Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 27, 1881, Page 4

[ i | | PR S 4 DAILY BE THE OMAHA E: WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 1881. The Omaha Bee. Bublished every morning, except Sunday. only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MATL:— ar. .£10.00 | Three Months, £3.00 Months... 5,00 | One N e AW THE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- ery Wednesday. TERMS POST PATD:~ 2.00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 1.00{One .. 2 S One Year...... Six Months. ... CORRF eations re! tors should be addressed to the Evrron or Tae Bre, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Toetters and Remittances should be ad dressed to Tur Omana ruptisiiNg Com- PANY, OMAnA. Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00, Prop's E.ROSEWATER, Editor. — POND ting to News 8 John H. l‘i;r\"e is in Charee of the Circn- ation of THE DAILY BE Tus president’s condition still con- The recent re- tinues very critical. Iapso followed by painful surgical op- erations, have weakened the patient for a time and brought on symptoms that were alarming. The attending surgeons represent his condition as more favorable and reassuring last night. There is no telling, however, what the next day may bring forth. The country still hopes for the best, while foaring the worst. TispaLs has found his affinity in ¢ Bright-Eyes,” but poor Standing- Bear, what is to become of him? Our local contemporaries should have learned long ago that it does not pay to meddle with the business end of Tur Bee. OanLe advices from Paris announce another skirmish between the French army of invasion in Northern Africa and the natives. Theloss to the in- vaders was insignificant. Corteotor ROBERTSON i8 now at his post of duty and it is to be hoped he will emulate the example of Post- master-General James and make the New York custom house a model es- tablishment. Ix spite of the Slocum law and high iicenso, Lincoln voied dowu the proposition for an unlimited water supply, and now some of the thirsty Lincolnites propose to sk a million gallon bottomless well, Tae Irish land bill has been man- aged in the house of commons with such consummate tact that its passage through the house of lords is now considered certain, The bill, in its essontial features, was the same as presented by Gladstone. The amend- ments adopted were, of course, gov- ernment modifications that did not abandon apy important feature of the original bill Woure's Omaha city directory for 1881 contains the following card: OMAHA REPUBLICAN, Daily circulation 4,620, weekly 6,400, C. E. Yosr, Manager. When a paper represents its weekly circulation as 6,400 when it had bare- ly 2,000, and its daily at 4,620 when it has less than 1,800, it is engaged in business that plain spoken people call swindling, Now that Justice Clifford is dead speculation is rife as to his successor. Judge Cooley, of Michigan, has been mentioned and some parties suggest Ex-Senator Conkling, but it is more probable that Mr. Clifford will be succeeded by a New England man, since that section is entitled to the successorship, It is very doubt- ful whether Conkling would accept the position, but if he should be inclined in that direction a vacancy will soon ocour in his own state, Justico Hunt being physically disabled from sitting on the supreme bench, Tunx agitation of the barge line pro- ject has suggested a new departure in transportation, which is to be known hereafter as the combination railroad barge line. Hon. David Morgan, of Oskaloosa, Yowa, president of the Towa barge line railroad, is enthusi- astic about this new scheme. Ho says that 1t is the purpose to start a railroad at the head of the deep water navigation on the Mussissippi, at the foot of the lower rapids at Keokuk, and to build directly northwest an air line to the wheat fields of western Minnesota and Da- kota; and that branches of his line will be thrown out, penetrating the most productive regions of Iowa, Ne- brasks and Minnesota. He says that the cars used for transporting grain to the barges will be returned laden with coal, as the line passes through the finest coal fields of the west, and ‘e predicts that with this road com- pleted the millenium financial will have come to the farmers of Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. PAVEMENTS. Now that our water works are al- most completed and a system of sewers is about to be adopted the question of pavements will become a most impor- tant problem. 