Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 12, 1885, Page 4

wpvies e v OIL UPON TROUBLED WATERS, IHE DAILY BEE- The question whether torm at sea :fl Overen Mo, 914 awp 918 Faswax By, | oan bo calmed In the immediate viclnity Yoax Owren, Roow 8 Tarsowa Bomkd- |of a vessel by pouring oil upoa the me. troubled waters has been discussed from every morning, Sundsy. T |time to time, and experiments have m’ ..m:l:u:"::‘ e e lately been made to ascertaln whether It v : g-lnfll Is really practicable. Such experiments have been made at Glargow, and It Is sald that they demonstrated the fact that ofl will calm the waves. o Important ‘Months, .".,:. ] is this matter deemed by those Interested Month, on trial. N in navigation, that the hydrographic Communtoat: o Newsand Bditerial | office of the navy department has for wiltery W ehdresed” e e Eoron oF TR | ooty b.I.’, engaged In colleot- ing data to determine under what ole- cumstanoes the use of oil is most effica- clous In diminlshing the danger of break ing seas during gales of wind. When sufficient data have been gathered it Is proposed to lssue a pamphlet glving such directions In regard to the use of oil as common experlence of sea- Taar European war clond seems to [men may determine to be best. have rolled by. Among the statements recently re- — ] ceived at the department is one relating 80 loag as this cold weather continues | the experlence of the steamshlp Venioe, there need be no fear of cholera. bound from Savannah to Earope with cotton, In November, 1881, She was Tue question now {s has Con. Gal- [running befors a heavy northwest gale Iaghor been *‘called” by Mr. Vilas? and was boarded bya tremendous sea. - The captain determined to heave to, and Wiar aurprises us {s that the Atlantlo | men werestationed to pour oil down the oables can stand the straln of Tenny- | clonet chutes forward and to throw waste sonlan poetry. soaked in oll to windward, The vessel came round without shipping any water. Owrensive partisans in the Omahs| g ghe kept falllng off 1t was coucladed postoffice have been spotted and placed |45 put her agaln before the ses, which on the black lst. was done without trouble, and it was found that she kept perfeotly dry as long Tae president has made Saturday his | oy the ofl was used. Agaln, in January day of rest. Under the new rules no|ggy while crossing the Atlantlc to New visltors ara now admitted to the White York, after running befors & northwest House on that day. gale for some time, she was laid to with- out difficulty or danger by using oil in the manner already stated. There are several other well authenti- cated acconunts, among them belng that of Captaln Ritchie, of the English steamer Fern Holme, who while on his last voyage PostMASTER GENERAL VILAS has gIVeD | g0 Bltimoro to Shields used oil bags one of his cousins a comfortable berth 8| while runningibefore a west-southwest Washington. He will take care of his gale. He hung one over each slde, just slsters and his aunts in the near fature. | ¢ worq of the bridge, and they effectaally ) prevented the ship from taking water on Gex. Hazex will confer & favor ou &g ) girsy Officer W. Maltjen, of the long-nufforlng peoplo and the early|Gonan gteamer Colon, in December, vegotablos by giving "}B oold wave fisg & 1884, used oil bags with remarkable rest. What we want just now is Warm | g0y, hygs filled with bolled oll weathar, with > fow rain showen, aud were hung over the bow. The ol spread- plenty of sunshine. Ing over the surface prevented the waves R B from breaking, and the shiprode quite Tufl;flhlnsm bc";“i?fi B::‘:I:“:":: easlly durlng the continusnce of the gale. there has been a mob of o The brig P. M. Tenker, Noew York to tho natlonal capital. Well, :i t:no urov:l Ouba, In 1872, encountered a northeast that is there doos not constitute a mob, gale when four days out. Several heavy we would like to know what size the| ' = . came on board, doing great damage. crowd will bo when the mob does put In| " ) oo ith holes punched in the an appearance. bottom, was filled with oil and hung over Wae Mr, Leeper ls the apparent the stern. The oil prevented the seas contestant in the election in the thirty- | from combing, and tho vessel ran for fourth Tllinols distelot, Horlzontal Bill |several houra with dry decks. Morrlson Is the party who is most inter- Captain Jones, of the Britlsh