Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 12, 1891, Page 13

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: 12, 1891.—TYV Which is conceded to be the most beautiful natural park in the West. The company have expended over $50,000 unim- provements in the park, con- sisting of two lakes (which are fed by natural springs) one of which is over 1500 feet long, fountains, avenues, driveways, gravel walks,dancing pavilions, pleasure boats, rustic houses, &e. Blocks 129 to 137, between 2oth and 23rd streets, were sold four years ago, and are now built up with the finest residences in the city, The lots now offered for sale lie be- tween 20th and 16th streets, ONLY 4 BLOCKS FROM THE Motor Line on 24th street, SIDEWALKS AND WATER MAINS thi from which have been extended to roperty. go east four blocks. |SOUTH SPRCIAL NOTICE. This Property Will Be Placed On Sale TUESDAY, APRIL 14th, At 1 0’'Clock P. M. When we will have our agents on the ground to show the property. Get off-South Omaha motor at I street, and OMAHA - NEW LOTS 50x130 and 685x130. SPRING LAKE PARK. 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Z" L AND COMPANY DITION THIS PROPERTY LIES IMMREDIATELY SOUTH OR THIS IS THE LAST PIECE fo the Land Company's prop- erty to be platted, and as it is covered with BEAUTIFUL SHADE TREE and slopes gently to the east, is the finest piece of ground platted by them, Prices for Inside Lots WILL BE FROM $400 to $800 Andfor Corners,65x130 FROM $700 to $1,200. Terms, one-fifth cash, bal- ance six equal semi-annual payments, 7 per cent interest. ED.JOHNSTON & CO., Agents and 24th Streets, South Omaha. KILLED FOR THIRTY CENTS. Frightful Orime for Which John H. Smith Easily Escaped a Life Sentence. EX-COURT REPORTER'S REMINISCENCES. Enrly Short-Hand Legislation and the Old Method of Making Tran- scripts—Recollections of Lawyers, < BY JONN T. BELL. "The first bill providing for the use of short- hand writing in the courts of Nebraska was 8 copy of the Towa law, and was introduced by Senator I S, Hascall of Douglas county at the logislative session of 1871. The impor- tance of the subject was not so well under- stood thon as it s now and the bill was re- jocted with great promptness, my recollection being that Seunator Hilton of Washington county, father of Frank Hilton, the well known nowspaper man, was the only one who jomnea Senator Hascall in voting for the meas- ure, At the scssion of 1875 Senator J. C. Craw- ford of Cuming county, introduced a bill to the same effect with suitable provision forthe payment of stenographers, but was able to secure its passage only by making considera- ble concesstons in that respect, the law as passed providing & per diem pay of § and @ transeript feo of 10 cents per hundred words, tho reporter being employed and paid by the county in all criminal cases, and in the trial of civil suits the litigants were at lib- ‘ erty to make use of his services or not, as ‘ they choose, but in caso ho was so employod they were to foot the bill. Two years later the law was amended so as to provido a salary of $1,000 payable by the state in quarterly installments, but in the hurry and confusion of business,no provision was mado fu the appropriation bill for the court roporters, and for tho next two years they struggled along as best thoy could with- out sularies. In 1879 another amendment to tho law was adopted and tho salary fixed at $1,500, but the transeript foo was reduced to b cents. My oxperience asalaw reportor in No- braska dates back to the spring of 1870 when 1 took the testimony and arguments in a mur- der trial at Fromont. Thoe defendant John ) H. Smith, who ket a small hotel at Fremont had bocome involved in u quarrel with one George Gallon of West Point, who had had his team fed at Smith's barn and objected to the charge of 30 cents made for hay furnishod, prairie hay at that time being worth about § a ton. Gallon iusisted upon carrying away the hay the team had not eaton, whereupon Smith assaulted him with the neckyoke of a wagon, inflicting injurios from which death soon re- sulted. The caso was tried before Judge L. Crounse, still an honored citizan of Nebraska. who served most acceptably oa the bench for Yoars, afterwacds in tho halis of con- 33, and was last woek tondered tho ap- pointment by Prosident Hurrison assistant secrotary of the treasury. Jumes W. Savage of Omaha and 7, Shedd of Fremont appeared as counsel for the Prisoner, and W. H. Munger of Fromont assistant distriot attorney, E. F. Gray in the prosecution. The first witness called in the case was Dr. Aloxander Bear, the demooratic candi- date for lieutenant governor of Nebraska, Wwho came S0 near being elected last fall. Smith was convicted of murder in the second degree and soutenced to a term of ten years at Lincolu but escaped from the county jail the follow- ing night under circumstances which led to the general belief that