Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 24, 1884, Page 4

Omaha Ofice, No. 916 Farnam 8t. Oouncil Bluffs OMce, No. 7 Pearl Btreet, Near Broadway. New York Office, Room 63 Tribune Building. il Pablished every rorning, excopt Sanday' The only Monday moraiog daily. NN WENRLT BAR, PUBLISHND RVARY WEDNRSDAY, TARMA rOwTTAID. merioan News Company, Sole Agente Nowsdeal- Al o In the nited Statos. CORRWAPONDRNOY. wunloations relating to News and Rditorial ..‘nu"-";’:..fl be addressed to the Evrron or Trs B s, LTINS, All Business Tettors and Remittances should bo o Tin Ben PORLIIING COMPANT, Dratts, Chooks and Postoffico orders to be pay bl 46 the order of the company. YHE BEE PUBLISHING CO., PROPS. . ROSEWATER, Editor, A H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, P'. 0, Box 488 Omaha, Neb. Noruisc has been heard from Bis- marck since (’chiltree’s broadside. — Tie election is to take place in one woek, and yet Pat. Hawes is fifteen hun- dred miles away. — Prestorst Awrnn paid a long visit to General Grant, at the latter’s hotel in Washington, on Saturday, and the polit- ical wise-acres are now all out of joint. e ———— Ir is now claimed, after a thorough in- n, that the cattle plague at Neosho Falls, Kansas, is not the infect- ous foot and 1aouth disease, but foot rot. This is comforting news to the cattle men. Tir insult offered to the American hog by the German chancellor is to bo resented by the ci ns of the capital of Dakota. Thoy propose to change the name of the capital city from Bismarck to something else. It is suggested that they re-na:ae it Pigville. —_— Vax Wyck does not care the snap of his fingers for the opinion of the state officials in matters of federal appoint- ment, and he is right. Our delegation in congress are responsible for them, not the state officials— Lincoln News. The state ofticers, who are sending in- structions to our senators, do not seem to understand that they don't own the earth. They may presently discover that theyare putting their hands in hot water. Tur Bee says the reorganized Denver Tribune is » monopoly organ because its new editor was oncu {n the employ of a railroad company. According to the same reasoning Tur BEkis a tool of the Western Union Telegraph company be- cause its editor was once in the employ of that corporation.— Lincoln Journal. Birds of a feather will flock together. Touch a monopoly organ and all the other brass-zollared gontry rush to his defense. Tur Bur forws its estimato of the present editorof the Z»ibunc not from his past vocations, bui from his present utterances, coupled also with the fact that the ownership of the paper which he edits is believed to be vested in cer- tain capitalists who aro connected with the railwa A caNpIATE for assessor in Denver ex- pects to be elected on the promise to raiso the valuation of property in the city from thirty million dollare]to forty millions. In Omaha the man who will promise to re- duce the valuation has the inside track.— Lineoln Journal This may be a little overdrawn, but the fact that Denver with an assessed valua- tion of $30,000,000 insists upon the as- sessod valuation being raised, is a strik- ing commentary upon low assessments in Omaha, where last year the asscssment was a trifle over $7,000,000 as against $11,000,000 in 1872. TReal estate to-day in Omaha is worth from fifty to one thou- sand per cent more than it was in 1872, The population has nearly tripled, the area of taxable property has been ex- tended’ for miles, and millions have been expended in new business houses, facto- ries, and dwellings. Ir is now claimed that there will be some difficulty after all in carrying into effect Senator Dawes’ bill providing for the opening of the Sioux reservation, as three-fourths of the male adults among the Bioux snust give their written con- sent. It is asserted that this consent will not be easily obtained. The gov- ernment annually expends on the thirty thousands Kioux $500,000. The major portion of this sum is spent for provisions and clothing. So long as these are fur- nished in abundance, as is the case at present, the Endians refuse to work or acquire the knowledge which will enable them to support themselves, Indian Agent McGilliouddy does not favor the cutting off of these wupplies on the ground that such an aet would result