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SHORT STORIES OF THE DAY
Adventures of Sylvester Frank Wilton ,
Formerly of Nebraska.
NOW AGUINALDO'S ' AGENT AT HONG KONG
NebrnnUii lloy'M Career In the Navy
XHTeet of Trumpet Hliint lit a Ito-
vlvul Meeting Colonel StnUen-
ISnrly .Military Life.
Sylvustor Frank Wilson , mentioned fn the
dispatches from Hang Kong as a member of
the Agutnaldo Junta there. Is well known to
the older residents of Omaha , to whom bin
Intcst fantastic venture will bo no surprise.
Any one who knows Wilson , however , will
1)0 Inclined to demand an acknowledgment
from Agulnaldo himself before believing that
( Wilson Is In truth ono of his representative ! ? .
Wilson nourished In Nebraska eighteen or
twenty years ogp , when ho was publishing a
paper at Jiumboldt , Richardson county. His
eheet was of the wide-open variety and was
well ( nullified to bo called the father of
yellow journalism. Because of It he became
Involved In a. controversy with a. man who
called himself "Doctor" dandy , and the lat
ter bad the editor arrested by the United
States marshal for violation of the postal
laws In Bonding obscene matter through the
malls , most of which matter concerned
Oandy. Wilson was brought by the author
ities to Omaha and confined In the county
Jail. Hero ho posed as a martyr by writing
articles on the freedom of the press and
Rotting them printed In the local papers.
About this time George Francis Train hap
pened along and being attracted by Wilson's
Culminations took up his cause , adding much
to the self-styled martyr's notoriety In his
own peculiar way , The burden of Train's
song was , llko that of Wilson , tbo freedom
of the prcto.
After Wilson's release from Jail ho went
out over the state , representing himself as
A correspondent of The Dee , only to be dis
credited by a warning to the public when
bo was discovered. Then he went to Phila
delphia and repeated there his Omaha ex
periences , starting another yellow sheet and
getting Into jail for some of bis publications ,
Ho went through the' same program of bid
ding for sympathy In oppression and suc
ceeded In stirring up quite a sensation.
After that Wilson drifted from ono place
to another , finally landing In Kansas City ,
He claimed then1 to bo a newspaper man of
experience , and , having a rather pleasing
personality , succeeded in getting control of
enough capital to start 'the Penny Post ,
which soon developed Into the same kind of
a sheet as he bad published In Humboldt
nnd Philadelphia. It Is said that when he
had exhausted thu funds with which be
started he Interested four cither persona and
caused them to lose considerable money In
Ills venture. Then , four mouths after start
ing the paper , ho disappeared from Kansas
City , leaving a large number of debts and
a reputation by no means deslrdble. The
following spring ho reappeared as the man
ager of a female base ball team , which
played several games there. Hearing that
n warrant wag out for hit arrest , he again
left the city suddenly. He was then lest
eight of until he appeared In New York and
was imprisoned for a term of yearn for some
eerloue crime.
Now he Is heard from as an agent of the
Filipinos iu Hong Kong. Tbo dispatches
I
convey the Impression that his duties con
sist of smuggling arms and munitions of
war to the Insurgents , and if this la the
case the Filipinos have a good man for the
purpose. Wilson was a handsome man , of
good presence and gifted with the power to
make men confide In him. While ho was
In Nebraska he always turned up at Lincoln
to serve as a lobbyist In the legislature , and ,
judging from the successes be made of his
own schemes , ho must have been a valuable
servant for others.
Although much has ten written con
cerning Nebraska's representation In the
Philippine campaign , especially olnce the
return of the First Nebraska , but compara
tively little Is known of the state's repre
sentation In the navy. Ono'of Nebraska's
naval representatives Is Senior Lieutenant
Matt H. Signer , now on the gunboat Castlno
at Hollo.
