Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 23, 1886, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. & OMAITA OFFICE,NO,914 AXD 016 FARNAM ST 1 NEW YORK OFrice, ROOM 65, TRINUNE BUILDING . WASHISGTON OFF1 No. bl nrEENTH ST, ..PIH hh;do\rr\ onday Fate. grm Year. . ix Months. morning, except Sunday. The iing paper published in the TRRME BY MAIL: £10.00 Throe Months 5,00 One Month. . £2.50 1.00 L T Wy o, Published Evers Wednesday. T jeations rolating to_news and edi- % should be addressed to the B iee. All comm! torinl matt TOI OF Nk » THE BEE PUBLISKING COMPANY, PROPRIETORS. . ROSEWATER. Eoiton. -_— Tuk council meets and the council Journs, but the greatly needed building ordinance still hangs fir Coxaress will grapple this week with the appropriation bills, This is only six weeks behind the record of the last re- HAsTINGS now proposes to go her ny bors one better in friendly erecting a £50,000 ho Thera is CONGRESSMAN MiLLs of Texas grinds out s speeches at the rate of 215 words a minute. ‘“The mills of the gods grind slowly This is evidently where they differ from Mills of Te Fronm the continued delays in that “war of extermination’ it begins to look as the democratic leaders of the packing-house _brand had “'salted down their candidate . to await a favorable turn in the market, I dost $160,000 to build the Broadway road, and $319,000 for “‘legal advice” in connection with the construe- tion, Between the lawyers and the alder- men the whereabouts of Jake Sharp's $049,000 scems to be pretty well accounted s BALL players are always “catching . on.” A base-ballist last summer rescued a young lady from drowning at Atlantic City. The grateful young lady formed a strong attachment for him and the other day she died, bequeathing him $60,000. This is what we call a fly-catch—the best on record. Tue model monopoly m the stock- holders point of view, is the barb-wire combination. But two unlicensed barb- wire manufactories now remain in the The patents under which licen- d are held by a wealthy cor- poration, which drives a perfectly safe and an exceedingly profitable trade with farmers elsewhere Like the king of Fraxice, the Nebraske railway comrissioners have “marched up and down again.” They pub- - lished far and wido their correspondence in the Schwenck' discrimination case and " ordered the offending corporation to an- swer the charge made against it of vio- lating the Nebraska statutes, Having re- ceived an admission from the railroad ~ that it committed the offense, joined with & promise not to do so again, the eflicient commissioners send up a shout of triumph, drop the case and point the public to this surpassing result of their earnest labors on the part of the people. The Nebraska railroad commission is about as valaable to the public as the seventh wheel to a wagon, It was constituted so as to affect the cor- jporations even in the hands of the honest * and well meaning men. Under its pres- ent auspices it is worse than useless. It is a shield to the railroads againt effec- tive regulation and obstruction to the public in the way of remedial legisiation. reflection on national gratitude that congress up to the present time has utterly neglected to reward Lieutenant Greeley and the surviving members of Arctic expedition, Groeley himself, broken down in health and unfiv for active duty, is in Washing- ton living on his pay as a first licutenant; ono of his men lics in a hospital supported by private charity; Brainard, his brave sorgeant who carried the American flag to the furthest north miles beyond the wmranulmd by the English officer ! ont, draws §16 a month as an en- listed man, and Sergeant Long is taking “observations on top of the Equitable building in New York city at the same rous rate of compensation. The na- tion which sent these men on their peril- ous journcy in the interests of science ‘and then through cruel official blundering deserted them to slow starvation at Cape = Babine, owes it to itself to provide gener- “ously for the reward of their uncomplain- g sufforings and unflinching regard for Rty Ticir oxploit has honored tho “Amgrican ndme in Arctio exploration, nd eongress would honor itself in seeing the remainder of their lives shail be ed in comfort. on of deaths in the ks of the old military commanders s forcibly befoe us the certainty should we ever be engaged in an- ¥ great war the United States would forced to develop the military com- wders by the same process of selection we went through between 1861 and ., Even now very few of the men o held conspicuous rank during the war remain in the service, and Gen- Hancock’s death removes the the great soldiers who were iden ith the Army of the Potomac. All of commanders of that most ndid army in modern history =McClellan, Burnside, Hooker, Meade and Grant—arve gone. So are most of great corps commanders—Roynolds, ick, Warren and therest. General is about the only corps com- der remaining in the s e, and he no such identification with the Army the Potomac as many division com- had, like Newton, Ayres and rs, who still remain. Franklin, Por- ger, Slocum, and one or two others: of inence are still alive, though not in gervice. There ave also some of the ofticers, like General Hunt, who are 10 be forgotten, but of the men who reaily conspicuous before the public long years when the cyes of the jry wore all turned upon” the Army Potonne there is.scu £ The Retreating Desert. The New York Zimes, in an extended editorial under the above heading, notes with surp “the gradual transforma- tion of the so called arid lands in the neighborhood of the one hundredth meridian into agricultural lands by an increase in rainfall’’ and thinks that such a phenomenon ‘“deserves more attention than it has received.” It pub- lishos the letter of a settler from Wichita, Kansas, which states that the rainfall is steadily increasing in western Kansas, and that at the present rate of increase fifteen ars will render irrigation in Colorado unnecessary. The Times thinks that *“probably some allow- ance should be made for the enthusinsm of a settler who is naturally unwilling to use any except the brightest colors m deseribing his home to his old neighbors in the east,” but adds thatthe “statements simply corroborate those of others,” and quotes the following report from a settler in Nebraska: A seftler in Nebraska, living near the ninety-cighth meridian, declares that land in the central partof that state which now yields heavy erops was regarded as a_desert twelve yearsago, It was then difiieult to raise hay even on small patches of ground in the valleys: but now, in the same region, the farmers easily cut two tons from an acre. Iills that were then almost covered with barren sands, showing scarcely a blade of grass, now support thou- sands of cattle. As late as 1875, it is said, no ove ground could be found between nd Cedar creeks, just west of the ighth meridian. Now, it is reported, on_and a streteh of country for 100 miles to the northwest are dotted with shallow ponds varying from an acre to five acres in extent, around which excellent grazing is found. A few s ago_settlers on the ninety-cightn meridian in Neb supposed that they had reached the western limitof corn culture, but since those days corn has been shipped from a region 100 miles westward, The ‘“‘sett from Nebraska" is well informed. The great American desert has retreated to the extreme western limits of this flourishing state, and is making preparations to take its depart- ure into Wyoming across the state line. During the past two seasons crops ha been grown in the westernmost counties of central and northwestern Nebraska, and the rainfall has been ample for all the needs of the agriculturist. The ad- vancing line of suflicient rainfall has pushed by all artificial barriers of geo- graphical lines, It halted at the ninoty-fifth meridian, stopped for a few years at the prophesied ympassable one hundredth meridian, and then bear- ing with 1t a tide of adventurous secttle- ment swept boldly across the hundredth and second. For twenty years Nebras- kans listened to the croakings of the meteorologists. T 1 rned from experience that of ings rain- fall as rainfull increases civilization. The “arid lands” of Nebraska are rapidly disappearing. Their place is taken by flourishing farming communities, by prospering towns and growing settle- ments, Practical investigation of cli- matic conditions has put to flight the antiquated theories of the past. So far ag Nebraska is concerned there is no Great American Desert. The Broken Pool. The trans-continental pool has gone to pieces, and the various lines betwcen the Missouri and the coast are engaging in a desperate struggle for business at each other's expense. Passenger rates have been cut to a busis of about 8 cents a mile, and freight rates are unsettled and cannot well be prevented from sharing in the decline. The pool went to pieces, as the natural result of the increased competition following the construction of the. Northern Pacific and the “Sunset route.” This latter system, including steamer from New York to New Orleans, and rail from thence by way of the Texas Pacific and Southern Peific to Californ has been the prime factor in the disruption of th agreement. Fora year past it hascarried 70 per cent of all treight from New York destinea to California points and has adily increasing the proportion. which bas been begun so savagely by the five transcontinental lines promises to be a long and bitter one in which the public will at first suffer by demoralized rates and afterwards benefit by an irvevitable recuction in both the passenger and freight tariffs, For fifteen years past the people of the coast have been mereilessly bled by the gang of cormorants who have fattened from the fruits of their labor. While the Union and . Central Pacific formed the only transcontinental route, rates were fixed at figures which were little short of prohibitory. The Pacific Mail steamship route across the Isthmus was heavily subsidized to prevent competition, anda the route by the way of Cape Horn and the clipper ships was paralyzed by forc- ing San Francisco merchants to pledge themselves not to use its facilities under pain of excessive rates on shipments by rail, The extension of the Southern Pa- cific south and eastward to its junction with the Texas Pacific, the construction of the Atlantic & Pacific westward from Albuquerque to the Needles, joining the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Ye and the Southern Pacific, and the competition of the Northern Pacific to Portland added three competing roads to the original line and forced a combina- tion of interests which was subsequently reinforeed by the Burlington and Denver & Rio Grande in connection with the Central Pacific. The