Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 30, 1895, Page 2

. ovdering him off the place in a fit of furious . ‘The story, by the way. was denou SHOULD HAVE IGNORED ARMES| General Schofield Makes a Mistake in No- ticing the Letter, GIVES THE MAJOR HIS OPPORTUNITY Alleged Grievances Agninst the Late Commander-in-Chief of the Army May Now Be Thor- oughly Alred. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Secretary of War Lamont, who returned to Washington today, declined to say what he would do in the case of Major Armes, who was arrested Friday night on the order of General Scho- field for insubordination. “I have not yet had time,” sald he, “to give the matter consideration. At the Army and Navy club, the swell organization of the city, and In department circles the affair has been pretty thorowghly discussed. The dominating opinion is that General Schofleld committed a grave mistake in ordering the arrest of Major Armes. There Las been a bitter feud batween the men, dat tng back twenty-five years. Major Armes is an eccentric character who has lived In Washington for a generation or more, and who Is prominent in the business and social life bf the capital. He is a truculent, disagree- able person, and has been in trouble so often ond under such peculiar circumstances that he has come to be regarded as, in a meas- ure, irresponsible. His freakiness, however, has not interiered with his money making faculties, and he has amassed a fortune of $1,000,000 in real estate and other operations. He dates his hostility to General Schofield to an occasion twenty-five years ago, when the latter was instrumental in having him dismissed from the army, unjustly, as he says. Armes was afterward reinstated by an act of congress. He was placed on the re- tired list in 1883. He has never for a min- ute ceased to denonnce General Schofield as the head of a conspiracy to degrade, humili- ate and persecute him. General Schofleld has denled the charges, but there s nevertheless gome foundation for the allegation, ARMES 18 DISAGREEABLE. The fact is Armes was a very disagresable Individual, hard to get along with and uncon- trollab'e. 'He was a kicker and not amenabla to the ordinary rules of di‘cipiine. Such being the cace, 1t was, by one of those tac tly vnder- stocd arrangements, determined to get rid of him, and it so happened in the carrying out of this unwritten design that General Scho- field was obliged to figure more or less act- ively. In the language of an old army officer, “when it Is decided in either the army the mavy to double team against a man he 13 a ‘gomer." They ‘“doublc-teamed” on Armes, and he himself da-cribes it as having made his “lifa a hell” But having lots of money and influential conncetions, he con- tinued to pester the men who had “downed’ him and secared an honorable reinstatement on tho retired list. He has always said that he would have it out with Schofield before the latter retired from active service, and his letter to the general reciting his wrongs and demanding an apology was the recult. It the general of the army had been as big a man as he would like to have himself re- garded he would have paid no attention to- the half-crazy demonstration, but the biggest of men make themselves exceedingly smail when under the influence of passion, and this is what Shofleld did when ho took advantige of his brief authority as acting secretary of war and placed under arrest a main with whom he had been on term: of personal hos- tility. The impression made upon the public mind by the performancs is that Major Armes may have substantial grounds for his charges against his commanding officer. If Schofield had been a big man he would have lgnored the letter from Armes. The arrest was exaetly what the latter wanted. He has thus been given a chance to exploit Lis grievauce to the world, and if the gen- eral insists upon going through with the mat- ter Armes will have the opportunity of tell- ing a véry ugly story, which, whether right or wrong, will be a scandal Schofi:ld's friends may well wish had been avoided Tt Is a cloud upon the last days of the gen- eral's active career. Whether Armes securss his liberty by writ of habeas corpus or whether his case will come before a court-martial, or both, are matters which will be developed in du: course of time. Whatever course is pur- sued, it is already assured that a vehicle will be created for the widest airing of an affair which might have been lushed up to the ad vantage of cverybody concerned if General Schofield had only “exercised good judg- ment in the premises and not been carried away by the heat of pasaion, ASSAULT ON GENERAL BEAVER. Major Armes brought himself into con- spicuous notorlety in 1889 by an attack uron General Beaver of Pennsylvania in the Riggs house. General Eeaver was grand marshal of the Harrison fnaugural parade, and on that occasion Major Armes was one of his aides. In his anxiety to show off Armes under- took to take virtual charge of the proceed- ings. He pervaded the whole city, and his cecentric behavior compelled Beaver to an- nul his appointment as aide and order his retirement from the fleld of activity. This action Incensed Major Armes to an extraor- dinary degree, and meeting General Beaver in the Riggs house the next day he pulled the latter's nose. General Beaver, though a one-legged man and not in robust health, made an ugly fight and would have soundly thrashed the major but for the interference of bystanders. For this offense Atmes was taken before a_court-martial and would have boen dismissed but for the interference of General Schoficld, who pleaded for clem- ency on tho ground that Armes was insane General Schofleld's action produced such an effect that the fgnominious dimissal recom- mended by the court-martial was sparsd him, and in lien thercof he was sentenced to im- prisonment within a fifty-mile limit of Wash- ington for a period of five years. This sen- tence was commuted after two years. Armes says that he would rather have been dismiszed In disgrace or shot than have been granted mercy on the pléa of insanity. He holds that General Schofield was in no manner autborized to act in his behalf and that the Insanity defense was the very re- finement of revenge on the part of the com- manding ofticer. 