steamer terested In the movement. The defeat Chicago, while rescuing the crew of the of Loeeper upset his senatorlal plans, and brig Fedore, used oil with best results. honce the contest. It was blowlng a heavy gale, with very high seas. The Chicago ran to the wind- ward of the Fedore, and during a lull, oi] var two yoars tlme in which to declde |baving been poured on the water, the whether To will Iz tho constitation |Port lfcboat was succemsfally launched which was signed by his father on the day and started. A can of oll was taken in of his aasassination, Meantime tho nihi- (the boat, and by using this the lists will not dynamite the czar, but if at | 5eas were kept down in the Immediate the end of the two years he does not|vicinity, though they broke in masses of comply with thelr demand he may ex- | foam short dlstance away. As the boat pect to be blown into eternity. He cer- approached the Fedore the crew of that talnly has been glven time enough to vessel poured oil on the water, which so think the matter over. calmed the sea that the boat got along- slde and rescued the shipwrecked crew LELAND STANFORD'S tatement, which | without sustaining any Injury. About first appeared in an interview In the|half a gallon of paint oll was used by the Omaha B, that General Grant's im-|boat during her trip, proved condlticn isdue tothe use of| It would seem from these accounts clover tea has attracted wide-spread at- | that ofl has been and can be successfully tentlon snd caused considerable com-|used in calming storms, and Whe Weakly Bas, Pablibsed svery Wednosday s, reerrion. PUBLISHING €O, Progs. £ ROSEWATER, Eorrom . Fitoh, Manager Daily Olroulation, "é.al-.ulo-h. Neb, | | | | | ComMODORE GARRISON left an ecstate worth $3,000,000. This is doing pretty well for a bankrupt, upon whom a great deal of sympathy was wasted. Tae Russlan nibllists have given the & re- ment. According to the Boston Globe|markable feature of the proces the the use of the clover plant on cancers s |small quantlty of ofl required. The not new. Fifty years sgo thera were|calming of storms by the ofl process “doctora” who traveled over the country | ought to be thoroughly tested by all sea selling receipts for a' cancer ointment|captalns at the first opportunity, It made by boiling clover headsdown toa|would be a great comfort to ocean viscid compound like tar, which was to|trrvelers to know that whenever a storm be applied to the diseased part. arlses the waves can be mastered by the E—— ship's ofl can. It may be amusing for the time belng to have a little fan at the expense of the doctors on account of General Grant’s POLLUTED WATER, tmproved condltion, but that he is| The physicians have been at a loss to afflicted with cancer no one can doubt for | ascertain the cause of the fyphold fever amoment In the face of the statements | plague in Plymouth, Penn., where there of ominent physicians and surgeous who [ have been over 760 cases and about 80 know what they are talking about, Had |deaths, but 1t Is now pretty generally 1t not been for the skillfal, untiring and | conceded, after a thorough investigation, devoted treatment of his dootors General | that Impure water from the wells 1s the Grant would have been & dead man long | origin of the epidemic, Plymouth has a before this, The doctors are entitled to [system of water works, the supply com- the credit of prolonging the general’s life, | ng from the hills, This system was es- 1t may be only for a few months, and it |tablished some years ago, and then the may be for years, His case haw so far|wells were pretty generally abandoned. proved a remarkable exception, Sometimes the water supply from the e hills fails, and In that event water from Ewmma, queen-dowsger of the Sand-|the Susquebanna river ls pumped Into wich Islands, s dead. She was the|the pipes. The people, howaver, do not daughter of & high natlve chief by an|like touse this river water on account of English woman and the adopted daugh- |its impurities, and they accordingly fall ter of Dr, Rooke, ‘an English doctor In |back temporarily on thelr welle, When it the lalands, She was born In 1836, and | became known that the people were not received an excellent education by Amer- | using river water, the wells were Investi. foan tutors. In 1856 she was married to | gated, and It was found that the water in King Kamehameha IV., who had