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

| Omaha this yes DATLY BEE.| OMATA OFF1cE, N0 914 AXD 016 FARY AM ST NEW Y onk OFrice, Roos 65, Ty WASHINGTON OFFICE, NoO, 513 FouRTEENTH ST, Published avery morning, excapt Sunday. The fl&m’"d" morning paper published in the TERMS DY MATL: £10.00 Three Months ~600,0n0 Month. ... e Yenr. Twe WEEKLY Ber, Published Every Wednesany. TERMS, POSTIALD Yenr, with premium... Year, without premium Months, without premium e Month, on trial . CORRESPONDENCE! ANl communications relating (0 news and torial matters should be addressed to the F FOR OF “nk DBEr. DUSINESS LETTERS: All bnsiness Istters and remittances ghould bo nadimsed 1o THE BER PUBLISIING COMPAN OMAKA. Drafts, checks and pos 10 be made payable to the order of th THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. E, ROSEWATER. EpITOR, company. From what Mr. Spatks says, it looks as if Mr. Gardner had come to stay. Tar telephone b ered that the admin worth a cent. CoNSIDERABLE paving will be done in r, but not any too much. Let the good work go on. Tur Herald’s dynamite does not affect rickers have discov- tration doesn’t scare . Burveyor General Gardner any more I8 i - ~ half a millhon dollars. than a Fourth of July torpedo. BAM JoNEs is about to make the great- est effort of his 1 He opens his cam- paign against sin in Chicago next week. CoNGrEssMAN HOLMAN is an inveter And he doesn’t ob) hew from another man's of abolishing Mr. Gardy office. It begins to look as if Dr. Miller must go. DENVER is making an to become a corn market. 'We hope she will suc- ceed. Nebraska will supply her with all the corn she wants. Tare Herald still talks of guo warranto. 1: o far as Mr. Bechel is concerned, what the Herald chiefly wants in the way of Writs is to “‘ have 'is caren ! A MAN whose breath sets fire to paper is on exhibition in a Philadelphia dime museum. There isnothing strange about that when it is known that the man comes from Kentuc A Bavutivore man has invented a flying machine. This may be a useful invention, but so far a great many men have been enabled to fly as far as Canada without a flyiug machine SreAKING of Kansas City the Lincoln Journal says, “it is the hest city in the country or its papers arc the worst liars in the world.” The latter half of the . proposition is eminently correct. Ir the city council should permit the saloon-keepers to keep open twenty-four hours in the day, seven days in the week, some of them would appeal to the coun- cil to have the days lengthened to thirty- #ix hours. Tne Denver News in an alleged inter- view with “a gentleman from Boston,” credits the Bostonian with saying: ‘“‘Hill done very well for us for a time, but as soon as he got into politics we com- menced to lose money.”” The interview is fictitious, No Boston bean-eating gentleman wonld ever say ‘‘done” for “did,” CoNGressMAN RANKIN, of Wisconsin, has been dead for several weeks, and we have not yet seen any itemized statement of the expense of his funeral. We would like to compare it with some statements published last year, to see whether there has been any retrenchment in congres- sional funer Oxana has several flour depots, but what she needs most in that line is flour- ing mills. There is no good reason why flouring mills should not succeed m Omaha, Itis about time to stop export- ing grain simply to have it returned tous in the shapo of flour atan advanced price, caused by the double transportation and " the handling by several different parties, ‘This is o matter that should be considered by the board of trade, GENERAL HANCOCK'S death has called out universal expressions of re dredl geotion= of the country. Tho dead sol- dier is honored not alone for his valor, but for the possession of many of the most valued traits of the best citizenship. Kindly to Lis subordinates, respectful to his superiors, just in his judgments he adderd popularity to respect and personal * esteem to ndmiration of his professional . abilities. The old second corps will feel in his loss a personal bereayement, Pre labor troubles in London still con- ~ tinue. New meetings of the unemployed are called for Saturday and crowds 4 throng the strects and obstruct travel. he cable dispatehes represent the city as thoroughly terrorized, and estimate the damage alroady done to property at over Conservatives liberals are caueusing over the si and will unite in avpealing to the !cvornmuul to aid in relioying the great listress which is gencrally admitted to Be tho cause of the outbreaks of the prescut week. Probably Lord Salisbury does not regret Lis loss of power just at present, when home rule in England is a question more pressing than coercion in Treland, T report of Mr. Charles F. Peck, of the New York Stute Bureau bor Statistics, upon the condition of working women in the great motropolis is attract- ing much comment from the pre My, . Peok devoted a gifeat doal of attention to , Investigating the condition of the sewing whom he represents to be in a most rable condition. I'h aetur- | exs give out the bulk of thuir work to the . eontractors who in twrn let it ont to the 5" pay $1.50 a dozen for making trousers and 15 cents each for vests. The average wages of the . sewing women ave fifty cents a duy, out " of which they Lave to pay rent, fucl and aud living expenses. Here is in- R rntion for a rival to Hood's ‘‘Song of .