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THE OMAJIA DAILY BEE : FKIDAY , NOVEMBER 9 , 18S& THE DAILY BEE. EVKUY MOUSING. TKHMS or Italljr 'Morning Kclltlon' ' Including Si"iiHv llrK.Ono sear . ilO CO J'orJMx Month * . . . . fi 00 jViTlhreeMonilii . . . . . . . . -60 TUB OMAHA Si < Mi\r HRK , maiipd to nny Rddrp * * . One Vear . 2 (10 OMAIIlOrri'IENoi ( < .UIlAMlllOtVUt ( AMSTIU > .T. NKvrYoitKUtriCK. Homisll AMI UiTiitm'SK llllllllNO. WAHHIMITUN UttlUt , NO. 61J IUUKTECNTII BTIIEIIT. coiiiuaroNiiBNf r. AHfommntilciuloni rdntlnn io new * and till- lorl.i nmM < T shouMljo nilrtrewiUotlio HIHTOII > t Tllh 1IKI , A 11 liii'ilnp'i'j let t MS nml remittances Minnlil be iHMii'ssed to ' | IIK HKts Vunt.tftittM'i ( OMPVNV , O\mn , Orafw , checks ftnillHMtolllrcordcri to lii'iimtlo imyablo to tlio order of the cotnp.iti ) , TIicBeePnlsliiiiE Company , Proprietors. K. Kosi-AVATKU. Editor. TIIIO DAIIiY IU4K. SWIM n Statement < > l Circulation. ptntcof NflbrniVn , i _ County of DuuKlni. ( " " OcorBf U.Tysrhuck , meroUrv ofThoIlco Pub. llHtiliiL' ( onititiny. dor * olcmtilv twi-nr that the nctnitl clirutntion ol 'I'm : DAII.V 1'Kt. ( or tlio week eiulltift Xovpmticr . ' 1 , 18S . was as follows : Bmidav.Oct as . . . IH.M Jloniliiy. Oct. yt . IB.OI'i ' 1 ncsilay. Oct. 'M . . . . . l.iril \\oitwn.lii.v.0ct. ill . 1H.H4I lliuMdnr , Nnv I . IH.iHI rililay. NOV.U . I8 , li Saturday , tfrtv I ! . IMU' Atrray . IB.UH1 r.KOUWi : It. TXSUHLUK. Sworn to bofotn me nnd xubiullwil tu my prcM-tiro this , ) < ! day of November A. 1) ) , 1SSH. tfenl N 1 > . KHIU Notary Public. tltnteof Nelirnikix. i ( onutvof lioiiKiui. t ls < ( leorae II. Tzscnnuk , beltiK < l ly sworn. de- jio psanil says tlint ho l < HiTiftnry of the lleo J'ubllsliltiK coniininy. Hint the m t mi I uwriiRt ) < hiliv cliciiliiUon of Tin : DAII.V HKI : for th inontli of Novombcr , lifli , WUH I V " coulee ; for JH-oembei , IStf , I1.IMI copies : for January , IHS 1VJ > " copies ; for February , 1HS8. l .WKi copies ; fr-r Mnn-li. \ I'MHUconloiij ' for April , MS JV-II tapirs : for May. 18.1M , 1T.1H1 copies ; for .lime , itws. ii > ,3ii : copies ; for July. IMS. is.oil coplo < : for AiiKtist , I'M , l".lsi copies ; for yep- tmiibi'r , 1KH8 , ijir ) , | ropioH ; for Octohrr. ItWf. was KOM i opius. o 1:0. : it T/TII UCK hwointo before me nnil sulncrlln.il In my presence tliU Tth ilay o .Vovi'inhur , IrWH. N. ] ' . mil. , Notary Public. ftitovms may jot move to Oiniiha mid improve lii.s wife's property hero. T \JIMA NT is oni'o more in the Raddle , nnd Governor tlill leads Now York by tlio bridle. IT LOOKS ub though 0110 American nrny pull through the legislative race in this county. Tun preposterous claims of Colonel Uricc that the democrats havu carried Now York are without any plausible ex- cu o. o.Mi Mi ! . CIKVKLA.VJ > is much moro strongly impressed now Hum four years ago that ho does not want a faccond term. A voMTK'ATj upheaval is a good thing For the nation once every four years providing the upheaval is on the right side of tlio people. Tin : UBK begs to oiler its heartfelt congratulations to the citizens of the northwest territories. From Dakota to Washington territory statehood is in Bight. _ _ _ _ _ _ KN paying election bets and eliciting out for delinquent , taxes , many ti democrat in Omaha finds himself poor in pocket and in hard , luck gen erally. .T. STKKUNG MoirroN has one reason to feel satisfied with the outcomeof the election. His inveterate enemy , Cal- lioun , will have to stop down from the collcctorshlp , which is by all odds the most lucrative federal olllco in Ne braska. TIIK desperate effort to defeat At torney General Loc9o is liable to recoil on the heads of the dupes who allowed themselves to bo usud for such u pur- jio o by the cunning railrogues who kept in the background and concocted the . plot. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ IN TIIK western and central part of the fatato Governor Tlmyor received majorities , if anything , larger than those of two years ago , which goes to hhow that Mr. McSlmnc'tt pasters were laid away as a memento of a political wild goose chase. TIIIIUK is no moro surprising feature of Tuesday's election than the fact that three republican congressmen wcro elected from St. Louis , the city which was honored by the last national demo cratic convention , and which has boon a democratic stronghold. Tin : Omaha postolllco is , by old usage and courtesy , conceded to belong to tlio resident United States senator , while South Omaha and nil the smaller post- olllcos in the district are filled by the congressman. After the -Hit of March Mr. Connell will have something to say ubout these llttlo matters. Tun oily council proposes to investi gate the Wirt street grading , and the hoard of education has appointed a com mittee to look into the school desk ir regularities. It now remains for the proper authorities to mnko a thorough examination into the paving fraudu. lint wo shall see what wo shall see. Tin : city fathers of South Omaha are determined to do everything wrong- Bide-up. They have ordered the South Omaha streets to be numbered Chinese fashion , up and down thu line , instead of Irom loft to right. Because Omaha's atraels that connect lvith South Omaha are numbered 0110 way , they are numb ering their own the opposite way. The result will bo confusion worse confound ed for anj body trying to find his \vjiy. ONK of the last acts of congress was to pass a bill for the bonullt of poor settlers tlors on government land. It was en titled , "A bill to allow persons who have abandoned or relinquished their homesteads to make another entry. " The plain purpose of the measure waste to relieve many farnicra of Kansas , Da- kola and , other sections who had boon compelled to leiivo their lands on ac count of drought nnil by the stress of circumstances. It has transpired , how- overt that the bill has boon killed by a junket veto of Mr , Cleveland. This is most unfortunate. Whatever motlvos the president may have had for defeat ing thu meaauro , ho has entailed addi tional hardships nnd disappointment on the unfortunate settlers confident of linving tliolr 5unda restored to them. TIIK KK.