Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 24, 1892, Page 8

8 NO MORE ORDERS FOR DIXO Attornoy General Miller Seals the Soldier's Fate With a Telegram. TALK WITH THE CONDEMNED PRISONER e rry o Will Give His Life for Army dlce and Not to a Demand Justice—Wnl e Betrayed? of Law The last glimmering of hopo that may have lingered in the mind of Clinton E. Dixon as to the probability of securing a commutation of seaterco from the president of the United States was dispalied today av uoon by a message from Washington, In order to kuow whethor the preparations for tho execution shouia be continued Mar shal Slaughter sent a telogram to Attorncy General Miller Wednesday night asking for information with regard 1o the attitudo of the highest authority of the nation touching the case. In responso to his telegram tho marshal received the following yestorda Bradford D. Siaughter, United €tates mar- #hal. Omaha, Neb. No further orders in refer- ence to Clinton E. Dixon. MILLEIR, Attorney General, All that now remairs to be done in the case 15 the ennctment of the last ghastly rites. The stockade tins been completed, the gal- lows erected and everything put in readiness for the springing of the instrument of death, The scaffold, which is too small by one-half for a neut and unhampered job,stands facing tho kitchen door of the jail, and as if in mockery has been painted o’ deep maroon. Thirteen steps, the ill-favored numbver, lead 10 the platform, commencing at the bottom step descending from the juil door, and the whole is inclosed in & tight board palisade, T he only ingress the lieht of heaven will got 1o the contines of this dismal pen is by way of the skylight imniediately ubove the trap, ‘I'ne whole concern is of vory circumscribed limits and will admit of but fow spectators. Rumors of & Mob. While the authorities take but little stock In the story, they have unquestionably been notified to' expect trouvle, A mob, it is rumored, has been organized, if tho ex- pression goes, for the purnose of assaulting tho jwil and demolishing stockade and scaffold. It is the dotermination, if possible, 0 runs the information received, to prevent the cxecution, and as a _procautionary meas- urea strong forco will bo on guard until after tho hanging is over. A Bek reporter spent an hour with the condemned man yesterday morning. ather Rigge nad just left him and ho was faicly buobling over with animal spirits, seem- ingly as happy and hopeful as is within the scopo of eurthly possivility. No one would have dreamed that at high noon today this laughing and apparently careloss boy is 1o be ushercd into the presence of his maker. But it must not be inferred from this statement that there is anything of the brag- gadocio or defiant in his demeanor, for thereis not, He has made his peace with man aod God, and realizes fully and combletely that theso aro his last hours of life, Ho wel- comed the reporter with a cheery smilo, and an attempt at a handshake, ana entered into the spirit of conversation that followed with n keen zost that showed he was glad of an opportunity to thus occupy the fleeting moments. He said that the good father had been with him to keep him from gotting lonesome, and thav during the afterncon the priest would entl ngain, together with Bishop Seannell, for the purpose of administering the rites of confirmation, Not Afrald to Die. “No," said he, in responseto a question, “1 huve not given up all hope, and 1 will not as long as 1 am allowed to live, ~You know the old saying 1s whero there’s life there’s hope, and it holds good in my case thosame a3 with all other unfortunates. ButI am perfectly preparea for the worst, and will meet it like & man. Of courso I may not be as calm in the final momeunts as I am now, for the man was never born who could boldly walk to bis death, knowing the exact wminute @lmost that his lifo was to end, without flinching a littie, and I will provably rove no exception to the rulo. I donot now what my feelings will be just then, and if 1did [ wouldn’t know how to describe them. I do know, though, that1am nota bit afraid to die. We have all got to die some time—that is something none of us can escape. 