he had lingered in confinement to that date ouly in order that bo might learn just what view & court and jury would take of his case. No clue to his Whereabouts was afterwards obtained by the authorities. ‘The reporting of this trial had been done, primarially, for the Omaha Herald at an agreed price of & per column, but at the suggestion of Judge Crounsp & complete transcript of the testinony was made for use in case Smith was captured and further pro- ceedings in the matter taken, the judge stat- ing that he would approve a reasonable bill for the making of such transcript and that he thought it would be paid by the county com- missioners. When completed the transcript was fairly worth $25, but I made out a bill for only one-fifth tbat amount, in my extreme desire that it should be favorably considered, as it would serve as @ precedent. Knowing the amount of toil in- volved Judge Crounse iasisted that I was en- titled to more money, and I then increased the chargo to 85, the payment of which was recommended by the judge, and turned the bill and transcript over to the county com- missioners, As that was the last I ever heard of the matter I have always vogretted that tae bill had not been made out for $25, as it would haye presentod & more symme- trical appearance and I would have lost noth- ing financially thereby. During the fall aud winter following I re- ported several civil suits for John I Redick, esq., and important criminal cases for the local press. Among the latter was the trlal of Bernard Doran, who, in July or August preceding, had killed Constable Jerry McCheane, and at the same time so severely stabbed 'Colonel Mulcahey and Pat Rockbud (the latter since known to fame as the “‘Rocky Mountain Skipper), that for several day their lives were despaired of. ‘The affair creatod the greatest excitement and the fact that Doran was not lynched was due chiefly to the efforts of Prosecuting At- torney John C. Cowin, who addressed the mob and promised a speedy and vigorous prosecution of the case. The office and his two assistants had gone to Doran’s room in the night with a warrant for his arrest for some violation of the law, each carrying o bit of candle which was lighted after enter- ing tho room. Doran was lying on a cot and at once agreed to go with the party, but smd he must first put on some clothes.” 'Drawing from beneath the cot a v he produced, not additiona! clothing, but a big knife with which he sprang upon his visitors, knocking the lights out and cutting and slashing right and left in the dark. The case was tried before Judge George B. Lake, Mr. Cowin prosecuting and Colonel Savage and Charles H. Brown representing the defendant. Doran was a handsome young man about twenty vears old, with smooth face and clear blue oyes and it was dificult to believe him guilty of an actso cruel. His attractive, innocent appearance was made much of by his counsel, and in making the closing address to the jury on behalf of the defense Colonel Savage wound up in this manuer: “Gentlemen of the jury, my task is nearly finished. This case will soon be mm your hands, and whatever your verdict may be, my conscience will be cloar—those mild blue s will never haunt me in reproach, for I know that my full duty has been most anx- lou:lfi performed.” Taking bis seat in tho midst of an impres- sive silenco he was followed by Mr. Cowin, whose first effort was to dissipate in tho miuds of the jurors the effect of the oppos- ing counsel's closing words. Said he: “Gentlemen of the Jury: *“Colonel Sav- age tells you that whatever your verdict in this case may be, the mild blue eyes of this defendant will never haunt him with re- roach. To this, gentlemen, let me add that { the mild biue oyes of this red-handed murderer ever rest upon me again, in case he is set free, God help my wife and baby I Doran wus found guilty and sentenced to the penitentiary for a long term, but made his escape the following Juue on the occasion of the sensatioual outbroak of prisoners tho might the hospital for the insane was fired oy an incendiary, entively destroying the build- ing and burning up several patients. Doran was never recaptured. It is a cu- rious fact that the young man who reportea that murder case for the Herald was himself tried for murder in Minnesota a few yoars ter, e An agricultural expert, who has tried both ways, says it is botter to have a cow give 800 pounds of butter for five years and die on your hands, than to give 2 pounds for ten years und then make 1,500 pounds of old cow beef. l i THE FALSE AND THE TRUE. The Farmers' Alliance and Its Mission for Purification. REFORMERS MUST NOT BE OFFICE SEEKERS “It s Always Safe to Judge a Man by the Work He Has Done, a Friend by His Counsel." Hels a wise man that knows his true friends from the false. It is a degree of wis- dom that usually comes late in life. It is as arule only aftera somewhat bitter