Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 7, 1883, Page 1

rd . N ) THIRTEENTH YEAR. Wi lebert THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. THE NATIONAL CAPITALT Consiitn'ional Am-udu s Suflrage and the Veto Propased. Regarding Power Mr. Groom> Wants a Canal, and Mr, New Two Conventions. Bille and Recofutions Which Will At- ford Opp reunity for Talk, 17 Nol g More, R FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS, SENATE, Wasminerox, December 6, - Among ‘the momorials and petitions presented in the senate to-day were the following: By Mr. Manderson—Resolutions of the Nebraska legislature, asking that ralroads which > government has, granted lands be compelled to_ take out patents, 8o such lands may be taxed or revert to the people, Also asking that tho duty be removed from barbed wire, and urging improvement of the Missouri river, By Mr. Slater—Petition of the cham- ber of commerce of Oregon, praying that the land granted the Oregon Central rail- road, by act of May 4, 1870, bo forfeited and thrown open for settlement. The following bills were introduced: By Mr. Cameron of Wisconsin-—-To re- store to the market certain lands of the United States, in Minnesota and Wiscon- sin, and authorize their sale subject to reflowage, These are lands withdrawn from sale in 1880 and 1881 with the idea that they would be required for use in the con- struction and maintehance of dams, res- ervoirs, etc., proposed to be created in the improvement of the Mississippi river. They aro by the bill subject to private entry and sale at £1.25 per acre. By Mr. Groome—To provide for the construction, in Maryland and Delaware, of a free ship canal, as a means of mili- tary and naval defence, and for commer- cial purposes, the canal to connect the waters of the Chesapeake and Delaware bays, to be 100 feet wide at the bottom, 26 feet below mean low water, and 178 feet wide at low water, level with the locks, 600 feet by 60 in chamber, and suftictently deep to allow the passage of vessels drawing 23 feet. The secretary of war is authorized to make necessary surveys, negotiate with owners of pro- perty along the line of the canul, and if safisfastory terns canunot be reached then to condemn the land. One million dol- 1‘;.;‘5] is appropriated for purposes of the hill. The following joint resolutions offered: By Mr. Butler—To provide for an amendment to the fiftecuth amendment of the consdtution insert ng thegword “‘nativity” so as to make the article read: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of nativity. race, color or previous condition of servitude.” Ty Mr. Laphan-—Proposing anamend-. ment to the constitution giving women the right of suffrage; also proposing an amendment to the constitution giving the president the right to veto seperate itema of appropriation billa while approv- ing the remainder, items objected to, however, may become law by an aftirma- tive two-thirds vote of each house, By Mr. Morgan—Proposing an amend- ment to the constitution by which the prejident shall have tho power to disap- prove any item of appropriation for rivers and harbors, while approving other f were tems. By Mr, Hill—Calling on tho secretary of the interior to furnish the senate cop- ies of papors, on filo in the interior de- artment, relating to tho transfer of the and grant of tho New Orleans, Baton ksburg Railroad ¢ompany Rouge & V to the N company. bone Ori ns Pucidic ilroad n a3 the “DBack- :d wrant”). The resolution was laid over and ordered printed. A resolution, offered by Mr, Cull, to be re- ferred to the committee on foreign tions when apvointed, rec dent to demand of the Spani s ment repayment to citizens of the United States, of money paid by them on ship- ment of cattle from the United States to Cuba. WAPITAL NORES. A NEW SOHEME, WassireroN, December 6,—Johu C, Now has called a meeting of the repub lican and democratic congreesional dele- gates from Lndiana, in his rooms in the treasucy building on Saturday, to take measuros tosecure a mecting of both the republican and democratic national con- ventions in ladianapolis, YGUHG MIMBERS TO THE ¥ORE, Anold membor of the house said this morning that new men were seeking positions on the ways aud mcans, appro- priations and ijudiciary committees, in fact, they wanted to be connected with all the important.committecs, It is gen- erally conceded among democratic men.