THE OMATIA STjNDAT BEEt JAM7AH7 20, 1007.
!IlilEL REAL ESTATE TALK
Trices of Farm Land Net Omaha Go
E gher in Floret,
RECENT PURCHASES SHOW STABILITY
Loral DMltn Rif Omaha Investors
Are But Wahtngr fp tBe
' Possibilities of (he
Section.
Brick Houses Add Beauty and Solidity to Omaha Residence Sections
01LL PLAN TO SELL LASD
Enrlin:ton Tint to CiroumTent Sew Law
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More sales of farm property were an
nounced lout week by Harrison A Morton,
who In their capacity a realty agents sold
thirty-eight acres of the J. M. Woolworth
estate to Oecar Pickard and Henry Rohlft
at $125 an acre. The property la five and
one-half miles west of Omaha and one
and one-half miles eouth of the Dodge
atreet road. Another real estate Arm la
aald to hare aold 190 acres of the Wool
worth farm at $128 an acre, and the buyer
Is thought to be L. Everett of Council
Bluffs, who took the Connor farm a few
days ago, paying $50,ono for 400 acres.
All this, added to the news of Joseph
Connor's sale, has caused considerable ex
citement among property holders on the
Dodge road. This thoroughfare la paved
to a distance of eight miles west qf the
Omaha postoOlce, and all farmers within
reasonable distance of the pavement have
mentally advanced the values of their land.
The recent sales have been at the highest
flgurea In the history of the oountry and
the permanency of values la attested In
purchases by no lee shrewd an Investor
than Leonard Everett, who has been all
his Ufa an extensive and successful dealer
In realty.
Other sales made In the neighborhood In
the last year are: B. H. Thomas, farm of
160 acres to A. P. Wood at $126 an acre;
ten acres of Wear farm to C. Chrlstensen
at $362.60 an acre; Logan Hnyart farm of
100 acrea to David Btull at $110 an acre;
eighty acrea from-y Hugh McCaffrey and
David Reed to a syndicate headed by
Oeorga St Co. for $35,000. The last men
tioned tract la to be perked and sold In
acreage tracts for country homes.
"These purchases do not mean, as It was
reported," said Charles C. George, "that
the new owners believed the Dundee car
line was to be extended soon. As far as I
know there Is no such belief. It means
Imply that Omaha is waking up to the
possibilities of i its surroundings; that the
people are beginning to realize they may
have nice, quiet, country homes at the
same time they are conducting their busl
Bess In the city. Other cities of the same
size are already awake In this regard and
their citizens are building homes out sev
eral miles In the country.
"It is the automobile that makes this
condition possible. There Is not yet enough
trafflo on the Dodge street road went of
Dundee to warrant a car line, and travel
back and forth by buggy would require too
much of a busy man's time. With an au
tomobile It Is ust a nice spin to town In
the morning after breakfast and another
back again In the evening."
North of Elmwood park Is growing a'
cluster of country homes. George H. Payne
has completed a residence, Mrs. C. E. Bates
has one partially completed and Mra T. C.
Shelley haa broken ground for a house.
John W. Bobbins in the spring will build
near by. L. O. Perley, C. B. Hayward, E.
M. Gibson and T. J. Nolan have bought
mall tracts and are planning residences.
Farms are Belling In other parts of the
Bounty, too, and two near Irvington, form
erly belonging to the Harwood estate of
Massachusetts, have been disposed of
through R. C. Peters & Co. A. C. Dlen
of Pierce, Neb., bought one farm of 134
acrea and L. II. Anderson of Irvington
bought another of 120 acres. Eighty-five
dollars an acre waa the price In both cases.
The year has started with great promise
for building activity. 1'p to Saturday
forty-eight building permits had been Is
sued tills month, against forty-five for
the entire month of January, 1900, twenty
for January, 19M, and twenty-five for Janu
ary, Wol. It will evidently be a year of erec
tlon of small homes. Of the forty-eight
pwmlts issued so far this month thirty
two were for dwellings ranging in cost
from $1.2u0 to $3,000.
