Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 31, 1892, Page 3

CHILIAN INCIDENT ECHOES How a Pacific Coaling Station Would Have Been Secured. GENERAL VIFQUAIN'S GOOD SUGGESTION ibly Mave WBeen jlons of the Advantage Would Taken of the Pacific Ste the Bay of Pan; o mahip Compan N Bereav or tae Be 3 FouRTEENTH STR Wasnivaros, D. (0., Jan. Tchoes of an 1nteresting character will bo heard from the Chilan incident every dav, showing that the United States was tn earn- est inits demands for reparation and an apology, and that war was not improbable at pne time. One was heard today. On the 19th inst. Senator Paddock received a letter from Genersl Victor Vifquain, & native of France, now of Lincoln, Neb., in which he made some valuable sugiestions to bo fol- lowed in the eventof more serious troublo with Chili. General Vifquain said in his letter: “The Pacifio Mail Steamship company have in the buy of Panama. within four miles of Pana- ma, an island called Nasi. They have com: plete jurisdiction of it, and it is their base of pupplies for coal, water aud provisions of all kinds, It 15 fully 3,000 miles nearer to Iquique, Chili, thun any of our Pacific posts. Why not crowd coa! and other stuff on that Jsland ostensibly for the use of the Pacific Mail company. Our vessels can call there on their way down, If the matter gets toa fighting point don't forget me as one of the brigadiers of the late war.” % This lotter was referred to Secretary Blaine, and today a reply was received from Acting Secretary of the Nuvy James R. Soley, to whom the letter was referred by Becretary Blaine. General Soloy says: “The suggestions of General Vifquain hiave been read with fnter- est and should circumstances becomo such as to render it advisable to securo a base for supplies for our vessels in the Pacitic tho general's suggestions shall receive due con- sideration.” What It Costs to Fight Claims, Secretary Foster, in his estimates of ap propriations to be made at once by congress in ovder to complete the service for the fiscal year ending June 30 next, recommends the Tollowing appropriations for tho defense of cases brought in the court of claims for Indian depredations under the direction of Assistant Attorncy General Colby in addition to the former appropria- tions: for special attornoy aund assistants to examine, £5,000; tbree special agents for six months, $1,500;" for six months $1,200; one clerk for six months, $600; for railroad fare for agents and attorneys, $4,000; for expenses of agents and attorneys in the fleld taking depositions, etc., $5,000; for furniture and stationery, $1,000; for fees and expenses of notaries ‘and’ commissioners taking deposi- tions on_behalf of the government, $1,000: total, §17,600. An appropriation of #2,000 to enubie (lencral Henry R. Pease, Special ent for the ascertainment of damages to settlers on the Crow Creek and Winnebago reservations in South Dakota to conclude his work is recommended; also $150,000 for the support of Sioux of different trives, and for teleqraphing and purchasing of Indian sup- plies,$10,000. These items were inserted upon the recommendation of Senator Pettigrew. Dividing Yellowstone Park. It is very probable thut congress will find & new way around the objections which have for sfx years or more been urged Against a bill permitting the Montana Mineral Rail- way company to enter the Ycllowstone National park about a dozen miles in the northeast corner to reach Cook City. The most serious objections seem to have been mcked by opposition ruilroad companies who 2id. not. want to see any one 1ino be able to say that it _was the only railroud which entered the Natioval park. The senate cown- mittee on territories has gotten hotd of the question and it proposes to report a bill making no mention of the Montana Mineral Railway company or any other corporation, but to restors to tho public domain what would be, were it in rectangular form, a body of land about eight by ten miles in s1ze. This would place Cook City in public domain and permit any and all railroads to 0 to that city without hindrance. It is be- icved that such a meusure will be accepted by both nouses as it takes railvoad favorit- ism out of the question. This is the solution proposed by Senator Saunders. Miscellaneous, Miss Jennie E. Rogers of Sioux City is at the National, Mr. Woolworth left for Omaha today and Mr. Green for New York. Leave of absence for twenty-three days is granted Captain Aaron S. Appel, assistant surgeon, United States army. r. and Mrs. Russell Harrison will leave tonight for New York, and at the same time Mr. and Mrs. McKee will leave for Boston to spend a week. Mrs. Harrison’s pretty little daughter, Marthens, has recovered from a slight indisposition from which she has suffered since coming to Washiugton and is now looking well and rosy again, Senator Paddock was todsy informed by the weather burcau officials that instructions have been given to havea regular telegrahpic weather station for the compiling of meteoro- logical reports established at Kearney. This will make the third station of this character in Nebraska, The lYnsliummry papers have been for- warded to General Manager Holdrege of the Burlington & Missouri River railroad for the establishment of a mail service on that \ine between Culberton and Wauneta, Neb, 1. H. Sargent was today appointed post master at Walworth, Custer countv, Neb., Smith, resigned, and J. M. Lank at Ida county, la., vice J. V. Savage, ve- Wasimx have been appointed: Frank J. Nespitt at Bozeman, Henry G. Maios ut Billings, Henry M. Barncs at Castle, P 5. H. Woster WABRINGTON, D, C., Jan. 80.