Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 24, 1882, Page 4

e s Comry — “the sale of watered stock 4 I'ik OMAHA DAiLY BEE: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24 ioo2 .Thel .E)Ln_iha Bee Published every morning, except Sunday. The only Monday morning daily. TERMS BY MAIL — Ome Yonr.. ... £10.00 | Three Months . £3.00 8ix Months. 5,00 | One o 1.00 [HE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- TERMS POST PAID:— One Year, .80 | Three Months. . 50 8ix Months, One .0 CORRESPONDE E—All OCommuni« eations relating to News and Editorial mat- ers should be addressed to the Eprror or Tue Dre, BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Detters and Remittances should be ad dressed to T OMAHA PunuisHive Com- PANT, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post. office. Orders to be made payable to the order of the Comvany, OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs Ei ROSEWATER, Editor. " 8Now ia the liveryman’s seed time and sleighing his harvest. Jonx C. New has been confirmed a8 aseistant secretary of the treasury. Indiana politicians will thank God and take courage. GrNeran Hurisor has left Peru. He should have laid in a good supply of Peruvian bark before his departure, a8 he 18 likely to need tonics. E—— PiNcaBAck has got in his work at last. The Senate on Tuesday con- firmed his nomination as surveyor of oustoms at New Orleans. InvorMATION from all the cattle ranges indicates thal this has been an excellent winter for stock and that the losses are comparatively triflir g. — Jost as Nebraska has left Nevada behind, Manitoba has already out- stripped British Columbia in popula- tion. Farrs are better than gold and silver mines the world over. Tue report of Commissioner Raum shows that over five hundred and forty million cigarettes paid internal revenue tax last year. The number of foolr is rapidly increasing. —_— Brack Jack Loaan feels rather sick over the prospect of Fitz John Por- ter's reinstatement to the army. The best authorities agree that the presi- dent has decided to take this step at an early day. Porter will ask at once to be placed on the retired list. Wiar have the committee appointed by the board of trade to confer with the Douglas county delegation on the question of paving, done? The sub- jeot: is of pressing importance, and cannot in the face of the passage of the apportionment bill and the com- ing governor's proclamation, be de- Iayed without danger to the interests of Omaha, A sToRY involving the domestic re- lations of Mr. Campbell, of the Wheel- ing Intelligencer, is denouuced by all parties implicated as a malicious slan- der, invented by the enemies of Mr. Campbell. It is to be hoped that all papers who have received and pub- lished the report will make the proper explanation, Miner W, Bruck has been appoint ed private secrelary to Senator Van ‘Wyck, in place of Walter Beeley, ro- signed. Mr. Bruce has for some years past been a prominent ocitizen of Northern Nebraska, well known to many of our readers as correspondent of Tux Bre. His appointment is a well deserved recognition of valuablo services in the anti-monopoly cause, ENGLAND'S census was completed and published in three months. Our census will not be placed before the ocountry until 1883, It is represented that it will take at least a million dol- lars to finish the work. The entire management of the census bureau seems open to criticism. Statistics three years old will be greatly lessen- ed in value for anything but historical reference. —_— Tux Union Pacific organs crow over the admission of a Bee correspondent that “railroad facilitios are good” in Frontier county, This statement, ac- cording to the crank who turns the railroad organ, is very inconsistent in an anti-monopoly journal, There is a great difference betwesn oppoeition to railroads and opposition to tho abuses which result from monopoly management. In common with all its readers Tk Brk rejoices in every new mile of railroad ironed in Ne- braska which is built by the money of its stockholders and is willing to be subject to the law of the atate and the decisions of the courts, Honestly built and equitably managed railrcads are always desirable where present or prospective traffis will warrant their construgtion. But Nebraska and the west want no more roads built trom issued to conceal the plundering of inside con- struction rings and maintained by the levying of enormous and exhorbitant tributes upon their patrons. And to restrict the operation of such monop- olies the people of this state propose to pass just and equitable but at the samo time efficient laws for their re- pression, THE ANDERSON BILL. The attention of congress is called to the gross wrong which the tax-pay. ors of Kansas and Nebraska are suf- fering from the refusal of the Union Pacific company to take out patents on the land which they hold under the sub sidy grants of the United States