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

e ———————————————————— THE DAILY BEE. Omana Orrice No, 914 axn 016 Fansaw 81 Niw York Orrics, Roox 65 Trisose Buiuo: IKG. Pub’ished every morning, except Sunday. The only Monday morning daily published in the state. TRV BY MATL 10.00 | Threo Months.....$ 2 50 6.00 | One Month 1.00 ed every Wednesday pSTPAID One Year.... Six Months y The Weekly Bee, Publi TrRNS, One Year, with preminm One_ fthout premium Bix Months, without promium ... ] One Month, on tria . PO CORRPSPONDENC All Communications relating to News and Rditorial tnatters should be addressed to the EDITOR oF THR B v 8200 PUSINRSS LETTRRA All Business Tetters and Remittances ¢hould be \ddrerse] to Tiis BRR PUILISHISO COMPANY, OMATIA. Srafts,Checks and Post office orders to be made pay- able £6 the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING CO., Props, ROSEWATER, Epiton. A. . Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, Omaha, Nebraska. Tue city councll should devise some means to at least grade Harney street, If 1t oan make no other Improvements this yoar, — Ixvestioations into the accounts of public officlals cometimss develop results 4hat are not only surprising, but profit- able to the taxpayers, whosa lnterosts cannot be too carefully guarded. JupaiNe feom his learned and numer- ous dissertations upon the game of whist, THE FENOES MUST GO. THE DAILY BEE- Importing convict-dressed stome they Presldent Cleveland has fssued a proc- | would have to suffer the consequences. and they wlll be held responsible. are to-day In western Nobraska large tracts of the public domain unlawfally enclosed by wire fences, and somo of the illegal ocoupants have had the im- puience to into court and make a color of defense for thelr unlawfal asts. It would seem that the peremptory order of the president will have the effact of dlis- poslng of all such cases In a very sum- mary manner. It s the plaln duty of the federal officials 1a Nebraska to immediately carry the president’s order into execntfon. If the fences are not at once removed the mar- shal should employ the neceseary force todo the work, Under tho act of con- wo do not hesitats to glve It as our opin- 1on that Prof. Proctor knows more about whlet than he does about astronomy. Tar fact thata man was hanged near Laramie for borrowlng horses, without the coneent of the owncra, naturallyleads us to the conclusion that a murderer in Wyoming stands a much better chance of escaping the haller than a horss-thlef, Tuk absence of Mr. Corliss 1s no ex- cuse for the county conmiasloners to de- Iny action in regerd to the county clerk. This 1a not a slmple quastion of courtesy or polives. The coramiseioners sre the mansgers of the county affalrs, and they can’s shirk thelr doty. Tae Lincola Journal is authority for the statement that Boyd snd Mille: are still for Calhoun, of Nebracka City, for {oternal revenuo co'lector. Capi. Sam Herman, however, isa’s losing any sleep over this matter, as an eminent Hoosler slatosman’s sssistanca may overbalance 1ho weight of the Owaha dirpensers of federal patronage, Tae $200 lquor Heense in Wisconsin, which the people of that atate call “high”’ licanse, Is working satfsfactorlly. The aggregate number of saloons in one hun- dred towns has been diminished by 276. If the llcense were $1,000, as it is in Nebraske, there would ba a still greater reductlon, as well as a better class of saloons, Wuen a fourth-class pastmasier, who is ordered to vacate on ascount of “of- fonsive partisanship,” not only refases to do so but threatens to open an opposltion postoflics it is high time to call in the regular army to remove him, Such a caso has occurred In a Penasylvanla town, The newly appointed postmaster is inadilemma and the {ohabitsnts of the town are enjoying the controversy, At last accounts the offsnslve partisan still held the for!, together with the mall bags. Unirep Starks ATTorNEX Dlckson of Utah, predicts that the Mormons will probably renounce polygamy in the near future, They are beglnnlng to think that the Edmands law s a clincher, and it cortainly ls, it vigorowsly eaforced. The fact ir, the Mormons have too much wealth at stake In Utah to emigrate, and when pushed to the wall by the enforce- moent of the law they would rathexabandon their pet doctrine than eubjoct themselves to agreat sacrifica of property, which would certalnly follow if they should seck anow locatlon Tuk course pursued by the Union Pa- olfic towards the Omaha Belt line rall- wsy is a dog in the manage: poliecy. It does not want the Belt line company to build the road, and it wlill not build it itself, as 1t has no money, especlally for any enterprise that will help Omaha, The Omaha men who are interested in the Belt line have amplo capltal to constract the road. Their money is ready for ex- penditure in the enterprise, the plaus of which had been perfected and work upon whlch was about to be begun when the Union Pacific had its attorney sue out a tempcerary injunction, It is stated that the Unlon Paclfic hasno legltimate clalm on the Belt line, at least not sufiiclent to warraut the obstructlon of the work cn the part of tho men who have Invested their money in the enterprlss and own and control a majorlty of t ck, had a heavy life lnsurance, is the ques- tlon to be eettled. It has been clatmed by an Ecglish lnsursance compavy that the trank mystery was a put-up job by grees he is suthorized to use the military for this purpose, and he ehould have no hesilancy