Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 13, 1884, Page 4

OMAHA DALLY BEE--WEDN SDAY. AUGUST 13, 1884, ————— —_— = * THE OMAHA BEE. Omaha Office, No. 916 Farnam Sc. Oouncil|Bluffs!OfMce,No, 7 Pearl St Street, Near Broadway | | New York(Ofce, lRoom 65 Tribune Building. Pablished evers moruing, oxoept Sunday! The only Monday morning daily NS BT MATL ... $10.00 | Three Months. L0 500 | One Month Per Woek, 25 Conts, One_Year Bix Monens TITK WRSKLY B3N, PUSLISHRD NVRRY WNONWSDAT. TRRMS POSTPAID, G Yoar...........82.00 | Threo Months. Six Months, 1.00 | One Month ... Amorioan Nows Company, Sole; Agents, N ‘ot In the Unit ates. CORRRSFONDRNCN. A Communloations relating to Nows and Ediseria mattors should be sddressed to the Rwerom or Tik B BURINRSS LNTTHRA, All Bslness Tottors and Romittances shonld b addressed to TiER B PURLISHING CUMPANY, QMAHA Dratte, Checks and Postoffice orders to be mudo pay bie to the ardor of tho company FHE “BER PUBLISHING co, PROPY E. ROSEWATER, ditor. A. H. Fitoh, Manager Daily Ciroulation, . 0.Box 488 omaha, N — e Hog'ta's Resiiicas Srarn Crnl G, | Fruevost, Neb., August 11tk 1584, The differont lines of railwas in this state will el ickets to the delegates elcted toithe republican state convention to be held st Omaha, August 27th, '84, for fare for the round trip, and to the district conventlons to be held at Deatrlec, Hastings and Columbns, August 20th, ‘84, for one and one fourth farc. The delegates will present their credentials to local agents who are authorized to ticktes upon such presentation. Gro. W. &, Doksky Chairman —_— Tue railroads have retired from poli- tics, but John M. Thurston, the chief political attorney, still insists upon thrusting himself upon the ropublican party as its reprosentative, when he simply represents a giant corporation, Mz, Dawes insists that Laird must represent the second congressional dis trict another term. The second district will probably respond that Mr. Dawes better mind his own business, unless he wants to join the processlon up Salt Creek. TuEe vigorous protest made by the clti- zens of Berlin against the constant piano- pounding in that great musical center,has led a Philadelphian to invent a simple method by which the volume of sound may be reduced at will four-fifths. The suffering men and women whe have felt that thero was no relief from the persecu- tions of the piano fiend can now take courage for their deliverance is at hand. We have received a copy of the “‘rules and regulations of the board for inspection of buildings.” These rules have evidently been adopted from some older city, and were no doubt drawn up by & competent architect and builder. If these rules and regulationa are strictly followed, Omaha will hereafter have very substantial buildings within the fire limits, It remains to be seen, however, whether these rules will be enforced or — ASSESSMENT REFORMS, The Tlliuois committee on revenue ro- form, appointed by the real estato board, | has submitted its report, recommendir g several changes in the manner of making The chairman of the com- assessmeonts, mittee, in explaining the report, attacked the small assessments paid by eailroad companies and corporations. The state tax for 1883 amounted to abouat 40,000, 000, of which £28,000,000 wns assessed on real estate, about §8,000,000 on per- gonal property, while only a little over 23,000,000 had been paid by the rail- roads and other corporations, It scems that the boards of equaliza- tion in Ilinois, like those in Nebraskay d to discover thatthe rights of way, which, ns a rule cost large sums of money, as well as tho numerous side- tracks, were worth anything, In Illinois, as in Nebsaska, there scoms to be a len- ioncy manifested towards railroads in mattor of nssossments, The Chicago News, in commenting on this fact says: Nearly every railroad owning property in the city has been assessed this year less than last. The famous Western In- diana, which was assessed last year £10,- 260, is this year passed by without ne- tice, while some roads, which by their ad- vertisements would lead ono to sup- pose were roads of no secondary importance are not assessed & penny. The offort to place the burdens of government upon real estate is more sorious than it appears at first glance, but when this burden makes itself felt in rentals upon places of business and homes it will begin to be approciated, and that, too, in a_quarter where it will produco great hardship. The ease with which real estate can be found and the difliculties of assessing personal property is no excuse for so unfair an assessment as has been made the present year, which does not admit of any excuse based upon either reason, justice, or the lawe under which the assessors are pre- sumed to act. What is needed in Chicago and in}Omaha, and in nearly every city of the country, is a fair and honest assessment, under which the rich shall be taxed in propor- tion to their wealth, so that the greater burden shall not fall upon the persons of moderate means. There is too much concealment of personal assets, andfan effort should everywhere be made to secure complete statemonts of personal property as well