Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 3, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. OMANA OFFICENO, 914 AND 016 FARNAMST. NEW YORK OFFICE, ROOM 65, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTON OFFiCe, No. 513 FOURTRRENTH S1. Published every morning, except Sunday. The gnly Monday morning paper published in the TERME NY MATL: $10.00 Three Months 500 0ne Month.... Tae WERKLY Bie, Published Bvery Wednesany. TERMS, POSTPAID: 2.0 1 . 8250 58 One Year, with premium 0 Year, without promium x Months, without premiunm Unl‘ Nomh. on trial. . CORIEEPONDEN! All communieations relating to news and odi- torial matters should be addressed to the Eoi- TOR OF “HE I ot Budsessed to Tw OMAdA. Drafts 10 be mado pay THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E ROSEWATER. EoiTon. X' anid .y,m..mw or ardor of the comp ARDNER is built on the plan of Keeley’'s motor. He won't go. Croox wants a month more to wind up the Apache problem. When the trouble is definitely settled the border ruflinns on the Mexican line will find their occu- pation gone. =I'ue dog-bitten Newark boys who went to Paris for treatment, by teur are on exhibition in a New York dime museum. The skeleton of the dog that died ought to complete the interesting group. rant monument fund is at a he Grant memoir fund prom- reach a half a million dollar: the share of prolits which the fam reap as tho reward of the dead he forts. In General Grant's case the pen s mightier than the contribution box. Tue board of education has acted wisely in deciding to extend the system of manual training by the addition of lathe work to the study ot drawi ; pentering and joining. The experiment, as far as it has gone in Omaha schools, has been a marked sucee: i Prerce, of Dakota, is not ept the charge of a news- pape: Duluth so long at there is a possibility of Dakota being admitted in the near future as astate. He has his eye on one of the United States senator- ships, and thinks he stands a fair chance of “getting there,” Conrra denounce labor unions as worthless will probably modify their opinions after reading the report of the Cen Lubor Union of New York. That organization has ex cnerated the contractors on the aqueduc from the charge of criminal negligence and say that the numerous accidents dur- ing the progress of the work have been due to the carelessness of the men. GovER w0 AN Illinois congressman has presented amemorial from the Nebraska legisla- ture urging the passage of a bill to pay Messrs. King and Wood, of Omaha, $6,884 for horses and scrviccs during the Pawnee invasion of 1859. We thought Pat Hawes had a monopoly on that kind of busine: We shall next hear of some of the old settlers asking congress to re- imburse them for damages resulting from the flood. New JErsey has a law making it ob- ligatory upon the railroads to issue pas: to the members and officers of the legi lature, The railwav managers of that state are said to complain of the extor- tion, as they call it. In Nebraska, how- ever, such a law would be entirely super- fluous, as the railway managers are only too anxious to supply the legislators with annual passes, which are sent out in the first mail after election, A KANsAs man who, influence of liquor, rode away on his neighbor’s horse, but when he became sober returned the animal, has just been sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for horse-st A Nebraska man who, while perf AWy on & borrowed hor: returned the animal, has sued a newspaper for $30,000 for im.lmnlhlg that there was some erookedness in the transaction. Perhaps if the Nebraska man had been brought up before a Kansas jury he would not now be suing for a damaged character. — Oun citizens should take immediate steps toward making a bid for the next Grand Aimy encampment. Omaha never bas had the encampment, and it is about time for her to have a benelit in that line. We are sure the Grand Army boys would prefer Omaha this year to any other lo- eation. Tne encampment at the metro- polis of the state would draw a larger erowd than atany other location, and the visitors cowid be better entortained here than anywhere else in Nebraska. The annual meeting of the G. A, R. takes place at Red Cloud on the 17th of Febru- ary, at which time bids will be opened from the various places. It will be seen, ~ tharefore, that no time is to be lost in this mattor, —_— » Par Herald is like n blind man in a mdud room beating around with a elub. Its attack on My, Bechel is a sam- . No one denies that the president of council was proper], property owner, when he took his seat under the charter restrictions, As amat- ter of fact, he has been a real e owner ever sinee, and the voint 1 the Herald, even if well taken asa proper eonstruction of the charter, wonld have no application in his case. But aside from its application, we insist that any eonstruction of the charte; quirement which would vacate the eilmen the moment they disposed of their property, is o false and a strained ene. Such a ruling might leave that body without & quorum in cases where the members held single lots and chose to wealize on them in times of booming real eatate. The seizure of real estate by a ereditor, or the sale by owh-r of court, might act to disenfranch | The clause in the charter was plainly in- ~ tended to make an electoral qualificuti .