Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 8, 1894, Page 5

— WILL HAVE A WOOLEN MILL | Oompany Organized to Build a Factory at | Onoe at Trinidad, TO CONSUME THE HOME PRODUCT Millions of Tounds of Woul Sold Yenr from the Panbardle of Texas and New Mexico to 1o Made Up There, Trinidad has long held the position as one of the best wool markets in tne west, large sheep growing districts i Colorado, New Mexico and the Panhandle being tributary, writes a covrespondent of the Denver Times. As an instance of the large amounts, at Clayton, N. M,, fully 1,000,000 pounds aro markoted overy year, plsem one-quarter of that amount, and at Trinidad fully 250, 000 pounds finds its way from the backs of sheep, to say nothing of the amount sold hero to jobbing men. Our buyers handle of the product producea in hun- 15 of milesaround. These facts, coupled ith our fine supply of pure water and cheap fuel, nave causod many to figuro on the possibility of putting ina woolen mill or wool scouring piant, and the figures have nlways come out the right way. This led to the forming of the K. J. Primrose Wool company The wool company has secured a twenty- year lease on a tract of land near the Chest- 1005300 feet, from the anta Fe Railrond company, and has already let the coatract for a two-story brick build- ing 112505 fect. Arrangements have been made to have everything in readiness for work on April 1. 'he company will con- struct additional buildings as required. juyers for the new project will tmmedi- starvout and will cover country a vest as the California line. aking of ile profits a gentleman connect enterpr ys: +On m from 4 to 5 18 from we sell fo v pound. Other grades bout the same proportion. The trado will bo saved the expensc of transport- ing several millions of pounds of dirt, burs and refuse gencrally to the cast by the new mills," Denth Valley and Sulton Basin, In Death valley and the Salton basin there areto pe found the largest, hottest, most unredecmuble deserts in the world—hottest oldest, says the Call; wettest, and arid that life is sometimes impossible. ttom of Death valley lies deeper be- neath the level of the sea than auy other alley. The desert district of California covered 50.000 square miles, embraced by Inyo, Lern, Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties, ath valley is > south of 0 county, not very far from Mount Whit- h'1s 15,000 feet bigh. The valloy is seventy-five miles long and from six 1o fifteen inlles wide; 1t is 430 feet below sea Mr. Monsen described his teip from ch is 100 miles from the valley, team and a buckboard. No tion can be found enroute, and provisions, water, even hay for the horses, had to be taken in the equipms Some idea of the temperature was c d by the t that meat can bo cured in one hour, eggs canbe roasted in the sand, flour breeds worms in o w and no man can be more than one hour without water without be- coming insano. There Is sometimes less than 1 per cent of moisture in the atmos- phere. While at the Red sea 1272 of heat are recorded, at Death valley 1372 in the shade is not uncommon. Yet on tho other hand, the mercury sinks to 50= below zero. A feature of the valley is the curious ‘“'salt road,” which was graded with sledge ham- mers right through the center for the trans- vort of borax. By this road are many un- known graves, filled by wanderers who have perished through the heat. They are 430 feet below sea level, and are probably the lowest graves in the world. Ouly shallow graves, covered with rocks of salt, are nec- essavy for the desiccated remains, for there are no animals there except snakes, taran- tulas, scorpions and lizavds. Of the latter, one. the Chugwalla, dresses three pounds in weight and is eaten by both Indians and white The meat is said 1o rescmble that of chicken. Of the snakes the “yellow rattler” is the most formidable. The namo of the valley was derived from a party of emigrants from Salt Lake City. The party endeavored to cross the valley in 1850 and lost their lives in the attempt. Two immense wagons, each weighing 7,800 peunds, are coupled’ s0 as to 45,000 pounds, and with a tanktender of 500 gallons capacity for water ure hauled by twenty mules. The mul of tho desert,” the tenmster and “‘swapper,” or teamster’s assistant, were descrived. The absolute necessity of profanity in a teamster’s equip- ment was illustrated by the failure of a teamster after he had been converted by an evangelist. When invited to move without the usual decorative emphasis the twenty mules with one