Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 19, 1885, Page 5

AMONG THE MAILBAGS. Inierestiog Pacts Aboat Pastmaster C.ntanv’s Office, Piles of Papers and Hpndreds of Let- ters Daily Pass Through the Nimble Fingers of Busy Men and Pretty Ladies, “Tue Fer sonds its reporter to trouble you for aomo figures this evening, M, Postmaster, that it msy tell its readers about the Omaha office,” was tho way the reporter met the affable chief of our mail matters yesterday, ‘*With pleasure, air; my assistants and I will enlighten you as faras we can,” Mr. Coutant replied. The reporter learned that the post. office bul'ding was completed about Jan. uary 1, 1876. The building is 66x132 fasicn. They come in packages of 50,000 2 cent ones to a package and 500 pottal eards to the box. The office uses $650,000 worth of 2cent stamps per quarter, 200,000 cne-cent stamps and 250,000 postal oards, Besides thete 1,000 r.quest stamped enve The office general delivery, from 8 a m to m.; for money order aud ragistry baviness, from 9 a. m. t5 6 p m, except on Sandays and holidays tey are from 12 to 1 p. m.; and the car- rlors deliver from the delivery window next to to the north door inatead of at the residense of ths patties to whom the Tetter msy belong. The entire force of the postoffice are well known and polite. cstmaster Con- tand and Mr. James A. Woodward, his asslalant, have the tho thanks of the re- porter for their extrems courtesy extend- ed on the occasfon of his examination cf the office. lopes aro used por month, hours are, for —— Decisions of the Supreme Court of Nebraska Filed March 17, 1885, Shaw vs stato, Error from Lancaster. Aftirmed. Opinion by J. Maxwell. - The constitution does not deprive the loglsla— foet, of four stories, with a basement for | ture of the authority to imposea reasova- clossts, store room, ote. The first floor [ P10 jary fee to b taxed as a part of tho .., | costs against a person convicted of an of- 18 occupled by the postoffice proper, with| foase, these apartments: A money order room, _ Merriam vs_Hemplo. Appeal from a stamp room, two private office rooms|Cass. Aftimed, Op nion by J. Recao, and the large room for distributing and [ Where the purchaserat a vold eals ¢f r.al opaning and making up the great mals|estate for taxes pays the taxes legally that pass throvgh the hands of the dis-|!evied upon the real estats for subso. tributing and delivery olorks and the muil | quent yesra upon a failure cf his titlo, carriers. Thoy areall nicely farnished [he will bs enbrogated to ithe rights with every convenience, and are as or- derly arranged as a carefully kept bank- ing rocm of the county to the extent of the iegal taxen £0 pa'd by hlm with legal iuterest, even thovgh the taxes upon wkich the THE DAILY BEE--THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1885. r ings, the names of all persons or firms engaged in the traffic in eaid city, wholesule as well as r-tail,"and the place of b f each, and whether licansed or unlicsnsed, and to notify THE COURTS. i any unlicensed liquor dealers to at once cease The Kinra Trial Nearing The Bad,|ewh traffic, and to make compisivt azainst il persons who shall #ell liguor in way quantity o whatsoever without license, g 5 The Children Testify for Thelr Mother | 0% therefore, we command you immedi ately upon the receipt of this writ. to do and porform each aud every ona of the matters and things necessary to La done and per formed in order to carry into effect the afore snid jndgment and command Witness, and She Teils Her Story Other Matters, Axasa Conn, Ohief Justice Supreme Court. Guy A, Brown, clerk.” Officer John Turnbull, the rustling secretary of the interfor of Cummlngs’ In the Klusa trial yestorday forencon the evidence was atill for the prosecution. About the only important witness examined was & Mra, Miunie Clopson. The lady testified i i i that the, In company with o Mirs Sladen, | C2Pinet will immediately