have your men killed any moro pros- titutes lately?” Of course, it was very ag- gravating and you could hardly blame him for firing back something about doctors and abortions. But it shows how people feel about the matder, and it is enough to make anybody wish it hadn't happened.’ O J. G. Tipton, real estate, 527 Broadway. —— ar, next to Eiseman’s, ——— C. B. steam dye works, 1013 Broadway. . —~ A Mysterious Blaze, At an early hour yesterday morning Onicer Jack Cusick discovered smoke issuing from the celiar under the store occupied by Parks & Son, on Main and Pearl strects, He at once gave tho alarm, to which the department responded in good ime, No flames were visible, but the smoke poured out in such dense volumes that it was impossible to enter the cellar, and the firemen were compelled to direct their streaws at random, It was fully half an hour before the smoke perceptibly de- creased 80 that the building could be entered, It was then fouud that the fire, which had originated in the cellar, had burned a hole through the floor, but the damage from the flames was comparatively small. Smoke and water, however, had played havoc with the stock, which was badly damaged, Mr. George Parks stated yesterday that the store was closed before 9 o'clock, and that so far as he knew, there had been no fire in the cellar that evening. He could not account for the fire except on the incendiary theory. ‘The fire started near the middle of the cellar, in a pile of boxes, barrels and egg casos. There was also considerable straw, in which chimneys had been packed, so that kindling was not wanting. ‘The cellar was easy of access, as a light board shutter, over an outside entrance, was all that separated it from the sidewalk. It would be but the work of & moment for anyone acquainted with the premises to slip into the cellar and close the shutter after them. If the fire was of incendiary origin this was probably his method of ingress and egross. Mr. Parks stated that his loss would be between 2,000 and $2,500, but thought the smaller amount would cover it, The stock Get Fountain bc R A OB ER AR G015 kst s i st g e T e . was {nsured for $3,000 and valued at $4,000. The smoke penotraved all parts of the build- lvvr finding its way into the arv store of W, ‘W. Chapman adjoining, but Mr. Chapman’s damage from it will be very light. The water, which was thrown in large quanti- ties, flooded the cellar to a depth of four feet, and it did considerable damage in the cellars under the stores of W. W, Chapman, D. W. Bushnell, Harle, Hass & Co., and Stewart Bros, The building occupied by Parks & Son is owned by Judge W, C. James, and is insured. - S Broadway. it s Let Rasmussen beautify your house in best style and cheap. 12 North Main, —— Swanson Music Co., 335 Broad way. pusbdhutys e 5 E. H. Sheafe & Co. give special attent on to the collection of rents and care of proporty in the city and vicinity. Charges moderate. Ofce Broadway and Main streets. —_— A Free Wagon Bridge. The free bridge has at last been secured, as the Union Pacific Railway oompany has thrown open its wagon bridge to the public to cross without money and without price. The company’s receipts from this source amounted to €1 for one month, and as it cost them the services of two men to act ns eatekeepers, 1t will be scen that it was not a paying investment: in fact, 1t is a step of re- trenchment to throw the bridge open to free passage. The move doos not perceptibly ai fect motor travel, but it does change the amount of carriage travel over the new bridge. As long as the weather continues fine and the street from the east end of the approach to the Union Pacitic bridee to the paved por- tion of the city 18 in good condition, there will undoubtediy be considerable travel over the free bridge. but a pull of over two miles through the mud in bad weather will hardly be regarded as any saving over paying tol! on the new bridge. A free bridge, while it will bo of groat bemeflt to tho city, must make connection with a paved street, in order that the best results may be realized. As it now is, the street leading