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f THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SATURDAY, WWW 3. 1900. 13 r i - WAGNER'S TITLE IS CLEAR Senate Confirm Him at United States Attorney for 8outh Dakota. END OF LONG POLITICAL FIGHT Has Held (Ifflrr Year and a Halt a ' Appointee, Klttrldge Blocking Ilia Confirm. tlon Heretofore. (From a Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON. April 2.-8peoial Tel egram.) With the confirmation of E. E. Wagner, United State attorney for the district of South Dakota, made today by ths aenate, the fight over pstronmrai in that state switches to Washington and the distributors are Kenators .Gamble anl Crawford. Wagner was nominated for this position neurly a year and a half ago, but the opposition of ex-Senator Klttredge held up the confirmation. When Klttredge gave way to Crawford personal opposition to Wagner ceased, for there were no charges to be made against Wag ner except that he was persona non grata to Klttredge. Wagner la said to be an able lawyer and estimable citizen, and the senate today gave him a clear title to hold his position for the next four years. During the fight on Wagner he has been holding the position of United States attorney by recess appointment and has been making good, according to the Department of Justice. This Is an other case where personal politics ex tends the term of an appointee a year and a half longer than possibly It would have been extended had not the personal equa tion been Injected Into the fight. Now that the senators from South Da kota are assured of their position wfth the administration, they will probably take up Immediately changes in the Belle Fourclio land district, which are sho.-t'y to he due. Just what changes will be made In that district Is not known, but It Is a Hafo guess that Gamble and Craw ford will name the appointees, and for that matter tho auditor for the Interior department, R. 8. Persons, who has been s. personnl friend of Senator Klttredge, will probably have to go under the leor ganlsation which Senators Gamble and Crawford have undoubtedly In mind. Just who the senators have selected for Mr. Persons' place is not known. Commission In Army, Jlt.bert Elton Guthrie of Lincoln, Neb., and George B:. Nlkirk of Cedar Rapids, la., will be appointed second lieutenants In the coast artlllary corps as a result of a recent competitive examination open to candidates from civil life. The examina tion was held here about two months ago and the names of the t-uccessful candidates were announced today at War depart ment. Minor Matters at Capital. The president today nominated post masters In South Dakota as follows: Allle I-.ee, Ashton; Joshua F. Wood. Doland; Alexander W. Coutts, Hudson; Sherman F. I.ucus, Booncsteel; I.ymnn J. Bates, Lake Preston: Amos H. Davis, Parkston, and James F. Turner, Faulkner. These nominations were made upon the recommendation of Representatives Martin and Burke and with the exception of Davis t Parkston and Turner and Faulkner are re-appolntmenU. Davis and Turner are new. It is said there was considerable rivalry over th'ese two appointments. George A. Blackstone was today nomi nated postmaster at Craig and Andrew Richmond named as postmaster at Orleans, Neb. Senator Warren today Introduced a bill carrying an appropriation of 13,000 for the establishment of a, fish cultural station in Wyoming. This sum "Includes the purchase of a site, to be selected by the secretary of commerce and tabor, and the erection of the necessary buildings. Senator Warren also Introduced a Joint resolution providing for additional lands for Wycmlng under the provisions of the . Carey act. Should this joint resolution Set through congress it will give the state of Wyoming an additional million acres of rid lands. The comptroller of the currency has designated the Whitbeck National bank of Chamberlain, 8. D., as a depository for government funds. BANKER'S BODY COMING HOME Joseph Tl. Arnold, Who Died In Los Angeles, to Be Burled la . Yankton. liOS ANGELES. Cal., April 2.-(Speclal Telegram.) The body of Joseph R. Arnold, banker and capitalist, who was found dead in a bath tub at the Hotel Avalon. March JS, will be taken to Yaikton, a D., his for mer home for burial. The trip began to night. At Sioux City, la., the body will . . 