Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 12, 1881, Page 2

| | A ? GUIDE ROCK. A Young Town, But a Livr«ly‘ One More Good Business Men Needed There. The Farming Interest Well Ropre- wonted Gome Rook, August 0, Yout correspondent has now ontered upon | where Red Cloud is almost every one in Guido Rock now | has the daily Bee. T conclusion, your’ correspondent would commend lig friends who are looking for a live whstern téwn where they can profitably make & home, to | examine carefully the outlook here | and the chances aro that they will go | far before finding any that are more | favorable. For business review see adjoining page. RANOER. | | | co— | Notes from Red C.ond | Cor. of the Bes, Ren Crovn, Aug. 0, You all know If you don't, it the eastern division of the Republican |is just where it would beif you did Yalley branch of the B, & M. rail sond. Although this is now a branch it is s00n to be part of the main fine, A grand change is to be made when Denver is reached. Then the Chi dago & Denver through trains will jump tho Missouri at Nemaha City, at presont a very unimportant town & fow miles below Brownville. After leaving Rod Cloud I found an entirely different kind of towns. 0Old, weather-beaten buildings that “wore erocted long years boforo a rail- rond entered the valley are common in all parts of the upper Republican valley, but this is & new country, bran new. Guide Rock within the past year has sprung into existence, Provious to that timo it was an embryo without visible means of support, but the railroad came a little over a year ago, and presto change, the cross-ronds postoffice became a booming town and to its marts camo hundreds of farmers who were wont to haul grain and hogs to Red Cloud. There are more new buildings here and more stores_going up than at any other point I have stopped at sinco arnving in the valley, just two weeks ago to-day. On Saturday T was in the largest town of the Republican valley and, still, Monday in Guide Rock showed more teams on the streets than the srevious Saturday in the big town arther west. Fhero is nothing uncommon in find- ing empty stores all over this western country. Towaand eastern Nobraska towns are full of them, and T can name several Republican valley towns swhere many of the very best buildings are empty, but there is nothing of this kind here. The sound of axe and hammor, the swip-rip of the saw and the orotund profanity of the hod car- rier are the most familiar of noises. NEEDS. And still there are more business men noeded here and more buildings wanted for their accommodation. A meat market, a harness shop, a furniture store, a wagon shop, a joweler, a banker, a barbor, n shoemaker, and a first class preacher are wanted. Thore is 110 galoon but they tell mo that tho excellent well water is suffi- clently stimulating when mixed with the bracing atmosphere that abounds in all directions. IMPROVEMENTS, Most important of these is the Ave- nue House, built by Mr. M. M. Mor- gan and soarcoly completed. 1 am strictly prohibited from pufling hotols but as a first class improyement, just opened tu the public, I remark paren- thetically that the houso is an honor to the town, and its management could not well be improved. An iron bridge is being placed over the Republican at this poin. \ Elias Parker has just comploted a furniture store, J. G. Gardner a ros- taurant, Heury Conleo a restaurant, and Proudfit & Marst a tin-shop. Two grain warehouses are now in course of erection and many other important structures are contem- plated. SHERP RANCHES, On Beaver Orook, about five miles from this town, are located four of the best and largest herds of sheep in the state of I?ibnllfl. In fact it is claimed that they are by far the choicest herds in the state, and that they were bought of celebrated breed- ers at high figuros and that they are immensely vsluable. The aggregate of the herds in this vicinity is said to oxceed 10,000 head. CATTLN INTERESTS, The country tributary to Guide Rock feeds about 1,000 head of horned cattle and therois an average of a car load of hogs shipped from thia point every week. THE FARMING INTBRESTS, Corn is king here, although twenty- two stacks of small grain were count- ed from a second story window in the hotel. There is no better soil in any local- ity along this valley than in this vi- einity, and all that we havo said i praise of Ropublican valley land ap- lies here with full force. In fact T liove 1t 18 fair to stato that the far- ther east I travel the better the soil becomes. In this locality there are vast tracts, thousands o¥ acres, for sale, for from three to five dollars mmm, although government land long since disappeared in this part of the valley, ¥or further information in regard to farm lands address A. Davis, real estate agent. 