to the Union Pacific bridge is across an ungraded portion of the city and in pleasant weather i8 n very good condition, What its condition is “at other times is only too well known to those whose business took them over it every day or two before the Broadway bridge was completed. If, how- ever, ‘the company proposes Lo allow the usc of the wagon bridge to remain free to the public, a move will be made to put the streets on this side, that lead to it, in better condi- tion. Said an alderman in speaking of tho matter yesterday: I notice thut thero is considerable travel over the Union Pacific bridge, since it has cost nothing for toll, and 1 suppose the public is satisfied. There has been quite a clamor for a free bridge, and now that we have one 1 hope 1t will be used. The street leadiug to it ought to be put in better condition than it now 1s, if there is to be much travel that way, If that is properly fixed up the public would greatly appreciato the action of the company, provided they continue to leave the structure open. It wiil be a good thing for the Biuffs, With a new hotel, new city hall and free bridge, I don't see_what will prevent a wonderful boom next year.” _Sheet music 10c, S SR Meschendorfs popular meat market, finest in the Twin Cities, 333 Broudway. el oA Steam and hot_water heating, first-class plumbing, Work done in both cities. John Gulbert, cor. Peart st. and Willow ave. Sptlonclie C.B. P . Co,, Stephan & Harmer, 32 Pearl odiitip i BORING A CANNON, A Operation Which Requires a Great Deal of Skill. At last the caunon is turned down, and is ready to be bored iuside, writ G. P. Mullerin St. Nicholas. In this operation it must be bored so straight and true that the boring tool entering the exact center of the small end of the cannon, will come out precisely at the center of the large end. sevenicen feet away. Those of you who have tried to bore a straight hole lengthwise through even a short bit of wood will know that this work requires not a little skill and care. When any of you boys have a job of boring to do at your work bench, you make fast the article to be vored and turn the boring tool. It is just the other way in boring a canunon, The boring tool or **bit.” is held firm and motionless, while the great mass of steel to be bored turns around. This plan is found to insure steadiness of the ‘*bit.” It would be almost impossible to make this bit firm and solid enough to do its difficult work, and ‘yet fres to turn around in the cannon. Soif you had been at the side of this gun lathe when the work was begun, you would huve seen that the bit was motionless, except for a slow advance in the gun. The bit attends strictly to business, and steadily bores its way through the steel, Most of you have been in the country and seen a pig “rooting” in the ground. Imagine, then, the pig to be standing still and the ground to be slowly passing under the pig’s snout and being *‘rooted,” and you will have a case much like that of the bit and the cannon. In fact,vhe horing tool is called a **hog-nosed” bit, and it roots up that cannon as if it enjoyed the operation. No long, graceful curls come )rolu this boring, but small, crisp shavings that are removed as fast as they accumulate in order that the boring tool’s work shall not be interfered with, The bit is going into thas steel at the rate of three-eighths of an inch for every turn of the cannon, and it is making a round hole almost large enough for a boy to put his hoad in—five and three-quarter inches in diameter. As the round hole grows deeper, the heavy bar on which the bit is fastened advances into the cannon steadily, moved by a number of wheels and screw that form part of the lathe. T must not lose sight of the shavings, the little ones that come from the in- side, and the long, spirally twisted ones that are turned from the outside of the cannon. A military-looking man,stand- ing ncar the lathe, does not lose sight of these shavings or trimmings, either. This man’s business is to carefully in- spect the borings and trimmings. That is what he is panid to do. Uncle Sam pays