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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

HOLDERS of French spoliation claims and there are good many of them in Connecticut-have been given another chance to exercise the virtue of patience that they have been industriously cul- tivating these many years. But there is likelihood that sometime the government may be disposed to do justice and pay up its obligations in regard to these claims
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06
ATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, MARCH s 1889.

ance that honorable party service will certainly not be esteemed disqualifi- cation for public office." It will not be,
 we take it, under anybody that the dem-
 ocratic party will elect in future. Woe to the mugwumps, and woe to
 their moonshine notions of civil service | reform
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06
The Homelie.t Man ,u waterbury

As we'll as the handsomest, and others are invited to call on any druggist and get free trial bottle of Kemp's Balsam for Throat and Lungs, a remedy that is sell ing entirely upon it's merits and is guar anteed to relieve and cure all Chronic and Acute Coughs, Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption. Large bottles soc and $1.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

THOMAS c. PLATES private opinion publicly expressed would make some mighty interesting reading about this time.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

AWAIT until get my bouncing appa- ratus in perfect working order" is the way the republicans are expected to in terpret President Harrison's declaration that honorable party service will cer- tainly not be esteemed by me disqualifi- cation for public otfice." And that's why they laugh.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

THE private station is likely to be the post of honor to good many who have held the public eye during the last few years. Secretary Bayard, for instance.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06
DR. B. G. pV1DER,

Albany -ntist,
 l33 Bank str ct, Waterbury. TEETH FILLED WITHOUT PAIN, WE NEV- FER WEDGE TEETH BEFORE FILLING. Teeth extracted without pain by the use of Ryders gas of Ftalzed air, made fresh every ay. Anyone can take it with perfect safety, young or old,
 Teeth Extracted, s5 cts, Teeth Cleaned, 75 cts Gas or Air Administered, 25 cents, Teeth Filled with Amalgum, 25 cents. Teeth Filled with Silver, 50 and 75 cents. Teeth Filled with Gold, $1 and upwards. A SET OF TEETH, $500.
 BEST SET OF TEETH, $500 THERE IS NO BETTER MADE NO MATTER
 HOW MUCH YOU PAY.
 Office Open at All Hours. THIS OFFICE AND ALL OTHER PERMA-
 NENTLY LOCATED. Branches of the Albany Dental Association, the Largest Dental Establishment in the World: 133 Bank street, Waterbury, Conn. 3S8 Main street, Bridgeport, Conn. B West Market street, Wilkesbarre, Pa. 142 East Main street, Rochester, N. Y. Over First National Bank, Scranton, Pa. 272 Main street, Bnffalo, N. Y. Over First National Bank, Binghampton, N. Y.
 OFFICE OPEN AT ALL HOURS
 DK. G B. RYDER.
 Manager of this Office DR. NJ. L. RYDER. Secretary.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

THERE are good times coming, fellow democrats. but it won't be until four, four, four years more. Keep stiff upper lip, and we will be happy yet, you hot
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

BRETT & Go, Clothiers, Furnishers Hatters, Bank Street, next t" Post office.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

LEST this matter should be forgotten in the stress of other things we rise to remark that Dan Lamont is all right.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic IS confection of roots, herbs, barks and seeds. Try it.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06
WASHINGTON EXPRESS.
FIRE ALARM,

LIST OF FIRE ALARM BOXES.
 Corner Willow and West Main.
 Exchange Place.
 IA East Main and wolcott Road
 15 Corner Cherry and East Main,
 21 Horse Railroad Stable (private).
 23 Iron Bridge West Main.
 24 Waterbury Brass Co. (private) 25 Corner Johnson and Waterville
 26 Corner Prospect and Grove
 P Junction North Main, Grove and North Rim, 28 Waterbury Mfg. Co.
 g. Corner Washington and South Main
 34 Waterbury Buckle Ce
 s5 Benedict < Burnham Mfg. Co.
 36 Waterbury Watch Co. .(private)
 3s Corner Grand and South Main
 42 Corner Union and Franklin
 43 Scovill Mfg. Co. (prvate.) 45 Corner Clay and Mill
 46 No. Hose House, Baldwin. 47 Corner Dublin Street and Doolittle Alley. 312 Corner Meadow and Bank. 314 Corner Meadow and Cedar street. 321 Plume X Atwood Mfg. Co. (private.a 3o3 Holmes, Booth & Haydens, (priyateo 324 No. Hose House. 325 Corner SmOns and Burnham street. INSTRUCTIONS TO KEY HOLDERS. To give an alarm, open the door, pull in. .,., down once and let go then close the door, AooA Do not pull the hook if the ire bell or s,,,.,,. has already been given ~l"0s Be particular to remain at the box pnt,l ,h. rival of an oflcer of the Fire Departmenf ,sLc will reesse the aey or if circumstances win not turn the key to the holder as soon as conv"niant S
 Always give thealarm from tho box. p...~-..a fire. saoss t0o Key Holders upon changing their ,o...,..c please leave word with tho Chief Ensineercsh sichs~a
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