In dolng so. The antl-fenclng law is the rosult of Senator Van Wyck's cfforts. The clauze which authorizes the presldent to uso the military, and which revives the old act of 1807, was Inserted by Senstor Van Wyck while he was chairman of the sub-com- mittee to whom this bill was referred es it came from the house. The senstor, slnce the pasasgo of the law, hss been urglng the president to iseus the order for Its enforcoment. Only threo days eg> he telegrephed to Sacretary Lamar expressing the hopo that the president would not back down from his pcsition. The Issuance of the order shows that the prenldent proposes to have the law obeyed. THE UNION PACIFIO CUT. The Urion Paclfic, upon very ehort notice, has made another cut on tho ln- come of the workingmen employed in the Omaha shops. While reductlon in the hours of labor is made under the pre- tense of necessary retrenchment, there are some features which, to say the least, are arbitrary and inexpllcable. The managers cerialnly must have known the condition of the company and its ability to pay the men employed upon the work which cannot ba lefs undone. There should at least have becn a timely and reasonable notlce given to thess men, 80 that those who cannot af- ford to submit to the cut could have time to look elsewhere for employment. If the managers aro really desirous to cut down expenses why do they not dispense with supernumeraries snd cut down at the top. Why don't they dlsporss with Jobn M. Tharston who bas time cnongh to be at torney for Smith's successors, time enough to defend crimlnals, time enough to stump the state in every po- litical canvae, and time enough to manlp- ulate conventions and legislatures. The expense of malntaining this political boss 18 not less than $10,000 a year, a sum largo enough to pay for the full time of ten skilled mechanics or twenty com- mon laborers, Mr. Thurston s only one of qulte a number of men who are on the pay roll of the company taking away the substance due to the honest workingman, We aro told that quile a number of favor- ites, who do no work, are kept on the pay-roll of thoe shopy, slmply for politica emergencles. Why are not these barna- clea dlspensad with, instead of ordering a’ general cutting down of mechsnles’ earn- fnga? Why not begln rotrenchment by catting down the bigh ralarles? There are men employed in the Union Pacific service who bave rown (rich on salaries ranging form $5,000 to $15,000, who if removed would be glad to acoept pos!tions at half their present salaries. We hava no dis. position to meddle with the Internal management of the Union Pacific, but this sudden and srbitrary reductlon af- fects not only this community, but the entire state, While we sympathize with the workmen, whozo Income has been so materislly reduced, we would counsel moderation, A strike at this time would perhaps be impolitic, and in all probabil- 1ty dlsastron: CONVICT L.'{BOR. IN OMAHA, lamation ordering the publlc domaln to|As reprosented to us tho contractors on bo cleared of fences immediately. There |the B. & M. bailding had no notice of are no “‘ifs and ands” about the order.|the new departure untll half the work Attentlon Is called to tho act of congress | was done, sod on the 8:h of Febraary, 1885, in|& M. which it is declared to be unlawfal to in- | finlsh close the poblic lands, and wherein 1t 1s]|1f unreasonable provided that the president ls authorized | make tha contractors stand the diffsr- to take such means as shall be necessary | ence between the cost and the contract to remove and destroy any such unlawful | price. inclosure, and to employ clvil and mili- [agera to Import brick-layers from other tary force ss may be needed for that| parts of the state is very injadlclous. purpose. Every United Statew officer is | Instead of forclng a general striks upon direoted by the president to cause this| Omaha and causing a suepaneion of labor order to be obeyed, and all the provisions | right In the middle of the & of the act of congress to be enforced. [should compromise this matter. 1f the fences are not removed forthwith|them meet the workmen half way and it will be the fault of the federal officers, | they will have no trouble in settling the There | difficulty. Under their contract the B. company s at liberty to the bnilding at any cost, delay occues, and The attempt of the B, & M. man- n they Let Trne Omaha doctor who attempted to steal the state of Oregon for the Sage of Cipher Alley, continues to refer to Mr. Hayes as a monumental fraud, He cites the late Senator Hitchcock as authority for the statement that a trusted frlond saw a draft for $5,000, with Rutherford B. Hayes as erdorser, which he (Senator Hitcheock) belleved went into the fund with whioi the cffice of president was bought for Mr. Hosyes. Perhaps Dr, Miller might throw some light on the scheme to buy a Nebratka elector for $100,000 In 1876, That such a laudable enterprlso wes discussed by a lot of politl cal ragcals at that time, s a fact which the docior will not deny. Western Tne attempt to swallow the Baltlmore & Ohlo telegraph lines did not succeed. Mr. Garrett politely informs Mr. Ficld that the Baltimore & Ohlo lines are not for sale, end that he does not propose to even pool with the Westera Union or advance present rates. It would not be strange if the Baltimore & Ohio would some day make an effort to swallow the Western Unlon, It is certainly becoming a very formiduble rival to that gigantlc corpora-. tion, Union’s Corx and cotton ara the