Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 28, 1894, Page 5

[ v & v STAR OF THE NORTHWEST! Mailvead Extensi:n Unfo'ding thy Rescnrecs of Northern Wyoming. GIGANTIC ENTERPRISES LOCMING UP Roroo Lands to Homesteaders and Ditchers - ‘A ¥ortune iIn Creede Ore Dump Somo Strange Freaks-General Western News, extension of the Dur- flington railroad, now ecompleted through orthern Wyoming almost to the Montana ine, has opened for development an im- Smense territory, whose resources have Mitherto been hardly suspected by the gen- feral public and not half understood by rlma(- who were most familiar with them. i "The northwestern lie line traverses, for more than 300 miles, fa section previously wholly without rail tconnection, and although such an incident fas the opening up of such a new and mag- mificent reglon would a score of years ago fhave attracted national attention, it oc- fevrred last year without exciting much more fthan a passing paragraph in the press. IS0 much railroad building has been done _fand so much zeal has been displayed in fadvertising the extreme northwest and the cific coast that this near-by territory has een comparatively neglected. So far as the ublic has had any Impression of this region, t has been that it was, if not actually a fdescrt, at least sufficiently arid and uninvit- ng to be the foundation for the now ac- nowledged myths concerning the existence fof the “Great American Desert.” It has, however, been of late years pretty fthoroughly demonsttated and rather gener- fally conceded, that this region is admirably fadapted to the breeding of cattle on a large scale, and this degree of knowledge ot its erources s being succeeded by the inevit- ble discovery that much of it is well fitted w quality of soll and other conditions for fsuccessful agriculture. Contrary to the generally ac ression, this immense territory- ong by 100 miles wide, an area equal to [scveral of the smaller states of the union— s possessed of resources that qualify it to the home of a million people, and its fu- ure inhabitants are already moving in and droves of thousands. Those al- aking possession in ew towns are springing up. eady organized—Alliance, Hemingford, rawford, Edgemont, Newcastle, Sheridan, te.—are enjoying a period of unprecedented rosperity. Gigantic enterprises—mining, rrigating, yes, even manufacturing—have fchosen this as their fleld of operations and on all sides the results of wisely directed mergy are apparent. The capitalist, however, is by no means ho only person whose presence in this ewer northwest 1s noticeable. This fs, if ot a veritable “poor man's country,” at fleast as good a territory as the man of mod- ferate means can find anywhere. Most of the land still belongs to the public domain and can be had only by homesteading—except ithat in certain portions it may be taken under the desert land act and title to it Isecured by putting it under ditches and supplying it with water for irrigating pur- oscs. What remains is the last of the fonce vast area that has given free homes to illions of enterprising American citizens. 1t is rapidly being absorbed in the same ay the great mass of it has gone, and the jman who delays is deliberately throwing away tho last opportunity to secure for tlum,wlc and his childern the heritage of a Biberal government. A CREEDE BONANZA. A year ago Samuel J. Beatty and Alder- fman David Jacobs of this place took a lease and bond for $1,000 on four claims six miles from Mineral Point and belonging to the {Pugh estate, says a Creede special to the {Denver Times. Beatty and a man named IBausen have been steadily developing the jproperty ever since, and today they have out 100 tons of frec-miiling gold ore that Beatty {says will run $1,000 to the ton. Some assays Jhave run as high as $2,400 to the ton, and numerous tests of quartz show free gold in profusion. When the creditors learned some time sinco that the property bid fair to be- come very valuable they refused to settle jon an original basis of 50 cents on the idollar, and so by the new terms demanded by them the bond was raised to $5,000. Mr. {Jacobs’ trip last week was to close up the eal, and now the property is secured. LUCKY DENVER MEN. Among the rich gold mining discoveries fthat have been made recently one of the most important is the “Old Faithful,” jowned by Ernest F. Thomas and H. B. Adsit jof this city, says the Denver Times. The |property is situated in Beaver Head county, Montana. The owners are now employing \thirty men, running a twenty-stamp mill, &with a capacity of from thirty to forty tons /& day, averaging about $16 to the ton. Scme of the ore assays nearly $1,300, of iwhich they have veins