accord turned their heads over their shouldors and simply gazed in pe! rified astonishment. Salton 18 over 250 feet below sea level, and combrises fifteen square miles of salt. Here immense salt works are in opefation, and 00 tons of salt are plowed up in one' day. ho salt covers the marsh to u depth of from ten to twenty inches The work is chiefly dono by Indians, who alone can stand the terrific heat and blinding glare which prevail. Tluachueas on the Warpath, It appears that the lndians on the border are again out, killing robbing and devasta fog. A mining man residing in this cit; says the San Francisco Chronicle, who has mines in south Arizona, returned from there and gives the p s of tho outbreals, with the names of many killed and robbed. According to his account the Huachuca In- dians at San Carlos, to the number of sixty, escaped from the reservation apout two weeks ago, aud, crossing tho lino into So- nora, kilied two Mexicans, who lived just over the border. Tho tragedy took place not far from Cochiso. Proceeding onward they killed four more Moxicans near the Rancho San Nicolas, in Sonora, sixty miles from the Arizona line. A littlo further, on the trail betweon Ovelo and San Pedro, thoy came across an Italian peddler, Antonio Probasco, killed hiw, took part’ of his pack and scat- ~Tored tho rest of his goods over the ground. They also took his coat and boots John Halstead and theothers, who pursued the Ladio in their horses, at last saw that the search was fruitiess, and re- u theirranch, atleman who gave this information he would give his namo in_conneotion with it, but, as he has mining interests in this part of ‘Arizona, which is at times - fested by renegade indians, he fears that it ho did 50 the military authorities might not like it and might not be so energetic in com- ing to his assistance if he needed them. Ho says that tho wilitary authoritics do not want it known when the Indians do brenk out, and that, though this large band of Huachiicas have boen gone about ten days, no troobs have veen sent after them from San Carlos or olsewhere. “The killing, ho says, has in many Instances been done in the most barbarous manner kuown to lndiaus. ases they have maimed the bodies. The nailing of the child of the Mexican, whose whole family was Killed at Wapota rancho, to a troe illustrates thelr cruelty, 1t scems odd that sixty Hus should thus bo out, killing and m but hesays it is true. Lost Child's Return. A 9-yoar-old child belonging to G. Burso, living south of Heland, 5. D., was sent to a newghbor on an errand and lost in the storm, says the Minneapolis Tribune. Help was called for and a crowd of men searched the prairies tonoavail. The search was given up at dark. At 8 o'olock in the mornify the girl returned, whole and hearty, and told her story. She had travelea for many miles and at last as she got aleepy she buried herself in a straw pile not forty rods from her own home. When she awoke she could see ber home and to the great rejoiciog and wonder of her parents walked in on them. Fuuny lucldent. A laughable incident occurred up Lewls by means of ingle habi huca Indians uding, Flver s fow days ago, whero Mr. Bystrum is The Cathlan: of tho men cail surveying a towush zotto relates that ¢ that he had found a bear and all the ran up to sec; put when they all got around the bear 1t clear tho woods of o poople and madea rush Bystrum, who, in turn, iado a rush vl wont upit. The bear then others and sucoesdold in troe iog the wholo party. He then went tree noar by and surveyed the party one at n time until he wot tired. Then he slid down and loft, leaving his victims wondering whether they had better come down or stay tili the bear went into winter juarters, Big Diteh, As the ditch of the South company is digging and the events transpir. ing along 1t will probably for some time yet bo much talked about, aays the Deadwood Independeat, tho following description of the ditch may he ditch taps Spearfish mile below the Big Springs, which may be said to be the source of the creek, and runs thence along the hillside to the top of the divide between Spearfish and Anna creeks; thence along the Auna creek side of the divide to the company's mill sito on Anna creek. The length of the ditch is about five miles, with a fall of eight feot to tho mile, and the water will bo delivered at the mill a height sufficient to afford a fall of 1t is eatimated that the volumo of water obtainod from the Spearfish creek alone will, with a fall of 124 feet, afford 600- horse power. But