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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1906)
TTTF. OMAHA DAILY BED: MONDAY. NOVEMBF.tt .12. m. ( AFFAIRS AT SOUTH OMAHA I r eht Over Lsjine af Tuck to BrwT on Point of fettHnnat l' . Arr GIVfS REASONS FOK HIS FIGHT l to Force Brewer jr (o Agrtt a Urada Betweea Iraartle -, Owned r Jetter ti4 Mr. Trapp. ror was low, blng I to 4. Next Paturrlay the South Omaha tni will content with Omaha for honor. I.nnklnn After 9palU. Much dlpruKsion Is now extant concern Ing the spoils of offle which fa.ll to the her of South Omaha from the election of J. P. English. Thlslty my secure mesMnfrer or a deputy. The messenger 1 to perform the duties of claim arent. There are several name mentlored In this res pect. Frank Good, Tom Keen and Jerry Howard are suggested. Bamuet Winter has been the aspirant for the deputyshlp. Vnx Pule. il.Jf fcr 4 house and 73x109 feet of Aj It now stand, the controversy over i around at tha N. E. cor. or sotn ana k bis lnvln nf the nur trtnliA at fV, T-nlAM W-lflr is about to be Settled, tt In believed ifit there will be no further attempta at moving- the rails which have been placed in position. Building Inspector Edward 11,250 for good 4-room house, No. 220 N. Kd St; city water In house; easy terms. GEORGE & CO., 1601 Faranam. Omaha, tnmethlnar Sew la Omaha,. For rent, fr lecturea or recitals, beautl- Trapp, who ha taken considerable Interest fnl auditorium hall with grand piano and In the opposition, yesterday explained that; pipe organ: seating capacity 600. Tor terma toe ground of his opposition to the con-1 telephone Douglas 1Z5. of atructlon was that he had been trying for several yeara to get Jelter to give him a gradn at a point whei his property and that of the brewery Joined. It was to force lilm to this concession that he sought to de lay the bull. ling of the tracks. He declared that It had never been his Intention to t-ar tip the tracks and he denk-d emphatically : that he had tried to oraantzn a gang for ' that purpose. He said that h, held In his 1 jiockets an Injunction rearly for service. He admitted, however, that It llknly would be of little avail except as a slight temporary hindrance aa there was little upon which to , base a ease. He thought It Improbable that ' he would attempt to force the Injunction at all. He was incensed at the press reports which charged him with Intoxication, de claring that he had vlsltod the brewery at th request of the railroad officials and In a businesslike way. Guards were again placed on the tracks last night, and among them two police offi cers. Work has been progressing on the construction of the tracks, though thre is but a small force on the ground at present. Itiehmona Goes to Frenteat. H. C. Kichmond, the local represent ' tlve of the World-Herald, has resigned his .position here to become the editor and manager of the, Fremont Dally Herald. He succeeds Edgoxd Howard in that position, J having bought out bt Interest. Howard was among the foremost newspaper men ut the state and he goes baqk to the Col- umbu Telegraph. Mark G. ' Ferklns Is ljuslnesa partner with Mr. Kichmond In tit yew firm. Mr. Richmond- resignation will , taks effect about November 15 and he will begin the nctual labors In the new field about Decomber t. He ha been In Bouth Omaha' for the past eight years -and ha been connected with the World-Herald for about twelve years. He will reside In Fre mont after December 1, where hi wife, one ot the best known musician of the city, win accompany him. Art Exhibit a Sueceaa. The results of the Turna art exhibit, which was cenducted at the Lincoln school Friday and Saturday of this week, have been flattering In the extreme. Tha pupils of the school have taken the keen est Interest in the exhibit. As a conse quence tba children raised about 2o0 by Moiling ticket, programs and confectionery. In addition to the pictures, which are the brown and gray prints of the original paintings which are handled by tha Turner company, there was a program consisting of . muslo and recitation and exhibitions school , work, all of which were well worth the price of .admission. Tho pic tures are morstly classical. They repre sent, historical scenes or have a. dramatic or sentimental interost of the first type. The money which ha been raised will bo expended for the originals. Enough Is now on hand to purchase ' about twenty pic ture. These will be used In the decora tlpaf the echool rooms.i -r. Hiah School Elated. . ' The South Omaha High school student are Jubilant over the results of yesterday' foot bait game In Nebraska City. The game was described aa one of th cleanest and freest from disagreeable feature that has been seen between this city and an. oppon ent this year. The touchdown was made by Maurice Gohn in the first half and the safety was made In the second half, as was also Nebraska City's drop kick for goal. The game was hard fought and the BLACK HAWK'S LOST COIN feareh for Indiin Rich Fnmd in the Hi.lf-rrtd Tracts. RECtNT DISCOVERY MADE BY AN I0WAN Soldiers' Pay Hidden hy Order f General Kaehary Taylor Money Kent to Iowa Mysteriously Disappear In Transit. BCHMOLLEn MUELLER PIANO CO., 1311-131 FarPam Street. Maa-le City Gossip. CI. B. Gafford. livery. Tel. 106. For sale. 4-room cottage, fruit and tree. Jpfter Gold Top Beer deliverer! to an parts of the city. Telephone No. I. P C. Caldwell. Justice of the pece, real e.tntiv (Ire insurance. 