- \bers that Morrison will be given the «hairmanship of tko ways and means «ommbttee and Randall of the anpropria- tions, . Democratic members do not uranimowsly éavor Mcrrison's eleetion to the ways and ineans chairmauship, the graund of oppoaition ‘boing, as expressed by protecticnists, that fis appointment, closaly followingCarlisle’s election to the spoakership, would precipitate all issues: NO RITE ¥OR THEM, The swerotary of ghe lpgerior has re- jected the applicition of the mayor of thel — — voaking due proof of compliance with thy homestead laws ®p to the time of making proof; that motice of intention to make final proof under the homestcad and pre-emption laws required by at of March 1879, shall not be siven, nor shall the final proof under such laws bo made until twelve months after the time whon thefentry or filing is recorded in the local land offico, a8 pre vided by law, irrespective of the date of sottlement on the land prior to such en try or filingg that the first section of the act of May 14, 1880, providing for the ac ceptance by local land oftices of relin quishments of public land entries and re eitrics of land, without action by the commissioner general of the land oftice, be and the samo is hereby repealed. THE MEXICAN VETERANS, The tenth annual reunion of the Na- tional association of veterans of the Mexican war began to-day, with a large attendance. General Denver, of Ohio, president of the association, called the assembly to order and introduced Cap- tain Merrick, who delivered an eloquent address of welcome, which was re- svonded to by General Denver. General Rosecrans spoke hopofully of the prospects of securing pensions for the veterans. Various committees were appointed, and the following ofticers elected for the ensuing y President, General Denver; first vico president, General Mansen; secretary, A. M. Ken- nedy. Resolutions were adopted recit- Wy that survivors of the Mexican war never received the reward duo citizen soldiers, and in the opinion of the con- vention they should be placed upon the pension rolls in equality with the sur- vivors of the war of 1812, et CRIMINAL RECORD. A BAD KRUM. GarvestoN, December 6.——The News' Housten special says that James Rose, a wealthy carriage manufacturer, disap- peared Sunday. His wife and her sup- posed stepson tell the grand jury that Rose is Cornelius Krum, who, in Kings- ton, New York, in 1866, committed a heavy forgery, deserted a wife and two children, came to Texas, made money and married Mrs. Daguoall. the com- plainant. IMe returned to Kingston in 1876, after the charge of forgery was outlawed, and promised to bring his first wife to Texas, but failing to do =0, his son followed him a few months ago and, threatening exposure. Rose shot the son six times, The son showing signs of re- covery, was sent to Florida, Rose asaur- ing him the second wife was only a mis- tress, and at the same time inducing her to say sho did the shooting. The boy is now in Houston to compel reparation for his mother, but the father’s whoereabouts are uuknown. AN ACQUITTAL ORDERED, 8w Lovts, December 6. This after- noon Judge Noonan, in the court of criminal correction, directed the jury in the case of the State vs. Joseph H. Melntyre, state ccal inspector, Ed. But- ler, and Police Commissioners Daniel W. Caruth and Frank J. Lutz, for con- spiracy to obstruct the administration of justice and to control police affuirs, to acquit the defendants. 'They were in- dicted by the late grand jury on testi- mony taken during the recent investiga- tion of the.police-and gambling scandals, "OMAH/ EB. FRIDAY ?\I()RNIN(;, I)lf('l",MBl']R. 7 |P83.¥ passing Hong Kong for the Tonguin bor. THE OLD WORLD. | SUIL IEkig 10 tas i of W Come. Ducowber 6o jane False Bat Victorions Prophet. @roat Loss and Sufiering Ly Fires | in Brussels and Constan= tinople. | More Talk About France and China-—-\a Peaco Between Matters of Note, | ERAL FOREIGN NUWS, | THE TALK 1S FOR 1 GF ACYE, mber 6.—~The La Liberte | aays that and is taking energotic | steps to bring about a treaty between | France and China, and adds that it has | authorized information which lends to the belief that peaceful negotiations have made t progress in the last few daya. 1t is probable, L Liberte states, that the event wl the government expects as likely to exerciso the chambor of depu- tiea is not 8o muh a feat of arms in Ton- (quin as China's adhesion to the basis of the trm\l!y which has been suggested by and, The Telegraphe says the Marquis of Taeng has sent a note to Prime Minister | Ferry, asking a suspension of war prep- arations in Tonquin to prevent a conflict which might compromise the negotia- tions. La France states that Admiral Peyron has telegraphed the prefects of the mari- time departments that, since a fresh dis- patoh of troops for Tonquin is not ex- pected, it will not be nocessary to con- tinue any steps begun with ship owners for the employment of muagum These statements are not confirmed. GOOD CLOTHES AT LEAST. Loxpox, December 6.