experi- ence that the young man learns to distinguish the genuine ring of true friendship, says the Iowa Homestead. e will never be able to do so until his owa character gives out the true ring. It is not, however, merely sincere ano houest friends that are to be trusted in times of great emergency. A sincero friend may not be a safe adviser, He may mear well but lack knowledge, sagacity, that inde- finable thing which we call ripe judgment, the faculty of doing the right thing at the right time and avoid doing the wrong thing at any time. The man who has learned to select from among his true friends safo and judicious advisers and counseilors has learved one of the most important lessons in life ana may ve sale.y countes o wise man. Friends should be judged, not merely by the ring of the metal, but by their fidelity in the past. If the adyice théy have given in the past has proved wise, and it has come out all right; if the dangers they have pointed out and warned against have proved real and the courses they have suggested have provoed wise and practical, then they are entitled to renewed confidence 1n the futuro. ‘“I'hine own friend and thy father's friend forsake not.” ‘The friend whose solicitude for your wel- faro develops, after the fashion of Jonah's gourd, in a night, is always a legitimate ob- Ject of suspicion. It is especially so if thero is some manifest porsonal advantage to bo secured through your kind ofices, whether in the shape of pecunmiary gain or political preferment. For this reason the rich, the powerful and influential Liave few friends in whom they can trust, and as they advance in Iife they learn to rely with confidence only on those who have been the friends of their youth. What is true of individuals is no less true of organizations. The organization is only an aggregation of men who carry into the organ- ization their wisdom and unwisdom, all their frailties and follies in matters of reasoning and judgment. Men attach themselves to organizations not because of personal attach- monts, but because they believe in the prin- ciples and purposes for which the organiz- ation was formed. In the begiuning few men connect themselves with any organization who do not believe in its principles. As it grows in power and influence it attracts to it, whether it be church, political party or farm: ers’ alliance, two classes of men, neitber of which are of any possible benofit, and both & source of positive damage. o first is that class who are always desirous of being found in the majority, and hence, without any fixed convictions, alm to be always on the winning side. The second is that class who wish to use every organization to which they belong —and they usually belong to many of them —for their own personal and political ad- vaucement, These, under the guise of friendship, are the ' most dangerous ene- mies of any organization. Lookmg, con- sciously or uncousciously, at _ail public ques- tions from the standpoint of their own per- sonal and political interests, they are incapa- ble of giving wise or judicious counsel. They are not cupable, for this reason, of tak- ing ‘the broad and’comprehensive view of public questions that is demanded of any man who is fit to be trusted with the shaping of a safe public pol It their counsel is un- heedod they are disposed to take it as a per- sonal affront, are ready to join the crowd of disaffected, sore and soured men—men that have & grievance—that hang around the edges of all organizations, It is quite natural for men of this class to be in secret or open opuosition to the officers of the organization, and to all whose counsel has been adopted in preferenco to their own. This is human na- ture and its workings may be seen 1 almost every large and well established church, po- litical party, corporation, ailiance, or, in fact, any other form of organization that has been long enough in existence or has attained power and influence. In every orgauization thoro is another class of men who take its aims and purposes. T honest and sincore, but their minds are so constituted that they take hold of some one foature of the organization which to them becomes the main and exclusive foature. They are zealous and even fierce in their ad- vocacy of some distinctive principle of a church,or some special feature of an alliance, which to them becomes the end of its ex- istence. In the alliance they aro apt to re- gard some one evil as the source of all the woes, real or imaginary, that affect the agri- cultural interest. There ure, in all con- science, enongh of the real, without drawing on the imagination for others. They adopt some specific measure of reform and really believe that if this wero adopted the New Jerusalem would come down in full view of every farm house. With oneitis prohibi- tion, with another it is railway reform, with another it is free coinage, with still another it is 2 per