Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 20, 1890, Page 6

THE OMAHA BEE. COUNCIL BLUFFS OUFFICE. NO. 1 "EARL STREET. Delivered by carrler in any part of the City, H. W, TILTON MANAGER TRLEPHONES: Trsisess Orrice No, 43, Niant Eviton, No. 2 MiIzNOR ! 10N, N. Y. P. Co. Glenrson coal. Council Bluffs Lumber Co,, coal. Thatcher coal,a114 Main street. CarbonCoal Co.wholesale, retail, 10 Paarl ¥. Janssen teaches zither music. Terms reasonable, 027 34 avenue. The jury in the Bronnell Chapman steam boat case was still out at midmght after wrestling for a verdict for thirty-six hours. The funeral of the late Robert Martin took lace at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon from ne undertaking rooms of Lunkley & Porter. The remains were interred in Fairview. Pat Clancy, tho notorious crook, who was arrested here Friday night and fined for Arunkenness, was yesterday released from custody with understanding that, he would leave town at once, J. Smith, a colored man, is 1n custody hero awaiting the arrival of officers from Pacitic Junction, whore he was supposed to be wanted to answer to_the charge of larceny, buv word was yesterday received that hie'1s not the man. He will be wrrmgned this morning for vagrancy. A change has been made in the Fifth avenue motor service by which the cars of the line now run up Broadway to First street, giviog a much better and faster service. Meeting points are now made at the ner of Pearl street and Fifth avenue and at Fifth avenue and Sixteonth street. A man giving the name of Taylor is held at the police atation on u charge of suspicion of ¢, He was found with two pairs of new punts in his possession, which he was trying to dispose of for a mere song. He could not give n satisfactory explanation of how he obtained them and was accordingly locked up, ———— have removed their dental 1 streot, up stairs, Dra. Wooc office to 101 I 8. M. Wil Domestic se - amsou sells the Standard and ing machines. 100 Main street. i J. G. Tipton, real estate, - Bush & Gert's pianos, 533 Broadway. Broadway. — - Reiter, tailor, 810 Broaiway. Jiimitedes The Leaders of fine watches and jewelry in the eity, and the place to buy the best goods at the 1owest prices is the establishment without rivals, the most reliable firn of C. B, Jacquemiy & Co. A ttlorit) 526 First ave. Dr, C. H. Bower, Tel, 220, bt R o The Ross Investment and T'rust company. K ¢ e The Proposed New School Building. The regular monthly meeting of the school board will be held this evening. The prin- cipal matters for consideration are the opening of bids for the location of the pro- posed new school building in the western part of the city, and letting the coutract for the erection of the new outhouses av tho Washington avenue school. The latter will® cost. about 3,600, including sewer connec- tions, this being the cost stated by the architect. It is stated that there are several bids for the location of the new bailding. ‘T'he plans for the structure are now being prepareda by Architect Maxon. The build- Ing will contain eight rooms and will be about the same size and of the same style as the new Pierce stroet schocl. It 1s stated that it will cost about £20,000 completed, which is about §2,000 less than the cost of the Pierco street school. It is desired to have all arrangements completed so that ‘work on the new structure can be commenced early in the spring. —— Cash for household goods, Mandel, 525 Brondway, gl b S Towa lump coal, spot cash, §3.50 per ton. Council Blufts Fuel Co. : - Bicderman has now onc of the handsomest clothing estaplishments in the city. s Sacrifice Sale of Hair Goods. Mrs. C. L. Gillette will reopen her hair goods omporium in Mrs, Pfeiffer's down town millinery store, 14 Main sureet, Tues- day, Junuury 31, and’ for thirty duys will offer all her” entire stock at one-hulf less than former prices. The stock consists of frizzes, switches, waves, hair ornaments, curiiug irons, etc., allof the highest grade and latest style. Ladies will find this the bost opportunity of their lives to obtain these goods at Littie cost, e Another Wintry Sunday. Yesterday was the fifth consecutive stormy Sunday in the Bluffs, the snow fulling m greater or less quantities during the day. The fall was not heavy, but it served to nake the weather out of doors exceedingly ®aut- tractive, thereby greatly lessening the num- ber of sleighs to be seen on tho strests, Had the day been a pleasaut one the liverymen would have reaped quite a financial harvest. The morning attenaance at the churches was fully as large as usual. Travel on the motor line was light, buu al! trains were run- ning as usunl, The revolving brush sweeper and 8aow plow was started over the main live and branches during the afternoon and the tracks were swept clean, but it was found necessary to keep it running. On the main line the running of the trail- cors has been resumed, and the curtailed ap- pearance of the single motor servico has been removed. There was no difficulty in running on the regular schedulo time. = In lice circles the day was as dull as oo uld poesibly be imaginea, there even being n scaroity of half frozen vags to be laid away until the Monday morning session of the police court. Tha mercury was but little above zero duriug the afternoon, and in the early evening hours it dropped to 5= below, The wind increased in. velocity, and piled tho suow in solid drifts, The day was cal- culated to strengthen the belief that there is plenty of winter weather in stock yet, sud to remove all dismal forebodings from the minds of the ico men. —— L, Biederman has removed his clothing store from 328 to 502 Broadway. He 18 now