2ilZ street. Magic City council, RnirMs ana mmcs of Security, will give a ball Monday even ing. Wanted, one or two unfurnished, heated moms. Address W. Bee office, South Omaha. Miss Rose Kennlson, SJ7 North Twunty- fourth street, gave a Htag party to fifteen of her girl monos. O. n. Gafford, moving and transfer, Tel. am. The wrmten of the Methodist church will hold a rummage sale at Twenty-fourth and P streets on November Z3. Oak council No. 232, Knights and Ladles of Security, will give an oyster supper and danco Tueerlay at Woodmen hall. George B. Kennedy and O. A. Tucker will open their new cigar and pool room fcatur lay. November l's B. E. COr. Stth and N. The women of Lefler Memorial church will serve a school children's lunch at noon Friday and a chicken pie dinner the same evening. Chattel and salary loans. ICO N St. All business confidential. Quick service. Court Ailemania No. 3"-!, Independent Ordrr of tWd Fellows, will give It thir teenth annual ball Thursday evening at their hall, 2 N street. The Tjiiee' Aid society of. the Preeby- terlnn church will give a tea Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. George r . Hmith, Twenty-sixth and E streets. The T-ycar-old son of H. L. Harm, Fortieth and L streets, died yesterday morning. The funeral will be this afternoon at 2 o clock from the Bohemian Catholic church and burial "will be in Bt. Mary's cemetery. Free llfe-slred portrait with one dozen photos till Christmas. Peterson' S.udlo. Make an offrr on the northwest corner of ISth and Missouri Ave. a near.y new house, east front, and neat cottage, uulh front: two new lots. Room for two moie houses. Will sell on easy term.-t. Fdco, $2,7DO. N. P. Dodge & Co., 1714 Farnam St. Lorna, the 8-year-old daughter of John Randolph, died yesterday afternoon afUr a short Illness. The funeral will be conducted bv pr. R. L. Wheeler from the residence, 2120 Vinton street, at 2 o'clock this after noon. Interment will be in Forest Lawn cemetery. The Woman's auxiliary of tho Toungl Men s crerisiian association win meet at the home of Mrs. P. C. Peterson, Twenty third and G streets, Wednesday afternoon at 2:3". All are urged to be present, as the object of the meeting le to further thA Incrcoso or membership of the association. BENEFIT FOR BILLY .WILLIAMS Program to Bo Rendered at lrrle Theater to Aid the Veteran Minstrel Man. On November 21 and 22 a benefit program will be rendered at the Lyric theater for the benefit of Billy Williams, who la in. bad state ot health and needs assistance to rifle htm over the winter. It will be furnished by number ot' well known amateurs and profeselonala. Among those who will take part are Miss Juna Wasley, C. C Wentiler, George Gelenbeck, George J. Bailey, little Gladys Cliandler, the three Delanos, Rlph Gelenbeck, Baby Denver Williams, Billy Williams, A. J. Edmonston, Carl Relter, MIfs Mabel Manning and the Dahlman Cowboy quartet. The program will be repeated two nights on account of the air of the house, the desire being to give all a, chance to see the show. What has become of the thousands upon thousands of dollars, In gold ejles- and double eagles, sent from St. Louis snventy- flve and 1(0 years ago to pay the Sac and Fox Indians for the lands which tbey had ceded to the United States, millions upon millions of acres, and to ray the United States troops under command of Colonel Zachary Taylor, subsequently president of the United States, at Fort McKay during tha famous Black Hawk war? The belief that this golden treasure llfS burled In variooa parts of the state of Iowa has led hundred ot persons to dig Indus triously for more than half a century. The discovery within tho last fortnight of H5.0HO In gold in one part of the stato and a map giving tho whereabouts of !.ooo of Black Hawk' fortune in another, has set hun dreds all over the state to searching the records and digging the ground. After a lapse of a century the fortune, for tho first time, now seems about to be discovered. That gold by the thousand of dollars, aggregating far more than 1100,000, was sent from St. Louis to the northern In