Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 10 April 1879 — Page 6

Page PDF (9.10 MB)

Back to issue view

And Hot. Iron*—Why George West Was Tossed on the Tufcks of Old Bolivar.

Manager Bailey Sand General Agent Nathans of Barnum's Snow on the Punishment of Wild Beasts.

Mr. George 0. Starr's Belief.

The Keeper at Central Arretted.

uwhat

iii

ELKI'il I NTS

Park

From tne New York Sun.

Mr. George F. Bailev is the manager of P. T. Barnum's Circus Company, and Mr. I. J. Nathans is the general agent. They were found yesterday afternoon in Mr. Barnum's office in Houston street. On the wall over Mr. Bailey's head was a picture of the six Trakene stallions, and on the opposite wall was a life-nize show-bill portrait of "Miss Katie Stokes, the darling equestrienne," done in attractive colors. In Mr. Bailey's hand was an evening news- jlay down at the paper containing Mr. Henry Bergh's de- Tnen he was hound.

nial that a red hot poker had been driven into the trank of Emperor, one of Barnum's elephsr.ts in the Central Park Museum, and an opinion attributed to hiir. (Mr. Bergh) that there ought not to be a zoological collection in the world, since he could see no benefit to humanity, no advantage to art, nor any promotion of science in the confinement of a miscellaneous herd of dumb beasts. Mr. Bailey and Mr. Nathans did not choose either to deny or admit the use by their employee of a red hot poker to subdue Emperor. What they did do was to justify it, provided the elephant was in a "craze" at the time. '•Lrtmetell you," the firmer said

happeni Na George West for the want of a hot iron. 1 bought Bolivar, the finest and largest elephant I had evr seen up to that time, at Zane9ville, Ohio, in 1853. West was his keeper. Bolivar was for a long time very gentle, but every elephant is treacherous. He went with the show to South Carolina. Late one night, while we were travelling, West was riding a little distance behind iiim, not expecting to meet anybody on the road at that hour. The first thing he knew was that Bolivar had caught up a horse on his tusks. From the horse dang.ed one of the little carts usee? in that part ot the country. The driver had tumbled out, but the horse and cart were tossed into a ditch beside the road, where the horse soon bled to death. West hit Bolivar several cuts, and he seemed to yield, byt I said to him, 'George, that elepant will kill you yet.' 1 paid the man $40 for the lots of hiB horse, and went on. "Two or three days afterward, on a* Sunday morning, on the road from Camden to Lumberton, we came to a wooden bridge over a mill race. The millpond lay directly on one side of the bridge. Bolivar approached the bridge, but stopped with a suspicious air before he stepped On the planks, as if doubting the strength of the stiucture. West, who was on a horse just behind him, pushed him a little with his whip, when suddenly Bolivar turned upon him, and catching the horse or. his tusks, tossed horse and rider higher than the eaves cf the mill. Both fell in the mi'.ipond. The horse was got out, but was so badly hurt that 1 ordered him to be knocked in the head. West switm ashore unhaimed. In the mean time the elephant stood wi'b his trunk hanging straight to the ground, as if what hud occurred did not concern him in the least. I warned West to be aware of him, but he said: 'I guess he doesn't mean me.' We then took Bolivai below the mill, and allowed him ti ford the little stream. West got one of the musicians to ride his horse while he started to go on foot. He ga\e the ele phant one or two cuts with a whip and the animal broke into a run. but at a cross-roads near at hand he turned into the wrong road. Forgetting his usual caution, West ran ahead to turn him. No sooner did Bolivar see West in front of him than he made for the man West ran tor a high bank, and would have saved himself before the huge beast could have got under headway, but his foe slipped at the bottom of the bank. The next moment he was dangling in mid-air on the two long tusks. There was a fourteen-rail fence on the other side

the road, but Bolivar moved through it as if he had been made of cobwebs. He did not seem to know where he was going, but kept tossing West up and catchWif