in dhe run of every settler within u radive of one hundred milee. Too lazy and idle to work, the tlers until that source.of supply was ex- r{m.fl then murder and pillage ~ would speedily follow. ‘D/nder the pre- sent condition of thinge ne trouble is ex- perienced. Mr, MeGillianddy, however, is not oppesed to the opening of the res- ervation, as proposed in Benator Dawes' bill, but he maintains that if earried into effect the ladian supplies should not im- mediately be cut off, In this he is cor- rect. The supplies should bo gradually reduced, and whes the Indians become self-supporting, as it is proposed to make them, then they will no longer need sup- plies or assistance from the governmext. Mr. MoGillicudy says that the purchase of the fourteen thousand square miles or- ~ dered in the Dawes bill would open up & splendid balt of country, snd the com- ~ pletion of the two railrosds now projeot- ~ d threugh the territory would give to immigration au impetus such #s ha never - beonwon in the northwest. TAKE TRE SCHOOLS OUT OF POLITICS. Ix the coming city election, which takes place one week from to-morrow, the enly officors tobevotedfor on the gon- oral city ticket are three members of the board of education. ¥very pateon of the public achools is deeply interested in the result. Our schools under the adminis- tration of the present superintendent, Mr. James, have been browght up to a high standard of efficiency, and the peo- ple generally are well satisfied. Owing to the excellence which the schools have attained, the attendance has very largely increased and comtimues to grow. There are now between 5,000 and 6,000 boys and girls in attendance mpon our public schools. In 1882 the attendance waa about 3,700, The increase has been nearly b0 per cent, while the population of Omaha has not increased more than 26 per cent. during the same period. Two years ago the attendance of the high school was about 60, while the present enrollment is 175, This marked increase- ed in school attendance must be attribut- ed largely to the increased efliciency of the schools under the management of the prosent superintendent, Mr, James, We understand that there has been a movement started by the friends of Mr, Lane to have him reinstated as superin- tendent of the public achools of Omaha. While it may not reaily amount to any- thing, we deem it advisable in the in- eres and the public wel- faro to check it in its incipiency. Mr. Lane has the reputation of being & good tonch@, but our board of education, in the interest of the public achools, elected another man, in whom the people of Omaha have the fullest contidence. Mr. Lane made a good principal in the St. Louis schools, but his experience as su- perintendent, before he came to Omaha, was limited to an Ohio village. Mr. James was for many yoars assis- tant superintendent of the public schuols of Cleveland under Superintendent Rickoff, who ranked at the head of American educators, It isa well-known fact that ths schools of Cleveland are classed among the very best in America, It was in such a field that Mr. James acquired bis exporience and won for him- self a more than local reputation. He did not come to Omaha as anapplicant to displace Mr. Lane, but upon the urgent invitation of President Long and the officors of the board of education. He accepted the place with reluctance, only upon the assurance that he should be continued unaisturbed as long as his managoment gave satisfaction. Upon leaving Cleveland he sold his property there, and located in Omaha with the in- tention of making it his permanent homo. Under all these circumstances a change of superintendents would be detrimental to tho public schools and unjust to Mr. James. No advantago can possibly be gained by the change for any one, ex- cepting Mr. Lane, and his frionds must concede that the attempt to reinstate him would demoralize and seriously oripplo the entire school system. The plan of Mr. Lane's friends is to elect members to the board at the coming election who will order Mr. James to stop down and out to make room for Mr. Lane. There are nine members of the board, and the terms of three of them expiro this spring. Mr. Lane by olect- ing throo of his friends in their placo may possibly be able to accomplish his object, as he fecls confident of the support of three