Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1889, Page 6

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: 'IRi THE OMAHA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS OF J NO. 12 PERARL STREET. Delivered by carrler fn any part of the City, H.W. TILTON MANAGER TELEPHON Bueinegs Orrice No, 42, NyGnt b No. 23, e M N. Y. P Co. Gleason coal. Council Bluffs Lumber Co., coal. Thatcher coal, se¢ advertisement. The Boston store for holiday good Hest coal and wood at C. B. Fuel Co. Carbon Coal Co.wholesale, retail, 10Pearl. Dr. Green reports a case that has devel- oped all the symptoms of the Russian influ- enza. Lew Wind, the victim of Monday night's stabbing affray is reported to be out of danger, Eight drunks and two disturhers of the peaco wero fined in polico court yosterday morning, as the relics of the Christmas celo bration. The Young Woman 's Christian Temper- ance union meets toni ght in their room, N 802 Merriam block, ut 1:30, All young peo- ple cordially invited. A delegation of Fidelity council No, 156 Royal Arcanum, visited Omana last night for the purpose of conferring the depree on & new council at Pioucer hall. A large audience witnessed “Held By the Enemy” at Dohany's last evening.” The majority of the parts were well tuisen. and the applanse bestowed was liberai and en- thusiustic A Shetland pony belonging to the children of William Sicdentop? ran away yesterduy morning, and succeeded in smashing up the Hittlo dog cart to which he was d, but beyond this no damage was done, ip farmer named WV, M. paid £.60 yosterday in scttiement olice authorities for his Christmas drunk. John Burrynill contributed the same amount for tho same pure [y s anew horse blanket awaiting an owner at the central police station, It was taken from John Hennessey when arrested on Monday night. The oficers are of the opinion that it was stolen in Sioux City. Fred Geise is making his friends some valuablo presents, Ho recently made a visit 10 the battletield of Chickumaiiga, and while there cut a lurge number of sticks suitable for canes which he presented to his friends, The case of Kd. Martin, charged with the larceny of a wagon bolster from Frank Gum, ‘who lives in the northwest portion of the city, was _heard vesterduy by Squire Heno- dricks and resulted in the acquittal of the defendant. 1t is rumored that the Northwestern con- templates some important changes on the first of the year. It will be nothing less than another fast train between Council Bluffs and Chicago, muking four daily pas- senger trains each way, and two of them fiycrs, The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy rail- road compuny announces a reduction of cat- tle rates from the Missouri river to Chicago. The rate will be reduced 10 18 cents and wiil tako effect Decamber A further redu tion to 10 or 12 cents is promised in the near futvre. *The Two Johns"” will be the att Dohary's this evening. act comedy is a drawing a card in the Bluffs and the ridiculous predicaments in which the two cousins are frequently placed on account of the similarity in their looks keeps the audicnce in a roar. When Joim Webster is at home and at- tending to his business e is a treman at Atlantic. On Christmas he came to he Bluffs and viewcd the city from a_comforta- ble seat inside When he had seen enouch he discharged the hackman but re- fused to pay him. He was arrested and yes- terday morning paid 89.60, ‘The real estate exchange will hold its first auction sale of lots tomorrow morning, Much of the property listed yesterday found ready buyers, Mr. Wells of Maquoketa being one of the investors. ‘I he daily sessions of the ‘board ure becoming very interesting and the attendance is increasin The business men generally manifest considerable 1nterest. It was very quiet about the court house yosterday, and will so continue until the January term of the district court begins, “The inwervening tima will be devoted to the arcuments for motions and demurrers before Judge Coarson, avd the disposition of such mattors as can bo attended to after the term proper has come to un end. Atalate bour Wednesday night an un- known Dane was knocked down and robbed of §5 on South Ninth street, between T'wentieth and Twenty-first avenues. He claimed that there were two of his assuil- ants, und that onc of them was his cousin, but would give no names, but ali that could be discovered that was at all definite was the discolored bruise and cut along the left de of his face, where the highwaymen struck him, Judge Avlesworth has granted a new trial * of the case of Brownell v Chapman, This 18 the steamboat case, in which the plantiff sues to colicet §1,500 for new machinery, ana the defendant files a counter claim for sev- eral hundred doliars damages, because the boat was not ready to run at the specified time, The jury awarded.the defendant $50 after a trial of se al days. The case will como up again at the Junuary torm of the uperior court, Secretary Zevely of the board of trade has completed Tis anuual report and it is now in the hands oi the printor. It will be ready for distribution by January 1. Owing® to the fuct that newspaper