BEDROCK DEMOCRAT,
PUBLISH ED EV ERY
W EDNESDAY,
J. M. SHEPHERD.
BY
OFFICE IN THE
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Personal communications will be charged
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BAKES CITY, BAKES COUNTY, OEEGON, JANUARY 20, 1875.
1ST e w D r u g S tore.
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Ho
street, Boston, 37 Park Row, New Y ork
and 701 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, are
our Agents for procuring advertisements
lor the BEDRpcK D emocrat , in the above
cities, and are authorized to contract for
advertising t our lowest rates.
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C IT Y , OREGON,
W ould respectfully inform the public that
he has recently received a well se­
lected and fresh Stock of
D rugs,
Chem icals,
Paints, Oils,
Perfum eries,
Patent M edicines,
Soaps,
We are now prepared to do all kinds of
W ines,
JOB WORK on short notice and at reasona­
Brandies,
ble rates.
W hiskies and
N. B.—All Job Work MUST EE PAID
FOB ON DELIVERY.
Cordials,
JOB WORK..
P R O F E S S I O N A L C A R D S.
L. O. STERNS,
W e s te r n H o te l.
S te r n s & H v d
A tto rn e y s
and
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MAIN STREET,......................................BAKER CITY.
C o u n s e lo r s A t - l a w ,
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
L. O. S terns will attend the Courts of the
Fifth Judicial District, and of Idaho and
Washington Territories.
Water Bights and Mining Litigation a
S p e c ia l t y .
Collections promptly attended to.
June IS, 1873.n6y
" " ANDREW J, LAWRENCE,
B A K E R C IT Y , OR EG O N .
Of the State.
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Baker City, Sept. 1, 1873. nl7y.
IL L P R A C T I C E IN A L L C O U R T S
I. D. H A IN E S,
A
and
cou n selor
Law, Baker city, Oregon.
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r i m iS HOUSE has I xau enlarged and re-
JL fitted, and is now tlie best Hotel on the
Umatilla and Idaho stage route.
Stages leave this House for above and be­
low,. and also for Clark’s Creek Eldorado,
Gem City and Sparta.
Connected with the Hotel will bo found a
first class
Liquors, Wines and Cigars «of the best
quality. Phelan’^ Improved Billiard Tables
ail in good order.
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N. B.—Those indebted to either the Hotel
or Saloon are requested to appear at the
Captain’s office and settle.
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RAIL ROAD IIOUS e T
Corner Main Street and V alley A venue
Southwest Side,
B A K E » C IT Y , O R EGO N,
ee p s
1 inform-the Public that they have pur­
chased the Baker City Hotel, and have fitted
itup as a First Class Hotel, where they will be
found at all times ready to attend to the
wants of the
H u n g ry a n d W ea ry ,
-A. tt o r n e y -at-Hi a w ,
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
S. V. KMGX,
In a manner that will give satisfaction.
The Table will be supplied with the best the
A tto r n e y at L a w ,
(And Notary Public,)
Will practice in the Courts of this State and
Washington Territ iry.
PECIAL ATTENTION PAID TO LAND
Business, and Collections.
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Give us a call, and then you can judge-of
our ability and capacity to please our custo­
mers.
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CLEMENT & SICORD.
h a n d
kinds of
For Medicinal Purposes.
TOILET ARTICLES
. Of Every Description.
Prescriptions prepared at all Hours. City
and Country Trade Solicited.
Best Brands, o f F a m i l y G r o c e r ie s, T o ­
b a c c o s , C iga rs, A c ., constantly on
Hand, at the Lowest Prices.
Baker City, Oct. 7, JS74.n221y
MILUHERY AM
D FANCY GOODS,
AT THE-
N E ¥
STORE,
First doer above the Express Office.
a llie s F a n c y a m i M illin e r y
Goods in Store, and Latest Styles receiv=
L
ed by Express every Month, and for sale at
most reasonable Prices.
Dress ALiking
Done to Order, and at Short Notice by
MRS. L. J. HUSTON.
Baker City, April 18,1874.-n51m6
Bohna
A le C ord’s
S A L O O N
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AT THE OLD StAND OF
B am b erger & F ran k ,
B A K E R M T ¥ , OREGON.
B olm a & McCord Respeetftal-
ly inform tlie Citizens- of Baker City
and the Public generally, that they ha\e
opened a New
S A L O O N ,
MARKET WILL AFFORD.
