Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 22, 1881, Page 2

’ Mr. James' reformideas may be better ANTOWA GRACE DARLING, understood by the two words ‘‘business =5 Frinciplel' than by nny‘!')\irig p:e. Kate Shelly's Heroism in the lis success with the New York office has emboldened him to undertake the Boone Floods, enforcement of a similar process in the entire department. One of his ans involves a competitive examina- ion, the other that which has been several times suggested to congress — the adoption of a system similar to that which prevails rugulnhn{( admis- sion to the naval academy and at West o Hogeny Point. As the latter would preserve The enstern papers for yoars past| iy, ivnnortance of the member of Con- have delighted to toll of the heroism | ;e TEOTIRCE T iC EMIURC T S of a young girl on the coast of New | b jyaple 1t would be more apt to re- England, the daughter ot a light- | (o the approval of congress. In house-keepor, who has saved many | JiE% Ter SPTEOVEL O SRR TG lives from death by drowning through | e BEVEE . O & SUROTL SO her coolness and fearlessness as wll | SRR+ T c B as by herskill as a water nymph. |40 i gecuring uniformity, a general The fame of Grace Darling is world [, cuiry Wil be instituted as to the wide, and distance lends enchantment present management of the most im- to the tales of her exploita and the re- | STl T TN N L NG thvo cital of her graces of person. There | iyegq offices are now managedalike. never yet was human deed performed [y, o Washington offics has been put but some under investigation and a personal in- UNKNOWN HERO OR HEROINE spection of the Baltimore office. The in our own midst was_oqually capable [main purpose of the department is to of the same, given the opportunity. | remove the Post Office from the pale Once ina while such occasion is pre- [ of local politics. According to Post- sented and then we find the quiet, | matter General James, a government prosaic man, the least noted and least | post office should be something more suspected for pure, unselfish acts and |than a mere local political machine and noblo efforts, the demure maiden | run at general expense. If he suc- pursuing her unnoted way in the |ceeds in carrying out his ideas nfv re- world, intent only on her little loves | form Mr. James will have revolution- or the pursuits of a modest and cir- | ized the postal servico before his term cumscribed line of life, burst sudden- | expires, 1y into public view through some deed of startling endeavor or great self- sacrifice, a Horatius at the bridge, a Joan of Arc. When the wind and n-ui-;l was pour- | The Crops Reported Booming ing in torrents down the canyon $hvongh SH1ck LHA Flway tratle 1Hoth and Everything Lively. here to Moingona runs, on Wednes- - day night of lst week, Avsiox, Boone Co., July 20. A YOUNG GIRL OF 14 or 15 To the Editor of Tun Baa: stood at her window at midmight, near [ The crops and weeds together are S o otghpaavkicy ‘;‘I"Wr*"i'l"tg just booming in Boone county, and it o slow forward creeping of the pilot | ¢ | 5 s engine sent out to explore tho condi- |18 hard to tell, in many cases, which tion of the embankments and bridges. [ will be the biggest crop, as this has Suddenly, as it passed upon a well | heen the greatest growing eeason we Known trestlo, shio saw it drop and it8 | hayo ovor had in this county. The lights disappear, and knew there were : & Y o human lives in danger. Rushing out | formems in this county will have to into the s orm and to the brink of the | commence farming less acres per man chasm, Kittie Shelly called at the top [ and team, and farm them better than of her voice, with the hope that some | they had to when the land was new. poor struggler in the turbid waters 3 might hear her voice and be encourag-| L1ere are great numbers in t od by hor cry, Sho was hoard, and |county who believe, with the editor back from the swaying tree top, in|of Tue Bee, that the dastardly at- which precarious p(lsrch thu]'unu'"““ tempt to assassinato President Gar- had Tound another lewwo of lifo, game | field, was just as much tho rosult of repeated. But the awollen ‘streams Conkhing's war on the president as forbade hearing the directions which (was the killing of President Lincoln were shouted to thé young girl, and |the result of the war of the rebellion, she was left to her own resources to | While Conklinu.'s resignation is Iuolfm! effect a rescue, which fortunately were | upon as something like the boy taking not wanting. Alone and guided by | up his marbles and going home when the flickering light of a dim lantern, | things did not go to suit him, sho commenced her journey through |and by so doing trying to break up the tall wood to Moingona, the game. Conkling may be a friend A MILE AWAY, of the people, and one who is upfnoxed to summon help. She crept beneath | to the great moneyed.power of the the swaying branches, her face brush- | country, nevertheless, almost without ed by the switching undergrowth, wet | single exception, every Grant man, to the waist by wading through the | every U. P. man, every dead head who littlo ollows, of tho hillsido, each | travels on a pass, i a Conkling man in now & running brook, losing her way [ this county. An eminent writer has