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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1888)
THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : -MONDAY , MARCH 20 , 1888. SOME SCENES IN LEADViLLE , ImproBslons of n Now Yorker to Whom a Western Trip IB Now. A THRIFTY AND LIVELY CITY. Gambling Houses , Dance Ilonscs and Variety Theaters In Ijcmlvlllc Tlio Bert of People Who Gamble Morals. A correspondent of the Now York Sun writing from Lendvillo says : The Lcndvlllo people sriy 18,000 IB the popu lation of their town ; it looked to mo nbout 16,000 , hut there nro lots of folks nround in the mountains and may bo 18,000 is nil right. The plnco looks thrifty find enterprising and ns if it had como to stay , though the prcnt number of little one-story houses scorned to indi cate I may read this sign wrong that many of the people had expended in houses just as little money as they could , EO as to bo able to got out with as small loss as possible if the thing should col lapse , I don't know anything about mining , but many of the mines around Londvillo are well known and said to bo profitable while it is equally true that some well- known mines have stopped producing because they are supposed to bo played out or arc in litigation , or Irom other causes. But they toll mo that they haven't ' begun to exhaust the mount ains , and I am rather inclined to credit this statement , for the mountains are very largo. Some of the newer dwell ings nro larger , two-story houses ; some of the stores are big enough for any town and carry big stocks. The newer business buildings are built a story or two higher , ns though the owners ex pected that property would bo worth something , and it is. There are plenty of schools and churchesund the general air of the town is driving and healthy and permanent. The original main street of the city has been supplanted by another avenue running at right angle to the first main street. This was inevitable , for the now main street is seemingly just where it ought to beaccording to the conform ation of the ground on which the city stands. In the old main street the stores , all wooden buildings and some of them largo , are chiefly occupied for various business purposcsbut the new principal street is the unquestioned main street of the city. On it are the banks , the post o111ce , the big stores and the prin cipal gambling houses. It is the main street of the city , just as Broadway is the main street In Now York. The smaller gambling houses , and the va riety theatres , and the houses of the French women line more or less of a block or two of a cross street near one end of the business part of the main street. Down one street I saw a big square brick building , the sign of civilization , a school house. It was the recess hour , and the boys wore sliding down hill , a jolly , healthy , wholesome lot , just like everybody's boys. There must bo homes whore .these boys live. More log houses than you have seen before ; most of them the houses of original proprietors or dwellers , and now placed on the btreot lines. There are in the city two pretty little houses , slabbed upon the side in patterns as pretty ns slabs can ho made to take , successively occupied by a prosperous minor , who now lives in a' larger framed house. Horses are plenty in the streets , more blankets strapped to saddles , more saddles with double clinches. The men who ride the horses , and everybody else in the town , including the childronj civil and polite. Not so ? many broad-brimmed hats , for hero more of the men work under ground , whore it is not necessary to bo BnoltorcU from the sun and wind. All wooden sidewalks , with steps at the grades and , when necessary , at the crossings. Some of the planfc wallts-on the main street are two feet or moro above the gutter ; made to accommodate the store fines rather than the street grade. Ladies in the streets shopping look just as they do everywhere. The business men looking just like other men , but moro men wearing caps , and moro minors. To the north on the hills , the shaft houses and buildings and smokestacks of the mines. I had a letter teA A 3IINING bUrniUNTENDENT and 1 went to his house. Not a big house , but the instant you passed the threshold you wore in the air of a homo. Daintiness , refinement , and comfort everywhere. The superintend ent is a young man , tall , broad-shoul dered , doop-chcsted , sturdy-logged , erect , graceful , self-reliant , cultivated , and polite. His trousers wore tucked in his boots , for ho goes back and forth between two mines on horseback. Ho would bo quite equally at homo in even ing dross or in corduroy , and the people ho might moot in cither garb would like him equally well. Ho said ho would bo at the mine I wanted to see at such a , time , and at