Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 4, 1881, Page 6

4 —m _— The Omaha Bee. Tublished every morning, except Sanday, The only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL:—~ One Year..... Threo Montha, $3.00 Six Months, One 1.00 I'HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PATD:— One Year......$2.00 | Three Months., 50 Bix Months.... 1.00 | Owe L CORRESPONDENC All Communi. eations relating to News and Editorial mat ters should be addressed to the Enirok o¥ Tar B ; BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittances should be ad dressed to THE Omana PunLisHing Cou- PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post~ otfice Ordois to be made payable to the order of the Company. E. ROSEWATER. Editor. Omeo has again bobbed up serenely with the speakership as the prize. WasHiNGTON i8 itself again, and the billiard Kecpers are rejoicing over the assembling of congress. Our Val is there, too. Every dollar charged by the rail roads for moving grain in excess of “paying rates” is a dollar wrongfully extorted from the farmer. Nator Vax Wyek's lotter to the New York Tariff convention is attract- ing a great deal of attention and favorable the press throughout the country. Twe New York Herald asks whether mining pays. Goyernor Tabor and Judge Bowen, of Colorado, think so. Tom Nast, who lost $40,000 at one lick, isn't quite so certain about it. room comment from Omana needs and must have a mar- ket house. St. Joe, Kansas City, Leavenworth and Atchison have mar- ket houses, and Omaha cannot afford to remain withot one nuch longer. Moxey is “chéap” and living from 20 to 40 per cent. higher than it was u year ago. The to the disadvantage of those who de- pend upon fixed incomes from invest. ments. two causes operate porETARY Forcer wants to stop inage of the silver dollar, - isult the gold and of these S| the retary Folger had better constitution, which makes silver tne money United States metals Nebraska being a second termer, will, accord- Tue congressman from ing to usage, become chairman of a committee, and that will enable him to support a private secretary at tho expense of the government. vorth fifty cents a bush- ¢l is an cxpensive little household ex- pense which a number of Nebraska farmers are now compelled to indulge in. Coal monopolies, like all other robbers, plunder the people to enrich themselug. Kerrer is regarded as out of the speakership race. He is chiefly inter- esting as a national zephyr.— Denver Tribune, December 3, There is 8o much wind in Colorado that a cyclone only ranks as a zephyr in Denver, The Denver Tribune is a very unreliable weather prophet, Ex-8eNator BourwrrL of Massa- chusetts who was head of the treasury during the first term of General Grant and one of 306 that died with Grant at Chicago has been tendered the secre- taryship of the Navy. Mr. Boutwell is one of the ablest if not the ablest man yet named for a position in Presi- dent Arthur's cabinet. SOMETHING FOR NOTHING New York has an honest and sensi- blemayor. He has vetoed a rosolu- tion of the hoard of aldermen granting the free use of the streets to the tele- graph and telephone companies for the purpose’of laying underpround wires, and has accompanied his veto with some very emphatic worde relative to corporations and city franchises. He says that approval of the alderman's resolution “‘would be equivalent to a free gift to a wealthy corporation of a right which is of great value to them, and which ought to be of great value to the city.” He adds that if the burden of taxation in Now York is ever to be reduced it must be done by taking advantage of wvery vossible source of income, and not by donations of privileges which possess a market value, No sounder words could] have been spoken in their application to the re. lations of city franchises and corpora- tion demands. Eastern cities have passed the day when they can furnish capital with an opportunity for reap- ing unusual returns without claiming some share in the benefit which they derive, Philadelphia is already ex- amining her horso railroad fran chises, and claims that under their provisions the duty of keeping the streets clean andin repair devolves upon the companice. Brooklyn has refused the franchise to several com panies organized to build clevated rail- - roads, on the ground that the terms of such franchises do not promise sufli- cient inducements to the public purse to warrant the inconvenience which they would cause and the heavy profits which they would return to the own- ers. In a number of states laws tor- bidding the issuing of bonds to corpce and the is being more the intereats of rations have been agitated, tlght of way