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Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
GEN. CROOKS FIRST INDIAN,
A "Reminiscences of His Earliest
Campaign.
AARON wALLACE's CLOSE CALL.
The General Saves His Life With
an Old MuZZlc Loader
The Death Of the
foot.
His First indian.

General Crooks indian campaigns
have made his name n household word
all over the country, but while his
achievements as a military commander
are familiar to the public through the
official record of the daily press, he has
had many thrilling adventures that
have never been written, and are totally
unknown except to u small coterie of
close personal friends. AS Omaha was
the generals home for SO many years it
Is no more than reasonable to suppose
that anything concerning his cventful
career will be read here by his innum-
cradle acquaintance with especial
avidity, and it has become my pleasant
Office to tell the story of one of the
grizzly Old veteran earliest exploits
the killing of his first Indian!
Shortly before the generals depart
ure for Chicago a few months since, one
afternoon he dropped in ut the
gun store of j. j. Hardin, and went
back, and upstairs into the little work.
shop, for a friendly that and an ex-
change of "reminiscences with his old
companion in many "a stirring hunt,
John Petty, the locksmith.
+, Petty was Tuning and perspiring over
the glowing forge, busily engaged in
repairing one of those relics of early
frontier life---an old Misunderstanding
Hawkins rifle.
"Well. general, observed the Drawny
John, after their hearty salutations,
strengthening up over his anvil and
handing Crooks the Hawkins, these
Did fuzees have seen their day, haven't
they
''They certainly have, Petty, but a
good day it WAS. Why, do you know |
not only saved a soldiers life but killed
my first Indian with one of these self
same old Hawkins rihes?n
"Gosh, no." calculated old John, sort
D mechanically, how was that, gem
sralp Tell me bout it,"
well, you are aware, John, | an not
much of a talker, except with those
with whom ] am on pretty easy terms,
out as ] have half an hour or SO, III just
Jake a seat on this DON here and tell you
The story"
Anticipating a treat, for it matters
aot to old John whether you tell him of
IN Indian fight. a bear hunt, wolf chase
Dr. goose shoot, he's always Interested
ne jumped Dol his workbench, and
with his elbows or his knees and face
IN his hands, he crOuched and listened
10 the generals narrative.
at was way back in the gloomy days
sf So began the general, placing the
Hawkins across his knees, IAN in Orc
EOn, and in those days, you know John,
The name of that territory was sugges'
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
A Railway Lesson From America.

Pail Mail Gazette: The contrast be-
tween English and American industry
and inventiveness in the art of mini
mlzing friction and reducing dead
weight is forcibly illustrated by the
American bogie truck freight cars
which were exhibited yesterday at St.
Pancras station. These cars are built
of tubular steel, are supported on two
four-wheeled bogies, and weigh eight
tons for goods and ten tons for coal.
The English car weighs five tons and
carries eight. The American, which
weighs eight or ten, carries thirty. The
result is, that if the American super
seeded the English truck on the Mid
land according to an interesting calcu-
lation by Mr.. Roberts in the Railway
Herald), all the goods traffic could be
carried at a saving Of l9S, 735 tons OF
lightweight on every 6Sl 1868 tons car
ried.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
The American Tailors,
Paxton Hotel, 1411 Farnam Street.

is utterly impossible to beat such a sys-
TEN, and its adoption by the Central
was the result of the.most careful study
Of the best railroad heads in the coun-
try. 1t works like a charm, and all the
men who work by it pronounce it the
safest system in use on any road.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Metal Railrond Tics.

