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, 1888-05-19
NO PARTIALLY.
Preferred Creditors Unknown ir
the Post Matter.
Endeavoring to Secure Good Wyo.
ming Collateral.
Prospects of a Final Settlement oil
the Estate.

Many people did not fully comprehend
the remarkably clear statement of NJ. E.
Posts assignees published in this journal
yesterday morning.
In certain quarters the impression that
Eastern creditors of the late institution
were being favored by Messrs. Warren
and Parshall obtained.
For the purpose of disabusing the
minds of those laboring under the misap-
prehension that preferred creditors figure
in the matter THE LEADER gladly gives
space to the statement of Hon. l.. E.
Warren made to d reporter while convers-
ing on this interesting subject yesterday
afternoon. 1t was designed to ascertain
the prospects of an ultimate settlement on
a market value basis, the relation of well
known home concerns to the Post estate
and the likelihood of realizing from Sc
c~urities held.
The final accounting will not be made
for some time, but the outlook for an
equitable and satisfactory settlement with
all concerned is good. Messrs. Warren,
Post and Parshall are giving the matter
much attention, the two latter almost
their entire time. If good bust
ness management will guide the
wrecked business through the
commercial labyrinth in which it was
found it will soon become a prosperous
establishment. To make a hasty settle
ment would be a madly %ruinous proceed
ure. In that event real estate and secur-
tiles would be sacrificed and helpless per-
sons embarrassed, perhaps bankrupted.
In this connection no one will deny that
at a cash auction sale to-day the magnif-
cent Post bank block would not command
a price spproximating its value. 1t is a
desirable an costly property, but who
would pay a fair figure in cash for it.
This illustration should suffice to convince
all that to attempt an immediate adiudi-
cation would be the height of folly.
Large blocks of the stock of three well
known home corporations are pledged for
much less than their value in New York,
were placed there some time before the
failure. All of these securities are gilt
edged in Wyoming, but are almost I'M
known in Wall street. They must be
rescued from the brokers at all hazards.
The best interests of all demand that
this paper be returned to Wyoming,
where it is quoted at par. To allow it to
fall into the hands of spectators who
know little of the country and less of the
business with which they would then of
necessity become identified, would be ex-
tremely disastrous.
The assignees believe that by careful
manipulation these securities will be re-
covered in due time, when they can be
converted into cash to the advantage of
western creditors.
Mr.. Warren assured the reporter hat
than to liquidate with Cheyenne deposi-
tors at once nothing would afford him
greater pleasure. He feels IN duty bound
to administer, in conjunction with Mr..
Parshall, the estate in the manner which
he deems most advisable.
The publication of the statement filed
with Judge Bergman was a topic of gen.
eral conversation yesterday and the situa-
ton was thoroughly canvassed.
, 1888-05-19
Reinstated.

Doc Dento7, well known to horse
men and the general public in this Sec
ton, was several years since suspended by
an Eastern t~rotting association, but has
recently been reinstatcd. His dismissal
wal the result of a misunderstanding IN
relation to a roar trotter called "Loafer."
So soon as the facts in the case were
placed before the committee in the proper
light they fastened to restore Mr.. Denton
to good standing.
, 1888-05-19

A single rig. evidently a runaway out,
fit, was sighted in a Cheyenne & Burling
ton culvert about three miles east Of
town yesterday afternoon. The wrecked
vehicle and struggling animal were extri-
Gated by city officers and section men and
subsequently returned to the owner.
1t appears that the horse, which was
being driven by one Sanders, became I'M
manageable and capsized the carriage,
throwing the driver to the ground near
the boulevard.
, 1888-05-19

Shortly after the dinner hour yesterday
fire was discovered in the Pacific hotel at
Green river, one of the finest structures
owned by the great eating house COM
pany.
The flames were quickly extinguished
and the blaze caused but very little dam
age. The fire did not destroy any portion
of the house and the furniture was not
removed. The hotel was filled with
smoke for a few minutes and considerable
water was thrown in several rooms.
A defective fue was the cause of the
fire.
, 1888-05-19
Base Ball.

