Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1892, Page 6

i A EVIDFNCES OF PROSPERITY | Iopma of a Tlattering Nature from Many Nebraska Towns, STEADY AND SOLID PROGRESS MADE 3 Everywhere Is Noted New Ruilding Opera- tlons and the Establishment of New In- dustries— A Showing of Which Any State Might Feel Proud. One of the surest indexes of the flourishing eondition of Neb s the progress made \ P by her citics and towns during recent years. | i ord of a few of them Seward s Making Great Headway, wanp, Neb., Doc. 80, —During the past ir and fall the B. & M. has expended { over £100,000 in Seward for improvements Tt has change 0 t1o lines of both the Nebrash i railroads and Atchison & Nebraska, paying | about £0.000 for rght-of-way. A fin pew steel brid a8 been put_in across the Blue, town, for the Nebraska rai way, and a w wooden bridge for the Ateh fson & N ska. A new depot, a large n freight house and a new water tank have been put in within tiwo blocks of the publi 81 W6 the old depot was five blocks away. The change isa very important one | 08 well as a great convenience to the city as | 1 as the railroad company Beonkelman's Big Building Boom. BEskELvay, Neb., Dec This part of Dundy county was never in a more prope condition than th resent ¥ ners i fortunate in paising enormous crops money is plety: consequently business i I Few towns in Nebraska afford a bet ter market for grain, produce and stock com- | bined than Benkelman, Wheat is worth | from 42 cents to 50 cents, corn from 23 cents | to 20 cents, oats 25 cents to 50 cents, hay | K €3.50 and #1. butter 20 cents, egis 20 ¢ | cliickens 1o hogs 85,25 1o § | Among themany late enterprises established in_ Benkelman during 1802 is a racket and | notion stor and and [ jewelry wmstruments and | machine shop, tailor shops, in ment, iron 1 wood house, grocery s ! elevator, hotel reopened, and a physician lo i eated in'the to The Commercial hotel Yoaently nged hands and is now pre i sided highly satisfactory [ manner late of the Arling- | 3 ton i e, J. W. Smith of the firm of | | Buith & Swith, butchers, has sold out to his rtnes and will engage in the grocery busi aking e kg excl The Benke se mecting with department is | uged in the state. | nients have been ngg 184 vator one of the neatcst ars The following improv made in Benkelman du by Scwell, $00; repairs and jon_on elevator by Mellbourne & McGinn yemodeling store room . Scott, modeling store room J West, modeling store room P. 1 yemodeling store” room Commerc #1.000: addivion to dwelling J. R addition to dwelling G tion to dwelling S, D. 1% tion to barn J. . King, Howard Lumber company, £005 dwellin, Mus. Kettle dwelling, Parker Thom Bon, §1,000; mand residence, 1.1 § addi improvements Lo Jlorman, 800 ‘e 1 il ik building, Bank of Benke 1irs on Methodist Episcopal church, irs on Benl 2005 implement house Brooke York is Putting Up Many Buildings. Yok, Neb., Dec. #0.—There has been ex- | min, pended in this city since the st of last | wary about $50,000 in_ public improvemc A beautiful vali of Colorado red sandstone has been laid from the four entr: gquare to the courthouse building, the 1ces of the being §1,400, A city grade has be good deal of money has | & the streets of the city. The Unit completed cost of rick building f the ¢ s been R. N. McK. ner of the Wwith thre hed this last summer at 1 beautiful two-story tuated in the eastern part Quite f‘ re amount of mo: sended rivate parties. don the soutliwest cor- two-story brick bloclk fore 100ms at a cost of $10,000. John Ittn t 2 cost of #4,000, placed new machinery in his water mill, by whi heis now making flour by the “rollér process.” The York fount expended on a new warehouse $700. C. J. Nobes added one more brick room on the south side of his opera block at a cost of £500. Several new residenc soue of which are 500 built, been , Costi; psting $1,600; A, ve B. Thomas', costing $1.600. ‘W. L. Moy 1 of this city has the contract for a new pablic building on the Orphans’ home farni, just west of the city limits, This building will cos ,000. Haktings is Making Rupid Prog Hastixgs, Neb., Dee, 80.—7The past eleven months in Haostings have been marked by steady movement on the part of the munici pal authorities looking toward the beauti ng of the city, and toward making it morc 8. metropolitun’in e pect. A year ago Thanksgiving day was laid the first paving brick of district No. 1. Now districts 1 and 2 are completed and the curbing and part of the brick work of finished, a total of nearly 7,000 feet. the First district im- ported brick was used, but for the Second and Third, vitrified b) facture wore adopted, tem is now in thorough wversal in the busin i A number of new created, and the mains generally extended during the ye: In addition, much more work has been expended on the streets and sidewalks this year than has usually been done, with the gratifying result of much im- proving the appearance of the city. The last legislature made a 1 priation for improvements to the asylum_ for