Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 10, 1882, Page 4

4 p— THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, MAY 10 = —— The Omaha Bee.| Published every , except Sunda; ‘®he oniy mmmm - TERMS BY MAIL — : Woar,....810.00 I Thres Monthe. 85,00 Months. 0.0 | One 1.60 fHE WEEKLY BEE, published ev- wry Wednesday. BERMS POST PAID:~ 1.00 | One ) AMERICAN P for Newsdealers in the United States, QORRESPONDENCE—AIl Oommuni. News and Editorial mat- ers should be addressed to the Enrror or @stions relating to War B, g BUSINESS LETTERS—AIl Business Btters and Remittances should be ad- drossed to THe OMAHA Pupuisiing Cou- #ANY, OmMAHA, Drafts, Checks and Post. office Orders to be made payable to the erder of the Company. OMAHA PUBLISHING 00., Prop'rs. EitROSEWATER. Editor. $2.00 | Three Months,, 50 wws Compaxy, Sole Agents Proolamation by the Gmrnm; Convening the Legislature. ‘Wiereas, The constitution of the stete of Nebraska provides that the governor may, on extraordinary ocoasions, convene the legislature by proclamation; and Whkneas, Important public interest of an extraordinary character requires the exercise of this authority; Therefore, 1, Albinus Nance, governor of the state of Nebraska, do hereby con- vene the legislature of said state to meet in lachl session at the capitol in Lincoln on Wednesday the 10th of May, 1882, at 12 o'clock m, of said day for the purposes herein stated as foll to-wit: First. To apportion the state into three congressional _districts and to provide for the election of representatives therein, Becond, To amend an act approved March 1st, 1881, entitled ““An act toin- cities of the first class and Iation of their duties, powers and go - ment,” by conferring additional power upon cities of the first class for the pur- pose of paving or m: izing streets and slloysand also providing for the crea- tion ln?“ E}lntmunt of a board of public ap) ‘works therein, assign the county of Custer Third, To ‘to_some judicial district in the state, Fourth, To amend section 69, chapter 14, of the compiled statutes of Nebraska entitled “Cities of the second class an v Flm‘.n To prov{do {%r the uge:u; hb‘ curred in suppressi 0 recent riots at Omnha mef"}nm'éfi citizens of the state from domestic violence, Bixth, To give the assent of state the to the provision of an mct_of congress to extend the northern boundary of the state of Nebraska, P Seventh, To provide for the payment of the ordinary and wnmmt expenses of the legislature imcus during the ression hereby convened. 1In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the state. Done at Lincoln, this 20th of April, A, D,,1882, the sixteenth year of the state, and of the independence of the United States, the one hundred and sixth, By the governor: _ ALBINUS NANOR. 8, J. AurxANDER, Secretary of State, — NOTICE TO NEWSDEALERS, The publishers of T Ber ‘have made arrangements with the American News Company to supply News Depots in I'li- nois, Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah, Al dealers who keep Tur DaArLr Bex on sale should hereafter nddress their orders to the Manager American News Company, Omaha, Neb. EEss——— OmanA and Douglas county will oc- cupy o good share of the attention of the present legislaturo, —rmm———— Tue teri€ commission bill has passed. In congress the sins of Com- mission almost equal the sins of omission, g —— Tre apostlos were urged to take neither “‘purse nor scrip.” Land offi- oo apostles in the United States find the purse comes along very rapidly atter the (surveying) scrip is once is- sued. — Mz GouLp protests that his New York railroads are taxed too highly. The mansgers of Mr, Gould's Ne- braska railroads are yot to be heard srom, There is no doubt that our railfoads are shamefully abused in matters of taxation the assessments after reaching nearly one-fiftieth of the market value of the property. e—— Nsw Yorx proposed to insist upon its telegraph companies laying their ‘wires under ground. A special com- mittee of the senate reports that it is amazed at finding no authority for companies extending their wires over- head, and say that telegraph poles and wires obstruct and incommode the public use of the streets, mar their beauty, and are a standing offense to the eye, Let the reform spread west. e THE ARMY RETIREMENT BILL. According to a special dispatch from Washington the senate military com~ mittee will report back to the senate the army appropriation bill with the section in the house bill providing tor compulsory retirement after sixty-two stricken out. It is to be sincerely hoped that nothing of the kind will be done, The influence of the weak- kneed members of the ‘‘soft service brigade” ought not to weigh a feather's ‘weight in the balance against the plain mecessitios of theservice, The failure jpresent congress to pass a com- petent retireing bill will be a disgrace to that body and a shame to the na- tion. The efficiency of the