it is included in the plans of the com to utilizo also the waters of Little Speariish and of Tee Box croeks, and these, it 18 estimated, will increase the horse power to 1,300, T'hedimensions of the diteh now digging are such as to accommo date a board flume soven feet wide by six feot deep, but the flume for the prosent will be only half this size, or 3x7 fect. 1t will b nstructed th hout of two-nch plank, and will requive 150,000 feet of lumber. About 120 men are now working on_the ditch, and this number will be gradually 200, It will take all winter to finisn 1t will probably cost §75,000. Natural Gas at Huron, Ga | out turned on il While sinking the artesian well rsed furnish powor for running the machi Nathan Underwood's flour mill at No ville, in Spiuk county, a strong flow of gu was discov Mr.” Underwood now pro. poscs to put down a well to the poinut where tho vein is believed to be and convey the gas to his mill for he: and lighting Ho is_very enthusiastic over the and says he expocts to find_an abun- dauce of gas at a depth of from 150 to 200 feet below the surface. Cheated In Thelr Lands, Allotting Agent Winter and family have returned to Chamberlain for the winter. During the fall they have been engaged in allotting lands to Indians on the Sioux res- ation, says the Sioux [alls Argus-Leader. Many of the Sioux who had taken their al- lotments in the ceded povtions of the reser- vation have now altered their minds and have abandoned their original allotments and gone to their regular reservation on_the est side of the Missouri, opposite Crow Creek o, y. A number of the [udians who were allotted lands by a former official aro complaining that thoy were not given the lands which they wanted. Some of shem say shat they now find that the greater portion of their land lies in the Missouri river. Nebraska. W. H. P. Schestedt, a Paplllion grain dealer, has assigned. Tne Indianola Courier has fourteen years of life. A new #,500 school building has just been completed at Hemingford. Another newspaper is soon to bo started at Grotna by Will He.nming. He will buck against Booz ‘The Central City Nonpareil has begun its thirteenth year. It is prosperous because it deserves Lo be. The wife and two youngest children of Senator Allen have gone to Washington to spend the winter. Rev. Mr. Hayhurst of Madison is so seri- ously ill with the grip that little hope is entertained of his recovery. The four newspapers of Keith county consolidated into one, the Ogallala Néw which Albert Muldoon becomes the editor. John A. Logan, a veteranof Dundy county, drovped dead in the road while on the way to Benkelman to make out his pension papers. Fred Volker, a Nemaha county farmer, has recovered a fine team stolen from him. The animals were found in Smith county, Kansas. According to the Albion News W. A. Poynter is setting up pins for the populist gubernatorial nomination. He attended the Hastings conference, A family with only 5 cents in cash stopped at Beatrice over night in its overlana jour- ney from Iowa to Jewell county, Kansas. The police ‘‘chipped in” enough” monoy to keep them from freezing and starving for a day or two. Bocause tho aditor of the Monroe Looking Glass announced that he haa cleared 38 cents in a vear, another newspaper has been started in that town aad christened the Monroe Mirror. It proposes to reflact public sentiment better than the Looking Glass. The effect of the democratic rule at the Genoa Indian school has at once become painfully apparent, for several of the Indian boys secured whisky the other night and became gloriously drunk. A man named ‘Wozney has been arrested and held for trial for selling the liquor to the youthful reds. Thomas Upton of Bromfield, who has until recently been conducting a general mer- chandise business at that }:mw. has veen arrested on the charee of fraudulently dis- posing of the stock of goods with intent to cheat and defraud his creditors. He has given boud in the sum of $500 to appear for hearing. The Nebraska City timessays: Sheriff Huverie had not been in charge of his oftice much more than an hour beforo a lawyer called upon him and wanted a piece of steam pipe that was in his possession, Joo refused togive it up, and it turns out to be a piece of the evidence in the case of Mrs. Butter- baugh 1n her suit against the Chicago Pack- g and Provision company. Will Miner of Stella, who was shot acel- dentally in the knee joint, hus submitted to a peculiar operation Lo save his life, as tho knee joint had become filled with pus. The