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    THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1901.
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IN THE FIELD OF ELECTRICITY
California Eccomit a L;a3r ii
Power Generation.
Elco'.ric
ATTRACTIVE FIELD FOR CAPITALISTS
Cerlnln Nnpply of Wilfr rrlth a Pine
Full Make the l'rcip.i.ltlon nn
Ur One for Priic
Mcnl Solution.
within a few years California hss b!come
one of the most active and Important fields
of electric power development In the cua-
try. The pioneer enterprise on the Amerl-
can river at Folsorn, which was devekpsd
luruuga me ncip 01 tne state and wnicn i
was suppoied. at the time It was flnlbid,
to be a construction that would pjrmancntly
retain the foremost place among California
plant created for the generation and long
distance transmission of electric power, has
since been outranked by several others of
greater capacity and operating In a much
broader field. The longest distance trans
mission plants In the world are In this
state. They are In practical operation, gen
erating and transmitting light and power
from the Sierra foothills to the bay cities
in (successful 'competition with nil other
agencies tor the creation of the same de
ments, says the San Francisco Chronicle.
Since the feasibility of converting tho
power contained in falling water Into a
tractable electric agent capable of being
sent almost anywhere on a slender wire on
mission of usefulness, cither as an li-
lumlnant or as an Industrial force, every
stream descending from the Slerran water
shed has acquired a positively now value.
As a result electric power plants are Wing
established all along the base of the great
mountain range from Siskiyou to Ssn
Diego. Industrial conditions are being
revolutionized in consequence in all parti of
the state and In all branches of human oc
cupation. From a condition of Industrial
helplessness, produced by the supposed
total, absence of a cheap, fuel supply, the
tat suddenly emerged Into a position of
Industrial hope and activity, through the
revelation that the power lying dormant In
these mountain streams and In the Innu
merable Slerran lakes lying V-low tho snsw
line of the range were capable of competing
In power production with the cheapest fuel
the earth has so far yielded. Even the
supplementary discovery of Inexhaustible
fields of crude petroleum, specially suited
for the generation of steam power, has ap
parently not disturbed tho supremacy of the
watersheds as producers of a succcfe.'u!
rival In transmissible electric power. This
Is largely due, of course, to the
fact that tho delivery of electricity to any
point where desired is absolutely Inde
pendent of the ordinary means of transpor
tation. Common carriers by water or
land have no control over it and the rate
of transmission to the point of delivery
Is determined entirely by the amount of
the Investment In the transmission plant
made by the company generating the power
supply. The capital Invested in a modem
transmission lino of the largest capacity
over any given distance Is tnfinltesmal when
compared with the cott of a pipe line or
railroad or any other medium used for the
transportation of solid or liquid fuel.
Attractive to Cniil tnllatn.
Electric power plants have thus, of late
years, become very attractive properties
to capitalists. Given a sufficient permanent
water supply anywhere on the flanks of tho
mountain ranges of the state and capital
ists will eagerly Invest helr money In an
electric plant corresponding to the power
capacity otj-the 'aez; supply, Millions of
dollars have been Invested In this way
during the last few years and great electric
power plants have been constructed at
various points In the Slerran foothills,
which are now delivering their product to
the great centers of population In the state
for lighting and manufacturing purposes,
while others which will In due season add
Immensely to the horse power deliverable
at theso point, are in course of con'
traction. San Francisco Is the chief ob
Jectlvo point of all the plants constructed
and planned north of Fresno and the
metropolis Is promised In a few years an
unlimited supply for manufacturing and
other purposes of the cheapest power known
to modern science and Industry. Southern
California's chief city is to be equally
favored through a combination of tho
various electric power plants organized by
TV. 8. Tevls, the executor of the Lloyd Tevls
estate, and Henry Fisher of Redlands. The
various electric plants now in existence In
the southern counties and the Kern river
canyon plant, which will cost at least
12,000,000, are Included In the combine,
Contracts have already been made, It l
said, for the delivery by this combination
of lB.OCO-horso power in Los Angeles. Ono
of the remarkable features of the Kern
river canyon plant Is contained In the fact
that Its promoters expect to serve the oil
producers of tho Kern river and Newhall
fields with power for tho pumping of their
wells cheaper than the steam power which
their own fuel can supply, although drawn
on the idoL
Deslde delivering power at the centers of
population these electric plants are supply
ing energy in Intermediate territory for
whatever purpose It may bo needed. AH
other forms of power are being displaced
br It In the mining districts. Quartz mills,
mine Dumps, hoisting works, smelting plants
and irrigation works are being furnished
with a cheaper power than can be produced
from the forests or nny other source of fuel
Even the mines on the Comstock lode In
Nevada are now being furnished with powe
for the hoisting and milling of their ore,
generated in this state out of the Truckee
river, and all tho smelters In Shasta county
will soon be drawing heat and power from
the headwaters of the Sacramento.
