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THE NORTH PLATTE SEM1-WMKLY ; TEJBTOE '' FRiMF; -BTMINGf,. APRIL 24, 1896.
CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.
Allen and Gear Clash.
"Washington, April 18. The debate
on the bond resolution proceeded in the
senate. Mr. Hill continued his speech
in opposition, "which is not yet com
pleted. 2Ir. Hoar supported the pro
posed bond investigation. The debate
is proving attractive to the public, the
galleries being crowded throughout the
day. An exciting episode occurred late
in the day concerning Pacific railroads
affairs. Mr. Gear, chairman of the Pa
cific railroad committee, presented a
bill proposing an adjustment of the rail
road debt. This led Mr. Allen (Xeb.)
to criticise the committee for alleged
partiality to "Collis P. Huntington and
his lobby." A bitter personal altercation
between Mr. Gear and Mr. Allen fol
lowed, during which Mr. Allen declared
that Mr. Gear had uttered a "fake
hood" concerning General Wearer of
Iowa.
Mr. Hoar called Mr. Allen to order
and demanded that his words be taken
down. Mr. Allen was obliged to take
his seat, but on a motion by Mr. Faulk
ner was allowed to proceed in order.
House Acts on Private Bills.
"Washecgtox, April IS. The approach
of the final adjournment of congress is
indicated by the great pressure at the
opening of each session of the house fos
unanimous consent for the passage of
minor bills. Several pension hills, bills
to donate condemned cannon to G. A.
K. posts, etc., were passed by unani
mous consent.
General Deficiency Bill Passed.
"Washington", April '21. The house
yesterday parsed the general deficien
cy bOL Included was the item in
relation to indemnities to be paid F. O.
Dawson, wife and daughter for loss of
property and injuries received at the
hands of the Tic McCarty gang in Ne
braska. The amount allowed is $2,200.
xioBse unseal loon. gf
Washixgtox, Apni xne nousa
yesterday unseated James E. Cobb.
Democrat, representing the ijifth Ala
bama district, and voted yeas, 121
nays, -io to scat Albert T. Goodwin,
populist.
Sectarian School Question In the Senate
Washington, April 22. The senat
spent the day on the Indian appropri
tion bill, but did not complete it. Ti
sectarian school question was taken up
late in the day and brought out ani
mated debate, Senators G alii u per,
Thurston and Teller opposing and Sen
ators Gray and Pettigrew supporting
the amendment offered by Mr. Cockrell,
extending for two years the time for
the entire abandonment of sectarian
schools. Final action on tfce question
was not reached. Most of the day was
given to the contest against legal claims
in connection with the western Chero
kee settlement, and the claims were
finally agreed to.
pocxlirin Strom In.
ashtsgtox, April 2-?. The houso
yesterday entered upon the considera
tion of the general pension bill reported
from the invalid pension committee. It
amends the existing pension laws in
some very important respoets. Mr.
Pickler, the chairman or the committee,
addressed the house for three hours in
support of it. Before the pension bill
was taken up Mr. Goodwin (Pop.) was
seated in place of Mr. Cobb (Dem. )frora
the Fifth Alabama district.
CockrelFx Amendment Adopted.
"Washixgtox, April 23. The senate
" by a rote of 33 yeas to 24 nays has
adopted the amendment to the Indian
appropriation bfll offered by Mr. Cock
rell, (Ma) providing that 50 per cent oi
Appropriation for ludiaji contract
schools should bo appropriated in the
pending bill for such schools.
Amending the Carer Act.
Washington", April 21. The commit
tee on irrigation of arid lands author
ized a favorable report .on a bill amend
atory of the Carey act. The amend
ments provide that where the greater
part of a legal subdivision is desert i
.character the whole shall be so consid
ered. In order to be entitled to desert
lands the states and territories must
cause to be irrigated and occupied not
less than 20 acres in each 160. Such
jracis. muyt be cultivated by. actual set
tlers within 10 years from the date of
segregation.
"Thurston pn IteliIpn.
TSashixgton-, April 21. The first 'ses
sion of the national congress of religious
education was held last night in the
Jievr Tork Avenge Presbyterian church.
General John Eaton presided. The
theme of the evening was "Beligious
Education and National Prosperity,"
the speakers being Chaplain Milburn,
Rev. G. E. Grammar of Baltimore and
.Senator Thurston. The latter delivered
an eloquent address, frequently punctu-
ated with applause.
National .Arbitration Conference.
"Washington, April 0. The national
arbitration conference will hold a two
days' session in this city during the
goming week. Between 300 and 400
written acceptances gf invitations to at
tend thelcouferehce have "been received.
They represen in all 3S states. It is
expected that Senator Edmunds of Ver
mont will be te permanent president.
Taxor -Transmlss i$i p p i Exposition.