privilezo carefully “guarded in the public, Tt is & general principle which chould have a wider application in the even® that a public franchise to & pri vate corporation ought never to be granted without §the certainty of a valuable consideration and fair partic n in profits above the usual mar ipatic ket rate of interest. ments of all kinds which While improve- concern the public should Ve encouraged and while capital is entitled to a fair re- turn for its use there is no reason why public and private property should be practically placed at the mercy of and remunerative inveatments be found for the benefit the corporation without some counterial- ancing returns in the interests of the people. In nine cases out of ten, in- stead of bonuses being given such or- ganizations, larg recoived in roturn for the franchiscs asked at the hands of the public There is no reason why the laws of maintain quitabic trade should not in such cases as well as in the tranac tions of an ordinary every day busi- nesa. THE NEW SPEAKER. For the first timo in six yes control of the houso of representatives will be in republican hands and under the supervision of a speaker. The choi caucus at its Saturde upon Gen, 4 the republican of the party meeting fell . Warren Keifer, of Ohio, and his election is virtually an ac- complished fact. Gen. Keifer has a splendid record at his back and will enter upon the duties of the office with every promise of being a worthy successor of James G. Blaine. He is a native of Bethel township, Clark county, Ohio, where he was born on a farm in 1836, re- ceiving his education in the common schools and graduating at Antioch college, Ohio, when less than twenty years of age. Mr. Keifer was admitted to the bar in 1858 and continued the practice of law until 1861 when, at the firing upon Sumpter, he enlisted in the army and was shortly after- wards commissioned as Major of the Third Ohio Volunteer Infantry. He rapidly rose in the 1862 he reccived his a8 colonel and pussed through service. In commission the soverest battles of the Virginia cam- paign at the head of the One Hun- dred and Tenth Ohio Infantry, sus- taining severe wounds in the battle of the Wilderness on May 5, 1864, Upon his return to the army in No- vember of tho same year, ho was ap- al, by brevet, orious services,” pointed brigadier “for gallant and m receiving his commission as brigadier- general in the following December. During the closing scenes of the war in the campaign in Virginia. General Keifer was.distinguished for his effe- ciency and bravery,and upon the mus- tering out of the army in July, 1865, was breveted major general of the vol- unteers, His entire service in the army extended over a period of four years and two months, in which time he was four times wounded and par- ticipated in tho most severe engage- ments of the rebellion. His value as an army officer was recognized by the government in his appointment on November 30, 1866, as licutenant- colonel in the Twenty-sixth Uni- ted States Infantry, which he declined and resumed his practice at the bar, In 1868 General Keifer entered pub- lic life as a member of the Ohio sen- ate in which body he soon took high rank as an ablo and active representa- tive of the people. dole- gate to the national republican conven tion in Cincinnati in 1876 and was elected in the same year to the Forty- Fifth congress from the Eighth Ohio District receiving 17,728 votes o 14,012 for his opponent. In congress General Keifer has been a consistent advocate of republican principles und an eflicient worker in the party inter- osts, It He was a inst Roepresenting a state in which railway corporation are a powerful political factor General Keifer is one of the fow public men that have boldly taken position against corporate mon- opolies. It is gratifying that he owes his nomination largely to this senti- ment. AN INDIGNANT NEWSPAPER Schuyler Horald, Wo regret the avpearance of the bun. combs advertisement of Titk Ovana Bek the fourth poge of this issue, headd ““I'he Farmers and the Railroads,” 1t is nothing more nor less than a breach of faith on the put of Mr, Joselyn, of the Western Newwspaper Union with the pub. lishers of the Herald, “I'he Hevald is not w supplement of Tk OuManA Bek, nor do we propose that the ¢ lumns of the Herald be a wedium for cireulating editorial watter of Tk B any other puper, of a partizin natur, touching men and issues of the than news, unleas of our own choi The Herald has an opinion of its own touching public affairs the elative ri of farmers snd raiiroads, farmers' alliance wh well un the status of Senator Van Wy- ck; and when wo ke proper we will by hesitancy or fear to express that I ¥ present it is sufticient for us to w1y we don't agree with Tug Brk in muny things, and among others wedon't believe that as & factor in the developient of this western country Tur Bek is as true o a friend of the famier ay rate powers, spirit it o) o8 with soun ing toumpets for melf-a ndziemeot. And we give notica to Mr, Joslyn in this public manner that if such is to be the character of his advertidng matter, he can't supply the Herald's “ountside.” f A corporation editor never opens his mouth without putting his toot in it. If the highly indignant bulldozor who threatens to withdraw his patron- Yy iilist sums ought to be| we from the Western Newspaper Un ion becauso it has seen fit to insert the prospectus of Tue Bee in ita “‘patent insides,” had taken the trouble toread that offensive advertisement, mstead of jumping at conclusions, he would not have made a commodious ass of himself by denouncing Tie Bre as a The article ontburst of nihilist or communist. that has caused such an indignation contains the following ex plicit declaration In ¢! pioning the common in‘erests of the people again-t corporate encroach- ment Tie Bre has never advoeated the confiscation or wan‘on de<truction of rail way property oe laws that would bank. rupt these corporations, It it in<ists that railways shall deal fairly by all their pate | rons, that they shall n | products of the far tolls, and that they just barden of taxtion, 1f there is any nihilism or commun- imm in this declaration, let corporation the We presume, however, that in the eyes of these monopoly nchmen evergbody that not Uar is a nihilist and contiseate the by oxtort all not evade their ni e editors and their owners make most of it. does wear the brass oo cvery man that expresses disapprc Sf the methods employed by railway | monopolies t | patrons or ev taxation is a communist. What a pity these hirel the power of the autocrat of Russia. extort money from their le their just sharo of g3 haven't They would banish every subscriber of Tue Bee to perpetual misery in some penal colony and burn the editor at the atake. The against inserting the prospectus of a partizan paper of op- posite politics as an advertisement, is decidedly refreshing. Every metro- politan daily in America requires weekly exchanges to advertise its par- protest tizan prospectus in payment for the ditference in value. No editor with a thimble full of brains would kick about the sentiment expressed in such advertiscments, and we are sure the cditor of the Schuyler paper, although professing the den eratic ereed, would never have opened | his mouth if the partizan advertise- ment had been inserted for the U, P, Omaha organ with a republican brand. WESTERN RAILROAD PRO- GRESS. The completion of the Northern Pa- s to Miles City near the junction of | Tonguo river with the Yellowstone op- ¢ posito Fort Keogh, is o source of con- gratulation to the peopls of Montana. Although its progress during the past n sufliciently rapid to the wishes of the pioneers, yet it has cutits way through adifficult coun- | try and bridged over three hundred streams between Bismarck and Miles City. The work of construction has boen entirely within the boundary of Montana during the year now clc principally on the division between Glendive and Miles City, which will be open for public traftic on the 15th of the present month. On comple- tion of the temporary bridge over Tongue river, and the ice bridge at Bismarck, through trains from St. Paul and Duluth will run to the *‘So- dom of Montana,” as Miles City has dubbed. Operations on the main line west of this point will be suspended for a time, and the force employed in” the loveling of yards, 1 has not b meel been building sidetracks, depots, ete. Should the weather continue moder- ately wmild, the graders will push west to connect with the Forsyth division of 100 miles. In Washington territory the construction corps moving east would make a re- spectable army, There are 2,000 men employed on the Clarks Fork division alone, with 2,000 Chinamen on the way, and this force will plow up many miles of virgin sod during months. Three hundred more are pntting tho finishing touches on the grade between Umatillaand Pendleton, which will be ironed in the spring. The grado is now completed to winter Lake Pen d'Oreille, and the track within a fow miles§ of it. The weather in this vicinity is anything but comfortable, and orders have been issued for all hands to strike tents for winter quar- ters, Engineors are oxwmuining the Columbia and Snake rivers to sclect suitable bridge sites, on which work will be commenced in the spring. It will be seen from the above that there still romains a vast amount of labor to