Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1890, Page 5

fi " Bruno, THE COMMERCIAL TRAVELER. A Party of Drummera Entertained at a Banquet., GENERAL AND PERSONAL GOSSIP Movements of the Knights of the Grip During the Last Weeok— Omaha’s Sunday Guests ~Samples. A Surprise Party. HenroN, Neb., Jan. 18.—To Tne OMAHA BEE: A party of commercial men arrived in Hebron on the Rock Island route last T'hursday. coming in unexpectedly to surprise . W, Hughes, proprictor of the Central hotel. They wok possussion of the office and in & short time were all seated in the dining room enjoying n splendid banquet. In addition to this the rooms not having stoves were furnished with a large Rochester lamp, which the landlord went ont and bought or borro! for the oceasion. A very pleasant evening was spent playing cards and singing. Dr. Helphrey was on hand taking care of those sick with the grip. Although Hebron is a small place it has n good hotel. Kicks © o Weather. George D. Burdette, with the D. M. Steele Co.. Omaha, is with his multi- tude of friends in Columbus today. George, with the rest of mankind, is heaping cartloads of abuse on the re- p\lhl‘cnn weather clerk who permitted the influendways to settle down side- wise and thus impede locomotion of the folks who were crosswige. George man- nFnd. by cutting across lots, to sec most of his old friends and tear off a coupon for the remainder of the gang. The above appeared in the Columbus Telegram last week. “Plucky Saleamen,” C. 1. Latshaw, representing N. K. Fairbank & Co., St. Louis, and N. G. Rice, with Paxton & Gallagher, started on a drive overland from Octuria to a distance of seven miles. Owing fo heavy snowbanks and an un- broken road they were eight hours making the trip, having tipped over a number of times. Iinally the double- tree broke by heavy pulling and the horses ran away, leaving the boys to lug their baggage and wade through snow about four mile: Latshaw froze his feet and ears and Rice is thinking of making a tour of the dime museums as a ““freak.” Bob Simmons, the XXXX coffee man; A. W. Pullen, the Merrick thread fiend of Chicago, and J. W. Mead of Mil- waukee, spent several weary hours at Creighton last Wednesday morning shooting the festive ‘*‘craps” in the waiting room of the depot, waiting for the train which was delayed on account of snow at Verdigris, Itis understood that the game was broken upon ac- count of Mr, Pullen shooting crooked dice. s Last Wednesdny night the train on iy the Creighton branch of the Elkhorn road was delayed on account of the blizzard about” five hours, and did not arrive at Verdigrs untila late hour. There were several jolly drummers on board, incluanF C. N. Smith of the Western Tank line, James B. Gray of Paxton & Gallagher, A. W, Willmon of L L. Ellwood & Co., who, immediately after arriving, donned and bedecked themselves with all the necessary para- Phunul(n. for walking over the unduiat- ng snow drifts. After visiting their trade and securing several car load or- ders in the enterprising town of Verdi- gris, they all immediately ropaired to the hostelry, which is run by Dad Wisher, ex-conductor of the Creighton branch, After devouring a sumptuous repast they were invited into the par- lor, where a concert was given by Miss Edna Wisher and C. N. Smith, the doughty oil man. The gentle zephyrs made their appearance through the orevices and cracks, but the dulect tones of the piano-forte mingled with soul- stirring airs of the guitar played by Mr. Smith. A. H. Bayer and J. C. Mertz, two Kentuckians, met by chance in New York one day last week and related in- cidents and experiences of their native state and when Bob Simmons measured up the area of their respective furms they included all the state of Kentucky nndyhulf of Tennessee. The lust words uttered by Wertz were: *‘All we have left is our honor and our charred homos.” Charley Coleman was congratulated by his many friends at Norfollk last weel upon his connection with the well kn own house of J. V. Farwell & (o, of Chicago. Charley is not only popular with his extensive trade but it is ex- pected that he will be very successful with his new house. H. C..Thurber had la grippe on a bottle of rock and I?B' on the Creigh- ton branch, last weelk, C. B, Saunders, the handsome, popu- lar and genial cigar salesman for Stecle & Walker of St. Joe, will receive for his sorvices the coming year 4,50087 and find_his own board. Charloy claims to be the only man on the road who hns not had an attack of the grippe. Bob Simmons gives it out cold that the world’s fair will be held at Chicago. Ho acknowledges that 1t will not be Beld on his private lot 1n Lincoln, George Burdett, who is n native of the *“moonshine’ districts of Kentucky, and who was a resident of that historic ftate for many years, is carrying a grip for D, M. Steele of Omaha, fl’: was i vietim of the "fi;lppe" and highly recommends the Helle of Nelson as remedy for this popular disease. L O. Riley travels for a wholesale cigar house at Oskaloosn, Ia., and will hereaftor make Nebraska. Mr, Riley is o very popular gentleman and itis needless to state that he will do a good business. He will make his headquar- ters attne Ruwe at Fremont. A, L. Perry travels for the Omaha fire insurance company and was loolang after his tirm’s business on the Creigh- ton branch last week. J. W, Campbell of Omaha was in Fre- mont one day last week and registered