great crops this year. Towa ranks firat amorg the corn states, and Nebraska comes next. Iowa i3 rated at 101, and Nebraska at 100, while the average of all the etates Is very high. Tke cotton crop of the south is the boat and largest produced in ten yeara, Tae New York World has ralsed over $100,000 for the pedestal of the statue of Liberly. This stroke of enterprise is an enduring monument to the greatness of the TWorld. THE TRADE SITUATION. Preparations for the opening of the fa'l trade are being made all along theline by the jobbers, who have great hopes of doing a heavy business. Trade Increases in volume each week as the fall eeason approaches. The inquiry of buyers indi- cate, that large stocks are to be purchased in nearly every quarter of the country. It would s2em that the general Impres- alcn is that the period of depreesion ls about ut anexd, and that trade from now cn will have & steady upward tend- ency. Thaconditions of healthful pro- gress In commercial sffalrs are more favorable than they have been at any time during the past two years, and the bellef that it will continue through- out the fall and winter months find wider and more confident expression than ab the outset of previous tessons, Buai- nees failures aro decreaslng in all sec- tlons of the country. The total for last week in the United States and Canada Is 180, as ageinet 201 the previous week, and 215 the weck before, The statement of the New York banks is the best in a long tlme. Lcans have in- creaged to an extent which means a much improved demand for money and, though there is a gain in deposils, the stock of specie and legal tender bas dlminished, and the surplus cesh recerve has been cut down the round sum ot §3,085,000. All of this looks like better times, and taken together with the decrea:e in business foilures, it certainly affyrds reasonable ground for hope of a dec'ded commercial commerclal and Industrlal revival, The general tenor of cotton crop raperts from the south s favor- able. The cotton goods trade has not been active, but there has boen a better demand, and a fractional advance has been established cn soveral makes of brown and bleached goods, Tke general feeling es to values is stronger, owing to the leasened produ tfon and the fact that many makes have been selling at wnre- muneratlve prices to manufacturers, The wool {rads bas betn active, but at generally unchenged prices. The market Is very strong, and manufacturers 1t Is to be hoped that tho difficulty over | stocking up freely, with evident cinfi- the B, & M. headquarters building wil | dence that values are at thelr lowcst peint be amloably settled, The polioy izaugu- | for the present sezson. Therols & very Maxwgry, the alleged murderer of [rated by the bricklsyers to refuse to|fair trade dolog In autumn styles of Preller, has landed in San Franclsco aud | work on buildings in the consruction of | woolen and worsted fabrics, and the will In a fow days reach St. Louls, the | which stone cat by convlet labor is belng | movement promlses to increase In vol- &oeno of the crime, The trunk mystery |used fs doubtleas the proper remedy for | ume during the balance of ths month, will probably be solved at an early day. [ correcling the evil of ruinous competition | The merchants steel mills are gettlng fuir Whether the man found in the trunk was | bstween convict labor and honest labor, [ orders, and there is promise of conslder- Prellor, or & substitato for Preller, who | The pollcy, if generally adopted, will [sblo busivess in sicel rails during the effectually bar out all based upon the cheapness of conviet labor. It s as much to interest of the honet underbldding, | next fow weeks, The vrice of wheat advanced 1] cents the | per bushel last week, but there has been con- | B0 activity in the trade. Recelpts at In- Preller and Maxwell snd that Proller is | tractor as It i3 to the honest laborer, No |terlor poiats and on the eeaboard have etill allve. Mr, Maxwell, however, is In | contractor who pays livivy wages can af. | been unusually light for the time cf year, » tight box, uulets he can produce Puel-|ford to compete with contractcrs who |#nd the elow movement of new wheat has lor, and in that evont both ho and Prel- [hire convicts, Thls evll is not by apy | been taken as an ovidenco of & general lor would ba liable to puulshment for | meaus local, bat affects the labor of the |ditinclization on the part of faimoers to coneplracy to defraud, as the relalives |entlre country. The only mlstake thst|eell ®t ruling pricee. This explanation have demanded theinsurancs money, pay- | the bricklayers and stone cutters of |of the tardy deliverles from farmers' ment of which has been refused for the | Omaha have made was In got serviog dus | bands and a feeling of aucertainty as to presont, The assumptlon of the fusar ance company will prove bencficisl to Maxwell fin that {# throws soms doubt n that they would not opon apy buolldlng where te whon the bullding ceason cpened | the résulta of the barvest in the north. work | west bave combined to premote cautlon convict |smong the wind.sellers in sll markets, upon the sase, and tho company's ¢florls {materlals onter into the construction |1t 18 & faverable featore of the situation wlill b directed ageinst the conviction of | That would have put the coniractors on|that the advence has been greater in Maxwell for marder, their gusrd, aud if they persisted “cash” and August wheat than fu the the Jate futares. This healthfal change in the tendency of