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6 THE OMAHA CCUNCIL BLUFFS. OFFICE, NO. 12 PEARL ST. " BEE Telivered by Carrler inuny part of the City H, W. TILTON, -' - - MANAGER TELEPHON ES: Business OMee, Night Editor, No — e — MINOK MENTION, K Y. P.Co. Council Bluffs Lumber Co.. coal. Craft’s chattel loans, 204 Sapp block The school board failod to meet last night announced “hor society will give a bal temple on the 10th of next month. Dr, H. W. Hart is confined to his home on Willow aveniue by & severe attack of illness R. Britton was arrested last evening on a charge of disturing the peace by quarreling with u hackman, Michael Moore both of Lincoln, Neb., were Justice Hamm sterdiy. Members of the Council eye lodges, Independent O wiil visit Omaha next 1ri Henry it both of Sy riago y oftic T'he fune Hobus will church on nth avenue morrow morning. James R. Albertson and Miss wood were married Thursday 1000 home of the bride, in Garner township. I M. Crofts officiated. he mecting of the literar 0 lowa_business colloge is to be teld cning. The anwouncement that it was eld lust, overing was an error. vs Pottawat- tamio county, which s been dragging tlong in superior court for the past five days, was finished yesterday afternoon and gl and Rosa D. myso married b Bluffs and_Hawk- lerof Oddfellows, night. ns and Miss Nannie Scleipach, cuse, Neb,, w united in mar- sterday morning in Justice Patton’s s of the la in the at 10 o' al exerct take place Lock to- socloty of the se of Tsaac and Amos ( sping & disorderly hou 1 by Justice Pattor account of the sickness of one of the defend- ants, D. Bessonettehas challenged “Long Pete’! of Omaha to a match game of billiards in the Mauhattan billiard rooms for any amount from £25 10 £200 o The challenge has been accepted and the played next Wednesday evening, o Brown nas consolidated his Couneil Blufts and Omabia csand will manage both places. His office will be in Omaha, but he will make daily visits to this side. His brother will manage the Council Bluffs busi- ness, A still wlarm of fire called the departuent to the residence of William Siedentopf at 4 vclock _yesterday afterne The fire was confined 'to a small building near the barn, used for sleeping purposes by 1t was extinguished without much loss, alarm camo by telephone to No. H.luu.w and that com ponded, At the eting of the e Blufts insuran tors wera elected as folloy . L. Shugart, ' M. C. Brainerd, ckinger and J. Q. Ande A1 Flickinger was elected president to fill the vaca by the death of Colonel W. K. Sapy Q. Anderson was re-elected to his position as secretary, Atticles of mncorporation wera filed yester. n the recorder’s oftico by the “Little @' mining company of Red CLY, Colo. the members of the compuny being J w son, William_ Scidentopf, J. T Ha Wiltin Moot and corgo ' Wright, Tho object of the corporation i3 1o buy, sell and work mines in Colorado, The capital stock 13 $10,000, with power to incroase to £00,000. The principal place of business is to be Coun- cil Bluffs, with branch oftices at IRed Cliff and Denver, Colo, Dan Anderson’s case was called in police court vosterday morniug, but the bottom was knocked out of it at the fivst pop by the st ment of Thomas Bowman that he had never given Anderson any money to help bury his dead chilt, As Mr. Bowman was the or prosecuting witness whose name was men tionad in the information tho case was dropped and a new information filed charg. fug hum with vagrancy. The grand Jury will investigate the chargo of obtaining money uuder false pretenses, and in the meantime Anderson is in a safe place, The Chautauqua_ stockholders held a meet- ing Thursday night for the purpese of clect- ing ofticers forthe ensuing year. J. AL Our. slerwas re-clected to the position of secre- tary of the association and Colonel L. W, Tuiloys was elected chairman of the board of trustees. The other officers, viz, the mana- gerand the executive committee, were not elected, as the executi mittee of last year had not vet prepared its report and 1t was thought better to_defer further action until @ statement of the finances conld bo had. Anadjournment was therefore taken until next Monday evening, Great success, Reliable goods, Pair dealing. Bottom prices, ALC. B, Jacquemin & Co., No. 27 Main street s ity Bell & Son's new groce Upger Broadway. stockholders e company John ult, W. of takes the lead on old stock. PERSONAL PA RAGRAPHS. Mrs. 8, Shinn left lost eveulng for Fre- mout. John P. Stubr, mayor of Minden, was in the city yesterday. Sheriff Garrison of Harrison county was a Blufts visitor yosterday J.J. Harris of Sidney, superintendent. of nont county, s in the city. Mrs. F. Hollis has returued from a_five weeks? visit to her father i Elkhart, Wis. Pomona Brand Hoarhound tablets will ro lieve your cough. Pomona stamped on_ cach tablef. Ask your druggist or candy dealer for them, —— Buy your coal and wood of C. B. Fuel Co, B39 Broadwi ay, Telephone 130, An Oid Friend, Indeed. was especially terday's Bek concerning the celebr tion of the one hundredth birthday ann sary of Sir Knight Nathan Whitney of Franklin Grove, L1, the