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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1890 K n w. JV w w v. I"- mra W CHICA$ Milwaukee! Owm niul oihthU'k 5.NX) mile of tliorwiiRtily Qtilppctt rn.nl In IIIIiioIk, Vim(ihIii, Iowa, Mlsmmrl, Minnesota mid Iwttutn. ,, ,, U Is the llot Direct Itnuto betw.uiiill the Principal PoIiiIn In th NorthweM, Boiitliweiil ml Knr Vcl Vut tnnim, tlmo table, rales of imxmiKO anil freluhl, etc., uppty to nearest Mutton HKent ol OlIIOAdO, Mll.WAIIKKK A HT. I'AUI. HAM. way, or In iiny Hiillroml Audit anywhere In thn wni-lit. lUMIIiliKH, Oriuirnl M'u'r. F.TUUKKH. A.V. IMIAIirKNTKIl, Clon'l I'ww.ATkt AkI. (IKU. II.IIKAI-TOUI), wMieir jiitr, Aiwl.tl. I'. AT. AKI Milwaukee, Wisconsin. flr-Kur Information In reference In 'jiU muTTowns owned liy tho I'lilcium, Mllwiiu ken A HI. Paul Unlhvny t'uiiimiiy.wrlu In II. O. llAUdAN.Uuul Cmiiinllonor,MIHwiiiiltin Wlscou'ln. E FAST MAIL ROUTE ! 2 DAILY TRAINS 2 -TO- AtchUon, Leavenworth, St. Joscph,Knnsas City, St. Loud and nil Points South. East and Went. , The direct line to Ft. Scott, Parsons Wichita, Hutchinson and nil pilnclpal points In Kansas. The only road to the Great Hot Springs of Arkansas. Pullman Sleepers and Free Reclining Chair Cars on nil trains. H. G. H&NMA, R. P. R. MILLAR, City Ticket Agt. Gen'l Agent Cor. O and lath Street. ON SALE TO XjULj Princip ipal Points EAST, WEST, NORTH AND SOUTH -AT- 1044 O STREET. E. B, SLOSSON, City Passenger Agent InZHflSolfHfl 9mJBr.H9M Tickets Mlt. FA It WELL'S DOMAIN. A TRACT OF LAND IN TEXAS AS BIO AS CONNECTICUT. II H (ilvi'H III ICrliMiin fur II111 l.onn Mm Mulo'n Or rnl Nliiln lluil.n II I'm ullillltlr. Mow 11 Dug Cnrnl fur it lliinrh, A lliiiiiiinnil MIIph nf I'mirr. Hicclnl CornfiH)ii(l('iK'C. Wabmlniiton, Fch. 20, Tlio memt rx IciinIvo I11111I owner tn (li nuiinti' In ,Mr. Fiirwill, of IIIIiioIh, Senator Knrwi'll urc ntly hail noino llttlo trouhlo with the piiHlili'iit nlotit tho Chicago oIllccH, nml If ho hIioiiM (lii'litc to retiro ftnm the Ai'tmtt'imil wl'i liiiiuuiurehyof hi own, wlicieln uoiio ciniM (Ucfitloii IiIh royal will, it would not l nccoiHjirx for him to hn, iloiimlii. Henulor Fnrwill Is nl ri'itily tlio owner of tin rinpiru of land With hltt brother, John V.,thodr goodn iiii'iThiiiit of Chicago, mid Col. Aimer Taylor, who In 11 ineiiihor of emigres ft 0111 llliiinta, Senator Farwell owns u tract of I11111I larger tluiti tin' Htatoa or Delaware mid Rhode Iidaiul eontblneil nml nliuoMt HH latino mt tho ntulo of Con neetluut. It Im 11 xnlld, compact tract, too, lying nlong tho wratvrii border of To.mik, abutting about twenty-llvn iiiIIoh 011 No Miiii'h IjuuI, niul extending thenoo HOiithwnnl ulwul two hiiiulreil iiiIIoh. If tliuiti wore a railroad rtintilng north anil Houth through th.R Ntrip, mid tho tralim thereon iiiiulu no letter tlmo than tho average weHtorn rnllwuy train, Hcimtor I anvcll could ride fiom morning till nl, Jit without oucu leaving hit own noil. Thin emplro of prnlrlu land la hup i minded hy u wlru foneo, and othor wlro fencort cut It Into piiRturcH, ho that there inn in all Juat 1,000 iiiIIoh of fenoo on tho place. Tho farmer who haa 1,000 iiiIIoh of fence and two or three pasturcH, eaoh us largu iih the Htato of Delaware, Ih a farmer on tho true American scnlu. Hut .Senator Farwell does not farm. Ho Ih in stock raiding, and linn on his great ranch nearly 150,000 licad of cattle. In tun yearn Seuatoi Farwell will bo n very rich man, piovldlng ho holds to thin tract of laud. Already It in worth three or four dollarrt an acre, and tho day la not far dlHtatit when it will bo worth two or threo tlmen iih much, In ten yi'iira that ranch, land, cattle, fences and improvements nhould bo worth $10,. 