suc- | them had been polluted by the contents ocoeded to the throne two years provious- | of the many cesspools In the town, The ly, and who dled in 1863, On the death | sanitary lesson taught by the dreadful of King Lunalllo, in February, 1873, his [experlence in Plymouth s one that successor not bavicg been proclalmed, [should be heeded In every city and town, Queen Emma and the present King Kal- |1t shows how seriously the health of akaua proclaimed themselves caudidates | people may be affected by the use of pol. for the throne. The leglslature was|luted water, In clties and lsrge towns called together in extra sesslon to elect a | there should be no wells, In Omaha, for soverelgn, and Kalskaua was successfal, | instance, and partioularly in the more Queon Emma only recelving 6 votes out |thickly settled portlon, there are hun- ot 46. When the result was announced, | dreds of wells that arc in reality nothing » mob of her partisans broke into the leg- | but cess-pools. All the water in them lslative chamber and furlously attacked | may be clear and sparkling, but we have the members. Ald was asked of the every reason to belleve that It can Amerioan and British was vessels atthe|be shows to be polluted with port, which was granted, and the insur: | poison that has seeped through the soil gents were dispersed. Kalakaus was|from cess-pools and vaults not more than proclaimed king, and the queen-dowager | ten feet distant. Yet people will dellb- xatired to private life, erately persist In using water from such wells, when there Is a healthy supply to be had In abundance at a trifling expenre. Tt Is true we have a sanltary system of sewerage which has to a large extent done away with cess-pools and vaults, but the danger still exlsts suofficiently to make people very careful as te what wells thoy get their water from, Tae supreme ocourt of the United States ls, to say the least, a very lelsarely body of easy-golng gentlemen of ad- vanced sge. Notwlthstanding the fact that the oalendar Is three years bohind they think they are entitled to an annual vacation of five months, Is It any won- der that with such a slow-going court it takes yoars and yoars to reachthe final de- cision In ltigation? It certalnly does not seem falr to litigants nor just to the tax- payers of this country that justice should be administered In such a tardy manner. There are nine justices, and they are looking forward to the tlme when they shall be ‘put upon the retired list, and be permitted to draw full pay for the rest of thelr lives. They must have served ten years, and must have reached the ege of seventy before they can be re- tired. Seven of them have already served the required number of years, and all of this namber with one exception are close upon thelr seventfeth birthday. It would be a good thing for the country if they could sll be retlred at once and a younger set of men be substituted for them, who would do a fall year's work for a full year’s pay and catch up with the calendar. There is altogether too much lelsure and ease among the fat- salarled justices of the supreme court. AccorpiNG to the latest reports from the principal wheat-growing states it is safo to eay that there will be a consider- able decrease In this year's crop. A great deal of damage has been done to winter wheat by the cold weather and the storms in various sectlons. The area of spring wheat is also limited, as compared with last year, owing to the latenees of the season and the unfavorable weather. While we shall have a smaller crop this season, there need be no fear that it will be a serlous matter, Our wheat product last year amounted to over five hundred millions of bushels, giving a surplus of over a hundred million. Prices were ac- cordingly depressed, and the producers dld not realize from this immense crop the money return which a smaller crop would have ylelded. The surplus makes 1t sure that there will beno wheat fam- ine. Thero is danger, however, that the speculators will take advantsge of a small crop to advance prices beyond reasonable limits, but In case there isno European war, and It now looks very much as if there would not be any, the foreign de- mand will not be more than ordinary. Uonsequently there will be no legitimate cause for an unusual advance in the price of wheat. In speaking of unequal assessments the Chicage Herald says that corporstion