men have been excluded frow the meetings of the board during the year the general public hus not known, ex- cept from results, just what the board was doin| ‘The report will show that the board Bas in an unostontions way accomplished @ great deal of work during the last year, In- teresting statistics relative to the banking _business, buildiug mprovements, cte., of Council Bluffs during the year 185 will be included in the report. - Bush & Gert's piauos, 555 Broadway. el e I The Mankattan sporting headq'rs 418 B-way. Al B Personal Farageaphs, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gray of Lincoln, Neb., aro visiting friends in the city, H. P. Bacrott of the Worll-Herald spent Christmas with his parents av Lincols Mrs. 1, Newmun and son of Creston are the guests of Mr, and Mrs, Simon Eiseman, C. Clausen, who attends college at on, is spending the holiduys with his parents, Mr. and Mrs, W. I¥ Year's day. Fred Goise returned to Chattanooga y torday aftor an.enjoyable Christmas visit in the Bluffs, Peter Korth, a lumber and implement dealer of Portsmoutn, was & Bluffs visitor yestorduy. Jorry Moyer eoes to Chattanooga to acrept ® position in in the large brewery of Conrad Geise, formerly of this city, Robert Gorter of the Pearl Melville com- ?flll.\l is in the city, This company will hold he boards at Dohany’s all of next week with an excellent repertoire of plays. - Pop- ular prices will prevail, J. C. Regan, & well known Omaha con- tractor, was in the city yesterday examinin the pluns and specifications of the new hotel With & view to submitting a bid for furnish- ing the foundation material and other stone that will be required. W. M. Awsbury returned to Bloomington, 3 sterday, after spending Christuas nephew, Tom Cavin, Mr, Amsbury is spocial deputy suprewme ruler of the Fr terual Mystic Circle and will return to Council Bluffs in a few weeks for the gurpow of orgumizivg bravch of that order ore, ction at This funny three- . W. W, Loowis and Mr. and Sapp, jr., will receive on Now 8. A, Broadwell, who was liberated from the penitentiary on the 23d inst., on a par- don, was in the oity yosterday visiting friends, He is staying with friends in Ouwaba and is yot undecided what course he will f.urlllm he history of his case is familiar to the readers of Tuk Beg, and the sentiwent is genersl that his pardon was no wore than was deserved after the conspiracy that kept him in a felon’s celi for over two years. A e Finest line confectionery, fruits, nu iflllflu{ groceries in the eity, 5. Attee’ —~———— C. B, steam dye works, 1018 Broadway. Me- TWO SNOOTH CONFIDENCE MEN ] They Work General Business Firms By an Advertising Scheme. A SERIOUS RUNAWAY DASH, It Nearly Costs Life James Rainham His neral Happenings of the Day Atter Ohristmas in the Bluffs, A Successful Confllence Game, The inducoments that are thrown out by traveling swindlers and the prospoct of get- ting something for nothing are so alluring to the average human being that it frequently happens that the reputable and upright are caught in the toils, aud even the enterpris. ing and ordinarily far-seeing merchant isap- pronched by these sharks during the hur and bustle of his daily business, and is suc cossfully worked by some scheme which, under other circumstauces, would be utterly transparent, but at the moment appears to be the grand, good thing that the smooth cal ropresents. The mere fact that the )w who offers the “splendid bargain® i ariably « stranger should lead to hi regardea with suspicion when he offers to give so tauch for so little, but it must again be recorded that the “con’’ man las been working the Bluffs, and that there aro sev- eral prominent business firms who would like to cultivate his acquaintance just long enongh to get him indicted, tried and sent over thie roud. Heis twins this time, and sails under the cuphdnious name of Mohler & Roberts, The sharks, for thero are two of them, ap- peared in the city the fore part of the week and made the rounds of several business houses, represcnting themselyes as thoatri- cal advertis ‘Phoy wanted to secure a number of ads to put'in a frame, in the cen- ter of which would bo the announcement of the cowing attractions at the opera houses of this city and Omaha, the frames to be hung conspicuously 1n the hotels, 'Tho frame was to be attended to aud changed as often as re- quired to havo tho next attraction appear in its proper place. The frame wus to be a very hanisome affair, and the work was to be done in o tractive manner, ‘The pr: cipal “eate however, was the agree- ment to eive tho advertiser a pass which wonld entitle hiui to two seuts per month for one year at tho Hoyd., The confidence man offerca a space six inches square for $10, and he was not long in finding ali tke adver- tisers he wunted. The advertiser was of course getting & good thing, as -he would havo twenty-four tickets, worth at least $§1 ocach, in exchange for his $10 bill, 10 say nothing of the good that might result frow the ndvertising. As the money was not demanded until the advertisement was shown in the frame, the merchant saw noth- ing suspicious, and’ when the fellows ap- peared