Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 16, 1881, Page 4

e — TN - R - . i he Omaha Bee. Published every morning, except Snnday. The only Monday morning daily. TEKMS BY MATL:— v Ar. .. 810,00 | Three Montha $5.00 Months... 500 fOne “ .. L0 I'HE WEEKLY BEE, putlished ev- ry Wednesday. TERMS POST PATD:— One_ Year......82.00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 Bix Months, ... 1.00 | One Wi W CORRESPONDENCE—AN Communi sations relating to News and Viditorial mat ters &hould be addressed to the Epiror o¥ Tue Brk, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Lotters and Remittances should be ad dressed to Tir OMAHA pupLisHINg Con- PANY, OMAWA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING C0., Prop'rs E.ROSEWATER, Editor. Edwin Davis, Manager of City Circulation. John H. Pierce is in Charce of the Mail Cirenation of TF JAILY BEE. —e e Call for Republican State Conven« tion. The Republican electors of the State of Nebraska are hereby called to send dele- gates from the several counties, to meet in Htate Convention at Lincoln, on Wednes. day, October bth, 1881, at 3:30 o'clock, p. m., for the vurpose of placing in nomina- tion candidates for thy following named offices, viz: One Judge of the Supreme Court, Two Regents of the State University. And to transact such other business as may properly come before the conventio 'fim several counties are entitled to re) resentation 1n the State convention as fe lows, based upon the vote cast for George W. Collins for Presidential elector, ,im"g one delegate to each one hundred and fifty (150) votes, and one for the fraction of soventy-five (75) votes or over. Also one delegate at large for each organized coun- ty. &nmtles. Vts, Del | Counties. Vte. Del dams.... 1447 11| Johnson ..1068 5 b | Kearney .. 550 8 5| Keith:.... 32 1 9| Knox..... 556 5 8 | Lancaster. 3397 24 7 | Lincoln. .. 877 4 13 | Madison.. 670 5 2 | Merrick. 19 6 3| Nance.... 199 2 11 | Nuckolls.. 594 5 6| Nemaha . 1473 11 1 1918 14 Cumming b 9 Custer . 3 4 Dakota. 3 2 Dawson 3 7 2 7 4 i 3 11 | Richrdson1764 13 Douglass 23 | Salive....1841 13 Fillmore 10 | Sarpy. 4 5 | Saunders..1717 12 2| Seward...1854 10 5 3 13 2 2 2 21 Thayer.., 834 7 9| Valley .. 802 4 % 2| Wash'nton1190 9 Hanilton. 8 | Wheeler.. 2 Harlan, 6| Wayne... 118 2 Hitchoack 2 | Webster..1006 8 Holt ... 8| York.....1444 11 Howard 5 — Jefferson 8| Total........441 Tt is recommended—First. That no THE MINNESOTA DECISION. The suprome coiirt of Minnesota stato for a number of yoars past. The 1 Iast logislatnre by special act creatod a commission to decide upon the va- lidity of the disputed bonds and the bondholders had also agreed to sub- mit their claims to the commission and accept in full payment fifty per cent of the amount due them, if its docision should prove to be in their favor. In 1860 an mitted to thepeopl | ratified by a large majority, by which the legislature was forbidden to levy any tax for the payment of the de- faulted bonds without the sanction of mendmet was sub- of Minneseta and a popular vote. islative act of last winter, paseed at the instance of the owners of the bonds, was de- signed to effect a settlement of the matter without submitting the ques- tion to tho people. Recognizing this, anumber of the partics opposed to conditions, applied to the supreme decide the validity of the act which was in conflict with the constitutional amendment. It was defended on the grounds that the amendment itself was void be- cause in conflict with the national constitution, whichjprohibits the fm- pairment of contracts by the state, While upholding this viewof the debt- payers the supreme court of Minne- sota went further and enunciated an opinion, which is highly important be- causo applicable to every act of repu- diation, legislative or constitutional, in Minnesota or other states, The court annulled the act of last winter as conferring legislative power upon the special commission. They doclared in effect that it is not compe- tent either for the logislature or for the people of a state by constitutional amendmont or ordinary enactment to impair the obligation of the state to its creditors. As the matter now stands the legis- lature of Minnesota is free to provide court to j | for tho, payment of the debt, princi- pal and interest. It is not probable, however, that public opinion will asyet justify such action. The people of Minnesota have heretofore obstinate- ly refused to take any action looking towards the repayment of the bonds in question and in some districts rep- resentatives would fail of an election on the issue of a fulfillment of the ob- ligations of the state. Great pressure is being brought through the press, doubtless at the instance of the hold- ers of this scrip, to create a sentiment in favor of wiping out what they call the disgrace of Minnesota. The St. Paul Pioneer-Press calls for an imme- diate extra session of the legislature to’ make