at the Hotel Ruwe, A, BB, Moore was frequenting his old haunts along the main line of the Union Pacilic last week. H., Rosenstock of Omaha sold his leat tobacco to the Fremont trade last Wed- nesday. John Brunt of LeMars is after the na- tives of Nebraska. . W. McGregor witnessed the snow storm at Columbus last Tuesdny and registered at the Thurston, «Joun E. Winter sells beer for the Dick Grothers’ brewering company of Quinoy., He is well kuown aund has wade adquaintances i Nebraska for over o quarter of a century. The «aptain {8 very popular and 1s familiar with nearly every traveling man who makes this state. ~ His headquarters are at Fremont, Thomas Richards, the colored porter at the Hotel Ruwe, Fremont, com- monly known as “snow ball,” isn young boy about sixteen years of age, and is a typical southern darkey For the past month “‘snow ball” has been getting off duty after supper and repairs to the sample rédom, where he entertains the traveling men for an hour or two with nis songs and dances. He possesses the iden that he is a full fledged showman and expects to rival Barnum some day. Several knights of the grip have sig- nified their intention of starting the young man out in the show arena, Hughes of Omaha visited the hants of Arlington inst Friday and registered at the Ruwe in ths evening at Fremont. Fred M. Wood of Lincoln, the great atock auctioneer, came up to Fremont Iast ~Thursday to “sell the imported owned by the French horse ranch peo- ple. During the severe blizzard on the Creighton branch of the Elkhorn road last week John P, Case, the genial con- auctor, did all in his power to make it pleasant for all the traveling men who were on board, Gus Herman 1s the shortest hotel clerk in the west. He is five feet and rec inches tail, but his manly form is y$ conspicuous behind the desk at the Ruwe, I'remont, and he is always rendy with the pen E I ir, the 1 known shoe man the land and was hieard to exclaim in an effulgent way the other night at Columbus, *“Gim’me-the-bost-room-in - the - house- and-a-fire, plense, John I, Pershing travels for Kubh, Nathan & Figher, dealers in wholesale clothing, Chicago. He hus boen in the business for nearly thirty years, and sold goods in Nebraska long before it became a state. Ed Leonard of MeCord, Brady & Co., slumbered several nights in the snow drifts along the Iilknorn rond during the storm last week. Howard Franklin, with F. A. Maur, Council Bluffs, was in Nebraska City Tuesday. A. Jummers, who sells groceries and cigars for H. C. Fisher Chicago, was at the Grand Pacific hotel in Nebraska City Thursday. Wood, with Paxton & Gallagher, Omaha, made his weekly visit to Ne- braska City on Wednesaay last. S. B. Eastman, tho Boston shoe man, is spending a few days with his family at Nobraska City. Will J. Bently, the handsome man who travels for Deere, Wells & Co., Council Blufls, was u prominent figure in the office of the Grand Pacific, at Nebraska City, the latter part of the week. P. T. Wilson, representing Kirken- dall, Jones & Co. of Omaha, visited Ne- braska City Thursday. Albert Katzenstein, who used to take orders for a Lincoln shirt factory, was married Wednesday evening to Miss Emma Levi of Nebraska City. They left the same night for Kansas City. where they will spend a few days. Phey will make their home in Lincoln. George W, Kone, the popular night clerk of the Casey, was in Neoraska City Tbesday to call. on the future Mrs. K. ‘W. I, Henry, with the Heyth Hard- ware company, St. Joe, was visiting his trade in southeastern Nebraska last week. He reports business good. George M. Darrow was selling bats and caps for Darrow & Logan in Ne- braska City I'riday. 9 Jack Garrett, the representative of H, L. Parrotte & Co., Omaha, spent Sunday in Nebraska City. F. C. Hunt of Council Bluffs has ac- cepted o position with the Moline, Mil- burn & Stoddard Co. His father trav- eled for this firm before his death. Hunt was formerly with the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway company and his friends hope soon to see him as his father was, a leader among the drummers. O. G. Williams, representing the Tuscarora Adnertising company of Co- shocton, O., the largest concern of the kind in the world, passed through Omuaha Tuesday on his way to San Fran- cisco. Atv t;u Hotals, At the Barker—B. J. O'Bryan, Kan- sas City; William Redmond, New York; W. R. Ogden, New York; Adam Schmidt, 8t. Louis; Robert Ericlkson, Lincoln; P. Hemstreet, Detroit; W. G. Twyman, Detroit; H, C. Clark, Minne- apolis; J. W. Orr, Aschison; H. R. Juckson, Beatr] C. E. Thompson, Memphis, Tenn.; R. C. Campbell, Lin- coln; George Hastings. Davenport, In.; C. L. Spellman, Chicago; Goorge Cobb, St. Joseph, Mo.; J. D, Draper, Macon, To.; W. Wilcox. Salina, Kan.; Harry K. Reod, Kalamazoo; Howard Lewis, Lincoln; H. J, Paulding, Pittsburg, Pa.i J. W. Ritchie, Weeling, W. Va.; J. 8, Bishop, Lincoln; H. M. Adams, Lin- coln; T. H. Arnold, Lincoln; K. E. Palmer, Rock Island; W. T. Shelton, Topeka; J. A, Moller, Maine; W, L. Butler, Boone, Ia.; A. R. Jackson, Lin- coln; Thomas Mortimer, Omaha Ranch; H. Roe, Denver; G. E. Brooks. Kansas City; S. M. Burdett, Louisville, Ky.; James R. Porter. Haigler, Neb.; John Kelly, Portland, Ore.; R. A. Lytle, Buffalo, N, Y. . At the Merchants—Orrin Blair; M. Hall, Lincol: Bvansville, Wis. D. Dowms, Marsh, R. W. John- I, Perry, St. Denyer; W. T, Can- , Nebraska City; Willlam