as real estate. Rail- ronds and other corporations should be treated the same as individuals and be compelled to stand their proper share of taxation. The office of assessor, therefore, should be filled by active and vigilant business men, who would do their work accurately and promptly, without fear or favor. As a rule the assessors are men of no business qualifications whatever and possessing no ideas of the real value of property. The majority of them depend upon the assess- ment rolls of their predecessors from which they simply make coples, thus avoiding a personal inspection-of proper- ty and inquiries as to its present value. Reform is certainly needed in the man- ner of making our assessments as woll as become a dead letter, like a great many other “‘rules” in this city. Tur Denver Republican has swallowed the Denver 7'ribune, and the “mammoth consolidated ” appears under the name of The Tribunc-Republican. 1t is the old story of Omaha, The old Republi- can—like the lean cows of Pharoah that swallowed the fat ones—annexed the Zribune, but the mammoth consolidated 2 ribunc-Republican proved weaker than either of the two papers before the con- solidation, The hyphenated name was dropped in due time, and the Republican remained on deck. Ir need sarprise no one that the re- port of M. de Lessops. chief engineer of the Panama canal, should have an en- tirely different coloring from the recent disparaging accounts of the canal enter- prise published in the New York papers. At a recent meeting of the inter-oceanic canal company M, de Lesseps reported that the entire expendituro up to this time has been $42,000,000. He characterizes the work hitherto done as a campaign in staliment full of difficulty and very costly but “‘now” ho says, *‘wo are ready for attack, and the work will go forward with astonishing ‘rapidity.” During the yoar 1883 there were 6,200 men em- ployed; now there are 19,000, It will be remembored that the company bought 08,034 shares, or a controlling interest in the Panama railway, as an auxiliary to the canal enterprise. This M. Do Los- seps says, has proved a prudent invest- ment, The dividends have gone up from $12.50 to §16. and thls year he thinks they will be $20. The entire energies of the company will be directed to the completion of the canal in 1888, Now that the government has re- in the qualifications of assessors. soo each other except when it cannot possibly be avoided.” Mr. Llewellyn declares that he is not prepared to say whether this ts a atep in the direction of civilization or not. DOUGLAS DELVGATION, with a grand THE It has been given out flourish of trumpets that the delega- tion from Douglas county to the state convention favors the re-nomination of Governor Dawes, and that the delegates convention are in has no to the congressional favor of Weavor, This report foundation in fact, There was no tost in Douglas county for or acainst Dawes or Weaver, A large majority of the republicans in this county took no part in the primarios and took no interest in tho convention. They were thor- oughly disgusted with the star-chamber mothod of calling the primaries, and had no chance of attending the caucusas as no call was published in any of the phpers, Many of these republicans refuse to bind themselves to the support of candidates who will owe their nominations to the trickery, jugglery and fraud, which are a part of the present syatem of primary eloctions, and they purposely stayed away from the polls. The result was that tho convention was a jug-handle affair. Dawes and Weaver were not thought of, except perhaps by a few cus- tom house monials who made them- selves very promiscuous. The delega- tions to the state and congressional con- ventions were chosen by wards from among the delegates present. No ques- tions were asked as to their preference for any candidate, and they are entirely free. At least one-half of the state de- legation will oppose the renomination of Dawes, unless no candidate presents himself against him, Thurston and Nye are for Dawes, and their support indi- cates the drift of the Union Pacific. Weaver will have the support of the federal office holders in the delegation, but fully two-thirds of the nineteen dele- gates from Douglas would prefer another man if he is available. They feel that there is & grave doubt about Weaver's election if the opposition nominates some popular and capable candidate. This is the unvarnished truth about the Douglas county delegation, con- of Massachusetts, Dawes, has written a letter in defense of Agent McGillicuddy, of Pine Ridge, who has been assailed by Dr. Bland, of Washing- SENATOR ton. Senator Dawes asserts that Dr. Bland has the confidence of no one, and that fe is'as wild in his at- tempts to state facts as he is in his idea of what is the proper policy toward the race which he thinks he is serving. The charges made by Dr. Bland are not only old, but have been officially investigated four times, and by voluntary associations many times more. Senator Dawes maintains that the trou- ble at Pine Ridge arises from a con- flict between the new and the old order SLAVERY IN BRAZIL., The movement for the emancipavion of