It may be due to the proximity of the
Union Pacific headquarters site, though it
is more likely due to the general develop
ment of the city, but at any rate rents
The two things paramount in a Life Assurance Con
tract are the financial strength behind the contract and
the prompt payment of losses.
The EQUITABLE LIFE ASSIRWCE SOCIETY of the I. S. Is
known as "I EE STRONGEST I TEE WORLD."
As to the second point the Prompt Fayment of
Losses the EQUITABLE has never been approached
by any company on earth.
In the year 1905 more than 98 per cent of the losses In the
United States and Canada were paid within 24 hours after receipt
of proofs. The record for 1906 la approximately the same.
The following letter, of which we have others of the same
tenor from hundreds of people, speaks for Itself:
Omaha, September 17, 190C.
Mr. H. D. Neely, Manager,
The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S.
Omaha, Neb.
My Dear Sir:
I am glad to acknowledge receipt of your Society'! check, pay
ing the claim presented to your office In Omaha, September 11,
1900. on policies on the. life of my father, the late Hon. Edward
Rosewater. ,
My father s life was Insured for $291,449.00 In fourteen differ
ent companies, the largest amount in any one company being held
in the Equitable, and you have made good your assertion that the
Equitable would be the first to pay any money to the estate.
Thanking you In behalf of all the family and executors for the
prompt manner in which you have made the settlement, I remain.
Yours Tery truly,
VICTOR ROSEWATEK, Executor.
II. D. IIEELY, Mgr. (or llehraska
402-3-4-5 Hercbints Nat. Bank Bldg., Omaha.
WM. HENRY BROWN, CathUr.
Geo. N. Cooper rv4 H. Fay Neely
General Agents, Omaha.
H. H. Loughridge r.4 Jce Klein
Central Agents, Lincoln, Neb.
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DENNIS LE ART'S HOME AT THTRiTT-FIRST AND POPPLETON.
have been advanced In some Instances in
the neighborhood of the new headquarters.
The Cumberland hotel, which a few months
ago was yielding an Income of $130 a
month, has been leased by A. B. McConncUl
to Walter Molse A Co. for five years on a
basis of $2G0 a month. This Is a three
story saloon and fiat building at the south
west corner of Fifteen street and Capitol
avenue. It was bought by Mr. McConnell
a short time ago.
The announcement of the. location of four
proposed street car line extensions and
new lines has stilled the speculation which
has been rife among the realty men for
the Inrt few'weeks. Some will make money
on advances In property coming with the
proposed Improvements and some will not,
One line is to connect California atreet
with Pacific street, running at least part
of the way on Thirty-third. The Hanscom
park went side line is to be extended to
the city limits and the Ames avenue line
is to be extended to Forty-second street
and Ames av?nue. The Walnut Hill line
will be built north from Forty-fifth and
Military avenuo to the Institute for the
Deaf and Dumb.
George w. Loomta will build a row of
flats at Thirtieth avenue and Mason street,
where he has bought a house and lot from
Harriet T. Joy and a house and lot from
J. E. Whltp. I ' i
The Carpenter Paper company has com
pitted negotiations for forty-four feet east
of Its new building, where it will one day
erect a paper bag and box factory. The
company paid $7,000 for the lot.
Mrs. Martha Ish is investing the money
received from the Union Paclflo for her
property on the headquarters site and has
paid Marie B. Lewis $5,000 for a lot at
Twenty-seventh street and St. Mary's ave
nue.
Ernest Sweet, the real estate man, has
old his new home at Twenty-second street
and Fowler avenue to D. W. Tillottson, a
mall carrier, for $C,Ono. . ..
Charles IL Pickens has bought from C,
G. Carpenter of Milwaukee a house and
lot at 123 North Fortieth street.
Mrs. Mary Hayden Sweeney has bought
Mrs. E. M. Stone's residence at Thirty
second avenue and Farnam street, where
Mra Stone has lived for seventeen year,
The property brought $1,500.
C. E. Stock of DewlM, Neb., has bought
John Swanson's property at Seventeenth
and Hickory streets for $17,100. The prop
erty consists of a brick block containing
four stores and four flats and three cot
tages.
