THE 1 OMAITA DAILY DEE: SUNDAY,
5. 1904.
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DEPEW IN TEN CONVENTIONS
EpUodti of lfational Caapaifni Etoo.ntd
by tlit Hew York Scatter.
INCIDENTS OF EARLY POLITICAL LIFE
Personal Contact wllh Lincoln
Later Presidents Old nnd Saw
War of t'nmpnlgnlna;
Ctmpirll,
Th first national convention I ever at
tended wag at delegate at the second nom
ination ot 1'resldent Lincoln, relates Sen
ator Chauncey M. Dvpew. I was a very
young man then and secretary of state In
Nsw York. A few of us who were devoted
adherents of Governor Seward went to
Washington on the way to Baltimore to
consult with him. Lincoln's nomination was
assured. The only question w.is who
should be vice president. There was a gen
eral consensus of opinion that It should
be Daniel S. Dickinson, lie had been a
lifelong democrat, but supported Mr. Lin
coln throughout the war.
This little Incident Is unwritten history
and shows what Incidents make history.
Mr. Seward advised against the nomina
tion of Mr. Dickinson on the ground that
we ought to encourage the loyal men In
the border states who had risked their
fortunes and their lives In standing by the
union. The most eminent representative of
that class at that time wan Andrew John
son of Tennessee, who had kept all Ten
nessee loyal and was the moving spirit
which had contributed many Tennessee
regiments to the union army. He stood as
a courageous aggressive leader of that
sentiment In all the border states.
When Judge Robertson and I reached the
convention we found the matter settled for
Mr. Dickinson. We then began tb mis
sionary work Imposed on us by Secretary
Beward. The Connecticut delegation, head
ed by Governor Miner, Immediately Joined
us. The matter was finally left by the con
vention to the New York delegation, and
the nomination of Johnson was decided by
on vote In that delegation. The convention
accepted this conclusion, and the rest of
the story. Including Johnson's presidency,
la well known.
The nomination of General Grant, both
the first and second times, was by ecola
matlon, and there was no contest.
Recounts Tildes Contest.
There was a terrific struggle for the suc
cession to General Grant. New York pre
sented Roscoe Conkllng and that presenta
tion prevented the nomination of James G.
Blaine. There had been a bitter feeling
between Mr. Conkllng and Mr. Blaine. Mr.
Conkllng would not oonsent to Mr, Blaine s
nomination. Finally Mr. Hayes of Ohio,
a man then unknown to the country, be
came the candidate of an evolution and
not a revolution.
Samuel J. Tllden performed a great and
The democrats believed, as did a vast num
ber of republicans, that he was honestly
elected. W were close to the civil war,
and ths participants on both sides were
till vigorous enough to make a revolution
easy upon a question like that of the de
privation, by any process, of a candidate
who was believed to be elected to his offloe.
Of course, It Is a moot question because It
was decided by the tribunal by only a ma
jority of one.
But It Is due to Mr. Tllden to say that
all his power and Influence were used to
prevent his followers from doing what
many of the ablest and strongest publlo
men advocated seising the presidency, or
attempting It. It was mainly through Mr.
TIMen that the tribunal wag selected and
its Judgment acquiesced In.
Minister Defeated Blaine,
In the canvass of 1880 Grant was brought
before the convention as a candidate, and
the whole question of the third term be
come exigent In the tactical management
the nomination of General Grant depended
on whether the unit rule was to prevail.
There was a majority for him In enough
states to nominate him If the unit rule car-
nea coin me majority and h min-ir..
but there were enoucrh iiAtaa
m w aaaea wi s.jr
Im. The contest over this one question
ascea ror uvim Hiu. wt,.- u .
- - - " iidu Kum unit
rule was beaten the convention was at sea.
John Sherman was the most prominent
and promising of the candidates, and his
campaign was led by James Garfield. Oar.
field's speech far Sherman captured the
convention and nominated the speaker for
the presidency. Arthur was put on as viae
president to placate Mr. Conkllng and sat
isfy the New York delegation, be being the
leader of the Orant forces.
In the campaign of 1884 Blaine easily
carried the convention against Arthur.
Against his own wish and advice ht was
brought to New- York to meet 1,000 Prot
estant clergymen. Rev. Dr. Burchsrds
unfortunate use of a phrase that had done
good service with him In a hundred ser
mons In his own church on a political oo
csslon naturally offended a large body of
religionists who otherwise sympathised
warmly with Mr. Blaine. That unfor
tunate phrase alienated thousands of their
votes. He lost New York by less than
t.OOO. and except for those three words of
Rev. Dr. Burohard he would have earned
It by SO.000 and have been president of the
United State.
First View ot Lincoln.
I first sew Mr. Lincoln when he passed
through Peeksklll on his way to Washing,
ton to be Inaugurated. His speech was
so short that It conveyed the Idea of the
man a very homely, very awkward man
he having time to utter but a few sen
tence. I was elected secretary ot state in
1863. Horatio Seymour hnd been elected
governor In 18UJ. in the gathering of the
oldlers for 1804. Lincoln's second elec
tion, in vtry state but New York th ma
chinery was given to the governor. The
legislature, however, of 1864 was over,
whelmlngly republican, and It would not
give It to ths democratic governor.
In the effort to get the machinery I spent
th winter in Washington and saw Mr. Lin
coin very often. Ht'hsd the habit at a
certain hour ofyleavlng the door open for
anybody to com In. Then h would be
overwhelmed by the mothers, wives and
Slaters of soldiers who were In hospitals
nd they wanted to reach them, or those
who had been condemned as deserters and
they wanted them reprieved.
I witnessed In those meetings the most
pathetic scenes of my life. Mr. Lincoln
looked up one day in the crowd and said:
"Hello, Depew! What do you want?",
I said: "Nothing. Mr. President, except
to pay my respects to you, a I am going
home."
