THE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKIY TRIBUNE : -FRIDAY BYMfflfi, APRIL 17, 1896. M
MAYOR STRONG'S MESSAGE A VETO.
ProrblGBS ef tie Greater 2fetr York Bill
2fot Satisfactory.
Albany, IT. Y April 14. Mayor
Strong's message- ou the greater How
York bill is a veto. The Teasous given,
by Mayor Strong for vetoing the greater
K"ew York bill -was read to the senate
last night. In. the course of his state
ment the mayor said he was in favor of
consolidation and he said a majority of
the citizens of the proposed greater
Kew York agreed with, him in that re
spect, but that the provisions of the bill
were not satisfactory to all concerned.'
At the conclusion of the reading of the
message Senator Lexow asked that it
be laid on the table and be printed. No
objection was offered. Mayor "Wurster's
message vetoing .the bill was next read
and was followed by the reading of the
approval of Mayor Gleason of Long Isl
and city. These messages, together
with the accompanying bill, -were laid
on the table without debate- and by
agreement between the leaders of the
majority and minority, the question of
repassing the bill over the vetoes of
Mayors Strong and "Wurster will come
up in the senate today.
SIOUX SEEKING PENSIONS.
Iadlan Ex-Soldier Asks Belief From Uncle
Sam on Novel Grounds.
Chamberlain, S.D., April 13. It was
announced a few days ago that proba
bly the first case of a Sioux Indian ap
plying for a pension was that of Banks,
an Indian belonging at Crow Creek
agency, "who has applied for a pension
because he acted as a government scout
during one of the Indian wars. The
Sioux evidently contemplate a raid on
the federal treasury, for Chasing Crane,
a Lower Brule Sioux, has now applied
for a pension also. He concluded that
he was entitled to a pension, notwith
standing that the government already
furnishes hinj -with clothing, rations,
Ijorses, cattle, agricultural implements
apd hires white men to put in and har
dest his crops for him. Chasing Crane
bases his claim on novel grounds. He
served one year in the regular army,
being a member of the Indian troop
stationed at Port Omaha, aud alleges
that his health was undermined and
finally destroyed by eating tho rations
which the government furnished to the
soldiers.
KNOCKOUT FOR PROHIBITION.
i
South Dakota Supreme Conrt Renders an
Important Decision.
Yankton, April 14. The decision of
the supreme court in sustaining the sa
loon license ordinance in the face of the
prohibitory state law is creating conster
nation in political circles. An appeal
was taken from the justice and circuit
courts of Yankton county from a ver
dict against a saloon keeper for selling
liquor without license. He contended
that the city ordinance conflicted with
the state constitution, which prohibits
the sale of liquor, and now tho suprome
court sustains the ordinance.
Holmes is Penitent.
Philadelphia, April 16. Although
Father Dailey of the Roman Catholio
church of the Annunciation refuses to
confirm or deny the statement that ho
is to baptise Murderer Holmes in his cell,
jt was stated on good authority that tlie
pjemony will take place during the
3-eek get for Holmes' execution. Father
TJailey has been ministeriug spiritually
t) Hdln-.es for 3 month, and is con
vinced the murderer i genuinely
penitent,
Plenty qf Ore Jn Sight,
Lead, S. D April 15J. Tho prosscut
being run in the HarriEon mine, adjoin
ing the J)urango iniiie, has passed
through 30 feet of ore that averages $80
per ton, and has not gotten across the
ore body yet. The ownors will ship two
cars of the ore to the Kausas City smel
ter this week.
Heavy Rains in South Dakota.
Huron, S. D., April 14. The heaviest
rain of the seaiou prevailed here, accom
panied by hail a few miles northwest
and south. The earth over this part of
the state is thoroughly soaked.
Pierre Race Meeting.
Pierre, S. D., April 14. Arrange
ments have been completed for a three
days' racing meeting on the track in
this city. JUay 14. 15 and 16.
Ulay plect a Treasurer.
LiNeQVf. April lJ.Ljiipoln people
pre agitating the question of holding
another oouuty convention for the pur
pose of nominating a successor to the
late County Treasurer Maxey Cobb.
Examiner Cowdery In Charge.
Chadron, Neb., April 13. Ben F.
Oowdery, state bank examiner, ai rived
here and at once took charge of the
Chadron Banking company. The fail
ure caused but little excitement and no
run -was made on any of the other
banks. No definite information can as
yet be obtained regarding the assets.
Crusade Against Saloons.
Lincoln, April 14. The crusade
against Lincoln gamblers has been fot
towed by a raid on the saloon keepers,
fhen the excise oard met fins' ntorqr
'rig to pass upo tjm applipations for
saloon licenses it was confronted by
remonstrances against over a dozen
saloon keepers.
Slaay Uriel greg Washed Away.