ot to work and ) i t compile & list of the wholesalors in the Ko anans the sidewslic In feont | looat liquor trafio. and report them for recelved the fatal injurics. Wishing to :l:“)t"ll’l to the city council at the next essspa the slippory esldewalks the tewo |™CCHP8: had pisced through the little alley — which leads nesr the house. Thelr atten- e ey i tion had boen attracted by a notse| 10 the police court yesterdsy moraing, of scuffling in the etory above; pretty | Timothy Readson, a vagrant, was sen- soon she saw two men and & woman come | tenced to four days on bread and water, out upon the porch and the woman and | byt sentence was suspended on condition one of the men threw the other man o of his leaving town at onca. who proved fo bo Kluss, upon the % ground, They then went in and locked | Willlam Clark and Fred Enser, two the door. Tn a few moments the woman | gentlemen whoso fondnens for drink had camo out agaln and commercad erying | gverpowered their discretion, wers fined and wringing her hands, Cross-exsmined: Mes. Clogson said that she waa not post. | £ 8d_coste, In defanlt of which they tive that che woman bad helped to throw | Were waltzed over the hill and will spend the man over the long ntairs, but |elght doys of misery with Jce Miller, witnosa thought that ebte did.| John Matchich, a stranger who bad A phytician tostified in regard toblood | fallen by the wayside drank, and had {ha hiad been found on a hatche! and al- | been picked up by the Samaritan police- 80 sbout the nature snd effect of cerfaln [man, was released on a faithful promise wounds and the court edjourned for din- | to leave at once for Kansas City, whither ner, ho had a ticket. it APHHENGON SRASION Dr Omar Morgner sppeared and filod a ——— Tho general growth of the buslness of [ 831¢ was had viere void by reason cf ths this offlce at this time Is best shown by |default of the asseesor in not filing the a compa-ison of official years, eay of 1878 | proper oath with the assesement rull.’. and 1884, fir instenoe. Fraderizk v. Kinzer, ercor from Rich- total receipts from stamp aud hox rents|ardson. Reversed. Opinin by Ccbb, woro $45,023; in 1884 §104,745—a gain | Ch. J. i of more thun fifty per cent in six years, [ The instructions of a courk t> a jury e should be conficed to the 1ssues presented ‘ S G e e ¢ by the pleadings in the case snd tho evi- Namber 30 pertonr, divided into 18| goncs before tho jurg, clerks snd arsistanis, 2 money order| Kennard va, Hollenbeck; appasl from clerks, the reg lar lctter cacriers,fand 3 | Jefforson, Roversed. Opinion by Cobb, substitato casiiors. Among thess are|oh, j, Upon the facts s:t out ut some theeo ldies, whote gontle, patient aud | Jngih in the optuion, held that the ap- pleasant msuners have rendered them | pelinnta aro ontitled fo recover. favorites with the peoply of the city and|™ Gpe gory va. Kdgerly., Error from Lan- Visltors as well. casfor. Reversed. Opinion by Max- well, J. SALE OF STAMP3 In 1883 were in December, $8,524, Same| 1. One M. filed a petilion in equity month i1 1834, $0063 In January, |agsinst o jadgment creditor and two 1884, the sale of st s was $8 042; in|judgment debtors, co-defendants with Janusry, 1885, $0,364 In February, | him, whereln ho aileged the recovery of 1884, 87,730, and in Februarg, 1885, |a judgment in 1876 againet himself wnd $8,727. In conuectlon with stamps it|s:id debtors, which was an apparent lien was learned that ths sale of two-cent|upon his resl estate. He also aleged stamps has Increased over that of three-|that In 1878 he was discharged in pro- cent stamps in former vse, while the sale | coeding? in bankraptoy from the payment of postal cards hus decrensed. of the judgment. The discharge being The Omaha postoflice ia_a depository | denied, held: that the burden of the oftice of movey orders and of genoral [ proof was on him to establish it. funds for all the fourth claes postofices| 2. The attorneys