23 D YEAR.
CRASHED INTO A CAR.
Frightful Railway Accident in a
Chicago Suburb.
Five Persons Killed Through Crim
inal Carelessness.
The Running Record Beaten in a
Race at Gravesend.
At 2:30 o’clock, Cheyenne time, (1:30
San Francisco) Warren an J Murphy were
still fighting with the chances in favor of
a draw.
Scalded to Death.
Chicago, Sept. 21 —Five innocent
lives paid the penalty of the wanton care
lessness of a railroad engineer at the corner
of innes avenue and Eighty-seventh
street in this city this evening. The
suburban train on the Bock Island road
leaving the Chicago depot at 6:18 leaves
every evening at this point, the Wash
ington Heights coach to be caught up bv
the dummy This evening the car was
left 03 usual when a moment later the
passengers were horrified to see bearing
down upon them at the rate of twelve
miles an hour a heavy freight train on
the same rood.
There was no time for flight. The en
gineer reversed his engine, but with al
most undiminished speed it plowed into
the passenger coach until the locomotive
was hidden entirely in the wreck. Wild
shrieks and groans announced the horror
of the disaster, and as the steam formed
io thick clouds around the scene the spec
tators realized that the ill fated passengers
were being roasted alive.
Willing hands lent all assistance possi
blc but the engineer having failed to
shut off the steam the steamchest was
blown out by the shock of the collision
and the death dealing vapor hissed forth
ceaselessly for nearly an hour. Strange
to say not a person was killed by the col
lision, the 10-«8 of lives being solelv at
tributuble to the scalding steam that en
veloped the coach. The dead as taken
out were found to be literally roasted.
The flesh dropped from their hands and
the glaring eyes told of the horror of their
experiences
The wreck appears to have been en
tirely due to the almost criminal careless
ness of Engineer Tbombley. The pas
senger tram was on time. Signals were
out at the semaphore and yet the freight
train regardless of time and signal,
plunged into the coach running at aspeed
of twelve miles an f hour within the city
limits. Both Thornley and his fireman
jumped and escaped. The engineer has
disappeared.
A Record Heater.
Gravesend. Sept 24.—Fully 12,000
people were present to day. The event
of the day was the first special race in
which the king of the turf Kingston,
cleverly ridden by Murphy, passed under
the wire a length in trout of Raceland,
Banker August Belmont's representative.
Time, 2:06j. one-half second better than
the best, record.
What Justice Field Thinks of It.
Chicago. Sept. 24 —Justice Field of
the United States supreme court arrived
here thia morning en route from San
Francisco to Washington. He went at
unce to the Balmer house. It was sup
posed Deputy United States Marshal
Nagle was with him but he was not seen
io get off the train. “I think the tragedy
will result beuvticially to the law of our
land,” he said. ’’’There will be laws
passed by congress and also by state legis
latures protecting judges from the wrath
of disappointed iigitants. It is necessary
in order to iceep justice pure, that a
judge on the bench should not be com
pelled to let his fears of the litigant's re
venge change the course of his rulings.”
*’Do you ex<»ect anv attempt us re
venge to be made by Mrs. Terry?”
•’One cannot tell. She is closely
watched, but desperate people take des
perate chances sometimes.”
The Number Drowned.
Johnstown, Pa.. Sept. 24 —A new
directory with a special record of those
lost has been published. The number
drowned is put at 3,500, which is con
sidered a close estimate, it b ing impos
sible to obtain the exact figures. The
body of a child was taken our. to-day,
only tin* bones remaining.
Won’t Accept.
Kansas City. Sept. 24 —Major War
ner arrived from Washington this morn
ing. In an interview he replied to the
question: “Will you accept the office of
commissioner of pensions?” “No. I will
not.”
Cte/t at J, IB*. Hopper's
andsi'e the ch-apcst heat
ing Porti ever offered in
th iff city.
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SPARKS FROM THE WIRES.
No jurors were secured in the Cronin
case yesterday.
The Ives jury at 11 o’clock were locked
up lor the night.
The Omaha Base Ball Association yes
terday sold the Omaha team to Boston.
Maj. Powell says that 100,000,000 acres
of arid can be reclaimed by his scheme.
