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The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1896-06-20
BREVlF1ES.

Ho Tor the Brownlesl
Come out and see the Brownies.
Mrs. George Likes is in from the Sink.
George Frazer is down from the ranch.
Jesse Swaney's baby is reported quite
sick.
T. II. Baslian visited Reno Wednes-
day.
W. j. Gill is paying a visit to st.
Clair.
Who is going to the school benefit?
Everybody!
Ralph Fortune was in town yesterday
from Soda Lake.
Mrs. Phillips and Linton received a
6ne piano yesterday.
Mrs. John Day was in here on a visit
the forepart OF the week.
T. Fl. Bastian and A. Steele returned
from Reno Thursday night.
John Bailey AMI John Ferguson Of
st. Clair were in town yesterday.
M. Fallon and wife from St. Clair were
in town Wednesday shopping.
All come out to the library fund enter
tainment and help a good cause.
f. X. Dodge. the Reno attorney, spent
Thursday in town on legal business.
Dave Wightman visited Reno this
week and returned home Thursday.
The school entertainment for the
school library fund is postponed to the
.:,rd inst.
Mrs. J. I'll. McCulloch left for tue Sink
Thursday TO accompany Grandpa Me-
Culloch home.
The supreme court has decided that
Acting Governor Sadlei is entitled to
full salary as governor.
The Misunderstanding works started
a four horse load of their productions
for Bodie yesterday morning.
Trib.
Mrs. W. w. Geery, Mrs. l.. Hetten-
hauser and Mrs. J.. +. George attended
the Rebekah assembly at Reno.
Otto Williams, a graduate of 96 of the
State University, father and sister, Mrs.
Boyd, are visiting relatives at st. Clair.
Henry Esden and Chas. Short returned
from Il trip to Bodie Sunday evening.
They report times picking up at that
place.
A. j. Bayley, who has conducted the
hotel at Tahoe City for Il number OF
past, died at his home in Ell Dorado
county last week.
While unloading wood from a wag, n
Thursdd ", Louis Person, a son OF VIM.
pierson, had his right ar.u broken by a
stick which fell upon it.
Mrs. J. W. Freeman and daugh ar,
and II friend, Miss Mcconnell came up
from Woodland Thursday and lett for
Churchill yesterday morning.
J. W. Smith and wife returned from
Ottawa Thursday night. They werein at
tendance upon the Grand Lodge, Brother
boil OF Locomotive Engineers.
Dutch Henry was in town Thursday
and. he says that he and Senator Grimes
will be the people when the Chicago
Democrats de, lare it IL to | against the
world.
An Austin boy won the fret prize i
the "Pathfinders' history contest, Win
contestants all over the United States
aai Germany. What's the matter with
Nevada Boys? They're all right.
The State Central Committee nj the
Silver party at Reno today to select
fifteen delelegates and fifteen alternates
{, the National Silver Convention,
which il to meet at ST. Louis, July 22l,
aud to fix the time and place fol holding
the next State Convention and apportion
delegates To the same
rrib.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
BOWLING GAMES THIS WEEK.
So They Have 81 Chance to
Stay mt the Stop.

The games scheduled for the coming
week in the bowling tournament will he
bowIed on the brunswick alleys and will
he OF unusual interest for the reason that
four OF the ten clubs which compose the
league are tied for the lead with four
games Won and one game lost. As none Of
the clubs which are in the tie will come
together this week il will be possible for
all 70 maintain their positions with the
exception OF the Missouris. who are not
scheduled 10 bowl this week. but who will
have an opportunity 10 catch up by bowl
ing two games next week.
The sixth series Of games opens this
evening with a contest between the Owls
and the Stock Yards. Tho Owls. on form.
should win hUt after the surprise they
y ere given hy the M5uiEhfs last week
they are prepared for anything. and as
the Stock Yards Will present strong team
the game may 20 q c'cse one. on Tuesday
evening the N'fu:rhts VIII try conclusions
with the El",rlcs and on Wednesday the
AnaniEhts will bowl again. this time
against the pastimes. Both Of these games
should be close ones on form. on Thurs
day evening tho contest viii he hetwse.,
the Vikings and the Armos. and on Fri
day evening the series viii end with a
game between the Kansas Citvs and the
Believes. which should be the hardest
game OF the week in whicn to pick ,ha
winner.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
LAST OF The RECElVERSHIP
THE SANTA FE LITIGATION IN KAN
sAs RAPIDLY WANING.
It's Continuance Depends Upon Judge
Myers Ruling TO-morrOw-Dis-
memberment of the Union
PacIdc-RaiIrOad Notes.