000,000. for there nro 11,000,000 acres of pretty gixxl laud, mid tho present herd or 150,000 head will noon bo multiplied llvo or bix fold, Senator Farwell was nt luncheon the other day In tho neuato tvntnurnnt. With him were hirt I toon companloim, Senator Wolcott.of Colorado, and Senator Jonen, of Nevada. Col. D.iu Shepitrd, tho hldll ful political privato Hocretary of Senator Farwell, entered tho reHtaurant on tho double quick, and In an excited way told his chief that an alarming discovery had boon made. On account of an error in tho mirvuys, a considerable iiortion of tho Farwell tract had lxon located in Now Mexico, nnd ivh tho Texas patontn would not hold good there nil tho laud thus located would bo a dead I ohm. "And how many acres aro wo likely to lose, Dan?" tho Bonator inquired, "About 150.000." "Oh, If that Is all," said Farwell. nonchalantly, "wo don't need to bother about it. A hundred nnd fifty thotiHaiid acres Is nothing." And then tho mutator wuut on with his luncheon just as If nothing had happen ed, It is only in America that a man can face tho prospective loss of 150,000 acres of laud and regard it as n mere triilo. Tho Farwell empire in Texas is at present Inhabited by about 600 men. Ono railroad tho Denver, Fort Worth and Texas runs through It, niul another rail road will Hhortly bo built. There is one little town, which tho senator nnd his partners laid out a short tlmo ago, and in a fow weokH they sold $17,000 worth of lots there. It is not dilllcult to imagine this tract of laud teeming with villages and towns nnd prosperous farmers, Wero It as densely populated as tho United States It would havunpopulatiou of nearly tOO.OOO souls. If iih densely Kpulated as Mr. FarwolPs own Htato of Illinois it would havo a population of nearly threo hundred thousand rouN, and if it had as many people to the square mile as England it would havo a populaco numbering nearly two nnd n half millions. That would bo an empire worth having I do not Bupposo that Senator Farwell has any Idea of sotting up a llttlo republic of his own out there lu tho Panhandle of Texas, ono in which ho could mako nil appointments without consultation with tho president of the United States, but If ho has ho will not be able to do ho, for in selling him tho land tho Htato of Toxas was careful to retain political control of it, just us it docs of all its other millions upon mill ions of acres, "I will tell you how wo happened to get that land," said Senator Farwell. "Tho people, of Toxas wanted a lino now state house, and as laud was tho thing they had the most of they thought it would bo a good idea to trade their land for a state house. So a party of their leading men came down to Chicago and asked bouio of us to build thorn a Htato houso estimated to cost a million and a half of dollars, and take in payment therefor, threo million acres of laud, estimated to bo worth llfty cents an aero. There wero jut two things I wanted to know beforu going into tho scheme, and tho.so wero If tho Htato houso could bo built for a million and a half, and if tho laud which thoy proposed giving us was worth fifty cents nn aero, Col, Taylor went down to Texas and satisfied him self on both of tho.su points, and wo took hold. I am not going to tell you how much money tho statu house did coat us, fortlut isourownbutlucHs, but it cost us a go-j deal inoio than tho million nnd a half that wns estimated by tho architects. I must say that wo j,'-t along pretty well with (he Toxas peoplo, though tho job was not without its dilltculties. Ono of tho llrst things wo discovered was that tho building ns planned by tho stato architect would not stand up after it was built. So tho plans had to be changed. Thon wo found that there tvnsn't enough good llmostono In tho itato that could bo got at to build it of lhat material, and wo proposed using Indiana limestone instead. Hut tho roxann nro nu Intensely patriotic peoplo, vid they did not like tho idea of having tholr capital built of Imported stouo, So wo ntndo a now trado with tho stato, by which wo weio touso native r-d granite, tho stato to glvn us tho labor of 500 con vlcts. AImmi t twenty mites from Austin, tho state capital, Is a lingo bowldor of red granlto, How