make both ends of this great work meet., The dis- tance already covered on both ends iy longer in miles than that which romains, but the couutry is vastly more difficult to penetrate. Two yoars will be required to com- plote the bridges over the Missouri at Bismarck and over the Columbia at Wallula. The former has been under way for nearly two years, and not a singlo span is completed. The Mul- lun pass tunoel near Helena will be another tedious job. It will be 3,800 fect long, Beyond that another tun- nel 600 feet long must be bored, and between them an iron bridge 1,300 feot Jong with a central pier of mas- onry 225 foot high, It 18 estimated that the work will bo finished in twenty-six months. Allowing a lih oral margin of timo for unexpected delays, it is cortain that the largest portion of 1854 will pass away before unbroken trans will reach the mouth of the Columbia from Lake Suporior The Oregon Pactic railroad com- pany, comnosed of capitalists whose uames aro kept in the dark, has gone NHE'OMAHA DAILY REE: to work in northern Oregon at a point wbont 120 miles south of the mouth of the s Yaquioa bay, to build a standard guage, steel rail road Boisn City, Idaho. T'wenty miles of the road between the bay and Cornvallis, in Benton coun- ty, 1 ready for the iron, 10,000 tons ot which are due in San Francisco this The Port- tand Standard claims that the coin to build and equip the entiroline is on hand. The road will bo extended into eastern Oregon by the close of next year, and to Boise City in two will Columbia rive southeastward to month, by three steamers and & half years, where it meot the ‘‘Oregon Short Line” of the Union Pacitic. Like all new roads sceking privileges, in- numerable promisos are made and low rate in ady of transportation proclamed nee, This showing that the history of railway highwaymen has penctrated the in- torior of Oregon. Tho company only ask the people to give the freight and is significant, as passenger business to tho Oregon Pa- cific when completed, provided it is the cheaper rou A line of steam- ors will ply hotween San Francisco and Yaquina in connection with the road. This road is doubtless the western division of the Oregon Short Line of the Union Pacific. The proposed Utah and Wyoming railroad, the first division of which has been surveyed, starts at Utah, and runs almost due east to Brigham City, and then northeast to Laketown, on the southern extremity of Bear Lake, in Utah. From here the road will cross into Wyoming, near the southeast corner of Tdaho, and connect with or cross the Oregon Short Line, and push on to some (as yeot) unknown pert in the interior of Wyomi This road, if ever built, could be utilized advantageously in shortening the enormous twists on the Union Pacific in eastern Utah and wostern Wyoming. The Denver & New Orleans rail- road, of which Deacon Evans is the head centre, is not the most favored corporation in the west. In fact its path is a thorny one. Beginning with Denver the violent epposition of both press and people had to be overcome, and the Deacon's spare moments were employed in writing public explana- tions of the company’s intentions. Ihe fact that the road was under Gould's influence was suflicient to bring down upon it the wrath of the business men of Denver. Their ex- perience with the long and short haul discriminating rates on J. Corinne, G.'s roads was a costly and vexatious one, and when Deacon Evans began negoti ting for right of way and city priv leges he found obstacles in his path which hard cash could alone remcve, The sinews of war being plentiful the road pushed out from Denver until the Rio Grande crossing was reached. Here the fight was into the courts, and after a months' delay the deacon came with colors flyi taken few out g From this point the progress of road toward the mis- tress of tho gulf was free of serious opposition until the adyance agents struck the vicinity of Trinidad. The people of this town and Las Animas county entertained ‘‘great expectations’” of the benefits which would follow the completion of the road, securing a means of shipping its coal, coke, iron and rock throughout the state. Its hopes were of short duration, how- ever. A representative of the mining interests was informed by the deacon that the D. & N. O. company in- tended becoming coal miners as well as common carriers and that they in- tended to manufacture coke and carry these articles exclusively for them- solves, and not for others. ““We can- mot agree to carry these articles for other people,” remarked the deacon, “to compete in- the market with our- selves. Weshall probably mine coal farther south than Trinidad and not to exceed three miles from our main