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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1900)
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SUITS as you order them-at $20-$25-$28-$30 ! There's no sifting out what you don't like here. It's a question which you like best, So with the tailoring. The best materials are none too good for you -for you can obtain the best at moderate prices. Y Gn finest tailoring we'll save you One-Third of the lofty prices commonly asked by credit tailors. We make garments to order at cash prices! Our Sample Bag,, contai Ing one hundred choice earn T)le9. mailed to non-resi dentB. SHORT STORIES OF THE DA? Jnitloe Crawford, Liks Hswton, AoeidoUlly Makes an Important Diicotsry. WHY CODY ORDERED A SUPrLY OF COAL ('Wild nil!" IllcUok Una Ilia IMiifT ' Called Iiy n Womnn with ICettle of Unlllnfc Water How u Ilrln dle Dog (iota Ilia KxcreUe. Newton discovered the law of gravitation !by watching apples fall from a tree, Hryce Crawford, Justice of the peaco, has discovered a way to sraoko lu tho houso without offend Ing his wifu by watching nonp bubble uecond Jn tho hot nlr abovo a radiator. Tho other day tho Judge went home and found his little son engaged lu blowing soap bubbled by nld of an old-fashioned clay pipe. Tho child was enjoying hlraself.nnd, being of a generous disposition, insisted upon shar ing tho sport with hln father, who happened to bo oraoklng at tho time. (Mrs. Crawford wns not at home). Tho Judgo removed hlB cigar nnd abBcnt-mlndedly blow into tho plpo stem. A large, lop-sided hubblo of a grayish color slowly expanded upon tho bowl. Giving tho plpo a gentle flourish ho had tho satisfaction of seeing the tilling sphoro float Indolently in space.- It hovered a mo ment over tho card receiver on tho center table. Then an eddy of air came, driving It ncnoMt the room to the whatnot In tho cor ner, whero It bumped Itself against a min eral specimen. This wuh a critical time In the llfo of that bubble. Had It burst then a great discovery in domestic science might have fooon lost to tho world. Hut it didn't burst. It bounded away, pulsating and wobbly, but till Intact. The Judgo breathed aagln. After ft fow moro evolutions the fragile Klobo drifted over tho register, where It was caught by a Htrong upward current of hot nlr.- A sudden chango camo over Its spirit. It Is no longer the dreamy, careless creature, (half myth, half substnnco, of a moment ago, but, Imbued with ft great buoyancy, It shoots upward toward tho ceiling. It strikes, Thoro Is a puff of smoke. That Is all. For an hour Judge Crawford sat nnd smoked, in ellence. Then nn Idea camo to Mm. When tho partner of his Joys returned she found tho Judgo with n lighted cigar In ono hand and a clay pipe In tho other. Ho was smoking, but tho atmosphere of tho room was clear and there was no smell of to baeco, "While meditating upon this strango Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. V- Itnrtinchilly digests tho fowl find aids ' Uaturo In BtrciiBthcnlng und recon structing tho exhausted dlRestlvo or gans. It Is the latest discovered dl(?est ant and tonic. No other preparation can approach It In clllclency. It in stantly relieves and permanently cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Heartburn, Flatuloneo, Sour Stomach, Nausea, Blck ilcadaeho.OastralKla, Cramps and V ollothorrcsultsof imncrfuctdlgcstlon. Price WV.nnd II. largo giro contalusSVf times ' X ainall sUe. Book nil about cl Ybpvpsla mulled f ret Vcpared by E, C. D'VI'T ACQ, Chlcaos Look aUto of affairs she Ntw him draw a mouth- j ful of smoke from tho cigar, blow It through the stem of tho jilpo and form a bubble. ' Then she saw tho bubble float upward In the hot air current and disappear through a I window which had been let down Irom tho top. The Judge will not apply for a patent. Colonel William K. Cody, "Buffalonill," has gone east, after a visit of a few days In Omaha. The colonel is very busy those days getting ready for the launching of his Wild West show. Ho wns walking down Farnam street on a hurried trip to the Western Union telegraph ofllco the last day of his stay in Omaha, when some one from nn up-stalrs window cried out: "Hey, there, Cody." Colonel Cody stopped and looked about him, but could not