Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, March 12, 1886, Page 4

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1886. THE DATLY BEE. OMANA OFFICE,NO. 014 AND gTgFARN AM ST New Yomk Orrice, ROoM 6, TRIBUNE BUILDING WASHINGTOX OFFICR, NO. 513 FOURTERNTH ST, Publishad every morning, except Bunday. The only Monday morning papor published 1n the tate. WERME BY MAIL; $10.00 Three Months. 0 One Yenr. 5.00/0ne Month. . v 100 Eix Mont T WerkLy Deg, Published Every Wednesday. TERMS, POSTPAID: ne Year, with promium 2.0 One Y enr, without premium 12 ix Montlis, without promium i One Month, on trial. v COMRESPONDENCE! All communications relating to_news and edic torial mattors should be addressed to the Ebt- MO OF “HE BER. BUSINFSS LETTERS: ATl b siness Jottors and remittancos should bo padressed to THE DEE PUBLISHING COMPAXY, OMaRA. Drafte, checks and postofiice orders 1o be made prywble to the order of the company. THE BEE PUBLISHING COMPANT, PROPRIETORS E. ROSEWATER, Eprron. —— e Accorprxa to the Herald, John B, Furay is a bold, bad man, and “must go.” Mr. Furay is now placed in the same boat with Gardner andean pull for the shore as fearlessly as that long: threatened officinl is now doing. CONGRESSMAN ANDERSON, of Kansas, continues to maintain his record as a con- sistent, staunch anti-monopolist and a representative of the people. The Kan- sas City T¥mes commends Mr, Anderson’s example to the enti nsas delegation, FIFTY-TWO marringe licenses were fiauml in Chicngo on Tesday. 1t was he Jargest number granted in any single day during the present year. It was the last day before Lent, which explain rush, nevertheloss it shows how Chicago grows. She believes in home industries. KAnsAs Crry has followed the example of Omaha and organized a business mens’ club. The first for: reception, held on Tuesday evening, by the Kansas City Club is pronounced to have been a very swell affair. Kansas City can find s eral other metropolitan institutions in Omaha which she can pattern after with profit to herself. By the death of Senator Miller, of Cal- ifornin, the democrats will gain another vote in the senate. Gov. Stoneman, of California, who in the legislative recess will appoint Senator Miller's successor, is a democrat, and will doubtless select a democratic senator. This will change the political complexion of the senate from 42 republicans and 34 demoerats to 41 republica s. Roscoe CONKLING is credited with making a great deal of money for the first time in his life, and it is said that he enjoys the sensation too much to permit anything, not even politics, to interfere with it. This ought to satisfy the public that Mr. Conkling has no idea of re-en- fering the political arena, as there is no sy in politics. Mr. Conkling’s head is perfectly level on this matter. Mg. HENLEY, of California, wants more daylight ghrovn. on_ the past manage- ments of the Union Pacific company and oalls for a select committee of inquiry into the book-keepmg of the road, and the stock jobbing operations of the leeches which have fattened off the company. It is a heavy job which Mr. Henley wishes to impose upon his fellow membh The record If over mado up will be an in teresting coinmentary of the power given to conscienceless sharpers to rob the public and gull the government. 5 ving a hard campaign among the Chicago sinners. The fact that out of a congregation of 5,000 he managed to persuade only twenty-seven peoplo that they were in danger of tho judgment leads the Chicago Herald to re- k that *‘although this speaks well for r0's self-consciousness of morality, it may be remarked that more penitents than that frequently rise in the Ada street Methodist church revival out of a possi- ble two hund 4 Tne Herald has discovered “‘a knavish political scheme” in Mr, Bailoy’s resolu- tion extending the time in which choice of paving material can be made. The milk in the cocoanut, according to the ongan of the cedar block contractors, is that *‘a gang of conspirators” “‘are trying to coerce,” “‘a firm composed entirely of democrats,” who, it says, ‘“will necessari- Jy be large employers of men the coming geason and might, if they would, wield a largo influence in the spring elections.” The opposition of the Herald to any such a plan of operation would be suflicient to provent this schome of offensive parti- sanship. BostoN has become a high-license city twithstanding the vigorous protests of m flqt\o‘(‘ denlers. 'Lhe licenses, which have been rather low, have recently been anereased as follows: Innholders’ censes, class A, are increased from $000 to $800; innhold class B, fram $350 to $500; common vietualers, from $230 to $850; common victualers, second class, from $125 to 215; to sell malt liquors and giders to be drank on the promiss wholesale dealers selling’less than $20,000, from $350 to $150. Brewers are all classed mnder one head, and the fee 15 $400. For the last two years brewers selling up- wards of 50,000 barrels per annum have been charged $450, The revenue derived | from this source will amount to a large & sum, and will materially reduce the bur- ¢ den of general taxatiol SoME of our contempories are pro- seribing in advance of the city election who shall and who shall not be nomina- ted by the purty caucuses for the next eouncil. Such attempts to bulldoze clec- tors are a little previous. The city elee- tion is still some distance off. Candi ~ will be as plenty as Missouri river w ot the June rise. There will be an abun- . dance of material from which to make ' gelections and the people of Omaha will exercise their choice in accordance with ~ their best judgment. It is a little carly to boom anxious candidutes-by ussailing mewbers of the present council who may bly come up for re-election. On the other hand, assaults for purely politi- * eal ends on councilmen are more danger- " ous to the assuilants than they arc tot men assailed, They ercate sympathy on | the part ot the public and stimulate in- ereased work for a vindieation at the 3 , It is important that the new coun ‘eil should be men of euergy, character and ability, much more important than 3 they should be ‘*‘packing-house’ ‘democrats or railrond republicans. The Labor Troubles. The extensive strikes now in progress in the various portionsof the country are ecausing gencral discussion among the public, and well grounded alarm in the ranks of labor employing capitalists. The evidenee is conclusive that labor has at last formed an organization so close and so well diseiplined that a single word can throw out of employment the ws carners of an entire section by their own voluntary action, and paralyze business over thousands of miles of terri tory. Of the merits of the controversy which las precipitated the strike upon the Gould system the pub- lic knows httle. The charges and countercharges are conflicting. That there are gricvances oatside of the dis- rge of a single man is undoubted. Such an excuse for the snspension of rail- road traflic over a whole scction of country would be too trifling for a mo- ment's consideration. Public sentiment 18 inclined to eredit the Knights of Labor in the present strike with a desire to secure a full adjustment of all causes of complaint by a demonstration of the power of their organization and to believe that all other reme- dies had been exhausted before the last resort of organized warfare w put into exceution. While there is a doubt the publie will be apt to give it to the employes as aguinst Jay Gould and oment. But, for all this, there is 1 growing apprchension as to the fu- ture. It isonly frank to say that there is afear that the tyranny of labor is to tpke the v Excessive demands and dominees niethods on the part of labor org: are as much to be criticised as unreason- able demands and tyrannical methods on the part of The or- nization of to protect rights is something which a sound public sense will applaud. The banding together of wage-worki to en- foree demands which good judgment and reason cannot endorse by means which affect injuriously not only eapitalists but the community at large will not attract sympathy and support outside their The Knights of Labor have it in their sp to be a great power for good or a great power for evil. By binding together the great labor interests of this country in an organization for mutual benefit they can successfully resist the aggres- sions of capital. The size of the order is at once its strength and its weakne: Sustained by an overwhelming public sentiment in any struggle involving the rights of labor to good wages and fair tment on the part of employers, their position cannot be successfully assailed. Numbers carry weight in any argument. Properly managed, arbitration, the prin- ciple which the Knights hold us so im- portant, can settle a large majority of any disputes which can arise. But the resort upon slight provocation to strikes involving thousands of wage carners and bringing financial loss to whole com- munities, in no way participating in the controversies raised, will certainly in the end bring disaster and d to the order. When once a organ- ization falls into bad hands and impru- dent management it is apt to Lr back in attempting to show its strength T alue of the Knights of Labor to the country will depend not upon its ubility to demoralize industries by the inayguration of lockouts and strikes, but by its power to enforce a peaceful settle- ment of the difliculties which arise between' capital and labor. Peace and quict are as essential to the laboring han as they are to capital. Theyare more so, for they involve the employment of labor and the maintenance of the lubover’s home. Mr. Edmunds’ Inconsistency. It is difticult to see what advantage is to como from tho controversy between the senate and the executive which Mr, Edmunds and his friends are working so hard to foster. The president holds the whip hand. He alone can remove from ofice nnd make appointments. The worst that the senate can do is to refuse to confirm during the session. When the session is over the president can nomi- nate during the recess and the nominees will hold their offices until rejected by the senate when it reconvenes. If Mr. Edmunds is attempting to prove that the professions of Mr. Cleveland are in- consistent with his practice he can rest on his oars, The public will cheerfully concede the point. But what is there to be gained by the concession, Thero are three more years yet before the demo- cratic record is completed. The presi- dential campaign will not take place for some time to come. When it does the issue of civil service reform will not lose or win enough votes to count in determ- ining the result. From the standpoint that matters connected with the civil seryice should be trepted with the utmost publicity, Mr, Edmu‘uds himse)f is open to attack. No senator has move bitterly opposed the throwing open of the doors of exceutive sessions than the senator from Vermont. If pub- lie policy demands that the sunlight shall be thrown on the reasons of the execu- tive