oldest living Mason in years and mombership. Mr. Robinson has hid & long and happy acquaintance with tho old gentleman, He has several photography of the famous centenarian, and has had many pleasant visits with him. One special boud of attachment between them is the fact that Mr. Robiusow's fathor and Mr. Whitney served togother in the same company during the war of ISI2. Mr. Robinson narrates many interesting Incidents illustrating the wonderful claracter as well as physical vigor of the old gentleman, lap rooes at cost at Main streot, Horse blank Theo. Beckman': The best P'rench cook in western fowa is at the Hotel Gordon, Coun cil Blufls, e Fifty Cents on the Dollar, Moore & Belr posted a notice yesterday o tho window of the Model clothing house, stating that the stock and fixtures are now in their control. One of tho attorneys of the attachiug creditors stated yesterday thata settlemont had been partially made, but that Messrs, Moore & Bieir were by mno means in control of the stock, and would not bo until somo sort of an arrangement was made in regard to the vest of the claims “0ut of the six claims which we had chavge of,”" said he, “four of them have boen sett)ed; one of them for 100 cents on the dollur, and the other three for 50 ceuts. The two yet unsettied amount to about 1,70, and that’ is onough to warrant us in keoping our han on the goods until we see thecolor of their money." e — Too much California canned goods on hand must be sold. Kelloy & Youukerwan, e The American District Telograph Co. has been reorganized and is now prepared to give prompt service. Special attention W express aud puicel delivery. THE NEWS IN THE BLUFFS., The Scotchmen Celebrate the Anniversary of Robart Burng' Birth CROOK AN OLD TIME CAPTURZD, Judge Thornell and A ttorncy Mynster Indulge in a Seance—A Scttle- ment with Creditors — Other News ltems, Royal Arcanum hall was the scene of a brilliant affair last evening in the shape of banquet given in commenioration of the birth of Kobert Burns. It was under the au spices of St. Andrew's society, an organiza- tion of Scotchmen, which was started a year ago. The hall was handsomely decorate and the banqueters, who were e the sume uationality as the poet, were man After the feast had been fully partaken c the following interesting programmo tomsts and music was prescuted ; irand March Music by the Bugpipes. Banguet Music. usts. cotland, My Temleton al Adr and I Love Thee of Ain Country," Response Ly Wilson W " osong, 1 We Live In," Rev. G, Crofts, Musie, Plano “Groat Britain and Am, Frontin Civilization," by Musie. Seleet Readiny Music, S0 Alwaysto the Mr.Wattsof “Critic.” by W, mes Johnson. Stewart, irecn Grows the Rushes,” by James “Burns,” Dr. Donald Macrae. Musle, Mary F. Oliver, “on pieil Blufls, Our gomery. Musie. Atthe close the floor was cl room was given i to the dance to the music of Dally's orck late hour. JOND ANAUAL CLEARING AT THE BOSTON STORF FOR TEN DAY ONL COMMENCING JANUARY 21 TRead the following carefully. The pri speak for themselves, The greatest of s ever held in the west. Below is only a tial list of the thousands offcred at this sale. Yard wide bleached muslin, 4e, Our bleached and haif bieached muslin sold for e to go at 714c 42 in. unbleached muslin o, 4 v H “ “ ol 104 G Home,"” Dr. Mont- wred and the who trinped str until o SALE par- of bargains o bo bleached fe. BLAN Owing to the mild weather we are over. stocked on wool blankets, wnich we will ale at extremely low prices. white blankets sold for $3.00, at 114 all wool and union blankets sold for $5.00 and £.75, to go durin 1.00. show our complete line of £6.00, .00, all in one lot for &.00. v wool blankts sold .00, during nitary wool blankets sale prices 500 blankets for §3.60: 86,00 for 78, and extra lavge size sold for $7.00, re COMFORTABLES, bales of comtorters onhand we are determined to reduce our stock pre vious to inventory. Note the following rice PiGu ae. 5 139 comforter for $2.25 to §3. Lot to go at £2.00 during sale, Comforters sold $3.00 to $.50, all in one lot £ Our finest quality sateen comforters, sold for #,50 10 £4.50, to o comforters for 1 value regulur all in of bleachod and half-bleached linen, sold at 60c and G7e, during sale 5c. Wash buttons be acard (halt p poStewart's linen thread half prie, 30 or two or Ac. Brooks machine cotton (standard make) lc spool. Conts and Clarks spool cotton 4c spool. Children’s hose supporters e, misses belt for L ilk ribbon, N 7 otin edge, at manufactur- . old for Ye, sale price No. § sold for 12! /c, sale price Dt 16 sold for 15¢ and e, sale price 10c Ladies' natural knit undersiirts 39¢, worth 580, Childs' plush, surah sold for 80¢, $1.00 and §1. and_cashmeoro caps 25 all at e Bosrox ORE, Council Blufts, Tn Leonard street, 40i, 403 and 405 Brondw: New York office, 4 ans’ Laundry Co, 520 Pearl stréct, Telephone 20, ——— Judge and Lawy A lively little set-to occurred in the district court yesterday afternoon between Judge Thornell and Attorney W. A. Mynster. The case on trial was Lodge & Henry Butler, in which Mynster & Benjamin arve attorney for the defendant and Shes & Galvin for the