for the creditor and around {t. Tnesystem of through malls | M, entered iato a stipulation that M had makes the work ueeded here much less [ been discharged in binkruptey as alleged than it would otherwise be, althovgh the|in the petiticn, held, that the stipulation force now hera have their hands full of [ did not affect tae co-defendants with M. work all the time. in the judgment nor wau it admissible in Mr. Coutant kindly showed the re-|evidence aga nst them. wes devoted to the examination of the litile boy and girl, children «f the do- fendant and the decaased, and the teoti- mony of the woman bersolf, The woman’s story was that sho and her busband had company thut day, hed drank some and were not sober. They oot into a quarrel over a coat hanglng on the wall, the husband thinking it be- longed to some one with whom ehe was undoly intimate, chorged her with it. This led to violence, sud he beat her over the head. Sho went down from their place of abodo to a rcom occupled by & Polish-Jew, and @ when she returned he was injured and bloody. This is the thecry of her story. The poor womsn ssemed to fecl deeply her sitnation; unsble to speak English sud_rurrounded by atrargers, The little children teetitied with remark- able intelligence, for they ate very young. All noticed and 1emarked upon their ex- tremo eprightliness and good Lohavlor. It was a toucting sceno when the little airl told «f remslning beside her dying father and going wiihout food one day because they ‘‘took mamma to the jal.” ad Courts DISTRICT COURT, The case of Jones va. City of Omsha still on triel. COUNTY COURT. No case of peculiar interest heard yes- terday in this court. complsint, charging Alonzo George with assault and batiery. George is in bed, and is yet unable t>appear, James Higgiae, arcested for the larceny of a tobacco catter and a packsge of tobeceo, pleaded not guilty and sustained & continuanc of his case. Februavy Mortality, The report of City Pagsicion Loissn- ring for February as filed Tuesday shows a total of deaths for that month, of 38, of births 77. The causes assigned cf mortality were as follows: Whooping cough . Spinal feve Fevera. Puerpiral fever. Diarrhoe Inanition. Cancer. Consumption. Pneumoni Convulsions. Old age Drovey Hemmorrhage Paralysi Miscellaneous . The greatest mortslity was between the ages of 20 to 25, Twen'y of the doaths were of males, eighteen of f:malcs, thirty single and efght married. 2 1S o toma O BALKED NEGOTIATIONS, The City and County Trying to Ar- porter through the various apariments of of the postofiice, from the opaning through whish a lsttsris dropped into the box, to the sack in which it is taken to the depot. Lious take a view cf the COURSE A LETTER TAKES, describing it in languege Joaned by an- other. The bulk of all the letters and papers mailed in the city gointo the otter boxes on the lamp posts. The carrier gathers them up when he has finlshed delivering the mall on his beat and brings them te the office. His work does notend hera, for he must separate the olty or drop letters from those going out of the city, and place them on a table. From: here they are taken by tha tamp clerk who puis the postmark on them, canceling the |°® stamp at tho same time, The city letters g0 back to the carcier’s department and the others aro placed on the stamp table. They are takon from the table by other clerks and diatrlbutad abut a big case, filled with p'zaon holes. Tkhe letters des- tined for thw large cities are also kept separate. For ‘‘tyinz out” the mall all clerks are employed, the atamp cleiks as- slating the olhora. Small slips of paper, Applegate va. Lancester. well, J. 1. Whers, sfter the foreclosure of a mortgage and sale of the mortgaged premises to the beneficisries under the decreo, and tho confirmation of the sale, the mertgegor ctatisfies, the decrce,: the money 0 received by the beneficlarles will, avoid the ssle and confirmation. 