from four to twenty- ftwo feet in_width. The company Is cap- fitalized for $500,000. Mr. Thomas, the sec- tary and treasurer, and Mr. Adsit, the resident and manager, own the controlling nterest. The proprietors recently returned Mrom the mine, bringing with them a gold Jbrick valued at $1,200, the product of six Ways’ run. Mr. Thomas leaves for New York to meet (eapitalists from that city and London, who fintend investing in the stock. Plans are mow under consideration for a tramway and w Pelton wheel of 200 horse power to run Mhe mill. Mr. Thomas is one of Denver's jmost prominent real. estate men, and It is [argely duo to his “rustling” abilities that \the Old Faithful Mining company Is pro- (Btessing so rapidly. FOUND TELLURIUM. The Como Record reports the discovery of tellurium in_ Tarryall camp. Henry {Foote being the first to discover the metal. Ho sent a sample to Albert Reichenecker, ia reliable assayer, who found by the test .ithat Henry was correct In the matter. Upon jfurther investigation by D. R. Jarvis, Mr. {Foote and Fred Reed on a large vein of ore “dn the Little Nell, owned by D. R. Jarvl “{tellurtum was again discovered, and by hav- 4ng a specimen of this ore fluxed and as- sayed for tellurium the value of the assay [returns was increased by two-thirds, the {test without the necessary flux showing _fbout $5 per ton in gold, while by fluxing the ireturns were $16.30. The Little Nell's vein s fully six feet wide and the same class iof ore can be traced for several hundred ifeet on the surface. The nature of the ore {is white quarta, green epidote, iron and cop- jper pyrites carrying a good per cent of imetallle copper, making it not only a valu- jable . concentrating cre, but also a good ismelting proposition, owing to the copper ivalue, which |s sufficlent to pay expense {of shipping, mining, smelting, ete. GRUB STAKES IN DEMAND, A Portland prospector who has spent sev- ral seasons in southern Oregon says that ithere is a perfect dearth of mining news in ithe big camps of that section, says the Port- fland Oregonian. Most of the well-estab- dished placers and ledges are being worked iateadily, but not on the extensive scale that swould prevail if the investment of capital would be secured. Prospectors are mnot nearly 50 numerous as in former years, not jbecause there is any abatement of the gold ifever, or that the best part of the country ihas been worked over, but simply because it is now difficult even to secure a grub stake, (nnfl a prospector without his grub stake is ke an artisan without his tools. The gold bearing districts have never been thoroughly rospected by practical miners. The hordes that have poured over them in former years swere on the lookout for rich pockets, where hey might pick up a small fortune in a sin- jgle season, and they had nelther the cunning mor patienco to locate and develop quartz Hledges. Just now, although interest is ap- rently flagging, such is not really the case. rtles are forming almost every week, and he most careful preparations being made (for successtul prospecting. Most of these ties are headed by men who have spent F:lrl in the business, and who are compe- ftent to judge from surface croppings what fthe lower levels may be expected to bring Worth, Tt is predicted that before the sum- {mer i3 over the southern Oregon gold belt twill offer exceptional opportunities to in- Awestors. A GOOSE WITH A RECORD. James H. Sturgeon captured a wild goose ®L his plage one day last week, says the Bawer (Nov) dodes, abd be tbioks that he has a grand prize. Jeg Is a very thin plece of brass, an Tong and half as wie, On this Is punched with a polntel Instrument. “Frem Party, September, 1816, B. B, J.' It 1s pre 1'that the nitlals are those of Colc B. B. Jackson, who was a mem ber of Fremont's exploring expedition when it passed through this reglon nearly fifty rs ago. The venerable colonei Is on k somewhere In Sonoma county, Cali- ornlu, and has been written to. If he remembers having turned a tagged goose loose in 1849 the bird will be presented to the California Ploncer soclety. SLEIGHING ACROSS ALASKA. Few men have had more practical ex- perience in Alaska than Mr. Charles H Hamilton of the North American Trans- portation and Trading company, says the Washington Post. Though a_young man, apparently not more than 20, Mr. Hamilton can boast of having made an 1,800-mile Journey in Alaska, most of the way on snowshoes and wi only by four Indians The company he represents fs engaged in oxtensive trading operations in this far north territory, and has established numer- ous trading posts along the Yukon river. This river, though flowing through a moun- tainous region, Is