a few hours later with the frame, aund he saw his ad fixed up in black and white, and a few other colors, he pmd over tho coutract price and received his ‘‘theater pass.” It wus represented to the advertisers that the frame would be hung up in the office of the Hotel Jameson, but even this require- ment has not been fulfillea. The sharks went to the Lotel aud secured permission to display their frame on the outside of the building, offering to give to the proprietors apass for four tickets per month per year at the Boyd. The frame was taken there ‘Tuesday afternoon and left i the ofice, leaning against the wall, the owner saying that he would send a man over from Omaha the next morning to put it up. The man fmled to put in an appearance, and the frame still remains where he left . It 18 & very cheaply sotten up affair and on tho cardboard in the center appears the unmes of the Boyd and Grand opera houses and Eden Musce, Omaha, and Dohany's, Biaffs, with *“The Pheenix," cthy's Mishaps,” varieties and “Held Dby the Enciny” anuounced as the coming at- tractions at each, It is headed *'‘Omaha and Council Bluft Theater Directory,” and along the sides are arranged the ads, of the Boston , Schmidt, J. C. Robertson, Druce & Reynolds, T . Gleason, H. A. Baird, Steinhop! chofield and Sargent & Evan ‘L he indications ure that iv will soon bo re- tired to the obscurity ot whe ceilar and there n as amonument to the work of the men and their victims, It transpires that the two ‘“theatrical advertisers’ are nov v forgers, but they are also very badly wanted in Omuha for beating their hotel bill at the Merchants, ‘Ihey have skipped and the landlord vaiuly whistles for the cash that does not come, The denoucment came yesterday evening when Mr, Fotheringhain of the Boston store and Mr. Jameson of the hotel Jame- son went to Owaba to reserve their first bawch of theater = scats. They presented the neat little card which read, “Hoyd's Opera House, Owaha, De- cember 24, I850.—On account of theatrical advertisenient Fotheringham, Whitelaw Co. are entitled 10 two resorved scats per month for one year.—Boyd & Haynes.” On the back was written, “If desired this will be acknowledged av the New Grand for one~ half (b ts upon tho face.” ‘T'he visitors from the Bluffs were in- formed that the opers house management hud made no such arrangement, and pro- nounced the signature a wretched forgery. Mr. Fotheringham then roferred to h inted contract, which read as follow: ‘*Mohler & Roberts, Theatrical Advertisers, Merchants’ Hotel, Omaha, Neb,, December 24, 1580, —Pleaso insert our advertisement in theatrical frame at Jameson hotel for the term of ouo year, for which I agreo to pay the sum of $10 at sight of my advertisement in said fram Boston store, O, K. This entities the holder to two complimentary seats per H. Mohler, Received payment. H, MonLen.” At tho Merchaut's hotel it was learned that the swindlers had skipped without Jiquidating, und on this showing the card cailing for “half as many seats at the new Grand as upon the face” wus not carried farther. The victims came home and swal- lowed their inaigoation us well as possible. Some of tne vietimized merchants prefor to koow nothing of the matter, being unwilling to adwmit that vhey were victimized. One of them had completed all arrungements to attend the theatre last night, and was getting on the motor when 1'ng Bee man gontly brok ) the news to him, He vowed he would place the “pass” in his safe and always keap 1t on top where his eyes would frequently rest apon it aud prevent him from biting at another such bait. As nearly as can be ascortaiued ono of the swindlers is a very clever sighn writer and his partner, who transacts all the business und does all the talking, is mooth con- fidenco man and an uousually cheeky scoundrel as well, Hoth were well dressed, wearing silk hats and fur trimmed overcoats, and of very prepossessing appearance, It is believed that they are wow in Kunsas City, where they aro probably reaping a harvest at the same busino: ‘The victims take their loss goodnaturedly, and will undoubtealy profit by their experi- euce. The attention of every business man is called to the case and they are warnea to fight shy of these catchpenny advertising schemes and especially oily strangers, e - To Stone Contractors, Proposals will be reccived at the office of Messrs. Kimball & Champ, Councit Biuffs, Ta., until 4 p. m., December 80, for putting in the concreto and stone footing courses for a hotel building. e plans and specitications can be scen at their ofiice. They reserve the right to accept such propossl as may be deewed for their best interest, or reject all. e —— P, C. Miller, best paper hanging and des- orating, The is the cheavest. — Blank books, all kinds, ledgers and jour- nals, 10 12 quires, at less than cost. Send for Jxrice Masonic book store, Council Blufts, e Hereafter the dining room of the New Pa- cifio will be ran on semi-European plag, Al meals served at 2 conts each, Fountain cigar, o strictly 10c cigar for 5S¢ at the Fountain, Try on —— A Serious Runaway Accident. Yesteraay afternoon James Rainbow, 8 resident of Silver