Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 3, 1890, Page 2

PATTI'S OMAHA ENGAGEMENT It Will Be Inaugurated at the Coll- seum Tonight. FREPARATIONS FOR THE EVENT, The Diva and Her Matchleas Com- pany to Arrive at 10 O'clock This Morning—Plots of Operas, 11 Trovatore Tonight. A this morning the Grand Italian opers company, with its world-wide famed singers and mugaificent cuorus, its great leaders and incomparablo orchestra, will ar- rive from Denver at the Union Pacific depot, and there s every indication that a great throng, particularly of the nterpreters of the art in this city, will be present to heartily welcome Mme. Patti, Albani, Nor- diva, Tamagno, the wondorful tenor, and the wany other artists, Only av the Miliard have apartments been engaged in advance for any mombers f the company. o this hotel will go immodiately upon the arrival of their train Mme. Patti, accompanied by ber husband, Signor Nicolini; Mme. Albaui and_her husband, Mr. Ervest Guy: slle. Nordica, Mlie, Pettigiani and “sister, Mme. Valda and Mrs, Loran, Mr. M. Grau, Signor Arditi the musical director, Signor Novara snd Signor Navelli, “be diva and her husband will occupy a sunny suite of seven very delightful apart- ments on the parlor floor, aud facing Dou lus street. ‘Ihe suite includes reception par- lors, drawing room, sitting and dining rooms, two'sleeping apartments, bath and toilet rooms. All, bet particularly the drawing room and_bondoir designed to be occupied by Mime. Patti herself, are of superb ap- pointment, even to the most minute detail, Mume. Albani and husband have a suite ot five roows directly adjoining Mwo, Patti's and u duplicate of i Also upon the same flogr Mile. Nordica fiuds & suite of three haudsome rooms await- ing her. On the floor above, or the second, Mue. Valda -occupies four apartments, Sigaor Arditi two, Signor Novara two, and Mr. Grau a like number. Upon the third floor Mile. Pettigiana and sister have a suite of three rooms, and Signor Navelli one partment. A dispatch received from Denver last night said that Mme, Patti and all the mem- bers of the company were in_the most per- feot heaith, o fact which will greatly en- hance the pleasurable anticipation enter- tained regarding their appearance in this city erything is in perfect readiness for the Jong nuticipated o which finds its in- ayguration this ovening in the opera of “Il Travatore,” and 1ts continuance tomorrow afternoon with **The Barber of Seville.” tthe Coliseum, The arrangement for seating the immense audicnces which will attend the perform- ances tonight and tomorrow, are very com- plete. The chairs have all been numbered and the putlic is thoroughly familiar with the location of the various sections from the dingram published in, Tur Beg, 8o that ticket holders can move toward their seats and thus uvoid blocking the entrances, The large force of ushers were thoroughly drilled in_ their duties by Louis Baehr, the néad usher, yesterday aftornoon, and there will be no delay in seating the people as fast as they arrive. An order to avoid a great rush when the «oors are opened, they will be thrown open 1wo hours before the performance com- mences, T'he main entrance of the building will ad- it the audience te the amphitheatre and the large entrance just south of it will be used for those holding tickets to the maio floor. In the miatter of exits vety complete ar- rangements have been made. There will ba six exits from the amphitheatre and five from the main floor, Those from the ams piitheatre are as follows: One in the north- West corner, one in the southwest corner, three at the center of the cast side and one at the northeast corner. ‘Che exits from the main floor are in the centre of the east and west sides. Policcmen will be stationed at rach exit and every precaution will be taken to prevent confusion. ‘T'o,guard against any possible danger from fire, & fire brigade will be on band und hose will be stretched toroughout the great building ready to attack any incipient blaze ‘Wwhich may show itself. Clonk 100ms have been arraneed in the southeast corner of the building ana will be in charce of competent uttendants. Noth- ing has been neglected which could add to the comfort aud enjoyment of the audience, THE FLOTS, Stories of the Two Great Operas 10 be Produced at the Coliseum, “Il Trovatore,” an opera in four acts, werds by Cammarano, was first produced in Rome January 19, 1t In 1857 it was brought out in Paris as “Le Trouvere,” and in London, ), In English, in “The Gpysy’s ‘Vengeance It was produced in Rome in the same year with *La Traviaw,” but un~ like the latter, it was greoted at onco with with “Martha” and “Faust" place in popular admiration, ‘The opera opens with a midnight scene at the palace of Aliaferia, where the old servi- wwr, Fernando, relates to his nssociates the story of the fate of Garzia, brotuer of the Count di Luna, in whose service they are employed. While in their cradies Garzia ‘was bewitched by an old BYPSY, snd day by day pined away, The gypsy was burned at the #take for sorcery; and u rovenge Azucena, her daughter, stole the sickly child. At the opening of the opera his fate has been dis- covered. As the servitor closes his narrative and he aud his companicus depart, tbe Count di Luna enters und lingers by the apartment of the Duchess Leonora, with whom he is in love. Hearing his voice, Leonora comes iuto the garden, supposing 1t is, Maarico, the troubadour, whom sho had crowned victor at a_receut tournament, and of whom she had become violently enam- oured, As she quits the court, Manrico ap- relrl upon the scene and charges her with nfldelity, - Recognizing her error, she flies to Manrico for protection. The conunt chal- lenges him to combat, and as they prepare o it she falls to the ground ingensible. In tho second act we are introduced to & EYPSY camp, where Azucena relates to Man- Fico, Who b en wounded in the duel with the count, the same story which Fernando had told his friends, with the addition that ‘when she saw her mother burning she caught, up the count's child, intending to throw it iato the lames, but by mistake sacrifived her own infant. As the story concludes a mes. sepger arrive sumwoning Manrico v the de- dence of the castle of Castellar, and at the samo time informng bim that Leonora, sup- posing bim dead, has gone to a convent. He Brrives at the convent in time to rescue her before she takes her vows and bears her to Castellar, which 1s at once besieged by the count’s forces. T'he third act