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The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09
DUEL IN Il THEITRE,

a Conflict Bet1cePn TirO Lac Makers That
Va the Cause of Much CONSERVATION.
The following is told in a dispatch from
Laredo, Texas: During the session of the
last legislature Senator E. F. Hall bitterly
attacked the efficiency and integrity OF the
state ranger force, which for years has
guarded the frontier. The senator was
particularly severe in denunciation OF those
troops in his district which were under the
immediate command OF Captain Joseph
Shelly. These attacks resulted in the final
abandonment of Captain Sheely's COM
mand. Shelly had long been known as one
OF the bravest men on the frontier, and
his departure was the cause of much regret.
For ten months past every male inhabi-
tant along the border has taken sides for
or against the rangers. The feeling between
Hall and Shelly became intensely bitter.
About IL O'Clock last night Shelly saun-
tered into the gallery of Hollands theatre.
Seeing Senator Hall sitting in the front
row near an aisle, Shelly approached and
struck Hall square in the face with his
open hand. He repeated this blow, when
Hall succeeded in getting to his feet in
stantly. Both men drew their revolvers
and began firing, Shelly retreating back
ware A panic ensued in the theatre and
people rushed wildly out ON the
streets to escape the flying bull
let's. B~ystanders m~omentarily expect
ed Hall to drop with a bullet in his heart,
Shelly being famous as a dead shot. The
senator, however, faced his dangerous an
tagonist in the most desperate fashion,
stepping forward and firing every time
Shelly fired. AS Shelly reached the foot OF
the stairs Hall ran to the top and fired the
last bullet in his pistol. Sheely gave no
signs OF being hit, but pulled off his coat,
and his shirt was red with blood. This ex-
planned why the senator escaped with his
life. In the fearful duel Shelly had been
wounded by the first bullet from Halls pis-
tol, thus rendering his aim uncertain. The
ball entered the right shoulder, coming out
just beneath the right shoulder Joint. Sem
ator Hall believes he wounded Shelly on
the last instead of the first fire, but Shelly
does not agree with him. 1t was remark
able duel. Six shots on each side were ex-
changed. Halls clothing is perforated,
while a bullet grazed Sheely's temple. The
feud will undoubtedly be renewed as soon
as Shelly GOV sufficiently. No arrests
" been made. Other encounters, as the
outgrowth of this difficulty, are likely to
occur at any moment between the friends
OF the combatants. Nothing on the from
tier in a long time has created such intense
partisan feeling.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09
NEWS OF NEBRASKA.

SHEERsUCKER SMrrH.-tSmith has gonel''
was the word passed around town Sunday
night. The Smiths had come and gone in
countless numbers before without creating
any commotion, but the news OF the de-
parture OF this particular Smith seemed to
set people wild. Ostensibly Smith was y
nice young man. He came to Omaha
about eight months ago and opened an
extensive dry-goods store in the McCor-
mick block. Shortly afterward he rented
an adjoining store iu the Creighton block,
and cutting away the partition blossomed
out with a double establishment. Then
came an era of loud advertising and cheap
prices, and people began to inquire, "Who
is Smith," The question was asked on
every hand, but never answered. Smith
himself said he used to be a clerk in Chicago
but had made 100000 on the board Of
trade, and wanted to build up a big bust
ness in Omaha. This story caught the
merchants and bankers, and Smiths good
looks and smooth ways caught the girls.
He boarded at the Paxton, lived
in good style, and paid his help and
local bills promptly. 1t was noticed
that Tor a man who had gambled so sue
cessfully Smith evinced but littleinterest in
UHe Hlarke1 quOUaUlonS, ana naQ no partlc-
ular liking for the national game of poker,
other reports to the contrary notwith-
standing. Occasionally hewould take part
in a four-handed game of old sledge for
fifty cents a corner, but that was the ex-
tent of his gambling. A quiet spin on the
avenue with a friend seemed to give him all
the recreation he required, and il was what
the sports call "a cold night" when he was
not in bed by 10 O'Clock. Smiths ~extrava-
gance run to special excursion trains and
brass band concerts in giving which he was
a master. Everybody that visited his
store was induced to buy something at
some price and pay cash for it. 1t made
no difference to Smith what he parted with
so long as he got the money for it. His
recklessness in cutting prices aroused the
other merchants, who, while trying to meet
his figures, in order to protect themselves,
were always asserting that he was sure to
go under. And SO he did, and his going
brought Joy to the hearts of those who
had been losing money all winter in TRYING
to keep pace with him. To make a long
story short Smith sold his goods to a
Chicago man, paid off his help, and took
the train for nobody seems to know where.
AS near as can be figured out he left debts
to the amount of $3.50, 900 with no assets.
Many Omahans are numbered among his
victims.-Omaha Herald.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09