navigable for a distance ot nearly 2,000 miles, and at the present time the company's vessel, the P. B. Weare, a craft of 600 tons burden, fs laid up for the winter at a point 1,800 miles up the Yukon. Mr. Hamilton has with him a handful of Alaskan gold nuggets, assayed at between $16.50 and $17 to the ounce, taken out n the line of the British possessions, There are six creeks or gulches now being worked in that district, and during the ninety days last years when mining operations could be conducted about $250,000 worth of gold dust was taken out. The year before it only amounted to $06,000. The opinion of old and experienced miners now in Alaska is that the outlook for gold there is far ahead of what it ever was in California, though no prospecting for quartz has been done yet. During the coming mining season it is expected that in the neighborhood of half a million dollars’ worth of gold will be pro- duced, as Miller creek, the bonanza creek of the district, fs in complete working order. There are thirty-one claims on thls creek, almost all of which will be opened this year. There is great need for the establishment of some sort of territorial government and the appointinent of custom officers and mar- shals, with sufficient military to sustain their authority. Mr. Hamilton will start for Fort Cudahy, his company’s headquarters, in July of this year, and expects to reach his destination about the middle of September, as arrange- ments are all perfected and a boat will be walting to take him up the Yukon. On his former trip the start was made too late and he had to await the building of his boat, only to be frozen in 600 miles up the river. TOAD TEN CENTURIES OLD. Tozens of letters have been received from all parts of the United States for more in- formation about the little gray toad that was dug up under seventeen feet of hard- pan on the premlises of Henry and Eliza Henderson, In the southern part of Tacoma, says an exchange. Managers of museums and owners of aquariums covet the little hopper. His toadlets fs now over a month old, dating from the day he was unearthed. What surprises the scientists most is the fact that he does not turn up his catlike claws and die. Heretofore toads taken from stones or dug out of the earth at a great depth have died in a few days, most of them expiring inside of an hour or two, but this particular toad Is growing fat on flies and can hop elghteen Inches any timo. Hc loses his appetite after eating six or seven plump house flles. These have to be caught for him. When they are placed be- fore him he jumps after them viclously and blinks and shifts his weight from one forefoot to the other after swallowing them. Since he went into a trance and came out of It as chipper as ever after he .was pronounced dead, this toad has developed into quite a social lion. Everybody wants to see him. Some guess he is 100 years old, others 1,000, and so on up to 100,000. Trees which were saplings about the time Columbus landed were growing in the four feet of soil on the top of the hardpan until the Hendersons felled them three years ago. This fact leads many to the conviction that the toad must have ensconced himself in the lardpan formation a few dozen years before that epoch. LIZARD IN HER STOMACH. The 12-year-old daughter of Mike Ferless of Wales, Utah, was for two years the victim of a terribly distressing and in- creasing pain In her stomach, says the Pay- son Globe. Varlous doctors said she was troubled with a stomach worm, but at last the parents took her to a doctor who de- clared there was some Kind of a living creature in her stomach. The parents were told to keep food and water from the child for three hours. They did as directed, and when she began to cail for water and it was not given her she grew frantic and it seemed as though she would tear herself to pleces. She would scream and rave and cry: “It is coming, it is coming.” “I can feel it, I can feel it.” For a time it seemed as though the child would choke to death. At last she savagely thrust her hand into her mouth and drew from her throat a lizard about eight inches long. The head of the reptile had been chewed so badly that it died in a few minutes. It is not know just how the reptile ever got into the little one's stomach, but it is supposed she swallowed it while eating watercress. NEBRASKA. Burt county's jall now only contains two prisoners. June 21 to July 4 are the dates fixed for the Beatrice Chautauqua. Burglars broke into the store of G. E. Pegau at Herman and obtained about $50. Universalist churches in Nebraska will meet In convention at Tecumseh June 8, 9 and 10. A. W. Martin, an early settler of Pawnee county, died at