Mr. Lincoln replied: "It is such a luxury
to see someone who does not want any
thing. If you will stay I will get rid of
these people; I want to talk with you."
Maeoln ns I.nrld Talker.
When the room was clear he threw him
self on th sofa, pulled up his long legs,
clipped his knees with his hsnds, and, lean
ing backward and forward for a long IWnS,
freely discussed th war. He told eleven
stories Illustrating his Ideas. With ons
exception these stories were not parlor
stories, but they Were Immensely effective
In. either illustrating sr clinching or strtk-
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ik noma ini nu ni 1 1 m w nii.in.
Mr. Uneoln was th most direct fend
lucid talker I ever met. He had then been
president nearly four tresrs, and was more
perfect master than any Of th tried states
men ef th country of th horn fend foreign
situation, of th complication with other
government, ot th dangers of Interven
tion, of the situation tit the army and
th treasury and of the needs of both.
I have had more or las Intimaoy with
alt th president since Ills time and most
of th cabinet members. No public man
ever knew Instinctively and Intimately
just what th people wanted. If they had
riot yet expressed It In any form he knew
what would meet their approval. Mr. Lin
coln was the saddest man I ever saw, be
cause he was the most tender-hearted and
sympathetic fend yet he felt that to save
hi country he had to sacrifice tens of thou
sands of men who would have to be re
cruited or sent to the front to be sacrificed
by his order. It seamed to press upon him
and to weigh upon him with a load that he
could not ahak off.
His one absorbing thought, relieved only
by this story telling, was that he must
save the union, and that it oould only b
saved by eliminating slavery.
Lincoln' Story Tell In;.
You ask me of his method or talking.
Ho had a peculiar cadence in his voice,
which made his sentences rhythmic. On
"who reads that gem of American orations,
his speech at Gettysburg (It was Impro
vised), will get an Idea of his style that of
an unconscious poem. Mr. Lincoln was a
man ot marvelous genius and' singular
power of expression. He had upon him th
weight of th futur and its possibilities to
his country. Ha talked of th criticisms
on his story telling, which used to amuse
Beward and offend th dignified Chaae.
With this singular cadenc h said. I re
member: "They ay I tell a great many
stories. I reckon I do, but I have found
In the course of a long and varied experi
ence that th plain people," then repeating
with great emphasis, "the plain people take
them as they run, are more easily Influ
enced by a broad and humorous illustration
than In any other way. What the hyper
critical few may think I do not oar,"
I think it is generally admitted now that
the greatest misfortune which happened to
the south was hi assassination. II wa
th ons man who had th hold upon th
country and th power to have accom
plished what wo done twelve years after
ward under Hayes. He would have recon
structed the south without a carpet-bag-ting
government or any of the horrors and
mistake of th reconstruction period, bo
cause the north, the unfon army and th
loyal people would have absolutely trusted
his judgment as they did his patriotism,
and the, question of the two sections would
have been settled by htm, free from many
ot th difficulties which affect us still.
Otd Ways of CanapaltTnlaa;.
Th methods of campaigning be tore th
war, during the war and 'for several can
vasses afterward were different from those
we bave now. The pre was not nearly
so universal or powerful. The political
speaker, though, wo more universal and
more powerful.
There was no possibility of organising
such complet campaigns oa was don by
Mr.' Hanna. Motley did' not exist In the
country to create a machinery of literature,
of speakers, of colporteurs, ot military
companies, of organisations ot every kind,
which were th educational processes of
th last three or four canvasses.
Th series of speeches which Mr. Sew
ard, after being defeated at Chicago, mad
for Lincoln, almost unequal ed In their
versatility and frequenoy, were th fea
ture of Lincoln's first campaign, and ihelr
Influence wa Inoalcuable, Ther has been
nothing in th canvass ot th last twenty
years which was on man' oratory that
could be so eltectlve.-
W are a strong people, maatarful, ag
gressive, self-confident. Ws ore a world
power for the first time In presidential
leotlon. We used a masterful, strong,
self-reliant and transparently honest man
for president, a man who dare do things
Which , ar closely criticised In their In
ception and aotton, and receive drowning
prala whan th results com about; a.
man who does not stop to feel that th
problem of the ages, Ilk th oonstruotion
of th Panama canal, which I to unit
the two oceans and meet all th dream of
American diplomacy and statesmanship for
generation Is to be balked by scheming
dictators; but when Panama reasserts Us
Independence and proclaim Itself a re
public, before anybody else ho seen the.
point he discovers thai ther Is a power
to treat with, And ha doe it.
. Roosevelt "Does Tblnars."
Mr. Roosevelt Is charged with violating
the constitution In assumption of executlv
authority and with being dangerous to th
liberties of th popl beoaus of hi auto
cratic tamper, but th country hail with
delight two facts, on that when there
was fighting to do he ran a hundred feet
ahead of hi regiment up fan Juan hill
and scared the Spaniards out of their
tranche, the other that when ther wag
a canal to be dug he solved In sixty days
th unsolvabl problem of 400 yean, and
while a French ship wa carrying million!
of gold to pay th French canal company
an American ship wa carrying dredging
machine to th Isthmus f Panama.
It l common enough to find men forging
their way to the front In business or pub
lie life when they have the temper, th
mind and th spur of necessity behind
them. But when a man born In th lap of
luxury and subject to th temptations
which women all know no wall ot th boy
born to wealth' and It surroundings. Its
clubs and seduction In th city of New
York, breaks out and beat th cowboy
and th rancher In their own territory,
th miner In hi own field, th politician
on his own platform fend th offlc holder
In hi own sphere, and ha 'always In
vary vocation and relation and position
In which h ha been placed sasUy been
th first by th common consent ot hi
associates, whether they be men of action
or brains, and In hi 40 has become presi
dent of th United SUt by a tragedy,
and In th presidency has met so glort.
ously the needs of th country and ths
hope of the people, such a man Is en
titled t th chief magistracy by th votes
of hla fellow eltlsens.Chloago Record-Herald.