10 Years Ago - be r.iet by a delegation of Masons. From that city to Tsnkton the trip will be made by special train. Arnold was one of the best known cltl r.ens of ' Yankton. He was never married snd the fortune he leaves will be dis tributed among his nephews and nieces. T. K. Andrews, his partner In the banking business, snd William Vincent, a nephew, both of Yankton, are now In Los Angeles and will start cast with the body. WIERD SPECTACLE ON PLAINS Herd nf Wild Bnffalo Stampeded Into the Mlssoarl River. Captain W. Tt. Martin of 6t. Louis, a pilot of the old steambostlng on the upper Missouri river. In an account of his experi ences in the Chicago Record-Herald, relates these Incidents of local Interest: "I've been mixed up in American history a good deal. I landed the first passenger from a steamboat where Omaha now stands. When the Mormons left Nauvoo I took 'em to Council Bluffs on their way to Salt Lake. I .knew 'em all Brlgham Young. Orson Pratt, Hcber Kimball. And their wives; I've danced with 'em many a time on the grass. A pilot was somebody in those dsys; It wssn't like it Is now." " 'Did I see any buffaloes?' Look here, young man, there's two women now living In St. Louis who went' with me up to Fort Benton on the Twilight, when I carried 4&5 passengers at 3'0 apiece, and I killed the game for all of 'em. How did I do It? Every day or two we'd Come to a place where a herd of buffalo was crossing the river, and the boat would run In among 'em; I'd Just rig my derrick-fall and let down a great noose right in front of a big fellow -and haul him up on board. I dldn t need no cowboy to rope stock for me; we got all the fresh meat we wanted that way. In '67 I brought down seventeen buffaloes alive roped 'em right out o' the river and hauled my catch on board with the derrick-fall. It beat any seine you ever saw. But the awfullest sight I ever saw on the river wss SO.000 buffaloes drowning. "It was about fifteen miles below the mouth of the Yellowstone, and I was with my own boat, the Ben Johnson. Charles B. Chouteau was with me that trip and we came out on deck together. You know what those plains are like all light brown, and stretchln' away to the end o' the world; you can see fifty miles each way. Well, out there on the prairie was a great black wave rolling toward us; it was a herd of buffalo on the stampede. It seems as if I could see it now, the dust raisin' under the hoofs of the forward ones in a sort of cloud that hid 'em from us some times. As far as we could see, up river and down, the country was full of them buffaloes. They never deviated; they came straight on;inothlng could turn "em." There rose up before me for an Instant De Qulncey's tremendous description of the approach of the Tartar horde across the desert, as seen by the Emperor Klen Long; then It was gone, and I was with Captain Mcssle again, watching the buffalo. "The head ones reached the river and began to go over the bank; the water came out to us in great waves, and the noise was like a caving bank when a thunderln' big slice goes in all at once, only con tinuous. Soon the river was alive with "em, and still they swept over; they was all around us, with their great big heads, wicked horns and great big shoulders all covered with heavy hair. I went over to the bank and laid up, and all the while that rear kept up, and that great brown dusty wave poured over the bank into the river. And then" the captain leaned forward and clutched my knee, while the horror of it all lived again In his face "then the river was full full! And they kept comln'; there wasn't no way for the front ones to stop but by the hind ones stoppln' first For, you see, they couldn't get out on the ether side, where there was a bank twenty feet high and as steep as the side of a house. They were four or five deep in the river now; the bottom ones were dead they came down against the beat and rocked it, as the current carried 'em under." Mr. Choteru drew Us breath in deep and hard. 'I've been In this country all mv life," he says, 'but I never saw anything like that!' " The captain fell silent; the grlmness of nature's tragedy .held him. In the retro spect. "loor, bewildered brutes!" he ssld at last. "They used to get out on the ice. and not know it was ice; and the ice would start to breakln' uo and tt would grind up and grind them up, until their bodies would cover the banks and the sandbars." And the veteran of fifty summers on the wild and turbulent Missouri, ' who has had so heavy and so honorable a share in the hardships and perils of that pioneer period whose sacrifices were the price of the com fort and security of the present genera tion, rose and bade me good day. Uneeda Biscuit