Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 29, 1891, Page 12

THE OMAHA DAI NOVE HARNESSING [HE TORRENTS. BER 29, 18! faoing McPherson for fuel and no¥ the slightest necessity This week we arouse the alert bargiin huntc square. This dining room 18 just opposite Chamberlain's restaurant and 1t will be, I Judge, as big 4 one as Stanford’s. It nas a farge oay window in the side and will be beutitully lighted. Another big dining room wili bo that of Senator Eugene Hale's, or rather Mrs. Zach Chandler, for I am told that tho big house which has'been built on Washington house WHERE ~ STATESMEM DINE, A Look at the Famons D ng Weshington Dignitaries, for haaling the 86 elsowhero to have the procious metal eeracted. Thus those who operato the mines are guoranteed the most econonomical method kuown of treating all tho free gold quarty mines. It seems boyond dispute that, bolng rolieved of the expense of | trausporiing the ' ore for o long dis Util zing Mountain Strsamy to Produo: Eleotrioity for Tednstrial Uss, Rooms of v and startle drowsy competition by inaugur: iting to GROWI? G XTRAV AGANCE OF THE CAPITAL Senator Stanford’s New Dining Room and Its Decorations—A Kitchen Walled With China—Where Wanamaker Eats, Copyrighted 1501 by Frank G. Carrenter.) Wasiixato, 0. C., Nov. 27.—|Spectal Cor- respondence of Tur D o whieh meets in a fow days is full of poor men. Four-fifths of the newly clected membors have notiing but their salarles, Sonator Kyle has harctofore c himselt well paid at #1,000 a your and Senator Peffor was working for §25 a weuk when be had the luck to jump into Senator Tugalls’ £,000 job. It 18 said that Kem of Nobraska never earned over $500 u yoar and the most of the alliance men expect (o clear more this year than ever before. ‘I'hey have boen trotting over Wash fugton looking for cheap boarding houses and the eriticisms of the high prices of board and lodging are augry and loud, It used to be that a congrassman could Liv well in Washington on $,000 a yoar. W congress first met the members were well paid at £ a day and in 1815 the nation con sidered it a big sulary grab when they in creased thoir pay to 81,500 o year. Now thev 20t 85,000 and tind themselves poorer than their forefathors were at $1 Prices were nevor s0 dear in Washington as they ave cow. A congressman cannot get a respectable ten- room house for less than $100 a month aud markot prices have doubled since the begin- ning of tho last congress. congress nsidered v City of the Rich. Washington is rast becoming a city of the rich. Itisa town of millionniros who have come hiero to spond their money. A poor senator s no chance to entertain on his saiary and the cost of dinners and roceptions enormous. The prospects are that the com- ing season will be moro gay and mors ox travagaut thon ever. Many new houses havo been built and some of the wedith izons aro adding great wings to their old houses for the purpose of entertaining. The matter of oining rooms alone is becoming an import- ant featuro of Washington life and the din- ing room is now one of the largest ana most beautiful of the statesman’s hou Senator Stanford rents a house at Washington, but he has added to this, av his own expense, a wing comprisiug a dining room which has cost in tho meighborhood of #10,000, and which, though simple in its construction for the wants of a hundred millionaire, is a fair type of the tondency of the times in this direction. ‘This dining room is now boing furnished for the winter. The wall and ceiling decorations havo boon complated. Numbers of elegant ol paintings have been hung in it, and the floor alone romains to be staived and polished. It is an immense room. You could crowd a good-sized two-story house inside of it ana you could turn the biggest Broadway dray loadea vith barrels around in it without touching the walls, It is over fifty feet long and more than twenty feet wide, and it has a great swelling bay window in the side of it which looks out upon Seventeenth street, and from the recesses of which you can get a view of Farragut square. The ceiting is, 1 judge, about fifteen feet high. It is punted a deli- cate cream which warms into a pink dusted with gold as it meets the side walls of pale blue and siver. These side walls are of a beautiful imported paper of silver flowers on this pale blue ground, and the gencral effoct of the roon is 4 most harmonious one. Thero is nothin gaudy or extravagaot in its make- np. The chandeliers arc of brass and the lobes upoii them did not cost, I venture, more than 50 cents apiece, thovigh thoy har- monize perfectly and are beautiful. Tho fire- placo in tho ond of the dining room is of wood puinted a rich creaw, and on the right and the left of this, facing the door, are two beautiful statues of whito marbio of Paris and Achitles. These stand on pedostals of black marble, and they catch your eyo as you enter the room. The pictures on the walls aro fine oil paintings aud most of them were sent on from California for this room. Sena- tor Stanford has not seon the room’ as yet, and he mivo orders for its construction before she left Washington for California, enator Stantord’s Dinuners Thero are many diniug rooms in Washing- tou which have ¢ost wore than that of Sena- tor Stanford’s, but 1 doubt if thero are any which will be so effective or in such good taste. 