Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 1, 1882, Page 4

The Omaha Bee “ Published every morning, exoept SBunday, Whe only Monday morning daily, TERMS BY MAITL — One Ysar.....810.00 | Three Months. 88,00 Bix Months, 500|One .. 100 IFHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev. TERMS POST PATD:— One Year,.....$2.00 | ThreeMonths.. 50 B8ix Months,,.. 1.00 | One w 0 OCORRESPONDENCE—~AIl Communi. eations relating to News and Editorial mate ere should be addressed o the Eprtor or Tae Bre. BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Dotters and Remittances should be ad- dressed to THE OMAHA Punrisnive Com- PANY, OMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post- office’ Orders to be mude payable to the order of the Company, OMAHAPUBLISHING 0., Prop'rs E1ROSEWATER, Editor, _—— Tur wish is general that this too, too liquid mud would dry Pross comment on Mr. Blaine's eulogy is that it was rather tame, THERE are ten l’ppl’icm’nln-for Cork- hill’s official head. Guiteau is avenged. PHILADELPHIA is wrestling with the problem as to who shall detect her detectives. T T o e e — P e ! Mr. M~ is still talking of his church of the future. Those who be- lieve the least talk the most. CoNKLING is reported to have sent word to President Arthur some time ago that he would like to see one good stalwart appointed from New York state. Mr. Conkling is a good enough |Y, stalwart to suit even John A. Logan. /A OmicAco woman has been arrest- ed for clubbing her husband with a broomstick, knocking him down three times in succession and throwing him out of asecond story window. Wo- man suffrage principles are making rapid progress in the Garden City. . Tar committee on paving and the Douglas county delegation haye de- cided upon a board of public works in connection with the amendments to our city charter for paving pur- poses, TuE Bee will havea few re- marks to make on this subject shortly. Georce F. EpMuxnps will not grace the supreme bench. The country con- ' | gratulates itself that it will not lose | his brilliant services in the senate. *We couid ask no abler man none more honest” is the tribute which the St. Lounis Republican, a democratic organ, pays to the Vermont giant. S——— Des Moines has entered heartily into the work of paving her strects. Uontracts were lot on Saturday for three miles of cedar block pavements and five main streets will be paved with the same material before the close of the present year. Des Moines is not half as badly in need of paving as Omaha. & Mg, Sarcenr will shortly be packed off to Germany to rattle around in the mission at Berlin re- cently filled by that able and accom- plished gentleman Andrew D. White, Mr. Sargent is a brilliant jobber and an educated corruptionist. It is grati- fying to know that his knowledge of German is limited, Berlin will suffer less from his prosence. GENERAL INGALLS the new quarter- master-general is over sixty-two years of age, and should the new army re. tiring bill pass, will be subject to its conditions, Ho was graduated from West Point in 1843, and was ap- pointed second lieutenant of the First dragoons March 17th, 1845. He was brevetted first lieutenant February 4, 1847, for gallantry in the conflicts of Embudo and Taos, N. M ; was made captain and assistant quartermaster in 1848, major and quartermaster in 1862, brevet lioutenant colonel, and brevet brigadier general July 6, 1864, for meritorious and distinguished ser- vioces during the war, and brevet ma- jor general March 13, 1865. On July 28, 1866, he was promoted to be lieutenant colonel and deputy quar- termaster general and in the following day became a colonel and assistant quartermaster goneral. General In- galls was for a long time during the war assoclated with General Grant as } his chief quartermaster, and was con- sidered by him as an officer of re- markable energy and great executive ability,. The friendship they formed has never in the least abated. He is sixty-two years old, and in case the compulsory retirement bill becomes a law he will be subject to its provis- fons. The retirement of General Rucker places Generals 8. B, Hola- bird and Charles H. Tompkins next n the order of succession on the list ‘of colonels and assistant quartermas- ter generals, and also oreates a vacan- cy in the department, which it is ithought will be filled by *he appoint- iment of either Lioutenant W. I Reed or Licutenant J. W. Jacobs, Seventh iry, as ocsptain and assistant I'AKE UMAHA DAi1LY BL": REFORM IN ASSESSMENTS. A yoar ago Vermont enacted a severe listing law in aid of tax assess- monts, This law required every one to “list” all their property, real and personal at a figure equal to what such property would bring at a forced eale and imposed heavy penalties for perjury or evasion of the law. The result of this measure has been in the highest degree satisfactory. The value of real property as returned has increased from 871,114,000 to $102,- 437,000, taxes have been reduced and the burden on real estate lightened. The effect of the law has been to