1 die tomorrow, you the next day, or this afternoon or tonizht for all wo know. And what aoes it all matter. 1 havo little to live for, and can never be 50 well prevared for death again. The manner of my death is all that troubles me, being that [ have to go, and still what1s there in the disgrace! It all euds on the trap tomorrow, and can't fol- low to whete 1 am going. I know I have tho sympathy of thousands of good people, a0a my momory. will last about as long ns that of most ordinary men. A woek or ten days, and wo are forgotten, unless by a very fow who may be especlally close and dear to e “Would a commutation to life imprison- ment please you much “Ob, yes 1 would accept it gratefully, for, as I said before, thero1s always hope in lite, However, it I was absolutely certain that my days must be dragged out behind the bars, I would a thousand’ times prefer to go to my gcath,” And in his eloquent heroism tho bov’s eyes shone with the light of undoubted truth, and as ho gazed through tho ivons he looked really handsorme. The Condemned Man's Story, see,”” coutinued Dixon, “I is' not justice that koeps mo bore, but the wroug; 1f it had not been for prejudico and perjnry, no such fato would be staring me n the face. Tho story of the crime! Why, haven’t you read Itt Not Well, I will tell vou, and tell you the truth. This man Carter bad no use for colored poople, and he boasted of having killed a couple ' in the south, and he would Just us lenyo kil ouo any time as he would a mad dog. There was alot of fast colored women who used to drive out to the fort o aveuings, and gonerally thoy would stop at my barbor shop whero the boys always con- grogated, Oue evening therd were two or throo of them thero, and Corporal Carter got fato a fight with ono of then back of my shop. 1 ran out, hohad her on the ground and was kicking hor brutally. I asked what he meant, i ho intended to kill the woman, and [ took hold of him and pulled bim away, Ho said It wasn't the first nizgor he had killed, 0d if [ didi't drive thom off he'd fix me. Afor thav the boys came Lo me and told me Carter was threatoning mo and that 1 had better look out, as ho was an ugly customer. This worrled mo considorablo and the poxt duy I weut to Valentine ana bought half gallon of whisky. 1gotdrunkand when 1 got pack it all came up to me about Carter, That ovening we wero all iu canteen drink- g beer, and one or two of the boys told me 1 must look out for Carter. Aund as we talked 1t over I gotwild aud jumping up said I was golng to speak.to him. I had a revoiver, which I had borrowed the day be- fore, to defend myself with, Well, 1 got up and went to his quarters and called him out, Ho came, too, like a wild animal, and when 1 saw what & rage he was in I was sorry I bud called hiw; it was alla bluff onmy part, you know; [ aiduw't think he wouid come, aud when he did, [ was scareda.” Aud Dixoni laughed heartily as ho recalled how his bluft failed to go, o said the boys bad often workod that racket aud it alwa; went, bat this time it didn’t. “Well, I saw ! was i for it, and for othing better to say, I asked bim why he ck that woman, but before I could got Auy furthor he jumped onto me like a do, He caught tue fleshy part of m hand in his teoth; seo here, there's tho scar youi" aud Dick, his frionds call him Dick, put'the palw of his hand up to one of the aporiures displuying an ugly, ragged soar where indicated; ‘“and ho wouldn't let K0 until he had bitten my through, Then I didn't wait, but remawbor I was drunk and oxcited, snd 1 pulled mv gun aud shot hiw. Thatis the true history of the case, and all there is to it. Lkaow [ do uot deserve the punishment to bo doalt me, but I bave nothing to regret, nothing muth