dians, both before and after tha Black Hawk war of 1S52, Is undeniable. In 1804 as a result of the treaty nego tiated In St. Louis by William Henry Har rison with five Sac and Fox chiefs, an an nuity of $1,000 was granted to the tribe, and was paid for more than quarter of eenturr. In 1S30 no less than Jo,(ioo was sient from Bt, Louis to Colonel Zachary Taylor at Fort McKay, la., to pay tho regular sol diers whone presence was necessary in tho territory of Iowa because of Black Hawk and Ms anticipated outbreak. That for tune In gold was burled by Zachary Tay lor's command, and the men who knew of It whereabouta were killed by tha In dians. In 1832, following the Black Hawk war. treaty was made with Keokuk and other Eac and Fox chiefs by Wlnneld Scott and Governor Reynolds of Illinois, by which the Indians were given a lump sum of J50.000 and an annuity of $30,000 for thirty years. Aside from buying whisky and rifles, the Indians had no way to spend the money. Instance of Money Mlsslna. A doion other instances might be cited of money sent into Iowa territory to pay Ted men and white that has mysteriously disappeared. JuBt within the last few days have the first traces been found of it. Iowa has gold mines which the plough of the farmer may turn up any day, bringing fortune to the lucky man. Such a lucky man is Frank Bllnt, a far mer residing near Denmark, in the famous half-breed tract of Iowa, Just across the Des Moines river, which separates the northeastern corner of Missouri from the southeastern corner of Iowa. The haif breed tract was once the home of Indians as wealthy as the Osages of today. The land had been set aside for them by the government because they were the chil dren of two races white man and Indian. The half-breeds Inherited wealth from thflr Indian forbears who had shared in the distribution of the 18f4 and 1832 treaty money. They inherited wealth from their white forbears, who came to Iowa with Julie n Dubuque back In 1788 and obtained the right to work the famous lead mines though rlonrers familiar with tho nrUh borhood sh- they well remember wii'n all of those shown were standing. Tl.e map shows a line running diagonally 4 feet southeast of the cabin. This lino Js crossed by One running due east. A line running north and south crosses these two, and the letter says to dig t the center of tha triangle Instead of the crossing of the east-west and norlh south lines, where all previous digging has been done. An even greater amount of gold treasur lls burled 150 miles north of where Mr. Elint found his $13,000, and where the Fairfield residents are digging for tha IS, 000 spoken of in the Bonnlfleld letter. There Is $SO,000 sent from St. Louis in 1830 to Fort McKay to the soldiers under Colonel Zachary Taylor, which waa burled TRAIN CREWS GET CARELESS Elatne for Wit Aeo'd'nti Traced t Biilrotd Employ. VIGILANCE THE PRICE OF LIFE j rei Pointed Out and Remedies Sngrsted by m Railroad Man- Several Good Rnle for Train Operative. Although th annual death and Injury roll from railroad accidents reaches hun- until the Indian trouble should blow over. Idrcd thousand. It may be taken for granten and which has never been discovered. Men J that the companies do not Kin peopm un and even women have dug for this money purpose, and that they uso all the precau m .... .v r iho'ttona thev know to nrevent accidents. If lur many ytarPi uuv mo ouvnw vt . -- searchers In the southern part of the state has Inspired those In the northern, and the search Is being taken up again as never before. Story of'ihe Taylor Fortnne. The story of the Taylor fortune I In teresting in the extreme. One day, in 1830, four bags of gold were received at Fort McKay, near where the little town of North McGregor, la., now stands. It was the largest shipment ever sent out from St. Louis to any of the frontier posts' and wa to be used to pay eft the white Soldiers who were valiantly preserving order by holding the rebellious Indians in leash. Colonel Tay lor, when apprised of tho safe arrival of the money, took every precaution to safeguard it until the Indians had been driven away or pacified, when the men could be paid nd allowed to return to tho whlto settlement to spend their hard earned money. Calling together the command, Coionel Taylor chose four of the bravest and most trustworthy men and. after Informing they had no humane Instincts they must be impressed with -the bills they have to pay for personal Injury snd death claims. Tho employes of the railroads are more Interested In the prevention of acpldents even than the companies or the traveling Dubllc. It Is the employe who suffer most. for upon them fulls one-third of the total deaths and three-fourths of all tho injuries. Yet the employes are to blame for most of the