who attempted to pass. Some twenty
wagons were stopped by the desperate
man. He attacked Tony Gasper's wagon
and turned the horses and wagon over,
nearly killing the horses. He then attacked
Casper with his cleaning knife, infiicting
Wounds upon him, but seriously injuring
him. For three hours he held scores OF
people in the narrow lane and in a most
vicious manner yelled n attacked any
one near him. He is a powerfully-built
man and no one felt like lacking him.
Finally Lon King, Andy Musser and Tom
McAdams closed in on him and n desperate
struggle ensued. For a time it seemed that
the desperate man would kill them all. but
he was brought to the ground by a power
full blow of Andy Musser. They tied him
with a rope and carried him away in a
spring wagon. Fully 500 persons wit
messed the exciting scene.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09
CHRONICLES BIZ THE CABLE.
Miscellaneous Matters of Interest Pertain
ing to Foreign Countries.

Miscellaneous Matters of Interest Pertain
ingto Foreign Countries.
The United Irishmen, Parnell's paper, says
''the recent speeches Of Chamberlain surpass
in their cynical hypocrisy any we have ever
seen even from a British statesman. His
proposed tour is simply adding insult to In
jury; and We regard 1t as a mere electoral
maneuver." In another article called Bait
ing the Trap > it says: This gentleman, who
has been a party to every act of despotism
perpetrated by Forster, Trevelvnn and Spen-
Ger for the past five years, no sooner gets his
heels cleared of Downing street than he has
the affrontery to attempt to pose as the cham
pion and indicator of Irish freedom.
It is reported that Kadelifa Pasha is now
iourneving toward Cairo with letters from
Mahdi to the khedive. Mahdi has also writ
ten to the emir of Shendy enclosing a sum OF
money which is to be augmented by the ran
som which Mahdi expects for the Christian
missionaries and nuns whom he holds az
prisoners. The money is to be used to estab-
lish a school of divinity to accommodate two
hundred and fifty students of the new faith.
Mahdi, in a proclamation to the army, prom-
ises immediate entrance into elysium to sol
diers who fall in battle against infidels. at
all points the renewed activity of Mahdism
gives credence to the report that the govern
mcnt will re-occupy Dongola, a point much
better suited for the military protection OF
Egypt than Wady Halfa, the present frontier
post.
Gladstone has addressed a letter to the
electors in his parliamentary district, in which
he says he had not expected he should not
again ask them to return him to par
lament, but events have recently transpired
which render it necessary that he should take
no step that might imperil the unity and ef-
iciency of his party. This is considered tam
tamount to an admission of his intention to
remain the leader of the liberal party.
By the last New Zealand mail important
further evidence is sent from Auckland Of
Maxwell's guilt consisting of sworn descrip-
lions by E. Preller, a brother of the victim, Of
clothes, coins, trinkets, books and music, and
other articles in the possession of deceased,
and samples of cloth and buttons supplied to
him by the London t%ailors, all of which were
found in Maxwells possession.
The returns Of the Austri n census, which
was comp eted in D. cemb r, have just been
published. They give the number Of males
in the empire as II, 170,46S; females, 11,693,'
OBS; males serving in the army and navy, 1872.
423.
Salisbury telegraphed Wolseley In Egypt
that he is in full sympathy with his views re-
garding thu withdrawal of the British troops
from Soudan. E%rrington, the semi-oficial
representative OF England at the Vatican
has been made a baronet. Lionel SackvilIe
West, the British minister to Washington,
has been invested with the order of st.
Michael and st. George.
The French senate has unanimously an
proved a credit of 10000 francs for the pur-
pose of burying Admiral Courbet with public
hOnOrs-
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09

The business of life is to go forward ;
he who sees evil in prospect meets it on
the way ; but he who catches it by re-
t%rospection turns back to find it.
IT is announced that "each button
on the dress has a separate design" 1t
also usually has an eye to its W adj
vantage.-Phiiadelphia Bulletin.
LARGE quantities of willow leaves are
mixed with teas in Chinese ports previ-
ous to being shipped.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09
PREPIRE FOR PROTECTION.
The People Called Upon to Act against the
DerItries of the Utes.