exactly that minute by the engine room clock ho walked in. Wo put on miners' clothing and went down t the shaft and through the mines. I was i never in a mine before , but there seem ed to bo hero plenty of room , plenty of [ air , too much air , perhaps , and the ore Bocmod satisfactory to the superintend ent , some of it very much bo. Every man whom ho had occasion to address ho addressed civilly and gently ; and 1 every man that spoke to the superin tendent addressed mm politely , and ev idently took pleasure in daing BO. The minors wore notably intelligent , good- looking men , and evidently everybody did a square day's work. In the evening at the hotel I mot a gentleman who mistook mo for a man ho know. Tills was a calm , oven-voiced , polite'gontlom , who , in the course of further conversation , said solely as a matter of courteous information for mo and without a shadow of ulterior pur pose , that ho was in the gambling busi ness. Ho had lived in cities from Bos ton to San Francisco , and ho was posted on the towns and the newspapers and their editors , and ho know borne news paper men that I know. Gambling is carried on hero just as openly as the sale of dry goods or gro ceries is in New York , It is easier to got into a gambling house in Londvillo than it is into a grocery story in Now \ York in winter , for there is no latch on the gambling house door. Neither is their any loclc on the doors of the prin cipal houses , There is no hardware on the doors except the hinges , and these swing both ways. The outer doors are all double , usually on a level with the sidewalk , and none of them moro than one stop up. You just push the door open and go in , and on somoof the doorG hand high , the paint is worn off and the wood worn smooth , so many hands luiva touched them. The principal lioubos never close. Sundays and holi - days , day and night , they are always open. The leading gambling house in the city has stopped business only once in six years , and then for two hours they cousod pulling the cards out of tlic dealing' boxes and btoppcd the roulette wheels , while the town burled the men who lost their lives in tUo HomestuU o mine. But that was an event that en grossed the whole town. The most ex traordinary efforts had been made to save the miners. The mayor of the city had been conspicuous at the head of the most gallant workers , and grate ful citizens gave him a great gold badgO bearing upon it an emblematic story of the efforts made to save the men. The whole city sorrowed for the dead and at tended the funeral. Then the dealing boxes were turned face up again. All of the principal gambling houses run three shifts of men for each game. The after midnight early morning run is called the grave yard shift , but why that name should bo applied to these nours moro than to any other group of hours , is not quito clear. You push open the door from the street and enter a big barroom. Nearly all of these barrooms have a row of chairs along the wall opposite the bar , and these are generally occupied. The gambling room is' usually directly back of the barroom , and reached through a broad opening without any door or cur tain or any impediment whatever , though in one largo plnco you find a cut partition , with the cut.out piece set 'back a little , like the approach to the barrom from some fruit or cigar stores in Now York. There arc still different arrangements insomo placcsbut usually you walk right straight into THE QAMIILUjO IIOOM , and whatever the arrangement , they are all equally open and public. The big houses run three faro tables each , one roulette tablo.nnd some of them two or three poker tableswhere the bank sells and redeems chips for a percentage , and deals the cards to the players. Faro is the favorite game , though in some places keno has a pretty strong grip. It happened that when I was in Lcadvillo business was a little slack. The pay days of the ? ninora and railroad men and freighters wore earlier in the month , and most of the money that was to bo played had already been banked. But in some of the rooms there were men enough to make you look' for the opening among them before passing through. They wore mostly minors with some railroad men , and freighters and others. Scarcely any clerKs or men in like oc cupations at the times when the rooms were visited by me , and business men who play , play in the upstairs rooms. In the big public rooms the white chock is ten cents each , so that men of limited means can pk .y. The miners earn not less than $3 a uay , for all kinds of labor brings good wages hero. I asked a gambler if the kind of men I saw in the mine I visited gambled , and ho was in clined to the belief that they did. The stranger ranges about , exciting no sort of attention from the minors or the other men there , for