h'm *n the air as he fell. H« ran in

this way about a quarter of a mile. Then West fell to the ground. What more *Bolivar would have done to the lifeless body I don't know. There were two elephant dogs with him, and one, the black one, Tige, I think we called him, went *,¥ and lay right over the bodv—just spread himself out on it. Bolivar looked at the dog half a minute, and then, as if urtwilline to hurt him, turned away and began to Feed about the field. When we ven''"'s tured to approach the body we found that it had been pierced thirteen times by the tusks. West had all his clothes on when he was attacked, but everything had been torn from him but his boots and his shirt, which hang to him only by the neck-band. I sent back to Camden for a lot of rope, and we tried to slip a noose on one of Bolivar's feet, but every time we would get it on. ready to be pulled tight, he would slip out of it or pull it off with his trunk. It was getting late in the afternoon, and as I did not dare to leave him, the dangerous brute, alive in that country, with nearly 1.000 negroes swarming about, worth over $500 apiece, I determined to kill him. So I code back to Camden, where I found «bout thirty young bloods lounging about, dressed in their patent slippers and white socks. They all came out on horseback, at my invitation, for an elephant hunt. There was an old

huildi..g that had formerly been used &* a mill near the pond, and in '.his ine young men took up posi-

Tnen a iiian naired Fletcher towt ltphant up tu within fair gunshot, •nd at a signal (he oung men all fired at hi*e»es. He ASS not even staggered. KaUinu Im trunk, nc ran to the building, an.I threw him*e!t' against it It trembled, but withstood the shock. If you ever want to see a j-ight, look at an ele phant when he's "t^y. More than 200 bullets were fired into hiin. He at last turned, and ran half blinded to a piece of vuKids, the two dogs yet following him. in the .voods he «stood still, and, as it had grown pretty dirk, we left him.

uIn

tre mornitig we returned in greater force, and with some guns of larger calibre We found him yet in the woods, and aimo-t in the same tracks in which he stood the right before. He was shot at as he stood. Then he turned and ran into the millpoud. While he thus sought safety in the water, a slug penetrated to his brain, through his eye, and killed him. "If," Mr. Bailey crntinued, "a red hot iron had been at hand when Bolivar first attacked the horse and cart, he cou'd have been properly punished and cowed into submistion. Then there would have bi-en no iiiore trouble, or if West had had a red hot iron in his hand at the crossroads, he might have been alive to-day. "Now," said Mr. Bailey, "I want to tell you what a red hot iron has done Tweutv years ago, in a theatre in Walnut street, Phiiadtlphia, old Siam killed Kelly, his keeper, and got loose. An alarm was raised, and the militia were summoned out. They came marching up the street with a cannon. One of the circus boys at last got a red-hot poker, and as soon as Siam felt its warmth, lie word of command

Another time out

in Wisconsin, an elephant that Jerry Mabie had charge of while in winter quartern, got ugly and broke loose. They filled bis head and trunk with shot, but it was of no use. Finally one of the boys on the farm where the elephants were kept got a red-hot poker, and the beast was cowed immediately. Another time, while 1 was travtling in the West with a show, an elephant that usually was very gentle suddenly attacked a team that was going along the road, and tossed the wagon and both horses into a ditch. An iron was heated, and in a few minutes she was reduccd to submission Boatswain came from London here a short time ago with a splendid reputa:ion for gentleness, and about the same time we employed an old Englishman, who had all sorts of recom aiendations as un elephant tamer. No sooner had Boatswin set foot in Gilmore's Garden than he struck out at the Englishman and knocked him endways, but he didn't kill Iiim. Charley White got a red-hot iron and cowed him right down. He's been gentle ever since. We have him now. "It is the same way with lion6. At the American Institute in 1871, a lion called Pomp knocked down Pierce, his keeper, with a blow of his paw, just as he was closing a Cage performace at an exhibition. Pierce's shoulder was broken and he lay helpless on the floor of the cage. Tne lion stood between him and tne dooraad looktddown threateningly at him. The boys got a hot iron, and in a few minutes Pierce was safely rescued. Notwithstanding his broken shoulder he reentered the cage soon afterward and regained supremacy over the animal by putting a collar on him, chaining him down, and cowhidirg him. All this could not have been done without the aid of a hot iron. "The real name of the original Van Amburgh was Isaac Newton. He was born up in the Highlands, and took another name when he went into the show business because he didn't want to be confounded with the great mathema tician. He died in Philadelphia Nov. 29, '865. 57 years old. Once when a lion got a grip on his arm in Philadelphia and he lay helpless on the floor, one of the boys grabbed a hot iron that was kept ready, and made the angry bedst let go his hold. "Now you my think," Mr. Bailay continued, "that a hot iron is ctuel. ft is, in fact, the most merciful thing that can be us on an elephant. It is out of question to use a whip when he is ugly. He doesn't feel it. Iron prods are of use in ordinary castfs, but in extreme cases it would be necessary to make wounds so deep that they would not heal in a long time. Even then the prods wouldn't do. On the other hand a mere surface burri is far more effective. When an elepnant has once felt the smart the mere appro ach of the iron is enough to tame him. He dreads it as something mysterious. For a long time afterwards a s'ick painted red is enough to cow him. When we can't drive a iion from one cage to another by poking at him with sticks, it is always enough to put a newspaper in the rear end of the cage and set fire to it. Mr. Bergh ought to remember that an elephant keeper has a mountain of flesh to deal with. Kindness is the rule, but but there can be no mastery over wild beasts without punishment, and no punishment without pain. As to the infliction of extraordinary injury on an unbound elephant with a hot iron that is impo&sible." "Let Mr Bergh," broke in Mr. Nathans, "imagine himself a prisoner approached by a person with a red hot iron in his hand. An elephant does first what Mr. Bergh would do. Mr. B,ergh would probably show fight against a man who would draw a pistol o.. him or who shou'd comq at him with a knife, but against a red-hot iron he is absolutely helpless. "Three years ago I took this very Emperor from a vessel in which he hat! been sent to this country from the Hamburg Zoological Garden, and led him up to the Central Park Museum. From Central Park I took him down and put him on a Fall River line boat. At Fall River I put him on a car, and when he arrived in

