Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 11, 1886, Page 4

THE DATLY BEE. OMAHA OFFICE, N0, 014 AND 016 FARNAM ST New York Oricn, ROou 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFICE, NO. 513 FOURTERNTH ST, Published overy mo only Monday staic. e morning, except Sunday. The ing paper published in the TERME BY MATT $10.00 Three Months 5.00 One Month 2.5 One Year 1.00 Bix Months, TRE WeEkLY Bire, Published TERNE, POSTPALD One Year, with premium One Year, without pre 8ix Months, without pr One Month, on trial ry Wednesday, uin minm CORRESPONDENCE: All communientions relating (o news an torinl mattors shouid be addressed to the TOR OF 1THE BEP. PUSINESS LETTERS: Al business letters and & addressed to Tur TEE Ow afts. check ————————————————— Frivay was Andy Jackson's day. was a cold day for Old Hickory, Tuk blockade of street railway traflic has made scores of our citizens yearn for a system of cable lines in Omaha. Ir the N wds had di played as much energy during the bliz zard as they sometimes do in politics, their tracks would have been kept open and the trains would have been running through the entire storm. aska GAs prossure regulators are being ex- te ely advertised, The best gas pres- sure regulator for Omaha would be an ordinance of the city council fixing reas- onable rates on the scented wind which now passes current for gas in the ci Di. Paxcoasr, of Philadelphia, who is something of an astrologist, s the year 1836 will be “in the cycle of Michael.” So Englishmen seem to think and as they 100k ac the Irish sea add the names of Dennis and Pat. Wirriohe editor refusing to pay his gas bill and another going back on his ice bill and the supreme court decision thatall Omaha lunatics must become a special charge on the county, Omaba is in an awfully bad way. sis. Furay, Lee and Thrane will allow their partisunship to overide their honesty,” but their will be no partisan bins shiown by the democratic members who are whipped into line to sign and support a barefaced negation of the sworn testimony produced before the in- vestigating committec “ME: It was not to be expected that the Omahia cost mills would close voluntarily, and so we not surprised to learn that the old justices refuse to give up their 5 re the only mills in Omaha that paid regu monthly div- idends without regard to investment. It will probably take a supreme court man- damus and a policeman to close the doors. Meantime who will be idiot enough to bring suit in these bogns courts? SENATOR MANDERSON 8 bill making Omaha a port of entry has been favora- bly reported from the committee and has passed the senate. It should now be pushed in the house for all it is worth. Omaha importers have suffered heavy drawbacks from the annoying delays and red tapo regulations which have pre- vented them from enjoying prompt re- ceipts and speedy appraisement of goods passing through the custom houses in the east. Scnator Manderson is to be com- mended for his cnergetic work on behalf of his Omaha constituent; Sunscrirrions for the Y. M. C. A. building are coming m slowly, but the advance is ste: wnd strong hopes are entertained that the erection of a hand- some and commodious structure will soon be assured. The people of Omaha should respond liberally to this object. All other citics of our size are better pro- vided for in this respeet than our own, and public pride enti rt from any consideration of the seworthy aims of the association should be an incentive to a generous response to the appeals of the managers. Tue attempt of our democ temporary to convince the public that every city oflicial of Omaha who refuses to bow the knee to its editor is a swind- ler and a vitlain will not succeed. It has not boen a success so far, and it will fail as utterly in the futu Those who know the motive for the seurvy assaults of the editor of the Herald on honest and re- spectable city ofticers, in which the most disreputabie of charges have been ban- died frecly in its columns, will not be de- ceived. The unfortunate part of this dis- graceful personal warfare, waged for political ends, is the unenviuble notoriety which it may give to Omaha in quarters where the tactics of Dr. Miller are not understood, LUNACY 18 not contagious, but it 15 he- reditary, Last fall Mr. Theron Nye of Fremont refused to exhibit his blooded stock at the Dodge county fair because the managers had invited Senator Van Wyck to deliver the annual address. Now his boy has gone stark mad over the phantom of Van Wyck, and wildly calls the senator a natural born thief, a demagogue and a fraud. If it were not for the late decision of the supreme court that all lunatics sent from Omaha are an annnal charge on the tax payers of the eounty, wo should recommend a commis- sion to go through the form required by law in safely disposing of an inbercut case of lunacy. A uLivELY warfare is now going on among the papers of St. Paul and Minune- apolis regarding the lately published #tatistics of each ¢ity’s growth during the past year and the cause of truth is being promoted in consequence. It appears that the St. Paul boumers count as invest- ment in new