O R -E G O S .
on
DRUGS, •
' .
MEDICINES,
PAINTS and OILS,
/
W INDOW GLASS,
VARNISHES,
BRUSHES, and
CLEM EN T & SIC O R D , Proprietors,
rp iie P roprietors respectfully
c o s s t a n t iy
K a Full Assortment o f all
Goods, consisting in part of
Baker City, Oregon.
J. M. S H E P H E R D ,
XV E S T O N ,
R E ID & F L E T C H E R , P rop ’r.
S A L O O N !
Attorney-at-Law,
ttorney
For Medicinal purposes. Fam ily Medi­
cines carefully prepared. Prescrip­
tions accurately compounded,
at ail hours o f the day or
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’ night. Give us a call.
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T. C. H YD E,
N o ta r y P u b l ic .
J, f . WISDOM, Proprietor,
H 'M M H I S X
Corner o f Main, Street and V alley Avenue,
BAKES
S . M . D E T T E N G I E X , & Ci>., 10 S ta te
C orn er D r u g S tore,
Where will always bo found the very best
W in es, Liquors ami Cigars.
One of the Finest and Best
HOTEL RESTAUBM T
J O S E P H H. S H I N N ,
Notary Public
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AND
Co n v e
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F R A N C
a n c e r,
Will attend to Conveyancing and making
ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.
Baker City, Sept. 11, 1872.
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REYNOLDS,
N O T A E Y
P U B L I C
AND
D E P U T Y U. S. M A R SH A L .
Office with John Brat-tain, Three Doors
South of B e d r o c k D e m c r a t office,
on side of the Street.
Balier City, Sept. 3, 1873.nl7m4
JR ,
JOSEPH MAN AIDAS, Proprietor,
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
rip,ME P R O P R IE T O R H A S Bougl&t-
JL the Hotel Restaurant, next door to
the Post Office, form erly kept by Si cord &
W hitcom b, and has fitted the same up in
the' best style as a Hotel, on the French
Restaurant Style. He is prepared to ac­
commodate the Public, and is determined
to give entire satisfaction.
The H ouse.isopen from five o ’clock in
tlie m orning until twelve at night, during
which timfe customers will be supplied
with the best o f everything to be Rad io
the
M
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Baker City, July 4,1874.-a 9 tf
A, J. TIllBODO, 11. A. M, D.
M. A- Queen’s University, \Canada,
M. D. Trinity University,J
18o4.
F la y s ic ia o , S u r g e o ia , *£c.
O ffic e and Ilesidence, at A. H. Brown s
former residence, nearly opposite the Bed­
rock Democrat Office.
Baker City, Oregon, Nov. 1 0 ,1874.-y
F .
JST.
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Physician and Surgeon,
B A K E R CITY, OREGON.
the new Buildrng im m ediate­
ly South o f the Western Hotel.
F F IC E — In
MEDICAL E X A M IN E R
or the New Y ork Life Insurance Co-
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;Graduate of tlie College of Physicians and
lurgeons New York and of tlie Medical De­
partment oi the Willamette University,)
PH Y SIC IA N AN D SU R G E O N ,
Terms cash, or no patronage solicited.
Office one door north of City Drug Store.
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' BAKER CITY, OREGON.
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J o lm F . O liord,
Carpenter and Joiner,
BAK ER CITY, OREGON.
Designs and Specifications Furnished.
Estimates Made. Terms Liberal.
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Baker City, Nov. 17, 1874.
S J M’CORMiCK,
Boots. Stationary. Top. Insic And
Importer and D ealer In
N E W S P A P E R S,
FRANKLIN BOOK-STORE AND SANTA CLAUS
Headquarters, E ire-proof
Brick Building, 105 Front street, Portland,
til 7
O regon.
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BAKER CITY M ARKET.
r o lm E p p in g é r R c s p e c t iß liy
(J informs the citizens of Baker Oily that
has re-opened the
BAKER CITY MARKET,
Where, at all-times, ho will be prepared to
furnish liis customers with the
BEST OF MEAT,
Of all kinds, at most reasonable prices.