to iive f 3 Effocts of Prison Life. ‘‘Has the unfavorable nows caused any ehange i your mode of every-day lifel" “Ob no, I am wore thoughtful, of course, but am not frighteuened or uorvous at il by, when 1 was first convicted, 1 W L0 Lave uorrible dreams every P “You Shat it feol ™ THE OMAHA DAILY FRIDAY | Thin Coats and Vests, In Mohairs, Serges, Alpacas, regular stores DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS, cheviots, all new shades, on second counter from front, 52.20 will ask $4 for them. Plaid Flannel Coats and Vests, Only a few left. nand tbhrongh and | 80.0 Pants In Worsteds, Corkscrews and Cassimeres, stripes, light colors, blacks, etc., 5 up, STRAW HATS, 80c¢ up. MAIL. ORDERS FILLED. All together cleaned us out of our $5 suits, and now we place on sale 400 FROCKS AND SACKS at 8$10.00 They are worth up as high as $20 a suit and are in cassimeres, worsteds, NECKWEAR IN ENDLESS VARIETY. BEST SILK TIES. SOGRIMEISTE A i BINO OFIIES RS S . S 8 00 TEN LOOK AT THE WINDOW. Thin Underwear, 25¢ garment. 5 colors Underwear at $1.00 a Suit, Others ask $2. Suspenders 15¢c, were 35c. Suspenders 25¢c, were 50c. Our 50O ¢ White Shirts are the envy of all. ¢ For Stainless Black, Brown, Ecru and Tan Sox, worth 25c. Colored Shirts 50c, 75¢c, 81, up to the finest black silk stripe Shirt at $2.50 that Hellman used to sell for $4. Biggest Bargain of all $1 WAS Swiss Conde Outing Shirts, $2 -All colors, non-shrinkable. Omaha never saw such a bargain before. All Prices. night I was either being hung or escaping, one or the other. Oune night I dreamed that I escaped and that Charlie Lyons was after mo. We ran and ran and ran, but he could get Just so closo and no_closer, when sud- denly I found myselt on the roof of a big, high building, and at last Charlie was about to grab me. ‘Then 1 jumped off, foot fore- most, but instead of falling 1 bogan to fly like & bird, and looking over my shoulder [ bollered: *Oh, you can't get mo now, old voy ! and 1 flow off somewhere into cpace, I don’t know where,” aud Dixon laughed in: ordinately at the ridiculous character of this nocturnal disturbanco. o “‘Aunother time,” he continued, “I dreamed I was dead. That T was huog. T feit awful (mmf'. vut, of course, cannot tell you how. But I was dead, sure'onough, and can sce myself now as I looked all laid out ready for the grave. When I awoke I could not tell whetlier 1 roally was or wasn't., How was that for a dreafn And again ho langhed. and seomod little like & man entering_into the valley of the shadow of death. Dixon snowed tho re- porter many lotters from friends and com- ragdes, all of thom filled with expressions of decp condolence, sympathy and sorrow. The lotters from his old partiers in the yranks, one and all, denounced in bittercst terms the unjustness of the verdict accorded him, and unanimously the man Carter was referrod to as o dangerousand disreputablo character. 1f Dixon had been ullowod his witnessos, many of thewm aver, he would be a free man today, “‘Don’t fail to como and seo me again,"sald Dick as the reporter aroso toloave him, “you won't have a chance much longer, and you know I claim you as & friend, for you talked 40 kind to mo the night you passed with 2d Neal,” Dixon Second on Judge Dundy’s List, Judge Elmer 5. Dundy has boon judge of the fode of Nobraska for twenty-eight years, During that timo he has bsen called” upon to sen- tonce throo men to bo hanged. The first was Judge Cyrus Tater, who killed a man at Sulpbur Springs, a few' miles above Omaha, in 1862, He was found guilty ana senteuced to be hanged ou the very spot whers no com- mitted the murder. Heé was hanged in 1863 at Sulphur Springs in accordance with the coud man sentenced to bo hanged by Judgo Dundy was Adams, the slayer of Crouch, tho Oilaboma boomer. His case red toJudge Duady for final action, and from Judgo Dandy ho received a son- tence of death, but ho finally secured a new trial, and was sent on the second