are undergoing a great Industrial revolu
tlon In this state one that Is equal to any
thing which tho discovery nnd opening of
a great deposit of the best coai couia pro
duce and some persons wno nave maa
electric power development here a clos
studr sanculnely express the opinion ths
the dav will soon dawn on California when
Its watersheds will be supplying it with
all the power It can employ In manufactur
Int, at a cost lower than any form of fuel
can possibly produce.
tst. I.nwrriicr Power IMntit.
The electrical transmission of power will
ba an Important factor In the Industrial coa
dltion of the United States during thl
century, the degree of importance depend
Ing on the ability of electrical engineers to
send power long distances without con
alderable loss. When the big electrical
power plant was Instituted at Niagara. Fall
a few years ago many people thought that
the transmission of power to Buffalo, twen
ty-three mile away, was the economl
limit, but since then, notably at Mysore,
lh.lt, where water power Is converted Into
electric energy, transmitted 100 miles and
then again transformed Into compressed air
power for working the gold mines, th
electric current has ben used with economy
as a vehicle to convey power over greater
dstances. Itolylng partly on what has al
ready been accomplished, and partly, doubt
less, on the seeming assurance that more
economical methods for transmsslon will be
devised In the near future, a group
scientists and capitalists have begun work
on an tmmese plant at Massena, N.
which will utilize a part of the great wate
power of the Long Sault rapids of the St
Lawrence river, a plant as largo and quit
as remarkable as that at Niagara falls.
I not plain yet where the electrical energy
of JW.OOO-horse power Is to be marketed,
Og-lensbur., N Y., thirty mile anar, In- be
Bearcat city of considerable ile, Ottawa, Ii
Ont.. is sixty miles north, and Montreal
ninety miles east. From the fact that
Urltlsh capital largely Is baclc of the enter
prise It may be Inferred that the Canadian
ctles will reap some advantage from the
power plant, but It also seems probable
that Massena, where the Grand Trunk and
v . v.i. n.'-.i ..nM.4.
will develop Into a manufacturing center.
The engineering problem at Massena Is very
different from that at Niagara falls. The
Niagara plant utilizes a small column of
water of great height, with a tunnel to
carry off th exhausted water cut halt a
mile through solid rock. At Massena, which
la at the head of the Long Sault rapids, tht
lUiuig river parallels the St. Lawrence,
' three miles away, flowing Into the larger
riTer below. Dut the level of the Orasse Is
fortv eet lower than that of the St. Law-
reoce At Massena, so that with a canal three
I miic, ong there is ample water power and
a costless means of disposing of the waste,
More than that, the Orasse river would be
made navigable from Its mouth to the end
of the canal, which will be a ship canal, and
a lock at the dam would provide a means
for getting around the Lone Sault ranlds
without usng the Canadian canals.
Killnnn'n .New Murage Uattrry.