Baker City,'April 11, 1874.-n49t-f
LIVERY S T A B L E
MESSRS. KILBffis & PEBKIXS
T 3 c s p e c i f u l l y I i i f o r s a t l i e C it -
J L i izens of Baker City and County, and
the Public generally, that they have pur­
chased the
l i l v
e r y
G it
Formerly kept by John Eppinger, and that
they are prepared to furnish customers with
the best of
Single or Double Turn-outs,
Either night or day, with or without drivers,
at the very lowest rates. First class Saddle
Horses on hand. Horses boarded and the
best of care bestowed. We keep nothing bin
the best of Stock and Buggies.
Our stable is at the upper end of Mam
Street, Baker City, Oregon.
Come and see us, Everybody, and wo will
do our best to please you.
KILBURN & PERKINS.
February 10, 1874.-n40tf
LIVERY STABLE
CJ n d e r t a k e r .
J. W. O L E A V E R
informs tlie Public that he is prepared to do
land of work in the Undertaking Business
on short notice and at rasonable prices.
Baker City, Oct, 1 ,1873.n21tf
PÄP LEVINS
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DEALER IN
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T o b a c c o & C ig a r s,
TOGETHER WITH A
General Assortment
Of all articles in his Lino, which he is selling
at L ow e st P r ic e s , for the Ready Pay.
His house is located on Main Street, nearly
apposite the Bank Block, Baker City, Oregon.
Baker City, Nov. 11, 1874.n27if. ■
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WATCHMAKER AND JE vYELER,
ESTABLISHED IN BAKER CITY IN 1867,
Keeps constantly on hand a well assorted
Stock of
WATCHES, CLOCKS I JEWELRY,
and is prepared to do all kinds of work in
liis line of business.
Waltham and Elgin Watches at Factory
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Prices
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GEO. J. BOWMAN.
S. A. GAINES.
GAINES & BOWMAN,
Blacksmiths
AND
lannfactnrers of Baggies & W
agons.
E A R E GETTIN G OUR TIM B E R
direct from, St. Louis, Mo., and none
W
but the yery best is Purchased, we are there-
fore prepared to Warrant all our work.
We are now fully prepared to complete any
H aving com pleted ¿lieir New Stable,
have now the finest and best regulated
On short notice, and we can say we have the
Very Best of Workmen in our employ.
Every one wanting a Buggy or Wagon will
save time and money by giving us a cab and
examining our work for themselves.
In E a s t e r n O r e g o n ,
STO CK BO U G H T AN D SO L D .
Baker City, Nov. 13, 1872. nl3tf
Mrs. R. C. Shepherd
drover & Bate’s Sewing ¡Mines.
IS AGENT FOR
Baker City, Dec. 1 , 1872.n30lf
When ho got to his dwelling,
The soft snow was wellingf .
Aggravatingly fine thro’ the wall— ■
And maliciously sifting,
And driving and drifting
Thro’ the parlor, and kitchen and hall.
With the front of him toasting,
And the back of him frosting.
He whispered in accents not low—
That if Hell was’nt crammed,
He’d surely be damned,
Wo’ld the man who wrote “ Beautiful Snow.’
As ho gazed on his wood pile,
And knew in a little while,
Not a stick would bo left there to burn -
Came the chilling sensation,
As to where in creation
For another big load, he could turn—
And how sweetly he’d rest,
I f they’d hold an inquest 0
On the man who delighted in woo—
Who’d been writing such gammon,
In his beautiful psalm on
The Flakes of tlio “ Beautiful Snow.”
« .E T T E R .
F a i k v i e w , J a n . 9lli, 1875.
Buggies or Wagons
Where they will carry on the Livery Busi­
ness in all its branches.
As he felt the cold snow on his shin—
Which.the same had obtruded,
J ust then when he tumbled
In a drift that was deeper than sin,
And his whole frame did quiver,
E ’en his marrow did shiver
As;he thought how his chilblains wo’kl grow.
And he wept in despair,
That the hair he couldn’t tear
Of the man who wrote “ Beautiful Snow.”
B illia r d T a b le s
GRIER & KELLOGG
L i v e r y S ta b le
Mr. Bentley has completed his contract
for repairing the bridge across the Umatilla
River at Pendleton. The work done, was
For the B edrock , D emocrat .
of
a substantial character, and was received
“ B E A U T IF U L SNOW . ”
and paid for at this term of Court. Send
B y Ajti.
along your big teams.