1f town lots are sought for, Mr, Donald McCallum will try to suit the purchaser, HOW THE LAND LAYS, It is said that surrounding Guide Rock there is less unoccupied land than snywhere else in this part of Nebrasks. While many counties are largely held by speculators, here the land of this kind s got very plenty, and, in fact, en all #ides white cot- tages and golden stacks of grain pro- claim that civilization is here in full force. In the north there is not a foot of poor laud to be found and on the south the country is unsurpassed. There are a few sands knolls on the £ yer Oreek ranches, but the extent of these is very limited. PERSONAL, Dr. J, L Patten, an old-time Omaha practitioner, is doing an ex- tensive medical business. Irving W, Crary, the owner of a fine store, is ove of the men to whom is due the success achieved here. To Mr. D. Mo- Callum's unf efforts and enthu- siastio geal for Tue Bes, and to Mr. Davis’ solicitations we kuow -at the head of navigation on the B, & M. Railroad; for passenger traing do not go farther west than this place, and if you are bound for points farther west, you must wait over night and content yourself with a freight caboose passage, Red Cloud is a town of aboutone thousand inhabitants, sit- uated in a rich agricultural dis trict in the Republican valley Crop prespects are ver; flattering and it is evident that this rogion has received more rain than points I passed through further east along the B, & M. I was much sur- prised to ace o lively a town here as Red Oloud. Almost overy enterprise is represented and carried on witha vigor characteristic of the western border towns. The surrounding coun- try hereis somewhat rolling, and will in time be devoted more exclusively to stook raising. The valley pro ducos cxcellent hay, while the highlands is covered with buffalo grass, which is fast disappearing and its place boing taken by the blue stem, which in time, will provail in covering the un- cultivated prairie. The new B. & M. line, running east to Blue Springs, is expeoted to have regular passenger trains on its hne by the 20th inst., so that th s point will in time become an inportant one. My mnext letter will be from farther up the valley, in which T will give you the true condition of the country without painting. L. A. B, e The Kind of Trees. Correspondence of Tiir Ben Bew, Butler County, Neb., August 8.—Kor the venefit of all concerned, please publlsh this decision just re- ceived from the commissioner. Ex- changes copy and readers preserve for future reference, 8o you can “speak by the book” should any question arise about this matter of TIMBER CULTURE. The following classes ot trees are recognized by this office as timber in the meuning of the law, viz.: Ash, alder, birch, beech, black walnut, bass- wood, black locust, cedar, chestnut, cottonwood, elm, fir, including spruce, hickory, honey locust, larch, maple, including box elder, onk, pine, plane troo (otherwise called cotton trew), buttonwood or sycamore, service tree, (otherwise called mountain ash), white walnut (otherwise called butter- nut), white willew and white wood (otherwise called tulip tree). E. A. Buck, —_— Senator Ben H. Hill. Agusta (Ga,)Chronicle. 1t is surprising that Senator Hill, of (reorgia, should have for so long & time neglected a dangerous form of cancer upon lus tongue. It is true that he abandoned the use of cigars and had o sharp tooth filed down, but there was no permanent cure, His case, wo undersand, had been referred to an irregular practitioner in New York without benefit. Why he did not submit his trouble to some distin- guished member of the profession in the south we do not know. No one would ever have pected, when call- ing on him or witnessing his wonderful forensio displays in the senate, that there was anything serious the niatter with him. And yet it appears, beyond all doubt, that he was menaced with a frightful disorder, and one, too, that must have eventuated in death by no means remote. Under date of the 2d, a correspondent of the Colum- bus Enquirer-Sun informs the public hat Mr Hill is now in private rooms at Jeffersom College. By irregular treatment his descase Kagunuutud into epithelioma, involving the sub- lingual gland to a more or *eu oxtent. After due deliberation and consulta- tion, it was decided by his surgical advisers, Prof. Samuel D, Gross and Prof, Willam H. Pancost, that an operation was imperative. This took place at the hospital on July 20. The oyeution was a1 extensive one, neces- stating the removal of the sublingual ,hnd and a portion of the under sur- woe of the tongue on the loft side. Sonator Hill has none of his family with him and but few of his friends] he has excellent quarters and acoom- modations. He 1s under the charge of two Georgians, Dr. J. L. Wright, of Warrer county, Georgia, and Dr, H. 8. Williams, of Macon, both resi- dent physicians in charge. He is doing well, Dr Pancost informed the Inquirer correspondent that he felt that Senator lhh would in time recover and enjoy his wonted health, We are very glad, indeed, to have such assurances of our distingnished friend's case. Mr, Hill's place in the senate could not well be supplied at this time. There is some concern lest. the incision of & part of the tongue should effect articulation. This would be a misfortune for so great an orator, advocate, and statesman. There is also some anxiety lest, in an emergency, Senator Hill should not be able to take his seat in the seuate, We allude to the contingency of s special session at no distant period, he people of Georgia will watch with much interest the progress of their senior senator to recovery, and welcome him back to health and use- fulness. WOMAN'S TRUE FRIEND, A friend in need is a friend indeed, This none can deny, especiall when assistance is rendered when one is sorely afflictod with disease, more par- ticulary those complaints and weak- nesses 80 common to our female pop- ulation. Every woman should know that Electric Bitters are woman's true friend, and will positively restore her to health, even when all” other reme- dies fail. A single trial will always prove our assertien. The are pleas- ant to the taste and only cost 50 ceuts Bold by Ish & McMa- o THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: FRIDAY AUGUST 12, 1881 THE NATION'S CAPITAL. What 13 Happening There in the Dog Days. | Frauds in Southwestern Land Granta, Other Reform Movements Carrled Out. Wismixetoy, D. 0., August 7.