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LIFE of a western bad man.
THRILLING \DVENTITIBS OF JOHSI
WESLEY HARDIN.
liJlloii a Sheri* to Prevent Him
from Serving? a Warrant—Eiraped
nod Turned l'p in* Gainesville. Fin.,
Where He Killed One or Two Ne
groes Who Were Trying to Arrest
Him—Hia Final Extermination by
ii ’'inn He Threatened to Kill.
From the Chicago Tribune.
Historian* have traced the origin and
g on < sis of the desperado of the American
o, r os a type, novelists and story
tvrhera have exploited him in fiction,
newspaper writers have chronicled with
L, or less accuracy his bloody and ex
ftiaordinary deede, exaggerating his
a vements, glorifying his meanness
a . palliating his crimes. And yet the
i iii:, about him, framed as it is with the
r- ii growth and civilization of the west
ern and southwestern states and terri
tory is so much a part of present-<ioy
atta rs, so near to the annals of every
si ,■ . county and town west of the Mis
sissipi river, that its telling needs no
fa coloring, no deviation from the
ti :tii, no straining heroics, to make it
joi of the most fascinating as well as in
-541 u five chapters in the history of the
Sou rawest and West.
The real “bad man” of the West has no
p, a in criminal annals. He and the law
f. dom came together. He was not a
u n robber, a highwayman nor a pro
fessional thief. To his contemporaries he
mis best known as a good man—with a
gun. Always he was a gambler, some
times drunkard, and in few cases he de
k ended to the strenuous outlawry of cat-
He rustling. Fighting was both a pastime
i A a passion with him, and he asked
bo better sport, no more welcome un<ler
taking. than the chance to get into a gun
*Wrr with some redoubtable frontiersman
of his own stripe whose reputation with
a pistol or rifle made him a rival and a
worthy antagonist.
This being both the business and the
P - ;re of his usualy nomadic life, it is
n range that he seldom failed to find
hi iost a better man and paid the penalty
of his deeds.
John Wesley Hardin, whose death at
the hands of Constable John Sellman, of
F Paso, is yet within the memory of
newspaper readers, affords a striking type
of the border bad man both in the story
o: his life and in the manner of his death.
Hr was the son of a Baptist preacher, but
in spite of his home advantages he grew
to be an unruly, shiftless and skulking
number of the community before he was
;; tars old. He was born in 1851 near the
town of Comanche. Tex., and began his
wild career before he was Vi years old by
ritling to death the only two horses his
father had.
He refused to go to school, was caught
• ■ rating at cards when he was 15 years
oi<l and in the same year put out the eye
of a neighbor’s son in a quarrel over a
cock tight. Preacher Hardin died soon af
terward. and it is a tradition in Coman
rhp c ounty that he died of a broken heart
ever the wickednes of his favorite son.
In 1872, being 21 yearn old. John Wesley,
or “Wee.’ Hardin established himself on
, e part of his father’s farm and began to
assemble about his cabin a com
pany of the wildest young
men in the county. None of
m had means; none of them seemed to
■*ork, and yet after a few months of mid
night rides into adjoining counties their
corrals were crowded with cattle and the
townsfolk of Comanche began to fear
or i suspect Hardin and his gang. Not sat
i-fied with ranch solitude and led by Wes
Hardin, the desperadoes soon began to
make midnight raids upon the town. It
bn, am-* their practice to gallop into Main
str* > ; -wry night at 8:00 o’clock, “shoot
up" the stores, carry off what they wanted
| in the shape of liquor and sii|>plies and
terrify into silence the protesting store
j keepers. It is current history in Coman
! l 'he to this day that Wes Hardin and his
men held the town almost in bondage
i during the greater part of the year 1873.
Many farmers who had suffered at the
hands of rustlers then began to assem
ble in Comanche for the purpose of “in
vestigating” Hardin’s layout. Whether
this visitation had anything to do with
h: departure or whether store looting and
ran h life became, too dull is not known,
h a in August, 1873, he left home and iden
tiri-d himself with the Comanche county
of Taylors, then engaged in a feud
wu- of four years’ standing, with the
Fons 'cud friends of a man named Sut
*"n - who was killed by one of the Taylor
• *rmly in De Witt county in 1868. Hardin
h i-l no personal interest in the feud,
but he was chosen leader of the Coman
h- Taylors, and during the short period
of his leadership got “credit” for slaying
f, iree of the Sutton faction. To show'
how ineffective was The machinery of
’ law in punishing the perpetrators of
' *se border crimes, it is said that thir
’ “ight men, participants in the Taylor-
;tton feud, were killed within six years
i’i Gonzales, I)e Witt and Comanche
• ' irules and their slayers were neither
punished nor positively Identified. Report
Fives Hardin credit for shooting many
of the Sutton party, but he boasted al
ways of having “got” three, and as he
was proud and Jealous of his man-killing
record, it is probable that he killed no
ni roof the Buttons.
Feb. 15, 1874, Hardin reappeared sudden
-1 in Comanche with n crowd of his fol
lowers who immediately captured the
; inclpal saloon of -the town, barred the
front door and proceeded to carouse af
'• r the manner of their class. Some time
ti" M afternoon Deputy Sheriff Charley
M ebb of Brown county arrived in Coman
che with a warrant for one of Hardin's
nc who was accused of cattle stealing.
He soon learned that the desperado and
is fellows were embattled in the saloon.
} H. nothing daunted, tied his horse and
entered the back door, which was open.
Hardin knew him and the moment he put
his face in the doorway shouted:
“Hello, Webb! What do you want
here?”
