Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 22, 1895, Page 12

CONTROVERSY OVER CATTLE | COommission Men Bued for Value of Mort- gaged Btock Sold, INTERESTING TO SOUTH OMAHA BUYERS Question of Whether or Not Commission Men Shall e fleld Kesponsible When They Have Iunocently Vurchased Morigaged Stock is At Issue, Cattlo men in the westorn part of the state are accustomed frequently to give chattel mortgages upon their herds of stock. Later the mortgage is either paid or some arrange- ment Is made with the mortgages whereby the cattle may be shipped to the South Omaha market and the proceeds divided be- tween the contracting parties. Sometimes the cattle are removed from the range with- out the consent of the mortgagee and shoved on the market clandestincly and suits are started. These chattel mortgage cases furst-h an abundant fleld of Ugithon, Judge Duffie and a jury are wrestling with one of them and It promises to beccme a test case before it is ultimately decided. The present sult, like 50 many of the other catile cases, comes from Holt county It seenus that in Ju 1801, Hugh O. Neal had several hundred head of stock running on the range. He went to the Wiley Cattle and Trust company, a corporation, and sc cured large sums of money at various times footing np in the course of time to about $7,700, Part of his stock he afterward turned over to the corporation. Forty-six animals were delivered to Holt county par- ties, who shipped them to J. A. | nard and others, mmission men of South Omaha who proceeded to sell to the packers, realiz ing §1 from the sale. Neal claims he had permission to dispose of the stock The Wiley people have sucd the South Omaha commission men for the $1,500, though the defendants allege that they simply re- celved commissions and turned the proceeds over to the Holt county shipper. The peculiarity of the case lies in the fact that as the mortgage was on record in Holt county it is claimed that it was a notice to all the world that the Wiley company owned the stock and nobody else could sell the gteers, consequently the South Omaha com mission men ghould have known that the stock was not shipped to them by the own- ers. The commission men are much worked up over the suit, because it is stated that if they have to look up the legal pedigree of every bunch of steers that passes through thelr hands they will be compelled to kecp men out scouring the country to exam ne records and cattle brands to make sure that their title is good. This would break them up in business, it is claimed. CEMETERY CONTROVERSY IN COURT Qu stion of Atlowlng an Addition to Pros- pect L eing Litigated. 01d settlers e called on for rem- Iniscences at the sion of the criminal court yesterday. The city case against C. A Baldwin and C. F. Catlin, president and secretary, respectively, of the Prospect Hill Cemetery association, was called for trial The defendants have been trying to show that a strip of four acres of ground which the cemetery bought early last spring of the Byron Reed heirs, as an addition to the Prospect Hill cemetery, was itself in an early day a cemetery ground The city passed an c-dinance fn 1892 for- bidding any extension of cemetery grounds In the face of this ordinance the association negotiated_with the Reed heirs for the ac- cesslon, Straightway the neighborhood w up in arms and employed counsel to prosecute the case, claiming that the locality woull become unhealthy and unfit to live in. The defense rely on being able to show that in an early day the land was used as a burying ground and that there is no violation of ordinances. Attorney Brogan is prosecuting the case. The judge of the criminal court refused to allow Attorney Shoemaker to try it and then sought to get several attorneys to take the case, but they refused Nobody had yet bene buried in the new addition to Prospect Hill cemtery so that the criminal fudge instructed the jury that no offense had been committed which could alarm the neighborhood, which is seeking to prevent an extension of this popular burial ground. Mr. Ballwin was released. He had been fined $25 in police court as president of the association. SUIT BROUC L ON AN OLD CLAIM, Bquires Scoking to Kecover on a Streot Swoeping Contract, An old street sweeping contract with the city of Omaha has found its way into the district court. C. E. Squires, who undertook the job of keeping the mud off Omaha's streets, on and after May 24, 1890, the date of his contract with the city, ha ppeared in court seeking to recover $9,615.46 from the municipal corporation for the work which he alleges he performed. The city in 1892, through the Board of Public Works, rejected the claim, declaring that Squires had not lived up to the terms of his contract. He had bound himself to do his work in a thorough manner, keep the mud out of the sink holes, as well as off the level parts of the pavement, and act under the direction of the board. Squires is sure he did all this and so states in his petition in which the sum of $9, ts asked. His work was to be paid for at the rate of $15 per mile. The work was done between May, 1890, and January, 18! Gas Well that slew Both Ways. Judge Keysor is hearing a case relating to & gas well at Dawson, fa., which blew itself out after a number of Omaha citizens had blown" themselves in for some thousands of dollars. J. W. Penfield & Son have recovered a Judgment for $1,932 of the Dawson Town and Gas company. Four Omaha stockholders being sued for having failed to put in money enough to pay for the thousands of shares of capital stock which they bought: This money the plaintiff wants applicd on Its judgment The company had $300,000 of capital stock and A. B. Cooley and J. T. Hoile alone held $205,000 worth of the shares, for which it is claimed they fraudulently traded $5,000 worth of poor Towa land. Wants Pay for a Broken Knee Pan Bd Blaise has begun a suit for against Swift and Company of South Omaha for injurles sustained while working in the sausage department on August 3, 1804, Blaise says he was on the fifth floor, helping turn out sausages, when the forema Fred Apple, ordered him to take two trucks to the floor above. The elevator man was not on hand and Apple tried to work the cage, and, as a result, Blaise fell down five stories breaking his knee pan and sustaining other injuries. City Not Liable for the Damage. The city, so a jury has _decided, was not B versed the lower court, holding that the neg- lable for the violent rain which fell early in | lect of the officers of the defunct company the summer of 1862 and which flooded the | made them liable for the claim of creditors basement of the Creamery Packing company, | Who might have been induced, through such | Tho creamery was located at Fourteenth and [ §he'®) neglect, to invest n_the company Leavenworth sireets. quantity of empty | The decl hm]_ It