Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 29, 1902, Page 17

KING AR-SAR-BEN MENACED Expedition Projected to Invade the Golden Oity of Quivera, LOYAL SIR KNIGHTS, WHAT SAY YOU? Dream Believed & Good Ome~What ©o: ' nvaders Propose to Do and How They'll Do It. Be - Slow the trumpet! Beat the tom-tom! Gadzooks, there's an enemy in the realms of King Ak-Sar-Bes. Arise, and emite him hip and thigh Alarming pews is wafted westward on the e security of the Golden City of Quivera Envious rivals seek the throne which Ak Bar-Ben has occupied for years with homor and renown. Will his loyal legions permit the Invasion? Not on your life. Not it the rainmakers know themseives. It be- | hooves t b by every dweller in the unforested Sir Knights, | ra wind, menacing the peace and | The Tree Planter’s Mission | A striking incident occurred out in mid- Nebraska the other day, says the New York Independent, one that should be pondered lands, The funeral services of the late J. Sterling Morton were held at the bomestead where, in 1855, Mr. Morton and his young wife located their claim. At that time not & semblance of a tree was bt over the level plain that reached like the green waters of a quiet sea. the neighbors and friends gathered for the sorrowful ceremony they walked through & forest of tall trees up to the beautiful grounds of the Morton home. In front of the house were towering trees many of them pines, interspersed with east or west awa When shrubs. On either side stretched the broad cres of a falr a sight le orchards in full bloom, as one might wish to see, while |away toward the town was Morton park, a | swever, to be up and doing, | ¥ho | rich woodland, the pride of the community. All this was the work of one man, a man loved trees and caused more to be prepared to conduct the misguided to hos- | planted than any other man in the world pitable graves It m justification for Washington the project, started im | 1o search for the Golden City | of Quivera. Thousands of King Ak-Sar- Ben's ghts have made the pilgrimage, enduring various grades of hardships, with out encountering even a gold brick. Other | thousands will in coming years follow in their footateps without the hope of r-lllx-; iog on Coronado’s dream. The Washington explorers are out for business; and their plans and purpose, detailed y the Wash. fogton Post, will materially increase the galety of Quivera's merry monarch. List to the tale The strangest thing sbout superstitions is their vitality, more properly speaking, their resurrective quality. Old legends long since thought | to have been safely dead apd buried come to lite showing remarkable vigor in thelr | Pecrudescence frequently after they are sup- posed to have been extinct for generations, and sometimes centuries. The most remarkable myth now showing #lgns of life after a sleep of 363 years is | Bo other than the old story of the Golden City of Quivera. This metropolis, according to tradition, was situated somewbere be- | tween Kansas and Mexico, and has been revived with such vigor that parties are now in Waehington endeavoring to raise money with which to carry om ex- | cavations on the supposed site of the magic ity in the hope of unearthing its buried treasure. Before entering upon the details of this enterprise, it is first of all necessary to explain the origin of the Quivera myth. When, in the year 1540, Vasquez Coronado | left the City of Mexico to explore the vast | wnknown coustry to the morth of the Gulf | of California and the Rio Grande river, be Beard many strange stories from the In- dians whom he met in his wanderings north | to wh is now the southern boutdary of Kansas. Sometimes his Informants toid the | myths and or perhaps truth, but as a general thing they found it} more to their advantage to relate what was false, and to mislead the haughty Span- fard at every turn. Among the number of idle falsehoods which the Indians invented to beguile Coro- do was the Quivera story. Accordisg to the Indians, there existed a magnificent city, ®o fabulously rich that the houses were tiled and roofed with gold, while ameng the iphabitants silver was more common than stone. Coronado, like other Spaniards of Bis day, went on this expedition in search of gold and riches, hoping to meet with the same fortune that befell Pizzaro in Peru, and at every point on his line of march Both he and his men made diligent l:quiry for gold among the aborigines whbom they met. Fou The Quivera story had foundation in fact, that, In what is now southern New Mexico, there was a place called the Grand Quivera, & 5and and mesquite plain, inhabited by a few Indlans, and originated by the Indians of one locality getting tired of the Span- fards and in their starting