yov- ernment. Over seven of arablele and are held by the Union Pacific alone in Kansas and Nebraska enormous tracts of valuable million acres on which they pay no taxes and for which they refuse to bear the ex- ponsoes of survey. The title to these lands rests with the United States, and no state taxes can be collected until patents are issued to the railway company. So far as the privileges of ownership are concerned, the grant belongs unresorvedly to the Union Pacific. They have borrowed money on it, and created through its means an immense system of credit, has enabled them to extend their voad, build branches in directions buy up competition and water their stock to suit the greed of the large stock jobbers who figure at the head of its management. But all the duties that devolve upon other owners of property have been systematically evaded, and while every individual land owner in Kansas and Ne- braska is forced to pay taxes on his farms for the support of the state, the great monopoly holds and controls this vast domain, paying no taxes and waiting for higher prices be- fore disposing of it to parties who will improve it and add to the taxable wealth of the state. This gross in- justice is being thoroughly ventilated by Congressman Anderson, of Kansas, whose efforts in this direction have been referred to in these columns. Mr. Anderson in an argument before the house committee on Pacific rail- roads last week presented a startling array of figures regarding the course pursued by the Union Pacific in the sale of lands on their hansas or east- ern division. The grant to the Kan- sas Pacific company comprised some 6,000,000 acres 1n the state of Kansas, of which two-thirds is classed as agri- cultural land. Of this amount up to December 31, 1879, the company had sold a little more than 1,600,000 acres, at an average price of $3.89 an acre, leaving in Kansas alone at the present time nearly 3,000,000 acres unsold aud unpatented, whose market value is estimated at $3,000,000. Under which various two decision of the supreme court of the United States all lands are the property of the United States until patents are issued, and taking advantage of this provision the company has persistently refused to take out patents, and by this means swindles the state of Kansas out of taxes which amount to $240,000 an- nually. The bill introduced by Mr. Anderson i to compel the company to pay the whole cost of suryeying, se- lecting and conveying these lands; that the company shall pay these costs within ninety days after the passage of the act and take out patents, and that if it refuses the attorney-general shall at once bring suit to enforce payment. Further provision is made that if the company does not take out patents within five months from the paseage of the act the lands shall then become liable to taxation by the state of Kansas. The Anderson bill is the first thorough remedy which has been brought before congress to meet the gross injustice practiced on the peo- ple of the west by the land grant roads. Its arguments will apply with equal force to the main line of the Union Pacific in Nebraska. If jus- tico had been done all the lands on both divisions would have reverted seven yoars ago to the government. The original act granting the lands provides that all lands undisposed of by the companies within three years after the completion of the road should be open to the public at $1.26 per acre. This provision became op- erative in October, 1875, and a fair test of its construction has never yet been made in the courts. It is use- less to hope that Valentine, who is a paid attorney and tool of the Union Pacific, will render Mr, Anderson or his bill any assistance in its progress through congross, but the Nebraska delegation should not be ignorant of the strong support which the princi- ple involved in the Anderson bill re- coives from the people of the state. That support was voiced in the ring- ing resolutions of the Farmers' Alli- ance representing 12,000 voters of this state and it is bound before long to make itself felt even in so far away a place as the national capital and the halls of congross, —— Arnmy officers are much interested in the fate of the Butterworth bill in congress, which lixes tie aye fur ve- tiring at eixty-two, It's passage through the house is considered cer- tain, as it has strong advocates in both of the parties, and there is a general feeling that some measure jg necessary to relieve the service from stagnation and to reward faithful and efficient service. Some oppos'tion is foared in the senate, where there are soveral determlned opponents to the moasure, The following is furnished as « list of the oflicers cligible for rotirement under the provisions of the bill: GeneralsSherman and McDowell Quartermastor General Rucker, and Colonels Ingalls and Eakin, of the quartermaster’s department; Surgeon General Barnes, Colonels Cuyler and King, and Lieutenant