Minnie E. Campbell has sold the Floyd
home at Thirty-ninth and Hamilton streets
to Mrs. Ellia Wlthrow for $4,000.
Among recent purchases are reported
these: E. V. Adams of Des Moines, who
Equitable Life Assurance
Society of the U. S.
PAUL MORTON, Prasldtnt
will move to Omaha, lot at Tweaty-flrst
and Fowler avenue, on which he will build
a $4.SO0 home; Frank Carney, lot at Twenty-
fifth avenue and Bpencer street, on which
he will build a $2.S0O home; N. P. Dodge,
lot and two frame houses at Twenty-sixth
and Cuming streets; V. B. Chlodo, house
and lot at 833 South Twenty-fourth street;
Charles Hanson, Albert A-.derson and Wil
liam Zlmmer, lots at Twentieth and Fort
streets.
Among other thing which concern the
local, realty world Is the location of a site
on which the Independent Telephone com
pany may erect its building. The company
has filed articles of Incorporation, but as
yet hns g(ven v.., Intimation as to what
part of the city It will choose for Its head
quarters. One of these days John F. Coad's lots at
northeast corner of Seventeenth and Har
ney streets will be sold. George A Co. had
on option on the property last fall, and It
expired January 1. There was so much In
qulry on lots of this kind that the company
Immediately secured a new option. There
is already a purchaser In prospect.
Henry Lebbert has sold to Henry Han
sen and Peter Thomsen his 160-acre farm
eight miles west of the city limits. The
consideration was $92.50 an acre.
Speaking of western Nebraska, R. J. Tate
of Fremont, who was In Omaha last Week
In attendance at a meeting of land agents,
said; "Real estate matters In Nebraska are
In the best shape In my whole experience.
This applies particularly to farm lands and
colonization matters. Lands are now sell
ing in the old time arid belt of western
Nebraska, for from $10 to $20 an acre that
a few years ago averaged about $C00 per
quarter and even less than that. This Is
particularly true of Cheyenne, Keith. Hayes,
Perkins, Lincoln and other western coun
ties. Inquiries are coming from all parts
of the eastern states for suitable farm
lands In western Nebraska, and we find a
ready sale at good figures for all we have
to offer."
ONE OF THE BIGGEST AFFAIRS
MeKlnley Club Banquet Promlfi to Be
Notable by Comparison
with Otbers.
Prom present indications the comlns; an
nual banquet of the MeKlnley club will bo
one of the most notable affairs of the
kind ever helil In Omaha. Thus asserts
J. J. Ryder, the spokesman for the ban
quet committee and general press agent of
the club.
"At a meeting; of the banquet committee
with the -officers of the club, held Thurs
day evening-," said Mr. Ryder, "we were
authorised to contract for a special car
or-a special train, according- to require
ment, and to extend a formal Invitation
to the state legislature to he our guests
at the annual banquet on the 2SHh.
"The committee will at once take up the
matter of securing a train, and If the cost
does not prove beyond our limit, we will
then have the Douglas delegation present
our invitation to the "senators and repre
sentatives and the state officers. If our
present intention can be carried out, we
shall bring the legislators and state offi
cers down to Omaha early on the evening
of the 3th and send them, home the same
night; and we will treat them right while
we have them in charge as our guests.
Under this arrangement the members of the
legislature would not have to waste any
of the time they want to devote to the
business of the state. The banquet will
furnish the only occasion when all our
club members will be able to meet the law
makers, and it will be an opportunity we
shall all deeply appreciate."
BUFFALO N0TE AT LARGE
Mew Counterfeit Makes Its Appear
ance and Uncle Ram Is
Looking? for It.
A new 110 counterfeit "buffalo" note has
put in Its appearance and the alarm is
sent out cautioning the public to be on
the lookout for it. W. II. Green, assistant
chief of the seoret service, Washington,
D. C, thus describes the counterfeit: "The
counterfeit Is of the series of 1901, check
letter D, plate number undecipherable, J.
W. Lyons, registrar, Ellis H. Roberts treas
urer. The bill Is printed by the photome
chanical process, is made of two pieces of
paper with red silk threads between. The
number printing Is bad, figures are too
large and poorly printed. The back of the
note Is a much darker shade of green than
In the genuine. The note has just made
its appearance In Nw York."
