Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 7, 1892, Page 16

-Omaha in the fall of 1 ‘MY FIRST HUNDRED DOLLARS' Wealthy Oitizens of Omaha Tell How They Started in Life. SONE WERE COUNTRY STORE CLERKS Dr. Miller as an Army Sorgeon— Inger's Experience With Molasses—How the Bankers Started -Some Advice Given, A number of brainy men who lived and had their being at about the time that the consti tution of the Umted States got ripe enough to pick declared some years ago that all men wero born free and equal, and they didn’t know anything apout Omaha and her mil- lionaires either, Yet it those same mon could only have been here the past week and could have passed up and down Farnam street and heard stories of porsonal history of thirty or forvy years azo that were poured into the ears of an inquisitive reporter of Tne Ber they would have been tickled half to death over their keen foresight and would undoubtedly be now urging their claims for appointment to the signal service. And they might well be pardoned for such exiltation, for 1f there ever were a lotof men who were born equal, they were these self- same Umaha milliouaires, Their equality consisted in their early poverty, for none wero born rictier than the others and fow were poorer than the rest. They weroall to- gether at tho bottom, and are now very cleverly bunched at the top, so that there is littlo of interest in the two extremes to talk abous, but in the happy mean, which was decideay unhappy 1n some instances, their piths woro na divorgont and their oxpori- euces as difforent as the brilliant corrusca- tions that scintillate from a watering placo hotel clerk's “'spark.”* 1t is of those days in their carcers when they were hustling for their broad and butter in whatever channel offered them the menns of obtaining a lvelihood that this story has to do. Threo things will bo noticed: first, that at some time in the carcers of these rich men they have been possessed of $100: second, that they worked hard for scant wages to se- cure it, ana third, that taey always either spent loss than they received or received more than thoy spent. If you can detect these three unfailing symptoms in your own experience it is possi- blo that some day you will bo likewiso wealthy aud able to eat thrice in twenty-four hours 1f your stomach wilt stand such a radi- cal change. Now for the pot pourr: of experience! ‘Was a Sawbones for Soldlers. Dr. George L. Miller is one of the old- timers who is compelled to plead guilty to the soft impeachment when accused of being one of the wealthy men of Omaha, yot whon found in the roomy oftice of the western man- aging director of the New Yori Life in- suranco company in the Life building, and asked how bo made bis first §100. he sol- emnly declared that from the time he bought a few pieces of furniture for his offics, when 5 a youug man ho first hung out bis shingle, up to tho prescnt time he had never seen a day when he was out of dobt, “Phen you believe that being in debt is conducive to the more rapid accumulation of wealth inquiringly asserted the visitor, I believe that a man works harder when he has a hill to climb,”” answered the doctor. *If tne sole object in life is the accumulation of money, I believe that being in debt will bring moro success than being out of it. It will stimulate a man 10 groater cnergy and will bringout and develope abilitics” that otherwise he would not know that he pos- sossed. Now then, I tell you candidly that I have been in deot all my life, so how can T tell when or how 1 made my first $100¢ I can teli you about the first §100 that I ever had in my possession and ownership at one time, if that is what you want tokunow ¢ The scribe 1ntimated that that was just the €100 whoso_history he was after, and the ex-editor slowly crossed his legs and said, “well, I got it from Uncle Sam, 1 came to 4 when there wero only elght people here, expecting to find a thriving town of respectablo proportions. I had £ in my pocketand that was gone inside of twelve hours. Up to that time I had never had §100in my possession at one time, and 1 was here several months before I experienced that pleasantsensation. 