the incurable insane, located here. Two new wings have been added, together with buildings used for bakery, laundry and Kitchen purpe The P. A. Stewart paving brick been much enlarged, the luar ceived for this bi tin; where warranting & large inereas ks of home manu- The sewerage se, which is fon of the city. districts have been © appro- rd has in the capacity of the yard. The H; s s0ap factory has been pur y Tacoma par- ties, who will enlarge it and increase output. The C. Jacobson cold storage w hiave been est already make blished within the arge shipments, Another im- portant event is now taking place in the ex- tension of the strect car line to the asylum, with a probability of a still further exténtion 1o Juniata, One of the pretriest buildis erected in the year is the Fourth ward school housoe, A careful estimate year, and of improvements in Hastings during the fivst eleven months of the year would show that there have been expenditures as follows 0,000 95,000 H.000 5,000 20,000 Plow works, briekyard, Cle.. Miscellaivons buildings Jacobson cold qmm.n 80,000 000 Totul, sess There it now in process of o plow and ol ringe factor 258,000 struction o wied by James ch will supply @ good part of the west with these articles. One of the most fmportant acquisitions sceured lately is the German Baptist college, which that ination has decided to' locate in | after o commictee appointed for 5 hud visited o number of citics in the west The association agrees 1o erect a & Duilding us s00n us possibledu the sprin be followed at ouce by dormitories, profes s’ houses und othe i only other colleg denomination is 1o NYork, it will be will beof national inp fumilies have already signitied thei -inten- tion of woviug to Hastings to give children better edugational advantag Krug Browing compuny has late Hastings a distributing poin suitable buildings at ouce, now pendiug for the 1 ~viage fuctory in this ¢ BUCCOSS, at this institution number of Negotiations a tion of a second car- ¥, with every show of wnd aroung: the | (v;‘mn way of |mprovement in Wayno, Imt 0 year of 1999 far axogeds that of any vious year In the history of the city. he Nebvraska Normal colfege and dormitory which were completed in June at n cost of nearly #2500, is perhaps one of, if not the most_important improvement in the city ‘The second term in the new bullding is now In progress, and over 150 students are en rolled, w is greatly due to the earnest work of President Pile and a thoroughly officient faculty, The wuter works system, which is about completed at a cost of 0,000 fs next in order, and in addition about £,000 has been expended in grading and fixing the str the city. Six handsome two-story brick bus iness houses have been crected ddfing the year, as follows: _W. Wightman, re stone front, &.000; white stone front, $,000; 1. J. Ka stone front, $.000; M. P. Ahern H. B. Boyd. | £5,900 $,000: R, E. K. Mcilor, John T, Bressl 5,500 r has just completed the handsome residence in the city at a £12,000, which is furnished with all improvements, such as water | works, furnace and wires for electric lights most pany has been reopened and the plant im- proved by $10,000 worth of new machinery, greatly inercasing its eapacity. Quite number of residences have been built, agge: gating about £10,000, and the Oxnard com- pany has added $10,000 inimprovem i contemplation are: Incandecents 1i by a local conmbination and local capit motor system by the Grand Island Railway company, a new . business, b James Michelson and telephone with the larger cities of the state. xington's Big Showing. TENINGTON, Dee. 80.—The publi te improvements at Lexington for 18 about $110.000. Prominent wmong them or works system ctric light plant reh... s bloek arc $20,000 5,000 00 115000 10000 10,000 100 air ground bulldi 2000 Numerous private dwellings and smaller structures run the amount fuily up to $110,000 expended in the past year, Norfolk Growing Rapidly. Among the pri folk since Januar; vate improvements new four-stor hotel, built by ner & McDonald, Omaha, cost Rul)fllw n, Wigton, ‘Whithawm, cost 87,000 two-story bric "o room, cost ; Hollihan & Satter, brick, cost §3,000; I store building. cost §1,000; brick store building, cost £4,000; store building and hi W, and_scores of fine dwellin ikton & Norfolk railroad is ne mmphlm! and the sue hus ably expended is growin lence in b Bloomington's .\ll IKILII! Broowingion, Neb. 8. —Bloomington has recently yoied i i1 improvements in ylor, oud employes rly prob- amount of N for a syst of water- Wwor Wells and wind mills will supply the water. Tt is rumoved that the Rock Island com pany propos by them the S0 Of 1858, B s »ugh linis over the his place urvey made during the sea trice’s Bright Outlook, Bearnice, Neb., Dec. 30.