1ford is a rich man, but he does not believo in - extravagance or in the gaudy display of his wealth. He hus the best of everytbing, but he wastes nothing. Heis very charitublo and yery freo with his money but his tastes are simple and he spends but little money for mero show. Tho dining table 1 this dining room is of plain mahog- any and you might find one equally as fine looking “in the house of a well-to-do mer- chant. The chairs ave of simplo patteru cushioned with red leather and would cost, | udge, loss than §10 apicce, Tho tavle 1s vory Awall for so large a room, but 1t is plenty big enough for the senator's fumily and hoe has a pln of exlarging it at will so that iv will ac- commodate as large a number of guests as can be served in the white house dining room. ‘T'his enlarging will be done by means of foldinz leaves of white pine which have been stuined to the color of mahogany. These leaves are made of borrds about four- teen iuches wido and about five feet lon, and they are so put together that they can be screwed to a frame work ana placed right over tho smull dining table, and then being supported at the ends by temporary logs they form a new dining tablo resting on and over the old. Tho table cloth wiil come to tho tloor aud on such a table Senator Stauford can entertain fifty-two guests at dinner at one time. By this additional table or cover being made of sots of folding leaves bo can make it as large or 23 smail as ho pleases and have the table to suit his com- pony. An interesting thing in conpection with the new dining room 1s the butler's pantry. This ruus along the side of che room and is 30 coustructed that it would be the dehght of any housewife. It is about twenty-five feev long and twelve feet wido and it has shelves of white pino as beautitully made as those of the hibrary and enough in number to hold the dishes of a good sized china store. There are two dumb waiters which go from the kitcliens below to this pantry aud in one side of 1t thero is & sk for the washing of dishes which s as big as the largest foot bath and which has & draining board all Around it 5o that the whole 15 as big as the wp of a baby’s crib, This draining board is of stained pine and everything connected with the room is as clean aud as neat as a pin. Some of the finest ginuers in Washington are given by Senator Stanford. He does not give a great many nor does he entertain many people at a time, The first dinner that President Harrison took outside the white- house was at Stanford’s table, At this time the whole country was ansacked for novel ties and though ‘it was Mebruary Senator Btanford bad some rare California cherrios 1o place before his guests, These are gotten by express and the great part of the fruit and the wine used at tho senator’s table comes from California. Flowers snd groens are sent across the continent aud floral pieces are mado up there and are shipped here with sponges attached tothem and with airections 10 express messeugers to water them on the way. All of the nuts that the senator uscs come from his own farms and ho serves Caiifornia olives to his guests. These come from South California and are sent in kogs. They are of tho choicest variety of course, Ibis the same with the wines, Many of those served at his table como from his own vineyards and thoued he always has one or two foreign wines ata dinuer he believes in the uso of home products and he is making gt improvements in fruit aud wine oulture. ot long ugo ho brought two of the most noted champague makers of France to Cali- fornia aud he employs them there in making champagne. These men are studying the California grapes and are devoiing them- salves to the production of a fine California shampague. Some Noted Dining Rooms. Mr, John R. McLean is buildiog anim- moose diniog room at the back of his bix the corner of Sixteenth and K st {ongs to Senator Hale's mother-in-law, house will probably bo open this winter. decorators are now fn it. It is the bigeest house in Washington and probably the most expensivoone, 1t must cover aguarter o acre and it has enough windows for a bi male seminary. 1t is a groat oblong, building of cream brick and drab stone with a_semi-circular ontrance in the middle facing Sixteenth streot, ‘This entrance has beauti- ful decorations in the way of stone columns and the whole house 15 tasteful to an ex- trome. [t cannot have cost less than $1. 000 and 100ks a8 though it muy have cost sev- eral times that wmount. A little further up & Wi house 1s Scott’s Circle a ack from which on Knodo iue Prosident Morton lives. Hdr is anoth er big aining roo. which Mr. Morton built ospecially for his Washington ainners, It was finished at the opening of tho last con: geress und it has cost much more than tho di ing room of Senstor Stanford. It was stated the time it was built that it cost something like £40,000, 1t nas o ceiling ot panelled oak which meets tho side walls in an arch-shaped cove and below which rising from the loor is a high wainscotting. ‘The plastor between these 18 docorated in red and tho designs for it and for the onk carving woere wade especially for the vice prosident. The mantelpioce in the Stanford dining room could bo built, I should think, for joss thun $100. That in Vice Pros ident Morton’s must havo at icast a thousana. [tis of carved oak with a great mirror over it and it has a fire-place in which you could roast an ox. ‘The bay window at the sido of the dining room 1s another feature. 1t is made of enormous shoots of plate glass and of mosaic glass which were especiaily mode for Mr. Morton for this purpose. Tho floor is inlaid in patterns and the culinary arrangements of the ostablishment are like those of a hotel. Tho kitchen is walled with tiles of white chiina and the ashes ure car out of the house by a small railway. Dining Rooms in Mahogany. Somo of the best dining rooms of Washiug- ton are those of privato citizens. Tho bouse of Mr. John Hay, the author of tho Life of Lincoln, is ono of the tinest at the capital, Its interior decorations are i the finest of carved woods. ‘P0o hall is in South Amer cau white mahogany, and at the right of this as you enter the front door, just opposito a groat five-place, is a diting room of red ma hogany. This is panclled and wainscoted in this wood, and tho waluscoting contains biocks big enough to make the most beautiful oftico desk you have ever . Great ma- hogany rafters cross eacn other over your head, and the supports of these are carved columus of mabiogany. Out of a red mauog- any alcovo you look through plate glass win dows out unon Sixteenth street and Lafay- ctte park, and at tho end of the room facing the door there is a great fire-place as big as that in Senator Paimer's 812,000 log cabin near Detroit, which is surrouniied by a man tel wonderful in its carving and which has ingle-nooks at the sides, where vou can sit and toast your feet before the couls. Senator” Sawyer has o beautiful dining room in his big brown stono house on Cou- necticat avenue, It is liko that of Jehn Hay in that it is inlaid