Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 18, 1885, Page 4

“MONDAY, MAY 18,1885, THE DAILY BEE, @uana Ovrion No. 914 A 918 Faswax Sr. Mww Yoax Orrion, Roou 6 Tamsvwa Buno- e, every morning, Senday. The m:y mornlog m‘ry'nbn od [n the state. Your.... ... 01000 | Fures Montha. B i Whe Weekly Bee, Pablibsed every Wednesday FERMS, POSTPAIR. ue Toar, with promion, ‘oar, without jum .. Eumi-. withous premium . connmrONDRNCA | lating All Oommnioatons 1o Ban FUSINRSS LATYRRS. . ANl Busines Létters and Remitianess should be A e T Ban PORLANING COMPANY, OMANA Ohooks and Post offion orders o be made pay: ¥HE BER PUBLISEING €0, Props. R ROSEWATER, Eorros A l":‘ub. Mansger Daily Olroulation, o Wows and Edisortal 40 the EDIToR OF THR It Is too cold even for olrcus lemonade, and not cold enough for hot whisky. P Tur most interesting clrcus perform- ance of the season 1s liable to take place in the Tllinols leglslature this week. — We undersiand that ex-President Hayes has directed his Omaha agent to convert his salcon building In this clty into a hen-coop. Trar Mormon delegatlon obtained but little comtort from President Cleveland, His hardness of heart has caused anothe wail of lamentatlon throughout Mormon- dom. Tue atlack of that French scandal- monger upon Gladstone has probably un- strung the nerves of that statesman more than the Soudan campalgn or the Afghan frontier problem. . So it appears that even the veteran Gladstone Is numbered among the ad- mirers of the Jersey Lily. Fred Geb- hardt should inform the premler that he is old enough to know better. et e THERE is a new false prophet in the field of the Soudan, and he propozes to annthilate El Mahdi. If the English could have etirred up such a quarrel a little esrlier in the season It might have proved more profitable to them. f Rier, who is now a prisoner, keeps up his praying and talking in & wandering manner. He has laid the foundation for the insanity dodge. The government au- thorities, however, may think there is too much method in his madness. Tue see-saw game between the Britlsh lon and the Russian bear Is evidently drawing to an amlcable end. They will iisg and make-up, and then the czarina will vieit the princess of Wales In Lon- don t> bind the tles of friendship still more firmly. 1t seems after all to have been but a little family breeze. Tae Rlel rebellion has collapsed. Now that the Dominlon government has mafutalned ita dignity, 1t Is hoped that 1t will do generous justice to the half- breeds, who, it has been admitted, have substantlal grievances, By promptly pursulng & wise and just course the gov- ernment can easlly restore order and do away with the causes for any fature trouble of a slmilar character. ONE of the pretended speclals of the Ilerald announces that a coogressional speclal committee will investigate tho af- falrs of the Pine Ridge agency. The ‘Washington reporter of the ZZerald, who is looated in the Herald'office in Omaha, tells us that McGililcuddy will get a thorough ekaklog up and be compelled 10 go. Tsn't such bluster a liitle bungling on the part of a reporter, whom we are to imagine 1s located in Washington? Such talk sounds as if it were inspired by somebody who knows that the pretendcd nvestigation is to be a sham. If MoGlllicuddy must go to make room for some huogry offica seeker, why go through the expensive farce of an in- vestigatton? There s such a thing as or- ganizlng jurles to convict, but there is no need of sending cobgresilonal commit- tees on junketing tours to Tudian sgen- cios if the cnly object is to find an excuze for removing an Indian agent. Tue Republican prints a letter which advocates the drawlng of the color line in public resorts, theaters and churches. The snobocrat desires not only to fence out men and women of color from musi- ol and dramafic entertainments but would even wall in heaven to keep it from being contaminated by the African, whether he is as black as anative Nubian or bleached out to the color of a Clr- cseslan, In thls age and In {his land of cqual rights acd civil and religlous lib- erty, all such caste prejudlces are only a reflex of Intolerance and Ignorance, If this same high-toned aristocrat had mingled with the courtlers of Lou's Na. poleon he would have considered himself highly honored by assoclating with men and wumen whose African orlgln was beyond questlon., It shocks some people to slt In a pew next to a negro or to bave thelr children taughtin public schools where the girls and boys of all races are educsted on a perfect equality, They revolt at the thought of traveling in the same sleeping car with Fred, Dougles, John M, Langeton, or Blenche K., Bruce, but they have no objection to occupy the same berth {n which the negro porter had bunked the night before, nor to take thelr victuals prepsred by the hands of negrces, What these peogle will do if, In the world to come, they should be consigned to the care of his satanio majesty, the desil, 1t is difficult to lmagine, They might cbject to com- ing {n contact with the dreadful arkey even in hell, COLMAN'E COLLEGE-FARM CON GRESS, We have never taken any stock In col. lege farming. We don’t belleve men can learn farming from newspapers ary more than they can learn to be practlcal edlt- ors by attending a coilege lectura course on journalism. For the same reason wo have never regarded the national burean of sgriculture