Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 16, 1882, Page 4

e e e 4 itk UMAHA DALY BRE: THURSDAY FEBRUARY 16 iso2. ,i'h;-(—)mah;a Bee Published every morning, except Banday. The only Monday morning dally, TERMS BY MAIL:— One Vanr.....$10.00 | Three Months.$3.00 8ix Mon .00 | One 1.00 fHE WEEKLY BEE, published ov- TERMS POST PAIL:— One Year. $2.00 | ThreeMonths., 50 8ix Months,. .. 1,00 | One o N CORRESPONDENCE—AIl Communi- #ations relating to News and Editorial mat- ors chould be addressed to the Epitor or Tue | & BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to T OMAHA PusrisHing CoM. pAny, Ovana. Drafts, Checks and Post. office’ rders to be mude payable to the order of the Comnany, OMAIA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs E. ROSEWATER, Editor. Evex the oldest inhabitant weakens on the weather. — Tar Donver Tribuno offsrs s prize package for every convicted star router. —— Mr. Hewirr's electoral bill would furnish a bonanza grab bag for a dem- ocratic minority. Ax early .pn’mg and 7|;ngnifi|:ent crops are prospects over which our farmers are chuckling just at present. Moup in wet weather and dust in dry are two of the beautiful results of macadam paving in Omaha and every other city where it has boen laid. Tus field of politics being closed, the Ohio man is now turning his at- tention to religious revivals, Many are called but few Ohio men are chosen, A New York lady 1s reported to have solved the servant girl question. ‘We presume this means seven even- ings a week out, the use of the parlor and a piano in the kitchen. Tae board of trade has discovered +that a largs portion of our *‘rip rap- ping” on the river bank is worthless, The Ber proved that fact over three years ago. GeNerAL Hancock was fifty-eight years old on the 14th of February. 1f the democracy is looking for a Valen- tine they need not go further than Governor's Island. SoUTHERN papers are calling upon legislatures to abolish the hip pocket. Enforcement of the laws to punish the use of the contents of the hip pocket ought to be first in order. SE—————— Ra1LROADING pays. It is estimated that William H. Vanderbilt will be a billionaire by the end of the present century. His fortune is now placed at $165,000,000 which is $100,000,000 more-than it was seven years ags. Owina to Postmaster Olary’s refusal to testify on behalf of the prosecution in the.atar route trials in Lincoln onme o an ignominous close yester- day, resulting in the dismissal of the cases against both Corbin and Id- dinge. Ir'is reported that on asingle day recently 266 out of a possible 283 members of the nationaljhouse of rep- resentatives, called upon the commis- sioner of pensions to ask him to speed particular cases in which constituents were interested. Ep—— THz state press continues to atir up the university.question in & wanner which is decidedly uncomplimentary to the chancellor and his regents. ‘There is & general foeling that the chancellor must go and the sooner the better for the good of the inatitution. ' THEmen who are howling most loudly for an investigation of Sena- tor John Sherman’s cennection with the treasury contingent fund are the very partios whose names figure most conspiculously in the “‘stationery ao- oount” in the house of represonta- tives, Mr. Bherman gives his word for it that his house and stables were built by contract and paid for by their owners, The word of a low-lived acoundrel like Pitaey will not stand againat the oath of Benator John Bherman, and his personal ene- mies need not forget it. —— Tue North American Review for February disoussos topics of interest. Do the 8poils Beleng to the Victor? is a contribution te the literature of olvil service reform by Presinent An- drew D, White, of Cornell. Tsaac L. Rice proposes A Remedy for Railway Abuses. Benator Johmson, in an ar. ticle entitled Repudiation in Vir- ginia, gives a scathing eriticism of the readjuster movement and the part of Mahone. The Laucet and the Law is an attack by Mr, Bergh upon compulsory vaccination which has already elicited comment from the _ pross of the wholo country. Prof. George P. Fisher, of the Yale divinity THE MARKET HOUSE QUES- TION. City Attorney Manderson has ren- dored an opinion upon the subject of the city to utilize Jefferson square as grounds fos a market house. The document, at the last meeting of the council, was referred to the appropri ate committee for consideration, in connection with Mr, Webster Sny. der's proposition to erect such a building upon the ground now unoc- cupied and used as a park by the city. @ The subject of using Jefferson park park for this purpose has several times been discussed in Omaha, but with- out any practical