with mato, nels, but it hus a frieze of paintings in oil in which cupids and pea-fowls are playinge togethc above the bald hoad of the seuator as he cats, The ceiling is beautifully panelled and the room is decorated with rare bits of fine china and plate. It is lighted with lamps of erystal and wrought silver and its hangings were of peacock blue during a part of the timo thav the senator has entertained in it. Mrs, Senator Hearst's dining room willnot be open this winteras she is in mourning, It was finished last year and itis a beauty. The room is flnished in the style of the Datch re naissance and the woodwork is of woll smoicd old oals. ‘I'he ceiling is pancled and the walls are covered with stamped loatuer. “The dinmng table is twenty-six feet loug or it may be extended to that lengih and tho whole apartment is sombre in tho exiremc. In addition to this thoro is a suppar room in the basement for use during receptions and this is furnished in California redwood and its floor is of fine mosaic. fooms with ifistories, Many of the big diniug rooms of Washing- ton are rooms with histories. The walls within which Postmaster Geaeral Wanama- ker washes down his becfsteal with ico wa- terand cold vea have held ail the belles and beaux of Washington fora goueration. It was in it that Tilhe Frelinghuysen and hor father entertained President Arthur whou the gossip was tnat the president was to mar- Ty thoe anughter of his secrotary of stato, it had dist ors beforo Irelinghuy- otary Whitney made it the social center of the Cleveland adminis wation. It was ho who gave theroomn its decorations which it has to a large extent to- day. He made the woodwork of ehony black and hung its walls with brocaded satin of rich oid red. He had gorgeous tapestries hung on the walls and his sideboard spavkled with silver. His tables were loadud witn champagne to a grewter oxtoni than M. Wunamaker's ave loaded with appolinaris and his recoptions wore gayer and his diners equal if not superiorto thoso of Postmaster General Wanamaler. Just across Lafayette square within a stone’s throw of the white house in_ an old fashioned mansion of the color of Jersey cream lives Don Cameron of Pennsylvania. His house is the old "Paylor mansion “and its aining room has entertained all of tho states- men and diplomuts back to the days of Henry Clay. General Winfleld Scott was dined in it and Duniel Webster often stuck s legs under 1ts mahogany. Just next to it is Blaine’s houso which was a famous place of entertanment when Commodore Rower: owned it and the dining room which Blaino uses for his diplomatic dinners was uscd by Secretary Seward when he was at the head of the state department under Lincoln. Tho dining room is on the ground floor and its walls uro bung with crimsoa tapestry and the sidevoard is of old ouk. The chairs aro upbolstered in ved leather and with Blaine atthe head of the tablo the dinners aro always u success. Dantel Wobster gave his big dinners within a stone's throw of where Blaine now holds forth. He lived beyond his means and though he did his own marketng he was always i debt. The house he had while ho was secretary of state was the Corcoran man- sion on tho north side of Lafayettosauare,and Mr. Corcoran’s autograph letters showed that Webster borrowed largoly from him. Foster and Secrotary Foster has rented the house which Senator Payne occupied just opposito the Portland flats on Vermont avenue. His diniug roow is at the back of the house and it looks out on beautiful lawn. The secre- tary is rich aud he will probably entertain cousiderably this winter. Just bolow lim lives Senator McMillan o Michigan, in houso which ho paid $50,000 for, and 'which is beautifully imshod in overy respect. All of the justices of the supremo court are en- tertainers and the dining room of the supreme court justice is more important to uim thao his parlor. Senator Evarts had a boautiful giuing.roow in- his house on iho corner of Sixtesnth ang KK streots and he gave many stag dinners in it Heis noted s an entortainer and during his term as oary of state he spent four times as .o a5 bis salary in keoping up his table, Shermar bas a very plain dining room 1 his K street house. Liko Senator Stan- ford ho gets ull his preserves from his coun try home and Lo gives mauy dinners and good ones, FRANK G, CARPENTER, A R How to Frustrate Check Forgers. Talking of check forgeries, some corre- spondents of a financial paper have been suggesting diforent plans for proventing the “raising” of amounts on checks One is to udapt the color of the check for the amount that is drawn upon it, using one color for sums under (wo figures, another for sums under two Agures, another for sums under three figures, another for sums under four figures, and different tints for different thousands. But a systom is already in vogue in rmany which works well in practice, and has theadditional advantage of sim- plicity. At the edge of all checks a lable of amounts is printed, and before issuing a check the drawer is expocted to tear off all amounts, above that for which the check is drawn. — No household is complets without a case of Cook’s Extra Dry Imperial Champagae. IUs the best sparkling wine wade, teenth stroet from littlo furtior Island avenue cost herman. GOLD HILL'S CHEAP METHOD OF MINING. Wonderful Water Amid Wyon sure - Stored Hills, w De oped ng's Trea- . Carbon County, Wyo., Nov. 27, of Tur Bee.