Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 26, 1881, Page 4

i I'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDN&SDAY OCTOBER 26, 1831 apthiemnng sy The Ormaha Bee. ‘Publishedavery moming, except Sunday. “The only Monday morning daily, WERMS BY MAIL:— ar.,....810,00 l Three Months,£3.00 finmhl“. 5.00 | One v 100 THE WEEKLY BEE, putlished ev- vy Wednesday. TERMS POST PATD:— “One Year.. Six Montha. . 50 OORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi. @stions relating to News and Editorial mat- ears should be addressed to the Epitor o¥ Tar Brr. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Busines Letters and Remittances should lw‘ml« drassed to TRE OMARA PUBLISHING CoM- PANT, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post otfice’ Orders to be made payable to the order of the Company. QMAHA PUBLISHIRG 00., Prop’rs £. ROSEWATER, Editor. Zdwin Davis, Manager of City Otroulation: H. Pierce Is in Charve of the Mail irgu ation of TILE DATLY BEE, A. T. Fiteh, correspondent and solicitor. CLEANLINESS is noxt' to godliness. That is the rcason why Omaha bath houses will have to keep open on Sun- days. —— GoverNoR MORGAN is seventy-four years old and we are not surprised that he hesitates to assume the active duties as head of the treasury depart. ment. Onro hasn’t given up all hope. Ex-Governor Tom Young, who elaims to be in special favor with the presi- dent, is pushing for the .secretaryship of theinterior. Now that Omaha affords all classes of amusement seekers a chance to pat- ronize respectable threatres the inde- cent dram-a shops should be vigor- ously suppressed. Emmtmm— ANOTHER yacancy in the Nebraska legislature. Senator Pierce, of Lancas ter, an excell~nt choice by the way, has just been confirmed receiver of the Lincoln land office. AnA! we have found it out. Wat- son B. is a Baptist and he wints the bathing rooms closed on Sunday be- cause they interfere with the occupa- tion of his pastor. ‘Wixpom's place in the cabinet is not as easy to fill as was first thought, and the chances are that nobody will fill it with as much administrative ahility as was displayed by Windom for some years to come, em— + MurAT HALsSTEAD of the Cincinnati Commercial does not want the govern- ment to throw countless millions into the muddy Mississippi upon false pre- tenses of improvement. We have mever heard Murat Halstend's objec: tions to throwing millions into the Ohio river whatever may be the pre- tense for such recklessness. ep———— Iris now thought at the national capital that Gorham will relieve the Tepublican senators of embarrass- ments by withdrawing as a candidate for secretary as soon as Sargent's name is sent in as secretary of the in- terior. Mr. Gorham need not disem- barrass the senators in that abrupt manner, Mr. Sargent’s name will, in all probability, never be sent in for the Kirkwood succession. No wellinformed person will ever call in question General Grant's pre-em- inenca as & military commander, and his tact in choosing subordinate offi- cers competent for the duties he as- signed them. But while we always have admired General Grant as one of the greatest soldiors of modern times, we cannot approve his methods of aselection for civil appointments, General Grant seems to labor under the impression that personal worship of himself, whether real or foigned, is a pasaport for any civil office. A:-trip'ng illustration maybe found in his support of Frank Hatton for the position of first assistant postmaster- general —a position for which Hatton is just about as well fitted as he would bejfora judgeshiponthesupreme bench. But Gen. Grant only romembers that on the occasion of his visit to Bur- lington when on his return from his tour around the world, Hatton pre- sented him with a copy of the Burling- ton Iawkeye printed on white satin. Hatton's inexpensive bit of Aunkyiam made a lasting impression on General Grant. From that hour Hatton be- came in his mind one of the greatest men in America, and like the great Napoleon who picked up poor peasants and made them princes by imperial decree, General Grant is backing Hatton . for a position that will virtuslly make him a mem- ber of President Arthur's cabinet. Buch an appointment if made will only add another proof of the dangers of personal government patterned on the the Grant ideal. ' It is commendable in General Grant to remember his friends even, even where their ser- wvice has mot been material, but when such f are rewarded with posi- tions in ¢he public servico for which they are utterly unfit the example be- BENEFITS OF 7.HE DOANE LAYY. With the persatial controversy be tween the editor of the Omaha Herald and Hon. Georyre W. Doane this pa- per has no concern. Tue Bee has simply extonded to Mr. Doane the privilege it has at all times granted to all men who desire to avail themselves of its columns in self defense, espe- cially when the assailant is an editor 20 | who refuses to give his vietim an op- portunity to be heard through the medium he has