Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 31, 1903, Page 11

Our Open Account Gredit Plan Is far ahead of old fogy mcthods » »# You see, we trust the people “out and out.” No references required. No security, no interest, no mortgage. Simply a Plain, 01d Fashioned Charge Acconnt All business relations ‘strictly confidential. Why not trade with the house that carries high grade, hand-tailored clothing. Everything for man or boy. You make your own terms. PAY AS YOU LIKE. Our system is to make terms to suit you. or monthly. g CUT THIS OUT Bring the coupon below with you, and we will accept it as $1 in cash. G4 600000000009 Good for $1.00 OMAHA CLOTHING CO. O e e e e =% o S We do this to get you started in opening an account. Grand Sale Saturday, Lamb’s wool underwear, regu- ular $1 garment, only 49¢c. Heavy cotton underwear, 50c quality, for 29¢c. Heavy fleece lined underwear, 50c quality, for garment, 350. Men’s all worsted pants, $3.00 quality for $1.75. Men’s all worsted pants, $1.756 quality for 98c. Btrouse & Bros’ high art suits, hreone ) s ie yume) " all” hand-tailored, $13.98. Ehe “Strathord” Kirschbaum’s belt overcoats, 50 inches long, hand- made throughout, at.... .....$18.00 These garments are equal to any $35 tailor-made. Belt overcoats, 50 inches long, at .......v woeese....$7.60 Men’s hand-finished worsted suits ........ ...... ..$1250 Men’s all wool serge lined suits, hair cloth fronts. ...$9.98 Men’s silk lined black unfinished worsted suits, all hand tailored..... +...816.76 Black unfinished worsted suits ... ....$748 W.E GIVE TRADING STAMPS. OMAHA CLOTHING CO. 1314 FARNAM STREET. Pay weekly Wmrqlt;zmummnnumfulmll“U -m-%““‘ C\HINm‘A \ | " 1:”'\ I ‘.‘}‘\.‘ Shoe Polishing a Pleasare_ SHINOLA is the wooder of the m- It is the shoe TR, TRET AL s, e, Vet o0 o vt v BHINOLA Bt o2t 5t Potier Ooes W e e Shinocla Co., Rochester, N. Y. A well heated office for $10.00 per month Before the cold weather sets in, it might be well for you to stop THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: ON THE BLACK HILLS TRAIL Lively Experience of Oolonel Jim Bake While Oarrying the Mail. IND!ANS GIVE HIM A RUN HOSTILE Starving and Penniless, He Took a Job No One Else Would Venture Upon—Tragedies of the Trall, “The year 1 carried the Black Hiills furnishes the most thrilling fons of all my career on the said Colonel Jim Baker to a veteran plainsmen the other even- had been in General Custer's Seventh cavairy in the Cheyenne and Kiowa wars in Kansas, and had tried my hand at cowpunching on the Texas Pan- handle. 8o I had seen something of a strenuous life and had some risky ex- periences. But those months of mall carrying in the Sloux country went be- yond anything 1 had met with before. “I quit the army service in the fall of 187, and catching the gold fever that then raged In the Black Hills:struck out for Deadwood. Two army chums and myself located on Bear creek In February, 1876, and in about & month we were clean broke and all our capital of years of saving was gone. “Misery and dejection are no name for the way we felt. Hungry and miserable, we walked amid snow and ice to Custer City, and thero we heard lots of hard luck storfes like our own. After looking around for work I heard of a job at carry- ing the mail across the country to the Black Hills at $0 a,month. “A dozen courageous fellows had declined the job before I heard of it. Hostile Sloux abounded. Every day brought news of a fresh murder of settlers and prospectors by the Indians. “The offer of good money to carry the mail appealed to me, almost starving and wholly discouraged as I was. I hadn't eaten a thing then for thirty hours, and I didn't know whether I was ever going to have & meal again. Taking a Despe mail Into the te Job. “So I went to the man over at Keegan's who had the job to give out, and said that for $10 down and $40 more in two weeks I'd carry the mail to the Hills. A ten dollar gold plece was thrust into my hand, and I was immediately sworn into Uncle Sam's service. 