Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 14, 1892, Page 10

THE. ARIAONA - KIGKER. BY “M. QUAD.” (Copyrighted 1892 by the C. B. Lewis.) We Arrreciate I1.—A Chicago news paper correspondent, Who was here a month ago, expressed a wish to fnspect our private graveyard, and wo hired o rig and drove him out tothespot, which we have named “Woodlawn.”” Weselected that name because there isn't wood enough to make a toothpick within a mile of the place, and because the “lawn” part of it is sand two feot deep, Y Yesterday we received o copy of a Chicago paper in whiéh the correspondent gave:- us half & column of praise on our industry in filling Woodlawn and on our taste in orna- menting tho fence and head boards with ivy ‘We highly appreciate a notice of this kind, and we foel that itis not altogether und served. He gives the number of intermen as nine. Hels wrong. There are ton head- boards there to mark the last resting vlaces of ten different men who sct out to got the drop on ns but made a sad failure uf it. They slcop peacefully and well, as far as wo know. Indoed they ought to, as we paid all funeral expenses and got the boys to turn out in pro- cession. WwE Our estecmen contemporary will botl over again when he reads the notice referved to, snd we really feel sorry for him, He can't edit and he can’t shoot, and ho never ought 1o have come out into this country, anyhow. WE SilaLn Bxponce.—As mayor of this towa, it is our official duty to see that all the local ordinances ave enforced. Reube Scott, our town marshal, 1s a poor stick of a man, having less sand than & coyote, and being too good natured for his own good. There 1s an ordinance ngainst crowds congregating 1 the corridor of the postoffice and threaten- 10g the life of the postmaster because the eastern muil 18 an hour Jate. We ordercd Reube to enforce this the other day, but he wasafraid to. We therefure went over in our shirt sleeves and began on Colonel jack Smith, and threw twenty-seven men out- aoors hefore stopplng, It was a great sur- prise to the town, and the excitement is still high, but the postofiice is no longer the loaf- ing place it was. As a citizen we are a good fellow and train with the boys. As owner and editor of the Kicker we affect considerable dignity and keep half breed Indians at a distance. As mayor we feel about as big as the president of the United States, and we propose to run this town and run it according to the rules laid down. The public can settle down on this as our polioy, and the sooner they settle the better it will be for all hands, A BaLueapsp Suame.—If there is a public service in the United States which cares less for the comfort and convenience of 1us patrons than the stage route between this town and the railroad we should like to hear it named. The coaches are old rat traps, bought at scrap iron prices in California, the mules are 50 poor ana weakas 10 excite one's pity, and the drivers ave recklessly drunk oftener than they are carefully sober. Itis an- everyday occurrence for one of the coaches “to break down, and we positively know that not one of them has been on time within an hour for a year past. The fare is simply highway roobery, and wo pro- pose to continue to show maiters up until the stage company either brings about a great reform or goes out of business aund leaves an opening for somebody else, LaTeR —The above was put in tyne Tues- day. On Wednesdi y Major White, the gen- inl aind enterprising manacer of the line, called upon and inserted a half column ad. and subscrived for three copies of the Kicker. He also kindly renewed our annual pa: We find we were mistaken about the Each one starts promptly on the n nlways arrives on schedule time. Tho mules are sleck and full of vim, the coactes the most comfortable in the whole west,and such athingas a driver being drunk while on duty has never been heara of. We cheer- fully make the above correction and also re- turn thanks to the major fora box of fine cigars. BHOTHER GARDNER. T hev met heaps o’ people in my time who believed in dreams, but so fur as my own oxperience goes I hev concluded dut it am n dead waste o' sleepin material. De biggest hit I eber made was 1 dreamin dat 1 found abundred aollars on de sidewall, When I got up in de mawnin an went out dar 1 dis- kivered @ nickel. Dat's about de usual shrinkage of dreams so fur 4s my infor- mashum goes. Business an sentimeut should allus be kept separate. When you buy a hoss fur fifty dollars, dat's bizness. Whon you find he's a iicker an a biter an no good, anda preacher offers you sixty aollars fur him, aat's senti- ment, an you should let hiw go wid rapid suddenness, Truth, honesty an industry am threo val- uable jewels hiddea in de ground. Dey was