place taxation where it belongs, Tt has relieved the poorer class from a large portion of its weight ard has forced tax shirkers to pay their logiti mate share towsrds the expenses of government. Omaha is in pressing need of reform in her tax assessments, Last year the total amount ofcity taxes collected by general assessment as reported by the treasurer was $190,491.28. To raise this sum a levy of 30} mills was made, based on a property valuation of about six millions of dollars, Tt is safe to say that a just assessment of property in Omaha would not fall short of twenty-two millions of dol- lars. By far the largest proportion of our real estate is listed by the assess- ors at less than 20 per cent of the amount which it would readily bring in the open market, This is the case with the property of of many of our wealthy citizens which pays tax on amere fraction of its ac- tual value, Tracts of land which, when cut into small lots, are sold by their owners at from $300 to 8500, are assessed in bulk on the city tax list at §50 an acre. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of valua- plo property in the various additions, old at hij*h prices by our capitaliats, are set down for a mere song when the assessor calls with his book. Residences and outlying grounds in the better portions of our city annu- ally dopreciate from thirty-five to fitty per ceat. in anticipation of the assessment, It is safo to assert that the tax levy on Omaha real estate is based on an assessment which falls be- low twenty-five per cent. of its actual -parket value, This evasion of taxes is working great injury to our city. The tax levy for the fiscal year ending June, 1882, is 31 mills on a valuation of 806,421,666.72. To this must be added the tax levied by the county, which made the entire tax levy of city and county last year fifty mills, or five per cert. on the val- uation of property in Omaha. With a fair assessment of property, our tax levy ought not to exceed two and a half per cent. The greater portion of increased taxation by such a course would fall where it belongs. At pres- ent the small property owners pay taxes on about a third of the market value of their real estate, while the larger owners are assessed at from 16 per cent. to 20 per cent. of the amount for which they would part with their property. Some reform is needed, both to relieve the poor and to increase the city revenues without diminishing her credit Tug govu‘rnorl of three states are about to issue proclamations con- vening extra, sessions of their logis- latures for redistricting purposes. Governor Nance has given no indica- tion of the course which he intends to follow, It is rumored that he is hesitating whether to yield to the wishes of the voters of the state who elected him or to oboy the orders of the Unioa Pacific, which controls him. The unanimous sentiment of Nebras- ka is in favor of an early calling to- gether of the legislature in extra ses- sion to redistrict the state. The mo- nopoly managers are equally anxious that the three congressmen due this state under the new apportionment shall be chosen at large. The excuse made by some of the governor's friends for delay is that our farmers will be too busily engaged in seeding to leavo their homesteads for Lincoln during the coming month. This is a very thin excuse, The number of farmers in the legislature is small when com- pared with the population of the state and crops will not be likely to foel the offect of their absence at the capital during the time necessary tor finish- ing the business of the session. The true inwardness of the matter is that the corporation pipe-layers and their cappers want to postpone indefinitely the redistricting of the state, or, fail- ing in this, are anxious to gain as much time as possible in order to groase up their political machinery and soap up their attorneys through.ut the various counties of the state. It remains to be seen whether this little wrinkle can be ironed out or not. TINKERING with the currency is not a8 popular in congress as it used to be, ‘Lot well enough alone is” as good a motto in financiering as elsewhere, Tuws is the last day of our pre- mium offer, All parties who wish to avail themselves of our offer must remit to-day. — Wil of News. Ballue County Union, Tur Bek is brim full of news and is #s sound as a dollar on the anti-mo- nopoly question, Its circulation ought to be in this section, THE OMAHA RESERVATION. Following is the full text of Senator Saunders’ bill to provide for the sale of a portfon of the Omaha TIndian reservation, which has been reported fayorably by the committee on Indian affairs: A BILL To provide for the sale of a part of the reservation of the Omaha tribe of Indians in the state of Nebraska, and for other. purposes, Be it enacted by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America 1n congress assem bled, that with the consent of the Omaha tribe of Indians expressed in open council the secretary of the Inte- rior be, and he herchy is, authorized 0 oauks to WSEveyed, 3 noosssary