THE OMAILA DAILY BEEi TT1UKSDAY, OCTOKEH 31, 1.001. ROOSEVELT AS A RANCHMAN Etsrj of th Fruideit'i Lift ii the Oow C.nntrj Tild bj a Oomptnion. ENERGY AND TENACITY- OF PURrOSE LlTfrt In n tliiKnnt, Herded Cnttle and llaated Thlerrs with the C'oit- boys Denllnsr Tlth a "Dud Mnn." William F. Dantz of West Orove, Pa., Hiet Theodore lloosevelt In 1883 and was long a next-door neighbor of his In Da kota. He often shared Itoosevelt's bed In camp and divided his "grub" with the man now president. Together they faced danger mod hardship, desperadoes and blizzards. Thero could be nothing moro satisfactory by way of Introduction to a man's character than such an experience. Mr. Dantz has written for the Philadelphia North Amer ican his reminiscences of those days In tho Pad Lands with Roosevelt, and they ap pear below: It was along In the fall of '83 that I first saw him as he stepped from the train one evening In tho little shack town of Little Missouri, a point where tho Northern Pa cific railroad crosses the river of tha't same In tho heart, of the North Dakota Bad Lands. A slender, blue-eyed young fellow of bout 20, with little baggago, save a su perb collection of rifles In perfect order. if you raked the continent with a flne toothed comb you could have found no tougher aggregation of great American citizens unhung than the gang who, loung ing In front o "Pig Mouth Bob's'! canvns saloon across the way, cyid tho stranger with lazy Indifference. In their ripe esti mation he was only one of those predatory "dudo" hunters, who after a frightened exlstenco of a day or two "pulled their frejght" again for homo In profound thank fulness. Ilia First Unffnlo limit. Tho station agent was, us usual, roaring drunk, The stranger managed, howovor. to secure Information that led to his hiring guide named Sylvano Korrls, who owned at bunch of saddle ponies, grazing on tho river bottom nearby. These were brought up and picketed to Jho sagebrush, while the stranger and his kit spent the night In a nearby dugout, preferring this to tho vociferous Joys of the "Blue Goose." Next morning the outOV Btartcd for the buffalo range. Tho stranger, who said he was from New York and his name Thco doVe Roosevelt (although it might have been Nebuchadnezzar, for all It signified there), led his string of pack ponies be hind these of the guide, as they plunged Into that awful trackless waste of tho Dad Lands. ( Well named Indeed Is "that mysterious land; piled higher and higher were great precipitous peaks, their scarred and blis tered face streaked with scoria and lava. Bhocf down aV 'tholr . .fcJol lay yawning chasms, from but of tntf' bottomless doplhs of which roso sulphurous smoke from sub terranean fires that "knew no end. Wind ing Its treacherous way, tho faint pony trail led along tho faces of the giant buttes, whero a single misstep meant death. Occasionally tho trail crossed the swift, silent, tortuous rlver.f .that wound Us qulcksandy course through thU, the dark est, strangest, loneliest land that human foot has ever trod, "Handy with n Mini." Thirty miles fp the south, tho buffalo herd was struck and the guide, whose' re spect! for his employer grew with each mile of the trail, looked on with, wonder. Hero was . new breed of "critter," a man who. while he Wept his face and blanket clean, rode straight, shot Straight, and took his medicine- like a veteran. Hunger, cold, ox posure were lost on him. With a grim, dogged courago that knew no end. ho hunrf to the chase. He was after buffalo and' buffalo ho' got. After a moat successful trlpho returned home. The denizens of "Big Mouth Bob's" caravansary were prone to admit that "ther critter with a squint wore plum handy with a gun." On Roosevelt the lesson of .the Bad Lands was not lost, his keen eye took In thoso hlny valleys ami sheltered ravines covered with bunch grass and sweet Bago, upon which lolled In luxury countless herds of wild game. If this apparent waste would Veep elk, deer and buffalo, why should It not keen cattle? Next spring he came again, but with more than six guns and a toothbrush. Be hind htm rolled train after train of stock .attle, which, as fast as unloaded, wore driven to the ranch already solectcd bv his former guide,, eight miles to the south. The ranch proper was built by digging a trench eighteen feet square. Into which vtrc set cottonwood poles, pallsado fashion. A heavy ridge pole supported the rafters, which were covered a foot deep with "gumbo," or wet ,cUy. A year later this waa supplanted by a more pretentious shack of heavy logs. The ranch was located eight miles, south of Little Missouri, at a point where the lofty buttes receded, leaving a wide stretch of river bottom. From the brand adopted the "Maltesa Croea"the ranch took Its name, which It till retains. The 'ranch a8 a, success" from 'the start. Neif spring saw tho rler bottom alivo with rollicking calves, whllo