In 1885 , when George W. E. Dorsey was
msmber of congress from the Third district ,
he was notified by the Navy department
that ho was entitled to the appointment of
a cadet to 'be ' educated at the Naval acad-
t-my at Annapolis. During the previous
winter C. B. Slgnor , editor of the republi
can newspaper at Plum Creek , had visited
Washington during the session of congress
to plead his case before the war claims
committee- whom had bson referred his
claim of $10,000 Indemnity for the blunder
of a colored soldier , who shot off his right
arm at Memphis In 1864 , Mr. Slgnor being
a civilian. Mr. Slgnor said to the commit
tee : "I do not ask for this Indemnity for
the act of the servant of the government
because I cannot make a living , for I can ;
but I have a eon In college at Hastings ,
Nob. , and I find the burden of his educa
tion too much for me , and I have to go to
the bank and borrow for him. " A member
of the committee from Stroudsberg , Pa. ,
answered : "If you have n son to educate ,
the government has two institutions of
learning , the equals of Yale- and Harvard ;
If a soldier of the government has wronged
you , why not try to have the government
educate your son ? "
Mr. Slgnor found the limit for entrance
to the United States Military academy was
from 16 to 18 years , and at the Naval
academy from 14 to 17 years. His eon was
about 16. So bo took the first train for An
napolis and put In a full day visiting the
academy. After Interviews -with Super
intendent namsoy , Lieutenant Green , Chap
lain and Mrs. McAllister , Lieutenant Rlt-
tenhoaso and Lieutenant Leutze , ho con
cluded that a naval course keeps a young
man busy at drill and study , and is so ex
acting that two-thirds of any claea that begins -
gins the four-years' course Sails to keep up
and Is discharged baforo graduation.
Congressman Dorsey gave notice for a
competitive examination , and ten I/right
boye from as many different towns met In
Fremont and , competed for the honor before
five examiners. The son of a worthy widow
at West Point , Neb. , was chosen , and Matt
Hovvlaud Slgnor of Plum Creek was named
as alternate. The West Point boy went to
Annapolis In September , but failed to pa3s
the entrance examination. It may sound
curious , ibut It is nevertheless a fact , that
ono of the reasons given why bo would not
do for a commander In the United States
navy was that there waa too little arch in
the bottom of his foot ,
Then came Matt Signer's turn to try for it ,
and in May , 1886 , he and 120 other boys ,
nominated from all parta of the country ,
endeavor-til to pas * the entrance examina
tion. There were eighty who succeeded.
Of these only thirty-nine were able to keep
the pace and graduate in 1S90. Though from
aa inland , mm-marltlme state , young Signer
served during the last year of hlo academy
course as cadet lieutenant when the school
was oilt for drill.
Ho served for two years in Pacific waters
on the cruiser Charleston , under Captains
Homy and Dicklns , visiting China , Japan ,
Sandwich islands , Mexico and Chili.
For six years he waa a junior
officer on various United States ves
sels on the Atlantic , visiting many
porta of the United States , also of England ,
Portugal , Morocco , South America , West In
dies and Central America.
When the Maine ws blown up and sunk
Ensign Slgnor wan In charge of a. section of
the flfty-flv runners having a two-months'
drill with cannon sjjd targets in Port Royal
Sound , S. C. These gunners belonged to
the North 'Atlantic ' squadron , five of them
to the Maine , and Ensign Signer then wrote
hla friends In Nebraska that his section of
the gun school did some fine work on the
monitor Amphltrlte. In convoying Shatter's
army to Cuba , Ensign Slgnor was second In
command of the torpedo boat Rodgers , whoso
2,000 horse power engines were continually
shaking the little boat into disrepair. In
the summer of 1898 he was ordered to tlie
gunboat Castlne , then lying In Boston
harbor , with hundreds of men at work Im
proving It. Hero he enjoyed access to the
Boston publlo libraries. When ready the
Castlno was sent to Havana , thence In the
winter to Manila. In May and Juno of this
year the vessel scouted down along the
Philippine coast , capturing and turning back
many vessels carrying provisions to the Filipinos
pines , and on dawn to Sydney , Australia ,
It then returned to Manila.
The effect of the navy personnel bill passed
by congress lo t spring was to promote
young Slgnor .to senior lieutenant upon his
passing a professional and physical exami
nation , wbloh he has done since arriving In
Manila.
Last Sunday morning1 four trumpeters
played a part in the grand anthem "Unfold
Yo Portals , " at the First Methodist church.