and sold, a portion of their reserva- tion, not to exceed 50,000 acres, to he taken from the western part thereof, and to bo separated from the remain- ing portion of said reservation by a line running along the section-lines from north to south, The said lands so sepurated shall be appraised, in tracts of forty acres each, by threc competent commissioners, one of whom shall be selected by the Omaha tribe of Indians and the other two shall be appointed by the secretary o the interior, Sec, 2. That after the survey and appraisement of said lands the secre- tary of the interior shall be, and he hereby is, authorized to offer the same for sale, for cash, to the highost bid der, between the hours of twelve . and 4 p. m. on a given day in each month, at the United States public- land office at Neligh, Neb,, till the whole of said lands are sold, in tracts not to exceed 160 acres, to uny one person, and said person shall make oath before the register or received of said land-office that they intend to o3- cupy the land for which they bid, and that they will, within three mouths from the date of such bid, make a permanent improvement upon the same; provided, that if, in the judg. ment of the secretary of the interior, it shall be more advantageous to sell said lands upon deferred payments, he may, with the consent of the Indians expressed in open council, dispose of the same upon the following terms as to payment, that is to say: One-fourth of the price of said land to be paid at the time of purchase, one-fourth in two years and one-fourth in three years from said date with interest at the rate of b per cent. per annum; but in case of default in either of said de- ferred payments, the person thus de- fawiting for a period of thirty days shall forfeit absolutely his right to the tract for which he bid and any pasy- ment or payments he might have made; and provided further, that whenever any person shall bid, ‘under the pro- visions of this act, for a tract contain- ing a fractional excess over 160 acres, if the excess is less than 40 actes, is contiguous, and results from inability in the survey to make township and soction lines conform to the boundary lines of the reseraation, his bid shall not be rejected on account of such ex- cess, but purchase shall be allowed as in other cases; And provided further, That no portion of said land shall be sold at less than the appraised value thereof, and in no case for less thaen $2.50 per acre. Skc. 3. That the proceeds of such sale, after paying all" expenses inc dent to and necessary for carrying out the provisions of this act, including clerk hire, as the secretary of the in- terior may deem necessary, shull be placed to the credit of said Indians in the treasury of the United States, and shall bear interest at the rate of 5 per centum per annum, which income shall be annually expended tor the benefit of said Indians, under the di- rection of the secretary of the in- terior. Skc. 4, That when purchasers of said lands shall have complied with the provisions of this act as to pay- ment, improvement, and so fnrtK, proof thereof shall be received by the local land oftice at Neligh, Nebraska, and patents shall be issued as in the case of public lands offered for settlo- ment under the homestead and pro- emption acts; Provided, That patents issued to Indians shall expressly state that the lands conteyed shall, for the period of 26 years from the date thereof, be 1nalienable and exempt from incumbrance and taxation, and that the titlo in its descent shall con- form to the laws of the state of Ne- braska. Skc, b, That the commissioners to be appointed by the secretary of the interior under the provisions of this act shall receive compensation for their services at the rate of §8 for each day actually engaged in the duties herein designated, in addition to the amount paid by them for actual traveling and necessary expenses, LITERARY NOTES. The circulation of Harper's Young People has attained extraordinary di- mensions. Indeed, its success is wholly without precedent in ite class of literature; but the vast fraternity of the rising generation who look to it every week for amcsement and infor- mation will be interested in the pub- lishers’ proposition to distribute vala- able book prizes among their young readers. A comparatively easy com- petition is intended, For every ten new subscribers sent in, one of Colonel Thomas W, Knex's fascinating books of boys' travel is given, or one of Coftin’s three volumes of®historical reading, The Story of Liberty, Old Times in the Colonies, and The Boys of "76; while the boy or girl who pro- | cures the largest number of new sub- scribers before the 1st of next April will be presented with a set of Har- per’s Household Edition of Charles The numbers of The Living Age for the weeks ending Fobruary 18th and 26th contain Carthage and Tunis, Edinburgh; Old and New Canons of Poetical ~ Criticism, Contemporary; The Sicily of Thucydides and Theoc- ritus, ineteenth Century; *‘The Man with the Red Hair,” A Bt of Loot, and How the Stars