leg was opened, the knee cap removed and the ends of the two bones which form the knee joint were sawed off and brought to- gether. This means, of course, that tne boy will have a stiff leg for lLife, and it will be some shorter than the other, but still it will be much more useful to him than any arti- ficial leg could possibly be. Colorado. An evening paper has been started at Pueblo. C. A. McLoud of Greeloy has thirteen pe- tatoes which weigh 100 pounds. Montrose 1s detormined to creamery in operation through 194, The onlon crop of 1893 in Larimer county amounted to 600,000 pounds, which netted #7,500. Deep snow in the South park of Colorado insures abundance of water for irvigation in the Platte valley next summer. Ore assaying 4,800 to $5,000 has been struck in cross-outting at the bottom of the Free Coinage shaft on Bull mountain, There is quite 4 stampede to Myers' creek, ten miles north of Del Norte, where a num: ber of good strikes have recently been made. Bowman & Burleson will drive a 800-foot tunnel into Cedur mountain at Copper Rock to cut the Empire vein. The prospects for big pay ore are vrigt. An eight-foot vein of ore, assaying $05.20 without sorting, has been struck by leasers at o depth of eighty feet in the Poorman, ono of the Work properties. Kit Carson county, Colo., contains much rich unclaimed government land, which the seutlors of that county desire ocoupied be- fore spring crop planting. Golden clays have recently been tested in eastern glass and pottery works and pronounced to be the finest and purest known for muking glass and pottery. The Smuggler has declared a dividend of 50,000, amoufiting to b cents a share. The Mollie Gibson has declared its regular monthly dividend “of $50,000, or 5 cents & share. The Canon City Record reports a good gold strike on Thirty-one Mile mountain, ten miles southeast of Hartsel. It is claimed a good lead has been opened, tho ore assay- ing $500 per ton, According to the Cripple Creek Miner the C. C. & C, C. wransporwation have sixty-four four, five and six-horse teams hauling ore rounded out have a sthors | upa | Dakota Mining | outof Cripple Creok to Canon City and | froight baci. Ivery team roturns londed. gold striko has been made in the fe Christo nge about thirty miles north of Wot mountain, in Chaffee county \va from the fina have returned thirty- r ounces silver and nearly 500 ounces in gold | Colonel 8. H. | frrom New York factory | the fre | contract in castorn sy plant of not Bakor has just returned after having mad milling goid mines on the Bak La Plata county by a weaithy 1t is proposed to erect & pss than 100 stamps. The Dukotas, discussing the sinking of an artesian well at Onida, N. D. The Odd Kellows at Spearfish have just dedicated a temple costing #30,000. Vermililon has seven churches, a splendid High school and the State university The £25,000 new stono school building just completod at Hot Sorings is to be publicly dedicated on Ja ry 8, Surveyors are at work platting into town lots a school section that 1s located within the city limits of Chamberlmn, J. E. Benne vresiling judge of the su- preme court of South kota, died vory sud- denly of heart failure av Pierre the other day. The biggest baby on record was born at Hot Springs on the 17th to the wife of a Danish laborer named Anderson. Its weight was tweniy-three pounds. A contract has been iot by the city of Fort Pierre for the erection of an iron bridge | across Bad river. Work will begin on or | nbout the ist of January. It witl cost $1,500. A full train of nineteen cars of lignite coal from the Lehigh m s near Dickinson billed out_for argo ono day last we F'rom the Lehigh mines there Is a daily out- put of 400 tons. 1t is a good quality of soft coal. An Eik Point dispatch says the cold weatlier has driven thousands of prairie chickens and auail to the timber bordering the Missouri river. It is estimated that 10,- 000 prairie chickens and 5,000 quail were trapped in Union couaty during the month ot December, They sold at $4 and $4.25 per dozen. Citizons ar Wyoming. A militia company has been organized at Buffalo, Hot vaths will be established at the newly ater artesian wells at Sar- oga. The Mormons in _the western part of the state have started a new town called Bur- lington It is estimated that 5,000 elk and as many antelope were killed in Fremont and Ulnta counties duming the past ason About 500 men ave at Shevidan waiting for work on the Burlington branch to be built into the Big Horn basin in the spring. | Casperlast week held a