Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 27, 1894, Page 5

PULSE OF WESTERN PROCRESS Porpetrators of the Bear's ¥est Swindle in Alaska Evidently Betrayed. ASSAYER OF THE TREADWELL SUSPECTED Gilpin's Goldon Grip=Largest Strike in the District M o In the Kentucky Lode Gold, Silver and Copper Found ~Northwest News. The great conundrum which everybody who knew angthing about the circumstances connected with the notorious Bear's Nest mining deal is now teying to solve, Is “Who 1s the man who has ‘peached? " It is well known, says the Portland Oregonian, that the victims of the transactlon have had one of the best delectives obtalnable at work for the past five years endeavoring to get some clue to positive testimony that a swindle was perpetrated In the sale of the property. Thers has always been circum- stantial evidence enough to convince almest anyone that such was the but this 18 herdly the kind of evidence in which to hope to ecure a verdict for damages. The journeyings of this detoctive, it ever published, will make an interesting _book, for the effects of the Bear's Nest deal have extended, literally, from Greenland's foy mountains to India’s coral strand, and now 1t Tooks as If the latest developments in the matter were hunted up where Africa’s sunny fountains pour down their golden sands, It seems that sgveral pérsons also were in- timately acquainted with all the circumatan- ces connected with the salting and sale of the Bear's M t mine, though it might be beneficial to them to seek new fields for the display of their talents and energies for a time. Such a fleld they thought to find in the far-off' mines of South Africa. There they .hid themselves, and there they have remained ever sinco. The world is very small now-a-days, 50 there is nothing wonderful in the that these parties should b: employed in South Africa by a syndicate, one of the members of which is Mr. A. R. Renshaw, Who sunk $150,000 in the Bear's Nest, and who has lately brought suit. against the parties who sold the mine. He charges them with having salted it, and treated the core taken from the hole bored by the dia- mond drill with chloride of gold, and asserts that he has ecured those who aided in perpetrating it. The latest guess as to the identity of this Informer is that he is one of the men who went from the Bear's to South Africa, and s practi for the man he helped to wrong, There Is still a suspiclon that T. J. Sunny, the assayer at the Treadwell mine, who is said to have treated the drill core with chloride of gold, is the man who has given away the whole business. It will be a matter of proof that Sunny got $25,000 for his par- tlcipation in the affalr, $10,000 of which, It will be claimed, was hush money. But this was not all Sunny's profits from the deal, according to hiis own testimony in the Down- ing suit. He and Dr. Wyman of Juneau owned a little gore-shaped claim that was needed to complete the fair outlines of the Bear's Nest property. Sunny bought his portion out for $50, and then, understand- ing the situation, and being master of it, he forced Murray to pay him $25,000 for the Iittle gore. This was Synny's own testimony in regard to the tramsaction, and he made about as big a profit on it, proportionately, as Murry, Fuller and the others did in the Bear's Nest. It is mot likely that |t will be generally known who has peached until Renshaw’s evidence 18 in, but there will be no end of conjecturing until that time. MORE GOLD AT GILPIN. During the past thirty days very rich finds of gold have been made in Gilpin county, about four miles due north of this city, in & country that has not been pros- pected for the past thirty years, says a Central City spiefal to the Denver News, and which now comes to the front in such a way that some of thd best mining experts in the country say they believe the richest gold mines yet to be discovered in Gilpin Wil be found In this section. While this district 1s located on Hayden's map as gold- bearing the country has been left unexplored until recently, when some new prospectors soing over the ground found the country sovered at almost every point with rich gold-bearing float. Among these parties was 31d John Owens, a veteran prospector, who stumbled upon a rock welghing 621 pounds, known as hemitite of fron, which appeared to him o be excellent float. He took this ore to one of the mills at Black Hawk, for which they gave him In return eighteen ounces of gold. This set Owens and other prospectors in that section to work and they discovered rich mineral on the surface of the Buckhorn mountaln, from which some fifty or sixty tons of ore were quarried from the top of the hill on a claim known as the Sitting Bull, which ran high in gold. Situated on the same mountain is the Re- form mine, owned by Denver parties, which has just been opened up, and where they have a large vein said to be some thirty feet in width, and from which the returns for 1,960 pounds of ore taken out last week gave thirty-five ounces of gold to the