fight now in pro- gress must result in & permanent lowering of rates between coast and const. The discontinuance of the sub- sidy to the Pac Mail has made that line a factor in the contest while the rival ambitions of the other lines are too fierce to permit a compromise until a long contest finally settles down into an agreement which will recognize that wholesale robbery of patrons is not the best means for the stimula- tion of trafic to a point which will be profitable to all. Asa matter of fact the exorbitant railroad rates have been slmost suicidal to the best interests of the roads themselves “They stimulated the construction of com- peting lines and restricted the expansion of business which would have been ac- companied by a corresponding expansion in trauscontinental traflic. Owing to the excessive rates the population of Califor- nia to-day is little more than it was ten years ago, ahd has grown ontirely by natural inerease. Imuigration to the coast has been stovped half way by the increased inducements offered for settle- ment at intermediate points. A perma- nent reduction in Loth freight and pas States, ates will be the regeneration of the Pacific coast, and if it comes as the result of the broken transcontinental pool no one, not even the railroads, will regret its disruptio 1t all the land grants condemned by re- ports of congressional committees should be restored to the public domain at the present session, many millions of acres would be added to Uncle Sam’s av le al estate. Among the most flagrant ses of unearned grants is that of the ifornia and Oregon railway, This tract was granted in 1866 upon the con- dition that the road should be completed by July 1, 1875, and the time was after- ward extended to 1880. It was provided that if the road should not be completed in the peried allowed the act should be- come null and void, “and all the Jands not conveyed by patent to said company at the date of any such failure” should rert to the United St " When the limit was reached about h had been built at a cost of less than 5,000,000, and for this work the company had received patents for $10,000,000 worth of land. Not until a year or two ago did the Central Pacific complcte the road upon which work had been suspend- cdin 1872, Although the lands not pat- ‘eated, which had become very valuable, A clearly been forfeited to the United the Central Pacific applied for them, asking for the appointment of commissioners to inspect the rohd. At that time a bill declaring forfeiture of the lands was pending. Under the advice of the general land commissioner, & notorious tool of the railroads, Mr. Arthur appointed the com- missioners, though his on in so doing was made the subject of a resolution of inquiry. It is a matter of congratulation that under the present administration of the land ofiice the decisions of the com- missioner are not written by type-writers in the offices of the d managers. new paying districts will be blind_to their own inter- ests if they look only to the present cost of the material with which they improve their property. In Elizabeth, N. J, which was swamped financially by the wood block craze, lots abutting on the streets.payed with this material are less valuable to-day than those on unpaved streets. wffie was soon diverted from the ruts, jogs and hummocks of the short-lived pavement. Residences lining the decaying filth of the wooden blocks are to-day tenantless, and prospective purchasers decline to invest in property which to be made profitable must again bear the burden of taxation for repaving. Washington property owners were forced in self-defense to demand the re- moval of wood blocks. San Francisco followed suit. In Chicago the rotten pavements in the heart of the city are being removed instead of being replaced, and the health department and board of public works, reinforced by the press, are protesting against the further use of St. Paul has entered upon od of the craze, but we con- fidently predict that her enterprising cit- izens will revolt before the fiv ars of prophesied life of the wooden blocks have expired. OMAIIA 18 at presentabsorbed iy discussing the relative merits of wood, stone and asphalt avements, The Bee says that wood will i Inst three years and that it is cheap and nasty. The Herald maintains that wooden blocks make the best pavement possible. In order to decide this interesting controversy, leta committee from Omaha, where pave- ments are unknown, come to Kansas City and inspect the paying here. We have stone pavements of two kinds, also wood. TPeople who are ignorant should not be afraid to ask for information.