THE OMAHA DAILY BEE : SUNBAY JANUARY 27. 1889.-SIXTEEN PAGES. 13
THROUGH APRENCllMAS'S EYE
The Latest mad Brightest Produc
tion of Max o'Roll.
JONATHAN AND HIS CONTINENT.
\Vc llnvo n Wonderful Country , Ho
'I lilnka , Hut Arc Too Vain About
It Umnlin n. Future
Chicago.
Aincrlcn Hir Iinml of Conjuring.
Last Saturday the latest production
ol lhatrbrightand vivnclousFrenchman ,
1'nul Blouot , known the world over by
bis tiom tits plunio of "Max O'Uell , "
appeared in Paris. The New York
World's Sunday edition publishes the
cnliro liook in nearly two pages of solid
nonpareil. It is written in the author's
happiest vein. It begins in lliis lirctvy
style :
The population of A me pica is sixty
millions mostly colonels.
If tlio earth l small Amoi-iea in largo ,
and the Americas are immense !
Yes , sixty millioiisl all alive and
kicking !
An Englishman was one day boasting
to a Frenchman of the imtnunsity of the
British empire.
"Yes , ' exclaimed to finish up
with , "tho sun never sols on the F.ng-
lis-h possessions. "
"I am not surprised at that.1 retorted
the good Fronehman"thosun is obliged
to hue ] ) his oyoon the rascals. "
However , the nun can now travel from
New York to ban Francisco and light ,
on his passage , a free nation which" , in
177(1 ( , begged I''n gland to mind her own
ulTniM for the future.
Commenting on themarvelous'growth
of the great re-public , the author Bays :
From cast to west , America stretches
over u nreiulth of more than threa
thousand miles. Hero it is well to put
the readers on their guard , in case an
American should one day nut to them
one of bib favorite questions : "Where
is the eontor of America1 I myself
imagined that , starting from New York
and pushing westward , one would reach
the extremity of America on arriving
at San Francisco. Not so , and hero
Jonathan has you. lie knows you are
going to answer wrongly , and if you
want to please him you must let your
self ho caught in Ibis littletrap , because
it will give him such satisfaction to put
you right. At San Franciscoit appears
you are not quite half way , and the cen
ter of America is really in the 1'acilic
ocean. Jonathan moro than doubled
the width of his continent in 18(17when ( ,
for the sum of 1,0(10,000 ( , he purchased
Alaska of the Russians.
Not satisfied with these immensities ,
Jonathan delights in contemplating his
country through magnifying glasses ,
anil one must forgive him the patriot
ism which makes him see everything
double.
To-day population , progress , civiliza
tion , everything advances with giant's
stride. Towns boem to spring up
through the earth. A town , with 120,000
inhabitants , churchesschoolslibraries ,
hotels , and banks was , perhaps- , but a
voar or two ago a patch of marsh or
forest. To-day Paris fashions arc fol
lowed there as cloboly as in Now Yorker
or London.
tn America everything is on an im
mense scale. The just pride of the citi
zens of the young republic is fed by the
grandeur of its rivers , mountains , des
erts , cataracts , its suspension bridges ,
its huge cities , etc.
Such is America.
In less than twenty years Omaha ,
Denver , Kansas City , Minneapolis , will
bo s ! ) many Uhicagos , Cincinnatis , St.
Louis , Louisvilles.
NATIONAL CIIAHACTKIUSTICS.
A nation scarcely moro than a. hun
dred years old , and composed of many
widely different elements , cannot , in
the nature of things , possess very
marked characteristic traits.
There are Americans in plenty , but
the American docs not yet exist.
The inhabitant of the northeast
states , the Yankeeditlors us much from
the western man and the southerner as
the Englishman differs from the
German or the Spaniard.
for example , call a Yankee man
"a cad , " and ho will got out of the
room remarking : "You say so , sir , but
that proves nothing. " Call a Pennsyl
vania man "a cad , and he will get out
of temper and knock you down. Call a
real Westerner "a cad"anil he will
got out his revolver and shoot you
dead on the spot.