ths market, rays the Phlladelyhla Record, from which we yuote, is usually the rasult of » revival of legltimate demand, bat at present there 1s nothing to indicato that 1t Is anything more than an evidence of confidence on the part of holders. There Is no im- provement In the export demand, and no Immedlate prospect of Improvement. American markets sre abive an ex- port basls. The corn markets have advanced 2 to 2} cents per bushel within the pas; week. The rite {s due to the small recelpts at oll polnts end a growling bellef that reserve stocks will be exhausted before the new crop s ready for use. This view of the situation hes led to a more general demand to cover outstanding contracts on the snort slde of the market. The amount of corn in alght on &3a and land I8 1,309,000 bushels less than a weck ago, and supplies at the commerclal centers are generslly very small. All receipts find prompt rale, either for home consumption or for ex- port. A Ring and a Lock of Hair, New York Herald, Amorg the many touching incidents in connectlon with the death of General Grant none are more pathetic than those which aro suggested by the title of this article. They will bo kept by the hiato- tian like a fly In amber. They empha- eizs 80 dellcatoly and yot so firmly the tender rolations exiatlng between the great man and his faithful wife that the people must necds feel tholr love and ad- mliration for bim Increasing, We have always known that his happiest hou's were patsed within the limits of tho fam- ily circla, but in thess two Incldents wo have a romance of affection which is In- tenrely pathetic. Years ago sho pleced on hls fingor a ring. Ho wore It as a kind of tallsman, whose magic inflaence could repol im- pending darger. I war, in peace, in the Immireny breach and the calm pur- euits of leieuro it was the token of un- dimmed and undyivg affection, When through lorg conuoued eickness his hand became emaclated thoe ring was re- moved; but after desth the ton bent over tho rigld body and pleced the mother's gilt upon that cold finger agals, that the dead wight bear I to the grave, The other incident fs still more pa- thetic. The dying man wrote a letter to his wife, to be deliverad to her when all was over. In apswer to that letter, whose contents are far too sacred to be told, which was doubtless filled with ex- pressions of an affectlon which will out- live the tomb, she wrote arother letter, encloaing a lock of hair, filled with the hope to meet hi on the other side of the mist of death, and thst letter was placed 1a the pecket cf the dead warrior to go with him to his last resting place. We are not inclined to be sentimental, but as eimple facts in the marrled life of wife and husband these incldents are well worth recording., They tell a long and sweet story of the happy pasi, and who ehall eay that their reference to the fu- ture {s unfounded? - — Stealing the Body, Chicago Herald, It does not. add to one's good opinion of latter-day civilization to reflect that with Gen. Grant's remairs in the tomb provided for them the duty of mankind toward them has not ended. fact, but just begun. The grave must be watched day and night for months, and perhaps years, until arrangements have been made for its absolute security from ountrage. Gen. Garfield’s remalns were conveyed to the cometery in Cleveland four years ago next month, yet a military guard is still posted over them. I wiil be 80 with Grant’s. His repulcher must be protected, not from the foes whom ne sutdued, but from the enemles of socie- ty existing everywhere, who would rifle it in a moment if it should be left with- out care. The detestablo theft of A. T. Stewart's hody shows what men wlll do for money, snd the attempt that was made on Lincoln’s tomb s another evi- dence of the same balefal spirit of man- kind, The bodies of lees conspicuous men are safe from similar assaults only becanse their theft would not promise a profitabls return for the danger involved, ————— Great Minds Run Together, The Concord School of Philosophy hos completed an analytical discussion of Goethe, The rerult is not yet public property, but from inslde sources we are enabled to etate that it is substantislly that 1f Gceethe were living to-day he would most Jikely be cligible to membsz- ship In the Concord School ¢ f Philosophy. — Philadclphia Press. The Concord School of Philosophy has just listened to sixteen lectures on Goethe, The concensus is that if Gosthe was alive now be might be admitted to the Concord School of Philosophy,— Omaha Herald, August 11, e ——— STATE JOITINGS. Stago coaches are now ruuning between Chadron and the Black Hills, The Niobrara Axe is in new bands, Blair complains of an ovar-production cf buws, drunks and loud womea, Work on the Black hills extension of the Sioux Qity & Pacific is_being pushed rapid] forward, gangs cf graders beiog at work all along the !ine from Chadron to the Cheyenne crossing, A full-blood horse thief struck Cedar Rap- ids on the 3d, shod his horss, replenished his artillery and started south, Oa the 4th an armed poste camped on his trail, but at lust accounts had not caught him. He had stolen two horses and traded them for cash. The hog disease has disappeared from the Blue valley. Experts are examining the boks of the treasurer of Saline county, A son of Mr Spencer, living near Wilber, died last week from a wound Inflioted by his brother with a scythe the point striking the deceased in the vemple, The Sun of democracy bas risen at Aurors, Hamilton