—Kansas City Journal. The Journal makes a maliciously in- correct statement when it says that pave- ments are unknown in Omaha. The fact is that Omaha has nearly eleven miles of stone and asphalt pavement, and is to- day one of the best paved cities in this ess centre isall paved. we are now talking about cons ensions, and will in- clude sixty- Tk BEE repe it too often while th ue is being foreed upon Omaha, that wooden blocks are the cted pavement of the past and pres- ent. The B by are st being used has nothing to do with the case. So are cheap systems of sewerage, waterworks and bridging, although c demned by all competent authorit Omaha has started well m her publi provements. She has laid broad founda- tions for future greatness. Up to the present time she has selected the best be- cause her good judgment told her that it was by far the cheapest in the end. It will be worse than unfortunate at this day to change policies and inaugurate wild-cat improvements which will insure continued expense for repairs and indi- vidual loss for replacement. Way do not the contractors who are moving heaven and earth to plaster this city with a cheap and unhealthy paving material, publish some certificates of the value of wooden block pavements which will earry conviction to impartinl readers? They have given an extract from a four- year-old report of a Chicago street com- missioner to the effect that wood is not 80 noisy as stone and that a large a of Chicago has been laid with that material, Against which, stands the verdict of the chairman of Chicago’s board of public works under date of 1886, that the pave- ment has absolutely no redeeming qual- ity but it's temporary cheapness. CexrraL Wyoming is jubilating itself o the certainty of a trunk line rail- road, counnecting the rauges and the lands along the valley of tne Platte with the eastern marke! The *‘sage brush” territory proposes to add 50,000 to its population this year and to show the world how productive in mineral and agricultural wealth its soil is when prop- erly tickled by the hand of capital and enterprise. — TaE heroes of the war of 1812 and their widows are going fast. Last weck Pe sioner Commissioner Black dropped 1,752 from the Boston pension roll. They had been dead for years, but some one stood ready every quarter to draw their regular ration from the treasury department. —— Ir THE county commussioners would spend more time in examining the needs of their constituents, and less in discuss- ing such schemes as tapping the Elkhorn and lowering the court house, the public would be correspondingly benefitted, 1f of the road Convict Labo# At & Discount, The convict laboggof the Illinois peni- tentiary has doneMhugh to disturb the honest labor elemdgt, %ot only of that state but severa her states, in- ciuding even Nebra#ka, The cut-stone from the Illinois mgnigentiary has for yoars been extensively ysed by contrac- tors for building purpbses throughout the west in the face of emphatic protests from honest labor, upor, whose interests it has had a depressingd effect. During the last two orthree ‘years, however, contractors lave found censiderable trouble in using contict but-stone, owing to the vigilance of the labor organiza- tions. It will be gratifying to honest labor to Jearn that the commissioners of the Illinois penitentiary are at last unable to find purchasers of convict labor. After ad- vertising for a month for proposals they met on the 19th inst. to open the bids. They were considerably surprised to find that none had been received. There is no doubt that this is the result of the ag- tation of the convict labor question. Con- tractors have evidently became afraid to handle conviet labor, and it is accord- ingly becoming a drug on the market. The change has been rather sudden, for only a year ago there were numerons bidders for the convict labor of the [lli- nois penitentiary. The comhssioners are now in a quandary as to what to do with the men. The convict labor ques- tion will, it is believed, be submitted to thesvote of the people at the next genc ection in Illinois, and in that event it safe to predict that it will be abolished by an overwhelming majority. At any rate honest labor has so far scored a notable victory. v of Denver, which after a hard fight banisked the notorious Doc. Baggs and his gang from her limits, now pro- poses to actually li amblers, al- though such a cour; ect violation of law and decency. It will be in order for Doc. Baggs to return to Denver and apply for a license. Tue cif PROMIN T PERSONS. The estate of the late Gov. Coburn of Maine foots up £4,000,000, Goldwin Smith will remove from to England in the spring. Louis Kossuth, who Is now at Naples, re- tains all his facultfes. James Russell Lowell Is the finest Spanish scholar in the United States. Rev. John Jasper, the Richmond clergy- ‘man, still elaims that *‘the sun do move.” Judge Tourgee likes to read the love-lotters of school girls. He's just like all the rest of Canada as been acting for tearly balf a cen- tury. mouNS O'Donovan Rossa’s hotoriety as a dyna- miter having subsided, hd las taken to poetry, 3 Mrs. Don Cameron atd Mrs. Eugene Hale are considered the best dinnér party givers in Washington, “The czar of Russia is_growing fat. Dyna- mite does not appear t6 worry him as uek; as it used to. . Ellen Terry, the actress. i Seriously ill and sone to Bournetionth for a rest. She is 1970 nervous protration. hurman is4n Fobust-health. ullcap and carri bandanna handkerchief as old. i Bismarck’s wife is described as a tell, aris- ratic-looking woman with decided but ing features, and of clegant but simple taste 1 dress Jay Gould has expres the management of his affairs by his son George. George drinks nothing’ stronger than milk punch. Thomas W. Keene's manager, according to the New York Graphie, says that the actor's days are probably numbered and denies the report that he will act again this season. angelist Moody recently refused $5,000 to sit for his photogragh. It is thought that some other person sat for the portraits of him which have been appearing in the newspa- pers for some years. Rcalilisd Refers to Gardner, Nebraska City