tho big, clean beet steers-lolled In the shalo' Of the cot tonwood by the rlvcr bank In luxury. In the raeantimo another ranch had b'cen es tablished by Roosevelt called "Elkhorn" ranch, twenty-three miles north of the "Maltese' gross." fr - In 'ho locating and establishment of thtse splendid ranches the young ownor was smnlproicnt. First out In tho hllU Bhootlng ft dosr for meat: then In thti saddle helping round up, or down on tho ground In a vio lent wrestling -ontest with a husky calf tha't objected to tho branding Iron; oc casionally taking a solitary pilgrimage toj the Jonsllt at buttes after mountain sheep. He was a good, though not a fancy shot. Ills success In hunting was due moro to hlu dogged energy nnd grim untiring tenacity than to brilliant rifle work. Ho .was par ticularly, good at long rango and running shot that require- accurate Judging of light and distance': 'all tho more .remark able as he sights through glasses. H.0 had, a. beautiful collection of rlllei. Ills favorite, however, was a plain Win chester of 40-callbcr. Ono of his rifles (un exprs) was beautifully Inlaid with solid gold plates, oxqulsttc)y engraved. I have never seen him use it, however. Roosevelt Is a great lover of horses, par ticularly tho half wild, wholly Intelligent natlvo horse. On the ranch he kept sixty. His first favorite was "Old Manltou." It Is a difficult thing to find a really good hunt ing pony. AnyoncVwho has ever tried to lift a limp, freshly Killed deer on a horse's bark ran understand this. Manltou was steady as a rock and a faithful companion until age gave him Immunity from work. His oaddlo was a beauty; It weighed over fifty pounds and was valued at $125. It was of bandtomely embossed leather, or namented with sliver. Kiwi n nnd Mount. One morning late In the fall the roundup ws camped on the Lagguy camp range, tho horse were brought In at daylight with frost cn their backs and all In an 111 humor. Roosevelt threw bls'saddls on a big ROmsn nosed bay named "Ben Butler. Ben was a natural-born degenerate. He wa.4 paat master In pitching, "sunOshlng" and high and lofty bucking. He waa a crafty old villain, however, and submitted to tho tightening of the hair cinches with only a nasty roll of white In his eye. Roosovelt mounted and rapidly braced for tho Inevitable shock, but to the sua pense of the assembled cowboys (three of whom had already been thrown) Ben trotted off at first like a family cow. Then, reaching a deep washout directly In front, he gave a bawl like a branded calf and went Into the air. Down he came with his long neck poked under his fore legs and with a shock that Jarred tbo earth. Up he went again, the rider swiftly bracing back until his shoul ders nearly touched the beast's loins. But with a trick that human skill could not avert, the horse spun In the air like a top and came down "all standing," or, In as straight a perpendicular line as his evil skill could conceive. No human rider could withstand that shock and Roosevelt was thrown violently to the half frozen ground. Some cowbovs lassoed old Ben, who had taken to his heels at once, whllo the rider, palo and drawn looking, but with a steady gleam In his eyes, rose from tho ground and Insisted on remounting. This he did, although he did not tell us until later that three of his ribs were broken. "That young fellow's got sand In tils crow aplenty," sagely remarked "Three Seven Bill," who was captain of the roundup. Bill was a gaunt, hungry-looking var mint, with a foqrteen-lnch waist and long, crooked legs that would have shamed an old-fashioned pair of tongs. Nothing de lighted him moro than to "ride the tall often' them young fellers," as ho called It, which meant to "haze the ground" hour after hour at a fourteen-mile clip; changing horsca three times dally out' of each rider's Individual string of ten, he rode us to a finish. Saddle sore and half dead from exhaus tion, I could many a tlrao have wept from sheer agony, but on and on ho rode us without mercy at a stiff run, making u wide circle and retiring to camp only to rest and go at It again. Months of thla work told on the trim young New Yorker. He became like the rtet of us gaunt, wind-swept and bleached white with alkali. Not a single time did he seek to take advantage of his larger wealth and station, but like any common $40 cowboy stood up to his work without a whimper. Whllo I am free to confess I have freely used every Invective la tar vo cabulary against that country and Its In habitants In general, I never but once know him to complain. It was on a bitter night late In the fall of '86. The lost beef roundup was near tng the home ranch, when a fierce ctorm of sleet and rain came on, accompanied with Intense cold. All hand 'were up until mid night quieting tho big herd of uneasy beeves that had been gathered with so much effort. Wo had carefully worked them to the foot of Chimney Butte