\L CAUSE. The question democrats aslcthemsclvos is : Who is responsible for tlio disaster that has befallen their party and re tires it. perhaps forever , from control of na tional affairs ? To our mind the answer is very simple. The defeat of democ racy is chiefly , if not entirely , due to the tuBsel of the democratic pig at the political trough. There was not swill enough to go round , and the two-legged porkers were jamming and biting each other in their struggle for subsistence. When Cleveland came into power ho could not crowd out the republicans fast enough to moot the clamor of the hungry and thirsty democrats who had boon for twenty-four years waiting for a chance at Uncle Sams' crib. i5y the end of his term , when ho had filled nearly every ollico in his gift with a democrat , there wcro still thou sands upon thousands hungry nnd un- sntislied. In the desperate struggle be tween the Ins and Outs the entire crib was overturnod. On the other hand , the republicans , for the lirst time in sixteen years , marched upon the battlefield in solid array. They had no pvtronage to fight overand were anxious to retrieve the disaster of four years ago. As a matter of fact , the united re publican party constitutes an in disputable majority of the American people to-day north as well ns south. This majority 1ms asserted itself at the polls. It was largo enough not to be counted out or suppressed , nnd the fight between the democratic factions of Now York made this possible. Dana's talk about Cleveland being beaten by forcing an educational issue on the tariff is more gabble. Ho would have been beaten in a fair contest by a united republican party without refer ence to the tarilT. The best proof of this is the fact that Now Jersey and Connecticut , two stales full of mills and factories , wont democratic now as they did-four years ago. Cali fornia , which was supposed to bo in tensely agitated over Cleveland's tariff inosiagos , came near going democratic , while Kansas , Where there are scarcely any factories.rolled up seventy thousand majority for Harrison. The majorities of Harrison in Now York and Indiana are scarcely one per cent of the vote polled , which shows that the effect of the tariff clatter had no marked etl'ect on the working people. In a nutshell , democracy has been beaten because it is in the minority in the pivotal states , and lost whatever ad vantage it gained by prestige and power in the factional contest among spoils- hunters. Our democratic contemporary , the Herald , has some sensible views regard ing the causes of democratic defeat. It observes that "when the truth can bo fully exposed it will probably be found that there was too much prominence given to the south in democratic poli tics. " Tin : BEI : has already pointed out the significance of the result of the election as a rebuke to the conspicuous part taken by the southern politicians in shaping democratic policy and con ducting the democratic campaign , and it is rather gratifying to find a north ern democratic journal agreeing with this view and having the candor testate its opinion. There is a lesson in this ex perience which the democrats of. the north ought to seriously consider , and it is the duty of papers occupying the position of tlio IfenM to ttnpressit upon them. When hereafter northern dem ocrats permit themselves to bo wholly overridden by the southern leaders of the party they must expect defeat. Our contemporary says the Grand Army of the Republic "has been abused into a mere political maohino" because it voted almost solidly for the republican candidates. But what rational demo crat could have oKpocted the organi/.a- tion to vote for the man whoso covr.so has been persistently hostile to itV The Grand Army of the Republic owed nothing to .Mr. Cleveland , who has shown himself to have not the least sympathy with the soldier. It owes nothing to the democratic party , which approves fully of the attitude of Mr. Cleveland regarding the soldier. It was most natural that the veterans should support their gallant comrade who headed the republican ticket and the party which had always befriended them. In purforining this duty to them selves ulul to the republican party there could bo no greater injustice than to assume that they wore actuated by sen timents arising out of tlio war , or by any other motive than the commenda ble one of rebuking the party which has shown the most unfriendly spirit toward them and of seeking to protect themselves against a further exhibition of that hostility. If the G. A. K. was u more political machine in the late election , it WUH the abuse of the democratic proildent and party that made It so. TUB LlifiSOK' TO Less than a year ago Isaac S. Ilascall was elected councilmau-at-largc. lie ran way ahead of all other candidates on the ticket , and considered himself one of the mo-it popular men in Omaha. This