line, while your city will be twenty miles away. 1f your people will grade, tie and bridge a branch road I will won and take in as a part ot my own, and it will carry your merchants their goods —always providing they pay for it.” A soft answer turneth away ordinary wrath, but Trinidad is boil- ing. The deacon’s liborality is a gen- uine onsis in the desert waste of rail- road rapacity, and should be blazoned on the glistening domes of the Sierras, The sudden change of the Union Pacific ¢ ruction force from the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific to the Laramio and North Park branch was brought about by the sudden appear- ance of a surveying party of the Den- ver and Rio Grande in that forbidden region, Blickensderfor and Budd moved by forced arches in front of the Coloradoans, and drove stakes and turned s0d at the rato of a wile s day. The Rio Grande Company are evidently determined to bring all mineral bear- ing regions in Colorado in direct com munieation with Denver, and rural interlopers must keep their hands off, They have driven their stakes through Middle and North Parks, and are now moving toward Laramio City. The president of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railroad has publicly sunounced that the ad- vauco of that line in the direc- tion of Niobrara, Nebraska, during the coming spring and swmwmer, de- pends on Cedar county showing ‘‘a MONDAY, DECEMBER 5 1881 proper spirit’—the same kind of spirit that now haunts the tax payers and county. Twenty-year bonds at seven ot erght of Omaha Douglas per cent, have always been a great consolation to new railroads, Possi bly Cedar will learn wisdom from her neighborsandrefuso the “spirit,” This company is said to have entered into a compact to build with the Sioux City & Pacitic a branch from Fremont t Lincoln. This is the road for which Gailoy, the troubadour, warbled so sweetly beforo Saunders county shut off his wind. The New Senate. Cincinnati Commercial When Congress meets, Monday next, the frequenters of the senate galleries will look down on an unusu ally large numbor of members who are about to begin their first regular legislative term, although some of them were presont at the called exc- cutivo session of last March, iny of the list, however, rey fuct that a great majority of these members are by no means new to congressional — experience, as they have served in the house of repre- sentatives. Among the latter are Senators Lapham and Miller, of New York, the story of whose translaton to the senato last spring, as the result of the warfare of Conkling upon Garfield, which ended in that bitter tragedy, is too well remembered to need further mention. Another cx-Representative from New York appears in Senator Van Wyck, of Nebraska. For many years Mr. Van Wyck was one of the inost prominent Republicans of New York, and was long a member of Con- gress from an interior district, but was at last ejected from his seat by one of those tactional fights Conkling had been accustomed te foment in the State. Another new Senator, but long a member of the house, and well known in other fiolds of public uscfulness, is General Hawley, of Connecticut. Senator Hale, of Maine, it is hardly neccessary to say, has had a long and brilliant career in the house, 80 well is he known to the entire nation. Senator Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, was a member of the house when he was transferred to the senate a3 a compromise to end the long and bitter struggle be- tween the Cameron and anti-Cam- eron factions in that state. Senator Aldrich, of Rhode Island, chosen to succeed General Burnside, was taken from the house, where he had long ser Senator Jacksen, ot Tennes- see, had also been a member of the house, and we believe was such at the time of his senatorial clection. Sen tor , of Wisconsin, was formcv- eral terms one of the most conspicu- ous members of the house, and were lie now in that body would no doubt be a formiduble contestant for the speakership, Those Senators who are entirely new to Congressional ¢ pericuce are unusally few in number. Most prom- inent among them is Senator Mahone, of Virginia. Since the events of the called session it seems call hi a new member as he has never had practical legislative work, either in the Senate or elsewhe Senator Harrison, of Indiana, enters the Sen- ate without having had experience of any kind at Washington, and he has yet to learn, together with his colleagues in the same plight with himself, all ‘‘the ways that dark and the tricks that are vain,” Sena- tor Sewell, of New Jersey, is in the like predicament, and s, also, is Sena- tor Miller, of Califor These ex- haust the list, and it will