aliowed to .n;u il ap- kegs were stored In the basement. Rain | PATently make the dliectors of the Guar- water filled the cellar and warped the kegs, “('” ! “‘"' rj'» y liable for the obligations Eight hundred dollars was asked of the|°' 't €OnCe elty, because the Chicago Lumber company e "“‘"kh"“mm_ had a pile of lumber on the opposite side of the street, which, together with some city grading, it Iy claimed, deflected the course of the water, sending it into the basement, in- stead of into the sewer. Minor Court Mattors. The verdict of the jury in the suit of Kublman against the Home Fire Insurance company was for $680. Fred M. Grantham was acquitted by the jury of the charge of embezzling from the firm of Coftman, Smiley & Co. of South Omaha, About a dozen defendants have appeared in the Baldwin-Burt mortgage foreclosure suit relating to valuable lands, asking a quash- ing of summons and dismissal of the case as to them. Deputy Sheriff Mahoney brought Mason back from the Lincoln asylum. The asylum eople refuse to recelve Douglas county nsane unless an equal \re taken away. JK. H. Bates & Co. have been sued for the alue of a carload of oats. B. Hannigher, e plainuil, says be sold them 3245 werlh number of patients of grain last April, when they advanced him promises instead of money. The jurors in_ district court were all dls- charged yesterday afternoon, except the three engaged fn the trial of ecases, This means that the cases of Ish, Lauder, It he fs held to distriet court, and others will go over the term. Judge Baxter found that Mrs, Brickson had lost the certificate of stock in the Board of Trade and so was not liable for its con- | version, Her husband's administrator tried to make her turn it over to him, bringing a sult to that end Before Judge Hopewell the well contest over the will of Edward being tried. Cook left a somewhat mutilated will, bequeathing property to Presbyterian theological —students, among others remembered known Cook s ge Ambrose hus refused to open up the divorce suit. Henrietta Butler secured against William Butler for cruelty. his wife condoned for all past | delinauencies by living with him at odd | spelis In county court Judge Baxter fe trying to | deterinine whether Frank Heller, as ad- | ministrator, is entitled to recover $1,000 of | Mrs. Erickson and her attorney for an | alleged conversion of stock In the Board of | | Trade. Heller claims the estate should have | | the stock. INDIAN TROURL INCREASING. Chicyennes Threaten to T Out the Whites. BRIDGEPORT, Blaine county, Ok, 21.—Trouble at Arapahos, arising out shooting of the Indian, Red Lodge Depu crift Burch, is still intense Lodge is still alive, but cannot | India making dire carried out when he dies. On the day of the shoot- ing the Indinns were very much excitel and | threatening, but quietel by troop A, Third cavalry. Captam Mackay in gommand. In- Up and Clean of the by ed | ats to be 1 the | which is in camp near the town. The dians went into council and sent courlers to Fort Reno an1 to the Kiowas and Kiowa res- ervatio Today Captain Woodson, Indian agent of the Chieyennes and Arapahoes, passel here on the way to Arapanoe to quiet the Indiar tie’ whites can identify Red Lo'ge as tne msn who assaulted Mrs. Hayes they will hang him John an dian, said today: rise against have imposed educated Cheyenne In- “I fear my people will white men. e whites upon them beyond endurance, I saw old Red Lodge at Watonga. He said it hia son died the Indian warriors would go on the warpath and wipe out the whites at Arapahoe.” Asked how many warriors the Cheyennes had he said from 300 to 400. He said they would get no help from the Arapa- hoes, but would from the Kiowas, - MAY VISIT AMERICA. Japan Will Send Her Nuvy San Franciaco. SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—Private letters received in this city state that as soon as Japan's troubles in Formosa shall be settled Admiral Ito will be sent to San Francisco with the Matshushima and two or three other vessels of hie fleet. The Matshushima Is a single-masted cruiser of about the tonnage of the Olympia, and as Azmiral Ito's flagship went through hard fighting at the Yalu and ff the roadstead of Wei-Hal-W One of her probable consorts here is the Naniwa, a s'ster ship of the Charleston, which began last summer's hostilities in the far east by sinking the transport Kow Shing with all on_board. Mr. Koya, the Japanese consul general In this city, says he has heard of the matter but he can not fix a date for the coming of his country’s warships nor verify the state- ment that Admiral Ito will command them. on a Cruise to Owing to the unsettled questions in the far able to the cast he thought Japan would not be spare any of her fighting flest during summer months, but later in the year ships might come. Some of the obje the cruise will be to show the sort of ve that Japan has in her modern navy and to give their men the experience only acquired in long voyages. MORE ROTT Many Chicngo Fx-Officials Imp'icated in the Pay Roll Swindle. CHICAGO, June 21.—The c 1s who are Investigating the stuffed pay roll swin- dles received valuable testimony today from S FOUND, ex-Fireman Dorman of th: water-pipe ex- tension department. Detectives had been searching for Dorman for several days, and today he gave himself up and made a con- fession, which it is said implicates m city officials who are not y:t undel The details of the statement were carefully guarded by the investigators, but it is said that it is sensational in its showing of the widespread corruption under the late city administration. It was reported his after noon that as a result of Dorman's confession 1 large number of additional arrests would be made at once, ——————— TO DISMISS REFUSED THE CASE Defenso in the Barrett leet Anothe Defeat. BUTTE, Neb., June (Spectal Telegram.) —The defense in the case of the men accused of the murder of Barrett Scott made anotber attempt to end the trial today. Attorney Harrington filed a motion asking the court to suspend further proceedings in the trial and instruct the jury to at once bring in a ver- dict of not guilty, on the grounds that the state had not established the fact that the crime had been committeed in Boyd county. The motion was overruled, the court holding that the case at bar related to matters of fact rather than of law. —_— Valldity of the Secnrities Assatled, NEW YORK, June 21.