for appointments, what argument can be made in faver of drawing the shutters on the eauses which induce the senate to acquiesce in or decline to con- firm the presidential nominecs. Profiting by Home Markets. ‘The advice of a local grain firm to Ne- braska farmers not to plant flax is eriti- cised severely by the Omaha oil mill, and the figures produced seem to fully jusufy the criticism, The crop of flax sced raised in Nebraska has never been equal to the demands of the local linsced oil manufacturers, In fact all the stimulus which the loaning of the seed and the colleetion of the erop direet have given to the cultivation of flax in this state has come directly from the mill owners, who are to-day importing large quantitics of the seed to supply the demands of their Farmers in Nebraska who have experimented wita good seed claim that no crop is wore profitable in propor- tion to the space occupied and the time bestowed upon its eultiyation. The mar- ket for the seed is steady and 1 liable to fluetnation thun that of grain, while the prices paid per bushel are move than a third above those whioh wheat brlngs in the market. Our farmers cannot be encouraged too strongly to vary thewr crops. To sow a whole farm in corn or wheat is to place the owner at the mercy of a single market. The more diversified the . farm *products. within reason- able bounds the better the ' chuunces for a profitable itcome - of the year's work. As a general rule produets for which there is a home de- mand for local consumption are more profitable than those which must be shipped hundreds of miles before passing into the hands of consumers. Corn fed to hogs and cattle brings a bettor return than corn on the ear because local slaughter houses at once condense the product and supply a steady market. In the same way the flax seed industry has proved profitable because every hushel raised in this state has found a prompt sale at mills within our own borders. Condensation of products should be the aim of western produce Trans- portation charges are saved, a local demand is stimulated and satisfied, and quick returns are secured on the investment. y mill and fac tory which takes the cultural weaith of the state and turns it into a smaller bulk and more valuable form is a public benefactor. The canneries and cream- cries, packing houses and flouring-mills, each local industry however small assists in making thefarming communities more prosperous by making them less depend- ent on foreign buyers and foreign mark- cts, General Pope's Successor. A Washington dispatch to the Chicago Tribune says that the prosident may as- tonish & good many people by the ap- pointment of Brigadier-General John Newton, chief of engineers, to succeed Pope as major-general. This will only be astonishing, hut we hel will be géiferally regarded as o great - justice to General Howard, whose claims are conceded by every fair-minded per- £on to entitle him to this promotion. The following are some of the points urged in favor of General Newton: In the first place, ho is one of the oldes ficers on the active list. e entered \We t the same time ‘with General Pope, but graduated higher in ~the and his original commission as lieutenant is prior {o ther. Ilis record is cle none, either in the field or in time of pe He graduated at the academy twely before General How: L if major general hie will retirein a year and a half, and Howard will not retiré for cight years. General Newton commanded the tamous First corps at Gettysburg, and liis en- tive war record is g ood. 1le was in the battles of Antictam, burg and Peach Tree Creck, He i3 a Virginian by birth and a life- Lt 15 argued that he failed to ecoznition which his services de- during the war, and that it is only proper now that he is'so near retiiement he should be honored with promotion. The probability 1s that the fact that General Newton has been o life-long democrat will have more weight with the president than any other part of his record,and if, as is ciaimed, military promotions are now being made by favor and through political influences, it is pos- sible that General Howard will again be disuppointed. If the promotion is made upon seniority and merit, we feel confi- dent that General Howard will be the successor of General Pope. Tre Philadelphia Zémes, in an article on the selection of the transcontinen! routes, says that when the first Pacific railway was built the ripest engincers of the nation chose the only onc of three routes thaf will never have a green field to cheer the traveler for o full thousand of journcy, and that 1t can ed with any cortainty at all in winter because of snow blockades. 'The Times then goes on to say that the Northern Pacific and the Southern Pacific are run free from snow blockades. Whatever else may be said of the Union Pacific and Central Pacific route, it can- not be truthfully said thatsnow inter- fores with the running of trains. The Philadelphia Z%mes has done a great in- justice, whether intentionally or otherw! we do not know. The factis that th has been no secrious blockade on the Umon and Central Pacific since 1871, when the roads were without the snow- sheds which now protect them in exposed places. During the past winter no road in the country was as free of snow as the Union Pacifie, and its trains have been run with the regularity of clock work. ‘The route is not only the shortest, but it is the most attractive on account of the varied scenery. 