results. The ques- tions of the original tranafer of the property to the city, its dedication for public use, and the subscquent or- dinances passed by the city council regarding its maintenance, appear to have been very loosely examined. Since the liberal proposition of Mr. Snyder, a now intercst has been awakened on the subject, and a thor- ough overhauling of the records has resulted in the discovery that there is nothing to prevent the leasing of Jefferson square to a private citizen company for a public use. The property was originally entered by the mayor under the United States laws of 1841, It aas taken by him 1n trust for the people. The trust was not restricted by the gov- ernment and it certainly could not be by the city council. Even admitting, for the sake of argument, that there had been a dedication of the lands as or a park, and that diverting it to mar- ket uses would be a breach of a con- dition, there is no one to whom, if forfeited, it could revert or escheat. The only parties whose rights in the premises might be affected, and who could enjoin, are the contiguous property owners. But the strongest point raised is that the original map of A, D. Jones designated the ground as Jefferson square. The only record ot its designation as a ‘‘park” is an ordinance passed November 29, 1865, and which reads as follows: (No. 84.) AN ORDINANCE dedicating the strects, alloys, levee, Jefferson square and park to public uses. Secrion 1. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of Umaha, that all of that portion of lands lying and being within the limits of said city, entered by and patented tu Jeese Lowe, a8 mayor of said city, by the United States, and also all that por- tion of lands entered by John Me- Cormick and to him patented by the United Btates, and by said McCormick conveyad to David D. Beldeu in trust, which by and according to the original survey of A. D. Jones are designated as streots, alleys and levee, or dock, be, and they are hereby forever dedi- cated to the use of the public as such streets, alleys and levee, under such restrictions and regulations as the city mncil may from time to time pre- e, 2. That all of that portion of THE KNEVAL'S CASE IN THE SENATE A Wasninoron dispatch of yester- day announces that the senate com- mittee on public lands have been dis: cussing at'ength theresolution of Sena- tor Van Wyck, instructing the attor- claimed by the railroad companies. These been disputed in our state. steads have courts, The question involved those lands wero withdaawn or not. tions along its route. the filing of the plat homestead entry. years after entry had first made the lands and a time when the statute limitations would nearly attach. Dur: on the railroad to these lands. taxes. to Knevals. courts, month by Sepatar Van Wyck's special olearest fraud on behalf of the as. farmers out of their all. lands of ead city lying and being within the aforesaid entries, which by and according to the original survey of said city, made by A. D. Jones,are designated as Jefferson tquare and park, be aud the same are hereby for- ever dedicated to the use of the public as & public square and park, under such regulations and restrictions as the city council may from time to time to prescribe; provided, ete , ete. Passed November 29, 1866. Lorix MiLrLer, Mayor. Byron Reep, Clerk There seems to be no legal objec- ‘$1008 which will hold against theright of the council to lease the square to Mz. Soyder n acsordance with his proposition. The city ordinance above quoted cannot control future enaot- mene, or militate against the disposal of the property for a public us ‘With the legal question settled there ought to be no delay in secur- ing for Omaha a large and aubstantial @arket house on Jefferson square, A PARCOKAPH rocoutly printed in The Chicago Times stated that ex- \Governor Gear's withdrawal from the senatorial race was particularly humil- iating, and that his ambition was shared by his wife, who was wery much chagrined over the result, together with a fow other remarks f a similarly personal nature. Mra Gear has written the following spioy letter to The Times: To T Epiror—The pypers of Towa are not making ‘‘lugubrious re- marks over the uuhappy frame of mind in which ex-Goveruor Gear left the eapital.” His withdrawal was qunl , “'not humiliating.” His ambi- tion for political power wasnot shared by his wife, They have returned to their home not ‘‘wrecked in hopes and fortune.” Mrs, Gear has not enjoyed as good health for twenty years as “at present, nor been so happy ' for at least four oars. Mr. Gear was ‘‘a grocer in urlington,” always respected, but never wealthy. He will not ‘‘resume business at the old