Entered as second class matter at the Water bury Postofflce.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-03-06

isaconfection of rare merit and a thorough remedy for all Malarial troubles. It is in- dorsed by the highest Medical and Scien- tific authorities among which is the late Benjamin Silliman, M.D., Dean of the Medical Department of Yale College.
 RI-Foy sale by Druggists, Grocers and General Dealers.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10

plate. 1t is stated that in one noted winter
over two million cattle persisted in Texas
alone. In the spring of 1872, passengers on
the Kansas Pacific railway were amazed at
the number of buffaloes. A well known
writer on western topics says that for two
hundred miles Gt was on the Sd of May) his
train was never out of sight of the herds.
That autumn the pot hunters" began their
shall we say infamousa-work. The ami
mails We're prevented from taking refuge in
their usual southern haunts; the hard winter
came and millions persisted. In the spring of
1875, says the same traveller, 81 found the
plains for two hundred miles dotted with
their carcasses in every stage Of decay. At
every station were great piles of the green
hides, tainting the air FAR around, and gath
ering buffalo bones was a regular industry
The animals were net exterminated by hunt
ers-ten times as many froze to death as
were shot"
When the Mormons succeeded in shutting
Johnston's army out of Utah in the autumn
of 1857, every OK in the command died and
every mule but one All the plain on Hams
Fork was dotted with groups of bovine
corpses, and the soldiers had to hitch them
selves to the sleds to draw wood. Most re-
markable of all are the cases in which human
strength and endurance have triumphed over
billiards. When Illinois WIS still open prairie
for the most part-the settlements being
chiefly in the timber along the streams-an
old man named Carter started to cross the
prairie on which Champaign City now stands,
with two little granddaughter in an OK
wagon, and was snowbound some dozen miles
from house. The oxen sank in their tracks;
he Knocked them in the head, hastily disem-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10

The worst of it is that the finest weather of
the year comes just before the worst storms.
Early November is peculiarly exhilarating on
the plains; the bunch grass is at its best, and
freighters are often tempted to undertake long
trius, while herders too often delay getting in
their stock. In the early winter of 1866 not less
than 10000 freight oxen died on the three
main routes to the mountain posts. A little
later Alexander Topoles and party started
to make late autumn drive from the head
waters Of the Missouri down to ''the settle
ments' and were overta&en by three days
storm, after which the mercury sank to 40
degs below zero.
Their cattle froze solid as they stood, or
fell, in the yoke. They got their mules into a
large corral at a way post, and for day and
night the men divided time lashing the
wretched animals with their cruel "bull
whips" They thus kept the brutes in q feeble
run from one end of the corral to the other.
Had they allowed them to stop and huddle
every mule would have died The weather
moderated suddenly, and the "caballardo"
was saved Proceeding on their way they
found the trail for several days journey lined
with frozen buffalo. In many instances the
animals horns had split open from freezing.
Even in the settled sections of Dakota that
winter cattle died of cold within few rods
of the sheds which they were unable to zach.
The destruction of animal life in some of
these western storms is awful to contem-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10