Creek, was drviog 8 spirited team of horses attached to & light wagon, When passing the new hotel sl Pearl street they became frightencd at the pile driver and ran away, At the juncture of Pear] and Main streets they struck a tele- phono pole that supports the wires at that junction, The terrific shock completely do- molished the vehicle and threw Rainbow upon the paving. He struck on his head and recoived severe injurics, He was picked up m an insensible condition and medical attention given him. His injuries consisted of & sovere sealp wound and numerous bad broises. He was cargd for during night and will be taken to Ms home today if it is considored safe to move him. . i Have you triod McClurg's Pastry Wafer Sodas! Tney are delicate, crisp and delicious, - A, D, Telegraph Co. Al persons in the city who_have tele- phiones can call up telephone 170 for wmes songor boys, CAbs ANa eXpress Wagous, oto. Prompt attention guaranteed, C. (. Robin« son, manager, No. 11 North Main street. - books as low as the t at Dell G. Morgan's, 742 Broadway. Neumeyer hotel, first class, reasonable rates Holiday goods and low The Koss Investment and T'rust company - - Miss Mary Gleason has removed hor dress- making parlors to the rooms lately used by the puolic library, No. 14 Pearl street, where ahe will bo glad to see her old friends. - Money loaned at L. B. Craft & C office on furniture, pianos, horaos, personal proverty of all kinds, articles of value, without r iness strictly confidential. - Fine stock of watches and jewolry for the holidays at Wollman's, 533 Broaaway. loan agons, 1 all other moval. All bus- P - 3 A lavely Dasn. Until 5 o’clock lastevening Wilham Welch, the hack line man and coal dealer, drove a somewhat timorousand very spirited broncho pony to his private carriage. He will not do 80 again until the broncho can be recaptured by a skillful lariat thrower, and the picces of the buggy are gathered up and put togother again, The broncho made his dash for liberty on Pearl strect and left the greater part of the vehicle and nearly all of the dri on the corner of Pearl street and Lifth avenue, where he made the turn towards his native plaius i the far wesw Mr, Welch escaped_without serious injury, but there was but little of the buggy left. - All tho toys left at the Boston store have been put on the counters down stairs and will be soid at less than half their value. Big bargaios for today and saturday in ail departments. - Saddle Rock restaurant, 402 day and night. First class. Yaucy, prop. Broadway, J R el Sl Reiter, tailor, 310 Broaaway. S. M. Willlamson sells the Standard and Domestic sewing machines. * 105 Main st. g Sold gold watches cheap at Wollman’s, plraes Rl Drs. Woodbury nave removed their dental office to 101 Pearl street. up stairs. - presents at Moors & Bowman's. Shors. Ferry. Shocs. ‘Will sell gents’ fine shoes at less than cost until January 1. Corner -Broadway and Maib, under the banic. et J. G. Tipton, real estate, 527 Broadway. Sy Fine perfumes, sachot powiers bottles for the holidays at Dell G, Co.’s, 742 Broadway. e Always on Time. 1f you wish to purchase a good and reliable watch 25 per cent loss than club rates, and on easy terms, then call at onca and ' make your own selection at C. B. Jacquemin & Co., 27 Main street. e b Rl SOUTH OMAHA NEWS. Smokenr: ana toilet Morgan & Yule Mementoes, The commission firm of George Burke & Frazier with commendable forethought and liberal hearts remembered employes and friends with presents Christmas as follows: Fred W. Gasmonn, George A. Beam, Nels Purington, Putrick J. MoGroth, William Waliwork, Johu H. Wallwork, Captain William B. Bell, Michael B. Murphy, C. E. Bogart, Leroy Hough, cach, a silk umbrella, John Moss a silk umbrella and a box of cigars, Jacob Obman a silk umbrella and a box of cigars, George S. Brown a sillk um- brella and §200 in cash, Fred E. Pearl, Nathan 0N Dimmick and Frank Hobbick, each a set of Roger’s silver kuives und forks, Theodore Sanders a silk umbrella and a box of cigars, Pacific ph, stock yards ofice, Missouri Pa- caitroad ofic, 1. & M. railway ofice, Island & Pacific railroad of~ Northwestern railroad oftice and the Union Pactfic railroad office, Moses Howard, the shrinker's chute gangs, scale Louses, hay wagons, corn wagons, each a box of cigurs, Herman Schmeling watch and chain, Theodore Sunders silk umbrella and a'box of cigars, -Western Union tele- graph offico a box of cigars and box of bon bons, and representatives of the Stockman, Drovor's Journal and Oxaia Bee and Lee Rothenild, Benton Uuderwood and the stock yards stables. The Emanon Christmas Dance. One of tho best attended and pleasantest dances ever given by the Emanon was the Christmas party Wednesday evening. Care- ful preparations had becn made and all who were fortunate enough to be present were accorded the pleasures of one of the most en- joyable socials ever had in the city. Awmong the visitors were: Misses Mary and Carrie Gisomini, Claud Lucas and Georgia Ricb of Owaha, Mary A, Doud of Chicago, Carrie Wolt of Crete, Carrie Austin of Grand Island, Tina Dunbar of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Mr, D, A, Smeaton