hiaden dar spectin people to dig fur ’em, but it was a great mistake, Wo hev all found dat we kin git along wall 'nuff widout 'em. De man who invonts a labor savin masheon may not make any wmoncy outo’ it, but ho has de consolashun of knowin dat he has belped mankind in gineral to become mo lazy. Der am a streak o' selfishvess rununin all frew de huwmau race, but in some cases it ain very artfully concealed. Fur instauce, when a man rubs his back agin a freshly nmnled doah de owner of 1t_pretends pot to eer how much he carries off ou his clothing, 1 bave knowed & beap o' men in my time who took ‘‘Excelsior’ fur deir motto, but [ hev atlus doubted whether dey Kot aloug any beuter dan ae men who worked right along six days in de week and had chicken fur Sun- day dinner, may be sunthin in de theory of tra migrashun, but 1 see uo oceasion’ to worry over de malter. Should any of us be turned 1uto & dawy in a fucher state I hev wo doubt dat bones will continer to be jest as pleatiful as over. 1 bev bad & right swart o' peojle ocum to me fur advice, In de fust place dey wantod tosave lawyer's foes, and in de next cey 10800 if 1 was as big & fule as doy If 1 diduis agree wid 'em 1 was a big- ger one, of co'se. When you can flud me & wau who wiil willingly adesit his of what ne I : , doan know, T will bet yon dollars to cents dat his righful piace is ‘on do platform in & dime museum. QUAD AND THE CRANKS. The fact that Russell Sage, Jay Gould and other great men hdva been taken so com pletely by surprise when a crank has walked in on them has beon & source of wonder to me. The crank has been a fixturs in this country ever sinco Giuitoau’s time, and I for one, at least, have beon propared for him. T have gone on the idea that he would show up at most any time and piace, and I have not been disappoiated, Whilo | looked for steamboat explosions, railrond smashups breach of promise cases and other calamitios with one eye, I kapt the other peeled for the chap with a grievance in one pocket and & bomb in the other. I think the policy has been a wise one. My first adventure with a crauk was onthe passenger bridge at Niagara "alls. was leaning over the rail at avout the center and figuring on how much of tue falls I could buy after paying my hotel bill, when & wild-eyed chap with lots of wire in his bair and soms foam on his lips camo along ana cried out that if I didn't give bim my check for $1,000,000 he'd throw me over. Ho could have done it as easy as rolling off a log, and he only gave mo ten seconds for reflec tion. 1 didu’t need five. I took out my check book and tore out ® check for $1,000,000, filled in and signed be- fore I ieft the hotel. He at once released me and utterod words of praise for my promptuess and dispatch, and we parted the best of friends. He probably lost the check in “rambling around. I know it was never takon out of my account at the bank. I was in the Mammoth cave of Kentucky and one of the guides whispered to me that he would show me un extra sight without extra charge if 1 would keop still about it. 1 promised not to give him away and wo slipped off into o side gallery and haa got well away from the party when he drew out a knife and announced that the bloated bond- holder business had played out. He didn't Dpropose to live on corn bread and bacon while I reveled in mince pie and angel's food. There must be a whackup or I would havo to occupy a tomb. 1 oxpected he would de- maud at least 3,000,000 in gold from the way he talked, but he was more moderate. He only wanted the few thousand I had with me. 1 gave him my wallet and he skipped. He sent me word the next day that there was @ %2 bill in it, but I think he was mistaken; I was suro it was ouly §1. The next crank 1 encountered was while 1 was sitting 1n a harness shop in Buffalo, The ker had gone out to try and raise I was Yo ctarge. A cross-eyed man, with his back all humped up, walkedn and askea the p-ice of a pair of holdbacks, aod while I was doing ‘some tieuring he vulled out from the back of his coat a gas pipe bomb abont two feet long. 1 took him for the gas oftice man until he told me that he wanted to raise $1.500,000 to experiment on perpetual wotion. He evidently took me forthe harness maker, but it was all the same, I filfed him out a check and sent him away steppiog high. I believe he returnea next day and stabbed tho harness I was not responsible for that, kv must deal with cranks on bis own capital aud according to his own judgment. Again, 1encountered a crank on the big bridge at Cicinnati, It was a dark and rainy eveuning, and he seized me before [ vould determine whether he was a crank or a policeman, . Being prepared for both, how- over, I quietiy asked his price. He turned out to be a man