marked expression of confidence turned his head completely , and ho en tered the council in the role of leader and dictator. Before ho had fairly warmed his scat in the council , ho made hlmftolf the center of a law-defying clique , and had the whole city in an up roar over the memorable police coin mission fight , which ho kept up for a whole sonsim , until the supreme court finally put an end to his rus'olutionary methods. Tlio rule or ruin uollcy with regard to the police- was kept up with a von- geunco in dealing with the city hall. When the courts were invoked to en join the abandonment of the location , Ilascall kept up the howl against the Meyers plan , and absurd pretentious about the dangerous east wall and foundations , until the season passed away , and the thirty thousand dollars expended on the city hall basement are visible only in a ruin. Ilascajl'a play on the city hall was a bid for support from the Jefferson square boomers and North Onnha gen erally. His wine-room ordinance farce vras u bid for the dlvos. His antiprohl- bltion harangues were an open bid for the liquor-dealers' vole. With all these elements nt his back , and the influence exerted on laboring men through the contractors , the gas company , horao railroad , the cable line Mercer's motor and the water works company , Ilascall considered himself invincible , and defied the reputable class of citi/.cns. But Ilascnll underrated the force of public sentiment. Ho was elected to the council by a largo majority , on pledges of good behavior. IJocauso lie was energetic and experienced in city affairs , taxpayers had closed their eyes to his past career in hopes that ho would make himself useful in pushing public improvements. Ilascnll's crushing defeat at the polls Tuesday should bo a lesdon to him. It ho profits by this experience and devotes hlm.selC honestly to the work la hand in the council , ho will bo nblo to redeem himself and Tin : Bin : will cheerfully give him credit for what ever he may do to promote the growth of this city. It romnlntj to be seen whether the lesson of Tuesday will bo thrown away on Mr.llascall , or whether ho will turn in and devote his talents and energies to giving Omatui olllciont and economic municipal government. Tun election returns for Douglas county aftord a ready means for calcu lating the population of the county. Taking the vote for governor , on which the full voting strength of the county was expended , there were cast for Mc- Shane 112,100 , and for Tlmyer 8,811 bal lots , making a total exclusive of the votes cast for the prohibition candidate Of 21,001 ballots. Calculating the population of the county on a basis of six to one for every vote cast , the num ber of inhabitants in Douglas county at present exceeds ono hundred and twen- ty-siv thousand. As compared with 1881 , the growth of Douglas county has boon phenomenal. At the presidential election of that year the county cast just 0,870 , votes for governor , ( ill of which were for the prohibition candidate. On a basis of six to one , the number of in habitants in ISSl was somewhat moro than fifty-six thousand. It would seem from a comparison of the returns for 1888 and 1831 that Douglas county has moro than doubled its population within the last four years. This remarkable increase has been duo to the expansion of Omaha and South Omaha. Omaha has almost doubled its1 population within that period , while South O'uahn sprung out of the earth , so to speak. Three years ago it was all farming land. PUOKT SOUND is happy in the pos session of nine ports , most of which be long to British Columbia. But the best of them all and the most nourishing1 is Tacoma , which is not only commencing to bo a great grain port , but is also an cntreport for Japanese teas. Three sailing vessels loaded with the weed that cheers but not inebriates c.une there in a single month. This must bo either n through freight business to the east , or for the local consumption of the John Bulls north of Tacoma , as a single vessel would supply all the wants of the tea drinkers in the territory for live years. Is it not about tim'e that Wash ington Territory should be a state1 ; Before Harrison finishes his first term Tacoma will be an important city , and the population of the territory will bo more than three hundred , thousand persons. There are at the present mo ment twenty-one foreign ocean-going vessels in thin port. A LINCOLN contemporary , taking as its basis the vote cast at Lincoln last Tuesday , which is reported us live thou sand seven hundred , claims for the Capital city a population of forty-live thousand six hundred. At the same ratio eight inhabitants to the voter Omaha would have u population of one hundred and thirty-nine thousand two hundred , exclusive of South Omaha , which cast votes enough at the same ratio to give her fourteen thousand population , or a total for Omaha and South Omaha of ono hundred and fifty- three thousand two hundred. But Omaha is too modest to make such a claim. She is willing to gauge her population at the ratio of six to the voter , which is about right. It.uvwx.s , a nourishing town of Wyo ming Territory , has the good fortune to have escaped the effects of the coal monopoly established by the Union Pa cific. Just outside of thu town is a large deposit of lignite on the farm of a citizen of the place who has no desire to dovolope into a eo < il baron , conscious that the lion's share of the profits would go to the transportation fiends of the Union Pacific. So ho contents him self