Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 3, 1900, Page 5

THE LY BEE: MONDAY, [\ NP U TNV T VI YRV VI Y RVTVINTVRRRVINYPRVIVYY Don’t You Think B s —— LINCOLY LOOKS FOR A ¥AYOR OMAHA DAI DECEMBER 3, 1900. MINING I THE BLACK HILLS AFTER LOAVES AND FISHES Republicans of South Dakota Move on v.h-i Pie Counter En Masse. patients suffering slightly from a con- [ taglous eruptive disease which simulates smallpox in some degree, but in our opinion the symptoms are not characteristic of this disease. At the present time we do not belleve it dangerous to life and it is not of 50 serlous a nature as to confine mamy patients to their rooms. Yet on account of its contagious nature and a possibility of a one of the South Dakota delegates to the republican national convention at Phila- delphia, is making an ageressive fight for appointment to the position of state oil tnspector, NS Begine Early to Bpeculate on Probable Buccessor to Winnett, ndred tor MoRride, MITCHELL, 8. D., Dec. 2.—(Special Tel- egram.)—The jury in the case of Robert Grants Admits That He is About to fell His Hidden Fortune, Seven INCUMBENT LIKELY TO RUN HIMSELF Has Made No Annonncement, bat the LINCOLN, Deec. 2.—(8pecial.)—Republi- cans in this city are beginning to wonder Who will be the next mayor of Lineoln. Dr. H. J. Winuett is now serving his first term @8 the chief executive officer of tho oity and although he has not yet declared hs Intention of becoming a candidate for r.- election it s generally believed that he wi'l enter the fleld with a powerful followins as Boon as the spring compalgn opens. A nom- ination in the next municipal campelgn will be equivalent to election and therefore if there Is any fight for the mayoralty it will be at the primaries. Councilman W. H. Woodward and ex-City Clerk Bowen are belng mentioned as probable candidaten. The ontire situation, however, depends upon Whether or not Mayor Winnett will s ek fe-election, He was elected to his first term by an overwhelming majority and as yet no particular opposition has developed against him for a second term. Because of the fallure of the officlals of the two rallroads to agree on plans It 1s probable that work on the proposed joint freight depot of the Missouri Pacific and the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley railronds. will' not be started until next spring. 1t s sald that the building will cost upwards of $35,000 and will equal in #ize the largest freight depot In the city.| It will be coustructed on the site of the old joint passenger depot at Eighth and 8 streets. ‘The new bullding will be a valu- | able addition to the rallroad facilities of the city. The two railroads receive an average of thirty-five carloads of Lincoln freight every day, a third of which is ban dled through a small shed not over forty- five fect long and half as wide. The expense | of building the depot will be borne equully | by the two rallroads, but the work of con- struction will be entirely under the super- vision of the Fremont, Elkhorn & Missourl Valley road. Governor Poynter departed for Demver this morning, expecting to be gone about oue week. Heo will visit Cripple Creek be- fore returning to Lincoln. Lieutenant Gov- ernor Gilbert will preside in the executive department until CQovernor FPoynter re- turns, ‘The Lincoln Young Men's Republicaa club will meet In the Lindell hotel Wedinesday evening to elect officers and appoint com- mittees, This 18 the largest and oldest political organization In the city. Pursuant to the order of the district court City Treasurer Aitken has transferred all unexpected money collected under the oc- cupation tax ordinance from the police fund to the school fund. The court recently held that this ordinance wi unconstitutional and directed the treasurer to return all money collected back to the school fund. ‘The various railroads leading Into Lin- | coln have decided to extend the return limit of tickets purchased by delegates to the Btate Teachers' association meeting to De- cember 31, or three days after the meeting adfourns. The assoclation will be in ses sion December 26, 27 and 28. The general mbly meetings will be held in the Audi- Gant, the colored mam who as- . saulted Martin D, Howe during the Grand Army revnion, yesterday pleaded gullty be- fore Judge Frost In the district court and was sentenced to thirty days in jail. Ganr, narrowly escaped iyaching at the time « the mult. A crowd of infurlated citizen gathered about him, but were prevente from banging him by the united efforts o nearly the entire Lincoln police force and a score of colored men who were om guard. The injury inflicted ir the assrult was serlous and for a time Howe was not ex- pected to live. Prisoners Held for T YORK, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Spectal.)