Attempts have been made to consid.
cradle extent to substitute metal for
wooden ties on railroads, but it doe not
yet appear that the right kind of tie
has been invented. Wood possesses
the quality Of yielding in just about the
right degree, and a metal tie should
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

Chicago Tribune: The locomotive OF
a Pan Handle passenger train, due at
Cincinnati at $50 II evening last
week, struck q sycamore tree fifteen
inches in diameter, blown across the
track by a storm, a short distance north
east Of Loveland, O. The train was
running thirty-tive miles an hour. The
locomotive broke the tree in two and
threw it off the track. The front truck
Of the engine was thrown OF the track,
the cowcatcher, the smokestack and
the cab were demolished, and the engi-
neer was knocked senseless, with Sc
we're injuries to his head. The fireman
was badly injured. The engine, with
out a mar to guide it, ran half a mile
with the trucks off the track, when the
conductor turned on the air brakes.
The train was DELAYED four hours.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Cars Worked by Compressed Air.

Tram cars worked by compressed air
on the Mekarski system are now run-
ming on the Holloway road and Kings
Cross Tramway line. They are like or
binary cars without horses, and they
take their turn with horse cars. The
air is contained in reservoirs under the
cars, and is warmed by passing through
hot water contained in a receiver be-
fore it goes to the engines, which are
also under the EAR. This heating pre-
vents the formation of hoar frost in the
cylinders, owing to the cooling due to
the expansion Of the compressed air
which ~ctuates the engines.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
FIT, STYLE
And Make


come rs rear to the sane degree OF
yielding rs possible. The way the rail-
roads are using up the stock Of available
timber should be an incentive to soma
ingenious inventor to bring out a metal
tic equal to a wooden one
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14
Railroad Notes.

ItallrOdu NONcS.
A railway from Nisp to Iermatt,
Switzerland, hitherto considered i'm
practicable, is about to be commenced.
It's length will be twenty-oight miles
and its grade $3.50 feet. 1t will be nar.
row gauge without any cogs.
The longest through car service OF
any railroad line in the world is said to
be on the Southern Pacific road, be-
tween New Orleans and San Francisco,
2.495 miles. The fastest through train
on this road is timed at ll3 hours, %
minutes, or at the rate Of twenty-three
miles an hour.
The largest railway station in Europe,
and probably in the world, is the new
Central railway station at Frankfort
on-the-Main.
Railway companies of Australia have
dispensed with snow sheds in exposed
localities, finding that he drifting OF
snow can be prevented effectively by
planting hedges. The hedges in use
are of Rose of Provence, 6t feet high
and but ~oue-quarter of a foot thick. OF
course any other hedge would do as we'll
or better. Probably in our country the
buckthorn or evergreen would be the
material. The philosophy of this plan
is not hat the hedge breaks the crowd
ing of tbs snow, but that it creates a
current tnat defects snow from its old
line of drifting.
The Railroad Gazette reports SO col
lisions, III derailments and IL other &C.
cidents for August, a total of 222, against
1877 for August last year. Forty-three
employees. 4 passengers and 8 other per-
| sons were killed, a total of So; 100 en-
ployes, 30 passengers and twelve others
we're injured, a total of 2O2. The killed
in August last year were As employees
and "a others; total, 129; the injured SO
employees and pa others; total, 1913.
A New York civil engineer has APP
piled for a patent for a locomotive and
tender, by which he claims he can make
nincty-fve miles an hour with ten
coaches. The boiler is rectangular in
shape, having a large and permanent
area of evaporating surface, supported
by a great extent of heating surface, the
pressure at its weakest points. Tho
| cylinders are in the rear of, instead Of
| between the truck wheels, and the fire.
| box is supported between the center of
gravity of the driving wheels.
Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-14

An effort is beng made to establish an
Italian Methodist church in New York city.
Not long since Rev. George Il Fuller, OF
Emmettsburg, Ia, was prosecuting witness
against a s~aloon-keeper. His right to enter
complaint was denied by the defense on the
ground that, being an itinerant under epis-
copal authority, he was not a citizen. The
state supreme court, to which the case was
taken, decides that ''ail ministers under the
episcopal polity are citizens" and therefore
proper persons TO prosecute where they
choose to do SO.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
Of all Things in the World

