Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 23, 1881, Page 4

Se | DU ————— 21 -order to destroy Cincinatti's ivon in- 4 THE OMAI Tt;e O;maha Bee. Published every morning, except Sunday. T'he only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL: One year.....8$10.00 | Three Months. $3.00 Six Months 500 | One .. 100 THE WEKLY B ery Wedneaday. TERMS POST PAID: One Year.... ) | Three Months.. 50 SKix Months.... 1.00 | Une " et 8 published ev- CORRESPONDF: All Communi- eations relating to Nows and Editorial mat- ters should be addressed to the Eniror or Tur Ber. BUSINESS LETTERS—AI Business Letters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THE OMAHA PUBLISHING COM- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. John H. Pierce is in Charge of the Circu- i DAILY BE Tar break at Albany is near at hand. — CoNKLING says the stalwarts die but never compromise. Tur Grand Lodge of Nebraska ma- gons are now in session at Lincoln. Tur barge boom will bring forth fruit at the next session of congress. Wurre lawn dresses and pink tied diplomas are now the fashion among our school children. Tir greatest distribution of woalth among the largest number of people will bo the economical problem of the future. Sevex children at one birth is the record of a Tennessee mother. At this rate immigration will soon be- come superfluous, Axorner rich strike of mineral has been made at Tombstone, Arizona. at's the kind of monument e pine for. most Trar long delayed vindication of Senator Conkling scems no nearer of perfection than at the opening day of the legislative session at Albany. 9 =4 . |Saunders to. protend that he is|: Tue Cincinatti papers are bodily ready to act just as soon I charging that tho striko among tho |,y “hig colleaguo gets s iron workmen in that city, is instigat- «d by Pittsburgh manufacturers in terests. PuitabeLeia has prepared herself for the Fourth of July by prohibiting the toy pistol and the shooting off of fire crackers in the streots. Thero is a riot pending among the small boy population. BreepiNe Kausas finds it casior to pass a prolubitory law than to enforce it. Tho cityot Topeka has entirely disregarded the constitutional amend- ment and permitted the saleons to Atart up again. It isn’t likely that President Gar- field will apologize to General Grant tor unintentionally injuring his foel- ings by not consulting him in regard 50| This stat of facts gave rise to a good Daring the last threo years of Ex- Senator Paddock’s term there was a constant sce-saw between our two sen- ators as to federal appointments and changes in federal offices. When Saunders asked for a change Paddock would protest, and when Paddock at- tempted to force an appointment dis- tasteful to Saunders the latter gener- ally checkmated him through his in- fluenice with the Hayes administration. deal of sham and hypocrisy. Although the two senators were most of the time at logger-heads, they had a sort of senatorial courtesy understanding that enabled them to shirk responsibility for disappointing their respective per- sonal friends and have a ready excuse for keeping bad men in office —whom they had mutually agreed not to dis- turb. Neo matter how deservingor wor- thy any applicant for appointment might be he was buffeted from Peter to Paul and Paul to Peter “I am ready to assist you, providing you can get the endorsement of my when the applicant remonstrated that a man who wa# under no obligation to that as soon as the senatorial fight was over there would bea better chance for his appointment. Civil service, re- form was another favorite dodge. We can't get 8o and so removed, on ac- count of civil service reform. ‘‘But the man is notoriously corrupt, char- ges upon charge has been filed against him and Senator, you remember you pledged your honor to remove him.” “Well I am trying my best, but Civil sorvice reform, and Justice Miller, ono of the 7x8 commission, is an uncle of his wife. And thus year after year dragged out, and drunkards and bummers and imbeciles remained in offico and are there yet. Now that Mr. Paddock is out of tors are working in harmony there sibility. and the rotontion of every dishonest | ¢ servico. It will not do for General all blame. It will not do for Mr. Tt will not do for either of the sena-|d tors to endorse an objectionable ap- pointment to please his colleague and then escapo the responsibility. dishonest public officials. tho general body of anti-monopoly re- publicans, to whom both senators are act that receives their joint endorse- ment. STOCK WATERING- The enormous 1inflation of corpora- tion stocks during the past three years in causing well grounded alarm among conservative financiers. The to Federal appointments. He isn't that sort of a hair pin, Tae