— the five men who were arrested at McCool and have been confined i county jail here | for the last month were held for trial in the district court, charged with carrylng concealed weapons and burglar tools, Thes are the parties who are suspected of com- plicity in the attempted robbing of the Blue River bank at McCool, which oc- curred about forty days ago. It 1s believed | that they obtained Information that the bank had not purchased a new safe, but was using the broken safe, whose money chest was yet good, and that it would be an easy matter to finlsh cracking the safe. In the box car in which they stayed at M- Cool were found skeleton keys, and on thelr persons when searched were found flne steel saws sewed in the lining of their clothing. Burlington Detective Franklin of Lincoln came here four or five days after thelr arrest and identified them, and thinking that they had not been searched thoroughly had them searched again, and to the surprise of Sherift Lancaster and the jailer one of the prisoners had a large revolver under his arm, held there by a cord tled around neck and shoulder and the other prisoner had a larger revolver on the inside of his pant leg, suspended by & cord tied around his waist. New Beet Contract. GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Specfal.) ~—The beet raisers of this viclnity are quite atlsfied, If not enthuslastic, over the new contract under which they will ralse beets next season. The contracts are now in the Rhands of tho agents and are being called for freely. It is expected that there will b frem 4,000 to 5,000 acres of beets for the local factory nmext fall and if this resuit doew obtain there i3 some promise that the factory in this vicinity will be enlarged by the addition of the Steffens process. Mr Robert Oxuard, not long since, stated that such addition would be made if the cultiva- tion of beets in the vicluity would be su a8 to promise a permanent and uminter- rupted operation of the factory in the suc- cessive seasons. “Cuban Iteh" at Grand lsland, GRAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 2, (Special.) —A8 & result of & meeting of the physicians of the city in conjunction with the Hoard of Health thg physiclans visited the Occl- dental hotel, a $1-a-day house in this city and examined the cases of what s com- mouly termed an itch. The physicians, or rather ten of them, over their signatures reported (o the mayor “that we find the All coughs are bad ; and s0 are all cough syrups. With the former you can cough your- self right into bronchitis of con- sumption ; and with the latter you upset your stomach and do no good. ~For 60 years Ayer's Cherry Pectonal bas beea the one household remedy for colds and coughs of all kinds, i o St houping ‘:. i lfl& aost ‘s00 | Chattel more serious condition developing in the future we recommend a careful isolation of all cases that may hereafter be discovered But we do not bell tine to be necessary. a minority report to the effect dlgease 18 simply the chickenpox. that OXLEY IN JAIL FOR MURDER Sherlf Armstrong Reaches Brokem Bow with the Prisoner Taken At Loulsville, BROKEN BOW, Telegram. ) —Sheriff Neb., Dee. Armstrong (Special returncd | this morning with William Oxley, the sup- posed murdcrer of Rauchman W. M. Fuil hart, who was found dead northwest of Anselmo n week ago Saturday. He found him at Loulsville, Neb, yesterday evening and placed him in irons and arrived here with him on the 4 o'clock train this morn- ing. On teaving here 1 Wednesday morning the sheriff went to Arnold, where he learned that Oxley had been making his homo through tho summer with David Parks, of whose daughter ho was enamored. Oxley had borrowed a horse of Parks, which had beon returned at that time. Learning that Oxley had been &t Fullhart's place with the horse and that he had been seen going toward Gothenburg on horse- tack the sherifft proceeded to Gothenburg. He found that Oxley had secured a stock pass for Omaha and sent I'arks' horse homs by the mail arrier. Learning at Arnold that Oxloy had & brother and sister in the vicin- ity of Springfield, Neb., the sheriff, after | find:ng no clue of his man at South Omaha, proceeded to visit Springfiold. Finding no clue thgre be went to Loulsville and learaing that Oxley had been there he secured an «cquaintance of Oxley's, who rolnted out and enabled the sheriff to make the rrest. Oxley had $13 on his person, two pocketknives and a razor. It Is reported that Oxley sold four head of cattle to the T. L. V. ranch, sixteen miles southwest of Fullhart's place, the same week the murder 18 supposed o have been committed. Oxley had been on the ranches in that vicinity several years prior to six years ago. Since then nothing had been known of him until he returned last sprin There is & timber claim entry in the T. ranch, which Oxley took a number of g0 when he was an euploye on the ranch, but as the company for which he was werking at the time broke up, noth- Ing further was done wi'h the timber claim and it yet remains in his name. The ranch s now owned by Tierney Bros. of this place. Sherift Armstrong feels confldent he has the right man. Oxley claims his parents live in Red Willow county. He refuses to talk about the case, but says he koows nothing about the murder. Dead Engiucer to Riame. HOOPER, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Spectal.)