buildings during 1834 the sum of $100,000 for bridges, as much for finishing and furnishing a hotel, and then they add to the declured value of new buildings as given when permits were takon out, a round 30 per cent for under- waluation. No wonder the twin oities manage to hold up imposing tigures for #hio admiration of the country and of the world. If Omaha had added 50 per cent for undervaluation, had footed up her furnishing figures and duplicated every barn and cow shed erected withuin her #orporate limits she could casily have yud her totals several willions lugber, .00 | | month past m Washington. | grant Cleaning Them Out. Mr. Sparks continues bravely in his work of cleaning out the Augean stables of the general land office. He has un earthed the system by which for years the railroads by corrupt collndon with the clerks and heads of divisions have been enabled to secure information in advance of its proper publication, and fifteen or twenty of the guilty parties will be made to walk the plank. As every one suspocted, the railroad account and survey divi are discovered to have been the chief nests of the gigantie frauds by which the government has been defrauded of thousands of dollar Mr. Sparks has now strack his gait and bids fair to m scord which will im mortalize his name in a frame of railroad profanity threugh the long vista of the The cortainty of these damning discoveries of Mr. Sparks, if he continues in office, is the milk in the cocoanut of the vociferous demand for his instant re- moval, which has been ringing for a Every land Tobbyist and tion tool in css has joined in the yell The press has heen corpor and out of cong that Sparks must go. brought under contribution by a syndi cate of Washington correspondents who have repre «d the entire w aflame over the infamous rulings of the general land commissioner. The fact of the matter we ha stated before, is that whatever crrors of ] ent Mr. rks may have made i minor matters, he is sound on the ms n point—honesty of purpose and int in his management of the great inte entrusted to his eare, For fifteen the railroads have had absolute control of the land oflice. Mr. Sparks’ predecessor, | McFarland, was an honest man person- | ally, but he was hoodwinked by his | associates and lacked the ability to inves- tigate the workings of his oflice. He owed his appointment to influence of the Kansas senators, who in turn held their seats by the grace of the monopolists and land rings. Senator Ingalls was notori- | ously Gould’s man, and while Plumb still poses as the farmer's friend he has always been in with the cattle kings, and has | made large fortunes in banking with pointers from Wall street. His pockets are bristling witl S/ and he is a deadhead even in the Pullman ente prise. With such backers Mr McFar- land’s good intentions never reached the point of actual performance. As for Williamson he was body and soul owned Dy the railrond ringsters, and lus admin- istration created and fostered the most disreputable scandals in the land depart- ment. Mr. Sparks is attempting to clear the rascals out He has shown not only the inclination but the ability o purge the land oftice of the disgraceful abuses which have elustered around it under the administrations that preceded it. Heis going forward in his task undismayed by | threats and undeterred by the tempest | which his course has drawn about his | rs. He ought to be sustained by an | whelming public sentiment west, as | well as east, while he is engaged in his | thankless effort to seeure even-handed | to justice to all, | | | | ove A Mistaken Policy. Tne attempt of Postmaster make the western states torics bear the burden of retr in the postal ser should pe the western delegation in Washington. The reduction in postage last year en- tuiled a deficit of more than eight mil- lions upon the postoflice department, This deficit Mr. Vilas proposes to reduce during the coming year. He has already commenced operations by cutting down the service in the far west between the railroads and the small interior towns and villages where the only communica- tion is by stage vnd buckboard. In other words, he has adopted the policy of de- creasing the service where it is already mallest, and of throwing upon the settlements served by the fourth-cls postotlices the entire burden of making up the defieit caused by the extension of | facilities in the 1 oflices of the ¢ 4 L and Wyoming are Iready from the change, and Ne- is likely to next feel the effects of Vilas’ retrenchimg The policy of the postmaster genersl is a mistaken and a fulse one. 1t is against public intercst, and highly detrimental to the west. 1t will do much to cripple the remarkable development of the new portions of the country with no counterbalaneing advan- tage. The settlers on the frontier and off the of railway are entitied to their share of the pos tal service, for whose stupport they, with the rest of the cbuntry, are taxel, Lhe extension of mail service should go hand in hand with the increase of settiement. The men who push out beyond the limits of the thickly settled porions of the country are cntitled to fair