| ARATC 1Special correspondence When Colonel 8. W. Downey came back here tho first of the weck on his way home to Laramie from Gold Hill, he was more sau guino than over tho prospects for a suc- cesstul test in tne operation of the Edison systumn for working the mines there by elec- tricity as doscribed in fast Sunday's Ber. During his visit to the camp the colonel took special pains to study the water supply for power and purpose. Lu the neighborhood of his stamp mill just faishing on Avasir lake, Colonel Downey had surveys mado that show conclusively that suflicient water power can be developeda to run dynamos that will operato many stamps besides furnishing light and power for the mines that ho is working, Puree lako Arastra, Nioba 1 Loman, can be tapped to furnish a wator supply. A survey alroady made shows a 150 foot pressure, but this can be casil to over 200. One of these natuzal reservoirs, Lake Leman, can be utilized for water stor ago and to an extent that enormous pressure can bo developed. The lake can be raised more thau fitteen foet and at a trifling cost 10 hold water for wintor use. Arastra Creek, that flows into the lake of the same ame and aot far removed from the mill site, is @ typicel mouutain stream that thunders down thoslopos and ioaps over precipitous iffs, all the while gaining in forco. By d verting the waters from these natural storago resorvoirs the volume and power of the stroum can b greatly ivereased. But whilo Cole nel Downey 1s satisfied that ho can comman 1 abundant water power to ate his own mill and work the group of wines in the immediate vicinity that he con- trols, his plan is more wide reachiug than If the Edison system proves prac and of that heis conviuced, the colonel's intention is 1o organize u company that shall furnish light and power 1o work ail the mines in the Goid ili district and treat their ores, o corry out such & project soms contral poiut must be selected where great water power can be secured. F'rom past and recout investizat ous and actual surveys such a lo cation has been tixed upou. Thatis on the Puuriot placer claim, situated on botn sides of South Brush creek, ana extonding 1,120 fect bolow the junction of Gold Kun creuk with the Brusi and G660 teet above. This claim, embracing fifty-five acres, immediately adjoins the Bouanza placer, and to the south of it,that forms part of what 1s known as tho Greenville townsite, the lower camp in Gold Hill, where is located the prosent and oniy postoftice in the district, calied Gotl. A mill site has veen graded on the Patriot, where ten or more stamps are o beset up i the near future, To furnish water for the boi plates, ete, of the vrojected mill, u diten b beea surveyed that will give a 132-foot pres- sure. For the purpose named this diteh was 1o be only two and a haif feot wide ana thr feet deep, but it could ve so enlargad as to take out all the water of Brush creck and in- crease both the volume aud powor to a wot- derful degree, In addition to this, it has been shown a survey made within the past few days that orth French creek, o considerable strean and of wreat fail, cun bo tarned into_South Brush some distauce above the Patriot aitch, This would bean easy and pioze of engineering, only involving the con- struction of a ditch about half a mile long and the estimated cost not to exceed S0 favorably impressed wuos Coloviel, Dowuney by the opportunities and natural wd- vantages possessed by the Patriot water power tha he has made overtares to Greane Bros. & Co., who own these rights, looking to an allianée. of interests and concortea - m The cha s are, though, that the Greenes will either carry out such a project on their own hook, else make an efforc to vn list capital to aid them, It must not be these plans, as re 1z Bre, avo in has been demonstrated to enlist thi co-ope tion of capitalists and so much_encouruge ment has Colonel Downey met with that it merely a question of a short time whey a practical test wiil bo made. In order to pre pure the miners and sceure concerted actiou among_them and such concessions as aro requisite in making a test, the colonel ui folded to them his plans in pact at u miners weoting held last Friday nieht at Gold Hill, In a carefully propared address delivered on that occasion and trcating of matters that were common to them all, Coionel Downey made these observations : “The starting of this first stamp mill 1s an important event in tue history of the camp. While it is not a lurge one, it inaugurates vhe waork of develepmont aud ‘places the district ou the list of producers, thus elevating it to o position of importance in the eyes of the min iui and commereial bodies of the country- re is no apparentreason why thora snould. nov be 100 stamps runuing in this district by the st of September next, and within thrce years 500 stamps. ‘'hat_a consummation so desirable 13 not only possivle but protablo is due no less to the presence of iuexhuustibie bodies of ricn ore than to the adyant provided oy nature for their development. The wagnificent forests that darken the slopes of theso nills offer at your very door all the timber that could bd dosired for a great mining camp, Thers are thousauds upon thousands of acres of 1t and probably the domand of gencrations to come will not exhaust it, as the only timber that will be needed, in all liketihood, will be for timbering up the mines and for building pu-poses. This appoars to be a solf-eyident proposition when we consider the 1mmeasurable power available i our lakes and streams, a power so vast that it 13 no exaggeration to assert that it would suftice to run by means of electric motors all the stamp mills that could be put in during the pext ten years, though & continuou: porcession of wigons laden with machivory was_marching from the manufactories to Gold Hill. In illustration of what may be done by weans of the electric motor aud to demon- strate the fact that lightning is our power, that all the eloments will contribute to our success, let me cite the following data ob- tained from the kdison Feneral Klectrio cotpany oDy, Colo, Oct. 10, 1301, —To CoLoLeL S, W. Dowxky, Luramis, Wyo.: Doar Sir— In accordanco With your request, wo submit to you the following approximate estimate for un_elactric power transmission plant for running your mill noar Saratoga, Wyo. : * It 15 assumed that you will build founda- tlons for dynamo und” motor, furnish poles distributed along the line, and do aay neces- sary work i the way of cloaring away tim- ber or brush from the line. With theso ox- ceptions, we are to furnish ail apparatus and wmaterial and set up the entire plant, includ- ing line work, operate it two weoks and turn it over to you in complete running order. lo develop fifty horse power on motor pulley for running a mill the following plaut will be required ++0uo 6o kev. 1,000 voit dynamo with base frame, regulator, ampere meter, volt meter, lightning arrestors, switches, bus bars, cables and station material, *:One 45 