Mow Gladston Met Verlalne.
Some Interesting reminiscences of Glad
ton and William Morn are told' by Mr.
Chris Healy In his "ConfeasloM of a Jour,
nalist." It wa Gladstone's habit when in
Paris to visit ths Latin Quarter, where he
haunted the Second-hand bookshops.' One
duy as he entered a shop near th Odeon he
round th bookseller talking with an odd
looking person who held In his hands an old
edition of Villon's poems. His dress was
ragged and dirty, hla fao matted with hair
and h had "th eye of an archangel and
the mouth and jaw of a baboon." The re
pectful attitude of th bookseller showed,
though, that th man was a personality!
Gladston entered Into conversation with
him about Villon, and for an hour thy dis
cussed early French poetry; then th
stranger shuffled out of the shop.
"Who U that gentleman t" Inquired th
Q. O. M. with Interest. "H has an si
traordlnary knowledge of French poetry."
Monsieur, he himself Is our greatest
poet. C'est Paul Verlaln."
Mr. Healy recall also some entertaining
glimpse of William Morris personality.
Sometimes when walking through the slams
of tendon h would get on a stool at a
street corner ahd, Id hla rough, eloqoeht
way, forecast th llf of th people In that
glad day when th slum and th villas
would b swept awny and h employer and
workmen merged into the Xree cltlaena of
the Commonwealth. For Morris hated the
suburb and vllladom. Mr. Healy tells of
hsvlng often heard him remark that "God
made th country, maa mad the towa, and
the devil made tb suburbs." Jiar per' i
Weakly.
PRAIRIE TREASURE HOSIERS
Talot of Buried W.tl'h i vVl'if ih Lct
tf Cap till liii
RAINBOW CHASING NOT A LOST ART
Visions of Gold Galore and ailver,
Tees tndneo Fortnn llnnter to
eont and Dig Energy
Sadly Wasted.
Kansss and Oklahoma are In the throe
of the burled treasure fever. The disease
Is of more or less periodic occurrence,
but the attack this season has been aggra
vated by the finding, reported or otherwise,
of several small lots of treasure In unsus
pected places.
Whole communities have gone treasure
mad, and are going about the business, of
recovering the lost fortune In a systematlo
manner. A number of men will form them
selves Into a company, agreeing to share
the spoils, and will then divide the sus
pected territory Into lands, and assign day
and night shifts of diggers. This Is kept up
until the treasure I found or ths enthusl.
asm and muscle of th diggers Is ex
hausted. Kansas and Oklahoma have stories of
burled riches that rival the tales of the
wealth of Captain Ktdd. Some of the sto
ries, It is asserted, have their origin in
Astec legends, while more of them are
bssed on the alleged Information given by
dying Forty-niners, who, to ssve their
weslth from pursuing Indlsns, hid It In the
ground, hoping at some future time to
return and recover It.
It Is said, too, that train robber when
hard pressed by Ihelr pursuers cften burled
their booty, expecting to return in time
and divide It. For years the Dalton boys,
the most famous of Kansas train robbers,
made points In the Indian Territory their
rendesvous. These points are the center
of on phase of the treasure hunting In
Custry. Nothing ha ever been found near them,
and Emmet Dalton, the survivor of the
gang, now In the Kansas state penitentiary,
denies that anything was ever burled there.
But the hope of the soarchers continue
to soar while their spades go dsep Into the
prairie.
Indian Gold.
Tb most sought after treasure of Kan
sas Is the so-called Indian gold, .which, It
Is SAld. was burled In 18M by a party of
freighters bound from the gold mines of
Mexico to the trading post at Fort Leaven
worth. The treasure amounted to $70,000
In Spanish gold.
Pefore leaving New Mexico It was dis
covered that a small party of Indians wns
fallowing the wagon train. One July night,
when the train wa passing along the
banks of the Arkansas river, through what
Is now Kearney county. It was seen that
the Indians were preparing to attack. The
wagons were Immediately parked nnd a
council of war was held.
The camp wa midway between where
th towns of Lakln and Hartland now
stand, about thirty miles wect of Garden
City. On the north roso th peak of the
Indian Mound, a curious formation of the
river bluffs, which I often asserted to be a
rello of the Mound Builders. Equally dis
tant on the south was the Arkansas river.
Within the wagon Intrnched enmp was
th leafless trunk of "Old Cottonwood,"
a huge tree, the only one within miles,
which lightning hod killed, but which still
served as a landmark for every on who
passed along the Santa Fe trail. The moon
was almost full, and by Its light, Incredibly
brilliant on th western plains, the In
dians could be seen making their prepara
tions. At midnight, just where the shadow
of the old tree fell, th treasure wa burled.
For noma reason th Indians failed to
attack that night, and th nsxt day the
train moved forward with Its dogged pur.
suera just visible. Three days later, when
Pawnee Rock had ben reached, th attack
wa mode.
Only en man survived It. Weeks later,
raving with the horrors he had undergone,
he staggered Into Fort Leavenworth. In
th interval of his delirium before h died
he told his Story.
The next year an effort was made to re
cover th gold. But tb lightning had
finished It work, and not tsn a stump
remained of "Old Cottonwood." The
buffalo grass was thick over the place.
Th treasure was never found, unless the
Indians," returning, uncovered It and took
It away with them.
The entire oountry between the Indian
Mound and ths river for miles In either
direction has been dug over repeatedly.
Th land has changed hands more than
ohc, but the proviso Is always Insisted
upon that a certain proportion of th treas
ure, if It Is recovered, shall revert to the
original holder.
Barled Treaenre.