it ciuno theio is more than tho geologists can tell, but there It was, and wo built a railroad out to tho big bowlder nnd began cutting it up. Hero a new trouhlo nrose. Wo couldn't get a Military Btonecutter to work on tho job Ix'caiiHO convict lalior had been used In getting out tho rough material, Our contrnctornndvertlNed all over tho Unitod Slates, but not a man caino to work. Finally tho dllllculty was adjusted, how over. "It is n saying all over the world," con tinned tho senator, "that wo Americans do things in a hurry. Certainly wo wero not slow in completing that Htato house, all tho dinU'tillicH to tho contrary not withstanding. Tho corner Hto'.io was laid In tliOHprlugof 1880, nnd predictions wero then plentiful that tho building would not Ihj completed in ten years. In a little moro thnn thrao years tho capltol was Mu lshed, two yeai 8 ahead of our contract time. It Is probably tho largest and most complete building over erected In bo short a tlmo. It Is a very largo building, cover ing, as It docs, two and a quarter aerosol ground. Tho building ban four stories, and tho largo glass lone star emblem of tho Btato ou top of tho statuo of liberty Is 811 feet almvo tho base lino of tho build ing. It Is a stato houso which compares favorably with any other slato capltol in this country, though it wns built in a llttlo moro than threo years, and at an expense to tho stato of nothing moro thnn a slice of. their still plentiful wild land. Hint is how my partners nnd invHolf Imp polled to become tho jiossessorsof n tract of laud in Toxas as big ob tho state of Con necticut." A fow miles west of tho Farwell tract, In Now Mexico, is a nlicop ranch about which I havo heard a queer Htory. It was told me by Mr. O'Hrlen Moore, a Wash ington nowspniior correspondent, who knows tho grent emplro called Texas as well as Homo men know the towns in which they llvo. "Threo or four years ago," Bald Mr. Mooro, "when tho survey ors wero running tho lines for this Far well syndicate, they camo upon a sheep ranch on thuheadwaterHof tho Canadian river. Thei o wore 2,000 or 11,000 head of sheep, all in good condition, and the place looked liki'iirrosorousono. but no signs of human llfi weio to Ins seen. Knock ing at the door of the cabin brought no response, nnd there wero no evidences nt hand that man had been there fur many a day. "Presently a big shepherd dog came running up to them from tho prairie. At first ho wan Inclined to he hostile but llnnlly yielded to gentle treatment, and then Ills joy know no hounds. A window in the cabin was open, and in and out of this tho dog jumped three or four times, till at length tho surveyors couilude.d to follow him. They clambered In the window nnd there found tho skeleton of a man, which tho dog whined over and treated as though something dear to him. Thus tho Bto.-y was mado plain. The master, a lono sheep ranchman, had died in his cabin, and tho dog had taken care of tho (locks. Uecords found in tho cabin showed that llio man had been dead three years, and tlu.t tho Hock had Increased 100 per cent, under tho faithful nnluial'a manugement. Every night ho had dilvcn tho sheep to tho corral, just as his maHtei had taught hljn to do, mid his body wat covered with Hears and sores received In combat with praying coyotes. This Btory was printed about tho tlmo tho discovery wns mado, but it was not believed. It was every whero sot down ns ono of those wild western yarns which aro so com mon In the nowspapers. Uut I happen to know that this remarkable talo is liter ally truo. Tho relatives of tho dead man camo on from tho east to claim tho ranch and tho sheep, and what do vou Hupposc they ilid with tho dog? Why, thoy sold him to a friend of initio for $150. If s dog like that had fallen to mo no mono; could havo bought him." I asked Mr. Mooro whnt ho thought ol tho future of Senator Farwoll'a groat tract of land. "Why." Bald he, "It will mako him ot his family almost as rich as tho Vandor