grand Masonic | celebration and banquet. It was onc of tne | most notable and elaborate affairs ever held in the state. | Wyoming furnishes employment to over 4000 coul miners and procuces annually about 2,500,000 tons of coal, vaiued at the mine at #4,250,000. has just finished a handsome all. 1t contains a firo depart- ment, mayor's oftico and council chamber. | It is said to be the finest muuicipal building in Wyoming. At Cheyenno there 18 a magnificont dis- play of native -grasses on exhibision in the state capitol. Thers are 100 varicties, and among them’ blue stem grass five feet long and buffalo grass half that length. The Big Horn basin is suffering from un- precedented snow storms. 1t is stormir | almost daily and some portions of the Big Horn regions are entirely blockaded by snow. This meaus lots of water for spring muning and farm irrigation. According to official statistics just made public, Wyoming has only 1,200 criminals to themillion of people. In the eastern states, where there is supposed to bo tho lcast crime, the figures are 1,600, while in Mon- tava, an adjacent state with the same natural conditlons, there are 3,300 to the million. Other states ace: Nebruska, 2,200; 700: Colorado, 2,200: Califoruia, aaa, 3,300; Arizona, 4,200, oregon. Eleven carloads of Wallowa cattle have started for South Omaha. A chicken epmdemic is depopulating the henroosts of the lower Rogue river. ‘The butchers of Baker ity have agreed not to run delivery wagons any longer. A boom in athletics has struck La Grande and A gymnasium hall 60x80 feet is being fitted up. Newberg has shipped this fall 8,000 boxes of apples and pears and 2,000 boxes of plums and vrunes. ‘The new boilers have been put in at tho Virtue mine and the stamps will bo running in about ten days. The Umatilla Indians are going in consid- erable numbers to Wallula, where a feast and dance is to last two weeks, H. E. Moore of Tygh Ridge is feedaing 200 beef cattle on damaged wheat, The stock is thriving and he is very well pleased with the project. A wigwam at the Ya-ten-e-ouitz place, ten miles above the Umatilla agency, caught five in the middle of the right, and burned so quickly that its occupant, an aged squaw named Jean-she-mic, lost her life. Three other Indians escaped. Daniel Harris of Sheridan is a survivor of the Mexican war. He served seven years in the United States navy, and was off the coast of Mexico in 1857, He was an able sea- man on the frigate Potomuc of sixty-four guns, and witnessed the combined attack of the land and naval forces upon Vera Cr Mr. Harris is a pioueer, having come to Ore- won in 1850, Ho gets o pension of 35 per month, and went to McMinaville Wednes- day for examination for an increase of $4 per month, Washington. Of Seattle's §544,000 tax.levy & linquent. Ocosta's streets are lively with from outlying camps. Bullard will ask tne government to spend $100,000 to dredgo Salmon bay. A Willapa family had cabbage, cauliflower, beets, radishes, carrots and parsnips fresh fromi the gardeu for Christmas. A barley shipment of 10,000 sacks is being loaded at Walla Walla. It nets the shipper 60 cents per ceutal, free on board. The Deer Creek Mining company have struck free milling gold ore in their property near Silverton. They are working day and night packing the ore from the ground to the railroad. Three hundred thousand feot of cedar logs are in the Bellingham Bay & Eastern Rail- road company’s boom awaiting the tug Price to tow them to Blaine, where they will be wanufactured into shingles. ‘Tne oyster industry in Willapa bay has brought $40,000 in returns for shipments of 80,000 sacks' during 1594, while the fact that many beds have been planted, to come intu bearing this season, gives promise of steady and satisfactory wcrease in the value of the oyster fisheries ther William Campbell and Oscar Maple have undertaken a contract to cuta tunnel be- Lwes «0an and Barren lakes, King county. “There is a ridge lying between the two lakes and the object of the tunnel is to drain the latter lake. The length of the sunnel will be 800 feet, five feet deep and four feet wide, and to be lined with lumber. The work is being done through the enterprise and cppital of two gentlemen of the town of Enumelaw and vicinity, Miscellancous. Raton, N. M., built over 100 substantial houses during the past year. Butte, Mout., merohauts report a better holiday trade than they had one year ago. Tho Rio Grande Southern railroad has re- duced passenger rates from 10 cents to 6 cents per mile, At Eddy, N. M., the great dam which was washed out last’ August, causing a losa of $125,000, has been restored. Maricopa county, Arizon: schools cost $90,000 last year, #45,000 of which went to im- provements and new school houses, In White Oaks, N. M., the other day, arte- sian water was struck at a depth of 110 foet. The water itmmediately rose sixty feet in the tube. Socorro, N. M., antounces a boom on.. The Wall Street mine in Water canon is having o fiue mill and concentrator erected atits mouth, o mineral product of California in was $20,000,000, of which $18,000,000 was he total output of gold since 1840 has 1246,000,000. 