ton. The largest strike made in this district has just heen made by Messrs. Utterback and Powell, in what is known as the Old Kentucky lode, located at the head of Pickel guleh, showing immense bodies of Peacock ore, which s rich In gold, silver and copper. The vein Is a true fissure and this mineral was struck at a depth of thirty-five feet from the surface, and at the present work- ings it shows ten feet of almost solid ore. The character of the mineral s similar to that discovered In the Fisk mine, one of the largest producers in the country, at a depth of 700 feet, and which has continued bedow the 000-foot level. Ore similar to this Is not usually found in Gilpin county above a depth of from 200 to 300 feet, and why this ore should be found so near the surface is astonishing to almost every one in_this section. The strike i3 of so much fmportance that It looks as If new discoveri-s will be made in this section, which would certainly bring old Gilpin to the front, as it has always been the largest gold-producing county 'in the state. Arrangements will be made at once for developing tho Old Kentucky lode. It is expected that a complete milling or con- centration plant will follow In due time, so that the low grade material may be profitably handled. GREAT KIDNEY CURE. J. F. Gibbs, editor of the Millard County Blade, thinks the Chamber of Commerce should be plactd in possession of facts con- cerning the resources of the outside countles, says the Salt Lake Tribune, and sends Secre- tary Colborn a description of D-seret's won- derful artesian wells, the waters from which have been demonstrated to be a o for all kinds of kidney diseases. The writer states that he believes the chamber should, and doubtless will, help bring to the atten tion of the world this boon to the aflicted The expense to the sufferers will be nothing more than the freight on wnis water. Prior to obtaining the flowing water kidney troubles were prevalent in and avound Deseret, and the merchants aid a thrivin business in s iling ‘“cures” that did not cure. The writer says he could furnish the nanmes of several of his acquaintances who have been permanently cured by drinking the artesian water, Skepties are invited to Investigate. The Deseret people will give the water without charge to any applicants, They are not looking for any boom on their water resources. Editor Gibbs declares, but It is desived that the aMicted shall drink thelr curative liquid. Sample lots have been sent to Salt Lake for analysis, MORE LAND FOR SETTLERS. A measure of importance to South Dakota is the Indian appropriation bill as it went to the president from congress. It is im- portaut because it contains a provision for the surrender to white settlement of 168.000 acres of land embraced within the boundarles of the present Yankton Indian reservation upon the proclamation of the president. This reservation, says the Yankton Press and Dakotaian, contains about twenty townships and from this area the Indians reserve nough land to glve eacn member of the Yankton Sioux band a farm of ample dimen- sions. The Yankton reservation was created by the treaty of 1859. Prior to that date the Yankton Sioux lald claim to all the ter~ sllory now lylug In the state of South Dakota case, and fact THE OMAHA DAILY BEE south of the forty nd east of the Missourl river. Under the erms of that treaty they surrendered every- thing claimed except the twenty townships In Charles Mix county since known as the Yankton reservation. Up to the ratification of this treaty the present site of the city of Yankton was the headquarters of the Yankton Sioux band. In 1859 they began moving themselves and their personal prop- erty o their new homes. The process was a slow one and it was not until 1862 that the indian disappeared over the western hills and white men began to slice up the townsite among themselves, The Indians left their home reluctantly and among the old ones there Is still an affectionate regard for the tenting place of their ancestors. Through long contact with civilization these Indians have finally become convinced that a white man’s portion of land is suficient for the uses of the red man, and they willingly sur- render thelr surpluy acres to a more progres- sive class of neighbors. The reservation will be wiped out, the tribal relations abolished and in time the Yankton Sioux will be num- bered among the citizens of the state. The land thus thrown open 1 settlement s a chiolee tract—productive, well watered and within casy reach of market. It is sur. rounded by civilization and the vestiges of savage occupancy will speedily become eradi- cated, * REVIVAL AT BMPIRE. There are now ten producing mines at Empire, a camp which fell asleep when the silver movement commenced fn 1878, and which showed no signs of revival until last fall. So far this season 320,000 has been received for smelting ore shipped to Argo. About $9,000 of this went to the Gold Dirt, $5,000 to the Tenth Legion and the remainder to the Badger Boy and other mines