opens in the camp of the oouut, where Azucena, arrested as a spy, is dragged in, Sho calls upon Manrico for help. The mention of tus rival's name only sdflp fuel to the connt's wrath, and he or- the gypsy 10 be burned in sight of the castlo. Fernando has already recoguized her as the supposed murderer of the count's nd ber filial call to Maurico also buw that she is bis mother. He perate effort to rescue her, but defeatod, taken prisoner, and thrown ioto AQuogeon with Azucens. Leonora vainly u“‘nc':nun count to spare Manrico, und ast offers bin her hand if he will save his h:: Bomnu:.u. sod I.Aonu"n hulfifln to u prison goavey e tidiugs, hntnwmnly taken poison, preferring o0 die er thau fulfill her hateful contract. Manrico refuses his liberty, and us Leonora hlin in a dying condition ‘she count enters and orders Maurico to be put to death at onge. _He is dragged away 1o exeoution, but us Lhe count triumphantly forces Azuceua to a wiy shows ber the \u“c BoAD sbp er seoret, and lnforming th FTON-8| ocount that he has murdered own , falls lifeless to the ground. The Barber of Bovil 4l Barbiere di Siviglia—~The Barver of the highest ville—an Ttalian opera bouffo in two acts, wbrds by Sterbini,founded on Beaumarchais’ comedy, was first produced at the Arzentina theater, Rome, February 5, 1810. Rossini wrote the musie in three weeks time. The scene of the opera is laid at Seville, Spain, Count Almaviva has fallen in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, with whom she resides, and who wishes to marcy her himself. Aftor seronading his mistress, who knows him only by the name of Couat {iindoro, he prevails upon Figaro. the actotum of tho place, to bring about an in terview with her. In'spite of her guardian’s watchfulness, as well as that of Don Basilio, her music_teacher, who is helving Bartolo in bis schemes, she informs the count by lotter that she returns bis passion With Figaro's help he succecds in gaining admission to the house disguised as a drunken dragoon, but this strategem 18 foilea by the entrauce of the guard, Who ar- st bim. A second timo he secures admi on, disguised s a music toacher, and pre- tending that he has been seat by Don Basilio, who is ill,to take his place. To get in- 10 Bartolo's confiience he produces Rosina's letter to himselt and promises to persundo lior that the lotter has been given him_by a mistress of the count and thus_break oft tho connection between the two, 13y this means he secures an interview and an elopement and private marriage are planned. In the midst of the arrungemonts, however, Don Basilio pute in an anpearunce and the discon- certed lover makes good his escups. Mean- while, Bartolo, who has Rosina's letter, suc- ceeds in arousing the joalousy of his ward with it, who thereupon discloses the pro- posed elopement and promises to marry her guardian. At the time set for the elopement the count and Figaro appear. A reconcilia- tion is easiiy affected, a notary is at hand, and they are married just as Bartolo makes his appearanco with the officor to arrest the count, Mutual explanations oceur, how- ever, and all ends happily. FORT WORTH. How the Texas Town has Grown Within a Few Years, Forr Wontn, Tex., March 1.—[Special to Tue Bee.|—Some eight years ago this was a frontier village, now it claims 35,000, and is really one of the most growing cities of Texas. Beautiful for situation 1t is laid out on an ample plan—with a union depot from which trains goout in eleven diractions, Its bank clearings have generally been over 100 per cent greater of late than in correspond- ing weeks a year ugo. The Spring Palace is being enlarged and is to be opened in Aprit. The new pastofiice is a beautiful structure, five stories high with a cupola. 1tis esti- mated that the cost will be $110,000. It will afford offices 10 the thres upper stories for business men. The Trinity river flows by on thenorth, There is an artesian wall that affords a pood supply of water for the city and for an ice factory. Ice is soid at 1 cent a pound at retail. This city is about ‘Thirty miles west of Dallas—which is also on the Trinity andis perhaps the largest city in Texas. It clayms over fifty thousand intiubitanis. The region from Dennison southiward to Austin comprises much of the tuest prairie region in the state and is well settied up, 50 that in color of soil and gen- eral appeaaance it seems much like our best prairio regions in Illinois and Nebraska. Land ranges in this cultivated belt from §20 to $40 per acre. In the-tumbered regions from Milom county southward the price of land is from $3 to 810 per acre. The soil is of a lighter color, but very easily broken and produces good cotton, corn, vegetables and fruit. It much resembles, but is more level than southern Illinois, Barly straw- berries are now being shippad from near Galveston. Farmers are hard at work getting their land ready for cotton. The rains have put the soil in fine conditlon. STATE NEWS, Christian Church Dea‘cated. RisiNGs, Neb., March 2.—|Special Tele- gram to Tue Bee. | —The large new Chris- tian church was dedicated here today. It is the best church building in the city. The sorvices in all the other churches wero dis- missed for the oceasion and there was a very largo d ~ entnhsiastic attendauce. Rev. F. M. Rains, national secretary of the Church Extension society, preached the ser- moun. More than enough money was raised to pay off the iudebteaness. Verdigre's Sirides to Greatne: Verpiore, Neb.,, March 2.—[Special to Tau Bee.]—No town in northern Nebraska has chunged morg, in the lust few woeks than the town of Verdigre, situated at the end of the Creighton branch of the Fre- mont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad, fifty miles from Norfolk. Last week while in Omaba D, K. Johnson, president of the bank here; bougnt §1,400 worth of stock in the town site of Verdigre and today another big deal has been made,- D. E. Johnson and Churles Kamunsk: buyiog several thousand dollars worth of town property. Three of our most enterprising business men ure pre- paring to build fine residences as soou as the weather permits, We are only six miles from the reservation, the nearest point reached by the Fremont, Eikhorn & Mis- sourl Valiey railroad, Ths fact is becom- ing known and every traia brings crowds of home seekers. Brlicv'd to Bave Been Drowned. Surenion, Neb., March 2.