Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 15, 1881, Page 4

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If anybody wants to enjoin them let them try it on, street sprink- Now let us see what the stalwart organs have to say Roscoe Conkling's latest performance. about As Garfield's prospects of recovery continue to brighten, the star route thieves are becoming more despon- dent, Tur doctors are still quarrelling over President Garfield, but the pres- ident’s condition is still improving in spite of them. Cuteaco is way ahead of St. Louis in more ways than on, but St. Louis gets away with Chicago on the ther- mometer city of 50,000 inhabitants withid five years she must establish more brickyards within the next six months. Tue democrats are laughing in their sleeves. The prospect of bagging the New York senators next winter makes them feel very good-natured. Tur damage in Western Towa, caused by recent storms, is much greater than was first reported. The damage to railroads by the washouts of bridges and culverts, cannot be re- paired for a week. Tue scheme of tunnelling the Mis- souri at this point appears to meet with some favor at Council Bluffs, but we should prefer to see a wagon bridge between Omaha and Council Bluffs, which is badly needed and would be a paying investment. Tr the property owners in North or South Omaha on strects that are with- out a single gas lamp can bo taxed for a gas lamp for every hundred feet on St. Mary's avenue why can't the prop- erty owners on St. Mary's avenuo be taxed for sprinkling Farnam street and other thoroughfares? Tue English land question has made its appearance in the house of com- mons, The strong opposition of the English tories to the Irish land bill is due in the main not to any particular concern about the Irish landlords, or any particular interest in Irish affairs generally, but to the fear that the leg islation for Treland was but the fore- runner of legislation of a similar char- acter for England. There has been a great deal of writing and out-door speaking about the need of a change in the English land laws over since the bud harvests set in and were aggravated by American compe- totion, that is to say since 1876, But it is only within the last fortnight that any official utterance on the subject has appeared. Mr, Gladstone, after complimenting Mr. Fowler, who brought the subject up in the house of commons in his specch which re- lated mainly to the power of entailing estates by marriage ‘‘settlements,” said: Whatever system will give the greatest freedom to the descent of and, to the transfer of land, to the holding of land, to the raising of money upon land, is the system which will be by far the best for the inter- ests of the owner of land as well as for those of the public generally, T do not deny that there are difliculties attending the subject, but as regards the domestic and social aspect of the «question, I confess that I have a very strong opinion that nothing can more mischievous than the present system of settlement and of entail of this country, and I believe that nothing would tend more to the moral strength of the aristocracy than # great and fundamental change ef- fected in that system. 1 must say 1 think that wheh parliament comes to deal with this subject the question hould be dealt wiih broadly, hé :Orim;afiaiBreé.' Four weeks ago Conkling and Platt desorted their posts of duty in the United States senate. this act of treason to their party by entering protest against the violation of senatorial courtesy in the appoint- ment of Judge Robertson to the col- lectorship of New York in opposition They is- sued a pompous protest against Presi- to their personal mandate, dent Garfield's course and appealed for a vindication to the legislature of New York, which had elected Platt to the senate and was believed to be un- der their absolute control. Therebuke of President Garfield and triumphant vindieation of Conkling and his man Friday was not forth- coming. The republican press of the edented Empire state with unanimity condemned the course of unpre the seceding senators and their repub- lican constituents repudiated them by forwarding wonster petitions against their re-el Conkling’s effort to secure a triumph- ant vindication flat failure. Aftor weeks of themost desperate bull- dozing Conkling and Platt mustered less than one-third of the republican vote in the le: Two weeks ago Platt was withdrawn the race. A few days later Chauncey Depew, who the candidato most offensive to the Conkling wing of the requested the withdrawal of asure of harmony, with a view of uniting the republicans tion to the legislature. was a ature, from party, his name as a m on some candidates whom all factions could support. Tt was confidently pre- dicted that Roscoe Conkling would also withdraw and let the two seates vacated by himself Platt be promptly filled, A caucus attended by a majority of the republicans in the legislatur held and two candidates, representing and was the two factions, were balloted forand agreed Conkling withdraw, and a majc lowers continued t! struction, yesterday. rved no- tice upon Conkling that they