Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 30, 1893, Page 5

WHISPERS FROM THE WEST 5 Lovely Artificial Oasoade to Grace the Grounds at Golden Gate Park. WILL FORM A SOUTH SEA ISLAND DREAM Wyoming Census Fignres—Aberdeen's Howl nerals In Okfanoma—A 125-Ton sulder of Rieh Quartz—All Around Notes, The greatest of the permanent attractions of Golden Gato park will soon be ready for the pubiic. This is no less than the marble cascade on tho eastern siope of Strawberry hill. The finishing touches aro now belng put on that work of art, and when the Pumping machinery is ready to furnish the water for it the ade will begin to pour its waters down the sheer side of the hill to form one of tho most magnificent artificial ‘waterfalls in the world, 1t was a happy idea which will give toSan Francisco the marble cascade. In o park which contains the elements naturally of everything beautiful by one artistic stroke has been placed a feature of grandeur which will ennoble the landscape of the park as no other single element has done or can be hoved to do. The bed of the falls presents a picture in tself which is suficient to satisfy any one that the falls will be the success thatis hoped for them. But if there were any doubt as to their perfect success it been removed by an experiment made the other day by turning the water into the channel. ‘The eascade was found to be everything that had veen hoped for it, and, as statod, all that remuins to start the roaring cataract tum- bling down its way is the completion of some irs to the pumping machinery. It have two descents of fifty he first fall will empty its fonmy waters into a basin half way up the hillside, und the waters will take another lunge, and full into o similar busin at the base of the cliff. From the latter pool they will flow under a footwalk into the lake. ‘When it is stated that Vernal falls, in Yose- mite, are only 350 feet, or a little over thrice ! the height of tho Murble cascades, and pro- portionatcly contain no large volume of water at their normal stage thao it will, the force of the comparison will be understood. The cascades will lack something in the grandeur of surroundings that other falls ossess, but this will be compensated for n soma landscape creations on its borders that will, when its verdure shull have had time for development, make of it a South Pa- oific island dream. The hillside has been laid out with a great deal of taste, and the distribution of tropical trees in its flora has been judicious. The result even now isa surprise. When the waterfalls shall bo tumbling down among the shrubs and plants and trees thero 1t will be startling. The prevailing vegetation so far as tbe view is concerned is the tree fern. These beautiful and delicate trees are arranged with taste upon the verge of the cataract, in pictur- esque places; they are set among the pines, ucacias, sycamores and shrubbe in & man- ner to create contrast, and they hang over the crest of the yawning miniature chasm like some storm-blasted pine ubove a preci- pice. They are not abundant, but they seem to be everywhere, and wherever they are they are effective, Another feature of the one which has given it its name, is a bed of the marble at the base. The chunnel of the falls is bedded with a combmation of con- crete and cement, as are also its wails. The Tittle deita, which will lead the waters into the lake, will have for its bed of boulders white marble that will make the waters glitter in the sunlight as they flow over it. A footpath will be arranged about the base of the hill to permit spectators to get a close view of the falls, The park latorers are now grading for the boathouse, which will be located on_the ex- treme western verge of the lake. From this boathouse will emerge the boats—rowboats, 1 steam launches, ete., which in the future, are to skim over the lake’s surtace. S eral parties have tried to wet tho boating privilege on the lake, but without success. =3 It _is probably to be regretted that the gondola cannot have an inning somewhere in the_wild and woolly west. Tis home in the canils of Venice will probably soon hear its songful gondolier no more. Like the buffalo and the ostrich, the gondola is pass- ing away before the march of progress, and as in the cases of the buffalo and , some hand is reached out to pre- serve i, it will become extinct. The fate of the gondola scoms to have been sealed by the Worid’s fair. An enterprising Venetian, who visited Chicago, saw that the steam and naphtha launches were the natural suc- cessors of all such craft as the gondola and he is going to iake some of them back to Venice. Hereafter the Venetian who de- Bires 1o go to the theater need not charter ! ! an intoxicated gondolier to ferry him thither, but can leap into his launch and get there before the gondolier could have got s garlic breath and his song into perihelion ‘with bis dilapidated oar. Mortgages In Wyoming. ) A census bulletin Just issued gives the leading results of the investigation of farm ‘ and home proprietorship in W i In regard to farms, the conclusion per