The sound of the four Instruments had a
peculiar effect , coming as It did from a bal
cony high up , and It brougnt to tno mind o'
one of the Methodlat brethren the story told
of old Peter Cartwrlght , the famous
preacher and clrcult-rlder of many years
ago. '
The exhorter was holding a camp-meetlni ,
In Ohio. There was a great number of
campers on the Held and the eccentric
speaker addressed vast concourses at every
service , ibut bo thought too few wore being
converted. Ho felt that something should
bo done to stir the sinners to repentance ,
eo ho prepared a strong sermon on tbo second
end coming of Christ. Ho told how the
world would go on In its sin and wickedness
and at last Gabriel would sound his trumpet
and tlmo would come to an end. Ho de
scribed the horrors of the lost and the joys
of these who were saved. The sermon grew
in Intensity , and ho brought his people up
to a grand climax when suddenly the sound
of a trumpet smote the cars of tbo anxious
throngs. ,
Thcro waa a great sensation and many fell
upon their knees in terror and began to re
pent and pray. Women screamed and
strong men groaned ; pandemonium was let
loose for a few minuses , After the terror
had somewhat ceased , tbo preacher called
to a man up a tree and be descended with a
long tin bora in hUt hand. The speaker
then turned In tierce wrath and upbraided
the people. Ho cried out in stentorian tones
that If a man with u tin horn up a tree
could frighten them so , how would U be In
the last great end whan Gabriel's trumpet
sounded the knell of the world , The ser >
inon hod a crcat effect upon , the vast audi
ence , and many hundreds 'Hocked to the
front and were thoroughly converted.
Charles H. 3ruegroan of this city served
during a number of campaigns in the south
west In the early ' 80s either directly under
the late Colonel Stotscnburg , then a second
lieutenant , or in the same command. Stot-
senburg's services as the bead of the corps
of Apache scout and as an officer of his
troop were Invaluable , and even at that tlmo
ho showed himself the thorough soldier.
"At one time , " said Mr. Bruegman the
other day , "I was In a scouting party which
Lieutenant Stotsenburg commanded and
which Included a number of Apache scouts.
Stotsenblirg dressed Just llko the men under
dor him a pair of blue troueers , dark blue
army shirt and a red handkerchief about his
neck. Whenever the men were moving on
foot bo walked , too. We had only three
clear days out of twenty on that trip ; most
of the tlmo It was raining day and night.
"Stotsenburg was ono of three or four
officers who came out from the Point to our
roglmon't In the same year. Most young
officers curse their men about as badly as
they can , 'but ' these lieutenants did not
Stotsenburg , especially , never swore at a
man. In camp he was a very strict disci
plinarian , but on the trail ho was always
looking out for the welfare of the men nnd
treated them the best be could. Often , when
wo would como to town and some at the
boys were out of money , they would go to
Btotsenburg and borrow a dollar or two and
ho always let them have It.
"Wo went with an expedition of 300 men
that chased the Indians 400 miles Into Old
Mexico. The treaty allows this country to
send an armed force 500 miles across the
line if It Is on the trail at Indians. Stotsen-
liurg , Touey and Bird were the three young
lieutenants wo had with us. We got within
eight of tlwj savages , but a 'band of Mexican
soldiers got to them before wo did and
made good Indians of them. That is one
peculiarity or Mexican soldiers ; they never
toke prisoners If they can help It. The
officers In charge of an expedition will re
port to his superiors that the captives were
killed while trying to escape , or that they
died of over-exertion or eamo such cause.
Ho seldom brings them in. "
A man was Bitting In an easy chair at
the Her Grand the other evening in com
pany with several others and the talk grad
ually drifted around to the trust conference
that has been In session In Chicago. After
the matter had been aired thoroughly Irom
all view points , this man settled back In his
chair , took two or three puffs at his cigar ,
smiled a little , and then said :
"All this talk about .trusts reminds mo of
a man I used to know over In Iowa. He lived
a neighbor to me over there and he be
longed to the Grange , the forerunner of the
populist party , This man was dead set
against trusts. Ho hated the very name of
trusts worse than a tramp hates work , and
was always haranguing upon the evils o [
monopolies ,
Wow it happened that ono spring all th *
farmers In that neighborhood hod trouble
In Betting their seed corn to grow. They
planted the corn as usual , but hardly a
kernel of It would come up. There was
consternation among them until It wan
found that the roan who hated trusts so
savagely had a peculiar sort of corn that
would grow. An soon as this fact was
bruited abut there was a pilgrimage toward
this man's ifarm , and everybody bought
some seed corn.
"Of course I waa in the same boat with the
rest of them and I went over ono day to get
a few bushels to plant. I had the stuff
loaded Into the wagon and asked him the
price. He replied that It was $1 per bushel.
