Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 2, 1890, Page 12

= 12 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1800-SIXTEEN PAGES IN AMERICA'S NEW ELDORADO What a Member of The Bee's Staff Saw on a Tour in Central Wyoming, SURPR'SES THAT WILL ASTONISH ALL. ! Vast Resourcen of Oil, Conl, Conper, Gold, silver, Asbestos and *odr Waonders Insuring Firbue 1ous Foriunes, SERTATN and sure of suceess in of the | Ameriea’s sned every word, Wyoming! Such is the irresist- able, the overpowoer- ing impression which the intelligent travel- | with wido | oven, trip th is er eyes after ugh thisnew- | 1ing 1y mude state, A somewhat tract of country to-day, so far assurface npj #o, but, mark it well the early mortow-—as the lifetime of a state is reckon ed—Wyoming will prove to be the most valuable in all the tinra of statehood gems which adorns | Columbin, and that makes her the fruit- | ful mecca of fortune scekers, the world over, o Unprejudiced, with every facility for travel that the countey affords, and with o sincere desire to know the truth regarding tho reports of Wyoming’s re- puted wealth of oil, mineral and fuel, a representative of Thne Bee made a tour of the state. M transportation in Wyoming are comparatively good until one ap- proaches the heart of the state. T cheerless and barren | rances on bas just en begins a testing of the sightseer's pa- tience and endurance. But, as the | tourist who upon finding himself fd the magnificence of [t immediately forgets the arduous and peril-fraught work of climbing the Alps, sois counted as nothing the tedious railroading, the mountain_ climbing, the sand wastes and the alkali water, when one discov- ershimseifamong the almost numberless evidences of incalcuable wealth which he finds under the matchlessly bright skies, and swept by the invigorating | ana appetite-foreing breezes of Central Wyoming. Ju little less than the same ratio of priceless importance as is the physical heart to the human body.so isfound the | geographical heart of \Wyoming to the stato in general. As in darkest, inner- | most Africa it was that Henry M. Stan-' ley made some of his most important dis- coveries, so, in barvenest, innermost Wyoming Thi Bee man found the greatest of all her prospects, the most important factors of her future, and the richest prize holdings of all her mighty underground wealth, toward which the eyes of capital are now turning ouly to Lecome riveted with spell-bound won- THE, LOUNGER 1Y THE LOBBY. | Some of the Superstitions Which Prevail in the Dramatic Profession. ATTRACT.ONS AT THE THEATERS. Goodall's New Play, “An Absen Minded Man''—Doings of Actors and Actresses the Country Over —Musical and Dramatic, A coteric of congenial spivits were sitting in one of the leading clubs the other evening, after tho theater, discussing all manner of subjects when the question of superstition me up, s such auestions will sometimes. One of the company, an nctor of excellent reputation, being asked whether it was truo that uctors and 4ctresses were more supersti- tious than any other peoy replied “Lreally don't know. I don't know as many people outside as'T do in the theater, | or at least I don’t know ‘em so well, 1 con't | imagine, however, that they are any more so thau others, Considerable attention has been directed to their notions, though, for two rea- sons. First, people seem to like to talk ubout and to hear about actor: I er could tell just wny. And secondly, these superstitions, natur 1y o them re e to the theate y 1 about stood : actors who are su- perstitious and many who are not. At least they are not more so than s almost every body else. Very fow people ave entively fie from superstition, I fancy, but nearly all of us have pet notions about luck and a “snouk- ang belict in what is called the supernatural, L vemember a lotter that Frank Evans wrote 10 time ago,"” he con- tinued with & chuckie in reply to an invitation somebody had ex- tended to him to join the Thirtecn club of New Y IPrank said ne wouldn't for any pecuniary consideration sit down with ty othier persons at table, and if he should hap pen to sit down unknowingly and should spill salt, ho would throw some of it over olve his left shoulder, And he went on and told how he shuddered at sceing the new moon over his left shoulder, because he knew ho would have no luck for the rest of the month; and how he wouldn't turn and go back into the house after starting out; aud how he was a slave to all the old women's notions he had ever heard, for which reason he didn’t think e would be happy in the club. “Dixey, too, is an ardent believer. As you know, he is o great card player, but itisa fact that if some one should touch one of his cards after they are dealt, ho will make the hand a jack pot. He alwiys prefers to lose the first pot he is interested in and will never sit in a game with a one-cyed man *1 am told that Frank Daniels is steeped in superstition and attributes all his success to the figure which does service as the hoodoo ‘Little Puck.’ When ho played Old Spor the dog Handsome was his particular charm, and he mourned for weeks after he loft Hoyt over the loss of the dog, not because he loved the ugly brute, but becawse his caniune majesty brought him luck. Long oefore, when he played o the ‘Elecrical Doll, he was excoed- ngly superstitious, refusing at all times to walk under a ladder or pass between two carriages in a funeral processton Among managers the notion that thivteen is an untucky number is prevalont one, and there are many of them who will refuse a play, without rogard to its wevits, if it hap- pens o have n name composed of thirteen etters. When “I'he Pearlof Pelin® was sub- mitted by C. A Byrne to E. E. Rice, who was here last week, it was called *Tho Flower of der. Here it is that the richest ores are being uncovered, and here that mighty artecies of the finest qualty of oil are being opened and are gushing forth. Prior tomy going over Wyoming I was posted to a_considerable extent re- garding minernls and oil, what surface indicationsare produced by their pres- ence, and what indieates the