his farm near Pawnee City a few days ago. Wayne is looking forward to the installa- tlon of an electric lighting plant at no very distant date. Nuckolls county commissioners have made up their minds fo build a seventy-foot span iron bridge at Superior. The annual meeting of the Seward ‘County Sunday School association will be held at Seward on June 1 and 2. Mr. A. Bird of the Tekamah canning fac- tory lost over 250 acres of tomatoes as the result of the frost a week ago. Amos Bush’s 11-year-old son at Diller had a piece of his nose blown off by a gun, which exploded when he was out hunting the other day. Fire destroyed the barn of M. Walsh, liv- ing west of Pawnee City, and three horses and a number of hogs perished In the flames. The Nebraska Saengerfest will meet at Columbus August 24 to 26 and all the Ger- man socleties In the state will be repre- sented. C. C. Winslow, a Fort Robinson jeweler, is short the end of three fingers on his left hand as the result of too close contact with a “safety” revolver. Residents at East Blair have lost valuable dogs lately, which have died from poisoning. An old man who is much disliked in the neighborhood Is suspected. There is much indignation. Bert Carpenter, the 16-year-old son of the editor of the Tecumseh Republic, had the fingers of his left hand terribly mangled by getting them caught In the newspaper press in his father's office. Mrs. Elmer Hathaway of Gering has a lit- tle more presence of mind and a trifle more of muscular activity than most women. The other day she left her two bables in a wagon while she stepped into the postoffice. In & moment she heard a shout, and look- ing down the street she saw her team run- ning away, with the bables behind riding to almost certain death. Instead of screaming, she ran into the road, and, as the flying horses dashed past her, she seized the end- gate of the wagon, pulled herself up into the box, securad possession of the reins and brought the frightened animals to a stop. And ail the babies did was to smile. THE DAKOTAS. The pontoon bridge at Chamberlain was swept away last week by a rise in the Mis- souri. Dakota will have a wheat acreage of 4,000, 000 acres to harvest next fall. The esti- mate Is 60,000,000 bushels. The matter of the finances of the state Is agaln demanding attention in North Da- kota. as it is stated that before January wext the treasurer will be slx months be- & sleds, accompanied THE OMAITA Attached to the bird's | hind 1n the payment of bills for several of | the state institution: | Springfield 1s being Mghted up by elec- | ty for the first time, and the system a success. The power from the ar- | tesian well is being used, and is more than sufficient for the purpose | Mrs Hughes Cella accompanied by an- i cth arived or woman, in Sioux Falls several weeks ago, and has been holding spiritual- istic seances in one of the hotels. The other night two young married couples went to one of the seances, and as the spirit of a departed friend was talking in low, sepul- chral tones, one of the men, on mischlef bent, struck a light. The light revealed Mrs. Hughes talking through a long tin tube. She Immediately dropped the tube and covered her face with her hands. The believers were startled, while the unbe- llevers laughed heartily over the expose. COLORADO. Leadville ore product reaches 1,000 tons a day. The wagon road 1s now open to the mines at St. Blmo, There Is another rumor of the sale of the Victor at Cripple Creek. Cotopaxi Is excited over a gold find eigh- teen miles north of that place. The wind storm of last week did much damage to all tender crops in the northern part of the state. Colorado potatoes, are In great ngland states. Good reports are coming from Four Mile. Bighty ounces of gold was cleaned up from a two-days’ run by six men. La Plata City is excited over a big strike reported within the city limits. The find 18 native copper of great richness. Frult buds in the whole valley about Delta are in fine condition and a larger frult crop than was ever before known in that section is already assured. A project 1s on foot to build a stamp mill of 100 stamps and a concentrating process with it, to work the ores of Gilpin and Clear Creek countles, the location to be about five miles above Golden. The Blue River Prospecting and Develop- ment_company, operating near the head of the Blue, has encountered some very good ore. In the Henrletta tunnel assays show a value of $183.89 in gold, while in the shaft the value s $201.32. The Express says the prospects for a full crop of apples about Fort Collins are very promising. Some varleties are not setting profusely, but others, such as Ben Davls, Northern Spy