Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 31, 1902, Page 28

T 5 B < T T G e — - ——- 8 BANKERS RESERVE LIFE This Name and the Excellent Life Company For Which It Stands Continues THE FAVORITE COMPANY Of the Went, As It Is the Most Aggres- sive and Successful of Western Associations. When the Bankers Reserve Life associ- ation entered upon Its successful career President B. H. Robison, its founder, an- nounced that the new company would pro- vide Nebraskans a home organization for the protection of their families. On this principle the Bankers Reserve Life has bullt itself into the hearts of the people of the west and by economical management, prompt payment of losses, up-to-date contracts and aggressive busi- ness efforts has established in Omaha a first-class company. Within two years the volume of busi- ness of the Bankers Reserve Life assoc a- tion will have reached the handsome sum of $10,000,000 and the annual new business will shortly reach $5,000,000. Within five years from this date the great Nebraska company will be writing $5,000,000 per annum. Thesé phenomenal figures represent a rapid Increase of risks, but they Import also a substantial growth upon a secure foundation. For every single dollar of actual liability represented by this $5,000,000 at risk tho young organization has assets of $5. These assets are growing as the business of the company expands. Every month now carries Into the avallable assete of the company a hand- some sum which under the charter of the company must be invested In Nebraska securities. THe Bankers Reserve Life is a pro- nounced success. It is one of the perman- s iusiitutions of the growing west, as secure for the future as any filduclary in- stitution in this important section of our great natlon, President B. H. Robison needs energetic, experienced and successful life underwrit- ers. 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Telephone 1265, Storz Brewing Co., OMAHA, NEB, T FREE TO DYSFEPTICS, THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. When Nerve T TOOK a man of considerable nerve to hold his own in the northwest some fifteen or twenty years ago when that country was first being settied,” sald B. K. Bowders of Montana, now visiting the capital, to a Washington Post reporter. “A man not only had to have courage, but the physical strength to back it up, and whenever he under- took to make a bluff he had to decide in advance to sustain it, making good all his ertions and acts. When you did a thing in those days and In that country you had to do it to a finish. If you started to rob a train you had to rob it right; if you undertook any gunplay you had to get the drop on your man and be certain that his hands were far enough away from his gun to warrant pulling your eix-shooter down on him. “In short, the people and the communi- ties of the northwest, of the period of which I speak, had no respect for a man whose actions and talk showed that he was faint-hearted or that he did things by halves. I remember one very striking ex- ample of this curious state of affairs, in which I, in one sense, was the victim, “Along in the year 1885 I was in Wyo- m'ng dabbling in mining. Late that year I struck what I considered a very falr pros- pect In the northern part of Wyoming, just across the border from Montana, and deter- mined to stay by it. I employed a big Manxman of the name of Barry to sink the shaft, do assessment work and hold the claim, as it was impossible for me to re- main on the place in person and look after other interests. Besides, I happened, at the time, to be living at a considerable dis- tance from the scene of my mining opera- tions. “Barry was an excellent miner, but he had certain habits that rendered him un- popular among the people of that section, which was about one of the most desolate and unsettled sections of the west. He would not pay his debts. He obtained his supplies from a small village near what is now Dayton, Wyo., in which the only store was a sort of combination saloon, grocery, dry goods and hardware emporium. “T had zent Barry maomey for his wages and for a grub stake, and he had built a cabin on the claim, in which he and his wife lived and kept house. The proprieters of this combination saloon and store were three men, Horr, Butler and Thomas, and, as usual with storekeepers of that period and place, they were bellevers in prompt pdyment. Barry ran up quite a large bill at their store, which he refused to pay and, after trying in various ways to secure their dues from my Matxman, they finally de- cided to take payment ‘out of his hide.’ “Accordingly, they repaired to Barry's cabin one evening and, calling him out, they proceeded to give him the worst thrashing that ever a human being endured. His wife came running out to Interfere, but recelved such a rough reception that she was more than glad to return to the cabin, leaving her husband to the tender mercies of the creditors. Finally, after they had about used him up, they told him to go back to his cabin and not to leave it. This he dld, hoping that the thing was over with, but, as & matter of fact, the fun had just begun. The three men remained on the spot all night long, giving Barry a night ot terror that ‘made his hair curl.’ ““The trio shot at random through the windows of the cabin. One would step up to one of the windows and say, ‘I think he's over in that corner yonder, boys,' fol- lowing up the remark by blazing away in the direction indicated in his observation to the others. Then one of the others would step up and declare that the first was wrong and that he knew that Barry must be in some other quarter of the cabin, biazing away in some other direction. They kept this up unti] dawn. Barry, instead of try- ing to show fight, turned the bed upside down, made his wife lle down behind it where she was most 1'able to be shot, while he crawled in behind her. In other words, he used his wife as a barricade to stop any bullets that might come in that direction. It is a great wonder they were not shot, but as the case stood, they escaped unhurt, lying paralyzed with fright all night behind the rampart of bedclothes and chairs. “After the thing was over with Barry hastened up to where I was living in Mon- tana and told me what had happened. 1 asked him whether or not he put up any fight, to which he replied: ‘Sure, Ol couldn’t. Whin they lift aff batin’ me there wuz me whiskers (he had a pair of fiery red Burnsides, which the boys pulled out during the melee) layin' in the mood, me ribs wuz bruk and bushted; in foine, sor. Of wuz a_total collapse.’ That ‘queered’ Barry wii e, and I let him go. “The st eeper knew that Barry was working for me and that I owned the claim. They also knew that the proper and more civilized way of collecting the debt due them from Barry would have been for them to have referred the matter to me. They also knew that, according to western ways and customs they would hear from me in the matter of their treatment of Barry, and when they got my notice saying that I would be up in three weeks they were on the alert, knowing that something interest- ing would happen when I got there. All three were bad men, and Horr, who was an immense six-footer, was something of a desperate character with more than one notch on the barrel of his six-shooter. ‘When I'left my home to go down fo the bamlet where they kept store I did so Was Needed against the advice of my friends, who were afraid that I might not return alive. “But I was thoroughly familiar with western ways and customs and besides was not looking for fight, but rather to straigh- ten matters up. ““Well, I reached the hamlet, put up at the log structure that happened to be the only thing In the way of a hotel in the place, wrote my name on the account book that served as a hotel register and had not been in the place more than ten minutes before someone slapped me on the back hard enough to have knocked a del'cate man down and said: ‘Is your name Sowders?' I turned about and saw a big man with a fist like one of the hind hoofs of a mule. He sald: ‘My name is Horr, and for six months I've been hating you wusser'n h—1.’ I replied that he had solved my identity and that if he had been hating me any longer and more intensely than T had him he must have hated ‘mighty hard.’ “This ‘called his bluff’ right at the start, and Jaughing it off, he Invited me over to his saloon to bave a drink. I proposed ‘to stay right with him’ and accompanied him to the bar. My Introduction to the other members of the firm was brief and to the purpose. Horr sald, speaking of Butler and Thomas, who were behind the bar waiting on customers: ‘Boys, this is Bowders. He came up here to see us about the way we rough-housed Barry.' “I was well armed, having a small' 82- caliber revolver in my right hip pocket and a large 44 Colt concealed under my trousers belt in front. We had several glasses of beer (at 26 cents per glass), and then it was that Horr, coming up to my side, ‘tapped’ me. This is a peculiar western custom that is fast disappearing, about which eastern people know very little. Whenever trouble is in prospect, and even at times when every one appears to be friendly and peaceably inclined, those about are always anxlous .to know and to as- certain how the other is fixed in the matter of firearms. To do this they have a way of slapping you on the hips to ascertain the number and the kind of weapons you have concealed about your person. It is all dong in & frieadiy way, of course, but at .the same time it is not without its serious side. ““This is what Horr did In my case. He missed the big eix-shooter, but found the little 82, which, before I could stop him. he jerked out of my pocket. When he dia this he emptied the cylinder of its cart- ridges, threw them on the floor, stuck the revolver in