Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 8, 1882, Page 4

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Sraxrey Marmiews feels more com- fortable now that Roscoe Conkling has declined to join him on the supreme bench. ‘Vauantine at Washington is on the senatorial race track, but at home among his constituents he is willing to | serve a third term in the lower house. | _Ix less than four weeks we shall be called on to elect Bix ward council- men. Who are the candidates? Don't all speak at once. Covunore Buures has elected a demo- cratic mayor after a triangular fightin which the redoubtable Vaughan was running for re-election independent. NeARLY five millions of dollars are expended annually under the super- vision of the Indian bureau, The ap- propriation this year ds $350,000 greater than that of last. DurinG the short menth of Feb- ruary the national debt decreased a trifle below ten millions. The policy of taxing this generation to pay the whole national debt at the rate of ten millions a month is very questionable. Pouiricat grasshoppers up ia Da- kota are on the anxious seat just now undecided which side of the fance Oarrarx Eaps and his trained corps of lobbyists are jubilant over their prospect of another successful raid on Unecle Sam’s treasury. The senate committee on commeroe have decided to report favorably on Ead's gigantic subsidy scheme the Tehuaanpee ship railway for which the government is to advance its cred- it to the tune of fifty millions. Eads and his strikers confidently expect favorabie action for this scheme by the senate and house, and the prevail- ing opinjon is that their confidence is well founded. Captain Eade has already pocketted several millions for his jotty work at the mouth of the Mississippi,and hisexperienceiniebby ing that lucrative job through congress has enabled him to manipulate the congressional committoes in favor of the ship railway scheme. Without disparaging the labors of Captain Eads on the Mississippi jetties, ot en- dorsing current reporta that Eads per- petrated a monstrous fraud on the government in settling for the jetty job, we may safely pronounce the ship railway scheme a more brazen subsidy steal than the credit mobilier grant. It is simply an insult to the intelki- gence of the American people for con- greas to vote fifty millions of bonds to such a scheme when the proposed im- provement of the great water ways of the Mississippi valley cannot secure one-tenth of that sum. The fact that Eads maintains subsi- dized organs at the national capital to advocate his ship railway job, that Eads gives costly public dinnerstocon- gressmen and journalists, that a trained and woll organized lobby are working night and day making con- verts among congressmen who want to be converted affords proof that this ship railway schemeis a speculative enterprise wholly in the interest of a gang of jobbers, {f this steal passes congress in spite of the known popu- lar adversion to subsidies, of every class, President Arthur could not ren- der the country greater service than by vetéing the bill. Tae disastrous overflow of the Mis- sissippi river should impress congress with the pressing necessity of imme- diate atteation to the .improvement of the great river and its principal tributaries. An unobstructed chan- nel from the head of navigation to the gulf is what the interests of the coun- try demand. Less than that is not so much of an injury to the part neg- lected as it is to the people at large. It is now understood by all, as well as they are to jump after congress has passed the pending bill to subdivide and reconstruct that territory. Georae WasHINGTON FROST, mis- sionary among the Indians during anore than fifteen years, and more ro- ocently government director of the Union Pacific railroad, has reached the national capital to file his pre- emption for another year. Tax cabinet makers are still hard at work in reconstruoting President Arthur's cabinet. The latest slate transfars Postmaster General Howe to the imterior department to open the way fur some young and active stalwart partizan. Tuar long-promised branch mins at Omaha doesn’t meet with much en- couragement in the senate and it now looks as if we should have to get our silver dollars coined in Philadelphia a fow years longer. It is sad, but we presume Omaha will survive, Takes hundred and eighty-six farmers' alliances are now working in this state, and scarcely a Week passes without additions to fke wsumber, The railroads have given due notice, and will probably govern themselves accordingly. e——— SENATOR SAUNDERS has introduced o bill into the senate making Omaha & port of delivery, The Union Pacific bridge monopoly has been forcing Omaha to stand and deliver for the last nine years. ep—— Ir