with the home market , which gives him a liberal benefit. In the meun- while towns in Wyoming to the east and west of Ruwlins are complaining of scanty supplies ot coal , because the Union Pacific in its eagerness to obtain now customers for its coal is neglecting its old ones. TIIKIIK is something wrong in this state with the work of securing election returns. The counting of votes must bo a moat laborious task , inat least , the judges and clerks of election of the precincts cf the cities and outlying dis tricts make it so. There is no reason why the count should not bo completed twenty hours after the polls close in a state like Nebraska , whore , ouUido of the large cities , there is but little scratching of ballots. But the returns from Nebraska , instead of being the first reported , are always the last , nnd keep straggling iii long after the news from closely contested sfites are road and digested , Tills Is a matter that should be remedied by the proper au thorities. DAKOTA is cursed witlt a race of human locusts who eat up the agricul turist with usury. A reoont case at Wellington Springs shows the manner in which those wrotohos opornto , A farmer who wished to borrow $300was compelled to give a note for 8H50 , the sanio to bear interest at one per cent per month. Ho did not pay , aud was biicd on the note. The judge accepted the borrower's view of the case , and in structed the jury to give a verdict for $300 , the sum actually loaned , It would bo very desirable to establish agricul tural banks that would mnko small loans W farg rs on the security ot hay , wheat , jiotatoes and other produce , and so got rid ot the note shaving pest. Tut : offal-Coif some of the democratic managers , ruitnbly Mr. Gorman , to raise the cry of fraiid , mot with no encourage ment from reputable newspapers in New York , whichf supported the democratic cause , and consequently the desperate schemers promptly abandoned the at tempt. Tlip truth is that both parties were so active and vigilant for the pre vention of trnud , and the precautions taken by both were so complete , that there has probably not been a fairer election in the last twenty years than that of Tuesday. Still we ahall not be surprised to find some democratic organs endeavoring to account for defeat by charging the republicans with all sorts of fraud and corruption. WHIN : General Harrison , a few months since , visited his dnughtor-in- law , Mrs. Russell Harrison , in this city , afar-seeing reporter of Tin : Bun spoke of him as "our next prosidonl. " A Tli I HIT lie Omitted. ( llobf Icn\HCnit. \ If Graver Cleveland h.ul deferred his Thanksgiving prodam.vtlon si few dnys longer he could have mentioned another reason for potmlur gratitude to Providence in addition to tlio e which ho cited namely , the election of Hciijnmln Harrison na presi dent of the United States. A Gt-ent I > ny. " 'iOIIMC J'/CSt / No other nation on the face of the globe has ever wllnnsspd n scene Hire that of which the United States was the theatre. With all that is unpleasant anil unworthy about a nntionnl campaign , with all the abuses connected with it nuil nil the mean nesses aud aptness to unfair advantage Mint it brings to the surf.iee , it is , nevertheless , incomparably the most niagnlllccnt net of national existence. It could not but bo an inspiring thought for every mm who handed in his bits of paper through the unpretentious windows of sotuo carpenter shop or rude hut , that he was but ono of an army far vaster than any civdbed nation has ever brought or could brmir upon thu Held. of the HcpuMionu Victory. Clileaaa Tribune. The campaign which has just ended in the triumphant election of General Harrison to the presidency and the signal defeat of Grover - ver Cleveland has been exceptional in munv respects. It was n contest between princi ples rather than men , and the personality of the candidates was at all times subordinated to the great issue between the principles of free trade and protection The light was that of ono army against another nnd not of ono leader against another. While General I [ at man could well have afTorJe.il utij con trail of personal character with his rival his supporters avoided any such issue nnil in sisted to the close that the contest should boone ono of principles , not men. Hence , while the victory must be very gratifying to Gen eral Uiirrisonr.it is the triumph of n pirty and a principle more than of a staiuluul bearer. Gut Bit rtiid. SI. ( 'did Hliilic ( ilem. ) The man who bet and lost is tlio ono that will now lend a willing ear to a sermon on the evil of betting on elections. Tlio man who won will bo encouraged to go ahead m tlio evil practice , and by the time the uc.xt election comes aiound this will he as much a nation of gamblers as it is to-day. Hotting ou elections is ono ot those pernicious prac tices with an innocent tinge to it that cannot bo suppressed by moral suasion. The avor- auo man never sees any harm In a little waaeronan election. And jot , when wo take into consideration how universally the practice prevails , and the temptation it offers to tamper with the election returns , wo readily see what a menace It is to our repub lican institutions. Purity of tlio ballot is the solo security of a government like ours , and whatever tends to corrupt it should be sup pressed by law. Tlio DiH'ereiioe. Clitctioo Tribune. The red bandana's trailing , trailing , trail ing , The democrats are wailing , wailing , wailIng - Ing , And up Salt Creek their ship is sailing , sail ing , sailing. While our starry banner's ' floating free. STATE AND TEKItlTORY. Nebraska iIottiiiKH. It is said that Monn , who cut Hall Frainp- ton in Nebraska Citv the other day , hud previously attempted to do up two or three other men in that city. .lacob Hammer , living three miles north of Ayr , was burned cut the other day. Ho lost his barn , ton tons of hav. ono large stack of straw , his poultry , harness and all that was contained in it. No insurance. An old soldier in led { Willow county belonging - longing to the union labor party , desiring to vote that tlcltot but preferring Harrison and Morton , struck out Btrcetcr and Cunning ham but loft their electors on. Now the boyi * have the laugh on him. lowi. Jamo Martin , of Ccdur HnpUls , c.ist his thirty-ninth consecutive ballot in tlio same plueo on election day. James O'Moura , who for BOVOH years has been an employe in the governor's ofllce , will move to An/ona next week. For the first time in the history of Jowa you can t radii n bushel of corn for a bushel of npples , both articles being the samoprice , y > cents per bushel. The editor of Iho.Ceilar Hapids ( Jazetio is philosophic. Ho recently remarked : "Wo have 'put up' our shot gun and all the sp < ire c'hango wo hml on Harrison. If wo lose lot the gun go with the gold , the sumc as the fellow lot the tail go with the bide. " The Uavonpprt , Tribune remarks edi torially : "Amljfbjwjs tlio time the man who oven whispers ' ( an IT' in a newspaper contri button , should lltdisolf be put into tlio edi torial waste biiSKct and bu cast into the fur nace instead of merely his M&S. " The east-uound stock train on tlio Illinois Central killed tlvo head of cattle for Mr. Uaulols , llvluK aTftw miles east of Parkers- burjf. The bojfij were driving n herd of nbout hovonty howl across the trark. About half wore over wion tlio train suddenly np- peared and snllLtbo herd in about two cnu.il IMI ts , killing ttVd : | y ilalcota. Itev.V t , . Lcthpf Oulda , will take up his residence ut Gulo Vicxt neck. The inachlnetyflfor the Mont rose roller mill is bolus rapidly put In position , William Wmbifch , Of KgAii , accidentally shot himself in the tliik'li whilu Jiaudlmt , ' a revolver. The citizens of Hlifhmoroaro awakcniiif , ' to tlQ | fact that there is a Jiole-in.thii.iviill in their inUlst. The now CoiiKretfatioiml church nt HljrJi- moiDWlll urobubly bo dedicated the set'onU Sunday In IJocvmbor. The Rapid City library association will try to secure Ignatius Dounally for a lecture when lu > visits the Hills next month , The Howoragu yt iu at Aberdeen Is prac tically complutud and will be ready for a test as soon as the puuip house is iluinhtul. Hov. W , II. Wyatt Itanuntli , of Jainestown , luis accepted n call to thercctortililppf Qhrlat church ut Vunkton , und will rouiovo there early in December Oliver Hell was rlilinc u barefooted horeo on tho.Uoyco Uroa. ' * touk farm , "car Bloux li'alls , last Monday inorniiif , when the ani mal slipped , fell on hU let , ' , and broke it badly in two places below the L-ueo. BEARS AND MOUNTAIN LIONS. How llrnln Kills the Cnttlo and Tlion Treys Vpon Them. Denver Tribune. There has boon much complaint from stockmen of boars killing both horses and cattlo. Mount ain lions have also bcon feeding on stock. During the past IS months John Morris vosiding nbout JJO miles from Morrison , on Elk creek , Colorado , has had 55 Hereford cntllo killed and wounded by boars. Some of the larger cattle show evidence of having nmdo a desperate light before they were killed. Tlio cattle that roam the plains nnd mountain parks nro shy , but when nt buy will fight. A bear can make good speed running in a utraight line , and hence , a man fnmllmr with thi.s charac teristic of old Hruin will take a/.ig/ng course. If the bear once hugs the legs of a horse or n cow. the nnimal soon be comes a victim in the almost iron clasp. In lowering their heads to hook , the boar sometimes seizes the ealtlo by the IIOM > or head. John Morris had lot so many line cattle that ho resolved to put a stop to it. Pur chasing two largo traps ho bet thorn whore the bears had been accustomed to raid his stock. A few days ago he found a ! ! 0l-pouuil ) boar Miugly caught nnd making u desperate priori to break the chain. Mr. Morris shot the bear and brought the carcass as a trophy to Morrison , and then dime to Denver , when the story of the capture was told. MOUXTAIX UOJ ? AND IIOltSK. Bears have not so good a chance in preying on horses , as they lire toolow for these swift-footed animals ; but a mountain lion can easily catch a horso. An incident of this kind recently oc curred in South park , at August Los.cn- bcrg's ranch near the head of Michigan creek. A large lion attacked two horses and a colt of this ranch killing the colt and badly wounding the mother and a two-year-old. The mare and the lion waged a terrible light , for the mother mndo a hard struggle to save her colt. The inaro bore evidences of this almost unequal contest with the lion , for she was badly scratched nnd her oars wore slit. In pawing at the lion the lattar hud leaped upon her back , and only by a terrible oTVorl did she save herself. She was bleeding from various wounds when found in the morning. The colt was dead and the mare was nearly exhausted from tiio re sult of her struggle with the lion. The two-year-old colt was also badly scratched , but escaped. Recently C. CJ. Williams of Garden park killed n cub bear within a few foot of his housp. In that vicinity Uruin has been quite severe on