good, bad and indifferent wdes among them, and therefore wasin 4 measure inde- dendent of hearsay. Tn these lines regarding Wyoming the reader will look in vain for any effort in poetic, picturesque or dreamy effect, I promise you simply the plain, candid, outspuken result of ‘my observations in a state whose only poetry consists of noble verse in mountains capped with eternal snows; a state whose pics turcsqueness is made up of crags of finest iron ore. coal, marble 1d building stone; and whose dreami- ness is found but in a contrast of dream- less, health-giving, brain-brightening sleep. MILLIONS OF ACRES, The state is 275 miles north to south 9 onst to west, forming a parallelo- am, which contains 65,000,000 acres of land, the mean altitude of which is 6,000 feet, it ranging from 3,000 to { 14,000, Heavy foresy cover over 7,000, WO acres of Wyoming, while about 15,000,000 huve more or less timber. Phere are 600 stremmns already used to some extent for ir wion, and a lavge additional number from which no ditches have been taken. Tn a word, the streams of Wyoming furnish water enovgh to irrigate 18 to 20 per cent of its area, The last census gave Wyoming a pop of 70,000, and shows that she has the smallest percentage of illiterscy of any political division of the United States. The people ure generally voung, vigorous, industrious, and of & much higher character than upon some occa- sions has heen ungenerously suggosted, There is an honor,a friendship between man and man in Wyoming that you will travel many and many a thousand miles in the east to tind surpassed. A man’s word, the grasp of a hand betwaen Wyoming men comes nearer being a plédge that will never be broken than the exchunge of similar greetings 155 of men whom [ ever all_my travels up and down this big, wide world. Not only was thisa feature observed by myself, but one coferred to over and over by scores of people whom [ met from other and particularly far eastern states, and among any ¢ met before in who had been spending much time anong Wyoming citizens. Yes, integrity and squareness—call it what you will, is a prominent feature in Wyoming life. In lun]vm"mn to her population and developed resources Wyoming has the finest, most extensive credit of any state in the union. The mercantile agen of the United Stases will tell you that, as a rule, the individual credit of Wyoming men is ated higher than that of the avernge New York. Mussachusetts, Olio, 11l nois or Indiana men. A FLATTERIN ATLROAD FUTU Wyoming has a bright and exceed- ingly beneficial railroa future bofor her, and the buzzing wheelsand shriek- ing whistles of this railroad future is already heard in_many parts of the state. The Union Pacific runs over 500 miles through southern Wyoming. The Denver Pacific branch runs south from Cheyenne; also the Colorado Coentral, The Cheyenne & Northern runs north from Cheyenne, and its survey that is to be bailt with the coming of spring penetrates the very center of that most promising of 1 oil regions. the Salt Creck basin, I'he Oregon Short Line runs northwest from Granger. in the western portion of the state. The Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley rond extends nearly 200 miles from tho enstern border to the venter of the state. The Burlington Route has acomplete line to Cheyenno, and is now finishing a line in the north- enst portion of Wyoming. The Wyo- ming Eastern will ‘traverse the enfire territory from east to west, and many other projected lines and brauches are | reportad in progress A VERY VAL ABLE TRIP, wing and in every respect and ry many rensons the most advan- geous int in cent Wyoming is Cas It is the western terminus of the Fremont, Flkhorn and Missouri Rivee railrond, and the county seat of Natrona county, From this point 1 out for w proved to he oneof the most interosting and valuable overland trips of all my wanderings over the sage brush plains and grand old mountains of the great state. Sunrise was just driving the mists from the mountain tops as 1 whirled out of town in strong spring wagon behind a team of standari broed step- pers, whose superior qualities chal- lenged comparison with any four-footed travelers I had ever seen, The for ve 1 set My companions were Mr. W. E. Haw- ley, mayor of Casper, president of tho bosrd of trade, and a gentlemaun of wide and thorough nequaintance with the country for huadreds of miles avonnd. Being an old fricna and asentertaining aman as | ever met, I had the assur- ance that the trip would be, as I have inforred, a particulariy enjoyablo one. The reins wer in possession of an oid and well posted teaveler of the ‘s brush country,” named Frank Clerk, and a better driver [ never saw, Our toad was o heavy one, for, in nd- dition to the thr persons in the party we earried provisionsand feed sufficient for four days, an entire camping outfit, a Winchester 45-00 rifie and a big sup- ly of ammunition. W earing buckskin shirts and cowboy schaps, to defy the sharp, cutting winds to be found on the mountains: cownoy hats with unusual width of brim whicn offered the protection almost of great umbrellas in keeping the dazzlin g sun and blinding saud storms out of our face —our appearance can best be im- agined than further described. After crosstug the Platte river a short distance west of town we wheeled due north. Our course was toward the Mercedes, the newly reported gushing o1l well, said to be situated some fifty miles almost directly north of Casper, and inthe midst of the hundred thousand acre oil ficld, in the Salt Creek basin, which is the property of a syndicate of Bradford, Pa., oil mén, and whick also includes among its stockholders my friend Mayor Hawley Striking the trail beyond the river, and rounding a chain of foot hills, | found that we were skimming across what seemed ea of sand whose north and westerly borders seemed to meet the sky more than 4 hundred miles distant. But presentiy the trail described sev- eral long sharp angles and brought us among lesser foothills. As we drove un a gentle incline and touched the summit of lesser mountains we found ourself face to face