A. Dow- nell, Memphis, Tenn.; C, H, Tate, New Castle, Penn.; G.C.Kirby and wite, Omaha; William P, Tomlinson, Topeka; George Vattonten, Lincoln; enry Webster, Beatrice; (. W. Rawson, Omaha: D, H, Willams, Heanrietta, Tex.; Sames Johnson, St. Louis; R. J. Russell, New York; Charles Scott, New. York; F. T. Ransom, Nebraska Ci,y; James G, Martin, Peoria, Ill; James Damron and wife, Grand Island: Y. K. Peasley. Greeley, Colo.; Charles L. Harris, Lincoln D. Hardin, Chaj wn; Archibald aes, Boston, Mass.; George Sunford, Chicago; Flint Bowen, Chicago; H. R. Spilmapr, Clinton, Ia.; H. D. Allen, St. Louls; E. G, Wilson, St. Paul; Henry Rosenfield, Chicago; Alex P, Brown, Philudelphia; William I, 8. Landweller, Milwaukee: George Dee, Chicago; J. I, Kratzer, Columbus; G. H. Green, Tecumseh; J. C, Green, Johnson; H. Howard and wife. Omaha; W. 5. Wood, Omaha; Miss Dollie Ne- ville, Kansas City; Alexander Spencer, George Kyle, Fred E. Queen, Frank Hollanz, Zig-Zag company; John Berry, Chadron; Charles H. Frye, Seattle, Wash.; William I, B‘r{ Davenport; C. L. Spilman, Minneapol 0. R. Wain- wright, St. Joseph; W, Page, Ohi- cago; J. R, Hi , Neosho, Mo.; George Huuter, St Ps Thomas MoMasters, Allegheny, Pa.; J. B. Goodwin, Pitts- urg. At the Murrv—summl and Harry Wolf of New &rk; Charles Lobiss, Clocinpati; H. Huuter, Chicago; E. Lessow, Chicago; L. N. Bachand, Philadelphia; C. B, Gilbert, Cleveland; Ed H. Broodhay, Chicago: George J. Donovan, Syracuse; W. H. Motter, Denver; Ed J. Steiner, New York: C, H. Reed, San Francisco; Ben Appel, Des Moines; Earnest L. Zeis, Boston; S, . Osgood, Des Moines; M. Wilner, Chicago: F. "Wor- cester, jr., and W, G. Bessell, Chicago;- N. T. Brooks, Boston; W. B. Barney, Chicago; D. H. Asher, New York; Jim THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, Cox, Milwaukee Israel and Sam Cannochie, New York; Isanc Dodems, St. Louis; Chester J. Pike, Boston: F. 1. Memberg, Philadel- phia; Charles Lewis, New York; H. M. Reed, Chicago; C. H. Rernick, Chicagos R. B. Bullock, Louisville; J. E. Bo Spokane Falls; A. Warren, Chicago; F. Fedderson, Chicago; M. Bunker, Davenport. At the Paxton—J. H. Green, Chi- cago; George B. Kerlin, Storm Luke; Lea Mayer, Chicago: H. W. Robbius, Chicago; J. B. Hart, Boston; G, Roden= hor}z. Providence; T. W, Cole. Chicago; E. H. Levy, New York: W, H, Mallory, John J. Tucas, Minneapolis; H. W, Gowell, Boston; W, H. Hamilton, New York: J. . Wilson. jr., Chicago; George H. Holdeed, Minneapolis; Howard C. Holmes, San Francisco; W. H. Lusky New York: George W. Crosby, Denver H. J. Bird, New York; J. B McGar- rish, | Mot William Nevins, Rock Island: Lee S. ley. Boston; Ralph Wolf, Chicago; J. 8. Crotty, New York., At the Casey—K. Joe; F. Standar A. B. Brown, A. Winden, St. Detroit; D, D. Clark, E. W. Fowler, Chicago; F. M. Spees, Minneapolis; C. J. Hig- gins, Cle: and; Willinm Long, Du- buque; C. . Armstroug, Townsend, Painted e o Bardley, J. Leon Furnier, C. E. Luthshuw, St. Louis; rian, Dunkirk, N. Y. T Detroit; George Williams, Lima, O. D. C. Wallace, Des Moines; J. D. Beeker, La Crosse; L. W. Lundy, Chi- cago; Josiah Brown, Quincy; J.J. Jones, Sioux City: G. W. Jones, Chicugo; J. neinnatiy T. A, Thompson, Y 2. C. Lee, Milwaukee: James Lusk, St. Louis: A, L. Gardner, Denver; J. H. Blyss, Syracuse; M. Tebbotts, Quiney; J. A. Love, La Cross; B. C. Heimbach, Providence, R. L; A. P. Whitney, Rockford; J. H. Cheever, Chicago; John L. Green, St. Louis; F. C. Robert, Chicago; E, D. Gates, Den- ver; K, K. Seurles, Milwnukee; J. B, Bradloy, San Francisco; T. Dennison, Denver; K. R. Hunter, Cincinnati; J. H.Temple, Chicago; Julius Born,Hont- ington. At the Millard—A." W. Williams, Cincinnati; H. C. Reed, New York;.J. C. Tussey, St. Louis; P. M, nott, Louisville: Homer Caldwell, L. H. Dan- ieis, Chicago; T. H. Schloss, W. N. Hunter, St. Loui: harles Adams, Now Yorky A. L. Katz, Chicago: . K. Phil- lips, New York; Harry Barnett, Kansas Cityy T. 8. Bean, Chicago; E. C. But- lor, Cincinnati; C.H. Ingersoll, Detroit; Edward A. Johhson, Quiney, Iil.; C. Plattenberg, Chicago: Edward Gloov, St. Louis; G. A. Witt, St. Louis; R. F. Tornae, Chicago; W. T. New, Kansas City; J. W. Blackburn, Atchison; T. L. Harkness, St. Louis; G. W. Koch, Chicago; R. W. Wood, Kansas City; S. Pruyne, Glenn Falls, Y.; Percy Maloney, Chicago; S. Biowmak, New York; John T. Dawson, Chicago; J. V. Berg. Chicago; J. A, Mathews, Chicago; A. Ramge, St. Louis; R. W. Lundy, Chicago; D. Regenneter, Chicago; 8. C. Gilkey, Chicago; M. D. Hatha- way, Rochester; ‘'D. Mann, New York; George A. Troy, St. Louis; L. H. Dan- iels, Chicago; H. L. Goldman, Cincin- nati; E. W. Bailey, Chicago; C. T\ Neckerson, New York; W. A. Harold, New York; J. W. Tommersou, St. Louis; J. R. Embree, Chicago; George Lines, Washington, D. C.; J. W. Dig- gles. Chicago: W. T. Jacobs, Kansas City; A. H. Bohn, St. Louis: F.J. Townsend, Now Yorik; J. C. Winans, St. Louis; G. H. Humphrey, Minne- apolis; George A. Cameron, Chicago. ZE T R A Split Go!d Coin. San Francisco Examiner: “Two tens for a twenty, please,” said a geutleman to the cashier in the county treasurer’s office. 