--The track at the scene of the wrock east of here was cleared about 9 o'clock last night and passenger traln No. 3 arrived here a few minutes later. Sheriff Kreader came up from Fremont and held an inquest over the remains of Engineer Zuver, who was killed in the collision. The jury found that the cause of the wreck lay with the dead en- gineer, as he had orders in his pocket to mect the special freight train at Nickerson and the Elkhorn company was not held responsible for the collision. ! The fireman of the engine testified that he told the engineer to jump at the time he 414 so himrelf, but why he did not will never be kmown. He sald to the fireman #0on as he reached the engine after they had stopped to “Hurry up and get me out; I'm dying,” and in a few minutes ex- pired. The deceased was about 42 years old and at one time was admitted to the bar, but has been ‘on the road for about sixteen years. The body will be taken to Missour Valley for burial this afternoon. Kearney After Missourl Pacific, KEARNEY, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Speclal)— The Kearney Business Men's assoclation recently held a meeting and declded to offer inducements to the Missouri Pacific Railroad company to extend their stub line from Prosser. Neb, to this city. Prosser s only twenty-two miles southeast of Kearney and the stub line at this placo has been coveted for a long time by Interested Kearney par- tles. A route was staked out from Kearney to Prosser twelve years ago and recently a committee of the mssociation went over the proposed route and reported favorably to the association on the extension as pro- posed twelve yearn ago. F. G. Keens, real estate dealer of this city N. Brown, treasurer of the Kearney cotton mills, were authorized to visit the officers of the company at St. Louls and seo whether any inducements could be offored by citizens of this city for the extension of The commitiee will leave in a the line. short time. Divorced Couple Remarr! TABLE ROCK, Neb., Dec. 2 A rather extracrdinary wedding occurred here Friday night. Mrs. Maggle A. Cascl- ton, formerly of this place, who had left hor husband, Charles . Casclton of this place, about a year ago, and who has been in Texas for nearly a vear, where she pro- cured a divorce trom him some eight months ago, arrived here Thanksgiving eve. Tha next day (Friday) the deserted hushand procured a license and the same evening Justice M. H. Marble of this place was called om to pronounce the words which again united the husband and wife unty Mortgages. FREMONT, Neb., Dec. 2. The following is the mortgage Dodge county for the month ot November: mortgages filed, seventy-seven; $04,440.48; released, awmount, $40,430.64; farm mortgages re- corded, seven; amount, §11,998. released, nine; amount, $5,389; town and gages recorded, nine; amount, $ leased, nine amount, $5,887, Fewer re tate mortgy Dodge ¢ amount, the last thirteen years Rrovn Connty Stockmen, AINSWORTH, Nel Do, (Spectal Telegram.)--At Its last regular meeting Saturday tho Brown County Stock assocls ation held the annual election ard selocted the following officers for the ensuing year: President, J. J. Davis; vice president, John W. Shaner; secretary, James W. Burleigh; treasurer, J. M. Hanna, very strong assoclatfon and much Interest in its workings. Discharged for Not Contrihuting. KBARNEY, Neb, Dee. 2.—(Special. Captain J. € neer of the oldiers’ Home at Grand Island has returned to his home fn this city. Dur- ing the last clection the fusion campalgn among the other employcs of the institution ut Grand Island, to contribute to the campaign fund. ction managers requested the captain He refused and three weeks afte he was discharged. 0! West Polut Notes, WEST POINT, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Special.)— Jobn Doe, a harness thief, who was await- ing @ retrial, escaped from the counmty jail last night by sawing the bars of his cell. He has not been recaptured. A. D. Beemer of Beemor {8 receiving the unanimous en- dorsement of the republicans of Cumin, county for warden of the state pemiten- tiary, ¢ an absolute quaran- One physiclan makes' the him | a and Charles peclal.)— (Spectal.)— | resord ot twenty; | y mori- | cause of republicanism i that reglon, Prof 8.90; re. | Holmes is well known in this part of the 1es-| # were recorded and released the past month than during any wmonth for This 1s becoming a stockmen take Heffner, who has been engl- CANDIDATES #OR APPOINTIVE POSITIONS | Some of the Prominent Men Who Are Looking for Places Now Held by the Cohorts of Populism, SIOUX FALLS, Dee. 2.—(Speclal)—A number of additional candidates for state | and legislative positions have, during tiie past two weeks, appearcd i the field. One | of the most interesting contests is that for spoaker of the lower house of the state leg- slature, The avowed candidates and those who are { mentioned for the place are: Albert G | Somers of Grant county, who was speaker | jof tho last heuse; A. W. Wilmar h f i.cad.e H. P. Packard of Spink, W. E. Benedict of | Custer and Titus Price of Yankton. | In the case of H. P. Packard, if he fails | to land the speakership plum, he will doubtless strive to secure the chalrmanship of the committes on charitable institutions in order to ald In obtaining a good appro priation for the newoly-established Siate Asylum for the Feeble Minded at Redfield, his home town, Titus Price of Yankton, while he Ia not an avowed candidate for the speakership, would accopt the place did his acceptance not interfere with the caudidacy of his townsman, Congressman Rovert J. Gamble, for the United States senatorship. Rather than Interfere in the slightest degreo with Mr. Gamble's candiducy Mr. Price will re- tuse to permit his name to be brought for- ward when the epeakership contest comes | up for settlement Himek Hills Not Avariclous. w Denedict of Custer is in much the | same position. The Black Hills republicans | were pleased at obtaining a congressman at | the recent olection and do not teel like an- tagonizing the plans of the republicans in | eastern