Boston, I shut him up in a barn. He had been perfectly gentle through all this handling. In the barn, however, while I and Lewis June were standing in front of him, he threw forward his ears and trunk, and Mr. June and I went flying head over heels twenty feet to the rear. It was quite dark in the barn, however, and we concluded that Emperor was only frightened and not ugly. "Formerly, when elephants became ugly, it was the custom to thrust hooks into their ears, and then, riggiyg pulleys above them, pull on the hooks hntil the

HAUTE

I S E

elephants yielded or the hooks were torn out through their ears. That was far mor* cruel treatment than the present method of subduing. "As to the story that our elephants in Central Fark have not room enough in their quarters to exercise in, the sufficient answer i6 that I have never seen elephants do better in my life than they have done. think they have gained 250 or 300 pounds apiece this winter, and Emperor has grown six or seven inches."

Mr. Nathans and Mr. Bailey thought that Mr. Bergh's objections to all collections of wild animals did not deserve ser ions argument.

Mr. Newman, one of the Central Park keepers, said: "The elephants have sudden fits of rage. It is a very common occurrence for the keepers to be knocked down. The only efficient way of preventing this is to punish the elephant immediately. Clubs are useless. It is the custom to use an iron—not red hot—but hot enough to raise a blister and singe the hair. One day last month Emperor suddenly seized me with his trunk and was dragging me under his feet. My assistant happened to be near. There was not a moment to lose. He seized the poker from the fire, ran at the elephant, and saved my life. Mr. Conklin has forbidden the hot iron to be used, but it was the only instrument at hand at the time. Delay was death. I have been in charge of elephants for nine years, and am accustomed to them. There was Stewart Craven, an old circus man, who had an elephant named Romeo, who was very cross, and Craven would take a shot gun and fire charge after charge into the brute's trunk. It did the elephant no particular harm, and when it died seven pounds of shot were taken from its trunk. It would b® impossible to get a hot iron into an elephant's trunk unless it submitted. Ten men could not hold the trunk."

Mr George O. Starr of Barnum's circus, said:

4So

far as the burning of Emperor's trunk is concerned, I beiieve that it was done, but that it was not cruelty to use the red-hot iron. The statement in the Sun I have every reason to believe to be correct. The use ot the hot iron is common when punishment is required in any zoological collection. As to the Superintendent of Mr. Bergh's society making acriti^l examination of the elephants at the Park, I will say that I was present when he called, and when the keeper requested him to examine them he proceeded to do so at the very respectful distance of twenty feet, which in my judgment was very wise on his part. This being the case I would be somewhat unwilling to accept the complete accuracy of Mr. Bergh's statement." "I don't suppose tint the keepers drove a red-hot poker eighteen or twenty inches up the elephant's trunk. That would nave been impossible. The burn was probably a slight one and long ere this healed up."