him, and expects him to earn his salary. The cannon is being made for Ungcle Sam, and he intends to find out all its qualities, wheth good or bad. 80 the man eyes the borings cavefully. Now, if with & plane or you knife-blade, you will cut a thin shnvfng from a bit of wood, it will show any little flaw exist- ing in the wood from whicl it was sliced. The tiniest knothole or crack will show in the shaving much more plainly than in the wood itself. So it is with a can- non’s shaving. It is a dreadful tell-tale, and the fault-finding man beside the gun knows this perfectly well. He ex- amines the spiral turning, or the little piece of boring and tinds no evidence of a flaw or crack., The long spiral strip is as smooth as glass and as glossy as your sister’s carls. Into the solid steel the hog-nosed bit roots its way, until it is in so far that a little electri¢ light must bear it com- pany, to show the workmen how matters arve progressing in the heart of the can- non. After eighteen days steady bor- ing, the bit lets daylight'into the bore of the cannon by emerging at the other (or lurger) end, seventoen feat away. i Brizandage in Macedonis. Brigandage is now rife in Macedonia, and no fewer than 200 persons have been murdered and robbed within the last two months, Two brigands named Shakir and Osman, each of whom has committed more than twenty murders, are terrorizing the country. The Turk- ish authorities are described as showing & most suspicious supineness in the re- pression of brigandage. INTO THE HEART OF AFRICA Novel Enterprise of Three Young New York' Millionaires. TO HUNT STANLEY AND LIONS These Gilded Youths Will Beard the Monarch and Attempt to Con- nect With the Great Explorer. Another African Expedition. Whila the avernge New York young man has been laying out his winter campaign. worrying about the size of his stick, the fit of his garments and the shape of his necktie, three other young men of different kidney have been selecting rifles, laying 1n ammuni- tion and pouring over maps, says a writer in the New York Herald. To what purpose? On Wednesday the Herald briefly au- nounced the.departure for Burope of Messrs. Royal Carroll Phelps and Henry Astor Carey, and said that they were bound with Mr, Willie Chanler, who is now at Zanzibar, on a lion hunt- ing tripinto the heart of Africa. We have been made more or less familiar with the heart of Africa by the deeds of Stanley and the romance of Haggard, but the héart of Africa, like that of the coliege widow, hns a new and particular spot for each comer, and it is the pleasure of these New York young men to penctrate a cardiac section of the dark continent which has never been palpitated by white men before. WIO THE ADVENTURERS ARE. T had a long talk over a big map with Mr. Carroll just before he sailed on Wednesday. ITdidn't take notes, and must trust to memory for his interesting details of his trip. [ndeed, the way he gattled Off African names of six sylla- bles would have upset a stenographer. Mr. Carroll, let me say, is a_ son of John Lee Carroll, of Carroliton,Md. His mother was a daughter of the late Royal Phelps, of New York, from whom he in- herited a fortune sufficient to satisfly even the caprice of bearding the Afri- can lion in his den. Mr. Carrdll is a graduate of Harvard, class of ’85, and has already made a reputation as an veler by an expedition made two years ago from Cape Town through tha Transvi as far north as Monomatapa. He was quite alone then as a white man among his caravan of negroes. He succeeded in shooting ele- phant, rhinoceros, and many rare species of deer, but never saw a lion, and it is to down that menageric curio that he makes his present expedition. r. Carroll is short and sturdy, of nguine disposivion that scouts atigue and scorns discouragement,and portsman through and through. s companion, Mr. Care; s a son of the late John Carey and a nephew of John, Jacob and William Astor. He is a great big, strong chan, who has no special experience in the kind of work he is bent on, but is just the sort to fall o his feet whenever he gets a tumble, He wulso was graduated from Harvard in the class of ‘85, and was best man to his brother at Cambridge on Tuesday, the day before he sailed. Mvr. Willie Chanler, who completes this triumvirate of sportsmen, is a cousin to Mr. Carcy, his mother having also been a sister to Mr. J. J. Astor. He is already in Zanzibar, having gone on ahead to make preparations for the ex- cursion. THE PROPOSED ROUTE. 