Topeka. Kas., Nov. 15.-(Special) In the
event that Judge Myers oyerrules the mo-
ton to quash the amendment to the petit
ton under which a receiver was appointed
for the Santa Fe, this will probably end
the case. The motion will be heard Tues
day. Judge Keeler will insist on the
amendment being quashed, but If the court
holds differently he will abandon the case.
His firm was employed only to assist the
county attorney in the district court and
1t will not appear in the suit in the United
States court. However, if the motion IS
sustained, then that firm will remain in
the case. The Santa Fe attorneys have
rot given out their line of action in refer
ence to the hearing of the motion, but
they will likely oppose the motion.
In regard to the report that County At
tcrney Phinney had dispensed with the
service of the Topeka law firm. Mr.. H!te
said to-day that he had not received any
notice from the county attorney to that
effect. Santa Fe officials claim that all
that is left to the receivership case is
Judge Myers, and Attorneys Keeler and
EIte. All the rest have deserted 1t, they
claim. Attorney General Dawes said that
he would not talk about the case. He
says he will do his talking when the case
IS called in the United States court, and
intmates that he will do some skinning.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16

The Western freight classification COM
mittee will meet in St Louis at the Plant
ers hotel tomorrow. The docket con-
tains 229 subjects, and all the leading
lines in the West will be represented.
The Railway Age has this to say about
the Santa Fe receivership: There is not
the slightest doubt that this amazing at
tempt to pervert the power of a court to
private ends will be nullified and properly
rebuked when it is presented to an i'm
partial federal tribunal"
The office of superintendent of the Quin.
cy, Omaha e Kansas City railroad has
been abolished with the resignation of Mr..
C. E. Soule. Mr.. C. H. Spencer has been
appointed assistant general manager and
is particularly entrusted with the purchas-
ing of material and supplies.
Mr.. C. A. Parker left st. Louis last even
ing for Chicago, to enter upon his duties
as a member of the Western board of
traffic administration, representing the in
terests of the St. Louis lines. Mr.. Par
ker's family will remain in St. Louis and
he will spend the latter part OF each week
there.
At the close of a campaign, everyone on
the winning side thinks that he won the
victory. But when the dust ana smoke
of the late conflict have blown away, says
the Railway Age. we believe that the one
fact which will stand out clearly will be
that the railway men saved the country
in 1896
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
A FIRE AT HELMS.
Sparks Fall Upon an Outbuiiding
and Threaten Destruction of
Entire Plant.

Sparks from passing locomotive on the
Air Line tracks settled on the roof of an
outbuilding belonging to the Helm Brewing
Company in the East bottoms. at o'clock
last evening, and were soon famed into a
brisk blaze by a strong breeze that was
blowing from the southeast. The flames
were rolling high, when officer Mike Ken
nedy discovered them and turned in an
alarm. Before the fire department could
respond, however, the flames from the
building, which was used as a carpenter
shop by the brewing company, leaped to
an adjoining building, in which was stored
a lot of bar fixtures valued al several thou
sand dollars.
Employees at the brewery hauled out
their hose reels while waiting for the fire
department to arrive. but its service was
of little value against the flames. The
men worked hard when it was almost Ger
tain the fire would be communicated to the
main buildings of the brewery, and il was
only the timely arrival of Chief Hales
men that prevented the fire from spread
ing. Both the carpenter shop and store
room were destroyed, with their contents,
incurring loss of about $780, which Is
covered by insurance.
A man named Ragan, hanger-on at fire
headquarters, was injured by falling brick
during the fire. His injuries were not Sc
riOuS
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16

repertory consisting of The Willow
Copse," Hamlet" Richard H." "Othel-
10, 'Richelieu," and a number of other
stock plays. He continued starring until
1876, the year of the panic He then accept
ed an offer from Laura Keene, and opened
as Luke Fielding with her company IN New
York in September, 1858. The company in
cIuded Laura ksens, Joseph jefferson. Z.
A Sothern. William Rufus Blake and
Mines Lev!ck. During the engagement
Couldock played Louis NJ. and other PROM
tpent roles. He was the Abel Nlurcott IN
the original cast of "Our American CouS-
hit as Lord Dundrsary. The season FOL
lowing he Was the leading man Of John T.
Owens Gaiety theater in New Orleans.
BY this time Eliza Couidock had gained
considerable reputation as an actress, and
in 1860 Joined her father, when he took his
own company on the road. She continued
10 act with him up 70 the time OF her
death In 1871 COuIdock became leading
man at the Globe theater, in Boston. and
when the house burned down, in 1872, he
went to Toronto as stage manager OF Mrs.
Morrison's new theater. In 1873 he was q
member of Henry f. Abbey's company,
and subsequently played star engagements
until he was secured by the late Steele
Mackaye to appear in Won at Last
which was produced in a small theater on
the site OF which the Madison Square the
ater was subsequently erected, now known
as Hoyt's theater. His appearance IN
Won at Last led to his engagement to
appear as Dunstan Kirke. when The IRON
WIZ was presented at Providence. Balti-
more Philadelphia and elsewhere The
piece didn't make money on the road. and
was rewritten before it was presented un-
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
MIR. FULLER RECALLS OLD TIMES.
Courted and Won His Wife Where the
Junction Now Stands