with a darove of nearly a thousand anteiope. about two hundred yards distant. Head and ears high with curious wonderment; their delicate noses in motion trying to sniff our identity—and then an instan- tantaneous wheel about, and off they NIt W B shot like a myriad of darts, tipped with snowy white, My interest and curiosity banished all thought of my wanting to get a shot at one of the graceful creatures. Livery hour or so after coming upon this herd of beauties of the plains wo came upon lesser bunches of them cr ing and recrossing the trail, no further | HAWLEY, MAYOR OF CASPER. WYO away from us than a hundred yards, A MARVELOUS PANORAMA, After we woing twenty-five miles ascended—still “hitting the trail”’—the great prong of the continental divide, the elevation of which is 6,500 feet. Away, 'way down through fathoms unon fathoms of space you look into vast, brond valleys which from o great a heighth take on, of having just tho piow. The overawing of rugged magnificence aquiver through your very it <if betwic hed, been ug appearance taroed stretel faivly seud soul From this mighty pinnacle of natur k Hills, by you sce the penks of the B two hundred miles to the northeast. Off a similar dtc lance to the southwest are seon the Washaki needles and Wind river mount rises Cloud ins, while to the north s peuk. Swept in ata single glance or looked upon for hours the view is one that is overawing in ite majesty, and that pro- duces an effect of grandure and vastuess clipsing that possible to be gained in ny other of the notable portions of the of ‘the America continent. Here the wind blows a cutting and and bitterly cold gale nearly the cntir year round. And yot, forced, by sheer fasei roundings to halt, hare knife-like. fre and 1nte ama. Descend, and, in the warm, soft breezes of the languid south- ern type kiss away the pain produc by the wild, freezing hurricane above, and you proceed on your journey wondering if the ride along the crest of the Great Divide wasn't, after all, simply some wond’rous wayside dream of the impos- sibl The further you proceed in your w: dering the more you nre impressed with the traveler is ion of his e and g the his sur- eyes to the o long panov- in ¥ ubon mighty valley below, the fact that the scenic fentures of Wy oming are truly remarkable. Meadows and great natural parks ave encircled by lofty and majestic snow-capped mountains, theid sides covered with forests, innumerable streams. great water falls, and extraordiaary and fan- tic rock formations, and other illur- ing scenery Two nights we ‘e spent in camp amid mountain and desert bleakness. After listening to the -cheery song of the cof- fee pot we laid down 10 our big rolls of blankets and, were howled to sicep by the nightmare choruses of the coyot es. The forenoon of the third day brought us in sight of the derrick of the Me entreprencurs, as is called, has mven strict orders never to scll the fiest ticket for anew play toa woman, and that a deadhead must never be allowed to be the first person to enter the house at auy performance. ““The old superstition about humpbacks es- pecially applies to tho actresses who often have refused to go on having meet with one of se deformed mortals on the stairway to her dressing room, and as for blick cats! well you couldn’t cateh an _ actress within forty Tect of the stage, should she chance to meet a ‘tabby’ in the fouse, *Superstition may be all poppycock but it has a big hold on the people of Eota sides of the curtain, Mr. W. R. Goodall. who has goue Louis to complote avrangements duction of his new pastoral comedy “An Ab- sent-Miuded Man,” has, I believe, a winnor, if the play is judiciously cast and’ improved in some of its minor features. For over a year the_author has ing upon the comedy and to knowledge 1t has been named times, but noue seem so apronr cut title, “An_Absent-Mind humor throughout is suge Stockton and 1. Anstey, the author of “Vico Versa’ and “I'he Pallen Tdol.” And yet it is thoroughly unlike anything they have done. Dramatic situations havenot been aimed at, the evident intention of the playwright be to tell a simple story of love in @ homel, ner, surrounding it with the little det which all of us love to recall, especially those who have been reared in the atmosphere of the countr; The first nct opens in the general stove of an Ohio village, whose proprictor Gallagher Blue, is also the postmaster. Hore morning, noon and night. the characters of the vil ather to save the countr i ruin; discuss the merits of tarift lezislation and fight over the thrilling scenes of the civil Wi All is excitement on this particular day the discovery of oil in a neizhboring distri and Blue, who is a very eathusiastic individ- ual sees the little viliaze a mighty metropolis by reason of the oil discovery. Preston Swmith, agent foran oil_synd and the leading juvenile, arrives in' the vil lage at this time, and the first visited is ostoffice. Kitty Wells, a sweet protty country lass, enters the oftiea too, an-d like i all “good comedies, Smith falls in'love with her and seefs an introduction through Blue. Prof. Forgenmenot Longwait, the principal of the town school and the absent minded man of the play, drops into Uncle Sam's office to ascevtain the latest news about the oil fietds, and as the brainy man of the country round about, is introduced to Smith, Thon come mutual_understandings and the professor, seeing Smith's devotion to the apple of s cye, Kitty Wells, tells the story of her life, in‘which @ tin bo. given him by Kitty's father, contaiuing o will in her favor, plays o promiuout purt. This box the pro- osSor buries on the farm of St rim, the guardian of Kitty Wells, but forgets en tively the place whore the treasure is con cealed, Grim, who is the heayy comedy of the play, dislikes Kitty and treats_ her like a slayé, much to the consternation of the professor, who longs to find the tin box and giveto Kitty her vights in tne farm upon which Grim lives, Oscar Rushford and Binlie Blue, the sou brette, twolovers, also meet at the postofice in addition to Pinky Blue, the postmaster's bad boy, and