“I’ve a warrant for Cal Shelby,” the
deputy was saying as he pulled the docu
ment half out of his pocket. Rut Har
din shot him through the heart, adding
I sues you won’t serve it!” In the
• rty with Wes Hat din when Webb was
-hoi was Joe Hardin, a younger brother
"f Wes, then posing as a lawyer, but
following closely in the footsteps of his
lawless brother, and with a growing rep
utation in Comanche as a desperado and
a rook. News of the shooting of Webb
spread quickly over the town, and be
fore dark the saloon was surrounded by
e posse of volunteers. The enraged citi
7"iis stormed the locked barroom about
dn*k end captured four of the inmates,
including Joe Hardin. Wes escaped in
Hi- confusion and rode to temporary lib
erty on the horse of the man he had kill
ed. The posse, determined to make
n n example of somebody, hanged Joe
to tho nearest tree and gave his com
panions hours to leave the country. When
Hi** coroner examined the effects of the
den l young desperado he found the seals
of thirteen counties which had been pro
fit * tv used for months by the quondam
Inwyr-r in the process of making out
bills of sale for cattle stolen by
nvunb.-rs of his brother’s gang.
Hardin then fled toward Florida.
In the suburbs of Gainesville he wan
°vertnkon -by two negroes, Jake Menzel
B,| d Robert Bo nip. both of whom had
Worked for Hardin’s father. Impelled by
(1 ' Hr* to obtain the SSOO reward offered
* or Hardin’s capture, they attempted to
• rrest him as he was leaving Ills lodg
l"ir pin e *,trly |n the morning. They np-
P r ’MCh-d him with leveled pistols. He
non his thumbs In the waistband of his
<rou*#ra nnd aasured them he was un
• nned. As they attempted to el*e hint
he whipped two pistols from under his
vest and killed one of them. The other
blinded and fled for Ulf Ml. Uf
din was caught at Shreveport a few days
ater, returned to Comanche and sentenced
to twenty-five years’ imprisonment for
the killing of Charley Webb. He was
tet at liberty under the exemplary con
< uct rule in 1592 and left the penitentiary
with the reputation- of having perfected
himself in the study of law during the
seventeen years of his incarceration. Im
mediately after regaining his liberty he
clinched his reputation for being the
“meanest bad man on the border” by bet
ting s;> that he could at the First shot
knock an innocent Mexican off a soap
box where he sat sunning himself. He
won the bet and left the dead Mexican in
the gutter where he fell. That he was
proud of his meanness is proved by a
story which he boastfully told of on ad
venture in Nogales. He said that in a
hotel there he was annoyed by a heavy
snorer in the next room. Without making
an effort to caution the sleeper, he put
his ear to the thin board partition till
ho got the exact t>osition of his snoring
neighbors head. Then he fired one for
ty-five caliber bullet through the wall,
fke enoring stopped. The corpse was
found the next morning shot through the
brain, but the bud man was permitted
to ride away.
W hatever he may have known of the
theory of law, his grotesqued idea of its
practice was manifest when he set out
for El Paso wearing four six-shooters and
carrying a Winchester rifle. It was dur
ing the trial of the Miller-Frazier cattle
conspiracy ease that he arrived. Accou
tered as he was he went to the office of
the El Paso Times and in a badly writ
ten, badly spelled “card,” announced that
he had come to El Paso “to practice law
on a high PLAIN.” Ho meant plane, of
course, but his spelling was as had as his
later legal perlofinances. From the news
paper office he called at the White Ele
phant saloon, and at the point of a gun
borrowed $lO3 from the proprietor. With
this ready money he engaged in an open
“crap” game in the Gem saloon in Texas
avenue, lost all his capital, and then, with
a pistol in each hand, compelled the play
ers and the croupiers to pay him hack
what he had lost. He collected about S2OO
and went back to the saloonkeeper whom
he had robbed, offering to buy a half in
terest in the place for SSOO, and enforcing
his proposition with his ever-ready
weapon. He got his half interest, and
before daylight all El Paso knew that
Wes Hardin and his guns and nd
had come to town to “practice law on a
high plane.”
For more than six months he terrorized
El Paso. There was only one man there
who dared cross his path at all times and
under all conditions. That man was
•John Sellman, a bad man, too. but of a
different mould from Wes Hardin. After
a bloody career ns a soldier, cowboy and
border deputy and with a record of what
he called “twenty-three justifiable kill
ings. Sellman had settled down into the
almost placid occupation of patrolling the
streets of El Paso. It was placid enough
till Hardin came, but a month later every
man there knew that one or the other
had come at last into the presence of sure
death.
The crisis came Aug 13, 1893. Old John
Sellman’t* son, who was a policeman, had
arrested Hardin’s friend, and Hardin at
once announced that he would exterminate
the whole Sellman family, beginning with
the father. To this end the offended des
perado armed himself with pistols and a
quantity of whisky, and went looking for
old man Sellman. The latter, who stated
at his trial afterwards that he knew it
was only a question of time when he
must kill Hardin, traced him to the Echo
saloon. With that peculiar and almost
anomalous sense of fairness which char
acterized many of his class, Sellman then
sent word to Hardin that if he would come
our of the saloon he, Sellman, would give
him a “fair chance to exterminate or be
exterminated.” Those were the very words
of Sellman. as reported at the. trial. Af
ter wailing an hour for a reply Sellman
entered the barroom. Hardin saw his re
flection in the giaas and had his pistol
out in a second. Hut Sellman was sober.