DerjItries of the Utes.
Agent Stollsteimer, OF the Sothcrn Ute
agency, says a Denver dispatch, who went
to Beaver Creek to investigate the killing
OF six Indians by cowboys eight days ago,
reached Fort Lewis on the Both. On his
return he declined to make any statement.
but he will at once forward his report of
the affair to the neutrality-suspicious.. 1t is
rumored that the report will exonerate the
Indians and charge the cowboys with pre-
cipitating the quarrel. County Commits
sioner May, who has lived on the Dolores
river, eight miles above the Genthners'
house, Tor seven years, reports that the
murder OF Genthner was preceded by sig
nal fires Tor three days. Small bands OF
ndian had been roaming over the noun
tains for two weeks, threatening to clean
out the cowboys and soldiers if they in
terfered. They boosted that they whipped
the whites last summer and could
do it again. The whites became
alarmed, and sent word to Fort Lewis that
trouble was brewing. The commandant aft
the fort notified the agent that his Indians
were OH the reservation, and advised him
to look after them. To this the agent sim
ply replied that the Indians had his con-
SEM W ied'S Une r~eserVaIlon- agent StOll-
steiner is also credited with saying that
there were enough Indians to do it. and
that they were no good if they could not
whip the cowboys. The agent is severely
censured by the people OF La Platte county
for thus encouraging the Utes in their dew
iltry. Mr.. Ma! calls upon the people to
act in their own protection to prevent a
recurrence OF these outrages by the rowing
Utes. Whatever may be the nature of the
agents report it is probable that the set
tiers will be strongly tempted to shoot
down on sight any Indians who may be
found off the reservation.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09
THE STATE IN BRIEF.

late Herald material; which will be made to
do duty.
JOHN MOORE OF Pawnee City, had both
eyes ruined by the explosion OF a cartridge
while hunting last week.
ALBION has a population OF 900 accord
ing to the census returns.
A TRAIN drawn by 12O oxen passed
through Rushville, westward bound.
Mr.. JACOB WELLER, who was stoppinga at
the Palace hotel in Hastings for two days,
was robbed by his room-mate, RAYMOND
TOTO, a notorious st. Louis crook, of S13O
and a valuable watch. TOTO escaped.
The subject of water works is under dis
cussion in Hastings, andi is probable that
the enterprise will be inaugurated at an
early day.
NUcKoLLs COUNTY thus far has escaped
any depredations fror, wind storms.
THE thieves and pickpockets flocked to
Lincoln s@ngerfest week and many stran-
gers and citizens of the town were made
victims to their operations.
THE drug store of G. f. Goodman,
Omaha, caught fire last week and there
came near being a great confiagration.
WASHINGTON special: Mr.. Markley, OF
Niobrara, has assurances that he will be
appointed to that land Office as soon as
the change is made.
A CoLoRED cavalryman who ~endeavored
to paint the town OF Hastings was shot
last week by the marshal OF that place. He
is seriously wounded but will probably re-
cover.
A WASHINGTON special says: The follow
ing information is furnished by the post
office department.: Changes in star route
mail schedules-Route 34127, Waverly to
Palmyra, Neb.; leave Waverly Tuesdays
and Fridays and Fridays at 1 M, arrive
at Andrusville by 5 p. m; leave Andrus-
vile Tuesdays and Fridays at s a. M, ar
rive at Waverly at IL M; leave Andrus
vile Wednesdays and Saturdays at 1 p.
M arrive at Palmyra by 4 p. M; leave
Palmyra Wednesdays and Saturdays at
4:30 p. m; arrive at Andrusville by z p.
m. Postmaster commissioned-A. P.
Sharp, McCook, Neb. Mail messenger SER
vice observation-disclosures 102091, Meserne-
vile, Gage county, from CORTLAND, route
s437s.
A cH1cKEN-TH1EF, Ed. Blink, was last week
treated to a oat OF New Orleans molasses
and chicken feathers near Indianola. This
light punishment was inflicted in absence of
tar and fine goose feathers.
THE editor of the Seward Reporter, in q
residence Of eleven years in Nebraska, has
never seen a better prospect for all kinds
of crops than at present.
The plan Of the new court house at Au-
burn has been changed so as to add two
more rooms.
RED CLOUD special: C.. 81. Tanner, q
iack-knife lawyer of Hastings, made a
cowardly attack upon the local editor of
the Journal, John Creeth, this evening.
house while he was seated at the supper
table, caught him by the coat, foored him
and kicked him in the head, bruising him
to a considerable extent. The timely in
reference OF Creeth's friends saved his life. |
The affair grew out OF an article that ap-
peared in the Journal relative to one of
Tanners daily drunks. Public indigna-
ton runs high. ''The Thirty-three" talk
of ordering Tanner out of the city inside
OF twenty-four hours.
The postoffice at Holdrege, Neb., is raised
to a presidential grade at a salary OF
twelve hundred dollars, owing to the in
crease in business. !
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09
4NIICS OF MADMAN.