1 was ordered to report for my first ride at 7 that night. “With the money in my pocket, T hunted up my two mining comrades, and we had a great fill-up. Both of my friends de- plored my acceptance of the risky job. They felt that I had sold myself to certatn death. I reported for duty. A carbine and a revolver were given to me and I started off for the Red Cloud agency. ““The first fifteen miles twisted and turned around the rolling hills. It was bright moonlight. As I galloped along I thought of every bit of recent news I had heard of Sloux attacks on lonely travelers among the desolate hills. I fancled that I saw Indians skulking behind every boulder and in every clump of chaparral. A dozen times I was cocksure I saw Indians lying in wait for me. “It was past midnight. The moon had gone down. I had begun to think the Indlan massacre storles were about all imaginary. I let my horse come to a walk. I had crossed Cottonwood creek and was climbing up the trail among the trees. “Buddenly my horse stopped, and I almost fell off. I vainly punched my spurs into his flanks, and by words tried to urge him torward. “He stood snorting and quivering, and I jumped oft and with my shooting iron in my hand tried to lead him. He stood stone still. “In the darkness I felt around in the mud and slush. My foot struck something a yard in tront of the horse. I pulled oft my gloves and felt a human head, cold and sticky with blood. “It was a horrible moment. No doubt there were frenzied savages all about, walting for more white lives, All my boasted nerve vanished. I was as weak as a dish rag. “It was a woman's head. I knew that the woman was a settler's wife, and that her husband’s body and possibly her child's must be near in the darkmess. With trembling hands and knocking knees, I led my horse around the woman's body, and, climbing Into my saddle, I dug my epurs Into the horse and rode on desperately. “I reached a camp of a dozen emigrants just at dawn. They had seen Sfoux the day before and had been up and around all night. I told them of my discovery back PREACHER BILL. Bil, Our Bill, Hez preached a sermon, An’ these old eyes, Seen him do it Text Was sunthin' ‘Bout old Boaz— Don't know what An' 1t don't matter— But the things He sald was common, Common sense, By thunderation! Saya, on the trafl, and they told of Indian mur- ders they had known of personally. “1 stayed in the emigrant camp that day, Po jerked beef and slept. When night came on I started for Red Cloud agency. With the exception of seeing & Sioux camp- fire some elght miles away, off on a hill- side, nothing unusual occurred that night “I reached the agency early in the gorn- ing, and, having delivered my papers, had a meal and slept. That night 1 started on the return trip to Custer City. It was safer for a person alone to travel in the Indian country under cover of darkness. “From that time on I was a regular mail carrier from Custer City to the Black Hills. We were pald 50 cents a letter, and the gov- ernment contractor made money besides. 1 made the round trip from Custer City to the hills once a week from April to No- vember, when the advaneing raflroad put an end to the profits In the job, “Something hair-raising occurred on al- most every weekly trip. If it hadn't been for the good money there was in it, I wouldn't have stuck a month “One trip 1 was fording a creek when T was fired upon by a bunch of Sloux, who lay among the bushes over to the west How I ever got away I8 & mystery. “Fully fifteen bullets were sent whizzing after me as my frightened horse bore me over the brow of a hill. The Indians were on foot or I surely would have been fol- lowed and slain. “Another time, just at sunrise, I saw a man riding a horse like a madman toward Red Cloud agency. He wore only a shirt, and that was red with blood from a bullet through his shoulder. “I caught up with him. He and two other men were making thelr way into the Black Hills, and in camp, while asleep, had been attacked by Indl He got away, while his companions