His first shot pierced Hardin’s head from
hatband to hatband, and even when his
victim fell Sellman continued to fire till
he had placed five shots in vital parts of
his enemy.
“Good gun fighters like Wes Hardin
sometimes shoot after they’re hit,” ex
plained Sellman in telling why he fired so
many “fatal” shots.
TRAC KING lIIG GAME.
Skill of Bormah Huntrm in ItenillnK
Siature'n Slrii..
Correspondence London Field.
It was once well said by a great sports
man that killing a salmon in a Canadian
river was a sport as superior to killing
ono In Scotland as shooting a Hon in
Africa was superior to shooting a stag in
the Highlands. Probably to those who
have had experience of it. tracking and
shooting big game are in an equal degree
a more exciting sport than having them
tracked or shooting them off-hand. Yet
ic is strange how few big-game shooters
actually track for themselves the animals
which they eventually shoot. Many are
quite content to leave the tracking to
the shikari, only taking a hand by using
their rifles when they are finally brought
up to the game.
The art of tracking, for £uch it ie, is
not by any means difficult to acquire. It
consists cliifly in good powers of observa
tion rather than in some occult skill, with
which most young fellows seem only too
ready lo credit the shikari. I do not
wish to detract In any tva> from the use
fulness and general advantages derived
from the services of a good tracker, and,
of course, a man who knows the particu
lar country in which he is shooting is in
dispensable. K Is rather to suppllment
those advantages by inducing the sports
men to take part in the operations that
I venture to offer these remarks. An Eng
lishman usually has better, eyes than a
native, if he only knows how to use them
from practice, and his power of obser
vation, if only cultivated, will have a
wider and deeper range than that of any
native. This is a matter, however, to
which the saying nascitur non fit most
strongly applies, but, given a mail with
ordinary intelligence, it may with care
he greatly sharpened and Improved.
In the forests of Burmah, where our
scene is laid, I never cared about track
ing big game except during the monsoon,
for during the rainless months the ground
did not take a sufficiently clear impression
lo Indicate whether tracks of game were
old or fresh. The beginning of the rains
was the time; then, all the forests
having been burnt over, there were no
leaves on the ground to rattle like
half a dozen kettle drums as one moved
along, and the lots of deer or spoor of
elephants showed freshly on the ash
strewn ground or on the sprouting grass
of the hillsides. This was tho time to get
up on the hills which the bison then much
then much uffected, and, camping among
the pine forests at about 3.000 feet above
tho piains. to keep a close eye on the
ridges of the hills for tho tracks of bison,
banteng elephant and smaller game,
though the latter we usually shot as we
chanced on them, without troubling to
track them. A man who knew the Coun
try was Indispensable, and if he could
track well so much the better.
Supposing trails of bison to have been
found, the first matter to settle was how
recent they were. We knew that it had
rained on the previous night at about 11
o'clock. Wc could, therefore, easily deride
whether the herd had passed along before
or after this event. The veriest tyro could
of course, decide that matter. Buddies In
the hoof prints or a muddy deposit In the
par t where the hoof cut deepest would be
certain Indications of the herd having
passed before the rainfall. To decide how
iuug before Ihe rainfall would l>e a more
difficult motor. nn<l we should be helped
ta ii conclusion on this point by examin
ing the grass growing along the path or
track where the herd passed. This Is a
mii.fi better elew than any I know. It ia
hardly an exaw-tatlon to > ijiat, gium
THE MORNING NEWS: FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1900,
ed the herd has passed within a few days,
one can tell within a few hours. Careful
ly take a piece of grass from which an
animal has bitten of the top, and com
pare it with a piece of grass freshly
plucked and bitten off by yourself. You
will immediately see the difference be
tween the two. No microscope i required.
You might also take another sample of
grass. 1f it can be found, which you know
to have been cropped by an animal some
time previously. Now, on comparing the
three, the piece freshly plucked is seen Cos
be green almost to the end, where there is
a slightly whitish mark caused by your
teeth when it was bitten; the second
pie/e Is dried almost brown for perhaps
the sixteenth of an inch from the end;
the piece last plucked (s In a similar state,
but for about the eighth of an
inch from the end, where it is
dried and brown. I well recollect on one
occasion coming on quite fresh tracks of
a bison; unfortunately, there had been
no within the previous twenty-four
hours nt least, so that the tracks only told
us that the animals had passed within
that period. However, oil examining the
grass from which the animals had grazed,
as they passed, we came to the conclusion
that they had gone along just in front
of us; indeed, the shikari asserted that
he could smell them, which was, no doubt,
true. We did not go 309 yards further be
fore we came upon two fine full-grown
bison—a cow and a hull. This I felt to be
a great triumph for our prescient power,
and the occurrence has dwelt in my mem
ory ever since. The experiment may be
tried in any meadow where cattle are
grazing, and any one who makes it will
quickly observe what he may not perhaps
have observed before.