Our worthy Clerk, Mr. F. M. Crockett,
| “ It is now well understood, that the au­ will tender his resignation, at this term of
thor of “ Beautiful Snow” is a distinguished
tho Court. His reasons for so doing, is tho
gentleman of Vermont.” —Ex P a p e r .]
reduction made in the County Clerks fees
The snow was throo feet
^at the last term of the Legislature. Mr.
On the level. It beat
Crockett is, perhaps the best County Clerk
The very “ Old Nick,” how it froze,
that Umatilla County has ever had since its
As a poor man did hustle,
organization and it is to bo regretted that
And along the path rustle,
h i^ teijj is to bi filled by another.
Caressing his froat-bUtcn nose;
TlieNqiow is ten or twelve-inches deep at
£adly, softly, lie prayed
Weston and is falling very fast to day.
That a coffin bo made
There is good sleighing at present, and the
Very quick, in a minuto or so—
indications are that there will be for an in­
For the sweet-scented bilk
definite length of time. Times arcYery
From Vermont, or that ilk,
gopd hero considering it is mid winter.
The man, who wrote “ Beautiful Snow.”
And n o w , Judge, if it is not too late, allow
me’to
wish y o u and the B e d r o c k a happy
Where the beauty could be
Now
Year.
LARRY.
For his life he couldn’t see
OUR O W ÏÏIS E
To be found in the City. “ Fred” and “ Bub”
will be pleased at all times to have their
friends give them a call.
BOHNA to McCORD.
Baker City, Feb. 10, 1874. nlOtf
Special attention is paid to Horse Shoeing.
All repair work done on short notice. We
are thankful for past Patronage, and still
"W * *
G llH E S 4 BOWMAN.
Baker City, March 11,1874.-n44tf
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E d it o r D e m o c r a t
There Jias nothing
o f importance transpired in this mountain
burg since my last writing. Everything,
with the exception of the weather, is as
still as the placid waters o f Snake River
in the m iddle o f summer. Cold and stor­
my weather set in here about the third or
foilrtlYof this m onth and has continued
at intervals up to date. At this writing it
is blowing and snowing-with such fearful
vengeance as to render it almost impossi­
ble to cross the street of Fairvicw; the
weather is extremely cold and jack frost
is in the height of liis glory.
Accidents are becoming so com m on on
tho mountain that we Fairviewers are not
surprised on hearing, as we arise from our
beds in the m orning, that another m;£n
was killed last night. About three weeks
ago a young man by name of Edmund
Porrault lost his life while working in the
Revenue m ine in Silver City- O 11 the 4th
o f this month a young man by name
W illiam Stevens lost his life by failing in­
to the Silver City Legion Shaft- while on
his way home from Fairvicw,—on the
Empire side o f the War Eagle Mountain,
And now we have io record tho sad fact
that while we write this letter there is in
the M iner’s Union Hall in this town the
dead body of a young man by name o f Ja­
cob Hauh, who lost his life by being over­
taken by a huge avalanche of snow, on
what is known as the Mohogany side of
the mountain. It. is no exaggeration to say
that there has more accidents occurred in
this camp <vithin the last six months than
there basin any. other camp o f its size on
the Pacific Coast. We feel warranted in
sayhig-that nine-tenths of those accidents
are sheer carelessness either on the part of
the victim or some o f the Mining 'Compa­
nies. For instance—what ' would you
think o f a company who would sink a
shaft within a few feet o f a road where the
public are passing at all hours o f the day
and night. O u ropin ionin tU em atteris—
and we believe we speak the truth—that
each and every member o f a company,
guilty of such gross neglect, ought to be
tried for Hieir lives. The people o f this
community are now talking oL getting up
a petition to the Idaho Legislature with a
view of getting that august body to pass a
law making it compulsory to cover up and
secure the innumerable started shafts and
prospect holes that are scatterec^ all over
War Eagle Mountain. This would be a
good law for this camp and one which
would undoubtedly have a good effect for
all time to com e—inasmuch as it would
be instrumental in saving many a man
from an untimely grave; on the whole it
would he nothing more or less than a sim ­
ple act o f justice, and one which would
be Railed with jo y by the people o f this
com m unity, and we firmly believe that
such an act would be far more creditable
to obr law-makers than if they divorced
every married man and \yoman in Idaho
Territory-
. „
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Yours, &c.,
t . c:
OUR U M ATILLA COUNTY B E TTE R .
Or. Jau. lOtli 1875.