slaves in Brazil has received a fresh impetus by the presentation of a new government measure in the chamber of deputies for the immediate liberatlon of all slaves over sixty years of age, for the localization of slaves in the provinces where they are now domiciled, for new taxes in favor of the emancipation fund, and for various restrictions in the trans- fer and possession of slave property. This measure of course meets with violent opposition from the siave-holding elo- ment, for they naturally fear that it will lead to the early extinction of slavery. This measure, which has become one of the leading questions in Brazil and may preclpitate & civil war in the cause of freedom, provides for the liberation of allslaves of over sixty years of age, and that they shall bo supported either by their ex-masters or by tho state. It is required also that thero shall be an im- mediate matriculation of slaves, supple- mentary to that of 1871 and 1873, in h all the particulars of each slaye, including value, shall be recorded. This must bo done within one year, and all slaves not so matriculated shall be free. The taxes that are to bo imposed for the emancipation fund, are to be used in purchasing thelfreedom of slaves from their masters, The maximum values are to be fixed as follows: 8800 for those under 30 years; 8700 for those between 40 and 40; $600 for those between 40 and 60; and $400 for those between 560 and 60. Taxes are to be imposed on the transmission of slaves by inheritance or by bequest, varying from five to fifty per cent, and a tax of ten per ocent. is to be collected on all sales ot slaves, To transfer a slave moved Payne and his followers from Oklahama, should not the next step be to remove the cattle kings from the In- dian territory! They have fenced up the whole country unmolested and have no more right in that territory than Payne had. The leases which the cattle men have obtained from the Indians for a mere song are, as is claimed by eminent legal authorities who have been consulted in the matter, null and void, as they are held to be in direct conflict with the United States statutes, The question has been brought before Judge Treat, of the United States court st St. Louis, for decision. Hunter, Evans & Co., and others of 8t. Louis, had leased an area of land larger than Massachusetts, Conneo- ticut and Rhode Island combined, for less than two cents an acre, for ten years, This is certainly a wholesaleoutrage and a gross imposition upon the Indians, and it is against these land-sharks that pro- ceedings have been commeaced o oust them, If the Indians can legally lease lands to citizens of the United States, then they certainly ought to receive a Aoocent rental ot least, from one province to another, except when accompanying his master, will ren- der him & freeman. Agencies for the purchase and sale of slaves are to be pro| hibited, Buch are the provisions of the pro. posed act,' but as yet it is questionable whether the government can carry this measure through parliament. That the slave-holders, who are rich and fn- fluential, will fight it at every stsp there is not the least doubt, and the probabil. ity is that it will either be defeated or modified o that it xeally will amount to but little. However, it is evident that the agitation in the interest of emancipation in Brazil is producing some good results, But it will take a long time to bring about the entire emancipation of the slaves in Bra. zl, and perhaps it can never be accom- plished without a great revolution. Such au event, however, may come when least expected, —_— IN his recent aunnual report, Agent Liewellyn, of the Mescalero Apache In- dians, says that it is a law among those Indians “‘that the mother-in-law and son- of things—between the power of the chiefs and the power of the law. Red Cloud, who is backed up by Bland, is for the old order of things, when chlefs ruled and made themselves rich out of the Indians. McGillicuddy, however, pays no more attention to Red Cloud than he does to any other Indian, and this, of course, is very annoying to the ox-chief, who is very discontented and always eager to listen to anyone who is inclined to stir up trouble. It will be remembered that Red Cloud two years ago attempted te assert his authority over Agent McGillicuddy, and it was fearod that he would precipitate a massacre of all the whites at the agoncy. MeGillicuddy, however, with his usual nerve, met the issue squarely and by his courage and pru- dence averted the threatened massacre. The troubled was thon officlally investi- gated, and the result was that McGilli- cudly was exonerated from the charges made against him by Red Cloud and In- spoctor Pollock, Red Cloud then called Dr. Bland to his assistance and Bland in- duced the secretary of war to send out a third inspector, who also exonerated Mc- Gillicudley from all charges. Then fol. lowed sevoral indepondent fnvestigations by differont persons interested in the In- dians and the result was the same. The Indian commission itself vis ited ‘the agency and returned a report to the interior department highly complimentary to the administration of McGillicuddy. The strong