Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1892, Page 21

SALVATION OF THE BUFFALO Last Hops is in the Hord Now Owned in Omaha. TAMING THE MONARCH OF THE PLAINS Adventures of “Buffalo’ Jones in Captur. | g Wild Animals—Breaking Them 0 the Yoke~Clothing Buffalo Wool. trom Five milos west from the city of Omaha, Neb.,, grazing over o magnificent rolling prairin, may bo seen thoso aayvs a herd of strange looking animals. A barooed wire fonco limits their wanderings and a group of whooping cowboys, mounted on branded ponies, rounds them up moraing and night into a corral, where the curious are por mitted to view them at 25 cents a view. They are Amorican bison, curiosities aven 1n this westorn city and on these bills whichf only a few yoars ago shook with the troad o the mighty armies of their ancestors, What magnificent monsters they are and how grandly they loom up over their puny dred on tho neighboring bills, the domost cattle! There are sixty in the herd tho monarch. Plainsmen, who have slaugh- tered his kinsmen by the hundred, say thoy never saw a finer animal. He weighs 3,000 pounds; his brown beard nearly swoeps the ground; his strong, biack horns aro almost lost In a magnificent crest of silky brown hair and his shoulders aro lovel with the head of a tall man, “Devilish Dick,” as ne is called, 18 almost as fiue a specimen, but there is a viclous gloam in his eyo which provi a vory close inspection of bis points. IPour years ago one of the cow- boys care a little too noar this tromendous brute, and ono sudden toss of tho massive bead sent the cowboy to the country where there are not supposed to b ba ffa loss. This 15 the C. J, Jones herd of bufTalocs, one of the few melancholy remnants of tne mil- lions that once swarmed over the plains, and almost the only hope of the perpetuation of tho specios. The disgracoful story of tho extermination of the American bison has no”parallel in the history of game slaughter. Forty years ago it would have beon as eusy Lo numbor the loaves of the forest as to calculato the strength of tne vast hosts which swarmed over all the western plains and bills, from the Mississippi to the Pacific and from Canaan to tho guif, Of all the quadrupeds which ever inhabited the earth, naturalists tell us, 1nO one species ever marshaled such innumerablo armies as did the American bison. As late as 1871 It is estimatod that thero were in the great southern herd, which covered the country south of the line' of the Union Pacific railway, between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 hoad. In that yeur the railroads penetrated the country and the systematic slaughter began. The roport of the Smithsonian Institution Rives those figuros for tho “*hunting for the three following years: In 1872 whito bunters killed 1,491,450 buffaloes and utilized the hides of 497,iG3. In 1873 tho number slaughtored was 1.508,- 053 and the number used was 754,320, In 1874 only 155,553 were kiled and 12 wero vsed. Of the gigantic arny of butchered by white mea during these throe yoars over halt’ wero left lying untouched Where they fell, ‘foday even the bones which whitened the F!ulna for miles nave disappeared and thero s not known to survive a singie specimen in » wild state, In 1587 there was a herd of government protection at Yoliowstono paric. There may be a few there now, but nono have been scen for a year or_moro and they are supposed to haye been killed off. Besides the Omahu berd there are a few others in captivity, some kept for breeding purposes and others for exhibition. Mr. Charles Allard in the Fluthead Indian eservation, Montana, has thirty-seven head. Buffalo Bill's wild 'wost show numbers Bmong its attractions a herd of thirteen buffaloes subject to 80 many dangers from discaso and accidont that very littio can bo hopud from it in the way of perpetu- ating the specics, Mr. Cnarles Gooduight of Clarendon Tex., has nine head. In the Phila- delphia Zoological gardens there are eieht. [n Lincolu park, Chicugd, thero are six head &nd in balfa ‘dozen other places thero aro held groups of two and three and severul singlo animals, With tho Jones herd an earncst and ntel- ligent offort is being made to save the species from utter extinction, and the fact that the animals may vo domesticated and mado a source of profit has also been demon- strated. Mr. Joues is perfectly woll qualified for this task. He was in the center of distrib tion of the great southorn herd from 1860 untdl their final disappearance aud was by profession a buffalo hunter. ‘When the great alaugnier bogan in 1871 he was employed by his noighbors to shoot buffalo at 50 