Washington, April 21. The house
committee on ways and means yesterday
decided to report favorably the senate
bill to give 200,000 for a govern
ment building and exhibit at
the Tran mississippi and Interna
tional exposition to he held in Omaha
in 1893.
Black Hill fish. Hatchery.
- Washington, April 22. Among the
items of increase in the sundry civil ap
propriation bill, as reported to the sea
kte, is -$10,000 for a fish hatcherjr'ih'tTg
Slack H1115, s. rr., -
Ti t i . 7? TV .
Xhajerts FcJtsicm Approved.
Washixgtqx, April 22. The presi
dent has approved the act granting a
pension to Major General John M.
Thaver of Nebraska. C
JjncTJinc Prisoner Hlee4.
Lincoln, April 20. Two long time
prisoners were released from the peni
tentiarr today on the order of Governor
Holcomb. with "good time" allow
ance. On April 11, 1SS9, Patrick Shell
was sent up from Jefferson county for
10 years for murder. 2u charges of
misconduct have; been preferred against
nmt and he was allowed. 22. months.
James Thomas was sent up from Doug
las county for burglary, under a "sen
tence of 10 years, on Feb. 21, 18S9. He
jrae allowed about "Ih sues "goqS
fine" &ad rslead.
CHAPTER XIL
THKKH FOE TWKSTT-SEVEN.
"2ibw, my lads," said Kettle, youve
got to hump yourselves, or we'll have the
steamer swamping beneath uso It'll be
touch and go anyway. Mr. Cambel, you'll
have the deck all to yourself, after you've
done yonr job on the forehold, of course,
and youM better jump lively after that at
once. Every gill of water tells now, and
it strikes me if we've very much more of
the Mexican gulf on board the decks will
blowup, and she'll go down liko kentledge
ballast"
Cambel darted through the doorway.
"And now, Mr. Snllivan, understand
that, although I still continuo to rate as
skipper ot this craft, for the present I'm
going to work as fireman and coal trim
mer. You will be chief engineer, and I'm
tho sum total of -your crew, and between
us we've got to do tho work of seven
horses and ono mule. Are the bilgo pumps
cle-rr" i
Ycs, sor."
"And has she Etill a gocd head of
steam?"
"She has. None's beon blown off."
'Then pick up your feet and let's go to
your hardware shop and stare in work "
"Wait a bit, ser,"said tho donkcyman.
"There's things here I don't understand.
Aren't the lives of us in beastly danger?
Didn't them boats go off because the
steamer's sinking?"
"Do you," retorted Kettle, 'consider
mo one of those fancy sort of maniac who
have no wish to survive the loss of a ship?
I tell you I should have beon drowned
eight times already if that had been my
lay. No, Mr. CbieL Fair fight's right
enoush, and I'd stand up to Nick in that
and value my life at less than a rice mat,
hot at other times you bet I'm no fool to
chuck it away."
"But," said the donkeyrnan, -"wnac
gets mes this: If the blooming steamer's
bottom's shot out, what's the fun in
messing with it? The ilexlcsn gulf will
circulate through that hole longer than
our bilge pumps will run."
"You tire me," said tho little man.
"Who said sbe'd her bottom blown out? I-
tell you this steamer was sunk a few
plates below her usual trim for reasons
and now we are going to pull her up
again. See here, new Mr. Chief, take the
cinch from me and ask no more questions,
and you'll get told no lies. Is'll pay you.
If you do as vou're bid aboard of me,
you'll have sovereigns enough given you
to work through tho biggest spree that
was ever spread out in a seaport town."
The big donkcyman appreciatively drew
the back of a hand acruss Ms muzzle. Ah,
captain, dear." he said ' coaxingly. "I'd
just like to hear ye mention a figure.
"Call it two 10 notes." "
'Then, be Christopher. I'm yerman fc
any piece of dsTilmenp in tho calendar.
Come along, captain, dear. lTis a melo
dious little man are, for all they say
against ye?-"
Meanwhile the steamer was becoming
more ami more water logged with every
plunge end roll, and Patrick Cambel fear
ed that his dangerous straxegem for driv
ing awey the crew had been carried too
far. It seemed to him impossible that they
csuld salvage her now. True, she was
brought up to tho wind by the after can
vas, and her rollings were not of such
sickening strength, bat the stern loomed
high in the wild night air, and the bows
lunged deep into every sccecssi ve sea that
rolled up from the stormy south, taking
the green water over the forecastle head
hi masses which scourod enchors, and
windlass ?q the raised iraa.
The wash fcuuJ its way below through
that jagged gap in the luwerdcck in crash
ing waterfall-, and every moment, too,
the opened vnlve beside her keel was
gushing- in fresh gailuns la her swamping
holds. Any larger sea which swept up
now might well settle over her solidly and
launch her with bursted decks onto tho
sponges and the coral growths 200 fathoms
below.