and generous treatment at the hands of the departiment whose business they ssisting to in e, Liberal deal- ios proved to be a pay- the late reduction of post- nuance will repeat the Whatdiflerence does it make whether the pestal department is < or a source of income for the next five yoars, when compared to the eflects of such a policy of false economy which Mr, Vilus is now putting into effect. The treasury oan stand the drain, the prople have sense enough to understund atthe best investments are not neces- rily those that pay from the start and | no one outside of the oflice of the post- master general himself is making an complaint over the effects of the reduction in postage, M. Vilus shouid be made to ery a halt to schewe for retrenchment. Itisill advised, needloss, and will work great in- justice and hardship to those who are foceed to submit to its elfects. Public in- to s and the prosperity of a great sec tion unite in dewanding & more liberal and uot aless generous poliey in the in- land mail service. e SR Tuk senate hed a short session on Friday, but it was long enough to pass Mr. Edmunds' Utah act with all its most stringent provisions retained. At the risk of being called a “*Jack Mormon'’ by the Salt ke Gentile agitator, the Bee still questions whether wholesale contiseation of church property is the proper method of enforeing compliance with a law for the regulation of social customs and the marriage relation. Po- Iygamy in the United States is a crime and a disgrace to our eivilization, a do- fiance to our luws and a breeder of social Vilas to | nd terri- nchment sted by line ing policy until and its con | that of his paper in | Commings | shown in the tr | elothe *dollar, pestilence, and as such ought to be sup pressed. No rational man can defend ite continuance in Utah or shield its fanati cal perpetrators from the consequences of their refnsal to submit to the decrees of congress and the courts, But there i danger of confounding proscention persecution, and of awakening sympathy instead of censura. To attack a church organization as a church o i to establish a dangerous precedent in country where so many divergent cre have their home. Polygamy ought 1o go and polygamists should be punished under the law. It is diflicult to belie that under a proper conduct of affairs in Utah this cannot be accomplished with out the suppression of an entire sect many of whose members do not believe in or practice the custom of plural marriage In a Nutshell. ypears to be very sensitive trictures of his course and connection with the the exploded charges against Marshe The prosccution have utter All they hs twoor three hun- dred dollars were raised to pay legal ad- vice for Trav s, supply him with decent ns to take him to hislhome. There may Lave been more money bot- rowed than was actually needed and the probabilities are that a good portion was pocketed or squandes ¢y some of the parties who handled it. re is not a scintilla of proof to show that a dollar was paid either divectly or indirectly to Marshal Cunimings. Gen. O'Brien swore point blank that he didn’t pay him a and did not drop that mysterious glove containing a hundred dodar bill. No sane man believes that O'Brien would drop a hundred dollars, and O'Brien, as a lawyer, feels grossly insulted to think that anybody would believe him to be such a fool. MeIlugh, who is the only person that admitted the agency to raise money for Travis and get him out of town, swore that he didn't pay or offer to pay the marshal a dime. Judge Bencke swore that he ordered the velease of Travis because he could not legally hold him any longer, and believed that the ma acted squarely in the matter, [his w @ clincher within itself, because it showed on its face that the friends of Travis did not need to fee the marshal. Chief of Poli inner of Council Bluffs swore that the marshal gave ample notice to the parties in Coun- cil Blufts who wanted Travis to bring their requisition and take the prisoner, before the time set for his release ex- pired. They failed to come and the mar- shal obeyed the order of the court, The only evidence on the other side is the im- probable and unsupported story of aman who pretends to have been approached and refused a, bribe, kept this crimi proposal a secret for more than always represented the whom he believed to bribe taker, as an honest officer, and only divulged the terrible secret after he was reduced from the ney of the police to the ranks. This is the whole case ina nutshell. In exhibit Dr. Mille: ing and ranting grand juries and yawning penitentiaries, making outrageous thry against coun- cilmen who would to perjure themselves to give a verdict not borne out by the testimony. Ile drags before the court of public opinion the mes of private citizens and accuses them of try- ing to defeat the ends of justice by cor- rupt collusion and seeret conspiracies. Such a course naturally subjects him to the suspicion of being out of hls senses or so warped by political bius and per- sonal hatreds that he has become lost to eall snse ot justice and common decency. Dr. Mille about the failed to make American Opera. The