wo are to believe the San Fran- cisco Call, ex-Senator Sargent was beaten for the interior department by the Indian rings and land grabbers, No one who knows Mr, Sargent’s old- time leanings toward land grabs will credit this statement for a moment, e— Bismancx's raid on the American hog having failed he has now attacked the American ham aud classes it as cotton goods on account of the wrap- per which encloses it. On the same principle our government ought at once to retaliate by classing German sausages as old skins, e— CongressMaN Marx DusneLy, of Minnesota, seems to have been made the victim of a clever forgery. Some weeks ago a letter was given to the press which announced Mr. Dunnell a8 actively canvassing for the succes- sion of Benator Windom. The letter was signed with Mr Dunnell's name and purported to be & confidential communication to a personal friend. It created & genuine sensation in Minnesota political circles, especially among Mr, Dunnell's constituents, eompetewith the water routes, Hence publicly admitted by railroad corpora- tions, that river transportation is the one great check upon monopoly. The testimony of Wayne MacVeagh, as attorney for the Pennsylvania railroad, was all of one tenor. It complained throughout that, even without any legal restric- tions, the railways are scarcely able to there is the greatest economy in estab- lishing, once for all, a navigable route from the great bread-producing ex- panses of the continent to the sea- board, No legislation can do so much toward moderating and equalizing freight charges. It is the duty of all representatives from the Mississippi valley to unite on this ground, Com- Tar announcement is made by the Burlington & Missouri railroad com- pany that from date freight will be re- ceived at Omaha for Chicago, direct by way of Plattsmouth. This move on the part of the Burlington road is significant a8 indicating trouble in the Towa pooi. It was hardly to be ex- peoted that the Barlington company, with a through line from Omaha to the lakes, would long remain content with an arrangement which gave & large portion of the profits to the Union Pacific bridge monopoly on each carload of freight transported over the lines. This action, wo be- lieve, will force a disruption of the pool, or else compel the building of another bridge over the river at this point, The Union Pacific has for a long time been anxious to throw all the traflic possible into the hands of the Wabash, and has used every in- ducement in the way of cut rates to incline shippers to this end. Now that the Burlington road is independent of the Union Pacific, the Rock Island, Northwestern, and St. Paul compa- nies are likely to see the advantages of securing a connection with our city by means of an independent bridge. It is a well known fact that this sub- ject has been discussed for some months past, and that steps have been taken to ascertain the costs and the most advantageous location for such a structure, veloped so largely within the past five yoars, and the receipss and shipments from the city have increased so great- ly that a new bridge has become al- most & necessity from a commercial point of view. The Union Pacific bridge is over crowded with business, and at times is entirely inadequate to .deal with the trafic. As a result the transfer is crowded with undelivered freight, and our merchants are corre- spondingly incouvenienced. There is no doubt that another railroad bridge across the Missouri at this point must be built within the next five years, and it isa question whether the ac- tion of the Burlington roads will not hasten a day which will be hailed with pleasure by all of our citizens. INDEPENDENT movements in th south are springing up as thickly as leaves in the spring. The back-bone of Bourbon rule 18 seriously strained and a few more straws will break it as effectually in Georgiaas it has been broken in Virginia under Mahone. Following Mr. Felton's example, General L. J. Gartrell, formerly an active and influential democrat of Georgia, announces his intention to run as an independent candidate for governor next {ull on a platform of a “‘free education of all children, oppo- sition to railroad and other monopo- lies, opposition to the present system of leasing the state convicts, a recog nition of the unity of our common federal government, and equality of all men betore the law-" The Vicks- burg Herald is calling for immigration into Mississippi, and urging as induce- ments 500,000 acres of fine plantation land, ‘‘perfect freedom in all matters, political, social and religious,” and oconstantly growing educational ad- vantages. These are signs of the times which foreshadow the future ma- terial advancement of the south. Prosperity and personal and political bined