8o far Omaha is prac- tically without pavement. The Fan- ham street experiment with macadam Tt was a costly job that will never be tried again. The exper- jence of other cities where macadam is a failure. has been more oxtensively tried has demonstrated that it is not durable. In St. Louis 310 the streots are paved with broken limestone but thejboard of ““public works, in its latest report, says its use should be confined to streets where most of the traflic islight and its de- nted by a " In St. Louis Macadam is very cheap and gravel miles of struction should top dressing of grave abundant, butin Omaha such a pave- ment, even it it was durable, is alto- gether too expensive. In St. Louis the cost of pavement of lime- stone Macadam is about six dolllars per square; in Oma- ha it costs more than double that sum. Nooity it the Union has better pavements at present than the city of Washington, and in that city experi- ments have been made with every va- riety of pavements, including square woodeu blocks, round wooden blocks, asphalt blocks, and rolled asphalt, and granite bloeks, and the engineers in charge, in their report just published, pronounce the granite block pave- ment as the most economic, although the most costly. They say in their report: “The granite block pavement laid down on a foundation of gravel andsand and filled in the joints with a cement of coal tar zives great satisfaction in the busin streets where traffic is heavy. The experience in Paris and London puts the Life of this character of pavement when laid with coment in the joints at about thirty years with an annual expense of about ten cents a yard for maintainanee and repairs. There is eyery reason to believe that a stone pavement laid in this city will prove equally durable, and that the cement in the joints, by making the pave- ment water-tight, will reduce the an- nual cost of maintenance to two or three cents per yard.” The only objection to this class of pavemout is that it is noisy, and that is of no moment when durability and stability are taken into consideration, In Washington city the cost of granite block pavement now is about $2.60 per yard. In St Louis the cost of granite pavements laid on a foundation of concreto six inchos thick, is about thirty-five dollars per square. A pavement of wooden blocks possesses every quality of perfect paving with two exceptions. It absorbs moisture to a considerable degree, and after a few years decays. During the pro- cess of decay it reaches a condition that makes it unfit for traveling, and dangerous to the public health. If this decay could be prevented, wooden pavements would be prefera- ble to any other. During the last fifty years many processes to effect this have been tried, the majority of them have proved a fallure. In St. Louis experiments were made with wooden blocks chemically treated to expel moisture, but all these have been par- tial failures. Creosoting, if well and thorouzhly carried out and the best materials are used, is probably the surest method of wood preservation, but works for such purposes are very costly. Ossage orange is the best wood for paving purposes. Its resistsnce against de- cay and its toughness are well known and makes it very desirablo for street pavementsand more desirable than any other natural or preserved timber. But it would be very expensive and difficult to obtain of proper dimen- sions in large quantities, Next to granite blocks, asphalt blocks, com- pressed by hydraulic pressure, are the most durable. Afcer a thorcugh test in St. Louis this pavement is pronounced too cost- ly considering the wear and tear, The cost, including foundation, rolling and 80 forth, is thirty dollars per super- ficial square in St. Louis, which makes it much more expensive in the end than granite blocks, Medina sand- stone has a great reputation as a street paving material. It has been largely used in Cleveland and Buffalo, and lately in Chicago and Kansas City. It offers great resis- tance to abrasion, is not harmed by irost, and wears equally under trafiic. Paving blocks of this material are now delivered at Chicago at $12 70 per euperficial square, and could be de- liverad in Omaha for about $20 per square, This would be mext to granite the most econ- omic pavement for Omaha. The question of pavements must be decided in the very near future by our city, and inasmuch as the out- lay will be immense, no matter what kind oj paving material we use, it is a subjoct that ought to be thoroughly investigated and discussed, em——— Tug Modoc war isstill raging. The remuant of the Modocs now roaming around in the Bacramento mountains are on the) war path in full paint. They were pursued by Lieut. Guil- foyle's command of colored cavalry and Oregon Indian scouts and a run- ning fight was kept up for miles, Pouies seem to have been the princi- pal sufferers in the