Eastern Kansas ha a burled treasure
that Is even more enticing than ths Indian
gold ot th west, for while It la not so
large, yet It origin la o recant and so
certain that success la finding It seems
almost assured. i
Two miles south ot East Atchison Is the
Hutson farm of 300 acres. It was owned
by Isaac Hutson, who died In 1879. He
was ill a long time, but expected to re
cover. ' v
. When he realised that death wo In
evitable he called hi family around him
and told them of having burled $30,000 in
gold in an Iran kettle, with a marble slab
from th top of a wash stand as a cover,
fie did not tell exactly where the money
was burled, but sold that whoever plowed
deepest would And It.
Th land passed Into th hands of his
brother, Pet Hutson, who would never
allow a March to be mad for th money.
At his death, a short tlm ago. ths farm
went to hi son, Will Hutson, but he, too,
ha never attempted t find th treasure.
He says that he can locate it within a gone
of forty acres and that aoma dsy h will
recover It.
The burled treasur ef northern Kansas
haa with It a gmesom touch that not avn
kn Indian massacre can equal. It Is re
lated that a party of returning gold seekers
Were creasing th plain of northern Kan
sas, each man with hi dust safely ttowed
away tn a belt around ht body, when on
at th number was attnsked with smallpox
fend died almost Immediately. Too fearful
fef th disease to touch th body long
nough to remov the trefesur belt, the re
maining men hurriedly cooped out a deep
grave on tha prairie, and with long poles
pushed thslr eompaion'a body Into It and,
Riling II up. hastened on without (saving
4 single thing to mark tha spot.
Since that tlm many persona tnir cu
pidity overcoming their fear of Infection,
hav endeavored to locate th unmarked
grave, but their effort hav bn fruit
less, and th dead miner" precious dust Is
till hi own.
Oklahoma's Interest In burled treasure re
ceived a tremendu Impetus this spring by
th reported And of $M,000 near the town
at Klldar and by th further alleged dis
covery of $110,000 by a Mexican near Mus.
Bog, I. T., between Caddo and Boggy
depot, tn neither Instance wa th money
produced In evidence. It having been spir
ited away by ths alleged finder, who also
hav disappeared. But th maty, earth
sovered kettle and vn In which th
treasure waa hidden hav boon viewed by
hundred and ara fujta auAotant sa eur bp
the enthusiasm of the most unenthuslastlc
treasure lunter.
Ben Marshal's Pile,
Whatever buried treasure there may be
found In Oklahoma or the Indian Territory,
either now or hereafter, will invariably
be ascribed to Old Ben Marshall. To re
cover old Pen Marshall's gold has for
generations been the open aim of some
thing like hair the population or the twin
territories, end the secret hope of the other
half.
Marshall was the most noted of that
landed aristocracy, half white, half Indian,
which Included the wealthy cltiiens of the
territory at the beginning, of th civil
War. He was originally from Alabama,
and was an aristocrat among the Indians
there. He took his allotment where the
town of Olrard, Ala., waa subsequently
located and, sd:ir.g It tc the town, thereby
laid the foundation of his fortune.
Emigrating ta ths Indian Territory, he
Settled in the rich bottom lands between
the Verdigris and Arkansas rivers. His
holdings numbered thousands of acres,
nd he owned mora than 6W slaves. There
was no bank within 10J miles, so that sJl
his accumulating wealth, always In gold,
Was kept about the place.
When the war broke out he suddenly
disappeared. At Its clone he turned up at
Stonewall, in tho Chickasaw nation. A
little later he returned to the old place In a
wagon with one of his farm hands, and
proceeded to dig up all the gold that he
had left burled there. He drove away with
$00,000 In sacks In the bark of his wagon.
When he reached Btonewall he burled
the money gnln, so secretly that not even
nis wire Knew its location. The farm hand
who hnd assisted him mysteriously disap
peared and a few months later the old man
himself died. His secret went Into the
grave with him. and although repeated
senrches have been made not a cent of hi
gold has ever been discovered.
An Ancient Legend.
The oldest burled treasure In Oklahoma
Is the Tres Pledras gold, the legend of
which has been handed down for so long
by the Catholic priests of Old Mexico that
the actunl amount was long ngo lost sight
of.
According to the story a Spanish party
In search of the fabled El Dorado set out
across the plains to the northeast of
Mexico. Every ien or fifteen miles they
set op a post of stone marked with the
letter V, to guide their return course.'They
finally reached that country directly north
of the Panhandle of Texas, which was
for years known as No Man's 5,and, but
which is now Beaver county, Oklahoma.
When near what Is now the town of Gar
ret, they decided that the only hoye of
saving the treasure they had with them
from the pursuing Indians was to bury It.
To mark the place they set the remaining
guide posts In a huge circle, half a :.i!le
apart, arid so placed that the point of each
V was directed to a spot In the center of
tho circle. At this spot the treasure, said to
have been enormous, was burled. Shortly
afterward the party was set upon, and all
but one massacred. This one succeded In
getting home, hut was so exhausted by ex
posure that he died before he could give
complete directions for the recovery of the
treasure. An effort was made to follow
the trail, but it was lost near the town of
Santa Fe.
Recently there came to Beaver county
nn Irishman, Mlrhael Ryan, who had
lived among the Mexicans. He was found
digging very Industriously In the basin be
tween the Clmaron and Corrumpa rivers.
When questioned he asserted that he had
discovered the guide posts, and had located
tho center of the often described circle.
The next day he waa not to be seen, and
has not been seen since, so It Is not known
what success he had. Ryan was not the
only person who has attempted to locate
the treasure, for more than once men
have come from Mexico to Beaver county
with charts and '.naps and have endeavored
to reoover the Castillan wealth. New Tork
Bun.
FLOGGING WITH COLD WATER
Experiments In the Oregon Pentlten
tlary Hove Demostrated It
. Efficiency.
Th cold water cure haa recently been
adopted at the Oregon state penitentiary,
with apparently satisfactory results. For
all practical purposes flogging has been
abandoned. No rule has been established
prohibiting flogging, and If a case should
be presented In which all other punishment
failed, the lash might be resorted to, but
this li a contingency not deemed probable.