county. B ——— WESTERN NEWS, — DAKOTA, Ths cansus returns give Yaakton & popula: #ion of 8,803, The Rapid City water works are to be com- pleted January 1, 1885, Walsh county claims a population_of 14,- 884, an increase of over 12,000 since 1851, Some of the recamt finds in the carbonale minipg camp near Daadwood a:0 said to be showing high grade ore. Conl 13 reportad to have been discovered in the vicimity f Rapid City, Peonington coun- ty, at a depth of 126 fest. The salt works in the Black Hills are now turniog out 3,000 vounds a day, which pro- dust will bo largely increaeed, The new well at Kimball, st » depth of 227 foet, is furniskiaz plentyof water for the | town, Thers ls gencral rejolcing, Prof. Lukenbach, in the Deadwood Pioxeer, claims the tin tind of the Southern Hills to te ! the most exteneive ever discovered. The heirs of Jobn Foerster, of Yaukton 1t hes, in|}, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1885, and his brother Adam, of Niobrara, have fallen heir to §70,000 by the death of their father in Germany. North Dakota is complainiag of & pros- pective shortage in harvest hands and at the same time all the towns in that region are #aid to bo flooded with tramps claiming to be huntine for work. An attorney at Do Smot recived & colleo- ton from an esstern firm with the suggestive postscript: ‘You must make the cues beliave that you will jump down cn his crop like the president ¢n & partisan postmaster,” Men are engaged in digging the foundation trenches for toe school of mines at Rapid City, stone for the foundations is being do Jlivered on the ground, and the work will be puthed so that everything will be ready for the laying of the coruer stone, The reports from seven land offices in Da- Kota for the month of June show 1,982 new filings on homestead and pre-emption claims, with an area of 464,355 a The total num. ber of nettlers’ pro.fs wan 063, and the total area required by final proof 103,808 acres. ;f“’bgs total number of tres claims entered was An Tndian outfit Is described ns having moved through Pierre the other day in true primitive Sioux style~a pony with a polo made fast on either side and _trailing_on the ground cn which was lashed the worldly pos: sossions of the family, The pony was led by a_half-naked tquaw, with the soveral membera of the family brivging up the pro- cesslon in tha The mysterious disappearance of a half- breod known at White Swan and Fort Ran- dall ax Waukea, is now explaived by the con fossion of a squaw who saw Waukea's father- in law kil the half breed with a hatchet and afterwards cast the body into the muddy waters of tho Missouri. No turther investi- gation is likely to resuit, unless it by » vote of thanks to the father-in-law, WYOMING, The stockmen of the territory are raising funds for & cowboy hospital at Cheyoenne. Liaramie declines the tisle of *‘city” until gaw supercades the tallow dip and kerosono as stroet illuminants, Over 150,000 acres of railroad lands in the vicinity of Ivanston have changed hands during the past two weeks, Thirteen hundred dollars have been sub- scribed to dofray the Grand Acmy encamp- went expenses at Cheyenne, Svanston claims to have ,000 worth of buildings under way, tha principal ones being a §2),000 sctiool and a $12,600 opora house. Green river ia putting in 14,000 worth of water pips to connect with tho Union Pacific pumps, to supply the city with water for fire and domestic j.urpos The remains of Willot Spank, who dled suddenly in Cheyenno, List week, wera hip- ped to Nelson, Neb, for bucial, Tho de- ceased wae 17 years old aud was born at Red Oak, Ta, Laramio capitalists are discussing ways and means to dovelop the Dutton creek coal fields, and supply the city with cheap fuel, Lho most practical way would b3 to take a pick and shovel and begiu work, Among the many Indians seen on tho strosts Evanston recently, is cne young Ute eix feot six inches in height,and weighing 350 pounds. Ivhas bsen esumated that it has cost the governwent about 35,000 to fatten this fellow. The Douglas-Willan Sartoris company have filed a claim #gainst the territo y in the otlice of the wsuditer for about $3,000 for horees ki lod by order of the territorial veterinarian, The company deny that the snimals were afilicted with glanders as claimed by the doe- tor. The Hilledale Icrigation company has filed articles of incorporation. It is proposed to irrigato and reciaim cartain lands in Laramie county. The capital stock of the company is fixed at $20,000 and Messrs, T. B, Hicks, A, H. Swan. Thomas Swan, R. S, Van Tassell and T. W, Chaffes are the trustoes and in- cozporators, The output of coal from the Rock Springs mine at the present timo averages eighty cars of fiftcen tons each a day. Of thw ceal ubout twelve cars per day go to the Anaconda company at_Butte and Aunaconda, Moutans, their standicg order being 1,050 tons per weck, The coal department employs 140 white men and 19) Chinese, the town having in all about 400 miners. The headquarters of a band of horse thieves ave been discovered in the Leton busin. Here the thioves live in plenty and ease, and here i3 thozencezyous for stolen horses trom both sides of the nountains, Ilero they are brought fresh from the ranges of their owners, the brands burnt out or changed, and from here, after the fresh burns are hoaled, they are sent forth with trusted men, for disposal ia Wyowicg, [4uh), Utah or Colorado, ns the case may ba, An organized raid will soon be made on the camp, aud som3 lively shuoting i