South Dakota. Mr. Bencdict, when seen in reference to his candidacy for the | speakership, stated that the mention of bis name In this connection was very com- | plimentary and greatly appreciated and that it such a consummation would not be inimical to the protection of the interests of the B'ack Hills and the candidacy should be approved by the members from thut part of the state he would not decline to be a candidate. However, no suggestion of personal pro- motion would be considered if it would operate to limit his opportunity to work for the Interests of the entire Black Hills. Mr. Benedict served two years ago In the senate from Custer and Fall River counties. It has always been customary to alternate the senatorial nomination between tho two countles. This yeer it was Fall River's turn for the senatorship, so Mr. Benedict stepped down and ran in his own county for the lower hous The struggle for chief clerk of the house 1s between J. W. Cone of Miunehaha county &nd Willis C. Bower of Lawrence. This Is one of the most Interesting contests now in progress. For several terms Mr. Cone filled the position with credit to himself, while Mr. Buwer was chiet clerk of the last house and also made a good record for competency and faithful attention to the dutles of the position. Mr. Cone's candldacy will be ms terially aided by the fact that the seven ro publicans elected to the legislature from this (Minnehaha) county, as the result of ‘meoting just held, indorsed Mr, Cone's can- didacy. o Secretary of the Senate. For the secretaryship of the state senal Doane Robinson of Minnehaha and John H. Seriven of Davison appear to still bave the entire fleld to themselves. They were op- posing candlidates for the same position two years ago, when the latter succeeded in anding the prize. This time Mr. Robinson's triends expr s comfidence in his ability to win the second round, while Mr. Seriven's triends just as confidently assert that he will be re-elected to the place. Captain Phil Lawrence of Kingsbury county, commander of the South Dakota Grand Army ot the Republic and at present assistant secrotary of state, will doubtless be retalned in that honorable position. 8o far as your correspondent has been able to ascertain no ome else has yet entered the fleld to contest with him for the homor. D. C. Ricker and Peter F. Haas, both of Sloux Falls, are opposing candidates for the secretaryship of the state rallroad commis- slon. Both are competent men and did ex- cellent work during the recent campaign in wresting from Semator Pettigrew political control of his home city and county. Thus far no candidates have been men- tioned for the position of state mine in- spector. This position will, of course, go to | some Elack Hills republican, asd any man agreed upon by the republicans of that part of the state for the place will obtain it. It 1s a lucrative position, with good per- quisites. Two candidates are now in the fleld for the place of warden of the Sioux Falls peni- tentlary. The first to announce himself was 0. 8. Swenson, chalrman of the republican committee of Minnehuha county, who con- Qucted the recent campaign In this county 50 successfully. The opposition to him in Sloux Falls has brought out the name of Johin H, Toohey, also of this city, as a can- didate for the same position, and who will strive to defeat Chalrman Swenson, Four Want This Job, Four candidates have anmounced them- selyes for the pesition of state insurance commissioner. They are: H. B. Cutting of Hughes county, H. C. Shober of Hand, N. B. Reed of Sanborn and Prof. C. B. | Holmes of Minnehaha. The first named has for years been prominent in Hughes county political circles. Mr. Shober is the edi- tor of the Highmore Bulletin, and at pres- ont county auditor of Hand county. He Is influential In that part of the state, Mr. Reed ls the editor of the Woonsocket Herald and has doue vallant work for the | | state. In addition to being mentioned in connection with the state Insurance commis- sionership, his name has also been put for ward for a United States consulship at scme point in Germany. He is a graduate | of Harvard, fs & lingulst of distinction and would make an excellent consul should he fall to secure the office of insurance com- | migsioner and care to strive for a consul- ship. The Republican Editorlal assoclation of the state may decide to endorse ome of the candidates for insurance commissioner, Judge 8. J. Conklin of Clark county, who has been active In working for the repub- lican cause in every campaign since he came to Dakota {a 1879, and who has never asked for an office at the hands of his party, is a candidatae for appoimtment as adjutant general of South Dakota. He is sald to have & large number of very strong endorsements for the place. P. H. Detzer of Marshall county is mak- ing & canvass of the republican member elect of the leglslature in behalf of his candldacy for the position of sergeant-at- arms of the house. For commandant of the South Dakota Soldlers' Home at Hot Springs there are three active candidates in the fleld. They are: Colonel C. A. B, Fox of Minnehaha county, General George A. Ludlow of Bon Homme and C. B, Jackson of Roberts. All have good records, both as citizens and as soldlers, and as each will secure strong support from the old veterans of the sta it would be a dificult matter to pick the winner at this time. Emil Brauch of Turner county, who