accidents, if we are to believe R. C. Richards, himself railroad employe, who has written book on "Railroad Accidents; Their Cause and Prevention." The book is published by the authority of the Associa tion of Railway Claim Agents, ana snouio be authentic, for the claim agents know more about wrecks and accidents than any body else. They are first in the field whon a casualty occurs, ascertaining causes, look ing ud names and addresses and witnesses. even while the surgeons are busy with bandages. Carelessness Canae Accident. Accidents caused by the "act of God:" j that Is, unexpected washouts and land- them of the Importance of the mission upon slides, earthquake and similar catastrophes which he was about to send tht?m, he gava to each a bag of gold with instructions to carry the bags to some safe place, which they should Jointly select, and there hide the treasure from the Indians. An attack being feared at any moment, the four men started at once. They never returned. Hardly had tho four men left the stcck- ade when a well planned attack was madn by the Indians. The fighting was fast and furious and extenfied over several days. When at lant the Indians had been re pulsed Colonel Taylor lost no time In se lecting a party and sending it out to res cue the gold hlders. The party search-d for many hours before they came acrcai the four men lying dead and entirely naked, the Indians having murdered, scalped and stripped them. Not the smallest suggestion of the where abouts of the gold could be found about the place where the men had lost their Uvea in defense of their trust, but after a thorough 'search one of the members of the party waa rewarded by finding a scrpp of paper near the body of one of tho men. known as Mcreierre. It is that scrap of paper which has inspired three-qunrtrrs of a century of digging. On It was scrawled: : ON HIGHEST BLUFF ACROSS j . FROM FORT IN 4 PILES '. ': EACH $20,000. ! : PIERRE MERCIERRE. : This scrap of paper la still In existence today and Is positively' the only clue to the burled $80,000 of United States mc ney which should have gone to the troops whom Colonel Taylor took up the Missis sippi from St. Louis si year or two b.foro. The supposition fill 'along has been that one of the gold hlders ftndlng that his but near ine present city oi uuDuque; or tne moment was near, hastily scrawled the white forbears who went out from Augusto I best directions he could, In the haste and Chouteau buying furs of the adventurous ; ,.... unon hR ,nrt th, coureurs du bols who carried on the com- him in the hope some of his fellows wou'd . . . i i. . i- i . . m"1' " l"B lerr.iury uo wo ouxom in- 1. fnlnnl ,.a vi dian belle, to wed. " " " "'l "'"I bib iwi m3 munvy iui iiin.il y gay, DUl never A trace was found. St. Louia Globs STOP, WOflAN t AND CONSIDER THE ALL-IMPORTANT FACT . That la addressta Mrs. Tlekhan yen are confiding your private ills to a woman a woman whose experience with wo Bten'g diseases cover twenty-five years. Tha present Mrs. Plnkham is tha daughter-in-law of Lydia E. Pink ham, and or many years tinder her direction, and since her decease, her adriee has been freely given to siek women. Many women suffer in silence and drift alone from bad to worse, knowing full well that they aght to have immediate assistance, hot a natural modesty impels them to shrink from exposing them selves to the questions and probable examinations of even their family physician. It is unnecessary. Without money or priee you ean consult a woman whose knowledge from actual experience is great. Mrs. Pinkham's Standing InTlt&tion: Women suffering from any form of female weak ness are Invited ta promptly communicate with Mr. Pinkham at Lynn. Mas. All letters are received, opened, read and answered by women only. A woman ean freely talk of her pHrate tllneas to woman; thus has been established tke eternal confidence between Mrs. Pinkham and the women of America which has never been broken. Out f the rust volume of experience which sha has to draw from, l is more thaa poesim that she has gained tke very knowledge - that will help your case, fche aaks nam ing in return except your good-will, and her advice hss relieved thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, isrery foolish If he does not take advantage of this gen erous offer of sssiatance. Lydia fi. Pink ham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. '! c 1 IK 11. 4 A f ft Followlnsr publish twe let ters from t woman who accep ted this invitation. Koto the result: First letter. Bear Mr. Pinkhun: For eight years I have suffered something terribV every mouth. The rln are itni eating an-1 1 ran hardly stand thorn. My ioctof I have a severe female trouble, and I moit go through an operation if I want to get well. I do pot want to submit to it it I can rowubly help it. fleas tell m what to do. I hope vou ean relieve me." Mrs. Vary Dimmi- k, otoa aad E. Capitol Street, Vt'aiJiington, D. C. . 