Aa corn was selling In the market at 20
cents at that time my eyes flew open In sur
prise , and I asked him If he did not con
sider that a little steep. 'Well , ' replied the
trust hater , 'this Is all the corn la the
neighborhood that will grow and I can get
$1 per bushel fop It. ' I hauled out the
money and paid it over , 'but as I did so I
slyly asked him If he did not consider that
ho was operating a monopoly. He looked
down his nose a little and then glanced up
with the remark : 'Matbbo BO , but I am in
terested In this trust myself , and it makes
a difference. ' Ho never preached against
trusts to me < tfU r that. "
QUAINT FEATURES OK LIFE.
An old 03ldlcr in a Michigan town , who
had a leg amputated ten years ago , bad It
burled In a coffin In the cemetery and
funeral services held over It , at which he
wept profusely. Ever since then , all
through the summer months he has placed
flowers each week upon the grave.
A new Idea for the bill collector comes
from Louisville , where Manuel Corsica , a
retired organ grinder , being unable to col
lect three months' rent duo on a bouoo he
owned and had leased , took his Instru
ment to tbo bouso and played it steadily
until tbo tenant , assisted by suffering
neighbors , raised the money owed and paid
it. This new method In the case in point
required only three hours.
A young man in Buffalo , from some im
pulsive freak , took it Into his bead to save
all his cents. Ho wearied after two years
when he got 1,200 of them and tried to sell
them , but nobody would buy even at 80
cents on the dollar. Some shopkeepers In
timated that he might have been robbing
poor boxes , and the agony of the young
man Is not to be measured by a cigar box
ful of cents.
Far me IB In Androscoggln county , Maine ,
complain bitterly of the injury done to
their crops by the protected and rapidly
'
Increasing deer , "Why , " says one , "if there
was any owner of them I could complain
and make him take them off , or pay for
damage. At this rate it will not bo long
before wo must keep a man with a club
In every cornfield in the otate. "
Almon West nnd son , Ernest West , of
Hartford , Conn. , who are experts in lining
bees , made a rich and peculiar find re
cently. They were over Marlborough way ,
In pursuit of honey , and had released the' '
bees several times from the lining box
when they saw to their amazement tbo
laat ono released enter an old lager beer
keg which Jay on Its side. Coming nearer
they discovered the keg to be full of bees
and honey. The little workers had entered
the keg through the bunghole and built
their comb around the Inside of the keg ,
Mr. West captured the bees , honey and
peculiar hive , all at once , and took them
home.
Unduimtfil.
Chicago Tribune : "Feathers ! Feaithers ! "
derisively shouted the toughs and hoodlums
In the audience , alluding In this unseemly
wayto , the former occupation of the orator ,
which was that of a pillow and mattre.ss
maker.
"Gentlemen , " he said , folding his arms and
looking defiantly at his tormentors , "you
roa'y call me furthers , but you can't call me
downl"
And ho resumed.
HAUNTED HOUSE NOT WANTED
Odd Tale of a Dwelling in Omaha Thirty
Yean Ago.
GHOSTS DANCE OVER GRAVES OF DEPARTED
IiiQtiUltlve Ilcnl Entute Airent MnUca
( liicer Dlicorery , Solrliiir Mys
tery " \Vhlcli Perplexed lle l-
of the Town.
Does superstition embarrass Investment In
real estate ? There never was a landlord or
rental agent who manegod many estates or
properties but had to contend with this more
or lees knotty problem. The majority of
real estate dealers say they would rather
bo the "poor man with the elephant , " whom
Do Wolf Hopper made famous In Bong , than
to undertake to rent or dispose of a bouso
reputed to bo haunted ,
"Omaha has had several so-called haunted
bouses , " Bald a man grown old In the real
estate business , "and the history of any one
would make a story of more than ordinary
Interest. Away back In 1870 there was one
I remember in particular because of a per
sonal experience. It stood near Twenty-
fourth and Vlnton streets and could hardly
be graced by tbo name of house when It
came into my bands. It waa rather a hab
itation a dilapidated shack.
"A few years before it was a comfortable
cottage. Its rooms were as neat as could
bo desired and the lot a corner ono waa
deelrable In every respect. Tbo property
bad been owned by an old German , a shoe
maker , who , wlUi bis family of five , lived
in the cottage. During the severe winter
of 18C9 the people became poverty-stricken ,
tbo shoemaker's Ill-health being -the cause ,
and ono by one they died the mother flrst
and the children afterwards , '
"The old German was too poor to afford
funerals , so he burled bis family on hlo
own grounds not far from the house. In
tbo spring ho also died and was burled In
one of the cemeteries by some of his rela
tives from the east , who claimed the prop
erty and oald it. Tbe family had no Inti
mate friends and few acquaintances , so the
circumstances of their eudden dcmtso were
never known , but townspeople believed the
cause to have been starvation.