Tht ha lately been described a follow:
The negative polo (corresponding to the
zinc of a cell, or to the lead of ordinary
storage batteries) Is of Iron. The positive
pole (corresponding to the carbon of a cell,
or to the peroxide of lead In ordinary stor
age batteries) Is a superoxide of nickel
NI 02. The electrolyte la potash in aolu
tlon In water (10 to 40 per cent) or, prefer
ably, a SO per cent solution of hydroxide of
potash, which freezes at 30 degrees C.
Tho initial voltage of discbarge after a
recent charge is 14 volts; the mean voltage
fter a complete discharge la about 1 1-10
olts and the normal current of discharge
per unit of element surface is oi
an ampere per square decimetre. The aver
se discharge Is S S2-100 watts per kilo,
corresponding to a complete dlschargo In
three and a half hours, but the battery
can be completely discharged In ono hour
and In such a case yields more than
wenty-slx volts per kilo. The time re
quired for charging Is the same as that of
the discbarge. It can be done In one hour,
though three and a half hours Is the nor
mal. A complete memoir on this new form
of storage battery was read by Mr. Kcn-
nclly at tho last annual meeting of the
American Institute of Electrical Engineers
and la to be printed in the transactions.
riv Speed Controller.
A speed controller, which the .Inventor
sserts will solve the problem of the ap
plication of electricity to trunk lines, ha
been perfected by a Chtcsgo engineer. The
system, it is claimed, can be installed for
40 per cent of the expense of the present J
methods and the cost of maintenance is
lets than those now In use. High speed can
Wooed and
One of the prettiest romances of the war
with Spain was brought to a happy con
clusion last week by the marriage of Lieu-
enant Watterson to Senorlta Casanova In
Philadelphia. Dy a very quiet little wed-
ding one of the oldest and most aristocratic
families of Cuba was joined to a famous
family of the United States, and the ques-
Ion of Cuban alliance, for two people at
least, was happily settled. Doth the bride
nd bridegroom are descended from families
of soldiers. Senorlta Blanca Esther Cas-
nova Is the niece of the famous General
Casanova who was killed In the Cuban-
Spanish war, while the bridegroom is the
son of Colonel Henry Watterson, the fa
mous Journalist of Louisville. The bride
is noted in Cuba as a beauty and an heiress,
while the bridegroom, though young, has to
his credit an excellent war record in tho
volunteer service, from which he has been
promoted by President McKlnley to a post
In the regular army.
At the outbreak of the Spanish war Henry
Watterson, jr., then 23 years old, was one
of tho first to enlist for active service. He
entered the so-called "dude" regiment of
Louisville and was sent to Porto Rico. He
quickly rose in rank and was shortly after
ward pluced In charge of a company to
make a forced march across the Island
with the hospital stores. Later he was
transferred to post duty In Clcnfuegos,
Cuba. It was here that he met his fate. It
was literally love at first sight. The pres
ent Mrs. Lieutenant Watterscn first taw
her husband during a drill at his barracks.
The American soldiers occupied the Spanish
barracks at Clcnfuegos, with their spacious
parade ground. The drill days had become
something of a social function. All Clcn
fuegos attended. Among the society people
who sat among the trees which border the
parade ground was naturally Senorlta Cas
anova, the recognized bsllc of the city.
They met here one day. In due course
Maverick Stories
When Mrs. Vlnsonbaler, wife of County
Judge D, M Vlnsonhaler, boarded a train
at Union station two weeks ego for a visit
to her old home In Missouri her parting
words to thb Judge were In substance as
follows.
"Don't forget to send for Hannah to make
the grape Jelly."
Huunah is a well-nourished young
woman, weighing 193 pounds, who has been
for several yecrs bead chef In the Vlnson
haler household. The Judge promised
faithfully to attend to the grape jelly and
then, waving a lingering farewell, he went
to tho Elks' club, seeking panacea for his
loneliness,
A tew days ago grapes came on the mar
ket. Judge Vlnsonhaler was an early
buyer. Then he sent for HannMi. who, by
the way, was given leave of absence to
visit suburban relatives simultaneous with
tho departure of Mrs. Vlnsonhaler
Hannah sent back another message, like
this:
"Ay tank Ay stay wan more week,"
Then It was up to the judge to make bis
own grape Jelly. He bad seen It done many
years ago down In Hughes township, Mis
souri, where they have grapes that are
grapes, and he convinced himself that he
could do it nicely. With one of Hannah's
kitchen aprons tied In a hard knot about
bis athletic , waist the Judge started the
Jelly works.
