Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 28, 1882, Page 4

4 P e e e e e e e e e, The Omaha Bee Published every morning, ex Sunday, TERMS BY MAIL — Toar.....810.00 | Three Montha.$3,00 Months, 5.00 | One . 1.00 FHE WEEKLY BEE, publisked ev. ory Wednesday. TERMS POST PAID:— One Year, .i-Wl'l'hmeth-.. 50 Bix Montha 1.00 | One o2 CORRESPUNDENCE—AIl Communi- sations relating to News and Editorial mat- ors should be addressed to the Eprron or Tax B BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Letters and Remittanoes should be ad. dreaded to Trr OMAHA Puptisuine CoM- PANY, OMAHA. Drafts, Checks and Post- office Orders to be made payable to the order of the Comvany, OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs, €\ ROSEWATER, Editor. = — Wirn store and house rents up to the top notch, employers and employ- oes both appear to be ‘‘working for the landlord.” ———— 87. Lours is atill loudly cursing her macadam pavements. The Post-Dis- patch says that the city is nothing but a big overgrown village, which wallows in the mud one half of the year and gasps in dust the other half. AusxANDeR FALCONER, a member of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, has been arrested on the charge of per- sistently annoying the daughter of a resident on Celumbus Heights with Jove letters. This nort of thing seems to run in the Plymouth family. — THE state department is about to discontinue the publication of the consular reports, The problem «f how to furnish employment for our foreign consuls in order to keep them out of mischief again appears in the foreground. . DuRiNo thirteen years the various Pacific railroads cleared net earnings amounting to over one hundred and fifty-seven millions of dollars. This vast sum of money is tho result of systematic extortion and heartless plundering of the producers of the oountry which would put to shame a Turkish tax gatherer. A MOVEMENT is on foot to erect a monument to Alexander Hamilton, &t Wehawken, the spot where he fell in & duel with Aaron Burr. The movement ought to fail. A great deal of sentiment has] been wasted over ‘what was called the untimely death of Hamilton, who died while engaged in a violation of the laws for which he was equally responsible with his chal- lenger. As the truth becomes known there is more and more a dispesition to admit that while Burr was no an- gel, Hamilton was far from being a saint, either fin his private or public life. JOHN DOE AND THE GRAND - JURY. The special grand jury conven ed a the instance of Attorney General Dill- worth to indict parties that were be- lieved to have directly or indirectly taken part in the so-ealled Omaha la- bor riots is still in session. It is a notorious fact well known to this grand jury that Geo. P. Arm- " strong a citizen of Omaha and Doug. 1as ogunty was unlawfully killed by a soldier in this city on the twelfth day of March, Itis not lawful for any soldier of the regular or volunteer army to use deadly weapons where martial law has not been proclaimed, except when the lilling is done to save his own life. The unlawful kill- ng of any citizen by a soldier is mur- der under our laws, just as the un- tawful killing of a soldier by any citi- izen would be murder, It is the man ifest duty of the grand jury now in session to investigate the unlawful killing of Geo. P. Armstrong, and present an indictment against his murderer, The officers ot the militfa and Adjutant General Alexander have sought to shield the murderer of Armstrong by giving out that they did not know and could not dis who did the kiliing. When applica tion was made to them for the nawe of the soldier that killed Armstrong they reported that his names wasJolin Doe. They might as well have suid his name was Richard Roe or Jim Crow. There are those who justify the conduct of these ofticers on the ground that it would have becn unsoldicrly for them to betray a comrade and surrender him to be punished for a crime which they condonyd, Lot these deluded people read the follow- ing extract from the congressional statutes: When any ofticer or soldier is ac- cused of a capital crime or of any of- fense against the person or propert; of any citizen of any of the Unltos States which is punishable by the laws of the land, the commanding offi- cor and the officers of the regiment, ',mg, wm, company, or detach- to wl the person so accused belongs, are required, except in time of war, upon application duly made by or in behalf of the party injured, to use their utmost endeavors to deliver him over to the civil magistrate, and to aid the officers of justsce in appre- h h}? in ul\:;hw b::lli.g '.im to t u| cation any officer uluz:n or vmufip neglects except in time of war, to deliver over such Jnuon to the civil magistrates or o wd the officers of justice in appre- ver hending him, he shall be dismissed from the sorvice, How did our miiltia