Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 27, 1882, Page 4

P —— = S—— 4 l‘HE UMAHA m\u,x BEE: MONDAY FEBRUARY 21 10.2 $ e ————— XL Th e'6 mahé Bee Published every moming, except Sunday, The onty Monday moming daily, TERMS BY MAIL — 10,00 | Three Months, 83,00 .00 | One . 1.00 FHE WEEKLY BER, published ev- TERMS POST PAID:— One Voar...... ThreoMonths.. 50 Hic Months., .. 1.00 [ One o B SPUNDENCE—~AIl Communic ating to Naws and Editorial mat- 11d be addressed to the Eprronr or S LETTERS—AIl Business Reraittances should be ad- ro: o Tie OmaHA PupLisriNe Cou- PANy, ONAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post. affice Orders $5 be made payable to the wrder of the Comvany, QMARAPURLISHING GO, Prop'rs EiROSEWATER. Editor. " On for pavements. Ir is the harvest time of “stalwart- ism." Tue Farmers' Alliance is the pro- ducers reliance. — 8rECULATION received a very black eye last week in the general decline of fancy stocks. — OMAHA uses more -lhoe blacking than any city of the size in the west. Tt needs more. ‘WE again call Governor Nance's at- tention to the fact that that procla- mation ought to be speedily forth- «coming. WeLL paved streets will do more to encourage Omaha's wholesale trade ithan ten years of newspaper wind and miles of bogus statistics. CHICAGO'Ss mayor is about to sup: press the gambling houses. Spas- modic attacks of virtue are not con- fined to Chicago officials. PENSIONS AND THE SOLDIERS A correspondent from the Republi- can Valley, who signa himself ‘Sol- dier,” writes the editor of this paper asking us to define our position on the pentions business. He claims that there is some wmisunderstandine of the opinion of T Ber on this point among his neighbors and wants to know whether the editor of Tur Ber is opposed to pensions and in favor of the repeal of the arreage of pensions act, Tav. Bax is in favor of pensioning liberally every soldier who contracted disease or received disability while serving in the armies of the United States. Tt is in favor of providing comfortably for the widows and or- phane of deceased soldiers. It believes that the nation's defenders, who suf- fored in its service, have and always have had a valid lien upon the treas- ury of this government which the cowntry is bound to recognize, and it favors now, as it always has favored, a principle whose operation is to pre- sezve disabled soldiers and the widows and orphans of soldiers from want and dependence upon charity. This is the poeition of Tux Bze plainly stated in as few words as possible. Criticism of the pension business ap- plies to its operation, not to the prin- ciples upon which it is founded. It is a well known fact that by loose management and carelessly drawn laws the government and the soldiers have been shamefully swindled by fraudulent pensions claims. Under the old pensions laws only such per- sons as filed valid clmms within five years after the date of disability or the time that the right accrued, were entitled to arrearages of pensions. The arrearage of pensions bill about which there is now so mnch discus- sion, was passed with very little scru- tiny into its provisions. Both parties were afraid of the political effects of even amending the measure, In con- sequence the clauses providing for the examination of claims were very loosely drawn, particularly those which concerned the receiving of testi- NINE-TENTI ‘suffering sisters who are howling for the privilege of performing new * duties can't fulfill those which nature and society have already placed upon them. THE wagon bridge project must not be allowed to rest until Towa and Ne- braska are united by a strongand dur- able structure which will break the embargo on the intercourse between their citizens. Eronr thousand dollars a year gur- ing life and the title of general on the retired list are the honors and remu- nerations bestowed upon General Geoant by the passage of Senator Lo- gan’s hill, Tur nomination of Bruno Tzschuck as consul to Vera Oruz has been con- firmed by the senate. Mr. Tazschuck is receiving the warm congratulations of many friends throughout the coun- try. SrickNey, the Harvard graduate, who killed the betrayer of his wife, has been acquitted on the ground of Ainsanity, The insanity according to ‘Colorado opinion lay in the fact that he didn’t dispose of Campau sooner. Tax Denver Tribune, which by the 'way is an unusually ably edited jour- mal, gives up the removal of the Un'on Pacific shops to that city. The Trib- une ought to be a little more careful in sifting its original information. Tae Towa house of representatives /has passed a bill forbidding all state officials from accepting passes from xailroads in that state. Passes are al- ways given for a consideration, and no one knows this better than the