anduhat.ln a measure protected them and with night guards doubled a few of us returned to the drenched camp, worn out with exhaus tion. Roosevelt and I alept together; our bed was cf blanket spread on the wet. freez ing ground, covered with, a tarpaulin Without even removing our spurs we crept into Its shelter-and were almoit Instantly dead to the world.. Ill Only Profanity. An hour later the call came, "All bands turn out; emtio breaking away," accom panied by tho slashing of n wet lariat across the' canvas. With a hopeless groan I slipped cu( sideways nd began' to grppo for riiy ponyfc. picket'. ljne., ' ' " Suddenly P heard a 'bursty of picturesque language that expressed my thoughts ex actly. "Blank the' blankety-blank. country; blank the' blankety-blank fool that would leave God's country for thla blank" but there are situations in all lives too sacred for public scrutiny. This was the first, last and only time I ever knew him to use violent language. It sooms that there had collected In the depression between us on the tarpaulin that covered the bed a good-sized tubful Of half frozen rain. In his attempt to rlso my partuer tad Incautiously raised tils knees, which, of course, tipped tho whole refrig erating outfit over his head and shoulders. Ho was very popular with tho cowboys by reason of his courago and grit. During the early years of his Bad Lands career a cer tain clement that hung out around "Big Mouth Bob's" elegant establishment at "Little Misery" bitterly opposed tho de velopment of the stock Industry, as they knew It meant their "finish." Matters grew from bad to worse until It becamo necessary to form an association among the few owners for protection. We mot In a llttlo shanty near the town and organized the Little Missouri LWa Stock association, with "Theodore Roosevelt as president. Never in my life shall I forget that meeting of not more than halt a dozen men, outside of Bob's gang that bad sneerlngly trooped in. A certain deputy sheriff was the leader of the aggregation. Stepping directly In front and with the reflection of the man's big revolver flashing across his glasses, Roosevelt scored hlra for a thief and scoun drel. Unarmed, he bitterly accused hlra of breaking his faith and declared that In stead of giving protection he encouraged lawlessness and- disorder. Faced the Dancer. Men of the frontier are peculiarly sensi tive; an accusation that would be laughed at here eats out a raan'c heart who Is bred there In solitude, Drath stares a man closely In tho face who calls another a liar, bo he what ha may. Somehow In this case. In a way' that I cannot understand, tho very torcefulncss of tho speaker, his uncon scious steely nerve cowed tho accused Into nbjoct silence. But his prestige left him forever In that land. During "off times" on tho rango Roose velt did a good deal of literary work. Wo could always tell when he was thinking about his writing by tho way he used to thresh through the sagebrush In front of tho ranch with hands clasped behind him. His relaxation from this kind of work was to pick up the weakest and trashiest novel he could find, which he would read .with avidity. Of' all, the "bad" men that Infested the country '(and their names was legion), "Bad Man Flncgan" was cock of the walk. Ho oat. I W st AfimA tmrr RIM I1 in n li- wriAva further dp you went the tougher, the people got, and that his headquarters were at the fountain head. One day while peacefully sleeping off an overdose of Bob' "conver sation Juice" the gang thrared his long red hair clcae to his bead, leaving only a ridge like that of a roached mule. When ho awoke bis heart was bad. He sat down, In tho sagebrush and pumpedMead Into everything In sight. He made pepper boxes of the houses and stampeded the clt Izena to tho nearest timber like wild steers. Mnkri u Daring Capture. Mr. Flncgan waa Indefd a bad man. He shot "Blood Ran John's"' oyster grotto full of holes and Bent the editor of the Bad Lands Cowboy ao a cave at the fcot of Oraveyard Butte. Flushed with success, he stole a boat and floated down the river until he came to Roosevelt's "Elkhorn" ranch, from which he appropriated everything he fancied, and passed cheerfully on. When the owner discovered his loss he was "mad clean through." He followed Mr. Flncgan nearly 100 mil before be finally captured and brought him back through that .wilderness alone. As time went on and tho influence of llhe sturdy ranchmen began to prevail people bo gan to flock Into tho squalid little shack .town, which soon assumed alt tho vices and some of the vlrtuca of tho typical ftontler settlement. The lawless elemont, as a rule, respected the young ranchman, although deep muttering against tho In vasion of his herds were the rule. While the social life of the frontier cen ters In the saloon, I never once saw him enter one. He was a "good fellow" with the cowboys, but never went in the riotous