used in making the assault. The editor of the Herald has seen fit to charge over his own signature some days ago that the anti-monopoly resolu- tions introduced by Mr. Doane in the democratic state convention were in- gpired, if not drafted, by Edward Rose water, and ho has sought to belittle Mr. Doane by representing him as a mere dummy. This statement was as malicious as it was false, and the worst of it is that Dr. Miller knew it was false when he made it. Mr. Doane is amply able to originate, draft and advocate any proposition he may doem proper to be embodied in a party plat- form, and while he has not seen fit to notice Dr. Miller's contemptiblo slur about being ““Rosewater's dummy,” we will state now that not one word has passed between Mr. Doane and the responsible editor of THr BEE, either verbally or in writing for nearly two months, Mr.Doane's open letters were deliver- ed at our editorial rooms by messenger and inserted just as they were written. And now we propose to say a fow words about the Doane law which the subsidized railroad organs in Omaha and all over Nebraska are trying to make odious by every species of mis- representation. Let it be remem- beredl at the outset that the con- stitution of Nebraska, (page 33, compiled statutes of 188l.) Article 12, section 6, (abuses to be regulated by law), expressly requires the legis- lature to pass laws to carrect abuses and prevent unjust discrimination and extortion in all charges of express, tel- egraph and railroad companies and enofrce such laws by adequate penal- ties to the extent, if necessary, for that purpose of forfeiture of their property and franchises. This provision of the constitution was a dead letter until the legislature in compliance therewith passed a law providing the penalties for its viola- tion, It was the sworn duty of every member of the legislature to vote for such a law and any men or paper that opposed the, enactment of such a law advised these legislators to disregard their solemn oath and commit rank perjury. The Doane'law was a mild and con- servative compliance with the consti- tution and the legislature in enacting that law did the least it could have done in obedience to the mandate of the constitution. That law cannot be published too often for the informa- tion of the people. It reads as follows: SkcrioN L (Equal facilities.) Ever; railroad corporation shall give to ail })erlonl reasonable and equal terms, acilities and accommodations for the transportation of any merchandise or other property of every kind and de- scription upon any railroad owned or operated by such corporation within this state, and for terminal handling the use of the depot and other build- ings and grounds of such corporation, and at any point where its railgoad shall connect with any other railroad, roasonable and equal terms and facil- ities of interchange, and shall prompt- ? forward merchandise consigned or irected to be sent over another road connecting with its road according to the directions contained thereon or nocnmpmyifig the same. 8kc. 2. (Maximum rate.) No rail- road company in this state shall hore- after charge, collect or receive for the transportation of any merchan- ise” or other property upon the railroad owned or operated by such company within this state a higher rate for such service tkan was charged by such company for the same or like ser- vice on the 1st day of November, A. D,, 1880, as shown by the published rates of such company, and no rml- road company shall demand, charge, oollect or receive for such transporta- tion for and specific distance a greator sum than it demands, es, collects and receives for a greater distance. Skc. 3, (Discrimination as to per- sons,) No railroad company within| this stato shall grant or allow to any person, company or associstion u, the tra Jon of freight either directly or indirectly any secret rato, rebate, drawback, unreasonable allow- ance for use of cars or any undue advan- tage whatever, nor directly or indirect- 1y charge to or receive from any person or persons of association or ‘corpora- tions for like or contemporaneous ser- vice in the receiving, trmdror&ng, storing, delivering or handling of freights. Sec, 4. (penalty) Any railroad com- pany or officer or agent of such rail- rond company who violates any pro- vision of this act in addition to liabili- ty for all damages sustained by reason of such violation shall be liable for each offence to a penalty of five hun- dred dollars, which may be recovered in any county where such corporation has property. Could the legislature have enacted any law more reasonsble or conserva- tive, with decent regard for the mandate of the constitution requiring them to provide penaltics against abuses and unjust discrimination? ‘No rogue e'or felt the halter draw, with good opinion of the law,” and the mongpolies that have for years been riding 10ugh shod over their Nebraska patrons are opposed to all legal restrictions to their high- handed rapacity and merciless extor- tions. But