He Impedes Progress and Holds Everybody
at Bay.
Great excitement was created at North
Vernon, Indiana, the other day, by the
capture OF a wild man named Samuel
Melvin, of Kentucky, who became sud-
denly ferocious and, at a place IN Green
bugh street, held at bay all farm wagons
hat were coming into town. He had a
long bowie knife and threatened to kill all
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09

ZEBRAs are very stylish; they wear
striped stockings up to their necks.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1885-07-09

THE Omaha Oil company is preparing to
basins.
The Valentine postoffce has been made
a presidential office OF the third class with
a salary of $1,000 per annum.
AT the recent sale OF town lots in Gordon
the business locations were rapidly taken
at their appraised values, from s175 to
1925 cash.
Mrs. NJ. B. STONE, living near Edgar, was
trampled on by horse, receiving severe in
%juries. Besides being badly bruised her
right leg was broken.
BONDS for water works were carried at
the election in Blair by a large majority.
The works are to be put up and owned by
the city. Plans and specifications are to
be prepared Immediately and the contract
let, to be completed as soon as practicable.
THE eleventh annual tournament OF the
Nebraska Sportsmen's association at Sew
ard, was a decided ruccess.
ASHLAND has now five secret societies and
an equal number of churches.
LAST Friday afternoon, says the Orleans
Sentinel, a team "a away with W. Olin
and Mrs. Bonfoie in Lewisberg. He was
driving a blind mare and a pony, when the
team came to the bridge that crosses the
mill pond the team went overheard, n
as they went down the wagon turned up
side down and took a sumersault over the
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-24
Farm Facts.

The peach crop in and around Big

The peach crop in and around Big
Shanty Is good.
At Albany on Tuesday 1l3 bales Of cot
ton were shipped from Harold, johnson
Il Co.'s warehouse.
Banks Stephens has the famous COW Of
Forsyth. She is fraction over 3 feet high,
weighs, gross, 300 pounds, and will give
3 gallons OF milk per day.
Tuesday the last bales Of cotton Of the
crop Of 1884 from the plantation were re-
ceived az Albany. They were twenty in
number, and We're from the plantation of
ed. Llttleton. They averaged 525 pounds.
Cotton caterpillars have appeared in
two or three places in Houston county
The planters are endeavoring 10 destroy
the first crop OF worms. III they succeed
the second and third crops, or broods,
Will fail TO materializo.
A number Of farmers In Cobb have
given their attention % small patches Of
cotton this year, aud confidently predict
a WELD OF from one 10 two bales per acre
Mlllet is looking very fine al present, and
is nearly ready for moving.
The yield OF corn In Whitfield county,
should the rains continue a week or two
longer, will be greater than II has been
in fifteen years. Upland that was never
known 10 produce more than from 10 to
10 bushels will yield from - 20 30. Every
other crop Is equally promising--cotton,
hay. potatoes, fruit, etc.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-24