plaintifts, The subject in controversy is a piece of land near Avoc Shortly before 5 o'clock, which is the usual hour for’ adjournment, Mynster arose and stated that he was 'not feeling well, and would like court to adjourn to the usual hour sothat he could go home aud recuperate. ‘This court would not consent t do, where- upon Mynster pressed his claim with re- newed vivor. Judge Thomell ordered him soveral times t0 sit down, and Mynster fin ally did so, not \\llluu,’ to run therisk of being finea for contempt. He gave notice, however, that when the hauds of the clock pointed to thehourof 5 he and his client would leave the court room. The case then proceeded until 5 o'clock, when Mynster arose and said that the time for adjournment had now came and the court had o right t keep the lawyers at work any longer whon they were unwilling to stay. The judge gave an abstracted look in the direction of Reporter Gaston and said, “Go ou with the testimony.” “One moment, your honor,” said Mynster: “1 would Jikl' to have time given mo to make out an af stating that [ am not in | condition togo on with this case T this evenin SWell replied the disposition iv u membor anyway decent, I am aiways ready to accede tohis wishes, but when I do not see such a aisposition T sometimes act differently. Go on with the examiuation.’ ther minute, your honor," said Myns- ster; 1 want to enter an_exception to the ruling of the cowt in this case, and I want the exception made n matter of vecord. This court has 1o right 1o keep me here after 5 o'clock, and 1 will see what thesupreme court bas to Say about it.” Aud as he said the last word he slammed a book down upon the table and left the room. Butler, his client, was on the witness stand at the time, and wheu Mynstoer left the roon he wanted to go, too. A 'short argument then eusued between' Butler and Judge Thornell, but the court cameout ahead and Attorney Benjamin took his witness in band. Mynster's friends say that when the case comes up before the supreme court there is vo doubt but that Judge Thoruell's decision will be overruled. —— J.C. Bixby, steam neating, sanitary en- gineer, 203 Mo rriaw block, Council Blults udge, “whon 1 sce a of the bar to act sedosnlle To make room for spring stoc! great inducements in_furniture, carpets, hanging lamps, dinuer aud tea s nd toilet sets. We sell’ for cash, or 3 ts. Maudel & Klein, 820 , Council Bluffs, Card of Than sh to extend our heartfelt thanks to our friends and neighbors for their kinduess aud sympathy during our recent afiliction. the death of our little son, Carey. M AND Mus, T MANAHAN, ve offer oil cloths, kentanz., Avnna K., wife of Juhu Shickentanz, died yesterday woruiog of lnflammation of the Tha Hesse. 10 this liver, afier o nine «l.\_\-‘ ilinoss. ceased was born in Brensbach, Darmstadt prmany, country when fourt at St. Louis, Mo. mouth, August 3%, At the time of her death Mrs Shickentanz was forty-five years of age, and she leaves four sons and threo daughters to mourn her The funcral will ur at # o'clock Sunday afternoon from the family residence, 105 Pearl street. 10s8. A h Wanted Man. A. Henry, the man who tried to hold up ductor Mitehell on the Milwaukee road a w days ago, was before Justice Patton yesterday on a charge of assault with intent tokill. The prosecution was carried on by Attorney Linasley of Manniry, and John Linat of this city appeared for the defense Mitchell was put upon the stand and gave his testimony substantially as given in yesterday's Ber Attorney Lindt then made a motion to dismiss on the round that the information was defective, the county where the assault was committed not being specificaliy stated. After this point had been argued for several hours supper tin qame and the attorne consented to continue the hearing until next Tuesday at § o'clock. Henry as the chal engaged in s out to be fully as bad gainst him indicates. He was number of scrapes last fall in this city, but managed to get out of them all without severe punishment, His troubles were not confined to the Bluffs While boarding at the house of Mr. Lang. Lynster street_he rectived a call Missouri Valley of who wanted him on an indictment, They were by o woman who claimed to Mrs. Henty, who told them that Lusband ~was too il to re 2 allers, The Missouri ~ Valley | kept watclion the door, while Constable v, who went fora ph with a view of finding out whether or not Henry was too ill to_be arrested. In the meantime the object of the search made a twelve foot fiying leap through the air from a second story window to the ground with his clothes on his arm, thus eliding the of- ficers. When the physician arrived he pro- nounced lis patient out of danger. The Ha rison county officers state that as soon as t resent case 1 completed they will take him in charge —— Next Thing to Death, Chicagn Tines Wat is the matter with dear He used to be so jovial and s though he had lost bis last onsumption or hydroph: Mrs. Plamp M Frumpt now he look: triend. s i Mrs. Framp -} 3 Hoodoo r utly published a br of him inits “llustrious Fellow-Citizen umn. Mrs. Plamp complimentary, Mrs. Frump-So it