—[Special Tele- gram w0 Tur Bee]—About 8 o'clock this afternoon three children of Jumes Ednoy, who rosides in this city, vear the Republican wandered awsy from home and have vot been found. A red hood which belonged to one of the children was fouod on the bank of the riyer near whers a hole was cut in the ive, and 1t is feared the children have fallen into the river and drowned. Some ‘boys claim they saw the children about 5 o'clock p ing near the Llkuorn & Santa Fe round bhouse, but this is nov considered authentic. Mrs. Ednoy, mother of the children, is aimost distracted with grief. A large searcning party are now out searching the river and surrounding neighborhooa. Some citizens state that they say three chilaren going north from town about dark, 1f so, thenight being cold, unless they are :lmmh.'ound it is feared they will frecze to eut Items from Gothenburg. GOTHENBURG, Neb,,, March 1,—[Special to “Tur Bee, |—The lakb and cagul are nearing completion and will give this place a water power surpassing any yet developed, in the state. Munufactories of various kinds are solicited. Several capitalists are already investigating the advantages and negotia- tions are pemding for several laree in ' ustries of this kind to be erected early in the spring. Last fall the Gothenburg Land Investment company platted a 160-acre addition adjoin- ing the western limits of vown upon which has been _erected a beautiful avd ©ommodious three-story hotel which will be opened to the public in a few days. Although this hotel is ut present the only buildiug upon that tract, aud is nearly a mile from the depst, it will not be long before there will be erected @& number. of brick business blocks and dwellings trans- forming the bleak and uncultivated prairie anto u busy mart of commerce s evidenced by the sale of more than §15,000 worth of lots in that viciuity and parties are ouly waiting the arrival of spring and material when act- ive operations will begin. Plans have ar- rived for another hotel to be built some fve Dblocks east of the one alluded to, This will be of brick, three stories high, containing upwards of fifty rooms and furnistied thiroughout with the latest conveusences, This bas beeu one of the most open win. ters ever experienced in this locality and mechanics were employed during whe entire wivter in building dwelling and business hLouses, some half u dozen of the former und three of the latter haviug been ereoted and the work is still going on. Husiness of ail k nds has beon unusuaily good all wiuter. Editor Springsteen of the Independent eniarged his papor to double its former size wou gols up & neat and newsy paper. Toe farmers of this viciity are taking steps for the organization of & stock company 10 operate & will and elevator and are meet- ng with much eocouragement thus far, The organization is o be composed exclusively of farmert I'here 18 a strong probability of & rallroad beiug built from here eouth to Farnam on the B. & M.~ The distance is ouly about twenty-five wiles aud the road can be buily with very livle expeuse. THE OMAHA DAILY ~BEE: REPUBLICAN VICTORY SURE Two Hundred and One Enough" Electoral Votes. “Sure ONLY THIRTEEN WERE NEEDED, These May Be Obtained Without Either Now York or Indiana—aAr- bitrary Coin tnspectors—The Change in Stamps. The Republican Coly Wasunixarox, March [Speciar to Tne BEp. | —~Within a few weeks there will be forty-four stars in the American flag. The committee on territories 1 both houses of congress have reported in favor of admitting Wyoming and Idaho to statehood, and as there is no objection from the majority theso reports insure success for the proposition. The admission of Wyomiog and Idaho will complete the addition of at least five re- publican states to the union under the ad- ministration of President Harrison, These are the two Dakotas, Washington, Wyom- ing and Tdaho. There is very little doubt that Montana will be republican for all time n the future, but in as much as ahe elected a democratic governor last year I will placo her in the doubtful column for the purpose of the argument I am about to present, tend- ing 10 show thut the republicans, if they will but act juaiciously aud fair, can have a majority of the electoral votes for the next generation to come. With the admission of Wyoming and Tdaho there will be 88 senators and 832 mem- bers of the house —a total of 420 meu in con- gress. It will thus be seen that 211 cletors will be necessary for a presidential choice. If we would consider Montana republican, the republicans may easily secure a majprity of the clectoral votes without either of tho old-time donbiful states, New York avd In- diana, us the admission of the six new states gives' the republicans nincteen electoral votes, or a grand total of 201 “‘sure enough’ republican votes io the electoral college and doubtful states with strong republican ten- dencies as follows: Connecticut, 3; Dela- ware, 3; West Virginia, 6; New Jorsey, 9 Indiana, 15; New York, 0—a total of 73 doubtful votes inclined to be republican, and which will be republican if treated candidly and considerately. 1 now count among the reliably republican electoral votes the following: California, 3 Colorao, 8; the Dakotas, 7: Washington, 31 Idaho, 8; Wyominy, 8; Illinois, 22; Towa, 18] Kunsas, 0; Maine, 6; Massachusetts, 14; Michigal 3. Minnesota, Nebraska, 5: Nevads, §: New Hampshire, 4; Ohio, 23; Oregon, 3; Pennsyivania, 30; Vermont, 4 Wisconsin, 11, and " Rhode Island, 4, a total of 195, exclusive of Montaua. & With Montana and New Jersey, or with Delaware, Connecticut and West - Virginia, or Indiana alone, the republicans will have a majority of the electoral votes. This makes a REPUBLICAN VICTORY EASY ENOUGH without New York or without Indiana. There are about half a dozen ways in which the thirteen votes necessary to republican success can be taken from the doubtful column of seven states without touching New York or Indinna. With the latter state the whole list of doubtful states may bo thrown out and the republicans will have a majority of the electoral votes and two over. There are some exceedingly arbitrary officials under the feder.l government. An instance of what would appear to be wnau- thorized and cruel arbitrariness was brought to my notice the other day at the sub-troas- ury in Cincinnati. There is a clerk who passes upon eoin presented for redemption ‘who should receive some instructions from his superiors. "This man, I am told upon good authority, insists that whenever coin is placed in his bands for examination he is obliged to stamp it as being below the stand- ard of treasury valuos in the event it av- pears to be the slightesy defeutive. 