of the six members who hold over. Mr. Lane, it scoms, is more of a politi- cian than a school superinwendent, but wo hardly think he will be able to pre- vent the outgoing members of the board — Mosars. Points, Long and Connoyor— from being returned by the poople. Theso three gentlemen are the oldest and most eflicient members of the board, having beein members for many years. They have aoquired a valuable expe- rienc. They have served the city's in- Sioux would run off the stock of the set- | torest faithfully and conscientiously, with- out pay, and certainly ought to be re- tained. In the coming election politics ought not to enter into our school affairs, The best men for the board of education should be voted for without regard to politics; and we believe that no better men can be found for the place than Messrs. Points, Long and Connoyer. In view of the fact that there are no other officers to nominate the proper and grace- ful thing for the party conventions to do is to endorse Messrs. Long, Poiwnts and Connoyer, just as Judges Neville and Wakely wese endorsed last fall. That will effectually take the schools out of politica, DEATH OF GENERAL WEITZEL. 1n the death of General J. Godfrey Waoitzel the United States army has lost one of ite bravest and most eflicient offi- cers. The parents of Gen, Weitzel came from Rhenish Bavaria and located in Oincinnati, where ho was born in 1835, Ho received his primary education in the schools of Oincinati. In 1850 he received an appointment to West Point, from which institution he graduated in 1866 with distinguished honors, standing sec- ond in a class of thirty-three. Young Waitzel was appointed brevet second lieutenant of engineers July 1, 1855, and promoted to second lieutenant August, 18060, to first lieutenant July 1, 1860, and captain March 3, 1863, From Novem- ber 1, 1885, to August, 1859, he served a8 assistant engineer in the construction and repairs of the fortifications in Lousi- ana, and was ordered to the wilitary academy as acting assistant professor of clvil and wilitary enginvering. He served in this capacity until January, 1861, eud then reported to First Lieuten. aut J. O, Duane, eommanding Co, A, Engineers, and with this company pro- ceedud to Washington city. During the inauguration of President Lincoln, it was his body-guard. In April Lieutenant Woeitzel nocompanied his command to Fort Pickens, Florida, and while at that port, twice crossed the bay and pene- teated the enemy’s lines to reconnoiter under confidential orders from Colonel Brown. He returned to the west on the 1st of October, 1861, but shortly after roported to General Mitchell, then com- manding the District of Ohio, as chief engineer, and also to recruit for Company D, engineers, He was ordered to report with the engineer battalion in the Army of the Potomac, and was placed in com- mand of Company C, and assigned to the special duty of placing together some of the pontoon trains for the army. When Gien, Butler's expedition to New Orleans was determined upon, Licutenant Weitzel was selected aa its engineer. His advice and suggestions in this expedition were followea and proved very valuable, as ho had spent four years in the con- struction of fortifications in Louisiana, and henco possessed a knowledge of the country that eminently qualified him for signal sorvice. Upon tho capture of New Orleans, Lieutenant Weitzel, in conse- quence of his intimate knowledge of the city, country and people, as well as the sound judgment he had displayed in the previous operations was appointed assis- tont military commander and acting mayor of New Orleans, He was also placed in chargo of the organization of troops in Louisiana, and under his supervision the First and Second Louisiana infan- try and companies A, B, C and D of the First Louisiana cavalry were organized. After the battle of Baton Rouge he was ordered to report there for temporary duty, and while at that post he laid out the intrenchments which have since served as the basis for the fortifications at that point. ©n the 10th of November, 1862, the young lieu- tenant was appointed brigadior general of volunteors, and immediately following he concluded a brilliant campaign. He was ordered to Ohio on the recuiting ser- vico in Decembor, 1863, and upon re- turning he applied to the war