1 had a great many questions to ask Mr. Carroll, which I'got slightly mixed, but I know the first was: “*How do you get to Zanzibar?” “I'rom London to Paris to Marseilles, thence by the Mesagerie through the Mediterranean, the Suez canal, the Red sea, the Gulf of Aden, the Arabian sea, the Indian ocean to Zanzibar. The route only occupies about eighteen days from Marseilles. The steamers, which are well equipped, go on to Madagascar, Mauritius and Australin. We fit out at Z zibar.” Then where do you go?” “We follow the coast line almost due north to Monbaza and then strikke due west to Kilima-Njaro, which, by the way, is 20,000 feét high. Then due north again to Mount Kenia. In the eau of about one hundred and fifty miles which lies between these moun- tains it i3 said that the best shooting known in Africa abounds—rhinoceros, lions and elephants,” “‘How do you travel?” *'On foot entirely. No beast of bur- den can live in this country. I had thought of sending some salted horses up from Cape Town by steamer, but it is too risky.” “What do you noan by salted horses?”” “Why, horses that have had the ani- mal scourge which pervades Central Africa. In the south I treated 1t with oxen, but wheregwe are going now we have to foot it.” A COMPLETE OUTFIT, “You spoke of getting your outfit at Zanzibar. Of what does it consist? *‘In the first place, we take 200 war- riors, armed with Snider rifles, which I bought in London. This dotted circu- lar line (indicating 1t on the big map) is not only a great hunting district, but is also the home of the Massai. the most warlike tribe yet discovered in Africa, They muster some ten thonsand fight- ing men,armed with shiclds and spears, which they hurl with the utmost pre- cision, and some of them have old Tower rifles which are eflective, because the niggers have learned to manufacture a gunpowder of their own, “There is no necessity for fighting these fellows, for they aressubject to a king who declares or accepis only a formal declaration ef war, but unless they know that you are well armed they will give your outfit an everlast- ing amount of fronble.” Then, besides our armed force, we take about two hundred carriers, who have charge of our supplies and camp equipments,” “What do you take to eat?” **American canned goods, which are as cheap and plentifyl at Zanzibar as in New York, but I always adda few dozen cans of Frepgh peas, truffles and mushrooms, which, come in handy in cooking game. A good cook is al available, and I assure you the !li in mid-Africa may be made Luculliarn **How fur do you tramp a day?” “About twenty miles, Mind you we are only about five degrees south of the equator. The heat on January 1, when we expect to start from Zanzibar, 1s in- tense. We must rest during the mid- day.” “How do you locate your game?” “That's easy enough” with elephaats, You know they feed on the inner bark of certain trees, knocking off the outer bark with their tusks, and, of course, leaving their own mark behind, I've never huunted lions, but understand that they also leave sigus of their whereabouts, and must be stalked like deer.” “What do you shoot with?” “I've got three English double-bar- reled rifles of eight, ten and twelve bore, The eight bore carries a 46- calibre bullet and weighs about sixtesn pounds. Tt is the most effective weapon or big game in the worid. I tried the American repeuting rifles on elephants two years ago and found that after pen- etrating two or three inches of hide the bullet was stopped and flattened.” AN U RIOR DESIG Mr. Carroll became more serious as he went on: “Of course, the primary object of this expedition is to shoot lions. I don’t want to pose ms an explorer or discoveror, but we expect to make our way up pretty close to lake Victoria Nyanza. “If tho easterly tribes are at all pla- cable it is on the cards that we may re- ceive news of Stanley. If we do,and can locate him in Emin Bey's territory, 1 shall abandon all thought of sport and push on at all hazards through Uganda and attempt to connect with Stanley “With the exception of Stanley’s, our expedition will be the largest and hest equipped that ever entered Africa. 