1t was the crowning act in what he terms a long perlod of persecu- tion, and In the major's opinion it consti- tutes his chief grievance, PERSECUTED HIS DAUGHTER. Another incident in Major Armes’ career which has been revived by this affair is his persecution of a daughter who desired to marry a very worthy young n in this city. He pursued the young woman and her afanced with a revolver, threatening the lives of both, and would not he appeased until long after’ their marriage, to which be drove them in haste one day In extremity. He was finally recoaciled to the young peo- ple, who are in every way worthy of the hlxl-cnl vegard. fajor Armes lives at a splendid country | home near Chevy Chase, an aristocratic suburb five miles north of the city. During his first term President Cleveland began negotlations with the major for the pur- chase of the place, but the chief executive found the inflammable army officer too tough a customer to do business with, and the deal fell throngh, It is stated that on the oc casion of the president's first visit to Armsleigh,” the name of the major's ccentry howe, the host had prepared a most elaborate banquet, but that the distinguished visitor wever got beyond the porch, Armes rage over a pioposal which he did not think favolved suffielent compensation for his acres. Armes afterward spread the story | around town that the president had offered o buy one-third of tho estate for about one- ‘third of its value, advancing the proposition that he (Arnes) could more than make up | the difference by the sal, of what wag left. ced by the n absurd major elways insisted president’s intimute friends s fubrication, but ihe that it was trae my eireles sre very i worked up | of the bggast 1z Washington ars. der the rvegulations of the army, the charges against Major Armes, If any are mude, must be Aled within cixht days from the tima f his ariest, and be 1ust be hrouzht trial within ten days trow the date of made against him and he is not brought to trial he must ba released at the expiration of thirty days after the ten days' lmit for the trial, or at the expiration of forty days from the date on which he should have besn brought to trial. Up to the present tims no charges have been flled against Major Armes and General Schofleld disclaims any such intention. The latter ordered Armes under arrest because of insubordination and will simply refer the objectionable letter written to him to the secretary of war without recommendation or comment, leaving the latter entirely free to act as he deems advisable. PROMOTION FOR GENERAL MILES, aced in Command of the Army to Suceeed Schofield. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—There is now no longer any doubt that Major General Miles is to succedd Lieutenant General Schofield in the office of general in command of the United States army. Miles made a statement of the fact tonight to a reporter of the Associated press, saying that he was Informed of the president’s determination to appoint him on Friday last by the secretary of war, whom he met in this city by special appointment at the Metropolitan club, General Schofleld retired from active serv- ico at noon today, and it is probable that the appointment of General Miles will be an- nounced tomorrow, or very soon thereafter. The general will g0 to Washington to assume the duties of his high position. The an- nouncement will set at rest the rumors which have been current in many circles during the past week concerning General Schofield’s prob- able successor. There was an impression in some quarters that the office of general of the army might be left vacant for some time, as there s no requirement of law for such a position and there are precedents for leaving it wafilled. Only once since the army was organized in 1789, however, has the presi- dent failed to appoint the senior general to the command of the army. When General Miles was seen by a re- porter of the Associated pre:s tonight at his headquarters, in Governor's Island, he spoke freely of his appointment. “‘My in- formant,” said the genral, ‘“‘was Secretary Lamont. whom I met by special appointment at the Metropolitan club in New York last Friday. Naturally I was much gratified. In a sense, however, my appointment is not a promotion, as the grade of lieutenant general became extinet with the retirement of Gen- oral Schofield. 1 will enter upon my new duties with as little delay as possible, in fact as soon as the secretary issues the order an- nouncing my appointment. “In leaving here I will do so with many regrets. This is _the pleasantest assignment I ever had. Alifough in the very heart of civilization, it is as much retired as if it were hundreds of miles away, instead of being within gunshot of the metropolis. Then, too, the people of New York and Brooklyn have been very hospitable and I shall leave with many social obligations™ al Miles was asked whether he would recommend any changes in the army. He re- plied that it he so contemplated, it would hardly be proper to discuss them at this time.” The general would make no direct re ply to the question, whether he thought the grade of lieutenant general might be revived in his case, as in that of General Schofield. When asked whether General Ruger will succoed him in command of the D>partment of the Kast, he replied: “That is the general impression, but of course I can't speak authoritatively The rank of lieutenant general expires with General Schofield’s retirement, as it is a grado only created by special acts of con- gress In_recognition of distinguished service. It has been bestowed upon six generals— Washington, Scott, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and_Schofield. General Miles has received all his military training on the fleld of ex- perience, instead of in the schools, He will be-the first general for many years who was not a West Point graduate and as the West Pointers are reputed to esteem themselves the aristocracy of the army, it has been re- ported that a volunteer's antecedents would militate against his appointment so far as the influence of the army circles had to do with it. General Winfield Scott was the last commanding general who was not a West Point man. General Miles Is a native of Massachusetts. having been born in Westminster, Aug 8, 1820, In 1861 he joined the Twehty-second Massachusetts volunteers and served through- out the rebellion with great distinction. He distinguished himself early in his career in the army of the Potomac gnd took part in every engagement except one up to Lee's surrender at Appomatox. General Miles dis- tinguishied himself in particular at Spottsyl- vania. Attacking the “‘bloody angle” on the right, he broke the enemy’s line, routed him and captured Lieutenant General Johnson and his Qivision. At Five Forks Miles saved the day by coming to the rescue of Sheridan’s cavalry and Warren's Fifth corps. General Miles' promotion was marked by somewhat exceptional rapidity, only” about a year elapsing b:fore he was made lieutenant colonel of the Sixty-first New York infantry, and a month later, September 4, 1862, he was made a colonel of the same regiment. In 1864 he attained the rank of brigadier gen- eral of volunteers and early in the following obtained his commisslon as major gen- eral of volunteers. In 1866 he was mustercd out of the volunteer service and placed in the Fourth United States infantry, in which he remained till 1869, when he was trans- ferred to the Fifth infantry. Altogether the new