Officer Lambert of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals yesterday arrested William Newman, a keeper ol thelblephants at Central Park, on a warrant sworn out by Jacob Senn of 2S9 Bowery. Mr. Senn's affidavit said that, "On Jan iS last, Newman did torture and torment a certain living animal, to wit, an elephant, confined at Central Park, by thrusting a sharp-pointed hay fork into its bodv, piercing the flesh, and also did thrust a red-hot bar of iron toward the mouth of the «-lephant, thereby burning the flesh, and did also burn said elephant on its hind legs, v. hich caused the animal unjustifiable physical pain."

Mr. Newman was arraigned in the Forty-seventh street Police Court, before Justice Kasmire.

Mr. Senn could not speak a word of English, and made himself understood through an interpreter. He said he had been a witness ot the animals ill-treat-ment.

Mr. Newman is a muscular, goodnatured looking man. He said that it was often necessary to treat the elephants harshly when they became unruly. O.i the day mentioned in the complaint he was not with the elephants at all.

Mr. William A. Conklin of 255 East Sixty-first street, the superintendent of the menagerie, said that unless insubordination on the part of the elephants was promptly suppressed, they would kill their keepers.

Iji support of this remark, Mr. White, another keeper, showed his arm so broken as to be almost useless.

Justice Kesmireheld Newman in $500 bail for trial at the Special Sessions. Mr. Conklin furnished the bail.

Mi. Senn first wrote a letter to Mr. Bergh, informing him of what he had seen. Mr. Bergh investigated the case, and said that he was satisfied there was not sufficient cause for complaint. Mr. Senn persistently reiterated his charge and made an affidavit.

A Medicine Chest for 25 Cents Perhaps no one medicine Is s» universally required by everybody as a good cathart.pe SWAYNE'S TAB SAKSAPARILLA PILLS are prepared expressly to meet this necessity They are mild in their operation, produce no griping, and are truly a valuable purgative aperient, anti-biliom and cathartio medicine. They stimulate the liver to healthy aetion, cleanse the stomach and bowels of all impurities. Curing sick and ncrvons headache, dyspepsia or indigestion bilious or intermittent, remittent ana congestive feveis, .languor, drowsiness, aching pains in the back, bead, slight chills, with lushes ot heat, lemale irregularities, and for A bWibus and cost'V8 habit, no medicine is so prompt and effectual as DK. SWAYNI'S TAR AND SAKSAPARILLA PILLS* it your Jruggistor store keeper has not got them, or trill not procure them for you. we will forward them by mall on receipt of price, in __

Sold by Bnntin A Armstrong Terre Haute.

When the confederate army was on its shortest rations, General Lee remonstrated one day with a straggler for eating green persimmons, and asked him if he did not know that they were unfit for food. I'm not eating them for food, General," replied the man, "but for the sake of drawing my stomach up to fit my rations."

rnD2^8lEI!, CAHVASrUils',?s,w best thing on Barth. V? ill prove It or forfeit $1* A lire-long situation Address MiuUTSB A CO., 197 JTeorth Ava. N. York

Next week, special sale of carpets at Foster Brothers'.

WEEKLY

GAZETTE.

ISCELLANEOUS ADVERTISEMENTS

OH! MY BACK!

Hunt'* Remedy, The '-real Kidney Jledi* eln«, cures

C*«ID»

In the Baclr. Side or Loins, and all Diseases of the Ktdnpys, Blatl-er anil Urinary orgtns, uiojsy, Gravel, Diabetes,

Brlght's Disease of the Kidney's, lte entlon or Incontinence of Uria*, Vervom Diseases Female Weaknesi, ana Excesses 111'NT'S

HJIEt» If jir prepared EXFMESiiLV for these diseases. From Rev. E. tt. Taylor, D. D. Pastor First Baptist Church.

Providence, R. I.. Jan. 8,1*79.

I can testify to the virtue of HUNT'S REMEDY in Kidney Diseases Irom actual trial, having been mach benefited by Us use.