—[Special Tele gram to Tie Brs.|—The following list of ponsions granted 13 reportea by Tue B and Examiner Bureau of Claims Nebraska: Original—Jacob Moore, Lewis C. Canter, George B. Darlington, John . Pleery, Silas V. Fisnor, George H. Brooks, Jobn C. Cornhard, Cyrenius Goodnough, Daniel D. Rye. Micuael Felthouser, Witliam W. Henvy, Michael H, Coons.' William Gallick, Charles S, Jackson, William B. Fuller, Jobn D. Gordon, Sam J. Grifith, James Lunsing, Willlam ' A. Bacon, E. H. Caunon, Thomas Blakely, Additional— William Darpell. Widows—Haanah M. 1ons, 1o D. Farny, John H. Baldwin, James J, Henry, Lemuel Black- burn, James P. Camp, Jonn Adams, Jesse C. Allen, Elmer I, Clasp, Silas M. Ferny, Eli C. Dearthurff, Alfred C. Gunzealus, Beuja- win A, Hastiugs, James Grifin, Eli W. Jack, Henry R Gill, Heory Herist, Andrew M. Hart, Richard Jones, James W. Johnson, Kobert Gray, Benjamin Garret, David C. Edwards, Edward C, Coulins, Oliver C. Ful- ton, Leonard Buodle, Samuel Aikey, Harlan Carnahun, James Hawmilton, Robert Downer, Richard Canant. Additional—Stephen Lacy, Stephen J. Gard. lTucrease— B Leon H. McWilliams, E s Original widows—Catharine Brown, Rachel A. Davis, Eliza Fumal, minor of James Itnodes. fe e ulold, An inventor in Vienna has produced a now materiul that combines some of the properties of glass and celluloid. It is made by dissolving four to eight parts of collodion wool (gun cotton) in about 100 parts by weight of ether or alcohol, adding 2 to 4 per cent of castor oil und 4 to 10 per cent of rosin or Canada balsam. The mixture is then dried on a glaes plato at a temperature of 120 degrees, Fahr. The compound soon soldities in- 10 a transpurent sheet, having substan- tially the properties of glass, It resists the action of salts, alikalios and dilute acids, and is flexible. The addition of nu\gnulum choride reduces its inflammability and zine white gives it the appearance of ivory. By increasing the ative proportions of castor oll and resin the toughness and Ppliubility of leather is imparted to the material, and it may even be made into driving belts. sl CLEVER SHORT STORIES. The curtain was down, the house was empty, the last few patrons were strug- gling out of the California theater, and all the lights were out, says the San Francisco Examiner. Chief Usher Wil- liams was coming down the main stair- case when a figure darted past him in the gloom. “Where are you going?”’ he called, and grabbed the stranger by the coat-tails, The man struggled madly, but never uttered a sound. “Wheore in thunder are you going to?” again asked Williams, “Don’t you know the show is over and wo're lock- ing up the house?” And he dragged the man down a fow steps into the light of the lobhy. Moanwhile the in- truder gesticulated wildly, his eyes rolled like marbles, and he hissed at Williams like a snake, Suddenly he bent over to the ushor. “I lost’ my voice,” said he in an almost_inaudible whisper; “left it upstaira. Goin’ up to find it!" Willinms gaped in amazement, let go his grip on the man and followed him upstairs, After a few moments’ rummaging among the seats the stranger stooped down and picked up something. *Found vour voico yet?” called Wil- liams. **Yes, I'm all right now!” The chief usher neurly dropped. The voice- joss stranger spoke with all the metal- "lic resonance of a bassoon. *“'What the dickens is your voice made of anyhow?” he asked as he pilotea the stranger downstairs, “Silv he in the same stentorian ton See, here it is. I must have jerked it out with laughing, and I never missed it till T got outside. He pointed to an urifice at the side of his throat. The metal lips of a canula were gleaming there. Without the metal tube he was silent as the mummy of Rameses I1. of Egypt. e Sanator Squire pluyed a scurvy trick on Senator John B, Allen one time, says the Spokane (Wash.) Spokesman, They were traveling from Washington. It night, and the train stopped at a station in Missouri, where a large. heavy woman entered the sleeper looking for a quire poked his head out between the curtains, and seeing the ponderous lady, ‘Madam. the berths are all taken, but if you wish you can oceupy the one jus under me, where my little boy is sleep- ing.” That was satisfactory to the Missouri amazon, who removed her shoes and then swung round into the bunk. Just about this time the disturbed occupant attempted to rise to see what the intru- sion meant. With one fell swoop of her palm she clapped it squarely over the gentleman’s wmouth, gaving here, little boy, don’t Your father said L could sleep Again the ‘‘little boy” attempted to vise, and this time he managed to say: “*Madame, I want to tell you that I'm no boy,” **Who are you, then?” “Why, I'm Senator Allen from the state of Washington,” he excluimed. “Oh, Lord!” sho yelled, and sprang up and dashed out of the car, exclaim- ing, to the consternation of every one but Squire, “Oh, Lord! what would Hiram say if ho knew?” %" “The slang phrase ‘He didn’t talk turkey’ is one of the oldest in use in this country,” says Manager Al Canby in the New York Commercial, *‘and during a recent trip through the west a relic of the forty-niners that I discovered in a small Colorado town gave me the authentic orgin of the line. According to his story the captain of ono of the last of the prairie schooners to cross the (GreabiDividaiwentslooling Hnlpstinat: ship with a friendly redskin, the under- standing being that they were to divide the spolls at the end of the day. “Evening came und all the mutual game bag contained was a turkey and a . Under the circumstances a fair ision scemed to be ont of the ques- tion, but the white mun insisted that he knew how it could be done. “+Ugh, how do voudo it?” queried the tomahawk tosser. ‘“‘Fasy,’. answered the wily scout. ‘You kin have your choice: You take the crow and I'll take the turkey, or, if you'd rather, I'll take -the turkey and Yyou can take the crow.’ “Ugh,’ sighed the Indian after brief rofloction, * you no tulls turkey to moa bit]”? * *e A group of merry commercial travel- ers were seated in the smoking-room, when suddenly Bodkins volunteered a story of a remarkable find he once had. »When I was a young man,” commenced the irresistible’B, *I wus émployed in a large house in the city, and, as usual with persons of that age, I fell in love with a young lady, and in due course of time was engaged. About two months before our marringe was 1o take place I was suddently sent to Australiu on very important business, occasioned by the deuth of one of the lirm in that country. I took a hasty and affectionato leave of my intended, with the promise to write to each other often, I was detained somewhut longer than I expected, but just before I sailed for home I bought a handsome and valuable ring, intending it as a ‘coming homo’ prosent for my sweets heart. As I was nearing the shore and reading the paper which the pilot had brought on board, curiously enough my eyefell on the ‘marriages,” and there I siw an announcement of her marriage with another—a fellow I knew very well, too—which 8o enraged me that ‘in my passion I threw the ring overboard. A few days afterwards I was dining at this very hotel; fish was served up, and in eating it I bit off something hard, and what do you supposo it was?” “The dinmond ring!” exclaimed sevel *No,” said the merry Bodkins, ‘)m- servill! the sume gravity, “it was a fish- boue.” ~ e The Washington ‘ost says this is Con gressman O'Neill’s latest: Two evicted ribernian tenants ure sianding near the roadside, concealed by a thick hedge from passers-b, Eaeh has a double- barrelled shotgun, loaded with an extra charge of buckshot. The weapons are held in readiness for the tyrannical land- lord, who is expected to go by every min- ute. Both men crouch there with knit brows and looks of dogged deteri ton, Murder is in their heartsand writ- ten in their faces, The minutes ep like snails; the man they mean to ussas- sinute fails to appear, The pale moon rises slowly and custs its heams on the pair, but yet they wait. Hour after hour goes by, and when at last patience gives out aud they decide to wait no longer for their victim, one of them, heaving a deep sigh, observes: “Well. Mike, T hope nothing has hap- pened to him,” » e A belated story of Cardinal Mauning tells of his meetiog, when a priest, with an Irishman whom he besought to take the pledge. “It’s myself would take the pledge, your reverence, if I thought I needed it,” said the son of the Emerald Isle, *but I thougnt the pledge wa. meant for those who took too much.” *Well,” said the future cardinal, by way of encouragement, I have taken the rladxe mysel.” ' “Indeed!” said the rishman, “and did your reverence use to take too much?” e LR l Beechaw's pills cures sick headache. THE OMAHA DAILY. BEE: HE WAS ELECTED BY INDIANS Legal Complications in the Bighth Judicial Distriot, SOME VERY SERIOUS CHARGES MADE Tickets Sald to Have Been Especlally Marked and Peddled Near the Polls in Violation of the Australian Ballot Law, LixcoLy, Heb, Jan. 80.—[Special to Tne Bee.]—A case of more than usual interest and importance was flled with the clerk of the supreme court today. Attorney General Hostings filed an information in the nature of quo warranto to oust W. F. Norris from the district judgeship 10 the Eignth district, the relator being J. C. Crawford. At tho last election Norris recoived a cortificate of elec- tion, he having received on the face of the returns a majority of eighty-two votes. The relator, Crawford, gives the names of 832 Indians of the Omaha and Winnebago tribes who voted at the election, an ho alieges that their votes are illegal and should be thrown out. “'no question arising in this case is whother or not the Indians are citizens within the in- tent and meaning of the constitution, The Omahu and Winnebago Indians have neither abandoned their tribal relations. They are still living on government reservations and are still in charge of the agents appointed by the presigent of the United States, Accord- ing to the information filed in the case by the attorney goneral none of the Indians who voted were electors on the 3d day of Novem- ber, 1891, and were not eatitled to vote. More Serlous Charges. Among other grounds upon which Judge Crawford rests his case is his assertion that the judges and clerks of election deliberately disregarded the provisions of the Australian ballot law. He alleges that'in one precinct in Cedar county the judges and clerks of election all belonged to the farmers alliance and all supported the people's independent ticket, and that on election day they peddled directly from the polls baliots marked as they desired to have them voted. He also alleges that {n Thurston county Juage Norris' namo was designated on tae sample and official bailots as being the ‘republican and inde- pendent” candidate, whereas Norris was not in any mauner