—The World says: The Wall street quotations of the $4,350,000 old of the securities of the Northern Pacific have been seriously affected by the news tuat the holders of the preferred stock contemplate a suit to have declared illegal nearly half the securities of the road. The suit con- templated is based on a clause of the origi- nal charter of the road granted by the United States government in 1864, which for- cott Lynehing Trial bale the issue of any but first mortgage bonds, The reorganization scheme will come to head quickly now because J. Pierrepont Mor- gan is here. He arrived from Europe on the Germanic. Tt Is likely that the scheme will be accomplished in ten days. President J. J. Hill of the Great rthern is here also await ing a conterence with Mr. Morgan. Y e g Directors Liable. ST. PAUL, June 21--A declsion of much {mportance, especially to creditors of the old Guarantee Loan company of Minneapolis, was down K handed by the supreme court yester- day. It was the case of the First National bank of Morrili, Wis., and the National New Haven bank against the Guarantee Loar company and H. Harper and W. D. Washburn, respectively. Judge Canely re CINCINNATI, June 21.—A panic among the 200 women and girls employed in the cotton mills of Henry Pearce’s Sons and the Russell & Morgan printing works on Eggle- ston avenue was caused by a fire which broke out today in the two-story dye house situated between these two large factories. The sounding of a second and third alarm only increased the panic and the police had to carry out a number of fainting girls who were in no way endangered by the fir Luckily none were seriously injured, though tried to jump from windows. The sky Trust, ST. PAUL, Minn., June 2L.—A petition was filed in the United States court asking that the receivership of the Distilling and Cattle- feeding company of Illinois be extended to cover the distillery at South St. Paul. The petition is filed by Stephen D. Bayer, D. C Bennett and Hugo Blumenthal of New York and the court 18 asked to turn over the South St. Paul distillery to the receiver to help meet the llas of the concern. WILL NOT LOSE THE OREGON Union Pacific Officials Explain How They Are Holding the Short Line. SURE OF SX MONTHS' POSSESSION They Expect Congress to Grant Some Form of Kelief at the Fnd of that Time for the Over- land. There 1s considerable speculation going on at Union Pacific headquarters as to just what there fs in the rumor that a committee of consolidated 68 of the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern has decided not to take the property in Utah under Judge Merritt's order. It is thought by some of the officials that a deep-lald scheme Is being played in srder to effect upon Judge Merritt Others believe that it is an admission of defeat on the part of those moving for a separate receiver for the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern. It Is believed that the action of Judge Merritt was known to the committee in New York and consequently the committee had nothing else to do but to refuse to accept the property under the terms of the order. Three propositions are to b Merritt next Tuesday. {ssuance of receivers' certificates, upon which Judge Merrittt was silent when he handed down his opinion in Short Line This matter is one of importance and rightly comes up at this ttme. But upon the two other propositions there is great di- vergence of opinion; second, to modify hi order so as to permit John M. Igan to sume the duties of recciver independent of have considered be- First, the Judge the any other receiver, and third to permit the trust company to operate the northern line, leaving the Southern Extension on the hands of the presetn receivers. It is not thought Judge Merritt will change his order upon these two propositions, although pub- lie opinfon in Salt Lake has been pronounced against him for mak ng the order which practically shut the American Loan and Trust company out of managing the prop. erty through a recsiver. Merritt is looked upon as cne of the able jurists of the west and it is believed he will adhere to his orig- inal order, founde it is alleged, upon an absolute rightful construction of the situa tion. No matter what is ceivers of the Union done, the present re- Pacific state that they will continue to operate the Short Line & Utah Northern for the next six months, at least, and probably longer if it is determined to buy the property under foreclosure pro- ceed and sale, as it will take some timw to perfect an organization to buy tho property. Men of financial re- sources are leaving the money cen- ters of the country and it will be late in September before any plan is decided upon to take the property. Then congress, the re- ceivers contend, is expected to take up a funding bill this winter, which will undoubt- edly include the Oregon Short Line & Utah Northern in the terms of reorganization that upon the whole, unless something done very soon, it is easily seen how months will intervene before the Short Line situa- tion is finally settled. WILLMEET ANY RATE THAT 15 MADE Union Pacific In the War to Stay and Wil See All Competitors. “The Union Pacific is made responsible for all the crimes in the calendar,” sald an offi- cial of that road yesterday. “It Is said of us that we are now blocking the wh looking to the organization of the We: Passenger association, fact, up to this time we have expressed a willingness to join any association to which ern when, as a matter of all lines in intercst would b The situation has somewhat changed since the difficulties over the Short Line, and I don't believe it would be fair to go into an a; ciation while this matter is still undccided Should Mr. Egan succeed to the receivership. T have no idea that he would join any asso. soclation, for he is on record as having company would be a free lance. Under thes: circumstanc it would be useless, it seems to me to join an association when' we might have to give way to some one else. Then it we were compelled to protect our own interests the whele country might accuse us of bad faith. Several months ago we were anxous to join the association and we signed the agreement creating the Wes ern Lines Passenger association, but lines quite as much interested as we are refused o sign, and now I don't know why we haven't’ the same right to refuse, although as a matter of fact we have not refused As to the Denver rates, we will meet any rate made by any competing line, We not_sceking to be leaders, our conservatism having lost to the company thousands of doll. , but whatever rate is made you may be assured we will meet it in our own ter- ritory."” Not Very Far on the Outside. “E. W. Megeath Qid not quit the coal de- partment of the Union Pacific,” said a coal man without reckoning the cost of losing $7.000 a year salary. He is interested in the firm of T. B. Havens & Co. and has also interests in the Sweetwater Coal company. While he quits the service of the company, T have no doubt he will continue to be very close to the coal department of the Union’ Pacific.”” yesterday, Wil Pay Dividends on Central Pacitle, NEW YORK, June 21.—Advices from Lon- don are to the effect that S. P. Huntington, who is abroad, has given notice that a divi- dend of % per cent will be paid holders of Central Pacific stock on July 1. Railany Note: F. A. Nash of the Milwaukee was in his office yesterday after a week's illness. 