0] al A DECLARATION of war is al ways a ser- ious matter. Nations in such cases are anxious that the sympathy of the world should he drawn to their cause as a just and reasonable one. A war waged on trivial grounds and without a fair excuse rarely succeeds unless the nation which incites it is much stronger than its adver- sary. When popular support does not hold up the hands of government, it is pretty certain to fail. Strikes and lock- outs aro social warfare, nothing else. They should be the last resort of labor and capital in adjusting differences, only attempted when diplomacy has failed. To succeed, they too, must have the sup- port of the public. —ee Tue rumor that the president proposes to nominate ox-Senaior B. K. Bruite to bo a member of the civil service commission causes the Chicago Z'imes to say that to the bourbon mind his complexion will constitute n far more serious objection than his record, and the genial mossbacks who represont the administration party in the commission will hardly greet his appointment with enthusiasm, The 7vmes thinks that Messrs. Edgerton and Tren- holm engaged in reforming the civil ser- vice alongside of a “:Mississippi nigge will be a spectacle to make the (democt ic) angels weep. ‘Tag republican ralroad job office with a newspaper attachment chimes in with the democratie railroad printing concern in questioning the republicanism of Sena- tor Van Wyck. No republicans without the railroad brana on both checks need apply to that outfit for endorsement, and no railroad republican can expect en- dorsement from the voters of Nebraska in the coming election. Mr, Van Wyck must stay. king of Lent the St. Louis Re- publican says that society will proceed to mortify itsclf after the usual manner. “We will have less dancing,” says the Republican, “and more scandal; less the- atricals and more tea and tafly, and thus we will come to the end of the on greatly chastened in conscience and toughened in moral fibre.” It should be borne in mind that this does not apply to society in general, but to St. Louis society in particular. IN sp ~ dispateh says that Gen, can candidate for the We give Gen. 'y eredit for too much common sense to have any such ambition. In the first place he is no politician, and he does . ot | not live in New York, Ohio or Illinois, from - one of which thtee states the next republican presidential nominee will in all probability be selected. —_— THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY. About 100 assemblics per week are being organized in the Knights of Labor. The makers of coal-gutting machinery have more orders than they can fill in three months, Last year the Baltimote builders erected 2,070 houses, an increasc of 544 over the pre- vious year, An abandoned skating-rink at Plainfield, New Jersey, 80200 , is to be turned into n 850,00 silk mill, Silk weavers' wages have been advanced 10 to 2) per cent, The Chemnitz, Saxony, knit-gosds manu- facturers have tried over and over again to put up prices, but are prevented by the com- petition of the tenement-house system. The silk manufacturing interests of Pater- son and Philadelphia are quite hopetul over the improving trade prospects. Sixteen car- londs of silk reached w York last week via San Francisco, contaiuing 320,621 pounds valued at 81,600,000, Diserlminating frelght rates on hemlock Ininber decreased the supply of 1585 over 1854 to the extent of 15,000,000 feetin favor of Michigan lumber. This winter’s hemlock output is estimated at 160,000,000 feet, agalnst 225,000,000 feet for last winter, The spirit and body of monopoly is abroad in Alabama. One conl company has purchased and controls 90,000 acros Dest mineral lands in the state, Ing 800 coke oveus. and exjects to h In operation in a year, \\iJI which to meet a growing demand over the south. ‘The carriage and wagonmakers both east and west report something of a boom for wheeled work. That industry has been se- rlously depressod, but business is beginning to look decidedly better. One concern near Philadelphia, which has eapacity to turn out 1,000 carriages per year, has four months work on hand, but the employes do not seem to have heard of it. CABIN Seeretary Endicott does not spend much money 1n society entertainments. Postmaster General Vilas is said to give of- fence by snubbing public men who call upon him. Secretary Endicott is said to keep a fierep dog which has to be called off at times to al- low visitors to enter. Secretary Manning Is said to be more wil- ling to give ofticial information thau any other member of the cabinet. The entertainments given by Mrs. Secre- tary Whitney are said to rival anything be- fore seen in Washington. It is esti that her receptions cost $2,500 a week. Secretary Lamar is credited with having lately rebuked Colone] Ingersoll for hi gressive infidelity apd expressed a hope that he will some day become a Christian preacher. A i o 3T PUDDING. et Never Goes on g Strike, Chicago Tribyne. St Louis can still be reached via the Mis- sissippl. The Father or Waters gets turbu- lent at times, but he never goes on a strike. 0l iy A Pointed Question. Chicago Herald Jay Gould has been known to b strikes on lis railrols for a purp own. Is thefe any stock lying around that he wants to buy now? —————— Probate Practice, Boston Redo Senator Jones, aman of the first Florida water, can set up theclaim that heis én- gaged In legal business in Detroit, He is trying to set aside a young lady’s will. st b e Waiting for Admission as a State. 