was, but the picture which accompanied it was far from it. primitihtshadtons’y l!l-})‘ S FOR SUGAR. But I heard that it was very The Largest Beet Farm in the World in Calitornia. A correspondent of the American Rural Home thus describes beet raising in California: The Moro Cojoranch isthe largest beet farm in the world, containing 1,500 acres and owned by Claus Spreckles, the sugn It is situnted on the Mon- ter f the mouth of the Salin river. miles from Watsonville,where Mr. Spreckles has o large sugar factor, The farm is of such magnitude as cause Mr. Spreckles to build a yai L from Watsonville to the ranch,whe iscarried to any part of the field portable tracks.” The facts [ here g1 were furnished me by Mr. W, V. GafTe; the originator and mainstay of the plac It was at his suggestion that Mr.Spreck- les built the rond, and on his lease the place is run, irst we will refer tothe preparing of soil, he says: **My opinion about plowing is that'the ground should be plowed deep, at least ten inches early in flml Il after the first rain, so that the I be well exposed tothe atmos- pher ,nnd be thorougly warmed by the time it dy for planting, using the five-hor: plow. Let itbho well harrowed and cultivated, and the weath- er has not been too wet this plowing will suflice, *Then to in_the spring as soon as the weather will allow, we plant, using a planter, sowing in rows fifteen inches apart and about two inches deep, using m two and one-lalf to six pounds per aeres, according to the sizeof the seed. If thasoil pulverizes well there is no need tosonk the seed, if not, you must souk the seed for forty-eight hours. “Assoon as the beets have put forth four tosix leaves the thinning out process commenc This is all done by hand, themen going through pulling all the surplus beets, leaving a good plant every six or seven inches, This will cost Trom 6to $10 per acre, according to the stand *Then comes the cultivating. This is also done by hand, using the hoe, as there is no machine that will cultivate fifteen inches, The men are kept going backward and forward as long us there W in sight. “In California beets ripenin from four to live months. “Now we come to the harvest. First wo use a plow that loosens the beet. This year we had twelve plows zoing, P \nmum men that handled them $1 per day behind the ‘pln\n We had twenty-two men at $1.10 per day to pull the beets and spade up those the plows failed to loosen. They placed them in piles for the toppers, who were fur- nished with knives toremove the tops and parts of beets thathad been exposed above ground. Of these we had fifty: and they received 2 cents per box which averaged from 111 to 2115 pounds, nc- cording to the soil. These boxes are re- moved by trucks, operated by two men,a driver who received $1.10 and a helper who received $1, the driver giving the toppera check forevery box he removed. He then conveyea the poxes to a portable track: tun toany part of the tigld, where they were dumped into cars, 1o receiving a check for every box he hauled, keeping perfect tally. The were then drawn to the main line of the Petaluma Valley narrow gauge railroad, where the engine picked them up and carried them to the sugar factory at Watsonville, Here a sampleof from four to five beets are taken together with the number of the car and sent to the laboratory, where the chemist polar- izes them, the factory allowing $4 per ton for 14 per cent and 50 cents per ton for every additional per cent. - T will wind up by giving you an iden of theyield of Moro Cojo ranch. We will take _n sixty-acre tract Lsaw h vested, The yield was 328 carloads or 871 tons, the beets weiging from two to five pounds and averaging from 21 to 17 per cent saccharine matter, This is but a fair showing of the whole field, LEAb e £lea for Leadvlille. Many persons living at adistance have an idea thut bocause there isnot con- stant excitement in regard o Lead villl numerous accounts of strikes, ete., that the eamp must be playing out, says the Leadville Dispatch. They suppose that because it produced in fourteen years $160,000,000, that this vast sum h: huusted, ton grest oxtent, the mine wrces of Leadville. But those ainted with the facts know that the mineral wealth of this district has only been superficially tavped, and that hur dveds of acres of virgin territory remain undeveloped. The exhaustion” of the first contact led many to suppose that the product of the mines therein was limited to what was then dicovered, but the di very of the second contact, by doeper work, proved the almost in haustible treasure therein, IS SKIN PEEES OFF YEARLY., Here isa Ohiosgo Man Who Wears a Tem= poraty, Cuticle. HE OPERATIONS BEGINS July 25, The Only Case on Record and Excites Lively Interest Among the Doctors—Wants to t Married, ome misguided people have taken oc- casion to say mean thiags about Chicago enterprise, but the only man who was ever literally *‘skinned alive™ in this y is now in a Montana mining camp, and heleft his skin behind him, says the Chicago Tribune, His name is not for publication for the reason that he is the most curious natural freak in existence, and