conts o head, and thoy would follow him and secure the hides. His method was what is known *still Dunting” and he hus averaged from thirty to forty head a day. Ou ono ocoasion ne shot seventy-two head without shifting Dis ground. Ho acknowledges that ho wi frequently ashamed of his work, but with the whole country out hunting he did not foel liko wissing his shure. In 1573 he began to realize that the wholesalo sluughter was beginuing to make inroads upon what tuen appeared an inexhaustiole supply of game, and made his first effort to preserve tho cies. On the Solomon river in wostern Kansus he captured seven calves which he subsequently sola. He went on expeditions 10 the tast receding hauots of the animals each yoar aftorwards until 1555 and tho herd now at Omahu is & testimonial to his cour- age, skill and pluck In the chaso. Every one of the adult animals was ron down, lassoed nud tied with bis own hands. His last aud greatost fest was in May, 1838, “Lhere was known 1o be at that timo @ small herd in the uniohabited “panbandlo’ of Texas which could not long escaps the rifle, With an claborato ‘“outfit” of men, horses, and camp equipage Mr. Jones startod from Garden City, Ka>., to cupture it. ~ For forty-tvio days and nights the party followed the animals across the staked plaius unul they had finally lassoed or rounded up tho entireherd. Only buffalo bunters can roal- 1ze what such an achievement mean: From this herd “Buffalo” Jones now se- cures threo or four full blooded buftalo ch year and & nuwber of half broeas— catalo,”’ he o lls them, Tho hybrid prod- uet of the buffalo aund Galloway eattlo is o magnificent animal. Its robe is nearly black, § fine and silky in texwure and with a britijan Juster churactoristio of the Galloway cattle, For enough of one of these robes to mike a coat Ludy Foster, wifo of T'reasurer Foster of Caunda, once offered Mr. Jones $500, iog she preferred it to sesl. In balf breeds the domestic to vredominate, snd the casual observer might not notice tho long bair, bump at the shoulders und the ness wbout tho head, beeu bred back sixteenth dom: eyo could seo no blooded buffato. ‘I'he profits of buffalo raising are very con- suderaole, The animal feeds cheaply and looks after bimself in all sorts of weathor. His robe alona 1s worth the price of two good bullocks, In domesticatiou bis meat s equal toany range beef. One good animal will jeld” each vear fur suflicient to make a Rinkots A inxidermist will £1ve. from $100 10 #8600 for s heud and if Mr. Jones' big bull, Jumbo, were put on the market he would vring §1,000. wnn the possibilities of domestication ay bols yotto be determived. The two hl. bulis of tbe Omaha herd are driven to a oart by the owner. and whon it is considered shat their agility is remarkable for she size of tho auwimals, tbat their strengih 1s tremendous aud that thoy bave tho speed of the averago horse this means somethig, This novel chariot team, with perbap u\no wholo herd, will form ono of the 'actractions ot the World's fuir at Chicago. Mr. Jones is wore than an_adventurer or a speculator. e has becowe an enthusiasy on the subject of buffaloes, 8ud no wan ever Toe bobby more bonestly or earvestly, 'hen be began capluring these auimals he kuow uo more of iheir pecullarities thua kin wnd Jumbo is 200 uoder say- animal seems the small bt shaggi- Theso catalo have until they were_ only one- tie, when even his tralned difference from the full THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. DEC other plainamen, but his association with them has filled him with a love for the great shagey brutes and a eeal for thair tion that is quite sublime in 1ts way. In beginning the work of subjuzation pitchforks wore used by men when going about among the auimals, but the buffaioes were intelligent enough to comprehend the nature of the sharp lines and whon the pitohforks were not to be seou they rensserted their majesty. Mr, Jones hit npon the dovice of having short pieces of gnspipo plugeed at oither end with wood and these plogs fllled with sharp brads. Those wenpons were carriod concealed, and when the animals became demonstrative they were jaobed into the tough hides or hurled at the big humps with all the force possible. At first tho burly fellows received these attacks with a pained surprise, but in time they ap- parently conclnded that these mysterions prods were a part of man and they had bet- ter not provoke attack. At any rate, thoy have become quite dociie under that treat ment. Men go among thom freely, soparat- ing them or driving them about as readily as though they wero so many cows connection with his work