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AN ONEROUS OBLIGATION, Linooln Imposes the Missouri Pacific Bonds Upon Itself—A Kite-Flying Scheme PROJECTED DURFEE'S PARK. Goneral Vifquain's Trophy Governme Vindic ywnship in Lancaster County Burners, ve Hay THE RATLROAD BONDS CARRIED The Missouri Paci for $50,000 was submitted to the people of Lincoln lay, and carried by avery heavy majority. The vote stood 1,79 for and 66 against, making majority of T8 in favor of the bonds ery argn ment which could ht to hear, whether true or specious, was used with the t of muking all that the $50,000 must be voted, or Lincoln would go the same road that Nebrasks City and other places have not for an instance conside: coln, as a trade center, wa for the Missouri Pacific to strive for. 1t not seem to oceur to voters that the Missouri Pacific was the party which will be benetitted by an entry into Lin coln, but trembling with a fear which the railroads of Nebraska have always engendered in the minds of the public that it they did not stand and the road would ruin the town for the bonds were voted with a unanimity which will make Jay Gould and that director who resigned bec the Mis- souri Pacific was coming to Lincoln, bond proposition be broug 8 something ever, use Taugh to themselve and exclaim, “What | fools these mortals be A PARK FOR LINC IL B. Durfee, Esq., suj proprictor of the Cap , has a which he will into efe e, that will »of Lincoln Mr. Durfee s about hal terminus of his LN rintendent and City strect seheme L next rre fl‘lh‘*\l:lhll‘ r owns it of forty ac mile east of the present line, and he proposes to turn it into a park something after the fashion of garden in St Louis. The grounds 1 e Iy Taid_off into drives and walks, Dle buildings will be erected, and kept for the tion of visitors. The question of using a part of the rounds for 1 hase ball park and o izing u prof is heing con sidercd, and will probably e favorably acted upon, ns the admirers of the gamd Iy evening during the spring, summer and autumn a brass band will dis. COUTHS 1 nd other attractions will winke Durfec’s park a popular place of resort sidence it NTLEMAN, Vify veturned home Saturday from Vandalia, Hlinois, where he attended the reunion of the H7th Hli- nois regiment, of which he was colonol during The war. There are 200 surviving members of the x nt, of which num? ber 150 were pr During the re- union his old comrades presented the general with a fine ggld-headed chony we s a testimonial of their esteem. Tt s said that the general was one of the best disciplinarians and commanders of the war, and there is certainly no ques- tion as to his bravery, as all who remem ber the time of his service testify to hi intrepidity in battle and good scrviee to the gount TOWNSHIP GOVERNME The question of township organization in Lancaster county and the doing away with the commissioners is creating con- siderable of a favorable sentiment, par- ticularly in the ceunty preeinets. It will undoubtely be submitted to the voters at the November election and will probably « such a course will it is thought and hoped will do much to break up the present county ring which has such powerful grasp on the funds and inter- ests of the people. Ho. !, 0. Whedon and other speakers will canvass the county in belinlf of township govern- ment and the canvass will be o lively one. HAY BUR Saturday two men whol ing on Hoit. John F stock farm near Lincoln, gentleman's office and ' demanded the money due them. The secret Mr. Templeton, told them to call at a later hour when ho would pay them. Shortly after the men, whose names are Nelson Oleson and Johnson, left the oftice, word w; rceived that they had burned up 150 tons of hay at the farm be- fore they came to the city. They were m‘rl-rltml’, but the motive of their low lived work was not discove CITY JOTS, Boltficld, of Bennett, stabbed a man last Thursday night during a quar- vel. Saturday he was arraigned be Justice Brown and bound over to district court for t T'he street car t wu\:m-l.,g.. bridge, d been work- d’s Greenwood went o that Loui the has been finished where it will stop until the by is raised to the proper level, when track-laying will he resumed. Work on R streot is mkam aressing: improyements have lately been made at the universi Opera chairs have been plac chapel, and the steam-heating apparatus is nearly fin- e Oberlin, K & M. was op 1sas, branch of the B. ned for business urd ‘I'he programme for the Arion club ¢ U to-night been issued. It em- ces thirteen numbers, and the selec- tions are excellent Saturday Gov. Dawes appointed the following gentlemen as delegates to the Cattlo 5" convention to be held at