1t was all an accident that [ had the opportunity to make the money and it happened in this way : General Harney’s Sioux expedition went out in the spring of 1855, and by an oversight the surgeon at Leavenworth did not accom- pany the troops. Cholera appeared among the soldiers, and the command stopped hero and the torritorial governor, Governor Cuming, was asked to name a surgeon to sccompany the expedition to Fort Pierre, Dakota. was recommended and went, taking my wife with me. We were gono six weeks, and when I returned I roceived $240 in gold'in payment for my sory- ices. I well remember how I pdured it out of a little sack onto the bed in the little bit of a house that was then our home, and called my wife to look at it. It seemed to weizh two tons. I had been clerk of the unper house of tho first fterritorial legisla ture some time beforoe that at & per day (and I bad to work night und day) but my pile did not reach the $100 mark until I became an army surgeon,’” Early Poverty in Omaha, The recital of the occurrences of old days brought vividly back to the mind of the spneaker some of the scenes of earlier years, and the doctor continged: “I really believe m\:z 1 have known®more extreme poverty thin any other citizen of Omaha who' is re- galded as an influential or ropresentative man. Inmy boyhood I curried horses and enial labor, and the vory question of existence demanded the closest attention. My work was a matter of self-degradation to me, as I was an ambitious boy and antious to riso in my chosen pro- fession, but I was compelled to work 1n that way to secure my schooiing, I was subsequently assistod in college by rela- tives, but it was an uphill row for me for many years. I was disnpvolutud in Omaha when I came here and wouid not have stayed but for ex-Governor Cuming. It was gen- erally believed then that the soil here was of no nccount except in the valleys and for that reason I pre-empted land three and & half miles from here on the Pappio, instead of here whero the city now is. Ob, this was s wild a prairie in those days as a wolf ever ran over, and many a déer was killed down there in the hollow where Seventoenth and St. Mary's avenue now meet. My littlo cabin was away out the other way where the Indiuns ought to have otten me, and the wolves came mighty near t. Yes, it's fortunate for me that | stayed fter I got here; out do you know I have always folt that it would have been better for me if 1 had never come bere," In His Father's Store. Herman Kountze, president of the First National bank and a member of the wealthy Now York banking ivm of Kountze Bros., which is one of the most powerful financial concerns of Ll country, 18 another of the men who came to Omaha in the '50's, and while ho has accumulated his millions he hus lso acquired a wholosomo horror of in- debtedness, and advises young men to be ware of goiug in debt. Unless they see their way ontirely clear by buying into some well established and well managed business where the desire to got them in 13 because of n iaterest in their persousl advancement and prosperity rather than of a desire to get thelr mouey, be is of the opinion that young men should not incur indebtedness,” Bor- rowing money for speculative purposes he llronfilv discourages, and ntimates that the ambitious youth should rile up a little age and experience before putling on too much flurish in the role of financier. Mr, Kountze sald that he was unable to state when he first scraped together §100, but 1t was probably on or about the day that he 21 years of age, whon he was glyen an interest in his fathor's stock of general merchandise in an Ohio country store. *'I worked in that store,” said Mr. Kountze, “from the time I was 9 years old until I was £1,'with the oxception of a single year, when I was allowed to go to school. "My father Was & man who ved that his children's time belonged to him uutil they saw their Plst oirthday, sud during those yoars I worked without fiuancial compensation. V' u{aboe-m of age, bowever, he mad t Lo give bis s sons @b interest io %is w th mudumwuh 0 lond us his cre dit. But it was in that store that I made my first money. " While it is impossible to tell from just what sale of butter, buttons or beans Mr. Kountze realized his first hundred, it is thus established beyond doubt or cavil that somo nonest Biiekeye citizen contributed the dol- lars that laid the foundation of a banking house that is today recognized as on a par with the wealthiest banking institutions of Europe. When Mr. Kountzo and his elder brother came to Omaha they invested tho greater part of their money in real estate, and a_year later began a bauking business in a small way, buying gold dust that came in from the western gold tields. Many a time 1t happened that there was not sufficient cur- rency in the bank's vault to pay fora big day’s receipts of the yellow dust, and tho bankers would hustle around among the busi- ness men of the then thriving burg and bo row the necessary circulating medium, for wtich they would give exchange where it was dosired, and in other cases accounts would be squared when the dust was sold and the profits realized. In those aays little business was done with Chicago, but a great deal was transacted with st. Louis, and Philadelphia had the call on New York. Now, however, ali this, as well as many other things, have changed, but money