was MeBride againet forty citizens of this city for $26,000 damages for the destruction of his newspaper office nearly five years ago, | rendered its verdict at a late hour last night, having been out since 1:30 o'clock In the afternoon. The verdict Was in favor of McBride and awarded him damages to th amount of $700, the jury declining to give any exemplary damages. Of the forty de- tendants at least ten were released by the jury from the judgment returned, as they were not found to be associated in any way with the destruction of the newspaper, FLORIDA'S BLUS Secret of Its Follage Changing Color When Rain Falls, “Among the many wonders 4t those ange swamps there is nothing more sur- prising than the blushing tree” said Al bert F. Dewey of Punta Gorda, Fia., who has recently passed a month in the Ever- | glades of Florida, to a Denver Post man. “The blushing tree,”” continued Mr. Dewey, 18 by no means common. It is found only in the densest thickets of those interminablo marshes, whose luxuriant vegetation 1s a revelation to explorers. It 18 called the blushing tree by those who know it because it actually blushes when | the rain falls upon it. This phenomenon | 1s apparently incomprehensible. It never fails to astound those who see it for the first time. The mysterfous and heautiful | &low of colof which it assunics 1n a raln- | storm bafes description. The Semiuole Indians, who once ruled Florida, have al- ways known of the tree, and in their | musical language, now fast disappearing have words which mean ‘the maiden tree which reddens at the coming of her lover, the rain.' “In company with & taciturn Indlan gulde 1 journeyed forty miles to see this marvellous bit of vegetable life. I could roarcely believe the story he told me, yet courfosity at length overcame incredulity and we set forth one morning in a small canoe. Wo spent nearly three days paddiing | and poling our way over the winding | waters. In the afterncon of the third day 1 began to wonder if ho had cnly been de- cofving me for the sake of the boat hire and bis pay as guide, when he gave a grunt of satlstaction and pofuted to the right. “Distrustfully 1 followed him ashore and through the underbrush. Beneath great cy- press trees, hoary with gray hanging moss, and past immense bay trees we wended our way Inland. Eagerly he led the way unttl reaching the edge of a little open space be stopped and with silent pride pointed toward the center. Gracefully a tree, with broad banana-like leaves, rearcd itself a’ott Wide* spreading branches hung down, siightly waving in the warm breeze. Its emerald hucd follage was the most beautiful I had ever beheld. It rose to a height of | twenty fevt and its thick, substantial trunk indicated many years of existence This, the old Seminole informed me, was ‘the blushing tree.’ “I told him to prepare to camp here un- til it rained, regardless of time. We un- rolled our blankets, stretched our mosquito bars, withou' which one cannot sleep in the glades, cooked supper and rolled up in our blankets for the night. That night. the day following and the next night passed without rain. “1 began to think {t would mever rain. when about noon a cloud darkened the sky overhead. I put a rubber poncho over my shoulders and fixed mvieyes on the green and pretty tree a dozem yards’away. It was covered with a greenish Insect the size of a large woodtick, which intensified ita color. The rain began to fall in torrents, after its custom in that region. Besido me, grinning confidently with a pipe in his mouth, stood the Scminole. “As the conl water drenched the tree I was amazed to note a changing of color. @radually, yet unmlistakably, the green hue was giving away to pink. The Indian had told the truth. The tree was blushing at the rain. “In a fow minutes the green had faded from ¢lght. Only in a few half-hidden spots beneath brond branches and on fts trink wag there a tinge of green to be seen. The tree was as pink as the cheek of & healthy girl. ‘Atter an hour or more the shower passed over and I watched with no less interest the wonderful tree assume its famillar green once more. As it was changing back to emerald 1 suddenly rcalized the secret of the phenomenon. The tiny insects and not the treo itselt changed color. There pecullar ' parasites are possessed of the power of chameleons. In the bright warm sunehine they are greener than the tree on which they live, but when the chilly rain falls upon them they contract thelr little backs and become a pretty pink in color. Millions of them thus change the tint of the tree. They are found only upon cne specles of trees, which grow im certain parts | of the Everglades.” e e BLASTING THE PALISADES. Within n Year the Rate of Destruce tlon Hax Increased Fourfold, All Americans with @ taste for the won- ders and beautles of uature have taken pride in the picturesque Palisades of the | Hudson, regarding them a8 a national pos- | session, like Niagara Falls, the Mammoth Cave, (he Natural Bridge and the great objects of Interest in the far west. The destruction of one of these curiosities, & the Philadelphia Record, must cause a widespread feeling of loss, and where the object is purely mercemary, of indig- ration. The blasting away of part of the Palisades aroused gemeral interest, and protests came from cvery part of the coun- try. These impressive rocks which wall the historic river are on the New Jersey shore, and