anti-Conkling element at Al- bany has no intention of yielding to a compromise which shall include the roturn of either Mr. Conkling or Platt to the senate although they have announced their willingness to vote for any one stalwart exclusive of the two ox-sonators, Korseeing the inevit- able result of aprotractedsummer ses- aion, the Conkling forces are now using every effort to combine with the Democrats and force an adjournment of the session, hoping, by an active canvass of the state, to secure a ma- jority of the next legislature which will be favorable for the return of Messrs. Conkling and Platt. From present appearances this innocent lit- tle plan will not be successful. Tndi- cations point to the consolidation of interests and an election before the close of the week with Cornell and Depew as the coming men. — Tux last descendant of General La- fayette, M. Edmond de Lafayette, ac- companied by the Viscount de Ro- chambeau, will come to this country this fall to attend the Yorktown cele- bration. The New York Historical Society, the legislature of that state having failed to make any provision, will endeavor to entertain the gentle- wmen. In a communication to the so- ciety oneof the members says: ‘“When General Lafayette came to country, in 1824, he landed at New York. On the 19th of August, three|period. In days after his arrival, he honored the stock, bonded New York Historical Bociety with a|debts of this | ness of the corporations has increased Now York Graphic, in an exceedingly able article on this subject declares that the railroad stocks now in the market, represent a cash investment of from 30 to 50 per cent. greater than they did a year ago, and in addition an immense amount of water has boen added to old stocks, and an enormous amount of stock has been issued for newly constructed roads. The panic offf1873 was largely the result of excessive speculation in rail- road securities and of equally exces- sive expansion and watering of corpo- ration stocks. For four years after the crash all industrics felt the effect of the blow, and it was not until 1877 that the resumption of railroad build- ing marked a revival of interest in spoculative enterprises. At the closo of that year the railroads of the Uni- ted States had 79,670 miles in opera- tion. In 1878 2,400 miles of new road were constructed; in 1879, 4,430, and in 1880 7,160 miles additional were built and oquipped. At the close of 1880 the aggregate mileage of railroads in the United States was 93,050 and before the close of the present year it is estimated that this mileage will be further incrdased to fully 100,000 miles. From January 1, 1877 to De- cember 1, 1881, the aggregate addi- tions to railroad construction in this country will exceed 20,000 miles which will represent an actual cash investment of $600,000,000, Statistios show that the indebted. TA D/ and dividends by grossly exorbitant transportation charges. government pays interes borrows st at mo the While the ymey and rate of 34 per cent., while cities and towns float their bonds at 4 per cent. and while money loans at call, in financial conters at 2hper cent , the people of the United States are taxed to pay inter- osts on debts and dividends on stocks averaging eight per cent. of the rate which is two or three times the value of the money represented by the face of the stock and bonds. This enormous amount of largely a only in a honest investment of capital. debt is fraud representing slight degree, the The capital stock is flooded with water, the bonded debtreprescnts the stealings of numerous construction rings, while stock dividends are used to increase still further the unlawful gains of the managers and plunder the people of additional sums to pay interest on the fictitious capital. Some figu res recently published show the progress of this alarming in- colleague,” was the usual answer, and | flation of stocks, The Missouri Pacific Railroad was was sold Louisville cent. Van Wyck to say this is Saunders’|ex haustive article, appointment and I wipe my hands of | Tribune pertinently asks: ‘We know we voice the sentiment of | in the !cuuutr form of rates for transportation 8o as | New Orleans and Liverpool. It 1s to give a market value to stocks of | unreasonable to suppose then that a products of th that choice ern warfara, a double in an alarming ratio during this 1878 the debt and the railroads of visit, and was received with affection- | United States aggrogated $4,806,202,- ate ceremony. The tradition of this | 000, which, in 1880, had been in-|troducethe new weapon to the favor- occasion is preserved by many who |creased to $4,910,387,000. took part in it, and afiords a happy | close of the present year it is esti-|and after a seige of two years a public