as an Institution that can 9 | yory much benefit the American farmer. At best the commissloner of agricultare has been an ornamental figure-head In charge of the botanlcal garden from which the wives and female friends of congrese- men aro supplled with costly bequets, Incidentally theagricultural bureau fur- nishes “garden-sass” for the rural constit- uency of the tenators and representatives who find this a very cheap method of electioneering. From Le Due, who ralsed tea at ten dollars a pound, down to Lorlng, who took pride In delivering lectures on blooded stock at state falrsat Uncle Sam’s expense, these model farm- ers have been arrant humbugs. The new commissioner, Mr. Colman, knows almost as much about farming as Horace Greely did. He has been a publither of a so- called agricultural paper which prints wood-cut illustrations of prize steers, premlum pumpkins and blooded plge. Hls farming h:s been done principally in {he attlc of a St. Louls print-shop, whers be ralsed his crops on the elevator. Mr. Colman, we are gravelyr luformed, has called a conventlon of college farmers to meet in the rory month cf June at the natlonal posy garden, for the purpose of diecansing ways and means for making his department cf greater practical ‘benefit to the country. The idea of call- ing together a lot of wild-eyed mcon- shine book-farmers to devize ways and mears for maklng the bureau of agricul- ture of great practical benefit to the country I8 decidedly refreshing and origloal, If Mr, Coleman had called for an assembly of commercialcollege students to devise ways and means of preventing Prof. Riley's threatened invaslon of seventeen-year locusts he would have done just as sentible a thivg There Is a refreshing simplicity in Mr. COolman’s composition, which entitles him to the admiration of the Amerlcan people, and that is his virtual admission that the department of agriculture, as he calls it, 15 sadly in need of some reform that would make it of practical benefit to the country. In thls at least we folly agree with him, We are amueed, however, at the bland and child-like credulity cf some of the Missouri admirers Mr. Colman. The Globe Democras, hich probably keowa & good dea less about farming than Commlesloner Colmav, if sucha thing could be, saya that “‘the object desired is good, and if Commiesloner Colman attalns it he will have done the best work of his life, and one that will perhaps bring forth fruit after he has been forgotten.” \es, In- deed, this 1s the chance of a lifetime. Le Duc’s tea-planting experiment isnota circumstance to the fruits {hat the col- lege farmers will bring forth if they are only allowed to have their way at Uncle Sam’s expense, 1t will for the first time in the history of the world afford proof that figs may grow from thistles. According to the Globe-Democrat the “‘farmers of thls country have always had a strong prejudice against agricultural colleges. On the granger, an allution to one of theee Institutions has usually the same general offect as pralss of a dyna- miter would have on an Englishman. The granger regards the agricultural col- lege as an expensive plaything, Invented In order that a few gentlemanly profes— sors may rlde about en good horees and pretend to teach an art that he end his father and hils grandfathers back to Adam’s boyhood learned without the as- sistance of a college. But the fact that a trade or business may be learned, and, after a fashlon, practiced without any systematlc tralning, does not prove that its butiness might not be much better done 1f Its principles ere thoroughly un. deratood, clearly laid down and carefully ollowed out.” Mr. McCuliagh, the editor of the Globe-Democrat, has been re- cently engaged as a lecturer on journal ism in Harvard college at a salary of §5,000 & year. That may acccunt for his conversion to theoretical agriculture and college farming. We know, however, that it Mr, McCullsgh had a farm to cultlvate he would not, hire a young dude from an agricultaral college, but would adver- tise in the want cclumn of his paper for 8 horny-fisted farmer. The most absurd twaddle, however, about Colman’s ssheme 1s embodled by the Globe-Democrat in the following paragraph: There was a time when the doctors, as & body, sconted the id:a of a medical college, yet the medical college came, Those primitive doctors were barbers, who also practiced blood.letting, tooth. pulllng, corn-parlng and nail-cleaning. The doctors as a body did not exist as a profeesion until medical cclleges had been establiched, but practioal farmers date way kack to Adam, Tug system of inoculation with cholera microber, as dlscovered and adopted by Dr, Ferran, of Valencls, Spain, is pro- nounced to be entirely successful. If this is really the case, it will prove as great a blessing as vaccloation to prevent small. pox, When Dr., Ferran made the an- nouncement of this discovery dootors and scientists were sent from all the provjnces of Spaln to study the system and watch the results of the} cxperiments, which seem to bave been sat'sfactory, The vi- ras inoculation produces a tumor on the patient, who becomes severely prostrated from the effects ln about twenty-four hours, but generally recovers entlrely within forty-eight houra after the cpera- tlon, That the people of Bpai. have fsith in this inocolatiou system ls shown by the fact that In one provines alone over 