H w Fuller, of Washington, D. c.. gen.
eral passenger agent of the Chesapeake &
Ohio; C. B. Ryan, of Cincinnati, assistant
general passenger agent, and E. B. Pope,
of st. Louis, Western passenger agent, are
at the Coates House on a short visit They
are making social business trip among
the railroad cities of the West and will
spend a couple of days in Kansas City.
Mr.. Fuller, who is remembered by the old
time residents of Kansas City as Harry
Fuller, was formerly located here as the
Western agent of the Erie Broad Guage
line. 1t is now about thirty years since he
first landed in the city and he remained
here several years before going East. Four
years since Mr.. Fuller was injured in
wreck both legs being broken and crushed.
For two years he was confined TO his bed
and it was feared he would never walk
again, but he gets about now with the aid
OF crutches quite comfortably.
Talking of the situation when he first
came to Kansas City Mr.. Fuller last even-
ing said: Il stepped in mud over my
shoes before l got to the bus TO ride up
town when 1 left the train, and in order
to get out in the city and look after busi-
ness l was compelled 10 buy a pair Of
grain leather high boots, and 1 wore my
trousers in my boots. The first grading of
the streets was being done at that time
and the thoroughfares We're in awful
shape. I we'll remember an occurrence
when I made my first call on my wife, who
was Miss Johnson. They lived in a brick
house where the Wabash ticket office now
stands at the Junction. My headquarters
were in the Missouri Pacific office down on
the levee and the streets were deep in
mud. / was not accustomed to calling on
ladies with my trousers in my boots, and
so to make the best of the conditions I
polished my shoes, wrapped them up in a
paper and carried them under my arms
until l reached the residence. Then 1 sat
down on the front steps, pulled off ny
muddy boots, put on my shoes and rang
the bell. And that was not the last time
1 was forced to use that expedient in go
ing about the city"
Mr. FulIers wife was Miss johnson,
daughter of the pioneer citizen who was
instrumental in founding the mission here
for the Indians. He later owned the
property out at Shawnee mission, when
the buildings and land were sold by the
government. The family homestead con-
tanned two acres that lay near the juno
tion on the west and is now worth
fabulous sum. Yesterday Mr.. Fuller spent
the day driving about the city viewing the
familiar and many unfamiliar scenes and
calling on some old friends.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
UNION PACIFIC DOOMED.
Disme emberment of the Once Great
System Is Near at Hand.


System Is Near at Hand.
Within the next sixty days the dismem-
berment of the once great Union Pacific
system will be completed, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean.
Only the overmortgaged, debt-buried
main line from Council Bluffs to Ogden and
Kansas City to Cheyenne will remain Of
the system which once stretched from the
Missouri river and the Gulf of Mexico to
the mouth of the Oregon river, and which
maintained the greatest fleet which ever
rode the Pacific ocean.
Practically all the branch lines east OF
the Rocky mountains and in Colorado
which were of value to the Union Pacific
are now under independent receiverships.
The Oregon and Washington lines passed
under the control of an independent re-
ceiver nearly two years ago. Now the
main line from Granger to Huntington, and
from Salt Lake to Butte and Helena. and
from Salt Lake to the Southwest Utah
and Southern Nevada territory is to pass
under another separate receivership and
into control hostile to Union Pacific inter-
eStE.
One result of the end of the deal will be,
II IS said. a cleaning out of present Off
cials the Union Pacific, such as few
corporations have ever witnessed. In an
ticipatton of the approaching end the so
called Union Pacific ring" has for some
time been taking everything It has been
able to lay its hands on, and the spirit of
t9smantling and disorganizatiOn is SO deep
ly seated among nearly all on the Union
Pacific system that the property is fast
becoming a physical well as a financial
wreck. The recent coal scandals, the ex-
pose of which created such a sensation.
and which nearly caused the removal OF
one of the highest officers of the road, and
which were not even denied, are said to be
only a mild forerunner of the scandals yet
to be uncovered.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
PERSONAL.