whatever a candidate of the repudlican party. The same charge is made in regard to tickets in Cuming couaty. The evident intention was to deceive the voter and mislead him. Can the Indians Vote? The question as to the right of an Indian to voteis an interesting one, and has been Imssad upon by the Nebraska supreme coart. n the case of the state ex rel Fair agfllns:.j hels Frazier ' the supreme court that in order to establish an Indian’s right to citizenship, and bence his right to vote atan eloction in Nebraska, that it must be proven that such Indian was born within the territorial limits of the United States and that an allotment of land in fact has been mado to such Indian by the government of the United Staies. In this case, which was very similarto_the Crawford-Norris case, Chief Justico Cobb held, the other judges concurring, that nono of the Indians on the Winnebago reservation were entitled to vote uuderthe laws of this state. Made a Break for Liberty. Milton Hooler is a vig, burly bad man, and be has given the police enough trouble in the past two days to entitle them to & well earned rest. Miiton was arrested one even- 1ng early in the week for creating a disturb- ance in & questionable resort in this city. ‘I'ne Norfolk suthorities sent word that they wanted him, and he was held bere accord- ingly, yesterday afternoon he was takon before Judge Lausing on a writ of habeus corpus. A contin- uance cf the case was taken until this morning, when the man was released. He was at once rearrested on another warrant. Atrer being placed under arrest he made a bold dash for liberty and only stopped run- cing when several bullets had been fired after him. At noon the city marshal of Nor- folk arrived with a warrant, While walking along the street between two officers be knocked them both down and again at- tempted to escape. After a vigorous chase for several blocks he was again recaptured and triumphantly marched to jail. 0 was taken to Norfolk this afternoon. Geesip at the State House, Articles of incorporation of the Seiler But- ter company, with a cupital of 820,000, were filed today by Thom:zs A. Healey and others. The Demster Mill Manufacturing company of Beatrice fllod amended articles of 1ncor- poration today increasing the capital stock o $200,000. E. Rosewater, editor of Tne Beg, was a state house visitor today. Lioutenant Governor Majors returned to his home in Nemaha county today. A. L. Strang,one of Nebraska's World's fair commissioners, was a Lincoln visitor today. . Governor Thayer this afternoon returned Louis Heimrod’s report as oil inspector un- opened. ‘A largo majority of the county treasurers of the state have made their anuual settle- ments with the state auditor. Treasurer Hill is still unable to perform his usual duties on account of sickness. State Superintendent Goudy is still too sick to be av his office. The duties of the oftice are well taken caro of by Deputy Stey- ens and Coief Clerk Gillespie, Escaped from the Home, Josse Smith, Lee Barrow and Harvey Stull, three young boys who escaped from the State Home for the Friendless last Thursday, were brought back today by Oicer Atwater of Crete. He states that he found the boys on the streets of that city tired, hungry and homesick. They told him that thoy had become tired of hiving at the Homo for the Friendless and had doterminad togo west. They were about 12 years old and were glad enough 1o get back to their comfortable quarters, Hiad His Hand Hurt, D. P. Milliken, & resident of Lincoln and o brakeman on the B. & M. freight train, re- turned today from & trip to Pacific Junction, Ia., minus the thumb and two fingers of his loft hand. His train left Lincoln last night, and while coupling cars at Pacific Junction at 5 o'clock this morning his left hand was caught between the bumpers with the result as stated. Ho was brought to his home in this city this forenoou, Early Morning Fire, The large barn and greenhouse Lelonging to C. D. Mosher at Twenty-fourth and D streets was burned at 1 o'clock this morning. It is believed that the fire originated in the heating apparatus used for muintaining the temperature of the greenhouse, Both build - ings wero totally destroyed. The fire de- partment was unable to cope with the flames as the fire had gained 100 much headway bo fore they arvived. ‘Theioss will foot up to over §1,000, partially covered by insurance. To Be Tested Monday. Water Commissioner Bullock reports that the new South street well is completed and will by tested next Monday, The well is located about S00 feet south of Sixth street aud is fifty-seven feet deep. The water now stands in the well to a depth of fifty-one feet and is practically inexhaustible, Tt is esti- mated that it will furbish 500,000 gallons of water every twenty-four bours aud it is be- lieved that its cowpletion will go u long way toward solving the problem of Lincoln’s water supply. ¥ he Court Rooms. The Fobruary term of the district court bogins Monday witlwover 1,000 cases on tho docket, of which fifteen are criminal and sixty-one divorce, Judge Lansing today mond & judgment of § Sovereian. In a petitica filed with the clerk of tho district court today ¥. W. Little asks that the case against Lim brought by Dave Rowe aod sbree other membvers of Lincolu’s ds fuuct base ball orgavization be dismissed. He bases bis request on the grounds that the plaintiff bad given no security for the costs in the suit. A transcript of the proceedings in the case of the State against