On leaving a Now York theatre one
night an American friend jumped into
a Broadway car. TJioro were quite
sixty persons packed upon the vehicle ,
hitting , standing , holding on to the rail
on the platform , trying to iceop their
equilibrium as well as they could. A
gentleman , well dressed and looking
well bred , signed to the conductor to
stop and tried to make his way through
the crowd. By dint of using his elbows
as propellers , lie readied the door and
was preparing In alight , when a man ,
indignant at having boon pushed
( there are pcoplo who for their
"nickol" expect to travnl as comfort
ably as in u barouche ) , cried :
"You are a cad. sir , a howling cad. "
The gentleman jumped oil the car.
"You are a cad , I say , " bellowed the
! ndi\idual after him , "a cad. do you
hoar ? "
The gentleman for ho was .one
turned , lifted his hat and replied :
"Yes , I hear ; and you , sir , are a per
fect gentleman. "
The perfect gentleman looked very
silly for a few moments , A hundred
yards further on ho stopped the car and
made olT.
.Should a minister indulge in unortho
dox theories in thu pulpit , the eastern
man will content himself with shaking
IHH head ijml goinir to anothcrchurch to
perform his dovotfons the Sunday nftir.
The Ponnfiylviminn will open a violent
polemic in the newspapers of the locrj-
liy. The Kansas man will wait for the
minister at the church door and give
him a sound tin ashing.
The character of the American is
English from the point of view of its
contrasts and contradictions , which are
still moro accentuated in him than in
thu Englishman.
is there anything moro sublime than
the way in which Jonathan can com
bine the sacred and profane ? llo is a
grcntor adopt at it than John Bull , and
that Is saying not a little.
On board the steamer , wo had live
Americans who passed the oght days of
the voyage in playing pokor. The
mnoking-rooni rang from morning to
night witli the oaths that they uttorcd
every time they luid a card on thu table.
Tho.v wore so lluont with thorn that
they hardly used the same twlco in tin
hour. Their stock ecemod inexhaustible.
On Sunday , after breakfast , a young
lady sat down to the piano , and hognn
playing hymns. What happened then ?
Our live poker players gathered round
tlio lady , and , for two hours.sang psalms
and holy hymns to thu edification of the
Other occupants of the saloon.
I wasdumfoundcd.
la Franco wo huvo men who swear ,
ami moti who sing hyms. The Anglo-
Savon race alone can furnish mr > u who
do both with equal gu to.
In what other country than Amorioa
could such tin nnoedoto as the following
bo told ? It is the most typically Ameri
can anecdote 1 hoard in the t'nltod
States , It came from Mr. Chauncoy
IJopow , it is mild. Hut , for that matter ,
when a good story goes the round of the
states it is always put down to Mr.
Pcpow. MarK Twain or the lute Arto-
mus Ward.
A new minister has been appointed
in a little Kentucky town. No sooner
had ho taken jxwaesslon of his cure
than ho set about ornamenting the
church with stained-glass windows of
gorgeous hues. This proceeding
aroused the suspicions of several par
ishioners , who imagined that their new
pastor was inclined to lead them to
Homo. A meeting was called , and It
was decided to send a deputation to the
minister to ask him to explain his con
duct , and bog him to have the offending
windows romovcd.
The head of the deputation was an
old man of Presbyterian proclivities ,
whose austorlty was well known In the
town. He opened lire by addressing
the reverend gentleman thus :
"Wo have waited upon you , sir , to
beg that you will remove those painted
windows from our church n.s hoon as
possible. Wo are simple folks , Cod's
own light is good enough for us , and wo
don't want to have it shutout by all
tho-c images"
The worthy man had prepared a line
harangue , mid was going to give tins
minister the benefit tif it all ; but the
latter , losing patience , thus interrupted
him :
"Kxcusi1 me. you seem to bo Inking
high ground : who are you , may I ask ? "
"Who am 1 ? " ' repented the good old
spokesman , " 1 am a meek and humble
follower of Jesus , that's1 what I am , and
d n vou , who are von ? "
* *
Without traveling very far , without
even quitting the eastern coast of Amer
ica , you will see a complete difference
in the spirit of towns that arc almost
neighbors.
In New York , for instance I am not
speaking now of the literary society , of
which I shall speak later in New
York , it is your money that will open
all doors to you ; in Boston it is your
learning ; in Philadelphia and Virginia
it isoiir , genealogy. Therefore , if you
wish to be a success , parade your dollars
lars in New York , your talents in Uos-
ton , and your ancestors in Philadelphia
and Kichmond.