debauchery of their occasional sprees. Next to hunting, he liked best bis horses. The "Maltese Cross" horses were tamed as the biggest, huskiest, most ram paglous beasts In the Bad Lands. They were mostly half-breeds, with an appalling amount of vigor and evil ways, I brought one east with me six years ago. He lived to be 20, and I believe one of his latt acts was to kick the front end oft of a farmer's milk wagon. Roosevelt's cattle, of which he finally had about 3,000, were half-bred natives and bore the Maltese cross on the left hip, with dewlap on brisket. .During the first years of ranching he bred cattle, but later dis continued It. Only recently he sold the ranch, tho huyer being his trusted guide and subsequent manager, Sylvane Ferris. Ill Old Companion, As an evidence of tho picturesque char acter of hie associates It might be Inter esting to tracs the career of a few. "Rig Mouth Bob" drank hard; served a term for murder In Bismarck Jail, and now Is a broken down man. "Three Seven Bll" married the dnughter of the section boss and Is running a place ot his cwn across tho Montana line. "Thre6 Fingered Jack," professional horsethlcf, was driven to tho Powder River mountains and froze to death In a blizzard. Will Eaton Is running a silver mine In Mexico. "Old Man Lebo," his early hunt ing partner, Is raising potatoes up about Keough Wall. William Mcnnlflold Is run ning a ranch In the Kootanct valley. "Liver Eatln' Johnson the Squnw Man" la eating government rations up Buford way. Tho Marquis Dc Mores was killed In Africa. It Is hard to realize that the voice now given to dignified utterances upon which a nation hangs onco was lifted In the roar ing chorus, "Ole Blanck Bull Como Down From tho Mountain," nor that the strong young hand that forced his unwilling horse to breast the current ot a treacherous river should now be guiding a pen on whoso track rests the destiny of 75,000,000 souls. S1HHIUA. rAItMI.NU. Snecesa Depend nn Knrriry, I'nttrnce C and Perseverance. Dr. Nicholas Senn',- a distinguished phy sician of tho United States army, who ha Just comploted a tour of Russia, writes to the Chicago Tribune as follows: Farming In Siberia to bo remunerative requires energy, patience, perseverance, and no ordinary degree of forethought. Af terthought In this country Is an expensive and often disastrous experiment. The Si berian soli Is fertile, the sun does all it can during the short summer to make it productive. In many parti of Siberia, moro especially In the Amur province, grain raising Is remunerative. On the. whole, however, thla. country Is better adapted for tho herdsman than the farmer. Tho Russian government Is anxious to populate Siberia with Industrious farmers nnd intelligent ranchmen. It does Its share In establishing new homos by giving, each immigrant family the use of a tract of land fiee of expense, agricultural, implements to cultivate fifteen acr?s of land, a tarantaes an n span of oxen or a pair of horses and, 60 rubles in cash, to make atart. ,Tho, land Is not sold, but leased, and the pew settler Is exempt from taxation for the first, three years. This offer on the part of tho government is a tempting ono and baa In duced thousand of families to accept It. In many Instances the venture has ben successful; In others the new settlers havo left the claim Impoverished and discouraged Tho most formidable enemy of tho Slbjrlan farmer Is the long and severe winter. All of the farm work has to be crowded within the narrow limit of four or five months. Tha long winter 1 u nevere tax on the live stock. In many places where the snow fall is heavy the stock must bf fed: In the Amur province the snowfall Is light and the cattle subsist on tho dry grass of the Checkmating: a Raid No electrician knows the uses of a little piece of Insulated wire better than many pf the professional gamblors In Chicago. That Is why the men continue to be professional gamblers and are not serving tho city as professional criminals. The Intricate system of alarm bells and danger signals with which gamblers are notified that the police are thundering at their gates Is as complicated and as ef fective as any system can well be. That Is why detectives havo taken to wearing dis guises and why the methods of Old Sleuth and Captain Collier, thoso heroes of dime novels, 10 long scouted by real detectives, have crept Into favor. In tho first place, relates the Chicago Tribune. It mutt be understood that there Is gambling In Chicago, and much ot It, too. Hand books In which bets may be made on the races flourish like tho green bay tree In many places whero one would not look for them. Craps, poker, roulette and the old army game may be Interviewed on most or tho main streets, yet the number of good casta made out In court against tho welt known proprietors of theso games Is piti fully small, The detective have gone Into gambling houses, arrested