precedent for the entertainment of his | mated that the gross total indebted- | trial was granted by order of the Eng- grandson, who is now not only the | ness of American railroads will not |lish [wilitary authoritles. This trial last surviving descendant of the gen- | falt short of $5,900,000,000. eral in the male line, but also the only Lafayette.” ism, tortion, and to sucl , in due time, a try will, at last, emancipate itself from the extortion to which it is subjected. Congress will have to choose between the people and the railways, and when in 1879 The who If a railroad To could not afford to ask favors from | bought in 1876-7 tor $800,000, it to Jay him, he was simply dismissed with a[Gould for 4,000,000, and is now shrug of the shoulder, and the promise | selling at $30,000,000 and at 108. A little less than three years ago—in September, 1878—the entire issue of & Nashville stock was worth at current prices $3,041,100; a day or two ago, also at current prices, it would have taken $19,196,000, and this atter a stock dividend of 100 per Rock Island, one of the stead- iest of stocks, could have been bought up entire for $20,375,000 in 1878; now it would take $60,742,000 to buy the outstanding stock. New Jersey Central, at the same time in 1878, and it was not then at its lowest point, would have cost §7,773,600; to-day, with a heavier debt before it and very little increase in property, 313"95“'000 river have made themselves strongly & would be needed to buy it. the way and the two Nebraska sena- | block of stock of Northern Pacific re- O Rt dls o na I s aas cently sold by Froderickoololillingn 40 | T e i T AL Lo mia Y7o can be no further shirking of respon- | Henry Villard for $18,000,000, was ; b gL 7 4 14 P! purehased by him in 1874 for §700,- quote from The Railway Register the Each of tho two senators will bo|000. Upon all theso railrond stocks propriate to the present discussion of lield equally respensiblo to their con- | having little substantial value the| .o TRIBRS crers e e stituents for every unfit appointment | producers are taxed to pay an average portation: of 8 per cent. on their manufactured and disroputable man in the federal | indebtedness. Commenting on these figures in an The Chicago now nse debts DAIL BEE THURSDAY, JUNE 23,1881. the first gun Mr. Gardner invente and was transferred to that firm. The trial resulted in the triumph of the Gardner and the adoption by the gov- ernment of his double and five bar- reled gun. The single barrcled had previously been adopted, and it was not experimented upon at this trial. The Gardner five-barrelled gun fired 1,000 shots in 1 minute and 36 sec- onds while the nearcst competitor was a ten-barrelled Gatling, which took two minutes to perform the same feat. Prominent officers of the Brit- ish army boldly asserted that with the adoption of this American gun the question ot British supremacy in India would be forever solved. By equip- ping all the fortified places in India with these guns, which can be trained to shower thousands of bullets a min- ute on any given point, it makes it impossible to carry any such fortified works. Asasingle and double-bar- reled gun can be managed by five men to each gun, and a five-barreled by not exceeding ten men, it can be seen how few men it will take to defend a fortification against the comparatively rude attacks of the native troops, who will not be allowed to bearmed with Gardner's gun, The Gardner gun is said to be won- derfully simple in construction and less complicated than an ordinary breech loading rifle. The single bar- reled, firing 200 shots per minute, weighing less than forty pounds, is mounted on a tripod about thirty pounds in weight, and each separately can easily be carried by one man. The range of these guns is about 3,000 yards—about a mile and two-thirds. Factories for the manufacture of the guns are at once to be established in London and Cleveland, and there is little doubt that a large demand for their use will come from the Continen- tal powers. This season's shipments of grain by felt in the falling off grain receipts at following statistics which are very ap- The grain receipts of Chicago dur- ing the month of May, were 7,446,748 bushels, against 14,326,414, for the same month of 1880, a falling off of 6,- 879,666, The receipts of grain at St. Louis for May, 1881, amounted to 3,- How long will the country submit | 633,115, aguinst 2,683,818 for the samo to be thus taxed? n existence can be duplicated at a| 30 per cent. During the whole month cost of $25,000 per mile, how long will | of May, 1880 and 1881, the lake was ready. | the country submit to be taxed to pay | open and shipments were specially in- lividends and interest on a stock and | vited by large reductions of