week has been signalized in New York by the brilliant opening of Ameri- can opera in the Academy of Music un- der the dircetorship of Theodore Thomas and Herr Hock,and throughthe munificent patronage of Mrs. Francis B. Thurber, who personally assumed the expenses of innugurating the movement. From the reports of the metropolitan p there can boe no question of the success of the first performance, which was Goetz's “Taming of the Shrew.” Critics note with surprise the careful training of the chorus and ballet, the admirable stage setting and the perfection of the orchestra, These, of ourse, are the solid foundations upon which the permanent structure of the operamust be built, and these on Mon- day's performance were distinetively American, Some eriticism was indulged in because the stars failed to rcach the standard of the leadin prima donnas and tenori which Mapclson and Gye haye from time to time imported to this country, but the managers of the new un- dertaking claim that they have reserved their best wine, in this respeet, for the last. The most interesting feature of the movement which Mrs, Thurber has be- gun 8o auspiciously is her earnest doter- ion to found a school of American music, to stimulate native musical tal- ent, and to offer the means and the op- portunities for our countrymen and coun- trywomen to win honor and reputation at home without being subjected to the expense and perils of a foreign training. On the other hand she promises to pro- vide for New York the best obtainable forcign operas, given by a company whose eareful training and continued la- bors shall be directed solely towards ar- tistio excellence, and not alone towards ng the profits of the box office. Ovgr esteemed and excellent contem- ¢, the Kansas City Zimes, takes cx- ception to a re of this paper re- ferring to Omaha’s growth The esteemed Omaha Beg exclaims: *Who can longer doubt that there is & wost mag- nificent future before this young glant city of the west?” If you are speaking of Kan- sas City, nobody doubts it. ‘Chere is only one young giant of the west. Omaha is, doubtless, the young giant of Nebraska, and avery creditable town it is. But, pshaw! Kausas City could attach Omaha to the east side around Woodland avenue and two- thirds of the Kausas City people would think it nothing but natural growth, Kansas City is very modest. Its sub- urbs extend from Jefferson City on one side to the Colorado boundary on the other. The principal streets of Kunsas City are as nurrow as the alleys of Omaha and as erooked as the Elkhorn river. If there is such astreet as Woodlund avenue on her maps, it is probably located on the outskirts of Topeka. When Omaha adopts the Kansas City plan of expansion she will probably take in everything west of Des Moines and this side of Laramic and advertise it as her natural growth, Internal Improvements, While the scheme of wild-cat and often corrupt schemes for internal improve ments at the natiorfal expense passed away several years ago, congress will :lnul tless be appealed to at the present m to aid a number of important vrojects which have for their object the development of the country. Several of these have much merit upon their face and will bear all the investigation to which they may be subjected in open d bate. The improvement of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers to an extent en abling them to be used for barge trans. portation of the products of the west to the seaboard, the junction of the Missis sippi and the lakes by the Hen- nepin canal, the canal ACross Cape Cod and the Floridian peninsula are each and all projects to which na- tional aid could readily be voted, because the objects sought for and the benefits to be derived from the expenditure would not be limited to state boundaries, The question of cheap transportation is the pressing economical problem of the d and whatever tends to promote it affects both east and west, producer and con- sumer alike beneficially, With a treas- lus properly handled in promot- ing internal improvements and making flable our navigable streams and shortening transportation distances for the movements of the crops, the excess of taxation could be turned into a benefit instead: of being incentive to the raids of specula- tors and demagogues, e of the democratic constitutional expounders at Washington ave predicting a strong party opposition to all appropr ations for internal improvements on grounds of democratic traditions and a striet construction of the instrument un- der which our government operates. So far as the traditions of democracy are concerned the record of the party in op- position to all wide reaching plans for the development of the country cannot be gainsaid. The principle of the proper limits of constitt 1l construction, how- ever, has advanced in the last quarter of a century beyond the bounds set for it before that time by the moss-backers of the party. It has developed with the de- veloping necessities of the country, and has shown a proper flexibility in its ad- justment to the new relations and wants of the added states and the vastly in- creased population and tervitory. re- trace the years to 1824 to find arguments against the constitutionality of internal improvements is the height of senseless conservatism, which will receive no sup- port from the mass of reasonable men throughout the eauntry delity to the principles underlying ‘the constitution is one thing. Neither party possesses a monopoly of this virtue. A blind disre- gard of the changes which a century has wronght in the political and economi conditions of the country on the ground of political consistency’is not a safe con- servatism but ‘‘the attribute of stones and fools.” Forfeited Land Grants. HaAppAM, Kan,, Dec. 30.