A0A1LV IIEitALP I frLAlTSMOUTli. KEBKASkA AIONDaOkBRITARY 4, 188'j.
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A tiurty CF THE EARLY DAYS
OF STAGING OUT WEST.
.Miiiioiiunea boo Traced by m WIimI
-Murk on an Overcoat A Wild Bid
with l: lay -Shipping Ualllon la a Caak
of Mdlawn (or Kitfrtjr.
st:i;;o robbing uaa almost a legiti
mate l.n.iii. hs in early days, saltl aaold
Coiii.-'orl.ir.
iiii- xj.ross company lost a great
i- :ii.r iJK.Dcy in that way, and at last
J.iiiii s C.ituiori was eont up to Virginia
t lr.-:ik ii Uio buHinofis. IIo was a
h!ii'-wl man. anl he devised more
k !i tin s f.r outwitting the road agent
l!;.iti n r luanl of. Lie sent treasure
in -.-! I.s of Mt.ucs. which were loaded
I'niirioMrhifiiicn. anI even tlio drivers
tu'-r NiisMftcd that they were carrying
:in tl.in more valuable than ixrtatoes. t
h iv known him to drop a barof bullion
inio .. im.sU of molasses and send It
turoiiih if-ly. when he knew the agents
. r. w;;t.-!iir.; lor it. It was Gannon
who thought of sending shotgun mes-n-nft.i
on iln stages, and lie made them
f.irry iln ir rums with tho muzzles rest-
i:):: on their to-s, so that they didn't dare
to fall ali-cp. He broke up 6tago rob-
1'iri;; an a branch of the general mer-
cliamhse liusmess by making it too
risky.
A KKCKLESS RIDE.
"Whi!.j I was keeping a saloon in Vir
ginia ily, Clem Ijpo and three other fel
lows, whoso names have slipped my
memory, came into the camp and started
a Ii.'i f.tro game close to my place. They
h.i'l x-.v in the drawer, and I think
they I j i I got hold of the coin by holding
n; a sta ;. They did a big business and
wviv making- plenty of money.
It was the custom then to close up
the games at 12 o clock on Sunday night-
I'u-m and one of his partners came to
in.-an'l asked uie to mix them up two
l.o'tl 's :f cocktails. He wanted them
in e!iam:?:r;tio bottles and had the labels
w rateln .1 -ir. I wondered what all tliat
meant, r.ml I found out later. I also no-ti-ed
that Clem Leo had borrowed a
iiv;ht overcoat from Charlie Dexter.
"As t;oon as their place was closed.
Cle::i fiml his partner mounted their
hrr-es on It street and rode out of town.
Cl. i:i was riiling a horse that ho hired
from the chief of police. All tho ani-
mals were gotxl, and as soon as they
were out of town t hey had a chance to
thow their speed. The four horsemen
spurred ilown the Oeiger grade in the
tl:irl;!iess at a terrific rate. If you have
lv! over that road, you know what a
galiop d nvn t!ie grade on a dark night
jaeans. It is a steep and winding road
tiiro'.iLrh the mountains, the turns are
fharp n 1, wliere it runs through Dead
Man's Cu U'!i. a slip over the edge would
st il l li. --.;u and rkk-r to kingdom como in
iiu time.
The foar gamblers flew over that
mad to Washoo faster than anybody
ever went before, and made the thirty
four miles in less time than I would dare
ttell. At Washoo they had four good
horses staked nut, and it did not take
theiii !on to shift saddles, try my cock
tail.', m-:: and start off again. Tliey
knew wh :i tliey were after, and they did
I Air
eai.ite time or distance.
m t::ou days the stage companies
h:' l I i tot k, and when the Reno
Ki:t , -it,- ;lon six horses were making
if: ; i:i. Tour men sprang into the road.
r.ii'i i n of them shouted to the driver to
Fti-;. The driver could not pull up short,
a;: i tiu'ii had barely time to spring
a ' !; ati 1 avoid the wheels. Clem Lee
J v i lt- I his revolver and fired, and one
f (!. leaders fell dead. The other
J. s tumLled over tho one that was
!-itvn. and tho stage was stopped, but
la't l:e:ur. a deputy sheruT on the txjjf
!. i 5 pulled a gun and sent a hall through
Ciciu's partner, Dick.
v::n j:ai:k on clem's coat.