bllts. You do well to call It an emplro. Tho growth of Toxas, already ono of the marvels of tho -vorld, has Just begun. Do you know that thb census of 1800 li likely to show T xas to bo tho sixth stati of tho Union ii ,iopulation? Her popu lation Is now not far from 2,500,000, and this pl-es her next to Missouri, with only tlwt stato and Now York, Pennsyl vania, Ohio and Illinois leading. In tho year 1000 T5xas vill probably havo s greater population than any other stati of tho Union, Now York alono oxcopted, If Texas woro as thickly populated ru Ireland It would havo a population o 55,000,000, and nobody who knows tin stato will deny that It is capablo of sup tiorting a population much more densi than that. It is a country in which cat bo seen growing sldo by side cotton corn, wheat, barley, sugar cano, rico, tobacco and all kinds of vegetables, whero In tho orchards such tropical frull as oranges, bananas and pomegranates grow side by side with hardy apples and other fruits indigenous to northern cli mates. The future of Toxas almost leaves the realm of mathematical specu lation and becomes liko a dream. In tho development and prosperity of the Btato this 0,000,000 aero tract of tho Far wells Is sure to becomo ono of tho most extensive nnd valuablo estates in tho world." Waltkii Weluian. Only III Sl.tor. Big Boy Well, that bents me, to see that fellow spooning around that glrll And thoy say he's proposed mid Is crazy to marry her. Stranger Nothing strango about i She's a fascinating and beautiful young lady. "She! Sho fascinating and beautiful! Why, slio'a'my slstcrl" Chicago Lyre. fHB j&y No. Ml, lpirntliiRK, Holionil nu mil u-il and leave to fallow cloinlyt n bird nml Imvotwlco; tho elinnnol for n rapid current of water nml Iwivo n pnr-tli-lo; a mono notuotimcs given to plumbago nml Icnvn to IticreaM, to connlvo nt nnd leave a ivngur. to dlmtinbiirk nml lonvo n con junction, iiU-o K.TC(.'ptlon nml lonvo to feign, n delightful region niul lonvo a haunt; n flout niul lonvo astern, n Heniidtnnvlnii legend nml lenvo n TurkWi tltlos to conflno nnd lonvo to gnuvnld, to comply wlthnnil lenvo a Turkish governor, a crutch nnd lenvo a unit, a coin- winy of ntlouilniitsmiil lenvo to bo In trim bio. Tho liehmileil lotters form tlio nnino of a fatuous writer No .in. A Cut U 1'iirxln. Cut nut this clrelo enrofully, Just outeldo of the black outline, or mako one liko it If you do not wish to cut your paper. Now illvlilo tho circle Into four pieces with threo cuts of tho Rclssors. Put the pieces togothcr ngain, nml liy making u lienvy (lencil lino along ench cut show whnt tho young girl who was naked for hor limn! hi marrlago by n young limit gave him for mi nnswor. No. no. Churuilu. You'll find my first n wild, shrill cry: My n hoi j is often called a lino, My last is never loud nor high, And yet It li to hollow, too. Do my wholo you never could; Ho my wlioluyott novor should; Wear my wholo you ofU.it would. No. :7. An Knlcniiitlcitl Qimrtot. A thousand, nno gontlo namo nwtli for a start, Jtiit n unit of tliat I can count Tlio noxt neighbor claim but a twentieth itart. Ami tho next ono has half tho amount. Wo nro Kcntlo follt all, by tho spell of tho wholo, Ik) our wealth la n mint or u tllmo. Its charm U l..:nl manners nml calmnwa or votil. Ami tluuo will most truly reflno No :IH.-A Trotty I'uxili-. Insert a vowel wherever thore Is nn x In tho ten sentences which follow. When thy nro complete, select a word of llvo letters from ench sentence. When thesu ten words nro rightly bclcctod mid placed ono below tho other, tho central row of letters, reading downward, will sitoll tho names of certain mUMvns, very pleasant to recelvo: I, 1U.CXVXT, XM. LXRX. 8. xxs dxo vxxu oiixvx wvrn vxxn txxtu. 0. WX IIXTX UXLXV, YXT XT UXKX8 XS WXBX. 4. BJTta uxi.r x ucxptiixm nx onxxo. ft. PX.VNV WXST, l-XXNO FXXLXSIt 0. X DOSWNXNO MXN WXU, CXTCIt XT X HTIirW. 7. tvc: ru. mxxia urxx -rnx Titxtio x olxtttji 8. IIXNXY XN TUX UXXTtl RXVXS TUX FXROX. 