4,700 perzons have been inoculated, and It is said the epidemlo I repidiy dlssppeating. It would be a wise step for our govern- ment to send a commlission of doctors to Spaln to scquaint {hcmselves with Dr. Ferran's dlscovery, #o that'lt conld be in- troduced here at an early day and throrougtly stadied by our physiclans, Taere most be some land in Texas which has not been gobbled up by monop- olles or glven away to syndicates. This evidently Is the true inwardness of the ra- mor that the Chiosgo syndleate proposes to throw up Its contract for bullding the Texas capitol. This great land ring succeeded [In putting through a scheme abcut three years ago for building a cap- 1tol to cost 7,000,000, to be pald for with 3,000,000 scres of state lands, Up to this time the contractors have re- colved patents for 438,000 acres, valued at about $1,000,000. They have expended $500,000 on the building, and by throwing up the contract would clear a half milllon, Bat the Ohleagn gentle- men will not throw it up, if they know themeelves. They slmply propoze to play the Bill Stout method on the legislatare, which Is to be convened in extra session. There are 1,600 convicts In the Texas penitentiary, and the contractors want to bulldoze the leglalatura Into a covcesslon that will allow them to use these convicts in the quarrles. Their threats to throw up thir contract seem tous to be a mere blind, but It may work if Texas legis- Iators are as pliant as those of Nebraska. WieN congrets appropriated $4C0,000 as a subsidy for carryivg the malls in American-bullt steam vessels, it was gen- erally supposed that this was intended for the sole benefit of the Pecific Mail company. That company supposed eo, too, and was confident that it would get the entire amount. But it soems that it was elightly mistaken, as other claimants have appeared in the field, much to the surprlse and indignation of the Pacific Mail. The Alexandre, the Ward and the At'as lines are, or may be, ‘‘ mail” steam- ors, within the meaning of the act, and they now have their egents at Washing— ton to ineist upon their share of the money. Owing to the complication that has arisen the postoffico depsrtment is puzzled as to how to carry out the law within the meaning of congress. It would uot be surprising if, under these clrcumstances, the payments should be delayed until the meeting of the next congrees, In which case it is an open question whether the act would not be rescinded. Tue Lincoln Journal is rather late in coming to the defense of Warden Nobes That famcus defender ¢f pablic plan- derers and apologist for thieves can tee nothing Improper in the warden’s crooked vouchers for carpets end farniture which were shipped to his bank and opera house for his own use and charged up to the peritentlary account, 1t strikes us, however, that the Journal at best can only make a defense for Nobes. How can that paper consletently uphold a mercenary turnkey who bought his fur- piture in Omshs, when he could have purchased it just as cheaply at Lincoln with the state’s money? Herels a case where the plea for patronizing home In- dustry should have ccme into play. Mz. EvcenE FieLo, the father of David Dudley Field, was in Omsha cn Saturday in consultation with Dr. Miller in regard to the prrpoed tour of Samuel J. Tilden to Oregon over the Short Line. Samuel will stay in Omaka long enough to take some refreshments at Rutherford B. Hayes’ Sixteenth street raloon, TrE deminion government is eaid to be much embarressed by the capture o Rlel. What to do with him is now the question. Had he been killed in battle the government would have felt better satlsfied. Tue revised old testament is in great demand, Mocst of the pesopla who de- mand it will not be able to tell the differ- They have never read the unre- vised edition Twemaycr of Lincoln s about to iszue a proclama'lon forbidding the circalation of the OmanA Bee withln the limits of (ho capltal city. STATE JOXTINGS, : Emerson has spread over the Burt county ne, The net indcbtedness of Boone county is $07,000. A §15,000 elevator will be built at Blue Spiiogs, The are 2,619 books in the Doane College library. A democratic paper will soon blossom at North Bend. A methodist church will be builtat Nemaha tbis summer, Blair citizens are talking strongly of putting in water works, The Headlight illuminates the journalsstic procession at Stormsburg, The recent cold wave did no damage to fruit trees in Sarpy county, Hitchcock? county voted, by a majority of 321, to suspend the nerd law. Kixeter has raised $4,000 of the 815,000 necassary to build an elevator, The Kuights of Labor of Plattemouth are figuring on a co-operative store, ‘A democratic paper is to be plented close to the land office notices in Niobrara, Mike Moran, & farmer, died suddenly of heart disease in Falls Oity on the 14th, Jarrett Cox, a Webster county farmer, was killed by the cars at Amboy, on :he Tth, The fire in the postoffice building at Dun- can destroyed $1,6.0 worth of property. The Norfolk National bank, with a capital of $60,00, has flung its banner to the breeze, “Gypsum Butte,” in the White River csuntry has been pre-empted by soms specu lator, Joe Thomas, an Otoe county farmer, was thrown from a horse last wesk and now wears & crutch Uhadron has a rew bank with a capital of $100,000. Dusiness up there as done on the bread-guage plan, The State Dental