property Is speclally favored by the as- sessors, and that the small property owners bear the brunt of taxation. This is just as true In Omaha as it is In Chl- cago. The Herald says: ‘With a rich corporation taxation becomes an important matter, and te avoid a large tax bill the company may well afford, in the money aspect of the case, to retain the ser- vices of a lawyer skilled in the statutes affect- ing revemue, This vigilance brings its reward to the company, while the bur- den to him who cannot command the means necessary to secure special and skilled representation in the various processes of as- sessment is all the greater. Thus wealth which needs the least secures the greatest pro- tection, and the small owner, who can least afford the burden, finds it heaped uronhim in the proportion of immunity enjoyed by his richer and more adroit neighbor, * * * Assessors and boards of equalization have fallen into the habit of making the assessed value of taxables low as compared with actual value. The problem in Illinols is to secure uniformity, If the values arbitrarily assigned bear in all cases the same relative proportion to real values no injustice will be worked, As 1t is the burden falls unequally, and the smaller becomes proportionately the larger taxpayer, — The loternational Arbiteation League will probably hold a conference in the clty of Washington sometime In 1887 to make arrangements for the assembling of a general peace congress in London in 1890, The object of the league Is to have all International disputes settled by arbitration. The league hopes to entlrely do away with wars among the clvilized natlons, and to bring about a gradual disarmament, commencing in 1890, to continue annually until 1900, when It is expected that all armies will have been abollshed, This is a laudable movement, but we question whether It will ever suc- ceed. Empires and kingdoms depend upon thelr military establishments for thelr existence, and the present rulers would never consent to the disarmament snd the disbandment of the standing armies and navies, Furthermore, the armies give employment to too many peraons ever to be abolished. Tae Philadelphis Bulletin calls atten- tion to the report of the library company of that city as an {llustration of the fm- mense difference In degree of public use- fulness between free and private libra- rles. The Philadelphia library belongs to the latter class, Dariog the past year the number of books taken out was 45,000, or less than one-third of the whole number of volumes in the library. On the other hand, the Boston free library with over 400,000 volumes, at- talns an average annual clrculation of over one miillon. *“‘In other words,” says the Bulletin, *‘a free library clrcu. lates about elght times as many books as a private llbrary; or, to put it in another fashion, a book In the Philadelphis library does only one-eighth &s much good as s done by a book in the Boston public library."” ARNOLD, THE INFANT. A §ix Months 014 Town, but as Lively and Tongh as a Spring Chicken. Rapia Stttlement of the Loup Valley Farm Land Advancing in Price, Correspondence of the Bxe. Ar~orp, Ouster Co., Neb., April 28, — It may be Interesting to some of the readers of your valuable paper to know something about the new and growing town of Arnold, Custer county. Little more than slx months ago this now fally-developed Infant town was born. Your correspondent has seen many fine locations for towns and citios In Nebraska; among which we might mention Omaha, Lincoln, Falls City and Bentrice, cities and towns of which any state might well feel proud. We have, however, never soen a more beautiful place for a town in this state than at Arnold, It the traly plcturesque the town site of Arnold Is unsurpassed, if not unequalled. Arnold s on the banks of the Loup river, and about seventy miles from Its source. The valley at this place s about five mlles wide, and becomes narrower east and weet, thus presenting a basin-shaped appearance; the surrounding hills are irregular and mountainour, and a8 we watoh their faces looking skyward we_exclaim with the poet: *‘Ye crags and peaks I'm with you once again.” South of the valley we have immense pralrio or table lands, the soil s rich, deep and dark, and the crops ralsed on them last year were equalto, If not superior to those raised on the valleys. The vegetables