2. M. Gannon, commercial agent of Missouri Pacific at Atchison, was in yesterday. The Union Pacific anticipates bringing into Omaha Sunday 3,000 people from points around Columbus, Managing Receiver 8. H. H. Clark of the Union Pacific went to St. Louis last night. He will be back in Omaha about July 1. ‘Wes ern Sharp shooters’ Union. MILWAUKEE, Wis., June 21.—The contest in the tournament of the Western Sharp Shooters union has become very exciting and it is believed that before the close of the match tomorrow evening all present records will be smashed, So far the tournament has the town been in every respect a su ssful one, the weather being delightful. Twenty more en- friea were made this morning which swells the total number of shooters to 180, It Is expected that about 225 will have entered be- fore the finish. The point shooting con- tinues and in this contest sixty-five medals have already been bestowed, seven being awarded this morning. Adolph Strecker of San Franciseo broke the world's record at the man target by getting 97 out of a possible 100 points. Nobody else has been able to come near this as yet. Negro tre LITTLE ROCK, Ark., June 21. ing affray at Portland, Ark., sulted in the fatal wounding of one of the parties and tae lynching of the other. Rev. Frank King, colored, became infatuated with Deacon Willam Toney's wife and trouble arose between them. When they met on the street the preacher leveled a pistol at his man and shot him in the abdomen. He was locked up and after dark a mob of infuriated negroes repaired to the lockup, took him to a tree and lynched him e Americans Murdered o Mexico, DEMING, N. M., June 21.—Eight Ameri- can gold miners on the Yaqui river, in the state of Sonora, were murdered by Indlans about two weeks ago. News of the killing just reached here. The miners had been suc- cessful in obtaimng gold and the killing was probably done for the purpose of robbing the victims, cher Lyne e His Bride Stayed with Him, SAN FRANCISCO, June 21.—J. H. Davis of Rochester, N. Y. son-in-law of H. H Cralg, a wealthy lumberman of that city, had his preliminary examination in the police court yesterday on the charge of defrauding THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, | a number of San Franeisco merchants by forged drafts on a mythical New York bank. Davis wae held to answer in the superior court, ball being fixed at $2,000. Davis' bride Is his constant companion in the city prison. ————— AN ARIZONA WONDER. An Eleotric Death Trap fer Man and n the Mountal One of the most recently discovered inex- plicable phenomena is an immense electrical stons which crops out bave the ground in an almost inaccessible mountain pass some fifty miles north of Needles, Ariz., says a correspondent of the New York Journal. In pursuing a conscientious investigation into a subject of this Kind it is necessary to call into requisition such an immense number of grains of salt that the real truth of the mat- ter becomes lost in a briny deep, as it were, and passes forever beyond the pale of fact into the realm of romance along with the serpent and the mermaid, but in spite of this the existence of the electrical stone has been proved beyond he possibility of doubt In a multitude of witnesses there is safety and it appears that the natives of Arizona were for years acquainted with the stone and its peculiar properties long before its discovery by a party of hunters a few days ago. Among the Indians the stone goes by the name of the “Death Trap," and the peak whereon it is located is called Death Trap mountain. They say that their fathers and grandfathers before them knew of thg stone, and it is only an old and experienced guide who will venture to take a party in the neighborhood of it lest by some unlucky chance a too daring hunter lose his life by suddenly coming upon it in an unguarde moment. The stone ltself Is described as being a rough, jagged outcropping, bursting uy through the shale of its surroundings, reach- ing up the mountain side to the height of about seven feet, when a sharp projection shelves over again, making a three-sided tun- nel, perhaps nine feet long and five feet ide. Ordinarily the rock is of a blue, me- tallic luster, and shows traces of voicanic action, being seamed and ribbed as if by melted lava. In the heat of the day, when the sun shines squarely upon it, the ston assumes a faded pale blus hue, at which times the Indians declare it to be perfectly harmless. As the sun leav:s the gorge, how- ever, the stone begins gradually to deepen in co no moon, it or, and when night comes and there is glows with all the brilllancy of a molten mass or so many mncandesc:nt lights, This illumination may be distinetly seen for a great distance when there are nc intervening mountains to obstruct the view Now, as to the peculiar death-giving power of the stone. It is said that nothing, great or small, can set foot upon it and live. So powerful are the volts which it gives out at even the slightest contact that it is im- possible for even the largest animals tc withstand their strength. Recently th party of hunters referred to ventured without a guide into some of the dangerous mountaln passes in the up country, and by chance found their way into a narrow gorge, having come in hot pursuit after a little flect-limbed mountain goat, which they managed to start from the rocks below. Suddenly, while they were all some seventy or eighty feet away, they were astonished b:yond measure to ses the goat drop dead in his_tracks, although not a shot had been fired. They were making ready to climb up the ledge and secure the little creature, when an old Indian, high up on the cliff behind. called to them to stop So frantic was his manner and so persistent his admonitions that they waited till he scrambled down to them, and then for the first time came to light the story of the elsc- trical wonder. The goat had fallen within the death trap. the Indian expiained. and had the hunters followed after hi >, would have sharzd his fate. There was ample evidence at hand to prove to the hunters the truth of the old man statement. for the little gorge surrounding the stone has been turned into a perfect charnel house full of the whit- ening bones of its victims. And if this were not enough to convince the most skeptical while they £tood within thirty feet of the stone a big rattlesnak: crawied upon the precipice and out upon the stone, only to coil and writhe, and finally die 1 the In- tensest agony he hunters expressed the deepest grati- tude to the old Inlian for saving their lives, but regretted no little the loss of the goat whose species is almost extinct now, where- upon the old man unwound a riata from b waist and flung it up under the rocks. His aim was unerring, and