minor characters. Smith conceives the idea of starting a female seminary, in order to bo on the ground when oil is discovered, which meets with the enthusiastic support of Postinaster Blue,wh isalso tho presudent of the school bord. Aud the act closes with all the characters in terestad in the suecoss of the seminary which is to be presided over by the professor and Oscar Rushford, an athlétic young man, Act second opens on the campas of the female seminary, which is the specialty act of the play introducing u fomale chorus, who give w very catehing calisthenic exerciso and club swinging, singing the while this soug: to St for the pro- been work- my certain u half doze as the pre 1 Man,” ‘The stive of Frank Pekin, and, singularly enough, for both of them knew the superstition, it was not noticed by anybody that there wore thirteen letters in the name until after the play was axcepted and some of the arrange- ments had been made to producoit, Then somobody with & practical printer’s eye saw the tatal thirteen and joked Rice about it. He was almost wild at first and swore ho wouldn't have anything more to do with the burlesque, but after some persuasion ¢ sentod Lo goon if a new name was selected, Jobn Stetsou, tho Mr. Malaprop of the VEMALE PHYSICAT We believo In innovation, And the women of this nation Soon will fe ple, we are sure. We huve o Let us eultivate our mu: And throw off the many burdens we eadure, CHOLUS, See our elubs as they fall and rise, Wateh the sparkie 0 our eyes; What better course could we advise Thau fomale physical culturer mple, d genticmen to frown; 1 the stroe 5 we do enter, We will walk right up the conter Grab w strap and let the tired men sit down. (Chorus.) Should any of us v And our hubbigs to & tarry At the club Wtil the **we Snj o, We will stand no vain deception, And they'll get o warm reception— After “which they'll wish they never had born. (Chorus,) “The professor has in the mean timearrayed himsclf “like Solomon," as Kitty says for tho visitof the school committee which is a a event to the girls. Grim also makes his apvearance hero and ercates conster tion by taking Kitty out of school for the re s that he no longer means to support her. Act thivd affords ample scope for scenic detail being the old homestead of Grim's with a pretty shaded lane running along the house, having a turnstile at the end and here the heart story is developed, with the scent of clover and ‘the tinkling of cowbells fur- nishing the high lights to a pretty pastoral picture. When everything seems to look darkest for Kity, when the old house in h she was born is about to be sold by nand she is to be turned adrift on the " hours of, Q- old_ charity of the world, n Burdish, a = farm lhand, plows up the ancient tin bo which reveals perfidy of Grim towara Kitt father, vesting in her all the right and interest to v in addition to many shares of valu- g stock. And the lovers united rybody huppy, the curtain descends sunset scene, which, if n work up as he anticipates, Wl croato furore as great as that of the Old Homestead,” Incidental to this act, Pink following very catehing ditt GREEN APPLES, m a little boy and caunot stand temptation, VIl eat « thing th ows In all creation And sometimes | have a very queer s ation Inmy stomuch—my lttle stomae! 1 can eat a bushel of © worst mixed candy, Cakes and jam and things whenever they are handy, And when'it comes to pie > is my stomach—my upon_a Mr. Goodall slue sings the youbet P'm a dandy; Tittle stomach. Murblos, pennies, tucks and pins Loften swii- But T never ean fill up—T guess I'm hollow; Dad says that somothing terrible will fe WL Of coiirse he's skeered—1 aln't, you bet, I'm here (o stay— What's that? Ool-00!-00!—the dickens is to iy 0! my! I'm going to die; won't some one pl It's green apples in my stomach. e LOUNGE Lew Johnson's minstrels give their closing verformance at the Grand this evening, at usual populsr Sunday evening prices. The Duft comic opera company will begin aseason of Gilbert & Sullivan operatic pre seatations at Boyd's opera house on Monday uing with the spectacular production of Palid _ The Daff orzanization has been specially reinforced and~ strengthened for these series of the Gilbertiun productions, and they will be given here with the samo startlinis scenic and spectacular effects which | characterized the famous productions recently atthe Auditovium in Chicazo. Among the principals of the company aro Mossrs Digby Bell, the popular_cemedian: Charles O, Bas- seth, who has made himself famous as a tenor in grand opora roles; William McLaughlin, a magnificent basso; Wallace Ma Josepl Fay, Clement B 1. Stille, Miss Lenore Snyder audet; Miss Lottie Gilina dith Edwards, Miss Minnte De Rue'and Miss Cornolia Bassitt, The repertoire for the throe performances to be given here is as follow: Monday evening, “Patience;” Tuesday, *“The Pirates of Penzance;” Wednesduy, “lolanthe.” When Sullivan started to compose *To- lanthe'” ho became deawn into ous v and 4 & consequence the s tho op: apart from its comic setting would eutitle it toaplace in grand opera. Gilbort also got enthusiastic and the result is that there ar dramatic situations through- out the work. The part of the Lord Chan- collor is one of Gilbert's finest creations, and as imposing an operatic figare as one wishes 1o s00. Among the comu ny is Miss th Ed wards, who is well known in Omaha as the wife of Mr. Nuhau anko, the violin vir tuoso. Miss Edwards avill bo 1 as Mabel in the “Pirates of Peazance.” la “i*atlence” Digby Bell will be seen as Bu Laura Joyee Bell will play he Lady Juxe, Gus Williams, unequalled in Dutch dia lect, as Jobn 1. Kelly is in_Trish come makes a great team with the latter in “U and I They will *cut up” at the Grand on ithorne, while famous part, Friday and Saturday next. Thescene of this mirth¥ul invention is theSitting Bull fats in Now York, and_all the essential compli tions are caused by the entrance of Professor { John Ungerblotz, & music teacher (Mr. Wil- ws), and his wewly found frieud, O'Dono- can lunes, from Haverstraw, N. Y. (M Kelly), into the apartments of Mii I3, a