army is yearly becoming less only on account of the stagnation in the service, caused by obstructions in the current of pro- motion, It is top heavy with super- ought long ago to have given way to their juniors, while the positions which need young ‘and active oficers in the prime of life of the nated veterans, who alienated from the Irish cause. d | impossible to apologize for men who truce. the crime robs even the plea of revo- lutionists of a shred of force. recognize this fact more bitterly than the leaders of the Jand league. single blow that organization has been shorn of all its moral force, and de- prived of the strongest basis of its olaim for support and sustenance. is very naturally argued that men whe will stab to death their frionds and spit on the olive branch can neither be worthy of confidence or concilia- tion. Ireland and Irishmen are forced to bear the blama for an odious crime which has turned back for years the hands on the dial of progress, and blasted at the very moment of fruition ever among thobd most friendly to the | derers of Lord Frederick Oaavendish “ | for their own *| ver lining to the eloud which has GOVERNOR NANCE AND THE 5 LEGISLATURE. As Chief Executor of this state, Governor Nance is vested by the con- stitution with the power to convene the legislature in extraordinary ses- sion, By virtue of his office he be- comes solo judge as to the emergency that requires legislative action, and the legislature can enact no law or legislation any subject that is not included among the purpose named gaarantees of promotion. A glanee through the army register will show the names of scores of officers, whose rank has been stationary for twenty years, while the most important and lucrative positions are filled by men whose only present fitness consists in their ability to sign their names in a very shaky hand to the monthly pay rolls, Every western senator owes it to his constituents to work a vote for the passage of the compulsory v ) retirement bill, now about to|in the Governor'scall j be brought before the senate. The language of the constitution on The objection that it is in this point is “‘the legislature shall en- ter upon no business except that for which they were called together.” Acocording to our Lincoln correspon- dent (Governor Nance, in response to the question whether the legislature was empowered to inquire into the management or rather mismannge- ment of our state university, has de- clared that the legislature has no right to enter upon such an investigation, or upon any inquiry not covered in his call. If they take any other ac- tion the govvernor declares he will veto it, How does the governor propose to 7eto a resolution to investigate the the conduct of any state officer or state institution? How can he pre- vent the legislature from appointing an investigating committee by concur- rent resolution of both houses, which does not require executive sanction? How can he with his veto deprive either house of its inherent right and duty to censurei] the ' misconduct of any officer or recommend reforms in any of the state institutions? How could Governor Nance with his veto prevent either house from an inquiry into the conduct or miscon- duct of its own members? Suppose a well sustained charge of malfeasance was made against any state officer, could the governor interpose his veto to shield a dishonest officer —could he smother an inquiry into his own co; duct if charges were preferred that in- volved him in an «impeachable trans- action? It is a well-settled principle of legis- lation that investigations by a legisla- tive body are always in order, whether these investigations bear directly upon subjects contained in a governor'’s proclamation or on any subject that concern’s the welfare of the state, the conduct of public officers of the man- agement of public institutions, over which ‘%the legislature has control, Tae Bee does not urge an inquiry by the legialature into the university muddle, nor do we suggest any other investigation at present, but we insist that it is eminently proper for the legislature to enter into any investiga- tion they may deem necessary for the welfare of the common- wealth, We maintain that the gover- nor has no right to interfere with the legislature in the discharge of its funotions as a_deljberative body, ex- cept where his approval is asked for a bill or joint resolution that is in tho nature of a law. Any attempt on the of the goveror to dragoon the legislature into servile subjection by threats of his veto upon measures they have been called of to legis- late, would be not merely an insult which no legislative body has ever submitted to, but contrary to all usage in parliamentary bodies, Em——— the nature of a rider to an appropria- tion bill has little force when the cir- cumstances of the case are taken into consideration, Immediate relief is called for, and no other means to bring the question