earns money for Herman Kountze the same as in days of yore. Didn't Make 1t on Molnsses, The visitors to Georze W. Lininger's famous art gallery at Eighteenth and Daven port would never fora moment imagine that all thoso valuable works of art wero col- lected by the present owner on a salary of £175 a year. Aad they were not, but that was the munificent salary received by Mr. Lin- inger when he startea out to earn his own living at the age of 17 years. He began work in the general merchandise store of Phelps & Johnson at Peru, 11, and the very first week ho was there he allowed a whole hogshead of molasses to run to waste, It was chilly December weather, and the moldsses was 'in low spirits accordingly, so when the new clork startod to draw a gallon of it he found that he had u long job ahend. Before the measure was full the broprictors started for supper, first calling the clerk upstairs to attend to custowners. The molasses was for- fotten until the following mornine, when tho frightened youth rushed down into the cellar and arrived just in time to save the barrol. He expected to lose his job, but told his em- ployers just how It happened, and was re- tained in their service to lay the foundation of a successful business career. The second vear his salary was increased to $300 and the next year to $100, and it was some time in the third” year that his savings amounted to $100, for at the end of the year he had 00 on hand, and he invested it in & half interest in a tinning business that netted 5,000 the first year. Mr. Lininger was given full swing in the grocory establishment, and was authorized to sign the firn’'s namo to.checks, which he sometimes did to the amount of £,000 or £10,000 » day in the rush of the grain season, when the firm was buying heavily. He had all this responsibility, too, on his second year's salary of §300. I was given privileges,” said Mr. Linin- gor, “that I never in aftor years accorded to my ‘clerks, My employers never praised my work or commended me, so I was much sur- prised when they found out that L was about to leave to have them offer me an_interest in the business to remain. But 1 had already made other engagements and left, “Oune thing I have always baen cranky about, and that is notes, I have always made it a point not to give them, althougt T have held hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of other people’s paper. 1t isn‘t busi- ness, but then it was a notion of mine.” Mr. Lininger does not advise young men to saddle a load of debt upon themselves, Martman Struck It in Denve: Chris Hartman is another man who smokes ten cent straights, cash in advance, but ho wasn’t born that way. His taste is acquired, und ho got it right here in Omaha, but he corralled his first 8100 1n Denver in 1550, He came here in 1858 at the age of 13 years, and the next spring he went to Denver with Ben Hellman to help him sell a stock of goods that they took along with an ox team. The goods were placed on salein a tent on Ferry street in Bast Denver, and they went like ice oream in the path of a summer girl. The juvenile dry goods clerk then sccured employment as a pie sulesman 1n Bronson & Black’s bakery on the same street at $40 per moath, and in three months he received six shining $20 gold-pioces. That was the hour that b3 had been praying for, and ho at once made ar- rangoments to come back to God's country. Rube Woods was just coming back to Omaha with a horse team, which was a luxury on the piains in those days, and young Hartman veluctantly turned over one of his shiners to pay his passage home. The trip required two weeks, and the youthful adven- turer landed in Umana feeling richer than he ever did oefore or has since. He knows how he got the woney, but he couldn’t tell for a million dollars what became of it. He went into the army soon afterward and served threa years and & half, receiving his discharge before ho was twonty-one years of age. It will be seen that the rotund, good vatured insurance inspector and fire and police commissioner bad a pretty rocky time of itin his youthful days, but, as he himself says, “it was harder than I have ever found it since.” It was on that westbound trip, when he was walking to Denver beside an ox team, that Mr, Hartman took his first and only shot at a buffalo, and he bagged his meat. It was some distance west of Fort Kearney that the young tourist discovered a hord of buffalo. He had only & muzzleload- mg single-barrelled shot gun, and he had expended all his shot some time be- fore. Ha at once seized a hatchet and pulled several nails out of the dry goods boxes and chopped them in short pieces on the tiro of one of the wagon wheels. He loaded his shot- gun with a double charge of powder, dumped in a handful of dessicated nails, and