Some men, in the face orsach condi
tions, wonld have been amazed, helpless,"
physically incapable in the presence of
that solitude to making any necessary
effort, for it 13 one thing to do a desperajq
matter before the. eyes o an applauding
crowd and another, when the devil below
is your only appreciative onlooker. Is
would have been beyond the capabilities
of Captain Kettle, for instance, Cambel,
however, w&s the one man in the million
to wnom tbe adventure was as meat and
drink. If he succeeded, then the pxcSt
was his. If be fa Dec. death would be use
ful to him. end anyway therv was the wild
excitement of the moment, which was a
meal to bo enjoyed, and one which rtttfh.
ing could snatch away.
It was Jn this raocd of mind that the
man on whose actions the very outer air
existence of the Port Edes depended left
his fellows In the chartroom and raced
forward to where the jagged lip of the
forehold hatch yawned to the splashing
brine. VTithcnt lantern, without so much
as a look before him, he lowered himself
on to the twisted battens below, with the
clean water raining on to him from above
and muddy waTclets squirting up from
below, and then when the steainer'gavo a"
ho loosed his grip and dived like a stone
through the brimming shaftway of- the
batch.
Seconds passed, a minute, two minutes,
and still he did not reappear. Three min
utes. Then tho rounded outlines of seme:
thing black roiled to the surface and turg
ed abou$ limply With the swUl of the
water.
For awhllo it staid so; then, swung by
a heavier pitch of the steamer, was washed
to the back of a stanchion, where it hung.
The slopping water beneath ebbed steadi
ly. The valve in the steamer's bottom
had been closed.
During a whole hour Patrick Cambel
lodged behind that iron pillar, a mere
boneless mass of flesh and clothes, and?
then the pains of life came into him again
with shivers and shudderlngs. Tb2 thiS
gray light of the" dawn wa3 filtering down
through the jagged opening above when'
first the trembling lids slid from his ever
balls, but far still another 30 minutes he
was a thing of no wit, breathing, truly,
but caring naught for all theworleoni
pained. "
. T-hen a sucking, sobbing noise from the
depths of the hold far beneath broke
upon his car, and the languid brain, began
to work. With an effort he sat up, dizzily
holding to the pillar, trying to think
where he was and how ran recent history,
and by degrees the details strolled back, to
him. Before, however, he had gathered
all his senses or a working quantum of
strength he had a visiter in the shape of
the donkeyrnan, who clattered up over the
decks with plate shod boots and crouchid
at the top of the gap above on knees and
hands.
Have yn been getting hurt now?" in
quired tho newcomer.
About nine-tenths drowned, I fancy,
If that counts But I'na abgqt all rigat
again now."
5 'Ye ccn'c look it," replied t&e denkev-
raan candidly. Barring the tan ye'a o
bine and lard color about tho face this
minute. But I feared there was something
gone wrong through not seeing ye on the
bridge, so I nipped into the chartroom
and pocketed a whisky bottle thas was
lying convenient in case Pull at tho
small end, sor."
' The bottlo was handed down, and Cam
bel lifted it, his teeth chattering against
the nozzle liko castanets, but the spirit
drove up coicr into his face and set the
sluggish blood once more on its appointed
journey throngh his hands and trunk.
"What lias occurred since I left yon?"
he asked.
"Well, first, sor, the captain and my
self had a little- friendly discussion about
what's been happening and came to a bit
of financial agreement. But I will say
that I figured me new terms very low when
I understood it was a thrifle of a conspira
cy that yo wanted me to stand in at. And
then, sor, wo went below to the engine
room and turned steam into the" bilo
pumps to heave this nasty slop of water
overboard, after which, as chief. I set
about making a thrifling repair to the low
pressure engine. Yo see, when that ex
plosion took place a bit of a casting jump
ed into the crank pit and. got jammed
thero hard before they could Eton her. I've
had a fair do at elbow work cutting it out
cold, but it's clear now, and she runs as
sweetly as she did the "day she lcrt the
shops. But, oh, Mr. Cambel, I wish you
could see the old man! Tho sight of that
little chap shoveling coals and swearing
and tumbling and burning himself is
enough to make the ghosts of some dead
firemen I know about grin and dances and
jigs in their graves."
Tho donkeyrnan was inclined to bo gar-,
mlons and evidently lusted for a consider
able chat, bat with returning strength
Cambers anxiety grew on him again, and
ho climbed out on deck keen to be once
mora In action. His knees were tottery,
and the donkeyrnan gave him an arm
aft. But when ho had climbed up tho lad
der and gained tho bridge deck he stood
The girl mt on the coaming of the cockpit
for a minute staring, then threw up his
hands and pitched forward onto the plank
ing as though a bullet had smitten the life
in his brain.
The big onkeyman also was startlsd.