Ex-Surgeon General Beale, of the
United States navy, is dead at Philadel
phia.
The friends of Gen. Powell, of Illinois,
are hopeful of his appointment as pension
commissioner.
Bros., who recently failed, pro
pose a settlement with creditors for 57i
cents on the dollar.
The New York Graphic* the only daily
illustrated paper in the world, suspended
publication yesterday. Lack of funds.
The foreign press secs reason for com
mercial uneasiness in the congress of
American nations to meet in Washington.
Base ball—Boston 7. Chicago 5; Pitts
burg 13, Washington 8; New York 16,
Indianapolis 12; Cleveland G. Philadel
phia 5.
The Book House Failure.
Chicago, Sept. 24. —Bedford, Clarke
Co’s failure came up in court to day on
a motion by the receiver for an order on
the sheriff to turn over to him the prop
erty levied on yesterday. The court di
rected that the rights of judgment credi
tors be fully preserved and the claims of
the latter be first paid out of the proceeds
of any sale by the receivers. The receiver
is running the business. He is at work on
an inventory. So far he has found noth
ing to change the figures of $400,060 liabil
ities and 250,000 assets.
A Sensational Story.
Denver, Sept. 24 —The sensational
reports wired to New York and other east
ern cities last night that Frank Pine was
the projector of a scheme whereby the
First National bank of this city was re
cently robbed of $21,000 is absolutely
without foundation This statement is
made on the authority of Chief of Pulice
Farley and prominent detectives of the
city. It is a well known fact that Pine
was seriously ill at Minneapolis at the
time the robbery occured. This story
probably grew out of the fact that Pine
is here under arrest for swindling a hotel
man in Kansas City out of $1,600 on a
iKjgus mining deal. Pine is now lying at
the point of death caused by enlargement
of the spleen.
The President’s Trip.
Deer Park, Md., Sept. 24.—President
Harrison and Senator Henry G. Davis
left here this morning for Elkins, Va.
There was a heavy rainstorm. The trip
has certain elements of hardships as it
begins and ends with a drive of thirteen
miles over precipitous mountain roads.
During the day the president will see one
of the wildest sections of the cmintvy in
the mountain regions of West Virginia.
The party will return to-night.
The French Election.
Paris, Sept. 24. The Republican
journals are jubilant over the results of
Sunday’s election. They say the second
ballots will only add to the success of the
Republicans. They regret the defeat of
Ferry, but they express a hope that his
absence from the chamber will be only
temporary
The Republique Francaise. says the
country has elected a government major
ity and shows uis tired of former divi
sions, and desires the chamber attend to
the national interests to the exclusion of
problems causing dissensions.
The Journal des Debats has no great
confidence in the wisdom of the new ma
jority.
The monarchical and Boulangist jour
nals express disappointment, and say they
hope the second ballot will strengthen the
position of the opposition.
Faring Sumptuously.
Dr. Crichton Brown, in his excel
lent paper on “Brain Growth, says:
To fare sumptuously every day,
to bask in luxury and idleness, is to
court decay of the noblest of the tis
sues, for moth and rust do corrupt
even the greatest of man’s treasures—
his intellect—when it is laid by in use
lessness and lavender; and thieves
will surely break in and steal away
his brains, unless they are zealously
guarded and diligently exercised.
To which The London Lancet adds:
This is a practical point of the high
est value and moment, and one that
cannot l>e too strongly or constantly
expounded. The brain grows by use
individually and socially. If it is not
habitually employed in a class or fam
ily it will sink into subordinate im
portance. Herald of Health.
Plain and striped under
wear in large variety and
at hard time prices at
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Biddy Streets.
CHEYENNE. WYOMING, WEDNESDAY MORNING. SEPTEMBER 25, 1889.
A TWICE TOLD TALE.
An Interesting Cheyenne Letter
Printed in New Yorlfc
Some Interesting Facts About the
Town and People.
And Subjects Which Have Recently
Been Discussed.
V
[From the New York Times* Hept. 19.]
WARREN’S LITTLE WORRY
A BLUNDER THAT PRESIDENT
HARRISON has not reg
TIFIED.