cent of the farm families hive and 79,12 per cent own the farms cultivatod by them; that 18,05 per cent ot the farm-owning fami lies own suoject to incumbrance and 86.95 f er cent own free of incumbrange. Among » 00 farm fumilies twenty-one hire their - farms, ten own with incumbrance and sixty- | nine without incumbrance. On the owned farms there are liens amounting to $4 which is #4.03 per cent of their value, this debt bears iaterest at the average } of 10.92 per cent, making the averago annual futerest charge $130 to ea family. Each pwued and incumberea farm, on the average, is worth $3,600, and is ‘subject to s debt of cataract. and the 1,247, The corresponding facts forhomes are that 81.54 per ceut of the home families hive and 8840 per cent own their homes: thatof the home-owning families 86.44 per cent own free of incumbrance and 1350 per cent with in- cumbrance. In 100 home families, on the average, sixty-two hire their homes, five own with f{ncumbrance aud thirty-throe without incumbrance homes aggregates $50.238, or 41.70 per cent of their vulue. and bears interest at the average rate of 10.78 per cent, so that the apnual amouut of interest to each homo averages $142. An avorage debt of 1,394 fncumbers cach home, which has the aver- sge value of #,171, Indignant Aberdoel Considerable indignation has been stirred upin Aberdeen and that section of the state by the publication in Sioux alls by the \iorld‘- ‘air commissioners of o uvenir of The debt on owned Bouth Dakota,” swuich singularly omits an. reference Lo the area, resources. ri of th ned for and elsewhere, and in all justice and equity should have devoted somo space to this ot of th state. The publication was de: circulation the World's fair at section. The only mention made of the country lying north of the fourth standard rallel, & territory seventy miles wide by 80 miles long, embracing 12,600 square miles homestenders in the Aberaeen district, whero howesteadors are required to make no payment whatever to the government ex- | cept the 814 entry fee for each tract of 160 | acres, and where more ontries are being | made at this present time by actual home- seelcers than at Pierve and “Aberdeen com- vined. However, it would be doing the souvenir an injury to omit the remark that the publication is consistent with the entire World's fair matter in his state from start Vo finish, Resources of Oklahomn. The mineral resources ofsthe territory will woon be developed thoroughly, and within a year Oklahoma will take a front ranik in the production of various metals, About six miles west of this city 18 a sprine from which a fine quantity of petroleum is dis- charged in considerable quantities, and the owner of the land has gone to Pennsylvania to organizo a company to develop this and all otner oil land, In Greer couuty several old Spanish silver mines have oeen reopened, and near Willow Springs, in the Cherokee Strip, t has been sunk and zino found in pay juantitics. Just ocast of Porry conl crops out on the surface and several fine vewns have been opened. A company has been organlzed hore this week to onen lead mines in the Pawnee reservation, load being found there that the inditns have been digging up for years and making their own bullets. This company will attempt to se- cure enough to build a mining town and put in smelters, Stocan’s Big Quartz Chunk, "ho enormous boulder of solid high grade ena which was located 1n the Slocan last by Jack Cockle, otherwise known ack Jack, and sold by him to W. D, daugh for §2,000 cash, is to be broken up ana shipped. 'This boulder is calculated to contain 125 tous of ore, and at one time when it was that wind could move unything in the Slocan there was a scheme n foot to ship 1t en bloe to the World's fair. Now the outside world will have to be content with photographs of this extraordieary phenome- non, for it will shortly bo mined aud shipped 1 the San Francisco smelter. Arrance- ments have boen made to make a special shipment of it alone. A special train will transfer it to Vancouver from Revelstoke. At every stage of the proceedings it will he photographed and the photos used to adver- tise the country. Where Lumber 1s Plentiful, Up on the north fork of the Nooksack river, says the Herald of Fairhaven, Wash.,, are more than 50,000,000 feet of Alaska or y cedar. It may be regarded as & fai among unbelieving journals, but it nains that in that scection of Whatcom county alone there is that amount of timver ready for the manufacturer. L M. Galbraith, who for tho past ten vears has dovoted his time and years to Whatcom county, is the author- it for the statement given. And as far as ur is concerned, it only noeds be appreciated, A piece of this timber which was run through a com- mon ner brought the dressed piece thry s smooth and firm and as mobile as a pieco of worked glass. Artesian Water tor the Biack Hills. Word from Belle Fourche comes to the t that a flowing well has been struck in that effe that town and demonstrates the fact the valleys of the Black Hills are in tesian basin and that an supply can be had i the foot