* *
There is a pronounced childish side
to the character of all Americans. In
loss than a century the\ have stridden
ahead of all of the nations of the old
world ; they are astonished at their
own handiwork , and , like children with
a splendid toy of their own manufac
ture in their own hiuijl , they say to
you. "Look , ju t look' , is it not a
beauty ? " And indeed , the fact is that ,
for him that will look at it with un
prejudiced eyes , the achievement is
simply marvellous.
Tlio Americans , like compliments ,
and are , I believe , very sensitive to
criticism. They have not yet got over
Charles Dickon's "American "Notes , "
nor the still older criticism of Mrs.
Trollope.
Scarcely has a foreigner sot foot in
the United States before they ask him
what ho thinks of .the country. Nine
persons out of every ten you speak to ,
put these throe questions to you :
(1) ( ) "Is this your first visit to Amer
ica ? "
(2) ( ) "How long have you been over ? "
( ; { ) "How do you like our country ? "
TVIT..S 01HKAUTY. .
The American men are generally
thin. Their faces glow with intelli
gence and energy , and in this mainly
consists their handsomeness , f do not
think it can be possible to sco any where
a liner assemblage of men than that
which meets at tlio Century club of
New York every first Saturday in the
month. It is not male beauty such as
the Greeks portrayed it , but a manly
beauty in all its intellectual force. The
hair , often abundant , is neglige , some
times even almost disordored-looking ;
the dross displays taste and care with
out oven aiming at elegance ; the face
is pale and serious. , but lights up with
an amiable smile ; you divine that rcso-
tion and gentleness live in harmony in
the American character.
The features are bony , the forehead
straight , the nosu sharp and oftou
pinched looking in its thinness. At
times one scorns to recognize in the
faces something of the Tndiun typo ; the
temples indented , the check bones
prominent , the eyes small , keen and
deep set.
The woll-bied American is to my
mind a happy combination of the
Frenchman and the Englishman , hav
ing loss stiffness than tlio latter and
moro simplicitv than the former.
As for the womou , I do not hesitate to
Pay that in the east , in Now York espe
cially , they might perfectly well betaken
taken for French women , "it is the
same typo , the same gait , the same vi
vacity , the same petulance , the sumo
amplitude of proportions.
The beauty of American women , like
that of men , is duo much moro to the
animation of the face than to form or
coloring. The average of good-looks
is very high , imiced. 1 do not remember -
bor to have soon one hopelessly plain
woman duringjny six months' rumble
through the states.
American women generally enjoy
that second youth which nature be
stows alsoon mimborsof Frenchwomen.
At forty they bloom out into a moro ma
jestic beauty. The eyes retain their
lire nnil lustre , the skin does notwrin-
klo , the hands , neck and arms remain
firm and white. It is true that in Amer
ica hair turns gray early , but , so far
from detracting from the woman's
charms , it gives her an air of distinc
tion , and is often positively an attrac
tion.
If the Americans descend from tlio
English , their women have not in
herited from their grandmothers either
their tooth , their hands or their foot. I
hnvo soon in America the daintiest lit
tle hands and foot in the world ( this is
not an Americanism ) ,
Tlio Now Yorkers and Bostnnians will
have it to bo that Chicago women have
enormous feet and hands. I was will
ing to believe this up to the day I wont
to Chicago. I found the Chicago women ,
and thoto of the west generally , pretty ,
with more color than their eastern sisters -
tors , only , as a rule , quite slight , not
thin.
thin.That
That which is lacking in the pretty
American faces of the east is cofor anil
freshness. The complexion is pale , and
it is only their plumpness which comes
to their rescue after thirty and prevents
thorn from looking faded. Those who
remain thin generally fade quickly ;
thu complexion becomes the color of
whity-brown paper , and wrinkles freely.
If American woman went in for moro
out-door exercise ; if they lot the outer
air penetrate constantly into their
rooms ; if they gave up living In hot
houses they would have some color , and
their l > cauty need perhaps fear no com
petition in Europe.
The veteranMrs. Koeloy.who Is well nlontf
in the eighties , won ono of thu npoctutors on
iho llrst nlgUt of Irvlntr's ' "Macbeth,1.1 and
8id ( ! afterward Unit , although aha hail uotcd
in the play horfteU , slid hivl never soon the
whole of it pefornitxl buforo. Shu thinks any
ijinu would kill akhitf If Kllou Terry askcJ
him Ui.