—It is seriously to iestioned whether any city m the state ebraska can show a greater ratio of im- provement and development during the past year than Beaty In colli mation for Tue Bek, the writer was aston- :d at the aggrezate sum expended in nd private improvements as wel te sum to be expended durf wson of the coming year of fizures herewith given ‘of the ounts expended in building enter- in this city since Januar, present date, Nov 30, or the eleven months of the year now are not estimates, but represent the amount of money expended in the improve- ments enumerated, They tell their own public the agg Federal building at Sixth and Ella stre $45,000; Lang building at Sixth and I £10,000; Wolf-Bartling building, Court sty near Sixth, $15,000; Hotel Blakely la and 1if 8, il lmihlim ('uul'!. ll itrice National .\(lelmll'n\u'hH“,lwl. building, Court, n Hixth Itapid Teansit power house, 0005 Faleview school wer going] build ve built of brick 500, tone. AL of tho for The following comprise frame .\lx‘un'lul’l‘s built or completed during the y Out meal mill, South Severith st 000 flouring Black Bros North Bluft stree church, South Cent clevator FLO0: Lwo priva 0,000; three #,000 each, &1 chur Baptis( Buchanan & Dodd's nun #1000 street, residences resi- private cight pri 0005 Len 0,000, in public Court near B, & M at $10,000 dences ut residence: vite residenc private res Thet prove Paving ¢ Second to been expended 1 curbing Market street ixth, $25,000; paving and cu im- from ing West proach to Scott strect bridge, $L300; new ivon bridge across Blue river at Sixth strcet, $15,000; street grading, ot £5,000, Public improvements by private enter- pr Seatrice Rapid Transit and Power com- puny, purchase, relaying and equipping for electric motor purposes, the street railwi | tracks of the city, not su equipped, iprovementsatiout Union 1 Rock Island, and K. Northwestorn ) and depots, #,000 pended during th v and pri- mprovemen 55 There ure outemplation in the city at the pres- ent time, the following iwprovements: Beautifying county court hou s and county Jail, #0,000; beautifying and in- proving public school grounds, §5,000; im- ving Pirst Presbyterian church and for I ing, grading and curbing ot, $40,000; paving, grading and curbing North Soveuth strect, 250,000; paving, grading and curbing Novth u'.x. s' yurds 1 total ¢ . Wayne Gettlng There ln Groat Shape. The yeurs of ‘0 uud 91 were rewarkable | Fourth'street, #0,000: business bl ‘m vute residences, $100,000; wial value of A. A. Welch has built a handsome residence | costing #3.000. The extensive brick yard | plant of J. S, Lewis, jr.. which was recently destroyed by fire ill be rebuilt at n cost of $4.,000. A lary dition has been added to | the depot, providing a ladies waiting room A gents waiting room, a ba e room and o ! el om. In addition to th ve o enty new residences and additions have been built, ranging in cost from £500 to | &,500 each I'he improveme 1 Wayne for the year 1802 will reach © magnificent total of £140,000, Growth of G Island, Graxn Tstaxn, Neb., Dec, 30, —Perhaps the greatest ement made in this city dur- ng the past vear is the change of location for th Union Pacific depot and the new building the company put up for that pur | pose. This wa At 0 Cost of £60,000, The year of 18 » marked the begin ning of the Gr nd college, at first called the Grand Island Baptist The | buildings and_grounds, valued at £0.000, were completed this year, and the sche opened. What is A private ent m the Grand 1s antile company, wholesale srocories, has been secuved within the past six months, The capital of the fir | s Grand 1 two Mente ondward roased their capacity d Banking company has built a lurgro addition to its building at an estimated cost of $15,000, this being now one of the principal oftice’ buildin In the de- partments o svernment there has been ovements in two: that of the ud in the branch of | public streets, A number of main ts have been opened and stone cros placed whore wooden ones claimed the tention of the contractor every six months. The fire department has bec vided with new hose carts in each w and_an ad- ditional engine house has been built in the suburb West Lawn. A great improvement is now under way in the totel line. Mr. Gus Kachen, a promivent citizen and mem- ber of the city council is putting up 000 hotel, just opposite the new depot oundation of which is nearly The Grand Island Mill and Ele fmprovements wnder contract for the senson of 1509, g8 LN PRS-~ LIVE STOUK MARKETS, Very Light Receipts and Very Anxious Bay ers Make Lively Teading OMAMA, Dec. 26-Monday's roceipts ospece 1ally of hogs are nover e xeessive, but the meager supplies of all kinds of stock received today o surprise o the trade. ~ The oxtreme ther and the fact that the day was (ly observed asa holiday will ac. connt for the fact that_ but thirty-71x cars of both cattleand hogs were recefved, There 3 hogs and no sheep, 0 shecn and 184 against 2,2 turday and 1 sheep Inst Mongay There were hardly enong ttle here to e a market, but'as the supply, both here nd at Chicago, fell so far short of the estl es, buy proposed to take no chances and went afrer the cattle with an evident deter mination to get them regardl of cost To add to the strength of the situation