cor- jporation managers. SEpm—— Mz, CoNkLING'S nomination to the wacant seat on the supreme bench 1s #he chief topic of political comment throughout the country. As will be seen from our dispatches, the current voice of the republican press is unfa- worable to the nomination. Ou the «other hand, many leading republicans, among whom are Mr. Evarts and Thurlow Weed, profess themselves as agtisfied that Mr. Conkling will prove an acceptable successor to Justico Hunt, The question remains unset- tled whether Mr. Conkling will ac- oept the position. He has not yet abandoned all ideas of political pre- ferment. His bitterest enemies are forced to admit that he has still a strong following in the state of New York, aud many devoted admirers throughout the country. Politics is the most uncertain in its results of all callings, and energy and the power of organizing, both of which qualitics Mr. vonkling certainly has, are bound to make thewmselves felt, sooner or later, to the personal advantage of their possessor. An acceptance of position on the supreme bench is pre- sumed to remove the nominge from politics, David Davis is, perhape, the solitary exception tothis rule, and it is not likely that if Mr, Coukiing has David Davis' programme in his mind if he haé decided to fill a posi- tion which he refused when proflered Aim by General Grant nine years ago. mony as to the date when the disabil- ity accrued and the proofs of the identity of the pensioner. This over- sight at once opened the doors to wholesale fraud and was promptly taken advantage of by a horde of hun- gry claim agents who ransacked the country for applicants for pensions and forwarded to Washington thousands of papers drawn in favor of men who had never smelt powder and widows who were mere children when the war closed. The pension office was at once flooded with applications. Thousands of these were legitimete and would have received more prompt recognition if business had not been clogged by the deluge of bogus claims, which kept pouring in through every mail. The original estimate placed the increased appropriations necessary under the ;Arranmge-uf»pemiom aot at $20,000,000. The extent of the frauds perpetrated may be judged from the announcement that an expenditure of $350,000,000 will now certainly bere- quired to liquidate the demands upon the treasury resulting from this one act. The question which has arisen is just this: What measures shall be taken by the government to protect itself from swindlers and imposters who assume the cloak of the disabled soldier to rob the national treasury. Tue Bee does not favor the repeal of the law. Neither is it inclined to favor any restrictions on its applica- tion, But it joins with 60,000 vet- erans of the east and every leading journal in the country in urging upon congress the passage of such measures a8 will ensurd the proper application of its operation to genuine cases only, and which will detegt and punish the sharks who are trading on the sym- pathy and gratitude which this nation feols for its soldier citizens to plunder millions of dollars from the national treasury. And we believe that in this position we will have the support of every Nebraska veteran. Somx of our state exchanges want to know what especial interest Omaha has in an extra session of the legisla- ture, Several hundred thousand dol- lars worth represented by the sum, which she will lose by the postpone- ment of the settlement of the paving question. In order to pave the streets of this city a number of important amendments must be made to our city charter by the legislature. This can be done at the coming extra session if anunouncement of the intention of « ur citizens to apply for such special legis- laticn is incorporated in the proclama- tion' of the governor convening the logislature. In anticipation of an ex- tra session for the redistricting of this state, in accordance with the appor- tionment bill passed by congress, the citizens of Omaha have appointed a committee to confer with the Doug. lass county delegation for drafting such amendments to oyr city charter as will meet with the urgent necassi- ties of this city. By obtaining such modifications of our charter as wil enable the city at ouce to rescuv her strects from the deluge of mud which covers them and by providing substan. tial and clean thoroughfares for our rapidly increasing businces intorests, Omaha will save to herselt hundreds of thousands of dollars, which amount, not to speak of the comfort of her cit izens and the cleanliness of the city, ropresents a portion of Omalia's inter- nt’in the coming extra seseion, WESTERN RAILROAD PROG- RESS. Much has been written and printed of late concerninz the Oregon Short Line of the Union Pacific and the amount of road to be constructed