got their Names, Cornhill; Inside Kairwan, Blackwood; An Englsh Slave in Madagascar, Temple Bar; * Life of Richard Cobden, by John Morley, Macmillan; Youth and Age, and the Chinese Navy, Bpectator; Blacks in |and Celia Thaxter, The Greenland, Pall Mall Gazette; The Persecution of the Jews in Russia and Germany, Times, and Morning Post; Bess! a Character Sketch, Chambers' Journal; and the usual amount of poetry. For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four large pages each (or more than 3,300 pages & yeat), the subscription price (88) is low; while for £10.50 the pub- lishers offer to send any one of the American $4 monthlies or weeklies with The Living Age for a year, both postpaid. Littell & Co., Boston, are the publishers. The circus is ever a fascinating sub- ject to young people, and the second part ot Mr. Stoddard’s article in the March St. Nicholas, ‘“Men-and-Ani mal Shows,” 1in which he gives a vivid account of one of these amusement- towns on its travels, is, with its many elegant illustrations by Jas. C. Beard, Sharo, Birch. and others, one of the most prominent and entertaining f tures of the March St. Nichola There is, also, for those who delight in the imaginative, a fairy tale of Thomas Dunn English, and some hu- morously dece verses, illustra tod with five clever page illustrations of Walter Satterlee, Pooms ate con- tributed by Rose Terry Cooke and resent in- stallment of “The Hoosier School- boy" is of unusual intercst, detailing how Jack and his friends did go to school, spite of all odds, and giving a thrilling account of a foot-race, in which the hero runs for a $500 prize. “The Drummer Boy,” in the rifle pits before Petersburg, and “‘Donald and Dorothy,” in a novel fencing match, atill closely hold the attention of their friends Mrs, Clement, in her ‘‘Art and Artists” paper writes of the paint- er Titian, and a beautiful reproduc- tion of his famous portait of himself forms the frontispicce illustration to the magazine. A Bridge and Railroad. OmanA, February 28, 1882, To ths Fditor of Tue Bex, As there has been 8o much said re- garding a wagon bridge between Oma- ha and Council Bluffs, and as the Union Pacific having the sole monopo- ly of the bridge business greatly to the detriment of the interests of Oma- ha, T offer the following suggestions: Why not build a railroad between the two places? Such a road could be built on a level from the Bluffs to the crossing of the U. P. at the foot of Jack=on street, thence up Jackson to Eighth and thence along the South Omaha creck to Fifteenth sureet. When between Tweltth and Fifteenth streets and between Jones and the U. P. track there might bea large and handsome Union Depot built that would be a credit to the city in place of a disgrace as the ‘others are. The whole road would not cost as much as the U. P. bridge did, from the fact the bridge need not be half so long or half so high. The road could be built by the two cities issuing bonds or the counties of Douglas and Potto- wattaie by the capitalists of the two places, or by a joint stock company composed of the stockhold- ers of the roads centering at Council Bluffs, for their mutual benefit in pro- curing the trade of Omaha. Such roads as did not take part in the con- struction of the same could bo charged a nominal toll, say 3 for loaded cars and 81.50 for empty ones, or perhaps it would be proper to charge them the same as for running the same dis- tance on the main line of any of the roads holding stock in the new road. This would forever do away with the monopoly business and do more for the interests of this place than all other roads combined. It would per- haps be necessary to lay a double track to accomdate the vast throng of trains-that would be continually us- ing the same. In time this road could be extended on via Yankton and Deadwood to Bismarck on the Northern Pacific, thus opening up a vast region of country to the com- merce of Omaha, doubling her popu- lation and wealth, and giving her an- other outlet to the Pacific_ocean. M. W. D. Another Rallroad Land Case. A decision has been rendered at Fargo, D. T., in favor of the plaintiff by Judge Hudson in the case of the Northern Pacific Railway Company ve. Peronto, The action was brought by the company to eject Peronto, a half-breed, from land included in the land grant to the former, and irvolved the title to the township of Fargo. The company claimed title by virtue of the act of congress of July 2, 1861, granting every alternate section of land for forty miles on each side of its track though the territory. Per. oonto claimed that he had aettled on the land, which was formerly an In- dian reservation, as a pre-empter, sub- sequent to its vacation as such, and prior to its location of the right of way of the company. He filed his declaratory statement in the land oftice, but was refused his final proof papers on the ground that the title was vested in the company, He has continued to reside in his shanty erected on the land and has seen a city built up around him, and the land which was worth