locate the one who called him. Ho was not anxious about meeting old acquaintances Just then, for he had a voluminous array of telegraph business to look after, so ho hurried on, making some characteristic remarks about tho foolishness of a tnan who would yell at another on tho stroets in such a manner. Returning from tho telegraph ofllce to the hotel a man ap proached Colonel Cody familiarly and said! "Cody, don't you remember me?" "Aro you tho man who yelled at mo a while ago?" the colonel asked. "Yes, sir." "Well, then, I have no desire to remember you," said the old scout, and ho looked as If ho meant It. "Hill" McCune, well known ns ono of nuffalo Hill's firm friends and chief lieu tenants, tells a story of how Colonel Cody regulated n country hotel. "It wns at Itcd Lodge, .Mont., last winter," said McCuno, "and tho weather was Just about as cold ns It ever gets. He arose at fi o'clock In tho morning, ns is his custom. Going to tho hotel ofllco ho found a man-of-all-work engaged In scrubbing the floor. Thero was not n particle of fire. "Colonel Cody wanted to know how soon there would bo some heat. Tho scrubber told him It was an Indeflnlto proposition ns tho hotel had suddenly run out of coal. Meanwhllo Cody sat In a chair shivering. Tho man who wielded tho mop stick scrubbed , nwny as though it were summer tlmo, nnd coming dope to Cody, ho gnve a wldo swath with his mop, completely enveloping tho colonel's feet. A moment later that man was kicking about In a snow drift In front of tho hotel. Tho colonel had thrown him otit. "Cody was mad. Ho bolted out of tho hotel Hko a whirlwind, and finding n coal dealor, woke him up nnd ordered a ton of coal sent Immediately to the hotel. When ho returned ho went Into tho dining room, thinking It might be warmer than the hotel otllco. He was vexed to tlnd that tho man ho ! had pitched Into the snow drift had picked himself up and had In the meantime scrubbed tho dining room. Tho water froze on the floor unill It was Hko a skating rink. A timid little woman, who wns nervous for fear she would mls:i a train, got up early nnd, falling to find ft fire In tho oulce, peoped through tho dining room door and naked: Is thero no flro hero, cither?" 'Fire,' re plied the gallant colonel, 'no, madam, there Is no fire. Theso people scorn to bo running n skating rink, and beforo you venture In hero you will do well to buckle on a pair of skates.' After ft while tho coal arrived and Cody did not cejse until he saw a red hot blazo in every stove in tho house." It was In tho days when 'Wild Bill' Hlckok was In the government servico as chief of scouts nnd beforo he hid started out In the rolo of 'bad man,' which endoJ with his death In a Dead wood gambling houso, that his bluff was called In a way he never forgot. Hlckok with a party of scouts had been out on the Smoky Hill river in Kansas trying to pacify a party of Indian which THE OMATIA Shabby on had started on tho warpath. Hlckok nnd his companions had met with success, and In coming back stopped at several saloons along tho route to celebrate their bloodless victory. I)y tho tlmo they reached tho brldgo west of Fort Itlloy, to which post tboy wero returning, each man was "a big ger man than old Crant," and tho road was not wide enough for more than tho party nnd their horses, which wero being pushed forward at tho top of their speed. Tho government had built a narrow brldgo across tlu river near tho fort, which was UBed by tho settlers at that tlmo pushing their way to tho frontier of Kan sas. Just beforo Hlckok's party reached the brldgo n party of emigrants was approaching. Their wagons filled tho brldgo, when tho scouts, with Hlckok at tho head, rodo down upon thorn and ordered them to get out of tho road. Tho chief of scouts rodo up to tho front -wagon, occupied by a man named McDonough and his family, and struck tho Immigrant's horses on the head with tho quirt he carried. This was more than Mrs. McDonough could stand. Selling a kcttlo of boiling water which had been put In tho wagon at tho oamp ground, she Jumped out of tho wngon, and advancing uprn tho drunken scout exclaimed: "You men turn right around and get out of this or I will scald you Hko rats in a trap." Hlckok started his horse toward her, but soon had all