6econd letter, beer Mr. PlnUam; After following erfuuy your avtra, " A van knew, I wrote yea tht wy doeto said I must bate an operation or I could not hv. 1 than wrote you, telling ou my ail ment. 1 followed your advice nd am en tirely walk. I ran walk miles without aa at-be or a pain, and I owe my life to you and to I.vdi E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound. I wih every suflntjtifr woman would read this testimonial and loalize th value ot writ ing to vou nd votir reinadv." Mr. Mary Iiimmu i, ."iU and K. Capitol Street, Vawi liigton, D. C. tThcn a medicine has been successful In reatoring to health so many womra whass testimony is so unquestionable, you cannot well r, without trying it, 11 1 do not b-li?ve it will help me." If too are ill. don't heaitste to get a bot tle of t.ydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable ... . . : .,.WV 111. -1.1 .' lompm."? l im vary aaxiou. to d Compound at one, aadwriteMrs IU aiy testimonial, that others aiav knaw Ueir I ham, Lynn. MbJ... for special advice aju and wb4 yea a oca for lit U free aad always kalffuL ' Frank Bllnt owns a farm In the heart of what half a century or more ago was the famous half breed tract. Deciding to deepen a cistern which had been on the premises for many years he went industri ously to work with pick and shovel. Hardly had he turned up a dozen shovelfuls of the long undisturbed earth when his shovel rang on metal. A few minutes work dis closed an old Iron pot. Digging it loose snd bringing it up to the light, Bllnt was dazzled by the golden stream which poured forth Exactly $15,000 in gold eagles and double eagles was the fortune he had un earthed. It could have come from no other source than some family of wealthy ba'.f breeds, unable to spend their generous patrimony. Th same week In which this portion of th vast treasure was discovered clues were found to another portion undoubtedly burled not fifty miles away near where Black Hawk and his companions spent their last days after the disastrous close of the rebellion and their Journey down the Mississippi to Jefferson barracks and then, in charge of Jefferson Davis, across to Washington and New York. Tearing down the old Bonnlfleld log cabin, near Fairfield, one of the oldest buildings in the oldest part of the state, the workers found an Inkhorn and quill case, resembling much In appearance a rasor case, and a musty old pocketbook which contained a 4 newspaper clipping bearing the date June 26, JS28, and a letter. Th last two were so faded that a magnify ing glass was necessary to read them and even then parts of the letter were beyond deciphering. Aa Ancient Letter. The paper is yellow and torn wher it ha been folded and the ink with which th letter wa written is badly faded. As nearly aa It can be mad out tha letter runa In this manner: FRISCO, June 11. My Dear William- wagon, had lots of time to think money, which is burled near the old Bonnirteld house. Tou know what I am, found out from BUrk Hawk over from Illinois. I looked but never thought until I nearly got out here. About that there map; it weren't wheie the lines cross, but In the mlrtriln. K. don't you tell anyone, but try this here plan. (Map follows). Vou see we alius made the mistake of dlirging at crossing marked A. That other Indian that Jim knowed knowed more than he let on. There must be near J9.1XW and mebbe more, according to what Black Hawk fetched that time. Don't you let none of those Burlington fellows see this man. Well, Bill, I wish I waa there, for proliably there is more cash there than we think. We will dig here for a big nell. I want to write a lot, but the stage leivra In a minute and I got to quit. Tours, J. W. P. B. Mebbe it ain't that house, but what other big house could he have meant? The purport of the letter Is plain. The money referred to is undoubtedly part of that paid to Black Hawks tribe by the I'nited States In return for lands sold by them, either by treaty of 1S04 or of 1S33 or some intermediate date. There is an old story in th neighborhood wher the letter was found of how three Indian braves wer appointed to bury this gold, th number be ing chosen so that If on wa killed there would yet b someone left to find th loca tion. As the irony ot f.ito would have it, however, a tribal war folio c-d. and every one of the three In the secret was killed, o that nona jt the tribe could locat th mUslr.g treasure. Mast Direction. The map which was found with the old letter gives fairly legible direction 1 r th search, and already dutens are at work digging in various parts of tne neighborhood In search