~ the Shir,” 3 The Alien Landlord Question. The Towa legislature will be afforded an opportunity to debate the same aspect of alien landlordism which was raised in the senate at the last session of congress by Senator Van Wyck, Large tracts of land in the northwestern part of the state are held by English companies whose managers reside abroad and collect their reats throngh resident agents. Repre- sentative Robb has introduced a bill designed to prevent non-resident nliens from acquiring title hereafter to real estate in Towa and also to terminate all «uch ownership as may be in ex- istence at the time of the passagoe of the act. Mr. Robb's bill allows the alien landlords three years in which to dispose of their property and provides that at the end of that period it shall be taken by the state at an appraised val- uation. At the same time, any foreign owner of land can retain his property by becoming a citizen, This is a very drastic remedy for a growing evil. During the past ten y millions of acres of land have been ac- quired in the west by foreign capit and speculators. Some of the heaviest landlord noblemen of England own miles of fertile territory in Tex Colorado and Wyoming. = There is scarcely a state in the west where mnon- resident aliens are not the owners of large numbers of farms. The Chicago Tribune, in approving Mr. Robb's L “It is, in most pa adapted to secure its object, but it m e questioned whether he has not madc dangerous exception in allowing re dent aliens to hold title to real estate. Nearly all the alien landlords are repre- sented in this country by agents who reside here, although thoy ravely become lized citi- zens. What would there be to pre- vent the non-resident aliens transfer- ring their holdings to the resident agents, and thus prolonging the rule of alien landlordism in a slightly changed form? The mere fact of residence does not change an alien’s allegiance, and it is not clear why it should give him special rights in a toreign count In regard to the public domain it not been pro- posed to make any distinction between resident and non-resident aliens, but to ve the lands, as Mr. Blaine said in his letter of acceptance, for those ‘who are citizens or waiting to become such.’ Why should not the same rule be applied inside the states?” Coercion in Ireland. | Mzr. Barry O'Brien, in his recently pub- lished work called “Fifty Y sions to Ireland,” gives an inte view of the course of legislation in re, to that country which has been furnished by Westminster Hall since the opening of the present century. So much is said nowadays about the liberal treatment which various English parliaments have attempted to give Ireland, and which she has refused, and the argument is so often used by her enemiecs that coercion has been rendered necessary be- us concessions failed, that Mr. O'Brien’s little work comes at the nick of time to answer such assertions by presenting the facts. And first let the list of coercion acts speak for themselves. In 1800-1 there was an insurrcction act and an act for suspension of habens cor- pus, which were continued through 1803-4, In 1807-8-0 there was another insurrection act and a proclamation of martial law. In 1813-15-16 and '17, another dose of the same me In 1822-8- act. In 182 sion of the Catholic association—led by O'Connell--then agitating for Catholic mancipation. In 1831-2, an act prohib- ing the possession of arms, In 1833-4, o plain coercion act, which extended into the following year, In 1843-4-5, posses- sion of arms again prohibited. In 1847, a crime and outrage act. In 1818-9, things were very lively; there be- ing an net suspending habeas corpus, a crime and outrage act, and a removal of allens act. From 18%) Lo 1855 there was a continuous crime and outrage act. In 1856-7, o peaco preservation net, and from 1858 to 1863, another of the same sort. From 1866 to 1809, a habeas corpus suspension act. In 1870 to 1871, a peace preservation act. From 1873 to 1880, a peunce preservation act, an act for protec- tion of life and property. In 1881-2, a coercion act, and in 1883-5, a erimes act. In all, from 1801 to 1885, there were twen- ty-four coercion acts of one kind and an- other. It is interesting to place against this record the concession acts of which the tory and whig speakers and writers boast so loudly. There were four, and four only. The Catholic emancipa- tion act, the tithes commutation act, the church disestablishment act and the iand act of 1881, Each and all of these measures were passed under liberal au pices and three of them owe their exist- ence o Mr. Gladstone’s personal efforts, In the face of such a record what won- der is it that concession is said to have failed in Ireland and what idiocy to talk about the success of coercion. The Work Begins, The new paving districts created by the council at its last meeting cover a good deal of territory, where pavements are ntly demanded by the property own- ers and greatly needed by the gencral public. The extension of the am street pavemont to Twenty-eighth street, of that on Thirteenth to Martha, and of Saunders street from Cuming, are eases in point. There is a general desire, too, for the paving of Sherman avenue to the fair grounds, which can be partly met under the ordinance. These, with the oxtensions of the' pavements on the cross streets in the business portion of Omaha, and of Davenport street from Sixteenth street, west to Twenty-second,comprise the bulk of the paving immediatoly required by the necessities