It is an advantage in tracking to noiice
whether the animals are walking, trotting
or galloping, the prints of the. hoofs being
differently placed in each motion. One
should have a good idea of the number of
animals in a herd which one is following
up. This may be arrived at In two ways;
first, by noticing the tracks of each indi
vidual animal where the herd has broken
up to feed; secondly, by counting the
number of forms In the grass where the
herd has laid down to rest. The latter
should correspond with the members at
the, herd, though allowance should be
made for one beast whi£h dors not lie
down, but keeps guard, standing while
tht remainder at ease. Knowing the
number of the heard, it is at once easy
to find out whether h part of it has di
vided at any point from the main body,
as is not at all unusual. The larger ani
mals in a herd are very fond of breaking
off from the main body, the old bull te
tlring to himself sometimes, though it
seems that the herd is always reunited
within a day or two. Again, notice the
size of the tracks, ns by these* both the
size and the sex of the animals are indi
cated. £
A reaff good shikari, up to his work,
should be able to explain every sound
which he may hear. Thus he should be
able to distinguish the tapping of a deer’s
horns against a tree from the friction of
two boughs rubbing together; the fall of
a branch from one voluntarily pulled
down. The advantage of observing the
smallest detail' when after game is very
great, as perhaps the little incident
shows. I once put a bullet through a
huge boar (in Rurmah we sh£ot them)
as he was grubbing in thick jungle. As
we were following him up by his tracks
the shikari, leaning on his bamboo stick,
which seemed, to me always to have the
power of a magic wand, divided the long
gras’s in which we were and directed my
attention to a hoof print. “Y'ou see,” said
he, “this boar is very savage.” “How do
you know?” 1 replied. “Oh.’’ said he,
"look at his foot mark.” The foot mark
was in such a position as to show that
the boar while going along had turned
to look back to see whether he was fol
lowed or pursued. 1 did not notice it un
til pointed out, but the shikari saw it at
once. He had inferred from this that the
beast was wounded, and ready to charge
anything that came in his way. Few would
perhaps credit that so much could be
read from a single footprint, but the ex
perienced eye at once detects it. In fact,
as the tracker goes along he ought to be
able to read as in a book every little de
tail which may in any way assist him to
work up to the final tragedy which he
hopes for. He, above all. should be one
who “finds tongues in trees, books in the
running brooks, sermons in stones and
good in everything.”
CHICAGO’S FItOCw MARKET.
Fishermen Purchase 80,000 Every
Saturday for Unit.
From the Chicago Journal.
Thi3 is a tale of the frog.
Fifty-thousand frogs are sold in Chi
cago every Saturday, 359/00 arc sold
every week; 2,450/00 are sold between
May 1 and Oct. 1, 204.166 doz* n in one
st ason.
The average cost of each dozen is 29
cents, this means that $40,833.10 is spent
annually on fr g.---Ashing frogs.
These springy animals are used as bait
for bass, pickerel, and pike fishing.
If every frog caught a fish, but—aver
age three frogs to each fish and on** car.
then see that sportsmen catch 816.66<1 of
the finny tribe during tho summer
months, and figures and n’t He
Frogs come from almost everywhere.
But most of those used in Chicago are
shipped from Michigan, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, lowa, Mis o’irl, Tcnneife , Ken
tucky, Indiana and Illinois
In many of these states regular frog
fat ms ar< ke ►*, but these are not needed
the land is low and mais-hy.
The means ct catching them ere many.
Early in ihe season nets are ued; later,
on as they multiply. thrstk-;ire roked in
like grass. Then the small boy Is brought
Into play. He is turned loor- In a large
field wher* he grabs for a f’Og only to
pft his hand and many Birrs find It gone
He considers this rare po*t much better
than carrying in the wood
This fishing bait is shipped to Chicago
in* boxtfl in which there is moist ned
grass. Frogs ate a long-liv and animal—
those that are not put on fishing hooks—
and the department stores that handle
th< m have frog farms on the roofs wher
water runs over them continually. Here
they live for a month without euing.
It Is In tbe*e stores that so mmy of
Chicago’s srorDmen ga’her on Saturday
to buy bait for Sunday’s fishing.
The frrg indu try is anew one to Chi
cago. Only four or five years ago it was
unknown. Som<* more* figuring will show
that In this time—allowing for losses in
many ways—lo.o>o,ooo frogs have gone to
help entice the wary bass from the lakes.
Now for the frog as an article of diet.
C. N. Turner of the commisdcn firm
o r George C. Callahan & Cos., 217 South
Water street, says:
“In my orlnlpn there are more bull
frogs sold than the grass frrg-though
the luge grass frog Is mere dcs’rable
for table us* than hi'* cousin, the bull
frig 1 cant say Just how many bull
frogs we handle, but as you have the,
figures cn the grass frog. I am sure there
are more us <1 for edible purposes. We
have handled as high as 5,500 dozen a
day.” a
The* e frogs are shipped a* for East as
Boston, as far West an San Francisco, as
far South as New Or cans and as far
as Canada.
The American people have changed con
siderably In their op nion on frogs. A few
years ago the French were the ones who
no liked to nibble frogs’ figs. Americans
called the Frenchman: "The - frog
enter.”
As It 1 I IK* tAtnerlcans are frog
.ntprs and desists are unable lo fill
j iheir orders. ’
—Apologies All Around—Mrs. Niblick—
"You mustn't mind my husband. Mr. Von
Hunker, If he awsnra terribly whl e he Is
playing golf." Von Bunker—"And you
mustn't mind me. Mrs. Niblick, If I take
Ihe words out of hla mouth."-Brooklyn |
Life.
OFFKIAL.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS OF COUN
CIL.
Savannah, Ga., Aug. 22. 1900.
The regular meeting of Council was
held this afteinoou at 4:00 p. m. Present
the Hon. Herman. Myers, Mayor, pre
siding; and Aldermen Dixon, HorrlganJ
Doyle, Bacon and Jarre.l, Alderman Jar
rel taking his seat during the proceedings
of the meeting, a majority of the mem
bers in the ei.y being present.
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES.