&: ‘T'o coustrue it in apy other way ld be to open the doors 1o s great of possible embarrassment in the while under the The Business Situation. Unfavorable weather has had the nsual effect upon the course of business throughout the country during the past week, but in point of activity the situa- tion compares favorably with the same time last year, and commercial con- ditions are in many respects so much more encouraging now than they were then that the momentary halt in the im- provement of trade oceasions little com- int and no uneasiness as to the future, h few exceptions merchants take a cheerful view of the surroundings of trade and look forward to a prosperous season, Cotton prices are a shade easier | in some markets, on moderate trading | and larger receipts, but the general situa- tion shows little change. Trade opinion asto the future of the staple is mixed and uncertain, and values show no decided inclination either to advance or dec Tho denlings In wool have been n littio larger, but at unchanged pri There is continued firmness in the wsof hold- but no apparent urgency in the d; Manufacturers are probably | ter supplied than most dealers have sup- posed, but the position and prospects of the woolen goods trade give assurance of an outlet for all available supplics be- tween this and shearing time, and hold- n no haste to realize except at cs. As above noted, dry goods have been more active. Interior jobbers have been placing orders with more free- dom, and while the jobbing trade has been retarded somewhat by the weather and retailers’ stock inventories, the movement has been very fair, Print cloths have advanced one-cighth of a cent per yard, and a correspond- ing improvement is noted in several brands of low grade brown and bleached cottons. Agents have opened sample lines of heavy-weight clothing woolens, and are booking orders at an advance over last year's prices of 5 to 10 per cent; and in some cases 20 per cent on wors- teds, and 5 to 10 per cent on cassimeres, but the i 1se is obtainable only on low and medium qualities. Fine goods are, as a rule, no higher, partly owing to the low prices at which competing quali- ties of foreign production offered and partly beeause tine wools have remained almost stationary in price during the past year, while the grades required for low and medium woolens have advanced 5 to 7 cents per pound, Laeal wholesalers in closing up the month’s business note with satisfaction alarge increase in the volume of busi- ness as compared with last year's trade. Grocery houses especially express them- selves satisfied with the outlook and an- ticipate a heavy spring trade. The course of- the produce markets has been fluctuating. Wheat prices further advanced 1 cent per bushel early in the week, but have since lost the improve- ment, as a result of lessened apprehen- sion of a foroign war and the unwilling- ness of exporters to follow the recent ad- vance. Notwithstanding the sct-back to the improving tendency of the market, the situnation is regarded with more confidence by the majority of operators. The small crop movement and decreasing stocks in win- ter wheat sections, and the fact that western millers are compelled to pay seaboard prices in primary markets, are working a change in speculative ment that is evidenced by an incre: outside demand for investment and the growing reluctance of regular traders to put out short lines at ruling prices. The visible supply of wheat i gradually decreasing, and, in view of the largest milling demand, and the smaller movement from farmers’ hands and the possibility of accident to the growing crop is becoming a less disturb- ing clement in the calculations of the trade. Foreign buyers, however, are operating with caution, and, while ovi- dently more disposed to take wheat “‘at a price,” show no inclination to follow a speculative adyvance. Corn has been in fair but less active foreign demand, and all maj are lower. Influencing the Grand Jury. When the question of calling a grand jury was first agitated the B us the first to advocate such action. It urged the se- lection of a pancl of our best 1 and pointed ont the necessity of a jury, the | character and ability of whose membe would be suflicient gnarantee of the ness of its judgmont. When the jur drawn the Bek did not hesitate to express the general disappointment of the public at the choice made. Its eriticisms were all made, however, before the jury was empanelled. Since the term of court opened it has had nothing to say on the subject. It believes it to be as highly im- proper in a newspaper as in g citizen to endeavor to influenee the opinion of jurors sworn to judge only upon the evi- dence presented. But the Herald, whose editor hus never permitted deceney and propriety to stand in the way of his personal and political prejudices, has made the empanelling of the present grand jury the occasion for a repetition of the charges against Marshal Cummings, which that body isto investi- gate. It appeals in double-leaded editor- inls to the jury and the district attorney and revamps the evidence for the pros- ecution with all the coloring of