who had written 10,000 fools- cap pages on *“The Philosophy of Thought,” and he only wanted $25,000 to publish and circulate it. He wns so modest sbout the matter that I made it $30,000—by cneck, of course, T hope he has made a howling success of his book. JIE RAISED ME BALE A MILLIOY. T'he ‘most determined crank I ever encoul tored was in the rotunda of the capitol build- ing in Washiogton. I at first ook him for an honest old farmer who had come to town to sell the statesmen of the country arti- chokes or sassafras root, but I was deceived, He drew me asige and showed me a quart bottle of liquid which be explained had 31,000 times the destroying fotes of nitro glycerine, and that unless he was bought off he pro- posed to drop it on the tiled fioor and shatter the whole United States. It looked to me as if that bottlo beld old Kentucky Step High, but there was no time for argument or inves- tigation. He wanted a million, and ho wanted it vight off, quick, 1 cheerfully acceptod his terms,-but had only got my check book out swhen ho raised me half a million. T nodded tbat I ‘'saw’ him, and he maao it two millions, I was wbout to tear out the check when he raised tho bottle aloft and solemnly declared that ne would not spare the United States for a red cent less than §3,000,000. I closed at that figure before he could either throw the bottle or back out. He seemed rather chagrined to think he hadn't tacked on a couple of millions more, but finally pocketed tho bottle and went off down Pennsylvania avenue 1o cash the check, It may be that he couldn’t got anybody to identify nim as “beaver.” as my banker dido’t say a word when 1 drew out my seventeen dollars and closed the deal with him, There isn’t tho slichtest excuse for any capitalist in this country being blown all to rags by the bomo of & crank. Once in a whilo there is a crank who wants to explodo you into believing as be does about a new re. ligion, but its cash most of them want. Have it ready for them. Take a checkbook and fill out checks from $30,000 up to_§5,000,000 each. Iave tho book with you, Be prepared to tear ouv and hand over u check before the man can wink twice, aud don't let him leave your oftice without telling bim that you are much obligad fur bis giving you the prefer- ence, and that you hope he wiil call ngaia. M. Quan, e BOILING PEOPLE ALIVE, Items of Expense ectod With the Old Time Method of Punlshment, A denl of talk is being made abour a certain governor of & Persian province, who is said to inve been boiled alive by order of the shah. It isnot so very lon, since all the nations of Europe practiced boiling alive—commonly in oil, which was thought to impart a finer brown to the person 80 unluckly to be in the cal- dron. In England boiling was the legal pun- fshment for prisonors for a long time, beginning in 1531, in vhe reign of Henry VIL Awmong those who suftered this discomfort wag & man mentioned in the chronicle of the Gray Frinrs, who wus lot down into the kettle by a chain until he was done. He, however, was not boiled in oil—only plain, Somo of the items of un expense account relating to the execution of Friar Stone at Canter- bury, aro interesting in their homely hraseology: Paid to two men thut sut by the kettle and T Y e T AR To three men thit carried Lis ginrters 1o the sates and set them up .. ¢ . For u womun that scoured the kotele. .. 1s - Notice. Unscrupulous dealers have been detected solling spurious Bitters uudoer. the ugme of India . and TInalan Bitters ofous X India - Bitters," aro never sold in bulk. Call for the genuine, which are manufactured aud bottled unliy by ourssives and undor our teude wark label. lusuék Co. THE OMAHA DAILY BE TRYING THEM OVER - AGAIN Omaha Attorneys Tell of Their Early” Ex- periences at the Bar. DAYS OF SMALL FEES AND GREAT GLORY Judge Ambrose’s First Client Gave Him a Waterbury Wateh—Frank Ru; Missed His Feo—Rreen's Gift of Gab. During all of the many vears that have rolled into the past, the unsuspecting and in novent puolic bas labored inder the idea that tho life of the lawyer is a happy one. This misguided publio has had an ides uppermost in its mind that when the disciple of Black- stone hung out his goid-letterod shingle as an invitation to olients, nothing more re- mained but to add up the balances in the bank book, look wise and grow rich. Most people have thought tnat from the word go all lawyors made money, and soon reached & position whero the wolf never thought of lin- gering about the door. This theory has boen exploded, olse the tostimony of several well known Omaba law- yors is not worth any more than that of other witnesses who have been put upon the rack. According to the testimony of trese gentie- men, lawyers do uot grow rich n a