which are now belng developed. These mines are now increasing this output, says the Denver News, ard piling up the low grade material on the dumps. = Tha latter will be forwarded to 1daho Springs for concentrailon when the Gult rallroad arranges the special rate, and is prepared to handle the additional traffic. A fity-ton_concentrator of the right pat- tern would find plenty of ore in the camp. In fact, the supply could scon be increased to 300 tons per day. pire is a veritable graveyard of pro- cesses, most of them brought in by ‘“‘practl- men, who scorn the differences recog- nized by metallurgy. The cast iron re- mains. _ Concentration, however, has been tried with carload lots at Idaho Springs and Georgetown, and with good suceess. A small plant known as the Knickerbocker amalgamator is running night and day. The mill has twenty-four stamps, but only water power for sixteen. Two sacks of picked ore taken from the Badger Boy returned sixty-four ounces in gold to the ton. The vein is twelve inches wide, Hydraulic mining in well this season. The netted §150 per man, which i ment on the Coxey reserves. CRIPPLE CREEK ORE PRODUCT. Cripple Creck correspondents have figured out an ore product, smelting and milling worth $353,600, for the first half of the present month, of which the smelting ore vields $207,000 and the milling ore, treated in_the camp, $56,000. Some of the largest mines in the camp are not yet in shipping form, but will join the producing list by the first of next month It is estimated that the last quarter of the ¢ will show a gold product of $3,000,000 without counting the possible success of tho proposed reduction works at Florence, which are calculated to make a market for low grade ores which are not free milling. No such market cxists at this time. The De Lamar chiorination plant Is buying ore which runs from $40 to $80 per ton. This is smelt- ing materfal. CASE AGAINST LAND GRABBING. The case of the United States against Julius ‘E. Miner of Minneapolis, says the ‘Ashland Tidings, fe now being heard in the land office at Roseburg, Ore. Mr. Miner owns nearly 16,000 acres of timber land in the Rogue river reglon. The goverament alleges that of his possessions fifty-three claims (about 8,000 acres) were acquired in violation of the law, which is designed to prevent one man from securing land from the government through others filing upon it, as agents in fact of him, under the timber land act. Mr. Miner is said to be preparing to cut this timber and open a large lumbering business on Rogue river in the event of this suit termimating in his favor. The case will take much time at Roseburg, as numerous witnesses are to be cxamined and all testimony Is taken down by a typewriter. NEBRASKA. York boasts a fifth daily paper. It Is named the Morning Press and Its editor is A. L. Saffer. Ponca has two female b of which is composed of m the other of young ladies. York college will open September 11, under the direction of W. S. Rteese, Ph.M. The outlook is most promising. Fire on the farm of John Shuey, near Syra- cuse, destroyed the barn, sheds, fences and several stacks of hay and grain. John Barsby and wife of Fairmont have re- turned from their trip to Europe and were in Omaha for the republican state conven- tlon. Ploneers and old soldiers of Dakota county will hold their thirteenth annual reunion Thursday, August 30, in Clinton park, Da- kota City. August 28 and 29 the Young People’s Ohristian union_of the East Nebraska con- forence of the United Brethren church will meet in Crete. The Gothenburg Star has retired from the newspaper firmament on the ground that business is not lively enough to justify it in contiuing to twinkle. Jim Sullivan got into a_ scrap with Jim Hunt at Minden, from which he emerged with three cute on the head, which are not very serious, and a nasty gash on the left thumb. Hunt skipped. Pouca 18 expecting to have a flour mill within a couple of months. Thomas Crew 18 pushing the enterprise. Machinery is belng put in which is guaranteed to grind between seventy-five and eighty barrels of flour a day. In crops sa prpire gulch pays clean-up for July a vast improve- Yall nines, one ted women and the total failure of the the Osc:ola Record will be a hard one entire west. What referring to in Polk county “This winter on the people of the are you doing in the way of preparation for what s coming? Are you cutting all your fodder and saviug every possibl: bit of straw and_other rough feed? What about fuel? Can't you trim your groves and thin them out and thus prepare enough fuel to see you through the winter? If we should have rain within the next two weeks are you prepared to sow & good patch of turnips for winter consumption? They can be made to take the place of potatoes to a large extent. Potatoes are going to come high this winter, too high for most of us to reach. In short have you dome and are you doing everything possible to meet the stringency of the times THE DAKOTAS. he State Board of Equalization rajsd the valuation