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

THE DAILY BEE. 1 Omana Orptok, No. 010 AND 016 PARSAM ST NEW YORK OFFice, ROOM 65, Trine e BUILWING. Pubilishod every mornio: opt Sundny. The only Monday ning papor puablished i the staio, T HY MATL One Y $10.00 Three Monthe 200 | Kix Months. 500 011 Month 100 Tow WeekLY Bep, Published Every Wednes RIS, mium ¥ PORTEALD, One Yonr, w One Yenr, with 8ix Monthis witho 1e Month, on trial CORIPEPONDENCY preminm nd edi the Ept- ing 1o ne addressed t All commumnicathons rol torial matters shouid Le TOM OF THE DEE RUSINESS LETTERS All business lotter pd remittances should be R ress o BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, OMAir. Dratts, chocks and postofico orders 10 ho miade payuble to the order of the company THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E. ROSEWATER, Er Tire next thing we shall hear, 151 told you so." was o sheol of inte on Saturday Tt an explosion at Hell Toe anti-treat law is suspended until from now until after election ward bummer is in his element t the whirl-pool of polities is in m Tuw now full mc 1 Tare: small-pos from Montreal hasn't reached here yet, but vaceination will be timely nevertheless l Tue Dolphin is to have another trial The Dolphin’s trials and Mr. Roach’s tribulations seem to go hand in hand. Trenre will be a very rich harvest for the average ward bummers on Monday. The tunch counters will all be open Wi cax't tell wat whether the Omalha fire department will ran with the ma chine on Monday or not, but it looks that W [ 3 boom continues in Oma- h her is very favorable for huilde A they are pushing work all along the line Tue buildin Tag regular hoard of trade mecting, which will be held to-day ought to be well attended, The bowrd has been asleep long enough. Grryany announces that she will join the brmetallic conference when England ponsents to do likewise. This is a polite way of deelining with thanks, Four out of the six standing assessors yin up on the republican ticket wheel horses of the tax dodgers willin to serve another always ure term, the wood- and e Dine twines, Gar has gone wherd The revised edition government « nite between then gradually but surely remoying all the old fashioned land ma il v hout inereas ing the polic re; but the tax list has got be considerably incrcased before Omaha can add materially to necessary municipal expenditures AN eastern gold-bug landlord who owns a building in Chicago rents it for sixty-four pounds of 18-carat gold 1 nnum. De is taking no clances | on silver as a fluctuating measure of value, her own forests on treeless prairvies and plains formerly destitute of verdure. In ical forestry our s leads the oN of New York is al delivery system He ne object could be ob- tained by increasing the regular carrier force. Many of our citizens will ag with Mr. Pearson. POSTMASTER P EAI opposed to the spe thinks that the and jury has refused to A ClicaGo g indiet o betrayed husband who shot and killed the betr ness. This 1s 0 much cheaper w satisfying the sense of human than a farcic turned into the lawyers ands of dolla commission of lunacy, and Tue committee having in charge the construction of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty wants more money, about $40,000, und it has issued an appeal to the pitizens of the count 'ge to make up the deficiency by buying statucttes. ‘We do not think that the people will in- vest very heavily in statuettes as it is the general impression that New York city onght to foot the ll for the pedestal, “Lhe Nebraska law providing for the reg- ister of deeds is declared invalid, and yet he governor did not veto it. ‘The prohibitory Iaw of lowa was once declared unconstitu- tional atter huving been signed by the gov- emor of that state, And yet the Bee seeks to make Governor Dawes responsible for the possible unconstitutionality of the law ap- pointing the second judge in our second district.— Republican. Phe luw providing for the register of deeds wus declared invalid because of a clevieal crvor in its engrossing. As passed by the legislature it was valid and constitutional, As signed by the gov ernor it was not in the form as passed by the logislature. T'here was no plain “thou shalt not” of the constitution staving Governor Dawes in the fuce when he- signed the bill creating r deods in the counties. No comparison “ ean be made, in any way, shape or form, Dbetween that bill and the bill ereating what the constitution in a single plain paragraph specifically prohibited the degislature from creating. If the gov- sunor of the state and the attorney gen- exal ave not responsible for the blunder of the approval of the bill and the appointmentof an unconstitutional judge ander its provisions we fail to soe where she vesponsibility rests and what is the mse, except for personal reasons, of the powor af veto giyen to the goveruor for al trinl in which the coupt s fees vun up into i fhous.’ Republican Co The ticket ted by the Donglas county republicans on Saturday 1- In many respeets it is the strong est that has been nominated for The clements of the party nty Conventic nomin lent yenrs vario ar well represented, and while <ome candi dates who failed to secure a nomination may feel disappointed oyer the result nobody can eharge that corrapt or unfair methods were resorted to by the suec | ful men Mr. William Coburn, who heads the ticket us candidate iff, is conced ol leading democrats to be an invincible He has rvesidod for s even by nomination in this city since the close of the war, in which he did good viee a8 a sol dier in the union army. Ho has not been an office holder or an office seeker, The only office he has ever held is the thankless one of member of the hoard of edueation to which no pay is attached In that capacity he has made a good record which indicates that he regards public office as a publie trust Mr. Henry Bolln is a suecessful busi- ness man, and is conceded to be well fitted for the responsible position of county treasurer. He is popu lar, well known to nearly every body in the county and will have no trouble in making a successful iinst the best man whom the demo- 3 can nominat M. Charles P Neodham is thoroughly qualified for the position of county clerk. He has ample expericnee as an account antand he enjoys the enviable reputa tion of being rigidly honest. He is very strong eandidate Mr. M Moeany, the commissioner, is the nominee for count commissione The nominee for Burkett, is well known reputable citizen who will fill the posi canvass it stree yoner, Mr. H. K. capable and tion ereditably It is hardly necessary r to Doe. Smith, who has a self-neting patent on the county surveyorship, which will not expire for some years to come. Mr. J. B, Bruner, the present county superintendent, was renominat 1 his clection s conceded, as he is emi nently qualified by experience and record for the ofiice Judge MeCulloeh, who has given gen eral isfaetion as county judge, was ro There is nominated by amation. likely to be about as little opposition in the canvassbefore the election. “The last, but not least gratifying of the convention was the nomination of three justices who possess the confidence of the bar and the respeet of the com munity. Judge Anderson has been one of the few justices in this city inst whom no charges of corrupt pavtiali or imbecility could attach. Mr. Louis Berka, as amember of the bar, enjoys a good reputation, and is peculiarly fitted for the judicial position. Mr. Lee Hels- ley, who for the past two years has been connected with the daily press of Omaha, has had the advantage of a thorough le- gal eduoation, and is level-headed, fear- less and honest. He will elevate the standard of the justice’s courts in the lower wards, Pine Ridge Again. The following letter has been received by # member of the staff of the Bee from Captain George Sword, chiof of the policc at Pine Ridge agency. It thiows X a conside pressed light on the induced continued attacks on the istration of that ageney, and ) responsibility for the last sl houlders where it belongs. AGENCY, Dak., Oct. 6th, 15%, About ten days ago, a paper Herald, printed a Red Cloud had notives whiek have rdmin- s the wderous re- ports on the PiNe Rin —MyY LEND: in your eity, called the story which the paper said written, It was, that all of the employes, the Indian police, the U. S, interpreter and many other people here had been drunk for several days; that the interpreter was selling whisky to the Indians and that our agent, Dr. MeGillis cuddy, wa very bad ind wanted to kill the Indinns, and something about the Great Spirit. Now my friend, Taman Ing tain of the Great Father's police he 1 watch out for all such bad things with my fifty policemen, and T know that the story in that paper was a lie. We have one of the Great Father's new in- spectors here to look after sueh things; he looks like a good man; he read the story in Tam cap- that paper to Ked Cloud ina council where many. Indians, our agent aund many other white people and myself were fPresent, - and Red Cloud i Itawas all a lied that he had not said so. did not tellany one to write such bad taik Our agent wrote to that paper to find out who had written such a lie, and the man that makes the paper answered that he had torn Red Cloud’s letter up, and that is why some of our people wonder if the man that makes the paper did not make that story him- self; fora man that was here from your city the other day, told us that tho man that makes that paper is a doctor, and a half brother of ¢ bad man in Washington, led “Bland, who is a doctor too, and makes a bad paper called the Council Five, and these two bad ctors want to make away with our good agent and make a friend of theirs in your y agent, My friend, the white man that made that story and put Red Cloud’s name on it, did not write as an Indian would tell o story, My friend, I write my own name, and 1 Kknow what I put it on; do not tear this letter up, some one may want to see it. I shake hands with you, for we think you are the Indian’s friend. Lam, Gronae Swonn, Captain U, 8, Indian Police The writer knows whercof he aflirms when he declaves that the management of the Pine Ridge agency is, and has been Dr. McGillicuddy was first placed ‘ge, the best of any on our north if not in the U sine in chy western frontic States, The charges and counte which have resulted from the