rates. bond debt of $60,000 to $30,000 per | This fact goes to show that the grain mile? How long will the country sub- | receipts of St. Louis will continue to mit to pay the rates of transportation | increase steadily during tho sum- It | exacted on railroads will not do for either of them to plead [ double the vnhlw t()lf (ltll: ]u]'upert{l suf- | the lall{c ports. uli! nmfmuucd, too, ol 3 of i ficient to pay dividends that will war- | that the Anchor line of steamships Gl ! "f‘;'"; TR ";"“{" “; e o fox 160 Eo 100 | Vah sterai Bat Lol WAL wie eIGHE T causo the removal of incompetent or| g, 4,4 market? The grain, the cotton | its best vessels, now running between the provisions, and the coal produced | New York and Liverpool, and place month of 1880, increase of nearly mer, at the expense - of are taxed under the |them permanently on the line between heir labor? nash. This 160, when, in int of fact indebted for their seats, when we de- | those railroad I::‘(,\mpuniu ) claro that our senators will henceforth | practically bankrupt. The pro- bo held oqually responsible tor every [periy, ~taken — as a whole, 18 worl debt, excluding the whole of their so- | and called capital stock. gambling, which is made a success by | portance to the railroads centering the system of pooling, is increasing in { at New Orleans. It has therefore been magnitude every day. All these rail- | necessary for other roads to build ex- road stocks are now selling in the market at prices representing twice | its present business and because it the actual value of the property they [ will soon be the terminus of the represent. How long will the country | Southern Transcontinental line. submit to such oppression, such ex-|ships that come to New Orleans to K confication of the |load with grain, must bring with them stock- There must The coun- is made these watered Not sat: barreled gun, stocks and inflated indebtedness will recede to their proper level. — A NEW WEAPON. While America leads the world in the products of the soil intended to sustain life, she is rapidly gaining the roputation among the armies of the world as a producer of the most deadly weapons of modern warfare, Gatling gun a few years ago was con- sidered the e plus ultra of achieve- ment in its line, but now a new com- petitor has put in an appearance which promises rapidly to supplant all other machine guns and revoluiionize mod- The Its inventor isan American, William Gardper by name and hailing from the ‘‘wooden nutmeg" state. experiment resulted in a gun, singlo barreled, weighing less than forty pounds and firing two hundred bullets o minute by the simple turning of a crank, the cartridges being fed in from a vertical wooden tube, in which they were laid, this venture Mr. Gardner next got up His first isfied with weighing ghing eighty pounds by itself and including the tripod one hundred and ten pounds, which fire four hundred bullets per minute, with the samekindof mechan- This he supplemented at a later capital | day by a five barreled gun, with a ca- other | pacity for firing one thousand bullets the | in one minute and thirty seconds. Steps were immediately taken to in- took place at Bhoeburyness last Upon this enormous debt the busi- | winter in competition with the Gat- living representative of the name of ness and producing classes of the|ling, the Nordenfelt, a Swedish gun, country are compelled to pay interest | and the Pratt & Whitney, which was By the|able nature of the British government good proportion of the European pas- senger business will then go via the Crescent City, especially during the winter months. The building of th no more than their tunded |the jetties started the barge lines the of traffic diversion new 1m- subsequent gave a tensions to that city, both because of The great quantities of foreign merchan- Eiue, much of which will come to St. Louis for distribution through the west. Stoves and lumber are now being sent to New Orleans for export, and other commodities will (oilow. The two great cities of 8t. Louis and New Orleans are indissolubly united, ond both must increase until they rival the largest of the Atlantic sea- orts, There will soon be t trunk Pmel from Chicago, St. uis and Kansas City to Now Orleans, as there now are from these cities to New York, and the benefits to be gained from them will be valuable and perm; anent. — Tae New York Tribune foars that the remarkable increase of immigra- tion to this country will produce an injurious effoct upon our public and private life, and badly dilute the genu- ine American character by too heavy an overflow from abroad. Such fears are groundless, No country possesses such powers of assimilation as our own. The foreign immigrant of to- day is the patriotic American of to- morrow. His