day, but have to ctiase the fickle dame “‘Fortune” for many a year before they fully réach the goal where she lavishes her favors upon them with an unspuring hand, A few days ago unumber of the well known members of the Omaha bar were sitting in oue of the court roows in Tur Bee building, waiting for the verdict of a jury, in a case in whioh they wero all interested. Time did not move along on fleet wings, The cigars had been smoked down to the nicotine ends, but the jury still aiscussed the points at issue, as a jury only can. The lawyers at last commenced to talk shop and discuss the ups and downs of their brothers at the bar. This grew tiresome and finally the gathering assumed the nature of an experience meet- ing. Judge Ambrose’s First Case. Judge Ambrose was the first gentleman to unbosom himself, and being the eldest mem- ber of the party, in his usual quiet manuer, remarked: ‘“Boys, if it will not bore you, 1 will teli you something avout my first case and my first fee.” “Let'er go,” answered his companions, “and the first man who files an objection shull be promptly fined.” “lv was like this,”” began.the judge. *‘Tn April, 1563, I was a law student at the Ann Aroor university. 1 was a young man with not a large shave of worldly goods and was ready to turn an honest penny Yo help me along. “There was @& man in the . county jail chargea with some crime, but. just what I'do not remember at this time. [ was a friend of the county sheriff, and one night Le sent for me to go up to the county jail. Hastily pulling on my overcoat aud going to the county bastilo Y found & wen who wanted mo to defend him 1n a case that was to be called for trial the next day. 1spent most of the nignt in conversation with my chent and went into court the next mofuing feeling as big as life. Most of the college students were present 1o see me make my maiden appeavance, My first move was to secure a writ of habeas corpus. This I got on the showing made and when the caso came on for trial my mau was cleared. 1 feltas proud over the results of that case as any that I have tried during the twenty- nine years that I have been engaged in prac- tice “The prosecutor was Hon. Robert E. Frazier o1 Detroit, who nominated Alger for president at the last republican national con- vention held in Chicago.” “But about your fee,” teners. *'1 ha echoed the lis~ about forgotten that,” resporded judge. “My client was a poor man and bad oniy £ in the world. That sum 1 took and uscd in paying the clerk’s costs and buying an internal reyonue stamp, that in those days had to bo placed upon & writ of habeas corpus. Besides this he gave me an ald silver watch that I sold for $2.50. - Uf course, I had to buy the cigars for the boys and after everything had been sottled up, $1.50 repre- seuted the net proceeds of my first law suit. His Client Broke Jail. ““The last criminal case that I tried was in this city eight vears ago. At that time the court house was located on the. corner of Sixteenth and Farnam streets, on tho site now occupied by the Paxton block. Judge Lake was the presiding officer and Judge Doane prosceuting attornoy. Through the influence of Dr. Mercer I was_ rotaiued to defend a colored man who had slasbed an- other colored man with a razor It was an up-hill fight from start to finish. “The proof was against my clieut, and after being out a short time tho jury. roturaed verdict of guilty, I at once-filed'a motion for u new trial, ywhich was set for hearing the noxt Saturday. When that day rolled arouud I was on hand prepared to make a most exhaustive argument. Just then the sherifl camo into court and going up to Judge Lake whispered somcthing in his ear. “The judge smiled, looked at me and said: *Your client has made a motion that s far vetter than the one for a new trial. He Las broken juil and has escape:l’ That ended the case, as the man was never captured.” Ransom and the Pension Shark, at's a pretty fair'pair of stories,” qui- otfy remarked frank ‘L. Ransom, ‘but judge, you are not the only man who had & first law suit. While I may not beas old as you, 1 tried my first case in St. Joseph, Mo, eighteen years ago,’’ Give us your story,” chorused the law- yers. W1t was about this way,” responded Mr, Ransom. “I had a client who was an old soldier. He bad been 1o one of those numer- ous pension agents who existed years ago. My man had made out a good case, the pen- sion had been allowed by the department and tho checks hed been Yorwarded to the agent, who cashed them aud converted the money to his own use. Wewent to trial beforo a justice of the peace, but as [ was unable to make my proof, of course Ilost. 1 felt bad about this,but not so bad as to think that [ was defeated by a nonprofessionalgen- tleman. 