cent loans on land, with another the sub-treasury scheme and still another the crushing out of the “Big four.”” Still another class honestly belicves that if ofiices were filled witk members of the alliance, and especially with those who hold their own pe- culiar views, the state or the nation would be reformed at once. It is well that every measure, whether it be practical or not, should have earnost advocates. The people can be safely the true and_practical from the falso an practical. It is a great mistake, how when_the advocates of these spocial meus- uros, impatient because their views are not adopted, begiu to denounce all who do not endorse them to the fullest extent as enemies to the cause, and makoe zeal in advocating some pet measure the test of fealty to tho cause itself. If an organization, snch for ex- sted to sift out eventually amplo as the Jowa farmers’ alli- ance, which has impressed its. stamp on legislation as mno other alliance in the United States has, and whose measures are taken as models in other states, refuses to bo guided by the counsels of mon who have never been identi- fled closely with any of her reform measures the world should not be surprised. Neither should it be surprised if these same men in their impatience should seek to establish a val organization which they hope will ad- vance the schemes of the ambitious and the selfish, and endorse the theories of the men who think that if their pet schemes iwere adopted tho millenium. would surely come. The rank and file of. the Iowa alliance are wise enough to trust the friends whose coun- sel has proved wise and practical in the past and who have never sought ofice or prefor- ment as the price of theiradvocacy of reform measures, The man who would be a reformer must not be an office seeker. ‘The moment. he be- comes a candidate he is liable to the imputa- tion of adyocating reforms because of the personal advantage likely to acerue, Any or- aanization which seeks to reform tho abuses of the times, and is guided and led by men who have been noted office seckers in the past, is justly liable to’ suspicion. It is the more liable to suspiciont 1f these men have re- ceived, at the bands of ‘the public, repeated indications of a want'of confidence in their wisdom and ability. The friendship of this class of men is always suspicious, and espoctally 8o 1f with loud professions of friendship for the cause thero is a scarce concealed enmity and hostility to those who have been trusted and successful leaders in the past. The public _are not such fools as they aro sometimes supposed to be. It is always safo 10 judge & man by the work he has done, and a friend by the wisdom of past counsel. 1f the polizy of the men who have guided the Iowa alliance iu times past have lod to re- forms in railwsy management which are re- garded as models in all states, east and west; if it has led to reduced prices for school books, to a great reform in sgricultural education and to reduced rates of iuterest, these men can be safely trusted to formulate measures for the reduction of taxation of farm property, for the more equitable distribution of publi¢ burdeus, and whatever other reform meas- ures in the state or nation the agricultural inlerests may demand. STORY OF A DOG TRAVELER. Heo Always Rides in an Engine with an Engineer. TEMPORARILY SOJOURNING AT FREMONT. How the Dog Visits the Various Points of Interest Through the West —Recent Trips Over the Elkhorn System. FreyoxT, Neb., April 11..—1Special to Tne Bee.|—“Bull” is the rough but expressive name of a dog who is making Fremont his temporary home. Just how he got this name aud who gave it to him nobody knows. It is an appropriate one, however, as there is & strong, perhaps predominating, trace of the bulldog in his makeup. He is a liver-colored animal with a white ring around his rather heavy neck and a white spot on his breast. His jaws are laclieed to bo a little broad and heavy, indieating firmness in his character at the expense of affecvion. His parenta; was a mismating being, evidently, an un- happy combination of bulldog and pointer. He is, in short, a plain, blunt fellow, who loves his friends, such affe tion as he has going out, not to any human master but to locomo- tves and not, so as far as discoverable to any particular locomotive, but to locomotives in eneral. Bull has the appearance of being about one year old, aud has doubtless lived as eventful @life and seen as much of the country in that time as any other canine in tho country. He is a great traveler—a_veritable tramp who appears to have no other ambition except to roam the country and see the sights. The hum-drum life of a town or cit; with an uneventful existence in the bacl alleys, among other dogs of his caste, has no charm for Bull. No ‘)enl up Utica for him, The boundless world is his, and he is busily engaged taking it in. Like the wind, no one knoweth