A tonic is what nervous people require.
To impart strength into the nervous
organism is to insure its tranquility
provided causes of unhealthful excite
ment are avoided. A medical tonic that
like Hostetter's Stomach Bitters-com-
mands the unqualified sanction of the
healing profession, and which Institutes
general reform in bilious, dyspeptic
and debilitated condition of the system,
is surely entitled to a careful trial by
intelligent people, capable of forming
due estimate of g medicine, from en-
phatic and often recorded professional
evidence in it's behalf. Not only are the
nerves and stomach invigorated by the
Bitters, but the system is also endowed
with unwonted power of resistance to
influences in air. water or daily avoca-
ton subversive of health. Prominently
among the first named of
these is malaria, against which Hostel
ter's Stomach Bitters afford compe-
tent safeguard. rheumatism and kid
ney trou bIes are also prevented and
overcome by it.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

as reported to R. G. Dun & Co. humber
iol the United States 1877, and for
Oanada ~, or total of 219, as com
pa paeed with total of 233 last week, and
1lo the week previous to the last. For
ene corresponding week of last year the
lure :nfes we're 16l, made up of 135 in the
Unre1 States and &c in the Dominion
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

the week was reported as being mod :
erately good one-somewhat in advance
of the seven days previous. Park
City, Stockton, Bingham, the Cotton.
woods, Tintlc, and Frisco were all
heard from. and there were, besides,
several small shipments from Nevada,
amounting to considerable in the aggre-
gate. Besides these, Hanauer gotssabout
$50 tons of ore from Aspen, Colo. 1t
was Inns gsngue, very useful ore to
the smelters.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

The landscape to the south of the
city is yet clear and undefIed; the
busy hum of labor, and the read CLEAN
of the furnace lights are still conspicu-
GUS by their absence, and no man
knoweth Cor if he does he keepeth it to
hlmself), when the furnace fires will
again be all agiow. Some one was tn.
author OF rumor that the Hammer
would fire up again within a week.
Inquiry at the Office, however, failed to
establish the truth of the assertion.
and it was Indirectly stated that the
shelters were still awaiting the action
OF the railroads in reference to the de
mands of the former for the conces-
sions. 1t is thought that the Union
Pacific officials will probably return an
answer within a short time now, as it
was limited that the matter would he
considered IN connection with the re :
cent demand made by the Wood River
people in reference to reduction in the
rate on bullion from river to river.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

AT a recent meeting of the Hidden
Treasure Mining Company, held in
Ogden, a specimen of the bullion made
from ore taken from the mine was
SHOWN. 1t showed gold, silver, lead
ana iron' although in what percentage
was not divulged. 1t is further stated
that considerable difficulty was ex-
perienced in extracting the metals:
but the proper process having been
discovered, there Is no doub. but that
the mine will be success. ASSAYS bay-
ing been made which run very high
Inc tunnel, which is now in forty feet.
mas tapped two veins of ore, one ten
and the other four inches. 1t IS the
lnsenton OF the owners to push the
work with the utmost rapldity. 1t is
situated in the north fork of Ogden
RIVER, about twenty eight miles from
the city.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

AS al incident in business and to
show how little money well circulated
helps to make times lively, the follow
ing is given: Soma weeks ago prom
inent real estate dealer in Los Angeles
handel a gen leman check for 81 800
in deal. The recipient of it having
some little obligations outstanding as
the result of too much boom, quietly
Endorsed it, and handed it to creditor,
and thus it started on it's mission of
charity, love and business. In due
course of time it turned up in the hands
of the original drawer of it, with no less
than fifteen Endorsements On the back.
1t had paid $37 500 of debts, made if
teen men happy, and returned to Its
drawer. That's the way to do business.
Let those who can, pay up their little
obligations and all act equally honest
and just with their creditors, and no
one will ever have reason to complain
of dull times or a scarcity of money.
There are millions of money in the
country if the people who have it will
only putt in circulation, and not hoard
it like misers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

