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BARD TOM BBLLION . i - . ., ... According to Stories Told by Old , Express Messengers. rsxcitmoss against bcsesst. Xatf Tare Asa Hi ' tlM Itaa.-A R.14 Cf That nm. Cssa4 fey IwtUk aTaslas In Bal- ami nw vsn aiwaw aa "in wasr a silver brlek against stress dollar that you never beard of a man who was abl to steal a bar of bullion and vet away with It without capture," aald Ja Canyers, a messenger of tK r1"sn x- CRARLErriEBSO. pre company, running between Chicago and Omaha, at a meeting of several old tine express messengers. Jsks ha aeen 83 yean of service with se giees lorweraing concerns and li one of the veteran bullion carrier of the United (5 a tea. 4fe hat carried gold and silver encas sumcient to replace the famous good intentions pavement of a place that shall be nameless here. "And yet, " he says, " I saver let one slip ont of my bands. "The nearest approach to anything of the kind," coti tinned the veteran, "was one night when, near Marshalltown, I thought 1 heard a peculiar noise overhead. The train was rushing alone- at a terrific irnnrrL talt above the racket made by the wheels tsere came occasional sounds that con. vlneed me that some one was sliding along uo roci m im car. I .posing up I dissev ered, pressed against the a-lasa of one of the deck windows, a human face with eyes trained os three bars of silver ranged along toe mrwara end or tbe car. million Is not placed in one position In ear. We scatter it here and there so that tbe weight will not test on one side of the ear or over one truck. It so happened that the fallow could see the three bars In the corner, and It aft erward developed that bo was figuring on getting possession of one or more or them. At present market price a silver pig Is wonn auoui snuu. "When the train atotmed. I called braketnan, and we went after the fellow evernead. We Induced him to climb down, and the brakeman caught him by the foot. Suddenly, without giving us an inkllnar of his Intention, he Jprked bil foot out of the boot, and, leaping from the opposite side of tbe cur, he ran like a whitehead. In tbe boot, however, had been secreted an object wrappca in ciiamoia sain. It waa pulled out when the foot was so hurriedly extri cated. It was a pair of bits and a small saw. The man had evidently provided himself with a brace, and with the tools had intended to cut a bole in tbe and of the car near the sliver bullion-. - He could have easily lowered himself on the forward platform and made the opening between Me regular stops of tbe train. He evident ly figured that the brinks could be raked out and then probably thrown from the train near a stopping place, from which tbe thief could go bock and pick them tip or accrete mem until opportunity to dls pose of them offered Itself." While present shipments of silver bullion are small as compared with other days. tbe old timers tell of heavy cargoes of the white metal handled by them. While a bar is rarely missed, tbe value of the "freight" requires care and attention only sesond in importance to the handling of coin and currency. A messenger carefully counts the bars at least twice when it is taken Into the car. People who stand around are naturally curious andaskvjues tkms at the rate of a hundred in a second. Others want to feel it and rbbthet fingers ever the surfaces, while there are still oth en who would be willing to give no a dol lay for the poor privilege of lugging an 80 pound pig snout the platform. Gold bullion is never er, posed to view, a sail at transfer mlnta. Tha turn, nf mH . Mia mmimhtM kpa amsnMt nn In mhim a ehamoUsktn and are stowed away in the stationery safe In the ear, which oan be opened only at certain points. There are sever more than live or sis bars of gold In S shipment, but few of these are required to represent value of 9100,000. Soma of them weigh 110 pounds, others 160, while they run down to small bricks weighing sly SS pounds. At transfer stations they are placed In steel cheats snd trucked from one train to another seamy guarded, "I used to think It grand thing to be pal in charge of a cargo of ban ton," said Charley Piano n, another naeaa she Chicago and Northwestern vaicago ana umana. -a was nea a ooy itipK ai niuwr, u a is WHwrHwa w the Illinois Central depot, look into the ears under packages In which I'd catch a glimpse nf what 1 had been told was pure , silver. Then I'd look up at the messenger in nu overalls and gingham Blouse and amy t 'My. what It must be to be a messes gar and have ail tha stuff In charge! Guess 111 be a messenger.' And here lam . la lumpers myself. "Bat there waa one time when I wished Pd encase) another business.. One night warn i naa a turn ma of now gold and sil . vs? bsllloa there came a sharp, short blast frets the eagiaeer, and I kj bannering at the door, and 1 recognised the voice of the ootMuctor. " 'Look oat for yoar valuables!' he yaU eat- 'We're golag to be held apt' . - "And right then I was BUed with a ssav i ouy to as prairie, wl lasoppossa to steps between a banal with a 44 caliber revolver and the rajtoaa) freight of an express company. "Word cam te a that the water tank a Tall, U., had been set oa Are and that aria of outlaws bad stolen tbe hand ear ssd were making their way to rvtheassrwear. I baajan to think that -1 mm aliost to reallrs soano at ary boyish THE AKOUq atJlQDAra llnCiXrd.