2. Where a long period of time elapses between the confirmatlon of a ssle and the exeoution of the sheriff's deed, the debtor should b notified of the applica- tion for an order requliing the then sherifl to execute a deed to the purchaser. Ludden vs. Hansen; error from Jeffer- son county. Affirmed. Opinionby Cobb, Kingman, error from Reserved opinion by Max- i3 1. A tax deed purporting to have been issued on a private eale must contain a recital that the land had been previcusly offered for eale for such taxes at public sale, and not sold for want of bidders. 2’ In an action of ejactment, a certifi- cate of sale of theland in questlon for taxes was offered in evidencs in connec- tion with an offer of proof that a tax deed on ruch certifica'¢e had bzen de- manded of the county treasurer and re- POLICE COURT, Besides eeveral minor caees, that of Wallis, charged with defrauding, waa under examination,and will by concluded range for the Exchange of the 0Old Court Houso Prop- exty—The Retain- g Wal, todsy. The Holmes cise comes up to- dey. ——— The county commissioners are awaiting PLKSUNAL. with coneiderable anxiety the work of grading for the retaining well around the Ilon. Thomas Swan, ‘king of the cowboys” | o0 oonrt house. 1t s, quits evident of Wyoming, with his lady, is at the Ml £ lard, that something must ba done very soon 2 : in that direction, for the bank of carth Rev, J. G. Tate, the eagle orator of Daf- A falo county, who created such a surprise in|!8 lready commencing to crack and the state republican convention when he | crumble. nominated Scott for commissioner of lands,| The out building iawhich has been was in town yesterday. situsted the cffice of Superintendent S R. Calloway, general manager of the U, | Coots will be removed immediately, lest P.R. R.; A, J. Poppleton, attorney for the | it too be overwhelmed in the general fall. U. T R. R., and ex-Chiof Justico Lake left |, jg g5iq that something will have to be f:’ul;ghl')z:‘f'::::r:d"y:“]“k tiecRthoRiy done immedlately in the way of erecting Jas, Marsh, Beatrice; R, D, Daniel, Nor; | the retainmng wall, for delay is danger- folk; I, B, Savage, Lincoln; J, Newman and | ous. wife, Blair; John Ingram, Covington; W. W. | Oune of the commlssloners in conver: Finch, Central City; W. J. Moore, Sioux |ticn with a representative cf the Bre City, are at the Canfield, yestercay, said that the city council had Mrs. M. M. Rogers and M. Vaughn, |0t 00me to ime in the negotiations pro- about thresinsheslong by twoiuches wide, with the namcs of the different states printed on then are used to indioate the destination of each package, When the clorks have tiel out the mail for this par- tioular clasa It is weighed and placed in tts proper pouch. Oae of the sfamp clorks stands ready to lo:k the poach as s00n as the order *lock our” Is given by fueed, held, that such evidence was prop- erly excladed. Hanlon va. Pollard, error from Doug- las county. Affirmed. Opinion by Cobb, Ch. J. 1. A head of a family without a home- stead purchasing & plece of properly within the homestoad llmit aato quantlty tho foreman. Some cf the stemp clerks | 21d value, with tho bons(ide iuteaticn o bave acquirad great epoed fu locking the | Fasldiog thereon nan permanent home: pouches, o that the most difisult|8!e3d, bub who 18 temporarily pravente wa worn pouches ate lucked | from ocoupying the ssme byreason of the In sbout twenty ssconds As soon |!BExpirad teram of s temant thereon, ex- ay the poushes oro locked they aro|ifting st the timo of such pur- given to the driver of tho mail wagon, [ MG OF OLICE fEnsIens GARC, who rushes away to tha depot with them, 8¢ WHo ~ Coo8 Swer and = resce Hero they 4ro turned over to the rallway [ 3P0 the same within u ' rcasonable Fremont; O. C. Crowsl, Blair; A, H. Levan and wife, Cheyenne; R. D). Valontine, Des Moines; J. A. Eberhardt; Stanton; A. V. Baae, Randolph, Towa, ara at the Millard. A. McInls, of the firm of MeInnis & Bus