The dold water" cure has been found ef
fective. In some very obstinate cases.
The cold water remedy consist of strip
ping the prisoner to the skin and turning
upon him a stream of cold water from an
ordinary . garden hose. The infliction of
the punishment is not aa brutal as flogging,
It leaves no soar nor permanent Injuries,
and the punishment ends th moment the
Water Is turned off, A prisoner who hss
been subjected to th punishment one
wants no more of It, though he may be
smiling within a few moments after the
ordeal I over. Governor Chamberlain and
the prison authorities are highly pleased
over tho result of the experiment, for
they have been desirous of abolishing ths
Whip.
Only on prisoner has been flogged dur
ing this administration. That man was a
trusty and had run away, and upon being
captured wa given the penalty always Im
posed In such oases up to that time. Since
then two prisoner have been punished with
the cold water remedy. One of them wa a
big, burly negro. When he came to the
prison h was assigned to work In the
hops, but refused to obey orders. He as
serted that he didn't hav to work, and
Wouldn't work. He was taken to the bath
room, (tripped and stood In a corner. The
first spurt of water from the hose brought
Out a shriek that wa evidence of th effec
tiveness of the remedy. After trying for
hair a minute to dodgs the stream of cold
water, the man gave up and began to beg
and make promises. The punishment ended,
he went to work, and ha given no fur
ther trouble.
The other prisoner subjected to the water
cure was a white man. For several months
he had been giving trouble, and seemed to
And enjoyment In disobeying rules, even
When he gained nothing by It. Small pen--j
allies did no good, and he was finally
warned that another offense would bring
severe consequences. A few day later
he deliberately violated an Important reg
ulation and was sent to tha bathroom. He
began to beg before the water struck him,
and before a pailful of water had bees
pnrently a more peaceful mind. Portland
er are not bound -nor cut and bruised.
The cold Water cure leave the offending
prisoner with a cleuner body and ap.
Used he waa completely subdued. Befors
h had dressed again he wa laughing over
the punishment, but hi subsequent eon.
duct hss proved that he doesn't intern) re
ceiving a second dose of. water cure.
There are mon In the Oregon penitentiary
Who bear flogging scars that they will carry
to their graves. It Is but fair to say thut
ths scars were not received during thl
administration. Some of the men thus pun
Uhed ara till unconquered and ara per
haps more vicious and more desperat be
cause of the method of Inflicting pain.
Many a prisoner ha sworn that If he ever
get an opportunity he will take the life
of th o nicer who laid th lash acruas
till back. Flogging wo degrading to both
the prisoner and th man who Imposed
the punishment. Th prisoner waa tripped
and bound and flogged Until, in many In
stance, th blood flowed dowa hi back.
Not with th water aar, Tba brtson.
Otagoolaa.
A DESOLATE PACIFIC REGION
The Hiitorio Wi'd, Untamed West Coist of
Vancotivar Island.
EARLY NAVIGATORS WHO LANDED THERE
Cheerless I .and of Shipwrecks and si
Dying Race Scenes of Many
Murders of Ship t rews
by Indians.
Thirty-six hours' ride by rail and steamer
from Portland, Ore., will land one In the
heart of the wildest region to be found
an where west of the Mississippi river. The
west coast of Vancouver IslanU Is this un
tamed spot, where time has stood still for
more than luO years and where, owing
to th topography of th country, ther
will be little or uo advancement In the en
suing luO years. Vancouver, Quadra, Uray
and Captain Cook all sailed along this
coast and visited th numerous little har
bors that make indentations in the forbid
ding shore line. They warped and towed
their comparatively small craft around nu
merous Islands and up canals and inlets,
reaching far Into the interior of the island,
and In their wak cam th fleets of th
traders who bought Ash and fur from th
Indian. Those wore the two great staples
of more than 1U0 years ago and they ar
still In th lead. In fact are the only re
sources on which the degenerate remnants
of the ones powerful trifee depended for a
livelihood.
White men are scarce along ths west
coast, about the only representatives being
the storekeepers at the Indian villages.
To supply the wants of these few white
traders and to carry the mall, the Canadian
Pacific despatches a small steamer every
seven days. For the past year the Queen
City, Captain Townsend, has been covering
the route, and a round trip voyage on this
craft la one of the most Interesting trips
that can be made In the same length or
time anywhere In the west. Mor than
hair or th voyage 1 spent in cruising well
Inland on bays and Inlets that run back
from Barclay, Kyoquot, Nootka, Clayoquot,
Quatslno and other "sounds" which lead
out to the open sea. The steamer usualljr
makes her first stop out of Victoria at San
Juan and then at Carmanah Point and
Cape Beale.
Australian Cable Station.
The most important landing place In
Barclay sound Is the new cable station
at Bamfleld creek. This Is where the Aus
tralian cable leaves the shores of North
America, and there are about twenty men
employed here, some or them being for
tunate - enough to have their wives with
them. After leaving Bamfleld creek, the
Queen City steams up the Albernl canal
far Inland to the old town of Albernl,
where the ships from England loaded "tim
ber" fifty years ago. The ruins or the old
mill are still in evidence, hut It has been
many a day since a deep water carrier
sailed up thl beautiful Inlet. The west
coast or Vancouver island Is rich in his
orlc lore, and there Is much tragedy
mixed with the history. In Friendly cove,
Nootka sound, the Northwest America,
the first vessel built on the Paclflo coast,
was launched by Captain Meares In Sep
tember, 1788, the American ship Columbia,
Captain Grey, being In the harbor at the
time of the launching. Fifteen years later
In the same cove, almost the entire crew
of the American ship Boston was massa
cred by th Indiana
At Clayoquot sound the red devils mur
dered almost the entire crew of the Ton
quln, which had gone north from Astoria
to trade. Then there were tragedies of the
sea, almost without rumber, and In the
early days the survivors of ships wrecked
on the west coast frequently met a death
on shore worse than drowning.