little or nothing at the time he sottled there increase rapidly in value. There were two questions involyed in the case 1 Was Peronto an Amertean citizen in- vested with the right to pre-empt land? and 2. Did the title vest in the company under the act of congress? Judge Hudson decided ihat Peronto was otz and had the right to sot- tle on lana a pre-emptor, but that Lo ucquired no title to the land question as it passed to the company under the grant, The case willl be earried up to the supreme court of the United States.” DO NOT BE DECEIVED. In these tumes of quack medicine advertisements everywhere, it is truly gratifying to find one remedy that is worthy of praise, and which really does as recommended. Electric Bit- ters, we can vouch for as being a true and reliable remedy, and ona that will do as recommended. Theyinvari- bly cures stomach and liver complaints diseases of the Kidneys and Urinary difficulties. We know whereof we speak, and can readily say, give them o trial. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by Lsh & McMahon (8) WHDNESDAY MARCH 1 OCCIDENTAL JOTTINGS, CALIFORNIA, The anti-monopoly lewcue of the State are already preparing for the State cam- paign, Sixty tont of wheat w ped from Maryv lle over the Southern Pa re: t\ntl‘\' ehip- Gia'veston, Texas, fic, It is reported that®he Madrone Mineral Spr'ngs, situated in the range a few miles northeast of Gilroy, will be purchased by o company at Oakland for £8,000 aud that $12,000 more will bespent 1y the unknown company for improvements, The Chinese are coming to this Const at the rate a bad sign. will be a wre willnot be emploged. monapolize the work . f g ling and there. by ke'p thousinds of worthy citizens out of employmient. & J G of Princeton, ol unty, Ci only has a small farm of 80,0 0 nting twen- ty-five miles on the to viver and extending hac which are in g1 present & strict d the ngh 10,000 acre of , prin-ipally wheat, the findii g his ojerations re- insufticien y of ls ntends to summe y tra t, in T'enama county, acres, twenty-fi rom his little home place. is srain raising the doctor oran of graps vines, OREGON AND WABHINGT UN. Smal pox has broken out at Pomero, Wl Poeroy, Tha Oregon Pacific engineors will soon have the entire line between Corvallis and Yaquina bay ready for the gracers, Ilieir next work will be to eurvey the route east- eastward, The statis'ics mde up from the reports of coumty ussessors to the secrotary of state of Oregon show: Number of acres of land_under cult'vatim, 5,201,654; value, $28 260,847, Number wf horses and mules, 114,024: value, $4,831, 352, Cattle, 209,412; value, $2,771,040. 'Sheep, 854, 750; vaiue, 31,101,§ Gross value of all property, $36,531,716, 3rof = Number of polls, 19,655, number of inhabitants, 174,767 weaith per capita, $194; number of school childien, 61,641, MONTANA, “The enrollment in *the Butte public schools aggregates 617, Ira Myers, who drives staze between Helena and Di mond, is said to he worth ,000, The Butte Citv land league has 300 members, Last year $1,518 was forward. ed to Ireland. Anact of the lnst legislature authorizing Bozemen to build a £15,000 school house has been ratified by the citizens by a vote of 148 to 86. A Northern Pacific en ineer anthorizes aunouncement that the western end of Northern Pacific will reach Mi:soula by January 1, 1883, The number of ele-triz lichts to be put \|‘]r in Butte at the first plaut will be only fifty-six, Some fifty odd are -lready co tracted for. The revenue will be about $17,000 per annum. Ihe Mullun Tunnel engineers started a fire in the powder honse t 1 thaw out the concern, and in half an hour there was uot envugh left of the building to show where it stood, Fortunately only one man was hurt. A mule stood on’ the dump un- conscious uf danger, and when the explo- gion occurred the concussion hurled him end-over-end to the bottm of the dumjp pi'e, a distance of seventy-five feet. And there he was found when the smoke clear- ed away, quietiv picking the bunch grass and lm)kin'; meekly around as if wonder- ing what the deuce was meant by taking his harness off 8o unceremoneously. IDAHO. Bellevue boasts of 1,200 inhabitants rmh not one “(‘olonel” smong the num- ber. The depth of snow varies from Tour inches to forty faet throughout the terri- tory. The blockade on the Utah & Northern was raised on the 23d. There were tix en- gines ditched at Portneuf. _T'ne miners in the Boise Basin are “in- dignating” over tha bill introduced in con- gress by their delegate giving a flume company a wonopoly of the creeks, e s OOLORADOU. The recent censns_of Deuver shows a population of over 50,000, The Colorado [fon works are now pre- pared to manufacture locomotives. Mary McDonald died at Silver Plume receutly from the effects of tight lacing. The coal mines of Colorado have an estimated capacity of ¢38,235 tons, valued at 81,041,370, The Colorada Cial and Iron company expect to turn out Bessemer stee! rails by the first of April. A northern Colorado farmer says that potatoes wiil grow and flourish at an_ ele- vation of 