appropriations to pay this debt. Now we never have favored repudiation in aay form, and never . tha memwankion ox- T iy o persons residing in the counties from which the proxies are given. Second, That no delegate shall repre- sent an absent member of his delegation unless he be clothed with authority from the county convention or is in possession of proxies from regularly elected delegates thereof. By order of the Republican State Cen- ral Committee, JAMES W. DAWES, Chm'n, ¥, J. HeNpenshor, Sec'y, A’m tem, Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 81, 1881, — Tue residence boom 18 also the gro- cors’ and butchers' boom. intend to, but viewed from a disinterested standpoint, it ap- pears as if ths syndicate that holds these Minnesota bonds was making a bold and desperate strike for a bonan- za. Last winter these speculators who in all probability had not paid ten cents on the dollar for the Miune- 8ota scrip offered to sell for fifty conts on the dollar, Now they proposo to get dollar for dollar with interest that may run up to more than three times the amount of the principal. If they can get the legislature convened they KANsAs is becoming aroused over the anti-monopoly issue. Jmv Keenk is sulking. The Han- nibal & 8t, Joe ‘‘corner” is the cause. New York has raised $10,000 for the Michigan sufferers, Chicagois yet to be heard from. OmAHA'S “‘store clothes™ are attract- ing great attention from her thou- sandg of visitors, —— Tae electrio light at the state fair in like the ‘‘electric light of Nebraska journalism,g’ a flicker and a fizzle, — Tur Chicago journals are laughing at Denver's gush over the English opera. Denver is young and giddy. Tue Republican Valley extension of the Burlington route means an independent route to the Pacific with- in two years. — Tur hond boom refuses to rise in Saunders county althqueh Galey, the tailroad troubador, sings his sweotest to the farmers. e———— Mg, TiLpen's preliminary exercise looks as though he proposed to run the New York democratic machine in the fall campaign, A new bung start- er has been ordered. S—— Jupae Brake, who has just been elocted mayor of San Francisco, is a man of integrity and ability, in whom there is » general confidence, There is & marked difference between Judge Blake and the Rey. Ike Kalloch, ———— Corrre-Por WatLace, of Pennayl- vania, is trying political galvanism in the hope of becoming lively enough for the gevernership of the Keystone state next year, Mr. Wallace has far 100 savory a record even for the suc- ©oasion to the Cameron dynasty. will doubtless bo able to offer a handsome bonus for lobbying their claim through. It will be a much greater disgrace to Minnesota to allow a gang of speculating sharks to rob her under cover of a supreme court decision than to continue under the odium of repudiation by firmly refus- ing hasty legislation in the nterest of these parties, We take it that the people ot Minnesota aro just as anx- ious to meet their Lonest obligations as the pepple of New York or Massa- chusetts, and we approhend they will make fair settlement with their cred- itors in due time when the next leg- islature meets. Tue vacancy in congress caused by the resignation of Congressman Frye, who was elected last winter to the vacant seat of Senator Blaine, was filled last Monday by the clection of Dingley. There renain to be elected four New Yorkers in place of Lap- ham, Miller and Morton, republicans, sion to France —and Wood, deceased, These will not be chosen the election in place. Morton's district is doubtful, certain for the republicans. number ot democrats in the house, other vacancies to them, will be 147, mixed. William H. Forney of Ala- bama, Emory Speer of Georgia, Geo. W. Jones of Toxas, John Paul and Abram Fulkerson of Virginia, are called independent democrats. George W, Ladd, of Maine, and Jas, Mosgrove, of Pennsylvania, are de- nominated greenback democrats, Thompson H, Murch, of Maine, and Nicholas Ford, of New Jersey, are straight greenhackers, Ira 8. Hazel- the payment of the bonds under un* the republican candidate, Governor resigned —the two former to take Conkling and Platt’s places in the sonate, the lattor to accept the mus- until November, A democrat will be chosen in Wood's Lapham and Miller's are reasonably The including Wood's seat, will be 132; the number of republicans. conceding the The other seats, 14 in all, will be THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: GRIDAY ,SEPTEMBIER 16, 1881, tine, Thomna N, Rice and J. H. Bur- | roughs, of Missouri, Hyatt Smith, of Brumm, has rendered an important decision | New York, and Charles N. rolativa to the debt of 1859, which [of Pennsylvania, are republican has practically been repudiated by that | greenbackers. The majority of ['the straight caucus republicans dver | all opposition is one, and strength can be recruited from the republican groens backers wh wish to stand well with the administration, There