energy and industry is building up our unsettled localities and tilling the virgin soil of our prairies. What is best in his own nationality ho transmits to the race. His children lose their foreign identity and aid in making our laws, and in adding stability to our institutions, It will be many years hence before any cry against foreign immigration will find a general response from the mass of Americans. — Nepraska will welcome railroads built without extorted subsidies and systematic blackmail, and conducted under the legislative control of the people, who are taxzed to support them. None others need apply. —— opened his mouth without putting his foot into it. —— Mz. Paryew, the land leaguer, will soon arrive in the United States, the cause of Ireland, GerNERAL GrANT, lately, has never and intends to stump the country in Mr, Tl:}m&afi on the New York Post. Mr. George Ticknor Curtis's pam- phlet on the ‘‘Presumed dedication of private property to public use, in its application to railroads,” just issued from the press of John Wiley's Sons, is well worth attention from all who contend that the legislative power may rightfully regulate railway and warehouso charges. Tt combats in strong but respectful terms the doc- trine maintained by the supreme court of the United States in the so called Granger cases. Mr. Curtis shrinks from the conclusion to which his logli leads him. He hold that there 18 no power in the legislature to regulate the charges of railroad compa- nies unless expressly reserved in their charters and consequently that they may charge whatever rates they please. “‘%hcre must be,” he says, ‘some exclusive privilege conferred by public authority, or practically re- sulting from the absence of all other means of obtaining what the public wish to obtain, before the right of public regulation can come in and de- rive the owner of full dominion over his property. Neither of these things is true of any of our railroad corpora- tions.” Railroads are not monopolies because wagon roads, canals and rivers are found in juxtaposition to them. They have not received any exclusive Erivilegcn, because nobody eclse has een cut off from the privilego of carrying persons and property in com- petion with them. The text which Mr. Curtis takes for his argument is a paragraph from the Supreme court decision in the case of Munn against Tllinois—a warehouse case. The grounds of the decision we shall leave to discuss. The facts in the case are not fortunate for Mr. Curtis's contention. The warehouse or grain elevator of Mr. Munr. was one of a number in the city of Chicago which constituted a close monopoly and fell within the author's definition of subjects which may be brought un- der regulation. Each grain-carrying railway in Chicago had an elevator at its terminus to which it delivered all the grain it transported, irrespective of the wishes of the consignor. Some of the roads had contracts with the elevator men agreeing to deliver all such grain to them—contracts made with complete indifference the possible wishes of the shippers. Protracted litigation grew out of this arbitrary and high-handed assumption of power. The elevator men were, of course, enabled to charge what they pleased for storage since nobody else could get any grain to store. In one case, and in one only, under the old regime, the elevator and railroad combination was beaten in ‘the state courts, This was where a railroad side track happened to exist leading an elevator not in the combination. The courts held that inasmuch as there were no physical impediments in the way of delivering loaded cars to this clevator the railroad must deliver to it all grain so consigned. In the other cases they held that there was no power to compel a railroad to extend itstracks, tobuild new tracks or to run over tracksnot belonging to itself; and inasmuch as no facilities existed outside of elevators for hand- ling the hundredth part of the grain transported there was mno judicial remedy for the evil complained of. The elevator combination remained unbroken until the state passed a law regulating their charges and their mode of doing business. Thislaw was sustained ty the supreme court in the Munn case, and while we do not assume to pass upon the legal grounds of the decision, we maintain that this was a clear case of monopoly, and one coming within Mr. Curtis’s description of the class of cases which legislative power. We agree with Mr. Curtis that so- ciety cannot be the gainer by the over- throw of rights of property or by working and twisting the joints of the federal constitution to suit special in- terests. We agree also that no good cause can be advanced by the unregu- lated cause of the phrases ‘‘monopo- ly,” “the public,” *‘the people,” ete. Definitions