Clay Center, Neb., April 14. He
ports from the surrounding country
since the rainfall show much damage to
bridges and graded roads. Hardly a
bridge in the southeast end of tho
county is left. Southeast of this place
1,000 acres of lowland are under from
one to two and one-half feet of water.
Fantoa la Hard Luck.
, 9'Neill, Neb., April 12. 3bhn Fan:
fpu of Atkinson is now on trial in the
district court for the stealing of 10 head
of pat(le from Anthony dross of Atkinr
json en he knight pfDec. 26. last. The
evidence so far is very damaging to
Fanton. John MorreU and Oliver
Holmquest, accomplices pf Fanton.
have turned state's evidence and accuse
him of putting up the job.
Strode la Their Choice.
Tectjmseh, Neb., April 14. At the,,
First district Republican congressional
convention, there bsing no opposition,
Hon. Jesee B. Strode of Lancaster was
unanimously nominated for congress.
L. L. Lindsay of Lancaster and H. N.
Dovey of Case were chosen delegates,
and JudgeS. P. Davidson of Johnson
and Hon. Fran& Martin of Richardson
alternates to the national convention.
The delegates to the national conven
f on were instructed in strong reeolu
, cobs for HoKintey.
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CHAPTER YIII.
GROUND BAIT.
For reasons tho Port Edcs took the
"north about" course that is, she headed
across south of the banks of Newfoundland
nearly to Capo Hatteras and then braved
the three knot current of tho gulf stream (
by passing down the Florida channel on
the western Bide of tho Bahamas. They
had carried good weather with them
light head breezes or calms all the way,
and although coals wero dear, owing to a
strike, and the day's outlay was limited
to 28 tons by order, the steamer usually
averaged 10K knots despite the uaskill
fulness of tho engine room staff.
In a canvas chair ,on tho bridge dock
under tho Ice of the fiddlo sat Patrick
Cambol, with a pipe between his teeth and
Pierro Loti's "Fantome d'Orient" in his
lap. He was distinctly idling. For tho
moment ho was wondering how, from so
transparently blue sea, the spray which
jumped from tho wave crests could be
colorless and opaque. Then by following
with the eye a tangle of yellow gulf weed
which floated past his attention was car
ried away to somo littlo gray spouts of fcg
which told of whales and their calves tak
ing a summer outing in the milk warm
waters of the south. Beyond his eye fell
upon one cf tho screw pile lighthouses with
which the United States government has
fringed the Florida shoal, and on tho for
horizon spouted tho wind thrashed tops of
gomo scattered cabbage palms, wfiich told
fhat there at least tho shallow sea was sea
no morel At the back of these palms lay
the mysterious shelter of tho Everglades.
A thought passed through Patrick Cam
bei'a jnind, a "thought of tho drama to bo
played under shelter of thoso recesses
within tho next few days, and ho frowned.
He thrust the thought from lilm as an im
pertinence and turned again to his novel.
But bo wus destined just then to read no
more from that dainty vignetto of Stam
bool. Through the grating of the fiddle
above his head came a frightened shout,
then a chorus, then a prolonged clattering
as iron tools were thrown on tho floor
plates and the boots of scared men smote
the rungs of tho ladders.
Cambel gave a quick smile to himself,
as though ho understood something, then
mounted a look of concern on his face,
and getting up from his chair crossed to
port and strode up to tho break of the
bridge deck. Tho captain, coming out of
the chorthouse, joined him. From tho door
of tho alleyway beneath them rushed a
"J;? yon ever raul poetry?"
crowd of frightened men-trlmmers, stok
ers, stripped to tho waist; engineers in
dungaree, all tho human contents of tho
lowest held. Kettlo singled out tho chief
with his eye and addressed him with sour
Irony.
"Afternoon, Mr. McFee. Fine, Isn't it,
for tho timo of year? Havo your curs for
gotten they're paid to work this steam
boat up Mississippi river to a city called
Now Orleans, or have they induced tho
other watch to go below and givo them a
spoil?"
"Guid God, sir, dinna jest!" replied tho
chief. "Yo remember whatyon scoundrel
said on Liverpool dock wall? Wccl, ho's
jieeq as guid as his words, sir. Wp'vo
found an. infernal machine, plready!'1
" Well ? ' ' drawled Kettle,
"Man, wo may be blown to t-0 sea floor
any minute,'1
"Sea whlskyl Sea grandmothor!"
"Man, sir, sec with your own ecu. By
God's guid mercy tho donkcyman picked
it from among the coals, or wo'd bo with
him this moment or with the deevil."
'Hand it up here," tho skipper com
raanded shortly.
Tho burly donkcyman, half grinning,
half afraid, came up tho Iron steps and
handed tho captain a box painted to look
like a knob of coal. "It was ticking when
I picked it up, sir," he said, "but when I
handled it tho ticking stopped."
The captain took the thing in his hand.