conflict, LET HIM BE IMPEACHED Mr. Martin Dunham must answer to the poople of Omaha for a very grave offense, 1t is a well understood fact among & large class of business men of Omaha—who don’t kno¥ what theyarc talking about — that heis oneof the owners of Tue Ber. Any man suspected of owning an interest in that diabolical sheet is a bad man, and should bo impeached before a The charge drum-head court martial. that Martin Dunham owners of Tue Ber was made several was one of the days ago by Dr. Miller's man Friduy, who is trying to cre- ate a tempest in o teapot, over the city advertising contract, and Mr. denied this gravo charge. to assume that Bk stock, and any man that owns B stock is guilty of a capitsl crime. Mr. Dunham being summarily con- victed because he has never denied the grave charge made by the irre- sponsible sneak, who sneezes every time Dr. Miller takes snuff, stands impeached without further cersmony. The cty charter prohibits any member of the city council from be- ing interested either directly or indi- rectly in any contract awarded by the city government. Mr. Dunham, be- ing one of the proprietors of Tur DER, is interested in awarding the has not It is therefore proper he is the owner of Dunham contract to that paper, and Dr. Miller's man Friday demands his impeachment and removal from the office which he holds. This imperative demand must be com- plied with by the city council without delay, although as a matter of fact Mr. Dunham never did own a share ot stock in the Bee andis not now and never has been directly or indirectly intercsted in the Beg, except as an oc- casional subscriber at fifteen cents per woek, But Mr. Dunham is guilty of a graver crime than simply being inter- ested in a city contract while holding the office of city councilman—a crime of the pgame nature as that which has brought shame upon the people of the United States, one which can now never be blotted out of history. It is known everywhere as Credit Mobilier. The infamy of the Tredit Mobilier steals was in the fact that men awarded contracts to themselves Although there is not tho remotest similarily between Mr. Dunham's conduct in the city council and the conduct of Credit Mobilier congress- men, yet on general principles Mr. Dunham must be impoached because he did not award the printing contract to Dr. Miller's stool-pigeon. This will explain to the citizens of Omaha why such a tempest in a tea pot has been raised over the city printing, and inasmuch as Mr. Dun- ham has never explained to the citi- zens of Omaha why all this hue and cry has been raised, he should be im- peached and removed from office. It is bad enough for a councilman to be directly interested in city contracts, but when a councilman in neither directly or indirectly inter- ested, he should be im- peached instanter. Mr. Dunham is the very man who fills that bill, and to allow such conduct to go un- rebuked or unpunished, would un- dermine the rock-buttressed found- ations of this city government. The people of Omaha—that is Dr. Miller, his man Friday and their co- parceners, in the Omaha Twilight. Mushroom will not submit to any such conduct in public officials. Not if this court knows itself, and it thinks it does, They insist upon setting an example for all future generations of Omahogs by impeaching Martin Dun- ham and expelling all the other mem- bera of the city council. They pro- pose to elect a council of their own for the benefit of Omahogs in general, and their own bencfft in particular. They propose to have the city business transacted on the square, and let the public advertising to the lowest bid- der, even if it is a theater programme or a bill of fare. Inany event Martin Dunham stands hereby impeached and it is ordered that he be expelled from the city council. IN their hurry to adjourn the New York logislature failed to pass the bill then pending for the filllng the congrasstonal vacancies caused by the election of Miller and Lapham to the U. 8. senate. Their places will therefore remain vacant until the general election next year. The omission on the part of the New York legislature will not however af- fect the result of the contest for the control of the house. The list of members elected to the Forty-seventh congress, published in the Congressional Directory, shows the following political divisions in the new house: Republicans Democrats 151 Greenbackers ., 9 Readjusters . 2 Total....... 