Chicago November 17 and 18: Villi A. Paxton, Omaha; T. W. Otoe county: Claudius. Jones, connty J. 0. Chase, Fillmo Satu 1 b ched to a car of the Lincoln city company be- eame frightened and running away broke its leg. An effort will be made to save the animal The continuous rain yeste fered greatly with chureh gol - Sunday Seryice ‘The dreary weather of yesterday oper- ated to keep many people at home, and the attendance at the various churches throughout the city was not large. First Baptist church yesterday Missionary Sunday.” Rev J. B. Osborne, state nussionary for the denomination, made a powerful apveal for funds with which to carry on the and quite a handsome collection was raised. In the evening the pastor, Rev. J. W. Hurris preached an eloguent sermon of which the following is a county. g people. Hebrows 11th chapter, 17th verse: By faith Abraham, when he was tred, of- fored up Isane, and he that had received the promises offered up his only son." his world is not controlled by any one man, Neither is the welfare of the human family dependent upon any one man, however important a faotor some nen ‘may think that they are in the great novements of histor Our national Wospe ceisnot dependent - however much he tshed for the nation | Winexpected | wo | the Eternal One cal | enism into His service | wonderful family, voters believe | | usas instruments in His | good of our fellow m | to w deliver | | trial, iy pleasant | | Arguing from by his intellectual g Praliensive mind andy The success of christianity is not de pendent upon any one man’ or body of men, cven if they have tiken active ‘v:ni in the movements that have ronght about o marvelons civilization God has not given the whole control of his kingdom to popes,hishops and clorgy of any denomination He controls, althongh he u; instrumentali Whenever He has desired to plish any great work, as in groat er gencies, He has raised up men from an source to the particular brir about the desived 1 He in wecial work )le were not nins and his com arnest effort work end Abrahaim was one whe the early dispensation for 1o was an fdoinser. His p wrs of true God And d him from he W mad enant with him that He would give to him and his children o wonderful Tand, and that his children wonld become a mighty people. He was to be the father of the from whom in after time the Messialh would come We have no reason then are of great importance to the world, ev hurch of God. Thank chose hands for myste aham L wish you to not the rions dealings of ( Al the many years he had wait promised “child, And yet he w it upon God. His faith was often tried as the y volled by. Neverthe- less, he beliey it God would fulfill the ll”.“m‘w We tried by waiting for the promised bless ingin wer to onr ' After the ehild was’ given and he had grown to manhood, theve came the next offering the promised child upon itar. No reason was given for this command, hut Abraham oheyed, son was placed npon the it was for a father to do such an jod had spoken and he must < willing the hare act; but obey We been ealled thro some strang life, and no _reason v was taken from our father or mother or compamion tunes that have been made by toil saerifiee, suddenly taken from us, and no reason given. We perhaps will not be ble to know the why of it in this life, have upon to experiences in aiven. A child oving embrace, For, | but in another we shall know on “why?" Abra no He to give him an opportuni Sccond, to try his faith Third, to Iy his will into complete harmony with the will of God but that this is the “why" of our experi The que m bt asked reason. Fir ty to prove ( | ence But that obedience brought di- will bring Tast] noti on Abraham’s vine approval, and it the same to us if we Dut obey NOTES, W. Harsha delivered () of his series of lectures on “Coninon Sense in Religion,” at the Dodge strect Presbyterian church last night topic v “Myste The object of his lecture was to show t people believe many things which are far more mys- terious than the teachings of the Bible this he went on to show tencts of the Gospel faith arc eptation by all church yesterday morning were devoted to a harvest The church was approy decorated, and a choral service spe written for_ the oceasion was rende In the evening, in addition to the chor Roy that the worthy o in Unity the servi festival | service, solos Were sung by Mis yson, Miss Patterson and Mr. I 4 e S. Pelton, Third Congregational interesting and instr STho Faithiul Sayines A. services at the county fle followed oms N. MeKa Twelfth noon there was a 1 wospel mecting led by Mrs. S. M /. the missionary of the W. €. T, dent of Rockford, 1L possessed of | rare dowmients for _evangelistic