the most of them deal every day with nature and a big force that give to nearly all of them a sort of broad gungo sense , and to some of them a touch of maybe half unknown to themselves superiority that makes them not , perhaps superior to but very civily indifferent to the ordinary stranger. The dealer or the lookcrout may glance up for an instant , but that is all ; the stranger at once feels that ho is but an atom in the sea , and moreover of all vices gambling is the most en grossing. Drinks are free to the players , but they don't drink over much. In all the gambling places I heard only one voice that sounded like that of a drunken man , and ho was in the barroom. The cases are kept by a miner , maybe , who keeps truck of the cards and plays at the same time , with ostentation. The men who gamble are big and little , but mostly good-sized men , old and young , not boisterous , all intent on the game. In fcoino of the houses not all of the games are owned by one man or con cern , but table privileges are rented. Gamblers are paid for each bhift from $0.40 to $10 per day , and each game pays the city 825 a month. This Is nominul- lv called a fine , but it is not. Gambling is against the laws of the state of Col orado , and there is no Lcadvillo ordi nance which permits it , and this fine or tribute , or whatever you may call it , could not bo collected of nny gambler who should resist , but they are very willing to pay the money to the city ofli- cial who collects it. and are not molest ed. Announcement of the lottery is posted on the sidewalk , and probably more than half the population of Lead- villo gamble. I don't suppose that the civil authorities of Leauvillo desire to have gambling carried on in the city ; probably if the money now spent in gambling could bo kept in the city and diverted to other channels they would prefer to have the gambling stopped ; but whore so many gamble it becomes a somewhat dillicult problem to handle , and they generally end by letting them gamble and looking to the future for rc- Ifof. and occasionally setting the date back a little further. I dropped in to see my friend the gambler , whom 1 had mot at the hotel , pull a few cards. In an interval in the playing ho introduced mo to the looker- out , a genial gentleman from Chicago who , some twenty or thirty years ago at the time of the excitement in the south , served a few years in one of the famous light batteries that wont out from Chicago. Ho was a man of cheer ful temperament , perhaps moro buoyam in manner than his confrere the dealer who inclined rather to sodatoncss ; bin both were disposed to regard life , por.- haps , not as a continuous picnic , but yet us a period with moro fun than funeral At night I wont to the up-stair rooms of what is generally recognized as the princiiml gambling establishment of the city. These rooms are up one fiight o stairs which may bo reached througl u door from a saloon below or by an other door from the street , botu equally easy to open. There are four or five rooms reaching from the front of the building to the rear , the floors al covered with velvet carpets. The faro table and the roulette table are in the front room , and the tables and all thoii appurtenances nro of the best materials and workmanship , Then there are two or three rooms whore a man may lounge or smoke or drink or read or play curds and in the rear room is an uprlgh piano , All the walls and ceilings nro tastefully decorated and the hangings uro pretty and graceful. The tnblo coverings are of brocade stuffs with gold threads running througl them. The chairs and lounges are coin fortablo. On the walls there nro few paintings , but they nro very good. There are moro engravings and o tcl ings. All good , and some of them ex cellent. The outfit of these rooms was very costly. The proprietor of the cs tablishment is an alderman of the city u culm , gonlnl , hospitable gentleman who wears a line gold badge which wns presented to him by his constituents which was appropriately inscribed nn < which carries on its front a largo am very beautiful and perfect blue-white eHn.noiid. The checks up stairs nro of higho price than these bolownnd iivointondcc for men of largo moans. There was no game on the night of my visit , but whoi 1 wont back there at 3 o'clock the nex morning there , were in the rear parlor eight or ten men , some of them visitor from out of town and eomo residents o Load vlllo , all grouped around the piano ' Two of the men wore good players , am all hands could sing , and they did. Hero is a variety theatre , drinking bar at the entrance , and theatre beyond Between the bar and the theatre are 1 seats and tables , TUg tUcatro in long md not very wido. The one. gallery is incd all around , from One side of the tngo to the other , with Vdiat