- 1CS7. N- J. reams. I barricaded the doors and threw up breastworks of all the heaw fretaht is sight and waited. But I didn't lose a brick that night. The Northwestern people go out a switch engine and gave the ha no car gang a chase for their lives. The whole outfit was captured, and the scare came to an end." "I agree with my friend Jaka. here." aald William D. Heath, an III! noli Central BieascBgcr, "that It is almost Impossible to lose a bar of bullion. While I waa run ning on the Fort Wayne between Pittsburg and Chicago I had a presentiment one night that something was going to happen to ma or to my car or to both. Tsavsddest thing about the Incident was that VePher eon, the conductor, and Tony Kelker, the engineer, both had the same fabling. To such an extent did it take holder ame that the baggage master told me W"Sfagmy safe into his car and stay in there with him. I bad some bullion with me, but I fastened up tbe doors and worked the run from the baggage oar. "That night a half awake brakeman threw a switch and ran our train, which was making 48 miles an hour, into a heavy freight train. The fireman was killed out right, and poor Kelker died of his Injuries. My car was splintered into kindling wood, the freight being compressed into a shape less mass. The pigs were in the mix up, that took two days to separate, but every one was found, though scattered over a space two car lengths long. I might enu merate any number of wrecks in which the pigs have been badly used, but they always turn op." - Some of the smelter people do not agree with the messengers in the idea that silver bullion Is not lost or stolen in transit. A gentleman connected with a Chicago con cern says that every now and then he reads In the papers an advertisement in which a bar of such and such a number and weight Is advertised as lost or stolen. All sliver bar pre numbered consecutively, and the weight down to the grain is stamped there on. The same person says that recently a wagon loaded with silver bullion disap peared in London.- The wagon, horses, driver, bullion and all vanished as if they had been swallowed by tho earth, and all the sleuths of Scotland Yard failed to get a trace of the outfit. SHE BIT HIS FINGER OFF. Fate of a Thag Who Tried to Hold a Womaa's Tongue. Miss Evelyn M. Staat, a- comely and modest young schoolteacher of Chicago, has recently attained unpleasant notoriety In the Windy City by biting off the finger of a thug who held her up and attempted I MISS EVELTH M. STAAT. to steal her pockctbook. Miss Staat saved her pockctbook, but says she would rather have lost it if she had foreseen the fame she would get by her plucky resistance. As Ml Staat was walking on Park av enue early in the evening she was over taken by two men, one of whom tjirew one arm about her waist and placed his other hand over her mouth, while his com panion attempted to search her nocketa. Tbe man who held her wore a heavy wool en glove on the hand he held over her mouth, almost choking the young woman. sho attempted to scream, and the man tried to hold her tonirue with his flnirara. Miss Staat closed her teeth on the thus'a finger and severed it. The pain caused the roan to strike her a savage blow in the face with the disengaged hand, knocking her uown. i ne young woman screamed, and ncr assailants Lea. THE BARKING WOMAN. A Malady Bcsemhllag Hydrophobia Caved by Hypaotism. Laura Bozeman, who was known at the California insane asylum as "the barking woman." has been cured by tho cower of Hypnotism nen a child. Miss Bozeman was bitten on the leg by a dog. The wound neaiea up, ami she apparently recovered from its effects. Two years ago, while she was sick she was attacked by a strange sort of malady, which seemed to be the re sult of the bite, but which was not hydro phobia. The girl lay on her bed and wmt tkmn.i. all the actions of a dog that a human being could go through yelping, barking, whin ing, Inpping liquids, licking the hand that lonnica ncr, eating raw