work an carnest, forcible talke 'T ren were di that ry to that the chureh and that the church and W.C.T.U in th labors. Mrs. Henry will hold a ies of gospel mcetings”every night this week, at the Buckingham hecially intended for the lower classes of that de- graded locality, though all will be wel- come. There will be a gospel service at 3 y afternoon, and a song se o'clock eve vice at 7p. m. Come and bring your ed ospel niec which was addressed At the Bucking strect yeste Bibles and song books. The First Baptist church has v $700 ont of a needed $1,200 for a ne mission chapel to he erceted on the cor- ner of Saunders and Cuming streets, - Links From th K. OF P. . The local lod, of the Knights of Pythias are muking great preparations for the session of the grand lodge of the state, which meets in Lincoln Tues- day. There will probably be a deleg tion of fifteen or twenty from Omaha in attendanee upon the session, including the past chancellors and past grand chan- cellors of the four lodges m this city— Nebraska No 1, Myrtle, Omaha No. 26 and Planet lodges. There is every pros- pect that the meeting will be the largest and most _enthusiastic convention of Pythian Knights ever held in the state, pos of Nebraska Pythianism, the following items are taken from the semi- annual reports received the oflice of the grand keeper of rocords and seal for the term ending June 30, 1885. otal membership in Nebraska July 1, 1885, 1,605; net in during the r, 415 s in memborship in / or to July 1, 1884, the two Amer zes in Omalia have con- tributed 54 per cen The largest net in- erease in member Iu]]r is shown by Myrtle lodge in Omaha, which hus ghined members, being an increase of 132 per o setond! plaa. balongs to No: No. 1, which shows a net or an in of 42 Der cent. The four Omaha lodges con- {ain more than 24 per cent of the nggre- o membership in the s Myrtle Lodge, K. of P. held an inter- esting and enthusiastic meeting on Mon lay ~night, Chancellor Commander Crowell in the chair Two new mem- bers were proposed for the first degree, while one was ready to be worked in the second and five in the third. This was too much for one night's operation and the sccond and third degrees were not worked. This lodge progressing atly and though very young is' one of the liveliest in the state, © Myrtle Diy ion No. 8, Uniformed Rank,” K. of P. is likewise prospering. It now has mor than sixty members including represent i ) Garlield Lodge, of Blair, and ue Lodge, of Bellevue, On Wednesday evening, Nebraska lodge held its regular meeting with full attendance, Chincellor Commander Willox being in the chair. The fir degree was conferred upon six cand dates. The uniformed rank of the lodge which has been recently instituted, start out with a full compleinent of members, and under most favorable auspices. The officers are Geo. H. Leslie, Sir Knight Commander; H. Crager, Sir Knight Licutenant; John Hayward, Sir K 1d; Chas. J. John! K. Burket, Sir Knight Treasurer, been about decided'to eall the division Lily Division No. 6. The Knights of Pythias begin their se- Lodges. zht | rios of winter y | Musical | put | the Ia to ever feel | the | | well as | work is diffe | embodies several new mode for the <0 have had our faith | | Ontario, duy nd | aps found out the | | bers in good standin No doubt | fourth | His | | €. P.H the | tions should co-operate | THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY rties on the cvening of October 80, at the Metropolitan hall. Th Union hestra has_already been engaged, and a brilliant afair is in preparation AF &AM Lodge, A.T. & A M communication on held its Monday Capitol regular evening The bu of Covert lodge gy evening \\.I,. N. Westherg on the moedy, 8. W., on the wost iree applications’ for member ship were reecived and halloted upon This Jodge, according to a card recently forth, has 14 members in - good standimg, and is next to St John's lodg withal the youn, in the reg iunications are held on the fi day of cach month St.John's Lodge, A F. & A, M., held its regular mecting on Thursday night, when ** This lodge is building up surely, but surely and subsgantially, With a° membership of 160t is now the largest in the city. 1o ness meeting took place on Wedu, <hipful Master J east, and 8. 8. Aue city. It Omaha Lo ) 0. 