stand,” but will nevertheless work hard for John H. Gear and family, and will in the fu- ture be a ‘“frightful example” of “‘root pig or die,” rather than a vic- tim of officeholding mania. Mr, Gear is at present at Del Norte, Col. I thought I would give a correct statement, which you would prefer, wishing to be considered a reliable journalist. No more need be said on the subject. Respectfully, 4 Mgs. Joun H, Grag. Burlington, Ia., Feb, 11, 1882, —— WHATEVER may bo thought of An- na Dickiuson's peculiar views upon her mission in life no candid man will deny to her the possession of an ener- school, contributes a review of the {gy and strength of will which haye arguments advanced for and sgainst | made her career one of which she well be proud, Aho ohristian religion. The magazine 4. doals with timaly tuplos in a vigorous way. New York: 30 Lafayette Place. may Her avpearance in the ogi imate drama in Omaha will be a ocal event of raore than usual inte est, the matter. He holds that it s the plain duty o the government to ney general to defend the titles to cortain western homesteads which are The cases involved by this resolution, which directly affoct Nebraska farmers aro the so-called Kneval cases along the line of the St. Joseph & Western railroad in the southern portion of home- litigation for & number of years past in our is whether entries made upon the lands included in railroad grants before from entry by the government were good In the Nebraska cases the St. Joo & Western filed a plat of 1its Jine at Washington, giving it a con. tingent right to odd numbers of sec- This land was not withdrawn from the market in the local land office, and subsequent to at Wash- in due time what they believed was agood title from the government. Later the railroad company filed its claim for the lands including about 18,000 acres and sold their interests to a lot of sharpers who headed byone Knevals immediately entered suit to disposses the farmers who had built homes and improved the lands which they supposed were fairly theirs by The suits were brought nearly ten been at of ing many years no claim was made by They were not included in their advertising pamphlets; they were subject to no In the mortgage whereby their lands were given as security for debts, the disputed sections were not included, and the first knowledge that the settlers had of the claim of the railroad was the filing of the deed Several decisions favorable to the sharpers have been secured in the | - The first was a case put up by a stool pigeon of Knevals, and which was allowed to go by default. The investigation held in Lincola last committee is said to have shown the signees of the road, who patched up|P the conspiracy to swindle Nebraska Siuce Sena- tor Van Wyck’s election to the senate he has interested himself strongly in defend | bones POLITICAL NOTES. —— . Rhode Teland pays its legislators $1 a day, and gives them each a newspaper. The young men at lowa sollege, Grin- nell, have formed a fr e trade leagus, H irace Mayna:d is loomine up aw re. publican caudldate for goveinor of Tenne- nee, Ohio is holding her nose pretty high at the pre<ent, Notove of those Grant med. als came to buckeye soil. Stat: Senator R. C. Pell, of Indiana, has been mention:d a8 o possible candi- date for governo. of that stateon the dem ocratic ticket, Gov. Lone, of Masachusette, doen not desire a ction to his present offic, but it is intinated that he would be pleased 10 g0 0 Congrens Governor Tabor, of Colorado,manages to limp along at the head of the proces fon outthat way, H & daily ivcyme foom one of is mines dur g he month of January was about $3,000 When they feel well Kentucky and Mis. wouri can roll out a demosratic o jority of 180 000, They get ot forty Grant wed 1y celebrating their uchievements for the repub ican partv. Seun or Dawes i+ understo d to he pre- paring a speech u on his cwvil kervics re. form lf)ill which it i+ said will b+ the full- a1 exhanstive treatment ot the ject which the senste eyer had the wpportunity of istening to. Reprerentutive Butterworth, of Ohi preseute 1 to Piesident Arthur lase Tues duy & petition, # g ed by Seun ors Shor- man and Pendlston and the entire Ohio delegation in the hiuse, asking the ap: ' puintmet of Judge Alph nso Tatt to ve ington was largely homeslead, .aml b iy entered by settlers, who obtained | Republican corgretmen are sitting on the scheme to nominate Collector Lote t- won for governor next year, beciuse it would *‘extend the area of poli 1 strife and ba felt in the next presi‘ential cam prign.” C -l seewms to be the yell fur a renomination, Ex-Se ator McDona'd, Senator Voor- hees, Judge N. B. Taylor, Hon. |ohn Stotaenberg, of New