-~The press as- sociation says the woman who accompa- nied O'Donnell to the Cape of Good Hope, siled to-day on the steamer Germania from = Liverpool for New York with a well dressed man WANTED 70 SPIT AND MUST FIGHT. Ronr, Dec. 6. Signor Nicotera, for- merly winister of the interior, grossly insulted Senor Lovita, secretary “of the winister of the interior, declaring he would like to spit in his face. Several deputies interfored and separaled the men. Senor Lovita subsequently sent a allenize to Signor Nicotera to fight a duel. longo and sppointed his seconds, The trouble arose from the fact that certain natives of Calabria, who had written a pauiphlet insulting Signor Nicotora, ob- tained employment under the govern- ment. Signer Nicotera’s action is gen- lerally censured, especially because it hitherto has been regarded as probable that he would again become mimster, A DISASTROUS FIKE. BrusseLs, December 6.—A fire, which broke out in the legislative chamber to- day, was not got under control till 10 o'clock to-night. The chamber of depu- ties, with outlying buildinge, is a mass of ruins, The oifices of the departnient of Pans, I t. and have been on tri; THE, AFFIDAVITS THICKEN, DarLas, Tex., Dec. 6.—Additional af- fidavits against Lohnstein, alleged to be guilty of mammoth cotton swindles, are sworn out daily since his arrest. Three more came in to-day. THE ‘‘GAZETTE” MUST GO. Cuicaco, Dee. 6.—The Daily Nows' Elkhart, Ind., special says: Judge Os- borne of this district, to-day instructed the grand jury to indict all dealers found selling the Police Gazette and other pa- pers of that class. THE GAS CAUGHT HIM, Pirrsnvre, December 6,—Fred Burke, a prisoner oing eleven years son- tence at Riversido penitentiary, attempt- ed to escape to-night by drawling through a sewer, but before reaching the mouth wi as, and when found was in an unconscious condition. It is thought he will die. A MUCH WAN Herexa, M. T, Dec, 6.—Duaring Oc- tobor a man representing himsclf as Postofiice Inspector Stedinan, aftcwards as Inspector Henderson, visited the postoffices between Miles City and Helena, swindling the oflicials and banks out of various sums of money. Inspec- tor Jamison to-day caused Ins arrest at Missoula. The swindler’s name is 8, W. Scott. The authoritics have been requested to hold him, and after Mon- taua is through with hiln he is wanted by Inspector Stuart of Chicago, and also hy ofticers of Louisiana and California for like offenses. £ MAN, THE LACONIA MURDERF K, Laconta, N, H., December6.-—Samon, the murderer, was given a hearing to- day. He appesred norvous. In answer | PRRRECH. ) | to the question, “‘Samon, are you guilt; or not guly?” heenswered, He was ordered to rem said-his confession was true in every re penalty for his crime. March. }Ininl of nothing. i the defenso, HOW KKK HOPES T6 #SOAPK. Curcaco, December 6. Frederick M Ker, convicted of embezzling some $40 - 000 krom the banking house of Preston, Kean & Co., was this afterseon taken to Joliet to gorve a sentence of ten years. Ker was captused at Lima, Pesu, by one uilty, eir.”” |army near Kl Obeid. in jail till{swore { ” March, when the case will be heard, He |one Egyptian soldier was spect, and he was ready to suffer the|themselves, five hundred havin, 1t is thought that | ington rilles,and declared for El the woight on his mind will entirely |The mudar asks for instructions, A break him down and cauxe death before | Cairo ur»rruspn_ndunt says the foregoing He eats very little, but com- [is the most scrious news received since There are no chances |the news of the destruction of Hicks or & plea of insanity t be entered in | Pasha's army. foreign atfwirsapd the department of ed- ' tajned only slight damage. Several tiremen were injured. It is re- rted that some grenadiers were killed y falling walls. The senate chamber proper escaped the flames. It is believed the fire originated in the cupola of the chamber of deputies, where there was a sunburner used for lighting the house. The flames, fanned by a draft from the ventilating shaft, spread rapidly and were greatlyhelped by a strong northeast wind. The deputies were in session at the time the fire broke out, The famous library, containing many rare books and impor- tant documents, was also destroyed. The archives of the foreign departuient were saved. THE BLAZY IN CONSTANTINOPLY, ConstanTiNoPik, Decomber Six hundred houses, the Greek church and fire here, A storm prevailed at the time which added greatly to the sufferings of the homeless people. THE BOYS GO OUT, December 6 —The boys in several collieries of South and West Yorkshire have struck for an incrense in entorced idlencss, SARAH'S BROKEN FNC Parrs, Dee. 6.--The tiibunal com- merce has sentenced Sarah Bernhardt and husband jointly to pay 125,000 francs to the gentleman whe stood part security to the manager of the Gaiety theatre, London, Surah Bernbardt have ing broken her contract. UTTERLY ANNIHILATED, Lo~voN, Docember 6.