1f you look at this map you will see that the Congo—where Stanley entered Af- rica on the west coast—is almost in tho same parallel of longitude as Zanzibar, The region to the north and west of Victoria Nyanza, where he is supposed to be elephant hunting, is as famous for elephants as the di:trict to the east of Nyanza, which wo are going to try to explore. It is only a question of a few hundred miles one way or the othoer, and it is wot at all unhikely that a coal- ition may be made. “Atall events [ am going to take the precaution of getting letters of intro- duction from the Herald to Stgnley as well as to the British African trading company, and of course I also hold my- self ready to send messengers to the coast with any news of importance that may be available to the He Rty The Village Big Man. While traveling did you ever notice the advent into the train of the village ig man? says the Cincinnati Times- Every town has its big man—not ly more than one. That is, s no other man who approaches near in_importance the certain big man. Ho is most always a lawyer, sionally a doctor. But about his entering the car. The big man has L modes of commu- nicati act of his presence, Gen- erally it is with his nose. Sometimes a resounding *“hawk,” stamp of eane, or the tremendously loud and solemn tones of his voice in making the simplest, most threadbare expression. Mostly, however, his nose it is which gives no uncertain sound and by which all are made aware of the pressuce of an in- dividual of note. He is immovable and silent, save an onal blast, as a wayside tree. Ho poses in the whole seat with a graceful j hat comes of long years of con- diligent practice. By and by the v is reached. Big man unconseciouslv reveals an almost imperceptible interest, and even anxiety. % to realize that he 1s out of his deptlis in this great massing of huge buildings, and with no fami awed country-neighbor’s countenanc in sight. Lo his stupendous air of importance is at a swift ebb. And as he alights from the car and walks off in the crowd his is all the appearance of mingled curiosity, mistrust and general wide- eyed verdancy of the veriest jay. Verily, how we apples do swim—at home. there R ow i Strange Vitality ot Eels, About four miles from Norwich is sit- uated the village of Hallville, on one of the tributaries of the Thames river. During the present fall it became neces- sary to repair the dam which furnished the waterfall for a large woolen mill owned by Hall Brothers at the above namea place, says Fibre and Fabric. In taking away the dam live eels were found in dry dirt three feet below the surface of the roadbed, and twelve feet from any water. One of these eels weighed one and one-fourth pounds, and they were very lively and seemed all right, as the men who examined them took them home and had them cooked and ate them. Weplace this on record, knowing the parties who fur- nished the data to be absolutely truthful. ‘We have in our time chronicled some remarkable cases of eel migration and otherfacts connected with their peculiar life but this beats anything we have ever yet known in reference to the eel fawily. i L L 1 Brown’s Forc to be Torn Down, ‘What is known as John Brown’s fort at Harper's Perry, Va.,is to be torn dowa. Thisis the old engine house used as a by the great anti very leader and his followers thirty years ago as a place of refuge from the soldiers and citizens surrounding them. The Baltimore Ohio railroad com- pany has determined upon a very de- cided change in the location of its main line at Harver’s Ferry, the new survey inning directly through the old en- gine house. Thousands have gazed with interest upon