would absent themselves in sufficient num- bers to give the republican nominees a refused to ty of his fol- policy of ob- upon. A crisis was finally reached The democrats se cloar majority, unless Conk- ling's followers would join them and vote to adjourn the legislature sine die. Rather than submit to the republican majority, Conkling made terms with the demo- crats, and the legislature stands ad- journed, The outcome at Albany is of a picce with Conkling's desertion of his post at Washington. in the senate Le surrendered that body By vacating his seat to the control of the political ene- my. By adjourning the legisla- turo at Albany he makes it possible for the democracy to con- tinye in control of the senate for from two to six years longer. This is stal- wartism with a vengence. What is Mr. Conkling aiming at by this poli- cy? He started out for a grand vindi- cation of himself as champion of the spoils system and a rebuke to the ad- ministration for infringing upon the assumed rights of Senators to dictate presidential appointments. The vin- dication to be honorable should have been spontaneous. When he resigned to a legislature made up of men of his personal choice everybody expected that he would secure a re- olection on the first ballot, and there is no doubt he was sorely disappointed when the legislature refused to re- elect him. There were two good rea- sons why they retused to vindicate him, In the firat, place they had unauimously endorsed Rob- ertson’s appointment and could not afford to stultify themselves, and in the second place they did not dare to do violence to public sentiment among their constituents, which was over- whelmingly against him, A vindication of himself and a re- buke of Garfield being impossible Mr, Conkling's ovident intent is to force his own election at all hazards, even if in this desperate attempt he wrocks the republican party. The outcome at Albany leaves only one alternative. Governor Cornell will have to recall the legislature and the republicans rather than risk almost certain defeat next winter must re-elect Conkling, Suppose this is done, what position will Mr. Conkling ocoupy in the sen- ate and before the country ¢ OF QUESTIONABLE #RO- PRIETY, When President Garfield lay at death’s door and a sorrowing nation held its breath to catch the whisper of what it thought to be the ineyitable, The Bee applauded as a praisoworthy and graceful act the tender of a presidential fund to relieve the wife and children from anxiety for the future, Now that the president’s recovery is probable, the gift of a quarter of a willion of dollars is of very questionable pro- priety. Gifts to officers in high position always lay both the giv- ers and receivers open to eriticism, This is especially 50 in the case of the president where measures affecting the nation's welfare sometimes clash with the private interests of individu- als. Awmong the subscribers to the presidential fund are men interested in national legislation for private en- terprises. The names of Wall street brokers, railway presidents, claim agents and oftice hunters may be found They justified | upon the list, and while in the event of the death no objection against the subscription, which would be a mere matter of taste and sentiment, his recovery would al once make his relation to the fund very embarrass- president’s could lie ing. 1t will be remembered that the gift Mrs. Lincoln by a contractor interested in army clothing of a carriage to brought down upon the act the un- [ favorable comment of the entire American pross and Mr. Lincoln him- solf felt that he was compro- in its acceptance by his He preferred to trudge around Washington on foot rather than lay himself open to the suspicion of partiality and unfairness When Gen, € it was general of the army he became the recipient of many and costly presents, This system he un- fortunately carried with him to the White House until he finally came to and only his best nds who manifested their affection for him in a pecus consider tl strongest fr y way. The best friends of Ge rfield it seems to us should reconsider their action and proceed very cautiously in the matter, as there is strong probability that he will, he will not need the money. If he dies, which God forbid, the nation will make ample provision for the support of his family. If the president recovers Mn. Fraxk Hurp and his free trade followers were sat down upon with a good deal of emphasis by the Ohio democracy in the nomination of Book- Bookwalter is one of the most extensive manufactur. ers in Ohio and a pronounced advocate walter tor governor. of protection to American industrie Cn that score there will be no diff ence between him and Governor Fos- ter. The issue in Ohio will be fought out mainly on the old party grounds— and in such a fight the republicans in these prosperous times are almost sure to win. One featu; tion of Bookwalter is decidedly un- in the nomina- American—it is the new “‘Ohio idee” that only a rich man can be governor of Ohio. This feature has of late been made prominent in both parties in the ndidates, and furnishes a sad commentary on our political sy tem. In