GOSSIP OF THE CREEN'ROOS ,
AnocdotOB of Plnye , Play-Goers , Ac
tors und Authors.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES
Mrs. rnttcf * Klrst Nlctit Our Mary
was Caught Ilnse Coijhlnu's
Adventure Mr. llarrl-
Itomlnlsccncri.
Mrs. Potter's Klrst
Now York Herald : Cleopatra had
just driven back from a "benefit" nt
Palmer's. She hud been playim. the
balcony scone froni"llomeo and Juliet , "
and before scurrying away again to tno
evening performance of "Antony und
Cleopatra" was snatching a hurried
meal in her little rooms at the lirevoort
house.
Yery fair scorned Mrs. Pot tor as she
trilled with the viands. Fair enough
to have witched away less yielding
hearts than Mark Antony's , From her
shapely head hung luxurious masses
of soft brown hair , an admirable
frame for the delicate face be
neath. the clear cut nose , the sens-nous
mouth and the liquid eyes which just
then happened to bo bout on ono of the
Brevoort house waiters.
She was clad , as usual , in a oft cling
ing sunih dressing gown , winding and
twining gracefully about her willowy
figure , after the fashion of Sarah , the
diaphanous.
"Do 1 remember my emotions on the
tlrst night ol 'Antony and Cleopatra ? '
murmured .Mrs. Potter. 'Say , rather ,
shall 1 ever forgot them ! We had had
a dreadful time of it the night before.
rehearsing .steadily from 10 in the eve
ning till ! J or I in the morning , when 1
crawled back to bud. utterly exhausted.
"I slept till 1 ! , ate a hasty meal , and
about 7 o'clock found myself in my
dressing room at the theater making
ready for the great ordeal.
"Nervous ? Well , [ fancy 1 was moro
tired than nervous. The strain of the
rehearsals was tolling on me , and you
know I was about to make the great
effort of my life. But I found heart of
grace before the curtain rose. 1 grow
'
'philosophic. As 1 stepped from the
barge with Antony I must have been
murmuring to myself : 'I may fail. I
may succeed. At the worst it will not
homy drat disappointment , and. please
heaven , 1 shall live to do bolter. "
" 1 felt n hostile atmosphere in the
stalls and IKJXCS. Something whispered
to me that many had come to the thea
ter hoping to scis my discomfiture. The
ehours reassured mo. I got through
the ordeal , and when congratulations
flowed in after the second act 1 had al
most regained my self-possession.
"To keep mo up I took , as usual , a
little claret and bouillon. That is all I
allow myself. And so I wont on , well or
ill , till 1 eamo to the last act. 1 had
lost control of myself. Nature was
having her revenge and my strength
had been overtaxed. I was not as
queenly as 1 should have been ; but I
hope to do bettor soon. Come and sco
my Cleopatra in another fortnight and
you may find it a very different clTort. "
Our .MaryVnn Cauclit.
Miss Mary Anderson's audience at
Palmer's theatre during the ctumgo-
mcnt she recently played at New York
says the Herald of that city , were
always impressed with the smooth
course of the performances , but they
probably never realized what it cost
the actress to keep her presentations to
the pitch of excellence.
Miss Anderson was always in atten
dance at rehearsals , and during the
performance she directed the setting of
almost all the scones. She is of n very
nervous temperament , und is greatly
affected by any mishap. On the last
night of the performance of "Tho Winter -
tor Tale' ' hero , in tlio closing act , when
Ilormiotio is disclosed as a statute , Miss
Anderson stepped from the pedestal and
began to descend the stops. She had
taken but three slops whan she stopped.
She swayed to and fro , but came no
further and the king ( Mr. Barnes ) was
obliged to ttbuond and moot her. and to
the ustonislftliont of the audience , the
scene was closed with Miss Anderson in
that position. As soon as the curtain
bill her from view Miss Anderson
fainted.
Her robea had got tangled about the
pedestal in some manner. No ono hud
noticed it ami she had boon caught in
a trap , unable to descend another stop ,
and the scene had been almost ruined.
HostCivilian's Adcitt are.