being a modest man he objects to the unpleasant notoriety which would unavoidably follow, A rough experi- ence two years ago undoubtedly had something to do with his desirve to avoid publicity. He was in a mining camp when his quosr disease paid its annual visitation, and went out of his head through fear and excitement. He was unable to leave the camp for treatment, and when the miners saw his condition they thought he was aleper and decided toshoot hin The mob advanced on him, but his brother, with his revolver cocked, stood over the afMicted man and drove themoff by threatening to shoot the first man who drew his weapon. In one of the v.ice rooms of St. Eli beth’s hospital hangs the strangest pie- ture thut can beseen in Chicago or the United States, for that matter. Within the frameare four photographs repr senting a muan in the act of shedding his skin. The most chavacteristic parts of the skin are in the frame also—both hands perfeet with the exception of the finger nails, and the solesand heels ot both feet, with alittle of the upper por- tion—in faet, a perfect pair of glovesand apaivof moccasins, In the center of the picture are hall a dozen perfect nails, which formerly belonged to this skin-shedding man, Then therear eral large plates of the cuticle taken from various parts of the body. One of the photographs shows this range human being with his arms out- stretehed, the old peeling off and hanging from his body in shreds like a tattered shirt, while the new skin can be detected by the whiteness of the photo- graph. All the skin has been oiled, and some of the picees ave perforated, while others could be used as a gourd without adrop of water escaping, The hands and fect are of a yellow tint from being handled professionally, and from being used as gloves and slippers by the former owner, the restof the skin being of a milky hue. PEELS HIMSELF 3 The man who onee wore this skin for natural purposes is now at work in full possession of a new skin, which will leave him next summer. He has been peeling off his skin from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet for thirty-three yeurs, the same day of each 3\'1\!, and it wi only onthe lust occa- Son that publicity followed and the moedical profession became aware of this phenomenon of natur, He is the second eldest child of a fam- ily of thirteen, all of whom are living, and his grandmother is ninety-seven years old. In the winter of 1857 the Yomeof his parents in Franklin, Mo., was burned down during the Kansas- Missouri troubles. His father was away and his mother escaped to the banks of the Meredensen river, where this re- markable man was born, exvosed to the openair. This may or may not have had something to do with his skin-shed- ding. Atuany rate, at six months of age his first crop” of new skin appeared all over his body. At that time and forsev- eral yearsafterwardshis mother thought it wasonly the eruptive fever of child- hood and paid little attention to the vearly event. He remembers distinetly Shedding his skin at five years of ago whiie playing around his” old home, He has always been healthy inother re- spe A potograph which was taken of him just before he shed his skin in this city shows a tall, well-proportionéd man of splendid phySique, his muscles standing out like those of aprize-fighter. Ho lias an intelligent countenance, wears a small light mustache, and is without spot or blemish, HIS LAST EXPLOIT Last July he left his home at Phillips- burg, Mont., intending to go to Phila- delphin. He arrived in Chicago the latter part of the month, and as his skin-peeling spoll of sickness always begins July 25 of each year, he decided wuse a letter of introduction from a Montana friend to Dr. Jacob Frank, No, 17 Lincoln avenue. When he quietly informed Dr. Frank that he wanted to be admitted to a hos- uld shed his skin, the dulous, but when the Montana miner went on to say that in three days, between the hous of 12 noon and 6 v m., he would be taken sick with fever and vomiting, and would be sick all that night; that within a day or two an eruption resembling scarletina would appear, that the skin of the hands and feet would come off first | gloves and moceasins, that his hair would fall awayand that all his nails would come off, Dr. Frank méntally decided that the man was either a lunatic or practical job But the doctor arranged fc Im patient tobe givén a room at St. beth’s hospital and invited Drs. \lunl gomery, Newburg, McArthur, Hyde, Sanford, Authomy and other skin alists to obgetve the case, s predicted—and this is the most re- markuble feature of a remarkable tock the aftornoon of July 25 the pati had to be put to bed. Then came u fi followed by vomiting, and the neck, face, nnd hands became as red as alobster. It ook two days for the old skin to resure its normal color, After the sickness the old skin began to loosen, and a “tvhole new skin took its nin two weeks, It takes be. en two and three weceks for the nails to come off, He is able to be up and about after the first day’s sickness, and as his feet and hands are tender he uses the old skin for protection. The minute (AT D v stops porspiring and no medicine can make him perspire except between the old skin and the nextone which is forming. He returned to another mining camp in Montana be- fore all his old nails had come off, and when they did he forwarded them by by mail to Dr, Fraok NOBODY LIKE HIM, His caso is the second of its kind which is known to exist in the world, and in respect to its occurring the same d every yeur it stands alone. The medi cal nume it has been given is **Yearly Recurrent Desquamative Erythema Searleting Forme. 