After all, it would appear from vari-
GUS reports recently received by The
hhHAlp' that there will be good aver
age crop th.aeghout the Territory. In
some parts, faroers depending on extra
water Tor irrigaion have suffered
some, but about the only anxiety the
farmer now has is to lem wbat nricos
will be paid for grain. Th,re orc thoso
who say that low figures N;IInreroiI
this year, and base their csloI ot;on.
upon the fact that the railways 80
made it almost impossible for shippe-,
to do anything at a fair living profit.
1T seems to me-" said one yesterday,
that every man who ships carload
of grain is followed closely by the com
pany's agents, and it is not long before
the railroad people know to whom the
grain is going, how much is paid fer
it, and what profit there is in it for the
consignor. They are then enabled to
fix rates accordingly, and thus consti-
tute each shipper an agent for the COM
pany. There Is, however. | am pleased
TO be able to say, disposition on the
part Of some of the railway people to
be little more fair in their treatment
than heretofore, and it is possible they
may make such rate as will enable US
to reach our legitimate markets with
some degree of profit. At present.
there is very little grain going out.
Wool, you might say. has all gone, and
q few potatoes have been sent east dur
ing the last week"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
St. Mary's Academy,
Salt Lake City, Utah.
Conducted by the Sisters OF the Holy Cross

Studies for Boarders and Day Pupils will
be resumed MondaT, September 3, 1888
The English Course includes all the
branches necessary for tirst-clsss educa-
ton. The Languages. Linear Drawing,
Vocal Music in Glass, PLATA Sewing and Or
namental Needlework form no extra charge.
Terms are Modified when two or more of
4he family attend school at the same time.
Students attending All Hsllows College
are permitted to visit their sisters st the
Academy.
Half rates can be secured on two of the
railroad lines.
RMS MO DE RATE.
For catalogues address as above.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

New York bankers, or at least some
of them, have hit upon novel method
of retrenching expenses. Bank clerks
are frequently obliged to remain at
their books long after hours, and the
custom as been 10 furnish them with
80 cents for supper. This allowance, in
some cases, has been decreased to IS
cents. This system is practiced more
particularly in one of the large lnslitu-
tions of that city, the assistant cashier
of which recently became defaulter.
The clerks object to this method OF
making up for the dishonest officials
speculations and decline to accept any
money, concluding that they can pay
tor their supper If necessary tor the
banks interests. Meanwhile the sal
aries of the high officials remains as
high as ever.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
Daily.

Dividend No. Is, of % cents a share,
has been declared on Daily stock, pay
able ON the Both inst. This makes q
total of $7l2 500-slli paid within eight
cen months.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
The WaJsOn

shipped one carload. 1t assayed 80
lead, 30 silver, and sold for $50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
Saratoga

sent in one carload, assaying ~ lead
Is silver, and netting the owners $23.
The sale of the delinquent stock will
take place on Friday, at II am.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
From Other PLACES

there came several small lots of ores,
most of which went to the Foote and
Conkln samplers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
HnrD Silver.

One hundred tons Of ore, worth ab u:
$50, came up from this property.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
Miners Dream.

A big shipment, "A lead, u gold, and
low in silver, brought S22.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
The ErOokl.u

had a good shipment. The assay
showed 2llead aad 30 silver. The price
paid was 423.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
The Lead Mine

sents its usual weekly output to Il
Hanauer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
The Sampson

had a shipment of twenty FIVE tons. 60
ing s. lead, 70 silver, and Lringing S6 }.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
Silver Hill.

One carload, IS lead, 3 silver, q gold.
Sold for $2S.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
South Galena.

Two hundred tons OF second class ore
went to the Hanauer.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
The King of 1ha We {.

This property, owned principally by
Salt Lakers, has commenced ship
ping.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
The Spanish

Thirty tons'ef second. class ore came
in from this property.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
IhS Cralceut

sent in ie5 tons of concentrates, which
went to Omaha.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
Antelope and Prince of Wales.

One carload came from this Cotton
wood property. It went So lead, 20
silver, and sold Tor $50.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
Ore and Bullion.