City of Savannah, Aug. 22, 1900—The Com
mittee on Accounts report that they have
examined and found correct bills against
the city amounting to seventeen thou
sand three hundred and ten dollars and
fifty-three cents, as per accompanying
schedule and recommend that the same
be passed for payment. J. G. JiARREILL
Chairman Committee on Accounts.
$17,310.53.
Report received and accounts passed for
payment.
HERMAN MVERS, Mayor.
Hoard of Health—
Officers and employes ...1$ 1,257 50
W. N. Nichols v... 4 10
Western U. Tel. Cos. .. 78
John Lyons & Cos 17 20
Dr. W. F. Brunner 25
H. Logan 16 04
H. Logan 7 l.
F. B. Purse 018
W. F. Reid 48 00
Time, of hands 1 60
Time of hands 5 25
Time of hands 3 90
Joe Jenkins 25 00—$ 1,392 95
City Lamps—
Edison E. 111. Cos $ 3,024 CO
Dispensary—
Lippnnm Bros $ 62 05
The Gorrie Ice Mfg. C 0... 4 28
M. S. & D. A. Byck .... 60
Edison E. 111. Cos 300
Tho 9. West & Cos 1 75
Officers and employes .. 385 00
Common & Eanser 12 50
Columbia Drug Cos 108 99
The Mutual Gay Lt. Cos.. 3 78
E. M. Baker 1 00
Adam Kessel 40 00—$ 422 25
Dry Culture—
Andrew Hanley Cos. $ 1 85
Palmer Hdw. Cos 90
Dixon, Mitchell & Cos. .. 49)
E. Lovell’s Sons 14 83
Wm. Kehoe & Cos 8)
Time of hands 326 67 349 95
Fire Department—
J. E. Maguire $ 38 42
Jas M. Dixon & Cos. ... 309 49 - 347 91
Hospitals—
Savannah Hospital $ 390 CO
St. Joseph’s Infirmary ... 300 00
Georgia Infirmary 300 CO— 900 CO
House Diainage (City)—
C. B. Westcott $ 10 00
A. S. Bacon 38 50
Paul Plumbing Cos 145 49 95
llous* Drainage-Special Maintenance-
Pay roll $l5O &)
Incidentals—
Mrs. Annie McStay $ 12 oo
J P. Whi e 75
Edison E. 111. Cos 9 00
Thos. West & Cos 65
The Gorrie Ice Mfg. Cos. 9 75
Norton Frier.-on 3 75
C. S. Hardee, C. T 109 63- 145 53
Laurel Grove Cermtery—
Time of hands $l6O 25
Market—
Wm. Kehoe & Sons $ 12 59
A. S. Bacon Sons 18 50
John Davis 32)
E. Lovell’s* Sons t... 3 05
M. J. Doyle 3 65
D. T. Elliott 2 25
Officers and employes ... 283 50— 322 74
Paving—
W. H. Connerat $ 55 56
John McGrath 65 62
L. L. Burpee 2 50
M. S. & D. A. Byck .... 1 50
A. S. Cohen 9 00
Mingledorff & Cos 30 00
Syracuse Chilled P. Cos .. 8 00
John G. Butler 3 50
Plant System of Rys 39
Plant System of Rys .... 540 00
Goo. Lehwald 15 75
J. E. Stewart 10 50
J. P. Brown 35 75
Thos. MaoDowell 50 75
R. Fogarty 56 87
Time of Hands 272 11
Time, of Hands 192 73 1,328 53
Parks and Squares— 0
Time of Hands 242 68
Printing and Stationery—
John Power, C. M., 21 20
Braid & Hutton 17 00
C. S. Hardee, C. T 84 15
W. N. Nichols 60
Braid & Hutton 18 00
M. S. & D. A. Byck 3 05
Morning News 8 00
Oliver S. Nichols 8 75
M. S. & D. A. Byck 40
C. N. Stern 1 50
W. N. Nichols 2 00
J. W. Fret well 8 10— 172 65
Publlc Buildings—
Mutual Gas Light Cos ....5 574
Edison E. 111. Cos 8 96
The Ga. Te. Tel. Cos. .... 40 50
A. S. Bacon & Sons. 165 50
Lindsay & Morgan 126 00
Mutual Gas Light Cos 35
Electric Supply Cos 1 Oft
E. Lovell’s Sons ......... 70— '348 75
Saaries—
Cl y oitic rs and employes $3,029 98
Scavenger Department— *
Young love & Sipole .....$ 50 00
The Georgia Tel. T. Cos. .. 25 00
Jas. M. Dixcn & Cos 95
Cohen-Kuhlman C. & W.