is nodoubt, therefore, that if the situation remain the eame, the republicans will be able to organizo the next house, Govervor Fresont, who is now on his way to Arizona, submitted a novel proposition for the settling of the Tn- dian question to the interior depart- ment before starting for the west last week. Secretary Kirkwood is said to bo favorably impressed and disposed to urge the plan upon the government. Governor Fremonts plan is that the United States acquire from Mexico by pv:chase a large tract of country in the northern part of California, on which all the bad Indiansof the north- west may be colonized. Herepresents that a chain of forts across the upper portion of the peninsula would effect- ually keep the savages prisoners where they could be fed by the government at an‘agency established He thinks Mexico would be willing to make the cession for the purpose, because the territory is worthless, and that gov- ernment has as much interest in put- ting the wild Indiaus where they can do no harm as has the United States, as the Apaches and others make no distinction as to which side of the boundary they commit their outrages, Tue statistios of railroad earnings for August show a heavy increase over the corresponding period last year, the Union Pacific leadingthe list with $2,638,669 gross receipts, and §725,- 624 greater earnings than for August 1880. For the entire eight months the increase is $20,810,687; or little less than 19 per cent, while only four of the listed roads show a decrease. This exhibit is an interesting one, as indicating the increased volume of trade of the country, Although the crops which remain to be moved this autumn are somewhat less than last, it is not deemed probable that the last quarter of 1881 will show any less proportionate gains than the pre- ceding period. The railroads are ma- king money rapidly, and such as have not watered their stocks sufficiently to decrease the percentage of dividends are preparing to do so in order to con- ceal from the public the enormous profits of a business which is support- ed by extortionate imposts on the peo- ple of the country. SECRETARY KIRKWOOD proposes to enforce civil service discipline on the governors of the territories. Those functionaries are fcr the most part conspicuous for their absence from their posts of duty. Secretary Kirk- wood insists that hereafter the gover- nors must stay at their respective cap- itals until they are relieved by the department, unless some extraordin- ary emergency should arise that would justify their temporary absence. Governors Fremont, of Arizona and Ordway, of Dakots, fusnish two fla- grant instances of this abuse and they have been notified in sharp and im- perative orders that the interior de- partment will not tolerate such con- duct. In all probability both of them will be requested to step down by the time congress meets. —— Tue victory of Iroquois, Lorillard’s famous racer, as chronicled elsewhere in our dispatches ends a season which has been full of triumph for the American stables. The Derby, the Grand Prix de Paris and the three great international races of the world, all have been captured this year by the Yankes, Two of these, the St. Leger, are credited to Mr, Loril- lard’s splendid animal, who, on Thurs- day lowered the record 22 seconds from last years time, Tue reports from Michigan con- tinue to be freivhted with incidents of the appaling forest fires which have devastated the country. Homesteads and crops— embracing whole counties in theircompass—have been destroyed, and to theso are now added rain and cold, entailing new hardships on the people. It is stated that all the seed corn and seed wheat are burned up and that fully 50,000 bushels of the Iatter will be needed for the next har- vest: Tue Mormons aro the best emi- grant agents. Another installment of Mormons nearly seven hundred strong has landed at Castle Garden from Europe on the way to the prom- ised land. This fact is suggestive, 1t affords proof positive that the in- flux of Mormons into Utah is un- abated, and the repressive laws against the Mormons practically with- out effect, Tae railroads rob the .peoplu of Missouri and the people of Missouri in turn rob the railraods. Both classes are banditti, who ought to be brought under the operation of a rigid law. S—— Tukre were several - screws loose in the management of the state fair that will have to be readjusted. Curar tolls across the river and more {requent transit has become a necessity.