present the more pioturesque appesrance from the New York side; therofore the legislature of the latter state had a good reason to provide for the ap- pointment of a commission to negotiate with the owners of the property for the instant/ cessation of the blasting. Persons who have witnessed recent as- saults on the Palisades declare that within & year the rate of destruction has Increased fourfold; that Instead of using powder, as formerly, the blasters now use large charges of dynamite with tremendous re- sults. Tho commission has done absolutely nothing so far, the members explaining that they have had no time to devote to the business. Already the Palisades have been ronbed of much of thelr beauty, and it will require but a few years at the prosent rate of destruction to make their ruln complete. It has been a great mistake in America mot to reserve to the public the batks of all rivers and lakes. There are many citles in which the right of private ownership of the margins of streams has resulted In the sale of the property to the rallroads and tho laying of tracks aloug water fronts which should belong te the people. Long ago the state of New Jorsey ehould have condemued the site of the Palisados for park purposes. As it 18, Now York cnn much better afford to pay for the property than to have this famous wall of solld rock blown to piece PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS. Allen R. Jullan, Tr of Evanston, Iil, is In the city, the guest of his brother. Mr. Jullan expects t6 arrange for the appent: ance of the Northwestern University’ Man- olin, ‘Glee and. Banjo elib, of which he Ix a member, ‘In this city durink the Christ mas holidays, when the western trio | metal, COLORADO PEOPLE PUSHING PROMOTION New Companies Are Hurryin the Development of Thetr erties and Greatly Enhance the General Activity. Along LEAD, 8, D., Dec. 2.—(Special.)—Otto P. Th. Grantz, the owner of the great Hidden Fortufie mine, north of this city one mile, has returned home from Denver, where he went last week with two carloads of rich ore. He states that his mine has been bonded to a Chicago mining expert and that a deal for the entire North Lead hill, taking In several well known gold mines, has practically been made. Four years ago John Plerce of Sloux City, la, had 200 acres of mining ground bonded in this same district which he nearly placed with the consolidated banks of Lundon. Since that tima very rich strikes of gold ore have been made on several mining | claims on ground held in the Plerce bond and now embraced in the bond held by tue | Ch.cago expert. It fs estimated that Grantz | has cleaned up $250,000 fn the past twelve months from his Hidden Fortune mine, s | some of the ore running as high as $63,000 per ton gold. Wolframite, a very valuable has also been discovered all along the hill and 1t 1s now being shipped to New York city, bringing as high as $300 per ton. The ground honded by this Chicago cxpert joined the Homestake mines on the west This great corporation has repcatedly tried to buy up this ground. The gold ore| found on the ground i« both free milling and refractory, there being flat chutes and verticals of quartz ore. Grantz confirms the report that a big mining deal has been made ia the Little Strawberry mining district, east of this olty nine miles. Three Frenchmen with titles have visited the Dakota Mald mine on sev- eral occasions and Grantz states that & deal has been closed. The Dakota Mald mine has an enormous body of cyanlding ore blocked out, one of the largest in the Black Hills, The foreigners will put $500,000 into the property in the way of ore reduction plants and hoists. The French promosers have gone to Paris and London to float the company and It is assertod by thera that an organization second to none in the Black Hills will be the result. A contract has already been let at the mine to do certain preliminary work in opening up the great ore body. Colorado Companies Are Active. The prospective work of the Belt Exten- slon company of Colorado Springs, Colo., in sinking a shaft south of this city on the Homestake ore lode, the bonding of the ground north of this city and this Dakota Mald ealo, has set things alive In & miniog way in the Biack Hills, Plans are now being made for the new cyanide plant that s to be erected in the lower part of Deadwood by the Imperial Mining company. The plant will contain both the cyanide and chlorinating processes and will have a capacity of about 100 tons of ore per day. The company was recently organized by W. S. Elder of this city, who ownod the American Express group of clalms in the Blacktall district west of this city. The plant and mine will give employment to about 100 men. Pennsyl- vania capitalists have become interested. The Spearfish Mining company ot Colo- rado Springs has made final payment o the Hermitage group of claims, which is one of the several groups purchased in the Rag- ged Top district, twelve miles west of this city. The company now has a deed to about 340 acres of mining ground and a 200-ton cyanide plant is nearly completed. Five Coorado Springs mining men are of- ficers of the company. It Is estimated that there 18 a solid blanket of ore 600 faet wide and nearly 2,000 feet long on the ground purchased, which will run from $10 to 3200 per ton of gold. The cvanide process Is espectally adapted to thu ore. Mose Kaufman of Sioux Falls has been in