Colonels Simons and Keeney, of the medical depart. ment; Majors Potter, Vedder, Brooks, Clark, T. C. H. Smith and Brodhead, of the pay department; Colonels Ben- ham, Macomb and Thom, of the en- gincer corps; Colonels Getty, Hunt, Dent and Brennan, of the artillery, and Colonel King, of the infantry. Of this number General Sherman is thought to be exempt from retirement by the terms of his appointment, and Colonel King will, at his own request, be retired in a fow days. Colonel F. F. Flint, of the Fourth intantry, has also requested that he placed on the retired liv, FOOD ADULTERATION, Commissioner Green B. Raum, as head of the Bureau of Internal Rev- enue, has address a letter to the Sec rotary of the Treasury urging upon congress the passage of lavs to pre- the adulteration of food for which he claims that suthority can be found in the constitutional provision for taxation. Agitation of the sub- ject is timely and highly important. In speaking of the manufac- ture of cheap pickles, the Hour lately gave some .startling facts concerning the alarming extent of food adulteration and the use of poisons in the preparation of wearing apparel. It says that congressional investigation has revealed the fac that pure drugs are almost unknown in this country, notwithstanding the fact that the profits of the trade will reaoh the enormous gain of from 100 to 1,000 per cent. on the sale of the pure article. Seoven-eights of all phy- sicians’ prescriptions are rendered of little worth by reason of the extent of drug adulteration. In respect to food therevelations are more alarming still, and it was brought out recently that pure sugarand milk were unknown in a very prominent western city; that even the bread was poisonous, and that the so-called ‘“‘imported teas” wore made with leaves ‘““faced” with Prugsian blue and chromate of lead. Alum is generally used in the manu- faccture of baking-powder and sul- phuric acid, alum and verdigris are employed to give pickling fluid a fla- vor, and copperas is used in prepar- ing the gherkin. White earth often constitute three-quarters of the in- gredients of cream tartar, and lamp-black is used to coat coffee. Tho samo deleterious adulteration is traced in American-made cigarettes, and ar- senic and glucose are used to such an extent in the making of confections a8 in some cases, according to the Hour, to merit ‘‘criminal prosecution vent of the candy-maker.” Arsenicis also called into requisition in the manufacture of clothing. In some instances cloth has been found to contain eight grains of the poiion to the square foot, and ten grains have been discov- ered iu some artificial flowers Toys, colored stockings, veils and other ar- ticles are in many cases more or less harmful, and yet no steps are taken by legislators for the protection of the consumer, and people gu on from year to year eating and wearing that which | poisoned to a greater or less extent, as if pure food and honest manu- factures were useloss or things to be avoided. So longas the purity or im- purity of food and food products are left to the honesty of manufacturers and dealers whose only aim is to amass wealth, nothing better than the present condition of af- fairs can be expected. There is need of competent inspection at least at ports of entry, and the impo- sition of such penalties that the de- tection of offenders will be punished speedily and so effectively as to pre- vent the recurrence of a crime which is affecting the health and lives of our people, Tue senate has passed the appor- tionment bill as it came from the house, and nothing but the president’s signature now remains before 1t will become operative. Governor Nance s attention is called to this fact in the hope that the executive pen and ink will be in readiness to issue a procla- mation calling for elections to fill the legislative vacancies before the con- vening of the extra session. Tur division of Dakota, about which there has been so much discus- sion, will probably take place on the forty-sixth parallel. The House Com mittee on Territories have voted to report a bill for the creation of the Territory of North Dakota, with this line for its southern boundary, and all that portion of Dakota south of the boundary will 1 all likelihood, Vo {madin‘o n new state, retwinine the name of Dakota. The proposed new torritory will include 75,000 square miles of land with an estimated pop- ulation of 70,000, S— We call the attention of the sub- scribers to Tur DaiLy Bee w the fact that only six days remain before the closing of our premium offer, At the expiration of that time the papers of all subseribers found in arrears will be discontinued, The object of the publishers of Tk Bee in offering the large number of valuable articles found on the premium list, is to place the paper on a strictly cash basis and insure the prepayment of all subscrip- tions for at least six months, This course is rendered necessay by the size