stock. GOLD IIl'NTKHS AND 11UAH MKAT. A good bear steak is ( iuito a luxury. The first bear meat 1 : ito in the Uocky mountains was in .Inminry , 1H7 ! ) , when going through the West Mountain val ley along the foot-hills of the Hrangro do C'risto range. The thermometer was 20 = below /.era. \\To were a. sorry lot of hungry and nearly frozen "tender- feet , ' ' following the great rush to the mines. We obtained some "bear meat from n ranchman that mnde us a tine luilch , The "bear had recently boon killed by William Perkins , a noted hun ter of the valley known ns "Moccasin Bill. " Ho is one of the best known bear hunters in the Rocky mountains , and still delights to hunt "his favorite game in theSangre do Gristo. Bill is a tvpical frontiersman , and many a night in the mining camps 1 have soon him the center of an interested group , tell ing of bib many adventures with cinna mon and gri/.zlieu Dressed in buckskin , of slender build , about six feet tall.with u full and long ( lowing sandy board.and with hit , slouch hat thrown back on his head , Moccasin Bill tolling a bear .story would make a line picture for any ar tist. Bill came very near losing his life once in an encounter with a moun tain lion , but was rescued in the nick of time by his companions. TIIK UHAML'ION IJIJAIl STONY TlihLKK. Renowned as Moccasin Bill may bo , the champion bear hunter of Colorado was .lesbo Fraxor , and now very old. " Ife resides near ( . 'anon City , in" Fre mont county. His grandfather accom panied Daniel Boone on his trip to Missouri , and "Unclo Tebse , " as he is commonly called , still has his grand father's old ride that has killed many an Indian. Uncle Jesse located oiglit mileb below Canon City , near the Royal Gorge , twenty-eight years ago , where he plowed the first furrow in that sec tion , using the fork of a cottonwood tree , one prong being the beam and the other the plowshare. That was the day of primitive farming in Colorado. Uncle JobbO was greatly annoyed by bears that were then very numerous there , as well as in the Wet mountain valley , thirty-live miles distant , and many a tiirilling experience he has had witn the bears of the Rookio" . lie can tell moro bear btories in the Rocky mountains than anyone else. In 1WJO ho shot at a cinnamon bear within a few rods of his house and drew it to his cabin witii a yoke of oxen. That night his little mountain abode was sur rounded by angry ancl growling boars that made the night hideous with their wailing. On one occasion he had a terrible en counter with an old griy./.ly. Uncle .Tessa was a fine shot , though , and when tlio gri/.y.ly started for him on its hind foot ho wounded bruin in the neck with .a rillo ball , as there was danger of the rillo ball glancing on" hnd ho fired , at the bear's head. Uncle , lesso then climbed u pine tree , and the wounded gri//ly being too weak to follow , crawled elf Into the mountain. In ISli'i Uncle Jesse purchased of Colonel Ebcno/cr Johnson his boar trap. One morning ho and a man named John T , Smith went to thu trap , Smith riding a mule named "Dick , " that was blind in ono eyo. A huge bear hnd been caught in the trap , but had broken the chain ; and Uncle Jesse laughs to this day at the thought of how that boar chased Smith and blind "Dick" until his old rillo stopped Bruin In its pur suit. A your later , in company with Messrs. Luster and McCnndle.ss , the lat ter now a member of the Colorado state Hcjialo , Uncle Jesse went on a bear hunt. They were all crack shots , and Lo ter boon Bounded u line , fat buck that lied to the brush near by. IJoforo they readied the buck a monster black bear hud attacked the wounded deer and eaten out ono of its hams. Luster soon put un end to the misery of the doer , nnd then killed the bear , which was Hieing up the mountain side. Tins was one of the hugest bears on record. Boar and venibonstcaK were plentiful in that huntern' camp. The head of tins buck wan then placed near ono of Uncle Jebso'n ' bear traps , The next morning the trap and deer's head were both gone. Nearly n mlle away thuy found a largo cinnamon on- tungled with the trap in the bru.ih , William Voris , whom 1 lirnt mut in the Wet Mountain vallej ubout iiino yearn ngo , happened to. come up with a party of hunters at the time Uncle Jossc wus making a light on the bear. JKMIS riUIITINH A HKAIt. Sotno of Mr. Noris' dogs attacked the cinnamon , which wus a 600-K | > uiidor. Tjio boar would pick up the > u hauling dogs and hurl them ten or llftcun fuot with as much OIMU as n rut turner handles its uiiHiuy , After the dogs had made their attack and tlio hunters had hud nil the fun they wanted , they ahot I I thu bour , which uud In thu meantime I < hurled ono of the dogs with such violence lence Hint it wns killed. A man named llondcr on once hnd a terrible hand-to-hand encounter with a bear on lloavor creek. Wounding the animal , ho followed it into the thick Underbrush. There the boar , rearing upon its hind leg * , turned upon [ lender- son , tore his scalp , bit ofl his ear and severely wounded him in the faro and limbs. Ho lingered in that condition for Iwo weeks , sulToring Intense agony. James A. McCandlcss , the State Sena tor previously referred to , omv hnd a narrow escape while- out hunting with a party of fripnds. McC'amlle'w is well known ns n crack mot as n politician and law-maker , but on this occasion lie only wounded the boar and the present Senator from Fremont county was com pelled to elimb a tree , leaving his gun behind him. Later he was rescued from