commander has had a varied military career. Since the war he has been best known as an Indian fighter. He aid fine work at the Indlan territory expedi- tion in 1873. In 1876 he drove Sitting Bull over the Canadian line, capturing a number of noted warriors, and also succeeded iv making prisoners of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perces. In 1878 he defeated and cap- tured a band of Bannocks in Yellowstone park. Not long after this he succeeded in bringing in Sitting Bull, and thus was more a factor than any other man in the settle- ment of the Montana and Dakota war. In 1886 he captured Geronimo and his band of Apeches in Arizona. His most recent claim to public attention was the part he took in suppressing the Chicago strike of the A. R. U. last year. General Miles was commis- sioned brevet brigadier general March 12, 1867, brigadier general December, 1880, and major general in 1890, when he was assigned to the command of the Division of Missouri, which he relinquished last year to take the command of this department on the retire- ment of Major General 0. O. Howard. In appearance he is one of the most stalwart, soldierly men in the service. He is over six teet tall, and does not look his 50 odd years. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Secretary La- mont declined to make any statement tonight regarding General Miles' prospective appoint- ment to succeed General Schofleld as general of the-army, but his appointment is generally regarded here as certain. It is thought his commission will be issued within a fow days and that he will thereupon come to Washing- ton at once. The major generals from whom the selec- tion might have been made are General Miles, General Thomas H. Ruger, on special duty in Washington in connection with the revising of the tactical branch of the service, and General Wesley Meritt, in com- mand of the Department of the Missouri, with headquarters in Chieago. Of these Gereral Miles was the ranking officer. It was rumored that General Miles might fail to secure the “appointment because of the alleged fact that his action on the Chicago strike did not meet the president's views. This rumor of Mr, Cleveland’'s displeasure was denled at the time by Secretary La- mont, who said that neither himself nor the president has any fault to find with the character of the general. CHANGE A T JEFFERSON DARRACKS, Colonel White- All Around. ST, Sept. 20.—The anuouncement that Lieutenant Colonel Samuel M. Whiteside, U. 8. A., commandant at Jefferson barracks, has been summarily deposed by Sec- retary of War Lamont, and Lteutenant Col- el Guy V. Henry ordered there from New Mexico to take echarge of the post caused much surprise in army circles here. Nothing was positively known as to the cause of the chan Colonel Whiteside, speaking of the matter, sald: I am entirely ut a loss to understand what it means. It is positively without precedent e the war. 1 am a lieutenant colonel, and o Is Colonel flenry. He is my senlor offi- cer, however, and so his tiausfer here means that hie will take command.. What 1 will do 1 have no idea, I have recelved no orders to move, and I don't kuow that the depart- ment will want two lieutenant colonels at this one post. T have my own opinion as to why 1t ‘was done, but I am not at lberty 0 discuss the matter just Row. Jefferson barracks Is considered ic be the fling the charges. i eise no eisrges are most desizable cuvalry post iu the army. ~ THE OMAHA DAILY BEH: MONDAY, The offcers stationed there also have thelr preference as to who they would like to com- mand them., When they heard last October that Lieutenant Colonel Purinton was to be retired, they wrote to Lieutenant Colonel Henry, asking him how he would like to get the place, and, Colonel Henry expressing no objection, they began to “‘talk him up." When Purinton was retired in July, how- ever, the War department, Instead of select- ing Colonel Henry, who 18 No, 4 on the list of lientenant colonels, or either of his three seniors, to command this post, chose Lieutenant Colonel Whiteside, who was tenth and last on the list, havingjust been promoted from major. Since then, the officers say, there has not been any revival of the talk in Colonel Henry's favor, but his recent appointment would seem to indicate that there has. This theory Is strengthened by the fact that Colonei Henry has been In Washington the past few days. Others clalm that General Miles caused the change. General Miles is known to be an ardent admirer of Colonel Henry, and it is also reported that he s not friendly to Colonel Whiteside. Those who claim to know tell a story that in the Wounded Knee campaign General Forsythe sent Colonel (then Major) Whiteside to capture Big Foot the Sloux Indian chief. Major Whiteside got Big Foot all right, but in moving his camp up a certain river left Big Foot behind, on his promise to stay there till morning. Next morning Big Foot was back in the camp of the hostiles. General Miles preferred charges against Colonel Whiteside at the time, and he was tried by a court-martial. Some pro- fess to belleve that this is responsible for the change. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Secretary Lamont said today In reference to the detail of Lieutenant Colonel Guy Henry as com- mandant at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., which was the subject of criticlsm, inas: much as Lieutenant Colonel Whitesides, sta- tioned at Jefferson Barracks, ranks him, that the nn‘)"flmml*nk of Colonel Henry was made on the recommendation of General Schofield. The recommendation of the gen- eral of the army says he 1s well informed in matters of detall. It implies no reflec- tlon on Colonel Whitesides. o i HONOR FOR A NE 0. ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 20.—To the Rditor of The Bee: A splendid audience rewarded the oratorical efforts which preceded the formal opening of the great cotton exposition and strangely enovgh the best speech was made by a negro. Mrs. Clara Thompson of the board of lady managers was complimentary to all who had contributed to the success of the undertaking. Hon. Mr. Speer was elab- orate and ornamental, but the negro was full of feeling and power, and the good hard sense and cloquence of his utterances aroused the thousands of his white listeners to enthus- tasm. The surprise to me was great, for I had noticed that the color line was very distinctly drawn. Colored people have their own place in raiiroad carriages, they do not ride on the strect cars. They have their own schools and teachers. In riding out to the grounds in the long and gay procession I was in com- pany with three directors of the exnosition, who were also members of the civic govern- ment. Conversation turned upon the differ- ences of sentiment and custom between the north and south, and in the course of it I ob- served: You have the negro problem to solve, and