the very bullish advices from eastern markets induced i good speculative fnquiry and the market wi of the exeited and booniing kind, Prices ruled unevenly higher, the advance’ on Saturday belng aywhere from 15¢ to 400 bt on an erage all of 25¢, Instend,ns Is usually the ca of the salosmen hunting the buyers, it was a St buyers hunting the salesmen and once 1 no holder of eattle was allowed cape untilhe had “dropped his Was f very satisfactory market interests as far as it v and 1) hat ther not nior Chiristmias plen 10 a shiy e anio inixed s of stock had 1y 0 gver from Saturday on account of demand and low prices then provailing e Wis not Lhe same ex citement as in { ars. The mn ruls out 10 Tier than Suturday and th ovement © atthis advanee, There A nothing exaetly cholee here. hut som iy proty lieiforish stufl brought £3 i the big bulk of the fair to zood cows sold at trom $2 1o §2.00. Bulls i stags Were wantod At stronger price lesirable veal calves sold readily at as hardly g on in the A feeder 1 Pts wer thete was no country o- Yard speculators tool iy paid strong prices and ot orders for ch focders l decid mand o few for wh or two count 1o remuin unfil 1" GCipts were only four 1 practically only two, as the other two did not get in il after the market was over. Four londs were held over from Saturday, but the entire supply on salo amounted 10 ess than 0 e Thern wero not 0 vound, ind s Ch Wit iy one honse, Hammond, wa hogs liere bad enoush o piy s {0 10¢ over Satuvday's o b FANZO WiS DT ul practically everything good, bind and indifferent, sold “ut $6.35 wnd L The butkeof the salés on Saturdily were Wt$6.80 10 26,35, and on_last Monday thie bull Of the trading wis at $6.30 1o §6.35. The pens were closed by 9 o'clock and the t were allowed 1o £0 ove SnEEp—No frosh sheep were reecived and none werc on sale. Good muttons feedors are both in active demand at fair prices, the apply being far shore here of the reqiire- ments of the trade, Reccipts and Disposition of Stock. k of. ) d t cnouzh o reported i 1 the fow wdvanee of Tl Ofcial receipts and disposition of stoc shown by the books of the Union Stock Y company for the ~forty-cight hours ending at s o'elock p. mi. Decenibe _MECEIVTS SHEED. Hend. BUYERS, S SuEEr, The G. 11, Hume Swift & Co e Cudniy l'mkm,u oud Cy was practically no market. undoubtedly full of poult trying tokeep on . br ppeur i 2000 upple to faney, N. (mnl‘uhu Ar to good shipping stoek bund BUTTER ket is steady. Tl bull nf\ t 14@ 16, and some Juotations Bell _and er DbL: bell and bugle, §0.50; , $10.00. The arrivals ‘on the un-m $8.50 late ¢ ‘od, celery is difficult to find. 1 the way from 26c to 40c, o ady; bullk of the sales of e, -u does not show any very values. There was market in the which found o in the ck bear uotatlon N #1.0001 : plov 3 anvas buek ducis, 8 antelope saddles, 14 16¢: antelope careusses 10612, HAY-"The market w wenk., No.l, #, HoNey—Th clover honey 1 LEnoNs-Cho MALAGA GRARES OvsTeis—Uneha per can ON10NS—~Homegrown, c; Spanish, #1.90 ver er OraNGEs- Florida, # POTATOES— QUOotat1ons ar B ; Colorado und Utab, ry-Turkeys, chole 10c¢; geese and @8es chiekens, 40 PoTATOES ~Chowco Muscatine aud Illinois stock 24.00 por DI, _ VEAL Quoiat Small and fat, 6%@ 1l e of the merits of DeWitt's Little s is a misfortune. These little egulate the liver, cure” headache, dys- —e HELD A ROYAL FLUSH. A Conductor Returns the Hospitable Treat- tofa n Robber, Conductor Bywater of Horthern road, who Wwas on the train recently held up nenr Greut Falls, Mont., telluunlnwrumug story of the robbery and the capture of the last of the robbers. When he got out on that dark night to sce what was the reason for the train stopping 50 unexpectedly, ho was stavtled to be ordered to throw up his hands and to find & man looking at him from the shadow of the in | along the barrel of acocked Winchester which was pointed directly ut him, He promptly comphed, of course, as did the brakeman who was with him, and after standing for about ten minutes in the frosty night air Bywater re- marked thut he wished the next timo the robbers undertooi a job of this kind | they would give him notice so he could bring his overeoat with him, whereupon the robber laughed and said he could not give him an overcont but he would give s and | whisk Bywater sturted to get the | flask, thinking vhat if he could once get to close quarters he would rpower the robber, but when he got within about ten feet of him the mun thought the better of his proposal und ordered him to stay where he was antl k toward him, After - adrink and passing it to the brake- the ing mun he again attempted to return Nusk to the robber, but he was too wary and made him back off, remar| king that he didn’t eare to become too tamiliar on short acquaintanc However, Bywater got a pretty good | look at the robber, and having boen ap- | pointed a deputy United States marshul for the purposo he started out for Mal i | to look him up and return his hospituble | trenument. He found his man in a saloon and