they can exert a moral, as well as & numerical influence, which sense- less jealousy will weaken and dis- sipate, —— Ir is stated that when President Arthur decided to nominate Mr. Conkling he wrote to him at the Fifth Avenue hotel where he supposed he was, and informed him of his inten- tion. Mr, Conkling had gone to Utica in the mean time to visit his family and was consequently there when the nomination was made, Not hearing from Mr. Conkling the presi- dent decided that the nomination would be agreeable and made it. This statement, if correot, explains why the nomination was made, but fails to show why Mr. Conkling did not refuse the proffer as soon as he became aware that his name was being used without his sanction. m— Tux real ostate craze is liable to give Omaha a backset. Thousands of people who came here years ago to invest and settle down turned their backs on Omaha because they were dazed by extravagant real estate prices. Other thousands are liable to stay away because reckless real estate speculators are putting property out of the reach of men of moderate means, — Tue latest conundrum put in circu- lation by sensational reporters of the press is does Brigham Young still live! We presume he does, and we should not be surprised to hear that he was seen hobnobbing with Pio Nono, Louis Napoleon, Wilkes, Booth and other persons of note whose survival has from time to time been a matter of speculation, — Uxper ,the new apportionment Kausas will haye seven congressmen, The Kansas City Journal mentions tweuty names of emiLont Kansans who are prominent candidates for the seven seats, with the back counties yot to hear from. The crop of con- gressional candidates iu this state is security go hand in hand. It is the growing recognition of this fact which is causing sucha stampede from the Boarbon ranks in Dixie. Tue chief element in the pro: of every state or nation in the econo- my of transportation of persons and propertdy. t is the most marked fact in the difference between civilization and barbarism. —[ Horatio Seymour. Every dollar saved in the transpor- tation of goods is a dollar in the pocket of the producer. And every dollar charged by the monopolies above a rate which affords them a fair return for oost and risk of service is a theft from the public pocket. St—— OmanA’s mud is even more famous than her rapid growth as the metropo- Jis of the Missouri. The Chicago Horald says: ‘‘There is one other city in the world where mud is a reg- nant feature, According to the At- lanta Constitution, ‘‘thg cars get stuck” in the streets of that city, ‘‘and off the street car lines a horse can scarcely pull an empty dray.” Misery loves company, and Chicago is glad in her abject muddiness to hear of some- thing more recent in the mud line than the Omaha of 1865, whose con- dition was described in the quatrain: “‘Has't ever been in Omaha, ‘Where rolls the dark Missouri down— Where six strong horses scarce can draw An empty wagon through the town?” — Tax sale of 55,000 acres of 'auds in Northern Kansas clongiog Central branch of the Union Pacific railroad company has been re- ferred toin our dispatohes. This im- mense tract has been held for years by the land department of the Central Branch uusubjoected to state taxation and reaping all the benefits and pro- tection of a government supported by the contributions of citizens who didn't happen to belong to a railroad company. By its transfer to a resi- dent of New Jersey it will now be forced to bear its share of the taxes aud Kansas will be correspondingly fully as promising. benefitted thereby. Omaha’s trade has de-|P" ‘Y | Already organized, the w the SURVEYING FRAUDS; Senator Van Wyck on the Trail of a Loud Beast. A Few Facts and Figures on the turject. Congressional Record, Feb, 25, The senate proceeded to consider the following resolution, submitted by Mr. Van Wyck on the 26th of Jan- mw: hereas, The records in the gen- eral land office show great abuse and frauds in the surveys allowed by de posits under sections 2401, 2402 and 2403 of the revised statutes; Re- solved, That the secretary of the in terior be directed thrcugh the com. missioner of the general land office to instruct the surveyor general to ap- prove no more applications for sur- veys under the deposit system, and that all proceedings be suspen ed un- der applications already approved un- til further action by congress, so that contracts unlawfully procured may not be recognized as valid. Resolved ‘that the committee on public lands make investigation as to the nature | & and extent of such alleged abuses and frauds; what redress may bé had for any loss sustained by the government and what legislation is necessary to prevent a recurrence in the future. Mr. Van Wyck—Mr. President, by the courtesy