News, . The “must go” business seems to be a fail- uresas far as we have heard. He a large red efully as of his_pleasure over . Makes Money Withont Advertising. Philadelphia North American, There is one concern in this eity that makes agreat deal of money and doesn’t advertise. It is the mint. s e 2 Gen. Thayer as Department Com- mander. Papillion Times. Probavly no selection could have been made that would have given more univ satisfaction among soldic bty An”Archacologist, Chicago News. It Is feared that by the time Mr. Holman’s special Indian committee gets around to submit its report the house will have to hire an archwologist to read it. b g R The Next Presidential Campaign. St. Louts Globe-Democrat, The talk ubout presidential candidates for 1855 has already begun; that s tosay, the democrats have commenced to let it be dis- tinctly known that they don’t want Cleve- land again under any eircumstances, st oDl o Give Us Justice. Burlington Morning Justice, Don’t manufacture laws favoring the work- ingman. Inthe first place they would not enforced. All we wantisa falr chance. Give us the same law the rickiman submits to. Remove thelaws which imake the poor poorer and the rich richer. Give us justice, e Gain, in Boston. Chicago Times. A Boston paper says; Y'Another new theatre 15 projected in Boston. This one wipes out a skating rinks ‘Dye last one took the place of a church,” t; ral eain 15 no doubt accomplished wheh 8 eatre wipes out a Boston skating rink, apd With unfragrant memories of Parson Dowais stili fresh in the publie mind, there are thesewho will elaim {hat the same is true when *& theatre sup. plants a Boston chureh, + & it One Little Rhyme, One little grain in the sandy bars; Oue little lower in a field of Howers; One little star in a heaven of stars One little hour in a year of hours. What if it makes or what if it mar: But the bar is built of the little grainsg And the little flowers make the meadows TAY § AndThe littlo stars lglt the heaventy plains; And the little hours of each little day Give to us all that lite contains, et In the Lead, Nebraska City News. The republicans who imagined that Gen. John M. Thayer would not vrovea very for- midable opponent in the contest for the nom- ination of governor on the republican ticket can now see that they were badly mistaken. His selection as department commander of the G. A. R. in this state putsdiw in the lead, l sud he is now in a position 10 make it decid- 1 edly interesting for the other aspirants. This selection was something that was not exactly in accordanee with the rules of_the “fing.”" The preferted candidate of the News—Hon, M. L. Hayward—will have to huinp himself tty lively or he will be badly leftin the S —— STATE AND TERRITORY, Nebraska Jottings. A daily paper is to be started at Creigh ton. . Holdrege will build a 10,000 school house this year. Norfolk proposes to hold a little re- union of its own. Tekamah has four saloons and four temperance societ Waloo is discussing the proposition to vote aid to the Elkhorn Valley road. Exeter has raised the bonus of $2,000 required to secure a canning factory. Joseph Moore of Fairfield dropped three fingers in a corn sheller last week. Norfolk wants a canning factory, an agricultural implement manufactory, a good foundry and a wooden mili. The first newspapor in N ka was called the Nebraska Palladium. Tt w Yl:l»li%hwl at Bellevaue, November 8 It is now suggested that Grand Island employ the ecnsus compilers of Hastings and do the city during the Grand Army reunion, The work of track laying on the Lin- coln extension of the Elkhorn Valley road l[n,un begun on the south bank of the W. C. ¢ y, & Pawnee City ex- editor, descended to the liquor busine and was run in last week for selling copper tan without a license. Willinm Barnet, a boy of fifteen died suddenly at Mead, Saunders county, last weck. While playing with a companion the latter slapped him on the back, eaus- ing instant death. E. Beller of Ponea butehered a cow last K her stomach found a pound of nails and a 1} inch screw, all being worn as bright as if polished on an emery wheel Fairfield is torn up with a_scandal of metropolitan proportions, in_ which a minister figures rather luridly in dealing out prayerful consolation to a fickle and faithless wife of a town merchant. this spring on , which, when will the best wate power in the state. ite is conl will be lined with factories of all in a few years. The Kearney Press charges Register Higgins, of the Grand Island land office, with raising the price of publishing “final proof’’ ne from $3 to $5 ¢ and ng the entire ng bus Apd 5 purse of ex- Morgan of Kearney. nss of the fifties still elings the opposition press Higgins was a_pub- days of republican- te of public pap. kinds tmast: The bourbon 1 to John G.S should not lisher in the palmy ism, and never got a t Towa Items. There is a scarcity of houses to rent in Paullinu, There are twenty county jail at Si The Haw! prisoners in the oux City awaiting trial. e Reduction company, of Pelln, has filed articles of incorporation. Capital, $100,000. A in $20,000 opery houseis likely to follow tha 'wake of the proposcd 200,000 hotel in Sioux City. New coal discoveric near Collins, S son, Green count The grain men of Sutherland in the six months following August 15, 1885, ship- 457 cars'and stock. he estimated expenses of the schools of Burlington for 1836 is $45,000; esti- mated receipts, $47,000. The flouring mill at Missouri Valley year consumed 72,000 bushels of whe: and sold $48,000 worth of flour. The Chicago, Burlington & Quinc Railrond company will complete the work of building a double track through Iowa on its main line this year. Muscatine has entered suit against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railrond for over $18,000 damages for failure to grade o strect and estublish machine shops. Franklin Prentice, of Deloit, claims to be the oldest settler in Crawford county and one of the pioneers of the state. He located in Crawford county in the spring of 1819, and has residea thiere since that have been made ory county, and Jefle Walter Fitzjerald, who was sent to the reform school two years ago for the kill- oung man in Grand Meadow Cherokee county, died two ugo. His de emed by o horrors of having \e young man, Polk Wells, the notorious murderer and bank robber who is serving a hfe sentence in the Fort Madison peniten- tinry, has written a book . entitled “The Life and Trials of Polk Wel which is now in the hands of the printer. It i contain a portrait of himself and Sher D. A, Farrcll, his captor. Dakoto. ch ore has been developed at the Coats tin mine. The piling for th tween Buflalo Gap and B all been delivered on the ground. Carson, in Sully county, is now a ‘‘de- serted village,” the last” building having o remo ed from the town site last A syndicate is negotiating for the pur- chase of the millions of acres of Dakota land owned by the Northern Pacific rail- road company. The fair grounds of the Southeastern Dakota Industrial association, located at rankton, and all the valuablé improve- ments thereon, are advertised to be sold under the sherifl’s hammer on the 20th of March. John Brennan, who lives sixty miles north of Bismarck, was attacked on Sat- urday by an Indian, to whom his wife had eal. Brennan saved himself by 5o the Indian’s tomahawk and f ing him. The Indian was drunk. The Citizens' league, which was orga jzed at Yankton a short time ago toen- aw and order and suppress vice in ing generation, has been noticeably innctive of late, and the organization bids fair to expire in a natural way. —— A WHOLE TOWN ON WHEELS. The Recent Exodus from Silver Clifr to Westclifte. Denver Tribune-Republican: case was argued before Judg in the United Stu court sterday. It was that of Downing The Peo- ple of Silver CIiff, wherein the plaintiff asks the court to issue an injunction, to revent the inhabitants of Silver CLifY rom moving their town to some other Tocality. sim proceeding was probably never heard before in a_court. The eauses which lead to the suit date back to the early days of Silver Clifl, when that town ‘and”its mines had a world-wide reputation. That was in 1870 and 1880, and the population was then between 5,000 and 6,000 people, the third lnrlg«-sl ty in the state. The silver city began to wear metropo- litan aspects, and among the other eity improvements was a costly system of water works which the people voted to have put in. The bopds for the water works system_were placed for sale at Denver, and Mr. Downing, the plaintiff in the present suit, became the holder of the larger share of the bonds Ko But Silver CLff, likg other wmiuning A novel Hallett, towns, could not hold their own, and year by year the town has continued to grow smaller, until now there are considerably less than 1,000 people within the corpor- ation limits, With the depopulation the town began to degenerate, Taxes grew exorbitantly high. It is said_that at the present time the accumulated taxes amount to a larger sum than the total as- sassed valuation of the proper TI'he taxes and debts on ‘mhli(‘ improvements went unpaid, with the rest of the city's debts, When the Rio Grande road built into Sil CILiff the company located its depot on Grape O abouta mile from Silver C Soon a new town began to bu known as Westeliffo asod prosperity of the new town came demoralization of the old, and in recent times there has been what might properly be called an exodus from Sitver Cli People were not content with moving out themselves, but the) took their houses as well as their house- hold goods. Thus Silver CIiff was being gradually but surely wiped out of exist ence. The new town was just outside the cor poration iimits of the old, and a resi denco in Westeliffe meant a e from the burdensome taxes of Silver CIiff, pro viding the person soremoving did not leave any tangible property hobind him. Mr. Downing still continued to hold his bond in the Silver Clift er-works, The interest on them remained unpaid, but he kept his peace, in the expectation of better times, until the Silyer CLft peo: le began moving their hous: Ie drew the line there. Sati the wholesale moving was but a gigantic scheme to get rid of ing taxes, and that unless he took some steps in his in- terest pretty soon his water-works pmvcny would_be almost valueless, he applied to the United States Court in Denver to issue an injunction to prevent the people from moving their ho away, and also asking that a might be appointed, with power lect and properly disburse the taxes. —_— Laberia, Anderson H. Jones, a colored man who wWentto Liberia six months ago from Missouri, writes home from Browersville, lage fifteen miles from Monrovin, Nz some account of the country. Ho that there are no horses, no mules, oxeni whole settlement. All