to a speedy vote and elude the lobby of favoritism and superannuation seemed available. Justice to our army, justice to the na- tion which supports it by taxation amounting to nearly $30,000,000 a year, demands that the compulsory retiroment bill shall pass. And the whining of croakers, and the wheed- ling of feeble-minded and broken- winded veterans who will be retired on a snug competency by its provi- sions, ought to exercise no adverse in- fluence upon the votes of senators, as it cortainly does not upon the sound and sober judgment of our people. — THE IRISH CALAMITY. As the civilized world begins to recover from the shock of Baturday's assassinations, the full force of the dreadful deed in its damaging effects upon Ireland’s hopes becomes more and more plain. And first it is evi- dent that public sympathy in Eng- land and America has been seriously It is fire upon the bearers of a flag of The dastardly cowardice of None By a It the brightest hopes of the Emerald isle, There is & very general consent, TIrish cause, as to the perpetrators of the tragedy and their motives 1 the commission of the crime, Suspicion points very strongly to a class of blatant brawlers whose sole stock ‘in trade has been the irreconcilable dif- ference between England and Ire- d. To, these professional) agita- tors, who livé on their lodd/mouthed patriotism, no greater calamity could have occurred than the dawning of a peaceful era in Ireland They are the same stripe of men as those who boast of destroying innocent men, women and children by storing dynamite in the coal bunkers of passenger ships and who fight brilliantly with their mouth for Irish liberty at a distance of 3,000 miles from the shores of England. They are men who have skulked under their cloak of American citizenship to disgrace our nation’s name and bring discredit on our goy- ernment, It is a fact worthy of notice by all Irishmen who have desired and worked for the regenera- tion of their country, that the only words of apology for the brutal mur- THE SURVEYING SCRIP FRAUDS. Great excitement prevails among the settlers of Wyoming, Dakota and northwestern Iowa over the recent developments growiug out of the en- quiry Into the frauds committed by the surveyor's ring, which has its headquarters in New Mexico, Dis- patches were sent out last week from 8t. Louis announcing that a gigantic scheme of fraud and forgery had been unearthed by United States Attor- ney Bliss, It s charged that ‘have come from/American ruffians of | An organized ring have put half a mil- this class. lion dollars of bogus surveying sorip What will be the results no one yet | into ciroulation in Dakota, Iowa and ventures to prediot. '"he Irish peo-| Wyeming. As a matter of fact Col. Bliss has not wnearthed this gigantic swindle as he claims, because it was already ex- posed months ago by fenator Van Wyok in open senate. It is pos- sible that the surveyor's ring, which originally organized this gigantic scheme, has led to the formation of another ring, which has put in ciroula- ple have been thrown at once on the defensive. The great weapon of that grand organization, the land league, has been anatched from their grasp. ‘We shall probably hear less for some months of “the tyrant Gladstone” and the hundreds of innocent and harmless Irishmen who are ‘‘rotting in British dungeons,” while the sym- pathy of the world will at once be|tion bogus certificates, but we are in- transformed to the brave old gray-|clined to the opinion that this whole haired man whose life work, drawing |#ystei of rascality emanates from the to ita close, was ruthlessly shattered |samesource, Among those who are by hands for whom it was|most prominent in getting up this sur- so painfully constructed No | veyor's scrip scheme are the redoubta- exouses that & people cannot be held | ble Star Route Dorsoy, of Arkansas, responsible for the crime of an indi-|more recently of New Mexico and vidual will be accepted in the|Burveyor General Atkinson, formerly midst of the whirlwind of in-|of Nebraska, The law under which dignation which is sweeping over | certificates are now issued s set out England. Reforms long contemplated fully in a circnlar of the department earnestly battled for and about to be | °f the interior dated March b, 1880, put into immediate execution will be which incorporates full instructions abandoned either by the fall from based on sections 2401, 2402 and 2403 power of Mr, Gladstone or the rever- | of the revised statutes of the United sal of & polioy which has alresdy|Stetes, as amended by the act of borne such bitter fruits. If Satur- M’I‘bhtlnn‘ e et day's crime produces one effeot it will w provides applications not be in vain, If it induces every l:d‘:;g:: m&': bl::;‘?finn::;m‘ sensible and patriotic Irishman in it possible as to location and g America to withdraw all support from |and every spplication shall be corrob- bloodthirsty ruffians of the O'- g: 1 