vigorous, honest and nervy administeation of Dr. MeGillicuddy have not eome from the without rant or cant, or from th to whom his wise und courageous pol has brought posce and security. Every inspection by the government has only brought into cleaver light the remarkable administrative genius of this remark- able mun, whose only ambition has boen to secure the well-deserved praise of those whose praise is worth the having. He has clearod from the agency the old ring of cheating contractors, im- moral “squaw bumpers,” and turbulent | | | ble amount of hitherto sup- r half- of eonstan worke 1 at his own request, but with a | one of our teachers for forc her class ‘. rtly necumulating fund of savings | to the detriment of fhe health of his | I has boen devoted fo the Indians | danghter, opens a’fiell of inquiry which under his charge, and has placed his | may throw some lght upon the draw wgency, in discipline, prosperity and in- | backs of the gradiid gehool system. The togrity of control, at the head of all | aim of practical educators i< and should agencies under the interior department, | be toso arra wles ns to oot Dr. MeGillieuddy has made enemies. So | the mental and 1 eapabilitics of dovs every strong and positive man | the average boy ¢ Ta those who | who is forced to antagonize ring- | ave endowed with a high degree of men- | sters and impractieable yemers who | tal energy and physieal foree, this isa upon interfering in that with | drawback. They must siacken their which they have no business to meddle and are held ‘back to enable the He has not attempted to eivilize the In- | average pupil to keep up with dians on the San Carlos plan, with a [ them hymnal in one hand and a fraudulent It is unreasonable for any pat nee in the other. He hasvefusod [ ron of the schools to ask wtion from outside sourees, attended | thata dull or sickly child shall b otly to the business hefore hin taken as the standard by which the abili- challenged What those not only I'HE OMAHA DAILY BEE Overtafed| Brai whieh has an Omaka physician < source diy| T ne, | made by whose presence wi ¢ charge roc t disturbance; has under approprist criticism upon the r results have been, eve . No rational person w DAY ntly been 1 oagainst ties for study of the entire class shall be H1 persist minded and hon man on our north- | in demanding that a whole class shall woestern frontier knows. Not a com- | limp beeause one or two members are plaint regarding the conduct of the | lame. How would it be at West Point or Ogallala Sioux has come from Nebraska [ any other school where discipline is and Dakota scttlers sinee Dr. McGil maintained, if the dullards and weak cuddy’s incuben Pine Ridge. The | lings should insist that every class in senseless va tion of disc porings of Red Cloud's fi ed and discontent have been hack to en .| which they happen to fall should be kept sle them to keep step? Sup- suppressed as often as they | pose that in military drill it should be have arisen Each visit to | proposed that the entir riment should and inspection of his agency | measure its stride by the step of the has vesulted in the agent's tvi- | shortest men. Such a proposition would umph. D, MctGillienddy's prompt cjec- | be hooted tion of that venerable frand and meddler, | There may be reputable physicians Dr. Bland, from the limits of the resery who insist that the brain of the average wi scholarin our public schools is over- tion some two y Indian civ agent, was abuse and since been ¢ n the great 1z was endeay- s izeratlongr taxed and that the course of stu g to stir up Red Clond against tho | be reduced in its requirements the eause of the strenm of | may be even some very high o slander with which he has | inmedicine who maint leluged through the columns | of the rising generation are ov of the Conneil ¢ in the rear. We were | in our free school system. — Th Rbi before that Dr. Bland had s laky which disproves itself. Tl Omaha connections, If this is so, it | danger that any boy or girl, far to account for the milk in the cocoa- | health will impair it by pur nut of the the men who oust from Pine don. m proper and dian proble livin Very few stand just music in t meeting, th long debate Herald’s steady support of | ordinary course of study. The v doing their worst to | who enter the sehool Ridge the man who has | nd break down do so be uch to throw light on the rents or guardians permit practical solution of the In- | disregard the ordinary laws m as any other one man now | outside of schiool hours out of ten, those who complain cramming the brain have sin crammed the stomach. The e about too much hrain work do from the poor, but from those | able to indulge their children ies and Juxnri ) people in this city under- how the question of teaching | he tand At its last he hoard of edueation, after a tabled every pending re schools dy should The uthorities n that the brains erworked is is her with suing the treath sin good ause their them to of health Iu nine cases Vof over- wly over- omplaints not come who ar in de don’t come from Tution hat left the whole question of ¢ the mech and laborers whose chil- music where it was before. Tnasmuchas | qeen live on plaiad food and go