"Tho house Btcod unoccupied while Its Bile
was being negotiated , and before the year
was up rumors became current that it was
haunted , People said 'that ' on dark , still
nights the ghosts of the old German woman
and her children danced on their graves ,
"One of the chlof attractlonw of the place
was a fine well. It was some fifty feet deep
and tbo water drawn from It oven on the hot
test July days waa as cool aa Ice and clear
as crystal. There was not a moro desirable
ploco of property In Omaha at that time ,
and yet in one ehort year superstition made
of < the place a drug on the real catato mar
ket. It 'became ' branded as a haunted house
and In consequence nobody could bo In
duced to live In It , even rent free.
"Family after family moved In , only to
move out again In periods varying from one
to flvo weeks , None cared to remain in the
bouso longer than a month , and the real
excuse for leaving could always be traced
to the same cause. Some said the water
was not good , others declared the house was
too small , but for all that the true cause
waa that the house had the reputation of
bolng the abiding place of spirits. People
returning late at nights Invariably took
the opposite elde of the street In passing.
"Tho remarkable experience of a negro ,
named Jackson , was the last straw , and not
many months after that the cottage waa
ordered toy the owner to bo pulled down.
Jackson was a worthless character who did
odd Jobs for residents of the town. Ills
voracity at any other time or on any other
subject would have 'been ' questioned , but
such was the mind of the people that they
nwallowed his story about this so-called
haunted house without a grain of salt.
"According to Jackson ho waa returning
homo late ono Saturday night after attend
ing a dance down South Omaha way. It
used to bo the Drexel district. He was feel
ing unusually tired , ho said , and stopped
to take a nap in the deserted house. Up to
that time he had laughed at tbo stories of
ghosts .that wcro said to dance in the back
yard , and had assorted on a number of oc
casions that ho didn't bollevo in them.
"He found the front door unlocked and
entered the hall. Striking matches ho made
his way Into what bad been used as the
kitchen , and , fixing himself as comfortably
aa possible , ho fell asleep. Ho related that
ho was awakened 'by ' fooling the presence of
someone In the room. Tbo night was pitch
dark. As he started to leave bo saw n weird
apparition. Tramping noiselessly from
closet to larder and from larder bade- again
to the closet , In search of something to cat ,
were the phantom figures of the old Ger
man woman and her children. Their forms
were of vapor and sbono llko phosphorous.
"Jackson leaped through the window , car
rying the gloss and sash with him , Then
ho ran to town. When ho related his alleged -
legod experience It was llko sounding the
death knell of the bouso. As days passed It
became more dilapidated and really came
to bavo an uncanny appearance. The window
panes disappeared ono by ono , the shutters
fell off and the doors wcro torn from their
hinges < by tbo winds that played havoo
through the bouso on stormy nights. Twice
It was struck by lightning , and negroes told
weird stories of headless people that had
been seen entering the building after dark ,
"When it came Into my hands for rental
I know I had to destroy the ghost story ,
and as I was convinced Itiat boys of the
neighborhood hod 'been ' playing pranks , I de
cided to catch Bomo of them and disclose
the fraud. My first nlght'n watch was re
warded by tbo appearance of the ghosts ,
true to report , above the back yard craven.
At first a single white ilguro hovering In
the air was apparent in the darkness. It
scorned to taper toward tbo head , answering
the description of people beholding It pre
viously , who oald it were a tall , peaked
cap. It made Irregular movements , some
times crouching , sometimes standing. Pretty
eoon the little ghostu began to appear nnd
indulge In wild orgies.
"I started toward them. As I approached
they gradually became more indistinct an < l
finally melted entirely into , the atmosphere.
I then went back uom * distance until they
reappeared llko blue streams of lire. Sud
denly I remembered a former experience
and the whole- thing flashed across me. The
ghosts wcro in reality , as I afterward proved ,
tlia phosphorescent fumes duo to the decom
position of tbo organic gates thrown till
"by " the bodice , half covered as they wore ,
In the nUM , humid air. In the winter when
the ground was frown the shoemaker bad
< been unable to dig far below the * surface.
Of course my explanation waa never ac
cepted. People said I waa trying to rent
the property and they couldn't understand
how thu ghosts got Into the house , and
neither can I unless Jackson got to think
ing of the Germans In bis sleep and
dreamed bo EO.W thorn. "