nro called > rivuto boxes , maybe thirty or forty of hem. These boxes all front flush with IIQ face of the gallery , and the effect Is \t first a little curious. On the stage hey give the general run of variety > orformnnccs , and ongngo people who nako circuits. The scats on the floor of the house were all full of men , drink- ng , smoking and listening to the per- ormanco. Some of the jokes were very irorttl , but it didn't eccm to mo that ' , hey were likeil any bettor on that ac- : ount. The proprietor of another largo variety theatre told mo that ho had lover permitted an improper word to 10 spoken on his stage , and ho had just as many people in his plnco us there were in the other. Women move about and take orders for drinks , and perhaps ; hnt with the drinker and drink with ilm. Some of the girls are proty and some are not , just like the waiter girls vo have scon in auy similar plnco. I should say that the run of the women enjoy their work just about as the ordi nary run of men and women enjoy whatever they may respectively have to do , but their lives must bo shorter. You may sit in a private box , if you wish , and bo waited on there , and pay thrco or four times the regular price , and hinlf thai you nro sec > ng life. In the theatre that Is run on the great North American plan of propriety in the spoken word the proprietor is a tall , ongle-faccd , courteous man , who looks abundantly able to enforce any rule ho might see fit to make. The same long horseshoe line of private ooxca , the same crowd in the scats on the floor , waitresses , with now and then 3no in the dostumoof a courtier or bomo- thing like , but nowhere anything to beat the waiter girl business as it wns carried on in Now Yonk' some years ago. The stage company hero was a small troupe of bur- losqucrs , by no means phenomenal as actresses , but nil pretty. After the part some 01 them trooped along the corridors back of the long rows of pri vate boxes. Wo encountered at the head of the stairs leading from the up stairs barroom to the ono below a very round and pretty woman , in full tropi cal costume , chaffing with an old man of seventy , who was fanning his spark of life. The old man's vitality was not overpowering , but his nerves were good. The young woman was blithe and merry , but seemingly born , and cer tainly existing now , without the slight est sense of moral responsibility just pocking what she could , anywhere , from the dust heap of life. And that is about the size of it with all these who come to the town to make money out of the weaknesses of human nature , except that of these who delve in the dust heap , some go at it deliberately with pick and shovel , and don't care whobo arms or legs they cut off. The men In the dupt hchp know that they must keep out of reach of the picks , or take the chances. It is much the same everywhere , I sup pose , for business is business the world over , but In a place like this business is moro conspicuous by I'cason of its pub licity. But , with all this , life and prop erty are safe in Leadvlllo. The more orderly people of the community will have it so"and among the others the transfer of money is speedy , certain , and continuous enough to suit every body. Of course the drunken man would bo expected to look out for him self hero as every\yhcro olsobut I should infer , from d reading of three days' is sues of the Horald-Domocrat , the enter prising journal of the town , that crimes of great violence are not more numerous hero than in other western cities of the same size. m A Reprieve For the Condemned. Wretched men and women long con demned to suffer the tortures of dyspep sia , are filled .with now hopes after a few doses of Hostotter's Stomach Bit ters. This budding hope blossoms into the fruition of certainty , if the Bitters is persisted in. It brings a reprieve to all dyspeptics who seek its aid. Flatu lence , heartburn , sinking at the pit of the stomach between meals , the ner vous tremors and insomnia of which chronic indigestion is the parent , disan- pear with their hateful progenitor. Most beneficent of stomachics ! who can wonder that in so many instances it awakens grateful eloquence in these who , bcnelittcd by it , speak voluntarily in its behalf. It requires a graphic pen to describe the torments of dyspepsia , but in many testimonial received by the proprietors of the Bitters , these are portrayed with vivid truthfulness. Con stipation , biliousnessmuscular debility , malarial fever , and rheumatism are re lieved by it. ANOTHER GEORGIA WONDER. A Woman Who Does More Astounding Tricks Than Did Lmln Hurst. Very little idea of the mystery which surrounds Mrs. Dixie Tarrott Haygood , who will start out on a tour over the world , can bo obtained until she is seen in her marvelous performances , says the Savannah