to bed at the board has refused to place music | reagonable hours, but from professions among the required branches of instry and. mon. ofd: nyeans! ‘whoso. ok tions in any grade, it has virtually abol- | quon are overfed, ’overdressed and ished tho teaching of music in our public | (nderslept. Their | boys and girls schools. The whole responsibility for | keep Iate hoursy, attend dane- continuing this ornamental 1 unprotit ing school and social parties when able branch of instruction is now upon | (1¢y guaht to be fn & Boys and girls the supermtendent. While it is possible | 1,5 0 o bed with a stomach overloaded that, under some conditions, with a corps | 4 midnight suppers, rise with @ headache of fivst-cly might be n the pupils patent and admitted that, so far, the | teaching of failure. literally thrown been used to much other dirc weak. Th a trustee f¢ not devote ornamenta ment CARDINA away on Friday at the 4 had been a his powers past threo His de The dead and of Am has been a The money expended has been w8t some headway | ide in voeal culture among ehers, teel dull duri g the entire scl of tho public schools, it is | rible tasks seb before them voeal music has proved a | 4 know enough to know that ach is responsible for nine-tent [t could have | g, yilments and complaints t advantage in | g the school room We have no fear that the present gene m off in an epidy 1 Dy t00 mugh s Lstudies and profitless experi. | ol bette ons where our system is still the ¢ ion is simply oot 1d it should the money in its keeping fo The grave a standing testimonial that of [ who die, the schools good many | Wy L McCr need " 3 lks ordercd by and come home Complaining will be gan hool ds about th by their 5. Doctors, of all people, ought the stom- hs of all hat come hildren of Tied n fever caused eyards are the young Kilied a than the doctors. wh was a ful as his li Tue side: the city ctive. The natural decline of | €ouncil on Farnam and Douglas sty SR R LT Gk do not appear to materialize vor vears, He had withdrawn for | A few of the property ewners have com months from the duties of his cathedral, | Plicd with the order, and it looks very relate wis of Amorican birth | much as if a large number propose to erican education. His ¢ p | deliberately sit down and let the city do neventful one. Ordained as | the work for them. If that is the pro . holding the oflice of n col- | gramme, no time should be lost by the a priest at 2 lege presid was conscerated as - bishop, and hegan his great w in New ever form York ity in carrying it out ent at 31, within four years he THERE is 2 Wi what is claimed with regard to coming democratic convention discrepency rork of upbuilding his ehureh state. The vesults will his most lasting monument Such energy, indomitable courage and | one side the machine claims th mius in administration are rare in | two-thirds of the delegates, whi ceclesinstical annals, Combined, they | position maintains that the won him the hest distinetion Noxt Thursday we shal within the OxatiA 1 voters. O fect and sl Ther among the should be | and counci trars to gi by public where they they must at least to Unless all vacancies are the counil, it will be impos ply with the requiv foro the election. begin publ next Fridg during the Tie people of the cast are now hegin- ning to foe to the surf that it has platforms. of man the troubles b contract paying all remaining had been has acted cisely as the coolie system it of their own experience, The coolie question in Massachu it of the church is ngreat deal of pent s from 12,000 to 00 legal S Hani t ur registration is very imp tHpgito bronle oMb ik 7198k democratic primayics, with would bo thoroughly revised. probubly several vacancies registrars of Omaha. They promptly filled by the mayor L. Itis the duty of the regi o at least seven d. notice, tion, of the time and place y will sit for registration and opinion wtly prome tever the rd vailing expression of mony will not be gr bourbon camp, wh records carefully betor The time their ple to support them hogin this registration work | before securing nominautions n days before the olection, | nominations are made the pe appointments are madoe and | i rocords. filled session of ble to com nents of the law be- The registrars must their notices to voters v and commence their sessions following w at the next L POINY POLITIO. i Bx-Governor St John's elogu flows as freely as yunning water ishin, The Logan boom for 1838 starts | |]I. score, Too lively o bast,—{ Brag Davenport, ifeleoted, will b chelor who hias: gecubicd the mansion in Albany i succession, John 8, Wise, who recently fight Page MeCarty, is spld to "ha patted in twenty-six duels, 1o is a wan to chullene, General N , wembg of con from Pittsburi, has just returned f There 15 a rumor thit he will resig in congress and return to Cuba, ieneral, Fitz HugliLeg is called the poli s An W irginia DIOVe it | tiraetion for his | doesn’t eollide withighe opposition General Benjamin® i Butler s hearing is singulartyacute, the only man in the emntry wh himself “think that he will be pres day. x-Senator Woodbury, of Mair the few living anti-hellim mem United States senate, hias been in ton recently, Mr, Woodbury was a I the Chinese question in the ite otts is rising forcible manner found its way into the party For some yoars past the own- ufacturing establishment have » habit of settling their labor y importing lubor nder from Europe, the employer expenses, and the workmen bound to him until repayment made, This form of ery upon free eastern labor pr upon west wee in such a ern wage earners. Sympathy for the | of'\WWebsterand Clay. oppressed Chinese is not now playing as | his is the “bombshell biga part in Mussachusetts as it did | searcely pick up a newspay that onie of these uncouifortable pr s0me ycurs ago. THE man o hundred now looms he button- of disposin, TuE votu will not be in Omaha ocratic primarics on Monday. in the camp of th about to explod on Star, party.