at times, though every foot of the [said that to thecivil and political his- Toute was a known page under ordi- |torian the past alone has an existenco; nary circumstances, and at last came | that the present he rarely approhends, out” upon the long railway bridge. [and the futuro never, but by the Hero hmur;nn of mnzncgthinfig‘g w’ll-lfd:‘“m t(f; come to pass during he lifetime of : s e AR generations of men yet unborn can be butsho did not hesitate. Across the | gycertained with as much certainty as slippery baidge ties, for there were no | things which have passed and gone, I planks, she "aflpedv guided only by | don't believe any such thing, I believe tho phastly flashes of tho lightning, | ¢nat just so sure as the historian of x ing course ol e eratic comet in 0 Sronchad Hoe oyes with the cold spray | heayens, follow it into the infinite of tho storm. Beneath her were depths of space far beyond the limits the waters whose embrace was death. | of our gys em, until the eternal law of How She Saved Several Lives in the Northwestern Railway Accident. ALBION NOTES. Six feot had they risen in an hour; | gravitation commends it to re- one false step and they|gym, predict the return of would close over her forever. |¢ho glittering object to They dashed and howled against the | ¢} place where it last was seen prers and across the ico break, clam- though ages may pass beforo that oring for her, and licking out their | gvong takes place; just so sure can the foaming tongues and flocking the | political historian after reading by the trembling timbers with their froth. ight of past events the causes which There must have been a Providenco brought about the fate of other repub- which guided little Katie Shelly's foot- | Jjoy “prodict _that the days of the steps across that perilous passage in | oront *American, are numl ered, and the awful' night until the safe|ihat in the near future, it will only ground of the western embankment i 5 was reached and she fled through the :(;: phianton. ahadow of what it onic black darkness, with streaming hair, as M and outstretchod bare and gl%uming b?r:yl“ ill "‘bg" it is 3"'““1 to_ talk the eam of wnxipus mon ab the depot undermined, that it was built upon SHOUTED THE STORY the adamantine rock of justice and of disaster and the ery for help, cquality to all. The same was said Two men went down iu that fatal | during the agitation about slavery, chasm, and two widows and two fami- [and that thero would be no war, but lies of infant children call for tho lost | there was a right smart war after all who never shall return; but two [ Which shook the mighty fabric which other men and two other families, | had been built atso ‘much cost of to their dying days, have cause to|blood and treasure until it almost fell. thank the good Lord that he made A BooNe County FARMER, «l)‘n.e ngl;\Afil wit% hthu })Jm‘;; hmn-t] :i Er——— te Shelly, e co) usiness-like \ T AT e OLD JIM I8 DEAD, only when—*‘the accident was report- ed by the young girl and relief was | The Famous Old Hunterand Guide promptly dispatched.” And when on the Western Plains the fatal trap in which poor Olmstead Passes Away: and Pat Donahue found their watery | Jim Bridger is aname familiar to gaves, 18 n filled up and traftic|old western settlers, and the an- once more is busy over the -lpot, the | nouncement of his death will be ro. great company will forget the doed, | ceived with feelings of sadness by all or only remember it asan accident|who knew him. In early days he which brought no suit for personal | was a noted scout, hunter and guide damages against the company, on these western prairies, and his — name figured in more than one ven- THE STAR ROUTE. turesome and daring deed so common e p—— to the plainsman in~ those days. Of Reovolutionizing the Postal System. | his death the Kansas City Mail has ——— the following: ‘Washington Spectal to the Globe-Democrat. James Bridger, one of the last sur- Postmaster General James, in his|vivors of the early mountaineers determined efforts to reform abuses in the postal service, has not confined his attention to the vigorous suppres- sion of extravagances in the notorious star route, That has been the main objective point for the time, because a reform in that direction was the most crying necessity when he came into office, A great ring had fastened itself and was fattening upon the country, and its head center was located in the chair of the second assistant posf ter. Beveral millions of dollars were being swallowed up, and the whole system of postal contracts was threat- ened with the rottenness which came whose headquarters wero in this part of the country, died at his residence near New Santa Fe in this county at b o'clock yesterday afternoon, Klr. Bridger had passed his seventy-sixth birthday anniversary, that event tak- ing place in last March, His funeral took place to-day. The remains were interred in a littlo county cemetery not far from the place in which he died, Mr. Bridger wasa Virginian by birth. He had been a scout, guide and plainsman for about thirty years, About sixteen years ago while riding a “‘bucking” mule he re- ceived injurics that — permanently disabled him. Since that time he has retired from active life and has been living on his, or