officers, how did Adjutant-General Alexander amd his commander-in-chief, Governor Nanoe, oarry out the spirit and letter of this law! Did they render any assistanoe to the oivil authorities in the effort to bring the soldier that murdered Armstrong to triall Did they not act as accessories after the fact in shielding the oriminal by professed ignorance of his name ' and whereabouts? Was not their conduct in thus aiding and abetting the escape of a soldier that committed a oapital crime a shameful violation of the laws that govern officers of the regular army in times of peace! Nobody pretends that this city was under martial law when Armstrone was kitled. The courts were open the civil nagistrates were exercising their functions with- out resistance. What possible excuse was there for the criminal colluson between the so-called John Doe and the officers that were in commend of the militia at the B. & M. dump. This is not a matter to be lightly passed over as a mere incident of the so-called Omaha riot. There was no riotous disturbance in Omaha during the time the troops were stationed here, At no time during their stay here were the troops called on to as- sist the policn or sheriff in quell- ing disturbance. It would be a dangerous precedent to allow this unlawful killing of Armstong, to go unpunished, But even if the killing of Armstrong had been justi- fied, under civil or military law the man that did the killing should be brought before some tribunal and ac- quitted. Attorney General Dill- worth may conaider it no part of his duty to ask the court to instruct the grand jury to investigate the unlawful killing of defenseloss citizens by armed soldiers —but we believe it to be the duty of the grand jury to as- cortain the real name of **John Doe" and present an indictment against him—if not against officers that have become abettors ef murder on re- fusing to give John Does real name, —_— MONOPOLY CORRUPTION IN THREE STATES. The corrupting influence of corpo- rate monopolies is one of the greatest 8angers which threatens the vitality of American free institutions. No nation can long preserve its existence when the fountain of justice and the halls of the law-makers are invaded by bribe-givers and occupied by men who will sell their opinions and their votes for money consideration. All history shows that venality and cor- ruption have been the chief cause of the decline of nations and the fall of governments in which popular repre sentation was the basws. Within the past twenty.five years a power greater than the power of the people has been slow but steadily gaining ground in this country. It has drawn its strength from the toil ot ten millions of producers, and fattened on an im- munity from popular, imntemperance, obtained by the use of boundless wealth in the hands of unscrupulous men. Controlling to-day an accumu- lated capital greater than the entire national debt, and manipulating on the stock exchange of the world sums of money greater than Crwsus, it is bidding defiance to our laws, laugh- ing at popular sovereignity, and erecting in the country a monarchy of wealth, in which corruption is the winister of state, and fraud, robbery and venality the cabinet council. Our courts are daily attacked by monopoly influences, our legislatures manipulated by oreatures of the cor- porations, and evem the national con- greas is not free from the taint of sus- picion. No stronger commentary upon the alerming condition of affairs, the powers of the corporations and their reckless defiance ot popular will andfpopular sentiment, is needed than the fact that three state legislatures are to-day publicly charged with being influenced by moncpoly bribes and that they muko \no attempt to justify or deny the charge, In Ohio tLo state capital has been bisieged wll winter by a powerful monopoly lobby intent upon et~ ting possossion of the state canils, T'he objret of {he railroads was first to removo the competition in the carry- ing businoss offured by the canals and second to obtain possession of the canal beds for speculative purposes, Over one hundred thousand dollars was spent for corruption purposes when a bold attempt to bribe a - ber of the senate resulted in the dis- closure of the plot. A committee of investigation is now in session and the state prees is calling upon its members to probe the transaction to the bottow and to make the guilty partios suffer without fear or favor. Ohio is thoroughly aroused over the danger to her artificial waterways which have acted as strong checks to the monopoly plunderers and as regu- lators of tariff charges on the produce of the state, The railroad managers in New York have been equally active, The growth of anti-monopoly sentiment iu the state has been groatly assisted by the work of the Anti-monopoly League, and at the beginning of the present session of the legislature te seemed