prima donna, the profess mistaken her apartments his ov wives rise to a ludicrous series of - incic during which the two worthies narrowly escape arrest, An cvent of more than ordinary interest will transpire at Boyd's opera house Friday and Saturday evenings und Saturday matine next, the occasion veing the appoarance Fay Temploton, as the bright particular s of “Russell's Comedians,” in_the p tion of the latest farcical furor “Miss MeGinty, the Star of th Frrancaise.” This_organization is one of the strongest collections of comedians v herad to gether for the purpose of presenting this cluss of entertainment. Besides the dashing Fay T pleton, Miss Jennie Satterle osle Sad Comedie ler, Fannie fohnstone, Nina Haywood, Mavion Grioux, Lillian Rivers, Mr. ¥red Leunox, Charles V. Seaman, William Carroll, T. J. (Nat's quartette brother), ave the Herndon, Edwin Goodman and o magnificent male component parts, It is just nine years since Fay Templeton opened Boyd's opera house, she was then a mere chitd of fifteen years of azo. Since then she has becomo perhiaps the best know artist in her line of business and supported: i, by this ovganization which is claimed to be of unparalleled excellence and appearing in bran uew play claimed to be the climax of farcical fan, the opera house should be tested to its utmost capacity, Seat sule commences Thursday morning. The Euterpe Quintette Club, Priday afternoon a number of gentlemen, admirers of a high class of music, assembles in Mr. Julius Meyer's bachelor apartments to listen to the premier rehearsal of a new quin- tetto club and with proper ceremony ehr the new-porn, From a first rehearsal it is usually very hard to judge of the merits of any organiztion, but the work of the elub Friday was musicianly to a degree, M, Jacov Reuter, who is fiest violin, aud a new- comer Inl\)nmlm,g\ Lhe best violinist located in this city since Nahan Franko’s time, His technique is admiyable, while his inteprotation of the great tono gasters shows him to be a more than ordinagy artist. His playing is full of sweetness fnd fervor, even pootical, and the music-loving people of the city are to be congratulated on nequiring so - conscien- tious a musician, Mr. Hugo Toll, the second violin, whilo yet ayoung man, already shows unmistakable signs of great ability. He is enthusiastic, in logewith his instrument, and is & valuable pcquisition to the club. Louis Iisciier, & the viola, appreciates the possibilities of his instrument and hay- ing received s training in the best French schools, greatly strengthens the organization S. B. Letovsky, willplay ‘cello with the club aud a botter selectioft could not bave been made, He is aclosé student, and beyond question the best 'celloist Omaha has ever had, Mr. Martin Cahn, completes tue organ- ization. For years Mr. Cabn has been a credited the loading planist of the metvop having been heard in_concerts and rocitals without number and always displaying a rare musical cultaro which could only huve been acquived by association with the world's groat masters. His technical knowledge, not alone of the piano, but of all the instru’ meuts, will be of great service to the club, giving to the worka flavor which will bo )5t dalightful During the rehiearsal the *Molto Lento,” of A Rubmsteln, an_exquisite composition in which the mate playsa prominent, puri, the “Faust Pantasie” by sate, the first movement from Hummel's concorto, i duet by Allmt, and the Heyden symphony, No. 11, gave the auditors an opporiunity 1o Judee of the merits iization. With ¢ or two more rehearsals the club will -be in 4 hasition L give a classical programme, ren dered with a de of ex lnsur passed by any organization Omaha has ever had Aund the club hereafter Is to be kown as cedes—the o1l well, roports of whose dis- covery have so electrified all central Wyoming. In view of the well known seerecy of oil men regarding their improveme I did not becomo offended in the I nor did I waste any time wondering at my friend. Mayor Hawley, meant reived at the by telling me, when' wo at much speculated upon place of work, that he was sorry that it was impossible for him to give me any more privileges inthe way of golng into the rig—the derrick, ete.,—than those who had been kept away. Unfortunately for the perservation of this syndicate secret the well is ina sharp bend of the stream known as Salt Creck from which this portion of the oil field derives its name. In close proximity also are numerous deep ra- vinos, gulches, ete. During our stay in the vicinity Mr. Hawley had business with the superintendent whose house is situated a little to the south of tne oil well. While he was closeted with the official 1 took a de tour out from our camp which was - quarter of a mile distant from the well. After considerable dodging through ra- vines, over littlehills, ete., and by keep- ing an eyeon the only door of the super- intendent’s house 1 final'y got up to the derrick and looked in. The first thing, however, that gnined my atten- tion upon getting very near to the well was a hissing sound like thut of escap- ing steam, My glance within the .1.-1[ we rick revealed the cause. The hud flowed, sure enough. It had been plugged up; as much as possible perhaps but not sufficiently., Oil was bubbling up around ' the edges of the plug and off onto the the ground to waste. Judging by the hissing noise that it made the true force of the natural pressure must be The oil was of a s nearly as eryway closely something terriffic. light green color, pe liquid as water, and in e resembled the best crude petroleum which I have seen come from the Penn- sylvania fiolds. Work had evidently ceased in connection with the boring. The stationary engine which stood o few feet distunt o dead,” and evidently haa not been running for some time. The derrick was about fifty feet in heigth, and plainly indicated having been drenched with o1l from top to bottom, while the belting-shed, the engine and the half of the smoke stack on the side toward the well had, it was plainly to be seen, shared inthe copious baptism of oil which unmistakably had sprung ina