a story to the effect that th peighbors of the Grand Quivers were fabulously rich. Coronado sot out for the place, but missed it, and, for the rest of the jourmey, inquired at every step for Quivera, the city of riches. To make a long and wearisome story short, it is enough to say that, although Coronado traveled as far north as the bor- der of Kansas, he found peither the city.nor the riches that he expected, and returned to Mexico a disappointed man ended the Quivera matter, so far as Coro- Dado was concerned, but, like all stories of this character, it had a eingular vitality and for years after Coromado’s journey the white population of the southwest com- tinued to believe in the existence of & magi- cal city, bidden away among the canyons of the mountalns, awaiting the advent of the adventurcus Caucasian, who, of course, would “develop its resources. This myth, started by dishonest Indlans and credulous Spaniards, passed from the latter to the Mexicans, and in later years o the Americans, and in the years inter- wening since the expedition of Coronado and the present it ‘s not at all surprising that the story became warped and twisted #0 that in its present shape it bears very little resemblance io the Quivera story of Coronado. According to the bellef of the present-day population of New Mexico, the Bpaniards not only discovered, but took possession of and settled in Quivera, which under their rule became a city .rivaling Babylon of old in the measure of its splen- riches and luxuries, but, like all fine and va! £s, came to an untimely end through an uprising of the Indians, who @estroyed the place and slaughtered the fababitants without merey. Destroyed by Earthquake. Another verslon has it that the city was @estroyed by an carthquake, or & pro- tracted drouth, causing the inbabitants to perish of thirst, etc., since which calamity B0 one has ever beem able to locate or discover the ruins of the city in which, @ccording to popular belief, untold wealth Mes buried awalting discovery at some future day. Such is the main body of the myth believed in by the modern popu- Jation of New Mexico, a stery sround which Bas clustered a bost of legends, rumors and monsense without end. One of the stereotyped variations of this Quivera myth, which Profs. Holmes, Fewkes and Hough have heard during so- journs In New Mexico, and which has been golng the rounds of hired men, miners, cowboys, peons and ranchmen for the pi fifty years, is to the effect that & certaln priest discovered a map of the city of Quivera, 5 of the vatican location of a b smount; that the priest set sall for th mew world, and, reaching New Mexico, sought out the discovered and se- cured the treasure, and returned with it to Italy before those in the neighborheod of where he obtaiped the treasure had am op- portunity to find out what be was doing The stranger, who hears this yarn for the first time, is assured that it happened either quite recently or at most only a few years ago The present day form of the Quivers myth might bave remained confined to the ignorant ranchmen aad co southwest for the X1 several centuries, ation of the Story. that uried the map showed the unkzows, outside of its own region, Save to | superior to anything of the records and archives | treasure of fabulous | | He made of be admitted that there is some | landseape. the barrez prairie a varied More than that, he showed to the eager westerners that there is not only an artistic and an ethical meaning in the | tree-planter's missiun, but a financial gain as well—a lesson that in the west's pres- | ent stage of development probably has as {those of hundreds of his neighbors | cause of his efforts in beautifying it and in | covering its acres with trees | of the tree plan Thus |of plants. | strong a bearing as any argument that might be presented. The little claim that be homesteaded was in the beginning like Be- it became very valuable and is today one of the most attractive pleces of country real estate in the west. The father of Arbor day set be. fore the west a great object lesson. While it was by no means lost on the people of his generation, when the passing away T made a complete sum- The bands of elk that wintered in the Jackson Hole country, Wyoming, four years g0 were estimated to number 60,000. The & halile ‘ scattered bunches coming in there now are | Tess than 10,000, according to the estimate of ranchers in the ‘‘Hole country.”” This | was the statement made a day or two ago by George William Finn to a Denver Post | reporter. Jackson Hole country covers an area about balf as large as the National park of the Yellowstone and joins it on the south. This paradise, for game and fish, has ever been famous. The Indians for