of domestica Jones has oxperin lo's fur and hus succeoded in making u as fine nas lamb's wool. Under long, coarse hair of the aai- is 3 short fur ot the qunnc s of swansdown. When tho bair is sted in the summer the under fur either falls off or is plucked by n. d. Inthe lafter caso tho antmals are tied, snd the more un Fily are thrown to the round and thoit 1ogs fastened by ropes to posts fore and aft. There are ten 1o twelve pounds of fur on an . enough to make a big brown blankot as warm as an old-time buffalo robe and as light as a bedspread, This cloth sells as 3 M. Jones wears in winter an ovorcoat made of it and trimmod with the glossy fur of the catalo, and under- clothing, stockings and other garmauts huve been woven of the samo material. fle pre- sented one of tho blankets to the prince of Wales foruso as a lap robe, and has recoived a grateful acknowledgment of the unique gift. In his sevoral expeditiorns Mr. Jones cap- tured 130 buffaloes, elghty-two of which sur vived. Full grown animals taken wild inva- riably died in captivity. Ho had no success saviig any over six months oid. Many ani- mais, even among the younger ones, died appavently 1w fits of anger. When thoy found tbemselves prisoners they went into a fearful rago, stiffened their limbs as though in cramps, lay down and died. Olhers broke their necks in trying to escape. On bis first expedition Mr. Jones captured eleven buffaloes, butsaved only four. He was 200 miles from a ranch having a cow, and he had to feed the littlo fellows on conaensed milk, which did not agree with them. On his third trip he took cows with him to the staked plains of Texas aud out of thirty- seven buffaloes savea thirty-two. Most of the animals that survived were from threo weeks to four months old. The buffalo calf is of a tawny color, resembling tho hues of the sand and the grass and tho shrubbery of the great plains. For the first threo wooks of its life it is hidden by its mother, and its color blonds so closely with its surroundings tbat wolves and other cnemios may pass within a rou of it without discovering its presence. In addition to his own captures Mr. Jones bought forty-two buffaloes in Manitoba, four- toen ot which succumbed on the journey south. He has ralsed seventeen buffalo caives in captivity, six of them dropped this vear, and has every prospoct of continued Success 1 that direc- tion. Ho has ten of these catalo, The buf- falo and the catalo, by the way, run to- gether, and the domestic cow suckles a full blooded bison as calmly as though an infant, of its own species. Mr. Jones has furnished buffaloes from his herd tq parks all the way from the Golden Gate on the Pacific to Austin Corbin’s rock- ribbed estatein Vermont. Others have gone to stir the curious interest of gazing holiday crowds in Europo. Wild west shows and rich individuals with private z0os to stoci have also drawn on this herd for their sup- plies. ‘The oldest buffalo living is supposed to be one in a Paris zoological garden, wkich is known to bo 20 yoars old, Jumbo, 9 years of RO, is tho patriarch of the Nebraska hera. These animals breed readily in captivity, and this herd is capable of an euormous in- crease if properly handied. Some time ago Mr. Jones made a generous proposition to the government looking to the regeneration of the race. He offered. if the government would provide the land and pay tho bare exienses, to take his herd to Toxas, watch thom u\rn*lul\) and let tham oreed for twenty yoars without taking any of them awav.” A congressional committec made a vaport favoring the setting aside of the land, but omitted the necessary appropriation on the plea that all of Uncle Sam’s spare cash was needed for dreaging unknown croeks and viling fathomless wallows. Unfortu- nately Mr. Jones is a poor man. Austin Cor- bin and cartain Englishmen are scheming for possession of the herd, and tnero is danger that this, the buftalo’s last hope ot salvation, may be rumed. e TRAINING DOGS FOR WAR, They Take to Messengor Service and Soon Learn to Hate a French Unifor Interesting experiments in training war dogs are in progress on the Them- pelhofer and Brix, says the Berlin cor- respondent of the New York Sun. The work 1s done by noncommissioned offi- cors, under the occasional supervision of u lioutenant. The system of training is olaborate and difficult, and often enough the results are utterly unsatis- factory. But a small percentage of the dogs tried are rted for milivary ser- vice, and of those accep! the majority prove to bo failures in consequenco of the impossibility of suppressing theie natural tendency to bark whenever an cnemy