BOWED them, and wrapping the girls in all
the blankets he had, placed each in the body
of an OK; he then toiled the twelve miles
through the snow and sent party which
saved the girls, but the brave old man died
of exhaustion.
But all other horrors Of the plains pale be-
fore the awful record of the Bonner party's
sufferings. They numbered about sixty, and
were in the emigration that went to Califor-
MIA before the discovery of gold On the
eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada they were
overtaken by an unusually early winter.
Their oxen strayed or died. They hastily
erected rude huts and struggled against cold
and hunger. Madness seized many; murder
and cannibalism followed There is a tradi-
ton in California that dream was the cause
of relief party starting to reach them.
That party also suffered terribly, but reached
the Bonner camp to find frozen corpses pre-
served in the snow and the survivors living
upon the flesh. Thirty-six had died or been
murdered, and it is still the belief of many in
California that one man and woman were
murdered after relief had reached the party,
and the accused-a German named Kiesburg
was Stunned during life and died an out
cast.
ElRuG years ldUSr some 1 ,OOU mormon con-
verts undertook to cross the plains with hand
carts, and were overtaken by winter storms,
which came on month earlier than usual.
Nearly 300 of them died and many of the
survivors were badly MANNED. In the storm
of 1871 in southern Dakota, man and a boy
lived seventy-two hours in a snow drift, and
escaped without serious injury. Many SINH
lar cases, though covering less time, occurred
in the great blizzard of 1885, 1t is a curious
illustration of western "newsn that the first
reports put the total loss at 1000 lives, which
the local press Indignantly denied, saying
that ''only 100 had frozen to DEATH" The
curious factwas noted that, when the blizzard
began, about noon, at least 10000 children
were in school in the territory, and that very
few of them were injured, and not more
than a dozen died. A careful inquiry re-
suited in placing the lives lost at $50.
1t may reasonably be concluded that the
worst daysof the blizzard are passed. Artificial
groves will moderate its fury, and the settle
ment of the country will furnish means of
safety But, with all notifications, storms
like the late one in New Mexico will occa-
sionally for many years work havoc among
stock The wind has a clear sweep of 500
miles from north to south ON the high plains.
Mans puny barriers are in vain against such
q blast
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10

deadly cold wind is the rule on the high
plains of Texas and eastern New Mexico. In
the late storm two cowboys, thus isolated,
sought shelter in a canyon and found cedar
tree and in it rats nest, which enabled them
to make fire. One of their horses died
from cold, and they cut strips of meat from
it, warmed them as best they could, and ate
them without salt, thus keeping up their
strength for three days and nights till the
storm abated, when they made their way
forty miles to their ranch. Many instances
occurred where men used the frozen meat of
dead oxen. 1t is not so much to satisfy hun
ger as to keep up strength and animal heat.
During the storm passenger train on the
Denver, Texas and Fort Worth railroad was
snow-bound on the dreariest part of the
plains, and when all provisions on the train
were exhausted herd of cattle running be-
fore the storm gave out and died beside the
train. The passengers counted it a godsend.
Whole quarters of the animals were taken
into the cars and rare-roasted for food-"and
they tasted good, say the sufferers. For 100
miles south from the line of the Atchison and
Santa Fe road the return Of spring will show
the plain dotted with punches of dead cattle.
At present horns and backbones barely show
above the drifted snow. At least 20, COO sheep
have persisted in the same district
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
Below the Limit.

The Bath Independent tells this story about
that celebrated Bath man, William King, the
first governor of Maine. Connected with
Governor Kings sawmill in Topsham was a
store with the business of which he was not
quite well informed. Being alone in the
store one day a lady entering asked him
the price of needles. Zone cent apiece,
madam" replied the governor. "But else
where 1 can purchase three or four for a
cent" she replied. ''Well," Governor King
responded, 'tif that's so, take them all.
won't have an article in my shop that's not
worth n cent u
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
THE bus AND IRANSFER BusINEss

Of Salt Lake City is now conducted by the
Grant Bros. Company. We meet all trains
and run to all hotels. Best livery, carriage
and horse service. ORDER CARRIAGE FROM
OUR TRAIN MEN.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
A BLAST OF DEATH.
The Season of Billiards Opens
with Destructive Fury.
THE MISERIES OF NEW MEXICO.
A Nine Days Storm-2O,OOO Sheep, Many
Thousand Cattle and Several Herders
Perish-The Storm of 1888.