"TI:.' p::s:enirer3 were ordered out and
n:i.;v.l in line, tho driver threw down
tlu hm, nnd while the plunder was be
i:i:i gathered up one of tho robbers said
to the disarmed deputy sheriff: I think
we oi'.ht to kill you. my friend.' Clem
J-o iiiler IV red and said: 'No; there's
1 ee.i i :;o:t-;h ! KxxUhed. Let him alone.
1h u:;' was put to rights, everybody
-.)t ii!.ard, and it was driven away,
covered while in sight by the robbers'
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"The t!rc. ramblers buried their dead
pal. bat where they dug his grave no-
I . !v kiiows. Thon they mounted th
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s. v- nl desperate speed back to
!' changed hoyses there and
-.1 :i u; tho Geiger grade to Vir-
C 'i.'y. where they arrivedat 9 o'clock
i.-: : :t:r;g and immediately went to
Tin y f.-lt pretty safe, as nobody
i -..iwt them of having made such
::i ; ? s'iort n time. They poult not
: !t it v. :iluut a relay of horses,
.ii!i ilun they had to ride like
devils.
"II.it i!mv v.t.s one little circumstance
that ir.Mmf.cant in appearance and
fatal in fact. When Clem Lee sprang
aridet.) avei 1 the stae he raised his
right arm and covered the driver with
his pi.-lol. The forward wheel of the
c xu ii gra.'-od the under side of UU aria
. a i ,: ;': I : : the sleeve a 6treak of
1:ki i lh:.t nothing could wipe out. A
la. 5v i:s t!u coach was looking out of the
v.ia.l
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-v. and ::s the coach passed Lee she
!,c mar!: made by the wheel on his
lI si, we.
tViun fch? reached Virginia City,
!. with the other passnrer.-, is
u..:.e l hy iMiinon, bho f aid: 'Look
a i.::.u with a wheel mark cm the
:vo of his lilit overcoat. That mark
; m.'.tle lv a rapidly turning wheel.
r.:i 1 n- brush e ver was made tliat will
take it o"t.'
"(;..iir.'-:i strolled up C 6treet, ind
Charlie Dexter came along with his
liht overcoat en. llajir.oa glanced at
iiia ciei-ve, bliv the wheel mark an J
gathen-d him in. Of course, it didn't
take l)..xter long to remember who liaJ
his coat on the night of tho roblery. and
the three gamblers were captured aud
st ilt t prison. One of therud than t
say which) was tho son of a faaiou
philanthropic millionaire of .Washing
ton." 3ev York Star.
UoaUas for II to WU.
lL&ny of our people ma a gray haired
and bearded old gentleman walking
'around the streets with a sadness about
his countenance which, though, can only
be detected after close observation, for
as soon as he sees you a smilo lights up
his countenance in token of recognition,
lie is a German and a musician, and is
seen every night at the opera house
when there Is an entertainment there.
Ilia name is Professor Ilessler. lie came
to this country some sixteen years ago
from Germany to make his home here,
leaving his wife behind until he could
get settled, when he would send for her.
Having secured the desired end, a letter
was dispatched home telling his wife of
his success and bidding her to come.
It is said tliat she sailed from her native
home with a glad heart, in anticipa
tion of meeting with her husband after
an absence of two years. Every vessel
that came over was eagerly looked after.
the newspapers were scanned for Intelli
gence of her arrival, but nothing could
be heard of her. The ship on which it is
said she sailed arrived in Baltimore and
the wife landed there. The professor
with a joyous heart went there, but lol
no trace of her could be found, and the
days, weeks and months until fourteen
years have passed without his knowing
of her whereabouts. From city to city
has he irons in the search. IIis head
was black then, now it is white, but
there is a tenderness in his face mixed
with sorrow, and a cankering in his
heart, but he goes on and on. with the
hope of finally meeting his long lost wife
Athens (Qa.) Chronicle.
(low Celluloid la Sfauufactured.