It started on a fresh cluck, cluck, and the
grimy men on tho iron decks " below
humped their shoulders as though to bet
ter receive a blow and began to shufilo
away toward the 10 wsV J "Oh, it may be
something dangerous,'' said Oaptaiq Ket
tle arid hove his burdcq gver- tho side,
'5ps it mayn't Looked tq ine iikq a toy
to frighten flats. There's only one man
with tho pluck of a roach among yon, and
hero's half a crown for him."
The donkeyman's black forefinger knuc
kled his greany cap.
"As for tl3 rest, your mothers must
have suckled you on pigeon's milk and
then sent you to a girls' school to dry
nurse. You pack of beauties! Oh, you
white livcred bobby hnnted gems! If the
thing was found well, found it was, and
tho donkeyman brought it on deck. What
do you want" to foul the clean air for with
your foul, stinking carcasses before your
tvatch wa9 put? 111 log every man of you
for this-rjres, Mr." McFee and Mr. Second
and Mr. Third, I'll dirty your tickets for
you as well, or if you "give pie another
ounce pf bother I'll take care you none of
you evpr got another berth sp long as the
universe holds water tq carry shipping,
You cowardly hounds! Qh, you trust me"
The men slunk back intq the alleyway
again out of shot of tho skipper's tongue,
and the engineers, plucking up courage
first, led the way below. Some one clat
tered a shovel on a firobar. Instinct made
the trimmers obey tho signal, and they
went to tho bunkers. Tho firemen fol
lowed, and the steam gauge remounted
before it had recoived any appreciable
check. It was all an affair of five minutes.
Kettle passed a forefinger round the in
side of his shirt collar and strolled across
with Cambel to where tho deck chairs,
straddled in thoiado.
"They're a holy crew, aren't they?"
said the master of the Port Edes.
'I think thoy're -what wo want. Wo
should Lo rather out of it with a plucky
lot who insisted on standing by us at a
tiinch." " "
I
THE AuTHO
f'OIi, don't you make any error about
that," replied Kettle. "They'd have been
shaky anyway, but this bogus clockwork
devil of yours fixes them to a nicety. It'll
be every Jack for himself when tho scare
comes, and Davy Clones take tho steamer
and tho others. Ob. thov'll run like a
warren of rabbits. Tho brutes!"
Kettlo broko off abruptly and stared
moodily over the gulf stream. A flying
fish got out of tho bluo water and ran
across tho ripples like a silver rat A
school of porpoises snorted leisurely up
from astern and passed tho steamer as
though sho had been at anchor. And the
tangles of gulf weed floated past like reefs
of tawny coral.
"Do you ever read poetry?" tho stippor
suddenly asked.
Cambel slewed round his head -and
stared. Tho idea of this vinegar mouthed
littlo savage talking of poetry very nearly
made him break into wild laughter. With
an effort ho steadied his face and said j
miinrlTr knrinfi time ' I
! "I'm glad of that. Somehow I hadn't
dared ask you before, but now I know,
! Mr. Cambel, I like you all tho better. It
gives us something in common wo can
talk about without being ashamed. Wo
can't very well discuss the other matter
which binds us together and respect our
selves at tho same time."
"Quito right. You and I, captain, are
shouldered to common piracy by tho forcq
pf circumstances, but I always kick myself
when I think about it. There's no glamour
pf romance about aqr intended villainy
pr the way It's being led up to."
"Not a bit. Byron wrote about piracy,
but Byron wa3 no seaman, and he didn't
know what hazing a crew meant. A
thief '8 a dirty scoundrel all .ho world over
and always has been, and a sea thief, hav
ing tho scum of tho earth to handlo, has
to mako himself the crudest brute on
earth if ho wants to, succeed. I think it's
that which put mo out of liking witn
Byron and all thoso poets who'vo written
about movement at sea. They give a
wrong idea of men's motives and actions,
and when they get talking on shop they'ro
that inaccurate and absurd they make one
tired. No, Mr. Cambel, givo mo a land
poet, who talks about farms and prim
roses and tinkling brooks and things he
understands, and with that man I can sit
through two watches on end. Reading
him may mako me feel low, but it doesn't
do a man harm to be that wy sometimes.
Vpu see, Mr. gambol, a scuttle or- a row
itl a. mutinous," grew' is just meat and
drink tq me. Yes, sir, that's the kind of
brnto I am."
They chatted aud basked during the rest
of tho afternoon, whilo the two mates off
watch painted ironwork, and tho crew off
duty grumbled and smoked and slept in
the stuffy forecastle Tho cabin tea came.
Kettle at the head of thetablo preserved a
sour silence, and Cambel and tho mates
among them a strained civility. And then
skipper and supernumerary officer re!
turned to their canvas chairs beside tho
fiddlo on the bridgo deck.