~ The four montha that preceded Giteau's attempt upon the life of the prosident, gave assurance that this administration would be one of re- |form. Setting aside for awhile the lobby of civil service reform, it showed its practical character by at once attacking the star route frauds. Whether all will be proved that is now expected —whethor all the erimi- nals will bo punished that deserve it, is questionablo—but it is boyond a (question that millions of dollars will be saved to the country instead of en- riching corrupt and perjured contrac- tors. Hardly had this investigation com- menced,thananothersubject presented itself which demands to be dealt with at once and without favor, I refer to the frauds which have been per- petrated in the surveys of the public lands, chiefly in the southwestorn tor- ritorics. While the star route in- volved millions of dollars only, this involved millions of acres, and the money loss may be reckoned by the tens aud hundreds of millions of dol- ars. fico under the management of tho late commissioner was a party to these frauds, which gave to corporations the lands that should be reserved for homesteads, and made the surveys to acres more than the corporations ever dreamed of claiming. In other in- stances the knowledge of the character of the lands has been used to favor certain parties, and to-day millions of acres are entered as agricultural, which are known to be some of the richest mineral lands »f that region of silver and gold. In one case where asurvey was to be made to covera certain mine in a canyon, it was boundaries, and projecting an angle, that certain other valuable lands eould be secured, and then by shooting off on another side some other advantage could be secured. T do not remember how many changes were made, nor how many queer forms the surveys was made to assume, but it ended in the parties who claimed the mine, re- were not entitled to covering other mineral deposits as rich as their origi- nal claim. "These things are not done for noth- ing and the country will ere long re- ceive a sensation, I was going to say enjoy, but it will not be of an enjoya- ble nature, that will eclipse the star route frauds entirely. If the evidence is true it will show a collusion between the unprincipled heads of departments here and unprincipled land offices there—that Williamson resigned none too soon—that one of Nebraska's favor- ite sons is none too pure and that prodigal waste, injustice and ‘rank corruption have marked the conduct of the general land office under the late chief. Y am glad to see that your oyes have been opening of late to the true character of Carl Schurz and his professions of reform. History, if it finds a syllable for him, will Proehim him one of the most chimerical and hypocritical of the many frauds that have victimized the American people. Placed 1n o position to carry out his views, we have as aresult, & pension bureau with rekel soldiers to examine and pronounce upon the claims of Union soldiers, their widows and children and about four years behind with its work. Indian wars devastat- ing our frontier every year of his ad- ministration of Indian affairs, and such, official specimen bricks as ex- Commissioner Hoyt and ex-Commis- sioner Williamson, The last you have treated to some of his deserts, but I hope you will re- new the subject and thus strengthen the resolye of the present government officials and encourage the several par- ties who are here complaining to pres- ent these wrongs in all their naked infamy and not to halt until justice has been done. I shall write you fur- ther on this subject. The informa- tion I refer to is accessible, and if the facts affect one whom we have gener- ally esteemed as one of our own citi- zens I do not know that T am under any obligation to conceal them, Another reform movement was the shaking off of the ridiculous Le Duc. What wind bags some of these pub. tuncs. are, vide Conkling. This Le Due was a kind of agricultural Conk- ling. What Dr. Loring will be »e- mains to be proved. It s to be hoped that we will now get an agricultural report before two years have expired from the time when it might be of use, Much was made by Le Duc of his ex- perimental tea plantation down some- where in the south. It was his strong- est bid for retention, He did so want to get that cup of tea ready for Co- lumbia before he departed. Well, Sanderson, of the agricultural depart- ment, was lately sent down there to inspect. His report, in its brevity and conclusiveness, reminds one of the commissio sent to report on improvements on an Indian reserva- tion, which included the ereotion of a dam and a mill. They stated that '-h? found ‘“no dam {y amill site and no mill by a dam site.” 8o San- derson, on his arrival, was taken by a gonuemm who drove a span of nice orees to seo a few tea plants that had been set out many years ago by some experimental fellow, but no fine na- tional tea plantation answering to the description and expenditures of Le Due. Juxivs, —_— Axn Old Friend. 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