depart- ment to be relieved from duty in Louis- iana. He reported to General Butler, in Virginia, in April, 1864, and was as- signed to duty in two capacities—as chiof enginoer of the department and in command of the Second division, Eigh- teenth corps. As chief engineer of the de- partment he constructed the various lines of defensive works and bridges on the James and Appomattox rivers, including the approaches and piers for the famous pontoon bridge by which the Army of the Potomac crossed the James. He was subsequently assigned to the command of tho Eighteenth corps, numbering only 5,100. He was attacked on the 30th of September by two rebel divisions, as- sisted by the entire fleet of the James. The assault was handsomely repulsed. In December, 1864 he was assigned to the command of the Twenty-fifth corps, col- ored. He held the position until the corps was disbarded, and he was mus- tered out of the service. He was on- gagod in the final operations against Richmond, and was in command of all that portion of the army north of Appo- mattox and James rivers. It was his good fortune to clutch the prize which for tour years the armies of the east had sought to secure. He entored Richmond, unsupported, with about 9,000 men, on the 3rd of April, 1865, He took up his headquarters at the residence of Mr. Jelf. Davis, abandoned by him only tho even- ing before. Here he received President Lincoln on the occasicn of his memor- able visit to the fallen rebel capital, and here occurred tho interview with Judge Campbell and others, in which the crafty rebel functionaries sought to secure from Mr. Lincoln a recognition of their state government. After boing mustered out of the volunteer service, General Woit- vel was assigned to duty in the engineer corps. Genoral Weitzel was highly hon- ored for his share in the suppreesion of the great rebellion. His skill as an engineer commanded the confidence of his oorps and of the army. A FOOL FRIEND OF THE RAILROADS. Denver has a board of trade. It also has several newspapers that mold public opinion for the railroads. The Denver board of trade is to be reorganized]into a chamber of commerce, just as a theatre is sometimes changed into an ‘‘opera house.” This affords the fool friends of the railroads an opportunity to tender disinterested advice to the Denver men- chants. The Denver Zribune, which has recently boen avnexed to the rail- road interests, exhibits great anxiety to have the now chamber of commerce properly organized. The business men of Denver are bluntly notified thai *‘any merchant who keeps out of the Chamber of Commerce with the idea that by so do- ing he will please the railroads and get hanged. The latter sentence the court has ordered to be catried out on the 25th of April, but the prisoner objects, eon- tending that the first sentence has priority, and ee must serve out the fifty yoars before he can bo hung. If the con viet were in Nebraska Governor Dawes would have allowed him to serve out the fifty-year term and then commuted the death sentence to lite imprisonment. —— Vax Wyck's inquisitiveness has been the means of bringing about an impor- tant new departure. Heretofore United States attorneys and marshals have de- pended for their income on fees, and as & consequencos many persons have been dragged into court to answer for petty offenses, merely to make fees for the court officers. The appropriation com- mittees have practically determined to abolishthe feo system, and give attorneys and marshals a fixed salary. —— Tur Maori King sails from Auckland for England via San Francisco on April 1st. His Maorial Majesty will pass through Omaha, and thus afiord our four-time ma(y)orial chief executive an opportunity to give him a reception. Col. Chase has not entertained royalty since Kalakaua honored Omaha with a viait, Tur democratic reformers in congress are still wrestling with the whisky bill. CITY WALKS AND TALKS., “Did you ever soo one of those bills be- fore?” a M Swift, as he handed to Tie Ber's Man About Town a two dolla bill on the old bank of Tekamah. did,” was the reply. wonvenir of the wild-cat banks of the early “I never alwaya reminds me of some interesting events of those days, Tn 1856 Omaha was very pros- perous and money was plonty. But early in 1857 there came a depression which was fol- lowed by a