Tho gulf stream rippled pver the steam
er's wake' astern, and tho small wavelets
pf a calm licked the yellow rust 6tains
which pmciieu tier sweeping uaiiK. x)U- i
foro them the narrow sea was the color of
p dull bjue roofing slate. The bright hot
day had. faded, the br'iljant cobalt had
filtered away from overhead, and a silver
pail paring of moon peered from a sky of
pmorphqus violet, still lightod In its high
er flats by the sun's afterglow. On tho
horizon line was what at first appeared to
be a steamer's smoko, but what the glass
showed to bo tho reck of p. firo on the in
visible low lying Florida coast. No blazo
glow could bo seen, It might bo a fisher's
campflre on an outlying key; it might be
a game driving of Seminole Indians be
yond tho explored coast fringe, in that
unknown tangle of trees and grasses and
lagoons, tho Everglades themselves.
"It's worth living, Mr. Cambel, times
like these," said Kettlo when they had
sat thero in silenco till tho warm night
had spread all over and tho whito stars
were beginning to show in multitudes
through its gaps.
Tho other nodded, sucking at his cold
Pipe
"None of those poets hayo eer put all
I this down on paper. TlisyVq got 'parts
bits, but not all. J fancy it (s because
ihey haven't seen the filing foe themselves.
I've triccf myself, but "X haven't nide
much account pf it,"
"What-you-yoq're a. poet?" rapped
! out Cambel,
i ''I knock off a bit of verso occasionally, "
' said the 6kipper complacently, "when
I'm. In tho mood, that is. It generally
comes times like this, when I'vo been tail
twisting the hands and have a spell of a
rest and a think afterward."
"I see. The outcome of vivid contrast,"
said Cambel. He imagined to himself that
these boasted poems would be of the "he
roic" order to the verge of melodrama. As
it happened, ho could not conveniently
havo made a worse guess. Kettle tugged
from his pocket a doubled up exercise book
reddened slightly under fho tan and
handed it across. His companion flat
tened out the crease, and in the light
Which came from a chartrqqrn port dipped
Into tho manuscript verses' fr himself:
To his astonishment tey were one and all
Eonriefs arid ballads wbich, might well
have bceq written by a sentimental school
girl, Tliey breathed of love and devotion
and premature fading away, and at least
three gushing adjectives qualified each
tender noun.
There was no word about tho sea on
Which their author had spent his life or
Of the things of tho sea with which he had
had all his dealings. He knew about these
as few men did, but they seemed common
to him and unclean. Consequently hp had
delivered himself to an odo of that spring
whichhe bad never witnessed ashore and
love songs to ladies he had never met out
side the covers of cheap fiction. It was
fll imagination, and uiituored unin
spired Imagination at tha't.
' " As Vresult, Cambel (oqrid thp poems too
killingly funny for words and was con
pumed with P wild desire for laughter, but
that red bearded little savage, their maker,
glaring ansiqusly a$ him from tbo oppo
site shadow, he dare not let so much as the
tail of a smile dance from the comer of
his mouth. He had to enjoy and endure
in silence, and with the exercise book
thrust out to the yellow light, then he
read on through the stanzas diligently.
In one, evidently autobiographical, tho
writer spoke of himself as a "timid, frail
gazelle," fn another ho addressed his re
marks from tho mouthpiece of a "coy and
cooing turtledove" to a "sylphlike maid
en of haughty mien" who at the timo of
narration was the "bewitching, entranc
ing, unparalleled queen" of another gen
tleman's hearth. An "Ode to Excellence"
which commenced "Hairy Alfred, brother
bard," was evidently directed at a contem
porary, but the past was cared for in
".Cleopatra, a JLairienfr," which a footnote
stated could be. sung: to the. ' tune ot
Greenland's Icj Mountains."' Probably
as a collection (Xntain Kettle's was uniaue
In its clumsy; maudlin sentiment and its
Hguaral unexoectsdness.
..sir
Meanwhile tho "author was "fidgeting
nervously. He had not got over that in
itial nervousness which publication gives.
He hungered for a criticism favorable if
possible. At last ho mado bold to ask for
"Xbu'ro a wonderful man, Kettle," re
turned his companion, quite meaning
what ho said, "and unless I had seen those
verses for myself I'd never have believed
you capable of producing them, no matter
what had been told mo about your pow
ers." Tho poet gave a sigh of relief, and was
going to pursue the subject further when
something fell upon his ear which turned
his thoughts Into a very different key.
"By James, tbero's the engine stopped.
What's up now, I wonder?"
Ho jumped to his feet and stood with
neck craned out, listening. The ring of
heavy boots made itself heard on the en
gine room ladders. Then there was a
murmur of voices and a pattering of foot
steps from tho forecastle, and presently a
steady stream of men began to ascend the
bridgeueokladders. Among the growing
babel of voices came references, to the gold,
"Half a million yellow sovereigns, boys!"
and threats thero was, no mistaking,
"Teach the old man manners or put him
over the side."