of Omaba, How the Commission Men See, A prominent commissiou man hands ia the following for publication in Tng Bee: +It would seem from certain deveiopuents that have taken place around the yardsin the last twenty-four hours that u certain commission firm and Lieutenant Greeley, tho weather prophet, and the umbrelia manufac- turers, have gone 1uto or formed an um- brella trust. As this cowmission firm bhave been distributing the aforesaid umbreilas to the cattle and hog buyers of the yard A generous act of course, for if we are to have 8 rainy season buyers can not it ou their horses and buy cattlan such weather with- out a protection of some kind without greatly endavgering their health. A capital ideal Just think of it.” A CoMMISSION MAN, A Terrible Accilent, Thursday afternoon Arthur Rubl met with 8 terrible accident and miraculously escaped instant death. Working at the bottom of a well on his lot on Twenty-first street, be- tween P and Q streets, the bail of a bucket full of sand broke, letting the bucket, weigh- g nearly three hundred pounds, fall some twenty feet, striking him on top of the head and crushing him to the grounh. The chain cut 1nto the bone near the center of the top of the head and tore the scalp from the bone and down to the side. The follow workmen thought of course that he was instantly killea, After recovering consciousness Mr, Rull was taken out and asurgeon summoned, who dressed his wounds, The skull was not fractured, and the injury is nov considered serious, but the escaje was wivaculous, Notes About the Oity, Charles Swartous is sick, Harry Carpenter is on the invahd list. Mrs, John [rwin is sick with lung fever. Miss Mabel L. Silver 1s aguin very sick, A son borg to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ko- bert. Mrs. George H. Kiser bas been sick scv- eral da; John, the voungest son of Mr, and Mrs. Daniel Kafterty, is sick. ‘While wrestling Thursa evening An- drew Mahoney sprained b It avkle. Mrs, Joln P, Evers bas founa her gold walch and chaln which was lost & week ago, The fourth of the series of progressive bigh five games at the Emonon will be Pplayed Friday eueniog, Julius Stance mistook & valuable meer- | fire with keroseno cil Thursday. schaum cigar holdbwfor one of his own and he will explain beford Judge King. e venerablo Mr ‘oner, motner of Patrick H. and John Tonor and the late Mrs. Edward Corrigan, is dangerously iil. Mrs. John Rusgell attempted to build o sion followed burned hand, Several members of the Bee Hive lodge, No. 252, A. F. and AL M., will go to Omaha this evening to spend the evening with Masonic brethern, The sensational Fitch made uga and she is now nursing a Eharges against M. D, ast, Gharles Lindstrom were dismissed by Judge King and the costs as- sessed to Lindstrom The North Star Seandinavian society held a sbecial meeting Tuesday cvening to com: plote arrangements for.the danco Sawurday evening in National hail. John O'Gorman, who wanted to carve his wife with a butcher knifo fora Christmas gify because sho would not give him 10 cents to buy whisky with, was found guilty by Judge King und finod $10 and costs. Mrs. Edward Corrigan, nee_Mury Toner, aftor a week’s lliness died at 7 o'clock Fri r evening at the home of her husband, on Thirty sixth and T streets, leaviog a bo- reaved husband to mourn her sad death and a little ohild ono woek old, The funeral will be held_Saturday and the intormont will bo in St. Mary’s cemetery, About Peaple, John Toner is down from Sioux ( g T. C. Marsh has roturned from Creighton, Jehn H. Hartman has returned to Beemer. C, W. Tillman hus gone to Syracuse, lu., to live. Fox McGuire has gone to Lincoln ona short visit. James McCune and gone to Chicago. Henry Moshor has gape to St. Joseph, Mo, on a holiday visit. Dr, Breed of Seward 18 the and Mrs. S. D. Rynearson William Berger has beon called to Colo- rado to attend his sick father. Walter Morphy of Atlantic, guest of Mr. and and Mrs. C . J. McFarland, of the firm J land & Holleraft, has returned from Topeka, Kan, L. . Hitte, formorly of the pank, who went to Chicago a f has returned. Hon, and Mrs. John McMillan, who spent Christmas with their daughter in Ashland, have returned. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph McColl and children of Sheridan Lake, Colo., are guests of Mr. and Mrs, Northan E. Acker. B.J. Coy, formerly of this city, now o successful building contractor of Sioux City, made a Christmas visit here. Harry Fisher has gone to visit friends in Minncapohs, and from there will Ko to Chad- ron, 111, to visit his mother, Mrs. C. D, Smith, teacher in the Sioux City training school, came down to spend the holidays with her' nusband, who is at the Exchange. James McDermott of Lincoln, formerly boss in the Armour-Cudaby packing house cooper shops, spent Christmas with friends in the city. Dr. and Mys. M. Kirkpatrick will start on a holiday visit going to visit the doctor's mother at Atlantic, Ia., then to visit Mrs, Kirkpatrick’s parents at Waterloo, and then other relatives and friends in Tama City, Theodore Schumacher of Ansley and Misses Emma uud Helen Schumacher of De Witt are visitiag