approaches, In tha present work on the Tempel- hofer field the dogs are taught to regard black or blue trousers as German, and friendly, and red trousers as hostile. About half of the trainers wear French uniforms, scold the dogs in French and cuff or whip them. The dogs aro taught thus in a short time to distinguish be- nw.»u French and Germans during light, and to givo the alarm whenever a French uniform comes in sight. They are taught to givo the alarm wheneyor anybody appronches at night, the dis- tinetion between friend and foo thon de- volving upon the nearest sentry, Trainirg dogs for messenger servie has been found much easier thamtrain- ing them for picket duty. The couriers are selected invariably from the fomales, as they are quickor and less likely to laiter along tho rond. The first Lesson taught to such a courier dog is that she must hide upon the approach of a human being, excepting, of course, hor ~mmlu.unc s and camp friends. A rgeant at Tempelhofer field told a ro- hacter $hab. his dogs had. lenracd ale ready to hide behind hedges or to crouch out of sight in ditches whenever anybody eame along the road, and then to continue their journey with venewed @pced us soon as the danger of detoction wis by. The messenger dog wears a lighv iron collur, with a small bag at- tached for the dispatches, I'he greatest difficuliy, the serg said, had been found in accustomin the dogs to artillery. At the first dis charge of cannon usually they bolt. After having once been aceustomed to the use of lirearms, however, ho said, tho dogs were the most courageous sol- diers, and ran about without quailing in the thickest of the fight The Gar man spitz has been found most valuable Iur the service on account of its intelli- se and endurance, The best color rur facititating the concealment of the messenger dog has been found to be gray, and thorefore gray-haired aogs are selected when practicable. A good many Scoteh collies have also been hnpxlxasud into the service, and a few St. Bernards. This latter variety is employed exclusively by the Red Cross field service, and hence it is asserted that in the next war there will be no possibility that any of tha wounded will be overlooked on the battlefield. P The oficers of the York County Agricul- tural society for the eusuing year are: b, A. Myers, presideut; Dr, D.'E. Foristail, vice-presideut; K. IRae, secretary; I Parsous, general superintendent; L. D, Sulson, 'assistant suveriutendent; Jobn ( Kovluson, marstal; W, H, Keader, Lruusurar. onted with the | TONS OF BRIGHT RED ROSES How the Fashionable S8wolls Go Broke on Qostly Flowers, THIS SEASON'S FASHIONABLE FLOWERS White Pinks, Violsts and Rosos ave Been Solected by Soclety Leaders as the Correct Thing Thia Winter, (Copyrighted, 1502) I want to be hung up. When a dappor youug “blood" or an old Gotham dandy comos into a floral establish ment in Fifth avenue some bricht fail after- noon and uses the above oxpression, at the samo time winking the other oye, the trades- man knows that the customer i3 in love, and that this is porhaps the boginning of a long campalgn, in which the principal sceno is to be Cupid dallying amid the lowers. Maybe sho's an acuross. In that case thers will be no limit to the hanging-up matter. Every swell Gotham florist knows that his customers seldom pay cnsh for the floral decoration to their love affairs. There is pleuty of risk in tho busi- ness, but the profits are so large that the tradesmen take the risks. You would be surprised at the number of men 1n swell circles who play “‘broke” to their florist. *'Chase me, chase me.” This is what they say when the tradesman presents a bili, Flowers for the Ballet Girl, Thousands and thousands of dollars are spent yearly by the young dudes and the old chappies of (iotham on their favorito ac- tresses. Maybe Cholly goes to the “‘Black Crook’” some nixht, and there, on sight, falls under the fascination of the ohorus girl's fatal beauty. She's a pert little thing in pink tights. She has long, blonde hair, fine as spungoid. If you love hor dovotedly and truly, as Cholly does, you will readily be- lieve that the hair is ‘her own. If you are cynical or dyspeptio, you will have your doubts about her ago and her hair; ~but Cholly is in raptures all svening, espocially when the lime light is flashed, or when his beauty is envelopad in the aiziy and be- wildering rainbow tints of light through varti-colored glass under the big caloium reflector, ‘T'hat night he hangs around the stage en- trance. Next day he goes to his florist, takes that worthy aside and tells him all about it “I thiolk a $100-dollar basket will do." En " Cholly nods. “I will make you a basket four feet high. It will be delivered over the footlights promptly av 9 o'clock. It will be decorated with very wide piak and blue satin ribbon a yard long. For a hundred extra I will put a couvle of aoves in the basket, concealed amid the roses. The doves will have satin ribbons tied to their feot. As the basket is handed over the lights tho attendant shakes the souvenir and out fly tho doves. Ah, old fellow, what do you say to that, eh{"’ ‘‘Ver-ry well, hang me up for-r two hun’ned, don’tenerknow. " Awfully Expensive Posles. This 1s about the way the average (Gotham heavyweight opens the fall season. He will keep sending flowers week after woek, until his fond one takes flight to another town, or until his eye is entranced by some new beauty. 1f he is madly iu love, he will fol- low his darling dver mountains, rivers and states. It is often done oy the giddy boys of Now York. They usually return wiser and tamor chap- pies, thougn. It is a common thing for a swell New York florist to prepare a £300 basket for some actress. Toordera $100 vasket is & com- monplace. A 8300 basket usually consists of cullea roses, geonerally American Boauties, of rare size and swoetness. The flowers are cut with the stocks and when piaced in a wold-tinted basket stand four feot high. The offering is triciked out with great widths of blue, gold, pink or yellow ribbon. In thoe center of the bouquet space is left for a satin or lace box. The usual protestations of regard aro written on_sceuted note paver. Something is said about *‘meet mo tonight.” This is the opening of the romance. We will leave Cholly to follow the details. Keckless Soclety Girls, There's a new fad this fall. It says that tho young socicty woman is to spend her pocket mouey buying her dear boy & button- bole bouquet. This may seem liko a triviap affair: but then the fashionable buttonhole 15 somothing whose cost is staggering, con- sidering ail things. “Weil, Mau-ud, what ar-ro you going to buy me toda; This was his request as they strolled, arm in arm, past the swagger floral shop. Tho uurllng girl takes the hint at once. She in- vites him in. She gravely goes up to the counter. She studies nis~ clothes, his com- plexion, and his cane. She makes up her mind what color will harmonizo with his ap- pearance. She closes her oyes and considers pansios, violets, lily of tho valley, ruses, and wWhits She selects at last a buttonholo of white pinks. 'The bouguet is of enormous size. It is & zood thing that her escort has a strong spine, else he would droop under the load of sweetness sne now is pianing on his lapel. It1s the fashionable bouguot for chappios. It is as lavee us a plate. Tho swell thing this season is white pinks. The bouquet is stun- ning 1n 8izd and stunning in cost, The swagger girl buys hor chuopie a bou- quet every afternoon, Miss Million's Roses, Lattle Miss Miliion receives roses in Jan- uary. They are rarc American Beauties, cost, in Fifth avenue, $1.50 per rose. That is $18 u dozen. Mauybe she gets two dozen o day in a big blue-and-gold box. Cholly pays for these. “Inere are huundreds of high-roilers in Gotham,” says the exclusive ilorist, “who spend enough each season to keep a family— spend iton flowers for tha giddy queon of the footlights aud upoa tbeir laay loves. *It 15 not uncommon to receive an order from some youug duae to deliver to his lady friond @ bouquet caoh morning, say for @ month. He will plank down 150 with the order. For this sum we are to send little Miss Million a buuch of selected roses for thirty iwornings, There is to be an air of romanca over the gift. Itis to bosent to the house prowptly at 9 o'clock each morn- ing. No uote or name is to accompauy it. Little Miss Million is noi to know, you know. Of course he will call each night and see his flowers on the piano. Maybe, one night, he will be rewaraed by seeing her wear one beautiful rose in her yellow hair, Lam sure that is worth §150 to any young chappie “Do women ever do that sort of thing— leave mo: for flowers 1" “Waell, I cannot say that they ever do," This Season's . The flowers that are to veceive the sanction of the *iuner 150 this fall and winter nave now been solectod, Tuey are white pinks, first, then violets, then roses Orchids will also have o call. These are very expensive indeod. Would you like to spend a #-bill for asingle orchia, along ubout December! Maybe you would con. sider it cuoap. At snyrafe, jthat is the rice. W Most fashionable people wear their flowers on baturasy. Nooue knows why this 1s, It is one of the unique fucts about Gotham’s waalthy class, in the matter