that he could do to manago the animal when it was Btruck with n stream of water from the kettle. Flnnlly gaining control of the horso, ho gavo orders for tho scouts to retreat until tho wngon train had crossed tho bridge. Speaking of the Incident a short time beforo his death, Hlckok remarked: "I've been" In some clowe places anil have scon times when I wouldn't glvo a dollar for my chance of getting out, but tho only time I really was bluffed to a standstill wan when that woman threw tho hot water on tho horse." A mangy, brlndlo dog has fallen in lovo with tho Harney street car lino, tho least pretentious of nil tramways In tho city and most frequently anathematized for Its pro crastinating habits. Tho dog is of un known antecedents, and without any par ticular placo of nbodo. Its peculiar Infatu ation for tho yellow bobcars which travorso tho Harney lino dates from ono mouth ago, when a conductor first noticed the beast doggedly pursuing his cnr. From tho eastern terminus nt Sixth and Plereo streets tho dog followed In tho wake of the car until It reached tho Y at Twenty-fifth nnd California. Day and night sluco that tlmo tho dog has evinced his mania for oxerclse, making as many as twenty trips dally. Ho is a heavy dog, nnd on tho long stretch between Twentieth nnd Twenty-fourth streets falls far to tho ro.ir, making tip, however, where tho stops nre moro numerous. Tho dog shows no profor onco for conductors, nnd frequently returns with tho oastbound car, which ho encoun ters at Thirteenth and Harney or Twenty second and Dodge. The conductors havo be come attached to their self-declared frlond and tnkn prldo In tho fact that he refuses to desert their car for tho moro pretentious Juggernauts of tho Farnam line. They frequently throw to tho wandorer rem nants of their lunch, which may possibly servo to cement his loyalty. Don with Wonderful I'rdlKrer, "I paid Jl for that dog." "That seems n good deal for a dog Hko that." "Hut tho dog has n wonderful pedigree." "How far back do they trace It? To tho dog that Noah took on the ark?" "This dog's ancestor didn't go on tho ark." "Why not?" "He had a bark of his own." Don't think you havo drank the no plus ultra of wines until you have tried Cook's Imperial Extra Dry Champagne. DAILY BEE: SFVDAY, 209-211 So. Fifteenth St Karbach Block- WOULD MARE IT ALL GARDEN Modern Engineering Soienos Would Raise Flowers in Our Western DeierU. FLOODS AND FRESHETS WOULD BE CURBED Cnvr rnniritt Work Would Store Wnnlc Wnlem to lie Itolcnxoil for Irrigation of .llllllniifi of Now Arid Acrca, Will thero over como a day when tho great went will bo ns densely populated fts tho east? Thoughtful persons may doubt it, but modern engineering sclenco is proposing apparently practicable means whereby tho population of tho west of tho very near futuro may bo as dense ns Is that of the wist today. As a plan of de velopment suggintod for this country the National Irrigation noclation proposes to utilize tho waste waters that under existing circumstances carry destruction to life and homes along tho banks of our great rivers In Hoods and freshets every spring, In tho establishment of a. system of Irrigation that will clotho with verdure and forests nnd cereal riches tho now arid wastes of tho fitfully developed west. "It Is to urgo tho adoption of this plan as a national policy that tho Commercial club has undertaken n. campaign of education under tho inspiration nnd ausolcos of the National Irrigation association, nnd similar promotive work Is now being carried on In St. Paul, Minneapolis, Los Angeles ami other cities. Secretary Utt of tho Com mercial club Is to send out something llko 25,000 letters setting forth ho merits of tho plan to commercial organizations broadcast, to members of congress nud public men gen erally, and to tho great business concerns of tho east and west. Through tho efforts of tho National Irrigation association great intorcst has already been aroused in this seemingly great work, and many largo busi ness hoiiHCrt are sending out llteraturo di recting attention to Its possibilities and promises. I'riildcKi Itivcr Improvement. For many years the government has an nually spent largo sums of money In nn endeavor to Improve western rivers with ti vlow of making them