of the city. For the city's share of the expenses of this work the $50,000 of paving bonds voted last fall will be ayailable. The wisdom of our people in providing the funds months in advance is scen in the faet that paving operations can be hegun as soon as spring fairly opens. There will be ample time for the selection of materials, for the necessary advertisements and the filing of bonds. If the vote of bLonds had been delayed until the spring elee- tion a considcrable part of the paving season would have passed before work conld have begun, Under the new arrangement property owner's will have a wide choice of mate rials and & more certain kuowledge of what they will be called upon to pay as their proportionate share of the paving tax. The bids ofiered for city paving THE OMAHA DAILY BEE. TILURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1836, cover all the most approved paving ma- torials now in use in the largest cities of this country and Europe. Omaha has not, up to the present time, made many experiments in paving. She has restrict- ed her choice to two materials only. Property owners will now be permitted to seleet from five with a further choice in the matter of foundations, each with a time guarantee of durability. Public improvements have in five years changed Omaha from a straggling city of mire and rut into a metropolis w bonsts of being the best paved and ered city of it e in the west. Every dollar invested has been returned four- fold in enhanced value of real estate, in- creased popuiation, and a growing com- mercial importance. ‘The march.of pro- gress must not be permitted to lag. The growth of the state calls for incres efforts on the part of our citizens to keep Omaha at the head of the procession. oW+ What It Means. Tho packing-house democracy seem to be unfortunate in choosing their factional issu Having locked horns with the opposing faction on the Gardner case, they now find their clamorous demands for the removal of the surveyor-general and the abolition of his ofice in conflict with the judgment of the administration, Their argument that the office has out- lived its uscfulness is met by facts and figures showing that there yet remains a large amount of work to be done in Nebraska uniess the frauds and swindles of the old surveying ring are to stand. In the face of the strong arguments for a thorough revision of Nebraska surveys which Com- missioner Sparks presents, backed as they are by the aftidayits of responsible s of this state, further work tor the abolition of the office now held by Mr. Gardner will place Dr. Miller and his g in a very unenviable position. very surveyor and contractor who di- ded the profits of the outrageous swindles, which were hatched in the office of the Nebraska surveyor oflice from the time of Boss Cunningham down, is convinced that the ofice should be closed at once. To ¢o so would be to hide forever the evidences of jobbery and corruption, which a full investiga- tion of the surveying contracts and a comparison of field notes with the coun- try surveyed, will disclose. The cry’that Gardner must go, would mean very little to citizens of Nebraska outside of the pat- ronage grabbers if 1t did not cover at the same time the demand that the evidences of corrupt jobbery in the surveyor gener- al's oflice should be swept away at the same time. This is the milk in the Plattsmouth cocoanut. TueRE is a lull in the agitation in con- gress over the silver question and the tern papers seem to have at last dis covered that tinkering with the coinage is not popular among the representatives of the people at the national capital. There is a strong probability which is nearing certain assurances that no change at all will bo made in existing laws at the present session. It is amusing to note the changed attitude which the eastern prophets of ruin are assuming under the circumstances. Even the bankers are reluctantly admitting that the continu- ance of the coinage for a few yea longer will not seriously affect the property of the country and such single standard advocates as the Evening Post are calling attention to the vast in- ternal resources of the country wh able it to thrive even when its affairs are conducted loosely. On many accounts it is unfortunate that congress has not been able to deal with the silver question by adopting a policy midway between that of the banking syndicate of Wall street and the men who urge an unrestricted coinage of the silver dollar regardless of its bullion value. The interests of bime- tallism would be subserved by either a temporary suspension of the coinage or an increase in weight of the dollar as at present sent from the mint, But the crusade of the eastern capitalists, the avowed object of which was to break down the double standard, has delayed action which other- wise might have been taken at the pres- ent session. The note of alarm was sounded, which secems to have united all the interests opposed to demonetization of silver partial or entire. The result is that aside from a few senators and con- gressmen who wish to appear in the pages of the Record, congress prefers not to take up the subject in general debate until it is forced on their attention. And then whatever bills are reported are likely to go by the board _Tue Washington editor of the New York Herald exvresses the opinion that there is no democratic party at the national capital. The pavty is disinte- grated