trial to the penitentiary on being convioted of man- slaughter. Dixon will hethe second man hung by order of sentence from Judge Dundy’s court. Along listof criminals have gonoto the ponitentiary from Judgo Dundy’s court, but the threo given hore are all that havo been given tho soverost senteace for which the law provides, Betruyed by His Comrades, A man who had dealings with Dixon in an omcial cap and who has watched the caso closely, suld yesterday : “If Dixon haugs it will be through the troachery of somo of bis cowrades. When tho case was called for trial there were eight or nine soldiers here who wero very favor- ablo to Dixon. Their story, as told to Dixon and his attorney, would have acquitted the accused, But ttiey were called over to the federal buliding by somo of the oficers of Dixon's reglment, and when they came on the witnoss stand thoy told s story which resulted in a " verdict acalast Dixon, It was @ very different version of tho 0ase to the one they gave Dixon and bis lawyer. ‘This looks bad, and especially 50 in view of tho fact that at least three of tho men in question have been promoted wiuce thoir return to thoir post. “Dixon was treated shamefully by the army oficials after bis arcost and Dofore bis trial - He was kept in shackies and s strong guard over him, and they gave orders to have bim kept in solitary coutinement, even berore his trial, and tried to preveut him from writiog or recsiviug letters, The offloers of Ul company have given bim the worst of 1.’ — Boecham's pills wili save doctor’s bills, il b, New York wnd Return, July4to 6 ono fare for the round trip. ~ Chole routes from Chicago. Return 'imit August 16, Call at Chi- cago, Rocik Island & Pacific Ry. ticket oflice, 1602 Farnam street. N. W, P, A. Cuas, KENNEDY, C J, L. DE Bevoisk, City Tkt & P, A, | court in the territory and stato. T0 CLOSE OUT STONEHILL'S The Laces, 8ilk Waists, Notions and Small Wares ALL GO WITH A RUSH As Long ns They Last—There Will Be Big Bargains in Both Stores Tomor- row—There Will Bea Crowd —Come Early. All the fine point de Irelunde silk and linen laces will go on sale tomorrow at a fraction of their real value. Silk mitts at 15¢ and 25¢ that Stonchill sold for 35c and 5)c. Bargains in ladies’ lawn waists at 4lc and 75¢ oach, Silk waists at $2.50 and $5.00 each. Stonehill sold them from $5.00 to $10.00. All the handkerchiefs that Stonehill s0ld up to 15¢ go at 3e. All the handkerchiefs that were sold from 25¢ to 50c will go at 15¢ each to- morrow. All the silk, leather and velvet belts at 15¢; Stonehill’s price was up to 75c. All Stonehill’s ribbons in three lots, ga. 7cand 12c. They were from 8c to c. STONEHILL'S NOTIONS. All the choice toilet soaps, Stonehill’s price from 10c to 25¢, go at 3e. Stonehill’s fine writing paper and en- velopes, worth up to 10c per box, go at be. All Stonehill’s embroidery silk goes at e a dozen, Knitting silk, 15¢ a bail, Combs, i Sufety pins, lc a dozen. All silk elastic at 10c a yard. hill sold it up to b0c. Stonehill’s curling irons, 5c. All the dress buttons tha sold up to 25¢ a dozen morrow at STONEHILL'S DRESS FINDINGS. All the belting, linen, cotton and silk, goes at 1o o yard. All the silk binding ribbon 5c a bolt. All the stockinet shields at hc a pair. All kinds of dress stays 5¢ a dozen, Hooks and eyes, three cards for 1 Skirt braid "le. All the needl And in like proportion we sell notions in the store, ONEHILL" Wo still rave immense quanti Stonehill’s fine dress silks, whic are selling at 26c, 80¢, 60cund Gde a yard. Stonehill called them big bar- guins at 50¢, 60 and $1.25, Thesoe goods are sold at both stores. THE BOSTON STORE, + W. Cor, 16th and Douglas streets. e Low Rutes to New York and Return, The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co. will sell excursion tickets from Chicago to New York and return at rate of 416,00 for the round trip for all through trains leaving Chicago July 5 to7, in- clusive. The tickets will be