testimony of Senator Dawes in favor of MoGilliceddy ought to settle tho matter so far as the charges of Philanthropist Bland are con- cerned,but where there is 5o much smoke there may after all be some fire. It should, however, be borne in mind, that 80 long as Red Cloud lives there is liable to be more or less trouble among the Pine Ridge Indians, because the deposed chieftain will never neglect an opportu- nity to make it interesting . for . MoGilli- cuddy. —— GrEar stress is laid by the friends of Governor Dawes, down in Saline county, on the fact that the convention requested him to dictate the delegations to the state, congressional fand judiclal conventions, Saline county may be satisfied with a dictator, and its conventions may be made up of men who lack the manhood to resent bossism as an insult to their intel- ligence and self-respect. The spectacle of a sovercign convention of republicans falling upon their knees before fa gov- ernor and begging him to put a ring in their noses and a yoke upon their necks s decidedly edifying, To request Dawes to choose his own delegation to the astate convention might have been excusable, but to ask him to dictate whom Saline county should vote for as congressman, judge, or district attorney is & confession of degradation which free American citizens are seldom willing to boast of. in-law never vislt each other, and m-wrl Oxe of the biggest little men in this western country is Mayor Vaughan of [ Council Bluffs. Mayor Vaughan is at | prosent engaged in making a tour of the | principal cities of tho oastand intro- %u..mm himself to the chief officials, ;the politicians and the newspapors s the may- or of Council Bluffs, and endeavoring to impress everybody that he is a great man | in tho great state of Iowa. In every city | that ho has visited thus far he has had | himself interviewad on tho political out- look in his state. His latest effort in this direction appears in the Now York | Herald. Mayor Vaughan has figured it out for the Herald that Cleveland will carry lowa. Mayor Vaughan can now contest with ““Eli Perkins for the honor of being the champion liar of America, Mu., Tuurston has forced himself upon the state convention, but he doesn’t carry the republican delegation of Douglas county in his pocket this time. The Constit Minden Reporter, It will be seen that we are publishing the governor's notice of the vote to be taken this fall on the changes of the con- stitution, which will appear till election day as per contract, o take this early opportunity to say that the first change proposed as relating to the salaries of members of the legisla, ture, we approve and shall support, for wo have always maintained that the la- borer is worthy his hire and the pay now given is niggardly, hardly sufficient to board and_ pay the expenses of members. This change will give them 300 for the session and mileage. Towa pays $500, so it is seen that this amendment should be sustained. But the second one, which relates to the election of railroad ;commissioners we shall oppose. First because they are unnecessary; second, because it fastens upon the people three more salaries to pay, In order to give some persons ;place, power and money. 'Third, because it virtually defers {any restriction of rail- road traffic for nearly three years, afford- ing the railroad monopolies & much longer time jto entrench themselves, and lay up in store the people’'s substance; and fourth, because, it is a railroad scheme to blind, bind and mislead the people on this much agitated question. Towa several years ago, passed a law vegulating railroads, through the efforts of the grangers, who controlled the legis- lation, but the roads resisted this law till the supreme court decided the law con- stitutional. But at the following sesslon of the legislature the rallroads proposed a change by substituting in place of the law three commissioners, who shall fix rato of froight, etc , which was promptly done by a republican legislature, which then had succeeded to control. The roads proposed to pay tho salaries of these officials, which is £3,000 each a year. Why did they want this change? Jecause they could control three persons, which they could not do with the law- This is what we call “‘farming out” the people’s great interest to'the care of three men, in place of them ruling and control- ing, through their representatives, eloc- ted evory two years by them, This sys- tem has given the peoplo of that state great annoyance, and it is known, that they have been scld out by this system, ever since its adoption. 