because they wondered jg"J ':'."r,JJ!' &Jly what they were. S Blindness Comes for Few Hours Total Lou of Sight Afflicts F. L Chiverton Suddenly, Then Going Away. i "It's no fun to be blind." declare F. L Clilverton. an artist living at 601 South Twenty-eighth street. And he Is qualified to speak, for although he enjoys the full , powers of sight, ho wss totally blind for three hours Wednesday evening while at home. Both the lAfcs of sight and Its restoration a few hours later, following a period of greatest anguish over being deprived cf one of his most valued senses, were most sudden. While sitting In a chair he unex pectedly found himself In complete dark ness, which continued until his power of vision wss as suddenly restored to him three hours later. Mr. Chiverton can offer no explanation of tl remarkable exper ience, but will b3 satisfied if It does not recur. SIGN OF CR0SSJP0ILS FEAST Symbol on Missionary's Arm Stops Cooking Arrangements of Cannibals. Stripped preparatory to being cooked for a canibal feast, a cross that had been tattooed on his arm saved the life of Rev. Thomas N. Needham, who Is well known as a part of the evangelistic army of Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman. In a recent sermon In Richmond Mr. Needham told a remarkable tale of kid- nnplng In his early youth, being taken on a tramp steamship, being finally abandoned among the cannibals on the coast of Pata gonia, and of his deliverance at their hands because of the discovery of the cross, which had been tattooed by the sailors, the story of the cross having been taken to Patagonia years before by the Jesuits, and a superstition regarding it being still extant among the Inhabitants. Dr. Needham was 'originally from Boston, Mass. He relates that as a child he spent all his idle moments on the water front, listening (o' the weird tales told by the old men of the sei. So thoroughly engrossed did he become with the life of the sailor that, according to his own admissions, he frequently neglected duties which he should otherwise have performed in order to hear some old salt tell the stories of his adventures. It was on the quays of the Hub that the future Dr. Needham was kidnaped, carried aboard a vessel bound for a South Ameri can port and finally abandoned, to be de livered by means of the cross, which ulti mately resulted In his own conversion and the dedication of his life to the saving of human souls. "I sometimes feel," said Dr. Needham, "now that my own experience Is all re trospect, that God In His Infinite wisdom decreed that I should be tried in this man ner; that He in His wisdom knew that I should be better fitted to earry the Gospel to all men after I had been placed in the balance and found worthy of the test. "Despite the wishes of my parents, whom I honor and respect and love, I was a con stant frequenter of the wharves' of my na tive city, which attracted me in a manner which I am at a loss to explain. The day on which I was abducted I had been listen ing in rant attention to an old sailor tell ing a story of shipwreck and rescue. It was the same old story that I had listened to many times before, but it was ever new to me. "I was taken from behind suddenly, hur ried aboard a ship and thrown into the hold, from which I was not allowed to emerge for many days. In the meantime the vessel plowed its way across the to me unknown waters. When I was finally brought on deck the sailors taunted me, and in a spirit of deviltry tattooed a cross upon my arm. Finally I waa abandoned on the coast of Patagonia. "This coast, as Is well known, Is Infested by cannibals. I was captured by one of the cannibal tribes. It was decreed that I should be made Into the principal dish at a great feast. .1 was accordingly stripped, preparatory to being cooked. When I stood before the savages naked the crucifix upon my arm was discovered. The preparations for the feast were at once discontinued and I was taken before the chief, who personally' examined the marks upon my arm and Issued orders that I should be treated with the greatest respect. "I lived among those savages for several Lyears, during which time they treated me with the greatest reverence. . I finally learned the cause of my strange deliver ance. Jesuits had visited the country years before and had left a sort of superstition among the tribesmen regarding the cross: "Finally I made my escape. Making my It- " y j rs I svsnw Qidi way to the coast. I got a vessel bound for England. Tears thereafter, while lec