and n operation by the close of the pres- ent year. Several enthusiastic writers have laid the terminal stakes at Baker City, Oregon, but less sanguine ones have contented themselves with com. pleting the road to the neighborhood of Boise City. The fact is that the construction of the road to Hailey, 110 miles east of Boise City, will re- quire an enormous army of men and teams. The road traverses narrow, zigeag valleys, walled in by mountains, with innumerable spurs skirting the streams on either side. Theroad can- not follow the winding course of the valleys of the Bear and Portneuf riv- ors. Instend these streams are fre- quently bridged and their courso changed to avoid abrupt curves. In the vicinity of Soda Springs, for a distance of nineteen miles, there are over nty bridges spanning Bear river, and an equal number of changes of tho stream. Beyond Pocatello, for a dozen miles, the road will cross Portneuf river in five place, and eight changes of the channel will be made Tho distance from Granger to S.ake river is about 240 miles. Of this dis- tance 100 miles remain to be graded, and the amount of earth to be moved in some places is enormous, running as high as 100,000 yards to the mile. The lowest amount to be moved is 12,000 yards to the mile, while 40,000 and 60,000 to the mile are common. It will be seen by the above facts that several months and a vast amount of steam and mus- cle will be used up before the iron will be laid through to Snake river, and Hailey is 100 miles away. Beyond Snake river the work will be exceed- ingly difficult and tedious in many places. One cut, 4,000 yards in length, will rcquire the removal of 400,000 yards of earth and rock. In many places the roadway must be cut through miles of rock, broken here and there by stretches of trestle work where soil cannot be obtained to fill. The determination of the company to make the road as straight as possible will more than double the cost of or- dinary railroaa building in the prairie states, but the permanent gain in dis- tance, avoidance of sharp curves and steep grades, will soon compensate for the increased - expense, The track west of Pocatello will be laid tem- porarily narrow gauge, so that the rolling stock of the Utah & Northern can be used to move supplies to Snake river, until the gap eastis completed. The total length of the road, when completed from Granger, Wyo., to Biker Oity, Ore., will be nearly 600 miles. The Oregon Railway and Naviga- tion company has commenced work on the branch to connect with the Oregon Short Line at Baker City. Contracts have boen let recently for the construction of the first thirty miles between Umatilla and Pendle- ton. The extension to Baker City can be completed easily the present year, the distance being only 140 miles, It will traverse the famous Umatilla valley, unsurpassed for agri- cultural purposes, and the foothills of the Blue mountains, with their for- ests of cedar. The prospect of early work on the Missouri river extension of the Cen- tral Pacific railroad, has caused a slight ripple in the metropolis of northwestern Iowa. The preliminary survey of the ropd, it will be remem- bered, located the crossing of the Missouri river near the town of Nio- brara in northern Nebraska, and the eastern terminus at Yankton. Sioux Oity was not mentioned even as a station, and the consequence was that the idea that the company really meant business was scoffed at and waived aside with a majestic Per- kins flourish,” The officers of the road, however, persisted in their determination to build and the evidence since accumulated has tended to convinco the most am- bitious Bioux citizen that there was some ground for these frequent re- ports, Now The Journal is baiting the report that the Utah & Northern will conneet with a branch of the Ca- nadian Pacific at some point north of Benton, The Montana railroad com- pany has a charter for building a rail- road from Helena to Benton and the northern line of the territory, and as this corporatiga is in tact the Utah & Northern unaer another name, no trouble will be encountered as to its right to build a road upon the route mentioned, The statement that the road will be built upon the route men- tioned is made upon the authority of gentlemen well posted as to the inten- tions of the Utah & Northern, and the building of the Northern railroad may be considered as very likely to be ac- complished, The narrow gauge is being pushed to Helena as fast as the weather will permit. Five gangs cover the distance, each with twenty-five miles to complete at the earliest possi- ble day. Depot grounds and right of way have already been secured at the Capital City. A considerable force of men are also working on the exten- sion from Butte to Deer Lodge,thirty- eight