navigable. To dwell ers along tho Mu-uourl river It need hardly bo said that tho money devoted to Its Im provement In that respect has been prac tically wasted. It has not been of servico cvmj In preventing periodical floods. Tho now plan Is to dovoto a sharo of this ex penditure to tho construction of works that will store the water and releaso It in huch volume und nt ouch times as It may bo needed for tho land through which It will bo conducted by proper canals for Irrigation. Such nn undertaking can, of course, only bo essayed at great oxpense. It is proposed that tho government take up tho Improve ment of its own arid lands, of which thero aro 100,000,000 acre? in tho west available for Irrigation. Tho Improvement of tho land now unsaleable would cnablo the gov ernment to dlsposo of It at enhanced prices that would pay for Its improvement. Tho chief benefit would bo tho making of tho land productlvo and equal to tho luulute- I nanco of n great population. Lands already tinder private ownership could bo charged a reasonablo rental for water for Irrigation. Where Omaha Would Come In, If thus Improved a vast territory cf this westorn land would bo commercially tribu tary to Omaha, and this city would receive n great direct benefit. As tho west develops lis prosperity -would bo reflected upon tho east, so that tho benefits would bo general, Tho Immediate object of this vast Irriga tion propajauda U to oecuru for the present APIttTj 8, 1000. tho appropriation by congress of $200,000 for tho necessary surveys, over u wide arm, so as to relievo tho movement of tho ob jection that it la local to any section. When tho surveys havo been completed an appro priation of some $10,000,000 will bo asked for the construction of the necessary roservolrB and canals. Then from the sales of govorn niont lands In tho sections benefited, It Is claimed, tho protlts will be such as to en courage continuing tho work In other sec tions und on a larger scale. In ii recent letter to tho Commercial club Captain H. M. Chittenden of the. corps of government engineers at Sioux City dlo ctiFhes tho obligations of the government with convincing pertinence, nnd with an In telligence born of ten years of servico In engineering government work along tho Mlhsourl river nnd Its tributaries. "For twenty-four years," writes Captain Chittenden, "tho government has been ex pending money upon the Missouri river, nnd the total outlay to the end of the current year j will bo about $11,000,000. It will puzzlo 1 many people- to glvo nn Intelligent answer j as to what all this expenditure bus amounted to. It has been ostensibly in the Interest of ! navigation attempting to infuse new llfo . Into n moribund business 'which Is clearly among tho things of the past The cxpendl 1 turo will probably go on as herctoforo for nn Indoflnito tlmo to como. Inasmuch as tho ostensible object Is no longer a real one, i It would seem to bu worth while to inquire ' whether thero mny not bo somo better pur ' pose to which this eiiormous outlay can bo I applied In tho future Two such purposes suggest themselves and both aro of living practical Importance, which will lncrcaso as t'.". goes on. They are. first, protection of I is jut in tho Missouri valley, nnd second, It I W: opment. I I'll in I ii I A mi ii ii I Tra Krdli'N, 'Along tho Immedlato valley of tho Mis ' sourl thero Is annually going on a loss of private property which would surprlso nny ono not familiar with the facts. Thero aro fow moro painful tragedies enacted than thoso which may every year bo witnessed along the course of this river. Tho annual high water Is almost tho only natural visi tation of regular occurrence against which tho small property owner Is powerless to protect himself. Ho can do much to avoid lobs by lire and what ho cannot do ha can Insure, against. lie can protect himself against stormB, lightning and to somo ex tent agalnbt drought, but If ho owns any land on tho banks of tho Missouri ho is holpless nnd every year many a moderato , property-holder sees a goodly sharo of his ! worldly wealth carried away by tho river. "As tho country fills up with settlement i nnd tho bottom lands aro moro developed tho niagnltudo of this annual loss Increases. I Tho Innds aro agriculturally rich, llko all