of our lst, which has doubled within the past three months and is steadily increas. ing. The two previous distributions under our premium plan are guaran- tees that every article will be given as exactly as represented and in a fair and equitable manner, The publishers of Tue Bee ask those «f its subscribers who recognize its snperiority as a newspaper and as a staunch defender of sound and tried principles to invite the attention of their friends to the paper and to our premium offer which will be found on the seventh page. The Pavement Question, To the Editor of The Bee: While a change in our city charter is the first necessary step, the question of material is really as vital, because the work of paving Omaha during the coming ten years will be great, and whatever material is inaugurated ur- der a general system of paving whether good or bad, must continue for many years. As experience has shown, when oapital is once employed to carry on the work, to purchase the necessary machinery, etc., 1t will use its well-known power against a change and taxpayers will find themselves powerless to control the matter, Wit- ness the cases of Chicago and St. Louis. The former is, and has been, the hopeless victim of the Nicholson pavement ring for twenty years, which has proved a most gigantic swindle. 8t. Louis, also, has suffered even in a s reater degree under the ‘‘Macadam ring,” as the Nicholson makes a good street for six months, while macadam for a business street 18 at no time a good pavement. These two great cities are to-day without gocd streets. The taxpayers are quite willing to charge up the millions that they have spent in the mistakes of the past and commence now with a permanent pavement, but they cannot displace the “ring.” Granite blocks laid in the streets of Chicago and 8t. Louis twenty years ago, even at the unne- cessary cost of $12 a square yard, would have saved millions of dollars to the taxpayer. The question of bonds and who should bear the burden of paying for pavements are subjects that should be more thoroughly discussed and under- stood, as they have been productive of much trouble, and at times a stum- bling block to the carrying out of this great and necessary work. A radical change in the old methods is not only being discussed in the old cities of the east, but is being made. Business streets are for the use and benefit of all, and all should pay for them. First, beeause it makes the tax on all light and a hardship to none; second, in all cities many merchants, manufa turers and capitalists never own a dol- lar in real estate, and being the very class most 1nterested. in pavements, they can only be reached througha general tax. Another not insignificant element that we shall have to combat before we get good pavements in Omaha is the *“fossil” or ‘‘old fogy” element. They can always be depended upon to oppose any public improvement, ex- cept when, as at the present time, they find the tide too strong against them. They then throw their weight ana influence in favor of something cheap—macadam, for example. The writer was a resident and tax sayer in Chicago for eighteen years, and has no axe to grind on the question of paving material. Graw. Postoffice Changes in Nebraska, during the week ending February 18, 1882, furnished by Wm. Van Vleck, of the postoffice depart- ment; Established — Antelopeville, Chey- enne county, James H. Gordley; Clarkson, Colfax county, Wm. A, Smith; Elora, Nuckolls county, Dan- iel 8. Kenney; Sweden, Knox county, Ole Ruden. Discontinued—Frease, Chase coun- ty. Names changed—Bedford, Nemaha county, to Howe; Podunk, Nemaha county, to Brock; Smithland, Cedar county, to Paragon. Postmasters appointed — Cowles, Webster counsy, E. Gilford; Creston, Platte county, John Drake; Stella, Richardson county, Thos. W. Moore; Western, Saline county, T. J. Chid- ester; Williamsborough, Phelps coun- ty, Aug. Marshall, Nebraska Press Assoclation, LiNcory, Neb., February 22.—The annual meeting of the Nebraska Press Association was held in the Commer cial parlors this afternoon. Though not large, the meeting was a very pleasant one. The orator and poet failgd to report, and there was noth- ing but routine business. A resolution was introduced pro- viding for a series of papers on sub- jects of interest to printers and edi- tors, The first paper is to be read by L. W. Hilton, of The Blair Pilot, on the subject’ of local advertis- ing; the second by Mr, Golding, of the Nonpareil, on editorial c¢our- tesy; the third, Shall the paper be a newspaper or a mouth of public opin- ion? by Goorge B. Moore, of the Ne- hraska Gearger; tha foueth, Job Work, by J. W. Wigton, of the Hastings ~Gazette-Journasl. It was ngreod%:y vote that an excursion be taken to Denver, Salt Lake City and the National park, providing arrange- ments for transportation can be made. The members of the association will visit ‘The State Journal at ten a. m. Bru, A Cross Baby. Nothing