1 would have got a good fee, but owing to the turn that matters took 1 never got n cent.” Breel © with the G More cigars were lighted and then Judge Breen told & story, *I wasn't & lawyer wien 1 tried wy first case,” he said. *‘It was over at Forv Dodge, 1., where I was teaching school in a country district. I was just a Leardless youth nineceen years ago, but hav- ing rood use of nry tongue, I was considered something of a talker, Tnere were two old Gorman farmers who bad had some dispute over some lumber that one bought of an- other. Suit was brought and I was retained by oune of the men. The other wentto Fort Dodge aud hired a lawyer, The suit was called at the dwelling house of the justice, but to accominoaate the crowd we adjourned to the school house. We had o picnic sna after two or three hours succeeded in secur- ing a jury. I had not studied law and conse- quently was not famillar with the code of procedure. We went into the trial avo hau a great time. 1 objected and argued, I wran- gled and objected to the great delight of tho spoctators. At last the case was submitted and the jury retired to the woodshed for deliveration, Five mnutes lator the jurors returned, giving my clieat & verdict. “1did not geta centof money, but the glory was enough, as for weeks it was the talk of the neignborhood. That case was the starting point of my legal career.” Made Mis Start fn Omuha, “‘Seeing that first Jaw suit stories ave all the rage, I suppose 1 will have to tell one," modestly remarked County Attorney Ma- honey. “*It wasn September, 1855, I was just out of the lowa City, la., law school, aud with more energy thau money, had come 10 Omaha to grew up with the city. J. H McCulloch was county judge in those good old days. My moaest tin sigu, aunoulving that I was au attornoy-at-law, huug over the door of & Furnam street business hoi aoa & wall sign inaicated that | wus up stairs in a little dingy room, butsomehow the clients did not trouble we a areat deal. Oune day, while [ was wondering where 1 was Lo get’ money 10 pay the next wonth’'s rent which foll due the following week, Frauk Kuopd, & Bonemian, walked iuto my oftice and said, ‘are you a lawyer.’ 1 grasped his baud an informed hiw that by having devoted ears 1o study | thought I was. That sett t aud at onoe the mau uubosomed himself. e was woving from douth Beud, ind,, E SUNDAY, and hnd_g_{ ned his goods to the ¢are of the B. & M. railrond. After recching Omaha they werny stored in tno depot. which burned before they were removed. I brought suit: for the value of tho goods and on the trinl #hn comp p a dn- fonse thatdt'tvas Hable as A common carrier, but not asa yarchouso keeper. That have boemtriie had it not boen for the that my cliont callea on the depot agent each day and wis informod that the goods had not arrivad. The long and stort of tho whole matter was fhat we sccurd a judgment for 8200, of whigh I got balf, according to my agreemont when 1 took the case. Just then wibailiff wnnounced that the jury had agreed'and a rush to the front cut short the telling of any more stories of other days. 19550y 8 HONBY FOR TH fact Whito kid gloves aro again fashionable for evening parfi Black satin slippers are again gaining favor for Louse woar, Walking shoes are made of suede and cloth with too caps of putent leather. Among the dominant styles for spring the French princess bids fair to take the lead. For mourning_wear, very broad hemmed white pocket handkerchiefs are popular, ratner than black bordered ones. Many women preferthe hoavy grained lus- trous poplins to sik, as they are nearly as hundsome aud very much more durable. So acceptable have Watteau draperies be- come that they appear upon jackets and man- tles as well as on tea and evening gowns. So far thero is ino diminution in the popu- larity of the jet girdle, which is finished with a fringe, which falls to the hem of the dress. Girlisi throats are banded by a satin rib- bon wnich is fastened at the back with a rosette and ths long ends fall to the foot hem of the skirt. The fashionable slippor must be so shaped s to clasp the foot closely at the sides, out have a very low Loe, and 1t must be mounted on a high heel, Many of the bretelles areso graduated that in reaching the waist line they taper to a point, while thoy are so broad at tho shoulder as to almost cover it, n’t it tiresome for women to sit down and talk fashion?” *Yes,” replied the dys- peptic husband, “but it is'a good deal more tires: me for them to go out and buy it."” A dress fora reception is of pale yellow velvet, the skirt at the bottom, waist and sleeves trimmed with velvet. The body open toa point overa ruche of orange colored gauze. Daily the boudoir slipper grows moro capricious, Today it is