miles, The Montana railroad company, re- cently organized at Butte under the patronage of the Utah & Northern, has $60,000 in its treasury, ten per cent. of its capital stock, to begin op- erations in the spring. This cempany propose to build to the Yellowstone National Park by way of Virginia City, ahead of the Northern Pacific. The late storm temporarily stopped work on the Denver extension of the B. & M. Tte sandy character of the country where the graders are now operating admits of work at all times except when the prairie zephyrs are moving, The last eighty miles of the grade is covered by about 1,000 men and teams, on the east and west ends, and this portion of the work at least will be cempleted before the close of April. Blair rejoices over what appears to be a definite settlement of the bridge site controversy, The officers of the Sioux Oity & Pacific railroad have asked the citizens to aid the company, by petition and political pressure, in securing an appropriation from Con- gress to improve the river banks at that point and prevent the changing of the channel. Committees are scour- ing the surrounding country for sig- natures to a petition and the neces- sary funds to defray the expenses of the campaign. The citizens of the Middle Loup valley, ‘and particularly Loup City, Sherman county, are vigorously press- ing their claims on the officials of the Union Pacific tor the construction of the Black Hills extension through that valley. Delegations have been sent to Omaha and Grand Island to present their claims to the U. P. offi- cials, but have not yet been able to meet Manager Kimball. The valley of the Middle Loup issaid to equal any in the state for grain or grazing purposes, already containing a num- ber of cattle and sheep ranches and an abundance of stone. These people claim that a road running northwest trom Grand Island through that val- ley toward the Black Hills would be self-sustaining from the start. The Black Hills road, as now mapped by the company, is already completed and in operation from Grand Island to St. Paul, twenty-two miles, and eleven miles more graded between the latter town and Scotia, the county seat of Greeley county, twenty miles distant. Work on this extension has been suspended until spring. The Black Hills people have offer- ed an uncommonly rich prise to the first railroad company that gives them connection with the outside world. ‘The purse amounts to $700,000 in twerity year bonds, interest at seven per cent., competition open to the world, The Niobrara line leads by several lengths, All quiet on the banks of Crow Oreek. The compromise of the Union Pacific and the representatives of Laramie county, Wyo., on the bill to aid the construction of the Wyoming & Montana railroad has been ratified and Cheyenne is happy. The time for the construction of 100 miles is extended te November 1, 1883; $20,- its hook to catch the ‘‘Monster of the Pacific.” Among the inducements proposed, to influence Huntington and his associates in favor of Sioux City, are a donation of the profiles of a sur- vey through Dakota, Dixon, Cedar, and a part of Knox counties, in Ne- braska, made some time ago by the St. Paul company. These profiles demonstrate that a good road can be cheaply bwlt from a point ten miles above the mouth of the Niobrara river to Bioux City. Another ‘‘slo- quent argument” would be a report on a favorable hridge site at that point, with sever i swlroads anxious to aid in the enterprise. This indi- cates that Sioux City will stretch out a liberal hand to secure the C, P., but something more substantial than tha above indicated—a cool hundred thousand or two—will be needed to chavge the surveyed route. Nor will Yankton stand quietly by and allow such a maguificent prize to slip from her grasp. A town and surrounding country that has produced a ‘‘state” delegation ot a dozen 240-pounders is certainly able to cope with Sioux City on any field, and eventually sit down on her, Moutana papers give currency to 000 to be expended this year in shops at Cheyenne, Articles of incorporation of the Fort Madison & Illinois Railroad & Bridge company were recently recorded in the office of tha recorder of deeds for Lee county at Fort Madison, Ia. The capital stock of the company is to be $3,000,000, and its purpose the building of a railroad and wagon bridge aoross the Mississippi river at Fort Madison aud the building of a railroad to connect with roads to Chi. cago and the east. ONLY two more days before the pre- mium offer closes, Many of the sub- scribers who were in arrears have paid up and taken advantage of our offer, There are still a number who are in arrears and we hope they will favor us with their remittance. After March 1st all subscribers who are in arrears will be cut off the list. Our