generations have procured their winter's meat in this country and it was In this section that United States troops were hastily sum- moned in the summer of 1894 to round up Indians that were supposed to be | massacreing eettlers and laylng waste the country. The law of Wyoming issues licenses to hunt large game during the months of September, October and November. For $40 each person is permitted to kill two elk. Pot hunters, or “game hogs,” come into the country at the opening of the season from every quarter of the globe. And the hundreds of amateur sportsmen begin the carnival of crime, for it"is criminal to kill this fast disappearing animal. “lan't it a shame to knock over these big tellows and let them lie where they have fallen, taking nothing but their two tushes?" s2id Finn. “I went into the Hole country last September and went to work for Josh Adams, who bas a big ranch midway up country. I wintered there and acted as guide to several ‘dude’ hunting parties that came out from the east. We charged them $10 a day and grub. here was heaps of hunters all over the hills and the rifies could be heard bustin’ Jews and Primroses One of the most {lluminating announce- ments of modern science, says the New York Independent, is that made by Prof. Hugo de Vries of the University of Amsterdam. who tells us that he has succeeded in watching the production of half a dozen mew speciss He has discovered that one of the American primroses, the Oenothera La- marckians, has the rare faculty of produc- ing sports, which are sctual separate spe- cles. A vast majority of plants from seeds will follow the paremt form, but in every large planting there will be a few that take a new direction. He has named half a dozen of these new species. One bhe calls the Oenothera gigas, because of its size, while others, like O. panella, are dwarf. They seem to vary mccording to definite lines, and thus O. nanella, or O. oblonga, may ap- pear many times, but even so in such rela tively small pumbers that, If not preserved by cultivation, they would be crowded out nd Dot be perpetusted. The sclentific value of this discovery lies In the emphasis it puts on our theory of the origin of spe- cles, on the mutations by sudden leape, per saltum, as against the slow accretions of change, accumulated by environment, on which Darwia mainly depended in bis fa- mous discussion of the subject. But we would not now speak of the theo- ries of the origin of species discussed by Lamarck, Darwin, Welsmann and De Vries, but of the fact that in this primrose, and, for aught we know, in other plants and ani- wals, in butterfiles, shells and fishes, where & great pumber are produced, with abun- visit New Mexico occasionally in search of scientific material, had it not been for one thing. In his intensely interesting book, entitled “Some Strange Cormers of Our Country,” the author, Mr. Charies F. Lummis, describes the ruins of Abbe, Tabira and Oenecu, three Geserted pueblos overlooking the buffalo plains 1o the south central part of New Mexico. Discovery of the Rulns. These extraordinary ruins were discovered & pumber of years ago by the autbor, Dr. Pewkes, and several other gentlemen in- terested In American archaecclogy. They appear to be those of a large and remark- ably built town of the Piro Indians, & tribe that became extinct during the early ni teenth cemtury, although one .or twe were still living as late as the beginning of the | Mexiean war. They were evidently erected Joug before the discovery of this contiment by Columbus. The fact that the Piros sud- mitted to the Spaniards and that the Span- isb priests set up misslons in all three towns is Dot only & matter of record, but is further evidenced by seversl magnis- cent churches erected in the towns by the fathers when they came to convert the Piros to the Catbolic faith This, bow- ever, is mo more than what was dome all over the southwest, but, in the case of these ruised towns, there are several fea- tures that place them completely out of the ordinary and render them & puszle to unchers of the |4ll who visit the region. In the first place, the bulldings are far the sort in the men like Profs. Fewkes and Holmes, who |southwest. They are massive aad sub- THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUN NDAY, JUNE 29, 1902. mary of his life po the precept and example was most strik- ingly brought home to their hearts It is not alone to the west that his teach- ings are applicable, though there they are of most potency. The love of trees needs fostering wherever is a bome and a hab, tation. The sacred affection which certain historic trees are by people of ancient nations is in contrast with the ferocity with which Americans slaughter the forests. To