It was S o'clock In the evening. The
flames on the gas range were burning
fiercely, regardless ot the cllkety-cllck of
the meter dial. The half-finished Jelly
sputtered'furlously. Several samples clung
to the front of the borrowed apron.
The door bell rang. The Judge tugged at
thi apron strings. The knot was hard.
Again the bell rang. Apron and all, the
ludeo answered the summons.
It was a couple from four miles east of
Newmarket, Taylor county, la., wanting
to get married. They ald they were in a
hurry.
"Come In." ald the Judge.
And then he told them about the Jelly.
Tho bride-to-be said she wa a Jelly maker
herself.
So the marriage ceremony proceeded, the
bubbling sound ot the boiling fruit taking
the place of old Mister niendelssohn's wed
ding strains. The combination sounded
something like this;
Do you promise to love, honor and cher
ish him sput sput sput iput whirr
rzzxz to keep him through sickness and ti
health, to be true to him so long as you
obtained and the advance to a high rate
smoother, not boles marked by the Jerks
noticeable In the movement of car under
the present system. 1'oner house may be
located fifty or 100 miles apart on the
right of way, or If the line Intended to be
operated Is In the city the plant may be
placed some distance away, to take ad-
vantage of a waterfall. The electricity Is
nrt at tmm if. MM r. trt ivin . tu
single phase alternating current, and Is
transformed by static transformer! to 1.000
volts, which Is used on the trolley wire and
returned through the rails. The cars are
equipped with "synchronous, alternating cur
rent, single phase motors," which rotate at
a constant speed and are connected with the
car axle through the speed controller, by
which the cars may be started and run at i
any desired speed. Instead of drasglng
trailers all the cars may have motor and
drive themselves and be operated by a
motorman at the head of the train. "The j
speed controller In the entering wedge In
the operation of railroad with electricity,"
ald the Inventor. "With It there will be
no difficulty to be overcome, such as ex-"
penso of numerous power, house with the
men to operate them. We propese also to i
apply It to other purpsses, such as the con
trol 01 tne speea oi paper ana cemeni mi. is,
lathes, printing presses and other places
where a variation of speed 1 required."
Itrvrltt Stem of Hlectrlc Lighting.
The lamps consist of glass tubes filled
with the vapor of quicksilver through which
an electric current passes. Tho positive
electrode Is of Iron, the negative of quick
silver. The lamps are attached to ordinary
conducting wires carrying a current of 100
to 200 volts. A higher voltage Is required
to light them and this Is obtained by means
of a Wehnelt Interrupter. The light Is very
steady and very brilliant, but It Is poor In
red rays and therefore not pleasant unless
red reflectors are placed behind the lamps.
Lamps giving 1,000-candle power have
been fed by a current of only 115 volts a
very economical result. The Inventor Is
Mr. Edward Cooper Hewitt of New York
City.
Canadian Get Mo Hebates.
PITTSBURG, Aug. 23. In the convention
of the Royal Scottish Clans It was decided
to revoke the order issued some years ago
giving Canadians a rebate of 25 per cent on
all bereavement claims and providing that
hereafter they shall pay all assessments In
full. The Canadian delrgates fought the
resolution bard and said the removal of this
concession would make serious trouble In
Canada.
To !sve Her Child
From frightful disfigurement Mrs. Nan
nie Galleger of La Grange, Ga., applied
Bucklen's Arnica Salve to great sores on
her head and face and writes Its quick
cure exceeded all her hopes. It works
wonders In sores, bruises, skin eruptions,
cuts, burns, scalds and piles. 25c. Cure
guaranteed by Kuhn & Co.. druggist.