be seen from this analysis that in the legislative ex- perience of its membership, the scnate about to assemble has not been sur: passed by any of its predecessors. In its political condition the senate has an interestiug aspect. It has been formally classed as 37 republicans, democrats and 2 independents. This, however, is the classitication of those democrats who take a roseate view of the situation, and while hardly daring to group Dayis, of Illinois, and Mahone, of Virginia, with the demo- crats, bravely put them under the caption of independents. This ar- rangement wmay possibly afford the democrats some comtort and does nobody any partic- ular Larm, since it is well known that both Davis and Mahone have declared their intention to act with the Repub- licans, not only in the organization, but generally. Indeed, noither of them have now any option in the mat- ter for each, during the calledsession, not only drifted apa ) the Dem- ocratic side, but burnt his bridge be- hind him, The Senate, thevefore, at its organization, is close, but is safely redeemed from Democratic domina- tion. In the character of its membership the senate has rarely, and certainly not in recent years been so high, On the democratic side Senators Bayard, Pendleton, Hill and Brown of Geor- gin, Beck of Kentucky, Ransom of North Carolina, Lamar of Mississippi, with others, have proved themselves equal to any of the duties incident to the place. On the republican side the infusion of the new blood las made it partieularly strong. With such men in the body as Edmunds, of Vermont; Anthony, of Rhode Island; Windom, of Minnesota; Conger nnd Ferry, of Michigan; Hoar and Dawes, of Massachusetts; Frye and Hale, of Maine; Allison, of Towa; Logan, of Illinois, ana Hawley, of Connec yethe is such, 1y experience in the party is not likely to lack cither force or wisdom in its direction these members is comblued lar, perienco in public affars, together with varied ability and politi- cal acumen, Combining with these such new Senators as Miller, Harrison, Van Wyck and others, and it is evident that the republicans have little to fear in any exigency that may ariso, While the republicans have good reason to he satistied with the senate as it stands, all partios can find causo for eatisfaction in the body, The public welfare is to be mostly found in the closs political division, That fact not only puts but _each individual member, upon good behavior. Crude or vicious legislation is not likely to be develop ed from a sentate thus constituted. —_— Iluu-r-old Legislation Fremont Tribun The advocate ef the cheap transpor tation question, and iy of those | {i'samd who are directly intereste ach party, | in wrest- | She has a babe two months eld, iug the control of our great railways | jail. She stolo the Lorse $0 sectre money from the hands of the owners and reg- | % get her seducer aut of iail ulating their freight tariffs by govern mental legislation are now circulating a petition throughout Nebraska se. curing signers, and expect to present the petition at the coming session of congrass asking for a redress of griev inces and that some active steps be taken to check tho growth of the great monopolies and enhance the interests of the producer. The persons who are most diligent in carrying the thing forward, say they look to congress for a remedy stat that in doing so it will excreiso the power conferred upon it by the constitution to regulate com- | merce within foreign nations and be tween the states. The general tenor of the petiticms | is to the eftect that these groats thoroughfares are for the benefit of | the public at large, and that each in- | dividual is entitled to the same riglhts and privileges in their nse and that there should be ne discrimination in favor of any favored party orset of men. The petition urges that therail- roads are not run in the intereste of | the public service as they should be, | but are conducted solely with the idea of suddenly amassing " their owners a large fortune without any regard to the unjust extortions from the labor- ing and produci ses thus failing to execute the committed to them, i The petition further states that *‘through combinations and consolida- tions, the railroads of the United States h beeome such a monopoly as was never contemplated when char- ters were granted; beneficont inven- tions whicli ought to inure to the pub- lic benefit are largely monopolized, and, through Construction Companies and other devices by which a fictitions basis of cost is established, the public are everywhere enormously over- | charged for the construction and use | of steam highways. Through excessive charges and unjust discrimination