Out of- the morning- mists of tho south
there had come up" a small centerbjcard
Echooner of somo 15 tons, an oysterman
perhaps in tho season and now a sponge
gatherer or a mere coaster. She was com
ing down over the seas as dry as a gull,
driving along under her boom foresail and
jib. The donkeyman's eye hung on her
as she surged past the rust streaked flank
of tho steamer some 20 fathoms awayr
not tccaase the sigh e. a little white
painted schooner was new to him, not be
cause he was impressed by tho danger to
the Port Edes' enterprise in her being seen
by any one, but on account of the. $ny;
vessel being handled, in what to her was
distinctly ugly, weather, by so extraordi-
nary a person as a young and pretty girL
No one else was on deck, and tha jirl sat
on the coaming of tho cockpit, tiller in
one hand, tiller rope irj the. otheV as un
concernedly cs ifcough she had been an
ancient mariner bred and aged in fore
and afters.
She was a girl, too, with losks much t
the Irishmsa's liking, with copper re3
hair wheso ends blew out from beneatn a
green Italian nightcap laughing, impu
dent features, with the color whipped up
into warm pinks by tho wind; a figure of
pretty curves, and the shapeliest litrla
brown fists in tho world splayed on the
tiller and gripping tho restraining tiller
rope. She was pretty much up to tho eyes
In her steering, but she found time to
throw an ceiliad toward the steamer,
which Mr. Sullivan answered with a yell
intended to show his cosopleto admiration
and a swirl of his greasy cap. It was then
that Cambel fell, and tho denkeyman
took his eyes frcon the schooner, end picked
him up and once mem applied "tho whiskyi
bottle "More, drowned than I thought
for," he muttered. "It'll bo a pig's mess
for us if he goes ill."
But Patrick Cambel aad not fainted
through the effect of his recent strngglo.
clone. It was quite another matter which
had dealt him the sufficing shock.
In the steerer cf that little schconer ha
bad seen the sister of the woman to whom
he had once been affianced; who had dis
carded him for another man; who had
driven him from a sedate English life to
be a wanderer and a vagabond upon the
face of the earth. His roamings had be
gun and continued only because the im
ago of this ono woman hadrefused to
leave his thoughts, and the half sarcastic
nickname of the great traveler had been
gained without any seeking on his part.
Five long desperate years h.a.d passed
since tho blow fell upon him, and time
was doing its work. Ho had begun to for
get her, to premise himself that, this pres
ent enterprise accomplished, he would
eliminate tho past and lead a newer and
different life, and yet there, on the most
unlikely comer of God's earth, her sister
passed like a stage figure befcro his eyes,
the sister from whom she was never
parted.
The shock came upon hjm as a thunder
bolt from a bin sky. He bad fancied her
to be in England, Europe, Australia
anywhere but here and In his weak stntn
! the surorisa was too rrmt ipnin tim
I gush of the waters thundered in his car,
f acain the lieht faded fmm hi pt nnr
this time ho dived into blank nnconscious-
CHAPTER TTTT
A PIKATE'S EA3330B.
Windless -swell and a burning sky.
Ahead broken palings cf mop headed tree
trunks growing straight across t the sea.
On one beam scattered patches of white
where tho. sur crumbled overbidden coral
reef, on tfca other the bright blue water
bt the Her! can gulf, with its yellow float
ing tangles of weed. A steamer lunging
Oh her decks was visible one man, and
one alone, and he was on the upper bridge,
with his fists on the spokes of the steam
steering wheel. He was swaying with
weariness; his eyes were dull and leaden;
his cheeks were of an unwholesome yellow
bocaase the tan would noi let them turn
pale white. Yet his task was ono which
put to strain every piece of Els alertness.
He was taking a steamer drawing 19 feet
through a channel whose very existence
no man on earth besides himself had ever
guessed, and already ho was deep in sea
territory which the charts of 1S93 still
mark as unsurveyed. He had vaguely
found the channel some months before in
an open boat and written cross compass
bearings on the back of a crumpled envel
ope. These he carried in his head now
and used as the sea marks closed, but they
were a frail reed for much dependence
.For such work a leadsman is an abso
lute necessity, and on board the Port
Edes a leadsman was an absolute impossi
bility. The remaining two of her man
ning were working as ten men to "keep up
any head of steam for her engines. And
so Patrick Cambel took his soundings
with eye and nostrils, as do soma of the
more ancient cf tho coaster folk, and in
Etinct did not, upon the whole, servo him
badly. Twice he scoured the steamer's
bottom plates over branching coral plants,
which broke away with clattering jars and
let her through to deeper water beyond,
and onca he ran upon a tail of white sand,
which- pinned her just forward cf mid
ships. Bat he rung off the engines, waited
till the scream of the escape pipo showed
a full head of steam and then on a flowing
tido put her full "speed astern and slid
clear.
The skipper in the stokehold below
waxed blasphemous at tho man who had
"got tho shore on board," but ho did not
csaso from shoveling coals. Neither did
the big denkeyman, savo at those mo?
mentswhen the clang of tho telegraph
bell called him to stand by the throttle or
reversing gear in tho engine room.