Socicty tested their mo- Iars on Lincoln beef, lnst week. Tho tooth punchers are patient men, Unimproved Jands in Dixon eounty are #aid to havedoubled in value in the past six years, Three hundred and tifty more names have been added to the sober list at Fremont, The saloons are drying ap. Weepine Water eports will not tolerate fakirs unlees they explain the combination to make suro of winning. The engaging young ladies of Creighton offer extea inducements for the establishment of an ice cream parior thero. The Grand Tslsnd firemen have raised about twelve thousand dollars to defray the expenses of the next state tournament, The editor of the Nebraska Oty Press con- fesses that he perfected himeelf in the art of 1jing by composing circns bills, After a protracted eitting through four nights, the city council of Blue Springs granted one license to sell liquor. An msurance eompany hss been incorpo rated in Lincoln, with John Fitzgerald at the head and Si Alexander, scribe, Rumors are current in Platte county that the B & M. railroad will soon be extended from Oolumbua north through the county. Contracts have been let for the furnishing of the lumber for the new stock yards at Lin- coln, A town will be planted adjacent to the yards, Nanny Cline, the 11-year-old daughter of Poter Cline, a Webster county farmer, was burred to death while feeding a cornstock fire, on the Oth, Plattsn outh added two more to ita list of bonrders in the penitentiary Inst week, Frank Williams, robber; John W, Ehlers, forver, Five years each, Mirage flats is thenameof a section of country near Rushville, in Sheridan county, where the phenomenon is said to be on deck four duys in the week, _Haatings can have the proposed Scandina- vian theological seminary if proper substan- tial encouragement s given the promoters, The queetion will be settled this woek. T, G, Foxworthy, of Lincolo, fell from a scaffold twenty feet from the' ground, An ventory of his effeots showed a dislocated ankle, sprained shoulder and bruised hips. N. D. Hords, a former resident of Scribner, from which point he suddenly emigrated some two years ago, has been arrested for his crooked ways at Granite Falle, Minn, John Florida, who was sent to the county inil at Madison from Norfolk, succeeded 1n making his escape Tucsdsy nicht, At last reports no trace of tho fugitive had been dise covered, J. Martin, democratic postmaster at Mar tinsburg, Dixon county, was stccessful in his fifteenth attempt to resign his office a fow days ago, John Shultz being appointed lus succossor. Mike Healy of Lincoln, and John Driscoll of Chicago, have signed articles of agreement to spar six rounds vith crdinary boxing glovee, the match to be fowght in Lincoln thirty days trom May 11, A water spont burst grants named Scott, wl from Kearney, Friday night, drowning two of their children, The father, mcther, and one boy had a narrow escape. Three horses and eightoen hogs were cre- mated at a barn burning at Burnett on the 10th. The stock and barn belorged to Asa Stevens, A glaes bottle focusced the sun'’s heat on the hay and started the fire, The golden cpportunity is archored at Wy more, A freckied, bald-headed bachelor of two scora years, whote bunions ire encased in No. 03, offers $100 reward for a wife, Girls with cold feet need rot apply. & Mre, Mike Warga collided with her hus- band whils loaded with Plattsmouth forty rod, and came out of the wreck with a black eye, & cnt forehead, a split llp, and number- luss bruises. An attoroey will take her re mains into a divorce court. The hemapathic_doctora of the state held a two days’ discussion and banquet in Lincoln Iast week ard udjourned to meet in Hastings next May. F.B. Righter, of Lincoln, was elected president for the ensuiog year; K. W. Winter, of W ymore, secratary. B Jumes Wingate is vursing a timber claim near Indianois, Joe Murphy adjoins_him, and pastures his stock on_the claim. James kicked, and cussed the whole Murphy family snd threatened to draw blood, when_ a young Murphy drew a gun and scalped Wingate's nose, Mre. J. H. Yaendermark, of Hastings, sportively mounted a bucking pony at her husband’s ranche, The high-heeled plug re- sented this new phase of woman’s right, bounded high in the air, ceme down on all fours, and sent Mrs, Y, to grass with a sprained wrist. Hank Johvson, a carpenter, invaded the selcaful home of John Nordyke near Dakota Jity, shirgled the ahunt% and hammered love into the willing ear of Mra. Nordyke, The fickle wife sickeued, induced the old man to mortgage his farw ‘rr $1000, and decamped with Hank and the cash, Patrops of the OMAHA DarLy Bee in this locality have been much surprisedzand grati- fied during the past few daysat receiving their morning papers in the forencon. We believe they are forwarded by the morning fast freight. It is quite a stroke of enter- prise on the Bke's part.