a choice of ¢ country where ev Americau citizen may aspire to posi- tions of honor and trust, the idea that only the wealthy few can occupy an executive office is repugnant alike to institutions, and in opposition to the fundamental principles on which this government was founded. the spirit of American TrE question of Arthurs eligibility is the echo of some idle talk heard during the campaign about s having been born outside the United States. There is nothing in it. Arthur's father was of foreign birth, but the vice-president himself came into the world on American soil. He is just as much an American as Charles 0’Conor, who was born in New York. When Mr. O'Conor ran for president, in a hopeless and rather absurd way, no one thought of raising any ques- tion about his eligibility. He was “native and to the manor born,” and that was enough, Tt is the same with Gen. Arthur, who hails from the hills of Vermont, where his father was located as a preacher for some time before his birth. The elder Ar- thur came to New York some twenty years later and those who knew the Rev. Mr. Arthur understood that he came to this country trom Ireland as a boy. It may not be a matter of any moment what land the father was born in, but at all events the son de- nied,’in the course of the campaign, that his father was an Irishman, and credited him to Scotland instead. He is thoroughly American himself, any- way, whether his father came here from Ireland or from Scotland, and just as eligible to the presidency as if his lineage ran back td the Mayflower. Private vs. Public Employment. San Francisco Chronicle. In Europe it is the rule that the greatest intellects fill the highest offices in the state. They are care- fully sought for and when found and proved, promoted and retamed in the public interest. England has but one Gladstone, Germany has but one Bismarck, and Austria” had but one Metternich, Ttaly but one Cavour. They gave their entire lives and best abilities to their respective countries, and countrymen honored them com- mensurately with the splendor and utility of their services. It does not require the oldest wman now living to recall the time when the same rule prevailed in the United States; when the best executive and administrative talent of the states was looked for and found in the oftices of governor, leg- islator, senator and congressman. The ablest men in every section of the union—as Webster, Clay, Calhoun, Benton, Douglas, ‘Silas Wright, Seward—received early political advancement and gave their whole lives and talents to the public. Of late years this excellent rule is no longer observed. No discriminating judge will now say that the best exe- cutive and administrative minds of United States are now to be found in public employments; nor that they any longer seek such ewmployment. The greatest exccutive and adminis- trative brains of the country are now beyond a doubt its leading railway ers and corporation directors. Why! Because these positions give them more actual power, to say noth- ing of wealth, than any public oftice THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: | eron in the senate from Pennsylve able to confers in ordinary times. That is why Leland Stanford declared he would rather be president of the Central Pacific Railway than presi- dent of the United States, His pos- ition has kept him in almost absolute mastery of the politics of this state during'a period of fiftecn years, As the various roads he represents shall be extended into other states and Territories, his power will be increased, He will be able to shape and control the legislation and and jurisprudence of a larger region than France, and with an influence better cementod and harder to break down than that of the president of|a France or the emperor of Austris The fortunes of some of these rail way magnates—realizad, too, in a sin- gle generation—eclipses _anything known to the most splendid age of Rome, Already Vanderbilt more than decuples the once boasted riches of Marcus Crassus, the wealthiest man of that republic in the age of its greatest splendor. And in all but military force no Roman, no French- man, no modern Buropean ruler holds as tighly in his grip as Jay Gould an equal amount of financial power, which at any time he may convert into political power. Not one of these railway magnates could be brought to a suzrender of his private employment for _eny office in the country less than the presidency. We look in vain for any of them in the senate, or in congress, or in the cabinets of presidents, or a8 governors of states or members of legislature. Their creatures, their obedient henchmen, indeed, they have in all such places; but they would regard it asacon- descension to go there themselves, In fact they cannot afford it. If Mr. Stanford and Mr., Crocker could man- age from a start upon nothing but cute manipulatory talents to pile up fortunes of twenty or thirty millions each in the course of fifteen years as railway directors, at the same time controlling party conventions, legisla- tures, congressmen, senators and judges, why should they descend from their high perch to sport personally