of the senator from Towa, and with the permission of the senate, 1 proj to submit a few remarks relative to the resolution which I pro- sed in this body a few weeks since 1n regard to improprieties, abuses and frauds in the surveys of the public lands, The act of 1871 allowing settlers on the public domain to have the town- ships surveyed in which they lived so that their boundaries could be defi- nitely fixed, by depositing with a United States depositary the estimated cost of such survey, usually $600 for a township, receiving therefor certifi- cates of deposit which could be used to pay for land pre-empted in the township so surveyed, was intendedas a beneficent measure, but grew into great abuse and greater frauds when, in 1879, the law was amended so that such certificates could be assigned by | *8°: endorsement and used in payment for #he pre-emption and homestead of any government lands, Before 1879 the enwrpnuin%rmdeu were restricted by the clause ;making certificates good only in the township lnrveged, 80 they contrived a scheme to widen the field of operations Un- der the guise of regard for the settlers they appeared in congress and im- posed upon its credulity, and by the miracle which generally secures the e of any measures under which is concealed plunder, the bill was scarcely challenged. One feature in the record of its passage from the present stand point appears signifi- oant. The original bill 801 was introduced in the senate March 25, 1578; reported from committee on public lands April 24: passed May 1; sent to the house and referred to committee on the pub- lio lands May 1. The committee re- ported the bill May 11, amended by striking out all after the enacting clause and inserting the timber-cul- ture bill, believing that would be more for the benefit of settlers. Thus amended it passed the house the same day. A proper inquiry then and now —why was not the bill as amended returned to the senate for its action? The defeat made the schemers more shrewd, and waiting until the next, which was the third and last, session of that congress and near its close, not until the 27th of February, as the session closed on the 4th of March, they reappeared in the house and the IpBlEBl‘ announced that senate bill 801 had be:n lost, and an order was entered that a copy should be re- quested - from the senate. So nfuch ongrossed with other matters was every member that no one of the pub- lic land committee corrected the speaker with the information that, ough effectually buried by the house, the bill certainly was not lost. A copy of the senate bill was obtained and on February 27 promptly passed. lotters at once extended their plan of operations with dummies, straw men and collu- sim with some of the surveyors- general, These surveys are confined to lands ‘““not 1aineral or reserved,” intending to benefit settlers, and would be most used in agricultural states and terri- tories, fore this amendment the deposits were small, especially in agri- cultural states. With money at command these ar- dent friends of the settlers increased the deposits, particularly where ac- commodating surveyors-general were found, and the records show soms, like Barkis ‘“‘were willing.” The sold the certificates at 90 and 95, fhad the surveying contracts made to them- selves or in their interest, got the work done for 40 or 50 per cent. of contract price. Adding 10 per cent. discount on certificates, the profit is B0 per cent., while the [ou to the gov- ernment is nearly the wkole amount, for many of the surveys are of no value where the lands are inacceesible and worthless, and sometimes no sur- V..%l in fact are made. 'hese deposits, in previous years of small amount, swelled during the last year to about two million doilars, and every day increasing. Is every de- partment of this government honey- eombed with kindred corruption? The vostoffice was raided, and one equally outrageous ap) in the land depart- ment, Like the postoffice, the land department produced this monstrosity of villiany under a remarkably pure adwinistration, If more time had been spent in detecting thefts and robbers and less in decimal fractions, the differential calculus, and the or- bits of the heavenly bodies, the treas- ury would not have suffered so much detriment. These frauds in the interior depart- ment are particularly painful, for at that time it was enjoying the distine- tion of possessing all there was ms- thetic in the paradise of civil service. There the lily and sunflower of American politics were scattering their brightest hues and most fragrant perfumes, y and monthly re- ports were regularly made, the annual oxpenditure of a few thousands was swelling into millions, still the esthetio chief and his pinks of civil service re- form must