19,000 feet. Denver is to have a Masonic temple to ‘| cost 811 0,000, at the corner o: Highteenth and Lawrence streets. Tho starting up the rail mill of the steel works, Pucblo, mesns the employ- ment of 1,500 additioual men, Bill Jobnson of Denver recently danced on the pros rate form of his alleged wife and mutilated her beyond beyond recog- nition, % A big strike of sand carhonates is re- ported from Jucque mouutain, Lt is said there is over five feet of 100-ounce ore running forty per cent. lead. The Roman Catholis Bishop of Denver has donated to the sisters of Georgetown, a lot 150x60 feet in size near the Catholic church of that place, for the erection of a hospital thereon, on condition that the hos: pital shall bebuilt and in running order within a year, The Stickney trial has cost in all proba- bly over $20,000. The exyenditure in the interest of Stickney has been $ 2,000, while Mr. Campay, father of the deceased, is reported to have furnished §1,000 for the prosecutivn, and witness fees for the state amount to $750, and for the defense $1.080, The case will probably cost all parties about §20,030, Will L, Vischer’s ‘““Hello,” published at. Denyer, is out, It contains articles on vaious subjects from the wits on the foot hills, besides spicy editorials om current topics, and local news. The most striking feature of the paper is the bare faced head--bald head, in fa't. Like Well's Own, it is & study fo a phrenilo,ist, Two vaked cherubs cliwbing a greaed pole, with the thermometer at zero, ornu- ment the corners, while across the wide waste of Colorado sage brush the title tumbles, uncertain where to rest, like a “tired” man re'nining from an editorial banquet at 8 o'clock in the riin Aside from these biemihes, evid nt suggested by Bill Nye'sgcl o time at the capita', “Hello" a typographic and brainy beauty, which is bound to be heard in the land. WYOMING, r The end of the session is rapidly drawing near The Laramie “‘co-op,” store is ready for business. (Cheyenne wants authority to build her own water works, The Cheyeune opera house was dedi- cated last 1uesday wich an a:istocratic ball at §10 a head. Delegate Post hus introduced a bill to provide for the purchase of the Cheyeune Black Hills telegraph line. The new company boarding house is nearing completion and will add not a lit- tle to the impressivencss of stately Car- bon. Pattee must Le in the neighborhood of Laramis. _The citizens of that town p pose to build an opera honse by means of a lottery, An advauce agent of the monarch of hades recently invited ths Jezislature by letter to “‘go to the devil.” A vite of thauks is ponding, DAKOTA Moody county has 2,170 quarter sections {land, Bon Homme covnty claims o church valuation ot 12,00 ', Huron is engaged in an effort to orga- nize a company with a capital ot 85,000 to sink an artesian well, There are thirty tricts in McCook cour ble school building in e The Weste ized scho 1 dis- ith & comforta. h Union 't e’egraph company will put up a second wire for commerci | and press purposes between Soux City and Yankton in the spring Mayor Phillips, of Deadwood has pre- ferred charges agzain augh for flatly retusing to obey orders, What hal to do was the mayor wanted th section of the water to make a d ily in tanks, and the marsh ffended the mayor by telling him to go to that place politely [ named in the revized ed tion. MISCELLANEOUS, o In troubled with paupers. . M.) mineis are paid four dolia Cotton is su-cssfully cultivatd in the southern par, of nevada. The raw ma- t rial is sent to St, George, Utah, where there is a fictory. In the neighborhood of 60,000 cords of railroad wood will be delivered between Verdi and the Sumn coming season This will put about $170,- 000 in circulation at Truckee and furnish work to a great many wen and teams. Rellef for the Heathen, Laramie Times. Talk about sending coal to New Castle, shipping wheat to California seems just as preposterous and yet eleven cars of grain went west Sunday night, shipped from Nebraska and consigned to San Francisco brokers. Ex-Assistant Postmaster. CiNcINNATL, O, Sept. 2, 188. H. H. Warner, & Co.: Sirs—I have used your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure for chronic dysentory, contracted while in the army, with the most kappy results. fab 28-dlw Josken H. THORNTON. A FEARLESS ENGINEER. An Act of Cool, Deliberate, Self-Sacri- 7 ficing Heroism. Richmona(Va.) Whig. The highest order of humaw courage is that which impels a man in his cool and reflective moments to confront approaching danger or death, that it may be averted from others. An act of such cool, deliberate, self-sacrificing heroism, in which Mr R. P. Irving, a young engineer on the Ohio and Ches- apeake railvoad, was the actor, de- serves the record. On Wednesday of at Waynesboro, awaiting the arrival hind time. These having finally come up and passed on thewr way westward, the eastward-bound freights were at lib- erty to resume their way. The first of the eleven started up the heavy grade toward the tunnel, but owing to the sleety condition of