—To the Editor: Will ) answer in the Bre when the Pacifiec milroad land grant comes open for settlement. T see that the Beg claims that the grant has been forfeited, By so doing oblige a'subscriber and read: the Bre forthe last twel We are unable to inform our when the Kansas Pacific grants will be thrown open for settlement under the gencral land laws, The grant was for- feited under the provisions of the chart in 1878, five years from the oflicial decls ration of the completion of the road in and in 1879 was so declared by when seere of the intc sequently decisions of the United s supreme court, in cas le up wilroad monopolists, reversed the on of Mr. Schurz, on the ground that all the Jands had already been dis- posed of, because the companies had mortgaged them to outside part At the same time the court held t railroads had not title enough in lands to be forced to pay taxes, because they had neve ed patents from the government. This is the present state of aff’ regarding the fc ed land grants. Several bills are now pending in ss to force the companies to take out patents on their unpatented lands under pain of forfeiture, which, if passed, may succeed in throwing large tructs upon the 1 CouxciLyMaN DarLky, according to the Herald, will join Pat Ford in signing a report that will adjudge Marshal Cum- mings guilty of bribery as charged by aper without a scintalla of proof its chief witness, Sullivan, went back on their report. If Mr. Dailey allows himself to be made a willing tool to such a barcefaced picee of jugglery he isugood deal smaller man and more fant knave than Pat Ford. Mr. Dailey to & prominent citizen on Thu; day that the bottom had dropped out of the charge against Cumuwings through the testimony of Judge Beneke, and he was too disgusted with the farce to at- tend the continuance of the tion, Tiar Denver 1s padding 1its cle house reports is shown by the statement of last week, While all other cleaving houses in the countty showed a de ie, Denver loomed up witlyover six millions, more than double what it showed the previous week, und more than Kunsas City, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Buflalo and other cities four or five times the size of Denver reported, A jump from less than three millions to over six millions is too much of a leap for such a short-winded town as Denver, and noone will believ the figures. Frinay was the coldgst day ever known in Omaha. This is the. unanimous ver dict of the oldest inhabitants. ‘That ought to settle any controyeray on this point. PROMINENT PERSONS, Minister Phelps' name has been proposed in connection with the presidency of Yale college, James Blaine, Jr., son of the Maine statesman, is preparing to enter Harvird col- lege next fall, Billy Biren, the minstel, lives quictly on West Third street, New York. Off the stage he is duwb as an oyster. Mrs. Victoria Morosini-Schilling has lost a 850 diamond ear-ring, and eived another $5,000 worth of free adyertising Lawrence Barrett has stopped eating un- derdone beef and has become a vegelarian, Thinks his liver is in better condition, Chauncey Depew says that the stuteaent published thut the Vaoderbilt estate was worth §330,000,000 is uniitigated “rot.” Pierpout Potler, aged 94, the oldest Mason in the United State Kagle, “according to the Brook: has become insane at Jamaica bella Is said to be a rather popular can- didate for a second rulership of Spain, be- cause she has “all the dear old Spanish vices, Mr. Ezekiel, the sculptor, is becoming so cially the most conspicuons American in Rome, Nobody can chisel him out of his good fortune. Hon, Frank W, Palmer Chic hias brought the Knoxville (Tenn.) Chronicle, and will take possession of the paper, Jan, 13, late postmaster at Joseph Palitzer. of the New York World, recently purchased £100,000 worth of govern- ment bonds, Joseph has the World, and wants the earth. Ben Holladay, the once famong mail con- tractor, is a claimant before s for bout $220,000, which he has be ng to get for fifteen years, Mrs, Belva A, cong m try Lockwood is going to lec- ture for the benefitot a baseball club up in Lewiston. It is expected that the baseball professors will be pretty solid for her in 183, Mr. Keiley will practice law in New Should Francis Joseph ever be arrested in America for murder, the state will do well to employ Mr, Keiley to assist in the prosecu tion, T. Barnuin d to be growing stoop- shouldered with the weight of his years. In this generation a efrens man must hump himselt in order to keep