EATH on the galel
Two feet of snow
on the level; seven
feet in drifts; nine
days of storm; 90
900 sheep destroyed
in one district; dead
cattle d OF t h 9
plains; many cow
boys frozen to
DEATH Such is the
brief tenor of late
from
Z he northeastern
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
Tboucht He could stand the climate.

Maternal Ancestor (sorrowfully)- Willie,
you have been willful, disobedient and selfish
today. If you don't become better boy you
will go to the bad place when you leave this
world
Willie refectively)-Do people do any
travelling in the bad place, mamma!
Mamma presume they do, Willie.
Willie (triumphantlyl I'll travel in
a refrigerator car.-Chcago Tribune
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
HapDV HOLSTERS.

VIM. Timmons, postmaster of Idaville
Ind, writes: Electric Bitters has done
more for me than all other medicines com
bined, for that bad feeling arising from
Kidney and Liver troubles John Leslie,
farmer and stockman, of same place, says
'Find Electric Bitters to be the best Kid
ney and Liver medicine; made me feel like
new man" j. w. Gardner, hardware
merchant, same town, says: Electric Bit
ters is just the thing for a man who is all
run down and don't care whether he lives
or dies; he found new strength, good appe-
tite and felt just like he had new lease on
life. Only SOC. bottle at A. G. Smith &
Co.'s drug store. 2
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
Peculiar

In the combination, proportion and prep
aration of its ingredients, Hoods sarsa-
parilla accomplishes cures where other
preparations entirely fail. Peculiar in its
good name at home, which is a ''tower of
strength abroad" peculiar in the pheHome-
nal sales it has attained. Hoods sarsa-
parilla is the most successful medicine for
purifying the blood, giving strength, and
creating an appetite. 25S
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10

part of New Mexico. Such is the havoc oc-
casionally wrought by those storms, which
sometimes sweep the whole length of that
great plain from the Saskatchewan on the
north to the Gulf of Mexico on the south
1t Is the grazing common of continent.
And the good years usually continue just
long enough to make the herders capeless,
and then comes an awful season-one that
kills everything that is caught out. There is
no warning-at least, none that is sufficient
As rule, however, the storm is preceded by
few days of unusually mild weather; there
is then an ominous darkening of the atmos-
phere, sometimes a few hours of rain and
wind, then a sudden fall of the mercury, and
a keen wind from the north that whirls the
snow in white and binding clouds.
At such time each animal acts according
to its nature-in blind instinct of self pres
ervation. Horses gallop madly before the
storm, but do not crowd together Cattle
bunch" so TO speak, crowding so closely to-
gether that one might walk across their
backs, and drift before the wind Sheep, if
they have time, rush to the nearest hollow;
if not, they crowd together in small groups,
with their heads to the center and noses to
the ground. After the storm, it is often
found that sheep and cattle are lying in
punches, just as they formed in life the
whole herd or flock having massed till all
died.
Man, being reasonable and not gifted with
an animal instinct, acts according to his
knowledge. The ''tenderfoot" foolishly seeks
the open plain, exhausts his strength and
dies in the attempt TO reach shelter. The ex-
perienced plainsman, however, if far enough
south for tie snow to be wet, seeks the lee
ward side of a rock or a shelving cliff, or.
better still, cave, and shivers it through till
better weather. In the far north, where the
snow is dry, he has better thing; there
bare hillside is protection enough. He digs
into the snow and ''holes up;'' it soon covers
him, the wind passes far above his head, and
his breath and bodily warmth soon make
comfortable atmosphere in his improvised
''cave.n Many instances have been known
In the far northwest where men remained
sixty hours in these snow burrows-ate, if
they had provisions, smoked, talked where
two were together, suffered but little and
came out uninjured.
But the cowboy has the worst lot. In the
beginning Of the storm he feels that he ought
to ''stick by the cattle;" and as they run be-
fore the wind he often goes with them till it
is too late to look out for his own safety.
First wind, then sleet, then flying snow and
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10
When They Were More Stunning

Mr.. Squivvles propitiating Bobby before
the family - What pretty little trousers
Bobby has on this EVENING"
Bobby-Yes, but can't make half the hit
in them that sister Bess could when she wore
them bathing last month.-Town Topics.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-10

New Missionary Ito perishing heathen)-
How long do missionaries usually last in this
climate?
Perishing Heathen-'Bout two meals.-Ex-
change.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-20
A Reformed Kausan.