-—A Khartoum GEMENT, I'he latter has accepted the chal- | four synagogues were destroyed by the | wages, throwing nearly 5,000 men into Khartoun is subsiding, it ia not now be- lieved that Muhdi eontemplates carly ad vance from Eloloid, NUMCAS OF WAL, Lospoy, Decenibor 6.—The St Gazette, in n financial artiole, say James the [ ON A NEW BASIS. Frye’s Propesed Regulation of Repr- sentation in the National R pab- 1ican Couvention, The Effect of the Schems on the theatrical and opera companies. Jowelry was found in their possossion which has since been identitied, Tn the room of one the supers arrested, the police found hif teen watches aud other property of like nature e — . The Newhail Vicoms' Monument Mitwavkes, Doc. 6.—The committee on ercetion of & monument to 1le vi tims of the New'inll holacaust of Jan 1(th unconfirmed report on the stock ex- last have reached a decision to nild & change that war between France and Several States and Ter- shaft in Forest Home cemotery in spite China had been declared, caused excite- 3 3 of the requeat of the Catholic mmittee ment and a general decline in prices. ritories. that ha'f the fund bo given for & monu- The Prince of Wales was re-elected — ment in Cavalry cemotery. The reasons grand maator of the grand lodge of 'rec- masons of England, MOODY AND BANKEY, Moody and Sunkey opened at Stepney meetings wore conducted at Islington The mission at Wadsworth was highly auccessful, e Ohio Crops and Stock, Corvmnus, Ohio, December 6. state board of agriculture for the month cent, acreago wnd eondition: percent and condition, rye and barloy blooded or high grade animmls belong. ing to various classos based on returns from about 00 town ship correspondents, Wheat, acres sow for harvest in 1884, 7 percent of that sawn for 1883, 102, fall .88, condition .99; barle sown compared with last fall . tion .99; cattle-percent of shorthorn .65, Herfords .2, Devons .8, polled angus Jerseys .19, Ayrshires .2, Holstoina poultry-egg producers .bl, meat prod condition of farm animals com pared with last fall , The Cotton Exposition, Nrw Oureans, La., December 6. board of managers of the worlds,industri main building. and 900 wido persons. The deslgn also provides fo main oftices, telegraph office, newspape Ayers, local ticket agent of the Cincin- nati Northern railroad, arrested last vight for embezzlement, made a moat desperate attempt this morning in the central station house to commit suicide, agony :unping for death. He in a young man_of goo ol critical, e G — A Disputed Ditch Settled. CiNcINNATI, Ohio, December 6.-—Near Andersen, Ind., last evening, John J. Johnaton was shot by Coleman Hawkins and dangerously wounded. After shoot- ing Hawkins he returned home and shot himself, dying instantly. Both were wealthy farmers, Trouble arose from a dispute about a ditch between the farms. — The Dangers of ‘Tenements, Nuw York, December 6. fire in a tenement in the rean of 05 Mott st., Bridget Murtha and « man named Sheehan,j old people, were painfully burned. Mra, Julia McGrath was over come by smoke and may die. Two men leaped from the third atory window. — Barnum's New Huo g, New York, December 6.—Barnum, Bailey & Hutching m have received word from their agent in Rangoon, Indis, that | he had completed the purchase of a gen- | uine white elephant, recently cu{:turrd in | Siam and the property of a nobleman of | that country ~ The price to be is 00,000 in gold, and £50,000 have been paid. A Texas ) Storm, DaLrAs, Tex., December 6 —The rain last night partially flooded the city building, which is rendered unsafe. The damage amounts to £5,000. The damge to sewers and various stores is over $10,000. The Herald's basement was flooded, damaging considerable material, dispatch says the mudar of Sernaar tele- graphs that a dervisch entered a bazaar there Wednesday evening and pro- claimed the annihilation of Hicks Pasha's The dervisch Koran that not left alive, hearers armed Re: ahi the on In Krdorfan 5,000 Sernaar is the granary of hartoum. ~ The proceedings at Sernaar may be repeated at Khartoum or even at Assouan, THE CLYDE SIIP BU 3 Graseow, December 6. —The crisis in the «hip building trade on the Clyde is growing more intense, lhieelarge firms, ¥ including Denny, have notitied their em Darras, Tex., Docember 6,—The Mill Iron company consolidates with the Conginental company the first Tues- day of January. The combination rop- resents 85,000,000 worth of cattle. — —— GroucesTer, Mass., Dec, 6. —The fish- ing schooner Sultan and fourteen men, the Ruth Grover and twelve men, and the Maud F. Leighton and twelve men, are lost, o — The Goveri Mission. Cnicaco, Dec 6.