sitting down with him proposed a gumo of hearts and passed a plensiut afternoon in Lis society, and purchasing | liguid retreshments on'a generous s for his friend until the proper mowment | arrived when he displayed a trump hand with six cartridges in and iavited his companion to take a trip to the Falls with him, and the cowboy sceing that his opponent played a strong hand and had the best of the game, owned up to being beaten and went n\ung by DeWitt's Early THE _OMATA DAILY REE: TUESDAY the Great | wo late loads | | Californ THE ART OF STAGE ROBBING 8kill and Conrage §f the Men Who Enforce Their Livelihood, o — AS SHOWN BY CALIFORNIA ROAD AGENTS — Captaln Hame's Thirty-five Years Experi- ence Protecfing Mountain Expresses ~lInteresting Stories of Black Bartand His Fellows, Captain JaBesAB. Hume has been catching stage robbers in the mountains | nevor leaves prison, even whon he purdoned, excopt to make his way with is astonishing promptuess to the neavest lonely mountain road and there rob a stage. John J. Ivey is a convincing example. His record is thirteen rob- beries and burglaries, eight times in prison and six eseapes from prison Whether Mr. Ivey left prison by dis chargo or escape he lost no time in |'ut.uruing to the road. Old Jim Smith” had a varied prison record including about every kunown method of ¢ ,lun" from behind the bar, Throee times he escaped and three times was discharged upon expiration of terms and each time he roturned to the road, The next time the governor of v tried the experiment of par- | doning him. but *Old Jim” was not to be moved to righteousness by mild meuns for the record shows that he was back in prisonafter two montas liberty upon conviction of a fresh robbery. Having exhausted'all other means of getti out live “Old J.m” next worked the insanity dodge ana was transforred to an asylom. In a great majority of cases convie- tion promptly follows the offense, for stuge robbers generally, while dar o the poiat of death, are seldom clever at hiding or escaping. The mcst nota- ble exception to this rule is the case of Charles . Bolton, otherwise known to fame as “Black Bart” He is incom- puarably themost picturesque character in Captain Hume's ‘‘Record.” From 1875 to 1883 he is known to have com- mitted twenty-seven stage robberies, always alone. He was the terror of the stage drivers in the mountuin regions of northern California, and elthough the robbed drivers and passengers were able to give u good description of his figuce, hair, feet, hands, and even his wal clew to his actual identity wus during the eight years of his suc career. He was fi laundry mark on a cuff” which had been wrenched from his wrist during his ex- ertions in opening a treasure hox which he obtained from a Weils-Fargostige in n Joaquin county, Cal. When he was | iptured in San Francisco the detectives were amazed to find the famous Black | Bart to be a slignt, quiet-minnered man of 55, familiar in face to near all the San Francisco detectives, for fie had for | years frequented a comfortable little | vestaurant near police hendquarters, where many of tho detcctives dined. His record, after giving a very detailed | physical description of him, has this to say of his other characteristi “He is a person of great endurance, a thorough mountaincer and a great walker, and cannot be excelled in ing quick trasits over mountains and grades. Heis compuratively well edu- cated, a general reader, cool, salf-con- tained, a sententious taller, with h tendencies, He is neat and tidy in , highly respectable in appearaice, nely properand polite in behavior, and chasto in language. He has never been known to gamble, other than buy- ing pools on horse races and specalating in mining stocks.” Black Burt wus able to elude the of- ficors so long owling to his abiiity to make alinost incredible marches over the mountains. After lolding up a | stago he woula strike off from the roaa, stopping neither for sleep nor food until he reached another covering, u distance the oflicers would never dream he could make in the time; stop another stago, repeat his wonderful tramp to another essful Iy betrayed by a him a drink and Le pulled out u flask of | be able to | voad, from which, mills away from the spot where he was lookced for, he could sturn unmolested to his leisurely life in wn Prancisco. In every treasure box he | eve mptied he left some verses, witty | or sutirvical, signed I, C Iis inti- mate knowledge of mountain rouds en- | | abled him to select times and places for | his work 0 ‘us. to sccure freadom from | | intervuption by other travelers. Bluck Bart is a vative of New York, He is | now at large. ( :d 10 his quiet and lonely work, xueriences obm genial road agent known as William Smith stand in curi- | ous contrast, Smith i8 a young German, und is otherwise known as C, P. Wei- | busch, Smith' “was first convicted in Nevada, 1n 1579, of robbing the occupant of a buckboard who was traveling be- hind o stage, allowing the stage to pass unmolested for that