orated by vits. Settlers desiring novan Rossa stamp, who make Ire- to avall themselves of these privile- land's wrongs the contribution box [ ges are required tc deposit in a desig. kets, and who coun- nated depository of the United States tenance and abet crime and disorder t or with an_assistant treasurer of the in every country where they are loca- [same, in the district in which these ted there will be at least a tint of sil- may be estimated as the total cost of the suryey. In cases where the cost of survey and incidentals is in excess of $200, the settler shall be required agaiv enveloped Ireland, and injured for many years to come the prospects and prosperity of her people. ] PA PRI YO to deposit two or more sums so that no oertificate may bear a face value of more than $200. Settlers making deposits for surveys are re- quired to transmit the original certificate of deposit to the secretary of the treasury and the duplicate to the surveyor general, re- taining the triplieate to be used in sheir purchase of public lands in the surveyed townships or_to be disposed of by assignment. These triplicates only are to be received in the purchase of lands under the pre-emption and homestead laws, and should any orig- inals or duplicates be presented in payment, the register and receiver are directed to take possession of the same and transmit theia at once to the gen- eral land office for examination, The assignment of certifiicates may be made by endorsement under the rules governing negotiable paper, and it 18 not necessary that they should be acknowledged. But certificatos issued before August, 1879, must be sent to the general land office for an ex- aminatior: as to excess of repayment olaima are situated, and whatever sum | has before being negotiated. The whole system of scrip survey is nothing more nor less than a plot be- gotten by a gang of public plunderers who have imposed ‘on the government and have filched vast sums from the national treasury, tobe divided among themselves. It remains to be seen whether the so-called bogus scrip is in fact genuine scrip, issued at Santa Fe from the sur- veyor general's office, or some concern directly connected with it, and the only thing bogus about the certificates are the names attached thereto. It would be a great wrong that the poor settlers, whom this gang of swindlers and thieves have imposed upon, should now lose the homes which they have improved and for which they have paid. Congress will have to take some action, and that very soon, to relieve these people and the government should do something more than merely remove the dishon- est surveyors connected with this swindle, They should see to it that they are indicted whenever it can be shown that they were connected with the confidence game, which is being piayed upon settlers in Dakota, Wyo- ming and Western Iowa. There were some parties high in authority disposed to discredit the charges made by Senator Van Wyck, when he made his speech on the sur- veying frauds, but we presume even Secretary Teller, who was among the incredulous has now reached the con- clusion that there wasmore truth than poetry in the allegations of the sena- tor from Nebraska. It will now be Secre Teller's duty to disinfect the general land of- fiee 80 far as surveying frauds are concerned wherever they may exist. —— CoxussioNERr Loring has accepted the invitation tendered him by the Nebraska state board of agricuiture, to attend the coming state fair at Omahba, The following letter of ac- ceptance has just been received by Hon. D. H. Wheeler: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, } CoMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, WasuiNaron, May 6, 1882, Dear Smr—The acknowledgement of your letter of the 9th of March has been delayed, pending my efforts so to arrange my other western engage- ments, as to make it possible to ac- cept your kind invitation, Iam just now able to say that it will give me pleasure to wdydreu your people on the 13th of September proximo and to witness at :hnt tvima the ex!:fi:lilfinn of our society. Ve 7 4 a?ofefi?fom’;‘, Commissioner of Agriculture, Danien. H. WHERLER, Seretary, Plattsmouth, N A Loose Granting of Public Lands, Boston Traveller, If the statements which have been recently made by Mr, J. W. Le Barnes, of the general land office are to be regarded as reliable, some of the transactions by which lands have been patented and certified under the gov- ernment grants to railroads, are, to say the least, very questionable, as a fow examples which he cites will show. For instance, the' Cedar Rapids & | yialians muflw River rmailroad was aiz;- aix r mile under the grants mflengu& of the road, as certified to by the gov- ernor of the state, is 271.6 miles, and the grant was for 1,042,964 acres, but the amount of land sctually certified and patenied under the grant is 98,- 746 acres more than the greatest pos- sible amount authorized by the grant. The grant was d'llninilh.