—[Centeal City Courder. Two tramp burglara scaled the battlements of the Castle dry goods store in Blue Springs one night last week, and carried away enongh femivine garments and ornaments_to stock burcau, together with notes for $2(0. Yet with all this wealth in goods and paper, the burglars were captured while enoriog in a freight car, J. Y. Smith, late of North Bend, who sk pped with the light of the last moon and some 520,000 in cash, is notified to appear and answer the attachment proceediogs instituted by George R, Lyon, of Waukeegan, Iil., of whom he borrowed $33,000 on *“forged, fraud ulent and_worthloss promissory notes and mortgages,” Swith will take due notice and keep shady. The preliminary examination of Mrs, John- son on the charge of killing her husband, at Lincolo, resulted in her aischarge from cus- tody. Thers was absolutely no testimony t: show that she did the killing hayond her wild statement at the tims that she killed both her husband and Lovg, which she re- tracted almost at once. and the fact that the revolver that did the shooting was hers ani was in her possession almost immediately after the shooting, ‘The faculty of the state university will hold entrance examinations at ths followirg places and dates: Omaha, Tuesday, June 16; Falls City, Wednesday, June 17; Tekamah, Thurs- day, June 18; Kearney, Saturday June 20; Red Cloud, * Monday, June 22, Each of these local examinations will afford opportunity to ths youth of a large section to test the question of their fitness to enter the latin school of the university without the ex- pense of a journey to Liccoln, The noted Blacklaw-Bocker case, tried at Pawnee City, terminated last week. The jury failed o agree, This was the second trial, both of which resulted in a disagree- ment of the jury, and at the close of this, the prosecuting attorney dismissed the cace, It seems that Blacklaw was out in front of Beeker’s house one night about 10 o'clock, whea the latter shot him, His defense was that he took bim for aburglar, The prosecu- tion tiied to prove malicious intent, but did not make a case, The Gordon mode of salutation is to pull your gun and fire into the ground, air or neighbor’s house. Failing to do this causes your friend to feel slizhted, The custom is pecaliar, haviog grown ©p with tho town. Accidents are, of course, expected, but_sre always apologized for, The last of this kind occurred last week when, according to the Press, James Palmer met Obarles Butler aud said good morning. era family of emi- camped two_miles Charles was pleased to see James, whom he honored with the fashionable te, but unluckily shot his friend through the foot, giviog him @ bad wound. The stock raisers of Platte county have been fightiog the Union Pacific for the past twoyears and the struggle still goes on. Ninety car loads of cattle have been diyerted to the B. & M, the present spring, and more will follow. A “prowinent farmer, who chaperoned & stock train from Columbus to Chicago a week ago, informed the writer that the Union Pacific company has persis. tently refused to give farmers the rame rates for car lota as are given shippers at Columbus, Angered at this uvjust diecrimination many farmers have combined aud shipped their stock direct to Chicago over the B Why the middlemen should be given an ad vantage in rates over the stook raiser is one of the intiicate problems which Platte county farmers have as et failed to solve. TIDBITS FOR TILLERS. The Seutee Reseive-~Tte Loger, Lonp aud Repablicaa Velleys, The Rush for Land in Northeast and Southwest Nebrsska—In as Farmers lans «Howard Uounty Afraire, THE SANTEE RESERVE, There was a groat crush at the Niobrara land cffice Jast Friday, the occasion belng the opening of the Santeo Indian resorva- tion Jands, These latds were made eub- ject to the homeatead, pre-empticn and timber culturs laws, and when more than one filing was made on any one plecs of Jand it was pat up at auction sand given to the highest bidder. The rale of the land office prevonted what threatened to be a stormy time, and many cholce piccea of Jand brovght high prices, Several Omakba land;huaters have been prospecling in the reserve lately, and ware not favorably Impretsed with the lay of the country. Mr. Woodman, of this city, returned Saturday from an ex- tended ride over that country, and pro- nounces it the poorest that bas yet been puton the msrket. The Indlans have selected the beat of the bottom and high lard, and sre widely scattered. If a white man takes a claim batween the In- diens he is shut out from his fellows and must bear bis share of the taxes without {he benefits, partioularly echcol facllitics. The greater portion of the high land {s broken and gravely, snd Its productive qualities must cer'ainly be limited. A large group of Ohlo and Iilinols farmera hed tquatted on a choice pieco of land, previous to the opening, sand had organized for the pur— pose of holdiog thelr claims, even If awarded {0 other parlies by the land officors. Mr. Woodman was agreeably surprised at the intelligence and actlvity of the Indlans. They have neat frame houses, all painted whilte. Many of them speak gocd English and have learned the use of tools, One Indlsn was found bullding a house and wlelding the eaw and hammer like an expert, The Logun Valley, in Mr. Woodmen's oplnion, and in fact the entire country between Douglas and Knox countler, is the farmers’ paradise. Yeuin this fa— vored reglon, biessed with incomparable soll and market facilities, great bodies of Jand are held by speculators and uncalti- vated. The favored members of the school land ring gobbled up, under twenty and twenty-five yesr leases, sec- tlon after sectlon cf the land. The ring- stors now demand and frequently receive a bonus of $2.60 en acte for the leases, besides having the interest paid hy them on appraiszment refunded. The pur- chacer generally ge's tho worst of the borgaln, forss