oceupying the room formeriy used by Frank Levin, and has now one of the hanasomest clothing establishments in the city to show his friends and patron: L Fire Insurance—A Good Showing. The following abstract from the sworn statement of the Council Bluffs Insurance Co,, makes a svlendid showing of the tinancial condition of our home company: , ‘I'he total assets, not including stock notés, $54,885.77; all actual habinties, $5,400.89; surplus to policy holders, $76,330.38, This company starts ou the tenth year of its existence with overy nonest loss sottled nud paid and with prosoects fur the future brighter than ever. It merits the patronage of every property owner in Council Blugh aud the state of lowa, for it is u legitimate enterprise that has come here to stay, i — - ] Traveling men, Hotel Jameson is first~ cluss. —————— Trials of Motur Kmployes. “'There isn't one mav in & hundred who fully realizes the amount of extra work that has been done the past week to keep our traios running,” remarked a motor conductor yesterday afternoon as his car rolled rapidly down Broadway, *‘They seem to think that ull there is to do is just to run out the snow plow to clear off the tracks aud everything will roll along as usual. They don't kuow that every blessed man in the company’s em- ploy, from the old man himself down to the track aweepers, has been putting in from fif- teen to twenty hours a day, and on one or two duys have kept it up for the wholo twenty-four. A woek ago today we had as tough a job as a fellow often runs wgaivst, but none of the bofil kicked. To tell the truth, a mau couldn’t kick when he saw what the old mun was doing bhimself. y, waybe wn think Reynolds don't.know his business. by, he dida't bave any sleep for three day but just what he got athis “dbak between 2 o'clock at night. when the trains all got in, and 5 o'clock in the morning, when they startea out again, He was always on hand, and he didn't ask the boys to stand any more than he did hin f. You've now idea what work it was just to keep the snow plow running. We bad on all the way from two to six motors, and every little while we would stick and have to shovel out. It was mighty ¢old work and the motormen had it pretty tongh. The wind blew 8o that the drifts were as bad in a httle while after wo went over the line as they were before. It wouldn't have been bad for one day, but it kept up and we all got protty well petered out. Here it comes again and I supposo it will give us another week of it. We have given good servi ery day and passeng have had very little cause for complaint, which is more than can be said of the O lines. When you consider the lengih of o line and the kind of territory we run through you must admit that we have done remarka. ly well, and to tell the truth 1 am consider- ably stuck on myself when I think of it.” Biederman has moved his clothing store to 502 Broadway, where he will be pleased to meet his old nds and patrons, —— The Mankattan sporting headq'rs 415 B-way. - - C. 13, steamdye works, 1013 Broadway. - - Finest line confectionery, fruits holiday groceries in tho cit) Atve's. nuts and S. T. Me- RO AT The water runs when Bisby plumbs, i The Future Glory. At the First Presbyterian church yester- day the pulpit was occupied at the morning hour by Dr, Ranxosian, a young man who is a native of Antioch, n, who has been educated for the Christian ministry, He gave a very interesting talk descriptive of the present condition of the holy land. He is a very intelligent, young man, and his remarks were listened to with a great doal interest. In the evening the pastor, Rev. Dr. Phelps, chose for his subject Isa “‘And it shall come to puss in the last days that the mountain of the Lord's house shall be estavlished in the top of the moun- tains, and shall be exalted above the nill and all nations shall flow unto it.” The speaker suid the verso was suggested as the text for use in all the Christian pulpits of the world on last Sabbath evening, but the storm prev therefore he presented it now. the glorious future which shall be the consummation and triumph of the Christian religion on the earth, Said ne: 1 glanced, recently, through u very interesting book: that,of Dr. Bellamy, entitled ‘Looking Backward.) It is, of course, & conjecture of the future, It is'pre- sented 1n the form of a story. A young man i8 put to sleep by mesmerisin, on Decoration day, 1887, ‘I'he man who was to bhave wakened him perishes in u fire. As a re- sult he sleeps on for mors than a century, and was tinaly discovered and wakened, in the yeur 2000.” Ho deseribes the civilization which he found at that time on the earth. Ivis so far superior to the boasted civiliza- tion, even of this latter decade of the nino- teenth century. that to the people of that day our state of society seems wolfish and brutal. I'he speaker then rap.dly sketched the foatures of this superior civilization ¢ 8 depicted by Dr. B.and then said, Dr. HBellsmy's effort js in the rignt direction. Would that there were more effort to make the coming excellence of the earth seem real and true. His picture is bright, but not too bright. ‘The scripture warrants even greater expectations than these. The evils, that are awoug men in our duy, are to be corrected. These vexing problemsare to be solved. The curse of sin now on the carth, is to be lifted, ‘I'he vible prophesies do not enter into details, or not in the same way, as does this book of Dr. Bellamy, but the'y ed coming blessed ness is 1o reach down even tho mipui- est details of every person’s life then living. I hear the question often asked. Have you read Dr. Bellamy's book? I ask you have you read Isaial's and