New-York tribune., 1900-03-22
THE PASSING THRONG.

There have been bad men and worse men afore-
times in the West" said Stephen Nacombe. OF
Boise City. Idaho yesterday
JIMMY" the Everett Houss ..but the worst
AND man I knew was Jimmy
THE COOK. Harrington. No exposure or wound
could apparently feaze Jimmy
and to iron constitution he Joined a seeming
immunity from death deaIing knife thrust bull
let wound that rendered his career of greater
length than that OF the average desperado and
made his rame feared and dreaded throughout the
land.
When Jimmy however had thirty notches on
the handle of his gun he ingloriously
adding notch 10 some else's. and the manner
got In row with the cook of a hash joint about
the cooks dog, which Harrington had abused. and
the cook, taking no chances. applied a vile name
TO Jimmy. at the same time shooting him in the
temple WBS ~ nT one 2nd elsa the out that at
@ sician !ater sald. would have been an almost in
his weapon refused 10 work, and he thereupon
ters hospital at Wallace Idaho 10 obtain treat
ment FOR his wound. and his first act after this
had been done was 70 write the Justice OF the
Peace. beseeching him to turn his assailant loose
got out He would have too except that the cook
didn't wait. but hurredly and secretly left for
,Jimmy,s, demise. or even that he is dead but II
he Is I'll wager that it wasn't from a wound
celVed IN a night; he was too tough for that
There IS nothing sadder in life to contemplate"
said l. B. King, Of Chicago. yesterday at the Hon-
man House than a man whom
JOSEPH the world has passed over. and
CONENS especially than a who has
SUDDEN had a past raDutat{on for greatness
RISE. which has been lost 70 hin, as the
years rolled by until he has sunk
obscure and unknown into the silence of the grave.
with only the days obituary 70 recall the triumph
and the briiiancy of his former years. In this
country have had full many an example Of
this. of greater or less Importance as the case
might be. but In almost every instance the fault
lay with and was integral part Of the man him-
part of his doinF
Such was not, however. the case with Joseph
generation in America he is almost wholly IN
known, and 10 the present day England but a
SINCE his name of worldwide repute and his
might not be placed From the black Newcastle
country Cowen came, and unknown: unheralded ana
obscure he burst upon an astonished Parliament and
people and at became leader and power
from the pure force of his rugged and marvellous
eioquence He had enormous wealth and a univer.
sity education. and was a student all the days or
his life; yet he chose in his public utterances 70
adopt the Northumbrian burr and the grammar or
the NAVY. His advent was hailed with delight
hooked IN a body to his standard and at tna{ unle
it looked as though the Premiership might In
screw loose somewhere and as suddenly
he had entered public life so he disap-
Voted the rest " of his days to the editorshp Of
The Newcastle Chronicle which he owned, and
no more. 1t has been said that he retired because
OF the TOO frequent quarrels with his IRE Iriends d
questions of reform and this imagine rests near near
ee he was Tn'h agent for MaHzini When that
sonage was the head and centre or every
bob an and be o % he had pab
licly entertained Oriental in his nature Cowen
ton. and. thinking as he did, it is not to be won
dered at that he quarrelled with friend ana any
public life"