Won in War
Lieutenant Watterson was Invited to the
elaborate balls which the Catanovas were
In the habit of giving.
The couple soon found they had many
things In common. The senorlta's father,
Dr. Juan Casanova, was a strcng American
sympathizer. He was graduated from Jet-
ferson college, In Philadelphia and hid lived
many years in the United States. The
senorlta was graduated from the convent
of the Sacred Heart in Philadelphia. The
courtship progressed rapidly. It would have
been difficult to And a more romantic set-
ting. Back of the barracks along the s:a
wall tho old fortress had been partly de
molished bv the bombardment of thn Amer
ican battleships. The mysterious galleries
and passageways which the Spaniards ha I
built centuries before, were practically dt
serted, and It was here the couple walked
togther on moonlight nights and planned
their future.
At the time the young officer was scarcely
in a position to marry and the engagement
was not announced. Meanwhile the whsle
cost guessed his secret and sympathized
with him. It Is said that some rumors of
this phase of the Cuban alliance even found
their way to Washington and President Mc
Klnley. The appointment of young Mr.
Watterson to the rank of lieutenant and a
position In" the regular army cimo lart
fall. Early last spring Senorlta Casanova
visited friends In Philadelphia, when her
engagement was formally announced.
The wedding, which took place In Phil
adelphia last Thursday, was carried out in
the Cuban fashion. Only the Immediate
families of the bride and bridegroom at-
tended. It was held In a private house at
1230 Spruce street, one of Philadelphia's
most fasalcnablo neighborhood. Colonel
Henry Watterson and his family
came on from Loulivllle for the
occasion. The room where tho ceremony
both shall live? Whom God hath J.lmd
"f etner. let no man pu ."""o
m, jUBt"a moment, the Jelly 1 bollln ovr
husband and wife and now I congratu-
Ute you I didn't think that blaze was to
strongtwo dollars, please.
The bride tald sho reckoned that Jelly
ought to jell, even If It did boll over on the
range, anc1 forgetting her hurry, he re
mained an hour longer to tee the task well
done.
The man lives on West Farnam street
and the girl lives on Walnut Hill. He Is
young and gay and she Is younger and
gayer. A few days ago be Inserted an ad
In a weekly paper telling of his good looks
and fortune and requesting that handsome
young girl who desired his acquaintance
drop him a line. The Walnut Hill girl was
looking for romance and answered the let
ter. A meeting was arranged at the north en
trance of the postoffice. She was to wear
a white gown and a red rose. He was to
be dressed in blue and was to wear a pink
carnation. Just as the great clock In tho
tower of tho federal building struck 7
Thursday evening the young people met
each other for the first time.
"How romantlel" she exclaimed.
He said tome very nice things to the
young woman and suggested that they take
a walk out Farnam street and cet ac-
qualnted better. Their path was strewn
with rose petals until they reached the city
ball. The young woman felt that she was
realizing one of Bertha M. Clay's novels
and fancied that she would soon be trans
planted from a bumble little home out on
Walnut Hill to a palace In a foreign land.
But a gaudy creation In red banished
all these day dreams. She bobbed around
the corner of the city ball and landed on
the neck ot the young roan from West Far-
nam trt.
''Hesftiess
creature!" she exclaimed,
"Would you desert ma for that!"
The little girl In white and the big red
rose wilted under the scathing denuncla-
tlon.
"This Is my man," the woman In crlm-
son continued a the tightened her hold on
tne Bln
Then It was the man' turn to say some
thing. "I'll see you again," he whispered to the
frightened girl from Walnut Hill.
"No you won't," retorted Miss Walnut
Hill as dahed down Farnam street.
The Farnam street man called on Wal-
SERVICE SLEUTHS
Their Itelentlraa Pnranlt of Crlmlunl
lllnatrntcil Alrrnyn nt
Work.