ralsed in this vlcinity were Immenee {f ‘‘bigness” is any sign of quality, and *‘takes the cake” In the veg- etable line. Your correspondent gath- ered corn on the eod here, and could not find its equal in grand old Otoe county, and yet we find men paylng $25.00 and $30 00 per acre there for land no more improved and no better than land to be found here for from §56 to $10 per acre. “‘Oh, conslstency, thou art a jewel.” Fine roads and improved farms are to be found on this table land. Nearly all good government land is taken There will be some good pasture lands left. Good claims sell on the tables at from $150 to $450, deeded land at from §0 to $10 per a:re. Some claims near Arnold have sold for $1,000 to $1,600. Thers are, however, somo splendid bargains in land still to be found at low figures. There Is another tract of beau- tifal tablo land lying north of Arnold This land extends from east to west about thirty-five miles, from north to sooth fif- teen or twenty miles, covered with blue stem—a fine hsy grass. Between this north table and Arnold we have & splen- dld range of canyons, running from east to west., Thete canyens are sublime in appearance; an artist brush could not do them justice, and a word painter, unless indeed he be a Homer should not at- tempt to describe them. The practlcal utility of the canyons is found in the excellent shelter they offered for stock, the immense hay to be found in the can- yon valleys, and the timber. These can— yons abound In cedars, box elder, elm and ash, much of this timber has been dea'royed by settlers. In many pla however, the timber is protected in its ploturesque besuty. Wild fruits such a8 plums, cherrles, gooseberrler, currants grapes and raspberries are to be found in great abundance, THE LOUP RIVER, The channel of the south Loup hete is narrow aud at about equal depth at all seasons of the year. It is fed by lnnum- erable springs and on account of these springs the water Is cold and clear all summer, and 1t does not freeze daring the winter. The ateep accent from west to east cause the water to flow rapidly, thus affording an excellent MILL POWER. We have ono larze frame flour mill here now and another five mlles east of here, As the country develops and more milling capacity s required mills can be bullt every milo or two apart without danger of backwater or overflow, RAILROADS, As yet the nearest railroad polnt is Gorhanburg, on the Union Pacific rail- road, a distance of some thirty-five or forty miles, The B. & M. raflroad com— pany have made sev. surveys up the Loup valley. This is the nearest route to the coal and oll reglons of the great northwest, and a railroad wlll certainly be built 1o the near fature. LoT§ bave been gelling at very reascnable figures, Good lots huve been scld at from fifteen to thirty-five dollars. An advance will in all probability be made soon. Mr, J. H. O'Brlan, of your city, (Omaha) has a plot of the town for public inspection, CHURCHES, The Methodlsts have just completed a church bullding, a prett; square roof structure, large, the material is scd, our western brick, but 1t is floored and ceiled and will be cemented within and without and will look, when com. pleted, just like a building made of olid limestone. This church, the M, E., num- ber, I belleve, about fifty members, The Rev. Natban Eoglish Is the pastor. The Discples or Christians have some fifty members here, Elder Correll preaching for them every Lord's day. The mem- bers of this body have made arrange- ments to bulld a large frame church structare this summer; a'ready some four or five hundred dollars have been prom. ised for that purpose. We have twe Sunday schools: the Methodist and Union, Both are well attended. Of se oret societles we have two; the G. A, R and the Good Templars. The last named order numbers some thirty-five members. Temperance socletles abound in Custer county, At the county seat, Broken Bow, there Is a lodge of 100 membera, There are no saloons in the county, Your correspondent will write again in s few days, giviog a description of our business houses and what some of the homesteaders have done In a year, We pot only have men with famllies but mapy young women heve come into this county, taken land and improved, and are thus securing for themselves homes and Independence. Pansey, e — The Ozar’s Domain, One-seventh part of the land sarface of