is so conducive to a man’s remaining o bachelor as stopping for one might at the house of a married friend and being kept awake for five or six hours by the crying of a cross baby. All cross and crying babies need only Hop Bitters to make them well and” smiling. Young man, re- FREMONT'S PROGRESS. The Steady and Permanent Urowth of ‘‘The Paris of Nebraska." The Record of Last Year---Plans for the Present. —— Correspondence of The Bee. Fresost, Nen,, February 17, —In my rounds, I am again here in ‘‘the Paris of Nebraska,” and what a change a short two-months adds to the scene! The streets dry and dusty, plensure rides the leading sport, the weather warm and pleasant, people working with coats off, doors and windows in business and dwelling houses thrown wide open, every line of trade active, in that steady but healthy prosperity that has marked every advance of this town's progress, every mechanic and laborer industri- ously plying his art with engagements and contracts far ahead awaiting him. The sound of the hammer and trowel respond each to each from every quarter of this beautiful town, The golden yellow of new roofs, the glare and glisten of new tin work and painting, and the checkered faces of new brick walls present themselves to view, up this street, down that, from the center to the farthest out- skirts in every direction, So con- cludes my first ramble. That your readers may know its growth during 1881 I here give a partial list of the buildings and im- provenients, dwellings, etc.: BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN 1 Nebraska cr.amery.............. 20,000 May Bros,, wholesale grocery building 0,000 Platte river freo bridge. 15,000 Tribune building. .. 14,000 G, W. E, Dorsey, reridence 12,000 Christian & Bothwell, store 9,000 Cobb & Co., elevator. ... . 6 Bozler & Baldruff, stores. 45 Charles Lang, foundry. 4,000 8. T, Cheney, hy press. . 3,000 H. Fuhrman, improvements 30 J.'J. Lowry, residence. F. W. Gibson, cotta; John Grunkranz. South ward +chooi. W. A. G, Cohb, cottage. . i Cottages and improvements of less value than $1,000 each, amounted t0.......oiiiLl... ... 48,800 Making a graud total of. ... . ...8190,000 00| sity, lives may be saved.” U. P. depot_improvements. 2,000 | arrangements to farm onan extensive scale Mrs, J. C. Henry, cottag.e. 2,000 noxt summer. They have built a dam L. A. Griffith, 1,800 | acro-s the ‘I'ruckee, and constructed irrigu- A. A, Smith, cottage. 1,600 ting ditches to convey the water to grain (\?lunfir?gafiw!ml church, 5 ]1.;»«0)3 tields and vegetable gardens. R R E el 1o The length of the shafts and galleries in 1 e T Ll 11369 | the Comstock minos of Novada is two hun- B0 Al oottata 17600 | dred and fifty miles. During the twenty Obivies Builocd e 000 | years just closed, 850,000,001 tons of waste B BAldlns oottan 1000 | rock have been hoisted, 1,750,000,000 t ns DS Rl COt oo 12000 | ©f water pumped to the surface, and the e Lo O y » et x Mrs. Turner, cottage. tog0]| RSt HLCHR BB MO VAR RS 5/ 000/000 Mr. Rugeles, eottage 1,000 : ; George Maxwell, cottage. 1,000 | _ The Winnemucca Silver State suye: A plied, ““T want Tre DarLy Bee; send it to me from this on:"” Hoy Bros,, cattle dealers, cluette & Son; wholesale hardware, Biles & Bridge, wh olasale grocers. Brown Bros , liverymen and horse deal- ers, N.H_Bell, lawyer. Morris Slowman, wholesale leather deal- er, G. L. Loomies, lawyer, Dr. Witherspoon, V., S, Wilson Reynolds, land and sheep dealer. These increase the list of subscrib- ors to Tr Darny Ber is nearly 75 at this point, delivered by carrier, More ANON. sl - OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS, CALIFORNIA Almond orchards are in bloom. Snow is deeper in many portions of 1 Dorado county than it has been for 25 years, An oil spring has been found near Gil- roy. The spring is about six feet in width and thirty feet long, The Los An eles Expresssays dealers in wines from the East and from San Fran- ciso « have been purchasing the new vint- age of that county at greatly advanced figures. 1t is estimated that the advance for new wines has been equal to from 25 to 35 per cent, There is a lively trade in_sheep pelts in Los Anceles county, the vrices varying ull the way from ten cente to 81.25, a cording to the amount of wool and the grade of the defunct <heep, sixty cents being a fair av- erave. Thus far there has been high havoe amongst the sheep, but the period of dan- wer is thou.ht now to have passed. The suit of Hartman vs, Olvers, which bas recently een brought to a closs in Los Angeles county, is a fair parallal to Jarn- dice vs. Jarndyce. While it was only thirteen yeas in litisation, it was tried by even District Judges, all of whom are dead. Though the amount involved origi. nally was only 83,500, it was five times be- fore the Supreme C urt, the costs alone in this protracted litigation being $5,000, All the first parties to the action were dead before it was determined. The Chief