Now York Herald : During Christmas
week Miss Rose Coghlnn , who was then
playing in Now Orleans , met with the
following romantic adventure :
Shohad.gono out one morning on
horseback for a ride ever one of the
roads running out of the city. Her
lior&o , which was a spirited animal ,
took fright at something by tlio road
side and bolted. Uoing a good rider ,
Miss Coghlan kept _ her seat. But the
strain on her wrist was beginning to
tell on her strength , when a gypsy man
ran to her assistance and succeeded in
stopping the horse. The man refused
any pay for his services , and learning
that there was a gypsy encampment
nearby Miss Coghlan rode thither , had
her fortune told and made presents of
money to the women and children.
From her rescuer she learned that ho
had never scon a regular performance
in n theater , and she therefore gave
him nn order for seats for the play.
A day or two after she rode out to the
encampment , curious to know If the
gypsies had gone to tno theater and
what otloct the play had made upon
tlioiu. The young man who had stopped
her horse recounted their visit to the
theater , and when he spoke of the duel
which Jocelyn ( MissC'oghlan ) lights , ho
added with great excitement :
"I watched you all through. lady , and
I did not think you could handle the
sword as yon did , but I was ready , " and
ho tupped the shuath knift ) under his
bolt significantly , "and if you had not
killed the man 1 was ready to do it for
you.
you.Mr. . Lackayo , who was Miss Coghlnn's
opponent in the duel , now objects to her
forming such roallbtiu acquaintances.
.Mr. JlarHiciiu'u KominisocnucH.
New York Herald : "Tho old variety
theater has almost become a thing of
the past,1' said Mr , Edward Harrigan
ono night recently. "It was a pecu
liarly American institution , as much BO
as the music hulls are in London , and it
had great respectability , too. Dramatic
authors did not dlhduin in the old days
to write farces , especially for the var
iety houses , and some of the cleverest
people could bo found among their per
form era.
"I think the old variety btago was
ruined by the introduction of rum. "
"Hum ? "
"Yes , the allowing of liquor saloons ,
run in connection with the variety- .
houses , that gave it its death blow , and
the variety house us an institution has
dwindled to very mnall proportions ,
"In its phico wo now have 'loams'
that is , a iimn und In 3 wife who do some
specialties und sketches , or brothers
and sisters , and mon und women who
are partners. Many of the host people
of the old variety stage uro now occupy
ing prominent places in legitimate
drama , and I think that much of their
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which they made their mark in the
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*
BIUSlOAIi AN ) DriAMATIC.
Messrs. Hootb and liarrctt have uesun a
four weeks' engagement at Huston.
Mr. Vnmlcrfclt has gone to California to
act as leading man to Mine. Modjcska.
Miss Eamos , an American Jpupil of Mar
ches ! , is fc'oing to sing "Juliette" at tlio Pans
grand opera.
Miss Lydia Thompson , who a short time
ngo revisited this country , is seriously ill at
L.O-J Angeles.
Sir Arthur Sullivun has undertaken to
write an orchestral symphony for the Leeds
lestival of next year.
Euullo Mulhieu'a new opera , "Rlchlldo , "
has been produced nt La Monnaie , Hrussels ,
with an encouraging degree of success.
Miss Ida Malic will probably appear next
season in a revival of one of Shakespeare's
plays , which is to bo sent out from Chicago.
If , however , she does not like her part in it
she will bo starred in "Little Miss Volncy , "
under the management , of Mr. Hen Tu thill ,
her husband.
The entire cycle of Waprner's "Nibohmgcn-
rhip" was ( riven for tlio lirst time completely
and even without cuts at the Berlin Uoyal
opera house on four evenings of the weolc
from December 14 to Ul. The Berlin press
speaks ot the great success of thu perform
ances both artistically and financially.
It is said thai on his return to New York
M. Coquolin will bo seen a Figaro , in Boa u
marehais's famous comedy , "Le Mariago do
Fiiraro , " and also in the title role of tVuIl-
let's "Chamlllar. " There nro further pros-
pet'tsof uLoJiilfJ > oloiiaiB."Monsicurl > oirier ,
Monsieur I'errichon ami Prosper Cour.iiiiont.