0890000802000 000000000t 203 Since the election the republicans have lost five members, four by elec- tion to the senate and ene by appoint- ment to a foreign mission, namely Frye, of Maine, Conger, of Michigan, ank Messrs. Morton, Miller and Lap- ham, of New York. A republican successor has been elected to Mr. Con- ger, and this leaves the republicans with one handred and forty-seven members, or a majority of one in a full house. Tt will thus be seen that the republicans have the exact num- ber to constitute a quorum. The democratic membership has been reduced to 129 by the deaths of Mr. Wood of New York, and Mr. O'Connor or South Carolina. A sue- cessor to the latter has been elected, but as Mr. O'Connor’s seat was con- tested by Mr. Mackey, and the re- publicans took no part in the latter election, it is not probable that he will be admitted to tho roll. Four of the nine grecnback members were elected against regular democrats by republican votes,while another, J. Hy- att Smith, of New York, although elected by democrats and nationals as an independent candidate, has no sympathy with the democratic party. How the the two readjusters will vote on organization is not known, but in all probability they will follow the lead of Senator Mahone. As matters now stand the house is politically divided as follows: oo 147 120 9 Greenbackers. Readjusters, Add vacancies. ... Tobaliovieeiivesee Should none of the vacancies be filled before the assembling of Con- gress in December next, the republie- ans will have a majority ef seven over all others, or three more than is absolutaly necessary to organization. The republicans are thus shown to be in a condition to organize the new house without any outside assistance. Current Magazines. The Midsummer number of Scrib- ner's is a good one; its articles being mainly written with that ligh‘ness de- sirable for hot weather reading; this is particularly the case with Miss Woolsey's pleasant essay about New- port, which rather gives the sense of the place than a picture; with Miss Loring’s charming paper on Etretat on the Normandy coast; with Mr, Farnham's vivacious description of that swift sport, ice-yachting on the Hudson; and Mr. Redwood's pleasant sketck of Petit Anse, alittle island in one of the Mississippi bayous. Of the stories, Miss Sprague'sabout ‘“The Daughter of Henry Sage Ritten- house” is light encugh so far as it has gone, and painfully imitative of that bad model, Mr. James. His inflnence, which is disagreeably evident even in_authors of original quality like Mr. Howells, is 80 great over Miss Sprague that the effect is almost ludicrous. The story is undeniably clever, and Mr. James himself mm{n envy the skill which limns.so well the Philadelphia type. Mr. Boyeseu’s ‘‘Queen Titania” opens with a fresh and healthy air, charac- teristic of him, and his broad, manl; manner is a very welcome relief; it 13 too soon to say what the story’ will amount to. We have the ‘‘Evening” of that “‘Rainy Day with Uncle Ke- mus” which J. C. Harris hay been contributing to this mag- azine; the oMl Georgia negro is never tedious, but as interost- ing now as when we first made his acquaintance. C. H. White's story of ““The Village Convict, is a simple and faithful Yankee genre sketch. There are several pieces of verse, in- cluding five by Roger Riordan, the artist; these show a whimsical humor and a slight regard for symmetry aud grace. “‘Thistle-down” is far the best, it shows a pretly audacity of faucy and language, and some true poetic glimpses. Dr.. Holland's verses to his dog do no credit to his reputation; “H. H's.” lines on ‘‘No Man’s Land,” are flat nonsense; Mr. Gilder's ‘“The River Inn” has a curious charm, The American Art Review for July contains many interesting illustra- tions in various styles, the finest be- ing an etching by Thomas Moran, called ““Morning,” and representing a sunrise over the low coast of Long Island. This is an excellent sample of Mr Moran’s brilliant style, and represents ‘‘the exhilerating fresh- ness and freedom” of a sea shore morning wonderfully; it is, as the editor says, ‘‘all space, light and air.” An etching by Edmund H. Garrett, of Boston, ‘‘Near Mattakeesett,” is happy in suggestion. A curious work is a reproduction by eome pro- cess of a drawing by Mr. Garrott of an “Ideal Landscape” by the late M. G. Wheelock. It is a composition; on the left a rocky mountain spur juts into the scene, with an ecclesiastical ruin, half hidden in trees at its foot, wnd more ruins dimly intimated on top. At the right there is a rather amorphous mass of tree and rock, with a church tower and other build- ings vaguely seen in the “‘middle dist- auce.” A lorng viaduet connects the church with the other side of the pic- ture, and there are mountains beyond and a sort of golden-misted sky filling the picture. A clump of bushes in the foreground takes up & good deal of room, but the effect is one of great beauty even in this