tho Inmates and then havo come Into police courts and have bAen forced to admit that they were unable to present a case strong enough to wnrran; tho magistrate In holding the prisoners to the grand Jury for trial. They havo been forced to fall back upon the old yagrancy charge. They accuse men of vagrancy when they find that the gambling charges aro not well enough sustained. Many men wesrlng tho best clothes obtainable and laden with diamonds euough to make a Joweler's win dow turn green with envy have txn charged with being vagrants, All of which l set down to tho knowledge that the gamblers In Chicago have of tho usefulness of an electric wire. Tho gambling rcaorts may be running full blast. Tho play may be heavy, the spec tators as great In number as those at a fashionable concert, yet when the detectives break Into tho room the men arc all there, the apparatuses hidden and the gambling charge must fill flat, All of the gambling house whose owners can afford the outlay aro provided with a let of danger signals that would do credit to a train dispatcher's office or the main faiom In a telegraph con cern, C H Is often necessary to pais two and sometimes three Ipokcuts bsroro the main room Is reached, nut that la the easiest, part pf It. The hardest Is to get as far nz the flrrt lookout without being recognized, The bootblack on "the corner, the newsboy, the seller of fruit, any cr all of them nay be In the employ of the gambler whose place Is near. As soon aa a suspicion! character enters the neighborhood and asks to be directed to a place where the game Is running or when a detective arsigned to gambling work heave In eight the ouUtde Cuba's delicious Vuelia tobacco is now successfully grown in the U. S.,- in threi Statts touching southern Atlantic and gulf waters. When agriculture was prostrated in Cuba, Bondy & Lederer of New York started cx- penments in trans planting young sprouts taken from the Cuban Vuelta Abajos district. Portions of Florida, Louisiana and Texas have long been known to present the con- ditions of land elevation, soil, sea mists and action of the sun, identical with the Vuelta Cuban district which is so near those points. The young plants thrived and produced a tobacco exactly the same as grown a few miles across those waters. This' leaf was found wholly dif ferent from the seed growths of Havana tobacco grown in this country for many years. After these growths were increased from resprouting and expansive planting until" a crop of large proportions was reached the first cutting was made and stored for curing. After three years of natural curing, its ripe, delicious flavor was found perfect for use n highest priced goods. But the saving of heavy duty and the continually increased supply of this tobacco at last prompted Bondy & Lederer to put this same stock into a five cent cigar; the old brand of the house known as the Tom Keene was selected for its benefit. This is why 3'ou find the exquisite flavor in tho Tom Keene, never before known in a live cent cigar in this country. Try it, it will be plainly apparent to you. PEREGOY & 1 prairies and mountain pao urcs hidden under a thin blanket of'srow. Stock1 raising Is tho coming Industry and by Judicious man agement can ho made sufficiently remunera tive. Sugar, beets nror to an tnirmcuj alzj and with proper machinery beet susar can bo manufactured at a low price and be made a well-paying Investram fcr tho pro ducer of tho raw material and the manu facturer as well. Millet, clover and al falfa grow luxuriously and could be used advantageously r.s fodder as a substltutn for hay In localities whero the latter cannot be obtained. It s said thnt some years grain docs not ripen anl on this account It will bo well for farmers not to place 101 much confidence In the wheat, rye and helpers of tho gamblers become occupied. One rill pass tho word to-another, nnd It Is seldom a minute before someono has his finger on un electric button. This Jnrs out a warning In the gambling room, although the 'noise Is not heard by those approach- log. On tho Instant tho faro table becomes the center of n group of men reading news papers, many times with unusual facility and upside down. The other gambling de vices become tho fields upon which Innocent games of pedro and penuchlo are in progress, and ,tho detectives pauso at tho threshold ,and know their labor has been wasted. ' But It Is not by means' of the simple elec tric bell that most of the gamblers find se curity from unwelcome visitors. Many of tho paces are equipped with movable foot boards In the hallways. As soon as a foot presses on one of theso tho bell rings and tho gamblers are warned. Mirrors showing the street, such mirrors as nre on nvery houso In Holland, are also usod. Men aro paid will to do nothln; except watch the street. It Is with dimcultlea llko these that tho detectives In the gambling detail that