—| Wshi There Is no goodreason why people of this country shoilld Tepresentatives 1 lieir ranks laws to govern the rich the rieh to form laws to coer ject slavery. —[ Pittsburg Lak: We seem to be In the age when o for office must of necessity be a If the press on both sides would honorable warfare and diseuss th and gualifications of candidates, Lave & more interesting aud sock paign.—[Troy OLIPIVER 1 of “inflooence” who carries solid votes in his vest pocket up on the strect corner, where holes the candidates in hopes g of his political merchandise. rns from Ohie nest Tuesday look for with half the intercst a8 the returns from the dem- Canpivates for oflice better asking peo- y between the forth- On the at it has lo the op. I know a up agony Monday" a pre that h sted inthe rsult. examine to do it is Aftor the ople will ts. ence still ively from Word, (I"a,) e the third exeeutive declined to ve partici- dangerous e rom Cuba, 0 his seat the Jumbo 1o iy rty if he train, He s said to be 10 can hear ident some e, one of wets of the Washing- a colleagiie 0je 0" opposite the working alect ke not to instead of allowing s them into ab- v Herald: candidate scoundrel, wage an e abllities we would able cin- OCTOBER 12, 188 VIEWS AND INTERVIEWS, | whether but that the weather will be more dry. However, this not. all that eonntry heretofore arid portion of Nebraska is well always been will be o ot known as the adapted o stockanising and dairying and that is what the settler should turn his attention to. He can in almost any vear, whether dry or wet, raise all kinds of root crops. and néarly everything else that is needed in the house or in the barn-yard, ex apt corn, onts and wheat, and even if I coulid raise these it would not be as profitable | for him as to devote his entire attention to stock raising and dairying, The grass in all t country produces perfeetly pure milk from which the finest butter and che nthe | sary Dr. Conkling Northern Nebraska. {1 have had the ‘boomingest® time in the Boomingest’ comtry 1 ever saw,” remarked | Dr. Conkling. “Where have you boen O™ | he was sk I have been up in north- | | Nebraska for the last five | sald he: “L have been hunting, and Cronghing i and taking in the [ conntry generally. 1t will do any man good to go up there. There is plenty of game praivie chickens, geese, grouse, and ducks, s country is fall of Takes and the lakes are | full of ducks, While T was up there [ | had all the hunting I wanted. When | I was not hunting, 1 lived on sowbelly | hardtack and coffee, mifd L have come | back with an immense ctite and A thoroughly reconstructed and rein v dconstitution.” 1 the country settling up as rapldly as repor you visit Chadron.” asked the Bre man. *1 never saw anything like the way the veople are pouring info that section ot the state,” replied the doctor. s country is protty well taken up. Claims have been taken up covering the country for sixty miles south of thelr claims. On Sand eroek they w 1,000 for clafins, o1 aceonnt of the hay lands. The land in the valleys in northwestern Nebraska is adapted to agricultural purposes, while the sand hills are good grazing Tands. SDid T visit Chadron? Yes: and alivolior town I never saw. Tt is hardly three months old, and it hasabout 2,000 people, Talkabout life! Chadron is the place to see it night you will see the stakes set for a build- ing onavacant ot and the nest day there will e abuilding on itand oceupied eitheras a saloon, a stor mbling shop, or a family residence, Manyof the people have heen liv- ing in tents and sheds, and some of them saloon-keepers, cowhoys, freighters that are S alw tors, and ot hara ys found in a rushi serapes are of almost daily , and the report of w revolver startles 1o one more than a five-cr Dotile. oftices, sker or the popping of a beer the newspaper seven feet wi I paid a visit to one It w wto, and eleven and havdly high enongh for an ordi i to straighten up in. About the | t things in Chadron arve the fle: 1 only numerous hut pow- erful. it 1 stayed there they rolled e out of bed, and wonldn't let me go to sleep again, But after a night or two a man sed to them, and doesn't wttention to them than | which, by the way ous as the fle bout numer- “reight s vollin > rate, and it cighters enoy is difficult to find teams h to hanl it to the Black me; and Hills, to which most of it is destined, Al though there is a big freight depot at Cha dron, th is 50 mueh freight accnmula there that it has to be stored in freight cars, L saw fifty-two cars side-tracked and used for freight storage. he wagon roads to the Black Hills in dry weather are as harvd aod i we | sticky mud 35,0 grass bei +O%dron has become a e point. A large number ¢ todrive to the Union Pacitic now drive to Chadron and ship through to Chicago. One 15 londed with eattle Most Pa- oad has lost its grip on the The way they run tra thas asphalt pavement, put jn rainy her they y and sticky, ihe dlled ‘gumbo.’ cattle shipping shippers who used day I saw twenty-two c that had I of the cattlemen are down on the Union cifie. That r cattle trade. \ driven up from Sidney. son the Sioux City & Pacific is a caution, The freight and cattle trains run on lightning express | time, and have the right of w Passenger trains are sidetiacked to let them have a free . Cattle trains are run from Chadron to Missouri Valley in seventeen hours and a half. ‘The fact is, that the Sioux City & Pa- rilie and Chie go & Northwestern have cap- tured the Blaek Hills trade and alarge part of the cattle business of Nebraska, Wyom- ing and Dakota e Sioux City & Pacific s being extended to I id city, 112 miles distant, to which it will be co ted early next summer. Buffulo Gap s miles beyond Chadron, just Nalf way to Rapid City. The line to Rapid v is the Blaek Hills branch from Chadron, The main line proceeds directly west from Chadron, and will be rapidly pushed on to u jun 1 with the Central Pacitic at Ogden, When the bogin running boyond Chadron the boom will drop out of that town, as it has out of Valentine, but, like Valen- tine, it will become a steady-going, substan- tial and prosperous plaed “Palking about gamaup in that country the grcatest game s ‘sinch.’ s played by the Sioux City & Pacifie, It he it tho tsineli’ on that section just the s Union Pacitic used to bave on tributary toit. The freight eharge e the 0 Chadron is the same as the charge to Valentine, although Valentine is about 140 miles east of Chadron. The people up there are very friendly to Omatta, and tuke the metropolis, but they find it impossible to do business with Omalia onaccount of the diseriminations on the part of the Sioux City & Pacitie in favor of Chicago. They all want reat pride in Omaha to build a road of her own to the northwest, giving that country di communication with — the wctropolis of the state. They will vote bond to a liboral amount. 1 saw one from Ainsworth who said Brown county would bond itself for $100,000 to help an Omaha road that would run through that county. Everybody inquired if anything was being done in Omahia about this matter. 1t secs 1o me that now Is the time for Omaha to strike while the fron is hot. “On iy way home,” continued Dr. Conk- ling, *1 stayed over a day or two at Valen. tine, I was there the night the eitizens held the big Jollification over the removal of Morris from the land office. It was a regular fourth of July eelebration. They have been making it pretty warm for Morris up the he can depend upou sich & great ratnfall in the futuze. The chances are that we stall not have uny. ing like | rain next year, ov the year after, or the year following, 50 Valentine, and north to the Dakota line, and trom Valentine to Chadron. Men will sit down on @ claim at night, and the next | wmorning they will ask trom $100 to £1,0% for AL | nto Chiuedron at an im- | li The meanest thing that 1 heard ¢ wis the presentation (o hin, at various times of ‘stinker’ clgars and cigs loaded with five-crnekers and dynamite, [t is a wonder to wie that Morris is alive, Col. Webster On Western Nebraska. “Whatdo you think of the theory of cli- matic chianges in the western and souths western part of the st asked o Bek rep itative of ( E. D, Webster Itis un ibtedly true," e, “tiat thete have been more frequent showers during the years | 1534 and 1585 than ever betore, but it would be very unwise for the settler to suppose that the elimate has changed 50 suddenly or that | { | | re | frontier place. Shooting ; obitha stitassieli | men and women,™ s 1 look to the time s witl be and ries and cheese fi world can be made. when crea toric started in as large numbers as w all over that country. The raise his ealf upon the whey or skim milk e neces tier can s or vegetation which he nmay ave his milk for ts and other to th and the s L and at the some thne < dairy. e enn also raise stock. His market for wost, and always will be, raise corn or wheat, the freight ea it as to render his erop almost valueloss fodder for his stock in winter Dy planting or sowing broadeast hum seed or millet, and, it neces- sary, h 1 build silos and save his fodder in the form of ensilag I believe that method and preserving fodder leved o suecess, Itis a very simple and that being a dry conntry, it is vion, will ultimately be 1y by the future set ward isso he can For raise fo cOrn or K0! of makit may now be cons proc one which, inmy of vesorted to very gene tler.” SWhat do you call western Nebrask asked the Bri's representative. 1 refer (o all that country west of the 100th meridian, or about twenty-five miles west of Kearney. 