hills artesian woll at Belle Fourcho was driven down 52 feet when a flow of water esti- mated at 100,000 gallons per day was se- cured. When the water vein was struck a 1 was sent about seventy-five feet into r. The Deadwood Times in speaking of the flowing well says: *During the boring the drill went through o four-foot vein of conl of good quality and its development is It is & sec- y consideration alongside of the well. coperty owners of Belle Fourche arc naturally jubilant over their success in demonstrating that the artesian water belt does extend and exi: in this scction of the state. The expense of doing so was borne by them and to them the glory belon, ‘ongratulations are in order all along the line.” ond; Thy Nebruska and Nebraskans, Madison expects to have a third paper s00n. O. J. Frost, the republican canaidate for judge of Pierce county, has withdrawn. 1t is reported that the station at Brandon will be closed until business revives. Rev. Father Judge of Omaha has taken arge of the Catholic church at Greeley. ames Hobsou of Auburn claims to be the champion corn huskerof Nemaha connty and has issued a challenge to all comers, The Elkhorn Valley road has settled the damage case of William Ralther of Clarkson for $1,500. Ralther's suit was for $25,000. A valuable imported stallion belonzing to Ransom & Gaarde of Minden succumbed wo an attack of colic after a few hours illness. While going down a hill with a load of hay near Curtis, Messrs. Smith, Shupe and Kan- agn were thrown over a high bluff and all ~vere terribly injured. ‘While Mr, and Mrs. Cacl Sothan of Hal- lam. Lancaster county, were visiting the World’s fair the lady was taken suddenly ill and died after a short sickuess, A horse and buggy belonging to J. C. Graves of Steele City plunged over u forty foot embankment during a runaway and thero was mighty little left of the rig when the wreck was cleared away. ‘While William Corcellius of Chupman was hunting ducks his gun was accidentally ais- chargea, vhe shot taking effect in the of his hand and tearing out the muscul sues and flesh up to his elbow. As Mr. Huffman was walking along the streev in Suverior a loose board flow up and hit him & whack on the side of the head which has confined him to his home, A suiv for dumauges will follow. The horsemen of Nauce county will give a free exbibition at the fair grounds at Fuller- ton on Saturday, November 4, at which time Ontonian and Freddio K w vo an exhibi- tion race for blood. Shadeland Onward, Woodiine, Dictate, oy Allen, Guy Sheri- dan and many other horses will be present. Acage similar to the famous Grandpa Burrus muddle has developed at Neligh, S, J. Smith took his infunt child from the home of its grandparents, where it haa been loft by its mother on her death. The grand- parents recovered the child by writ of ha- beas corpus aud now & long legal fight is in prospect. T, L. Denso ¢ re of Barneston fell from an elevator and received injuries which may re- sult seriously. Ho fell u distance of about twenty feot, striking on a bolthead near his L right eye, cutting the skin at the outside edge of theoye, and the cheek bone. In woiug down he struck a bolthead, making an ugly scalp wound on the back of his head. No one being with him at the time he lay there until regaining consciousness and made his way howe. Joseph T. Ragland, & farmer near Hast- ings, hus bogun & sult for divorce against Blizi Raglaud. For some years ho had been a widower, but growing tired of the lonely life he was leading concluded to get spliced again and a Mrs. Zimmer, o widow with fivo children, was willing to join hands with him and in the early summer they were mar- ried by County Judge Burton. About six weeks later ‘Mr. Ragland stalked into the Judge's ofice, and sald to his honor: “Say, judge, vou remember that womun I got here!” Although non- plussed by the question, for he really had 195-stamp mill going sovernl years stamps are now aropping and tw more will be started November 1. At a depth of fifteen feet ore running 0 to #102n cord has been struck in the Grand Trunk mine, Pine district, Giipin county. An cight-foot vein of panning dirt has been k in_the New Boston on the west side ‘enderfoot hill, Cripple Creek. At the junction of Bear creek and San Miguel river, near Tolluride, two men aro saving two ounces of gold a day with asimy Fifty nty-five Two cleanups from four battories of the Gold & Globe mill on Indeperdence ore gave 113 ounces of gola. The saving was from $10 to $16 a ton. A large vein of high-grade silver ore is to bo worked in the Jackwhacker mineon the i1k Mountaia branch of the Rio Granae as s00n as the road is opened The Cripple Creek record for September was as follows: Tons milled, 6,480; yield, £5,244; tons shipped, 1,106; vield §140,920; cyanide mill and gold dust "yield, #7,300. Total, 208,404, Good strikes are reported from Granite, the gold camp eighteen miles south of Lead- ville, A vein from one to four feet wide and ssaying fifteen ounces gold has been struck 8t swenty feet in tho Iissayez lode, Yankee hill sripple Creck now has elghty-seven