offer is unparalleled and it will pay every sub scriber to take advantage of it. —— A BILL to prevent duelling has been yetoed by the governor of Virginia Riddleberger can now proceed with safety. STATE JOTTINGS. Sewar | has decided to oreunize a board of trade, The Fairfie'ders have polygamy must go. Norfolk would be contented with a fire company and & building association, The new twenty stall round-house of the U. P. at North Platte is completed. Wymore wants to incorporate, but the B. & M. land company refuse to conent, An Oakland maid of all work is in jail for heartlessly destroying the fruit of .. discretion., Dorchester is intensely soleful and happy—a shoemaker having cast his awl in that town, Eighteen patients ha e been received nt the insane asylum at Livcoln since the 25th of January. The Osceola Record trots out a_candi- date for state treasurer—Atel Hill, of Butler county. Oakland has organized « Ivigilance com- mittee to look after the eneak thicves and drunken might prowlers, A man from Adams county proposes to start a 85,000 flour mill at Plum Creek f the citizens donate $2,000, Harry Hudson, a farmer neiwr Seward, disappeared from his ** oby” reccntly and numerous creditors mourn, The B. & M. now have three stations beyond the Coloiado line, viz Wray, Roek Springs and Eckley. Bl e was 80 iutensely happy over the #e' tiement of the bridge question that the jollification meet ng nearly ended in a free tight. Columbus is ticklel with the rumor that the Union Pacitic will soon runa regular train betw en that town and Siux City, * The editor of the Texumseh Chieftain moralizes: ‘‘Some men are born or; others start & newspaper a.d live on cord wood and promises.” Most of the editors of the country press were in Linco'n last week, which accounts for t e unusually bright and readable con- dition of the weeklies. The sports of Falls City enjoyed a wrestling match between “Liml Jim" and Dennis O'Leary, last weec, fur 3500 a side. Tue former wou. The Beward County Democrat is the latest venture on the shor:less sea of bour. bon journ, It is published at Mil- ford, by Will D, Alexander. Two rival lovers of a Stromsburg woman fought for the lead in her affections, last week, The guardiaus of the peace took a hand after tg:uecunvl round and landed both in the cooler. The Shermun county Times says that a recent decision of the supreme court has pronounced worthless 42,000 of Sherman county tonds, which, with the interest, relieves that county of $60,009 indebted- nesa, 3 Joe Guessler, a bank clerk at Red Cloud, lived pretty lond at the expense of his employers, but failed to cover_ his tracks. He is now boarding at the Lin- coln jail awaiting trial for enbezzling $9 0. The prospects for Central City's future are indeed bright. Not only has she been experieucing an unusual boom in respect of material advancement, but t e moral tone of the city seems constantly on the rise. - [Courier. A dia{mtuh from Lone Pine says a_man named bridge acioss Long Pine Creek, fell from the top of the fal-e hiidge work into the water below, a distance of ninety feet, and was seriously injured. The Brownville Advertiser will le resolved that Webber, a workman on therailroad | jt and will carry it on under the firm name of Bowlby & Jones. The latter gentleman will have immediate charge of the business, Mr. Bowlby continu ing his successful loan and collection ce. The G. A. R. boys celebrated Wash- ington's birthday by having an old- fashioned pork and beans feast, fol- lowed h{ a dance. The Hesperian club of Doane col- lege and the Palladian society of the university are arranging for a second oratorical and literary contest, to be held in Crete, probably in the early part of May. The Hesperian wiil choose its representatives February 24th, Sperry & Wier, bakers, have sold their establishment to Mrs. Hafer, of Fairmont, to give possession at once. The farmers’ county alliance of Sa- line county is called to meet at Pleas- ant hall, March Gth. Theodore Tilton lectures in opera hall, March Gth, on World’s To-morrow.” Mr. and Mrs. Charles Baley, north of town, rejoice in the birth cf a daughter, The insurance companies have paid 0. G. Thayer 82 250, the amount of nsurance on his foundry burned about ton duys ago. Pri Band’s “The QIR PER:PIRING PATRIOTS. An Unrcommonly Large Num- ber Training in Dodge County. A Long Loud Cry for Dorsey. Burns and Nicodemus. Correspondense of The Boe, Hoorer, Dodge county, Neb., Feb- ruary 23.