general panic all over the country, iverybody who had bills of the wild-cat banks, as thay were fealled, wot badly stuck. They failed here er the other, and it as weold day when a man found himself with- out having one or more bills on_busted banks. I remember that a party of eight of us went puuty to lay out an addition to yhody was then speculating St. Johns, 2 intown lots aud laying out town sitos. In our party there wero besides myself, Thomas 0 Connor, John A. Creighton, Mike Murphy, Vincent Burkloy, at Gurnet, and two others, whose names I can’t recollect now. We stopped at Tokamah over night. We got up early next morning, and waked up the cashier of the Bank of Tekamah and five of us cashed in several hundred dollars apiece, receiving gold for our bank notes. We drew out between $2,500 and 83,000. Shortly after this the bank suspended, and we all thought wo were lucky in having exchanged_ our paper for coin, This bank had $100,000 in circnla- tion, and was doing a big business. 1 remem.- ber that*after it suspended John M. Clarke offered 2,000 in bills of this bank for £200 in gold, jend of mine, named Baugh, who was kooping a small stors, where Hellman's building is now located, one day, when the banks were breaking, handed me $500 in bills 1, take that money and spend it for me in some way, right off, as I don't think it will be th a cent in a few days.' I took that money over to Council Bluffs the next morning and bought bacon and corn for it. hich issued the bills which Baugh gave me, bursted that very sfternoon,” “Yos, T the panic of 155 answer to an i About Town. tho old settlor, “‘there tho currency all " said another old juiry from tho B “During the year 155 was an over the country. overybody dabbled in real estate. of 1857, after a inter, opened auspic- iously for Omaha in overy respoct. Real os- tato was held at as funcy figures as_ever, and was about as active as in the previous year, But in a short time, however, real estate be- gan to get o little heavy, and did not sell «ite a8 readily. The financial co wo bogan with the suspension of the Ohto Trust company, which was followed by the failure of the Illi- nois banks and others all over the west. There were numerous ‘wild-cat’ banks in raska at that time, as there were elsewhere in the west, T'wo or three of these bauks were lo- catod in Omaha, and one or more at every village through the river counties. The bank that did she iargest business in Omaha and Nobraska was the Western Kxchange Fireand Matine Insurance company. L. R. Tuttle was the cashier, and A. U, Wyman, after- wards cashier of the Omaha National bauk, but now treasurer of the United States, was the teller. The Western Exchange failed,and nearly all the other banks in the terdtory fol- Jowod suit. Within four months every Ne- braska bank had closed its doors, with the, ex. ception of two or three. One of these banks that withstood tho general pressure wis the Bank of Dakotah, which was operated by Augustus Kountze, This bank redeemed its entire cir- culation at par, This was considered a big inside favors makes a great mistake as to the size of the brains of the men who comtrol the railroads. The latter do not waut their friends to be absurd and use. loss. The better course for such mer- chanta is to join the Chamber of Com. meroce and always be on hand to fight any violent anti-railrond measures.” The fool-friend of the railroads n.ay have given himself away in exposing the inside methods by which boards of trade and chambers of eomierce are packed in the interest of giant monopolies. *‘To beon hand to fight any violent anti- railroad measure"” means simply to be on hand to vote down any resolution that would expross a desire on the part of business men for fair-dealing and redress against abuses that cripple commerce, The same influences have been employed time and again in Omaba, The boards of trade ia Omaha, Denver and other cities have become simple cat's-paws to pull railroad cliestuuts out of the fire, A Texas man was récently convieted of two offenses in Galveston, for one of which he was condemued to fifty years' imprivomnent, and for the other to be thing at that time. It was during tne sum- mer of 1857 that the city of Omuha issued D for the purpose of com- Pleting the capitol. This scrip p at par until the cavitol building