in spite of their efforts to make this law odious by cunning de- vices and misrepresentations, by clamor against it through their Omaha organs and the rural whipper snap- pers that sneezo every time a railroad superintendent takes snuff, despite the outrageous abuse heaped upon Mr. Doane, this law has already proved of incalculable benefit to the people of our state, In the first place it affords a fair guaranty that all the patrons of the railroads whatever may bo their personal relations to the rail- course in re- road managers or their gard to corporation politics must have oqual troatment in the transportation of their merchandize or products— with every other patron of the road. Moro than this it compels rival roads to afford facilities to their patrona at terminal points or connecting sta- tions. When we remember the flag- rant discriminatiors and abuses of the past and the fre quent delays and annoyances shippers were subjected to by rival railroads refusing to accommodate oach other at terminal points and the extortionate exactions made at such points to compel shipments over their own lines, it must be conceded that the Doane law is of vast bene- fit. There can be no such a thing again as a special and extortionate local rate at Columbus, Central City, Grand Island or Kearney by the Union Pacific for merchandise received from the B. & M. billed to points west of such stations, or merchandise coming from points on the Union Pacific billed over the B. & M. or any other line, whether these roads are at war or in a pool. In the second place, whatever con- struction the railway managers may seek to give to the provision pro- hibiting greater charges over a shorter distance than a longer onb, the flexible maximum rate permitted by the law is a protection against such unjust dis- crimination as was formerly made by the roads against towns and cities they wanted to crush. But there is another feature in the second mection of the bill that has already saved Ne- braska producers and merchants hun- dred thousaitds of dollars. Up to this year the local tariff on grain and other products was adjusted and regulated according to the amount the tariff would bear. ‘Whenever grain advanced five cents a bushel at Chicago or St. Louis the grain rate was raised four cents or even five and producers and grain dealers were thus robbed of the ben- efit of the advance. Under the Doane law the local rates cannot be advanced without a complete read- justment of tariffs because the roads cannot legally charge a greater sum for a shorter distance than for a lon- ger one. Furthermore, a limit has been fixed upon their local rate by prohibiting a higher charge than was exacted on November 1st, 1880. It was mainly therefore to the Doane law the “producers and mer- chants of Nebraska are indebted this year to the maintenance of steady local rates which have not been affect- ed by the fluctuating and heavy ad- vance in grain in eastern markets. It is impossible to compute the amount this saved but it is self evident that it amounts to a vast sum and will in years to come save millions to the producers, Last but not least the prohibition of favoritism to persons in the shape of rebates, drawbacks and the compulslon to charge no greater sum to any person, association or cor- poration for like service than 1s charged to any other person or corporation has already contributed much toward breaking down ldcal monopoly in grain, lumber and other classes of traftic. If one grain dealer or lJumber dealer pays the same percar load as any other dealer the chances for competi- tion are open to all alike, otherwise each town or city would only have one dealer for each branch of in- dustry. These outlines of the operations of the law oven as now unwillingly complied with must convince any unprojudiced mind that the Doane law is just, equitable and beneficlal, It is not expected, however, that the )| railrond managers, their subsidized editors, attorneys, stoolpigeons, and, abave all, the favored foew that here- tofore fattened and prospered by un- ‘just discrimination, will ever find anything to praise in the Doane law. Axrnouan civil seryice reform is as dead as a door nail under the present administration we , still hear new plans proposed for reforming the ex- 1sting method of appointments to the civil service, * Ex-Commissioner of Pensions Bentley writes a long letter tc the New York Post on civil service reform and practical methods for its reform. He recognizes the great evil of the present system in the manner of making appointments as spoils for congressmen, He says that “the evils which will not be corrected by a proper regulation of the appointments are comparatively few and unimportnnt and need not cause anxiety.” He proposes that officers whose duties are local, like postmast- ers, and United States Marshals, be chosen, or rather nominated, to the president for appointment, by popu- lar vote, thus obviating any interfer- ence with the presidential preroga- tive. Second, that