By an evident previous arrangement, tho
men wero mussing themselves on the port
sido of the bridgo deck.
"Mutiny, by James, that's what this
means!" commented Captain Kettle in an
undertone. He was cocl as ice and on tho
moment had decided how to act. "Now,
Mr. Cambel, slip into tho chartroom for
your pistol. I have mine in my pocket.
It's us two against tho lot of 'em, and
we'll finish out top side. Oh, don't you
mako errQR
It'll bo a red night's
work for thoso dogs. But we'll rub tho
fear of death into them before we've dono
this time into thoso that are left, that is.
Get your pistol, quick, sir, and skin your
eye for handy shooting."
CHAPTER IX,
MUTINY,
Patrick Cambel came out of tho chart
room with all the armament he could lay
hands upon-to wit, three rovolvcrs. He
gavo one to the captain and put the others
in his own jacket pocket, so that they had
a brace apiece. From tho other sido of the
bridgo deck tho clamor of tho men rose
high into the night, and the steamer's fore
truck began to swing past the stars. Her
engines had stopped, tho quartermaster
had deserted the wheel, and tbo gulf
stream was taking her as simple flotsam
whither it listed.
There was no starboard ladder to the
upper bridge, but Kettle swung himself
lightly up by a funnel stay and a stanch
ion and climbed over the canvas dodger.
Cambel followed as nimbly. Tho mato of
the watch received them with a frightened
sidelong glance, but no words, and then
he vanished into the darkness.
Captain Owen Kettle stumped cheerful
ly across to f he port sid.o pf the bridge and
looked down. Beneath him, massed and
moving, was apparentlysevery man of his
prow. The electric) lamp from insido tho
head of tho oompanionway blazed full up
on them, dazzling somo of the group and
blinding tho others with dense black
shadow. With folded arms ho looked
down on them for a full minuto with a
silent sneering laugh till the upturned
faces which had been quiet in expectation
began to grow clamorous again. Then ho
waved them to noiselcssness and spoke,
The man's words wero not conciliatory.
He addressed his hearers, as dogs and
wished to know in thp name of the pit
why tbey had dared to leave their duties
and their kennel and come to sully his
bridgo deck. Tho harangue was brief and
beautifully to tho point. An ordinary sea
man stood out into the middle of the cir
cle of light and made reply.
"You gall us togs, unii you dreat ua as
togs, und yo'ro nod going to" schtandt It
no longert Bis grew teroants Its rechts"
"Hello," said Kettle, "got a blooming
Dutchman to speak for you! Well, you
must bo a hard tip crowd. See here, now,
if you do want to talk, havo your say and
be dono with it. English is the official
language on this ship. " Understand that
and don't waste my time,"
The German seemed Inclined to bluster
and hold his ground, but he had no back
ers, "I told you how it would bo if wo
put tho Dutchman up," said one. "Why, I
can't hardly understand tho beggar my
self," said another. . , -,
"If you're undecided," suggested Cap
tain Kottlc, "jou'vo got a nigger among
you. Why not set him on to talk? If you
were men, I wouldn't say it, but as it is
he's as much a man as any of you, and
perhaps ho'll throw in a sand dance to en
liven proceedings."
Tho negro from somewhere, on the. out
skirts of tho crowd broko intcj g pud guf
faw till somo one. picked hiin pri tho shins
and sent him "away yciping. diminuendo
into, the farthee'darkness. A angry growl
wenVup'from f he white mnat tho taunt,
and pno of them a. whiskered; quartermas
tor in a cardigan jacket, stepped out and
spat intq (he cirolo p light. He looked
round to catch tho encouraging glances of
his mates and then lifted up his face to
ward the upper bridgo,
"See here, Captain Retllo, you'd better
not try us too far. This isn't a slave ship
you're commanding. It's an ordinary,
common, low down British tramp, and
tho law looks after tho deckhands and all
tho rest of us."
"Now,that's fair speaking," said Kettle.
"I've a profouud respect for tho merchant
shipping act and all the rest of the laws.
My lad, if you fancy you've anything to,
cpmplaln of. a sea lawyer, liko you mus$
know tho remedy. Get your witnesses.
and gq with them before the British con
sul in New Orleans.-
i'A fat jot pf good thpt would do," re
torted tnP man, M What consul ever be
lieved, an pie sailor against the skipper?
No, sjr, we'd only got penitentiary for our
pains. Besides, what wo want and what
wo intend to have is an alteration in
things, beginning now."
"Ah, I see! And what would you liko?
Shall I have a hold cleared out and fit up
with four post beds for you to make a
drawing room of? Shall I order my stew
ard to hand iced pop round to tho gentle
men who are heaving coals-in tho stoke
hold? Come, now, out with it!'"
The little captain was deliberately irri
tating the men, and Cambel marveled at
his recklessness. Once let on outbreak
start, and he and Kettle stood not ono
chance in a million of living through it.