i alluvial bottoms, and their valuo Is becom ing such that this unresisted destruction , cannot much longor bo permitted to go on. i Something should bo dono to prevent It and j thero Is no power that can do this except tho United States government. ! "It Is no argument to say that this can not bo dono becnuHo It would moan tho pro tection of prlvato property at public ex pense Of courso It would. If tho govern ments owns nnd controls tho ugency which Is destroying prlvato property is not the property-owner entitled to look to It for pro tection? Tho government hns absolute con trol over the Missouri river. No brldgo can bo built across It excopt by Its consent. No protectlvo works can bo put In to save prl vato property except by tho same permis sion. No cut-off can bo made, however great or evident tho benefit, becauso It may Injure tho navlgablo condition of tho stream upon which no boats run. If tho government Is thus to rotaln control of tho river It should extend its control far enough to provent tho annual ravagos upon prop erty which now go on right und left over most of Its courso, Ohlluntioa of the (iovi'rniiiriit, "It Is cloarly tho duty of tbo government to prevont this destruction of property by the river an clearly so as It Is to build Sunday lovccs to save tho vnlloy of tho Mississippi from floods. Tho problem Is a thoroughly practical one. The regulation of tho river to ft fixed nnd nnrrow channel, which will I maintain its own navlgablo depth, may be physically possible, but It is practically imporsioic. un mo oiuer nnnu w proiec tlon of tho banks has boon sbown jy twenty years' experience to be cnttrily within, tho rango of practical englneo'ng. "This Is ono of tho .utrpoHes to which tho peoplo of tho Missouri valley should sec that tholr shnro of 'ho river and harbor bill is devoted. They should go farther than this. They should not only seek to protect tho land from .ho rlvor, but to mako tho river '.evolop o lands. So fnr a3 tho upper Ivor 'a concerned, except In n few places where txttts still run nd thero aro valuablo bottoms to protect, tho public ex penditure would bo far moro useful If de voted to works which would get moro of tho river out upon tho lands. I "I would not advocate that tho govern ment should go into the Irrigation business. It should only cxecuto thoso great and ox ponslvo works, such as tho construction of rcHcrvoln) or tho moro nxtcnslvo canals which aro Interstate In the extent of their Influence. For various reasons prlvato cap ital cannot take, hold of thoso works to advantage. Tho resources of individuals nre ordinarily not sufficient. If companies undortnkn them they build only for a spe- ' clflc purpciRo and do not generally develop tho full capacity of a slto as they should. Thoy cannot, of course, bo expected to build for othoru. Tho result is that, having oc cupied a site nnd having developed it for n particular purpose, they become n stumbling block lu the way of further development nnd Its full capabilities aro novcr realized. Tho groat reservoir anil tho groat canal, which tho development of the arid regions will yet require, should bo built at tho public ex pense It Is simply a moasuro of Increas ing tho resources of nature, -while tho uso of those resources should bo left to local laws aa at present." Should Neelc tho Ori-titrat llriirflt. Captain Chittenden points out that -whllo tho main purpoBo of tho river nnd harbor bill has boen tho promotion of navigation, It Is only by ingenious fictions that tho lovees of tho Mississippi, the mscrvolm nt Its head waters or tho iovctmontn of tho banks of tho lower Missouri .can bo ascribed to that purpose, declaring that appropriations for rlvor Improvement should contemplate ovory useful purpoao nnd esplnlly tho purpo3o3 which would ylold greatest benefits. Ho says that tho $11,000,000 thus far appro priated for tho Improvement of tho Mis souri would havo built 200 miles of bank protection, giving general security to twlco that length, of river and saving annually sov.eral thousands of acrrs of rich land. It would In addition stom 750,000 acre-feet of wator, enough to roclalm half a million ocres, Tho lands so protected and reclaimed would go a long way toward offsetting tho oxpense. (iiillllilllt y of Human .Vntnrc Tho Gullibility of man nnd woman never had a stronger Illustration than In tho caso of a fortune teller lately arrested In Now York. In hor account book sbo bad memo randa llko theso: Charley Iarken to pay $10 to learn to control othors In business, John O'Connor paid $5 to get on the police Nelllo Kerrigan paid $5 to win Jacob Worth. Julia Holton pnld 2G ennta nnd agreed to pay 25 cents. Wants to marry a clergyman beforo Master. Woman wants husband to die; paid $1. Paid $1; wants husband to dlo so she can marry "Johnnie" by Raster. Annie Morgan get Tom Carroll, $6; bal ance, $1. Married woman wants to tumble hor hus band; paid $5. IT If wo fail In ouy of the de tails of fine tailoring we will cheerfully refund your money. TDIS CLOCK AN ALARMIST Emtio Timepiice OnU Up High Jlnki i Judge Baker's Court. IT GIVES EVIDENCE IN A LARCENY CASE rrtndnn4 Clinmed with Strnllngr the Ciorlt Arc Promptly ConTloted by tlic Jury Storr of Modem 'Hoodoo." Spectators and Jurors In Judge linker's court wero treated to a featuro that wa not on tho docket Friday aftornoon. Two young men wero .beforo tho court on the chargn of stealing a clock. Tho tlmcpleco wus brought forward as an exhibit. Tho al leged thoft occurred last December and the clock was recovered a few days later. Since that tlmo It has been stowed away ut the po station until tho day of trial. It had not been wound from tho day It was recovered by officers until Friday during tho noon recess of court when Bomebody whoso Iden tity has not yet been disclosed en tered tho court room nnd finding no one present to turn Informer wound tho clock nnd set it to running. Worse than that, tho Joker whomsoever ho -was set tho alarm to sound at 2:30 o'clock. Afternoon sessions of court convono nt 2 o'clock, and Just thirty minutes later tho county attor ney was In tho midst of his oponlug state ment to tho Jury. "Wo expect the cvldcnco to show," iald tho prosecutor, "that theso defendants stolo tho clock you seo upon this table" Simultaneous with tho foregoing declara tion tho attornoy struck ft dramatic atti tude nnd pointed to tho clock, less than threo .feet nwny from him. As If menaced by tho threatening index linger, tho clock a sturdy old-timer cut looso In reckless abandon. Tho nlarm was not llko that of the dlmlnutlvo nlckel-plateil, 69-cent bargains you seo in tho show windows. It was mora Hko a riot call In a Kerry Patch pollco station. Judgo linker's hair stood on end. Karl Ilono and John Norhcrg, court bailiffs, lost sight of tho fact that It -was the alleged stolen clock that had turned erratic, and they floundered about trying to suppress tbo dignified old tlmcpleco that docs regular servico In tho court room, and which Is not sensational enough to hnvo nn alarm. The youths accused of tho thoft wero awo strlckon, as If tho sounding of the clock was a providential visitation denoting some awful fato. The Jurors looked at each other In muto astonishment, for thoy had agreed under oath not to dlsctiBS tho case, An soon as Judgo Halter's hair resumed Its equilibrium he ordered tho Jury to take a flvo-mlnuto recess, Judgo Itakor Is always ovon-tempered, but tho high Jinks cut up by this homely old clock caused n frown to hover about tho usually pleasant faco of his honor. Tho bailiffs made an effort to stop tho clock, but It was as erratlo about stopping as It had boon about nlannlng, and a llttlo Investigation disclosed that It was wound up for eight dajs, and In Jostling about tho stopping equipment had been thrown out of gear. Whorovcr that clock Is It Is doubtless still running, Tho sounding of tho alarm -was not the only featuro of Interest, for tho clock has a very loud striking apparatus, and In strik ing It had no regard for tho hour. Some times It would strike five, but more fre quently fifteen, and It had those spells every hour during tho trial. Klmor Woodcock und Harry Sholloy were tho defendants on itrlnl. Tho Jury returned a verdict of guilty Saturday morning. It would tako a vast array of argument to convlnco the defendants that their fato was not conjured with by .the sounding of that nlarm. Thoy havo tho appearance of bright young men, ordinarily Immuno from super stitious Ideas, but thoy will always look upon this Incident as a "hoodoo." I