of the motiey. Of all the landmarks mentioned on the mar. however, but one tree reni.il Democrat. against which no precaution can prevail. and accidents to trespassers who drive or walk on the track, of course, are not th fault of the companies. These compara tively are few in number. But "accidents caused by the careless ness, thoughtlessness or neglect of em ployes are the large majority of all that happen," says Mr. Richards, "and If wu could eliminate them or one-half of them I here would be but little cause for com plaint on the part of the management of the companies or criticism on the part of the public, and the claim agent would have a bed of roses Instead of the busiest and hardest worked office on the road.' This author dismisses the question of safety appliances with lltye mention. He says that It Is the man and not the device that renders traveling safe, and that acci dents occur where the right-of-way is lined with approved safeguards. Accident Happen Every Day. Perhaps the employes, bearing In mind long hours ami old-fashioned equipment, would take issue with him on this point, but he Insists that his experience as a claim agent loads him to conclude that the accidents that happen "every day on every railroad in the country, and which go on happening every year in the same old way." could and should be avoided by the exercise j of greater care and thoughtfulness. It is not the big wrecks that cause the large totol of deaths. A few hundred peo ple are killed during the year by frightful collisions. Many thousands are killed by accidents that are not mentioned In tho newspapers. The public never hears of the brakeman who falls between two moving freight cars or the tramp, a trespasser, who goes to sleep and tumbles from tho hrakebeam on which he has stolen ft ride. In hi cautions to reckless engineer Mr. Richards says: "When you get a bulletin prohibiting your running down certain mils faster than thirty miles an hour don't do It at forty or (tlfty miles an hour. Rales for Engineer. "When you see a signal, set against you. thinK of tne wiecKK you have Known since you entered the service and stop. TaKe no chances, it you cant see the signal stop or slow down. In case of doubt, al ways take the safe course. "When In a terrible rainstorm you are running with a slow order over a track which is being repaired, don't do It at a speed of fifty or sixty miles an hour. "When you are making your station stop don't Jerk your train after It has stopped or Is about to stop. Don't pull or back up a few icei to get to tne coai cnuic. GOSSIP STARTS LIVELY FIGHT Colored Woman Resents Stories Cir culated liy Another of Her So. To circulate stories among the neigh bors reflecting in any. manner upon the , oi me va.eo. ,n a community t chum if you do someone is liable to get - iicid mo uiu'jrB vi rvuicBR iiavt) nut changed since the days of spiked clubs and spears, is apt to lead to strenuous events and bloodshed, If the experience of Vernie Clark, 1124 Capitol avenue, is accepted aa an instance. Miss Clark U a woman of, exceeding color and stands as a leader in her social set, and Is there fore Jealous over the standing of its membership. According to her tale to the police, she objected to the admission of Flora Williams, 218 North Eleventh street, equally colored, to the ranks of the 400, because, as she said, she had heard it said on good authority that the Williams person was not a woman, but a man. Such a crime on Flora's part was,' she believed, unpardonable, and alio' sought to arouse a feeling of antagonism against her, or him. In the course of time, the attack upon th privilege to b counted on of the gentler sex came to the ears of Flora Williams, and immediately she decided to pay a visit to the circulating medium, Saturday night. With a loaded revolver in her hand and hidden In the folds cf her dress, she entered the door of Miss Clark's abode. It started right away. - Ther were no ear acute enough to follow the line of conversation, but there was no mistaking Its heat and a second loaded revolver In the hands of the Clark' woman loomed up big enough to Inspire awe, but th expected fusillade of shot somehow failed to materialize, the two hurt." It Is a strange thing that many grade I crorslna: accidents occur and no one on I the engine knows that they happen. Whether It is on account of the kind and position of the headlights now being used or because the engineer does not watch the track, fbe claim agent does not know. An engineer will run down a man or vehicle and perhaps not learn about It till the next day, when he Is called upon by I the company for an explanation. Common Cause of Trouble. Most of the common accidents caused by neglect of the train crew are summarised by Mr. Jtiehards as follows: Failure to watch for and observe signals. Trains following each other too closely. Trains follovling at too high a rate of spetd. Failure to protect trains stopped on th main track. Car not being left In to clear at sidings. Switches being left wrong. Lack ot caution In time of storm or fog. General carelessness.' Most of the Injuries to employes caused by their own carelessness are from coupling cars, getting on or off, or falling from trains or engines. Mr. Richards cannot j Imagine why a brakeman of common sense should stand on a foot board and when the couplers are almost together put his band In between them, nor why he should stand In the middle of the track and watt promptly Imbedding their fingers In their ! for c" r ""i'"" l pProch thn antagonist's hair Instead of shooting. They went to the mat and In a moment the corner of Eleventh street and Capitol avenue resounded with the noise of com bat. Across the street stood officers Mitchell and Eullivan and their attention and taut were promptly attracted to the scene. They found th twp pillars of local so ciety fastened In a strong embrace on the floor, and so lothe were the two to desist that although Mitchell took hold of on and Bulllvan of th other, thiy ware obliged to strain every muscle be fore they could pull them apart. Then each took a belllberent and Ud her off to jail. No sooner had they released their holds on the ralr at the station, however, thxn they went at it again, Mis Clark face and clothing were covered with blood from wounds on her head Inflicted by tho other's revolver. This time they wer mora easily parted. "What's th matter with you twor1 asked Captain Mostyn. "She says I'm a man," accused th one named William. "Ye, she is a man," and everybody says o, too," asserted the other. "You'll have this to do ever again, too, you big man." Th wounded on wa given surgical at tention, when they were both locked up charged with disturbing the peace by fl dining. When the cartridges wr re moved from the revolvers, somo of them were found to bear tha marks of a ham mer, showing the women had tried to shoot each other, falling only because their' guus refused to discharge, step on the foot board, or brakebeam, when by stepping to one side he could get on In safety. Why do men Jump on an engln pilot to ride a few feet to make a switch when the engine Is going so fast as to be dangoroue? How Careless Brakemen Art Hart, Why undertake to climb from car to car when It Is not necessary? Why cross the track in front of moving cars or engines when they are so close that th act looks like suicide? Why be struck In broad daylight by over. head structure when warning telltales hav been erected T Why cut the steam hose befor the steam ha been turned off? Why try to oil a hot box when th train la running? It is suggested that the railroad have bureau of employment properly conducted to ai-cure the beat men and school In which to Instruct the men to the rules under which the railroads ar operated. Th companies ar urged to clear their roadhouses, repair yarda, coal stations, gat bouses, and all other branches of th servlc connected with transportation of foreign workmen with whom neither other employers nor tha public can communicat because they cannot apeak English. "Never go without sufficient rest, says th bonk. "Don't tiy to get In too many miles or hours for the pay there Is In it. as you may get hurt or killed doing so or Injure someone else. When an order la given you, verbully or in writing, which you do not understand, uncertain exactly what It means before you undertake to execute It." Ben Hurbank lj 111 Chicago Trthuna EDWIN MARKHAM "The Great Guest Comes" A Christinas poem, instinct with the spirit off 'Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men". Tern time I caste I your (riejiaty deer: Three timet my thaJow waa en your fleer, I was th beggar with bruited leet; I wai the wentaa yea fare to eat; I was the child oa th koinelea sueeu" THE AUTHOR OF "ELIZABETH AND HER GERMAN GARDEN" CONTRIBUTES "The Love Letters Nothing sweeter, more womanly; notrtinej more realistic, more heart-touching has been written. C N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON J "The Chauffeur and the Chaperon u With all the merriment-making, they cannot keep love out of this story any more than they could in The Lightning; Conductor." ANTHONY HOPE The Dukes Allotment' if The gay adventures of a man, a maid and an automobile. AGNES AND EGERTON CASTLE "The Young Conspiracy' A' short story of love and intrigue. FASHIONS j Selected from one hundred and fifty new de signs submitted by our Parisian artists and illustrated by the best talent MILLINERY Showing the latest and improved creations. 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