the ‘fort” from car windows and platforms since the war, An effort is being made to induce a syn- dicate of Philadelphians to buy the building and move it to Philadelphia to be set_up there asan exhibition en- terprise like the Chicago Libby prison. e Couldn’t Seo thn Joke, Mr. Gladstone on one occasion in a speech told a story illustrating the want of humor ameng Englishmen. Accord- ing to the ex-premier, a ball and concert was gotten up by a clergyman in order to provide the parish with a hearse. This has been nearly outdone by a ball which was held at Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland in order to provide an operat- ing table for the Ross Memorial hospital in the town. Ju J J yh o I have opened & new meat market on the corner of Sixteenth St. and Broadway. It will be my aim to please my customers by giving them the best meats to be obtained. Everything to be found in a first-class buteher shop will be furnished at the lowest prices. Please give mo & call and inspect my now establishment. JOSEPH WARDIAN, 'SPECIAL NOTICES, COUNCIL BLUFFS. FOR SALE AND RENT. "OT8 on 4th ave. and 10th st very cleap dSnaps, Benson & Shepherd, 9 Mal st. ~OTS on Hroadway, anywhers hetween (. dell Blutts and Omdba,” Benson & shep 9 Main st. DELL BROS, & C liveral terms offered. (OR BALE-An oid and_well drug store, established in 150, Cash uired, £,60),'balance real estate. Addross A 3, ee, Countil Blu PARGAIN -4 lots in Riddle's sub, on 0th ave, Grading all paid. $0) each. N, C, Phillips, room b, Evereit block. 1,988, tn Terwii 4 Phillips, room 5, Everett block. [ OT5in Van Brunt & Rice's add digrms. N, C. Philiips, room b, & BARGALN in West Broad way property. N.. . Philiips, room B, Bvere(t DIOGK. © - loan money. The most 103 Pearl st. h. rs add L8 Ty addition. Monthly payments IN, C. Puullips, room b, Evereit Dlock, b (il [ Comell Bl AND VICINITY. We were in hopes that the coal dealers whose names have appeared in a certaln card published in various local rn calm reflection seen the fol its utter falsity and have asserted ers at different dates trom October 4, would have on ly of their position without taking mto consideration their individu | manhood, business intogrity and honesty of purpose by withdrawing from a combinationthat has been produce tive of nogood to themselves, eitber ind dually or collectively. But it is a mat- ter of supreme indifference to us if they wish to sacrifice their business nterests to their blind personal l»re)mlifr!. We published, and brand reiterato the statement we have already their whole article as o wilful falsohood and the parties wero perfectly aware of that fact when they signed it, What has become of the sig- nature of the party whose vivid Iacks tho courage to father it! soft coal at the same old popularfprices. imagination concooted the fabrication Meanwhile we shall still continue to sell hard and but who H. A. COX, Western Sales Agent A.T. THATCHER, Chicago, Ilis. Council Blutfs, la. ——TOTHE— Coal Consuming Public Tho coal dealers of Council Bluffs would most_respectfully s of the reduction in price of coal made by A. heretofore claimed to sell coal by Thatcher y in explanation hatcher, of this city, that Mr, wholosale only. and that many of us have purchased coal from him at the market prices, and would still continue to do so, if we could get a good article of conl that would please our trade, but with coal bought from M . Thatcher we have had a great deal of trouble and complaint, and thoso of us who have handled his coal have been Obliged to Withdraw Our Orders from him or lose our customers. To resent this and coerco the dealers into buying an inferior article 'of coal Mr. Thatcher has come into the retail t price delivered to consumers than he charged us for it at hi s than we could purchase Merchantable Ca e prepared to furnish a statement fully verified as to the correctness of lower pr We the above explanatic pp & Knotts, D. E. Gleason, Carbon Coal Co., N. W. Williams, Council Bluffs Lumber Co., Sackett & Preston, Jos. MceWilliams, conl at n less yards, and also at de, and is now offering