And over all this forbidding coast there
rests a glamour of historic interest that
will r:evr be dispelled. Th name ot
Gray, Vancouver, Meares, Quadra, Cook
and a number of others will be remem
bered until the end of time, and It was
from tho bleak west coast that they set
forth to explore what Is now known ss
Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.
The names which these leaders of civilisa
tion in a new world gave to' our rivers,
bays, sounds and mountains (RanJir ex
cepted) are still in uss and always will be.
For thin reason alone th west coast will
always remain a. locality of absorbing In
terest to both Canadians and Americans
In the Paclflo northwest.
A Marine Graveyard.
"The graveyard of the North Pacific" la
the sombre but expressive name that waa
bestowed on the west coast Of Vancouver
Island so many years ago that the identity
of the man who named It has been lost.
Time has not changed the 'lgnlilcanc of
that name, and the harvest of death and
destruction of property still go on. Big
quare-rlggers, aohoonero, bftrkentines,
steamers and even men-of-war have all
found a common grave on th shores of
this wild stretch of ooast line. A few of
these wrecks wer of sealing schooner
which were driven shor In a fog, but th
greater part of them wer vessels bound In
or out of Puget Sound. There hav been
many wreck and a considerable loss of Ufa
along that death haunted region' between
Cape Flattery and Gray'a Harbor, but ther
are so many stretches of beach and little
coves along there that dead bodies and
wreckage usually wash ashore In a condi
tion that renders Identification porsibl.
With tha exception of two or three good
entrances the west coast of Vancouver
Island present no such favorable front to
tha ocean. Rough, jagged rooks, aharn and
cruel In spite of the everlasting beat of the
surf against them, exttnd down to the
water edge, and under the surface hidden
rocks and resfs, In many plnoes, extend out
for miles. On these the utaunchest ship
ever built are quickly ground to pieces and
tho unfortunate crew, seeking In the fog
er darkness to ffeot a landing on the ad
jacent shores, meets with a similar fate.
Occasionally a wreck dodges the rocks
which guard tha entrance to most of Iheso
harbors or coven, and gets In where It can
be Idrntlfied before It Is pounded to pieces.
In a great many esse, hewevjr, there Is
Just enough wreckage left Jntnct to excite
peculation as to Its Identity, but not
nough to offer a aatlsfautory clew to the
vessel It came from.
Blight of Civilisation.
Tha Vancouver island Indl.n seems to
hav suffered wore by contact with th
civilisation of th white than any other
coast trtba. Th advent of tn whit man
found this island populated by many thou
sands cf healthy. wcll-iJuvelored Indians,
but bad whisky and greater evils that fol
low In Its wske have caused the destruc
tion of the race; and today ther or cer
tain tribe, notably along Quatsind Sound,
Where the cry of a native papooe will
never again be heard, the youngest Indian
III th district being I or ( years old. Large
numbers of th male have been ,lot in
seal hunting In rcsnt year, and aa th
seal hunter have always been the flower
ef tha Irlb from a physical atsndpolnt, ths.
loss to Indian posterity has been Severe. In
every Indian village on the Island are
numerous vacant huta that will never again
be tenanted by the red mnn. and deserted
villages ara by no means Infrequently mat
with.
The deatruetlon of th ree, whkh I so
largely dua to th adoption ot th whit
man' vice, cannot ! regarded otherwise
than with regrst. In perhaps almost any
other part of tha west thl regret wculd be
eoftened by th knowledge that th passing
f th red aaaa nraaa4 tba aflrant mt
higher rlvllliatlon. Here there I no rerom
nens for the dlsarpearatH-e of th rca
which ven In It plctureque squalor added
Interest to a section of the country where
Nature was la!h in her gifts of scenery,
but woefully stingy In sslng onr resource
of greater intrinsic value. When the last
west const Indian passes over to ths Great
Beyond, his place will not l filled by a
superior order of being. Th lespectabl
white traders and mlsionnrla who now
lead lonely lives among them, having no
more timber to work on will return to
civilisation and tha few remaining pecl
mens of mon wlU be th cultuj siuawmsn
and their offspring, the latter In their de
velopment retaining all of tha avll of both
white and red men and none ot the good of
either.
Colonel fteller Proposition.
In Justice to a scattsring fsw hardwork
ing prospectors and ailn owner now try
ing to discover what th west coast of
Vancouver Island was mad for, th above
statement should perhtp be qualified.
There ar numerous mine along th west
coast and several hundred thousand good
American dollars nave been loot forever In
an endeavor to make producers of them.
One of the finest of these Colonel Sellers
propositions was largely financed by Port
land people. It Is a copper mine located
on one of the numerous offshoots of Dar
Clay Sound. The wharf, buildings and
bucket t-amway are all In excellent condi
tion,' but the mine a orelrs and the pro
moter I In the penitentiary.
Th government, the Catholic and the
Presbyterian hav spent considerable
money in schools and churches for edu
cating and Christianizing the west coast
Indian, but th results hav been tar from
satisfactory. All of the religion that can
be forced on an Indian In this country
doe not seam to diminish his lov for lying
or steeling and ths morals of both sexes
ar shocking. The girls, born Into the
world with a handicap of environment and
blood, are taken up by the well-meanlna
but misguided church people and taught
just enough to make them understand that
there Is a higher civilisation and a better
lire than that which they ar leading. Their
Intellects, not exactly dwarfed, but through
centuries of tradition and breeding diverted
Into channels which run not with our,
oon enable them to understand that an
impenetrable wall of caste forever bars
them from mingling closely with tha better
civilisation of the outside world.