2 The cashier took the ‘‘twenty” and rang {ton the counter. It had that peculiar dull ring that characterizes counterfeit coins. He rung it a second time and then inspected it critically. “Is it bogus?” asked the owner of the coin. “‘Oh, no,” answered the cashier; *'it’s good as wheat, but split.” Continuing he said: “That is the first split twenty L ever ran across. The stamping machine at the mint sometimes comes down too hard on the coins and splits them, but it is se'dom the larger coins split. It's mostly *‘fives” that sutfer. ~ But they are very careful at the mint and stop every split coin they detect. Now, in the thou- sands of dollars handled here evory year I rarely find a split coin. I don't think I've found more than four or five in @ year and, as I say, the coins were mostly 85 pieces,” The spiit $20 piece looked perfect and, so far as the eye could detect, bore no flaw of any kind. The only fault with it was in the “‘ring,” and the split made it sound **dead” when thrown on the counter. e Nature in Con ion is terrific. Volcanic eruptions, eyclones, eurthquakes are awfully and tremendously plcturesqiie, but scarcely desirable to omu- ate in actioa and effect by the administra- tion of remedivs which proauce convulsion and agonyiin the abnormal portion of the bhuman frame. Such 18 the effect of the old fashioned violent purgatives happily fallin, more and more into disuse, aud of whicl Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the more wholesome, ploasant and far more effective succeaaneum, They weaken the Intestines —the litters invigorates them. They left the bowels inactive, beoause incapacitated by ensuing feebleness, The Bitters, on the coutrary. and because it enables, not forces, them to act—a vast and fortunate difference —perpetuates their activity and regularity. ‘The 1 is benefloially stimuiatea, as the kidneys also are, by this medicine, whieh easily conquers, also, malaria, nervousuess and rheumatism. Curious Relic ol Cyolone, E. 8. Wilson, a blacksmith of Ozark, Mo., has & relic of the Marshfield cy- clone which occurred April 18, 1880, that is a remarkable curiosity. This witness of one of the freaks of the great storm is a black quart bottle, beat by some mysterious force into an elliptic cirole without a crack or break in the glass that the closest scrutiny can dis- cover. The neck of <¢he bottle actually touches the edge of the bottom, and the fact that the glass was uwot broken in any way by the force of the storm is shown by its holding water or any other fluid, By gradualiy turning the bottle as the wator is poured in, it can be nearly fitled to its full capacity, 80 us to show the perfect soundness of the material. This bottle was found by Mr, Wilson the day after the Marshfield disaster and examined by Prof, Tice, The me- teorologist attributed the bem\in*' of the bottle to the force of the electricity, and considered this one of the most won- derful results of the agency at work in the storm cloud. The bottie was found in the wreck of one of the Marshfield drug stores. S Miles' Nerveland Liver Pills, An important discovery. They act ou the siver, stomach and bowels through the nerves. A uew principie. They speedily cure billiousness, bad taste, torpid liver, piles and coostipation. Spiendid for wmen, women and children, Swmallest, mildest, surest. 80 doses for 25 cents. Samples free at Kuhu & Co.’s, 15th and Douglas. pabe s los Dnly A Miserly Suicid-, A Michigan man, true to his ruling passion, beat down the trader from whom he bought a pistol with which he committed suicide. He gt 25 conts off Irom the price, A JANUARY 20, 1890, FRISCO TOUCHS BREAR JAIL, e A Woalthy Omfiafian Insults the Princely Pullman Porter. SPIDER DISGUSTS THE COAST. i Viv Edwards and His Goats to be Given a Ieception by San Frangisco News- paper Men. More Rain Than Necessary, SAN FrRANCISCO, Jan. 14.—[Special to Tne B |—Coming cut from Omaha last week on the train just ahead of the ore wrecked at Sidney, T took break= fast in the Pullman dining car with Messrs, W. H. Burus and J. M. Barr of the Union Pacifie, who were going out to Cheygnne. The lutter told a etory of one of Omaha’s richest men who was journeying in Arizona a few years ago. Upon leaving the railway train he handed the porter a nickel, which the latter promptly returned with the remark, “oss, I guess you needs dat more than Ido.” Then the Omaha man tendered him a dime, which the porter declined with the remark that a dime was of no use in that country, and then the capi- talist, with a few choice selections from his extensive repertoire of vigorous cuss words, produced a half dollar and this the darkey deigned to accept. . "y The winter rains in California are carefully measured and recorded. Two years ago the rain fall in this section measured twenty-two inches; last winter there wis twenty-four inches, and this winter there has alraady been forty-five inches of rainfall, though the season is only about half over. Streets and roads are quagmires, and ordhards and fields are so wet that they cannot be plowed. For the first time for many years California has had more rain than was necessary, and now the people ave praying for a let-up. But they say all this is a good thing for the fruit crop of 1890, in whicih, however, the railroad companies are more deeply interested than the growers, as the former get the bulk of the profits. There is a pleasant fiction to the eflect that there is money to be made in fruit growing here, but it is pure fic- tion, and nothing more. Money is realized by thoso engaged in canning and drying, but no wealth adheres to the Imlms of the man who paysa big price for and and then plants, cultivates, prunes and fights bugs, worms and moth, and then picks the fruit and hauls