({, however, by overlapping grants tojotherjroads to the extent of t'lnty-fi‘:rpsr cent., 80 that the excess giver to the company is really more than 800,000 acres. Again, for fifty-six miles of the road. the Sloux City & St Paul road of Iowa was entitled to 359,630 acres at the utmost, but w‘i,mo acres have been patented and to it, while th ought to have dlminilhmt l“:l than 487,000 acres by the ovuhpging of oth- er grants, Still again the Bt. Paul 3 Sioux City road of Minnesota to 850,- 000 acres, but has received 1,200,350 acres, an increase of 360,368 acres. The St. Paul and Pacific road in Min- nesota has also received an access of the maximum area of its grant, and the legal and actual reductions to which the grant is subject do not a| mr lgo have evo;l been @md‘ros. above are only s on cAses among many where hnr::lmboen, une der the loose gystem prevail- ing at the land office, certified and patented i ex- cess to what had by the government, can but be regarded as little short of , | eriminal, operating, as it does, to the serious disadvantage of actual settiers. The country seems, now that the most desivable portions of the national do- main have passed out from under the control of the government, to be wak- ing up to realization of the reckless extravagance with which this domain been granted, and it is to be hoped that something will bedonetore- cover from corporations lands ot which they have, without warrant or right gained possession, , 1882% OCOIDENTAL JOTTINGS, DAKOTA. Watertown has a byeicle club. A large hotel is being built at St, Law] rence. The Fargo Argus has a $20,000 libel suit, A new [hotel {will soon be opened at Ordway. The Fargo Republican is now & morn. ing paper. About 100 cases of measles have affliot- ed Elk Point. A couple of inches of snow fell at Fargo on the 23d ult. Very little government land is left in Davison county. Forestburg, Miner county, will soon have a creamery. Six buildings are being built in Canton at a cost of {25,000. The slaughter of untagged dogs began at Yankton on Thursday. Last year the Yankton postoffice hand- led ocer $200,000 in money. Rapid City is determined to have a mag- nificent school building. The Fargo & Southwestern road will be finished to Lisbon by August. A stage line is to be pat in_operation between Chamberlain and the Hills, Siink couvey has 21 school districts, all of them holding school this summer., The artcsiaw wall at Tower City 18 750 feet deepand delivers a constant stream. Four hundred thousand acres of land were entered at the Mitchell land office in arch, Two stage lines on the Pierre route to the Hills are exposted to be in operation s00n., Over 1,000 Indians, on their way from Stanaing Reck to Cheyenne agency, have been blockaded by high water, and at last accounts were camped in the mud at Mor- gan river, At Oanton, the other day, somo boys in- duced a little shaver to euter an old safe, from which the inside fixtures had been removed, and then shnt the door on him. When they tried to open It they could not, and before » man could get and release the little prisoner, he wa nearly suffocated. WYOMING. The round-up begins on the 15th, Cheyenne claims 5,0 )0 inhabitants, It will cost Cheyenne almost $20,000 to run her school this year, W. E. Pratt is general manager of the Cheyenne telephone company. Gus Leal, the miner who fe!l down the the shaft at Carbon, died of nis injuries. Stebbins, Post & Co, will immediately erect a new brick bank building in Chey- eune. Clark Pelton, confined for murder, and Carey Boyd, for horse stealing, have been pardoned. At the Laramie school meeting on the 1st, a special sum of $3,000 was voted for the year’s work. The Evanston saw mill is being run at ite full capacity, and is turning out im- mense quantities of lumber, A 12 year old son of John Stillman, of Laramie, fell from a scaffolding on Tues- day and was seriously hurt, There is fmere building and improve- ments going on in Evanston now than there has been at any time for many years, In jumping from a wagon at Laramie Annie Boyd’s skirts got caught and threw her to the ground, breaking no limbs but bruising the young lady seriously, The old variety theatre building, Chey- enne, known as McDaniels theatre, was destroyed last Sunday morning by fire, The fire was the work of an incendiary. Col. E. P, Snow, of Cheyenne, was re- appointed collector of internal revenue and started out Friday on his fourth term, having served the government twelve years in that capacity. The Union Pacific railway company is putting in a new and improved boilor iron reservoir at the dam in Bear. river, near the round house, for supplying water to the company’s works. B. B, Smith, of Burnt Fork, narrowly escaped being eaten by a grizzly a short since, His faithful dog worried the beast long enough toallow him to put a bulletinto +he animal, As itis >mith was terribly torn by the