sure, there is today some check being p on the denudation of forest lande, an there s growing up In the towns a healthy sentiment in favor of intelligent and gen eral tree planting. In several large ern cities, where na there is most Deed of this sentiment, the municipal gov- ernment i 4 in tree planting In the bands of experienced foresters the streets are lined with trees of proper va riety, and care is taken that they are not distorted out of semblance to nature by in- nate and reckless pruning. The sult will be that in a few years the ave of those cities will be delightful vistas of sbade and the dwellers therein will reap a positive benefit, not alone in enjoyment and comfort, but in dollars and cents. ble that the force of ost with regarded strange ut eft ally Despite the Arbor (which are observed b and the une attending the sent the day proclamations little nowadays) ples of advantages promptiog them the mission of ended. Tens of tho east and west—more however—are as bare Mort clalm in 1855 pupils bave spent dreary cure some enjoyment on the playgrounds when they might beneath ru & green branches of the disgraces of newer portion the nation that le attention to the planting trees on grounds. There, anywhere, sande of schocl largely in the ade For days trying in west as was Mr the to se- sun-beaten have res'ed t 1s one of ven would so litt of it s g iRuthless Slaughter of Elk 404 bangin’ away all day long. Did they get much game? Yes, they could generally down an elk after firing a magazine full of cart- ridges at him, but the most of their hi were in places that wounded the animal and he generally got away, crippled suffering,” The young man went on and Bow the carcasses of elk, kill dreds, could be found in the hil and antlers scattered everywhere. “You know $5 will be paid by any man in that country for a pair of elk teeth or tushes. And the ranchers are powerless stop the unlawful practice,” added he. *“An Indian can get two quarts of whisky for a pair of these teeth, which are used charms and pine. described ed by hun- and bones for “All last wint be seen adout the hi fired every day. And the small bands proved that the big bunches were beipg cut out and disbanded.” “Why didn't the ranchers organize and bring in the poachers®” was asked ‘It would be a very unsafe thing to do, because the chances are that these men would pick us off,” he replied “Haven't you game wardens up here?” “Yee,” and the young rancher looked mad and diegupted, “but they are no earthly g0od awl make no effort to get these fel- lows—they are afrald of them, I reckon he ranchers are trying to find some way out of the difficulty. A great many favor the idea of selling out their ranches to the government, which could add this beautiful country to the National park Another reason that the game is thinning out is that & lot of the country is being fenced—the old feeding grounds are being harvested, the cattle cropping down the hay—which leaves pretty thin picking for the game.” of elk dant putrition, there will occur a certain number of individuals that differ greatly trom their parents. We call attention to a parallel fact in human phylogeny. In apswer to the question “Why Jews succeed? Mr. Zamgwill has lately replied bluntly that they do not succeed. He points to the millions of Jews the world over who occupy the lowest stratum of population in their several countries. The immense majority of them, he declares, fal disas- trously in the battle of life. They oe- cupy, and seem content to occupy, the most degraded position, the denizens of ghettos, cuffed by their rulers poor beneath description, dwarfed in body and crushed in mind We are told that half the Jews live in Russia and their average property has been officially reckoned at $5 a head, and it is less in Roumania. In London they are abso- lutely free, but the vast majority work under sweaters for fourteen hours a day for less wages than Christiams will take. Such a low level of uniform poverty and misery Mr. Zangwill describes as the usual life of his race But “as rich as 2 Jew" is a proverb While the race thus far has burrowed in the underground of social life, the excep- tions bave been extraordinary in all ages The Jewish primrose produces startling ex- ceptions to the usual product. It has been 0 in all the ages since Moses. Out of a Fraskfort ghetto came Anselm Rothschild From the scanty home of a Dessau scriv- ener came Moses Mendelssobn, and Heine, the poet, rose out of the dead commer- Object Lesson of d. Sterling Mor- ton's Life seem he appeal would be strongest Not a park is to be found within reach of the common people and the public bu iogs stand on treeless ground. 