on farm lands in River county 25 per cent A petition for a reduction in freight rates on grain over the Great Northern, to corre- spond with lower prices of wheat, Is being circulated and signed Tho Osborn & MeMillan Elevator company is converting nearly all their flat houses on the Soo line into elevators, a large force of men being emplez2d in the work. An official inspection of the ressrvations in’ the Dakotas and other sections of the northwest will be _commenced by Commis- siover i Indlan Affairs Browning in the be- ginning of next month. The pontoon bridge between Plerre and Fort Pierre was completely demolished dur- ing a high wind. The bridge was neariy completed and would have been in opera tion in a fow days. The loss will be heavy. Tho Deadwood Terra Stamp mill started up after a shut-down of fifteen months. This mill has 160 stamps and will furnish employment to 200 men. Other works of lesser magnitude are starting up, but men are applying much faster than the works n. N. M. Parsons, living four miles south of Hot Springs, who has been prospecting for some t mo for coal, has struck a 100-foot veln. He has been running a tunnel into the mountain on a four-inch vein, and after getting the tunnel in Afty-five feet made the strike. A number of farmers living on the Chey- enne bottom in Fall River county have de- cided tc put in a big irrigating wheel to take water from the Cheyenne river above the falls. They will put in this fall five rilles of main ditch, to irrigate 1,000 acres. has Fall Sfth parailel of latituds | 1t tne experiment proves a_suceor large numbers of farmers will put in wheels next year. COLORADO. U The San Juan Chief mill, Silverton dls- triot, started up. It employa the Crooke process. The Smuggler mine, Telluride, has a force of 125 men. Part of them are engaged in development work. in the Silverton district the Silver Queen mine has three feet of ore which ylelds $300 per ton. It is a recent discovery. Work s progressing satisfactorily on the Newhouse tunnel at Idaho Springs and on the Philadelphia or Steinberger tunnel at Fall River. The Pulaski group of mines, Telluride dis- trict, will send forty tons of ora o the Bal- lard & Riley mill, forty tons to the Beam process plant and forty to Taylor & Leonard's mill, und the company giving the best results will'get the regular supply. The tapping of the Gunnison river, says the Montrose Enterprise, would bring thousands of acres on the east side of the valley under cultivation, furnish a supply of water for Montrose for domestic purposes, and leave the entire flow of the Uncompahgre to the peo- ple of the west side of that river. WYOMING. A new cooking school is among the institu- tions of Cheyenne. The new stock yards in Laramie are com- pleted and ready for business. It is reported that an Immense body of galena has just been struck in the tunnel of the Big Strike in the La Plata district, at the depth of 120 feet Profs. Slosson and Colburn of the State university of Laramie have completed about forty analyses of the heating power of the different coals of the state and a number of samples of Wyoming ofl. Tho Chinamen who went to Four-Mile in Carbon county to look up a placer claim report themselves as satisfied with the out- look there. They assert that it will cost $40,000 to get water there, but they will re- turh to San Francisco to recommend that the expenditure be made, OREGON. At Corvallis they sell monthly street car tickets for $1, good for any amount of riding for the owner. The Grande Ronde putting in a new dam In its construction has been used. The La Grande Chronicle says that the headwaters of Beaver creek there several mining claims _that assay in sulphide of antimony $75 per ton The log raft cradles form a prime attrac tion at Asto Sightseers contribute $200 some times in a day to the street car line which goes out to the seene of operations. The Halsey News wants somebody to beat this recor George Ward had sev- enty-five acres of his land sown to oats. The seventy-five acres made 4,000 bushels, which is fifty-three and three-fourths bush- els to the acre. ‘““This,” remarks the News, ‘by far knocks the eye out of anything we have heard of this year. The bridge just completed at Yalnax is the most substantial one in Klamath county, ex- cepting the big bridge at Klamath Falis. It is built_of heavy timbers and is 240 feet loug. It shortens the distance materially between the Klamath and Yainax agencies, and during high tvater on Sprague river the necessity of going by way of Klamath Falls is obviated. The members of the Grande Ronde Lum- ber company have done a considerablo amount of development on their coal prospect om _ Beaver creek. It is reported that a veln of seven feet was unccvered, but it is now under water. Some of the camping partivs used the coal, of which several tons were tsken out for fuel, and were much pleased with it. WASHINGTON. Pullman had its gold excitement for noth- ing. The well was “salted.” The first run of salmon for the year in Gray's