its own vivid imagination. Such a course cannot be defended. It is unjust and unfair, contrary to pro- cedent, and unwarranted by any eanon of decen It is as plainly contempt of court as if the individual members of the Herald's staft were hanging around the court house doovs and buttop-holing the panel in turn. The Bee hopes that the case of Marshal Cummings will be thoroughly investi- gated, It has po interest, personal or political, in the result, aside from that interest which it has in common with all good citizens, that impartial justice shall be done. It has no appeal to make to the prejudices of the grand jury, and no threats to burl at the district at- torney. That all concerned do their duty, and nothing but their duty, is all th be asked. To point out in what dir it believes that duty lies, or what means should be used to carry out individual preferences, it does not consider to be withiu its provinee. “Deap men tell no tales and burnt records disclose no secrets. is 15 evi- dently Gould's motto. It is just dis- covered that the books of the Interna- tional Railway Improvement company, which built the ‘Texas Pacitic and and Missouri Pacitl ailways, - were mys- teriously - destroyed by fire nearly a year ago st Fort Worth, Texas, and ean- [ job. | rea {59 | sitions made by publi not be nsed in evidence in n sutnow pro- gressing against that company in the courts: The stockholders in the con- struction company claimed that Gould and his gang had swindled them worse than they did the company to which they turned over the road, and and appealed to the books for proof. But by an unfortunate accident it appears that the books were destroyed by fire shortly after the commencement of the snit, and the plaintiffis now wickedly elaim that the conflagration was a put up Mr. Gould has always had a horror of book exposures. He madea floating library out of an Erie forryboat in the days of Jim Fisk and kept the records of Erie in mid-stroam out of h of the officers of the law until a compromise was reached. A year or two ago certain Elevated railway books sud- denly and mysteriously disappeared from his broker's office when that company was under investigation. A book in the flames in Mr. Gould's opinion is worth ten in the court Mark Twain's Lates No American author has probably de more from his judgment of the Ine of his own writings than Mark vain. Within fifteen ars he has raised himself to affluence by applying shrewd business prineiples to the publi- cation of his literary efforts. All of his ive productions, from the famous “Innocents Abroad" down to *‘Huckl ber nn,'" have been published more or loss under his own personal auspices. By this means he has succeeded in ad- ding the profits of the publisher to that of the author and enrolling his name among the moderately wealthy million- aires of the east. But Mr. Clemens' most successful effort in the publishing line has been the “Grant Memoirs.” By this enterprisc he has put a quarter of a million dollars in the pockets of the Grant family and has cleared nea s much for the firm of which he is & member. It is expectod that this amount will be doubled when the second volume is issued. More than a year ago, when General Grant first be- ;;AII his articles in a New York maga- zine,and the suggestion was made that they might be profitably extended into a book, Mark Twain waited upon the general and proposed their publication on joint ceount, He ailed his own experience in publishing his own writings, and the im- mense advantage to the author in secur- ing his proportion of the profits usually derived by the publisher. He concluded by making an offer to the general to pub- lish his forthcoming book on joint count by the firm in which he is a me ber. Mr. Clemens' arguments ca the day, and, asa consequence, the wili seenre nearly treble the amount from the Memoirs which they would have de- rived otherwise. Under the with Mark Twain they get every volume sold. Under other hers they would er cent on the sales, or 25 cents on every de propo- have derived only 10 mount ot th $2.50 volume. Mark Twain is receiving a good deal of well-deserved praise for his generous interest in the Grants. But after all, he will himself reap a handsome return nvestment and pocket a cool willion as the result of his shrewd The Publication of Time Tables. Some railrond companies labor under the impression that newspapers ought to publish their time tables without charge, and some railroad organs arc of the sme opinon. They hold that rai way time tables are matters of newsonly, andare not in any way to be considered as advertisements. Independent news- papers published on business principles take an entirely different view of the matter. They maintain that a railway time table is as much of an advertisement as the advertisement of a dry goods mer- chant that he will on certain days and hours sell certain kinds of good: stated prices, or as a theatrical card stating that a matinee will be given at 2:30 and an evening performance at 8, and that reserved s will be on sale at 9 n.m on ) day. Other illustrations might be given to show that railways are not the only institutions that have time tables to publish. The at present a very lively war in progre