especially luvnrubloprz-pc:;m passage of greatly needed bills for ' OMAHBA DALLY Bhe: TUESDAY MARCH 28 106 railway regulations, Such menstires were promptly introduced and re- ferred to committees where they have since lain unacted upon. In the meantime Albany is held by a combi- nation railroad lobby, possessed of un- limited means and composed of some of the ablest corporation attorreys in the state. The New York Times openly charges that the active work of the lobby is showing itself exactly as it has done in previour years, and declares that it is an open question whether the great commonwealth of New York can got any thing to which the New York Central road objects. Now Jersey is so completely under the control of the Pennsylvaiia and New Jorsey Central roads that a mem- ber of the legislature last week rose in his seat ana solemnly declared that the best thing the legislature could do was to lease the state to the railroads and make them pay all the taxes and assume all the labilities. All railroads in the state have been de- clared free from local taxation and as the crowning climax of infamy the en- tire water front in New York harbor, including the reparian lands of Ho- boken, Jersey City and Communipaw have been ceded with all the rights and interests of the municipalities and state to the corporations, The bill was rushed through both houses of the legislature in spite of the frantic protests of the taxpayers and whon vetoed by the governor was passed by the senate over his veto, Sixty thou- sand dollars is reported to be the sum required to secure this outrageous piece of legislation from a set of men pledged to support the demands of the people. What the country needs more than anything else is a few first class lynch- ing bees. Justassoon as the influences of the lobbies are more powerful than the wishes of the people we cease to have a representative government in anything more than the mere name. UNDER the law passed by the lust legislature, women will be entitled to vote at the coming city election for members of the board of education Attention is called to the fact by the head centre of woman suffrage that no registration is necessary. Thelaw mak- ers very charitably refused tosubject thefairsex to theimpertinent questions which the registrar is compelled to put to men regarding age, and pre- vious condition. Our law makers knew very well that women eligible to vote would rather forego the bless- ngs and glory of suffrage than make record of their age, and hence they very properly spared their tender feelings on this point. It is to be hoped that the strong-minded will rally the sex in stronger numbers than at the last election. The burning de- sire of women for the ballot didn’t manifest itself last year in Nebraska any more than it has done in several other states where the experiment has been tried, The suffering sisters re- fuse to awaken to a realizing sense of their privileges. In Massachusctts the advocstes of woman suffrage are in despair over the neglect of wcmen to rally at the polls. In YVermont, at the spring election at Burlington last year only six women were at the polls. This year in the same place, school commissioners were chosen *in two wards, and out of sixty-four women entitled to vote only five voted, The spme results are reported from other portions of the state. We shall see next how the women of Omaha ap- preciate the glorious privilege. PERSONALITIES. Anna Dickinson is not one of your con- ventional strong-minded women in the matter of dress, She wears fashionable aud costly clothing, The two eldest ex-Sonators of the Uni- ted States now living are Mr, Yulee, of l‘lprldl‘rnud Mr. Cilley, of New Hamp- shire. The latter, who is ninety-one years old, is lying dangerously ill, More ex-Sena ors of remote service are comtantly appearing in the newspapers, John P.” Ki g{, who is now living near Augusta, Gia,, is said to have begun his duty as Senator earlier than any other man now in existence, His vervice began in 1833, and ended in 183, A Franklin street man awoke on Satur- day nicht to bear some one on his stoop, Hewentout there and caught the in. touder, » siranger, “Who are you?' de- manded the householder, *I cinnot tell n replied the stianger, in a rather thick voio m Vennor.,” 1'ue shock was 50 great that the owner of the prew- #es went over backward, und striking on his head saw stars enough to keep Lis en- tire family in weather for months to come, ~[Danbury News. Gen, W, 8, Rosecrans, who is now the uuh%vct of much talk, was born in Obio in 1819, and graduated at Weat Point in 1842, Imuuflm shortly after assis fessur of engineering there, He is one of the few generals liviog who have resigned (mm the army and atterwards re-intered ut pro- Presid nt Arthur receives wore dainty souyenirs than any unwarried clergyman inthe 1'nd. His blue bed room at the executive mansion shows numberless haudkerchief cases, glove boxes, pin cuhions, weent bag, lotohs | rush holders wall § d the like mostly labeled “Ramembra “Tokens of friendship,” und “Forge or smiler sogge.