1t is but natural that as the roads pay the expense of thesoe ofticers that. x:y will favor their employers first, last time. ‘Wae see that Tae OmanA BEE opposes this amendment, which has been favor- ing railroad regulation by law: but it _is favored by the Republican of the same place, which is conceeded to be run in lonal Amendments, and all the them are republicans who believe in the principles of the party, and know very well that the cause of temperance will not be advanced by the success of the democratic party. They certainly have no chance, and, we think, no expecta- tion of rrying a single state. We doubt if there will be enough votes cast for St. Johu and Daniel next Noyember to be worth the counting. President Garfield received votes in New York state in 1880, against |1 4,511 for General Hancock., Governor 18 votesin 1852, ecrotary Folger. Cl1 against E Cleveland will have to poll, therefere, 20,226 more votes this year than he did in 1882 in order to equal the vote cast by Now York state for the_republican candi- date for president four years ago. e and recefved 342,404 fo 8 CANDIDACY, He is Declared Not to be the Oandi- date of the Labor Organizations, BEN BUI Chicago News, Aug. 9th. “‘For a month or so this has been said again and again in one of the morning papers, and, in fact, it {5 quoted in a great many papers all over the country, that Ben Butler has the labor organiza- tlons, the socialists, and the greenback- ors at hisbeck and call. Well, sir, it is not true, emphatically not.” *‘Why, was not Bu'ler nominated for president by these organizations?” asked the reporter in astonishment, of the speaker, who is one of the leaders of the laboring element in tho city, but who preferred to have his name withheld. “‘No, sir, he was not.” This was said with a porceptible tinge of asperity. *‘You seem to have fallen info the same orrors as the papers 1 spoke of. The facts are these: Ben Butler received the nomination at the hands of a handful of so-called auti-monopolists, greenbackers, and ‘liberal-leaguers,’ But these are not the same as the labor organizations. There are at least five hundred thousand members of such organizations in the country. There are 20,000 of them here in Chicago—trades assemblies, knights of labor, socialists, and greenback-labor men, None of these organizations want Butler, nor have they nominated him. The truth is that all such labor associa- tions exist only for the purpose of raissng the standard of wages, of regulating strikes and apprenticeships, and for al other measures tending to the advance- ment of the labor interests. Their aims are not political, but social ones, The members belong to either of the two great parties—are either democrats or republicans. These organizations are de- bating societies as well, in which the merits of the various candidates of their parties and platforms may be discussed once in a while. But these are merely side issues, and to my knowledge no con- certed actiod has been taken—nor is it in contemplation—for theendorsement of Ben Butler or of any other candidate. The members are at full liberty to pick out for themselves a candidate to their liking.” “‘How is it one hears so much of the greonback-labor party, then?’ “‘Oh, that is due to the fact that this party used to play a big game once—in 1876 and in 1880, party organizatien now, except in a few states, like Michigan and lowa. And even this holds true only as to the green- backers, but not the labor orgaaizations. Papers like the Chicago Tribune, which try to make it appear that the labor or- ganizations have declared in favor of But- ler, and are doing their best to break up the democratic party—such papers sim- ply misstate the facts in a palpable man- ner. There is no Butler movement at But they have no| na slick as deers and as handsome as pictures, The youngsters are three-quarter bloods, Judge Brewer, of the United States conrt, aver, on the 28th, renderad _a decision the Maxwell Land and utting down their land clai acres, on the ground that the surveyor made this slicht mistake in marking the company’s lines, Recent statistics hav gard to the wheat cre now being threshed cent increase THE MERCHANTS Natlonal Ban OF OMIAEXA.. Authorized Capital, - 81,000,000 Paid-up Capital, - « 100,000 Surplus Fund, = = - 70,000 BANKING OFFICE | N W. Cor, Farnam ano 12th Sto OFFIOFRS) been compiled in f w f over any forme « per centage of increase, thus far shown, gives the statoa yiold of about 2,100,000 tushols, Of this total Colorado will constume some 1,500,000, Bill Chittenden, & man « cided in Denver rocently. companion of the fraternity sation in ol 10 labor of writing up the sen. s thrilling dotails by doing the job him en ton stunning heading, be. fore the gun went off. Such consideration for the faithful on earth will lessen the tolls at Peter’s gate, FraNx Moreny, Prosidont. | SAM'L E, Roauss, V.P Bax, B, Woop, Cashler. | LUTHRR DRARN, A DIRECTORS! Frank Marphy, Samuel K. Rogers, Ben. B. Wood, Charles O, Housel, A. D. Jones, Luther Drako Transact & Goneral Banking' Businoss. All who have any Banking business te transact are Invited call. "No matter how large or small the transaction, 3 WIOMING 18 will receive our caretul attention, and we promlise The territorial treasury is flush with $27,* | Always courteons treatment. 