we _have to solve the problem of the —— Before 1 could finish the sentence one of them exclaimed: “No, indeed! We have solved that problem. The negro knows his place in this state. He understands that he is free to secure all the educational advan- tages he can, to compete for wealth, to sur- round himself with whatever he thinks may conduce to the happiness of his home, but when it comes to social life and office he must stop.” With these assertions in mind, as I sat in front of the platform, I was puzzled to reconcile them with the sight of a negro sharing the platform and the audience with Mrs. Thompson and the Hon. Mr. Speer and to hear the thunders of applause which greeted him as he made point after point in favor of his race. Any white orator might have felt proud to appear side by side with the beautiful lady manager and the cap- tivating ex-congressman. Yet that pleasure and distinction were given a negro, This was oxcluding the negro with a vengeance! What cared he at that hour that he could not ride In company with the ordinary crowd in the railway or street car, it he cculd stand with beauty, grace and oratory on that almost national platform, eclipsing all other speakers, swaying the immense audience by his mental power? No, the problem is not solved! Permission to grasp the levers of power, education and wealth will keep the problem unsolved, There is no middle ground between siavery and the limitless possibilities of freedom. Given education and you furnish the wings upon which, in spite of race, men will rise to become, poets, historians, orators, philosophers and leaders. Given the liberty to acquire wealth and the world will be at the feet of success. Of this this incident of the ex- position furnishes incontrovertible proof, The exhibit made by the colored people of this state is highly creditable to them, and ows that they were not intended to be mere casts of burden. They here prove them- Ives to be inventors, and in many of the departments of art able to use a delicacy of expression not to be surpassed. In passing through their display one is reminded that in the past those whose skill in painting and statuary furnish us with models, whose wit and wisdom supply modern speech with much of its pungency,cand whose philosophies were the parents cf present systems, wore the garb of degrafation and sat in the lowest places in the homes of the rich and powerful. JAMES MORRIS. Patents to Western In ntors, WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—(Special.)—Pat- ents have been issued as follows: Nebraska- Peter Heintz, Grand Island, subsoil plow; Ed- ward Hoover, Nemaha City, animal trap. lowa—James 'W. Conchar, Dubuque, door hanger; Willlam P. Dunlap, Maquoketa, com- bined wire stretcher and carriage; Henry M. Hoadley, Van Wert, horseshoe nail cutter and clincher; William and R. B. Lauden, Fairfield, hay carrier track; Walter R. Thatcher, Oskaloosa, combined ice cream freezer and churn; William Vosburgh, as- signor one halt to M. M. TFerguson, Des Moines, automatic stock watering trough. i Robhed by a Lewd Woman, Tom Saunders, a single young man, 25 years of age, came from Ellis county, Texas, to Omaha for the purpose of seeing the sights of a great city. Last night he wan- dered into a house of bad repute on Capitol avenue, near Ninth street, and before he had been there long was robbed of over $25. Gladys Busch, the proprietor, and nine other women were ‘arrested upon the charge of lirceny, while Saunders was held for a complaining witness . R e PERSO PARAGRA Mr. J. W. Ellis, Chicago, is stopping at the Barker. Mr. John Moran, Baltimore, Md. ping at the Barker. C. K. Coutant and wife have gone to Chi- cago to spend a week. Mr. John Walsh, Helena, Sunday guest at the Barker. Mr. Al H. Clements and Mr. Stuart Barnes are Chicago arrivals at the Barker. Judge Dundy went to Hot Springs, S. D., yesterday to meet his wife. He will re- main there for some time. J. §. Casement, the contractor who built the roadbed of the Union Pacific, is registered at the Paxton from Painesville, O. Peter Rice of the *Cotton King" com- pany Is at the Merchants. Edward Morris and wife of the same company are also there. Edward R. Mawson and wife, Miss Rose Beaudet, Edward Knott and wife, Milton Lip- man, Sidney Wilmers, Edward J. Heron and Charles H. Waldron and wife are New York arrivals at the Barker. W. E. Stewart of South Haven, Mich., ac- companied by his wife, was In the city yes- terday. Mr, and Mrs. Stewart were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Swobe. Mr. Stewart and Mr. Swobe were captains in the Twelfth Michigan infantry during the re- bellion and were ald army comrades. Since 1868 Mr. Stewart has been the editor and publisher of the Sentinel at South Haven. He was in Omaha twenty years ago and yes- terdny he expressed much surprise at the growih ot the town, its clean streets and many fine bulldings. s stop- Mont., was a t the Hotels, the Merchants—J. B. Welsh, ‘I:l ‘C. McGlillip, Seward; air, At the Arcade-Joseph Walther, B. C. Matloch, A. A. Klumb. Aurora; W. O Gleland,” ¥remoit; W. E. Barber, Centrai v. At Peru; James Ware, i three years after going to Tennessee. cos weoy | THEY WERENERVY OLD SPORTS Some Heavy Wagers Laid by Southern Gentléinen in Antebellum Days. TRUE BLUFS''WITH LOTS OF STUFF the Favorite Oc- capation and Everything Went— 01d Hickory with His Tennessee Blood Up—Trapping a Sharper. “You youngaters perhaps think you do as- tonishing things in the way of sport,” a vet- eran sald to a New York Sun man, ““but take my word for it there were men back in the '20s and '30s and '40s ‘that wouldn't turn a halr over laying wagers that would stagger the nerviest of present day plungers, They had true-blue sporting blood, those old fel- lows, and could no more help betting than they could help drinking good whisky. Why, there was my father's father, he lost at a single sitting every foot of land he owned, and it was nearly half a Carolina county. He lost the bulk of his negroes, fifty odd, 1 think. T know he took only ten with him when he moved across the mountains into what was then the western country, and is now Kentucky, Tennessee and Mississippl. Ot course he might have got out of It It he had been cur enough to plead the gam- bling act, and equally, of course, he did no such thing. “Instead he gathered together what re- mained and set to work with as good a will as he played. Not so one of his friends and boon companions. At 21 this man came into the handsomest fortune in the county—G5,000 acres of the rich Roanoke river bottom lands, stock and negroes to work it, and $50,000 snugly at interest. Yet before he was 30 the money was gone and he had borrowed and gambled away so much more that a sherift s0ld at one time over 200 slaves and his life interest in the land, which was entailed. What the sum of his debt was I don't know, but $70,000 had been lost