production. F. L, Kirkpatrick, whose work is described as centering inter- est at the late Philadelphia exhibition, is sampled here in his own_drawing from his painting, “In the Museum” a strictly foreign performance in every respect. An article on *‘Saskia van Ulenburgh,” Rembrandt’s wife adorned with a cut of a charming etching by Unger, one of Rembrandt’s pictures of her, and other cuts, be- sides an etching also by Unger of ““I'he Jewish Bride,” for which Mr. Koehler believes Saskis was her husband’s model. A brief sketch of Walter Shirlaw is given by T. H. Bartlett, sculptor, with illustrations, Mr, Bartlett's article affords @ pleasing contrast by the intelligent and judi- cious characterization to the extrava- gant eulogies of Chase in previow numbers of the Review. Shirlaw is much the more considerable man of the two. Yot his ‘“Very Old,” here engraved by Juengling, 18 not good work; it would have been much better entitled “Remarkably Well Pre- sorved,” as that is the hirst impression produced by a face so full; the flesh, moreover, vdoes not suggest the bones a8 good drawing ought—which may be the engraver's or the painter’s fault. OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS. . COLORADO, Hay brings 818 a ton in Denver. oo city of Pueblo's deb s about $200,- Three thousand persons living in tents in Denver. The South Patk company operates 430 miles of telegraph wire, Denver will be lighted with the electric lights from four towers. Preparations are being made for the re- moval of the Utes to Antelope valley. The rx&wmv- of the county in which Denver is located, for the past six months was 887, Brush Ten thousand dollars has_been expended in grading on Capitol hill, Denver, and the work lisa hardly Gommence The coin value of ore and bullion ship- ped from Silver CIff by rail, for the week ending June 17th, exceeded 860,000, Y | in 1845, and The Rio Grande extension from Lead. ville to Kokomo is one of the best payin, short lines of railroads in the {"nite\ States, The passenger traffic is so great that a special passenger train has been put on and is crowded each way daily. Articles of incorporation of the Love- land Pass Mining & Railroad Tunnel com pany have been duly filed with the secre- tary of state. They propose to construct a tunnel and connect Salt Lake city with Denver by rail, bringing them 160 miles nearer, CALIFORNIA. Dr. Glenn's loss by the recent fire in his grain field will reach $50,000. About 37,500 pounds of blackberries are being shipped daily from Santa Clara The wheat crop of Celusa is about half what it was last year, but the quality is superb, The California’ Sonthern railroad is now located to a point seventy-eight miles from National City, Shasta county, Cal., has a total of 720 miles of mining ditches which are daily in operation. Russ, Potter & Hansom of Humbolt county, lately sheared 14,000 sheep. The biggest day's work was 3,000.] Dixon expects to receive 8,000 tons of wheat this season, and does not know where it is all going to be stored. The people of Yuba and Sutter counties and the southern portion of Butte have subscribed $00,000 to fight hydraulic min- ing in the courts, Quite a furor is raging in Missouri Slough over vineplanting. A party rep- resenting $30,000 capital was there last week looking for land. The first locomotive—an engine of 48 tons—ever seen at San Diego, was landed there on the 13th. A large number of peo- ple assembled to welcome its arrival, Two large lamps, which cost $9.000, have arrived at San Diego, for the new light-houses that are to be_erected, one on the harbor side of Point Loma and the other on the west side, The roads leading into Willows, Colusa county, are lined with grain-laden teams, About 7,000 sacks of whent are brought in every day for stornge. There are some 20,000 tons of old wheat in warehouses there. P J. W. Waterman claims to have re- ceived from eastern parties an offer of $2,- 500,000 for his mine, said to be wonderful silver deposit. 