of the San Francisco fire de- partment has placed on each of the wagons of the Fire Patrol a large, heavy canvass, about twenty feet square, with a number of handles on each side. These are m- tend: d to bo used at fire«, where persons have been caught in the upper stories and have no avenue of escape but the roof or upper windows. Lwenty or thirty per- sons catching hold of the haniles on each of these canvasses can hold it fast and re- ceive in it any persons who may be forced to jump from un elevation. By the use of these, it is exvected that, in' case of neces- NEVADA. There are ahout 300 Indians at the Pyr- amid reservation, and they are making few nights ago a squ-w _gave birth to a papoose in an open wickiup, with tl; thrr. mometer at zero, Next day she was around, an1 the babe, wrapped in a rabbit- skin robe, is apparently as contented and comfortable as if born i- a mansion. The Please notice that this does not in- clude any large outlays by corpora- tions and outsiders. This year assures greater improvements, as several large brick blocks and business houses are already contracted for. BUSINESS, But few outsiders realize the amount of business done at this place. A brief mention of the different lines of business successfully and profitably carried on here will give some idea: Four banks, four wholesale grocery houses, two wholesale dry goods and notion houses, two wholesale hard- ware houses, ten live stock wholesale and retail dealers, four hay pressing establishments, two founderies and machine shops, three elevators, two lumber yards, two first-class hotels, and the usual number of small dealers and establisements, all doing a thriv- ing and satisfactory business. GENERAL, Fremont, already established as a first-class market for buying and sell- ing, with free bridges across the Platte securing the Saunders and But- ler county trade, with free bridges across the %lkhorn securiug a large trade from Sarpy, Douglas and Wash- ington counties, with an unbounded northwest necessarily tributary to this point, can well and justly look with pride to her place among the cities of our state. In a fow years, with her vast native meadows, and her wonderfully pro- ductive and extensive corn-fields, this place is destined to be the center of the cattle feeding and pork producing land of America. The stock men and capitalists are fast realizing this fact, and are bending every energy ad centering every effort to secure a large foothold on the lands before they are divided up into small farms. PERSONAL, Mr. Bond, of Chicago, is here selecting material and dates for his new history of Nebraska. Rev. Powell, of Lincoln, is ambi- tious to start a free and unsectarian church here. Hammond Bros. of The Tribune, are cosily and elegantly quartered in their new block, and promise the best paper in these parts. Richard & Keene are now in their new home, as bankers, in The Tribune block. Our postoftice will soon be moved to the spacious room in The Tritune bl8ck, Barnard & Gray are bringing cows from Kansas for the new creamery. G. W. E, Dorsey will give this city his monument in the shape of the tivost and most omate brick blocks in the staw. He 18 now at work on it. The Eno fiasco vanished by the has- ty departure of the blackmailer, Mrs, Carpenter, Cobb & Co. are putting in a new lumber yard. D. Orowell will build an ‘elevator this season and run it in connection BThe Utah & N with his lumber yard, Meyer & Schurman will begin on their new brick soon. The new hall of the I. 0, O, F. is one of the finest and best in the state. Mr. Campbell, of The Republican, gave our city a visit a day or two since. After but a few minutes hustling member this,—Traveler. febld-w2t and inquiry, the following parties re- child of nature is wonderfully made. OREGON AND WABHINGTON. Two and one-half feet of drifted snow ——— HOUSES LOTS! For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 8T8, 178, House 8 rooms, full lot on Picrce near 20th street, $1,650. 177, Houso & rooms, full lot on Douglas near 26th & roet, $700. 176, Beautitn 10th &' reet, §12,000. Two' houses and } 1ot on Dodee nesr 0th 81 600, idence, full lot on Cass near 76, House three rooms, two closets, ec., halt 10t on 21st » ear Grace street, $500, 172, Ono and one-half story houso an two lote on Douglas near 26th street, §1,7(0 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, stable, ste tull lot near Pii rce and 18th stre- t, §050. 179, One and one-half story hovtc six rooms and well, hall lof on Convent strect near St. Mary's avenue, 81,850, No. 170, House'three rooms on Clinton street near shot' ower, €325, No. 169, House and 33x120 feot lot on 19% street near Webst r stroet, 83,500, No. 168, House of 11 roon s, lot 33x12) feet on 19th niar Burt street, $6,000, No. 167, Two story ' house, 9 rooms 4 closets, g0od cellar, on 18th street near Poppleton's 4,000, No . 