over this very question in Detroit | tween the railways and the newspapers. On the 1st of January the railroads, having formed a combination, an- nounced that they wonld no longer pay for the publication of the time-tables on the ground that it ought to ne made without charge in consideration of the transportation furnished them, The De- troit publishers discontinued the publica- tion of the time-tables,returned all refused all favors and ope warfare. The railrond mer ception of the managers of the Gr Trunk which pays for its time-tables, said they were making a test case, and if they succeeded they intended to make the same demand on the newspapers of other cities. It scems that the Detroit publishers are under the impression that Detroit would be the only city in the country in which the railrond companies could get their time-tables published free. In this they are mistaken, as the news. papers of Omaha have fur years charged the railways nothing. The Beg, how- ever, has always maintained that the pub- lication of the railway time-tables should be paid for, but the two subsidized rail- road organs have, of course, held to the contrary. Moeantime the Detroit fight will be watehed with considerable inter. est by the newspaper publishers in the cities where the railways have for years sponged the publication of time-table: AN anti-treating bill has passed one branch of the Washington territorial legislature. It prohibits any person trom treating or entertaining ‘‘grat- uitously any other person or persons to, or with spirituous or malt liquors, wine or eider, or any other beverage whatever, in any public bar room, saloon, beer hall, or grocery in this territory, or in any other place of resort or amusement. " The penalty is o fine of not less than $5 or more than $23, or imprisonment not less than five or more than twenty days, or both."” Such a_law was first passed by the Nebraska legislature and next by the legislature of Nevada. 1n these two states the law has proved a dead letter, no prosecutions ever having been bronght under its provisions. It will prove equal- ly as dead in Washington territory or in uny other territory or state, A Stake Worgh the Play. The tendency of Nebraska tra controlled by outside influenc seck Omaha as #s depot for supplies. ‘Lhig is shown by the ! yearly increasing mportance of our wholesale trade, which is being built up by a steady advance in every section of the state which can bo profitably reached by our jobbers. In several lines Omaha now ecasily controls the trade of the comntry retailers as against the compaetition of Chieago, Kan- sas City and St. Paul, This is notably the case in groceries and drugs and in some lines of hardware. Country merchants have not been slow in discovering that stocks of goods and prices in Omaha are to their advantage when not counter- balanced by discriminating rates and slow and bungling transportation facil- ities. State pride and the feeling that ate are advanced sver builds up any eity or com- in the state have also assisted in cenienting the trade relations which are binding Omaha closer and closer to its neighboring cities, towns and villages within our borders, With the great extension of railroad facilities now in progress, Omaha jobbers should arouse themselves to the new op- portunitics opening for their advant- age. Within o few months the trade of the Black Hills, which up to the present time has been con- trolled by St. Paul and Chicago, will be brought to our door by the iron rails. Instead of a haul of 250 miles by gon to Rapid City and Deadwood, the railvoad will ¢ goods to the doors of the first and wiihin fifty miles of the lead- ing mining camp of Dakota. anches and extensions of the Union Pacific and Burlington & Missouri will bring a hun- dred Nel a towns and hamlets into il communication with Omaha. ed immigration and the peopling of our frontier will stimulate trade de- mands. The large sums of money to be expendod in railway construction throughout the state will add to the gen- eral prosperity. In this prosperity Omaha ought to and must share 1f ler business men are enterprising and shr enough to enter the field of compet with the determination of winning against all comers, The stake is high enough for bold play. An Appeal to the Union Pacific. Tairmont is one of the richest and most thriving towns in Nebraska. It is lo- cated in Fillmore county, and in one of the best agricultural sections of the state. Although situated on the Burlington & Missoari railway, its citizens are not sat- isfied with the ratgs given them. They are tived of asking that’ corporation for reasonable rates to Omaha, ana they now propose to make an effort to secure better rates through compétition. That is about the only way f{o pecomplish the much desired objeet,’ and the busi- ss men of Fairmgnt have there- determined to appeal to the Union Pacific to give them additional raiiroad facilities in competition with the Burlington & Missouri. They have sent to Omaha one of thefir répresentative citi- zens to confer with the Union Pacific upon this matter and at) the same time to enlist the sympathy and nid of the merchants of Omaha in the proposed en- terprise. The plan is to induce the Union Pacific to build