CHICAGo, May lS.-The league games
at Detroit, Indianapolis and Plttsburg
was prevented by rain. The American
games at Cincinnati and Baltimore ditto.
CHICAGO, May lS.-To-day's game was
played on very muddy ground, the play
ers swimming and wading after the ball.
Radbourne was pounded very hard by the
colts, while Bouchers, the new California
pitcher, made a first class showing and in
the five innings that were played held the
veterans from Boston down to four base
hits. His work at the bat was rather
weak to-day, but it was done under ad-
verse circumstances for him. The game
anne to an end in the fifth on account of
fresh rain and more mud.
Score-ChicaRo Is, Boston o.
, 1888-05-19
TOWN TALK.
Cosby Little paragraphs Picked Up
Throughout the City.

Matinee at the opera house to-day.
Trap shooting at the fair grounds this
afternoon.
Strawberry festivals will now occur
thick and fast.
The afternoon band concerts at the
fort are well attended.
The Pdynaster at the opera house tins
afternoon. Matinee prices.
The Denver Pacific pay car arrived
from the south last eveding.
E. r. Hurd has sold lot 6 in block lib
TO Phoebe II. Pickett for $3.50.
The false fire alarms yesterday after
noon startled several hundred people.
The national Republican convention
meets in Chicago one month from to-day.
Mrs. Dion Boucicault may be seen at
the opera house this afternoon and even
ing.
A drunken individual sold several rings
''left by his mother" at various saloons
last night.
The city Jail is crowded with tramps.
They work on the streets and in the park
during the day.
Rev. D. L. RAIDER will return from New
York tonight and occupy his pulpit as
usual tomorrow.
The New York Aquarium car, a
museum on wheels, is billed for Cheyenne
to-day and Monday.
The maximum temperature yesterday
was go, minimum 3Oo. Sunshine s
hours and As minutes.
An office for a loan and trust company
agent is being fitted up in the Phoenix
block on Capitol avenue.
A class of local athletes will assist the
Denver gymnasts at the Y. M. @, A. en-
tertainment the 30th inst.
Quite a number of Cheyenne singers
will attend the Gilmore concerts at Den
yer next month and assist in the exercises.
The usual quota of v~iolators of city
ordinances confronted Justice Lee yester-
ud1. n uuulDGI pdlu uuC huu SCNCld
were jailed.
The new water ordinance makes the
placing of a lawn sprinkler where spray
will be thrown on the sidewalk a punish
able ~offense.
David Wilson, who was taken to the
hospital in a very serious condition yester-
IaU nnnrntpn 10 ronfdlu i'm nroutnr and
will soon recover.
The Harrison & Rogers company will
present BARLEY Campbell's great Irish
drama My Geraldine at the opera house
this evening.
The horse attached to Heath's delivery
wagon enfvened Sixteenth street by going
on a strike yesterday forenoon. The rig
was somewhat damaged.
Williams, the alleged highwayman, was
a%rraigned for preliminary hearing yester-
day. He engaged an attorney and Sc
cured a continuance until Monday.
Lew D~ocktader's great minstrel COM
pany is en- route west and will soon be an
nounced for this city. The combination
is now playing to crowded houses in st.
Louis.
Mrs. John +. Bingham will be inferred
in the Cheyenne cemetery this afternoon.
Friends of the family are invited to at
tend the funeral services at the Congrega-
tional church at 2 o'clock this afternoon.
He never tagged in his Duties" ex-
ultingly remarked a preacher who was de-
hvering a funeral Grafton over the rem-
nants Of a rear brakeman. His light
wouldn't be out now if he had" senten-
t'ously replied a comrade of deceased in
whispered tones.
NeaO styles in spring and
summer Flannel OUershirts
SOFA cheap for cash at VI.
s
, 1888-05-19
An Excellent CHANGE.