purpose. He was pardoned in Apeil, 1851, and here 18 | | Captain Hume's story of his next exper- ience, “June 20, 1881, robbed Wells, | & Co.’s express on stage from Sierra- ville to Truckee, ulone. While waiting in ambush for the arrival of the stuge from Sierra Valley, Sol Rousseau ap- Fargo | | peared with a light wagon and six pas- | | sengers, The robber stood them all up, | out of sightf the road, for one and a half Lours, until the stuge from Sierra Valley arrived. This contained four | passengers, all of whom were compelled | to wet 30\\n except G. Q. Buxton, the driver, who was obliged to break open Wells, Fargo & Co.’s box, and hand out | the contents, While this wus going on | two other vehicles approached, und the ariver in each wus compelled to get | - | down and mingle with the sudience, At | D‘FX’MMBFR 27, 1802 | shotgun | time on | den of th { i | the \\(u’.un' | epidemic | when in the the c'ose of the afternoon’s performanca he had thirtoen mon, sixtoon horees, and four vehiclea under l\n control of his little shotgun.” The robber used a double-barreled sawed off for groater conven- fence in use. After another robbery in the same vicinity in the following August Mr, Smith appeared further down the moun- tain side for his thind robbery after | pardon, and Captain Humo tells the story thu “Itobbed Wells, Fargo & Co.'s expross on stage from Milton to Sonora, Decem- | ber 29, 1881, Also robbed United States mail. In this instance he held tho stage one and a half hours, endeavoring to & break open the iron box, During this passenger from Sonora and two from Milton appeared, a!l thres of whom | of California and the other Pacific const | he compeiled to halt while e was work- states and territories for Wells, Fargo | Ing on the box. & Co, for the past thirtyfive yenr Captain Hume landed Mr. Smith in Catching stage robbers is a regular bus prison then, but in 1885 ho was dis ness with him, says the New York Sun, | chirged. He again toyed with express but no more so than the robbing of | boxes and mail pouches, and was sont to stages i3 with the men he pursues. | the California state pri for life, to Once a stage robber always a stago | the relief of the captain and all moun. robber, the captain thinks, and he com tain excur rLies, pretty newr prov it in a little book As dosperate w character as over | ho published a h 5 aiving | troubled Captain Hume was o young descriptions and recordsof 20 .| Missourian named M. A. Sharp. Ho robbers. The title of the book is | worked on the roud ovtr which bers’ Records.” Itis not for sa ‘ Wells, Fargo & Co. ecarvied the gold was it published for generpl circulation, | from the Bodie mines in California to but is a diligently thumbed volume in | the Carson mint in Nevada. In four { possession of all” far western sheriffs, | months of 1880 he held up six stages be. | chiefs of police and detectives, for whom | fore being caught, and then he escaped it was issued, from jail. On his lust job he worked The fact that Wells, Furgo & Co. have | With & companion, for the stage ey for years been practically the only car- | Wore to hold was known to carry n riers of monoy into tho western mining | ZUard, or “shotgun messenger, et camps and bullion from the camps | cailed. When the order to “throw down made their stages the pet regurd of [ 1he box” was given the messenger fired ntlemen of the road. and, in turn, hus | 804 killed Sharp’s companion. Shs compelled the company to maintain a | Sh0° had badiy wounded the messeng special deteetive bureau at the head of | Sturp disappeared. The messen which for many years Caplmin Hume | Started for a neighboring wried on the war with tho rob- | 10 have his wound dressed, nod n bis 8, It winounts to a war, in fact, for | Sharp returned o the st during the comparatively brief pe‘iod as detained by the doad hor by his book the compiler shows | #1d robbed the box of §700, breaking i tnat thicty-three men and seven horses | ©P¢N Ly the side of his dead companion have been killed in conflicts with the A desperate gang of stage and train robbers and twolve men seriously | Fobbers escaped from the N m.l. stato wounded. Captain Hume was in New | Prison in Carson on September 1\ 1 York a few hours last Friday, not lony | 814 their eseape vesulted in one of enough to bo interviewed, ho said, but | fioreest batties the Wells-Fargo mu M_ an introduction seeured o Sun reporter | OVEF 8ngaged in. The deed was planued possession of the eaptain’s private copy | DY BWelve of the most desperato pris- of his “‘Robber’s Record,” from which | 08¢ts, who broke into the guard room some interosting facts wero obtained, | 80! bossession of the prison arms and A glance through the record ammunition. Inattemptling to prevent impresses the fact that the stage robber | the bee sutenunt governor of the state. Frank Denver, who was also war- | prison, and two of the grards were serious!ly wounded and two guards were killed by the prisoners. A citizen living ourside the “ uls, who rushed in to resist, w