harbor has begun, and fishermen are at work, “Oxen,” says the Willapa Pilot, “are about played out in the woods.” It means by this that logging engines are supplanting the teams and drivers The last few months has been the season for Killing the sea otter on the beach north of the entrance to Gray's harber. One Indian sold four skins recently for $800. The farmers in the vicinity of Farmington say that the crop this year will be the heavi- est ever grown In that section. They are clubbing together and will exchange work during the baying season, 80 &s to be at less expense for wages. Swarms of grasshoppers have appeared on Montgomery ridge, says the Asotin Sentinel, within the last two months. ~ Between eight and ten acres of wheat belonging to Clare Lathrop were eaten off closa to the ground, and the crop of fifteen acres on Hobert Wilson's farm was destroyed by the pest. The big bridge on the Washington di- vision of the Oregon Rallway and Navigation company near Alton, which collapsed under a freight trsin, will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. It was the largest bridge on the Washington divislon, being ninety-six feet high, 800 feet long, and was what bridge men call a three-decker. Over 100 men will be employed in the work of re- bullding, and they will utilize about 1,000,000 feet of lumber. = It is found necessary to await a portion of the material from the sawmills, where it Is now being turned out, Nearly all available timbers have been used on the Columbia river division repairing flood damages. > MISCELLANEOUS. Borax works in Reno, N cesstul operation, The gold product of Montana, of Colorado, s rapidly inereasing. Old residents say the rainfall in Montana this summer has been far In excess of any- thing they have ever seen before, and the result is fine crops. In Cochiti district the Bland tunnel pro- poses to Plerce Gold Hill 950 feet below the apex of the Washington mine. It will be 2,000 feet in length from canon to canon. An entire train loaded with wool left Las Vegas the other day for the east, the first time such a thing has been known in the history of the town, and probably in the terri- tory of New Mexico. The peach trees In various parts of Brig- ham City, Utah, are o weighted down with their precious load as to require strong props to prevent the burdened limbs from splitting off and falling to the ground. The Black Hills district will have a cya- nide mill in operation about October 1. The new plant expects to handle from fifty to sixty tons per day. It will be owned and used by the Golden Reward Mining com- pany. The territory of Utah, as such, was not yet six monthis old when the Desert Agri- cultural and Manufacluring society was es- tablished by Governor Brigham Young. The charter of the soclety bears date of January 17, 1856, 50 that mow It is In its thirty-ninth year. During the period of its existence it has given twenty exhibitions. That which will open in Salt’ Lake on October 2 will be the twenty-first. One of the rare sights on Park City, Utah, recently, young ladies from Lumber company I8 near Perry to stay. 600,000 feet of lumber on are pure are in suc- like that the streets of was a bevy of Brighton's, several of whom rode their horses man-fashion. One damsel, about 18 ycars of age, would put her foot In the stirrup, swing her leg over the animal's back, and dig her heels into its flank with the expertness of a thoroughbred cowboy, and the p:rformance attracted much attention. After laying in a huge supply of chewing gum, and running the soda foun- tains dry, they returned 1o their picturesque mountain retreat e To Cleans the system. 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HEROES IN BLUE AND GRAY ~om How a Plucky New York Woman Got Her Hushand 0!111 y!’Lihhy Prison, TOOK BREAKFAST WITH THE PRESIDENT Sherman's Face Known to Almost Every Man in His Army and Thousands Spoke with Him Personally - he ‘Widow of Generat MeClelan. “Barly in the war my husband was fn- strumental, both by his energy and means, in organizing @ volunteer regiment in New York, of which he was given the colonelship,” writes a woman to the Washington Post. “Our marriage had been a youthful one, and when he bade me goodby to join the army 1 was a bride of 20, and a mere child, as far as any experience of worldly affairs was con- cerned. Not many months had elapsed after his departure until the depressing news came that he had been captured by the confed- erates, and was a prisoner in Libby. I was, of course, wild with grief and excite- ment, and in my simplicity I felt if some one would go to Washington and see the pres'd:nt his freedom would in some way be obtained First one member of my family, then another, tried to convince me of the futility of such a jnovement, But, after a few wretched days and wakeful ights, I made up my mind that I would go to Washington and sec the president myself, I knew my family would prevent me, if possible, so, under the pretense of spending the night with friends in a distant part of New York, I boarded a night train for Washington. 