sy, left yesterday for Now York and Boston, to make a second purchaso of spring goods. He will return by way of Nova Scotis, Can- ada, where ko will visit his old home, arriving in Owaha about May 1st. At the Metropolitan: 8. A. Williaws, T, ¥. Saxton, North Platte; A, E. Anderson, Lincol Standacd, Utica; M. Bowen, . B, Chapman, Charles S, Cart Arlington; A, G, Hastiogs and w.fe, Lincoln; S. W. Risiog and wife, Risiagi and E. R. posed for the transfer of the old coart house property, on the corner of Sixtaenth and Farnam. The commissioners had proposed to allow the clty that entire property, building and all, with an extra $6,000 if it would bear the expense of erecting a 120 foot retalnirg well on the north or Farnam side of the court house property. This wall ho syjd would have [ ba crected fteen feet from the line of {he portico, tnstead of three feet, as criginally In- tended. This will be neceseary, because the welght of the court heuse bullding something Illke 2,200 tons would over- come the lpressure, if the distance of the wall from the b2ss were too small, +¥This propositton,” he said, *‘the coun- postal clerk, aud ia s fow minutes the irain pul's out of the depot, ecarrying with it thousands of letters to be deliv- ered along its route, Many of thess lot— ters balong to d ffarent towns on other roads. Theee are sorted from the others by the olerks, put into o'her poucher, sud thrown off at the different junctions, time and without nnnecessary delay, and continue to reside thereon wiil take the rame free of the lien of & judzment ex- 1sting at the time of such purchase, or which may be renderad, previous to the actual occupancy, or residing on such homestead. — ——— oil has shown no disposition to accept,” ‘“‘and 1 suppote it is co'lectively and in- Hon, Lew. May, socretary of tho demo-| gjyidually afraid to do so until after cratle central committee, who, the depot peo- | o'oction,” But as the necesslty of our plo say, is shipping prayers for appointments | putting a retaining wall around the conrt by the car load to Washington City in be-| nouse was caused by the action of the half of huogry brethren, is in town and will | city in grading Farnam street, it seems to be beard from bsfore this duy’s sup sete, His | me that the county’s offer 1s & manifestly Kellogg and wife, of McCook, Neb, Figuificant Rallroad Figures, Throvgh the courtesy of one of the and on {ralns that will get them to thelr|U: P» clorks tho reporter gathers the destination #5 soun a8 possible, A simi- |followlog figures aato freight recelved Iar course of proceeding ls trus of lotters | and shipped at and from the depot: and papersrecaved. Oarloads received from the wet The authorites are hopeful of arrang- | 44; hay, 3; wheat, 4; hogs, 8; bu ing matters to that a clerk will be sent | merchandise, 9; ccal, 19; ore, 2, aud from this fli'e to mect avd board the | oaty, 1, incoming mail car, and by the timeit| ~Carloads shipped east: Merchandise, arrives boio have tne mail for Omsha 80| 8; corn, 26; wheat, 18; flour, and lard, 1. arranged that it can be handed to the| 'Carloads shipped west: Lumber, 13; carrlersat the depot and abonco delivered flaxseed, 2; coal, 4, and merchand'ss, 36. throughout 1he city. Carloads throogh for the west, 84, On an average 1,000,000 lotters and| Qarloads received bera from the eatt: postal oards are handled per month here | Merchandise, 81; lumber, 22; coke, 6; and the carriers handlo 560,000 letters | wagons, 2; implements, 4; cil, 3, and and postal cards, Half-million papers | coal, 27, Thess figures were compared aro handled in this office, and of this| with those of days a few weeks past and number 250,000 pess through the hands|found to indicate a larga increate in of the carciere. wrade, THE REGISTERED LETTERS This depot received its first freight for ons (usrter or three months, num- |shipments from the Mirsourl Pacific yee- bered 3,008, or about 15,000 a year. The | terasy, as follows: Cars of lumber, 1; amount of money orders wes $767,000; | hogs, 1; flour, 1; coal, 6; merchandise, 6 of postal notes, $0,600. The bankivy|ties, 1. Carloads forwarded over Mis- faci ities of 1ho prescut dsy have caused a | sourl Pacific: Lumber, 8; merchandiss, reat decrease in reg'stored packsyes. | 4; ballion, d lme, 1. 