1 they are waking up to their loss, but find that to secure land for parks they must go to the far cutskirts of the city In the new towns cording to reports of Oklahoma, ac- made to the Depart- ment of the Interior, park ground is set apart. More that, the comtract w | let in each municipality to some individ- | ) nt trees, his payment being me he n pber that are alive at the | end of five years. “This year,” proudly nounces one such town the park cast quite a shade.” It is t enough th trees be planted— there must be intelligent selection an ture it results are to be obtained Some western citles have ordered the de- | struction of certain varieties of trees| planted generously by early settlers. They | were originally chosen because they made quick growth and were not easily killed by the climate. With the development of the community their undesirable qualities have made them nuisences and the pl ng must begin over again, a dozen years or more of | effort baving been wasted trees in the best It is encouraging to know that the sons of the 1 ry of a ure propose to | make the Morton claim an arboretum, the first the prairie region. Someone who knows the west and who knows treee will | be in charge and there, at the homestead of | the man whose love for trees was & pa sion and which is itself an object lesson, will be conducted experiments in tree cul- | ture of value to all the west. In this the| people of the whole nation will be gainers, | fo is a practical exemplification of the life-work of a man who gave hie best years to the tree-planter's mission. Had Mr. | Morton himeelf had the devising of it he| ument in have chosen a more fittting mon- Pot-Hunters Ravaging the | Jacksen Hele Country. From the information given by Mr. Finn | there are, says the Post, but ome or two | conclusions to be arrived at, to save the elk from extermination. First, the govern- ment should add the land to Yellowstone park; eecond, to repeal the existing law relative to the killing of any large game until the matter be arranged in some way, or put men of experience and nerve into the country and “ewing off”" a few of the | men who make the killing for tusks and | beads a business The National Protective Assoclation for Game and Fish is en organization founded by George O. Shields, which has for its | president Theodore Roosevelt and is repre- sented many of the tes. The mbers are the most prominent and wealthy men | in the coun in politics, business . and | private life. And it seems that through | thie body should be found the means to do | something for the protection of the grand old antlered beast. As an illustration of how they are ruthlessly killed Mr. Fimn said “Last winter two boys down in the Hole country wanted a new bob-gled. They went out in the hills and in one forenoon killed nine big bucks, took nothing but their tushes and received $45 for their spoils. This is but one instance of many cases that are of daily occurrence.” It is a fact that & badly crippled elk will not follow or bunch with a herd. He be- comes a lonely wanderer, until he dies of starvation or one of his natural enemies, a bear, wolf or coyote, downs him. This country Is fairly allve with these noble animals in all states and stages of maimed conditions and it becomes the duty of every true sportsman to put an end to the wanton killing of our largest cloven-hoof game, An Instructive Parallel., clalism of Hamburg and Dusseldogf, and are mot the Disraelis, refugees from Spanish persecution, a glorified Jewish primrose? Of all races in the world the Jewish seems able to produce the largest variety of type. While the great multitude, according to Zangwlll, this sced there grow wonderful magnificent specimens of ability, in finance or scholarship or literature or art. Who that has observed the ridicu- lous rabbles of Jewish women that have riotuosly attacked these last few days In various cities the retail butchers of their | own faith and that have beem so sharply condemned by the best Jewish papers, is not struck by the contrast of these wild maenads with the stately company of Jew- ish scholars, financiers and philanthro- pists that welcomed Dr. Schechter the other night as he came to assume direction of the new Hebrew theological seminary? sports,” Yet, after all, Jews are not very different from other people, and we suspect that | the Oenothera Lamarckiana is not the omly | plant that “sports” into mew species. Has not Prof. L. H. Bailey told us how he cre- ated a pew species of strawberry® The men that wield the spade in our road build- ing are Italians, but so is Marconl. We bave wondered if any good could come out of Brazil, but there is Santos-Dumont. The London slums are crowded with the pure British fellow countrymen of Shakspeare and Gladstone. After all, we