—The letter from your Lin- coln correspondent of February 18, speaking of gubernatorial candidates, says: “From the city of Fremont, in the county of Dodge. comes a long, loud cry, ‘Geo. W. E. Dorsey,’” and “‘Fremont people seem to know noth- ing of the aspirations of their fellow- townsman.” Your Lincoln corres- pondemt cannot be very well posted on political affairsin Dodge county. We have willing candida*es for every position on the state ticket, and it will be well for the next republican state convention to heed our ‘‘long, loud cry.” Our Washingtom is always at the front when we are pretty sure, through the lethargy of the democrats, to carry our county, and if the con- vention will only see and acknowledge our claims there will be a probability of us carrying the county next fall, To be sure, the republicans were bad- ly beaten here all through the ticket in November, but that wasowing to the fact that the blarsted democrats have a custom of electing their men to any county office that has any money in The Hooper Banner will continue to keep at 1ts mast head ‘‘For Goy- ernor, George W. E. Dorsey,” and expects that the Fremont Tribune, moved to Calvert. It is understood in Nemaha county that the half of The Ad- vertiser that was vot bought by Church Howe, was tiken in by the Lincoln Town Co.. alias the B. & M., an1 is taken to Cal- vert to work to the end that that town may become the. metropolis of Nemsha county. Benjamin Jones, an aged farmer near Faiibury, was run over and killed by the cars at that station last Wednesday, “The old man, being nearly deaf, did not hear the alarm whistle of the approaching loco- motive, and, although the engineer en- deavored to stop ‘the train, he was knocked down by the engine and his limbs severe ] aboye the knees. He lived a few hours, He was a native of Pennsyl- vania and 88 years old. Mr. C. H- Warden of Waverly writes concerning the recent murder of Cook in that town: “I wish to correct the state- me:t in your paperin regard to the trag- edy which occurred in our town Sunday last. It was no barr om or saloon affair. The parties were in the dining room of the | hotel. It was a most cold-blooded mur- der, without any provocation whatever and the 1eed was committe | by one of the worst desperadoes in this state, His true name being Quin Bohanan, the man who with McWaters led the mntiny in the state prison a few years oo, He has since been identified by Warden Nobes,” THE ROOT OF EVIL. Cretans Resolve That Polygamy Must Go. Other Events Pungently Pictured The Correspondeiice of g Bxn. Crete, Neb., February 22.—The citizens held a meeting to-day at 3 p. m., to consider the Mormon question. President D. B, Perry, of Doane col- lege, presided. The following resolu- tions were presented, and, after re- Fremont Progress and North Bend Independent will soon join in voic- ing the sentiments of this commu- nity. For secretary of state we present the name of our young and success- ful politician, H. Baxter Nicodemus. The Hon. Nick (as he is irreverently called here), when a member of the legislature, made a record that will bear investigating, and of which he is proud. And now for state treasurer, we un- derstand that the office need not go begging when such patriots as the Hons. J. F. Burns or L. M. Keene are willing to sacrifice themselves for the good of their part; in general and Dodge county and themselves in par- ticular. If the state convention heeds this advice, acts wisely, and nomiuates one or two of the above candidates, I am sure the republicans can carry Dodge county next tall, if the demo- crats don’t fuse with the anti-Slo- cumbs. TaE BEE is well liked here, and we hope it will continue to battle for its principles. Respectfully, Hoorkr, ALBION’S ACTIVITY* Progressive Strides of the Me- tropolis of Boone County.. United and Earmest Work of the Alliances. Correspondence of The Omaha Bee. AvrpioN, February 22.—We have been indulging in a genuine Nebraska |, 2 blizzard this week and business, in consequence thoreof, is almost at a standstill, marks from several leading citizens, adopted: Resolved, That the toleration by the government of the United States of the crime of polygamy in the ter- ritories uncer its exclusive jurisdic- tion is a national humiliation and disgrace that ought no longer to be borne. 2d. That no sufficient and effective remedy for this evil can be devised that does not include the enactment, by congress, of stringent laws for its suppression, and which shall provide, in cases of prosecution arising under such laws, for the prevention of men sitting on juries who either practice polygamy themselves or believe in the rightfulness of the same. 3d. That we regard the present as a golden opportunity that canunot be too soon improsud, for congress to set the seal of our national condemnatiou upon this heinous crime, and that we hail with satisfaction the passage by the ronnte of the United States of tho Wil inireduced by Somtor Bdoanda | fur the suppression oi poly gamy iu tie territories of the United States, and that we earnestly request our repre- sentative in