Omaha daily bee., 1889-02-17

additions after a ride from the capital. Be-
hind them paced the aged custodian OF the
marble baths. Raising his head from the
basin, the while applying a towel to 1t
briskly, Ransom inquired in q tone loud
enough to be heard by the gray beardi
"Bili, why don't you stop at this hotel when
you are in townN' The aged sentry stood,
turned, tapped Canada on the shoulder, and
with frigid civility said "Please do your
washing in the hotel you stop at af-
ter this ~ He then walked away, as did
Ransom also, leaving Canada to dispose
of his modification as best he could, II is
said that Ransom kept out of Canada's path
for a week.
From the First National bank to the Pa
oific Express company's Office is but a few
feet. Several days ago six young gentlemen
paced the distance and when they reached
| their destination, they were almost exhausted.
Each had carried a bag of gold which was,
in itself, an ample fortune. These young
gentlemen recall General HarneY's trip up
the Missouri TO assume control, for the gov
ernmcnt, of the Sioux nation, He touched
at Omaha in 1867, the boat bearing him being
the Miner. He had with HIM S50O,OOO, a
trusted messenger, Stephen Bowes, now per-
forming the same duties in the headquarters
of the department of the Platte IN this city;
also his secretary, since known as Colonel
O'Connor. There was a number of passcu-
gers on board, while the deck and hold of the
boat were loaded with provisions, utensils
anu implements which were to be utilized in
the civilization of the Indians. The boat
was chartered at an expense of $500 per day,
the trip extending from St. Louis to Peoria
Flats, five miles from Fort Sully. Only
three persons on the boat knew of the money
being on board. Those three have been
mentioned. The currency was deposited in
an old satchel, to which neither the general
nor his attendants paid the slightest attention.
The half-million dollars reached the agency
IN safety, though many IA tough character
who, after he learned of the chance he had
lost to make a fortune. bcmoancd his lot in
impotent petitions to be afforded such
another opportunity. A great deal of the
money was spent as intended, upon the In
dams, but when General Grant sent out
Quakers to continue the work of civilization,
General Harvey packed the money remain
ing into the same satchel aud threw it into
one of the wagons, in the train with which
he babe the Indians goodbye. Near Fort
Randall, the wagon was upset and every
thing was spilled upon the ice. But the little
old sack was pitched back into anoter wagon,
and, with its contents unknown to put
Bowes and Harvey, reached Sioux City in
safety. Thence, it travelled by express to
the war department. ''If l had carried the
valise in any other way" said the general,
II should have had to protect it with a com
pany Of soldiers"
The coolest Sunday we have had this year,
and some of our most severe weather has
been experienced on that day, has seen, in
the afternoon, in one of the Twentieth street
grip cars, sometimes a solitary passenger
In such cases it was a woman, round fea-
lures, rudy from contact with the breezes
and a form encased in a pelisse tightly
drawn by the arms inside. TIL car rattles
and the gripman dances and the people on the
street hurry by as rapidly as possibly to get
out Of the cold, but the lady in question
seems motionless and to fairly revel in the
cutting blasts. Her persistence denotes a
fixed purpose, the maintenance of a habit;
while the glance of the eyes, now in this and
again in that direction denote an intelligent
and systematic observer. The car climbs
the sleepy hill at Dodge and Twentieth
streets and with an irresistible force shoots
around the corner. The eyes of the lady
rest admiringly upon the imposing, though
lifeless campus of the high school-in the
summer the most beautiful place of the kind
in the country-and then turn northward as
the train glides down the plane toward her
lone in the distant part of the city. Than
this lady, no one in America is more system
attic in her habits, no one more earnestly de-
voted to the work she felt called upon to
undertake. no one more widely known, even
on the continent and none more capable of
comparing, describing and approaching the
glories which she has beheld in the works of
both man and nature in all parts of the civil
lied ~globe-because the lady is Mrs. Eliza
beth Cady Stanton.