and demoralized. Neither Mr. Randall nor Mr. Carlisle has power to unite the fragments upon any line of policy. So far as the administration 15 concerned, it stands alone on the silver quostion, with little or no support for its tarifl policy, and without force enough to make the executive recommendations on any other subject felt in the halls 6f congress. This is a sad state of affairs. ‘I'he party of reform seems to have all the necessary qualifications except re- formers. Druaeises cannot be too careful if they wish to avoid paying for mistakes, Even though a druggist may not himself make a mistake he is frequently held re- sponsible for the errors of others. A case in point occurred in Montreal re- cently. A man sued a druggist for dam- ages from having been deprived of work for several weeks in consequence of tak- ing a poison sold him by mistake. The d by the wholesaler, who d labelled the package wrongly before selling it to the druggist. The court hLeld, however, that the druggist should bave verified the contents of the pack- age, and gave a judgment for $200 and costs. MorMON hunting now the popular ofticial sport in Utah The amusement scems to be all on one side, however. from the friendly cover of ash barrels and hoisted from private cellars to answer for their offenses inst the anti-polygamy law. If the present rate of arr and convictions keeps up, the government will haveno reason to complain of the adequacy of the present law or of the ae- tivity of those who are enforcing it, THE opening of spring will witnes beginuiug of the heaviest publie improve- ments which Omaha ha ever taken in hand. Four miles of pdvifig have already been ordered, and more than 200,000 yards of grading. Ths sheans plenty of work for common labor, while the build- ing boom which is preparing to develop itself will furnish employment for all our skilled mechanics. BETTER times are antieipated in the near future among the manufacturing cities of New England. They have been kept pretty busy since |ast fall, and with the approach of spriig {he demand for their products is steadily increasing. So encouraging is the outlook that the owners of nearly all the cotton mills of New Bedford, Concord, Manchester and Lowell have posted notices of a general advance of 10 per cent in wages from the 1st of next month — Tue Chicago News informs us that “Maj. A. C. Story is to give a_public exhibition of his phonetic spelling in Washington next Saturday cvening.” We thought Col. Joseph Medill had a patent-right monopoly on phonetics, It looks very much as if Maj. Story is in- fringing upon the inyention of the 77i- bune philosopher In Chicago white gamblers are let off with a fine of one dollar, while colored gamblers are o ed five dollars. This is an outrageous discrimination—a brace- game on the part on the part of the dealer in justice-shop justicc THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. The brushmakers are organizing all over country. In St. Paul, Minn,, all trades are in a bet- ter than average condition for this time of year, The “proseribed classes™ in the Kuights of Labor are rum-seliers, speculators, lawyers and politicians. Foreign iron and steelmakers are meeting with a heavier demand for pig iron and un- wrought steel. Three or four new motors have been intro- duced on the market, to be operated by water, compressed air and gas. The Farmers' Alliance are preparing toput up a mill in Tarrant county, Tex. An Engli that the combina- tion of tin-p! as broken up be- causeof the improvements now in progress in America, The most powerful district of the Knights of Labor is No. 30 in Massachusetts, with 201 assemblies and 20,000 members. The Hocking Valley miners have estab- lished ninehours as a day’s work, and have succeeded in establishing wages. “The protest against the passage of Mr. Haw- ley’s copyright bill at Washington was signed by over 20,000 members and 260 unions and labor organizations of various kinds. Last year 3,937 new buildings were ecrected in Brooklyn, costing fi‘.’O,UO\).OOO. Fifty per centof the new buildings Were built in the immediate vicinity of the ely ed railroads. In several New England tow: are demanding an advance of wage k- ly payments are being made by a great man; manufacturers The leading spirits are endeavoring to in- culeate ubstinence, or at least temperance as to intoxieating drinks by making it im- possible for workingmen who drink to be- come members. j A labor correspondent waites: “If 200,000 cigar-makers in New Yorkeity will take $1 each out of their whisky and beer money every week, they can set fifty factories atwork in & year, with a capital of $20,000 each.” A new silk mill is to be erected near Pat- erson, N. J., to employ 200 hands, The de- mand ‘domestic silk is rapidly gro ing. The manufacturers are busily devis- ing new wpachinery to produce better ve- sults. The Buffalo organized laborers have in- du to compel the tural gas company to inerease the rate of trom S1 to $1.50 per day. and employ y men who have been in the city one year. Over 300,000 persons_are engaged in_lace making in France. In Germany this indus. try has not_prospered as well. tlie industry has gone down in some qu: ors and has prospered inothers. The Chen- tz_manufacturers in_France refuse to ad- mit English and American visitors to their mills, The Saxon embroidery industry is so bad that manufacturers are offering eu sell their machine: Knights flouring