and other standard varieties are making a fine showing. Charles Bullock reports a valuable strike in the Rico claim, .up Horse gulch. The pay streak is from four to six inches in width, It Is black oxide of copper, re- sembling_the rich ore found in the noted Johnny Bull several years ago, which ran very high in gold and silver. It is reported from Cripple Creek that a very important strike of high grade sylvanite ore was made in the Gold Dollar. At a depth of eighty-five feet from the surface on the north drift ore was found which assayed $150,000 per ton. The seams are from two to four inches in width and about 100 pounds of the ore has been taken out. Great activity 1s apparent of late In Pine creek district, according to the Gilpin County Observer, and the camp Is fast filling up with new prospectors and men of money seeking profitable gold investments, some of whom state that they Intend to ercct a new 50-stamp mill at the junction of Pine creek with Elk creek iIn the near future. The East Mancos Placer company, com- posed of Denver men, owns 150 acres on the East Mancos river, not far from Durango. Hydraulic machinery and 3,000 feet of pipe will be put in at once. The ground re- turns from 50 cents to $1 per yard. Major Hanna's placer, south and west of Mancos, will be worked at the rate of 3,000 yards per day. The red sandstone quarries at Bellevue, says the Fort Collins Courier, are expected to resume operations shortly upon a large scale. These quarries have been idle since carly last fall, the suspension of building operations making it impossible to work them without loss, but now that business of all kinds is reviving in leading centers a demand for this kind of building material is springing up which warrants the proprie- tors in getting to work again. WYOMING. The spring season is coming very early in the Saratoga valley. Cheyenne's delinquent tax list just pub- lished shows & material reduction over that of 1893. State Veterinarian Holcomb states. that about 60,000 head of cattle came from the south via Cheyenne this year. A Laramie dispatch says ore from the ‘Wind River county sent to the university to be tested is found to be 40 per cent arsenic. Laramie is having a mining boom. Re- ports from the mines in that section are of the most encouraging nature and a large number of miners from Colorado are pour- ing in. The government proposes to lease the hot springs in the Big Horn basin for a perlod of flye years, requiring the lessces to erect sultable bulldings for the accommodation of the public. J. J. Marshall, the Omaha engineer, has located a splendid body of bench land on tho Fremont county side of the Big Horn which he thinks can be put under irrigation. The ditch which will cover it will begin near Cottonwood creek and run north about fifty miles to the Grey Bull river. The estimated cost is between $100,000 and $150,000, and it will irrigate 30,000 acres of land. OREGON. Four miles of the Bailey irrigation ditch in Umatilla county have been completed. A pretty fair saddle mare, with saddle and briddle, sold on the streets of Salem for $8.75. Three glants are running night and day at the Hampton-Lewls mine, in the Grave creek district. A Mr, Turner has bought 12,000 head 2-year-old Grant county wethers which will drive to Nebraska. Between 400,000 and 500,000 pounds of wool will be hauled into Echo. Most of it will go to the Pendleton scouring mill, either by rail or teams. B. C. Fitzpatrick, Inspector for Wasco, finds that there are 54,050 sheep in the county. Between The Dalles and the Des- chutes he has found flocks very free from scab or other diseases and in good condi- tion. e Three large Lebanon hopgrowers sold the residue of thelr crop last week for 12 cents, Last fall they were offered 18 cents, and are out 31,100 by knowing too much, saying nothing of interest, in- surance, etc. Owing to water in the main tunnel, the mill at the Hammersly mine has been idle for the past few days. A tunnel Is being run for a distance of 500 feet, to tap the ledge lower down, and already ore of good quality has been struck. The mill will probably be started for the summer run in a short time. There is great excitement at Tunnel mine over the vein of black quartz re- sembling coal which crops out all the way along the tunnel. An expert has assayed the ore at $80 per ton, which would indi- cate one of the richest mining districts in the country. Fifteen claims have already been staked out. Clarence Lane, says the Fort Collins demand in all the of he an 1l-year-old Eugene boy, showed some younger children how a recent sulcide shot himself. He put the pistol in his mouth and pulled the trigger. It was of 