1n 1870 4 French physician reported to aso of skin- od three or four 3 in another year seven times. The only similar case to the A merican one is that reported by Prof, Besmor, professor of dermatology in the University of P, Between™ March and May of every year this patient throws off the wholo of his skin, but he was not attacked until sixteen or soven- teen yoars old, and his skin doesn't come off in s lurge plates, Personal idiosyn- cy is the only reason the profession can give for this mysterious visitation, and influence of the nind is the only way the professors of medical jurlsprulence can aecount forits yearly recurrence in the American case, This remarkable man wants to get martied, but has given up hope of baing curedof his afMiction,and doubts whether it would be right for'such it fronk totake n wife, shedling which occu times in one y - NEWS FOR NIMLODS. “Uncle Bini* ’l‘uun-r Tussle with a Big Cat. Eagle Roc Mo., correspondence of the Globe:Democrat: Barry ity is rough and mountainous, and” wiid game and varmints are plentiful, W, A Tuarner, generally koown as “Uncle 3ill,” is a enat hunt nd as day- break oceasionally the hills and hollows ring with music from his dozen fast deer hounds, One morning recently started out bright and ey chase. He had ridden twelve miles when aw dogs—yelp! yelp! yelp!—as he supposed, on a deer trail. After three or four hours' hard riding he came upon the dogs fighting with some animal. He at first thought the dogs had caught a deer, but judge of his sarprise 1o some long, spotted object knocking the dogs about right and left. At first he couldn’t make out what it was that was giving his dogs such a “set-to” and “u tail tucking,” for he knew his hounds were plicky and would fight to the death. How , he saw it was no deer, but an ancommonly large panther, which at the moment had one of his favori dogs in its mouth and cutting the canine to pieces with its hind feet. Hewas almost afraid toshoot, lest he might kill some of the dogs; but seo- ing il he waited n moment longer the panther would surely kill one of them, up went his trusty old breech-loader and bang rang out the report loud and clear, Asthe smoke from the gun cloaved away there, within twenty steps of **Uncle Bill,” the mad panther fighting five or s’ s,but at the same time making its way toward the old gentieman. As the dogs wore so near the panther it was impossible for him to shoot again, so he put spurs to the little high-spirited mare he was riding, and, for amile and a half, he rode for de: life, with a wounded pantherat his he. The mare little lume that morn- ing when he left home, and, sceing she was beginning to weaken, he thought it best to swing off into the next tree limb that came in his way. Fortunately for him he far when t befor a tree with avery | over the path, “Uncle Bill” rly for adeer some ten or went all the hadn't gone him he discovered o limb hanging It didnt take him long to fasten his gun to his waistand swing off, letting the mare run on, knowing the panther could ne L her now thatshe was free from the weight of her rider, The big eat soon discovered the mare was riderloss, il it turned back and commenced toclimb the tree. By this time **Uncle Bill” was quite a way up the tree and fixed for the panther, for, as it advanced on him, ho leveled his gun and gave the varmint tho one remaining load right inthe face and shoulders, The vicious brute, though twice wounded and losing blood, seemed more deter- mined than ever to have its prey. **Uncle Bill”’ now saw that it was a fight for his life, for the panther was aimo within reach of his feet. His gun was now empty, as the sack containing hi gunshelis was fastened on his saddle, and in his hurry he was unable to se- cure them. So, after making a club out of his gun and using his lung-power pretty frecly he succeeded in attracting theattention of Hazel Burris, another old hunter, who, fortunately, came to his ussistance, and none to soon, either, for the panther had his th fastened in the toe of “Uncle Bill hoot, and, as the old gentleman is not enjoying very good health, his strength would wot have lasted much long How , Brother Burr rival with his old, long, vifle soon put another hole th panther. The bigcat immedinte its grip on the bpot aad fell dead to the round. Hrother Burris looked up the tr and invited Noighbor Turner to come off the roost,” which he most willingly did, After coming down from his lofty perch **Uncle Bill™ found him- self exhausted and sat down under a troe Brother Burr fortunately, a flask of ligquor, which he