an extension’ from Stromsburg to Fairmont, a distance of about thirty miles, and thence to Alexandria or Belvidere on the St Joe & Western. This branch would tap a very productive region, and prove greatly beneficial to the inter- ests of Omaha as well as of Fairmont. Omaha really derives no benefit from that region over the Burlington & Missouri, which takes everything possible to Chi- eago, virtually compelling the people of that section of the state to trade with Chicago rather than with Omaha,although their interests are with the latter city, and they naturally wish to trade here. The building of a Union Puc branch from Stromsburg to Fairmont, 4s indicated above, would make that region tributary to Omaha, and we hope that our leadig business men will lend their influence and support in aid of the proposed proj- ect. It is true that it would be an inva- sion of B. & M. territory, but it is about time It)r the Union Pacific to do a little invasion in self-defense and by way of retaliation upon the B. & M., which has invaded its terrvitory and Iumnul it in four different plac Let the Union Pa- cific wake up and do something. Tue B, & M. will construct 207 miles of tr: in Nebraska this year, Will the Union Pacific plense tell us how many milesit proposes to build in this state during 18867 Tug ground-hog, if he had the courage to come out of his hole, saw his shadow to-day. According to tradition thisis a sure sign that six weeks of cold weather will follow. We are n, however, tnat this old-time w prophet came out of his hole ather Hit Hum With a Rake. Chicago Herald, Tt appears that the Maud Muller of poetry could m but that was not why Joaquin’s Maud Destroying American Industry. Muadism Demagrat, General Sparks will go ony and land steal- ing will be another :h-luml industry during this administratio R Not Quite 50.0he Chicago fimge. The Queen, it is asswmed, did not call for Gladstone with the chegrfulness with which {xer subjects ordinarily call for gin and wa- er, Washington is Good Fnough, Buffalo Eapres, The territory of Washingion will show bad taste it it discards the noblest nawe in his- tory and adopts in its stead the name of a Chinese-baiting, bigotaridden hole as Tae ma for its state organization. R Letters to the Editor. Chicago News. Many communications for publication come to us written on both sides of the paper, Where a cortespondent i» 0 economical us to save paper and postage in this way hie should BO fumm and sav lmlb(hvun and his time. Blllulr«. 'fi llucklnx. Chicago Tribune. Prince Bismarck’s speech is very fayorably commented upon abroad. The man who makes a speach with a big army behind him is always a foreible speaker. There is a cer tain earnestn ess in bis seufences which cow pels respect. Epidemic, Troy Press. The Chinese winister at Washington is over 00 years of age. ‘Pheonly English sen- tences (he minister cm now use are: “‘How do you qn" b and “‘Champagne 8 > Hels nnw nns(llng with thc sen- tence, “Set ‘em again,” — —— Acquiring the Language. Chicago Herald, The epidemic which has been making havoe among the great actors of America has struck Dominick Murray at last and he can- cels his engagements in the belief that abso- ute rest is necessary, a warning which must make Oliver Doud l!ymu tremble for himself, — . The Proper Headgear |For a Mis- sourian. I, Touts Globe-Demoorat. Weare delighted to learn from the Post- Dispateh that Congressman O'Neill, of the eighth distriet, wears an $8 silk hat in Wash- ington, Until very reeently a coonskin cap was considered the proper thing in headzear for n Missouri congressman in or outof Washington, ——— He Was a Horse Thief All the Same, Kansas City Journal . 1t is not an unheard of thing for a Kansas murderer to eseape the penalty of his erime, but there is no safety for a l.orse thief. Ina moment of mental coufusion, induced by several drinks of whisky, a Winfield county man rode away on his neighbor’s hotse. When his misty brain became once more clear he recognized the enormity of his erime and returned the animal, 1t was, however, for a warrant had been sworn out arrest, and he has just been sentenced years in the penitentiary. - A Gem from the Mikado. Adapted from the Philadelphia Call. A merchant eame forth in the dawn of the day, Singing “Bill owe! 0O, bill n\\4-1 1 bill owe! Lean't find a dollar my store to pa In my till, oh! my till, oh! m) il bh 1 s neighhor stood with a smilein his eye, .\ll)"u." "(||| Tool] merchant, why do you Put an ml u the Ber and the doliars will fly And \\IlI Illl. oh! your till, oh! your till, POLITIC! \h l’Ol\ TS, There is a tendenvy throughout the conn- try to remind congress that it is time to begin work. Gen. Marmaduke, of Missouri, says he has no notion of being a candidate for the Mis- souri senatorship. Senator Evarts, who 1to be swelling visibly as a presidential candidate, eannot avoid making speeches. Gov. Foraker's wife relieved him of a fear- ful task during the last Ohio campaign by reading all the newspapers to him. Col. Colyar ot Tennessee gallantly si that the one insuperable obstacle to the la voting is that they “are never old enough,’” The action of the lowastate temperance convention in deeiding to support woman suffrage, bids fair to cause