certain, COLORADO. Another Nebraska base ball club, the Ara- paboes, ran_agsinst the Denvers lust week and got knocked out by a score of 11 to 3, TInvestigation thows that the foundation of the city ball of Denver rests on sunk, and the building is throatened by the floods of Cnerry creek, Among tho band of cypsies encamped near Moutrose i3 a woman 56 years old who is mother, grand-mother aad mother-in-law to 6 children, all of whom tell fortunes, swap horses and—smcke. The citizens of Greeloy have decided to form a stuck company for the p.rpose of sup- plying the town with eleotric light, The plant in to cost $20,000 and already cne-half of the 500 shares have besn tuken at 5 per share, Professor Blount of the gricultural collega at Fozt Coliing estimates that the acrcage of wheat will be about ten per cent. leas than last year, but that the acreaga of barley will increase 5, corn 8, oats 10, alfalfa 10, red clover and fruit trees 10 per cent, The Terriblo mine, in Custer county, was regently eold by Wall Brothers, of Chicago, to’the Omata and Graat Smelting and Refin” ing cowpany, It is eaid to b an imwmense fiesure vein, variously stated as from 50 to 1.0 foet in width, carryivg from 10 to 50 por cent, of lead as carbonate, but only traczs of silver. Suitable concoutiating mashinery is to be put in to free the caru:site fromaporphyry gangue occurring with it, The price 15 taid to have heon §110,0.0, and it s oxpactod that hera- after the company will be very indepenent of outeide sources on the lead question, UTAH, Five thousand tons of sait from the north ern end of Salt Like will by shipped to the Montan: ilver wills thia fall to bs used thero a8 a chloridizer, of Sali Lake City report tho re- week ending August bth, inclu- 95,26 in_bullion, and $18 790,85 in ore, a total of 578,786 11, The receipts of bul'ion and ore at Salt Lake for tho wesk ending August Hth,ioclusive,were $78,786 11, of which #29,995 26" was oullion, and $18,790 85 was oro. ' The week before the receipts were 503,412,92in bullion, and $.1,- 900 in ore, & total of $50,312.92, The grain yield in this territory promises to be very large this sesson, In ‘many places the acreage will ba from thirty to forty bushels, and without water twenty bushels is an average, o wany parts of the territory wheat, oats and other cereals will harvest from eeventy-five to one hundred bushels to the acre, 1DAHO, The U, P, pay car drops §30,000 8 month at Bhoshone, A fire at Bullion, in the Wood River coun: try, destroyed $20,000 worth of property, The people of Wood River aro bswailing an advavce of railroad freights, au extra 85 per ton on all ore shipped east, The Snake River placer mines are increas ing their ontput and addizg & good deal of wealth to the county anuually, MONTANA, Dillon will ship 150,000 piunds more wool this «e360n thau last year, About £50,0'0 was distributed to Divm Lummond stockbolders last monthy There ia talk agaln that the Northern Pacl fic will build & branch from Garricoato Butte, Over 81,000 0°0 [n gold and silver was re calved ut the Heleua asuy offica dusivg the pat fiscal year, A stampede has taken place from Butte to 46 8 seet Grasm c:untey, where rich gold dis- coveries are roported, G od judges estimate the wool clip of Mon- tana at 5,000,000 peunde, of which 2,010,000 pounds have already beon marketed. A board of civil service examination has been appointed in Helona to exsmine Mon. tana applicants for appointment to offies, The shipments of silver tullion from Butte for the month of July, exclusive of the ship- ments f om the copper properties, amounted to £16% 059, Ono hundred car loada of freight por day are handled at the Batte depot, and it takes sixty-five engines to do the hauling on the Utah & Northern road between Butte and Kegle Rock, Benton sustaing 1ta reputation for going to extromes in the matter of weatber, On hot Thursdsy the thormometer there reached 108° in- the shade, and a signal service ther mometer at that. Bsntin is probably the hottest place in summer and the coldest in winter of any settloment in the territory, CALIFORNIA, The honey crop in_the _eastern part of Lo Angelos county is said to bs total failure, A Los Avgeles merchant some time since made n shipment of wine to Topekn, Kan., but it was returned to him by the authorities with o notico that it could not uross the bor- der of that state, Thoro Is & proposition to _build a cable road from Los Avgeles to Pasadena, A new pat- ent is to be used, by which the ordinary tube is done away with, The wholo eight miles can be constructed in nincty days. A wealthy widower of Green Valley, So- noma county, between_ soventy and eighty yoars of age, recontly offered a neighbor $500 if he would find him s wife. The bargaia was to place in positions of trust, men whont they would not tolorate in thelr home clrcle, because they happen to ba on the patty toket, to the exclusion cf avowed frlends of labor ¢n the other ticket, is an act of mental, moral and soclsl sol- oide. Wo tell them, aleo, (hat they are deluding themselvos if they think {hst tariffs fix wages, need not enlarge upon this statement, as the exomplltica- tlon of the nssertlon is before the eyes of the people at the presont time, Wao want men to sot their faces toward co-cperation and sell-help as one of the menns of throwlng aside the yoke of the ‘‘wage system.” Wo endeavor to Instill into the minds of all who become mombers of the order the lesson that t) overcome the obstacles they dally meet on every hand they