meat, snapping, snarling and growling. Finally it was de cided that the peculiar actions wero due to BTrilOTUlKa TBI BARKWS WOMAH. the attack of the dog. . Tbe animal's name was Prince, and she would answer to that same. Miss Boceman was sent to the state asy lum, where she Improved somewhat, but did not get well. fir. Sanderson of the Institution finally tried hypnotism. After two or three attempts, she was pot to sleep. Tho "suggestion" was made to her that she eonld sot do any of those things which she had been in tbe habit of doing, and, try as she would, she could sot whine, bark or imitate the dog is any way. After the first attempt the girl was much better. The second experiment waa even mare successful, and tbe third and fourth completed the cure. naagsts at False Teeth. The recent death of a man In St Bar tholomew's hospital, in London, frost hemorrhage caused by swallowing an ar tificial tooth baa again started tbe med ical fxaternlty to consider the danger from such a source. There have been nu marouscaacsof deaths from such causes is Take Along Enough to Your Return Fare. 81GE ADYICE FK0I A PA WXSSQXEX laaegaisllia h FaralsssssBlsfcatasw Far tha Three BaM gfcowe Fawav "" Bvery where Dels a Big Baal ' aaas la These Hard Tunes. . "In my opinion the amount of business iasa by s city's pawnshops la as unfailing Index to the condition of the times,'' said a Washington pawnbroker to a Post re porter the other day. "In other words. When we are prosperous the world In gen eral and tbe inhabitants thereof are decid edly nnprosperoua. "All of ns in Washington have been do ing good deal more than moderately well since the winter set In. . Washington does not, of course, feel tbe grinding weight of the hard times anything like as much as it Is felt in the large commercial and Indus trial cities. I have some recent letters from friends of mine, engaged In pawn- broking in New York and other large cines, stating that they positively have sot loom in their establishments for the stuff that is offered in pledge to them, and that they are being compelled to rent store rooms for the great heaps of articles they are taking over their counters. Such a state of things speaks ill for the condition of the times in those cities. ' "I think I can fairly say that in an of the quarter of a century in which I have been engaged In the pawn broking business In Washington I have never seen It so flourishing as It has been during the past six months. "All of this extra business, however, has not come from tbe people who live in Washington. No, the boom in the loan business here has been created almost en tirely by visitors from other porta of the oountry, chiefly sporting people. "When times are first rate, ihe loan toes of Washington deal chiefly in jewelry watches, rings, brooches, bracelets and that kind of superfluous stuff which peo ple feel that they can get along without tor a time. Travelers strike Washington, Rod themselves without funds for the time, and unhesitatingly soak some bit of Jew elry that they can do without until they get on their financial legs again. But when times nro hard the dress suits and sverooats and more necessary articles be gin to show up. "You would be surmised at the stransa things that sometimes find their way to a pawnsnop. a nave heard of a man in Chi oagowhowas compelled to pawn his wood en leg, and pf another impecunious unfor tunate who ''soaked' his artificial eve. "All of as in Washington make s big cmng ox icarouna an inauguration period. I have sever ceased to wonder at the 1st- PAWNED ins WOODES LEG. beoility of the hundreds, I might say the thousands, of men and women who come to Washington to see an Inauguration, and who, when they start, appear to have so sort of Idea that they'll ever want to get borne again. It's an actual fact that there are a number of people who travel long distances to be in Washington on March 4 in an inauguration year who know, when they set eut on the journey, that they haven't enough money to pay their trans portation back to their homes. Thev're a heedless kind of folk, and there are lots of women nice women among them. I'd like to throw an X ray Into some of their skulls Just for tbe fun of the thing. Well. such people all land in the nawnshnns to raise enough money ofi their superfluous jeweiry or apparei w ouj mem railroad ticket. . "Then there are thousands of men who come to Washington for an Inauguration who get themselves mixed np in the whirl and vortex of rum and various other sorts of imbecile deviltry and bto 'flat broke. Those who are lucky enodgh to be able to hang on, through their joyous delirium, to their jewelry and a good many of "em don't, for