done with the hoe, the ¥ He says: “‘1 have been 1l over the settlement, and I found the gest number of people in a suffering condition for something to eat and for clothes to wear. T -g\su't any doetor in this scttieme settlement is too poor to support one. Calico is 25 cents per yard. A common laborer, when he can get any work to do, is paid 25 cents por day. Pickled pork is 25 cents por pound; shoulder meat cents per pound. Al the flonr and meat used here is imported from Engla Corn-meal is 10 cents per quart. mon flour is §15 per ‘ The on way the settlers have to make money h is by raising and selling coffee, It will take a newcomer like myself from five to six years to get a coffee farm in trim for solling coflec. Tho public schools are poor. ‘There is a class of people over herc who do not want the true condition of things written back home.”? e el Swindlers as Bible-Distributors, Madison (Wis.) Journal: The ubiquit- ous swindler has evolved a new plan by which to swindle the honast farmer, X p in_clerical broadeloth and choker enters a farmhouse and asks for lodging or dinner, as the ease may be. During his stay he announces himself to be Bible-distributor in the of a religious institution, and he general- ly goes so far as to present to the family a handsome Bible from a well-filled se. He awreful to say that his ety requires ats distributing members to pay their own w xhibits vouchers therefor. After purtaking of the good folks’ hospitality he prepare 1o’ feave, and asks for nis bill, - Ho is gencrally told no charge is made, but_he calls attention to “‘the rules,” and_insists on paying 25 cents per m Then he mildly requires a_receipt on his blank 'a voucher, you know,” and he the farmer to’sign it. In ninety days there is a notice from a neighboring bank to the pions farmer to call and pay the note for $126.20 which it bought and which bears the farmer’s signature. says al t—the e A Slight Mistake, Portland Oregonian: The announ ment among the church notices in yo: terday’s Oregonian that Rev. Mr. Caswe would preach on the sub; “How to Reach The Dalles,” drew audience ustomed to church-going. Among vho might have been scen moving churchward before the hour of seryice were the private secretary of Manager Prescott, of the Oregon railway and ration Company, with instriictions ake down th mon in short-hand; perintendent Rowe, with the boss of his shovel brigade; a squad of Columbia River pilots, and nn‘] tion of hold- rs from eastern Oregon, headed by Pi Mays, who having once beforo been inside a church (on the oceasion marriage) was best fitted for le: We failed to learn if Mr. Caswell zested any new mothod of snow- ploughing, but no doubt the attendants heard what was quite as good for them to know. The next time Mr. Casw vreuches on *‘How to Reach the Masses,” we hope he will write announcement $o plainly that the compositor and even the propf-reader cannot err therefrom. A Decay ot New York Times : The town of Oxford, in New Haven county, about twenty mil due north of Bridgeport, is a good illus- tration of what is becoming of some of the country s in Connecticut. The returns for 18%5, just made out, show a decrense of thirteen voters, or about fifty people, and a loss on the nd list of $1,000." The o and thr a fow yes of Danbury, all other towns w iles, which are now from fi Oxford, was carri e of these towns sold their corn and wine, which was exported the nge for fore commoditics, not excepting brandy rum, which figured largely and had po er then as now. It is ;li]{ recalled th: in u parish meeting in which it wi voted to build Christ chureh at Quak farms, near by, the presiding promised five gallons of the best St. Croix 1 to the man who got the first main k of timber on the grounds. It is need- less to say that that night saw the first stick of timber coming for the church, the. peo) horses, cattl Little Lotta's Age. Few of the people who see Lotta kick- ing her heels and playing all the tr a little girl on the stage would plac age at the correet figure. The little of a body doesn’t lTook it, but she was born in Nassau street, New York, Nov. , 1847, Her father, John Ashworth Crabtree, was nglishman, and kept # bookst which he abandoned to go to Californis during the gold er Lotta has been on the stage si s credited with tho largest pile ) ars of any woman in the profe sion, the greater part of which she owes r shrew i hersclf and her leading | man, Mr. Frank Carlysle, although she | bas hitherto kept her band, if not her faucy, free. merly with J. 1. TWO BOYS FROM PALESTINE. They Make a Successful Tour of Mendicancy. S8an Francisco Examine A most striking illustration was presented in tha probate court yesterday of how a philans thropic public may be imposed upon by the schemes of unserupulous rnr ons, and what peculiar methods are adoped by tho latter to obtain money by arousin; pathy. The Examiner published the that two boys ranging from 9 to 11 of age, had made the perilou: from Jernsalem to the city in relati who had died here since theig departure from their native land, Thop wore \u-nnil.»u. and efforts were made té provide for their comfort. In fact it wa¢ suggoested that funds should be raised te have the little waifs sent back to the Holy Land, where, it was statel, their brothers anl sisters resided. The beautiful stor, howev has bean explodec is si:own that the boys wer in the hands of scheiing for them