whence he came aund fow know whither he goeth, About six weeks ayo he arrived in Fremont. He cameover from Missouri Valley ona Fremont, Elkhorn & Missour1 Valley engine. He al travels on an engine. He stopped here a few days to “take inthe town.” He wmade two or three casual acquaintances, but formed no warm friendships during the stop. A fow days later he boarded another engine and went east again. The next his Fremont quaintances heard of him was when he istered in St. Paul, Minn,, shortly after his disappearance here, The Pioneer Press noted his arrival there, and it was through that means he was known to be at the Twin city, Later nhe doubled on his track and came back to F'remont, stopped off over night and next day left over the Elkhorn roud for a trip to the Black Hills, His visit there lasted several d , during which time he traveled over the several scenic routes of that mountainous region and evidently enjoyed the trip. Bull then returned to Missouri Valley and one day last week came over to Kremont again on the engino of a regular passenger train. Arriving here he changed cars, or engines. From tho three trains which go out of Fremout over the Elkhorn branches at 11 o'clock every forenoon, ho picked out the one he wanted to take. He had been over the Black Hills route. Hohad also taken a trip over the Hastings line. He passed by the engines on these trains and hopped up the steps into the cab of the engine on the Lincoln train, He had not visited the capital city and the legis- lature, and that was where he was bound for. Eugene Nelson shared his seat with bull. During the stop at Wahoo the dog made a short circle about the depot and vicinity, but was in the cab again when Con- ductor George Kuight shouted “‘all aboard.” Arriving at Lincolu Bull started home with Engineer Nelson. When in a crowd of men on the street he got lost from Nelson, and the latter supposed that was the last ho would see of his canine fellow traveler. He was therefore surprised when he went to the round house to get his engine out for the re- turn trip to find Bull sitting on his seat watching the steam gauge. The dog had gono to the round house and picked out the proper ongine from among all the rest and taken possession of it. He wouldn't permit the “wipe” to rub the engino off or allow the fireman to get into the cab until Nelson came. Ho felt that he had rights they were bound to respect. Coming home from Livcoln on that trip Bull got off again at Wahoo for a brief,run up town. When he came back to the depot the tram had pulled out and he chased it down the track, all to no purpose. But on the very noxt freight which followed there sat Buli on the seat in the engine cab, with his head oat of the window. The dog has not made any more trips this woek. He has formed a sort of attachment for Fremont and is now amusing himself in as- sisting, part of tho time, to run an engino in the switch yards. He is being taught to ring the boil by taking the rope fn his mouth and pulling it. On the whole this dog_traveler is nota very genial companion, Ho is apt _to regard his rizht to a seat in the cab as taking pri- ority over that of the emgineer or fireman, and sometimes disputes with them. Buf usually he gets fair treatment and they cnjoy the novelty of his company. What his next exploit will be remains to be seen, but_ it is certain that a dog of Bull's roving disposi- tion and penchant for seeing things will nov be content to “'settle down” and remain in auy one place a great length of time. He is a uriosity in his line and is gaining a wido acquaintanco among trainmen and others along western lines of railways. A MEN AND WOMEN. Count tferbert Bismarck says that the English are doing splendid work for civiliza- tion in Bgypt. Mr. Gladstone's new word, “Sarcast,” which he recently used in describing Boa- cousfield, is severely criticised in England. Agnes R. James announces hersclf as te for city treasurer of Hutchinson, Exactly. No sooner is a woman eman- cipated than she wants to take charge of the monoy. Mus. Leland Stanford gives $600,000 a yoar to charitable objects and keeps @ numbsr of women employed 1n making protty decora- tions for her Washington and California homes, Emma Abbott was not ashamed to acknowl- edgo a strong partiality for newspaper men, “They aro always inquisitive, she said, ‘‘sometimes impertinent, and often unfair} but never dull." Dr. Selyee, the well known collogo prosi- dent, declares that at the present rate of progress the women of the country will at the end of tho present century be better edu- cated than the men, Ex-Senator [ngalls is smid to find consola tion for defeat in tho refiection that Mrs e, who did much to defeat him, is not a v beautitul woman, and that she has o targe family of children to bother he L. 7. Leiter, who for se 3 boen a tenant of Mr. Blaiue's big brick house in Washington at a yearly rental of