a split in the party, I. V. Powderly, general master workman of the Knights of Labor, is going to live in Philadelphia, and may be nominated for congress, Walter M, Wyse, who has lately acquired an interest in the Washington Post, is afirm friend of President Cleveland, and made £100,000 by backing him \for election. A Washington correspondent says Mr. Hoar now takes nk with Edmunds and Sh ng Massachusetts her old place Senator Fair of Nevada may have trouble secure a re-election, Senator Stewart his friends at work and the republicans that they can elect the requisite n um ber of assemblymen., New Jersey state senate contains six three farm two merchants and ach of the following vocations: ician, broker, clerk, railroad agent, canal and towing agent, editor, contractor, county collector and real estate deale) An exchange says democratie senatorsop- pose discontinuance of executive sessions, 1se they don’t want the light to shine on office broking schemes, and the repub- s also opposed it because they hope to carry on the same kind of business after 1838, STATIu AND F‘l!ltlTOl\Y. Nebraska Jotting: A charity concert in Beatrice #1350 for the poor. The postoftices of North and South Auburn have been consolidated. A stage line has been established be- tween Broken Bow and Kearney. Dr. Gerth, state ve inarian, dispatched Ilu‘i;c glunderd ho in Red Cloud last weel netted ts of u cow that barks are mad dogs in that zed Quinn, in the Nemaha ¢ larcony, skipped by the light of Thursday night, and now cnjoys the ln'uh)m of the prari ide county, T, The natives of W hites resident in Adams county, banqueted af Hastings last Friday night. It was an clegant social aflair, and a happy reunion. Plattsmonthers phmng into the hands of doctors. ting carnival will be held the ,and cargo of liniment und ~pmln will'be sent down from Omaha. The city council of Plattsmouth has ne- cepted the proposition of George B. In man, of New York, to build waterworks in the c The propositions will be submitted ‘to a vote of the people on March 9. “Keep your shirt on, Brown,” is the signal of the approach’ o colit wave m northwest Nebrask: ally in the re- gion of Hay Hhm\u could be induced to el otTm garment the vush for shelter would he picturcsque and positive. The Nebraska City Press mates that the town sufl of painful misery the what is still more s the privilege. Eli Perkins lectured there, and “the andience doyoured his moth-caten jokes without a g as acireus clown has outlive ness, are A mildly inti- two hours night, and, ting, paid for Tow A Leon hunter set out eatch o forty cent rabbit, away with the trap. Frankie Putnam, an O'Brien eounty kid, sut down ina Kettle of boiling water. He'was badly scalded, A Sheldon man boasts that he has lost forty fect of his person and yet has two left. It was a worm. In O'Brien’ county there are only forty persons, upwards of ten years of nge, who can neither read nor write, George Sweeney, a freight conductor on the Northwestern voad, ped from the top of a at State Conter and losta hand Abijah Wilber, one of the pion of Methodism in fowa, died at his home in Marshalltown on the 27th inst, aged 82 years The state of Towa now has a flouting debt in the shape of outstanding war- rants amounting to something over a million dollars, Des Moines is to have a new hotel built by a stock company und to c $175,000. "It is to be the largest hotel building in the west. The more fastidious and exacting resi- dents of Dunlap can now distance their plebian competitors by beisg hauled to the grave in a §2,100 “hear: Even in death kh)null reigns imp The Hax erop of Siow: was 814,733 Lushels, ov $2.00 trap to The rabbit got sounty lnst year 1145 per cent th and 24,588 f the total b i "W‘m'nnl.&fn any other bushols more county, Thn Dubuque Horald m}y that the nightly parades of the salvation army in that city have become a nulsance that should be abated. The disgraceful scenes enacted on the streets by the gang h'ul never been excelled by frontier cow- boys. During the recent blockade on the Ot- tumwa line of the Milwaukee road two engines were put ahead of a caboose and the passenger ca nt through the drifts. When the engine struck the snow there was a unanimous desire on the part of the passengers to move forward. One passenger, who was eating a piece of pie ust asthe engines mu(-f a_snowbank, presented a sorry looking sight when the shock was over. The pie was plastered all over his face, and it was remarked that he never wore such an extremely pious look before. Dakota, Tyndall is advertising for bids for two The artesian well at Altoona is en of supplying a city of 25,000 inhabi In the eleven of Yankton 2,718 naturalization papers have 18sued, The Kumbott artesian well flows 10,000 arrels of water per day, not 8,000 ;:nl s has heretofore been statéd. Hkhorn Valley company hag pur l‘hxm d 880 acres of land near Rapid City at about $100 per acre. Bosides this the company has secured a half interest in 60 acres near town, During the las been fof 1885 the Yank: orded 166 homestead aratory, 102 pre- l'lII]llmu mmnw by commuted home- ad proofs, 218 final homestead proofs, preemption proofs, 35 timber eulture pmn 8. total number of acres aequired by tinal proof, 88,919, Rapid City is