Cos 57 80
D. J. Barry & Cos 24 30
E. Lovell's Sons 58 38
D. M. A. Morris 30 00
Painter Hdw. Cos 9 25
Time of hands 471 75 725 13
Sink Dtpat tment—
J. \V. Fretwell $ 160
C. A. Pacetti 2 50— 4 10
Sttre's and Lanes—
Geo. Lehwald $ 180
Thos. Hculihan ?.... 87 01
Jas. M. Dixon & Cos. ..... 95
A. S. Bacon 25 00
Too Chapman Mfg- C 0... 6 22
Ocean Steamship Cos. ... 1 99
R. J. McDaniel 55 fO
Dr. M. A. Morr s 30 t.O
Andrew Hanley 3 30
M. 8. & D. A. Byck ..... 3 00
K. Lovell s Sous 52 81
Loo Franke 25
The <ja. Tel. T. Cos 35 70
D. J. Barry & Cos 24 30
Smith & Kelly Cos 121 00
Time of hands 1.811 09
Sidewalks.—
Chattahoochee B. Cos 739 30
A. S. Bacon & Sons 9 19
Plant System of Rys 50 35
John McGrath 10 80
D. T. Elliott 10 80
Geo. Lehwald 10 8*)
Time of hands 121 00— 3,014 $6
Water Works.—
K. Lovell’s Sons $ 260
Palmer Hdw. Cos 68
Vounglove & Sippie 25 50
Standard Oil Cos 14 e 4
Wm. Kehoe & Cos 18 75
Younglove & Sipple 150 00
Leo Franko 1 00
H. Mueller Mfg. Cos 28 26
J. C. Puder 30 00
A. S. Bacon 3 81
A. S. Bacon * Sons 54
A. S. Bacon & Sons 5 40
M. J. Doy> 1 75
Chattahoochee B. Cos .... 218 50
M. S. & D. A. Byck 25
Time of hands 308 73 #
Time ol hands 327 73 1,117 52
Total ' $17,310 53
The Committee of the Whole, to which
was referred the following |>etltiona to re
tull liquor and to transfer llchnses beg to
rtyr rt favorably to same. Herman Myers,
Chairman Committee of the Whole,
Petition of L. B. Mercer for permission
to retail liquor at McDonough and East
Broad streets. Adopted.
v*elltion of E. V. I’acettl for permission
OFFICIAL.
to transfer his liquor license from No.
15 Broughton street*, east, to southeast
corner of Houston and Perry street.
Adopted.
Petition of James Lane for permission to
transfer his liguor license from No. 212
Price street to No. 15 Broughton street,
east. Adopted.
Petition of W. R. Fulton for permission
to transfer his green grocery license at
No. 1012 West Broad street to P. E. Mas
ters at the same place of business.
Adopted.
Petition of W. T. Lynch, agent, for per
mission io transfer his liquor license at
the corner of Lumber and Bay streets to
Mts. Mary Ann Farrell at the same place
of business. Adopted.
Petition of Charles Brickmann for per
mission to tranter his liquor license from
No. 34 West Broad to 615 Indian street.
Adopted.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of M. Kassman,
asking to bo relieved of an execution of
s3l for license, as a tinner, now in the
hands of the city marshal. Petitioner
claims he Is financially unable to pay the
license; beg to report unfavorably to to
tal reduction, the petitioner carries a stock
worth S2O to S3O. and we recommend that
the license in his Instance bo reduced to
SIO.OO, being thui of a small dealers license.
Isaac G. Haas,
Acting Chairman Committee on Finance.
Adopted.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petition of G. H. Miller,
for permission to make lots Nos. 55 and
56, Spring fled plantation, fee simple, and
asking what discount will be allowed; beg
to report adversely to the allowance of
any discount, these lots being held differ
ently from the ground rent lots in the
city, they being held under leases with
the rigt in the lessee to pay
money and get a title to the lets. •
J. J. Horrlgan,
Acting Chairman Committee on Finance.
Adopted.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the. petition of J. C. Slater,
asking the usual discount of 10 i>er cent.,
io make fee simple lot No. 21, Elbert
ward; beg to report favorably thereto.
J. J. Horrlgan,
Acting Chairman Committee on Finance.
Adopted.
The Committee on Finance, to which
was referred the petitions of T. S. R-
Rivers, Albert H unches. R. Demere, Rob
ert Mackey, G. A. Lord, M. B. McMillan,
asking permission to have duplicate coat
hack badges issued in place of ones lost,
beg to report adversely to same.
j. J. llorrigan,
Acting Chairman Committee on Finance.
Adopted.
The Committee on Streets and Lanes
to which was referred the petition of the
Edison Electric illuminating Company,
asking permission to lay a. spur track
from the Central Railroad tracks on Bay
street to the coal yard of the petitioner
on the same street, beg to recommend
(hat same be granted, work to be done
under supervision of Director of Public
Works. James M. Dixon,
Chairman Com. on Streets and Lanes.
Adopted.
The Committee on Public Health to
which was referred the following peti
tions, beg to report favorably to same.
J. G. Jarrell,
Chairman Com. on Public Health.
Adopted.
R. J. Groover, for permission to trans
fer lot No. 1635 Laurel Grove Cemetery
to Mrs. S. A. Coats.
Adopted.
Harrison & Myrick representing J. A.
Ferris, asking permission to transfer lot.
No. 2204 Laurel Grove Cemetery to Mrs.
E. A. Proctor.
Adopted. 1
Mrs. W. H. Rose, for permission to
transfer lot No. 2452 Laurel Grove Ceme
tery to Mrs. L. A. Newton.
Adopted.
The Committee on Public Health to
which was referred the petition of S. S.
McFall for permission to dig a dry well
at the southeast corner of Bull and Elev
enth street lane, beg to rejK>rt favorably
to same, conditioned upon connection be
ing made to the new sewerage system
as soon as available for use by this prop-
Pi*ly > J. Q. Jarrell,
Chairman Com. on Public Health.
Adopted.
PETITIONS AND APPLICATIONS.
The following petitions to transfer
licenses were read and referred to the
Committee of the Whole:
Mrs. M. A. Wise to transfer her green
grocery license at No. 419 Harris street,
west, to J. I). Hobbs at the same place of
business.
F. D. Hodges & Cos. to transfer his re
tail dealer’s license to R. Clugman * Cos.
at the same place of business, No. 141
Farm street.
H. A. Fountain for permlfislon fo trans
fer his green grocery license from the cor
ner of St, Gaul and Zubly streets to No.