000, Fao particular attontion fo businoes for partie roslding outelde the city, Exchange on Wl the prin. oipal clties of the Unitod States at very lowest ratos, Acoounts of Banks and Bankers recelved on favor able ferma. Insucs Cortificate of Deposlt bearing § per con ntorest. The cost of furnishing the Presbyterian church at Cheyenne was $6000. Tt is reported that the Graff oil lands are to beeold toa London syndicate for a fancy |y, price, The brotherhood of locomotive engineers, with headquarters at Cheyenne, has thirty- five members, Tive hundred coolies are employed in _the J. P, mines at Rock Springs, The daily output in summer averages 1500 tons per day. UNITED STATES The winter shipments average about 3,000 e tons dally. The Chinamen get 75 and 85 cents per ton for mining, carning thereat for their masters from $20 to $25 per month cach, Coal is dclivered to consumers there at 82 per ton, The Albany land and cattle company, which fi y to help to: the OF OMAHA, Buys and sells Forelgn Exchange, County, O% sand Government secucition Ui\ S, W, Cor, Farnam and 12th Sts, mie been incorpo; business of t City, with branch r torritories and states, The capital & of the company is fixed;at $5,000,000, divided mto 5,000 shares of 2100 ea Qapital, - - $100,000.00 ©. W.HAMILTON, Proes't. 8. %. CALDWELL, V. Pres't. M. T. BARLOW, Cashler. DIRECTORS : 8. 8. OaLpweLL, B. F. Surrn, 0. W. Hamrurox, M. T. Barrow, 0. Wirt Bamrirox. Accounts sollciter! and kept sub Ject to sight check. MONTANA. The town of Belknap, one of the mush- rooms born of the Coewr d’Alenc stampede, was wiped out of exiatence by fire, rocently. The value of the silver and copper product of Butte this year according to the present rato of production will be 15,000,000 and of the territory $20,000,000. Tt is roported that tho Northern Pacific company are discharging their section hands | SOrtiflcates of Doposit Issued pay and other laborers along the line and supply- | 2P1@ 1N 3 6 and 12 months, bearing ing their places with Chinamen, whom they | Interest, or on demand without In= procure for 95 cents per day. torest. Foot-pads, thieves and burglars have be'| Advances made to customers on come 8o numerous in Helena that the Herald | approved securlties at market r: of that place calls for the revival of the vigi- [ of Interest. lantes, and says: Eternal vigilance and plen- ty of rope will accomplish a good deal at the | The Interests of Customors are hands of 8-7.77.” c'osely guarded and every facllity Prospecting in Bear Gulch has resulted in °°"‘P‘g°'° with principles of tho discovery of some rich gold bearing quartz, | 80und Banking freely extendeod. The lead is large and well_ defined, some of | Draw sightdrafts on England,lire- the yfimcimouu show free gold; others, though | iand, Scotland, and all parts of Eu- not chowing gold to the naked eye, proved | vope. y upon being pulverized and washed, to be very | @il European Passa o Tickets rich in the yellow dusf COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE, IDAHO, = The washouts caused by recent floods on e Oregon Short li ave bee i i 3 o vont 1s agaim i Beat i oraer et ™| United States Depository hn Sharp & Sons, of Salt Lake City, are ing 8,000 sheep on Grouse cre The . 5 clip this year amounted to over 50,000 a pounds, va beds between Shoshone and the river are on fire, and have been burn- ing for sovercl days, ‘Thousands upon thou- sands of acres aro already denuded of sage- brush and gra —OF OMAHA— IR, Cor. 13th and Farnam Sts, Suing His Old Employers, Cixerssaty, August 12.—Colonel John C. | The Oldest Banking Establishmeni Underwood, formerly manager of the News- Journal, has entered suit in the United States i Omaha, court this afternoon against James 1. Scripps, W. Scripps, and M. A, McCrae for| SUOCESSORS TC KOUNTZE BROTHERS. 850,000 for alleged libel printed August 2, in the Evening Post of Cincinnati, charging Organised in 1858, work among the laboring men that I know of.” o ——— WESTERN NEWS, Uunderwood with acting dishonestly toward | Organised as a National Bank In the stockholders of the News-Journal. Under- wood's attorneys are William M., Ramsey, SBURPLUS AND PROFTTS . =xso,ooo Judge J. BB, Toraker, Lawrence Maxwell, Speaker John G. Ca orromas DIRNOTORS. e — Hxnaax Kovxras, President. Jorx A. Camairow, Vice President. the interests of rallroads, especially the U. P, road, that shows which way the wind blows. We presume that many republicans and some democrats who wear the color of monopolies, espeoially their candidates this fall, for leglalative honors will favor this change. But we cannot think that any anti-monopolist, greenbacker, granger or alllance will so polute their record and stultify thelr in- tereats as to cast a vote in its favor, We want, and need a legislature the coming session who will have backbone and hon- osty enough to glye fthe people of the state a law to relieve them at once of these extortions, e —— How It Looks, Philadelphia Press, Unless all signs fail Blaine and Logan will carry overy northern state, This would give them 248 of the 401 electoral votes, even should the 163 votes of the sixteen former slave states be cast for Cloveland. The only northern states that can fairly be considered debatable In this campaign are New York, 36 votes; | &} it fo bri Indiana, 16; New Jersey, ; Nevuda, 3, | Mino 1 Sion i, oree publi br and perhaps Californin 8, though there i8 | 1y chances are that the Scandinayian theo- littlo doubt but that the latter state will | logical college, for the location of which in give a majority to Blaine. Some demo- | Sioux Falls, tho citizens offercd a