Every little while the newspapers are
suddenly filled for a day or two with ac-
" ' ' " tu
un1!.n,vn '? lbe publ'c " .hsd wbefn com
mltted so long ago that they had passed
out of the public memory. In such cases
newspaper readers have perhaps been
moved to admiration of the silent, unsleep
ing detective branch of the government,
which never appears in the public eye, ex
cept In the act of pounrlng on a victim and
which never forgets a crime or a criminal.
Tho secret service division never rests,
says the New York Times; it It always
at work, and It must be a skillful and in
genious criminal who can avoid running
down sooner or later. When a crime has
been committed that falls within tho Juris
diction of the secret service division, noth
ing but death will ever get the government
agents off the track of It. The criminal
may escape by leaving the country or ef
facing himself In some other manner, but
he will never be able to reappear with se
curity. The moment he does to, tome se
cret service agent who has been watting for
him for years will be at hit elbow. The
secret service division comes about as near
to being a personification of Nemesis as
any mortal Institution. Years make no
difference with It, each new member of the
division falls heir to cases made years ago
and takes up the work as If the crime had
been committed yesterday.
It Is not the usual practice of the secret
service to set an agent on the trail of ono
crime and tfeep him at It until the criminal
Is found or the case Is given cp, as Is done
by city detective forces, On the
contrary, each secret service agent in the
country, wherever he may be, It prac
tically charged with the capture of every
criminal in the land. He has the descrip
tion of every counterfeiter, knows by heart
the man's personal peculiarities and is ac
quainted to a hair's breadth with the style
of bis professlonsl work, even though there
appears to be not the slightest chance that
they will ever meet. Years after the crime
has passed out of the memory of all men
outside the secret service this agent will
see a counterfeit bill which to the eye of
the novice will look like all other counter
felt bills. The secret service man will rec
ognize In It some peculiarity of the work
done by this forgotten counterfeiter from
the other side of the continent and will
know that the man Is near him and must
be run down.
Away back In 1664 some counterfeiting
was done In Indiana by a band known as
"the Drtggs gang." The head of It was
named Jim Guyon. The other members
of the gang were captured, but Jim Guyon
shot and killed a secret service agent and
escaped. He has never been heard of since.
Romance of Henry Watter
son' ton and a Cubun Belle.
took place was tilled with flowers, many
of which had been brought from Cuba and
the couple were married before an altar
a reproduction of that in the Convent of
the Sacred Heart, where the senorl'a had
been educated. Father TVassel, rccter of
St. John's Catholic church, officiated The
bridegroom was dressed In full regimen
tals. Following a quaint Cuban custom.
the father and mother of the bride stood
with her and gave her away. An. elaborate
wedding dinner followed the ceremony.
The prominence of, the couple drew a
large crowd of camera .fiends and others to
the scene of the ceremony and several hours
ere ,ost D' lne orwai pair in tneir efforts
to escape running tnis gantlet. Tne bride
groom tried several military maneuvers, but
tailed to deceive the crowd. First be sta
tioned two carriages at the front and back
entrances to the bouse, but this ruse only
succeeded In dividing the crowd. Then he
left by the front, door with his sister with
much ostentatious handihaklng. The
crowd, thinking the. pair were at last to be
ccn. closed In about them. The members
of lne family helped the deception as bes
they could by throwing rice and old shoes
after the pair and shouting farewells. But
th? crowd was not deceived. Half an hour
later it was rewarded by seeing the brlda
groom return and carry oft his bride.
Lieutenant watterson is stationed at
Jefferson Barracks In Missouri. His fur
lough consisted of but seven days in all
two cf which were consumed at the time of
the ceremony. The immediate plans of the
bridal pair are unknown. Dr. Casanova
who waved a welcome to tho smiling pair
as they drove away, shook his head sadly
when asked their destination. "Ah," said
he, with a quaint Spanish shrug, "you will
have to ask Lieutenant Watterson. She no
longer belocgs to me."