clerks in the de- partments be apportioned to the congressional districts and appointed after competitive examina- tion. Third, he weuld appoint the consular service by a similar sys- tem, the examinations to require a higher test. Fourth, high positions of fiduciary or confidential character should remain, like the judiciary ap- pointments, in the hands of the presi- dent. Mr. Bently thinks a constitu- tional amendment is necessary to effect this end. That is hardly necessary. Mr. Bentley noed not look for that constitutional amendment duiing the present generation. Such an amend- ment would have to pass both houses of congress by a two-thirds vote, and there is not the remotest probability that & majority of the senate would ever vote for it - at least not as long as the senators depend for their in- fluence at home on the spoils of fed- eral office. —_— IN New York the republican legisla- tive nominations this year are a de- cided improvement on those selected for the last legislature. In almost overy district formerly represented by a railway monopoly capper, the candi- dates this year are men of pronounced anti-monopoly sentiments. The dem- ocrats have also been compelled to meet this issue. The anti-monopoly league means to contest the election of every candidate who is not satis- factory in this regard. Where one candidate is 8o and the other is not, they will urge the election of the former without regard to his party connections. Where neither will suit, they may put forward a candidate of their own, — Tue Philadelphia American is of opinion that Americans are becoming very unpatriotic. Commenting on the Yorktown centennial the American says: The victory at Yorktown is not ap- preciated at its full magritude by this generation. Time was when almost every American town and village had a militia display and sham-fight in commemoration of what Cromwell would have called ‘‘the crowning mercy” of the war of independence. The trouble is that the crowning mercy of the war for independence has been eclipsed by the crowning mercy of the war for the union—-in the surrender at Appamatox. MR. DOANE TO DR- MILLER. To the Editor of The Bee, During my absence the past week the smut machine, called The Omaha Herald for ghert, has plied its vocation very assiduously, and emboldened by silence has become impudent. How- ever, out of the dirt and filth with which the editor has surrounded him- self and in which he seems to revel a few grains of wholesome truth have been evolved. First. He admits that there are abuses in railvay management which should be corrected. Secondly. That the legislature has the power to corréet them. In these admissions the smut machine has made some progress aud has committed its editor to the main principle embodied in the resolutions introduced .by me in the late democratic state conven- tion. But when it comes to the practical application of the princi- ple, the editor says the agencies under which the abuses were created, shall be left free to act in their correction. And this is the logic of all the discus- sion on the subject by Dr. Miller. 1t is only necessary to state it to show how excessively silly and servile it is, The advocates of the railroads who have sense enough to see, and breath enough to comprehend the ef- fect of such admissions, are far too wise to make them, Consequently we see such men as Curtis and Atkinson {aking issue directly with the asser- tion of the right of the law-making power to regulate the rates of trans- portation, either freight or passenger, on the railroads of the country, as Mr. Morton did in the state convention, Such men com- mand our respbet for their abil- ity and consistency, however radically we may differ with them on the principle involved, but there can be nothing but contempt for a weak tool, who in his zeal to serve his master, admits away his case, and ren- ders the cause ridiculous which he is 80 largely paid to serve. As for any discussion of the merits of this ques- tion the editor of The Herald has shown himself utterly unequal to the task. Irequested him to publish in The Herald the law, which he, in pur- suance of :osromediumd plan of at- tack dictated by his master, was mis- mi)ruentinu. and he replied with a column of Billingsgate against me {:«muully, And ff the way, that w he has never yet dared to publish, although he gave some g;rhfed ex- tracts from it sufficient only to suit the dishonest purposes to which he ap- phed them. 1 requosted him in courteous terms to correct a falsehood which he had uttered in a public convention, of which he was not a member, but in which he made himself conspicuously ofticious, giving him the dato for the correction from his own columns. He responds by the childish retort ot call- ing nicknames. I will have to leave Dr. Miller to occupy that field of ar- gument alone, In it, heisa grand success. Ho could probably add to the effectiveness of such arguments by that other child’s weapon— making uglymouthsat his adv indebate. In