re- qulre education and to obtain It for them- solves and children should be oze of their greatest aims in life, Wa claim that no farther grants of the public domsio should be made to any fn- divldaal or corporation, and it should ba held for the benefit of the whole people. I believe that land natlonalization Is the proper romedy for overproduction I contend that in the United States to-day you will find large classes of people s miserable and poverty-stricken ae in Earope. I there- foro ask myself the question why is it concluded, n young Iady was brought ont from tho east ‘and was married to the aged widower, and all hands seem satisfied. E. ¥, Ohm, of San_Francisco, has com- menced suit against 2,000 defoudants to ob- tain posseseion of about 152 acres of land situ- ated in the heart of the city, the valuo of which is betwasn §2), 00,000 and §30,000,000, The land in question is ombraced in_S0) vara square tracts, bourded by Howard, Branuan, Firat and Third s'reets, Obm claime to_hold hia title by & sucoceston of deed from Potor Shorrobecie, who obtained the orlginal title in 1845.48 & Mexican grant., The suit is o parallel to that of Myra Clark Gaines, which figurod ro prominently in the Louislana courts for forty years, SCRATS, About Morty liquor liconses have beon ap- plied for at Albuquerque, N, Me: The assessment rolla of the incorporatod portion of A'ququerqus show an sgrregate valuation of $2,758,000. The census at Albuquerque, now complete ehows a population of over 7,000, Of th number 2,600 live in old Albuquerque, In the fall of 1876 the town of Ward, Nev., cast a vote of £0 ‘The entire population of the town to-oay does not exceed over fifty The ralleoad company have given up ths effort to get frosh water at Whito Plaing, Nev. The well wan down feet, snd brine all the way. Froth wat plenty is fourd at cther points at a depth of 200 feet. Superintendent Garrard, of the Carson mint, has received ordera from Director Kim ball 1natructing him to_abolish the office of assistant coiner and reduca the force of watch. men from twelve to five; to reduce the wages of watchmen from $1 to $3 per day; engineor from $5 to $4, and a proportionate reduction for other workmen, All clerkships aleo or- dered abolishod except chief clerk and book- keoper, The director says that expevses must be reduced $5,600 per month. —————— THE ENIGHTS OF LABOR, A Discustion of the Organization and the Question of Labor, To the Editor of the Bek, My attentlon has been directed to the communfestion of Mr, R. D. MacCarthy in the itsue of the BEE of the 34 Inst., In which he has seen fis to pass somo strict— uree upon the Kulghts of Labor. As wo always invite dlecuzion of all mat- ters which effect the welfare of the wage- workers, with your kind permislon I wlil lay bafore tho goneral pablic some of the alms snd objects of the order, Befora entering on tho task I feel con- stralned to compliment M, MacUarthy upen the liberal opinlons he appesrs to held and the moderate manner in which he expressed his views, slthough I ditfer from him as to the romedy that should bo applled to remove the disabilitles that the laborlng masses the world over are the poorest olaeses? 1 firmly ballove that the labor queatfon resolves ttaelf ul- timately into the land question. Germen soclallsts see that labor s not gotticg fts full due, and propose to make anew atate of things. Idonot scree with them. The primary wrong that roba labor of its earniogs is land mono- poly. Al over the civllizsd world, wherover you cin find Jand made private property, there you will find wagos tonding to the minimum upon which u man can oupport his fam- fly. In overy conntry the ownership of land has been tho gront cause of serfaom. Au soon as land is monopol/zed men have to beg for pormission to llve, and thero is no nced of elaves. Tho country where land is cheap is tho country whers wagzes aro the hi otlar things belng equal. Mon doprived of going on land o foresd to acoept low wages. Some people will sny, h it peesih'o to acknowledge the cqual right of all men to Ia 1 ray that it 18 not impozsible, but all that it s nccossary to divide s the rovenus which comes from the A tract of Jand has no value until psople sottlo sround it, therefore the val- ue of land belongs to the eommunity and onght to go to 1t Put a hoavy tax npon land and no one ren sfford to hold it to get a profit on it in the futare. The only class of people who would lose Ly the adoption of land nationalizatlon sre those dog-In-the manger kind of men who are holding land in the expeclation that it will riee In valune. Tke most valuabl land in every couniry is lend in cltle Not one-balf of the land fn any olty cerupled, save by tom cats, brick bab tin cans or bllly goats, and the cons quenca is that people are forced to pa exorbitant figures if they want to got roof to cover thelr heads, A few more words and I will close. 