the earth, and one twenty-eighth part of its whole erea constitute the dominion of the Czar of All the Russias, More than 100,000,0€0 people call him father, and are under his absolute government., In Rusela & child Is born on an average every elght seconds throughout the year, and a death occurs every eleven seconds, At the present rate of increase the popula- y 1TOOU. ——— tlon wlll doubled in about sixty yesrs But Russla 1s far behind most ~civllized natlons In the care of children and in the preservation of life. Statistice show that 60 per cent of all the children die under the age of b years. The average duration of 1ife in Rassia Is only 26 years, which 1s much below the average In the Western cou ntries f Europe and In the Unlted States. o — ON THE WAR PATH, Red Devils of the North-west. The question whether any of our border Indlans will oross the line and take part with their belligerent congeners In the Northwest territory has assumed great im- portance, writes a Washington correspon. dent to the New York Herald, and many inqulries are bolng made as to the number character, and location of such of our aboriginal wards as, by thelr proximity to the disturbed district, or thelr affilia- tion or Inter course with the Canadinn Indians, are supposed to be within the reach of temptation. The only Indians in the United States who would lkely under any probablo circumstances to yleld to such temptation are those located on the Devil's lake, Turtle mountalin, and Fort Berthold reservations, and the north- ern portion of the Sloox reservation in Dakota, and on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana. There are all together about eighteen thousand Indlans on thess resorvations, about forty-elght kundred of whom are males over elghteen years of sge. g'l‘hs Davil's lake reservation Is seventy miles south of the Manitoba frontler, and is ocoupled by 851 Cutheads, Siesa- ton, Whepheton Sioux, 218 of whom_ are young men and warriors; but as they bear the character of being good Catholics who attend church regularly on Sunday, work the rest of the week, and don't get drunk or use profane language, there need not bs any apprehension that they will go on the warpath, The Turtle mountaln In. dlans are quite another stamp. They conalst of thirty-one families of renegade. Chippewas from Minnesota, and about twelve hundred indlviduals of mixed blood, and are represented to be In a etate of abject poverty and Ignorance with an_Ineatiable craving for whiskey. The Indians and half-breeds are only five or six miles from Manitoba, and can not be very dezirable nelghbore, The number of grown males among them is not known but assuming that they average about the as the other indian tribes—2b per cent.— there will be more than 340, The Upper and Lower Yanktoanals, Uncapaps, and Blackfeet Sioux with 113 Indlans of mixed blood, making aitogeth- er 5,721, of whom 1,107 are males over 18, are at the Standing Rock agency, in Dakota, about 200 miles from the British line. Their agent raports that every family is engaged In cultivating individual 'Y | frontier line, 18 devoted to 1,150 Gros fields or garden patches; that the late hostiles of followers of Sitting Bull have been quite industrious, and that the lead- ing young men have had thair hair cut, from which it may be Inferred that they sre trying to be *‘good Injans,” but the chance of a little of thelr old-tlme diver- alon with rifle and scalping knife may up- sat all the good reeolutlons which their agent has formed for them, The northern boundary of ths Fort Berthold reservation is In some placs thirty.five In others sixty miles south of the British line. The occupants are 544 Arickarees, 347 Gros Ventres, and 311 Mandans, who s&re represented as ““largely honest and trathful,” also peace- able and friendly to the whites, but in some fear of their old enemies the Sloux, a3 well as the Canadlan Chippswas, who are at deadly enmity with them, steal their ponles, and plunder them by whole- sale. It would seem, therefors, that If these Indlans *‘take & hand” in the exlst- ing troubles it should not be against, but on behalf of the Britlsh settlers, for the purpose of getting even with the thelvish Chippewas. There are 3568 Arlckarees, Gros Ventres, and Mandans capable of bearlog arms, The Blackfeet reservation in Montana is the largest In the United States, ex- cepting only