itto mar- ket—to wake whatever the owners of canneries and dryérs may choose to pay. . Omaha is talked of all over this coun- try, and the impression is so generally entertained that the Nebraska metrop- olis is bound to be one of the big cities of the west that there must be some- thing in it. It iseasy enough for the residents of a place to work up consid- erable confidential feeling among them- selves ns to the future of their town. but it is not so easy, to impress others with that con(ldcnt\f. *'w The day before: I left home I met Mr. Allen, Root on a hurried search for some one 10 g0 on an appeal bond with him. Upon his proffering me that distinction I was compelled to decline with thanks, explaining that there was a time when Iwenton bonds and endorsed other people’s notes with ‘great alacrity, but that during the past two years my ex- perience in that line had left me “‘in the hole” to the extent of several thou- sand dollars. However, 1 encouraged him with the remark that he could strike forty men within half an hour, any one of whom would sign the bond with him. “I don’t know about that,” said he, gloomily, “for, as I have made it the rule of my life to decline signing ‘bonds for other people, now that I want some one to sign 'm; me I'm in a box.” *u The daring jail delivery yesterday by six desperate criminals, one awaiting a death senteuce for murder, is excitin unusual comment. It was as sensationa as the scene in Monte Cristo. 'The criminals were all graduates of the Bar- bary Coast, one of the toughest locali- ties in America, and when they got out made across the hills for their old sea- wall baunts, To escape they had to cut through four brick walls and break a heavy jail lock, The cutting was done by means of ordinary table knives with which they cut their food. Today one of the fugitives, John Kenney, alias Ereslin, was arrested. A large reward, in the aggregate, is offered for their apprehension. Kenney, alias Breslin, is a young fellow, who wears the usual bangs, high-heeled shoes and ‘‘spring pants” of the San Francisco hoodlum. The others, who will, sooner or later, be arrested, are of Illfi sume stripe. #*x Fred Johnson, a prominent young so- ciety man, and Miss Sophie Gibbs were wedded last Tuesday evening in Gruce church, Mise Gibbs was a member of the somewhat celebrated Marguerite club, an association of spinsters. With Miss Gibbs’ marriage but two members remain single. Mr. Johnson is & mem- ber of the famous Dirigo club, whose war cry during the Blaine-Cleveland campaign, **Wah-hoo-wa-wah-ho-wah- Dirigo - Dirigo - wah - hoo - wah,” was sounded throughout California. The Dirigo club was one of the swellest political clubs in the country, and the trips thoy took to ueighboring cities during vhat campaign were conducive of much hilarity ahd expense. The members of the Derigo attended in a body, and the wedding was one of the swellest the city has seen for many moons, *'s Viv Edwards of,Hastings, Neb., a cripple, drawn in u cart by four pugna- cious goats, is reported fo be rapidly nearing Oakland, and: will soon be in San Francisco. The newspaper men are preparing to give‘the plucky little tourist a rousing reeeption. He is a credit to the courage and persistency of the men of Nubr.ukn. e When the rains Igtup there will be somewhat of a rush up the side of Monte Diablo, This trip, although not so celebrated as the Yosemite tour, is al- most equally as interesting, and more accessible to the tourlst. The ride through the San Ramone valley and up the mountain side is glorious, and the view at sunrise into several counties and to the ocean is grand. I shall be one to take the first tryp to the summit, a description of which I think will in- terest the readers o: ‘'ne BEE, * A rather sad case came to the notice of the shipping reporters yesterday. The steward of the British ship Glen- caid, which arvived some time ago and has been lying in the stream, died on boara yesterday ef consumption, and was taken to Oakland for shipment east. He is said 1o be the son of very wealthy parents in England, and shipped for the trip lrouns the Horu in the hope that the water jour- ney would benefit his health, Tpon his acrival here he scomed better, but the damp weather soon told on him and he succumbed. His parents were notified by cable and the agentsof the ship were instructed to forward his body to his native country. " " Tho past week has been a very active one socially. Some of the swellest events of the senson have occurred— weddings, teas, receptions and all that sort of thing. Notwithstanding the wet weather society people manage to get around and attend whatever is going on. *x The recent fight between the Spider and Murphy made some of the sports rather tired. The prospect of the Sul- livan-Jackson fight at the club inspires the members and sports somewhat, and a whole lot of money will change hands. RoaeR, i Our druggists would not recommend Chamberlain’s cough remedy 1f they did not know it to ho perfectly relinble, It is made especially for coughs, colds and croup and is the most prompt and most effcctual remedy known for those diseases, St THEY FILLED WITH WIND, How a Pair ot Ry0 ny Trousers Caused an Exciting Time. On board a steamboat the other even- ing a strange thing occurred, which teaches a valuable lesson, says the As- torian. A shy young man decided to abandon a venerable pair of trousers to their fate, having