eoon asaleate changes hands a new appralsement is had, and undor the present law it cannot bo less than §7 an scre. This aystem of lesse {8 a great detrlment to Dixon and Ceder countles. g In the Omaha reserve Mr Woodmen found a few Indian farmers at work. The general rale is 10 do as little a5 poseible— the lszy and shiftices living off the few actlve workers, Each adult buck and equaw bas been aliotted eighty acres nach, and the children forty, These al- lotments are not taxsble, and cannot be tranefeired for twent-five years. The Indolence of a mejority of the Indians, and their desire to irade, has Induced eeveanl stockmen to bargain for range privileges. One enterprising steckman proposes to take a section of the tribe to Washiogten, hoping thereby to induce the Interlor depsrtment to graut the In- dians the right to leasa their claims. If this privilege Is giventhe lucky stockman will obtain a Inxurious rangs for their heards for almost a song. THE LOUP VALLEY. Correspondonce of The Bre. Lour Crty, Neb., May 13.—Yesterday wes witnessed the largest gatherisg ever known in Sherman county, the people turning cut to psy tribute to an honorable christian gentlemen, Mr. Anthony Theiss, who died Sunday evenlng the 10th fnst , aged nearly 73 years, after several weary months of suffering from heart aud liver troubles. As a forerunner of the railroad thers are locatlng in oor midst, avd fast be- coming prosperous citizane, loan and col- lection agents, insuracce agents, pump and windanll agente, life insurance agents, and lastly comes the loquaclous lightning rod sgent. Glad to have them come, as surely ono «f the main agoncies of civilization will eoon be established here, namely telegraph oftice, roundhouse and depot. A party composed of weveral of our leading busincss men are in St. Paul to- dy conferring with the commissioners of Howard county In regard to railroad matters. It seems that justice, if nonght e'se, owes thia county a rallrcad, for if there !s a settlement or a class of pioneers anywhere within the boundary lines of our state that 1s deserving of a successful orowning of their effurts to civilize, to build up a county, that settlement of people is the one known as Sherman county, Every men in the county wiil be perscnally benefited, and we hope the dvy s not far distant that shall witness the crownlng of our labors by the event of belng connected with the outer world by the iron horse, Iintended to have written something last week while court was In session, yet, though my time wes limited, I concluded that these disurlet court procecdings are the same always and everywhere, differ- iog only in pame and locality, The prayer for divorce, alimony and dlvision of property, ¢to., with now snd then & crimlval case, bringlng out {ruthfal yet ludicrous evidence, more times than one dirplaylng a painful ignorance on the part of wi'nesses, which leeds us to think justice must indeed have a rerious time weighlng scme of her budgets of evi- dence, Ever tince the news came of the elec- tion of a republican etate senator in 11i1- nols, republicans hereabonts bave stepped mighty nigh, and with heads elevated al- most beyoud morial erdursnce, have been listening to the strains of enthusi- asm waited 4o our ears toemingly from that strongly democratic district, No. 34, of the sucker state, It has really been with great difficulty {hat our marshal has prevenied our whole town, including the vilige pumps, from being painted red. Such news is certainly evidence that the republicans of Illinois have buckled cn their working harcess, and from now on futend to make it exceedingly intercsting for the democrats If not rufliciently strcng to elcet & republican United States eenator, they can defeat the election of & demosral; then after adjournment it will not take long for * Uncle Dick ” Oglesby to appoint John A. Logsn to suocceed hlmself, if only for & yesr, as possibly in that time a fow more demoor: ts may be provailed upon to lay sside thir burdens of this life and lle down with thelr fathers, theroby erabling thelr republican brothers to step in and reclaim a fow more democratie distelots by surprise, making possible the electlon of a United States sonator by unanimous vote. Youra teuly, Max LeNHART, THE REPUBLICAN VALLEY. Correspondence of The Brk, McCook, Neb, Map 15.—With & doubt in my miud as to the great valuo of the land in westorn Nebracka and Kansag, Istarted from Bloomington last Saturdsy morning for the purpsso of vloaing that section, accompanied by two of Bloomington's lllustrious townsmen, one a truthful land agent who elways attends Sunday echool and votes the pro- hibition ticket, the other a liveryman with opposite proolivities. Antiving at McCook, the m:tropolis of far-weat Nobraska, we wore hesleged by liverymen at $4.00 a doy, and by locators at $10 a claim. From McCook we traveled overland through Red Willow, Hitcheock, Dundy, Haynes, and Chase countles, Nebratko, and through Rawlins and Cheyenne counties, Kansas. Some very nico gov- crnment land may be fourd in Haynes and Dandy ccuntles, Nebrasks. The disadvantage of these counties Is the great depth of water ard prospect of sinking a etrata of rock, which cannot be got through, In Rawlivs aud Cheyenne counties, Kansas, tome ct the finest land can be found, and especlally ro in the latter county, where, on the divide be- tween the ncrth and south fork of the Republican, s e fine tableland extond- iog frcm Wane, near the center of the county, for 60 miles west, Wano, named from the postoffice formerly located a few miles below the preeent site, ls on the rich, level battomland of the Republican river, and potsesses many advantages for atown site, not the lesst of which is the fact that at a aepth of 12 to 15 feet, pure and excellent water is found, N. A. Cove. —— UNDER WHICH KING? ACHERS OF PLATTSMOUTH CRY OUT A WILDERNESS OF BURIED HOPES. PrarrsmoutH, Neb , May 16.