Some one told us that to Mr.. Phillips
was offered the Elk hotel site gratis, if he
completed the building. This is an ex-
cellent offer, when it is known hat about
$4,000 have thus far been expended.
, 1888-05-19

Send your lace curtains to the Chey-
enne Steam laundry, and if your better
half does not smile the smole of very sat
isfaction we charge nothing for our work.
Try it and see how the thing works.
j. A. ENGLAND.
, 1888-05-19

NeaO styles in spring and
summer Flannel OUershirts
sofa cheap for cash at VI.
MNrkcs'.
, 1888-05-19
Opening Chinese ana Japanese Goods.

Lok Don, on Capitol avenue. rear of
the Inter Ocean, has on sale a lot of
Chinese and japanese fancy goods, crock
cry, teas and SILK. Everything cheap
and good. Everybody welcome.
, 1888-05-19

The fine art premium list for the next
territorial fair is very lengthy, and affords
a great opportunity for the display of
versatility and adeptness by local artists.
Prizes are offered for all sorts of paint
ings imaginable. The premiums are all
cash, and range in amounts from S. to 81.
, 1888-05-19

Fresh fish received daily at the Saddle
Rock.
, 1888-05-19

in Door DhotograDhic condl lion.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10
Exciting Incident
IN. o. States.l

~. W. Otutt5.l
Wild excitement was created this
afternoon at the Criminal Court build
ing by shooting of Louis Claire, who
was convicted this forenoon of the
Mealey murder. The would-be assassin
Is lad named Hugh Burke, the
nephew Of Mcaley.
There was big crowd ON the out
side waiting to see the two prisoners
placed in the maria. Shortly before
o'clock Claire and Gibson, in charge Of
Chief Deputy Leblanc and Assistants
villere, Stewart, White and Generelly,
were brought down the stairs, Claire
being led by Deputy Brewer. The
crowd closed around the wagon, but
passagoway was cleared and Gibson,
who was in the lead, stopped. Claire
had his foot on the first step, and was
about TO get into the vehicle when a
young man who was standing on the
outer side with his hand in his pocket
pulled out small revolver and placing
il to the size of Claire fired. There
was flash, and Claire exclaimed: Il
am shot
The court officer who saw the young
man put the pistol TO Claire's side,
grabbed and placed him under arrest.
An examination showed that the
wound was only a slight one.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10
The AborIgInes or California.

[John S. HIitiel In overland Monthly.l
After 110 years of association with
white mon In California, there Ia not
now In our State one first rate farmer,
mechanic or book-kceper Of pure abo-
riginal blood not one merchant or
owner of large herd of cattle. Many
Indians have been good workers for a
few weeks or months at time In vine-
yards, orchards, hop fields, grain fields
aud sheep shearing, but at tho close Of
the season they have wasted their earn
ings in dissipation and then loungod
about in idlencss until another period
Of higher wages would stimulate them
to exertion. This mode of life among
the men, the degraded character of the
women, the squalor of their dwellings,
and the frequency of thcfts near their
camps, render them very undesirable
as neighbors.
There never has been time since
1916 when an Indian disposed to work
faithfully could not get regular and
profitable employment; when he could
not save enough In a year to pay for
forty acres of land; and when after
buying he could not be protected In
its possession. Thousands of white
men, after arriving in California with
out dollar, became rich by toll and
economy; with better opportunities,
for he was here when the common Ia
borer could get $40 or 500 day, not
one Indian has done so.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10
Monitor Class or War Vessels.


Hundreds of others of different
types have sprung up and disappeared,
the designers of each claiming in the
last that the true system had been
found. But the monitor class, although
neglected for years, has never lost its
place as factor among the ironclads
of the world. The question arises,
Why has the monitor been neglected
Is II because there is an unwarrantcd
doubt Of her seagoing qualities with
which the misfortunes of the first mon
itor enshrouded IL The loss of that
vessel could not reasonably be re-
Election upon the safety of those that
followed, for IL was designed for ser
vice in the inland waters. Her con-
struction, not unlike that of New
York ferryboat, showed that she was
manifestly never intended by her de-
signer to be seut to sea. The struc-
tural weakness was in the overhang
the decks being SO arranged that the
beams rested on the hull proper, pro-
jecting some feet beyond, upon which
the plating was fastened. The sea
striking under this extension started
the deck from the hull and caused her
loss.
Subsequent monitors have no over
hang. The iron hulls are built up to
where the outside plating goes on;
then recede inboard to the thickness
of the plating, the latter resting on
this shoulder, flush with the outside
hull, which, being bent in to form the
shoulder, continues up inside the plat
ing to the height of the deck.-J. J.
Brice, lieutenant commander U. 5. n,
in New York Times.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10
How Came the Hoe There!
New Bedford Standard.l