not be disturbed 1n their & 'l UMAHA DALY BkE: WEDNESDAY MARCH 8 iov2 consideration of abstractions and theoriee, The present commissioner, Judge McFarland, having some knowledge of the value of money and the enor- mity of erime, soon after his intro- duction into office began to have glimpses of the ‘‘ways thatare dark,” and September 5, 1881, issued to the surveyors general a circular warning them of the great frands being per- potrated, and directing the manner of detecting, so as to “‘annul fraudulent contracts.” The commissioner in his repurt says: Tt is believed the practical results of said act of March 3, 1879, have been to cause the survey of vast areas of land of no present and perhaps of no prospective value, and the sur- render of valuable lands in payment for such surveys. The records also conclusively show where the surveyors general must have been criminally negligent or ignorant, or in collusion with this band of plunderers. They had opera- ted with much success in states and territories where townships of good land could be surveyed, but the great object was to survey worthless lands, and then have the opportunity to use the certiffcate where the lands are vod. There would be ne profit to survey largely in New Mexico, Colorado, Ne- vada, and Wyoming, unless the cir- tificates could be used in other states and territories. Notwithstanding the circular of Commissioner McFarland, many of the surveyors general have centinued making contracts. Colo- rado has added $180,000 since the close of the fiscal year, making for the state about $600,000 for eighteen months, To show how recklessly these frauds are perpetrated, the same men appear as contractors in Arizona, California, Nebraska and Nevada. A California chief reaches from the Mis- souri to the Pacific. Late in the year they invaded Nebraska from the west, well knowins ita settlers did not in- voke their presence to obtain addi- tional facilities for surveying, and also knowing that secrecy was important to prevent suspicions. The statute allows deposits in any United States depository. There is one in Omaha, but better to conceal their operations they send 500 miles east and make all the deposits at Chi- ; then the contracts are made to this wandering band who are so zeal- ous to protect the interests of the set- tlers on the public domain, The sur- veyor general of Colorado realized shat some explapation was necessary for the absorption of half a million. He says: ‘“This increase is due main- ly to the extensions of the different lines of railway into regions heretofore almost inaccessible by pack-trains, rendering every acre of arable land valuable.” If all the surveys were actually made for which he approved contracts, it is also true that the pro- visions and equipments for surveying parties were transported by pack- traius over the townships to be sur- veyed. The following table of figures taken from the reports of the several surveyors-general will illustrate and sustain these charges: SPECIAL DEPOSITS FOR SURVEYS. 1E £ g i 881 ‘08 oun ff eoulgy 1881, 240, 443, 8, 23,5 187! State or Territory. *Individual, 1By Central Pacific, |Surveyor general in his report, June 30, 1881, says sa%,mo has been paid, leaving an unexpired bal g gg.é g." 4 g3 a g 83588382 g ASAA @ |orgie elol REFARRY ENa ce of $181, 188! 1880. 1,000 000 119,000 000 000 000 000 000 g commuted homesteads: Cash sales of public lands under pre-emption laws an ;|22888888 Bleg T rraes | @ Egsagyf CRA I 5 E h. 2 While the gene; lp;;rol-)rinnonl for surveys of late have been too small, yet congress did not intend nor will it sanction the delegation of its power to an irresponsible syndicate for the expenditure of millions, which is the practical result. The present system is sadly defi- cient—the appointment of a surveyor eneral without any regard to his Euuwledgo of the rudiments of the position, with no idea of the moda or correctness of survery Often the appropriations i ¢ faimed vut to depu- ties who are not surveyors, to a few favorites, who expect to retain one- half the appropriations as profits, making the whole system a sort of po- litical hospital, without any regard to efficient and economical expenditure, One object of the resolution was to effect a remodeling of the entire plan; also to have annulled contracts that might be illegal, not of course to im ir those made in good faith. Be- ioving these subjects may be more easily reached and no injustice done any one, I move that the resolution be referred to the committee on pub- lic lands, with power to make full in- vestigation, Mr. Teller.