in the mud of politics and take on them- selves the thankless responsibility of oftice? They have a better way of serving their own interest. Through their multitude of employes, attorneys and dependants they find the sure means of influencing appointments, controlling nominating conven- tions and elections, and securing such laws and decisions as they need to round out their plans and inerease their power. And when they combine for a purpose common to all, as they evidently did in press- ing the appomtmentof Stanley Mat- thews, they are irresistible. They were able to drive Mr, Thurman from the senate in Ohio, a8 they will be vent his nomination for They can keep Mr. Cam- governor ) and if they will it they can control the senate. There are nearly 100,000 office holders under the government of the Umted States without counting army and navy officers. It is an im- mense power in the hands of an un- scrupulous executive. But if the lead- ing dircctors oi the Jay Gould system, the Vanderbilt system, and the Balti- more and Ohio, the Central and Southern Pacific, the Texas Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, the Peunsylvania Central, and the Northern and Southern Pacific rail- ways, should some day tor some spe- cial ~ purpose take it into their heads to combine, the combination would control more votes and more political influence thancould be controlled by as despotic a presi- dent as Andrew Jackson was. They represent and have the supreme com- mand of properties, whose aggregated revenues are becoming greater than those of the government. They have put the productive interests of the country under a reign of terror; and they are able, by a cunning arrange- ment with the best talents of the 1 not to day the bench, to bafile all at- tempts at the curtailment of their power. It is a part of their system to degrade all public employments by corrupting the employes, or by filling the offices with low, “incompetent and dishonorable creatures as far as they can. Show us the one hundred best lawyersin the United States, and we will show you ninety of them who are regularly fed by this monstrous oligar- chy and dare not take a case against them, nor take a public office save at the will of a railroad president or directory. ‘Was it Nihilism ? Cincinnati Commereial, In his sermon of Sunday Rey. Dr. Boynton draws some admirable les- #ons from the recent tragic event at ‘Washington. It is quite true, as he says, that the reckless attacks upon our public men, the vile methods re- sorted to to ruin their reputations, are not'only a great sin, but a peril to the nation, but there 18 a great deal of untold truth that might do good. Further, Dr- Boynton argues that Guiteau'’s pistol-shot should call the attention of this country to the reck- lessness with which human blood is shed among us. Deadly weapons aro habitually in the hands™ of the worst classes of uurlpuuplu. Little boys go armed. Life has lost its sacredness, If the pistol shot fired by an_assassin at the president of the United States, shall make authoritics more prompt to punish the shedder of blood, then, indeed, will the lesson be a val: uable one, The minister states that the sination is an awful voice of warning from heaven. The Almighty selected one of the noblest men of the earth, a christian man, to be president, Then He permitted him to be shot down by one of the vilest of the vile, in order that the people might be startled from their doze over corruption and crime, and awake to the perils that are undermining our christian civili zation, At the same time, however, the eloquent preacher holds certain politicians who have made ceaseloss, ignoble and bitter war on the presi- dent, as morally responsible for the crime. He holds them up to public condemnation. The event was the will of God, yet he denounces those who excited this will, as strongly as a christian minister can find it in his heart to denounce anybody. The preacher attributes the crime to that ‘‘world-wide couspirac against Christian civilization,"” nihil- ism. But the deed of Guiteau was so evil that it scarcely seems fair to blame even nilulism with it, Nihilism is A88AS- 38,000,000, His vor, real or pretended, | was one of his strongest points. He | had been converted. He took no | stock whatever in the doctrines of those red-hot nihilists, Huxley and | But it is not bad enough, no doubt. apparent that the assassin was con- nected in even the remotest manner with these annihilating agitators. The | doctor says, in speaking of the god- sness of the land: “I haye seon as yet no contradiction of the statement that about 200,000 in this city, and 88,000,000 in the country, are not regular attendants upon any place of worship. 