handed nele Bill,” who drew a long swig, and in a few moments he felt so much improved thut hoarose. He measurgd the panther and found it to bs th - estthat was ever killed in this soction, its dimensions being eleven feet in length and four feet in height. After measuring the panther “Unele Bill” blew his horn, and in fifteen or twenty minutes the trasty little mare’s head was seen peeping very cautiously around trees, looking in the direction from which the sound of the horn had come. He called to her, whereupon she came upand stood still for the panther to be put up behind the suddle, when “*Uncle Bill” mounted, blew his horn for the dogs and started for home. “Uncle Bill” found his dogs more or less seratched up and bruised, but after o little rest the hounds were again eager for the chase, e Played Sev n-Up forthe Verdic YOut in Coiorado in 1859 [ sel judge,” says an_old-timer, in the Franc ud the most peculiar uader my cogni huppened along ubout that Lin was & roplevin sult botween two cattlemen named Roberts and Robert- son, respectively, forthe recovery of fifty valuable ste wd v came up be- fore me for trial, The court house con- tained but one room, and when the caso was given tothe jury, the judge, neys and s pectat uut' ad toa nel ing saloon ke their thirst, while th jury remained in undisputed pessess- ion of the court-room, guarded by o single deputy shoifr. “Somo fifteon minutes had clapsed when the deputy sherilf sought me out to inquire if the jury, who were unablo to agree, might bo allowed a pack of cards. To this Igave my consent, and the cavds were pussed to the jurors. A few minutes later the deputy relurned with the intormation that the jury were still unable to ag and toask if six of them would be allowed to go down town to play a game of tenpins for the whisky. This, too, was allowed, and afler to s throwing around the eards six jurymen adjourned toa down-town saloon, where the game was played anda quart of whisky secured. This done, they re turned to the jury-room, and s’ tk ontered the six jurymen who had mained behind were discovered s around a soup box engaged in a game of soven-up. Absorbed in the game they failed to note the return of their com- panions, and a moment later one of the players threw down his cards, and arose "To Soft Coa GOING LIKE Whatis? Our Celel Best in the market. Telephone 48 market. 1t lasts longer, any other lowa coal. 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A man with molasse hair rose up and greeted me elfusi some in was con nd 1 er, | steppe andy-colol Lo was barefooted, and the number of | his gurments were reduced Lo aminimum. | € In the raom w his wife and seven children and four dog The woman wis getting supper onacook-stove, and the oldest boy was twisting hay for the A dozen streams of water 1 down cheerfully and confidently from the roof and were caught in various dis or allowed to spatter on the floor. There was one bed In the corner, on which most of the children had taken refuge, as if it werc an ark, The beasts of the earth were represented on the bed by two of the dogs. There was an- other bed, but it was out-doors—the man explained that they put it out in | the day time to make more room in the | house.” Sometimes they slept out there carly and awv L. G. KNOTTS, FUEL Cobs a spacialty. 29 South Main St. —_— housc | Thedoor | | SURPLUS AND PROFITS.. Consumers. HOT CAKES. rrated Jackson, Illinois, COAL AT $4.50. 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R Rico. 10} Malo st, Jouncid Blufrs _—_— CITIZENSSTATE BANK Ofr Council Bluffs, CAPITAL STOCK Dr Miller's b nalo d1seases. pistiles 2 Torsale 1 only by Mrs. A. A Smith, 1 Mis, G, B Higsins, 118 $150,000 65, 000 . 215, ()00 B La TOTAL CAPITAL AND SURPLUS. . 1 A Miller, I 0, Gleasyi, 1art, J. D, Bdmundson, Charlos Lifannin, Transiet gonoral bankine busis ness Larzost eapital wnd surpluy of woy bank Lo Southwestorn Loy INI EREST UN T«Mc DEPOSI I'S. D. 1. McDaneld & Co., Sunliss Casin s, hineey Also acw Butchers’ axd Packers’ Mamnt lelur“. ioned Randall youth. 3 ring, such as Sum wis wont to address in hia It was composed of the men who aid tn recent politic warm nights. He reckoned it was wet some by that time, but he didn’t care. He was from he said, and liked Nebr: was u chance for a m . A new stream i began running down the buck of his neck, He moved his chair afow inches and said the rain would make plowing en Three of the dogs and two of the children bagan to howl without any apparent reason. The | storm mereased and the wind drove the rain in the open door. My pony put her head inthe door and theman got | up and led her about half- in, suy- ing that we'd keep part of her drey any 1 A stream from the roof trickled into her ear and she shook her head and stamped her feet on the- floor. The blown out, but the woman ning wisp of hay from the fire and litit, The man began to whistle | ie” and to “keep time™ with his foot ina pool of water on the. floor. he storm redoubled its fury and there seemed to be o fair prospect that the lml' would blow off. T'he man stopped whistling and told a funny story alout a coon