were fighting for their lives with the Bioux. A few days later the man's companions were found hacked to pleces about the ashes of the camp fire. “Friendly Indlans at the agency and scouts told me frequently that I was sure to be caught by the Bloux some time, for the ides. was abroad that the lone riders with the leathern pouches carried valu- ables and information about the Indians. A Race for Life, “One morning when I was about to camp In & secluded spot where I could get water and could sleep till night, I saw a bunch of six or seven Indians coming full tiit toward me. They were three miles distant. I leaped Into my saddle and got out my six-shooter and left the trail like a whirlwind. “There was a creek there, and it was elght miles from the Cheyenne river, Usu- ally some emigrants are camping there, and I felt that if I could reach the river I would have help in fighting off the Indians. “But how to get there? I knew that my time for a race for life had come, My horse knew the danger, too. *“We reached the high bluffs of the Chey- enne. Not a human being was there, When I dashed up the rise of ground and made a good target of myself, the Indians, who had gained fast upon me, yelled, I can hear the yelling now, and feel the way my heart thumped. Bullets pinged all about me. It seemed as If I never would get up and over the blufts. I was about to jump off and, facing the Indlans, eell my life as dearly as possible. “Then over the crest of the bluffs we went. I jabbed the spurs harder than ever into the beast's flanks. The Indlans came galloping and screeching behind. “My horse leaped into the stream. I urged and spurred him on. My sombrero was gone. Isaw that the odds were against me. More volleys from the Indians, but the shots fell short. £+My horse was in the middle of the river. The Indlans dashed down the bluffs, as If to follow me across the Cheyenne, but they stopped at the water's edge. They probably believed that there were soldlers in camp on the cpposite side and that quickly there would be a camp uproar. “The unsteady movements of my horse in the water saved my life, for none of the shots sent after me hit. My horse was wounded In the neck, and that started him more frantically for the shore. “It seemed llke ages while we struggled there in the muddy current. The yelling eavages were firing at m2. Finally, with a bound the horse touched the shore, and up over the opposite bank we went flying. I glanced back and saw the Indians making ready for another and final volley. “Twenty miles still lay between me and Custer City. I thought the Indians would ride efght miles up the river to Green Rock and there head me off, seventeen miles from Custer City. As I rode I sesolved that if the Indians should be at Green Rock I'd shoot' my horse and, using the carcass as a bulwark, lie behind it and shoot as long as I could ralse my gun. “My horse could not last more than a few miles at the rate he was going. Indeed, few horses could have done what he had already done. A turn in the road among the hills, and I saw approaching a lone mule train carrying supplies into the hills. ‘Whew! What joy the sight was. I knew my carcass was saved that day anyhow. “The Indlans must have seen the train, too, for 1 saw no more of them. I rested with the teamsters several hours, and then jogged on easily toward Custer City. “But my faithful horse was ruined. Do what we could to nurse and doctor the beast, he was a nervous wreck and died a lttle later. “T had one or two more lively experi- ences with the Indlans, but that was the nearest 1 ever came to death while a Black Hills mail carrier.”—New York Sun. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 81, 1908. City Market House, 14ATH ST. AND CAPITOL AVE., Parmelee & Redfearn Telephone 3405, First to offer goods for sale at City Market House, We give green trading stamps. I the big rooster and hen. We dress our poultry each day. No cold storage handled. Fresh killed spring chickens, per Ib. Fresh killed hens, per Ib....... Fresh killed ducks, per Ib... Fresh killed turkeys, per 1b Fresh country eggs, per dc Fresh country butter, per Ib Cholce creamery butter, per 1b Tub butter, per Ib. Oysters, per quart Horse radish, per bottle. We deliver goods. Ask for groen trading stamps. T. MARINELLI STALL NO. 16. I am carrying a full line of vegetables at lowest prices. Cabbage, per head, . Be Cabbage, per dozen. 3 Bweet J\ulllou per bus Colorado potatoes, per bus! Green peppers, Carrots, per bas| Squash, per doz. Hubbard. Green tomatoes, per busket. Cooking apples, per bushel. Onions, per bushel. Datones, Sonions and radishies, d bunches. o Turnips. per baske! 200 ps, per baskel each pet, basket. Look for stall next to Parmelee & Red- fearn for vegetables and fruit and recel Green Trading stamps. GEO. ZARROW & BRO. Call at Market House Stall 28 For cut flowers and plants. Moderats prices. When shopping at the Market House stop at the Lunch Counter Where we serve the best cup of coffee in town and all kinds of lunches at reasonable rates. cf Swift's JJSwift's Winchester ba . 1 No. 28, I am now open for business, carrying a tull and complete line of fresh and smoked ow we quote a few of our prices: Strictly fresh country eggs, per doz Fresh Brookfleld creamery butter Premium hams.. 20 on wift's Silver Leaf lard, Ib. .a_cheese, in 1-1b. prints Cheese. . , per Extra fine Vienna sausage, Dried beef, per can.. Corned beef, per can T also_carry a nice and of cracked eggs for cooking per Ib. Boneless pige’ teet, Der ib.... 8 bars Swift's Pride soap. A compiete line of fancy toflet soaps, 3 bars per bok We are leaders in low prices; others fol- ow. Look for HAZEN'S MARKET, VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. Apples, per bushel.. Potatoes, ps* bushel, Sweet potatoes, per b Onions, per bushel. Turnips, per oushei 3z Eia; Green peppers—p: Pumpkins, per Celery, per dozen Lettuce, per dozen Fresh, Salt and Smoked Ments. Poultry and home-made sausage, Home-| made lard at the lowest prices. 3. W. BROWN, Fish Market, All kinds of fish and poultry, includin chickens, ducks, geese, all kinds of wil game. Located fn Stall No. Quincy Meat and Fish Market PRICES FOR SATURDAY: STEER BEEF. und steak, per Ib uck steak, per Ib. Chuck roast, per Ib. Reet boll, per 1b Rib ends, per I FR Pork steak, per Ib. Pork chops, per 1b Pork loins, Spara ribs, Leaf lard, per 1b. Pig tails,'ears and ‘snouts, per Fresh pig feet, per Ib. New Orleans spare ribs, per All kinds of fresh fish. CURED MEATS. Hams, No. 1 fancy, per Ib.... Bacon, fancy, per ib Bacon, No. 1, per pound . Boiled' harms, per Ib. Cracked wind No. 1 country overy day. " GOuntey bUtter, Sreamery but- process butter. ything retalled cheaper than whole- MeCord-Brady Co. A Coffee. SPECIAL. Gold Medal coffee, 10c, 12%o, 15¢, 3o.... TEAS AND BPICES. CATea Dust . Uncolored Japan . English Breakfast Gunpowder, 3¢ . SPECIAL TOILET SOAP. Regular 5‘. box, Coday JOHN GOCKE Meat Market. Dealer in fresh meats at east end of mar- ket house. ‘WM. GENERT, Sausage and Meats. Home-Made Smoked Summer sausage. Vienna sausage. Garlic sausage. Frankturt, fFosh ana smoked Kn: usage. Pork sausage. Liver sausage. Blood sa o ‘Tongue bloo Goose breast. session of all the means of transport to- gether."” The surface facilities contribute extraor- dinarily high payments to the municipal treasury. For the underground tunnels the city reserves only sufficlent rental to pay interest on the capital cost and to wipe out the principal in seventy-five years. ‘The changes of policy represented by these dramatic contrasts constitute one of the most striking pages of recent municipal history. There are in the city nearly fifty 'bus routes, about sixty tram lines and numerous “penetration” lines, which run also into the suburbs. The 'buses and a considerable part of the tram cars are still drawn by horses, while the balance of the tram lines are operated by nine different kinds of mechan- fcal power, namely, cable, compressed air, the overhead trolley (on one short line), the