other scrip- ture prophesies of those same coming times? They are intensely interesting and rich in promise for the future. Dr. Bellamy's prophesies are for 113 years; Isaiah's were written 2,640 years ago, and reach forward farinto the future still. Dr. B. relied on his own imagination, coupled, indeed, with much study into the gréat nineteenth cen- tury civilization and its problems and forces and factors. But Isaiah had not only a brillisnt miod and great research, but aiso the inspiration of God. We ask, are Dr. Bellamy's views truet We need not ask this as to Isalah’s, We know they are true, for they are from God. Dr. Bellamy gives but tittle prominence if any credit to the Christian church for bringing- about that blessed condition of affairs. Isaiah and the scripturos make the Christian religion the chief factor, 1n God’s hand, "The mountain of the Lord’s house, thatis His church, is to be established in the tops of the mountains, and all nations shall flow unto it. It1s to be the center of the civilization which is to crown earth’s latter day with its glory. ‘The various points of the bible picture of that comiug day were then presented; and in comparison with this bright bible picture of the coming peace, plenty, joy and glory: of physical, intellectual, social, mowal and spiritual splendor; all merely human pict: ures seem tame. The eye hath not seen, nor car heard, neither have entered the heart of man, the things that God has prepared for them that love Him, in those coming days. The grandest things in ndture are used as figures in telling of it: ‘The tree, the river, the mountain, the ocean, the light, the sun wud the heavens, This state of things 18 to be brought about _gradually, although at the Iast rapidly: and through the great appli- anves now in man’s hands, and which in tLe intervening period are to be wonderfully ereased. Iven the angels, according to the vision which John had, are, perhaps, to take their golden trumpets and preach the lorious gospel, and nations shall be born in 8 day—all this, of course, under the guidance of the Holy Ghost. Itis to continue for u thousand years. 1f theso be prophetic years, a day for a year, it will continue for 865,000 years, In this and in the heaven which is to follow with its cternal blessedness, even greater than tius will Jesus see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied.” the e The U, 8. clothing store has been removed frowm 828 to 502 Broadway. R The acknowledged leadine photographer 1 Council Bluffs is Schmidt, 220 Main street o Dr. H, §. West, guarantoed dentistry. No. 12 Pear st,, over BEe oftice, e ——— 3 Pure buckwheat flour and pure maple syrup at Kelloy & Younkermen's, 102 Broad- way. . o Paris Food and the Price of It. The prefect of the Seine has just pub- lished statistics showing the amount of food consumed by the inhabitants of Paris duving last year. The yearl consumption of meat per inhabitant is 147 pounfis, and of bread 824 pounds, The average number of eggs eaten by each person is 183. So painstaking are the city officials ghat they discovered 741,622 bad eggs among the supplies as they entered the city, and very prop- erly confiseated them, The beef and veal are mainly of French origin, but it is a distressing fuct for the Parisians that they must eat German mutton, They are always protesting against this Teutonic invasion and appealing to the government for protection, but there are unfortunately not sufficient native sheep to take the place of the German produet, The French m general, however, are showing an increasing fondness for this meat, notwithstanding its nation- ality. The number imported rose from 22,000 in 1886 to 84,625 in 1887, and to 228,128 in (1888, Attempts have been made to introduce frozen mutton from Australia, but without much success. The Paristans are also consuming more oysters than formerly. The con- sumption rose from 8,000,000 kilograms in 1885 to 78,350,000 kilograms last year, The increnso was mainly in Portuguese oysters, which soll at less than $1 per 100, The price of a good chicken in the Paris market is from #1 to 81,50, Turkeys bring about #2, hares cost the same s turkeys, and pheasants $1 cach, S —— Ladies who lue & refined complexion must use Pozzoni's Powder —itg produces & s0ft wud besutiful skia, THE OMAHA DAILY BEIY MONDAY, JANUARY 20, 1890, A FIGHT WITH RED CLOUD. Lively Brush on Orazy Woman's Creek in 1866. THE WOODS FULL OF REDSKINS, How a Smail Party of So'dirrs Were Ambushed by Hostilei-—~The Res- cue Party Came—Two Herofe Men, A Hot Day's Work, The abrupt departure of the Eighteenth United States infantry from | Fort Laramie in the summer of 1¢ while the treaty with the Sioux was pending at that fort, had the effect of making the Sioux and other Indiansin- terested in that treaty very hostile toward the whites, whom they very reasonably charged with insincerity. As o consequence the “*Bridger cut off,” or the road to Montana by way of the Powder river country was beset with evory danger and hazard that a turbu- lent hostile nation of Indians could muke 1t. This fact soon became appar- ent to every one who thereafter had oc- casion to traverse it for soveral years. It was under these circumstances that the writer, with a detachment of four~ teen men of that rogiment, was detaiied to escort five oflicers to their recently assigned posts, to the then building Fort Phil Kearnoy, or, as it was then known, “Tort Carrington.” The trip passed without incident until we reached Fort Renggpon Powder river. Tt was my fortune to be on guard that night and as wo were camped just be- low the fort the guards were not very alert, The time was mostly put in IN