--The Inter Ocean’s Lincoln, Neb., special says: Governor Dawes left for \\}mlllinlltun to-day to at- tend the meeting of the national repub lican committee to fix a place for holding the next national convention, e e— Closed Kor a Cut, Trexton, N, J., December 6.--The to-day, in an iron building in which the - The forthcoming crop and stock-report of the of December, will give the following per Whoat condition, farm animals and percent of The figures are 2,626,670, huing lis condition compared with last fall is Rye-acreage compared with last acreage condi- The al and cotton centennial exposition adopt- ed the design proposed by G, M. Jorgen- son, architect, of Meridian, Miss, for the I: will be 1500 feet long, wifh 1,000,398 squarc feet of floor space, including music hall in the centre, with a seating capacity of 12,000 department, fire department, bolice hog- | States Tblhe Bhsis pital, waiting rooms and life saving ap- | California i 16 paratus, Ten plans were offered and | Colorado o 8 three premiums awarded. The building | {nnect 1 will be the largest exposition building [ i . a ever erected, except,one in . London, in| Ludinna ' % | 1862, Lowa A 20 —— Kansas. . ... 18 Desperate Attempt at Suicide, Maine 12 CiNoiNNaTL, 0., December 6.—A, C. 't' o During a | 1 “Look and Tell Us; Who is Winning, Who Is Losing," by this Ilan of Prye of Main Wasninaron, December 6.—To reme- dy in some measure what is regarded as nvery gravo injustice in the present rep- resentation of the republican national convention, which gives states and dis- tricts all over the country the same v regordloss of republican votes, when in ! | some districts in the south even the form of nominating republican candidates for congress is not pursued, Senator Frye a wember of the republican national com mittee, will propose at the next meeting “[of the committee, on December 12th, a now basis of representation, as follows: Kach state shall be entitlod to four delo- ! | yates ns now, each district to ono i ad of twe as now, to one additional delegate for each 10,000 votes cast wichin its limits in 1880 for the republican candi- dates for presidential eloctors, aud to ono additional delegato for. a majority frac- tion of 10,000 vol The vote for pres- v | idential clectors is taken as the best in- dication of tho real strength of the party, | any district beiug less liable to be affected by local causes. Tho effoct of this proposition, if adopted, upon the states and convention is shown by the annexed table compiled by application of the presidential vote to tho dlptriots s then existing. The applitation of the same rule to tho present districts undor the late apportionment could not just now bo made, owing to the lack of nuces- sary and accurate information, but will not materially. change the relative strength of the several states, and will only tnereaso the total membership of the convention about 80. r NOKTHERN $1ATKS, T Old Now Minngsota . Nevada.... . Now Hamp-hire. Now Joreey New York 145,000 acres of corn. assigned aro that the subseription lists all stated that subscriptions would be for the Foreat Home, and the committee consider tho fund a trust in their hands They offer, however, toallow any Cath olic eubscriber to withdraw the money given in the next twonty days. Tn some quarters the foeling is bitter, but the ma jority of citizens hold feelings of the ut- most Kindneas, The shaft will cost &3,- 000, and will be put up in the spring. | —— A Nog Signal, Torronro, December 6.—There noth- ing in the so-called dynamite explosion laat night, me boys placed a fog signal on thoe street railway track. The car passed over and it exploded with great violence. The shock threw the car from tho rails and disabled it. ~ Threo or four Dussengers were badly shaken, No serious damage done to a | — CROP STATISTICS, The Besetting Sin of Agricultural Re- portors, To tho Kditor of The Beo 1 seldom trouble your pages, but as I take up various papors T son statistics given of the crops in this state and also from various counties. 1 wish to asl, what is the use of statistics on crops? Ts it to givo the people a correct knowledge of such, oris it to so enlarge the actual orop that grain speculators can cut down the price of what grain is actually worth to a less price, s0 thoy can rob the pro- ducer to put in their own pockets? I sco by tho report of State Secretary Whealor, gathered from the secretaries of counties, that the average yield of corn in No- braska this year is 41 bushels. The coun- ty in which I live had plantod last spri gives our county 1,845,000 bushels of corn., son we have had threa storms that has de- stroyed wheat, vats and corn, at least 50 per cent on the territory of these storms, which awounts to several thousand ucres, Uavo gonversed much with faruors on this point. Some say the crop w near what it did last’ year. *25 bushels."’ ol Basis, .20 Now] Basis. Alabama . Arkanmas. | Flnr:«[l& v Goorgia . Kontucky. 10 8 15 19 11 16 10 32 22 1 21 jog loxas . Number of delegatos on the present basis 820; number on the proposed basis 870. — The Diva roe Reforms, Corumpus, Ohio, December 6.—The divorse reform league was formed to-day by a ¢mvention called by state confo- renco of several protestant churches. A arge number member of ministers were present from difturent parts of the states, In the evening addresses were dehivered by Bishop Bedell and Dr, Hoyt new divorse reform lengue. Tolman Whee Cnicaco, December 6, — Tolman Wheeler, of this city, who has already made a number of valusble bequests to the Episcopal church, has doeded the church a valuable tract of land in the westorn division of the city and advanced $200,000 toward the erection of a church preparatory school, The design will be after that of Oxford, the prominent fea- tures of the structure being a chapel and library to contain 10,000 volumes, e — A Little Water 18 a Goodly Thing. Dis Moisks, la., December 6,—The stockhclders of the Cedar Rapids, lowa Falls & Northwestern railroud, have voted to increase its capital stock from $6,000,000 to #15,000,000 and decided to divide the road into three divisions, to be known as Tows, Minnesotaand Da- kota, The addition of the capital stock is maid to be for the purpose of extending the road from Worthington,Minnesota,to Fargo, Dakota, —— Far uake In Arkansas, §r. Lovss, Docerber 6, Neven shocks of arthquake wero felt, yoatorday ol 13 | fair average of the wheat is 12§ bushels. Virginia. ... oo 21 | agricultural reporters.” Last year | raw West Virginia. .12 12{ & yeport from a Lineoln man, in an - Py : nois paper, saying “There are thousands otals. L300 0 A £ by sl i of acres of sorn around Lincoln that have Tocrritorion . ....» 18 18 | from 85 to 100 bushels per acre.” Such and Rev. 8. W. Dike, secrotary of the | Ho cut his wrists with broken glass; a | O/ ey b sharpened lead pencil was thrust deeply | Pounsylvania. .. take all, it will average 2 to 30 bushels into his neck; then ho used a pockot comb | Rhedo Talaud 15| There are piccos that. will go 60 to 80 in ;xl ‘,".{0!‘1!0 cut his throat: Ho did this \V?;:»‘::t;‘: v 27 | bushels. 1 saw i icAgo PAper areport at 2 o'clock and then lay in the utmost | FUFEENIR 10| from this cow . ; \mhln:'h o prasic st proportion of replied, *I have 0 of 9 acres that averaged 201" I believen Does it benefit the farmer to over-esti- mate the crops? In no case, but it isa damage every time. What rules should be adopted in averaging crops? ‘‘Says Commissioner Loring, *‘in estimating the vield per acre, remember all acreage which has been cultivated even though it returns no more than the aeed rovn is to be considered.- The estimating too high a yield per acre is the besotting sin of reports go to the grain merchants, they will try to believe it, #o to cut down prices five to ten conts per bushel, and the farmers every time havo to suffer for this over est tion. The corn erop of the state was put at 60 bushels last year. Corn this year is, much of it, soft in the bert, pi 1 have reen or heard of in this county. The quality of corn will not luo over 8 per cent of last year’s crop. The average yield is rather better, except in the storm tracks. I beliove roporting of crops requires much more study und knowledge than is generally given to it, and hope the time will come when it will be better under- stood, #o the world will be the better benefitted thereby. SIMON, Acnona, Neb , Dee, 1, 1883, ———— DORSEY He Innugurates a War on His Pari- ners in the Oattle Business, Specal to the Bt, Louis Republican 8anta Fi, N, M. December Sena- tor 8. W. Dorsoy has taken forcible pos- This, at that rato, Have we got it? During the sea- of new members to gobble up NO. 146, SNOW AND WIND. Deaver Has an Unparclieled Experience in the Storm Line, Havoe Wrought With Electric Wires of All Kinds. Strects Blockaded With the Wreck- age and Trains Delayed, A DISASTROUS STORM, DENVER HBAVILY VISITED, Dexvir, December ( A snow and wind storm visited thi ion last night which in disastrous eifects is without a parallel in the histcry of Colorado. Snow commenced falling at noon and continued all night. The weather was warm and attached itself to telograph wires until they were two inches in diametor. At four o'clock this morning the wind blow almost a gale aud in about half an hour ater 300 poles, 18 inches in diameter @ blown down carrying a mass of wires. Fifteenth, Righteenth and Law- renco streets and a dozen squares were blockaded. All trains were delayed untul evening, Outside communication was completely cut off. The telephone companics will probably lose 15,000, The damage to railroad, telegraph, elec~ tric light and district messenger compis niesis heavy Strangely 1o loss of life i reported and fow serious accidents, The storm was entirely local, L —— = Congress and Caucus, WasniNeron, December 6. —1u the house Mr. McCord took the eath of ofiice, Adjourned until Monday. The demecratic senators held a coucus this morning, Pendleton presiding, to arrange the party’s members of the com- mittees. Some feeling was displayed in respoct to the habit of older members securing o majority of the important places cn the committees to the exclusion of the younger membors, The following committee was appointed to arrange the minority membership to the best inter- ests of all and report their action at the next caucus: Harris, Cockrell, Garland, Butler, George, Morgan and Call, The executive order consolidating in- ternal revenuo districts was revoked as appliod to Wisgonsin districts, In the seuate, Mr Manderson pre- sented the resolutions of the Nebraska logislaturo, asking that land grant roads bo compelled to take out patents so that the lands may be taxed; also to remove the duty on barl ed wire, and for the im- provement of the Missouri river., There is wuch opposition. among old moembers of the house against the efforts positions on important committees, Mr. Moirison will get the chairmanship of the ways and means and Mr. Randall the chairmanship of the appropriations committee. — — CORN AND POLITICS. quarter of a crop of sound ccrn in the county. 3 Ishould have written to Twe Brm sooner, but 1 got 80 torribly broken up on the day of election by the political cy- | clone which swept over our county like a political ‘besom of destruction, which landed 80 many of the boys amid the dreary wastes around the head of Salt Creek. The republican beat has made some splondid races, and weathered some fearful gales, but the grcat amount of corruption which she has been loaded with for some years, has so rotted her timbers that the cyclone and torpedo which George W. Brown and his friends exploded right under her stern, loaded with concentrated political dynamite, was too much for her, Jua thinkof it! five out of sevin vt her crew lost. Candi- dates for the different county offices, and Reeso and Tiflany only were saved by the skin of their teeth, although Loran Clark was running her under double reefed top sails, and her hatches battenel down. How different it was throe yeers ago! Then all was calm and we could sail her in an unrufled sea with every sail set without changing tho rud- der, like a ship in the trades on the bosom of tho broad Pacific. Our candi- date for treasurer, Colonel Harris, was beaten by Sam Bolman by 534 votes, and James S, Armstrong got away with our man's scalp fcr courty judge by 78, and J. C. Green laid out two men for sheriff. by 116 votes. Dr, D, H, Lowis cleaned out our man, Dr. Brown, fox coroner by 237 votes, and J. C. Lewis buried our man for commissioner under a snow bank of 206 votes. H. F. Snider polished our man for surveyor by 68 votes, session of the buildings and ranches of the Polo Blanco cattle company, placod an armed force of men on guard and de- deposed Manager ', M. Woolworth, The ranches and headquarters of the company are located in Colfax county, N. M. near the town of Bpringer, Dorsey home. The ranch is in his charge as property of tho company appear to be the cause of the present dif- ficulty, Woolworth represents Hon,Jno. W. Bosler of Penusylvanin, who holds now miles long and | coj 40 in width, He also lndividlullygowm Pe‘::-:t soverl smaller tracts. Manager “Wool- | often blazed before worth's endeavor to include ono of these | front ranks of the war, where the battle was the hottest, like the white plume of Navarre. ment was dead, but time it has fooled us and Reese only got 62 maj ority, and he ought to have got over UOJ Tiffany only got 146, and he ought to have got over 800. Our candidate for clerk was recog- nized in the wreck amid the maelstrom by his red beard struggling for dear life, ., [and was only saved by one vote. And the ~anties ~are going to his 1ight to live, Poor that red has ¥ his comrades in the We thought the anti move- this is the second rhinup like the e # Gity couac of Loadville to entor cortain | 37 Y8 cptusad at Hu, Poh, B OM [ yloyen that wages will be reduced in Jan- | Tronton Tron compny closed the rolling | Rounenden Sprivgs, arkanss, They | 819,000 worth of "the cattlo company's | bird of fable, each Bger and lunds for town site purpusss, on tho| P SISO o FOEL TR | RRECE nacy, and wovoral other fiems will follow | il lant night. Two hundred aud fifty [lusted 40 soconds, and oroke glawware | % ckywhilo Dorsey owns §105,000 worth, | stronger. Wo ought to have won, s we ground that the greater portion is already | g B8 oo™ [ylands and San | the