WYOMING'S GOVERNOR AND HIS READI
NESS AS AN AFFIDAVIT MAKER—HE
WANTS TO BE A SENATOR.
Cheyenne. Wyoming, Sept. 18. Sood
after the appointment of Francis E. War
ren to be governor of Wyoming there ap
peared in the Tinies a dispatch from this
city iu which President Harrison’s choice
was criticised severely, and the new gov
ernor. who had been governor before un
der President .Arthur and for two years
under President Cleveland, was con
demned as a person altogether unfit by
capacity and integrity for the high office.
The governor and his frieuds resented
the publication and denied all the allega
tions which it contained. Soon after he
bad made his denial Mr. William Ware
Peck of Cheyenne, in making charges
against Governor Warren intended to
show that he could not be always ex
pected to be a man of integrity if his
•future was to be governed by his past,
presented the documents to prove that
while Governor Warren had made affida
vit to the statement that he bad lived
upon a tract of land in Laramie county
that he desired to lake up under the pro
emption act, he had been a continuous
resident of Cheyenne, and during the
time be had sworn to a residence on a
ranch miles away from this city he bad
been nominated to and elected as a mem
ber of the city council, and had attended
nearly every meeting of the body during
his term office. These letters, which
were reproduced in The Cheyenne
Leader, were read by everybody in the
state. They provoked the hottest sort of
discussion in and out of the newspapers.
Nearly all, say all except half a dozen,
papers in the territory defended Gov
ernor Warren.
The discussion had not ceased in the
newspapers a month when the writer
reached Cheyenne. Ina small town in
the west, so far away from the Atlantic
coast and the New York newspapers, the
presence of a newspaper man is soon
known- The state of the local news
paper man's mind was at once revealed
by the appearance of an editorial para
graph in the Sun* the organ of the gov
ernor, intimating that The Times had sent
a man to Wyoming to consult with Mr.
William Ware Peck as to the best
method of renewing the attack upon Gov
ernor Warren As a matter of fact, the
writer did not see Mr. Peck. He did call
upon Governor Warren and had several
conversations with him upon the matters
treated in Mr. Peck’s letters. From Gov
ernor Warren and his friends an opinion
was obtained of Mr. Peck. From some
other gentlemen who were spoken ot by
Governor Warren with great respect
other tacts and opinions were obtained
touching Governor Warren and his career
in Wyoming. Without quoting Gover
nt r Wairen or his critics, a fair state
ment of the case may be presented from
both the Warren side and the side of
those who may be said to be his critics
rather than his accusers.
Governor F. E Warren is still a young
man. blonde, with glasses. He is a
giant in stature. If he were not so tall
and were le.**s deliberate of speech he
might pass for a brother of Civil Service
Commissioner Roosevelt. He must have
come here at an early age, for he has been
in the territory about twenty-one years
With a good education to fit him for a
life’s work he was naturally bright, cool,
audacious, commanding. He had keen
business sense and capital, and the coun
try was open to all who knew how to
make the best of the opportunities pre
sented. Governor Warren dil not let
any opportunities pass him unobserved.
That he should “catch on” was inevita
ble. He succeeded wonderfully well. He
had already, in 1883, when he became in
volved in the affair which Mr. Peck has
described, reached lhe position of leading
Republican in Cheyenne, if not in Wyom
ing, and was connected with several com
panics identified with the development of
the territory. A company with which he
was connected desired to acquire for
ranching or stock raising purposes a tract
north of Cheyenne about eighteen or
twenty miles. They proceeded to ac
quire it.
According to the argument of Governor
Warren’s friends, an argument that the
governor accepts and repeats, “custom”
has run Mtoead of law in Wyoming in land
matters. People sometimes want land
that it is not easy to get by complying
with all the formalities presented by the
secretary ot the interior and the commis
sioncr of the general land office. Gov
ernor Warren was living in Cheyenne
The company in which he was interested
wanted the landsit bad decided to take up.