kev. (50 H. P.) motor with base frame, starting rieostat, ampere meter and lightning arrestors. ‘The necessary line work from dynamo to motor a distance 0f two miles. + +The avove plant complote will cost about 7,000, This estimate does not include the ndcessary water powerto run the dynamo. *We should be glad at any time to investi- gate this question more carefully and mako you a definite proposal for whatever plant you may decide upon. Hoping to hear from you again in regara to this mattor, we romain,'yours very truly, Eisox GENERAL ELECTIRIC COMPANY, Per livixe HaLe, Agent.! * “There are points on North and South Brush crecks where 400 and 500 horse power can easily be obtained from the natural flow of the streams. By putting in motors, this power can be reaaily transmitted to thé vari- ous mines now or at any fulure time to be developed, so that thore by 1 moment in tance and mét being obliged use any fuel, our oros ea not o excee £1.50 per ton Lo galn'te the importent part theso streams play in the future of the camps that encircle the mountain, does there not seam to have been sonte design in the oporation of nature by whioh tho mineral disteict was mado the heart of the water subply of catire surrounaing region, the fouutain hoad of the streams withou?, which the treasuro hidden in these ¥auits of nature's own con- struction would bé as unattainable as though it was stored in the mountains of the mooni I'he snows that have been thrown over the great hill like a winding: the Creator’s own time the gold secker from discovering its secrots, now melt and trick down to form North Brush creek, \vlllll Brush croek, the Modicine Bow, Pass or Rock ereok, Mill creek, Douglus creck, L ooy, French, the North, South and Middie forks of the Little Luramie, and other streams, that make possiblo the recovery by man frem this mountain the silver and gold that havo lain thore for ages, to be given to the world atits highest stage of civilization and wne the precious metal would be more necessi and more potent for good than at auy othe time in m s history ! Does it not seem that when the old Snowy, whose burden of wealth long remuined undiscovered, begins to pour forth her stroams of sil that wero frozon in her rock-ribbed fast- nesses before the shining seraphim placed on guard at the gates of Eden and th sentence of aeath was passed on the human race, we may believe that the dawn of the millenium and the _pardon Adam’s seed 1s not far oftf * You who have attacked theso ranges to wrest from them the treasures of hich pre-Adamite sultans only dreamed, would do well to_ondeavor to realize the ex- traordinary power with which mau is tods ondowed. " 1f hie has explored the plains be- neath the ocean’s billows, counted the stars that whiten the remotést portion of the celestiat sphero, weighed the planots, spanned the carth with lines of stecl and oven analvzed the nction of the brain which in three minutes’ time witnessed in a dream tho detailed events of three years' life, what have you to fear in the task you have under- taken if you brine to bear upon it in connec tion withi the means afforded you by modern science, all the energy and force of mind you possess. *Tho crystul stroams whose musicis almost within our heuring cuablo you to command itning and with itas your co-worker to oxplore these biils to their innermost denths, to discover in each picee of quartz the minutest trace of gold, to lift it to tho surface and separate it from the parent rock and to mould into oricks and send forth for coinage aud n caveer of usefulness tho metal that is loviiest of all in the eycsof men, whether it 1s dust in the pan, money that secures life's comlorts, tho ornament worn by the woman you love, or the decoration of an altur devolda to the worship of Him who stored it in tho buls He created and sus- pended amid the clouds ana the blus mountain mist."” AlL these preparations for mining on alarse scale mean somotbing. They show, if noth- ing else, that the claim owners have conti- denee in toeic properties and intend to wet out tho or would doubt Colonel Downey’s intention to push things. He has somo valuavle claims that are fast attaining thodistinction of being worthy the nume of wines. His ton stanp mill be ready to start up somewhers botween the 1st aed 10th of Stamps would begin dropping before that save that Superintendent “Jack'’ Martin1s_a conscientions milling as well us mining man and his contidence m Gold Hill is so great that ue won’t tuke any risks through ~which & mistako might be made and the first clean-up fail of being an honest and prudent oue. ‘Therefore the ma chinery will all huve to be in first class shapo and all needful proparations made baforo the stamps_ begin pounding away on the wold- studded quartz. The showing that will be made at the end of a thirty day's run will be agood ono. It will bo e bast advertise meut there could be for the district, ‘I'he ci will be but one of a series of many to followv. Superiutendent Martin isn'ta visionary man and when he says tho run will average $400 a day for the ten stamps ho comes pretty near sizing itup. But shoald the amount be no wmore than $200 o duy that is a big thing, Meanwhilo worl is being vigorously prose- cuted on the clains wiose outputs are 10 be run through themul on Arastra lake. tlalf a wile from there is the Leviathan claim on which a sbaft 103 feet deop was sunk. Iv1s jocated on thoe slope of a high hill. Golng down the hifl eigbly feeva tunnel was sturtea that had beon driven fifty foet that taps the vein and shows a better grado of ore than that in the shaft, and averaging twelve feet in width, By the time the tunnel reaches a point below wl ere the shaft was put down a dopubeof )0 feet will bo artained. With this amount of ore in sigut tho ten stamps could be supplied. Tnere is already a largo quantity on the dump and it runs from $20 to 810 to the ton in old. A good road Lias been built from the Lovithun down to the mill. On the Wyoming claim a shaft has been erocted so that work thero can’t be mterfored with by the storms that will s0on bewin to come thick and fast and the snowfail be onov- mous. Ov bins are also building. A depth of forty-five feet