Morning journal and courier., 1889-02-18

variously estimated at from twenty-five to thirty-one, and it is known that in addition he has aided in sending seventeen other men over the valley of death by means of the hangman's moose. Only few weeks ago, in fact on Nov. 21, Jack sprung the trap in this city which sent to their death the two noted Creek Indian murdererr, Jack and Joe Tobler. Even in this country, where skiIlers' are to be met with every day and is pointed out to strangers with strange mixture of awe and pride.
 By this it must not be understood that this gallant Deputy United States Marshal is desperado who goes about glorying in his bloody work. On the contrary, he is rather retiring in his disposition and only when he has been drinking boasts of his deeds. When desperate work is to be done or
 bad desperado is to be taken Stillwell is al
 ways the man who is detailed to accomplish
 it. The Territory desperadoes and cut
 throats all know and fear the intrepid of
 fcer. and are aware of the fact that If he
 goes after them he will get them, dead or alive, Many are the traps that have been laid to kill him, but he is as cunning as he is brave, and has always managed to evade the snares that would have caused the death of less accomplished plainsman.
 Brought up as he was among the Conan che Indians, Jack has never exercised the right of franchise, and at the age of fifty has never cast Q vote. However, he is at heart a good Democrat He speaks the Comanche and several other Indian langu- ages as well as.the Indians do themselves, and during the sitting of the United States Court in this city it is always an amusing sight to see the Indians, dressed in their primitive way, following the great ''White Chief" as they call Jack, about the streets. He calls them his 'fmenagerie" and says they are lot of dirty, thieving wretches for the most part, as we'll as the most accom- plished liars in the world.
 QUEEN yIcTORIA's INCOME. Parliament Annually Appropriates Money to Catch Royal Rats and the Like.
 From the New York sun.l Early last session it was very freely ru mored in society and in the lobbies of par- lament that the queen had grown tired of finding pocket money for young Prince Al- bert Victor of Wales, popularly known as "Collars and Gu fs," and that in consequence her majesty's loyal commons would be called upon to make provisions for the young mans needs on scale be6tting his position as eldest son of the heir apparent to the throne of the British empire. Instantly the radicals were up in arms; public meetings were held and some newspapers dared to hint that the most seemly and natural course would be for Queen Victoria, as head of the family, to provide for it's impecunious scions by drawing upon her hoarded millions. The government, remembering the long and acrimonious debates over the last grant that to Princess Beatrice upon her mar. riage to Prince Henry at Battsnburg- before the storm and delegated Viscount Cross, the queens favorite minister, to in- form her majesty that the time was not pro- pitious. The queen stormsd and vowed her will should be done. The government stood firm and Gnally a compromise was effected whereby the housaof commons was not called upon to vote any money just then, of the royal family was referred to select committee, of which Hr. Gladstone is 8 member.
 The fight, however, has been only post poned, and 1t is practically certain that 8 battle royal will be fought next session when
 the committee shall present its report: Her majesty, Queen Victoria, must be Q very rich woman probably the richest of
 husband, Prince Albert ss1. Cobnrg-
 Gotha, she did not spend more than one-ffth
 of her income. Since his death, twenty-six years ago, she must have saved quite three- fourths of her revenue. What her savings must be may be estimated from the follow ing statement as to her official income:
 Her majesty receives as queen an annual salary, termed the Civil List, of $1 ,025, GOO; as duchess of Lancaster she draws annually $20,000, and pension of $4,015, in lieu of prissge and butersge on wines imported in to the duchy," whatever that may mean.
 This sum of $2, 900, GOO odd Is almost clear profit. Her majesty does not even have to
 be charitable out of her own pocket, for par- liament grants every year about 1000 for loyal charities and bounties.
 Parliament always provides, toe, for the repairs of palaces, and even for kitchen gar dens attached thereto, sometimes at . cost of $150, ,000 in one year. Royal yachts are pro- vided and kept in repair at an annual cost of about $400,00 Her majesty's limner costs $4S0 year; her majesty's htstoriogrspher $920, and her msjesty's clockmaksr, who certainly never makes clocks, is put down annually for the modest sum of $s2.
 The loving care and loyal anxiety of the commons of her msjesty's comfort extends even to the matter of rats. Buckingham palace, big pile of buildings facing Hyde Park, where the great state drawing rooms fested with vermin, and as it would never do to have queen or great dame standing on the table holding up her skirts and shrieking "rats!" like ordinary women folks, the house of sonmons, with reckless disregard of expense. sets aside annually the sum of $70 with which to pay @ rat catcher.
 Legislative complsissnce does not stop here. Queen Victoria built memorials of her late husband in Windsor Castle and in Hyde Park. Parliament votes every year $12O for attendants at the former and g., 300 for repairs and regilding of the latter.
 Altogether the queen, personally, costs this much-tsxcd nation not less than g, 250- 900 every year, of which over 8, 0e0, 900 gees straight into her own private purse. In addition to this, her majesty owns an enor- nous amount of private property-houses, lands and stooks-although by law she is not supposed to have any source of income save what parliament provides. When Prince Albert died, leaving personally vari- ously estimated at from $3, ,0oo, 600 to s, ,00o- 900, the statute was openly dsfed; the will was not even deposited at Somerset house, the legal receptacle for such things, much less made public.
 Crsnks frequently bequeath money to the queen. A notable instance occurred some thirty years ago, whom . miser named Neild left her majesty about $1 100000.
 The state also relieves the queen of the trouble and expense of providing for her children after they have arrived at years of discretion. The princess royal, upon her marriage with the crown prince of Germany, was lowered by the house of commons with $200, 900 and aa annuity of $40. .000 She is now empress dowager of Germany, but she still draws her annuity. The Prince of Wales got-$120, 900 when he came of age, despite the enormous aceumulations from the Cornwall revenues already referred to, and he receives yearly as heir apparent and duke of Cornwall $560, 900 exclusive of his pay as field marshal and for several colonel cies. The Princess of Wales receives from the British treasury $50, 900 year and half as much from her own country, Denmark. The quesA's second son, Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh, receives $125, 900 yearly, the pay as admiral in the navy and other pickings, every cent of which is given grudg- ingly. Alfred has never been popular, part ly owing to his miserly habits and partly be- cause he is married to Russian Princess, sister of the present Czar.