In one night of the Richmond race week. He had begun by win- ning every race that day and had pushed luck until she had turned and rent him. He had been drinking, so had not wit enough to stop when he began to lose. It went on until he had $10,000 on a single hand, and when he lost that there was no stopping him while he had a dollar. When he at last got up from the table he staggered a bit and never after- ward seemcd the same man. He sat ap- athetically about, now in this friend’s house, now in that, and though he lived to fifty-odd he never did a stroke of work or seemed to realize that he had a iman's place in the world. GREAT ODDS WAGERED.. “He and my grandfather were types of a class that spread &1l over the old slave-hold- ing states. Naturally, racing flourisned, and you czn judge for yourself if betting was not lively when owners made matches at $20,000 a side. Colonal Singleton of South Carolina_and William R. Johnson of Vir- ginia did that more than once. Singleton's entry was Clara Fisher, and he thought noth- ing on four hoofs had' leave to beat her at four miles. Johnson had much the same opinion_of hig Larse, Bonnets o' Blue, and when the mare beat him it was by such an eyelash that hie never rested till the match was made over again, and in the last race Bonnets o' Biue came about as much ahead. Then the two owners went at each other :gain about other horses and got up matches to their heart’s content. Johnson took every bet any man,offered if the odds were 100 to 1. ‘A mighty good bet, even if I lose it,' he said of such things. Ope day upon a race course there were byt two entries for a race—a saucy, blood-like bay mare and a big, lum- bering browa , gelding that had a turn of speed and plgpiy of stay. But ncbody wanted him at any price,, It was merely a_two mile race, only a,dash for those days. The horse was clearly putclassed from the start. Still he hung on,,and, there was some derisive speculation 4 to by what margin he would save his dl‘;;nre, As the pair of racers swung. for the,secohd mile some one in the crowd ghouted: “‘A hundred to 1 on the mare—200 to 1! Will anybody take even 3007" “ take you,' Johnson said, elbowing his way to the other. Before the money had been covered there was a wild, dismayed shout. The mare, going strong and free, had struck the particular spot in the course from which a small tree had been cut years before. The stump had decayed, and as her foot broke through into the hollow she plunged forward, Lreaking her neck, and leaving the ungainly gelding to gallop home at his leisure. “Did you ever hear of Quartermaster’s race, which Andrew Jackson called off becanse he knew the horse was to be run to lose? The race was to come off over the old Clover Bottom course, some miles out of Nashville, und not so far from the Hermitage. Quarter- master was the hottest sort of favorite. The whole state, it seemed, was wild to back him. Men put up stock, negroes, land, houses, promissory notes, anything, indeed, that had a market value, besides every bit of ready cash they could by any means lay their hands on. When the day came there was a big place in the middle of the track, full of all sorts of goods and chattels, animate and in- anim; ANDREW JACKSON'S BETS. “0ld Hickory was a true-blue sport. There were many such in Tennessee then as well as now. The state has blue grass even more luxuriant than the famous Kentucky growth, and early settlers brought to it plenty of the best Virginia racing strains. They brought, too, a mighty strict sense of turf honor. Almost at the start their jockey club blackballed old Henry Clay—not the statesman, but the Virginia turfman of that nome—for shipping in a famous four-miler as an untried mountain colt, and winning about all the money on the track that day. But that is a mere side light on what Old Hickory did. With the rest he had most likely put his money on Quartermaster, and expected at least a soul-stirring run for it. But the morning of the race word came to him secretly that the favorite had been sen grazing for two hours in a wkeat fleld the night before. He had horse sen: enough to know that no racer could go four miles full of green, sweet, watery stuff, and you may be sure was in a great rage over the trick. ““He had neither time nor inclination for complaints, investigations and things; he had to act at once or see his fellow citizens beggared by a low device. He did act. Sit- ing stiff and straight in the saddle, a pistol in each hand and other pistols Iin his hol- sters, he rode up and down the throng, curs- ing and crying out that there must, there should be, no race. In vain the tricksters rallied their mob of roughs, in vain they hooted, threatened, shouted that Jackson had gone suddenly crazy. He carried his point. There wad no race that day, and be- fore another caihe the ringsters had thought better of it and ruh away. Traditions vary as to Quartermaster. One has it that the horse was found déad in his stall; another that he went off! with the cheaters, who had tricked his ownérs no less than his backers, and afterward won'piles of money for them under another name. “In the settlement of the south the ex- tremes of soclaty bore about equal part. The poor whites went because it was and their nature to be forever moving. The rich planters went becadse their slaves and chil- dren were outgrowing the capacity of the seaboard states, and they craved the ex- pansion of a rich virgin wilderness. A very old man whom J knew in my youth often told me he did inot;see a dollar In cash 3)1' n the other hand I have known men to ride over the Blue Ridge into the new land of promise with np less than $10,000 in their wallets and money belts. They went out to the land sales which followed upon the gov- ernment surveys and traveled usually in com. panies of five or seven, rarely more, as it w not easy for larger parties to find accommo- dations along the way. Often they camped out, and then be ture there was some tall betting around the camp fires. Seven-up was a favorite game, 80 was loo, also the French game vingt-et-un, which they called vantoon, I1uy a young sprig who set out to invest his patrimony in western lands concluded before the journey was half through that h2 had better go back to Caro- lina or Virginia. Oftener, though, the play- ers and luck were 80 equally matched that Il got to thelr journey’s end not much the worse for the roadside playing and able to count the diversion of it a pure and unmixed delight. “Naturally, when they were established citizens and men of means, they were not slow to risk their money in delicious hazard. Time ambled withal with them except in I SEPTEMBER 30, 1895. tholr yearly or half-yearly trips to the city when the crops had been sold and there was money for both pockets. The world has never seen wilder, nor, In the main, bon- ester wagers than were made on the west ern steamboats in