1212 West Broad street.
Petition of Cornelius McKane. M. D.,
president of the Board of Corporators of
the McKane Hospital, offering to turn
over to the eity Its buildings, grounds and
other property of the institution, condi
tioned that the city will perpetually use
the said institution for the benefit of the
colored people and the training of colored
nurses, the city lo assume Its present In
debtedness of SI,OOO, was read and re
ferred to the Committee of the Whole.
Petition of W. H. Tarver, submitting
proposition relative *o the establishment
of a free library; was read and referred
to the Committee of the Whole.
Petition of Miss Margaret Arnold Cos
ens, asking for a donation of SSO towards
assisting ill the efTurl to provide u rofTee
wagon for the serving of coffee 4o fire
men White at fires; was read and referred
to the Committee on Finance and Fire.
Petition of the Parker Railway News
Company, asking permission lo place a
few penny weighing machines in the
streets. Petitioner willing to pay SI.OO per
year for each machine for the privilege;
was reatl and referred <o the Committee
on Streets and Lanes.
Petition of M. X. Corbin, asking per
mission to dig a privy vault nt premises,
No. 25 (Brown ward; was read and tc
ferred to the Commltfeo on Public Health.
ORDINANCES.
The following ordinance read the first
time Aug. 8, 1900, read the second time,
Aug. 22, end upon motion, laid on the
table.
By Alderman Dixon—
An ordinance for Ihe improvement of o
portion of Bolton street, under the terms
ami provisions of an act of the Legis
lature of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 18s7.
Section 1. Be It ordained by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in
Council ussembled, under the terms and
provisions of an act of the Legislature
of Georgia, approved Oct. 1, 1887. That
the director of ihjullc worktt for the city
of Savannah and the Committee on Streets
and Lanes of the said city, he, ami they
are hereby authorised and directed to build
and construct on Bolton street, In the
city of Savannah, beginning at the west
side of Eust Broad street, and extending
to the tracks of the Savannah, Florida
and Western Railway Company, a road
way of thirty-nine (39) feet in width of
Augusta gravel, and they ate also author
ized, and directed lo enclose the said road
way with stone curbings, and to do all
the work in the way of grading, the plac
ing of catch basins, drains, crossings,
ami all other things Incident to ihe con
struction and completion of the said road
way on the said portion of Bolton street.
Sec. 2. Be it further ordained. That a
railroad company having tracks running
through the said pirtion of Holton street,
to bo improved under this ordinance, Is
hereby required lo pave the width of its
trucks and two (2) feet on each side of
every line of tracks of the said railroad
company With Augusta gravel as he said
work progresses, and. in the event this
Is not done by the said company, the said
director of public works and the said com
mittee ahull see to Its being done at tho
exiiemte of the said railroad company.
Bee, 3. Be It further ordained, That af
ter the total cost of the said work, ex
clusive of that done by or for n railroad
company, ahull have been ascertained,
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one-third of such total cost shall be paid
out of the city treasury and the other
two-thirds from the persons owning at
the date of the adoption of this ordinance
the real estate abutting on said porilon of
Bolton street to be improved under this
ordinance according to frontage, and the
pro rata amount of the cost of such work
Ik hereby assessed against the said abut
ting real estate, and its owners as afore
said. according to the frontage. The front
age of intersecting streets and lanes is
assessed as real estat* abutting upon said
portion of Bolton street to be improved,
and the Mayor and Aldermen of the city
of Savannah shall be, for all the Intents
and purposes of this ordinance, the owner
of the real estate so abutting, and shall
pay from the city treasury its just pro
rata as such owners of the cost of said
work, according to frontage, In addition
to its one-third of the entire cost, as here
inbefore provided.
Sec. 4. Be it further ordained, That af
ter the improvement hereinbefore provid
ed for has been completed the director of
public works for the city of Savannah
and said Committee on Streets and Lanes
shall prepare and submit to the Council
of the city of Savannah a statement show
ing the cost of the improvement herein
provided for and also an assessment roll,
showing ns to two-thirds of the cost to be
apportioned, how’ it is apportioned among
tho several abutting parcels, including
tlie street and lane intersections
and giving the sum charge
able So each parcel, with the name
of the owner. Upon the consideration
and adoption of said statement and as
sessment roll by the Council of the city
of Savannah, it shall th-n become tho
duty of the city treasurer to send to the
abutting property owners their proper bill
for the same as it may he ascertained by
the City Council, and if such bill so sent
be not paid within thirty (39) days after
the presentation or sending of the same
it shall then become the duty of tHo city
treasurer to issue n execution for the
amount, together with costs, against tho
person and property aforesaid, which ex
ecution shall be irarie and levied out of
the property described th+rrin as are ex
ecutions for e.ty taxes The said state
ment and assessment roll shall also show
the amount payable by a railroad com
pany and should such company fail and
refuse to pay a bill for the same thirty
(30) days, ftfier the presentation or send
ing of the same, it shall be the duty of
the city treasurer to issue execution
against said <•* mpany and property f-*r
said bill, together with costs, which shall
be made and levied as are executions for
city taxes.
See. 5. Be it further ordained. That all
ordinances and parts of ordinances In con
flict with this ordinance nre hereby re
pealed.
The following ordinance, read in Coun
cil the first time Aug. 8, read the second
time Aug. 22. amended, placed upon its
passage and adopted.
By Alderman Dixon—
An ordinance to amend an ordinance,
passed Feb. 18. 1891. and emtitjed “An
ordinance to amend hii ordinance passed
June 1, 1887, and codified in Section 759 of
MacDonoll’s Code of Savannah..”