and the 60,000 In England ——— Ah! There! Philadelphia Ca Among our Chinese brethren we notice Ah Tom, Ah Sing, Ah Chong, but uo Ah There. Is he deed? S So Soon. Kansas City Times. The Hon. Benjamin Butler again poses as he friend of the laboring man, and it is only February, 1885, NN, t The Sunny South Herself Again, Macon Telegraph, Now doth the quail rustle the tall sedge and the bull-froz pipe his roundelay in the bog, for the backbone of winter Is broken and the hyacinth is here. D et No Need for Sympathy to go to Waste. Galveston News. There are eleven states of the American Union at present entitled to sympathy. They have legislatures in fon, i 8 Too Much Mileage, New Orleans Picayune, Robert I. Downing says that his dramatic company traveled 12,000 miles during its twenty weeks' season. It played for the railroads and did not make it pay, s Ll Bismarck Going a Little too Far, St. Louis Republican, The German parliament let Bismarck have =is way with the fair land of Poland, but stopped him short when he undertook to raise the tax on whisky, They don’t wan't him to meddle with their private schnapps, - The Professional Juror, Kansas Cily. Jowrnat Omaha papers are agitating the subject of professional jurors, It 1s & subject which will bearagitating not only in Omaha, but in Eansas City, where the professional juror nuisance has at times become alarming, e Nebraska a Thriving State. Cleveland Deaddr, ‘The Nebraska authorities have managed to geta good deal of valuable inform f very little money, The netcostof state census was 1633 than the returns are certainly of @ gratifying char- acter, According to the tabilations made by Superintendent Lane, oneof the state cens us bureau, the population has inereased 208,243 since 1580, which is a gain of 50 per cent. The number of residences has increase per cent, farms 53 per cent and the ave size of farms from 57 acres to 109 ac; he acreage under cultivation has doubled, and the value of faris is now $255,000 ,000,against $105000,000 in 1330, In the matter of live stock the returns show that the number of horses, mules, and mich cows has dounled, and that of swine has nearly in- creased to the same extent. The total value of live stock was $33,000,000 in 1 850; now it is $53,000,000, an increase of $50,000,000, The census shows no inerease in the wheat erop, but other erops have gained all the way from 200 t0 500 per cent. It Is gratifying to find that Nebraska is giving atteation to the in- crease of der manufactures, the tables show- | ing that her manufactured products are now valued at $43,000,00, against oaly §12, 000,000 | in 1880, Nebraska is a thriving state, for the census makes it clear that in all material points the growth in facilities and wealth has outstripped the growth of population. Pt o=\ ‘Will DoTo Tell, Anthony Morehead in Pebruary Century. "Tis easy to be brave When'the world is on our side; When nnlhlll? is to fear, Fearless to bide. *Tjg onsy to hope When all goes well; When the sky is clear, Fine weatlier to foretell, But to hope when all’s despaired, And be brave when we are seared— That's another thing, my dear, And will do to tell. STATE AND TERRITORY. Nebraska Jottings. A bank has been organized at O'Con- nor, Greeley county. Antelope county spent 85 poor of the county last year. Material for the railroad bridge over the Platte is arriving at Fremont William Dixon, Keya Paha count 000 ahead by the death of a relative Nebraska City is to become a volunteer braneh of the Omaha signal service, and will be treated to a cold wave flag. The business men of Chadron caleuiate on outfitting 25,000 prospectors for Wyoming and the Hills next summer. Three sportive youths of Seward paid $15 and: costs info court for the fon of pasting W, W. Woodward with decayed eggs. During the year 1885 Lyons shipped 685 gars of her productions and imported 209 Oakland ¢! 1\; to haye received shipped a third fmore. _ Jesse Hayes is convined that conl ying quantit s buried in the at Nobraska City, and has gone to with a shovel to find it. The Cathedrai Chapter of the Episco- pal diocese of Nobraska has begun suit against the College and Divinity school in Nebraska City to foreclose a mortgage for $2,882, Mrs. George Myers is the fire heroine of Neligh During tho lite blaze sho 1 6 on the s ich and pumpec er for the bucket brigade till the wi an dry, and froze her feetin the operation. A new ruce of bald heads is gathe: wealth and strength in Grand Tsland The plumbers there are threatened with pates prematurely polished, endeavoring to putin six hours on half hour jobs. Hiram Craig, of Ulysses, has received a buek pension of $50) for participating in the late “M-rul'!" with Jeft’ Davis, An- drew Lamb, of the same town, also took a hand in the same fracas, and was ve- warded with §340 last weck. A story comes from Custer county that an Omaha doctor, while visiting there, mputated tho hip joint of a 10:year-old child and replaced 1t with a similar joint from the body of a child recently dead. The child is said to be recovering. The Citizens' State bank of York, with ital of $50,000, was organized last week, The officers J. M. Barnes, president; 1 -presi- dent, and W cashier. The directors are Al Barnes, J. F. McCanaughy, E. P. Warner and C. A. McCloud. A Butler county farmer named Warner has a calf aflicted with hydrophobia, but, singular to te, the imal’s cussed- ness runs to its hind heels. given the freedom of the