So the Pert Edes drew up this narrow
unknown sea river through tho shallows
which fill that bight of the southwest
Ploridian coast, and the tired man who
was governing her steered every hour with
stronger confidence end duller conscious
ness. Now he held on to what was ap
parently an unbroken lino of sand, where,
If tho steamer stuck, sho would bo a
stove in wreck within the hour, but as sho
closed with it a passage opened out which
took her through in clear water, although
the yeasty surges cf the backwash would
leap liko live things far up her sides and
scream and bellow through the scuppers.
Now he dodged, with helm hard starboard
one minute, hard to port the next, among
an archipelago of unnamed keys, where
the first mangrove trees were getting to
work at building these outlying scraps of
animal stone into part of the North Amer
ican continent.
Beyond was a broad, smooth lagoon
shimmering in the sunlighs, daueing with
little silver wnves, "and beyond again was
a wall of woodwork growing in one solid
mass of trunks from behind the tangio of
slimy mangroves which sprawled along
the water's edge. Bara land was, to be
seen nowhere. All was blotted out by the
rank luxuriance of the subtropical flora,
Tho steamer held on her couipo athwart
this placid sea lake, aiming straight as a
rifle shot for what appeared to bo tha
densest par? of the forest. But as she
neared an overlapping cape gradually dis
tinguished itself from the rest of the
greenery, and directly afterward banks of
milky sand sprang out, with a gut cf
river between them.
Cambel steered on, sitting upon the
grating now and holding the wheel one
handed by the lower spokes, and in the
fat, hot stew cf tho stokehold below Ker
tle end the donkeyrnan shoveled coal to
the light of reeking slush lamps and the
tune of f nrnace roar.
Tha steamer in the. ih? of- tho river
stream swung round the bights and iwistr
ings, finding ' deep water everywhere,
though' often she could not mako the turn
quickly enough od bruised with her
forefoot ho slimy msngrovo stems which
marked tho bank. But tho current was
strong and each timo swept her clear, and
thos3 below were scarcely conscious cf the
graze
Knot by knot tho brine of the Mexican
gulf was bring left behind, 134 tha soisss
cf the woods end odors of tho trees and
the swamp; were closing in on them. The
swell fanning out from the steamer's
wak'o wet the alligators in their baskins
places behind the sawgrass, and the. ree
from her smokestacks Era red. she stils leg
ged water fowIaSsh in tho shallows. Sho
coasted round a bayou nf black water
woiled in by stern ranks cf cypress trees.
She cut across another with graceful leav
ed palmetto scrubbed on either hand and
ragged cabbage palms spouting out from
above, And then she swung again where
the river forked and Eteamed down a
straight, unswerving water lano which led
to the very heart of tha Everglades. .
Bat the pt.ro was slowing now, slowing
indeed till the steamer would hardly steer
against the current, which ever and anon
gripped her by the head or tho tail and
carried her with sullen sheerings dead
onto mangrove cluster or tree clad bluff,
and tho reason was that tho head of steam
was faiiing. Captain Owen Kettle, liko
more Christian men have done before, ig
nored his own previous preachings when
the application came In and proved only
human soon after he had taken up the role '
of fireman. Driven half lunatic by the heat
of the work, he kept dipping his lips in
the water bucket and drinking heavy
drafts. As a consequence that unpeet
ical complaints-cramp in tho. stomach
Overtook him at last and tied him into
those, ungalniy knots of torture which he
had so frequently observed upon scientific
ally in others. But as thero was none at
hand to administer the heroic remedy of
chlorodyna cam rhubarb cum laudanum
cum pill and give him somethin else to
think about in the original hind of knots
he remained.
The donkeyrnan, with a hearty Belfast
curse, tried to do double work, but as he
had teen laboring quite to the top of his
strength for many hours previously the
effort did not meet with unqualified suc
cess. As any ono with less dogged wooden
pluck might have known. It is impossible
for one man to fire a 12 furnace steamer,
wheel himself coal for tho bunker and Hut
as engineer and greaser when required,
however great be the initial supply of
brute force with which God has endowed
him. Every tfme he wiped tho wet from
5fs eyes and looked at the steam gauge it
had climbed down since tho time before,
and however furiously ho might heave
new fuel onto tho caking clinkers tha?
jumping index would continue ta down
ward crawL
The oiled, rumbling- of the engines slow
ed and grew more sluggish, and then the
ponderous cranks took to stopping on a
turn as though to gain strength for the
next round. But this did not go on for
leng. The donkeyrnan felt a gentio heave
of the footplates beneath him and then a
heel which was not recovered. Eo gar,"
said he, '-the bloody old tramp's tuk the
ground at last. Thanks be."