165, New house of 6 rooms, halt lot on Tzard near 19th street, $1,850, No. 164, One and onie half story house § rooms on 18th street 1 ear Leaver.worth, §3,600. N. 161, One and onc-haf story house of b tooms near Hanscom Park, 81,600, No. 168 Two houses 5 rooms cach, closets, etc on Burt streot near 25th, $,500. No. 167, house 6 rooms, fall lot on 19th strees near Leavénworth, 82,400, No. 156, House 4 Jarge rooms, 2 closets balf acro on Burt street near Dut on, 1,200, No. 165, Two houses, one of b and one of 4 rooms, on' 17th street 1 No. 164, Three ho roont each, and corner lot on Cass nesr 14th strect, 85,000 Ne.153, smiall house and full lot on Pacific near 19th street, §2,500, No. 161, One story house 6 rooms, on Leaven- worth near 10th, £3,000. No. 160, Ho' se thice rooms and lot 92x116 pear 6th and Farnham, $2,500, No. 148, New house of ¢ight rooms, cn 18th strect near Leavenworth 3,100, No. 147, Houso of 18 roomsen 15th street near Marcy, 86,000 No, 146, House of 10 rooms and 1 lota on 18th street near Marcy, 6,600, No. 145, House two large rooms, lot 67x210 foe an avenue (Mth street) near Nicholas, 0 148, House 7 rooms, barn, on 20th sticet near Leavenwortr , $2,600, No. 142, Hou-e § rooms street near Nicholas, §1, No. 141, House 8 roows on Douglas wear 26th street, $950. No.'140, Large house and two lots, on 24t near Farnham stre:t, §8,0.0, No. 130, Huuse 3 rooms, lot 60x1664 feef, on Douglas near 27th street, §1,600. No. 137, House 5 rooms ar'd half lot on Capito avenue near 23d screct, $2,300. No. 136, House and half acre lot on Cuming strect near 24th 350, No. 131, House 2 rocms, full lot, on Izard nean 2Lst strect, $500. No.129, Tw + houses o-e of @ and ane of 4 oo« nleased lot on Wobsier 1 ur 20t s rect, 82,50 No. 127, Two story . vure 8 rocis, Lilf lot on ‘Webster near 10th §3,600. No. 126, Houso 8 room 26th s reet near Douglas, $570. No, 125, Two story house on 12h near Dodge street lot 23x60 feet $1,200. No. 124, Large house and full block near Farnham and Cen ral street, $8,000. No. 128, House 6 rooms and large lot on Saun- «ders s'reet near Bariacks, $2 100. No. 122, House 6 rooms and halt lot on W eb- ster near 16th street, 81,600, tchen, cte., on 16th Iot 20x120 feet on in the streets and the mercury averaving 11° below zero, is the kind of ‘winter they are enjoying at Moscow, W. T, At Yaquina Bay, Ore,, the construction of the dock ia bemg pushed with great vigor. The piling is almost completed. As eoon a: the docki finished it is thought that the shipping business will grow enor- mously. The Colfax, W. T., postmaster con- structs the Sunday law so literally that he does not even open his office on that day. In a published notice he warns all per- sons to get their matter out of the office on Saturday. The Academy built at Cheney, W. T., with the $7,000 donated by Mr. B. P. Cheney, of B3oston, after whom the town was uamed, is finished. Two teache s are on the way from the east to open the school. The Oregon Railway and Navig.tion company issued order on the 16th inst, to commence work on grading the roads from Co fax, W.T., to ¥armington, a distance of thirty miles, and f om Colfax to Mos- cow, 1. T\, a distance of twenty-six miles, John Jackson is the cattle king of Lake county Oregon, havirg about 12,000 head in that county alone. He recently pur- chased 1,5'0 head of stock cattle, and is also largely engaged in raising mules, being#he owner of two prige jacks, valued at $1,700. There are owned within a radius of twenty miles of Heppner, W. T., over 200,000 sheep. It is safe to assume that these will average at least 6 pounds of wool apiece or 1,200,000 pounds, whici at an average price of twenty cenu:er pound yields the Bandsome sum. of 4240,000 a year, Three-qua: ters of the big bridge of the N. P, across the Pen d'Orielle lake have been capped and orders haye been receiv- ed to drive another set of bridge piles by the side of those already down. About 13 miles of grade have been completed east of the lake and 2,000 Chinese and 600 whites | 4 are busy making more. WYOMING. The Carbon mines are $ime, Judge Parks, the successor of Judge Peck, of the sagebrush aistrict, was sworn in last Mon: ay. f “Pu-sy Newport,” a notorious woman of the town of Laramie, killed h-rself with a pistol last Sunday. i 3 Cheyenne is agita'ing a ) ublic hospital. bill 'will be introduced in the legislature authorizing the i sue of $20,000 in bonds for that purpose A Some of the handsomest gold specimens ever brought to Laramie were shown us by Messrs ummins and Burnham, of Cummins y. The claim is known as the Gold Eagle, and is only twenty-three feet in depth, The ore is very handsome aside from the rich nuggets which stick out of it all the way from the size of a pin head to that of a large Lima bean. The property is owned by John Cummins and TR Bliruhars: & Brother, and jw not for sale.—[ Boomerang. running half. DAKOTA, Rapid City hs voted to issue §10,500 in bonds to build a sehool house. A stamp at the Homestake mine fell on a workman named Bt Wallace and heoke s leg. ‘attle thieves are doing & thriving busi- DOSI near Rapid City. 