presently the goat was dragged down into a place of safety whence the hunters removed him. This was an old trick among experienced hunters, the Indian explained, and said he himself had reaped a pretty rich harvest of peltry by snatching fresh victims from the grasp of the death trap. The sun was almost down and had quite left the gorge, so at the request of the In- dian the hunters accompanied him to his mountain-perched cabin, and from there be held the lighting up of the stone when the moon was gone. As they all sat about the fire watching the phehomenon their old host told them many marvelous stories of the wonder, among others the legend of its dis ,very by the tribe hundreds of years ago : legend runs about as follows Once upon a time there came into the midst of the tribe asking food and shelter a stranger with a marvelously beautiful face body was little and mean and puny and back was humped, but his face was fair nd all description and strangely beauti- His eyes were large and luminous, ‘like twin stars, and although he seemed to know nothing of herbs or their properties he pos- sessed the marvelous faculty of healing the ck by laying his hands upon them, or even ven dumb animals would flock around him if he chose to have them do so, and the chief held him in such reverence that by and by he adopted the stranger into the tribe and made him a medicine man. Many years passed, during which time the stranger still lingered, and in the meantime the chief's son had grown to manhood and it be- came time for him to take a wife. The comliest maiden of the tribe was selected as hig bride and preparations were made for the nuptials. When the wedding day ar- rived, however, the maiden was missing, and an old woman declared that the medicine man had spirited her a A diligent search failed to disclose her whereabouts, and the chief reluctantly consented to believe the friend of his adoption guiity. A com- pany of twelve of the bravest warriors was ordered to drive the medicine man out of the tribe, for no one would consent to seeing nim killed outright, so great was the love of the people for him. Early in the morning the warriors set out to chase him beyond the mountain, the medicine man running swiftly on before so that they conld just rcely keep him i sight. Finelly it be- came evident that he was leading them on after him instead of fleeing before them, and at last, though the chief gent messengers to order the men to return, it was impossible to get them to heed the command. On and on they followed, elimbing the mountains ide and looking neither to the right nor to the left, but keeping their eyes fixed desper- tely upon the medicine man before them The chief’s messengers followed as close as they dared, and at last beheld with con- sternation the warriors fall one by one dead in their tracks between the parted iips of a great blue stone ““Phus was the death trap discovered many hundreds of years ago, and the Indians be- lieve it to have been set by the medicine man to ward off all pursuit after him and the stolen bride of the chief's son."” Five Generations Living in One House. Five generations are Tepresented by as many women, all living together under one roof, at Juniper and Miffin streets, says the Philadelphia Record. Mrs. Katherine Tre maine, the great-great-grandmother, is within a few years of the ripe old age of 100. The great-grandmother, Mrs. Fuller, is over 70, and Mrs. Birmingham is past the half-century mark, although she looks but little more than alf that age. Her daughter is Mrs. Frank G the proud mother of th new generation. The baby, Katherine Gray, is just two weeks old, and is probably in greater danger of being “spoiled” than any other baby In this broad city. Very few little girls can boast the possession of three grandmammas. Of course, this little girl can’t make this proud boast yet, but judging from the healthy appearance of her great great-grandmamma she will be able to do so for many years after she herself will bave attained the use of speech and reason. el — To the young face Pozzoni's Complexion Powder gives fresher charms, to the old, re- newed youtb, Try it ra JUNRE 22, HEROES IN BLUE AND GRAY A Trio of National Military Parks to Be Instituted on Three Great Battlefields. SHILOH, GETTYSBURG AND CH!CKAMAUGA 1895, A Brave Drummer Boy's Loyalty—Attends A1is Wounded Adjutant in the Midst of Flylng Bullets—How Sheridan Was Bored—Other Recollections, Conforming to the laws enacted by the last congress, the government has taken the nec essary steps to create three national military arks on the three great battlefiells of the civil war, Chickamauga, Gettysburg and Shiloh. None of these parks will be merely ornamental pleasure grounds, The prime id<a is to restore those historic fields to substan tially the condition they were in at the times of the battles, and in harmony with that iiex the parks to be created on their sites will be devoted strictly to the fllustration of the su- preme struggles which rendered them famous for the benefit of future generations rather than of surviving participants. In these parks every incident of the battles will be treated from the impartial standpoint of his tory, without sectiona: animosity or bias, an in all the markings and monuments rigid justice will be shown alike to the vanquished and victors, Chicamauga and Shiloh were the most memorable contests of the war in the west, and Gettysburg was the most mo- mentous conflict in the east, and in all three the most distinguished generals, union and confederate, imanded, and troops from typical sections fought, so that by securing and p rving those flelds intact sentative examples of the greatest battles of the war, the government will b able to perpetuate their history in a concrete physical form for all time to come. CHICKAMAUGA. The Chickamauga park is to be dedicated with most imposing ceremonies on September 19 and 20 next, under tne dircction of the secretary of war, with the president and as repre net participating, together with committee of congress, both house and senate, the su preme court, the general of the army and the admiral of the the governors of the forty-four states the survivors of the several armies, union and confederate, en- geged at Chickamauga and Chattanoogs thirty-two years ago. The dedicat'on will be a red-letter event of the year. When completed the park will be the most comprehensive and extended military object son in the world. It contains 7,600 acres, and the central driveway, passing through and overlooking all the h fight ng ground, is twenty miles long. The old roads of the battles have been reopened and new roads closed. Over forty miles of the main roads of the field have been rebuilt in a substantial manner. The details of the s batiles—Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob, Wau hatchle and Brown's Ferry—are