County Coart
was in session last week, at Pendleton, with
O / V /Y lT Y Y P o u n d s o f W h e a t a full board Hon. H . C. Yoakum presid­
at the B e d r o c k D e m o ­
ing; Messrs Henry Bowman and J. L.
c r a t Office immediately, fo r which the high­
Rodgers, Commissioners.
est Cash price wiljbe allowed*.
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W h e a t W a n te d .
NO.
W e sto n ,
E d it o r
D e m o c r a t :— Tlie
O U R UNION C O U N T Y B E T T E R .
H o g e m , U n io n Co., Or. Jan. 3d 1875.
EnrroR D e m o c r a t :— I have but a few mo­
ments to write. I must say things- look
rather cheering. The Summit mine owned
by Messi'3 Packwood & Stowart, is looking
well. Mr. J. l . Griffin, with his small po8-
see of men is rushing ahead bravely. They
aro down at the depth of -400 feet from the
surface, and aro getting out some splendid
Ore; Mr. G. thinks it will pay from $25 to
$30 per ton, and from the looks of it, I should
judgeit would yield a great deal more, but
he is the best judge, wo will call it $25 or $30
Ore; that is pretty good itself. Undoubtedly
it is a good mine; hoping that it is, for we
need some thing of the kind very bad now.
Mr. Alger & Co., are making preparations
for their spring work,-by groundsluicing,
which will undoubtedly prove a success.
Yours Respectfully.
ST. CROIX.
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o f M r.
W illia m
BIcW aters.
City Correspondence Chicago
Times.
Our District Court has just adjourned,
and die notorious desperado, William Mc-
Waters, has been sentenced to twenty-one
years at hard labor in the Lincoln peniten­
tiary, and tho ponderous gates have hidden
the criminaTfroin the World in which ho re­
garded human life no more than a sports­
man does a prarie chicken. He was young
in years, bj.it graduated early among the
bushwaekers of Missouri and is known from
Nobraaka to Oregon, as the terrible Me Wat­
ers—a living personification of just such
characters as figure in dime novels and fill
up the measure of glory in saloon literature.
His history will be written and go down to
posterity with that of John A. Murrill and
other disturbers of society, and the long
night of prison penance will only throw a
deeper interest around his fate.
William MeWaters was born in Platte
county, Missouri, the year after tho great
flood—1844. Plis mother was a Kentucky
woman of superior character. But we know
nothing of his early days till at the mould­
ing age of twelve years he followod the pro-
slavery raiders over into Kansas, and learn­
ed to love blood and hate the abolitionists
at Ossawattomie and other skirmishes. In
those pursuits he was a kind of free rover,
two years.
Soon after the rebellion broke out he join­
ed a company o.f the boys who burned the
Platte bridge and precipitated the Hannibal
and St, Joseph Railroad train into an awful
chasm, killing many of tho passengers, be­
cause Federal soldiers were among them.
Then he enlisted with Jim Gidden’s band,
and fought "under General Price for six
months. On coming back home to Bee
Creek he found the family residence burned,
his father and brother killed by the ^Militia,
and the rest of tho family driven off in ban­
ishment. So he associated himself with Bill
Anderson, John and Fletch Taylor, aud oth­
er desperate bushwackers, and resolved to
sacrifice a hundred lives for one in revenge,
and did pick off' Capt. Cheeseman and thirty
or forty of his men, who were quartered in
the neighborhood. But the rising glory of
Quantrell drew them over into Kansas again
where MeWaters found congenial work in
the sacking.and burning of Lawrence.
Quantrell afterward carriedliis freebooters
into Arkansas, and there they fell out among
themselves over a woman, and the sanguina­
ry Bill Anderson drew away from Quantrell
aud raided back through Northern Missouri
like a líame of fire over the praries, carrying
young MeWaters in his train, who had
many adventures more strange than fiction,
and was assisted out otmany hair breadth es*
capes by a fair, heroine named Jennie May-
field.
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At the close of the war we find MeWaters
keeping a saloon in Platte City, where he
shot a man; and his friend, John Taylor,
ivas shot by tho police. He then escaped to
St. Joe, which was seething with despera­
does from all parties, where his oth r friend
Fletch Taylor, was shot dead by the police;
and MeWaters, in return, shot’ the police­
man.