K. 6. TATLOR.

Providence, R. I., Aug. 10, 1878.

WM. E.CLABKI,—DearS r: Having witnessed the wonderfal effects of HUNT'S REMFDY in my own case, and in a ureal number tif others, I recommend it to all afflicted with Kidney Diseases or Dropsy, Those afflicted by dfseaso should secure the medicine which will cure in the shortest possible time. HUNT'S REMEDY will do this.

Respectfully yours, E. R. JJAWLKR, t5 tJvcrSt. MINI'S EJ*1 ED Is purely Vegetable, and is used bv the advice of Physicians It his ftood the test of time tor SO

'ixiui ji purciy

HUNT'S

years, aad tne utmost reliance' may be placed in it, One trial wil)| convince you.

REMEDY

Sen 1 for Pam-| phlet to CLARK, PROVIDENCE, R. 1.

Sold bv all Druggists.

THE GREAT ENGLISH REMEDY GRAV'S SPECIFIC MEDICINE

1 PADE MARK.*s especially fRACE recommended as an unfalling cure for^

S I A W I A N S 8 SPKR HATOaRHEA, IMPOTKMCY, and all diseases that

Before TakiigMto-u« uteTi&kiiM on Self Abn'e as LOHSor MKMOKY, UNIVERSAL LASSITUDE, PAIN IM THE BACK, DIVNKSC OF VISION, PREMATURE OLD AGE, and many other disoases that lead to insanity, Consumption, and a Premature Grave, all ot

Speci

tudynndmany years of experience in treating these special diseases. Full particulars In our pamphlets, which we da9ire to »end by mail to every one.

The Specific Medicine sold by all drugcists at fl per package, JT six packages for $5, or will be seat by mail receipt of the money, bv addressing

'.A v. The Gray Medietas Co.

No. 10 Mechanic's Block, Detroit, Mich Sold in Terre Haute. Ind.,at wholesale and retail by Gulick A Berry, Wholesale agents.

Sol' at retail by Grooves & Lowry, Cook ft Be'l, W. E. McGrew St Co.. and by responsible druggists

DR: RICE

il Court Place, LOUISVILLE, KY.,

A TveuUrty educated and loraJly qualified physician and tb »ouuoc««fui, a« hla pnustfce will P1"®*® ___

£rs&S£Lvi3f:

Spermatid\-rhe» aad Impotency,

tumult

of MIR-CLBUM LA T«UIU, MXU*I MCMSM in iu-

tur«r roars, »r »th«r cause*, aud proUuclog mneof ibe folrions, (nigM tntii' pwiar c(f«cl«: rousDoss. „,01 br drwu). DlmnnM of Mfclit, Defcotlr. Hmorr. PhjlinalUeear, HlmiiWa on Knee. Aftraion hi

Confutes *r ldu«,

•SERMON S Ef!

BPrice $2.00|YOI

cent8

currency or postage stain oox, or five boxes for $1. Or. Swayne Son, No. 830 North Sixth street, Philadelphia.

ddress letters,

SOCIMT•fFunulrJ,

la—

of Powtr, *«.. rmdcr.nf l_..._ fhAmnvniv snii nsFDll*

aimm quteMj »••».

It Mtf-*rideot that kphj ilctmo wbo pajiipooulyttootw i* ft oerula CIM«of di»eu«i, Mid treating tbounnda tono&1W. Mqnlrw 1 rami skill. Phy«kiU»a knowta* thU fict often rwtnmiid Hrnu to my e»r». Wko» It 1» lneonvtntfot rife It tho «lty for trwtaooW modletae* bo wot pmatoly *od »fMy by moll or cxproM anywhore.

Li-traM

Cores Guaranteed in all Cases *%naulutfwa Mnoaally or by Mtor and InTitea. CharfM roaioaabl* and eorrosjwndonoo itrkuy gonHdoaliM

PRIVATE COUNSELOR Of MO pan*, to any addrtM, woaroty noted, for thlrt)

001

ern». Should bo read by all. Addnn a»«ro OflloohonrsfroiaSA.U. toSP. Jt Budaya, 1 to 1

if.

irlPII

CLIFFORD'S

FEBR1FUCE

OtJREI.