lits perilous position by friends who canto to his rolipf. Sim Carries Weight. PhilndolphiaTimes' Mrs. MnryOar- rett is the wealthiest spinster in the Vnitod States. With Baltimore .t Ohio railroad stock at par she is probably worth eight or ton millions. No one outside of the Garret family really knows what Mis * Mary is worth. Shu is cortiunly worth moro than her weight in gold , and vet she is not married. When her father , John \V. Gnrrott , died , his fortune was variously esti mated nt from live millions nil tlio wnv up to lifty millions. No aeeurnto state ment was over made. In fact , efforts were taken to conceal the figures from the public. When the gossips and im pecunious club loungers ceased guess ing nt the father's wealth they began to estimate on the daughter's fortune. Quite : i number of bachelor acquaint ances gloated over the descriptions given in the newspapers of her valua ble properties and the estimated ox tout of her fortune. What a prize she would have been in the matrimonial lottery'1 ! But she was never in the lottery , so the bachelors in Baltimore society looked and longed in vain. Miss Garrett is not a marry ing woman. When she was 0 years of ago she had no more idea of fulling in love than she has now at well , nearly twice that age. Though not a literary woman , she is a highly educated One , a little on the or der of the Rose Cleveland class. She is not strong minded , but able to man age her great wealth and steer her way in business and society without having a man as a magnet. While not a hand some woman , Miss Onrrett has a charm ing manner , n pleasing way nbout her that makes ono forgot that she is homely or that she is rich , and to only rcali/o that he is talking to a sensible and cul tured woman who is interested in the noble work of elevating- sex and ear ing for poor and suffering womanhood. Mi s Garrett is the greatest of all the Gurretts In her quiet nnd unostenta tious way of doing good. Her charities are not paraded before the public and she can seldom be persuaded to permit her name to be published in connection with her generous nets. Nearly every institution for the invalid or the orphan in Maryland receives handsome gifts from her annually. She has endowed nn institution for a homo whore poor children taken from vicious parents will find a refuge. A line building has been erected , Miss ( Jurrett and her brother Robert donating a large sum of money for this purpose. She is the natroness of the Society for the Protec tion of Children from Cruelty and Vice. Though reared in luxury Miss Gar rett'a life has been tinged with sadness. Riches have had no charm for her and had her father taken the advice of her mother and herself he would not have wrecked himself on the shoals of ambi tion. John W. Garrett's wife and daughter were devoted to him and ho was no doubt the only great rnilroaf magnate of his time who confided all his financial schemes to the women of his household. Miss Mary was her father' : counsellor in everything. Ho had i dozen private secretaries , but she win his only confidential aid. After im portant railroad conferences the pro ceedings in detail were written out by his stoiiogranher and ho then took them home for her to read. Together they considered what more it wits best to do. Her busi- ne'-s tact and judgment frequently saved her father from disastrous battle with old Vniiderbllt. In his private oflice ut his country home and his city mansion she hud bur little rosewood desk beside her father's table , and hero they often worked and consulted late into the night. She looked after all his other interests outside of the railroad , and it is said he never bought a piece of prop erly or made any important investment without first consulting her. It was this confidence between husband , wife nnd daughter that made John \V. Gnrrott'd domestic life so happ } . Mary Garrett seldom appears in so ciety. She nursed her mother in her ' hist'illncss , and during her father's do- rlino devoted herself entirely to him. For months his mind was unsettled , and when the nurses could not quiet him the patient daughter by her sooth ing presence calmed him. Night and day she was with him until death came , and the blow was greater to her than to nny of tlio rest of the family. A fuw years Intoiyind just when she had begun to take a renewed interest in her life , her brother Robert broke down , nnd she found herself again the inir.se nnd companion of an invalid. She traveled around the uorld with him. com forting her sister-in-law in her troubles and controlling her brother in hiH pcrnntrie notions. Sineo their re turn she continues with her brother in the cottage in Ringwood , Now Jersey. Had she married , her home life would have been a happy one and she a model wife. The drenil of marrying n man who would care only for tlio millions she would bring him has no doubt led her into the lonely life of n spinster. Jn personal iippcanmco Miss Garrett is of a siimll but trim Jlgure , dark hair and eyes , and not resembling either of her brothers. She wenr.s glasses con stantly , and droshca in black. She lias never put nsido the heavy mourning robes and gowns fibo donned at her father's death. She was never fond of juwolry and a solitaire diamond ring is nbout the only ornament she has over worn. Iho CoiifVrunon ol' Nat ions. A recent Issue of the Rio Janeiro News lias the following to say in regard to the proposed conference of American nations : Tlio Untied Slutos government has selected October U , 1K8D , as the date for Iho opening of the proposed congress of American nations , and has issued Invi- lations to all the governments of Iho western continent to send delegates to Washington. The objects of the con gress , us stated in Iho invitation , are to onslder measures to preserve the peace ind promote the prosperity of the nn- Honsin question , to establish an Amori st ! customs union , to secure inoro fro- jiient communication , to ngn-o upon 4iiiforin customs , appraisement mid luuruiitinu regulations , to provide for uniform weights und measures , copj- rlght , trade murk aid | extradition aws , to adopt another legal tondcr sil- rercoin , todcvUo u plan of perpetual ind compulsory arbitration , and to act ijmn such otlmr subj.