By the aid of confederates he got out o f
Missouri and came to W yom ing, in this
county, .where a romantic attachment
Sprang up between him and a beautiful
young lady, who was to have married his
friend, Fletch Taylor, and he was the
groomsman, and they were on tlie way up
when the affray took: -placej in St. Joe
which ended the career o f Fletch Taylor.—
Miss Susie Davis wedded MeWaters, and
through thick and thin lias idolized her
husband—the one bright picture in this
narrative.
Two years ago MeWaters shot Wolfe
dead in a row in W yom ing; and soon after
his brother-in-law, W oodson, who is a
cousin of Gov. W oodson of Missouri, shot
Barlow dead, and is now serving a term in
the penitentiary for it. MeWaters was
cleared. But about a year afterward John
Crook and he shot and killed an innocent
man in Dold’s saloon in this city. They
were caught and shut up in au iron cage,
where it seemed théy were very safe for
trial. But one evening, when the guards
were shifting them, they managed to steal
the arms, and at the pistol’s mouth drove
tiie guards into the cage, locked them in,
and escaped on horses which had been
placed outside by friends. In the Indian
Nation the men separated in bad blood,
and MeWaters, for whom a large reward
was offered, was again caught at Hays City
Kansas. But while the Sheriff’s posse was
making tlie prison for him, he executed
the old manœuvre, and suddenly shut six
o f them inside, while he escaped 011 the
Sheriff’s horse.
He then made his way northward among
the Black feet Indians, and shot one of
them dead over a bottle o f whiskey, and
has liis blankets yet, with the bullet holes,
he running the gauntlet of the whale tribe’
Nebraska
Ono square orV*’
Each additional R 0
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One square three
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Business Advertise^- •:. **’ ‘ •.. $o
Quarter column.
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One column..........................ftp
Ten per cent, additional on adVv $c no
to which a special position is gnamq
DAVTlie space of one Inch, up andx
the column,-constitutes a square.
in Coin A l t debts due this office are payable
’ * ” otherwise expressly agreed.
W e next hear o f MeWaters ,xv.
town o f Sparta, in Union county ,le,, IffHo
where he visited a relative, and liah
mous needle gun. with which lie murder­
ed a man-named George Weed, with whom
he had a quarrel in a gam bling house.—
The man had gone off'sem e distance, but
had on a soldier’s blue coat, and MeWa­
ters couldnt resist the temptation o f letting
fly a charge at liis brass buttons, shooting
him in the back, and escaping to ¿Sacra­
mento City, with a new reward o f $.1,001)
offered for bis arrest. But all t his time
Sheriff Farbar, o f Nebraska City, who
smarted for liis official honors, had detect­
ives 011 his track, and Tom Tippet, wlio
once live here in the Seymour House with
MeWaters, spotted liis lurking places, aud
he was suddenly pinioned by the olllcUrs
o f the law and brought back to Nebraska
City. The result has been told. He has a
dozen scars 011 liis person and bullet holes
in liis body-, and a dozen times has escap­
ed from prison; and his rollicking stories
would fill a book. He is thoroughly edu­
cated in deeds o f violence, and never talks
about anything else with relish but “ get­
ting the drop” on some ono. He rides like
a Comanche, and is as cool and wily as
Modoc Jack. His clear, steel eye never
glows except with tlie excitement of an a f­
fray. He has a fine figure, and might have
been a gentleman—an Aubrey or a Kit
Carson. But a man who always goos arou nd
with pistols to hunt up a fight is uo longer
desirable in Nebraska society, and Judge
Gantt has the praise o f all parties in ban­
ishing him to a living grave.
The scene when his devoted wife and
two pretty children wore tom away from
him, and lie was ironed for the penitentia­
ry, was such as tho hardest hearts could
not contemplate, and the officers o f the
court shed tears. MeWaters him self com ­
pletely broke down.
W iiiH C iu u cea It e m s .
We gather the following from tlie W ln-
ncmucca dailies o f last,Thursday:
Sisson, W allace & Co shipped yesterday
35,000 pounds o f freight for Idaho, tlie grea­
ter part being for South Mountain. The
roads are now in excellent condition for
teaming, there being less dust than in
summer time.
James A. Hill left this m orning for his
old home, Sandhurst, Ontario, in tho do­
minion of Canada. He will be absent
about two months, unless he succeeds iu
capturing a “ Canuckess” in less time.
Vary ville is getting to be quite a lively
town. There are two whiskoy m ills in
full blast, and a h a lf dozen poker games
running in each for tho last month.