They could only be acquired by individ
uals and thus the combination of tracts
effected. Governor Warren says that it
I would have been perfectly easy for him to
get some on else to go out to the tract,
swear to a residence upon it, and, having
j complied with the law, sell it to*the com
[•any. He says that he did live on it, but
his own statements were evidently intend
ed to convey to the writer the impression
that it was a residence bv declaration
rather than a residence in fact. While
his residence in Cheyenne was kept open
and he was here during a great deal of
the time, as his attendance as a member
of the city council shows, he says he was
out on the ranch a large part of the time
looking after a well 300 feet deep that had
heen sunk there, and interesting himself
also in the stock that ranged over the
acres acquired by himself and his asso
ciati s.
As to his giving his address at Chey
enne and not at the ranch, he has ao ex
planation of that. There was no postof
fice al the ranch. The nearest point that
he could give his correspondents bv name
was Cheyenne and be gave it. It does
not seem to be anything m the way us
pallitation us the unnecessary swearing in
dulged in that Governor Warren says he
paid $2.50 per acre for the land, and
would now sell it forsl an acre if he could
get it. As for his other interests, and
his interests particularly in the Union
Pacific railway, neither he nor his fnends
make any apology for his connection with
them. They join in declaring that no
man in Wyoming ought to be censured or
condemned for being enterprising, even
with profit. As for his alleged friendship
for the Union Pacific, it is maintained that
that is not a necessarily blameworthy
feeling, for the territory owes about ail
that it is to the fact that the Union Pa
cific has made it possible to reach it. As
a result of his “push” Governor Warren
is not only governor, he is the head of
the electric lighting company that lights
the city of Cheyenne, he has a large com
mercial warehouse in the city, he is con
nected prominently with range cattle en
terprises that own Lrge tracts in differ
ent parts of. the territory, and he is inter
ested in “development” companies that
are reclaiming areas under the desert lands
act.
On the opposite side the men who have
been the most severe upon Governor
Warren have continued to be so, not be
cause he wanted a little strip of land that
no one else wanted, but that, haying ac
quired it by unneccessary perjury, he has
unskillfully persisted in atremuting to
prove an awkward job tubes “neat” and
innocent transaction. His enterprise is
not attributed solely to miserly greed.
His ability and public spirit and generosi
ty are conceded. But lie is ambitious as
he is bold. The opinion expressed is
that he seems to be viitual “boss” us
Wyoming, whether it be territory or
a state, and that he is reaching out fur
property and making daring investments
as much tor the political as fur (he money
power it will give him. When Mr.
Cleveland became president, Warrcu was
still governor, having been appointed by
President Arthur in the last week of his
term of office. Il is assumed that there
was some exigency that made it desirable
fur him to be put iu just at the time he
was. Mr. Sparks came in as land com
missioner. His scrutiny of land claims
and his suspension order interfered with
lhe projects of men who were getting
lands rapidly and easily under his prede
cessor. Governor Warren sympathized
with the men who condemned Spaiks.
In lhe second report made by him as
governor under Cleveland, he indulged in
sharp criticism of Mr. Sparks. He ex
pected to be removed. He was removed.
President Cleveland appointed as War
ren’s successor Mr. George W. Baxter of
Cheyenne, a man brought up at West
Point, an officer in the army until he
caught the fever for cattle speculation,
when he resigned and became a successful
“king.” He had some land by purchase.
Adjoining it was some government land.
He desired to use that also. The law
prohibited him from fencing government
lands Su he fenced his own lands bv
what is kuo.wn as “the checkerboard
plan,” so as to include the government
land without entering upon it. He had
not proceeded without advice. His
father. Judge Baxter of the United
States court, advised him that his course
would be I iwful. An agent of the land
office, spurred on. it is believed, by a p<
lltical opponent, reported Governor Bax
ter’s alleged trespass. President Cleve
land removed him at once and appointed
Governor Moonlight Governor Warren
cannot be reasonably accused <»f any
share in this ousting of Governor B ixter,
for he has committed the same offense
himself. The ease had been heard in the
territorial court, and a finding for Gover
nor Warren has been made. It now re
mains for the supreme court of the
United States to say whether the terri-
torial court is correct. If it is upheld. Gov
ernor Baxter will have been sustained and
Governor Warren will be relieved of one
ot the charges laid against him.