hunt in Missouri. Then I hap- pened to an n my errand, and he got up andseized hishat. He wis delighted at the chance todome a favor, and he would go right out and milk., 'Come to think of it, he didn’t helizve that he had i d the old cow for two or three nyhow. T of course told him that he must not think of doing it till the ! rain had stopped. e would hear of nothing of the kind, but took a gourd in one hand and started for the door. I remonstrated, but to no purpose, Ho went out in the p and be, to feel around in the darvkness for the cow. Sinco he was doing it for me, 1 thought it was my place 1 go out, too, 80 together we grabbed about in the night for the desired animal. The flushes of lightning helped, and we found her atlast, and he gotdown on his kneos in the wet grass, held the gourd in one hand and milked with the othe I'stood by and listened 1o another hume ous coon hunt narvativ He leaned his head against the cow and the water poured off her back in torrents and down the ck of his neck. When the gourd was full we went back to the house, He whistled the “‘Arkansaw Traveller” on the w I wasas wet as Icould be by this tuime, o I took the milk in my canteen and thanked him for it, knowing that he would he insulted if [ offered to pay, and rode back to the wagon, which I found dryer than the house, notwilhstanding it had only u eanvas top. The next morning ho wis down to see us at sunrise with nother gourd of wi Phe sheets wore a littlo damp during the night, he said, specially on the outdoor bed, butother- | wise they had all passed o very comfort- uble night, o1y P lATe Show of the it demoerat who attended of the democratic club of , heid in that eity on the inspaking of thy aTiie sud t) a riy of congressmen, according to the :w York Sun: **On Thursday Jack- Th A prominc | poscd of men | strar | tween two stalls and a prign. The gathering at the / of Music was a fashionable afTair who didn’t do much, any, work during the campaign. whose only objeet in sting wis to glorify themselves. Their purpose was to lay the undevground wires to snatch the vesults of th 3 Dbost part of the contimied the P.D., \lation during the svening of weard bearing the following | legend: coms= if and SHOW 0N EANTH! TEN DOLLARS to sce THE FAT MAN EAT. Academy of M GREATE; 01 “The eard proluced groat laughtor, and everyone voted that it was a true A westorn member who cannot the preteasions of Cleveland, on reading the , said. ‘Here, give 1wone of the I want dd a ne or two.” Thisis what he wrote: This is one of the series of prize shows to he exhibited throughout the country, the debut having taken place at the Ro= form club dinner in York, which by hundreds of appoir at Chicago, Cineinng s and «elsewhere in the west during the season,” A Tale Told to Physicians and Not to the Mar.nes It was after dinner at Young's, the Boston Herald, A well-known Coms monwealth avenue physician had been dining with @ fow professional cronies, and as the eigars were lighted the talk drifted to the tobacceo hubit—first, in its effect upon th ud then, inits pecu sjous indis viduals, *1 know cian, whose income, into five tigures, *‘in my employ, who is st whims in v the weed that ever c ation. He is sixty b serted fron to this countr, tion sachy “One morning and noticed the had been 80, the elder by the wiy, runs fact he is now in the victin of the wd to the use of mo under my ob- Scotchmun, about 10 he de- nd camne him a posi- a man,” eaid physts T went lo into the about two feet eut ina partition be- little shelf had been pulled wp underneath it 1 won- dered what on earth it had been done for, but Donald was \yat the time, and when he came back it had slipped my mind. 1 L was a8 before T had occasion stable again, and when Donald standing on a stool, clbow on the shelf, with along clay prpe in his mouth, smoking away lik good ohie, und blowing the smoke through the littie window he had cut. Upon my questioning he told me that of the twens ty yeurs he had pussed in her majesty’s service, ton of it had been on board & powden ship, where the rules against st much as n woek fterward t go into the I did I found leaning his son's day was ceichrated in Philadel- phin, It wis celobrated, on the one hand, by & banquet to Grover Cleveland at tue Acndemy of Masie, which ludies attended in full dress 10 see the modern school of demoerits eat, and on the other hand by the democratic club of that city with an old-fushioned muss meeting, at which distinguished mem bers of congress who had taken an uc tive partin the Novemo umpaign gave an account of thelr work. — The meeting of the club was a real old-fash- smolking were vory strl “During all this tine he had been nos customed four times o day Lo stand upon achest and lean out of n porthole to smoke, 0 that no one would smell him, and when at lust ho took French leave | he found that he could not get any satise faction out of u pipe unless indulged in, in the old posture, and so, from that du.K D to this, you can ftind him, al ene meal, and for half an hour belore going | to bed, standing on that stool blowi | his smoke through the litle window,” -t