Tom Wilson: A Kansas sufferer
passed through the city Oh Monday, in
the person of Simon Nedro, of Abilene.
Last time we saw Nedro, over three
years ago, he was driving a Bull Run
mule and q Colorado canary bird-a
burro. at the time, Nedro was also
under contract to drink all of Bill
Hickman's whisky that he could-pay
for. And this was about the size and
sum of his worldly possessions in those
days. Different last Monday, you bet
ter believe. Twenty-six finer and
larger mules never passed through
Sterling than this same Simon Nedro
drove. And he owned every one of
them, too. He was on his way to Fort
Collins, this state, where he will locate.
Nedro informed US that two years ago
he quit drinking, joined the Every Day
Baptists, and hasn't been bothered
with frogs, snakes, and other insects
since, but has been accommodating
wealth from that first cold water day.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-20
Notice to Fishermen.

lion. John Brumbaugh, commits
sioner of fisheries, has given notice
that all parties hereafter found illegally
fishing in the streams of this State will
be prosecuted. There is but one legal
way to catch fish in Kansas and that is
with rod, line and hook. All other
methods are illegal and lay the party
resorting thereto liable to prosecution.
The people are assured by the COM
missioner that the law will be enforced
and that the violators of it will be
brought to justice. The penalties are
both fine and Imprisonment.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-20
A Railroad Decision.

An appeal was made by the citizens
of Rinehart township short time ago
to have the station, Pearl, on the Rock
Island moved one and half miles east
where it would better accommodate
many of the petitioners. A decision
was returned yesterday by the board
refusing to recommend the new loca-
ton owing to its being on steep grade
and so unfavorable for the handling of
trains. The present location is exactly
midway between Woodbine and Enter
prise and the board thinks the matter
had better be left entirely to the rail-
road company.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-20

John Watts, of Carlton, Glen Bell
of Holland, and Alexander Kindness,
of Bonacoord, were prominent south
Dickinsonians observed in the city.
Mr.. S. Z. Butcher, one Of Woodbine's
solid citizens, was among the cash
callers at the REFLECTOR Office today.
Of course he could not get along with
out the official county paper.
Mrs. ]. S. Ford, wife of Superinten-
dent Ford of Dickinson county, and
sister, Mrs. Martin, of Abilene, visited
friends in this neighborhood the last of
the week.-[Latimer Cor. Lexington
Tribune.
David MattesOn returned last even
ing from weeks trip through South
ern Kansas and the Indian Territory.
He says the wheat fields are something
wonderful to behold, so heavily laden
with grain are they.
Miss Winnie Tobey, of Hope, and
her cousin, Miss Underwood, of Kansas
City, arrived in the city this morning
for a weeks visit with friends. They
are guests at the home of W. n. Hen
bricks, on NORTH Cedar.
Henry Kinderdick, one of the solid
farmers of Union township, was
pleasant caller at REFLECTOR head
quarters. Mr.. Kinderdick is an old
settler on Lyons creek, and has pros
pered as he richly deserves.
State Superintendent G. w. Winans
was in the city last evening, the guest
of J. S. Ford, and made an hours cali
on the REFLECTOR. He left over the
night Santa Fe for Emporia to attend
the commencement exercises.
DR.. E. Bergstresser, of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, is in the city and has opened a
dentists Office in DR.. COx's old loca-
tion. The doctor is genial and wide
awake gentleman and will be a valua-
BILE addition to Abilene's list of pro-
feSsional men.
Hon. w. E. A Meek, Dillon's promi-
nent farmer and politician, was in the
city during the day and called on the
Mr.. Meek says that
South Dickinson never had so favor
able an outlook and its prosperity this
year is an assured fact.
T. B. Chapman, Jas. Baker, Chas.
Henry Eberhardt, John
Dick Kirk, Alex. Campbell,
Chas. Culp, VIM. Hull, G. T. Whitman
and Ed Whitman, with residences at
Salina, Minneapolis, Bridgeport and
other Western Kansas cities, make up
The Ober base ball club registered at |
.he Stanton. They are making base |
ball tour.