for the purpose wing, thereby obtaining means to lead a Itfe of idleness. James Jirash, as the youngest is named, is 0 nd an exceedingly bright little Although he has been in the United States a_little over a year, ho speaks English fluently and with as puro an aceent as thongh he were a native born, Hi ant smiles and quick, decisive answers to the questions asked him, put him on good terms in a very few inues wge Coflee, who éxamy d him closely to his wanderings nee his arrival in this country. It was learned that he is conversant ‘with five difterent languages,which he speaks witn the utmost He was neatly and 1 a business suit, and his ixioty scomed to be for his com- pariion, Josoph Dewood, with whom ho has traveled from Jerusalem to 00 latter is 11 years old,and appeared to mentally and physieally inferior to the other boy. He would frequently burst into tears and was very reluotant about ing to questions put to him by tho attorne James Jivash left his parents in Syvia about a yem ago, in company with™ his uncle, Joseph Ehrmot. His father is said to be a well-to-do butcher in that place, and, at the solicitation of his uncle, the little fellow left the parental roof under the guidance of the latter, who expected tofind a fortune awaiting him in_ the United States from the sale of allegeg vel- 1es from Palestine. The stock in trade 1 of some bracelots, lockets and nkoets made of beads, pictures viety of bric-a-brac. But the linnce for the uncle's success was ’s atiractive manners, tvinning vays and smooth tongue, They visited New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Denver and the principal cities in the east with varied results. Ehrmot sold his wares, but his_hopes were not fully realized, ince tho expected fortune came not. ¢ proceeded to Chicago and thero ot Toeaplii Dewobtl thet OLHer by /i company with & man named Ammoratt. It was soon found that the boys were 2a- tives of the same city, and plan. wis then matured by theit gunrdians by which the latter hoped to make more money hout working than by selling their The boys were provided \vicgru aps, with long” black tassels, and told ' that in future they —mus jmpress the public with the idea that ‘dhoy we ul-uwngn;f in search of rélatives and i 3 I uf J 3y sefln%‘ hoy a book ed, stating and recom- money, To this end schiemo, giving in which a cert that the I».,? were s mending them to the charity and good will of the public in general for thy pure pose of returning them to Sy Gron o was ik abont | ¢ older iiferent cities, and d the sympathy of 1 cd suflicient money joined by the schemers who 00 mquey from the little w were sentonward their missions. James was 1stry y his uncle to tell the people that his father was killed in a railroad accident ut Donver, while Joseph was warned to say that Ammeratt was her, who was sick and unable to L bad trous d &Co., £0, 15 in the city, with | @ view of ewbarking ln the dry goods | business. Paly | work. Under these circumstances the boys landed at Reno, where they were taken charge of by the Catholic sisters, who kindly provided for them. and_sont them to Sacramento in care of the sisters there. In the latter place $28 was raised for them in one day from the school children and they were forwarded to this .city. ‘Their traveling expenses were nominal tod_conductors were found ds who were willing to t lows, and who, besides giving ride, frequently supplement generosity with coin, paiaboslota b He Undertsood English, Customer (in Chine, Inundry)—Can you understand English, John? John—Yep. Customer—If I leave some collars and cufis to be done up when can I get them? John—Alle i Customer—I want to know when I shall come for them? John—Ycp Custome than Frid: John—You ? Customer—You pig-tailed linen de- stroyer, 1 thought you said vou could un- stand English? John—Yep. Customer—Then why in thunder don'v you answer my question? John—NMo unstlan English; no speakee. You leave washee, 'SCALL-HEAD Milk Orust, Dandruff, Eczema and All Scalp Humors Cured hy Cuticura, ovember, my little boy, nrod three yours, foll uguinal the stove whilo he was hat, ce and loft onr, Aovtar could not cur him. and loft cur wore in a feéarful stute, and he sullorcd torebly, 1 caught tho disease from him, and it sproad all over my faoe and 1 d oyon Kot inio my iody thoug 1d evir got bei- 1t Bure wi 1 itk theu constantly two bottles of curaand four cul " und used day snd night, “After using four boxes of Cuti- 8 OF S0ip, o Were perfoctly My boy's: ki 18 now liko LaLLiE EPTING, ersoy City, N mo this #1h ¢ e P, Rosis THE WORST SORE HEAD, Have bocn in the drag und med twnnty-five yoars. H 0 cura remedics since lln-{ o Allothers (o their line, We could not writ conld you print wll we have heard said the Citicura RRemen r y of March, BON, J, P, nor in favor the Cuti- houso of , and the Ite UrNg A young g hilo the physicians ar tated. 1t willsave his le ch cannot be sald B 1. Snurn & Buo, I 1 10 hisvo it nin and perhaps his 11 in favor of Cut. Covington, Ky, CUTICUBA KEMEDIES ATe & pos) every form of skin and blood iapios 10 scrofuln. sold e utioura, Sc.; Resolvont, §1.00 [ured by the Porzis DIda AND loston, Mass. Send for “How to Cure Skin Diseases.” SKIN 1 curo for FULL OF ACH PAINS which o huin sueins able 1o aiipviate, {5 (he condition of thou suods wiih 18 yer kuow nothing of Tl new 02 GlagRDE ANLACTO 10 pam wid infinst oo, e CUTIGUIA KNer LASTRN, B AND