crept up behind a prairie dog mound to get a shot at the “‘trailer,’”” an old bull which was too weak and stiff to keep up with the herd. He aimed at thecritter's heart, and the nails tore ahole through that buffalo bull that the hunter could poke the gun through. The brute fell dead @8 tho dry goods nails that had por- forated his frame, and Hartman fell as hard in the other direction, but he came out of it alive, though the kick of the gun left a lump on his shoulder that rcmllhls to this day. That was the first fresh oeef that the party had seen since leaving Omaha, and a hind quarter was amputated for mastication. The loin was cooked until mianight, but even then the india rubber wasn’t stewed out of it, and it was packed up and carried until the next night when it was boiled again. Fifteon hours cooking did not cause 1t to weaken particle, and it was left beside the trail, When Mr, Hartman was going to Cal- fornia two years ago he passed that very spot, and saw there the identical quarter of bull’ buffalo beef discarded by him thirty vears before. It was somewnat affected by the elements, but tho traveler avers that ne could readily recognizo it. - F'rom that time until Denver was reached buffalo beef was plenty, and it was of the palatable kind, as calves were numerous and easy to kill, Mr, Hartman saw millions of the animals subse- quent to thatoccurrence, and tells ot the thousands of tons of meat of the wantonly slaughtered beasts that were left on the prairies to g0 1o waste, + But he never took another shot, for fear that his reputation would suffer. He purscea the same tactics after catching a 205-pound jewtish av Los Angeles two years 0go, and has not touched o hook or line since, Mude it in the Ferry Busines Frank Murphy, president of the Mer- chants National bank as well as the Omaha Gas company and the Omaba Street Railway company, made his first money in Omaba, He camo here in 1857, when just in his teens, andsoon af.erwards entered the employ of the Couucll Blufts & Nobraska Porry cowapans, and succeeded Lo the secretaryship when tho original incumbent, Henry Z. Curlis, went into the army. Itwas there he raked together his first $100, but the exact circumstances do not appear in the company's archives. Mr. Murphy afterwards engaged in railroad buliding, sud then rounded up the stook of he gas company,subsequently as: trol of the street railway s always taken a hand in everything that tended to make Omaha, and in return Omaha bas made Frank Murphy, Sold Calico and Onions, Henr{‘w. Yates, president of the Ne- braska National bauk, is another man who secured bis business training and first #100 as well behind the counters of a country store. He was & Maryland boy, and began weasuring calico, onions and potatoes at the age of thirteen for §50 a year, At the age of tweunty-one this had been increased to $400, which wus then the largest salary paid that county, ~ He contributed most of bis earnings to Mis father, per request of the latter, but when he became of age he bad on band $200, with which be started west in 1858, He at St. Louis fora year, stepped over 10 St Joo for Lwo yoars, coming And in Omaha he is to- the habit of going to Omaba in 1861, day. and he is not in hungry. Began as a Telograph Operator, Another bank president who began his money making in Omaha and has continued it to thoe prosent day is A. P. Hopkins, of the Commercial National. Mr. Hopkins began life as a telegraph operator in Canada, at #20 a month, when 16 years of age, and four years later was receiv- ing $40 a month as opoerator and station agent on the Grand Trunk at Stratford, Ont. That was in 1866, und Mr. Millard sent for him to come hore and accept a position in the Omaua National bank. He arrived with &7 in his pocket, and went to work for §i5 a month. He was the first teller of that bank, taking the place two weeks after the bank was started, and hela tho position for a year, when ho resigned to go into the commission business, where he continued for three years, with the exception of which he has always been engaged in the banking business in Omaha and Fremont. When Mr. Hopkins camo here the Omaha National occupied n 20x40 structure in tho middle of Fourteenth street, and six months later moved into its new building, which is now occupied by the Omaha Savings bank Ezra Millard, Mr. Wallace, the presont cash fer, and Mr. Hopkins constituted the entire oftice force. The changoe was offectad about the bezinning of 1867, and _on New Year's eve Mr. Millard and Mr. Hopkius slept on the floor 1n the bank here was a now clock in the room-—one of the then new fangled affairs that rogistered the day of the month and yoar— and the pair law awake until midnight to sce how the blamed thing changed from one year