in the midst of a boom of I,u'nu-nlln N ympmlmn« Tl rtainty has given property a great oss of all Kinds prospers ae- A $15,000 hotel is one of the ato improvements decided upon. narrow gauge railway to adjacent mines will also Do built as soon as the weather permits The Black Hills Journal of Rapid City, the typographical beauty of the territor has decided to start a daily at an e date. A combination of beauty and br never fails, as experience has taught us, and the daily Journal \nll be no ex- ception, even though the country is young. At a soclal gathering at Blunt one evening last week Miss and o young man named Featherstone stood up and played marr for the fun of the thing. A young man named Burke per- formed the ceremony. It hassince tr: pired that Burke, being a qualified justice of the peace, the mar e holds good. joke of the matter is that Justice nd the young lady were engaged to be married, and in performing the ceremony Burke overlooked the fact that he was an officer of the law. A suit for divoree is now contemplated. Wyoming. An unknown n run over and killed by the ca Laramie last Thursday. An unknown man wa killed by the cars ne: Thursday. The legislature has planted itself on an economical plane. I HersTY lioTatsire to be informed on the current events of the world must pay for their papes The legislature has decided to inves gate the Rock Spri ding to the m.l“uvu- of the Chin rement of the mines will also be inquired into. The representative of Sweetwater coun- ty, Hon. Charles Bussey, who voted againsta resolution donating $1, 000 for the relief of the miners at Rock Springs, as been denounced and disowned by the county, The Swectwater ing of his action, says: ssey of Rock Springs is in- debted to the eoal miners tor what | s world’s goods, yet ho denies and to destitute widows s ren deprived of a hus- band and " father by mnnum] vmclnsm IS8, Humanity, where art thou?” ™M Miles City is going into the ice paluce busine: The Utah & Nurlhul n company is et ting down expenses by discharging em- ployes. The Montana Central railroad com- pany has been incorvorated. It proposes to build branches north and south from Helena, Torty-five steamboats plowed the raging Missouri to and from Benton last year. They carrvied 1,500 passengers and about 10,000 tons of freight. There are no fr run over and Laramic last near the Mammoth Hot Springs, as recently stated. The sul- phurous fumes overcome all birds, bee- tles, butterflies, and even the humming- bird, when they venture too near, S vs His Sister. —Early this morning of Nansemend county Kkilled his sister and fatally wounded his wife with an axe. He says le had no trouble with his wife and sister, but_could not resist the power that prompted him to do the deed. He was lodged in jail, IHeis believed to be insane, And Every Species of Itching and and Burning Disoases Cured by Cuticura, TCZEMA, or Balt Rheum with its ugonizing 4 itehing'uand burning, instantly rolioved by n wirm bath with Cutleura \uup‘ and a sin plication of i 0 ort” DULG 1040 it livor und kidnoy proriasis, Jid v, and overy 5 of itehing, seuly fhd ity humors of the sl ad. Skif: whoi the hest physicians and all known remedios fail. Wit1 MCDONALD gratefully ucknow| sall rheum }m Cvenic 2 Doarborn st dges a euro ol ¢ ok, faco, nems o hundrods of 1 his cuse hopo Cutiowra Tesolye nternally, and Caticura s grent skin cures) oxto CitAs. HouGHTon, Esq., lnw 25 Stato st., Loston, roports o eilse of eou der his ob: sorvation for ton years, whic orcd tho pi tient’s hody and linibs, and to which all ki methads of treatment bl boen applied without Lenelit, which wus complotely cired solely by the Cuticura Romedles, logving a clean and nealtby sk i, Jom i salt i T80 bad that | o ks ut i o ur boitlos fsolvent tirely cured me of this dreadiul disease. PUyAICIANS Pisse bui tho big Fram your Cutienri e soli wore thin ull others of e kin Aeah Msan A, 2500 N. Broad St., Philidelpl Sold by all druggl cenls; Kosolve, Dy the 10m, M iss. BEA Seud for pamplile PIEY and Bkin by o Cuticuru Koap, JHBUMATIC, NEURALGILO 1 \llll Pain |‘I--ur. " » pet antidote 10 pain aud intiwm- ution. New, opginal, mialuble AUdrugglsts, 2. BEAVER ISLAND MORMONS. The History of Joseph Btrang and His Followors, Wreok of the Schoonec Willis—The Innate Wickedness of Strang— The End of Mormonism in the Beaver Islands, In a cozy little home on West Adame street, Chieage, lives Mrs. Eliza Stearns, She was at one time a follower of Joseph L. Strang, the Mormon renegade who, in 1846-55 was the ruler of Big Beaver island at the foot of Lake Michigan. Mrs, Stearns came to Chieago from northern Wisconsin about two months ago, and iy making her home with her son. The Chicago News says that the history of the Strang phase of Mormonism is as yet comparatively unwritten, About the time the Mormons established thomsely Nuauvoo Strang eame into prominet ad been bt slightly identified with the Young, Kimball, Smith, and other fuctions, which were powerful while the church was in its infancy, and it was, through realization of their su- hmlm ~<lu-nglh that he was led to receive a trevelation, " and set himself up, under allogod Divinb guidanos, s o Tonder, Ho sclected the Beaver islands as the home of himself and