the first twenty-five years after they began to run. That was thelr heyday, Competing rallways there were none, and the few stage lines across country served merely as feeders to them. There is A touch of grim tragedy In the story of one river gambler, He was well born and well bred, but a shooting scrape at college sent him away from home. He went to Missis- sippl, where his father had established a plantation, but the country qulet did not suit him. He rode away to Port Gibson, then a big gambling center, and in six months he was noted, among its profes- sionals even, for his nerve and his phenom- enal luck. But fast as he made thousands, he spent them still faster. He certainly burned life's candle at both ends. He was never still. On shore he would ride or hunt or dance all day, then drink and gamble all night. While his luck lasted he had heaps of friends. Gamblers do have friends when they are square, as he was from first to last. But by and by chance turned her back on him. He lost as steadily as he had won. Quick consumption set in, too, and in six weeks he was at death's door. One of the river men with whom he had traveled a hun- dred times, finding that he was penniless, got a doctor who was going up the river to ke him as far as Paducah, then a tiny village at the mouth of the Tennessee river. The captain had a friend there, to whose care he consigned the sick man. A dying man he was when they came to put him on land. The doctor said to those who came to recelve him ‘‘ ‘Here Is money to bury him; he will be dead in three hours.’ ‘“‘Bet you fifty to a hundred I live till tomotrow morning,’ the sick gambler said. They were his last words, but he won the bet. The sun had risen next day before his scant breathing ceased. When his friend, the captain, heard of it, he said: ‘* ‘That was like poor Chariey. He just lived by force of will so he might win enough to bury himself.” “Though there were many gamblers who played fairly, there were also plenty of the other sort. Two famous among the crooked ones were old Dr. Bennatt and Tom Suckett. The doctor looked a heap more like a bishop than a sport. He always dressed in black, and never by any chance wora more jewelry than a dark s:al ring on the little finger. His conversation, too, had a clerical tinge, he even quoted scripture now and then. That was before he had more than one bottle of wine. The second made him a witty cynic, the third a vulgar and blasphemous brawler. He knew that as well as anybody, and didn’t go beyond one bottle more than once a month, A SHARPER TRAPPED. “‘Suckett was as unlike him as possible in every way except in unscrupulous shrewd- ness. The two were great friends, and liked nothing better than to play with each other. Suckett wore gaudy clothes and rings on both hands, besides a blazing solitaire breastpin and a’watch, whose heavy gold fob held @ bun h of seals as big as the fist. He never went anywhere without his valet, a smart negro, who could play any game nearly as well as his master. It was whispered, in- deed, that Suckett often played with him in private, practicing the tricks of sleight and palming he had devised to beat other players. He had, among other things, a coat with a spring pocket In the sleeve, whence he could slip cards as the exigencies of his hand required. “Dr. Bennett found that out, and got him- self as pring table—that is, one with a secret drawer just under his hand, which was opened or closed by a spring underneath, to be worked by the player's knee. After a weeck or s0 he begged Suckett to come up one night for & game of brag, in which both were thrice expert. Suckett came, with his darky at his heels, as usual. Soon the two gam- blers were playing for dear life. It was truly Greek against Greek. The valet, lying on the floor a little way off, caught the steal- thy motion of Bennett's knee, and divined the reason of it. The stakes were by this time in the hundreds. He dropped down on the floor and muttered sleepily: “‘Marster! 1 see som'p'n.’ ‘Listen at that rascal! He's fast asleep and dreaming,’ Suckett said, complacently, holding his hand up a little closer to his breast. ‘Shut up there! I'll break your head if we hear any more from you.' “The darky grunted more sleepily ever and lay keoping close watch through almost shut eyelids. After a while, when the stakes were still higher, he called, this time in joy: ““‘Marster! I see som'p'n else! 8o do 1! Suckett said, laying down ‘two bullets and a bragger.'" ‘What have you got, doctor? Does that take the pot? ‘“ ‘It would, only we have both got .a queen than of spades. Hadn't we better divide? Dr, Bennett said urbanely. “The darky got up very wide awake, “‘Us better had go home, marster!’ he said, ‘an’ you two gentemens better had go and ‘play som'p'n else on yother folks dan yo own sefs. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND. “The two men laughed and separated, but each vowed secretly to best the other. A month later Suckett came at his adversary with a false die, one with six on each face. He bantered the doctor to play with him at $100 the throw, sixes against aces, and the doctor accepted. The doctor had his own dice, perfectly turstworthy, and the game was begun with them; but It was the easlest thing In the world for Suckett to slip in his little joker at about the third or fourth cast. He had lost twice in the initial three; now his winning was phenomenal. But his ad- versary was game and did not flinch- until $3,000 had changed hands. Three thousand more might have gone the same way had not a bystander cried out that one of the dice had six on three sides of it. At once Suckett sprang up with a great show of in- dignation. T did not think you would do it, doctor,’ he said, reproachfully. “Bennett had taken in the situation. The dice were supposedly his; a false one would be laid to his discredit. He got up and pat- ted Suckett on the back, saying: ““Tommy, my son, be quiet! How much is it I owe you? Here's your money—take it with my blessing—but leave me that nice little contrivance.’ ‘“Then he pocketed the dice and sauntered off. Next day he was missing, nor did he come back for a month. His headquarters were Port Gibson. When at last he reap- peared it was to tell Suckett with a beaming smile how he had slipped over to Mobile found a rich cotton planter there who had just sold his crop, and won from him by means of that bit of ivory a cool §5,000 in less than three hours.” Advice Concerning Jewels, Do not wear thumb rings on your collar- bone. They might fall off. 1t your ear is shaped like an oyster put a pearl in it—the effect Is startling. Don't use sapphires in a tiara—be sensible and put them on the coal scuttle. It you would win a husband do not give preclous stones to the poor. He will want them all himself. Do not wear your diamond collar button when you are (rying to borrow $2. When wearing diamonds you should touch for $10 at_least. Never decline a gift of an opal for fear of the il luck it will bring. Accept and sell the opal and rejolce at having fooled fate once in your life at any rate. At Christmas time remember that a rhine- stone in a case branded “Biffany™ is more acceptable than a gem of purest ray serene in a box marked “Smith." 