News. In electric tricks she docs oven moro than Miss Hurst. Foi instance , a person is blindfolded , An article is hidden , and then she places her hand lightly on the shoulder of the blindfolded person , who goes without knowing why directly to the bidder article. Very recently this feature ol her performance was given a very se vere test. A pin was driven into the wall ns high as the hand could reach. A lady had been blindfolded , and was to find what was hidden and the locality. The instant Mrs. Haygood's hand was placed upon the lady's shoulder she walked direct to the wall and took the pin from the wall. The slate writing of Slado Is feeble when compared with that of Mrs. Hay- good. A small pencil is laid upon a slate and the slate Is then placed where seemingly writing could not bo done under a wardrobe , for instance. Answers swors to questions were made and every time the answer wns satisfactory to the uskor. She has received hundreds o dollars in money and valuables by beirif , thus able to obtain from Fomowhero proper answers to questions. But she is adverse to this feature , am will not show it on every occasion. She does not know where the power comes from , and offers no explanation. In her early days , whim but a child and before she had learned to write she could cnuso messages to bo writtoi on slates. Among the many instances is this : Whenever the slate would bo written on she would bo frightonec and was of the opinion tha it was done by some othei person. Ono day BUO decided to test it horoelf. She thought of a verso in the bible , "God is love , " and placed the slate where she know it could not bo touched. When a sufficient time had elapsed she examined the slate , and the words "God is love , " were written there in largo letters. An Episcopal minister doubted her ability to do such things , and resolvoi to put her to a tost. Ho wrote a ques tion on a piece of paper , tore off a piece , and , rolling up the fragment upon which the question was written .placed and kept it in his mouth , The other portion of the paper was placed upon the table , and > frs. Haygoo'd was called upon to give u reply. This was done. The answer'was correct , the two pieces of paper were compared , tine the minister was EO confounded with tha fact that he loft her house at oiice , The now federal I building to bo erected In Wilmington , N. C. , will oc cupy the lot on which the pcopln of the own hold a grand barbecue , followed > y a great torchlighV parade in 1816 , In olobratlon of the ratification of the rcnty of dhcnt and General Jackson's victory at Now Orleans. It was the greatest event in 'the history of the own , and the oldest -inhabitants toll the tory of it with a glqwpt pride. _ Catarrhal 'Dangers. To bo freed from tlio. 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U1.UUO . 100 Approximation i'rliusof UU . f .TO.OfiO i ) au . . . , ; , , 2o. < iir .101 " " 100 . 10UI Iflii Terminal " U ) . , , WU ( 2li9 I'rixes , amounting to , . , . , . | M3UX Application for rates to clubs should be made only to thti ofllce of the company In New Orleans. rur furtber Information write clearly , giving full nddrets. llJSTAh NOTttti. eipress money orders , or New VorkKicbangeln ordinary letter. Currency br ejpreti ( at our expense ) addressed to M. A. DAUPHIN. w OW..AX. , LA. Or M. A. DAUPHIN. WABlll.N-QTO.V. P. & Address Registered Letters t ) NEW OHLUANS NATIONAL BANK , _ NEW OHLKANS , LA. PTAf17AT"R1l ? That the preicnco of ( Jen- JVlliiMUdU 15 11 JV crals Beauregard and Early , wbo are In cbargeof Ibe drawings , is a guar- uritfu of absolute fairness and Integrity , that tbe rbances are all equal , and that no ono can possibly lilvlne what number will draw a 1'rlte. BKMBMBBU tbat the payment of all prizes Is aiuiuNTrxu iir ruuu SATHINAI. BANKS ur MOV OHLCANH , and tbe tickets Vo signed by the preilaeut ol an Institution whose chartered rights are rtcog- nlted In th0hlgheit courts ; therutorti , Lcnara ottiur ' SteekPiano htrnwrkablofor powfrfgl.STOP * ; iTictTc tpncTpfiablt'urHoh ilBrt dip Folute durability. Of ) t firs' rtoninl , thn best guarantee of the excel- fence of these Instruments. WOODBRIDGEBROS , THE CAPITOL HOTEL LINCOLN. , NEB. The beet known anrt moit pcpoUr Itoltt In tba slate. Loeslton central , appointment ! nnl-clm. lUsdquarurs for commertlalmen and ll politic * ! .napubUo.Uher.nt . , . J. W. Barnsdall , M. D Hotnoeopathio Specialist , SURGEON Gynaecologist and Obstetrician. Telephone 070. RAMOE BLOCK , - - OMAHA. E.T.Allen , M. D. , Ilomccopntlitc Specialist , THROAT rim tit AND NOSE , tAK Spectacles Accurately Piescrlbed , EAMQ12 BL'K , , OMAHA \Y. \ J. OAMUtAlTH , Surgeon and Physician , . W Corner Uth nnil Dougloi ) St. Offlc * telephone , 405 ; Heslilenco tclcpliono , CCS. E CHICAGO AND Omaha , Council Biuffs And Chicago , The only rood to take fnrDesMolncs , Mnrstmltoirn- Cedar Hnnlds. Clinton , Dlxan , Cllicnco , Milwaukee Rml nil points Hunt. To tlio people of Nebraska Colo- redo , \ \ jonilni ; . Utab , Mutio. Nevada , Oregon , Waili- luuton nnrt California , It oners superior advantages not posnlblo by any other line. AniotiK n few of tlio numerous points of superiority enjoyed by the imtrons of tills rend between Omnlm anil Clilcniin. nro Its two trains a il y of DAY COACH Kb. which nro tbo finest that liumnn nrtnnd . Itsl'ALACHSLKKl'lMl UARH Ingenuity can create. , which nro models of comfort and elegance. Its 1'AH- 1.OII IMAWINO HOOM CAlli * . nnsurj ) i > ne < l by any , nnd Its widely celebrated I'AI.ATIAI. 