1 felt such con- fidence in the suceess of my trip as only sim- plicity and youth can. “It was not later than 6 o'clock beautiful spring morning when I reached the Baltimore and Potomac depot. 1 was so eager in my mission, 50 sure of my success, that I had no thought of hotels, breakfast, or anything else, but went directly from the sta- tion to the white house. When 1 rang the bell, [ was informed to my dismay that the president had not yet arisen, and positively would not receive any one before § o'clock I tried to plead for an earlier reception; told the doorkeeper that 1 was Colonel —'s wife; that he was in Libby prison; that I had come all the way from New York to tell the presi- dent about it, but the door was closed upon me. Besides my eagerness to effect my hus- band's release 1 was fearful that delay might cause my absence to be discovered at home 1, tremblingly walked to a seat in the park and impatiently waited for the hands of my wateh to point to 9. Promptly at the minute I was again at the door. “'Is the president up yet? I inquired. “'Yes, madam, he is at breakfast, and you can not see him.' “‘But I must see him,’ I repeated, ex citedly. ‘Tell him that I am here—Colonel ——'s wife—my husbaud is in prison—I must gel back to New York. “I suppose pity fot my almost hysterical condition touched the man’s heart, for he asked me to wait, and in a few minutes I was ushered into the presence of the presi- dent. He was sitting dt a round table near a window of the room—his library, I think— before him a cup of coffee and a plate con- taining two large slices of bread, cut the full length of the foaf. Up to this moment 1 had felt that once admitted to his pres- ence 1 conld pour forth my griet and prayers to him in words that_would surely avail But now there was something in the simple presence of that quiet man sitting there at the table that made me speechlzss. I felt (pat I did not know what to do. I wished 1 had not come. “iWell, my little woman,' sald he, look- ing at me over his paper, ‘you wish to see me?' “‘Yes,' 1 gasped rather than spoke, ‘my husband— “Také that chdir,’ hé sald, kindly, seeing my inability to propeed, and after I had seated mysell at the. table opposite him he asked me in the most matier-of-fact way it T had been to breakfast. I told him, with an effort to control my voice, that I had not cared for any. 1 could not have eaten it. “‘This will never do,' he said, ‘you must eat breakfast with me, and while we eat you can tell me your story,’ and pouring a portion of his coffee into the saucer and halving the two slices of bread, he shared the bread with me and gave me the saucer of coffee. 1 was beginning to feel more at ease. I glanced at him uneasily to try and catch some intimation of what I was expected to do. He was sipping his coftee. I tasted a morsel of bread. [t was the old ‘plece’ dear to every country child—bread and butter and sugar. And as we sat there sipping our coffe: and eating our bread— something like Pip and Joe Gargery, I have often thought since—my awe "of the man before me was dispelled and I told him the story of my husband's cap- ture and my sorrow, with all the simplicity and confidence that a daughter would speak to a father. “Mr. Lincoln kindly explained to me that he could do nothing for my husband—that it was beyond his power. His only hope was that a parole would take place in four weeks and that he would effect my husband's ex- change if he could. I was back in New York that evening and never heard a word from Mr. Lincoln regarding my husband again. But in just a little over four weeks my husband arrived In New York, sick, emaciated and in a dreadful physical condi- tion. But he recovered, and I always be- lieved that bread and butter and sugar of Mr. Lincoln's saved his life. SHERMAN AND THE RANKS. He shared all the privations and hardships of the common soldier. He slept in his uniform every night of the whole campaign. Sometimes we did not get into camp till midnight, writes 8. H. M. Byers in Me- Clure's Magazine for August. I think every man in the army knew the general's face and thousands spoke with him personally. The familiarity of the troops at times was amusing. “Don't ride so fast, general,” they would cry out, seeing his horse plunging along in the mire at the roadside, as he tried to pass somo division. “Pretty slippery going, Uncle Billy; pretty slippery going.” Or, “Say, general, kin you tell us is this the road to Richmond?" Every soldier of his army had taken on the enthusiasm of the general himself. They would go anywhere that he might point o, Often, as he approached some regiment, a wild huzza would be given, and takin up and repeated by the troops a mile ahead. Instinct seemed to tell the boys, when there was any loud shouting anywhere whatever, that Uncle Billy was coming, and they joined in the ehecrs till the woods rang. It was a common thing for the general Lo stop his horse and gppak’ words of encourage- ment or praise