1t s altogether likely that, the country - is broken up, there will be more frequent showers than herctofore, but it s not at all likely, inmy opinion. that thev will become sufficiontly numerous to make it a re living that way yet. Chadron is a typical | jighte grain-raising country. But I repeat frontier town. "Itis at the terminus of the [ e iy wy opinion, it will ultimately be railroad. Thiat makes it lively. AILKinds of | gyio'of the most prosperous. and wealthy por- mbling 15 infull Dlast there—faro, poker, | iong of the state, and that the time will be stud-poker, roulette, keno, Spanish monte, b tie fatior alApt Lol 6 Hio ohs hazard and ot unes, all of which run | 1 hmposed by soll, climato, cto, and twenty-four howss a day and are liberally | {ums his attention, as 1 have indicated, to patronized. The town is full of gamblers. [ ook paising and dairying.” “How is the country i the sonthwest part Very rapidly, and ent elass ol ng d Col. Webster. One year ago there was seaveely a quarter section of land west of Culbertson, to the Colorado line, and between the Republican and the Platte rivers, that was not what is commonly ant Jand, t is to say the title was 1) intell by an e sdingl in the government or the Union Pacitic, but to-day nearly every desirable quarter-section has been filed npon either under the pre cmption, homestead or timber enlture law, and many of them have settlers upon them who show that they have come to stay by erceting substantial buildings and by begin ning in carnest the eultivation of the soil.” e “Whore do you live?” “In Hitcheock My farm is five miles from the vil- atton, Let me tell you about that not ary it did lave o To-tay it is a thriving tova, of 350 inhabitants. 1t as two goa2 iotels, four orfive quite extensive =ieral merchandise stores, one larse furniture blishment, two diue <iores, five or six blacksmith shops hrness shop, a shoemaker's shop—all doing azood business. 1t has two churehes, good and pther institaiions that go to ake up a village” “Any ginmills 2 “Phere is only one saloon in the place, and that s enough. Siratton furnishes convineing evidence of the rapid growth of that part of the state. But to return to the settl e g danger, in iy opinion. is that he will be misled into the belief by the heavy rainfall of the past two years that it is going to continue, and that he will be discouraged if he fails to raise corn, s, and whe; nd sueh « asily raised in the castern part of the wer erops which s Lectur (o the Hartford s written to « Licut, Greel letter coly 1 hingtoon cut, ( iend here denying the statement that oing the rounds of the press that he mide money by his lectures since he returned from the v regions, Lient i ys that instead of making mon e netually ran short over $1.200 last year, He says when he has acecpted in Vitations from geographical and similar soeiations to Teeture, he paid his own way toand from the places, often at con siderable expense, It cost him ove 0 to deliver a recent lecture in Massac hu- sricultural fair, though the siation did not retarn him even his expenses. His name, more than his leeture, was used to draw a crowd to the fair. e says thero will be no admission charged to his leetures in England and Scotland, a5 he speaks in cach case be- fore seientif ocintions, though he has been promised that his expenses will be paid. Lieut, Gre has arvived at conclusion that there is no money in the aretic business, He has hopes that an exeoption will be made in his case, il that he will not be roquired tor turn to his regiment, though 8¢ ary Endicott has always insisted that he will allow no exceptions, and t Wl oflicers went for years from their commands must return, so there shall then be fair exchange of the soft places. - White House Clocks. New York Herald: The bor of handsome and histori clocks in the White House, The clock in Colonel Lamont's voom has in it a cathedrval gong that has such a charming sound thut per sons frequently wait to hear it strike. It is 1 modern afiair, but has many Imir ers There is a clock in Miss Cleveland's yoom that has been going without the interruption of an hour for over twenty five yoars. In the President’s bedroom there is another beautiful elock. In the Blue Parlor the famous clock, once the yroperty of Napoleon Bonaparte, and by > ar a nonm- iim presented (o Genoral Lufayetté, who i turn presented it to President George Washington, still keeps perfect tim It is of alubaster and Frenck bronze. It runs for thirty duys st one winding. In the Red Room’ President Lincoln’s clock of chony and gold still strikes the quarters, halves and hours with wonderful procision. The only American made elock in the White House was manufactured in New York, It is kept in the Green Room, and was pu chased when James Monroe was Presi dent ~ Eul w Education. London Standard: Sir Lyon Playfair formally opened the Harvis academy, Dunded. 