turing In the provinces of that country, a note was brought to me from a man who requested an audience. The request was granted. The man conducted me In silence to his home, on the walls of which I dis covered a picture of the very vessel on which I had been abducted many years before. "The man acknowledged that he had been the captain of that vessel. He said he had repented of his many sins, that the voyage had been his last one, and that he, too, had been delivered. This is the story of my deliverance. It Is a strange story, but it is a true one." Dr. Needham thereupon displayed to his audience the tattooed cross upon his arm. -New Tork Herald. ELECTRICITY CANT FEASE HIM Eighteen Hundred Volta Shot Into a Man Without Apparent Effect. At a private exhibition in a small room at 1416 Broadway, New York, Charles Quill, a man of 22 years, allowed himself to be strapped into an electric chair, similar to the one in Sing Sing prison, and a direct current of electricity drawn from a nearby feed wire was turned into his body to the amount of 1.800 volts. This Is 100 more volts than are used in executions at the prison. Quill semed to enjoy tt. lie en dured this huge voltage for fully a. minute. During that time his assistant touched va rious parts of his body with an alcohol Soaked handkerchief, which immediately burst into flames. Quill asserts that electricity will not kill unless it burns, and he explains his im munity by the fact that his body contains an unusual amount of carbon. He played with electricity as though It were the most harmless thing In the world. With 1,800 volts sixaltng into pne hand, he would light a candle, or set aglow an incandescent light with the other. He applied a piece of car bon, held between his teeth, to a similar piece attached to another wire and sup plied a perfect arc light. He drew forth i IK 1 DOUGLAS STREET FORMERLY GRAND BEAUTIFUL NEW TAILOR. MADE SUITS Exclusive New Tailored Suits at $35.00 Regular Values $50.00 and $55.00 These suits are all new and exclusive models that just arrived for our special Easter suit sale. They have been care fully selected by Mr. J. B. Orkin, our resident New York buyer, who is known as one of the most critical buyers of this country: You'll delight in this selection of new suits; $50.00 and $55.00 values. Special Easter sale price REMARKABLE EASTER OFFERINGS IN 'SMART NEW DRESSES Hi m $35.00 New Messaline Dresses at $25.00 These beautiful dresses are made of fin est quality messaline, in draped styles of self materials, with long sash and in lace trimmed effects; all are beautiful a. tilt : i designs; $35.00 values. Special Easter sale price, only a current of such Intensity with one finger that he lighted a cigarette from the heat. Quill said he first came In contact with a voltage pf electricity in San Francisco, when he was employed by the gas and elec tric light company. He got too close to one of the dynamos and a "shunt-off" of 2,300 volts entered his body. "Although apparently dead," he said, "I was conscious through It all. I could neither move nor cry out. It seemed as though I was tied between two dynomos with the current flowing through my body and burning me up, and I was powerless to help myself. When I was revived I felt no ill effects." Quill has offered to go to Sing Sing and make a test. He cays that when a man Is electrocuted he Is only in a comatose state and that death comes when the autopsy is held. A peculiar effect Quill attributes to elec tricity is the extreme lassitude It creates. After a shock he loses from two to three pounds. The electrlo chair feat he would not undertake oftener than once a week. New Tork World. HOW TO USE A LITTLE GROUND Bit of Back Yard Can Be Made Attractive and Wonderfully Productive. A space twenty by fifty feet may, under intensive culture, be made to yield fresh vegetables for a small family through half the year. With forty feet by fifty, or fifty by loo, there can be a garden spelling riot ous plenti. Have the spading done as early as pos sible, use thoroughly rotted manure, and supplement it with good commercial ferti lizer, either broadcasted and raked In or put in hills or drills. It is a waste of seed, strength and time to plant a garden in poor soil. The seed will come up, the spllndllng plants will be harder to work than if they were luxuriant, and the resultant crop will be mostly conspicuous by its absence. Bo, if it be Impossible to do more, make small rich beds, four feel wide and as long as the manure holds out, and