just secured a new pair as he went on the boat. So ho sald to himself: “I will just drop them out of my cabin win- dow into the remorscless tide, and all will bo buried in the great calm bosom of the old Columbia.” He rolled them up carcfully and shied them far out over the gunwale of the boat near the bow. As they sped through the air they unfurled with a conl-{)lorcinz plunk. They filled with airand looked, as they struck on the crestof the waves, like a man looking over to peer down into the depths of the tide, A nervous woman about midships heard the impact of the abundoned trousers, and looking down with a shud- der, sald: *“‘Me Gawd, a_human_being has went to his account.” She then be- came the author of a loud yell ana all hands rushed to the guards with the ory of **Man overboard!” that awful cry which once heard can nover be for- gotten, A hundred hands ran to the lower decks and amid the cries of women and the quick drawn breath of pale men, a tall roustabout jabbed the drowning man in the vituls with a jubber, and while fainting passengers looked the other way, he pulled out the now col- lapsed trousers and found on the inside of the waistband the name of the owner, also the leg and waist measurement, together with the nume of an Astoria tailor, Then they began to hunt over the boat and in the dregs of the river for the man who had occupied the trousers aforetime, and that shy young man’s name was in every mouth, and he didn’t dare to come down to breakfast, and his jet-black mustache, which could be distinctly seen when he left, from very fright turned around and went back again, B ‘Watch the box, buy the genuine Red Cross Cough Drops, 5 cents per box. et adlosuioded) A MODERN FABLE. One Instance in Which the Kox Did Not Come Oat Ahead. Dotroit Free Press: One day Rey- nard approached a peasant who was working in his field and said: *‘For some reason or other thero ap- ears to he a want of perfect confidence tween the peasants and the foxes.” *“Yes,” replied the peasant as he rested for a moment. *‘This makes it unpleasant for both of us, and I have been delegated to see if we could not come to some mutual un- derstanding.” *Tam willing.” i ““Veh well,” continued the fox, as he looked at the sky to hide the twinkle of satisfaction in his eye. *‘To prove your full confidence in us, leave the door of your hen house open tonight. That will be a proof that you no lonq;er regard us as thieves und marauders.” -~ The peasant agreed to this, but while he left the door open he set a trap just ivside, and when he arose next morn- ing, lo! the delegate was fast in the aws. *“Is this keeping youragreement with me?”’ blustered Reynard as the peasant approached. ““Was not the door open?” “Yes, but you set the trap inside! Release me at once, and my future dealings shall be with more honest men!” “Gently, Sir Reynard,” said the peasant, as he tapped him on the head with a ctub; “*had you kept to the out- side you would never have known of my trap. The fact that you were inside proves that you wanted my poultry at the expense of my confidence.” Moral: Give a’ thief opportunity to reform, but carry your wallet in your bootleg when in his company. Sl i etinly To Oil the Angry Waters. Mr. Omar Thomas of North Haven has invented an apparatus for spread- ing o1l on the waves during a {915 of wind, says the Portland, Me., Press. Mr. Thomas, who was formerly a sailor, says the great difficulty in the use of oflvin a storm at sea is that when spread, on the surface the wind blows it to lee- ward and the effect is lost. His device is to obviatefthis difficulty. It consists of a mortar and bomb. The latter is a nearly globular shell of cast iron tilled with oil, On the side toward the muz- zle as it lies in the mortar is an aperture closed by a hinged cover, fitting tlizhtly and fastened with a sort of a latch, This latch is ko constructed that when the mortar is discharged the pressure of the air releases it. But the aperture in the shell is not opened until it strikes the water and HhIES be- neath the surface.. The shell is so weighed that as it sinks the aperture is uppermost, and the cover is lifted by the pressure of the oil upon it, Thus the oil is released well beneath the sur- face and rises through the waves, pro- ducing the most effectual results. It is bolieved that life-saving crews, sup- plied with this apparatus, could smooth the waters about a stranded wreck so that it would be possible to board it when it could be done by no other means. J e The Only One. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul HA“'D{ is the only line running solid vestibuled, electric lighted and steam heated trains between Chicago, Coun- cil Bluffs and Omaha, The berth reading lamp feature the Pullman sleeping cgrs run on these lines if patented and cannot be used by aoy other railway company. It is the great improvement of the age. Try it und be convinced. Sleeping curs leave the Union Pacifio depot, Omaha, at 6 p. m. dally, arriving at Chicagoav 9:30 a. m, Passengers taking this train are not compelled to geot out of the ears at Council Bluffs and wait for the train to be cleaned. Get tickets and sleeping car berths at Union ticket office, 1501 Farnam st. F. A. NasH, Gen. Agt. J. E. PuesToN, Pass. Agt. | COMING STATE OF WYOMING, Brief Sketches of Its H istorical and Industrial Development. THE RICHES UNDER THE SOIL, Recent Researchos of the Territorial Gaologist--Twenty-Two O ines Now Actively Operated—The Discovery of lron Ure, The Wealth of Wyoming. CHEYENNE, Jan, 19.