Snapp’s stage makes the trip from hero
to V aryville, in Columbia Dist, 120 m iles,
in 3G hours. They’ change horses throo
times on tho way.
Three car loads o f thoroughbred m erino
sheep arrived hero last night from tho
Eastern States.
Four car loads o f beef cattle were ship­
ped last night from Mill City to Sail Fran­
cisco.
Baldy Groen, tlie Veteran Stage Drivor,
is mining at Varyville, and says lio will
have all the money he wants by next Sum
mer.
„
E. L. Johnson & Co. are preparing to
build a quartz m ill at Varyville.
Mo., January 7tli 1875..
Both houses of the Legislature orgonized
to-day. Governor Woodson’s message is a
long document, devoted almost wholly to
State affairs. The State debt is a littlo loss
than $18,000,000. Referring to crime in tho
State, he quotes the English common law,
asking that t!:e people of “towns and coun­
ties'bo held responsible for damages when
officers or citizens fail to arrest tlio crimi­
nals, as a remedy worthy the consideration
of tho Legislature. In reference to matters
in Louisiana, lie denounced tho Kellogg gov­
ernment, and the interference of the Feder­
al authorities in the organization o f tLe Leg­
islature, and urges tho Legislature to pass
condemnatory resolutions.
L in c o l n , Neb., January 7th 1875.
The Legislature convened to day. Tlio
Senate elected N. K. Griggs President,
and tho House E. Towle Speaker. Tlio
Governor’s message says the debt of the
State is $402,000; tho population is 300,000,
having doubled in tlio last two years.
L it t l e R o c k , Ark. Jan. 7tli 1875.
Resolutions were introduced in tlie Houso
to day and referred to a spocial committee,
reprobating the recent action of tlie military
in New Orleans, and repelling tho charge by
Sheridan that there is a state of terrorism in
Arkansas, whore he lias never been, and
about which ho c an only know by hearsay.
I n d ia n a p o l is , January 8 tli, 1875.
Both bftnclies o f the Legislature- met to­
day and organized, the Senate electing Re­
publican and Independent officers, having
agreed upon a division. Tho Houso elected
David Tarplo( Dem.)Speaker, on a straight,
party vote, over both the Republican a id Iri-
dependonWfcmdidates. The vote of tlio Dem­
ocrats was 5t>; Republicans, 35; Independ­
ents,-9. This gives tho Independents only
12 votes on joint ballot, leaving the Demo­
crats a joint majority of 8.
S p r in g f ie l d , 111., January 5th, 1674.
Tho House organized this morning by
the electron o í M. E. Haynes, Independ­
ent, Speaker, he being voted for by Demo­
crats and Independents. Thé Senate ballot­
ed twico for President, without a choice, but
no doubt Casey, Democrat,'will be elected.
J e ffe r so n C i t y ,
T r e a t i n g T h e W ro n g - D isea so. —Many
times Women call upon their family physi­
cians, one with dyspepsia, another with pal­
pitation, another with trouble of tho breast,
another with pain hero and there, and iu
this way they all present alike to themselves
and their easy-going and indifferent doc­
tors, separate and distinct diseases, for which
he prese: ibes his pills andjpotions, assum­
ing them to be such, when in reality, they
aro all symptoms caused by somo uterine
disorder; and while they are thus only ablo
perhaps to palliate for a time, they aro ig­
norant of the cause, and encourage their
practico until largo bills are made, when tho
suffering patients are no bettor in tho end,
but probably worse for th j delay, Treatment
and other complications made, and. which a
proper medicine directed to the cause would
nave entirely removed, thereby instituting
health and comfort instead of prolonged mi»- •
-ery.
From Miss Lorind i E. St. Clair, Sliado,
Athens Co., Ohio: “ Dr. It. V. Pierce,Buf­
falo, N. Y.—Your Favorite Prescription ia
working almost like a miraole on me. I am
better already than I have been for over two
years.”
From Ella A. Shafer, Zanesville, Ind.;
“ Dr. Pierce—I received the modicino you
sent mo and began using it immediately. As
a result of tho treatment I feel bettor than I
have for three years.”
From Mrs. John K. Homiljn, Odell* 111:
“ Dr. Pierce—Tho Favorite Proscription baa
done me good, which I am very thankful
for.”
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Pev&crlption is suld
by dealers in medicines,