the track, could make no headway. Mr. Irving, the engineer of the next train behind, un- coupled his engine and backed down the grade to his own train. He was scarcely in position again, when the familiar rattling sound of an approaching train struck his ears. He loocked up, and for amo- ment stood horror stricken as_he saw a section of the train he had helped up the grade coming slowly back now, but gathering speed as it moved. He realized the situation in an instant. Thirteen heavy laden cars had by some accident become uncoupled and were now returning down a seventy- { five foot grade, threatening a collision with the standing tramns that must have entailed an immense destruction of property, besides the mangling of human victims. The young engineer did not hesi- tate a moment. He saw there was but one thing to do, and he did it, though he knew that his own life must in all likelihood be the sacri- fice. The approaching section had already gathered considerable head- way, when he put his engine in mo- tion to meet it and break the force of the collision. Whatever might be his own fate, the lives and property be- hind him would be spared. It was a terrible spectacle—the heavy cars with * their * thousands of tons burden thundering down the grade and threatening to immolate whatever opposed their path—the single engine, under a full head of steam, fairly leaping up the grade as if anxious for the encounter. The young engineer was seen by several as he passed flying mto the jaws of death. He stood with his hand upon the lever, but resolute, slightly stooping as he watched the descending mass t) at at the next moment was to overwhelm him and his engine and consign him to a frightful death. The shock came. The intrepid en- gineer had somewhat lightened it by reversing his lever at the last moment. The crash was awful. The foremost car fairly mounted the opposing engine, dashing itself to pieces. A scene of wreck and ruin ensued. We have no particulars of the extent of the damage or the loss to the company, nor are wemuch concerned about that. ~ What does concern us is the fact the brave en- gineer lay in the midst of the wreck, bruised and stunned, but, beyond that, unhuut, Behind him stood the long train of cars which he had saved from wreck, and around his pros- had saved by an aet which has f parallols for bo promprit and desperate self-sacrifice, i — An Extended Popularity, Each year finds ‘‘Brow~'s Brox- cu1AL Trocues” in new localities, in various parts of the world, For re- lieving Coughs, Colds, and Throat Diseases, the proved reliable. Troches have been feb24eodBtmwlt ‘Geo. P. Bemis ReaL ESTATE AcENcY, 16th and Dodye 8ts,, Omaha, Neb Thle gency t0ee STRIOTLY & brokerage businees. 0% Dt spec ulate And therefore auy barkwins 00k are insured ko 0 ons, lustead last week eleven trains were blocked | and passage of extras which were bo- | pale S trato form stood those whoso lives he | HOUSES LOTS! For Sale By EMIS ¥IFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 8T8, 8 rooms, full lot on Pierce near o8 00ms, full lot on Douglas near 26th 8 rect, #7 176, Beantit rosl dlence, full 1ot on Cass 1ear Two h #1600, Touse throo rooms, two closets, o ., halt st « ear Grace street, $500, One and one-half story brick house an tw'. 1ots on Douglus tiear 8th strcet, §1,7(0, 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, stable, o'c 1 16t niear Pis ree and 13th stre t, $050. Jno and one-hait siory houte six rooms on Convont street near Sb. 1,869, jses and } 1ot on Dodee nesr Oth Free rooms on Clirton &' reet 20 fect lot on 8,500, streot nea; T 8t 500, No. 168, House of 11 rco. s, lot 83x12 foct on 10th noar Burt street, £5,000. No. 167, Two story hovse, 0 roome 4 closef wood cellar, on 1%th strect near Foppleton's 1,000, No. 166, New house of 6 roonis, half lot on Lzard e ar 19th strect, 81,850, No. 164, Onc and one Half story house 8 roome on 18th street + ear Leaver worth, $3,800. N. 161, One and oncha? story fouse of b ro0mK near Hanscom Park, £1,600. No. 168 Two honses b rooms each, closets, cte o1 Burt strect near 25th, $3,600. No, 157, house 6 rooms, full 1t on 19th street near Leavénworth, §2,400. No. 166, Housc 4 largo rooms, 2 closots halt acro on Burt strel near Dut'on, §1,200, No. 165, Two houses, one of b and one of 4 rooms, on' 17th street near Marcy £3,%00. No. 164, Three housrs, one of 7 and two of 6 roon s each, and corner lot, on Cass near 14th stro:t, 85,000, Ne. 163, small house and full lot on Pacific near 1:th'rtreot, §2,600. No. 151, One story house 6 rooms, on Leaven- worth neir 16th, 83,000, No. 160, Hovke three rooms and lot 02x116 tcar 20th and Faroham, £2,600, No. 148, Now house of ¢ight rooms, (n 15th strect i, or Leavenworth 3,100, No, 147, House of 13 rcomsen 18th strect near Marcy, 3,00 No. 146, Hote of 10 rooms and 1} lots on 18th street near Marvy, 86,600, No. 145, House two large rooms, lot 67x210 fee onShero an aventio (10t strect) near Nicholas, 3,500, No 143, House 7 rooms, barn, on 20th street near Leavenworth, §2,600. No. 142, Hor ooms, kitchen, cte., on 16th street near Nic £1,875 3 fooms on Douglas near 26th 140, Large houte and two lcts, on 28t rham strect, $8,0.0. lot 60x166} fec’, on h street, 81,500, ., House & room+ 41'd half lot on Capito ar 23d 8 rect, £2,300, House anc! half acre lot on Cuming 31, Touse 2 ‘rocms, full lot, on Izard 1 <t Wrect, 8400, No. 120, Two houtes roows, on' leased lot on 2,500 of 6 and one of 4 ‘ebster near 20th street, 27 Two story | ouse 8 rooms, half lot on hster near 19th 83 600, 196, House 3 rooms, lot 20x120 feet on t near Douglas, $675. 