A. s Hughes. Denver. is at the Coates.
F. b Page. St. Louis, is at the Coates.
c. B. Ryan. Cincinnati is at the Coates
Victor Stolte New York, is at the Coates.
w R. Borders, Sparta, Ill. is at the
Coates.
Charles A. Lammie, chillicothe, Is at the
Coates.
II. L. Stuart. Gainesville. Tex, is at the
Coates.
Fl. w. Fuller, Washington, D. c., is at
the Coates.
]. II. Barrett, Grand Rapids, is at the
II. c. Won der schaIk, Amsterdam, Hol-
land, is at the Coates.
Y. Curz, Chicago, is at the Victoria.
Alex Massey. St Louis, ia at the Savoy.
A Fl. Bradley, St. Louis. is at the Savoy.
George NJ. Craig, Chicago, is at the sa-
voy.
Fred Peel, of New York. is at the Mid
land.
J. NJ. Day. Ashland Kas. Is at the Vic
toria.
o w. Peney. New York, is at the Vic
toria. = "a
L. H. Ferguson, New York, is at the Vic
toria
G. w. shockley, oskaloosa. Ia. is at the
]. c. Elliott, Holton. Kas.. is at the
Savoy.
s. cohen, of Cleveland, o.. is at the Mid
land.
r. L. Moorhead. New York. is at the
Savoy.
J. b. Sheets, Lamar. Mo. is at the New
Albany.
A. Denny. Armstrong. Mo-, is at the New
Albany.
Phil Carpets, of Milwaukee, is at the
Midland.
Thomas C. Dick. Topeka, Kas., is at the
Victoria.
George S. Turner and wife. Atchison, are
at the Victoria.
c. s Slaughter, Springfield, Mo, Is at
the Savoy.
s II. Sheldon, Lawrence. Kas., is at the
New Albany.
Edgar L. Brown. of Newark, " j.. is at
the Midland.
William C. Lee, Peoria, ILL.,. is at the
New Albany
P. B. Achley, Cripple Creek, Col. is at
the New Albany.
J. r. Carpenter, of Grand Rapids. MIcn,
is at the Midland.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16

der the title of Hazel Kirke" al the OPEN
ing OF the Madison Square theater, in Feb
ruary. 1850 Everybody knows of the pho
nomenal run OF the piece. Mr.. CouldoCk
became Identified with the character OF
Dunstan Kirke for five consecutive years.
Later ENGAGEMENTS
He afterward appeared in Saints and
Sinners" and other plays. and then re-
sumed his role of the old miller for three
additional seasons with Efie Ellsler's COM
pany. He appeared for six weeks in A. NJ.
. Palmer's production of New Blood" at
Chicago. After that he filed a six weeks
engagement in Humanity" in Boston and
Providence. This season he was engaged
by MIR. Lackaye for the part of the old
English squire in "Dr. Belgraff.'
"In my time" Mr.. Couldock said in a re-
cent interview, 81 have played everything
among the great parts in classic drama. L
have been Richard. Richelieu, Hamlet, Ia
go. ShyloCk. Othello. and all the rest, save
Romeo l never played that part because
was never built for those sweet, lover
parts. Nature did not put me in that sort
of a mold. 1 did Nercutio when Cushman
played Juliet. but I never brenthed a line
of Romeo. In the old days. before the sos,
and even after. We used TO start in on a
week with 'Richelieu,' and play Richard
on Saturday night. I recall a performance
OF the Duke of Gloster. in Columbus, o.,
one night in 1857. The country was in the
midst of a panic, and that night in Colum-
bus the people were walking the streets
at the hour for the curtain to go up I
could see only six people in the house. 1
had began to put on my clothes for Rich
ard. but when | saw that house ! got out
of them and, throwing the whole makeup
on the floor. 1 tramped upon it vicousIy.
The stage manager came in, and 1 an
nounced my intention of going home. The
fellow vanished. Pretty soon he came back
with John ElIsler's partner, Vincent.
Orchard" Under Difficulties.
Look here" said he. you'll have to 60
through with Richard
You don't suppose I returned. that
l will play before half q dozen people?'
Yes, l do" said Vincent and then he
went on and explained TO me something
about contract and honor and disappoint-
ment until it was not long before | was
down on the floor gathering up my Richard
suit. In half hour went on. shouting:
Now is the winter of our discontent-'
Ten or a dozen people saw me through.
and when l offered to barter my kingdom
think that the popuIace Of the town was
in front I was afterwards told that the
elder Booth never did a better Richard
than 1 presented that night; but I believe
he must have been giving me what you
boys in these days call jolly 1 never
liked Richard. Whenever it happened that
/ could skip ii I always did"
Mr.. Couldock's only near relatives In this
country live at Mount Vernon, n. Y. His
special pet is his little granddaughter.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
COOPER AND BALD CHALLENGED.
Arthur Gardiner Wants to Race for
$1,000 or $1,000 a Side.