While everybody has heard of, or seen,
or used celluloid, only a few know what
It is composed of or how it is made. The
following is a description of the process
carried out in a factory near Paris for
the production of celluloid:
A roll of paper is slowly unwound, and
at the same time saturated with a mix
ture of five parts of sulphuric acid and
two parts of nitric acid, which fails upon
the paper in fine spray. This changes
the cellulose of the paper into proxylin
gun cotton. The excess of the acid hav
ing been expelled by pressure, the paper
is washed with plenty of water until all
traces of acid have been removed. It is
then reduced to a pulp, and passes on to
tho bleaching trough.
Most of tho water having been got rid
of by means of a strainer, the pulp is
mixed with from 20 to 40 per cent, of its
weight in camphor, and the mixture
thoroughly triturated under millstones.
The necessary coloring having been add
ed in tho form of powder, a second mix
ing and grinding follows.
Tho finely divided pulp (s then spread
out in thin layers on slabs, and from
twenty to twenty-flve of these layers are
placed in a hydraulic press, separated
from one another by some sheets of thick
blotting paper, and are subjected to a
pressure of 150 atmospheres, until all
traces of moisture have been got ;rid of.
The matter is then passed between rollers
heated to between 140 and loO decs.
Fahrenheit, whence it issues in tho form
of elastic sheets. The Inventor.
The "Sentence Sjratem.
Charles Dickens, while visiting the
Massachusetts school ship, was called
upon for a "speeel He responded by
saying, "Poys, do all the good you can
and make no fuss about it.
Mr. Pickens, as his novels attest, be
lieved in the beneficial effect of a pithy
saying and a striking proverb pointed
words which would.fasten themselves in
the memory The conductors of the
Netherlands Mettray," one of the model
reiorm scnoois or iiouand, use tnis "sen
tence system as a means of moral edu
cation. They hang on (he walls such
sentences as these:
"He who seeks himself will not find
God;" "A poor man he who has nothing
but money;" "He is a fool who lives poor
to dio rich;" "Labor has a golden bot
tom;" "Care for the moments, and these
will care for tho years."
Sometimes a boy is made to learn a
sentence by heart. One boy was over
heard using foul speech to a comrade.
He was ordered to read to the boys every
morning for eight days this sentence,
"It is better to be dumb than to use th
tongue for filthy talk. It made bin
clean In speech. Youth's Companion,
Supposed to be Over 1,800 fears Old.
In the province of Canton are occi
sionally dug up ancient copper gongs oi
drums, which some say were made bi
the aboriginal Laos tribes, others say by
Ma Yuan, the renowned commander who
invaded Tong King In A. D. 41 and
quelled the rising of the rebellious tribes
n gainst the Chinese, erecting a pillar of
bronze pn the extreme southern border
of the "hill country." The Nan-hai
Maio temple, at Canton possesses two of
these curious monuments, one large and
one small; the characters are mostly in
decipherable, owing to the length of tune
they have been under the ground. The
ger one was obtained from the tomb
of a barbarian chief 1,000 years ago, dur
ing the Tang dynasty a$ ap-cbQff; the
smaller pna at mncbaw. X hey are much
valued as rarities by tho Canton, people.
A very nno sounding one was dug up
lately and presented by the finder to the
Teraplo of Confucius. Chinese Ex
change,
Bismarck's Malt.
Every express train running between
Le rim and uamourz now carries a van
fitted with the network apparatus which
is used in English traveling postoffices.
which apparatus throws out from the
down trains a bag of letters or dis
patches at Friedrichsruhe for Prince Bis
marck, while a similar bag is taken in by
the up trains as they rusrj through; the
httle station, on tfa Sadisenwald, which
is tvithm 200. yards of tho Kchlosa.
London World.
Tho 810O.O0O Kiag-ara Prise. -
The project to give a prize of $100,000
f. r the best plan for harnessing Niagara
river and. putting it into the traces to do
the work cf steam 1)? the power of its
mighty" current is not dead. Buffalo
AT TIIK STAMP WINDOW.
QUEER STUDIES
AT THE
IN HUMAN NATURE
POSTOFFICE.
Those Who Know What Tbey Want aud
Those Who Ilon't Inqulrim Which lie
long I'ropcily to the Uvpot liotlier er
the Special Delivery Stamp.