—[Special to Tk When the territory of Wyoming was organized in 1868 thore were only $,000 white inhabitants. It was not till 1876-7 that settlement and industry lly began. The eflocts of General Crook, who in thoss years brought the Indian tribes in the north to peace, first rendored this possible. Wyoming varies in elevation above the sea from 8,000 to 14,000 fect. The headwagers of the Missour:, the Colum- bia and the Colorado here find their Along their numerous tribu- ries lie some twelve million uores of land which can be cultivated by means of irrigation. The range of rainfall for the last cighteen years has averaged fourteen inches annually. Thisamount will supply water to reclaim ten million acres. There ave now in tho territory some 4,000 miles of irrigating ditches, which supply water for the reclamation of 2,000,000 acres. The numerous stroams afford natural avenues for railroads, with the advent of which through central Wyoming the country will be occupied with farmers and stock-raisers. The native resources of coal, 1ron, oil, soda and the vrecious metals will be developed. Of the en- tire 100,000 square miles, 1,200,000 acres, or one-fifth of the whole 1s covered witi timber. Efforts to secure statehood for Wyom- ing have been made since 1885, The legislature two years ago memorializ congeess and- bills for adm were favorably veported both in the senate and house in 1889, A constitu- tional convention was held in Septem- ber last, and submitted a proposed state constitution which was adopted by the people. In 1888 the vote for delegate to congress was 18,010, which iadicates a population of nearly 100,000. The ratio of congressional representation will be changed by the present congress, but it ig safe to say that in view of the rapid extension of railroads through central Wyoming, that within two vears it will have ut least 200,000 people. In 1870 the total valuation of property was $6,024,657: in 1880 1t had increased only to 811 4, but 1n 18881t had risen to 833,338,500. The assessment on rail- road property in 1889 was over $6,000,- 000, or nearly as much as the entire valuation in 1870. The territorial bonds, drawing 6 per cent interest, were sold last year ata premium of 12 per cent. January 1, 1886, Wyoming had a cash balance in the treasury of $31,175, which was in- creased October 1, 1889, to $47,753, with no floating indebtedness. The appro- priations for public buildings have been kept within the prescribed limit. The territory has outstanding bonds matur- ing in twenty years and over for $320,- 000, of which $150,000 has been expended on the capitol building, $50,000 on the university building, $30,000 on an insane asylum, $30,000 on a penitentiary, $5.000 on a poor farm, with an appropriation for a fish hatchery near Laramie from which 500,000 fish are annually put into the different streams in the territory. In 1871 there was only one national baunk; at present there are nine, with an aggregate capital of over $1,000,000, and representing nearly $4,000,000 in- vestment, and there are eleven private banks, Besides the 5,000,000 acres of Union Pa- cific lands, which are largely in private hands, a total of 2,978,895 acres has been sold by the United States and granted for agricultural college pur- poses, June 30, 1889, there were 889 miles of railroad operated, which has been slightly increased since that date, and will be very materially added to during the present year. Three east- ern lines are building midway through the territory to Pacific coast connec- tions. In 1888-9 there were 1,500,000 head of cattle in Wyoming, 1.250,000 sheep, 5,000 Angora goats, and 150,000 horses: and 300,000 head of cattle were inspected for market. Cheyenne stock growers have invested tens of millions of dollars in these great industries, During 1889 18,068 head of cattle, 9,442 horses and 24,000 sheep were shipped from Chey- enne, About 8700,000 were expended during 1889 on bnildings in Cheyenne, includ- ing the large amount disbursed by the Union Pacific road on the erection of shops, which will be largely added to this year. The capitol building nt Chey- enne, which is just now receiving the finishing touches, and in which the coming session of the legislature will be held, is a beaut.ful and imposing structure, It is modeled externally after the main Eurl.inn of the national capitol at Washington. It is 112 feet by 216 feet aud 60 feet in height, with three stories above ground. The dome, which is 80 feet in diameter, rises to a height of 153 feet. The details of the external architecture are classical, and follow closely those of the oational building. Itcontains sixty apartments in its three stories. The senate and house halls at either end ure very hand- some, us are also the spacious rooms on the second story set apart for the su- preme court of the state, Cheyonne is now a beautiful city., It has been nine yearssince I last visited it. There is nothing to remind one of the place ten years ago. Beautiful houses in grass, yards, the streets lined with trees an the houses surrounded with ornamental and fruit trees; a handsome park of four blocks fronting the capitol, exquisitely adorned and well kept; spacious depots and husiness blocks; large and beautiful schoolhouses and churches, fully equal to those of Omaha and