The Nevada picayune., 1885-05-14
Our Exposition Letter,
From Our Regular Correspondent.

S3 placed side by side, compete for the first place,in the estimation of the. visiting public. When you look at a magnificent display like Nebraska.s the natural inquiry is, "Who is the commissioner whose talent and skill has given us such treat7n If you will but only go with me into an elegantly furnish ed office at the rear ofthe display, where every person ia always wei come and handsomely treated, l will introduce you to
 GEN. RoCERE W. FURNAs.
 tue United Ltates Commissioner from Nebrasks. and if, after we have left the office, you say to me, "Tell me more about that gentle man. | would inform you, that "Goy.n Furnas, as he. is usually called, is one of the best known men in the West; that he is sixty three years ola, although he does not look over fifty; that he was born in Miami county, Osio; that he has been a citizen and resident of Nebraska since 1855, when he began the publication of the Ne braska Advertiser, the oldest pa per in the State, now publish ed st
 Buburn Neb.; that he was the com mander of the second Nebraska cavalry in the Sully expedition against the northwest Indians ill
 1863, during which time the bloody battle of White Stone fill was
 fought; tssat in 1873 he was elected governor of his State; that in 1876 he filled the position of United States Commissioner at the Gen. ten,Ial shd Started the flow of em- igration towards Nebraska which
 has not ceased yet; that he has fill ed all of and the very highest ofii-
 ces in masonic societies; that he is
 secretary Of the State Board of Az
 riculture; that he is President of his States Historical Society; that he is the very best man that Ne
 braska could have sent to the
 Worlds Fair; that as broad ID ind ed, liberal, generous newspaper man and American citizen he has no superior, and that if he don't die until your correspondent wishes him or his State any harm he will walk down the streets of the New Jerusalem when Gabriel tOOts his horn, wearing citizens clothes and trying to pass Tn every poor un, fortunate who percaante, might be "left ont in the cold"
 If you will now go with nc to Ire gon's headquarters l will introduce you to
 COL. E. W. ALLEN,
 the Commissioner from that State, gentleman who is noted through out the Government building and especially among the UnitedStates Commissioner and newspaper men as cue of the best fellows here. It would be- imp possible for you to meet him and talk with him if cnly for few minutes without enter taining forever afterwards very friendly feeling toward Oregon. Colonel Allen was born in Kendall county, Ill.,, 1912, and is therefore child of the Sucker State.' When twelve years old he remov- with his parents to Minnesota, and when the war broke out served for three years in the 7th Minneso- ta infantry. He afterwards moved to Oregon in charge of the business of large agricul- tural machinery firm. Colonel Al len is recognized at home as well as here as an, n,organizer and leader, and was the.superintendent of cer- emouies at the tiMe of the compile ton of the Northern Pacific Rail road when the Willard excursion reached the coast. Your cores pondent remembers with pleasure having met him at that time. He l become prominent in connection with industrial exhibits as superin- tendent of the Portland Mechanics 1 Fair which, under his manage ment became the leading exposi- ton on the Pacific coast. When GovMoody was looking around for 1 the best man to send to New Or 1 leans he insisted on MT. Allen go- ng,and, at the requests of many of Oregon's leading business men al | so, he accepted the appointment and has labored for his State with | zeal that has resulted in placing