Herberts, was filed in the district court toasy. Herberts was ar- rested and tried at Hickmay, tbis county, last December for selling mortgaged prop- twelve ave Charles Ray ) agalnst Charles g o b A8 SUNDA Y, JANUARY = — GG erty, and was bound ovef fo the district court. vl The case of the State agitist Champ was tried befors Judge Borgeltthis forenoon. Champ was accusea of sellingliquor on Sun- day contrary to the laws, ,fi er listening to evidence the judge disiidsed the case. © witnesses relied upon, by the prosecu tion to establish the case did not give the testimony expected of them. State niversity Notes, Seventy visitors rogistérdd during the month representing eight différent states, Tho Microscopic_club Hi& been fully or ganized with Prof. Hartloy'as_ president and Roscoe Pound as secretary, ' Monthly meot- ings will be held in the labkatory of the de partment of botany. Chancelior Canfield has arranged a_series of public band concerts to be givea on the government square by the university band. February 15 is char.er day-and will be ob- served by the faculty and students as a gen eral holiday. Washington Gladden will deliver tho annual address atthe Lansing theater in the evening. The ninth annual Chase & Wheeler orator- ical contest took place at university chapel this evening. The contestarts were as fol- lows: C. K. Fifer, “Balmaceda:” Vesta Gray, “Women Will Vote:" C. C. Marlay, ““The Destity of the Jew:" Euzenia Gotwer, +“Tho Educaiion of the Masses Minnie De Pue, “An English Poet.” The judges were Chabeellor Caufleld and Profs. Butes and ug. Odds and Ends, Prof. Hunt of the State university had his valvablo beaver overcoat stolen last night. The electric clevator in the new Lansing theater was put in place and thoroughly tested today. Colonel Hoagland, the “newsboy's friend," willdeliver a lecturo at Rod Ribbon hall to morrow evening, entitled *‘Ten Years Among the Newsboys.' Miss Minnie Buzzell, a young lady of Juniata, Neb., who has beon a missionary at Swaton, Chin, for several years past, is in the city, and will speak at the Firt Baptist church tomorrow moraing. Miss Buzzell is one of the party of missionarics, who were victims of the Chinese riots and has had some very thriliing experience. Lincoln’s bank cloarings for the last week show an increase of 5.0 per cont over the corresponding weok a year ago. Aceongn KINDNESS REPAID. Generous’ Impulse Develo stincts, Cincinnati Commerc “Go away, beggar boy, you have no right to look it our flowers,” shouted the gentloman’s son from the garden. The poor boy’s face flushed with an- ger, and he was about to invite the young aristocrat to come out into the alley and have his face broken, when a sweet little girl in a dainty muslin gown and a wealth of golden hair sprang like a young fuwn out of the arbor and cried indignantly, *How could you speak so rudely to the poor liitle boy, Harold? His looking at the flowers will not hurt them.” Then turning to the touched lad’ she said tenderly. ‘‘Little boy, I will pluck you a noségay,” an immedi- ately gathering all of her mother’s most cherished flowers, she ' passed them through the railings. Twenty-five years later the kind littl girl had reached the ageof 17, and had become a woman. She had also man- aged to scoop up a husband somewhere along the march. One bright afternoon while they were walking in the garden when he ought to have heen tending to business, she noticed a man in humble attire, neat but not gaudy, leaning against the railing, aud looking intently at the flowers and herself. A thought struck her, but recovering quickly from that surprise, she ap- proached the stranger and said “Sir, some years since, upon' this spot, Igavea littld beggar-boy some flowers with a kind word. which, according to all the story books, musi have changed the course of his whole life and made him an honest and upright man through the influence of that little deed of charity. I presume you are that boy?" Choking with suppressed emotion he replied: *‘I am der bleedin’ huckle- berry. Is der anyting in it?” s Taking in- With tears of preide in her eyes she turned to her husband,saying: ‘‘See how great a reward a little deed of kindness has brought. Sir,” said she, turning again, “‘we shall be pleased to have you partake of a slight collation with us.” “Feed?” said he, with inexpressible emotion, “T'll go yer one.” Ten minutes later, after making two pounds of cold ham and a dozen light rolls look debilitated from overwork, he departed, picking his teeth with a pin, and saying, with a strange gleam in his determined gray eyes: “So long, birdy, I’ll not forgit what I’ve seed this aft. in this ere ’appy ’oniel”’ And he was true to his word. That night he re-entered the house by the kitchen window, and, having already gained a complete kowledge of the terior, gutted the residence of all its valuables inside half an hour, got away undetected, and hus never been seen since. Three Wi er Days, St. Paul’s day, the 25th of January, is the first *‘weather day” of the year— the day by which the character'of the whole year was formerly predicted, says the New York Tribune. 