ship- ping mines, with 100 more ready to ship, but waiting for patents; twelve mills running 50 stamps in constant motion: 2,000 men_on alaries and is producing from §60,000 to §70,- 0 per weok. A big strike has been made on _the Eclipsn No. 1, located on top of Raven hill, a fow hundred feet northeast of the Ida May Cripple Croek. Ore is being sacked from & twelve-inch pay streak, which will run at least §1,000 per ton. The gold production in San Miguel county is greater now than ever before and still growing. The following milis are at work: 3old King, forty stamps; San Miguel Con- solidated, thirty; Suffolk, twenty; Hector, twen Sheridan, thirty-five; Pinch Boys, five; Taylor & Ieonard, ten, Two concen- trators are also at Work. The Dakotas. A prairic firo with high wina along the Red niver did damage estimated at $20,000. Tt required the fire department and man citizens to keep a praivie fire from destr ing tho state fair buildings at Averdeen the other day. Ropresentative Luca petitions from min 18 receiving many s in South Dakota pr testing azainsv any change in the mining laws relating to assessment work. The ore chute in the Alpha mine, one of the Golden Reward properties, situated on Nevada guleh, opposite the Comet, continues of the same high grade, producing between £50 and 60 in gold per ton. United States Marshal Price sold by auc- tion 656 half-pound cans of opium, prepared for smoking, recontly seized at Pembina, while bei muggled on a Great Nerthern train. The purchasers were Charles Kee and Hip Long of Chicago at, $4.60 per-pound. Thay will make a big profit, as this is little more than one-third of the duty alone. The D. & D. smelter resumod operations aftera temporary shutdown for want of water. This dificulty will not occur again, as the company has run a drift under the bed of Whitewood creek connecting with a shaft on the opposite side of the culch con- taining an ampls supply from springs. The contemplated raise in the msurance rates has been made. The lift is a horizon- tal one of 20 per cent on all except low grade risks. The msurance losses 1 Sioux Falls in 1893 will more than wipe out the total premiums, ‘I'he losses so far amount to 847, while the premiums net to the com- panies are not over §34,000. But in 1803 the premiums exceeded the losses by $30,000, and in the ten years from 1882 to 1802 the premiums were largely in oxcess of the losses. Inthe state the losses were not below the net premiums, and they cannot understand why the rate should be raised in South Dakota because the losses have been soheavy in North ota. Wyoming, A gentleman from North park says that Swift & Co. will winter 1,400 head of cattle there during the winter Outof two anda half tons of ore Tom Ryan of Gold Hill, is said to have sccured something over §200 1n gold. The Faunell process of treating refractory ores isto bo tried atthe Lander (Wyo.) mines. Hotair and steam play s part in the process. Dr. Ross, a mining oxpert from Nova Scotia has passed upon the mines of this state. He says that this state is the richest in minerals of an, cin the union and that time will preve it to be so. The Bonanza Rustler say ranchmen are all busy gathering up the last of their crops. One Nowood ranchman dug 12,000 pounds of tubers from about one and a half acres, and thought he was only doing moderately well at that. There are orders pouring into Casper for country. The char- acter of the oil at once recommends it wher- evor it s tried, aud there is talk in Casper of building a pipe line from tho oil flelds to the railroad in the spring. The reports from the mining regions of South Pass still continue to be favorable. The mines that are being worked aro turn- ing out more gold than was thought possible. Oid settlers of the state will remegber what an oxcitement raged in that region years ago, and iv now looks as though it would be duplicated this coming year. The Newcastle Nows-Journal says that during the two mouths which ended October 151,400 cars of cattle passed through that city. and that this amounts to 26,000 head. “This would indicate that the cattle business in this state is a long ways from being dead, us some have stated. The larger part of the cattle shippad through Newcastle were from the Wyoming rauges, although quite s num- ber came from the ranges of the north in Montana and Idaho. Orogun. The fallr ound-up has commenced in the Powder valley. Creswell is shipping apples by the car load to the sound. Over $6,000 has boen paid out at Halsey for apples to be shipped awuy Geese are cackling noisily over Klamath and the Indians predict a cold and stormy winter. Four hundred and fifty head of cattle are ready at the Datles for shipment to South Omaha. Miners who are coming out from thewr Greenhorn claims have w wade through two and a half feet of snow. Several Corvallis young men serenaded the youug ladies of the State Agricultural collége at their dormitory with a horse fid- dle. 1t took a gun to stop the affair, The Waushougal Land and Logging com- pany has securod & contract for 1,000,000 foot of hemlock logs from the