ERADICATES AIX MAT.AHTAf»! ptwiASTJl ftom tha SYSTEM Jt G. RICHARDSON, Prop.. I jrltor Sale by A11 Probsts. ST. LOUfS* I

Agents Wanted

kiinmU

SELL

13 Delivered in tbe Brookyn Tabernacle, are hin bast efforts In his earnest gressivo and uncomromlainjr warfare npon he sin and vice of New

York City. On* large octavo volume or 526

pages 16 illustrations. Don't waste your time upon slow selling books, but senu at •oce for full particulars of this, the fastest selling book now offered to Agents, or to §avo time send 76 cents for canvassing book and state your cbotce ot township. Address. FOKNHEE & !HeHIKlN 188 West Fifth Street. Cincinnati, O.

We have also the best and cheapest line of Family Bibles in ike market. Send for terms ot agencv.

Received by Express to-day, 50 Piece* of Silks, incladiog Black Gro6rala, &iimner [aad Trimning Silks. A full line of Brocaded Silk in all Colors very cheap. J. F. JAURIET 4 CO.

Cor. Fifth aad Main.

Csmell—10trimming.canWonder.

VTPP You make nXtllXi.—moaey by selling •ur Sterling Chemical Wicks— Never needs No smoke •r cent* each, 3 for 28

cents. Send stamp for catalogue of tnl Inventions, staplo and fancy goods. Parsons, Foster* Co.. 135Clark St., Chieago.

ADMINISTBATOK'Sbeen

NOTICE OF AP

POINTMENT.

The andersigned )as appointed administrator or the estate ef Benjamin F. Clark, decease 1. The estate is snppoved to be solvent ISAAC N. PIERCE,

Administrator.

MSA M. BLACK. EDWIN W. LACKS

BLACK ft BLACK,

Attorneys-At-Law,

USX Okie street Terre Haate, Ind.

KaNSAS TO THE FRONT

Kansas Pacific Railway

Read all yo.i can gather about Kansas, and when you decide to start, be sure and start right by locating along the KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY. T. F. OA.KES,

3DOXT

LiSDS1! LANDS! LEAD VILLE!

Tbe Leading Wheat State in the Uniou in 1878, and the

v'.'

Fourth Corn State—The Great Kansas Harvest 'of 1878 was sold for the "Golden

:*f",

Belt,"

The celebrated Grain Belt of country, in the limestone section of Central Kansas, traversed bj the Kansas Pacific.'

The following statements are taken from the report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for 1878: aA||L||r AT I Kansas rises' from WnLn I the Eleventh Wheat State in 1S77 to the First Wheat State in the Union in 187S, producing 26,518,958 bushels winter wheat, and 5,796403 ishels spring wheat total,

32,315,361

Bushels Wheat, with only one-eighth of the State under cultivation. The organized counties lying in the Golden Wheat Belt of the Kansas Pacific produced 13,335.334 bushela, °r over 41 per cent, and, including unreporting counties, fully 14,000,000 bufhels, or 45 per cent, of the entire yield of Wheat in the State, averaging 25 bushels to the acre, while the average for '.he State *as 17 bushels per acre. PflDM I Kansas the Fourth Corn OUllll State in the Union in 1878, predured 89,324.971 bushels of Corn. Of which •he Golden Grain Belt counties produced 27,399,055 bushels, or 41 per cent, nearly one-third of the entire yield of the State, with an equally grand showing in all other departments of agriculture.

The foregoing facts show conclusively whjr 29 per cent of the increase in population in the State during the past four years and 40 per cent of the increase in population during the past year and 43 per cent of the increased acreage of wheat in the State in 187S, belonged to the "Golden Belt."

A Farm for Everybody.—62 500 farms —5,000,000 acres—for sale by Kansas Pacific—the best land in America, at from $2 to $6 per acre, one-quarter off for cash, or on 6 or 11 yeais credit at 7 per cent interest. It don't take much money to buy a farm on the Kansas Pacific $26 to $80 will secure 80 acres on credit, or $120 to $360 in cash will buy it outright.

Send to S. J. Gilmore, Land Commissioner, Salina. Kas., for the "Kansas Pa cific Homestead," a publication which tells about Lands, Homesteads, Pre-emp£ tion, Soil, Climute, Products, Stock raiding, Schools, Wages, Land Explorers' Tickets, Rates, etc. It is mailed free to all applicants.