1f St. Paul’s day be fair and clear Then will betide a happy year, But if it chance to suow or rain, Then will be dear all kinds of grain, Clouds on this day foretold mortality among farm stock, and winds were fore- runners of war. The day was a festival, at which a fat buck and doe, dezked with roses, were yearly presented to the clergy. especially those of St. Paul's cathedral, and loaves of bread were baked having upon them the image of St. Paul. There are two other “weather diys’ which have acquired celebrity—one Candlemas day, the 2d of February. which is still remembered by the col- ored people of the south, though no longer as the festival of the Virgin, being known solely as “Ground-hog day.” Candlemas duy, contrary to St. Paul’s day, must be dark and lowery to bring luck in weather. A German prov- erb says: **A shephend would rather see a wolf enter his stubla than see the sun on Candlemas day.” “The badger,” snys another Europeah proverb, **peers out of his hote on Candlemas day; if he finds snow und clouds he walks abroad; if the sun is shining, he goes back into his hole, and expects that half the win ter is to come, and more,” 'The negres at the south tell thesgme old story nbout the ground-hog. Ho comes out of his hole invariably on the 2d of February: if he e e remains, but if the sun is sbining bright and he sees no shadow, he goes back into his hole for a long winter’s snooze. 8t Swithin’s day, the 15th of July, is probably the best known of the three principal “weather- days’ of the yeur, and the familiar story of the good saint’s der.ocracy, and bis desire to be buried among the common people in the churchyard rather than with the illustrious in the cathedral nave bas been often repeated. There v good old ladies still who firmly that if rain falls on this day ill be wet weather for forty duys thereafter, at Huarper's' Bazar: slang termsare frequently born of interesting episodes, as witness the followin Peter the Great, while off d, ng in the neighborhood of Moscow, on one ion, was seized with the pangs of hunger: “What have we in the ham- per?”’ he asked of his aide. “There is but one candle left, your majesty,” replied theaid, *‘but I think I can exchange it for a fowl at the next farm-house, if you wish,” 31, 1892- N PAGES. WHY MORROW WAS MURDERED Said to Have Been the Result of an Old . Feud. SECRET OF A HIDDEN FORTUNE Ten Thousand Dollars § ernment 1 Were Buried by the Vietim and the Wealth Has Not Yot Been Unearthed, Orp, Neb,, Jan. 30.—|Special to Tue Bee.| —John C. Morrow, the victim of tho assault on the evening of December 30, died yester- day morning. As was stated at the time of the occurrence, he was found in his barn suf- fering from severe bruises on the head and hig throat paruy out aoross. Tho medical examination afterwards made shows a com- minuted fracture of two ribs over the heart, supposed to have been caused by the heels of his assaillant. '['o the citizens in genoral 1t seemed at first a case of assault for mere plunder, but the rumors that began to circu- late put auother phase on the affair. Many differont stories have been told to account for the strange affair as the rumors grow, but few people if any are satisfied that the truth has all boen tuld. A few days after he was hurt Morrow made a statement to the county attorney. 1t has not been made publie, but his friends say it is in substance that & man by the name of Thorpe who worked fora farmer living near Ord, was accommodated with a small loan by Morrow, he leaving his valise as security. The l?nn was paid and the valise returned in due time, On the occasion of his father's sicknet some time in the winter of 1560, Morrow went to Illinois to see him, and when com- ing back he met 'Lhorpe on the train at Galesburg, 1. Thorpe recalled his former kindness and said he was hard up and noeded & loan again, but could give much better socurity. After some talk Morrow made him a loan on #10,000 worth of United States bonds. On his return home he buried the bonds for safe keeping. Thorpe mot him on the oveninz of November 23 and de- manded the bonds. On Morrow's dechining to deliver them until the amount he bad loaned him was returned, he was violently assaulted knocked down and rovbbed of-§165, He reached home, not seriously hurt, but violently shaken in his nervous system. He was told at that time if he did not deliver vp the bonds in thirty days he, Thorpe, would return and «ill him, Morroiv says there was another person with Thorpe whom he failed to recognize. Shortly after this he pur- chased a revolvor, and on the evening of the fatal encounter he had arranged for Meese and George McDonough to go with him and unearth the bonds. A pick and shovel were laying outside the door of the barn when the tragedy took place, ready for use that night. ‘These, his friends cla:m, are the facts in the affair, butthe mystery is deepened by their evident desire to keep the matter quiet and their seeming disinclination to insist on the apprehension of his assailant., At their request the Ord papers have refrained from any special comments on the case. A motion to offer a reward for the capture and convic- tion of his assailant was made, but voted down, at the meeting of tha county super- visors on January 20, largely. it is said, be- cause of their knowledge of these facts and a doubt whether thoy could depend ou secur- ing a conviotion if the would-be murderer was caught, The county coroner has impauelled a jury :nd an inquest 1s in progress. It is rumored that a day or two befora his death he told the watchers by his bedside the niding placo of the buried bonds and informed them that he loft a sealed envelope with a full state- ment of the affair. His mind wandered to- ward the last and lus last efforts at spoech were some uncertain utterances as to the vonds and their hiding place. It is said Thorpe was seen and recognized in Ord on the afternoon of the day the assault was committed; also that a hand car was he: leaving Ord over the Union Pacitic railw track between tho hours of 10 and 1 o’clock that samo night. 