Willamette Paper and Pulp Mill company of Oregon City. The largest run of trout over knowa in Lewis river has been ruuning for the past two wonths, and some of the fishermen have made s high as $ a day with & hook and line, S body rifled the cabin of Chief Peo of the Umatillas while he was off on a huut, se- curing some $300 worth of assorted plunder, and he is searching for the perpetrator with The basin nothing o do with furnishing the old gentle- wan & wife, he auswered afirmatively. “Well, she's h—1,” was the rejoinder, and the old man walked out swearing strongly and the home of the governor, licutenant IVErnor, one or two congressmen and one of e United States senators, is tho address of the president of the Sheepherders' associa- tion, at Roscoe. Sioux Falls is acoorded an Allustration, as well as Vermillion, Madison, tebell and Woonsocket, while the Black region has four. Ten pagesare de- yoted exclusively to the Hills, twenty-twi pages to the state asa whole, T'he Mitchol cornpalace has & page, but the Aberdeen mu‘gulnw was not deemed worthy even of meotion. L C. J. McLeod, editor-iu-chief of the een Dally News and receiver of the nited States land ofice, has this to say in ® recent issue of his paper: ‘Strangely enough this wonderful souvenir wnforms the h‘ffl;wnmmnu the government land ly- %'wun of the Missouri, aavising that b vo and Chamberlain are the gateways to and stating thut settlers are required to the government 72 cenis per acre for m‘r homesteads in addition to the fees for v and the period of residence required; nothing is sala about the me':.'i thou- acres of vacant governwent land in the tertown distriot. And stranger still, no ton, directly or indirectly, is made of 400,000 acres of government land opea to to himself. In his petition he alloges that the defendaut was & county charge when he married her, and that her ouly object in having him was 10 get an interest in his farm property and thea abuse him until he would give it to her to get rid of her. The petition goes on to relate the different moth- ods udopted 10 bring him to time, one of the priacipal ones beiug & course of clubbing with & big, ablebodied bootjack, adminis- wered by her 18-year-old boy, while the old lady assisted with a.vigor that added much to his bodily discomfort. They finaliy ran him off the place and he was compelled to go to the neighbors for something to eat and a place 1o sleep. Colorado. ‘The Gartield group, Cripple Creek, has sent avother car of twenty tons of 2,000 ore to the smelter. A thirty-inch vein of $24 milling ore has been struck in the Whale in Savage basin, San Miguel county. A twenty-ineh veln of mill ore, ranning $15 10 §20. has boen struck in the Old Reliable, in the Tarryall district, Park county. The improvements under way in the Gregory-Bobtail property, Gilpin county, are openlug up ore euough Lo keep the company’s Vengeanoe sworn. The Cameron company, which has se- cured considerable holdings of timber lands on upper Crabtree creek, and have several million feet of logs o ruu down, have or- dered the machinery for & mill and will shortly l;:uz it in_operation on Crabtree, whore the Oregonian railroad crosses the creek. Messrs. Rand and Benson, the Salt Lake cattle buyers, are busy loading about #,000 head of beef cattle a3 Huntington for ship- weut W Chicago. These cattle were ur- chused 1n Crook county and delivered at Huntiogton. This shipment will bo fol- lowed by 1,000 or 2,000 head yet to be de- livered. Washiagton, Suohomish shingle mil's are preparing to run all winter. Twelve lndians are in attendance at tne Olympia presbytery. pounds. He expects td e shipping ore from the mine moxt seasomy. It 18 a four-foot ledge. : Two acres of tobadto is ripening near Orting, Pierce county, wilich is said to equal the finest Virginia leaf During the past five yoars the Baptist de- nomination reports & growth of forty-cight churches and 2,443 members in the stato They are making & roMd'to St. Joseph hos- pital on the heights at Fairhaven by a “rosd beo.” Some 800 feet was cutand graded the first day. A lodging house at'Walla Walla, during the absence of its ocoupants, was visited by robbers, who stripped it,ef everything, oven furnituce and beds, J. H. Jackson of Marengo has Just shipped 1,140 sheep to Chicago. He has shipped to that market once before this season and still 4,500 sheep to winter, Tho Tacoma Chamber of Commerce is making arrangemonts for a permanent ex- hibit of the products of Washington to be made in their new home, and minerals, woods, coal, cereals, fruits and manufactured products, will bo collectod for the purposo. "The Cowlitz Advocate roports a large in- crease in logging in that vicinity, On Ar- kansas croek the recent rise of waters brought down a raft scaling 440,000 feet for Heury Powelson, and Charles dor com- pleted a drive of 1,000,000 feet. Other large drives are being made. Rev. Thomas Sing, the Mothodist mission- who is 1n jail at Tacoma for leaving th y without “standing trial for aiding in ging Chinese into this country, is il at the county jail there of consumption. He