0 Torest City (Dakota) Press. The editor of the New Salem Democrat says he can’t live on *‘wind and hope.” We guess he'll have to 1f he runs o paper in Da- kota very lod ———— Disinterestod Advice to the Ladies. St. Pl Globe. Eastern young ladies anxious to pre-empt 160 acres of good land and a husband in Da- kota are advised to make no delay. There is a strong probability that congress will soon repeal the pre-emption law. gt AT They Come High. Chicago News. A New York widow has brought suit for breach of promise against William Voorhis, the wealthy ex-commodore of the New York Yacht club, claiming that her affections ha: been damaged to the extent of $100,000. Shattered second-hand affections come high when the shattering 1s done by a millionaire. The Herald's **Cacodemon.” North Platte Nebiaskan, Thie Greek editorof the Omaha Herald in- timates that there is a “cacodemon” connect- ep with this office. After this attempt to floor us with such a polysyllabic battering-ram, we cau but quote the language of Shakespoare a0 belng peculiarly applicablo: “Who art thou? Have not Tasbig an arm as thine? Aheart as big? Thy words, 1 grant, are bigger, for I wear not my dagger in my mouth,” ————— Complimentary to St. Louis Assessors, Chicago Times. The St. Louls papers are drawing many flattering inferences as to population, growth and so on fre the fact that the assessed value of réal nf\"lf‘ pérsonal pidperty 13 mneh larger than in Chicago. But the only correct inference to be drawn from this fact is that St. Louls assessors are wore eflicient, not to sayhonest, than those of this city, - Blair's Prohibition Bill, St. Louts Globe-Dzmocrat, Senator Blair presents a bill proposing pro hibition in all the United States after A. D. 1000, A$ the world moves very raplidly in these days, and fourteen years’ time m:lf‘ comprise u ggod many events, for il practl 1 purposes he might as well' have suggested 19,000 as the time 'to carry his resolu- nto effect, ~— - Innocuous Desuctude, New Yorl dritiune. luum-illous desuetude! | Shades of Lindley urray, rray, . Did ever lahguage show aneater for Pause, stranger, pause, i, life's insel hurry, ) And view the phrase that fook the town by storu. Imlncjlon desuetude! :shades of Thomas effer- Son, u(lwfnuldl simple s this verbal team ; Methinks sfplicity herselt glid neyer In all her life assame a shupler mien, Innocugus desuetude! 1o your Uncle Sammy Re m!;m{k(he phrase Lis beard does sadly luck, And slghs, While enyy makes him cold and clamy, “Tlis c.mi?} leads my cherished ‘usufruct.’” Innocuous desuetude! from Maine to far itana The Cleveland clubs assume Vs oy just To write the phrase upon the party’s banuer In place of “Oftice is a public trust.” Innocuous desuetude! lost in utter wonder ‘The cross-roads bourbons at the phrase dark scowl “Pell us,” they murmur, “what in name of thunder Does Grover mean—fish, flesh, or sowme- thing foul?” funocuous desuetude! O ne'er forgotten Shall Grover be while men that legend shout— Don’t lose it, Grover; keey it weapt in cotton, On ice, in oil, and fake # patent out. STATE AND TERRITORY. NebraskaJottings. Hartington and Coleridge are connocted by telephone. A Methodist church and a Knights of Labor lodgo are the latest additions to Rushville's growth. The special water works election in Hastings is billed for the 15th of April. Bonds to the amount of $35,000 are to be voted, Within six weeks after fair weather sots in the B, & M. folks expect to have the iron laid on their extension from Aurora to Hastings. —] Members of the G. A. R in Grand Island have organized a stock company to build a commodions hall for the use of the society. The eapital is $10,000. The school officers of Sheridan county will meet in convention at Rushvillg, March 20, for the purpose of discussing matters of vital interest to the schools of that county. The Fremont Paper company has been added to the wholesale trade of “the prettiest.” €. D. Marr and Hammond rothers are the owners, managers and drummers A mass nwo!infv of citizens was held at Culbertson last Monday night to considoer the question of a new court house for Hitcheock county. It v resolved to build a court house costing about The jelly and preserve factory in Platts: month is to be arged immediately. Tho_proprictors had been holding off awaiting the result of the water wo election, and since the people emphatic- ally entlorsed that public improvement, they have already decided on an in- creased production this season. Altogether the 0. & R. V. railroad ear- ried 82,316 tons of fl'uir;h( out of Butler county last year after the crop was raised, and the company received $111,706.75 for transporting the same. The B. & M. railroad carried 90,182,640 pounds out of the county dur the same period and was paid $97,100.76 for their labors, A new gas company is talked of in Grand Island. A New York itali named Lanner proposes to est $£50,000 plant here on trial for sixty or ninety days, and at the end of a reasona- y fair test, if wctory to the mem- sof the present clectric light com- ny, tho two corporations are to com- bine their stock and furnish our people with gns and electric light at their op- tion. The system Mr, Lanner represents is & coal ol gas. Iowa Items. An otter weighing twenty-nine pounds was killed near Keokuk on Saturday Clear Lake wantsa flouring mill. There is only one mill of any conscquence within a radius of twenty miles. Since the special delivery service bogan last October, 6: ls‘!c(, al delivery letters have been receiyed at Davenport. The salvation army. which has been at Dubugue for about has suc- ceeded