He-pitched his shovel through a dull
glowing furnace door and turned to where
the little captain was lying on the polish
ed footplates, holding a yellow flaring
slush lamp before him to sec through the
stifling dusty glccm. '"GuiaVlie com
mented. "The old man looks, pretty sJck.
I'll crane hun up in the ashlift."
This he did and took his commanding
officer into the main cabin, where the air
was bright and baking, and the mosquj
toes were biting like dogs. Then, throw
ing back tho lid cf tho medicine chest,
Which stood tesido the door into the com
panion way, he gazed appreciatively at
the rows of bottles, unstopped one or two
and sniffed at their contents and then
slammed down the lid again as a thought
struck hun. "No," he said. Bcd Ket
tle wouldn't give me physic last time I
thought I'd like a dose, an now I'll see
how he fancies getting round on nothing.
Pair play's a jooL I'll just report to tho
pilot an then turn in."
The "pilot," however, when the donkey
man had wearily hauled himlf onto the
upper bridge and stood by his side, proved
to be so dead asleep that no amount of
shouting or shaking would wake 'him.
Even tho flies did not make him wince.
"Sor, wake, or yell bo sunstrook, If
ye're not that already. House, sor. I can't
lug ye below, an I can't rig an awning.
I'm too tired to speak again, but if yez
Etay here ye'll fry like a rasher an be ate
by flies. There's a whopping skeeter in each
of yer eyeholes this minute, an a kind o
locust browsing on the end cf yer snout,
listen. I'm knock in wid a boot toe on
yer ribs. Yfell, raan, if ye won't listen to
reason, it's just leavin yez I am to stew
in yer own juice."
The donkeyrnan climbed heavily back
down the ladder cad went with weary
steps aft along the bridge deck toward hi
own place. But at the break of the deck
he paused, spread his grimy, shiny elbows
on the rail and indulged in a thin, small
whistle.
'Now, here wo have come, cs the skip
per remarked, up an unbeknown drain to
whUcb .man's improvements have not been
introduced, an there's callers turnin up
already. That was the nose of a gaff
taups'l squintin between those tree tops
down stream a minute ago, or I'm a Dago.
D'ye know, Mr. Sullivan, chief of the
Port Edes, I'm beginnin. to think ye'd
have got better value if vyo'd gone cruisln
off by an large wid the other boys in the
lifeboats. Thtue, there's the 20 1 notes
o dbraw, an a daisy of a spree to have
if yez can get anywhere to hive jt, bui
ye've worked that wago put already, an
it rather seems as though there's more la
boriousness to follow," He yawned cav
ernoasly, 'Tisn't often I'd 537 no to a
bit of a. scrimmage, but theatricals are
net to my taste just now at all. Too
much overtime ruins the sense of humor."
He yawned again and blinked his eyes
drearily. ''Yo must turn in now, Mr.
Sullivan, or ye'lifall down here an be
ate alWe by the skeeters an other wild
beasts of the fcrrust, and if tho explorers
who ore underneath thatwhitogafTtaups'l
want to come aboard here an make trou
ble, so far as you're concerned, thev'll be
let."
And with that the donkcyman staggered
away to his room beneath the poop, sat
over the edge of bis bunk and was snoring
melodiously before his head and his heels
were on the blanket.
Meanwhile a mile lower down a small
centerboard sloop was turning to wind
ward P the river, but making little bead
way against tho current. A negro stood
in her forescnttle, with his elbows on the
deck. Two others prawled on either side
of him. A White man lay spread eagled
on. the top cf tho ccach roof of the cabin,
and another stood in the cockpit steering.
Of all the quintet tho man at tho tUl
er was tho only ono who showed signs of
energy, and his energy had sulphurous an
ger mixed with It. He was a bowed,
shambling creature, with one eye red and
the other mission; trith. long, hairy, ape
like arsis, with n dumb impediment of
speech which threw him into paroxysms of
temper every second time he opened his
lips. Onca or twice when his malady
stuck him voiceless in the middle of a
santence the other whita tp-- laughed,
and then when his tongue, served hhn
again ho would break off from tho text
and rap out a sxearA fit poisonous cuts-
(CVn.tinn.ed in next issue.)
mm I11
Plain and Decorated,
Will be sold in sets or by
the piece. The finest line
of goods ever shown in the
citv.
We have also in stock seven
different patterns in
English a China.
These goods are in 100
piece sets, and range in price
from 11 to $15.
An inspection of these
goods is respectfully invited.
Y. YonGoetz,
Grocer.
Ottenstein Block.
HUMPHREYS'
VETERlNARYSPECinCS
Fcr Scsss, Cittls, Shsep, Ecs, Zt,
USD POUTTXY,
599Tsjft Bosk 9b Treat wrt ef Asisals
ccE3(7Ters,CBetaKS,lBfla.snsatiea
A. A.i spinal 3f eaiBsitis, Milk Ferer.
B. B.?irlHS, Laaems, Kkeasatissu
C. C Distemper, asal Discharces.
D. D. Bets r Grass, Warms.
K.E.CaBsb?s Heaves, PaeaaisBia
F.F. Calic or Griaem Bellyache.
fl.G. Miscarriage, Hemorrhages.