hias a little money and the jail offcials buy fruit and other delicasics for him, Miscellaneous, There is already the Sunset district country. Alonzo Fresquozof Don Ana_county las- soed o man and dragged him half a mile, He fled, but was captured and jailed at Chi- huahua, 1t has long been held by & few prominent mining men that the outlying spurs in Mon- tana would eventually bo found the richest in mineral, and the recent strikes In the Judith, Moccasin, Little Rocky and Sweet Grass districts go far to prove the truth of this belief. three foot of snow in in the Coeur d'Alene ss Hills promisos to becomo on: of the great mining camps of Montana, says the Meagher County Nows. Many of tho claims thero are giving evidence of being valuable, and before long a considerable in- vestment of capital for their development 1s promised. Secretary Holden of the Chamber of Com- merce has veceived a_communication from Marshal McDonald, United States commis- sioner of fisheries, whosays: “I am satis- fied that the present methoas and seasons of sulmon fishing will, if continued, greatly re- duce the cateh of Chinook or Kin salmon, 1t it docs not render fishing entirely un: profitable. The close sor shonld extend from August 10 to November 1, preferably, and certainly to the 15th of October, James Brown, one of a party of Butte, Mont., men who started a month or s0ago to run to earth the reported rediscovery of the t Cabin mines, writes from IRed Bank, that “the mincral resources of this sold and _silver aro ¢ cerned, are yot very small, but of coal there isan abundance, At Bonnoza there are a party of Nebraska capitalists who aro pros- pecting for petroloum, With some oil now Howing." T. S. Bulloc o Prescott & Arizoua Cohtral railvoad, avrived at Pres- cott one day last week and the result was orders wore issued withdrawing trains from the road. It has been in the hands of re- coivers since August 1, but has not beon taking in enough to meet running_expenses, and sinco that time $0.000 worth of ro- ceivers’ cortificates were issued. The road is severity-two miles long, but since the building of the Santa e, P’rescott & Pho- uix road tho latter hashad all the business. B T RESENTING AN INNOVATION. A Timid Dfummer’s Requost for a Cock- tall Provokes a Riot. “Tt was while T was8tationed at Fort Niobrata,” Colonel féorge Barty began as he lightéd a fresh aigar at the Lotus club the other night, saysthe New York Sun, “that the first commercial traveler —drummers some people call them— made his appearance in Valentine, He was a slim little fellow, and he seemed to have given a good deal of care to his personal adornment. Where he made his mistake was in taking too serious a view of himself. ““He dropped into Valentine on one of the first trains that got through over the now road. He had a conple of fancy yellow grips that must have looked very pretty to him, for he lugged them with him when he went into Dutch George's saloon to get a drink. His other ac- couterments were a very light striped suit and a jaunty little straw hat which avoused the mirth of the cowboys. “It's surprising how litile some fel- lows can pick up in traveling around the earth. Now, that chap didn't know any more than to drop those yellow grips right in front of Dutch Geor bar and call for a Manhattan cocktail. Yes, sir, he wanted a Manhattan cocktail, and he wanted it d—d quick, too. “You ought to have scen Dutch George look at him. Then he winked a couple of times at_the row of cowboys sitting along the side of the room and turned vound and began to mix a lot of things together for dear life. The little drum- mer leaned one arm on the bar and looked round at the row of cowboys without seeming to see the chap who had cdged up behind him. Just as Duteh George finis xing whatever he had fixed up for the drummer there was a pistol shot, and one of the boys gitting at the side of the room gave a yell and fell out of his chair in a heap on the floor. A big six-shooter fell to the floor beside the little drummer and a little cloud of smoke rose between the drummer and the bar. “Well, sir, you can believe itor not, just as you like, but I am telling you that thore was a row. Those cowboys yelled like the devil and swore that the drummer had shot the fellow who had failen out of the chair. Three or four of them putled their guns and were for shooting the deummer right there, but one fellow proposed to l{nch him and that proposition went through witha whoop. Some of them carried out the cowboy who was supposed to haye been shot, and Dutch Georgge began looking for a vope. The drummer just gaspod two or three times and wilted down into a chair white as a ghost and scared almost to death, Once or twice he tried to say something, but all he could get out:' was @ whispered ‘Why, gentlemen, I—why—what—I as- sure you I—,’ : *‘80 they started to take the little chap out to hang him. There wasn't a tree that would serve in' forty miles, and they were a good deal puzzled as to how to geta sausfactory -gallows on such short notice. They kept talking it over before the drummer ,in the coolest sort of way, and [ tell you he was scared. Just as they got to the door of the sa- loon there was a shotit that the sheriff was coming, and ‘before anyone could say ‘jack rabbit’ the sheriff and another man were thore with their six-shootors in their hands, demanding the prisoner in the name of the law. The little drummer was so relioved that he could have hugged the sheriff, and he began to try to talk again. The sheriff told him to shut up if he wantod to get out alive, and started with him for the door, But just as soon as his back was turned one of the cowboys shouted: ** *Shoot him! Shoot him! him get away liko that.’ *“The sheriff and Lis man swung round and whipped out their six-shooters again. ‘Keep back,” he shouted. ‘I'll shoot the first galoot that touches this man 80 full of holes he won't need a grave.’ ‘“The cowboys took the challengo, and in less than a quarter of a second more than forty pistol shots were fired. It sounded liko an engagement of infantry. Don't let The room was full of smoke. Two or three of the cowboys fell to the floor, and the man who was with the sheriff went dow was done for, Somehow sherilf got off all right, shooting was liveliest drs out into the street. The little drummer was near having a fit from fright, and the sheriff had lost his hat. It was a particularly fine sombrero, with a band heavily ornamented with silver, and the sherifl wouldn't have lost it to save four- toen men from being lynched. So he took the drummer to the corner of the saloon and said: *“‘Now, I'm going back there for my hat. Don't you wiggle out of this spot till I come back. 1f you do you're mighty liable to looso your life mighty sudden and unpleasant.’ “With that the sheriff loft the drum- mer standing there at the corner and went back to the saloon. He hadn't any more than opened the door before the shooting began again, and what had been done before wasn't a marker to what it was that time. The little deummer lis- tened to it for a minute.and then all of a sudden scemed to realize that he was aloue and that the road was before him. The next sixteenth of a second he was off up the road like a quarter horse,with u thought of his two fancy yellow with a groan, crying that he or and other the vhile the d his man e'd got about 150 yards away when the door of the saloon ovened, and Dutch Goorge and the sheriff and half a dozen cowboys jumped out into the street with their guns in action. Well, the way th bullets dropped around that drumme feet would beat a Kansas hailstorm. And the more they dropped the fastor he ran. You can talk about your Salvators and all the rest ot them. 1f I had a horse that could run the way that little drum- mer footed it out of Valentine I'd bet there wouldn't another man get a race. I'd win them all, by gad, sir, [ would. I'd break up the horse racing business. And when it was all over and the bullets wouldn’t carry to the little drummerany longer the sheriff and the cowboys, in- cluding all the dead and injured, danced a jig in front of the saloon and then went inside to drink the place dry, and T guess they pretty neardidit. And what d’ye suppose that d—d fool was trying to seli? Ribbons, by gad; yes, sir, ribbons. Trying to sell ribbons in Valentine. Was it ‘& put up job? Yes, sir, 1t was, and d—d well put up, too, for they haven't seen him since.” RERNC TR That Joyful Feeling. With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength and internal cleanli- ness, which follows the use of Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old time medicines and the cheap substitutes sometimes offered “but never accepted by the well informed. PRV e SO ENOCH ARDEN OUTDONE. A Wandering Hasband Finds Himself a Great Granafather ana His Wife Married, Forty-one years ago George G. Gas- kin, a sailmaker, then living in Brook- lyn, N. Y., left his young wife und little daughter and went'off for a day's fish- ing. Nothing was heard of him until a few days ago, when he returned to find himself a great grandfather and his wife married again snd the mother of ten cnildren by another man. He was mourned as dead, and after waiting seven years his wife married William Bridge, who was at one time a leader in republican politics in Queens county and whno served several terms as postmaster of Long Island City. They had ten children, several of whom are now mar- ried and have families of their own. It was through an accidental meeting with an unknown son that the wander- ing husband andfather had his thoughts turned homeward. He was then in San IPrancisco. He left San Francisco, and aftor making a trip to Euvope, brought up in Brooklyn. From thero he suc- seded in tracing his family to Long land City and a_day or so ago when Mrs. Arthur Finney of Jackson avenue, in that piace, answered a knock at her door she was confronted by a tall, wiry man about 65 years old. The little girl Gaskin left in the cradle when he went away was Mrs. Finney’s mother, and as Mrs. Finny has a child Mr, Gaskin is a great grandfather. Without waiting to introduce himself the stranger began asking Mrs. Finney pointed questions about her family, until sho finally demanded: “Who are you?” ‘*:\1?