their sister and brother-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Grautham, and Mrs. W, P. Grantham of York is visiting her son, Jawes M —_— Thomas Foley have guest of Mr In., tockyrards Night ago, Have you tried McClurg’s Pastry Wafer Sodas? Thoy are delicate, crisp and delicious. —~— A PRE-ARGONAUT. Keminiscences of Life in California Before the Days of '49. The argonauts af California were here rather early after gold, but therc was o band of men here before them, after nothing less than hides and tallow, and but fow of that generation are left, says the Sun Francisco E. Alfred Robinson, living in this city, is one of them. Te is a h arian, with a mind clear a remarkable memory, and, for his blindness, leading a v mental life. He was one of the izens of the republic to set foot on what has since become Caiifornia. W he es not know about the early history he state is hardly worth knowing. He has published one book, **On Life in Cabfornia,” and now has two others in pross, one a further history of the state and the other entitled *‘California, an Historical Poem,” Published by Doxe, Tt is dedicated to the pioneers of Cal fornia. Mr. Robinson y active has been frequently consulted by DBuncroft and Hittell, in regard to importunt points in the pre- argonaut days,and a remarkuable feature of his owu work is its absolute fidehty 1o fact. In speakiug of days which are even ancient history argovauts of 49, Mr. Robinson said: *‘I left Boston july 28,1828, in the ship Brookline, and ar- rived here after a passage of over six months. +T was the assistant supereargo under William A, Gale, who had heen here on the business befor We had a cargo of assorted merchandise which we traded to the missions along the coast for the hides and tallow which they had accumulated, There were half a dozen vessels from the cast enguged in the traflic. “Their methods were similar. On arriving on the coast we entered ship and paid duties at Monterey and then sailed for San Diego, There we built o storehouse with lumber we had brought ane fixed it up for preparing the hides we should collect until such time us we had enough for a cargo east. After doing that we sailed direct for the bay of San Francisco, “That was in 1829, We anchored just off Montgomery and Washington streets, There was not a house between us and the Mission Dolor There was o little shanty at Washerwoman’s bay, where North beach is- now, and ‘a small cluster of * adpbp houses at the Presidio, occupied by some thirty Mexican soldiersi ' The country was un- der Mexico then, On the other side of the bay were two great ranchos, the Castro and the Reralta. There was no location to the north, Although Mex- 1co claimed up Lo the Columbia river tho Russians were at Fort Ross, how- ever. “There were snmil settlements at San Jose, probably twonty or thirty houses, and at Santa Clara, The missions at these two places ;on the coast, having between 2,000 and . 5,000 Tndians each, while their rangesfed in the neighbor- hood of two hundréd thousand head of cattle. The missign Dolores here did not huve over six hundred Indiuns. There were no forgiguers about the bay then. “After bartering our rough cloths for what hides and tallow the missions here had, we sailed for Sun Diego, stopping at Monterey, Santa Barbara and San Pedro, where hides were brought from the intevior and very wealthy missions of San Gabriel and San Fernundo, We stored our cargo and then went over the same grounds again to gather more, und kept it up until there was enough to ship east. “Gale went east with the cargo and I remained here to barter off what goods were left and gather more hides. The great bulk of the wade was with the missions, und they all lay within a hun- dred miles of the coast. Those 1u the interior were reached by horseback. T'd start from San Diego and go uorth, buykug on the way. “The San Gabriel was by far the richest of the interior missions and An explo- | | show for it. | out paying a cont. ~blan “I shipped about forty thousand hides enst every year. Money was mever used in trade, Perhaps there was not more than 3,00 in coin on the const and the Mexican soldiers used most of that in their gambling games. “I'd sell the mission $15,000 or #20,000 worth of goods and not have a hne to As the hides camo in A man traveled with The missions gon- erally looked after all wayfavers and provided horses, food and lodging with. out cost. “When I went home in 1840 I took with me $1,000 in dust; that was the first pold earried east from here. | had it assayed in the Dhiladelphia mint. The certificate of assay is now in possession of the California Pion ) “In 1849 Willinm H. Aspinwall, who had the contract for running steamers from here to Panama, employed me us agent. That was the beginning of the Pacific Mail steamship line. [ ft New York with twenty-five ps gor on asailing vessel for Chagres. We ware to cross the isthmus and meot the stoamor ornin at Panama, coming up from around the Horn, “The night before we sailed from New York the news of the great dis- covery of gold in California reached the city, We left the city without tho slightest realization of