bonus of crats are 80 sanguine as to claim Connec- DAROTA, The catholic posplation of Dakota is ceti- mated at 25,000, There have been 283 harvesters sold at Gro- ton this summer, Rapid City's valuation by the assessor for 1884, is 8396,319.50, Yankton expects 10,000 visitors to the sold- iers renuion next month, Eight thousand railroad ties sre being un- loaded at Marion Junction, The corner stone for & catholic church at Yankton was laid on the 3d inst. The corn orop of Union county, this year, will reach nearly 4,000,000 bushels, The total ssed valuation of the real and onal property of Beadle is county $1,905,- Ttis estimated that 50,000 bushels of flax will be marketed at Marion Junction the coming fall and winter. Thero are fourtoen candidates for congress alrcady on the track, with several border counties to hear from. The ¢ ntractors are putting down 1,200 feet of watermaios a day in Sioux Falls, and will complete their job by the 25th inst. Ground has been selected in Sioux another new school-house,abuilding 1ls for This 0ol 210,000, will go to another town, ticut 2 votes, New Hampshire 4, and|_The building of the Fpiscopal coll even Ohio 23, but, unless the republican | Siows Falls, will be eommence Uay. The first improvement will be 62 canvass is caught by some unforseen and all but impossible cyclone, the three states last named do not belong to the doubtful column, and will give the re- publicans, with Maine, 6; Vermont, 4; assachusetts, 14; Rhode Island, 4; Pennsylvania, 30; Illinois, 22; Michigan, 13; Wisconsin, 11; Minnesota, 7; Iowa, 13; Kansas, 9; Nebraska, b; Colorado, 3,and Oregon 3, a grand total of 177 votes, which may be depended upon beyond any ordinary peradventure, There is 8 very flattering prospect of breaking the solid south in the mpdfi by the capture of West Virginia's votes by the republicans. ore ood chance, to, that the democrats ma) ose both Virginia's twelve votes an Louisiana's eight, but we do not anchor our hopes on the support of those states, but if it comes it is welcome. Itrequires this year 201 electoral votes to elect & dent, As we have seen, the repub- licans are certain of J177 votes without a southern state or New York,New Jersey, Indiana, California or Nevada. Should they win of these latter states only New York the republican ticket fwill have 213 votes, or twelve more than a majority. Should theylose New York and New Jersey an win Indiana, Nevada and California, they will have two more than a majority. Losing both New York and Indianaand ur;{.ing California, on the ground and will cost 22 Coddington county cont; acres of land and only 176,224.5 were assessed this year. " The rest, 246,,800.07 is railroad land, and land on which final proof has not been made. The coal bore on the Jencks farm near Yankton has strack o thirteen foot vein of bituminous coal. Tho news of the big find causes much excitement in Yankton, One hundred and twelve postoffices were es- tablished in Dakota during the first six months of 1884—fifty-six in south Dakota, and the same number in north Dakota, Joo Hunt, a well known bank sharp, is caged in the hills, He confidenced the First national bank of Rapid City out of 86,000 on , forged draft, but the steal ‘was discovered in time to capture Joseph and run him in, COLOR, ‘The mines of Leadville produce 967 tons of ore daily, The republican state convention will be held at Colorado Springs, Sept. 10, ‘The great prairie fire on Frenchman's creek, & branch of the Republican river, has been subdued by rain, No lives were lost. Two claims have been located on Oement Creck, the one from which carries from five to nine thousand ounces of silver to the ton, The Gilpin county mines for the first six monhs of 1884 have produced J§1,204,000, and claim their out pue for the year will reach 3,000,000 Donver laa organized a cremating company, oar with a capital of 855,000, ~ A chapel and bak New Jersey, West Virginla and Nevada, | ovens wn\ be erected right MM‘ny.llndth‘mumB- the republicans will again have two more | pany hope to urn a dividend before snow flies, than a majority, Conceding to the dem- Pl lans for the new chamber of commerce ocrats every southern state except West | buildiog at Denver, to cost away up in_ the Virginia, to obtain & majority thoy sust | thousands, have been drawn. They call for struoture 60x120 and_five stories high, s‘lfl 8t least fifty-tour votes from ,tbe |} jding will be of brick and stone, and s to oubtful states, which they caunof do d The | o p Indiana Prohibitionists, INDIANAPOLIS, Auguat 13,—A meeting of the executive committee of the prohibition state central committee met here to-day and decided to put an electoral ticket in the' field. The ticket is not yet_named. naming the clectoral ticket simply to enable such prohibitionists as so desire to vote for St. John. A Veteran Dead. Rook Tsrasp, Tlls, August 12.—Major- General Hoffman died here to-day. Ile has been an invalid for a number of years. He in the Mexican war and the war of the rebollion on the Union side, and on the fronticr, — — Three Child Cremated, CIRCLEVILLE, OHIO, Argust 12, children, on a farm near South er named Robert Wood, Laine D. V Kato Shaw, all under 10 years, werc hoin a barn, having gone there to and in so doing set the building on iio, A ausTus Kourran, 2d Vico Prosident. A. J, Porriuton. ¥. H. Davis, Cashisz, W H. M»equiza, Assistant Cashier. Transacts s general banking business. rificates bearing nborosk. anf".'