rather children's, farm near Santa Fe. For three years or more he has been in his dotage. was to grapple with the great evil, and he did at once and fearlessly, but he evidently does not propose to stop there. The whole post oo sys- %fih i requires over- hnf‘;’or‘l’n:;t He once got lost within one-halt mile of his own house, Old age and con- finement to one place caused the vet- eran plainsman's vital forces to give way with sure and rapid decline. To use a common expression he died of old age. His th was painless, TIHE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY JULY 22 1881 the flame of life burned down to the socket and noiselessly expired. ) He leaves a family of three chil- dren, all grown. One of the daugh- ters is the wife of Mr. A. Wachsman, of Westport. Mr. Bridger had, at the time of his death, a claim before congress for money due him on ac- count of the occupation of his fort by United States soldiers. Bridger sold his fort and grounds in good faith. For this he received no “‘cash down, The war came on, attention was ab- sorbed by it, and congress did not ive a thought to waking provision for the payment of the poorold guide's claim, Tfu‘ Bridger family will throw off all interest if an appropriation of £10,000 for the payment of the prin- cipal is made, If it had net been for “Old Jim,"” as he was called, General Fremont's great western exploring ex- pedition would not have been a suc- cess, For a great portion of the way Bridger acted asa guide. OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS. CALIFORNIA, At the beginning of July there were 1,021 patients in the Napa Insane Hospital, A large quantity of grain in San Joa- quin county has been destroyed by fire, A wave of Chinese immigration is settin, into California and occasioning mucl alarm. Another water company has been organ- ized to supply Oakland and San Francisco with water. The project of a railroad between Santa Rosa and Benicia via Vallejo, is again be- ing agitated, California has 47 branches of the Land Teague, 4,580 members, and has sent 811,- 497.25 to relaud. There_are about two hundred tourists around_Lake Tahoe, camping or stopping at the different hotels, People have been up the Napa valloy, lately, trying to contract for Mission grapes for $18 per ton, without success, In Colusa_county white labor is so dif- ficult to obtain that people are advertising for Chinese crews to cut cordwoood, A pm-t(nl Ttalians are examining locali. ties in Northern Sonomo county, with a view of purchasing several thousands acres of land. intending to set out the largest vineyard in the State, Thirteen hydraulic mining companies have applied to the board of equilization of Nevada county a for reduction in their assessments, on tfn- groand that pendin, litigation and the judicial injunction laid upon them renders their property ot much less value, ARIZONA, Tucson has fssued a 114 page directory. The Phanix flouring mill start up in ten days or two weeks, The graders for the railroad have com- menced work at Benson and cars will run into Tombstone in ninety days. A report comes from El Paso that Gov. Terrassas, who was en ronte to El Paso, was attacked by Indians and thirty of his men killed, on Wednesday. The waterspout at El Paso last week damaged city property to the amount of ,000, Southern Pacific railroad prop- erty, €8,000, and washed away a bridge of thidA!chimn, Topeka & Santa Fe rail road, NEVADA, Secret societies flourish in Eureka. Hay isa drug in the Eureka market. The White Pine district is looking up. Railroad grading continues on the East- ern and Central railro The grasshoppers are doing_an immense amount of damage in Indian Valley, From 200 to 250 tons of refined sulphur are shipped every month from the Hum- boldt company’s works near ‘Winne- mucea, The horse flies are so troublesome in In- dependence Valley that it is necessary to cover animals entirely with netting or cloths while working them on the ranches, CREGON. Small pox has appeared in Portland. The crop prospects of the state are be- low the average, Charges of bribery are made against Portland's councilmen. The upper Columbia at present covers the entire Lewis and Lake river bottoms, the hay crop being entirely destroyed. A foreign pany with a capital of $200,000 has been formed for the purpose of purchasing the Salem flouring mills and running them, The Pacific opera house at Albany was totally destrc .ycfi by fire on the mqm of the 11th, Tke fire was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary, Salmon fishing on the Columbia river is slight this year, the average being only sixteen fishes to the boat. The shortage this season will be nearly 100,000 cases. WASHINGTON TERRITORY. The Spokane Times is now issued daily, There are thirteen two-story buildings in Cheney. The Yakama river is rising, caused by melted snows, - The new Methodist church building at Colfax is approaching completion, The new proposed depot building at Walla Walla will be 106 feet long and 24 feet wide. Last October the town of Cheney con- sisted of half a doz houses, o-day there are nearly 100 buildings in the place, of them large twostory structures. wagon road lately suryeyed Camas to Klickitat Tanding will be open for travel soon, This will