to''some subordinate officer or private soldler s{ruggling at the roadside. ¢ e had hia humorous side with them, too. When the army reached Golds- borough half the men!iwere in rags. One day a division waw ordered to march past him In review. Thd men were bare-legged and ragged, some of.them almost hatless. “Only look at the pogr fellows with their bare legs,” sald an officer at the general's side, sympathizinglys/| “Splendid legs,” cf/Q the general, with a twinkle in his eye, jlendid legs. Would WIDOW OF GmliuafAL MeCLELLAN. The widow of “Little Mac,' as General George B. McClellan, was often called by his soldiers, with Whgm he was popular, is less heard of than.asy of the widows of the great generals of the war. It is not be- cause she is a recluse; but owing entirely to the fact that she fs retiring in disposition and shrinks fronr publicity. One cannot see Mrs. McClellan, says a w.iter in the New York Advertiser, with- out conjuring up the great scemes that oc- curred when her husband had command of the Army of the Potomac. She was then a young and handsome woman, fuil of hope and ambition, and not at all vain, because many in the north called her hus- band the “Napoleon” of the war. —Those who knew her then agree that she was most attractive, and just the woman for a great commander's wife. In the bloody battles of the peninsular, when the confed- erates, flushed with victory, were following up thelr advantages under General Lee, Mrs. McClellan never wavered in her confidence and faith in her husband's ability. The gencles of war kept them separated, but she wrote to him dally, and such letters hero's wife should weite. And when the storm gathered over her husband's head and on a the decree was that he should surrender his command, he found his best {riend, his truest comforter in his faithful and devoted wite. Mrs. McCellan lives at_the Mariborough hotel in Broadway, New York. Her hair 18 now gray and her form generous in out- line. She is medium In height and carries herselt with grace and ease. Like all women inclined to be stout she hoids her age splendidly and her face shows few of the tell-tal> wrinkles. In conversation her countenance Is often lighted with a sad smile, which gives one a good idea of the sweet-faced girl whom the West Pointer courted and won before war had plunged the land into grief and sorrow SURPRISED AND WARNED. “People will never tire listening to war stories,”” said a veteran the other day to the Louisville Courfer-Journal, “but you never hear any of them telling their running ex- periences. It is not because they never run, for all of us have been through that schoo No man ever went into battle but what was glad when it was over. The legs of the bravest get very weak in the presence of shof and shell, and brhvery, after all, is only a matter of honor; the man without honor is & coward. The honorable man has nothing to fear, and in battle he would suffer ten thou- sand deaths rather than have a comrade say he failed to do his whole duty. But as to runnis yes, I have run. 1 you about it? Certainly. “One afternoon the rear guard, while T was In charge of on a march in Virginia, a number of men dropped out of the ranks for the purpose of hunting ‘apple jack. The commanding officer of the guard ordered me to tike a detachment, return to the little town through which we had passed a half hour before and arrest the stragglers. 1 obeyed the command, and, by fast riding, soon had the ‘apple jack’ hunters in charge. On the return, as it was late in the day, we moved at a leisurely pace. A half mile from the town a lane crossed the road on which we were traveling. The lane was over a small rise of ground, so that one could not see very far along its stretch. “Between where I was riding and the mouth of the lane I noticed a suspicious object moving along toward us; it dodged from one corner to another of the fence, ap- parently trying to conceal itselt. — While wondering what the fellow—for by this time I discovered the object was a colored man— was up to I was near enough fo speak. ‘Don't stop,’ said the man. ‘Go as fast as you can. The 'federates 'l git you. Dey's rite ober de hill, g0 as fas’ as you can.’ I gave the order, and away we went, as fast as our horses would carry us. We had just ossed the mouth of the lane when the 'federates ap- peared on the summit of the little hill “With the famous ‘rebel yell' they came salling down that lave, shooting at every Jump. We put spurs to our horses and pre- sented a: 1 a target as possible by lying low on their necks. It was a hot race, with the chances in favor of the confederacy. For two miles the 'graybacks’ chased us, keeping up a constant and rapid fire, but, thauks to our horses, we escaped without the loss of a man That was not the only time that I ran, but the story will sufiice for this time. We owed our safety to the thoughtfulness of the ‘man and brother, a debt which I always recall when I hear the race traduced AN HISTORIC FLAG. An historie flag s the property of Colonel ©."W. Painter of Walla Walla, who carried 1t through the Yakima war of 1865. The flag contains but twenty-one stars and bears the Inscription: “‘Company D, First Regi- ment, Oregon Volunteers. The interesting relic was made by the young ladies of Farest Grove academy at the outbreak of the Indian war, says the Portland Oregonian. It was carried by Colonel Painter, who took part in all the engagements of the campaign, and to whom it was presented at the close of the war. The first engagement was at Yakima canon, near where North Yakima now stands, and was the first battle in which Phil Sheridan, then a lieutenant, ever took part. 1t came into service again in the Bannock war in 1878, when Governor Perry appointed Mr. Painter captain of a company of volun- teers, and he was assigned to the gunboat Spokane, Their first engagement was at Long Island. The volunteers were relieved by the regulars, but Mr. Painter was soon elected captain of another company and followed the Indians to Camas prairie, on the Graunde Ronde, where he captured enough horses to pay the expenses of his campaign, For his valiant services he was appointe: aide-de-camp, with the rank of lieutenant- colonel, on the staff of Governor Ferry, and was presented with a handsome sword. THE BOYS WERE SCARED. Not long after the first battle of Manassas, writes a correspondent of the Confederate War Journal, T was hunting in the neighbor- hood of Centerville, Va., through which the bulk of the federal army fled. All of a sud- den, upon emerging from a plece of woods, 1 came upon an old woman doing up her week's washing by a spring. After taking A deep draught i sat down on a log and en- tered into conversation with her. “Did any of the Yankees run back this way?’ sald 1 “Plenty of 'em,” she said stopping the rub- bing process and straightening up, holding a dripping garment in one hand. “Did they give any reason for their running away said I. “Oh, yes. I hyearn 'em say that masked batteries riz up out ov the groun’, and that thar was a hull division chargin’ on black hosses.” “Pretty badly scared they were, I suppose?” said I ““Well, I should say so,” she replied, as she laid the wet rag down., ““Two of 'em came Lhrough my yard and didn't seem to notice me. They didn’t have no arms and mitey little clothes on. One of 'em was bareheaded and Darefooted. Sz he, turnin’ roun’ an’ roun’, “Bill, take a good look. Do you see any holes in me? Bill said no, he couldn’t. ‘Well,’ sez he, ‘thank heaven, T am alive!'* MET AND MADE UP. For repeating to General Butler, then in command of the Armny of the James, a dis- paraging remark made by a subordinate con- cerning the general's military efficiency, an officer in a Pennsylvania regiment was prom- ised a sound thrashing by the officer whom he had reported, says the Philadelphia Rec- ord, and who, in consequence, had suffercd a bad quarter of an hour in the general's society. The thrashing was to be bestowed after the war was over, at their very first meeting, no matter under what circumstances it might occur. The two officers became prominent civilians in adjoining states. For many years one of them went around armed with @ revolver; the other with a blank bail bond. Though often in this city (where one of them resided) at the same time, they never met until recently, when they encountered each other fac: to face in the surf at At- lantic City. Each had grown so stout as to weigh over 250 pounds, yet they instantly recognized each other. Something ludicrous in the thought of such vast spheres of flosh engaged In a rough-and-tumble fight may have entered their minds at the same mo- ment, for they called each other by name, smiled and shook hands. The feud was thus terminated. e Oregon Kidney Tea cures backache. sizo, 25 cents, All druggists. it . hould He Mourned. Lieutenant Lunsford Daniel, Sixth cav- alry, who died a few days ago from in- juries received by being thrown from his horse, was a member of the "F. F. V.," of Georgia, and his mother was a daughter of General Iverson. He really earned his stir- rups. He was ambitious for military life, but being too old to enter the military acad” emy, he gave up a mercantile position paying $2,000 a year, and in 1886 removed his shoulder straps of captain of the National guard, his company having won several com petitive drill prizes, and enlisted as a pri- vate in the army. He enlisted for the pur- pose of earning a commission, and on De- cember 17, 1889, he got his reward. Trial OF BEAUTY 1s everywhere recognized. Beauty and an aged appearance are impossible. One Woman ina willlon Is protey with gray hutr. Tho others must preserve thelr halr and their beauty by using IMPERIAL HAIR REGENERATOR It is not a dye, but a coloring, clean, helth- ful efficlent. "It not only restores the hair to & rich, beautiful color and lustre, but acts as a air tonic alio. Seven shades frowm lightest ash blond to raven black. Made only by IMPERIAL CHEMICAL MFG. 0O, 292 FIFTH AVZ,, N. 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