stream far above tho top of the derrick. I'rom what [ have learned of the acticn and mode of judging of tnhe Pennsylvania wells. the result of long talks with leading oil operators in that state, I was- convinced, Lo the full extent under the ircumstances, this Salt Creck well had a capueity of from four to six hundred barrels per day. This estimate was afterward co- incided in by an expert whom later I learned had'scen the weil in action. The depth of the well could not be In this connection I will add that since my return from Wyoming 1 have learned that the syndicate will begin boring another well within some thirty ays, and have let the contract for several others on which work will com- mence carly in the spring. It is evidently the purpose of the syndicate to obtiin a surety of a laree supply, before putting their product upon the market, and in crder to give them o levernge for better rates of transportation, as well as time in which to build tank lines, The Cheyenne ¢ “T'he Eut rpe Quintette,” a name which fits the o i 24 ion like a glove. Success of Amervican Pla; The remarkabte success of American plays this season has vastly encouraged American playwrights. There is no doubt that we are rapidly improving the quality of our domes- tic goods in this line, in fact the foreign mar- ket has giveu us nothing so good as some of the new things that have been purely Ame ican. Belasco and De Mille's **Menand Women,™ agreat step forward in the right direction. Among other successes are Arthur'y *Blug Jeans,” Gordon's “Little (more or less) Lord Fauntleroy,” Gus Thomas' ‘“*Reckless Tem- ple,” Leander Richardson’s “Neminee,’ only to mention those of more recent growth, are evidenc o5 of distinct originality in the dra- matic field, and with a prosperous future for writes who for years past have kuocked vainly atthe doors of the managers. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Sol Smith Russell seems to have dropped is “The Tale of a Coat”” permanently, for b giving his whole atteation to A Poor R tion,” Leander Richardsow's “Nominee,” with Nat Goodwiu_in the principal part, has been at Hooley's theater in Chicago for tho last week or two. The play, Mr. Goodwin thinks, is the most successful he Las performed in since **Hobbies,” the other day had an articlo headed’ **A Giood Year for Chestnuts.” Curiously enough the article contained no lusion 1o the jokes and specialties that ave now to be seen in variety entectainments, musical farces and comic operas Mr. Hubbard T, Smith, the composer of e song, “Listen to My Tale of Woe.” which Francis Wilson and Marie Jansen made so popular in *“The Oolah,” has becomo & mem- ber of Francis Wilson's opera company, and has made a hit in the part of the Minister of Police, in *The Merry Monarch, A. Miner Griswold, the of the Texas Siltings, b made ments for a tour of the' Pacific const under the meuagement of the Slayton lyceum bureau of Chicago. Me. Griswold will prob- ably visit Omaha on his return, although his exilet date s as yot undocided. Helen Dauy is having the “The Whirlwind" rewritten, and close her present season after the coming week, 50 as to put the new version in re- learsal and get better dates than the one- ight towns in which she was booked, “The Whirlwind," however, will not be dropped Miss Mary Shaw has purchased a three-act high comedy, entitied “Marital Infelicities. The scene is laid in New York, among wealthy people. The second act takes pla ot of he will in preme court room, whero a celebrated divorce case is being tried. The author is Prof. Adolph Corbett, from whom Stnart Robson bought his new’ play, Iy Marriuge u “ailure ¢ Sardou's “Cleopatra,” which has just made 4 phienomenal hit in Paris, with Sara Bern hardt in the central char will have its fivst American presentation at the anny Davenport at the Fifth avenue . ter, New York, on Decombor 22 Bernhardt herself will not be seen March in this conntry. Mus. Leslie Cx after inany months of olaborate preparation, will make her debut at the Broudway theater, New York, two we from tomorrow night.' There is tremendons interest in her first night. No favor will be shown in the award of seats and boxes, but they will be disposcd of in the order of appli- cation, Interest is not zlone inspired by Mrs. Carter's debut, bub by the fact that she is 1o present n mew American comedy-aram, “The Ugly Duckling,” aud a supj pany that bids fair o rival any stock organi zation that we have. Arthur Dacre, the leading man, who arvived from Englund du ing the past week, vanks very high indeed, laving ereated many important roles, includ: ing Jim the Penman, in London. The estab lished New York favorites include Henley, now in “Money Mad," W Thompson, Raynond Holmes, R. 1, Cotton W. J. Ferguson, Ida Robertson, Helen Ban croft, Helen Russell and lda Veraon. The rehearsals are belug most carefully conduc i by David Beiasco, who will supervise all t artistic details of the production A collection of water eolors by George M. Rhodes at Hogler & Whitmore Dodge st, Dr, Birney, u wnd throat, Bee bl | Northern eailrond whose survey runs within one hundred feet of the well that now seoms to be completed, will be gradod, it is said, early next spring,and entirely finished next summer. On account of the welldefined rumors regarding this well, the prices of gov ernment right holdings of land within ten and fifteon miles have increased in price from 50 cents and $1 an acre to #5, #10 and in sowe instances even much more per aere. The noxt fow months will be very vorable for people with alittle money to ump in and make some very siuug jrofits plt may soarc bo necossary to add that the Salt Creek Oil field is thickly dotted with the best and most un versally accepted ovidences of there being oil everywhere beneath the sur- face. I returned to Casper feeling com- pletely satisfied ~convineed beyond the shadow of & doubt that oil in enormous! lavge paying qualities existed 1 con tral Wyoming. Casper is a well built, progressive and woll governed county seat, having over five hundred inhubitants. A few of its spocially attractive features