- uve legends, Justioe Gray, of thesupreme court, was a graduate of Vale at sixteen, and 'Jus. tice Blatchford, was graduated from Colum'ia ~college at seventeen, Judge Blatchford is very wealthy in real estate, His wife was Mirs Appleton, of Boston, adaughter of Eben Appleton. The ju ge is especially strong in admiralty and tent causes, and has given much atten. on to extradition cases also. St. Jerome Barnabas Chaffee says he will conie to Denver as soon as le gots through reviewing the loaves and fishes at Washington, He has o political object in view; be wishes to consult with Figh Commissioner Sisty as to the feasibibility of introducing slligators into the waters of Colorado, Since his removal from New York to Florida bhe bas become dwTIv interested in the alligator and his habits, and he is exceedin, fy apxious to introduce this curiovs reptile into Rocky Mountain society.—[Denver I'ribune,] A FALSE ALARM. The two corporation organs have sounded a false alarm to frighten men of property and business men of Omaha into an alliance with the rail- way managers that will give the monopolies control of the city coun- cil for another year. The appearance of Hascall at the workingmen’s meet- ing is flaunted by Doctor Miller as a red rag in the faces of Omaha's oapitalists and the injudicious talk of the speakers at the late workingmen's meeting about voting for ‘‘yellow dogs and damned rascals rather than supporting monopoly cappera” is made the text by The Republican for a hynsterical appeal to democrats and republicans to drop party and ‘‘jine in” with the U, P, brigade. Now we say to the business men and property owners of Omaha to keep cool and don’t dy off ona tan- gent as some of you did recently when you rushed headlong down to Lincoln to ask for troops to suppress an imag- inary insurrection. The workingmen of Omaha are neither the knaves nor the fools you take them to be, Most of them are taxpayers, and all they have in the world is invested here. They are just as much interested in good gov- ment and law and order as the richest men in town. Last year, when the corporation capperain The Republican were appealing to you to elect Has- call mayor of Omaha, the working- men, believing it to be a dangerous oxpedient, supported James E. Boyd in the interests of good gov- ernment and law and order. They would support Boyd again if he had shown himselt to be a man whose per- formances were as good as his promi- ses. For instance, this law and order mayor pledged his honmor to enforce the Blocumb law, and arrest every violator every day, every week, and every hour. He has had one man arrested twice and there he rested. On the Sunday when Armstrong was murdered the saloons were running in full blast and drunken soldiers and citizens were roaming about the streets imperilling life and inciting riots a good deal more than anything done by th: strikess. The town is full of dis- orderly houses, but the law and order mayor has shut his eyes on those out- laws and we have heard of no efforts to enforce the law on this class of ‘‘yellow dogs and scoundrels.” It is true Hascall was at the work- ingmens meeting and he was allowed to talk as Doctor Miller might have been allowed to talk if he had been there. But the workingmen of Oma- ha have no moro confiidence in Has- call now than they had a year ago. He didn’t show himself while they were overawed by bayonets, and they can’t be bamboozled by his eleventh hour sympathy. The fact is that the interests of the business men are with the working- men and not with the monopolies. Both want honesty and economic gov- ernment. Both are interested in mak ing the corporations and land specula- tors pay their just share of public taxes, Both are interested in pre- venting the formation of a Tweed ring which expects to control public works through a close corporation that is to be in collusion with paving and sewer- age contractors. K Business men of Omaha need not feel alarmed about the “‘yellow dogs and d—n scoundrels,” The only time we have been in danger from ‘‘yellow dogs and d——n scoundrels’” was when they were put up by the corporation managers through bulldozed primaries stuffed ballot boxes and organized gangs of repeaters. ‘Who Lo¢ated Des Moines Oskaloosa Standard. - In the pleasant office of the most perfect livery barn in the state, we sat with some of the old citizens watching with some interest the con- test in the Fourth ward, Oskaloosa, a8 to the straight republican and citi- zens ticket. Among the rest, and the oldest Roman of them all, was Hon. M. T. Williams, who incidental- ly re narked that he chose the epot whereon the Iowa hub and axel rests. In other words, was one of the