being set forth upon historical tablets w'thin the park tablets, numbering avout 2,000 in > cast iron plates, four feet by three feet, with embossed letters. After casting the plates were glazed black and the em bossed letters whitened, making the inscrip tion distinet at a distance. Dach plate will contain from 0 to 4u0 words of historical text and will be fastened to an iron post set in concrete. They mark the positions of army headquarters, corps, divisions and brigades, both union and confederate, and the parts taken by each organization are roncisely stated GETTYSBURG. the recent law establishing a na- at Gettysburg, introduced by I B. Sickles and approved in February last, the government will at once proceed to acquire 800 acres and rights of way over avenues owned by the Gettysburg Battlefield Memoria!l association, and also to acquire other lands cn the battlefield by purehase or condemnation. Additional roads Under tional park neral Dani will be opened and tablets will be set uj {efinitely marking the lines of the troops on both sides. The rights, however, of st and military organizations to plats of ground on which markers and monuments have al ready been placed will in no wise be prejudiced. The Gettysburg National Park commission, like that of Chickamauga park, will co-operate with state commissions in fixing positions that are not yet determined A special and noteworthy feature of the Gettysburg park, authorized in the Sickles law, will be a great bronze iable: on pedestal bearing a medallion likeress of President im- mortal address on the occasion of the Na- tional cemete dication at Gettyshurg n November 19, 18 Lincoln and the whole of nis on There are now nearly $2,070.000 werth of monuments on the Geftysburg field, erected by states and regimental organizations and military societies. But until a couple of years ago, notwithstanding all these mem- orials, there were no iines of b marked and a_visitor to the fleld, no* the absence of monuments on th erate side would be prompted to ask whom were the union troops fighting lack will now be supplied and the L't troops will be carefully inlicat>d by as at Chickamauga, without eensure without praise, and above all accuracy. and with Listorical SHILOH. The Shiloh Military park for which con- gress passed an authorizing act in Deccmber last, under the lead of Representative David B. Henderson of ITowa, will comprise about 3,000 acres, woods and farming land. Over 4,000 confederates lie buricd on the bard fought field (April 6 and 7, 1562), and mn the National cemetery are 3,600 union deal A commission like those of Chickamanga and Gettysburg is about to tale charze «f fhe ground, and, after the land shall have ben acquired, will at once begin loeat'ag the battlo lines and sites for tablets and monu- ments for the 258 organizations engaged fu the battle. The arranzement of toad: snd brigade sections will be placed undr the supervision of the bast lindscap» arciiniccts procurable by the War capirtment. regulations as to tablets and r ov be uniform for all three paiks— Gettysburg and Shiloh, Thus far $750,000 has been granied by ccn- gress toward the Chickamauga s iore. The sums appropriated for the : of marking Gettysburg lines before the anthorl- zation of the park on that fi:lu aggregate $145,000 and these, with the §77.060 carr'ed on the Sickles act, make a total to date for Gettysburg of $222,000. For Leginning Shiloh park $75,000 was granted by the Headerson act, and inasmuch as land there is ch cost of the land alone is limitzd to $20, The remainder and future sums to bo propriated will be applied to the of the grounds as they were in 156 The ments will tkamauga, ap- toration and to the erection of monuments and tablets and to the building of roads HOW LANGBEIN WON HIS Young Langbein was the smalles of the drum corps of his regiment, and his face was so plump and girlish, and his figure 8o slight, that he was known by all his com- rades as “Jennie,” a nickname given to him by a soldier who said the lad looked just like his sweetheart at home in the north. The battle of Camden, known to the con federate as the battle of Sawyer's Lane, though not one of the most famous in the civil war, was a hotly contested engagement nevertheles It occurred during the expedi- tion sent to destroy the Culpepper lock at the southern end of the Dismal Swamp canal, in the rear of the city of Norfolk, Va., and one of its notable features was a charge by the Hawkins “Zous,’ not so disastrous as the one at Antietam, but as daring. It during th mad dash that Adjutant Thomas L. Bartholomew, who had promised ‘‘Jen- ne's” mother to keep special watch over her boy and between whom and the lad the closest comradeship existed, was struck down by a fragment of an exploding shell, which plowed a frightful furrow in his neck. In time of action it is the duty of the musiclans to act as an ambulance corps; to look after the wounded and to carry them on stretchers to the rear. Yet it is not part of the drum mer's work to unnecessarily expose himself; indeed it fs expected that he will ehelter himself as much as is consistent, since it the members of the ambulance corps are kil fighting men must leave the ranks to take their places. Little ** nie” Lang bein, however, had no notlon of looking out for his own afety. He was present to do his part, and when the order was given to ‘charge,”” he went with his regiment, keep- ing a sharp eye for disabled comrades and especially for Adjutant Bartholomew. When MEDAL. t member this officer was wounded be did mot fall at | once, but staggered outside of the federal FADS IN PHOTOGRAPHY, ranks, and in a moment was between the hostile line, HEROIC CONDUCT. Then It was that the lad showed the stuff | of which he was made, for without heeding In the least the leaden rain of bullets or the | | Portraits Placed on Wateh Ielt Hackle 1t the alchemists of the sixteenth century could take a peep Into the modern photo graph studlo they would experience an electric shock at the scientific beauty into which their carly efforts Liave culminated. Since the time of Thomas Wedgowood, who was the first to discover the value of the ction of light upon a sensitive surface, such Pipes and screaming shot and shell, he rushed up to his friend, caught him as in his delirlum he was wandering aimlessly about, and man- aged to pilot him without further hurt from the fleld, and to a comparatively quiet place. There the lad gave the officer a drink from his canteen and then rushed away to find | gigantic strides have been taken in the art the regimental surgeon. When that officer | that soon the very coloring of the flesh and arrived Bartholomew was unconsclous, but | blood will appear on our carte de visites soon revived a little, The old-time daguerreotypes, which made “I felt the doctor pushing his fingers into | their entree fn 