But Kettle know his game and was play
ing it well.
Only ono man laughed, and his laugh
ploscd up again in a moment like the snap
of a watch. Some scowled; a few swore;
the quartermaster in tho cardigan jacket
alone remained unmoved. Of Kettlo's
outrageous raillery he took no notice
whatever, but continued his plaint In a.
solid monotone, as though ho had been
reading it from a book.
"In tho first instance, it's the grub we
complains of, pcrticularly the sugar. It
ain't sugar at all. It's just a slumph of
molasses."
"That," said Kettlo, "13 duo to your
own laziness. Tho bottom of a sugar bar
rel's always that way unless you tnrn it
end for end every day or so. The mo
lasses'd settle through the queen's sugar
at Windsor and spoil half of it unless the
barrel was looked to. So that knocks in
the head your first complaint By James,"
he continued, with a first snow of fury,
"Is it for this you dogs have turned your-,
selves Into a howling pack pf mutineers,
and let my ship drift like at hencoop, tq?
"rarcl Newfoundland V
'fiaguarterrqastor wa3 obviously d's
concerted by the attack, so much so, in
fact, that ho missed tho next few counts
j of his Indictment andcame at onco to the
main head, which he lad hoped 16 lead up
to more gently. "It's a rise of wages that
wo insist op principally," he said. "We
take it we've been signed on for this run
to New Orleans under false pretenses.
Nothing was said about the sort of cargo
wo was to carry, which naturally incites
them anarchist chaps to violence. Wo'ro
suffering undue risks. There's been ono
devil machine found already, and as like
as not there is others besides. The bloom
ing ole tramp may go up any minute, and
becauso we'ro standing that risk we say
we ought to be paid according. Tho cargo
can stand tho pull, and if you aren't will
ing the hands hero has made up their
minds to broach it for themselves."
"You great foolsl" cried Kettle, "This
isn't an ordinary cargo that you can help
yourselves out of and let the underwriters
stand treat. You bet tho tallyman won't
wink at any yarn about damaged in tran
sit over the stuff we'ro bringing them. If
there's so much as a miserable half sov
ereign missing, tho whole crowd here,
cook and captain's dog, stay In a New Or
leans calabcoso till it's found and then
come out with their tickets dirtied. Oh,
you one eyed, mutton headed fools!"
Cambel stared at him curiously. His
truculent tone had left him completely.
His hands bed quitted tbo pistol butts and
were gripped on the bridge rail. His el
bows wero beating nervously against his
ribs.
From some mouth in tbo blacker shad
ow came a deep, derisive laugh. Then a
voice, presumably from the laugher, said:
"Who wants to go to New Orleans? Who
wants to go nearer than the next key or
reef or sand bank or whatever it may be?
Let's pile up the blazing old tramp on
that and then boat cruise across to Cuba.
There's nice snug bays In Cuba whero tho
guarda costas don't ask questions. Or if
they did, a bit of yellow ballast out of the
boats would stop their jaw quick enough."
The voice laughed again and ceased.
"Who spoke there?" Captain Kettle de
manded. Out rolled into tho bright circle tho
massive body of the donkeyman.
"You!"
The donkeyman knuckled his greasy
cap in assent, but added that be was no
mutineer. "I'm your man, captain "' he
said, "but I'd ho pleascder to help ye car
rying out the crew's wishes than going
agin thorn. Ye'U be dealt by honestly,
captain liberally, yes, better than yo over
havo boon in this world yet or ever will bo
again. It's a chanco that won't come of
six years of Sundays an the steamer
will be lost at say. Blowed to rivuta an
ould iron by a conspirator's bomb. It's a
most natural ending for her,"
Kettle stared at the donkeyman with
his mouth agapo and tho eyes standing
out of his head. His face was thrust out
at full neck's length; his fingers beat a
vague tattoo on the white iron rail of the
bridge.
Then the crew's original spokesman lift
ed up his unlucky voice for tho second
time: "Acb, friends, we're vasting min
utes. We baf made up our mindts. Why
should we not go and tivide ter cold with
out furder pother? Cood olo man, du bist
gericbring, you'll come and sgrambla for a
share like ter rest of us, von't you?"
Slowly Captain Kettle stiffened. His
eyes lost their stare and glinted unpleas
ant firo in their more proper orbits; his
lower jaw closed up with a snap; his fists
slid to hia jackct-pockots and gripped
there,
"You painted Dutchman!" Tho words
came snarled through clinched teeth.
The crew rustled uneasily.
"Do I live to hear a set of dogs liko you
dictating to me? Does any man hero
think he's goto; to have an inch of his
own way aboaru of me?"
t'Come, Captain Kettle' said the, quar
termaster who hod talked before, "don't
be unreasonable. Tho Dutchman means
well, though he didn't put it Bristol fash
ion. And besides we've mado up our
minds to share in that gold, and you'd
better chip in and share, too, without a
dust. It'll be a deal comfortabler for all
hands, and besides it's got to be done
nyway. We're all determined, and wo'ro
too many for you, even if Mr. Cambel
docs stand in on your side."