has been attained in the shaft that was put down along side the vein from which quartz can b picked off contaio- ¢ gold nuggets of good sizc. When “down thirty feet, in uddition to the lead proper, a streak of crevice matter about two wuches 'wide came in. Tuis in- creased in width until now it averages about threo foct wi Tho gaugo and crevice matter prosvects rich. Tho distance from the Wyoming to the miil 1s throo-quar- ters of a mile, buta good road has been con- structed with a favorable grade so thut ore can b easily huulod. Surprises have been so frequent in cme and Laksesido claims on Mineral right near the Gresne towasite that it takes a good deal to excite the miners, cs- pecially as regards new discoverics on tho Acme.” A week ago Greeno Bros & Co. broke with a Massachusetts outfit b cause the repsentatives of tho latter wonid not fultill their contract for the immediate erect- ion of u stump mill. Immediately after that, n running the Acmo tunnel and when in ubout 130 foet rich veiln was cut. This s owed four feet of quartz aud decomnosed ledsw mattor that pans well and is evidently rich. On the strength of this new discovery an of- fer has been mado to put in a stamp mill by people who will take their pay from the pro- s of the clean u Iu tunueling distance of 145 feet or thereavouts, for dis- tinet streaks or gashes of quartz and gange from three to sixteen inches wide, and rich in mineral havo been cut. ‘These feeders, as they are called, indicate a big lead, whose value as yet can’t even be estunated, but will audoubtedly prove rich. On the Lakesido when the tunuel had been drivon fifty feot a contact was discovered thag dins into tho mountair Severalsmall scams have also been cut in going 140 feot. Botk the Acme apd Lakeside tunnels show work that wouid bd togarded as creditable 1n any mining camp. kvery foot is timbgred, At the mouth of the Acme and all the way through are piles of quartz and crovice mat- This is superior to thut taken from the fifty-thres toot shutt nud on @ mill run of ) pounds of whith §2¢ in gold wus ob- ned carly this month. The Gold Hill disteict will soon have a secona postoftice and av the upper camp near the Downey will. At a miner's meeting fow days ugo thoy devided to name 'ho new one Altamont, they pthor being christened Gold by the postoBica department Gronae F. et —— Patronize Home industry, and specify in your purchases that you want goods mavle in " Nebraska factories ‘and pro- duced by Neor n soil. All whiskies and spirits of any kind manufactured by Ile Co, and the “Willow Springs distillery arve made in the state and from Nobraska grain, consuming #,0) bushels par duv., losist upon your dealer furnishing homo g004s; they are equal to the best and cost no more.’ Assist home ingustries. - Birney cures catareh, Procrastination. “Did yor father lick yer, Jimmio!" the Hill now Canis, Dr. Bee bldg. Puos: “Yop. “Did y Yep.' “Phen what yer “Ah—h-h-1 pants on r put tho jography io yer punts!” eyin® inft fur wvo Umo to get me - - Fine as silk—Halier's Gurman Pilis, b treated for 0 three and a half inches in width | mado | the | teet, to appal until | und wold | ghag suits you, you eantsave of | mountain | our season's HOUSE-CLEARING IN MID-SEASON. clothing dealer finds his lots broken, that is, all sizes, all cuts and all the lot. We may hay very heavy season's trade has brol { out this week. Your selection she | A FAKE SALE. Our rec | pride is to maintain that record. | FIRST FLOOR ‘ On the 's we have placed all It you and cut bout one low front tab) | the broken lots of Men's Suits | can find your size in the cloth | quarter of the former | price of the suit. | On another table we extremely place all our odd suit pants and broken lots. The prices | were from $2.50 to 9. We make them about one fourth less, THIRD FLOOR— MEN'S OVER The brokeu lots in partment have also been sc zular lots | tod0 and all the COATS, our overcont de- ated from The sizes run from 33 difierent styles are t Corner DI\HO\D Southwes DETER A, SARPY Taken From His Mother's Grave He Wore it Till His Death, TRANSMITTED TO J. STERLING MORTON. Strange Story of the Jewel and How Its Owner (e Its Burial 1 Resaer Fuature G reel tion for nerations. “The following story of the famous Peter A. Sarpy is related by Hon. J. Sterling Morton. Mr. Sarpy was one of the old-timors of the territory, for whom Sarpy county was med, The beautiful bluffs that rise so majosti- cally from the Missouri at Bellevue, on that summer day looked, while the dew lay still upon them, like a string of gigantic emeralds just fallen from the clouds. The air was still and supreme solitude locked the landscape in hazy, drowsy rest. Colonel Peter A. Sarpy mot me up baclk of the old mission house, by the grave of the great Omaha chicl, Big Elk, that inorning. He was buogant and his eye glistened with the exuberance of health and good spirits, Ho was dressed neatly, and upon s broast I noticod, for the frst time, solitaire diamond, which gleamed and tlashed with striking brillianey. “Colonel,” said I, “you have been adding to your jewels,” and, looling steadily at the gew, *is that something new £ “O no, my friend,” said he, “that is old, very old, and I will tell you about it if you will liste: id what is to come of it in the nereafter, if you will.! Signifylng my assent with groat alacrity, Colonel Sarpy proceeded as follows “Many, many y s ago, when St Louis village, my good Catholic mother died ¢ God vest her soul in peace-in that We children followed her remains to the comotery and laid them quietly in tho grave and wept until ouv eves wouid weep ho move. And then shortly after I came up nere to Neb I among tho Indians to trade and my brothor, John - B,, remained im St SO Ubatton yosrelngollimarki dowltols Louis 10 purchase £0ods and ono aftornoon after I had beon there scveral days my brother said: *Peter, I want to you privately in the counting room to talk about the dead,’ and so 1 went in and Jobn B, suid: ‘Peter, this city 1s growing very rapidly, It is stretching out to the south and the west and the north It needs more room and the old graveyard where our another is buried Tmust bo given up We must move her ro- town. see it togotner