"Sarah Ucrnhardt's foreign tour has he on
a brilliant success In all respects , " says Lon
don Truth , " 'nut she will not derive any per
manent boiiefit. from it , as her oxpenues are
enormous. She actually makes her son an
allowance of I'ilO a week , and her debts
amount to i'J3,000. ! Sarah and her company
always ledge nt the saino hotel when she t
'on tour , ' and shu is u Montc-CrHto-liko host
ess wlion things arc going well and she is in
( jooil humor. "
Marcus Mayer has Just conoludnd arrange
ments with the Chicago & Alton railway lor
the transportation of Mary Andor.son and
her company from Moston to San Francisco
direct , leaving lioston on April 8 and mak
ing a lightning trio to the 1'iicillo eoaat. The
special train will consist of two I'ullm.ui and
HOS'cn cars for scenery. Miss AndoMon will
close her Amoncan tour in San Francisco ,
and will produce "Tho Cup" there during
her season.
Albert Niomnnn is now on the pension list
of tlio Uerlin opura house. Ho took leave of
this institution , with which ho has been con
nected so many years , very quietly on the
"OtU of December , singing Florestan In "Fi-
delio. " He was announced toappuar in "Du >
\Valkuro" on the 'JHh ultimo , but ic-quested
of Count Hochliorg to bo excused for that
performance , na ho wanted to avoid the ex
citement of a public farewell , and the royal
intendant granted the request. Ho will noon
sail for New Yprk , and his appearance there
as TriHtun , Sicgjnnnd and Siegfried , in "Die
Ootterdammcmng , " will bo his lust in pub
lic , as ho will retire from the stage for good ,
possessed of plenty of laurels and an inde
pendent fortune.
In 1'lnuforon.
"Children , the building is on flro , and
wo will have to close for to-day , " said
Captain Vf. W , Wallace , assistant su-
parlntendqnt of the Sunday-school of
Memorial I'rusbytorian church , yester
day afternoon as ho quietly aticonded
the platform , , says the I'hlladolphia
North American. "Tnoro is no danger , "
ho continued , "and you will pass out by
clauses as usual. "
The largo doors of the room opening
on itouvior street and Montgomery
avenue swung noibolobsly on their
hlngos and the wonderful sceao of II vo
hundred children passing quietly out of
a buildlnh in which llamos were roar
ing and crncklintr , with the air about
them filled with millions of sparks
mingled with the falling snow-llakod
was viewed with admiration by the olli-
cors and touchers of the school and
hundreds of citizens who had boon at
tracted to the pluuo by the lira ,
So quietly and orderly did the Sittlo
ones leave the room thai not the slight
est accidental any description occurred ,
and not a single cry of alarm escaped
the lips of uny uiombcr of the largo
crowds.
ANNALS OF A NEBRASKA TOWN
Some Inhabitants Who Have Made
Themselves Famous.
AN OVERFLOW OF HARD CASES
A Vovr Little InciilontN in Which Re
volvers Were Prominent Actors
A NoWHpiiper CorrOHiinntlcnt
and the People lie Met.
Covlnjjtoii.
COVIXGTO.V , Nob. , Jan , 2i. ( [ Special
to TIIK Biic. : ] Your correspondent ar
rived in Covington , the wide-famed
town located in Dakota county , directly
opposite Sioux Uity , yesterday evening
about 7 o'clock.
In strolling about the place , I was
fortunate enough to meet several old-
timcrn , ono of whom furnished the fol
lowing information regarding the early
history of the town that to-day , per
haps , harbors moro bad characters in
proportion to its population than any
other town in America :
The town was located in October , I8 t'\ \ ,
and about the lirst busincib established
thereat was a boarding hou- . grocery ,
and haloon combined , which was con
ducted by a man named .fim Voller.
At that time ono of the most beautiful
and valuable beltH of cottonwood limber
to bo found anywhere along the Mis
souri river , adorned the banks of that
stream for miles ubovo and below the
town site. This naturally attracted settlers
tlors , and land hookers poured into the
now town at an exceedingly rapid rate ,
there being as many as three , and in
many instances , live claimants to a boe-
tion of hind. A sawmill was soon put
in operation where Sioux City to'-day
stands , and the stately cottonwoods
wore foiled to the ground and "yankod1'
across tlio Big Muddy as fast as human
hands could "yank" thorn , each man
striving to got there with moro logs
than his "near neighbor. "
After the timber had boon thoroughly
stripped , the army of homo-sookors in
the woht , turned their attention to the
fertile lands that have since made Da
kota county famous as a corn-growing
district
Hero , trouble commenced in earnest.