was enclosed. It then began to fall off, until finully the dis- count was greater than the sum for which it would pass. A large amount of* this scrip was either lost or virtually repudiated, except what was received in payment for city taxes. ‘The financial depression continued through 1858, In 189 and 1800 the city began to pick up agaln owing to the Pike's Peak travsl, which made Omaha an important out- fitting point. Omahs wmerchants kept their stores open day and night, Sundays not ex- cepted, being detormined to make hay while the sun shone, Those were busy times and our merchants coined money right along. This Colorado immigration lasted until 1864." ——*Dhe people of this city ought to con- gratulate thomselyos upon the fact that such a man as Alex. H. Swan has beoomo interested in Omaha,” said & prominent cattle owner at the Paxton hotel the other evening. *‘Do you know anything about Mr. Swans history?” asked Tii: Bek's Man About Town, *Yes, I have known him for some time,” replied the gentleman; *‘Mr. Swan came from Pounsylva- nla to Towa in 1833, when ho was about twen- ty-two years of ago, bringing with him about $1000. Ho located on some wild land, made some improvements, and sold out at a profit. Re-investing some of his monoy in wild land, he went to Ohio, after he hud been in Iowa a little over two yars. In Ohio he bought a farm and remained thare seven years, when he returned to Tows and_engaged in buying and welling cattle, in which he met with great suc- o Ho finally went, luto partnarship wi Lis brother, and entered Into tho business of raising cattle. In addition to what capital whey possessed they borrowed some mouey and startod o cattlo hord in Wyoming, They bo- #an with about 3,000 head. business of tho Swans has rapidly increased siuce the time thoy bogan cattle raising in Wyoming, snd they and their associates own and control sn immonse number of cattle. Alex, Swan is now the loading cattle man of the west. His per- sonal wealth in o-timated at between $2,000,- D00 mud 3,000,000, whilo at_the saung'tie e control and m mont of 200, 000 hiad of Catelo, yalued b 56,000,000 Ho bas organized and consolidated under bis wanagement at Joast half » dozen big cattle companies or syndicates, The last one that he organized was the Ogallala Land and Cattle Soinpany, of Nobrasks, with hoadgusrtars, in Owmaha ' This co Quasha ™ This cowpany owns %0 and ity corrals for the branding of stock. He nbon'llg-’lnml forty miles from Moiues, la, worth $350,000. " Mr, Swan organized and “T keep that hill as a |1 days of Nebraska,” eaid Mr. Swift. It mber a great deal about ttler, in 'S Man said fuflation of and The spring th | cally be to place a barrier between the ) head of { oming and especially of this portion of Swan owns 150,000 acres of territory, wostarn Land, with ton housas, eight bars, :;’:“:ler:’.u 1" peedioh 'wul.l worthy of the consideration of our T - cated the Omaha stock yards s _and the dressed boef business in ('maha. Thess enterprises will make a big boom for this city, In fact it has nlrnld{ begun. You can’t find a house for rent in Omaha_ to-day, and_one of the first things that onr capitalista'should do is to build & large number of houses to rent, to rovide for the fncrense of population, Yes, [V'e & big thing for Omaha that Alex, Swag has become interested here. He has induced & large number of Scotch capitalists to invest in this enterprise, and at the same time he has given several of Omaha's capitalists a chance to make & mint of money.” —“You remember Lieutenant Trout, who had charge of the government relief supplies in Nobraska during the grasshopper plague!” asked o gentleman of Tite Bix's Man About Town, who replied that he did. I met Lioutonant Trout the other day,” said the gentlomen, ‘‘on a west-bound Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy train, He is now an in- spector for the Pullman car company, and was making a trip over the road in one of the new buffet cars, just introduced on that road, Trout is on the retired list of the army, Some time ago he hurt one of his ankles, and received a permanent injury, He now draws hatf pay fro he guvernment, and receives a good salary from tho P'ullman company. This combiuation provides him with a very com- fortable income,” ~—Col. Frank . Hanlon and Charles Og- den, Ex., wero