—Z0 the Editor :—MWy last letter to your valuable paper appeara to bave created a desire in the minds of the good cltiz:ns of Platts- mouth for reading good literature, s 1 heard more luquiries for a copy of the Bg on Tuetdsy last than I have for any other publication, *‘Moses and the Prophets” nct accepted. Even clergy- men were known to go about the streots caying, give us tho true gospel as record- ed by ““Mcl.” in THE OMaHA Bee, And there was no supply oven with the de- mend. Now I did not mean to exprees any perscnal likes or dislikes, reither have Idoneso. Nor have Imeant any personal cffense to Dr. ““‘Hobron’s” chalse, as my mall is not £o extensive but what the facilitics of the cffica will be sufficlent to accommodate it at all times, bvt when a man like Dr. Miller, who has nothing in common in this matter, who hss no cther mctive than to display to the people of the state of Nebraska that even if he was not re- warded with the position «f postmaster- general under the ‘‘partlssn” corvile administration that he at least bas been appointed fenth corporal (without pay)in goneral *‘postmassicra” divislon of this well organ:zed army. And aleo that the position being even without glory, be can achieve tue same on the bloody field at West Poiot in June. What a glorious contrast that field will present. Dr. M1l ler of Nebratka, a ticketed visitor, the cadets 1n full dress uniform, visftor” undress uniform, sxme woin at Platts mouth during the campaign of 1884, Now {f Dr. Miller bad wished to exkibit his “‘Iinflocence” with the admin'siraticn, could not he have done 8o in a way in which the will of nct cnly republican, democrat, but even mugwump and pro- hibitionist thonld te thwarted? Let us illastrate. The cily of Omaha hasa re- publican postmaster, Mr. Coutant; it also has a democrat’c editor, Dr Miller. The city of Plattemouth has been decorated with the BAMO article. Soppceeivg Mr. Coutant ehould resign, as Captein Marshall has done, supposing the cltizens of Omaha should peiti n the administration, dem- N acrat and republican allke, to appoint an |2 excelient gentleman, one of Omaba’s olaest and most popularcit zens, one who has the confidence snd friendship of the poople, both great and small, for thirty yesrs, who bas been iu cflice of public trust during most of that time and who has beeu found faithful under sll, sny, snd the most trylng ciicumstances, ag hus been the case in Piattsmouth, To finish the hypothesis, supposs Mr. Sherman, ‘our democratic editor, should assert his “Inflooence” wi h the adminlsfration (and certainly he is entitled to more than Dr, Miller, for ho was the choica of the dem- ocracy last fall for senator from this d's trict, and we have never heard of Oxaha honoring Dr. Miller s0) should step In andesay; ‘‘Nay, my friends of Omaha, ye cannot have as ye with, I will appoint some man as your postmas er who is the wselect friend of scme four or five, a royal coterle who deaomi- nate/themselves the ‘Grand distributing machinery of political patronsge in Ne- braska, with our democeatic editor as the general master;mechanic.’” What, good pecple of Omrhs, would be your verdiot? The slmilitude is that the Indignation would be in com- parlson with the size of the cities, To show that I am not at all prejudiccd in this matter, so far as oar political pro- clivitles are coucerned, I can state as an absolute certainty from my own knowl- edge, as mauy as a ha'f dozen of old t'me friends of Dr. Miller's paper who have dlecont!nued it, of battle lo these mauy years, quickly has this *‘milk and honey” Layiog aside our soggestions with re- gard to Dr, Miller, lot us rocall the great promises of reform and (f civil service which last f41l bore such a potent part in achisving tho great ** unwashod " victory. How Grover Cleveland was held up to us as luscious a morsel even as a 353 box of strawberrles (1wo In a box) by the old line democrats, who have stood the blr!unt ow turned to * gall :nd wormwood.” Those whow I saw on the tecot last fall Lifting ap thelr voloes and ssylng, ** now let me dle that myleon Joseph s alive and 1 have seen his face,” are lifting up thelr voloes to-day and eaylng, ‘‘ Babylon hes fallen! Babylon has fallen !" but Instead of *“puttlng on sackcloth and ashes” they go about the streets murmurlng one with snother, the republican rather than this “*perishing In the wlider- eaying, “give us flesh-pots of Egypt’ correct, and 1 hoow |’ neea” «f democratlc machinery. There is another vecanoy whioh wo hope the doctor will bo kind evough to make whole at his esillest conventence, ‘*work it thero,” Ramaey is patiently waitlng for_the shoulder straps of Sargeon-Gen- eral Stoperson, and we hope he will not be kept long waiting. Thero fa one of tho appointments wo hunger for, as this will ba the last straw which will down the ‘‘animal of Afrlcan