1t is located about 140 miles from Los Angeles, in San Bernardino county. Major _Stephen Cooper, of &Colusa county, who is 85 years of age, homestead- ed a quarter section in Modoc county the other day. The major came to Californin served in the war of 1812, He was elected in 1880 to carry the elec- | DL toral vote of the state to Washington. Raisin muking in the foothills of Placer county is said to be very profitable. One man sold five tons recently to a Sacra- mento firm, at the rate of 12} cents a pound for those made“of Muscat grapes, and 9 cents & pound for those from Ma- laga grapes. The raisins equal the best London layers. Receipts of bullion from the Pacific coasts during the first six months of 1881, in San Francisco, were $9,540,100, against £19,220,500 during the same time in 1880, 827,636,400 in 1870 and 837,390,700 in 1878, The production for the past six months conaisted of $7,167,300 in Dore silver, $4,- 319,600 in gold bullion and $8154,200" in coin, WYOMING. Cheyenne is negotiating for gas works, The assessment of Laramie county foots up 84,077,262, Cattle in northern Wyoming are in ex- cellent condition. ) Over 100,000 railroad ties have recently been floated down the Cache le Poudre i«.ml are now being taken out at Fort Col- ins, Bryan was once a lively town ot 3,000 inhabitants; nowit is only a side station with a freight-house, a section and China house and store. t The ground is all cleaned and staked for work on the new opera house at Cheyenne, The building will be 88x110 feet in extent, all under one big roof, United States Marshal Gustave Schnit- er and his deputies, arrested a large num- r of soldiers at Fort Sanders, ch: with stealing cattle on the Laramie plains. Labor is in big demand in the new min- ing district north of Cheyenne. Miners, carpenters and laburers of all kinds can get abundance of work at the best wages. New machine and blacksmith shop, boiler house, office and other buildings, will soon be started in Green River, an their construction will be prosecuted as fast as labor can put the buildings to- gether. OREGON. Arrangements have been made to put 000 Chiness to work on the Yaquina rail- road, The wheat worm is doing much damage in Yambill county. Joseph Wattof Amity, loses alone 200 acres of wheat. Y"r""f. cattle are said to be dying in large numbers in Wallowa valley, Union county, from some unknown cause, The O. R. & N, track is completed to Dayton, and regular trains will run next week, Grading is completed from Uma. tilla to Pendleton, and track laying will commence soon, Heavy frosts arc reported on North Powder river in eastern Oregon, and much damage has resulted to vegetables and fruits. On the night of the 14th instant it was 50 cold as to form ice one-eighth of an inch on standing water. During the past week 51,600-2,000 tons of ore were extracted from the 2,000 level of the California. On the 2,500 are cuttin out a station for the joint Consolidate Virginia winze. The joint Opir winze, on the 2,500 level, has been sunk and timbered 12 feet. Very few sheep died in Grant county last winter, The wool clip is larger than that of last season, The production of the entire county will considerably exceed 300,000 pounds. Long Creek along yields 70,000 poands, gain of 20,000 pounds over L year. Four large vessels are now on the way to Portland loaded with railroad material for the Oregon Railroad and Navigation com- pany nn%he Nurdxll’flfic {‘“K“’ com- pany. e ressals Leing in the agurs. flta ‘ll.l;u lteeldmih. es Ianun;h:{hol ocomotives, and a great quantit; er volling stock. oo o MONTANA, Cars are now running on the Northern Pacific toa point where the road strikes the Yellowstons river, Fort Keough, had a serious fire on the $th, Two company quarters were burned and other damage done, The Hecla Consolidated Mining com- pany, of Montana, are employing 350 men, and produce about $1,000,000 per year. An estimate, prepared from observations and measurements, places the number of tons of ore in sight and workable in the Bell mine at 55,000 tons. Jearly 100,000 sheep from Washington Territory have been driven through Halley this season, bound for Montana, where they will fatten for Eastern markets, IDAHC, Crops are said to be looking fine in Malad Valley. The bullion product of the Custer mill for the month u} June footed up $105,000, assay value, An eight stall round house and a large boarding » have just leen completed at Battle Creek. A conference was held with the In at Ross’ Fork, on the 12th by the of of the U. P, R. R, in reference to crossing the reservation by the Oregon Short Line railroad. The Bay Horse mining and smelting company are_running on ores from the Ramshorn, Hood, Sky Lark, Post Boy, Beardsley, Montana and a number of others, and will turn out from fifty to sixty-five tons of bullion monthly, assay- ing from 600 to 1,100 ounces in silver per ton, WABHINGTON TERR|TORY. The Northern Pacific R, R. Co. are having aside track 2,000 feet long con- structed at Spokane Falls. Millions of saw-logs are being rafted, and thousands of railroad ties are being loaded for shipment up the Columbia River from Cowlitz county. From every direction comes the cheering report that the wheat promises a better yield than any one expected possible a month ago. The berry is unusually plump and full, New conteacts are constantly being let by the Northern Pacific for railroad