2 Natonal and private bankers in the course of their dally businoss recoive a great, man y gold’ and silver cows which aro worn, ‘I'ney wre obliged to take them in over their counters ~at par ' because the money is lawful, and the govern- ment does not contemplate 10ss to the people on account of the - effect,, which age may have upon its money. vides that whenever a legal tender, gold or silver cortificate, bunk note, or any other piece of coin or currency issued under au thority of the governmert, becomes worn or defaced it shall be redeemed by the govern- ment’s sgeats at ity face valuc. There was o time when the government. maae a reduc- tion for mutilated notes, and the reduction was in proportion to the missing sections of the bill or note. Now, however, there is no reduction, and torn notes and rotes with missing pieces are redeemed at face value. ‘The same applies to gold aud silver coins which have been mutlated, A coin which is worn by age should be redeemed ‘at par value by the government, as the bolder is in no way respousible for the light. weight of the coin. L'bis is the %, BPIRIT OF THE LAW in relution to coins, if not the lettel ‘This clerk av tho sub-treasyry in Cincln- nati insists upon stamping the letter “'L" on every light coin placed upon his counter, whether ho ia agked to redeem iv or mot. If @ private citizen should present a gold or silver coin t this individual and ask ether it is genuine or counterfeit, light. full weignt, the clerk after determining the question insists upon stamping the coin for just what 1t is, although he is requestea not to do so0. The arbitrariness of this clerk h: cost the bankers who send coin to the Cin- cinnau sub-treasury for exchange u great mauny thousands of dollars during the past few months and has led very many to appeal 10 the treasury department to send their cow here when anything is wanted in the way of exchange, On the 22dof February the crusado against the “'sickly green stamp” that has continued since 1857 was brought to an end by the dis- continuance of the issue of the objectionable stamp and the substitution of one more in accord with the nesthetic tastes of the American nation. The introduction of the now stamp is in consequence of the issue of the new series of stamps that was called for some time . The series just brought be- fore the public is the fifth serics since the in- troduction into this couutry of the postage stamp, ‘There 1s no man in this country better posted on stamps, that s, postuge stamps, than Third Assistant Postmaster General Hazen. When seen recently in his cosy little office in the department, he _expressed bim- self as perfectly ready and delighted to talk on the subject of the postage of the United States. Scattered aroand the room in frames are a number of stamps of different series, all, however, of American origin, Much care has bean taken in the arrangement of this stamp album, and as General Hazen became interested 1n his subject, he muved g{nund to the various cases and illustrated s nn Solid, TALK ON STAMPS, with an occusional reference to the stamp under discussion. “'The first issue of United States stamps was in 1847, said the general as be called at- tention to the stamp. **There were but two deonominations, the b cent and 10 cont stamps, aod they lasted uutil 1561 when the reduc- tion 1n letter postage to 3 cents brought forth 8 new series that lasted Just ton yoars. 7Tho series of '51 was snlarged a few years after its introduction by the additional denomina- tions of 5, 10, 12, 24, 80 and 90 cents, The series of 1861 was called forth by the re- bellion, the real cause being a rather pecu- liar one. At the breaking out of the war there were 4 number of stamps in the hauds of southern postmasters who, thinking that they would never be celled upon to account’ for the stamps in their po: ion, were usivg them secure fiom the United Statos governmeot, for which they return no equivalent. 1o master General Blair, coguizant of this fact. issued & circular in which he stated that all stamps of & provious issue would not be accepted as postage after a certain date, A short time was given in which to redeewn all such stamps woich afior that date would be valueless. The series of '61 Was then brought out and lastea until 1869 when they wero aced by the * horsebaok, steamboat avd railroad' stamp which, how- ever, did not guin the popular favor sud us much traduced as product made only here were man. last chavge, @ few years ago. reasous for his slrongest reasou Thte law pro- | the late green being the dissiBiMrity axisting in the stamps of the series. I the twenty years of life of this series Jthere were miny changes made in the diffarbut stamps comprising the series aud a chunge had to _be made 1o re store the homogepeity of the sories. The change referréd 19 was not only 1n color but also in design. Ti'18S7 several chunges were made; the l-cefft Stamp containing the hoad of Franklin wa¥ re.engraved snd a new border substituted. “The reduction of postage in 1553 did not call forth a new series of stamps, but seve: of tho existing series were changed. The 3 cent SLAD, ROYrepresenting any single rate of postage, was dropped, but 4 demana aris- ing for it ahorily after jt was again issued, The 4-cont stafiyl ' was made necessary by the double rate of postage adopted in 1883, The head of Jackson, abandoned on the 2-cent stamp when roplaced by that of Washington, was placed on this stamp. The rfield stamp of ‘the b5-cent denomination came out in 1881, A 7-cont, & 12-cont and a 24-cent stamp were originally embraced in the '70° series, but they were afterward dropped.” T'he change in the character of the stamps as explained by General Hazen were calied forth by the necessity for harmony in the stamp series, as 8o many changes had boen made in the different denominations that they were all different from the rest of the series, Up to this time the United States postage stamps had been recognized by for- eign governments as the finest and most artistic produced, The change was therefore mado to re- build the series and render it perfectly har- monious The question of aestheticism involved is a rather peculiar one and has had not a little influence in deciding the fate of an unpopu- lar number of the series that has just gone into the past. The color of the stamp was always objectionable and its recall was de- maaded from the first, The stamp in the first place had been designed to be printed in_ metalic red and the green color in which it was after- ward printed was entirely inharmonious and not at all fitted to show the beauues of the engraving. The want of harmony be- tween the engraving und color constituted a reason for revisiting the othe denomnations in which the color had been_changed with- out alteration of design. Hence the new issue of 1800, No change has been made in the postage due, tho newspaper and period and the special delivery stamps, nor of stamped en- veloves and postal cards. Egpnetch A WOMAN'S STRANGE UAREER. A Lawsuit in New Mexico Deepens a W msin Mystery. CENTRALIA, Wis., March 2.