the effect it would have. Our ship reached Chagroes at dusk and found the steamer there, loaded with 1,000 passengors wildly eager to reach the new El Do- rado. ““We crossed the isthmus and waited for the Califarnin. Time passed and still she did not como. In the mean- while the steamer Faleen went to New Orleans and returned till theve were nearly five thousand excited men wait- ing for the long-delayed California. When she did enter port she was packed with passengors, for the news of the discovery of gold had reached South America, and Lima and Valy had sent north a great deleg gold-seekers. The pusser New York with me were chance, and aftor great ingenuity and hard worK to salisfy the others we steamed north with 450 meu tucked and jammed about the vessel. The Culi- fornia was caleulated to ¢ S| five passengers. [ortunately into port with no accident or “After that the regular handled the great rush. *‘At that time there were about thirty-five houses iu San Francisco; all storesand very few familios. Gradually the steamers brought families and building material and laid the founda- tion of San Francisco.” —_—— The American Lion. The mountain lion of North Ame isone of the most dangerous of the wild animals which are found in tne moun- tains of the far west. Although called alion, yet this animal bears no em- 0 the African lion except so fav its fierceness is concerned, says a writer in Chambers’ Journal, \ belongs to the smme family as the wild- cat or catamount, but is of much greater size, generally being about as large in body and hmb as a full-grown sheep dog. It is rarely scen m tho vicinity of settlements, except driven thither by hunger, when it will attack tle, sheep, horses or poultry, and at times human beings. But, as a general thing, if not molested, it will not attack hu- man beings, though, il wounded, there is no animal which will make a move desporate fight, regardless of conse- quences. It cannot be driven off from an attack as long as life lasts; it must be killed to be beaten. Tts chief peculiavity is its cry, which the most experienced hunter has at times mistaken for the wail of a child 1 distre: This feature makes the beast more dangerou pecially if he should establish his lair in the vicin- ity of a settiement, because, unless a person is au old-timer, he 1 be de- oived by that cry whenever he hears it. It is the most perfect imitation of a child’s wail of lament [ ever heard, more perfect than the cleverest mimic could utter. they’d pay me, tion of s who left given first wo got sickuess. steamers Hogs Kitled by a Rattler. Several days ago when John 1 ker, a farmer living in the n ern part of Lowndes county, 'y in his field picking cotton, his attention was attracted by a fuss maae by his hogs in & swamp noar the field. They made a noise they much like thoy do when they come on an unfriendly ani- mal, or perhaps a swange drove of swine, and cvery now and then one would squesl. He thought little of it, supposing they were having a tilt with a neighbor’s hogs. But he soon went to the house, when hissows came up. One tumbled over dead, then another, and another,the fourth became very sick, but recovered. Upon examination he discov- ered that they had been bitten by a snake on the nose and one of them on the tongue. A man working for Mr. Walker wentinto the swamp. found the snake and killed it. It was a five-foot rattler. Wal- 08t~ —_— In Williamsport. Pa., a bulletin board contains the information that **Maginty died in New York this morning from an overdose of chestnuts.” 'SPECIAL NOTICES, COUNOIL BLUFFS. FOR SALE AND RENT. 2 Hourth atrok urnishied front room; '1‘ OR BALE—A full set of now houxenold furniture: will be sold cheap, No, J East Washington aveiue, DR EXCHANGE % or 4 stocks of general merchandiss to exchange for good farin iands and cash: invoice from #,00) "o #12,000. Address Kerr & Gray, Council Bluffs, Ta, WAN ED—At aonce, stock of groceries or general mdse, thit will invoice about #4,000, in exchange fc %V in_ good improved property uear tols place: bal. in cash, Address orr & Gra ancil Blufrs, ()DELL BROS. & CO. loan money. The mons lberal terms offered, 103 Pearl st. BAL RSTATE—Hougnt and woli ani ex- chauged. Bpecial attention given to exam- ination of titles. W, C, Jawes, No 10 Pearl at. I I aoout to engage in other busir until ¢ losed out you will save mon amining before purchasing elsewhere, of furniture and stoves, You will fiud tclos that will make suitanle and hollday presents, A.J. Mandel, Broadway., FANTED—To trada for a lot two good 2 and ear-old horses, Inquire atthe Fountatn clgar store, Council Hlu(rs JOOR TRADE for stock, g0od lot in_Hastings Neb, Tnquire 1322 West Broadway. ¥ )R BALE or Rent—Garden land with house: by J. K. Rice 102 Main st., Council Biuffs, iR EXCHANG E—A good new 6-xo0m house to exchange for an lmproved 8) acre fari in westera or central lowa, Kecr & Gray. DR BALE~Nursery snd small fruit farm, 13 acres; farm 100 acres, improved, adjolnng ¥ood raiiroad towr: in Nebraska: will tuke part trade. K. H, Lamb, Council Bluffs, ORt SALE or fixcange—The furniture and lease of 463 room hotel doing @ big business in