enormous wealth has been suddenly accumulated by those who control these highways, while the farmer, the manufacturer, the miner and the mer- chant have been deprived of their fair profits, and labor has beon robbed of its just reward.” It then goes on to say that there is something more to the subject than a mere business aspect. The morals of the people are corrupted by the meas- ures resorted to by the monopolies to maintain and enlarge their power, thus poisoning the stream of justice, not only along its course but a'so at its fountain. The prospeetive results of the petition is to cowpel the railroad corporations to perforin their public dutiesto all alike for a certain, reason- able, specified compensation and to forbid under a heavy penalty the ex- tortions and discriminations now practical on the people at la Wi the results will be can not be delinite: ly foreknown, but those direetly in- terested are sanguine in the success | of their cause. | IOWA BOILED DOWN., Gilwan has organized a canning com- Moines talks of building another e Wili at Sponcer, They are going to Grvinily Centhy Baling hay for th stern macket will bea new iodustry at Le Mars this winter. The Marshalltown canning worksintend putting up 1,601,000 eans of suudrics next season, The state grange holds its annual sion in Des Moines, the second Tuesday in December. The Wl of improyements in Sun wn during 1881 foot up ir round num- 113,01 Dennison on Thunksgiving the hetter the deed. 1t is cla t Fort Dodge hat as nd for glass-making purposes as ¢ be found anywher ting of the Stat: 11 be held at O Sacd 29, ield has a lady den ng how many. men have teeth that need fixing. tists are building a chureh prospect for conl at « 89,000 opera honse The better thed; :ch- loosa , and it s in that town A. Y. McDonald, the Dubuque manu- facturer, is making arrangements to start « branch concern at Clinton, Davenport hes a land loagne of 40° mem! er< and has get $1,145 to the nu- tional lund league in Ireland. The Odd Fellows of Keokuk claim the finest ha'l in the s ate, and in eonnection with it is a library of 1,100 volumes, The Decorah fivemen and city authori- ties propose to celebrate the completion of ¢ water works with imposiug Ahernet tendent of publ his farm of 2 £6,200, The new fe 20 loaded te horses ster bos Dennis O'Brien kil'ed a fine deer on Muscat ne Isiand on the 27(h, app. rently about f ur yeams old, and the first seen there for ma v years, Welister Cit; trade with power to iner The shares of s formerly state suverin- nsfriction, recently sold eres near Denison for y boat at Keokuk carries i as many eattle and aid to be & mou- bas orzanized a hoard of pital stock of £10,000. with unt to %10,600 The Des Molues Glucose comp ny has jnat finished the shivwent of thirty car- loads of sugar to St. Louis, where it grades A 1, and ix considered equal to the best enstern wanufacture The Davenport ( te says that a well. informied grain merchant “of that cit; makes the statement, that corn will reach the glaring price of X1 gor bu-hel before v for market, @ prowinen’, attorney of Ananiose, lowa, was found doud in bed the worning of t! He had been for days attending u xesion of the United States Court, and the last few days had been addicted to strong deink, His death in supposed to have resulted from ruffoca- ti Mr. T, W, Pie Lo take place at the Aboin house, r 16, is to be a strictly temperate affair, no wine being allowed, The pro- gramme inoicates that Gov, Gene will . spond to the toast, “Towa in the past,” and Gov..clect Sherman to “*lows in the future,” Near Muscatine on the 27th, while Girant Lang-, aged 1, was handling s guu sceidentally discharged and literal off the \h‘]|43| top of his head, scattering the boy's brains in everydiroction. His father, wh + was a union soldier, died one year ago that duy, and the boy was ge'ting ready | fice & sa.ute over his grave when the asei nt oceurred, | Auna S, Howe, who has been | befo @ the distric't court of Mari | week for killing her hushand by poisoning | It summer, was on the 26th found guilty | of worder ‘in the scoond desro + ntenced to tho Madison Penit hteen years, She killed her husbas arry a man from lilinois, [ ton, the penitentiary’ for three yes born 124 Houses LOTS For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 8TS.,, No. 1, New house, 7 rooms, near Satinders, $1200. No. 2, 2:story house, rooms, well, cistern and barn, Webster, near 16th strect, $2600, No, 5, House of 10 rooms, on Harney, near- stoun foundation, #4000, No. 4, Largo house of 11'rooms, on Webster strect, near Creighton College, 33500, No.'6, Touse of 7 rooms, on Cass, near 178 streot, $3000. No.'7, Hoise of 8 rooms, 3lots, on 17th strecs noar Izard, $3.00. No. 8, House of & rooms, on Cass, near 14th, 22x182 foet lot, $13 No. 9, House of 8 rooms, kitchen, etc., or Cas, near Lith st cet, 3300, No.10, House of 3 rooms with lot 22x132 feet, on Cass, near 14th strect, $900. No. 11, House of 6 rooms, on 16th street, near Douglas, 44x66 feet Jot, 24000, No. 1%, Houscof 6 rooms, brick foundation, on v, near 27th street, $1000. 