Mr. Peck, who made the charges
against Governor Warren, is a New
York man, who was sent out here as a
judge by President Hayes. Governor
Warren and his political friends and op
ponents are agreed in saying that he is
an eoentric man. They all agree, too, in
saying that he is perfectly honest, al
though tne zealous Warren men express
the same opinion when they say they
never heard his integrity questioned. His
letter to the Times procured for him sev
eral very viciously contrived ana brutally
written assaults in newßpa|>cra published
in the territory. He was accused of hav
ing a good ap|>etite, of sleeping late and
of growing old, and the feeling inspired
against him was so strong that it even 1c 1
the editor of the Cheyenne Sun, which
Governor Warren could easily have con
trolled, to reproach him for an infirmity
of sight incidental to his advanced age.
For a man with all the faults of habit
and infirmity which his calumniators
burled at him. be certainly made it ex
tremely lively in Wyoming for Governor
Warren.
Gove) nor Warren is perfectly well
aware of the occasion for what he re
gards as an attack upon him. He be
neves that it came of a desire on the part
of the friends of President Cleveland to
prove that President Harrison, who had
set himself up in the senate as a critic of
Mr. Cleveland’s appointments, had com
mitted a mistake quite as bad as any
attributed to Cleveland, but would not,
like Cleveland, rectify it by the
removal of the man in whose case he had
blundered. It would have occasioned
little surprise in Wyoming if Harrison
had removed Warren. As a matter ot
fact it would not be going too far to say
that the governor was surprised to find
that he was not removed. The statute of
limitations had run against his perjury
case, it is true, but does the president re
gard that as a good defense?
Governor Warren hopes to be the first
senator of the United States from Wyom
ing. When he makes his campaign for elec
tion by the legislature it is probable that
this controversy will be gone all over
again. But it will not defeat him. lie
is popular. The getting of government
land in a country where there arc such
vast areas of which no use can be made
except by men who —like Governor War
ren and Delegate Carey, who hopes tu be
his colleague in the senate —can counnand
the capita) to make it profitable, is not
likely to be regarded as cause for rejection.
When he is in the senate he may be ex
pected to favor measures to turn the con
trol of the government lands over to the
state. He thinks that the sooner the
government gets •id of its lands the bet
ter off it will be. And- so he mav be
looked lor on the “liberal side in all
land matters. B. G. D.

A Dog ah Doorkeeper.
There is a well known dog in Bar
celona. He loves music and goes reg
ularly to the opera of his own accord,
sits upstairs, applauds with the rest of
the auditors at the end if the singing
is good by joyous barks, but is very
angry at interruptions in the middle
of a piece. If there is no opera any
evening he goes off soberly to the
O]x?ra Comique, but is never content
with second best when he can have
the best. This is a good story, though
true, but here is another as true, yet
still better.
An Austrian banker lately went to
Vienna on business. lie arrived in i
the evening, traveling with a large,
handsome dog. The two put up at a
hotel and next morning the gentleman
went out, bidding care to be taken
that ids dog did not stray from the
house. The chambermaid went to
make up the banker’s room. Bruno
was very pleased to see her, wagged
his huge tail, licked her hand and
made friends thoroughly, until, her
business being done, she was about to
leave. Not so. Bruno calmly stretch
ed himself full length before'the door.
He explained, ns perfectly as possible,
that “ho knew his duty.” No one
should leave his master’s room in his
absence. When the girl tried to pull
the door open sufliciently for her to
slip out he growled, showed his teeth,
and finally tried them on her legs.
The woman’s screams brought an
other maid, and yet another, and then
in succession all the waiters. Bruno
was glad to let them all in, but he al
lowed no one out. The room becafne
pretty well crowded and every bell in
the house, meantime, rang, while the
walls echoed cries of “Waiter I” “Wait
er!” Finally, the landlady who kept
the hotel appeared and pushed her way
irately into the room, asking angrily
as she walked in what sort a picnic
they were holding here. Bruno let
her in, too, but not out again—oh, no!
When the lady’s husband appeared
she called to him loudly, for heaven’s
sake to keep outside, to send messen
gers scouring the city for the banker,
and, meantime, to endeavor to pacify
lhe angry customers downstairs.
That Austrian banker was a wel
come man when ho arrived. —Pall
Mall Gazette.
Job printing at the leader office.
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