Albaun, ind other prominent Hoosier democrats advice their party to take open and pronounced ground agaiust the submision of the i rohibitory amendment to the people. .he news comes fr m a prohibition pamphlet, se- cretly circulated. The h'ghest compl'ment paid to Sena- tor Lamar on his recent re-election to the senate was by Mr. Shorter, a leading re- public n member of the Missis-ippi Jegis. lature, who voted for Mr. Lawmur, and muid: **I have voted for Mr. Lamar, the Hon, L Q. C. Lamar, being «ssured that - | he is the choice of & very luge majority of the nt-lligent and substantial citizens of my county and of the state.” In answer to a suggestion that he mi :ht become cardidate for the pres dency. David 1 s smd: My ambiion that way is g Ismold, and would not accept a nou ination if tendered.” “Why, Judge,” Lauil, “you 1» not look to be sixty years of age, and are a hale and hearty man.” He 1ejuined: *“Wel, that may be #0; but I mm sixty-seven years old, »nd the machine i+ not what it used %u be. I am not a candidate, an | will nit o Piesident Arthur s1id to a visitor recent- “The quwrel of 1wt summer was «nded when Miller and Laphan were elected to the rena e. If i. is kep: up it not_bemy fault. T my offi sial c1- i I +hall not ssk whe her a wan was a #t lwart or a hal -breed. I thall be guided in sll theee local appiintments 1y the reconmeud tivn of the mem- ber of comgress. If I find that he recomm+nds a cap:ble, werthy mun. ore 1 |1 kely to prove » gond offizer and one who 8 endorsed hy the leaci g men, or a ruffi. cirnt number of them, «f his section, [ - | shall a.point that man. OF course I ex- him to bs & member of the republi- can party.” STATH JOITINGS. City to Utah border, a distance of 162 miles, $1,027,800, The ]!urlh:rton & Colorado company (B, & M ) fil d amended arti lea of i cor. poration with the secretary of state of Co orado, giving the company the right wnd rower to construct wud operate branches of its road in Cole Oue of these 1 ovides for o western Lranch thi :h to the line of Utah, through the counties of Arapahoe, Weld, Jeffersn, Bou'der, Larimer, Grapd, Summit and vutt, Mr. Stone, veneral snpeginten lent of the Chiago, Butlington &lYuincv, hasoff red, for and on_hehalf of the companv, a re- ward f $500 for information that will lead 1o the apprehension of the incendiary who ret fire to the ¢ pany's sh ps at Aur ra, whi h resulted in the dostruction of several new cars and other property. A bill has bern brou ht befo e the rus. sian p rliament b the government paity providing for the pu ha-e of six private railway lives for the state, thus completing the government ¢ ntrol of rail cays. The pr sen measure will et the government 473 681,650 ma ke in 4 per cons, bonds, toge her with 3,127 8 7 . arks in cas 1. The Ch'eago, Milw.u es & St. Paul company has sent an agent t» yope to jurchase tools and m chin rv f r the company. S. crowded are .l the iron manulactuiing jns. tutions in this country with work that the company is unatls to keep supj with machin ry and toole. The con has found the snme trouble in procu ing iron for bridg: bu lding purposes. Noorders can be filled by mills in les than three months. The Chica o & Northwestern is [ epar: ing to accomu.o ‘ate the wp ing rush of emigration t: the northwest. A taiff ed just issued by this ¢ mpay makes very favorable r tes for those who desire to find cheap homen on the fertile prairies of Minnerota nnd Dakota, on the line ot the Winona & St. 1 eter railroad and Dakota extension out to Pierre, on the Missouri river. This tariff tak s the emigiants' eff- ots out to withiu 120 miles of the Black Hills for 850 per car, & d one person i passed free if the car contains live stock. Mr. Thomas H. Gibb ns, :ssistant en- gineer of tho Delaware & Hudron Can 1 company has invented & safety signal ap- paratus to be uscd in cuts and tun els and on curves and bridues. It oonsists of two tan ets placed at either end of the cut, or wherever the apparatus is to be used, at any d st nce from ench other up to one- half mile, and connected by a wire rope, The rope is supported at in‘ervals of twenty-tive feet. by posts two feet high, on the top of which are plac-d pulieys through which the rope runs, The targets are so avea ged th.t a lignt pull on the To e causes them to swing around, pre- senling faces to approuching trams. 