—[Omaha Herald. Since when have you reached that conclusion? Ts it possible that cven a Union Pacific organ grinder can be- come impressed with the fact that the bridge tolls are an outrageous imposi- tion and the present system of transit altogether too madequate to meet the wants of the public. e — Tur slim turnout at the firemen's parade is another straw that showsthe necessity of a thorough reorganiza- tion of the fire department. The Democratic Weakness- Springficld Republican In spite of the tide of popular sym- pathy with President Garfield, which carries the fortunes of the republican party along with it, democratic news- papers find daily encouragement in the republican split in New York, the apathetic canvass in Ohio and the independent oppsition to the Cameron candidate in Pennsylvania, culminat- ing in the Wolfe bolt. These three states hold one-fourth of the population of the country, and are as certain, unless the south becomes debatable ground, to be the political pivot of the country as dus- ing tho last eight years, With any one of these states democratic, the 4,000,000 democratic voters in the union can elect a president; without them, they cannot. Encouragement in these states is encouragement at the key of the situation; but the difii- culty with the democratic party is that it has reached the point where all signs fal in a dry time. 1t has had its chance and lost it. Seven years ago, and seven years is half a generation in American voli- tics, the congreasional olections show- ed that the democratic party had an overwhelming majority of the voters of the country. ¥rom a small minor- ity in the house, a mere squad in the senate and next to no control over any state governments, tho demo- cratic party passed along from victory to victory, until it had its term of power, brief or long, in both branches of the federal legislature and the chief executive ot most of the important states of the Union. What was of even more import- ance than passing success, thé demo- cratic party began, for the first time in twonty years, to attract young and growing men. Tilden was the first democratic presidential candidate in a generation with numerous sympathiz- era in the colleges. Independent newspapers, like the New York Trib- une of its saner days, gave democratic leaders a warm support. For a while the active, growing, reforming agen- cies of politics gravitated to the dem- ocratic party. So did the masses, with instincts sounder than reason. Tilden received a popular majority of a quarter of a million. 'he democratic party had nothiug to do to prolong and expand this blooming prospect, but to right open wrongs, Instead, it did nothing or did the wrong thing. Millions were squandered on pensions, but the tariff was left unrevised Patents, land, regulations and navigation laws were left unchanged while false issues were raised by meddling with the election laws. TIn legislation no ,civil service reform was at- tempted and in practice democratic appomtments became a laughing stock. The party was expected to improve the currency, and instead it cipitated a panic last winter by a false contraction, It preached econo- my, and, after short and salutary re- ductions, practiced extravagance. Its record in state governments was as hopelessly incompetent as its work at Washington was wrong-headed. The one serious democratic achievement in state administration during the past seven years has been Tilden’s canal reform and in local government the reorganization of the democratic party in New York city— a scheme still on trial and not to be cmnvnred with the work of the eciti- zens' republican committee in Phila- delphia. The result, the inevitable result, ot all this has been that en- thusiasm cooled, converts dropped off and went back to their first love, the republican party. The dead weight of numbers remained democratic; but when the vote was counted a year ago it was found that the active, * thinking fraction, whose votes are fired at a mark, had gone over to the republi- can side. They.are therenow. They will remain there unless the republi- can party again fails and goes down in another panic. Meanwhile the demo- cratic party may win elections here and there, but it has bebind it no growing public sentiment, no rising tide of popular feeling. Fallacious signs may point to its success, but they will ;mr as they did last year. The very accidents are against the un- successful and thereis in politics no insurance against a loss of confidence, save in well doing and on that policy the democratic party refused to make good its promises in the brief day of its power. General Sherman and Guiteau: Chicago Times. The owlish solemnity with which General Sherman speaks of the absurd affuir at the Washington jail on Sun- day evening is excessively ludicrous. In fact the whole management of Gui- teau's imprisonment, as well as this latest incident and the proceeings of the authorities in connection with it, have been mirth-provoking whenever they have not been vicious, To be- gin'with, the fussy old general sent a strong military dguprd to the prison, because he was raid to trust civilians with the care of 8o important a per- sonage as the assassin, Then, when somegabblingidiots began to talk about assaulting the jail and seizing Guiteau and hanging him, General Sherman, in great alarm, concentrated a brigade of