From thrco to live men were located on
every quarter section of lund , each
claiming the right to hold it
Quarrels , lights , and rumors of lights ,
were numerous , and in ono instance a
dispute over the rightful ownership of a
piece of land abjolmng Covington ro-
sultcd in
inrou
roum.ooi > iii > aimoKii.
Ono I' . .1. Oillott , from Illinois , ac
companied by a wife and two children ,
in August , 185 J , pre-empted and orootod
u small but comfortable log cabin on
the land , and with spades ho and his
faithful companion had labored curly
and late turning up the sod , prepara
tory to planting a crop tlio following
spring.
Tills particular piece of land was a
very desirable ono , and was coveted
by three other mon , Hrown , Johnson
and another , who o iituno your correspondent
pendent could not loiirn. Ono day
while the trio were discussing the matter -
tor In the presence of fauvornl clti/.on.s
of the youthful burg , it was agreed that
the three play a game of "cut-throat"
euchre to uutormino which of the party
should
SHOOT oiM.urr ,
rlhis being the only means by which ho
could bo romovcd from the land he had
chosen for u homo.
The party repaired to Wollor'u saloon ,
played the gauio , and "btuck" Hrown.
Iloro the third party , whoso niuiio , as
Btntod above , could not bo learned , pro
posed to "cut" the cards with IJrowii ,
offering to assume the responsibility of
KILLING 01LLI5TT
in case Brown "cut" the highest card.
Brown "cut" the queen of diamonds ,
and his contestant the nine spot of
spades. This was on the 17th of September -
tembor , ISot , and the next day Gillet
came to Covington to procure some
groceries , and the fellow the day pre
vious allotted to "remove" him , invited
him up to the bar to drink , along with
Brown und Johnson , and while Gillett
was drillkiner , shot him in the back ,
KILLING HIM ALMOST INSTANTLY.
The murderer lied immediately to the
high grasses near Dakota City , where
he concealed himself for several days ,
when ho finally e&caped , crossing the
river in a .skill at ljonca.
There are several residents of this
county to-day who remember the occur
rence , among whom are Colonel C. 1) .
Martin , late of the North Nebraska
Argus ; Colonel B. Bates , now in Dakota
Cityuiid others. I will skip a number of
yca'rs following tlio shooting of Oillott ,
during whicn period nothing of import
ance occurred in the way of tragcdic.8
except the carving to dcatli of n man
named Fitzgerald , and this was the re
sult of a saloon row.
A number of years then passed away
without adding materially to the
category of crime of the pkic'i , the next
attempt at taking human lifo being
made about ono year ago by a saloon
keeper of the place , who .shot a colored
man , but for a few pultry dollars in
duced tlio son of Africa to not appear
against him ,
Thus things have boon since Iowa's
stringent prohibition laws have
forced the tough element of
Sioux City to seek pastures new
'
and Holds' moro Inviting , The
very darkest and most daring crimin
als of the Soudan district in tlio city op-
po.sito this plnco , were raided by ( Jur-
Uss and other Sioux City olllcials und
compelled to abandon their old rotrnats
anil I'ois ' to Nebraska's shores nnd start
n town of their own. Here they have
it. There arc about forty or lifty mon
pitbor directly or indirectly intort'stod
in the snlo of liquor , a majority of
whom hoom to regard the slightest re
cognition of the laws governing the
trallic , either the height of fully or extreme -
tremo cowardice. I visited Covington
yesterday to satisfy myself as to their
respect for the Sabhaih , and found suf-
licient evidence to confirm thu reports
in circulation. Kvory saloon was wide
open , and instead of their manifesting
the least uneasiness at the entrance
into their dons of iniquity on the Lord's
day , which they are all well aware is a
violation of the law , they t-cumod to as-
sumu an air of pride and dollanco , and
the clinking of glasses together and the
shnlllo of the pasteboards would tund
to make ono forgot that there was a day
known in the SOVPII as u day of rost.
By some means a certain rumsollor
got onto the fact that a newspaper cor
respondent was "on the ground , " and
ho took particular pains to give it out
that ho did not euro a straw for news
paper reporters , county authorities , or
anybody olso.