DEWEY HOTEL TO BE SOLD
Property Probably Will Go to John D.
Creisrbton for Fifty Thous
and Dollars.
John V. Crelghton has mads an offer to
the Northwestern Mutual -Life Insurance
company of M0(i0 for the Dewey hotel
property, otherwise known as the Hellman
block. This Is at the southwest corner of
Thirteenth and Farnam streets and com
prises a lot 44x132 feet and a three-story
building covering It.
The building was erected many years ago
by Meyer llellman and la the hard times
was) taken by the Insurance company on a
mortgage. While the deal has not been
completed. It Is understood it will be within
a few days. The deal is being mads through
Alfred C. Kennedy.
Batistas; Permits Issned.
The following bulldlpg permits have been
Issued; J. U. bhellburg, u boutn Ueventn,
fp.Ou) dwelling; Mrs. J. J. Gaffurd. 1-rM
North Thlrty-swond, Ii5)0 dwelling;
August Cllita, tve Plnkoey, dwelling.
JOHN A, DEMTSTER
LIRE OF BEAUT! STRICKEN
Tropio Charms of th Inland of Jamaica
and Its Capital.
HISTORY REDDENED BY MANY SCOURGES
Earthquakes, Fire and Entailing Sea
Play Haroo with People and
Scenery A Burled
City.
The Island of Jamaica and Kingston, its
capital, possessed, to an uncommon de
gree the fatal lure of bvauty and pleas-
ute. Julian Hawthorne, the author, who lived
there three years, says. "It has beauty
so Intense and all-pervading that the senses
sometimes fairly ache In the contemplation
and perception of it."
In a letter to the Chicago American Mr.
Hawthorne draws a detailed pen picture
of the Island and its capital, as follows:
It rises mountain-wise out of the azure
Caribbean, its abrupt acollvttles soaring
aloft till the purple of their jugged sum
mits mingles in lovely marriage with the
Bky, while their feet of snow-white coral
and limestone are washed by the deeper
blue of the sea. To a height of near 6,(M
feet It Is clod with a vegetation which, In
Its splendor and profusion, makes the for
ests of our northern regions seem bare and
poverty stricken.
Five lives grow there where one grows
here; and their color and df-pth of tone,
as well as the hugo size of many of them,
give the stranger a new conception of
the vegetable powers of nature. The most
headlong precipices are unable to escape
from their embrace; I have seen a wall of
rock fifty feet In sheer height covered
over every foot of its perpendicular sur
face with a network of vast roots, twist
ing together till they formed a solid cov
eting of living wood three or four feet in
depth. Many of these trees are covered
with magnificent crimson or golden bios
soms. which astonish an eye not accus
tomed to look for flowers on the mon-
archs of the forest.
There are trees In these primeval woods
which r!ee smooth and vertical to a height
of 200 feet and then spread abroad hori
sontally boughs, themselves larger than
the main boles of mcst trees that we
know; and from these level branches de
scend the long vegetable rope" of the lia
nas. 'some slender as twine, others thick
as ehlp's cables; and parasitic vines twine
round their vast trunks In a fury of vi
tality that almost appals the imagination
Full of Valleys.
The Island Is full of exquisite vales and
valleys, lost among the hills, revealing
themselves unexpectedly to the enchanted
wanderer; musical torrents plunge down
the cliffs and fall along rocky beds, often
to be swallowed up in caverns from which
they never emerge, but proceed subterra
neouslv to their roal In the ocean. Wild
orange trees, whose fruit surpasses any
thing which we have ever learned to as
sociate with the name of the fruit, grow
In natural groves in the recesses of the
mountain!; ebony and mahogany stand In
great assemblies, and once, when I lodged
high up among the heights, where the
evenings were cool, I found these woods
to be the hafdlest for my evening Are
The bamboo, most graceful of all plants,
with its exquisite curving stems, tufted
with delicate foliage,, makef the path de
lightful, and palms of all species throng
like armies with banners and stand along
the coast like sentinels or like sirens wav
ing their green streamers to beckon weary
mariners.