1UN1NG CAUS , the equal of which cannot be found elsewhere. At Council UJufTs. tlio trains of tlio Union 1'aclHc Kail- way connect In union depot with those of the Chl- rnito A Northwestern Hy. In ClilcaKO the trains of this line make close connection vtltb these of all other Kastcrn lines. tor Detroit , Columbus , Indianapolis , Cincinnati. Niagara Tails , Ituffalo. rttlsburgr , Toronto. Montreal , HoMon , New York. Philadelphia , Baltimore , Wasli- Iniitou , and all points In tbo Knst. Ask tor tickets via * U ° "NORTH-WESTERN" If you wish the best accommodation. All ticket atoms cell tickets via this lino. u.iiiKJinrj1 , E. p. WII.SON , Ucn'l Manager. Uen'l 1'uss r Agent. cnicAoo , ILLS. W. N. 11A11COCK , Ocn'l. Westnrn Agent. 1) , E. KIMHAI.I. 'iickot Agent. G. K. WKSf , City ra enger Agent. 1401 Farnam St. , Omaha , Neb. THE- OF THE Chicago , Milwaukee & St , Paul R'y ' , _ The Dcst Itoutc from Oiuaba nnd Council Blufft to sa 1 r"l E C./\o 1 TWO TtlAlNS DAILY BETWEEN OMAHA AND COUNCIL BLUFFS Chicago , AND Milwaukee , St. Paul , Minneapolis , Cedar llapids , Hack Island , Frccport , Rockford , Clinton , Ihibuqtic , Daminort , Elgin , Madison , Jnncsville , BcloitYiiiuna , La Crosse , And all other Important points East , Northeast anil Bouthcnst. For through tickets call on the ticket ngcnt ct 1W1 ranmm street , In llarker lilock , or at Union 1'aclUo I'ulh'nim Sleepers and the finest Dining Cars In tha world nre run on thn main line of the Chicago , Mil waukco & St. I'anl Hallway , and uvery attention Is paid to passcngcra by courteous employes of tha company. H. Mll.I.KK , OcncrnJ Manager. J. F. TUCKHIt , AsslntHnt General Manager. A. V. U. OAltl'KNTKU , General 1'asscnger nnd Giro. rullHAFFOItD , Assistant General 1'asacnger nnd Ticket Aucnt. . J.T. CI.AHK General Superintendent. INACCUAIIITED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTRY Will OBTAIN MUCH INFORMATION FROM AITUOY OF THIS MiP OF THE CHICAGO , ROCK ISLAND & PACIFIC R'Y Ita main llnea and brancbei Include CHICAGO , PEOIUA. MOLDTE , BOCK ISLAND. DAVEN PORT. DE3 MOnTEfl , COUNCIL BLUETS. HUB- OATINE. KANSAS CITT. BT. JOSEPH. LEAV- ENWonxn. ATomsoN , OEDAH RAPIDS , WATERLOO , MINNEAPOLIS , and BT. FAT7X * and ecorea of Intermediate cities. Chplca of rouUa to and from the Pacific Cowl. All trans fers In Union depot * . Fast train * of Vine Day Oouches , elegant Dining Car * , snagnlflcent Pull man Palace Sleepers , and ( between Chicago. St. Joseph , Atchloon and Kansas City ) Recllnlns Chair Con , Beat * Free , to bolder * of through flret-cla * ticket * . Chlongo , Kansas A Nebraska R'y "Great Rock liland Route. " Extend * Weat and Southwest from Sanaa * City and Bt. Joseph to NEJLSON. HOUTOK , . BELI/E- VTT.T.K. TOPEKA. HEHINOXON , WICHITA , OTJTCHINBON. CALDWELI * and all point * in KANSAS AND SOUTHERN NEBRASKA andboyond. Entire passenger equipment of the celebrated Pujlman manufacture. All safety ap pliances and modern improvements , The Famous Albert Loa Route I * the favorite between Chicago , Bock Island , Atchlson , Konsaa City and Minneapolis and Bt. Paul. It * Watertown branch travereos the great "WHEAT AND DAIRY BELT" of Northern Iowa , Southwestern Minnesota , and East Control Dakota to Watertown , Spirit take , Oloux Folia and many other town * and cities. The Short Line via Beneca and Kankakee offer * superior facilities to travel to and from Indian apolis , Cincinnati and other Southern point * . For Ticket * . Maps , Wilder * , or desired informa tion , apply at any Coupon Ticket Olflco or address E. ST. JOHN. K. A. HOLBROOK , aco'l XZenagor. Oen'l Tku & Pass. Agt. CHICAGO , IU , . M. R. RISDON , INSURANOEAG-ENT Merchants' Kutlouul Hunk Uuliaiug , JtoOia 1 , Upstair * . Telephone No. 376 , Omaha , Nebraska , HKI'UESENT : rhccnlx , London , England W.W3.871 03 llrcmen'u. N wark , N. J- , l.uW.BM 78 fJlen'a Kal\a.Glen'a \ Falls , N.Y , . MW.ad 01. Olrard. rhlladclphlu , J > a. ; ' ' CHURCHILL , Dealer in Agricnltnral Implements , wagons , Carriages and Buggies. Jr < nes Ptrect.bettroenBlhand _ 10th , Omaha , Nebraska. LININQER Si METOALF CO. . AgricnltarallfflDlemGnlSjfapn Carriages Bugi.les.Ktc. TOolctale. Omaha. Nebraska. PARLIN , ORENDORF Si MARTIN , Wholesale Dealers In Agricnltmal Implements , Waps&Bnggies 101 , HO , ( U and COT Jones Street , Omaha. P. P. MAST & CO. , Manufacturers of Buckeye Drills , Seeders , CulUrators , liar IUie . Cider Mills tnd Luban 1'nl- Ttrlters. Cor. Itth and Nicholas Btrtcts. WINONA IMPLEMENT CO. , -"Wholesale-- AgricnltHrallraDlements.waps&BuEiies . Corner lllh and Nicholas Streets. OM/1IAIII1ANC1I. J.F.SEIBERL1NG & CO. , ( Akron , Olilo.l Hamstins Machinery and Binder Twine W. K. Mcad/Manager. 