followers In 1846 the in- habitants there were surprised by an in- vasion of Mormons numbering about 200, mpted the choicest torritory and upon it asif they had come to he Beavers, or Boaver group, as led, consist of Big and Littlo . North and South Fox, High, Gull, cden, Hat, Hog -\|u| quaw aslands, are loc: mouth of the its. g took pos- m the islands werc wited by In- diaus and half-breec ule a pree viou l|\nw by fis hunting and Strang, " said Mr fow days ago, “was feured by everybody and loved and respeeted by none. I kneéw him for two yen ious to 1846 and during the ten y hile my husband and were numbered among the people under him. He 1 nothing for “his religion and used it only asa e! to hide his veal character. When we | went to the Beavers he had only two wives, but in the course of a few years the number Im reased tosix.” He was about to enth wife, when the blow fell 1 his power and drove . “Wesettled on the northern quh- of the island, on the bay, at the place now called St. James. ™ The Indians were qite aRGal ANE Flena lyRnI A us no trouble except that they stole, and in that art they were soon tanght lessons by Strang andhis .n~. iples. We lived in log huts, * built m of the cedar which rofusol mm.-, and put in our time fishing, hunting, wrecking and cal from vessels whicn made the port. had a religion in name, but very little ction, Strang to exhort_us fr quently, but the majority of his time w devoted to deviltry. He lived in a larger and better house than anybody else and assumed all the authority of a king. “Everything moved “smoothly for a number of years, and our numbers grew, there being at one time over 400 Mor- mons in the scttlement. But the time came when mutterings arose. The Big Beav ther islands in the group had been inereasing in population as Sl our princi settlement, Fisherm and farmers 1 Lo i consin and Mich They were most- ly quiet, pe who wanted to behave then potatoes and trade with ors, Strang had had too much dev |l in him to allow this, and the result was frequent conflicts be- tween the Mormons and the settlers. To show the innate wickedness of Strang the story of the schooner Willis might be told. wa»ml ame into the harbor for shelter and mained two or three On the afternoon of the last day it was understood that she was to leave the next morning. In the morning she was gone sure enough, but her eargo of provisions and all the valuables she had on hoard vemained behind in the posses- sion of Strang and his follow They were dl‘uhi‘lhlv settlers of boarding tho shin in the night, murdering the crew, plundering the vessel and then sending her to the hottom. Whether it was so or not [ am not prepared to say, and would not say if I could.” Whatever Mrs. Stenrns a matter of record with lake that the Willis was seen to ente bay,was not noticed coming out, and that none of her crew ever appeared to tell of lhu fate which she met. Three other E 2 1850 ure sapposed te huve -ked by the Mormons of Beaver s this and tinued the lady and they,'inconjuncti sel-owne ~lu| the Beavers and th sssness of the inhabitants had bee terror to navigators, petitioned iment to investigate the troubl the eyil, In the spring of 185 me in the form of the revenue cutter Michigan. Strang had propared for the government oflicials, wnd their stay was a round of revelry. They must have had too good a time to suy anything yery had about us cr roport they made, Strang never heard of it, and 1t od upon the settlers themsclyes to Ao thew troubles, ing the futilty of 1\)])9\[\ to the government, they armed themselves ono night in July, 1856, and made o descent upon _our settlemont. We were taken completely by surprise, and wore hardly awake beforé our homés were in flames and our forces disorganized, In the melee Strang was severely wounded and of tho Mormons were killed, ig, with his lnwinl wife, suce ul. d scaping to a neighboring o ho was picked up_ by rarried to Milwau h that he died in a small town ne some months later from the effe his wounds. ‘The settlers gave the rest of us the option of leaving the islands within twelve hours of remaining if we would give up our re habits, My husband and I were among those who aceepted the former plterna: tive, as we had had encugh of m.nmuu- igm, The hext day o Small schooner took ns and quite a number of others on board and we were landed at o Wiscon- sin port, That was the o ml ot Mormon- ismin tl ver islands.” old sontrol of Strang and hu ng, and when it was considered dangerous to toueh at Beaver bay The people were thought to be not only [ 5 but worse thun thieyes—men who would not scruple to commit any ne. The islands, which raise very fine pota toes und produce large numbers of cedar trees, now belong to Michigan and are under that state’s control -~ A Blow to Nova Scotia Niw Yori, K The Post'’s special from Halifax say he suspension of the Nova Scotin sugar reining company is an- pouus 1, with liabilities of $300,000, of which + s due the Merchauts’ National bank fux, Gold for Europe, £w Your, Feb. 3-One hundred thous- dollars in gold bars are engaged for ~.h|]:|m N LO-IOITow, Socialism ln Prussia. BerLiN, Feb. 2. The Prussian government Das submitied 1o the Bundesrath a bill to vios Jong the anti-sociulistic law for uve years.