doubt much if Zangwill bas pot slandered his country- men in his zeal to establish a Jewish com- monwealth in Palestine. antial, tween the Pueblo Indians of the morth and the civilised Asztecs of the south. In the second place, the mission churches of these three towns are of a much more magnificent character than the general rum of such churches In the southwest. In fact, these ruined and deserted churches are the finest specimen of Spanish ecclesiastical archi- tecture in New Mexico. The one at Tab'ra is 150 feet in length by 60 feet in width, bullt of smassive blocks of well cut and well dressed stone In the third place, the three towns are located in one of the most desolate regions ia America. The country round about is destitute of drinkable water, while near the | towns are a large number of lakes briny se the Dead sea. No tribe would think of camping, much less of buflding, in this region as it is today, and in view of the fact that very MNitle is kmown of the tribe that formerly dwelt bere and abso lutely nothing as to what brought about thelr ertinetion it is safe to assume that when they did settle there the country was far different from what it is today; that after they became converts to Christlanity and subjects of Spain, something in the | nature of an earthquake or & sudden change | in the matural features of the region took place, rendering it uninhabitable and that, cooped up in this section by their ememies the Apaches and Lipans, they succum| | @ving of thirst Jolniug the My At all events, the myth makers and myth believers bave put two sad twe together, showing, as Dr. Fewkes has said, | | that the people formed a sort of link be- | great wealth is proven by the magnificent | and massive bulldings which it erected nnd\ which are still standing. Thus fortified | they have diligently prospected these ruins in the hope of finding its treasure, quite a number Iceing their lives in this locality, perishing for lack of water There now comes to Washington a Mrs C. Corbyn, who is the owner of the land upon which these ruins stand and who de- clares that ap old Indian, the last of the Pircs, livisg in New Mexico, has given her the key to the secret and instructions for fnding the treasure which lies buried in | the “hidden vaul of Tabira. She states further that a part of the city is under ground and that the bells of the old church are also hanging in one of these vaults Her mission to this city is to arouse interest in the ruins and to raise money with which to exploit the de- serted city and to take out the treasure that lies hidden in the subterranean vaults of Tabira She called Monday on Profs. Mason and Hough at the National museum, to whom sbe related the foregoing. Prof. Hough pald little sttention to that part of her Darrative sbout the hidden treasures of | Quivers, a story that he bad heard time ind again from ranchmen on trips that he are ignorant and degraded, out of | whether | [aia not propose to underneath the ruins |in coverer of the Famous Cures for Diseases of Men. Scrotal Varicocele has ease. It silently steals upon its vic and before he is really aware of its pre aging inroads are made upon his constitu rounding the spermatic chord be with impure blood and diseased dition may be accompanied wi pai the sma the back parts, Jow spirits, weakness of the devility, partial or compiete loss quent decline of the general agTecablc - sympioms. soon | GUeAPDOAr ever, under our Varicocele which sdless, and therefore free surge Every clot of- stagnant bloo evety tissue ig fected p establish A pelvic regi become strong aga: dy manhox URETHRAL smcfll Our_ original and stri tern Stricture Cures the disease. avoiding the horrors of ever be of men wh tely and d& been discribed ue. " a in exter from Premature old one thing f or thé vigor anfl the vi life. There are mar nn,x ¥ golden yea: County for ten years: LANDS, .$3,168,492 3,364,259 3,424,833 3,272,821 3,105,965 2,909,975 2,900,608 2,824,976 2,835,808 2,811,374 1891.. 1892.. 1893... 1894. . 1895. .. 1896. 