1Is it not well to consider what kind of a future is before us? 1 think this is the warn- ing which comes from the wounded prosident.” au did not at all belong Tyndall. He would have scouted, with no less scorn than Dr. Boynton Tumself does, *“‘the origin of man from a monkey, or the shapeless little pouch of a mollusk. Guiteau was a regular attendant on the means of grace. So far from re- pudjating the marringe relation, as the preacher says the wretched nihil- ists do, Guiteau had had two wives. So far from being an unbeleiverin the God of the bible, he was a demolisher of Ingersoll. No clergyman in the land ever preached more intense ser- mons than he against that bad man. He was as fixed a believer in the “stern, uncompromising doctrines of the orthodox faith” as John Knox himself. Those who knew him testified that he made most beautiful prayers. He was the strictest advocate of the ‘‘re- ality and terribleness of future punish- ment.” He made up to Young Men’s Christian associations everywhere he went. He had a powerful gift in revivals, He used to help even Moody and Sankey in their godly work., No, no! It certainly wasn't Guiteau's religious faith that was out It was his practices. evil his due. Tt could ve been either infidelity or nihilism that prompted the bloody fool to shoot the president. Tt whs more like ‘‘cussedness.” Guiteau had become poisonous with thinking of himself. The Shovel as an Implement of ‘Warfare. Cleveland Leader, The war of the rebellion has evolv- ed some now ideas as military tactics which have heen adopted by most of the military powers of Europe. The principal innovation on the old style of fighting is the practice of throwing up temporary carthworks as well as works of a more permanent character, such as were thrown up around Wash- ington and those around Richmond which have made the former impreg- nable to the attacks of the cnemy and enable the latter to resist the union armies for four years. On many of our battle fields the lines of the “con- tending forces would throw up earth- works by cach soldier digging a hole in the ground eighteen inches square, which, joined to that of his neighbors would form a trench. The dirt being thrown in front lies eighteen inches in height, which added to the depth of the trench, which the soldiers steps into, seating himself on the inside bank, gives him quite an efficient protection against the fire of musketry of the enemy. The great mistake which the French made during the Franco-German war was in not adopting the American idea of throwing up temporary earth- works on the field of battle and adopting the mode that was used in fortifying Washington and Richmond to fortify Paris. Had General Lee been in command of the French, he would have thrown up parallel lines of earthworks, just as he did at the Wilderness, and the Giermans would have found it difficult to dislodge him., He would have been enabled to fall back from one line to another, as fast as he was flanked, and in that man- ner would have inflicted terrible losses on the enemy, just as Lee did on Grant, and at the same time delayed the Germans capturing Paris by several months, if he did not prevent them reaching that city at all. In the meanwhile he would have had Paris fortified with a cordon of earth- work forts, just as Washington was fortificd. These forts would have been located on every rise of ground, com- manding evary road, and each fort would invariably be covered by the guns of at least half a dozen other forts, so that if any enemy undertook to carry a fort by assault he would be exposed to the concentrated fires of the other forts, which would make the undertaking almost impossible, The present fortifications of Paris consist of an immense wall twenty- one miles long, built in the old style, with bastions and a great ditch. This wall was built of granite, about forty feet high from the bottom of the ditch and is provided with about a dozen gates. “The great difliculty which uhe French labored under dur- ing the siege was that every gate was covered, more or less, by the guns of the enemy, and when the besieged undertook to march out. say a lun- dred thousand men, it would take twelve hours to perform that operation and form in line of battle, thus giving tho enemy abundant time to concentrate at that particular point and oppose the commencement of the moving out of a column. If the city was oply surrounded by some sixty toa hun- dred earthwork forts, similar to those that were thrown up around Washing- ton, the imprisoned army would have had no trouble in marching out and acking the enemy in line of battle, These outside forts, extending for a circumference of sixty miles around the city, would have kept a belt of territory five miles wide free from German oceupation. Mr. William Chisholm the presi- dent of the Cleveland Shovel Works, stated, in a recent conversation, that two years ago tho Russian government advertised throughout the world for bids for supplying 650,000 shovels with which to equip its soldiers. The specifications required them to be made so that the handles could be un- shipped for the purpose of enabling them to be carried separately by the soldier; that is, the handles were to be put on bayonet fashion. The style of the shovel were to bea cross be- tween a regular shovel and a spade. Mr. Ohisholm sent his bid with & sample of his work. It was not the lowest, and he fail- | received » complimentaty tetter trom the Russian officials, stating that his shovel was the best fini!h(‘g and the lightest of all the samples submitted, and the difference of price