an inauguration is a fat time for the boys with light fingers 4urn up here a few days after Inauguration day, when a lurcisn Datb has boiled it all out of 'em. and with woebegone faces plunk down tnetr watches and rines. "I took in over 2,000 watches and about i,5U0 men a rings last Inauguration time, ana, to my sorrow, about nine-tenths of them were redeemed within two weeks, for, you see, the people who patronize us during tbe inauguration days are folks who are all solid and on the dead level when they are at their homes, and when a man turns up at his home, after being at an Inauguration, without his watch or ring he hustles to get it out Immediately, lest Ms wife, should notice that there is vnncuiing missing about his make up. a had a lot of fun here during the Christian Endeavor convention. I suppose I'll have to whisper it, but It's a fact that all of us raked off a tidy sum of Interest on that occasion. A considerable number w tne young men who attended tbe con vention from distant cities without taking the precautions to buy themselves round trip tickets discovered upon getting here that they had done a little miscalculating as to the cost of the thing. Well, when It was aU over, they had to get home some eld way, and they found themselves finan cially unequal to the job." oamfeMcs la Italy. According to an Italian statistician, hom icides nra most frequent in Sicily (M.M for every 100,000 inhabitants), and after Sicily are Calabria, 25. 97 ; Sardinia, Sa.07, and Campania, B.SA In northern and Is tsae part of central Italy bomicidca are Brach fewer, sinking la Lombardy to 8.28, taVeoetia to 1.41, in Piedmont to aVM cndtoTsawsy tolTt, v A MEXICAN NEW.wdMAN. i Is s Thsrewahlr Capable aad There, an many things of interest Jong the line of railroad between Pa ct) la and Qaxactfc Mexico, bat few at tract, the northern traveler more thas tbe station agent at EUa. This is Coa ch Biases, yosng woman with hotv I brown, eyes and a great sua of wavy black bale Ella, her post at, duty, ia tbe place where tho Indiana flock from the mountains for 100 milea arcfhnd for their annual feasts, and also tbe shipping point for the big haciendas is tbe fertile valleys among these same mountains. When the train stops at Etla in tbe ' dark, a young Woman in White, for Senorita Concha dresses to match bar surname, stands at the doof of the express car, lantern in hand, checking the packages on the big receipt book. When the freight train stopa. ihe flits in and oaf of the long line of cars. tolling the brakemen what to take snd what to leave.. She goes from one esd of the train to tbe other, seeing that dq mis takes are made. The bareheaded girl in s whfte dress ia full cf business. She wastes no time on empty words. Tbe trainmen respect her. She does every thing about the station but handle the baggage. There' are plenty of stoat Mexicans of the other sex banging about for that work; Concha Biases is eo well esteemed by the management to the road that she bae been twice promoted, until now she has one of tbe most important stations under ber care. She does all the tele graphing, besides attending to the re ceiving and shipping of freight It was ber knowledge of telegraphing that got the young woman ber first recognition. Her father snd two brothers were oper ators. ; She learned to nse the key. A station was given to ber where then was not mnch to do besides the tele graphing. . Ber aptitude for railroad work'attracted the attention of General Manager Morcom, and tbe promotion followed Concha Bianca lives in the station. Her mother keeps house for ber, snd s younger sister sits at tbe tele graph table learning the vocation of tbe new woman in Mexico. The conductors have got in the Way of pointing ont to travelers Senorita Concha along with tbe ruins of the ancient city on the mountain top, tbe site whero the battle of Tehuacan was fought, the hieroglyph ios on thu cliff at (be entrance to Bio Salads canyon abd other objects of in terest Chicago Chronicle, On Mr. B. B. Groove, merchant, of Chilhowle, Vs., certifies that be bsd consumption, was friven up to die. ought stl medical treatment that money conld procure, tried all cough remedies that bo eonld bear of. bat got no relief; spent many nights sit ting np tn s chair; was induced to try Dr, King's New Discovery, snd was enred by the nse of two bottles. For past three jesrsLJsas been a t- 'eoaiog to business, and ssjs Dr KlngVNew Discovery is the grand est remedy ever made, ss it has done to tnuch for him snd slso for others in bis community. Dr. King New ui sco very is guaranteed for Coughs, Colds snd Consumption. It don't fall. 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