this I am sure he would be a suc- cess, for it would require so slight a change of features, Idonot doubt that this doughty Dr. thinks he has argued the merits of the transportation question and tho “‘tub law" quite exhaustively, for vanity leads him to think thut the law itself was a8 & personal drive at him. But if nothing more can be urged against the law by way of argument, than the silly vaporings of The Herald which have filled ita columns of late, the friends of that meesure can feel re-assured that it is wise, beneficial aud just. But then a show of service has to be kept up to prevent a suspension of the dividends of the profits which are enforced ug- on the contractors and employes of the Union Pacific railroad, In favor of this the patriotically democratic editor. In order to successfully levy blackmail, the victim must be impressed that de- triment would result from a refusal to comply, or that benefits would follow compliance. Now if this medical edi- tor would assume openly his true character as a hired retainer of the U. P. R. R. whom it paid better to ad- vocate the interests of monopolies than democratic principles, no im- peachment of his honesty could be made and he would not be receiving curses both loud and deep, as I have heard them from the lips of democrats within the last week in the extreme northern limit of the state, for his duplicity and servility to monopoly influence. It is not surprising that the democratic party is reduced to a position of ridicule to its opponents in its hopeless minority in this state when its central organ, for a paltry con- sideration in dollars and cents, espouses and advocates doctrines at utter variance with all the traditions of the party, and attempts to commit the party to its own odious sentimonts. Such treachery differs in degree only from that of a Judas or a Benedict Arnold. This it is which has aroused tho bitter antagonism of which he complains against Dr. Miller among democrats hero at home where he is best known, whereby he has lost all influence in local pofitics, so that his support of a candidate for nomination is an assurance of defeat, and this fecling is fast extending throughout the state. Even the good fight which The Her- ald once made upon corruption in high places in this state, has coased, and we hear no more of the doctor’s ringing denunciations/of printing steals and ringster thieves. Why is he now 80 dumb, when there is the grandest ogening for making party cafital by the exposure of the boldest fraud which has ever been practiced upon the state in the last letting _ of the printing con- tracts. If his own hands were clean, he would ery aloud and spare not. But alas for the democratic ‘‘organ’ and its editor! Their price has been found and their mouth is sealed. Corruption may go unrebuked and the printing steal unventilated so long as the swag is fairly appor- tioned among the ring consist- ing of the Omaha Republican, the greenback, and—pity ’tis, 'tis true— the democratic organ of the state. The party opportumty is lost, but what signifies that to the venal editor, so long as his pockets are filled from the proceeds of the fraud? I shall now leave the doctor to the use of his fav- orite arguments calling nicknames and making mouths, until he shall print the ‘‘tub-law” in the Herald and wash his hands of the printing steal or attempt to do so Geo. W, DoANE. OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS. CALIFORNIA, Seventeen mines in the state have paid 81,765,141 in dividends this year. Five vessels that have recently entered the port of San Diego paid $216,000 cue- toms dues. ‘The acreage of wheat sown this season in the vicinity of Vallejo will be unusu- ally large. A forty-foot whale came ashore the other day at Point New Year's Santa Cruz county. The farmers of Colusa county proposeto test the practicability of an artesian well for irrigating purposes. The winery at Cloverdale has produced this year over 50,000 gallons of wine, which'is being shipped to Santa Rosa. A Masonic temole is to be built at San Diego at a cost of 830,000, It will be used jointly by the Masons and Odd Fel- lows of that city. Grain on the summer-fallowed lands in Colusa county is sprouting, and with the help of a little occasional rain will soon become thoroughly set. A_packing company, at Los Angeles, has been canning quail with good success, a d are next going to try putting up mut- ton in the same manner. The site of the burned Chinatown has been purchased by citizens of Modesto for the sum of £2,500. The Chinese quarters will be moved one block further south. Nineteen miles of track is already laid on the California Southern m Sen Diego, and the work is progressing at the rateof three-quarters of a mile per day, The citizens of Somerville and Norton- ville propose to erect a monument in the cemetery to the memory of James A. G r- field, to be paid for by small subacriptions of 10 cents to $1. The wine-making season in this valley is ahout finished, Upward of 1,200,000 