PARCHING CORN IN A SKILLET, in which diversion the guards would tuke turns, and then divide the buking. My turn finally came about midnight, and while deeply absorbed in a skillet- full of the lucious lunch the sudden ap- pearance of one of tho officers put a stop to the fun for a moment. The offi- cor’s name was Daniels, and in reply to his rather kindly inquiry I admitted that we were giving duty a little rest for the suke of a little lunch not exactly down on our bill of fare. Lieutenant Daniels said that he smelt the corn and could not resist the impulse to come _down aud get a handful or two, and in- sisted on being permitted to parch a panful. While he was so engaged into n conversation on the subject of the morrow’s march., He scemed very meditative and said thata feeling possessed him that something would havpen to him tomorrow, but just what he’couldn’t tell, nor was he suspicious nough to give it much thought, but in spite of all he could do to down the feel- ing, it would take possession of him and had worried him so all night that he could not sleep and seeing me there at the fire must come down and talk the ominous feeling off if possible. We must have sat there an hour or more and in the meanwhile he told me his whole family history, his war exper- 1ences and how he got ‘his appointment in the regular army. He came with e out on my post and walked the beat with me and insisted that I would say nothing about our talk, as he would be all right at suurise and we would LAUGIH OVER THE MATTER in_camp tomorrow might. We parted about daylight and as the command 1ntended pulling out as early as possible the episode was forgotten in the hurry and bustle of striking tents and stringing out in the road. As we intended to make a noon eamp at Dry creek, about twelve miles from Reno, the wuter barrels weve not filled. As soon as the sun got fairly up the morning grew qunite warm. The road was over a high divide and fearfully dusty. The boys soon exhausted the water in their canteens, and when Dry creek was reached it was discovered that there was nova particle of water in it, and our only hope lay in the running stream of “Crazy Woman’s,” ten miles beyond. The road from Dry creek to Crazy Woman’s was even more desolate and inhospitable than that we had just traversed and our thirst increased thay distance ten fold. We plodded along, however, buoyed up by the promise of abundant water at the coming camp. and the quartermaster’s pitiful call of the mules indicated that we were not alone in our misery. About 9 o’clock we reached the crest of the breaks of the Crazy Woman the sight of the timberalong the st enlivened us up wonderfully. The creck was still two miles distani; and we could see at a point about a couple of miles on the other side of the stream a herd of butTalo leisurely feeding. The prospect of getting a little fresh meat was suflicient to revive our droop- ing spirits wonderfully. Thers was a general gathering up of guns and am- munition and every mau in the com- mand wus on the tiptoe of expectancy for the coming hunt. The train was halted fr oa council of war, and it was finally concluded that two of the best mounted officers should ride dov. u ahead and cut off into the bluffs behind the buffalo and drive them toward the creek in order that the whold command could we got HAVE A SHOT AT THEM. as they came by. Lieutenants Dan- iels and ‘Templeton were detailed for this lhn,ly and started off down the hill ata dead gallop and were 800n lost to view in the timber of #Crazy Woman’s” creek. The train wormed its tedious way. down the hill. It seemed an age before we reached the base of the hill, and there was quite a long stretch of valley to cross before we should reach the ecreek proper. Before reaching “Crazy Woman” we had to cross a dry, sparsely wooded branch that joined with **Crazy Woman’s” a short distance below. The crossing of this dry stream was exceedingly difficult and dangerous, as the banks were very steep and the bottom was filled with a "lot of undergrowth. The main stream of *Crazy Woman” was about fifty yards distant, and it was the intention to cor- ral the train for water on the little di- vide between the two creeks, Some little time was spent in getting the wagoas up out of the dry creck bob. tom and the last one had not yet been drawn up to the corral when ariderless hovse came teartng into the corrval, with overy indication of complete terror and puin, Three or four arrows were STICKING INTO HIS FLANK And his saddle was turned under him, Jim Muloney, the wagon master, an old pluinsman, saw what had broke loose at a glance, and gave hurried orders to corral the teams with the mules inside the corral as quick as possible. While this was being done a horseman camne riding madly into camp, hatless and with an arrow sticking out of his shoul- der, he was bearheaded. His horse was almost wholly unmanageable, and the ! more yards aw rider's only dians.” A score or more of dusky forms flitting here and there amotg the trees across the creek, was sufficient evidence that the affrighted ridor: knew what he was talking about, The corral was compteted inamichty short g of time under this stimulus and we waited for developments, not knowing just exactly where the Indians were or how many thero were of them. An oceasional shot from across Crazy Woman’s would come plunking into the corral striking n wagon or o mule with ing that we had some lively work right ahead of us, The Indians in the meanwhile had taken possession of the dry creek in our rear and opened up fire on us from that direction, At the suggestion of Ma- loney, u detachment of four or five were sent out to