the great Sloux reservation in Dakota. There are three agencles on it—namaly, the Blackfeet in the western portion, the Fort Belknap agency in the center, andthe Fort Peck agency in the sothwestern part. The Blackfeet, Bloods, and Plegans were formerly known as_the Blackfeet nation, but are now called Ple- gans by the authorities of the Indian office. They number 2,300, of whom about 7C0 are males over 18 years old. Prior to 1870 they wera considered very bad Indians and were blamed for all the depredations and, murders committed in thelr vicinity. In fact, 55 bad were thelr reputation thatin vhe winter of 1869.70 Col. E, M. Baker, of the 2d cavalry, with several troops of his ragiment, was sent to chastise them. He surprised a band under Chlef Red Horn on the Marlas river, killed 173, and captured as many more. Since then they have been submis- sive and generally well behaved, but as, for two or three yesrs back, the govern ment has kept them on the brink of star- vatlon--it would not be very eurprising if, forgetting the severe lesson they received fifteen years ago, they were to dig up the rusty hatchets and join their namesakes and relatives, the Blackfeet, Bloode, and Piegans, The Fort Belknap agency, which Is some twenty or thirty miles from the Ventrzs and 1,000 Assinabolnes, who are sald to be friendly toward the whites, but poorly fed and often, like Oliver Twist, asking for more, which the agent unlike Mr. Bumble, would be glad to glveif he had it. It is not Impoesible that hunger and the example and soiic!ta- tlon of their brethren in the northwest territory may lead these Indians into mis- chlef, They could muster between five and six hundred fighting men, The Fort Peck Indlans conslst of 1,195 Assinabolnes, 3,642 Yankton Sionx, 423 Santee Sloux, and 206 Ogallala and Teton Stoux, who era sald to be obedient, well-bebaved, and Industrious, In case of hostillttes they could muster from 1,200 to 1,400 men. The same trouble exists here as In all other agencles In Montana—short rations, For the last two years congress has had to make spec- 1al appropriations for the relief of the Indians at the Blackfeet, Fort Belknap, and FortPjeck agencles. Having given a brlef account of the Indiaus on the northwestern border, it seems proper to state how the troops who are supposed to be looking after them are distributed, Montana and Dakota, with the adjoinlng state of Minnesots, form the department of Da kots, commanded by General¥Alfred H, Terry, with headquarters at Fort Snell- ing, Minnesota, There are two reglments of cavalry, the st and 7th (exczpt troop G, which is at Fort Lavenworth), one light battery of artlllery (F, of the 4th) and seven regiments of infantry—the 3d, bth, 11th, 16, 17th, (except company G, st Fort Leavenworth), 18th, and 26th— under Goaneral Terry's orders, distributed s follows: The light battery and four cempanies of infaotry at Fort Snelling. In Dakota—Two companies of infantry at Fort Sisseton, two at Fort Pemblns, one troop of eavalry and thrse companl of Infantry at Fort Totten, four com nles at Fort Randall, four at Fort Su one at Fort Bennett, two troops of ca: ? and three companles of Infantry at ‘ort Yates, slx troops and four pa- nles at Fort Meade, four companies at Fort A, Lincoln, and two troops and four compan'es at Fort Buford. 1n Montsna—Two companios at the ‘| eamp on Poplar river, ene troop and elght companies at Fort Keogh, five troopsand four companies at Fort Ouster, two troops and efght companies at Fort Assinabolne, one troop and two companios at Fort Ellls, four companles at Fort Missouls, four compantes at Fort Shaw, and three trolnpl and two companies at Fort Magl- nnis, The five forts last named—Awsinabolne Ellis, Missoula, Shaw, and Maginnls— are In the district of Montana, comman- ded by Col. Thomas H, Ruger, 18th in. fantry,/with headquarters at Holena, Mon- tana, 1 all the regiments were fulland every- one presout for duty, Gen Terry would have a force of 346 officers, exclusive of staff officers, and 5,194 men. As It is, about one-fourth of the officers are on detached service, absent sick, or absent on leave, and about 700 men are needed to fill the ranks up to the authorized standard. e —— AN AULOMATIC SWITCH. How it is Expected to Provent kall- road Accldents, San Francisco Call. Yesterday afternoon, at Mastic Junc- tion, the Automatlo Railway Switch company