1f a train is derailed in a cu’, ins'ead of trust- ing to flagmen, the trainmen or any one elre can simpl. pull the rope and rignals arerer. If abrdge pives way ora mass of rock fall. on the track, or a tunne ¢ .ves in, the accident itself tets the signals on either side. A New O lears genius claims to have invented a car truc< which lissons the fuiction on journals and dves away with tire Loxeg, which, ever since the ftirst 1ail- rond was build, have been a gre t source of detention to trains and annoy ance to teain mwen., Mr. Mc ‘onnell’s invintion ¢ nsi-ts of a ret of soven wheels; four of the wheels have & paifectly flat suific, whi h rest upon th e st-el journals of a ser of three flanged whe 18 whic « move upon the ruil ‘Lh+ revolutions of the upjer wheils, which wove at the rate of four wiles an hour, increase the speed of the liwer wieels to theaate of fi tv-three mi'es an hour. As the gr a e-t friction ison the journals of ths re: of wh-e 8 moving at the 1ate of four miles an hour, the speet is not geoat eno gh to produce & hot box. A medel of t e fnvintion has been substi- t ted for examination of the officers of the Chicago, St. Louis & New Oile ns railway. A force of 12,000 men are at work on the New Y. rk West Shor - & Buffalo rail- Wy betwes . Cornwall an| Syracuse, and the contracts call for the completim of t e grrding 10 ti.e la te - poivt by Sept m- ter1. Asthis road pur ues the cou:se of the New York Central & Hudeon River Buffalo county is in debt to the amount of 8140,749.19. 1John Kurzel has the city of West Puint f | for $1, 00 for an)isty of mind and broken cause | by a defective sidewalk Owsha has heretofor: enjoyed & monopoly its own title in the courts or else to | f such suit«. indemnify the rettlers for what they He declares that the Hyde case was a fraud, intended to|ra:salungthe Piatte force a settlement from other parties, Senator Van Wyck is supported in his efforts by a number of western senators, notably, by Plumb, of Kan- sas, who states that he knows of at least five hundred cases where tms have lost. question enters into the title. The St. Joe & Denver land grants are not the only ones which need inves- tigating, and;Senator Van Wyck will do well if he pushes his inquiry into The present session of congress is especially favorable to an inquiry into the relations which the subsidized roads have sustained to the government in the fu!fillment of The Arndt case in our state has shown how the machinery of the courts can be used to oppress a claimant for jus. other quarters. their land grant obligations, tice and has opened the eyes of ou people to the malignant which the corporations who dare oppose their schemes fo plunder. prison, his case will yet bo heard from | lit and will find nbll(u champions elsewhere than in Neb) Tur sttention of our readersis hate with pursue those | The B. & M. railroad has complet d arrsngevents to put a foce of men at work next week to buill a_seriex of rip- n the vicinity of Oreopolis, 80 a8 10 coufine that iiverin bigh water and regulate its cource. The town of Friendihip is greatly ex- cited over a cae of rmall pox of which the r‘octors were ignorant [l the 'vioim was dead Previ us to death the neigh b rs made fr. q ent virits to the sick, and this fact inten-ifies the alarm. However, 1o additional ¢.scs have yet been devel- uped. In Hebron a f>w days ago the sports took a suber man intoa saloon and got bi « to drink until diu ken and the . start-d him hoie, He fell de.d ere he reached home & dhis wife has rued the bund-men of the saloon keejer for 85,000, end they eay they will fight it forever. The new round house at North Platte approaches completion. 'The brick work is all done, and the roof (nly needs a covering of tin or slate. Three of its five sections are flomed, with a proportionate number of tracks Jaid fiom the turn table tothe stalls. It will hild, when cone, twenty-five locomotives. The new iron_bridge over at Weeping Water collap ed last Friday while & farm- er nimed Parkhurst with a wag n loid o wood was passing over it. Just as he had reached the center of the brilge, which is an iron B8 ens on structuie, one of the gers broke and the sixty-foot span r | tuined compl-t ly aver and fell in'o the r Although Arndt is now in | water, di tince of some twenty feet, and »quarely upon the top of Frank, team and 10 d of wood. Good fortune, howes- er, planted 1he wagon squarcly upon one sule in the bed of the creek, snd from the rhelter it furnished the youig man was saved from a horrible death, The bridge called to our premium offor, which | was only two weeks o'd and cost $1,320. will be found Jon the seventh page. Tho proposition made is by far the most liberal ever held out by any Its only oh- ject is the collection of back subscrip- jourmal in this country, RAILROAD NOTES, B S The Denver & Rio Grande is operating on- thousand and sixty-five milss of road. Pre'ty good for the “baby line.” The Northern Pacific trestlework across tions to Tae Daiy Beeand the plac- | M .rent's gulch, at the entranza to Coria- ing