On tlio 10th of September last ono
William Crone , whoso parents rcMdo
in the wobtcrn part of this county , vis
ited this phtco , having upon hie person
some eighty odd dollars. Ho was Invited -
vitod to take a drink from a bottle in
tlio hands of a man whom ho supposed
to bo n friend , and within thirty-live
minutes thereafter ho was a corpse ,
After taking a drink from the bottle
young Crone immediately took thu
train for Dakota City , the county seat ,
whom ho had nome bu.sino.is to
transact. As the train pulled into
the county scat the young man
complained to u pubscngor in the same
boat with him of fooling strange , and
after alighting from the train ho started
to walk up town , but wliun near the
court house ho was soix.od with convul
sions , and foil on the walk. Sheriff
Braafleld at once summoned Dr , Wil
kinson , who , upon examination of the
unfortunate , pronounced it u clear cube
of poisoning. The doctor administorop
u quantity of antidotes , and loft word to
again call him in case the young man
sliowed signs of recovery , but ho was
again soi/.ed with a fit and oxpirol be
fore the physician could arrive.
The coroner was telegraphed for and
a post-mortem was hold , which rcvcnlcd
Die fact that deceased came to his death
bj poisoning with strychnine.
This , however , was not the most
startling features of the young man's
sudden death. The testimony of his
father , a brother , and several intimate
acquaintances convinced the largo
crowd in athmdaiico tit the inquest that
young Crone had boon robood and pois
oned , as it .VHS satisfactorily shown that
ho had loft homo the day previous with
ever eighty dollars ; that ho was not au
extravagant young , and that ho could
not have spent over six dollars of the
eighty , while something loss than two
dollars wcro found in his possession at
the time of his death.
PUNCHED COWS IN OMAHA.
A I'foncoi' Cfiittlonmii
Homo
A stout thick-sot man with long hair
and whiskers streaked with silver huirs
leisurely paraded through the rotunda
of the Tromont hotel , in Chicago , n few
nights ago , says the Chicago Times.
Ho were a broad-brimmed sombrero and
the regulation Frenfh-hc-ol cowboy
boots. His stocky form was developed
in a long boar skin coat. The fur
around the collar and culTs was of a
light color , and its length madoita
feature. His manner was extremely
western , torso in conversation , but
affable and interesting. Ho was John
Pii coo , a pioneer cattle-raiser of the
west , who had "punched cows" over the
very land on which Omaha is now sit
uated.
"Our old ranges are nigh all gone , "
said ho. "Tho railroads have their eye
on what little land that's not taken up
by iho grangers in my country , and us
stockmen will have to build fences if
wo want to slay in tlio husincsa. Now
adays there is ono thing In the west
that I missand thatistho "tenderfoot. "
He used to como up from 'Bostlng , ' Now
York and London , you know , armed
with four or live knives , an ax arid a
"ii-calibro revolver , to revolutiuni/.otlio
whole country. Ho generally staid a
few days , then would leave for the
const.
"I'll never forgot a young Kiigllnh
tenderfeet , " said Mr. ljnscoo , with a
merry twinkle in his eye , "Ho was
ora/y to bo a cowboy , and came to my
ranch ut Hat crook , Wyoming. I lolu
him that wo only used experienced men
to handle cattle , but that ho could work
on the ranch as a horse herder. It is u
very easy job to watch a small bunch of
cow [ ionics , and J wanted a man very
much. The young foreigner bald reluct
antly that If he could not lie a cowboy
ho would ha\o to herd horses. So I put
Him to work the next morning , littto
thinking what trouble the "tenderfoot"
would < 'UUNO us. Wo were just blurting
on the spring round-im and the new hid
was watching all the homes wivo those
that wore ut-oil by the cowboys. At
night just as we wore about to muko : i
shift the KngliHhman came dashing
camp and yelling to mo. Ho was so ox-
citcu that ho could hardly speak , but in
a few moments ho exclaimed : ' 'Say ,
Mr. Pjihcoo , if you want mo to how
horses you will huvo to got me another
lot , for I lost the others. " Wo were
obliged to work ull night to llud our
horses BO that wo could go on with the
work , and the boya nor the tenderfoot
will never forgot that Incident. "
The "I.ittlo Lord Kauntlcroy" company
which has been organl/cd for California ,
will play but ono uiiKJtfumtint boforu oponinif
in San Krancisco. unU that will bu at Kord'H
opurd lioufio in CnlcaKu , durinu the wuuU of
March 1.
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