are needed for all those things before they are available for the purposes of fair discussion, and it is quite certain that ‘‘the public” can- not be applied to any less number of ersons than the whole people, includ- ing those engaged in the business of railway transportation, who are, next to the tillers of the soil, the most nu- merous calling in the country. Con- ceding all this, we observe that it is precisely in the matter of definitions that the opponents of Mr. Curtis dif- fer from him in the view they take of the railway questien. He says: ““There must be some exclusive privi- leges conferred by public authority, or practically resulting from the absence ot all other means of obtaining what the public wish to obtain, before the right of public regulationcan come in,” o Those who differ from Mr. Cur- tis hold that the latter is the very con- dition we are now in-not between Albany end New York perhaps, where a great navigable river offers unlim- ited facilities for transportation dur- ing nine months of the year, but be- tween Albany and Boston, between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh and throughout the greater "mrt of the in- terior districts of the United States. It is obviously in the power of the Pennsylvania railroad company to re- duce all the coal and iron producers on its line to the condition of mere dependents by taking to itself the entire mnet proceeds of the coal and iron produced ex- cept barely enough to furnish the owners and workers with food and clothing. They cannot build a com- peting road because the cost is too great. There is ‘‘absence of all other means of obtainiog what the public wish to obtain.” Mr. Curtis says: “‘Noneof them [the railways] are prac- tically so situated in regard to the space between one locality and anoth- er that they can be said to have it in their power to compel individuals to use their road.” This statement is very wide of the truth. Certainly they are so situated that they have it in their power to depopulate whole sections, or to reduce the inhabitants o & much lower scale of civilization than now prevails. We submit that Mr. Curtis has not made out his case until he has contemplated the situa tion of the country, with its present sopulntiun and industries sundenly eprived of all railroads, or, what amounts to the same thing, with rates of transportation so advanced that they would so seriously diminish pro- fits as to be oppressive to business. may be rightfully dealt with by the | 4’ IOWA BOILED DOWN.J Fort Dodge wants a building associa- tion, The plate glass i the new capitol will | eost about 815,000, The grand lodge of Good Templars meets in Algona August 30. ! The apple crop in Mahaska county will e light this year. The Methodists of Newton have secured 26,000 with which to build a new church- portsmen say that the prospects are xcellent for good chicken and quail shoot- ing this fall. The races at Fort Dodge will begin July 1, continuing 5. Abont $25,000 are to be pain in } Mahaska connty is to have a new court- house at_Oskaloosa, the foundations of which will be put in this season. Lightning struck the steeple of the .\l»-tkudint church at Spirit Lake the other night, and damaged it £75 worth, The Marshall town board of trade has rented rooms and will prepare for an active campaign in the interests of the city. On Sunday the 12th inst, occurred the laying of the corner stone rf the new Ca- thedral thas issoon to be erected in Ken- uk, On one of his Winnebago county farms. this spring, David Secor has set out 4,000 trom and planted three acres to maple seed, The Blackstone Coal company has been organized at Marshalltown, with a capital CHEAP LAND FOR SALE. 1,000,000 Acres ~—OF THE— FINEST LAND a— N EASTERN NEBRASKA. Smeerep 1v AN EARLY Dav—~or Rarm RoAD LaND, 80T LAND owNED BY NN« RRESIDENTS WHO ARR TIRED PAYING TAXES AND ARE OFPERING THEIR LANDS AT THE LOW PRICE OF £6, $8, AND $10 PER ACRR, ON LONG TIME AND RASY TRRMS, WE ALSO OFFER FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS of 820,000, and 150 acres of coal land near Given. J. Kennedy, a prominent sheep grower in Tda county, has lost upward of $1,000 worth of lambs this season from throat disease, The Keokuk canning company began op- erations on the 17th, with 100,000 cans on hand, which will be filled with corn and tomatoes. Battle Creek will soon have a bank, and the Timesof that place says that Danbury will have a bank next month, with a capi- tal of $75,000. The Buena Vista creamery at Storm Liake has sent_on agent east to purchase 2,000 cows. and others at low prices. In addition to the provosition for a new court-house, the Clinton county supervisors will submit to the voters this fall a propo- sition to build a 812,000 j; A