up with the proces- sion, General Jubal AL yenerable-appeari beard reachin ure indicating th old age, Maud Banks, danghter of Ge . Bunks, has appeared at Waltham, alittle drama of her own composition, enti- tled “Auld Robin ¢ and a local eritie says she is distinguished by the rare quality of “forgettulness of self - A Dead Town, < Hammond (1) Tvibune. Our town is dead —the pretty school marm has gon is described as a < wan, his long, white 0 his waist, and his bent tig- rapid advance of extreme loy sty SO A Wha ck at the Doctors, Chicago Times The littie facts with morals are beginnin g tocome in with the vear. ‘The county in Florida which has the lowest death also the one having the fewest doctors. ——— On the Dry Dock. Kansas City Time A b aha paper says that when the Kau ity fellows come up in Septem- ber they will be floated back in champagne. Prithee, not so fast. It is only the third y after New Year's, and the Kansas City fel- lows are on the dry docks for repairs. famdd He Should Read Republican Papers. Chicago Tribune. Perhaps Mr. Cleveland is not to be blamed s0 much for his assertion of the prevalence of newspaper lying. He was doubtless honest in his intention, but he ought not to contine his reading to his party organs, R e Sensible and Practical. A new paper published at Silver Plume, Col., has a very sensible and practical motto, which read: ng to Do Business With- out Advertising is Like Winking at a Girl in the Dark. You May Know what you are Doing, but Nobody I Doe: e The People Notice It. Chiicago Herald Any one who has watehed the pro of congress during the last fifteen ye not have led to be impressed with its secming incapacity or unwillingness to deal with important measures affecting the wel- fare of the whole peopl —— In the Sweet Bye and Bye. Fremont (Neb) Tribune., Oleomargarine probably isn't 5o bad a thing afterall. It certainly tastes well aund looks good. But the next thing we know the Yaukee genins will be adulterating it and the public will be clamoring for the good old days when pure oleomargarine could be had, - About Bogus Butter. Rochester Chronicle. A great many people pretend that they like oleomargarine, If they like it they ought by all means to have it. But oleomargarine ought not to be sold as butter, and the sooner vigorous measuresare taken tostop sucl the better. The traudulent sale of oleomarg; rine can be ended. - Pay Your Subscriptions. Hutsonville (L) Tribune, A majority of the subseribers of the Trib- une know that there is very little of my time that I am able to be away from home, on this account we shall be indebted to our friends who tind themselves owing us if they will promptly remit it and renew their subscrip- tion to the Hutsonville T'ribune, the journal that will advocate what is to the people’s in- terest that create all wealth, and will oppose the corporations that are consuming it with- out leaving no equivalent, but mortgages and poverty. s Not Pleasing to Missouri Dem ocrats, St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Probably thought he was giving wings to & very smart 4un|[mlmu|| when he said the other duy that the Apaches were *similar in character aud skill to the James boys’ band of outlaws, who, although few in number, so long delied the anthorities;” but he will dis- cover that such remarks are not calculated to promote his popularity among the democrats of Missourl, in whoes philosophy the nes boy stands for the highest form of modern virtue aud heroism. Lol Laird Nelnaska City News, ‘The sweet singer from the slopes of the Stinking Water land steal, the right honor- able three thousand aollar pensioner, James Laird, has published a speech in the Con- gressional Record denunciatory of IHon, A. J. Sparks, connmissioner of the gencral land oftice, The speeeh was never made in the house: it was never made anywhere, 1t only shows how a (hief can hate . sheritt, how a burglar despises an unpickable lock, how a prostitute derides virtue, how nasty mud ridienies pure snow, and how windy, vain, mendacious James Laird can attack a solid, laborious, capable, honest man like Comnnis- sloner Sparks, who the News begins to love because of the kind of encimies e is making, - STATE AND IRITORY, Nebraska Jottings, A flouring mill is to be built at Culbert- son. Ulysses is considering a proposition Humphrey's improvemenys for the year footed up 60,000, ,000 head of cattle in waterworks . 