22-caliber, loaded with a BB shot. The shot passed through his tongue length- wise and lodged in the back of his neck. He will recover probably and the children will not need a second illustration. Mapes and Glidden, who have always been 30 enthusiastic over their mine near Willow Ranch, were in Lakeview after sup- plies. An expert miner has just visited their camp and gave them renewed encour- agement. Under his advice they will run a 300-foot tunnel and strike the ledge about seventy-five feet below the surface, where they expect to find ore that will go $1,000 or more to the ton. WASHINGTON, Shad fishing is lively at Skamokawa. Eighteen acres of grape land on Mud creek, Walla Walla valley, sold recently for $85 an acre cash. Deer are so plenty about Custer, Whatcom county, that bucks are frequently seen feed- ing with the cattle. Spokane’s home industry crusade numbers among its triumphs this: That the slate roofing for its new court house will come DAILY D MEMORIAL WEEK SALE. e In view of the fact that we are about to lay down our arms. never to take them up again, we wish to call your attention to the fact that not only in Grand Army suits do we excel, but in other suits as well. and we can save you twice as much money as you can make in a weck. We are winding up our affairS We are making specially heavy cuts this memorial week. In the show windows you will find some of the look at this one: All the elegant dark effect Cheviot Suits,made to sell for $7.50, go in this Memorial Week Sale at $4.50. Six different shades in straight and round cut sack, picadilly style, made to sell at $9 to $11, now $#5. B R S S Four shades of home spun cassimeres in straight or round cut, or regent cut, made to sell at $15, our price, The finest clay worsted in bound or raw edge, cutaways, regent cut, straight or round cut, long sacks bargains, but you will find greater ones in the store. $4.50 OR $5.00 Take Your Choice. $7.80 8.00 Wire Buckle Suspenders, silk web, extra value at 85¢, at 10c each. Columbia Clothing Co. Closing Out. Corner 13th and Farnam. Mail Orders Filled. from quarries near by,.peing just across the Stevens county line.. The gum of $8,000 will thus be spent at home. Dynamite is being used in Selah valley, Yakima county, in sinking an artesian well, and the experiment is belng watched with interest. g A Knights of Labor movement is being inaugurated at Mount Vernon, the immediate object being to force the mills to pay off in money instead of orders. Charles Morgan of Latah, patentee of a can opener, has invented a bicycle which will run on the single track of a railroad. Improbable as it seems, it is pronounced a perfect affair. During the nine months prior to May 1 270,280 pounds of fresh fish, chlefly stur- geon and salmon, were shipped from Aber- deen by express to the eastern markets. The Qisbursement has been equal to a payroll of over $1,000 per month. Two train loads of flour for China was one of the foreign shipments made from Spokane the other day. The exporters were the C. and C. Milling company. The ship- ment took thirty-four cars to carry the flour to the seaboard, and consisted of 1,500,000 pounds, which took about 34,000 bushels of wheat to manufacture. A law suit of unusual Interest has just been concluded at Spokane. It was that of the Spokane Mercantile company, Whose store burned In January, 1893, against thirty defendant insurance companies, for $50,000 in policies. The losers refused to be ad- judged and arbitrated out of their insurance, and a decision was rendered in their favor for $45,000. Some of the prominent fruit growers of Columbus believe that the orchards will lave to be cut down to stop the devastating work of the San Jose scale. It was hoped for a while this spring that the scale had been injured by the winter, but its develop- ment since proves such hopes to have been groundless. Columbus has some of the finest orchards along the river and their destruction will be a serious blow to the frult business. MISCELLANEOUS. Amizett, N. M., camp reports some good strikes. A Mexican criminal named Joe Sota, who 15 wanted in Sacramento for a series of daring highway robberies, has been stopped in his escape out of the United States at Los Angeles and will be turned over to the Sacramento police. Don Tomas Lamadrid is in San Diego frcm the Juarez mining camp, Lower Cali- fcrnla. He says that there is more activity than ever in the varlous camps. A brick welghing $500 was recently received at San Quentin from & quartz mine at Los Tules, the result of a few days' run. Large consignments of wool are being re- celved by the Forwarding company at Cald- well, Idaho, for shipment to the east. ~The recent