in making ef A bootls prohibitionist through the state selling “‘Jeffor Simplicity” in pint bottics, The is warranted to cure snake bites. Melissa B. Harrison died Dubuque Tri morning from the eflects of a par- stroke. She was one of the oldest s of Dubuque, locating there in She owned a large amount of val- uable property in Dubuque. In adrunken brawl at Ce: Rapids ¢ night George Koust killed his John Foust, by beating out his brains with g coupling pin. He then left the body on the railroad track, where it was discovered by the engineer of a switch engine. One of the oldest soldicrs living who served through the rebellion is David Averill, of h{bluy, He was hory in Westminster, Vt., February 6, 1803, where be 11»‘0\! for many year e went w and early in the war enlisted in Comp: A, Thirty-seventh Iowa, served through to the end, and is a strong, hearty man. Dakota, Buftalo Gap has quarrics of fine build- ing stone that will prove of great value tothe town. A new line of steamers will be put on the Missouri river at Bismarck this spring. It is expected that the river will break up about April 1. A herd of seven or eight buffuloes has lately appeared fn the hills some forty miles west of La Moure. A buffalo cow was killed from there the past week. Among those who have been ordered by the land department to remove in- closures about school and public lands is an association which has about 3,000 s in Charles Mix county. Rapid City onc_evening last le, the man in charge of a game left the room for afow minute some parties tampered with the di loading them with quicksilver, As a r sult tho bank was soon cleancd out of §800, when business wad suspended, There is probably not an equal ex of as fertile and "populous terri the continent without railroad; comprised in the Missoun1 river counties of Pottor, Sully, Faulk, Walworth, Camp- bell, McPherson, McIntosh, Emmons and Logan. It isa strip about 100 miles wide and 200 long, with a population at the last census of 14,158, and filling up rapidly. Colorado, A nine foot vein of anthracite conl has been discovered on Rock:Creek, near Crystal City. orghum will be grown in the Grand e valley this year, and a sorghum mill set up in Grand Junction, Colorado Springs people are agitating for decent public school accommodations, and a §25,000 building is vroposed, new ditch gompany has just been or- gzexlzm?,in L m?‘?on Lounly with a capital of $100,000. A ditch will running across the count, from the Arl the South Arkansas river. Sterling favmers are finding plenty of water at twenty-five and thirty feet. Water was struck last week at a claim ten miles from town on one of the high est points on the table, and at many of the ranches back from the valloy’ the stookmen get water at a depth of from twelve to thirty feet. The Union Pacifie hos has a valuable artesian well, as a recent test has been demonstrated. A three- quarter inch garden hose was_connected with the npper pipes in the puilding and the other end, after being fustened to a twenty foot pole, was elevated that distan: above the peak of the roof, which is fifty-six feet from the ground, making a total seight of seventy-six feet: The water rushed through with such force as to indicate that it could have been earried yet twenty feet highor. e ‘s THE FLORIDA OF THE WEST, ebraska and Kansas, March 8.—[To the Editc he immigration to northwest- ern Kansas, and especially that portion of Norton, Deeatur, Sheridan, Thomas, Rawlins, Cheyenne, and Sherman coun- ties, through which the Burlington & Missouri river railroad passes, and will pass ere the spring of 1587, is simply im- mense and reminds one of the vast army o) fourteen years ago, to , when the railroad pushed for- Republican be constructed taking water emptying into tal at Denver Southwestern North- wester Bigp Crry, Kan,, Nebra ward from - Lincoln to the county, Chey in which are d the towns of Bird City and Wano, ag rapidly located by industrious . who conie to stay, and make bappy home on as fich sad pro- furiue the {'showed clearly ductive soil, healthy climate and pure water as can be found anywhere. In faet northwestern Kansas and south- western Nebraska are now or soon will be the FLORTDA OF THE WEST, where the best of fruits are grown and as the country becomes fully developed equal tothe same variety oultivated further east and south, What I commenced or intended to say in this connection was how to reach here with the least expense to those come. First. Come by wagon if you can hring your horses and eattfo, fow pigs and don Second. If~ you are Cheyenne, torn man and western Thomas coun- ties, and travel by rail, ship to Benkleman, Dandy county, Neb., on the line of the B. & M. railroad. This is the nearest point for cither of these localitios and is a gencral distributing point for this whole westorn county. Third. If you wish to visit or locate, or have located east of the territory before mentioned, ship over the B. & M. to Ober- lin, the county seat of Decatur, from which plice you can go in any direction by stage. A new stage line from Benkleman, Nebraska, though Bird City, Wano, Vol taire and Leonard to Wallace on the Kan sas Pacitie road is about fully equipped ready for passengers, and those visiting this part of the west had better trav this way, for the reason that it is cheaper and much time is saved. J. W, Pparsas, P, 8,—Glad 5 learn, through the B, of course, that my old soldic riend Thomas Morton, of the News, :J]\]min!ml postmaster at Nebr This, I presume, is considery and Morton