—The coz:plaint made by the honorable senator from Ne- braska, so far asit alludes to Colorado, is not well taken, No complaint can be made in regard to that state, al- though a very large amount of the country has been surveyed. The ap- ropriations have been so utterly be- E)w what they ought to have been for the purpose of nurvoyin%. that state having an area of 105,600 square miles, that the settlers and parties i~- terested in having the public lands surveyed have taken advantage of the statute referred to. To show that in Colorado there has been an abuse of the statute, the hon- orable senator calls attention to the Jimited number of acres of land that have been entered and paid for, If he had been as famitiar with the wants of the people of that state as the senators from that state are, he would not have cited that as an illustration. I'wo-thirds of the state of Colorado, at Jeast, is & mineral region. Very lit- tle of that can be entered either as homesteads or under the pre-emption act. In every section of 1t, pretty much, parties are making applications under the mineral law for the entry of mineral claims, both of gold and silver. It is as essential to the com- plete deseription of these claims that the country should be surveyed as it is that it should be surveyed where they enter agricnltural land, and therefore there has been a necessity for the survey of all that region of the state in which this money has been expended. hile townships and counties may be surveyed as the wants of the peo- ple require a survey, yet there is very probabfy not a quarter section of] the whole country which will ever be taken under the pre-emption act ;but hundreds of miners are there locatin their lands, locating their claims; an when they make their application for a patent, of which the gentleman has taken no consideration whatever, or when they make their location with- out reference to the patent, it is a necessity that they should have a township line, a section corner, and all other data of that character. In Colorado there is no complaint by the people. The people have not been wronged, neitner hasjthe general government been wronged. If there has been frauds and swindles in Ne- braska, the honorable senator may speak for Nebraska, He has uo right to speak for Colorado. The motion was agreed to. PERSONAL. J. W. Balchleft for Cheyenne yesterday. W. B. Loring went west vesterday to Sidney. H. D. Estabrook has gone to Chicago on business, Rev. Father English went out to (Fre- mont yesterday. Dave Reynolds, the cattle man, went west yesterday. Hon. J. T, Clarkson, of Schuyler was in the city yesterday. Hon, Geo, W. E. Dorsey, of Fremont, was in town yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Anderson, of Wa- hoo, are in the city. ‘Wm, T. Mason, of Leadville, is in the city, a guest at the Withnell, Mr. C. A, Ringer went east yesterday to select his spring stock. 0. J. Taylor and W. H, Livingston, of Sioux City, are registered at the Withnell, James Coughton, a prominent San Francisco merchant, was a west bound passenger yesterday. O. North arrived in the city Monday from Evanston, Wyoming, and is stopping at the Withnell house. Mr. Sam Smith and wife came in from Cheyenne Monday, Mr. Smith is a well known U, P. conductor, Capt. Sam, B, Jones, assistant general passenger agent of the U, P, left for Colo- rado yesterday, on a two weeks absence. || Rev. W. A, Lipe, formerly of this city, went east yesterduy to Steriing, Ill., to attend the golden wedding of his parents, Isaac Uoe, of the firm of Coe & Carter, crttle dealers, arrived in the city last even- ing and put up with mine host Kitchen, W. D. White, of Tekamah, superin- tendent of police at the coming state fair, is in the city. Mr. Whte is heavily inter- ested with Hon, Chris, Hartman in the business in Burt county, Mrs, M. E. Gillette, of Burlington; Mra, Geo. W. Colburn, of Pacfic Junction, and Miss Cora ¥. Knight, ot Holyoke, Mass,, were in the city yesterdsy, the guests of Mr, Louis Littlefield. Mr. and Mrs, George Canfield, of the Canfield house, left on Sunday night for Denver, from which point they will make a trip inbo Southern Colorado, They were acoounpanied as far sy Deaver by Major D, H. Wheeler, of Plattsmouth, Ind Eonduotor Geo, Duncan, of the Union Pacific. ad Prlnce' l;ollonsdj Some wretch poisoned old Prince, the depot dog, yesterday. Old Prince was a fine blooded pointer, and the property of Councilman MoGavock. For years he las been in the habit of watching the trains and being on the depot platform, when they came in, as regular as he were an employe of the road, Everybody knew him and his fis} good natured appearance was alway, the signal for fun among the boys, Prince never did a mean thing in his life,and his honest eyes would luok in the faces of those whom he knew with all the intelligence of & human. His owner and George Hall are both in- consolable. I DYING BY INCHES A} ften wo see aporson sutfy from