There is a broad and fertile field in
tho iotofllc4 for thoto who are given to
making character studies. A man has
only to stand neur one of the stamp
windows for a few minutes to see more
odd specimens of man perhaps than are
to be found in any other one place in the
city, and tliat means in the country. One
has only to watch the hurrying, nervous,
pushing line of people rushing In one
door and out another to realize what
peculiar world this is. There is tl
dapper young lawyer's clerk. He knows
what he wants and how to get it with the
least trouble. lie falls into Hpe, impa-
ueniiy tapping ms root until nia turn
comes. Then he puts down a dollar, says
shortly "Fifty twos." snatches up his
Stamps and darts through the crowd.
Dehind him, perhaps, is an old, bent,
gray naireu man, dress in a jumper
ana a pair or overalls, no asKs ior one
stamp, and when this is laid down before
liim on the thick pane of glass, he goes
down into his pocket and pulls forth a
greasy, dilapidated looking leather wal
let. He hunts around in this for a couple
of pennies, and finally, when he has
found them, takes his stamp and goes off
to tho slue carefully to paste it on the
letter.
FOOD FOR THE WOMAN HATER.
The offloe boy comes in like a flash,
buys a great roll of the little green, hid
eous things, tears it rapidly into strips,
and, skillfully running nis tongue along
the under side of them, slaps them on to
a pile of letters, tearing each one from
the strip with a quick, ripping sound.
Some girl hovers on the outskirts of
the crowd for a while, and then, watch
ing for a clear field, goes up to the win
dow. "When does the next train leave
for Farmington?" she ask;
Don't knpw; this is a stump window,"
She blushes and begins to stammer.
"Couldn't you find out for me?"
"Time table over on the wall," gruffly;
and she goes over to look at tho sched
ule, which no living man could figure
out. Meanwhile the short man, in a silk
hat, with large glasses across his nose,
has been snorting and fussing about
"women." He makes his purcliase, fol
lows her over t the wall, and, casting a
withering : look at her, grunts out,
"Hum!" .fie 6lams the door in a dis
gusted manner behind him, stil) puttpi
ing about "women"
In ten minutes, tye girl comes back to
the window and says timidly: "I can't
find Farmington.''
"Well, that ain't my fault, (s it?" eays
the man sharply, peering over the glass
at her. phe pees jn dismay.
And so. they come and eo. men. women
and children, not more thaq half of them
Knowing how to huv stain us. and one
slow one delaying a dozen more business
like and eneraretic DCODle. The renorter
asked the stamp clerk to tell him some
of the more amusing experiences he went
through in the course of a week.
AN OPU LITTLE MAN,
A. week." ho said erimlv: "I couldn't
tell you all that happened in a day. Did
you notice that httle shuffling man.
whose head scarcely comes ud to the
window? He never comes here less than
six times a day and he never buys more
man one stamp at a time. I asked him
once why he did not get twenty ox thirty
in a lot. 'Oh ' ho said, with" a shrewd
air, 'people like to borrow them too
much.' He the queerest one of nil the
queer ones who come here. Ills office
is several blocks away from the Doat-
offlce. and yet he will hobble down nere
again and again in a day rather than
take more than one stamp. I have tried
to get liim to buy more, but he won't
think of such a thing. He always oomes
to my window, I have, Seen liim go to
ena oi a line oi ten or twenty before
my window when there were not five at
the next one. If I happen to be away at
dinner or off duty wnen he wants a
stamp, he goes out and cornea in acrain
every minute or two until I return. He
is a queer one, he is.
"Then," he went on. "there is the
special delivery 6tamp. That makes a
good deal of trouble. Only one man in
ten can remember the name of it. I
have had it called the 'hurry ud stamo.
tho 'get there' stamp, the 'quiet,' rush,
'special, 'extra stamn, and a dozen other
names, but seldom the riirht one. while
about twenty times a day some funny
pretend not to know what ho means. I
can stand anything but that. Oh, yes,
mis is a gooa piaco to seo strange people,
hut it isn t worth your while to listen to
me. Just ctand here and watch them
for yourself." New York Tribune.
Returned for Their Tails.
The following etorv illustrates how
much mice love their tallsi In Norwich.
Conn., tho other night a young lady set
a mouso trap in her parlor a trap 'that
" a M V v i4il UUM ivunu
house, with arched doorways, and with a
delicate little loop of steel under each
doorsill to fly up and catch a mouse by the
i .y,7p i ne Meei nocsea snaDDCd Dually
G-O TQ 1 BJSrR
FURNITURE
man comes in ana asss witn a Dig grin
for a P. D. Q. 6tamp. J have got so
tired of that stalo old joke that I ahvavs
Parlor, Dining Room and Kitchen
F IE HUTU K E
TIE OWNS HIS
-P-A Y NO "R-ETNTT
And therefore can sell you goods for less
Money than any other dealer in the city.