Deadwood lcoking after the East End group of claims, which he purchased a year ago. The ground is located in the Lost Camp gulch near Galena. The clalms will be patented. The Titanic Mining company has com- menced sinking on their shaft to reach quartzite. The company has patented 716 acres of ground in the heart of the Car- bonate district. It is reported that a new strike of coal bas been made on ground belonging to the estate of the Jate Fred M. Barrett, lovated In the Hay Creek district. The coal Is a superior quality and the fedge s thick and has a good roof. A mine wiil e opened. It is known that a big sale ls coutem- platod In the Blacktafl district, the mine | being the Deadbroke, now owned by R. M. Maloney of this city. Colorado capitalists have been negotiating for the property for several weeks. There Is a ledge of cement freo milling ore over 200 feet wide and torty feet thick that will average $10 per ton gold. The mine s now belng worked, the ore being run through stamps and then immersed in A cyanide solution. It Is stated that the deal will call for about $150,000, Good Copper Proposition, Friends of copper mining In the Black Hills are pleased over the discovery of the largo vein of copper ore found by the Cop- per Butte Mining company, which is operat- ing on Spring creek, in Custer county. The compaay ran a trench 100 feet across the voin and found the ore in place all that dis- tance. A shaft will be sunk immediately upon the vein. The company is officered by prominent capitalists of New York, Chi- cago and the Twin Cities. The officers of the Black Hills Copper company, who visited that company's copper mine west of Rochford, took with them to Chicago on thelr way home to Benton Harbor, Mich., three emples of ore which they had as- sayed, They got assays from 13.1 to 2.5 per ceut copper. The company 18 sinking a deep shaft on a ledge of copper and gold ore. At the Blue Lead copper mine, which is being developed by the Maloney Blue Lead Copper company, copper ore is belug mined at the top of the main ledge and work is till going on at the long tunnel, whica 18 to tap the main copper ledge at the water level. The Vigilante Mining company has started up work again on the Gold Coin mine near Custer, which is a copper propo- What Shall We Have for Dessert ? s question arises in the family day. Let us answer it to-day, Try eil-0 adelicious and healthful dessert. Pre. [:nredm two minutes, No boiling! no aking ! add boiling water and set to cool, Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp. berry and Strawberry, Get a package at your grocers to-day, 1o cts, T or by \aa Ty 3 oA 3 A §1"™ v biok =L CURL S all Xidne; 3w e Ty T 14 #che, etc, Ab 1$ club will make 8 | view oo 0t Dr B.J. Kay, Bure'ge, N TNy EN TN e LN YT VT VT OV T TreTD clean? you ride? The Bee But it ought to be. like theirs, and perfect ele desirable offices pleasure in shov tor in CGround Floor, sitlon. The 300-foot shaft Wil be sunk an- other 100 feet. The Dritish-American Goid and Copjer company of Detroit, Mich., and the Copper CIift of Tronwood, Mich., are both working large forces of men on propertiss west of Rochfort, in Peanington county. 1t I8 expected that the officers of the Highland Chiet Mining company will arrive from the east in a few days for the purpose of looking over the old Highland Chict mine, located in the Spruce Gulch district. There fs at prescnt blocked out in the mine 4 large amount of ofe, partly free milling that will average $20 per ton gold. The mine has produced a great deal of gold. With a continuation of the cyanide and amalgamating processes the mine would be & success. A deal of considerable magni- tude Is pending om the Elm City group of claims, adjoining the Highland CIiff, owned by three Deadwood parties. A tunnel has been run 200 feet to tap a lcdge of ore known to exist. Assays rich enough to ship have beeu obtained. The group of claims is about a mile from the proposed site of the Im- perial Mining company's new cyanide plant The Monarch mine in the same district will soon put ore on the market. . ge Blackamith Saved His Lit- tle Son's Life, Mr. H. H. Black, the well known villago blacksmith at Grahamsville, Sullivan Co.. N. Y. says: “Our little son, five years ©0ld, has always been subject to croup, and 50 bad have the attacks been that we have feared many times that he would dle. We have had the doctor and used many medl- cines, but Chamberlain's Cough Remedy 18 now our fole reliance. It scems to dis- solve the tough mucus aud by giving fre- quent doses when the croupy symptoms ap- | pear we have found that the dreaded croup is cured before it gets settled.” There is no danger In glving this remedy, for it con- talns no oplum or other injurious drug and may be given as confidently to a babe as to an adult. A. 0. U. W. TO BUILD ITS HOME rishing Society A Vi Wil Erect a The session of tne grand lodge of the Anclent Order of United Workmen, held at Lincoln in 1899, took steps to find the order a permanent home and to that erd author- 1zed the grand master workman to appoint a committee to investigate and report a suitable location. The order mow comprises more than 28,000 members in Nebraska alone and Is amply able to buy or build a home. The following members have been appointed as such committee: W. A. Hok- ford, Aiblon; R. W. Laflin, Wymore; F. E Beeman, Kearney; W. L. Ross, Dakota City; C. R. Schaeffer, Fremont. The committee, with the grand master workman, will meet at the Merchants hotel Its Your Move? Just look around your oftice! Is the gas light dim? in a dinkey, crowded little elevator that doesn’t run nights or Sundays, and elevator boy who jars your breakfast eve If 8o your office is not in You have eleetrie | in Omaba Tuesday, December 4, at 3 o'clovk for the purpoze of organization. pluditsiibt st Do you need a hired giri? A Bec want ad will bring one. TECUMSEH, Dec. 2.