0. F, in itinted one v memb O Rebekah lodge, 1.0, O, F some of the **beautiful " or mod work recently introdueed in eastern ymeof the western states, st from the old in that characters, with no little favor. At the sion of the soverei, wd Todg L Fellows i Balti timore, it was decided to institute a new nd improved uniformed degree. The loc wree is to he known as the Patri- arch Militant. It will be v Ssary to procure a charter for this deg: which will cause the uniformed degree now ex- isting to be merged with the new one. AT HAIRS The Omaha assembly No. 3.9 4., Will hold their o Thurs Octoher 1 Jisnow doi ete. It is mecting of 1on ino hits of milton, F'he fol the Kni H and assembly of s heen in session in a thoe past week n from the report of ary and IS will a members of the ovder: The inc o in membership in Ameri- caduri Past year was in per cent Following statement of the growth of the order for the yeor ended June smblics organized, 7,041 ¢ 164 district wized, 19; lapsed, ol standing, T017066; in arrears The balane Total lowing semblie: ); total, 711,395 shows the follow 0,781: total expenditt ance on hand July 1 Grand Lecturey Ellis has returned to Nebraska, and will at once enter upon his work of building up the present lodges of the order stituting new oncs in this state yesent the guest of Dr. S, K ‘remont Deputy M Yolton w lodg fer of the ' Woodmen of ica is mecting with good following are some oi the eh men M. Pare, John N, W (¢} Brown, Sil hiMoedy, Butler, A. W. Edmiston, ley, B. R. Ball, ico. N, Cott, Jerome R Maul, Wi, Cott, D. N Puritte, Alfred Vinly, August Benzon, J. 1L Grifling ler, B. J. Scannell —o s Captured, L well known in police Wenzler, H. J. Tl A Burg William Hughe Wils ar Olticer Murphy as a he arrest was made on iven by @ young man known s : Jack,” who told the officer that Hughes had offered to sell him some knives which thought He pointed inforn he were stolen | Hughes out to the officer on Thirteenth strect, but when Murphy was about to him he started on run. The gave ¢ and su d i overtaking and capfuring him. He was taken to police headquarters and when searched five new knives and two were found on his person. They arc posed to be the property of Mi Couneil Blufls, whoze store was ized Saturday night. Hughes charvacter and has been arr ber of times in this city, one way robbery. The L how not | «d, and he escaped punishment He v y served a_sentence of thirty days in the county jail for mey fficer PILES ! ing, Ttehing PILES ! ! A sure cure for and Ulcerated Piles has been discovercd by Villiams, (an ndian remedy), enlled DY, iams" Indian Pile Ointment. inglo box has eured the worst chronie cises of - ) years standing. No one need suffer fiye mihutes atter applying (his wonderul sooth ing medicine, ons and instraments do more harm {han good. Williams’ Tndian Pile Ointment ab<orbs the tumors, allays the intense itehing, (partiewlarly at night atter getting warm in bed), acts as o i instant relief, and is yreparcd only itching 1 for nothing elsc. CURED. gie Ointment cures as by Black Heads or Grubs, Bloteli iptions on the face, leaving the s nd beautiful, - Also enres Iteh; Salt Rheum, Sore Nipples, Sore Lips, und Old Obstinate Ul Sold by druggi B0 cents, Letailed by Kuln & C Beeht. At wholesale by €. - Charged With Stealing. Walter Pentland and J. H. O'Neil, waiters in Higgins' restaurant, were wrrested late Saturday night by Oflic Bellamy, charged with stealing. Mr Higgins had missed o number of arti- cles from his place of business and, sus- pecting the two men, placed a wateh on them. It was ascertained that they took the goods to the house of Pearl Brown, on Eleventh street, and after their arrost 2 it was dssued and the place arched. Inthe givl’s trunk were found lot of knives, forks, napkins and other wble w belonging to Higgins., She W ordingly placed under wrrest as complice of the men and was con in the city j Blind, Blec “or mailed on'receipt of and Schroeter & . Goodman, e Personal. E. D. Lord, of Fremont, is q the Millard. W. E. Beach, of North Platte, is a guest at the Millard, C. C. Valentine, of Lincoln, i city, stopping at the Paxton, A. A. Thompson, president of the . lisle Cattle vumfmny, of Carlisle, Pa,, is at the Paxton. He has a lar consign ment of cattle at the stock Yards from the company’s ranch at Rock Creek, Wyoming. The many fr of Miss ( gersoll will be pleased to hear t meeting with that success wh ents so much merit. She Janisch troupe and has been advanced to a-more important role in the drama, “*Anselma,” in which she began the sea- son. rtered at in the end e In- she is h her tal- ill with the e ‘When Jaby was sick, we gave her Castoris, ‘When she was & Child, she cried for Castoris, When she became Miss, she clung te Castoris, ‘Wheu she had Children, she gave them Castoria, S ————— [GOLDEN WEALTH OF KEITH. The Heart of the Alleged Desert Bursting With Golden Grain, of Western Ne- The Thriving Town of Ogaliala.. Among the braska [WrirteEN Fon Tue Ber) A few weeks ago Thad an opportunity ed as to the existence and growth of agricultural pursuits in wost- orn Nebraska, My observations at that time were limited to Cheyenne county, being our westernmost county, bordering on Wyoming territory. 