125, Two etory Hotlse on 12th near Dodge Tot 28x04 feet 81,200, , larve house and full block ‘near aud Cen rul strect, $8,000. House 6 rooms and large lot on Saun- rect near Dariacks, §2 100 22, Touse 6 rooms and half lot on W eb- ar 15th strect, $1,600. . 118, House 10 réoms, lot_30x00 feet on Capitol avenue near 22d street, $2,050, No. 117, House 8 rooms, lot 80x126 feet, on Capitol avenue near 22d 1,500, No. 114, House 3 rooms on Douglas near 26th treet, S760. No. 118, flouse 2 room:s, lot 66x99 feeton ¢ near Cuming streot, $760. No. 112, Birick house 11 rcoms and half lot on s near 1éth street, $2,800. No. 111, House 12 'roomsfon [Davenport near 20th strect, £7,0:0. No. 110, Brick house and lot 22x132 feet on Cass strect near 15th, 3,000 No. 108, larg. house on Harnoy near 16th streed, $3,600. No 100, Two houses and 30x182 foot lot on Cas« near 14th street, £3,500. No. 107, House 5 rooms aud half lot on Izard near 17¢h'str. ot, 81,200. “vo. 106. House and lot 51x108 feet, lot on 14th near Pierce strect, §600. No. 1.5, Two story house 8 rooms with 1} lot on Ssward near Saunders stroet, 82,800 No.103 One and one haf story house 10 rooms Webster near 16t street, $2,500. No. 102, Two housds 7 rooms cach and § lot on L4th near Chicago, $4,0.0. Na. 101, House § rooms, cell r, etc., 13 lots on South avenuo rear Pacific stroo , 81,650, No. 100, Houso 4 rooms, cellar, ctc., half lot on Izard streot near 16.h, 2,000, No. 09, Very large houte and full lot on Har- car 14th streor, §0 000, rzo houto of 11 rooms on Sherman ayonue near Clark etrect, make an offor. No. 96, Une aud one half s.ory house 7 rooms ot 240x401 fect, stable, ctc., on Sherman nve- nue near G race, 37 (00, No. 92, Largo brick house two lots on Daven port street near 19th $18,000. No. 90, Large hovse and full lot on Dode near 18(h stroit, 87,000, No. 89, Largehause 10 rooms half lot on 20th near California streef, $7,600, No. 88, | arge house 10'or 12 rooms, beautitul comor lobon Cass n:ar 20th, 87,000, No. 87, Two story Louse 8 rooms 5 acreso land 0 Saundors street ncar Barracks, $2,000. No. 5 Two_ stores and u_resivsnco on leased balf lot,ncar Mason and 10th street, 8500, No_ &4, Two story hou ¢ § rooms, closots, eic., with 5 ackes of ground, on Seunders stroot near Omaha B rracks, $2 60( Wo. &3, Horseof § roovs, half lot on Capitol avenue gear 12t sbreet, §2,00. No 82, Ouc and one half story ) ouse, 6 rooms tull lot on Pierce near 20th street, $1,80b, No. 81, 1wo 2 story houses, 0i ¢ of 9and one 6 rooms, Chicago St., noar 12th, ¥8,000. No. 80 Houso 4 rooms, closcts, cte., large lot on 18th stre:t near Whito Lead works, 81,800, No. 77, ! arge house of 11 rooms, closets, cel- ham néar 19th street, 0, street n , ‘with 1} lot+ n Fa . 70, Oreand v/ e-ali swry nouse of 5 rooms, lot 66x85 feet on Cass near 1éch street, 84,600, No. 76, House 4 rooms sud basement, lot Tofxis f14t on Murcy near sth atrect, 8075 No. 74, Large brick house and_two full lots on ort near 16th street, 815,000, One and one-haf story house and lot ron near 12(h street, §1,800, A brick house 11 rooms,’ full lof on Dave port near 16th street, $5,000. No, 71, Large house 12 roonis, full lot on Cali- r 20ih wireet, §7,000. 5, Stable and 8 full 'lots on Franklin stroet ar Saunders, §2,000, No. 64, Two'story frame building, store below and roons above, on leared lot on Dodge near 16th strect, ¥800 No. 63, House 4 rooms, basement, cte., lob féet on 1oth strect near Nail Works, } o 4 rooms one story, fulldot on Harney near 21st street, 81,760, No, 61, Large house 10 roouws, full lot on Bur 21st street, 86,000, No. 60, Housé 3 o s, halt 1ot on Davenport 234" stre. t, 1,000, No 69, Four liouscs and half 1ot on Cas>near 18th stre't &2 600, 0. 58, Holise of 7 rooms, full lot Webster € street, 2,600, 67. house of 6 £ oms, lot 60x140 feet on ¢ uear 8t Mary'savenne, §3,000, 0.0"m-, full loton Califor two full luts on 19th No, b0, ilouse @ ro stecet near Paul, 3,000, No. 49, Brick house 11 rooms, full lot on Farn- ham near 17th street, 86,000, No. 48, House of 9'rooms, half ‘ot on Pacifi near Bth streot, §3,000 Yo, 46, Large hou-e with full block near sho tower, $2,000. No, 45, Large house 18th streot near Clark, §3,000, No, 44, Howse aud full lot on Chicago near 7 100ms, closots, otc., 00. o and two lotyon Chicago nos (i se 0f 8 rooms, 1} lots on 10th near 83,000 0 '2 story brick houses with lot ton Chicago near 18t street, $6,600 BEMIS ReaL Estare Acency Beauty, health, and huppiness for ladies in “ WINE GF CARDILY 16th and Duawls Street, AEA -~ NEE.