New York, Nov 15.-Arthur Gardiner.
the fast Western rider, through his ad-
wiser, John West, has issued challenge
to c. E. Bald, of Buffalo, or Tom Cooper,
of Detroit. to a series of three unpaced
races, the distances TO be one mile, two
miles and five miles, for a purse Of either
81 OoO or 5000 for the series. the winner
to take all. In the challenge West says:
"Tbe races are to be run within thirty
days after the articles are signed. 1t is
imm6terial to me on which track or at
what point the races shall be held. and the
only condition shall impose is that the
men start from opposite sides of the track,
both riding in the same direction. l have de-
posted $500 with George Stewart, presi-
dent of the Thistle Cycling Club, Chicago
Ill"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
NO MORE RECoNsIGNMEsT.
But Kansas City Grain Men Are Conn
pensated for the Loss.

pensated for the Loss.
With the increased grain rates on West
ern roads which went into effect on No.
vemter 2, was taken away all pretext for
the much-abused reconsignment plan, un-
der which grain from beyond the Missouri
has been stopped at Kansas City and sub
sequently forwarded eastward or south
ward on the balance of the original
through rate, says the Railway Age. The
practice, which had been in vogue for
years, had caused such decentralization of
rates and destruction of faith in each
other among carriers and shippers that
the investigation of the interstate COM
merce commission, freld- in Chicago in
August last, was hardly needed to cause
its abandonment In fact, the roads stop
to ccnsignees on July /, and the commits
sion has not found 1t necessary to make
any ruling against the system. Hereafter
grain which may be stopped to go into
elevators at Missouri river points will have
to go forward on a fixed propOrtionate
rate but rates from Kansas points to the
river have been so much reduced that
Kansas City grain men are compensated
for the abandonment of their cherished
"balance-of-the-rate" device, while the
railways are better assured of maintain
ing their through rates. The advance does
not bring the through rate from the grain
fields to the seaboard up to the figures
that prevailed previous to the demoraliza-
ton of last summer but il will net the
roads a better rate than they received
when expense bills" were being manipu-
lated so as to destroy rates.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
MISS PULLMAN NAMES THEM.
Selects outIandish Titles for Her
Fathers New Coaches.

It will be interesting to the thousands OF
travellers who have attempted to pronounce
the outlandish names on Pullman cars to
know that the christening is done by Miss
Pullman. daughter of the famous car man.
ufacturer. She recently determined the
nomenclature of the new dining and slRep-
ing car equipment on the Iron Mountain
line. The names which are a trife more
barbarous than usual. are as follows: Din
ing car, Quantzintecomatzn; sleepers, Chill
ilitli and Nezahualcoyatl Assistant Cen
eral Passenger Agent Payne wired General
Passenger Agent Townsend as follows last
evening: Special train, with delegation of
doctors en- route to Pan-American con-
gress arrived at Little Rock thirty minutes
late caused by Dr. johnson. of Washing
ton, and DIR. Reed OF Cincinnati, who in
sisted on performing an operation on the
name of our dining car. 1t is very success
full and everybody feels much relieved"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-11-16
FAREWELL TO COULDOCK.
THE VETERAN ACTOR TO RETIRE
PERMANENTLY FROM THE STAGE
Will Act for the Last Time in Kansas
City Next Saturday NiEht-IS Now
u Member of Wilton Lack
ayes "Dr. BelEraff."

A telegram received yesterday from Mr.
Wilton Lackaye. who has just closed an
engagement in Chicago, announces the in
teresting fact that the veteran actor, Mr..
Charles W. Couldock, who is a member of
Mr.. Lackaye's company, will make his last
appearance on the stage in Kansas City
next Saturday night.
The message does not announce why Mr.
Couldock will not finish the season. but his
retirement is doubtless due to the fact that
the actors extreme age units him for the
taxations of travel. Mr. Couldock is now
nearly s. years of age, and since the death
of Mr.. Howe. so long the "old man of
Henry Irving's company. has been the
Oldest actor on the English speaking stage.
The career of this venerable player has
been a most interesting one and has been
full of achievements. He has been con-
spicuous in the classic drama, in the do