1 now propose writing something about Keith county, which lies dircetly east of the former and adjoining it, for I have just had the opportunity of seeing with my own eyes in that county results pre y similar to deseribed in my letter regarding agricultural development in the county of Cheyenne, A drive into the country of six miles from Ogallala has furnished me with the most incontestible evidence in support of what I have written, and what 1 shall write, in v rd the farming interests of Western braska. There were scen the tangible evidences of the wonderful things accomplished since last March. Unbroken praivie which, on the first day of April | I never scen the keen edgo of the plow, is now, in the bright, mellow days of Octoher, hearving erops, which have matured beyond the reach of frost. Had foretold me on that day that Tshould see in Keith county, in the next October, that which 1 did see ther days wgo, he wondd have heen s asked if he did not t day of the mon I readily years of Nel to be enlighte those to Ne- the time in the early when we did not be- | Nieve that culture could be made sue- ful « rwest as this county of Hall, nd when it did begin 1o devélop hope the most hopeful did not look for growth heyond Kesrney Junction; but it has now reached the Wyoming line. Iis once actor in Nebraska's prog- ress is 1o longer an undetermined que tion. Al doubt has been removed; the question | been _solved. Successful farmmg i ern Nebraska is now incontestible f I3, M. Ses & Peterson, that point, lasi ‘! is wequ i ion me (o seven the south side of the Platte, Keith éoun'ty on both es of the viver. " Lwill mention o; s » i wle , has resided at AlKali gtation, for the al s thoroughly e drove took up - homgste 1so turned Tast spri turned the y farmers were there, they declared as thelr fent that the field of sold corn, we : e y ot would averagoe thivty-five bushels to the This fict was apparveal in ho hund Chevonne looking for K 165 1wt sod corn therdis all o, ) better than sod reorn in central and rn Nebraska, where it is cut up for todder only: while in fhose counties tho of “sod corn, with well filled yod size, is nearly equal (o corn 4 old ground. His ¢ on ground ple a 3 would aver, to the acr Mvr. Brown dug in my pre | potatoes, which, without ¢ . were the handsomest, larges toes Tever saw, and which would »hard on upon 200 hushels o the His nield, also, showed remay yield of tuenips, and of a very superior Kind. While looking through his vegeta ble patc Mr. B. said: *‘See here will'show you something that T don’t be lieve vou can tell what it is,” as he point ed to the vines running along on the gromnd looking like cucumber such vines as I had never seen Give itup,” said 1. Gathering ful of the vines, he drew them fr ground, and th clingin roots lirge elustor pennuls, ripe, 1 will conf 1051 C mitting my helief : to have heen, that peanuts grew on top of the gronnd on smyll trees. T haye sinee asked abont adozeh persons about where peanits grow; about “in the ground,” the bove the Zround, ne i my ignoran wing on thut place, thrifty and boxelders from the secd year ago last spring; the owth of over this s many of them n inch throug| A threshing machine were there, from a 1 and set towork threshing out Brown’s staeks. The manager of the machine formed me he had " threshed out oats that county, raised oh ground where the sod was turned last spring, which ayer aged forty bushels to the acre. This thireshing machine is the only one in that county present, and s Kept busy on its rounds from farm to farm threshing n, the products of those hithe vidueless plains, Whon it was first ed in Og the cowhboys wonc ikety, blank thing L y have learned that it successor of the buflalo Mr. Brown was born and raised in Newport, R. [, farmed fwo years in Pembroke, Mass., in sight of Danicl Webster's 'min Marshfiold, served through the war, a union soldier, farmed en years in Ilinois, and came to to better hi n. In ears time he will have a magnifi- rm, He has a one story, frame painted white, with a well of ex cellent water, und is providing his place wite outhuildings ‘s 'his circumstances mit T'he L. MeWilliams, s(1., 1 banker at O; 1, drove me out six miles north of the Platic, to the furm of Auron Fisher, who sottled on it a year go last spring. "Phire 1 witnessed i 1o, those seen ssults — similar on the farm of Mr. Brown His sod-c j as good as that of the kind of veget at ahundance, His sn lon patel had yielded him this season considerably over onc hun- dred dollars. I