drive the Indians out from the cover of the dsy creek, which was accomplished in a'few moments, with the loss of one Indiun killed. s we were rightat the junction of the two creeks, we were comparatively, at the merey of the [ndians, and it nlomenta- rily bocame apparent that we: must get out of that box if possible. We accom- plished that faat by putting two wagons in the lead, the two ambulances in the center and the three remaining wagons in the rear and striking out for a hill about o half-mile south of our present position and midway between the two creeks, the space there having widened out to about a mil We had scarcely started to fall back when the Indians made u big rush and succeeded in cutting out the cook wagon by disabling the mules. The wagon had to be abandoned and we stood the Iudians off while the teamster cut the tences of his uninjured mules and run them up into the train again. Here w 50 discovered that we had abig body of Indians to fight with. They seemed to he gathering in_ from all directions, and while a body of them twice or thrice our number were engaging ug, o much larger body of them were holding some sort of a coun cilin the timber. and other detach- ments were dispatched down tho Dry creek to HEAD US OFF IF POSSIBLE. We reached our objective point in safety with only the loss of the cook wagon. But little satisfaction was gained by this, however, as a deep, narrow ravine, o dozen yards to our left afforded asafe ambush for the Indiuns, as we very soon found out. We stopped here but a moment or two and then de- cieed to go on about ahalf mile further south to a_high kunoll which we in- tended to fortify if we could reach it. We fought every inch of the way, with the loss of three men wounded and padly disabled teams, which were loth to'leave the water. Once on the knoll, the wagons were corratled, with the ambulance on the inside. The knoil happened to be sandy and no time was lost in digging rille pits, our only tools being bayonets. The narrow ravine spoken of at our first on leaving the ctreek, also extanded up past our present position, though twenty or On the other or west side of this rayine was a long ilow ridge terminating near Crazy Woman's creek in a high hill of a conieal shape. A party of Indians had taken possession of this ridge and hill, while south and east of us a large body of mounted In- dians were assembled, with the evident intention of d ngus out by force of numbers if possible. Well, to make a long story short, they did not drive us out, though they made several desperate efforts'to do so. Our rifle pits afforded -abuudafit protection and we enjoyed the blissful satisfuction of knocking more than one of the red devils off their ponies. The fight lasted until sundown, and just at that hour oc- curred an episode thuthas not its paral- lel for bravery and heroism in the an- nals of frontier warfare. We well knew that unless we received reinforcements before daylight that we were gone up. Chaplain Alpna Wright, who recently died at Nebraska City, was one of our party, and he suggested that two men should be sent back to Fort Reno for reinforcements, He knew, he said, that whoever undertook that fearful ride must do so AT THE PERIL OF HIS LIFE. Yet at the same time to demonstrate faith in the experiment, he would volunteer to be oue of the two that should make the attempt and tr God to get through the Indians. C lain Wright and one William Wall agreed togo. There were two svlendid horses in the command, one a magnifi- cent gray stallion belonging to_a Ca tain Mhrr,an ex-officer of some Missouri artillery battery, which ho was taking to Montana for breeding purposes. Marr kindly volunteered the loun of the stallion and this horse Chaplain Wright - rode. Wallace rode a bay mare belonging to one of the officers. The two men sturted across the prairie due east, knowing that they would have “Pumpkin Buttes” for a landmark when once they reached the crest of the ridge beyond the dry creek. These buttes, it will be remembered by all familiar with thut country, lie due east of Fort Reno, about twenty-five miles, Wright and Wallace crossed the dry creelk in_safety and as they started up the hill beyond the Indians took after them. In the darkness of the setting sun we lost sight of them and could only hope and pray for them. ©ur own position was now extremely critical. Ammunition was about ex- hausted. Each of us had RESERVED ONE CARTRIDGE to take our own lives in case there was no help, and belore we would surrender to a horrible death which would surely follow surrender to the Indians. Just as the last reddening rays of the declining sun were illuminating the snow capped peaks of the Big Horn range, we saw from the vicinity of the roud leading west foom the crossing of Crazy Womans a_big cloud of dust ris- ing, Whether the dust was caused b, Tndians or not wé'cduld not tell, Sud- denly the Indians op the ridge west of us began to trail “out toward the creek, and a party of three of us crossed over the ravine to get'on the ridge for ob- servation asto the cause of the dust, The Indians offered no resistance to this move, but all segmed to be anxious to get across Crazy Womans ass00n us they could, It was growing dark quite fast, and through the gloom we could just see see a small body of horsemen coming down to the ercek toward us. We waited patiently for developments and the reappearance of the horsemen, and were soon rewurded by noticing one long, gaunt individual crawling up out of the creck bed leading his horse. He came direct to'the knoll on which my- sell and the two others were lying con- cealed behind & clump of sage brush, As soon us he