of flowers, their use aud abuse. More flowers are sold on Saturday after- uooh than eny other day ol the week, Madam drives up in her carriage; Morcury runs from the shop to her carriage door: what will it be today! yes, some white pluks; yes, we will send them by messenger at once; three largo baskets, at $50 aplece; very well; ob, certalaly, we will harge it— certainly, ceriainly. Lhen comes the young dude; then the old chappio; then thé gray dandy; then the pert young thoroughbred girl, with the fine eves and the poaches-and-cream complexion, who always speaks of Ler gown as a ‘con- foetion,” Hour after hour the dazzling trade rolls in, As for theswells, oy are all “‘broke.” Breakiug the Becord, Not long 8go & Gotham Lighroller bought Thev OAF lond of Amorican Beauties and sent them ove: to Boston in_ s refrigerator car. They wos designed for Lilliar Russell. The chaspis aped on ahoad. in due season he was ssen ‘‘down in front.” The play progressed. ‘Tt was time to bring forth the flowers. Why this wavering! Why this suspense! Tho dandy suddenly lost heart! Ho was captivated by the charms of a now beauty. He hastily went out in the lobby. Ho changed his lotters of affeotion! It was not the darling Miss Lililan now. It was some ono else! It was a young, ravishing beauty in the cast. He hastily loarned har name from the program! Then he went back and waited her next entrance. What a seusation those flowers created ! There were, 80 it aopears, tons of rich, ripe, red roses, The audience ‘was beside itself with joy. The blushing young woman to whom thay were consigned _tried in vain to bow her acknowledgments, The fair Lillian was in the huffs! The aarlingchappio in the box, “‘dowu in front,” gayly clapped his hands. It was an occasion never to be for- gotten. It was a new experience in the abuse ot flowers And the vand Queen. " played “God Save the Flowers for Funerals, There is ro limit to the monoy that may be paid for floral decoratious for a swell Gotham funeral, Tho late lamented Patrick S. Gil- more’s funoral was made memorable with offerings whose values run up inio the thou- sands, but it 1s swent to Know, however, that many of theso Howers came from the common peopie who loved him so well in lifo. General Grant's funoral was grac swell florists sa with more flowers than Now York ever saw before or since. Tn Gotham the *floral emblem’ holds full sway in tho matter of appropriate tributes to death, In Gotham if you aro an athloto your friends wilt probably remembor you with a pair of “tloral boxig gloves” at your de- mise. In Gotham if you die at half pastS your friends will probably romember you with a grand “Horal hall clook,”” the hanus stopped U half past 8, In Gothaw, if you dio a letter carrier, your frionds will probably remember you with a “floral lamp post and mail box,” With a let- ter to yourself on top of the box, addressed with your name and the legend, ‘At Rest, in Heaven,” In Gotham, if you die & railroad man, your friends will probabiy remember you with a “tloral train of cars,” engine ard all. In Gotham, if you are connected with the Brooklyn bridge, and should chance to di your friends will probably remember you with a “floral Brooklyn bridge,” maybe nine feot long. In Gotham, 1f you are to dfe a dude or a chappie, vour friends will probably remem- ber you with a *floral swiggeretto case,” bearing the words on the cover Cholly, Gone Up Higher. JouN Hunerr GREUSEL. —~—— SOVETHING ABOUT OMAHA, Omaha's bank ciearings have shown a groator per cent of increase during the past yoar than have thoso of auy other o1 Omaha’s wholesale houses have nearly doubled thelr business withiu the past year. Omaha's manufacturers are employing more than twice the number of men they had on their payrolls last year. Omaha nas had fower failures and smaller losses than any city of its size on the conti- nent. Omaha has the largest smelting works 1n the world. Omaha is the third pork packing osnter in the world and the present rate of increase in the business being done will place this city in the Second place within a few months. Omaha, according to the census of 1590, had a population of 140,452, The population in 1880 was 30,518. Omaha has 18,180 pupils in the public and aerominational schools. Omaha has seventy mil There are nearly 200 lishments in the city, vested of §0,000,000, ‘There are 457 teachers employed in the schools and colleges of the city. There are 150 miles of graded streets in Omaha. There are sixty public.school builaings in Omaha. Omaha has a completosewersystem, nearly 100 miles in all. There are nine national, nine savings and two state banks in Omaha, with a combined capital of 5,000,000 and deposits averaging £25,000,000. There are more than Omaba, Omaba has as fino a water plant as there is in tho country. It was built at a cost of 1,000,000 and “has a capacity of 50,000,000 gnlluns daily. Omaha has zinety miles of electric rail- ways. Omaha has the largest distillery in the world and throe of the largest breweries in the United States, g'l)n‘mn 1891 the clearings were $221,128.