1t was found that the old sys tem of purish schools no longer sufliced when lar towns arose. Manufactures altered the condition and needs of the population. He held that it was neces Sary thut they should train the people be foremost in that knowledge of scienee und art which now lay at the root of modern manufacturing industries. All modern labor, even that of a hewer of wood or drawer of water, was based on and sometimes on that combined science, with apt. If they taught these subjects in the elomentary schools technica their practical application would readily be taught “afterward. In future duys denwing would be a subject of ex- [ of the producers prido, Even if he could | | who v W it has | and before long [Applause 1|Drnw umination in all schools 0 also must seic 0. ing, and more es pecia ly mechanioal diiwing, was half the technical eduoa tion of & working man. 1f he had inven tiveness it would holp him * greatly, and though he might have no originality to discover now plans, his intelligence was immensely strengthened by the power of ccinting the oxpressions and pur- o posos of the arehiteet, the builder, the engincor, the machinist, and others who had to express their purposes by the con: ventional rules of mechanical “drawing [Applause.] Frechand drawing was portant to give a sense of the and o train hand and eye, wutiful, while mechan® jeal drawing was of first importance, - AN APPEAL TO PRODUCERS. a E 't Your Own In: terests by Ballot, Norrork, Neb | Oct. 10-—[To the Ed. itor. ] Permit me to say o few words to my fellow laborers through the columns the “fearless, Organize a busy Bek, " and if possible arouse them to action. Let us stop « moment for ine vestigation and sce if the greater part of the producers’ oppression is not due to the unnatural and unjust system of lana ownership. Now, suppose we pass a law limiting the ownership of land to 160 acres, would not such a law knock lots of “wind out of monopoly sails?” If all ited it hiad land enongh to raise their bread and meat, capital could not then foree them to work for starvation s they would then have omg rown and could work for them. Asitis now one man ean own of the selves 10,000 01 100,000 steres of Tand and all that live on it, and with the modern improves in i ments machinery ean dispensa in o great measure with hired help, thus forcing them to theeities to vie with each otherin their struggle for existence, and underbid on labor in order to get tha venowned “half Toaf™ that is better than no bread. Why not, pass that will effectially | usur thus cainst 4 repetition “tinaneial round up' of Town, Hlinois, Missouri, Kansns, that made ohibit of the 1878 and 1879 in Nebra many ska men and S0 wha had half paid for their farins take up their chatt and thurn their eyes west- ward, while the agents of the money loan nt the sherift to sell them out® In Dakota, Nebraska, lowa and K the me gtate of afluirs exists to-day | sof farmers who ary nt mth on 1 wage on their farms, and it the eastern money 1o urn the serews alittle more the “farmers™ will have to move on_again Believing that our only cseape from our present se perfeet organ W of sco two per ¢ enred by me of lies in 11 sin avenue fdom sation, T appeal in certy to every man who works with hig hands to lay aside all party afiliastion and in a measure imitate “ecapit forming co-op eamizations witl ative protection labor or- platform constructed Tk that Knights of Labor, upon which the best interests of farmer and Lhorer stand perfectly identieal, and then inaugurate w system for binding Legislator' (o a striet and faithiul per- formance of his dutics and obligations to his constituents, with o mortgage on his careass that will e foreclosed as surel as he sells out to the monopolists. Uso every effort to nominate and elect only men” o sed of native honesty and courage cnough to act from a sense of Justice regardless of party. Pellow-Taborers, there is 1o power on earth that can keep us from adjusting onr wrongs since the producers east more than two thirds of the ballots on eV cleetion day in the United States. It is for us to say whether that grand old war r who b so faithfullv vougiout his whole sod by the peon career in the United States senate will be his own sue or whether it will be some big railroad Tawyc It must certainly be plain to every thinking x that if the old United States senat the prime cause of all the \d reverting back to the people dur the last two years would sell out for money, that the railvond corporations would h added the name of Chas, H. Vian 1ot W Wyek to their long list ¢ ppers r ago. What groater assurance do want of his rling worth than his past reeord in the United States senate, and the deep and bitter opposition he meets with at the bands of the railrond and other monopolies, Althongh « long democrat the writer will ne bigoted party aflilistion prevent his in 1836 for the state senator who him that he will vote fivst, last, and always for C. H. Van Wyek A DEMOCRAT. - Overworked Menials, Texas Siftings: A rather good-looking cook was hired ont i the family of & wealthy man living in Dallas, ‘Foxas., One duy her employor put his aem around lier and kissed her, whercupon she dropped w courtesy and said, mod- estly “Don’t put vourself to so much trouble, In all the other places whe I've bed the coachman had to attend to that, but iu-rl ps he is kept busy here ki the ady of the house.’ Complete Treatment, with Inhaler for Every Form of Catarrh, 81, Ask for SAN- FORD'S RADICAL CURE. 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