In the mechanical construction Of
the ship Republic by Capt. David Nye,
at that time the largest ship ever built
on the shores Of Buzzard's Bay, in 1884
and '35, singular incident was devel-
oped. Mr.. Charles Fish, q ship car
penter of Falmouth, Mass, who was
employed in the construction of the
ship was hewing a large stick Of Flor
ida live oak timber, which apparently
was perfectly sound, when his
broadax seemed to bring up against
something. When he examined the
cause, he discovered something IRON
like in the apparently solid block of
live oak. He summoned the master
builder, Mr.. Thomas Robinson, who
ordered the something cut out of the
block of timber. The mysterious
something was chopped out, and being
brought to light proved to be nothing
more nor less than an old-fashioned
plantation hoe-well preserved, and
close scrutiny developed the fact that
the pith of the massive oak passed
through the eye of the hoe. The tree
was judged to be at least 12O years old.
Now comes the theory. Tradition
says that in early days the negroes
were wont to fold up the tender limbs
of the sapling oak and pass them
through the eye of their hoes and let
them grow for season, when handle
was secured beyond all trouble of
wedging, and 1t was next to an impos-
sibility for the hoe to get loose on the
handle. The fact that the edge of the
hoe was in position when taking the
sapling oak by the tcpmost end
showed that the hoe was purpose
ly placed on the tender sapling, as
above described. in order to let nature
do the work for the lazy slaye.
Another theory is that the needless
negro left his handless hoe under the
huge oak, and that the wanton off
spring left its parental cup and drop
ped listlessly into the eye of the negro
hoe, where kind nature caused 1t to
germinate.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10

The IIon. Oscar S. Straus, United
States Minister to Turkey, in address
ing the students of Robert College on
the occasion of their annual exercises,
made some very apt remarks about
the danger of college graduate re-
gardipg himself as educated when he
has received his diploma. "If you
cease learning when you have won
your diplomas you will never be edu-
Gated. is maxim which might with
advantage be repeated elsewhere than
in the latitude of Constantinoplc The
education of school or college is sim
ply the teaching of its pupils how to
employ such intellectual aptitudes as
they possess, and it is successful in the
ratio that it turns out men with a ca
pacity for clear thinking and just rea-
soning about any subject presented to
them. The ordinary college is, as the
Germans phrase it, a gymnasium, only
the faculties to be developed are those
of the mind instead of the body
Exchange.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10
The Lick Pictures or the Moon.
Isan Francisco Call

Some Of the lunar photographs
taken at the Lick Observatory in
August last were sent to A. A. Com
mon, f. II. s., of London, who has just
acknowledged their receipt. lie pro-
nounces them to be finer than any yet
made by any instrument. The partic-
ular value of this verdict lies in the
fact that Mr.. Common is acknowledged
to be the greatest living authority on
astronomical photography, which he
has prosecuted with his three-foet
rejecting telescope with the greatest
success. lie is now constructing a
five-foot mirror for similar work.
This instrument viii, if successful, be
somewhat more powerful than the
Lick telescope, theoretically speaking
but in order to equal its work the new
instrument must be mounted in a eli
mate as good as that of California.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10
Mary Mcbride Sentenced to Prison.