about 811,000, is going to build a magnificent mansion of bis uwn within - stone's - throw of it, Dr. Koch has boen_honored s has d in Borlin by the en- y Bacil- In order that tho attractions shall not olusiy tifie, the place is equipped with pretty waitresses, Private Keliar of Company D, Eighteeuth vania regiment, is proviug vory use- ful as un _inforniation gatherer during the present striko troubles in the coke regions. fo speaks seven languuges—Hungarian, Austrian, German, Polish, Slav, Italian and English. ‘The queen regent of Spain is suffering from nervous prostration, the result, of over- work and anxiety. Although her physicians have advised her to leave Madrid fora s a- son she dares not quit the capital for fear that during her absenco some plot should endanger the safely of her son's throne. Rev. J. W. Mendenhall writes to the New York Times: *“The report that I claimed to be the author of “The Breadwinuers' is a baseless absurdity. It is due to the ivnertion of a brillisnt Chicago reporter. 1 only claimed to know the name of the author, but, as it was a literary socret, 1 could uot roveal it. ‘The fiction shiould perish in a day.” Miss Gabrielle Greeley is to bo married this month to a clergyman and the St. Loals Glove-Democrat makes this suggoestion: baviog his portrait displayed over trance to anew cafe called the *Joll lus," “The printers are about to ercct a handsome statue to the memory of Mr. Greeley, and why wouldn’t it be a good thing for tho editors of the country to unite in making up a handsome marriage gift for Miss Gabriellet PLENTY OF SUGAR. The United States Consumes Moro Than Any Other Country. Indianapolis Journal: No two coun- tries on carth consume the quantity of sugar that is disposed of in the United States, The pioneers of Indiana used to talk of ‘“‘tree sugar’—that is, sugar made om the sap of the maple tree, and “'store, "or Now Orleans sugar,the latter, a very common article, bringing about 124 cents a pound. Honey was the chiof source of sweeets to the an- cients and it has not been until very modern times that sugar has been found in the homes of the poor. In the time of Shakespeare it was a rare com- modity and Prince Hal speaks of having sugar clapped into his hand by a waiter who wants to make fair weather with him. The Chinese, who claim overy- thing, of course claim that sugar canoe originated in thefr kingdom, and they called the juice ““honey of canes.” About the ninth century the cuitivation of this cane had extended to I . In the tonth and eleventh centuries, in Europe, sugar cane was only inthe palacos, and castles of the nobles and used in medi- cine. The discovery of America, which sot the old world forward as nothing that had proviously happened over did, distributed the cane over a large por- tion of the globe. Santo Domingo, Bra- zil, Cuba, Mexico and other countries began its cultivation, and in the menn- timo it was taken to Africa and the In- dian archipelago. The preparation®of the purest varie- ties of sugar did not originate in the countries probucing that sweet. The art was first applied by the Venotians to crude sugar brought from Fgypt. 1t was praciced in Antwerp in the sixteonth century and thence intro- duced into Kugland. The cano ap- pears to have been first cultivated in this country about 1751, near the site of New Orleans, by some Jesuits from 3anto Domingo, and in 1758 the first mill wus built, probably, for breaking cane and manufacturing moiasses, The manufac- ture of cane into sugar was not begun before 1764, Though Louisiann is the most favorable stafe in this country for its cultivation, it is too far north for the perfect ripening of the plant, which in some portions 1s sometimes' killed by frosts in the spring and also injurcd in October and November. Cané is also grown in Texas and to some extent in Forida, Brick Watch Oase. Talk about frogs in lumps of coal, said a merchant to the Wostern Jewelor, I've got a better story to tell you. A Virginian friend of niine hailing from Norfolk sa; that a short time ngo a brick fell m a building being 2d on Market street, Norfolk, and was splintered by its fall to the pavement. half of it being picked up was found to contain the works and case of what was once evidently a fine watch, The only way tho watch being d with the brick can be accounted for is that some one of the negro hands must have stolen it, became frightened, and worked it into the brick in its first stage to avoid being captured with it on him. For years the editor of the Burlingtcn Juuction, (Mo.) Post, has been subject to cramp colic or fits of indigestion, which pros- trated him for several bours and unfitted him for business two or three days. For the past year he Las been using Chamberlain’s colic, cholera and diarrhwa remedy whenover oc caslon required, aud it has invariably given him prompt velief. 25 and 50 ceat bottles for salo by druggists.