Lincoln— all of them give no suggestion of what the p'ace was to the observer ten years ago. The territorial library at the capi- tol numbenrs 14,000 volumes, and there is a county llbrn.:-ly at Cheyenne of some 8,000 volumes. There are in the terri- tory some forty newspapers, of which four are daily and twelve receive the Associated press reports. The Univer- sity building at Laramie is 71 feet by 157 feet, and four stories in height, It re- ceives 816,000 & year from the territory and will have a landed endowment of bigh value. Ex-Governor John W, Hoyt is the president, and is assisted b five professors; some 75 students of bot| sexes are in attendance. Wyoming em- ploys 256 teachers io its primary schools, and there have been expeunded on higher 1ustitutions, includiag the Catholic col- leges, a total of $1,000,000. I spent an hour with Mr. L. D, Rick- etts, the geologist of the territory, who Fuva me many interesting facts concern~ ug the resulls of the surveys carried on by bim during tha last two years. I can do no more than refer in one or two particulars to what he told me, There aroe now opened in Wyoming twent, two coal mined, which are extensively and profitably worked in five counties, In Uintah county there are four,in Sweetwater ten, iu Carbon five, in Cone verse two and in Crook two. These are all reached by rail. There are othey mines for local supply which are not reached by rail. During the past two yoars only one mine has boen abane doned. Of the twenty-two above named thirteen have beon opened within that time. In Uintah county the workable vein has a thickness of from twelve to sixteen feot. At Rock Springs there arc & groat many veins, of which only the four lowest are worked; thoy vary in thickness from four to twelve foet. The vein extends at least eleven miles, It is a wonderful scam. capable of producing many times more than the Rock Sorings veiu has produced. In carbon county the veins are from five to fifteen feet thick, and in Converse from five to eight feet. In Crook county the vein—a full account ot wnich [ gave in THE BEE two months ago—has a unls form thickness over some 5,000 ncres of eight feet, and the conl vroduces an admirable coke besides 1ts utility for stoam and domostic purposes. In the Platte canyon mining district, about 120 miles north of Cheyenne, there exist beds of 1ron of excellent quality, sufticlont to last for n hundred your: The deposit. has been recently ope up to seventy feet in width, and 120 feet in depth for a aistance of 500 feat; and then other large deposits exist in the immediate neighborhood, The ore proves to be of pure Bessemer quality, varying from 55 to 67 per cent of pure iron. Six average samples on analysis give only 115 of 1 per cent of phosphorus, a proportion which 1s harmless, with no traces whate ever of sulphur. This valuable deposit is only nine miles east of the present terminus of the Cheyenne & Northern roud, and a branch will soon be con- structed to it, when it is oxpected that reduction works will bo erested in Cheyenne. Unless all legitimate indications aro utterly misleading, Wyoming wiil within a fow years become the main source of supply of illuminating oil in the United States. A belt sixty miles in width extends from northeast to southwest across the territory, along which spouting wells have been sunk at muny points to a suflicient depth to as- sure the most experienced of a supply far surpassing that of Pennsylvania. D. C. B. Ciof o Change of life, backache, monthly irregu- larities, hot flashes, are cured by Dr. Miles Nervine. f'ree samples at Kuha & Co., 15th and Douglas. The Birthday, Written for The Bec by Minnie C. Ballard, 1 call not summer fairest time In all the round rovolving year, Altho' 1t holds the blossoms dear, And winter has but frost and rime, And snow-flowers suited to the clime, Old Boreas rules, storn and severe, 1 hold his scason best, for hero, Set like a star amidst the grime Of some dark night. your birth-hour glows, Which hallows all the year to me More than the breath of swoetest roso, | Or song of bird, how dearit bo; Your life to me wore gift most blest, And 50 I love cold winter best, A PROMINENT REG ULAR PHYSICIAN Of New York City gives the following di- rections FORPREVENTING AND CURING NF LUENZA OR ‘“LA GRIPPE” Evaporate morning evening a few tablo- spoonfuls of POND'S EXTRACT and in- hale the vapor. Pour the POND'S EX- PRACT into a tin cup, which hold ovér the flames of a lamp; hold the nose over the cup that the vapor may be inbaled. By this troatment the membranv of the nose and throat will be in such condition that it will resist the noisonous action of the germs which are the cause of this disease; and if the germs have already been innaled they will be destroyed, The symptoms of *“*La Grippe" are inflammation of the lining of the mem- brane of the nose, which may extend to the lungs, with congh, sneezing, runniug at the nose, and perhaps severe aching pains and high fever.” These awections are for POND'S EXTRACT only, It may be un- safe to use any other article this way. HAVE POND'S EXTRACT IN READINESS, Made only by the Pond's Extract Co, New York and London. .CALIFORNIA THE LAND OF _DISC OVE RIES. P ures AsTHM. Coucts, n("%\'zb/fign];bt 15,7550 A T SEASES ERROAT o] A AN ol 'S end for circular, qul-nhjga'l MED co.or A = . R Witme v c o | “Co® ORNVILLE CAL CLOTHING. i ln'vain oves ':'ur"' . ‘means of kel cure, which AT e