—One of those strange stories not infrequently concealed under the brief statement of facts o legal documents comes to light in the suit brought in the United Statés court at Las Vegas, N, M., over a Wisconsin estate. Last Decem- ber Marian L. Bensley of this place started home from California. She was taken sick on the train and died in the Montezuma ho- tel, owned by the Santa Fe railway company at.Las Vegas. Now comes one Bertrand G. Chandos as exeoutor, and sues to recover from the hotel company the property which the deceased had in her possession at the time of her death and turned over to one Edward Wider ; In the 608 Marian L. Bensley, as she was known in later yoars* was marriad to John Bensley, & California “forty-niner,” who was at the time of the marriage estimated to be worth at least’$500,000. The courtship took place in thé Palace hotel in San Fran- cisco, the brideelect claiming to be the daughter of Lord Eterston of England and widow of Sir (irenville, She represented herself to be the owner of ‘a castlo and a vast tenantry in'Scotlaund and a lordly resi- dence ip London. After their engagement the bride betook, berself to London, where she said they would shortly be marriea at her residence with gll the pomp aund glory befitting her station. At the appointed time, when Mr. Heénsley went to claim his own, his bride had, ‘fu the advice of fricnds, changed her mind rélative to their marriage in @ public manuer{ns she at first proposed, deeming it an unwise- policy to make a pub- lic demonstratian of her union with “inerely an Anierjican business%uan,” and, they wera t)llere'ura privately wedded at her stoppiag place. 1 @ The London mansion and her Scottish cas- tle have since been proven to be entirely mythical, and “Burke's Peerage” knows no such name as Lord Everston, and the al- leged Grenville couldn’t be found. John Bensley died o the city of Centralia June 19, 1889, His remaws were taken to California for interment. Mrs. Bensley ac- companted the body and soon after her ar- rival, from fatigue and other causes, was taken sick and died ut Las Vegas, N. December 50 last. Now comes Bertrand G. Chandos, who was supposed to be acting only in the capacity of bookkeeper and for man for Mrs. Bensley, and files an affidavit in the office of the county judge of Wood county,” setung forth that he is the brother of Marian L. Beunsley and that he and his three sisters, two of whom reside in lllinois and one in St. Louis, Mo., are the only heirs at law to the estate. The community was greatly surprised at this de- velopment and if the truth of tne allegation is admitted as set forth by Chandos it is be- lieved that Johu Beusley was unaware of the relationship, ror he has reiatives here with whom he was particularly confidential and especially 1n regard to all points touching re- lationship and they knew nothing of it. In the Las Vegas uffair thero are some peculiar circumstances. The dispatches faill to say on what ground Edward Wilder claimed rs, Bensley's personal-effects, 1t—i8—econ- jectured, however, that this is a three-cor- nered struggle for the property betiween Chandos, the administrator of tho estate New Mexico,and a like personage irom Cali- fornia, Wilder may have been the agent of Chandos, who hus gained possession of the property, and who has gone to Kansas by the order of Chandos and where he is now proceeded ugainst, LAl Lincoln’s Condition Unchanged. LoxnoN, March 2.—Thke condition of youog Abraham Lincoln is unchanged. e Emin Pasha at Zanzibar. Loxnox, March 2.—Emin Pasha has ar rived at Zanzibar, i LDl IMPORTS AND EXPORTS, Statistics on the Subject for Month of January. The monthly report of imports and exports and of immigration iuto the Urited States for the month of January by S. G, Brock' chiof of the bureau of statistics, to the sec- rotary of the treasury, wes issued this morning, says a Washington special to the St. Louls Post-Dispatch. From this it ap- pears that our eXports during the ‘month were §75,250, 149, ok $1,709,150 ereator than for January, 1889. ne imports for same montn were $02,8! and £5.454,251 le than “for January, 1380. Our exports of merchandise for Janymry, 1590, exceoded our imports and thus igiying & balance iu our favor of $12,305,315, quite s favorablo show- ing for the first iwnth of the year. ior seven months, dating’from the close of the last flscal year, June /80, 1889, and euding withJanuary 81, 1899, Lbe excess of our ex- ports over “our wmports - is 809,608,053 As compared with ecorresponding months one year ugo, there was §33,005.008, It is a very handsome increase of $00,563,840. If we take the twelvembnths ending with Jao- uary 31, our exports skcoed the imports by the sum of $63,523,564; , whereas the corre- sponding tws mouths one year ago shows a balance the «*he* Way and agaiust us, our imports baing in e<cess of our exports 1 the sum of $33.057,713. Our exports of gold dur- ing the month of Januury were $48),969, ana imports 1,054,857, a balwuce ia our favor of "nfi&i&. Lo Juouary, 1859, the balance was he other way of $447,044. Our exports of silver for January, 1500, woro §3,147,285; our imports of silver wore $1,404,525. Exports of silver in January, 1589, were #3,003,47L, Tmaports, 1,083,418, " The' total immigration 1n Jandary was 11,203, us winst 10,273 for same montn in 1850. ' for seven montbs ending January, 1500, the im- igration was 301,706, and 212,500 for same tlwe one year ago. - Messrs, J. 1. Marquardt & Son, prom- inent druggists of Tiflin, O., say that Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy gives the best of sutisfaction and takes the lead there. the M \R‘(‘ll 3, : CONES 1§ FEBRUMRY, The Daligh'ful Climato of the State of Washington. REMINISCENCES OF EARLY DAYS, The Lew's and Clarke Lxpedition — Jobn dacob Astor's Fur Trad Emigration in the For Regions Yot Unexplo 8= a. Some Farly History. Orvaria, Washington, Feb. 27.