came within hailing dis- tance I halted him with the ovder to demand who and what he was. “Friends,” was the reply. *You chaps seem to be in a pretty hot box,I reckon., What's up anyhow?"” He adwonished us to keep dowa our guns as he wouldn’t hurt a kitten. As he came up the side of the hill we were at once struck with his venerable ap- pearance, though he wus as straight as an_arrow. “I'm Jim Bridger, boys, and [ just reckoned you fellows was mightily io need of friends, and here we have been trampin’ half the might 10 help you out.” Shortly afterwards a party of a dozen or more cavalrymen came up the hill exclamation was: ‘‘In- WE WERE BURNED OUT! _ But do not propose to stay out, and here we are, ready for business, at 83 SOUTH MAIN STREET, Our Blnck Poerless Soft Nut ana Lump Ooal takes the cake. of our Hard Coal is not excelled by any on the market. ber the place. and wo soon learnod that they belonged to the Second United ates cavalry and were a part of Captain . B. Bu roughs’ command of 300 that were close behind, Bridger, they told us, had discovered over at Clear Fork, fifteon miles west, where they had intended to camp, that the Indians had a party corraled at Crazy Woman’s, and from' the signals or signs thoy had left on buffalo skulls that the party of whites were in very close quartersand linble to be massa- cred unless Burroughs' command came up to their r(‘lin!‘i thut same night, Consequently the command had made a double march and had, as is seen, come up just in time, The Indians had also seon the relief party and withdrew. A half hour later the main command hove in sight and pulled out down to the ereek und we got our first drink of water since leaving Fort Reno that morning before day- orenk. 3 Burroughs® command was’ en_ route back to Fort Reno for supplios. We all camped together that night and in the morning went out to hunt up Lieuten- ant Daniels’ dead body. It was found about a mile up the creek. The boly was namelessly mutilated The fingers were cut off, the whole scalp rem 1 and the body was stark naked. Nine- teen arrows wers sticking in the body, one of which was pinned through his mouth and binding him firmly to the earth. We also found the dead bodies of seven Indians, one of whom had on it a portion of the dead officer’s ciothes and his sealp in his belt, a portion of which the Writor now has in his pos- session, Our casualtits were eight men wounded and two killed out of nineteen that went into the engagement. We started back to Fort Reno with the Bur- roughs command that morning, and on our way back met Wright and Wallace returning with a relief party from the fort. Both of their horses had died from exhaustion upon reaching the post. They had succeeded in cutting through the Indians and reached the fort with- out further mishap than the death of tneir horses. The Indians had followed them, and they had to make a dead run of it all the way. We carried the dead body of Lieu- tenant Daniels with vs back to Fort Reno, where it was buried with military honors. Terrel’s body, the other dead one of our command, was buried on the field. The wdunded, of which the writer was one, were kindly cared for, and most of us were enubled to continue the march back to Fort Phil Kearney when the larg command returned there two days afterwards. Sa e S Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for children teething cures wind colic,diar- rhaea, ete. 25 cents a bottle. —_— RUBE’S OBITUARY NOTICE, Written by the Editor at the Request of the Boy's Little Sister. Detroit Free Press: Ten o'clock in the building of the big city paper. The electric lights are burning and the whirl of presses and click of types make a busy scene. Editors, reporters, proof- readers are busy preparing the day’s doings for the morrow. The door of the chief’s office 18 pushed carefully open, and a blue-eyed, flaxen- haired maiden of six summers and as many winters enters. Nobody knows how she got there. Nobody saw her climb the stairs or walk through the hall. She is ragged, dirty, and has been crying. *Is you the editor man?” “Yes, little one; what can T do for you?” *‘Rabe is dead, an’ I thought maybe you’d like to tell about it.” *“Who 1s Rube?” *“Why.didn’t you ever hear of Rube?” “You soe, there are so many people that I can’t know them all.” The big, bearded man was actually ashamed of his ignorance. “But Rube wasn’t people—he was my brother. He sold papers an’ blacked boots and all that. He wasn’t very rich,an’ ma said the city man would bury him—but he was good to me.” +Did you sell papers, t00?” “No, I stayed home, but Rube brought mo candy dogs an’ candy roosters, and licked bad boys that made me cry. An’ if you'd tell folks how good he was maybe they’d think beuter of him.” **What do you want me to say, little one?” **Why, that he was twelve years old an’ was helpin’ mother an’—oh, I don’t know—but 'member he was always good ter me."” A Before the little mourner left the office she was the recipient of a hand- ful of coins donated by *‘the boys” of the office, and the big editor ordered the janitor to accompany her home. Thus it happened that the readers of the great paper were mildly astonished to read on the morning’s local page: Died—Yesterday, Rube, the newsboy, aged twelve years. He was the sup- port of his widowed mother and loved his little sister bettor than Iife almost. He was buried in the potter’s field last night. e SOON OVER. A River Springs Up aund Dies Away in an Hour's Time, A sudden thaw in spring is a common enough cause of the swelling and ove flow of rivers, but few people have ex- perience of what might be called “‘magio vivers,” which disappear almost as suddenly