seae furm of Kidvey comp'aiat, and is gradually dying “y inches This no longer need be so, for Electric Bitters will positively cure Bright's disease, or any diseases of the kidneys or urinary organs. They are especially adapted to this class of diseases, acting directly on the stomach and liver at the same time, and will speedily cure where every other remedy has failed. Sold at fifty cents & bottle by Ish & McMahon, (6) — Aged Gratitude. Frinr, Mich., June 22, 1881, H. W. Wanxer & Co,: Sirs—I am 72 {e&n old, and have not been so well in 26 years as I am to-day, thanks to your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, the best remedy in the world meh7-dlw I ) THE GRAND JURY. It Concludes Its Labors by Indictng Biert, Kane and Chief Galligan. The grand jury reported yesterday afternoon, after nearly a week's ses- sion, and handed in the names of three parties against whom indict- ments had been found. These are: Henry Siert, charged with selling liquor without license. Patrick Kane, charged with selling liquor without license. John J. Galligan, charged with ob- taining money under false pretenses. The public are well acquainted with the first two cases, as both have been up before and come under the action of the Slocumb law. Four counts are found against Siert and two against Kane. The indictment of Galligan, chief of the fire department, includes three counts, or, more properly, three in- diotments. One charges that on July 23d, 1881, Galligan sold his salary as chief engineer of the fire de- partment for August and Sep- tember, amounting to $260, to Julius Treitscke; and that he had previously sold the same salary to Felix J. Me- Shane. The second charges that on November 28, 1881, he sold his salary for January, 1882, 5125, to Treitscke, and that he had previously sold the same to William lglgedun. The third chatges that on July 10, 1882, hesold his salary for February to Dennis Ounningham; and that he had pre- vious sold the same claim to Treitacke It is understood that since conduct- ing these rather perilous business operations Galligan has paid in great part the indebtedness that he thereby incurred. However this may be, the indictments were found, and it is probable that Galligan will be tried this term of court, It was generally understood last evening that Koster's case will be commenced to-day. N Mexican News National Aseociated Press, Ciry or Mexico, March 7.—A branch of the French-Mexican Na- tional bank have been established at Vera Cruz with a capital ot $200,000 and the privilege of increasing the capital to any amount the directors may think proper. A diligence, with a full complement of inside and outside passengers, while on its way to Guadalajara and when within a mile of that city, was attacked by a band of robbers. Most of the passengers being armed they resisted the attack, and in the fight that ensued eleven of the robbers were killed, while the remainder were put to flight Strange as it may seem not one of the passengers were in- jured. B e ‘Wife Murder National Associated Press. LaANcAsTER, Pa., March 7,—James Shaw, aged 55 years, shot and killed his wife this morning in Coloraine township, Lancaster county. They had not lived together for some time past, and have had more or less do- meatic difficulties. The murderer es- caped and up _to this evening had not been captured. Explosion of a Powder Mill. National Associated Pross. BosToN, March 7.—The Acton pow- der works blew up this morning. AcroN, Mass., March 7.—Four hun- dred pounds of powder caught fire by some unknown means and blew the factory to atoms. The nowe of the explosion was heard twenty miles. No one was killed, but Frank Wilson, an employe, was thrown 10O feet, alighting uninjured in the canal. This is the fourteenth explesion in the same mill and the only one in which lives were not lost. United States Depository: EATRES T NationalBank: —— F OMAHA,o— Oor. 13th and Farnam Sts, OLDEST BANKING ESTABLISHMENT (N OMAHA BUDCEBSORS TO KOUNTZE BROTHERS.) STABLIURD 1856, Organized a¢ » Notional Bank August £, 1568 CAPITAL AND PROFITS OVER - %8Q0.000 OFFIONRS AND DIRMOYORS | Hyrxas KounTzr, President. Avevstus Kouxrzr, Vice Prosidens, H. W. Yarrs, Cashier, A. J. PorritoN, Attorney Jonn A, Cameuren. F. H. Davis, Asct, Oashlesr. Thi bank receives deposite withon rogard ac + smounte, intercst, Issues time dortificatos Draws drafts oo San F: and principal ¢ cltios of the United States, also London, Dubl Edinburgh an1 the principal cities of the contl ¢ nent of Europe. Bells pacsenger tekets for emigrante by the Lo man lioe mayidet THEO L TEfTELTAFLIISERD BANKING HOUSE IN NEBRASKA. CALDWELL,HAMILTON&CO BA N sCERCS, Business srausacted same as that of an incorporated bank. 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