Education has momentarily drawn back
the curtain revealing to them tho Joys of a
civilisation which is not for them. It has
created In their hearts a deep longing for
something better, which they know full
well can never be theirs. They return from
the school to the smoke and dirt and
squalor In which they were bred, and real
ising the hopelessness of ever In their
brief lifetime Improving conditions there,
and also realising the equal hopelessness of
breaking Into the society ot the palefaoes
and living1 a they do, their weak minds
do not wrestle long with the problem, and
they generally go to the devil on the run.
Perhaps, after all, It Is a blessing that
they are dying off as rapidly as they are,
for th civilization and religion of tha white
man have shattered many an Idol for thorn,
and left nothing In return but a deep un
satisfied longing that can never be ap
peased so long as society draws th color
line. The many thousands which ar an
nually wasted on tht religious and educa
tional Institutions on this Island would do
a vast amount of good among the suffering
poor of our cities, and there It would be
appreciated. Here It does no good and It
Is not appreciated Portland Orogonlan.
AMERICA AS AWORLD MARKET
New Flgores on Per Capita Products
and Conaamptlon Hero nnd --
Abrond.
In tha manufacturing plants of th United
State In the year 1900 ther were at work
f, 308, 408 wage-earner.
These turned out In manufactures $13,
004,400,141. Average product value per capita
of earners, $2,460, per capita of population,
$170.
Total horsepower used In manufactures,
11,300,081. Horsepower per wage-earner, 116.
Total consumption of manufacture, $12,.
8ft5,60t,3OS. Approximate consumption per
capita of population, $109.
These figure or taken from the table
supplied In an article In the current num
ber of the Engineering Magazine, In which
William J. Clark, who Is manager of the
foreign trade of a great Amerloan electrlo
company, discusses the reason why Amer
ica I the best market for manufacturers.
Th United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland had 9.000,000 Wage-earner In 1900,
yet their product In manufactures wa but
$6,000,000,000, far '.ess than half the output of
our flv million and odd of workers. They
used only O.SS horsepower per capita one
seventh ss much In proportion ss we use.
Germany reported 10,000,000 wage-earners,
$4,600,000,000 In products, 0.S4 horsepower per
worker.
France, 6,000.000 earners of wag, $1.450,.
000,000 In manufactured product, 0.84 horse
power per capita.
Other European countries (and Japan, In
Asia) ranged lower yet, but
Canada, with 650,000 wage-earners, turned
out $800,000,000 In manufacture, which wa
$1,464 per capita of workers and $141 per
capita of population, and th horsepower
employed In the dominion wa I M per head
Of workers.
In point of consumption per capita of
population Canada surpassed the United
States, Its 4,800 000 using f890,000,000 In man
ufactures, or $181 per head.
The United Kingdom. 41,000.000 population,
consumed $4,278,997,43 In manufactures, or
$104 per capita; Germany, 16.307,000 people,
$4,152,450,000. or $74 par head; France, $7,700,
000 population. $4,161,460,000, or $82 per head;
Belgium. $,700,000 people, $$,000,000, or $98
per capita.
In the particular of consumed products,
Australia came after the United States,
With a demand for $fi06.000,000 In manufac
tures, or $1H2 per" capita for a population
of 8.700,000. Australia' own RM.OOO wag
arners wer credited with an output value
Of $500,000,000.
In bare totals or manufactures consumed,
Russia. $2,000,000,000, followed Belgium. Then
came Aufttrlo.-Hungs.ry, $1,900,000,000; Italy,
ti.714.000.ooo, and a dwindling procession In
hln figures.
Finishing With his various table. Mr.
Clark declares that they "show conclu
sively that America Itself Is by far th
best market of the world for manufac
tured products; consequently It is hot
Strange that up to the present American
manufacturers should have devoted their
principal attention to home trade."
rnexnmpled Sorsrioat Operation,
What Is considered one of th most ra
markable surgical operation aver per
formed in the world, by reason of the great
danger Involved of cutting off the lire of
the patient during th progress of th
work, has Just been completed by Prof.
Manteuffel of Porpath. Germany, on a
young girl of that town.
This operation, which proved Successful
nd I now claiming the attention of emi
nent surgeons the world over, Involved th
Cutting open and sewing up of th girl's
heart. Tha Burgeon succeeded In removing
from hi fair patient's heart, th beating
of which had stopped two hoar before hi
aid ws sought, a bullet which had lodged
In the back of the organ.
Curiously enough, though th bullet bad
practically pierced the heart, It hsd touched
no large blood Vessel. After evaral hour
the patUnt regained consciousness and la
now as welt as ever, th stitched heart
being good aa new. Berlin Let ley.
OMAHA'S TRADE CONDITION
Htrcbkuta All Qettiaa; Amioui for Eettlft
Warn Wea her.
TRADE, THOUGH, HOLDING UP WELL
Very Few Market Change Unrlaar the
Week, Kven tirooarloo Showing
Comparntlvolr Few Fine
tnntlons. Trad condition In Omaha and sur
rounding territory still continue quits sat
isfactory to both wlnue.iir and retailers.
The cool and rainy weather Is the cause
of some complaints, but as a rule they are
not at all serious The ntervhanls, a a
rule, remember that the situation Is much
better than a year ago, as (unntn tmv
practically all their com planted, which
was far from being the case a year ago.
There are. of course, reports heard to the
effect that quite a lot of corn will have to
be replanted, owing to too much cold and
wet weather, but still the sections where
that Is the case are rather limited. The
situation ss a whole Is very encouraging
and tho general belief la that It will take
but a. few days of warm, pleasant weather
to muko both retail und wholesale business
very active. Of course If the weather
should continue rainy (or some time serious
damugo would be done to all crops, but
that is hardly to be expected.
Now that jobbers have completed their
figures for the month of May they rind
that In practlaally all cases they did more
immediate business than they did during
May of l'.K'i, and they also met with better
success this year In capturing future busi
ness. There is no mistaking the fact that
local huuso hav a line of fall orders on
their books that goes way ahead of all
previous records, and consequently they
are well pleased with that part of the
business.