1t your jewels look a trifle old and decrepit say that you bought them from Marie Antoin ette the last time you were in Paris. Even it your friends do not believe you they will know that you have traveled. o A Mountain of Rock Salt. One of the greatest natural wonders in the United States is a solid mountain of rock salt, which is situated on an island in & sea marsh in southern Loulsiana, It lies near the River Teche, on the route lead. ing from Brashear to New Iberia, and fs sald to be the most gigantic mass of exposed rock salt known to exist. The Salt peak is about 185 feet in height, and mining en- gineers who have recently visited It say that there is not less than 90,000,000 tons of the pure saline crystal in sight e Field Glves Up Yachting. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—C. J. Field, owner of the half-rater Ethelwynn, which wou the champlonship, has advertised his boat for sale and will glve up yachting, After the scare Field received Thursday last he has stated that he will not sail his boat over the course again for all the cups in the world, and that he had enough yachting to last him as long as he lived. SPOILING FOR A FIGHT Fitssimmons Deolares He Will Meet Cor- bett Anywhere on Earth, PREPARED TO CLAIM HIS FORFEIT Denounces B Crookedness Connection with Selecting and “Flx- Ing"” the Referce. Hin Alleged SAN ANTONIO, Tex slmmons and par Sept. 20.—Bob Fitz- ed in San Antonlo today, Fitzsimmons was In a mood for talking, and in response to a question as to whether or not he would be willing to meet Corbett outside of Dallas in case the fight cannot be pulled off in Dallas, Fitasimmons replied: “The articles of agreement call for my fight with Corbett to take place a. Dallas, and if the fight cannot be held 1 will cer- tainly claim my $2,500 forfelt from the Florida Athietic club. If T get the forfeit I don't know where I will fight Corbett It can take place In Mexico, Indian terri- tory or Coney Island, any place possible, so I can get a chance at Corbett. “I must say right here 1 do not like the way Brady is figuring in the affairs of the Florlda Athletic club. In regard to pick- ing a referee, he wishes me to name my referee before October 81, so he can fix him; that fs certainly his object, but I will'not pick the referee before the day of the fight. Brady says if T do not pick a referee very quick he will substitute Peter Maher for Corbett. I know from an Inside source that Brady has an interest In the Florida Athletic club. If any one says he has not I will bet them $500 that he has and prove it. T think Stuart is an upright man, but 1 can put don't like Vendig, down.” ASBURY PARK, N. J was Champion J. J, Corl « las ing day here prior to his fieht at Dailas, Tex. He started in on his work immediately after breakfast and continued until 1:30, put- ting In some heavy work. His exercise cor gisted of bag punching, hand ball, in whic he was defeated by his brother, two gam to one, wrestling and sparring. Corbett says he is fit to fight any day now, and declares that he s confilent of victory. Corbett and Brady, with McVey, Donaldson, O'Donnell and Joé Corbett, leave here to: morrow morning for New York, where the champlon will give a serles of exhibi- tions. Thence they will ko to_the Atlanta exposition, and from there to San Antonio, Tex., with a brief stop at N AUSTIN, Sept. 29.—Ex-Governor I Roberts has written Governor Cuib commendirg his action in calling the and you that lature. He had ve doubts, howeve about the legislature passing a law with the requisite two-thirds vote to give it immediate effect. Inquiries sent to’ mem- bers, however, Indicate that a law to take immediate ‘effect making prize fighting a felony will go through by an_ overwhelm- ing_majority. It Is claimed, however, by those favoriiig the fight, fhat Governor Culberson should have called the legislature immediately after Judge Hurt's opinion, and before the fight management expended thou- sands of dollars on the bullding. He waited, however, nearly three weeks, during which time it {s asserted many thousands of dol- lars have been pald out making prepara- tions for the fight, and to prevent it now will cause a serious los to innocent parties and be an act of injustice. Several mem- bers of the legislature are known to enter- taln this vlew, and it may be they can muster force enough to prevent a two- thirds majority. Eleven senators can de- feat the émerge clause, and it is well known that the senate and the governor were not on good terms at the adjournment of the legislature last winter. CHICAGO, Sept. %8.—In reply to a query as to the truth of the report that it has been declded to change the date of the Corbett- Fitzsimmons fight to October 7 or 10 Dan Stuart wires the Associated press from Dallas that the report Is news to him and that no change fn'the date has been pro- posed. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 20.—Governor Clark has received the following telegram from Governor Culberson of Texas: “Is prize fighting a misdemeanor or a felony in Arkansas?’ The governor replied: “It is a_misdemeanor,” citing the statutes which impose a fine of mot less than $1.000, nor more than $2,500. Under thé law it would be cheaper to have the fight in Arkansas, as the maximum fines could not exceed a fe thousand dollars. Governor Clark, how ever, has heretofore expressed him- self ' in no ~uncertain terms on the question, and if it comes to a test he will be found as firm as the man who pre- sides ‘over the neighboring commonwealth, CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—The Tribune wili tomorrow publish ‘inierviews with a num- ber of Texas senators and representati giving their positions regarding the pas of a law with an emergency clause to p vent the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight, They are without exception favorable to the law and the senators and representative de- clare in no uncertain terms that they will stand by the governor. It ie said the list includes several who have all along been counted as among the friends of the pro- moters of the mill. NATIONAL LEAGUE cngo Makew Sure of Fourth Place by Beating Cincin CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—The Colts closed their season today, giving the Reds a se- vere drubbing and securing fourth place in the league race. Terry pltched a-splendid game and was well supported. Parrott also did good work in the box, but his team went all to pleces in the field. Lange's fielding, batting and base running, Burke's four catches and Vaughn's batting