con- sist of a new brick and stone city ball, costing $3,000; aH igh school building now in process of erection which will beost between $6,000 and $7,000: a bourd of trade, two banks, two flourishing newspapers, many blocks of substan- tinl and very aftractive Dbusiness housos, two hotels, handsomo resi- dences and fine depot and stockvard facilities. Public improvements involving the expenditure of betweon $40,000 and #50°000 are being contemplated, and in every respect the eity gives promise of never losing her sont firm and un- disputed position as the leading and mostadmirably deserving city of con- tral Wyoming. Her citizenship is composed of shrewd, far-sighted and highly prosperous people who are fully alive to the fact that their lot has been cast in what, beyond all possible doubt, is tobe the greatest, mostpermancnt and in every way the most advantage- s mining. manufacturing and teading ity in the west—ro city excepted. Among the leading business men of toe place whom it was my good fortune meet and afterward find were looked ih and relied upon as authorities in soir business not only so far as Casper tconcerned, but throughout all cen- ral Wyoming. were thesc: Mr. J. J. Hurr, one of the oldest and most extensive sheep owners in the state; Mre. A, J. Cunningham, manager for C. H. King & Co., general mer- chandise aund bankers; Mr corg Mitchell, lumber and coal; Messrs. Hawley & Bartlett, oil and mineral lands; Mr. David Graham, proprietor of the leading hotel in the city, the Graham house: Messrs. Nichelson & Patton, White & Co,. and Padden & ow, who furnish fine liquors and cigars; (. 1. C. Bostlemau, pharmacy goods; J. J. Corbett, abstracts of title, and C. K. Bucknum. the liyery man, whose team of fine horses did such ex- cellent work on our journey to the oil fields. As for the newspapers of Casper, they are worthy of much more thaa the simple starting of a new paragraph in these columns regarding the great and richly promising country for which both of them ave doing so much. They are handled by bright, news-knowing and thoroughly well posted men. The Mail, the leading republican or- gan of central Wyoming, is edited and THE BREAD WINNERS' BUDGET. A Resums of the Deeds and Plans of Omaha's Toiling Masses, THE WORK OF THE WALKING DELEGATES. Clerks and Their Hours—Chinese Laundries — Knights and the Miners—Local and General Labor News, The American Pattens' Journal in speak- published by Mr. A, T. Butlor, « giving his party and the public i a paper which they have every to heartily support. The other paper, The Derri Me, W. S, Kimball at its head cratic in politics and fully uy standard of western journa has o pod equipment and, Butler, is giving the publ per that is appreciated. the gate city to th of contral \ Casper is mineral flelds ing. To the west arc t Mountain _and Rattlesnake while to the northwest are t Creek and Powder River fi topographical features of the are such that Caspor is tle junetion point for the outlets tields mentioned, /4 Seventy-five miles west of Coepior found six veins of fincagonl, pro ¢ Prof. Gilbort Bl Bailey and Jy Juckson of Chicago, chemists an ing engincers, as being i sionm col, good cooking and 1 ' ronsting coal wost of Ponus Within n radius of five miles 1x of veins of fine ore, a portion of 15 very pure articlo of mincral and the balance a pure hematiy free from sulphur and phosnerol amountain of whito magnosia stone, together with quite a lay of excellent | clay, If work loeated in the valloy they wo about equally distant from the d, materinls, which could be d and dumpod into the ears by ronds, making ono of the most | ble plants of the kind that c found in the United States today It is widel y concluded that four of the railroad building is to he do the west. By this some idea can b tained as to what the value of = works would be, | ted in the cent of this railroad building, In the mountains about ten south of Casper some excellent s eries of copper, gold and lately been made and are y developed, In the same vicingly = remarkable veins of asbestos ars b developed, Yo/ Near Casper T found some o large soda lakes of Wyomin lakes are phenomenas ‘in t They occur in basins suerounded sand hills and vary in area from 1 acres down. An examination reven an earth covering of a foot or depth washed from survounding hi | underlying which is a solid crost soda from two to six feet thi The average analysis of this m terinl shows it" to be abo ninety-five per cent pure, thus giviug product of great value in the manufa turing of glass, sonp and powder, il last but not least, for use in rofining o ing of the walkiug delegate, says: “There are but few institutions conunected with the labor movement that have so much adverse eriticism heaped upon them as the walking delegate. 1f a lockout is inaugurated any- where, the opponents of organized labor say that the walking delegato is at the bottom of it; if a strike takes place inauny trade or occupation, these who are unfavorably affected caise a shout that it was concocted by the walling delegate, and sigh for his scalp. And so0on to the end of the chapter. Now, the truth is that not one hundredth part of what is charged against the walk- ing delegate is trae. His duties ure of a manifold and exactmg character In the building trades he is stantly on the to the infringement of ru organization. It way be that somebody is workiug under prico, and if so, that matter is checked: or some member has failen in avvears and refuses to pay up, and he has to make a new departure in’ that respect; he secs that tho men are not imposed upon by domineering and unfuir employers. In it word, he is the agent of his organization Front all this it will be seen that his duties arc of a diseriminating aud unpleasant char- con- prevent the his Ko s of acter; he is regarded with suspicion by terannical employers; ho has to bear th sucers of those within his organization who would play the part that stragelers and de serters do” in_the army, and he is a standing ot for kickers, The walking delogate is to the labor organization what the missionary is to the churchi—lie