Inc ore and bullion receipts at the
various banks in this city for the week
CIV emuing Saturday August 9th, were $50.
9s"45, ssas compared with $49, 900 o.
tne week previous. They W p0i 'eu
q
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26
FINANCE AND MINING
Lead is High and Still
Advancing.
ORE AND BULLION OUTFIT.
Collections Slow-The Approach np
Fall Trade-Mining Ventures
The Cr0ps-Stocks Weak.

There are faint-very faint-symp
toms in business circles of the comm g
fall trade. Business houses having
men out On the road notice the ap-
proach more keenly than do the retail
merchants. In couple of weeks more
its influence will be quite noticeable.
The past week has been fair one for
our merchants generally, and yesterday
was quite busy Saturday.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

An old Spanish working was discov-
cred few days ago on lead in Bear
Mountain, about twelve miles north Of
Magdalena, N. M. 1t was discovered
by three miners-Jo ohm Mckinney,
James Blake and Ed. Brittenity-Tho
have made three locations upon it, and
have commenced development work
upon one OF the claims with the inten-
ton of making it paying mine soon.
The mine has a very ancient appear
ance. Work on it was probably done
200 or 800 years ago. There Is an old
cross cut, eighty Or ninety feet in
length, which has been completely filed
up in order to secrete the workings.
The ledge is from 100 to 200 feet in
width, and can Re traced on the surface
for over three miles. The formation of
the country is porpyry and syeni.e.
The ore carries both gold and silver in
large quantities. There has been no
ssay of the ore made. but il homspoon
and paw it shows up free gold. There
are indications of work having been
done on the lead IN nine other places,
but this has not been proved SO as to
know to what extent. There are ruins
of old Spanish smelteTs aoout i've miles
to the north of this immense lead. at
which there has undoubtedly been
smeited great amount of ore.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

COLLECTIONS are deuced Slow" was
the reply made to a HERALD reporter
yesterday, when prominent business
man was asked as to the state of trade,
"otherwise l don't know that we have
any cause for complaint. AS you have
before stated, this is the off season.
when trade is always slack, and al :
though we are. not doing business to
our full capacity, nevertheless l think
we are getting along as well as We
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

The signs of an awakening in eastern
trade circles are growing more favor
able. Business, in almost every part
of the country, improves, with many
indications of good fall trade. Man
ufacturing is more active, and labor is
better employed. Railroad. earnings
show gains as usual, and the belief
that wars will not last has strength
ened. On the whole, the feeling has
decidedly improved, and the actual
situation also. The dulness in the iron
trade, which has been a discouraging
symptom, has given way to better
trade, due, in part. to resumption of
furnaces which suspend for time IN
the summer for repairs. The latest
advice regarding the crops are favor
able, because they indicate that the
injuries undeniably sustained are net so
serious ss many apprehend. Money is
in ample supply for legitimate demands
at nearly every point reporting. The
busiress failures occurring throughout
the country during the last seven days,
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

From the south comes the report that
the fruit crop also appears to be very
good, but NO outside market is looked
for. There is one thing in come ction
with the drying of fruit that our pro-
ducers should pay more attention to
that is the proper classifying of the
different sizes; they should not be
thrown Unfortunately together, a, has
been the custom with some dryers in
the past" was the advice given by
gentleman who handles many carloads
yearly. mixed shipments do not and
cannot command the price that
properly assorted lots do. and although
there is considerable more labor at
.ached to preparing the classified goods
for the market. still the advance in
price will, [ think, be found to be an
ample recompense for the time spent"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

should have any reason to expect. We
nave no complaints to make, and, as a
rule, you will find that what is true of
ore leading business house is true of
ALL"
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

By reference to the price current of
the Peoples Forwarding Company, in
another part of this issue. it will be
seen that there has been considerable
reduction in the price of grain an d
feed during the week.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

A number of the people of Ogden
have opened coal mine near the
Union Pacific No. 7, at Almy, and pro-
pose, hereaf:er-D. V. and the weather
permitting: % furnish all the coal con-
s1med IN ogden. rs capacity is about
Fifty tons per day.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-26

Sugar declined Il during the week
one eighth at time.