1/13 1-cavcnwortb at. , Omaha rvfOLTNE.MILBURN&STbDDARb Co Manufacturers anil Jobbers In f agons Buggies , Rakes , Plows Etc , Cor. Wh and raclflo Strocts. Omaha. Nab. Artlsto' Materials. A HOSPE , Jr. , Artists' ' Materials , Pianos and Organs , 1513 Douglas Ptrcct , Omaha , Ncbranka. Jtaojta and W. V. MORSE St. CO. . Jobbers of Boots and Shoes , 110A1HIM105 Douglas St. , Omaha. Manufactory , Bum mer St. , Huston. K1RKENDALL , JONES & CO. , ( bucccetors to Heed , Jones A Co. ) WholesaleMauiiractnrersofBootsandShoes Agents for Ioston ! Hubbcr Shoe Co. 1103,1HH & 1100 llarnoy M. . Omaha. Nebrnalm. Booksellers and Stationers ; , " H. M , & 'S. W. JONES , Successors to A. T. Kenyan & Co. , W holcsalo & Uetnll Booksellers and Stationers , ' Flno YTcditlniz Stationery , Commercial.Stationery. U..rlouiila . > Street , Omaba , Neb. CoffOOS , SplCOB , EtO. CLARKE COFFEE CO. , Omaha Coffee and Spice Mills. Teas , Coffees , Spices , Baking Powder , Flavoring Kxtracts , Laundry llluo , Inks. Klc. 1IU- UlBIIarncy Street. Omsrm. Nebraska. W. L. WRIGHT , Agent for the Manufacturers and Importers of Crockery , Glassware , Lamps , Chimneys , Etc. Otncc. 317 B. 13th St. , Omaha , Nebraska. CUMMINOS & NEILSON , Wholesale Dealers In Paints , Glass and Varnishes , 1118 Fnrnnm Street , Omulm.Nob. PERKINS. QATCH & LAUMAN , Importers nnd Jobbers of Crockery , Glassware , Lamps , Silverware , Etc UU KarnaraSU , Now I'axton Dulldlng. Commission and Storage. CEO. SCHROEDER & CO. , tSucccssors to McSbanc & Schrocdcr. ) Prodnce Commission and Cold Storage , Omaba. Nebraska. EMMAL & FAIRBRASS , Wholesale Flour , Feed , Grain and General Commission Merchants. Correspondence solicited. 1011 Nort IUU Street , Onmha , Neb. RIDDELL & . RIDDELL , Storage and Commission Merchants , Specialties Butter , Kegs , Cheere , Poultry , Oame , Oytlcrs , Ktc. , Kto. 112 South Kill Street. Coal , Coke and Lime. OMAHA COAL , COKE & LIME CO. , Jobbers of Hard and Soft Coal , 200 South 13th Street , Omaba , Nebraska , J. J. JOHNSON & CO. , Manufacturers of Illinois White Lime , And shippers of Coal , Coke , Cement , Plaster , Ilme. Drain Tile , and Sewer 1'lpo. Ofllce , i'axton Hotel , Farnam St. , Omaha , Neb. Telephone 811. NEBRASKA FUEL CO. , Shippers of Coal and Coke , 211 South 13th St. . Omaha. Neb. Dry Goods and Notions. M. E SMITH & CO. , Dry Goods , Furnishing Goods and Notions , 1102 and 1104 Douglas , Cor. llth St. , Omaha. Neb. KILPATRICK-KQCH DRYGOODSCo Importers andJohteinDryGooilsNotions , Gents' FurnlsblnK Roods. Corner llth and UaJnor B < aOmaha. Nebraska. Furniture. DEWEY & STONE , Wholesale Dealers in Furniture , Farnam Street. Omaha. Nebraska. CHARLES SHIVtnRICK , Furniture Omaha , Ncbrimka. Crocorloa. PAXTON , GALLAGHE'R iTcoTT Wholesale Groceries and Provisions , 70S. 707,703 and 711 B. 10th St. , Omaha , Neb. McCORD , BRADY & CO. , Wholesale Grocers , IMh and I-cavenworth Streets , Omaha , Nebraska. Hardware. LEE , PRIED & CO. , Jotes of Hardware and Nails , Tinware , Sheet Iron , Ktc. Agents for Howe Scales , and Miami Ponder Co. , Omaba , Neb. HIMEBAUGH & TAYLOR , Builders' ' Hardware and Scale Repair Shop , Mechanic * ' Tools and Buffalo Scales. 1405 Douglti Street , Omaha , Nebraska. RECTOR , WILHELMY & CO. , Wholesale Hardware , lOthand HarneySts. , Oinaba , Neb. Western Agcnti for Austin Powder Co. , Jefferson Steel Nails , Fairbanks Standard Scales. MARKS BROS. SADDLERY CO' . Wholesale Manufacturers of Saddlery & Johhcrs of Saddlery Hardware And Leather , U03,1W5 nnd 1(07 Hurney St.,0muha , Nebraska/ / Heavy . . Hardware. - - " - - - - - - - - - - - - - "i- I1 .rxorjTjTj-v1rTj-ir-u-xi-LJ-XJ-uxJ-i-i-lj-\J- | W. J. BROATCH , Heavy Hardware , Iron and Steel , . ' . tc. JAMES A. EDNEY , Wholesale Iron and Steel , Wagon and Carriage Wood Stock , Hcary Hardware ICto. H17 and lift Luavenwortu St..Omaha , Neb. Hats , Caps , Eto. W. L. PARROTTE & CO. , Wholesale Hats , Caps and Straw Goods. 