enable settlers on the Big Camas to get their pro- duce to n shipping point on the Columbia rivor easier and quicker than heretofore. Specimens of ore from the lodes recently discover-d in the East Sound mining dis- trict, San Juan county, shows forty-five Pacific treasury will retain one-half the stock and give each 100 shares of the Union Pacific stock the right to subseribe 2,000 of bonds with & bonus of twenty per cent- or ten shares of Oregon extension stock. The main span of the Platte bridge at Carbon went out last Friday, At the time the bridge gave away there were some 250 sheep upon it. Some twenty ef the sheep were killed. Mrs. Robert Rankin, of Rawlins, has ) | been presented with n gold watch as a tes- timonial for her bravery and heroic action in preventing the escape of Big Nosed George last spring. John Ash found at Carbon Sunda morning about £400, which had evidently dropped from a passenger train, The money had been run over by the train and was badly mutilated. MOATANA Bozeman wants a first-class hotel, The new court house at Bozeman is com- pleted, Herds on the Muscleshell fall 80 per cept short, The hay harvest which has just begun will belighter this season than usual, The crops on the I'eton river at the pres- ent time look better than they have for many years, There are unusual number of experts and ex!vuienc».l miners examining the mines of Summit valley district at the present time. The present year will witness the larg- est production of silver and matter from Butte and Summit Valley district pro- duced for any one year since its discovery. The news from the mining camps of Madison county—hoth ?mnz and . placer ~indicate an increase of at least five per cent in the production of bullion this year. There seems to be very little doubt now that the Helena branch of the Utah & Northern railway will leave the main line at Dillon, and run down the Beaverhtad and Jefferson valleys. UTAH. Empire Canyou is filling up with new houses, B The city of Frisco telegraphed condo- lence to Washington, Logan is to have a large and commo- dious depot building, Silver Reef once more is active and 300 men are employed in the mines, ‘T'he foundation is being laid for the Uni- versity of Deseret at Salt Lake, The Grand Gulch copper mines are turn- ing out a large amount of first class metal, Joel R. Jehnson, of Lehi, is the father of 20 children, 113 grandchildren, and 42 great grandchildren, Total, 184, The Utah and Nevada extension to Eu. rekn is being pushed with all possible vig. or, but the work is greatly retarded by the inability of the company to get civil en. gineers enough to run their lines. Another gang of men is at work in B n what account is not orted and believed that they represent the Texas and Pacific, which has been suspected of having an eye on the Utah field for some time past. COLORADO. Opium joints are troubling Pueblo, Boulder is nursing her railroad boom, Mechanics of all sorts are busy at Lake City. Lake City is pleased with the tele- phone, Rails are being laid in Leadville for a street railway. ‘Within a week the Rio Grande will be at Durango, Silver Cliff will soon build a custom stamp mill with home capital, Work will be pushed as fast as_possible upon the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific railroad. Custer county is _producing about 190 tons of ore dilily. Silver L‘lrfl continues its output of 120 tons, The present season of development is the most active and flattering known in the San Juan for years, ‘Work has been commenced on two new school-houses for Leadville, One will cost $30,000 and the other £10,000, A party of Coloradans celebrated the Fourth en the summit of Uncompahgre peak—1,400 feet above sea level. Independence district is in a highly prosperous condition, and is the” second in rank of the gold producing sections of the state, Boulder, Colorado, is agitated over a railroad question, Two different com- panies want to build, but there is only room for one, Twenty-six bake shops now supply_the people of Denver with bread. 'These twenty:six shops cousume about one hund- red sacks of flour daily. The Safety Nitro-Powder company is the title of a new corporation which will soon commence the manufacture of a powerful_explosive near Littleton, Col- orado. 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AZrSEND FOR PRICES. Je 24-6m-be MARK, S| feet of ore face, above tide wa'er, Some of the ore has been tried in_a blacksmith's forge, and yields copper and silver in large quantities, The Utsalady mill recently cut 120,000 feet of lumber in one day. = Utsalady is the chief grain depot of the La Conner flats, Probably " not less than eighty thousand sacks of grain have been shipped through the l'L»uTxul)' wardhouse during the past year WYOMING. Cummins has a new hotel, w’l."l‘xfi:e ll: an Indian scare around Fort The wool elip of Wyoming this year will exceed that of all previons seasous, Fifty horses have been stolen by the Bannacks within four miles of Evanston, The Jelm Mountain mining and milling company have struak some very fine quartz in the Lone Boy miue, It s reported that 3,000 men are w, ing on the extension of the Union Pacific from Granger to Boise City. 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