as they are born, One such, however, is described by W. H. Mal- lock in his account of C, prus, entitled *In an Enchanted Island.” On a certain evening there was a suc- cession of thunder showers, and then all the night a heavy and ceaseless down- pour. **This,” said my host in the morning, *‘ought to bring down the river.” I asked what he meant by this, and ho answered that the river be- low us was rarely anything more than a dry bed of pebbles, just as it was now. 3ut genecally once—sometimes three times—in the year it would suddenly fill with water, flow for an hour or two, and again become dry and silent. I felt that the sight must be curious and wished that I might be able to wit- ness it, About 4 o’clock in the afternoon a servant came to my bedroom and asked me to go into the garden. There I found my host with an opera glassstanding on the bank, *Look!"” exclaimed he, pointing; ‘it is coming. Listen! You can hear it.” I listenod and looked. I at last caught a sound, faint and uncertain, as leaves rustling in a dreas Then, suddenly, fur away on the plaios, I saw something flash, H{(e the head of a pointed apear. Gradually this prolonged itsell into a slim, shining line, which presently ook acurve, For a time its urse was straight; then it curved again. In ten minutes,over the brown surface of the field tire water had stretebed it- self like o long, silvery snake, and the sound I had heard, growing every in- Buy it once and you will want it afterwards, If you want good Hard Wood cheap call on us. The_quality Romems« SAPP & KNOTTS, Fuel Merchants, No. 33 Main Street. “ GAS FOR COCKING AND HEATING. The ideal fuel is gas. more of its nutritive proper It gives the greatest degree of heat control and is absolutely without dust ana there ean be no ac Scientific investigations have shown that food cooked by it ve s than if cooked in tha old good steak unless you huve tried one cooked by gas. is nlways unde idents from its use us 20 per con You never ate n il Bluffs G aind wily The Coan Electric Light company hava.made it desirabie in point of economy to use gas for cooking and heating. EVERY DESIRABLE QUALIT It will pay vou to investignte this, heaters and cookers are the greatest success os modorn times. Their new gas They combine ECONOMY, ABSOLUTE SAFETY, MERRIAM BLOCK, NC stant more distinet the ear as the voice of the stirred peb- blos. he river channel skirted the bottom of the garden, and thus, as the flood went by wo had every opportunity of observing it. It pushed itself for- ward, headed by a mass of pebbles and seam; it split itself which a moment later wer the body of the stream: explained itself to drowned in it. gurglod against banks, it circled into transitory ! whirlpools. Gradually, as we watched, its volume seomed to diminish, and in an hour’s time there was onily a trickling rill, over which a child five years old might have stepped. w Year Wall A gentlemanly, genial and urbane citizen of Merrill, Wis., started the new year well, if not better. He walked into the saloon of a man who had won money from him at cards and wished him a happy new year, at the same time shooting him dead. Then he went into another saloon and fired three shots into a crowd of merrymakers just by way of greeting, He was alone 1n the saloon in about two seconds. Then an officer thought he would ar- rest this bad man. He ordered the gentlemanly, genial and urbane party to throw up his hands. His reply was two bullets, one of which took away part of the oflicer’s left ear.and the other came to an anchor in his shoul- dor. He dropped, and the Happy New Year man weat on his bright, silvery way. The chief of police thought he coald do something in this state of af- fairs, and went after the shooter. He gota bullet in his lung at the first shot and aropped out of the game. inally a crowd of citizens and offic captured the genial gentleman of the gun. Aud they didn’t hang him, This is one of those stories which is wholly lacking in clima: g R Couldn't Stand Repudiation. A triangular bit of land just outside the borough limits of Stonington, Conn., is an old family burying-ground. The yard shows neglect; bushes are growing therein, while the walls in many places have fallen down, and the entire sur- roundings indicate that the dead quietly reposing there have been long since forgotten. One marble monument there has an inscription thut shows that’the dead deserves a better fate than ob- livion. 1t reads: *“When Rhode Island, by her legislation from 1844 to 1850, re- udiated her revolutionary debt, Dr. dichmond removed from that state to this borough and selected this as his family burial plot, unwilling that the remains of himself and family should be disgraced by being part of the common earth of a repudiated state.” Began the N B Paris Horse Avbattoirs, A visit to one of the horse abattoirs in Paris is not calculated to make one a confirmed hippophagist. A journatist visited one of the largest of these slaughter houses early one morning and saw the sort of animals that are thought fit for human food in Paris, This abat- toir is in the south of Paris, in the Boulevard de I’Hopitul, not many yards from the famousmanufacture des- Gobelins, There were forty horses waiting to be slaughtered. They were decrept old invalids, lame, spavined, diseased and fleshless old hacks, suffer- ing all of the infirmities which aflict the equine race. When a horse be- comes useless for everything else ne is taken to these abattoires and killed, unless he aies on the way. Some of thoso in the stables wers so rickety that they could not stand up. e e A Remarkabls ntenarian, A clapboard was exhibited in Knox- ville, Tenn., which