Ben Gardner, colored, who lives miles
from Barnesville, began with one hive Of
bees Is months ago, which cost HIM 81.
He has had A. swarmS and saved Sc of
them. Three of the hives died last winter
and II ran away. He has left SO hives
living and doing we'll. He has taken 800
pounds of honey from them, which, at
1215c. per pound, will bring $37 80. If
there is as much honey In the 33 hives as
worth about $75. Now, put the hives at
ST. each, making $33. The total worth then
is sos. Putting the gums and his time
at 81, and the cost OF the nrst hive, 81,
there Is So from sos, leaving clear net
profit from 81 in Is months of $10S.
FLORIDA.
Hog cholera is staying jackson county
swine.
j. l.. Mott, of Orlando, has 8, 900 gallons
OF orange wine.
Milo maize in Santa Rosa county is
ten to twelve feet high.
A Green Cove farmer has 300 punches
of grapes ON two-year-old vine.
1t is now proven beyond cavil that red
top clover will grow and do we'll in Sum-
ter county soil.
Col. G. II. Norton, of Eustis, Orange
county, has grown monster pineapple.
which weighs 8 pounds, is II inches from
crown to stem, and 20 inches in circum-
ference. 1t is of the variety known as
the Trinidad.
A curiosity in the form of an orange
weighing "A ounces is exciting no little
interest In Levy, where it was grown. A
resident near Brooksville boasts of having
gathered from his grove 800 oranges
which averaged in weight one pound
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-24
RETURNED WITH INTEREST.
Black John Gordon Takes q CowhidIng
and Gives Back n Bigger One.
4,

From tho NdSb09tte BGnper.
John Gordon was a famous Indian
scout fifty years ago. He was Captain
under Gen. jackson when that old hero
was fighting Indians in the far South.
Gordon lived in Maury county, this State,
and was known far and wide as Black
John Gordon. He was thus called be-
cause his skin was quite dark and his
hair and beard black as raven. He
was a stranger to fear. The Indians re-
garded him as an evil spirit. His very
name was a terror to his enemies, and no
man, be he bully or brave, cared to
engage him in a difficulty His name was
a familiar one in every household ON ac-
count of his deeds of daring and the sue
cess which always attended his ventures
in war. One day after the Indian war
Gordon visited Nashville to make some
family purchases. In those days there
were no speciality stores-all stores were
general-that is, everything that afarmer
might need was kept by all the stores.
Among the stOrekeepers of that time was
a man whose name, | think was Martin.
Gordon stepped into the store and Martin
waited upon him. The list of purchases
one was wrapped up Gordon inquired
what the bill was. Martin told him, and
Gordon denied the correctness of the
amount. Martin took this as an insult
and said he would cOwhide Gordon unless
he apologized. Gordon persisted in his
statement that Martin was wrong in his
figures. You must know that while Mar
tin had often heard of Black John Cor
don he was not aware that his customer
A., Ak.e n
don would not retract, Martin took down
a cowhide from the shelf, drew his pistol
on Gordon, and proceeded to chastise
him. Gordon did not move, but looked
Martin right in the eye and audibly
counted the ticks. Martin gave him just
forty. When he was through Gordon
remarked in a cool but polite way that
he would call to see Martin again and
went out.
''The news of the cowhiding soon
spread, and citizens and lOungers began
to gather at Martins to learn the particu-
lars.
"Who is the man you whippedP asked
a tall, dark-whiskered man.
she said his name was Gordon" re-
piled Martin, land that he lived in Maury
county"
"Great Cesarw exclaimed the tall
man, "I'fl bet my soul it was-what kind
of looking man was he ~
GA little fellow, very dark, with black
hair and beard, said Martin. "DO you
know himW
E'Know him! l should say / did. Why,
that's Black John Gordon, and I'll bet my
eyes he will come back and either kill or
cowhde yOu.'
AS soon as Martin heard the name,
Black John Gordon, his courage failed
and he weakened. Presently Gordon was
seen coming leisurelV down the street
with a cowhide in his hand. AS he en-
tered Martins store he drew his pistol
and requested Martin to come around in
front. Martin obeyed like guilty child,
and without another word Gordon admin
istered to him a thrashing of forty
lashes. When he had counted forty he
remarked:
"You gave me forty lashes. l have
paid you back, lash for lash, and now l
will pay you the interest, which is 100 per
cent"
.tAnd no did 5, added the Narrator
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-07-24

At close of business June 3Oh 1885, by Excel
Iency Gov. III. d. Mcdaniel.