8. Root, of Buftulo county, boasts of « porker welghing 1,000 pounds,and only thirty-four monthis old A sneuk thief crawlod into the cloak room of the McCook opera house and mude off with an armful of winter wraps. The plans for the postoflice at Nebrus- ka City have been approved, and work will begin as soon as the weather pernuts ‘The passengers snow-bound at Platts- mouth last week overflowed the hotels and were kindly cared for in private houses Bince the Union cattle company began business in Sarpy county the frelght ceipts for the Ubion Pacitic railioad at York, | Gilmore have averaged $10,000 « month. The Ulysses Dispateh warns the public t the story that the editor is a bald 1 philanthropist, with «a old | headed cane and an income of $30,000 a year. The dispute over right of way between | the Burlington & Missouri and the Mis- souri Pacitic roads | certain farms | north of Papillion has been amicably ad | justed Mr | wa Arapalioe, who week OF s0 g0 upon | chargo of murdering the hoy, George | Hill, vesulted as anticipated in a complete vindication of Mr. Reynolds. The late deceased blizzard struck Ne braska City “with a duil, sickening thud Up in theso parts it strack the natives to the marrow and plastered the tender spots with elouds of aretic powder. e Burlington & Missouri river pany has purchased 210 acres of land t Broken Bow, paying $30 an acre This town will probably e the junction of the Omaha & North Platte and Grand Istand & Wyoming Central railroads. Two “well-dvessed and gentlemanly printers of On borrowed & tie pass and tradged to Plattsmouth last Fri braving “the terrors of the b around the hig bend. - Securing a squ meal and a fresh “ehaw' they out on the highway tor Kansas City Sat urday morni A pile tender viciously attacked while ints at a convenient saloon, Workman who was refused an invitation to oil up The pile tender's mug was crudely iltustrated with three “Cuts,” com Nebraska City asing his by a fellow in was tiled corridors of the groggery. No ar rests The is no tensions nd Tsland paper road & Wyoming Central neither ave the ex of the Grand Island & North ern, work on two branches of which is now progressing right along, while a large force ot men and teams are now also at work on the i Island & Wyoming Centeal, which is to penetrate the great coal fields of central \{.\nnnn;:. and the timber regions northwest there- e rondsinsure the permanent sperity of Grand Islnd, ns 1 to our doors one of the tinest” belts of country to be found in the gre Northwest.—[Independent. Wyoming. The town of Green River has a popula- tion of 436, The Cheyennese are taking kindly to water. The city’s revenue from water rents during 1885 amounted to §10,672. he artesian well at Cheyenne has reached a depth of 1,200 feet and no water in sight. It is a first-class bore and a costly onc for the county There are 4,605 children territorial schools The total amount iid teachers during the year was $83,000. he average monthly wages was $59.45. Three Cheyenne Indians from whom were stolen the twelve ponies found with Frank Land and **Red Cloud ived in alo at midnight recently, having | from the mouth of Spring cK, nee of over 100 miles, to sccure property. The Laramie county flourishing condition financ i) 1st of the year there w the strong while all outstandir claims amount to only During the y arrants to the wmount cancelled. The new “‘Cheyenne National” has opened its doors for business. bank is elegantly fitted up, and has 9,000 pound tonster equipped with a #3200 double time lock. "The president is a leading stockman of the territory; the | vice-president, formerly judge of the pro- ite court, is also prominently wdentiii with stock interests, and a conser business mun; its cashier has be resident of Cheyenne for ten years. Colorado. Boulder has a population of 3,112 and Fort Collins 1,500. Mrs. Churchill is editor and proprictor of the Como She Bee. A fire at Greely on the Gth destroyed $30,000 worth of property. Gilpm county’s output of minera worth §2,374,175. wpitalists are about to o packing house in Den- attending the treasury is in a the in Cin tablish a lar ve The state supremecourt has decided that tri id conviction on information is no good. An insane woman named Annie Busch hung herself with towels in the Denve juil Tast week. The woman was so de- termined to destroy herself that she actually bent her knees so that her toes would not touch the tloor. Mrs. Marcella Doyle has entered suit in the United States court against the Den ver & Rio Grande railroad for cuusing the death of her six children during tho winter of 1884, Mrs. Doyle and her children—three sons and three daughters ranging from 10 to 80 years of Kept a hoarding house for the railrond eonm- pany at Woodstoek that winte An avalanche of snow swept down upon the camp on the 10th of Marel killing seventeen persons, Mrs, Doyle's eh among the number. Mrs, Doyle with others were resened alive, In her to the court the unfortunate sets torth that the railrowd com- snuded the mountain side of waking deadly avalanches drent piny timber, possible. The Pacific Coast. Montezinma Ross, of New Mexico, auding Indians out- wards for their cap- Goy Taws, and offers 1 tare The white eigar mak enst have all found permancnt employ- tin 1 Francisco, and wore white men are wanted in the civgar fuctories. The Chinese and the few residents of Trucke 3 who may be classed as their adiicre ve commienced w vigor- ous and systematie boycotting of the leaders of the anti-Chinese movement, It is estimated that there ave 1,500 men out of cmployment in Los Angeles. The labor market is overstoc! Ked and’ thoso who go there in search of work will be disappointed, A Sant Fe undertaker tr \.l.