Section 1. Be It ordained by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, itt
Council assembled. That Section 1 of the
above-entitled ordinance, passed Feb.
18, 1891, Is hereby so amended that here
after lt shall be the duty of every occu
pant of any building, residence or place
of business in the city of Savannah to
place the boxes or barrels referred to in
said section (In one of which shall be de
posited all matters and material of a non
combustible character, such as dirt, ashes,
manure, tin cans, etc., and in the other
matter and material of a combustible char
acter) outside of the gate In lane at or be
fore seven (7) o’clock a. in., city time, and
where there are no lanes inside the prop
erty line and within five (5) feet of a street
entrance and Scavenger Department shall
have free access to these barrels and
lsaxes from seven (7) o'clock a. rn. to eight
(8) o’clock p. m. of each day. Where there
are narrow alleyways, on which abut
three or more houses, it shall he the duty
of the occupants of the said houses to
provide a box or barrel at the point where
the alleyway opens on the street. In which
box or barrel it shall be the duty of the
occupants lo deposit Ihe matter and ma
terial for the said Section 1 and this
amendment. It shall be the duty of the
sanitary inspectors to sec to the cairylng
out of this amendment.
See. 2. Belt further ordained, That any
person violating the provisions of the
above-mentioned ordinance, or of the
amendment thereto, or any one of them,
shall be subject, u|x>n conviction before
Ihe Police Court of the city of Savannah,
to a line not to exceed fifty (50) dollars
and to Imprisonment not to exceed ten (10)
days, cither or both In the discretion of
the coqrt, and each day's violation or neg
lect of the said provisions or any of them,
shall constitute a separate and distinct of
fense. . ~
Sec. 3. Belt further ordained. That all
ordinances and parts qf ordinances In con
tlict with this ordinance are hereby re
pealed.
On Its first reading.
By Alderman Horrlgan:
An ordinance to amend an ordinance
passed in Council, Dec. 18, 1899, entitled.
"An ordinance to assess and levy taxes
ami raise revenue in the city of Savan
nah; for the regulation of certain kinds
of business In the corporate and Jurisdic
tional limits of said city; fixing penalties
for the violation of the revenue ordinance
of said city, and. for other purposes con.
netted with taxes and revenue of susl
city.”
Section 1. Be It ordained by the Mayor
and Aldermen of the city of Savannah,
In Council assembled, and it is hereby
ordained by authority of the same, tout
an ordinance passed in Council, on Deo
IS, 1899, and entitled: "An- ordinance to
assess and levy taxes, and raise revenue
for the city of Savannah, for the regu
lation of certain kinds of business in the
corporate and Jurisdistional limits of said
city; fixing penalties for the violation of
the revenue ordinances of said city, and
for other purposes connected with taxes
and revenue of said eity,” be and ;im
same is hereby amended by striking out
anil repealing section 15 of said ordinance
(Said section 15 relating to the appoint
ment by the Mayor with the concurrence
of the Finance Committee of a competen
person, whose duty It is to report to the
tax assessor nnd cky treasurer, respec
tively, from time to time, all persons in
said city required to make any return or
take out any license required by said
ordinance, etc., os will appear by refer
cnee to said section 15. which Is printed
on page 23 of the official published re-
Itori of said ordinance.)
Bee. 2. Be it furthr t ordained that all
ordinances and parts ‘of ordinances in
conflict with this ordinance are hereby
repealed.
Communication from Ihe health officer
and secretary ffiinltary Board conveying
copy of resolution passed at a meeting of
the Sariltaty Board he’d Aug. 21, 1900.
Resolved, That the City Council be re
quested to cut down and remove from the
city limits all weeds now growing In the
streets, lanes and vacant lots, this move
being an immediate sanitary necessity,
was read and referred lo the Committee
of the Whole.
Communication from A. M. Bell giving
notice of delivery of fifty new city maps,
in accordance with agreement, was read
and received as Information.
There being no further business, Coun
cil look a recess subject to the call of the
chutr. WM. P. BAILEY.
Clerk of Council.
—The Rev. W. H. Murray, a mlssion
nry In Pekin, and ono of the men whoso
fate is yet uncertain, became Interested
in tho condition of the blind In China
some years ago, and to help them devised
a system of representing the sounds of
the Chinese Innguage by raised dots. Ft
bus been found that by this means n b'.in l
Chlnnmun cun learn to rend In three
months, much less than one who can see
and uses the ordinary alphabet, as there j
are only four hundred and eighty sounds
In Chinese, while of written characters |
there are morn ttmu (our Uiousund.
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OPEN
LETTER
From a Good Little
Woman in North
Carolina.
How Graybeard Cured
her when everything else
failed. A grateful friend
always.
Below we publish a
letter from a great suf
ferer from nervousness,
and a general broken
down condition of the
system. The cure is not
an unusual one for
Gray beard. Many such
letters are received ev
ery week.
Here is the letter:
Allison, N. C.,
July 3. 100
Respcss Drug Company,
Savannah, Gaul
Dear Slrs:
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I am that Gray beard was* invented.
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great sufferer from nervousness. I
could not sleep. I ate vnfy little. I
lost flesh all the time. My complex
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me. Our family doctor did all ha
could for me. He worked patient
ly, but everybody noticed that I
kept going down hill. People
thought 1 had consumption. One
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! 1 read it. lt was of deep Interest
to me. The next day I bought a
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ami for building up a
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the first.
GET 3T AT
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