PI re Files Llaht Scene
At night the moon falls in deep radlanoe
over these sumptuous scenes, and myriads
of huge fireflies seem to sprinkle the
darkness of earth with flitting stars. Pic
turesque dwellings stand sequestered In
glowing verdure, with airy verandas and
grotto-llke Interiors; they stand high up
on the mountain sides, looking out across
the wide plains of the sea and over the
rolling masses of whispering lesves that
descend beneath them to the margin of the
shining beaches.
Roads, built with the finest skill of the
engineer, cross the Island In all directions,
like smooth white ribbons bound upon its
surface, and one of them completely sur
rounds It, affording a drive of more than
300 miles, with the heights ascending to
the clouds on one hand, while on the other
you look down through the transparent
waves to the edifices of coral and the
wavering weeds of ocean that He within
the toss of a pebble at your feet. But it Is
impossible so to portray this earthly para
dise as to prepare the traveler for what he
will behold there. It outdoes all description
will behold there. It outdoes all description.
but none who has seen it will ever lose its
lovely Image from his memory.
City Slabs In Sea.
Here, then. Is a beauty; and here also the
destructive forces) of nature are wont to
wreak themselves with' unov risb'e -"1
ap paling fury. History recalls how the on the hill, far from habitations of man,
earthquake of centuries ago annihilated la 50.000 new mounds of clay. Of minor dis
the drawing of a breath the rich and beau- ssters there were many.
tlful little city which lay at tne entrains
of what is rivW-or yesterday was the har
bor of Kingston; and I have drifted In a
boat over the spot where the city sank and
could still discern through the deep green
clearness of the water the plan and out
lines of dwellings which bad been the
abodes of the great buccaneers who once
made the Caribbean a byword of adventure
and peril.
One moment they reveled and quarreled
In the full enjoyment of their reckless and
fierce vitality; the next they were engulfed
by earth and sea. and vanished Ilka lbs
memory of a barbarous dream. That ca
tastrophe left lis mark upon the Imagina
tion ot mankind, as well as upoa the faoe
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S DOUBLE COTTAGE ON THIRTf -SETEINTH AND DOUGLAS STREETS.
of the beautiful Island; and though there
have been since then many minor shiver
ing of the earth's crust In Jamaica, and
more than one convulsion which altered
the topography, there has never until now
been an earthquake that could shake King
ston from its seat, or make It feel that It,
like the vanished Port Roynl, depended
for existence upon the unknown powers
that lurk beneath the voluptuous graces of
Us outward aspect. It has felt their long
deferred vengeance at last, and It Is hard
to picture that soft-featured and gTaclous
city the wilderness of ruin and death
which a few minutes of blind and ruth
leas fury have made of it.
The city lay at the manrln of the widest
plain in the Island, which comes with a
gradual slope to the sea from the base of
the mountains, which have at that point
withdrawn some miles Inland, Instead of
pressing forward as elsewhere to cool their
green garments In the waves. The chief
street saunters along parallel with the
shore, and from it shorter ways branch out
toward the hills. Several of these pass
beyond the city limits and And their way
by winding courses Into the heart of the
mountains.
Rich In History.
The city of Kingston Is rich In history,
dating almost from the time that Chris
topher Columbus first set eyes upon what
he considered was an Integral part of the
great East Indies.
It was founded by a handful of sturdy
refusrees who had lost their all through the
destruction of Port Royal In 1698, at that
time the chief city In all the Antilles.
Within the land-locked harbor Just back
of old Port Royal, Henry Morgan, than
whom no fiercer pirate ever roved the
seas, used to hnve rendezvous after voy
ages over the Spanish main. Here too, It
was that he paid off his bullies in pieces
of eight and clove the skull of many an un
fortunate who dared take umbrage at the
small barter that was handed him for his
life at pillage and murder.
It was from the harbor of Kingston of
today that this same buccaneer performed
that marvelous feat of daring wherein he
and his crew stole up under the guns of
the fort that frowned the heights of Port
Royal and, cutting the cables of one of
His Brlttanio Majestey's frigates, let It
drift to sea while the crew slept. When
the crew awoke it was to find the murder
ous pirate and his crew in charge, the
hatches battened down, and every mother's
son of Ills Majesty's sailors prisoners.
