The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1885-05-23
FR0E NEW ORLEANS.
Prom our special correspOndenoo.l
New ORLEANS. May--1sS5.

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It's an admitted fact that the bost
part of the Worlds FaiI is that
seen in the Government
building where the different states
placed side by side, compete tor
the first place in the estimation of
the visiting public. When you
look at magnificent display Ike
Nebraska's, the natural inquiry is,
--" Who is the commissioner
whose talent and skill has given
us such treat ~ If you will but
go with me into an elegantly fur
nished office at the rear of the dis
play where every person is al
ways welcome and handsomely
treated, ] will introduce you to
GEN. ROBERT W. FURNAs.
the United States Commissioner
from Nebraska, and if, after we
have left the office, you say to me,
"Tell me more about that gentle
man." 1 would inform you that
Gov. Furnas as he is usually
called, is one of the best known
men in the west that he is sixty
three years old, although he does
not look over fifty that he was
born in Miami county, Ohio; that
he has been a citizen and a resident
of Nebraska since 1855, when he
began the publication of the Ne
braska Advertiser, the oldest
paper in the State now published
at Auburn, Neb. ; that he was COM
mander of the second Nebraska
cavalry in the Sully expedition
against the northwe7t Indians in
1868, during which time the
bloody battle of White Stone Hill
was fought; that in 1873 he was
elected governor of his State; that
in 1876 he filed the position Of
United States Commissioner at
the Centennial and started the
flow Of emigration towards Ne
braska winch has not ceased vet !:
that lie has filled all of the very
highest offices in masonic societies;
that lie is the secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture that
he is President of his States His
torical Society that he is the very
best man that Nebraska could
have sent to the Worlds Fair;
that as a broad minded, liberal,
generous newspaper man 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 try
ing to pass in every poor unfcrtun-
ate who, perchance, might be
lott ont in the cold"
If you will now go with me to
Oregons headquarters | will intro
duce you to
COL. Il. W. ALLEN,
the commissioners from that State,
a gentleman who is noted through.
out the Government building and
especially among the United
States Commissioners anS news
paper men as one OF the best tel
fows here. 1t would be impossible
for you to meet with him and talk
with him if only for few minutes
without entertaining forever after
wards very friendly feeling to-
wards Oregon. Colonel Allen
was born in Kendall county, ILL.,,
1912 and is therefore n child Of the
Sucker State" When twelve
years old he removed with his
parents to Minnesota, and when
the war broke out served for three
years in the 7th Minnesota infant
ry. He afterwards moved to
Oregon in charge Of the business
Of a large agricultural machinery
firm. Colonel Allen is recognized
at home as well as here as an
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