ps—that should have n em- ployed in fighting Ind) —to protect the murderer from imagined danger. About this time Guiteau demonstrat- ed his ability to take care of himself by disarming and nearly killing one o{ his guards, who had imprudently ventured into his cell and didn't know how to shoot. The next event in the history of the affair is the at- tempt of one of General Sherman's sergeaats, said to be one of the best marksmen in the army, who took de- | .4 liberate aim at the murderer—and made a hole in & coat on the other side of the cell. If the sergeant had tried to shoot somebody a dozen rods away, Guiteau micht have been more in danger. And now the general gravely talks about court-martialing the entire guard because one of the men, in a fit of emotional insanity, wasted a cartridge on the walls of the prison. “The law will follow its course,” he says, “‘precisely asaf the sergeant had fired on an un- offending citizen. * * * Had the shooting been done by some insane rufian, there might have been some excuse for it, but emanating as it did from the rank and file of the United States army, I think it desoryes the soverest punishment.” Everybody but the general of the army is~ perfoctly aware, of course, that the sergeant was crazy, ahd that if any notice is to be taken of the incident except to transfer him to the nearest lunatic asylum it should incite the military authorities to see that soldiers are bet- ter trained in the use of their weapons. Shootlng at Gaiteau may have been a breach of discipline, but to shoot and miss him was certainly a very grave offense. The prison authorities seem to be even crazier about this paltry affair than the general—or the sergeant. Guiteau has been removed to some mysterious cell, the location of which is only known to a confidential few, and all sorts of precauttons for the saving of his miserable life from stray bullets have been proposed. One of these fitly “‘caps the climax” of the absurdities connected with the case. It is suggested, in all solemnity, that a bullet proof receptacle for the pris- oner might be made out of one of the steam boilers in the jail. Tf this idea did not or: iginate with Guitean himself, it must have been evolved from the prolific brain of General Sherman. The only additional ‘‘moral” suggested by the sergeant's accentricity is that the military having now been proved as unreliable as common turnkeys or prison guards can be, the soldiers might as well be sent oft to the west, where proper employment awaits them, leaving the civil “authorities to take care of the murderers in Wash- ington. POLITICAL POINTS, The independent party is at Saratoga. He will return to his home in Blooming- ton in a few days. Georgin enters Uncle Jo Brownas a compromise candidate for temporary president of the senate, The republicans in Cincinnati have nominated what n[)penm to be a fair aver- age ticket for local officers, Mr. Tilden’s machine creaks a_little with age and rust as yet, but tho old gen- tleman believe that a little “‘0il” from the “bar’]” will set it going all right. Sam Randall is going to put some back- bone into the Iowa democratic party. Samuel should read the story of the old ;fxfity who tried to roll the stone up the ill, The platform of the progressive demo- crats of Mississippi, is said to be “fair play for whites, fair play for blacks, and the p otection of property from the rapa- cious office-seekers,” . W. Brown, of Memphis, Tenn., who is said to be one of the ablest south- ern jurists, is proposed by several south- ern newspapers asa worthy successor of Judge Clifford on the supreme bench. A California candidate for office clears himself of the charge that he employs Chinese labor in his household by the re- assuring statement that he has seven daughters, and has no occasion to hire Chinese, The republicavs of Pennsylvania nomi- nated Gen. S, M. Bailey for’ state treas- urer, and Representative Wolfe announces himself as an independent candidate. The democrats will probably put forward Or- ange P. Noble, The San Francisco republicans made a clean sweep last week. They elected mayor, auditor and sheriff by an average majority of 3,000 votes. The democrats elected “only the tax collector and one member of the board of supervisors. The leading Republican paper of La- Crosse nominates Gen. C. C., Washburn as the republican cand date for governor of the Badger state. It is believed that Gen. Washburne, should he consent, will he o very strong candidate before the forthcoming republican state convention, Mark Douley, a republican, who was declared e]ectedy n _alderman for the 24th ward of Pittsburg, Pa,, in the election of February 17, 1880, by a majority of 16, for o term of five years, has just been ousted by the quarter sessions court and the aumiti(m given to Willam J, Brenna, his democratic opponent, as 62of his votes were cast by unregistered persons. Many more republican than democratic members of