congress from this state to make every effort within his fmwur to secure the early and favorable ac- tion of the house of representatives upon this bill, 4th, That the secretary of ‘this meeting be instructed to send a copy of these resolutions to the Hon, Alvin Saunders and Hon. C. H. Van Wyck, of the United States senate, and to the Hon, E. K. Valentine, of the house of representatives at Washing* ton, and that a copy of these resolu- tions be furnished to the local press. C. J. Bowlby and D, J, Jones have Eurohmd the lumber, coal and lime usiness of Messrs. Tidball & Fuller, Albion has been enjoying a build- ing boom this winter and new busi- ness and residence houses have been going up on every street. Mr. 0. De Roberts, our banker, proposes to com- mence soon the erection of a fine three story building on the corner of Main and Fourth streets, and a large and commodious hotel will probably be built in the near future, A Mr. Olark, from Sheboygan, Wis., is expected here next week to commence the erection of a creamery and cheese factory to cost $5,000. Some of our farmers had com- menced seeding, but Vennor's last ‘’cold waye'’ summarily put an end to their ope.ations. The alliance is alive and thoroughly aroused to the necessity of united and earnest work if " they would gain for the producing clusses of our young state any relief from the exhorbitant charges of the railroad corporations. The monopoly clement here, working through a poor old proselyte, have attompted to s e heappoin mong of amon whom Whvy could handie, t the position of organizer of this county, but they have summarily failed, and Mr. Wil- kinson, one of the truest and staunch- est anti-monopolists of Boone county, was elected by the delegate aliiance to this ishportant position, Some of the state papers e cireu- latin: the report that one «f Boone counties delegates to the Hasting's eonvention went down there on a pass, I wish to correct them in this respect The gentleman who acceptod and used the pass was not a delegate nor even & member of any of our allisnce or ganizations. - The members of Buone Counties Farmers Allisnce wish 1 distinetly understood that they don’t Empbnu to sell their honorand thewr HOUSES g BEMIS, rooms, full lot on Plerce near 00u 6, tull lot on Douglas near 20th § reot, $70 176, Beautiful residence, full lot on Cass rear 10th 81 reet, $12,000. 174, Two houses and § lot on Dodee nevr Oth streot, §1 500, 176, House three rooms, two closets, e c., halt 1o on 218t enr Graco strect, €800, 172, One and one-h.1t story brick bouse an tw - Tots on Douglas near 25th street, $1,7(0, 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, stable, e ¢ full 15t near Pi. ree and ‘18th stre t, $050, 170, One and one-hall story house six rooms and will, hali lot on Convent sireet vear St, Mary's avenu, §1,360, N0 170, Houre' 1} ree rooms on Clivton s roet near shot “ower, §825, No. 169, House an” 83x120 feet lot on 3,600, &, lot 88x12) fest on. strect near Webst r gtr No. 168, House of 11 10th noar Borl street, §5,000 No. 167, Two story’ house, 9 rooms 4 clocets, good col'ar, on 18th stiee' near Poppleton’s 4,000, No . 165, New house of 6 roome, half lot on Izard n ar 10th street, §1 850, No. 164; One and one h 1t story house 8 rooms. on 18th street ear Leaver worth, §8,600. N 161, One and oni-hs i story jouse of 5 rooms near Hanecom Park, 81,600. No. 168 Two hovres 5 rooms each, closets, ete on Burt street near 25th, 83, No, 167, house 6 ro¢ near Leavenworth, §2,: No. 166, House 4 large rooms, 2 closcts balt acre on Burt stree: near Dut on, 81,260, No. 165, Two houscs, one of 6 and one of & rooms, on 17th street near Marcy. §3,200, No. 164, Three houses, one of 7 and two of 5 rooa's each, and corner lot. on Cass near 14th stre:t, 85,000, Nc. 153, small house and full lot on *Pacific near 12th -treet, $2,600, No. 151, One story houee 6 rooms, on Leaven- worth near 16th, §8,00, No. 160, Ho three rooms and lot 92x116. rear 96th and ham, $2,500, . 148, use of eight rooms, ¢n 18th whre t n ar Leavenworth 3,100, No. 147, House of 13 rcoms en 18th strect near Marcy, 86,000, No. 146, Hotwe of 10 1ooms and 1} Iots on 18th. street near Marcy, £6,600. No. 145, House tiwo lnrge rooms, lot 67x210 foo gl,l :(hl‘nl an avenue (16th street) near Nicholas, No_ 148, Hlouse 7 rooms, barn, on 20th sticet near Leavenwort* , €2,500, No. 142, Hou e 6 rooms, kitchen, cte., on 16th. street near Nicholas, 81,875 No. 141, Hou ¢ 3 rooms on Douglas near 26th street, $050, No.' 140, Iar,e houte and two lote, on 24t near Farnham stre-t, §8,0.0. No. 189, H. use 3 rooms, lot 60x166} fec', on r»nuxl‘s near 27th sireet, $1,500. No. , House £ rooms a1d half lot on Capito 234 8 reet, $2,300. No. 136, House and half scre lot on Cuming street near 24th 3250, No. 131, House 2 