- name is George G. quietly answered the stranger, “0Oh, yes,” returned Mrs. Iinney; “I had an uncle by that name. *But 1 am not your uncle, child,” and the stranger’s voice trembled. I am your grandfather.” “My grandfather’s dead,” Mrs, Fioney almost skrieked. Taking a seat the stranger was not long 1n convincing her that ho was her long lost grandfather. But the recogni- tion brought with it more pain than joy. Mrs, Finney thought of her grand- mother, To keep the news of Gaskin’s return from Mrs, Bridge was Murs, Fin- ney's only thought. She learned that he owned consider- able property in California. This knowledge gave a new phase to the sit: ation, and late this aftornoon Mrs. Fin- ney went to Locust Valley to notify her grandmother of Gaskin’s return, Mrs, Bridge was for a time overwhelmed by griof. She asserted again and again thut Gaskin died years ago. e also said Gaskin had married in California, where he had a large family. Gaskin hus obtained a place in New Y ( and proposes making his home with Mrs. Finney. ‘We couldnot improve the qualivy if paid double the price. DeWitt's Witch Hazel Balve is the best salve that experience can Gaskin,” produce, or thutmoney can buy. IMARGY oAb Bl The Madison (family hotel), 21st and Transients, $2.00 per day. Chicago. The shingle mill at Custer 18 cutting from 70,000 to 80,000 shingles per day. A whist tournament to consist of 112 gomes has been arranged among What- com's crack players. Sam Altshuler has had an assdy made of wple of ore from his wine_in Okanogan iy, uear the diulding tne of Whatoow and Skagit counties. 1t runs 62.27 ounces of silver and 59.2 per vent lead per ton of 2,000 Re IS Highest of all in Leavening Power.— Latest U. S. Gov't Report, al Baking is the way you hav. Rub In clothes with soap. First you Rub Out rub the soap in; that's work in itself. Then you rub it all out again over the washboard. If you're strong and healthy, and rub hard enough, you may get the dirt all out, too. It's hard work, and every woman knows it, But it isn't the woman only that suffers. She's wearing the clothes out, rubbing them to pieces, all the time. It's just as hard for every thing as it is for every body. is Pearline's way of washing. Soak In All it wants is to be let Soak Out alone, Put it in the water work — yours, too. and it does its own It brings the dirt out easily and quickly—no hard work, no wear- ing rub, rub, rub, no washboard. oesn’t that seem better? It is better. There’s a saving of strength and a saving of clothes. And, what some women can’t beiieve, it's abso- lutely safe. It's just as much so as any good soap. B re Peddlers and some unscrupulous grocers will tell **this is as good as” or *‘the same as Peatline.” IT' you an imitation, be honest—send’ if back. —Pearline is never peddled, if your grocer sends 7 JAMES PYLE, New Yorks KEEPIN' IT UP. A complete, cold clean-out of every stitch of clothing in the house. We're willing to take a loss, and that we will do so is proven by the prices — — ~— — Crowded and more crowds come Satur- day. Some of the sizes all gone. The whole stock will go fast at this rate. CLOTHING at prices new to Omaha. Bovs’ Overcoats. Boys’ cape overca several different colors, y. nearly all sizes, on|cheviots and cassimere table "at just half|In this lot you get a good rge lined and well’ v m coat for the boy for good ones among | $1.27 Of course, cape ’em, for $3.75. overcoats are a little out but if you've got Ulsters. a boy with too m:lizh pnindu 3 Pohtlate S ar one at this pric e e ived and | he'd ought to be wollope well made up. Will wear [A ¢ape ov ot Saly and keep the cold out as looks nobby whether its well as it you paid $12 for |in style or not. them. Men’s Suits. On one table we place all the lots of men's suits that have not been selling fast enough to suit us, Men’s Overcoats. all wool cheviot coats, in brown and ts, in Boys’ Suits. On the first table as you % zet off the elevator you'll nd let them go at just|fing piled several lots of half of the pricespice, durable boys knee ked. We buy direct| pant suits, sizes 4 to 14, from the factories and the |41} ¢olo, old prices were lower| “Eyery one of ’em at just than clothing store figures. | onc.half the old price, and Were $7.50, $8, $9, $10, | that's about one-third of $12; ete., now $3.75, $4, | their value. $1.50, $5, $6. x If you get your fit you get the best bargain you ever saw. Men’s Pants. A line of men’s pants that used to be called good working pants us‘!fil. 5 go now for 75¢. They not handsome, but they'll wear, Boys’ Long Pant Suits. Ages 12 to 19. There arca whole lot of these that used to be sold for $; $6 and $8. Now you g $3.75 and $4. sily two times these prices. Space won't permit of further quotations. These are but samples. The Bee has plenty of space to sell, but we can’t give away goods and buy oceans of space at the same time. 5 If you live out of town, come in. 'Twill pay you. HAYDEN BROS: Clothing Dept.. 2nd Floor. 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