3,595 is do- loggers ANDY'S DAY IN THE MORNING —— The Hero of January Biglit'ind the Provoca- tion Therefor. LIVELY DEBATE WITH ED PAKENHAM Subsequent Itemarks Lending Up to Damo- cratic Canonization—Fhe Canse of the s Famous Duel with Dickinson and the ftesult lacking one Pakenham Seventy-nine years day, Andy Jackson abd 1d held a joint devate inv'the suburbs of Now ( )rt-nns. Each leader had a spirited following, and had there been a full vote and a fair count it is conceded that Pakenham would have captured the pork by a round majority. But what Jackson lacked in numbers was made up in superior argumentative ability and the confidence that right and possession gives. Besides, Jackson had a few old suceulent scores handed down by his an- cestors which he desired to squave thon and there. THe contended that th Pakenhams wero alions and barnburners who deserved hanging. [Flushed with victory at Bladensburg and the burning of the ional capitol a fow months pre- vious, they imagined they had a mort gage on the earth and proceeded to fore- close. They did not count on serious obstruction in Louisiana, und regavded Jackson as a panacea for local malavia. They sized up his argumentative powers and reasoned that he could not sustain a controversy long enough to produce per- spiration, The evening preceding the debate the Pakenhams, 20,000 strong, made their appe nee—not with the eclat of proud conguerors, but rather with a gloomy foreboding that somebody was about to get hurt. Doubtless thoy reflocted on the sad fate in store for the 4,000 oppo- nents and naturally concluded that in dizpatching that number some of their own would cross the divide with boots on. They reasc Fanernl While the Pakenham officers wore posing of their earthly possess and conjuring up expressive dying senti- ments preparatory for the fatal morrow, Jackson was disbursing penetrating d wisely. Preparations. points mixed with choice expletives. Oid Hickory said: “By the eternal they shall not sleep under it, er The dobate, it appears, be, on the morning of Jo Jackson took the pr rounding the grand stand with his fol- lowers and had a few tons of cotton bales conveniently arranged for his op- ponents to chew on. Ho did not pro- pose to allow the hams to jump his claim or permit offensive setivity on their part. He was an uncompromising par- tisan, pugnacious to a degree and ready for a scrimmage at the drop of the hat Th ams did not know this. They ry alized it later on. Blissfully ignorant of the fuct that Jackson had his Irish up, they fired a fow impertinent quee- tions at long range, receiving a_feeble answer. Soon they were within ear- shot, and heard move-than they bar- gained for. Every cotton bale seemed to spit defiance and (lead; every trench i ted death. [nafew hours the hams were smoked out, and what was left of them meandered sadly through the swamps and skipped the country for theicountry’s good. The debate cost Pakenham his life as well as three major generals, eight colonels, six majors, eighteon captains and fifty-four subaltern officers, and in addition 700 killed, 1,400 wounded and fifty prisonors. Jackson loss was eight killed and thirteen wounded. Why We Celobrate. Jackson's remarks on that memorable day made an indellible impression on the nation’s history and the passing years add luster to their of 3 affcctiveness, They led to his canonization, while irreverent lips refer to the recurring anniversary as “Old Hickory's day, “Bourbon Feast,” Spoilsmen’s holiday, ote., it is in reality St. Jackson’s day. But in these degenerate times the 8th of January is not observed becauso Jackson flambasted the Pakenhams at New Orleans. That is merely inci- dental. What enthuses the Jacksonians of today is not the explosive cotton bale patriotism, but a few remarks on a sub- sequent occasion, which bear peceliar significance at the present moment, towit Yo the victor belong the