hi Mayne, . Weloh | Mark! DON'T BUY SHOES IN COUNGIL BLUFFS Until you have visited 100 Main street, the oldest and haaviest stocked establish- ment i the city, wliere goods are bought direct from manufacturers and given Away to custon s without middlemen's profits, workineman's heavy boot to the finest la: at the factories, and establishments that give the customer o margin that will e an extra inducement, added &o0ds sold and warranted by reliable men. very class of footwear from the cheaper now than ever before y's sioe huy divect and in large quantities can to tie bast We do this, Call ind be convinced. S. A. PIERCE, 100 Main st., Council Bluffs. GAINS In all parts of the city. C. N hitiips, room 5, Everett block. ANDS for sale or ¢ lroom 5, Everett bloc N.C. Phillip MPROVED farms in lowa and Kansas for ange for city property. N. C. Phillips, room b, Everett block. Joor y terms, choice reslaence raham ave., on motor line, S0 acre frutt and vegetable farm 13 Chautanqua grounds, - A great y tecms, Only £33 per acre or will trade for Omaha_or Council rty, 480 acres improved land; & fine corn and stock farm 1 mile from station, Im- sslon given, cres ood frult and farm land, b milo north of Chautanqua 6 -0 acres choloe grove lands on Grand Only §0 per acre. For Bale—10 acres, good house, barn and out- bulldings, 1,00 fruit ‘trees, four miles from post- office, only $0 per acre, 'easy terms: also 33 acres adjoining, well iniproved, at $50' an acre, one-third cash, balance on terms to sult, or 8 4, block & Hanscom' Place, Omaha, on 10 years' time at § per cent. W. C. Stacy Room 4, Opera, Block. INSURANCE at actual cost. Daugherty, Canning st., Address Couneil T AVE Totses and Tofs T ail parts ot Coun- cil Bluffs, from $30) to #3,00), that 1 can sell on monthly payments, or any terms to suit pur- chasers, This s of particular advantage to Omaha merchants, clerks, mechancs, or people Who desire a iome near the business center of Omaha without being compelled o pay exorbi }:&lnl prices, C. B, Judd, 605 Broadway, Council ul I OTS in Central sub cheap, C. Phillips, Toom 5, Everott ferms, N. K- Rent—Garden land with houses, D, 102 Main st., Coancil Bluff A lots, corners, great bargains, Benson & Shepherd, 9 Main st. T OTon 4th avenue, Van Brunt & Rice's sub,, cheap. Benson'& Shepliord, i Main st. Stoves, Stoves, Stove The bost $12.00 cook stovo . Tho best The best st The best 7 The best ¥ Cheap st Wo are the sole and ouly Drated Rdiant Home he P, Stewart heaters, the famous soft coal Oak stoves, gnarantoed to hold fire over muyght, We have the best stoves, the largest stock of stoves and tue lowest pr on stoves, and even our cheapest we guarantee. Don't fall to see us, On Raaiaut Homes ana Stewarts we are cheaper than any other western city from # to 8; pleased to quota prices to ontside parties, and deliver stoves wiihia fifty miles of tho' « Cole & Cole, 41 Main st, opposite Citze) bank. s At all pr zents for the cel . the genuine P, Prepare For Winter. The Peninsula heating stoves are the best in market. Havo handled them for tive yoars, ry sale glves satistaction. Before you buy e0 them, The new Boyton furnaces are cone ructed upon the most &pproved scientifio rnciples, and are the best and most economi ‘a furnace in tue world. For sale only ufaw . Lauterwasser, 507 Broadway, Couu n BIft P£. O. DeVol's Stove Sale. 500 stoves and more coming. i\loudny mormng I will commence the sale 1,000 pocketknives ut ¢ 500 pocko:knive 400 pocketknivy 300 pocketkniv Remember that Fuller & Warren make the P, P. Stowart stove. None othier genuine, | handié uiolr brand, und will close out my stock atcost, to makeroom for another carload of Pecrless Garlauds, the world’s best. To be without a Peeriess Garland 15 to be behind the times, Do not get behind, Coma in and sce my No, 8 ¢ook 8tove for 810 and my petter grades, the Cnarte Oak and Family Garland. Am alfo agent fo the Climax, Excelsior, Acorn, Maud D, Mon- itor. Charter Onk and GARELAND ranges Special sales for weok will bo Peorless Gare land stoves, stoye bonrds, coal hods and 000 pocketknives, Come 1n and see