whilo you ure here. We will do it tomorrow. “And so the very next day we went out to mother's grave and carcfully we brought the coflin to the light and hfted it up tenderly on to a biel 1 was sadly decayed. It looked liko punk wood. ¥he top was moved a littlo to oue side and 1 eould not restrain a desire took in. As I did lock the suniight streamed ymothing gleaning there. At embered the diamond which my mother had always worn and which nad been buried on ber breast, and 1 roached in and took it out, and this is it which you see. It i3 mine, and wheu these bright days como feol young again, and rememboridg my mother I put it on and wear it, for it makes me a better man, It is a charm, sir, und th memories which it brings to mo'are’ brighter and ricner and more precious than all the gems 1 tho world, for *thoy aro the sacred recollectious of a Christian mother, a hoiy woman, whose teachings were purer than any diawonds that ever glowed. “And now, while mon think } am nothing but an old Iidian vrader who sees nothing in the futuve, who believes iu no destiny for this beautiful Neoraska ot ours, I kuow, si that not many vears will come and go befo 1, too, will be called to auother lifo in another world, And thon these fertile lands, the vast plains will have been led up and | sh | somewhere in this Missoori valley, perhaps in sight of whore wo now stand, a great city 1l have-been built up and there will ever 10 over goup the humof contonted industr, Then [ muy bave boenin my grave muny vears, and with me will have rested in dark- uess this gem. Aud having uo ehildren. no kismen, s tho land fills up with ma | poople aid the cities grow, very likely some day thoy will ¢ 1o you us they did to s’ John about our’ mother, and say : ¢, sir, your old friend, Peter A, Sarpy, is in the way. The city noeds room, sir, and you must take bis old bonos away.’' And if s0. do it; do it decenily y, as [ Kknow you will, but remember this diuinond Peop futo my old coffin. 1t is A pure gem, fivst water, and will _surely flash wheneve your oyo can seo. Then you reach in—1'll bo still—and snateh the diamond out aud put 1t on and wear it. +“Tho yoars will roll on and the pooplo will still flood in and this shall bo ouo of the graudest garaens of the world and ou will nave grown old, too, aud “become a citizon of somo great cily, away out on what we now call the plains, snd then death wil! rap at your door aud you, too, will come 1uto that othier lifa in that world, ‘Tell your boys to bury this with you, But not many years mov vo followed the trail of thoso which have already gone nto the shudowy hunung tands before the boys will be called upon by the authoritics o BOYe your bones also. You will have gotten in the way, 00, and they'll toll the boys to work old man move him and make room f city of the plains. Tell the boys when the time _comes to reach into your coftin and axain take to giistening jewel out from tho gravo. T oldust to put 1t on and wear it, and be buried with it too, leaving instructions for its resur- potion aguin “Aud 50, sir,wo'll keop this dismond ght stone is BROWNING, mains to auother resting spot, and we will do | other | will | ken some of our lots uld be made early. ord is in your re [exeept ulsters]. ys and chinchill IS NO JUGGLING They are in L kers th but a straight mark trimmed overconts that the fur on them alono is worth the price wo ask for the garment, SHCOND FLOOR CHILDREN'S DEP'T. The merking down has been done the same manner on and odd gavments children’s garments, There are only a few of thoy must be in lots and the broken nong our boys’ taken advantage of ear! KING & CO »18th and Douwglas. Yoring amone tho genorations to come. It all be buried and raised and worn ana buried agaio, until finally it shail be buried for the last time away off '1n somo of thao i auds of the Pacific, whom the wost shall | nave beon found and scttled in full, and | nally perfectea. I tell you, sir, this cry for ‘Room, more room,’ for tho living, for” the many people, for tho wreat cities, will never cease. And le. this diamond go on from grave to erave, from generation to generation, rleaminy and flashiie forover astarin tho shiold of one who shall always be a pioneer in the van guard of progress and ewvilization,” Colonel Sarpy stopped his spoech and in ilence we waiked to tho old trading post But there was the clement of vrophecy and tho irresistible power of prescience in that summer & talk of Colonel Sarpy which makes it sing in my ears and thrill in my veins even unto this day. He looked 1mto the future as iutoa mireor and saw the face of today and tomorrow as clearly and plainly as a child sees trees and flowers sbadowed in a pure brook. ; S Dr. Birney cures ¢ Bee bldg. OF OTHER DAYS, iniscences of O1d by a Veteran. After an ebsenco of tweaty-five yeors I re- tly paid a visit to tho spot where the above named laud-mark once stood. The post was abandoned about twenty years ago, and were it not for tho few big cottonwood trees still standing around tho parade ground 1t | would be impossivle to identify its former site, wire fences, cornflelds and groves hay- ing almost obliterated overy trace of what was onee au important stratogic point on the vlams. Fort Leavenworth, Fort, Kearney, | Fort Lavamio and Fort Bridger stood for many years as sentinels guarding the ereat overland mall and emigration route between the Missouri viver and Salt Lake. Considering its former prominenco aud importance I hay often thought the government oughtto place Interesting R Ke each kind so | there meltons THERI With figu down from our former very low prices. | There are among these about forty fur As the scason advances every colorsof a certain cloth are not in your ~w in asack suit Iun not in a cutaway in the same cloth or vice versa. Onr s a couple of months earlier than wsual, Hence this EXCEPTIONAL CLEARING 0UT SALE On the three floors where our separate departments are situated we have placed the *0dd Lots” on | separate tables and marked them so as to ciear off the tables this week WE NEVER HAVE ADVERTISED e e— e s ————— ollection, and our, [he goods can't possibly last OUR CHRISTMAS GIFT. We havo procured a numbor of handsome picture