measured one of his squashes and found it 66 be six feet and twoinches in circumference; there were plenty more of a similar size. He pulled up two parsnips which measured over two feet in length, and some beets which were as handsome ones a5 one would wish to see. A large quantity of cauli tlower was growing in the garden. Mr. Fisher had farmed in Illinois sev eral years, and he also came to Nebraska to better his condition. He and Brown ugreed in the opinion that, for small fl- ins, the Keith county lands are pr: lerable to lands in Ilinois; and that one year's cultivation of them puts them in as good condition as Hlinoislands are found 1o be in after three years' cultivation. We saw other farms in our ride similar to the ones already described, but a re- port of one describes the rest. Water is reached in that seetion, on high table lands, at o depth of fifty to & hundred and fifty fect, and of an excellent ¢ uum{ Lands in Koith coungy oah b boughi nazely, per cent tspring before hand m the ¢ by Dlanid showed u g nd t th arrived while we ehboring in next GENERAL THAYER JOURNEYING | visible, | heavy | bushels | vines, | OCTOBER 12, 188 | for from %350 to §7 per acre, depronding on the location. $5 peracre is an average price OGALLALA This town is the county-seat of Keith county, situated on the” Union Pacific road. One year ago last spring the were only aliout sixty inhabitants; the are now hard upon 500, There i school and one chureh, Cong attonal, which has crected a house of worship T'lhe people there have not committed the folly of most new towns _in the starting a half dozen different churches, with the usual - result of not one of them being decently sustained. Two ve published there, the Reflector, r 1 by Mark | M. Reey md the Keith County News, democratie, by William H. Mullane, hoth more devoted to the development of the country than to politics. There are three banks in Ogall vy 1, the Keith county hank, under the management of H. 1, MeWilliams, president, and J. A, O'Brien cashier; and the Bunk of Ogallal the management of 0. 1. Carlson, cashier, d L A Brandhoefer, assistant cashier There are three saloons, each paying into the school fund a Ticonse of $300. year. They close at 11 o'clock at night and from t hour Saturday night remain closed till Monday morning. The ordinance governing ther is vigidly enforeed, The government of Ogallali is vested in a board of village trustees, and their edicts law unto the people. For years the town has heen the lminl in Nebraska to which the great cattle drives from Texas would point their way, and there persons who wanted to purchase eattle would go. In former years the cowboys frequently made the town lively and the report “of a pistol | was not an unfamili sound. Some fifteen or twenty of them are now taking their Jast sleep in the “eowboy's rest™ on the hillside insight of the town, vietims of oo freeuse of 1 and whisky. But those times hav o, nnd to-day it would be diffieult to tind'a more peice- able, orderly, and luw abiding commun ity than is found in Louis Aufdengarten settled ther 0, starting a very small t nent, and mtinued the ever smee, His dependence for business was the eattle drive just com- pleted and is movir commodious house, with all the modern improvements and with extensive grounds dotted with trees, His house will compare favorable with any house between Omaha and Denver Ogallala_and Keith county corta | bright future before them | Searle informed me he steady inc rain | year.” Metcorologic and elin: ave been going on. Man | been unconscionsly the instramentality in effecting changés in the operations of re which are now impariing mois ture to the willing soil, and muaking it bring forth dant harvests The building of t wilroad, the running of | trains, the ition of am, tur od, and the planting d to this result. ards the mountains peo- we been digging irvi ing dit¢hes, and turni Portion of the W rs of t Platte, which, for ages, have been flowing us ly to the sen, into litehe: hen causing | them to spread out over b to 1 | plains, and converting them into fruitful ticlds. While 1a g for their own | henefit, they hay iy, benefits to s, Spy ture over such a vast extent of te western Nebraska has derived s gos from the climati thereby., in ez 3 oreased m re, resulting in en 1ot be v than the Wy Mr. of Away out te ple for yea van | duced sph so changes o | versed or rvecalled, wwys of ni As the of sod-turning increases, just so y do the rains” come, and the dews fall, and agriculty n be carried on under the operations of immutable laws, [ predictthat, notvery 1y now tre plains of Wyoming will be rted into fruitful fields, And T pr ), with fear of