'ore'gn mox ey orders in one yesr sum | — up 816,000, while domestio money orders The Ladies’ Musicalo. paid, amount to 400,000, and portall g ooy oo PR Bote' to 38,000, Forelgn orders that| Tho tenthof the serics of ladies mus- have been paid in & year by this office |icales, which tcok place yesterdsy after- summed up $12,000, noonat Meyer's hall, was, asever, attended ":,‘:;' ‘;“‘“'"; the pist e issued 1500 by aselect and cultured audience of the fo- e o oogPeiting POSt- |1y, 1g worshippers ofeymphony divine. The offices, equal to §1,600,000. And it re- X mitted surplus 10 Chicago, for 1884, | Frogramme rendered is appended ; awountiog to §1,950,000. The profits of | - Ngtes oo Meodelwoho. .. 0. the office for the past year were $74,000. |3 pi - T 1y And Mr, Countant yesterday recelved a % Tiamq.Belp A“.Ex.r.“l? .u.d A}J:'ff?.g-.. !+:Mrs. Rogers roceipt from the department at Washing- | 4. “In Autum Mr, Northrup Letters aro ALWAYS SENT THE NEAREST WAY up ton that his cflice way square sund books | 5. **On Wings of Song”.... magt 0 Dacenber 1. 1hd! 6. Bongs Without Words ., . The poatcfii.e vaulc, w most secare and |7 adm'rably o.nstrusted one, by the way, |5 contaius stamps and poetal ¢asds in pro committen meets in the Paxton house parlors a7 pom. Among the prominznt arrivals yesterday C. W. Wnght, Cheyeone; J, H, Mur phy, Wood River; W. T. H. Tutter, Plum Creok; W. B, Taylor, Plum Creek; A. Huz- litt, Boutrice; W. J, Small, Pairfield; J. P. Johnson, Kearney; P. 8, Real aud daughter, Grafton; ¥, M, Dorrington, Plattsmouth; Mrs. L, W. Russell, W, M, Lamb, Mrs, J, V. Hinchmann, and Mrs, C. B. Bosbyshell, Glouwood; D. R, Daniel, Norfolk; F. Bel- * | lows, Weeping Water, and N, W, Wells are | bafore. at the Paxton, THE WHOLESALERS In the Local Liquor Traflic to be immediately Reported,—The Writ of Mandamus, Lest week, it will be remembared, the sopreme court iszued awritof peramptory mandamus to compel Marshal Cammings to report the namsa of the wholeale liquor men doing business la this city, to the city council, in crder that they might be compelled t) take out the $1,000 license in accorda terms of the Slosumb law, Sherifi Miller eerved the following writ of mandamus upon Mar:hal Cumminge: The state of Nebrackn, to Thomas Cummisgy, | craase is abont greeting, . Whereas, in action pendiog in the supr court of Nebraska, wherein the state of braska snd school district city of Owm were plaintiffs, and you_ were responden judameat was rendered by said cowt on the eleventh day of March, 1835, that & peremp- tory writ of mandswus issue in said cause commanding you forthwith us marshal of the city of Omaha, to ascertain and report to the | tle sociables” 88 they are k city council of ra'd city, at its regular meet- | there, from April 10 Deceiuber last year, fair one.” ——— Facts About Montana, Spriogfield Republican, Montara is crowing over an Incrasse of 20,000 in population last year, making 100,000 pecple elsimed for the tervitory, and an increase of 200 per cent in ths cattle export. Montana stands next to Toxas In the amouat of its grazing lands, something over }70,000 acres, with Ari- zona a close third, The exports last year were 85,300 head agalnst 30,400 the year Drassed beef was also sent east successfally in refrigerator cars, over 3,000 head being slaughtered for this purpose at Mendora, Stock eattle ars now worth from 35 to §40 a head sgainst §10 threa years ago. This' whole buslness has grown up since the win'er of 1873-4, when the possilulity of winteriog stock in good conitiun cn the open ravg:s was discov- ered by accident, Some contrsctors drove thelr oxen to the British trading posts over the line on the Saskatchewan, and, having nothing to teed them, turned them loose. 