- 5. ‘The actual real estate valuation is $25 000, while the assessment for based on a one-tenth valuation. The postofiice receipts for the year wero 8204,585.20. This department gave émploy- e tits forty-six clerks and sixty-six car- riers. Omaha bas the largest white lead works tn the world. of paved streets. ufacturing estab- ing a capital in- 100 churches in ,000,- taxation is ———— IN ADEN OF WILDCATS. A Kentucky Survi}or Meets With a Terri- ble Deati Tt is seldom that a story more thrill- ing than that of the tragic death of C. Carner who was killed by wildeats after falling ov a precipice in the wilds of Kentucky, is met with outside the covers of a dime novel.~ . R. Bar- ber, with J. C. Carner, left Argentino K u\m\wl\q ago to examine and su vey a largetract of land in Peru count, his return home Barber rul‘nlml'u most harrowing story of Carnef falling down a precipice and landing on a pro- jecting vock, where he was attacked by two wildeats and elawed to pieces. Barber say: “*We wero traveling up Bear creek, and reaching the top of the mountain we wero walking along the cliff overhanging what looked like a bottomless gorge. The path was a nar- row one, & perpendicular rock on ono side and the dark precipice frowning below on the other, “Curner stumbled and fell 100 feet or more down the precipico to where a rock jutted outand formed a platform. I looked over and saw that the fall had oot killed him. [ cadled, but it was some time before he answered. He saia soveral ribs were' broken and one arm smashed, **There was absolutely me to rescue him, so [,told him I would go and obtain istance. I was jist about 1o start for the nearest farmhouse to get a ladder and ropes o rescue my unfortunate companion when I heard quick, short yell of agony come from the rock below. I thought for a minute he had fallen from the rock. 1 rushed to the edge of the vreeipice and looked over. | saw u sight which froze the blood in 1y veins, “There, crouching over my wounded comipanion, were two huge mountain wildeats, Tho ereatures vrobably had a den dn a cave in the rocks. “Their rage wassomething terrible to witness, Poor Carner had no weapon and was utterly unable to defend him- sell in any way. The creatures seratched and bit him. He fought desverately with one arm and his legs to beat them off, but-it was in vain, He was power- less. Through his frantic efforts for his life nis fate was delayed for aYoew min- utes. Suddenly the man and the wild- cats became engaged in a olose struggle, in the midst of which all tumb'ed over the lofty cliff and were crushed to death below.” Barber returned home with his reason almost unsettled with the terrible sight, Carner was his cousin. - ————e Madeline Brohan, one of the most charming of the actresses of the Fran- cals, turns out to be the aaughter of a Scotchman nawed Brown, no chance for MBER 4, 1892-TWENTY-FOUR PAGE: YONASENS JEWELER, UITTING. STORE FOR RENT. FIXTURES FOR SALE, AVING fully made up my mind to go out of the jewelry busi= ness, I'shall not allow anything to stand in my way looking to- ward a clean sweep. The stock of W ATCHES IN | DIAMONDS MeQLD or S UHERNVARER CLOCKS, —AND— ALL JEWELRY of whatsoever description must be gotten rid of before the first day of fimuary next, and I know of no more effective way than for you to name With that object and 9 p. m, of the auctioneer who will o YOUR OWN PRICE. in view you can, between the hours of 2:30 and 5 and any week day, pick out what you want and hand it to ffer it AT AUCTION at once. The store and those who prefer can make their purchase PRIVATE SALE AT LADIES DAY At all times ladies are welcome, but they are spec Monday. ally in- vited to be present on Monday, when many interesting novel- ties will be shown. No finer line of jewelry and all else that goes to make is open all day from early morning till late at nigh! up a first- class stock can be found, and when coupled with my extraordinary low prices, you can not afford N, B to miss my sale. The genuineness of this sale is without question, owing to circumstances o ver whi h I have no control, Convincing evidence will be gl\( n, however, to those who call, S. JONASEN, 18311 Farnam Street