eastern Neb, Price, $,00; 81,600 case bal, on easy terms, or will teke 5 in' good real estate. Address Kerr & Gray, Council Blugs, TRESPONSINLE man wants position as nlght watchwan, Address X Y, Hee oflice, Coun- cll Biufrs, EW improved real estate to trade for unim provea Omaha or Council Bluifs property 0. B, Juad, 606 Broadway, NOW U | YOURTTINE! FROM NOW UNTIL JANUARY st WILL SELL —OUR—- MEN'S , BOYS' ——AND— CHILDREN'S SU IS ——AND— R UOATS ey N cosT METCALE BROS., 342 & 344 COUNCIL BLUFFS, : : BROADWAY, 10WA, PROFESSlb&AE D-l fiE(iTORY. FL BI RKINBIN F—Hydraulic and Sanitary ifications. Spo Engineer. Plans, wpervision of Public Worl. stimates Brown Building, Coucil Blufls, Towa. N. SCHUR —Attorneys-at Law. STONE & SIMS 3 eral Courts. —Justice of the Pence. Broadway, Couneil Blufls, lowa Office over American Express, No. 41 Practice in the State and Feds Rooms 7 and 8 Shugart-Beno Block, Council Bluffs, lowa, —Surgeon and Homapath. P. ). MONTGOMER building. 1 a. m., 210 6and 7108 p. m. Room 6, Brown 5 Pearl St. Office hours, 9 to 12, GAS FOR COOKING AND HEATING. The ideal fuel is gas, control and is Scientific investigations ha more of its nutritive prope good for cooling and heating. It wi heaters and cooke s are tho greatest suc EVERY DESIRABE ABSOLUTE § TY, GREATE EL A No- 210 Main §t, COUNCIL H JOR RENT—One seven-room houss on kourth one elght-room hoilse on ond avenue, and one eight-room house on e Il fitted up with all modern conven- W. W, Bilger, Pearl street, JOTICE—If you have real estato or chatiels you want to dispose of quick, lst them with Kerr & Gray, Councll Bluirs, 1a. clas E, Maxor, Councii B0, Boad pply ¢ Ml W ANIED — At onee, Qraughtsman, architect, room 2 Blufrs, “,'ANT—BI) Canvassors on stated salury, Ad- dress C, 24 BEE oflice, ol JANTED—A man of Lusiess ex) and office work, position of trust. 1 af or address Broadway, Councll Buffs, WV ANTED-A glrl for geneva house worki 00 Wages for one who {8 competent and reliable; none others need apply. Wells, Oaklan d ave,, Council B 7. D, EDMUNDSON, B L, By Pros, Vice Cnas. R, HANNAY, Cashler, MTITONG O N CITIZENS' STATE BANK, OF COUNCIL, BLUFPS, Pald up Caplital $150,000.00 Surplus ceens oo 35,000,00 Liabllity to Depositors....335,000,00 Dirkgrons—I. A. Miller, I, 0, Glozason, B. L. Shugart, E. B. Hart, J. D, Edundson, Chas. K. Hannan, Transact’ general buuking business Lirge: pital aud wurpluy of any bauk in Northwestern lowa, Interest on time deposits R MEWSE0., ARCHITE CTS AND BUILDING SUPERINTENDENTS, Rooms 430 and 432 Bee Bullding, Omata Neb., nd Hooms 244 and 216 Merriam Block, Council Blufts, Iowa, Correspondence Solicited. " BELL & BERLINGHOF, ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. Room 2, Opera House Block, Council Bluffs, Towa. Mrs, Lucius Pr 1008, OFFICER. W, H. M. Pusey OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. _ Corner Main and Brosaway, COUNCIL BLUFFS, 10WA. Dealers in forelgn and domestic exchauge Collections made and interest pald oo time de- vosli, 5 3 QUALITY, ECONOMY \ s Tt gives the greatest degree of heat, is always unde absolutely without dust ana there ean be no accidents from its use. shown that food cooked by it vetaing 20 per cent ties than if cooked in tho enk unless you have tried one cooked by aas, Electric Light company have made it desivable in point of ¢ 1 pay vou to investi old way. You nover ate a The Council Bluffs Gas and onomy 10 uso Thoir new They combine te thi ss 08 modern times, OR USE, G CAPACK NO LO CIRIC LIGHT FIXTURES OF ALL KINDS, AND EXAMIN MERRIAM BLOCK. No. 211 Pearl St FINST- | Joweler and Walch Roperor Has vemoved from 110 Main 8t. to 5 Broads way. Fino witch work @ speclalty and satis faction guar A full line” of holiday goods and 1 DRUCE & REYNOLDS Fashionable ~ Confectioners: e very latest novelties for banquets and Avate parties. Cholee frufts, bon-tons, ehocos 8, buttercups, and old fashioned molasses candy w spoctally, Orders for parties and muil orders promptly filled, 429 Boadway, Louncil Bufrs, T LA Mmpw;{:nfictuying (o, 1st Avenue and 21st Street, SASH DOORS AND BLINDS, Band and Seroll Sawing, Re-Sawing and Planing, Sswing of allKinds, Poron Brackets, Kindling wood 42,60 per load delivered, — Cloan sawdust by the barrel Zic, All work to be first-class, * Telephone 224, “Your Patronage Solicited” CHANCE FOR A PRIZE. Until the 16th of January wo will gives tickes to evel #: cash purchaser ot s atour store. ‘The ticket will entitle the lolder to @ chance in the following prizes: 1841 beautiful Gold Coin Heater, price $40, : 20d—1 Ll—n)n:l{ ('Iuwm' stand with' arches and huuglug buskot, e of lidles’ olub nkates, #2.25, ith boys club skutes, The, Aieno drises il be distribiited imuiodtately after tho dute glven. SHUGART & CO. - 2t [I0Y LB “8. E. MAXON, Mrchite:t and Superintend:nt Room 281, Merriam Block, COUNGIL BLUFFS, - 1OWAy “THE'FAMOUS” Apule and Plum Butsor, Mince Meat Suweot and Sour Pickles, Olives lu liulk, Snuer Kraut, P Moplo Syvipand Houey, Butkwheut Flour e jominy, O anberries, \fory Grapes: ' Lemong. Nuta, italslus aad: Color He iy thutter, 20c por It Our prices & wn&l the lowest, No, Broadway, opposl Ogden House,