sow them cross they know them to be The World's Best Soda Cracker NATIONAL. BISCUIT COMPANY (TTU?IIK Vy O. K: SCOFIELD CLOAK Stunning New Tailored Suits at $25.00 Values $35.00 and $40.00 You will have to admit when you see this grand collection of suits at $25.00 that you never saw such beautiful styles so reasonably priced. There are over 300 to choose from and every suit is per fectly tailored; the materials are finest suitings, French serges, prunella cloths, md soleils; in all the dark or light $35 colors. $35.00 $40.00 values special Easter price $25.00 New Foulard Dresses at $17.50 This will be the greatest offer of the season, and If you want to avail yourself of the oppor tunity in procuring a $25.00 Silk Foulard dress at $17.60, you must be here Saturday. There are over 100 dresses to choose from. All are new designs, made of finest beautiful patterns, $25. values, special price, at wise with such things as radishes, lettuce, cress, parsley, beets and onions. Make the rows a foot to eighteen inches apart, or sow the radishes broadcast. Lettuce also yields more, from broadcast sowing. Pull out the thriftiest as soon as edible and leave the rest to grow. Radish tops make, excellent greens, something better flavored than mustard. By sowing thickly you can have dishes of greens. Say the garden is forty by fif y feet, this Is something' what the planting of It should be: Dwarf early peas, medium early and late peas,"-beets, early and later; beans In succession, Including bush ltmas; carrots, radlBhes, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers. Do not adventure upon corn un less it be sweet corn planted on the pea space as a second crop, to come in Just be fore frost. Make an asparagus bed all across one end of the plot, setting 2-year-old roots, and fertilizing the bed heavily In early summer Just after cutting ceases. "Peas are so hardy they may be planted before snow is past, provided, of course, the ground is right when they go in. Make It fine and light, cover the seed at least three Inches deep, then tramp the earth over them, setting the feet so one track touches the other. A quart of seed will sow a 100-fect of drill the proper thickness. An ounce of beet seed will sow the same row length. The Circle Magazine. BARGAIN RATES IN FUNERALS Jersey City Gives Baltimore a Strong; Ran for Its Cemetery Money. If you want to get burled at bargain prices, now is the time and Jersey City is the place. There Is a war on there among the deal ers in mortality, and humanity, which has to die some time, anyhow, at last has a chance to do so economically. What the conflict is about dors not mat ter much, but that it is deadly and likely to prove fatal to somebody's business is Intimated by a full pagii advertisement Which appears in one of the evening news papers of the town across the way. In huge black letters this pronouncement Sold only Moisture Proof Packages & Millions use them because DOUGLAS STREET A SUIT CO and sale Foular Easter Xlie French Way, SE9 That satisfied feeling comes when you put yourself In clothes cleaned "The French Way." It's a sure cure for Spring Fever and one dose does the bus iness. Treat yourself to a dose by sending your spring apparel to ua. French Dry Cleaning Works Phones I Dong. 4179 1 A-9I8S 1t0 PARNAMI begins with the rather paradoxical state ment. "There Is no doubt about us being on the level." Then the prospective patron is assured that if the goods delivered art not satisfactory, he doesn't have to pay one penny. "Can we do any more than this?" de manda the advertisement. "Let us reason together. Isn't it hard enough to get hold of a little money, without paying It to an undertaken, for which you recelvt no value? If one-half the people knew what they receive from these undertakers for $200, and see what we furnish for 1100, they would be ashamed of themselves to think how easily they parted with their money." Here follows a vioh nt attack upon "graft ing" undertakers, accompanied by a touch ing appeal for sympathy for the "poor fellow who never gets flowers on his crape." "Tou never saw the outside box padded for the laboring class until we start. ,t m get after those fellows," is the next ex clamation. There Is much more In this ag gressive Strain, after which the adver tiser catalogues his own bargain counter wares In such enticing language as "kings for such a tomb would die." New Tork Herald. Sturdy oaks from little acorns grow advertising In The Bee will do wonders for your business. in 9,