spoils.” An ivresistible rallying cry in a presi- dental campaign. How shallow and mocking it must sound to patriots now! The supply of pie abundant, yet they are not bidden to the feast. Enthusi- astically they gathered the harvest fourteen months ago, yet they are barred out of the granal The groan- ing pantry mocks their hunger by giving up a few scant crumbs, A Famons Duel. Away with these sordid reflections! There are other incidents in Jackson’s life that show the martial hero the pos- sessor of dauntless personal courage. Before fame marked him for a favorite, before New Orleans placed the laurel leaves upon his brow, Jackson displayed that firmness of purpose and indomit- able will power which marked his public life. While yet & struggling lawyer in Tennessee, Jackson boarded with the mother of a beautiful woman whom he afterward married. The daughter was already wedded, her husband being a drunken cur named Robarts, who con- ceived a violent dislike to the young lawyer, He even tried time and ‘ugain to get Jackson to o to a duel with rifles, but the future president always refused, and Robarts earned the distine: tion of being the only man who couldn't coax a fight out of.him who subse- quently became thos-hero of New Orleans. At last Rabarts went back to Kentucky, his nativé stite. He and his wife had separatea. Marringe nad Divoroe. Then came the noié fhat Robarts had achieved a divoree, | Jackson led his brown-eyed young friénd to the altar, After many months /as, happy man and wife came other news::rom the blue- Robarts had not obtained a di- On the heelsof this blow came the facts in the case ¢f the corn-soaked ruffian Robarts, He Had obtained a di- vorce, but something .fike four months after Jackson and the former M@s. Ro- barts had supposed THBY they were wed. Jackson and Mrs. Robarts again sought the preacher and this time they suc- ceeded in marrying each other, Of course, these four dubious months, when they thought they were man and wife, but weron't, must be admittod as irregular, Buu the éountry was new, sentiment wus libeval and slander slept, and no one found the slightest fault with Jackson and his bride. It was the fault veally of an imperfectpostal system, and this the world readily saw and admitted. I'he admission cameo ‘all the more easily as Juckson at once invested overy doi- lar he had in a brace of splendid pistols and solemnly destined them to be the death of the' first man who blew upon the stainless reputation of his wife. 8, 1894, These pistols he had when he died. Only one of them realized its purpose. About this time thoro lived at ville a lawyer named Dickinson was only nd ws handsomo Ad ichton, and with it Dickinson was called the best pistol shot in tho world. This last of itself ennobled him in the day in which ho lived. Jackson had grown to towering populavity. He was consequently and correspondingly hatod in cevtain quar- ters. f his political enemies rosoived he should die. Dickinson, as the quickest and surest living pistolers, was put forward to do the red work of death. How e they got Jackson to fight? That was tho question. One would not suppose that to be difficult. But Jackson was awave of thair design; that they krow. Springing the Trap. Ho might avoid their trap unless lure was uscd that he himself blind, could bs made as bloodily eag as themselves, They concluded to bait their deadfall with the stabbed honor of Jacksen's wife. Dickinson was willing for his foul part. To kill Jackson, ton man of his tribe, appoared a romantic and honorable adventure, and ono to clap fame on his shoulder. So he put himsell a Nashville race mecting, kson had a race horse. It cantered the scrubby winner of some scrub Mrs. Jakson was there, and in val fominine raptures over the victory, exclaimed to some friends: “Oh!'our horse is running away from them!" Dickinson hanging about, the arrow of premeditated insult laid ready on the bow, and only awaiting the opportunity, was ready to say nd ut as the hor way with another man's wi shville's whole race cours the iusult. Public sentiment opened but two gates to the situation. One swung for Jackson's to the fieid of honor and cert The second opeifed for cowardice to seek contempt and ostr Yet Jackson didn't fight Dickinson for almosta year. He looked into his grave for one whole y He was bound to tight, and expected Dickinson to kill him. His two purposes were to focus his affaivs as to give his wifo a compe- tenco and to so manage the meeting as to kill Dickinson while he died him- self. He cailed