victor, Ietter commending Tom Morton for the place some cight months ago, and_ I fecl sure that the su of Arbor Lodge did not object to his ol friend’s ||>|\uil|l||li‘,|ll, forget the dog. destined for w wling, Sher- R Stripping the Land of Timber. San Fray call The public press has for a long time sounded a note of alarm, and in the most emphatic manner called attention to the bid rate at which the country 15 being ipped of forests. The process of denudation continues, however, amount of timber cut eacl be steadily inel 3 ago, for instance, a sale of 85,000 acres of pine land along the Dead River, on the upper peninsula of Michigan, was made to a New York firm, and where now is a dense forest will soon be a barren ex- e of country. The New Yorkers the land, a very low fig- ure, as it is estimated that the 00,000,000 feetof standing pine upon the tract, but it is explained that its cheapness is owing to its inaccessibility, Between $200,000 and §300,000 will be re- quired to put the river in condition for running logs, and in that will beincluded the construction of a railroad eith five or eight miles long. Inecluded in the transfer are all the water priviloges. This is given as an examplo of the scale upon which the work of tree-cutting 15 being carried on. It is assumed that the presence of trees insures moisture, run- ning streams and even rivers, whereas i has been noted in sections of the country wher¢ immenso forests have been cuit down that brooks h: a smaller rivers suflc ation in the volume of their wate there has been a radical change in tem- poratar and erops, caused by lessened umidity and precipation of moisture. In Nebraska, though the nct of a wiser legislature than common, *“Arbor Day" was esfablished and made a general be day. On this oy nearly every pei who f8 in a position to do so plants trees or tho seeds which produce them, and the one who does the most of this kind of work in e cla loeality reccives a moncy ‘The day has proved to be a great hence the stato is growing trees an it is cutting them down. It stated that in thus creating forests, o marking the face o the country with trees, Nebraska has dis- covered a means of groaty reducing the amount of damage caused by cycloncs and tornadoes, which do not appear to attnck o wooded country, with the severity which attends their passage across the bare plains. Something like Nebraska's plan should be adovted in every state, and then if the forests can not be preserved they can at least be renewed. while. faster is also The Buffalo as an Engincer. Philadelphia Times, When the idea of a transcontinental railway was regarded as only the dream of cranks less than a generation ago, the lato Thon H. Benton was sneered at by the engincering experts of the country for declaring that the buftalo was the only engineer whose judgment was unerring to the climate of the Rocky mountaing, He noted the fact that the herds of buffalo camo down from the north to summer m the valley of the Platte, but retreated hack to the north whenever the blasts of winter came from the moun Accepting the instinet of the buffulo as unerring, Benton declaved that the practicable route fora cific railway must be in the north, as tae buffalo proved that the better winter climate was there to be found. But Benton believed in a Pacific rafl- way and tho engineering science and gap- sl of that davveanided him as a dotard or a drenmer; and when war came, and the golden states of the Pacific had to bo bound to the union by bands of iron and and charmed by the rude music of the iron horse, the l‘iru.fl. engineers of the na- tion chose the only one of three trans- continental routes that will never have a reen ficld to cheer the traveler for a full thousand miles of journey, and that can’t be run with any certaint all in win- ter because of snow bloc! We now have tn scontimental railways, and the one on which the gov- ment lavished untold millions and reaped great ranning sores of scandal ns its chief reward, is often blockaded in i nd has a sterile country for half ance west of the Pather of W '8, he Northern Pac rai ted the buffalo as an enginéer, by running every day during this exception- ally sey nter without blockade from snow. The Union and ntral Paci railways did much to develop thecountry when their offices were greatly needed, but the great highway of the world's com- merce on our continent will be by the Northern Pacifie, and the Southern” Pa- cific, with its semi-tropical climate, will alwiys be un inviting route for travel and ‘trade. What Benton's bufluloes taught us about railways thirty ys A0, is now the demonstasted solufion of 1l engineering problem of transcontinents railways. A GERMAN'S EXPERIENCE, Nine Days Without Food or Drink in a Box-Car, A policeman carried into a loca! drug store of San Antonio, Texas, on last Fri day, March 5th, a bundle of clothes that contained the remnant of a man, Heset it on the ¢ and exclaimed: “Give it something toeat.” The clerks erowded wround and a physician promptly admin- istered the proper rewedics. When the atten 4 entity had been nursed be to consoiousness, it was - found t German who spoke no inglish. He presen a pitiful sight. “The bones througlh his drawn n, and the eyes were sunken to an in- who | c¢oop of chiek- | conceivable depth. His pulse was very foeble and he breathed with difficulty. He had no money and no friends. An interpretor was furnished and he told his story. He came to America \ith muzn money but little experience, He drifted west until