—(Special 1o Tur Bee. [—(n June, 1843, well-night fifty yonrs ago, a colony of a thousand poople from the middle and western statos, gath. ered at the then frontier town of Westport, Missouri, to set forth in wagons and on foot for Oregun a country practically unknown, more than 2,000 miles away. There aro mon and women still living in Orogon and Wash- ington, now both states in the union, who belonged to that company, The boundaries of Oregon, which then extended to the Brit- ish possessions, were for some time after that still in dispute between 'England and the United Statos. 'Ihese were not the first visitors, however, to that northwestern realm. Sir Francis Drake visited the shores of Puget Sound nearly three hundred years before and in the same century ish navigators opveared, Great Britain sent hither Cook, Vancouver and Mears. In Juan de Fuca, a Venetian navigator, ontered the straic that now bears his name. Coming down to our own oentury the ovel land expedition of Lewis and Clark, fitted out by President Jefferson, in 1805 followed the Columbia river down to Cape Disap- pointment. . In 1510 John Jacob Astor formed the ‘Pacific Fur company, with a principal establishment at Astoris, at tho mouth of the Columbia, and & connecting line of posts to the Missouri river, Great Britain having set up a claim to a part of the territory, a convention 1n 1818 provided for & joint occupation for ten years, by cit both of the United States and Great Britain. ‘Phe “Oregon controversy” was not finally settled until 1872, the emperor of Germany acting as arbiter, and fixing the international boundary as it now is. In 1845 the settlers in Oregon, principally the thousand who had Journeyed from Westport, demanded oficient overnment, and a provisional arrangement was entered 10to. In 1844 Vancouver district, embracing all of Oregon north of the Columbie, was established us one county by the Oregon government, In 1848 congress organized Oragon territory, and Joseph Lune was ap pointed the first governor. In 18 tne legislature provided for five counties north of the Columbia river. in that year a convention was held at Monticello on the Cowlitz river, aud a mem- orial was sent 1o Washington, askiug for a separate territorial government, to be organized under the naiwe of Colutnbia. Tho congressional committee reported a bill with that name, Whea 1t was put on 1ts passage, however, a Kentucky member moved to sub- stitute the name of Washington on tho ground that Columbus was suciently Honored by the name of the District of Coi- umbia, and congress adopted the suggestion. In 1854 the first legislature mev at Olympia at the call of vens, Stevens had year surveyed a railroad line from Lake Saperior to Puget sound, with a branch to Portland. In his address to the legislature, he spoke at great length of the necessity for railroad communication with the eust, from a point on the sound, over the Caschde mountaips. His remarks are suf- ficiently sulightened to be read with profiv today. He spoke not only of the claims of Western Washington, but 1 detail of the resources of eastorn Washington, northern Idaho and Montaua, making favorable men- tion of “the Court ‘l Alene prairie and Spokane plain, of the Colville, Walla Walla and Yakima valleys.” In 1852 began the publication of the Pio- neer Democrat at Olympia. I have looked over its columus with great interest down to 1859, It was a four page shees with six wide columns, and was a really readable and pre- sentuble paper, ‘There were atthat time only three organized counties north of the Columbia, and the number of people did not, in 1852, exceed one thousand. There were in the territory three small sawmills, which in two yeurs increased 1o thirty-three; there were, 1n 1852, not 10 cxcoed a dozen trading establishments, while in 1854 the number was fifty. In Olympia, in 1852, io 1852, there were Lwenty-six structures; in 1554 the num- ber hud grown to ninety. In 1856 the fourth legislature met in the new capitol building, the same which is still in use. [n 1852 the only.way of getting into the territory was up the Cowlitz river in batteaux and canoes; in 1558 highway was opened between Walla Walla in the extreme southeast of Washings and the sound, over the Cascade moun- Governor Ste- the previous messago to the legislature in 1879, Governor Ferry who had been in that office since 1872 said: ‘It is almost unpossible to, eulighten the public mind ia regard to the climate and the ag@oultural productions of this territory. The eye is cast upon the mup, and when it is discovered that the territory is situated betweon the farty-sixth and fort, ninth degrees of lattitude, it is recoliected that the northern part of Maine is inter- sected by the forty-sixth parallel, and it is immediately concluded that the climate aod natural eproductions of the two locali- tics are similar, However, altor that time this erroneous impression began to bo removed. ‘The mitigating effect of the warm Pucific current, and of ihe southest wind, began o be understood. In 18584 Governor Jonn C. Squire now one of the senators from Washington, made a report to the secretary of the interior, and as previous reports had been brief ho enlarged upon the subjeot. ‘The attractions of Washiogton, he says, “with its glacier-covered toun~ tains, its waterfalls, its majestic winding rivers with their precipitous bluffs, its mighty expuuse of island-dotted sea, its deep broad forests, certainly present a new and nviting fleld for the tourist and the artist He enters 1nto a detailed and picturesgue d scrription of the terrritory, of the agricu tural laads = east of the Cascades, of the forests of matchle: timber to the west, of the mosses, lichens and herbs that everywhere abound, of the stores of iron and coal, and of the abundance of game in the mountains and of rare fish and oystors along the westera coast, There is a portion of Waslington which has never been explored; it s the country lying between the Olympic range and the Pacifle ocean, and extending from Puget Sound. to the' Quinalt river. The Indians are ignoraut and siperstitious concerning it, and there are few even of hardy huntor tales told about it. Its extent is 4,500 square miles. Tt teoms with herts of elk and deer, and the conger and bear are said to be fawmiliar features of its aoimal lfe. The Iudiaus have @ legend that it was once inhabited by a powerful race, more civilizew than any trive of Indians today, and skillful in workiog gold and silver, and even iron, It is