reduction of freight rates has induced the wool men to bring in their wool in large quantities, There is something near 300,000 pounds in the company's warehouse. Superintendent Baker of the Postal tele- graph Informs the Trinidad Advertiser that their new line has reaghed a point between Barl and Tyrone and will reach Trinidad about June 15. Thirty-fiye men are work- ing ten hours a day in pushing the con- strection of this line from the east, and as many more from the, atber direction, now this side of Albuguerque. There Is considerablg excitement in Paul's Valley, Oklahoma, over the discovery of placer gold in paying quapfities. A woman who formerly lived in;the, placer reglons of California has known' of the existence of this metal for a long fime, but has kept the matter quiet and workeéd the find, having washed out several handfed dollars’ worth before it leaked out. Companies are being organized to develop the diggings. The authoritative annowncement that the extension of the B. & M. railway to Billings will bring the trains of that system directly into Helena, by means/of a traffic arrang ment with the Northesn Pacific, means very much for that city and state. This will shorten the time from Helena to Omaha by thirty-two hours and save over 400 milzs of travel, besides giving that region greatly increased train facilities. _— Evidence Agalnst Ramsay All In. DENVER, May 27.—The delegates at- tending the convention of the Order of Rall Telegraphers spent yesterday in hearing evidence on the charges of mis- management against Chief Ramsey. Tne last bit of evidence was submitted last night and arguments will begin Monda Today the delegates went to Colorado Springs and Manitou. e LI One word describes it, “perfection.’” W» rflltr to DeWitt's Witch Haszel Salve, curas plles, OFF TO MARRY A DOCTOR South Omaha Parents Distressed Over the Disappearance of Their Daughter, LEFT A NOTE EXPLAINING HER PURPOSE Would Fly South to Become Mrs. Putnam— Peculiar Letter Purporting to Come from IHer Lover—May Be Still Near By. J. C. Rubel, residing on Twenty-fourth street; between M and N streets, South Omaha, called at the police station in this city yesterday and gave a description of his missing daughter, Maud, aged 16. Mr. Rubel sald his daughter had been coming to this city quite frequently, ostensi- bly to have her throat treated. He said sho came the first time with her brother, after which she made the trips alone. Saturduy afternoon the girl left home, giving tho usual explanation. She said this time, however, that she was going to the office of a cortain physiclan. She was gone longer than the prescribed time, and when the father returned home and his daughter was not there he and his wife came up to the city. They went to the office mentioned, but she had not been there, and they were informed had not been since Febr They went home and she was there wait- ing for them. At midnight the family re- tired. In the morning the girl was not in her room, and her bed was undisturbed. The mother and father were alarmed. They examined the rogm and discovered she had taken her clothes with her. Further exam- ination revealed a note addressed to her father and mother. Mr. Rubel would not allow an exact copy to be taken, but the substance of it reads: My Dear Mamma and Papa: Please for- glve me, but I am going away tonight, never to return to_ you again. Do not think hard of me. I have my honor. 1 am going to meet Dr. Putnam, and am to be his w He s in the south, and sent me the money to £o to him e months ago. 1 did not go then b I did not want to leave you. It breaks my heart to think of what I am about to do v I am surely never coming ve are married and I return his Don't tell any one of this. wife. Remem ber 1 am your child, your baby. Goodby. Forgive me. There 18 no signature to the note and part of it is written on note paper and part on the back of an advertisement, The parents at once started out to find some clew to work on. When the girl must have loft was too late for a car and some one, it is thought, must have called for her. Mr. Rubel went to Fred Brodegaard, a jeweler at 514 South Tenth street, In this city. He found that Maud had been there about 8 o'clock yesterday morning. Brode- gaard asked why she was away from home. She replied that she had left forever and asked Brodegaard if he could get her a room for a day or two. The latter advised lier to go home and she left. Later the father found his daughter's clothes at 610% South Tenth street, at the home of Mrs. H. J. Stcen. Mrs. Steen said the clothes had been left there by the girl, who requested that they be kept there tili she returned, which, she said, would be