ties, and additional forces of laborers are being added to the already large number of men now engaged on the Tietan and Yakama. "Ties by the thousand are being *‘banked” on both streams, Surveys are being made for opening new tunnel at the Newcastle coal mines, and the extension of the railroad one mile from there to the bunkers, which are also to be constructed at the end of the pro- posed_extension. with a capacity of hold- ing 10,000 tons of coal, NEVADA. The Consolidated Virginiais in debtover 60,000, Eureka county is in debt_about $8,000; the town of Eureka owes $5,434.80, and its school distract owes 219,000, The Sutro Tunnel folks have cut *hrough a vein fifteen feet thick from wall to wall, of which six feet is solid quartz, with oc* casional spots of metal. The report of the Washoe county audi- tor for the quarter ending July 1st, shows the total receipts to have been $7,406.99, and the expenditures $12,543.17. Work is being crowded on the Nevada and Oregon railway. An engine is ex- pected at Reno this week, when the second section of five miles will be_ready for ties. “t'he next twenty miles will be constructed within sixty days. NEW MEXICO. | The people of the territory are making a large purse for Sheriff Garrett, who killed the “Kid.” El Paso is to _have reduction works to cost £100,000. They will treat the ores from Mexico, Western Texas and New Mexico. Seventy-five thousand dollars of the amount has already been subscribed. The Nacimiento copper mines are proba- the best in New Mexico. The most valuable claims in the district are owned by the Nacimiento mining company. The Kureka mine is the best developed of their claims, and has a shaft 132 feet deep. DAKOTA AND BLACK HILLS. Hay in the Hills ranges from six to ten dollars a ton. The assessed valuation of Lawrence county is $7,000,000. The town of Vermillion, destroyed by the flood, is being resurrected. A second steamer is to be built to ply between Rockerville and Sheridan, Pat McHugh, a well-known Omaha man, is making brick at Custer City. Kimball is the name of the new railway station forty-eight miles west from Mitch- ell, A railroad connection with Omaha is the great need of Yankton. The citizens cry for it. Iron for the Mitchell & Huron railroad has putin an appearance at the former place. Another railroad project connecting Yankton with Norfolk, Nebraska, is talked about. Never in the history of the west has there been guch a rush for Dakota lands as has been pouring in this season. The St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha refused to bnild a branch to Yankton, and the citizens feel terribly hurt, The Second Annual Fair of the Driving Park Association of Deadwood begins September 13th, and will continue five days. The surveyors on the Fargo & South- western railroad are reported within a few miles of Grand Rapids, and the graders are in the vicinity of Lisbon, Ransom county. Dave Ulark has purchased 2,000 head of steers and 1,000 cows with calves, and started with them from Ogallala for his Fange on the Cheyenne and French ereck. Good reports are constantly received from the prospectors working on Elk creek, below the old Custer road. Free gold 'specimens are taken out of many claims, and considerable development is being made, County Assessor Auseth has completed his 1881 ‘work in Yankton county, and kas as 8 result a total valuation of $1,547,926, divided as follows: Lands, §558,458; lots, £559,304; ‘mnmnal property, £430,164, The real selling valuation of the county is a little over $3,000,000. The open cut of the Caledonia mine, at Terraville, caved [in last burning seven miners, Wm. Gill, Daniel Cameron and Andrew Larsen were taken out alive, John Costello, James Roach, Pat Hawk- ins and L. H, Hamilton are supposed to Le killed. L. 8, odman, the foreman of the DeSmet mine, was instantly killed by the arch on which he was standing, near the shaft, piving away, Srucipimliug hima red feet. Deafas a Post. Mrs. W. J. Lang, Bethany, Ont., states that for fifteen months she was troubled with & disease in the ear, causing entire deafness, In ten minutes after using TroMAS EcLeeTRio O1L she found leli\-t and in a short time she was entirely oure and her hearing restore 241w NebraskaLand Agency DAVIS & SNYDER, 400,000 AORKRES selected land in Eastern Nebrasks for sale. Great in im et Baopang proved farms, aud WEBSTER SNYDER. 0. F. DAVIS. Late Land Com's U.P. R. R. 4p-tebut C. F.