exemple. hands thrown out of employment, 1t ia fand crockery in the housos. ~Largo rocks | 7 ot third of the capitalstock, Bosler | ad both county papers on our sido, be- atented an placer claims or ia reserved| gry 000 "U 00 ghe trial his lawyors s COMMEKCIAL TREALY, xpected work will be resumed Monday | were loosened and fell into the cuts of [ 1¢ Will be romembercd, is the Pennsylvi - | sides nearly all the prominent men; also dia senator who knows a great deal about the star route matter, but who was not placed upon the stand in the late trial be- for hospital aed cemeter; Suh portien of the lands hawever, hias not already been dispised of £nd purposes. a8 n nearly all” the money, and money will buy whiskey. And we had the principal portion of the ignoramuses on our side, tho Kansas City, Springfield & Momphis railroad near by, The shocks were ac- companied by a loud noise. The violent made a fight on tho ground that the Loxvox, Dece., 6--The foreign office | at reduced wages, court hud we jurisdietion over the gris- [ announces that England and Spain will oner as it was alleved he was foreibly | renew negotiztions to form a eommercial A I asobbery, b segrregutec I be held auiject to com Peru without legal process. | treaty beiween the two countries, Dakpanery, Ark., December G.— iy of theearth moyed northwest togouth- | “huse ot hin friendship and intimate | which meaus the raight voters, Oh! putry by the }'(’:r“,:-‘:::‘!“rll'gl_.,"u:‘, I,‘w““;fim oA v o LU A Four milos feom Danville to-daytho minil | . auquaintance with Hoo, James G. | what must wo prominent men do! We THE INGALLS O BILL, supreme coury @ motion for & writ of 84-| Paurs, Duo, 6.—The govern ¢ h rides was stoppod by armed robbers, who —— Blane, y must have an 1ssue to attract the voters &~ ‘o bill iotroduced by Senator lugalls |u:l|:»ud»nu which Ker halioves will 1o decided ko eommence. the. discassion of | 107k the letter pouch aud disappered in A Mother's Desperation Woolworth and his attorney, M. W. | from the pestiferous anti monopoly / d the howscstead laws provides | leaso him from the penitenciary. tie Tonauin cradite tarerrory i Of [ the waods, Baviour, December 6 — Mrs, Luura | Mills, arvived in Santa Ee to-duy with | movemont or wo will Joso our pusses suto 4 t«}:n‘mu?l‘ ";‘m oriand laws Rroviden | iease him 1o i _;uw ‘|‘Mm3";~ '1"1:5.13}'.,« i «.\‘» —— Biall, who killed her tw) children Fri- "‘1‘{ intention of asking Chief-Justice Ax- | Waving the bloody shirt is played out that egetion 2,301, LAs, e — Shaey ad o « A et comumi TELEGIRA P 4 - 5 = inj - . } amendsd to read as follows: *‘Nothing TELEGRAPH NOTES da t, and eut her own throat, died [tell for an injunction to restrain Dorsey | excopt among the Rip Van Winkles. tee hus approved the project for a cable from continuing his possession o fraur Sargon to Touquiu. " P £ tho cattle company, but have not yet present- od their bill, " They allege that Senator Dorsey is insane and is drinking hard. o this mooning, She often expressed a wish to die and refused nourishment. — The Thelts of “Supers, NE OF THE Bovs, ——— Constitu 1 Police tegulations. New Youx, December .- The ua- in this chapter shall be so construed as The Rloux Hest rvation. i to provent. any person who availed him- | sr. Prvi, Decembor 6.—A agecial dis solf of thoe becefits of section 2,280 fiow | patels from Pierre, Dakola, saye & con- paying the minimum price for granting|vention assembled there to-day to devise The Dover silk company of Pattarson, N. ., has fudlod. Liabilities $102,000; assots 70,000, James R. Koena denfes that he fs finan- CHINA'S BACK D1, G, Dec. 6 Hoxe Ko The government or two y 9 sorvali n, A re vithdraw or modity its claim Omieaco, Ui, December 6 — Three| eme——— tional te uperance society has adopted & i s0 entered auy tine after two years | plans to open the Sioux roservai n, and | refuses to withdra y chally embarrassud A < ) Tho ring thut ws 10 wunag ow0- Joupemn y has adopte i }:.’ff,. date of wnlryy, and before the expi- | a commiteve -was appointed to to | regarding Towquin, It prefers war to| g SN L e which had | 2uper ployed at the wrand opera | o ifi’ piE U 450 i:’:,;‘“fi:]‘;“‘}‘f\j’d“,fl resolutions asking congress to smend 3 ration .of five years, and ol taining 2 | Washingtow 10 secure the specdy opening g surrender of tie province to Krance. |y, Wle for two monthw, were burned | house have becn arrested, suspected of Randull, and yot Ohio gave him but two out | £10 constitution of the United States, so ‘» patent thorefor, as in other casey on |ef this large and valuahle tract of land. ' Large bodies of troops are continually Wednesday pignt, Low 255,000, various theits reported by members of | of ity thictoen votes, a8 to prohibit the liquor trafiie entirely, P v i i od