story | th we propose to give away our Children’s dopirtment. OUR SUNSI NI aper covered, handsomoly illustrated, o book, printed on tnted paper in large, clear type; oviginal storics and original illus- trations, Prescnted of $2.50 in with avery purchase PHE BASY BOOK 240 pagos, 126 storios, 27 trations, beautifully bound boards, * cloth b illum COV heavy tinted paper, lont pross worlk. HOME PIOTURIE BOOIK, 240 pages, 126 stories, 270 trations, printed and bound in same stylo as “The Ensy Book. Choice of cither of the above with each purchase of $5 worth of any kind of goods in the Children's department. illus- in ated xeel illu tho mples of these books may bo in our show winaows, Any of titts books will mako a neat und Iu~|m-r( bristmas present, - B—Wo wore only able to whLs reh Kind, them to Tust m NADAME A, RUPPERT sAYS ““Any lady ean haye o perfeet compleyion procure o not expect by the use of my Face Bleach,” Madame A, Huppert‘s'Faco Bleach Can be used alife time without har . foot, thouih thi Is Saneys ih whep 1o Co g cleirod by remains so. R AL I'reckies, essive redness or ol s blemisiies are quickly eradic 1t does not ke o month, 1o will show wonderful improy One botuie, £2; or three bott es for £, or send 6o for book, “How to Le Beautitu MME. A. RUPERT, 6 Bast 14th S ro. o pinples. blackheads, Bx- i i faet all skin ted by it utina fow days ot, Now Yorlk. For sale In Omaha by my reprosentative, MRS. J. BENSON, 210 Eouth 154t ONM '\II '\ \l‘.l{ 'SKATES @ s S.reot, a monument to mark the place in the center | of the parade ground becauso in a few years 1ts very location will become a matier of con jecturo and dispute. Senators Mandorson and Paddock aro heroby made a special com mittee on the IFort Kearney monument. The land is now owned by a Mr. W. 0. Dungan, an old veteran of the rebellion, who stopped three balls for the Uunion, receiving therefor the princely pension of $12 a month, Mr. Duagan Kindiy accompanica me in my efforts to discover some of the old lines and tand marks. Where tho row of long cavalry stabies onco stood, there is now a heavy growth of cottonwood imber. Not a vestige of any building remans, and it was in vain that we searehed for the exact location of the | sutler’s store As I stood upon its supposed site, my mind revorwed to incidents and scenes of thirty years ago. The little back room (or “the oflicers’ room,” as it was called) was onco more filled with the gonial spirits who used 1o congrogate there, John Heth (peace to tis shes), Dr. G. L. Miller, 1 Robert Mitehell, Jack Morrow, J. ', Boyd, Phineas Burteh, Frank Coffman’and a lous hist of old- timers whom I could namo, living and doad. Just how many “jack pots” were opened in that little old room will never bo known, but it is certain that no similar room iu the west- ern wilds over witnessed mors good follow. ship, to say nothing about pointing morals or adoriing tale BUt pist 18 all its fame!--the very spot Where many a tie they triuniphed 15 forgot! Dr. Miller was appointed sutler in the fail of 1861, succeeding John Hoth, O, P. Hup- ford furnished tho capitul, which cousistod largely of coods bought of Jolin MeCormick at hizh prices and on long time. T conducted the business of tho tirm from 1861 to 1806, auring wiich time the not profits amounted to over $100,000, oxclusive of numerous goy- ermment contracts. “Subtraction, division and silence,” with a little “influence,” wont long way' in those days in procuring con tracts, 1 recall, for instance, one for 2,000 cords of wood ut §20 per cord and another for 500 tons of h “The price paid by the governinsnt for coru ranged from $4 to &1 por bushol. (This is whare the “Greay American Desert” idea camo 1n). [ never wiis ablo to figure out the oxact porcentage of profit in theso ventures, but know the contractors didi't lose anyihing, Joux W. HuGus, Dr. Birnoy cures catarreh, Bee bldg. TORE and puy if satisfied. VON MOML CO, Hole dwmeresn Agents, Clnclnnall, ¥or boos thm WANTED FREE OuTRIT - LADY @ AGEHTS. MER ONLY New, Foultive Kemedy, C1AB b Bo made. ¥, orms, wiiruse . b 0 wnd number of b WA GO, ST LOUIS, M0 REMEW FREE Pro Rellof - Laat T will wend (nowled | £ wufloror,n proseription b winall, weale parts & A GENUINE ML ERADICATOR the wierobe oF germ. Pt up an & slzos, tho lattor 24 kallons Hant nnywh paid on Focelpt of price or G 0. D, | Guarantos to cure. The b by thy Kin | Aea A Molonor, Hwar G waling A, D. | Baykorn | Elis. Coune 1l Bulfs, ROBKE KILL Cures nll diswasos D00AUYS 1L kil 4 rut \llod In 82, 31 Woliaus & trads wnd job Drag Com puny Moyors ani K Fostor, uud M 0y M sk | FREE oot E 10 BO> B()){s AND GIRLS Any boy or girt v sliates froo, Yonditione Ty . WESTREN PEAKL C0 Gonorrhoca. Gie cured fn 2 days by the led the KKINC 1t dissolves ngaiest and 1s ab- ed into the influmod parts. Wil rofund Lt does not cure, or causes stricture I\““ wen, II;'rl' Is a re h\hhv .ll'l‘h'l 1 3 a pickingo. oF 2 for & por mall propaid. MeCor: A e ot Re g tand : ewcorrheon rench Remody entit- N. 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THE NEW COLLAR| N“RK T/f//ur g PEQUOT UNION DEPOT HOTEL, rner 10th and Mason Streots Now bullding, finest loation In thy ity ments: Stoam Heat: Gas: Oall Hells: Hatk i b incotnection; Klectrle and Cably Cara to nny part of the city, Tey us nnd b o vinoed that we hiave the Test hose for the me wast of O 1atos from £,.00 ¢ 0819 o VIGOR OF MEN Ensily, Quickly, Permanently Restored- Wonkness, Nervousneas, Debility. and il tho train Of evla from early OPROmOF INLGT CXCen: tho results of overwork, Bickneas, worey, ete, Full strength, development, and tone glven to every organ and portion ot the body. Bimple, natural ; b ate Improvuiont secn.. Failure mponsible 2000 roferences. Book, explauations Bd provofs mailod (walod) froe, Address. ERIK MEDICAL ©0., BUFFALO N. Y w furnituro, ovory tiing firs Wl uodurn de | CURE FITS! When Luay curo | do ot mean mervly Lo stop them or a tima and thon Lisve them roturn sgain. | mean o 1k 1 tho disoase of FITS, KPL ¥ or PALLING SICKNESS a lifo long study, 1 L my rom worst casce, Bocause othiors have fa 1 {0F 00k BOW Fecolving & cure, Bend at orco for o and & Froo B y infaliible remedy e Go ROOT, vadical cure L) M. Uy 183