obliged them to accept the bid of a German house, although it dealt in an article of inferior finish. This gave us the first information that the Russian military authorities have adopted the American tactics of throwing up earth- works on the field of battles, and that each soldier of the vast army of that nation will carry a shovel as'a part of his warlike equipments. During the war our boys were not provided with shovels, and they were in the habit of using their bayonets to loosen the soil, and scrape upamound with whatever conveniences they might have, such as a tin cup, plate, ete. It can be easily under- stood how a line of Russian soldiers, while on the battle field, with their shovels, each digging }a hole eighteen inches deep, could throw up a mound in front eighteen inches high and about two feet thick in about three minutes of time ! He then seats him- self on the inside edge, with his gun at a rest on the embankment in front, loading at the breech, andis comple ly covered from the fire of musketry. A little thought will show the supe: ority of a force hidden from sight in that manner over one which will stand up in the old-fashioned way, ex- ]mning a wall of humanity six feet high to the fire of an enemy. Our government has given some at- tention to the subject of arming its soldiers with shovels in the form of the “‘trowel bayonet,” which was in- vented shortly after the war. This is simply a bayonet inthe form of a sharp-pointed trowel. Experiments have been made by companies of sol- diers, and it was shown that a breast- work could be thrown up in anin- credibly short space of time. Whether the government has adopted perma- nently this style of bayonet or not, we cannot say. But it is quite eve- dent that the “‘spade tactics” of our rebellion will become universal and continue 80 as long as firearms are used in war, Recollections of Guiteau by His ©Office Boy. To the Editor of The Sun,, Sti:—I was office’ boy for Charles J. Guiteau in 1873 or 74 He had desk room in Mr. Hawes’ office rooms at 170 Broadway. 1T was hiredby Guiteau, but was also to act for Mr. Hawes in_consideration of the desk rent, 1 believe, Guiteau to pay me. T suppose he thought it easier to cheat the office boy than Mr, Hawes, He would pay me a few dollavs at a time, saying he was short, This went on for a few months, when he told me I wasn't needed any longer. Ho then owed me $120 I called a number ot times after this, but he put me off with promises. At one time, when I asked for the money, he took hold of my arm and dragged me out into the hall, where he had a rough and tumble. The noise brought out the clerks and lawyers, who were go- ing to thrash Guiteau. Then he walk- ed down stairs and into the strect without saying a word. A few wecks after he removed to Chambers street —>51, Irememberjrightly. Sometime afterward T saw his name in the Ben- nett building directory. Heseemed to be a very quiet, gen- tlemanly man, seldom speaking to anybody. He appeared to be an Amercan, and had plenty of quiet, cheek, borrowing law books, , letter presses, ete. Almost every day men came into his office presenting bills, but I never saw him pay any. He would toll them, with a half-smiling, half-scared face, that he was short, and that if they would call on a cer- tain day he would pay them ; but he was pretty certain to be out on that day. The bills were generally for stationery. He would have half a dozen or dozen boxes of envelopes on top of his desk, and still order more, and never pay for it. He was always writing ; it usually ended in the waste basket. The next room was occupied by a lawyer, an_ex-judge, who went home ecarly. If a visitor called on Guiteau after the ex-judge had gone Guiteau took him into this room, which was furnished nicely, threw his legs over the desk and im- pressed his visitor with the idea that this was his private office. T never believed Guiteau to be insane at that time, nor have I h2ard anybody else say 0; but he has had enough trouble since then, of his own making, to drive any man crazy, 1 used to think he'd pay what he owed if he had the money, but that his practice would not bring him enough. T always thought him a shyster lawyer. He walked softly, with his head down, looking in all directions; never would look you straight in the face; always spoke in a confidential way. If a creditor urged him too much he would grab a letter off the desk and appear to read it, telling the man ina fierce, low tone, not to bother him that he was too busy, T met Guiteau last fall, passing down Broadway, looking very seedy. His complexion was light; hair of a dark flaxon color, inclinel to curl; eyes dark blue. His face at times was very red from drink or anger, You would never think he would make an attempt on the life of a presi- dent. Joux F. O'Nerwx 116th street Harlem, DYING BY INCH Very otten we se r fr laint and s inches. This no lon, for Electric Bitters cure Bright's disease ny disease of the kidneys or uriniary organs. Th are especially adapted to this class of diseases, acting ~ directly on the Stomach and Liver at the same time, and will speedily cure where every other remedy has failed, Sold