valid for return journoy until August 15, and will be good for stopover at Deer Park, the famous mountain resort on the summit of the Alleghanies, and also ot Wash- ington City, Tickets to New York and return via B. & O. railroad will also be on sale at the offices of the princi- pal roads throughout the west. For full information as to time of trains and sleeping car aecommodations apply to L. 8. Allen, assistant gencral Ymengu agent, B, & O. railroud, The Rookery, Chicago. e—— Hayden Bros. 8-string cabinet grand upright piano, new scale, Stone- Stonehill we will sell to- SILKS, — Dr, Cullimore, ocuilsi, Bes nmldlng‘ Knee Pants, The People’s has closed out the entire product of a large knee pants factory at # of regular prices, and in ovder to r alittle run will sell them tomorrow, Friday, June 24, At exact cost, Only 2 pair to any one customer. 19c for worsted pants. 25¢ for satinet pants. 89c for cassimere pants. 50¢ for cheviot pants. 63c for knee pants worth up to $2.00. These prices are for Friday only, and only 2 pairs to any one customer. People’s Clothing House. Ts just like giving you $1.00 bills for 50c, or 2 pairs of pants for the price of one. PEOPLE’S CLOTHING HOUSE, 1303 Douglas street. Wm. Fleming & Co. sell Union Soap. Round Trip Tickets, The only line running through trains direct to Denver, Colorado Springs, Manitou and Pueblo. Low rates to all points in Colorado, Utah or Pacific const points. Fast time on elegant vestibuled trains, froe reclinicyg chair cars and the celebrated “‘Rock Island dining cars.” Comfort, safety and speed secured when ticketed via the ‘Great Rock Island Route.” Ticket office 1602 Farnams yreet. CHARLES KEN Xy J. L. DEBEvVOIsE, G.N.W. P. A, City Ticket and Pass. Agt. L O FOUR EXCURSIONS Via the Wibash Line. 1st Cincinnati and return $19.10. For the national prohibition conven- tion the Wabash will sell round tickets at above rate on June 27 a 2d New Yo k and roturn $28.75, Less than half fare. For the Young People’s Society of Christian IIndeavor convention the rates on June 4,5 and 6 with ice of voutes via St. Louis or Chicago. 3d ratoga and return $30. For the Nutionnl Educational assoc tion the Wabash will sell round twrip ickets at ubove rato 'July 4 to 10, with choice of routes via St. Louis or Chicago. 4th Detroitiand return $20.50. For the Buptist Young Peo ple’s unlon the Wubash will sell round trip tickets at above rate July 12 and For tickets, sleeping ear nccommodn- tion and a tolder- giving lists of routes, side trips, cost:of same, with other valuable iuformation, call at Wubash office, 1502 Parnmm street, 0r write GEORGE N. CLAYTON, N. W. P.and Agent, Omaha, Neb, Half Rates to Sweatogs Mailr The Baltimores & Ohio railroad will sell tickets to Saentoga Springs, N, Y., on the occasiomof the meeting of the National Iducational association, for one fure for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale July 5 to 7 inclusive, and will be valid te return until July 19 in- clusive. All B, & O. vestibuled express trains, witn Pullman sleeping cars, pass through Washington. For full infor- mation as to rates, ime of trains and sleeping car accommouations apply to nearest B. & O. agent, or L. S. Allen, assistant general passenger ugent, The Rookery, Chicago. At Nebraska Christian En And thelr friends in Nebrasku have se- lected the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway as the official route from Chicago on the ocension of the an- pual meeting in New York, July 7 to 10, Circulars glving fu!l information romptly mailed on application to B, P. fumphrey, T. P. A., 721 Main_ street, Kausus C G K, Wilber, Western Passenger figem. Chicago. ,via B, & 0. vorers Bunding The following pormits woro issued by the superintendent of buildings yesterday: i Clark, one and one-half story Twenty-seventh and Mere- e and one-] ty-saventh and M G 1,000 u rle, one story fri t irty-sixth and Ames avenue. A Martin. one und one- half 'story dwe North Nineteenth “one-hinl streets ... Ten minor pel Total....... WeepiNG Warer, Neb., Oct. 28, '90.