underground trolley, the storage battery, the surface contact system and three sys: tems of applying steam. Half a score of in- dependent companies conduct these unre- lated systems. Accommodations are insufi- clent, speed s slow, routes are disjointed, transfers are only given between lines of the same company, and then only for first- class fares. The situation is prejudiclal alike to operating economy and public con- venlence. The cost to users is also high. A few of the electric “‘penetration’ lines have 2 and 3 cent fares within the city. The prevallin fares, however, are 3 cents for second-class and 6 cents for first-class, while only the latter fare carries the right to a transfer. These rates are very high in comparison with European standards, and especlally for a city comprising 2,600,000 pecple within an area of only thirty square miles. The extraordinary number of Paris cabs, about 10,000, and their comparatively high rates— about 35 cents per ride—also reflect the un. satisfactoriness of surface accommodations. From the varlous sorts of surface facli- tles, however, cabs, 'buses and tram cars, the city actually recelves something like $1,200,000 in special payments each year. Every 'bus, for example, pays a license fee of $200 yearly, and the proverbial prohibi- tion against crowding in Paris conveyances fs probably intended more to prevent a re- duction of such license fees than as & pro- tective measure for passengers. On the un- derground road, where there is no such license fee, crowding goes on unhindered. The lack in the great French metropolis of even creditable, to say nothing of su- pefior, means of surface travel, is doubt- less attributable in part at least to a greedy instead of an enterprising public attitude toward the whole subject. The monopoly fifty-year franchise of the General Omnibus company has amounted to a compact be- tween the city and the company to exploft the public by taking large profits for each party to that compact without promoting advanced or even up-to-date transportation development.—Chicago Record-Herald. Bolls, Sores and Felo Find prompt, sure cure in Bucklen's Arnica Balve, also eczema, salt rheum, burns, bruises and plles, or no pay. 2c. For sale by Kuhn & Co. Inspect the Public Schools, BOSTON, Oct. 30.—The last day of the Furniture Rugs Curtains You Can Buy Saturday and Monday BOSTON ROCKERS §{1‘h lplnflle back nolld Arm Rocker—worth $3.60— ARM CHAIR Bolld oak, high spindle back, solld Arm Chair—the §3.35 kind—a office or library SETTEES Library or Reception Hall Bettees—in quarter-sawed mahogany- ?i backs—worth $17. "t e DRESSER Large Solld Oak Dresser—base ol L78 00-—for 8.50 45 inches long—French mire r 24x20-nicely carved—worth fllefl—tol‘ P i 8 Bo RUGS AND CURTAINS It you want Rugs, we will save you fully 15 per cent on lary Rool Rugs Ly The 'gest line of up-to-date m Blze in the city. ORIENTAL RUGS For(wodufilmwfllflv.’ou.!p-'untdlnuntwnurfidlum of Oriental Rugs. CURTA NS We will Ilce on sale 100 pairs fine B: s - Dol skt D le-\l‘ e Brusse] l.ndArl.InCur h $5.00—for—per .2.78 Baker Furniture Co. 1315-17- 9 Farnam Street. [THE BENNETT CO0. .~ You’ll be interested in this advance sale of Fall and Winter Suits and Overceats if you wish to save mioney. Here's $40.00 worth of merchandise for $20.00—Suit and Overcoat. Exquisite cloth- ing, new and up-to-date, $20, $18, $15. Black Cheviot Overcoat, very long, $15 to $20. Oxford Frieze Overcoat, very long, $15 to $20 Overcoats, same material, kneg lengths. to think whether you are apt to freeze to death in your offios this winter. There's no use staying in a cold office all winter. THE BEE BUILDING It you ask one of its tenants you will find it's always comfort- able, no matter how ecold the weather. You would better move before it's cold. There are three pleasant small rooms at $10.00 per month—one or twe larger rooms at reasonable prices. visit to_this city of the members of the Mosely Educational commission from Great Britain 2 with an_inspection of the public ools of the city for the third time. The visitors also spent several hours at Harvard university. Says he: “Man’s what food makes him, Orn'ry cookin' wrecks the sperret, Greasy vittils busts commandments, An' the pit of hell's demnation Is the pit of & bad stomach.” Boy Cured of Croup in Fifteen Minutes. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy cured our little 4-year-old boy of croup In fifteen minutes. My wife and I have used this remedy In our family for the past five years, having tried many other kinds pre- vious to that time, and can say that we consider it far superior to any other. We A RAINPROOF “Wheat is the only are mever without It in our home.--Frank OVERCOAT Food that civilizes nations; Hellyer, Ipava, 1L Wheat bullt up the black Ly » Egyptians, till they tried RAPID TRANSIT IN PARIS the Wflfr 5“""‘! A change of diet— 1 o | f this famous mark Surface and Underground Meauns of | | Transportation Varied and filfred Befljamm a@ An' biled onlons— Interior. MAKERS 3 NEW YORK Then some wheat-fed Fellers lick't 'em. rfect Rain Coat--astylish Fall Overcoat. Olive, tan, and gray rainproof fabrics; contain no rubber--never heat you up or smell musty like a mackine or rubber coat. 50 inches long; with or without belt in the back; hand-shaped and hand -tailored like :Il other BENJAMIN Clothes. The ideal all-around coat for correct, economical dressers. b":r:n Is right. Your money Thi stors selle ‘Them here—se other, GUARANTEE CLO. CO. 151921 Douglas Street Says, Savs he: t Men's and Youths’ Fall and Winter Weigh Suits, $15 to $18; well made, fancy mixed guits, $15 to $18; blue or black cheviot suits, regular $15 to $18; black thibet suit, 815 to $18; black unfinished worsted suits, all marked down for a quick sale to $10.00 Take advantage of this special sale Clothing Dept. MAIN FLOOR. R. C. PETERS & CO. RENTAL AGENTS GROUND FLOOR BEE BUILDING Says, Says he: “Wheat, predigested, Maltosed, cooked An' fit fer usin’ (Like them READY BITS we read of) Shows the highest State of pro-gress.” The surface transportation facilities of | Paris are the most expensive in fares and the most belated to be found in any great city of the continent. The new Paris un- derground road—now partially in operation —promises to be the cheapest and most complete local rapid transit system ever undertaken. The surface facilities are privately owned and operated. The underground is leased to an operating company, but the tunnels are bullt and owned by the city. The surface facilities are in the main cov- ered by a franchise extension granted in 1500 for fifty years, without any avallable reservation for municipalization during the period. The underground is leased for & period of thirty-five years, with the right reserved to the city to take over the busi- Bays, ness on equitable terms after 1910. | Bays he ‘The unvarying practice for surface facili- “So fine a diet tles has been to lease them solely to private As them READY BITS enterprise. The city's mos: cesolute stand I mentioned, in the negotiations for leasing the under- Makes & woman's life worth livin', ground was that taken for the right of mu- Makes a man less of a savage, nicipalization after 1910, and, according to Gives a lift to dadly labor, the officlal report, the special object of fix- An’ by makin' tempers sweeter, ing upon this date “on which the omnibus Is an aid and tramwey monopoly expires,” was to in- “To all religion.” mure the city the right then “te take pos- EXTRAORDINARY OFFER Nothing Down. Bays, Says he: “It saves the housewife Hours of bilin' grindin’ Saves the household Time an' patience, Costs but fifteen cents A package, An’' makes breakfast Always ready." labor; Take a Columbia Grapho- phone home with you. You y cash for the records and begin paying for the Graphophone a week later oca nstallments. i and ln\'enll ate. Terms to suit Al Just ml‘had 1000 of the new hard moulded cylindrical records. They fit Minds of cylinder machines. 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