to him Major Ovi ton, an old friend and Indian fighter. Fach looked at this Dickinson insult as part of a plot to kill Jackson. Overton was of the same inveterate temper Jackson, only slower. Overton and Jackson considered coming fight. They worked on a plan as if it were a campaign against the En- glish. The Nash- He all owner heard time came when Jackson w ready to die. The cartel found Dickin- agrecable but whimsica e put the fight off thirty days. Jackson was already celobrated. Dickinson must send for a certain remarkable and well known pistol with which to kill him. The pistol was away back in North a. It would take a month in slow days to get it. But Jackson nd he did wait. Planning for Death. Jackson and Overton planned this way. They agreed that Dickinson was s0 quick that he was infallibly to fire first. That he was so deadly sure he was certain to hit Jackson. They de- cided, therefore, as the best program, to have Jackson receive Dickson’s fire, and they hoped he would stand and live long enough to secure absolute aim and take Dickinson into the darkness of death as a traveling companion. Rather a grim outlook. But so Overton and Jackson figured it out. They made Jackson a long black coat, much to full and wide for his meager frame. When on, his slim proportions were well over in the right side of the coat, while the left side had room to spare. This gar- ment buttoned to the chin, leaving no wiiite of collar or cravat to tease a bul- let with. It had but one row of buttons, and these, polished like small looking alasses, were set well over on the de- ceitful left breast of the coat. These buttons were meant to draw Dickinson’s eye, and any one who ever used a pistol will know what a bullet trap these gleaming buttons would prove. The two parties by the same road traveled all day to a spot in Kentucky. Dickinson and a_crowd of friends—for the coxcomb made a gala day of the af- fair—took pains to precede Jackson and the stern Overton. This last had method. All day with the skill of a fiend Dickinson indulged in displays of pistol practice. Wherever some farmer’s house brought them to halt for a glass of milk or water from the spring Dick- inson would do some hair line work with his pistols and leave the gaping rural- ist to point Jackson and Overton to the miracles later on. This was meant to break Jackson's nerve. It might pro- voke a gloomy thought or two were one to toil all day along a road which every mile produced some new tack head proofs of the skill of the gentleman who was to fire at you next morni If it affected Jackson he never showed it. Shot to Kl They were to fight at ten paces. It was carly in the morning in the prim- eval untouched for Overton and Dickinson's seconds measured the ground and drove two pegs. The men were to ‘‘toe” these pegs. Dickinson laughed and chatted with his friends and told them which of Jackson’s bright buttons ho would hit. Dickinson sup- posed it was squarely above Jackson's indomitable heart. He felt certain of killing Jackson at a flash. He was mis- taken. Jackson had still to whip Pak- enham at New Orleans and battle with Henry Clay for two presidencies. Over- ton won the word. The men stood up, Jackson grim, Dickinson confident. The call was to be: “Rire—one—two—three—stop!” The men were to rajse thewr pistols and firo anywhere botween the first and last order.” Overton began: “Fire!” *‘Bang!" With the quickness of light Dickin- son had raised his weapon and exploded it. His bullet struck the button he had selected, flattencd and in a ragged, tear- ing way broke two of Jackson's ribs. Jacksonstood like atree. Not a muscle of his faced twitched or moved. Only the pain lighted hell lamps in his gray oyes. “My God, I missed him!" oxclaimed Dickinson, and the horror of the thing made him fall back & pace. *“Stand back to your place, dered Overton in such a stern he cove: Dickinson with prompt pistol, that Dickinson further word obeyed, He stood back to his position with his rvight side toward Jackson, his head turned slightly away. Overton pro- ceeded with his count, which was to be death's cue that day. SOne—two,” HClick ! Jackson's pistol ight at half cock. Overton paused. Jackson recocked it with bis thumb in an instant and with- out lowering his weapon or losing his sight. thos must wait. sir!" or- tone, as bhis own without “Bang Dickinson foll through same day ““I should have stood him,” grittod Jackson teeth, in talking of his to the ground shot the stomach. 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