heard conversing in Frencl the office of the Millard hotel, last ovening. Mr. Ogden is a native of New Orleans, and talks French fluently, Col. Hanlon, although ho only spent two weeks in the Crescont City, comes back (uite a finished French scholar. Owing to his natural modesty, however, he prefers to converse in the Anglo-S rather than display his complishments. *“Col pressions of New Or “Itin o place well worth visiting," « “4t s on of tho oldest cities on the continout. Its o regular old tumblo-down town. Tho buildings aro old French_andSpanish fror end of the city to the other. are only four or five modern b gs in_thy whole city. The buildings are all low, and there are no collars nnt of the water, French issp.k orybody there, All the negr : and vory few of them ever talk Many of them can’t speak a word i I was greatly amv to hear a negroo and an Diishman quarreling in French. The peo- ple are the laziest set [ ever saw. All the to care for is enough to eat, drink and we and they spend most of their time taking sun-baths. Grub and sunshine make them perfectly contented. They remind me of the lazy alligator, which crawls out of the river and lies on the bank in the sunshine sll day long. ‘Have a shine, massa? a bootblack to me, and when I wantod him to step into the shade to perform the plantation contract, he said, ‘Massa, come right heah, in de sunshine. Heah'’s a warm place.” And I had to walk into tho sunshine befora I could get my boots blacked. T saw the finest dressed woman in New Orloans that 1 eversaw inmy life. They got their styles direct from Paris, There are several Parisian branch houses in New Orleans, and they do a big businoss, The newspapers do not compare with those of the north. Thoy are very slow-going, and pay but very little attention to the general news of the country. They print quite_full market reports, however, The people of New Orleans are looking forward with great interest to the world’s fair and cotton exposition to be held there next fall. I was there during the Mardi Giras festival, and saw tho city in its holiday attire. It is a holiday city, I saw people from all parts of the north. There are only two first class hotels in the city, and they shut up during the summer mon There aro hundreds and hundreds of restaurants, and thousands of lodging rooms,” ——Although written by a New York Jour wal thymester, the peovle of Omaha, who are- now wading through seas of mud, will appre- ciate the following, which is probably more agplicable to Omaha than it is to New York: Oh, the mud, the boot-clinging mud! Splashing and dashing with sickening thud, Climbing "way up on the back of our coat, Trying and sighing to slip down our throat. Oh, soft, sticking substance, too soon you'll bo dry, And, turning to dust, you will fly in our eye. Spattering, Scattering, ] Pattering mud, We sigh when wo spy thee, and cry out, ‘0, Times wore good everywhere, Tt particularly 80 in Real - 5 eatato sold at high pricos, and cornor lots wexe NinaoponaentiFepanlicans.y in big domand, 1d, and Cuicaco, March 22, —The following call for the formation of an mdependent republican association has been made public here to-day. It is endorsed by fifty leading citizens comprising the most prominent business and professional men of Chicago, and it is expected to increase the list to five thousand: *‘The under- signed citizens of Chicago are members of the Republican party, attached to its past and hopeful of 1ts future. Its vie- tory at the next election depends, in their opinion, upon tnat element of tho party which by reason of its indepen- dence of action and its patriotic motives has in its hands party success at the polls. They believe that it is essential this year to nominate for the presidency and vice- presidency men who are committed to the work of administrative reform and total removal of the spoils system and ¢‘bossism” from public life, and they are convinced that the independent republi- cans will refuse to vote for candidates whose records, characters and opinions do not illustrate these principles, They feel that there should be an organization in this city to represent these views, and they invite all republicans in sympathy with this movement to unite with them in the formation of the independent re- publican association of Chicago.” Among