entire pasture. The Rev. Selby of Frontier mourns the loss of $1,500. In an effort to reform J Robert Williams, tho David _City swin r, the Rev. d him with his pte, which Willi shed before his flight for Car A half hour’s com- miinion with a profune layman would be cuu}forung to the minister's troubled soul., The celebrated story of Father Martin, “The Conflict, Love and Money.” con- tinues unabated. It has reached into the thousand chapters, and will probably be concluded some time in the coming cen- tury unless the author is nipped in the heart of his labors. Several of the inent heroes have been killed o new ones spring up with each dip of the pen. All the |vropor‘t/)', both real and per- sonal, of the West Point Butter and Cheese association, was sold Saturday at recciver’s sule. The property consists of about 8,000 acres of of buildings, 1,000 h horses, worth at a small estimate 000. 'The total of the sale was 6,960, the Middleton National bank, of Middle! ton, N. Y., being the purchaser. and, $100,000 worth 1 of cattle and 75 ITowa Items, A $12,000 high school is to be built at Independence. A stock company will build a $25,000 hotel at Clear Lake. A Methodist mush and milk social was one of the late froaks of Paullina society, Missouri Valley is about to become city of the second runk and will illumin- ate with electric lights. Asa Johnson, a farmer livi near Knoxville, during the year 1885 made a profit of $8,780.65 out of stock raised on his farm, Sioux City is pushing plans for a direct railroad to Des Moines, A mass meeting was held Monday night and committees were appointed to further the project. Cass county is to hiavé a poor farm. The board of supervisors of that county purchased 160 acres of land for that purpose, which is situated about half way L(»Lwcun Atlantic and Lewis. Last Saturday evening the marshal of Oskaloosa and a posse of men raided the tiger den on the south side of the square, captured 1,05 poker chips, eighty-ni packs of cards, thrge poker and one farg table and gawmblers to match, Dakota, A large brick hotel is 45 1@ Luiit at Pierce, The new Methodist church at Rapid City was dedicated last Sunday. Little baby Bates, of Yankton, bein about to move with her parents, finishec her prayer the night before starting with “good bye, God, we are going to Huron to-morrow.” There is & movement on foot among the ownere of tast horses in Sioux Falls to arrange for a series of races the coming season. There are some fifteen trottin, and running horses now in that city and vieinity, and it is proposed to have a race every week, BF. M. Spear, of Colman, pension about four months and has already received it. He emplo) no pension agent or attorney to prosecute his case, but attended to it personally and got it through with the above re- markable speed, The Farmers’ alliance, organized at Jamestown, Saturday, withl 00 members, adopted a resolution, elected officers and declared against further encroachments of railroads, chronic officeseekers and hostile and special legislatio; They want the United States to take charge of all railroads. Steps were also taken to organize a mutual hail insurance com- pany. applied for o Wyoming Hay is worth $16 a ton in Cheyenne, A three foof vein of gold ore has been uncovered in the Seminoe district. The stockmen of Cheyenne propose to start an annual stock show in that city. Experts claim that the best coal in the territory underlie the town of Evanston. The recent fire in Sun Dance destroyed $21,000 worth of property, imsured for 14,000, James Talbot of Cheyenne, offers five acres of land in the city to the first rail- road built from there to connect with the . & M. line in Colorado. The bonus is worth $5,000, Arrangements have been made to ley ninety miles of pipe to convey oil from the Shoshone oii llmsiu to Point of Rocks, on the Union Pacific road. Refimng works will also be put up this summer at the above named station, The attempt of the Almy people to coerce members of the legislature into voting relief to distressed miners failed utterly. The boycotting of two members d to stiffen the backs of others, and stion of the resolution is in postponed. A memorial been introduced into thelegislature praying congress to enact more stringent mes { onfinin the Indians on their reservations and preventing the depredations of roving bands of savages, from which the settlers are unable to protect themselves. The hanging of William Booth for the crime of murder in the first degree, which will take place at Buftalo, Jonnson coun- ty, March 5, will rake the fifth legal ex- ccution in Wyoming., Booth's predeces sors were Boyer, hung in Cheyenne i 1871; Touss < in Che 0, in November f lins, in M ' n, ot Raw , 1844, and Charlos Cook, at Laramie City, in ptember, 1881 Montana. The town of Butte is worth £11,000 in clean eash in the treasury I'he bullion shipments from Butte the past week amounted to $96,804 W. A Clark of Butte recently sold a third interest in three mines for™ $50,000. A gang of twenty-two toughs were escorted out of Butte by the poiice last week. . Helena proposes to secure rail connee- tion with Butte next summer even if she ,_nn-l.« down into her own pockets for the cash, for ara Clinton, a fortune teller, wants 15,000 from th of Butte for tripping her hip out of joint with a broken side: walk, The Pacitic Coast. A Greek paper is to be shortly started in Los Angeles Fish Commissionor Cary, of Nevada, E st hatched a double-headed trout. new seaside resort on the San ro peninsula has been named Coro- nada Beach., One good result of the late storm in the interior is that gophers have been drowned out in innumerable numbers. 