brute's claws, “Sam” Hamilton, manager of Coe & Carter's tie camp up on Black’s Fork, :xdwcu to begin the *‘drive” in June, and | run 80,000 broad gauge ties, 18,000 nar- ing props and row gauge ties, 60,000 minini will be 25,000 mining ties ~all of whic landed at Granger. ©OOLORADO. Denver graduated five medical students 1ast week, The Golden fire department had its annual parade on the lst, The Colorado presbytery held its annual meeting in Denver last week. R. E. Strahorn, the literary man, has gone to the Wood River country, The hackmen of Denver have a union and they gave a ball last Friday, Rev, Sigismund Kaufmann, a well- known rabbi, died at Denver on the 2d, A dead infant was found in the flume of |} the New York company at Black Hawk the other day. A Greely, Salt Lake & Pacific contrao- tor has employed 800 of the indigent of Denver, Rain eaused postponement of the min- ing exposition corner stone ceremonies at Denyer till Tuesday last. The K. P, has ordered its agents in the state not to give any information ing bullion to be carried east on its traing, At Central City last Friday P, A. Labaree jumped from a wagon containi » steam boiler just as the outfit was break- ing through a bridge, and saved his life. One of the mules attached was killed, On_ Thursday last three cattle thieves were killed near Grand Junction in the Ute reservation by Sheriff Bowman, of Gunnison county, and Sheriff J, ¥, Brink, of Utah, and » large posse. ~On' Friday the sheriff’s posse came suddenly upon an- other gang of thieves, and during the en- Il‘lmlnlfl!owmm and Brink were killed, MONTANA. Thie daily arrivals of settlers at Dillon average 100, Over 2,000 lots in the town of Billings have been sold, The Big Horn tunnel was expected to be ready for the track on the bth, A telephone line is to_be run from Helena to Butte, via Deer Lodge. The Billings Herald, started May 1, is the latest addition to the territorial press, Phill:g Thorpe, of Beaverhead county, winf 8,500 sheep without the loss of one, A 14.year-old son of Thomas As:ling, of Deer Lodge. was killed by the acciden- tal discharge «f a gun on the 2ith ult. A train of 12 cars containing young grade bulls, valued at $50,000, were recently taken into the territory for ranche men. ‘Wm, H, Dobson, Co, I, Eighteenth infantry, at Fort M-flmm shot & ramrod and bullet through bis wrist on the 20th while clesning his gun, Six Indiavs have been killed this spring in the neighborhood of Glendive, for horse stealing. Some of the citizens, fearing this summary treatment may excite the Indians to an uprising, have petitioned the governor of the territory to make provi. sion for the better protection of settlers. A confirmed inebrinte committed suicide at Highland on Sunday moroing, He cut his throat from ear to ear with a dull jack- knife, rolled into his bunk, let his head hang over the side-board until the surplus blo% was shed, then calmly rolled himself up in the blankets and passed into the other world apparently without A struggle or tremor, [ — IDAHO. There is & lumber famine at Wood River. There were 8,306 Chinese in_ the terri- tory when the census was taken. A half intsrest in the Mmnie Moore mine at Failey was sold for $400,000, Hailey's first murder was that of a Chinaman, carved to death by a brother Mongolian, The Blackfort Register complains of the meauness of the Indian agent at Ross Fork, and declares he should get the bounce, Judge Montgomery, of Blackfort, was awakened by the noise made by burglar at 2 o'clock on the morning of the 27th ult. He jumped up and grabbed the thief, who thought the judge was aymed and conse- quently surrendered, flegmnd jury will be mercifal to him, WASHINGTON TERRITORY. Gov. Newell has gone to Washington, D. ., on a three months' visit. Walla Walla has voted a apecial tax of $5 on the $1,000 for achool purposes. OREGON. Princeville had an entensive fire on the 25th ult. A shock of earthquake was felt at Port- land on the 30th ult, In three and a half years, Gov, Thayer has pardoned 131 convicts, CALIFORNIA. John C, Parrott, Jr., and bride, of San Francisco, have started on a three years' bridal tour of the old world, Geo, B, Humblet, of Marysville, recent. ly suicided by throwing “himse!f into a vault, where he suffocated. John Brett and wife, of San Jose, were burned to death oa the 30th ult., by * the destruction of their building. James F, Bowman, & well-known jour- nalist, died in San Francisco on the 20th ult, He was a native of New York. A San Francisco merchant advocates the Erln:mg of anti-Chinese sentiments on the backs of the envelopes sent East, Dr. Glenn, the great granger, has 60,000 acres in wheat, and expects to haryest a million bushels, He has promised his foreman a bonus of 10,000 if that result is attained, A Plumas county farmer has a_heifer fourteen months old, half-blood Devon- shire, that is a curiosity. Itis perfectly formed, has nice little horns, a handsome cont of