Rounded up
at Random.
nut Hill to explain how t all happened, mr
the girl wasn't at homo.
There is an Omaha jobber who Is fertile
in an emergency. He bat Jut returned
from a pleasure trip to California, Into which
he Injected a deft turn ot business which
has paid for the excursion.
Tho jobber has a knowing eye for raisins
He is advised as to the standard ilze and
succulence of the dried fruit. He Is in
formed at to their value In the markett c
the world and hat In addition to all this
expert knowledge a. sufficient share t
mother wit. It waa this maternal shrewd
ness which the Jobber turned into Ca.l
fornla gold
When be called on his business friends
In San Francisco he found a merry raisin
war In progress. The dealers were seeking
to boom the mincemeat market and were
willing to part with ralilss at half prlc
provided they were designed for this end
The Jobber scented a bargain. He p o
posed to purchase several carloads. Th
dealers, however, knew him to be a Jobber,
pure and simple and they made mlncemei
of bis hope. Not one single seedless raisin
wouia tney pari wun to me umana man.
Hero wa tho emergency in which the
Omaha man became fertile. He scoured tS
city until he found au acquaintance. Th
acquaintance was Juit a common e'e'k at
the mint, but he bad an understanding,
Under the tutelage ot the Jobber be te
came a mincemeat manufacturer trcm
Ohio. He was schooled in the technical
terms ot the builnett until he c:u!d mak
a m:nce pie out cf boarding house' huh.
Then the acquaintance sought the whole
tilers along the bay front and Introduced
himself as a mincemeat manufacturer. H
poke ot raisin and. mlccmeat as InM
.mately as it he bad grown on the sam
vine with them. He was convincing ar
eloquent. Accordingly he had no difficulty
In securing a carload or more of the dainty
California fruit at the lowest price quoted,
The acquaintance sought out tbs Jobbe
and told him of the purchase, together th
conspirators diverted the tblpment from
the mythical Ohio factory to a certa'n csld
storage houte In Omaha
Since ths drouth four-crown raltlns have
advanced 7 to 14 cent a pound. The c
qualntance and the jobber divided a nlc
roll between them. The Jobber says hi
conscience Is quite easy; It was Juit a trick
of the trade.
gPHRET
ocuntl
He has never done any more counterfeiting
In the United States and ts probably in
some foreign country. But, although that
happened seventeen years ago, every secret
service agent in the United State it watch
ing for Jim Guyon and always hat been
watching ever since his escape. New men
have entered the secret service since then,
but Jim Guyon Is a well known tn them
as to the old-timers and tho case Is as
fresh in their mind as It It had happened
last year.
Ther. was a lone hunt onco for a ' .an
named McKlbben. alias Pollock. The story
methods of the secret service. McKlbben
was a well-to-do photographer and quite n
Intelligent old man. He got acqualn'ed
with some counterfeiter and was Initiated
Into the mysteries of the business and he
made some photograplc counterfeits. He
was arrested and sent to Leavenworth pen
itentiary, where he was put to work In the
photographic gallery. McKlbben began
making photograplc counterfeits In prison.
He was caught at It and when his term
expired he was Indicted for this second of
fense. He furnished ball. Jumped It and
disappeared. This was In 1636.
For a year and a half nothing was heard
of McKlbben. Then, in the fall of HD.
the tecret service agents In the south found
some photographic counterfeits, which they
readily Identified, from certain peculiari
ties, as the work of the Kansas photogra
pher. These counterfeits had been passed
In Texas and a secret service man went
own there and began hunting fur McKlb
ben. But the Issue of counterfeits bad been
small one and had ceased. Tho secret
service man spent about six weeks In mak
ing absolutely sure that it was McKlbben.
He made sure ot this, but the photographer
could not be found The secret service
tored the new facts away In Its memory
and waited for the Kansan.
It was In 1S3S, before the old man, feeling
ure from his immunity that he had been
forgotten, lecan Issuing his counterfeits.