1824, under the guidance of my wound,” says Bartholomew; “‘he felt in | Daguerre; the ferrotype, brought out by and around it, and I then heard him tell | Robert Hunt a little later, and the ambrotype “Jennie’ It was no use, that I was nearly | Of @ still later period, are made to hide their diminished heads before the splendor of pros portions their rival brothers have assumed. t 0 very lomg ago one's features could tmmortalized a la dead, and that it would not be worth while to move me." Then the doctor left, but Langbein would not abandon his friend. The boy was not | Onl¥ be sithouette, by strong enough unaiaed to carry the ofeor | tracing with a black pencil the shadows of away, but he hunted up Charley Wiley, the | the profle of the face cast by a canlle on drum major, a big, strapping fellow, and to- [ White paper; me holy, ghastly heirlooms, ner they managed to convey (he uncon. | cherished by this generation, as belonging to scious man to a house near by, where he|® time when “all things were new.” was placed upon a bed. Langbein's devotion | There I8 no feat now too difficult for the to his friend did mot ceame swth his reccue | Photo student to attempt; the camera, from from the field, however. Later in the day | DeINE the wonder of the age, has become a the confederates were reinforced and the | 10uehold companion. felerals had to retreat, and so hastily that [ The er for anything and everything It was not a question of taking care of the | "W ‘\ a New York correspondent, has wounded. In the circumstances the adjutant | eutered this field with the result of turning would have been abandoned had it not been (OUt & number of quaint by which for the continued devotion of his little friend, | the photograph of a friend may be carrled on who ma 1 to get the irjured man Inte the | ONe’S person, with good artistic effect. Of army wagon and stayed by him until he was | these, perhaps, the waich case is the most safe in the federal hospital at Roanoke | COmmonly seen; a man Wwith a sweetheart island, where he ultimately recovered and | MUSt first have thought of this arrangement later joined his regiment. by means of which the face he most admived “Jennie” was awarded a thirty days' fur. | could be brouglk before him at will. The lough for his heroism and went back to his | hard surface of the gold case takes very father and mother in New York with a letter | Kindly to the photc shie solutions, and the from his commanding officer of which still proud, besides being mentioned eral orders, though his medal w finish s as beautifully fine as the daintiest cabinet. A few appear with the decoration an the outside of the case, if it is not already until early in the present year. carven, but the favorite style is the inner HOW COLONEL BAKER FELL. | side, where the phiotograpl 1s shielded from “The last time I eaw Colonel e AR L W L WwaR BEIHE caFsica oK. Lo Mushots) are a_decidedly new invention; and altogether he is in gen s not granted ker he with his | cap and his sword on his breast and his hai T s e e UL L e G 'ragging in the dust. In other words, he : h 4 B6 ok ¢ was_belng landed from a scow on Harrison's | cienmerr e i e b, Jor, its delicacy istand, having ju L RUR R b n been Killed in battle upon Ball's bluff,” remarked Mr. A. J giving some of his war remir York club man, who carnestly declares that the fragrant weed is never so soul-satisfying Bellows, Foporter of the Dortland Oragon ot 10 afas when inhaled through the med of this porter a Hfan. bit of c and no won o 1 aaw: that batile, ‘anid, av 1L was the Mpst | 216, 01 CIAYS A0d D0 WORARt, CSVEAL (R time I ever smelled gunpowder, 1 remember | o 'framrant tobaceo. with the vision of tho 1ESVOrY rolenr] Vi Tl WANG & dWIMInBre BOVAIR | 05 1 oo e peaa s m e pt e SIOHESH IS the Fifteenth Massachusetts, the regiment of | i, YqUN& face o softly imprinted on the Colonel Devens, afterward Unite pipe's bowl, always beaming sunny smiles T SR | United States at-| b, ‘Apd’ then the glitter of the jewelst ey gemeral, ~That night I beat the 10ng | )e gloam of the large rubies, tinge all his r.,1|]3‘y1‘{1 we r.-n’m mml“.m down to Bd- | greams vosy red, and the tiny diamonds' S8t ward’s ferry. About daybreak Colonel Baker | 11 St LR A S irrived, 1 neard him- ask Colonel Devens | hore and there at its base glisten like his about the transportation. ~ A scow and a | OS C¥ES ! b0l flatboat, which were filling with men, were [ Tie Moetschaum must be richly colored poiftedtout, andihe aald) switiiia wort oria [0 90t OF HiaRctpehLiana, SmAIL tutqUolte laugh: " 'Well, evidently they don't intend | jorn & PTetty contrast to the gorgeous yel- for many of us to come bick.’ 10N AIUILIOARIOE IO it “There had been skirmish firing some four | ( Pric-a-brac present another form of pre- or five miles off in the direction of Lecshurg, | Sor¥iNE ihssograciiy, aome andgtiilly A but soon after this the battle opened In | {ranstarring a srettr . by means of earnest. Qur regiment had two howltzers | pran oy "y & Pretly face on.the flat sur- in the middle of the atream, on Harrison's [ i &8 (& (OI SES el g island. 1t was not long before orlers came | g oo a1y Mane betore, the laes aHEE to pass over those guns 0 as to preserve all the beauty of the ple- and T sneaked in as one of the detail and went over. had just got cn ture intact. It is then proof against ravages top cof the bluft when | °,time and wear, Colonel Baker came riding back. _Dismount- | (o' ‘frs,0 e whions the pinrntnee o offtes ing, he threw me the rein, and said: ‘Here, [ geem oo small a gift. One of the most novel bub, hold this horse. ~ You had better get | forms this fad has assumed is shown b: ver the brow of the hill a little, 50 You [ o bright Vassar girl, who wears tpon hew won't get hurt.' Tn a few minutes he was | hoating dress a set ‘of huge buttane eash riddled with bullets, Tien oceurred a terri- | gnowing the. fabe of her oy S aisite ble hand-to-hand struggle for his boly. It|ang all beautifully set in a burnished gold was the only time during the war I saw the [ frame, A tiny art gallery, and sufficient bayonet used in a line of battle. at a moment's notice to call up hosts of “Belng a_musiclan, my place was with the | pleasant recollections, _Another way in wounded on Harrison’s island. T had seen | \vhioh the pretty facss may be carrled with enough. 