1 1899 1900. .. | { | | The articles which appear criti State Board of E qualizatio 1 ures headed Distri and “Lost by tributior tion, and are intended to deceive 1f they prove anything, ments heretofore made in these terminal values are, in fact, distribut every county along the railroad lines rallroad property, although decreased in indirectly increased through recelv ately less decrease in valuation than this occurs all over the state The foregoing statement shows that of Douglas county, was assessed at 17 than in 191 while' the building that $14.369.285 bullding permits were iss Omaha alone, while in that time the cit has grown from £082 population to over in property in Douglas county has increase in railroad valies through b is & matter of officlal record that the r D! o inspector's more BUSINESS SAGACITY When ugh a dam SCROTA VIRIGOGELE eatment or rs LOTS. $17,614,412 17,585,483 17,459,504 010,708 33,159 14 773,136 14,264,895 14,252,091 14,407,713 14,481,374 assesse ing a ther pr roportion- ty, and the t £-10 wn property per cent less office reports in the city of South Omaha The increase han_offset ar ilding . eal property val ued behi h a4 wh s, prom opera PERSONAL. $3.840,662 4,016,197 3,294,680 3,230,996 1R7.579 3,740,216 the city From roads ir rease rs me with othe to explair Tt ie ra co The red in the only them a large b firm t clears S both marr SPEBI_HG BLOOD POISOI bhaffed | S b7 specia rmar to cut s and amount. as been sometimes ne is a bridge i8 t with wreck r own Suc- well expect to achieve ty cents at organs. ciear, the 1o nerves brightens and duties and Poison Wwas _for >mpositi men, ses are cordially appe "~ HOME TREAT ENT patient th COOK MEDICAL CO., i ng the changes in Assessed Values in RAILROAD AND wn Bs that satistac which is €0 ts are So. | maha nearly perfect always assured, Lln.smc ed Under Authority of the Railroads of Nebraska NO “LOSS BY DISTRIBUTION” T0 OMAHA Equalized Valuations More Than Make Up for Improvements. STATEMENT—Show Douglas AL TELEGRAPH. PROPERTY. $790,813 773,662 736,552 673,173 672,905 674,504 708,906 707,620 713,026 From 1891 to 1900 the following changes in valuation occurred: Lands decreased 11 2-10 per cent. Personal Property decreased 2 6-10 pzr cent. All Propzrty other than Railroad decreased 14 5-10 per cent. Railroad Property decreased 9 7-10 per cent. ha ment of 1 for egoing Douglas co; valuation ned, or on pert iis matter necessary by selecting red uetion ass. ade a matter of leg e the had bs Te. niformit assessed cen ma ase, & the th in railroads rm s estimated as was =0 given to the fina state valuat terially $25.414.379 25,739,601 25.423,5 24,701,435 22,500,255 21,650,705 21,0709 21,023, 21,626,21 21,745 Lots 17 810 per cent. being worth §200,000.000, and al refe ce authorities when ess w last made. nt it is evident that the accepted 5 per cent less other property the term of ‘d less decrease when compared not necessary o juggle figures to out get all single the lines figures and not figures that 80 as to decelve, by State Board ad properties were made w of the utional rule a matter of ju + be- n of other y the duced, notwit their E The been s in standing al value. of second thought had entered his mind be said Where does this man live™ But Mrs. Corbyn was on her guard and low any of her pre- clous secrets to escape. She said “Well, that is my secret. If you knew that you would kpow where to find the treasure.” Thus after the lapse of 362 years the old Quivera myth, belonging to the same cen- tury apd in the same category with the Eldorasdo myth, the Northwest passage Do- tion. the kingdom of Prester John, etc has arisen from out the dust of the New Mexican deserts, somewhat changed from what it was in the days of Coronado, but cope the less the same story with which the Indians beguiled the Spanish conquista- dor and his gold-hungry followers. Pointed Paragraphs. | Chicago News: A man seldom marries unless he is in love or in debt An overproduction of rubber would result 5 gum-drop. It is Dever too late to learn that we are sometimes too late The man who talks, but falls to act Half Rates \ FOLLOW THE FLAG. Providence, R.1. and Return, Sold July 6, 7, 8. Portland, Me.. and Return Sold July 4, 5, 6, 7, 331,65 $33.25 Stepovers Allowed at Niagara Falls. CALL AT Wahash New City Office, 1601 Farnam St Addross HARRY E. MOORES, 6. A. P, [.. Omaba, Neb trying to get a reputation on credi It sometimes happens that a man is ab- sent-minded when bis wife's away The man who persists in doing nothing is entitled to first prize for perseverance Some policemen are tender-hearted asiopally one gives a ragged tramp a rap About the only martyrs we have at th stage of the game are the base ball um- pires | If a man lives as be should the world will Oc- bas made to New Mexico, but when she |stated that a member of the Piro tribe was {still living the thought of what a magn'fi- cent thing it would be to secure from him & vocabulary of words of the Piro language flashed through bis mind, and before & argulng that “Tabira” must be the “Qui- vers” of old and that the city's one Ume Dot be very much better by his getting out of it Charity doesn’t al judging by the frank way in which reiations talk about one another After bandling a subject without gloves the wise orator proceeds (o wash bhis bands of the whole affalr, VARICOCELE A safs, paicless, permanent cure guarsntesd. 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