also killed. The twelve ringleaders opened all the cell doors, but only seventeen prisoners joined in their flight. Among the leaders was Loander Mor- ton, a train robber, who in company | with five others, named Jones, Roberts | Cockrill, Burk and Black, separated | from the other runaways aud made in | tho direction of the mountuins ‘ near Bodie. On the third day they met a boy named Poor earrying the Unite States mail on horseback. Fearing th meeting would Lead to their pursuit and recapture they killed the boy, piled | 1ge brush over nis body and fived it. | The whole country was nroused and the 0 Awmuns AND TE(TS maha Tent-Awning | COMPANY | HORSE COVERS, | 1115 Farnam St _BAOS AND TWINES. BISYOLES. Bemis Omaha Bll, W i 101100 1acnoy St M. 0. Daxon, COMPANY 4 A0d w0 tr sacks, burlaps BOUTS S, Horse-Cos Shoa hlm, Howard irkendall, Jones & | Amer, MPANY. Wholasnlo ngonts Host Hand- SHOE CO and ru ) | 1810 Harney st ‘So Rubbor Shos Co. COAL, CO Omatia Coal, Coke & mlflCnu\u., Wor‘m il Douzlas Sts. | ME O hard anis ) 1ith A Mrs I . Dry g DRY 62003, & Co., | Kilpa trick gty “o E. Smith el 1e thand Howard 8 PURLL MR L B, = FURNITURE, L | Omatia Unns\vn.h B3 & Runyan . | immoratity, have the | nes employed. w an \ Nicholus EROZERIES, ORUAS, ETD. M. Steele & Co., | Blake, Bracs & Lo‘; | toth ana 1tarney sts, | 12011205 Jones St., Omaha. Omaha, DI and, speaking for m, rveatest respect for the m nd the womanliness of the pe From tho testimony taken ed instances where, at9 lock at night, tho opera- [0n8 @ find rep nd at 10 0 convicts were run down by some of Cap- | tives were still continuing their work. tain Hume’s men and a sheriff’s pos | The begun their work atsor 7 a. The con made a desperate light, | m., and the so-called ‘sweater,” or bosa, ard one of Wells, Fargo & Co’s men and | worked along with them, bringing worlk a deputy sherifl were killed. One of the | for them the next morning. [t was not convicts was wounded and three more | unusual to find eight or ten people with captured. The citizens hanged two of | their machines, tabls, ecte., crowded the robbers, one of them being the stage | | into a twelve by fifteen foot room. In and train robher, Loander Morton, Thore are very few *‘ilack Bar among tho rond agents Captain Hume hasto deal with. Fow of them are “gen- tlemanly and mild mannered,” as Blacis Bart is deseribed. Most of the charuc- ters in tho captain’s little book, pub- lished for “the trade only,” so to say, are quite as willing to take a lifo as to- make the request, *Throw down th box.” — Perfect action and perfect from the uscof DeWitt's Littl A perfect little pill. R SWEATING SHOPS. health result rly Risers Result of an Investigation in the Large | the majority of cas: o an | wi | Of child labor, T personally the living room of family w connected with the shop, nd garments, finished and unfinished, ere scattered about indiscrimiunatel w bt few o mstances: but 1 did see littie girl about 8 of age, at 9:30 in the even- ing, dragzing along a bundle which she W | ing as a human expr of goods. of the shops. ove fol dl w | vosed to slecp c1 physicilly unable to carry and aet- s for the transfer Children in every condition heidth swarmed in most of In the last one wo visited vone had gone except two wornout lows who had made a pile of the bun- s of £00ds ready to be made up, upon hich, without bedelothes, they pro- without change’ of the filth and e filthy condition of their persons or their Congressman Wurnor of Now York, | Slothes. | The ewontor? aud * tho the chairman of the subcommittee of | "_‘“I".“el’ e i the house committee on manufuctures, | MUY FOW WARES DU which was directed to inquire into the | COMPETITION'S ROLE REVERSED, sweuting system, has rewurned to Wash- | on after a thorough inyestigation of | This Economic Factor No Longer the Li of the system in the et , Chicago and Boston. ( ng 7 ascod how the condition of Neiw York compared with that of the other cities, Mr. Warner said: “They are so similur as to be searcely distinguishable, except as moditied by the different conditions of the several cities. In Chicago, for example, this sweating business 1s carried on in qua ters where the streets are practically bottomless, and the buildings are rotten | and disgusting, as well as inadequate and unfiv for human occupation. These buildings are generally frame and two stovies in height, with base- | ments generally below the sidewalk. | Hence there is nothing like that possi- bility of crowding were those quarters more closely aud substantialiy buil up. “The condition of the sweating industry there, however. is as disgus ing and th woility to contagious and cs 08 grent as in New se York. In Boston the industry secms to be carried on almost exclusively in extromely old but il buildings in the most crowded quarter., | 50 that while the muunicipal conditions | recently and solidly buiit and therefove on the avernge mich less squalid and i uncomfortable. The humane conditions are practically identical and the general