ynnnr man from Butler county,named Pierce, who was herding cattle for C. O. Kiets in Wright county, was struek by lightning the other day and killed. The city council of Towa City recently opted an ordinance granting Hon. el Clark and others a charter for a ixt.rs:et railroad one and one-fourth miles onyr. Thomas Williams an emy Clinton Boiler Works, while L\lmlmm paint, was dangerously inj v the burning of the turpentine in the paint. Taxes to the amount of $28,000 have been voted in Palo Alto county to aid the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railroad. Emmetsburg is promised the cars this year. A prisoner named Haddix made his es- cape from the Ft. Madison penitentinry, where he was confined, by means of a watch-spri A reward of 850 is of- fered for his capture. The Dubuque Linseed Oil Co. has made its first shipment—five cars to New York, two of which will be shipped to Germany. The mill is overrun with orders, and the enterprise is a proud success. The Towa Railroad Land Co. sold 45,000! acres of land in Ida coanty during the year ending April 1st. and nearly all of it to actual settlers. The entire sales of the company during the year were 236,000 acres. Recently, an associstion was formed in Dubuque, called the Tubuque Bath House:| Assoclation, with 10 members, Arran, mentswere made for the immediate erec- tion of a large and commodious bathhouse at a cost of $200. Maj. John Wilcox, ' of the old seventh Towa infantry, and afterwards postmaster at Eddyville, died recently in the Soldiers’ Home at Dayton, Ohso. A few years ago he was stricken with paralysis, whieh made him a helpless invalid. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail- road will allow 20,000 pounds of live stock for a carload hereafter, instead of 16,600 hounds, as has herelofore been the limit. Fhe inareased storage room in the new cars used by the company, is the cause of the ange, The Stockholders of the Oskaloosa Col- lege at a recent meeting elected eight. new members to the Board of Directors, and the result is that s large majority of the Board, as it now stands, are absolutely op- posed to the removal of the college to Des Moines, and as the matter now stands, if Drake University is built, it must be done without the aid of the assets of Oskaloosa College. The Ames Intelligencer says: Judging from the present outlook, it would be safe to conclude that of more than ome-third as much corn will be cribbed in Stery county the coming fall as there was last year. The acreage is much less, and ‘“the stand” of the fields planted is fully fifty per cent be- low that of '80, Not only is this true of Story county, but we should eonclude the same situation held good in all other parts of the state, judging from flying reports and the newspapers crop items. A Now Railroad Scheme. National Associated Press. CHICAGO, June 22.—A rumor to the effect that negotiations are now pend- ing between the Wabash and Baltimore & Ohio roads for the purpose of es- tablishing another anti-Vanderbilt line between this city and Buffalo via De- troit is given considerable credence here. 'This line, it is said, is to run over the Baltimore & Ohio from this city to Auburn, a distance of one hundred and forty-six miles, thence over the Butler branch of the Wabash from Auburn to Detroit, from which point the Great Western will be used. This arrangement, if comsummated, will prove a severe blow to Vanderbilt’s interests, as heretofore he has had full control of the business between Chicago, De- troit and Buffalo. The proposed line is several miles shorter to Detroit than the Michigan Central,and naturally ex- pects to divide business with thatroad. ,1'lus will give the Wabash an excel- lent and desirable outlet from Chi- cago. It is presumed the Baltimore & Ohio have been induced to join hands with the Wabash in order to throw enough business over the Chi- cago extension of the former road to make it profitable s it has never been a very remunerative investment here- tofore, ——— Death's Arrow, National Associated Press. New Yorg, June 22.