'r‘huy steal and kill cattle and leh them" to butchers, Some arrests have been made. A rich strike of high grade silver ore has been made at the l\fiuuia mine, situated on False Bottom. This name has been bonded by parties in Deadwood., MISCELLANEOUS. orthern was bloc kaded in three places—Collinston, Beaver Head Canyon aud Portneuf by the recent storm, A report comes from Miles City that jack-rabbit with horus six inches was recently killed near that place b wi | fairly offset the big snake story from Maine, Fort Collins is sgitating the matter of damming up the Cache-la-Poudre for irri gation purposes, aod making a b g reser. No. 118, House 10_rooms, lot 30x90 feet on Capitol avenue near 22d street, $2,060, 0. 117, House 8 rooms, lot’ 80x126 Capitol avenue near 22d 81,600, Ro: 114, House 8 rooms on Douglas near 36th <treet, 8760, No.'118, House 2 rooms, lot 66x99 feet on 21st near Cuming street, $750. 3 No, 112, Brick house 11 rooms and half lot on Cass noar 14th streot, $2,800. No. 111, House 12 rooms on Davenport near 20th street, 87,0.0. No. 110, Brick house and lot 22x132 feet on Cass street near 15th, $3,000. No. 108, Large house on Harney near 16th street, 3,600, No 109, Two houses and 36x182 foot lot on Cass near 14th street, £3,600. No. 107, House 6 rooms and half lot on Izard near 17th street, §1,200. no, 1.0. House and lot 51x198 fect, lot on 14th near Pieice street, $600. No. 106, Two story house 8 rooms with 1 lot on Seward near Saunders street, §2,800 No. 103, One and one haif story house 10 rooms ‘Webster near 16th street, 82,600, No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms each and } lot on 14th near Chicago, $4,0.0. No. 101, House 8 rooms, cellr, etc., 1} 1ot on South avenue near Pacific stree:, §1,650, No, 100, House 4 rooms, cellar, etc., half lot on Izard street near 16th, $2, No. 99, Vi teet, on ayenue near Clark street, make an offer. No. 96, One and one half story house 7 rooms lot 240x401 feet, stable, etc,, on Sherman ave- nue near Grace, §7 (00, No. 92, Large brick house (wo lots on Daven t near 19th 818,000, , Large house' and full lot on Dode near 18th strest, 7,000, No. 89, Large hatise 10 rooms half lot on 20th near California streot, $7,600. No, 88, Large house 10'or 12 rooms, beautital corner loton Cass near 20th, §7,000. No. 87, Two story house 3 rooms b acres o land cn Saunders street near Barracks, $2,000. No. 86 Two_ stores and & resio(nce on 'leased half lot,near Mason and 10th street, $800, No 84, Two story houte 8 rooms, closets, efc., with b acres of ground, on Saunders street near Omaha Barracks, $2 600. No. 83, House of § roos, half lot on Capitol avenuo near 12th street, 82, No 82, One and one half story } ouse, 8 rooms full lot on Pierce near 20th strect, $1,800. No. 81, Two 2 story houses, one of 9 and one rooms, Chicago St., near 12ih, No. 80 House 4 rooms, closcts, ctc., large log on 18th strect near White Lead works, 81,500, No, 77, Large house of 11 rooms, closcts, cel- Iar, eba., With 1} lot cn Farnham near19th stroet, ,000, 5 “No. 76, Oreani ono-half story house of 8 rooms, lot 66x85 feet on Cass near 14th street, 34,600, No. House 4 rooms and basement, lot f:¢t on Marcy near Bth street, 8675, 74, Large brick house and two full lots on Davenport near 15th street, $15,000. No, 78 One and one-haif story house nndflot 86x182 feet on Jackson near 12th street, §1,800. No. 72, Large brick house 11 _rooms, full lof on Dave port near 15th st 5,000, Large hou:e 12 roons, full lot on Cali- \ 87,000, tull'lots on Franklin street near Saunders, §2,000. No. 64, Two'story frame building, store below and roomis above, on leaed lot on Dodgo near 16th street, $800, No. €3, House 4 rooms, basement, etc., lot 93230 féet on 15th street mear Nail Works, $1,700. 10, 62, New house 4 rooms one story, full lob on Harney near 21st strect, 81,760, No. 61, Large house 10 roows, full lot on Bur 18t street, 85,000, No. 60, House 3 o ms, half lot on Davenport near 23d'street, §1,000. 3 No 69, Four houses and half Lot on Cass near 18th street $2 500, No, 58, Hse i 7 rooms, full lot Webster near 21st street, §2,600.3 No, 67. house of 8 rioms, lot G0x140 feet on 215t street near St, Mary's avenue, 83,000, No. 56, House of 10 100ms, fall lot on- Califor- i Lirt street 0. s R e ';.’u.'.?(: two full luts on 19th . §3,000, 0. 49, Brick house 11 rooms, full ot on Farn- ham near 17th street, $,000. No. 48, House of 0 rooms, half lot on Pacifle near 9th strcot, §3,000. "*No. 46, Large hotse with full block near sho house 7 rooms, closots, etc., on 18th street near Clark, $5,000, " %T‘.’f,’uofi..mmd ‘full lot on Chicago near 2 oot, 6,000, i “fu‘f‘«'.xf’ugnn» d two lots on Chicago nea BEMIS ReaL EsTATE ACENCY 16th and Dy agla Street, voir at that place, and the Gieeley a.d Evans sgriculturists are very indignant. K A ELA L] v f 1 ; | { } %