1 let the horse go, climbed-down [ one on a long. Journey. when any. Supers the ly]unlw and got into the last boat that | fluous cargo is inadvisable. is in the buckle went back. of one’s belt. A most unigue arrar “After Daker's death the command went to | ana one eliciting decided. approvel it one pieces. There was herole individual fight- | may judge from the number belng worn. ing, but eoon all formation was lost. The [ A very smart one Is worn by & young majority of the troops were taken prisoners. | woman who counts her diamonds by the The rest ran and jumped into the river. | dogens, and who has spared no expense in Those who reached “the island were saved, | the setting of this small but costly trifie. but the rest were drowned in the swift cur: | It is a younger sister’s face peering out rent.’ from the rich setting of large pearls set in e fllagree gold; the whole surface ls richly SAW NAPOLEON FALL, chased, giving color and tone to the milky L whiteness of the priceless pearls. The face \n Ohloan Who Witnessed moaus | is beautifully tinted, making one think of Itattle of Waterloo. the dainty fvory miniatures of long ago. Wednesday, the 10(h Inst., was the elght- | Then there are those set in frames of gold feth anniversary of the battle of Water- | or SIYer WIIout the Jowcla, but tho richs 100. Of the hundreds of thousands of | (e proper tone men who struggled that day for supremacy | The daguerrcotype lockets are a swagger Al have passed away, except two in America, | d-vice for the photographed face which we four in the British isles and six in France, |do not wish exposcd to the gaze of the and most of these are centenarians, There is another, who, although not a par- “common herd.’ They are in the form of huge silver hearts, ticipant in the great battle, had the privilege | much larger than an ordinary watch; their of witnessing the thrilling events of that | frosted surface bears the monogram of the week in Belgium which marked the downfall | wearer in large English letters, and to it of the Napoleon dynasty and who viewed that | hangs an exceedinly long, slender silver battle from a better vantage ground, perhaps, | chain, which is worn thrown carelessly over than any of the participants, That man is | the shoulders, allowing the heart o drop James R. Green of Ellsworth, 0., who is 97 | where it pleases. vears of age. Ins the dainty face of a girl friend (op The old gentleman was born in Bolton, [ of a sweetheart, since no one will see), fits Lancashire, England, on July 25, 1798, ani|in boautifully; opposite is inscribed some entered the English navy at the age of 16 | quaint legend, supposed to ward off all at- as a midshipman. The next year his ship | tacks of the “Evil BEye. was employe in transporting the English It is odd to note that among all this col soldiers for Wellington's army across the | lection of feminine and masculine adorns channel from Southampton to Antwerp, and it | ment the face of a man seldom appears; it was at this time that he accidentally wit-|may be due to &he utt hopelessness of nessed Waterloo. 1In lie entered the | anything artistic in their get-up, or to thy Bast Indian merchant ce and for many | undue modesty of the fair ones, Who shrin aatat voyaadimithe and Indlay | from dieplaying the pictured face of their oceans, making many trips around the Cape | “Prince Charming” to the public. = of Good Hope to Delphi, Calcutta and Bom- A Delic AT bay. In 1820 he made his first voyage to 5 L z % - Aterica In @ salling vessel, it requiring |, New York World: Jingle—What was the twelve weeks to cross the stormy Atlantic, [ trouble In the Sfdiers) heme lost Suttay? Since then he has crossed the Atlantic| i,y “iiLet not your right hand know what tyentystires Simen, your left hand doeth!” Mr. Green was in a reminiscent mood when | YOy St OO TR Gag the trouble? seen by a Cincinnati Inquirer correspondent, A e e for o and talked interestingly of the great battle “I was a_midshipman in June, 1815, on one of King George's transport shipe, he said, ‘and with the other ‘middies’ started across Belgium to join the English troops. “We came first to Ligny, where the pre- liminary battle of that terrible week in Bel- gium took place. That fight was Detween the Prussians under Biucher and apoleon's veterans. The conflict did not last long, but it stands as one of the most desperate fights of history. Blucher was compelled to give way, and his retreat was almost a rout Flushed with success, Napoleon pushed on to his fate at Quatre-Bras and attacked the out- posts of the English on the 17th. “At Quatre-Bras Napoleon was repulsed, falling back to Waterloo that night, where he determined to make his final stand. “On the morning of the 18th, with a sea- glags which we had taken with us, we stood on the heights some distance away from Waterloo and took in the whole scene. We could see Napoleon on his charger riding along his lines preparing for the battle, med veterans. lines were formed and soon the field was filled with smoke and the roar of cannon reverberated through the hills of Belgium In the afternoon the fierce conflict ceased and the field was a sickening sight. The green rye had been trampled down and the field was nothing but dust like the mlddle of the road, while the dead and wounded lay scattered thickly over the great plain, Out of the 250 pieces of artillery Napoleon lost 156, and 40,000 of his men were either dead n the fi-ld or prisoners “I can remember distinctly of seelng Blucher, Napoleon, the duke of Wellington and George 1V. I can remember secing George 111 and his couriers riding down to the London docks upon many a morning During the reign of Willlam IV I remember ;H\";l" nen fieen I"F-“l“’ la in o villa mear | pemoves wrinkles and all traces of age. tinct remembrances of the last four It feeds through the por ind builds up ruling v E | the fatty membrains and wasted tissues, nourishes the shrivelled and shrunken | skin, tones and Invigorates the nerves nd muscles, enriehies the impoverished monarchs of the house of Hanover.” o | A Tough Son of the Revolution year-old grandson in a pr A family of New York Olty which boas blood vessels, and supplies youth and of its connection with the heroes of 1776 ha i . always taken a great interest in the family | Clisticity 1o the uction of the skin. It's conversations. One day not long ago, relates | berfect the New York Times, he and his grandma | T kT e L L went down town to do some shopping. At | MY e s Y AL, noon the little fellow said: “Don't | i ULy Bpecialiat, 140 BIate let us go home for luncheon. The proper ( 8t Chicago. Beauty Guide malled thing to do f3 to go to. the §- Everybdy | fric s, goes there,” Persuaded and amused by the [~ sumed, his companion agreed, but told Master RMCCRE w Hopeful that he must give his own order. Al “Turkey and cranberries,” he said promptly SPECIALIBT and when it came he began to do his own L R ving, He sawed away without making any | impression me cut it for you *“No," he s loggedly, | w u:nlu-flnn: 'l‘"l‘l as he worked away. ‘“‘You'd better let me | i 0! try it. It seems pretty tough,' she interposed | MEN ONLY again, T little fellow kept on trying for a | Every cure xuil moment, then dropped hig knife and fork in 9 Juah s3 1 despair, looked at his plate and said em- RE 1 pane phatically: “It must be @ son of the revolu- & Farnam Sty tion, grandma.’ OMAMA, NEN. | v S