profusely outlined in jewels and beads, tomorrow beneath the per- forated leather we catch the gleam of gold and silver tinted kid. ‘The most striking evening hats now worn are thoso of purest whito and_sombro black, and the proper caper is to wear the white bat with a dark gown, and the black hat with a very light frock. _Sixty-two mitlion dollavs, according to an Boglish authority, are spent annnally in tho United States on cosmetics, and mutton fay is said to be the chief ingredient in many of the most high priced of these articles. Nothing wiil so quickly eatch and hold tho femmino fancy as one of the fragila throat knots. They one and all look as if a puft of air would destroy their thistledown beauty, and yet, they wear well if carefully folded away after being used. In Constantinople the Turkish women are eager to Wear uye costumo of the west, while American women solourning there are just as enger to wear - the Turkish costume. Each thinks the costume of the other ‘“‘just too lovely for,auything.’’ - According ¢o present indications, the spring modes are to be designed for but' one type, one age, one s and one size of woman- hood. If you aré not divinely tall, with broad shoulders, a pipestem waist, an oval face, and plenty of motiey, don’t expect any considera- tion from the powers that be. Misses’ cashimere gowns huve corselet bodices made! vith & seam down the center of the front. :the bottom of the corsclet has a front point, jand the top is cut down to.a V. The seams andredges are corded. with silk, and a wide ruflle of the; silk falls over upon a silk chemisette from inside thé top of the bodice, R A dainty bat to be worn ar an aftornoon recoption is a large ana flaring duchesso lace affair. The/ofésyn and brivs dro tovered with the lace; "Pwo'wings'of lace aud » third of Jet form the back of- tho hat, while a jet but- terfly rests upon-a fold of the lace. The hat is without springs and has a fluffy, airy effect which is very dvessy. The Easter is. a bewitching little bonnet. A band of forget-mo-nots rests upon the hair, above which is a fluted flounce ot black volvot. T'he crown has the Tam o' Shanter effect und is of forget me-not blue crepe, a cluster of black jets finishes the back, an ai- Rrette of blue feaihers studded with jeus waves gracefully just above the soft crown, n:;.l the blug velvet strings lie beneath the chin. Where will tne watch bo found next? It has gone the rounds from the watch pocket to tha bracelet, from the bracelot to the bust, from the bust Lo tho necklace, and from the neckiace to the umbrells top. At present, tiny enameled violins open to display & tiny timepiece. ‘Phie musical girl buys the violin aod wears it as a chatelaine.” An orchid, with & t'n~ watcl in the center, is an oad and pre ty ornament, The *‘bud bodice” is about the sweotest thing in the world of fashion just now, for it is of filmy chiffon, sprayed with tiny rose- buds, and flushing faintly with the color of its rosetinted - lining. The fairy-like tuvric is folded about the fictea lining as if a needle had never toucned 1t, and wbere 1ts edgos caress the white shoulders it 1s fringed with tiny Bon Silene buds and blossoms. Tho plain full skirt of chiffon falls upon a ruche of the flowers, and a cluster of buds fastens the belt; ‘The new spring goods are coarse light and loud. The hairy effects of the winter ma- terials are reproduced in lighter colored and more lightly woven textures. You ask for cheviots, expectiug the firm, smoothly woven fabrics that has. done you such faithful ser- vice 1n the past, aud they will snow you a rough material i bright interwoven threads, with flecks of color and bright little knots appearing on its scrvice, The prevailing colors of these goods are gray aud tan, Bold stripes and_quarter-inch checks of bright or light threads or the smaller pin checks ave shown in dull blue, tan and gray. e Insist on gettiog Cook’s Extra Dry Cham- pague if you waoya pure article; therowre no headaches in it. i — Strength of Orgunized Labor, The handbook of the Federation of Labor shows the strength of the seventy four national trade unions of the United Stutes to be 676,117 The Carpenters Brotherhood leads, «with 65,000 mem- bers; Amalgamated Tron and Steel Workers, 60,0005 Ivon Moulders Union of North Amewen! 41,000, International Bricklayors auwd:Stone Muasons union, 000; ~ Brothértiood of Locomotive Enginoers, 80,0005 International Typo- graphical uniohJs28,000; Cigarmakers International @hjon, 27,000; Brother- hood of Locomotive. Firemen, 25,000; United Mine Wdtkers, 20,000; Granite Cutters Natiomali union, 20,000; Jour- neymen Bakerd Wutional union, 17,500; Journeymen Tailors union, 17,000, and the Brotherhosd’sf Railroad Trainmen aud Brotherhandipf Painters and Dec- orators, eadh "?