—Dr, Moore: My Dear Sir—I have just bought the third bottle of your Tree of Life. It is indeed a “Treo of Life.”” Doctor, when you 80 kindly gave me that first bottle my right side was so lamo and sore_and_my liver en- larged so much that I could not lie upon my right side at all, There was a soreness over my kidneys all of the time, but now that troublo is all over. I sleop just as well on oneside as on tho other, and my sleep rosts and refreshes me, and I feel the best I've felt in fifteen years, and I know that it is all due to your Tree of Life. Yours very trul D. . DUDLEY. For salo by all druggists. =0 The W. A. Page Soap Co. are pub- lishing each week a ditferent list of ten merchants who sell Union Soap. Watch for your grocer’s nami Murrlage Licenses. County Judge Eller issued marriage licensos to the following yesterday : Name and address. {Hans Wigge: Age § Auzust O 1Christeni {Peter i B Omaha TJessie M. Yarnell, Omihi “Lato to bed and early 1o r1so will shorten the road to your homein the skie But carly to bed and “‘Little Barly RRiser,” the vill that mukes life longer and better and wiser., ————— B. Newman sells Union Soap. CA L Sl Mary Mattheis has asked the courts to separate her from her husband, Claus Mat- theis, 10 whom she was married on Septem- ber 11, 1 Sho charges extremo cruelty npon sundry and divers occasions, Claus, the petitioner nlleges, is wortn property of the value of mora than §25,000, which thé pe- titioner desires to have divided for the sup- port of herself and childre Twin Cf staug Drop a postal to Treynor & MceGee, 10 Pearl street, Council Bluffs, and get a vest pocket program of the coming Chautauqua and mid-summer musicul fostival, July 2-17. Threo popular en- tertainments and lectures daily. Spenk- s and singers of national reputation. Tents, ete., furnished at nominul prices, — - Morris Neer sclls Union First Class & for all Limited—. leaving Chicago on ti of July, agents of the Pennsyl company will sell at a rate considerably less than the regular fare one way class excursion tickets from Chic New York and return over the Pennsyl- vania Short Lines, good returning for 40 days, or until August 15, J, H. Luce, at 248 Clark streot, Chicago, will tell you all about it. P’lease address him. Rout by iat | fur 60 Boap anid 145 pago b ‘wndHeauty seiitseal 'TENNIS SHOES WHOLRESALEK Mackintosh Clothing---Wholesale. Rubber Clothing---Wholesale. Ger man Sox--Wholesald Fish and Shield Slickers---Wholesale. WESTERN AGENT FOR THE Grand Rapids Felt Boot Co., Meyer Rubber Shoe Co., New Jersey Rubber Shoe Co. NO GOODS AT RETAIL. Owing to greatly increased tusiness I have been compelled to rent the ground floor, 44x1560 feet, on cornar of Howard anil Two!fth streets, in addition to ths building Inow occupy at 1111 Harney st-est, tohold the stock I am gotting for fall and winter. Send for L.sts, discounts, etc. %P, T IN DS Y, 1111 Harney Street, Omaha, Neb. K c BAKING B sPOWDER. D5 ozs.ForR 25C. ABSOLUTELY PURE. JUST TRY IT. PAXTON & GALLAGHER, Omaha,Neb & WELL BRED SAPOLIO Are Quickly Married. Try it on your next House-Cleaning. DrDOWNS 18168 .Douglas Street, Omaha, Neb. nt spects ad unnary dlsease e ot raduatd o T ot i el night etinnt 10 Modiving or instraments sont by Do personal interviow preferr OFrean a9 Omos boun r e ) 2 ook (Mysieries of Life) sent frew. o0 o undays 10 & w40 44 . Sead skawp (0 Fepids *Nerve Seeds. the wonderful remeny - uc.‘lu‘l: ; lh. writs " e 10 core all nervous discases. & ak Yomory, PBra s, ifoa Lottinons, Lost Manhood, Nightly ms and 1ok Of power of the Generatlsa tion, youthtul errors, or excessive . X 0 rw) (All;l:.l: Ty I veu 3 ¢ Heran WA Gvary 8 orer wa oive o wrliten suavanils t cura BEFOME AND & ¥TER USINO. GF refund the money. CArcular ree. Addices Newv o Hocd Co., Chicagy, Eily For sale in Omaha by Sherman &McConnell, 1618 Dodge street, Pt U ¢