was made by Wil- Liam MeNish of Jefferson county, aged one hundred years. He cut the tree and sawed and split the boards with his own hands, says the Nashville Amer- ican. He is a native of North Carolina, but haslived in Tennesseo a reasonaple lifetime, He is as vigorous as & man of forty. M. H. CHAMBERLIN, M. D EYE, EAR AND THROAT SURGEON, Defeetlve Vision and Refractive Troublos s Specialty GLARNES ACCURATELY Special attentl Kiv henduches, er nervous affections, s large Jonity of whic cuused by oculnr defoets, and entirely cura y proves treatmion of the o Berd -lITnlfl{ur pumphiet. Best of references given on applicution, Calarrh treated with success by matl after first con suitation. OFFICE (Ol BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET, Over Council Bluffs Savings Bauk, Council Blufls,'ls ~—THE— J: A Murphy Manufacturing Co. 1st Avenue and 215t Street, SASH DOORS AND BLINDS. Band and Scroll Sawing. Re-Sawing and Planiog. Sswing of allKinds, Porcn Bracks Kindling wood £250 per load delivered. Oloau mawdust by the barrel Zic. All work 1o be tirst-class, ~ Telephone 224, “Your Patronage Solicited. 8. E. MAXON, Archite-t and Superintend:n, Room 281, Merriam Block, COUNCIL BLUFFS, ~ IOWA, BELL & BERLINGHOF, ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENS. Room 2, Opera House Block, Council Bluffs, lowa. into fierce rivulats, © GREATEST No. 211 Paarl St, S, IOWA. SPECIAL NOTICES, COUNOIL BLUFFS. FOR SALE AND R:iNT. 'RADE-160 acres of clear Kaneas land, partly improved: will trade for n #,0% k of dry goods and grocerles, or Wil trade K) acres for $4,000 8tock of roceries, Addross 02 Avenue O, 'Countil Blutts, la, nt girl, Inquire at 7 Tttt 000r #4100 you can buy & nice, new cloan stock of ardware, stove and tinshop tnone of the best lo-wilons’ in western Towa. If you want a hardwaro business wonld be sed to refor you to rellablo parties that Know all about onr business. Very sutisfactory rensons for ellini. 12 Wil pay you 10 1nvestt. gate this,Aadress B 6, lies “ofico, Council nirs. “'A ED-Competent nighest wages patd. glrl, family of two, i 0T 4th ave, Mrs, J. F.Kimbull, VWANTED-A 1 130" chnmber- maid; wages 85 per week. None but com- Pitent “need upply. 151 Biroadway, Council OR SALE Ot TRADE—Stod invoice about $3,000, one-third casn, J. Lamb, Masonic temple, Council Bluffs, VWANTED—A good girl tor goueoral house- work in small family; 222 South Six! of statione OTICE—If you have real eatate or ¢ you want to alspose of quick, list the Kerr & Gray, Councll Bluirs, Ia, contral lows, Keir & FPHE WEST SIDE_ BUILDING SOCIETY of Council Blufs invites the attention of mon working on salarles and othier persons of moaer- ate means to their co-operatiye plan for securin homes in thiscity. 1618 belioved that bettel terms of purchase and credit can he effected under this plan than by individual action, and that & bet site elghborhood and surround- ings can be secured than by purchasing and im- roving independently und in separate districts n the city, The undersigned will furnish in formation and show the property to all_inquir ors. open from 7 to 8 on week day even- ing: C. M. Ross, room 203 Merriam bloc 0R RENT—The busino: pled by 8, T. McAtee. avenue. house lately occme— Apply at 537 Fifth OR EXC GE-%or 4 stocks of general merchandise to exchange for good farm lands and cash: fnvoice from $£.000 to #12,000, Address Kerr & Gray, Council Bluffs, In. 018 tor sale ln Oak Grove and Greenwood ad- 4 dition. Easy terms. Houses and lots on monthly payments. 1. L. Doble, cor. Cross and Hazel ats. AN -At aonce, stock of groceries or general mdse, that will invoice about 000, in exchange fc 00 in good improved ¢ tnis place: bal in cash, Address . Council Bluffs, JE or Excange—Tho furniture and Tease of & 65 room hotel dolng & big business in eastern Neb. Price, 010; 1,600 case bal, on !l!{ terms, or will take !5 in 1‘" real estate, Address Kerr & Gray, Councll Bilufts, N EW improved real estato to trads for unim Pprovea Omaha or Council Blulfs property Judd, 56 Broadw TE—Nougnt and wold an1 Bpecial attention given to oxa ination of titles, W. C. Jamos, N 10 Poarl st Ji'0R SALE or Rent—Garden Iand with houses, by J. It. Rice 102 Main st., Council Biuirs Cheaper Than Ever. Everything in the hardwara line at Shugart &Co.'s, Boys, the prices in skates have been cut in two, and the finest_wnd largest line in the city to' scleet from. While the skating is so y chaice in the grand drawing to tuke place Jauuary 16, 3.1, Loy DSON, E. L. Suycanr, Vice Pros, Prog, CiAs, R. HANNAN, Cashier, CITIZENS' STATE BANK, OF COUNOIL BLUFFS, Pald up Capltal. $150,000.00 Surplus 35,000.00 Liablility to Depositors....335,000.00 Diecrons—I. A Miller, ¥, 0. Glezson, B. L. Shugart, I%. E. Hart, J. D." Edundson, ¢ I Hannan, ‘Transact’ general bauking businesy Largest capital and surplus of any bank in Northwestern lowa, Interest on time deposits . M. ELLIS & CO., ARCHITECTS AND BUILDING SUPERINTENDENTS, Rooms 430 and 432 Bee Bullding, Omaha Neb, aua itooms 244 and 216 Merriam Block, Council Blufls. Towa. _Correspondence Solicited. Electrio Trusses, b L_m"yaelurs. Ete, en c. B. SUDD, €06 Browi Council Blutrs, Ia. W. I M. Pusie OFFICER & PUSEY, BANKERS. Corner Main and Broaaway, COUNCIL BLUFKS, 10WA, Dealers in forelzn and domestic excha Collections made and interest paid ou tim Dosis, Tnos, Orr) DRUCE & REYNOLDS Fashionable Confoctioners: Aho very latest movelties for hanquets s rivate parties, Ohoice fruits, bon- tons, lates, buttercups, and old fashioned molusses candy a specialty. Orders for parties and mal grders promptly filied, 520 Boadway, Counci uirs, a. No, 27 Main St., Over Jacgues min’s Jewelry Store,