1t is said Morrow received an anonymous letter threatening him if cer- tain conditions were ot complied with and that the_letter is in the possession of his family. It is said that he was not exvecting danger so soon and tnat be entered his barn that fatal night with his mittens on, Some say he was found with one mitten on, the other lying on the barn floor some distance from where he was knocked down. His going (o the barn at that hour and his reticence on the occasion of the first attack ana silence during his illness provokes much doubt as to the truth of his story. Norfolk’s New Industry NonroLx, Neb., Jan. 30,—|Special Tel gram:to Tne B —A bichloride of gold stock company has been organized in this city with an authorized capital of $50,000, 45,000 of which is pud up. The officers are F. A. Sutphen, secrotary; C. A. Mast, treasurer, and Dr. W. H. H. Hugey, physician and manager. The com pany will be known as the Norfolk Institute, with headquarters on the secona floor of the Citizens National bank building, which is being fitted with all the modern conveniences for the comfort of the vatients. The insti- tute will be in operation by February 5. The treatment will be.virtually the same as that used in the4{eeley institute, and starts out under the most favorable auspices. The or- ganizers are among Norfolk's best citizens, Dr. Hagoy beiug one of the most prominent physiciaus in northern Nebraska, B trice Prisoner Beatice, Neb., Jan. 8), Tele gram to Tiie Bre.|—Sherifl Kyd and his deputies wore startled today at noon when they went to feed the prisouers confined in the county jail to discover that Richard Dawson, recently bound over for ourglary, was misslog. Dawson's Absenco was puz- zling because of the fact that ho appeared at breakfast timo as usual. An examination of the jail failed to revoal any place of concenl- ment or place of ascape, and tho conclusion was roached that Dawson’s escape was mado in the forenoon when the jail was being cleaned, possibly by hiding behind a door until a favorablé opportunity was afforded for escape without being observed. Dawson is about 32 years old, dark complexion, heavy black mustache, wears black clothes and & soft black hat. Edueating Arizona In Corusnus, Neb. Jan. 80.—|Special Tele- gram to Tug Bee.|—Superintendent Bachus of the Grant Indian schools at Genoa arrived on the 1:80 afterncon train with 106 Indian boys and girls of all ages whom he picked up ip Arizona. There wore Apaches, Yumas, Pentos, Navajos and Arapalioos in the lot. The two coaches which carried them were transferred to the Aibion branch and started fo; Genoa at2:20. A thousand people met tho Indians at the depot here, Reewo— pinan Brokes Bow, Neb, Jan. 80.—Will O. Chapman, editor of the Crete Chronicle, and Miss Bessie Reese, daughtor of John Reese, NATURAL FRUIT FLAVORS. Vanllla 2\ Of perfect purity. Lemon Of great strength, Economy In thelr u: se etcy) Flavor as delicately @nd deliclously as the fresh frulta 3 _ —_—_—m—m—m—m—m register of the United States land office, were united in marriage by Rev. L. T. Guild, pastor of the Methodist church of Crete, at this place yesterdav. Mr. Chapman was formerly editor of the Custer Leader at this place. ~ Miss Reoso was a loader in society circles here. Numecous costly presents were presonted to the couple. Over fifty friends and rolatives were present at the marriage ceremony. They will make their home at Crete. ADAMS COUNTY WARRANTS, How Some Enterprising Brokers Managed, g erable Wealth, Hastixas, Nob,, Jan. 80.--[Special Teie gram to Tne Ber, |1t has veen for several years the custom for the county clerk, upon the order of the Board of Supervisors, to make out warrants in tho blank warrant book and to leave them there until called for by the parties to whom drawn, when the warrant is torn out. For several years past many of these warrauts representing thou sands of dollars .have not beon called for. Many other porsons who supposed that money was awaiting them were surprised on investigating to find that there were uo war- rants standing (o their creait. It seoms now that some person as yet unknown, removed these old uncalled for warrants, ranging from $1 to £20 in value from the proper book, tied them up and placed them in indexed and initialed envelopes, These were later found in a pile of old check stubs, paper, etc., by an attache of the office. 1n some way a man in business hers obtained an these hidden warrants of the persous to whom payable and of the amounts. This person then sent letters (o the owners of the warrants stating that he understood that the recipient of tho letter had a claim pending against the county and that he was willing to buy that claim for an amount which gen- erally ranged from 20 to 40 per cent of the face. If_tho recipient wished to accept the proffer he was to sign and return an inclosed recoipt and assignment. Nine out of ten letters were answered and the wdrrarts assigned to the broker who immediately walked over to the court house, presented his proper assignment and roceived the voucher which was promptly ed. The questions naturally arise how dia those warrants happen to bo 1 that pile of waste paper and how did an outside party got an abstract of these mysterious papers! Could the secrotion of these warrants have bean made to reduce the shortage in the troasury or was it simply a money making schemet If the latter it certainly has succeeded. Last night the county clerk was kept busy over two hours dellvering warrants on these orders which wore obtamned for amere song. It is est mated that enough margin will £o to the_en terprising broker or brokers to make them indopendently rich, but still it1s possible that this latest of Adams county's mysteries is a most peculiar combination of circum< stances of which some one has taken advan« tage. Damaging Schuyler Fire, Scnovien, Nob,, Jan. 80— [Special Tole- gram to Tue Bee.]