makes converts and ho propagates the good work of the organizi- tion. Itis not atall surprising, then, that the walking delogate, or the organizer—it is v very material which you call is garded with such a wholesome fear by the enemies of orgamzation. But while thewalk- ing delegate is 50 unpopular with one class, there is 1o reason in the world why the labor people should not_applaud his courage and disinterestedness, his honesty and his io dustry ; Knights and C at Miners, The Knights of Labor of Pennsylvania are now moving in the interest of the coal miners of the state. A distriot assembly was held at Scranton last week and after eiug in session two duys the following draft of abill was presented and adopted, to be preseuted to the legislature that convenes this winter An act providing commission by the gov ¢ the appointment of a rnor to revise, amend il make such changes in the mining and veutilation laws of the anthracite coal r. gions us will secure greater safety to human lite and property Be it enacted topr ves Peins, it is hey by the Senato and House of of the Commouwealth of Ivania in General Assembly mot, and )y enacted by the authority of the same Section 1. That the governor be authorzed 10 appoint forthwith cleven competent miners each of whom shall have at least seven | years' experience as miners in the anthracite Conl mines of this state), three coal operators and two skilled mining éngineers, to serve as commissioners to revise, amend and make such chan 4 in the anthracite mine and ven. tilation laws as are necessary for the pro tection of human lfe aud property n wn around the mines, and w0 provide® ample penalties for the en forc t of the laws. ‘fne governor shall appoint eleven miners from the count ie ease of producing coupled with extreme purity, makes this sodu pr duct an important factor in Cuspor growth and prosperity. In concluding these columns, nothing suggests itself to me with greater foree than the hope that the reader muy. some time in the near future, do m statements the honor of putting them to u personal test. To see Wyoming, to seck by personal observation and con- tact, a knowledge of her peopls and resources cannot, I pledge you, resultin other than advantage of which as yet, you may not have the slightest concep= tion, CIHARLES H, CRESSEY, \ « of tLuzerne, Lackawanna, Schuylkill, Carbon, Columbia and Northumberland, on_the certl fied recommend ation of the miners’ labor or #anizations of said counties; and the thre coal operators and two mining engimeers of skill shall bo appointed at lacge from the aforosaid counties. The miners shall receiv 8 per day and_expenses for their labor for each day actually employed in the work of said commission not 1o e: d fifty doys; and *he said coal operators and minirg enginecrs shall serve without compensation from the state. 'The expenses of the commission shull be provided for'in the gecral appropriati bi Section 2. The commission shall meet im- mediately after their appointment. at Har burg to organize, and they shall hold iheir meetings atcentral points in the aforesaid counties to hear the grievances and recom mendations of the miners, operators, owners or their representatives, After hearing those uterested the commission shall not adjourn until they complete their report and present to the prescnt session of the legislature, it possible (and if not, at the next session the of). Twelve members of the commission shall constitnte a quorum, aud a majority of the whole commission shall be n for the apy Lof all questions that may como before it, i i | / Chinese Laundrics. The trades assemblies of Omaha have de- claved against the Chineso laundrymen, and inan appeal to the working mon and women suy: ““We are sorey to know that people of the working classes who patronize these laundries when there ave hundreds of our washwomen who are almost on the brink of starvation, the want of a few of the nece saries of lifé to keep them and their poor hildren from want, and_to think that peoplo will go to Cliinese liundvios and pay as much for their washing as at other pluces, Of what good are the Chinese to the city | They do not leave uny money here but seid it over to their own country to bring o more of their tribe to rob our own country men and women of their hread aud butte They do not belong hore, but as long as we cannot stop their coming there is one thing we can insist upon, and that is that all fair minded men shall withdraw theie patronag and thus force the heathen out of the busi- ness or force them to scek some other calling when they come to this country,’ < i Clerks' Hours. The clerks in the retail stoves of Minucapo- lis have taken action looking to a shortening of their working day. In St. Paul about a year ago the clerks made a similar demand and won. The Minneapolis clerks will now ask their employers to close their stores at 6 or 6280 o'clock, SR e Dr. Birney cures catarch, Beo bldg, 3 - The Passing Bell at Steatford, wit n Harper's Weekly, t bells of Stratford, tolling <low In summer gloaming's goldon low, 1 fecl and hoar thy voice divine, Aud all my soul responds to thine, tm Winter As now I hear thee, ¢ My Shakespeare he' When loue by Avor's pensive stream He wandered in his haunted drean; — Heard thee, aud far his fancy spod Lad Throughspectral caverns of the dead, ( And sought —and sought in vain —to picres. The secret of the universe, As now thon mournest didst thou mourn [ On that sad day when he wius borng Through the long aisle of honeyed limes £ 0 rest beneath the chambered climes . He heard thee not, nor e d to hear! Another voice was in his ear, And, freed from all the bonds of mon He knew the awful secret theu, 4 Sweet bells of Stratford, toll, and bo A golden promise unto m Of that great hour when [ shall know Iho path whereon his footsteps go - - Dr. Birney, nose and throat, i35 blds A - - Stuart Robson has joined the grdhwing ranl ‘ of those who give “curtain ruisers” before th piece do resistance of the evening. He now cedes VThe Henrietta” with o travesty ou “Little Lord Fauntleroy,’ - Dr. Birney eures caturrh, Bee bldg