the New Hampshire legisla- ture voted for the bill to prevent bribery at elections, ““This fact isa conclusive answer,” says the Concord Monitor (Rep.) “'to the charge of democratic newspapers that the republican_party of New Hamp- shire favors corruption at the polls.” OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS. CALIFORNIA. Chico shas had o ladies riding tourna- ment. Another grove of mammoth trees has been found on King’s river, Cal, Surveys for the Atlantic & Pacific rail- road have begun near Bakersville, Everybody in San Diego is well satisfied with the future outlook of that city. The republicans of San Francisco are jubilant over carrying the city elections, Large numbers of seals ars to be seen near the mouth of Salinasriver below Moss Landing. About 150 new buildings have been erected in Fresno during the past twelve months, About one hundred barrels of oil are hauled each day up the Santa Clara valley ;nilln Saunta Paula and vicinity to New- hall. In Huwmboldt county, there are many sheep ranges of from 2,000 te 6,000 acres, The county contains oyer 1,500,000 acres of land aad mearly 250,000 sheep are owned therin, MONTANA, The probable yield of the Butte district this year is placed at §6,000,000, Rough lumber sells for $30 per thousand in Butte, This is an advance of 810 over last year. An attempt was made last week to burn the Beaverhead county court house at Bannock. Wool is coming in, in large quantities. | b Sheep men state that the clip this year is considerably over the average. All the graders have been drawn off the line of the Utah & Northern railway be- tween Sand Creek and Butte, The New England mining district, in Choteau county, continues to loom up. Prospecting is going on there at & vigorous rate, The strength of the Northern Pacific force engaged in grading west of Glen- ville .ml‘ iles City is stated at 3,000 wen. Placer mining is about closed in Alder Guleh for the seuson, and the Madisonian vises miners to turn their attention to the opening of the many gold quartz veins in that county, A rich strike has been made in the Sweat House district, but it is not yet de- veloped enough to know how extensiv i lI"wn assays resulted in 2,500 and 3,000 ounces to the ton in silver, WYOMING. Cheyenne's now freight honse is com- pleted. The Cammins n oming consolida s working on Wy- i ore. ters of the Sixth infantry ed from Rawlins to Fort be genuine lead overed go 8 teen miles fr Parties will soon visit the gold mines at Table mountain in the interest of an Fog- lish company, who have headquarters in New York. The oitizens of Rawlins subseribed over $1,000 toward the construction of a new road to the White river military post known as Fort Thornburgh, and work has been commenced., nt purchase of mincs in the i d near ' ains, everal mi from the silver mines hat gave the district its name. 8 4 COLORADO. Over 400 pupils are in attenlance at the Pueblo public schools. Carbonates have been found in Mug- ging’ gulch, near Breckenridge. Another hody of rich ore has Deen dis- covered in the Great Robinson mine, A heavy gold strike is reported in the Little Emma mine on Mosquito range, A Fort Collins farmer cleared 85, from 300 acres of grain and hay this year, The nassessed valuation of prop Fort Collins the current year is $5 The_Denver stock exchange company are agitating the feasibility ot erccting a new building. A 'arge proportion of the ores received by the Leadville smelters at present comes from Iron hill, 1t is stated that track laying on the line between Fort Colling and Laporte will be contintied in a few da Rails on the Denver & Rio Grande road are laid for a distance of six miles out of Gunnison in the direction of Crested Butte, The board of education in Denver ex- pended 8141,157.70 last_year. The value of real property belonging to the board is about $100,000. Reports have been received to the ef- fect that a strike of mineral has been magde in the Saliva claim, which joins the end line of the Aftermath, on Eik moun- tai The Aftermath and Climax mines, on Elk mountain, recently purchased by the owners of tho American smelting com- pany, is_one of the greatest properties of the Ten Mile district. IDAHO. Bellevue sent 60,000 pounds of ore to Helton last week. A body of ruby silver hag been struck in the Custer mine, _ Thero is several inches of new smow in in the Saw Tooth range. A forty te smelter is being erected at Ketchum, Wood river district. On Warm creek, Wood river, a Boston company have sixty men at work. Gentile Valley farmers boast of the Dest crops they have ever had and they feel boomingly happy. Graders are at work about 12 miles south of Soda, and it is expected they will be up as far as Soda in a week or ten days. The new quarters at Fort Cour d’Alene are about completed. The camp is the most (u(".urepqlw military post in the United States. A quartz mill has been ordered for the group of mines at Gibbonsville, on the north