toanother, and alsoto render assistance in case the machinery was unequal to the task it was supposed to per- form. Mr. Hopkins swept out the bank and was general office roustabout at that time, but he does not, develope his muscle in such an un- dignifiod manner nowadays, Mr. Poppleton as a Pedagogue, Hon, A. J. Poppleton cut 100se from all the rostraints of civilized life at the age of 16 years, aad tackled a country school in Michi- an at §16 a month. Ho scrved four months’ apprenticeship, pocketed his $4 and went to colloge, from which he emerged wheu ho was 21 yeurs of age, and began teach- ing Lutin and Greok in_an = academy at Romeo, Mich., for $300 & yoar. The owier of the fnstitution of learning failed and Mv. Poppleton received but half of his salary, amounting to 8150, but that in- cluded the first hundred that had fallen to his lot in & bunch. Subsequently this man acquired extensive copper interests and ex- tended Mr. Poppleton many favors, His property, however, was in hitigation, but he promised his former employe that1f the suit was decided in his favorhe would v the old claim. He finally won the case, making him immensely wealthv, but died within two or three months and Mr. Poppleton is still unpaid. He is satisfied that he would have received his money if his debtor had lived, ana does not feel that he has any kick coming. Mr. Poppleton came to Omaha in October, 1854, and mado close connections with the session of the first territorial legislature. It has been many a long day since Mr. Popple- ton really cared whother school kept or not. On s Father's Farm, r. S. T). Mercor is the son of a well-to-do Illinois farmer, and he made his first $100 on his father’s farm 1n Marion county in 1 In the fall of that year, when the sou was 19 years old and Mercer senior had his fall ivheat all in, he gave the boy twouty acres of ground to use as ho chose for the noxt vear. The elated youth decided to imitate his father and sow it to winter wheat. He had apout $25 or §30 that he had saved, and he paid the nired man to help him plow it, and drove the seeder himself, nis father furnish- ing both seed and team. That winter the future doctor went away to college, but re- turned the next summer to help harvest his father’s crop and look after his own. That wheat crop yielded & littlo over twonty bushels per acro and netted the young farmer about $300. He went into partnorship that year with a neighbor's son and rentea nine acres of ground, which was planted to tobacco, hiring a man to take his placo in ' caring for it. The venture netted a little over §1,200. The doctor still says 1hat ho never saw anything turn out money like that tobacco crop and declares that there are acres of hillside timber in this vicinity that would make the very bost tobacco ground and pay a handsome return for such cultivation. He asserts that the latitude has notbing to do with it, and says he has seen as fine tobacco growing near Fort Calhoun as ever tickled a planter’s heart, In the summer of 1860 the doctor joined with two of his uncles in the purchase of a threshing macbino and workod with it for three months, ‘*We were running one day,” he said, *in the samo neighborhood with another machine and gotto racing. We had an eight-horse power. Each of my uncles had a pair, I had a pair of my father's horses and we made the man we thresied for put in a pair. The racegot hot, and I was feeding might and main. My band- cutter was a big, strapping fellow, and was using a big hookknife. I reuched for a bun- dle, and—sae that scar?” and the doctor eahibited an ugly mark that could only have beon caused by a frightful wound. “That was where ho caught me, strippiug the flesh from the bone. I went to the house and fixed it up as well as I could and then started to town to find a doctor. I have never scen that threshing machine nor the horses from that day to this. 1 went back tu college and then into the army. I saved all the money I received while there, and after the war paid my father what I still owed for money ne had advanced to take me through college, and soon after came to Omaha, reaching hero in 1860, with $450 in my pocket. 