com- missioners to locate the county seat of Polk connty. Oune, a Mr. Pinneo, was sick and did not go out to look the country over, and tho other, whose name we have lost, also tarried with the suuff, or at home, while Mr. Williams with about a hundred sol- diors rode all over those hills and vales to determine by the topography of that howling wilderness and by compass and chain the very best site for the capital. The captain of the post (Rice, we believe) furniched Wil- linma with a finely caparisoned ‘‘eali- co” horse to ride; and wost patiently did he with his escorc aud surveyor look the country over for some days, At last,” says Williams, ‘‘We found the finest natural si e in the world for a great city, an amphitheater ot hills, gently sloping to a nearly circular valley, where the stgkes were driven and we decided to U A few_people were centered near the forks, or rather the iunction of the 'Coon and Des Moines rivers, then. This was about September, 1846, Yet there were enough to take a western interest in so impertant an event as a county seat location; and that evenin, Mr. Williams met some two-hundre of these near the river by some kind of a shed where a good many barrels were piled, and from one of these he made a speech, giving his reasons for locating the county seat there, and further stated that he not only had chosen the place for their county scat, but “alsothat of the tuture capital of the state,” whereupon they hoisted him higher thau the barrels, and on their shoulders bore him about as the hero of the hour, Time kas fuldlled his prophesy. THE CHARMED CIRCLE. Mutterings From Depthsof Po- litical Life at the State Oapital. The ¥ xtraSession and the State House Ticket-.-Dawes 8miling Blandly. Trimmers at Sea as to the Coming » Issue. 8pecial Correspondence'of Trn Ban, Lixcoun, March 27, 1882.—April 18th is the date now semi-officially announced for the meeting of the legislature, although the eall will not be issued for some days yet. It is stated that the chief reason for the delay in calling the extra session has been that the Douglas county dele- gates might agree upon the desired amendments to their city charter be. fore coming down. This, perhaps, is a wise precaution, as there would be little probability of their ever reach- ing an amicable conclusion after get ting here. It is generally understood here that the gathering together of the legislature will be the signal for the commencement of the political machinations. Candidates keep com- ing in here with suspicious frequency. The “‘state house ticket” will put in some effective work during the extra session, The probable style of this ticket is as followa: Alexander, for governor; Dinsmore, of Sutton, for treasurer; Roggen, for secietary of state; Kendall, for land commissioner; ‘Waliechs, for auditur, and Jones tor superintendent of public instruction, Dawes, who intends to dispute Alex- ander’s claim to the governorship, has been here several times lately, mend- ing his fences. He wears a placid smile when interrogated about his chances, but very properly refuses to tell upon what foundation he rests his hopes for altimate success. G. W. E. Dorsey. of Fremont, has one enthusiastic advocate in the per- son of G. W. E. himself ; but beyund that his name is not menvioned, unless with asuggestive wink. Brad. Slaugh- ter is a candidate for secretary of state, as he has been fre- quently before. There is a very un- easy feeling in political circles here regarding the part the Alliance is to take in the contest. Some of the shorter sighted ones affect an air of incredulity when told that their calcu- lations are liable to be upset by the influence of this new party, but the shrewder members of the ‘‘ring” do not attempt to conceal their claim. “‘Thereis just one thing for the repub- lican partyjto do,” said a prominent candidate for a state office yesterday. “‘It has got to espouse either the wo- man suffrage or the temperance cause, make that the dominant issue and srowd the snti-monopoly movement to the wall. Otherwise we are gone.” The reply of the Missouri Pacific managers to the Lincoln board of trade committee was to the effect that if the city should make a suitable proposition it would be favorably re- ceived by the road. By a ‘‘proposi- tion” is meant, of course, a liberal so0p in the way of bonds or their equiv- alent, This unfortunate city and county being already bonded almost beyond redemption, it is to be hoped thav no such “*proposition” will be made. Whenever the Missouri Pa- cific people are conviuced that Lincoln i8 a desirable point to tap, they will come here regardless of any such in- ducements. A party will be given here to-night by the Pleasant Hours club to its president, Mr. Fink, who leaves for Atchison to-morrow. The injunction against the issuance of water bonds by the city has been modified by Judge Pound so that $7,000 worth of bonds may be issued, instead of $10,000, as was proposed at first. Lincoln has about twenty-five firms engaged in the real estate business, all confidently expecting a mammoth “boom’ in that line when warm weather fairly sets in, It is needless to add that the indications are against the fulfillment of their expectations. The business is hopelessly overdone, Araus — Fort Niobrara Set..lement. OmanA, March 25. Editor of Tia BEk: In December, 1879, the vicinity of Fort Niobrara was a fine country for settlement and a military post was then, at that point, established to pro- tect settlement there. The commander then prepared an order to have twelve sections of land declared to be a military reservation in every way at that time suitable and sufficient to supply wood and timber and for all other pusposes, In June, 1881, the commander of that post discovered that a large cattle ranch was a good thing to have, and he prepsied avother order declaring an enlargement of that reservation to include sixty sections of land, but with a careful exception of a part of section 27, township, range 27 west, on which the military post is located. And it was immediately discovered by the commander of the post that this excepted part of scetion 27 was a first rate place for a ranch and ho- tel, in which some money could be made out of the transient persons haying business thereabouts, and the commander now owns a hotel here. ®iThe [sutlers’ § company, J. M. Thatcher, J. Moore, A. E, Thatcher and Mr, Cornell, put their heads to- gether, and by careful consideration concluded that about pay day a whisky and gambling saloon near the post, on the excepted part of that section would be a paying institu- tion, and they furnished the where- with from their] sutlers to one John Dion. And such a saloon ever since t sutler and wood contractor appointed : gate and explain? tion. And in November, 1881, a Iarge sottlement wa® commenced by parties who did not ki'ow that an ex- ecutiye order, declaring sn enlarge- ment of that reservation, endorsed as a proclamation, and filed in a pigeon hole at the war department, was a no- tice to the public uf such reservation, especially when the commander of the post had received a copy, for publica- tion, and had never published it in any newspaper of general cireulation. These settlers, by mistake, happen- od to ?et on some prairie land on the west line of that enlargement, ana proposed not only to settle as farmers, but actually contracted to build a town there. The commander of the post imme- diately discovered that a town so near might lessen the profits of his hotel business. Then again he discovered that he in order to get into this ‘‘town specu- lation,” as he calls it, would have to sign, as all others had, an agreement % invest some money in building on the town site. Then again he proposed to go in with the railroad company and not the settlers on the town question, and drive out these settlers. And the commander at once concluded that Ft. Niobrara was established to ob- struct—and not to proteot — such set- tlement, and he has ever since pro- oceded to obstruct them. The sut: lers also discovered that a town so near might cut off some of their trade and profits. And they became per- HOUSES LOTS! For Sale By BEMIS, FIFTEENTH AND DOUGLAS 878., 178, House 8 rooma, full ‘lot on Pi uear W:h n;;et. ug,uno, full ¥ e , House 2 rooms, lot on Douglas near ey Dol roaldoncs, ful ot , Beautitul residence, on Cass 10th street, $12,000, ool 174, Two houses and § lot on Dodee near Oth street, 81 600, 176, House three rooms, two closets, ote., halt lot on 21st 1 ear Grace stroet, $300. fectly horrified at the visions of sa. loons two miles from the post, and their effect in destroying the discip- line of the soldiery. And so two Thatchers, ene Moore, and one Cornell all unite their ener- ies to obstruct such settlement, and eclare it very dangerous to military discipline. Then they had the wood contract for 1,000 cords of wood last year, ut $4.85 per cord, to be stolen off the public land, and not to be taken off the wood and timber reservation. And should the wood and timber en- largement be opened, or any part f it, to settlement they might have some competition in future bid- dings for wood, and they might not be able to make fother persons. steal and scll wood to them at 8 per cord, for which they received $4.85, and that would be tinancially wrong. And since they have, with Commnus- er Capt.jMontgomery, been more or less mixed up in this wood stealing business, it was important now that some honest people desired to settle in that vicinity that something be done to prevent exposure. So the commander by no fair representations or by missrepresentation, induced Judge Dundy to have Cornell, the a commissioner of the United States circuit court, at Fort Niobrara, ™t they could thereby protect tuuiu- selves and intimidate others b3 ‘ns being the only officer withiu mile with power to arrest. Lov 172, One and ono-half story brick house an two 10ts on Douglas near 25th street, §1,700. 