his own pocket, and sald: ‘What were you going to do with that pop. gun? As he said this he gave a low laugh or chuckle, concerning which I had heard a great deal and knew to be ominous. It appears that whenever Horr got in a mur- derous mood and killed some one he al- ways indulged in this pecullar chuckling laugh of his. “I told him that if he got in front of that gun when it was in my hands he would not think that it was such a popgun as he imag- ined. All this led to more talking and more drinking. Horr became exceedingly jovial and friendly until finally, in an outburst of apparent good feeling, he addressed me by an epithet that no man, either there or elsewhere, ever allows to pass unchallenged, and as he did so I turned to him and sald: “ ‘Horr, 1 have got a boy who Is going to school, and when he started in I told him that if he ever let any one call him by that name without fighting I would give him the worst whipping he ever got in his life. Now I am quite certain that I would not give one of my children advice that I would not take myselt and you must either retract that word and apologize or you and I will bunch right here.’ ““The cowboys and miners in the salocn all began craning their necks at this and look- ing for trouble. They expected to see Horr make mincemeat out of me then and there, for in all their lives they had never seen anyone beard the lion in his den in the way that I was calling Horr to account. The other members of the firm evidently did not want to see trouble and joined in telling Horr that he ought to apologize. This Horr did very grace- fully, saying that it was a mere slip of the tongue, that he was merely joking, ete., and I was just on the peint of holding out my hand to him, when suddenly he changed his tone and said: ““But I don’t want you to think I 'pologize because I think that you're a better man.’ “This made matters worse than ever. I saw that to weaken meant either death or the same thing that Barry got, so, stepping up to Horr, I shook my fist in his face and told him that if he had not apolo- gized he would have gome out over the low transom of the Bsaloon doorway, my intention being to knock him senseless with the butt of my sixshooter and then throw him out through the aperture in question. At this Horr bristled up, saying that such & boast struck him-as a ‘purty b'g under- takin'' 1 stepped over to the door, took the measure of the transom with my hand, returned, and, shaking my fist in his face until T fairly rubbed it against his nose, I sald: ‘Horr, It's not one inch larger than I had calculated on.' ‘“This brought things to a elimax, and, according to western ways, we were ‘due to fight' then and there, words hav'ng been exhausted, but Butler and Thomas, seeing that I came rather on business than for trouble, and that I was uot afrald of any of them, ran out from behind the counter, saying thut matters had gone far emough, and proposing that we all four drink and be friends. “That was my introduction into the so- clety of a western mining hamlet during the ’'80s, when every man was required to show what sort of stuff he had in him. I settled everything up to the satisfaction of all parties concerned, and if I should go back there now those same people woula recelve me with a brass band.” Carpenter’s Letter (Continued from Sixth Page.) will even rent them out for a considera- tion. If the Birmingham man does not care to | buy a gas stove the city will put in one for him at a rent of 2 cents a week or $1.04 a year, or he can have a larger stove for 3 cents per week. A small gas boiler about as big around as a tea plate, with little holes about the edge, s furnished for | nothing. The gas for poor people Is largely dis- tributed through penny-in-the-slot meters. These meters are like the ordinary gas meters save that each has a hole in the top. Dropping a penny in the hole opens a valve, which lets out enough gas to run three burners for three hours. The gas can be turned on and off, so that the econom- ical man can burn less and have his lights for perhaps 1 cent per night. The meter is connected also with a gas stove, and 1 am told that 1 penny will give enough gas to cook a dinner for a family. There are other meters so arranged that you can put a shilling in the slot and get a proportion- ately larger amount of gas. These meters are used to some extent by the better class familles. I noticed especially that all the | flexible connecting tubes in this gas office were of American make, and the manager told me that the city bought all such sup- plies from the United States. FRANK G. CARPENTER. Cannibal Joke Judge: ““And what,” asked the canni- bal chieftain, in his kindest tones, ‘‘what was your business before you were cap- tured by my men?"” “l was a newspaper man,” answered the captive, “An editor?” “No, merely a subeditor.” “Cheer up, young man. 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