1a Walla is to have a flm,fl‘)\i peni- ry, a bill having passed the Wash- 1 Territory legislat ftect. Donner lake is literally covered with ducks and geese. Good bags are being brought in” by some of the local sports- men. . The proprictors of the long talked of reduction works in Portland have con- cluded to build works of moderate ca- pacity, the cost not to exceed $30,000. There are from 1,500 to 2,000 Indian children in Nevada who ought to be edu- cated, and it is proposed to erect a gov- cernment school’ for this purpose at Carson. A big gold mine has been found five miles from Tucson, in the cement beds to the east. The rock, pulverized, has given $2.50 in gold by washing a lot of twenty- o pounds. According to the laws of Arizona no license is required for marriage, but the person performing the ceremony is re- quired to file a certificate of the same within three months after the ceremony is performed. S The Lincoln Journal, Alliance, and the Price of Land. “When the Farmers’ Alliance meets in this city, as it will soon, the Journal begs that it wiil lay aside the regular order of business to adopt the folloy: That the value of Nebraska r every , and that, in of the great liorde ‘of immigration i o'y to roll across our castern border early in the spring Resolved, That the prico of Nebraska land is hereby put up 25 per cent, and not anxious to sell at that. “That Is about all the Journal cares to par- cu y insist upon, but if Brother Burrov likes this suggestion well enough to say we may put in a few more.” The above is clipped from the Lincoln Journal of Feb. 8. With its usual inacu racy the Journul states the place of the meeting of the alliance to bo at Lincoln. The meeting is to be held at Hustings, as a trifling adjustment of its spectacles would have shown the Journal. The mephitic exhulations from he “jobbing” department of the Jour cially su- pervised by friend H—y, r Lincoln peculiarly insalubrious to men who re- side in the guileless aimosphere of th country. Besides the citizens of Lincoln have not showered eivilites upon the alliance on th there, 5o ove 50 not altogether vain, a scooping the money of tax-payers is concerned. But for hospitality and kind greetings from the people we go to Hastings. As to the price of land, if there is any point at all in the suggestion of the Jour- nal it lies in tho intended inference that as the price of land is adyancing in Ne- braska, her farmers must be correspond- ingly prosperous. The poitical economy of the Journal is as fallacious as its news items arc inaccu- rate. As u question of fact, the farmers of this state have pever bheen worse pinched than thay are at present, unless it was during the teporary alannty of the locust eattle have hot ‘been so low as now during a generation; corn and wheat are selling below cost of production. The few hogs the cholera has left us ure seiling at prices that leave no murgin for profit, while taxes, thanks to tho fat contracts and other jobs which our Mephistophelidn friend before al- luded to has such fatal facility in setting up, are higher than ever before, But conceding, for the sake of argu- ment, that lands are advancing, what does it prove? Lands may be high-priced for two reasons—first, nigh prices of products; second, from sceurity of 1ands relative to those who need them for use, As the first reason does not exist here the second is operative. This scarcity is aggravated by the increased demand resulting from the depression of labor in other avoeations, and its turning to agriculture as a dernler resource. This scarcity of land in the great west, which is so spparent, has been caused by the absorption of th agricultural lands. by the great railroad corporations, They became speculators in land, after absorbing an area equal to several ompires. The patron company of the Journal oflice, the B. & M., ad- yauced the price of its lands three times in one summer, as I am credibly in- formed. Under the management of the railroad-republican-Kendall-Dawes-thiev- ing-outfit at the state capitel, the agricul- tural school lands of the state were dealt out in enormous blocks to syndicates of of speculators, and the leases now cost the actual settler more than the title in |1vrh-n of lands is adyancing, and no won- der those who are fortunate enough to own a little spot of God's green earth are not anwious to sell. How about the poor devils who have no land and are out of work and out of money, but with families calling for bread® 1f “the Journal would look about it would learn that, while the price is advancing the number of tenant armers is also alarmingly on the increase and rents are also advancing, The Jour- nal wilt probably call these facts signs of prosperity, True political economy will teach the Journal that high-priced land is not de- sirable for the working farmer. Land is atool. It simply affords an _opportunity r. The less capital required to this tool the better for the farm- Journal might quite as well congratulate the farmer upon an ade vance in the price of plows as of lands. Its ideas are not traceable to any true knowledgoe of political economy, but simply to its sympathies with specilators and land thicves, What is important to the man who