fork of the Salmon, owned by an English company. Work has been progressing on the Sul- phur mine near Soda, and assays on the ledge, which is about 150 feet wide, shows from 45 to 75 per cent. sulphur. Nine brick buildings are in_course ot erection is Boise City, Idaho, the largest of which is the new court house, Two are }mmte'nudenm-s and the other six are for business purposes, three of them being nearly completed. UTAH. Waork is progressing rapidly on Ogden’s water works, A Weber county farmer raised 600 bush- els of wheat from a ten acre field, Thrée thousand tons of rock were raised by a recent blast in Parley’s canyon. Tt is reported that Uintah Indians are purchasing heavily arms and ammunition in Salt Lake, A Cornith pump ' with a capacity of 2,000 gallons & miaute is being placed in the Ontario mine. Parties of railroad surveyors are at work down by the Muddy, surveying the line of the Enreka & Golorado raflroad. Work on_the new university building, Salt Lake City is progressing nicely. The walls_are already up to o height of five feet above the first floor level, Rails have been laid on the San Pet, valley railroad, a distance of twenty-six iles, during the vresent month 'his 5 l‘llim another coal feeder to the Union acific, WASHINGTON. Colfax is to have a Methodist college, _ Work on Cheney’s grist mill is progress- ing rapidly. An attempt was made recently to fire the town of Cheney. ‘Wheat near Pomeroy averages 39 bushels to the acre. A seventy-five thousand bushel grain elevator is to be erected at Pataha city. Eight thousand fruit boxes have been ordered for Columbia county contractors. Thousands of feet of lumber a day are being used in the construction of hui{:lhlgn at Cheney. “The wheat crop for Spokane county this year will be 30 bushels per acre; oats from 40 to 45, and corn from 10 to 14, CREGON, Small pox continues at the Dalles, Plowing for winter wheat hias begun, Chinese robbers are operating in Port- land. The first cavalry are being transported to the southern Indian ceuntry, Thg advent of the Oregon Short line of the Union Pacific is confidently expected. Benton county is agitated ov he stop- page of work on'the Yaquina bay improy. ments. NEVADA. The track on the Northern & Oregon is C: now laid and completed fo ten wiles: “The grading s finished for 21 miles, Pioche, Novada, is the possessor of a big and well filled graveyard, occupied. oo clusively by gentfemen who died with thels 00ts on, The stone tablet contributed to ¢k Washington monument, by the uu:)te :; Nevada, has been sent sast. just as it oo finished. Senator Fair asserta positively that the bonanza firm have not been ftes. tha o trol of the Sutro Tunnel; that they are content £ let it rewain whers ft o o IO . A. Scratch, Ruthven, Ont,, : “I have the greatest confidence in. ';ffi:é Burpock Broop Birrers, In . ong ‘case with which I am personally acquinted their success was alwost incredible, One lady told we that halfa bottle did her CHEAP A NEW ADDITION! —TO—— Omaha. THE BEST BARGAINS Ever Offered IN THIS CITY. NO CASH PAYMENTS Required of Persons Desir- in to Build. LOTS ON PATMENTS $5TOB10 PER MONTH. Money'Advanced Asgist Purchasers in Building, -We Now Offer For Sale 85 Splendid RESIDENGE LOTS, Located on 27th, 28th, 20th and 30th Streets, between Farnham, Donglasand the pro- fosed extension of Dodge St., 2 to 14 Blocks from Court House and Post Office, At PRICES ranging from $300 to $400 which is about Two-Thirds of their Value, on Smull Monthly Payment of $5 to $10. Parties desiring to'Build and Improve Need Not Make any Payment for one or two years, but can use all their Means for Improving. Persons having $100 or $200 of their own, But not Enough to Build such a house as they want, can take a lot and we will Loan them enpugh to com- plete thewr Building, These lots are located between the MAIN BUSINESS STREETS of the city, within 12 minutes walk of the - Business Center. _Good Sidewalks ex- tend the Entire Distance on Dodge Street, and the lots can be reached by way of either Farnham, Douglas or Dodgo Streets. They lie in a part of the city that is very Rapidly Improy- ing and consequently Increasing in Value, and purchasers may reasonably hope to Double their Money within s short time, . Some of the most Sightly Locations in the city may bo selected from these ,lotu, especially on 30th Street We will build houses on a Smal ash Payment of $160 or $200, and sell house and lot on small monthly payments, It is expected that {hese lots will be rapidly sold on these liberal terms, and senonl wishing to purchase sheuld call at our offico and secure their lots at the tarliest moment, We are ready to show these lots to all persons wishing to purchase, BOGGS & HiLL, Real Estate Brokers, 1408 uiore good than hindredy of oo o) of medicine she ‘had propjoste™ ayorth Price 81,00, rial size 10 confe- J2omter North Side of Farnham Btreet, Opp, Grand Central Hotel, OMAHA, NEB, LOTS. p L