1t was all gone before I got any more.” Dr. Mercer hung out his shingle here, but ho pulled it in again some time ago, and ho wollldn’t turn out on a nndnight’ call for a thousand dollars, He don’t have to, ] The Grippe Raging In Alabama. “Loa grippe 1s raging here and I find Chamberiain’s cough remedy to bo a certain cure for 1t,” says W. G. Johns of Trim- ble, Cullman company, Ala. Mr. Johns ordered a supply of thé remedy to be shipped by express as quickly as possible, here is no quostion but this remedy is of great value m tho. treatment of the grip espocially on account of its counteracting any tendency of the disease toward pneumonia, It is also a prompt and certain cure for the cough which usually follows an attack of grip. 25 and 50 cent bottles for salo by druggists. — Dr, Cullimore, oculistto Mo, Pac. Ry . —_——— NOT BORN TO HANG. Trumpeter Dixon Says He.Has No Ides of Stretehing Hemp. Clarence E. Dixon, trumpeter of Fort Rob- inson, who murdered Corporal Carter und was afterwards convicted of the crime and sentenced to hang, is now in the county jail, but he has no fears of leaving the carth via the rope rovte, United States Marshal Brad Slaughter has positively probibited Dixon from being sub- jected to interviews, but notwithstunding 1his the man gets a chance tosay & word now and then. Yesterday morning Dixon was seen, and not belng adverse to talking, said: * You can say to tho public that I was not born to hang. I may bo snot, but I never expect to pull hemp,” When asked how he fult, Dixon replied: “Never botter, siok or well. I have euough to eat and see the daily papers occasionally, When I was first put into this place I felt a littla squeamish, but now that feeling has worn off and I feel first rate. Of course peo ple aro not allowed to come up and talk to me, but frequently the boys from the fort come down and stand nnder the window, Then we hold pleasant conversations, so that 1am kept pretty well informea of what's going ou ‘n the outside worla.” Dixon is kept in the cell that was occupied by Neal, who was executed last October. His heaith 1s excellent and he focls first rate. Ha partakes of the regular jail fare and only kicks when he is not given double rations. Dixon's aitorney has abandoned the idea of sccuring & new trial and will devote his energ.es to having the seuntence of the court commuted to life imprisonment. A petition whicn will set forth all the facts is being prepared to present to the President of the United States at an earty date. el Constipation poisons tne blood; DaWitt's Little Early Risers cure coustipation. ‘The cause rewoved, the disease is gone, —————— J Dr, Birney cures catarrh, BgE bldg IN A VICTORY FOR THE CITY End of a Long Pdawn Ont Damage Case Finally Reached. GHOST OF THE' DEPOT INJUNCTION Mr, Stuht Commenees Another Sult—Woes of n Chattel Mortgage Vietim— Wants Hiw Nume Changed— Othermtigations. The courts yestorday concluded the first woek's business of the February term and at noon adjourned until Monday morning. The morning's session was the busiest of the week, und any number of lawyers and clients are foeling happy over the results, Of the lawyers who are happy, City Attor- noy Connell is in the highest gleo. His joy comes from the fact that under his present appointment he has won the first.suit that he has tried as tho legal representative of the city. ‘T'he case in question has been upon the court dockets for years, and has been recog nized as Mary A, Dugdalo against the City of Omaba. The plaintiff owned property at Eighth and Douglas streots, and when the change of grado of the stroots was ordered she felt that she was injured and at once brought suit, atleging §10,000 damages. Tho caso was tried by the court and a jury and a verdict for $1,500 in favor of tho plalntiff returned. Tho city attornoy at onca moved for a new trial, wilch ia due time was granted and the waso set for hearing at tuis term of court. ‘Wednesday morning a jury was empafineled and tho taking of testimony commenced, Friday night the case went to the jury and this morning a verdict for the d¢ ‘enuant, th city, was returned. Trouble With a Loan Broker. Among_tho suits commonoed was ono by George \V. Kastman against B. I, Mastors, a short time loan broker. In his petition Eastinan tells o tale of woo. He is aud was 4 poor man, s0 poor that on September 1888, he visited Masters and negotiatod the loan of §100, vutting up his personal = property for V. In July, 1880, he had paid the sum ol teres At that time he renewed the note and again when called upon in the moath of October, 180, he discovered that e had paid $30.50 interest. Oace more the noto was re- newed and interest was paid until Septom- ber, 1801, On that date when he went to settle he learned that be had paid £05.70 intevest on the rencwal note, and that 1 mained due. Eastman now figures out that he bus paid out $233.20 for the use of the original $100, and that before he can read his title clear, ho will be compelled to pay additional sum of $140.75, Masters about to sell the personal property, but a re- straining ovder of the court has stopped any such proceedings. Ghost of the Depot In, ction, The ghost of the old suit of Ernest Stuht DAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1892 IXTEEN PAG agatost the Union Depot company bobbed up in the court yesterday in the shape of a suit obrought against Frank Murphy by