ITE ALSO HAS A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
UWDEBTAKEp'S GOODS,
iiaAnoi. r unaiauuL1
HE JE N B Y
COR. fJAIII AND
m nTjVfit, "ana" "next moramff'tne ISOT
found five mice clinging in five of the
inhospitable doorways, and, what was
very mysterious to her, three long mouse
tails hanging from the three other en
trances. Bhe puzzled her head long over
the inscrutable problem. Why did three
mice visit her trap over night and delib
erately leave their tails behind them?
But there was no answer to it. A very
bright idea, however. Hashed into her
mind, and 6he set her trap again. Verily,
the three tailless mice came back to re
cover their tails, and in tho gray dawn
of the following day the young lady
found three tailless mice dangling from
the trap. Pittsburg Dispatch,
A Mountain In Motion.
A tremendous snow slide recently
came down the northern face of Castle
Peak, sweeping everything before it.: Its
track can be plainly seen from a point
on Aiouns ocowuen nigu enough to over
look the intervening ridge. Judging1
iiviutwiuiiuwvu uvbtuvut vno mount'
nin it must have been a texriflo affnir.
Starting near the summit, it multiplied
in volume, taking rocks and earth, to the
depth of muny feet. At the timber line
it cut a swath a hujidredvarda wide, and
let not a tree standing for half a mile
aioiia me peso pr tne pea. Where it
nnaiiy stopped a young mountain of
nuge powiuers, caun and shattered
trunks or trees, many or them three tnd
rour reet in diameter, blocks a dceo ra-
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A Norwich (Conn.) in inlsrr announced
from tne pulpit on a Sunday that he
would give $1.50 if the young men in
tne gallery would take seats down stairs.
Tliey did so and the money was paid.
-r-The Wkeklt Herald sent nn voir
4 1- . J
" lu nuvoue scnuinET US two vearlr anlv.
ovuucia to IUC WKKKLY HERALD.
C. F. SMITH.
The Boss Tailor
Malu St.. Over Merges' Shoe Store.
w i
lias tne best and most rnmnla. .fv
of samples, both foreign and domestic
wooiens mat ever came west of Missouri
river. JMote thene tnf.a. T,,:
from $1 to $35. dresa suits. 25 t 4i
pauis f a, jpu, f 0.60 and upwards.
A A A - V . ' "W I
fSTWill guaranteed a fit.
Prices Defy ComDetition.
J. H. EMMONS, M. D.
HOMOZOPATHIC
Physician I Surgeon
wiuco oyer weicoiv itore. Wain street.
Re.lUeiiee in Dr. Schlldknecht's property.
Chronic DioeaPfts and Diseases of WALn3
o t. .enA9eJ,aUy- offlce hou". " m.
" '- I V 9 f. Ill,
l-lelepaan at both Offlce and Residence
B. & M. TlmatTabl.
GOINO WKST.
wo. 1,-5 :io a. m.
No,3 - ;40 p, m.
No. 5. 6 :47 a. m.
No. 7.-7 :30 p. m.
No.. 6:17n. m
O0IMO EAST.
No.2. :33 p. in.
No. 4. 10 :30 a. ni.
No. 6.-7 :13 p. m.
No. 10. :40 a. m,
No. 11-6 ;27 a. in.
K?XiLa.,3,oruiu,.dJ"T by way of Omaha, except
Hi'T. d 8.Ihlc r"n to and from Schuyler
dally except Sunday.
rN'? ls a "tub to Pacine Junction at S.30a.m
No. 19 is a stub from Pacific Junction at Ham.
Lumber Yard.
THE OLD RELIABLE.
B. 1 WATEMAN &
Wholesale and Retail Dealer la
Shingles, Lath, Sash,
Doors.Blinds.
Can supply every demand of the trade
Call and get terms. Fourth street
In Rear of Opera House.
K. DRESSIER,
The 5th t. Merchant Tailoi
Keeps a Full Line of
foreign i Domestic Goods.
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