rocms, full lof, on Izard ne n 2lst s'reet, 3 No. 120, Tw_ houses one of 6 and one of 4 som!, on leased lot on Webster near 20th street, ,600. No. 127 Two story | ouse 8 rooms, half lot on ‘Webster near 1 83,600, N 2 rooms, lot 20x120 fcet on uglas, $676. ‘I'wo story house on 12th near Dodge x64 feet 81,200, No. 124, Large house and full block rear Farnham aud Cen ral &'roet, $8,000, No. 123, House 6 rooms «11d lurge lot on Saun- t near Bariacks, §2 100. , House 6 rooms and halt lot on Web- ear 15th stroet, $1,600, No. 118, House 10 rooms, lot 30x90 feet on l'nliltnl avenue near 22d street, 82,050, No. 117, House 8 rooms, lot 30x126 feet, on Capitol avenue near 22d $1,5600. No, 114, House 3 rooms on Douglas near 26th « treet, £750. No. 113, ouse 2 rooms, lot 66x99 feot on 21t near Cumicg street, 8760, No, 112, Brick house 11 rooms and half 10t on © #s near 14th strcet, $2,500. No. 111, House 12 ‘roomsfon [Davenport near 20th street, §7,0 0, No. 110, Brick house und lot 22x182 feet on Cass street near 16th, 00. 1t on 10th streek avenue No, 108, Largs hotse on’ Harney near 16th street, 83,600, No 109, Two houses and 86x152 foot lot on Cags near 14th street, &3,600. No. 107, House 5 rooms ayd half lot on Izard near 17th'str. et, $1,200. % o, 106. House and lot 51x198 feet, lot on 14th near Pierce street, §600 No. 115, Two story house 8 rooms with 1} lob on Scward near Ssund: rs street, $2,800 No. 103 One and one ha'f story house 10 rooms Webster near 10th street, 82,600, Ne, 102, Two houses 7 rooms each and § lot on 14th near Chicago, $4,0.0. No, 101, House § rooms, cell r, etc., 1} lots on South avenue near Pacific stres , 81,650, No. 100, House 4 rooms, cellaf, ctc., hall lot on Izard street near 16:h, $2,000, No. 99, Very large house and full lot on Har- ney near Lith streot, §9 000, No, 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman ayenue near Clark street, make an offer. No. 96, Une and one half s ory housé 7 rooms Iot 240x401 feet, stable, etc., on Sherman ave- nue near Grace, 87 (00. No. 2, Large brick house two lots on Daven- port street near 19th §18,000. No. 00, Large houso and full lot on Dode near 181h stre-t, §7,000, No, 89, Large hause 10 rooms half 1ot on 20th near California street, §7,600, No. 85, Large kousé 10'or 12 rooms, beautitul corner loton Case n ar 20th, $7,000, No. 87, Two SOry louse 8 T00ms 6 _acres o Inid (0 Saunders sirect near Barracks, 82,000 , 85 Two_stores and a resivsnce lialf Tot,near Mason and 10th street, $800, No_ &4, Two story hou e 8 rooms, closets, ¢'c., with 6 acres of yround, on Saunders street near coaha B re chs, 32 500, i M. 83, Lo #eof 9 roors, half lot on Capitol 2,600. ¢ ouse, A ro0me Picrce near 20th strect, $1,500. tory houses, one of 9 and one ., near 12th, £8,000. 19, closets, cte., large log stre t ncar Whito Lead works, €1,00. No, 77, | arge Fouse of 11 rooms, closets, cel- o, ots., With 1§ lot 1 Farnham néar19th street, $5,000, No. 76, Or ¢ an 1 one-half story house of 8 rooms, lot 66x8° feet on Cass near 14th street, $4,600. No. 76, I'ouse 4 rooms and basement, log 164x132 f'ct 01 Marc: near Sth street, $575. No. 74, Large brick house and two fuli lots on Dayenport « ear 16t strect, $15,000, No. 13 One and_ one-na f story nouse and lot 30x152 foet on Jac-son near 12th street, §1,8.0, No. 72, Large brick house 11 rooms, full lof on Dave ' pert near 16th streot, 85.0)). No. 74, ¢ ou- 12 roms, full ot on Cali- fornit near reot. 87,000, No_ 66, 8able and 8 full lots on Franklin stroet near Saunders, . No. 64, Two story frame building, store below and :0oms above, on lea-ed lot on' Dodge near 16th strect, $500, No. 08, Hlouse's rooms, basement, etc., lot 99x210 fect on 1ath strect noar Nail Works, 81,700 0. 02, Now house 4 r oms one story, full lot on Haruey near 21st street, No. 61, T arg- house 10 roon T 5,000, 05¢ 8 Yo ms, half lot on Davenport stre t, 81,000 full lot on Bur No_ 69, K s and halt lot on Cass near 18th stre t §2 No. 65, llouse 0' 7 rooms, full lot Webster near 218t street, 2,600, 67. house of 6 rioms, lot 60x140 feet on v Bt. dary's avenue, $3,000. se of 101 0oms, fall lot on Califor- 500, sreet, No. 60, House 6_ro wo tull lots on 10th t et e Paul 8 Nv. 40, Bbios - uss 4l rsows, fall lob on Farn: haw ucar 17th sireet, §,000. No, 48, House of 9'rooms, half lot on Pacil 8,000 e house with full block near sho , Large house 7 rooms, closots, etc., on oL near Clark, §83,000. 18th stre 4 3 No. 44, House and 'full lot on Chicago near st st t, 5,000, i d two lots on Chicago nes No 37, Holse of 8 rooms, 14 lots ot 19th near Nicholay'street, §3,060 A No. 36, Two 2 story brick houses with lot 44x182 fo t 0 Chicago near 150 stroet, $6,600 Reat Estare Acency 16th and D\ 1gla Street, irthright for paltry pass. X VL AELA - wWHas, FIFTRENTH AND DOUBLAS 4., i