shortly. At this house also lives a man who goe: by the name of Dr. Brown. He has known the girl and her parents, Mrs. Steen was asked regarding the doctor. She said that Brown 18 not a doctor and has no right to be practicing medicine. She said he had been treating Miss Rubel and she came there several times to s the doctor. The girl usually was treated for throat trouble She said that the girl's acquaintance with Dr. Brown was due to Dr. Putnam, who previous to his departure from the city had been treating her for this all¥ged throat trouble; that when Putnam left*the city he gave the girl to the care of Brown Dr. Putnam early last winter had an office in the Douglas block, but gave up practicing medicine and went on the road for some New York firm. The girl visited him and it is thought became infatuated with him. When Putnam left the city he gave what cases he was treating to another doctor, and the case of this girl was one of them. She was treated by him for throat trouble After she made a couple of visits she told him it her father and mother ever called for her to say she had been at his office and was belog treated for throat trouble, as though the battle would be a lengthy ~one, when Goldsmith, by a quick lunge, which Crowley failed' to parry, drew first blood. After battling for fifteén minutes, After several weeks of treatment she was told not to come to the office again as there was evidently something wrong. She called again, but given the same answer. She closed by asking: ‘“Can I come the Fourth of July? That was the last seen of her there. The parents made inquiry at his office’ Saturday night. It was learned that Dr. Brown was seen to leave his room at 510% about the time the girl went there, but whether they left together Is not known, but neither the doc- tor nor the girl called for the clothes which she left up to 10 o'clock last night. Mr, and Mrs. Rubel both went to this place last night, but nothing further could be learned. The father said the girl had often spoken of Putnam at home. In his mind the girl had done as she intimated in the letter, had gone to meet Putnam. Sne spoke of him as being in the south, but just where she would not tell. The father said she had received lotters from him a couple cf times. Among her effects was found another let- ter, purporting to be written by Dr. Putnam, dafed at Jacksonville, Fla. It begins with “My dear little wiffee.” It expresses the writer’s affection for her. He said that he very much desired she could be with him, and told of how he looked forward to the event that was to be—the marriage. The writer ends his sentences with profuse expressions of love, such as “darling,” “pettie,” “‘my love.” He said he regretted not taking her with him when he left, but said when she did join him he would make up for all this. The address is glven as box 330. This letter purports to have been enclosed in one to Dr. Searles, with the explanation that the writer had forgotten Miss Rubel's addre's. A pecullarity of this letter is that the writing in it is identical with that in the letter written (o the parents. From this it is inferred the girl wrote it herself. It bore mo marks of having been enclosed in an envelope, and the ink was fresh. Dr. Searles says the letter was not received by him. The parents, and ecspecially Mrs. Rubel, are heartbroken over the affair. The giri has always been dutiful at home, recefved no company, and had many friends. The father says he may have kept her at home too closely, but further than this ho can as- sign no reason for her strange conduct. Tho police in Council Bluffs, Lincoln and all the surrounding towns have been notified to be on the lookout for her. About midnight the police found Dr. Brown, who claimed the girl was at the room of a local “remedy” company, under- going treatment for a female complaint, and that her letter had been written to throw her parents off her track. An ef- fort was made to secure admission to the room where the girl is sald to be, but no one could be raised at the hour. — NG MEN IN DUELS, BOSTON YOU Loved the Same Girl and Sott ter with Swords. d the Mat- BOSTON, May 27.—Shortly after 9 o'clock last night three hacks left the Hotel Rey- nolds for Roxbury. They contained two duellists and their seconds, referce and at- tendants. Ona of the principals was a young lawyer named Crowley, having an office in the Adams building, and the other a young newspaper man named Delos Gold- smith, The two men have been enemles for some time past on account of having fallen in love with the same girl, and some months ago the arrangements for the duel were completed. 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