1t s only the ignorant, viclous and ma- liclous who are dangerous. Elevate the lowest clesies and you elevate the wholo etrusiure of soc'ety. Until the masses think for themselves they must be at the mercy of demagogues and thoso who wonld uee thom, It behooves'every one to interest themeclves in this work, 1f the high places of the government have become filled with thoze who l:gislate only for themselves {t is because pablic s:ntiment has become debauched by the power of wealth and Jabor has been robbed cf its dignity. Men should know thelr rights and dutles and bo taught tuat they owo theic alleglance to themsclves and cach other There ls a great work to be accomplished, and all thoee who believe that the death-kre!l of monopoly should ba souaded, publlc stealiog and class leglelation abolished, ought to units and prevent American workmen from degenerating Into wage the tuilers st prescat labor under. It is castomary for those who wiite from bis stacdpoint to say that the views of those who are taking an actlve part in the ‘‘/abor movement” sre either absurd or ridiculous, impertinent or unressons- ble. They wish to quarral instead of dls- pute. They call us fools or madmen, yet to the world wo paps as people poa- tezsing our full senss, Thay are ususlly concetted men who prate much of right resson, meanirg aiways their owo, and|the canse of with ungloved hands waged war upon frauds of all kinds except, I, o, mutnal mako thelr piivato imsgination the meas- ure cf genoral trath. ILi s, therefore, refreshing to discover a man who will slaves, tenants &nd paupers, without the mental strength or means necessary to agsort their individual rigats and liber- ties. Yours &, , O.uaha, August Oth, 1885. “K.'of L. e —— Mutual Insurancs Frauda. To the editor of the Bie, The Bee has for years championed tho poor man, and advacce hls opinfons without tho use of | Insurance, the much too-common civllitios of argu- ment above referzed to, Mr. MacCarthy has dwelt at some length upun the shorteuing of the hours of labor as a remedy for overproduction, Why bas it been asloep t> the fact that our etate has been overrun with men worklng In tho Interest of snide Institu- tlons from othor atates, partloularly from Weo sgree with him that it is a remedy. |the state of Iowa, taklng thousands of He objec's to labur organizations bocause (s0 he saye) they demand olass logiels- tion and yot is himself so extromely fn- consistent as to call forit, In the list of resolutions ke submits for (nspection is ono which makes the demand for elght hours labor per duy for mechanics and Iaborers while that which applics to clerks in the employ of the governwent only cails for six houre, 1f that !s not class leglslation I don't know what ls, The Knights of Labor say that the policy of ning to leglslative bodles whenever they desire their condition ameliorated io sy way ls inverisbly productive of bad results in that it destroys the self-zeliance of men, We hold thal the atstgtancs of the law-makers s not needel in a matter of this kind, and the hours of labor can easily be regulated by the people themselves. A cardinal plack inour platformof principles ts ‘‘to r‘(ui;c to work more than eight hours per 8y, I'he Knights of Labor do not approve of strikes, and hold that {n ninets-nlne corporations.” pointed, and {rresponsible in many cusen, They stea! the nams of socleties founded upon the lodge system and obtaln their membarship throngh mlsrepresentation, and Fremont bankers galled Into an institution of this kind some tio years ago. dollars yearly from tha hard earnings of our poorer or m'ddlo clasees, who can i1l afford to suffor the loss, Theso ald socleties, 8o called, are “‘close The officers arc eelf-ap- Upwards of elght hundredof them have run- |sprucg into extstence and died durlng the past ten years Thelr uzual modus operandl Is to give policies to afew leading bankers and busine:s men, and then use their name as & Joverago to gull tho lesser lights. By the uwe of the names of afew Omaba over 150 were A man dled the other day In the helief that he was leaving hls famly $3,000 ivsurance in the Dotrolt Mutusl Ald, She got about $2(0 uuly. The greatest harm theso nstitations do osses ont of one hundred they fail to|is they break down confidencs In any permanently beuefit those engaglng in[form of lnsurance, and prevent men them, We only justify such when out- throwing a protection abouot thelr famil- right oppreeslon has been practised. Wo |les, who otherwlre would be glad to do say that If buslacss principles sre ad- |80, either In carrylng Insurance in old line hered to by bosh sides any trade dispute [ compsnles, or In some well rigulated can be settled o an_hour. Employers are admitted to the order, and I koow of many large msnufacturers who takes an active interest inits ad- vancement. We exclude any person who makes his lviog or sny portlon of it out of the sale or wauufasture of intoxlca- ting lquors. We do not admit lawyers becauss they gain thelr livelthood trom ofl the striies of humenlity, and we keep out gamblers and known politiclans, We deeire to put an end to the em- ployment of children, To bocome good olsizens they require to be kept at scnool until they attan the ags of fourteen years, Owing 1o the decay of the “ap. prentice syetem’ the establishment of mauusl training #choos o all oltles of population bas be coma @ necessity of the times|) ond we, therefore, are prepsred to lend our ald to any movemewnt baving thatend in view, poverty ¢f perents. We endeavor to teach nien that tovote for mazkine hacks or schemirg peliticlans * Room 1, Crefghiton Blook, Oma e e e i POOLPRIVILEGS, POOL Chrild labor is only due to the| FAZR HELD SEPI, lodge system. Hero is an opportunity for you to do the pablic a valuable sarvice by exposing some of these frands. “ Burst Caiwp,” Omana, Neb., August 10, 1885, BIRTH AND OTHER PRIVI LEGES FOR SALE ON THE GROUNDS OF THE OBAHA, WEBRASKA, FAIR. All hida wust be on fls in the Beciotary’s hi nor }' 1e avg. I The right 19 aeserved 10 ¢ Parsus and other premiums offered, $16,~ dth to 11th, Address, DAN, H WHEBELEEK, Becretar, Neb, i