at fifty cents a bottle, by Ish & Me- Mahon. (3 a person suffer- n some form of kidney com- lually dying by need to be so, will positively " J.P.ENGLISH, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, 810 South Thirteenth Street, with J. M.Woolwaorth. W.J. CONNELL, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW, od to get the contiact, but he Orrice—Front Roowms (up stairs) in Hanscow's new brick building, N, V Fare ing, coruer Fiteeuth ad | FOR SAL| CHEAP LAND FOR SALE. 1,000,000 Acres ~=OF THE— FINEST LAND I ¢ | S, EASTERN NEBRASKA. SELECTED IN AN EARLY DAy—~oT Rarm, Roap LaNy, sur LAND OWNED BY NON. RESIDENTS WHC ARE TIRED PAYING TAXES AND ARE OFFERING THEIR LANDS AT THR LOW PRICE OF 86, $8, AND 810 PER ACRE, ON LONG TIME AND EASY TERMS, WE ALSO OFFER FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS R ; * - Douglas, Sarpy and Washington COUNTIES. —— ALSO, AN IMMENSE LIST OF OmahaCityReal Estate Tneluding Elegant Residences, Business and Residence Lots, Cheap Houses and Tots, and a large nuniber of Liots in most of the Additions of Omaha, Also, Small Tracts of 5, 10 and 20 acrces in and near the city. We have good oppor- tunities for making Loans, and in all cases parsonally examine titles and take every precaution to insure safety of money so invested. Be ow we offer a small list of Sproran BARGAINS, BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham Sg¢reet, Opp. Grand Central Hotel, OMAHA, NEB. A beautiful residence California betwe lot on d and FOR SAL 23d streets, $1600, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE 05 il Wi, tvar with barn, coal house, well cistern, shade and fruit trees, everything complote. A piece of property, figures low GGS & MILL. FOR SALE Splendid busines lots corner of 16th and Capita. Avenue, BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE FOR BALE (s vutv i oty goop location for boarding house. Owner wil sell low BOGGS & HILL. FOR SALE "SR ades ton, This property will be sold very cheap. BOGGS & HiLL. OR SALE—A top pheaton. Enquire of Jus. Stephenson, o448 Fon SALE Corner of two choice lots in Sainu's Addition, request to at once submit best cosh offer, BOGGS & HILL. BOGGS & HILL. A FINE RESIDENCE—Not in the market FOR SALE Honse and lot corner Chicago and 21st strects, $5000. BOGGS & HILL. Ower will scll for #6,500. BOGGS & HILL, o fine house, $2,300, LOGGS & HILL. About 200 fots in Kountze & lofs, & HILL. 10 lots, suitable for fine rest 4 good lots, Shinn's 3d ad FOR SALE Ruth's addition, just south FOR SALE .o fucer cition §160 ¢ BOGGS & HILL A very fine residence lot, to tome party desiring to bulid of St. Mary's avenue, $450 to §500. These lots are near business, surrounded by fine improve ments and are 40 per cent cheaper than any othe lots in the market. Have money by buyini they O/ 5 blocks 8. E. of depot, ll'covered with fin trees, Price extremoly low. $600 to $700, BOGGS & HILL. Fon SALE foms, vy cheap lots in BOGGS & HILL. Fon SALE Suesp, comer ot comer Douglas and Jefforson Sts. BOGGS & HILL, 98 lots on 26th, 27th, 25th, Faruham, Douglas, and the proposed extension of Dodyo streot. Prices range from §200 to §400, We haxe concluded to give men of suall means, one more khance to secure a home and will build housas oft these lots on small payments, and will BOGGS & HILL, FO&# SALE 1% acrcs,0mites trom aity, about 30 ‘acres very choice val' 4y, with runnin;: water; balance goutly rolling preiric, only 3 wiles tiom railaoad, $10 per acae, BOGGS & HILL, -on SALE 00ucres inone tract twelv Lake's addition, FOR SALE £t ottt s sell lotejon monthly payments. miles from city; 40 acres cu Y tivated, Living Spring of water, some nice va o, Pric Idys. The lard is ull first-class i §10 per acre, 720 acres i FOR SALE i land, paoducing. hiavy growth ef vallcy, rich sofl ajd” § mies frc side track, in good settiement and no can be found, BOGGS FOR SALE % Fine improvements practieal farmer, determined to sell, opening Iqr some raan of FOR SALE hor, 38 to §10;4,000 o to 10, 3,000 acres nce, §6 to §10; 5,000 £ 10 10,4 Ly, 86 to ¥ ‘rhe above lands lic near and adjoin nearly every farm in the county, and can mostly be sold on siall cash paynicnt, With the balance in 1-2.3- 4and 6 vear's time. BOGGS & HILL, < HILL, y improved farm of acres, 3 miles from city. this' land, owner not & A good t of coun- s from Flor- s west of the Elkhorn, es scattered through the coun® Several fine residences prop erties never befere offered not I§nown 11 the market as Felng for sale, Locations will only be wade known 3 purchasers “meaning busines. BUGGS & HILL, We have for IMPROVED FARMS impros e ound Omaha, and in all parts of Douglas, and Washington counties. Also farms i lowa. Fer description and prices call on BOGGS & HILL. us, 10 Business Lots for Sale on Farnam and Doug- lus streets, frow §3,000 to 88,600, EFOR SAL BOGGS & HILL, 8 business lots next west vauced of §2,000 each. of Masonic 'l'euzulflm:m Fon SALE 8 business lots west of 04 BOGGS Fellows block, 82 500 each. BOG F n ALE 2 business lots south side Douglas street, between 12th and 15th, ¥3,000 mch. BOGGS GB & HILL! & HILL. ot @ laud onhand. " BOGGS & HILL. | i { ) [] | ! |