Ernest Stubt, In his petition the plaintift avers that on December 30, 1800, together with a number of other citizons and in pursuance to an agreement, suit was brought to restrain the city of Omaha and the Union Depot company from disposing of §150,000 of bonds voted to the Union Depot company by the city; also restraining the oty from delivering any deods of title to tho com- pany: also restraining R. C. Cushing und Alvin Saunders, trustees, from execut ing any deeds of convevance of lots to the depot companv, and restraining T. H. Ben ton, state auditor, from delivering any of the bonds to the depot company, its successors or assigns, The costa of the suit amountea to $208.80, &05 being for attorney fees and the balance court ana other costs. The sum to bo paid was pro rated, and of tho amount §1%.16 was Murphy’s share. This he has refused to p uht now asks him to come into court aud explain. Other Litigations, which 1s liko this: He has filed a potition in which he asks the court te change his name to William Daniei Fgbert. Ho avers that o was born in June, 180 that when he was | three years ola his mother died, after which | b was adopted by Dantel W. Iigbert. On account of the iinduness shown by the Egbort family, the YOung man now wants to assumo the name worn by the head of the Egbert housohold. Thero wero two mismated pairs who tound their way into the court. H. Robinson and his wifo Goorgeatta were married up in tho pine woods of Wisconsin some timo in 1887, I'or a year they were as happy as two tens i & basket of yarn, but just about Christmas time, 188, Georgeatta went to Chi- cago and the bad, after which there was lots of trouble. e husband now nsks that the wodding ties which bind him to tbe woman William Egbort Seydal has a grievance | larceny, The lad was released and sentence suspended that his paronts might endeavor to try a little reform work. Judge Davis ad ministered a locture, the point of which was that if the boy was again brought bofore the court he would be booked for the reform school. Tn Federal Court, Ex-City Prosecator Shoomaker filed a motion in'the United States court vesterday to have the case of the Kansas City Sun against him and other city officials dismissed. | Ho filed it on the grounds that there was no longer any such paper as the Kansas City Sun, and that the plaintid 1a_tho case had not filed a reply to his answer to the potition alleging contempt of court. Judwo Dundy | took the matter under advisement, Attorney Breckenridge filed a bill of excep tions vesterday in the caso of the Kepublican Newspaper company against the Associated Pross, intending to carry tho caso to tho court of appeals at St. Louis next October. Judge Dandy signed an oraer calling upon the defendant to pros:nt amendments, i thereareany to be presented, within tho next ten days, No eripping, 1o nausea, 1o pain when De- \Y\N,'l Littlo Iarly Risers ara takon, Small pill. Safe pil. Bost pill, Dr. Cullimore, ocalist, Boo bhuwlding. Seventeenth an NICHTS COMMENCING be severed. Ida Lowry would have the court divorce her from Frank Lowry, a man to whom she was wadded on Indopendenco day, 1883, - Sho avors that Fravk brought her to Omaha, after which she was avandoned and allowed 1o shift for herself. in the caso of Georgo Bates against the Fremont, Blkhorn & Missouri Valloy ra road the jury returned a verdict of £,052.80 for the piaintiff. Bates owned a valuable farm near Irvington. When the raiiroad was coustructed 1t ran along the side of his farm for somo distance and takiog a turn cut his moadow and corufield in twain, Ho asked for damages, which were refused, henco the | lawsuit. Criminal Cases, In criminal court Georgo Hoffman pleaded not guilty to tho charge of perjury and was roleasod on bonds, ‘I'he information charged that in a suit tried before Justice Brandies, Hoffman swore that he was possessed of a certain numoer of horses, when in fact ho did not own a horse in the world. Peto Matza was arraignod and pleaded not guilty to having committed an assault upon one Ben K. Mulien. Harry Crampton, a lad of 10 summers, was before the criminal court %o answer to the charge of having stolen $37 from Christian Orfl,” He acknowiedged the theft and pleaded guilty to having committed the crime of petit PEOPLE Dirvect from the Standard Theater Broadway, N. Y. Throughout the entire entertainment a sen- s suous, dreamy rapture fills the onlooke soul. us verdure of tropic - languishing b charn feed the spicy Di ooks, heretofore unknown confusion of e and he loses himself in r: nes bim ] ul he feels like tho poctic Milesian rst overcome with love, BILLIARD SIATE CHAMPIONSHIP 2P.M.and 8 P. M. (Every duy except Sunday) Monday, Feb. 15 to 26. ROOM B NEW YORK LIFE BUILDING. -Inch balk line on o 5x1) Branswick table. for gentlemin and lady, §2.00. Grand Opera House. l’ufls ‘(;ulcly Gigls Burlesque Company, Don't fail to s at Carlts, Charueter Danseu: iT »475 Holy Land Tour, $415. A select party ssils March 9, and April 16, GAZE'S EXCURSIONS TO EUROPE, Prog pmes for Hpring and Sumwer now ready. Excursions leave monthily for Italy, &8, Best lines at lowest rates. Bend for ““Lourist Gazette.” H. GAZE & SONS., %0 BROADWAY, N. Y. Bole Agts. for New Thewfikich 8. 