of this paper on a strictly prepaid can defile, M ntans, will be 80 feet lo g and 225 feet high. basis, To secure this, the publishers | mp,, earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee of Tue Bes are able to offer the large | & llst of valuable premiums which we |} publish else wh ere. Accorping to the Towa State Reg- ister the house yudiciary committee | of 89,751, For the month of St. Paul for January, 1882, were 64 ver t ahead of what they were in the same hin 1881, The open winter affords isfactory explanation for this, The earnings of the St. Paul & Omaha Railroad company f r the fourth week in Junuary 1882, were $89,069—sn increa snna'y the at Dos Moines has under cousidera- | garn tgs were $307,501—en increass of tion a bill providing yor a pardoning During the year 1881 the Chicago, Mil- board to act in conjunction with the [ waukee & 8t. Paul company transported governor. Uunder prvsent laws a overits lines s average of 10,000 passen- gers daily, Sundays not inciuded. This spocial resolution wusy bo passed by |makes a total of over 8,000,000 for the both branches of the gewaeral assem- year 1881, bly in order to secure a p.vrdon. object of a special tribunal #8 to se. oure action in certain classes ©f cases when the gensral assembly 1s ®ot in | portion of There will be more q'shger of injustice with a board of par,i0ns [long, 2: than through the action of the ley'is- session lature. Housebold Words James Pearson, 28 8 xth st eet, Buff. lo, says: I have uscd 1our S ring Bloss im for myself and fawily, and think it, inv bls as & houschold 're ced ., far regula. ting the | owely, Jiver and ki heys, 1 *hall never he without it,” Price L0 cents, trial o thls 10 cents, Hlw The Northern Pacific have sent out a The | corp of engineers to survey a branch live . | frem Coulson to Bentoo, “Montana. The roai will pass diretly through the Magin. nis country and open up the wealthiest ontana, BAThe projected railway turnel under the *t. Lawr.nce will ‘e uearly 15,000 fco feet in width, and 23 feet high, t will be lined with brick mas ory, the arch leing :0to 3 inches thor, Nitro- glycerine, dau'in, dysamite and other ex- Plosive of su h nature wiil not be allowed B e excavating, It wl cos® the Denver & Rio Grande cond auy, tocom l:eths San Juau line o 51 verion, & ditance of twentyseven mils, 8306, (0. Red Caff to Boul er and Rogk creck mines dista ce of th ee Milen i me to be eom: leted, $100.00 , and ths Salt Lake ooppectivn frum Guanison railroad very closely, except that it runs slong the opposite sida of the Hudson & Mohawk rivers, it wil vatrdly be the gre test rival f the Vanderbilt line in New York state. The tunmel at West Poirt and Ha erstraw a e approaching com /et on, and the Athens Brinch, pur- chase & shurt t/me ago from the Cen'ral, is beinyg_converted into 4 double-track roal. The road will be double-truck. The i roj+ tors expect tha: the r.ad will be complet-d its entire length aud cars run- nng b-fore the end of the present year. The rolling stuck hus been contracted for, and 175 eng nes and a large number of passenger aud fieight car- are bei. g Luilt Liars and Their Clienta. Kearney Pre s, The Omaha Republican continues to sing the praises of Jay Gould and the U. P. railroad company. It tells how happy and contented tte far- mers of Nebraska are and how they are all getting rich Its editor is either a wilful falsifier of facts or an ignoramus, If he knows anything about the condition of the farmers in Centra) Nebraska, he knows that two- thirds of the deeded land is mort- gaged and that half the live stock on the farms are covered with chattel morigages. This may be, and doubt- less is, & happy state of affairs for him and his employers, but 1t is not pleas- f |ing to the husbandmen hercabouts. A failure of crops this season would financially ruin many of our farmers, while an abundant yield will enable them to stave off the evil daya while longer. heat 18 worth to-day (Feb 8) 1n Chicago $1.80, and brings in Kearney 90 to 95 cents per bushel, or 36 and 40 cents less per bushel than in Chicag». Fifteen cents per bushel would be a fair price for handling the wheat and freighting from Kearney to Chicago. ‘Lhis would leave our farmer 20 cents more on the bushel, or 8116 r bushel, instead of 90 oants. Say that Buffalo county rased 500,000 bushels of wheat last year, and this 25 cents per bushel over and above what the transporta- tion is really worth is & clean ateal of $125,000 from the farmers of Buffalo county, on the production of wheat alone. If this amount had been left in the hands of the farmer, many mortgages would have been paid off and a less number put on Buffalo county farms, Farmers, if you