1IOJ Harncy Street , Omaha , Neb. r ' OMAHA LUMBER OCX , All Kinds of Building Material at Wholesale 18U Street and Union Pacific Track , Omaha. LOUIS BRADFORD , Dealer in Lunger.Lath , , Lime , Sash , Peers , Ktc. Yards-Corner 7th and Uouulaa : Cora'cj I'tb aur. . ) Douglti. _ , ' , . -V C. N , DIETZ , Dealer in All Kinds of Lnmlier , Uth and California StreetMJrnabe , Nebraska. FRED W. dRAV\ * Lumber Lime Cement Etc Etc , , , , , , Corner riband Douglas Sis. . Omaha. T.W. HARVEY LUMBER C O. . * To Dealers Only , Office , 1KO Ksrnnrn Street , Omaba. JOHN A. VVAKEFTELD , " * Wholesale Lumber , Etc , Imported and American I'ortUn.l Ctmont. SUU Agent for Milwaukee Hydraulic Cement and ( tulncy White Mine. CKAS. R. LEE , Dealer in Hardwood Lumber , Wood Carpets ana 1'arquet Flooring Mh and Dousliyi Iron Works. ONWOhrtS. Wrought and Cast Iron Building Work , Engines , llran Work , General Foundry , Machine and Blacksmith % Vork. omceiind Works , U.P Uy. and 17th Street , Omaha. OMAHA WIRE & IRON WORKS , Manufacturers of Wire and Iron Railings Deik Halls , Window Oiiardn. Flower Stands , Wlra Signs , Etc. IV North IClh Btreot , Omaha. OMAHA SAFE nnd IRON WORKS , Man'frsofFire&BurglarProofSafcs ' Vault * . Jail Work , Iron nhil Wlra rVnclna.BIgn * , Kto. U. Andrren , I'ron'r Oir , lllh and Jaekimn nt , CHAMPION IRON and WIRE WORKS iron and Wire Fences , Railings , Guards. UU &crutMi , loruiinKi , iiiniv , . , MOIUK , iccfdenvo , otu ImproTe'd Awnings , I/ocksmllli jiachVncryauil . Illacksmlth Works. 0 South lUh Bt. , , nik.s\Unc.i < iV L.b/vOH , , Fire and Burglar Proof Safes , Time Locks , j Ocnernl Agents for Dlobold Safe , t lock Co.'a " Vaults and Jail Work , 1111 Knrnaui Street , Omaha. joniitiury nnct i otionb. " " " " " " "f.6 B E RF E"LD"E R & "c 67T" Importers & Jotes in Millinery & Notions an. 210 ami 213 South llth btreot. J. T. ROBINSON NOTION CO. , Wholesale Notions and Furnishing Goods A 400 and KM Bcuth 10th St. , Omaha. VINYARD & SCHNEIDER , Notions and Gent's ' Furnishing Goods , 1106 Uarnoy Street. Omaha. CONSOLIDATED TAN K LIlEco. WholsaleReflned and Lubricating Oils , Axle Grease , Etc. . Omaha. A. H. Illshop , Manager , Paper. CARPENTER PAPER CO. , Wholesale Paper Dealers , Carry a nice stock of Printing , Wrapping and \VrlllnB Ph 'ar. Special attention gfron to car load orders. Pr I n tors' Mla tor j o I a. WESTERN NEWSPAPER UNION. $ Auxiliary Publishers , - 3 Dealers In Typo , Pro uses and Printers' Supplies. 03 $ South 12lh Street , Omaha. " $ Rubber Goods * OMAHA RUBBER CO. , Manufacturers and Dealers in Rubier Goods- 311 Clothing nnd Leather Bolting. 1008 Farnam Street , Steam fittings , J umps , Eto. A. L. STRANG CO.7 Pumps , Pipes and Engines , CHUHCHILL PUMP CO. , Wholesale Pumps , Pipe , Fittings , 'T ) U. S. WIND ENGINE & PUMP CO. , Steam and Water Supplies , BtOmaha. BROWNELL& CO. . Engines , Boilers and General Machinery , Sheet Iron Work. Steom Pumps , Saw MIHs. 1213-1219 Lcavenworth Street , Omaha. Seeds. PHIL. STIMMEL & CO. , Wholesale Farm , Field and Garden Seeds 811 and CIS Jones Htrcot Omaha. Storage , Forwarding & Commission ARMSTRONG , PETTIS & CO. , Storage , Forwarding and Commission , ranch house of the Heirney Buggy Co. Burgles a wholesale und retail , lib iJlOand l3l2 Itard titrcct , . Cornice , EAGLE CORNICE WORKS , Manufacture Galvanized Iron and Cornice , John Kpeneter. Proprietor. V20 Dodge and 103 and 10 | North 10th Street. Omaha. Browors. STORZ & ILER , -1 Lager Beer Brewers , ! JKl North Blgthtcontb Street , Omaha. Neb. Overalls. CANFIELD MANUFACTURING CO. , Manufacturers of Overalls , Jeans Pants , Shlrti , Ktc. 1102nml H0 < Douglas Btreot , Ouiaha , Mel ) . , t Sash , Doors , Eto. , -w M. A. DISBROV/ . CO. , , Wholesale Manufacturers of ' ! j Sash , Doors , Blinds and Mouldings , > Branch Office , 12th and liarU Streets , Omaba , Neb , ; BOHN MANUFACTURING CO. t \ Manufacturers of Sash , Doors , Blinds- , " Mouldings , Stair Work and Interior Hani Wood Flu t Isb. N. K. Corner 8th and l avoaworlh Streets , , Ouiaha , Nub. ' * OMAHA PLANING MILL CO. , , Manafactnrers of Moulding , Sash , Doors , And Illlnds , Turning , Blair-work , Hank and Office Fit * Unus. 'Juth and Poppleton ATenue. Stocks , Bpllpra , Eto. H K. SAWYER , Manufacturing Dealer in Smoke Stacks * ' lUHchlng * , Tanks and General Holler Itenalrtng , 1116 ' , Hedge Street , Omaha , Neb. * "I r. lUI'ALWEIl. N. 1MIICIIMAN. J. Jl.llUiNCUAHDj PALMER , RICHMAN & CO. , Live Stock Commission Merchants , Ofllce-ltoom2l , Opposite Kxchango llulldlng , UnlorJ Block Yards , South Omaha , Neb , MoCOY BROS. , Live Stock Commission Merchants , Market furnlkhed frconn application. Stockeri an < t feeders furntiuud on good terms , llu'cruncci ; Ouuft hu National Hank and South Ouiaha National , Union Stock Yt.rdi , t-'oulli Omaha. LORIMER.WESTERFIELD& MALEY Live Stock Commission , Itoom 15 , Kicboniro llulldlng , Union Stock Yards , J P""th Omaha , Nub. > | ALEXANDERl : FITCH , ' Commision Dealers in Live Sock , Room VI , Oji oslta ICxclmnKO llulldlng , Union Stock --"i , boulh Ornaba , Nub , UNION STOCK YARDS CO. , . Of Omaha , Limited , Johaf , ; - . / . - . . * . . :