some days ago he went broke in St Louis. He tried for work there, could get none, asked for succor and got none, and without a_cent of money, pint of water or ounce of food he boarded an empty box-car standing in a railway yard, and curling up in the corner went The yardmen m\\\'i(tm;fily in, and when he awoke the and he did not know s ho was going and did not pare. As the days went on he made frantlc ef- forts to 't attention, but without success, always the train was either pounding along or he was| backed on a siding or the patent fact that the car was void of contents kept the railway hands away from him. He used to sometimes hear the |rnm||ln§ of brakemen over his head, he says, but they passed too quickly to cateh his muf- flec s, He first "‘n-uuvd. thon ex- hausted himself in efforts to escape. When the train finally drove into the In- at Northern yard here, wked. It was his last energies that thumped its side and made his wants known. When the policeman opencd the door and - dragged him into the light he was blinded, and threw his hands to his eyes, begging for water, He was amass of dust and tilth from head to foot. When the efforts of the physi- cian had partinlly restored him, e was 1 to compute glapsed tipe since en- ng the catt In fhe St. Louis yard. He atingly stated three weeks. Ho had just been nine duys on the trip. B — COL. FORNEY AS AN ACTOR. An Untoward Stage Incident That Saved Him for Journalism, Lancaster Intelligencer: Following on * the heels of those theatres that I have mentioned comes that which stood on Chestnut street, betw North Quecn and Prince streets, where the disuscd foundry of Harberger and McCully is now situated. Its entrance was near the northeast corner of the building on Chestnut street. The stage was at the west end of the place and was elevated five feet from the ground floor. It was in this old-timo theatre that Col. John V. Forney, who afterw: ved guch a prominent part in national journ iiqu and- politics, made his bow to the public as an actor. And, by the way, this reminds me of an interesting story of Forney, the truth of which I can myself substantiate, for I was present at the occurrence. The Connor Dramatic association, of which Forney was a member, had long becn )m-l ing to present the play of “Willinm Tell.” Cards of invitation” had been ex- tended to the friends of the members, and on the night of the proposed presen- tation a large and expectant crowd w. 8 in attendance. TForney 1 the title role of the picce and g V' m Teil was to shoot the apple from his son’s head and defy the tyrant sler. It was understood in advance that there was only to be a mock shooting, the boy to be placed behind one of the wings of the stage, hidden from the audience. After tne discharge of the bow an attendant o rush upon the stage with an apple ||u\rrcd by an wrrow. Young Forney, in his excitement, shot the arrow into the audience, The attendant, knowing noth- ing of this, brought out the apple aud arrow, ns was his instruction, which brought down the house. The young actor’s face was suffused with blushes, which beeame tenfold deeper when a small boy picked up the stray arrow, brought it to the stage, and presented it to Forney, with the piping exclumation: “Mister, here's your arrow,” Had it not been for s unfoward incident, My, Forney might have won high histrionic Iaurels, for’ it scems to have effectually dampened his Thespian ambition. SIS S A GREAT INVENTION. A Telegraphic Typewriter for Send- g Printed Mossages by Wire. An Ohio man by the name of Samuel T ck has invented an olectrieal typ i 1smits messagoes by wire ances, and it was oxhibited to a number of capitalists, clectricians, and newspaper men at No. 145 Broadway, Cleveland, on Saturday last. It is a sim- ple arrangement with a key-board which, when the key is touched, brings the right letter down on a shect of paper which moves along automatically at one side so that words are printed by an ordinary typewriter, and the machine at the other and of the wire acts in unison prlnlinfx the messago in the same way. 1t doos all the work of the operator af the ordinary telegraph instrument t is intended by the Nuti Printing Telegraph comi- pany, which owns the patent, to put it in use in the manner of the Bell te) c}mmu{ mstruments, coppections to ho mudg at o central oflice. Mrs, Jones, of New York, will bo able to call up Mrs. Brown, ot Cleveland, and while Mrs. Jones is talk- ing, Mrs. Brown can be dressing the baby and reading the message from tho I Evel ader of a message has it duplicated fof himself. 1 T i Bt Whisky Was What Atled Him. Tramp—Will you please give mo 10 cents, sir? 1'm on my way home to d Gentleman (handing him the moncey —1 don't mind giving you 10 cents for 5o worthy a purpose us that, but your breath smells terribly of whisky. Tramp—L know it does, sir. Whisky's what's killin’ me. i S A writer in a Maine paper rig 1) g have heard of finding all kinds of éurions things in rags, but of the oddest discov- y 1 was fold a_fow da, it, foreman of the r n company’s works at Mochanic You never would guess what it as. 1t was a baby. Yes,n baby! They found it in a bule of rags, jummed and squeezed till it was flat, yet recognizable a5 4 human being } rogard to beali, 0 or A No Ammonia, PRICE BAKING POWDER CO. enieaco, ST. LOUIS WEST DAVENPORT 'Furniture Co. Manufacturers o] Bank, Office and Saloon Fixtures Proparad with spect i | Mirrors, Bay Screens and Hotel Furni» ture. 216 8, 14th Street, hmaha, Nebraska. Wity for dosigne und Pasticulus,