8. Co. (Est 1844) Oniclally appointed dnternational ‘Courists Agents for World's Columblan Exposition 15, " HER MOBHER WAS COLD. Death Was the BBed Mate of a Little Colored Girl, Mrs. Henvy Curry, a colored woman res:d- ing av 1425 North Twentieth street, was found dead 1 her bed yesterday morning by ber little 8-year-old daughter, with whom she was sleoping. She bad been’ doctoring for soma time for heart trouble, and it is supposed that heart disease caused her death. Coroner Maul was notified, but after learn- fog the circumstances decided that au in- quest was unnecessary. The story told by the little girl was that she awoko feeling very cold and spoke ta her mother, leceiv- ing no reply she shook her mother's arm and tried to arouse her, but without success. Sho then arese sud lizhted a lamp only to discover that she was an orphan. “*What did you do then " was asked her. “I ran out and locked the door and hurried over to the neighbors as fast as 1 could go,” roplied the still frightened child, and she Sobbed and cried ln & paroxysm of mingled terror and sOFrow. T'he aeceased was 45 years of age, and was the widow of J. H. Curry, @ barber who died a sbort time ago, renowned ST THEATER. Today at 2:30. Tonight at $:00 ONE SOLID WEEK. Matinees Wednesday an: Saturday. SAM T JACK'S FAMOUS CREOLE (0. The Palpable Hit of Modern Times. Rarest Beauties of Two Hemispheres. 6) Nights Standa, Theatr THE JOLLY DIAI John T SUPPOR PROF.HERRMANN THI WHIZZING, RIPE Teeming with wit and humor. Dances and TEE COMEDIA® S. « John T, Kelley. Dutch D ly Chas' F, W._1ion, Chas, F. Wilson. Ho iy JOM SOIE NNES. Miss Fiora We. Miss Josie La, Fontaine. Miss Aime Angele Mis . Ida Fairbands, Miss Flora Vel Mi: s Lizz Miss Josie Fairban 't AMUSEMKENTS. BOYD'S +HERTYRe. {4 Comedy Triumph. New Med eys, MODES FOR MEN. - \ Clothier and Furnisher, The generaily conservative tons of the offerings in men’s clothing for spring will af ford but shight opportunivy to err. The men In evening dress *are fo oa thoir heads higher than heretofore if the new collars fulfill what is claimed for them, Moderated styles of turnover collars made upon the neglige shirts, are happily in keep« ing with the conservativo spirit of the times, It is imperative thata man_bo gloved in white or pearl kid gloves at any evening function when ladies in full dress are in at tendance. The gentleman's visiting card is 11¢x§ nchos in sizo. It is also the very latest wrinklo to have the number of spelled out. It is amazing how tho Amorican manu< facturers have gone ahoad of late years, Ona seldom hears nowadays of a European so« journer bringing home gloves, or neckwear, or umorollas, or mackintoshes to frienas ag souvenirs of his trip abroad - Small in_size, groat_1n rosuits: DoWitt's Littlo Early isors, Bost pill for constipa- tion, bost for sick headacho, bast for sour stamach. tho ‘addresy i Dr Cullimore,eye and cur,Boe building ———— 300 Reserved Sealsl at 50c each. i Harney Stroots, This,Sunday Ev., Feb. Y/ NEW YORK & BOSTON GREATEST 80 Ni-hts Globe Theatre, Boston ¢ JECT COMEDIAN, . Kelley" I'ED BY ’SCOMIC PLAYERS PLING AND RIOTIN G and | . New Tunes; Witticisms, How Others View of Us, A feast of fan.—N. Y. A paradlse of moirim Globe, S a1ls head and shoulders above similar organizations.— Cincinnati Enquirer. In its conception ths pinnacale of farcical comaay pr oduction is recls Azad, 1 cinnati Com-Gazette, In Misa Florie Weat, Eng! has sent u.» her greatest comedienne.-Chicago Herald New Sonzs; New BOYD'S ruERY: THEATRE. FRIDAY Slrungsiay, FEB GRAND MAY THE BRIGIH Opera, Spectacle, Pantomime, C lrmc BUYS A GOOD RI SERVED SEA' \., RURRY 12 13, 14 ATURDAY. A Millionaire’s Feast of Merriment. M. B. LEAVITT'S New. Grand Spoctac ilar Pantomime, Spider and F]y Organizcd io Euiope 46 Luropean Celebrities. 46. Magnificent costumes by Alias, of London, Gorgeous Szencry by Martin aad Young, N\ Y., Marvelous Bloot-ic BT ects. Superb B . llet, ST FEATURBS OF omely and Specialty Brilliantly Blended in this Popular Success. Prices—Parquet, 815 parqet circlue, 7ic o and 81 ;balcony, 50¢ and 75¢; gallery 258 COR. ELEVENTH AND FARNAM STS. COMMENCING MONDAY, FEB. 8, ONE WEEK ONLY. ATV T !Esqufinaux I FROM T ADMI o=~ —l 2l < ZZ2Z20pen Daily, "ATHER, MOTHE ONEK 1:00 SSION, ami [ ) R AND DAUGHTER. = (7 O o o o LA AAADD00 DIME. to 10:00 p. m,