were the features. Weather cloudy and cold. At- tendance, 2,000. Scor Chicago . (A0S VELAL rEa iy 9 Cineinnati 00000001 0-1 Hits: Chicago, 13; Cincinnati 9. Errors: Chicago, 1; Cincinnatl, 5. Farned runs: Chicago, 2;' Cineinnati, 1. Three-base hits: Terry, Hoy. Stolen bases: Everett (2), Anson, Lange. Double play: Burke to Smith, Struck out: By Terry, 1; by Par- rott, 3. Passed ball: Donohue. ' Base on balls: Off Terry, 2: off Parrott, 2. Bat- teries: Terry and Donohue; Parroft and Vaughn min- utes. - Umpire SPIDERS LOUISVILIL Time: One hour and forty O'Day. LOSE THE LAST. —The season closed here today. I m badly defeated the Clevelands. The Spiders played well until the sixth inning, when Knell and O'Meara were substituied for Cuppy and Connor, Tebeau's team then gave the game to Louisville by listless playing. The bat- ting of Holmes, Clark and Burkett was the feature. Darkness stopped the game during the first half the ninth. Attendance, 3,000. Score: .00121711-13 Loulsville Cleveland .2010010 4-8 Hits: Loul Cleveland, 14. Errors Louisville, veland, 4. Earned runs: Louisville, 9. Bases on balls: Off Mc Creary, Struck out: By Mec by Cuppy, 1. Home runs: Holm, tt, Clarke, Three-base hit: Two-base hits: Childs, McGart hit: McCreary. Stolen bases McCormick, Frost, Minnehan, M Double. McCreary to Frost. atteries: M ary and Sples; Cuppy Knell, ('Connor and O'Meara. Umpire McDonald. Time: Two hours and eighteen minutes. Baltimore Cleveland Philadel Chicagc Hoston Brooklyn Pittshurg Cineinnati New York Washington 85 St. Loufs 9 Louisvilie Wi 7 Halti- adel- Games today (last of the season) more at New York; Brooklyn at I phia; Boston at Washington. Kunsas City to Have More Run KANSAS CITY, Sept. 20.—A thirty racing meeting wiil be Inaugurated here October 2, under the auspices of the Kan- sas City “Jockey club.~ Alre 160 horses, most of them from the Council Bluffs track, are here, and the list will b 1 to 500, B, C. Bird “of 8t Louls re with Roy, ‘Schuylkill and Southernest, while M. L. “Connolly has a_string, including King Mack, Frankie B, Simile and Liborty Bell Randolph Wins from Hartington. RANDOLPH, Neb, Sept. 20.—(Special.) Hartingten's “third” nine came down esterday and played the “third” nine here. 1'p to the fourth inning the score was 4 105 In favor of the visitors, but the boys fell 10 pleces und at the end of the ninth the score was 9 to 17 in favor of Randolph. Valleys Win the Rubber MISSOURI VALLEY, Sepl. 20.--(Spe- olal Telegram.)--Missourl Valley and Logan ball teams played here today. Score, 22 to 2'in favor of the Valley. This Ix the second OF THE CITIZENS' County Convention to Be nesdny—The Representation, In pursuance of a resolution -dnpug by tho general committee of the Central ‘club of the Citizens' League, & convention of delegates 1s hereby called to meet at Wash- fngton hall, Wednesday, October 2, 1805, at 2 o'clock p. m., for the purpose of placing in nomination candidates for the following named official positions, to be elected No- vember b, 1895: Seven (1) judges for the district court of the Fourth (4th) Judiclal district of the stute of Nebraska. One clerk of the district court, One county treasurer. One county clerk. One sheriff. One county judge. One coroner, One superintendent of public instruction One county surveyor. One county commissioner from the Second commissioner district, One county commissioner from the Fourth mmissioner district Two (2) members of the house of repre- sentatives, to fill vacancies. Six (6) justices of the peace. 8Ix (6) constables, Representation to the foregoing convene tion is based as follow Al the general officers of the Central club of the Citizens' League, namely, one (1) president, five (5) vice presidents, one (1) sccretary, one (1) treasurer—total, 8 votes, All the officers and members of the gen- eral committee, consisting of one (1) chalr- man, one (1) seretary and thirty-five (35) members—37 votes, All the officers and members of the execu- tive committee, consisting of one (1) chalr- man, one (1) secrefary and nine () mem- bers ihereof—114 votes. The president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and three (3) members of the executive committes of each of the nine (9) ward league in the city of Omaha, each ward seven votes—total for city, 63 vote The president, vice president, secretary- urer and ten (10) members of the Ciil- * League of South Omaha—14 votes. Three (3) delegates from each of the coun- try precincts of the county of Douglas, out- side of Omaha and South Omaha—tofal $9 votes, No proxies will be admitted. A majority present of each section enumerated hereto- fora shall be authorized to fill all vacancies occurring therein. . TOR, Chairman, caLL ALLEN T. RE! ARTHUR KARBACH, Sept. Cambridge Athletic team will leave for New York tomorrow at p. m., after taking their last practice at Yale field in the morning. In New York thelr quarters will be at Berkley o e the Oval. They will visit Harva the games. T will visit Niagara y leave by steamer for Mg Cantillion, —(Special Tele- gram.)—Dubuque closed the ball season to- day, when they beat Cantillion's Western league club, enroute to the Pacific coast, two games, by scores of 15 to 11 and 7 to 4. Cantillion's s not yet completed. Scrofula, éalt Rheum And All Other Blood Discases—How They May Be Cured. 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Mgrs. e TONIGHT AT 8§:15. defent for Logan by the Valley in a serics of three games. Peorin Wine One. PEORIA, Bept. .—Exhibition game: FPeorla, 10 Indlanapolis, & Bverybody Is golng to see W. A. BRADY'S PRODIGIOUS PRODUCTION «..The .., Cotton VANE. Kin Matitice Wednesday—Usual Prices. Coming October 4-6, Charles B. Callapan's great scenie production, “COON HOLLOW." BOYD’S o Monday And Tomorrow (Tuesday) Night. A Stage Full of Feminine Beauty. SUN T, JACK'S BRiemyapstis Sompai, In the Gorgeous, Captivating Burlesque, the “Bull Fighter.” 6 Specialty Acts 6 3 Ballets 3 A DBRILLIANT BEWILDERMENT OF BLISS. It you stay away you'll kick yourself. Seat sale now open at the following prices: st floor, G A $1.00; balcony, e und e; gallery, 2 s at 60c each. Bovn’éo wo Nlfifl—t; Only, Welnesday and T_hursday, Oct, 2 and § Direct from an absolute conquest of New York and the Pacific coast, THE IRRESISTIBLE COMEDY, T00 MUCH JOMNSON With WM. GILLETTE aud all of the Orlginal Company. Management of CHARLES FROHMAN. Prices—First floor, 76c, $1.00 and $1.60; balcony, 60c_and 76¢; gallery, 26c. of ats opens Tuesday morning, October 1. - Wirth's Music Ha'l, Cor. 10th and Harney. THE DAMM FAMILY LADIES' ORCHESTRA, Every Evening from § to 12 Ma! Afouduy, Tnursd, from 3 to & Sololsts on Violla and Cornet. Come and hear the finest lady wusicians ta the country. and Saturday, WILD WEST SHOW At University Purk, 20th and Miami, TONIGHT AT 8.00. Marvelous Feate in Riding Untamed Bronchos Admission 35 and 00 Cenmts. Rt 0% AP AFCES SUEW TSNL I 7 04