Kettle's faco lit up with the joy of bat
tle. "Are you, by James?" he snapped.
"We'll see about that. I'd handle twice
your number to my own cheek any day.
I'vo done it before on a dashed sight
uglier lot than you and came out topside,
nnd I'm going to do it again now. Mr.
Cambers with me, too, this time, and
Wo'vo got 20 bullets among us that'll all
go homo in somebody's ribs, beforo any of
you get at hand grips with us. Now, just
play on that, yp,ty scum. There's not a
one, of ypp, got a pistol. u
VQb, haven't we?" commented a nasal
Voice on the outskirts of tho crowd. "I
guess you're out there, mister. I'm heeled
Ijor one."
'-'Crackl
Tho man shrieked and fell in a limp
heap on the deck. Hi3 weapon clattered
down beside him. Kettle kept his smoking
pistol muzzle raised steady as an Iron
wrist could hold it.
The others instinctively drew ot first
away from the fallen man, but ono ordi
nary seaman, younger and moro plucky
than the rest, darted forward to regain the
fallen revolver. As his fingers closed over
it his eyes instinctively sought tho bridge.
Cambel had his revolver sighted over the
crook of an elbow, Kettle his at arm's
length. Both were covering him.
"Fling that thing Qverboard, or you'll
bo dead, before you can wink!"
"The prew's only revolver spun through
the ai? and hit the water with a tinkling
splash,
"Now, stand forward, tho two fools who
have been your spokesmen."
The crowdstocd liko men petrified.
"Quick, or I'll make practice into the
brown of you!"
Tho quartermaster in tho cardigan jack
et stepped out of his own accord, undo
fiant now and whito. Tho German was
hustled to his side.
"Have you got a coin, quartermaster I"'
"No, sir."
"Have you sausage?1'
"Yes, herr,"
"Then spin it out, and do you, quarter
piaster, call to him. And mind you call
right, because I'm going to shoot tho loser,
and perhaps you're the least useless of the
two. Spin, confound you. Spin, sausage,
or, by James, I'll shoot you where you
stand and settle it that way."
The German put somothing between his
dished palms and shook it violently, then
clinched cue hand and thrust it out into
tho full blaze ot the lamp light The
quartermaster cried heads. Tho other un
wrapped bis grimy fingers with slow jorks
and showed. The coin was a halfpem y,
Britannia uppermost. The quartermaster
buttoned his cardigan jacket and drew
himself up to faco the upper bridge.
"Hold up your hand!"
It shot up to tho full length, fingers
splayed out. Then, crack! and a bu..ot
ripped through tho middle of the pal.n.
Tho fellow let out a short yelp of surpnse
and clapped the wounded member tigl ly
under his armpit. The men around him,
utterly cowed, stood in frozen silence, and
Captain Owen Kettle, from the bridge,
waved slow patterns over them with a re
volver muzzle. Then ho crammed both
weapons into his jacket pockets again and
gave 6rder3 sharply and with crispness.
"Watch below, got forward and turn "jri
Watch on duty, go to your, posts, Quar
termaster of the wa,tcb, tumble up here.
Southwest and by g6u"
A quartermaster ran briskly up the
bridge ladder.
"S'wcst and by son', it is, sir," he re
plied. It was the only comment any ono
of tho crew mado to Captain Kettlo on his
method.
(Continued in next issue.)
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APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matter of Application of Lizzie Haley (Lnko F
Haley, manager) for Liqnor License.
Notice is hereby given that Lizzie Hale; (Lake
F. Haley, manager) did upon the 11th day of April.
A. D. 1SW, file her application to the City Council
of Njnrth Platte, Lincoln county, Nebraska, for
license to sell Malt, Spirituous and Vinous Liquors
on Sixth street, Second ward, in the city of North
Platte, Lincoln county, Nebraska, from tho 1st day
of May, 1S0O, to the 1st day of May, lfc97.
If there be no objection, remonstrance or pro
test filed within two weeks from April 11th, A. D.
1&X3, the said license will be granted.
LIZZIE HALEY, Applicant.
APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matter of application of William Landgraf for
Liquor License.
Notice is hereby given that William Landgraf:
did upon the 7th day of April, A.D. MH5. file his
application to the City Council of North Platte,
Lincoln county, Nebraska, for license to sell Malt,
Spirituous and Vinous Liquors on Spruce street,
First ward, in the city of North Platte, Lincoln
county, Nebraska, from the 1st day of May, 185
to the 1st day of May, 18OT.
If there bo no objection, remonstrance or protest
filed within two weeks from April 10th, A. 1. 16&3,
the said license will bo granted.
WILLIAM LANDGRAF, Applicant.
APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matter of Application of Ony A. Laing for
Liquor License.
Notice la hereby given that Guy A. Laing did
upon the 7th day of April, A. D. lfjlJG, file bis ap
plication to the City Council of North Platte, Lin
coln county, Nebraska, for llcenso to sell Malt,
Spirituous and Vinous Liquors on Front steet.
First ward, in the ctfy of North Plaite, Lincoln
county, Nebraska, from the 1st day of May, 1890.
to the 1st dr.y of May, 1S97.
If there be no objection, remonstrance or protest
filed withf.n two weeks from April JOth, A. D. 1KIG,
the said license will be granted.
GUY A. LAING. Applicant.
APPLICATION FOR LIQUOR LICENSE.
Matte.-of Application of Gertler & Waltemath
for Liqi.or License.
Notico Is hereby given that Gertler & Waltemath
did upoa the 7th day of April, A. D. 1893, file their
application to the City Council of North Platte,
Lincoln county, Nebraska, for license to sell Malt,
Spirituous and Vinous Liquors on East Side Spruce
street. Block 103. in tbo city of North Platte, Lin
coln county, Nebraska, from the 1st day of May,
1800, to the 1ft day of May, lfc97.
If there bo no objection, remonstrance or protest
filed within two weeks from April 10th, A. D. 1SE0,
the said license will be granted.
GERTLER k WALTEMATH, Applicants.
The Noetii Platte Tribune newspaper will
publish the above notices for two weeks at the ex
pensd of the applicants. Tho city of North Platte
is not lobe charged the re with.
C. F. SCHARMANN, City Clerk.
By Jom Sobensok, .Deputy.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
U, 8. Land Office, North Platte, Neb., )
April 2d, 1S9. f
Notice is hereby given that the following named
settler has filed notice of his intention to make
final proof in support of his claim and that said
proof will be made before the Register and Re
ceiver at North Piatto, Neb., on May 9th, 1S96,
viz:
ERNEST J. BAKER,
who made Homestead Entry No. 1574G for the
lots 4, 5, G and 7, Section 6. Township 10 N
Range 32 W. Ho names tho following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon and culti
vation of said land, viz: Wiley Mathews. Oscar
M. Mathews, Billings P. Baker end Jasen II. Cos
selman, all of Dickens, Nob.
278 JOHN F. HINMAN, Register.
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PROBATE NOTICE.
Icthe matter of the Estate of inna Boskins,
deceased.
In the County Court of Lincoln County, Ne
braska, March 28th, lS9ti.
Notice is hereby given, that the creditors of said
deceased will meet the Administrator of said es
tate, before the County Judge of Lincoln County,
Nebraska, at the County Cpurt Room, in said
County, on the 31st day of July, 189(5, on the 31st
day of August, 1S96, and ou the 1st day "of October,
1S96, at 1 o'clock p. m. each day, for the purpose
of presenting their claims for examination, adjust
ment and allowance. Six months are allowed for
creditors to-present their claims, and one year for
the administrator to settle said Estate, from the
31st day of March, 189C. This notice will be pub
lished in The Tribune, a newspaper printed iu
said County, for four weeks successively, on and
ifter March 31st, 1896.
51-31-1 James M. Ray, County Judge.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
U. S. Land Office, North Plaite, Neb., )
. . March 2d1895. J"
' Notice Is hereby given that the following-named
ettlerhas filed notice of her intention to make.
Inal proof in support of her claim, and that nld
roof will be made before the Register andRe
eiver at North Platte, Nebraska, on April 18tb,
0, viz: Elizabeth Cragie, widow of Alexander
ragie, who made Homestead Entry No. 15,358 for
he east half of the northwest quarter and the west
alf of the northeast quarter Section 26, Township
I north. Range 31 west. She names the- following
itnesses to prove her continuous residenco upon
ad cultivation of said land, viz: David E. Baker,
oseph U. Baker, James Montague and George R.
Jonnston, of Nortn Platte, Neb.
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JOHN F. HINMAN, Register.
ORDER OF HEARING.
The StAteof Nebraska, I
Lincoln County. f
At a county court, held at tbo county court
room, in and for said county,' April 15th, 1S96.
Present James M. Ray, County Judge.
In the matter of the estate of Mordecal C.
Furnish, deceased.
On reading and filing the petl'lon of Abigail
E. Furnish praying that administration of said
estate may be granted to her as administrator.
Ordered, That May 2d, 1836, at 1 o'clook, p. m.,
is assigned for hearing said petition, when all
persons Interested in said matter may appear at a
county court to be held in and for said county,
and show cause why the prayer of petitioner should
not begranted; and that notice of tho pendency of
said petition and hearing thereof.be given to all per
sons interested in said matter by publishing a copy
of this order in The Tribune, a legal newspaper
printed in said county, for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing.
a31 Jaues M. Ray, County Judge.
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