“ The members | ,Eiost e of the party will not bo pledged to its support, | 5> Haed, 430 prinaipal clties In the Uniea blin, Edinburgh and «f this continentand . the pr Capital Stock, - - - 8150, Liability of Stockholders, 300,000 T Five Per Cent Interest Paid on Deposits JAMES E. BOYD L. M. BENNETT OMAHA SAVINGS BANK ! Cor. 13th and Douglas Sts. 000 il rned | LOANS MADE ON REAL ESTA1B Officors o Directors Pro n Presidend Black-Dog Carrics the vrimaries, [W. A, pa Managing Direotor Ferr Syiti, August 12.—Advices from the [ JOUN ... Cashlor Osage Idian country, say Black Dog was | CHAS. F. MBALL, elected chiof of that nation a_few days ago, [ % W. . 2, nd fifty, His majority was two hundred Louis. 8r. Louis, August 12,—D, L, Moody, the famous evangelist, has been engaged Dy the Young Men’s Christian association to visit e Moody in S ¥ [ and preach there this fall, 5 (iticura Miracles of Healing Unparalleled in Medical History, “I havo been afflicted for twenty years with an iasis, and others, leprosy, commencing on my scalp, and in spite of all I' could do, with the help_ of the most ukillful doctors, it slowly bus surely extended; until & vear ago this winter [V covered my entiro por- 500 1n form of dry scales. For the laat three years I haae been unablé to do any labor, and suffering in- tensely all the thme. Every moruing there could be nearly a dustpantul of scalcs taken [rom the sheet on my bed, some of them half as large as the envelope contalnng this letter. In the latter part of winter, my slkn commenced cracking open, I tried every: thingl almost, that could be thought of without wny relief. The 14 of June I started West, in hopes I could reach the Hot Springs. 1 reached 'Detrolt and was 50 low / thouht d have 10 go to the hos- pital but flually got as far a8 Laneing, Mioh., where » sater living. Oue Dr, ——tren fed wo' about wo weeks, but did me no good. Al thought I had but short time to live. 1 carnestly prayed to Cracked through the ekin all over my bacl my ribs, aams, bands, limbe, feet badfy swol nails came off, fingernails dead and hard as bone, hair dead, dry, and liclows s old straw. 0, my God! how ‘su 1My slster had & small part of a box of Cuticnra in the house. try Cuticura. Bome was lprll-d o oue hand and anm, eka! there was relief: stopped the terrible buralog sensation from the word go. They immed- iately got the Cutioura Besolvent. Cuticura and Cuti cura Soap. I commenced by taking oue tablespoon full of Kesolventythree times a day, after meals: had & bath once a day, water about bioad hoat, used Cutl- cura Sosp reely; applied Cuticurs morning and eveu- ing. Result, returned to my home in fust six woeks from time I oft, aud my skib & smooth us this sheot \I)Nllv HIRAM E, CARPENTER. “Henderson, Jefferson County, N Y. HENRY # the old stand 1417 karnam street. #18ph solicited and promptly attented to DREXEL & MATUL, (SUCCESSORS T0 JOHN G. JACOBS) UNDERTAKERS ! Orders by CHARLES RIEWE, UNDERTAKER, AND DEALER IN Metalic Cases. Coffs, Caskets, Shronds, obstinate ekin direase, called by some M. D.s Psor- | 1009 Farnam St., - OMAHA, NEB Tele hio orders promptly attended to. Te Nnrm‘ promptly to. Telephone H, K, BURKET FUNERA.. DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER 111 North 16th Street Omana = McCARTHY & BURKE, UNDERTAKERS! She woulden't give up; said, ‘we will (818 14TH STREET, BET, FARNAM AND DOUGLAS A. CAJORI, Druggist! Removed to 121 N. 11th St. SODA WATER ! PRESCRIFTIONS CAREFULLY COMPOUNDED e e e ““8worn to betore me this nineteenth day of Jau without getting New York and two m,—gf‘_';‘md horse-thief and all | U3 1880 WELL, other states. The republicans, on the | around “rustler,” known as lack Pete, was e Peeas.* other hand, need but twenty-four votes|last week found in the lava beds below Ce | Guticura Resolvent, the now blood purifier, inter- from the doublful states, and New York | bello, with a bullet hole through his head. state is not necessary to their sucgess. That the prohibition vote will. have any appreciable effoct in this election is very improbable. Prohibitiol as a! rule, are men of sense, the wajurity of 'red-roan and red and whise calves, and all are ‘killed Ly a thunderbolt from heaven.” purchased T(udo heifers, J wally, and ¢ The 'coroner’s jury returned 4 verdict of | skin oures, cat the Skin avd Soslp, and Twvo hundred aud fifky of tho sort bora H : . 1 y.ex-Giovernor | when physiciss, hospitals, and outt in the oast Jast spring, have drouped [ Scld everswhere, 7 214 Al GUer tmeans fail uticura Soap, the' great r the Comc loxlon, cléanse urity the Blood of every , Scrotulous, Meri- ornally, ¢ pocied of Itcliug, Sealy al, sud Cancerous 1iun and Sk Tortures Poiter Diug and Chemical Co, Beston, ' JAY, 8, PEABODY M. i PHYBICIAN & BURGEON, sidence No, 1407 Jones Sf. Office, No. 160 m Street, ‘Office bours 12m. t0 1 p. m., and tor otfice 97, Remdence. 2iaa Dlpui