Is at tached to Chief O'Neill's office havo to deal. That Is why tho gambling detail Is known as the hardest worked detail on tho police fcrce. When tho duties .of many of tho other policemen arc taken In consideration tho honor of this reputation Is nt onco ap parent. Detective Clifton Woolrldge, Do tcctlve John Herts, who, with Captain Schuettler, arrested Emrna (loldman here; Detectives Schubert, Sederberg and Wallpy nre thb men upon whom tho weight falls. Their work la mado all tho harder by the fact that most ot the gamblers know them by sight. The appearance of any ono of them In a gambling neighborhood Is a signal of danger. Everything that is Buspiclous Is whisked ou.t of tho way. Often the detect ives are shadowed from tho office In the city hall and their arrival at a gambling houso is known minutes before It takes place. And In this work every minute Is worth not sixty seconds, but sixty oppor tunities. Knowing as they do that the element of surprise is eliminated from the possibilities of their success the detectives are forced to call In other aids. For Instance many times they omploy men who are strangers In the neighborhood to wbfclvthey are sent nnd through them they get an Insight Into the Innor workings of tho. gambling houso they Intend to attack. They may then at tack It with moro Intelligence. When their employe goes tn court to testify ho finds his testimony partly discredited because his work was not done as tho work of a police officer, but as that of an informer, ana iniormera get little sympathy or credence In pollco courts. Each courl .Is nttended by spies employed by the gam bler.. They are there In the guise of In nocent' spectators, but In reality they bare MOORE CO., Distributers, Council Bluffs, la. ont crops. A combination of stockrals Ing ard ajr'lculturc will make farming la Siberia n success. Tho mimmcr Banana Is too thort for the rlpsnlnc of corn. Po tatoes nnd vegetables of all kinds can us depended upon as a sure crop. Good highways and substantial fences In any locality aro always sure Indications of successful, remunerative farm'ntc. Siberia Is a new country and consequently has few wcll-mado country roids. In tho steppes tho roads lead out In different di rections from the hamlets to the grain fields and meadows to uit the conven ience of the peasants. Two deep rutB mark the width of the tarantass and the central track Is the path for tho single horse. Tho How Chicago Gamblers Avoid Police. their eyes and ears open all the time. They bear the description of the meana the de tectives employed to gain entrance tn tho place and if the method Is a new one they hurry to tell their employers, who aro then armed against tho Innovation. These spies servo another purpose. Thoy get nccurate descriptions of the Informers or "stool pigeons" of the police and, any Informer who again ventures into tho place which he has betrayed does It at his peril. Of course,, no foolish attempt Is mado on his life, but tho proper way to administer u beating Is thoroughly understood by the gamblerc' assistants. Delng, as they are, entirely unable to sur prise any gambler whllo ho Is gambling, and' being stripped of the services of effective Informers; tho detectives must Bcek another way to get arrests that aro necessary. Then it Is that tho old gamo of disguises Is used. Of course It Is understood that not one time In a thousand does a Chicago dctcc tlvo find It necossary to assume a dtigulae. Outside of Detective John Thompson of tho Central station the number ot officers who have done detective work while disguised Is larger only than tho number of hens' teoth. Thompson wore a disguise once and the man ho ''mado up" to represent was John Alexander Dowle. A boy wroto to Dr. Dowlo that unless he brought $4,000 tu the Junction of the Chicngn & Northwestern railway tracks and Kedzle avonue some thing dreadful would happen. This was Just after tbo Cudahy kidnaping in Oinnhii, and Dr. Dowle turned the threatening let ter over to Captain Colleran. Detective Thompson donned a long robe and white whiskers nnd played Dr. Dowle long enough to meet the boy and arrest him. But that case was a lonoly exception. Ileal detec tives take a pride In doing work that Is en tirely different from the detective work de scribed by writers of blocd and thunder de tective Etorles. Dotectlve Wooldridge and Detective Schubert of this difficult gambling detail ore exceptions to that rule. Not bo cause they particularly llko the rolo of sen sational detectives, but because If they did not occasionally go disguised they would ar rest fewer gamblers than they do. Deteu tlve Schubert's favorite disguise Is that of a milkman,. Wooldridge makes up best as a farmer. They change their walks and com pletely change their clothing, and some times they elude tho pickets and the elec trical apparatus and sometimes thoy do not. Once when.they were successful