labors on land is that he should bo pry tected in the fruits of his labor. The pt of lnnd is of no consequence to him, It is only necessary to say to him, “Whatever your labor produces on this Jand shall “he your: The systom at present in vogue, the prineiple of “what the traflic will bear,” and the system ing and mereas- Jlic dobt by credit ; building and stock watering, says to him right the opposite of this. E robs him of the fruits of his labor; it makes its nice calenlations of how much he wilt stand and_continue to produce; it exacts the last dollar he can pay and not starve, The Journal is sponsor for this svstem, To the extent df apwroving, it 15 responsible for it. When it washes its own hands and takes a stand on the side of the people, it may bo permitted to make suggestions to the state alliance J. Burrows. 1Ly, Feb. 8, 1886, A GETIING TO THE FRONT. Burnett, Madison County, Looking For the Coming Boom. suid in newspapers of the sprightly town of Burnett. The town is located in Mad: ison county, on the Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad, snd about twenty-five miles west of Norfolk. It is surrounded fertile and prosperous stroteh and, being in one of the richest scetions of the famous Elkhorn valley. The population now numbers nearly five hundred, and. consists principally of y and wide awake Americans; and the community, in fact, is decidedly American. There are fow towns along the line of the Elkhorn r that have the assurance of & more permunent and substantial growth than has Burnett. Among its most energetic business men the BEE man would mention A. M. Burnham, the present post. master and manager of « large genoral merchandise stock, also a grain_ and live stock business. o H. Kierstead, general merchunc o0s. K. Hansen, general A. 'Wyckoff, erstead, ios; & Memminger Holt, grain and Lumber Co.; ( coal and br LS. , Wm. Young; harness, ete.; A, B, and J, Sheldon, newspaper find job oflice, pro- rictors of *“Ihe Blade;™ Ose: Beebe, lacksmith; D. W. Whitney, hardware and furniture; L. W. Miller & Son, agri- cultural implements, S. D. Williamson, carpenter and builder. I\lr. John I. Newhall, formerly of Omala, is just opening up a very neat and thoroughly equipped drug store, Mr. Harvey Davis is at gw 2nt maste of cercmonics at the “Dav {ouse, where n man may find good accommoda- tions. The “City Hotel,” kept by J. H, Johnson, has a good patronage and seems to merit it. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. A new and commodious school house is nearly completed, which will provide ample facilities for the education of the children. The Christian church a_handsome new building which is certainly a crediv to the town, and lasting evidence of the cnergy and devotion of the people who have built it. There are muny other important fea- tures of the town that, if space and time permitted, should be mentioned. — All of the most prominent organizations, both religious and secular, are well Tepre- sented, The Woman's Relief corps and La- ) Mission Sewing society nre in good working order, and are sccomplishing an important work. A Good Templars' lodge was organized last summer, and has quite a respeetable membership. Harvey Post, G in March, 1 and has now a cight. The Sons of Veterans are also organ- ized with o membership of twenty "Ihe coming spring will Witness many important improvements in the town, and before the snow comes again next fall, Burnett will, in all probability, have rained o hundred or two in population. ‘e farmers and stockmen in’ the sur- rounding territor) of the most thrifty and industriouns “eclass and the natural growth, brought nbout by supply and de- mand from the farming community, will assuredly bring Burnett to the front The daily or” weekly BEE is herve, as it is everywhere a1l over the broad western prairi¢, one of the requisites in nearly every houschold and is looked for as eagerly as the hungry pilgrim listens for the announcement that “diuner is now ready in the dinin; hippew a , lumber, Brown, hardware organized 'en members, \ip of forty: —— Ont T cnly had her Why, it is casiiy 05! Powder, comploxion Pozzoni's The people of Ottawa, Kan., issued re- cently a ¢l ar pod seattered it in all localities within fifty miles of that town to the effect that all tranps coming there will be given ten duys on the rock pile. They have not been troubled with tramps to au t since then. it S S S S——— VHE Great Balsamic Dig- tilation of W FORD'S RADICAL the immediate reli permanont oure of overy form ‘of Catarrh, from i simple Cold in tho Head to Loss of Smoll, Tuste wnd tarrahal Consumption. ont, consisting of ono bottle Radi one box rinl folvout, and one Tiprovi (nhuler, o puckuge, may now bo bad of ull druggistd 1.00. Ask for SANFORD'S RADICAL CURE, for Complete Inbaler with Treatment, $f. “Ihe only sbolute specific we know of."— [Med. Times. post we huve found in & iifo- e of sullering." [ itev. Dr. Wigine, Hoston, “Aftor & long struggle with catarrh the Hadicul Cure hus conquered."—(Rov. 8. W, Monroo, Lewlsburgh, Pa. 1 have not found 4 cuse thal it did not relieve st once.”"—{Andrew Lee, Man clicster, Muss. Potter Drug and Ohemical Co., Boston, I MYSELF MUST GIVE UP, 1 oan: nattashh NPT A RN 1 1i3 does mo any goed.” Utoriue pains, . Espociuily adapled 1o ladie its delicate odor and gentle medi l fee ought to cost him. No wouder the druggists, 200; five for §l. Muiled free, Drug and Chemica! Co. Hoston Muse.