—The death is #unounced to-day of Benj W. Delamater in his 87th year, well- known here for the past fifty years and an uncle of cx-'\'icu President Schuyler Colfax. A HEALTHY IMMIGRATION, Over 1200 immigrants landed here within the past 24 hours. Notwith- standing the heavy immigration this year a number of applications for mechanics and other laborers through labor bureau Castle Garden is much greater than the supply. Pour on OiL” L. P, Follett, Marion, 0., states that he used THomAs' EcLeeriio O1nfor burns, and has found nothing to equal it in sooth. These will be sold to farmers | Lof — N Douglas, Sarpy and Washington: COUNTIES. —_—— ALSO, AN IMMENSE LIST OF OmahaCityReal Estate Tncluding Elegant Residences, Business and Residence Lots, Cheap Houses and ts, and a large number of Lots in most of the Additions of Omaha. Also, Small Tracts of 5, 10 and 20 acrces inand near the city. Wehave good oppor- tunities for making Loans, and in all cases personally examine titles and take every recaution to insure safety of money o - | invested. Be ow we offer a small list of Srrcran BARGAINS, BOGGS & HiLL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham St¢reet, Opp. Grand Central Hotel, OMAHA, NEB. 0 FOR SALE &.imianints Sndana BOGGS & HILL. FflR SALE 0% and Webster_streets, with barn, coal house, well m, shade and picce of préperty, figures low T Splendid_busines lota 8. E. FOR SALE BOGES & HIL A beautitul residence lot on 284 streets, $1600. Very nice house and lot fruit trecs, everything complete. A desirable corner of 16th and Capital Avenue. i FOR SALE ussiumiarmeosos BOGG! HILL. Large house on Davenport Btrect etween Lith ana izen boarding house. Owner will BOGUS & HILL. FOR 3ALE goop location for sell low FOR SALE i s it skt tion. This property will be sold very cheap. BOGGS & HILL. FORSALEA tor pheaton, Btephenson. FOR SA Corner of two choice lots In Shinn's Addition, request to at once submit best cosh offer. Enquive of Jas. 994-t4 BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE A= and_desirable res ence property, #4000, PR0GUs & HILL. A FINE BESIDENCE-Novinthomarke Ower will sell for 36,500. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE &4l Shinn's 8d ad dition $160 each. BOGGS & HILL FOR SALE 4., fine residence lot, to some party desiring to bulid & fine house, 2,300, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE Abut201ota in Kountre & Kuth's addition, just south of Bt. Mary’s aveuue, $150 to §500. These lota are near business, surrounded by fine improve- mients and are 40 per cent cheaper than any other Iots in the market. Save money by buying these lois, BOGGS & HILL, an SALE 10 lota, suitable for fine resi- dence, on Park-Wild avenue, 3 blocks §, E. of depot, all'covered with fine large trees, Price extremely low. $600 to §700. BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE 32, mcher lots in Lake's addition. BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE Siosp, comenlot, comes Douglas and Jefferson Sts. BOGGS & HILL, Fon SALE 2500t on 2o, enen, sty 29th and 30th Sts., betwoen Farnham, Douglas, and the proposed extension of Dodge strcet. Prices range from 200 to $400. We haxe concluded to give men of small m one more chance 40 secure & home and will b housos on these lots on emall payments, and will sell lots on monthly paymenta. BOGGS & HILL. Fon SALE 10 acren, 9 miton trom city, about 30 acres very choice valley, with running water; balance geutly rolling prriri, only 8 miles taom railaoad, $10 pet sete. BOGGS & HILL. Fon SALE (%5210 in one tract bwelre miles from city; 40 acres cul- tivated, Living Spring of water, some nice val- leys. ‘The all first-class rich prairie. Price 10 per acre. BOGGS & HILL. 720 acres in one body, 7 mil lea FOR SALE “uitimamiiiitid nd, paoducing hieavy growth of grass, in ik oy R A side track, in good settlement and no better land can be found. BOGGS & HILL, Fon SALE A highly improved farm of \ 240 acres, 8 miles from city. Finie improvements on thia' land, owner nota. practical farmer, determined to sell. A good opening for some man of means. BOGGS & HILL. an SAL 2,000 acres of land near Mil- land Station, 8,500 near El horn, 8 to §10; 4,000 acres in north part of cous ty, #7 to $10, 8,000 acres 2 to 8 miles from Flor- enve, 86 to §10; 5,000 acres west of the Elkhorn, #4 10 §10; 10,000 acres scattercd through the coun- ty, 80 to §10. . ‘The above lands lie near and adjoin nearly every farm in the county, and can mostly be sol on small cash payment, with the balance in 1.2:3+ 4 and 6 vear's time. BOGGS & HILL. an SALE Sescret ane resiaences prop ertics never before offered and 1ot known in the market as being for sale. Locations will only be made known to purchasers “meaning busines. BOGGS & HILL. improve farms around Omaha, and in all parts of Douglas, Sarpy and Washington counties. Also Business Lots for Sale on Farnam and Doug: las streets, from §3,000 to EFOR SALE &z b ot advanced of §2,000 each. BOGGS & HILL . & HILL. ctwoen 13th, §3,500 cach. BOGGS & HILL. Fon SAL 160 acres, ocvered with young timber; living water, sul- 8 from ing the pain and giving relief, IMPROVED FARMS :u.*ii farms in lows.” Fer dw"lmmlli(.)"d prices call on ,600. BOGGS & HILL. Fon sALE 8 business lots west of Odd 2 business lots south side rounded by improved rms, only 7 wi cit,. O land sale many us. GGS & HILL. 8 business lots next west Fellows block, #2 500 eacl BOGGS an SALE Douglas street, be 12th an J " B0GGS & HILL.