See City Beneath Sea.
Today the visitor to the Island of Ja
maica may. as he gazes Into the pellucid
waters of the bay, see a mystic city crumbling-
away, the fish playing through the
belfries of a church spire on one hand or
swimming leisurely through what was once
the habitation of man.
It was in 1092 that the first earthquake
known to Jamaica's history shook into the
sea the city of Port Royal. It was then
the first financial city of the Antilles. The
shock came in June. There were In the
city at that time probably, 6,000 persons,
The shock came at midday.
Before many of the thousands who were
In the market place could get to a place of
safety, all that was rich or good of Port
Royal Bllpped silently Into the sea. uuen
as could get away gathered at what is now
the outskirts of Port Royal Kingston.
Here they camped and worked until they
had reared themselves another city fairer
and greater and richer than their old
home.
In 1722, again in 1734 and for the third
time in 1751 the city was swept by hurri
canes that tore warehouses and dwellings
from their foundations and hurled them
like chaff for many miles; but there was
always left standing a vestige of the new
city enough to give men a new courage to
rebuild and a new desire to beautify.
On the night of February 8, 179?, Are
devastated the city. When half the place
had been destroyed the winds shifted and
the rest was saved. The loss wss estimated
at about $2,500,000.
Thirteen years later a huge tidal wave
swept into the city. There were those who
declared that when the wave began its
onward sweep they heard the brlls In the
belfries of the submerged Port Royal
cathedral toll their warnings.
After the wave had swept again Into
the sea there went with It 1,000 homes,
while upon the shores were strewn 100
ships. A thousand people were drowned.
Cholera Scours; Kills BO.OOO.
After the flood came fire this In 1S43,
when beginning no man knew how, flames
seemed to burst forth in several parts of
the city at once. For three days men,
women and children worked with desperate
vigor in a vain effort to save their homes.
Little by little the firs ate dwelling after
dwelling and warehouse after warehouse,
until there was left but half the city ss a
fringe to a smouldering pyre pf many a
hope and life's effort. The loss footed up
$15,000,000.
In 1&50 the scourge of cholera waa laid
upon the people. No pen can tell the
story of Kingston during that scourge.
Forsaken of the world, cast off as a thing
unclean, it wept over Its dead alone and
burled them at the rate of several thou
sands a day until they had been raised
NEW AK-SAR-JBEN GOVERNORS
F. J. Mortarty est C E. Blaok Sa.
seed Fred PasTeuratb and
Al Powell.
Francis J. Moriarty, cashier ci the
Packers' National bank of South Omaha
and Charles B. Black have been elected
members of the Ak-Bar-Ben board of gov
ernors to succeed Fred Paffenratb and Al
Powell, resigned. Mr. Paffenrath and Mr.
Powell were but recently elected to mem
bership on the board, but both found that
press of business and other matters would
preclude the possibility; of their serving
TERROR TO THE OUTLAWS
Major Foray Eecame Hated Hunter of
Highwaymen in Early Days.
SENT MANY BAD MEN TO PRISON
Instrumental tn Placing; Behind Bars
for Twenty-Five Years Bandits
W ho Robbed Inlon
Paclflo.
During the long stretch of a third of a
century that he has been connected, in one
capacity or the other, with the Poatofflce
department. Assistant Postmaster J. I.
Woodard recalls many strong and Interest
ing characters that have figured as his
associates. Among the most unluue was
the late Major John B. Furay.
Major Furay, who laid down the affairs
of life last week, made a name for himself
while po it office Inspector from 1S69 to 1481
In th?se good old days the territory cov
ered by these Inspectors stretched from
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Omaha to the Paclflo coast, comprising
that great wild west supposed to have
been, and in reality was to a greater or
less extent, the bailiwick of the bandit.
The outlawry of the country was to be
found there only because that was the
new part of the country. Stage and post
office and ' train robberies were not so In
frequent Uncle Bam had much difficulty
protecting the treasuries with which his
people Intrusted him from the ravages of
desperadoes. But Uncle Bam had also
some brave and persistent man-hunters in
the field. Of these Major Furay was one.