—The hay barn of James Gadsden burned tonight, about 11 o'clock. Tho contents belongod to the firm of Stowars & Fulmer, who lost their entire stock of haye ing and baling machinory and about_fort tons of hay. The loss will be about $1,800 There was no insurance except on the hay, Fist S red Ball, Hastivcs, Neb,, Jan. 80.—[Special Tele gram to Tur Bre,|—Emanuel Fist last night obtained bail in the sum of §10,000, Dr. John Cooke, D, S. Cole and Mrs. Kist becoming his sureties. The bail 18 as large as any over given in this county. Removed to Towa, Neb,, Jan, 80, —~|Special to Tuw N. Joraan sold his mercantile stock to J. M, Simpson and Ernest Wolshaae yesterday. Mr. Jordan goes to Baxter, Ia., 10 engage iu the bauking business. - An Anclent Rose Bush, Tho oldest rose bush in the world isat Hildercheim, in . Hanover. It was planted more than 1,000 years ago by Charlemagne in commemoration of a visit made to him by the ambassador of the Caliph Haroun al Ruchid. Aftor it had become a flourishing vine, a cathe- dral was built over it. It is known, how= over, that a coffin-shaped vault was built around its sncred roots in the year 818, the vault and bush surviving o fire which destroyed the cathedral in 1146, The bush is now twenty-six feet high and covers thirty-two feet of the wall. The stom, after 1,000 years’ growth, is only two inches in diameter. — Unharmed by n The value of terra cotta for the cons straction of fire proof buildings was strikingly shown by experiments re- cently conducted on” u lurge scale in Lambeth, London. A building the size of a room of an ordinary house was con= structed with k walls and terra cotta roof or floor. The building was tilled to the ceiling with wood, tar bare rols and sceaw, u party assomblod on the upper floor or roof and tho materinls withia were fired. Although the intes rior of the building was one mass of white heat, the floor above was pers foctly cool under foot and upparently quite unanected by the intense hoat. VENANG Bew]—W THE= NEWYORKLIFEINSURANCECOMPANY Begs Leave to Announce that its Twenty-Year Tontine Policies, Is- sued in 1872, are now Maturing with the Following Results: 1. 1. Ordinary Life Policies are returning from 20 to 52 per cent in esvess of their cash cost, according to age of 2. Twenty-Year IZndowment Polici of their cash cost. 3. Limited Payment Life Policies ar insured. (Seo examplo bolow. ) ave returning from 58 to 71 per cent in excess ording to ag of ‘insured. (See example below.) roturning from 43 to 141 per cent in oxcess of their cash cost. according to age ol insured. (Sse exumple below.) EXAMPLES OF MATURING POLICIES. 1. Policy taken at Age 43, $2,000; Cost, $1,402; Cash Value, $1,757.76 2. Policy taken at Age 30, $5,000; Cost, $4,853; Cash Value, $8,238. 45 3. Policy taken at Age 37, $10,000; Cost, 87,166; Cash Value, $10,338.40 These returns are made to members after the company has carried the insurance on the respective polices for 20 years, 11. 1. velues, continue the DIVID below.) Persons insured under Ovdinary Life Policies may, in lizu of the ab° vo cash insurance,at original rates, and recci DS of fxom 71 to 115 per cent. of 4l premiums that h: paid. and annual dividends hereaftor as they accrue. » CASH ve been (See example Persons insured under Limited Payment Life Policies may, in lieu of the above cash values, continue their insurance, wit iout fartner pay- ment's, and receive CASH DIVIDENDS of from 67 to 163 per cent. of all premiums that have been paid, and annual dividends hereafter as they accrue. [See example below.] EXAMPLES OF DIVIDENDS. Policy [see above] may be continued for the original amount, at original rates with annual dividends, and the accumulated dividends, amounting to 980,62, may be withdrawn in cash. Policy [see above] may be continued without furthar paymants, receiving an= nual dividends, and the a may be withdrawn in cash. umul ited dividends, amounting to $4,82 .30 I11 . The Management of the Company further announce that: The Company's New Business for 1891 exceeded §150,000,000 Its Income Exceeded that of 189o. Its Assets and Insuvance in creased. Force were Both Largely Ine Its Mortality Rate was Much Below that Called for the Mors tality Table. A Detailed Statement of the Year's Business will be published after the annual report is compleled, WILLIAM H. BEERS, President, HENRY TUCK, Vice President, ARCHIBALD H. WELCH, 2d Vice President, RUFUS W. WEEKS, Actuary. OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION, COMPANY'S REPCRT, CASH ASS June 30th, 1 CASH AS Junuary lst, 1891, 1$120,710,690 1$115,047,800 ETS, Nabrééka Branch Office New Yo Dr. George L. Miller, Manager. k Life Building, H. S. Ford, Cashier, Omaha General Agency: M, L. Cohn, D. Silberstein, Ira B. Mapes, F. A. Jackson, Manager Term Department. For further information regarding lusurance or an agency, addre s Nebraska Branch Office. Omaha, Neb,