3, 1 story new house of 6 rooms, toundatfon, off St 1500. No. 14, House of 5 rooms and summer kitchen on 20th Strect, uvar clark, §2500 No. 15, House of & rooms, on (16th street). near Nicholas, brick Mary’s avenud, near convent,. herman avenue rooms, cellar, 2 strect, $1500. ck house of 6 rooms, near r turn table, 2 lots, 4 block of High ots on road to park, neat ary's avenue, £5500. House aud 11} lots near Hascall’s, South 00, and lot on Davenport street, § housc and 1°¢ Davet port, near 12th street, $1300. | Flouse of 4 roows’ and 2 lots on 17th Tzard, $1200, Houseand } lot on 10th strect, nea 66 feet, on House and 1 lot on 10th strect, near e, $1430. 2 houses and ot on Jackson, near 13th 5 houses and 1 1ot on California, near 25000, 0, 1)-story hrick honse of 4 rooms with. 20 feet, on Sherman avenuo (16th street), near lzard, £50¢0. No. 81, 14-story house and 33x66 feot, on 13th £2000, . near Howard street, Large house a d fuli lot on Capito ith street, 22500 Tot 44 n Chicago, near 1th strect, 8 0 cach. 7, House of 7 rooms with 14 lot Paul near 18t strect, 82750, House and fot on 18th strect, near 1850. No. 3, House of b rooms with 44x66 feet lot, on_18th strect, near California, $2500 No. 42, House of § rooms with lot 150x150 feet, n, near Colfax strect, 3500, 1louse and 2 lots on’ Chicago, near 20th. ). o No.'4, Large house of 7 rooms, closets pantry, well and cistern, on 18th, near Clark street, $3500., No. 46, Larze house with full block, uear new shott ower, #2000, i No. 47 House of 9 rooms with } lot, on Pacifle, near 11th st 3000 No. 19, Brigk house of 11 rooms, well, c'stern, ks througLout the house, good barn, 'etc., on Farnham, near 17th strect, 8 No, 50, House of 6 rooms, cellar, well, etc., on 19th, near Paul strect, £5000. N House of 6 rooms and cellar, lot 33x132, nvent, andssx120 feet, No. 55, POrt, near 16th street, €000, No. b6, House of § or 10 rooms, on California, ‘our hous nesr st street, #0500, Houst of 6 rooms, summer kitchen, cellar, cistera, well, good barn, ete., near St. Mary’s aven kt street, $5000 No. 65, New house of 7 rooms, good barn, on. Webster, near 224 strect, No. 7, Four houses with } lot, on 12th strcet, NCAT Case 32000, No. 60, House of 3 roows on Davenpord, near 2rd strect, 900, 1, Tlouse of 0 or 10 rooms, on Burt strect, nd strect, #5000, No. 62, House of 4 rooms, 1story, porch, cel- lar, cistérn and well, on Harney, near 21st street, House of 4 r ms, closets, basemens r, White ad Works, £1600. No. 04, Building onleased lot, on’ Doduv street, near post office, store below aud rvoms above, lots with barn and other improve strcet car turn table, 32000, eof 6 rooms on 17th, noar 000, o house of 4 18th, nea 0, House on 18th str oms above 1, House of 8§ n California, 0. 72, port, nedr 15th . No. 73, 14-story hotse, 6 rooms, cellar, wel ru, on Jackson, near 12th, '§1500, 74, Brick house with 2 lotw, fruit trees, n 16th, near Capitol uyenue, 15,000, , House of 4 rooms, hasemcnt, lob Wik ) on Marcy, near 7th, 8676, . 70, 13-story house, §roows, on Cass shrcet, 3500, house, 11 rooms, closets, fur- . barn, ete., on Farnham,’ near 2 rooms, every- hicago, #0000, near Uavenport, Bary 1600, IM 7 plete, ¢ By irick house, 10 or 11 roouis, on Daven 0. 35000, houses with 9 rooms, and other with rooms, on Chicazo, near 12th stroet, $3000, ? 13 -xtory house, 6 rooms, 4 closets, well harrel cistern good barn, on Plerce 8t,, th (ear new government corrall), §1500, story houee, 9 roomy, coal shed, good orn, 01§ lot, on- Capiol avenud, nea No. And 100 54, Z-story house, 5 roonws, 4 helow and 4 j closots, cellar, well and clstern, with & cres ground, on Saundors stree 2500, No. K5, 2 stores, house on leased § lot, leaso s 2 years from April Lat, 181, on Paciic 8., uear Ul P. depot, $500, No. 4, House, 15 rooms, well, cistern, ete., near 16th and Harney strects, #0000/ No. 87, Ztory housc, 8 roowms, well with 40 foet of witer, with § acrexof ground, on Baundery street, near U, S, Barracks, §2000, 10 rooms, well, cistern, on Cass stroet, near 21st, #7000, . 89, Largo house, 10 or 12 rooms, on Web ster stroet, near luth, 57500, No. v, e bouse and heautiful coruer It,e near Dodge and 17th streets, $7000, No. #1, 1-story house, 6 roows, etc., on Parn 4r 10th street, ¥1500, GEO. 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