And Major Furay, a man to whom duty
was a sacred trust, trained to hardship
and courage by the exacting discipline of
military warfare Major Furay to the ban
dit became a terror.
"I recall some interesting experiences
whloh the major had," observed . Mr.
Woodard. "He waa absolutely fearless
and had the peculiar faculty of inducing
postal offenders to confess their misdeeds
snd succeeded by this meana In sending a
large number of them to the penitentiary.
Major Furay waa at his best in hunting
down the robbers.
Mnch Trouble In Omaha.
"Considerable stealing was done In the
Omaha postoftlce at tliat time and naturally
I had much to do with Major Furay in
hunting the miscreants. When once his
mind was made up that a misdemeanor had
been committed he kept after the suspected
party until he landed him in the peni
tentiary. For a long time he worked alone
in this territory and then George Seybolt
was appointed as an additional Inspector
and the two operated with great success
throughout the western territory.
"Another of his associates In the work of
running down postofftce criminals was
J. El. Stewart, who Is now In charge of the
Inspectors' division for the Chicago die
trict. The two constituted a great team
and rendered the most efficient service for
the government, succeeding In breaking up
the gang of professional postoftlce robbers
operating throughout the west and landing
most of them in the penitentiary,
Personal Work Good.
"Major Furay's personal work was most
conspicuous. Possibly the greatest of his
works was the ultimate capture of the
of the men who perpetrated the great rob
bery at Bock Springs, Wyo., in 187J or 1874,
The Union Pacific train waa held up there
and registered packages amounting to
$15,000 or $30,000 were taken by the robbers,
aside from some $10,000 or $15,000 of express
package Major Furay started out after
the robbers and finally succeeded In run
ning them to cover somewhere In Kansas.
The whole gang, five In number, was ar
rested and convicted and each got twenty-
five years in prison at Fort Leavenworth.
"In those days one postoftlce Inspector
had a very large extent of territory to
cover. The territory was not divided into
districts as now, but Major Furay was one
of the men among men who was equal to
every emergency. The more difficult the
case the more enjoyment be seemed to
take In ferreting It out.
"His retirement from office was not
through any fault found with his work or
criticism of bis superiors, but he believed
he knew the situation in the west better
than Postmaster General Oresham and he
naturally chafed under the suggestions of
his inexperienced superior. And his char
acter was such that if matters did not go
Just to suit him hs had no hesitancy In
saying so, hence he and Postmaster Gen
eral Gresham could not agree and he sim
ply quit."
In Connor Expedition,
Major Furay was one of the two last
survivors of ths General Patrick rid ward
Connor's expedition against the Sioux In
dians In U6i, known to be living at the
time of his death In this western country
The other Is Captain Henry 1 Palmer,
now postmaster of Omaha.
"I enjoyed a warm personal acquaint
ance with Major Furay," said Captain
Palmer, "and am glad to add my tribute
to his sterling worth as a citizen and sol
dler. As a soldier he wss gallant, courage
ous and aggressive and it la the work of
such as he that have built up this mighty
western empire. No work was too arduou
for him to undertake. He went into It
heart and soul. He believed In ths west
and It was his greatest pride to realize
the fact that he had a part iu the upbuild
ing of the west."
English Files Salary List.
County Attorney English has filed this
schedule of salaries for his force of depu
ties: George A. Magney, $1,300; Alfred U.
Elllck, $l.aX; Louis J. PlatU, $1.2uG; Will J.
Coad, $l.luO; Krai.k Good messenger, I0;
Anna Prusha, stenographer, VtH. This
schedule Is a slight departure from the
former system under which all four of the
deputies were iU $l.4u0 a year each.
The Burlington is the first railroad te ,
announce its plan for continuing the wortt ,
of colonisation in the west to conform wits ',
the regulations and provisions of the new
federal statutes, with which the old system .
ran counter because of Its contact with tbe ;
free pass proposition. The old land agent '
system bad to be abandoned because of the ;
Inability longer to Issue free transporta
tion to these agents. .