ever éxpect to gain a competency and lexye your homesteads uniucumbered to your children, you must organize and by legal measures, control this slave driving and slave making monovoly of railroads. You must refuse to vote for any man or wen who will not pledge you in advance, to work fur laws, that will wipe out of existence all watered stock and reduce the capital of rail- ways to the actual cost of construc- tion. Then enact laws limiting their net earnings to ten per cent. Sub- scribe for and support no newspaper that is not for you and your ioterest without an “‘if” first, last and all the time. If the railways want organs, let them pay for running them out of what money they steal from you. o not aid them. Support and build up papers upon which you can rely; pa- pers that will, in every issue, keep your cause at the front and aid in creating # public sentiment so strong aud irrestible that it will sweep away this financial giant that is enslaving you and your children and establish- ing a moneyed aristocracy more un- just and exacting than that of Eng- land. In no other way can you hope to conquer in the pending struggle. ——— B. & M. Inflation. Kearney Press, Tt cost the B. & M. railroad com- pany, according to Mr. Touglin's tes- timony before a senate committes last winter, $12,000 per mile to build their road between Lincoln and Red Cloud, Nebraska, and it is now quoted and stock issued at 48,000 per mile and the company declares and pays a semi-annual dividend of 7 per centon the latter amount. The producer who ships over their line is forced to pay this dividend on £36,000 per mile of watered stock. This watered stock represents u value of just three times the cost of the road and is a great blessing = to the stockholders, as by this means they are enabled to rob the farmer out of the profits of his Jabor. The highwayman with revolvers drawn, forces you to deliver up the money you have on your person when he meets you, but this benevolent(?) railroad company compels you to pay over what you have in your pocket and all you ever expect to have, and has madearrange- ments to rob your children and child- ren's children after you are dead and buried. How longdo you propose to submit? How long do you propose to pay this company a dividend ou $36,- 000 per wile which it has never in- vested and never had? Is it any bet- ter than stealing! and if not, can and will & free and intelligent people tol- erate it any longer? “The Wrong BIll. Boone County Argus, Valentine's secretary, writing from Washington in regard to that back pay eteal of Majors, says that Val, by mistake, introduced the wrong and in- correct bill. A short time ago Fred frantically exclaimed that Rosewater maliciously hed; that no such bill was ever introduced, and now, when con- fronted with the bill itself, Valentine, through his secretary, says that it was a mistake —‘‘he introduced the wrong bill.” Wonder if Val thinks the peo- ple of Nebraska are gullible enough to swallow such stuff as this, Here is a steal involving thousands cf dollarsy and one of our congressmen using every endeavor to push it through, Bah! ‘*‘by mistake.” The R. R. opus, But'e (Mont.) Yreoman, The freight extortions of the nar- row vauge are 8o grinding on our peo- ple that they have almost ceased ship- ping, and the regular burden train came in last night with only one car. The large dealers are discussing the propriety .of making heavy spring shipments via the Missouri river, and importing California goids via the west end of the Northern Pacific the coming summer, as the track on the west side will reach Missoula or that viciuity, 140 miles distant, in time to put on the good old time bull.teams and operate the oxhorn telegraph. ALMOST CRAZY. How otten do we see the hard-work- ing father straining every nerve and muscle, and doing his utmost to sup- port his family. Imagine his feelings when returning home from a hard day’s labor, to find his family pros- trate with diseasn, conscious of unpaid doctors’ bills and debts on every hand. It must be enough to drive one almeat crazy. . All this unhappihess could be avoided by uemng Electric Bitters, which expel every disease from the system, bringing joy and happiness to thousands. Sold at fifty cents a bot tle. Ish & McMahon. 