The market situation Is very much the
same as it wss a week ago. There have,
of course, been a few fluctuations up ana
down, but as a general thing prices on
the majority or staples ore much the same
as nt last report.
Collections are reported as being as good
as could be expected,
Soarar Vary Strongr.
Wholesale grocers report the demand ror
their Hue of goods aa being very satis
factory. Trade was a little quiet early In
the week, but toward the close the demand
was enormous There hav been compara
tively few changes in -the market during
the week under review. Sugar is In a
good, strong position, but there have been
no quotable changes on refined grades. Th
raw market in particular la strong nnd
rennern report the demand heavier even
than It waa a week ago. Owing to the
exceptionally heavy consuming demand
those well posted are of the opinion that
still higher price are liable to rule at any
time.
The market on Toung Americas eased
off lost week 4'c, but other gmdes of
cheese ate about the same us tTiey were
a week ago.
In the line of canned goods, spot to
matoes are quoted quite a little firmer
with jui advance on seconds, which carries
prices on that class of goods within $V0
of standards.
Several independent canners of California
goods have announced opening prices for
(all delivery, and upon examination It la
found that they are not much different
from the opening prices a vear ago, except
In the case of cling peaches and nprlcots.
These run from lui6o per doscn higher
than last year,
The demand for dried fruits Is reported
considerably smaller than It was a short
time ago. This Is accounted ror by the
ubiindunce of strawberries, rhubarb and
thst class or goods. The supply or peaches
Is so closely cleaned up that any very ma
terial Increaae in the demand would cause
an advance In prices of from 'Wc per
pound. Other lines of dried fruits are In
Sood request, with an exceptionally good
eniand for evaporated apples.
Staple lines of grocers not mentioned
above have shown very little ohange.
Dry Good Fairly Active.
The weather lust week the greater part,
of the time was not particularly conducive
to an active demand for summer weight
goods. In splto of that fact, though, mer.
chants sold considerable siock. 'iney are
showing some disposition to complain about
the weather, but they realise that with
favorable conditions from this time on that
trudo would be all that they could oak for,
and In the meantime they are waiting pa
tiently. In nearly all localities they have
sold much more of their stock than they
had up to this time a year ago, so that, as
compured with last soiison, tney have very
little to complain of.
Traveling men for local houses ure still
pounding away on the advance order prop
osition and are meeting with good suc
cess, Jteullers do not seem to be very
discouraged, as they are all willing to lay
In liberal supplies for fall.
The market has shown practically no
change during the week under review.
Prices are tlrm all along the line, but those
who are best posted on the general situa
tion do not look for any material changes
In either direction for sum time to come.
They say, tn faot, that there wa never a
afer time In their memory for retailers
to carry liberal stocks and to anticipate
thslr future requirements. It i not going
to be so much a question of prices this full
as one of getting the lines and classes of
good desired.
Itnrdwnre Jast Aboot Steady.
Hardware jobbers say that they are be
ginning to feel the effeota of the unfavor
able weather to some extent. The rains
Interfere with out-of-door work to a
greater or less extent, and that of course
stops the demand for many lines of hard
ware. Still, taking the entire line, they
say they are doing a very satisfactory
business and have no real ground ror
complaint. Such lines as refrigerators,
lawn mowers and garden tools are moving
out exceptionally well.
No new developments have been noted
In the market. - The same as ns been
the case ever since the llrst of ths year there
is a general feeling nt flrmnens all along
the line. There are, of course, a few
minor changes from week to week, but,
taking the more important staple lines,
they ars selling in Just about the sum
notches they have for some time past. Not
only that, but Jobbers predict a good,
healthy, tlrm market througnout tha pres
ent season.
Leather Goods None too Aetlve.
Th leather good trad 1 still a little
quiet from the jobber' standpoint. Thl la,
of course, a between season period with
them ana retailers have uut sold enough
of their slocks to bs very heavy buyers
In the way of alzing-up orders. That
kind of orders, thougn, is beginning to coinn
In, and with anything tike favorable
weather from this time on, Jobbers expect
to do ti nice sorting-up business.
Advsnce orders are coming in very freely
nd no complaints havs beu heard on thut
acore recuntly.
Very Utile Is doing In the rubber line.
Since the 1st of June practically no ad
vance orders have been placed and none
are expected until winter weather sets In,
and thon only from such merchants as buy
In a hand-lo-muuth way. The rains, of
course, oreste some demand for light weight
rubbers, but Jobbers do not feel the tffot
of that to any extent, as retatlers have
sufficient stock on hand to meet their re
quirements. Frnlt nnd' Vegetables.
The OBinund for slruwbtrrioe last week
wu something enormous, i'hn exception
ally low prices which prevailed for good
stock doubtluss stimulated the demand.
Missouri berrlus oi good qnai.iy nre now
inrlvlng on the inaiKet nnd fcru in such
liirae supply thut tiny are mowng out nt
$1.75 per crale, or about what peddlers'
Stock usually sells for. At thosa prices
very few people ure su poor that they uuti
not afford to eat atrawbirrles, und as a
result the consumption has been enormous.
Dealers look for continued heuvy receipts
and reasonable prices.
About the only oilier lino of fruit at
traotlng muoh attention at this time Is
orungeti, but they are selling a little higher
than they were u week ugo. Prices iungi
from $2.76 to $3.60. Pineapples also sell
lUit well tit $3 6o pvr critii and Ciililoriii.i
cherries nt 11.60 to $1.75 r,er box.
Vegetables are arriving more freely each
week and prices gradually easing off. as
th quotations in anotltor column will
show. Texas is furnishing tomatoes In
four-brisket crates st t'MXi. Potatoes are
also arriving quite freely from that stale
and ure worth ? cents per pound, while
old northern slock Is worth 11 an per bushel.
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