1Inthe epring the osttle wore fat, Ths next year the same firm secured the contract to supply the Mon- tana Indians with besf, drove 800 cows into the territory snd began breeding. that started the cattle business thera. It ance with the|takes memay(to ba a Montana cattle king, Yesterday | but sheep raleiog s the poor 's indus- try, Sheep cost $3.00 to 83 50 a head, the annual wool clip will pay for the expense of herding, and the anbual io- 90 per cent Tae export of wool last year way 1,248 034 pounds, against 848,225 pounds the year before, and oyer 20,000 sheep were exported. Lyoching has grown up as s necessity for the protection of the vast eatle and sheep ranges, snd Montana clatms 69 impromptu hanglngs, or **neck- nown out more tiiver avd gold bulllon in 1834 than Arizons, Calltornia cr Nevade, and almcss as much as Colorado. ralsingisthe greatindustry of tho territory, as shown by the comp-sition of the pres. ent leglelature, which has fifty-four cow- boys, eight lawyers, tix mivers, throe merchauts, one doctor, one editor, and one lamber desler. Montana editors are sensilive to the criticism which the fre- quent lynchings may bring apon their people, and point with pride to the fact that many of the exscutloners at these fectivition are college gradvates, who can garssa Latin sentence with neatness and dispatch. This 18 no exaggeration. In the citles and large towne, like Helena, Butte, Deer Lodge and Bozeman, life and property are as secure as anywhere in the country. The tercitoryls destined to be immensely rich, i, =S Paying a scoundrel, The Curieux, Alexander Damas contributes to the Ourieux an anecdote told him by the lats Hoori Didler, who was & deputy under Didler's father was secretary to {he minlater of the interior at the time when the Dachess de Berrl was arrested at Nantes at the end of her attempt to raise the country againat Louls Philippe and in favor of her son, the Count de Chambord. The traiter Deulz, agreed to sell to the government the secret of her hiding-place for 500.000 francs, and 1t was the elder Didler's daty to pay the scoundrel for bis dirty work, He tovk h's son Henrl Into the office, and said: ‘‘Look well now at what passes, and never forgot it. You will learn now what a lacho is, and the method of pay- ing him.” Deufz was then brought into the room where M. Didier was standing behind the desk, on which were placed the second em pire, raost of the cffenders being cattlo thicves, The Montana mines do & b'g businers, the region right around Butte producing Bat eattle G, Ul D.qeis THE LEADING CAR RIACE FACTORY 1409 and (411 Dodee St. { ““wgulm™ } Omaha Ne- on application @ A LINDQUEST & CO. 1206 Farnam Street, FineTailors Wish to announce that they have from this time marked down ALL GOODS, and will for the next 60 days, make a reduction o 10 per cent. Overcoats, Suits and Pants well mad two packots, cach of which contalned 250,000 francs, As Deufz neared the detk, M, Didler made a sign o him to siop; then, taking a palr of tongs, he ex- tended the packets one after the other into the hands cpen to receive them. Not o werd wan spoken; and, when the tranefer was effected, M. Didier pointed to the door. L m—— Teller's Trick, Valentine Republicin, A notoriously i legal and pignfis fraud comes to light. On the third of March the last of a saries of patents were signed by which 700,000 acres of land worth $3,000,000 wero given to acompany whese principals are Jay Gould and C. P. Huntington. It was known as the “‘Backbone Grant,” pasted by congrees in 1871, and as originally made to the New Orleans, Vicksburz and Baton Rovuge rallway, cn the condition that the road should ba completed in five years. No portion of the road bas ever been Luilt, and thongh con- greys has been pressed to grant the pat- ents, and the interlor depirtment urged to sign them, 1o congress or secretary of the Interior has ever dsred to countenance such a fraud. Some time ago an extra foreo of clerks In the Inter'or department was set at work to rush through these patents before the expiration of Teller’s term in the cabloet. There ,were com- pleted and signed, and now, by ths ac- tion of Teller, though congross had de- cided azatast it, the rpublican party is accountable for a great steal. ——— She Caught Him on the Fly, “Do you think the cholera will recach here next summer, Mr. Bootliby?’ &he murmured, as she brushed a microbe of daudruolf off his shculder where her head had lately reated. ¢ den't know, I'm sure; doctors eeem to think so.” o ‘It’s awful, ain't it]” ““Terrib’e.” ‘A great many dlo with it {" “So I've heard.” B“‘Don’t you feel alarmed ?” “‘Why should I?” ‘I read somewhera the other day that marzied men seldom tske it, whereas single'men ara almost sare to,” “Is that 8o’ said Mr. Boothby. *‘Yer, and iV's almost- certainly fatal.” “‘Horrible, ain’t it," said Boothby with a shudder, I do hops you won't catch it Mr. Boothby,” she whiepered, tears starting to her eyes. Ho took tho hint and popped the qucs- tion, ——t— A DYNAMITE DETECTOR, Description of a Boat by Which the - Police of London Will Detect Criminals, London Globe, February 10, Last night an interesiing trlal was made of a new boat apeclally adapted for police purpeses and the inspection and protestion of waterside premises, The ex- periments were made on the Thamesround about Westminster bridge soon nfter 8 o'clock, where, nctwlithstanding the c)ldnees of the nigh*, a score of electrl- clans and other gentlemen assembled on the steamboat pier at the tnvitatton of Mr. Reckenzaun, the inventor. The vessel conalsis of an electric boat pre- cisely similar to that detcribed in the Globe some months ago. On the bow is fitted an electrlc arc lsmp of 8,000 candle power (effective), surround- ed by a powerful reflactcr, and fitted 8) asto bo easily adjusted to any angle of declination, = The electricity necessary for the lamp is furnlshed by the rame ac- cumulators which provide that for the screw, ond are arrapged in bunkers, forming seats along the middle of the boat. The vess:1 when obarged is capa- ble of going at & speed of elght milen for four houre, showing a light ail the time, and the cost is said to be trifling. The eurr<nt consista of fifteen amperes, having a force of fifty vclts, and the light 1s eufliciently powerful to illum- ine both banks of the river with a pure, white light. The object of this particu lar form of vessel is the more effective guarding of river hanke, wharves, etc., than is possible either in boats or steam launches, The vessel runs silent'y, and owing to Its low water line is practically invisible, The light can be flashed on or off in a second of time, and most effctual- ly discloses anything however small, within several hundred yards. Last night's experiments, which were very sucessful, were witnessed by a number of members of Parllament from the windows of the house snd Weat- minster bridge, while the embankment was orowded with people amazed at the phenomencn of so brillia light flash- iog every few moments from what was apparcntly the middle of the river, ————— —The pistol shot fired about 2 o'clock this morniog was by & man shooting ata dog in the lumber yard towards the depot, e . —Among new songs for the musically in- clined is, “When the Mouthfuls Downward Go,” by the avthor of “When the Swallows Homeward Fly.” And for lovers of poetry will soou be published, not from the Bk office, “‘Ha, Ha, Crow,” a parady ou Lalla Rookh, and sure fit. Now is the time to buy GOOD CLOTHES AT LOW PRICES Orange Blossom Flour WHOLESALE BY L A STEWART & €O, 1013 Jones Btioet a OMAHA NEB } sk FoR RED CROs3 | C. S. RAYOMND. ——a Be-Sure t ttnd. Uaparalleled Sacrifice. 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