II. II. Urinary and Kidney Diseasae
I.I EraptiTe Diseases, Mailf.
J.K Diseases fDisemiiss, Paralysis.
Sirrle Bottle (crr deeeaX - - .60
Stable Casv wlta Specifics. Vtrm
Veterinary Cure On and HedkaSx; $7.00
Jar Teteriaary Care Oil, . 1.00
S14 irJmrrf; or rt jrrtid BryrimtMi lassy
BTXrSSXXSXXBL CO, 111 jtUSTCEaa St, Srvfrrft.
SPECIFIC Ro do
la
33 T5es- Tri nrTr iim 1 m' 11 t iimrfT
U r t!"il wi -1 U1..1
Jl pr rial, cr 5TixJaBdUrKBTitI pcrwtier,lOT-i.
Soil SRolia,r acsl rrnrytaca Teetipt fi
imnicrrs'XEa. ca, 111 mKcsc, WW
MECCA COMPOUND
00 presi - c 12s. tiTHisz fevers
ard Fain Kel-rv:- Properties as to
sees irpos. J :c iron a Noa-Poc-jr-cus
Preprabec tbar$aa fee Bsed
vi&all frec&xs. Far Beras alone
it is ohea Tonh its -arcigijt in Gold,
vesksvefceea sawed by its csc aad
f'TOealjtj; all kzsdsof sores it xaer
itezrccc!saJ exyeciaaocs. Prjcipt
tscu most efFtnne and ttslc-J be
in ever fae aad -worisbrp. i rc
pared by tfci Foslrr Mfj Col. C jc
dI EIc-j.Icto. Sold by the trade
SSolci Toy .A Staroxtx.
m
Rattle)
PLUG
As good as'can Be'made
regardless of prjc
V
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for
Other Brands Only
ay5
for I O cents
DohT take our word
for it, but buy a piece;
and see for yourself
57
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N. B. OLDS. Agent.
JjlRENCH & BALDWIN,
ATTORXETS-AT-ZA TF,
NORTH PLATTE, - - NEBRASKA
Office over X. P. Ntl. Bank.
1 a PATTERSON,
J-VL i'OHNEY-KT-Li,
Office First National Bank B,
NORTH PliATTE. NEB.
jTIECOX Jb HATiTjIGAX,
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW,
rfORTH PLATTE, - NZBEASKA.
OfSce over North Platte National Baci.
E.
E.NORTHRUP,
DENTIST.
Room No. 6, Ottenstein BuikKng,
NORTH PLATTE, NEB.
D
R. N. F. DONAI.DSON,
Assistant Sargeon Union pacfic R?n
and Member of Pension Board,
NOBTH PIATTE, - NEBRASKA.
OfSc over Streitz's Dreg Store.
Legal Notices.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION'.
TJ. S. Land Office, North Platte. Neb
April fa. f
Notice is hereby giTtn that the folloriBg Baraed
settler has filed notice of his intent! ob to make
final proof ia support of his claim aad that said
proof Trill be made before the Register aad Re
ceiver at North Platte, eb., on May 8th, ls6,
riz:
ERNEST J. BAKER,
-xho made Homestead -Entry No. 15746 for the
lots 4, 5, 6 and 7, Section 6. Torasbip 1 X
Raage 32 W. He names the following witaesses
to prove his coatisneos residence npoa aad culti
vation of said land, tlx: Wiley Matthews. Oscar
M. MattheTTs. Bilhcgs P. Baier and Jasen B. Cos
selman, all of Dicfceas.Neb.
28 JOHN T. HTNMAN, Register.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Euro Otttce at Nosth Platte. Neb ;
April 20th. 13W. J
Notice is hereby given that the folle wins-named
settler has filed notfce of her inteation to male
final proof in support of her claim, and that said
proof -arill be made before the Register and Re
ceiver at North Platte, Nebraska, on May
27th, 1SS6, Tix: Marea S. JorgoasoB. videv of
Rasmus Jorgensoa. ho made Homestead Entry
No. lirS-1, for the Northeast qearter of section
30, toTmship 10 range 23 W. She names the
following -sritnees to prove her cootiasoas resi
dence upon and caltivatios of, said laad. viz:
Rasmas Hansen. Peter Home, Los C Haasen and
George Schmid. jr.. all of Curtis. Nebraska.
2S5 JOHN F. HLNMAN, Register.
PROBATE NOTICE.
lathe matter of the Estate of -naa Bzskins,
deceased.