arranged to demonstrate the value and practicabllity of O. S. Drake’s discovery and patent, The two sidings at this place had hisn adjusted for the use of the awitch in connection with the maln line, Thoagh neceesarily the work- ings were crude, and the track-bed far from being In good order, yet every- thing attempted was accomplished most successfully. The engine was ran from left sldings to main track, and from main track to right siding, with a satisfactory accuracy. So far as the locomotive is concerned, there is but trifling additional machinery nocessary, a lever and an ad- justing foot-plate are all. These connect with & cylindrlcal bar firmly fixed between the forward driving wheels, which bar ls the hand that changes the switches. On it are three steel projections which terminate in a revolving ring. This ring fevolves that it may reduce the friction which its preesure would bring to bear on the trog which 1s placed between the rails of the track, and the moving of which adjusts the track to the desired slding. Thefrog, which Is now 80 cslled until a mora cor- rect name can be found for it, is really a long lever conslating ot two ralls fastened together like a small narrow-gsuge way, with one end firmly secured by a bolt, but which allows the other end to swing In such a way as to turn a large hor- izontal wheel around which passes the wire c:bl-"'hnt reachea out and effects the change of¥crack for the appreaching en- gine. Thls is accomplished by what Mr. Drake calls a ‘‘double cam,” which is located parallel to the ralls and at the point where the change Is to be made. It is shaped like an angular S in its mid- dle, and terminates in a straight bar at efthor end to which is attached the wire cable. Agalnst the cutves of this letter S press the bars which rest sgainst the moveablo end of the rail. The friction is here tco reduced by steel wheels and as the curve of the & is, 50 must move backward or forward and into place the stiff iron rail. Aun englne whoee business is always on the maln line has the guide beneath the locomotive always set for the maln line, and if the passage of a previous train has 80 left the awitch that ordicarlly an accident would result, the guide feels it at once and when within seventy-five feet of the possible danger the rails slide back Into the proper line and the train moves in as eafely as though a whole bqngd of directors stood watching the crisis, ——— Death of an Ex-Governor. New York, May 11,—Ex.Governor Gilbert C. Walker, of Virginia, died at 3 this morn- 10g in the 62ud year of his age, of consump- tion and heart disease, TUTT’S PILLS 25 YEARS IN_ USE. The Greatest Medical Triumph of the Age YMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER. 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BURKET, [FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER, 111 K, 16th Btreet, - E MAGISTER OF PALMYSTERY AND CONDITION ALIST, 808 Tenth stroct, botwoen Farnam and H ney will, wivh theald of guardiac spisits, obsalning 1o anyone glance in the past and prosent, and on Boots and nbosy oortalnconditions in the future, made to order Perfeot sstiuisotion gusranieed OMABA NEB, Proposals for Lumber, Bealod lvmp)llll will be reoeived by the undersign. od until Frid 4 0'clock p_m.,for all kinds of lum) eded by the oity of Omaha, for oi lall specity tho pricen in det panfed with the uames of prcpcsed surely wholn the event of the awarding of the contra t, will enter iuto & bond with the city of Omaba, for tho true performance of sald contract. The Clty Couacll reserves the right to rejoct any and all bids. Envelopes oor taining said proposals shall be marked posals for Lumber,” and addressed to the under: sigood. EBEN K. LONG, ‘maha, Neb., May 8th, 1884 Auditor. m 6911121814 CITY STONE FOR SALE, Bealed proposals will begrecelved by the und +igned uahis Fuseduy, Sar’ 160, 1636, at 4 o'clock . for ths purchase of all loose 8tone belongl the clty of Omaha. Envelopes containing said proposals shall be mark €d “‘Proposals for Purchase of Stone,” and delivered toundersigned not later bove speci: fled. The city reserves the 1ight to refect any sad allbids. M&9-11 JAS, H. PEABODY, M. D, Physician & Surgeon Reelidence No. 1407 Jones 81 Office, No, 1609 Far: nam street, Ofce hours,1% w. 40 1 p. w. sad from t00p m. Tolophop * ‘o offios U7 sesidence 115, 3. B. outuakp, City Clork, e b