they gut Into "Pony" Moore's gambllug place in Twenty-first street, between Dearborn and State streets, but thoy have tried the dis guise often since. And so it is that when a policeman or a detective Is asked to namo the most diffi cult work In the province of tho Chicago police department his answer will in all probability be "the arresting and successful protecutlon of gamblers who know a thing or two abaut electricity." enrt, or tarantass; of the peasants Is a crudo vehicle with a box made of lumber or laths, 'csemhiing much In shapo an old fashioned cradle. Almost all of tho hauling la dene by t'.iefio four or two-wfccelcd carts, I drawn by one horse. An Amorlcan who has soen a good deal of Siberian farming oiu 11, inu iuui tiiivriuun wubuub were entirely impracticable with tho . present condition ot tho country roads, an opinion which I havo every reason to ondorso from my own quite extensive' observations. Har vesters, stenm plows, American mowprs and fhrcuhlng machines may soon find their way to largo Siberian farms, nnd when they do make their appcarnnco they will bo tho deathblow to. Siberian labor. Scinil farms with extensive pasturage aro what tho early Siberian settler needs to make hla work remunerative and his fu turo position In 'the now country secure Road making will follow the construction of railways ns the natural outcome of suc cessful farming. Desirable material for fences la obtainable almost everywhere and tn liss than ten years tho traveler passing over tho arable lands will find neat farms and large meadows and .pastures Inclosed by substantial fences for tho protection of tho crops nnd the safekeeping of live stock. SUPREME COURT SYLLABI. No. 10279. Miller against Brown, npp'al from Buffalo. Affirmed. Commissioner's opinion by Commissioner Sedgwick. Unre ported. 1. When a court of competent Jurisdiction has appointed u receivor in an action where ouch appointment Is authorized, thejiuthor Ity ot such receiver Is not open to collat eral attack. Andrews against Steelo City Bank. S7 Nub.. 173. 2. The purchase of property of n corpora tion by one of its directors Is voidable' at the option of the corporation. 3. The evidence used In tho district court upon n hearing of a motion to correct an entry In the Journal must bn preserved In a bill of exceptions, or It will not be con sidered in this court. No. 102M. U'uvltt ngalnst Bartholomew. Appeal from Douglas. Hnvnrsed and re manded. Hastings, C. Unreported. 1. An appeal of an eijultnblo notion tn the supreme court pursuant to tho provisions of ptctlon 675, Code of Civil Procedure, rtoeit not present for review the correctness of n ruling ot thn district court excluding proffered evidence. Such ruling must be preaenti'd ns preflcrlbed by section 184, et c(." AlriHworth against Tnylnr, 63 Nob., 2. A denial that n special assessment was levied "by proper city authority or In tho proper way," and that "nil preliminary ntl lending up, to said Invy had been tnki'n In all respects us by law provided," Is not sulllrlent-to Indicate any nbsttuitliil defect In the, levy nt such nameni or raise the question nf Ih validity. 3. A tax purchnser nnt assailed for bad faith 1h entitled to subrogation to all th municipality' rlghta In any tax paid by mm in iiii'iwuk iiiu purunusp or uuose quently In protection of It. 1 4. Troof of endorsement of a tax sale cer- tincaie ny original purchaser nnd posses sion by endorsee, are prima facie vdfnc of ownership of It, No, 10.317. f!rete Building nnd Loan As sociation ngalnst Pntz. Appeal from 8a line. Afilrmed. Oldham, O. Unreported. 1. One who has entered Into a contract with a body of men acting as a corporation cannot, when sued on auch contract, be neard to plead the want ot legal organiza tion of such corporation. Livingston Loan and Building Association against Drum mond et al, ft Neb., 200 ; 63 N. W. Ken.. 37S. followed. No. 10320, Goddard against Clarke. Ap- peni rrom ! mended. Hastings, commissioner. Unr jjougms. ueversea ann re- norted, 1. The fact that a cross-petitioner does not produce evidence that no legal proceed lns have been hnd to collect the debt sc. cured by Its mortgage, does not warrant a finding by the trial court that tho mort gage Is void and unenforceable. 2. A decree renderf-d on tho exprpss ground that a mortgage was invalid and no conveyance cannot be sustained on tho ground of want of privity between tho grantor and the defendants claiming the property merely becauee the wily proof of nucii priviiy whs an anniract anmittea In evidence and acted nnon true b: by tho and over trial court without authentication objection as Incomnetcnt. ;i. rotn aim mortgage running cr tn C'relgh- ton university trustee for Creighton college are valid and enforceable nbllentlnnn. nnt. withstanding that there has been no lesal Incorporation of C'relahton college. No. 10362. Paxtnn A Oallagher again t vadboukcr. Krror from Lancaster. He- A low-priced staple is raised to the level of most expensive luxury without increase of , price. versed and remanded. Oldham, C. Unre ported. 