for this reason that thoy feel a superstitious dread concern- ingit. An expedition will go out the coming summer, and Lhoroughly explore this region, which will, doubtless be one of peculiarly fuvorable climatic conditions, and abounding o useful trees ana vegetablo growihs, and perhaps in wineral treasurces of great value. The warm southwesterly wind that sweeps up the great Columbia valley, and ove ashington both cast and west of the Cas cade mouutains nelting the snow suddenly from the pluins and wountains and breaking 10 @ day the ley fetters of winter, is known popularly as.the *“Chinook” wind, The name was originally that of asmall tribe of Indians on the north shoreof the Columbia, when Astor established nis post in 1508 northwest summer wind which fulls Aswrnia 1 a direct line from Chinook Point also received that name at an early day. ‘{lu “Cascade blossom,” 8 flower that blooms ouly at a certain altitude in tne wountaing, 18 equally popular with the Edelwess. From a base of emerald, what like bunch gruss in appearsn rises o slonder stem, which is topped by a brilliant bunch as large o8 un orange. ‘1his on exawination proves to be composea of myriads of blossoms one-sixteenth of an iuch in diameter. The tlower is attractive to the eye not only, but is very fragraot. Its beauty and 1t rarity render it highly prized. Oa Chrisimus last flowers were bloomiog in yards and gordens st Olywpis snd Ta~ March April May Aro the best months in which to purify your Blood, for at no other season docs the sysiem 0 much need the aid of a reliable medicine 1ike Hood's Sarsaparilla, as now. During the long, cold winter, the blood becomes (hin and {mpure, the body becomes weak and tired, the appetite may be lost. Hood's Sarsapavilla is pecullarly adapted to purity and entich the Dlood, to creato a good appetite and to over- come that tired feeling. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Fas a larger sale than any other sarsaparilla orblpod purifier, and it increases in popularity every year, for it is the ideal Spring Mediclne. vo for & long time been using Hood's arsaparilia, and believe me, T would not be without it. As a spring medicine it is invalu A. RuopEs, 130 Ontario bStrec Be sure to got Hood's Sarsaparilla will eure, whon in the power of medielne, serofula, salt theum, sores, boils, pimples, all humors, dyspepsia, bilious- ness, slek headache, Indigestion, general debility, eatarrh, rieumatism, kidney and liver complaints, and a1l diseases or aficctions arising from tmpure blood or low condition ot | the system. | “Tnthe spring 1 got completoly run down, T could not eat or sleep, and all the dr ' The Spring Medicine | diseases ot Tite seemed to have a mortgage on my system, T have now taken two bottles of | Twod's Sarsaparilla and have gained 23 | ponnds. Can eat anything without 1t hurting wme; my dyspepsia and billousness lave gone. | 1 never felt better in my fife, Those two | botties were worth $10 to me.” W. V. | Eviows, Lixcouy, 1, s Sarsaparilla Sold by all druggists, £1; six for £5. Prepared only by C.1 HOOD & CO., Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass 100 Doses One Dollar coma—roses, chrysanthemums notwithstanding thoy have had a sleighing here since tho year b phenomenon—the grass s now , plants are sprouting swelling, and the v ly flowers aro al- ready scen in yards, 1In aweek or two vege- table nature will respond to the notes of tho birds, which are already heard among tho trees, D, C B AT COAL AT NEWCASTLE, and buds aro There Is Plenty of It and the Place Injovs a Boc .z, Wyo., Feb. 23.—To the Ed itor of Tne Ber: in the issue of Tue Bre of last Wednesday your local railway ro- porter snia: “It is understood that the B. & M. nas decided to build an oxteosion this year of its northwest branch from New- castle, Wyo., 1o Buffalo, amining camp some stance beyond there. The groat discovery of coal at Noweastle failed to pan out in quality, conseauently there is no market for it and the road is thrown out of an expected big trafl Our people are such an absurd published. The writer 50 shows a complete gnorance of this country in referring to Buftalo as a mining camp, It is & town of 1,000 inhabitants, in the ceater of the richest farming country in the territory, wimong. owier udvantages hay- ing a governinent land oflice, electric lights and a military post. The objeet in buildiug the line is to reach o country rich in unde: veloped resou s through Buffalo and make n connection with the Northern Pa- cific, a connection much necded. The Now- castle coal hns wiven such complete satisfa tion that at the present time not oue-twen- tieth of the demand ean be supplied. It has met the highest expectations of the owners Justly statement indignant thav should bo { that he was Sold byalldruggists. 81; aixfor@. Preparedonly | by C.LIOOD & CO., Apathocarios, Lowell 100 Doses One Dollar THE MYSTERY IS DEEPENING County Attorney Mahoney Tells of a New Clue. WAS THERE A THIRD ASSASSIN? Shellenberger Continues Very Ners vous and Greatly Excited — He 1y Burasts o Tears— Fear of Neal Shellenborger a Shellenberger, the suspect, was very ner- vous und greatly frightened during all of vesterday and tha greater part of last vigh He will probably be taken up to the couuty jait today, notwithstanding his very great aversion to being put under the same roof with Neal. And 1t is this last meutioned fuct which indicates plainer possibly than anything else that he lies when he says ho never knew N hedoes when talking to everyone but Jailer Al Bebout, who lus known bim for nine years. The ofticers suill hold more strongly than ever to the belief that Shellenborger is closely connected with the double murder. Their roasons for bolieving so are: First, that he was so completely aud terribly overcome when arrested in Nebraska City; . his confessing to Hebout that was - m South Omaba when Neal was there, and that e know Neal, aud s partuer i the lowa stock and the railroad company, us is evidenced by their enthusiastic the fact that extensive improyements continue to be made for enlarging the output and careying it to market. 1t is not usual that our outire community should feel it a personal grievance that a mistake should be made in a small news- paper item, yet that is true herve. It is be- CAUSC We are just mmencing the biggest boom on record, ‘I'he surveyors ure worl- ing between here and Buffalo and material is being piled along the two wilos of track already constructed. 