the signers are N. K. Fair- bank, A. A. Sprague, William L. Baker, A. O. McClurg, Franklin MacVeagh, Murry Nelson, Henry W. King, M. D, Wells, Henry Field, and others. An lmportant Step, Cheyenne Leader. The Union Pacific railroad company has commenced at North Platte to con- struct westward wire fences on both sides of its track, and it is intended so to fence it all the way through to Ogden. It re- quires no extraordinary process of reason- ing to demonstrate to the mind the im- portant bearing this step will have upon the cattle interests of Wyoming, It has been the hope, wish and desire of many of our citizens for years that the company would fence the road, but now that we aro met face to face with the fact of its so doing 1t looks a little different when we come to comsider the matter. Ever since the territory was organized, and before as well, the cattle on these vast plains have been permitted practically to roam at will from the North Platte in this par- ticular {mmun of the territory to the South Platte, and even beyond in our neivhboring state of Colorado. r'he erection of this fonce will practi- flocks and herds north of the railroad and those on the south. There may and robably will be openings or drive ways oft open at stated infervals through which cattle can roam or be driven, but after all especially Jiring the preyalence of severe storms iu o winwer when the oattle, horses and shcep uaturally drife with the storm these « s that may Le left will be of littl ount, and 1t will be found that practically a barrier has been interposed which will almost totally stop the drifting of cattle across the Union Pacific. Whether or not the construction of this fence will be benefi- cial to the great l‘wck interests of Wy-| we do not at this time It is & matter stockmen. ' STEELE, JOHNSON & CO., Wholesale Grocers ! H. B. LOCKWOOD (formerly of Lockwood & Draper) Chicago, Man~ ager of the Tea, Cigar and Tobacco Departments. A full line of all grades of above; also pipes and smokers’ articles carried in stock. Prices and sampTws furnished on application. Open orders intrusted to us shall receive our careful attention Satisfaction Guaranteed. AGENTS FOR BENWOOD NAILS AND LAFLIN & 'RAND POWDER CO Double and Single Acting Power and Hand PUMES, STEAM ~ PUNPY, Engine Trimmings, Mining Machinery,} Belting, Fose, Brass and Iron Fittinge' Steam Packing at wholesalo and rejail. HALLADAY WIND-MILLS, OHU! AND SCHOOL BELLS, Corner 10th Farnam 8t., Omaha Neb. C. F. GOODMAN, Wholesale Druggist! AND DEALER IN Paints Ol Varnishes and Window Glass | OMAKHA, KEBRASKA. J. A. WAKEFIELD, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN Lamber, Lah, Shinoles, Piekats, SASH, DOORS, BLINDS, MOULDINGS, LIME, CEMENT, PLASTER, &C- STATE AGENT FOR MILWAUKEE CEMENT COMPANY. Union Pacific Depot, - SPECIAL N Growerg of Live Stock and Others. WE CALL YOUR ATTENTION TO Our Ground Qil Cake. It intho best and cheapest food for ‘stock ot any kind. Gne pound s eual o three pounds of corn stock tea with Ground Oil Cake in the Fall and Winter, tustead of ranning down, will increase in welgkt and bo 1n good marketabls cone.ion 1o the spring. Diirymen, be sil s othors, 1o s it can testi Lo its merita.” Try 1§ sud fudve or yourselves. Price $25.00 por ru: b charge for sacks, - Address 0 WOONWe LL, W ONUDANY Omaha Neb. RICHARDS & CLARKE, W. A. CLARKE, Proprietors. ' Superintendne Omabha Iron Works U. P. RAILWAY, - - - 17TH & 18TH STREETS MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS (IN o Steam Engines, Boilers WATER WHEELS, ROLLER MILLS, Mill and Grain Elevator Machinery MILL FURNISHINGS OF ALL KINDS, INCLUDING THE Celebrated ‘Anchor Brand Dufour Bolting Clotl} STEAM PUMPS, STEAM' WATER AND GAS PIPE. L BRASS GOODS AND PIPE FITTINGS ARCHITECTURAL AND BRIDGE IRON. 4ATION TIAAO ODELL ROLLER MILL. We are prepared to furnish plans and estimates, and will contract for the erection of Flouring Mills and Grain Elevators, or for changing Flouring Mills, fremStoue to the Roller System. 339~ Kiepecial attention givea to furnishing Power Plants for any pur~ pose, and estimates made for same. Ueneral machin 1y repairs attended to promptly. Address RICHARDS & OLARKE. Omha, Ner P. BOYER & CO.. DEALERS IN Hall's Safe and Lock Comp'y FIRE AND BURGLAR PROOF SAFES, VAULTS, LOCKS, &. 1080 Farnam Street. Omakh