Ia the Coraty Coart of Liacoin Cooaty, Ne
braska, March 2Sth, lsOL
Notice is hereby given, that the creditors of said
deceased nil! meet tho AdmMstrator of said es
tate, before the County Jadge ef Lincoln County.
Nebraska, at the County Coart Room, in said
Coenty, on the 31st day of Jaly, 1SS6. oa the 31st
day of August. 1556, aad en the 1st day of October.
at 1 o'clock p. ra. each day. for the perposo
of presenting their claims for examiaatioa. adjast
mest and allowance. Six months -are allowed far
creditors to present their claims, and one year for
the administrator to settle said Estate, from the
Zlst day of March, lt-S6. This notice wfH be pab
lished in The Tsiecwe. a newspaper printed ia
t-aid County, for four weeks successively, oa and
after March 31st, 1-15.
M-31-1 Ja3zs M. Rat. County Jadge.
NOTICE OF SALE UNDER CHATTEL.
MORTGAGE.
Notice is herebT given tha,t by virtue f a.
chattel mortgage dated oa the 5th dav of
October. IS&i. aad 0Ky Sled in the o&ce of
the coBHtr clerk of Lincoln countr. Nebras
ka, on the Sth" dav of Aagast, 1S9. and exe
cuted by W. M. Rkeno'ir to the North Platte
National Bank to secure the payment of the
sum of S2Si2Q. and upon which there is now
due the sum of SS1.2T; default having been
made in the payment of said sum, and no
suit or other proceedings at law having been
instituted to recover said debt or any part
thereof, therefore I will sell the propertv
therein described, viz:
One gray mare.
One gray horse.
One larm wagon.
One set f arm namess.
At public auction at the corner of Sixth
and Spruce streets, in the Citv of North
Platte, in Lincoln county. Nebraska, on the
3d day of May 1E56, at 2 o clock p. m. of said
dar
MILTON DOOLnTLE. Receiver.
North Platte National Bank.
, . North Piatte Neb.
Dated April 17th, laL
-
Ounces
IO cents
Ounces 1
OBDER OF HEARING.
The State or Nebraska,
Ltscols Cotnerr.
At a coantx cocrt. held at the mar aecrt
room, in and for fi& ceaaiy. April lfck,
Present Jarae II- Bay, Coanty Jadge.
Ia the matter of the estate of 3ferdeai O.
On rea&sg ao! filial the petitioa ef Abigail
E. PnrBL-h prayins that adialaistrattea f ?Id
estate may be granted to her as admiaistrator.
Ordered. That Hay id, at 1 e'cleoi, p. m
is assigned for heoriar raid petition. Trhes alt
persoas isterested is said matter raay appear at &
county court to be held ia and for 3ald ceeaty.
aad shercr eate why the prayer of petitioner skeald
not bepraated; and that notice of the peadeacy o
said petitioa and hearing thereo,he given Ut aU per
?ens interested ia said matter by pabHshte; a copy
of this order in The Texsttce. a legal BeWspaper
pristed in said county, for thrte saceesive -weeks
prim- to said day of hearing.
a31 J Astra M. Ext. Coraty Jedge.
Claude Weingand,
DEALER IN
Coal Oil, Gasoline.
Crude Petroleum and'
Coal Gas Tar.
Leave orders at Newtons Store
f jos. Hershey,
DEALER IN
Ipultal : Implements
OP ATjTj kinds.
Farm and Spring Wagons,
Buggies, Road Carts,
Wind Mills, Pumps, Barb
Wire, Etc.
Locust Street, between Fifth and Sixth
NORTH PLATTE
MARBLE : WORKS,
W. C. RITNER,
Maa-Prof sad Dealer ia
MONUMENTS, : HEADSTONES,
Curbing, Building Stone,
And &S tiads ef Mooessental aatt Cezaetecy work,
GEO. NAU MAN'S
SIXTH STREET
MEAT MAESET.
Meats at wholesale and re
tail. Fish and Game in
season. Sausage at all
times. Cash paid for Hides.
& Cure for Piles,
ain sssnre all who snif: -with Irr
tesaaJ Piles that in Hexnorrhoidiae we
havo apogtiw cure. 'Hie treatment is
oalikeany thing heretofore used ami its
application so periecs thaterary ves
tige of the disease is eradicated.- Hcm
rrhokiiTHj is & harmless coBtjKMDtl. 11
be used for an eye ointment, yet jm -cs
such healing power that "when 2
plied to the diA-fiPed parts, it at oace re
lieves and a cars is tlte sore result oi its
continued te. All at ho snlFer -vrkh pSesr
suffer from Constipation ato and lieat-' "
orrhoidine cure! lodi. Pri$l 50. For
Salehy Prnj::. :ts. TI1 be sent irrm
the factory 1.- m" ly . c i price. Sewi io
The Foster ilisVo Co. Council BInfis,
Ioira, for testiTr.oaiaLi and infermaiion.
Sold TayL. JE. JSlaroltv.