The Burlington has organised a land
seekers' information bureau, with IX Clem )
leaver at its head. Mr. Peaver haa been 1
in charge of the bomeseekers Information ;
bureau, which has been helping prospec
tive settlers to locate on the government
lane's under the Klnkald act. The new j
bureau will assist In the settlement et
deeded and private lands as well as the
government lands along the Burlington,
The prospectus, whloh haa been. Issued
by the Burlington says:
The aencral Durnose of this bureau will
be to gather and distribute Information
valuable to seekers of western lands; to ad
vertise in various y a the resources and
bKrlcultural possibilities of the western
country served by this railroad sone oc
territory between tne lawee, mo nisauipia
river and continental divide that oflers
the wit rllmatA fnr rMlfienn. a surer In
crease in population, Industrial and agri
cultural wealth than any oiner region v.
equal area In the world.
The services of the bureau will be oCTeradj
free to both land sellers and prospective
land buyers and In this work the Burling"
ton will have a limited number of perma
nently established and reliable land agents,
engaged In selling lands along the Burling
ton, as correspondents of the bureau.
Many features of the bureau still remain
In statu- quo and will be worked out from
time to time. Among these will be the
preparation of exhibits of the resources of
Nebraska and other states on the Burling
ton, Installed In cars and sent all ever
the eastern states wherever there are
prospective buyer.
Churchill on Grading; Grain.
II. II. Churchill, formerly general agent
of the Great Western tn Omaha and now
engaged In the grain business at 8t Louis,
was In Omaha Saturday. Mr. Churchill
said he did not think there was much to
the statements which had been , vaii
agatr.st the grading of Nebraska grain, j
"When you have a system which depends'
upon human Judgment there Is sure to be
I a ainerenco, boju jar. uiuutuu. ,u t
m u a umform ,y,tem whlcn aow
L UM at To,eao. ta smalL;f
a difference." said Mr. Churchill. "The beet
but they axe humming. If one of the
larger grain markets would adopt that sys
tem It would force all the ethers into Use.
It is a mathematical proposition and te
ake certain grades you must have certain
conditions. I get The Bee every morning
In St. Louis because Ths Bee's market re
ports are the best I am able to (et any
where." Merchants' Rates Go In.
Rates for the spring merchants' meetings
in Omaha began Saturday and the retailers
will begin to arrive Monday. These meet
ings will continue, with short intervals be
tween, until April 1. In addition to the
low rates the Jobbers are offering ths re
tailers an Inducement In the way of re
funded fares. If the merchant's purchases
are large enough that I per cent of them
equals the fare, the Jobbers will refund
the fare.
TO YOU
who work hard for a livelihood we ad
vise economy and carefulness. Every
week you should lay up a little for fu
ture needa and place a dollar ox two la
our Association. The dollars there de
posited have a sure earning power that
depends in no way thereafter upon your
personal exertions. Why not put a lew
dollars to work today and let them
earn for you?
Blx per cent Interest, compounded
semi-annually. Is paid on savings ac
counts. We also make monthly payment
homestead loans easily paid. You?
patronage is solicited.
Omaiia Loan & Building Ass'n,
New location at 16th and Dodge Bts.
G. W. Leemls, Pres. C H. Nattlager, Wj
DENTISTRY
Toith Talk No. 105
Give your teeth the same sort of
care you do your front door. Tpn
know, if you leave a spot of wood
uncovered to the elements It will
rot. and pretty soon you need a
new door. Of course, you can re
place teeth by artificial ones, but
If you paid a thousand dollars a
tooth you could not get as good as
nature gave.
Just a little paint in time will
save the door, so a small filling or
a careful cleaning will save the
teeth at least It will save a
larger bill.
I'll also add that I fill and crown
teeth In an easy, gentle manner
that will agreeably surprise you
If you've bad previous dental ex
perience. DR. FICKES.
Dentist
'Phone Doug. (IT. Ill Bee Uleg.
DR. A. MATTHEWS
-THE PAINLESS DENTIST
503 Neville Block.
16th and Harney Sts.
High Grade Dentistry At Reasonable
Prloes. 11
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