{ Manderson, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW. 242 Farubam 86, Owaha Neb, CHEAP IAND FOR SALE. 1,000,000 Acres ~—OF THE—— FINEST LAND S | — EASTERN NEBRASKA. SELROTED IN AN EarLy Dar—yor Ram RoaD LAND, 5vT LAND owNED BY NoON- RESIDENTS WHC ARE TIRED PAYING TAXES AND ARE OFFERING THRIR LANDS AT THR Low PRICE OF $6, $8, AND 810 PER AORE, ON LONG TIME AND EASY TERMS. WE ALSO OFFER FOR SALE IMPROVED FARMS ——]N— Douglas, Sarpy and Washington COUNTIES. —— ALSO, AN IMMENSE LIST OF OmahaCityReal Estate Including Elegant Residences, Business and Residence Lots, Cheap Houses and Lots, and a large number of Lots 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- tunitics for making Loans, and in all cases peesonally examine titles and take every recaution to insure safety of money 80 invested. Be ow we offer a small list of SProraL BARGAINS, BOGGS & HILL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham Street, Opp. Grand Central Hotel, OMAHA, NEB. A beautiful residonce lot on California between 22nd and FOR SAL 23d streets, $1600, FOR SALE with barn, House, well cistern, shade an frult tress, everything complote. A desirable piece of property, figures low ; Ly GGS & HILL, Fon SALE Splendid busines lots 8. E. corner of 6th and Capita Avenue. BOGGS & HILL. Fon SALE House and lot corner Chicago FOR 3ALE and 21st streets, $000, goop location for BOGGS & HILL. Very nice_house and lob on (th and Webster stre Large houso on Davenport street between 11th and 12th boarding house. Owner wil FOR SALE ©%conie s nomn aade tion. This property will be sold very cheap. BOGGS & HILL. 3000, BOGGS & HILL, sell low BOGGS & HILL. Two new houses on full lob OR SALE—A top pheaton. R e Enquire of Jaa. 904-t1 Corner of two choice lots in Shinn’s Addition, request to offer. BOGGS & HILL. A good an aesirable res dence property, $4000. BoGUs & HILL. RESIDENCE—Not in the market Ower will sell for 86,500, BOGGS & HILL. 4 good lots, Shinn's 8d ad dition §150 each, BOGGS & HILL FOR SALE FOR SALE wutiles ssicnetathis o fine house, $2,300. 0GGS & HILL. FUR sALE About 200 lots in Keuntze & Ruth's addition, just south of St. Mary's avenue, $450 to §500. These lots are near bisiness, surrounded by fine improve ments and are 40 per cent cheaper than any othe lots in the warket. Save money by buying thes ois, BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE 10 Tots, sultable for fine rest 8 blocks S. &, of depot, all'covered with fine larg FOR SALE at once submit best FOR SALE A FINE dence, on Park-Wild avenue trees. Price extremely low. 8600 to §700. BOGGS & HILL, an SALE Some very cheap lots Lake's addition, BOGGS & HILL, Cheap comer lot, corner Doug and Jefferson Sts, BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE FOR SALE .o 21 me Farnhai, Douglas, and the proposed extension of odie bizeet. Prices rauge from $200 to §400, We haxc concluded to give men of small means, one more chance to secure a home and will build housos on those lots on small payments, and will sell lote on monthly payments. \ FOR SALE ; 160 acres, 9 miles trom city, valle, L about 80 acres very choics with running water; balanco geutly rolling prisle, only 3 miles tzom railaond, §10 per acac. BOGGS & HILL. 400 acres fn one tract twely miles fron city; 40 acres e {ivated, Living “Srring of wator, samo nice va leys. The land is all first-clags rich prairie, Pric 10 per acre, BOGUS & HILL, FOR SALE 72 scresin onebody,7 miles A west of Fremont, is all level land, paoducing’ Feavy growth of grass, in high valloy, rich soll and” § mies from railrond an side track, in good settlement and no better lan can be found. BOGGS & HILL, A highly imiproved farm of FOR SALE iy turrore, farm o Fine improvenents on this land, owner not s yractinl farmer, determined to sell. A good opening for some ma of mieans, FOR SALE BOGGS & HILL, 2,000 acres of land near Mil- land Station, 8,600 near Elk- hioii, ¥ to §10; 4,000 acres in north part of coun- ty, ¥7 to §10, 8,000 acres 2 to 8 miles from Flor- 0 310: 5,000 acren west of tho Elkhorn, 1 ), ( acres seatl ¢ O - AT ered through the coun ‘The bove lands lie near and adjo ovexy farm in the county, ahd ¢an ssily b il on sinall cash paynieut, with the balance in 1.2 3« 4and 6 vear's time. BOGGS & HILL, Beveral fine restaences prop “Fpn SALE erties r befere offered d not known i the wmarket s }otng § Locations will only be mads kniown ¢ piuecieeacs weaniny busines, BUGGS & HILL, We have for IMPROVED FARMS Y:esor uglas, Sarpy and Washington counties. Also farus ' ova. For descripiion iy rices call on Business Lots for Sal Fay o las streets, rom 65,000 10 S0, 06 Eron SALE B'bfidnm lots next wesh advanced of 82 000 mho wfl(‘)"o’l‘;fl“‘f‘l‘i—lv ol FOR SALE f,butoom o s s , betw and 13th, §,500 each. " Wll‘;&.h. aprove farus around Omaha, aud in all parts of 8 & HILL, o o BOGGS & HILL, FOR SALE im0 FOR SALE mics e riorons ved rms, only 7 mi. s oy Leo trom cit, Chew ! BOGOS & HILL, —— c——— e