‘,H 16,000, FEBRUA R_\_’___ [ THE T, E.'S OF ADANS COUNTY | might | 1892 INTEEN PAG An Assortment of Historical Facts, Ancient and Modern, GLEANINGS FROM THE EARLY RECORDS First Events, Political, Judicial and Socinl— Location The amping Ground and Home of Noted M JUsiaTy, Neb,, Feb, 12.—~This vast territo ry was held by France upon the claims of their celebrated countrymen La Salle, way back in 1652, and cailed by him Louisiana, then travsferred for a time tu Spain, then again to France in 1800, and finally by pur. chase to the United States in 1808, out of which was carved Adams county in the yeac 1867, Adams Is in the second tler of couuties north of the Kansas line and 120 miles west of the Missourl. 1t consists of townships 5, 6, 7and 8 in ranges 9, 10, 11 and 12, almost midway between tho fortieth and forty-first dogrees of north latitude and the twentieth and twenty-tirst degross of west longitude, embracing 570 square miles, or 308,640 acres of land. The elevation above sea level at Juniata is about 1,020 feet. The famous Lows and Clarke's exploring expedition ocrossed the county, as _woll as those of the “Pathfinder,” Jotn C. Fremont. ‘L'nis coun- ty has been the home of many noted scouts trappers and guides, among iwhich were Kit Carson, Wild Bill, California Joe and others. Adams county was organized for judicialand executive purposes December 12, 1871, Adams county has the famous lone well known as the “old government well,' 'located about two miles east of Kanesaw, dug in 1840, by some ono to sell water to the gold hunters on their way across the plaius to Caltfornia. It was 100 feet deep, curved from bottom to the top with logs hauled from the Blue river, One morning in the early 50s the proprietor of the weil was massacred by the Indians and the water poisoned. Soon after, Mr. Harto and his family stopped and drank of the poisoned water, and the follow- g night Mrs. Harte died and was buried on the old trail not far away, known as the “lone grave.” The first regular meeting of the county commissioners was held January 2, 1872, ad- journed to meet January 16, 1872, at Juniata, then the county seat. W. Selleck and S. L. Brass were commissioners and Titus Bab- cock deputy county clerk. The first term of distriet court in Adams county was opened May 0, 1873, in the school in Juniata, Judgo Daniel Gantt presiding, with Russell S. Langley as sheriff and R. D. Babcock elock. The first grand jury was composed of Ira G Diilon, Harmon H. Ballaw, W. H. Burr, R. D. Carrvier, George Dade, John Hus ton, Clark’ Morrison, Edward Moore, C. 'B. Nelson, James Marsh, John Plauk, Abraham Parks and C. W. Wilson. ‘The first suit presented waus that of Edna H. Bowen vs The Chailenge Mill company other was the consideration of admitting James Laird to the bar of this state. B. IV Smith and Titus Babcock were admitted to the bar. June 15, 1889, H. A. Moreland, Jos- eph A. Robertsou and sixty-two others pre- sented a petition for the incorporation of the village of Juniata, 1t was granted und the first trustees were 8. T. Brass,Ira G. Dillon, H. B. Wells, . M. Allen and L. F. Pickerd: In 1877, aftor many hard fought contests, the county’ seat was moved from. Juniata to Hustings. The first deaths that occurred in Adams county were two men named Robbins and Lumas, in 1870, who were murdered by a man named Jake Haynes. ‘The first couple married after settling here was Eben Wright and Susan Gates. Mr. Kress took them to Grand Island, October 10, 1870, where the ceremony was performed. The first marriage that took place i the county was Roderic Lomas and Lila War- wick, the ceremony being performed by the bride’s fatter, John Warwick. He also preached the first sermon in Mr, Kress' log bouse, in 1 The irst child born in tbe county was to Frank Lucy and wife in 1870 ‘Lhe firstload of - grain was hauled to Hast- ings in 1873 by W.'S. Mount. F. M. Lucy enterea the first homestead in Adams county, March 5, 1870; J. R. Carter was the third person to enter land in our county, and his wite, Elizaboth, was the first white woman to make a howe here, The st _precinct named in_the county was uniata,” second, Little Blue. The first newspaper in Adams county was the Gazette, by C. C. Babcock. The first deed recorded was that of John and Margaret Stark, to Charles F. Morse, dated Oct. 81, 1871, for the northeast quarter of section 12 and 7, range 11, in consideration of £500. The Adams County Agricultural society was organized at Juniata, March 9, 18 with E. M. Allen, president. The first schcel in Adams count; opeved one mile south of iata in 187 Miss Emma Leonard, and the same year Juniata . by Miss Lazzie Scott. 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