1t is settled positively that a line wiil bo built from here to Lowd City this summer, and possibly the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley may build to us. Fho extensive coke furnacss being put_ in i the mines, the drilling for oil, and tne_fact that the county will be divided and New- castlo be mado a county seat are all elements that will belp to create the marvellons growth and development every ono is sure is athand. Nowcastle, with o population of 1,500, i than six moaths old. It is bo- wo haye not_yot hud time to place our advantages fully béforethe reading public that we are ready to criticize an item that ordinarily would nttract no attention, H. C. HeNsEL. il gt RELIGIOUS ZEALOTS, Their Famaticism Undermining the Kepubl ¢ Baunore, Md.; March 2.—Rev. Dr. To- bias Schanfarber lectured today at Har Sinair temple on “Religious Movements in Congress.” He smd the introduction of bills savoring of religion will shake the very foundavions of our guvern- men and work for the establishment of anarchy. These legislators forget in their zeal for their religion that they are en- dangering the grand structure of the repub- lic. The standards of their religion are pes- simistic, full of darkness und gloom. Where its precepts are not strong enough o reauiro adherence they would call in the strong arm of the government for their heavenly work, Not by all the Blair Sunday rest _and _educational billa that were ever devised. will a condition of affairs he instituted to the credit of govern- ment and mavkind; not by joining our free public schools to the church of non-sectarian Christianity will the millenium be brought apout, Korce is u ponr weapon. We have enough law. We want mora liberty. Chain the minds of freethinking men and they will s00n break the links and nurt the tyrant . Change of life, backacne, monthly irregu- larities, hot flashes, are cured by Dr. Miles Norvine. {'ree samples at Kuhn & Co,, 15th and Douglas, - The Death Kol Loxpox, March 2—Sir Edwara Baines, nroprietor of tho Leeds Mercury, one of the most influential liberal organs in the north of England, is dead, aged oighty-nine. Kuxosiua, Wis,, March 2.° Judge [ Martin died suddenly yuummu‘v. New Havey, Conn., March 2.—BEx-Goy- ernor James Edward Englist died today. He contracted u severe cold early this weok which developed raplaly into pneumonia. Ho was seventy-six years of age und leaves @ widow and one son ward A Gambler's Horrible Sulcide, Conny, Pa., March 2.—Sam Mason, one of the nerviest of Pittsburg’s old time gam- bling proprietors, ~ attempted to commit suioido on the night express ut this place. He cut himself horrbly in the throat, on Doth Wrists, undor the arm pits and stabbed himself in' the abdomen. Mason was ro- puted to be quite wealthy, but a brother says he has ot been himsalt for some time oy veral hard business revorse VFaulsen Lefeated. NEAPOLIY, Mino, Maren 2.—Hugh McCormick today defeated Axel Paulsen in_ @ ten mile skatiug race at White Bear lake, “The race wus for tho world's championship, #400 a side and Paulsen’s championship edal. McCormick's time was 87:9, with Paulsen one-third of a mile behind, D The Pope Bighty Years Ola. Rowme, March 2.—The pope is eighty years old today and tomorrow will be the twelfth anniversary of his coronation, In honor of theso Lwo anniversuries he gave a reception today to the college of cardinals. e President of Uruguay. Moxrevinro, March 2,—Dr. Heriera Oves has veen elected president of Uruguay. ~ Attention K. of . All members of Myrtle lodge No. 2, K. of P,, are ordered to appear at the Castle hall, 6. w. cor, 14th and Dodge st., March 8 at 1:30 p.. m. sharp to at- tond the funeral services of our late vrother, J. P. Edstrom. All the Krights of Pythins and friends of decensod are cordially invited 'o wt- tend. J. DoNNELLY, C. C, Wi C, WAGNER, K. of . and 5, { viol 1 a great deal { conne { foliow, aling job, was 1 jail with bim, ele.; that he s as afraid s death of Neal aud staits ity at the mere mention of lis name; ries violeatly o great deal of his time, and during these fits of weeping, when 110 tell all he knows about the matter, I promise 10 do so later: o uniy Attorney Mahoney, wko has spent of time with Shellenberger sinee the latter was cangiit and placed in the city jail here, said to a BER reporter yester- day: 1 believe thut Shellenbe ed with the murde think he ptanned it—that was done, I think, by Neal. Shellenborger is a weak, a puny poth iv_ bodv and mind, a8 compared with Neal. Particularly is ho vastly inferior in poirit of will power, and is just the fellow to be dominated over by such Wmanas Neal. He compares to Neal a does unall-contrived tool to u master worke m er is wtimately Sull, I do not I will tell you,” continued Mr. Mahoney, “of & very significant little incident. that cawe to me just atcer the Shellenbsrger tali was started by Noal, and which I have ith- erto kept a secret. Soon after ''ne Bee publisned Neal's description of Shellenber~ ger, a reliable farmer named Stevens, who lives about a quarter of & mile east of Allen Root's place, which is about thres-quarters of a mile north of the Pinney farm house, called on me. Ho swd that on the afterncou either of Monday or Tuesday, February 8 or 4—he could nov re- call which, though he did remember dis- tinetly that it was a cloudy day- man in the fiold nortueast of the Pinne farm bouse running hard 1o the north and u little west, this being towards his (Stevens') house, He drove down there and inter- copted the fellow. As he came up to him the stranger asked where the road led to. ‘Ihere were two rouds, ana Stevens asked him which one. ‘Well, that one,’ exclaimed the man, all out of breath, greatly excited, and powting to the road leading out to the main one woing to Omnia. *That's the road to Owaha,’ an- swored Stevens, and the man replied: ‘Well, that’s the one I want,’ and walked hurriedly toward it. Before going half a dozen _yurds he broke intoahard run and every now and then would turn his hoad to seo if he was beink followed. “When Mr. Stevens read the description given by Neulof Shellenberger he says it seomed to fit the man whom Lo met as ro. tod. Vesterday 1 took him down to see Shellenberger, but he says it is not the man he interceptod chasing across the Pinney farm, “Tomy mind,"” ndded Mr. Mahoney, *‘this is & very important incidontin the great case and one that decpens the mystery, 1s thore a third man implicated in the murder or did a third mau soo it? — A Nibilist Conspiracy. 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