gallons of wine have bLeen made, This amount is less than the quantity made last year, owing to the grape crop being smaller, Redwood ties are being shipped from the Santa Cruz mountains to Mexico and San Diego. Nine thousand ties have already been shipped to Mexico, and 7,000 to San Diego, being the first installment &nmntrutl that will amount to 300,000 s, The people along the river in Sutter county are actively engaged in building and repairing levees, in anticipation of the winter rains, At Shaughai Bend, 240 wen and 140 teams are at work, and about $80,000 will be expended this year. Proba- bly $600,000 have been expended on levees in this vicinity since 1869, OREGON. Returns of the taxable property in Jack- son county show an increase of §180; over last year, A potato, measuring 74 by 10} inches, and weighing 44 pounds, ~{own as one of the products of Union county. The machine shops, foundry and engine works of the Northern Pacific Company at New Tecoma, employ alout 100 men, The farmers of Southern Oregon went largely into the businesy of raising sor- ghum last season, and _the results are rep- | resented to be very satisfactory. An immense force of men now working for the Oregon Railway and Naviga ion Company, blasting rock ' around the Dalles for the railroad, will be removed next week to the Pen d’Oreille division of the North Pacific Railroad, — WYOMING. Subscriptions to the Garfield monument fund reach $110. Typhoid fever is becoming painfully pre- valent in Fort ('ollins and its vicinity. Stations on the Julesturg branch are named after prominent people, Crook is in honor of dns eneral, 1iff for the dead eattle king, Snyder for the late agent at Sidney, aud Deuel and Orchard for a cou- ple of well known citizens of Omaba. Several hundred pounds of gold bearing ore, which will go E;) to the ton, from the Mountain George, Centennial district, was sent Lo Omaha 1o be tested. This mine has two leads, twenty feet apart, one bein; four and the other three feet wide, an they are gradually coming together.—Lar- amie Boomerang, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. The territorial fair just closed at Olym- pin was & financial suceess, A soldier named Quhenheim, of E. Co., stationed at Walla Walla, was acaidentally shot and killed at a target match. The wharves, lumber and ship yards, machine shops, mills, and booms at Port Gamble occupv fifteen acres, The com- mon tides rise to fourteen feet there, The extreme high tides are eighteen feet, MONTANA. At Barker City hay is worth 210 per ton, and at Benton butter fetches 60 cents per pound. The assessment of Choteau cour ty this year will amount, in round numbers, to $1,750,000. The Utah & Northern surveyors are working between the mouth of Sun River and Benton. A one hundred and seventy acre farm on Bitter Root, produced 7,363 bushels of grain this year, Work on‘the Oregon Short line is being pushe * forward with unabated energy. A arge number of men will be employed at American Falls, this winter, The work on the Oregon short line ex- tension of the U Pacific is progressing rapidly. The rails are laid for a distance of forty miles along Hahn's Fork. UTAH, Ogden is about to inaugurate asystem of street railways, The Ontario mine preduced in 17 days of September $117,622 assay value. Pinkeve is still making destructive in. roads on the equines of Salt Lake City. Surveying on the proposed brauch of the U. C. up Spanish Fork Canpon, is still in progress, A distinct_shock of earthquake was felt at Mount Pleasant, Sanpete county, at midnight on the 15th. The trotting match between Bateman and Ewing for £1,000 was won by Bateman in three straight heats. No less than 250 carloads of steel rails for the D. & I, G. R, R. will be laid down at Provo, this season, and as many at the other end. The canal which is to bring water from the Weber River and pour its treasures of water upon the barren acres of the Sand Ridge, is making fine progress, A force of sixteen to eighteen hundred men sre at work on the Salt Lake end of the Denver & Salt Lake railroad, and it is expected that the graders will cross the Utah line by the first of December. ARIZONA. ueen mine shipped, Sep- The Copper O 19th, 300,000 pounds of copper tem er bullion. The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- road engineers are locating a branch to Tombstone. A company has undertaked to supply Tucson with gas, and promise that the works shall be completed in four months, There is universal rejoicing at the news of Frem:nt's resignati n, but the feeling against the possible appointment of Gen. Banks is equally widespread. Many of the largest cattle owners are driving their cattle from Sulphur Spring valley, near Tombstone, fearing that in a short time the Indians wil retu TOIR Sonora and maie raids through the valley, run off the stock and murder the settlers, One of the recent Indian scargs had its origin in the shooting of a_chicken by o returning cavalryman. A Mexican, hear- ing the stot, rode twenty-two