-.l 10 seventy-five miles west of Silver City for the boiy of Dr. Maddox, who was shot by the Indians, Although the doctor bad been dead seven days, e was embalmed suceessfully, and shipped in good shape to Maryland. The latest Apache Tndian tion pian proposed is the employment of a company ot rangers under Col. Bay Jor. The colonel says that with $10,000 he could ry on a four months’ eams yuign with fifty men und settle the whole el n question inside of that time, It is cluimed that Baylor's Texas rangers have Killed more idizns during the pust six years thun the whole United States avmy. - A Heroic But Unfortunate Girl, Madison (Ind.) Conrier: Mrs. Highiand Lumm, an old and respeeted widow, re sides with her two grown, unmurried daughters on Depot street, in the west endof the city, and t three earn an honest livelihood us scamstresses. Oue day last week Miss Mary, the youngest, became alarmingly ill, and duri ng evening Miss Sirah procurcd ko antidote for her sister’s ailment which was located in her side and desired iply the saw To this Mury objected, but the impor tunitics of her sister last prevailed, and Mary said ull vight, but first bad all the family eome into the room. Then from the exterming: the elothing was removed and a horrible cancer came to view, which had eaten a great place in her brewst, wlmost, it not Quite, exposiug her ribs, Lhe wother the | | i somothing extremely | The « th ted | and a copious flow of blood carmined the | they will | | edueation | shoot a gun st oL fainted and all the family were ¢rmf stricken and shocked.” The ‘med” ical examination resulted in thy decision that, while the patient may lve for a good while to come, the cancer is an incarable one, and sooner or later will eat away her Iife I'he poor girl, who is now able to be up, tries to appear s cheerful as possible. She has been keep- ing nature of her afMliction all to he; selt for 1wo years, mnot wishs ing unne sarily ~ to worey her mother and sisters, knowing that thev would be powerless to help her, Thers heroie and girl keeping tho terrible sceret so long, and she mer and ought to receive the sympathy a substantial assistance of a philanthropic community Cd - CHINA'S GREAT COMPETITION® markable in the brave ming Contest for t Degree of Chung Yu New York Times: About the middle of nest month the Chinese national comp tition for the military d e of Chung Yuen, the highest degroo of the empire, is to takoe place in Pekin. This is held in imperial presence once in every tive years, The <ful competitor s owned by the emperor, agd worshipped hero by the militavy fraternity of the entire nation. To attain such wealthy familics are more than willing to give up their entive fortune. Trivuph- Larches are built for the winner by the government, and tho people of his owa provinee often devote seven days in festivities in his honor. 1is wife v the rank of the first I empire, and the emp her the sum of tuels per annum as “‘vuint and powdes money. Those who participate i the contests must have _already attained the milit ¢ of Kin Yin, and in order to reach this must have passed succe 3 minations. The expenses in - these various compoeti tions are much heavier than those of the literary competitions. People in hun:' 1o circumstances cannot aflor The militar more than do the teachoer: The students have to provide their wpons, must live better in order ble to wield the heavy instrame exereise, must dress expensively keep one or more good horses ( quently the coming competition : will be a very fashionable affuir. Kin Yins of the entire empire w congregated there, even those who | no lope of gaining the coveted will 1 Lot th nee to show selyes Th i esent only one Chi in Ameriea who is entitled to eiite contest. He is a KinYin, and is the ¢ man of the Chinese Municipal socic No. 202 Chatham street Hv- name Hong Gwing. He is 38 rs old, abc feet i height probably weighs about pounds, and 18 considered the bestlo Chinaman in New York 1 I not enter the Pekin * he said last night, “although it my Intention to do so about u ycor tme here simply to sce the s New York, but things so pleased me long cnough to get in Besides, it i now i I should have drawinng the bow, lifti nd in shooting on hot at 200 fo Ve empl 1e bow simply a8 a text book of our m ary cducation, for we believe that if 1t shoots an ight he ean al o should have to be able o show n graceful and e Sy use of the groes cords, which weigh from 150 to 200 pounds. According to the de- grees we contend for at Pekin, we will have to toy with a 200-pounder, tirst with (wo hands and then with one hund, and handle them almost as a common sword, I still have some strength,” and Mr., Ll jokingly picked up the raporter with one hand and danced him in the air until eut short by an incoherent and pleading pro- tost. Suc honors coives of the allows Complete Treatment, with Inhaler for Every Form of Catarrh, 81, Ask for SAN- FORD’'S RADJCAL CURE. \// Hewd Colds, Watery Dischirges ftom the Nowe i Eyos, Ringing Noises in the Hoad, Nervous Hoadacho and Fever instantly ro- 24 licvod. Choking mu Todiod, o sed wnd ' healed, ah swootenod il, nste, und heaes es ehockod Droppi {0 tho Throa i , Wasting of oct., ourod. linl 8 htm 4”\“ « s Inhuler, in one ko, of . 8. 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