1. "Hood will" as a property is Intangible and Is merely an Incident of other prop erty. It cannot be recovered for as an cle ment of damage when the property to which It is attached lias been voluntarily alienated. 2. An instruction given by the trial court which In substance tells the Jury that If, the dully sales were less by reason of the lallure to furnish Maples, hen, the differ ence of tho dally sales would bo tho mean uro of damages, without Including threln nny reference nor regard to the profit or lu.i in the aalo of the goods. Held, er roneous on the meamiro of damages and prejudicial error. 3. Whero dnmaccs nro susceptible of ac tual computation the amount thereof should not be left to conjecture. 1. In a milt for the alleged breach of a contract providing for tho salo of goods at prlvule aalo at retail, wherein the breach alleged is the sale of a part of the goods at auction, the measure or damnge Is the difference of the price nt which tho gooda hold at the auction and the price nt which the soma goods would have been sold at pr.v.Ur ton- nt retail. j. Ileii'Hii of the trial court to submit an liwtruct'nr. requested, exnmlncd nnd held error. No. 103G3. Hlllebrnnd against Nelson, Error from 'Clage. Affirmed. Pound, C. Unreported. 1. where possession of mortgaged chattels remains In the mortgagor and the mortgage or a copy thereof la not filed aa required by section 14, chapter xxxll. Compiled Btat utei,, the mortgage Is Invalid aa to execu tion creditors of the mortgagor, whether they have notice thereof or not. 2. Hence, where a mortgage of real prop erly Ih Intended by the :partles thoreto to convey also personal property situated and In use upon the realty, while such mort gage would create a charge thereon be tween the parties. It cannot be given effect a against execution creditors of tho .mort gagor unless the Instrument Is duly riled as a chattel mortgage. 3. The rule that third persons may nnt ob tain rights In property In suit pending liti gation over It applies only to property spe cifically pointed out In the pleadings in such way as to call attention to tho very thing with respect to which the rule is In vnkod nnd thereby warn third persons not lo Intermeddle therewith. 4. Loose or portable articles of peraoiil pro- erty adapted to goncral use. or which may be used In any like establishment v.'th O'liift! cfllclenc., do nnt become fixtures mtiely because used In connection with a manutncturlng plant In which such artlahui or others llko them are necessary lev effec tive operation, a. Wheelbarrows, crowbars, shovels, oil tcuks loone planks and lumber nnd paltats for making brick, used In u paving brick plunt. held personal property. 6. Ilemnrks ot the trial Judge with re spect to an Issue as to which a verdict wi directed, having no apparent connection with the only Issue left to the Jury, are not ground for reversal of a Judgment. No. 10071. Payne against Pettlboue It Nixon. Error from Colfax. Affirmed. Pound. C. Unreported. 1. Alleged errors must be assigned aa such specifically In the petition In error nr. they will not bo reviewed. . No. 10.178. Farmers' nnd Merchants' insur ance Company ngalnst Ornff. Error from Qage. Iteveraod and remanded. Oldhiin, L. Unreported. A peremptory Instruction directing a Ver mel ror piainun examined ana nein err'.r, No. I04W). urinKer against Ashenfolter. Krror from Uagc. Affirmed. Pourtd.i C. Unreported. 1. Whero either by the terma of the mort gage or by contemporaneous r.nderntundlnc tho mnrtgagnv ot phattels In posHtvslin thereof U i omitted tn sell the poo. Is In :he otdlnary course of trade for his cwn dc-.u.iU nidi nioitgage Is fraudulent ur.d void as tn Ufdllcrs 2 '.'onunt by cno crcdltnr that th doctor may moitgnge'a stock of goods to unothev creditor dres nnt estop the former from j.ttacklng th validity ot such mort gage v hen the mortgagee Is permitted to dlrpouc of tht mortgaged gooda for hl own 1'ineiH ton. C. Unreported. 1. An estoppel, when, relied upon as nn ele ment of the rnuso of action or defense must Im) pleaded specially, 2. Where the evidence sought tn be drawn out by questions asked upon cross-iiximi-notlnn and rejected by tho trial courl ! afterwnrd elicited from the witness In nn. other, way, tho error, If any, Is wltluut prejudice a Whftlio:- Iho whole of a ronver.atlon whlh a witiio" has detailed in full Is tm bodlcl rorruclW In a written document in tUder.ct ih a question fnr the court u,ll Jury nnd tin orfnlnn of the witness on sui.li question Is not admissible. n. Uvidenco examined and, found to mn i')rt the imdlna oi the trial court. "No. 10421. Union State Hank niralnat Hut. Krror from t.'lav. Amrmo1. Pmm.i If It's That's all you stove or ran go "bariums' need to know bout f' t