miles to Camp Thomas, and reported an attack by Indiuns, Gen. Mackenzie seut out troops and people i shelter. Arizona mines are doing well despite floods and the red-skins. The *‘Westarn,” wh ch but two or three years ago was but 2 810,000 prospect hole, has paid since July, 1880, over £1,100,000. The *“T'omb- stone” has )yro«luced $900,000 in dividends, while the ‘‘Silver King” has paid $750,000, with flattering prospects for the future. Five of the principal mines in the territory have paid 81,315,000 in dividends thus far this year, the vicinity stampeded for NEVADA, The line hetween Nevada and Utah is being constantly crossed and recrossed by parties of railroad surveyors. There is o sharp rivalry in order to secure advantage- ous routes. The twelve-inch equatorial telescope and the accompanying transit instrument, pur- cha-ed some time ago for the Lick Obsery- atory on Mount Hamilton, have arrived and are now being set up, Many cattle are dying in the vicinity of Truckee from eati'g a poisonous weed, supposed to be wild parsnip, The grass is 50 searce that the animals consume this plant, and they die very quickly. COLORADO, Denver hias an Opera club in running order, The American smelter employs four hundred men. The B. & way into Denver. Tmportant gold discoverios are reported near the tow! Gunnison, The Leadville output for the first nine moaths of the present year is $9,672,000, A prospecting company claims to have found anthracite coal in the Gunnison country, Ore has been struck in the Dolly Var- den mine near Almu, assaying 500 ounces silver per ton. Wagers are being made in Denver on the number of names which will be con- tained in the next city directory. The has secured the right of GHEAP - LOTS. A NEW ADDITION ! RN, ) N Omaha. THE BEST BARGAINS: Ever Offered IN THIS CITY. NO CASH PAYMENTS: Required of Persons Desir- in to Build. LOTS ON PATMENTS: OF $5.‘TO $10f PER* MONTH. MoneyAdvahcedi Solmgn s Asgist Purchasers in Building ‘We Now Offer For Sale: 85 Splendid RESIDENCE LOTS,, Located on 27th, 28th, 29th. and 30th Streets, between: Farnham, Douglas and the pro-- foead extension of Dodge St 2 to 14 Blocks from Court House and Post Office, A'Y" PRICES ranging from $300 to $4-00 which is about T'wo-Thirds of! their Value, on Sm~1l Monthly Payment of 356 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 baving $100 or $200: of their own, But not Enough. to Build such a house as they lowest estimate is 20,000 and the average 22,000. The Little Ida mine at Del Norte is producing from $6,000 to 810,000 per day, working only one level, the vein of rich zold-bearing quartz having been opened y & tunnel at a depth of 125 feet. The Matchless mine on Fryer hill, Leadville, is taking out 1,200 tons of min- eral per month, about 1,000 tons of which come from the old shaft, The fore aver- ages about 70 ounces of silver to the ton. ‘Two notorious cattle thieves have been amested in Denver. They are members of the gm‘l\whlch stole five horses from Indianola, Neb., last August, The num- ber of cattle and stock known to have been 000 | stolen by this gang comprise fifteen head of steers, five head of cows and five head of horses, aggregating in value the sum of 81,100, DAKOTA. The Ihrtiut college to be'built at Sioux Falls, will cost $20,000, Deadwood has a telephone exchange embracing 140 instruments, The Second P church of Flindrau was des ber 23d. The dead mute institute at Sioux Falls is all ready to be turned over to the terri- tory. A Sitting Bull is leading a quiet life at Randll with his 168 pound people, The greatest exertion he is called upon to un- dergo is to stand up and be counted every morning. Articles of incorporation of the Fargo Gaslight and Fuel company aad the Sioux Fals (HnAllisn collegiate institute have just been filled with the secretary of the territory. — Bradford, Pa. Thos. Fitchan, Bradford, Pa., writes: T enclose money for SPRING BLOSSOM, as 1 said 1 would if it cured me. My dyspep- sia has vanished, with all its symptoms. Many thanks; I shall never be without it in the house,” Price 50 cents, trial bot- tles 10 cents, 17eodlw want, can take a lot and we: will Loan them enough to com-- plete their 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: Dodge Streets. They lie in a part of: the city that is very l{agldly Improv-- ing and consequently Increasing in: Value, and purchasers may reasonably. hope to Double their Money within a: short time. Some of the most Sightly Locations: in the city may be selected from these. lots, especially on 30th Street. We will build houses on a Smal Cash Payment of $150 or §200, and’ sell houso and lot on small monthly payments, It is expected that these lots;will be, rapidly sold on these liberal terms,, and persons wishing to purchase: sheuld call at our ugic and secure: their lots at the earliest moment.. We are reatly to show these lots to al persons wishing to purchase. BOGGS & HILL; Real Estate Brokers, 1408 North Side of Farnham Street: Opp. Grand Ceztral Hotel, UMAHA NEB,