the Art Gariand 1 operation. P. (. DeVor, 504 Broadway. ANTED—A neat young girl to lielp in gen- ‘al house work, Mrs Jacob Sims, 316 Platuer st. PrsLcomer on Broadway, oppasite power house' Benson & Snepherd § Main st. OTS on Glen ave., genuine snaps, Beason & Shepherd, 9 Maln st, T,0T5 on Manava motor Tine, Jcash, Dbalance $10 per moath, Shepherd, 9 Main st. RUAL EsTA Ught and sold changed. Speclal atteution given to exam- ination of tifles. W. C. James, No. 1) Pearl st, € {OR SALE—Acre lots in Orchard plac This proporty s located in the Rico nursery, Bouthof the main part of the city. 115 miles from court house, "Geo. Metcalf, 1 Pearl st. H° and los; #10) casn, 321) cash. 30 L casiy, bulance easy. Benson & S noplierd \VM. SIED PF, Renl Estate, Special attention givon to examnation’ and cor- rection of titlo t0 lands and lots in city and county. No. 8. North Main st. OTS {n Mullin's sub, $10 cash, balance 310 per 0 & Shepherd, 9 Mals R SALE—12) acre farm in Jaspor Towa, located noar coal minos tha operation. Theroisa five foot vein of coal under the farm. Geo. Metcalf, No. 10 Pearl st. USINESS 1ocations or Main and Broadwa; at great bargains, Geo, Metcalf, No. Pear! st. TORSALE—Imp nimproved prop erty in every part of the oity, Rare oppor tunitios for fnvestors who seek specuiations; eplendid opportunities for those who dosil bomes. Geo, Metcalf, No. 10 Pearl st. 01t SALE—80 feet Inke frontagoe 10 twoen O 13, boat house aud Munawa beach ‘Also a number of choico lots in- Regatta place Geo. Metcalf, No. 10 Pear] st. 01t REN od busi Way. A fine rotail tion. Inquire E. Councit Blutls, orners, 10 Benso & 83 frout, In good condi- ayne, 019 Broadway, COAL. COAL, COAL. 1 propose to cive consumers value for their money in Coal, and until further notico my rices ara—all rail Anthracite: Grate and Ege, 4 No.4 and Range, §1.50; Vhestnut, 350, “AlS0 Iost les or Tilinois and Tows Soft Conl— Ediibnrg, 1linos, lump, $450; Maplews ump, $1.70; Hamilon lumnp, 0: Whitebr uck, $1.50) L 0, D, WM. WELCH, leplione o3, der 616 South Main street D. J, EpMUNDs Vice Pres, OF COUNCIL BL Liability to Depositors....335,000.00 Hannan, Transact’ general banking business COUNCIL BLU ‘HANSAN. Cashler, CITIZENS STATE BAN, Paid up Capital Surplus . . 35,000.00 Direcrors—I. A, Mille 0. Glozson, E. L. Bhugart, Hart, J. D. Edundson, Chas. R Largest capital and surplus of any bank in Northwestera lowa, Interest on time deposits Omnibus, Carriage ani Transfer NES, WM, WELCH .Proprietor, The Fluest Line of Landaus, Coacles and Hacks in the City I have & new satin-lined c i rriage tor priv lv 18 the most elegant couch lu the pecial attention given to commetolal men Jiheatrical troupes, - Best Taciiitios ia the city for haudiing scenery, OFFICKRS OGDEN HOUS 016 50, MAIN ST, Telephone No, 53, Telephone No. 63, BARN, Teleplione No, %, The only liue authorizeed to &uswer calls turned io to Am. Dist, Tel. Co. I Agents wantea, i Flower Pots. Something entirely new, and the handsomost avticle of the kind that eyer adorned a bay- window or conservatory, areour new painted and ornamented Flower Pots and Vascs for house plants. se 0 0ds ure entirely new and are sold _exclusively in Council Bluis by us. The Rustic Pots are highly orasmental and will beautify any house, One grado s smoothly putnted in bright color ready for do:orution by ladles who paint, These hiandzome goods are xold at prices commonly asked for plai Ge for painted pot and ssucer, and plain at cc responding prices, LUND BROS, 23 Main Stréet, ~Seioeds v Surme; ou | “0FEIYD J01894 STO0I 11 Jo SAMS 3S9UP oI SIIL 3S [eed ol “3s WIEW 9F ST T yrr— sy Electrie Trusses, Belts, Chest Pro fectors, Ete, C. B, \l No.27 Main St, Over Jacquemin's Jewelry Stor* BOOTS AND SHOES, ~==OF ALL KINDB— AT VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH. Bargains in 8chool Bhoes and Winter goods ay A, SPOONER'S, 121 Main Btreot, THOS, OFFICER, W. H. M. Pussy OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. Corner Main snd Brosaway, COUNCIL BLUFFS, 10W A, Dealers in foreiim and domestic exchange ;ULI‘I;;IluMmMIl akd lnterest pald on time