result varies only by essentinl local conditions,” “*What do you find to be the attitude of the iocal authorities?” was asked, “One of prompt co-operation in every case, and one of frank admissi the evil wus beyond their poy dle. 3 HAs8 to dangs contagion there ifl eaqually little distinetion. In Chicago | we saw the scarlet fev, ns posted up where the swe m had been carried on and in a neighborheod where it was still being prosceuted. In Boston we stumblod into proximity with the dis- ease in a room while in the house the | manufacture of clothing was goir Tt wus not occupied by the same but ln.U’w sned upon the same cor In New York one of the most typici instances wus where we found poor wretehes working under the most filthy conditions at 10 o'clock Sunday night, | next block to them the l\]:hux had broken out only L sum- wer. 1 ult of your next question. Mr. Warren, | instances, but | What was the gen inyestigation?” was th “We have,” repiied “verified, not me a8 as a general con n, the worst that his been alleged. But, with ono ex- ception, we have met with no proof of | but the Denth of Profit, Compured with the lnst four ov five generations what ave the chances for the next four or fi isks Iorastus Wiman in the current number of The m is It | profe: de of learning are grinding out n y [ supply of theso in ti It bu DIy Bugineering Magazine, How will it bo for boys that grow up during the period wherein the population is appronching 150,000,000? The avenues of effort, even | in ' this year of 1802, arc pretty well crowded. It is pretty hard worle to get into a busincss now in ompetition does not destroy all of profit. The rank and file of 1 will admit that the old otto which alleged that tho life of trade’” has becn is now the death of profit. sions there are more lawyers octors than ave needed and the competition reversed. So in the and mills ar greater prope on' than the incrcase in population. this crowded condition exists nmong isiness men, if it is reflected in the ofessions, it is even more painfully evidentin the widened area of labor. Strikes and organized demands are tho evidences of unrest and discontent di pr i ar de in A are better the result is an even greator | at the congested conditions that provini, liab] to contagion in the limdted | while the enormous ari Is frowm for- aren covered | eign shores, added to the large natural “In New York the streets are as a | increaso in the laboring population ye whole much better paved and cared for ‘ by yeur, intensify the situation. Ove than in Chicago and much more spi- | produetion in manufuctures, us the clous und allord more breathing room | sult of a stimuluting nutional polic than in Boston. While the tencments | well nigh universal. Boots and shoes | in New York are oa the one hand far | for 100,000,000 of people; collars and more like human hives than those in | cuffs for 150,000,000; woolen goods for Chicago and Boston they are mo twice the population, which with other whilitios huve destroyed ull vestigze of ofits—these, together with o propor- onate production in all other branches, e the results attained in the closing scade of the first half century of real dustrial activity of this people. . “MOTHER'S FRIEND?” .- is a scientifically prepared Liniment and harmless; every ingredient is of recognized value and in constant use by the medical proféssion. It short- ens Labor, Lessens Pain, Dimiishes Danger o lifo of Mother and Child. Book *To Mothers” mailed free, con- taining valuablo information and voluntary testimonials, — * Sent by xprous, charges prepaid, on recelpt of price, $1.60 per bottl BRAGFIELD REGULATOR CO., Atlanta, Ga. Bold by all druggists, WINTER RESORTS, THE OGLETHORPE, BRUNSWICHK, GA. 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J& unsurpnseed in the troatment of all PIRVATE DISEASES nd nll Dis ‘”"“MEN 1d Disorders of 18 years experience. y Writo for circulars and question list free. 141k nnd Farnam Sta,, Om cb Omaha’s Newest Hotel v 1§30 i por day. per day. ms with Bath at $3.0) to £1.5) por day. | NED AUGUST 1st 599@9900 tdysper: o -] ro- spe .m- aifactonTtholve i3t to I ctio @@eo@ceo NER tion that e Propesals b Soa'c comptroll 1o city of '« bid The e for the year 1501 tifled checkof fifty (830) dolines 1o ace 1y eaoh vizht is res rvad to rajoot uny or all THEO. OL Omiha, December 17th, 1822 Comptrotler. dz0dit Umon block Ymds Cumpany, Best Cay Houth Omaha. Marke bl u ¥ Pacaad) i depresson, pamiul o gl g from liver or fi Lilkiy proper fanctiors, Rinelitaty toid [ BY ELECTRICITY. . 10 conts forour 100 pago troModical Theory and B, I, BLISS, Towa Falls, Towa, VQUSDSORDERS And all ths traln of of ths 2 (o any s 1Toror Lhy pra ol thowe Geoabine Addrass, BATILE CRREEK, IO, 0d 100 0 ¥ o to the Clty O ar 1893, 18 will bo recel at the city s oflice up tod o'clock p. D= th, 1802 for the delivery of ice to the South @maha. te i d Sheep murket in tho west. Wood Brothers. Telepho Chicago {;",‘,fl} | Managers Keports by mall aud mruthnurl’ulli tur o applloation.