8) Deathfal Diabetes. YouNnastown, O., Aug. 6, 1881, H. H. Warner & Co. o Sirs:— Your Safe Diabetes Cure not only removed the prominent symp- toms of diabe es with which I hadlong suffered, but restored me to full and perfect health, feb24 lw CoL. Jos1aH RoBBINS. Joux Srasix, BROMB NCHAMP, P csident. Vice Pros't. W. 8. DEisung, Bec.and Treas. THE NEBRASKA MANUFACTURING GO Linco'n, Neb, MANUFACTURERS OF Qorn Plant Sulky Hay Ral mills, &c. Wo are preparod to do job work and manufac- turi: g for othcr parties. Addros all orders NEBRASKA MANUFACTURING 00. LIKOOLN, Nk, Harrows, Farm Rollers, Bucket Llsvating Wind- an19-8m J. C. ELLIOTT & CO. Plumbing, Steam & Bas Fitting! AGRNTS YOR EHARX WORTE'S Turbine Water Motor. ALSO JORBERS 1N Pumps, Plp.m“l'll and Brass Cor, 14th and Har; Omaha, Neb. A WaTER MOTOR IN CONBTANT OPERATION. fobd,dtt The Oldest Matarhshed BANKING HOUSE IN NEBRASEA. Caldwell, Hamilton & Co,, AT RIS, Susises rauuviied S0 88 Bhai Ot an Lacor porated oank. Accounte keph [n currsacy or gold subject tc st check without notice Cortificates of deposit wuod payable in thrcs, six aad twelve months, searing aserest, or of demand without interest Advances made b0 customers 0n Approved secu ritios ab markot rates of interest. Buy and sell gold, bills of exchange, govern went state, county and city boads. Draw sigat drafta on England, Irclaad, Scob 1and, and all parta of Europe. Sell Buropesn passage tickels COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE, sugldi o e 1880, SHORT LINE. 1880.. KANSAS CITY, §t. Joe & Council Bluffs RAILIRO.AID ™ e oNLY Direct Line to ST. LOUIS AND THE EAST From Omaha and the West. No change of cars betwoeon Omaka und su. wsats, and but one hrl\l(‘;"n :z.“ AUA and R " X 5T . Daily Passenger Trains RASTERN AND WES N O CHARGES and IN AD! OTHER LINE This entire line 1A equirped with Pullman's Palace Sleoping Cars, Pulaco Uay Coaches, Miiior's Safoty form aud_ Couplcr, and tho colobraed Westinghouso Alr-brake. s VIA nANSAS I, BLUFFS Rall £8 with LESS of ALL, AL h and Tickots for sale ab all coup Wot. J. F. BARNARD, A C.DAWES, Gon, Supt., St. Joseph, Mo Gén, Pam, And Tickek Aghs 51, Josoph, Yo, Bonbks, Ticket Agent, 1020 Farnham streed, A B Barwarn Goneral Agent, OMARAN® Ax WESTERN CORNICE WORKS C. SPECHT, Proprietor, 1213 Harney Street, OMAHA, NEB. —MANUFACTURERS OF-- GALVANIZED IRON Cornices, Dormer Windows, Finials,. TIN, IRON 5 SLATE ROOFING. Specht’s Patent Metalic Sky-: light. Patent Ad]ustable Ratchet Bar and BRACKET SHELVING. 1am the gencral Btate 4t Ca'er geo! Agen$ for the above IRON FENCING. Orestings, Balustrades, Verandas,Office and Bank Rallings, Window and Cellar uards; also GENERAL AGENT Peerson and Hill Patent Inside Blind. novadtt THE OCCIDENTAL | J. I. PAYNTER, Proprietor Corner 10th and Howard: Streets, OMAHA, NEB Rates, Two Dollars Per Day. FAST TIME! Ghicafiumfififfiwest- ! Trains loave Orah8:40 p. m. and 7:40 a. m. For_full inforaation call on H. P. DUEL, Ticked Agent, 14th and Furnham Sty J. BELL, U. P. hailway Depot, or at JAMES T. CLARK, Gener- Aven, Omaha fa17mae 1f FTIIRT) wewinai. BYRON REED & CO. OLDRST EATABLISHED Real Estate Agency IN NEBRASKA Keep a complete abstract of #itle to “atate (n Omaha an Douglas countv Rea mavt NebraskaLand Agen DAVIS & SNYDER, 1606 Farnham 8t., ... Omaha, Nebra RO Caret i et oo N B slo, Great Omaha city property. 0. ¥.{DAVIS Land Com'r " Vv Sionx Oity & Pacific: RAILIROAD. THE SIOUX OITY ROUTB Runs & Solid Traln ‘Lhrough from Oouncil Blufls tc St. Paul Without Change Time, Only 17 Hours. —IT 18— 2OC> MILES THE BHOKRTEST ROUTE RN COUNOIL BLUFFS TO ST. PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH OR BISMARCK and all polnts in Northern lows, Minnceots and Dakala., Thia ine 18 squipped with tho improved Westinghouse Automatic Air-brake sud Mille. Plattorm Coupler and Buffer: and for SPEED, BAFETY AND COMFORT is unsurpassed. Pullman Palaco Slooping Car- run through WITHOUT CHANGE betwoen Kan sta City and 8t Pual, via Couacll Blufe aad" ioux City. Trains [eave Union Pacific Transfer a$ Coun- cll Blufts, at 7:85 p. m. daily on arrival of Kaness Cty, Bt, Joseph and Council Blufls train trom the Bouth, _Arriving at Sloux City 11:85 and at the Now Union Depok aé 8 noon. TEN HOURS IN Aggflcl OF ANY,OTHER UTE, £arRemember In taking the Bloux City Roube Jougera Through Train. The Line, o Gulckeet Titie and & Comiortable Rids in the Through | ars_between COUNCIL BLUFFS AND BT. PAUL. i o indire e i and Paci ~ 8. WATTLES, J.R. BUCHANAN Buperintendent. Gon'l Pass. Agent, P. E. ROBINGON, Am's Gen'l Pasa. Ag's,, ‘Mimouri Valley, lowa, J, H. O/BRYAN, Bouthwestern Agent, Counci Bluffs, Iows =3 sbrasiia for WEBSTFP ¢XYUER ity B. D. McLAUGHLIN, ATTORNEY - AT - LAW And Notary Public, “Geo. P. Bemis Rear ESTATE Acency, 16th and Dodge 8ts,, Omaha, Neb. This gency A0es BTRIOTLY & broker v business. Daoe ut spec ulate sad therelore any Largalng Gtk sie iDsured 80 # Gna, Inshead Clarkson & Hunt, Bucvessers to Richards § Huat, ATTORNEYS-AT- LAW § L4tbBirest Nm he Neb, COUNSELOR - AT - LAW* J. H, McOULLOCH, Room ¢, Creighton Block, Firgth Btroek. Jan16-Sm. In improved farms, and '