descent,” which has been bearlng such & ponerons load of domestio fertilizer In this country. Like the children of lsrael of (14, we ory unto our bigh priest, Miller, “Glve us King Ramsey. Yours, Mcl. ——— Taking Care of Blind Tom, Columbus (Georgia) Paper. Few people, perhaps, know that with the exception of short absences of two or three days, Blind Tom, the musical pro- digy, hasspent the last four or five weeks at Oolumbus. He was brought here at the instancs of Hon, L. F. Garrard, coun- tol for General Bethuue, in order to test the right of the womaa who claims to be the widow of the late Jochn Bethune to the managemont of Tom, She was hero for sevoral days, but took no sters in the courts t> obtain charge of Blind Tcm, but it was evidect that sho was cousldering such a course. She visited Tom’s mc ther and attemp- ted to porsuade the old woman to give her con'rol of him, She succeeded in In- ducing the old womaa to teavil with her, and they sre now abtent from Columbus. Tt is thought iikely that her ohjeot In to Iay quictly at some place outslde of Geor- gla, and when Tom ocomes within her reach, make his mother demand possess- fon and control of her scn. In this, however, she will be thwarted, f sho attempts it, as Tom has now a law- ful guardian, At the term of the Ordl- nary's court this week ho waa tried for lunacy and found to be en idict, and Gen- eral Bethune appointed his guardian. This was probably unexpected to the pre- tended widow, and what steps she will next take is not known, Tom will give three public corcerts hero next week for the benefit of the putlic hbrery. He is as much a wonder how as ever. ——— To show tha rapid growth of the territory tributary to the Valentine land office, the following official figures are given. During tha firet nine months of the present fiscal year the entries were as follows: soloiers” home- stead declaratory statements, 93; pre-emptions, 1,284; homeetoads, 1719; timber oulture en— tries, 1,410; total, 4,511 - representing a di ¢ domain embracing 718, ©irg down to the month of Ap just past the rush for land was unprecedented i8 dis The number of entries for reached the enormour number of 052, compaising 15 roldiers’ homestead de- claratory siatements, 447 pro-cmytions, 355 homesteads, 235 timber culture entries, Be- vides thoxe there were initiated during the month 03 contests, aod 24 final proofs wero taken. The cash 1eceipts for the month amounted to $13,458.24, e — Forral, the Harvard poker sharp, was fined £65 and jailed for initiating the youth of the town mto tho myeterises of a cold deck. CATARRH Sanford’s Radical Cure | ihe Great Balsamlo Distillation of Witch Haszel, ‘American Pine, Canadian Fir, Marigold Clover Blossom Ete., For the Immediate Relief and Permanent Cure of every form of Catarrh, from & Simplo Head Cold or Influenza to the Loss of , and Hearing, sough, Bronchitis, aud Incipient Consumption. Re: fief in five minutes in any and every case. Nothing likeit. Grateful, fragrant, wholosome. Cure bo: gins from firs' application, and is rapid, radioal, per- manent, and nover failing. One bottle Radical Curo, one box Catarrhal Sol- vent and Sanford’s Inhaler, all In ono_Packago, for- ming acompleto_trestmen’ of all druggiste for §1. Ask for Sandford’s Radical Cure. Potter Drug and Chemical Co., Bostou. Gollins’ Voltalo Elootrio Flaste tnstantly affects the Norvou Systom and banishes Pajn, A rloot Eloctrio Battory com: ined with a Porous Fiaster IS THE CBY 25 conts It annihilatos Pa Stionia vitalizes Weak and Worn Out SUFFERING NERVE Parts, strongthens Tired Mus- clos, Provonts Discase, and doos more in ono half the !Illnu than any other plaster in the world. Sold every whero DREXEL & MAUI, PR i) At the old etanc 1417 Fe n 85, Crders by tels. Kraph solicidod sad prompt) attonded 0. Telophove ¥o 25, EDWARD EKUEHL THTERY ARD CONDITION twoon Farnam and Hase ikl pitevet s o ture, Boot and shoes nhard Property — Owners or Lessees. In pursvaics cf the provi-lons of ordinance No 3%, al property owners or lesices of real estate abutting on or i/ong {he sl Feets or portionsof streots horcinatter spccified aro heroby votifled to mako all P t mpated conections with sewor gasand water maios, or latterals aud to complete §uch connections on or befare the 6th dy ef June, A. D, 1838,a8 i% 1 the purpose of t6o oity £ pave sald Hrects or portions thoreuf decribed as follows, vz Cuming tro ¢ from the east slde of_L0th atrcot to the eartuide of Division street and Farnam strect [from tho wesh sideof 15th strect to the cast side of 20th wtrect, 0 permits for excavations or_connections will be to auy pr. porty holder or lotsec on sald por- 1 said stroots after tho u eve date until such tod paving is comp'eted and ac-eoted by tne city, JAMES CREIGHTON, Chairman Board of Public Works, City of Omaha, m 12.16-21 JAS. H. PEABODY, M. D, Physician & Surgeon Reelidenos No, 1407 Joues 85. Offios, Mo, 1609 Fur: Dam street. Office bours,12 m. to 1 p, m. and from 08 p. m. To'ephoo + ‘or offioe 97.residence 118, i, Amelia Buoughs OFFI0E AND RESIDENORY 617 Dodze 8t, = Omaha T8 EPHONE KO, HENRY BODDELING. Carpenter and Builder No 634 South 17¢h St ,betsweon Jackson and Lowven: worth. Omaha, Nob. | am prepsrad ¢ bulld housos in aoy sbyle and todo al klnds of sacpenter work s Jeasunabls pricos; aleo ropairing douo on shorkno Notice to PHOTOGRAYHER STUDIO ON GROUND FLOOR, 213 North 16th 8t