—(Special.)~ Johnson county farmers are suffering imore | extensively and more generally from the, ravages of hog choiera at the present than at any other time perbaps in the his tory of the county. Among the heavy losers are: Dr. A. Galsor, pure-bred Po- land-Chinas, forty head; D. 8. Warner, pure-bred Polands, forty-five head; Jacob Finzer, cighty head; Jacob Zinmaster, fifty head; George Farrles, veventy head and lesser numbers among other breeders P Grand Island palation, GRAND 1SLAND, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Spe- clal.)—Some exception is being made to statement appearing 'n The Bee in conn tlon with the comment on the census fig ures. This city was classed with other of its size in the state which admitted] padded the returns of 1800, Grand Islau In that census returned only 7,076, It is Here's Where We Shine-— At $200 Drex L. Shooman seils a heavy three-gole mechanies' shoe--inude with plump kip uppers and wide round toes—that give great comfort to the feet and at the same time have style witk them--usually §2.00 ghoes clumsy affairs--regvelar brogans-- with these—~for they are wade w! much style as the higher priced shoc We guarantee every pate of these upy to outwear two pairs of soles-—-You've never seen a shoe that could show half the value for $2.00. Drexel Shoe Co., New Oatalog are Rendy—Sent I'reo for Omata's Up-to-date Shoe Iouwe, 1419 FARNAM STREET. The Self Playing ““Apolle”— The latest and best in plano attach- ments I8 SELLING AT SIGIT, WHY Becauge 1t 1s so vastly superior in every wny to any of its competitors—It re. quires just one-half the expenditure of physical foree to run It—Come fu to our plano rooms when passing and try it yourself—you will be delighted at once. —Owing to the cnormous number being produced It sells cheaper than any other, A. HOSPE, oo s Ak 1613 Bougins. v Are your windows Do you come up ]lblllfilfilll 25 s run by o fresh © time aa3nens Building.. There is no janitor sery chit, steam he There are no un- Wa'lh take service, the building. 1g you them, R. C. PETERS & CO., Rental Agents Bee Bullding. %flWM&M‘R‘M&M‘NHMWRMM&M’ ARARARAN belleved that she will show a gain this year of 200 or 300 and the figures on the county show that it has made a gain of nearly 700. Memorial Sery TABLE ROCK, Neb,, Dec Memorial exercises were held here this morning In the Presbytorian church In memory of Mrs. Christina Buker-Taylor an. Miss Minnle Baker, who met with cuch a tragle death by drownlug In Alaskan waters on November 0. The exercises were conducted J. E. Mchtee of Park college at Parkville mission. Mr. McAfee was a classmate of the late Mrs. Taylor and graduated In tho same class, The exerclses were very im- pressive. (Spectal ) by Rev. Ldcenne Heatn Telegram. PLATTSMOUTH, Neb., Dec. 2.—(Spoclal.) ~County Judge J. E. Douglas issued a mar- riage license yesterday to Hugh Anderson and Miss Agnes Keyser. - Later in the day he recelved a messago from H. Keyser of Weeping Water requesting him to refuso to issue a marriage license to the parties named above. Albert Fickler and Miss Adah Draper, two prominent young Cass county people, were anited In marriage In Et. John's Catholic church yesterday by Rev. Father Nvgevt Follmer Names Clerk. SUPERIOR, Neb., Dee. 2.—(Special.)—Dal Follmer, land commissioner-elect, has ap- pointed as one of the clerks in his office at Lincoln F. A. Hollingsworth, cditor of the Oak News. % $1,000 Worth of Good, A. H. Thurnesa of Wills Creck Coal Co., Buffalo, 0., writes: “1 have been afilicted with kidney and bladder trouble for years, passing gravel or stores with excruclating pain. Other medicines only gave relief. After taking Foley's Kidney Cure the result was surprising. A few doses started the brick dust, like fime stones, etc., and now I have no paln scross my kidueys and 1 feci like a new man. Foley's Kldney Cure has done me $1,000 worth of good.”" Take no suhstitute. Myers-Dillon Drug Co., Omaha. Dillon's drug store, South Omahi LOCAL BREVITIES. Albert Chase, one of two brothers from Eikhorn, died yesterday morning at the 8chool for the Deaf of men i, He wis 2 years of age and had been sick one week mother was with him during his slc The body was taken to his home Charles Brown, Harry Howard und . TL Cola were_arrested Bunday by Detectives Donahue, Heltfe'd. Savage and Dunn, anid locked up, charged with the burglary No vember 24 of Mike Kompkis' siloon Council Blufts, Among the plundor sec wero two gold watches, both of have been found in an Omaha pawnvhop Prescriptions Wen't stand any substitut- tng—ner will you take yeur preacriptions where substl- tuting is allowed—if you knew it. We place behind our clerks ome of the most com- plete stocks of pure, fresh drugs in the wesi—and ne matter what the prescrip- tions, bring them Lo us and we will fill them properly at & very rexsonable coat. THE ALOE & PENFOLD CO., Largest Medical Supply House 1408 Firnam >t. OMAHA, OPPOSITE PAXTON IIOTEL.