Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-06

marked his sorrow at the absence Of many
OF the old pioneers and mentioned especially |
the death OF Christian Hartman. In this |
connection he told an Incident which brought |
to the minds eye OF his hearers the battle
field Of Shiloh. The general described the
lull which had suddenly overspread the bat
tie ground. His staff officers came TO him |
They we're hungry and exhausted. There |
seemed no immediate necessity OF their pres |
ence and Brlgadler General Thayer per-
mitted them to retire in search for food. |
OF a sudden the battle was renewed. All |
was excitement and hub-bub. Battalions |
were moved hither and thlther and General
Thayer found himself without the aid OF a
single stan officer. He rode hastily to the
commanders Of the regiments in his bat
talon, but not one could furnish him with
a mounted adiutant. "ln this trying mo.
ment," said General Thayer, 81 spied my
old comrade and friend in Nebraska, Chris
tian Hartman. ] called to him and in my
extremity selected him as my adjutant. He
stayed with me, performed the duties OF the
responsible position faithfully and well,
carried my orders wherever necessary and
rode in the face of a perfect hail of bullets
as though possessed of charmed life. All,
it saddens my heart and yet gives me pride
and pleasure to pay tribute to THE noble
soldier, as brave as any who ever fought
on a battlefield
II rejoice that all Of you have been pros
pered In this life. Some OF you have re-
ceived more than an abundance OF this
worlds goods and all OF you have had the
greatest privilege that could be conferred
upon any one-spending your lives in Ne
braska. / regard it as the nobest and the
best state in the whole union. At this
time there is prosperity all about us. Wher-
ever l go i see evidences of 1t. l forget
the hardships through which we passed in
my rejoicing, for nowhere can | go and
find more happiness, more prosperity,
greater educational facilities, purer and bet
ter homes than right here in our own be-
loved state OF Nebraska"
woolworth's Entertaining Talk.
Hon. James NJ. Woolworth entertained his
hearers for a short time with reminiscent
talk. He said that he didn't why
! Chairman Furnas and others of his friends
persisted in calling him Judge" why.
| the nearest l ever got to being a judge
was away back many years ago when the
| democrats ran me for supreme judge and
| l was defeated by Judge Lake or some
other equally good man by vote of about
| three to one. l don't think that entities
me to be called Judge But there is one
! thing of which l am the Judge and that
| is of the men and women who came to
! Nebraska in the pioneer days OF its set
| tlement There never in a new coun-
| try a more splendid lot Of men a more
| lovely and noble lot of women than those
| who came here in the sos Look upon
these pioneers. They bear upon their faces
| ,, 90 1T, hn1,a
placed upon the first settlers" Mr.. Wool
worth told OF his early experiences as
practitioner before the bar Of Nebraska
! how it necessary to travel by stage for
many days in order to get from one court
to another, and spoke jocularly Of the crude
hotel facilities furnished at that time In
, conclusion he said:
After ALL what little body there Is
! of us. How few are left Of all who were
| here with us in those days. Many and
| many a one has fallen by the way we
| have travelled on. Our hearts are full Of
| affection and kindly feeling one for an
| other as we meet here to recall the mem
ores of the early days. Soon the second
generation will be the first generation.
| These children Of ours, born and bred here,
| will before long be the old people and we
| will be but memories"
! Rev. Luther M. Kuhns, who was born
! in Nebraska, delivered an eloquent address
and voiced the pride of the growing gener
| alton in the men and women who made
possible Nebraska as the sovereign state Of
| the union.
Judge E. Wakeey spoke of the bench in
the early days and told incidents which
! came under his personal notice after his ap
! pointment as a territorial Judge in 1857. He
| To NahraSka from WiSrOngin and the
district over which he presided extended
| over vast covering 350,0 900 square
| miles, taking in all of the territory west to
| the Rocky mountains, south to the Indian
| territory and north to the British posses
sons. Judge Wakeley reached Omaha
on April II, 1857, and was intro
duced to a genuine Nebraska blizzard
the snow falling to a considerable depth
His description of the places in which tho
court held it's sittings in those early days
and the incidents arising at each term were
highly suggestive of the crudities Of frontier
law and Justice.
Various "Reminiscences.
| DR.. Harvey Link pioneer physician, re-
counted the history of his practice in those
early days, when the doctor was expected
to do almost everything, and as a rule was
an adept at all things from building a coffin
| TO performing the most delicate surgical
operation. II. T. Clarke gave an interesting
reminiscent talk of the pioneer settlement
of the state. Later in the session Mr.. Clarke
told of the burial in August, 1885, Of Logan
Fontanelle, chief of the Omaha Indians, who
was known as the white Mans Friend"
b. Il. B. Kennedy spoke OF the hardships
which the men encountered In the early
period of their residence here. Then, how
ever they were not looked upon as hard
ships, for they were used to such things as
sleeping on the ground with no cover except
the blue canopy Of the heavens, and living
| In tnnts fnr tIya Iuneks at a Innn sna,rr