Gen'l Superintendent.

KANSAS? CITY, MO.

iiiSftM*

4 vv.

Remember the coner, 1

A RICH OPENING.

Leadville, Colorado.—The vast deposits of carbonates of stives at Leadyille, so many miles in extent, are conceded to be the richest ever discovered. They lay in horizontal beds, as coal or gravel, from a to ten feet thick and from 8 to too feet below the surface, are mined with aid ef a pick and shovel, no blasting or deep, expensive shafts being required, as it the case with the narrow, vertical veins of hard silver quartz heretofore found, muscle, energy and daily bread being the only requisites.

The Best Way Thers.—At Kansas City or Leavenworth take the Kansas Pacific R'y to Denver, the Denver, South Park & Pacific R. R. to Webster, 70 miles west of Denver, Ihencc the South Park daily stages 28 mites to Fairplay, 42 miles to Leadville. This, the short line, saves 100 miles staging. Emigrants on Kansas Pacific R'y are carried on Fast Express Passenger Trai.is. Rates as low as by any other line.

Colorado.—The great

fSknitarium

and

Pleasure Resort of America elevated above the influence of miasma, with its pure, tonic and exhiliarating atmosphere, its numerous mineral springs, immense deposits of gold and silver and the grandeur, extent and variety of its scenery, offers unequalled attractions for the Pleasure Seeker, Scientist, Artist, Capitalist, the Invalid, the Overworked and the gold and silver seekers.

Golden Belt Route.—The Kansas Pacific R'y is the pnly line running entire trains equipped with Pullman Sleeping Palaces and elegant Day and Second Class Coaches to Denver without change of either passengers, baggage or mails. This being the short line and quickest, is therefore the cheapest and best route in every respect.

Free.—Send to P. B. Groat, Genl Pass. Agt. Kansas Pacific R'y. Kansa City, Mo., for the new "Colorado Tourrf ist."' for 1879, the new -'Colorado Miner, an 1879 Guide to Leadville," illustrated' with the best map published. Enclose postage stamp.

P. B. GOAT, Gen. Pass. Agent.

KANSAS CITY, MO.

1:. coo 1 )Ks & co.

DEALERS IN

Southwest Cor., Seventh and Hulman Sts.

Garden City Clipper, Bar-Breaking and Wrought. Frame Sulky Plows. The highly celebrated Dayton Champion Sulky and Walking Plows, together with the Gold Basis Timber Plow, (Hoo?ier Pattern), Champion, and Climax, Two-Horse Corn Planters, Campbell and I. & L. Corn Drills. The well known Brown Cultivator, the Carter and Moline-Tonguelest Cultivators, Self-Dumping and Hand! Lever Horse Hay Rakes, Tiffin Revolving Rakes, Double Shovels and Corn Plows of Different Styles, Rolling Coulters, in fact a full and well selected stock of all kinds of Agricultural Implements.

Just Opposite the Idaho Gftcery.

O E S W E A & O

DEALERS IN ALL KINDS OF

Ohio St., East Side of Public Square.

.t Open and Top Buggies, Spring and Farm Wagons. The Celebrated Hughes Sulkey Plow. The Hamilton, Fort Wayne, and Buckeye Breaking Plow, for General Purposes. The Canton, Clipper, and Other Stubble Plows. A full stock of One-Horse Plows, both Right and Left Hand, Double-Shovels, Iron and Wood Beams, Single Shorel Plows. The Buckeye and Osbourn Self-Binding Harvester. The Buckeye Table Rake, Dropper and Mower. The Wheeler Self Rake, Dropper and Mower.

X2Mes2xi33.gr ^£ach.lnes,

The Russell, J. Q. Case, and Springfield, Pitta, with steam or horse power. .•••••Tbe Taylor and other first-class Sulkey Hay Rakes.

We would call the attention of Farmer* especially to our Bar Plow Cultivator. WA lull stock of Repairs always on hand for Machines, either Reapers or Threshers sold by us.

Farmers are most cordially invited to tall and examine our stock before purchasing. All af wr |Mds are Felly Warraated.

"X FOZSO-EX XO O-A-X^JL,