having my pro- tie sazacity ealled in_question) that, | ndive yeurs, Keith and Cheyenne 'count | ties wi feulture, compare fave t counticesin central h\ a: probably not in_acre- re under cultivation, or in value of buildings, or in _amount of timber planted, but in quality and quantity and in productiveness of I'have no inter went there unsolicited, to see for myself what was being done, and to learn the | result of farming thus far; and the re- sults seen, and the informaiion obtained, are given in this letter. My object is to u my humble way, the progress of gricultiral pursuits i western t nd to make known to parties of slen- der means whe they can obtai ad homes with little o Jonx M. 10. il 1stern in Keith county— HAYER, AND IsLAND, Oct = CURE___2 MOST PE Prepared with special regard to heu! No Ammonta, Lime or Aluy PRICE BAKING POWDER CO., AHICACO. _ST-LOUIS. * 18 CONDUCY | Royal Havana Lottery (A GOVERNNMENT INSTITUTION.) Drawn at Havana, Cuba. Every 10 to 14 Days 'l,'u‘lu'hul Fifths, Whol #5. Fractions p | "Bibgect to no u tho rties in int pulation, n controllod by Itis ihe airest thing in & €0, 1212 way, 5 & 00, 10'Mtin treet, Ki S. H. ATWOOD, PLATTSMOUTH, NEB. Brecder of Thoroughbred and High Grade Hereford and Jersey Cattie! And Duroe and Jeesey Red Swin 3 siis City, Mo, Many a Lady is beautiful, all but her skin; and nobody has ever told her how easy it is to put beauty on the skin. Beauty on the skin is Magnolia Balm. west of | | | afull | their cy seventeen | the | - | | hundred | nec | Wwere passed: g 1 Carbon do not go to worl until eve! n the future, the | | against the | compan demennor charge of WHAT THE MINERS DEMAND. st i ageainst, got My Callaway strongly intimates that the Union Pacitic will notaceede to these de mands, He thinks that the miners are inclined to e a teitle (oo hog - Railrond Matters her is ¢ esp hout the withd om the The Men at Rook Spriugs Stats Their Grievancos and Whiat They Want, 1 Notes ¥ Wailroad Head- quartaes A Lively | f With Burglars, new M said not Dk wal of the B transcontinental pool, General Manager Holdrego 1o a reporter Saturday. “The B, & M. has given dus of its withdrawal from the pool We the course upon the ot thg General notic m and The Miners® De: it General Manager Callaway, of Unton Pacific, received last week a tailed statement of tho grievanees of the i miners at Louisville, who went out on a #Apportionment drawn up i ' Agent Cannon strike Uhe st il proposes to stand by i porfeetly” justified in tak we did, i< our deaft was m Southern Pacitic upon the Iy bout two weeks ago. 1o, iy he 1 of rate ttorney for the polis & Omahs from (. A, rer of that in payment for Al purposes, Judge Me Saturday to Salt ‘Lako ticket nt ngs Lyou for M. price for “turn- Sdviving” of sers ne L 1y Matinee. Y lively time in Judgo Wakeley's residence on North Nineteenth ret early Fri morning. It about two or three o'clock in the morn ing that Mrs. Wakeley up and heard a burglar stumbling about the rooms on the first tloor. She at once awoke her husband, and grasping an old shooting 1won that happened to he handy hurried to the point of attack. Sho caught a sight of the burglar, and raisiy the pistol snapped it vigorously. But the thing absolutely refused to go off, thougir e made repeated efforts to discharge. it, In tho exe i ::uull“; reaked aronnd to the front door ané made his eseape. Just a Towe moments before this, Willinm Wakeley. who is something of an athlete and pr Timself upon his museular yrowess, hos ¥ | ing the alarm determined to do his'share, rd ng oul the burglar, and {ily grasping an old dumb-bell, hur- ried around to the back stairs, intending it to head oft the intruder should he retre o S0 that the Union | {o the He made an unlucl ifie sever all comections with B. Q. | \{lisstep, however, and down stairs nd comy also that we demand the i, dumb-bell and all. discharge gall:t Sl ately, however, barving a few It is also stated that at a meeting heldjgises he was uninjured, and rogistering bp the workmen of Mine No. 5, at- Car- &y imental vow nevér to attack i burgle bon, 2 demand was made that the Chi- | yiih o dumb-bell again, he retived to his nese must go from the cmploy of the ' oueh, and J. ML Tisdeland W R. 4 750, kuown, the thief did not se- i all white men that thore is § cure any plunder for his pains. Was will be ul settle- | nees, woke 3 as now existing, or to be settled by * the decision of | pon miners and emands are signed W y Railvond men here are melined to ho ment of grievances and demands was ace | Fove that the action of the 13, & M. will companied by letter from W \\"me 1 mlm lead to the dis “‘ul\ lI.,( o » { N the pool tisin er intimated th