-cta as m . \ bo laid u-foro it by nnv of the states repru- pnted. The Hheino it , u lurgo und at- .ruct'.vo one , but it will not bo u suo- : esi. In view of llie selfish und intol- ornnt Bpiril so frequently exhibited nt Washington in matters affecting for eign countries , it will be Impossible for nny country to nei'opt the tornu * which nro likely to bo advanced. And in view of the narrow and' reckless polie.y ro cenil.v shown by the United Statos'son- ate in the rejection of nn cnuUauIo treaty with Great Britain for thosottlo- montof the Canadian llshoriosquostion , few self respecting nations will earo to outer into the negotiations proposed. The truth is that success \\M \ \ thrown the average American olT his balance , while constant bitter partisan rivalries ) have rendered him reckless of consequences quences in nil his political dealings , with foreigners us well as with his party opponents. Ho ought to know that the foreigner has ju"t HIP same rights , dignities and privileges to main- lain which ho elnimi for himself , nnd ho nlo ought to know thnt nil men do not look at every question in just the same way , nnd that allowances must therefore bo made for dilleronees of opinion. It is not nn ngrceable thought thnt the people claiming to ropiOMMil the most advanced liberal ideas ot the day should bo the most liberal in trado. The poor laborers of these American countries cannot understand why n na tion so rich and prosperous should wish to force its products upon them and take nothing whatever in return except the slave products of monnrchial Br.r/il. And it the Americans could onlj see how little has really been done to culti vate liberal commercial relations with South American countries , and how in significant u pluco , outside of Brazil , he actually occupies in their life and trade , ho would certainly begin to see how gicnt a farce his "Monroe doctrine" must appear to him. The slave labor of Brn/il and the coolie labor of China have cast no unpleasant shadows over their boasted "free breakfast table ; " but when the free herders of Uruguay and the Argentine Republic , or the free miners of Chili , or Iho free null hands of England , are mentioned ) they ' find nothing good nnd worthy in thon'i nil. Ideas like these can never rule this continent. "Ohl Knliliful. " The soldier who does patrol duty about Iho "Old Faithful" gejser , nt the upper geyser basin of the Yellowstone park , asserts , says the Youth's Com panion , that during one fortnight in August of the present year ho picked up pockot-handkerchip'fs enough about the bowl of the geyser to last him a lifetime and supplj all his near rela tives besides. More singular stillnll these handker chiefs came out of the geyser ; half a dozen nro eoniotimes thrown out at a single eruption of the hot w'nter. They gush up with the roaring fountain to the height of I'll ' ) feet in the air and fall on the steaming rocks outside the bowl. It might bo surmised off hand that the geyser was the outlet of some grand Chinese laundry establishment on the other side of the world , but the moro reasonable explanation rests on the observed - served fact that those handkerchiefs ire purposely dropped into the geyser by tourists mostly lady tourists and in violation of the law , which forbids Rutting any foreign substance in the ot fountains. It is q uile the custom to put handker chiefs into Old Faithful , for its waters iontain some substance which acts like ; onp and cleans the uorst soiled hand kerchief. Then there is the fun ot seeing it spouted out I It is usual to tie the handkerchiefs into knots , the better to insure their being thrown out , but oven the geyser takes largo tolls. Sometimes it keeps in entire batch , and it usually retains wo out of every half do/en. The tolls nro quite apt to bo cast up later on , and here is where the soldier , who makes the rounds early every morning , reaps his harvest , for Old Faithful spouts roguhuly every sixty- live minutes , and during the night has had tnno to disgorge what it has re tained. Use Angostura Bitters , the world re nowned South American appetiser , of exquisite flavor. Manufactured by Dr. J. G. B. Sicgert & Sons. OA1111 , Lawyers. ItooiusKM mid I'J'.I ' Fh-nt National Hank. Telephone bU.i. L. J'J. 11AYHAIIGKR , Attorney at Law , Itoointiii , lluiker illock.Omttlia , Nob. Bpnalnlty Criminal ln\\ . CIJXTOX A. CAHI'f Teacher of the Spanish Mandoline , With Max Meyer A.CO " iR ) , EDWARD E , SLOMAN , i2O8 Farnnin Street. Olllco Hours H to U'Klii. : in . nnil I to . ! , unit 7 to h | > 111. Tt'li'pliuiiu No , " 7.1. Onmhii , Neb J. E. JtiXKJA'S , M. / ) . , Physician - : - and - : - Surgeon , ftneUnl iittflntlon to diHo.iso ot rlilldion , Onieti t ronr of MornMl'H Drnp ; Htorc , B. 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