0. SPXRX TX BI-XXK TX 8PXXD tO. IIXSTX UXRXS WXSTX No. no. A Slur. 1 ItoU. Dorders. lto3. Chlnfa 8 to 3 llomarks contain ing st'vcru cenHtiro. to 3, IUvuU u lth atten tlon. 4 toO. Marked by prc nuns. & to 0. Ilcrced wlUi a certain weajxjn No. 40. Word 8iuire. Not rough, a ralnlww, a 'number, a Scrip ttiro umno. Not dim, to depart, odges of a roof, to wnrd off, pauses. No. 41. Conundmiu. Why nro horses in cold weather liko mod illesomo gossls Why U a specimen of handwriting liko a dead pig I Why Is a ten cent pleco liko a cowf When b water like fatf A l'w Conundrum Aniwercd, Can you tell why tho giuut Goliath wm very much n-stono-lshed w hen Dnvld hit him with n itouol Why, bocauso such a thing had never ontcred his head before. A prlzo toy should Ihj given to tho child who guesses the following: What kin is that child to its own father, who b not lib own father's wm I lib daughter When docs a son not Uko after lib father I When lib father leaves him nothing to tako. Why Is It oasy to break Into nn old man'i hoasol Dccauso lib gait b broken and lib locks nro fow Whnt Egyptian official would n llttlo boy mention If ho wero to call his mother to the window to see something wonderful? Mammy lookl mameluko. Wo bog leave to nx you which of a car penter's toob Is colleo like! An nx with a dull edge, becauso It must bo ground before It can bo used. Key to tlio I'uzzler. No. 23, Numorleal Enigma: Tho cliamlwr of sickness b tho chapol of dovotlon. No. 21. Historical Anagrams: Welling tou. Washington, Casur, Peter tho Great, Darius the Great. No. 25. Enlgmat Ago, No. CO. Hours lassos: O A I. L I N G CARAVAN MERIT V I M O ASP OTTER P IX I N K ONE C NOD PO LKA EVENING DEVOTE E No. 27. Cliarailn; Pnst.mnn No, 23. Illttktratod Proverb: Thero is no ttso in crying over spilt milk. No, 20. A Faithful Gtildoi Tho needle of the compass. No. .10. Comparisons- 1. Bee, beer, beast. 2. Beau, boro, boost 3. Fee, fetr, feast. 4, Go, goro, ghost, .' Hoe, roar, roast No, 31. A Queer Conceit Afc-nsiiln No. 33.- Geographical Anagrams I, Great Britain, 2. United State. :i Australia. 4. Scotland. 5. Mlnmsota. u Phlladelphli. No. !!. Conundrums Uecnuso thuy have their noxt world ineeks twlrledi In this. One in what I was, the other what 1 wear. Be causo it contains many currants (currents), Inviolato lln violet), For , An GO TO Shclton & Smith's for Fancy Kockcrs. Sliclton & Smith's for Willow Rockers. Shclton & Smith's for Pedestals. Shclton & Smith's for hildrcn's Chairs. J Shclton & Smith's for Hall Rockers. Shclton & Smith's for Office Desks. . , Shclton & Smith's for Ladies' Desks. Shclton & Smith's for Libran Chairs. Shclton & Smith's for Library Tables, Shclton & Smith's for Bookcases. Center Tables at Shclton & Smith's. Children's Beds at Shclton & Smith's. Folding Bed's at Shclton & Smith's. Chamber Suits at Shclton & Smith's. Music Cabinets at Shclton & Smith's. Blacking Cases at Shclton & Smith's. Sideboards at Shclton & Smith's. Dining Tables at Shclton & Smith's. Dining Chairs at Shclton & Smith's. Parlor Goods at Shclton & Smith's. SHELTON & SMITH'S FOB FURNITURE At the Very Lowest Prices. 234-238 South 1 Ith Street, LINCOLN, - NEBRASKA. Carpets and Draperies! The bulk of the Carpet trade for 1889 is now done. We still have six weeks left in which time wc propose to reduce our stock as low as possible before purchasing for our Spring trade. In order to do this we will make prices that MUST SELL the goods. If you are in need of anything in either CARPETS OR DRAPERIES get our figures before placing your order and you will find you cannot afford to purchase elsewhere. im ST- A, M. DAVIS & SONJini Most Popular Resort in the City. ODELL'S - DINING - HALL MONTGOMERY HLOCK, -o 1 1 19, i i2i and 1 123 N Street. o Meals 25 cts. $4.50 per Week. rjTHDi 4 jf i . ' x a I! ItJBKStL sSSjSaamSliL i, glMMifr.ttX" :vtr-i.-rssmmmm WfJUtf1f'",tt-lt'l'lt'l''' i'fx'T'fW K-t. Vli .ii, .iVm.jajd,, A, "y JAM4(,. -T--- hfrfti.i.wM,rtiMipHMiHiltimi AAl t f wwaK:ai