171, House two rooms, well,cistern, stablo, etc full 10t near Pierce and 18th stre: §, $960. 179, One and one-half stery house six roome and well, half lot on Convent street near St Mary's avenue, $1,860. No. 170, House three rooms on Clinton street near shot tower, 8825, No. 169, House and 83x120 fot lot on street near Webst: r stroet, $8,600. No. 168, House of 11 roon s, lot 88x12 feet on 19th n_ar Burt street, $6,000. ‘0 167, Two atory house, § rooms ¢ elosets, ood cilar, on 1Eh " street near Poppleton's |0, No . 165, New h Izard near 10th i No. 164, One ne half story house 8 rooma on 18th sircet ea; Leaver worth, $8,600. N.161, One ard onc-half story houwe of 5 rooms near Hanscom Park, $1,600. No. 168 Two honses b ¢ on Burt irect ncar 26¢h, No. 167, house 6 ror 1 near Leavenworth, $2,400. No. 166, House 4 Jar half acre on Burt stree No. 165, Two housce, o rooms, on 17th street near Mar No. 164, Three houses, one of rooms each, and corner 1ot on Cae: near 14th strect, 85,000, Ne. 168, small house and full lot on Pacific near 1%th stroet, $2,500. No. 151, One storv honae 6 roows, on Leaven worth ne.r 16th, $3,000. No. 160, Ho e thie. rooms and lot 92x11 near 86th and Farnham, 2,600, No.*148, New house ight rooms, on 15th strect n.ar Leavenworth . No. 147, House of 13 rooms on 18th street a0 of 6 rooms, half lot on 1, 81,850, near Marcy, 8 No. 146, Hotse of 10 reuins and 1} lots on 18th stroct near Marcy, 86,600 No. 145, Hfl\lle’(wa largu rooms, lot 67x210 tee onSheru an avenue (16%h street) near Nicholas, &.500. No_143, House 7 rooms, harn, on 20th street 82,600 near Leavenwort Ne. 142, Hou ¢ & stroct near N cholas, #1,57+ No. 141, House 8 roows v. Douglas mear 26th street, $950. No.'140, Large houto and two lots, on 248 . bitchen, etc., on 10th Now Captain Montgomery has sig- nified his willingness that congress should give the railroad company the right to buy a half section of land within the reservation to build a town on, but no settler must be allowed to have anything to do with such a town 80 near the post. Little by little this matter is get- |% ting before congress, and what the re- sult will be no one can now foresee. But if there is any use for the milia- ry post at Fort Niobrara, it is to pro- test and not to obstruct settlements in that vicinity. The commander of said post has been building laundresses’ houses, and using a dozen government transporta- tion teams and about twenty men, at government expense, to cut off and destroy the timber of the reservation, ever since November 15, 1881, and apparently without the authority of Sam, or order. Will the commander of the Division of the Platte investi- If there isa necessity for a depot within the reservation, then it will be necessary that such depot and sur- roundings be placed outside of mili- tary jurisdiction for public use. PorkiN, Waart to do with Secretary Kirk- wood_is now the question under dis- cussion in Washington, It has been definitely decided that the Secretary of the Interior must give way to Mr. Teller, of Colorado. It is understood that the head of a commission to re- organize the territorial government of Utah has been offered him, with the alternative of a foreign mission. With Mr. Kirkwood’s departure, only Hunt and Lincoln will remsin o Garfield’s old cabinet. Blaine has gone; Windom has gone; James has gone; MacVeagh has gone; Kirkwood is going. Chandler.is after Secretary Hunt's shoes, and Hunt is likely to go. Politics is a most ‘“ousartin thing"” from whichever side we view it. The Lick Observatory The great telescope for the Lick Observatory will, it is expected, be ready before the stipulated time. The contract calls for the glass to be fin- ished and delivered by November 1, 1883, and it is thought that the lens will be constructed within that time, The price, as agreed upon, is § $12,000 of which was paid in advance | on signing the contract. Two of the buildings at the summit of Mouat Hawilton, the site of the Lick Ob- servatory, have been completed - the fiest dome and the transit house, Within the first or small dome stauds the twelve-iteh teluscups of Clark’s aud a four-iuch comet-seeker, while the transit house, which stands a few feet east of the swall dume, is iur- nished with time instrumeuts, all in complete working order. The six-inch weridiar circle 18 to stand a short tistance east of the transit house. dhe purity of the air on Mount Ham- Tton will, it is believed, enable the tew observatory to surpass in results he work expected from the observa- near Farnham strect, 8,000, No. 139, House 3 lot 60x166} foet, Douglas noar 27th street, $1,500. No. 137, House 6 rooma avd half lot on Capito avenue near 23d acroot, $2,300. No. 