Washington, Nov. 5.-Miss Mary j.
Mcbride, who Is well known in Louis
lana, Mississippi and Tennessee by her
prominence in politics there ten years
ago, was Saturday sentenced to four
years in the Albany penitentiary for
setting her boarding house on fire in
June, 1886, to get the insurance. Her
colored servant and accomplice, John
Mcfarland, got three years at the same
place. ahe latter was formerly a
guard in the Mississippi penitentiary,
and there met his evil genius, who was
confined there for some indiscretion.
Just previous to being sentenced to-
day she produced large roll of man.
uscript and read an excellent argument
against being sentenced.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10
NO. II
A Campalgn Incident.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. 1.-The let
ter purporting to come from W. W.
Dudley, dated New York, and address
ed to Republican committeeman, has
created great excitement throughout
the State. It appeared in the Sentinel, !
Yesterday, the following being the gist
~Divide the foaters in blocks of five,
and put trusted man, with necessary
funds, in charge ofthese five, and make
him responsible that none get away
and that all vote our ticket. There
win be no doubt of your receiving ne
cessary assistance through the nation
al State and county committee; only
see that it is husbanded and made TO
produce results"
5. 4. Morse, editor of the Sentinel
has, the original copy, and the sigma
ture is undoubtedly Dudley's, being
so decided by three Republicans in
the afternoon. 1t is generally believ-
ed to have been genuine, and is depre-
Gated by Republicans and Democrats
alike. II causes intense Indignation.
Early in the day Col. Dudley wired
the editor of the indianapolis News,
declaring the letter forgery, and
threatening to prosecute any paper
publishing the same.
Editor Morse of the Sentinel avows
his conviction of the genulneness OF
the authorship and signature Of the
letter, and to a reporter stated that he
would tell the grand jury what he
knew about Its authenticity.
Mr.. Morse stated the signature had
! been examined by bankers and experts
, familiar with Mr.. Dudley's writing,
who agreed that it was his signature.
= Secretary Sheerin, of the Democrat
. ic National Committee, states that the
: letter was sent to Chairman Jewctt
late Monday night lie (Shcerin) had
/. no doubt whatever that the letter was
: signed and set out by Dudley. lie
I thought II probable that Mr.. Dudley
Q would be prosecuted.
: Judge Claypool, attorney for the com
= mittee of Ono Hundred Republicans
1 an organization for preserving the pu
I rity Of the ballot box, said to- day a
/ have carefully examined the origina
:, of Dudley's letter and am thorough.
satisfied that il is Dudley's, and that h,
0 is guilty of violating two statutes
:. Under one he may be indicted singly
= and under another co-iointly with 9th
n ers. am very hopeful, If not to say
s confident, the necessary evidence Il
+ sustain prosecution against him cal
y and will DO obtained. That he ha
n committed very grave oilensc there
c can be no doubt. and he deserves so
we're punishment.
The Democrats arc confident that
5 the letter gives them the State beyond
Y poradvcnture, and are consequently
jubilant.
The Greenville times., 1888-11-10

G. I. MoGEHEg President,


wilkinson County Pair Association:
Mr. Dear Sir: Yours of the 9Th inst.
has been received, and it gave me sin
cere joy to be assured that the children
and the grand children Of the friends
of my youth, have not forgotten that
l am one of Wilkinson County's
people. 1t would be true gatifica-
tion to me to be with you, at your ap-
preaching Fair, and in the faces of
their descendants to see traces of re-
semblance to those dear to me in my
school boy days, and remembered with
tenderness which belongs to the
spring time OF life.
With regret realize my inability to
attend at the time named by you, but
if good wishes of the absent can avail,
that l send to the noble people of VIII
kikson, not in stinted, but full measure,
heaped and running over.
Reared on the soil Of Wilkinson
county, | have with pride treasured
her traditions, which it has been my
hope to see collected and published /;
not only as due to those who have
passed from tins world, but as an ex-
ample of virtue and pa atriotism worthy
of emulation. One fact retained in
my childhoofs memories, is of un-
parrelleled devotion to their country !:
When news came of the approach of
the British army to attack New Or
leans, the sons of Wilkinson went in
such numbers to defend the city, that
the County Court held draft to keep
a certain proportion, of the men at
home, for police purposes. Tho
Records Of the county probably con-
tain the particulars of the event, Of
which have only the recollection of
what child would hear.
Please make my thanks acceptable
to your Directory and believe me cor
daily yours, JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Sept. 16, 1883.