iy Hawes, of Denver, who says | Sonlhorn Pacilic has g0t its baok W et L herewith hand you grievances of the sropses 10 o 1o the business of dishon men at the Louisville mines, which T re- | oving drafis in wholesale style ved this morning by mail from Mr. | 0 5 NoTES AXD PERSOSALS L WLR U il lelpiba L FL it of the Evie raileond at East Buf grievances of the Louisville men they N.Y., is 1. (iis: elty o visELS should also apply to all other miners in W fri the state. What they mean by “white ion I ! Chinamen™ in the fourth I donot un e derstand, unless they refor to Mr. Weleh | ) bér Tamd reds sceond-class, $1.3 and Bevan, who have been more striet in | eluss, $160 fourth and fifth-c enforeing or requiring the day men to do car Jonds, §1 3 ; s Charles Ogden, loeal 1y 's work. und keeping the work | et st eand, Minne in better shape sinee the discharge of | A, Friday received Simpson and Carlton last spring. 1| H milun_l. the local tr heard lately hat the men say that | oad, @ check for &1 do not hive asy times sinee [ lands condemned for W and Cummiskey have had charge | Bhe cheek is made pa of the underground work; that is, thoy | Culloch :'Q" “"*'Il-““ ave required to do a day’s work, which 1] Wright Nic s gron am led to believe they did not do e to ta Sy In the fifth they also make Rocek Sp for the Union Pacitic use, and the sixth, as I w A NEW TELEGRATIL WIR on the of September, is Dickey, superintendent, and H. Lewis benetit.* J n, foreman of construction T'o L. J. Woleh, Esq.—The following is [ and vepairs, Union Pacitic telegraph de 1 list or gricvances which the Louisville | partment, returned — Saturday from Al miners desire to have presented to | Kansas City. They have been supervis- the Union Coal company ing the stretehing of a wire from that First—We want entry point to Brookville, Kan. The wire is ing” of “rooms” and the new hard drawn per invention, “eross-cuts, and s the fivst of its Kind west of Chiea Second—We want for all sereened coal | go. Copper possesses conduetivity seven put upon mine cars no more twenty-one | tmes greater than ivon, but the softness restriction, but we will allow | of the metal, which permitted its « the company the right to put up ga parting under its own weight, has v for protection of their cars it impractieable for telegraph pur- Third—The company must place all | peses until the new ening process ary timbers in, or at, the working | was discover affords better fnces, not places, ob the mine 5 | facilities and is more economic than iron miners the sum of $1 per lincal | or steel tra for the plae of timbers said S Fourth—Wedemand the discharge of the “white Chinamen” of the mine, a list of whom will be given the company, | when they request a setilement. Fitth—No local - settlement made, but we demand - genes ment of “Rock Springs” griey well s of Louisy Sinth—All grie thut may h t the, “concilintory hoard which wili ho bi company alike These “Louisvil Three men, John Parker, R and Charles O. Smith, styl an arbitration bonrd committe bon, have sent to My, Meyer, s dent of the coal e 4 uie rinten- ¢ diinentat that pls foitowing: At n meeting of Pr sembly, the following resolutions That the workingmen of | is dis; man | Chinaman along the U. P. road charged, and also, that every white who 1s not found guilty of any crimo Tuws of” Wyoming territory | he Fortu- oht Gardner apito! Ave. For the Treatment of all Chronic anflSmginal Diseases, B — DR. McMERAMY, Physician and Surgeon in Charge. Particular atiention paid to Deformities, Discases of Women, of the Stomach, Liver, Iidueys and Blood, Piles, Cancers, Tu- mors, Bye and Lar Discases. Catarvh, Bronchitis and Lung Discases treated by Medicated In- halation, SEND FOR INHALIR. 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To ull such we de rnlu:lzly' htlugo « riment With £pecific remedies or upplinuces represented to cure are likely to et with nothing but disappoiutment. No two cases are xactly allke yycver has becn or over cun be propared to tcet the requirements of ull. W have i 8 in all their various forms and complications, und with the aid of deptivg tréatincnt to individual cases, wo are enabled 1o cure after ay, followed ich dise do u earct an alnost u others have We wore first Lo make n apecie upon scientific principles. W also tr BLOOD DISEAS S, foom wihatever caiec pro Polson from the aystem Without mercury. or injiry o (o aysic AL OO TRTUATIUNS CONFIDENITAT, Call ol avasult us or sond nam addrens -plalnly written—and euclose stamp, wud wo will send yon, i’ plai o rop CIRCULAT 10 MF ON PRIVATH, 1 L AND” NERVOUS "Dis b WEAKNESS, SPERMATOLRIEA, IMPOTENCY. 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