186, House and half acre lot on Cuming street near 24th §350. No. 181, House 2 rocms, full lot,on Lzard noan 21ut sireet, $800. No. 120, Two one of 6 and one of 4 rooms, on leased lot on Webster near 0th stroct, , 600, 'No. 127 Two story Fouse 8 rooms, halt lot on Weobster near 19th $3,600. Np. 126, House 8 rooms, lot 20x120 feet on 26th street near Douglas, $675. No, 126, Two story house on 12th near Dodge strcet lot 28x60 feet 81,200, No. 124, Large house and full block near Faroham and Cen ral street, $8,000 No. 123, House 6 rooms and large lot on Saun- ders &/ reet near Barracks, 82 100. No, 122, House 6 rooms and half lot on Web- stor near 15th stroet, 81,600, No. 118, House 10 rooms, lot 30x90 fect on Capitor avenue near 22d tucet, 82,050, No. 117, House 8 rooms, lot BUx12 feet, on Capitol avenue near 22d 81,500, No. 114, House § rooms on Douglas near 26th 5). 113, House 2 rooms, lot 66x99 fect on umicg streot, 8750, 112, Brick house 11 rooms and half lot on €8s near 13th street, $2,500. No. 111, House 12 ' rooms{on [Davenport nes 02th strect, §7,0 0. No. 110, Brick house and lot 22x152 fee (Cass street near 16th, 33,000, No. 108, largo house on Harney near 16th aro2t, 86,600, No 109, Two houses and 86x1 84 near 14th street, §3,600. No. 107, House 5 rooms and half lot on Izar near 17th street, $1,200. ~0. 106. House and lot 51x196 feet, lot on 14th near Pierce street, 8600, No. 15, Two story house & rooms with 1 lot on Seward near Saunders street, §2, No. 103, One and one haif story house 10 roome Webster near 16th streot, 52,600, @No. 102, Two houses 7 rooms each and § lot on 13th near Chicago, ,0.0, 'No. 101, Honse § rooms, cellar, etc., 1 lots on South avenue near Pacific streo , §1,660. No. 100, House 4 rooms, cellar, etc., half lot on Izard street near 161, §2,000, No. 99, Very large house and full lot on Har ney near 14th street, §0 000, No. 97, Large house of 11 rooms on Sherman avenue near Clark stroet, make an offor, No. 96, One and one half story house 7 rooms lot 240x401 feet, stable, etc., on Sherman ave- nue near Grace, 87 000 No. 92, Large brick house two lots on Daven port street near 19th §15,000. No. 90, Large house and tull lot on Dode near 18(h etre T, §7,00), No. 89, Large hause 10 rooms half lot on 20rh ear Oalifornia street, 87,600 No. 88, Large house 10'6r 12 rooms, beautiful corner loton Cass ncar 20th, $7,000. No. 87, Twe story Louse 8 rooms 6 _acres o land on Saunders street ncar Barracks, $2,000. No. 86 Two_stores and o _resiuence ou leased on foot lot uo half Tot,near Mason and 10th street, $500, No. Wo story hou:e 8 rooms, closets, eic., with 6 of ground, on Saunders street near Omahs Barracks, $2,6 500 ooxs, halt lot on Capitol strcet, 83,600, MNo 52, One and onc half story ¥ ouse, 6 rooms Wl lot ob Pierce near 20th strect, §1,500, No. &1, I'wo 2 story houses, oue of 9and one 6 roors, Chicago St., near 3,000, No. 80 House 4 rooms, closets, ctc., la on 15th strect near White Lead works, & No. 77, Large house of 11 rooms, closets, 1o, ete., ‘with 1 lot on Farnham near 19th streed, No. 76, Oreand one-halt story house of § rooms, lot 66x83 feet on Cass near 14ch streot, 84,600, House 4 rooms and basemont, /1o et on Marcy near Sth street, §675, , Large brick house and twe full lots on Davenport near 16th strect, §16,000. N Ong and one-ua'f story house and log X1 t on Jacsson near 12th strect, §1,6 0. No Large brick house 11 rooms, full log port near 16¢h street, 86,00, No. 71, Large hou-e 12 rooms, full lot un Cal- o G a8 o ot No. 65, Stable and 3 fulllots op ran in near Saunders, §2,000. e No. 64, Two story frame building, store belew aud rooma above, on leased lot on' Douge noar 16th street, §500 No. 63, House 4 rooms, basemens, otc., lod 1”1‘;:1“) teet on 1sth street mar Nall Works, 700, ~0, 62, New house 4 rooms one story, tull los No, 58, House of 7 rooms, ull lot Webster near 21st strees, $2,600, on Harney near 21st stroet, $1,760. No. 61, Large house 10 rooms, full lot on Bur near 21s€ street, §5,000, No. 60, House 8 ro ms, half lot on Davenport near 23d street, §1,000, No 69, Four houses and half 1ot on Cass near 18th strect §2 500, No. 12, House 6 rooms ard full lot, Haroey near 260k stroet, §2,000. No. 9, Threo houses and full lot on Cass wear 14th street, §3,200, ory just ¢> mpleted on Mouut Etna. Bucklin's Arnica Salve, The Brst SALvE in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheuw, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Haods, Chilblain:, the post was established has heen doing a thriving business there. Iu October, 1881, the T. E.& M. V. railroad survey was pointing towards the west side of Ft. Corns, and all skin eruptions, and posi- tively cures piles. It guaranteed to ive satisfaction or money refunded. rice, 25 cents per box, For sale by iobrora reserva- ‘Huhruur aud Becht, BEMIS' ReaL Estare Acency 16th and Douglas Street, ODLAEA, -~ ~ NBEB A 4