Tho 1S9T output was only an experiment.
Then some of his counterfeits "broke," In
ecret service slang, In southwestern Texa.
In August a secret service man started
to track McKlbben down. Ho found that
an old man was traveling In Mexico, along
the border, and that every little while he
would appear at some Mexican village and
give a photographic exhibition and then
disappear. The agent was sure It was Mc
Klbben and he followed him. He kept
hearing ot him now and then, but always
when the counterfeiter was from two days
to a week ahead ot him.
This chase lasted for three months. Dur
ing that time the agent was following the
elusive photographer In and out of Mexico
nd Texas, now on this side of the border
and now on that as far as San Luis Potcsl,
sometimes getting off on a false scent and
then regaining the trail. At last be began
to narrow the distance and one night In
November, in a lonely little village In Pecos
county, Texas, the agent came up with
photographic wagon and got his man,
Everywhere he went McKlbben had been
peddling photographs and giving private
lessons in photographic counterfeiting. He
had been running a sort ot traveling col-
lese ot counterfeiting.
EXCHANGED VALISES.
Why the IUghtfnl Owner of One
Never Called for It.
The story was told by a quiet, black
bearded gentleman who had registered
from Pittsburg, and who happened to be
one of p. group of yarn stunners in the cor-
naor or tne urunewaio notei a lew even
ing ago. relates the New Orleans Times
Democrat. "I am In the foundry business
at present," he said, "but tn my younger
years I imagined i was cut out tor a uoc
tor, and took a course at the old Ohio
Medt:al collece In Cincinnati. It was the
custom at that time, and may be yet, for
tne advanced students to do a cooa deal oi
Individual dissecting work at their rooms,
and far that purpose a rcrular dhlslon
was made of certain of the cadavers at the
college. One student, for Instance, would
get an arm. another a foot, and another
some other PfCtlon. which they would carry
awiy and study at tneir leisure, une cvan-
mS l will nrvci iiiikci k ii A ii c lu ic
thousand i secured tne torearm or nn
unusually nne subject, a muscular nicro.
and, putting It In a small valise, started
for my quarters in the eastern suburbs of
the city. Tne mule car I iook wns un
usually crowded, and I put my valise on
thn floor. When I reached mv rooms rind
took a second look at It. I was shocked to
ee that I had picked up somebody else's
luggage by mistake. I hated to lose my
SDeclmen. but what troubled me a hundred
times more was the thought of the fright
that It would probably occasion pome mno
cent nerson. mayne a woman, ann. on re
flection, I concluded to report the matter
ut once to the police. Accordingly. I got
on the cars again and went directly to
headquarters. where I was fortunate
pnoudi to catch the chief, just coins out.
He heard my story In his private office, and
ngreed witn me mat tne aiscovery oi my
ghastly packace would lie apt to fill some
nouseneio witn norror ana consiemauon.
'Vn will have somebody rushlnir in here
before morning with ft clew to a mysterious
murder.' he said: 'and. by the way, suppose
that we open the valise you have with
y.j. It may furnish us with tne address oi
the owner. II was lociten. oui ne soon
fnund a kev tnat fit and when he looked
Inxlde he gave a prolonged whistle. 'Your
value will never ne reported, aocior, ne
said, dryly. rn one i naa pjcKea up con
talned a kit of burglars toois.
Jones' Health Improving.
NEW YORK. Aug. 23. Assistant District
Attorney Garvan. wno nas naa unancs
Tnnea in rharcii since the lutter's nttemnt
at BUIclde wnue in jan nwaumi; inai lor
ih niii-efi muraer ni nis emo over, w 11-
iiotn mr-- th aired millionaire from Texas.
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and rezuiariy visntru u u uiijsh-iuu. uui
ht th orlsoner Is Improving In health
iin Is taken out nbout once a day for a
drive through Central park nnd the assist
ant district attorney Is confident that when
the cuse is called tor inai joncs win oe
hlmseii urain.
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