rioh brown hair, is as merry as a kitten, but so small that it can eaiily be picked up in one's arms. It has not visi. bly increased in size for months past, and from present appearances may never be any larger, A few weeks agn - when grass was scarce in Los Angeles county, John Finnell, of Tehama county, bought 12,000 sheep in the lower country, at one dollar a head, giving his note therefor. He drove 9,000 to his ranges in Tehama, and will realize & dollar for each uhsecr from the wool he is now clipping, And now grass in Los An- weles is flourishing, and the original owners of the sheep were glad to buy back the 8,000 which had not been driven away at $7,000 for the herd, ARIZONA. John J. Gosper is editor and proprietor of the Phaenix Herald. o The territerial papers contain more In- dliln war news at present than anything else, A robber cleaned out the Pheenix posts office one night recently, retting some mickels, etc, The Boston excursionists changed their poute through the territory just in time to escape the Apaches. ‘The old Mowrey mine at Harshaw and the old Belmont near Washington camp, &l}love been sold to an Englishman for $230,- NEW MEXICO. ‘The Hot Springs are to Lias Vegas what Coney Island is to New York, Travel to the ‘Jemez Hot Springs in. creases, The new hotel will be opened May 15th. A fruit and vegetable canning concern is started in Bernalillo. Apples, peaches, apricots, plums, grapes, tomatoes, etc., will be put up. Santa Fe county cilizens voted almost unanimously $150,000 bonds for the con- struction of a railroad from the terminus of the D, & R. G, railway to Santa Fe, Joe Keeney, a well known sporting man of tue West, was recently held up in Santa Fe and relioved of $1,500 in money, his watch andallhis jewelry. A pistol at each side of his head and none in his poek- ets did the business. The grand jury of Taos county refused to indict for murder the three Pueblo In- dians who kilied a deputy sheriff at Fer- nandez de Taos while he was attempting toarrest them for carrying arms and for drunkenness, One was indicted for carry- ing arms and another for resisting m.:g- cer and each fined 810, The first rain storm of the year came yesterday. To the ranchman it was thrice ‘welcome, and its coming never so oppor- tune, because rain alone can start the seeds driven deep mto the ground by the heavy storms of the last rainy season. The rain nsures early grass, and a few days of shine will make lfiufl the plains and vegas and mountain sides, —Raton New Mexi- can, i Sem—— Jacob Martzolf, of Lanoaster, [N, Y,, 8ays your SPRING Brossou works we 1 for everything you recommend it; :5““' wife and children have all used if 09 can't find a healthier family in New York state.—Oct. 5, 1880 mb dlw E———— Krupp's New Guns. Berlin Correspondence of the London Standard, Novel artillery experiments of an apparently highly important character took place a few days ago at Messrs, Krupp's great shooting ground near Meppen. Trials were made with both new cannon and projectiles. A new shell, called a “‘torpedo shell,” was fired from a 21-centimetre gun, This is stated to afford a practical solution to a problem which has long engaged the attention of artillerists, namely, to construct missiles which, after piercing the object aimed at, shall ex- plode with torpedo-like effect. Of the new guns experimented with the most mromnt waa the pivot cannon, spec- ially destined for the equipment of gun-boats. The pivot upon the top of which the cannon is fixed, is pro- longed right down into the hold of th veasel, where it is turned, and so moves with it the cannon above in any direction. This contrivance, it is as- serted, quite obviates any rebound, even after the firing of a heavy charge. It also contributes greatly to insure the success of alm, and at the same time gives increased velocity to the projectile. This pivot system may, it is stated, even when the guns are of a large bore—such as thirty, thirty-five or forty centimetres—be vmployed for the equipment of each of small gun- boats. Itis estimated that the cost and equipment of each of these pivot gun-boats would not be moie than a tenth of a large frigate, and it isin- sisted that they would be far more ef- fective instruments of destruction, on aocount of their swiftness and the {acility with which they are managed, Eeemme—— MOUNT ARBOR NURSERY, Heudge plants 76c. per thousand wholesale or retail, T. E, B. Mason, Shenandoah, Ia. d-2¢ GHEAP LOTS, Prospect Place. A new addition to the city just laid out into L= 1 =4 BEAUTIFUL LOTS, sl 50 LBO O EACEL Eocated on Hamilton, Charles, and Seward 8ts., and also on 29th, 30th, 3l1st and 32nd streets, Only 5 or 6 blocks west of tke turn-table of the Red Street Car Line, on Saunders Street, and just west of and adjoining Shinn’s additions. Make Your Own Terms, $5 TO 810 ‘DOWN, $570810Per MONTH Call and get Plats and Full Particulars, BEMIS, Real Estate Agency, ISTH & DOUGLAS STS.